Art versus Cupid by Ella Wheeler Wilcox ReadfullyBrivox.org Maiden read by Sonja Cupid read by John Burlinson Art versus Cupid A room in a private house A maiden sitting before fire meditating Now have I fully fixed upon my part Goodbye to dreams For me a life of art Beloved art, O realm serene and fair Above the mean and sordid world of care Above earth's small ambitions and desires Art, art, the very word my soul inspires From foolish memories it sets me free Not what has been, but that which is to be Absorbs me now A due to vain regret The bow is tensely drawn The target set A knock at the door The night is dark and chill The hour is late Who knocks upon my door? Tis I, your fate! Thou dost deceive not me, but thine own self My fate is not a wandering vagrant elf My fate is here within this throbbing heart That beats alone for glory and for art Another knock at the door Pray let me in, I am so faint and cold Door is pushed ajar And to Cupid, who approaches the fire without stretched hands Me thinks thou art not faint, however cold, But rather too courageous and most bold Surprisingly ill-mannered, sir, and rude, Without an invitation to intrude into my very presence Cupid, warming his hands But you see, girls never mind a little chap like me They're always watching for me on the sky And hoping I will call Indeed not I, my heart has listened to a sweeter voice A clarion call that gives command, not choice And I have answered to that call, I come To other voices shall my ears be dumb To art alone I consecrate my life Art is my spouse, and I his willing wife Cupid, slowly gazing in the great A heart is a sultan, and you must divide his love with many another ill-fed bride Now I know one who worships you alone I will not listen, for the dice is thrown and art has won me On my brow some day shall rest the laurel wreath Cupid, sitting down and looking at maid critically Just let me say I think sweet orange blossoms under lace Are better suited to your type of face I yet shall stand before an audience That listens as one mind, absorbed in tents And with my genius I shall rouse its cheers Still it to silence, softening to tears Or wake its laughter Oh, the play, the play, the place the thing, my boy, the play Cupid, suddenly clapping his hands Oh, say, I know a splendid role for you to take And one that always keeps the house awake And calls for pretty dressing Oh, it's great Well? Well, what is it? Wherefore make me wait? Cupid, tapping his brow thoughtfully Oh, how is it those lines run? Oh, now I know, you make a stately entrance measured, slow To stirring music, then you kneel and say something about To honor and obey, for better and for worse, till death do part Be still, you foolish boy, that is not art She needs great skill, who takes the role of wife In God's stupendous drama, human life So I once thought Oh, once my very soul was filled and thrilled with dreaming of that role Life seemed so wonderful It held for me no purpose, no ambition, but to be loving and loved My highest thought of fame was someday bearing my dear lover's name Alone I oft times uttered it aloud Oh, rode it down, half timid, and all proud to see myself lost utterly in him As some small star might joy in growing dim when sinking in the sun Or as did you, forgetting the brief little life it knew in space Mide on the ocean's bosom fall and ask for nothing, only to give all Now that's the talk, it's music to my ear After all that stuff on art and the career I hope she'll keep it up Again my dream shaped into changing pictures I would seem to see myself in beautiful array Move down the aisle upon my wedding day And then I saw the modest living room with lighted lamp And fragrant plants in bloom And books and sewing scattered all about, and just we two alone There is not a doubt I'll lend her yet My dream kaleidoscope changed still again And framed love's dearest hope, the trinity of home And life was good, and all its deepest meaning understood Sits lost in a dream, behind scenes a voice sings a lullaby Beautiful land of nod, cupid in ecstasy tiptoes about And clasps his hands in the light Another scene, a matron in her prime I saw myself glide peacefully with time into the quiet middle years Content with simple joys to dear home-circle land My sons and daughters made my diadem I saw my happy youth renewed in them The pain of growing old lost all its sting For love stood near, in winter as in spring Cupid tiptoes to door and makes a signal Maiden starts up dramatically Twasper the dream, I woke all suddenly The world had changed, and now life means to me My art, the stage, excitement and the crowd The glare of many footlights And the loud applause of man as I cry in rage Give me the dagger, or creep down the stage In that sleep-walking scene Oh, art like mine will send the chills down every listener's spine And when I choose, salt-tears shall freely flow As in the moonlight I cry, Romeo, Romeo Oh, wherefore art thou Romeo? I, this done, my dream of home life It is but begun The heart but once can dream a dream so fair And so henceforth love thoughts I do forswear Since faith in love has crumbled to the dust In fame alone I put my hope and trust Cupid at the door beckons excitedly Enter lover without stretched arms Here's one who will explain yourself to you And make that old sweet dream of love come true Fix up your foolish quarrel, time is brief So waste no more of it in doubt or grief The lovers meet and embrace Cupid in doorway Warm lip to lip, and heart to beating hearts The cast is made My lady has her part Curtain End of poem This recording is in the public domain Autumn, a dirge, by Percy Bysshelly Read for LibriVox.org by Ian King The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying And the year on the earth her deathbed In a shroud of leaves dead is lying Come, months, come away from November to May In your saddest array Follow the beer of the dead cold year And like dim shadows, watch by her sepulchre The chill rain is falling, the nipped worm is crawling The rivers are swelling, the thunder is knelling for the year The blithe swallows are flown And the lizards each gone to his dwelling Come, months, come away Put on white, black and grey Let your light sisters play Ye follow the beer of the dead cold year And make her grave green With tear on tear End of poem This recording is in the public domain Autumn, by Alice Carey Read for LibriVox.org by Ian King Shorter and shorter now The twilight clips the days As through the sunset gates they crowd And summer from her golden collar slips and strays Through stubble fields and moans aloud Save when by fits the warmer air deceives And, stealing hopeful to some sheltered bower She lies on pillows of the yellow leaves And tries the old tunes over for an hour The wind, whose tender whisper in the may Set all the young blooms listening through the grove Sits rustling in the faded boughs today And makes his cold and unsuccessful love The rose has taken off her tyre of red The mullin' stalk, its yellow stars have lost And the proud meadow-pink hangs down her head Against earth's chilly bosom, witched with frost The robin that was busy all the June Before the sun had kissed the topmost bow Catching our hearts up in his golden tune Has given place to the brown cricket now The very cock crows lonesomely at morn Each flag and fern the shrinking stream divides Uneasy cattle low and lambs forlorn Creep to their storied sheds with nettle'd sides Shut up the door, who loves me must not look upon the withered world But haste to bring his lighted candle and his storybook And live with me the poetry of spring End of poem, this recording is in the public domain Autumn by Walter De La Mer Read for LibriVox.org by Kangaroo There is a wind where the rose was Cold rain where sweet grass was And clouds like sheep stream o'er the steep Gray skies where the lark was Not gold where your hair was Not warm where your hand was But phantom forlorn beneath the thorn Your ghost where your face was Sad winds where your voice was Tears tears where my heart was And ever with me, child ever with me Silence where hope was End of poem, this recording is in the public domain Bright star would I wear steadfast as thou art By John Keats Read for LibriVox.org by Winston Tharp Bright star would I wear steadfast as thou art Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night And watching with eternal lids apart Like nature's patient sleepless eromite The moving waters at their priest-like task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores Or gazing at the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the boars No, yet still steadfast, still unchangeable Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast To feel for ever its soft fall and swell Awake for ever in a sweet unrest Still, still to hear her tender taken breath And so live ever or else swoon to death End of poem, this recording is in the public domain The City in the Sea by Edgar Allan Poe Low death has reared himself a throne In a strange city lying alone far down within the dim west Where the good and the bad and the worst And the best have gone to their eternal rest There shrines and palaces and towers Time-eaten towers that tremble not Resemble nothing that is ours Around by lifting winds forgot Resignedly beneath the sky The melancholy waters lie No rays from the holy heaven come down On the long nighttime of that town But light from out the lurid sea Streams up the turrets silently Gleams up the pinnacles far and free Up domes, up spires, up kingly halls Up faines, up Babylon-like walls Up shadowy long forgotten bowers A sculptured ivy and stone flowers Up many and many a marvelous shrine Whose wreathed freezes intertwine the veal, The violet and the vine Resignedly beneath the sky The melancholy waters lie So blend the turrets and shadows there That all seem pendulous in air While from a proud tower in the town Death looks gigantically down There open faines and gaping graves Yon level with the luminous waves But not the riches there that lie In each idol's diamond eye Not the gaily-jeweled dead Tempt the waters from their bed For no ripples curl alas Along that wilderness of glass No swellings tell that winds may be Upon some far-off happier sea No heavings hint that winds have been On seas less hideously serene But lo, a stir is in the air The wave, there is a movement there As if the towers had thrust aside In slightly sinking the dull tide As if their tops had feebly given Avoid within the filmy heaven The waves have now a redder glow The hours are breathing faint and low And when amid no earthly moans Down, down that town shall settle hence Hell rising from a thousand thrones Shall do it reverence End of poem Red by Michele Frye, Baton Rouge, Louisiana In October 2016 This recording is in the public domain Good beasts are silent in their pens Hush, leave the boasting to the hands End of poem This recording is in the public domain Odours that rise When the spade wounds the root of tree Rose, current, raspberry or goutweed Rhubarb or celery The smoke's smell too Flowing from where a bonfire burns the dead The waste, the dangerous And all to sweetness turns It is enough to smell To crumble the dark earth While the robin sings over again Sad songs of autumn mirth End of poem This recording is in the public domain With constant drinking, fresh and fair The sea itself, which one would think, Should have but little need of drink, Drinks twice ten thousand rivers up, So fill that they all flow the cup The busy sun, and one would guess, By his drunken fiery face no less, Drinks up the sea, and when he's done, The moon and stars drink up the sun. They drink and dance by their own light, They drink and revel all the night, Nothing in nature's sober found. But an eternal health goes round, Fill up the bowl then, fill it high, Fill all the glasses there, for why, Should every creature drink but I? Why, man of morals, tell me why? End of poem This recording is in the public domain White wet clots impatiently About the grizzled head Where the coarse hair mats like grass And the efficient wind With cold professional-based Probes like a lancet through the cotton shirt About us are white cliffs and space No facades show, nor roof, Nor any spire, all sheathed in snow The parasitic snow that clings about them Like a blight Only detached lights float hazily Like greenish moons, and endlessly Down the hoarse street A couched and comforted and sleeping warm The blizzard waltzes with the night End of poem This recording is in the public domain Haunted houses By Henry Wasworth Longfellow Read for LibriVox.org by Thomas Peter All houses wherein men have lived and died Are haunted houses Through the open doors The harmless phantoms on their errands glide With feet that make no sound upon the floors We meet them at the doorway, on the stair Along the passages they come and go Impalpable impressions on the air A sense of something moving to and fro There are more guests at table than the hosts invited The illuminated hall is thronged with quiet In offensive ghosts, as silent as the pictures on the wall The stranger at my fireside cannot see the forms I see Nor hear the sounds I hear He but perceives what is, while unto me All that has been is visible and clear We have no title deeds to house or lands Owners and occupants of earlier dates From graves forgotten stretch their dusty hands And hold in more maim still their old estates The spirit world around this world of sense Floats like an atmosphere And everywhere wafts through these earthly mists And vapours dense, a vital breath of more ethereal air Our little lives are kept in equipoise By opposite attractions and desires The struggle of the instinct that enjoys And the more noble instinct that aspires These perturbations, this perpetual jar Of earthly wants and aspirations high Come from the influence of an unseen star An undiscovered planet in our sky And as the moon from some dark gate of cloud Throws o'er the sea a floating bridge of light Across whose trembling planks are fancies Crowd into the realm of mystery and night So from the world of spirits there descends A bridge of light, connecting it with this Or whose unsteady floor that sways and bends Wander our thoughts above the dark abyss End of poem This recording is in the public domain The Haunted House by Janet Hamilton Read for LibriVox.org when you get novelist The haunted house in days of yore Stood lone, deserted, ruined, whore With dusty pains and moss-grown sill With grass-grown steps, rooms dark and chill Where, while the wailing night winds moaned Pale shrouded spectres shrieked and groaned And nightly, winged with wild afright The trembling youth in rapid flight Would pass the spot, nor look behind Four fearful sounds were on the wind Nor paused till on the hearth he stood Amidst the dear fraternal brood The haunted house How vast the change in modern times A goodly range of painted casements Scaly shine with glittering pains Large crystalline and rich-cut goblets brimming high Where troops of fiends in ambush lie Pront to obey that potent charm The screw-propelling waiter's arm And hark, through rooms gay, thronged and bright Sound festal strains and laughter light And tinkling bells and dancing feet That trip the time to music sweet Ah, simple youth, beware, beware Cross not that threshold, snowy fare With varnished door forever open Within the ghosts of murdered hope Of wedded duties, filial claims Of high resolves and noble aims Of health and fame, of time and peace With whale and plate that will not cease Forever when dark midnight falls Stock through the rooms, glide round the walls While warning voices mournful swell Upon the wind with dirge-like knell Pass thoughtless youth to adepth to stay Avoid, turn from it, haste away End of poem This recording is in the public domain Heraclitus by William Johnson Corry 1823 to 1892 Read for LibriVox.org by Hatton43 In October 2016 They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead They brought me bitter news to hear And bitter tears to shed I wept as I remembered, how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking And sent him down the sky And now thou art lying My dear old Caryon guest A handful of grey ashes Long, long ago at rest Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales awake For death he'd take a fall away, but then he cannot take End of poem This recording is in the public domain The Homewood Track by CJ Dennis Read for LibriVox.org by Algie Pug Once a year we lumber southward with the clip from Yarrity Spell the bullocks in the township while we run our yearly spree What's a bullocky to live for? Days of toil are hard and long And you not begrudge him yearly one short week of wine and song While it lasts, he asks no better When it's over, yoke him up And we'll make another promise for to shun the brimming cup When we've done our little check-in and the townships at our back Then we start to think of mending Out along the Homewood Track For there comes a time of reckoning when we're trudging by the team Back again to work and worry Kind of waking from a dream We begin to see the folly of a week of wicked fun Bought with months of weary slaving, punching bullocks on the run But our views are somewhat tempered when we've done a twelve-month drought And our thoughts ain't so religious when the team is heading south When the pleasure is before us, work and worry at our back We forget the grim reformers out along the Homewood Track What's the odds? It's got to happen What we've done will do again And we know it while we make them resolutions are in vain Life's a weary track to travel, mostly full of ruts and stumps Them that find their days in drudging have to take their joy in lumps Yoke them up and get a move on Gayest times must have an end There's a weary track to travel when we've nothing left to spend If there's still a bob, we're wetted and a last glad joke will crack Time enough for vain regretting when we're on the Homewood Track End of poem This recording is in the public domain The Horrors of War by Janet Hamilton Read Philippa Vox.org by Newgate Novelist Verses suggested by the war in the Crimea, 1854 Flapping fierce her gory pinions, wetting sharp her crimson beak Vulture wore her barbarous minions, calls their ghastly prey to seek Now her hideous form comes swooping from the thundering rampart's height Or the carnage valley stooping, gorged with slaughter, horrid sight Shot and shell, the dark air rending, sulfurous flash and bayonets gleam Shouts and shrieks and groans wild blending with her loud discordant scream High the purple tide is swelling Or the darkened sanguine plain From a thousand bosom's welling mangled limbs and shattered brain Oh, for Angel Eye and station far above the battle cloud Once I'd view the dread migration of the unbodied spirit crowd Through eternity's dark portals To the abodes of wheel or whirl Swiftly rush the new immortals Lord, how long shall it be so? Summerland, oh, beauteous region, rich in foliage, flowers and fruit Shall the foe, whose name is legion, keep and tread thee underfoot Ground thy legal port and city, volleying thunders ceaseless roar Earth affords not aid or pity, they shall fall to rise no more End of poem. This recording is in the public domain And Rose, her face all China white against the gory green Now, Arry Cox, he drives a car for Dr. Percy Gray She's either me or Sunday next, the dock will be away How is it for a little trip to Fernville for the day? I know two bonza girls, he says, fair oddies, both they are There's Rose, who serves behind the joint in Mudge's privet bar And Lena Crump, who jerks the pump down at the southern star Now, who'd refuse a Sunday trip with girls and all give in? The car was there, an oil to spare, to rat would be a sin And who'd refuse a dropper booze when pals is flusher tin What all the courts and papers say can't add to my distress Rose, with the blood upon her face and on her crumpled dress And that poor champ who got the bump, oh God, he was a mess The girls had stout at ten mile out, and we was drinking beer I swear they lies like Elu says that we was on our ear For, as we was both, I'd take me oath, a sober as me here Now, Lena was a dash in peace, I spirited and flash It was plain enough to me that day that Arry'd done his dash And Rose, ah, how her eyes did stare, Rose was my special mash It's easy now for folks to talk who might have done the same We meant no harm to anyone, and Arry knew his game It was like a flash, the skid, the crash, and we was not to blame I wished I could shut out that sight, forget that awful row Oh, Rose, her face all china white, like I can see it now And Arry, like a heap of clothes, just chuck there any hour They says we painted Fernville red, they says that we was gay But what's come after dulls me mine to what them liars say We never dreamt of death and El when we set out that day It was evening when we turned for home, the moon shone full that night And for a mile or more ahead the road lay gleam and wide And Rose that close aside of me, her face turned to the light What if we sung a song or two? What if they heard a shout You sung a laughter, things to curse and make a fuss about Go faster, faster, leaner screams and Arry let her out I'd give me soul just to forget, Lord, how her eyes did stare Her kisses warm upon me lips, I seen a lion there Blood on her face, all china white, and on her yellow air I never took no either pace, I'd been on 20 trips And Rose was resting in me arms, her cheek against my lips A precious lot I dream of skids, a lot I thought of slips I only know we never thinks, I know we never dreams of folk walking on that road Till, sudden, leaner screams, and after that the sights I saw I've seen again in dreams We never seen the bloke ahead, how can they call us rash I'd just seen Arry move to shove his arm around his bash I'd seen her jump to grab the wheel, then Lord, there came the smash Oh, they can blame and cry their shame, it ain't for that I care I held her in my arms and laughed, then seen a lion there The moonlight streamed on her face, and on her yellow air End of poem. This recording is in the public domain Low Barometer by Robert Bridges Red for LibriVox.org by Thomas Peter The south wind strengthens to a gale, across the moon the clouds fly fast The house is smitten as with a flail, the chimney shutters to the blast On such a night when air has loosed its guardian grasp on blood and brain Old terrors then of God or ghost creep from the caves to life again And reason kens he herits in a haunted house Tenants unknown assert their squalid lease of sin with earlier title than his own Unbodied presences, the packed pollution and remorse of time Slipped from oblivion re-enact the horrors of an household crime Some men would quell the thing with prayer whose sightless footsteps pad the floor Whose fearful trespass mounts the stair or burts the locked forbidden door Some have seen corpses long and turd escape from hallowing control Pale charnel forms nay even have heard the shrilling of a troubled soul That wanders to the dawn hath crossed the duller's dark Or earth hath wound closer her storm-spread cloak And thrust the baleful phantoms underground End of poem, this recording is in the public domain Man's Testament by Adam Lindsay Gordon 1833-1870 Read for LibriVox.org by Hatton43 in October 2060 Question not, but live in labour till your goal be won Helping every feeble neighbour seeking help from none Life is mostly froth and bubble, two things stand like stone Kindness in another's trouble, courage in your own End of poem, this recording is in the public domain The Meeting by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read for LibriVox.org by Winston Tharb After so long an absence at last we meet again Does the meeting give us pleasure or does it give us pain? The tree of life has been shaken and but few of us linger now Like the Prophet's two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bow We cordially greet each other in the old familiar tone And we think, though we do not say it, how old and gray he has grown We speak of a merry Christmas and many a happy New Year But each in his heart is thinking of those that are not here We speak of friends and their fortunes and of what they did and said Till the dead alone seemed living and the living alone seemed dead And at last we hardly distinguish between the ghosts and the guests And a mist and a shadow of sadness steals over our merriest chests End of poem, this recording is in the public domain North Wind by Lola Ridge Read for LibriVox.org by Bruce Kachuk I love you, malcontent male wind Shaking the pollen from a flower or hurling the sea backward from the grinning sand Blow on and over my dreams Scatter my sick dreams Throw your lusty arms about me and vellop all my hot body Carry me to pine forests, great rough-bearded forests Bring me to stark plains and steppes I would have the North to-night, the cold, enduring North And if we should meet the snow whirling in spirals And he should blind my eyes Ally, you will defend me You will hold me close blowing on my eyelids End of poem, this recording is in the public domain October 1861 by Janet Hamilton Read for LibriVox.org by Newgate Novelist Not changeful April, with her suns and showers Pregnant with buds, whose birth the genial hours of teeming May will give to life and light Rich and young beauty, odorous and bright Not Rose crowned June, in trailing robes of bloom Her flowery sensors, breathing rich perfume Her glorious sunshine and her bluest skies Her wealth of dancing leaves, where Zephyr sighs Nor fervid July, in her full-blown charms Shedding the odorous hay with sun-browned arms Not glowing August, with her robe unbound With ripening grain and juicy frutage crown Nor the September, though thine orchards glow With fruits ripe, rich and ruddy Laying low the yellowest grain with gleaming sickles keen With just and laugh and harvest song between I sing October, month of all the year To poet's soul than calm deep feeling dear Her chastened sunshine and her dreamy skies With tender magic charm my heart and eyes In silvery haze the purple hills are swaved In dripping dews the faded herbage bathed Red robin trills his winter-warning ditty His big bright eye invoking crumbs and pity From fading woodlands ever pattering down Come many tinted leaves, red, yellow, brown The rustling carpet with slow lingering feet I thoughtful tread, inhaling odour's sweet The very soul of quietude is breathing or field and lake With sweetest peace in breathing my tranquil soul From founts of blissful feeling Sweet silent tears are down my cheeks are stealing Spirit of meekness brooding in the air On thy soft pinions waft my lonely prayer That I may meet calm, meek, resigned and sober My life's decline, my solemn Last October End of poem, this recording is in the public domain Once More Fields and Gardens by Ta-Yun Min translated by Amy Lowell and Franz S.Q. Read for LibriVox.org by Sonya Once More Fields and Gardens Even as a young man I was out of tune with ordinary pleasures. It was my nature to love the rooted hills, the high hills which look upon the four edges of heaven. What folly to spend one's life like a dropped leaf snared under the dust of streets. But for thirteen years it was so I lived. The caged bird longs for the fluttering of high leaves. The fish in the garden pool languishes for the world water of meeting streams. So I desire to clear and see the patch of the wild southern moor. And always, a countryman at heart, I have come back to the square enclosures of my fields and to my walled garden with its quiet path. Mine is a little property of ten moo or so. A fetched house of eight or nine rooms. On the north side the eaves are over-hung with the thick leaves of elm trees and willow trees break the strong force of the wind. On the south, in front of the great hall, peach trees and plum trees spread a net of branches before the distant view. The village is hazy, hazy, and mist sucks over the open moor. A dog barks in the sunken lane, which runs through the village. A cockroach perched on a clipped mulberry. There is no dust or clutter in the courtyard before my house. My private rooms are quiet and calm with the leisure of moonlight through an open door. For a long time I lived in a cage, now I have returned, for one must return to fulfill one's nature. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Like the motion of leaves. Fragments of color in glowing surprises, pink innuendos hooded in gray, like buds in a cobweb, purled at dawn. Glimpses of green and blurs of gold, and delicate moves that snatch at youth. And bodies all rosely fleshed for the airing in warm velvety surges, passing imperious slow. Women drift into the limousines, that shot like silken caskets on gems, half weary of their glittering. Lamps open like pale moonflowers. Arcs are radiant opals strewn along the dusk. No common lights invade. And spires rise like litanies, magnificats of stone over the white silence of the arcs, burning in perpetual adoration. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Silver by Walter De La Mer. Red for LibriVox.org by Kingaroo. Slowly, silently, now the moon walks the night in her silver shun. This way and that she peers and sees silver fruit upon silver trees. One by one the casements catch. Her beams beneath the silvery thatch. Couched in his kennel like a dog. With paws of silver sleeps the dog. From their shadowy coat the white breasts peep. Of doves in a silver feathered sleep. A harvest mouse goes scampering by. With silver claws and silver eye. And moveless fish and the water gleam. By silver reeds in a silver stream. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Sleep by Walter De La Mer. Red for LibriVox.org by Kingaroo. Men all and birds and creeping beasts. When the dark of night is deep, from the moving wonder of their lives commit themselves to sleep.  He listened quiet in slumber turn, their strength to impotence. The transient strangeness of the earth, their spirits no more see. Within a silent gloom withdrawn they slumber in secrecy. Two worlds they have, a globe forgot. Willing from dark to light. And all the enchanted realm of dream. That burgeon's out of night. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Sonnet 73. By William Shakespeare. Red for LibriVox.org by Winston Tharp. That time of year thou mayst in me behold, when yellow leaves or none or few do hang upon these boughs which shake against the cold. Bear ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou cease the twilight of such day as after sunset faded in the west, which by and by black night doth take away death's second self that seals up all in rest. In me thou cease the glowing of such fire that on the ashes of his youth doth lie, as the death bed where on it must expire consumed with that which it was nourished by. This thou perceivst, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. The Valley of Unrest. By Edgar Allen Poe. Red for LibriVox.org by Jim Nineheis. Once it smiled a silent dell, where the people did not dwell. They had gone into the wars, trusting to the mild-eyed stars nightly from their azure towers to keep watch above the flowers. In the midst of which all day the red sunlight lazily lay. Now each visitor shall confess the sad valley's restlessness. Nothing there is motionless. Nothing save the airs that brood over the magic solitude. Ah, by no wind are stirred those trees that palpitate like the chill seas around the misty hebrides. Ah, by no wind those clouds are driven that rustle through the unquiet heaven uneasily for more until even over the violets there that lie in myriad types of the human eye. Over the lilies there that wave and weep above a nameless grave. They wave from out their fragrant tops eternal dues come down in drops. They weep from off their delicate stems perennial tears descend in gems. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. THE WITCH by Mary Elizabeth Colleridge redforlippervox.org by Thomas Peter I have walked a great while over the snow and I am not tall nor strong. My clothes are wet and my teeth are set and the way was hard and long. I have wandered over the fruitful earth but I never came here before. Oh, lift me over the threshold and let me in at the door. The cutting wind is a cruel foe. I did not stand in the blast. My hands are stoned and my voice grown and the worst of death is passed. I am but a little maiden still. My little white feet are sore. Oh, lift me over the threshold and let me in at the door. Her voice was the voice that women have who plead for their heart's desire. She came.  Since I hurried across the floor to lift her over the threshold and let her in at the door. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain.


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Good evening, so I also want to begin my presentation by recognizing that we're currently on unceded Algonquin territory. That being said, two education systems currently operate in Ontario, the Federally Governed First Nations Reserve System and the Provincial System, which also serves on and off reserve Indigenous students. The recently ratified Anishinaabic Education System will ratify its own education law in 2018, creating a third system. Given the three governance systems, how can good governance education be measured aside from just funding, and why does it matter? Well, first, literature suggests that top-down authoritarian governance styles are less effective than governance approaches that distribute leadership activities and incorporate feedback and input from local schools and communities. Secondly, the communities which an education system serves must view it as both legitimate and appropriate in both a legal and cultural sense. So understanding of legitimacy develops the relational trust for distributed leadership amongst governors, educators, and the communities. I think it's fair to say that generally speaking, this characterizes the relationship between a provincial system and non-Indigenous communities. However, a nation-to-nation approach is specifically required for legitimacy and relational trust in the Indigenous context, such that First Nations can govern themselves or choose to collaborate or partner with other governments. Unfortunately, this is not the current provincial or federal practice, where they attempt to persuade First Nations more often than seeking meaningful collaborative partnerships in education. When legitimacy and relational trust are satisfied, it allows on-the-ground educators all the way up to system governors, in addition to the communities they serve, to take pride in and take ownership of the direction of education development. So education programming can therefore be supported systemically and sustainably at each change of implementation and evaluation. The final criteria for good governance is that programming must be backed by evidence. For example, there is currently no evidence to suggest that the systemic lack of support for Indigenous language and culture and curricula by the federal and provincial systems contributes to Indigenous student achievement. Contrarily, research suggests that bilingual and bicultural students who are not only proud of both traits, but who also learn in a culturally situated context, have higher achievement rates than otherwise. Now, meeting the criteria for good governance is possible, as is shown by the self-governing Mi'kma'a education system. Mi'kma'a education has been governed by Mi'kma'a for 20 years, but they have also partnered with Nova Scotia in certain areas, which is more reflective of a nation to nation relationship. Curricula and governance is culturally appropriate and increasingly includes the Mi'kma'a language. Consequently, the educational outcomes for Mi'kma'a students are amongst the highest for Indigenous students in Canada, and graduation rates have even surpassed those of the Ontario education system, as you can see on the chart there. It didn't probably make too much sense at first, but that is the reason for displaying that. That is why good governance matters, and especially in an Indigenous context. Thank you very much.


Acoustics. Something many are obsessed by, often splurging incredible amounts of money on technology in the pursuit of better and better sound. But acoustics is not merely limited to electric guitarists painting over which amp they should buy. It is also the studies of the properties of sound. A simple statement, yet it has far-reaching influences which reach not only deep into our psyche but also into an inconceivably huge part of our lives and decision-making, almost nearly all parts of our species' lives is influenced by it. Even looked at and used within the modern era as a main component within military weaponry. However, the term acoustic can also mean, and I quote, the properties or qualities of a room or building that determine how sound is transmitted in it. And this area is the one which we find tremendously interesting, as during our ongoing and in-depth research into many sites all over the world, coming to know a vast amount of interesting factors regarding a large swath of already studied or rather exposed sites within the modern mainstream. The hypogeum in Malta, being one of them, an extraordinary site that has been explored in detail and discovered to possess incredible acoustic abilities. Abilities which have been found at the site in question within this video. Yet we feel the connections between these remarkable sites need to be looked at closer, and the possibility that a now lost yet highly advanced, seemingly acoustically obsessed ancient civilization, not only once existing, becomes ever more likely but that they succeeded in discovering incredible things. Things we are yet to fully understand regarding acoustic resonance. So much so, that it allowed them to be the original builders of these marvelous structures. It was first thought that seven circular structures, which are located around the Sacred Hill and on the neighboring hills, represented the Sun, Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, and Mercury. However, interestingly, it was later hypothesized that there may be a grave monument and a sacred area still preserved here. Interestingly, it seems although it is thought that Pagans in Somatash climbed up the Sacred Hill within permitted history, the team have not attributed them with the achievement of creating the sites. This, to us, seems highly unusual. So much so, we may actually be witnessing a change in attitudes within academic study. If so, this is an enormous victory on ours, and more importantly, truth's behalf. Additionally, they have seemingly, bravely, put forward a quote which we also find highly intriguing, for it is one we feel, which would have once been dismissed yet another grain of inclination that strategies and most important attitudes within academic pursuit is altering. The Archeoacoustic Research Group, known as SB, ask us to take into consideration that it is possible to perceive a magnetic field by empirical observation and in the same way to pursue a higher state of consciousness during meditation or rituals in the presence of strong infrasounds. They continued, if one were to extend this research to the ruins of the other six temples, it may provide further insight." We find these claims interesting, especially due to the popularization of the acoustic knowledge regarding the hypogym in Malta. Additionally, ours and others repeated reports of the mass burial found there. Nearly 7,000 separate remains discovered there. Some claimed as seemingly having alien origins found buried at the hypogym, yet is, ironically, a story and discovery which has been long attempted to be buried itself. Yet these acoustic properties are undoubtedly incredibly intriguing, possibly groundbreakingly important, especially when one considers it is accompanied with a claim of undisturbed burial grounds, and when one considers what was claimed to have been found among the burial in Malta, a discovery we have previously covered. Somatash, within Turkey, is undoubtedly highly compelling.


Welcome to this material characterization course. In the last class, we just looked at the concept of scanning electron microscopy functions and this basic instrumentation and its controls and operator controls and so on. We will continue this discussion and then we will look at much more details about the electron beam specimen interactions and what is that is going to affect your ultimate resolution and its effect on image in general imaging. So, if you look at the controls which I talked about yesterday, we will just quickly review this. We just started looking at the operator control in SEM of lenses. We have three primary parameters, one of them is the aperture. So, this schematic clearly shows that if the final aperture which basically controls the probe diameter which finally impinged on the sample by controlling this objective lens and this is what we just summarized here. The optimum aperture angle that minimizes the aberration on the final probe size. The final convergent angle controls the image depth of focus. The aperture determines the current in the final probe because only a fraction of the current sprayed out to the angles alpha 1 passes within the aperture angle alpha a. So, if you look at this, the initial spread of current, this is what it is mentioned here, the current sprayed in alpha 1 eventually its controls by this aperture and then it makes alpha a, this aperture angle and eventually it controls the probe size. This is one of the primary parameters which is in control of the operator and then we can see the next one the working distance. We also define this, what is the working distance? It is the distance between the final aperture and the specimen surface and you can clearly see this effect of working distance from these two schematics. It is quite evident that if you increase the working distance you are increasing the the probe size. You carefully look at it, you can see that the probe size is increased now and obviously it will have some significant effect on the resolution. So, we summarize this, increase in working distance produces a large spot size at the specimen and which will cause the degradation of the image resolution and also you see that convergent angle decreases which will result in improved depth of focus and increasing working distance will also cause weakening the objective to focus at a long working distance W which eventually increases both the focal length and the aberration of the lenses. So, which is very clearly shown in the schematic and which also increases the scanned length and which will cause reduction in the magnification as well. So, this is again a very important parameter which an operator can have a control on this and then take an appropriate decision depending upon what we are looking at, what information we are looking at on this specimen surface. The third one is the condenser length strength which operator can control which is also is nicely shown in the schematic. If you increase the condenser length strength which increases the demagnification of each lens which will cause again the reduction in the probe size. So, you can see that effect very clearly from the schematic. So, this is the first schematic is for a given field strength if you increase it further you can see that the final probe size is completely reduced. You can see this, this is the initial probe size with for a given field strength, but if you increases from that and you see that there is a control of the probe diameter. So, the final probe size can only be reduced at the expense of decreasing the probe current and a conscious choice between minimizing the probe size or maximizing the probe current must be made for each imaging situation. So, this is exactly I was just mentioning that all these parameter controls has to be done as per the requirement for the appropriate information we are looking at from the specimen and it is completely in the user control. So, now we will move on to the probe diameter which we yesterday we quickly reviewed I just want to give an emphasize on the probe diameter again because whatever we have just seen before ultimately the parameters controls a probe diameter which results in the complete resolution as well as and its effects on the imaging process. So, to fully understand how the probe size varies with the probe current we need to calculate the minimum probe size and the maximum probe current. Say in idealized situation the aberration free Gaussian probe diameter Dg which is the full width at half maximum height of the intensity distribution of Dg is given by Dg is equal to square root of 4ip divided by beta pi square alpha p square. The current in the final probe can be estimated as ip is equal to square root of beta pi square alpha p square and Dg square divided by 4. If there were no aberrations in the system it would only be necessary to increase the convergent angle to increase the probe current at a constant probe diameter. See why we talked about this Gaussian probe diameter because this is the one which we will start with to mathematically quantify assuming there is no aberration at all but eventually that is not going to be the case. You are going to have the effect of each aberrations which we talked about in an electron optical system and then we can see how this Gaussian probe diameter is modified because of this aberrations that is what we are looking at finally is a real probe diameter. So, if you look at the minimum probe size involving all this aberrations calculations of the probe size assume that Dp is quadrature sum of the diameters of Gaussian and other aberration discs. You look at this expressions there was a little bit of typo which was there in the yesterday's presentation I have made the corrections. You see that Dp is equal to Dg where Dg is Gaussian probe diameter and Ds square spherical aberration diameter plus Dd square this is a diffraction disc plus DC which is chromatic aberration whole to the power half. At normal voltages sorry I just did a mistake this is not whole to the power half it is square. So, Dp is equal to Dg square plus Ds square plus Dd square plus DC square whole to the power square. At normal voltage of 10 to 30 kilo volt the relationship between the probe size and the probe current can be calculated at alpha optimum which is D minimum is equal to k Cs to the power half lambda to the power 3 by 4 times Ip by beta lambda square plus 1 whole to the power 3 by 8 where Cs is the spherical aberration coefficient. Here only considering this aberration this expression is valid the it is assumed that other aberrations do not have a significant influence on that circumstances this expression is valid. Maximum probe current at 10 to 30 kilo volt you have the I max equal to 3 pi square by 16 times beta into Dp to the power 8 by 3 divided by Cs to the power 2 by 3. So, it is a kind of a maximum resolution one can obtain in the presence of other aberration effects. Now we will look at the plots where the relationship between the probe current and the probe diameter using a tungsten thermionic source. You see in the beginning we just looked at all the the electron gun sources I just mentioned there are two types one is thermionic source another is field emission source. So, this how this probe current and probe diameter varies with the tungsten thermionic source versus the field emission source is shown in all these four plots. You can carefully look at it this the probe diameter which is varying from 1 to 100 nanometers versus probe current which is a normal imaging condition and you can see that you have these thermionic field I mean thermionic source and as well as you have the field emission source. Obviously, you can see that field emission source exhibit a superior probe diameter for at the given 30 kilo volt which is a normal imaging and then you have another low kv imaging you can see that similar plots are obtained and the plot C shows very low voltage imaging where you can see that how the probe current varies with the probe diameter and this is kind of a plot where mostly this kind of situation is used for the chemical analysis and you can see most of this plots shows that the field emission gun source exhibit superior diameter compared to the thermionic source and then it also varies with the as a function of operating voltage just to give you an idea how this electron sources controls the probe diameter as a function of operating voltage. We will look at this aspect in the imaging and its resolution and so on in the due course. So, now we will look at the much more detail about this the probing current and so on it is usual to define the primary beam current I0 the backscattered electron current IBSE the SE current is ISC and the sample current transmitted through the specimen to the ground is ISC such that the Kirchhoff current law holds. So, the primary beam current can be S can be represented as a summation of IBSE plus ISC and we are interested in the signals which is coming out of the samples. So, basically how they are quantified we know that a secondary electron signal and the backscattered electron signals are going to come out from the sample and how they are quantified this is what is about we will see. So, these signals can be used to form a complementary images as the beam current is increased each of this currents will also increase the backscattered electron yield eta and the secondary electron yield delta which referred to the number of backscattered and secondary electrons emitted per incident electron respectively are defined by the relationship where eta is equal to IBSE that is the backscattered electron current divided by I0 similarly the secondary electron yield delta is ISE divided by I0 both the secondary and backscattered electron yields increase with decreasing glancing angle of the incidence because more scattering occurs closer to the surface because more scattering occurs closer to the surface. This is one of the major reasons why the ACM provides an excellent topographical contrast in the AC mode. As the surface changes its slope the number of secondary electrons produced changes as well. This point we just discussed in the introduction of the ACM class as well. I just mentioned why only these two signals BSE and SE for widely used in ACM that is because only these two signals vary as a surface modulation or surface slope changes very sensitive to the surface unevenness with the backscattered electrons this effect is not as prominent since to fully realize it the backscattered electron detector would have to be repositioned to realize realize it the backscattered detector would have to be repositioned to measure the forward scattering. This is an operation detailed for detecting this signal we will see how it is being actually done in the lab. See another important aspect of this ACM we mentioned is a depth of focus and this set of micrograph clearly illustrated that aspect. So, what you see here is A this is a machine screw viewed at under the optical microscope and this is under scanning electron microscope. You can see that in an optical microscope you do not see any of this detail when you look at the screw from the top you can see the all the other the circular details of the screw and C and D are taken with the sides of the screw you can see that the much more clear details are obtained using scanning electron microscope this is just to illustrate that effect you have a very high depth of focus and you by now you know that why we get very good depth of focus the another set of micrographs illustrates the effect of both secondary electrons as well as backscattered electrons. What you are seeing is it is a let in alloy surface is some what we are seeing as bright as an eutectic let in eutectic people who do not understand this metallurgy of this you can assume that there are two phases and you can clearly see that this particular micrograph is obtained at 25 kV and this micrograph of the same region is obtained at 5 kV and these two are obtained using secondary electrons and the same region was imaged using backscattered electron in this image C. So, I would like you to look at this three images little more carefully and what is the difference you are seeing and if you are able to figure out the differences then that means you have clearly understood the previous information what we have discussed and if you are not able to catch that differences I will help you you look at this the scratch here scratch mark here and look at this scratch mark here. So, you see that these two are up even though they are obtained using the secondary electron signals there is a small difference and also you see that this scratch is not at all visible as clearly as in the micrographs obtained by secondary electron signals. So, that clearly indicates that your secondary electrons are much more sensitive to the surface unevenness and the difference between this A and B is because of further complications because of the electron specimen interaction what is that you see that this micrograph is obtained at lower kV 5 kV and this is obtained at 25 kV. So, if you recall we just discussed in the beginning of this lecture probably yesterday or day for yesterday I had mentioned that the higher the operating voltage the severe will be the beam specimen interaction and then you also produce Se1 Se2 and Se3 and these signals will get produced more if the electron beam specimen interaction is intense and when this Se2 and Se3 signals they are not going to promote the topological details in fact when they come out of this specimen they are going to interfere and reduce the resolution that is what is happening here you can see that the scratch details are not as clear as what you see in the image B. So, it is not that if you keep on increasing the operating voltage you are not you are going to obtain much more a clear image there is an optimum voltage and other parameters under which circumstances you get the much more clear picture. So, this is just to explain that phenomenon and what you see in other images I mean this figure D is a EDS spectrum and E and F are maps elemental analysis maps and these particular about the spectroscopic details we will discuss later in a separate lecture series right now my focus is only on the SEM imaging we will talk about this elemental analysis and how it is done and what are the limitations with existing spectrometer and so on we will discuss in a separate lecture series. Now we will just summarize what we have just looked at in the previous slide the spatial resolution of the SEM due to Se1 usually improves with increasing energy of the primary beam because the beam can be focused into a smaller spot but at higher energies the increased penetration of the electron beam into the sample will increase the interaction volume we will quickly see in few minutes what is this interaction volume about which may cause some degradation of the image resolution due to Se2 and Se3 this is shown in image figure B which is a secondary electron image taken at only 5 kilo electron volt in this case the reduced electron penetration brings out more surface detail in the micrograph and if you look at the method of producing the backscattered electron image there are two ways to produce BSE image one is to put a grid between the sample and the secondary electron detector with a negative voltage that is minus 50 volt bias applied to it if you recall when I just introduced the instrumentation schematic where I said that if you put positive voltage it will collect both BSE and SE if you put negative voltage it will ripple and then it will collect only one so similar thing so that is the bias this will ripple the SEs since only the BSEs will have sufficient energy to penetrate the last electric field of the grid this type of detector is not very effective for the detection of BSEs because of its small solid angle of the collection we will look at the detector system and its details little more as we go along and this right now we are just discussing about how this signals are collected and how what are the immediate effect of these two individual signals on its image formation a much larger solid angle of collection is obtained by placing the detector immediately above the sample to collect the BSE two types of detectors are commonly used here one type uses partially depleted n-type silicon diodes coated with the layer of gold which convert the incident BSEs into electron hole pairs at the rate of 1 pair per 3.8 electron volt using a pair of silicon detectors makes it possible to separate the atomic number contrast from topographic contrast the other detector type the so-called Sinclair photo multiply detector uses some material that will fluoresce under the bombardment of the high energy BSEs to the produce a light signal that can further amplified so these are all some of the specific operations of the type of detectors which eventually give the image in CRT we will look at this detectors separately and we will talk about all the functions much more detailed in the view course the photo multiply detector was used to produce BSE micrograph in figure C what we have just seen in two slides before since no secondary electrons are present the surface topography of the scratch is no longer evident and only an atomic number contrast appears atomic number contrast can be used to estimate the concentrations in binary alloys because the actual BSE signal increases somewhat predictably with the concentration of the heavier element of the pair so this point is about the material detail and what do you have to understand is BSE is sensitive to atomic number that we will anyway we will talk about much more detail when we discuss the image contrast and contrast mechanisms and so on now we will divert our focus to very important aspect of imaging that is electron beam specimen interaction in it involves lot of physics as scattering physics we need to understand this clearly then only you will be able to interpret all the images which we are going to see so I would like to request all of you to pay much more attention to look at this particular section this is more fundamental it may be very difficult to understand in the beginning but if you look at them again and again and if you are finding it difficult to follow this I request you to go through some of the basic physics book about the scattering phenomenon and then come back to this section then things will be all right so as the beam of electron enter the specimen they interact as negatively charged particles with the electrical fields of the specimen atoms the positive charge of the protons is highly concentrated on the nucleus while the negative charge of electrons is much more dispersed in a shell structure the beam electron specimen atom interaction can deflect the beam electrons along the along a new trajectory which is considered elastic scattering causing them to spread spread out laterally from the incident footprint I am going to show you some of the schematic regarding this to understand the point 3 what we are now talking about so the elastic scattering after numerous events actually result in beam electrons leaving the specimen process called back scattering it gives a kind of a definition for back scattering that is the elastic scattering after numerous events actually result in a beam electrons leaving the specimen a mathematical description of elastic scattering process at angle greater than a specified phi naught as the form q which is greater than phi naught is equal to 1.62 into 10 to the power minus 20 times z square by e square cot square phi naught by 2 so this is events scattering events greater than phi naught divided by the electron which is atoms per centimeter square where q is called the cross section which is in centimeter squared for elastic scattering that is probability of elastic scattering which is given in this form the distance between scattering events is known as the mean free path lambda is calculated from the cross section and the density of the atoms along the path where lambda is equal to a divided by n naught rho q which is in centimeter a beam electrons lose energy and transfer this energy in various ways to the specimen atoms which is nothing but inelastic scattering see you see in an SEM we get a characteristic x-rays for chemical analysis like we discussed in the beginning the basic fundamental physics of that event is what we are now discussing this the beam of electron lose energy and transfer this energy in various ways so one of the ways is like you know you are getting a characteristic x-rays and you have SCEs BSEs and all the signals solve basically inelastic scattering this transfer takes place gradually so that the beam electrons propagate through many atom layers into the specimen before losing all their energy so this the loss of energy of the electron beam is not going to be a instantaneous so it will be more I mean the you can see that how some of the models are being made for this how the electron beam is losing energy which I will show you in few minutes will from that you will get an idea how the electron beam after impinging on the specimen surface loses energy gradually as a function of interaction volume inelastic scattering gives rise to useful imaging signals such as secondary electrons and analytical signals such as such as x-rays Bethe described in 1930 the rate of energy loss DE with the distance traveled DS as DE by DS the energy is given in kilo electron volt and the distance is in centimeter which is equal to 2 pi E square n naught into z rho divided by AEI ln 1.66 EI by J where J is equal to 9.76 z plus 58.5 z to the power minus 0.1 into 9 into 10 to the power minus 3 where n naught is equal to Avogadro number the rho is the density z is the atomic number A is the atomic weight EI is the electron energy at any point of the specimen J is the average loss in energy per event it is just this expression simply tells you how this energy loss takes place and how we can visualize quantitatively with all this variables I just want you to appreciate that point rather than getting into the details at this mode. So you can see that two plots which are based on this Bethe equation how the energy loss due to inelastic scattering is calculated you can see that plot A is energy loss due to inelastic scattering calculated with the Bethe equation at intermediate and high beam energies for all these elements and the plot B is the comparison of energy loss at low energy as calculated for silicon with Bethe expression and others. So how this energy loss occurs as the function of electron volt. Now what you are going to see is we will look at what is this interaction volume and the electron beam comes and interacts with the specimen surface and what you are now seeing is the simulation is the interaction volume for a 20 kilo electron volt beam striking the silicon as calculated with a Monte Carlo electron trajectory simulation it is a numerical simulation and what you see is you see that there are thick black line and then very light black lines which just getting inside this specimen to the order of volt few microns. So this is happening in a three dimensional so let us try to understand how this happens this is you can see that this is another schematic showing that this kind of interaction volume is interpreted through an etching experiment in terms of contours of the energy deposited in the specimen as calculated with the Monte Carlo simulation. So the left hand side is how the energy varies as a function of depth using an etching experiment. What is this etching experiment? People have taken some of the low atomic number of materials like poly methyl methacrylate kind of specimen and then they just do an etching experiment within a bombardment of electron how it just I mean damage this molecular and polymeric molecules and then how it that intensity of the damage decreases from the surface to the core and that is done with that model that is called etching experiment and then the left hand side is the experimental measurement how the energy varies from the surface to the core in a three dimension and the right hand side is the same thing is done numerically through Monte Carlo simulation and then you get some kind of very close agreement with this. So the important point to appreciate here is you get a kind of an idea what is an interaction volume is and how it occurs three dimensionally and what are its dimensions. So it gives you a kind of a basic outline about an interaction volume and please remember whatever we are just showing is not it is only a static images and actually it is happening dynamically between the interaction between electron beam and the surface and I will just show you few more schematic which you have the excuse me. So I would like to show this as a function of electron beam energy versus interaction volume you actually what you will see that the as the electron energy increases the interaction volume also will increase and somehow this simulation is not working right now. So you can see that the same effect of atomic number also you can see influence of atomic number on the interaction volume you can see it for different material here it is a carbon and this is for a carbon K shell and then you have the iron and then you have the iron K shell. You can also see that as the atomic number increases the linear dimension decreases that is very much understandable because the that is because your scattering cross section varies as the atomic number increases. So you can see that the linear dimension also decreases in accordance with that number and you can see that a similar another systems same effect for a silver silver L shell and then you have uranium and uranium M shell and so on. So what I try to tell here is depending upon the atomic number as well as the the energy of the electron beam which is impinging on this sample your interaction volume is going to change and the scattering physics involved is little more complicated and this has got a significant influence on your image resolution and the kind of details one can get from the specimen surface that is all I just want to emphasize here and then we will look at the the scanning action how how this the electron beam is scanning the surface and how exactly the image is formed all those details we will see it in the next class. Thank you.


Right Whoo, let's see if we're running live See how everybody's doing There we go. We're now live. Hey tally. How you doing? What is up? All right guys? It seems that we're We're we're shooting we're live So if you're on YouTube or periscope land shoot me a comment Let me know you're there Because I'm restreaming this and that's the only way that I I can see y'all Egan, Florida. How are you doing? All right, everyone's coming in Yes, guys Thank you, tell me yeah, I just got one Feel fresh and fine and let me tell you tally We're on lockdown again and So I was happy to be able to grab a Cut yesterday You know, it's funny. I obviously I know that this is not a very conventional styled haircut however, it's an homage to a lot of my heroes and it's it carries with it a certain amount of different styles all in one and What I laugh about When it comes my mom was a hairdresser, so I've never really had a conventional cut really all of my life, so I've gained as a kid I Became accustomed to having some sort of do So even in adulthood at 46, it's like I don't see the reason for it to be Contemporary when I don't have to be contemporary As you know, I'm a huge proponent of self-expression in everything that you do your Communication your dress your hair style It all says something about you now isn't there a an idea of being practical or contemporary or Sending the correct messages Absolutely, but do you But do you really want to be so contemporary? Do you really want to be so practical? That you don't use your own real estate space to say something about yourself that's important and so I have a background in playing music and and Being obsessed with music and that's part of my Personality and makeup of who I am in my former career as well as now. I still enjoy Playing in bands and going to see music. In fact, that's the thing that I miss must miss most about COVID it is not being able to go out and see and support and encourage young bands I to me that form of self-expression is available to anybody and I love the idea about getting in a room with your best bros and being able to Express yourself in a way that is collaborative With the others and you have to there is a certain amount of intimacy when you're playing music with somebody That you are vulnerable and exposed and just putting it out there Sid, how are you doing buddy? Good to see you on making it over to the show Vons Swab welcome and tally. I don't see a gray hair on your head. You got lucky. Well, I can tell you there are Plenty, I guess they're not they're not so much Cluster than the fact that they're going to show up, but yes, there are plenty and I see more and more every day All right, so today I wanted to talk about a couple things number one. It is international New day. Yes, I don't know if you had seen that on Twitter What does that mean? We send nudes. I was gonna show up on here new today But I believe Instagram would have given me a the boot Anyway, if you would like to see some Interesting nudes you can always go to free candies Instagram. She does she does She does pencil drawings of of the the human figure and Anatomy and she's she's quite brilliant. She did a fan art of me Not of my anatomy, but of this picture that you're seeing right now, which I've used to advertise this before Spark as s how are you doing today? Good reading tomorrow to make it over. So yes guys We are in lockdown number two I mentioned what it was at two weeks ago that it seemed like we were heading in that direction and Here's the thing about it. No one should be angry about this outside of the fact that it is frustrating But what have I said from the beginning of this? That it's going to be touch and go that we're going to have to look at this Like an entrepreneur looks at marketing putting a few things out there. See how the audience reacts Make Iterations and pivots and then put it back out there. Well, yeah That's what we're trying to do Open up a few things Have a few phases that open Let people get back to work See how things play out and then if it If it needs to be reeled back, then you will ever you need to make iterations to the phases you will however, the one thing that I don't think Most people were anticipating during all this iterations and Pivoting with this entrepreneurial style of effort to see where we are with COVID is is people that were so Um So so worked up and then it was about You cannot get it right the first time it is a it is a novel situation But we also didn't anticipate at least here in Los Angeles, you know 50,000 people going out into the streets for 10 days straight for protesting like that's not going to help the situation and I mean and So In order to avoid a charge topic I'm not even gonna go into that right now as you guys know if you watch this show, you know How I feel about all that Louise. How are you doing buddy Spanish flies every night? How are you doing? right on So with that brings another opportunity of being in lockdown Which is to do another assessment of where you were From March when this started Did you make plans on? Working out a certain amount of times During the week, did you plan on putting together Certain Working on certain skills while you were in lockdown did Did you open up? Opportunities to reach out to people that you haven't spoken to in a in a while in order to open some doors reconnect and Re-establish those lines of communication. Have you been able to do all those number one? Have you done them to the? To the success and the limits that you wanted to if not what can you do? better for you to hit those moments and Three as as well as for myself. I'm staring at lockdown number two What things do I want to pick up or continue to strengthen as I have this? Opportunity that's what I'm looking at here How about for you guys? What is your? Covid situation like are you back on lockdown? Have you are if things still? At a half go. Are you in phases of opening? I don't know how long this is going to last I know that there's once again, we're at a wait-and-see situation but I just wanted to reiterate is that This is something that I had spoken about multiple times of the gently opening up Getting people back to work and seeing how things go now That's the situation if a 50,000 people run out on the street for 10 days of Protesting well. Yeah, there's going to be spikes. Certainly not going to help everything Eric says phase four in Chicago. How is that looking for you, Eric? What does that and tell is that feeling good everyone getting back at it is a noticeable difference? Louise says I'm doing great. Man, Arkansas has not been taking covid Seriously, the only time Arkansas went into restrictions Is when the president made an announcement of restrictions? Ah, I'm a Spanish 75 79 says I'm an essential worker in my daily Weekday routine hasn't changed that might sense of sorry. Well that good for you standard 79 I'm having that shift in responsibilities and habits is definitely tough Well with that Depending on your situation Like for myself, I have another more opportunity to continue just working on things as The my social realm is it going to open up open back up We have been awfully busy at AOC as a lot of you guys know And Our programs are running as usual spark of sass Portland continues to continues protests makes contact tracing impossible well Portland spark of sass, I don't I don't know what information that everyone else is getting on Portland however, I follow the situation there rather closely and I'm seeing a lot of Stuff on Twitter from actual footage and it does not look like a place that I want to move to it looks a little bit It looks and Incredibly chaotic at the moment Eric to It's working out so far Restaurants and gyms are open now in cases have been stable. So you have to go back to the office labor day Right on there isn't a huge spike before that. Yeah Well, let's let's hope This is a thing you the Papers in the media and everyone else you cannot listen to any of these people this idea that 50,000 people in the streets for 10 days Is not spreading the the? Flu the the coven It's just ridiculous Reno from Michigan life is giving us a chance to go inside Face it or face it or not sometimes we don't like to look at it But this is a time to connect with our emotions and see how strong we get 100% Reno know Nova. I agree. He'd be the hills. How are you doing? Here's the thing? I had saw this tweet from a friend earlier when COVID started about Lockdowns and for any and he stated that that many people were having a Difficult time being in lockdown with somebody that they don't know and I my first thought was well What do you mean by that? Don't people know their significant other or their? Housemates no, that's not what he was referring to what he was referring to Was being locked in doors with yourself for the first time and having so much time That you begin to start asking yourself questions you begin to start getting in touch with yourself or You begin We're having issues over in YouTube lands today With all of that time by yourself and alone. I'm just gonna leave that It only opens up The opportunity of getting to know yourself and for some of us for the very first time Because you have all of this distraction Around yourself video games and entertainment and Netflix So why would you check in with yourself and when you ask hard questions of yourself? It demands the mind to find answers So if you begin to start asking yourself questions, you might not like the answers Did the other thing is? You have to commit to an answer You have to say yes, this bothers me or no, this doesn't bother me or somewhere in the middle For a lot of us We don't really know how we feel about a lot of things because we have numbed ourselves to our daily experience through Escapism you don't have to answer those hard questions When you have a new Netflix series to binge on you don't have to ask yourself those hard questions When you have a new video game to play a new hobby to dump yourself into This is why in today's Connected world we have to take time out To ask and answer those questions so that so that we can feel good about ourselves this is And this is what leads me into what I wanted to speak about today, which is a mindset shift for being a high value person because You were not born a high value person and your brain is not Programmed to look at things from a high value Perspective you are programmed to view yourself in the world of getting as much Resources as possible and also Not only the resources but looking for ways to allow yourself to feel good We allow ourselves to feel good by getting attention approval and acceptance for ourselves It allows us to feel Accepted connected and this is what allows us to feel good Eric John says idle time is definitely uncomfortable But self-development is supposed to be uncomfortable. It's a boring job. Definitely affects me more Well, I don't have as many distractions. I Cannot agree with you More Eric and here's the thing about it. It's uncomfortable because once you start asking yourself questions And if you don't like the answers or you're not You don't enjoy the truth of how you answered it you now have to take responsibility to then choose it you have that opportunity in In order to change How you feel about something you're now going to need to step outside of your comfort zone Which is always difficult But you can learn to enjoy the process so that you seek it out or You can learn to shut that process down So that you can become numb to the experience So your program for survival and you're also programmed to get attention approval and acceptance for yourself The more attention approval and acceptance that you go to get for yourself the better you feel or at least Your program to feel that if you get attention approval acceptance that you're going to feel good. We seek it out It's in our nature when you get attention approval and acceptance for yourself You get a hit a dopamine You get flushed with dopamine as a feel-good That you feel safe you feel connected and this allows you To feel good for the time being which leads you to seek it out more. We're all Drug addicts. We like to feel good dopamine serotonin Are the drugs that we produce that allow us to feel like that? This is why cocaine and methamphetamine is so addictive now You are programmed to seek attention approval and acceptance out Your program to seek it out your program to look for it You have four Presets in how you go about getting attention approval and acceptance for yourself Low-value people chase attention approval and acceptance So if I was going into a networking event or a social engagement I am going to look for opportunities that would put attention approval and acceptance Towards me So I can either Be gregarious be very outward going I can bully people I can Look to play the victim and get sympathy Which is a will be a form of attention approval and acceptance but in a supplicative manner I could be combative in the way where I can bully people in order to get attention approval and acceptance I can compete for it where I look for opportunities to show up other people in order to get me attention approval and acceptance now all three of The ways I suggested to do that are low-value behaviors They are three effective ways to get attention approval and acceptance But carry with it low-value connotations For they Not only do they get attention approval and acceptance or at least in some Manor it also pushes others away Why? Because you're taking attention approval and acceptance from others through a way that pushes others away So if you're playing the victim card and I give you the attention that you're craving That only reinforces that behavior so you continue to do it There's only so much of you playing a victim that I can understand before either a you need to change your behaviors because being a victim is not going to help you or It's going to repel me rather than attracting me. This is why when it comes to courtship playing the victim It's not a good strategy So what is the mindset shift? That you would need in order to get attention approval and acceptance for yourself But it you're attracting it rather than chasing it Because things that you chase tend to run They run away you ever grown up with a with a I grew up with Yorkies And if you chase the dog outside, he would take off running When you chase attention approval and acceptance it tends to elude you So there are mindsets that produce behaviors that attract attention approval and acceptance in a positive mindset Rather than repelling it. So what is the mindset shift? That allows for different behaviors that attract attention approval acceptance rather than repelling. Well, it is rather than supplicative behaviors, which tend to be playing a victim Supply combative ways, which is bullying people Come competitive mindsets, which puts you in a frame of always looking for Competitions or ways to show that you're better than others Lastly is a cooperative behavior where you look to give value So rather than seeking value You're looking to give value So when you give value to any human being which is a basic need of attention approval and acceptance You're filling a void that everyone is looking to fill When you would do that effectively you're now Putting people in a position to chase the drug The dopamine hit that you are able to give them by the services and the value that you are providing To those people you have flipped the script Once you understand how to do that and once the mindset gets shifted Then you the game now becomes a law of averages where you become a high value person and You reap the rewards of being a high value person You're now have flipped a script from being somebody who is in chase mode to somebody who is now Being a high value person where others are now chasing you That is the is the mindset shift that flips the script that puts you from From the from the person doing the chasing to the person being chase now Is that a Shift that or a switch that you can just turn on? No, that is a set of skills Mindsets and behaviors that are cultivated Over a set amount of time. How did this work for myself? Well? as I had gotten into my older 20s and into my later 20s I Had begun I had begun to get tired of the mindsets and behaviors that weren't leading me to the results That I was looking for in my own life. I was getting frustrated. I felt trapped I felt defeated frustrated that everything that I did on a daily basis felt That I was struggling it felt difficult. It seemed like a lot of work I was going to bed every evening exhausted and Frustrating not wanting to have to deal with the next day because the amount of work that I was going to have to put in Didn't show up in the results that I was getting for any young person You have a choice in that matter of whether you're going to elevate yourself to get better results or Accept the status quo When I looked at the situation in my late 20s and realizing that I wasn't happy with those results I was going to I was not happy with the status quo and that I was going to Do what it takes I was going to do what it would take to change those results. Well, then then became the slow transition from a Low-value mindset to a high-value mindset and this begins an opportunity a journey and a road of Unlocking your x-factor and That's life once you make that shift Once you flip that switch Each day becomes increasingly better than last Why because the train isn't barreling down the wrong way down the tracks It is now moving in the right direction But much like a train a locomotive it needs to build up momentum So each day that you practice these skills mindsets and behaviors You continue to get better each day Becomes more enjoyable than the last this is why people in self-development tend to be Optimists because they They are Continually building a skill set that allows them to reap rewards on a daily basis. It becomes fun That's what developing your x-factor is all about so With that guys, I'm on a lockdown number two here in Los Angeles. I will be moving to Vegas hopefully soon next month and But I will be continuing the show I'm definitely due for a change of scenery and I appreciate you guys all being here I was having issues in re-stream today. So I have to check that out. I want to thank you guys for all coming in Dan Andrews from Knoxville. How are you doing? Miss bad Rodin, how are you doing? Welcome good to see you. Thank you Eric for your comments Matthew hippie the hills tally good to see you guys. All right guys I get ahead out if you are interested in our Year-long mentorship program to bring out your x-factor All you got to do is shoot me a text x-factor or mentorship and You'll well You'll get a calendar invite and we'll have a chat outside of that If you wanted if you enjoy what I had to say and you want to learn more check out the art of charm communication accelerator the link is in the link tree of Instagram and Twitter it has all the best bits from our live training programs of online classes over the last 15 years an expert guess in connection persuasion influence and Networking all right guys. I will see you all here tomorrow 830. Thank you Louise for showing up. It's awesome to see you. Thank you Spanish flag and Reno All right guys and Dan Andrews you guys take care. I will talk to you all soon


So we're going to start by reading this book. Elias and Duck, Ramadan Joy. Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Elias and Duck stood at the edge of town, patiently watching the setting sun. Then the moon appeared and Elias said with cheer, look duck up there. I see the crescent moon. And just like that, the month of Ramadan had begun. Did anyone go and try and find the Ramadan moon? Yeah. Who found it? You guys have excellent eyes if you did. I missed it this year. But I saw it the second and third day. Did you guys see it? It was beautiful. Masha'Allah. The joy of Ramadan spread quickly through town with festive decorations and lanterns abound. The smell of treats spilled into the streets as the baker prepared sahud, the last meal before the daytime fast, that is so important to eat. What did that teach us? What was a very important thing that it taught us? Well, do you know? Good. Sahud, which is the meal we eat early in the morning, is very important. And it's a very good sunnah for us to do. So that's why we wake up really early and we try to eat. Then morning came and the sun was out. Duck, wait, Elias had to shout. The sun is still up. Let's not forget. Don't break your fast, at least not yet. When can I eat when the sun sets? Can I have something to drink? Not quite yet. No food, no drink, not even a sip or crumb? Oh, this is hard. What's the point? Where's the fun? Elias thinks that fasting is going to be hard. Well, inshallah, one day you will be big enough. Fasting is not meant to be easy. It can leave your belly empty and grumbling inside. But know this feeling is just Allah's way of feeding goodness to your body and mind. Goodness like compassion, to care for the less fortunate, empathy, to feel the hunger they often do. Gratitude to appreciate all the blessings you have and a reminder of just how fragile you are. And that it's Allah who provides for you. Elias looks silly at the bottom of the page. He looks hungry. Fasting is a chance to nourish your soul, your relationship with Allah and your community too. It's a chance to practice self-discipline and restraint and build confidence in all that you do. Oh, and so the hours in the day, did I show you guys that page? The hours in the day slowly ticked away. Sound, away, ring, sounded the bells on the alarm clock. The sun has set, it's time for iftar. Good. Do you guys know what iftar means? Exactly, you break your fast. Do you want to add something? He does. He's very excited to break his fast. Or maybe he's just really excited that he made it all day without eating. They broke their fast with just a few dates, drank water, prayed, and then they ate. They met friends and family all around town and all around town, not a friend could be found. That is, until they reached the other end of town. Because at the other end of town, on top of a hill, lived a man who was rarely ever seen. No one ever really knew who he was and no one knew his real name. But they all did know him as. Menacing, Mr. Mean. Oh, I'm not fond of this month, Ramadan. For 30 days, the kids are so well-behaved. For 30 days, all their bad deeds are gone. Everyone is so kind. They give charity and stuff. How will I ever stand all this goodness for 30 long days? I know. I will spoil Ramadan. I've had enough. Menacing, Mr. Mean is a troublemaker. I will cover entire neighborhoods with my menacing spray so kids may continue to play even when it's time to pray. I will bake mouthwatering cookies and place them all around so kids are tempted to break their fast even before the sun goes down. It is better if we don't. We'll have more energy. I will spread rumors to encourage gossip and hope kids make promises they cannot keep. Yes, this is how I spoil Ramadan and make it what it's not meant to be. Not nice at menacing, Mr. Mean. Oh, no exclaimed Elias. Mr. Mean is up to no good. Follow me. We must save the neighborhood. Brave Elias and Duck going to help their community. They are. Mr. Mean is so bad. They are good choices. Stop right there, Mr. Mean. It's Sheriff Elias and Deputy Duck. We heard what you're up to.  You will never catch me. Where can he be? I think he got away. You see him. You should help them. You see him, too? You think that's a good hiding spot? No. Mr. Mean got away, but it's a good thing he's gone because there's no room for meanness, only goodness in Ramadan. And when a good deed is done, the reward for it is multiplied, not just once or twice, not three times, nor four, but many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many times more. In Ramadan, a good deed, we get more than just one time.  As the days of Ramadan passed one by one, each day's fast helped to improve everyone. There was increased patience, better health, and important habits that were quite clear. Indeed, each day was a chance to practice all these things and carry Bebedur habits throughout the rest of the year. You see, it's like they got badges. They got special cards showing all the good things that they learned that they improved on in Ramadan. They call it the Ramadan Roundup Cards. Yeah. So for the remainder of the month in the last 10 days, Elias and Duck looked forward to the rising sun. While they were thankful for the joy from the Ramadan days that passed, they were especially excited for all the blessings to come. Ramadan Mubarak and have a blessed day.