Unemployment is down and markets are up at the topsy-turvy world. There's some strange things going on Not only that but Russia just claimed the title of the second most powerful Bitcoin miner in operation So crazy times and this is what I'm talking about. There was report least today It looks like the unemployment rate slipped out of 3.5% now the Fed of course We know they wanted to actually go up so they can squash demand and crush everybody's dreams and hopes but didn't happen like that today and That's what the market wanted to seize. They wanted to see unemployment rates also Rise that didn't happen. So you would think that there'd be a little bit of a lag But no in actuality March labor report comes out and shows a very resilient economy talks about 3.5 from 3.6 Average hourly earnings increased 4.2% on a 12 month basis. So what do the markets do? Well, they said this is great news It's a funny thing. It seems like the news that we would expect things to drop to the exact opposite That's why it's very difficult to time these markets I'll take a look at NASDAQ even better and crypto. Yeah, not too good. Actually, we've slipped down negative point four percent I think one of the biggest droppers with dogecoin as Elon Musk changes the logo from the doge back to the bird So this is what we have going on I tweeted this out and there was a comment from shark puncher. They had a good point He says, you know more jobs mean nothing in my opinion What good is a job if 100% you take home pay can't even pay a mortgage let alone food transportation That's the reality for most Americans 80 hours a week still won't cover rents in the jobs location. I had to think about that and I've heard the same complaints Quite a bit. So I started to think about well, maybe there's not just the jobs and unemployment. What about under employment? This is from BLS.gov labor underutilization and just so we know the definition of unemployment per America Jobless persons who are available to take a job and have actively sought work in The past four weeks, but if we take a look at that state-by-state case as far as underutilization They break it down even further for underutilized So you won persons employed 15 weeks or longer as a percent of the civilian labor force But I just want to jump down to use six which is total unemployed plus all marginally attached workers plus Total employed part-time for economic reasons as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all marginally Attached workers and I took a look at that. That would be like a little bit underutilized or are Underemployed you can find this on the Fred Economic data and I link this in the description same thing total unemployed all-parts and marginally attached labor force Now if we can see here, this goes back back to January 1994 and if we take that for the unemployment rate and just go back to January roughly 1994 which would be somewhere around here and we increase that We can take a look that it kind of follows the exact same pattern as far as underutilization Same type of thing, but that got me thinking even further. Well, if we're taking a look on employment, but what about? Hourly earnings, how are we doing in that department? Well, we're actually going up It looks like a big hockey stick here in America average hourly earnings were gosh look at this 2015 $24.89 and now as of March 2023 $33.18 that's pretty good, right? Wait Personal consumption expenditures is also going up. So you're making more money Unfortunately, you got to buy more stuff that costs more and we're at an all-time high And that's just the personal consumption expenditures now Let's just strip that out as far as energy and food because that's a little bit too volatile the states right here And that's even more of a hockey stick So shark puncher may be right and you can tell me in the comment section what what you see But I've seen a lot of prices go up They've reduced a little bit one of the big things that we can see also is Everything that's going on in the housing markets and then also for the automobile industry Which if you're going to look into a recession it kind of leads you in and leads you out So that's what I see and lastly I will just say this Everybody's talking about potentially look it's going to be a hard landing It's gonna be a soft landing. It's gonna be a no landing other people saying you know what no I think it's gonna be stagflation. We're gonna see economic growth slow inflation is gonna increase unemployment's gonna increase Like in the 70s, who knows I gotta tell you I don't know where things are going I don't think anybody really has a crystal ball. I'm just pretty just guessing here, but for me If I just stay in the game Longevity usually works and that's not financial vice is the things that I am doing however I will say this it is interesting But all the things that are going on things that are going up to take a look what's going on globally and this Caught my attention Russia becomes the second most powerful Bitcoin miner in the world So I'm trying to see like what are a pretty good investments and what is more bang for my buck? I gotta tell you it seems like a lot of people Maybe picking this so Russia is generating one gigawatt mining power doing a first quarter of 2023 Russia claim Kazakhstan's place is the second largest mining power and I'm not gonna go through this whole thing But what is interesting to me is that the US remain in its position as the leading country with the most significant mining power As it generates three to four gigawatts of mining capacity So I started to think to myself maybe just sensationalism that we're looking at because we always hear about how the government hates Bitcoin how these senators and these congressmen and women they hate Bitcoin But then the free market comes out and says you know what? We're going to mine Bitcoin and we're gonna be you know the largest one here in the United States We're gonna be the biggest largest Bitcoin mining operation Russia didn't really want it to too much and what have they become the second largest Bitcoin mining operation So I know when people say like well Bitcoin might not last or crypto might not last I think we're here to stay and what it really comes down to is the people that want it So when I see these things, I'm like this is a positive sign And also it just takes a long time to move forward and what I'm talking about is that We're talking about Russia And of course Russia the government isn't mining Bitcoin. I mean they may be in the but not really Making that a full-press release But it is interesting that it's the second largest Bitcoin mining operation and for over two three years This is an article from August 12 2020 Russia was ditching the dollar For both of its exports to China things take a long time to get really moving from the old way Russia drop in the US dollar for Chinese you want. This is in December 2022 and then we can see here April 3rd China's you want to replace the dollar as the most traded currency in Russia So I don't know if if this has any relevance or bearing, but I got to tell you it's interesting how they're getting with the dollar They're mining Bitcoin and who knows if it's the government or not I would what is I can't say what it is But it's just interesting how things are moving in this direction and things are changing quite rapidly Anyhow, let me know what you think about those two stories in the comment section Maybe I'm way off, but I see it a different way and lastly To talk about things that really people don't like to talk about Tax time so tax season here in US is upon us looking at April 18th. This is a story This is an old story IRS is hiring additional 20,000 new staffers of the next two years With $80 billion in new funding.  Because they like to do audits. That's just what it is now. There was a email that was sent out just so you know Coin ledger now they have Cardano and XRP blockchains which you can integrate in their API integration and On top of that they're looking to roll out a service Similar to what they did with NFTs, which they were buying people's NFTs not them themselves a third party and they're saying hey Would you like to roll out a service similar to the NFT loss harvester that buys your eliquid worthless rug pulled fungible tokens for a small Amount so you can realize the loss of your taxes. These are something that we're thinking about I personally have used coin ledger for For two years now and it works out pretty well But there's a link in the description and he gets a 20% off if you'd like to use coin ledger for your taxes and Also, if you're looking for the last video that we did with coin ledger I'll link that in the description. One of the big takeaways I got from that one was to Do an extension for your taxes because who knows what's gonna happen. Anyhow, that is it for today. So look Like today's video give it a thumbs up consider subscribing I think to talk about our time sensitive crypto and digital assets investing is not a set it and forget it type of thing So it may be who of you to keep informed. Anyhow, that's it. Thanks so much for stopping by appreciate it I'll see you on the next one


Hey guys, this is Gabby from Brain Education TV. If you're new to this channel, consider subscribing. We make weekly videos on wellness tips for the brain and if you're already a subscriber, welcome back. In this video, I will guide a 10-minute meditation on gratitude. So showing gratitude in your life is very important. It helps you bring in more positivity and hope into your life and when you're grateful for things and people and places and situations, you're more aware of what's important in life and you also can receive back that kind of energy. So that's why gratitude is very important. So now let's begin our gratitude meditation. Make sure that you're in a comfortable area preferably alone with no distractions and you can sit in a chair with your feet flat on the floor or in a haplotus posture on a mat.   One more time, deep breath in, fill your lungs as much as you can and exhale out through your mouth. I'll keep breathing this way deeply in and out and become aware of your body. Bring your awareness into your body. So take notice of where you're feeling tension, maybe your shoulders, your back, your legs, maybe you're feeling tension in some areas. So as you breathe in, imagine golden bright light going into those areas and as you exhale, imagine you're releasing negative tension with every breath out. Now take notice of what emotions you feel. You may feel fear, stressed, anger, joy, worry. Any emotion is okay. Just take notice of what you're feeling and with each breath in and out, let that emotion flow freely. Right now, you should be more aware of your body and your emotions and what you're feeling. So let's take time to show gratitude to the people, places, things that you are grateful for. First, let's show gratitude to being alive, to life itself, the precious gift of life.  And that is a beautiful gift to be grateful for. Next, let's show gratitude to our heartbeat for pumping fresh blood throughout our body without us even asking it to with it doing it automatically and keeping our organs alive, keeping our bodies alive. And let's show gratitude to our brains. Our brains have vast knowledge, have vast experiences that only we have experienced. So please show some gratitude to your beautiful brain. Now show gratitude to the people in your life that are there for you, that cheer you on, that make you smile, that are there when you need a shoulder to cry on, that help you, that help you experience life in different ways. Show some gratitude for the people in your life. As you're thinking of the people in your life, you may find some that are difficult and create obstacles or burdens in your life. And it's hard to be grateful for them. And that's understandable. But if you look at it from an outside perspective, every person in your life is put there to teach you a lesson to help you grow, to help you change. So take some moments to reflect on those people and those circumstances that you feel right now may be difficult. And see how maybe those are people who are pushing you to see things in a different way, pushing you to open your heart more, pushing you to change or overcome something. And that is something to be grateful for too. So please take a few moments to reflect on those people. Okay, great job. Now before we end, please place your hands on the center of your chest and reflect on whatever the most thing you are grateful for.  It can be the biggest, most important thing you're grateful for. And with your hands on your heart, say gratitude within to this one thing.   Sweep down.  And let's wake up from the meditation. So how do you feel? Do you feel more grateful? Do you feel more reflective at least on things you should be more grateful for or things or people you're not grateful for enough? Please let me know in the comment section below how you felt, what you thought about the meditation and about what you're grateful for. I'd love to know what you're grateful for. So now that's all for the video today. I hope you enjoyed. Please make sure to subscribe for more videos that we post every single week. And if you're interested in a one hour brain education based class, please visit a local body and brain yoga studio near you. Bye guys see you in another video.


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Good morning, John. Trilobites are super weird, and I want you to know more about them. It's easy to forget that the moment we live in is just this one snapshot of this huge history of life on Earth. And yeah, we have to and should and do study now, but also there's a lot to learn if we look at the past, and it can just be fascinating as well. Which is why we've teamed up with PBS Digital Studios to make a new show. It's called Eons, and it's about the entire history of life on Earth. So like most biology, that is what's happening right now. Eons is everything else. All of the life that has happened so far until now. Turns out there's lots of good stuff to cover here. Our first episode is about trilobites, of course. The emergence of trilobites happened around 500 million-ish years ago. It was part of what's called the Cambrian Explosion, where life on Earth got way more complex. They were the first true arthropods. Arthropods now take up three-quarters of the world species, so basically good on you trilobites. Arthropods basically are the segmented exoskeleton-covered things that you see all around you right now. Spiders, butterflies, millipedes, crabs, like those things too. And even though horseshoe crabs share some family resemblance with trilobites, and some horseshoe crab species did coexist with trilobites, they are old horseshoe crabs. The last species of trilobites went extinct around 250 million years ago. But even though they did not last forever, they were extremely successful. They existed for 270 million years. Primates, for comparison, have existed for around 50 million years, so we have a lot of catching up to do. We found trilobite fossils on every continent, and described over 15,000 species. One of the weird reasons why trilobites are so well-studied, and why we find so many of them, is that most trilobite fossils aren't actually trilobites. It's nice being an organism whose skin grows with them, but that is not the case for arthropods. If an arthropod wants to grow, it has to shed its exoskeleton, and then move out of that old house that was too small for it. And when it does that, it leaves behind that shed exoskeleton, which then can fossilize. And that happened a lot, obviously, with trilobites. So the majority of trilobite fossils aren't the organism that died, they're the shed exoskeleton. Which, of course, we can still use to date the trilobite, and to figure out what kind it was, and learn more about the species.  There was strong exoskeletons, there are jointed legs, but they also, this is a pretty big deal, had the first complex eyes.  Some of them have thousands of individual lenses, and the lenses are made of calcite. They're a crystal. The trilobite grew crystals in its eyes. Our eye lenses, they can flex and change size. So if I look at something close up, I focus on it, and I look at something far away, I focus on that, then the lenses in my eyes are actually changing shape. If your lens is made of rock, that's hard to do. You also end up with a problem that astronomers had in the 17th century, which is that you get weird distortions, unless you use very specific lens shapes. In the 1600s, two astronomers came up with two different lens shapes that helped to fix this problem. Here's the one that Christiane Huygens came up with, and here's the one that René Descartes came up with. Yes, that René Descartes. He did a lot of stuff. And here are the eye lens shapes for the trilobite Crozenapsis and the trilobite Dalenitina. This is so dang cool, right? These lens shapes allowed for objects to be in focus when they were pretty close up or pretty far away, and also got rid of some of that lens distortion. It took humans 300 million years to catch up with trilobite evolution. I just love it, and if you want to learn more about trilobites, our first episode is up, youtube.com slash eons, where me, Blake, and Kali will be taking you through the entire history of life on Earth.  Join us there. John, I'll see you on Tuesday.


Welcome to this week's edition of Whiteboard Friday. I'm Tom, Director of Organic Performance at Crowd. Today we're going to talk about SEO forecasting and more specifically how you can do it with digital budgets being more scrutinised than ever. There's a lot more pressure to demonstrate the value of your SEO activity back to your business or your client organisations. So, today we're going to spend some time talking about the process that I go through in order to do that forecasting and demonstrate that value. Now, I will say it's not an exact science. We're effectively trying to predict the future, which is quite difficult, but there are processes that you can go through in order to begin to quantify that predicted SEO value. So, before we kick off, there's a few things that you'll need in terms of data in order to build your forecast. Firstly, 12 months traffic data. So, this is effectively, you know, you can use your analytics platform or you can use Google search console to pull down 12 months worth of organic data by month. Secondly, and most of the time, if you're working within a business or you're working with clients, you will be set a target of what that predicted future SEO performance needs to be. So, that's incredibly important to bring into your forecast as well. Thirdly, the key words that you'll target across the course of your campaign, that's really important to help try and demonstrate the incrementality that you're going to be building for your business or your clients. And then finally, the click-through rate model and somewhat linked to point number three here, click-through rate model allows you to start to reverse engineer by each keyword how much traffic they are driving and by improving those keyword positions how much additional traffic you're going to be driving through to your website. So, those are four things that you'll need before you set out on this journey. What we'll end up with when you've gone through this process is a graph like this. So, effectively, very clear demonstration of what we've achieved over the last 12 month periods from that traffic data that you've got up here and then some different scenarios. So, firstly, your baseline, this is effectively what we think performance will be if we don't do any value-added SEO activity. Then we've got our forecast in the green here. So, using all of that keyword data that you have, what we think the incremental value will be from your SEO activity, improving the positions for those keywords. The black dot is the target that you need to work towards. So, very quickly what you can start to see is where you've got that gap from the keywords that you're targeting against that initial target that you've been set by your business or your client organisation. And that will start to tell you actually there's probably more keywords, more expansion that we need to do within our SEO strategy to close that gap. And then finally, as that year progresses and you progress through your SEO campaign, what the traffic is that you're actually generating and how that tracks against the forecast that you've built. So, this ultimately is what we'll end up with which you can show to your superiors, client organisations to demonstrate the value of your SEO activity. Now, breaking that out into a little bit more detail in order to get this baseline. There's a couple of different methods that you can use in order to get that data. The first is what I call the basic method. So, taking the last 12 months of your organic data that you've got and then you can use Google Trends and you can look at Google Trends to see the brand growth that has been delivered over the last 12 months and you can use that to quantify what we think naturally will happen based on the strength of the brand as measured by Google Trends. So, that's one way that you can build a basic baseline to build a model whereby you've got no SEO activity happening over the next 12 months. The second option which is what I prefer to use is using a time series model. Now, there's lots of different formulas that you can use in Google Sheets in Excel. I've got one down here, it's called the forecast function and effectively what that does is it looks at the data over the last 12 months and it starts to draw parallels from that data and begin to forecast what you think will happen or what you think will happen over the next 12 month period from all of that historic data that you've fed it. This is a really powerful way to get this accurate as possible baseline from your activity. Now, we move on to incrementality. So, how do we begin to influence this green line here? So, there's two things that we must have in order to do this. The keywords that we're targeting as part of our campaign we need to collect with those keywords, the monthly search volume and also the current ranking position, where are those keywords currently ranking in search. Then we need to use Google Search Console to pull down the non-branded click-through rate and that's important because that will start to help us understand how much traffic we're driving from those keywords and as we begin to improve those keyword positions what the incremental traffic will be, which gives us this green line here. An optional metric that we can put in is keyword difficulty. Now, that's useful because if you can understand how difficult it is to target or drive improvements from each of those keywords you know the rate of change that you need to put forward with regards to your increase factors. How quickly are we going to drive incremental ranking performance for those keywords if it's super, super competitive? It's probably going to take us longer to influence those increases. If there's minimal competition on those keywords we'll be able to drive that incrementality a lot quicker. So, now that we've got this graph here which models clicks in terms of how we're driving positive performance over the next 12 months there are further things that we can do to bring in revenue metrics for example, which makes this a much more attractive proposition for finance teams and those in charge of your budgets. So, if you bring in conversion rate and average order value data you can apply that on top of the incremental clicks to understand how much more revenue you're going to be driving from your business or your client organisation. And then with that data you can also begin to calculate the return on investment. So, effectively looking at the incremental revenue that you're driving divided by the cost of investment so how much money are you putting into your SEO activity in order to achieve those results and that calculation will give you an ROI number which is really, really appealing when you're putting this in front of finance teams and budget holders. So, I hope that's been useful. There is a link down here to a worksheet which we've attached to this Whiteboard Friday. It allows you to put in the raw data up here and then from that you'll get a model much like this. So, I hope that's useful. I hope this Whiteboard Friday has been useful and thanks for watching.


I am Mr. P. P. Mitravodri, Associate Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering at Vulture Institute of Technology, Sulapur. In this session, we are going to study a design of, design of a drawing die for a given component, part two. In earlier stage, we have already studied part one of design of drawing die and in that we have come up to decision of number of draws. Learning outcome for this session also will be, students will be able to design a proper die set for a given component. As already stated earlier in earlier session of this, we have calculated number of draws required is equal to 2. So now in this session, we will study the next procedure. Now as we have decided to draw a cup in two draws, now we will start with first draw. Now as already stated, not more than 45% reduction is possible in first draw. We will presume that 45% reduction is possible in first draw. Therefore, we will have calculation of diameter of cup after first draw and height of cup for first draw. Therefore, 0.45 is equal to 113 minus D1 divided by 113, where D1 is diameter of cup after first draw and H1 is height of cup after first draw. Now from first formula written, we can calculate D1 as 62.15. Now by constancy of volume relationship, H1 D1 is equal to HD, where H1 is height of cup after first draw and H and D are height and diameter of cup in second draw. Therefore, H1 into 62.15 is equal to 45 into 50. Therefore, height of cup after first draw is 36.20 mm. Now percent, we have to calculate percentage reduction required in second draw. For that percentage reduction, to calculate percentage reduction is required in second draw, we have to use the formula D1 minus D divided by D1 into 100, where D1 is diameter of cup after first draw, D is the diameter of cup after second draw, therefore, which will be 62.15 minus 50 divided by 62.15 into 100, which is equal to 19.5 percent. As this percentage reduction required in second draw is less than 30 percent, it is confirmed that cup can be drawn in two draws only.  For first draw, punch radius at shoulder is equal to 4 into sheet thickness, that is 4 into 1 mm, that is equal to 4 mm as sheet thickness is 1 mm. Die radius is also equal to 4 into sheet thickness, that is 4 mm.  Die radius r dash is 4 into sheet thickness, that is again 4 mm. Now clearance calculation for die in the first draw. Now die clearance in the first draw is 1.08 to 1.1 mm into sheet thickness. Let it be 1.08 into sheet thickness, therefore die clearance in the first draw will be 1.08 into 1, that is 1.08 mm. Now die clearance for second draw is given by the formula 1.09 into 1.12 into sheet thickness TS, let it be 1.1 mm into sheet thickness, therefore it will be 1.1 into 1, that is sheet thickness is equal to 1.10 mm. Now I will pose a question before you, before moving forward, why clearance is required to be provided during drawing operation, think over it.  Now punch diameter for second draw is diameter of cup minus 2 into sheet thickness, why this is so? Because punch has to be smaller than the cup diameter, that is 50 minus 2 into 1, that is 48.0 mm. Die opening for second draw has to be punch size plus 2 into clearance, 48 plus 2 into 1.10, that is 50.20 mm shall be the die opening. Please remember that punch size is smaller and die size has to be larger than our cup size. Then sizes of the punch and die for first draw. Similarly, punch diameter for first draw is d1 minus 2 into sheet thickness, 62.15 is the diameter of cup in the first draw, minus 2 into sheet thickness 1 mm, that is 60.1 die opening for the first draw has to be punch size plus 2 into clearance, that is 60.15, sorry 60.15 plus 2 into 1.08 will be equal to 62.16 will be the size of the die. Then press capacity calculation, total force is equal to drawing force plus black holding force. Drawing force has to be calculated by the formula pi into diameter of cup into thickness of the sheet into yield strength into bracket d by d minus c where c is constant and value of c is 0.7, therefore drawing force has to be pi into 50 into 1 mm thickness into 540 into bracket 113 divided by 550 minus 0.7 is equal to 132.25 kilo Newton, black holding force is generally one third of drawing force, one third of 132.25 kilo Newton is comes out to be 43.64 kilo Newton, therefore total drawing force is 132 drawing force plus blank holding force that is 132.25 kilo Newton plus 43.64 kilo Newton is equal to 175.9 kilo Newton, that is equal to 176 kilo Newton is equal to 17.6 tons is equal to 18 ton, assuming required factor of safety our press capacity has to be 20 tons. Now we will discuss the results at our glance, first draw, second draw and quantity that is diameter of punch 60.15 second draw 40 mm, die opening 62.16 50.20 sorry 64.35 31 50.20 cup diameter 62.15 and 50 mm cup height 36.20 45% introduction in the first draw 45% second draw 619% blank diameter 113 mm draw ratio 0.9 press capacity 20 ton, for further reading in this regard I will recommend a text book of production engineering by PC Sharma, tool designed by Donaldson, press tool designed by Indo-German tool room Avrangabad. Thank you.


You might have heard the saying if it's not raining, we're not training. And for Iwakuni's EOD Marines training on Target Island, this held true. Target Island is a small island just off the air station. The EOD Marines took a boat to the island where they trained with explosives. The EOD Marines used to see four as a part of today's training. Safety was priority number one for everyone on the island where they were required to wear proper eye and ear protection. Not a lot of people realize the level of safety that we put into doing these kind of operations, especially when we have other personnel out here. The safety of the people and the safety of the EOD techs, the safety of the base and the host nation are all very important to us. And that's kind of our primary mission, is that we protect personnel, property and we keep the community safe. Silly also added that visiting the island wouldn't be possible without the help of Marines on the air station. Lance Corporal Haley Foray, Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan.


Now, this is an interesting one right here. I mean, there've been plenty of interesting ones all across the league, but the Jacksonville Jaguars, after signing the linebacker, yes, I'm not gonna try to say his name because I do not want to butcher it. So y'all know who I'm talking about though. And Jaguars, they signed the linebacker, they signed Christian Kirk. They just signed another wide receiver too, but they've been going crazy in free agency, spending a lot of money. They've been trying to set their own market. Now, we'll see if the NFL follows the Jaguars market or the previous NFL market. But anyway, when you spend a lot of money, a whole lot of money, a lot of times you gotta make some tough decisions. And that's not just an NFL, that's in life in general, but the Jaguars, they had to let go, well, they didn't have to, but they chose to let go their leading tackler from last year, Mr. Miles Jack. And Miles Jack, man, he is, he's a good player.  I remember initially he had like injury concerns coming out of college and whatnot, but he sort of put those to rest for the most part. And he's been an exceptional linebacker, great open field tackler, a speedy linebacker. So he got some good open field tackling, got some good range to him too. And he, he's gonna make a team that much better with his services. Oftentimes when I think about Miles Jack, I just get reminded of a couple years, well, a little more than a couple years ago, that Jaguars team that you just knew they were going to the Super Bowl. You just knew it, you just knew it. And they should have, but the NFL was like, I know we got other plans. But Miles Jack, he can be a playmaker. He can make some noise. And I just like, you gotta feel like today is March 15th. It's March 15th right now. I feel like for Miles Jack, maybe by the 18th at the latest, then I think he will have had his new home. He joins Bobby Wagner as some of the better linebackers that are out there. And Bobby Wagner of course is a bit older. He's 31, but Miles Jack is 26, 26 years old. I did not realize that Miles Jack was still that young. That's crazy. But yeah, he, I know a lot of Ravens fans are gonna be all over this saying, oh, we should get Miles Jack. He'll be so nice next to Patrick Queen. And he would. We would have a lot of speed at linebacking. I was trying not to turn this into a Ravens, Miles Jack video, but you know how it goes, man. So I wouldn't be mad at it. And you know Ravens with the compics. So he wouldn't kind of get the compics. Bobby Wagner wouldn't kind of get the compics. So either way, but yeah, Miles Jack is out of Jacksonville. We'll see what his next destination is. Is it gonna be with the Ravens? I mean, he got 30 other teams that he could go to too and help him out, but they will be getting a good young player. And I think for whoever signs him next, cause I wouldn't see it being a multi-year deal. Maybe a two-year deal at the most. But I think it could be like a one-year deal. Two years at max, but a one-year deal. Just to be like, all right, let's see what you got. Let's see how you fit in our system. Cause we've been seeing you with the Jaguar system for a little while, but let's see how you fit in our system. And if it's worth it to sign you to an extension when that time comes. Now, I think just to speak on the Ravens as a little example, if he was to sign with the Ravens, just hypothetical. Patrick Queen right now, he has two years left on his deal and he has the possible fifth year option. So I think if the Ravens were to sign him, they will sign him to either a two or a three-year deal, just so he could match Patrick Queen's last couple of years on his deal. So that would have those two paired together. And then that would allow for the Ravens to make some decisions later on down the road when that time came. But that's just a little example. Anyway, appreciate y'all. I love y'all. And just like Miles Jack is when it comes to being with the Jacksonville Jaguars, I'm out.


Section 27 of the History of Lady Julia Mandeville. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. The History of Lady Julia Mandeville by Francis Brooke. Section 27. Epistle, Colonel. To Colonel Belleville, Wednesday, 3 o'clock. I really cannot help feeling prodigiously foolish about this marriage. It is a thousand to one. But I retreat yet. Prepare yourself for a disappointment, for I am exceedingly on the capriccio so. Oh heavens, I forgot to tell you. An old matchmaking lady in the neighborhood having taken it into her head I have a passion for Harry Mandeville and designing to win my heart by persuading me to what she supposes I have a mind to. Recommended him strongly to me last night for a husband. I heard her with the utmost attention and when she had finished her harangue blushed, looked down, hesitated and denied the thing was so pretty a confusion that she has gone away perfectly convinced I am to be Lady Anne Mandeville and will tell it as a secret all round the country. I am not sorry for this as it will take away all suspicion of what is really intended and secure what secrecy we wish on the occasion. The good old lady went away infinitely delighted at being possessed of a quality secret which in the country gives no little importance. Pleased too with her own penetration in discovering what nobody else has suspected I cannot conceive a happier being than she is at present. I have just received from town the most divine stomacher and sleeve-knots you ever beheld. An interesting event. Yes, creature, and what I can plead authority for mentioning. Did not Madame Waselle, Princess of the Blood of France, granddaughter of Henry the Great, write some half a dozen volumes to inform posterity that on Saturday the 14th of November 1668 she wore her blue ribbons. Surely you men think nothing of consequence but seizures and battles. Now in my sentiments it would be happy for mankind if all the heroes who make such havoc amongst their species merely because they have nothing to do would amuse themselves with sorting suits of ribbons for their ladies. I am in the sweetest good humour today that can be imagined so mild and gentle you would be amazed. A little impatient indeed for the evening which is to bring my charming Harry. I have been asking my Lord how, with Harry's sensibility, they contrived to keep him so long free from attachments in answer to which he gave me the enclosed sketch of a letter from Colonel Mandeville to a lady of his acquaintance at Rome, which he said would give me a general notion of the matter. Epistle the Countess. To the Countess Mellesbini, Paris, June 24th, 1759. Madam, you will receive this from the hands of that son I have before had the honour of recommending to your esteem. I have accompanied him myself hither, where being perfectly satisfied with his behaviour and convinced that generous minds are best one to virtue by implicit confidence, I have dismissed the tutor I intended to have sent with him to Italy, shall return to England myself and depend for his conduct on his own discretion, his desire of obliging me, and that nobleness of sentiment which will make him feel the value of my friendship for him in its utmost extent. I have given him letters to the most worthy person in every court I intend he should visit. But as my chief dependence for the advantages of this tour are on the count and yourself, I have advised him to spend most of his time at Rome, where, honoured by your friendship, I doubt not of his receiving that last finishing, that delicate polish which I flatter myself if not deceived by the fondness of a parent is all he wants to make him perfectly amiable.  You receive him an unexperienced youth with lively passions, a warm and affectionate heart, an enthusiastic imagination, probity, openness, generosity, and all those advantages of person and mind which a liberal education can bestow. I expect him from your hands a gentleman, a man of honour and politeness, with the utmost dignity of sentiment and character, adorned by that easy elegance that refined simplicity of manner, those unaffected graces of deportment so difficult to describe, but which it is scarce possible to converse much with you without acquiring. Sensible of the irresistible power of beauty, I think it of the utmost consequence with what part of the female world he converses. I have from childhood habituated him to the conversation of the most lovely and polite amongst the best part of the sex, to give him an abhorrence to the indelicacy of the worst. I have endeavored to impress on his mind the most lively ideas of the native beauty of virtue, and to cultivate in him that elegance of moral taste, that quick sensibility, which is a nearer way to rectitude than the dull road of inanimate precept. Continuing the same anxious cares I sent him to perfect his education, not in schools or academies, but in the conversation of the most charming amongst women. The ardent desire of pleasing you and becoming worthy your esteem, inseparable from the happiness of knowing you, will be the keenest spur to his attainments, and I shall see him return all the fond heart of a parent can wish, from his ambition of being honoured with your friendship. To you, madam, I shall make no secret of my wish, that he may come back to England unconnected. I have a view for him beyond his most sanguine hopes, to which, however I entreat, he may be a stranger. The charms of the lady cannot fail of attaching a heart which has no pre-possession, from which I conjure you, if possible, to guard him. I should even here with pleasure you permitted him to a certain degree to love you, that he might be steeled to all other charms.  I am, madam, with the most lively esteem, your obedient and devoted, J. Mandeville. Oh, heavens, whilst I have been writing and thinking nothing of it, the pavilion, which it seems has been some time prepared, is raised opposite the window of the saloon, at the end of the walk leading to the house. We are to suppin' it this evening. It is charmant. The sight of it and the idea of its destination makes my heart palpitate a little. Mon Dieu, that ever I should be seduced into matrimony. Farewell, for an hour or two. You have no notion what divine dresses we have making for the masquerade. I shall not tell you particulars, as I would not take off the pleasure of surprise, but they are charming beyond conception. Do you not dote on a masquerade, Belleville? For my own part I think it is the quintessence of all sublimary joys. And without flattering my lord's taste, I have a strange fancy this will be the most agreeable one I ever was at in my life. The scenes, the drapery, the whole disposition of it is enchanting. Heavens, how little a while will it be that I can write myself A. Wilmot, a pistol George, to George Mondeau, Esquire, Wednesday morning. After four days past an anxiety not to be told, this ardently expected morning is come. I every moment expect Mr. Herbert. I tremble at every sound. Another hour and the happiness of my whole life will be forever determined. Mondeau, the idea chills my soul. It is now a week since I have heard from Belmont, not a line from Emily Howard or Lady Anne. The unhappy have few friends. Lord Melvin is the minion of fortune. He has taken my place in their esteem. The time is past and my friend is not here. He has therefore no letters from Lord Belmont. I rated his disinterestedness too high. Misled by the mean despicable maxims of the world, he resents my passion for his daughter. He gives her to another, without deigning even to send me an answer. He might surely have respected his own blood. My soul is on fire at this insult. His age, his virtues protect him. But Lord Melvin, let him avoid my fury. Yet am I not too rash? May not some accident have retarded my friend. I will wait patiently till evening. I cannot believe Lord Belmont. May he not have seen me, and suspecting some clandestine design. Yes, my folly has undone me. What can he think of such a concealment? Mordeaux, I cannot live in this suspense. I will send William this moment to Belmont. Five o'clock. William has come back and has thrown me into despair. Yes, my friend, it is now beyond a doubt. Lady Julia is intended for Lord Melvin. The most splendid preparations are making. All is joy and festivity at Belmont. A wretch like me is below their thoughts. Messengers are hourly coming and going from Lord Rochdale's. It is past, and I am doomed to despair. My letter has only hastened my destruction. Has only hastened this detested marriage. Over-odd by paternal authority she gives me up. She marries another. She has forgot her vows. Those vows which she called on heaven to witness. I have lost all for which life was worth my care. Mordeaux, I am no longer master of myself. Lord Melvin is this moment gone past to Belmont, dressed like a youthful, gay, and burning bridegroom. His eyes sparkle with new fire. His cheek has the glow of happy love. This very hour perhaps he calls her his. This very hour her consenting blushes. The idea is insupportable. First may the avenging bold of heaven. But why supplicate heaven? My own arm I will follow him. I will not tamely resign her. He shall first, yes, through my blood alone. What I intend I know not. My thoughts are all distraction. Epistle Colonel To Colonel Belville, seven o'clock. We expect the caro enrico every moment. My chariot is gone for Emily Howard and my niece. Lord Melvin, too, comes this evening by my permission. Lady Julia has just asked me to walk with her in the park. She wants to hear me talk of Harry, whom she cannot mention herself, though her thoughts are full of nothing else. Her color comes and goes. Her eyes have a double portion of softness. Her heart beats apprehensive pleasure. What an evening of transport will this be? Why are you not here, Belville? I shall absolutely be one of the old people tonight. Can you form an idea of happiness equal to Harry's? Raised from the depth of despair to the fruition of all his wishes. I long to see how he will receive the first mention of this happy turn of fortune. But Lady Mary has all that to herself. Adieu. Great God, to what a scene have I been witness! How shall I relate the shocking particulars? Lady Julia and I were advanced about a quarter of a mile from the house, blessing Providence, and talking of the dear hope of future happy days. She was owning her passion with blushes and all the tremor of modest sensibility when we were interrupted by the clashing of swords behind some trees near us. We turned our heads and saw Lord Melvin, distraction in his air, his sword bloody, supporting Harry Mandeville, pale, bleeding, motionless, and to all appearance in the agonies of death. Lady Julia gave a shriek and fell senseless in my arms. My cries brought some of the servants who happened to be near, part of them with Lord Melvin conveyed Harry to the house, while the rest stayed with me to take care of Lady Julia. Harry was scarce out of sight when she recovered her senses. She looked wildly towards the place where she first saw him, then starting from me, raising her eyes to heaven, her hands clasped together. Oh, Belleville! Never shall I lose the idea of that image of horror and despair. She neither spoke nor shed a tear. There was an eager wildness in her look which froze my soul with terror. She advanced hastily towards the house, looking round her every moment as if expecting again to see him. Till having exhausted all her strength, she sunk down breathless on one of the seats, where I supported her till my Lord's chariot, which I had sent for came up, in which I placed myself by her and we drove slowly towards the house. She was put to bed in a burning fever, preceded by a shivering which gives me apprehensions for her, which I endeavored to conceal from the wretched parents whose sorrows mock all description. My Lord has just come from Lord Melvin, who insisted on being his prisoner till Harry was out of danger. Distaining to fly from justice since my Lord refuses his stay at Belmont, he entreats to be given into the hands of some gentleman near. My Lord has accepted this offer and named his father Lord Rochdale for the night. He has gone under the best guard, his own honour, in which Lord Belmont has implicit confidence. I have been into Lady Julia's room. She takes no notice of anything. Emily Howard kneels weeping by her bedside. Lady Belmont melts my soul when I behold her. She sits motionless as the statue of despair. She holds the hand of the lovely daughter between hers. She presses to her bosom and the tears steal silently down her cheeks. Unable to bear the sight I am returned to my apartment. Oh, Belleville, how is this scene of happiness changed? Where are now the gay transporting hopes which warmed our hearts this morning? I have with difficulty prevailed on Lady Mary, who droops under this weight of affliction, and whose years are ill-suited to scenes of horror, to set out this evening for her own seat, my niece, whose sorrow you may easily imagine, is to accompany her thither. If Mr. Mandeville dies, murdered by the hand of him whose fate hers is connected, never must she again enter these hospitable doors. Belleville, how is the gay structure of ideal happiness fallen in one moment to the ground? The messenger who sent to Lord Tease is returned, and has brought my Lord's letter. He went from thence to Mr. Herbert's, where Mr. Mandeville was supposed to be, but found nobody there but a servant from whom he could get no information. The family had been gone five days to London, being sent for express to a relation who was dying. Oh, Belleville, how many accidents have conspired! I myself have innocently contributed to this dreadful event, misled by my Lord's equivocal expressions, which seem to point so plainly at Lord Melvin. If he dies, but I will not give way to the so shocking an idea, the servant who went for a surgeon is not yet returned. Till his wounds are examined we must be in all the torture of suspense and apprehension. 11 o'clock. The surgeon is come. He is now with Mr. Mandeville. How I dread to hear his sentence. The door opens. He comes out with Lord Belmont. Horror is in the face of the latter. Oh, Belleville, my presaging heart! They advance towards me. I am unable to meet them. My limbs tremble. A cold dew. Belleville, his wounds are mortal. The pen drops from my hand. A farmer's son in the neighborhood has just brought the enclosed letter for Mr. Mandeville, which not knowing the consequence my Lord has opened. The History of Lady Julia Mandeville by Francis Brooke Section 28 Epistle Henry To Henry Mandeville Esquire, London, Tuesday morning Sir, the generous concern you have been pleased to take in my misfortune leaves me no room to doubt I shall give you pleasure by informing you that they are at an end. A rich relation, who has just expired, having made a will in my favor which places me in circumstances beyond my hopes. But you will be still more happy to know you have contributed to this turn of my fortune. The express was arrived with a request from our dying friend that we would instantly come post to town, and we were lamenting our hard fate in being unable, from our indignance to undertake a journey on which so much depended, when the post brought me a bill for one hundred pounds, which could come from no hand but yours. I wish the world was such as to make it easy for us to mistake. We set out with hearts filled with the sincerest gratitude to heaven, and the most worthy of men.  To you therefore, to whom we owe the means of taking this journey, we owe the ease of fortune which has been the consequence of it. Heaven has been pleased to make the man on earth we most esteem the instrument of its goodness to us. The hurry of spirits in which we set out prevented my leaving a direction for you with my servant, which I hope has been of no ill consequence. I have today sent him a direction and ordered him to wait on you with this letter. As soon as my affairs here are settled we'll replace the money your generous friendship has assisted us with, wherever you please to order. I am with the most lively esteem, sir, your most affectionate and obedient servant, W. Herbert. Balvil is it not hard the exercise of the noblest virtue should have been attended with such fatal effects? He dies for having alleviated the distresses of his friend, for having sympathized in the affliction of others. Epistle Colonel to Colonel Balvil Thursday morning. The most lovely of men is no more. He expired early this morning after having in my presence owned to my lord that jealousy was the true cause of his attacking Lord Melvin, who only fought in his own defence, which he entreated him publicly to attest and to beg Lord Melvin's pardon in his name for insults which madness alone could excuse, in which it was not in man to bear. He owned Lord Melvin's behaviour in the duel had been noble and that he had avoided giving him the least wound till urged by fury and despair and aiming at the life of his generous enemy rather than at his own defence, he had rushed on the point of his sword. He expressed great indifference for life on his own account, but dreaded the effect his death might have on the most tender of fathers. Intreated my lord so often so painful a stroke by preparing him for it by degrees, and if possible to conceal from him the shocking manner of it, how ill said he as my rashness repaid him for all his anxious cares, his indulgent goodness. I suffered justly, but for him, great God, support him in the dreadful trial and pour all thy blessings on his head. He then proceeded to expostulate gently with Lord Belmont on his supposed design of forcing the heart of his daughter, and on that neglect of himself which had planted the furies of jealousy in his breast and occasioned this shocking event. These reproaches brought on an explanation of the situation to which his danger had reduced Lady Julia of my lord's intention of giving her to him and of the whole plan of purposed happiness, with his impatience irritated by a series of unforeseen accidents had so fatally destroyed. Till now he had appeared perfectly composed, but from the moment my lord began to speak a wildness had appeared in his countenance which rose before he ended to little less than distraction. He raved, he reproached heaven itself, then melting into tears, preyed with fervor unspeakable for Lady Julia's recovery. The agitation of his mind caused his wounds to bleed afresh. Successive faintings were the consequence in one of which he expired. Lord Belmont is now writing to Colonel Mandeville, how many has this dreadful event involved in misery? Who shall tell this to Lady Julia? I dread the most fatal effects from her despair, when returning reason makes her capable of knowing her own wretchedness. At present she is in a state of perfect insensibility. Her fever is not the least abated. She is every symptom which can indicate danger. Lady Belmont and Emily Howard have never left her bedside a moment. I have with difficulty persuaded them to attempt to rest a few hours, and am going to take Lady Belmont's place by her bedside. Ten o'clock. The physician is gone. He thinks Lady Julia in danger, but has not told this to the family. I am going again to her apartment. She has not yet taken notice of anybody. I had been about half an hour in Lady Julia's room when having sent the last attendant away for something I wanted. She looked round and saw we were alone. She half raised herself in the bed, and grasping my hand fixed her inquiring eyes ardently on mine. I too well understood their meaning. An unable to hide my grief was rising to leave the bedside, when catching hold of me with a look and air which froze my soul. Lady Anne, said she, does he live? My silence and the tears which I could not conceal explained to her the fatal truth. When raising her streaming eyes and supplicating hands to heaven, oh Belleville, no words can describe the excess of her sorrow and despair, fearful of the most fatal instant effects I was obliged to call her attendance of whose entrance she took not the least notice. After remaining some time absorbed in an agony of grief which took from her all power of utterance, and made her insensible to all around her, the tears which she shed in great abundance seemed to give her relief. My heart was melted. I wept with her. She saw my tears, and pressing my hand tenderly between hers seemed to thank me for the part I took in her afflictions. I had not opposed the torrent of her despair. But when I saw it subsiding, endeavored to soothe her with all the tender attention and endearing sympathy of faithful friendship, which so far succeeded, that I have left her more composed than I could have imagined it possible she should so soon have been. She has even an appearance of tranquility, which amazes me, and seeming inclined to take rest, I have left her for that purpose. May heaven restore her to her wretched parents whose life is wrapped in hers. May it inspire her with courage to bear this stroke. The severest of feeling mind can suffer. Her youth, her sweetness of temper, her unaffected piety, her filial tenderness sometimes flatter me with a hope of her recovery. But when I think on that melting sensibility, on that exquisitely tender heart which bleeds for the sorrow of every human being, I give way to all the horrors of despair. Lady Julia has sent to speak with me. I will not a moment delay attending her. How blessed should I be if the sympathizing bosom of friendship could soften by partaking her sorrows. Oh, Valville, what a request she has made! My blood runs back at the idea. She received me with a composed air, begged me to sit down by her bedside, and sending away her attendance spoke as follows. You are, I doubt not, my dear Lady Anne, surprised at the seeming tranquil manner in which I bear the greatest of all misfortunes. Yes, my heart doted on him, my love for him was unutterable. But it is past. I can no longer be deceived by the fond delusion of hope. I submit to the will of heaven. My God, I am resigned. I do not complain of what the hand has inflicted. A few unavailing tears alone. Lady Anne, you have seen my calmness. You have seen me patient as the trembling victim beneath the sacrificer's knife. Yet think not I have resigned all sensibility. No, were it possible I could live. But I feel my approaching end. Heaven in this is merciful. That I bear this dreadful stroke with patience is owing to the certainty I shall not long survive him. That our separation is but for a moment. Lady Anne, I have seen him in my dreams. His spotless soul yet waits for mine. Yes, the same grave shall receive us. We shall be joined to part no more. All the sorrow I feel is for my dear parents. To you, and Emily Howard, I leave the sad task of comforting them. By all our friendship I adjure you. Leave them not to the effects of their despair. When I reflect on all their goodness and on the misery I have brought on their grey hairs my heart is torn in pieces. I lament that such a wretch was ever created. I have been to blame, not in loving the most perfect of human beings, but in concealing that love and distressing the indulgence of the best of parents. Why did I hide my passion? Why can seal sentiments only blamable on the venal maxims of a despicable world? Had I been unreserved, I had been happy. But heaven had decreed otherwise. And I submit. But whither am I wandering? I sent for you to make a request. A request in which I will not be denied. Lady Anne, I would see him. Let me be raised and carried to his apartment before my mother returns. Let me once more behold him. Behold him for whom alone life was dear to me. You hesitate. For pity do not oppose me. Your refusal will double the pangs of death. Overcome by the earnestness of her air and manner I had not resolution to refuse her. Her maids are now dressing her, and I have promised to attend her to his apartment. I am summoned. Great God, how shall I bear a scene like this? I tremble. My limbs will scare support me. 12 o'clock. This dreadful visit is yet unpaid. Three times she approached the door and returned as often to her apartment, unable to enter the room. The third time she fainted away, her little remaining strength being exhausted, she has consented to defer her purpose till evening. I hope by that time to persuade her to decline it wholly. Faint and almost sinking under her fatigue, I have prevailed with her to lie down on a couch. Emily Howard sits by her, kissing her hand and bathing it with her tears. I have been inquiring at Lady Julia's door. She is in a sweet sleep, from which we have everything to hope. I fly to tell this to Lady Belmont. She will live. Heaven has hurt our prayers.  She heard me, and tears of tender transport she raised her grateful hands to Heaven. I am interrupted. Dr. Evelyn is at the gate. He has come to my apartment and desires me to accompany him to Lady Julia. We found her still in a gentle sleep, composed as that of an infant. We approached the bed. Dr. Evelyn took her hand. He stood some time looking on her with the most fixed attention, when I am expressing my hopes from her sleep. Madam, said he, it is with horror I tell you that sleep will probably be her last. Nature is worn out and seeks a momentary repose before her last dreadful struggle.  Belleville, is it possible, can Heaven thus overwhelm with affliction the best, the noblest of its creatures? Shall the amiable, the reverent pair, the business lives, has been to make others happy, be doomed in age to bear the severest of all sorrows? To see all their hopes blasted in one dreadful moment? To believe this is to blaspheme providence. No, it is not possible. Heaven will yet restore her.  Dr. Evelyn is now with the wretched parents, breaking to them the danger of their child. I dread seeing them after this interview. Yet he will not sure plunge them at once into despair. She is awake. I have been with her. Her looks are greatly changed. Her lips have a dying paleness. There is a dimness in her eyes which alarms me. She has desire to speak a moment with Dr. Evelyn. She would know how long he thinks it will, she may live. Six o'clock. She is gone, Belleville. She is gone. Those lovely eyes are closed in everlasting night. I saw her die. I saw the last breath quiver on her lips. She expired almost without a pang in the arms of her distracted mother. She felt her approaching dissolution of which she had been warned at her own earnest request by Dr. Evelyn. She summoned us all to her apartment. She embraced us with the most affecting tenderness. She called me to her, and giving me her picture for Colonel Mandeville begged me to tell him. She, who murdered his son, died for him. Intreated me to stay some time at Belmont to comfort her disconsolate parents. Conjured Emily to be a child to them, and never to let them miss their Julia. She begged forgiveness of her wretched parents for the only instance in which she had ever forgot her duty, and for which she now so severely suffered, and treated them to submit to the hand of heaven, and not give way to immoderate affliction. To consider that if they were about to lose a child, thousands were at that moment suffering under the same distress, that death was the most common portion of humanity, from which youth was not more exempt than age, that their separation was only temporary whilst their reunion would be eternal. Then, raising her blameless hands, prayed fervently to heaven for them, implored their last blessing, and, turning to her agonizing mother, speechless with excess of sorrow, conjured her to reflect on the past goodness of heaven, and the many years of happiness she had already passed with the best of men, that this was the first misfortune she had ever known, then embracing her fondly, weeping on her neck, and thanking her for all her goodness, pressed her to her bosom, and expired. Let me draw a veil over the ensuing scene, to which words cannot do justice. With difficulty have we forced Lady Belmont from the body. I have left Emily Howard with the venerable pair, whose sorrow would melt the most obdurate heart. She kneels by Lady Belmont. She attempts to speak, but tears stop her utterance. The wretched mother sees her not, inattentive to all but her grief, her eyes fixed on the ground, stupefaction and horror in her look. She seems insensible of all that passes around her. Sinking under his own distress, and unable to support the sight of hers, my lord is retired to his apartment. May heaven look with pity on them both, and enable them to bear this blow to all their hopes.  Where the circle of happy friends? How vain are the designs of man, unmindful of his transitory state. He lays plans of permanent felicity. He sees the purpose of his heart ready to prosper. The air-drawn building rises. He watches it with a beating heart. It touches the very point at which he aimed, the very summit of imagined perfection. When an unforeseen storm arises, and the smiling deceitful structure of hope is dashed in one moment to the ground. Friday morning. Not an eye has been closed this night. The whole house is a scene of horror. The servants glide up and down the apartment's wildness in their look as if the last day was come. Scares have we been able to keep life in Lady Belmont. She asks eagerly for her child, her Julia. She conjures us to lead her to her. She will not believe her dead. She starts up and fancies she hears her voice, then recollecting the late dreadful scene lifts her expostulating hands to heaven and sinks motionless into the arms of her attendants. Six o'clock. Worn out by her long watchings and the violence of her emotions, Lady Belmont is fallen into a slumber. It is now two days and nights since she has attempted rest. May that gracious God, who alone has the power, calm and tranquilize her mind. Eight o'clock. I have been standing an hour looking on the breathless body of my angel friend. Lovely, even in death. A serene smile sits on that once charming face. Her paleness accepted she looks as if in a tranquil sleep. Belleville, she is happy. She is now a saint in heaven. How persuasive is such a preacher. I gaze on the once matchless form and all vanity dies within me. Who was ever lovely like her? Yet she lies before me a clot of senseless clay. Those eyes which once gave love to every beholder are now robbed of their living luster. That beautyous bosom is cold as a marble on the silent tune. The roses of those cheeks are faded. Those vermilion lips from whence truth and virtue ever proceeded. Belleville, the starting tears, I cannot go on. Look here ye proud and be humble, which you all can vie with her. Youth, health, beauty, birth, riches, all that men call good were hers. All are now of no avail. Virtue alone bids defiance to the grave. Great heaven! Colonel Mandeville is at the gate. He knows not the cup of sorrow which awaits him. He cannot yet have received my lord's letter. He alights with a smile of transport. The exultation of hope is in his air. Alas, how soon to be destroyed! He comes to attend the bridal day of his son. He finds him a lifeless corpse. The servants bring him this way, then leave to me the dreadful talk. Belleville, I cannot go through it. I have seen the most unhappy of fathers. I have followed him wither my heart shuttered to approach. Too soon informed of his wretched fate, he shot like lightning to the apartment of his son. He kissed his pale lifeless lips. He pressed his cold hands to his bosom. He bathed it with a torrent of tears. Then, looking round with the dignity of affliction, waved his hand for us all to retire. We have left him to weep at liberty over the son on whom his heart doted. To enjoy alone and undisturbed the dreadful banquet of despair. He has been now two hours alone with the body. Not an attendant has dared to intrude on the sacred rites of paternal sorrow. My lord is this moment gone to him, to give him a melancholy welcome to Belmont. Great God, what a meeting! How different from that which their sanguine hopes had projected. The bridal couch is the bed of death. Oh, Belleville, but shell presumptuous man dare to arraign the ways of heaven. The History of Lady Julia Mandeville by Francis Brooke Section 29 Epistle Colonel To Colonel Belleville Tuesday morning Your letter, my dear Belleville, gave me all the consolation it is possible to receive amid such a scene of wretchedness and despair. The tender sympathy of pitying friendship is the best balm for every woe.  I know the goodness, the tender sensibility of your heart too well to doubt your approving my resolution. To give six months to the memory of my angelic friend, and the sad task of endeavouring to soften the sorrows of her parents. Her dying voice adjured me not to leave them to their despair. I will not forget the sad task her friendship imposed. The agony of Lady Balmont's grief begins to give place to a sorrow more reasonable, though perhaps not less exquisite. The violence of her emotions abates. She still weeps, but her air is more calm. She raises her eyes to heaven, but it is with a look of patient resignation, which whilst it melts my soul to behold gives me hopes she will not sink under her afflictions. Lord Balmont struggles with his own grief, lest it should increase hers. He attempts to comfort her, he begs her with an irresolute air to consider the hand from whence the stroke proceeded. Unable to go on his voice trembles, his bosom swells with unutterable anguish. He rises, he leaves the room, the tears trickle down his reverend cheeks. These, Belleville, these are the scenes I have perpetually before my eyes. Colonel Mandeville indulges his sorrow alone.  He seems to fly from all human converse. If entreated he joins our sad party a moment. He enters with a dejected air. His eyes are bent earnestly to the ground. He sits motionless, in a tentive, absorbed in reflection on his own misery. Then starting up exclaims, all else I could have borne, and retires to give himself up to despair. I am now convinced Emily Howard deserved that preference Lady Julia gave her over me and her heart, of which I once so unjustly complained. I lament, I regret, but am enough myself to reason to reflect Emily Howard can only weep. Far from being consoled for the loss of her lovely friend, by the prospect of inheriting Lord Balmont's fortune, to which after Colonel Mandeville she is entitled, she seems incapable of tasting any good in life without her. Every idea of happiness her gentle mind could form included Lady Julia's friendship. With her she wished to spend all her days. She was all to her tender Emily. Without her she finds the world a desert. She is changed beyond conception by her grief. A grief which has not a moment's intermission. The almost dying paleness of her cheeks is a witness of the excess of her affliction. Yet this very paleness has a thousand charms. Her distress has something in it, unspeakably lovely, adorned by sorrow. She puts me in mind of what young describes women in general. So properly the object of affliction, that heaven is pleased to make this dress become her, and dresses her most amiably in tears. Tuesday evening. Belleville. I have been walking in a little wilderness of flowering shrubs once peculiarly happy in Lady Julia's favour. There is a rose which I saw planted by her hand. It still flourishes in youthful bloom, whilst she, the fairest flower heaven ever formed, lies cropped by the cruel hand of death. What force has the imagination over the senses? How different is the whole face of nature in my eyes. The once smiling scene has a melancholy gloom which strikes a damp through my inmost soul. I look in vain for those vivid beauties which once charmed me. All beauty died with Lady Julia. In this spot where we have so often walked together I give way to all the voluptuousness of sorrow. I recall those happy days which are never to return. A thousand tender ideas rush on my memory. I recollect those dear moments of confidence and friendship engraved forever on my heart. I still hear the sweet accents of that voice, still behold that matchless form. I see her every moment before me, in all the playfulness of youth and innocence. I see her presence gazing on her as she passes, with that lively transport a parent only can know. It was here her rising blushes first discovered to me the secret of her heart. It was here the loveliest of mankind first implored me to favour his passion for my sweet friend. Pleased with the tender sorrow which possessed all my soul, I determined to indulge it to the utmost. And revolving in my imagination the happy hours of cheerful friendship to which a smiling scene had been witnessed prolonged my walk till evening had almost unperceived spread its gloomy horrors round till the very tints of the flowers were lost in the deepening shades of night. Awakening at once from the reverie in which I had been plunged I found myself at a distance from the house, just entering the little wood so loved by my charming friend. The every moment increasing darkness gave an awful gloom to the trees. I stopped. I looked round. Not a human form was in sight. I listened, and heard not a sound but the trembling of some poplars in the wood. I called. The echo of my own voice was the only answer I received. A dreary silence reigned around. A terror I never felt before seized me. My heart panted with timid apprehension. I breathed short. I started at every leaf that moved. My limbs were covered with a cold dew. I fancied I saw a thousand airy forms flit around me. I seemed to hear the shrieks of the dead and dying. There is no describing my horrors. At the moment when my fears had almost deprived me of sense I saw a Colonel Mandeville approach. I concealed from him the terrors of my soul lest they should add to the sorrow which consumed him. He addressed me in a faltering voice, conducted me to the house almost without speaking, and leading me into the saloon. Oh, Balvil, how shall I describe what I felt on entering that room? Is not death of itself sufficiently dreadful that we thus clothe it in additional tears by the horrid apparatus with which we suffer it to be attended? The room was hung with black, lighted up to show the affecting objects it contained, and in the midst, in their coffins, the breathless bodies of the hapless lovers, on a couch near them supported by Emily Howard, the wretched mother wringing her hands in all the agony of despair. Lord Belmont standing by the bodies, looking at them alternately, weeping over his child and raising his desponding eyes to heaven, beseeching the God of mercy to relieve him from this load of misery, and to put a speedy period to that life which was now robbed of all its happiness. I approached Lady Julia's coffin. I gazed eagerly on her angel countenance. Serene is that of a sleeping infant. I kissed her lifeless lips which still wore the smile of innocence and peace. Balvil, may my last end be like hers. May I meet her in the regions of immortality. Never shall I forget her gentle virtues or the delight I found in her friendship.  The village maids who laid her in the coffin had adorned her with the freshest flowers that stood at an awful distance, weeping her hard fate and their own. They haven't treated to watch around her this night, and to bear her to-moral to the grave. I had stood some time looking on the dear remains of Julia when Colonel Mandeville took my hand and led me to the coffin in which his sons were deposited. Lady Anne, said he, you have forgot your once-favoured friend, your once-gay, once-lovely Harry Mandeville. Behold, all that death has left of the darling of a fond parent's heart. The graces of that form are lost, those lips have ceased to utter the generous sentiments of the noblest heart which ever beat, but never will his varied perfections be blotted from the mind of his father. I approached the most lovely of men. The traces of sorrow were visible on his countenance. He died in the moment when he heard the happiness which had been vainly intended for him. My tears streamed afresh when I beheld him, when I remembered the sweet hours we passed together, the gay scenes which hope had painted to our hearts. I wept over the friend I had so loved, I pressed his cold hand to my lips. Belleville, I am now accustomed to horrors. We have prevailed on the wretched parents to retire. Emily Howard and I haven't treated to watch our angel friends till midnight, and then leave them to the village maids, to whom Lady Julia's weeping attendants insist on being joined. I dread the rising of tomorrow's dawn. He was meant to light us to happiness. Thursday morning. Belleville, this morning is come. This morning once so ardently expected. Who shall ever dare to say, tomorrow I will be happy? At dawn of day we return to the saloon. We bid a last adieu to the loved remains. My lord and Colonel Mandeville had been before us. They were going to close the coffins when Lady Balmont burst wildly into the room. She called eagerly for her Julia, for the idol of her agonizing soul. Let me once more behold my child. Let me once more kiss those icy lips. Oh Julia, this day first gave thee birth. This day fond hope set down for thy bridles. This day we resign thee to the grave. Overcome by the excess of her sorrow, she fainted into the arms of her woman. We took that opportunity to convey her from this scene of terrors. Her senses are not yet returned. Thursday evening. What a day have I passed. May the idea of it be ever blotted from my mind. Nine o'clock. The sad procession begins. The whole village attend in tears. They press to perform the last melancholy duties. Her servants crowd eagerly round. They weep. They beat their bosoms. They call on their angelic mistress. They kiss the pawl that covers her breathless form. Born by the youngest of the villagemaids. Oh, Balville, never more shall I behold her. The loveliest of her sex. The friend on whom my heart resists. One grave receives the hapless lovers. They move on, far other processions. But who shall resist the hand of heaven? Emily Howard comes this way. She has left the wretched parents. There is a wildness in her air which chills my blood. She will behold her friend once more. She proposes to meet and join the procession. I embrace the offer with transport. The transport of enthusiastic sorrow. We have beheld the closing scene. Balville, my heart is breaking. The pride of the world, the loveliest pair that ever breathed, the vital air, are now cold and inanimate in the grave. Section 30. To Colonel Balville, Sunday morning. I am just come from chapel with Lady Belmont, who has been pouring out the sorrows of her soul to her creator, with a fervor of devotion which a mind like hers alone can feel. When she approached the seat once filled by Lady Julia, the tears streamed involuntarily down her cheeks. She wiped them away. She raised her eyes to heaven and falling on her knees with a look of pious resignation seemed to sacrifice her grief to her god, or at least to suspend the expression of it in his presence. Next Sunday she goes to the parish church where the angelic pair are interred. I dread her seeing the vault, yet think she cannot too soon visit every place which must renew the excess of her affliction. She will then and not till then find by degrees the violence of her sorrow subside, and give way to that pleasing melancholy, that tender regret which, however strange it may appear, is one of the most charming sensations of the human heart. Whether it be that the mind appores nothing like a state of inaction, or from whatever cause I know not, but grief itself is more agreeable to us than indifference, nay, if not too exquisite, is in the highest degree delightful of which the pleasure we take in serenity, or in talking of our dead friends, is a striking proof. We wish not to be cured of what we feel on these occasions. The tears we shed are charming. We even indulge in them. Balvil, does not the very word indulge shoe the sensation to be pleasurable? I have just now a letter from my niece. She is in despair at this dreadful event. She sees the amiable, the venerable parents whose happiness was the ardent wish of her soul, and from whom she had received every proof of esteem and friendship reduced to the extremest misery, by the hand of him she loves, forever excluded from Belmont, forever to them an object of horror. She seems to herself guilty of their wretchedness. She seems to have struck the fatal blow. Since Mr. Mandeville's death she has left Lady Mary, whose tears she fancied were redoubled at her sight. Nor is she less wretched on Lord Melvin's account. She is distracted with her terrors for his life, which is however safe by Mr. Mandeville's generous care, who when expiring gave testimony to his innocence. You will oblige me by begging of Lady Betty to take her at present under her protection. It ill suits the delicacy of her sex and birth to remain in London alone and unconnected. With your amiable mother she cannot fail of being happy. I had persuaded Lady Belmont to walk in the garden. She went with me, leaning on my arm, when the door being opened the first object that struck her sight was the pavilion raised for the marriage of her daughter, which none of us had thought of having removed.  Velville, every object she meets will remind her of the darling of her heart. My Lord and Colonel Mandeville are together. They are projecting a tomb for their lovely children.  How often shall I visit this tomb? How often shall I stir it with the sweetest flowers? Sunday Afternoon As I passed this moment through the saloon, I went mechanically to the window from whence we used to contemplate the happy group of villagers. Velville, how I was struck with the change. Not one of the late joyous train appeared. All was a dismal scene of silent, unsocial solitude. Lost to the idea of fear, all revere, all partake, the sorrows of the God-like benefactors. With Lady Julia, all joy has left the once charming shades of Belmont. Lord Fonville has gone past with his bride. In all the splendor of exulting transport, scarce can I forbear accusing heaven, the worthless live and prosper, the virtuous sink untimely to the grave. My Lord has ordered the pavilion to be removed. He will build an obelisk on the spot where it stood, on the spot once dedicated to the happiness of his child. A stranger has been today at the parish church, inquiring for the grave of Mr. Mandeville. His behavior witnessed the most lively sorrow. It can be no other than Mr. Herbert. I have told this to my Lord who will write and ask him to Belmont that he may mix his tears with ours. Whoever loved Mr. Mandeville will be here a most welcomed guest. Monday Morning I have persuaded Lady Belmont to go out for an hour with me in my cherry at this morning. We are to go a private road where we are sure of not seeing a human being. I do. Epistle the Earl To the Earl of Belmont, Mount Melvin, Wednesday My Lord, if my regret for the late dreadful event, an event embittered by the circumstances your last letter communicated to me, could receive any increase is certainly must from the generous behavior of Mr. Mandeville, whose care for my unhappy son when expiring is a proof his blood was drawn from the same source as our Lordship's. Yes, he was indeed worthy the happiness you intended him, worthy the honored name of Mandeville. Relived by the noble conduct of your lamented kinsmen, from the fears I entertained for my son's life, my sorrow for the miseries he has occasioned is only the more severe. I feel with unutterable anguish that my ancient friend, the friend of my earliest youth, is childless by the crime of him who owes his being to me. The blow his hand unwillingly struck has reached the heart of the incomparable Lady Julia. I think of her angelic perfections, of the untimely fate which has robbed the world of its loveliest ornament, and almost wish never to have been a father. Lady Rochedale and Louisa are in tears by me. Forever excluded from Belmont, they look on themselves as exiles, though at home. The horrors of mine under which my son labors are unutterable. He entreats to see Colonel Mandeville to obtain his pardon for that involuntary crime which has destroyed all the happiness of his life. Will you, my friend, once more admit us, allow us one interview with yourself and Colonel Mandeville? I ask no more, nor will ever repeat the visit. I could not support the sight of Lady Belmont. I am my lord, your lordship's most faithful, though wretched friend, Rochedale. Epistle the Earl to the Earl of Rochedale, Belmont, Wednesday. My lord. Convinced Lord Melvin is more uncomfortable than culpable, it would be cruel to treat him as a criminal. I feel a horror I cannot conquer at the idea of ever receiving the visit your lordship has proposed, but conscious of the injustice of indulging it, I sacrifice it to our ancient friendship, and only postpone not refuse the visit. I will struggle with the reluctance of my heart to see the guiltless author of my misery. As soon as he is publicly exculpated from the crime he at present stands charged with, Colonel Mandeville must appear as his accuser, wretched as his hand has made me, just as obliges me to bear witness to his innocence. Lady Anne Wilmot, who was present at Mr. Mandeville's dying declaration, is ready to confirm my evidence. Lord Melvin, therefore, has nothing to fear. The trial once passed I will endeavour to prevail on Colonel Mandeville and Lady Belmont to make the same painful sacrifice to friendship, to which time and reason will, I hope, perfectly reconcile us. But your lordship will, on a moment's reflection, be convinced that, till this is past, it would be indecent in me to see Lord Melvin. We are greatly obliged to Lady Rochdale and Lady Louisa, the time of whose visit their own politeness and sensibility will regulate. It is a severe addition to my wretchedness that the family of my friend is so fatally involved in it.  You can judge the anguish to which we must ever be a prey. Never more shall we know a cheerful hour. Our lost child will be ever at our hearts. When I remember her filial sweetness, her angel virtues, her matchless perfections, the only view we had in life was to see her happy. That is past, and all is now a dreary wild before us. Time may blunt the keen edge of sorrow and enable us to bear the load of life with patience, but never must we hope the return of peace. The shortness of life and the consideration of how much of our own is past are the only consolations we can receive. It cannot be long before we rejoin our beloved child. We have only to pray for that ardently expected hour which will reunite us to all we love. Why will man lay schemes of lasting felicity? By an over solicitude to continue my family and name and secure the happiness of my child, I have defeated my own purpose and fatally destroyed both. Humboldened in the dust I confess the hand of heaven, the pride of birth, the grandeur of my house, had too great a share in my resolves. Oh, my friend, but I consider the hand which directed the blow and submit to the will of my God. I am and see Belmont. Epistle Colonel to Colonel Belleville, Belmont Sunday morning. I am desired by my Lord to ask you hither and to beg you will bring my niece with you. Lady Belmont joins in the request. Her nobleness of sentiment has conquered the reluctance. She had to see her. She has even promised to endeavor to bear the sight of Lord Melvin, but I fear this is more than is in her power. She fainted when the request was first made. Lady Mary is expected here this evening. Belville, you are coming to Belmont once the smiling paradise of friendship. Alas, how changed from that once happy abode, where are those blameless pleasures, that convivial joy, those sweet follies which once gave such charms to this place, forever gone, forever changed to a gloomy sadness, forever buried with Lady Julia. Lady Belmont struggles nobly with her grief. She is consented to see her friends, to see all who will hear her talk of her child. A tender melancholy has taken place of those horrors, which it was impossible long to support and live. Colonel Mandeville is to stay at Belmont. They are to indulge in all the voluptuousness of sorrow. They are to sit all day and talk of their children, and count the hours till they follow them to the grave. They have invited all who will join in tears with them. The coach is gone today for Mr. and Mrs. Herbert. Emily Howard and I bend our whole thoughts to find out means to soften their sorrows. I hope much from your conversation, and the endearing sensibility of your soul. It is not by resisting, but by soothing grief, that we must heal the wounded heart. There is one pleasure to which they can never be insensible. The pleasure of relieving the miseries of others. To divert their attention from the sad objects which now engross them, we must find out the retreats of wretchedness. We must point out distress which it is in their power to alleviate. Oh, Belville, but in vain does the pride of human wisdom seek to explore the councils of the most high. Certain of the paternal care of our creator, our part is submission to his will. End of section 30. Recording by Jadapi. www.publicdomainaudiobooks.blogspot.com End of the History of Lady Julia Mandeville by Francis Brooke.


Everybody has a lifestyle, but they don't have a life. Surajwalevi means you have a life which is throbbing and roaring within you. The economic well-being has come, but sense has not come. If you're senseless, you may have everything, but still nothing will happen well for you, really. Economy, ecology, education. These are the three things that this government should focus on. Jaki Vasudev, over here. Economic well-being has come, but sense has not come. So it's not that we should not live well. We can live well, but we can do that very sensibly. And of course, living well, the first dimension of living well is we're living sensibly. If you're senseless, you may have everything, but still nothing will happen well for you, really. Well, recently you saw from Bangalore to Hussure, maybe five, ten thousand trees, which were more than hundred and twenty, hundred and thirty-year-old trees were cut. It was very painful to see it. But when people express their pain, I told them, don't complain. You want roads, right? But what is the compensated reaction we will do? This is what is important. Do not complain against development because if you complain against that, you will be just bulldozed. This is the most fundamental dimension. We've put it across to United Nations, to the central government. We are talking to the state governments now, is it is not ecology versus economy. It is ecology and economy must function together. More sensible way of doing our economics. Very important, I said in United Nations, which has been taken very seriously, I said I want to officiate the marriage of ecology and economy. Because if they don't come together, ecology will not survive. Spirituality does not mean a certain lifestyle. It's not about lifestyle. Everybody has a lifestyle, but they don't have a life. Spirituality means you have a life which is throbbing and roaring within you. Lifestyle, you can do it whichever way you want. That's why every few years I change my lifestyle just to confuse people around me. If I dress differently, if I act differently, if I do something different, even if I change my diet, they get confused.  That means he's constipated, he's not spiritual. Spiritual means you are not inhibited by anything, you are absolutely 100% flexible. Spirit cannot be fixed in a concrete box, isn't it? Body has a form. Body must have a form because it's physical. But even your mind should not have a form actually, it should be able to take whatever it wants. Your consciousness cannot have a form. If it has a form, it is not consciousness, it's just a concrete block. So a spiritual person will not look in any particular way, he can be any way he wants. Because you want to transmit something, you look a certain way. Because otherwise people will have problems.  But last thirty years I've been so busy, never got on two wheels. Now again I'm back, I rode into Mysore city on my motorcycle this time. So people are looking at me, what happened? Nothing happened, just four wheels to two wheels is not a bad idea. Sadhguru, what would you want this current government, the new government to focus on and what would you like them to accomplish for the next five years? I don't care what they accomplish. I'm very concerned about what the nation accomplishes in the next five years. We must understand the government can set policies, the government can budget their policies. Still on the ground, it's we the people who have to put it into place. There are many things that government has to do. Economy, ecology, education. Three is these three things in that priority, in that order of priority. Why I'm saying this is, see there are many issues with the country. The most important issue is the condition of human beings in this country, 40% of India looks terribly emaciated, malnourished. So people will say all kinds of solutions. But if you really look at it, there's only one solution. The size of the economy has to be increased. If we do not consciously lower our population, nature will do it in a terrible way.  Whatever you do hurts the land right now. When we say ecology, we're thinking of many things. But we need to understand the most important thing is the soil. Once the soil goes bad, everything goes bad. Right now that is the danger we are facing in this country. 40% of India's land in the next 25 years will be uncultivable, unless we do something drastic. So we are trying to push for many policies. We need all of you. We need all of you to support this because without people support these things will not happen. When economic activity takes feed, we tend to forget the ecological concerns. So to keep these two things in sync is very, very important. Fortunately, we have managed to convey many concerns about this. We're trying to push for loss. We have a latitudinal spread from Kanyakumari to Himalayas that we can just grow any crop that you want in the world. And we can grow twelve months of the year. If we handle this smartly, we can feed the entire world, not just this nation. As a part of this, we are launching a campaign called Kaveri Calling. Kaveri is calling whether the Kannada people and Tamil people can hear or not is the big question. They're busy fighting with each other. So Kaveri basin amounts for 83,000 square kilometers. And we are talking to both the governments because we need little support on this. Wherever it's government land, we want to convert it back into forest, proper forest. Agriculture land, at least one-third we want to put it under agroforestry. With this, the farmer's income will multiply many fold within five to seven years of time. Only thing is, first three to four years he needs government support in the form of subsidies. It's not only about agriculture. There is enough science to tell you today that the land that you walk upon and the food that you eat, what is the nature of the food that you eat, will determine what kind of next generation you produce. The strength of the soil and the genetic content in your body are directly related and it becomes weaker. If you produce a generation of people who are less than you yourself, you have committed a crime against humanity. We're busy doing that right now. So ecology is important. The next thing is education. Right now, as we said in many different words, all we have is population and population. We don't have enough natural resources for 1.3 billion people. We don't have an economy to serve 1.3 billion people. We don't have enough land to serve 1.3 billion people. If you upgrade the population to a higher level of capability, to a higher level of competence, to a higher level of function, then we could become a miracle of human potential. Too many people are left out of the education system. The education system we have is such right now that it has a very limited application. There are too many educated people who don't know what to do with themselves. We need to restructure our education systems for which we are in the process of writing an education policy. The government is also leaning towards this. So these three things, economy, ecology, education. These are the three things that this government should focus on.


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