The shortage of healthcare professionals has become a global issue due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nurses and physicians are particularly vulnerable, with many considering leaving their positions at hospitals. To better understand this phenomenon, researchers conducted a systematic review of studies from Europe and other regions. They found that the most common reasons for nursing doctor attrition include dissatisfaction with job demands, lack of career advancement opportunities, poor work-life balance, and poor working conditions. These findings suggest that multifaceted interventions should be developed to address these issues and improve retention rates. This article was authored by Nielte de Vries RN, MSc, Ankh Boon MSc, Lodegodris MD, PhD, and others.


Hi, my name is Gabrielle Swayby. I'm a researcher with the Climate Change Group at IAED. I've just attended an event here at COP24 put on by the UK government on the principles for effective capacity building. I talked a little bit about what IAED is doing to support the LDC group in the negotiations here, but it's been an interesting session overall. A couple of things I've picked up on during this session is capacity building needs to be context-specific and country-specific. It's not one size fits all. And another thing most important, I think, is that capacity building needs to have sustainability attached to it. It needs to be long-term and it needs to be continuous because there is the importance of building institutional memory and institutional capacity for years to come. And it's been a very interesting session overall. And as the IAED team here at COP24, I'm looking forward to continuing my support to the LDC group here in the negotiations.


Welcome to the session on type conversion. At the end of this session, student will be able to write C++ program with type conversion. We know that when constants and variables of different types are mixed in an expression, C applies automatic type conversion to the operands as per certain rules. Similarly, an assignment operation also causes the automatic type conversion. The type of data to the right of an assignment operator is automatically converted to the type of the variable on the left. For example, the statements end m, float x equal to 3.14159, m equal to x, assigns an integer value to m and truncates fractional part. The type conversions are automatic as long as data types involved are built in types. Let's see a program of implicit conversion. Here x is a variable of integer type, it has value 10. y is a character variable, its value is a. The statement x equal to x plus y implicitly converts y to integer. And the ASCII value of a, that is 97, is considered for addition. So, 10 plus 97 is 107, that is stored in x. Float z equal to x plus 1.0. This statement implicitly converts x to float. So, the value of x is 107. 107 plus 1 is 108, that is stored in z. The values of x, y and z are displayed. Let's see the output. x equal to 107, y equal to a, z equal to 108. We have seen type conversions for built-in types. What happens when they are user-defined data types? Consider the statement that adds two objects and then assigns the result to a third object. v3 equal to v1 plus v2, where v1, v2 and v3 are class-type objects. When the objects are of the same type, the operations, addition and assignment are carried out smoothly. And the compiler does not make any complaints. After addition, the values of all the data members of the right-hand object are simply copied into corresponding members of the object on the left-hand. But what if one of the operands is an object and the other is a built-in type variable? Or what if they belong to two different classes? The compiler does not support automatic conversions for user-defined data types. We must therefore design the conversion routines by ourselves if such operations are required. Three types of situations might arise in data conversion between incompatible types. First, conversion from basic type to class type. Second, conversion from class type to basic type. Third, conversion from one class type to another class type. In this video, we will discuss first two cases in detail. For type conversions, we need to use constructor or casting operator function. First case is conversion from basic type to class type. The conversion from basic type to class type is accomplished with constructors. Constructors are generally used to initialize objects. The constructor used for type conversion take a single argument whose type is to be converted. The general form is given here. To convert from basic type to class type, the left-hand operand of equal to operator is always a class object. We can also accomplish this conversion using an overloaded equal to operator. Let's see a program to convert basic type to class type. The program has a class time. It has two data members, hours and minutes. Two constructors, a default constructor which initializes hours and minutes to zero. And the other constructor used for conversion of basic type to class type. A display function which displays the data members. T1 is an object of time class. Duration is a variable of integer type. Duration is initialized with 85 that is 85 minutes. The statement T1 equal to duration where T1 is an object of a class. Duration is a variable of integer type. Duration is passed to the constructor and T1 is passed implicitly to the constructor function. So the value of T is 85 that is 85 minutes. To convert 85 minutes to hours and minutes we divide it by 60 and the quotient is stored in hours and the remainder is stored in minutes. So after conversion we receive the values hours equal to 1 and minutes equal to 25. Then a statement T1.display calls display function and displays the values of hours and minutes. Let's see the output. After conversion the values printed are 1 hour 25 minutes. Now we will see conversion from class type to basic type. In the previous example we have seen constructor converted basic to class type. What about conversions from class to basic type? The constructor functions do not support this operation. C++ allows us to define an overloaded casting operator that could be used to convert class type data to basic type. The general form of an overloaded casting operator function is given here. Usually it is referred to as conversion function. This function converts a class type data to specified type. For example, the operator double function converts class object to type double. The casting operator function should satisfy the following conditions. It must be a class member. It must not specify a return type. It must not have any arguments. Since it is a member function it is invoked by the object and therefore the values used for conversion inside the function belong to the object that invoked the function. This means that the function does not need an argument. Let's see a program to convert class type to basic type. Here a class name is time. It has two data members, hours and minutes of integer type. A constructor to initialize the data members and operator integer function to convert class to integer type. Duration is a variable of integer type. T is an object of time class. When T is constructed the values 1 and 25 are passed to the constructor. The constructor initializes hours with 1 and minutes with 25. The statement duration equal to T where duration is integer variable and T is class type object. So this statement calls operator integer function. T is implicitly passed to the operator function. The function converts T to integer. The statement class type to basic type conversion is displayed. hours data member of object T is 1. 1 into 60 plus minutes. Minutes is 25. So the converted value that is 85 is returned from this function. And the value returned is assigned to duration variable. And after conversion total minutes are displayed. So total minutes are 85 will be the result. Let's see the output. Now pause the video for some time and define appropriate conversion function in the given code to make the program error free. Assign 5.5 to both data members A and B of object N. Once you have done this, you may resume the video. The answer to the previous question is given here. A constructor with double type parameter is added to the program. N is an object of number class. The statement N equal to 5.5 converts basic type to class type. It calls a constructor with double type parameter. The value 5.5 is assigned to both data members A and B inside a constructor. This table provides the summary of type conversions. In this video we have seen basic to class type and class to basic type conversion. Thank you.


The true greatness of truly great artist is my God in their work. There they put much more than they knew in their person. Take Wagner. He said all possible vulgar antisemitism. But take an elementary look at Wagner's work. What's the central Wagnerian hero? Figure of wandering Jew, my God. Everything changes immediately you see it's more. But now more serious. We had a certain reading here which was that. Mahler went through that. How should I put it? Zero point of absolute void and saw the end of the world and saw the holocaust to cut it short. Now if you allow me just two three minutes to make this point with all agressivity. Listening precisely to this last movement now of the fifth symphony I claim if there is a thing that Mahler emphatically didn't see it was this. Because you know, okay we know how history of music goes very vaguely. First we have pre-modern music where you have all those references to the harmony among the all those referring. Then Bach is the first radical modernizer. He saw no harmony in the world you have to invent impose rational order on to music. Then romanticism where you have this struggle with material with romanticism that's how I read it very naively. You cannot do it like Mozart. A beautiful melody is there. You must struggle for a long time so that the melody must arise through this density. But that's not the end I claim. What happens with Schoenberg and afterwards it's something much more terrifying. It's really like moving from classical physics with dense matter to some more quantum space where you see that. Like you know you have sometimes the feeling when I am listening to Schoenberg and my favourite Berg of course. You know this nice science fiction topic where you think you are reality in reality but then somebody tells you. But we already live in artificial reality and then in one of the much better than matrix the 13th floor. You have the scene where the guy goes to the end of the world and sees reality dissolving. Instead of matter you get just geometrical lines. I claim that in modernism radical modernism from Schoenberg onwards. The very material it's dissolving in this way. That's the true modernism. This is what you, this is why I claim if we already talk with this elementary parallels. Definitely not Mahler. What he is doing in this last movement. This is the tradition vitalist strategy of you know. I am ready to lose it all but then it returns in triumph and so on and so on.


Get this and get it straight crime is a suckers road knows who traveled wind up in the gutter the prism of the grave There's no other end, but they never learn From the pen of Raymond Chanford outstanding author of crime fiction comes his most famous character in the adventures of Philip Marlowe Now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe we bring you tonight's exciting story the fifth mask Brother am I glad to see you You are Philip Marlowe. Yeah. Yeah, I'm Marlowe. Well, come on in You're not exactly what I expected Phil. No Mm-hmm. I didn't realize private detectives came in the deluxe edition. He'd like a drink, wouldn't you now? Look when you called me a few minutes ago. It was strictly panic because your life was in danger. Miss bar now you know do Phil Yeah, well, okay, Vivian. What's happened in the meantime happened nothing why? You seem pretty well balanced for somebody in the edge of being a homicide statistic. I'm doing my best to hang on to myself That's all but now that you're here. I can breathe again.  Won't you over there? I'll fix the drink. Uh-huh. We're gonna get along fine. So I can care Yeah, well could be There now we can be more comfortable Your health Phil your health is supposed to be the point baby. You said a man threatened your life Yes, a man named Fred Sears a character.  He thinks he wants to kill me and he's come to town to do it But now that you're here. I I suppose he's got reasons. Do they matter? Yeah? To me at least I like to know which end of the stick is short before I grab well Not even sure myself. I only knew Sears briefly here. Here's his picture Marlowe. Oh the whole affair So you brought it to me instead of the police, huh? I brought it to you because I need private help and I'm willing to pay for it Pay very well. I might ask. Oh Look Phil you don't have to bother about the reasons why Just see that Fred Sears leaves me alone tonight. It shouldn't be hard Is your drink all right delicious too bad? I can't stay and finish it. What oh Marlowe wait You mean you won't help me not on guesswork, baby, but don't you realize my life's in danger?  Oh Marlowe, please be reasonable. Good night, baby. I Had no doubt that a guy named Fred Sears wanted to kill Vivian bar and that she was genuinely afraid of him But I also had no doubt that working for her without all the facts was like playing blind man's buff with the front end of a jet playing Sooner or later, you were a cinch to get sucked in So I drove off the hill toward the Sunset Strip again and prepared to forget it and go home Until my rear view mirror told me that I picked up a table I Wagged it back and forth across Hollywood for 20 minutes without losing it and I stopped at a quiet corner bar in my neighborhood Went in the front door and straight on through to the alley and then around to the front again I got back in time to see the man who's been following me get out of his con head for the door It was one mutt-tomroy Sleazy ex-comrade noms who had his private license revoked for assorted malpractices a year ago I waited till he was almost up to the entrance before I stepped out where he could see me Oh, well Phil Marlowe What do you say kid? How's business? I keep smiling sure sure you would Buy a drink. I don't suppose Telling me just keep in practice. What do you want? Okay? Okay hot shot? I figured maybe you'd appreciate a little cooperation For instance, you tell me why Vivian Bar wants a private peeper and I'll tell you something more than what's your while Well, I thought your license was dead palm Rome. Yeah, it is, but I'm not I Still got eyes and ears and a mouth that I like to keep well fed Look, I can help you plenty in this case Marlowe. Well, you say get together. I didn't take the case You're what that's right If I catch you telling me once more mud I'll tie a can to you now beat it Yeah, well, let me know when you need a hand Marlowe right across your kisser Be it ever so humble Hello Marlowe speaking Now look baby I've got to have your help. I'll tell you the truth all of it anything. You want to know only come back, please Oh, will you listen? I'm trying to tell you someone outside here Marlowe. I'm almost sure it's French here's hurry Will you I'll tell you everything hurry Three things I can never resist beer with a head on it moonlight and a beautiful day So I headed again for parking terraces Vivian's apartment house and made it in about 15 minutes I was out of my car and halfway across the terrace before I noticed the changes First her apartment was dark second a man who had just pulled a key from a front door lock froze when he saw me and then Turned and bolted through a clump of hibiscus and cornered himself and then closed patio Try to make it over the wall, but the second time he fell back. I nailed Please let me go. I gotta get away from you trying at the hard way Buster believe me No, it'll be easier by way of Vivian's apartment first. Come on on your feet. Oh Now who are you? I'm Douglas Peck Douglas. What? Douglas Okay, just Douglas. We'll also straighten that one out inside one open the door. No, I It's locked sure sure it's locked take the keys out of your pocket and unlock it hurry up Who are you names Marlowe going inside? No, no, please Marlowe. Listen, I I can't go in there again What's the matter afraid of the dark go on turn on the light all right then all right Ian bars eyes was too low All the life gone out of him She'd slid half off the blue velvet devine onto the floor and a gleaming gold satin She wore was stained red by a dark stiffening smear on her chest The press was open on a coffee table and spilled out of it was a note address dear Vivian and Signed Fred Sears. What is it Marlowe? What are you looking at? One good reason why Vivian bar ended up like that? Here read it Dear Vivian the broken back you handed me six months ago wasn't as hard to take as the broken promises Count on seeing me real soon Fred Sears. Yeah Now Douglas the gress assuming it didn't kill her and it was this sears. What was your connection? Well, I've had a friend of hers Business associate well he'll business associate judging by your wardrobe She mentioned your type, but not your name. Let's get on with that. Shall we listen? I had no idea that Vivian was mixed up in it Look there at the window at Sears kill a light keep down Douglas. I'll be right back Sears ducked as I ran for the door when I got outside He was rounding the corner and heading for the enclosed patio He was up on the wall by the time I got close enough to grab for him Foot caught me in the side of the head I wound up on my back with nothing but the torn-off pocket from his jacket in my hand in a crumpled pack of cigarettes and a slip of paper on the ground With a phone number I picked it up and started back to Vivian's apartment in time Here a car door slam and see just Douglas scared stiff crushed behind the steering wheel of a step-down Hudson Second later car and all were gone in the funnel of dust Well, I couldn't lose much more so I went back into the house to use the phone Society editor, please Hi, you're Corey Phil Marlowe. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Now look honey. I need some fast help crashing somebody's party Could be but it's strictly business now Can you give me a rundown on a phone number crest view five four one two four five four one two four? Yeah, just a minute lover in case we oh Yeah, Phil, that's the old J. G. McKay mansion nine ten mission drive His knee senior McKay has the place now. She married up with a guy named Paxton last fall I think she has oodles of money. I'll let you know. Thanks a lot, baby Before I left I called lieutenant Matthews at homicide and told him what happened He said he put out a call for Fred Sears and suggested I keep in touch After that, I drove to Beverly Hills The McKay mansion at 910 mission drive dominated the rows of bowing trees that lined the long curving driveway like a Dowager queen residing at court When I rang the bell beside a car mahogany front door big enough for an airplane hangout It was the butler who finally opened it for me Was all he could manage. Yes My name is Marlowe. I'm a private detective. I'd like to see the head of the house, please Have you an appointment sir? No, this is a courtesy call so far There's been a murder buster now Please get Mr. Paxton seal you make a Paxton or any reasonable facsimile thereof, huh? Never mind. I'll take care of this whatever it is. She was Friendly red-headed and hefty but wore a dress so well draped it would have made an Notre Dame tackle of good Was all held together at the neckline by a big dazzling brooch made up of items on a Mardi Gras motif and each Covered with enough jewels to retire a family of five Except for a space in the center shaped like a mask which was dull black and empty I must have been staring because that's where she picked up the conversation if you finish making your estimate now Mr. Marlowe, maybe we can get down to business. I'm that reasonable facsimile. You mentioned Mona Paxton Celia's sister-in-law. Oh and Mr. Paxton's your brother. Yeah, same thing. Yeah, well you said something about a murder I believe that's right woman named Vivian bar And is that supposed to mean something to the members of this household? Maybe we better ask them. I don't think so, Mr. Marlowe, we're all quite busy. I look Mona I follow the lead that started at the body of a dead woman ended here at This house you people can talk to me now or the police in a few minutes make up your mind What about the police? Oh, no, what is this? See my dear? I'm sorry. I'd hope you wouldn't be bothered by this By mr. Marlowe here in his opinion. We're all murderers or something. I see and why do you say that mr. Marlowe? I don't it isn't quite that bad and specifically how bad is it if you don't mind? I don't mind at all I'm looking for a man named Fred Sears in connection with the killing of my client Vivian bar I'm here because there's a definite tie with somebody in this house Now at this point I'm still asking for cooperation. This has gone far enough as preposterous Mr. Marlowe until you mentioned their names. I'd never heard of either of those people Mona. No There's still my husband mr. Marlowe Dear will you come out to the door, please? It's going on There's a person here. I want you to meet Mr. Marlowe my husband mr. Paxton. Why? How do you do tomorrow? I'm doing better mr. Paxton. Oh Douglas mr. Marlowe here wants to know if the names Vivian bar or Fred Sears mean anything to you. I Don't think so No Well, they don't why you may leave now mr. Marlowe He's given you all the cooperation we can if you come back you'd better have a warrant with you.  Yeah, you look like a fairly honest man. Where can I get a good cup of public coffee around here? Why there's a little shop two blocks down, sir. Thanks, and do you Cartwright? Good night In just a moment we'll return to the second act of Philip Marlowe, but first Sunday September 10th note it well or you'll miss a whole lot of laughs But that's the day Jack Benny checks in again at CBS the stars address Yes, this Sunday is the day Jack Mary Dennis Phil Don and Rochester return for another great season of top-ranking comedy Be sure you're on hand this Sunday and every Sunday when CBS brings you the one and only Jack Benny show Now with our star Gerald Moore the second act of Philip Marlowe and tonight's story the fifth mask When the two turn front door the Paxton home closed behind me I dropped the cocky attitude quicker than a chorus girl. Let's a stage smile go and she hits the wings I knew that I was still a long way from finding Fred Sears Ten minutes later when I was in a corner booth at the plush Beverly Hills version of a one-armed joint Cartwright It suggested began to worry about it Until the front door swung open and admitted Mrs. Celia McKay Paxton She threw a stern eye and a sharp semi-circle it nearly sliced the place into and then bored down on me Mr. Marlowe, I want to talk to you. What do you mean by sit down mrs. Paxton? Well, I Very well No, mr. Marlowe coffee mrs. Paxton. No, no, thank you Mr. Marlowe statistically. What did you mean when you said that one of the three of us was lying specifically that mrs. Paxton? I don't think I could have been more blunt, but I'll try I'm after Fred Sears and anybody or anything that can lead me to him Now you why you here mrs. Paxton? well, it's uh Mr. Marlowe, it's uh Hard to say maybe Well, I'd like I'm suspicious of my husband's connection with all this mr. Private detective. Will you go to work for me? Is that it? No No, not that But mr.  I know that I'm a plain-looking rich woman who loves her husband and I Well, sometimes men are silly and if there is anything I missus Paxton I Can't go to work for you. I don't take that kind of a job Besides, I'm already working on your problem in so far as it concerns the late Vivian bar. I don't understand that You say you're looking for a Fred Sears, but not overlooking anything else mrs. Paxton Like the outside chance of Sears didn't kill Vivian bar. I Didn't see it happen.   Mr. Marlowe. I know you didn't It was only bait mrs. Paxton I hope you'd snap at it and come back with an answer that will get me to Sears. Mr. Marlowe I never heard of these people before tonight. I know that's what you said But you see mrs. Paxton even as you I too sometimes have dark ugly thoughts and I'm ashamed of Only in my case it's business And tonight the business is Vivian bars murder Good night Comfortable mr. Paxton Marlowe, please my wife may see us get in and drive away hurry. All right just for size hurry it is Now Marlowe tell me the Celia know about Vivian hard to say thanks Look, I've got to tell you the truth don't bother man about town. It sticks out like a sauce I'm on a hitchhiker you like it easy you like it smooth your wife was one Vivian the other is not a new story Thanks, but believe me Marlowe. I couldn't help myself I've learned my lesson Marlowe with money Say fifty dollars now more later with that help you forget what you know fifty bucks. Well You didn't love Vivian bar. Yeah, I hated it.   It was Sears. Maybe I didn't see him do it You had a good reason he had a better one Sears was taken in just like I was when he met Vivian He had a few thousand dollars and she fell in love with every one of them You said a better reason and I'm getting to it I came into Vivian's life after Sears was hurt saving her in that hotel fire saving yes I didn't know that I thought he was hurt period Yes, that's all the papers got but he was injured because he rushed into the fire to save Vivian She couldn't afford to have it known that she was at that particular hotel at that particular time She told me so herself. You didn't quit even then. I couldn't Marlowe. I wasn't strong enough Then later when I was she wouldn't let me not without paying That's the whole story Marlowe. Mm-hmm. Let's just still holding back a lead on Sears Why should I because if you're it packs and not sears you've nothing left but the slim hope that Sears Who knows these frames will be shot running away from the police. You're wrong Marlowe. That's not it. All right Then try this if I am wrong and Sears is still the one we want. He could also be after you Paxton You know your pivot man in that triangle, too. What? Never thought of that What am I gonna do grab a cabin go home and hide in the cookie jar Marlowe. Don't be facetious my life Relatively safe Paxton. There's only trying to trick you into spilling something on Sears.  I didn't say that so long My apartment was only a few minutes from Beverly Hills, so I decided to call the police and fill them in Also a little all alone straight drinking might burn the bad taste out of my mouth But when I was in the hall there, I knew it was going to be a little while before I got a chance to do either one After all there was still a Paxton to go Mona the lady with a beautiful Mardi Gras brooch And they're not so beautiful mine for business. I've been waiting for you, Mr. Marlowe. At figures come on in I'll get the lights. You don't seem surprised you expected me as much as the others Already huddled with your brother and your sister-in-law have a seat. No, thanks. Mr. Marlowe. I'm going to come right to the point That's a switch. I want a drink. No, do you want a thousand dollars? Mr. Marlowe, I said I heard you. Yeah Also, Miss Paxton. I've heard a lot tonight about all I can take I might get fast, wouldn't all right? The thousand is yours. Mr. Marlowe if you'll do one thing when you catch up with this Sears if you haven't already done so I haven't keep my brother's name out of this. That's all Well, it's a little too much Also, you're a little easy Mona your brother isn't worth covering up for that's not news And it's beside the point the thousand is to help me not him I've spent five very difficult years getting the rights to a cosmetic formula that can't be beat the point Mona the point All right the point mr. Marlowe is that all I need now is backing Just yesterday I got the promise of it a hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of promise from my sister-in-law This is Celia mckay Paxton, and I'll lose that promise Marlowe Celia gives my brother his walking papers, and she will if she finds him out Will you take the money Marlowe? No No, well I go out of my way to whisper in Celia's ear. You're practically safe Mona. Who else is there? Sears. The police take him alive is a good chance to make a lot of embarrassing statements about your brother killing his girl You expect someone oh Unless the police are tired of waiting to hear from me. I shouldn't be seen here Not if you're going to keep Doug's name out easy honey get in there the kitchen Okay, come on keep your shirt on I oh No, well didn't expect to see the little old mutt-palm Roy so soon again a kid My buck I'm in very much. What do you want palm Roy to show my wares fill boy You know like the jewel tea man skip the funnies. What is it Fred Sears? I know where he is You sure about that sure like I don't take three dollar bills. I followed him tonight when he got away from you all right come in Hey Nice place Phil. What's your price mutt 200? I'll pay one the address the money Okay Hundred yeah Thanks for boy. Thanks. The address is 31 Bayfront Drive Santa Monica. It's an all-alone beach joint Kind of neat belongs to a friend of Sears without a town. Oh, he's using his car too. I overheard him explaining to a neighbor Yeah, good night. Malo. See you around up kid. Oh, uh palm Roy. Yeah Yeah, what is it Phil two questions? Uh-huh first your connection with all this what is it? Oh a hunch that I could pick up a little extra You see I spotted pecs and I with that Vivian babe once and I knew who he was Also, I knew who his wife was so I figured yeah, I know how you figured okay, but you said two questions kid The other this Whatever made you think I do business like you He's unconscious. Yeah You ever saw you hear your mailbox to get nothing but extortion also the next six months. We'll get out now All right, Malo, but won't he ruin everything anyway? Don't worry Mona. I'll convince him one way or another My you're cost me sure I'll do it every time palm Roy. We're conflicting personalities Like to speak the detective lieutenant met Holy cow. Oh, please record us Hello, please mine Pomeroy that little hunk of jewelry there on the rug just fell out of your pocket when I frisk it in it didn't it Yeah, yeah sure it did so what before I beat your sense. Let's get up and tell me what you've got it Come on. Where'd you lift it? All right Found it that Vivian bars joint Was on the floor in it sparkle like dough. She was dead. So I figured it might as palm Roy You told me all I want to know don't wait up Outside I piled into my car and drove fast for the beach house of 31 Bayfront Drive Hoping hard all the way that either I was making a fat mistake or if I was right I was gonna be on time All told it was about 40 minutes later when I screeched to a stop in front of the place and found it lights out and deserted Ready to start cheering until From the closed garage that was tucked under a wing of a house I heard it a car motor running as in suicide by carbon monoxide The big double doors were locked but around on the side. There was a window Another minute. I was in and over to Fred Sears. He was slumped over the front wheel was faced a color of wet ashes I cut the motor then dragged him out of the place by a back door that led to a patio There I stretched him out on the ground and Took a good look a long look that left no doubt in my mind I turned away from when I heard a woman's footsteps on the walk outside near the window. I broke Was Mona Paxson? Yeah, but don't come back here Mona. It's not a very pretty sight. It's Sears. Sears Yeah, I dragged him out here. He left the motor running carbon monoxide. Oh No Terrible way to go. Now worse than Vivian Barr I just turned up here Mona follow me Yes, because I was worried about that man in your apartment. I wanted to ask you who he was when I took off coattail flying It looked like something important, huh? certainly did and It certainly was Yeah Well, I'd better get through to the police now. There must be a phone inside you go waited my car, huh pushing After this you haven't got a thing to worry about Business I mean I know but I Just can't stop smiling I'll be at the car Mahalo Matthews Mountain Santa Monica 31 Bayfront Drive I've got Vivian Barr's killer. Fred Sears. Great. Just hold it Phil Mooney. Wait a minute Oh Santa Monica get a car out to 31 Bayfront Drive fast. Hey, Mahalo. Nice work. I'm glad I let you go. Wait a minute Matthews. It doesn't play that way. What do you mean Phil? Not Sears? No It's a woman Mona Paxton Sister to Douglas Paxton a guy married and playing around with Vivian Barr Mona killed Vivian because Vivian was blackmailing her brother and That in turn was about the ruin of business deal it meant a lot to her an awful lot Yeah Sure he does she found out where Sears was hiding which is out here at the same time I did But she got a head start on me at the point of a gun set him up in a closed garage And what was supposed to be suicide? No, he's fine. I was lucky enough to get here in time. He's resting out on the patio breathing. Well See you Matthews Everything's taken care of Mahalo. Mm-hmm. Just about Mona Now the police will correction The police are here. Yeah, yeah Doesn't take them long doesn't know No I've won him glad of it Just to soon get all this You too, I gave Yeah Me too. I got away from it all as soon as I could but I didn't go home. I drove out to a spot I knew nearby a Cliff edge where the only sounds were a couple of seagulls who Couldn't sleep in the ocean a hundred feet below crashing on the rocks Then I took a second look at the little item what Pomeroy had picked up in Vivian bars apartment a Collection of tiny stones diamonds emeralds rubies all in the shape of a small mask a Mask that I knew would fit in place exactly over an empty spot on Mona Paxton's Mardi Gras brooch The proof that Mona had been to Vivian's place Yeah a little mask We all wear them one way or another We've all got something to hide Maybe that's what's wrong with people, huh? They all think they've got a hide from each other and from themselves Yeah, so I threw the little mask into the ocean and then Then I went home the adventures of Philip Marlowe bringing you Raymond Chandler's most famous character star Gerald Moore Are produced and directed by Richard Sanville and written for radio by Robert Mitchell and Jean Levitt Featured in the cast where Francis Robinson Betty Lou Gerson and Stone Olen Suley Jane Avello and Larry Dubkin the special music is composed and conducted by Richard Arant Be sure and be with us again next week when Philip Marlowe says This time a little man with big heels tried to run over me a giant and a warehouse nearly cost me my life And a treacherous blonde almost buried me at sea all that for a client who couldn't pay me a cent But on whose behalf they were paid in full This is Roy Rowan speaking for CBS where you enjoy the content of our every Sunday night the Columbia Broadcasting System


Hi, in this lecture we're going to look at a period known as the Progressive Era. Roughly this was about 1890 to about 1920. Who were the progressives? What were they trying to accomplish? And what did they actually do? Those are the three points we're going to look at in this lecture about the Progressive Era at home and abroad. What was progressivism? It's very difficult to say because in general we know that progressivism, as I've stated here, is a response to changes in society and the United States growing world power position. So the world was changing at the turn of the 20th century. From the 1890s to the 1900s, things had changed tremendously. You have immigration that is coming in from the 1870s onward that is going to change politics in the northeast and in the south. You also have people moving out west, and that's going to change politics. Foreign affairs, we are annexing various parts. We're intervening in places like Hawaii, in Samoa, in the Philippines. We have the Spanish-American War. And we have changes within society with the immigrants coming in. And we have concerns about the growth of cities. We have inequality. And how are we going to deal with that as a country? And of course, economic inequality. So both domestic and foreign affairs strive to become modern. We try to look at them from the 19th century to the 20th century. And we try to see how America is changing during that time period. So who were the progressives? Well, pretty much everyone. It's hard to say who was and who wasn't a progressive because it was such a pervasive term. You have professionals. You have educators. You have doctors. You have lawyers. You have social workers. You also have people in health. You have people in family services. You have mental health professionals. So everybody in many different areas were looking at being progressive, at changing with the times as they saw the modern era come into being. And so it was the rise of professional organizations. So the first time the American Medical Association gets organized and forms. The American Historical Association, American Psychological Association. You have all of these organizations that are forming to bring together college educated professionals in order to change and modernize their professions. So in short, a lot of people call themselves progressive. And I say that progressivism was a Hamiltonian means to a Jeffersonian and we have to look and see what these two term means. Now this is going back to United States history before 1877. So Alexander Hamilton wanted a strong central government. He wanted a strong Washington based government that could direct. Jefferson wanted more power in the hands of the average people. So he was more enamored with the rural life and many rural people saw him as their leader. So you have Hamiltonian means, strong central government to achieve equality, to achieve wholesomeness in many cases, to achieve rural concerns for the average everyday people. That's kind of what I mean by progressivism. And so you see two types of progressives and actually there's more than this. But there are urban progressives. These are middle class WASPs. I say WASPs. What does that mean? Well, white, Anglo, Saxon, Protestant is what the term means. So these are middle class English, very Anglo and Protestant religiously based people who are seeking to change their environment. But that they mean their government, their political organizations, their local county government. They believed in progress and in morality in urban areas. And so they're looking for a strong government reaction. On the other hand, you have rural progressives who are very similar in many respects. Now they too believe in progress and morality, predominantly WASP in orientation and very middle class, but they're looking at Jeffersonian traditions. They want better things for the individual, better things for state and local government. They're not looking at a strong central government. They're looking at more power in the hands of the individual. From these two traditions, the rural versus the urban, you see many similarities, but also some substantial differences. American expansion also played a role in progressivism. This idea of sending out, almost like missionary work, the American ideal of progressivism. This American ideal of morality. This American ideal of religion and Christianity. American Christianity. American Protestant Christianity and sending it abroad. This idea of democracy and of what good government means and of ending corruption, even though that may not have been what the local people wanted. And so you do see American expansion playing into this. And I've got on this map here some places where America has intervened in the late 1890s and even some of that before then up to 1900. In some of this we've talked about in other lectures. One example is Hawaii and we've talked about Hawaii before. Now there was a revolution in Hawaii and a lot of that was started by Americans and led and influenced by Americans. In 1890, the McKinley Tariff really hurt Hawaii because it allowed competition from Cuban sugar. And so this threatened the Hawaiian sugar plantations. Here we have a picture of Queen Lilia Kalani, who was the last queen of Hawaii and she is essentially taken captive by Americans who are living in Hawaii, forced to sign a new constitution, forced to give up the throne, and Americans take over Hawaii. In Cuba, you have the beginnings of problems that are escalating. We talked in the last lecture about the Cuban Civil War and it only escalates. Now you have Spanish sending in this general butcher, as he was called Wyler, who established concentration camps for rebels. And the interest that Americans have in Cuba is exacerbated by what we term yellow journalism. This is about sensationalist journalism. In today's discourse we hear the term of what the media is doing and fake news so often today. It's very similar to what was going on then. We believe that journalists were exacerbating in order to sell more papers. On the other hand, as far as the Cubans were concerned, you have Jose Martí, who is a revolutionary. He's headquartered in New York. So Americans were being influenced by rebels who were stationed in the United States and who were kind of also manipulating the news and manipulating Americans' opinions of what was going on in Cuba. President McKinley wanted to help the situation. He offered to mediate between the Cuban rebels in Spain, but Spain refused McKinley's efforts at mediation. And so he attacks Spain and he says they're just uncivilized. The Spanish Foreign Minister, a man by the name of Dalom, publishes a letter and the Hearst newspaper chain, one of these yellow journalists, gets a hold of the letter and prints it. And what it says is basically that the Spanish Foreign Minister says, look, McKinley, he's all talk. He's got the backbone of a chocolate eclair. He's soft and he's easy and we're going to be able to roll over him. Well, most Americans felt the same way about McKinley, but it was the hearing of this from a foreign agent that made people rally around our president and it turned many people against Spain. The big issue, however, was the sinking of the U.S. battleship Maine. And this happened in Havana Harbor and it was blamed upon the Spanish and Cuban rebels. They were all blamed, depending on which newspaper you read. The truth of the matter is probably that it was an internal explosion, that the battleship had some problems and maybe was carrying fertilizer or some other things that led to an explosion and it became very convenient to blame it on the rebels or on Spain, depending on which side you were on. And so this became a controversial point. So there were more efforts at peace talks. Spain wasn't interested. So finally President McKinley went to Congress. But Congress did not want to annex Cuba. Cuba had, for one thing, a large Afro-Cuban population and there were many people who said, well, we don't want that. They were racist. There was some isolationist sentiment and there were also people who just feared that annexing this would basically bring in other elements into the American culture. So there was a lot of opposition to the idea of annexing Cuba. We finally did go to war from April to August of 1898 and Teddy Roosevelt called this a splendid little war. He was Assistant Secretary of Navy at the time. When the war was declared, a lot of people volunteered including Roosevelt and his famous group of rough riders. So there were Americans involved and many more died because of disease and actual battle, but it did have a tremendous effect on the Americans who volunteered. And what surprised a lot of Americans at the time was that the Filipinos were not eager to have Americans there. We thought we would be welcomed in, but instead there was opposition. Here you have a picture here of Emilio Cuelnaldo, who was the leader of the Filipino opposition and he also lobbied against and rallied against, rather, American intervention as well. And so this war, the Spanish-American war, which ostensibly started off on problems between us and Cuba, or us intervening between Cuba and Spain, before you know it, we're acquiring the Philippines, which were halfway across the world. And we got involved with the Hawaiian Islands and Samoa and other places. And so America, the United States, was able to acquire access and control of these territories as a result of the Spanish-American war. In China, we were very concerned about the way China, which was kind of seen as, quote, unquote, the sick man of Asia, Americans were concerned that other European nations were moving in on China and colonizing China. And what had happened was Japan had been engaged in a war. They defeated China in 1895. And so this is when other European powers began moving in. Secretary of State John Hay issued an open door note that said China should not be closed off by these other powers, but it should be open. And America's began, what the United States was trying to do was trying to keep the door open so that they could get a piece of the China trade. A rebellion in 1900, the so-called Boxer Rebellion, was again another surprise that foreign invaders were unwelcome in China by some of the nationalists. This was violently put down. And finally in 1905, Teddy Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize due to his negotiations of peace between Japan and Russia in other areas. And so America is very involved in intervening and being a peacekeeper as this cartoon illustrates. In Latin America, we were also expressing our will and our power. And the so-called Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. Of course, a Monroe Doctrine, this is an 1820s ideology that says the United States should be able to control what's going on in the Western Hemisphere. Well, the Roosevelt Corollary basically gave the United States broad powers to intervene. And so in 1905, you see that we're sending troops into places like the Dominican Republic, which is on the same island as Haiti. We're intervening in the Panama Canal. France had been in Panama for many years trying to establish a canal to make it a quicker route between the Atlantic and the Pacific. But that had not gone anywhere and there had been a lot of delays and problems. And so the Hay, named after our Secretary of State, and one of Maria, who was the French representative there, they negotiated a treaty. There is a revolution that the United States helps form it against Colombia so that when Panama becomes and is recognized as an independent nation, they will be friendly to the United States. And they sign a treaty with the United States giving us control of what becomes the Panama Canal Zone perpetually.  You don't have to make a lot of noise diplomatically so long as you have a powerful navy. Going back to a previous lecture, the idea of having a strong navy meant that you could control an area is what Roosevelt was going off of. And so you have these two cartoons from 1904 and 1905 of Roosevelt and this big stick diplomacy that he carried power. A lot of it was based upon the navy and the other cartoon. You have Roosevelt as a policeman to the world. The world's constable. This idea of progressivism where we're policing the world and bringing American values as we go.


With action and suspense out of the Old West comes the most famous hero of them all Apollon Cassidy starring William Boyd The ring of the Silver Spurs heralds the most amazing man ever to ride the prairies of the early West Apollon Cassidy the same hoppy you cheer in motion pictures and the same California You've laughed at a million times Raw courage and quick-shooting have built a legend around this famous hero Apollon is a name to be feared respected and admired For this great cowboy rides the trails of adventure and excitement William Boyd as Apollon Cassidy and and declined as California Here's hoppy now with another new story The women of windy Ridge we call this one and it happened in Western, Oklahoma in the narrow stretch that lies between Texas and Kansas We had no real business being there at all since we were on our way to a Kansas roundup But California had remembered that Liz McCoy lived in a place called windy Ridge Liz McCoy who can make the best beef stew west of Topiko So in windy Ridge, we went looking for liars and her beef stew But what we found there had nothing to do with food Before we rode into the little town You I'm getting sick and tired of this Wade.  You may be mayor of this town, but I'm sheriff of the county But you've had three hours on this job, and you've done nothing. What's the matter? She's a woman Steve. It ain't the same with women. It is when they're killers. I want her taken Wade I want her taken now and listen Steve.  You'll see how it is Liz can you hear me? I'm giving you one last warning Liz Come on. We'd better get back across the street like she says Listen Wade. Shout out Steve. That woman isn't fooling here. Let's get in this doorway Getting dark. Maybe after a while she'll fall asleep. Not Liz McCoy. She never sleeps. I'm just the same.  I better warn him.   Hey look they're knocking on her door. I'm gonna you all going to do nothing That woman's a murderer And this is going to deliver her into our hands not if it means getting them fellas killed. Hey get back from that door Get back before you Now back to hop along Cassidy and our story the women of Wendy Ridge With california seeking out Liz McCoy who makes the best beef stew west of dupeca Hoppy has come to the town of wendy ridge, oklahoma But here as they're standing knocking at Liz McCoy's door A warning shout comes from across the street and a charge of dynamite explodes almost in their faces Hoppy come on. You all right? Yeah, I'm all right, but I wouldn't have been if somebody hadn't yelled. Who did that? I did Yeah, we'd better all get back out of the way. No telling what that woman will do next Hey look wade that explosion tangled up the whole front of her house Maybe it got Liz too and maybe it didn't we won't take any more chances. What's this all about? Who are you fellas? My name's wade. I'm sure of here that explosion. What Liz McCoy did that? She's holed up in there and we aim to get her out Yeah, wait a minute. Why is she holed up? Yeah, and why do you fellas aim to get her out? Liz McCoy happens to be a friend of our and she also happens to be in trouble The marshal of this place was stabbed to death this afternoon and it seems that Liz McCoy did it Liz McCoy Sheriff yeah, yeah, oh, you just ain't making sense.  She'll get a trial a fair trial Sure, it'll be a fair trial And what kind of people do you think we are? I don't know But if you're sure she'll have a fair trial, I'm willing to try going in for a talk with her And hold on now.  You get anywhere near Maybe but I'll take that chance and I'm taking it with you, hoppy All right. You want to take the chance Hey, you might try going in from the side from the top of that porch next door We'll try and keep her attention out here sounds like a good idea. Come on, california Dark in here. Wish there was a moon or something. I can't see a thing. I can see all right You don't climb back out that window.  Don't shoot liege. It's california california cars And hop along cast a lizz. We just want to help you Why you two aren't repuled cats. What are you doing here lizz? You're in trouble. We want to help you Hopping nobody can help me. What happened.   I didn't do not me All layers they don't hang women out here. That's where you're wrong california I've seen a woman hanged margie benjamin over to pascal's gulch the way things are in this town I don't have a chance Besides, I ain't gonna let her mock me sit there while i'm on trial a grinning at me Who are you talking about lizz? Why i'm talking about that dolly chester her in offensive feathers If it wasn't for dolly chester, I wouldn't be in this trouble lizz give yourself up and stand trial No, not me hoppy.  What's the cause of all this? Why they've gone crazy. That's what's wrong Crazy with reform and that woman's the cause of it Now get on out of here you two before their mothers try sneaking in here while i'm talking And you could tell that sheriff that i've got two shotguns waiting for them as i don't get with the dynamite What'd she say she doesn't think she'll get a fair trial What's behind all this sheriff? What was the cause of the marshal being killed? Now there's a reform movement on this town and there's already three men dead because of it Liz McCoy got into trouble because she wouldn't close her gambling place gambling place You mean lizz has been running one that's right and when trainer ordered her to close it she told him to go soak his head Who's dolly chester lizz said something about dolly chester being the cause of all the trouble I guess you could say she is It's dolly chester that's leading the reform movement And i can't stand here talking i've got to do something about getting lizz mccoy out of that house Wait a second sheriff Why don't you hold off a while? I've been thinking that if this dolly chester guaranteed lizz a fair trial lizz might give herself up Yeah, and who's gonna get dolly chester to do that? Not me or not any other man in this town I'll talk to her you mean you'll try Ain't a man in the world ever got anywhere talking to feathers and the same will go for you Yeah, where can I find her? I won't give you no trouble The biggest and best-looking house in town and she's the prettiest woman in these parts And if you think you can handle her you're a plumb loco I heard what you said to the sheriff back there About talking lizz mccoy into giving herself up It made me wonder what about Why you should want a medal in things that don't concern you lizz mccoy is a friend of mine And do you think you'll help her by giving her that kind of advice? How would you help her? I'm working on that I'm doing my best to get her out of town. That would make her seem guilty Should also help her to live longer You must be unaware of the bitterness there is in this town friend The reform movement they have going has incited a lot of people to hysteria The kind of hysteria that breeds lynch mobs. You speak as a man of education, but I don't know you I'm fur go a gambler I run a place called the blue emerald. I see Well, I appreciate your advice, but I think you're wrong I've never known anyone to help himself by going on the run If lizz mccoy stays in windy ridge, he may pay with her life I know that and lizz knows it lizz and I are in the same business And I always take care of my kind Suppose this dolly chester is willing to guarantee lizz mccoy a fair trial dolly chester will guarantee nothing to anyone And your interference will only confuse things It'll take gunplay for you to get lizz from under the nose of that sheriff He's tough and determined and he has determined men with him Well, you're a man of your own opinions friend So I must warn you to stay out of it and if I don't You may not see the end of this street. Then I guess I'd better go on my way alone Yes, perhaps you had Good night friend Hey you there Sorry, I'm not stopping you better stop Why aren't you good on moving targets?  I'm telling you to stop Better change your business stranger. You're in a deadly trade. And this is one job. I'm gonna finish Barkram Where is he barkram? I'm here furgo You better come and get your gunman. I have business of my own with dolly chester You wanted to see me yes, I did Do you always stare like that? So that's why they called you feathers Who calls me that oh several people maybe the whole town Plumes and never have I seen them so delightfully displayed And what else did they tell you they told me there wasn't a man in the world who could handle you And I suppose you came here because of that to satisfy yourself as to whether they're right or wrong I came here because a friend of mine is in trouble Who are you the name is Cassidy? But my friends call me hoppy you're a stranger here Yes, I sort of get around But I want to talk about lizz mccoy I'm gonna ask you to help her Helper How by assuring her that you'll have a fair trial if she gives herself up And why should I do that? You're a woman Yes, I am Probably more woman than you've ever seen in your life for all of you're getting around And that's just the reason I won't help lizz mccoy Because the man she killed today was the man I was going to marry Now back to hop along Cassidy and our story the women of windy ridge Hoppy has been given a couple of hours in which to save the life of lizz mccoy an old friend of california's Lizz varicated in her home swear She's innocent of the killing of Brent trainer and won't give herself up unless she is guaranteed a fair trial by dolly chester Leader of the town's reform movement against gaming halls Hoppy has just made the request to dolly chester and the lady has just flatly refused him You know what it'll mean. Don't you you were saying no I suppose it could mean anything It means that lizz mccoy will blow herself up when the sheriff and his men move in And maybe she'll blow up one or two of the others with her. I don't see how that concerns me You know the more I talk to you the more I feel that nothing concerns you except those fancy feathers You're wearing now you're being impudent and I suppose that is being disloyal I suppose nobody even dares to be impudent to the queen of windy ridge Miss chester What you need is a good spanking. Oh And do you think you're man enough to give it to me? Yes, I think I am I guess you might be at that I guess you might Uh hoppy go back to your lizz mccoy Tell her I guarantee that you'll get a fair trial Well cassidy, I'm sure relieved and I'm much obliged here I've got that deputy of mine ready to take lizz mccoy over to reddington be safer for her there Safer for all of us sheriff. How would furgall figure in this? I don't know Blue emeralds just outside the town limits The only gambling place around that the mayor can't close up has furgall always been friendly with lizz mccoy Liz has always hated his insides and she's never been backward about telling him. What about this reform movement? What do you think of it?  Yeah bottle them up and you breathe trouble Yeah, you're right there sheriff Steve Graham was a good mayor until he started off on this campaign Now he's full of fever and so are the rest of the folks And the worst part of it is going to come when those trail herds from texas start moving through here next week With this no gambling no drinking fever.  Well, not that I ever noticed Marshall always kept everything under control Who's that? I couldn't tell for sure under that lantern out there. I think it's my partner and the mayor Mayor can't be Hey, I thought you and my deputy were taking lizz mccoy over to reddington Not me Wade There was bail put up and judge Lawson said she could go free until the trial bail Of all the who put it up furgall He said she was his kind and he was going to help her and lizz wants to see you hoppy right away Over to her house. She said come even if it was late. Hey, oh that rips everything Come on Pete. We better start swearing in more deputies. We're gonna need them and cassidy If you and your pal are willing I'll start with you two That explosion sure tangled this place up seems kind of silly to be knocking on this door Hold on a second. Why didn't you hear that? What? I thought I heard voices and somebody sort of gasped or joked and the light just went out Come on. Let's get through these right timbers.  There's something wrong here. Wish there was more light. Yeah Well at least we're through that stuff Yeah This ought to be the front room. I walk dog on it. What's the matter when flatten my full face Take quiet a second Liz Liz are you here? Like being in a grave Like uh, oh What's the matter now?  This is getting on my nerves way ahead of you. There's a lamp. We can light if I can get to it Gotta light another match Hey What was that? Could be more of those boards just falling and it could be somebody making them fall There now we got the lamp. Yeah. Yeah, that's better Let's see if Liz is in this other room. Yeah Well, well, well, I'll be golden Sitting in a chair fast asleep. I'm afraid it's going to be a long sleep, california.  Mayor. Liz. McCoy wasn't the type of woman to kill herself Whatever kind of problem she might have had. Oh, that's ridiculous. Anyone can kill themselves for any reason sure And I'm sure that's what our coroner's jury will say about it And with this over and done with we'll finish the business of cleaning up this town I'd say you've already finished it and maybe the town as well What do you mean by that steve? I think mr. Cassidy's right I think it's time to let up on our crusade You've been getting too upset over it steve Why I closed up all the gambling places in town. Don't you think that's enough with four people did? I think it's more than enough mr. Cassidy. Yes, mr. Chester Could I talk to you? Mind if I make it a little later right now? I'm heading for the county recorder's office Look do you have to go through every paper in the place can't that clerk help you? Quiet. The clerk's an old man. He doesn't see very well. I'm just about through anyway, right hoppy But I sure don't get it you will california because I think I've come up with the exact reason for all this trouble They've been having in windy ridge Cassidy Don't tell me you're one of the few people around here who can read. Hello furgo Yes, I can read it's a habit. I picked up when I was quite young Thinking of buying some property in the neighborhood not for a few years yet I still like to get around and see things I imagine you see a lot of things Cassidy Too many perhaps. I notice you're wearing a gun furgo. You didn't have it on yesterday No, I only strap it on when I feel there's the possibility of personal unpleasantness I see of course. I could take it off again if you were willing to leave town You might think about that my friend Yeah There goes bad in medicine hoppy a chunk of ice and probably chain lightning with a gun He wears it as though he's used to it, but we can't worry about that not now anyway So you came back hoppy. Didn't you think I would I hoped you would Because I I can't seem to get you out of my mind. Well, that could be a compliment It's meant to be and coming from a woman as beautiful as you are Well, I'm impressed. Do you like my house hoppy? I guess it's about the fanciest home I've ever been in Especially for a town like this. I chose this town deliberately hoppy I picked it out and came to it when it was just beginning I decided to make it my town because I wanted to grow with it And it is growing where the county seat now Soon, there'll be a railroad coming here.  Oh, that was never a particularly flaming affair At least uh not on your part. That's right From what I hear he had it pretty bad for you though Perhaps that's why I said I'd marry him. I really only wanted to be kind But with you hoppy trainer had it so bad for you that he didn't quite know What to do when he found out you were crooked When he found out I was What on earth are you talking about? I'm talking about the fact that you own a half interest in furgall's gambling hall I'm talking about how you engineered this so-called reform movement So all the town competition would be wiped out With furgall's place the only one left Because it's beyond the city limits wherever did you get such a fantastic idea? From a very factual source the county recorder's office You didn't have much time to lose did you most people out here can't read the recorder is an old man almost blind You weren't very likely to be caught But I guess the marshal caught on didn't he? But he loved you So he made the mistake of telling you he knew and you killed him. Liz McCoy killed him. He died in her home Liz McCoy would have used the gun She was that kind The knife was your touch dolly And you did the same thing to Liz to make it look like a guilty suicide Hoppy In a few years it won't matter But right now the town wouldn't like it if it knew about this No, it'd be a shame to have me get in trouble for it. Don't you think hoppy? Sort of a waste Well, you're a very beautiful woman and you have a lot on me Enough to keep me entirely in your control Entirely How about it hoppy?  I'm here dolly. Don't move Cassidy Just keep those hands in that hat away from those holsters not giving me much of a break. Are you furgo? I never give anybody a break Cassidy. It's the way I do business. This were stud poker. You'd be high man But high card showing isn't always the best, is it? It is this time Cassidy Because you don't even get a chance to draw Now back to hop along Cassidy Take it easy hoppy.  How about dolly chester? We got her Cassidy and you know something. She's already squawking about getting a fair trial But how'd you happen to down furgo when he had to drop on you? I figured ahead of time if I'd be in the middle So I had a danger inside of my hat, but it almost wasn't big enough Well, you did a great job Cassidy The town already has its sense back and I'm not gonna have to worry about them texas trail riders But uh, how did you know hoppy? How'd you figure it was dolly chester? Did you ever know liz mccoy to keep a dirty house california church? No, she was about to clean this party alive Right, so when you were crawling around on her floor last night I didn't see how you could be pushing your face in the cobwebs like you said But I did figure it could be feathers with miss chester where and I'm as she sneaked by us in the dark She was feathers. Yeah. Well, I'll be golden Yes, sir. I'll be golden And that brings to a close the story of the women of windy ridge In hoppy's next story There is plenty of adventure and excitement and it carries the unusual title Right rope wrong neck Apollon Cassidy starring William Boyd is transcribed and produced in the west by Walter white jr The women of windy ridge was written by buckley angel with original music under the personal direction of albert glasser All stories are based upon the characters created by clarence emilford. This is a commodore production


Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Yan Qingyang. It is my good pleasure to have Yang Ming with us today to have this one-on-one dialogue. And because the majority of the audience today are Chinese, so we decided that we're going to have this session in Chinese. So if you need simultaneous interpretation, please do have it. And also, I want to remind you that there is no photograph for this session at all. And please cooperate. And we are very pleased to have Yang Ming on this one-on-one dialogue session. Yesterday and last night, actually, my friend suggested to me that I should not make one mistake. I should not make wrong of Yang Ming's body height. And I will be chased and killed by millions of fans. So I can give him a very brief introduction. So how shall I introduce Yang Ming today? I know many of you are fully aware and know him well. And his body height is 2.26 meters. And two days later, he will celebrate his 35th birthday. And his good husband and father are for a girl of 4.5 years old. And Rock in Houston is described as a rising miracle and the largest export from China to U.S. as described by the U.S. president. Today, he has different roles. For example, founder of the Yao Foundation, also the president of Yao Ming Basketball, he's one of the active for charity figures. So let's have him describe his challenges, experiences and opportunities so that we can understand him better. So we start with some charity activities. Describe one of the recent activities on August 23rd. You're trying to the challenge. Describe how does it feel? It's very cool. That's the most vivid one. And that's something introduced from U.S. to China. People began to focus on the story behind those patients, their future, their way. So I feel that this is an easy action. But to understand their stories, griefs, not easy. I know this is a good way to express your love. And you started the activities a long time ago. So what was the first trigger that put you on this track? He said, in our education, we were educated to serve the people, do good things all the time. We have different names in our schooling years, like Lei Feng and other heroes. We were inspired all the time in a new time, in a new era. We have the new thinking and the review and our interpretation of charity. I think the first one should be the stars in 2003. People may remember that what you felt at that time. And I worked with SME and Shanghai Television on a program to finance some fund for the SASS workers, medical workers, to protect some personal protection equipment. We hope that we can bring some comfort and calm among the kind of panic people at the time. You know, the spread of virus was not as fierce as the panic atmosphere around people. This first time I did some charity activities on the television. And I think that is the conglomeration effect that we can make something bigger. And there will be some interaction and multiply the factor afterwards. We focus and we care about your figure. I think more from the 2006 about Shaqfin activity. You launched the anti-Shaqfin consumption campaign. I think three years later, the Shaqfin consumption decreased by 50% in China. Does that make you happy? He said I was much encouraged and inspired by this one. 2006 I worked with the wildlife team to launch an anti-Shaqfin consumption campaign because the wailing of the Shaqfin fishing has bad impact on the ecosystem in the ocean as a predator. And that will result in the huge production of fish. That result in the decrease of the Shaqfin and other species and we care about no trading, no killing. So I think that slogan has a huge impact among people. And ultimately, different behavioral changes. I believe that these are the best rewards for the people working behind. Do you think that you are a public figure celebrity and you have so many fans and people like to act after you? Is that the main reason, a main driver, so that we can reduce the Shaqfin consumption? Or you have weakened so many people? He said in different stages, people may have different understanding. There's no doubt to say that, take the Shaqfin as an example, that the Shaqfin consumption has its name in the Chinese cruising over hundreds, even thousands of years. It's a symbolic cruising. But over years, we need to make improvement. And the previous fishing has made it as exclusive only for the royal family or the elites of the society. However, with the economic development, when China has the power to make a difference to the world, we have to act cautiously, do the things properly in the right way. Otherwise, we may have a negative impact, far-reaching and fundamental. I believe that each one has a heart for the good things, good deeds. And if everything wants to do the good things, we hope we can elevate ourselves. And what we are doing is a kind of shadow, it's a reflection out to your goodness. Recently, you went to Africa for several visits, since you are starting a new campaign to protect wildlife, like the renal and elephants. So while you are working in a different sector, what is your takeaway? What do you think of that? After the success of the anti-Shaqfin campaign, we worked with the same team to start a second phase of the project, a new one, to protect African elephants, active renal, because China market, Asian market has a huge demand for the renal and elephant products, the elephant teeth. And as a result, the elephants 20,000 kilometers away from here have been killed for a commercial reason. And we may receive a gift, carefully carved elephant teeth. However, you may never imagine this associated with the brutal killing. And the soul is dead body. And where is the soul? And who has paid for the soul? I think we need to think about it. We need to retrograde on it. I think the people on this trade, on this industry, shall ask themselves these questions. I know on the recent book, and there is a small elephant behind you. Would you tell me something about that elephant? Two years ago when I went to Africa, I visited an elephant orphanage. And there was a small one, only 10 years old, only 10 days old, sorry. And the next ring worker discovered this baby elephant. And the mother elephant had been killed. And so they shipped the baby to the orphanage. And when we discovered it was 10 days old, unfortunately, the baby elephant died afterwards. But I believe that picture is very impressive. So when you are on site, you have the personal observation and the impression that you are easy positioned to weaken other souls. And well, there are many things that you cannot bring from the site, such as the, you know, I was shocked by the feeling I could not carry back with the pictures, you know, totally different, including the smile. So just a small bullet that killed this baby elephant, but who is paying for the cost of the bullet. So just now we talked a lot about the concrete activities you have. And also, there's a kind of model for this operation. So you like to rely on the Yao fans to penetrate into many areas. So can you tell me about Yao fans? Just now we talked about wildlife protection and SARS. And before the year 2008, so I worked together with a lot of charities for those philanthropists. And we have a good commercial result, but it covers two wide areas. So it won't be more focus, more in-depth activities. So in 2008, we set up my Yao foundation or Yao fans. So at the beginning, our target to help the poor under remote areas to build some schools, especially after the earthquake of the year 2008. So we have both finished and also undergoing schools. It's about 18 schools. So our experts is in sports. So we have a very powerful sports team. So how to have more content? We want to move from hardware to software. That's the transformation. So once for all, normally it's for the hardware. We can offer our desktop and books and computers. But for quite a long time, there's no such connection. Now we are moving to the training in the sports activity. This is a kind of software. So that's why we organized a kind of basketball season for those hope of a school founded by Yao Foundation. So we try to hire some volunteers. So we give them some training concerning the basketball. And then we can send them. We can send them to those schools to be their teacher of the physical class to teach the children how to play basketball. And they have to work out curriculum and also the plan for the teaching of basketball. So if there's anything on the text, so it could be helpful for the future development of those schools. Those things have been doing for three years. The first year, we have 147 schools joined this program. And last year, we have 79 schools. For this year, it's 157 schools as a member of this program. And also we pay a lot of attention to the quality of the training. So if it grows too fast, so we have to balance both the speed and the quality. You have done so many public welfare activities. You did it both in America and in China. So make a comparison. So what is the biggest difficulty and pressure in China if you do the philanthropies? So in the United States, I have some contacts. So the basketball team or community I lived in. So their philosophy of the philanthropy, so they have more freedom. So they can set up their own rules and principles of our donations as well as the job divisions. So in China, so with the government regulations, it's quite tight. There's a one rule in China. So only 10% of the donations could be used for the office, for the traveling, and also the diminutive cost should be less than 10%. And 90% will be used for our program. So the original idea is quite good, but we don't have enough flexibility. Or in the United States, this figure could be higher than 50%. So they have a higher freedom. So that depends, a different percentage. So but we are only limited to a 10%. So we need a better people for doing our foundation better. So we need those experts, but we cannot recruit very excellent talents. So it doesn't mean that my current talents are not excellent. So they all have their dreams joining our team. So even for the present people, so our team members, so we have to give them more space for their operation. So in the past few years, so it's a great impact on China's local philanthropists, and also our charities, because it's not transparent enough all the past few years in China. If it's only a 10%, I think that's also enough for our transparency is much better than the gray areas. So but what we are lacking now is flexibility. So otherwise we can do it better. So very simple approach, we can avoid a lot of problems. And also that might impact our further growth space. So at the present, so we have to deal with it, we have to bear with it. So we need our transparency and also the public trust in our philanthropists. And we have to sacrifice something. So some of the foundations, they have to make some sacrifice. But in a future development, I hope there might be some changes. So it doesn't mean that one size that does not fit all. So we should be more flexible. So we talked a lot about his public welfare. So IBM is a huge star. It's a stellar person in the sports. So it's not only from the perspective of the sports. And Yao Ming is a member of our China's political consultative conference. So what is the impact as the member in the China political consultative conference? So my proposal, so in the first year, is concerning our sports. So sports is a part of education. So for this term is in English is sports. But actually in Chinese, it should be around physical education. So we focus more on education. Sports is more kind of a competition. So I hope our physical education. So we could focus on the connection between sports and education. It's similar to art and also to artistic works. So with our training and the physical exercise, so to make our body stronger and more healthy, we need transparent laws and regulations. So you cannot be in two capacities, both a player and also a referee. And you have to learn how to respect your competitors. So very fierce competition, you have to respect your competitors. So this is a very important for a mature society, for a good society in the future. So that's why I think sports is a very important component in our education system. This is my first proposal in the CPPCC. So of course, I don't have something concrete for execution. So recently my proposal is to delete those approval process for organizing activities concerning the matches and sports activities. So it's a very big push forward by our central government and also confirmed by our Premier Li Keqiang. So we try to reduce the flexibility, reduce the complexity of our approval process. So all the people in the audience, so in China, you can organize commercial tournament or sports or match. You don't need any more approval from the government agencies. So in the past, we have to wait for the approval. So our commercial organization's cost is very high. For the public activity, for the advertising activity, it's quite costly. So those costs will be transferred to all the people involved. So I think our Premier Li Keqiang and also the State Council, so this kind of decision benefits all the people. So reduce the cost of organizing commercial matches and games. So we have more opportunities. So our private fund and private businesses, they could get into the industry of sports. So they have more opportunities. So the so-called tertiary industry, the service industry, and also with the guidance of the policy, so we can improve our competitive level of our sports in China. So do you think there's a kind of a connection so with our national system? So at the beginning of New China, of New China, so the connection is very little with global sports. It's just physical exercise and to make our people healthy. So at the beginning of opening up on the reform, so we have to revitalize to a certain level of our mentality. That's why we have the slogan, we want to have the Olympic Games and also want to compete for the medalists. So at that time, both physical and also the other limitations where we cannot afford to have a lot of investment in the sports industry. So the sports is a kind of a sport department and a government department or agencies. So it's very hard to describe how to say it. So I believe more or less it's a kind of a administrative policy and right of those administrative operations. I believe we have a Langping Li Ning group of famous players. But actually, so their matches and cannot be enjoyed by the local Chinese people. So their arena is on the Olympic Games and other parts of the world activity until 2008. We have a Beijing Olympic Games. We have to find a new way out. So most of the items with medalists, so we have the gymnasium and also the diving and ping-pong ball and badminton and weight lifting. So with football and tennis and basketball, so their viewers are not as many as those generic sport items. So the attention and also those medalist items are not matched. Maybe somebody don't care about it. So we should focus more on the development of a kind of professional sports and our relevant agencies. They have to transform themselves. So it's not a nationwide sport. So we have to really have different types of sports. Of course, we need gold medals, the champions. But it doesn't mean that all the items should be included for the target of our gold medals. For the Olympic Games, you can see the competition between the two teams and two countries. But actually, those physical matches represent the powers of the two countries. So it helps our industry a lot. And we have football and basketball, so we are quite weak. So we don't have such market forces. So one case, so like a big garden, so you cannot plant the vegetables the same way. You have the different kind of vegetables and the different ways to raise vegetables. So government can take items which cannot be marketized. And also we can leave it to the market economy. It also goes with what's proposed by Premier Li Keqiang. So we can deregulate and also delegate the power to the market. It could be a big industry market. So just now talk about system, our sports and public welfare. So we have a few more minutes to come back to Yao Ming himself. So he wants to be an archaeologist when Yao Ming was young. So do you have any new dreams? So I'm quite interested in history. So in history, we can learn a lot from the case history, both the lessons and experience from the history. So it's never enough to learn about history. You can learn a lot. So we think, we always say we have 5,000 years of history in China. Maybe that's not enough. So our culture. So there are some breaking points in our history of our culture. So with my own efforts, I want to really enjoy the history. That's why I like history. So your impression, you are quite nice, you are very kind to others. You are not so bossy. So when you are in the United States, it's a very important case, impressive. Your coach at the beginning, so he thought you are very soft. You are very reluctant for a big slam dunk. So try to give you a stimulus if you do not have the slam dunk. So your playmates will be penalized running around the ground. So that's a different culture of sports. So China, we talk about how we have to prepare ourselves better or talk about confucianism. So although basketball is a very muscular sport, anyway, the personality of the American people and Chinese people are different. So at that time, my coach is very interesting. He learned something about our collectiveness of Chinese culture. So we never allowed our playmates to be penalized due to one player's performance. Sometimes we are not afraid of competition. So later I'm so proactive to compete in a basketball or the ground. So that's a kind of habit. So this habit will impact my personality. So my personality and characteristics are very different now from 20 years ago. So what's a big difference? So I've been engaging in sports for quite a long time. So that's why I say so the sports can change the mentality and also the physical needs of the students since I'm quite a tall when I was young. So I'm so reluctant to stand side by side with other people because I'm too tall. So with my hard efforts, something is a fact. You cannot go away from it. So we have to bear with it. So we should be more proactive. So just now I'll talk about the difference between the US and China. One is collectivism and the other is your individualism. And one thing we quite admire. So when you play basketball in 10 years in the United States, so in summer, so normally they have a season to rest. But at that time you come back to China for the China's basketball season. So you have no time to restore your body. If you restart it again, so you will stick to the same level. So from now on, if it is current status, I'll have a longer sport life. But more and more people can accept our individual dreams, our perseverance. You don't have to follow the interest of our national team. So this is a change of our concept. So the players before me, so they already paved the road. So we have more athletes and the players. So they can work both for himself and for the government, for the country. So this is a kind of journey. So you cannot have a leapfrog development. You have to grow step by step. So the final two questions for yourself. So what is your current biggest dream? So myself, my biggest dream. Your foundation, you want to be a good businessman or philanthropist. So what is your biggest dream? So I think we can involve more people, join our y'all fund and also have a better service to our children. Maybe someday in future, another 10 years. So with our training program, one of the students, so they have the same dream, they want to come back to our fund to help the next generation. The last question. So your four and a half year old daughter, so how do you raise her up? So what kind of a future you want to offer? What kind of future she can offer for himself? She should be more self-confident. You have a good confidence. You have a bright future. So on behalf of all the audience, to this idol, you have so many fans. So what do you want to say as the last remark? Just don't make more photos. Don't take more photos of yourself. How about a second sentence? No more photos. What else? So without all of you, so my existence, my presence is no significant at all. So thank you for your coming. So Yoming, thank you so much. And also thank all of you for joining this session. So just see if you have the opportunity to have a photo with Yoming. So that's the end of this session.


Everybody for syruping 2023 Bowman cone baseball hobby and choice eight box mixture number one random team style You can find the results on your screen anytime late in sports cards.com. Let's get to it You got to start the night off right got to do it. I'll start with our four hobby boxes. There he is I Really rebus Atomic coming up here is gonna be in any pages for the Dodgers fall league insert to 150 Devers iconic It came into the league. Masataki Yoshida first Bowman base auto for the Cardinals is Luis Rodriguez Cardinals first on the board Fracto Roman Anthony to 499 Pero d'uno Osorio Francisca re you and so too iconic Bregman Rodriguez Speckle refractor Marcello Meyer Red Sox. 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Thank you, brother. Appreciate that is awesome, man Good luck to you kinds We gotta get Sean a monster now we have to Gold shimmer here. Oh gold shimmer first auto Amari Daniel to 50 for the twins Amari Daniel very nice gold shimmer and a refractor first auto of junior Garcia to 499 for the Dodgers Dodgers with a nice break here No yo injury, but hey two numbered first autos That's what we're looking for man Even if that guy might not be a hot name right now that can change First base auto is a loot gold for Detroit Jams what up? Base first woman auto Astros Kennedy Corona and refractor first auto is you and your Franco to 499 For the Diamondbacks other Diamondbacks Franco. All right next up is a first auto of you'll see Golan for the Rangers Hey, Cliff. How you doing buddy base auto here first for the A's is Joey Estes And atomic first auto Hans Montero 86 out of 100 for the Yankees Yankees and Montero. All right last box of the break everybody. Thank you very much for filling this one up first base auto Axial plus Pirates Green refractor green a lava on the choice exclusive autograph here. No, hi Zach Gelloff 80 of 99 That is a sick color match and a beautiful hit a big hit as well for the A's Gelloff 80 of 99 Wow That is that is awesome, man and a purple Wow Bronco to 250 Diamondbacks again third numbered Franco I believe For the Diamondbacks in the break All right, let's do a quick random for that world baseball classic flag of Okamoto Who still NPB has hasn't come over? I'm not sure if you will obviously, but No MLB affiliation will ran into every spot here. We'll go nine times whoever's up top is gonna get that card. 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