In this lecture, we will talk about power amplifiers. Previously, we have studied about small signal amplifier. So, here small signal means that the output current or voltage swing is small as compared to the maximum collector current. Now, these small signal amplifiers are mostly used in electronic systems for signal processing. So, in most of the electronic systems these small signal amplifiers are used as the starting 2 or 3 stages of amplifiers. Now, if the power delivered to the load is required to be very high, then the amplifier should be selected as power amplifier. So, in general the last 1 or 2 stages of the amplifier are selected as power amplifiers. Here, the one may say that when a amplifier should be considered as power amplifier and when it should be considered as a small signal amplifier. So, when the power is less than 500 milliwatt, then one may say that this can be considered as a small signal amplifier. However, if the power is greater than 500 milliwatt, maybe few watts or few tens of watt or few hundreds of watt, then they can be considered as power amplifiers. So, in this lecture, we will talk about the power amplifiers. We will see the various performance parameters of power amplifiers and we will see how these parameters affect the performance of power amplifier. Then we will see the various classes of power amplifiers which depends upon the output current flow in the amplifier. Then we will see the circuit analysis of power amplifier. We will talk about the DC and AC load line and then we will see the selection of operating point. After that, we will talk about the various classes of power amplifiers in broad way. So, we will talk about class A amplifier, class B amplifier, class AB and class C power amplifier. Now, after discussing these classes of power amplifier, we will take two practical design examples of power amplifier. One will be of 2 watt power and another example will be of 30 watt power amplifier. So, in power amplifier, the power means that how much AC power is delivered to the load. Now, one may ask from where this AC power comes. So, in general, it comes from the supply or from the battery. Now, one may ask that what is the conversion efficiency? So, that means that how effectively one circuit of amplifier converts the DC power into the AC power which is to be delivered to the load. This effectiveness is defined in terms of the conversion efficiency of power amplifier and it is a figure of merit of power amplifier. It is defined as the ratio of the average AC power delivered to the load to the average DC power drawn by the circuit or supplied by the battery. This is one of the consideration of the power amplifier. Next consideration is the distortion in amplifiers. Now, depending upon the output current, the various type of amplifiers provides various types of waveform. So, the distortion is defined as the change in output wave shape from the input wave shape. These distortion could be of various type like amplitude distortion, harmonic distortion and crossover distortion. We will talk about these distortions little later. The next thing is in these power amplifier, the transistor should be designed in such a way that they should be capable of dissipating the high power. So, they dissipate high power. However, in case of a small signal amplifier, the transistors are made of very small size and in the case of power amplifier, the size of the transistor is chosen relatively large. It could be of few centimetres or even more. However, in case of a small signal amplifier, it is of just few millimetre size. Here, in case of power amplifier, the size is made relatively more because they have to dissipate more heat. Now, since the transistor in these power amplifiers dissipate more heat, so, there is a need of some cooling arrangement. So, you might have seen in electronic systems that the fan is associated at the back end of any instrument and this fan provides the cooling to the instrument and that cools the transistor. If the power is not very high, then this cooling is provided through the metal casing of the transistor and it dissipates heat through the metal casing. Now, if the transistor can also be cooled by placing at the back end of the circuitry and in this case, the heat goes through the convection when air flows, then this makes the transistor relatively cool. So, these are the main considerations of power amplifier. In case of power amplifier, the resistance of the collector is chosen relatively low because in these cases, the output current or the voltage swing should be very large and which can happen if the collector resistance of these amplifier is chosen as small. Next, we will talk about the various classes of power amplifiers. Power amplifiers are broadly classified into three categories depending upon for how much portion the output current will flow with respect to the input current or input signal. So, the classes of the amplifier is class A, class B and class C. Now, there are few modifications made for the class B amplifier, then the new type of amplifier is called as the class AB amplifier. This eliminates the distortion that occurs in case of class B amplifier. We will discuss about these features little later. Now, in case of class A amplifier, the output waveform follows the input cycle. So, here output current flows for the whole input cycle. So, the conduction angle in these amplifier is 360 degree. So, here you can see that the output current is the exact replica of the input signal. So, this is class A amplifier. The efficiency of these class A amplifier is relatively low. The next type of amplifier is class B amplifier. In this case, the operating point is chosen at the cutoff. So, the output current flows only for the positive half cycle. So, the output waveform will be between 0 and pi, 2 pi and 3 pi, 4 pi and 5 pi. So, the output waveform will be like this. So, here you can see that the half of the information is lost. One can get the complete waveform if the engineer uses a special type of connection using two transistors that is known as the push-pull connections. Then one can easily get the complete waveform. We will discuss about this configuration little later. Now, one may say why one should choose class B amplifier as it suffers from the distortion. The reason is that in case of class B amplifier, the efficiency of these amplifier is much higher as compared to class A amplifier. Here the efficiency is 78 percent and in case of class A amplifier, it is just 25 percent. So, this is one of the advantage of class B amplifiers. Now, as I mentioned these amplifiers suffers from the distortion. So, another type of amplifier is made by shifting the operating point slightly towards the active region. So, these type of amplifiers are known as the class AB push-pull amplifiers. The conduction angle of these amplifier is greater than 180 degree. In case of class B amplifier, the conduction angle is 180 degree and in case of class AB amplifier, it is little more than 180 degree could be around 200 or 220 degree depending upon the situation. So, in this case, the efficiency is slightly less than the class AB amplifier, but it provides a distortion free output signal. The next type of amplifier is class C amplifier. In these amplifier, output current flows for only very small portion of the input signal. So, you can say if you select somewhere here, then the output current will flow only for this region. So, correspondingly you will get the waveform like this. They provide a very small signal with very high output power. So, these pulses are of very high output power. When these pulses are connected with LC tank circuit, then they provide the carrier wave which is of sinusoidal in nature. So, they are used in generating the sinusoidal carrier wave. Now, if I compare these amplifiers in terms of conduction angle and efficiency. So, the conduction angle is maximum for class A amplifier and it is minimum for class C amplifier. For class A amplifier, it is around 360 degree and for class C, it is of the order of 10 degree or 20 degree depending upon the situation how high pulse or for how much duration you are interested in the pulse that is to be generated by class C amplifier. Now, if I talk about in terms of efficiency, then the efficiency of class A amplifier is minimum that is about 20 percent or 25 percent and it is maximum for class C amplifier. It is around 95 percent. So, they are the most efficient power amplifiers among these class A, B and C amplifiers. Next, we will take an example of class A amplifier. So, here is the circuit of class A amplifier. This is the supply voltage, these are the biasing resistor, this is collective resistor and these are the decoupling capacitors. The input is applied here. So, in this case, these input is coupled to the circuit through this decoupling capacitor and the output resistance is RL and this is connected to the circuit through this decoupling capacitor. We have already seen the DC load line of this circuit. Now, one may say that this circuit looks similar to the small signal amplifier. So, although in appearance they are similar, but the consideration of this transistor is quite different in case of power amplifier because of the dissipation and other considerations as we discussed earlier. Now, we will see that here we are interested in AC power that is delivered to the load. So, we will see the AC load line. Now, one may say that why the AC load line and DC load lines are different. So, if you see here, the impedance seen at this end will be different for the DC circuit and the AC circuit. In case of DC circuit, these capacitors will act like a infinite impedance. So, they will not make connection with the output. So, the impedance seen at this end will be only RC. However, in case of AC analysis, we short circuit all the supply sources and short circuit all the decoupling capacitors. So, if this will be shorted, then the impedance seen at this end will be the parallel combination of RC and RL which is represented by a small RC. So, the impedance seen is different for the AC and DC analysis and that is why the AC load line will be different than the DC load line. Now, just to do the analysis of this circuit, short circuit all the supply sources and short circuit all the decoupling capacitors and then apply the Kirchhoff law in this loop and then superimpose the current achieved in this with the DC current.  This represents the relation between the IC and VCE. It is a straight line. So, one can draw a straight line using this when they want to see the characteristics in IC versus VCE. So, to draw a AC load line, just put VCE equals to 0 to calculate the IC saturation current. So, this will come out to be ICQ plus VCEQ and for the cutoff region put IC equals to 0, then VCE will be VCEQ plus ICQ RC and the line drawn by using these point will be the AC load line. Here the slope of this load line will be minus 1 upon RC which is a parallel combination of RC and RL. Now, the next thing is where should be the operating point? So, in case of class A power amplifiers, the output current and voltage rate should be very large. So, one should choose the operating point in such a way that it should provide the maximum output power without any distortion. So, in general it is suggested that one should choose the operating point in the middle of this AC load line. Why this is chosen? Because if you choose point somewhere here, then there are chances that the positive cycle of this output signal may get clamped. This is known as the saturation clamping and if the point is chosen somewhere here, then there are chances that the negative cycle of the output signal may get clamped. This is known as the cutoff clamping. So, one should choose the operating point at the centre to get the maximum output signal without any distortion. Next, we will be seeing the how much AC power is delivered to the load. So, in order to calculate the power delivered to the load, few assumptions are made that the cutoff point is considered to be here at 0. So, this will corresponds to VCC if you see and this is taken at the saturation. So, this value of the current will be 2 ICQ. Here this represents the maximum voltage and this represents the minimum voltage. So, this will be 0 and maximum voltage over here will be VCC. This represents the minimum current and this represents the maximum current. So, the maximum current will be 2 ICQ and the minimum current will be 0. Now, to calculate the output power delivered to the load, it will be the root mean square value of VCE and ICE. So, it will be the product of RMS value of VCE and IC. Now, this will be the half of peak to peak voltage of VCE and the root mean square value of this. Similar will be in case of current. Now, here we know that VCE peak to peak is equal to VCC. So, just put these values in this expression you will get the VCE RMS value as VCC by 2 root 2 and ICE RMS value as ICQ by 2 root 2 and here 2 and 2 will cancel out. So, it will be ICQ by root 2. So, after simplifying you will get the AC power delivered to the load as VCC into ICQ by 4. Now, how much is the power supplied by the battery in this case? So, in this case the current will be supplied in these 2 branches. So, it is assumed in the analysis that the current drawn by these biasing resistors is negligible as compared to the current drawn by this resistor. So, it has been ignored. So, the supplied power will be VCC into ICQ. Now, to calculate the conversion efficiency we have already studied that the conversion efficiency is the ratio of the output power delivered to the load and the supply power. So, if you put these values then you will get the efficiency of 25 percent. Now, in this case if suppose one want to design a 10 watt power amplifier then one has to supply 40 watt of power through supply. So, in this case the lot of power will be wasted in this circuit. Here half of the power will be wasted in this resistor. This power can be saved if we replace this resistor by a transformer. So, the next type of class A amplifier is transformer coupled class A amplifier. Here the load resistance Rc is replaced by the transformer. So, this is the transformer the output resistance is Rl. Here the number of turns in the primary coil are Np and the number of turns in the secondary coil are Ns. So, the impedance seen at this end at the primary will be represented by this expression Rl dash equals to Np by Ns whole square into Rl. So, in this case the impedance matching can be easily achieved by just changing the turn ratio of the transformer. Now, in this case we know that in case of transformer the resistance is very low or it is 0. So, the DC load line for this configuration will be a vertical line because small resistance or the 0 resistance will corresponds to infinite rho. So, that will make the vertical line. So, in this case this Vceq will be equal to Vcc because there will not be any losses in this transformer. So, if you put the value of Vceq and try to calculate the conversion efficiency then it will come out to be 50 percent. So, by using transformer coupled class A amplifier the efficiency has been improved to 50 percent. So, in case if you want to design a 10 watt of amplifier. So, here you need to supply 20 watt of power in this case. Now, if you see here if the signal is absent. So, in both the amplifier configuration of class A the current will pass through this transistor. So, it will continuously dissipate the heat. So, that is one of the disadvantage of class A configuration that lot of the power is dissipated in the transistor. Now, this configuration is also not desirable because the transformer is relatively bulky and they are frequency sensitive. So, the frequency response is not very good. Now, if the transformer is used for very good quality then it becomes expensive. So, that is why this configuration is not used. The next type of amplifier configuration is class B amplifier. Here the operating point is chosen at the cut off. So, at the cut off the current will be 0. So, in this case the output current will flow only for this half cycle that is positive half cycle. There will not be any conduction in the negative half cycle. So, the output will be similar to the half wave rectifier. Now, if one want to achieve the complete waveform this is also possible using class B power amplifier. This can be made using the special type of arrangement that is known as push-pull connection. In push-pull connection two transistors are used. So, here is the push-pull arrangement of two transistors. The transistors are NPN transistors and these are the common emitter configurations. Here the input is provided by using the input transformer and the output is taken and combined from these transistors by the transformer at the output. So, in this case the input signal is decoupled at the secondary and they are in out of phase. Here you can see. So, they are tapped in such a way that the input to these transistors are out of phase. So, in this case the NPN transistor we know that the emitter base junction for this transistor should be forward biased in order to start the conduction. So, if you see here this cycle this half cycle will provide the forward bias to this transistor. So, output will appear for this much of duration. Since this configuration is common emitter configuration. So, the output will be in opposite phase to that of the input signal. So, that will appear here. Similarly, in this case the output will be appeared for this cycle of input signal. So, it will be in reverse phase for this much of duration. Now using the center tab output transformer these outputs are combined and you will get the output waveform like this. So, this is the push pull amplifier. These are not used conventionally because of the center tab transformer it becomes costly and the size of this amplifier is relatively more. So, the next type of push pull arrangement is using the complementary transistors. Here the transistors are NPN and PNP they are connected back to back here the output is taken at the load and the input is provided here. So, in NPN transistor the emitter base junction will be forward bias if the positive cycle is provided here and in case of PNP transistor if the negative voltage is provided then it will be in the conduction state or in the active region. So, for the positive half cycle the output will appear through this transistor and for the negative half cycle the output will appear through this transistor. Now if a load is connected somewhere here then this output achieved at the load will be a complete waveform. So, this is how the complete waveform is made using the push pull connection of complementary transistors. Now the power delivered to the load in these transistors amplifier will be given by the root mean square value of VCE into IC. Here VCEQ will be half of the VCC because the output current is appeared for only half duration. So, VCEQ will be VCC by 2. So, by putting these values you can calculate the output AC power delivered to the load. So, that will come out to be VCC into ICQ by 4. Now if you want to calculate the power supplied so this will be the product of VCC and the current supplied by the battery. So, this current supplied will be the average value of the current. In this case the output does not appear for the full duration. So, we should take the average over full period. So, the average value will come out to be ICQ by pi. Now for the conversion efficiency it is the ratio of the output power by the supplied power and if you put these values the ratio will come out to be pi by 4. So, the conversion efficiency for these amplifier is 78.5 percent and this is relatively very high as compared to class A amplifier. So, this is one of the advantage of class B amplifiers. Now these amplifiers suffers from the distortion. So, if you see in this push pull arrangement these transistors should be of similar properties. If the properties are not similar then the output signal may contains the high harmonics of the fundamental frequency. So, the output could be containing the fundamental frequency and the second harmonic, third harmonic etcetera. So, if you see here this blue curve is the fundamental frequency and this green one is second harmonic. So, the output waveform will be like this which is not desirable. So, this type of distortion is known as the harmonic distortion. So, the harmonic distortion is given by the value acquired by the harmonics. So, this is given by the root mean square value of the harmonics over the power delivered to the fundamental harmonics. So, here A 1 is the amplitude of the fundamental frequency and A n is the amplitude of the nth harmonic. So, in case of class B amplifier since the output current appeared due to the complementary transistors are in out of phase. So, the even harmonics will be absent in case of class B power amplifiers only odd harmonics will be present. So, this distortion will be relatively very less because the main distortion will be due to this second harmonic. So, this harmonic will be absent in class B amplifier. So, the harmonic distortion will be relatively less in case of class B amplifiers and this will be given by this particular expression. The next type of distortion is the crossover distortion. In the analysis we assumed that these transistors are ideal in nature, but practically they are made of silicon then here the voltage required for the biasing of a meter base junction is 0.7 volt in case of NPN transistor and it should be minus 0.7 volt for PNP transistor. So, there will not be any conduction when the positive half cycle will be there between 0 to 0.7 volt and similarly in this case there will not be any conduction when it will be between minus 0.7 to 0. So, the output will not appear for that duration. So, in this case the output waveform will not be the replica of input or it will not be a complete sinusoidal waveform. So, this type of distortion is known as the crossover distortion. This type of distortion can be reduced by shifting the operating point slightly towards the active region. So, that type of amplifier are known as the class AB amplifiers. So, this is the circuit of resistor biased class AB amplifier here these R2 and R3 are used to provide the biasing to these transistors. So, that they should remain in conduction state for all the time even in case of 0 input signal. Here you can see that the operating point is chosen here just slightly towards the active region this is approximately 5 to 10 percent of the maximum value of the collector current. So, in this case the output will be a complete waveform, but this configuration suffers with the temperature variation because the emitter based junction voltage varies with temperature we know that the base emitter voltage varies by 2.5 millivolt by increasing the temperature by 1 degree centigrade. Now, suppose if the temperature increases by 20 degree then it will corresponds to 50 millivolt variation. Now, the biasing voltage that is required is around 600 millivolt. So, this 50 millivolt variation will be relatively huge. So, there are chances that it may shift the operating point which may not be desirable. Because it will provide the distortion. So, the next type of configuration is the diode biased configuration here these diodes are used to provide the biasing to these NPN and PNP transistors. The properties of these diodes are similar to the emitter based junction of NPN transistor and PNP transistor. So, in these transistors if the temperature changes then similar variations occurs in the emitter based junction of transistors and the similar variation occurs in these diodes. So, they do not suffer with the variation of the operating point. So, they provide the complete waveform without any distortion. So, this class amplifiers gets rid of the distortion. This is one of the biggest advantage of class AB amplifier. So, if one want to use the class B amplifier then it is suggested in general that one should use the class AB amplifier because it provides a distortion free signal and the efficiency of these amplifiers is just slightly less than the class B amplifier. The conduction angle of these amplifier is slightly greater than 180 degree it depends upon the biasing situation. So, it could be of around 200 or 220 degree. Here you can see for this much of duration the output signal will appear in these cases. So, the application of these class AB amplifiers are they can be used in the jammers or signal enhancers and in many other circuits wherever high power is required and efficiency is also one of the considerations. The next type of amplifier is the class C amplifier. In class C amplifiers the output current is present for only very small portion of the input signal. So, here the operating point is chosen away from the cutoff point. So, in this case the bias voltage applied will be negative. So, that is why in the circuit analysis this negative bias voltage is chosen here the output will appear for this much of portion. Now, if you see here here the input signal applied is sinusoidal in nature these are the decoupling capacitors. So, in this case for the negative cycle it will add up to this negative values. So, there will not be any conduction in the transistor and for the positive half cycle in the starting it will try to compensate for this negative bias and for very high value and for the very small portion of the input signal this transistor will go into the active region. So, the collector current will appear. So, here the collector current will be of very less duration with very high power. So, it will be in the form of pulses like this. In standalone configuration these pulses are of not very use. Now, when the tank circuit is connected at the collector end of this particular amplifier then these pulses strikes this tank circuit. Since we know that the time duration for these pulses is very less. So, the frequency will be very high and we know in case of tank circuit the impedance offered by the inductor will be very high for the high frequency range and it will act like a open circuit and in case of capacitor it will provide very low impedance. So, it will act like a short circuit. So, it will start charging. So, the capacitor will charge up to the voltage Vcc or slightly less than Vcc. Then this capacitor will try to discharge by providing current to this inductor and then it will discharge up to the value 0 and then the reverse process will start. So, in this way it will generate the complete sinusoidal waveform. So, this is one of the biggest application of these class C amplifier. So, using the tank circuit one can generate a sinusoidal career wave using the class C amplifiers. The efficiency of these amplifiers is around 95 percent. So, if the supplied power is around 1 kilo watt then the sinusoidal career wave of 900 watt or maybe 950 watt can be achieved using these class C amplifier which is very high value. So, the application of these amplifier is to provide the career signal that is of very high output power. So, they are used in television signals in radar systems to generate the career signals. This is one of the advantage. The limitation of these amplifier is that they can only generate the career signal of sinusoidal in nature. Now, we will take two examples of power amplifier. So, here is the example of 2 watt power amplifier. The number of the IC used in this amplifier is SPB 2026Z. Here the impedance matching is provided. We will not discuss about the impedance matching because it has been already told to you in previous lectures. This is a class AB transistor based power amplifier. The nominal supply voltage for this amplifier is 5 volt and the 1 dB compression point is 33.8 dBm. Here the 1 dB compression point means that for the RF input signal the power gain decreases by 1 dB. So, then RF input corresponding to that variation is known as the 1 dB compression point. So, in this case this is 33.8 dB. The RF input for this amplifier is taken 21.5 dB for measurement. So, here is the plot of this amplifier. The output power is shown here. This amplifier is designed for the GSM 2G band from 1800 to 2000 megahertz or 1.8 gigahertz to 2 gigahertz range. The output power achieved by this amplifier is maximum that is 33.2 dBm at 1.9 gigahertz with the efficiency of 38.1 percent and the current drawn by this amplifier is 1 ampere. The cooling arrangements are made by using these multiple holes and in multiple number of wires. The next type of amplifier is the 30 watt power amplifier. Here you can see that the cooling arrangement are made by placing a copper plate at the back end. So, it will dissipate the heat generated by this transistor of power amplifier. This is also class AB power amplifier. The nominal supply voltage for this amplifier is 28 volt. The 1 dB compression point for this amplifier is 44.8 dBm and the RF input given to this amplifier is 17 dBm and at the output this is connected with the 30 dB attenuator because of the limitation of the instruments that we have for the measurement. So, by considering this the output power achieved by this amplifier is around 44.1 dBm with 2.6 ampere current drawn by the circuit. The efficiency achieved by this amplifier is of the order of around 40 percent. So, these are the examples of the power amplifiers. So, now I would like to conclude in this lecture we talked about the power amplifiers. We talked about the various parameters which takes care of various performance parameters of the power amplifiers. After that we talked about the class A power amplifier. We saw that the efficiency of the class A power amplifier is very less for RC coupled transistor based power amplifier configuration. Then we talked about the transformer coupled class A power amplifiers. The efficiency has been increased to 50 percent, but these class A amplifiers suffers with large heat dissipation when the signal is not present in the amplifier. Then we talked about the class B amplifier. The operating point is chosen at the cutoff frequency. So, there are no dissipation in class B amplifiers in the absence of the signal, but the class B amplifier suffers from the distortion which could be the harmonic distortion or the crossover distortion. Now, these crossover distortions are eliminated by using the different configuration that is known as the class AB amplifier which makes use of the push pull arrangement of two transistors and the biasing is provided with the help of the resistor and the diode. These class AB amplifiers provides slightly less efficiency as compared to class B amplifier. For class B amplifier the efficiency is 78.5 percent. However, for class AB amplifier could be of around between 50 to 70 percent, but they provide the distortion free output signal. Then we talked about the class C power amplifiers. We saw that the output current appears for very less duration of the input signal. So, these amplifier are used to provide the short pulses of very high output power. Now, when these short pulses strikes to the LC tank circuit, then they provides the carrier sinusoidal wave of very high power. These carrier waves are generally used in the radar systems or in radio signals or even in the television signals mostly. So, efficiency of class C amplifier is the highest among class A, B and C amplifiers whatever we discussed in this lecture. So, one should choose the class C operation if one is interested for the maximum efficiency and otherwise if one is interested for the distortion free signal, then that person should go for the class A amplifiers. After that we talked about two practical examples of the power amplifier. We talked about the 2 watt and 30 watt power amplifiers. Then we saw what type of cooling arrangements were made and how they are matched over the frequency range. So, with this I would like to conclude. Thank you very much.


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Remember it used to be a gravel parking lot and they paved it in like the last year or so. They've got a little dog run here off on the left. If you want to go running through some snow banks. There's plenty of those here. Looks like there's like 3 feet of snow inside that dog run.  Yeah, we suddenly hit a lot of snow. It happened in the last hour or so. There was no snow down in Iowa. But once we hit South Dakota, suddenly it got a little more interesting, a little more fun.  We've got to go up through North Dakota. We've got to go into Saskatchewan and into Alberta yet. I'm not going to go too far. I might go up to Minot tonight. That's where I'm trying to get to. That's still about 6 hours away and I only got 6 hours left of my clock. I don't know if I'm going to make it there. We're going through some back country. So it's going to be a stop and go in small towns. I'm going to take a little bit of a scenic route. We've got the time. And then I'm going to stop in Calgary and go to the Chinook Mall to do my Christmas shopping. That's what I'm thinking of doing. I mean, we'll see what happens. I'm going to find another one on the way up, but that's... I haven't been to that mall in so long. And I sort of just want to go somewhere where I can just wander around indoors for a couple of hours and relax while I do my shopping. Because I really hate shopping. I really do. I want to make it as enjoyable and pleasant as possible. This is my spot as close as I can get to the door. I know, I know. Trucker Josh is lazy. No, I just don't like the cold. But you're Canadian Trucker Josh. I know. I still don't like the cold. That is not a required thing to be Canadian. I've heard your comments, or I've read them actually, but I heard them when I said them out loud to myself. I thought they fixed that. This was all in our construction this summer. I guess it broke again. You're wondering why my lights aren't very bright. A lot of you have been saying, you've got to get different lights so we can see. Well, it's not exactly my lights that are bad. It's YouTube the way they process the video. Because I have a GoPro Hero 7 Black. It picks up pretty good low light situations. And when I'm editing the footage, I can see the road just fine. But for some reason, when I upload it on to YouTube and they process it, it darkens the image and the video quite a bit. So everything is darker when you see it than when I film it. Which is kind of frustrating. But this is what it is. It's YouTube I guess, eh? Here's the Chiefton Motel. There's our friend. There's our Chief friend waving at us. Hey, bud. How you doing? He's sitting there. You know, if I stand there like that, it means something totally different. We're going to stop here at the Carrington Truck Stop. I don't want to stop here for a night yet. I want to go all the way to Minot. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Karen. I know. First, I'm going to grab a coffee here. Coffee number three today. Usually I only have two per day. We're going to have three today. Because we're feeling hardcore. We're going to go all the way to Minot, and fuel up for the night because it's a little cold, as you can see outside. I want to have full tanks when I go to bed, and then we'll start from there in the morning. We have 14 minutes left on our 11 hours of driving today. And we're pulling into the flying hook. I'm going to fuel up tonight so that I have full tanks, because it is minus 20 outside again. I don't even want to know what the windshield is, so I believe Minot here sells diesel number one as well, which is winter diesel. Grab me some of that. Put some fuel conditioner into my fuel to make double sure it's not going to freeze up on me.  I hope there's room here. If not, I'm making room. We've got 13 minutes left now. Right? Right? 10 hours and 13 minutes of remaining drive time. Yep, that's what I thought.


My name is Chloe Edwards. I'm from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and I attended Potta B. Ryan High School. UA had more opportunities for me in my path of life. A big thing was I believe in leaving a legacy where I go, so where legends are made, of course, Alabama seemed like the right place. Coming to UA, I knew more of the people that already attended here. I knew the type of professors that they put out in the choir facility. Also, I did a lot of on-campus activities like summer classes, our choir participated in events at Moody Music Building a lot. I met a lot of great girls through Women's Choir here at UA. It was actually our first year having a Women's Choir here at UA in a really long time, so that was really cool and we were like the founding sisters. Campus life here at UA is really easy. As long as you find your niche and your group of people, you'll survive and you'll do excellent and thrive here. I think UA is a good choice for anybody in-state or out-of-state. Like I've been saying, we just have so many amazing opportunities and it's such a prestigious campus that allows us students to be competitive in an array of areas, so not only on campus, but you can go out and succeed in the community and at national levels as well. So I just feel like UA is a place for everybody who comes and makes it there.


Have you ever read a book that you really liked, like Benjamin Franklin's biography? And then as time goes on, let's say a year or two, you realize that you read 600 pages and you don't remember a single thing. I think being able to remember what you read is a real secret to reading books and actually getting something out of them. So in this video, I thought I would share exactly what I do to remember what I read. What's up, guys? Alex Heim here over at Modern Health Monk. So before we jump into this video, I've put together a free seven-day self-growth challenge. So if you guys are interested in trying to figure out how to get your life together and how to build the most incredible epic life, check out the free download, which is the first link right below this video. So for me, whenever I jump into a new book, as someone who likes reading, I both like reading and I also actually want to remember things from reading. So for example, I'm going through this giant book, Benjamin Franklin, An American Life by Walter Isaacson, who does a lot of famous biographies. And one of the issues with biographies is that they're very long and they're often very boring and they're filled with tons of details about a person's life that mostly are not that interesting. But in between, there are some interesting narratives and interesting stories or interesting experiences that the person had that really shaped who they are. And those are the things that I want to remember when I read a book like this. That's not a how-to or a self-growth book. So for me, the first part of always remembering what you read is to just leave a brief, discrete little mark somewhere in the book about what it is you want to remember. So for me, half my apartment is all books and 90% of those books basically still look brand new, even though I've read them. So I'm OCD about books and you'll see flipping through this, it still looks clean. There's no underlines, there's no highlights, I'm not a heretic, I'm a nerd. I like books. So I'm not going to deface them. But I will show you a little thing that I do.  There you go, right? And basically the dots are just my reminders for this is what I want to remember in a way that doesn't deface the book, but it's clear that this is an idea or a sentence or a story or something that I want to remember. So instead of you weirdos that underline books, I just put a little dot that's discreet because I wasn't raised writing in books and underlining them and highlighting them.  And at this point you're like, you're coming to the end of the book and you want to remember some aspects of the book. Well, obviously reading will not help you remember what's in a book. It by itself does not aid retention, but even taking the notes doesn't mean you're actually going to change your life or do something with that information. So the next phase for me is that I go into Evernote and I have one giant nerdy document called Books Read or Books List. And I actually like to keep track of what I read over the course of a year just because I'm curious what books I've read and what I've naturally been drawn to. So I keep this big list called Books Read and in Books Read I usually break down based on the month the books that I've actually read. And what I do is I actually will create a little hyperlinked document in Evernote that just has a maximum of two pages that become my two page summary. But the point is you have some kind of digitally archived way to keep track of the books that you read. For me, I just like breaking it down by month because it's sort of a fun way to think about where I've been over the last year. So we have my Books Read list, right? And I have it here broken down by month. And then again, there's 2019 Books Read list month, month, month. Each thing has a link there. So when you click to the link, that brings me to part three, which is keeping a maximum of a two page document on the key notes and the highlights. And don't worry, it gets even nerdier from there. I keep on one side of the page, the key point and the elaboration, right? So let's say you're reading a book on productivity and the book says that you should only do one thing if you want to be productive because it'll help you feel less stressed and you'll be more focused. Well, that may be a good point, but when you share the elaboration or more about it, for example, maybe there's a story in the book that impacted you that makes it easier to remember it.  So you put that story in there. The point for me is to create these sort of mnemonic links. Like, let's say, this book, The Illusion of Money by Kyle Cease. You know, key point. Follow your inspired callings instead of external money and you'll ironically earn way more money. And then elaboration, more points about this. And these are quotes from the book. The second point, getting security from money is an illusion. And once you embody this, you can follow your soul's calling. Boom, now we go down to the next thing, right? And then the Helen's concept. This was a great story that really stuck with me. And I wanted to write down the entire story. So I write down the entire story here. So this is the way that I remember not only the big points of the book, but why those big points were even memorable in the first place. Because you have to project out in five years, you may not remember anything about the book, right? You just may know the book cover and the book title or the author. So if you break it down by key point and elaboration or some other further aspect of that book, this makes it a lot easier to remember what it is actually you read and how it can change your life. And if you have this list of books read, it makes it a lot easier for you to go back in a year and be like, oh, you know, my friend is talking about Benjamin Franklin. I can go back through my books read list, find the two page book summary, and then pull out the key points that I remembered. So you don't need to go back and read the same book unless you really want to and it really impacted you. So that three part system is the main way that I've been really keeping track of the books I've read and still applying those books throughout my life because periodically I go back through a lot of them. So try those three things, guys. Let me know how they work for you. Download that free seven day self growth challenge right below this video, which will help you figure out how to get your life together and design your dream life going forward. And I'll see you in these related videos right there.


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What's the challenge in getting this offense off to a fast start from the first drive? What has to start happening faster? We have to play clean with fundamentals. I think it's something we talk about. We spend a lot of time in the meeting room on the practice field, the coach available in front of the whole team. We spend a lot of time on technique and fundamentals and just playing clean football operation. And I think we've heard ourselves. You go back to beginning of the year even. Too many drives early in games have been stopped by ourselves.  So we just have to play clean football, play with fundamentals, play with good technique, take care of the football, and we'll be moving the ball. On an ideal day, what is the identity of this offense supposed to be? I think we want to run the football, be a physical front. Obviously, Derek's a big, tough runner. We want to get him carried, get him going early, set the tone that way, and then play off of that. Well, usually you guys are going to take whatever points you can get down in the red zone. Just in terms of this team and playing Kansas City and a team that can put up so many points, how important is it for you guys to make sure you're getting in the end zone and you're getting those touchdowns in this game? Well, it's huge. It's huge every week. Every week usually comes down to the end of the game in the NFL. So any time you can score touchdowns, you're getting four bonus points there. And you're going to put yourself in more situations to win games, obviously, the more touchdowns you get when you're down there. I think we've been gradually getting better as the season's gone on. We just have to stay on that track and take advantage of those opportunities. Always going to be successful, obviously, but against a team like the Chiefs who have a pretty high-powered offense, how important do you think it is to control the football and play a little keep away while scoring at the end? Well, it's huge. You need to stay on the field. I think that's been important for us all year. The more you can do that, the more opportunities you're going to have. And I think just being clean on first and second down, keeping yourself in third and manageable, converting those, and keeping drives going and sustaining drives, then like she just asked, finishing drives in the red zone. Once you get down there, you've got to put them in the end zone. And doing that, I think we'll put ourselves in the best position to win. Seems like you've been a lot better at it after half time. How much that time of possession in the first half sustaining drives an issue you've got to resolve? Well, it's huge. Like I said earlier, we have to play cleaner football. I don't think we're playing clean football right now in the first half, and it's come back to haunt us. We have to be able to come out early and play clean football. Nothing complicated about it.  Can you put your finger on why you can't play that clean football in that first half? Is it just you get the momentum going, one guy gets a penalty, kind of brings it back? I mean, can you, as a quarterback, look at that and see what's going on? It's been different things at different times throughout the season. Sometimes it's been penalties. Sometimes it's been a sack or negative yardage runs. It's not one thing that we can just, hey, we stopped this one thing, and it's gone. So like I said, it's cleaner football all the way around. It's a little bit of every position, every position group. We just all need to kind of come together and be on the same page, eliminate the dumb things that we can control, like the technique, the fundamental stuff. And then when it comes down to execution, just execute and we'll be in good shape. Does the tempo establish a sense of urgency? Tempo, does that establish a sense of urgency? And if so, how does it do that for you as a quarterback? It can. You can use tempo sometimes to change the defenses, look what they're seeing, get them out of the rim, so to speak. But it really comes down to sustaining drives. If you can't change the tempo, go no huddle and go three and out, then your defense is right back on the field. So it's about execution when you do change up the tempo. And as far as a quarterback, yeah, you can get some different looks on the defense whenever you go up tempo. So it's a tool that we'll use throughout the season. What are the times spent with AJ, maybe, in training camp when you guys were probably both doing a little bit of second team there? How much has that impacted your chemistry and kind of built it here as a starter for you? Well, it's huge. The more reps you get, the more time you spend with the guy, obviously, the more comfortable and the more you can anticipate how he's going to run things. But he's working extremely hard. We're communicating a lot on how I see things, how I see him running routes. And he's doing a good job of listening, communicating with me, and then going out and playing big, strong, tough physical football. Did some of that start maybe in training camp when you guys were getting a lot of reps together in the first place? Yeah, I think he missed a lot of the spring with, I think it was a hammy. But so we missed some opportunities there. But once he came back in training camp, obviously, he did get some reps with him there. And that was always a good time for me. What did the Chiefs do well on defense? Where did they provide the biggest challenge, as you think? They do a lot of things well. I think they are a strong front, tough, physical, big front. Linebackers play really hard. They pressure a lot. They're going to try to give you a bunch of different looks. They're physical on the outside, get hands on the receiver, try to disrupt the timing. They're going to disguise a lot in the secondary. They're going to zero pressure at time. So they really throw a lot of things at you. And as an offense, you have to be on your toes and be ready to adjust when you come to the line. How do you, as a quarterback and as a leader, balance an attitude of, OK, let's stay the course, see if this sort of figures itself out versus maybe we need to start changing some things and get this thing going? It's situationally. I think it depends on what it is. If it's lack of focus, lack of effort, those things where you really got to get on guys and make sure we're locked in and headed in the right direction. If someone just gets beat or the other guy makes a play, which happens too, then we're going to be OK. Just move on from the last play, lock into the next one, and I keep playing. You mentioned getting on guys. Have you had those moments since you've taken over where you've had those private one-on-ones talking about things that need to be fixed or solved? Yeah, there's constant communication with guys, whether it be receivers, tight ends, running backs, offensive line. You really just have to be one unit. And to do that, we have to communicate a lot and make sure we're all on the same page. When you threw that long pass to AJ last week, pretty well covered. What's that say maybe about, I don't know, your trust in him to be able to come down with one of those? Yeah, it does a lot. It does a lot to see AJ make that play. It's a play that we've seen him make in practice. Defender had good coverage. He, AJ did a great job of kind of slowing down at the last second, laid hands, and using his body to shield off the defender. So we've seen him go up and make plays, but just see that body control, timing, laid hands. That gives you a lot of confidence as a quarterback to be able to put a ball in his direction and expect him to come down with a football. What about their defense and anything I know? But Mahomes is a quarterback. When you watch him play and I've seen him play, what are your impressions of him? I haven't watched him a lot this year, but I watched him a little bit in the off season. And he's a unique player. You don't see a lot of guys throwing no-look passes. And just the way he can create down the field explosive, he finds guys that are open, makes some really good throws. And I think plays a little differently than most quarterbacks. So definitely a challenge for our defense. Fribles said you guys had good focus this morning in the meetings. And you kind of know what's at stake this week. Did you feel that as well? And how do you approach this week? Do you approach it like the season on the line backs against the wall or just a game you've got to win? It's a game we need to win. Obviously, it's a one game season for us at this point. It doesn't really matter what else is beyond that. We're locked into it's a win in one game. Do what it takes to win this one game. I think there's good urgency in the building. Good focus, energy on what we have to accomplish and the task at hand. So we need to be able to carry that throughout the week. And on Sunday, go have fun and play good football. Brian, when you get to the line of scrimmage, how much flexibility do you have to adjust based on what you're seeing? And how comfortable do you feel with that now? Three games in a row? Yeah, it depends on situation. It depends on call. It depends on defense. We do have some flexibility to get ourselves out of bad situations. We build a lot of stuff into the call. That way, the call takes care of it. But there is some flexibility there to make sure that we have a good play. That's good. Thank you. Thank you, Eddie.


I promise you there's some nuggets in here. Oh, yo, what is good? What is today? I don't even know what day it is. Monday. Jesus. Is it? I'm not even positive, bro. We've been waiting on this. So I'm Dorian forever dude. He's taking his friggin time. I don't know what's happening. It's it's been slow. It's been great, but it's also got me kind of loopy. I don't know what I'm doing. It's fun. I'm making the most out of it getting my computer organized making new videos. That's what I want to talk about today. What's good? Happy morning. Today was a beautiful sun shower. Check my Twitter. I posted things on Twitter. I post everywhere, bro. Search my name. Find me everywhere. It was a sun shower, like a legit one. It was like the sun was out. You could see the strong sun and it was also raining. It was wild. It was beautiful. I sat there. I was like, you know what? This is I got to capture these pictures. I took pictures yesterday. I'm like, I don't want to like get up and do it. Like why not? What if this moment passes and I never get another sun shower so beautiful? And so you know what? I had to take it as it is and I went out there and I snapped some photos. Well, I post them on the podcast, the video podcast, like I did yesterday. Probably so if they if so, here they are. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom pictures. I'll do it slower. Boom, boom, boom, boom. Okay, so it was really nice. The trees are amazing. Also a little sad because I'm walking around thinking about Storm Dory and I hope he doesn't destroy all the trees because they're just so big. They look like they've been there for frigging hundreds of years and they might get destroyed. So that's kind of sad, but I don't know. What's I don't know. Trees are so beautiful. I want to do that more often. I was just walking around with my camera. In the nature, listening to the animals and the trees. I love that. So that's kind of like when I do those things and how much I love it is like it reminds me that's what I want my life to be. So I'm constantly thinking about how I want my perfect life to be and part of it is waking up with nature, whether it's on the ocean or with some trees. I don't know. Maybe I want a little bit of both. The ocean be amazing. But I just love the trees because they're kind of like moving and there's animals running around them. It's awesome. I don't know. I'm learning them now, but it was great. Had a nice beautiful morning. Now I'm doing this. But yeah, a little all over the place because I was supposed to be leaving to evacuate. And then all of a sudden it's like taken forever. So I don't want to like leave and like have none of the clothes. I don't know. It's weird, but everything's going well. What else am I doing? The video I wanted to talk about, which I mentioned in the beginning, is the video I'm making is how I went from 30 to 40 inch vertical. I try I made it all last night. It's a lot of work. I'm trying to make it fun to watch. And so that's going to come out tonight, probably probably around the afternoon. So look for that in the afternoon, hit that bell icon. If you hit the bell icon while watching this podcast, you will feel feel a jolt down your central nervous system. If you do it, I promise you watch. If you do it and you feel it, you'll feel like a little shock. Don't be scared. Don't be scared. That's just you're leveling up, you're leveling up and you have you have a new frequency you can access.  Isn't that crazy? Yeah, try that out. So I'm looking forward to that video. As you know, if you know me, it's not going to be the most detailed. It's going to be all over the place, my experience, what I take away from it. My journey from 30 to 40 was pretty standard. It was a lot of just jumping, but I go into detail why I switch plants, all those questions, and that's where it's going to be.  Because when I talk about life and all these different things, it's enjoy more, but love is up there is like probably the number one emotion. If you've ever been in love, feel love, it's the best thing ever. So it's really interesting about this book to understand what it's happening. And it's talking how it's separate from your thoughts and your conscious thoughts. It's more in your subconscious, that feeling of love we all want to feel love. And it makes us feel whole. And sometimes with a person, you fall in love with loving them, but you're not falling in love with that person. You just love the love frequency you're on. Does that make sense? I've definitely had that in my life, and it's very interesting. It's like you know you can love each other, but it's like this. I don't know. It's really weird, but it's a really interesting book. It's on my website if you want to check it out. I don't know why I brought that up, but that's just what I'm read every night. Very awareness building. And the last thing I wanted to bring up before I don't know what today's about. This is this is how I'm feeling. I'm all over the place feeling great. I want I'm supposed to do my first ever open mic Wednesday, but the storm supposed to land tomorrow, which is Tuesday, I believe, because I'm not even sure what day it is. So I don't know if I'm going to be able to, but it's coming soon. And I'm writing a lot of jokes, having so much fun writing jokes now and just like excited to just get in front of people and yell at them. It's going to be hilarious, I think. I don't know who cares. So the other thing was Mindhunter. I started watching. Whoa, bro, that one's a good show. I watched the first season. Don't really remember it, but I'm watching the second season now. I love the cinematography, the storytelling, the way they created that show, the way they made this so well done. I just love watching it for that. It's just so high quality. And I love the way they cut to different faces. And it just seems so intricate and very dramatic. And I love that. So that one's fun to watch. Been watching more TV because I've just been had extra time on my hands and I can't jump. So lastly, I'll end with my frigging body, my skin. By the way, that life is so fragile.  We're going to be bumping to that. I've always wanted to make a song where it makes me want to dance and this is the one I've I've made a few that kind of does. But this is the one for sure. And I could just like I love. I have different playlists in my in my phone about like some that make me like hype and just want to like go hard, like run. Some that make me want to like move and dance when I'm in that mood. And sometimes some that make me like think and want to write more like expression, like J Cole type stuff. So that one's like, I was like, how do I make a song? Like then that beat came to me and I just tried it. It's so much fun. So yeah, when I was right when I wrote some words to it yesterday, some lines yesterday, I was like, should I make a video? I really wanted to get that video of 30 to 40. I don't know what I'm talking about right now. By the way, I'm just talking about how I think and how my process works. Because I think it's helpful. OK, I don't know. But when I'm thinking about these process things, like I sat down, like, you know, let me just I played some music and I just get into this headspace and I go with that. So if I can be in touch with my energy and I just go with that energy, I'm in the best mood and I feel the best and I feel like I'm maximizing my day. If I ever like choose the wrong thing, like I went to the store, I didn't even need to or something like that happens. Sometimes I'm like, I wasted my time. I really despise that. So I'm trying to be super efficient, but I have extra time and I don't know what exactly what video to make.  Should I do this? So I'm trying to figure out my energies going on. I want to have this extra time. It's really fun to try to build my awareness of who I am to really tune in.  And it feels amazing, not like fast forwarding, but like you just feel like you're hitting green lights, that green light gang, just gang, gang, gang, gang, gang. You just keep hitting green lights and everything's flowing perfectly. I make better music. I make better videos. I make better energy like I'm doing right now. See how much better this is going when I just go with it. See it. OK, and so wrote the music and then I made the video and then I forgot what I was going to say completely. And that's how it goes and I have no clue what's happening. But enjoying it, having a lot of time, my hamstring, that's what it was. Feels like it's not healing, but I think my left one has a little bit of the same issue because I have two legs and one of them is just worse than the other. So the right one's a really bad one and I'm sitting on it right now and that hurts it. But it's slowly getting better. I think a tiny bit, but it's so tough. So I can't jump. I'm going to really lay off it one more week at least before I like change my mind about jumping a little bit. But I'm going to I committed to two weeks because I can handle that the storms coming storm Dory and help me relax a little bit because now it's like taking my mind off jumping. It's like I got to evacuate and survive a storm that just came out of the ocean. So, yes, I'm trying to I'm doing isometrics. I'm going to post about it probably this morning. I'll get that post out there about what I'm doing for my rehab, trying to stay bouncy. It's all about that flow. I don't I'm really so you guys know that are living the life is working great. If you guys are living that I'm going through that phase of like, I don't want to lose my bounce so badly, but I can't jump. So it's like, I'm going to lose my bounce. But I got to remember even if I come back a little bit lower, I'll gain it back. I got to think long term and luckily I've had success, even though my success is pretty slow because I haven't made progress in a long time, but I made some progress this year at the end of July with some of my highest jumps ever. And those are after long periods of rehab. So I have some success with that. But if you're going through rehab, take it slow. Know that you got to learn and the more you learn, the better you're going to make progress. So it feels like I'm going backwards in my progress right now, but I'm really just thinking long term and going temporary backwards.  What? All right, let's do it. And that's it. Thank you for listening. Today was a great episode. Super pumped. No, but literally I'm loving doing this every day. I don't know if I'm going to do this every day. I'm on frigging 54. How many days do I do this a hundred days? Maybe, maybe I commit to at least a hundred. If you guys love it, I'm going to do it every single day for the rest of my life, but I might transition to something else eventually, you know, on this day in history. Oh baby, look what we got. September 2nd, we got a 31er baby BC, 31 BC, battle of Actium, decisive Navy battle, naval battle in 31 BC that effectively ends the Roman Republic. What? Wait, they're on the ocean. Octavian's forces defeat those under Mark Anthony and Cleopatra over the Western coast of Greece. Huh?  I don't even understand that. 1949, the today in film, the third man directed by Carol Reed, starring Joseph Caw. And by the way, I want to see Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Is that what it's called? Once Upon a Time in Hollywood? I got to see that soon and I'll give you my full review. Today in music, 1931, Bling Crosby makes his solo ready debut. 1965 in sports, Cub slugger Ernie Banks hits his 400th career home run. Congrats bro, whatever. Life is so fragile podcast. Don't glypher of the day. Who are we? Yo, Niel Glynan. That's a tough name, but he just killed it with this comment right here. He said, even the trees are skipping like they were. For real, dude. We got to stay building that foundation and not only in our two legs, but in our brains. So that way we can be stable and we have a little bit of mild psychosis. So that lets us use it to our advantage because if we don't have psychosis, we're just going to coast and be normal. But we don't want that.  Am I going to help the entire world change its shift on the axis? Yes, because if you don't think that, there's no chance. But if you think that and you go a little insane, at least you got a chance. So let's do it. All right, enjoy. And when, like I said, if you click that notification bell for my video that's coming out later, another thing that will happen, well, you can see 47 yards further than you can see now. It's crazy, I know, but I'm working with YouTube as a partner and they said I can implement that feature. 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A Wedding Chest by Vernon Lee Number 428. A Panel, 5 feet by 2 feet 3 inches. Formerly the front of a cassone or coffer. Intended to contain the garments and jewels of a bride. Subject, The Triumph of Love. Umbrian School of the 15th Century. In the right hand corner is a half effaced inscription. Desider something, desivitate luck something, may something, esit. This valuable painting is unfortunately much damaged by damp and mineral corrosives, owing probably to its having contained at one time, buried treasure. Bequeathed in 1878 by the widow of the Reverend Lawson Stone, late fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Footnote. Catalog of the Smith Museum. Leads. By ascension day Desiderio of Castiglione de Lago had finished the front panel of the Wedding Chest, which Messer Troilo Baglioni had ordered of Serpiero Bontempi, whose shop was situated at the bottom of the steps of St. Maxentius, in that portion of the ancient city of Perugia, called by the Romans Augusta in recognition of its great glory, which takes its name from the Ivory Gate, built by Theodoric, King of the Goths. The said Desiderio had represented upon this panel the Triumph of Love, as described in his poem by Messer Francesco Petrarcha of Arezzo. Certainly with the exception of that Dante, who saw the vision of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, the only poet of recent times who can be compared to those D'Actissimi Viri, Professors of Life, P. Virgilius, Ovidius of Sulmona, and Statius. And the said Desiderio had betaken himself in this manner. He had divided the panel into four portions or regions, intended to represent the four phases of amorous passion. The first was a pleasant country, abundantly watered with twisting streams of great plenty and joyousness, in which were planted many hedges of fragrant roses, both red and blue, together with elms, poplars, and other pleasant and profitable trees. The second region was somewhat mountainous, but showing large store of lordly castles and thickets of pine and oak fit for hunting, which region, as being that of glorious love, was girt all round with groves of laurels. The third region, Aspera Akdura Redion, harsh and hard region, was barren of all vegetation, save huge thorns and ungrateful thistles, and in it, on rocks, was shown the pelican who tears his own entrails to feed his young, symbolical of the cruelty of love to true lovers. Finally the fourth region was a melancholy cypress wood, among which roosted owls and ravens and other birds of ill omen, in order to display the fact that all earthly love leads to death. Each of these regions was surrounded by a wreath of myrtles, marvelously drawn with great subtlety of invention and divided so as to meet the carved and gilded cornice likewise composed of myrtles which Serpiero executed with singular skill with his own hand. In the middle of the panel Desiderio had represented love, even as the poet has described, a naked youth with wings of wondrous changing colors enthroned upon a chariot, the axel and wheels of which were red gold, and covered with a cloth of gold of such subtle device that that whole chariot seemed really to be on fire.  Round his eyes was bound a kerchief fringed with gold to show that love strikes blindly, and from his shoulders floated a scroll inscribed with the words, Sivas Amor Hominum Deorum que delicia, Savage Love, the Darling of Men and Gods.  Now you might see, on a bay horse with an eagle on his helmet Julius Caesar, who loved Cleopatra, the Queen of Egypt, Sophonisba and Massesina in rich and strange Arabian garments. Orpheus, seeking for Eurydice with his loot. Fidra, who died for love of Hippolytus, her stepson. Antony, Ronaldo of Montalbano, who loved the beautiful Angelica, Socrates, Tbilus, Virgilius, and other poets, with Messer Francesco Petrarcha and Messer Giovanni Boccaccio. Tristram, who drank the love potion, riding on a sorelle horse. And near him, Isota, wearing a turban of cloth of gold and these lovers of Rimini, and many more besides the naming of whom would be too long, even as the poet has described. And in the region of happy love among the laurels he had painted his own likeness, red-haired with a green hood falling on his shoulders. And this, because he was to wed, next St. John's Eve, Maddalena, the only daughter of his employer, Serpiero. And among the unhappy lovers he painted, at his request, Messer Troilo himself, for whom he was making this coffer. And Messer Troilo was depicted in the character of Troilus, the son of Priam, Emperor of Troy. He was habited in armour, covered with a circote of white cloth of silver embroidered with roses. By his side was his lance, and on his head a scarlet cap. Behind him were those who carried his falcon and led his hack, and men at arms with his banner, dressed in green and yellow party-coloured, with a scorpion embroidered on their doublet. And from his lance floated a penan, inscribed, Troilus sum servus amoris. I am Troilus, the slave of love. But does Adario refused to paint, among the procession, Mono Maddalena, Piero's daughter, who was to be his wife? Because he declared it was not fit that modest damsels should lends their face to other folk. And this he said because Serpiero had begged him not to incense Messer Troilo, for in reality he had often portrayed Mono Maddalena, the which was marvelously lovely, though only it is true in the figure of Our Lady, the Mother of God. And the panel was ready by ascension day, and Serpiero had prepared the box, and the carvings and gildings, griffins and chimeras, and acanthus leaves and myrtles, with the arms of Messer Troilo Baglioni, a most beautiful work. And Mastro Cavana, of the Gate of St. Peter, had made a lock and key of marvellous workmanship for the same coffer. And Messer Troilo would come frequently, riding over from his castle of Fratta, and see the work while it was progressing, and entertain himself lengthily at the shop, speaking with benignity and wisdom wonderful and one so young, for he was only nineteen, which pleased the heart of Serpiero, but Desiderio did not relish, for which reason he was often gruff to Messer Troilo, and had many disputes with his future father-in-law.  He had seen the damsel for the first time on the occasion of the wedding festivities of his cousin, Grifone Baglioni, son of Ridolfo the Elder, with Dianera Dele Orsini, on each occasion marvelous things were done in the city of Perugia, both by the magnificent house of Baglioni and the citizens, such as banquets, jousts, horse races, balls in the square near the cathedral, bullfights, allegories both Latin and vulgar, presented with great learning and sweetness, among which was the fable of Perseus, how he freed Andromeda, written by Caster Gianotso, Belly rector venerabilis istae universitatis, rector of beauty at that venerable university, and triumphal arches and other similar devices, in which Sir Piero Bontempi made many beautiful inventions, in company with Benedetto Bonfigli, Messer Fiorenzo di Lorenzo and Piero di Castro Plebes, whom the holiness of our Lord Pope Perth afterwards summoned to work in his chapel in Rome. On this occasion I repeat Messer Troilo Baglioni of Fratta, who was unanimiter, unanimously, declared to be the most beautiful and courteous youth of singular learning and prowess, and well worthy of this magnificent Baglioni family, cast his eyes on Maddalena di Sir Piero, and sent her, through his squire, the knot of ribbons off the head of a ferocious bull, whom he had killed, singulare vi act vertute, single-handedly, with merit. Nor did Messer Troilo neglect other opportunities of seeing the damsel, such as at church and at her father's shop, riding over from his castle at Fratta on purpose, but always Honestis Valdemodibus, by extremely honorable methods, as the damsel showed herself very coy, and refused all presence which he sent her. Neither did Sir Piero prevent his honestly conversing with the damsel, fearing the anger of the magnificent family of Baglioni, but Desiderio De Sitta del Lago, the which was affianced to Mona Maddalena, often had words with Sir Piero on the subject, and one day well nigh broke the ribs of Messer Troilo's squire, whom he charged with carrying dishonest messages. Now it so happened that Messer Troilo, as he was the most beautiful, benign, and magnanimous of his magnificent family, was also the most cruel thereof, and incapable of brooking delay or obstacles. And being, as a most beautiful youth, he was only turned nineteen, and the first down had not come to his cheeks, and his skin was astonishingly white and fair, like a woman's, of a very amorous nature of which many tales went concerning the violence he had done to damsels and citizens' wives of Gubio and Spello, and evil deeds in the castle of Fratta in the Apennines, some of which it is more beautiful to pass in silence than to relate, being, as I say, of an amorous nature and greatly magnanimous and ferocious of spirit, Messer Troilo was determined to possess himself of this Maddalena di Sir Piero. So a week after, having fetched away the wedding-chest from Sir Piero's workshop, paying for it duly in Florentine lilies, he seized the opportunity of the festivities of St. John's Nativity, and it is the habit of the citizens to go to their gardens and vineyards to see how the country is prospering, and eat and drink in honest converse with their friends in order to satisfy his cruel wishes. For it so happened that the said Sir Piero, who was rich and prosperous, possessing an orchard in the valley of the Tibet near San Giovanni, was entertaining his friends there, it being the eve of his daughter's wedding, peaceful and unarmed. And a serving wench, a moor and a slave who had been bribed by Messer Troilo, proposed to Mono Maddalena and the damsels of her company to refresh themselves, after picking flowers, playing with hoops, asking riddles and similar girlish games, by bathing in the tiber which flowed at the bottom of the orchard. To this, the innocent virgin, full of joyousness, consented. Hardly had the damsels descended into the riverbed, the river being low and easy to ford on account of the summer, when, behold, there swept from the opposite bank a troop of horsemen, armed and masked, who seized the astonished Maddalena and hurried off with her, vainly screaming like another proserpina, to her companions who, surprised and ashamed at being seen with no garments, screamed in return, but in vain. The horsemen galloped off through Bastia and disappeared long before Sir Piero and his friends could come to the rescue. Thus was Mono Maddalena, cruelly taken from her father and bridegroom, through the amorous passion of Messer Troilo. Sir Piero fell upon the ground, fainting for grief, and remained for several days like one dead, and when he came to, he wept and cursed wickedly, and refused to take food and sleep and to shave his beard. But being old and prudent, and the father of other children, he conquered his grief, well knowing that it was useless to oppose providence or fight, being but a handicraftsman, with the magnificent family of Baglione, lords of Perugia since many years, and as rich and powerful as they were magnanimous and implacable. So that when people began to say that, after all, Mono Maddalena might have fled willingly with a lover, and that there was no proof that the masked horsemen came from Messer Troilo, although those of Bastia affirmed that they had seen the green and yellow colors of Frata, and the said Troilo came not near the town for many months after, he never contradicted such words out of prudence and fear. But Desiderio of Castiglione Del Lago, hearing these words, struck the old man on the mouth till he bled. And it came to pass, about a year after the disappearance of Mono Maddalena, and when, particularly as there had been a plague in the city, and many miracles had been performed by a holy nun of the convent of Santana, the witch fasted seventy days, and Messer Ascanio Baglione had raised a company of horse for the Florentine Signore in their war against those of Siena. People had ceased to talk of the matter, that certain armed men, masked but wearing the colors of Messer Troilo and the scorpion on their doublets, rode over from Frata, bringing with them a coffer wrapped in black bays, which they deposited overnight on Ser Piero Bantempi's doorstep. And Ser Piero, going at daybreak to his workshop, found that coffer, and recognizing it as the same which had been made, with a panel representing the triumph of love and many ingenious devices of sculpture and gilding for Messer Troilo, called Barbacane, he trembled in all his limbs, and went and called Desiderio, and with him privily carried the chest into a secret chamber in his house, saying not a word to any creature. The key, a subtle piece of work of the smith Kavana, was hanging to the lock by a green silk string, onto which was tied a piece of parchment containing these words, to Master Desiderio, a wedding gift from Troilo Baglioni of Frata. An illusion doubtless, ferox atque cruente facetia, by fierce and cruel joke, to the triumph of love, according to Messer Francesco Patrarcha, painted upon the front of the coffer. The lid being raised, they came to a piece of red cloth, such as is used for mules, etiam even so, a fold of common linen, and below it a coverlet of green silk, which, being raised, their eyes were met, heu infandum patri sclerotum che donos, o unspeakable father of a wicked gift, by the body of Mona Maddalena, naked as God had made it, dead, with two stabs in the neck, the long golden hair tied with pearls, but dabbed in blood, the witch Maddalena was cruelly squeezed into that coffer, having on her breast the body of an infant, recently born, dead, like herself. When he beheld this sight, Serpiero threw himself on the floor and wept, and uttered dreadful blasphemies, but Desiderio of Castelloni de Lago said nothing, but called a brother of Serpiero, a priest and prior of Saint Severus, and with his assistance carried the coffer into the garden. This garden, within the walls of the city, on the side of Porta Eburnia, was pleasantly situated, and abounding with flowers and trees, useful both for their fruit and their shade, and rich likewise in all such herbs as thyme, majorum, fennel, and many others, that prudent housewives desire for their kitchen, all watered by stone canals, ingeniously constructed by Serpiero, which were fed from a fountain, where you might see a mermaid squeezing the water from her breasts, a subtle device of the same Piero, and executed in a way such as would have done honor to Phidias or Praxiteles, on hard stone from Montecatria. In this place, Desiderio of Castelloni de Lago dug a deep grave under an almond tree, the which grave he carefully lined with stones and slabs of marble, which he tore up from the pavement, in order to diminish the damp, and then requested the priest, Serpiero's brother, who had helped him in the work, to fetch his sacred vestments and hooks and all necessary for consecrating that ground. This the priest immediately did, being a holy man and sore grieved for the case of his niece. Meanwhile, with the help of Serpiero, Desiderio tenderly lifted the body of Mona Maddalena out of the wedding-chest, washed it in odorous waters, and dressed it in fine linen and bridal garments, not without much weeping over the poor damsel's sad plight, and curses upon the cruelty of her ravisher. And having embraced her tenderly, they laid her once more in the box, painted with the triumph of love, upon folds of fine damask and brocade. Her hands folded, and her head decently placed upon a pillow of silver cloth, a wreath of roses, which Desiderio himself plated, on her hair, so that she looked like a holy saint, or the damsel Julia, daughter of the Emperor Augustus Caesar, who was discovered buried on the Appian Way, and incontinently fell into dust. A marvellous thing. They filled the chest with as many flowers as they could find. Also sweet-scented herbs, bay leaves, oryx powder, frankincense, ambergris, and a certain gum called insyrian fizellis, and by the Jews barach, in which they say that the body of King David was kept intact from earthly corruption, and which the priest, the brother of Serpiero, who was learned in all alchemy and astrology, had bought of certain moors. Then, with many alasses and tears, they covered the damsel's face with an embroidered veil and a fold of brocade, and closing the chest, buried it in the hole, among great store of hay and straw and sand, and closed it up, and smoothed the earth, and to mark the place Desiderio planted a tuft of fennel under the almond tree. But not before having embraced the damsel many times, and taken a handful of earth from her grave and eaten it, with many implications upon Messertroilo, which it were terrible to relate. Then the priest, the brother of Serpiero, said the service for the dead Desiderio serving him as acolyte, and they all went their way, grieving sorely. But the body of the child, the which had been found in the wedding-chest, they threw down a place near St. Herculanus, where the refuse and oafel of dead animals are thrown, called the Sardegna, because it was the bastard of Sertroilo, et infamy sclerisque partum, and the child of wicked infamy. Then, as this matter got abroad, and also Desiderio's implications against Sertroilo, Serpiero, who was an old man and prudent, caused him to depart privily from Perugia, for fear of the wrath of the magnificent Orasio Bagleone, uncle of Messertroilo, and lord of the town. Desiderio of Castiglione de Lago went to Rome, where he did wonderful things and beautiful, among others certain frescoes in St. Cosmos and Damien, for the cardinal of Ostia, and to Naples, where he entered the service of the Duke of Calabria, and followed his armies long, building fortresses and making machines and models for canon and other ingenious and useful things. And thus for seven years, until he heard that Serpiero was dead at Perugia of a surfeit of eels, and that Messertroilo was in the city raising a company of horse with his cousin Astore Bagleone for the Duke of Urbino. And this was before the plague, and the terrible coming to Umbria of the Spaniards and Renegade Moors under Caesar Borgia, Vicaria Sancte Ecclesia, Sue Flagellem Dei et Novesatela. The Vicar of the Holy Church, or the Whip of God and the new Attila the Hun.  And he went to the priest prior of St. Severus and the brother of Serpiero, and discovered himself to him, who, although old, had great joy in seeing him and hearing of his intent. And Desiderio confessed all his sins to the priest, and obtained absolution, and received the body of Christ with great fervor and compunction, and the priest placed his sword on the altar beside the Gospel as he said Mass and blessed it. And Desiderio knelt and made a vow never to touch food, save the body of Christ, till he could taste the blood of Messertroilo. And for three days and three nights he watched him and dogged him, but Messertroilo rarely went unaccompanied by his men, because he had offended so many honourable citizens by his amorous fury, and he knew that his kinsmen dreaded him and would gladly be rid of him on account of his ferocity and ambition, and their desire to unite the thief of Fratta to the other lands of the main line of the magnificent house of Baglione, famous in arms. But one day, toward dusk, Desiderio saw Messertroilo coming down a steep lane near St. Herculanus alone, for he was going to a woman of light fame called Flavia Bella, the witch who was very lovely. So Desiderio threw some ladders from a neighbouring house which was being built and sacks across the road and hid under an arch that spanned the lane, which was greatly steep and narrow. And Messertroilo came down on foot whistling and paring his nails with a small pair of scissors, and he was dressed in grey silk hose and a doublet of red cloth and gold brocade pleated about the skirts, and embroidered with seed pearl and laced with gold laces. And on his head he had a hat of scarlet cloth with many feathers, and his cloak and sword he carried under his left arm.  And he was tall and very ferocious and magnanimous of spirit, and as he went, going to Flavia the courtesan, he whistled. And when he came near the heaped-up ladders and the sacks, Desiderio sprang upon him and tried to run his sword through him. But although wounded, Messertroilo grappled with him long. But he could not get at his sword which was entangled in his cloak, and before he could free his hand and get at his dagger, Desiderio had him down and ran his sword three times through his chest, exclaiming, This is from Maddalena, in return for her wedding chest. And Messertroilo, seeing the blood flowing out of his chest, knew he must die, and merely said, Which Maddalena? I remember old Piero's daughter. She was always a cursed, difficult slut and died. And Desiderio stooped over his chest and lapped up the blood as it flowed, and it was the first food he tasted since taking the body of Christ, even as he had sworn. Then Desiderio went stealthily to the fountain under the arch of St. Proxidus, where the women wash linen in the daytime and cleansed himself a little from that blood. Then he fetched his mule and hid it in some trees near Messer Piero's garden, and at night he opened the door, the priest having given him the key, and went in, and with a spade and matuk he had brought dug up the wedding chest with the body of Mono Maddalena in it, the which, owing to the herbs and virtuous gums, had dried up and become much lighter. And he found the spot by looking for the fennel tuft under the almond tree, which was then in flower it being spring. He loaded the chest, which was moldy and decayed, on the mule and drove the mule before him till he got to Castelloni del Lago, where he hid. And meeting certain horsemen, who asked him what he carried in that box, for they took him to be a thief, he answered his sweetheart, so they laughed and let him pass. Thus he got safely on to the territory of Arezzo, an ancient city of Tuscany, where he stopped. Now when they found the body of Messer Troilo there was much astonishment and wonder, and his kinsmen were greatly wroth. But Messer Arezzo and Messer Ridolfo, his uncles, said, "'Tis as well, for indeed his courage and ferocity were too great, and he would have done some evil to us all had he lived.' But they ordered him a magnificent burial, and when he lay on the street dead many folk, particularly painters, came to look at him for his great beauty, and the women pitied him on account of his youth, and certain scholars compared him to Mars, God of War, so great was his strength and ferocity, even in death. And he was carried to the grave by eight minute arms, and twelve damsels and youths, dressed in white, walked behind, strewing flowers, and there was much splendor and lamentation on account of the great power of the magnificent house of Baglione. As regards Desiderio of Castiglione del Lago he remained at Arezzo till his death, preserving with him always the body of Mona Maddalena in the wedding chest painted with the triumph of love, because he considered she had died Odore Magni Sanctitatis, in a manner suggesting great holiness. End of A Wedding Chest, by Vernon Lee Read by Tisto, Tystio.com


So the mission of the NCOEA is pretty easy, is to provide a professional educational experience for any soldier that walks through the doors. Once they're here over time, they see what Wright looks like and they go back with the necessary knowledge, skills and attributes in their formation to be successful. So that's accomplished by having a professional cadre, staff and civilians that are able to provide that world class instruction to the students here at the academy. The NCOEA builds readiness by ensuring that the folks that come through here train and go back to their formation of sergeants. The army needs staff sergeants. The only way to get staff sergeants is to have trained sergeants back in the formation and that's what we're doing as far as it relates to readiness.