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We're going to focus on abilities, not necessarily the disability. With us on today's program is Shaquay Mushadrame from Bronx, New York to discuss his organization, the National Center for Health Equity, and why is healthcare so bad in the United States versus other countries? Joining us on this edition of Abledon On Air, Shaquay, thank you so much for joining us.  Okay. So what are the missions and goals of your agency, the National Center for Health Equity? The missions and the goals of our agency is to do the writing by the people that we serve. We are headquartered here in the Bronx, and Bronx County is part of New York City, the wealthiest, most powerful city in the nation. But yet, Bronx has consistently been ranked the lowest in terms of the health metric. A lot of Bronx sites are dealing with issues because of health inequity, because of disparities. What do you mean by health disparities in this sense? If we're the richest country in the world, we still have health problems such as food insecurity, we have problems with Medicaid, we have people that don't have adequate health insurance when it comes to certain situations such as diabetes. So why is it that we're having so many problems? Is it because, and I'm going to say this, it's public access and it's freedom of speech, is it because that doctors are greedy and they don't want to take health insurance and they rather do private pay? No, the doctors are not the main problem. The main problem, unfortunately, is the system. And we are blessed. United States is blessed to have been the most powerful nation on earth in many areas. But also, if you look at how we gain our powers, then one would wonder how we can sleep at night feeling comfortable of our progress. For example, we get free land from Native Indians. We get free labor from Africans enslaved. We get almost free production or cheap production from newly arriving immigrants. And we get a lot of resources because Wall Street is able to engineer schemes that people put their resources. So these are all part of our free market capitalism. So I am a pro free market capitalism, but I'm also in very well attuned to how we got here and how we maintain that. So for that reason, if you look at our healthcare system, we spend more money on healthcare, but yet if you rank us among... No, we also spend more money on military if you come to think about it. The Wall Street resources that I just mentioned came because we are able to have our presence militarily all over the world. We're able to see force hand opportunities and investment opportunities, and we're able to tell all investors that we are safe and secure and you can make a ton of money. That's why a lot of governments actually buy our treasury bonds and a lot of private equity investors all over the world have no problem investing in our equitable investments. But anyway, to come back to the health, you mentioned the doctors. I don't want the doctors to be the bad guys. I want to let your viewers... The doctors are not bad guys, but there are some out there that are. No, they're part of the system. That system is built on capitalism and that system is built on protecting the interest of insurance companies and the investors that invest in them. That is why whenever you talk about affordable healthcare, better known as Obamacare, unfortunately, those mostly in the Republican side immediately said, oh, this is socialized medicine that you are promoting so you want to compare the US to Venezuela to Cuba and whatever, or to North Korea. The reason why they're doing it, because they want to scare people into believing that healthcare for everybody is something that is great because it can prevent prevention. And through prevention now, you can prevent disasters from befalling. But as long as we are denying healthcare to certain population of the country, why are we denying... Why can't it be healthcare for all? Israel has a great health system and they do. Israel created the pacemaker. They created the iron lung. They created the exoskeleton so people can walk. They created a lot of things. And yet, why can't we get free healthcare? Canada has that. They're giving people free healthcare. Why is it that we are denying people who really need it, especially the vulnerable population? Vulnerable population meaning people with disabilities. For example, for many years, because the social security system stinks because people are denied and they shouldn't be. It shouldn't take ten years to get a social security payment. You know?  Why can't everybody have adequate healthcare?  Every industry that needs to get their voices heard needs to meet their economic goals, arm themselves with some of the best lobbyists in Washington DC. The pharmaceutical industry, the healthcare industry, all these industries have top-notch lobbyists. And every time you talk about providing insurance and healthcare for all, the first thing they come at you is socializing Medicare, socializing insurance. And because Americans in general do not want anything to do with socialism or communism. Therefore, if you attach healthcare for all to socialize medicine, then Americans say, no, we don't want it. We want our freedom, our independence, and our ability to choose what is best for us. But the bottom line is this. You know, the debate about Obamacare had opened the windows of opportunity for people to know that, yes, you can provide very reasonable coverage for all. And to do that, and when you do that, then all these preventable ailments that are laid on cost so much money, including lives, can be remedied. And so it is all about a lobbying wall that prevents us from having, you know, healthcare for all. But healthcare for all is very, very important.  Obamacare did not want to go that route because that route would have been fatal from get-go. Therefore, they made insurance for all affordable. That's why you have this healthcare exchange where every American, everybody can go there and based on your location, your age, and your income, then you can get healthcare that is suitable to your family's needs without any precondition or anything. I'm going to ask a question in terms of your website. It says, you use a cloud-based platform, closed-top referral, collaboration and care management platform, National Center for Health Equity, together, siloed aspects of healthcare versus a turnkey Medicare complaint chronic care management program. What do you mean by turnkey? You know, a lot of... And how does that work? Yeah, a lot of the programs that individuals are entitled to don't get them because lack of knowledge. So what we are doing is we're providing comprehensive education to what people are entitled to and what programs are best for their circumstances and also what the federal and state and municipal programs are all about. So a lot of these programs that deal with chronic care management, unfortunately, the patients who have no care. The United States is an obese nation. We have lots of diabetes, lots of chronic illnesses. So why is it a chronic care situation? Well, you know, National Center for Health Equity is a child of a program that we launched about eight years ago and the program is lifestyle, life span. We knew that in order for us to be effective in preventing individuals from dying of preventable disease and sickness, we have to promote healthy lifestyle because the social determinants of health includes environment, economic condition, and also lifestyle. Once people are able to adopt a healthier lifestyle, then people are able to prevent a lot of the ailments that are unfortunately costing taxpayers billions of dollars and taking our lives too early. So National Center for Health Equity is a product of lifestyle lifespan and lifestyle lifespan is a campaign where people, where we promote healthy lifestyle. No smoking, no drinking, no eating junk, reduced sugar consumption, reduced salt consumption, physical activities and also, you know, avoid situations and conditions that will cause harm to your mental health. So stress less and, you know, depression less situations and conditions. By the way, to let people know, this program is also going to be syndicated on Parrot TV. Yes. Is it parrotv.org or dot com? Dot com. No, no, New York parot dot com. New York parot dot com. So this program of Ableton on there and starting in 2024, we're going to be syndicated on Parrot TV so that would be www.parrottv.com as well as Orca Media and other television stations. But I wanted to go further than that. In terms of medical, why is it? Now you mentioned, you know, I think it's a lack of education when it comes to people's health. Because, you know, if you didn't have fast food restaurants, you wouldn't have obese people. If you didn't have greasy food sold in stores, you wouldn't have heart conditions. So in terms of these commercials that advertise all this food, I mean, then you have a bad health system. So in your opinion, how has the media been dealing with health care systems?  I mean, I'm going to mention it again. We had that movie Super Size Me years ago. What's one way that we can tell the media to deal with the health care system and make it a much better situation for people?  My people perish for lack of knowledge. So that applies full circle in our lives. It's like Moses once said, let my people go. Exactly. If you guide them to where they need to go and give them more knowledge, then it wouldn't be so bad. Correct. So when it comes to, you know, the obesity rate. Let's talk about that. How bad is certain health conditions and then people need more health insurance?  So what we must do is... We're talking about 14, 15, 16? As early as 1st grade, 2nd grade. You're talking about 67-year-olds, you know, consuming our products and services that they should never ever consume. Yeah. Our former president, and I'm going to shout him out. Please excuse me for shouting out Donald Trump. But our former president was doing McDonald's commercials, eating McDonald's on the way to somewhere, feeding a college basketball team Burger King. Is that the way you want to project healthy eating? That is. He took out... Donald Trump's family took out Obama's garden from the White House. That is one of the biggest challenges we have. When you have leaders who are so careless about the wellness of the people that follow and listen to them and depend on their leadership and judgment, that is horrendous. And if you look at, you know, before Trump, you look at Michelle Obama, the former force lady, her number one priority was to make Americans healthier, move and run and eat right and have right relationship, have right thinking. And it has met our nation, you know, positively impacted with the message. So now, followed by, you know, Donald Trump advertising, you know, junk food, and unfortunately people, millions of people follow Donald Trump, whatever he said, whatever he does, and that therefore millions of people will get hurt. The obesity rate can no longer be tolerated because there are a whole lot of health issues that are associated with obese. So what is the numbers of the obese people in the United States alone? Do you know that? Actually, I don't know. All I know is higher than what can be tolerated. Let me, let me just see. Let's look up the number. I have to do this since we are getting into numbers. But while we're, while you're searching the numbers. The adult obesity in the United States currently, according to the Food Research and Action Center, www.frac.org, Obesity and Health, the latest data includes 39.6% of U.S. adults, 39, the latest data indicated that 39.6% of adults of U.S., United States adults are obese. Another 31.6% are overweight and 7.7% are severely obese. So I'm going to repeat it again. According to Food Research and Action Center, okay, so you can find this at www.frac.org, Obesity and Health, under the heading, Obesity in the United States, the latest data indicates that 39.6% of U.S. adults are obese. Another 31.6% are overweight and 7.7% are severely obese. It has to do with the, I think the VMI number. Those numbers, those numbers are time bomb. Those numbers indicate national calamity, because obese, absolutely obesity is the foundation for so many chronic diseases that unfortunately we are now seeing increasing in everywhere.  So the reason why, again, we set up National Center for Health Equity is to educate the public about vital information that they need to have to live healthier and more productive life by adopting healthier lifestyle. And according, I'm going to bring this up and it's very important for this, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, okay? www.cdc.gov. So according to the Centers for Disease Control, adult obesity facts. Obesity is a common serious and costly disease. U.S. obesity prevalence was 49.9% in 2017. And in March 2020 and 2021 as well. From 1999 to 2000 through 2017 and March 2020, the U.S. obesity prevalence increased by 30.5% to 41.9%. During the same time, the prevalence of severe obesity increased 4.7% and 9.2%. So these and the estimated annual cost of obesity, right? People just eating and eating and eating. It doesn't help if you go on a cruise and eat for 24 hours. It just adds to the problem, okay? The estimated annual medical cost of obesity in the United States. You ready? $173 billion. You see? $173 billion in 2019 alone. You see? Medical costs for adults who had obesity and vulnerable populations, meaning disabled or elderly, was $1,861 higher in 2019 than medical costs for people with healthy weight. Okay. Well, there you go. Absolutely. There you go. So it is incumbent upon all of us. You in the media, me as an activist and somebody else to take on this cause as the primary cause to saving lives and taxpayer resources. That's why we're doing it. Why is it taxpayer? Okay. So because there's obesity among young children, too. No, no, the obesity across the board. You know, children and adults and grandparents.  And the reason for that is you have so many junk outlets out there and you have so many disease, you know, diseases that are not in compliance with health. Well, you know why? You know why? I'm going to tell you why. Food insecurity is a big problem. When food stamps does not, we talk about SNAP. Okay. The SNAP program. Okay. Because young mothers use WIC. WIC is another program, you know, where they get diapers and food and things. So, but when you either Americans don't have time to make a healthy meal or they, food is just so darn expensive. If food prices were to go down, then you would have people making healthy food. So McDonald's is not healthy.  But there's two things in the way. Diabetics cannot have white rice, white bread, anything enriched. A bun with a hamburger is enriched. So that's, yes, it's not, the burger is healthy. It might be, but everything else around it isn't. Yes. Another thing, or has fast food gotten healthier in years going in the future? Can we see a healthier way of eating out? Absolutely. Absolutely. We can definitely, we can definitely make our food consumption, you know, a lot better. Let me, let me go back to, you know, what you said earlier in terms of the government subsidies, you know, SNAPS and WIC. Three years ago. Those are, those are important programs. Go ahead. No, no, they are there. Absolutely. You know, any subsidy is important because people need them and they're entitled to them. But, you know, it's not what you do, but how you do it. Three years ago, one of the campaigns that we are working on until today is to making sure that the government subsidies are beneficial to the recipients. Not harmful. What do I mean by that? If a government is allocating, let's say, $500 or $700 to a family. The government. More than that. No, I'm just giving you a number. Here in Vermont, I'm just, they allocate something like a family of four, family of five, like almost between 900 to a little bit more than $1,100, $1,200, you know. But by the time it's all said and done, that doesn't feed anybody. People got to go out and work. That is, go out and work.  We want families, individuals and families who are qualified and are receiving any type of subsidies to be able to have increased subsidies, but that increase will only be used for health and wellness, meaning that if it comes to consumption, it must be organic. Preferably locally grown organic, you know, food stuff. And also. Example, food co-ops. Food co-ops are one way. It's very expensive. They need to make it more non-expensive, I guess. That is what, so that is one of the, one of the pillars of what we're saying. For example, you have food co-ops that are mostly using organic and mostly using locally grown. So, which gives economic benefit to the state and local, you know, entrepreneurs at the same time, give the consumers healthier version of what they consume. But what we're saying, let's say a family gets $500, let's say a month, you know, from whatever subsidy name. We want that $500 to be increased to, let's say, $800. The added $300 must be allocated exclusively for health and wellness, meaning if you are going to the supermarket and loading up with all kinds of junk, so that you can stretch your dollars. We want that $300 to be only used for certified organic food stuff. As well as membership, either to gyms or equipment that you can bring your home to do exercise. Health and wellness. That is what we're working on. Here's the problem. Okay. Like if someone, I know in years past, and we got one more question to ask you.  Okay. You know, but canned food is horrible as far as the salt content and stuff. So what is one of the things maybe your organization can help with increasing the SNAP benefits, but increase, you know, people want a steak. I mean, it's meat, you know. But how can we deal with that?  Are they changing those rules, or what? Larry, you know, government subsidies aren't meant for luxury lifestyles. Understood. You know, people need the very essential items to survive.  But if you're using government subsidies for luxury lifestyle, then you are abusing it. And then sooner or later, you will deny the same entitlement to everybody else. So we can have healthy lifestyle without being luxurious. By the way, you know, we need to redo the consumption of steak. We need to redo the consumption of meat in general, red meat in particular, so that we can eat more fruits and vegetables and drink a lot more water. Luxury lifestyle can be very detrimental to our health and wellness, especially if you're using government subsidies, you know, to try to maintain it. It's not sustainable. It's not ethical. And it is not what these subsidies are meant for. So it's better to insist on organic, you know, foodstuff, you know, mostly fruits and vegetables and regular clean water will do it. And you will be healthier, and you will not put yourself in jeopardy of losing your entitlement. I mean, every program that ever worked, unfortunately, if it's lost, it's lost because people abuse it. And when you abuse what was intended, you know, to maintain a decent lifestyle, then you deny the opportunity for everybody else. And people do need, you know, these subsidies because people have low income, people have health problems, and people are in situations that entitle them for government subsidies. That's why we pay taxes. That's why we pay in our social security account. That's how we pay for so many other, you know, services for later enjoyment. But as of now, there are individuals who cannot do things for themselves. There are individuals who are not able to provide, you know, for the very basic necessities of life that a lot of us, you know, don't even pay attention to because, you know, we think everybody can do it. So I would advise everyone who's receiving any type of government subsidies to be prudent in how they use them and to always focus on the best way of adopting healthy lifestyle through it, meaning, you know, eating organic fruits and vegetables and drinking water. Forget about sodas and alcohols and steaks and everything else that will not add anything but more self-destruct. So what is the future of healthcare as we are still in the 21st century? You know, Obamacare can be credited for opening the eyes of the public. For so long, you know, the Republicans, again, you know, control the narratives of health and wellness. And to them, everything must be in the hands of health insurance companies that have billions of dollars from Wall Street investors. And they do not want to lose the revenue that are being driven from premiums paid. But Obamacare debates so that, yes, you can have your healthcare profits, but it should not be in the expense of Americans dying. You cannot have these young people with type 2 diabetes, diabetic, can have access to the very, very basic, you know, pharmaceutical product that can save their lives. If you do that, now you're ending up robbing the labor force, you're ending up causing taxpayers at the back end of it, more money that could have been saved. So that debate opened the hearts and minds to know that, yes, you can have not socialized medicine, you can have affordable care services without denying private entities the opportunity to earn income from premiums. And the last question in terms, do you think healthcare has become, I'm going to say this and I hope you're not upset. Do you think healthcare and the different types of healthcare out there, do you think it's become a greedy industry? Have we become a greedy population? Anything that is connected to Wall Street can never ever be detached from greed. And greed is what caused most of our problems. That's why we fight war. That's why we have trillion dollar Pentagon budget. That's why we have individuals who do not. I said greed. Greed is the reason why our Pentagon budget is a trillion dollar. And greed is the reason why ordinary American citizens who work hard and play by the book don't have the basic necessities of life. This is an apartment to live in, healthcare that can protect them and other basic things that even some European countries are enjoying as an entitlement. So we are a greedy nation because we are a free market capitalism and we want to create billionaires in the expense of the masses. Today, our economy is controlled by fewer and fewer wealthier and more wealthy individuals. Here in New York City, for example, you have over 140 billionaires that concentrate on small pockets of the city, while the masses of the residents in the Bronx can even have decent apartment and 30% homeless and jobless and chronic disease and whole host of things that could have been avoided if we were not greedy. Greed is what defines us and greed is what is hurting us and I think we need to create more activist campaigns so that we can save more lives and bring equity back in the hands of American citizens. What is the health or economic or employment or housing or public safety or anything else? Okay, well, before we end this program, by the way, it's going to air also in 2024. Able to learn is going to air on powerTV.com, powerTV.com. Before we end, we're going to do two clips for an editing that's going to be put here. This is a short year review because we really wanted to concentrate today on health care and health care of our nation as we move forward in the 21st century. Let's take a look at two clips. The first one that we are going, before we say thank you to Shaquille for joining us on the show. Let's take a look at two clips. The first one of 2023 was when Douglas Salisbury came on and talked about peripheral artery disease with one of our partners, The Way to My Heart.org. Let's take a look at that program as part of our short year in review. Let's take a look at the pad episode with Douglas Salisbury. Let's take a look at this. Welcome, Douglas Salisbury, to Able then On Air. Howdy. How's everybody doing this morning? Okay. Beautiful Friday. Okay. So Douglas, why don't we start with your story? What is pad and it's your story. So go ahead. Well, so I guess we could start like four years ago. Let's go back four years. I was working two jobs and like my one's about 18 yards a month.  And I was taking care of my mom with Alzheimer's at the time. I'd moved her in and we were taking care of her with Alzheimer's. So mine started a little bit here, a little bit there. Started with the tingling in my left leg and then my legs started to get a little bit numb when I walked too much. And by the end of the day, my legs were starting to hurt. And it progressed a little bit in the very beginning, a little bit at a time. And I noticed it mainly when I was walking. And then after a little bit, I noticed I had started having less resting leg pain, which is one of the big things. So my legs started bothering me at night when I was trying to sleep. And then it progressively got worse. And I guess the day it started for me, I was doing a yard here where I live and I fell in the yard. My leg got, my left leg went totally numb. I fell in the yard and I laid in the yard and I thought to myself, well, maybe it's time to go see a doctor. You know, maybe it's time to have this looked at because as a man, like you were saying Lawrence, in the beginning I kept putting it all because it was like, man, I'm working too hard. I may have pulled a muscle and all the things that we tell ourselves, I'll see the doctor tomorrow, this will pass. You know, I've just, I'm working too hard. So I tried to relax and do all the things that we do. And I finally saw my primary position and I got lucky in a sense that after the second time I saw him, he said, remove your shoes.  And he said, I don't feel anything down here. You need to see a specialist. So I ended up with a bachelor surgeon here in Beaumont, Texas, where I live. And through that process, I had two stents. He said I was totally blocked. My order was totally blocked going to my legs. So I had two stents put in. They lasted maybe about six months. And I ended up back with him. And through that process ended up with an order of bifemoral bypass because that's what he said I needed. So I went through that process and that lasted maybe again about six months, six to eight months, something in there. And in that process, it started off great. And then I noticed within probably within the first month after that bypass, my leg started hurting again. I was having trouble walking, but I thought maybe at this time it was just me recovering. So I kind of put it off again a little bit. And eventually I couldn't walk again. So I went back to the same doctor. He did some checking, some testing. He says, well, if we need to do an axial bifemoral because that bypass was blocked. So he said he was going to go in and clean it out and do a stem. So I'm in the operating room. And this is basically how that process went. I was out. He called my brother and said, if we don't do an axial bifemoral bypass that he would lose his left leg. And my brother's on a forklift at six thirty in the morning at work.  We want my brother, he said, I want my brother to have his legs. So we did the axial bifemoral bypass. And that's what I live with today. Now, our second part for a short year review. Let's take a look at when Kim McNicholas was on. She's the CEO of thewayinmyheart.org. Let's take a look at that clip and online. We would like to thank her for joining us on this edition of able to learn and welcome Kim for joining us on today's program. Hi there. Thank you so much for having me. And it's actually it's an honor. It's been so good knowing you over the past few months that we've been cutting back and forth and now for it to come to this. And I get to see you in action and be the subject. It is really fun. You're putting me in the hot seat right now. So what the heck is a award winning journalist doing as a patient advocate dealing with peripheral audio, auto disease and let's start there. Interesting because when I first started getting into broadcasting, one of the reasons I wanted to get into broadcasting was I wanted to create documentaries that would reflect issues that affect the community. I really wanted to be a change maker and have an impact on the community and pretty much create the change that I wanted to see just be that change maker. Fast forward as I got into broadcasting broadcasting took me in a variety of different directions. I've always been that sort of trailblazer always wanting to pave a new path. I was the first female sports director and sports anchor in the San Francisco Bay area. They had some sports anchors, but I was the first full time was coupled with being in charge of the entire sports department. It didn't matter that I was the only person in the sports department. So wait a minute women for many years and then we'll get to the issue at hand, but women for many years have been have been breaking barriers. Diane Sawyer yourself that and you being the only person in the sports department. I see your point even worse. You know the thing was that someone was actually like this I feel bad about, but they fired the sports guy to bring me in. The news director actually said to me, if we hire you or you know, then we have to fire the sports guy. So I need a yes or no now. I was like, I don't want anyone to get fired. He said, Oh no, no, no, it's not a bad thing. We want to take this sports department in an entirely different direction. And so we think you're the person to do it. So I had three sports casts every night. I also became the first person to have a racing show here in the state of California sponsored by a large. It's now called Sonoma Raceway. It's one of the road courses on the NASCAR circuit. And so they sponsored it and it was really exciting. Now breaking now breaking barriers because we all break breaking barriers in our own way. But breaking barriers in the health care field. You have you have a podcast dealing with peripheral artery disease. You have a wonderful organization dealing with that. So so what is way to my heart? And how does it help patients with artery disease? And and let's go from there. Right. So just to get you to to that point of the way to my heart.org. It really was the, you know, I had gotten really far in broadcasting. I worked for Forbes magazine. I appeared weekly on Fox. I was on CNN. You know, I had done a lot of different things.  The the the bust, boom, the bust and the reemergence of Silicon Valley. The startups I've interviewed the who's who and they taught me so much about building a company. I thought I would go build my own. And at that point, it was supposed to be an interview platform where I would train people online to to do media. And it was at that time that Sir Richard Branson's team came to me and said, hey, we need some help with some press releases for this new startup competition. What we're doing, would you mind helping? Of course, I stepped in was helping out with it. Then it progressed into we want you to see our top 10 finals over at the world's largest consumer electronics show in Las Vegas, CES. And oh, by the way, can you see the finals of the top three on Sir Richard Branson's Island? And I was sitting here going, oh my gosh, I've never built a startup competition before. What would I be doing? And Sir Richard Branson's words inspired me. He said, don't let what you don't know and have never done before get in the way of doing something great. Sometimes it's what you don't know. That could be your greatest asset in creating the greatest disruption in any industry and creating the change that you want to see in this world. And so I said, yes. And he said, yep, just say yes and figure out how to get it done. Always say yes and figure out how to get it done. That's when you have the greatest offer opportunities. And so I ended up doing that. And during that time, I've added more than 5000 companies. A lot of the companies that we were looking at were in healthcare. And I ended up deciding that I wanted to launch a radio show that would feature some of these companies. And it was during that time that a couple of doctors told me that the biggest disruption in healthcare was going to be in cardiovascular. And there was this new laser that was coming out. So I went to the company and I said, hey, I want to follow your medical device from the beginning, the very first case in the FDA trial. Well, thank you for joining me on this edition of Ableton on Air. I want to wish you a very happy and healthy holidays to you and your family and to everybody within your organization. What is the website again? People want to turn to your agency. Go ahead. Our website is NationalHealthEquity.org. NationalHealthEquity.org. And you will find our contact information and some basic information about who we are and what we are working on addressing. So Ladi, thank you so much for having me once one more time. I really, really enjoy coming to your soul because I think you're doing a fabulous job in addressing the needs of a community that is always overlooked by service providers and others. And you're addressing what need to be addressed. So God bless you. Okay. Well, we would like to say a special thanks to Shikei Musatrame. He's one of our partners with the National Center for Health Equity in 2024. And we would also like to say a special thanks to our partners, the Muslim Media Corporation, and as well as Lifestyle and Lifespan.  And special thanks to the Division for the Blind and Visually Impaired. Special thanks to our partner in Abledin on Air, TheWayToMyHeart.org, Kim Mick Nicholas, and her agency and many, many others that have partnered with Abledin on Air. I'm Lauren Seiler. 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Hello everybody, welcome back to another Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2021 tutorial. In this one, I'm going to show you how to animate a metallic shine, or a metallic glow, or a metallic illumination, I suppose you'd call it. Very, very common in logo, in animated logos, particularly in After Effects, but I want to show you how to do it in Premiere Pro. Let's see what I'm talking about first. I'm going to hit spacebar on it, and you'll see that the, yeah, you'll just see basically that the light, I've animated a light source across, so just reflect across the text here. How do I do that? Very, very simple. Let's go ahead and just delete that image and start from scratch, basically. So first step here is you want to go ahead and create a black video, and this is a new thing for some people. You want to go to your project panel, left click on the new item, and then click black video. This will create a black video, and for me, it creates one that is one second long. So I'll delete that one, and I'm going to drag and drop in what we just created. It's only one second long in my situation. For you, it may be five seconds long, depending on what your default setup is, but you can just like I did there, you can increase or decrease the size of that black video just by doing that. So we've got some video in the background, although it's pitch black. The next step, I've got an image here, and I've got an image of Treasure Planet. I'm going to drag and drop that onto the V2 or the second video track, and then I'm going to extend it out so that it's the same length as the black video. So in this case, it's three seconds long. Now nothing is happening in this because obviously we haven't done any of the animation yet, and now here comes the fun part, making sure you're clicked on the image. We're going to go to our effects panel and type in lighting. You will see video effects, adjust lighting effects, drag and drop that onto the image, and you will see a kind of funny looking spotlight effect. That's not what we're going for, but not to panic.  Click on that chevron or that triangle, and you want to make a couple adjustments here. The first one is you want to increase the intensity considerably. I'm going to increase it to about 85 just to really show you what I'm working with here. The second step is you want to change the light type from spotlight to directional. When you change it to directional, that means the entire image is lit, not just a section on that spotlight. Okay, good. The next step is we're going to create a mask, and then we're going to animate it. So clicking on lighting effects like this, I'm going to go ahead and click on the free draw Bezier tool. And for me, I'm just going to draw a little bit of like a rectangle.  Okay, that's how I want to animate it, and I want to move it across in time. So I've created a mask. Now I'm going to go ahead and make sure my playhead is at the beginning. I'm going to move this mask outside so it's not touching or on top of the text at all, or the image in this case. Now I'm going to go ahead and left click on toggle animation or the little stopwatch. So at the beginning of this, and you'll see this disappeared, we'll get it back, there is no light applied. And by the end of it, I want the light to have traveled across the entire image or across the entire text and out the other side. So we've gone ahead and hit the image, we've hit the masking, we've hit the stopwatch. I'm now going to left click on mask one. And this is going to show us the mask. So again, at the beginning of it, the playhead at the beginning, there is no animation and it's off of the image. Now I'm going to pull it to the right. And you can hold shift down if you want to constrain it so that it pulls across straight across, not really a big deal. And then at the end of it, I want it now to be off the other side. So you'll see here, as I scroll through here over time, that this is now an animated mask. And it's animating the light over time, just like we'd like.  We've animated that lighting, that glow, that animation, that metallic effect. That's it guys. Thanks for watching this tutorial. Ten more stuff coming up. Stay tuned.


Okay, thank you everyone for joining us today for the future directions for undiagnosed diseases research the UDN and beyond workshop We're really hoping to have a lot of great discussion today from everyone And you'll notice that our meeting is really set up with very brief presentations for the most part so that most of the time can Be really dedicated to hearing your thoughts and advice And so we'd like to start off just by having everyone introduce ourselves So if we could start off down at the end of Hugo if you could start us off with just your name your Affiliation and if you're one of the UDN investigators, which site you're from My name is Hugo Bell and I'm from Baylor College of Medicine, and I'm the head of the Model Organism Screening Center Paul Fisher Stanford University clinical site Wendy Chung Columbia University panelists Steve Brouscott Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation a panelist I guess Dave Kohler from Oregon Health Science University co-PI of the Metabolomics Corps David Adams, I'm a geneticist and pediatrician in the intramural program, and I'm interested in informatics and bioinformatics as well Judith Hall. I'm a long-standing clinical pediatrician. I'm both worked in the US and in Canada Donna appell Hermansky put locks in Joan network panelist Vandana Shashi and the Duke clinical site PI I Paul Melma I'm the associate director of public policy at the national organization for rare disorders, and I'm on the panel this afternoon John mink. I'm a child neurologist from the University of Rochester, and I am an external advisor Cindy Powell clinical geneticist at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and I'm on a panelist Jim Anderson I work in the office of the NIH director Eric Green director of National Human Genome Research Institute Bill Gaul. I'm at the NIH UDP and a station wise and I co-coordinate the common fund working group for the UDN with dr. Gaul I'm Walter Korshatz. I'm a national student neurologic disorders and stroke Irina Marmini, I'm at the University of Illinois in Chicago, and I'm a panelist I'm Christine Ng from Baylor College of Medicine, and I'm PI of the Baylor sequencing Corps I'm Sue Berry from the University of Minnesota. I'm a clinical geneticist, and I'm a panelist I'm Darcy Krueger. I'm from Cincinnati Children's Hospital. I'm a child neurologist, and I'm a panelist today I'm Rachel Ramoni. I'm from the UDN coordinating center Ronnie Cohn from the hospital for sick children in Toronto, and I guess I'm a panelist, too I'm Laura Munez, and I'm a member of the UDN working team I'm Mary Perry from the Office of Strategic Coordination within the Office of the Director of NIH on the program leader for the UDN Rizwan Hamid, I'm from Vanderbilt Clinical Site Maaren Schuner, I'm a clinical geneticist. I work at the VA in Los Angeles and UCLA, and I'm an external scientific advisor I'm Brendan Lehm, the PI of the Clinical Site Baylor College of Medicine Eric Villain, PI of the UCLA Clinical Site Great, and could we have Callum? I think we missed you going around Apologize for arriving so late. Callum McCray, I'm a cardiologist and geneticist in Boston and clinical lead on the Harvard site Great, and if we could have the program staff just stand up briefly and introduce yourselves so that folks in the room know who you are as well I'm John Malvahill, a medical genetics consultant to the extra mural program of the genome institute Thanks everyone. So I have just a couple of brief housekeeping announcements One, it seems like we can only have a couple of these mics on at once So if you can make sure that you turn it off when you're not speaking that way We can make sure that they'll work when people need to be able to comment Two, if you haven't already set up transportation to be able to make it back to the airport Please see Sandra or Josh at the table and they can help with arranging that for you And if you do need any information about vouchers and reimbursement They do have those forms available for you as well And with that, I would like to start this off with some information and welcome from the co-chairs of our common fund working group For the udn and I will start with eric green the director of nhdri


Welcome to Hollywood. The current forces radio and television service brings you the Hollywood Radio Theatre starring Harling Dahl and Michael Rennie in David and Bathsheba. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Irving Cummings. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. In the second book of Samuel, we find the story of David and Bathsheba. It's a tremendous drama of intrigue and a great love between two defiant people that brought the wrath of God upon them. And as our stars of this epic drama from 20th Century Fox, we have glamorous Harling Dahl and that fine artist, Michael Rennie. Now act one of David and Bathsheba, starring Harling Dahl as Bathsheba and starring Michael Rennie as David. And it came to pass. David, king of Israel, laid siege to Raba and the sword and the javelin of Israel were everywhere triumphantly. But it gave no joy unto David.  And he was lonely in his heart. For the places of the mighty are solitary and still. Now it happened that after the day's battle, David walked among the campfires to speak to one Uriah, captain of a hundred, who had shown himself very skillful in war. Captain Uriah. Aye, and whom are you? Sire, my king. Do not rise, Uriah. I come for your advice, captain. I am only captain of a hundred, Sire. After today's bravery and skill, you are captain of a thousand. Sire. You are close to the men, captain Uriah. Knowing their feelings, what is your advice? Shall the siege continue? I know, Sire, what the men think. Attack. Attack and attack again until rubber falls to the glory of God. I wish I were as sure of what God calls glorious. The cost will be great, Uriah. Thousands would die. It is war, Sire. You have a wife, Uriah? Yes, Sire. Should you perish, she would come in tears to me. Let her tears be tears of pride. I cannot bear the weeping. There has been too much blood. The king is a man of war, Sire. I did not want this war. Since it was forced upon us, we must win it. But with as little blood shed as possible. I must return to Jerusalem where I have other duties than the sword. I trust in the spirit of such as you, Uriah, to continue the siege. As you say, Sire. Do not rise. Good night, captain Uriah. And David went back to Jerusalem where more heavy than his sword and armor was the crown of Israel. From dawn till night he ruled and judged and took counsel with Nathan, the prophet of God. For David sought to bring home to Jerusalem the Ark of the Covenant, the law of God, which long had wandered with the tribes of Israel. And what say is Nathan, prophet of God? May God walk with you, David. It is more his custom to walk with you, Nathan. The Lord God looks with favor on your plan to bring the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem. Good. I charge you, Nathan, to arrange to bring the Ark of the Law hither from Philistia. It belongs here with our people.  What other matters must I attend to, Abishai? The minister from Egypt waits to pay you his respects. And to parlay for advantage. Deputies of the people petitioning aid? I will see them first. Your sons, Amnon and Absalom, each claiming you gave him the vineyard on the Gibeon Road. What else, Abishai? What else? And always in the dim of night David the king lay alone in grief and loneliness. For a heavy weight burdened his soul and he was desolate. Oh, Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places. I am distressed for thee who art like unto my brethren. Overall, Israel did David rule, but the people loved him not. For who was he but a shepherd-lad, when Jonathan's son of mighty Saul should rule, were Jonathan not slain in battle? And so the people knew not David's greatness. No, nor his deep grief and loneliness and anguish. It came to pass that David rose from his bed hearing music in the evening and walked upon the terrace of his house. And lo, beneath the moonlight he saw a woman bathing on a roof among her handmaidens. And she was most beautiful to look upon. And David inquired after the woman and sent for her and brought forth wine and felt not alone at last. So inclined thy ear and heart to me, O daughter of Jerusalem. You should not laugh, Sire. It is very pretty. It is only a song. I have heard that the king makes excellent songs. And I have heard nothing of so near a neighbor as you are. Bathsheba, they call you. Bathsheba, I am. Bathsheba. You are not eating Bathsheba. I slept earlier, Sire. It is my custom when I am alone. Then do you are not always alone? Not always, but very much. I am a soldier's wife. Soldier's wife? Perhaps I know him. He is captain of a hundred, Uriah, the Hittite. I made him captain of a thousand before I left rubber. Then I will see him less than ever. Do you despise the king who keeps your husband from your side? The king does what he must. This war was not his choosing. The king's needs are the people's. Not all of them. The wine is Phoenician. Here. I find it mellower than ours. It has the blandness of the sea air. Have you ever visited the coast? No, sir. For many years I lived among the Philistines. Enemy though they were. I know. Otherwise you might have died at Mad Soul's hand. Oh, there are not many who would admit that and excuse me, therefore. What could you do but flee if Soul sharpened his great spear for you in jealousy? Thank you, Bathsheba. Has Uriah been away for long? We have been married seven months. Of that time we have had six days together. But rabbis, close the men can come home often. Uriah places his duty high. Six days? Poor return on the hopes of your betrothal. You were generous indeed not to hate me. I had no hope, Sire. The first time I saw Uriah was on my wedding day when my father brought him to our house. Not before. And six days is the total of your love? Of our marriage, Sire. Forgive me, Bathsheba. But perhaps you do understand the loneliness that has pressed me to send for you. My understanding is not necessary, Sire. Why not? You are the king. Is that all, Bathsheba? Forget that I am king and think of any man who would be content with such an answer. I ask you, Bathsheba, is that all? The king is a man of war. His hands bruise my arms. Forgive me, but also answer me. What answer is there? You have sent for me and I have come. In Egypt, where the pharaoh takes what he commands, that would be enough. But even if I had the right, I would not use my power to take what is not freely given. I know that David is just and human. Then no too, Bathsheba. That I said nothing until you told me that there was no love in your marriage. You told me and so did Uriah himself, whose dream of glory is his wife in tears. He is a soldier.  He can find only six days in seven months to spend with you.  But his beloved is war and the perfume of his beloved is the stench of death. And who, oh king, is your beloved? I am David, the king. I live only for my people. At least Uriah is happy with his choice. You would better go, Bathsheba. Why do you choose suffering, David, my king?  It is the king's will. Good night, sir. Bathsheba. Yes? Good night.  As he walks with you. Good night, sir. Oh, come with me from Lebanon, my well beloved. Thou hast ravished my heart, my well beloved, and I am lonely. David. Michael. The woman is gone. She is gone, Michael. I am used to your not favoring me best among your wives, David. I did not know that the sight of me is so unwelcome that you have not come to me since you came home from the siege. I have many cares. You've found time to greet your other wives in this Benjamin, Bathsheba. Michael, you remain aloof by your own choice. I only thought to leave you to your choice. How gracious is your royal approval, Sire. You're sharp words go to waste. We both know that royalty is a mockery and a fraud. It was no fraud when great Saul, my father, was king in Israel. I will not deny that Saul was every inch a king.  Please, Michael, no more business. Good night. So, the shepherd's son dismisses the daughter of Saul. I beg of you, Michael. Why did you marry me? I loved you as I believed you loved me. You had no need of my love. David is sufficient unto David. Is your memory so short? Once I had great need of your love. I begged you on my knees not to desert me, but you would not follow me into exile. You even dishonored your vows and married another. My father commanded it. There was a king. So be it, Michael. Then why did you take me back? Without Saul's daughter at my side, my northern tribes would never acknowledge me king. By taking you back, I made Israel a nation. And to God there is no man as cruel as you are. Michael, I am weary of bitterness. You, a king? A shepherd lad. A goat herd. Michael. A flinger of stones that torped giants. Betrayer of Jonathan who was like a brother to you. Michael. Jonathan should be king, not you.  Go. And for a week David ruled by day and grieved alone by night for the lost Jonathan and for his own soul. Nor did he again look out upon the roof where he had beheld the beautiful Bathsheba who alone could comfort him and solace him away from the madness that Eden saw before him. Arise my love and come away. Oh, let me see thy countenance. Let me hear thy voice. For sweet is thy voice and thy countenance is comely. David? Is it so? David, my king. Bathsheba, you must go. Let me console myself with the thought that your modesty and understanding are fit companions for your beauty. Then so is truth. Before you joined your army, I used to watch you every evening as you walked alone on your terrace. Always alone. I never heard your voice. Never was close to you. Yet when you went away, I was lonely. I'd always heard that the king had never found a woman to please or comfort him. When you sent for me that night, I dared hope that I might be that woman. Why do you say this now? Why did you wait? I had to know your heart first and then my own. Bathsheba, my beloved, you are not free. I am your beloved and you are mine. Yes. You are my true wife. Oh, come with me, my wife. Arise and come away with me. Oh, my beloved, my heart waketh. It is the voice of my beloved that knocks saying open to me my love. Awake. And David was comforted by Bathsheba and laughter and gladness came into the heart of the king and he was alone no more. Except he walked not with his God. For though David knew it not, his God had forsaken him for he and Bathsheba had broken the sacred law of Moses. And David took Bathsheba away from Jerusalem and was happy with her in the meadows where he had been a shepherd lamb. We cannot lie here dreaming in the grass like children. You must get back to Jerusalem, David. Another day. And another and another. Oh, I know you. This is where I was a boy. Tell me about Goliath. At twelve I had killed wolves with my sling. At thirteen a man. No one else would go against Goliath. I had to kill him. It was war, David. He was your enemy. It was war and he was my enemy, but a man is not a wolf. Was he really a giant? I admit he grows bigger every year. Are you happy now? I am with you. I could not have come to this place without you beside me. Why? Yonder over that hill is the height of Gilboa. Oh. There King Saul, besieged by the archers of Philistia, fell upon his sword. And Jonathan, his son, my dearest friend after him. You must not talk of it or think of it. They swept over Saul and Jonathan with their brass and steel and heathenish plumes. And where was David? In Philistia, drinking Philistian wine and eating Philistian bread. Because Saul, in his sickness and madness, drove you there. He hated you because the people cried, Saul has slain his thousands, but David, his ten thousands. Let us go. A storm is coming.  I cannot let you flee forever from a past that tortures you unjustly. It goes dark, Bathsheba. All Israel knows that you fled to the Philistines to save yourself from Saul's jealousy and madness. To save my skin, yes. To save the man that God had chosen to unite his people. Does the shepherd set a lion to guard his sheep? It was David who united your Israel and destroyed the power of the Philistines, who saved Jerusalem from the godless, who is the sword and the harp of the Lord, and who is author of mighty hymns in his praise, who wrote a lament for his friend that shall live when kings in their cities are dust. Say it, David. No. Let me go from here. Say it, but you will know forever that you did not betray your friend. You did not forsake Jonathan. Say it. The beauty of Israel is slain upon the high places. How are the mighty fallen? Say it! Tell it not in gap. Publish it not in the streets of Ascolan, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice. And ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew. Let there be no rain upon you. Say it. How are the mighty fallen in the midst of battle? O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places. I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan. How are the mighty fallen in the weapons of war perished? Are those the words of a man who betrayed his friend? How good you are. More than wife to me. I will not let my lord walk in solitude and pain. There are some places where you cannot follow. Do you doubt my love to think I would be afraid? I could ask too much of your love. If you are lost, I am lost with you. If you walk in darkness, I walk beside you. If your head sinks down into death, I will go down with you to Sheol. You are my wife. What is it? You are trembling Bathsheba. It is cold. It is the wind. Come away from here, Bathsheba. Bathsheba in a moment. Make a friend and you make an ally. There is a thought for you to keep in mind as many another American has. Not too long ago, a request was received by the United States State Department for help in setting up a modern medical system in Thailand. The man selected for the job was Dr. Ben Eisenman of St. Louis, whose work went far beyond the limits of his three-months job. In Thailand, he discovered that 17 million people living in the interior were being treated by only 700 doctors who were sadly ignorant of modern surgical techniques. At every turn, he fought against strong native superstitions to accomplish his work. With his small supply of instruments, he removed a ruptured appendix from a young Thai girl and performed a successful operation on the hair-lip of another. He did plastic surgery and worked with skin grafts, putting in from 15 to 20 hours a day. In the evenings, he completed two medical textbooks which were translated into the Thai language and were given free to any doctors or technicians who asked for them. Through Dr. Eisenman's efforts and with American medical aid, a program was set up to raise the standards of health and medical education in Thailand and nearby countries. Thanks to Dr. Eisenman, America has won herself more grateful allies. In recognition of his works, U.S. envoy Edwin Stanton wrote these words to Dr. Eisenman, you are one of the greatest ambassadors of goodwill America has ever set abroad. Thus, Dr. Eisenman had the personal satisfaction of knowing that by helping others, you help your country. Now our producer, Mr. Cummings, act you of David and Bathsheba starring Arlene Dahl as Bathsheba and starring Michael Rennie as David. Now, swift messengers on horses came to David with rejoicing to say that the Ark of God, the scrolls of the law were approaching Jerusalem from Philistia and David's finest cavalry went out to meet the cart drawn by bullets and David prepared a place for the Ark outside the walls of the city and then David went out to meet the Ark driving his great chariot with Bathsheba by his side and Michael, daughter of Saul, saw them from her window and hated them in her heart. There it is Bathsheba, the Ark of the Covenant at last. Oh, I see it and I inclined my heart to it. The shrine that traveled with our people in all their wonderings. I thank God that it was for me to bring it home at last to Jerusalem. And you will build a temple of cedar for the Ark and you will be called blessed forever. If the Lord wills it. Come, we must be at the gates to receive the Levites with the Ark. You wait, David. Stop the horses. Hold. Hold. Why do they pursue and torment that woman? I cannot say. Sire, the Lady Bathsheba, what is that mom? Why do they taunt the woman? The woman betrayed her husband in the hands of another. She is a sinner before the law. Oh. This morning she was condemned to be stoned to death by the people. There's a cry. It is the law. Wait, Obi-Lion! It is for you to cast the first stone. She cries out and there is no mercy. Oh, let me out. Let me out of here, baby. Abishai, take the Lady Bathsheba home. I go along to the Ark. Behold, David, the Ark of the Covenant. Now pity that it is mutes and cannot tell us of our ancient dead. Of Moses on the mountaintop, and Miriam, and Aaron, and Joshua at the walls of Jericho. How beautiful the wood is. How smooth it looks. How inviting to the... Stop! Lay no hand upon the Ark. Touch it with unconsecrated hands. It's to die. As you say, Nathan. As it is, David. So be it. All right. You soldiers, gather up the poles of the Ark on your shoulders and carry it into the city. It's falling. It's falling. No, don't touch it. Stop it soon. You're stewing. What say you? The young... Let all here now take heed. It is a no-man. The time is not right for the entrance of the Ark into the city. Let a tabernacle be erected on this spot outside the walls. Let the Ark remain here until the mysterious wrath of God is appeased. So be it. So be it. So let it be. What tidings from the Lord today, Nathan Broubet? Thus saith the Lord. I will withhold the reins and cause the fields and vineyards to dry up and the flocks to grow thin. I will afflict the land with the wind and the sand and the locust and the people shall perish in Israel for the sin that has been done against me and the word. War. War, sayeth the Lord God of Israel. War unto the sinful. What sin, Nathan? The Lord does not vouchsafe what sin, but great must it be to bring down his wrath on all your kingdom. The soldier who laid hands on the ark meant only to protect it. I do not know if that is what the Lord rebukes. Well, we have had droughts before. I will begin to buy grain in Egypt and Philistia. The people suffer too much. They are weary of the war.  If I do not end the war, it ends in rivers of blood. I sit by the great gate and listen to the talk of the king. What do they say about me? They say that David neglects his duty that he is often away from the city. It is natural for people to complain at hard times. I have spoken. Let the king answer to God for his kingdom and himself. And what else did Nathan say to you in Jerusalem today? The people are muttering that David is too often away from Jerusalem. I am sorry, David. It is my fault. They do not know our secret. David, I must tell you. I tell you great trouble. Our secret cannot remain secret long now. Why? Who knows?  Bathsheba, my beloved, please no tears. You bring me only joy.  For a while. What man would not be happy to learn that his wife will give him a child? I am not your wife. You are my only wife. No tears, my beloved, and no fear. I am not afraid. No. My tears are for my child who will never see light. You will not die, Bathsheba. You saw them stone the woman at the walls. Her sin was the same as mine and there was no mercy for her. They would never dare. I am king of Israel. Israel has had kings for 50 years. They have had the law of Moses for hundreds of years. Then I will give them their kingdom. We will flee into Egypt. You dream a hopeless dream. Your life is marked out on a certain course. Even you cannot change it, for it is God's design.  I know what he would say. Yes. Honor is everything. For the sake of honor, blood must flow, lives must be squandered or ruined, humanity denied. I can see Uriah that paragon hurrying to the gate to be the first to cast a stone. I beg of you. Forgive me. But Uriah himself leaves me but one other course. What is that? I cannot bring myself to say it. But you think it. Tell me, David. Uriah. If Uriah can be made to think the child is his. He has been away almost a year. I will send for him to report on the campaign. He will be here in Jerusalem one night, perhaps two. Oh no, David.  You called me your wife. The law calls you his. You scorn Uriah's kind of honor yet. I despise honor that is only vanity when it drives us to this agony. But what you suggest is honor, both of us. Will my proudly guarded honor stop my ears to your outcries at the wall? I promise you. I shall make no sound. Forgive me, love. I do not have your courage.  I will send for Uriah in the morning. And David sent to Joab, who was his general before the walls of Rava, saying to Joab, send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David. And when Uriah came into the presence of David, David asked him how the siege prospered. And when Uriah told him, David said, it is well. And thou hast earned the comfort of thy house and of thy wife Bathsheba. Good night, Captain. Rest you well. A question, Sire. Yes. About the war. Yes. Will we attack and end this war at once? No matter what the cost in blood, Uriah. The men are willing to risk death to win the siege. I am unwilling to risk ten thousand deaths. The men are restless. I will not order an attack. But if you do, will you tell Joab one thing, to set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle? It is all I ask, Sire. I will consider it, Uriah, if we attack. My thanks, Sire. Go. Go to your Bathsheba. She waits for you. It is not, Uriah. My Lady Bathsheba. Who are you? I am Michael, daughter of Saul. You are David's wife. Only in passing. I am sorry, Michael, for all that has happened to wound you. Then for your sake, I am glad that your grief will not be for long. There is forgetfulness in store for you.  What are you saying, Michael?  You are discovered. You have no secret now. What secret? The Lady Bathsheba has servants. The servants tell things to other servants, and they, in turn, tell them to their mistresses. Does a daughter of Saul believe the fantasies and gossips of servants? If it is a fantasy, it is one that will haunt and mock you to the stoning wall. You know nothing. I know everything. And I shall cast the first stone. Leave this house, Michael. I did not come so late to leave so early, my lady. Please go. My husband will be here. He is at home this one night from Abba.  Even now he is sleeping in the palace guard room, keeping himself pure for holy combat. You and your shepherd lad cannot save yourselves. Your scheme has failed. So much the better. Weep. Tuck down your hair. Rehearse your cries of mercy. Mercy, you will need them. I will have none of that. I will die, yes. Yes. I will go down into the valley and to Sheol. For there is no death. I will arise again. Yes. I will arise and come away with him. My beloved is mine and shall be mine forever until the shadows flee away forever.  Who is this that cometh up out of the wilderness of death, leaning upon her beloved? Oh, I know, for I have set me as a seal upon David's heart, and our love is as strong as death. Whereas jealousy, jealousy, poor Michael, is as cruel as the grave that hath no tears upon it. And I pity thee, poor Michael. Pity?  How do you know? The words I say are words he taught me. This goatherd, this shepherd lad grown up. You so pretend to scorn. David does not hate me.  Oh, God forgive me. You have not said. God forgive me. I have told your secret to the priests of Israel and to the whole temple. Forgive me, Bathsheba. Forgive me. Forgive me. Stand, Michael. Go in peace. And for your own soul's sake, throw not the first stone. Abishai, what is it so late for horsemen from Raba? The army is ready to mutiny unless it can attack at once and end the war and go back to their homes. Do they know the cost in their own blood? They do, Sire. And I have no more choice. Rest the courier and his horse. I myself will find a man among my guard to ride back to Raba. You, wake up. Wake up. Sire. Uriah, why are you here? Huh? Why are you sleeping in the guard room? I sent you to your home. Well, you're pardoned, Sire, but while Raba still stands in defiance of God's will, I cannot take the compass of my house. Very well, then. I have work for you. I am your servant, Sire. Come to Raba with all speed. Tell Joab to attack at once with all the force he has. Sire. Make yourself ready while I prepare the order. I beg of you. Go. Put also in the orders that Joab set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle. The best die first, Uriah. I ask it. It shall be as you say, Captain. Now go. Sire, great news. What is it, Abishai? The walls of Raba have been breached everywhere. Joab sends to ask you to come to Raba with all speed to receive the surrender of the city. Thank God that it is over. But our dead Abishai... All losses are heavy. I was afraid. Many men, many captains.  Enough, Abishai. Go to Bathsheba. Tell her Uriah is dead. Tell her to prepare for our marriage when the month of mourning is over. You will not go to her yourself, Sire? No, Abishai. I am not guilty. He asked for it himself. As you are my judge and witness, O God, I am not guilty. I am not guilty. God! You know, I read a story some time ago that made me realize that there can be heroes of peace as well as heroes of war. It was about a husky MP in Tokyo named Earl S. Whitney, Jr. He'd been supporting two war orphans, a Chinese and a Japanese, for three years on a private's pay. He took little Fan Tung aged 13 under his wing first when the Chinese lad began hanging around the Tokyo base. Whitney rented a place for Fan Tung and took over the duties of a father. Then Hirayama Chokichi, aged 15, came along, and Whitney spread the other wing for him. For three years, he fed, educated, maintained, and clothed the pair. And then he took out a night job and a service club to earn some extra change. He needed it. His army pay was $111.90 a month, and he spent about $100 a month on his two kids. He called the boys Mickey and Jimmy Whitney and hoped that someday they'd all wind up at his home back in Southern California. But in the meantime, even though he was only a private in the army, he was a real hero to those two war orphans. And it all goes to prove that such acts by you and your friends today are shaping our world of tomorrow. We pause now for station identification. The curtain rises on act three of David and Bathsheba, starring Arlene Dahl as Bathsheba and starring Michael Rennie as David. There was victory for Israel at Raba and lo, the warrior king unharness of the buckler and breastplate and weareth the garments of the bridegroom. The bridegroom cometh unto the bride, but their joy is covered with guilt. Bathsheba, my bride. David. How beautiful you are. I thought you had forgotten. Never. For these days and these weeks, I've waited for some word from one who calls himself my lover, called me his beloved, but for some sign that his promises were not lies. Lies, Bathsheba. Beloved. Why, if you loved me, have you avoided me? Why have you left me alone in darkness and ignorance to lie awake night after night with all my fears and doubts? You know that I was called to Raba. It was more than a week since your return. Bathsheba, this is not the time for bitterness. This is our wedding day. There will be no wedding. They are waiting, Bathsheba. Let them wait forever. If I have deserved somehow your displeasure. Displeasure? Or worse, the wedding must still take place. You know why. If our marriage is only to be an act of charity for my king, I will rend my veil and not go out. If I have lost your love, tell me and I will leave Jerusalem and trouble you no longer. I am not a beggar. Beloved, it is I who beg. I beg your patience. I entreat your love, and if you love me, I beg you. Say no more. Say no more. If you cannot believe in my love, believe I beg you in my solitude. Do not I beg you leave me to loneliness and guilt as Michael did once. Bathsheba, my bride, my wife. David. David, my husband. The bride cometh now unto the groom. But the vows are like ashes on their lips and all dust is their passion. More bitter than gall and aloes is their rejoicing. For lo, now the time of the wolf is at hand in Israel. He howleth at the very gates of Jerusalem. The rain falleth not, neither doth the river flow, but drieth to nothing in its bed. The wind is sick and withereth the wheat. It shaketh the barley and the grain is black upon the stalk. The you and the ram sink down in the meadow. The goat perisheth upon the hill. The whirlwind cometh out of the sun. For the Lord God is vexed and hath no pity on his children. The black camel that is famine and the one who is plague and he that is death ride the wind of the desert. And they are one with the wolf and the jackal and the vulture. For the Lord God is vexed and hath no pity on his children. In Israel, in Jerusalem the city, in the palace of David who is king, a child is born. But to the same end as the you, the ram and the goat.  The physicians could do no more. I know. I have known it these seven days. I have lain in sackcloth upon the earth. I have fasted and I have tried to pray. My prayers seem just words going out into emptiness. We are forsaken. Peace, Shalom. The prophet of God. Who are all those with you, Nathan? The people, David, muttering for address. They have cause. Silence, Israel. I come on a matter of justice, David. Hear you and judge. Speak, prophet. There were two men. One rich, one poor. The rich man owned great flocks and herds. But the poor man had not but one you lamb. He reared it and it grew up with his children. He ate of his food, drank of his cup and was like another child to him. Well, prophet. Now there came a wayfarer to the rich man, asking meat. But the rich man did not take of his own great flocks to feed the guest. No, he took the poor man's one you lamb and slew it and prepared it for the wayfarer. What is the king's verdict upon this man? He is guilty and he shall restore the lamb to the poor man sevenfold. The lamb is dead. None can replace it in the hearts of the poor man's house.  So be it. You have made me pronounce sentence upon myself. It is the will of God. It is not his will that you should die, David. What is his will? Worthy or unworthy, you are his anointed. Through Samuel it shows you to lead his people. Your labors and his behalf are hardly begun. So be it. But you cannot escape the punishment of the Lord. I have not escaped it. My son is dead. You have paid for your sin with Bathsheba. It is not so. Uriah himself asked to be where the fight raged hottest. In your heart you wished him dead. I do not know. So be it. Therefore must the woman Bathsheba also expiate her sin. She has lost her child. Bathsheba has lost her child. Is that not enough? She came to me in my desolation and lifted up my heart. She brought no evil. The wrath of God is on Israel and you say no evil? Yes. I did not bring Bathsheba to face her judges. I will not. It is the law. No, it is the law. David, we cannot fight against God's will. A God who punishes the guiltless? I am not with our guilt, David. God sees into our hearts. Abishai is bringing us my fastest horses. They'll be at the gate in the Garden Wall. You saw the soldier struck down when he touched the Ark of God. Are the horses faster than the God's lightning? We can be past the gates before the mob knows that we're gone. David, there is a time to give up the struggle and to be resigned into yield with dignity. No. I am ready, David. I will not let them take you. I cannot let you die to be broken at the wall and left bleeding for the jackals and the boatchers. David. No. No. Always, David, when you were disheartened or when I was afraid you took your heart and played. Play for me now, David. What can I play? Something from when you were shepherd boy. I would like that. Yes. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. He leadeth me beside the still waters he restoreeth my soul. He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his namesake. Yea, though I walk in the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. For thou art with me, thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of my enemies.  Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. I was an ignorant, peasant boy with no one to teach me about God. But you knew. I saw him in the hills and in the trees and in the birth of lambs. I felt his mercy when the spring broke the grip of winter, when the cool wind came up to the heat of day. I lost that God in the lights and noises of the cities, in the quarrels and the scheming of the ambitious and the mighty. Now Nathan has found him for me again. But he is not the God of my innocence and my childhood. He is a God without mercy. No, David.  Oh, David, it hurts me more to see you suffer uselessly than ever the stones can hurt me. Hold me, my beloved, in your arms once more. Bathsheba, my love, my undefiled.  The soldiers? A guiltless soldier trying to save the ark is struck down by this God of mercy? These are our last good moments together. Be at peace. Forgive me. How does it go? Your verse. My beloved is mine and he is mine forever until the shadows flee away and the people shall marvel and cry out in wonder Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness of death leaning upon a beloved?  Because there is no death. I cannot believe that God will condemn a helpless woman for a crime not wholly her own. Stay here. I am still their king. They will not come for you if I'm not with you. Where are you going? I am going to the tabernacle outside the walls. If God is what you think he is, let him show it. Wait for me here. And David went down from the palace to the walls of Uru Selim, the city of peace and the soldiers touched him not nor went to seize Bathsheba while she was not with the king. The multitude muttering against David followed him to the tabernacle of the ark and Nathan the prophet lifted his staff and the multitude stopped and David went out to the ark and kneeled before the shrine lit by wicks in oil flickering in the pitiless wind. Oh God, God of my early faith, hear my prayer.  In all things I have failed thee, yes, O Lord. My crimes are many and terrible. I have led my people into misery and want I have been a faithless shepherd and yet, oh God, cast me not away from thy presence. For thou art not to God a vengeance. Thou asketh not the sacrifice of blood. I ask nothing for myself. But lift thine hand from thy people. Let the land flow once more with thy abundance and spare Bathsheba, my wife. Let her live to praise thy name and testify to thy mercy. Let thy punishment fall on thy servant who was deserved it. Take me, oh God. Behold, I placed my unconsecrated hands upon thine ark. Strike me, oh God, behold. My hands upon the sacred scroll. Take me. Take thou me. Rain. It rains. My people, it rains. On your knees, oh my people. Give thanks to the Lord, our God. Our thanks, oh God, our thanks. Thou hast not forsaken us. It is the voice of my beloved that knocketh saying, open unto thee my love. My love, my undefiled. Bathsheba, my wife. Let me hold you. Let me hold you forever. Our daughters of Jerusalem. This is my beloved. And David went in unto Bathsheba his wife and comforted her and she him. And the Lord did so forgive them that a son was born unto them. And they called his name Solomon the Wise. And here endeth the story of David and Bathsheba and begineth the book of kings and the song of songs which is Solomon's and which his father, David, the harp of God did teach him. See now. Our stars will return. With our American servicemen and many countries around the world they have a wonderful opportunity to observe new customs and traditions. What might have seemed strange before is becoming pretty familiar to them. For instance, take this business of superstitions or omens. In Holland and Germany, if you meet a left-handed person on a Tuesday morning that's a bad omen. In Sweden, if you turn around when starting out on a business trip it's liable to turn out badly. German girls place their shoes at right angles with the side of their beds to bring a visit from their sweethearts. And in Japan and the Far East there's a superstition to cover practically every event of the day. Well, all these things might sound strange but as our servicemen have observed we have plenty of superstitions too. Let's just count some of the things that are lucky or unlucky. Finding a horseshoe, lucky. Forleaf clover, lucky.  A ladder, unlucky. Breaking a mirror, 7 years bad luck. Spelling salt, unlucky. Unless you throw some over your left shoulder. Knocking on wood, lucky. A rabbit's foot, lucky. Those are just a few of them. Lots of people carry a lucky coin or a charm of some sort. All of us have a lucky number and whenever we have something good happen to us we know it's our lucky day. People of the world over are great believers in this business of luck. That's all the superstitions are based on. They're either meant to bring on good luck or keep bad luck away. According to the customs and traditions of your own people you do certain things to try to influence that luck. Now the way of doing things may vary between different people but the ideals are the same. These customs are important to the people who follow them and our servicemen are helping to maintain goodwill by observing the customs of other people in other lands. Now here's Mr. Cummings with our stars. And here they are for a well-deserved curtain call. Arlene Dahl and Michael Rannick. Let me tell you about next week's play. It's time for another of our 20 greats and we've chosen one of our most wonderful stories we've ever presented. The story of a simple little peasant girl who has been an inspiration to millions. A song of Bernadette and as our stars of this immortal drama from 20th Century Fox we have one of the loveliest stars in Hollywood and life co-starring with my good friend Charlie Bickford who will recreate his original role. It was an unforgettable picture Irving. Good night. Good night. Good night. It was a wonderful evening. But in our cast tonight where Marvin Miller is the voice William Conrad of Uriah Hans Conrad is Nathan Kirk Butterfield and Eddie Marr. Hollywood Radio Theatre is produced by Irving Cummings. Our orchestra is directed by Rudy Schrager. This is your announcer Ken Carpenter inviting you to be with us again next week at this same time for another presentation of the Hollywood Radio Theatre. This is the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.