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Sergeant, there have been several robberies and a murder in the vicinity of Selkirk, the constable telegraph for help, saying that a strange band of gang is operating in that territory, terrorizing the people but leaving no trace. I want you to take King and go down there as soon as possible. Yes, sir, I, uh, I'll just say strange gang. What do you mean by that, Inspector? The members of the gang wear white robes every time that they strike. Their heads are covered by white hoods. They've become known as the ghost writers. I see. That's interesting. How soon can you start for Selkirk? Within an hour, sir. King and I'll do what we can to help bring in the ghost writers. Bye, sir. Come along, King. Woof, woof, woof. Later in Selkirk, but constable sat in his office facing several townsmen who had come in to discuss the situation. Judd Sparks spoke rather rasping voice. That's really it. This town banker here in Selkirk, after one demand, we have more protection against the bandits known as the ghost writers. Mr. Sparks, I admit that gang has me stumped. But I've sent the headquarters for help, and I'm sure in time the ghost writers will be caught.  One. One minute. Now, just a minute, Sparks. Let me have a word, will you? That can you say that I haven't said, Luke Coach? That's more like I don't like a common cafe owner calling me Sparks. Uh, Mr. Sparks, do you, sir? Have it your way, Mr. Sparks. But I say give the constable a chance to show what he can do. Two mouties may be able to get further, and a mob of them running all over the place. Who's the ordinary men of those white robes? And the mouties sure have proved that they know how to handle all breaking men. You're right. Thanks, Luke. That is speech for a cafe owner. But all we know, that gang might even hang out in your cafe. Yes, it might have that. We have no way of knowing. But if you're insinuating it, then I'll take it easy. You men can't come here and act peaceful. You better not come here at all. No, he gets my coat, Constable. We've sent about all the rest to say at this gathering, men. Take my word for it. We'll do all we can to track down that gang of outlaws and put them behind bars. That evening, the constable entered the cafe. As he walked slowly through the crowd, he looked around for Luke Coach, the provider. Then he spoke to one of the waiters. Say, is Luke Coach around tonight? No, Luke and Jake went out a while ago. Said they were going down to the opera house to see the show. I see. Thanks. As the constable stood there a moment looking over the crowd, he was startled by a commotion outside. Hey, where's the constable? Hey, Constable! Go strut it. Hey, bust it into the bank or they'll get the way. That's not in my way. The following morning, that Sergeant Preston and King arrived in Selkirk, went directly to the constable's office. The constable told of the various crimes committed by the outlaw gang. And also told about the bank robbery the night before. Sergeant Preston listened intently and then spoke. Why didn't you pick up the trail while it was still fresh? By the time I came here and got my horse, about 20 towns were already after the gang. And others were pouring out of the cafe in the opera house to join them. I mean, they covered the trail. That's right, Sergeant. The gang headed through a heavily wooded area, then seemingly circled back into town where the trail was lost. They must have taken off their hoods and robes as they rode through the woods. They must have a clever leader who figured all that in advance. I thought of that. Some of the townsmen met here yesterday to discuss the situation. Banker Judge Sparks practically accused the cafe owner of Luke Coates not only of harboring the gang, but of being one of them, if not the leader. Do you think there's anything to Sparks suspicions? Well, Luke got sore and walked out with one of his men, a fellow named Jake Drew. And last night, Sparks Bank was robbed. I happen to know neither Luke or Jake were at the cafe when it happened. Do you have a talk with them afterwards? Yes. They both swear they went to the opera house, but no one remembers seeing them there. Well, that means they might have been a ghost, right? Sure. But still, they might have really been at the opera house. I'd need a lot more than just the lack of an alibi to accuse them. There were a lot of men at the show who probably couldn't prove it. Of course you're right. But Luke Coates and that fellow Jake might bear close watching them. I agree, Sergeant. Uh-oh. Here comes Bank of Sparks heading this way. I can see him through the window. Good. Let him come in. It's about time we became better acquainted. I'm afraid you'll hear a lot of yapping about the incompetence of the modded police. Oh. That's enough. Hey, Bank, it's Rob. Right after I have a run-in with that new good Luke coach. And you sit here with him. Yeah. Well, it's Sergeant Preston and his dog. Good morning, Mr. Sparks. Sure. This is the other marty you were expecting. Why didn't you say so, Constable? I didn't think it was necessary. Of course. If you'd been on your toes last night, perhaps you'd have caught those outlaws red-handed. Let me know, Matty. I'm sure the Sergeant and his famous dog will be of great help in tracking down the ghost riders. That's what we hope to do, don't we, King? Oh. I hope you realize, Mr. Sparks, that the citizens of this town hamper investigation of crimes by rushing to the scene and trying to act in place of the police. I never thought of that. But after all, I suppose there's no way to control what they do with that respect. That's right. There isn't. Frankly, my bank took a great loss, lads and lads, close to $20,000. And if you'd pay more attention, Constable, to the actions of Luke Colch, maybe you would soon solve these crimes. Careful, Mr. Sparks. Making accusations can get you into trouble. I'm not accusing him. Could I have a right to state my opinion? Maybe, but it isn't wise to cast suspicion upon another person without proof. Luke is mixed up in this affair. We'll find out before long. Where if the ghost writers manage to circle back and lose themselves in the crowd each time? How do you expect to trail them? They may be able to cover their trail from the police by that method, Mr. Sparks. But a well-trained dog like King won't be confused by it. He'll still be able to pick out their sense. Well, he's had a fight. Yeah, he didn't know that before. Didn't he? Hank, if you don't mind, I'm going to the cafe and eat, and then we'll make what plans we can toward finding the ghost writers. Let's go, King. I'll see you again, Mr. Sparks. Judd Sparks followed Sergeant Preston and King out of the constable's office. The banker stood him up and watching the mountain dog as they walked toward the cafe. And then he hurried to the bank. That noon, Judd, as usual, took the place of one of the tellers when the man went to lunch. By the time the bank was ready to close, four men who, at various times during the afternoon, had sauntered back to Judd's office unobserved were sitting across from Judd's desk as he spoke. My plan to have one of you stroll in every noon while I'm at the teller's window works out fine. It's a good way to tip you off when I want to meet with you. Why do you want to see us for this afternoon, Judd? Yes, please, Joe. The man who we sent here to help the constable, he charged impressions. Hey, he's dynamite. Yeah, we'll have to be careful. That's right. We'll have to be very careful. He has that famous dog of his with him. Who's afraid of a dog? Wes. Something Preston said drew my attention. Yeah? What? He said a well-trained dog like his won't be fooled if a trail is covered by the tracks of many others. The dog still follows the scent. I know something about dogs, Judd. You'd have to get that dog to the scene to pick up the scent before the others got there. Of course, if Preston does get him there when we pull our next job, it might be bad for him. Hey, Judd, didn't you say you got them suspecting Luke Coates and his friend, Jake Drew? Yeah, you see, don't admit it. But I'm sure those two muddies will be watching Luke and Jake. You still intend to grab the mine payroll at the express office of our night? Oh, gosh. You all have your robes and hoods in your set of bags. We'll meet in a grove behind the express office at 8 o'clock. Put on the robes, then we'll move in and take that payroll. Yeah, but what about Preston and the dog? I've thought of that, man. But somehow we have to lay our plans in such a way that by tomorrow night, Sergeant Preston's dog king will be missing for good. We'll continue our adventure in just a moment. Park when the lead-off man steps up to the plate. Have you been there to see the star players in person? See them wallop home runs? See the exciting double plays? Well, don't miss the fun another day. Come out to the ball game as guests of a major or minor league team. Walk right through the gate free if you are 12 years or younger and bring mom or dad or another paying adult. Yes, you can get a free baseball ticket. No mailing, no waiting. It's right inside a package of Quakerpuff wheat or Quakerpuff rice or Muffet Shredded Wheat or buy Quaker Pakotin and get two free baseball tickets. Names of teams and dates are on every ticket. Hurry to get your free baseball ticket in the special package of Quakerpuff wheat or rice, Muffet Shredded Wheat or Quaker Pakotin. To continue, the following afternoon, Judd Sparks made it a point to intercept Sergeant Preston and King as they walked along the main street. Well, King, we'll go back now to the cafe for a while. OK, sir. Sir, your question. Judd Sparks, I wonder what he wants. Hey, sir. Sir, you're passing across the street from the bank, so I heard you speak to him. Oh, are you Mr. Sparks? What's happened? Nothing's happened. I want to ask you if you would take supper in my place with me tonight. Why, uh, I'm sorry, Mr. Sparks, but since I'm here to investigate at the time. With charge, there are several important points I want to discuss, and we both have more time not to mention a particular note I received in regards to the bank robbery. No? Where is it? At home. At, um, first, I decided to overlook it, but I want to second that. I'll, uh, accept your invitation to supper, Mr. Sparks. All right, fine. We'll eat at 7. My police is not far from the Constable's cabin where you're stubby. I'll be there a little before 7. All right, all right. Over here. By the way, my new housekeeper, she's afraid of dogs. Perhaps you could leave your dog at the cabin. The Constable can come for you if anything occurs, and you can quickly get to the cabin for the dog. The Constable will be going to the cafe for supper about that time, so I'll leave King at the cabin, as you suggest. You don't mind, eh, fellow? Well, it would be, of course. If it weren't for the housekeeper, I wouldn't mind having King come along with you, eh? I understand. Well, I'll see you at my place in a supper time, eh? Goodbye, Mr. Lanzar. Goodbye. That evening, after locking King in the cabin, Sergeant Preston went to Judd Sparks' house. Sergeant, come in. Just make yourself at home, Sergeant. Thanks. I'm interested in what you have to tell me, and in that note you spoke of. Oh, yes, yes, of course. Oh, eh, Sergeant, this is my new housekeeper, Mrs. Guffey. Well, now bless my heart if it isn't Sergeant Preston himself. Mrs. Guffey, how are you? I wondered where you went when you left Dawson. Sure, and I came down here two months ago to run a boarding house. Then Mr. Sparks asked me to take care of his place, so here I am. Oh, glory be, it's good to see you. And tell me, how is King, bless his heart? King's fine. And why didn't you bring him with you? I'd like to know. Well, you see, hey, hey. I had the impression you didn't like Dawson, Mrs. Guffey, so I asked the Sergeant not to bring King with him. Oh, and for the life of me, I can't figure out how you got such an impression, sir. Well, eh, eh, come to think of it, eh, neither do I. But, eh, if Sergeant Preston wants us to hold this up while he goes back after King. No, neither does that, Mr. Sparks. I have to leave as soon as we eat, anyway. Well, then I'll hustle the vigils on the table, so as not to keep you waiting, sir. Right. Now, Sergeant, about that no dip. Oh, yes. Yeah, here it is. Now, look, it's pretty darned the stationery that's used at the hotel. The hotel connected with Luke Coach Cafe. Only one could have access to that, baby. Let's see. Mr. Sparks, we're not through with you yet. Maybe we'll get through, along with more of your bank's money, and next time, the ghost writers. Yeah. It's not very interesting. You're nervous about the threat it contains? No, I am not. I feel sure the Luke Coach is behind it. Now, notice the way Mr. is underlined. Well, when we argued in the Constable's office, I told him to call me Mr. Sparks, and he did. Stressing the word, Mr. You seem determined to connect Colts with that guy. It's evident to me that he is connected, even if you don't see it my way at the moment. We're now sufferers on the table, sir. Is that your column while it's on? Yes, yes, of course. There we come along, Sergeant Breaker. Meantime, after watching the Constable enter the cafe for supper, two of Judd's henchmen, Joe and Wes, went to the Mount East cabin where King was waiting and approached the side window. I'll take a look inside and try to see the dog. That is him. Lincoln, got a dim in there. I'll tap on the window to attract his attention. Get your gun ready. All right. I'm ready. He's jumping around in there. I'll try a shot. I did it. I saw him drop down below the window. Let's duck up the back way, then we'll join the crowd that will gather here in a few minutes. Come on, let's get going. After a quick supper, Sergeant Preston made his excuses and left Judd Sparks' house, heading for the cabin to get King. As he went up the street, he met the constable who had just come out of the cafe. Hello, Hague. Just on my way to the cabin. So am I, and we'd better hurry. I just heard there was shooting near our cabin. Come on. You're on the place. What's happened here? We heard a shot over here. Yeah, it looks like someone shot through the window. Let's get inside quickly. Right. I don't know. The gang's not barking. Something's wrong. There he is under the window. King, King boy. Well, it creased the top of his head. He's been stunned. He's coming too now. Oh, for a minute, I was afraid he was dead. I don't get this, Sergeant.  He must have been watching us closely to know you'd left him alone here. Something's beginning to quicken my mind, eh? Oh, bring a pound of water and a cloth. Sure, right away. You'll be all right, boy. Those people hadn't milled around out there. We'd soon find out who did this. Here's the water and a cloth, Sergeant. Oh, thanks. He'll be all right. He's getting up now. This will take away the sting, boy. There. Feeling better, King? Now, Hank, we're going to ask some questions. Something's happening up the street. Come on. Boring from the cabin with King once again himself and their side, Preston and the Constable ran up the main street to the express office where a crowd was already collecting. Hey, get off the express office. Get off the back way. Hey, where are the boats? Sergeant, we'd better get our horses. We won't need our horses. I have a fairly clear picture in mind of the man behind this. But who? Come on, I'll tell you later. Right. Where are we going? I'll head to the grove of trees behind the bank and hide in the brush there. I don't get it. You will. Let's hurry. Come on, King. We'll continue our adventure in just a moment. You should have been at the ball game today. I saw three home runs. And guess what? I got one of the home run balls. Fellows and girls, why don't you get a free baseball ticket? It's easy. Come out to the ball game as guest of a major or minor league team. Your free ticket is waiting for you right now inside packages of Quaker Pop Wheat, Quaker Pop Rice, Muffet Shredded Wheat and Quaker Pakotin, which has two free baseball tickets. Yes, if you are 12 years or younger, just bring mom or dad or another paying adult and see wonderful major or minor league baseball games free. Names of teams and dates are on every ticket. Get as many free tickets as you want. No mailing, no waiting. When mom buys breakfast cereal, just be sure she gets the kind with a free baseball ticket inside. That's Quaker Pop Wheat and Rice and Muffet Shredded Wheat. You get two free baseball tickets inside Quaker Pakotin. So don't miss out another day. See the star players wallop those home runs. To continue, a short time later, the two mouties and the dog were hidden in the tall brush back in the grove. Follow their usual plan, they'll circle back to town so I expect us to be here. You mean the ghost riders? Yes, I expect they'll come to this grove one at a time after they mixed with the crowd. What's the meaning of that? John Sparks invited me to suffer. He suggested I leave King of the Cabins saying his housekeeper didn't like dogs. Well, she turned out to be a woman I knew in Dawson, a Mrs. Guffey who definitely does like dogs. She said she never gave Sparks any such idea. But maybe he really did. That isn't all he's tried in every way to get us to suspect Luke Oates. He tried too hard, it seemed to me. I know. When he came to your office yesterday, he said if the ghost riders managed to circle back and lose themselves in the crowd each time, how do we expect them? Do you think Judd is with it? Yes, I do. We'll soon find out for sure. Quiet, King. Someone's coming. As the two mouties and the dog watched from their hiding place, a man rode into the grove and stopped. He dismounted and went to the back door of the bank, which opened into Judd's office. That isn't Judd's box. No, it doesn't work. He let himself into the cave. But how can we get proof? Quiet. That's Judd's Sparks. Once more, the two men and King watched quietly as Judd went into the back door. Then the constable became impatient. What are we going to do to find out? Wait until the rest get here, then. All right. I'm sure now we're watching a gathering of the ghost riders in Sparks' office. The mouties waited until three more had left their horses in the grove and entered the back door. Then the constables spoke. More reports there were five in the gang, Sergeant. That means they're all in there. Hank, I figure they haven't had time to get rid of their robes and hoods. That means they discarded them as they rode and put them in the saddlebags. Now we'll do some searching. Come on. Quickly, the two mouties went from horse to horse, finding in the saddlebags of each the white robes and hoods used by the gang. Then Preston spoke. The ghost riders are gathered in the Sparks' office. They're five against two and desperate to it. Get coats and a few of these men, bring them here, Hank. Then we'll move in on that gang. All right. Within a short time, the constable returned with Luke and the others. Without going into details, Preston told them he was sure the ghost riders were in the bank and told of a plan to capture them. Meantime, inside Judd's office, Judd and his men were having a discussion. Judd, I say, give me the payroll money right now. I'm sure. Well, that's all right. We'll divide it now. Put the second bills on the desk here, will you? With pleasure. I'll open the office door into the bank. Put that money sack in the door of my desk here, all right? It's Sergeant Preston. I'll try to get rid of him. Close this door. And if he starts coming back here, get out the back door fast. Yeah, you get rid of him. This is right. We must see you all minute. Yes, Dominic. What can I do for you? Let's step back to your office. I have a few things to say that will be of interest. Yeah, why not just sit here and talk, may I? This gets cluttered with private people. I don't need a desk, Mr. Sparks. I just want to say a few words to you where people passing by won't see us. Come on, we'll go back to your office. Meantime, inside the office, the others waited tensely. They heard the conversation between Judd and Sergeant Preston out front. When they heard steps coming toward the office, Joe exclaimed, Holy smoke, it's Preston. And he's coming back here to the office. What are we going to do now? We've got to get out of here quick.  All right, come on. Read Sholian, the gospel and the posse. We're not sick. Don't give up. Shoot him. When Sergeant Preston and Judd Sparks opened the office door to weather, the commotion started just outside the open back door to which the other crooks had gone. Pretty, pretty easy. What's that mob doing here? She had to make door. The game's up, Sparks. Oh, no. Preston then struggled with him. Joe, one of the crooks turned and ran back into the office, aiming his gun at the maudee. Don't let them take me, maudee. But the great dog king just outside the door saw the danger to his master. And with a growl of anger, leaped at Joe's gun out. Good. I'll have a look in this desk. A cycle payroll of money from the express office. Gersh, imagine Sparks being with the gang. Yeah, he sure had us all fooled. Yeah, look here. You can't prove anything. Sparks with that money sacked stenciled with the express company name not to mention the robes and hoods we found. We have proof enough. Yeah, wait a minute. Listen to me. We arrest you and your gang in the name of the crown for robbery and murder. That dog, I thought he was dead. Oh, you did.  If you had killed him, my friend, I wouldn't be responsible for what I'd do to you. I thought the sergeant that didn't take long for you and King to catch up with the ghost riders. 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If you enjoy watching Common Ground Online, please consider making a tax-deductible donation at lptv.org. Lakeland Public Television presents Common Ground, brought to you by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and the citizens of Minnesota. Welcome to Common Ground. I'm your host, Scott Knudson. In this two-segment episode, Bemidji graduate Jeremiah Lindh returns home to direct his experimental crowd-sourced farce 21st century play. Then Bob Gatz of Cushing's Obligato violin and guitar shop re-hairs a treasured violin bow. Please take this time to turn all phones to their utmost loudest and most obnoxious volumes and vibrations. I have permission as a narrator to explain why we're all here. Some as paying customers, others as willing listeners. There's always a balance as well when you try to do a project as to the rewards that you get and what is capable and what people are interested in. Behold the thesis. 21st century theater is dead. Dead like disco. My name is Jeremiah Lindh and I am the director, producer and playwright of 21st century play. But to imagine a time so far in the future that our time is as relevant to them as the past is to we here in the present. Presence! 21st century play really began after I finished taking a playwriting class at the college I was attending. And within the class I had to write a short piece that fit within the conventions of Aristotelian Method, which is to say it had to be a drama or a tragedy or a comedy or a melodrama that fit within the formula of plot or typical climax, and just a lot of the structure that goes into writing a successful play. And after I got done writing it, I wanted to write something that broke all of those conventions. I wanted something that challenged the audience. I wanted something that broke the rules. And so I started writing a piece about a theater teacher in the far future. I'm very passionate about theater. It's something that it's a lifetime pursuit for me, but it's a very difficult time to be a theater artist, especially outside of a major metropolitan area. And so I wanted to sort of expose that from the hindsight of the future where theater has failed to make it. It was a long time in writing. Oftentimes I'll write something and just walk away from it and call it good. And this time I wrote it and I solicited feedback and I will admit that a lot of the feedback was discouraging. One of the fellow classmates from my playwriting class referred to the piece as virtually unreadable from the first draft. I took that criticism and I tried to create a stronger piece out of it. And so it was over a year of trying to just edit and revise and polish it to the point where I felt comfortable enough that I could produce it.  And so that was to my advantage. And I really tried to utilize that and create a sort of minimalist and absurd piece. And as it happened by the time I had finished it, I was coming towards the end of my year of trying to get Kickstarter funding. Luckily I was fortunate enough to be able to get the funding that I required to produce it. Because even if you can only just write your name, English is an art. And that makes you an artist. Not a good one perhaps. Twenty-first century play centers around Dr. Leroy Brown Jenkins who teaches theater history in the far future. The play begins in 2095 right at the end of the 21st century. And at that point theater has turned entirely academic. There are no live performances anymore. It's just something that's taught like archeology. I'm leaving you for a robot Leroy and I'm taking the robot doll with me. It's sort of my germinal idea for the entire thing. Something I took away from out of the hat was creating a piece based entirely on one line. And the one line that I wanted was, I'm leaving you for the robot. And that idea sort of took it in and I just had to evolve it and try to create a piece sort of around it and in tandem to it. And so the conflict very early on for Leroy is then what would normally just be him monologuing for his first opening lecture class is instead incredibly complicated by the fact that he's being abandoned by his wife. Something that just destroys his life and yet he has to be able to plow through. Everything in the future is online education and so that's sort of part of inviting the audience in.   Yeah, the first act focuses primarily on Leroy Jenkins just getting through his lecture, just trying desperately to get through his opening lecture while also trying to maintain his dignity and trying to show his students why this is important to him. I'm sorry, I haven't seen other people in a long time. We're all going to die. The second act occurs on Mars and one of the conventions of utopian future society is that we've defeated death. And so although Leroy has committed suicide a number of times he's been unsuccessful because they keep just bringing him back and so he ends up retiring to Mars in order to be able to mine in solitude at which point his former wife and man bought a derby and again ruined his day. Oh, what is that? It is my very little knife. It's so tiny. Yet so sharp. It could be called like Leroy Jenkins, very bad, no good several centuries because it falls into deconstructionist theater quite a bit in terms of just seeing Leroy suffer. And then the final act takes place on Venus and by the time we've arrived on Venus sort of the wheels have come off the bus, the internal plot has sort of disintegrated and at that point we're just trying to be able to create something that the audience isn't going to be angry at us for and it really creates that interplay of what is the audience expecting from this and what are we trying to deliver to the audience at this point in the game because we've made all of our reticent points probably already so how are we going to finish this? And we end up tiny-timming the end. We tiny-tim it. But it's all a lie because there are no ghosts or angels. Stop! Whatever! We're doing this! The broad reason for writing any piece is to try to communicate a message and with 21st century play I think the most important thing for me was to try to communicate that if theater is to survive then we have to be willing to help it survive and there are people all over the world but in particular in Bemidji who really strive on a daily basis to try to keep theater as an essential component for our community and they need our support I think is the most important thing. I don't think we ever want to be in a future where we look back and see that we allowed theater to die as a relevant means of cultural expression. Okay! Okay! Cut it! Cut it! Cut it! As opposed to the piece being a dire prediction really what I wrote it as was a call to arms. It's saying if you value theater if you think it is important then you need to help support it in whatever way that is to be able to bring people together around a story I think is such a valuable and important thing to let it die because of a lack of support. Ah! The end!  No refunds. Hello my name is Bob Gatz and I have a luthier shop in central Minnesota. We're going to rehare a violin bow in my shop today. We're going to cut the amount of hair that I need for a violin bow. By this time I've rehared so many bows that I just kind of have a feel for how many hairs to put in a violin bow. Now we're going to widen them out a little bit so they won't slip out of the knot we're going to be tying. And now we're going to put a little beeswax on the string so we can control it a little better. We're going to take apart the frog of the violin bow. I'm going to take out the old plug. We have turned over the ends of the hair. Now this is my particular method of reharing bows. There are several methods and this is the one I learned years ago. Like I said about since 1979 I think that was the first thing I tried to do is rehare my own violin bow. I need three hands to tie these knots or I use my mall to tie the knot. Once I went to the dentist and he was working on a chipped tooth and I said you got to flatten that tooth a little bit because I needed to rehare violin bows. And he said figure something else out don't use your teeth and I said there's no other way to do it. So he did. Now we're going to turn the rest of the hairs under. This string that I use for tying the violin bow hair is a very strong upholstery string or a linen thread or anything like that that won't break when I tie a tight knot. Part of the reason I got into repairing instruments is that I have always enjoyed repairing anything rather than throwing it away. I have been in bands, played music in different orchestras and choruses since I was a kid and couldn't find anybody to rehare my bow around here. There weren't music programs at the time. So the repairing of instruments has just been kind of an automatic interest because I do enjoy the challenge of each individual instrument. Every instrument, the problem that it has is unique and so I have to try to figure out how I'm going to repair it or if I need a special jig to repair this instrument or a special tool. And so I've accumulated drawers and tons full of jigs and tools and I really enjoy taking an instrument that I find in whatever condition it's in. Going through it and doing everything that I think it needs to have done to it and make it play again. Now we've like prepared the inside of the frog to receive the new hair. I've got this little pocket cleaned out. Now I take a piece of wood. This happens to be willow that I recycled from an old piano, probably over a hundred year old piano. It's a piece of that greenish colored willow, dry and that's what I use to make the plugs. Now I take this wide chisel that I bought years ago at a junk store for about $2. It's a Eric Antonberg from Eskilstuna, Sweden chisel and it was used to open paint cans and things like that. Well, I've reconditioned it and it is some of the best steel that I've ever found in a chisel. And that's what I use to re-hair the bowl. Some people use knives, some people use small chisels, but I have gotten used to this thing so I can chop myself some piece of white wood. Now I start roughing this in and what I'm trying to do is trying to match the shape, the angles, the angle of the pockets slants in on both sides and slants like this on both ends. So I'm going to try to reproduce that same and they're all different. Every bow is different. Now I take the underside of this plug and I carve out a little bit of wood on both sides. And this is going to make a space for the knot to go into and then I take a file and smooth this out and run and I round this edge here so that when I'm pushing it in, when I'm pushing it in with the hair, it's going to just kind of, it's not going to be a sharp edge, it'll be a rounded edge there. Now we're going to heat up a mixture of violin, rosin and a little bit of beeswax to kind of a glue that isn't really a glue, it comes out of the, cleans up easier out of the pocket. So I put the plug in to the mixture because I think it's going to be absorbed into the wood fibers and make it less susceptible to humidity so that, like in this weather, in the winter time it's not going to dry out and pop out and I also impregnate the end of the bow hair with the same substance. Substant put the hair in first, add the plug quickly before it dries. If everything's right, this should slide right down in there, which it did. We push a little firm pressure so that it, while the rosin and the beeswax is setting up, now I'm going to take this chisel, this old dentist tool and I clean up anything that might have come out and I made the plug wider than what it needed to be to fit in so now I can trim this plug off, cutting towards the hair, so if I slip I'm going to be taking the hair out. So now we're going to clean up the pocket afterwards with the old dentist chisel here, great steel in those things and cutting towards the hair you have to just stop before you get to it. Clean that out, clean it up and that's what it's going to, I'll show you what that looks like. That's what it's going to look like in there and this keeps the hair from pulling out. Now the other thing I do that some people do, some people don't is I will take the end of the string that had the beeswax on it and I tie a couple knots here just to keep this together while I put the frog back together it's going to keep the hair from getting under the bow slide. This is a bow slide, this will slide in on top of the hair. Okay and I put my initial here just for the heck of it I put the date so I'll do 7.16 so if I re-hair this bow again I can tell the people when I re-haired it or I can see if I re-haired it. Now we have the hair coming out of the feral and we've got a space here that we have to make a wedge out of the same material we're going to take and we're going to fit that same distance there and we'll take and distribute the hair evenly across the feral. If you get too much hair on one side or the other it will pull more on one side than the other which will warp the bow eventually over time. Now that's done, I was re-hairing a pretty expensive bow once for this friend of mine with a gold mounted bow. He was watching me re-hair it nervous because it was his baby you know and I started pounding like this and he let out a little scream and ran out the door you know turned out just fine. So now I score the spreader wedge with my knife I take and I cut down cut that off keep doing that keep scoring it getting close here get down to a point where I can just bend that over off it comes take a little bit of glue right on there wipe it off right away and what that does is it is absorbed into the pores of the spreader wedge and keeps it from being affected by the humidity also. So now we're going to place the frog with the hair on the bow stick. I will put this all the way to the front tighten it up. I have a certain amount of turns now when this starts adjusting. So now we're going to turn this around and now we start going to comb the hair. Got a fine tooth comb so now we're going to just get any snags or short hairs out of the hair just begin with here and so now we're going to make the plug for this end. So now we've got the plug fit it's slightly larger I've got a space here to allow for the hair. I'm going to take that back out and carve out the underside of the plug again. All right now I've got a cup of room temperature water and now we're going to wet the hair slightly. Now we're going to comb it out. So this is the most vital point here we're going to cut the hair at the right length for a humid summer day. That's that. Clamp this down again I'm holding this between my thumb and finger very important to keep that flat. Now what I usually do here is I'll do the flame again to blunt the ends of the hair. So now this is another part that's by feel. What I'm trying to do here now is take this width and reduce it down to the smallest width that I can. What I do that is I'll pull and let up pressure on my left hand, pull with the right hand straight and then I will push pinch the end here and I let up with my left hand slightly just letting the hair slide over towards itself. Not too far so it crosses over but just slightly to the point to where I can feel the hair sliding together without crossing over. So now I've got a point that I can tie a knot around. Three times around, I go again, one more time, okay. I reach in, get a string out. Now here's where I need the flat spot on that tooth to tie this knot. Cut off the excess thread, give it one more little, those ends off. Okay, now still I'm holding with this hand keeping the hair from going over itself. I pinch here, pull and pinch, turn this over like this, holding it still. Flip this over. We're going to do the same thing. We're going to pregnate this plug with the beeswax. End of the hair, insert the hair, the plug, push down now with the pressure on the plug. That's that, we clean this up. I can take my big chisel and cut it off. Now we put the hair together. Put the frog, a little bit of beeswax and a petroleum vaseline that I've mixed together to use as a lubricant down here on the bow screw. And then we tighten it up for the first time. And then we comb it out. Once in a while there's a hair that wasn't quite long enough to get in the knot. And we kind of line them up again here, there's one right there.  And that's it. The bow's right here. Let it dry and keep an eye on it so it doesn't get too tight while it's drying and looks good. And then we're going to sit and hang it up and keep an eye on it so it doesn't get too tight while it's drying.  Thanks for watching. Join us again on Common Ground. If you have an idea for a Common Ground piece that pertains to North Central Minnesota, email us at legacy at lptv.org or call us at<PHONE_NUMBER>. To view any episode of Common Ground online, visit us at lptv.org. 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I will talk about, in these few minutes, youth in Angola, social and political transformation. This is some kind of personal research. It has no support apart from the University Institute in Lisbon where I was based at the time. So why youth in Angola and why this transformation is inserted also in a project based in Codesia, on youth institutes. We wanted to know what is happening or what youth are doing at this moment in Africa. And in Angola was the right moment because in 2000 this research took place last year in 2012 because we were celebrating 10 years of peace. It was a time for a balance. And we also had the general elections. So I wanted to talk through the interviews, through direct and participation observation, through bibliography and statistical data, what is happening in Angola. And the main question, the main answer that I got is that youth is completely, the country itself is pacing through very dramatic and very fast transformations. And what it was yesterday is not the same thing today. And youth in the middle of this, all this transformation is a little bit forgotten by not only the government, but also by the enterprise. We're talking about a country that 85% of the population is under 14 years old. So they come also the difficult to defend what is youth and what is not youth. It's a time of changing, of conflict, what I've seen that calls waitinghood. So basically Angola and youth are in that period of waitinghood. So I asked them what is the main differences between the past because we were celebrating 10 years of peace. So it was a time of balance and what is the main changes. So what can we say is that Angola and youth, at this moment, they wanted a better future like everybody. They're fighting for that. They're using now the new technology. And that seems easier, but in a contest, in a country, for instance, Angola in Africa, where the access to internet is very controlled, is very weak. So they're using all the means that they can to be heard, to be connected to the rest of the world. They're also using new methods like such, they're not writing because the education level is very low, but they're using the music, they're using theater, they're using new technology. For example, I gave you some examples of how they're getting together to complain about their situation. And only these two topics that were referred to by everybody that called the government or the government's attention and they started to improve new policies just to improve your conditions such as they created a project to build houses for them, to they spread the higher education out from Wanda because in 2019 it was concentrated in the capital, so we have 18 provinces. They started a program to improve entrepreneurship and then the youth was not happy yet and complaining and keep complaining and too recently, and this happened, that's why this work is still in progress, the president and the minister decided to listen directly to the youth so they decided to run all the country to talk to the youth and to listen to what their main complains. And the main complains of youth at this moment is employment although the education level is very, very low. So they're all worried about employment. So this took place this last weekend so I don't have results but the main complains I've already knew that because I've talked to them before, a year ago. So now the government is trying to, at least they say, it's what they're saying, in a country with such a high rate in the economic growth, why youth is complaining about employment because most of them are in the formal economy and that has to be changed. So what I can conclude about this is that they're interested in building a new Angola, they're interested in changing society, they're interested in being connected to the outside although the language for us is the main constraint but they're fighting for that. They're not just saying, well, I want this but I don't know how to and now they're looking for how to get there and these ways of looking for that call the government attestation. And I think we are in a very good process, in a very good, at least I'm optimistic and related to that. So let's see what is happening to these complains that the government, they were all more than 3,000 people in the same place discussing about this. So let's see, I hope things are going to improve but they're improving slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly but they're improving. So I hope, let's see within a year, I hope to be here to show what real improvements this took for us. Thank you.


Good morning Traders! Welcome back for the morning meeting for Cybergroup right here. It is the 9th of August. So far we're having a really, really fun morning guys, aren't we? Let's go bring up big news right now. KBSF.  Looks like everyone early bird gets the money, so we're doing pretty well. I was already up $0.67, but you know what? 8 o'clock this morning, I had some really good movement right there in the pre-market, and right around that set, everyone should have gotten at least at $7.50, or even the breakout at $8. So it looks great, really strong. Some of you remember that we traded this back all the way back, it was just back in March. This stock went from $5 to $11. So when you think like, is the rally over? Well, listen, we're going to talk a little bit about the ABIL. So it was great. So anyway, we're going to talk a little bit about that. There's a few more, and hopefully you guys are still in it. Listen, what do I always say? If you can't make money on demo mode, buy one stinking share of the stock, see what it's like, what do you have to lose, right? So if you can't trade one share, you'll never learn how to trade a thousand. You've got to be in the game, you've got to have fun of it. So I'm not making money. It's about saying, you know what? I was in that trade, it's about being up in point. So that's what it's all about. So let's go back and talk about what happened yesterday, and then we'll go through some of the watch list, because we had a killer day yesterday.  And it's just unbelievable some of the things that we had. Everyone made a lot of money yesterday. And once again, let's not cry if you missed that opportunity yesterday. But I want to start off talking about the ABIL. Holy cow, was that a runner or what? Let me just fix the ticker here so a lot of you guys can see that and what happened this morning. But this thing was all over the place. It was a great runner. It was a great pre-market runner. You could see it right there. It was, you know, I don't know, could be talking about another like, looks kind of similar to the KBSF today. But that thing broke all-time highs, higher highs. It wasn't a level one stock though. It was in the three category. And stock had a big, big spread right there. But what a beautiful run. $4 all the way to $850. And, you know, we saw the stock. I told you yesterday, remember we traded the stock back in June. It went from $3 all the way to $15. And it was not only a good day trade. It was a little bit of a good short-term swing trade. But what do we know about these stocks? Whatever comes down for crashing down the stock and the biggest percentage gainer. Where is it now in the biggest percentage loser?  Oh, there you go. All right, tons of people made money on it.  You'd have to make the $4. But Bob did pretty good, right? Bob made $0.49. Steve made $1. Neil made $0.66.  Ken made about $4 grand yesterday on that trade. Ben, I don't even know where to go with you with that one.  Everyone did great. I did great. So it was a great winner. Everybody round of applause on that one. Another big winner also, the ENDP. This is all we realistically need. I mean, we just need one. So if you missed that one, you got this one. This one right at the gate also went from $13.50 all the way up to about $17.00. You know, nice, nice big winner right there. You could see, and also you can notice a lot of these stocks pretty much stopped right around when we were supposed to quit right around that 10, 30, 11 o'clock mover. But everyone did great. There was a couple other ones also. I could bring up the DDD. It was also a nice little mover right there, $16.00 and $18.50. What else that we had? I think that was about it. But the funny part is we didn't see any news on ABIL. So that just shows you more about the squeeze. All right? But overall, great, great day. So anyway, that is yesterday. Okay? It's over. It's done. You know what? It makes you excited to realize what to expect this morning to say, you know what? Damn, I missed that one. Maybe I can get today. You know what? Damn, I missed the day before. Let me get there this morning. That's why you have to be here at 8 a.m., not us doing at 9, you know, when we're doing the audio broadcast and do the meeting. But listen, it's 8 o'clock. We're there. The room's open. A lot of you guys are already enjoying the KBSF. So, you know, boom, look at that. There you go. Look at it. It's still going. It's still going. You know? I mean, what a great, great move on that one. Good job. So, you guys, who's doing pretty well? Ben, you already have 18 cents. Very nice. Jim, you got 20 cents on that. See that? This is what it's all about. Do the math, guys. This is what people don't realize. This is why we love this job. You make 20 cents. Forget about the thing we're in 3 bucks. You make 20 cents, all right? A thousand shares. You're talking about a $6, $7 stock, right? Now it's $8. $8. Who's making 200, you know, in 15 minutes? Nobody. Nobody's doing that. And some of you be happy with it just on that alone. I mean, some of you guys come into me and you tell me, this is foul stuff. You know what? Be happy if I can make $50,000 a year. I'm like, I'm sorry. We're not really into $50,000 business. But you know what? That's okay because you can see why people make money. But you know what? If that's what you wanted to make, you've made it. Enjoy your rest of your day with your spouse. Beautiful day. Humidity is slow here in New York. I would do the same. All right. So enjoy. Can you already up $1,600? See? There you go. I'll give them a breaking news on that one. $8. $1,600. All right. So anyway, there's a couple other ones that I'm moving on. I want to talk about. Obviously, the KBSF is the big one. SND, another one that's making a nice little move. It's got a nice little falso flag. The guy's there right there. The stock was a 10,000% stock. It's gapping up a little nicely, a 14%. I'm going to throw that one on the watch list. You know, everyone's talking about this one. Roku. But why would I trade Roku at $53? I would rather trade the KBSF at $8.  And it's less risky, less volatile, and it's right in the price range. Because at the end of the day, you're here just to make money. So that one's doing pretty well. Anyway, the ABIL, I just want to talk really quickly about it. Whatever goes up must come down. Look at it. It's on the big gainers. Sure enough, look where it is now on the big losers list. So there you go. Another one, GEVO. I want you to keep an eye on this one. You guys remember this stock. Remember we trade this stock? This one went from $4 to $24 in two days. She took a big hit right here. She's down. She made a little bit of a comeback. But I just want to kind of remind everyone. Here's another example of a short squeeze. Not that I like it. I want to trade it. It kind of made the big losers list. But you could see that this is what day trading is all about. Making big, big runners like this one. Yelp. Another one that you hear big news about all over the TV. Why are we going to trade Yelp at $44? Let's go stick around and trade the KBSF at $8.75. Still looks good. Still got a good mover. You're probably going to get anyone subscribed to any other, you know, other chat rooms or whatever. I'm already getting emails. Oh, look at Yelp. Yelp is moving. Everybody's running on this bandwagon. You want to trade with everyone else? Go knock yourself out. I'm going to stick with the KBSF. Cheaper and better. It's all about making money. And then the last one I found. I don't know if I missed anything for some of you here. But it's on the extensive side, you know, but it's breaking 52 week highs. Honestly, I would rather trade this one than trade a Yelp because this one, you know, it's breaking all the time highs. It's expensive. And listen, I don't want to contradict what I just said, but we do have traders here that do make $1,000, $1,500. You know, $2,500. They make the quarter million and a half a million dollars a year. You know what this might be? So to sustain that, if you're in that level, this might be a better bet than the Yelp, the WP obviously is everything we're looking for. All right. So anything I'm missing yet, you know, yeah, is right age shortable? Can't come on. I can't believe this company's still, I mean, I just can't figure this one out. Everyone's doing great.  You got CVS. They're all in the mid-hundreds, you know, $50, $60. This thing's at $1.52. I still can't figure it out. This is like a dryer. So let's not go there, but I don't know. It's being bought out. It's being sold. You know what? You know what the problem with this stock is?  But this one, the problem with this stock right here, it's got to do reverse stock split. It's got to do a 10-for-1, 20-for-1 stock split, get into price range. What happens, mutual funds can't trade it, anything under $5. You could see, look at the buying this thing's traded. 15 million shares already in pre-market. Look at these orders. 15,000. There's just too many shares that trade to stock. So let's get away from that one. All right. So anyway, guys, you could see it right there, KBSF still going. Congratulations, guys. We're already making a nice little move. So everyone did well this morning. Still looks strong. I'm going to keep an eye on it. Not every day you see a 70% mover in pre-market. Good luck, everyone. Happy trading. Oh, and don't forget, today we have open house at 12 o'clock. So invite your friends. Do what you can. Be there. Let's try to help recruit some of the traders.  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Olga Runa vs. Daniel Medvedev is a third quarter final for the Monte Carlo Masters for 2023. And both players have had different roads to get to this stage. Runa entered the tournament as a number six seed and we're going to buy in the first round. In the second round he'd take on Dominic Teem. He was starting to look like he was in a little bit of form after a good win against Gascade. But Runa was too strong, getting through in straight sets, 6-2-6-4. In the third round Runa was supposed to take on Baratini, who had just played an epic match against Serendolo. But unfortunately Baratini had to withdraw within a domino strain handing Runa the walkover to advance to the quarter finals. Medvedev started the tournament off as a number three seed and we're going to buy in the first round. In the second round he'd take on Sonego, the wild card from Italy. This was no problem for Medvedev, getting through in straight sets, 6-3-6-2. In the third round he'd take on the number 13 seed, Sashas Varev. Last year's semi-finalist in a very competent clay quarter. And after losing the first set, Medvedev would fight back to win, saving two match points in the final set tie break, 3-6-7-5-7-6 to advance to the quarter finals. These two guys have actually never played before, which is kind of crazy because over the last six months or so, they have both been very, very high up in the rankings, but never crossed paths until today. Runa's going to win this one. He needs to know that he is the better clay court player and he needs to play like a clay quarter. We know Medvedev was pretty good against Varev. He didn't show some signs of being clay court, but this is Runa's turf. This is where he announced himself last year, and he should know that he is the better clay court player and be aggressive and play the clay court game. Medvedev's going to win this one. He needs to play like he did against Varev. But also maybe intimidate Runa a little bit. Maybe serve bigger. Maybe try and do some big second serves. He's going to have to do a lot to beat Runa, I think, in this one because he's playing against a very good, young, informed clay court player as opposed to Varev. We're still on the comeback, so I think Medvedev's going to have to use a lot more than just maybe his skills on the court and with the ground strokes to get in Runa's head. This is a fun matchup, and it's a match that I wanted to see on the hard courts between these two guys. I've never played before. First time meeting, we're seeing it on the clay courts. I think Runa's going to get the win here. I reckon it's going to be a close straight set. I think Medvedev's been pretty good this tournament. Let me know down in the comments below. Who do you think is going to win this one?