Why is that? Why? Why do people die? Now, tell me why now. Can you tell me why? Can you love me? Love me. Me. Me. Love me. This is home. A long time ago, there was an answering machine connected to a TTY, and I sat in front of it, and my mother typed to me on the screen. We miss you. Please call us after three tomorrow afternoon. Please. Love. Love. Love. Mom. Tomorrow. At three. No, no, no. After three. Tomorrow. I call Mom. I watched the phone. All night, it into the morning. I wonder why she wants me to call, and I looked at the clock. Eight o'clock. Nine o'clock. Ten o'clock. Eleven. Twelve. Waiting. So strange. So strange. So strange. Mom wants me to call after three today. After three. The clock got bigger, and the hand went around in a circle again till it was one o'clock, and the clock got bigger, and the little hand and the big hand went around till it was two o'clock. And that clock was huge for that hour. The hand went around till three o'clock. Mom said after three o'clock.  And I put the receiver on the TTY and dialed in the number. Mom, I saw the lights, but an answering machine picked up, and I put the receiver back on its cradle, and then I put in the numbers again when I put it on the TTY and got an answering machine again. No, no, that doesn't make any sense. Back and forth. The cradle on, the cradle off, and answering machine. It's hearing. I thought if somebody picked up, I could scream, I could talk into the receiver and leave a message. There was no reply. Back and forth, and back and forth, and the answering machine, and the answering machine, back and forth, and back and forth. What's going on? The clock is huge. 345. I'm so tired from waiting. I took the receiver off the TTY and replaced it. And I waited. Where's mom? When will she call? And then the lights came on, indicating that there was a call, so I put the receiver on it again. It's my cousin. My cousin saying, I'm so sorry. I have such sad news.   No, no. And the next morning, I waited until I got onto an airplane, and set there in shock. On that plane for hours and hours it seemed to take forever. I felt a pounding in my heart. In my heart as if somebody was beating on the walls of my chest. Be quiet. Everybody can hear you. And that pounding was so insistent. And I looked more closely and saw a little door over my heart with a little knob, and I opened this door.  Who are you? You don't know who I am.  I'm Juliana. Oh, Juliana, well, what are you doing here? Do you mind if I come out, she said, and I said, sure, come on out. And this little girl with her bow in her hair sat right next to me on that airplane. And then said to God, God, show me a B.  Why? Because my mother's nickname was B, B-E-A, and you know, B-E-A rhymes with B, B-E-E. And so I'll know my mother is all right and she's safely in heaven with you if you can present to me a B. I got to where I was going. And after the funeral, my father and I went back to the house.  And then my father showed me the stairway up to the bedroom and said we must go there. So up the stairs we went and opened the door to the bedroom. To a site I will never forget as long as I live, the blackened walls, the blackened floor forever etched in my memory, a lampshade that had blistered and then melted down, the bed completely destroyed by the flames. I can see it now in my mind. It was terrible. Dad, dad look and I showed him on the floor. Amongst all the black ashes there was a lighter outline of a body. This is where mom was. You can see, you can see the outline of her here. This is where she died. My father grabbed me by the shoulders and got me up right. Please calm down. But mom was here. She was here. This is where her body was. I see it. Calm down. He said calm down. Over against the wall there was a dresser and I still see this in my mind's eye. Still all of the clothes had been burnt to ashes, ashes everywhere. I looked over to my father but he was busy cleaning in another area of the room. Oh I realize that's why we're here. We have to start cleaning up and I reached back to the back of this dresser and I was able to get a pair of shoes out from the back that had not been touched by the fire. It's a miracle. Maybe the ashes has protected them and I put my hand back and I found more and more and more pairs of shoes which I lined up on the floor next to each other. Beautiful shoes of my mother's that my mother would no longer put her feet into. Now we'd have to give them away and they would be gone. I looked at my hands and under the fingernails was black ash and I carefully started to clean my fingernails. I wanted no remnant of that ash left beneath them. I wanted my hands clean of this place. I felt something push my head, tap my head. Well what's that? My father was over on the other side of the room quietly cleaning. What could it be? I felt that tap on my head again. What is it? There was a sentence hanging in the air. Please go to the living room now. What? What? Dad, dad. We're supposed to go to the living room. Something just told me I have to go to this other room. So I'm going to go there. So I went down the steps and I went into the living room. More smoke hung in the air. I sat down and looked around. Why was I summoned here? And I saw something flying through the air. What is that? What is this thing flying in the air? It scared me. It frightened me until I realized it was a baby bee that came right up into my center of vision. I was terrified. I didn't want this there, but it was staring right at me. And then it flew down to the floor, right on the floor, and the sun shone through a window. And this bee landed right where a square of light hit the floor. I got down on my hands and knees, and I crawled after this tiny little bee was a baby bee. What's it doing there? Outside it's snowing. It's wintertime. How on earth could a bee survive in the winter? What's it doing here? Wait a minute. It's God. God is showing me. God is here. I scooped up this bee. Mom, mom, dad, I yelled, dad, come, come, come. And my father came down. I said, look, look, look, look, look in my hand. Look. It's mom. And then the bee flew away. Mom, mom, I chased it. I chased it around. Don't go, don't go. Mama, the little girl with the bow in her hair. I love you. I love you too. What about mom? Come here, she said. And we embraced each other, this little girl and I. And she said, I will crawl back into your heart again and stay there. You want to come back in, I said. And I helped her gather herself to put her back into my heart.  You're going to stay there, I said. Why? You're going to stay there with me? Because you and I will always be there for each other, she said. And she is. Now, I'll be setting up our analysis for you. I'll be very brief. But I want to focus on character development, how Juliana created the character and how she developed it. It's interesting that in ASL, poetry, and storytelling, characters are embodied by the presenter. Whereas in written languages, languages that have written forms, the poetry and literature is separate from the writer. But with ASL, the characters and the signer is merged. They're inseparable. They're in the same body. And that's quite important for our analysis. That's our first point. Juliana has created the bag lady as her character and they're connected to each other in some way that we like to analyze. Juliana must become the bag lady in order for her to express her life experiences. Why does she need to make that adjustment in herself, that transformation? Secondly, we'd like to discuss how the characters of the bag lady and the inner child are developed separately. What kinds of ASL techniques and what kind of theatrical techniques are used to develop them? Okay. First, the first time that we watched Juliana tell this story, we asked so many things to her and we pulled out her story. The character of the bag lady, why was she invented? So when we asked and she pulled out a great deal of emotion right and it's still there. So you watch and you can add anything you want. And if you don't mind if I ask you questions, the bag lady's character started back in 1977. She was fascinated by street people and their lives. They tried to join the quote normal society and follow the rules and they failed and they tried again and failed. There wasn't a match. They kept failing and they finally joined the street society and they were free and they were free to be honest and they weren't failures. They were successful building a living sharing with each other, not trying to fit into the society. So she was fascinated by this and also Juliana herself as a deaf person had some same some parallels because deaf people must try to fit into the hearing world to try to follow the hearing people's rules and often fail and fail. But then in the deaf community, they feel a bond. They feel more free to express themselves that somewhat similar. Back in 1977 until now, Juliana's also done the bag lady. There's been more interaction with the questions and answers back and forth with audiences. It's never been her story from her own real life. She's never told her own story. Now this is the first time that she's worked on her story. The story of her mother is a true one. In the past, she met an audience. They talked together. They're playing together. Went to a Jewish conference one time. There was some kind of topic related to more surface levels of the mind and word plays. But the emotion was kept down. It was never really expressed with an audience. So this is the first time with an audience to express this emotion. You understand, Juliana today had no costume to tell the story about her own mother. That's impossible. If we met in person, she could tell her story, but it would still be surface. The full emotion is not possible to express. It's too hard. I would like to add something to that. When I am myself, I tend to sign PSE. I use English word order and I talk about things in the abstract. But when I talk about as the bag lady, I'm free. I can say anything I feel like saying. I'm liberated when I become someone else. Also, it's so interesting talking about emotional expression. There's an interesting relationship between three things. There's Juliana herself and the bag lady and the inner child, the little child. Really, in real life, Juliana herself can't tell her story with full emotion. When her mother died, it really happened. She tried to face the grief and it was so hard. The pain was terrible to face going through that process of going home. It was really difficult. That inner child came out and helped. There was some kind of a link until she felt more able to get through it. It was very painful, but she was able to face it. So she's dependent on that inner child to help her. And it's the same in the story. Juliana herself can't tell the story to an audience. But when she puts on a costume and a hat and becomes the bag lady, she must do that. She has to depend upon the bag lady to tell her story. And during the story itself, the bag lady is just sitting there. She can't do it either. And she goes home in shock and the inner child comes out and is free to tell the story. And again, the bag lady is depending upon her help and support. So it's all linked together. It was very interesting. Oh yes, I want to ask, I want to back up just a little bit. When she told her story for the first time, when did she meet the bag lady? Can you tell about that? Yes. It was in New York and I'm sorry. It was in New York in an office building. And I went down the stairs and I saw a bag leading sitting with her stuff. I was really fascinated by her. She was talking, but she seemed happy. And I passed her every day when I was going on my way home. I seemed to like her. Her life seemed interesting. I wanted to know more about it. She seemed so innocent. You know, normally people go through pain and sorrow and lose their innocence. And once you've lost that innocence, you can never get it back. You learn wisdom and experience, grief, pain, but you lose your innocence when you get that. But this bag lady seemed to have lost her innocence, but gotten it back. And I didn't know how. It seemed that her inner child came back to her.  And she seemed to enjoy the world no matter what had happened to her. She had lost her innocence and got it back. And I wanted that innocence back too. I wanted to feel calm and peaceful in the world. And I didn't know how I would be able to do that. When I went home, I got gloves and I gave her gloves and she accepted them. Just as a child would accept gifts that you gave to her. I thought, what else could I do? So I tried to give her coffee, but she wouldn't take coffee for me. I didn't know what kind of thing she was saying. She was speaking in some odd way. I guess we both were speaking in odd ways to each other, but we gestured and spoke to each other, didn't understand a single word, but somehow our spirits connected. When I moved to California in 1976, I really couldn't forget that woman. She was so sweet. So I thought I'd go back and see if the bag, I thought I would see if I could act the bag lady. And oh man, I just felt safe. I could say anything I wanted. As Juliana, I couldn't say anything I wanted. I was too worried about what people might think of me and I'd have to escape from them. But as the bag lady, I could say whatever I wanted. And that's how it's been since. Okay. So our second point is that our second question is how the character was developed. We want to look at ASL linguistic techniques. You know, you've heard many talks today about the rhythm of sign language, the repetitions that are included in poetry and storytelling. And that's a technique that Juliana uses to develop a character. For example, at the beginning of her story, the bag lady is sitting hunched over, rocking back and forth.  And those signs are repeated again and again. Love me, love me. Each sign is short and simple. But together they mean something about the character that the character is a loner, that she's in grief, that she has a hard life, that her emotions make her weak, that she's protected, she's separated, distanced herself from herself. You can see this in the rhythm of the signs. You also see her honesty. She doesn't have to elaborate things she's feeling with words. She just says them straight out simply. Now, when Juliana is acting as the inner child, her language is different. She's more chatty. She speaks more elaborately when she talks to God. She's chatty and playful. And she says, you know, play, show me if my mother's alive. The names are the same, blah, blah, blah. She's chatting and she signs quickly. She shows that her mind is quick and that her body is energetic, that she's young. And that's quite different from Juliana's posturing and movements as the bag lady.  The inner child's signs are repetitive like a child's signs. So the child will sign mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy. But as the bag lady, Juliana signs each sign slowly. And when she signs the sign for a mother, for example, she only signs, only contacts her chin once rather than several times as she does as the little child. The rhythm and the repetition in the sign also shows foreshadowing. It gives you an idea that something might happen in the future that will be sad, cause grief. When you see her sign talking about the clock, the time moving, time moves on without any call from her mother. I'm sorry, not a phone call from her mother. Time moves on and it's very slow for her. It feels very slow. She wants it to hurry up so that it's time for her to call, but she can't. And she symbolizes this with the clock becoming larger and larger and time taking up more space. And then as she starts calling her mother, that her rhythm becomes more and more quick and showing the character's grief, upsetness, despair, concern, worry. And you see that through the kinds of techniques she uses in her language. Another thing she uses is metaphor, metaphor where you're talking about the meaning behind a particular word. So when we talk about the inner child, you know that it's not a real little kid that's walking around in the world, you know that. But in the story, the inner child symbolizes there's a metaphor for a part of the bag lady that is free and able to express herself and express her emotions and her grief. The metaphors in English are different. In ASL, metaphors are very visual. The audience sees the bag lady and then sees an actual, there's a separate character that they see, the inner child. And why is that important that the audience see both the character and the inner child? They see how the inner child influences the bag lady. They see the connection between the two. They see what the inner child can give to the bag lady that she gives her hope and energy and zest for life. I would like to add one more thing before I forget. As an example, as an experiment, Jane was presenting ASL, asked me if I would do some sort of ASL literature in Seattle, and I didn't really know what she meant by that. She tried to explain it to me, but I wasn't sure what she meant. She talked about poetry and storytelling. I said, well, what about theater and acting? Isn't that part of poetry? And we realized that nobody had actually done any work on that. In Seattle, when we discussed ASL literature, we didn't even think of that. You know, on the West Coast in Seattle, there's a very good theater, but it's very difficult for deaf people to get involved in it. And the analysis of it has been so, it's been so little. And the performance has been very hearing, hearing perspective. And we really want to get away from that and look at deaf literature, real deaf theater. You just talked about language and how it shows character. Now, I'd like to talk about theater techniques and how that shows character.  In watching, I could see your expressions while you were really pulled into her character. Strong technique. One technique is interesting in the way she uses space. You know, there's a woman here in the band there, you can use the space. Well, she used that and extended it to use a larger space, an area. For example, in talking, you go back and forth, back and forth, but to make it larger, you can actually move like this. So you use space for communication to develop a character. So you can actually see two characters, the bag lady and the inner child. Also, it was very interesting. You know, in theater, sometimes people stand on the stage and they're storytelling and they have some sort of a line with the audience between the line and the person. Juliana crosses it and looks at people, looks directly. Why? Why? Actually, talking with you, the audience, which helps to draw you in. You see her character more clearly. Sometimes performers stand with this line between them, but she really pulls you in so that she can express her feelings. Also, the character is wonderful. I noticed several times, is very meticulous. Everything has to be perfect. The towel has to be laid down. Oh, such an exaggeration to it. Everything had to be just right. Moving everything around and the use of a great deal of space with that is fascinating. It shows the character, the age, the heaviness, the sadness, the emotion in all through that meticulous, slow use of space really shows the character. And later, the cleaning of the fingernails had to do everything perfectly. The world isn't perfect. Her world had been totally destroyed. Oh my gosh, five minutes. What happened to the 20, the 10? You did all that and I ignored it. Oh dear, I'm sorry. Okay. All right. Another interesting use of space was to find that her mother died, she went way back. She couldn't accept the emotion. She had to distance herself. The motion was there. She didn't want it. She had to move back and then she moved forward in the morning. It shows the time and the character change. You know, in the past, you go forward to the future. And one other character is the inner child. You know, at first the bag lady was just sitting there so despondent and then the child comes out. Same place and the girl sits like this. You can see quite obviously that the little girl has taken control of the bag lady and now the bag lady is going to be able to face things quite obviously using the same sight they become one. Oh dear, I've got to hurry. Okay. Also for a character, remember Heidi talked about language showing character and there's the bag lady and the little child. Obviously the body moves. For the bag lady, it's like this, all hunched over and slow moving and eyelids nearly closed. The little girl is the opposite. Her shoulders are back, bright eyes and a wide open innocence. She's a little kid. She doesn't know anything. She'll try anything. So the character shows that later the little girl took control inside the bag lady. When they went in the house, it was like one character. They became one. The little girl in the bag lady, in the bag lady, in the little girl, it became one and that really helped to support it. At the end, the little girl has to get back inside. The bag lady shows that but the door is supposed to be open because from now on you can face the world and anytime things terribly upset there will be the little child to its support. The words don't have to say that. You already know it. It's obvious. So can I just give a short synopsis please, a conclusion here? Okay. We tried to show that linguistic techniques and theatrical techniques are not divorced from each other that they work together to show character. At the end of the story, you can see the relationship between the three parts of Juliana. You can see the inner child coming out and then returning to the bag lady. You can see the bag lady becoming at peace.  She appears. So there are three levels that you can see Juliana in this performance. This is called Angel Game in a beautiful white heavenly land, vast and beautiful below a perfect blue sky. The heavenly host of angels played instruments with their gorgeous white wings. So powerful and beautiful. One played piano, one played violin and another angel with coke bottle glasses, a true bookworm, sat reading a book. All the different angels were arrayed throughout heaven. There was a little group of three young sweet angels with their beautiful wings and their comely figures and they were talking amongst each other the way giggly young angels might, pushing each other in teasing as they walked along. There was grass all around but understand this beautiful heavenly area was white, white, white everywhere you looked. One of them saw something that looked a little out of place. Further over, they saw a naked young girl lying with lifeless eyes staring up at the blue sky above her. The three of them went to investigate. So pale was this dead young girl, nude, lying there lifeless. They felt her flesh. Her hair was all a skance and they looked at each other and their wings which had been outspread then folded in as sadly they tried to decide what they could do.  He bid good day to the pianist who acknowledged him as he walked by and the violinist and even the angel reading took a moment of her reading time to say good morning to God. God noticed something going on over in an area of heaven some sort of a do and he went to investigate. He approached these three angels and asked them what was going on and they pointed to this dead girl lying there. I wonder where she's from. God looked up and down and all around and did not have an answer as to where this girl had come from and neither did the angels. Everybody just looked at each other in wonderment and God said let's be creative about this. We need to be able to fix her. We got a really old junkyard over in another area of heaven. Why don't you go dig around and see if you can find some tools or something to maybe be able to fix this girl up. The angels assented and God left them to their own devices. One of them said an old junkyard sign me up. I want to go look around there. That sounds fun. You guys stay behind and figure something else out. So that adventurous angel stumbling over clouds and white heavenly grass made her way over to a different area of heaven and she looked up at massive columns with statues of strong people holding up a huge portico in which statuary loomed warriors and animals and chariots in a Greek freeze.  It was so ornate and there were huge doors which would open to the interior of this temple. She pushed open the knobs of these massive doors and as soon as she opened it another white blinding light met her white birds passed her as they flew out of this area and behind these doors she saw a car that looked as if it had been driving along the road and then crashed into something flipped and then landed and was destroyed in another area there was an old bicycle that was also destroyed as if it had been carried someplace by wind and then smashed to the ground an old tin can with its top up had been rolling along and come to rest in another area to the right and to the left there were all sorts of pieces of junk mountains mountains of white gleaming destroyed garbage at this junkyard over in a corner she saw a house at a strange angle as if it had been picked up by a tornado spun around several times and then thrown to the ground where it lay a tilt the door hung on at its hinges and she approached and opened it it was dirty inside tables chairs food spread everywhere knocked all asunder she saw the bathroom the toilet on its side broken off of its pedestal the mirror was cracked and smashed into a million pieces and reflected her face in a fragmented way she opened a medicine cabinet and when she looked at one thing a bug jumped out and scared her and she opened a drawer and another drawer saw an implement she wasn't familiar with and found she could use it to groom her hair and her wings not bad in another drawer she looked through but didn't find anything useful and then in the cabinet underneath she took out a box which when she opened it revealed tools all different sizes ratchets and different size screwdrivers that might do the trick she closed everything up and wanted to get out of there as fast as she could closed up the house closed the room and took her toolbox with her she opened the huge doors that had led her in and then closed them behind her she looked up the columns to the statues that were holding up the huge portico above and then with her toolbox she made her way across those bumpy clouds almost dropping it all the time having to very carefully walk her way over to where her friends were her friends motioned her onward she opened the toolbox one of them said what's this for he said i don't know we'll figure out something the girl was still lying lifeless they worked on her hair first took tools and tried to make it curly did different things to it well this doesn't seem to be working hmm that's not bringing into life those beautiful wings we've lost all of our feathers at different times maybe we should take some feathers that are lying around and we can put them in her because she doesn't have any so one by one it took feathers and tried to stick them in her in different places still she was lifeless even though these feathers were sticking out of her head they worked on her in all different ways trying to stick feathers in trying to fix things in different ways anything they could imagine braiding and feathering and the girl lay lifeless now god who was sitting on his heavenly throne opened his massive book of dates names who's in heaven who's out heaven all of the information he needed he looked at his ledger and rested he felt a breeze a breeze riffled his flowing beard as he rested and that breeze became a little more insistent kept blowing and blowing and pages of this ledger kept turning the wind became very insistent and page after page of this book kept turning and turning and finally he put his hand on one page it said February 14th 1966 but then he saw that another page said the 28th and another page said the 30th where was the 29th there's no 29th and then he suddenly realized he had to go get hold of those angels again he ran past the violinist he ran past the piano player he ran past the angel reading her book and ran as fast as he could and told those angels stop what you're doing stop what you're trying to do to that little girl stop they pulled out all the feathers that they had put into her head and then as he did this it says if this dead girl was going back and back and back back as if she was going back to the womb again there she was a fetus in her mother's womb once more and then born born to a loving mother who looked at her adoringly this baby barely even sentient being adored by her mother this baby grew and her mother looked at her and the baby looked at her mother and the mother talked to her oh you little sweetheart you and she pinched her little cheeks and the baby regarded all that was around her the mother speaking to her and adoring her and then wind wind kept pushing the doors and making a loud noise and the mother said that's too loud and went over and tried to close those windows and doors but the wind was insistent and pounded and pounded against the house she latched the shutters but the wind was so strong the baby was still uncomprehending if you look in the book this big dictionary and closed it that's what caused this massive earthquake that destroyed the house this baby and mother had been in the closing of the book this baby is deaf the angels looked at each other and realized somehow they were at fault it was you no it was you no it was the three of us we did this and the three of them realized as they need to confess to god whom they approached there he sat with his flowing beard and his flowing hair and regarded them what you had to say to me my children god we're so sorry we were playing we were playing too much and we forgot to fix this girl's ears god said don't worry as this girl grows she will have the most beautiful hair


The National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated stations present the Pacific Story. In the Mounting Fury of World Conflict, events in the Pacific are taking on ever greater importance. Here is the story of the Pacific and the millions of people who live around this greatest sea. The drama of the people's whose destiny is at stake in the Pacific War. Here, as another public service, is the tale of the war in the Pacific and its meaning to us and to the generations to come. Anchor of the Burma Road, the main street of Kunming, but ever seeing the last of the old Yunnan, the cobbled streets teamed with activity. Rickshaw men darted between the mules and ponies of the caravan. Chickens and pigs and dogs scurried out of the way. Bullets dragged rumbling carts. The air was heavy with dust and insinuating smells. I walked down toward the Great Gate. This day was a little different from any other day in Kunming. Traffic like this had been going on here for ages. Caravans had been coming and going. But then, as now, Kunming was a gateway to the little-known hill country. It hardly seemed possible that Kunming was a mile high, for towering above it were mountains, some of them 16,000 feet high. Magnificent, are they not? Oh, Dr. Wu. I never tire of looking up at those mountains. They are so forbidding and austere. They look almost impassable. They are, Mr. Kanover. Men have cut trails through them and taken caravans through them for long years. But they have never really conquered them. No. It's always seen to me that those caravan roads lead out to strange lands. That is right. Out there beyond is a different sort of a world, the different peoples. Yes, I've seen some of them. The ones that came down from the hills, down here to Kunming. There are many different peoples back there. Perhaps no one knows for sure how many different tribes there are in Yunnan. Are some of them really barbarian, as they say, Dr. Wu? Well, Yunnan was once called the land of the southern barbarians. But what is meant by barbarian? They are different from us. Yes, I've seen some of them here. Then you can judge. But there are others, too, aren't they? Yes. There are the Shan and the Meow and the La Shan tribes and others that we know even less about. Well, do you know, Dr. Wu, there's always seemed to me to be something strange or inconsistent about this situation here? Yes. I mean that here, where there are so many wild tribes and where one people can hardly understand the other, although they've lived as neighbors for centuries, here in Kunming there should be a center of culture and there should be scholars here, such as you. I have been here all these years because of this situation, Mr. Conover. Well, I guessed that. Yet it seems that I have learned little. I have seen the caravans move through the city and out through the gateways into the mountains. And I have seen the caravans come back. And I saw the railroad built here from Indochina. And I have watched the opium traffic. But now, looking back, it seems that I have learned very little of what there is to know about Yunnan. You know more about Yunnan and Kunming, Dr. Wu, than anyone who... Which is that disturbance, Mr. Conover? I don't know. There seems to be some excitement over there. Yes. Come on, let's see what it is. The Japanese truck last night into town. What's the matter, Mr. Conover? The Japanese had made an attack on us outside of Beiping. What? My thing has broken out in North China around Beiping. What do you mean, the Japanese? The Japanese have attacked us. And this morning they have already taken some of our strong places around Beiping. It's come, Mr. Conover. Yes. They say that the fighting is very long. It would be a long war, Mr. Conover. And we may never live to see the end of it. The fighting was thousands of miles away. And yet we could feel every post-sitting problem. Beiping has fallen to the Japanese and they are now moving and forcing... The beautiful Langkai University at Yensin has been destroyed by the Japanese and they are now driving... Langkai is being shelled by the Japanese and they have now landed strong units who are striking... The Japanese are hitting with full force in the direction of the capital of Manking in our unit. With the coming of the war, the old Kunming and the old Yunnan passed. For many years this isolated province of the interior, directly above Burma, wedged in between French Indochina and Zikong, had been independent. Then it was subdued by the fabulous Scubaikon. And for years after that, it was a center of bitter dispute. Warlords, dynamic and ruthless bandits rose to power and fell. Yunnan is the most corrupt part of all China. God, your tongue. There is no mercy in those who rule us. They are not our rightful rulers and they are corrupt. Your blood would be a high price to pay for your loose tongue. The strong ones fight for the taxes that are wrung out of our very lives and for the wealth they get from the opium traffic and we get nothing but misery. Hold your tongue. That one dares what the leaders rule us. Our lives do not belong to them and Yunnan does not belong to them. Our hope is in waiting until we have help against these usurpers and that time will come. Opium brought in more taxes and food steps. As a result, many people of Yunnan starved and more than that suffered the consequences of opium and Yunnan's connection with the central government was thin. The coming of the war changed this. The opium production had to make way for food production for the people had to grow food or starve and the coming of the war brought central government agencies into the province and drew it closer toward Jun King. We in Yunnan could feel the war approaching. By the first part of 1939, the Japanese had sealed off most of the ports of entry into China. The refugees moved inland. They poured into Yunnan. We have come all the way from Tinsin. You brought all those heavy cases all the way across China from Tinsin? There are books in them. It is all we have left of Nankai University. I remembered it. The Japanese had blasted Nankai University. Japanese had blasted Nankai University from the face of the earth. You were an instructor there? Yes. Many of our students helped us bring the books across the country. For weeks and months, the students struggled in the Kunming. Others came from Tsinghua University and National at Beiping. Still others from Sun Yat-sen University at Canton. We are organizing the exile universities into a joint university here, Mr. Kanover. It will be called Southwestern Associated University. You see, the will to learn and to progress cannot be crushed. Kunming doubled in population. More scholars came to mingle with the strange people from the hills. And government men came and military men. For now supplies that could not be brought in through China's ports coming in over the Hanoi-Kunming Railway from Indochina and over the caravan trails. Kunming was becoming a great depot, a center of communications with the outside world. But the sky was darkening over Kunming. The Japanese have occupied Hanoi and Haifeng in French-Indochina. Occupied. Let me see that dispatch here. Yes. This means that the Japanese have control of the terminal port of the Hanoi-Kunming Railway. It means that they will permit no more supplies to be brought in through Hanoi over the railway into Yunnan. Yes. Yes. They are determined to blockade us. It is even more serious than that. You mean they will use the railroad against us? You can be sure of it. They will bring their supplies into Hanoi by ship and then move them up the railroad against us. Will we destroy the railroad, the portion in Yunnan? We cannot afford to destroy it. We will tear it up and move it inland. We will have use of it. Yunnan was left without one railroad line to the outside world. Now the caravan trails that led out through the mountains became China's arteries. A very lifeline. Trucks straining under the loads made their torturous way over the Burma Road from Lashio up through Wanting and Lungling to Kunming. They brought in gasoline and airplane parts and a thousand other things needed to carry on a war. But still we cannot get enough gasoline for our airplanes. No, I don't see how you can. They are training 600 Chinese pilots in the three schools in this vicinity. We must have gasoline. Do you have enough training planes? Not enough, no. But if we had the gasoline, we could keep them in the air throughout the hours of the day. And in this way, we could give instruction to many of our cadets. The gasoline had to be brought to Rangoon by ship up to Lashio by railroad and by trucks over the Burma Road to Kunming. We have plenty of willing hands. We have built that airplane factory over there and that textile mill down there. But we cannot get enough supplies to run them. Japanese bombers coming! Airways! Airways! Throw yourself down, Mr. Kanova! Lie down! Lie down! Airs, come on, get down yourself! There are no shelters then in Kunming. Those who were lucky escaped the flying fragments of the bombs and the bullets of the Japanese machine guns. But all were not lucky. The fields were littered with wrecked planes and spattered with blood. Now it was started. And we knew the Japanese bombers would be back again and again. Under the shower of bombs, the trucks continued to roll over the twisting Burma Road. But the greatest blow was still to fall. Under pressure from Japan, the British government has agreed to close the Burma Road to the transit of war materials for a period of three months. With Britain blasted unmercifully from the sky by the Nazi Blitzkrieg, the Churchill government entered in this temporary agreement. The rain drove down and despair settled upon Yunnan. What are we going to do? Some supplies are still being smuggled into us. Not one millionth of what we need. And the Japanese are concentrating on stamping out this source. Supplies were piling up in Burma. There was no way to get them across the mountains to Yunnan. I don't think they will ever open the Burma Road again. Britain has cut us off from supplies. And the United States goes on selling scrap iron and oil to Japan. Will no nation help us? When October came, Britain was still standing up to the Nazi Blitzkrieg. And in the first week of October, Britain reopened the road. Supplies began to roll into Yunnan once more. From Yunnan, they would dispatch to China's war fronts. Now, Chunming buzzed with rumors. I would say that the tension between the United States and Japan... If you ask me, there's going to be a showdown between Japan and America. The Japanese are going to try to close the Burma Road again. Japan and the United States are going to be at war in a matter of weeks. Maybe even days. In September 1941, Americans showed up in Kunming. You see, Conover, it's going to be a Len Lee steal. Yes. Now this map will show you where the railroad's going to be. Going to hook on down there to Lashio, eh? Yeah. Yeah. You see, here's Rangoon down here. A section of the railroad from Rangoon up here to Lashio... was completed, oh, 40 years ago. Now our plan is to start here at Lashio and extend the railroad right across here. Up here to Kunming. Eh, about 400 miles there. Yeah, yeah. And when it's completed, it will link the Indian Ocean with Yunnan and Kunming. That's going to be an enormous job rugged country through there. Well, we'll probably have to use from a quarter of a million to half a million workers. And these workers will have to operate. The situation in the Pacific had become crucial. Word came that the flying tigers under Shinov had landed down at Rangoon and Tungu. And we're getting ready to come up here to Kunming. This is the tip-off. We're going to be at war with Japan any minute now. It's the way they talked here. And while we waited for the flying tigers, another message came. Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor. What did I tell you? What did I tell you? 12 days later, Shinov's flying tigers winged down over the mountains in Kunming. And the next day, the Japanese attacked. What's what I call a score? 10 Japanese planes and every one of them either knocked down or damaged by the tigers. Kunming had become more important than ever before. Now we had pilots and planes to fight the Japanese bent on stopping the traffic over the Burma Road. Now also, we knew that it would be only a matter of time until the Japanese would move in and take the Burma Road. French Indochina and Thailand are already in the hands of the enemy and the Japanese are now invading Burma. The Burma Road is lost. Not only the Burma Road. Work has been stopped on the Yunnan Burma Railway. They have cut us off from the outside world. Now the United States and Britain and Russia were on her side. Yunnan was blockaded, hemmed in like a village in a stockade. The only way to bring in supplies now was by air over the hump from India. This met more air-based facilities. New fields were built, old fields expanded. New supply depots set up. Supplies came in, but not enough. Now, among the teaming hundreds of thousands in Kunming, a new word was heard. Lado. Lado. They're building a new road from India into China. Lado. I flew over the hump into India. Then I went up the railroad that ends at Lado. They were starting the road from there. It's a matter of shopping your way through every inch of the way. Talk to an engineer. Look at those men over there, hacking their way through. There were American soldiers, many of them Negroes and Chinese and Indians. The bulldozers do the heavy work. The bulldozers cloud into the jungle, drove ahead, backed away, and drove ahead again. You've got to fight your way through it. Yes. You see those mountains up ahead of us there? Yes. Those are the Petroai Mountains. You've got to cross them. I don't see how you're going to get over that terrain. Mountains, deep valleys, and all of it covered with jungle. The terrain isn't the worst of it. There's the weather and malaria. I know. It rains here five months out of the year. When it rains, there's malaria everywhere. Oh, how about the enemy? There are Chinese scouts ahead of us. But I've got an idea. It's not going to be long before we'll be hearing gunshots or even be closer than that. It wasn't long. The Japanese swallowed up all of Burma and attacked Western Yunnan. I went back to Yunnan. It was an embattled citadel. They have taken Ten Chong and Lung Ling here and here. Chinese general appointed to the map. We have had the Japanese to the east of us here in Indochina for nearly two years. And now, with them here, we are blockaded from the south. This country here is where the Lido Road is coming through, isn't it? Yes. That is the region we must clear of the enemy. They have occupied this country here west of the Salween River. That means that they are between us here in Western Yunnan and the road crews working eastward from Lido. They are between us, yes. And our objective is to clear them out. It was a race for time. A bloody, ruthless, terrible race. Whereas the Japanese were hemming us in in Yunnan, they were driving westward toward Yichang and toward Chongqing in an effort to knock China out of the wall. China needed supplies, needed them pitifully. If the Japanese could be cleared out of northern Burma in western Yunnan, the road could be pushed through despite the heartbreaking terrain, the pouring rain and malaria. That mortar fire is coming from that ridge up there. Yes. And the machine gun fire is coming from just below it. And we cannot move up until we silence them. You have your orders. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Keep down. All right, move up. That's the way it was. Every ridge was a fortified stronghold. The Chinese fought up the steep slopes of mountain ranges eight and ten thousand feet high. They fought down through lush, water-soaked valleys so tangled with jungles that they could hack their way through only a few yards a day. Meantime, General Stillwell's forces were fighting their way from Lado toward Michinaw. All the time, Brigadier General Louis A. Pick was pushing the road through the jungles. We're just convinced that the Japanese force is moving down tortoise. Our enemy isn't the Japanese here. It's water. Yes, sir. Our advanced patrols have probably already engaged the Japanese. Now we'll keep on working. Keep me informed. Yes, sir. All right, bring up that bulldozer. When the road would be pushed through, we didn't know. China's need for supplies grew. Day by day, the big transport planes came swooping down over the hump from India. The supplies they brought were absorbed as the sponge takes up water. With each passing day, Yunnan was becoming more important as the United Nations base. This is to be another new barracks, Mr. Kanover. Well, how many are going to be built? As many as we need. As the country's being transformed so rapidly, I can hardly realize. Yes, since the war here in Yunnan, we have opened new tin and copper mines. We have built a copper refinery, a copper wire plant, an electrical power plant, a chemical works... And an electrical equipment plant. Yes, and many others. Well, the old Yunnan is gone. Yes. And they knew Yunnan is being born. In 1944, the Chinese crossed the Salween River, routed the Japanese out, man by man. Still, those forces cleaned up Michenok and drove on. And General Pick pushed the road through foot by foot. By New Year's, 1945, we in Yunnan could see daylight. The Lado Road was completed. To look down from the roofs, people crowded every window. Women and children, soldiers, coolies, Americans, Chinese, people of the hill cry. Ah! See, this is something. It's like a day to stay back home, only more. See the trucks coming? Ah, that's it. Oh, this is a great day, Mr. Conover. Oh, Dr. Wu. Here it is. It certainly is. I am as excited as the youngest child. Well, everyone is. This is the end of 30 months of blockade. 30 months. Hey, hey, there's the first one. It's a cheat. First convoy of trucks over the Lado Road was coming into Kunming. I am so happy I could weep. Dr. Wu stood on his tiptoes and strained to see the coming trucks. Hey, hey, there it is. There's the first one. Look, it's all dug out and flagged. Yes! Who is that in that first truck, Mr. Conover? Let's see. All right. I think that's picking at General Pick. Yes, yes it is. I've seen his picture. Hey, hey look, Mr. Conover. There's General Pick in that first jeep. Flagged and running, Dr. Trucks. And as they passed their crew, the joyous as the people of Kunming shouted greetings. Dr. Wu returned the greetings. As the trucks rumbled by, dozens and scores of them, Dr. Wu's face grew solid. Each of these trucks was bringing in a cargo of supplies. This was just the first convoy. From now on, there would be an endless line of convoys. This road has been paid for in blood, Mr. Conover. Dr. Wu watched the passing trucks, not an expression on his face. Then he spoke again. Every foot of it was paid for in human life. They died, those thousands of Americans and Indians and Chinese and all the others, so that we might gain strength to fight for our lives. The thousand mile road to Kunming is dotted with the graves of the men, even the women and children who died fighting and working through the jungles. At one time, 80% of the workers on the road were ill. And the Baoshan stretch that was blown up by the Chinese when Burma was taken in 1942, this stretch was rebuilt almost entirely by women and children. I saw them working there. Children as young as 11 years old, women as old as 65, and many young mothers carrying babies on their backs. That's why they call that stretch the road of the women and children. Today, supplies are rolling into Kunming by the thousands of tons. Those are military supplies being unloaded there. Initiatives? Yes. Military supplies have a priority over all other supplies, but we are also bringing in supplies for civilians, health equipment, and medicine. What is your potential over the road as compared with the supplies that used to come in over the hump? Well, our potential, Mr. Kanover, is several times the amount brought in over the hump, but we have several problems before we can achieve that. Lack of trucks? We need more trucks, of course, and we need spare parts and machines for our repair stations, but we also need to train truck drivers. Yes, I can see that. In your country, you have an almost unlimited number of men who can drive trucks, but we do not have that in China. Therefore, right now we are preparing to train 5,000 truck drives, and when we have done this... I talk to a military man. We expect to bring in about 1,000 tons a day. That will be about enough to keep 10 infantry divisions in combat for about seven days a month. 30,000 tons of supplies a month, plus what will be brought in by plane over the hump or to give it... We cannot count on what will be brought in over the hump. The road will relieve the pressure on the air service, but for a long time the 14th Air Force has needed more than could be flown in. Now it will be possible to devote the entire capacity of the Air Service to General Shenold's Air Force, but that indirectly will help us for it will give us more strength in the air over our operations on the ground. So you see, Mr. Kanover... the road was named the Stillwell Road, and to us here in Kunming it became the highway to Hope. And Kunming has become a symbol of fortitude and resistance, and more. From an isolated caravan city in the little known interior of Yunnan, it has become one of the most vital military bases in Asia. Yeah, it's just a routine one day's flight from Kunming to Calcutta now. This is a young flower in the air service over the hump. I'm a man and vote to make the trip. I can hardly believe it. And yet, lots of times while I'm flying over that rugged country, I think about the guys that put that road through. Over that road, rolling into Yunnan in the endless procession of trucks are drivers who know well how the road has changed in that. As they roll over the twisting turning highway, they drive through an arch at the 37th Boundary Stone of the Yunnan Frontier. And read the inscription on the arch. On one side, it says, To Tokyo. And on the other side, it says, we won. Listening to the Pacific story presented by the National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated independent stations as a public service to clarify events in the Pacific and to make understandable the cross currents of life in the Pacific Basin. For a reprint of this Pacific story program, send 10 cents in stamps or coin to University of California Press Berkeley, California. To repeat. For a reprint of this Pacific story program, send 10 cents in stamps or coin to University of California Press Berkeley, California. It is written and directed by Arnold Marquess. The original musical score was composed and conducted by Thomas Paluso. The principal voice was that of Jack Edward Sr. This program came to you from Hollywood. 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Hi everyone, I'm Brian Sakawa and thanks for tuning in to this week's episode of Ask His Folk Style. I got an email recently from Christian who writes, I recently dropped a lot of weight and a lot of my belts are very long. What's the ideal length for a leather belt? First of all Christian, congratulations. Losing weight is not easy and it's a huge commitment, so that's super awesome that you're able to do that. You should be extremely proud of yourself. And having long belts as a result of losing weight, not such a bad problem to have. But now that you've lost some weight you want your belts to fit, I understand. Let's talk about the ideal belt length. So when you're wearing a leather belt, you want it to extend just a little bit past your first belt loop. And in my experience a good rule of thumb is to buy a belt that's two inches longer than your waist size. Simple as that. The only exception to that is if you're talking about a braided leather belt. It's a great belt to wear during the summertime. And the style of those is you want it to be a little bit longer so you can tuck it in just to style. Congratulations again Christian on losing weight. Losing weight can make you feel really good and feeling good translates into confidence. And confidence is one of the most important things when you're talking about style. Questions? If you guys have questions, as always send them in, or send them via Twitter or Instagram using the hashtag AskHSS. Thanks for tuning in to this week's episode of Ask He Spoke Style. I'll see you next week. Thanks for watching.


Hello people, I'm Ginny Matherall, I'm your local fourth-generation witch of Irish descent, I'll have you know no less. Today we're back with my ever-popular Almanac series looking at all the witchcraft that you can do on what days, when and why during the month of March. So what I first like to do with these videos is to give you a general overview of all the witchcraft trends that happen throughout the months of March and then we'll look at the nitty gritty day-to-day detail of what witchcraft you can do and why. Therefore we're going to start with our general overview. March is one of those funny months, isn't it?  The old adage of in like a lion out like a lamb applies through March but it was one of the most significant of the months of the agricultural year because this is when we sow our seed. You can imagine the superstitions and traditions that rose from this. Irish Catholics still to this day will sprinkle holy water over their potato crop when they plant them in March. This is very much taken from the pagan practices of wishing the best for your crops for the year and putting that magical intent into them. This time of year is invigorating, isn't it, with the blustery winds and you can feel the green man, that god of the spring, as he stalks across the land pulling forth the energy into the trees that they fall into leaf. The Anglo-Saxons and the Welsh called this month the winter spring and it's known that there's going to be a sharp frost in March so don't count on your crops necessarily surviving. The end of March, the last three days of March are known as a black thorn winter because it could often snow, we're not out of the woods yet but we're very much into spring. So what do you do in the spring? Well the best thing to do is to scrub your house. Great, it's time to clean. I'm not a clean freak although I do like watching other people clean on TikTok. It's quite fun, probably because I never see anyone else clean apart from me. Kittens born in March were considered the best of all cats. I don't know what the best type of cat is, the best mouser maybe. However if you are of a pagan mind what you should really have is a black cockerel that is also hatched in March because this will keep away those pesky evil spirits. I prefer doing warding spells myself but a black cockerel might work. March is filled is it not with a yellowness about it? The Daffy Down Dilly as we used to call the little daffodils these are going to strew themselves across the countryside along with your primroses. Now primroses you should only pick in bunches of 13 by the way to bring them into your house, it's bad luck otherwise. This is also the time before the grass has got too long that you can find the elusive four-leafed clover. The clover plant is now growing with the spring with everything else. Before it's hidden by all the other plants you can sometimes find those elusive charmed four leafers which keep away evil spirits, protect you from bad luck, make you happy and you can wish upon and bring you gold apparently. My mother who was a very strange witch in many ways and brilliant but strange all she ever had to do was to sit on a grass and a patch of grass and you go oh look darling I found a four leaf clover another one yeah you'll have this one she was always giving them to me and she always thought that they were such a good omen for the future so every house that I went into that she immediately then found a four leaf clover and now I consider was blessed by my mother. And finally March is the continuation throughout the British countryside of feral football. Feral football is decidedly ambiguous when it comes to rules, the pitch, the goals, how it's played. I love a bit of feral football. We didn't do feral football when I was growing up we did something called fireball hockey. Now I was going to tell you what fireball hockey is but I'm not allowed to say these words on YouTube because I might get banned so I'm not so don't play it or do anything with it but it's great fun and it is played exactly as it sounds so I'll leave it at that. That is my overview for March there is plenty to be looking at you're going to get out of the garden you're going to do some spring cleaning you're going to protect your house from evil spirits by having a rooster or get a new kitten or finding that four leaf clover. There is of course many other more things to march than I can put on in this video so I'll put a playlist up here of my Almanac series and if you'd like to go to previous years march playlist the overview will give you plenty more information so now let's get on to the day-to-day detail and of course we always start with the first of March the first thing that you do before anything else on the first of March is to wake up and say white rabbits this is an old old custom white rabbits were always considered incredibly lucky rabbits in general are lucky we also white rabbits as soon as we wake up it is an old tradition and I believe it's to do with calling in the luck of the rabbit before you say anything else say white rabbits very important the next thing we do on the first of March is to make sure that all our doors and windows are shut because this is the day that the army of fleas is going to invade your house if you keep all your doors and windows shut and don't open them at all not even to go out I think you should just stay in under the covers on the first of March um then you will not suffer from fleas at all this year which now if you live in Strathclyde which is in Scotland you play something called wapity scurry that sounded almost Danish didn't it apologies to the scots I obviously can't do a scotch accent I lived in Scotland for four years and I was quite good then but now I can't anyway wapity scurry is where children go around hitting each other with paper balls on long bits of string and any other adults that they can find making as much noise as possible after it's dark and this is an order to chase away the evil spirits for the spring now it's very well known and actually I completely agree that loud noises chase away evil spirits it is something to do with the vibrational energy that the noise creates and so therefore it is a good idea to go around banging saucepans in your house or if you're like my husband an eldest boy extremely loud metal slash heavy metal around us finally the Welsh out there it is st david's day so it's considered extremely lucky for you to wear a leak in your hat because apparently st david was the person who told the Welsh army to put leaks in their hats in order that they could identify each other in battle happy st david's day to you the Welsh the fifth of march is the start of the mad march hair season so the mad march hair season is not great for us witches because they could be our shape shifting sisters out there witches were known to shift into the shape of hairs and so you see any hairs acting oddly let them be you can't shoot these hairs with normal you know guns and bullets you have to have rowan leaves or rowan branches behind your gun stock when you shoot them or use a silver bullet like a werewolf if you see any hair while setting out on a journey on this morning i'm very sad to say that your journey is not going to be a success and should turn around go home stay there the 10th of march is the night of the new moon astrologers believe that whatever zodiacal sign the moon is in the moon will take on those elements of that sign throughout the month this is the new moon of Pisces on this day and Pisces is a deeply sensitive sign which means this Pisces new moon is all about delving into the dream world dreams are incredibly important to us witches we like to use them to foretell future or to speak with spirits and animals in the past and loves ones dreams are where we release our inner inhibitions and reach for those spiritual aspects pay attention to your dreams on this night of the new moon because they may well have pearls of wisdom especially for you the 10th of march is also known as mothering a sunday in the uk now this is when children go back and visit their mother taking you know nice gifts such as flowers daffodils and mothering sunday cakes and chocolate etc etc it was taken over by the christian faith and called well it said so we're going to take over mothering sunday and and have it as when you visit your mother church absolute rot we always visited our mothers on this day and it is so important to continue with this because as a mother i'm mainly laughed at by my children teased mercilessly and told i know absolutely nothing when in fact i know everything the 15th of march this is known as the ides 15 is ides and the ides of march has always been known as an unlucky day but where the ides of march said shakespeare when he was killing off julia's Caesar that the romans always had it thus and they were taking their you know traditions from the Greeks from the egyptians etc don't start anything new on this day just carry on with your normal day to day life the 17th of march is that great st paddy's day st patrick's day the Irish national holiday now st patrick's day is absolutely symbolised by the colour green and leprechauns the colour green of course is synonymous with the emerald isle with ireland which has incredibly fertile grounds and because it's warmed by the gulf stream doesn't often snow i mean there is the saying it never snows in ireland which is blatantly untrue i can remember several occasions when i've been buried in six foot deep snow falls however st patrick's day is also bound up with the leprechaun now it's said that when the Danes came over to ireland they entrusted their gold to the leprechaun and the leprechauns hid that gold in crocs and they placed the gold at the end of rainbows as well as wherever leprechauns placed their gold now you can get the gold of a leprechaun by catching them and if you've got them do not take your eye off them and they are on a bound to tell you where their gold is st patrick's day it's also known as a day of abundance and the Celts used to believe that every fold would have a calf and every pool hold a salmon which is rather charming isn't it so st patrick's day you should certainly eat drink and be merry and wear green and find your leprechaun and get your croc of gold perfect day st patrick's day the 19th of march is when the sun enters ire's now we all like to know what an ire's personage should be especially from my old almanac of 1642 so i'm going to read you what it says this is the ire's man he born of ire's shall be of good wit and neither rich or poor so that's encouraging isn't it he shall soon be angry but easily pleased so he's strong emotionally i think is the words there he will have power of the goods of dead folk i don't know if that means he's going to be a lawyer or he is just has power over estates he knows at 34 he shall be a fornicator but wedded at 35 whereupon fornication will stop one presumes and if he is not he will then become chaste so he'll be a fornicator up to the age of 34 but after 35 that's it ire's woman let's have a look at them the ire's woman shall be ireful and suffer great wrongs from day to day so you've got a hard life ire's woman she shall lose her husband but recover a better one like that i have lost this one but i found him he's much nicer over there she shall be sick at five years old and in mortal peril at 25 and if she survives this mortal peril she will be in debt oh it's terrible for the female isn't it until 43 but afterwards she will prosper ire's can also be told by their noses so if you've got an ire's person and they have a crooked nose they are unstable a beaky nose they are bold a flat nose they are lecherous and a round nose they are indecisive so that's ire's for you the 19th of march is considered the opposite of the 15th if you are born on this day you are incredibly lucky if you're a boy it's known that you cannot be killed in battle in fact i do think it's true because my long dead father-in-law was born on this day and he used to enter all these competitions and win and the first prizes would be like you know major cars major holidays houses he won everything he was incredibly lucky so the next date in our diary is the 24th of march now this is the angel gabriel's feast day don't get hung up here apart angels being part of christian mythology they are so not the christians merely took them over we have known about angels and talked with angels for far longer than christianity has ever been here now the angel gabriel is very much an angel that we should be looking up towards they are a messenger angel and they are invoked by those people who are looking to them for good news so if you're wanting good news to come today is the day to ask the angel gabriel and wait and hear what they bring the 20th of march is of course the vernal equinox ostara one of the great feasts of the wheel of the year now i'm not going to tell you too much about ostara in this video here because i of course i'm going to do my own video all about it and you will find it on my channel if it's not up already but if you'd like to watch a video on ostara now and i haven't put it up i'll put up last year's here for you and have a look at that the 25th of march is the night of the full moon this full moon is the last of the winter season moons it's known as the worm moon because the earthworms come out of their winter slumber and the crow moon because the crows are obviously looking for earthworms this moon is a great balancing moon and the water that is blessed by this full moon your moon water of march will have a great balance within it i do like a bit of moon water in my spells actually because it gives it that extra layer of energy there is also a penumbral eclipse which you can see in the americas and asia it's considered very um not good luck anyway i don't know if it's bad luck but it's definitely not good luck if you're pregnant to go and look at the moon so don't do that what they say that actually happens if you do that is that your baby is born moon struck i eat slightly bizarre now i personally think that moon struck people are rather lovely so i wouldn't mind if you woke up on the first of march and said white rabbits is the first thing that you said then on the 31st of march the last thing you say as you lay your head on your pillow is hair hair did you do it now this is going to set your luck in stone for all those things that you have accomplished in march and they will forever grow with luck and greatness this is very much to do with hair's whole balance of light and darkness they're considered shape shifting animals they can change their form it's all to do with the vernal equinox you know that period of balance and so that is why if you say hair hair the last thing before you go to sleep on the 31st of march your luck will be set let me know in the comments which one of these that you particularly like and are particularly going to do people ask me you know do i follow this almanac myself and absolutely i do i'm not great with a full moon ritual every month because i'm not great at night anymore because i'm too old but during the daytime i can certainly do you know whatever i do otherwise come into my 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Revillac. Aye. Mr. Ford. Aye. And the chair votes aye. Those minutes are meeting minutes are approved. Okay. And then the last thing before we depart for the evening. So our upcoming schedule, just to make sure everyone's aware. So the next hearing we have scheduled is for Tuesday, July 13th at 7.30 PM, which is the continuance of Thorndike Place. And then currently Friday, July 16th is the scheduled close of the public hearing on Thorndike Place. And that is something I believe we will be discussing. And then Thursday, July, this makes no sense. At Thursday, July 19th, but that is July 19th. I thought it was Monday, July 19th. Right, it did. What did I mean to put down the, Monday, July 19th? I believe that's our date for the continuance of 1165 R Massachusetts Avenue. Does that sound right to everybody? It is. I recall it was an unusual choice of nights to accommodate schedules. Okay, that could be, yeah, because I believe we were having trouble scheduling call for that one. Yeah, Monday, July 19th. Yep, okay. And then that one is scheduled, and then 1165 R Massachusetts Avenue scheduled to close Friday, July 23rd. And we will obviously review that at the meeting on the 19th. Mr. Valarelli, are there any other dates upcoming? We have no firm dates as of yet, Mr. Chairman. However, we do have some packages that are coming our way, but I don't anticipate that until September sometime. Okay. Yay. Yeah. Very good. I'm with you, Roger. Yeah, I'm a breather. Breather of sorts. Sure. Well, thank you all for your participation in tonight's meeting of the Arlington Zoning Board of Appeals. Appreciate everyone's patience throughout the meeting, especially wish to thank Rick Valarelli and Vincent Lee for all their assistance in preparing for and hosting tonight's online meeting. Please note the purpose of the board's recording, the meeting is to ensure the creation of an accurate record of the proceedings. It is our understanding that the recordings made by ACMI will be available on demand at acmi.tv within the coming days. If anyone has comments or recommendations, please send them via email to zdaatown.arlington.ma.us. That email address is also listed on the Zoning Board of Appeals website. And to conclude tonight's meeting, I would ask for a motion to adjourn. So moved. Second. Handlin, I'm gonna second. Thank you, Mr. Mills. Quick roll call of the board, Mr. Dupont. Aye. Mr. Handlin. Aye. Aye. Mr. Mills. Mr. Revillac. Aye. Mr. Ford. Aye. And the chair votes aye. We are adjourned. Thank you all very much. Take care, John. Take care, Ray. Pat, quick question for you. Yeah. In regards to writing the decisions on these. Yeah. Do you want me to start on them? I know you had said, because you were away, you weren't sure you'd be able to get on to them. I'm going to, excuse me, I'll be back on the, I'm flying back on the fifth. So that should be enough time for me to get them done by the 13th, which is what I'd aim at. Oh, perfect. Okay. Okay. That's wonderful. Thank you. Thank you, Pat. All right, good night, everybody. Good night.


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Hey everybody, welcome to another exciting installment here at A Week in Geek, and this time it's another haul video for the month of August. Welcome back guys, I took a brief hiatus, but unfortunately if you're new here you've already hit the unsubscribe button and then you subscribe back. It's hilarious watching the numbers go up and down. I have been away for a few weeks moving back into the house and getting everything ready. It's going to take a little bit more time, so I think the hiatus will continue for just a tiny bit. But don't worry, there will still be weekly videos on this channel. So yeah, look forward to more videos just at a slower pace. And if you're one of the ones that have stayed regardless, thank you. Thank you ever so much. I couldn't do the Invincible video for the month of August, that's on me. But I promise you guys will have double the fun in September with the Invincible series to wrap it up. For now this is the last video on this crappy set of mine if you will. But yeah, I'm very much excited to begin A Week in Geek, them 3.0 if you will. I do have a haul here because at the end of every month I like to highlight all the cool stuff that I got. So let's start with Manga First. I did get My Hero Academia Volume 14 and Goodnight Poon Poon Volume 2. I read Volume 1 and it is really interesting. I really enjoyed it. I cannot wait to dig into this as well as the other volumes and really do a video on it because I think this is a series that deserves to be talked about. But I want to get the full picture. I don't want to make any assumptions or anything based off of what I've read already. I want to get the full picture and then bring like this cool little analysis on Poon Poon and then the series overall and whatnot. This is a massive box of manga. I'm not going to go volume by volume but I don't know if you can see it. It is a whole bunch of Berserk. The guys over at the Omnibros channel or I should say the Omnibros Collector's Network as they like to call themselves now. They sold me on this and a bunch of people at the Otaku's Den and so many others. So many YouTube videos about manga collections and how fantastic and how amazing Berserk is that I said you're whatever. I'm going to get Berserk. So yeah I already had volume one way back and I really liked it. I never talked about it but I really enjoyed volume one and I never picked up a series but with Wright's Stuff's I think it was a Golden Sail or whatever I picked up their manga bundles. So there you go Berserk. That's volume two all the way to 14 over here 15 16 and I don't know if you can see it and 17 whatever. So yeah it's a big box of manga. I still have a long way to go because it's like a hundred million books. Next up what else did I get trade wise? I did a review very recently for Ultimates from Al Ewing volume one. This is volume two Civil War two. I'm not looking forward to reading the Civil War two stuff but I am very much looking forward to continuing the story from volume one. You can check out the review on this channel as well. My favorite DC superhero of course I had to get Aquaman by Peter David volume two. This or book two I should say this is a quintessential 90s book if you want to collect classic Aquaman material you need this in your collection. What bothers me is that we still don't have a solicitation for book three so please go out and get this book. I did a review on the first one if you're interested on this channel. Link it up somewhere with the playlist of all the Aquaman reviews that I've done so far. I'm very much excited to read to reread I guess volume two and hopefully we get a solicitation for number three. Green Lantern Rebirth volume one. I hadn't picked up anything from the Green Lantern side of things with the whole rebirth stuff so I'm very excited to read this. I love Jessica Trues and Simon Baz. These two characters are pretty awesome in my opinion. And this is an oldie but a goodie because I love me some New Gods action. I had to get Green Lantern New Gods Godhead event. This is just the event from the New 52 and if I remember correctly it picks up a whole ton of issues from Green Lantern, Core, New Guardians, Sinestro, Annuals and One Shot. It's done by a whole bunch of different people but it's pretty cool. This was a wonderful gift from my friend Beto. Thank you so much. I was not expecting this at all. I loved everything all the information that came out of San Diego Comic Con this year and I loved the poster image which is like a tribute I guess for a composition image based off of Ivan Reyes image from his New 52 tenure with Jeff Johns and Aquaman and all that stuff. So I'm really excited to finally get this awesome magazine in my possession for the Aquaman collection I guess. Let's head into Hard Covers. Not a whole lot but still pretty sweet. This is an Omni Dog recommendation. I have been meaning to check this out since forever. It is Justice League versus Suicide Squad, the event from DC Rebirth. None of the two books interest me and I do know they received mediocre reviews but I am very interested in this event because I hear it is a ton of fun and I got it for cheap too so there you go. I've been slagging on my modern Spidey collection so I got the Amazing Spider-Man Worldwide Volume 3. I am double dipping on the Clone Conspiracy stuff but it continues beyond that and Volume 4 isn't out yet which bugs me but we do have the Red Goblin stuff coming out in September so that should be interesting. Hopefully we do get a solicitation for Worldwide Volume 4 I guess.  Sir, I am in your debt. This is amazing. I wanted to get this when it came out but for some reason I put it off and when I finally decided you know what I should get it because it's awesome. This is one of my favorite Marvel books. It went out of print and originally this was going to take a different route but Josh being the awesome person that he is gifted this to me. So thank you so much my friend. I am speechless. This is awesome. I love Jonathan Hickman's Avengers Run, specifically Infinity being one of my favorite Marvel events. I'd love that event so much. And speaking of means my favorite Marvel event. Infinity was one of my favorites but this is my favorite. I'm sorry I'm repeating myself. Secret Invasion by Brian Michael Bendis. I love the new Avengers Run, one of my favorite Avengers books and this Secret Invasion is my favorite event. I love the whole concept of like the campaign they were doing of who do you trust and finding out that the scrolls have basically infiltrated the whole planet from politicians to government officials to military leaders to superheroes all that stuff and it's up to a covert operation to fight this Secret Invasion if you will. So yeah this is spectacular folks. Plus in my wildest conspiracy theories I want to believe that this is where we're headed with the movies the Marvel movies with Disney and all that stuff because out of the blue to not have a new Avengers Omnibus Volume 2 and all of a sudden after a couple movie announcements before Phase 3 ended to get this seems kind of suspicious. Plus we've got that Captain Marvel Brie Larson movie and it's going to adapt sort of the Kree and Scroll War and we're going to see the scrolls for the very first time in a movie. Coincidence much? I don't know I would like to think that MCU Phase 4 or whatever is going to take some hints with this book maybe I don't know that that's it for books per se but the fun doesn't end here because at a week and geek them we also enjoyed the thrill of pop and figures and anime and Blu-rays and all that stuff so that's what we're going to do next I'm going to show you the Blu-ray DVD section of this haul. Add to do it my favorite one of my favorite anime series Eureka 7 this is Eureka 7 High Evolution the new movie remake trilogy or something even if it's not as great as the series I'm still going to get this trilogy because I love the franchise so much it's one of my favorites except Ayo but don't tell anybody I said that. Aside from the magazine my friend Beto surprised me with these two amazing criterion collection Blu-rays the Devil's Backbone and Chronos from Egyermodeltoro oh my gosh I don't know man it's the generosity that I have experienced with friends and people from from the Facebook groups and all that stuff and my fellow YouTubers and all that it's just oh it can be overwhelming it it certainly puts a smile to my face and reminds me of how you know it's just the random acts of kindness that just pushed it or it keeps the darkness at bay I think it was something like that so yeah thank you so much man speaking of Blu-rays I did get Avengers Infinity War the 4k edition I had to do it it's one of the year's biggest nerd movies uh the death of Superman the DC animated movie this is set in continuity with the animated movie universe it's not like a direct adaptation Digimon adventure tri coexistence this is the fifth uh movie there's one more to go I don't know when that will be released I think next year or something like that I upgraded my DVD set to the Blu-ray the greatest love story ever animated I love this series very much Odeca 7 is a fantastic animated show that I think everybody should watch uh continuing my Gundam journey with the Universal Century stuff here we have Gundam F91 on Blu-ray and because it's not out yet on Blu-ray I went ahead and picked up the DVD of 0080 uh War in the Pocket on DVD that's it for movies let's finish things off with figures mostly a pop haul I'll go by quickly don't worry about it loot anime sometimes puts out awesome stuff and such was the case with this it's an astro boy light-up figure and it looks pretty awesome I love the box art and let me do like a quick unboxing real quick because I want you guys to see it I don't have the light-up feature right here but yeah this is basically it like like the x-ray from the manga and show and you can see lights up and everything this is pretty awesome I love old Japanese anime cartoons whatever it it looks so awesome in the collection in my honest opinion I love it I don't know I don't know what you guys think uh so yeah pops pops let's do pops I gotta get another shout out to my friend Michael Curry this I was not expecting this at all this typing by surprise sir you did not have to do this but I thank you so much from the bottom of my heart thank you Mike that is uh the hellboy in suit from the San Diego Comic Con wave of pops or whatever I had a scuff with uh entertainment earth for some reason they didn't want us in the package I'm like well okay whatever uh no baby but it's it's it's really badass and Mike surprised me with this he had an extra one thank you so much speaking of extra ones and exclusives uh the whole thing with uh Beto and and and the thing was because he went out of out of his way to get this for me online if the camera can focus it is erase her head from my hero academia the hot topic exclusive and after uh battle deco people are nuts over my hero academia pops because they think uh every exclusive is gonna mean big bucks I don't know I was fortunate enough to get the original set when it first came out and um yeah I'm starting to get the second set and started with this guy first sort of to get the headache out of the way first is steamboat willy I don't know if you've watched my channel but there's a video on here that was about grail pops like my top 10 uh most wanted uh funko pops this was on the list like the original steamboat willy which it kind of looks pretty outdated compared to this one I was so happy when this was solicited it it's so freaking cool it's a comment but it is awesome the attention to detail on this thing is pretty freaking great man I am really happy with it I don't know if it featured this but it's flocked and it's an amazon exclusive from prime day it is sully from monsters ink I love this this is really really awesome look at that easily contender for uh pop of the year I don't know if it'll make the list or not but at least to me it is next up one of the many headaches for a lot of fans it is the Pikachu Pokemon pop for a target exclusive listen this was a pain to get because one there are no targets over here two it's a target exclusive so a lot of people are going to jump on it real quickly and if I was lucky enough to get it via the store they don't ship to my specific address so I had to go the eBay route unfortunately but I got a great deal on it just like four dollars over what I would have paid with the actual store so I was happy with it and just the fact that we have that we're not we but Funko has the pokemon license that tickles my geek spot really good because that means there is a possibility that we can get like evolution three packs or like the starters or six inch or 10 inch pops for the legendaries like imagine uh uh uh Lugia or Ho or Darkrai whatever just these legendary pokemon like huge pops or you can have six inch uh starters like uh Blastoise Charizard or my personal favorite my favorite pokemon out of everybody uh Feraligator six inch version yes please you can also do like the the shiny versions could be your chases there's so much you can do you can do eight bit for the og uh gen one uh pokemon you got me Funko you got me let's see what happens in 2019 with the license so yeah uh that's it guys a bunch of cool stuff in the month of august unfortunately I couldn't do many videos but that's okay because there are more days ahead of us and I will be uploading uh more frequently soon so thank you guys if you're new to the channel thank you so much for subscribing for liking for commenting if you can hit that little notification bell so whatever I do decide to upload a video you'll know about it and you can view it and share it and do all that wonderful stuff that you guys do follow me on your favorite social media platform and I will catch all of you on our next video