Welcome back to the AI for Good Global Summit here in Geneva, where I'm now joined by Miriam Couté. I hope I got that right from the Quebec Institute for AI. Tell me, what is this? It's a research institute, I believe. Yes. It's a joint venture between two universities, McGill and the University of Montreal. It's a non-profit organization. And now we're doing research in deep learning, machine learning and reinforcement learning. We are the largest research center in academia specialized in these domains. And you were here, is this the first time? Yes, it's my first time at the AI for Global Summit. And I'm very happy to be here because it's a large group of people with the same values and questions about how we make sure that AI is for good for society. And you've been giving speeches and talking at workshops and panels? Yes. About what? I've been contributing to how do we scale AI. And obviously it's by collaborating with partners such as AI Commons. They are trying to find, to have the contribution of experts in AI to bridge the gap between problem owners and experts in AI so we can contribute with great impact on problems that matter really for people. Does this kind of thing exist in Quebec, Canada? You mean the AI Commons? Yes. Well, we have other partners but AI Commons is very unique and it's supported by Yoshua Benjio, our scientific director who helped build this initiative. So as you leave here, what will you take with you? Well, first of all the enthusiasm that I see around to really better the world with our expertise and also all good questions coming from the other domains of expertise except deep learning, like in neuroscience or social specialists. So this I bring with me because it helps understand their challenges. Okay. What kind of questions were you asked? Will you ask? What kind of questions were you asked after you spoke? I was asked how we will, because we always talk about the fact that we would like to help. And I'm always asked how do we measure the impact of your work and obviously we try to align with the SDG goals so that we can measure our impact. Okay. Well, that was Maryam Coté from the Quebec Institute for AI. Thank you for your time. Thank you, Chris.


I come from a family where college was not an option. My parents and grandmother worked very hard throughout their lives just to make ends meet and still do today. There were times where we didn't have any money. Once I finished high school, I was determined to break that cycle and make a better life for myself and for my family. I am more than confident and determined to make that goal come true and give back to my family just like they have done for me. The reason I chose a technical college is because there are fewer students in classrooms. I get to know my instructors and also receive that one-on-one time and get the assistance I need so I can be successful. Since being at Waukesha County, I have grown as a person and gained more knowledge. I have gotten involved on campus such as volunteering, becoming a student mentor, elected and served as Secretary of Diversity Club and also I have made new friends and built new relationships. Most recently, I was inducted into the National Technical Honor Society. Choosing Waukesha County Technical College has been the best decision that I have ever made.


In this presentation, we will take a look at multiple choice questions related to statement of cash flows. First question, which item below is not an investing activity? Support a counting instruction by clicking the link below, giving you a free month membership to all of the content on our website broken out by category further broken out by course. Each course then organized in a logical, reasonable fashion, making it much more easy to find what you need than can be done on a YouTube page. We also include added resources such as Excel practice problems, PDF files, and more like QuickBooks backup files when applicable. So once again, click the link below for a free month membership to our website and all the content on it. Let's go through this again using the process of elimination, which item below is not an investing activity? A. Purchase of Equipment Now if we go through these, we might want to think of each one and think of the journal entry for each one and go through our thought process, which means the purchase of equipment would typically be a debit to equipment and a credit to cash. Is there any income statement account involved there? No. So it's not operating activity. Did we buy any long term asset? Yeah. We basically invested in equipment. So that would be an investing activity and therefore not here because that would be included in investing activities and we're looking for someone, something that is not. So B says purchase of land and we can go through the same thought process. What would be the journal entry? We would debit land and credit cash and or equit and or notes payable. But in any case, none of those accounts are going to be an income statement account. So it doesn't look like it's going to be something involving the income statement and therefore not operating activities. So did we purchase a long term asset? We did. We purchased land. So that looks like it's investing. So that doesn't look like the one. And then C says issuing common stock. And if we go through that one, we can think well that's going to be a debit to cash and a credit to common stock and a credit possibly to additional paid in capital. Is there any income statement involved there? Any income statement account? No. There's no there's no revenue or expense there. Did we buy anything? In this case, we didn't write we're issuing the stock. We're not buying stock from a separate company. So what we're getting is cash. Therefore it's not really investing. And this looks like it's probably a financing activity. And that's not an investing activity. So C looks good. D says sale of equipment. And if we think about that, we're going to say, well, what's usually the journal entry, we're going to debit cash and and then we're going to credit equipment, possibly debit accumulated depreciation. And then maybe there's a gain or loss. Now the gain or loss is an income statement account. So we might think of, well, the gain or loss is an income statement account. Maybe it's in the operating activities. But typically it's not an operating activities. It's selling. Did we sell something that's a long term asset? We did. We sold the equipment. So typically that's going to be investing is a little bit possibly a little bit more confusing to think about the sale of equipment, as opposed to the purchase as being investing. But if the purchase of equipment is investing, then the sale possibly we can think also investing. And then E says sale of investments. And we can go through the same process. We're selling investments, getting cash, selling the investment. But again, this seems more straightforward as an investing activity, considering we're selling an investment, something like stocks and bonds, most likely. So it's not E it looks like then C would be the answer. Which below which item below is not an investing activity? C issuing common stock. That's a financing activity. Next question. The statement of cash flows is not the best financial statement to use for which of the following. A, determining how much of the company's revenue have been retained. B, determining the source of cash received. C, determining the difference between net income and net operating cash flows. D, determining the source of cash used to finance investing activities. And E, determining the source of cash used for debt repayments. Okay, let's go through this again. The statement of cash flows is not the best financial statement to use for which of the following. A, determining how much of the company's revenue have been earned have been retained. And so that one, hmm, I don't know about that. I don't see any cash flows there. So I'll keep that as an I don't know for now. B says determining the source of cash received. Now that seems like a cash flow. We're talking about cash being received and the source of it. So I would think that that's kind of something that the cash flow statement would probably be telling us what's going on with that. So I'm going to say that one's included across that out. C says determining the difference between net income and net operating cash flows. And you know, this could be the case, right? So I'm going to keep that for now. I'm not totally sure on that because it kind of differs on we might think that that differs between what method we're using a direct method or indirect method. D says determining the source of cash used to finance investing activities. And again, that has to do with cash being used cash flows. So I would think cash flows would be on the cash flow statement. So I'm going to say that's probably on the cash flow statement. E says determining the source of cash used for debt repayments. And again, cash used is a flow term. So I would think that that would be on the cash flow and not our answer. So we're here between A and C. The statement of cash flows is not the best financial statement to use for which of the following either A or C either determining how much of the company's revenue have been retained or C determining the difference between net income and net operating cash flows. Between those two, I would think that A would be more correct because C, although this sounds like the direct method, given us exactly what the difference is between net income and net cash provided by and net operating cash flows, that seems like the indirect method that would be used there. And the direct method is still a statement of cash flows, although it doesn't seem like it has exactly the same reconciliation. So this seems like an answer for like an indirect method, but it's a seems to not be the correct answer because it determines how much of the company's revenue have been retained. And we don't really know that because revenue isn't a cash flow term, that's an accrual term, typically. And when we talk, think about the retaining of revenue, we're usually thinking about a balance sheet account or statement of retained earnings account, which is going to tell us that it's going to be how much that's a point in time term, like a balance sheet account, how much of the revenue is still in the company has been retained retained earnings, which is a point in time type of term, not a flow term. So of the two, I would think that A would not be on the statement of cash flow. So final answer, the statement of cash flows is not the best financial statement to use for which of the following. A, determining how much of the company's revenue have been retained, that would be retained earnings, balance sheet or statement of retained earnings that would be used there. Next question. The payment of cash dividends is classified as either A financing activity, B investing activities, C operating activities, D direct activities, E indirect activities. And so once again, these are probably we can narrow these down to A, B and C financing operating or investing. And because those are our major components of the cash flow statement, and it looks like D and E are probably just parts they're trying to make a couple answers on the on the multiple choice. So I think we can narrow down to the first three, go through this again, the payment of cash dividends. Now, whenever they give us the information up here and ask for the category, then I would go through our series of questions making the journal entry for a cash dividend and go through our series of questions. So a cash dividend, what would happen on the journal entry? Well, in essence, the bottom line of it would would be that we would say that cash is going down, we're going to pay cash, and it's going to come out of retained earnings or dividends, which will ultimately come out of retained earnings. So the debit's going to be retained earnings. Now, are either of those accounts an income statement account? There's no revenue or expense and therefore no, so it's not probably the operating activity. Do either of those accounts are we purchasing or selling a long term, you know, asset, like either an investment or investment in a long term asset? No, right here, what we're doing is we're reducing retained earnings or giving money to the owner in a dividend. So that means it's probably not investing, and therefore it's going to be financing. This one can be a little bit tricky, because when you think of financing, we often it makes me think of well, we're getting money somehow. But of course, this is kind of us giving money back for financing that happened in the past, meaning we're giving money back to the owners. Why? Because the owners have invested in the company in the past, we're returning some return on the investment that has been given to us from the owners. So that's why it could be thought of one reason it could be thought of as a financing activity. So final answer, the payment of cash dividends is classified as a financing activities.


It's Rebecca from Art Resin here once again with 10 incredible pieces of art. That means 10 incredible opportunities for you to get inspired to make your own wonderful art. Take a look at this. The wonderful people from Art Resin sent me some samples to use. These great people have come off with non-toxic, low VOC's resin. So, all really good, but let's start with this first. Katherine DuBois first used a coat of Art Resin as the perfect finish for her mixed-media collage. The resin really makes those colors pop. Artist Joanne Caballero poured layers of Art Resin with mica pigments, metallic flake, glitter and glass, then the clear coat for protection and extra depth. Rubber Curl loves how Art Resin makes his painting of the world's most iconic rocker explode into the room. Dr. Lynn Tillman painted between five layers of Art Resin to give this Mandela coffee table an amazing three-dimensional depth. Agnes Freedlander creates artwork embellished with reflective bits of glass, glitter, sequins and Art Resin. Doug Schult made a collage in between three coats of resin to create a sense of depth and dimensionality between the layers. Kimberly Leo used tinted Art Resin, fire glass, glitter, crystals and abalone shell to create this custom geode letter T. Fluid Resin Art Studio creates abstract resin art and wall decor inspired by beautiful Vancouver Island. Lisa Moten uses Art Resin to create her ocean-inspired work, including these serving boards and this jellyfish painting featuring 20-layered jellyfish. Given the fact that spring is here, I decided to make a little something seasonal. Here's a little hint. Here comes Peter Cottontail hopping down the bunny trail. I wouldn't be able to create all the things that I do without the excellent suppliers that I use for the raw materials. Art Resin is just one of them and I use that product for all my resin needs. I love Art Resin because of how safe it is to use. Well, thanks, Krista. Art Resin is safe to use. No VOCs, no fumes, no BPA. And if I do say so myself, it looks really darn good. So that's all I got for now. I hope you were inspired and we'll see you next time.


Hi everybody, it's Sandy Allknock and I am here with nine stencil techniques for you today. And the reason is we are celebrating the ninth Memorial Day blog hop at Operation Right Home. It's our ninth and last. You have until August 1st to get your cards in before the end of Operation Right Home. So we are celebrating and helping to get the word out by having a blog hop. I'm going to show you this stencil. This will work with a lot of different stencils, but I'm just going to use the stars because I'm making any hero cards to send in the final boxes to our service members.  Technique number one is going to be using one of my favorite things, which is my Copic airbrush. And all I have to do is put the Nina card stock behind the stencil. I have it all taped in place so it'll stay. And then I put my Copic marker into the air gun, which is attached to a compressor and then press the button that presses air across the nib of the marker and through the holes in the stencil so that I can then have this really beautiful soft background. And on my blog, there's going to be links to all the supplies needed for each one of these. So if there's anything you're like, oh my gosh, try that, click through at the end and you will be able to get to see my blog post. So technique number two is this one using the leftover Copic marker that's on the stencil. Since I have to clean it anyway with some colorless blender, why not do it over another piece of paper and see what happens. So I'm going to push the color from the stencil, from the plastic of the stencil into each of the star holes. So it's going to make kind of a little funky star shapes, but they look kind of distressed and cool. And depending on what image you use, I've done one with a poppy that looked really gorgeous using this technique. But it also works fine with these stars. And you see, I've got a real soft background here. And then for cleanup on this, I just dump some colorless blender on, smoosh it and turn it over, smoosh it again until it's all clean. Technique number three is going to be using some distress inks. I'll use distress inks for a lot of these. When I have my blender tool, I'm just going to push the ink through the holes onto the paper. The paper I'm using for this one is Hero Arts letterpress paper. And I really like the way that it takes distress inks. It just does a really good job of it. These stars are super sharp and crisp, which just gives the card a really sharp look to it. And the colors mix as they meet across the middle and they make sort of a purplish-blueish color, which is kind of cool. And I love each one of these reveals. When you pull off a stencil, you get to see the magic that was created beneath it using that design.  And again, I want to use it and do something with that ink that's on there. So I decided to try this with my texture paste and I put some over top of it while there's still distress ink. Distress ink is water-soluble and there's, I guess, moisture in this paste. So it'll pull some of that color out into the texture paste and end up with this really super soft pinkish-blueish type of stars. And after you get done with any texture paste, make sure you wash both your palette knife and your stencil right away. Soak them if you're not going to have a chance to wash them just because you will never get that off of there again. It'll dry hard as a rock. So again, the reveal, pulling that off of the piece of paper. And this is on watercolor cardstock just so it'll hold up really well. And here we have another one on watercolor paper and this one, I'm going to do the same thing again. And put the color through the stencil onto, this is the smooth side of the Tim Holtz Ranger watercolor cardstock. And we do half the blue and half the red as per the thing I've been doing throughout this video. And get that color all in there. And then I thought, let me see what happens if I just saturate it with water. So I took my mini-mister filled with water and spritzed it. So you can spritz a little, you can spritz a lot. And it just starts to break down the ink in the distressed inks and the shapes will start to get mushy. And you can see on the right that it ends up being this really soft kind of, it's almost a background that looks like you're looking through frosted glass, which is really cool. So depending on how long you leave that water on there, you can get different effects. And here I did the same inking technique, but I'm taking a brush and some water and just painting over top of the stars.  And you start getting these multicolored, textured, like watercolor-y looking stars. And as they dry, they dry with like cool watercolor edges and stuff, very, very cool technique. That'd be fun with a lot of different stencils. Next up is my favorite. I think this is the one that came out the best, but I didn't know that until the very end. So we're still getting it. It's number seven. I took my texture paste and put it on the card and I'm trying to do a nice thin layer. I want the layer to be about as thin as the stencil itself. So just kind of wipe it across like frosting and you're really trying to wipe it off of the stencil, but onto the cardstock itself. And I'm using watercolor cardstock here because I'm going to beat the daylights out of it. So the Tim Holt stuff stands up to a lot of different things. And that's what I'm using here because it's really heavy and it just puts up with a lot of abuse. So here I have two of the pure color spritzers from Dewey Plus Nine. And these are not patriotic colors, as you can see. And I wasn't really sure whether I wanted to proceed with this one or not, but since I'd already gotten them out because I wanted to play with them, they've been on my desk forever since I bought them. And oh my gosh, look at the fun color here. Oh, so cool. And I just kept, you know, kind of adding a little bit more color. So I make sure I filled in all of the areas on it. You can see the card off to the right after it dried came out very, very awesome. So this next one, number eight, I use my embossing Dabber Dabber from Ranger. And if you know what VersaMark is, this is kind of like, I guess, VersaMark in a Dabber. So you can put, you know, put this through anything and put your embossing powder on it. So I'm using clear embossing powder and I made my dabbing a little bit on the rough side because I wanted to have it be a little more of a distressed look. So just spooning my, my little clear embossing powder on top, going to heat set the whole thing and get it all ready to roll because afterward I'm going to put color on it. Now you can add the color in whatever way you want. You can use distress inks. You can use watercolor over it. You can airbrush over it. Lots of different things. Don't use your Copic markers over top of it. That's all because the embossing powder may ruin the nibs and you don't want to find out the hard way. But I decided I liked those colors enough on the last one that I would use them on this one as well. So just sprayed them and you can sort of see they make a little bluish. When, when the two colors mixed together, it's a little more bluish than tealish at times. So it still came out very patriotic. But this time I decided to see what happens if you dab off the color.  And all of that embossing did a really cool resist. Very fun. Now this last card I had, this was after one of my sample sprayings that I was testing, I had this mess on my desk. So I decided I was going to make a background out of it. So don't let all of this beautiful juicy yummy ink go to waste. And I just dipped my card in it. And this is the Ranger card stock again. This is good, heavy stuff. And then I took my stencil after that background had all dried, took my stencil and I just added my distress ink right over the top. And so these stars almost look like they're sort of behind this layer or some of them are popping up and coming through. You could do this with different colors, all kinds of fun things you could do to create a cool background using stencils. So I hope something in here appealed to you and maybe you have some of the supplies at home. So you could try some of these out. Here's a few other videos if you're interested in seeing a few more things. Otherwise, I hope you have fun on the blog hop today. Go hop along and see what everybody else is sharing and spread the word about finishing up Operation Right Home by August 1st. And I'll see you guys next time. Take care. Bye-bye.


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Today's podcast is brought to you by FreshBooks.com. Get a 30-day free trial at gofreshbooks.com forward slash David Feldman show. The David Feldman radio program is made possible by listeners like you.  Joining us is the founder and treasurer of the Blue America Pack, which raises money for progressive candidates all over America. He's also the author of the Down with Tyranny blog. Mr. Howie Klein. Hello, Howie Klein. How are you? Very good. Always glad to hear your voice. We're going to talk about sugar. We're going to talk about wiki leaks. And this orange-faced guy who's running on the Republican Party very quickly. You made your fortune in the music industry. I did. Dylan won a Nobel Prize, Nobel Nobel Prize. Your thoughts on Bob Dylan? Well, Bob, you know what? They're very emotional. And I worship Bob Dylan and have since I was a kid. This I felt was sort of a recognition obviously of someone who's extremely talented and deserved this very, very much. I real felt it was a recognition for my generation, for the people who saw the importance of Bob Dylan. And I was just thrilled and excited and it couldn't have been happier. From the very earliest times of me enjoying music, Bob Dylan was a numero uno in my life.  I remember when I was in college, there were teachers who wanted to teach courses on Bob Dylan. And the conservatives who were generally in charge of the universities or the departments in the universities were horrified by it. Just the whole notion of even considering it to be literature and anything other than some kind of pop song was something that they were horrified by. And that was, you know, that was just part of those tumultuous times where there were people who recognized what Bob Dylan was and who he was. And then there were people who just, you know, could not see it for anything. To our younger listeners, what is some essential Dylan that they should check out? Well, I would recommend that they check out the earliest, the earliest Dylan stuff. Like the stuff primarily, you know, Blonde On Blonde album and before. You know, songs like Absolutely Sixth Street or Fourth Street, whatever the street it was. It's just early, early Bob Dylan. Like if you, and unfortunately, YouTube doesn't have a lot of Bob Dylan for some bizarre reason. But always stuff coming and going. So if you go to YouTube, that's how you listen to your music and you type in Bob Dylan. Any of his early songs would be the way to go. So anything from Blonde On Blonde and earlier. You ran Warner Brothers Records and Reprise. He's always been with Columbia, right? That is right. You never did business with him. Well, he, no, I did. I never did business with him at all. One of my neighbors played with him and they were very close still to this day, Jim Keltner. And then the person on the other side of the fence for me, Down Swope, is one of his two or three best friends in the world. So I have some kind of connection through these people with him, but really not. Well, you know, we have mutual friends. Does he have friends? Sorry? Does he have friends? Absolutely, he has friends.  I mean, you know, someone who I have been very, very close with, you know, has a... Well, I wouldn't want to quote, say, an enemy situation with her. Although sometimes it is an enemy situation and she talks about him. I felt when she had nasty things to say about him, she also had a complete fondness for him as well. So it was two things at the same time. And I'm talking, I'm describing Joni Mitchell right now, who always seemed to be frustrated because people would always say she's the greatest female songwriter in the world. And that would drive her insane. That would literally drive her crazy because she considered herself to be the greatest songwriter in the world, not to be the greatest female songwriter in the world. And even to a point where someone would say that she would wind up attacking Dylan. Wow. I'm going to see her tomorrow and it'll be interesting to see what she says about this Nobel Prize. I had no idea that, you know, humans are humans. That's really interesting. Except for Trump. We'll get to that in a second. His poetry, if you strip away the voice and the music, does the poetry stand on its own? Well, to me it always did. I mean, bear in mind in the last years, I haven't been listening to Bob Dylan's music. I hear people saying that it's still good and his songs are still wonderful. But I went from being a Bob Dylan fanatic who would live my life by listening to Bob Dylan's albums to being someone who I haven't heard in his 10 last albums, so I couldn't say. But in terms of the question you're asking is whether or not his poetry stands up, to me it does. It says something to me. It seems to me to be very, very important. And let's face it. Bob Dylan is not, you know, some guy that's got like some incredible voice. That's not what it is. Bob Dylan is not some kind of amazing, incredible musician in terms of how he plays his guitar or his harmonica. That's not what it's about. I mean, Bob Dylan is about his lyrics, or his poems, if you want to say it. We'll move on to less important stuff. But was he the one who taught John Lennon that music is now about the entire sound, that you can't focus on lyrics or the music. You have to really focus on the sound of the song, the overall sound. I don't know. I've never read that, so I have no idea. That's what kind of happened in the 60s with the Beatles where the music, the music itself, became less important than the sound. And so that's why I wonder about the poetry. But let's move on. Okay. Shall we? Yes, we shall. Okay. Tell me about sugar. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, you write and Dan with tyranny gets a couple hundred thousand dollars in donations from the sugar lobbyists in Florida. Well, I mean, yes, she does. But there's much more to it than just the amount of money that Debbie Wasserman Schultz takes from sugar lobbyists and from sugar companies. In the United States, there's a sugar cartel. And so no matter what the company is called, there are a lot of different companies. They're all owned by one family. Let me interrupt you for a second. Let me just put this in context. Last week, President Obama lifted the embargo on rum and Cuban cigarettes. Our embargo. Cuban rum and Cuban cigars. And you need sugar to make rum. So we can now drink Cuban rum and Cuban cigars. And yet there's no embargo. They didn't lift the embargo on sugar, correct? Right. And what you have to understand is that sugar is by far.  So what they're looking for is not to sell a bunch of cigars or to sell some rum to tourists, but they're looking for a lifting of the sugar embargo. That's the big piece of the puzzle. And that's not happening. So the point in the piece that I wrote was that Debbie Wasserman Schultz and not her alone. There were several others as well. In the Senate, certainly Marco Rubio in the House. Iliana Ross-Lentinen and Mario Diaz-Ballard. They're all in this together. They get large amounts of money from the sugar industry. And as I was saying, in this country, that's the fun jewel family. That family owns the entire sugar production capacity of the United States. Almost all of it. And it's not just the amounts of money, since you brought up Debbie Wasserman Schultz. It's not just the amounts of money that they've given her, which is very, very large. But it's the amounts of money that they've spent on her career. They have guaranteed that she would become a powerful member of Congress. How do you do that? She is able to say to them, alright, these 30 Democratic freshmen, I can control them. Give each of them $5,000. So that doesn't show up as a Debbie Wasserman Schultz contribution. But that's a gigantic contribution to her power. And that literally happened. What I just said actually did happen. Well, that's how Lyndon Johnson became Senate Majority Leader, right? Sorry? That's how Lyndon Johnson became Senate Majority Leader. Well, he was good at that kind of stuff as well. That's right. But in the case of Debbie, when the head of the Appropriations Committee, Charlie Rangel at the time, brought up lifting the Cuban sugar embargo. This was many years ago, about a decade ago. And it was going to sail through. It was bipartisan. The Republicans were okay with it. The Democrats were okay with it. The leadership of both parties were good. And it was a go. And then the vote came. And all of a sudden Debbie Wasserman Schultz, suddenly out of nowhere, had enough votes to stop it. And who are all of these freshman congressmen in 2006 who were going along with her on this? And then we looked at it. They had all gotten large contributions from the fun jewels on the same day. And all at her direction. So when I say that she is in bed with the sugar industry, I'm not just talking about the hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars that they've given her. And the independent expenditures, I mean, they said that if she was in trouble, for example, in this primary that she just had, they would finance a million dollar advertising campaign in her favor. As it turned out, they gave quite a lot of money. They didn't have to give a million dollars. She won her primary anyway. But that is the power of this sugar cartel. And that was why I contend that the sugar embargo was not lifted when Obama lifted the embargo on tobacco products, or at least on cigars. Tobacco is the number two agricultural product of Cuba. And he lifted that, but not on sugar. And that's because powerful interest. As you and I had talked about earlier, back in around 1900, after the United States occupied sort of World with Spain and occupied Cuba, there was some talk about incorporating Cuba into the United States. At least in a similar way to the way Puerto Rico was incorporated into the United States. Puerto Rico is still not a state, but it's part of the United States. Cuba, they didn't want to do that with because the sugar beet producers in the west had enough power, especially, believe it or not, in Minnesota. I think that was the main state that was producing sugar beets at the time, but also North Dakota was, Montana was, Wyoming was. But Idaho, those states were producing sugar beets, and they didn't want the competition of cheap sugar from Cuba coming in. And the history of Cuban sugar prices is incredible. I mean, it could go in less than a year from two cents a pound to 50 cents a pound. And people make their living on that. That's a gigantic disparity. What about Hawaii? Now, Hawaii is sugar cane. That's different than sugar beets, right? Yeah, but at that time that wasn't as big a factor. It became a big factor, but it's sugar beet, sugar cane. But we did allow Hawaii to become a state, and did that have any effect on the price of sugar? You know what, it probably did, but I don't know. When I just went back to research this, I researched how it related to Cuba. I wasn't looking at Hawaii, so I don't know. I was just thinking maybe North Dakota. So Hawaii certainly didn't have any kind of political clout to prevent the U.S. from annexing Cuba. They weren't even a state at the time. I'm saying that I'm surprised that we allowed Hawaii to become a state, given the powerful sugar lobby in the Dakotas. But Hawaii didn't become a state until what? 59, 58? Yeah, I mean, that's recent history we're talking about in Cuba that was half a century earlier. So it's interesting that sugar and tobacco, an argument could be made that sugar is more lethal than tobacco.  Right, sugar makes you obese, sugar gives diabetes, cancer, heart disease. Sugar is responsible for a lot of the, is at the base of a lot of the most lethal health problems that Americans face. Absolutely. In fact, the story that I did at the very end of it, I interviewed a physician named Alina Valdez, and Alina is running for Congress against one of Debbie Wasserman Schultz's Republican cronies, described Mario Diaz-Balart, and Diaz-Balart is in the same situation as Wasserman Schultz. He takes a lot of money from Big Sugar, and he is part of that block who prevents normalization of relations with Cuba. He doesn't want normalization. Ironically, his father, Diaz-Balart, not his father, his grandfather, I think it was his grandfather, was the minister of the interior under Batista, the fascist who Castro overthrew in Cuba, and his father was literally, I think it was his grandfather, was a hands-on torturer, and he and his brother became U.S. congressmen, and the brother resigned from Congress, or eventually didn't run the older brother, Lincoln Diaz-Balart, and he is now preparing to become president of Cuba. He thinks that when the Castro's are dead, he's going to go back there, and the people will welcome him as their next president. So he left the U.S. Congress, and it's just spending all this time and getting ready to be president of Cuba. Wow. I want to get to WikiLeaks and The Orange Man, but the Sugar Lobby is so powerful that, you know, I came of age, I was convinced in the 80s and the 90s that the key to losing weight was by having a low-fat diet. Well, when you take out, that was the 80s and the 90s in the arts, where they just said, get rid of the fat.  So you take, get rid of the fat, it has no taste, so you have to put sugar into it. So I consumed low-fat food that had a lot of sugar in it, and most Americans consumed low-fat food and bulked up on sugar and throughout the 80s and the 90s, despite the fact that everybody was joining health clubs and working out and running, they kept gaining weight and nobody could figure it out.  Now remember, when you're blaming this on the sugar lobby, it really is one family. It's not like some gigantic industry with lots and lots and lots of people We're talking about one family, F-A-N-J-U-L, Van Yule. That family is the ones that we're talking about. And they are having this profound effect on the health of this country, and they are enabled by the politicians who they're providing. Namely, right now, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Marco Rubio, Mario Diaz-Balart, and Iliana Watlettenen, these four South Florida politicians. And they bribed the scientific community.  What they do is they pay scientists, so-called, a lot of money to look at it from a different perspective and to be able to cast doubt on it in the same way that the tobacco lobby once did, where they had some Americans believing that tobacco was healthy for you, that if you smoked tobacco, you would live longer. People actually thought that, and that was because the sugar, I'm sorry, the tobacco industry was able to have their own in-pocket scientists to say that the same way that, for example, the oil companies are trying to cast doubt on the fact that there's such a thing as climate change influenced by man's activities on Earth. And they are doing their best to persuade, and they have persuaded the whole political party, the Republicans, of that. We're going to get to WikiLeaks. What are we going to do? Yeah, I just want to mention there's a movie called Fed Up that Katie Couric narrated and produced with Larry David's ex-wife, Lori David. It's about sugar. It's about the subject. And one of the interesting areas that they discussed was during the 80s and the 90s, we were told to get rid of fat. So the dairy industry started making non-fat milk in bulk. And everything was, get rid of the fat, get rid of the fat, get rid of the fat. Well, what do you do when you get rid of the fat? You have cheese. You have these vats of cheese left when you get rid of fat. So the dairy industry was left with cheese. And all of a sudden, according to this movie Fed Up, pizza took off. I mean, when I was younger in the 70s and the 60s, pizza was okay. Occasionally you would have a slice of pizza. Where are you from? From New York, New Jersey. I am too. We ate pizza all the time. Not the way people are eating pizza now, according to the movie Fed Up. Really? Yeah. There became an epidemic of pizza in America, double cheese pizza, because the dairy industry was getting rid of fat from all the products, from the dairy products, and making cheese. So they had to push cheese on the American people. And that's what fueled the pizza craze in America with double cheese, more cheese, cheese topping. That's from the movie. You made me hungry. I know, me too, I'm starving. By the way, I've given up sugar. I've had sugar in two months. And I think I've lost a little weight. Okay, speaking of people who don't lose weight, Donald Trump, this is the first time... It's interesting that you should start off that way. Speaking of people who don't lose weight. Because Donald Trump does lose weight. I want to tell you a story. Okay. This is kind of a long... I want to say it right to not put your listeners to bed here. But a friend of mine works in the, let's call it the plastic surgery industry. And his company buys practices, your plastic surgery practices. And one of the practices that they bought was Mark Foley's husband. I don't think they call it a husband, but it was Mark Foley's boyfriend. Remind everybody who Mark Foley is.  He never admitted that he did that.  But he has admitted to me that he did do that. He and I sat down and had dinner together. And he admitted that he was sleeping with these boys. He said he'd never slept with any that were underage because he would take them from state to state. So depending on how old they were, he wouldn't screw them unless he was in Virginia or West Virginia or Maryland depending on how old they were because each of those states has a different age of consent. So that's what he told me. But I spoke to a boy who told me that Foley had sex with him here in California when he was 16 and in the age of consent he was 18. So Foley was lying. But hang on for one second. He violated the Man Boy Act, I believe. Now, he was a Republican congressman. This was in 2004, I believe, or 2006. It was a very long time. 2006 was when this whole thing exploded. Because of him. He resigned.  And because of that, many say the Republicans lost the house. My question is Dennis Hastert was the speaker at that time. Why? He was a wrestling coach. How come he didn't put his fist down and stop that? Oh, right. I forgot. Dennis Hastert was also guilty of that. Did everybody know that?  I don't know that.  Did Tom DeLay really? He's in jail now. Right. Tom DeLay was the brains, for lack of a better word, of the Republican House back then. Did he know Dennis Hastert? Everybody knew that Dennis Hastert was up to that. So that's why he was made speaker, right? Because he could be controlled. He had a secret. Right? And he, for a very long time, he protected Foley. Foley was also an alcoholic and he wanted to get out and they would convince him don't get out because they were nervous that they would lose that seat if he left. So they persuaded him to stay in the house. Even when he realized that it was a dangerous thing for everybody concerned.  He knew that he couldn't control himself.  So it was a real political party at the time. But we're so off the topic. I know, but I just want to make a larger point and then we'll get back to it. The point I want to get to is Dennis Hastert was Speaker of the House. He was the Republican Speaker of the House. It's the most powerful position in Washington, D.C. You control the purse strings, right? But he wasn't, he had zero power because he was a child molester and Tom DeLay knew that he was a child molester. So he was just a puppet. He could be controlled. They wanted a very weak, vulnerable guy with a secret, a dirty, dark secret to look like he was running the house when, in fact, he was a Synecure, right? I don't know if Synecure is the right word, but what you're getting at is the right word. Is the right thing. Mark Foley, back to Mark Foley. Yes. So Foley's significant other, it was, he died recently, the plastic surgeon to the stars. He was not just some random plastic surgeon. He was big time. His people would come from wealthy, wealthy people.  He was an artist. And he happens to be, he's in Palm Beach, or he was in Palm Beach. And he was Trump's cosmetic surgeon. And so anyway, when my friend's company bought his practice, my friend happened to stumble upon Trump's records. And he explained to me some of the procedures that Trump was getting there, which included something that I'd never heard of called the Venus Freeze, that Trump was getting that to control his weight. He also was getting Botox every eight months, et cetera. So in any case... I heard, is it true that they... No, because you started talking, you suddenly started talking about Trump and fat and that triggered, that triggered that thought in me about how Trump is a big fat obese guy who eats horribly just into fast food. And he controls that artificially by getting this Venus Freeze and getting these various kinds, lots and lots of different procedures to help him look more presentable and younger.  Was that in the file? If it wasn't in the file, my friend didn't mention it to me. Okay. And yet, Newt Gingrich, who's fat, morbidly obese, and Donald Trump, who's morbidly obese, make fun of women for being fat, talk about the kettle calling... talk about the pot calling the kettle the N-word. Anyway... Right. Well, I mean, I've always thought that when it comes to Donald Trump, the main dynamic of his psychology that comes through the clearest is projection. So, in other words, anything that he's thinking about himself, he accuses his rivals of those things, when he would call, you know, Cruz lying Ted. There's no one who's...    Who do you hate more, Romney or Trump? Romney or Trump? Yeah. I don't hate Romney. Okay.   Not really. I hate what I see him doing to the country. That I hate. Isn't he boiling off the wretched refuse, the deplorables from the Republican Party? Is he boiling them off? I don't know what you mean by boiling them off. He's making the whole thing worse. Well, he's kind of like exposing the worst of the worst. They're all very heavily armed. The deplorables we're talking about. I mean, today, the sheriff of Milwaukee County, for example, was intimating that after the election is stolen by Hillary, we're going to have to do something about it. And the information was revolution. This is the sheriff of a huge important county. So, you know, and guess what? The police unions have all endorsed Trump. So it's pretty scary when you think about it that the country is in some real problem right there. I kind of mean this because I'm living in the safety of Manhattan. So I'm saying this because I like to think I'm not vulnerable. But isn't this good? We know where they are now. We know who they are. The Wackos are. Yeah, but the Wackos have every such shooting. You know, they got them in Suffolk County as well. No, it's not good. And the last thing we need is any kind of a civil war. And when you listen to Trump, it sounds like he's trying to gin that up a little bit.  You know, half the people in the country, by definition, have two digit IQs. And half the people have three digit IQs.  But someone who's got an 80 IQ, it doesn't have the capacity to understand abstracts.  Sorry to say it.  But they can shoot. They have guns. Do you? I bet you don't have a gun. I don't want anybody to know the answer to that question. Okay, we're fine. But I'll still bet it. In any case, the last thing we need is a civil war. The last thing we need is someone to say, let's hunt down all the intolerables and do something to them. I mean, I was frightened the other day listening to Keith Oberman talking about they should all be made to go back to second grade and start over again. What do you mean back? Forward to second grade. The point is, you can't force anybody to do anything. You can't force them back to go to second grade. It would be great if they did it voluntarily, but they're not going to. Yeah, it's pretty... I don't know. I don't know. There's a part of me that gets terrified. I kind of think he's not going to win. I'm almost convinced he's not going to win. There's a part of me that thinks he's doing this country a favor by... You've got to hit rock bottom. And maybe there's further to drop. I mean, I'd like to think... I saw the New York Times. The New York Times did a little ten-minute documentary where they went to the Eric Erickson's organization, Red State Convention. You know, Eric Erickson, the right wing. And these are conservatives who have abandoned Trump. It's Glenn Beck, Eric Erickson, and some other less famous conservatives. All of them are on the verge of tears. All of them are at least claiming to be introspective, wondering what caused this. I mean, all of them are on the verge of tears talking about the death threats that they have received from Trump supporters for abandoning him. And they've looked into the abyss of their own soul, their own party, and claim they realize now that something is gravely wrong and they need to reach across the aisle and have conversations and start listening. I don't believe a word of it. I mean, I heard Glenn Beck talking this way and Eric Erickson talking this way. They are really scared. But you know what? The cliche, they created this Frankenstein. They did, but Eric Erickson's family has been threatened to the point where he now has 24-hour bodyguards because of his young children and his wife. But isn't Eric Erick... But isn't he... He needs to email. It's people, armed people coming to his house.  He is no moderate, right? That's right. He jinned up. He revved up. Glenn Beck. Well, yes, but they think that they don't think that Trump is part of their movement. They don't think Trump is being... He's not a conservative. He's Trump a conservative. But what I'm saying is, didn't they play to the... Didn't Glenn Beck and Eric Erickson play to the very same people Trump is appealing to using the same tactics, spreading the same lies? Yes. Yes.   So, I don't want anybody hurt, but doesn't Eric Erickson deserve what's happening to him? Shouldn't he be scared? Isn't this... No, he doesn't deserve it. He... No one deserves to have their family threatened. I mean, it's not... Like I said, he's not getting emails. They're going to... We're mad at you. We're going to hurt you. That's not what's happening. People with guns are coming to his home.  He doesn't deserve that. No one does. Okay. Is he a big supporter of the NRA? I don't know for a fact that he is, but if I had a guess, I would say yes. Okay. I agree with you.  Glenn Beck called President Obama a scumbag and really incited insurrection. You're right. You're right. Absolutely. So... They're bad people. They are bad people. And they let loose forces that they didn't... They think of themselves as, you know, constitutional conservatives. Their idea of a constitutional conservative is someone like Ted Cruz, and they didn't realize the strength of the id that they were uncovering was going to throw up or puke out Donald Trump, which is what happened. Right. They've been cuckolded by Donald Trump.  And, you know, I have to say, in one year, Donald Trump destroyed two Bushes. Billy Bush and Jeb Bush. And if he doesn't get elected, I... I don't know. I think he's been a gift to this country. I think. I think. Are you voting for Jill Stein? Yes. You are. If I lived in Ohio or if I lived in Florida, if I lived in Iowa, I know that I would vote for Hillary Clinton. But I live in California. I'm voting for Jill Stein. That's a big statement for you, because in the past you said you were no longer voting for the lesser of two evils. I mean, you are voting for Jill Stein, but for you to say that if I lived in Ohio or Florida... Yes. Because it's beyond lesser of two evils at this point, he's such a greater evil that it's beyond evil. He's an existential threat to the United States. And when did you decide that? Over the course of the last couple of months. Okay. Before you go, you always have the information before anybody else does. When are we going to have a woman come forward and say she was raped by Donald Trump? Oh. Well, I don't have that information. And I don't know if it's going to happen. People are afraid of him.  Now there are nine women that have come forward. One of whom is leaving the country with her family because of the level of threats. But the nine women represent a tiny tip of the iceberg of the numbers of women who have gone and said that they won't come forward and identify themselves and have gone to the media. Some of these reporters are saying they've spoken... You know, they get one woman who's willing to come forward and they've had a dozen women who will talk to them off the record, but they won't give their names. Has he raped anybody? Okay. I'm going to ask you. I don't know that for a fact. There's one woman who said that she was, I think, 15 and he raped her. And there's an ongoing suit which the judge has put off until December. The court case won't be until December. So there is a rape case already. Yeah. We're going to wrap it up. The other thing we need to remember is when you... I don't mean to equate Bob Dylan with Donald Trump, but we were talking about Bob Dylan at the beginning. You cannot project... You talked about projection earlier. Your own goodness or your own lifestyle onto other people. In other words, you cannot even begin to imagine the way Bob Dylan lives. It's the... And you cannot project or imagine the way Donald Trump lives or the way he thinks. They are... They're not human. Donald Trump is not a human being. And he doesn't think like a normal human being because he's not a human being. David, David, he is a human being. I don't like him. I probably don't like him when you don't like him, but he's a human being. But what do you say? You know the Woody Guthrie song that was recently discovered about the apartment complex that his father had and where they would... If black people or Puerto Rican people would come to rent, they would put a C for colored on the application so they wouldn't rent to them. I thought it was classified. You Guthrie wrote a song about it in the day. Well, my first girlfriend lived in that neighborhood as well and the Trumps were very, very well known in that neighborhood. I was just a kid. I was really... I was not even a teenager and I knew of the Trump family. And so I do feel like... I do feel like I... that I know them in a way and they're not as distant as you would expect, you know, some like billionaires to be. They were much more sort of down to earth. I'm not saying anything good about them. I'm not complimenting them in any way right now but I'm telling you that my impression is that they weren't this high and mighty thing the way... I'll bet that Baron Trump is, the 10-year-old kid. Now, he's being raised. He's got somebody who dresses him and he's got a second... He's 10 years old. He's got a secretary. He's got a whole staff of his own and his own quite large apartment on his own with his staff. So what you're describing, that would fit Baron... I don't think it fits Donald Trump. I think Donald Trump is a fat slob from Brooklyn and Queens who, you know, eats shitty food and has a lot of the same kind of way of looking at life as a lot of other people that we know do. Who are from that time and that place. I don't think... You know, he's extremely cheap. I mean, Donald Trump... He reminds me a lot of one of... I don't want to name who it is, but one of my old bosses who's also fabulously rich but I literally saw him fighting a bomb in the street over a dime that he dropped. He was rolling around on the street. This is a guy that's got tens of millions of dollars and he dropped a dime and the bomb grabbed a dime and my former boss jumped on him and started fighting him. That's the kind of guy that Donald Trump is as well. You know what makes me really happy, Howie?  You're politically correct, but you still call them bums. I know, when I said that, I was thinking, oops, I shouldn't have said that. I shouldn't have thought that. That's a horrible thing too. A horrible way to talk about another human being. Actually, as it was coming out of my mouth, I was thinking the same thing.  But you weren't caught on tape talking about grabbing a woman's pee. Are you not allowed to say that on the station? No, not on the station. That's funny because they, at MSNBC, they weren't saying it for the whole week, the whole first week, no one was allowed to say the word. And then all of a sudden they just gave up and now everyone is saying it. Yeah, it's like during the Clinton impeachment, we finally got to say blowjob. You weren't allowed to say blowjob. And you're not allowed to say it anymore, apparently. We have Donald Trump just coarsening the discourse of the entire country. Yeah. Well, okay. This is the first time we started the interview without you going, I don't want to talk about Donald Trump. Howie Klein is the founder and treasurer of the Blue America PAC. Go to it and if you give money, that money will be given to progressive candidates around the country. He's also author of the Dan with tyranny blog, which you should all read every day. And I look forward to talking to you again, sir. Me too. When I'm not on for a few weeks, I get all these complaints that say it's like my fault. Yeah, I know. 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It's been an amazing two months since the prize was announced. I've almost daily been receiving certainly lots and lots of email messages, but also letters, flowers, other kinds of gifts in the mail. I now know my FedEx delivery man by name because he knows that something special happened here, and that's been extraordinary. It's been very, very exciting. Very special. I think a particularly difficult year for many people this year, and it's nice to have something to celebrate. I think we're all feeling very excited that we can celebrate fundamental science. We're at a moment right now when we're seeing the success of science with the coming vaccines for the coronavirus that I think are looking very promising, and that is the result of fabulous fundamental science going actually back several decades. It really does speak to the importance of investing in fundamental science, and that's really what CRISPR is all about too. It's really about the joy of discovery. It's about two women who got together and started working on a bacterial immune system a few years ago. The science that came from that partnership and how it led to an extraordinary technology for changing the code of life. Now there's very recent news that people that suffer from genetic diseases such as sickle cell disease, beta thalassemia, and other blood disorder have been cured of their disease using CRISPR-Cas9, which is based on the work that Emmanuel Sharpentier and I did together with our students. There's nothing more wonderful than that for scientists to know that our work is having a real-world impact on people's lives. I think there's an incredible feeling that science is something to be celebrated. It's a wonderful endeavor of human beings. It's unique to humans as far as we know, and it leads in unexpected directions. I think we're at a moment now when we need science more than ever. I think the Nobel Prize serves an important purpose in highlighting science and the scientists that do the work so that we can all celebrate those advances and recognize that science and technology plays such an important role in our lives every day, but also in the broader opportunities that these discoveries bring, whether it's economic opportunities, jobs, whether it's better healthcare, a better environment. These are all things that are important to all people, and the Nobel Prize I think really does highlight science for the world. The Innovative Genomics Institute that I started a few years ago at the University of California Berkeley and University of California San Francisco is a wonderful opportunity to take genome editing to the next level and to do it in particular with an eye towards the public good. Public access to technology is so important, I think as a scientist it means the world to me to know not only that we can cure people of a disease like sickle cell disease and of course in the future many other genetic diseases, but also to make that technology available to everyone. To do that is going to require a lot of hard work, it's going to require more science, more technology, more development, and that's really where I want to focus my efforts in the coming years.


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Without the distortion, at least one college president, William Todd Hunter Hall of Ivy, is a man in a business suit who is neither portentous nor harried, and he has friends and neighbors like everybody else. One of them is waiting for him now in his study at number one faculty role, and as he enters the front door, his wife Victoria says...  Thank you darling, your happiness at my return is most reassuring. I dislike it very much if you met me at the door and said, oh dear you again, back already. Well, I'm not only glad because I'm always glad to see you again, but also because we have a visitor. Oh, anyone who is likely to tax the presidential patients with some campus caper? No, no, this is someone you always enjoy talking to, it's little Sheila Quinn Cannon. Oh, Sheila, that's fine, where is she? Well, she's in your study, sitting in your chair, at your desk, drawing pictures on your best stationery with your best fountain pen. Well, my best stationery and my best fountain pen are none too good for Sheila Quinn Cannon. Yeah, I know, Toddy, and when you start visiting whether you'll be ours, so first tell me, how was the board meeting? Oh, much as usual. It's getting so the other members consider themselves a gallery of happy spectators, when Mr. Wellman and I get into our customary verbal head-on collisions. Well, Mr. Wellman has an unfair advantage in a head-on collision, he has two heads. Well, if he had seven heads, they'd do him no good against me. I've discovered a technique which has him completely baffled. It's a conversational gambit which I should hesitate to use against anyone else, but with Clarence, all's fair in love and board meetings. What's the gambit? Silence. How did you use it? Well, when he finishes speaking for a moment, I simply smile politely and wait as though for him to continue. When the pause becomes unbearable, he turns red, starts talking again, and makes no sense whatsoever because he is babbling from pure embarrassment. That reminds me of that book by Stephen Potter called Gamesmanship. Oh, yes. Or how to win games without actually cheating. You should write one on shut-upmanship, or how to win an argument without opening the mouth. Yes, it's peculiar how deafening a sudden silence can be. Yeah, that awful conversational laundry chute on which the whole party goes. Well, it accounts for a great deal of brainless chatter. Oh, which reminds me, I'm going to see my guest, whose chatter makes more sense than that of most people. Come along, Vicky. You won't be embarrassed if I'm present when you talk to this other woman. Oh, not at all, darling. I love you both. No, I'm not. Sheila, dear, our man has come home. Hello, Sheila. Hi, Dr. Hall. Hi, Mrs. Hall. Look at the picture I drew. Now, that's simply wonderful, Sheila. Yes. Isn't it, William? I've never seen anything quite like it. Personally, I never could draw horses. Me either. That's why it's a picture of a dog. Oh, yes, he is a dog. Yes, he's a nice, high dog. Especially in France. Are you going to be an artist when you grow up, Sheila? No, I'm going to be a doctor, or maybe a nurse. I think doctors and nurses are wonderful.  I'm not done, my bet. I guess maybe that's why I like you so much, Dr. Hall.  Well, not a medical doctor. I'm really just plain Mr. Hall, but people always call me doctor, and I'm so used to it, I don't bother to correct them anymore. How are all your family? Oh, fine, thank you, except Terry. You went to the hospital yesterday. Oh, Kevin's really? I didn't know. Is it anything serious, Sheila?  Oh, I'm sorry. But you know, they can remove an independence very easily these days. He'll be up and about before you know it. How old is Terry now? He's 10, going on 12. 10 going on 12? What happened to 11? Well, my daddy says he's growing so fast, he'll probably skip 11. You see, Dr. Hall, your fountain pen doesn't look very good anymore. The point got all spread out. See? Yes, I see. It'll be... It'll be twice as good as it was before, and now it has two points. I was kind of afraid for a while. I'd busted it. Well, that pen wasn't really for writing with any way, Sheila. It's mostly just a look at. I didn't even know it had ink in it. Oh, it had lots of ink in it. Too much even. Some of it came out on the carpet. I tried to wipe it off, but it kind of smeared around lower. See, I'm sorry, Mrs. Hall. Well, don't be dear. That carpet needed cleaning anyway, and you just helped to bring it to mind. Oh, thank you for reminding me. You're welcome, Mrs. Hall. Well, now how about some more cookies and another glass of milk? No, thank you. I had two glasses and the brother's zillion cookies, and I don't want to spoil my dinner. I guess I'd better go home now.  I like talking to you. By the way, when did you say your brother was being operated on? This afternoon. Mother says we can go see him about Saturday. I gotta go to the hospital anyway and get my braces adjusted. Well, I'd love to go with you if I may. Terrence was teaching me how to make a kite, and I'm just about ready for my second lesson. Sheila, for me, Sheila, that I want to... There's a phone, Dr. Hall. Yeah, we know, dear, but where is it? Well, it's on a long chord, Sheila, and sometimes we can't find it. Oh, I remember now. I put in a desk to her, so I have more room. Here it is. Oh, it is. Yeah, it's a very good idea. I'm sorry I never thought of that myself. Excuse me, ladies. Certainly. Sure. Dr. Hall's residence. Professor Harmon? Oh, yes, Professor. I'm sorry to hear that. Oh, but isn't there anything we can do to lighten your schedule? I see. Well, it's only that I dislike your taking such a drastic step without exhausting every possibility. Why don't you... Why don't you come over and have a talk? Perhaps we can work out something. For 30, that'll be fine. Goodbye, Professor. Now then, what were... Oh, yeah, yes, Sheila. Sheila, will you let us know when you hear how Terrence is getting along? Okay, Dr. Hall. They said he ought to be out from the... Anus... Anus... Anus-static. Right now, maybe. Sheila, if he's not asking too much, could you come back and tell us about him? Oh, yes, I'd like to. Say, about 4.30? I come over a lot oftener, but daddy says you're a busy man and don't bother you. Yeah, he only bothers us when you stay away too long, Sheila. Oh, I like to come over here. You're always so nice. Even when I make a mistake, it turns out good. Like when I spilled ink on your carpet, and it reminded you to have it cleaned. Anyway... Well, goodbye, Dr. Hall. Will you please hand me my crutches?  I'd offer to help you, but you always refuse me. And my feelings are so easily hurt. Uh, you just say that, I guess.  Isn't that wonderful? Yes, it really is, Sheila. You know you're getting to be the bounciest while the block. Thank you, Mrs. Hall. I only go next door, but it takes me a little while to get there. So I better get started, I guess. Bye, Dr. Hall. Goodbye, Sheila. Until 4.30. And thank you for fixing my fountain pen. Yes, and for reminding me about the carpet. Oh, that's all right. I was glad to do it. Terrific, youngster. Miss Gallowhead. It isn't the iron in her brazes that keeps her going. It keeps her going. It's a key in her courage. And me of one definition of the word handicapped. An artificial disadvantage placed on a superior contender. But why did you ask her to come back? I mean, so specifically at 4.30. Oh, it's just an idea I had. After talking to Professor Harmon, he wants to resign. Resign? Why? I thought he was one of the best men on the faculty. Oh, he is. But it seems he can do more for the student that he can for himself. Oh, yeah, I know. He's a... what do you call it? A person who makes ten trips a day to the drugstore for pink pills. Pilgrim? No, no, no. You'd... I'm hyper-contriac. Hyper-contriac, yes. According to the... according to the old definition, one who enjoys, he'll help. Yes, yes, yes. But I still don't see what he's got to do with little Sheila coming back at 4.30. I'm not sure I do, either. But you know how I like to set up personal situations and see what happens? I'm afraid I'm just a drawing-room dramatist who is lucky to have a heroine like Sheila Quincanon. You wouldn't believe what a guy could get into buying a 3-cent stamp. Unless, of course, you knew Dall Warburton, our one-of-a-kind postmaster here at Ivy. I dropped into the post office quite innocent. Well, well, Carpenter, can I tell you something, or did you just drop into model for one of our wanted posters? Oh, hello, Dall. I just want a 3-cent stamp. 3-cent stamp, eh? Well, let me see now. We've got several varieties. Got portraits, landscapes, great men, several delightful issues commemorating great events. Look, Dall, I just want a 3-cent stamp. I'm not fussy about what it looks like. Dear, dear, he isn't fussy. Can I'm surprised at you? Where's your sense of proportion? Now, what if I went into a tavern and asked for a glass of beer, and the man says, what kind? And I said, oh, I'm not fussy. But, Dall, that's different. You know, I talk about Schlitz beer. You know, I believe it's the greatest beer in the world. And you know perfectly well that Schlitz is America's best-like beer.  No, I don't know, Ken. I might. You see, I'm a little hurt. Now, you interrupted me before I'd finished my sales story on the line of stamps we carry here. Dall, you can't be serious. A 3-cent stamp, that's all I wanted. A measly little 3-cent stamp. Well, I'll thank you not to run down my product. Now, you listen here. We put out stamps here that can't be matched any place in Ivy for the money. Now, you tell me that Schlitz can't be matched for taste. But Dall, Schlitz can't be matched. Schlitz has a wonderful, light, bright taste you just don't find in any other beer. A taste so great that millions of Americans have made Schlitz beer their own personal beer. You see, Dall, the big difference between your product and mine is that mine can't be lit. Now, Ken, I've been patient about listening to your pitch. Now, may I finish mine? All right, Dall, go ahead. Well, I was merely going to say, Ken, that for 3 cents I'd sell you the best 3-cent stamp in the house, close the stamp window, since it's almost 6 anyway, and then that. Yes, Dall, and then. And then, Ken, I'd share with you a pair of bottles of the beer you love. Schlitz beer. It's my favorite, too. Shall we? Dall, we shall, and will. Special delivery. As we return to the halls of Ivy, we find Dr. and Mrs. Hall entertaining another visitor, Mr. Mallyweather, member of the Board of Governors and a good friend. Mrs. Hall is saying...  It's a cold afternoon and we don't want our favorite board member catching pneumonia. Thanks, ma'am. I appreciate your solicitude, as I appreciate you in all other departments. Dear boy. I was just walking around the campus, happy in being an overage graduate who can sleep until noon, and thought I'd drop in and see Prexy and his dream girl. Prexy and his dream girl don't see you often enough, child. Do we, dream girl? No, Prexy. We don't. Have you been busy, Mr. Mallyweather? No, ma'am, I have not.  Which makes my business engagement this afternoon very urgent. Oh, are you starting on a new enterprise, child? Yes, yes. There's a new miniature golf course on the fifth floor of the Keeler Building downtown. It's rumored to be tougher than Pebble Beach, and strong men are said to have come down in the elevator weeping. It sounds very fascinating. There's no danger of sunstroke either. Well, let me know how you like it, won't you? Vicki and I may have a go at it ourselves. I'll give you a report. My tips tell me that on the seventh hole, you tee off from the top of an empty bottle. Oh, no! Yes, if you knock the bottle down, you have a stroke. Then you have to shoot through the thumb of a catcher's mitt. Carim the ball off the trigger of a music box, which plays, I'll be glad when you're dead you rascal you. And drive past three hazards. What are they?  My informant may have exaggerated slightly, but it's found to be more fun than sitting in my broker's office trying to find a bum stock for a tax law. Tell me, is there a 19th hole on this course, Mr. Meriwether? Ma'am, you have the instincts of a true golfer. That was my first question, too. Yes, there is. Just a mashy shot up the street. Don't let us detain you from this investigation, Charles. If you don't come back, we'll assume that you have mistaken for an extra-large hamburger by the Labrador retriever. Well, just remember me as kindly old Charlie Meriwether and have Slammin' Thammy Snead read the eulogy. Let's hope you survive, Mr. Meriwether, so you and Mrs. Meriwether can have dinner with us tomorrow night. Most attractive offer I've had all week. What time? Oh, 7.30ish, or quarter-ish to eight, or even 7-ish, 15. Name your own-ish. By the way, are you dieting, either of you? It seems nowadays that everybody is. And we wouldn't want to be lacking in culinary tact. After all, with territorial statehood in question, it would never do to serve baked Alaska to a southern senator. No, you're asking to dance a hula afterward. Well, I'm not dieting, but did you ever know my wife when she wasn't? Or claim she wasn't? Well, I'm glad we found out. What can she eat? Oh, well, don't worry about it. There are three things a woman will make any excuse to get out of. A rainstorm, a tight girdle, and a diet. Well, I'll see you tomorrow. Goodbye, my child. Goodbye! Who liked Mr. Meriwether? He's so comfortable. I can't imagine him getting really perturbed about anything. That's because you've never seen him take seven practice swings, test the wind with a wet finger, wait for a clear fairway, tell his caddy to keep an eye on the ball and then flood his first tee shot. Well, that's different. That's a reason. How does he react? Oh, he's rather frightening. He just smiled, a thin-lipped smile, like Boris Karloff measuring out arsenic. He throws his driver into the nearest shrubbery, runs over to a tree and starts banging his head against the trunk. Then he sobs once or twice, comes back, borrows a brassie, shuts his eyes, and slams a screaming drive about 300 yards. It's an emotional game, isn't it? I suppose all golfers would go insane if they didn't have to take such a long walk between the tee and the green. Well, I'll be glad when the weather opens up enough so we can play again.  You are an exceptional man. With you, my darling, golf is simply a matter of getting my feet on the green grass, my head into the wind, and a long stroll with someone pleasant to talk to and be with. I love the sun, the air, the rolling hills, the gleam of water, and you, beside me, singing in the wilderness. Our wilderness were paradise in ours. Do you suppose... do you suppose Omar was a golfer? Of course he was. A book of rules consulted me to bow, a tangled ruff, a stymied ball, and thou, beside me, searching in the undergrowth. Ah, let us tell the Greens committee now. But why do you keep looking at your watch? You can't play golf for another month at least. I know, darling, but I'm expecting... I'm expecting Professor Harman and here he is. Well, that's one thing about being the president. Sorry, people have to keep their appointments on time. Yes, it's one of the compensations of my job. As my father used to say, an appointment unkept is a promise broken. And I have... oh, good afternoon, Professor. Good afternoon, Dr. Hall. Mrs. Hall. Hello, Professor Harman. You're looking very well. I am. Well, that shows you how deceitful I must be. Because I don't feel well at all. Oh. Anything specific, Professor? Or just things in general? Oh, I don't know, frankly. But I'm fed up with everything. I haven't got any particular aches or pains, but I just feel like throwing everything aside and running away. Well, you can buy a ticket to anywhere in the world, but you always pay excess for your mental luggage. But why not sit down and let's see what can be done about your resignation? The way I feel about it, there's only one thing to do, and that's to resign. Why don't you take that chair, Professor Harman? That's our psychological seat, Professor. It's deep enough so the visitor can't get up suddenly and run out and low enough so that its occupant must look up slightly to the president. And it's paid for, which gives the president and his wife a pleasant feeling of security. But I thought all psychologists made the patient face the light while they kept their own faces in the shadow. Ah, it's a strategy employed only by amateur psychologists. It is not the play of emotions on the visitor's face which guide my interview. It's the expression which I permit him to see on my face. So, thus forewarned, tell me your trouble. My husband intensely dislikes the idea of losing your services Professor. Yes, thank you. But I can't stay at the college. I think it would kill me. Is it that bad? It probably sounds a little dramatic to you, but I'm not dramatizing myself. I'm headed for a crack-up. I don't want to end up in the hospital. The pressure is too great by my classes. Working on two books for fall publication, meetings for this and that and committees. Shouldn't be difficult to get you off some of the committees and possibly relieve the pressure in other directions also. Mr. Meriwether's definition of a committee would make anyone want to get off them. He says a committee is a group of the unfit appointed by the unwilling to undertake the unnecessary. It isn't just the committees or any one thing. It's everything. The everlasting, unremitting pressure. I can't take it. I can't eat. I can't sleep. I'm jittery and jumpy. I just got to get away and get hold of myself. Have you considered spending a few days in the clinic for a physical check-up? I've done all that. The doctors find nothing. But I know there's some. Excuse me, you will. Dr. Hall's residence. Yes, operator, please do. It's from Bloomington, Indiana. Indiana U. And who's who? Don't I U? It's probably Professor Marcelli of the music department. I'm sorry, Professor Harmon. It'll be just a... Hello? Hello? Rico? Ah, comista, amico mio. Ben, Ben. Of course I'm ready. Been ready for weeks. All right. Here it is. Rook to the night's fourth and mate in three moves. Ha-ha. Oh, you don't think so? Ha-ha-ha. Well, take your time, old man. Professor Marcelli's been played for centuries. Why should we hurry it? How's the concerto coming along? Oh, it's too bad. Well, it's your move now, Rico. Good luck. Arrivederci. I take it the concerto isn't doing too well. Ah, Professor Marcelli's concerto is a sometimes thing. He alternates between being an accomplished composer and a frantic chess player. This is one of his frantic periods. I'm sorry. We will interrupt it, Professor Harmon. Go on, please. Well, there isn't any more. I simply want a resign. I know I have a contract, but I hope you'll give me permission to cancel it. Well, if you assure us that you can work out no alternative, I will see that your contract is cancelled. May we ask your plans if you do resign, Professor? I haven't made any, Mrs. Hall. I'll go away somewhere and take a long rest. I'm just giving up. Um, see who's at the door, Victoria, do you mind? Yes, certainly. Hello, Sheila. Ah, Sheila. Come in, come in. That's right, and I hear this right here. There it is. Let me take your cross. Thank you, Miss Powell. I just wanted to tell you about Harry. The doctor says he's fine. Oh, that's splendid, Sheila. We're delighted to hear it. I'm going to go see him on Saturday. Isn't that wonderful? Indeed it is. And thank you for coming over to tell us, dear. Oh, but you two haven't met. Uh, Professor Harman, this is our next door neighbor, Sheila Quincanon, the young lady whom I admire immensely. How do you do? Well, how do you do, Sheila? Is Professor Quincanon your father? Yes, he is. Do you know him? Oh, yes I do. He's a wonderful man. I know him. Do you know Terry? Terry? Yes. Karen's Quincanon, uh, Sheila's brother. He's in the hospital. They took out his independence. I'm going to go see him on Saturday on account of they're going to adjust my braces anyway. Is that, uh, much of a job, Sheila? Oh, no. It just takes a little while. My father says that not so long ago, when a little girl needed braces, there were many good ones. Now they make dandy ones. I guess I'm just lucky. Lucky? Uh, Sheila wants to be a doctor when she grows up. Don't you, Sheila? Sure. Or maybe a nurse. But maybe a doctor would be best. Because if my legs don't get better, I can sit at a desk and help people. Just as have to hurry around and lift things. Well, I'm sure you'd make a very good doctor. Well, I guess I'd better go now. It's a wonderful day out. I'm going to sit on a porch and watch the kids play. Can I please have my breakfast, Miss Hall? There you are. I'll walk to the door with you. Don't bother, Miss Hall. I like to do it all by myself. Remember, I'm about to hit one of the blocks. Bye, Dr. Hall. Bye, Professor. Goodbye. Now then, Professor Harmon, back to your problem. You were saying? Surviving a starring Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Coleman has been presented by Schlitz, the beer that made Milwaukee famous. The taste of Schlitz. The taste so many people prefer has made Schlitz beer first in sales in the USA. Why don't you two enjoy the most popular beer in history? Next time, every time. Ask for Schlitz beer. Now, here again are Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Coleman. Thank you, Ken. Ladies and gentlemen, Little Sheila Quincanon is your neighbour too. In every neighbourhood, in every community, there are children who need your help. The sale of Easter Seals by the Society for Crippled Children and Adults is dedicated to this purpose. Please support this wonderful work with your purchase of Easter Seals or send a donation direct to Crippled Children's Care at your local post office. Send as much as you can, but even a small donation will seem large to some youngster who has nowhere else to look for help from comfort. It's wonderful when all we tour one can bend and lend our strength to small one. Good night, everybody. Good night from all of us. And from our sponsor, the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and its thousands of friendly dealers throughout the nation. Good night. We'll be seeing you next week at this same time at the Halls of Ivy starring Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Coleman. Mr. Mary Weather is played by Gail Gordon. Sheila was Mary McGovern, and Professor Harmon was John Brown. Tonight's script was written by Don Quinn. Music was composed and conducted by Henry Russell. The Halls of Ivy was created by Don Quinn, directed by Milton Merlin, and presented by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. We're invited to enjoy on television the Schlitz Playhouse of Stars with Helen Hayes, Margaret Sullivan, Walter Hampton, and more of the brightest names of Hollywood and Broadway. See your newspaper for time and channel. Ken Carpenter, speak. Oh, we love that song. Now just for laughs, join in the fun with The Great Gilder Sleeve on NBC.