Hey guys welcome to SSUnitex. See this side and this is continuation of SQL Server Real-Time scenarios. So this is part 3 and today we are going to see how we can get the last working day in a month and here we can notice one thing Saturday and Sunday will be the weekends and also we are having a holiday table. So inside the holiday table holidays are listed so we need to take care if the last working day is coming on the holiday then the previous day of that should be the last working day and if last day of the month will be coming inside the Saturday or Sunday then previous that Friday will be the last working day. So these scenarios we need to take care. So go to on the SQL Server management studio and where we will write the query for getting this last working day in a month. So basically here as you can see I have already written this query for creating the holiday list table and inserting the data on this table. So first let me try to execute this query to insert the data. So as you can see six rows vector. So in the holiday table we are having six rows. Let me try to select that. So select from this holiday list table and in this table as you can see for year 2021 month is first 29th of January was the holiday. So go to on the calendar and inside the calendar inside the calendar go to on the January. So as you can see 29th was holiday. So 29th was the Friday 31st is Sunday 30th is Saturday and 29th is the holiday. So the last working day for the month of Jan that should be 28. Now go to on the Feb. So in the month of Feb as you can see 27 and 28 is the Saturday and Sunday. So 26th will be the last working day. But as per the holiday 26th and 25th. So these two days are having the holidays. So here 26th and 25th will not be the last working day. The last working day that should be 24. So how we can write the query for getting this output. So for that first of all we need to declare few variables. The first variable that will be our input date variable and in this date variable we are going to pass the date of the month by which we want to get the last working day. So here let me try to put this as the month of Jan. Now the next variable that should be going to get the last day of the month. So that should be the end date and data type that should be date. And here as you can see end of month. So end of month function will be going to return the last working day for that particular month. So now we can select this at the rate n month end date. And here we can see the 31st that is okay. Now we need to declare one more variable and that variable will be going to have the last working day. So let me try to declare one more variable with the name of last working day and this should be date. Now it looks good. Here the first thing that we need to take care. We are going to calculate the last working day if we are having Saturday or Sunday. On that case we are going to set the Friday's date on this last working day. Now let me try to set at the last working day should be equals to. Here we need to use the case and inside the case when we need to use date part function. So date part function is going to return part of the interval that we are going to specify. In this case we are going to specify the date of the week. Now put common from this end date. So this time it is going to return the day of week and it is going to start from Sunday. So if at the rate end date is Sunday then it is going to return 1 and in case of Saturday that should be 7. So first of all let me try to check for 7. It means we are going to check for the Saturday. If we are going to get that then we need to subtract 1 day from this end date. So dd put comma minus 1 so Saturday previous day should be Friday. Now from this end date. So that looks good. The second thing that we need to check like when this date part this value of day of week end date is equals to 1 it means Sunday then we need to subtract 2 days on that. So date at here dd put comma minus 2 again put comma at the rate end date. In the else condition we are going to return the end date. Now here let me check this last working day. So select last working day. Now let me try to execute this query. So this time here it is showing the problem not use the end after this case statement. Now let me try to execute this. So this time it is going to return 29. Now go to on the calendar and go to on the Jan. So here because 31st was the Sunday so we have subtracted 2 so it directly jump to the 29. So that is why it is returning 29. But 29 is the holiday as we have already seen in the holiday list table. So for that we need to use a loop. So while exist we can use and here we need to check select one from this holiday list table and where date is equals to at the rate last working day. If this condition is going to satisfy it means the last working day that we have calculated from above query if it is having the holiday on that then we need to search at the rate last working day that should be previous day. So date add then dd comma minus one comma at the rate last working day. If this condition is going to satisfy it means if that day is available on the holiday list table then we are going to subtract minus one day over there. And again if that previous day is already exist in this table then again it is going to subtract minus one. So it is going to check previous to previous to previous where the date is not available in this holiday list table. So after that we can directly select at the rate last working day. Now let me remove this select and try to execute this one. So it is going to return 28 as we have already seen. Now let me try to change this to the second month. Now let me try to execute this query. So it is going to return 24. Now go to on the calendar and go to on the prep. So prep as we can see 27th and 28th is the weekend. So it will jump to the 26th from the above calculation and 26th and 25th. So these two are available in the holiday list table. So that's why it will move to the 24th. So 24th is the last working day. So as you can see right here it is working fine. But again we need to do one more thing. Let's assume if for the whole week we are having the holiday on this holiday list table then it will be going to jump on Sunday. But here after this calculation we are not going to check about the Sunday. So let me try to copy the above query as it is and try to paste it over here. And here instead of the end date here we are going to check on the last working day. And then we need to subtract from the last working day again. And here at the rate last working day after that at the rate last working day. Else at the rate last working day. Now let me try to execute this. So this will be our complete query. So as you can see it is going to return 24. So here like we have also captured that condition if we are having complete week as of it means if you go on this Feb. So here 20 from 26 to 22nd. So all these days are having the holidays then it will be going to return the 21st. And again we are going to check for 21st and 20th. So after that it is going to return 19. So 19 should be the last working day. But this condition is not very important because in any organization I did not see 5 day holidays. So that's why this might not be used. So thank you so much for watching this video. If you like this video please subscribe our channel to get many more videos. Don't forget to press the bell icon to get the notification of our newly uploaded videos. 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All right friends, good morning. So today I'm going to take a question on fluid mechanics. OK. So let's see what this question is all about. Vessel containing water is given a constant acceleration a towards a right along a straight horizontal path. So you can see that there is a direction of acceleration which is given over here, OK? Which of the following diagram represents the surface of the liquid? Now, surface of liquid, will it remain horizontal? Will it incline like this as shown in B? Or it will incline like as shown in C, OK? In order to understand this, you need to first, I think you may remember how we have derived the expression for variation of pressure, right? We imagine a cylinder made up of fluid only, OK? So let's imagine the cylinder over here. So this is a cylinder, OK? This is an imaginary cylinder made up of fluid, OK? This cylinder also accelerates, OK? With acceleration a, all right? Now if pressure over here is P1 and pressure that side is P2, then what I can say that this cylinder has pressure from this side, let's say that pressure is P2. So force will be P2 into a, where a is a area of cross section. And here, the force due to pressure will be P1 into a, OK? So if the mass of this cylinder is m, then I can say that P2a, which is force along right and side, minus P1a will be equal to what? Mass and acceleration, right? So m into a, all right? Now mass can be written in terms of density. So what I'll do, I'll write like this. P1a is equal to density, OK? Into area of cross section multiplied by the length of the cylinder. Length of the cylinder is the volume, length of the cylinder into area is volume, so a into l into a, OK? So what I'll get here is P2 minus P1 is equal to rho a into l, all right? Or I can say that P2 is equal to P1 plus rho a into l, OK? So we have found out something very important. So if the fluid accelerates horizontally, then even the pressure will vary in horizontal direction, OK? So pressure, as you go back side, will increase, all right? Now let's see which of the figure makes sense. So if you say that this is one point and this is another point horizontally, OK? And if they are separated, let's say this is separation by a distance of x, then this point's pressure should be more than that point's pressure, OK? But this point pressure is P2, and this is P1. Then P2 should be equal to P1 plus rho a into x, right? This is what we have derived just now. So if this point pressure is more than that point's pressure, horizontally it is varying. So vertically also it should have come out to be same. So just outside this water, the pressure is atmospheric pressure. So here pressure is same, and there also it is atmospheric pressure. These two points have the same pressure. In order to have this point to gain more pressure, this point should be at a greater depth, isn't it? So this is H2. I can say that P2 should also be equal to atmospheric pressure plus rho g H2, isn't it? And here the pressure will be, if this is H1, pressure there will be P atmosphere plus rho g H1. Now if this pressure is more than that pressure, naturally H2 should be more than H1, OK? So that is why option number C is correct, right? This is how you solve this particular question.


and Charles. And I'm Linda Quinlan. It's June 16th. Welcome to All Things LGBTQ. We're taping in Montpelier, which we acknowledge is unceded indigenous land. So I might have a few things, but I'm gonna start with a trivia question. We all acknowledge the Stonewall Riots, June 28th, 1969. It's sort of the beginning of the modern LGBTQ political movement. How many people were actually arrested at the riots? And I won't tell you that Linda came closer than a year. So there we are. I also want to acknowledge that last Friday, June 12th was the fourth anniversary of the massacre at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida. 49 people were killed. June 12th also happened to be the day that the current federal administration announced their rollback on healthcare protections, particularly for the transgender community. And I'm sure their excuse is the same as when they were confronted about doing a rally in Tulsa on June 10th. Oh, we didn't know. I'm sorry, isn't it about time if you're the administration for all citizens that you just don't know some of our history? There's also the Vermont Pride Festival on an up note that will actually be happening at the Chandler Theater in Randolph. It is going to be a virtual Zoom festival, July 17th to August 1st, be looking in an upcoming episode for Ann Charles interviewing the people from the Pride Festival about what they're doing this year. Also on June 27th, 6 p.m. on Zoom, Linda Quinland may have organized an LGBTQ positive poetry reading. And if you go onto the Kellogg-Covered Library site, Rainbow Umbrella, the Alliance or Momentum Facebook pages, you can find the list and be truly entertained by LGBTQ poets.  Also, I just wanted to put out a shout out that Momentum is continuing to do their virtual copy hours every two weeks on Sundays starting at 11 a.m. The next one is on June 28th. You can also look on the Rainbow Umbrella Facebook page. The census, if you haven't, please do. If you haven't, I could show up at your door. You're warned. And have you noticed a new look in Montpelier? State Street might have a slightly different feel to it. And Zach should be showing a picture at this point in time. But however, I do want to point out that the day after Black Lives Matter was painted onto State Street, there was vandalism. We may feel confident being here in Vermont, but we definitely have work to do. So with that, it's on to Anne. All right, I have many things to talk about today. Poland is in the news because of all the awful things being said by the president. It got its first ever gay couple on television, but they were in a commercial, a condom commercial as it happens. And for Durex condoms, but the advertisement was set to air on major channels in Poland, as well as the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Lithuania, and it was pulled. And I have a clip before you now of the two of the actors in this commercial, Jakov Kuzinsk and David Majcek. And in their, the conversation that you'll see, they crystallize what's going on in Poland right now. So let's take a look at that. For Jacob Kuzinski, a band by Poland's public broadcaster on a Durex condom advert featuring him and his husband was unfortunately no surprise. But it raises fears for what the government will do next when it comes to LGBT rights in the staunchly Catholic country. We fear what's going to happen next. First, they remove you from the advert, next they remove all LGBT themes from the movies and series, and then they'll say the Eurovision Song Contest can't be broadcast because there's too much LGBT in it. This is crazy. Broadcaster TVP told Reuters its decision not to air the commercial followed a quote, large number of complaints about advertising clips with intimate content. The band on the ad, a rare instance of LGBT representation in Polish media, roughly coincided with a promise by President Andrzej Duda to allow no teaching of LGBT issues in schools if he wins a second term in office on June 28. Duda is an ally of the governing right-wing nationalist PIS party, which has labelled lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ideology as invasive foreign influence that undermines traditional values. Kwasinski's husband, David Mychek, said Duda's re-election poses a serious threat to Poland's LGBT community. The election of President Andrzej Duda for another term, I think it would be the worst thing that could happen to the LGBT community. When he decides to sign the family card, which will discriminate against us in a very obvious way. Brussels-based NGO ILGA Europe this year voted Poland as the worst in the European Union for LGBT rights. They were, have been activists throughout. They have, you know, they passed out masks during the pandemic, rainbow masks. And they're very positive figures in Poland, although they're pretty discouraged as that clip demonstrates. There's a blackmail list in Ghana according to which LGBT activists fight conmen posing on grinder as lovers. There, as we know, Ghana penalizes same-sex relationships. But this Ghana gay blackmail list is beginning to work.  There are 1,800 followers. There is a comparable list in Nigeria, but it doesn't work as well.   Decathlon turkey is a branch of the sporting good scarf-making, mask-making organization. And it's originated in France. And they put out a post supporting LGBT pride and were immediately greeted by an outcry and backlash in Turkey. Calls for boycott of the business. One person said, how come you won't make the jobs and you'll endorse gay pride?  Japan court rejects notion of same-sex couples and de facto marriages. And I've got a picture now before you of Yashinde Uchiama, 45. He's second from the right. This poor guy, his lover was murdered by a colleague at work.   He can't get any settlement, you know, afforded victims of the families of the victims of crime. So his suit was rejected, but they're going to appeal. There's a very sad story and another picture I have. It's about an LGBT activist named Sarah Higazi. There's her picture waving the rainbow flag. She was 30.  They waved the rainbow flag in the audience of the concert. They were a backlash followed immediately. She was arrested. She was in prison for three months. Administered electroshock, electrocuted tortured, charged with terrible PTSD, threatened, lost her job. For this one gesture, although she was an activist and she was a communist. So she was exiled to Canada. Her mother died. And finally, after having to have another electroshock therapy session, she committed suicide at age 30. She failed her. That's what the headline reads rightfully. Get to know the cast of Where Your Eyes Linger. Korea's first LGBT drama, which portrays the love between two gay men. And I've had a picture now before. The two actors, Han Ji-chon and John Lee Soo. And they play a couple in Korea. A rich romance between two young men, one the heir to a powerful family, the other his bodyguard. So there they are. And that's playing in Korea. YouTube takes down an anti-gay ad after outrage in Russia. Putin is trying to ramp up the vote for his, you know, the rubber stamp victory, if you ask me, at the, at the, by scapegoating gay people. And in this YouTube ad, it's really offensive.    And then the orphanage leader spits on the floor. It's awful. But YouTube has finally pulled it, although a number, you know, thousands of people have already seen it. In a gesture from our US statement, department, the US embassy in Seoul removes the black lives matter banner and the pride flag courtesy of secretary of state, Pompeo. Got 11. So, you know, Pride events kick off in Shanghai with a city run more than 100,000 people took part in this run for pride. And there's no lockdown in Shanghai. Apparently they have a low COVID-19 rate. So that's the first in the lineup of a lot of events for pride that are occurring in Shanghai. Next, I have a picture now of a more Maori transgender woman named Georgina buyer. She's 62. She's sitting there on the parliament grounds after being a member, being made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2020 Queen's birthday honors. She became the first transgender, transgender mayor in the world in 1995. Then she became the first transgender MP in 1999. And so she's being honored today. Good for her.  And I'll have more of that. But now let's go to Linda. Well, thank you, Anne. There are two big stories this week, which I'll go into a little more, but one is the Supreme Court decision on workplace discrimination. And the second is, as Keith was talking about, Trump's revoking Obama's transgender healthcare protections. And then we have hate groups designate June as this is sort of funny and not funny. But L E, L M N O S plus month, hate group leader and founder and former Virginia politician Eugene Delgado stars in a Vimeo announcing L M N O P month, which stands for lifestyle of mainstream normal ordinary people. Oh, this public group. This public group is called public advocates USA and is listed as an LGBTQ group. So, um, and sadly, this again, I don't know what to say about this transgender murders that are occurring in this country, but two women of color transgender women were killed. Just as the national protests that black lives matter, Dominique Remy, Remy fells of Pennsylvania and Reha Milton of Ohio are the 11th and 12th victims of trans people murdered this year. So, and the GOP has an interesting platform. Well, I haven't read that they've had anything good that they're proposing, but this is the platform of some of the platform of what they are going to have this year. And it is a band on same sex marriage and transgender people in the military.  And they want to make it legal for businesses to discriminate against LGBTQ people. So, um, I don't know what they're for, but that's certainly what they're against. Trans woman wins a seat in Wheeling West Virginia Council. She is the first trans woman elected to public office in the state, Rosemary Ketchum won by a slim margin in a four way race.  Trump's new appointee thinks the Homo Empire is taking over the world. Merrick Court again appointed to US AID has declared that the Homo Empire is driving the US and other countries towards a tyrannical agenda. She also believes that women's place is in the home except for I guess it's kind of like a Phyllis Shafley of 2020. Um, Google gives $1.2 million grants to the Trevor project and other LGBTQ organizations. And Brooklyn has a huge rally for trans black lives matter. So, um, that's what I have right now. So we will move to Keith. And thank you Linda. So I want to talk a little bit about our legislature and a bit about how Vermont's responding to the black lives matter matters movement at current. Today actually the house finally voted on H611 the older Vermont's act. They did both the amendment, the second reading and the third reading, which is the substantive vote within the chamber. All, it seemed as though just a matter of course, final vote was 133 to three. It wasn't a roll call vote, but because they're all on zoom and have to raise their hand to be, to cast their vote, the clerk gets a numerical tally versus just the yeas seem to have it in place. So now it is messaged over to the Senate, which is promised to work on it. Why we should be attentive is that as this bill was going through the house members of the LGBTQ plus community testified about being more specific in its language to ensure that underrepresented communities and specifically the LGBTQ plus community was included in that service providing. And as I have said before, there was a difference between an organization that provides services to seniors saying, oh yes, all LGBTQ plus people are welcomed versus creating programs specifically for and based upon the needs of LGBTQ plus seniors. What we're also going to be looking at is they're looking at bringing back together the task force that ended up creating the older Vermont's bill. Some of us will be pushing to ensure that it's not merely service providers who are part of the task force, but it's actually the voice of consumers. And this is the voice of underrepresented communities. So one of the other things that seems to be happening in the legislature is they're really looking at policing in the state of Vermont. And the Senate Judiciary Committee in particular is looking at what could be put into statute relative to oversight. A statewide use of force standards. And one of the interesting pieces that's been happening relative to budgets. And it just happened in Burlington with the mayor releasing his budget. And actually the Scott administration that has been supporting this kind of move is taking some of the money out of the policing budget and reassigning it to support services so that law enforcement is not expected to deal with mental health crisis, homelessness, et cetera. That there will be money for actually mental health clinicians to be part of that expansive process. So that policing will focus on policing and all of those service providing aspects will really be done by people who have been trained to do that. And that's what we're looking at. Fair and impartial policing is also looking at what they can do to create robust training that is inclusive training so that we're not going to see the kind of profile and statistics that have been released recently. And there is also the racial equity task force that has been formed. And unfortunately until they had a very short window looking closely at who is on that and what kind of direction they take. What type of statewide vision they're going to put in place. And commissioner Sirling of public safety has said that there is a commitment to put body camps on all Vermont state police officers so there will be accountability. So that is sort of my quick overview. There will definitely be follow up. Stay tuned. And as Ann is unmuting herself. I'm turning it over to her. I am ready. I'm here to talk about the Lambda literary awards. This is the 32nd season. 32nd series of awards. They're given to. Literary works in the LGBTQ community that are particularly noteworthy. And that have been published during the year. There are 23 categories. So of course I can't get to all of them. But let's start. Lesbian fiction. You know, and I'd like to show you the book covers, but there were just too many. The lesbian fiction award has been. Given to Nicole Dennis Ben. For a novel Patsy. And we read her other book. Here comes the sun, which is fabulous. She's a Jamaican. American writer. This novel is a beautifully layered portrait of motherhood immigration. And the sacrifices we make. And the name of love. So check that out. Gay fiction has been awarded to Brian Washington's. What a collection of short stories. In the city of Houston, a sprawling diverse microcosm of America.  Is coming of the age. So you might want to check that out. Bisexual fiction has been awarded to exquisite Mariposa. By Fiona. Allison Duncan. Given the initials FAD at birth. Fiona Allison Duncan has always had an eye for observing the trends around her. So. Transgender fiction. The award goes to little blue encyclopedia for a Vivian. Which is. It sifts through a queer trans woman's unrequited love. For her straight trans friend who died. Sounds a little intense. Let's move on to another category. If I may. Transgender nonfiction. Transgender nonfiction. I'm having a little trouble with my device. Okay. Transgender nonfiction. Is. Well, let me go to. Bisexual nonfiction. We'll come back to the transgender nonfiction. This has been awarded to a publication put up by coffee house. Fresh called. Press called socialist realism by Trisha. She's a writer. She's a writer. She's a writer. She lives west. Her journey is motivated by the need to arrive somewhere better. Some place utopian, like revolution. Or safe like home or even clarifying. Like identity. I've had that impulse. Transgender nonfiction. We both laughed in pleasure. The selected diaries of Lou Sullivan. She's a writer. Transman moving through the shifting social, political and medical mores. Of the second half of the 20th century. Is there a time for me to do a couple more category? Well, let me just do LGBTQ nonfiction. In the dream house. By Carmen Maria Machado. We read her. Groundbreaking collection. Some of us read her body and other parties. The dissection and mechanism and cultural representations. Of psychological abuse. It's about an abusive relationship. Lesbian poetry. And.  By tie freedom forward. It's a direct ingenious vibrant alive queer. And black by terms tough and sexy. Wrapped up in evolving language. And scenes of life. I think I missed a couple of. Other. Winners. Let me keep going. If I may. Gay poetry slingshot. By Cyrie Jarrell Johnson. The author and sconce in the menacing isolation. Of the pastoral, but once the work migrates to the city. Monstrum glows from. Fangs. Interesting, very intriguing. That description. Pet sounds. Another. Interesting. Collection. That's bisexual poetry by Stephanie young. It's a one. At once a book of confessional economics music criticism. Disguised as poetry. Transgender poetry hall. By Zandria Phillips. Debut collection by African-American poet. Zandria Phillips. All right. Now there are other genres. I'm not going to mention mystery. I'm not going to mention fiction. I'm not going to mention fiction. I'm not going to mention science. Children's fiction. Young people's fiction. They I personally am interested in LGBTQ studies, but the audience may not be. So I won't read them. And of course. The only other two I would like to mention. Our. Memoir. Because the lesbian memoir is called. We have always been here. We have always been here. We have always been here. And most of our life searching for safety. In a place to be herself. She grew up in Pakistan. And another memoir.  How we fight for our lives by Saeed Jones. And he's a wonderful up and coming writer. I've seen him on TV. TV. This is a stunning con coming of age memoir. He tells the story of a young black gay man. And he tells the story of a young gay man. Who was allowed to go out. How do we exist in his world? So that's a brief precy of all the exciting literature. That's coming out this year. So stay tuned. So, Ann, can we look that up on a certain site? Like. If you. You could Google Lambda literary awards. And what's wonderful is they have little clips because it's all on zoom now. their awards and they're like a minute clips but you get a sense I mean they're all very excited and so Lambda you could look up Lambda Literary Awards.org. The Lambda Literary Foundation began in 1976. It was the first source to really recognize LGBTQ literature and they published the Lambda Book Report now the Lambda the Lambda Literary Review. They had a wonderful bookstore in Dupont Circle in DC called Lambda Rising but so I could talk indefinitely but I think maybe I should pass the microphone on to another member of our team. Well I think that would be me. All right let's hear from Linda. Well to finish up a few stories here you know as Keith was saying the Trump administration has revoked Obama's transgender health protections. Trump finalized this regulation and removed healthcare discrimination for transgender patients on the fourth anniversary of Paul's shooting in Orlando, Florida. With this the Department of Health and Human Resources will only define discrimination protections according to sex as male or female as determined by biology. Under Obama's Affordable Care Act patients were protected from discrimination on the bias of gender identity so we can't get rid of this man soon enough if you ask me. The Supreme Court determined Monday that the Historic Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects LGBTQ employees from workplace discrimination and is a and it's you know it's a victory that I mean we don't have much to celebrate these days but this was certainly something to celebrate the law ban's job discrimination based on sex because of sexual orientation or gender identity. This decision is remarkable considering it is a conservative majority in the Supreme Court right now and the decision is also remarkable because you know a couple of conservatives were following the laws and the words of the liberal law so I think we have a lot to celebrate here in terms of that victory. A Chicago cop called the protester of Faggot and lesbian mayor Ms. Lightfoot said she's not having it and she will not stand for homophobia in her ranks. She is determined to identify the cop who was filmed hurling sexist and anti-gay slurs at a protester.  And Falwell said of Virginia governor's governor Northam that he would only wear a mask if he could have the governor's black face on the cover of his yearbook the college's yearbook and I think that is pretty much it for me and stories here so I think we have an interview is that what comes next? Okay Ann is going to interview Donna Ann McAdams, a photographer of some note and so let's hear it from Ann. Hi everybody I'm here with Donna Ann McAdams a queer photographer who lives in Sandgate, Vermont on a goat farm but that's only her current residence she's lived to many places around the world and practiced photography for many years so welcome Donna. Thank you I'm happy to be with you Ann. Thank you for joining us I'd like to talk a little bit just give you the viewers a little rundown you studied photography at the San Francisco Art Institute you have an MFA correct you have an MFA in Visual Arts from Rutgers and a BA in Cultural Anthropology from Empire State College as I said you and your husband live on a goat farm you've taken a rural move in your career you're exhibiting widely in Vermont although with the pandemic things have been put on hold but you have upcoming shows when the quarantine is lifted and I invite readers to go on your website to check in with Performative X is the exhibit that's that's been widely circulated but first I'd like to talk if I may with Donna about the pivotal purchase of camera film that occurred in San Francisco in 1975. Okay so I moved to San Francisco in 73 and I was working as a dental assistant living in the Fillmore district in a house with a bunch of people and I was sitting in on classes at the San Francisco Art Institute I wasn't taking them because I was working full-time but I was sitting in eventually I did enroll and I was photographing as I did out in the neighborhood and I was in Dolores Park and I ran I ran out of film and somebody said oh if you go down to Castro Street which is close I could I could just get her all at the little store there so I said okay so I went and so I walked walked down to the store and I went in and there was a big barber chair and there was a guy with long hair and a mustache and he had a really thick accent long island accent very much like my own and he asked he said what do you need and I said I need some triacs I need a roll of film and he said just one and I said I don't really have enough money for more than that and he said well let me set up a charge account for you and you can come in here anytime and buy film and I said oh that's great and we got to talking and he was very encouraging about my work and what I was doing and I didn't know who he was at then but then I came to find out that he was the mayor of Castro Street and he was Harvey Milk and from that point on I became very involved in getting him elected so and I would go to the store and see him and you know he was very very kind and very supportive of my work as a young photographer and actually he's probably one of the reasons one of the main reasons I'm an activist because I want to go ahead because go ahead you go first it's exciting right it's one of the reviewers of your work said that our Harvey Milk you were learning technique at the San Francisco Art Institute but he showed you how to shape it and shape your work into activism yes that was Matthew that was Matthew Reimer who and Layton Matthew and Layton have a Instagram account called lgbt underscore history and they're really fine gentlemen and they and Matthew wrote the introduction to one of the essays in my book and he said Matthew Reimer and Layton Brown I always call Matthew by Layton's last name which is probably a mistake and he said looking at your photography is not looking at activism your photography is activism well in any of the work that I do I I use the camera the camera is part of me but labor and work is also part of what I need to do in order to make the photographs so if you're going to a protest like I went I was in Glen's Falls last Friday for the Black Lives protest and I was part of the the march I marched with the young people very young women who had set that up I marched with them I didn't stand in front of them although I did to get pictures that I needed but I was with them walking with them and yelling and not yelling but you know chanting shall we say sure well apropos of that let's look at one of the photos we've selected for today the number 38 in the catalog that covers an act up march in New York it's called act up act up at the Waldorf Astoria NYC 1990 you were there tell us how you happen to it's a really wonderful photo I hope the viewers are admiring it now so um I attended a lot of act up demonstrations from the very beginning and in that particular photograph it was an action at the Waldorf Astoria it was the first bush I guess he's 40 41 and the other guy is 43 so it was the first uh and he was at the Waldorf Astoria and act up had gotten into the Waldorf Astoria and dropped a banner down and it was the first time that I had seen they had used coffins before but it was the first time that I was actually able to photograph them carrying coffins with writing on the side of the coffins and so I climbed up I jumped climbed up this lamppost skinnied up this lamppost and uh there was a guy holding the coffin he's in the center of the photograph and he looked and he said be careful up there and I said I'll be okay and so I took the photograph and Matthew and Layton loved that photograph and I love that photograph too we later came to find out that the man who actually spoke to me at the time of the photograph was the poet and activist Assoto Saint who we lost to aid in 1994 but I know that at the time and Layton and Matthew and Matthew didn't know when they did their book and later later on the power of Instagram somebody saw the photograph on my feet or perhaps their feet and said do you know who that is and I said no and so we we were able to identify him and to give him homage and respect that he deserves as a as an activist and a somebody we lost to aids well and it's sort of timely the sign Republicans kill me I mean it could be I mean you think you could just move on from that but well let's move on to other photographs of activism now let's go back to 1980 to Turkey Point Miami you said in your catalog that after three mile three mile island you took a road trip and participated in several anti-nuclear demonstrations so this is go ahead what so probably the women women's rights right to choose as a young person was one of the first things that I fought for in the 70s early 70s and then the next form of activism was getting Harvey elected but when I moved back from San Francisco having left San Francisco when Harvey was assassinated I couldn't live there anymore I didn't know what I was going to do and so I decided I was going to do take pictures of industrial landscape now I don't know why and so I took a trip to peak skill New York to the Indian Point nuclear power plant in October of 1978 and and photographed that power plant and then Harrisburg happened on March 28th 1979 and so I became very committed to anti the anti-nuclear movement and that photograph I was traveling with two other women and I learned to juggle because I wanted to take a photograph in front of the nuclear power plant and I wanted to talk about human error like how simple it would be to have a mistake or to screw up or not be able to know what to do so we we I staged that and you put it on a poster entitled they're juggling our genes and I we pasted back in the day thousands of those posters and they were made they were eight and a half by 11 I worked in a Xerox store copy shop so I had them and I went around all over New York but I took a cross-country trip with these posters and then I took it to California and then I came back again gluing them over wherever I could you know lamp posts or the sides of buildings I so it was a street piece as well as a photograph so yeah let's move on to our third photograph which has an interesting history also and we're moving now to the area of queer performance this is called Laurie Eastside assists Ethel Eichenberger PS 122 MYC 1987 and you know Laurie Laurie side has a epigraph here the beloved performer Ethel Eichenberger Eichenberger was about to perform a song from many the maid when her accordion strap broke the packed audience gasped but Ethel just kept her rapid fire ad libs going as I quickly pushed a piano onto the stage behind her she now said now I had a piano to the near and near to the roaring chairs of the audience reorienting herself on her knees to play she quipped now if only I had a piano bench just as I circled around the piano with one Donna caught the exact moment one of my favorites from a lifetime of phenomenal moments caught by Donna and McAdams within that one photograph Donna captures the love trust joy and community of live performance tell us so PS 122 was always referred to in the early days when we first got press as the petri dish of performance art work and PS 122 was the place where under the guidance of Mark Russell who was the exact was the artistic director and executive director a lot of innovative and political work was performed a lot of queer work a lot of marginal work all during the AIDS crisis people had a home there PS 122 was sort of like our church it was where we went to celebrate queer life and the loss of life because we were losing so many people in the in the arts community especially the dance and performance community to AIDS and so it was our home and Laurie wasn't it what Laurie was an incredible and still is an amazing she's a great photographer and an activist of herself usually if I'm at a protest she's somewhere around with me she's she was my first girlfriend and I adore her so in addition to PS 122 I just have to throw I have to also say that the wow cafe on 4th street which is struggling now they need they have no money they need money a plug for wow to pay the rent on their space because they're not nobody's going to the theater so I would spend a lot of time there in the company of women who played all the roles so it was I was really lucky to have PS 122 and the wow cafe as my places to go and the privilege to be able to photograph a lot of incredible amazing performers from you know oh gee going back many many years till 2006 when I moved to Vermont and well we'll have to invite you back to talk about this current chapter of your history we've almost run out of time believe you're not are there any words you want to share with the audience well I'd like to say that I'm really happy to be here in Vermont's I'm really proud of Bernie Sanders and the work he's doing I'm happy to be a goat farmer I love my girls you know I live with an amazing man Brad Kessler novelist novelist good guy so I'm really I'm really happy to be here in Vermont so I'm I'm lucky I live in a great great community uh you know we're worried about our hay we're not getting enough rain but aside from that you know you know things are okay wonderful well that's a great note to end on thank you for coming and we'll have to ask you to come again I'd love to well that was an interesting interview and yes it was fun and you know she's showing all around the state once the pandemic lifts we can see her work in stowe and castleton and elsewhere okay good and um I think we have trivia don't wait are we done on trivia Keith you're muted but I like being muted I hate it it's one of my better features so Stonewall June 28th 1969 how many people were actually arrested but and the answer is 13 so with that Linda okay let's all hang in here be safe be well and we'll see you in two weeks and in the meantime resist


This was me at 13 years old, that haircut though. Now if you can believe it, this little doofus couldn't wait for the day that he got married. Maybe it was growing up in the Christian homeschool community where the beauty of marriage was talked about frequently and where every 18 year old, 19 year old was saying I do, at least that's what it felt like. I couldn't wait for the day that it was my turn to have that dream girl. That was where I went very wrong. When I was 18, I had this expectation that all this would happen and then none of it did. God was doing something different in my life but it took me a few years to realize that it was for the best. I'll talk more about that later. When I was 18, 19, 20, I had the deep desire to be in a relationship especially it was only amplified because a lot of my friends at the time were also getting in relationships so it just seemed like it was my turn. In my weakest moments I saw a relationship as a right. It was something that I deserved. After all I was 18, 19, 20, this is when it happens for people so why was God withholding this from me? It was some sort of injustice or punishment but it would usually lead me to self pity.  My pride would come in and say oh man I'm a great Christian guy who's strong in his faith. Why isn't this happening for me? But it felt like God was stubbornly ignoring my pestering. You want to know the truth though? The truth is and maybe you can relate to this was I wasn't ready. I wasn't. And I think some of the examples and stories and mindsets that I've been sharing with you exemplifies that very fact. My self pity, my pride, my boastfulness, my obsession with myself and what I deserved and my own needs. It was exemplifying that I wasn't ready to actually consider somebody else's needs above my own to humble myself before God and my future spouse to actually act in sacrifice and service towards them. Also and I've talked a little bit about this on the channel is that I've struggled with lust and I didn't have real victory in that area at that time in my life so I was definitely not ready. One example of that is that I was watching TV and movies that nowadays I would consider raunchy but back then I thought no it's normal you know everybody's watching this my age so it's okay I'm a strong Christian I can handle it. Those justifications were lies. They were just straight up lies and they were lies that would you know allow me to feel like I could partake in sin and that's something that I had not really found victory over. I was buying into those justifications thinking they were legitimate but now I can see right through them. The thing was back then I wasn't nearly as careful about not letting my eyes wander. I would think that oh you know it's not a big deal like I'm just watching this stuff it's not really doing anything to me it doesn't affect me but the truth is it does and the interesting point that I'm actually realizing is that marriage as well and I've heard this from a lot of my married friends and those online that have also spoken up on this issue is that marriage doesn't solve a wandering heart. You see deep down I had this belief that once I got into a relationship or I got married that my lust issues and that kind of wandering eyes wandering heart it would just be done away with because I didn't want to need to worry about it now I have the person I'm actually interested in and I care about so I would never do something like that but the sad truth is is that it is deeper than that it's deeper than just okay now I have a distraction now I won't go to those things even though maybe a little bit that might be true at the same time it's a deeper issue a deeper sin issue where our affections are drawn to the things of this world rather than Christ and we have yet to get that and check how do we even get that and check that's the real question how do we find victory in this area that is something that I've been learning over the last few years and I have numerous videos about that as well but one of the key things is submitting it to God honestly just saying God I give this to you in each day asking God for his power in his presence that is already given to us through the spirit that we have to overcome these temptations like we don't have to worry that we're not going to be able to overcome this on our own strength or you know we need this wife or girlfriend in order for us to overcome lust and temptation no God has already given us everything we need in himself that we can overcome these things and find victory and actually we should be finding victory in these things before we bring another person into the equation because listen to me guys and look I can't speak from this based on personal experience because by God's grace I haven't entered a relationship when I've really struggled with these things but based on stories that I've heard testimonies all sorts of stuff like it's just a very toxic terrible decision to bring somebody into your own mess and your own muck when you're wrestling with these things deeply yes we're not perfect when we go into a relationship I'm going to talk about that in a second but at the same time there are some key things that you should be looking to find victory over before you think about bringing somebody else into the equation and that's something that I hadn't done turns out God all along was looking out for me and maybe in your own life you can look back at different times in your life that it didn't make sense at that point like why are you not giving this to me God I really want this I think this is a good desire especially like marriage it's like it's a good desire right but at the same time there's a reason there's something going on beneath the surface that God is working on you or he's working on somebody else to make sure that when you go into that space if you're following him that it's going to be for your best and for his glory okay so fast forward on this a little update I've definitely found some key victory in a lot of these areas by no means am I perfect not even close and God is pointing out things to me daily that I need to work on now with all that being said there's not something that I can point out as a specific sin or struggle that oh once I deal with this then I'll stop being single it's a little easy to look back at myself at as 18 19 even 20 like three years ago and say okay that guy wasn't ready he was struggling with a lot of things he needed to find victory in a lot of key areas but then I look at myself now I'm like okay well God I kind of found victory in some of those key areas why am I still single and it can be easy sometimes to feel like God is punishing you for something that you did in your past you know and but it's just not true it really isn't and maybe you felt like this as well but the important truth is that God is not in the business of punishing the believer like you think about it Jesus took all the punishment that we deserve on himself past present and future sins he took all that punishment that he would put on us for our sins he put that on Jesus so that we can be clean and spotless that when Jesus when God looks at us he sees the righteousness of Jesus we are his child we got to stop thinking that God's just out here to try to like ruin our lives or like mess some things up for us to you know try to find retribution for something we did in our past it just doesn't work that way thank goodness and in fact when we're obsessed with this idea that God's out here to get us we actually lose sight of what God actually wants us to focus on when God withholds something from us that we desperately want he's once again teaching us to look to him for our ultimate joy and delight and not the thing that we want Psalm 1611 you make known to me the path of life in your presence there is fullness of joy at your right hand there are pleasures forever more I've become more and more convinced as of late that our primary goal is to bring God glory I love the way John Piper puts it God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him so when I look back and even now a little bit my joy and delight was found in the pursuit of a girl or this idea that this marriage my future marriage would be perfect or my wife would be perfect and complete me or you know make me happy or you know everything would be right in that moment I was trying to find my delight and my joy in her but Christ was trying to show me that he was the only one capable of fulfilling such a task I hope that's beginning to make sense but I want to take a little bit of a tangent here when I look back at that 18 year old kid he had fantasies and dreams of doing Bible studies with his future girlfriend or wife or late night prayer and all that kind of thing but I remember the time that I thought that why am I looking forward to this this like fantasy this idealistic you know life of doing Bible you know study and prayer with my wife if I don't even really do it consistently now like that's kind of crazy and I remember that shocking me that was a punch in the gut what I don't want you guys to do if you're in the same place is to feel like oh you know now I should just really try to become a great person in order that I'm that great Christian guy for my future wife or husband you know look I understand that and you know not all of that is bad you want to be the person that the person you want to be with wants to be with if that makes any sense at all but at the same time our primary motivation ought to be what kind of person am I oriented to Christ like am I growing closer to Christ and what is my motivation for reading the word and prayer is it to grow closer to Christ is it love for Christ or is it I want to be a good cool guy and appear like really spiritual to ladies like and you'd be surprised how common this is especially within the minds of guys I can't speak for girls but I know within my mind I'm like oh well I want to be really spiritually mature in order that I can you know get a good you know spiritual girlfriend and we can be this like spiritual power couple kind of thing and I'm like okay you know not all that is bad like yeah you want to be spiritually mature that's great and yes you want to serve your future wife well and that's great as well but what about Christ where is Christ and love for him in this mixed mix so don't get your priorities out of whack here's a key thing that I learned singleness is not just preparation for marriage this is big within the christian community guys I don't know if you've experienced this but I've come across way too many youtube videos that talk all about singleness and it's always in context to marriage and for a lot of folks like they're going to go right into marriage and like I understand that so in a way yeah like just based on where it's placed in a person's life singleness can be a preparation ground for marriage but at the same time look your goal your mission your purpose is you know connected to marriage if you're going to get married yeah like your wife your your husband is going to play a part in that but at the same time you need to be stepping into your purpose even now like are you evangelizing are you making disciples are you serving are you like where are you moving how are you using your god given skills and talents to pursue him even now so not just always an orientation to marriage and what this means about my future marriage and is this preparation for marriage but no is this preparation for the kingdom is this is this moving in the direction of making disciples and like that gets me excited because that's our true you know full purpose marriage is a gift and it is good and relationships are good yes awesome great but don't lose sight of eternity don't lose sight of the fact that when we are in heaven we are all one with Christ and like there's not going to be marriage going on it's just hey man we're going to be in perfect unity with Christ in his kingdom and that's our ultimate trajectory to pick you back up on the story God gave me the mercy of just being single and just being able to work on the ministry and that's been a complete blessing in my life look at the heart of it if you were to really ask me it's like are you kind of sad that you haven't been in you know a serious relationship I'm like yeah kind of but at the same time I I'm beginning to understand a little bit more of why God's doing what he's doing in my life and I'm not saying that there isn't disappointments there definitely is and that's something that I think it's important that we're honest with ourselves about like we don't always have to understand God's plan or be like yeah like God you're doing what's best I'm happy about it it's like okay we can have questions we can have doubts we can have emotion like that's not wrong that we feel discouraged or frustrated of waiting so long but at the same time it's it's this deeper understanding that okay God I don't feel feel good about this but I'm going to trust you anyway even when I don't know what you're doing and that's faith and in the midst of that we're learning to look to God for our joy for our delight for our satisfaction and that's something that we should be taking into any relationship that we go into that they will not satisfy us that we're not creating an idol out of them but it is Christ where we find that wholeness that fulfillment that joy that ultimate deep joy that ultimate deep delight thanks so much for watching this video if you enjoyed it subscribe because I'm putting out new videos all of the time I actually have a huge announcement coming on the channel very soon in the next few weeks so subscribe because you want to stay in tune with what's going on with the ministry I'm so excited about it I'm gonna put out a video in a little bit but you're gonna have to weigh anyway huge thank you to the patrons on patreon that make what I do possible it is so wonderful to have you guys on there we're actually so close to our next 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In just a moment, Auto-Lite presents Suspense with Claude Reigns and Vincent Price. More coffee, Arnaud? I believe not, Hamp, and I want to thank you and Mary for a marvelous meal. A delightful, delicious, lovely dinner. You're more than welcome, Arnaud. Here comes Mary with that who's going to wash the dishes looking all right. You better start talking about Auto-Lite resistor spark plugs and fans. Yes, of course, Hamp. Auto-Lite resistor spark plugs. As I was saying, right now, by Cornelius is the time when all good men who know good things will come to the aid of their cars with a set of brand new, wide-gap Auto-Lite resistor spark plugs. Why would their wide spark gap? Those Auto-Lite resistor spark plugs do things for a car your old, narrow-gap spark plugs just can't match. Why, they're marvelous. They're magnificent. By Cornelius, they're matchless.  And at 60,000 dealers and service stations bring you radio's outstanding theatre of thrills. Starring tonight, Mr. Claude Reigns and Mr. Vincent Price in Anton Leader's production of The Hands of Mr. Ottermoor. A tale well-calculated to keep you in suspense. Tell me, Sergeant Ear, why do you think the strangler killed the five times he did? Six times, Mr. Newspaper Man. Six? Yes. Well, I suppose you do know as much about the strangler as I do. How long have you been on the police force, Sergeant? This is my 15th year as a member of His Majesty's Metropolitan Police, Mr. Newspaper Man. For 10 years, I've walked the beats of the Casper Street station, and for the past five years, I've been a sergeant of that station. In 15 years, you'll learn a lot about many things, including murder. Oh, yes, murder. It's a word and a deed which has fascinated more people than you and I could count. By all means, Sergeant, let's talk about murder.  Murder for a bit of Henning, cup of tea? Nothing that it takes, have lives. And it was there that the strangler came to practice his grim trade. Already, it struck twice. Once on Lagos Street, once on Breen Street, his strong, white hands reaching for an unexpected throat. Then he vanished into the darkness, leaving behind something that once had been a living, breathing human. What was his gain? Perhaps no more than the satisfaction of a job, well done. Perhaps he felt he'd done some poor devil of favor. That a sympathetic force led him to his victim as the same as a cyclone picks one corner and misses another. I was thinking about that the night I first met you, Mr. Newspaper Man. I was walking down Malinane when I saw you, standing in the shadows. Good evening, officer. Stand where you are. Who are you? From the Daily Herald, officer. Mr. Newspaper Man, eh? What are you doing here? Oh, looking for a story. Are you expecting to catch the strangler, officer? What would you know about the strangler, Mr. Newspaper Man? Only that he likes your district and that you have no idea who he is. That's right. He could be anybody who was about in this district at night. Perhaps even a Newspaper Man. Oh, you suspect that I might be making my news before I write? And I shall keep that in mind for dull days. Good night, sir. Good night. I watched you, Mr. Newspaper Man, as you walked away. Watched and thought of the force that moved the strangler. About the same time, that force, whatever it was, brought the strangler to Mr. Weibrough. And on this worker whom I've seen so many times, I can tell you nearly exactly how he spent his last few minutes on earth. I know the very sound of his footsteps. Almost his every thought. And I can hear the footsteps of the man who followed him. It was six o'clock in the evening and Mr. Weibrough was going home from work. He stepped off the tram at High Street and Mallon End and walked slowly, wondering if his missus would have herring or haddock for his tea. It was a wretched night. And he could taste the fog in his throat, feel the dampness through the soles of his shoes. He turned down Legos Street and the footsteps behind turned with him. And so, one behind the other, the two men walked through Legos and turned into Loyal Lane. Any man other than Mr. Weibrough might have heard some warning in the footsteps that followed him. Something that said, Beware. Be... No. The foot of a killer falls just as quietly as the foot of any other worker. But those footfalls were bearing a pair of hands to Mr. Weibrough and there is something in hands. Behind him, even then, those hands were flexing themselves, feeling the strength run down through the strong fingers. Mr. Weibrough was almost home. He turned down Casper Street, plotting along through the dim light. Small dog barked at the figures. Voices drifted out from the shabby houses, but Mr. Weibrough paid no attention to them or to the steps which followed him.  Maybe it looked like he was going to get away, but the man behind only smiled and followed at the same pace. Mr. Weibrough turned in at his own gate and opened the door. He stepped inside. Yes. What's for tea, Flossie? How do I know before I've opened the door? If it's a collector, he can just nip off. Well, what? It's how Mr. and Mrs. Weibrough became the third and fourth, but not the last victims of the strangling horror. Suspense, auto light is bringing you Mr. Claude Reigns and Mr. Vincent Price in radio's outstanding theatre of thrills. Suspense. A foolish fellow who got the outside of his car all dolled up with doodads, trinkets, vox tails, and whatnot.  Hey, friend, I yelled at him. Why don't you switch to a set of those smooth-firing auto light resistor spark plugs and make that bus of yours sound as fancy as it looks? And what did he answer? This guy said to me, plugs is plugs. Well, auto light resistor spark plugs, I corrected him, are different. 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Perhaps, Mr. Newspaper Man, but I'd finished my evening team was walking through Casper Street to the station. Mr. Whybrow was still lying on the door of his house. His wife on the floor, little beyond him. Both were dead. I blew my whistle. The constable came on the run. He searched the house, then talked to the neighbors on either side. Nobody had heard anything except Mrs. Whybrow's scream. They thought that just a family fight. No sign of anything, but brutal murder. While we waited for the ambulance, I suddenly remembered something. Smithers? Yes, sir? Just before I found them, I saw you standing at the end of the lane. What were you up to there? I thought I saw a suspicious character mucking about there, sir, and I was keeping an eye on him. A suspicious character, be blasted. You don't want to look for suspicious characters. You want to look for murderers. Yes, sir. Think we'll get him, sir? Well, just between you and me, Smithers, I have my doubts. With a man who kills to get a few bob, you know he's going to keep on because as soon as he's broke, he'll slosh another one. But a man like this, you don't know when he'll strike again. Or he'll feel strike again. Back at the station, the newspaper man were waiting for the story, having centered it, the way dogs will smell out the fresh track of a fox. There was one newspaper man, a tall with shoulders and arms that were more like a coal-heaver than a journalist who kept asking about clues as though he wanted to solve the case himself. That was you, Mr. Newspaper Man. Or maybe you just wanted to find out how much we knew. After the newspaper men left, I was in my office finishing up my report when there was a knock on the door. Who's there? Oh, do you mind if I come in, sir? Oh, it's you. Yes, I thought of a few more questions I'd like to ask you. It seems to me you are around all the time. So? Yes. And now you want to ask more questions. I'm afraid we can't give out any more information than you already have. A half a minute, Sergeant. All the papers are going to do a regular story on the strangling monster. I thought I'd like to do something different, more of a mood piece.  I thought you might help. Well, maybe I can, maybe I can't. What do you want to know? What sort of a man do you think the killer is? Do you really think he's a monster who can slip through the night without being seen? No, no. I think he's probably a very ordinary man. Everyone, even our own constables, is looking for a monster instead of the man standing next to them. No, this man can move about and no one sees him because he's an ordinary man and it's ordinary for him to be around. He might be a boot black, the man who makes deliveries, or even a policeman. Or a journalist. Why do you say that? I don't think I meant anything personal, Mr. Newspaper Man. I meant that he's merely someone you look at and never think that maybe he might strangle someone. Your theory is very interesting, Sergeant. And do you also think that you'll catch him? Well, if he's caught, short of actually catching him in the act, it'll be because of only one thing. Oh, and that is? Curiosity. Curiosity? He'll be nabbed if his curiosity is too great. If he wonders how near others are to him, if he has to ask questions and then returns to ask still more questions. Later that evening, I went out into the district visiting beat after beat. The presence of the killer, the straining hollow, was in the air. The entire district was given over not to panic for London never yields to that, but to fear of the unknown. And while the community still gasped for the deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Wibrow, while fear was moving into every tenement, the killer made his next move. Conscious of the horror caused by his hands and as hungry for more as any giddy girl at her first performance on the music hall, his hands reached out again. Well, I was cutting through Cleming Street when I saw you again, Mr. Newspaper Man. You slipped along the street, peering into alleys.  I walked on. Peterson and Joiner were patrolling Joiningen Road. It was just 932 when I met Joiner near the middle of the street. I spoke to him and went on. At 933, I met Peterson coming back from the other end of the street. I answered his greeting and passed, intended to go to the end of the beat and cut over to Logan Passage. Then, during the few seconds that everyone's back was turned towards the spot where he stood, the killer struck again. Ah, here! What the...? Oh! It's Peterson! It's Peterson dead like the rest of them, strangled right under our noses. Where were you, Joiner? I just reached the end of my beat, Sergeant. It was already turning, and I heard your whistle. No, I just passed him on my way to Logan. Then we were covering both ends of the street. He must have come from Minow Street or Cleming Street and gone back the same way before we could see him. It is dimly lit around here, sir. What's up, Constable? I heard sound where you are. Oh. It's you. Mr. Newspaper Man? Yes, so he struck again. What happened, Sergeant? I've been checking the beats. I came up here passing Joiner and then Peterson here. I was at this end of the street. Joiner with that, with Peterson in between us going towards Joiner. He cried out once. And then it was like this. We saw no one. Where were you when you heard my whistle? On Cleming Street. Perhaps half a square down, and no one passed that way. That means that he must have come from Minow.  Ah, go ahead, Joiner. Half a square down Cleming Street, were you? That's right. That's where you were. More than five minutes ago when I passed and you were coming this way. Well, I thought I saw something in one of the alleys and stopped to look closer. Oh, now come, Sergeant. Let's not start suspecting each other. The mutual suspicion of this district is catching. Yeah. I suppose it is. Yes, of course. Still, there's a murderer who must be caught. Mr. Newspaper Man? The following day, I was back on duty early. You know, the sight of a uniformed sergeant somehow gave the people a bit more confidence than that of the constables.  The talk in the pubs and on the streets was all cut from the same cloth. And the pattern was fear. I say the strangler some part she was off his beam thinks as though he ain't squeezed dry enough. So he nips over, squeezes a little more, and pops back to the West End. Oh, you're balmy. Eat a leg. Didn't he get a peeler last night and don't that prove it? He's a bleeding Jack the Ripper. That's what he is.  He got a Bobby, didn't he? And when Bobby's crawling all over the place and that one to lay hand on him, and he was to stop him, that's what I want to know. I walk the streets, dropping a bit of cheer. You're on there? Four or five times I saw you again, Mr. Newspaper Man. Your dark face twisted with emotion as you listened to the talk. This too was queer for you, but the only Newspaper Man I saw in the whole district. By nine o'clock I was in Richard's Lane, and now the street partly a stall market and partly cheap homes. On one side was the shattered wall of the railway yard. The wall of the railway yard put a shadow over the street so that even a garbage can looked like a man crouching. Farther down the street, the outline of the empty market stalls looked like a bunch of ghosts waiting for the man who would send them more ghosts. There was no one on the street.  Then, suddenly, in the time between one foot fall and another, the wall of silence was broken. Help! He's here! And then the lane came to life. It seemed like they were all released by that scream. All along the street doors opened and people poured into the street, muttering as the stored up anger began to overcome their fear. They milled around uncertain which way to turn. Then the whistle pointed the direction to them. Gathering like dark clouds, they moved down on the cottage where I stood with the constables. The sight of so many of us made them feel that he would now be caught and that anger came up in answer to it. Well, go in and get him! What's your waiting for? He's through killing now.   Break it up! Break it up! Move back, all of you! Join her, get around to the back and meet the constables there. Martin, Madison, take the house on the left. Jones, Edmunds, take the house on the right. Betch, you come with me. Save a piece of information, Sergeant! Inside the cottage, a whole family lay dead, fallen around the supper table. One look at their necks showed us the strangler's trademark again, but there was nothing in that cottage except death. One by one, the constables came back to report nothing. Once more, he had killed and slipped away. Again, I looked out at the crowd, now beginning to move back as they realized we were empty-handed. Suddenly I saw in the front ranks your face again, the newspaper man who seemed to be everywhere I turned. There was a light in your face, a light that was almost happiness and looking at you in that brief second, I was aware that there were two of us who now knew the identity of the murderer. But the crowd shifted back, began to lose themselves in the shadows and you were gone before I could move. The strangler had struck again and again we were empty-handed as we waited for the ambulance. You may have been empty-handed, Sergeant, but I'm sure there were enough thoughts in your head to make up for the lack of something to put your hands on. Dark thoughts, perhaps. Yes, I did think, Mr. Newspaper Man. I tried to imagine what you were doing during the next hour. I thought perhaps that you went to the nearest pub and sat alone at the bar, attended by a frightened barmaid. I think you dismissed the surrounding horror from your mind and thought only of the glass of stout and the sandwich for even such men as you to rebuild their strength. I think you looked at the sandwich, noticing that it was skimpy as bar sandwiches usually are and you may have thought idly of the inventor of the sandwich, the Earl of the sandwich, then of George IV, then of all the Georges as any good Englishman might and so to that George who wondered how the apple got into the apple-dumping. It was while thinking of that and how the ham got into the ham sandwich that your mind came back to the people who had been murdered. It was then that you thought of the simplest fact of all that the murderer could escape by either running away or by standing still. It was then I think that you got up from the bar without finishing your sandwich. It was perhaps 20 minutes later that you walked down the street and met the man you were looking for. I've seen anything of the murderer, Sergeant. Oh, it's you again. Yes. No, nor is anybody else. And I doubt if they ever will. I don't know. He's already struck fire of times. I've been thinking about it and I've got an idea. So? Yes. Yes, came to me all of a sudden and I felt that we'd all been blind. It's been staring us in the face. Oh? How's it now? Well, if you're so sure, why not give us the benefit of it? I'm going to. Yes, it seems quite simple now, but there's still one more point I don't quite understand. I mean the motive. Now as man to man, tell me, Sergeant Ottermole, just why did you kill those inoffensive people? Well, to tell the truth, Mr. Newspaper Man, I don't know, but I've got an idea. Just like you. Everybody knows we can't control the workings of our mind. Ideas come into our heads without being asked. But everybody's supposed to be able to control his body. Why?  Maybe we get our bodies the same way. Our faces, our legs, our hands. They aren't completely ours. And couldn't ideas come into our bodies like ideas come into our minds? Couldn't ideas live in muscles as well as in a brain? Couldn't it be that parts of our bodies aren't really us? And couldn't ideas come into them all of a sudden like ideas come into my hand? You see, Mr. Newspaper Man, it was one other thing. The Newspaper Man did while he was in that pub. He'd called his newspaper and told them his idea and said he was coming to meet me. And so they're hanging me, killing me for something which my hands did. I had nothing to do with it. You can see that. But what hurts me the most is what the judge said when he sentenced me. It's not true. It's not true, I tell you, that if I lived some day these hands, my hands, they say, might reach out for you. Claude Reigns and Vincent Price for a splendid performance. Mr. Reigns and Mr. Price will return in just a moment. Aharro, you were telling me... Oh, yes, yes. Well, Hap, the next time I saw this fancy fellow, his gadget-laden car was humming and purring up the street as smooth as the slippery glide of a slide drum bone. I got my Auto-Lite resistor spark plugs, he yelled to me as he whirled by. And they're terrific! Well, by Cornelius, this fellow had the right dope. Because friends, when you replace your old narrow-gap spark plugs with the wide-gap Auto-Lite resistor spark plugs, you can really tell the difference in your car. So if you don't already have a set of Auto-Lite resistor spark plugs, drive down tomorrow to your nearest Auto-Lite dealer and treat your car right. Switch to Auto-Lite. And friends, remember to Auto-Lite means spark plugs, Ignition engineered resistor spark plugs, Auto-Lite means batteries, Stay full battery, Auto-Lite means Ignition system, The lifeline of your car. And now here again is Mr. Claude Reigns. The hands of Mr. Ottermole has always been one of my favorite Mr. Stollers and so it was a great pleasure to be able to play it on suspense, one of my favorite radio programs. What about you, Vincent? Well, I agree with you on both counts, Claude. And in addition, I found it refreshing to play the murder victim for a change instead of the murderer. By the way, Claude, what will we be hearing on suspense next week? A treat you won't want to miss. One of Hollywood's most glamorous stars, Mr. Rosalind Russell, in a top story, The Sisters, another gripping study in Suspense. Claude Reigns will soon be seen in the Paramount picture, The Sin of Abbey Hunt. Vincent Price can currently be seen with Lana Turner, Jean Kelly and June Allison in Metro Golden Maier's Technicolor production, The Three Musketeers. Tonight's suspense play was the famous story by Thomas Burke, adapted for radio by Ken Croson, with music composed by Lucian Morawek and conducted by Led Bluskin. The entire production was under the direction of Anton M. Lieder. In the coming weeks, suspense will present such stars as James Cagney, Ronald Coleman, William Bendix and others. Make it a point to listen each Thursday to suspense, radios outstanding, theater of thrills, and next Thursday, same time, hear Rosalind Russell in The Sisters. Scrap steel to your local scrap dealer. The more scrap, the more steel. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.


Do you ever wonder what happens when the police leave? Crime scene cleaners are private companies that handle the cleanup after the police are gone. Spalling Decon is one of the nation's largest cleanup companies handling the aftermath of homicides, suicides, decompositions, hoarding, and much more. These are our stories. Hey guys, Steve Wolf here at a house that we actually purchased that was a hoarding house that the homeowner was here to get their loved one out of the house and decided that due to the state of the house they wanted to actually give the house to us so we ended up purchasing it and I say give but we purchased the house and right now we're doing a clean out so that we can do our restoration work so that we can flip the house and make it a new scene. What I would love you to do is come along with us, see the cleaning process so that we can walk you through what we do to bring the house back to life so it's livable again so that we can put a new tenant inside. That's the situation. But one thing about sparring is we get the job done so that's what we're doing. In another situation we're going to get it right. We're going to quarantine the scene and try to clean this place up. As you guys see it's a level five, it's a heck of a mess but we're going to get it done. We are making a little progress. As you guys know this was a real in-depth situation that we have to address and so we're working with. It's a slow progress but it's a progress, we're making progress but we're just tipping away inch by inch until we get to the house until the whole thing gets done. I'm going to mend it until the roll comes out. Let's put it to the side. All the key is, as you can, it comes from the nose. I think these are prescription glasses. I'm going to put this with the stuff. You know at the end of the day this is what it turns into. Yeah. Cool. Try to save it. All you see in this corner now. I don't know. It's trying to figure it out. That's double. 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As you guys know once we got here you couldn't even open the door because it was so compact with trash and so like a chisel we just chiseled our way through. We got the living room for the most part secured and so we're just moving on back to the remainder of the house and we're just going to knock this out today. And this is just from the entryway. Yeah. And that's not even all of it. Yeah I know. It's sad and unfortunately we found a cat car.   Sorry for the cat and those cat lovers but you know we would like for the people to call and we got the cat taken care of but we don't know the circumstances so it's a sad reality. But we want to take the cat and dispose of him. All right and so yeah we can dispose animals like they're regular trash and so that's what we're going to do right now. You get the cat man. Uh huh. I'll pull that whole ****. Holy cow. That's a lot of cat poop. Hey everybody. This townhouse is a two-story, two-bedroom, two and a half bath and it's a hoard obviously. And I have purchased this property so the burden of cleaning it out is on me. I mean a two-bedroom, two and a half bath sounds small but when you have this amount of items it's brutal. It really is. It's just, it's a lot of work. Luckily she doesn't want to save much so the majority of it will be disposed of or whatever can be recycled will recycle. This is a level five because you can't walk in it. It's got bugs everywhere, mold. I mean she just gave up. I don't know how long ago but she gave up. This is the fridge, don't you? Yeah. Look at the eggs. Show them the door. The inside. Oh look at all those eggs. Okay. This is how you do not live. Yeah. This is what you do not want in your house at any time. It's like a antique. I don't know why but it's desirable. So I think there's a little bit we can donate in this place because there's a lot of like cat food and cat litter. So I can donate that to the Humane Society. And then canned food. I can donate to the homeless shelters. So but unfortunately it looks like she just never threw anything away for whatever reason. Sleeper sofas are the devil and they are so heavy. Five. I can't hold up. Take all those five. You're taller than me. You're so good. That's not heavy at all.  That's hard to work. Nice job guys. It's a heavy load too boys. This is a joke. The next size I'll come out. You know, just go ahead and let it go that way. Pull it that way and I'll go that way. Hang on. So as I was cleaning all this stuff up and I'm finding, you know, old monitors and floppy disks and stuff. I was thinking, you guys can comment below and see if you think it's a good idea or not. But what about if we created at our office a museum of hordes where we just collected maybe the rare items or the weird items that we find and kind of keep it in our office in, I don't know, some type of display or something just to kind of show the crazy stuff that we come across. I don't know. What do you guys think? That is Robert Redford in his sexy days. It's crazy. Oh my God. When I was a kid, this is what we used to watch. And then when our parents were kids they used to watch black and white. Yeah, I'm going to cut it so I can access the plumbing and make sure it's not leaking because the whole bottom of the vanity caved in. So this has been a leak that's been going on for a long time and she didn't even notice it because she has so much f***ing here. Quality furniture made in America. There was one, two, four of us cleaning this out and for such a small place it was a lot, a lot of stuff.  So there's a lot of stuff, a lot of stuff here. So I haven't even thought about the design yet on this place. I can't even focus right now until we get this done. So I will think about that and over the next few days I will write it out and then start getting some quotes on the rehab. So stay tuned for that. Hey guys, welcome to my newest renovation. This townhouse behind me was an extreme hoard where we actually found the owner's cat deceased inside under a bunch of stuff. So this is a two-bedroom, two-and-a-half bath that was really just stuck in the 80s. So we're doing a lot of renovation here to kind of modernize it and bring it to what 2022 is and we will put a long-term tenant in here. So let me show you around. One of the biggest things here that really dates the unit is the popcorn ceiling. So as you can see we've already started trashing that down, smoothing it out. We'll put a nice more modern texture on the ceiling so that it's ready to go. Now this fireplace behind me was super outdated like white tiles and stuff like that. So we're gonna put some really cool stone on it and modernize it. And we'll hang a TV up there for the future tenant. This bathroom right here is the half-bath downstairs and it is covered and mold. So there was clearly a leak that was going on for a really long time that the prior owner just wasn't aware of. So we're gonna replace all of that drywall plumbing and then put everything brand new back in. We're gonna take LVP which is Luxury Vinyl Plank and we're gonna take it throughout the entire place including the staircase. So this kitchen really bothered me for more ways than one. But one of the biggest things was the ceiling was hanging really low. It was lower than the rest of the house so I knew that we can elevate it up to make it consistent. We do have one area right here kind of a soft-fit type area that we can encase and just make it look a little more modern. So we're gonna put quartz countertops here, all new cabinets and appliances obviously stainless steel. Paint this a more modern color. The only thing that we're really keeping in this house that is in stellar condition is the AC. The AC surprisingly was pretty new and it's a very expensive brand so we're gonna keep that. That is one cost savings that we'll have here. It's almost done. Yeah almost done. Just this right? Just this and that's it. Wow nice job. Yeah. Very nice. Let's look at this nasty house bathroom. Oh it's gone already. Wow. Look at this. Now I'm standing in the, what I'm calling the master bathroom bedroom. This bathtub was really, really bad beyond any salvaging. So we've got it as you can see and this bathroom will be redone as well but what I've decided to do here is instead of replacing the tub we're actually going to make a stand-up shower. No tub at all. So I've got some really cool tiles some pebble floor that we're going to put in here and some updated lighting to get rid of 1975 over here and you know with the new grab bars and all this stuff and even the light switch panels here are the really old like beige ones that we used to use when I was a kid. All that stuff will be traded out for white, bright white so it'll make everything look awesome. This is bedroom two and if you remember this used to be the home office. It was extremely courted. It took me by myself almost a day to clean this out completely. So this is going to be a really cool bedroom and I'm going to utilize the height of the ceiling to kind of make it feel bigger than what it really is. You've got a closet here and an own private bathroom which is awesome because essentially that means that you have two masters because the bathrooms are attached to both so I'm looking forward to really designing this room. We've got some new porcelain tile. Here, give me the whole door. Wow, I like that. This is nice stuff. Porcelain tile for the bathroom. It's got some... some maintenance in it and stuff so it looks very nice. So these are the floors that I went with. I thought they were going to come out a little more brown but they're kind of a combo between brown and gray but I think they favor the gray a little more. So the reason that I went with these was a couple of reasons. One, it has the waterproof top to it but also if you can see here it has a silence barrier. So if kids are playing around upstairs you're not going to be able to hear it here and also Shaw floors is a really good brand so I typically get my stuff from floor and decor. They're putting in the floors today which is awesome. There is a couple things that some shoddy work that I'm not happy about so I'm going to get them to redo and I'll show you what that is. So it's weird because the painting was already done but yet you have still holes in the drywall so that stuff should have been fixed prior to painting and then we still have the mold here in the bathroom where this leak is so this is a substantial amount of mold. That should have been... also the mirror should have come out. So it seems like some of the work is being done in the wrong order so this has got to go right away but the upstairs looks good. Let's go over to the kitchen. So in the kitchen here I decided to lift up the ceiling. It was that old kind of 70s style so we lifted it up but they did a really crappy job on the taping so I'm going to make them redo that because it just looks terrible. You should not be able to see tape and they've already textured it they've already painted it so that's going to have to be redone completely but the kitchen's been gutted the floors will go in today and then we should be able to start with kitchen cabinets and then counter costs next week. Hey guys! I wanted to go over the final rehab cost with you. The purchase price of this town home was just $125,000 and the rehab was $31,000 my holding costs were only $750. The property was appraised at $240,000 and we got tenants in there in under 72 hours at $1,900 a month. All in all, I'm so happy to turn this place around. I'll be keeping this town home in my rental portfolio. Thanks for watching.