I work as an archivist for a historical society in a rather large city in the US, so I get to handle a lot of interesting things, and a lot of not so interesting things. There are a lot of items that have been donated or bought, but the backlog is extensive and some items have been sitting for decades, untouched and unexamined. I found this particular document hidden in a false bottom of an early colonial chest. The donator is unknown, and I couldn't find any documentation on when this was obtained by the society. This isn't unusual, though. Also hidden with a parchment was a broken piece of antler, some herbs and flowers in small apothecary jars, stick bundles and small iron squares wrapped tightly in remarkably preserved leather with strange symbols carved in them. It speaks of old gods, ancient ones. Ever since I opened the chest, I've had a slight headache, so I'll just post this here, and see what you all think. Hymn of the woods, date, eligible. Mama says we are the secret keepers for Hymn of the woods, and no other family in our village has that honor nor will they ever. I asked her when she initiated me why. Why just us? We've only lived here since Papa was just a little boy, and grandfather took his family from Boston to settle in the untamed Northwoods. Hymn is ours, just Mama and mine. I know it is not proper grammar, but Prudence Howard, that busybody, isn't here to chastise me like she does during our lessons, so I'll write how I please, though I do it poorly. I haven't the mind for it, Papa says, but I digress. Hymn has lived here since forever, and us only a little bit, so it has not been our secret for long. Someone must have come before us, but we do not know who, and Hymn will not say. Mama says it is us now, because she doesn't just hold God's word in her heart, but the words of the old nameless gods, before God, her mother and grandmother, and so forth, their gods, and now I have the words in my heart, too. It was likely the tribe of natives that lived here before the settlers before us drove them out. Sometimes I wish they'd return and take over some of the biddings of him so I don't have to rise so early in the morning. Well, I think what Mama and I must do is blaspheme against God, just as the preachers say, but Mama knows just about everything, and says it isn't so. The preachers are just confused on that matter, since they've never known the old gods. So says Mama, and she's almost always right, almost.  I don't think even God loves spiders, or why do they hide away so if not to shy away from his watchful eye? They are devils and demons is why, and that's all I have to say on the matter. I do not think God minds the old gods anyway, or Mama would have been struck down deaf or dumb or both long ago, or her mother, or her mother before that. Or if he does, the old gods are more powerful, and God is afraid, and now I wish I did not put that to paper. I do not know either way, I'm only eleven years old and not privy to the mystical wanderings of any of the gods. All I know is our harvest is plentiful. Our goats produce sweet milk most of the time, and my brother and sister are healthy as anything. We have no curses or blasphemy. If we are committing some sin, God is blind to it. Papa doesn't know about him of the woods, and I bet he would switch both Mama and I probably within an inch of our lives if he did know. But we are very good, and it doesn't take up much time, and him doesn't allow for our discovery anyways, or we'd all perish. So I suppose we are all damned or cursed, and it is not specific to Mama nor me, or is it nor I? I digress. We aren't witches, if that's what you're thinking, so get that out of your head, because it isn't so. At least I don't think we are, and Mama just laughs when I ask and says that witches probably get a more advantageous deal in the end. We have signed no book nor exchanged our souls or left newborn babies as sacrifices to dance naked with Satan or his messengers. Though we do sometimes dance in the woods, but only to our own voices, and certainly never naked. And him is not there, and he doesn't like us to linger long. After we see him sometimes, the air still lingers with a sort of nervous energy, and so we dance and skip until the feeling disappears and we are back to our old selves. Still, I will hide this little letter well in my trunk and guard it with my life, for I must tell someone of my secrets, even if it is just scratched on a parchment, or I fear I will burst. Perhaps I will write more letters to no one if I should have need of it. But for now, I will hide this carefully, for our lives depend on it, and I do know it to be foolish. Mama says her prayers in grace most beautifully and does believe in God's word with all her heart, just accept the bit about no other gods before him as God has not punished us yet for wickedness, and we have seen what him is capable of. He is not demon nor devil, though he would be mistaken for one quite easily. One time, Mama was too ill to take out him's offering, and I was too young and hadn't been told of our arrangements. She was gone for most of the day, and worried Papa until he came upon her half-crawling from the woods with a broken antler in her back and covered in welts, saying a stag came at her out of nowhere but was spooked away by the guard dog. Papa was furious, not at Mama though, for he has a special tenderness for her. The next day, all the men in the village went hunting for a stag with a broken antler and found none, but they did bring back a hearty venison feast and we all ate rather well over the next few weeks. It is a tradition now in March, though I put cotton in my ears so I don't have to hear the stag scream. Mama says, it's only in my head, but I hear them all the same. However, Mama says I'm not to worry. Him is always kind to me, even when angry, and not always to Mama. I do not know why. Once I dreamed I had married him, and we lived in the forest as wild things, and I told Mama. She looked more afraid than I had ever saw her, and she slapped me so hard I heard bells for the rest of the day. She came to me later that night when the others were asleep, red-eyed, and very sorry. I forgave her, because she's my Mama, though I never shared my dreams with her again. There is another dream that I dare not put into writing, for fear that words will make it true. It happens to me sometimes, while others welcome sleep. I dread it, but I digress once more. I must go to bed, we will be up early in the morning for our offering to him under the guise of cleaning linens at the stream. There's always so much to do, and the little ones are crying for bedtime stories and, oh dear, here they come now. I knew I started this recollection for some reason, and it is to tell the story today, not the dribbling of yesterday. It has all gone wrong, and I am to blame. Mama and I went to the woods as the dawn rolled in to our sleepy village, hauling all our dirty linens as usual in Papa's creaky handcart. We dropped the little ones at Goodwife Carpenter's house with day old loaves' payment.  We brought him three fresh rabbits from the traps and some fresh berries I picked along the way, though Mama told me not to dawdle so, for the berries were not worth as much effort as I put in gathering them and scolded me for staining my apron with their sticky juices. She forgot we would be doing linen soon anyways, but she gets terrible nerves before seeing him and is more irritable than grandfather's donkey, who is always crossing and biting at someone, hateful thing. Him does not frighten me unless angry, but Mama says that may change one day, and I will always be frightened. I hope not. I hope my own daughter will not be frightened when I teach her someday too. The offering spot is deep in the woods near an old gnarled oak that grows halfway on an old rock. It is a lopsided thing, and looks like a giant snake of a tree swallowing that rock, all tangled roots weaving this way and that. Him tells me each root is a story, but I don't know how to hear them yet. I don't think I want to know him stories though. They are old and not of our world, and I doubt I would understand them anyhow. We left the unskin rabbits and berries on the stone slab. It is very old and smooth from use, carved into the base of the rock with ancient tools. Once the offering was in place, Mama took out her pen knife, rolled up her sleeves, and made a small cut near her elbow where it would be discreet. It is a different spot every time, otherwise it would look odd and Papa would be suspicious. He thinks Mama and I are thumbs for all the barbs and nettles we get scratched on, or so he thinks. I did the same as Mama, and the knife didn't hurt, but the cut did sting afterwards. We left our bloody drip together on the offerings, only a few drops are needed to mark it for him. It does seem witchy now that I put it to paper, but it is more of a marking as a dog marks trees, or the like as Mama says, and not an oath or binding as one does with a devil. I don't know if it has to be blood that we leave, but the alternatives are far more indecent. It must be blood, I think, but I will reflect on this farther, and ask Mama if she is in good enough spirits one day. After we left the offerings, we stood back a few steps and waited. It doesn't take long for him to appear. The roots of the gnarled oak tree began to tremble. Then near the base of the tree, they untangle as if unfastening some horrid fleshy corset until the tree unfurls to show the blackish red mass that resides within. From that ooze of red flesh, him of the woods emerges, antlers first, to assess his offerings. The appearance of him is difficult to describe, but I will endeavor to try. He has the antlers and face of a stag, though his snout is more wolfish than sirvine, with the torso and arms of a man, though covered in thick dark fur. Him stands upright, towering over Mama and I easily and taller than any man I've seen, balanced on his hind legs that end in padded paws, not hooves, though he has no tail that I've seen. I never cease to wonder how he fits in the tree, or perhaps the tree is some sort of doorway for him, from his own ancient place. It sounds an awkward creature, but him moves so fluidly like the gentle brook near our village. Around his hips is an odd bit of leather like the natives, presumably to cover unmentionables but its purpose I've not discovered, with a pouch on one side and a long slender knife secured to the other. I have never seen him use it, and wonder if it serves more of a ceremonial purpose than practical. But Mama says I wonder odd things, and I have no argument with that. When him appeared, Mama prostrated herself before him on the damp earth and I flung myself next to her in haste. When him of the wood speaks, it is not through his mouth as you and I do, but inside one's head. He says things to Mama that I cannot hear, and he says things to me that she cannot. Sometimes it is to both of us. Your offering is sufficient. Him told us, we continue to bow on the earthen floor, not daring to look up. We hurt snuffling, and knew him is eating our offering. Only when the sounds quiet down, did we relax and sit up to look at him properly. Have we given enough for winter? It is difficult to get away once the snow set in. Mama rung her hands in worry. It is true, sometimes the snow is too heavy to leave our log house, or the blizzards are too strong. Mama tries to build up our offerings to make the winters easier. Him bowed his head slightly. I hear distant chimes when he is near, though I don't know the source. Perhaps he has invisible bells in his antlers, ones I cannot see, but can only hear. Nearly twice more in a creature larger than rabbit, then you will rest in winter. I will stave off the darkness with what you have brought me. We exhaled in relief and exchanged a satisfied glance. Our exchanges are usually brief, though Mama goes without me sometimes to convene with him. I felt his eyes searching me curiously, and my cheeks felt flush. Him asked how I fare, and I answer healthy and well. Him appeared satisfied with my answer, and moved toward his great oak. But alas, a twig snapped nearby, and him disappeared so quickly, all I felt is wind flurrying my bonnet. We strayed frozen in place, not daring to move. I heard a struggle nearby, with crunching leaves and branches, and a muffled cry. I eyed Mama, and prayed it is not the little ones or father come to look for us.  When him returned, he clutched a struggling child with bulging scared eyes. Mama exhaled in relief. It was not my mischievous brother nor my sister. But alas, it was Prudence Howard, the nosy busybody. But I condemned her by writing her name yesterday at nightfall. My dreams, my thoughts, what I write. Sometimes I feel I conjure things or make them happen, by giving them name. She is a curious thing, always wandering off where she shouldn't go, but we were deep in the woods where she shouldn't be. Where's her mother? Is this yours? Mama shook her head. Prudence met my eye, confused and scared. Her eyes burned with something else, too, anger, I think, recognition, perhaps as well. She once called me a witch when I refused to share a maple suite with her several years back and I slapped her in return. I suppose she thought in those moments that perhaps she was right after all, even if accidentally so. Something drips from her foot and I worry it is blood, but she had wet herself in fear. Him of the woods tightened his grip on her neck until it snapped with an awful crunch and she dropped lifeless to the ground. Her body sounded like a sack of flour hitting the ground, a gentle thud to the soft earth. Her eyes were frozen wide in terror, even in death and a little blood trickles from her nose. I held back tears and him speaks to me, to only me. Do not be afraid. She would be your ruin.  This I saw in her heart. I nod. I suppose he can see all. Do we put our blood on her? I asked Mama.  He does not consume our kind, she said. I thought it a pity as it would save us another trip later on, but then felt guilty when I see prudence's scared dead eyes staring back at me. She was my age, though a great deal smaller as she was a sickly child. She is sickly no more, I suppose. Him of the woods reached into his satchel and handed me a bundle of small twigs wrapped in dried squirrel gut, at least I think it was squirrel. I thank him, though I didn't want it, nor understood what it is. A talisman, Mama tells me later, that will bring me extra protection and no ill dreams for a little while. Him watched us a moment longer and I am unsure if he spoke to Mama, but she said nothing. He turned and disappeared back into the oak tree, the roots closing after him like a thousand spider's legs. I shuddered, prudence is still there, dead and after a moment I turned my head and retched over and over until my belly ached. Mama tried to soothe me, but I didn't hear her words nor did I want to. She was just as afraid, I think, and I didn't want her to think I won't be able to take over for her when she is too old or too sick. We took prudence to the huge climbing rock near where the waterfall starts our village stream. It was still too early for children to be playing there, they were still sleeping or finishing morning chores, and we kept a careful watch for anyone else, but we see no one. Perhaps my talisman was at work. After we finished our horrible task, we swept into the woods again to begin our farce. It would look like a terrible accident and prudence was known for wandering where she shouldn't be, a high ledge in this case, to make the broken neck believable. Mama procured our linens from our hiding spot and placed them into our hand cart. We emerged from the woods after checking our other traps back near the village and had a decent haul of a few rabbits, one pheasant, and a half basket of berries. I skinned and dressed our boon while Mama beat the linen in the frigid water. Her eyes were half mad and her cheeks red as she swung at the linen and I wondered what she was thinking of. Likely, I do not wish to know. She continued her abuse of our bedsheets when cries of alarm are raised, sobbing and screams in the distance. The body was found, broken and bruised from our terrible deed. Mama continued beating the linen, deaf the world, until I shouted her to stop. We must go help the others or it will look strange, I told her. She looked at me with hollow eyes. I wonder if my eyes will look the same when I am her age. I wonder if I will look much older than my true age from the weight of our secret in the burden it brings. My daughter will share the same burden and her daughter too. That is the way of him. It is not questioned. They would not call us witches if they knew our secret is not just him of the woods but what him is protecting us from. Is the true burden and it weighs heavy with the lives of hundreds, thousands even. Would they stone us and burn us as witches if they knew we were saving them? The cats keep us safe. Today, I don't have an artifact to share but something about the archive itself. The cats who live here, the internet loves cats so here I deliver. There are four of them and no one knows where they came from. My boss is the head curator, Agatha Trimble, pseudonym but the spirit is still the same. She is a quirky and endearing woman in her forties or fifties with a wild sense of fashion. For instance, today's theme is peacock which includes a lot of real peacock feathered jewelry and a matching pillbox hat. Seriously, Miss Trimble is about as mysterious as the archive. I know very little about her personal life but I imagine that she lives in an old Victorian house filled with weird books, taxidermy animals and at least a few ghosts that she probably has regular conversations with. But anyways, this is all to say that even Miss Trimble doesn't know where the cats come from but her motto is, don't ask, you probably don't want to know anyways. We hear that a lot. The cats, like I said, we don't know where they came from but there's always four of them. Some of the older volunteers remember different cats so I think we can rule out immortality as a trait but always four of them. Miss Trimble leaves food and water out but to everyone's horror there's no litter box to be found. And yet, there's never been an issue. No one talks about it but it's just weird. Where do they go? Don't ask, you don't want to know. First there's Henry the Eighth, called Henry or Eighth for short. He's a big fat ginger cat thus so named after the English king not for any divorce beheaded or dead wives but simply because he's tubby and ginger and the reality that cats generally seem to have. Henry lords over the reading room and is the only cat that the public sees. He loves being pet, being fed and generally just hangs around his basket or cozy looking documents waiting for treats. He's a sweetie. No one usually has the heart to push him off whatever they're trying to read but he'll move and do time when he feels like it. Good old Henry. He seems useless but he's great for morale. He's always been known to chase off any member of the public with sticky fingers, sweating coffee cups or any other offensive thing that might damage documents. That's the only time you'll see him hustle or in a bad mood. Don't damage the goods and Henry's your best friend. Cher Khan is our little champ. She's a sleek tortoise shell that can be found stocking the halls at night. She doesn't keep to one area like most of the cats do. We have the museum floor and the reading room which are both accessible to the public. Some small offices and staff areas and then several levels of archives accessible only to staff or volunteers with the proper clearance depending on the archive. She's the only one that's ever seen interacting with the other cats and even then it's fairly cordial almost business like share is the little hunter. If you find a dead mouse or the dreaded moss lying in a doorway it was her. She keeps the riffraff down. We rarely if ever have pest troubles. It's an old building so she's a busy girl. She doesn't like to be touched for the most part but she's been known to curl around your ankles for a rare pet. When I'm alone in the building I know she's near even if I can't see her. It's kind of nice. We have spotted some of our more unusual activity often before we do our canary when needed. There's the white one. No one can remember its name but we all have a different name for it. No one remembers what color its eyes are or whether it's a boy or girl or even how big it is or where it usually haunts or where it guards or or or or. Lastly there's Bast. Not everyone gets to see her but since I have a high level clearance into the lower levels I've seen this shadow cat. Bast is the one that frightens me.  It's the ears and the amber eyes. You can see them even in the blackest dark. I'll be in the blue room which houses the more rare or delicate unlisted objects locating some secret thing for some higher person and Bast will be there. Two glittering green eyes in the dark watching me from the sturdy upper shelves. There's artifacts and files up there that no one can access. Not that anyone wants to with Bast up there. The other odd thing is the blue room is always locked. She lives in there behind a locked door. No food, no water that I can see anyway. She guards the red room too. No one goes into the red room. I don't even know why it's called the red room except the door is red. The blue room has beautiful blue wallpaper the old kind you can't find in any hardware store with a blue door. So I guess we all assume the red room is red inside. I don't think Miss Tremble goes in the red room and she's the head of the archive. She's rarely ever afraid of anything and we've had plenty to be afraid of stories for another time and she's afraid of the red room. There's chains on the door to the red room multiple heavy duty chains new ones old ones ancient ones locks too. There's sounds that come from the red room quiet sounds whispers muffled sounds gentle tapping moans groans whales it's worse when there's nothing silence. There's a peephole in the red room not looking into the room looking out if you get too close best growls low that low rumble of danger makes your belly churn I've never gotten farther than too close I heed her warning Miss Tremble sings the highest praises to the guardian cats they keep us safe. I don't ask because I don't want to know the answer God save us or the devil the following are letters that were donated by a couple who found these in the attic of an old house they'd inherited the curators note simply indicate the couple wish to burn them at first but instead brought them to the archives in case they held some sort of historical value we've not been able to locate any information about the contents of the letters except to confirm an unusual amount of disappearances in the town mentioned in the letter redacted for safety purposes March 7th 1872 dearest Mary fine fiddle it is a somber day for a somber occasion we laid grandfather's weary bones to rest yesterday and today we are all in foul moons we are all in the big old house together now dear mama and papa George the dreaded Harrison Molly and Oliver the twins who are just six as of last week they say they miss you the most and I allow it but really it is me who misses you most June lovely June has been set away to anti Harriet's for she is too wild of a young lady and anti Harriet will tame her with that wretched etiquette school do you remember balancing books yours were always perfect I had to pin my hair so that the thing stayed on my head though the house is big it's too full of things and people and noises I thought grandfather came to Missouri with just the clothes on his back though he prospered in trade and languished in love he has accumulated more than a lifetime of things there are two rooms just stuff full of clothes and shoes it is no wonder that we were only allowed in the parlor and dining room mama is going through them to see what can be donated there are so many poor after the war and good shoes are hard to come by papa says there are more rooms that we cannot even see for excess of things can you imagine I hope you are living fat and well as a married young woman dear sister I miss when we would lay under the covers at night and whisper the names of our future loves into seashells in hopes that someday the sea would bring us them I am glad that yours came true I fear I am too old now though 23 is not so old says George Harrison says I might as well jump off pickety bridge and I hold my tongue that it is far more tempting to push him off it his moods grow fowler and he stinks of drink it is lucky he is in the eldest son or papa would have him locked away in shame now that we have the means he may do just that the other day he pinched me so hard under my arm for being a sass that it drew blood I ran and cried to papa and it started a thunderstorm of shouting anyways you don't want to hear all of that in your happy newlywed home I hope California treats you well and it should if the stories of gold paved roads are true forever your sister and always your friend Paulette April 28th 1872 darling Mary how well you sound in your last letter I've laughed so hard I cried when you told of the fiasco at the hotel I can't imagine whose bloomers those must have been in that poor donkey imagine I have news of this house we have cleared so many things and still there is more trinkets of all kinds jewelry none of it particularly fine watches with inscriptions and pipes strewn about mama wondered if perhaps soldiers lived here for a spell perhaps after the war but none of us can remember any mention of it the neighbors are miles away and only saw grand papa here occasionally with drifters passing through doing labor for chores perhaps these are their payment in exchange for food and board next to the barn is a slaughtering shed hidden behind piles of lumber foul foul thing there are no cows or pigs anymore but papa has a mind to purchase some and build us a nice flock papa who can barely remember to feed himself let alone animals it will be mama's work as always from papa's ideas we're having a poor time finding help mama has sent inquiries all over town and no locals are up to the task she has given up and put in an advert in the redacted paper an anti Harriet is sending over a girl or two that she deems suitable the rest of the family is fine except for Harrison of course he refuses to sleep in the house saying it has bad bones it does not the timber is the finest that can be found he said he has half a mind to live elsewhere so do not answer any of his letters or you'll soon find his own foul spirit haunting your halls I'm certain he is the one who spat in all the bonnets foul thing oh Mary halfway through writing this letter a terrible scream shook the house we all went running my hand is trembling still and after yelling and yelling to find the source we located mama dragging the twins out of a little half door in one of the bedrooms she's been clearing out they were covered head to toe in soot and dust and little Ollie was holding a skull in his hand a human skull painted a deep red oh it is a horrible looking thing but curious as well the skull has golden teeth and sockets painted white the lower jaw is sewn onto the upper one with twine laced through its teeth the top is removed so that it appears to be some sort of bowl or chalice though all that was in there says Ali was a dead mouse Harrison took it from mama while she went to go clean the children up and began chasing me with a horrible thing until dear papa intervened hateful young man I asked papa to hide it away I can't stand looking at it I feel like it is looking back what wretched findings why on earth would grandfather have such a thing your horrified sister Paulette May 7th 1872 sister Mary all are ill the twins first than the rest of us if we aren't running to the privy we are sequestered in our rooms clutching buckets and chamber pots mama thinks it is in the water and it all must be boiled a hard task carrying water to the house Harrison refuses to come into the house and care for us the foul beast he leaves us water buckets on the porch though a small comfort I do not think it is the water it must be the food something has turned we have scoured the pantry in between dashing the buckets no one can eat a morsel without becoming ill it is a misery to pick up this pen but right you I must I will beg Harrison to mail my letter and send for a doctor if we are not well by tomorrow I hope you are well much love so much love Paulette May 9th 1872 Mary the doctor will not come he told Harrison he fears it to be cholera and sent some remedies to administer which he left on the porch I watched him go to the fields with a shovel and spade and begin tilling the fields does he dig our graves he may never send these letters if so Paulette PS I write this hours later the twins are dead perhaps Harrison is wiser than I give him credit for I love you May 21st 1872 Mary I am well enough to write again we are saved and we are in hell it was the sight of little Ollie that set Papa's mind in motion the skull he kept saying it's the skull he placed it above the mantle and put a candle in the horrible thing then lit a fire in the fireplace beneath it he spoke to the fire but I heard no replies it should have frightened me but I don't feel fear anymore just an empty sort of numbness George was running half naked through the hallways like an animal snarling and scratching at the walls mama has been crying and pulling out her hair in the room with a little half-door wailing for her babies then trying to eat the big clumps of hair I tried to stop her at first but it is no matter we are all mad now I suppose I burned all the food in the pantry it's useless to us now the meat tasted too good we all cried when we ate the twins the twins they have saved us free from whatever hell lies ahead we understand the clothes now the trinkets Harrison figured it out too when he dug up the graveyard out back hundreds of bones so many the deep knife gouges on the bones I wonder if grandfather took them to the slaughtering shed or did it in the kitchen why does flesh taste so sweet and good it is my sucker now God save us or the devil it makes no difference to me now we need more if we do not feed then we will turn on one another Papa and George are going at it now trying to decide what happens next George wants to die Papa says he will help mama has locked herself away on the third floor and we cannot find the key grandfather lived alone it was the only way do not visit I will not write again I hope the help comes soon we will need them the cheer up Johnny's work has been crazy but here's a little ditty for you the cheer up Johnny's in the blue room of the archives staff only there is a collection of musical trinkets one of which is labeled as the cheer up Johnny's it's a ceramic piece that appears to be modeled after a moderately popular barbershop quartet named as the label states in the early 1900s there are five dapper dandies in the classic barbershop outfit striped vest slacks and formal straw hats all standing on a bandstand it sounds pretty tame but the singers have wild too big eyes and wild too big smiles on some of them it's forbidden to touch it without gloves personally I hate looking at the thing we have many of those and I swear they switch places sometimes their mouths are supposed to be singing or smiling but they have too many teeth or their mouths are just black void pits I've compiled some of the curator notes below artifact P 145 curator Harrison June 1947 description emitted artifact brought in by redacted due to interagency agreement added to musical item lists that must remain locked gloves are mandatory when handling artifact redacted is not original owner of peace but reported locating a few identical boxes from commemorative annual barbershop quartet event that peace was created for other boxes do not have similar disturbing facial expressions and appear normal x-rays and extensive notes by analysts from redacted provided it appears that facial expressions are part of ceramic and not from any sort of later alternatives note these notes appear lost but the x-ray is still in the files for P 145 when key is turned the musical tune that plays is similar to buffalo gals with an altered bridge unlike most other music boxes or toys music starts slow then speeds up until music is indiscernible then stops abruptly redacted caution against listening to music box and recommended welding key so it cannot be turned great caution is advised object will be kept under lock and key with strict orders not to disturb or handle except by curator permission curator Harrison august 1948 P 145 has caused some disturbance so adding some notes to document the events first observation is P 145 attracts those in low spirits or moods when someone is feeling a bit blue they hang around the blue room unironically and can get quite unruly when forced away redacted had to be taken out by force only days after returning from the birth of her child when dusting the objects and P 145 cabinet over the weekend staff member bumped P 145 into P 16 which caused a hairline fracture in the fifth quadrant of P 145 staff member reported feeling extreme melancholy and an urge to listen to P 145 and did so despite strict orders not to turn the key staff member was still found standing at the cabinet Monday morning still listening to the music box and laughing hysterically after forced removal of P 145 from their hands staff member collapsed in exhaustion and was rushed to a local hospital staff member had clearly soiled themselves standing at the cabinet over the entire weekend blue room is to be thoroughly cleaned and sanitized cabinet was only half dusted but I will finish it myself hairline fracture will be examined and if possible fixed P 16 was undamaged by the event as expected and looked very proud of itself moving P 16 to separate case since it always bloody has it out for other artifacts evening hairline fracture fixed by restoration list on staff under my close supervision both of us reported feeling extremely giddy during procedure almost to the point of being unable to complete fix because of an overwhelming desire to sing and dance around the room curator Harrison December 1948 restoration list over P 145 hairline fracture reports still feeling residual giddiness from time to time I myself have occasionally locked my office door to dance about and must contain urge to sing from time to time although it's less frequent now may need to start putting items on danger scale redacted mentioned another agency does this but might raise too many eyebrows here curator Harrison February 1950 some depressive numbskull now fired took P 145 from case into public reading room and played it over and over only four members of public and two staff excluding numbskull were in reading room at the time but by the time I came back from lunch they were all in there laughing hysterically and dancing around the tables like a bunch of buffoons only redacted was spared because I suspect he is mostly deaf although he did have a ludicrous grin the whole time I was questioning him I wonder if whatever resides in this artifact is related to that dancing event in 1518 in Alsace some village or other had an outbreak where residents could not stop dancing now diagnosed as mass hysteria I can't help but think there was some bobble like this involved to ignite the fire scheduling welding of key tonight I've prolonged it this far to try and preserve artifact but proves too dangerous had to call redacted to come by and take care of members of public so they would only recall a very boring uneventful trip to the museum still they all will feel quite overjoyed for the next few months at least might be good for donations at least curator Olmstead may 1968 night crew in for cleaning reports that the figures have changed around the short fat one moving around confirm this to be true after observation one night crew forgot glove protocol and touched bare ceramic slowly after they could not stop laughing I was phoned to come assist as the rest of the crew was spooked the poor fool was still hysterically laughing when we heard ribs snapping I had to keep them all in the back staff room until redacted came to give proper medical and memory assistance faxed redacted later to see if p145 placement here is appropriate lackey on phone said and I quote we don't want that creepy shit here most of what they do is creepy idiots this thing gives me the creeps recommend farther curators cover it with a cloth or something but for some reason I'm too afraid to do it the sailors talisman there is an artifact in one of the lower levels of the archive rooms just for full disclosure there are many artifact rooms but all the main ones were built in a sort of basement over a hundred years ago or so and wallpapered in different colors each room has a different clearance for staff and volunteers volunteers may only go into the green room green for go green meaning easy green means safe artifacts from the green room may be examined but not taken by members of the public upon request of course and they must know what they're looking for in order to ask to examine it the sailors talisman is in the purple room accessible only to staff and certain high-up people influential types like authors or big bucks donors the talisman is a funny little thing a sort of mermaid looking thing carved from wood perhaps old driftwood it's a woman with a fishtail but it's forked off into four fins at the end not two like your typical mermaid her eyes are perfect circles and her mouth is open slightly with long strands of seaweed slithering down her body the seaweed covers her breast but in between them in the sternum area is a symbol sort of a cross between an onk and a sulfur cross a rounded top cross like an onk sitting on top of a triangle it's very like to carry but she is always damp not damp now that I think about it but water actually seems to leak from the talisman itself she is kept in a specially built box in a shallow pool of water she used to be kept next to a dehumidifier until the power went out once the purple room had about an inch of water in it before someone discovered it someone me had to sit outside in the garden with her until the electrician came to fix the power the roses looked fantastic that year though we discovered purely by accident that if she is kept in a small pool of water the talisman will not seep water in equilibrium of sorts is met she has an entry log from the previous curator and I'll end this little story here with the log I've skipped over the beginning part that also described her out of vanity for my own far superior description my additions are in parenthesis artifact p174 curator Olmsted april 1967 artifact donated by boston area historical society who wishes to remain anonymous states that they are unable to house the object anymore due to damage of property rotting wood and flooding they claimed caused by object called the sailors talisman donor describes p174 was thought of as lost for decades but later found washed up on coast near main exchanged many hands until donor eventually received it origins unknown but earliest mentions can be found in things of the deep by randall carter a collection of legends and myths surrounding ships and seafaring note I've not been able to locate copies of this book yet not for lack of trying according to legend there were numerous of these taliments around on the eastern coast of the united states traced back as far as the early colonial days possibly further ship captains according to legend commission their creation by a handful of artisans who had been blessed by some sort of priest the text is unclear naming them sea priests although I have not been able to corroborate what these priests were there is no mention of them in historical writings from the coastal towns at the time and it is unknown from exactly what areas these come from it is created from driftwood so the origin is difficult to ascertain it is fascinating that this is the one surviving talisman no others have been confirmed around the 1920s the talismans were no longer viewed as protective but as destructive since the ships that had them on board met with horrific sometimes freak accidents or more often simply disappeared I suspect most of the remaining talismans if they are still even in existence are at the bottom of various bays along the coast some ships confirmed according to randall carter to have the talisman nans goodbye estimated 1785 missing presumed lost at sea the laughing dutchman estimated 1801 accident ran into cliffs during a storm the virtuous maid estimated 1811 missing presumed lost at sea st george's fire estimated 1692 missing confirmed sighting of wreckage by the mary's crown but when royal navy dispatched to investigate wreckage was not found fighting sea dog date unknown accident fire while docked in caribbean all crew on board presumed dead et cetera et cetera et cetera the symbol is odd though I've been unable to locate an origin perhaps the artisan symbol or a guild long lost to time sometimes a sound seems to emit from p 174 when submerged in water a haunting sound almost like a strange song more like a whale but faintly melodic seem to put my assistant in a trance and he began to leave the room with the talisman before ester his wife an assistant curator at the time through a book at his head I do not recall these events though ester says I was present recommend item for the purple room due to issue with flooding and legend of cursed nature as well as potential hypnotic side effect when handling minimum of two staff needed one female preferably do not allow near watercraft of any kind as a precaution of course entry ends here I haven't heard the singing mentioned in the entry although the male staff have mentioned being unnerved by it when they come into the purple room as a precaution only female staff are allowed in the purple room alone oddly this isn't the only object we have that seemed to affect the sexes differently the orange room has the opposite effect no unaccompanied female staff another story for another time her eyes are haunting though they're round so round perfect circles like a fish's eye and what is that symbol I don't think it's the mark of a guild or an artisan signature I feel I've seen it before here within the archive in some documentation somewhere something that talks more about these mysterious sea priests I don't think they were priests of the Christian faith but something much older her eyes they're so round though perfect circles perfect hey everyone remember to like and subscribe if you enjoyed today's video I've been very fortunate to find some really well written longer stories recently and I'm going to continue posting a longer story every Sunday if you'd like to support me further there's a link to my patreon in the description and I hope you have a wonderful beginning to 2021 thanks for listening


There was a case of cracking of concrete bricks, which were cracked and we analysed this model. If the material applied to these bricks was not able to crack, so we use this model to disassemble the bricks. Also, these kinds of models are possible to incorporate into the beam system by building information for the brick. And some ideas of maybe some future if someone is interested or to do PhD or to get some foundation. There is a new launch, it's free for the others, launched by the Drat InduSest program, which is the program between the company and between the university. In the website you can see the list of the projects, which will be founded by the Generalitat of Catalonia, which is the government of Catalonia. And you might play just online and see if you are lucky, you might get the project and continue. There is some university to do PhD by working in one company, so I am working with smart engineering in UPC. And also some other ideas were about the smart cities of beam modeling, which are currently in Barcelona. There are a lot of programs in URST's launch in this and also conferences are launching in Barcelona for these technologies. So maybe if you are interested in doing something in construction or in civil engineering areas, you might look for these areas that will be perfect. Any questions? Yeah, go ahead. When I am driving through this road, I feel the joy on my wheels. Is there any study or any things that we can skate this feeling when we are driving?  This is my first question. The second question, is this soup for all kind of temperatures? Is this okay when we do it in Saudi Arabia, when the temperature is more than 50 degrees? Is it the same because you put your finger on humidity and the sun? Okay, here in Armenia we are trying it, but I'm not sure that it will work until how many years it will go up and if they are doing it. But this is some ideas. Let me first answer to your second question, which is I think depending on the environmental conditions of the country, the model codes or the standards of the company which is implementing the construction, they are considering all the environmental parameters and local parameters to... So it's work. So it will be work there also? Yeah, yeah, depending on the part of the work, it will work. And the first question that me later ask you, because I know that if you drive to the outside, I think it's much better. And this part, what you are speaking, is about the ashtara. Yes, yes, about the ashtara. Let me not speak about the ashtara, I know why he said it there. So we shouldn't... There is a solution and there is some history behind this, as I know. No, as only as a scientific question we should, we must not feel this tension. Yeah, you should not feel it. I wanted to add something to your question. I think the transversal joint, in all countries' payment, you feel it. There is no way to escape from this feeling. You should feel it. Why you should feel it? It's not that you should or you should not. It's something that is coming with the typology of the road. Ashtara road, you don't have the transversal joint, you don't feel it. Concrete road, you need this transversal joint and you feel it. It's less comfortable because you can't see all the joints when you feel it. But this is something that is the technology of the concrete payment. I asked him if there is any studies to avoid these joints. There is two technologies. Two technologies for concrete roads. One with transversal joints, which we have in Ashtara. The second technology is continuously reinforcement concrete, which has no transversal joint. But look, I was seeing all the metals. I stuck my car and saw how they put the concrete. In this project, which we use in Armenia, we have the first type of concrete road, which has transversal joints and you have to cut transversal joints because you have no reinforcement there. If you don't sew it, if you don't have transversal joints, your payment will crack. Just like a crazy crack. You can't control it. You can't control it. You can't control it. Today's meeting was for that. For sewing, for cutting joints, yes. These show parameters for cutting, etc. The second way to have reinforcement, it's a little bit high. The cost is high. The same Georgia, if you go to Georgia, I think they use the second type of reinforcement. Yes, I have been there and I feel that they use the second one. So this is normal. Was this design normal to have this technology? Just one question maybe you. If you are saying that it is normal to feel distributed, why you are feeling this less in the Arab part, but you feel a lot in the Arab part? Well, it's a second question. You still feel. You still feel, yes. It can be the different widths and another, the technological parameters. Maybe because of that, yes. But the question was, can we just avoid of that completely or not? With this technology, we can't avoid it. There is one way that I can see that it can be avoided. If you do that on your angle, that's it. But I don't know if this is technologically possible. If you have these cuts under 45 degree angle, you may not feel the same. Because the only one that the wheel and the tire will cross it and so you will not feel it, the whole car is shaking. But in that case you can't control the cracking because the crack is developing transversa and longitudinal direction because it's the dimension in which the slab is short. No, it must be cut like that to have a crack on all the ends of the short. So it should be on this or to do that? No, we don't want that. We don't want that. Guys, okay. You said one of your assumptions was in using this model was three perfect days of hydration. Now, have you tried making different assumptions, less perfect settings? Because that's how real world works, it's not perfect. So do you get very different results in terms of not assuming perfect curing for three days? Actually, in our last, we didn't run any non-perfect curing. We put the curing, maybe this will vary from one to five days for example, but in reality nobody does five days of perfect curing. And because of the amount of the parameters we have in the model, we are not able to change all the parameters like to define another parameter for non-perfect curing depending on the curing again or curing type, what will be the variation of the humidity loss in the first phase. So this parameter we didn't touch as well as the main parameters we didn't touch because this will maybe bring another test for... Okay. I have a second question. I guess with buildings, I don't know how it is with roads, with buildings you actually spray water on top. I don't know if you can afford to do that on roads. But I guess that could be one where creating that kind of almost perfect curing situation. And then the second question is, does your supervisor or you yourself been involved in actually trying this out, like in a lab setting to actually cure concrete under the conditions you're assuming and saying you're getting the results you're getting? Unfortunately, we didn't have to do any study in the lab. So we used other studies from other students which are documented. So we just used the results to compare with our resources. And how did you go about that? Did you use massive search or just regular literature research? Because you would have to have a lot of data to collect. Did you just go manually take the data out? Or you did massive kind of data analytics? You're from literature? Yeah. No. We found, for example, that if we describe the humidity problem separately, it cannot be described separately, but if we look at the humidity problem, we look for who has been studying the humidity problem. For example, the most famous guy is Basant, which has a lot of papers. When we discuss the papers of Basant and other people who has reference to him, they have very feasible model that we can recreate in our modeling and just compare. So the same with thermal. And then while we get the validation in terms of temperature of the water strains, then it means our model is OK. Thank you.


This is a paired samples problem. We're given eight samples with the time of last beginning and at the end and we need to find the differences. As part of the paired samples t-test though you're often asked to find d bar which is the mean of the differences and s of d which is standard deviation of the differences. And StatCrunch doesn't give you both of those neatly built into the hypothesis calculators. But here's how you can get those. Let's go ahead and run the hypothesis test. This is paired sample and we're going to select the beginning time, the end time, and here's the key part. Click on save the differences and then we're going to run the test. Put this out of the way. There's our differences d, little d. And all we need to do then is just go to summary stats, columns, pick differences and then select the mean, hold down the control key, standard deviation, and click compute and those are the answers. That is d bar which is the mean of the differences and standard deviation of the differences which is s of d.


States and the next governor of the state of Ohio my fellow candidates 30 years ago the Democratic Congress began systematically Consistently usurping responsibility and opportunity. He has promised to return programs privilege and very high honor to introduce to you the president of the United States Thank you all very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much You know, if you don't mind I just have to mention first I thank you all for this to all of the distinguished Office holders and candidates for office who are here in the platform with me. I Have to mention those young people Who are here today? You know, I can remember a time When I'd go to a Republican fundraiser and come home and tell Nancy that It looked like the only young people there couldn't join anything else And not anymore all over the country and I said in 1980 in the campaign that was what that campaign was about It's what this election is about The America that we're going to turn over to those young people You know, mind if I call him bud. Do you when? Know him too well here congressman Brown, but I when He was talking here about returning authority and autonomy to the states to the local communities and so forth I wonder how many of us realize That one of the most unique things about America that I believe is more responsible for our freedom than anything else Is the fact that in this country? We were established to be a federation of sovereign states We were not set up to have 50 Administrative districts of the federal government and that's what we've been in danger of losing I was just over speaking to the veterans group explaining to them How good it was to be out of Washington and back into the heartland of America and you know general Sherman once said If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary. Thank you Now I wouldn't go as far as to say that But I will admit there have been a few days there when I've sort of figured that it fit his description of war When general Sherman said war is and you know the rest Actually though with people like bud Brown in the Congress my job was a whole lot easier than general Sherman could have imagined So I think you can understand why I have some mixed feelings about letting him go But brown not Sherman But I'm willing to make the sacrifice You can have bud Brown as your governor as long as you promise me solid Republican congressional delegations from Ohio You mean I've left your district Thomas? Not yet, huh? all right but Believe me. We'll need the help the other day in the state dining room. I pointed out the sea change that has occurred in American politics how every one these days seems concerned about too many deficits and too much taxation and spending We've made real progress, but it's a fragile progress Because of those left in Congress who still believe in the tax and tax and spend and spend policies that got us into this present situation That's why I challenged tip O'Neill one day I asked he and the liberal leadership of the other party to promise the American people They wouldn't try to repeal the reforms that we've passed in the last two years Those in regulations in spending and the tax program the tax cuts And you know They've never answered the question yet They just finessed that went on to something else The question you should ask of those who solicit your vote is where they stand On the issues of taxing and spending Will they promise not to try and repeal the income tax cuts that we Won for the American people and the historic reform and income tax indexing Many people don't quite understand at first what that indexing provision means It might be the biggest part of all the tax cuts Unless we win the battle on on inflation And then it won't matter that much But for years The federal government has been making a profit on inflation Because in our graduated income tax People who got a cost of living raise didn't improve them one bit Just met them kept even with inflation But it moved them into a higher tax bracket And that's why for years real personal income in america has been going down And for the last several months it's been going up Now will they support further reductions in government spending More authority and autonomy as we've mentioned for states and local governments In ohio this year you can make a real difference in government Because there are two classic confrontations between the past and the future Between candidates who reject the policies of tax and tax spend and spend As these candidates here do And the candidates who endorse them Between candidates who stand for growth and opportunity And candidates who want more government and more spending Right now paul pipher is waging a strong challenge Against one of the senate's most blatant big spenders The incumbent represents a political point of view that is out of step with the people of ohio Mistaking the incumbent senator's voting record for the views of the people of ohio is like mistaking woody haze for woody allen It's time you had a senator who represented the common sense conservative voters of ohio And not the liberal big spenders in washington I need paul pipher in the senate as well as john casick in the house of representatives And I can give you a single good reason why He should be congressman casick Because i just learned that his opponent is on record already As wanting to Cancel the b1 bomber This is a part of the whole movement that has seen some demonstrators out on the streets wherever we go today It doesn't mean that they're for peace and we're for war It means that they've been manipulated by some people who know what they're doing exactly. They're sincere. I think millions of them Very sincere and honest in their desire for peace as we all are But today we have three delegations in europe Negotiating with three soviet delegations one with regard to the medium-range nuclear missiles in europe One with regard to the strategic nuclear missiles that threaten us particularly in the world And one that is trying to reduce the armaments the conventional arms and weapons And why are we so intent on this military or this defense build-up which had been allowed to Our defenses to deteriorate so It's because they need back of them on their side of the table They need the fellows on the other side of the table to have the knowledge That unless they join us in reducing those terrible weapons and the threat of war They're going to have to face a united states that will do whatever is necessary to ensure our safety and the peace of the world They need a deterrent And mr. K6 opponent Didn't add when he came out against the b1 bomber that it would cost 7 000 jobs here in the state of Ohio But i think that's a consideration also you know bud Is a bright and a hard worker It's a man of tested judgment and experience and character The country needs him and you in Ohio can help the country out But i want to say that also that he's been an invaluable ally In the fight against big government in washington as a matter of fact He started in committee in 78 and 79 Working within the committee in which he served To bring about the kind of economic reform That we now Have started to install beginning last year in 1981 that time up against A total democratic majority in both houses and a democratic administration They couldn't get it past But now the people have spoken And it's in effect He's won the respect as i say of virtually everyone who's dealt with him there In this campaign he and his running mate jim betts have won agenda Bringing jobs and economic opportunity back to Ohio and i know that from my own conversations with them They'll make a great They'll make a great governor and a great lieutenant governor, and i thank you for supporting them And i know Something i know they'll go all the way And i know the importance because of that federalism that he spoke about that trying to get more authority back here How much How much we need someone? This end ready to receive The resources and the programs that should properly be administered Here at the state level when he spoke of regulations I used to use a city in your state as an example of what regulations were doing long before i ever Got the job And that was a hospital that was built in part with federal funds And because it was built in part with federal funds the federal government reserved the right to regulate So one day in came An inspector from osha and said that the plastic bags That were put or that they must put plastic bags in the waste baskets So that employees would not be endangered in handling the waste or contaminated in handling the waste So they put them in and no sooner had them in than another washington inspector arrived He was from he w as it was called them not hhs And he was protesting that they had to take the bags out Because if someone threw a cigarette in there the fumes from the burning plastics would be injurious to the patients And to this day, I don't know whether we've got it straightened out yet or not But all the hospital knew is to have somebody at the door to see which one was coming put the bags in Take them out I'm grateful to be here with these wonderful candidates and with all of you all across the country Wherever I've gone, I've seen we have presented this country this time around the finest candidates I think any party has ever fielded in this country. They deserve the people's support And I know all of you will do your darnest in the crucial days between now and november and now I'm going to quit talking because I'd rather have a dialogue and I always feel Don't often get enough chances for a visit. I often feel that some You must have some time or other said if I had a chance I'd ask him Well ask me And we'll have a little dialogue You mean no one has a question. I've got another speech in the other Talking What's that do I see it improving with the new governor in Ohio? Yes And I see it I see it improving and if I realize this is taking a great chance. We are in a deep recession I believe that the course that we're on which is aimed at reducing inflation And which as he said we have it down as a matter of fact for the first eight months of this year It has averaged 5.1 percent And the last month it was down at a rate that if that continues it'll be down to around 3 percent Now that inflation rate which was double digit 12.4 when we started Is what has kept the interest rates high? Lenders have to get back the lost value of their money while it is out on loan in addition to a return And it is the high interest rates and what they did to the automobile industry And what they did to the housing industry that has caused the great increase in unemployment And that in turn has caused the great deficits. I had to laugh the other day when jim right the majority leader in the house On on television and said well after they had voted down the balanced budget amendment and don't ever let them forget That they voted against A constitutional amendment to keep the federal government balanced This is the 40 states have it This is a necessity if we're going to get control of spending, but he had the hoots, but uh go on Television and say well i'm a fine one to ask for such an amendment when i'm presiding over the biggest deficit in history Yes But wow how those deficits come about i didn't invent them Every time you add one Percentage point to inflation you add 25 billion dollars To the deficit in lost revenue and outgoing benefits to the unemployed And so it's going up two or three percent since we've been there No a couple of percent since we've been there. Well, that's another 50 billion dollars added to the deficit The way to cure that the way to cure unemployment Is to get the interest rates down and you can't do that until you finish getting inflation down And we're going to keep on working at that but I'm sure they will because uh i'm going to keep squawking Yes, bud says it's going to be introduced again next year So probably in the spring we'll be battling on that. Yes, just president. We have time for one more question I'm told by your keepers your secret service, man So, uh, well, there's a gentleman that I'd already recognize. We might try a lady if we've got a lady We do we have a lady with question What what advice for the young people going out in the world today Some person some person down here in front said vote republican, but of course Let me just take a second here and then then I will get because I hadn't recognized someone over here Let me just take a second if I could There are so many things and and it's so easy for someone my age to Start pontificating to young people when they open themselves up with a question like that But of course you get all the training that you can And then I think make up your mind if it's regard to a career Where you think that you would be happiest and be able to contribute the most and receive the most Personal reward. I mean in fulfillment in that job And then I'll give you the best advice that I was ever given When a man back in the depression days in 1932 and I was a college graduate then And back at my old college job of life guarding for the summer Knowing I'd have to face the fall and get out into the world And in 1932 there weren't any jobs Anyplace and there was a man who had fared well in the depression And was able to tell me that if I could tell him what I wanted to do What line of work if he had any connections there he would He would speak for me and see if I couldn't get an opportunity in there Well, that was the first time believe it or not in this modern age And that was the first time I had ever really been pinned down To having to say what I wanted to do and there was a rather young industry at the time called radio and I kind of made my way through college on the football field and Finally I went to him and I said I think I'd like some form of The entertainment business and I think radio and I'd like to be a sports announcer Well, he said I don't have any connections there. I can't help you But he said maybe that's best because I'll give you this advice He said even in this depression there are people who know they've got to take young people in And bring them up in their business and their industry to have people coming along So he said you start knocking on doors of radio stations He said just tell him you want a job any job To get in to that industry that you believe in the industry believe you can Can make it in that industry and you'll take any job there is and then take your chances on getting up to where you want to be from there And you know It worked I know I knocked on a lot of radio station doors And finally one day I knocked on one And happened to mention for the first time sports announcing this being a future ambition And in this elderly gentleman one of the nicest men I've ever met Oh bothered by arthritis said to me, what do you know about football? And I said played it for eight years He said could you tell me about a game if I were listening and make me see it? And I said I think so And he took me in a studio put me in front of a microphone said when that red light goes on up there You start broadcasting an imaginary football game. I'll be in another room listening And I did and the only thing I really remember about that broadcast was I naturally picked a game from the previous season that I'd played in And I was the running guard who had to come out and lead the interference on a certain off tackle play and with two minutes to go Trailing by one point We went 65 yards off tackle for the touchdown And I missed the key man in the secondary that I was supposed to block and I've never known how we made the touchdown With me missing the block, but on the rebroadcast First instant replay I threw a block like you've never seen What's that I have said that that's something that the people Tell you whether you should or not now I appreciate your reaction just now If it was the same in 84, well, I'll certainly take that into consideration Thank you very much They have a song for you mr president Stay the course I'm going to heed that advice. We're staying the course


Γεια σας, είμαι Βίκη, εδώ και ευχαριστώ! Σήμερα θα δημιουργήσω ένα σπίτι, μπροστά, χρησιμοποιώντας αυτές τις νέες πρόταξες από νοβο. Αυτές είναι παιχνίδιες παιχνίδιες και έρχονται σε ένα set of 2. Και δεν υπάρχουν στην πράγματα ακόμα στο US, αλλά θα υπάρχουν τίποτα. Αλλά είναι υπάρχουν στο UK. Και το στάμψετ που θα δοκιμάσουμε είναι τα Βιντω Μέσαγης από Σταμπενδούς. Αυτό είναι ένα στάμψετ πραγματικό που δημιουργεί 4 διαφορετικές σπίτι, με καλύτερες λόγες, such as Happy, Enjoy, Smile and thank you! Εγώ θα δοκιμάσω με το Happy one. Εγώ θα στάμψω σε ένα παιχνίδι της watercolour paper. Και θα χρησιμοποιήσω αρχαϊκή λίγης, γιατί θα είναι παρμόνητο όταν θέλει. Θα δοκιμάσω με watercolour pencils και water, γιατί θα πρέπει να δοκιμάσω ότι αυτή δεν θα χρησιμοποιήσει. Τώρα, σε κάθε watercolour paper, υπάρχουν δύο σπίτι, ένας είναι πραγματικό και το άλλο είναι πιο σύμφωνο. Θα θέλω να δούμε αυτή τη σπίτι στο παιχνίδι. Αυτό είναι γιατί θα δοκιμάσω σε ένα στάμψετ πραγματικό σπίτι σήμερα. Αλλά θα χρησιμοποιήσω μερικές φορές, ένα από το άλλο, για να δημιουργήσω ότι έχω ένα καλύτερο παιχνίδι. Αυτό είναι γιατί θα χρησιμοποιήσω μια στάμψετ πραγματικό σπίτι by Tim Holtz. Πριν θα δοκιμάσω ένα watercolour paper που θα δοκιμάσω σήμερα, είναι by Nouveau, είναι έναν νέο παιχνίδι και θα θέλω να δούμε πώς θα δημιουργήσει με watercolour pencils. Υπάρχουν δύο σπίτι να δοκιμάσω σπίτι με your watercolour pencils, ένα σπίτι να δοκιμάσω σπίτι σε το παιχνίδι, όταν είναι πραγματικό και να δημιουργήσω το σπίτι και να δοκιμάσω με ένα σπίτι. Υπάρχει another way is to pick up a pencil and get the color from the nib, just like I'm doing here with the blue one. This way you have more control on how much paint you apply and finally you can create your own palette and just pick up the color from there. And there are more ways to apply the color with these pencils. For example, you can wet the paper first and then go directly with the pencils on your paper. This is going to give you more vibrant colors, but these are the three ways that I will be working with today. I will only use pencils from the first set, this is called brilliantly vibrant and as you can see it gives you 12 different colors in a lovely tint and the second set is perfect for hair and skin tones. So as you can see I'm applying my blue and my green, I did apply a little bit of blue at the top and now the green at the bottom. I'm not pressing too hard, I want to apply just a touch of color on my paper. I can always add more if I want to and make it look more vibrant but if I add too much from the beginning then it will be difficult for me to blend it out as well as to lift it if I need to. So I'm first applying a very light color, blending it out with my water brush by the way the water brush that I'm using is also by Nouveau by Tonic Studios. And once I have blended out my blue area then I will start from the bottom and start blending the green towards the top. And to make it look more interesting I'm also going to add some yellow and as you can see I'm using my other scrap piece of paper as a palette just to pick up a little bit of yellow and mix it in with my green one. Once the first layer is dry I will go ahead and add more vibrant color on top of it just to intensify some of the areas. I'm picking up the color directly from the nib and applying it on my paper and if you use this technique with your watercolor pencils you will find out that they will last you for a lifetime because you will not need to sharpen them as often. And again with the same technique I am adding some yellow at the bottom for my ground and as I go towards the top I'm trying to mix both colors I will go with the darker green now and all the colors have a very creative name as usual with craft supplies so this is imperial jade the yellow I used is called spring da fodil and the blue one was scuba blue. Now making sure that the background is dry before I go ahead and start working on my flower and I do promise when these pencils become widely available I will make a product review video where you will see a swatch of all the colors how you can mix and match them the pros and cons and everything else and if you have any questions about these pencils make sure to leave a comment below and I will be sure to address them in the video review. Now I'm going to use the red one to color the petals of my flower now for the last three days there has been a great sale on stamps both rubber and clear ones and today is the last day so if you want to check it out make sure to visit the link down below and go to my blog to find all about it every stamp is on sale including the one that I'm using today notice that I did the same technique on the petals as well so first I applied a very light layer of color and this is going to provide me areas of highlights and now with the other technique where I pick up color directly from the nib I add the shading so by using just one pencil I get my highlights and my shadows I usually cut off parts of my coloring just because I think that they make my video really long and maybe it is boring for some people but today I decided to just leave the whole process so you can see how I did it I'm also going to stamp this flower a second time and color it again using the same techniques so that I can cut it out and pop it on top of this card this is going to give me some dimension so while I am coloring the center of the flower I can chat a little bit and let you know where I have been for the last week so I have been traveling with family and friends for a week in Amsterdam we had a lovely vacation the weather was perfect it was mostly sunny which gave us a chance to visit pretty much everything it was a really inspiring trip because I got the chance in between doing so many different things to visit museums they have amazing collections there I went to the Van Gogh Museum where I got to see original paintings such as his sunflowers and the cherry blossoms real masterpieces which I absolutely adore all in all it was an amazing holiday So anyway back to the card now as you can see I'm using a black marker I'm going all around the outside edge just to get rid of that white edge and this is going to make my flower look as if it was cut perfectly and then I can stick it on top of the other flower with a foam square at the back and the fact that I have colored both flowers the one underneath as well as the one on top gives the illusion that this flower is more fluffy and when you lift the card you can see the other one underneath now you can lift this as it is and stick it on a square card base and you have a card ready to go I'm going to show you how you can take it a step further so I'm going to stick this piece of pattern paper with black and white stripes and to abolish it a little bit more I have this white string which I'm going to wrap three times and then tie a bow now this can be a happy birthday card or a happy spring card it can be anything really just to say hello I'm going to turn it into a happy birthday card because I have quite a few birthdays for April for my card base I created a square 4x4 card base using green cardstock and I'm using some foam tape at the back to stick this panel on top I find that 4x4 cards are the perfect size to put inside the gift that you will hand out Now for the inside of my card I'm going to use the word happy from one of those two lovely stamp sets by Stampentus these stamp sets actually are new and they are on sale they give you a lovely big font that you can combine with smaller sentiments so that you can mix and match the sentiments and create your own and since this is going to be a happy birthday card I went with the word happy which I am stamping a couple of times just to make sure that this is nice vibrant and solid and underneath I'm going to combine it with the word birthday which this time I'm stamping with another color of ink which matches perfectly with the cardstock that I'm using this white panel is a quarter of an inch smaller than the 4x4 square card so it fits nicely inside my card but it leaves a nice border around it I'm going to add some tape adhesive and stick it inside as you can see I do still have some room to write my message and because I can keep adding details on the card I am going to add some dots at the center of my flower with my black nouveau drops just where those black dots are already stamped which is going to give an extra dimension on my flower and you can actually go ahead and do those with white if you want to highlight the center even more so that was the card for today I hope you had fun and got inspired don't forget that you will find the full list of all the supplies that I used down below in the description area as well as on my blog here are some close-up photos of the card that I made today thank you all so much for watching and I'll see you all next time