Podcast appearances and mentions of Howard Lee

Our guest today is Natalie Bibby, a mastering engineer based out of London, England.  She has worked with Bimini, Cinderella Balthazar, Howard Lee — 真心話, 163 braces, Jimmy Eat World, and so many more. We talk about not working in a siloed environment, the future of spatial audio, talking on the phone with clients, having a sound of your own, mastering DAWs, the future of larger-than-life rock bands, the de-localization of scenes since the advent of the internet, and the lasting effect of Nirvana and music of the 1990s. This episode's music is brought to you by Muttering also from London, England. For more information on Muttering, point your web electrons to https://www.mutteringband.com For more information about Natalie: https://www.thisismetropolis.com/engineers/natalie-bibby/ https://www.instagram.com/compress_her --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/speaksvolumes/support

Three American bachelors travel to paradise where they will be joined by twelve women from nine different countries, who don't speak any English. Without a shared language or the use of a translator, this series explores how singles looking for love come together in the attempt to find a connection. In spending time together and focusing on getting to know one another, LOVE & TRANSLATION will showcase raw, genuine moments in a unique dating environment.“As a leader in love and relationship series, we wanted to break outside the mold of our day to day and experiment in a new type of setting,” said Howard Lee, President of Discovery Networks & TLC. “LOVE & TRANSLATION will bring that rollercoaster of emotions our audience loves when genuine connections in unconventional relationships spark.”With challenges that include utilizing the five senses such as uninterrupted eye gazing and pheromone attraction tests, as well as adrenaline-pumping group date activities, these singles will try to learn about each other without the gift of language. And if the singles aren't feeling that loving feeling with anyone, they can pack up their bags and look for love elsewhere. LOVE & TRANSLATION aims to find out what it takes to make a love connection when language is too foreign.

Three American bachelors travel to paradise where they will be joined by twelve women from nine different countries, who don't speak any English. Without a shared language or the use of a translator, this series explores how singles looking for love come together in the attempt to find a connection. In spending time together and focusing on getting to know one another, LOVE & TRANSLATION will showcase raw, genuine moments in a unique dating environment.“As a leader in love and relationship series, we wanted to break outside the mold of our day to day and experiment in a new type of setting,” said Howard Lee, President of Discovery Networks & TLC. “LOVE & TRANSLATION will bring that rollercoaster of emotions our audience loves when genuine connections in unconventional relationships spark.”With challenges that include utilizing the five senses such as uninterrupted eye gazing and pheromone attraction tests, as well as adrenaline-pumping group date activities, these singles will try to learn about each other without the gift of language. And if the singles aren't feeling that loving feeling with anyone, they can pack up their bags and look for love elsewhere. LOVE & TRANSLATION aims to find out what it takes to make a love connection when language is too foreign.

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On this episode of The Black Wine Guy Experience, MJ's guest is winemaker Adam Howard Lee. MJ and Adam discuss his journey into winemaking. From discussing the decision to sell his winery, Siduri, to the benefits of screw caps over cork closures, the conversation is as varied as it is intriguing. From Dial Tone and Busy Signal to Moret-Brealynn Wines, we talk about all the projects Adam has his hands in. Listeners will also learn about creating the unique BeauMarchais Pinot Noir, a collaborative effort with the late, great Philippe Cambie. We get into a discussion on the importance of family, DNA, and our choices. You'll also hear the emotional story of Adam's mother's passing. Join us as we highlight the power of community, the importance of cherishing those we love, and the simple joys that can be found in a glass of wine.A massive Thank You to Adam Howard Lee!For more information on Adam's wines https://claricewinecompany.com/For more information on Busy Signal and Dial Tone https://busysignalwine.com/For more information on Moret-Brealynn Wines https://moretbrealynnwines.com/Follow Clarice Wine Company on IG.Follow Adam on IG.Follow Môret-Brealynn Wines on IGThis episode in-studio wines: 2021 Beau Marchais Pinot Noir Soberanes Vineyard Nord Santa Lucia Highlands2021 Busy Signal Sta. Rita Hills Pinot Noir2018 Clarice Pinot Noir Santa Lucia Highlands Gary's Vineyard____________________________________________________________Until next time, cheers to the mavericks, philosophers, deep thinkers, and wine drinkers! Subscribe and give The Black Wine Guy Experience a five-star review on whichever platform you listen to.For insider info from MJ and exclusive content from the show sign up at Blackwineguy.comFollow MJ @blackwineguy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Già vado continuamente a sbattere (a piedi nudi) nell'angolo del letto, figuariamoci cosa sarebbe la mia vita se avessi in casa un comodino invisibile! Alla fine della pagina vi metto il link così potete vedere con i vostri occhi di cosa parlo. TRASCRIZIONE [ENG translation below]Mi piacerebbe saper disegnare bene. Mi è sempre piaciuto disegnare. Diciamo che sono abbastanza brava, che se mi date 3 ore di tempo e una fotografia riesco anche a copiare in modo che la persona che guarda riconosca sì, questo il disegno fatto da questa fotografia.Non sono scarsissima, però sicuramente non sono un genio del disegno e sicuramente non sono brava a fare quei bellissimi disegni realistici, super realistici, iper realistici che a me piacciono tanto. Disegni iperrealisti ci come quelli che fa questo signore che si chiama Howard Lee che ha una pagina, una pagina web, ha un profilo su Instagram e l pubblica questi suoi disegni che fa che sono pazzeschi.Fa cose del tipo prende un kiwi un pezzettino di cartone, mette l'angolo del cartone sopra il kiwi e poi dal vivo disegna la parte mancante del kiwi sul cartone, così come se fosse identico al kiwi. E ha questo risultato pazzesco che nonostante si veda, passo dopo passo, naturalmente il video è a velocità aumentata, più veloce, però si vedono tutti i passaggi che fa, fino ad arrivare a un risultato pazzesco di super realismo che quasi non si distingue la parte disegnata da quella da quella reale.Ora, una persona che è così brava a disegnare, così brava a mischiare i colori e a copiare i colori delle cose nella vita reale su carta, immagino che abbia, cioè questa dote ha molte applicazioni nel mondo del lavoro, immagino che sarà un illustratore.Però è divertente vedere quelli che sono alcuni dei progetti che pubblica sulla sua pagina, e uno particolarmente che mi ha fatto morir dal ridere, questo progetto, per carità fatto benissimo, poi sempre filmato e poi fatto vedere a velocità aumentata, per cui si vedono tutte le fasi dall'inizio alla fine, e lui cosa fa? Prende un mobile che sembra immaginatevi un comodino, lo mette in un angolo, in una stanza e poi dipinge questo comodino così che diventi invisibile, cioè mette il nastro di carta per suddividerlo, fa una parte come il muro, una parte come il pavimento, angolazione particolare, l'ombreggiatura. Tant'è che alla fine, quando è tutto finito, sembra effettivamente che non ci sia nessun comodino.Ora io mi dico, non so se sia mai capitato di sbattere il piede senza scarpa sull'angolo del letto, sull'angolo del mobile. Immaginatevi cosa deve essere avere in un angolo un mobile che è quasi invisibile, per cui non si vede e voi andate a sbatterci sopra, oppure vi serve qualcosa, non trovate la maniglia per aprire. Insomma, non mi sembra la cosa più utile se non all'interno di un film di Harry Potter.Comunque bravo questo signore, bravo Howard Lee, beato lui che sa disegnare così bene.TRANSLATIONI would like to be able to draw well. I've always enjoyed drawing. Let's say I'm good enough, that if you give me 3 hours and a photograph I can even copy so that the person looking at it recognizes yes, this the drawing made from this photograph.I'm not bad, however I'm definitely not a drawing genius and I'm definitely not good at making those beautiful realistic, super realistic, hyper realistic drawings that I like so much. Hyperrealist drawings like the ones that this gentleman does, he is called Howard Lee, he has a page, a web page, has a profile on Instagram and there he posts these drawings of his that are crazy.He does things like he takes a kiwi, a small piece of cardboard, puts the corner of the cardboard on top of the kiwi, and then live-draws the missing part of the kiwi on the cardboard, just as if it were identical to the kiwi. And he has this amazing result that although you can see, step by step, of course the video is at increased speed, faster, however you can see all the steps he takes, until you get to an amazing result of super realism that you almost can't tell the drawn part from the real part.Now, a person who is so good at drawing, so good at mixing colors and copying the colors of things in real life on paper, I imagine he has, I mean this gift has many applications in the working world, I imagine he will be an illustrator.But it's funny to see what are some of the projects that he posts on his page, and one particularly that made me die laughing, this project, beautifully done, nothing to say, then he filmes and then shown at increased speed, so you see all the steps from start to finish, and what does he do? He takes a piece of furniture that looks like imagine a nightstand, puts it in a corner, in a room and then paints this nightstand so that it becomes invisible, that is, he puts paper tape to divide it, makes one part like the wall, one part like the floor, particular angle, shading, so much so that at the end, when it is all over, there actually seems to be no furniture at all.Now, I reflect aloud, I don't know if it has ever happened to slam your foot without a shoe on the corner of the bed, on the corner of the furniture. Imagine what it must be like to have a piece of furniture in a corner that is almost invisible, so you can't see it and you go to bump into it, or you need something, you can't find the handle to open it. I mean, it doesn't seem like the most useful thing except within a Harry Potter movie.Anyway, bravo to this gentleman, bravo to Howard Lee, I envy people who can draw so well.LINKIl comodino invisibile

This week's guest: Steve LePatner CEO, Howard Lee & Associates In this podcast you will learn: How to avoid common contingency recruiting mistakes & stop good people from leaving Steve shares the ‘board screen' that can screw up your process and key diligence items that executive candidates need to undertake before joining a venture-funded firm. [SKIP AHEAD] 02:05: How do you pick a recruiting firm? 05:58: The pitfalls of using too many firms on a contingency. 10:58: Pay people less because they now work remotely in a lower-cost location? Why not!? 15:01: A common reason people are quitting that you can avoid 18:01: To counter, or not to counter-offer. 21:54: The candidate killer - Involving the board in the process.

Day One of the Special Sitting of Parliament didn't disappoint those who have wanted the long-silenced House to be a forum for lively debate instead of just a briefing session. In response to criticism that Parliament would remain a mere briefing session if it weren't allowed to debate and vote on the Emergency Ordinances, the de facto Law Minister made the startling revelation that all 6 ordinances had been revoked days earlier. While this might make a vote on the matter moot, will it pave the way for a productive session? Melisa Idris and Sharaad Kuttan speak to Howard Lee, Chief, DAP Socialist Youth and State Assemblyperson for Pasir Pinji, Perak.

For the longest time, DAP has been labelled, by some, as a pro-Chinese, evil party. But are things changing with a new wave of younger representatives in the party? On this episode, DAP Youth Chief Howard Lee joins us to discuss social democracy and the Future of DAP. Image Source: Howard Lee Facebook

Host Shaun Robinson pulls back the curtain on the 90 Day Fiance franchise’s most jaw-dropping, unexpected moments, as she introduces a racy spinoff to the popular show, Each week, on the new 90 Day Bares All, Shaun will be joined by several special guests, ranging from individuals featured in the current season of 90 DAY FIANCÉ to familiar faces addressing the most notorious, unanswered rumors from present day and seasons past. Nothing is off limits and no stone will be left unturned, giving superfans the deepest look ever at all the stories, drama and secrets behind the 90 Day franchise. “It is thrilling for us to not only be launching this unprecedented look behind the scenes and deep into the lives of the 90 DAY franchise, but also to be launching it on the ultimate streaming destination for non-fiction, reality TV with discovery+ ” said Howard Lee, President and GM of TLC. “BARES ALL will extend our 90 Day stories further and uncover what we couldn’t fit into the shows – the destination for fans to access the truth behind the rumors that fuel countless threads, blogs and conversations.” Special guests and segments with never-before-seen footage of 90 DAY FIANCÉ couples. Shaun also gives us the scoop on her mega movie deal with Lifetime and producing partner TD Jakes. her first movie, based on the book, 7 Deadly Sins, is called ENVY and will air in April! We also find out if she ever spoke with Billy Bush after calling him out during BLM. We discuss her foundation targeted at helping young girls and small businesses ... and so much more! Follow Shaun's (0 Day Bares All on TLC on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and YouTube for the latest on all things 90 DAY FIANCÉ. Join the conversation using #90DayFiance and catch up on the 90 DAY FIANCÉ franchise on TLC.com or by downloading the TLC GO app.  90 DAY BARES ALL is produced by Sharp Entertainment, an Industrial Media company, for TLC. PLUS - Don't forget these important links: BetterHELP.com/Mocha Stereo.com - Download free app and join me every Friday at 4pm PDT/7pm EST for the Rolonda on Demand After Party/Happy Hour! Always something worth talking about and you can join the conversation! Rolonda.com - for more about Rolonda's Voice Acting Master Class Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Senator Howard Lee's political career began auspiciously, in 1969 as the first African American mayor of a southern majority-white city, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He never planned to be mayor, running for all intents and purposes as a form of protest against a housing ordinance. Apparently he was quite persuasive, as he not only was elected, but went on to become a state senator, the first African American to head a state cabinet department, a member of the utilities commission, and the first African American chairman of the North Carolina Board of Education. Senator Lee is an army veteran, having served in Korea, and has some incredible stories to share from his 86 years on earth so far.

How do you recover from rock bottom? How do you find the will to create and succeed when life is hitting you as hard as it can? In this episode, we discuss what it takes to run a successful company with employees, what a successful marketing agency recommends for new businesses, and why learning human connection is what makes the biggest difference for any venture. Business or otherwise. If you're interested in getting on contact with Howard he can be found at https://www.lfdm.co/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/greatdate/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/greatdate/support

Question to Becki Gray and Howard Lee – The North Carolina Sheriffs Association released a report proposing statewide law enforcement reforms. One of the recommendations was that every North Carolina High School Junior should watch videos explaining how to interact with law enforcement. Some community activists oppose the idea because it could more easily violate someone’s rights. What do you think about the proposal? Should these videos be produced by law enforcement officials or should a bipartisan group be involved in the production?

The Perak State Legislative Assembly has passed a Bill to amend the State Constitution to lower the eligible age of candidates from 21 to 18. The amendment was passed after a unanimous support from all 59 state assemblymen. Part of the Pakatan Harapan agenda, why did this Perikatan Nasional state government push it through? Melisa Idris and Sharaad Kuttan speak to Howard Lee, Pasir Pinji State Assemblyperson and former Youth Sports and Human Development Exco under the Pakatan Harapan government (2018-2020).

Garisan antara keduanya semakin lama semakin nipis. Howard Lee menceritakan bagaimana taktik perang China purba digunapakai oleh Pakatan Nasional dalam siri rampasan tampuk kerajaan persekutuan dan beberapa negeri tahun ini. Penaja: TrueStart Coffee SEA (https://cutt.ly/truestartshopee) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/zeidgeist/message

Cakap-cakap jalanan usai para pembesar menjamah hidangan. Burp. Pautan artikel asal: 1. Pengajaran Pahit Dari Sabah: Satu Bacaan Gramsci oleh Howard Lee (https://solidaritas.my/pengajaran-pahit-dari-sabah-satu-bacaan-gramsci/) 2. Bolehkah kita harapkan lagi demokrasi? oleh Faisal Tehrani (https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/opinion/2020/10/01/bolehkah-kita-harapkan-lagi-demokrasi/) Pautan penaja: TrueStart Coffee SEA di instagram.com/truestartcoffeesea --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/zeidgeist/message

Question to Howard Lee and Anna Beavon Gravely – College football has returned but without fans. Governor Cooper is receiving lots of criticism for not allowing fans, or at least families of players, to be in the stadiums. If it is alright to have political rallies, protests and church services with more than 50 people should our state loosen requirements and allow fans to social distance with masks?

Amazon Seller Insights, Episode #008: If there's one thing that Amazon's made abundantly clear, it's this: PPC isn't going anywhere. It's hard to keep up with all the new bells and whistles Amazon adds to PPC all the time, including features such as auto-targeting, product targeting, placement multipliers, and more. That's why we invited Coral8 founder and PPC expert, Howard Lee, back onto the show to discuss what changes you should take notice of, and how to best prepare your marketing strategy to meet the Q4 rush! Listen along as they discuss the ins and outs of critical new features, answer audience questions, and perform a live demonstration of how to find conversion-gathering long-tail keywords using Keywords on Fire! Listen now and subscribe! → https://spoti.fi/3fzI0r5 Timecode: 0:00 - Intro and opening discussion about what the most important changes to PPC are 6:45 - How big brand names have impacted PPC 10:20 - How to prepare your campaigns for Q4 sales 16:00 - Presentation about different kinds of PPC campaigns and how to best optimize them 20:25 - Product targeting and sponsored brand PPC campaigns tips, tricks, and best practices 27:30 - New features in sponsored ads (brand modifier) 29:10 - PPC basics you need to get right 31:30 - Live demonstration of Keywords on Fire, and how it helps find long-tail keywords to put in PPC campaigns 40:10 - A discussion of the halo effect and how it helps keyword strategy 43:50 - Audience Q&A Howard Lee: When it comes to PPC, Howard Lee's your go-to guy. With six years of FBA experience under his belt, Lee managed to hit the coveted 7-figure mark in a remarkably short amount of time. With years of success under his belt, Lee now helps fellow FBA sellers scale their business with effective advertising strategies at Coral8, a firm specializing in optimizing Amazon marketing campaigns. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/zonguru/message

Question to Howard Lee & Joe Mavretic Howard and Joe pull out your crystal ball and give us what you see coming in the November Election and what that means for the next Governor and State Legislature?

Amazon Seller Insights, Episode #004: Looking to expand your FBA brand with an effective advertising strategy that grabs eyeballs and pulls in conversions? Then you're in luck, because Jon recently sat down with 7-figure seller Howard Lee, PPC expert and Principal at Amazon marketing agency Coral8, for an in-depth breakdown of all things PPC! Tune in for a discussion on the strengths and weaknesses of different types of PPC campaigns, how to make Amazon's A10 algorithm work for you, customer Q&A's, analyses of actual successful PPC campaigns, and more! Howard Lee: When it comes to PPC, Howard Lee's your go-to guy. With 6 years of FBA experience under his belt, Lee managed to hit the coveted 7-figure mark in a remarkably short amount of time. With years of success under his belt, Lee now helps fellow FBA sellers scale their business with effective advertising strategies at Coral8, a firm specializing in optimizing Amazon marketing campaigns. Ready to dominate the FBA game with expert advice from serious Amazon sellers? Subscribe to the Amazon Seller Insights podcast on Spotify → https://spoti.fi/3fzI0r5 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/zonguru/message

This week we take a look at the pressure that caused the retirement of the name Redskins for the NFL team in Washington D.C. Walmart thinks they're doing their part to help community safety by mandating masks, others differ.   China shows growth post pandemic, the first major global economy to do so, True Wealth Opportunities:China analyst, Brian Tycangco and Jessica dive deep. We look at the case of how two of China’s top tech companies are navigating the Hong Kong issue - in opposite ways. In our "CEO Sit Down", Cannabis Capitalist editor Tom Carroll joins me to interview Howard Lee, CEO of SorSE, a company which emulsifies CBD and Hemp.  We’ll explore some interesting new opportunities in Cannabis.  

Question to Howard Lee and Anna Beavon Gravely – The legislature has passed the Second Chance Act to make it easier for young people to expunge nonviolent crimes from their records. Is this a good bill? Should the Govenor sign it into law? What took it so long to pass?

We had Garrison Brooks and Howard Lee on the Carolina Insider Live! show to discuss the current social and racial climate...the audio of that discussion is included on today's Pod (12:41).UNC AD Bubba Cunningham joins to discuss how those social issues relate to Carolina Athletics, his Name/Image/Likeness stance and the plan to have athletes, coaches and staff return to campus (45:49).Plus: carolinapodfans.com (1:11:19), it's almost Poddy season (1:19:33), an important question for the future of the #RoadHouseChallenge (1:21:13) and Jones needs someone to explain dew points (1:25:09)

Question to Howard Lee and Donna Martinez – The state of Callifornia just conducted an election for a Congressional seat and mailed out ballots to all the voters in the district. Many are saying our state needs to prepare for a large mail-in ballot surge but our Board of Elections says we aren’t prepared for it. Should the legislature provide funding for more absentee ballot voting?

Cannabis stocks continue their climb this week and look to be in the same category as other recession proof industries. Rena Sherbill talks to Howard Lee, CEO of Sorse Technologies about the medical possibilities in CBD emulsion, partnering with Pascal Biosciences, and the innovation and opportunity that lured him to cannabis. We also discuss what shape the U.S. recovery will have, creating a 'businessman's high', doubling revenue every year, why it's easier for cannabis business to pivot in this climate and the importance of giving back during COVID. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SEGMEN Realiti Rakyat kali ini menampilkan ADUN Pasir Pinji, Howard Lee Chuan How yang berkongsi bagaimana pelaksanaan PKP sedikit sebanyak menjejaskan penduduk kawasan Pasir Pinji. Antara isu yang dikupas termasuk cabaran perusahaan mikro dan PKS yang tidak dapat menjana pendapatan serta isu kehilangan pekerjaan dan kekurangan bekalan makanan. Episod ini telah disiarkan secara langsung dalam program AWANI Pagi, di saluran 501, jam 8:30 pagi.

Question to Bob Orr and Howard Lee – The recent Elon University poll found bipartisan support for raising the state’s minimum wage from the current 7.25 per hour. About one-third, including more of the Republicans favored raising it up to $10, some 14 percent favored a raise up to $12 per hour and and some 31 percent favored raising it from $12 to $15 per hour. Should it be raised? If so how much? Given such widespread support do you think the legislature will do so?

Carolina basketball took a disappointing loss on Saturday...where do the Heels go from here (2:54)?Then, an incredible interview with Howard Lee on growing up as an African-American in the deep south, becoming mayor of Chapel Hill (and eventually a State Senator), his friendship with Coach Smith, Charlie Scott's impact on basketball and society and much, much more (20:08).Plus: Carolina made an assistant coaching change in football (1:21:32), Josh Pastner is Adam's boy (1:24:59) and the excitement for "Top Gun: Maverick" is growing (1:38:37)

Question to John Hood and Howard Lee – The independent Environmental Integrity Project reports that between 2008 and 2018 the legislature cut funding to the Department of Environmental Quality by more than one-third or more than $136 million. Almost 430 positions were eliminated. Our budget was growing during the period. Only Wisconsin, Texas and Louisiana have made larger cuts. Are these cuts justified? Why is DEQ being targeted? How are we being impacted?

Once known as the “most beautiful woman in the world,” film star Hedy Lamarr also received a patent in 1942 for a “secret communications system” to safeguard U.S. torpedos from German radio jamming. The technology was the forerunner of “spread spectrum” which is now used in GPS, Bluetooth, and WiFi. She was recently inducted into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame, an award accepted by her son Anthony Loder, who talks about her life’s triumphs and sorrows. TRANSCRIPT: Intro: 0:01 Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida, the museum is named after James Robert Cade , who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We’ll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we’ll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace. Richard Miles: 0:36 What do Hollywood, the German Navy, And the Cuban missile crisis have to do with each other? Turns out they’re all linked by one person. Hedy Lamarr known in the 1930s and 1940s as the world’s most beautiful woman and recently inducted into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame. Welcome to Radio Cade, I’m your host Richard Miles today. My guest is Anthony Loder , the son of Hedy Lamarr. Welcome to the show, Anthony, and congratulations. Anthony Loder: 1:00 Thank you very much. Richard Miles: 1:01 So Anthony, your mother was both a famous actress and an inventor, and I’d like to talk about the actress part, but I’d like to begin actually with the scientist part, many people do not know, although recently it’s become more public through books and movies and documentaries that she was a scientist and an inventor. So why don’t we start and talk about what her invention was or what her patent was and what it’s been used for and so on. Anthony Loder: 1:25 So Hitler invaded, Austria Hedy’s Homeland, and she grew up very happy there. And she had to flee because of all the negativity that was surrounding her. So she actually dressed up like the maid, escaped her possessive husband and left Vienna for Paris and then Paris for London. And then she bought a ticket on the Normandy to go to New York where she met Louis B. Mayer , who was in Europe, looking for fresh talent, fresh meat, for his stables, for his race horses back in Hollywood. And Hedy became a race horse, and she had to run fast in order to keep on board. And when she started, her look started to fade, they kind of threw her out. But early on when she was there, World War II was raging. And she always knew about munitions and problems with radio guided torpedoes because she was with her husband who sold munitions to the Germans. And she always knew about this problem about radio guided torpedoes, and it always stuck with her. And she always wanted to help defeat Hitler and help the allies and United States win the war. She was very patriotic. She loved America. She loved being safe. She loved being in tropical Hollywood and she wanted to pay back. So she always thought about what can I do to help win this war? And then she at home and she probably thought of frequency hopping because she had one of these Philco magic radios where you turn the dial on your Philco magic dialer. And it changed the radio station on the radio in the next room. So she , well look, I’m changing radio frequencies constantly here. What if we send a signal to a torpedo and not send it on one frequency, but send it on multiple frequencies in sync with each other. So only the transmitter and the receiver will know the pattern, frequency hopping it’s called and the enemy can only touch one frequency at a time and they won’t get the whole message of just bits and pieces. And all these frequencies jumping around will be secret. And so she thought of frequency hopping and she got a patent in 1942 for a secret communications system. She came up with a way to do radio transmissions secretively. Richard Miles: 4:06 So the U.S. Navy during world war II, did they use this technology? Anthony Loder: 4:08 No, no. Hettie asked her friend George Antile, who was a musician who sinked 16 player pianos on a symphony. And he was Hungarian and spoke German, and my mother did, and his brother was shot out of the skies by the Germans and he too wanted to help win the war. So she went to him at a party and she said, look, can you help me figure this out? I have an idea, but I don’t know how to put it into realistic terms. So he said, well, I can help you. Let’s transmit the radio frequencies. And let’s use player piano rolls to hop around in sync with each other. Richard Miles: 4:49 He was a musician. He was not a scientist. Anthony Loder: 4:52 No and she was an actress, not a scientist. So a musician and an actress got together and they came up with this patent and he drew his part according to piano rolls . And by the time they got it to the Navy brass, they thought it was a joke player, piano rolls, and a torpedo and a submarine . Good luck. Just go back to Hollywood, make movies, sell war bonds. She was already a very well-known actress at this point, famous movie star 39 Algiers came out and all of a sudden, overnight she was a huge star, but all that movie stuff didn’t really satisfy her. She was kind of bored when everyone said , Oh, you’re so beautiful. You’re so beautiful. Oh , ms . Lamar, it’s so beautiful. It was all about the way she looked. And she had nothing to do with that. She was born with that face, but she did like the challenge of being creative and inventive. And she actually wanted to leave the movie business, go to Washington D.C., work at the inventor’s council and look at all the patents that came across their desk and try to enhance it or improve it. She said, well, let me look at these patents. Maybe I can make them better and Oh no. Oh no. You go back to Hollywood and be a nice actress and inspire the troops that way. Richard Miles: 6:09 So she got the patent, the Navy sat on the technology and it eventually was used, but not until like 20 years later, right? During the Cuban Missile Crisis. Anthony Loder: 6:17 Yeah. They shelved the idea. They actually did give the patent to the Sauna Boy Project, which was in the sixties. And actually it was used, but nobody knew that it was used and Hedy should have been paid, but she wasn’t paid. I mean, we’re $30 billion that idea. But at least now with people watching the movie bombshell, which is on Netflix and a wonderful film, very well-made film about her life. If you haven’t seen it yet, you should watch it. It’s very impressive. Richard Miles: 6:50 And just one more question about the technology, Anthony. So the Spread Spectrum, This kind of became the basis for a lot of technologies that we all use today. Everything from what wifi, Bluetooth, GPS, I mean really fundamental. Anthony Loder: 7:06 Right? It’s part of your smartphone . You break up all the radio frequencies and a little bits and pieces. Just your device has that pattern. So everyone’s sharing the same limited radio frequencies because they’re all cut up. Cause they’re all moved around, moving around and different patterns from the source to the phone or the computer basically. And this frequency hopping is widely used in all military wireless things. Like I put on a helmet, 150 miles away, someone else is wearing the helmet. And we’re just talking like we’re talking now and we’re listening to each other, like we’re sitting on the porch having a conversation. So weapons have it. Laser guided bombs use it. Cordless phones use it. Wifi uses GPS use smartphones use it. It’s everywhere. So had at the very least deserves gratitude thought now, and then thank you, Heidi, for coming up with this idea so we can have all of this. Richard Miles: 8:07 So I read somewhere that her patent has been cited in at least 62 other patent applications as sort of a preceding or predicate technology. So just shows you how important this insight was as a building block, to all these other things. If we could go back to your mother and her upbringing, did she ever talk about later in life? Did she want to be a scientist as a young girl? She was raised in a fairly well to do family, right? Anthony Loder: 8:31 President of a big bank. Oh , I never knew about this, but it turns out that Hedy’s family was, or is Jewish. I’ve seen the family tree go back a few hundred years. There’s Moses the tailor and Isaac, the banker and things like that. So we are Jewish and had Hedy’s very bright and she always comes up with solutions and inventors come up with solutions there’s problems and they find solutions and Hedy had a problem. There’s a war going on and what can I do to help the allies win this war? And she knew that there was a problem with radio guided torpedoes. She stuck on that. She said, if we break up all these frequencies, then no one can latch onto a frequency and jam it or interfere with the direction of the torpedo. So I’m going to do frequency hopping. That’ll solve that problem down. We’ll make it a secret communication system. So 20 years later, when the integrated circuit was invented, things can downsize and become small enough where they could incorporate that idea. And they did incorporate Hetty’s idea on torpedoes and radio communications. And 20 years after the patent was invented, the patent was 1942. 1962 was the Cuban missile crisis. And us warships had had his invention on their radios during the Cuban missile crisis. I don’t know whether they used it, but it was on board warships. And now it’s on board. Every ship, every plane, every computer it’s like $30 billion worth of invention is floating around. And Hedy actually never got any money nor credit. But with this movie coming out with you and I talking like this there’s ears that’ll pick it up. And they’ll know that this most beautiful woman in the world that she was known as, and all the accolades came from the way she looked. And she used to say my beauty is my curse because I can’t sustain it as a teenager. And in my twenties, that’s when I peak out. And then it’s all down here from there. And she had nothing else to latch on to for accolades or for attention. But there’s other things she thought of. She wanted to devote her life to invention. And she asked permission to leave the movie business and just focus on being an inventor. And they said, no, no, no, go back. Do movies, do what you know how to do. She didn’t have a close friend or a partner or someone to guide her and to encourage her to feed that wolf on her shoulder, that intellectual smart, quick minded solution-oriented person, she was Dayjah said, be pretty look good, being the movies, be superficial. Richard Miles: 11:26 And Anthony, let me interrupt for our younger listeners who may not be aware of your mom. I’m trying to think of a comparison in today’s terms. I mean, she, wasn’t just a pretty woman for a time. She was the top of the A list in Hollywood. She was probably one of the most recognizable faces in the world. She’s today’s equivalent, Nicole Kidman or Angelina, Jolie , uh , you know, very, very recognizable. What’s fascinating to me is if you look at the subset of people who are inventors, very, very small subset of people who are famous Hollywood actors, very, very small to have them combined in one person. I mean, she’s gotta be a subset of one or two. I don’t think I’ve no of any other story like hers. And as you said more than once that she felt like in some ways the beauty was a curse because you were in the movie business for a while , right? Your actor and a producer, your father was also an actor. What was it like growing up in that environment? I’m sure. From day one, right? You had to get used to having a famous mother. How did she want you to grow up? Did she want you to set aside fame and glory? What do you think her takeaway from her own life was in terms of how she wanted you to grow up? Anthony Loder: 12:33 Being a little boy with this movie star I didn’t know she was a movie star. She was just my mother. So my life was normal the way it was, but it was extremely abnormal. I mean, nothing was normal about it. Richard Miles: 12:47 At what point did you realize that you had a famous mother? How old were you? Anthony Loder: 12:51 Somewhere and people stopped her on the street map your autograph. And when we went somewhere for ice cream at Will Wrights in Beverly Hills, like 10 people used to come up to the table as for her autograph always being interrupted. I knew that all of these equities , my mom didn’t really care about all that. It was kind of like a nuisance. You know, she spoke seven languages fluently. She could join in on any conversation about anything. Richard Miles: 13:17 She’s sounds like she was a brilliant woman. Anthony Loder: 13:19 She loved playing charades. She was on the movie making, movie star path and it kind of bored her. She didn’t really want to be a movie star and, Richard Miles: 13:30 She started very young, like 15 or something? Anthony Loder: 13:33 Yeah. She started for young , uh , in Sasha studios and in Vienna , Austria . And she started as a script girl and then got a little part here, a little part there. And then she made Ecstasy the famous Czech movie where she was naked and romp naked. And she was like the first woman in the movies to have an orgasm on screen. Richard Miles: 13:54 That movie was banned in the United States? Anthony Loder: 13:56 Yeah it was. So it was and made her a household name overnight. And she kind of had to hide all that from the United States audiences who were kind of prudish. Richard Miles: 14:06 Anthony, what point did you realize the invention side of your mom? When did you know about the patent and their scientific? Anthony Loder: 14:13 They’re married , uh, oil man and we moved to Texas and we lived in River Oaks and Houston and , and big old mansion that Howard Lee built for Hedy actually. And we were living in a house in Beverly Hills when I was born. My mother divorced John Loder, who was an actor. That was my father, right when I was born. So I never met him. And we moved into the Beverly Hills Hotel. And then we moved down to Mexico where she married the man who she met on her honeymoon, seven years prior, Teddy Stauffer, who owned the Laverday and La Gila, which was this bar on the hillside where divers dive off the mountains into the water below. And we lived there for two years. And then we went back to the United States and we went off to boarding school at that time when I was young. So we cried and missed our mom. And we went from boarding school to summer camp, to boarding school, to summer camp. So she never really had the patience to be a mom anymore because the movies were actually giving her uppers and downers and Dr. Feelgood. So she became erratic and impatient and short-tempered, and we were actually scared of our mother. So she went through a lot of transformation. I feel sorry for her because she was a single mom trying to earn her way, taking care of us, taking care of a career that wasn’t on track because they were used to gold, but they didn’t have porcelain. And Hedy was specials . She stood out and they didn’t know what to do with her. They didn’t write special parts for her like they did for Betty Davis , for example. So she kind of was, well, we need a pretty girl for this movie, so well let’s use Hedy, let’s put her in. So they didn’t really care about her film career. They didn’t nourish her nurture good parts for her. So she wasn’t really a huge superstar. Richard Miles: 16:10 So even as an actress. She didn’t really get to develop her talent in the acting. The beauty was just sort of overwhelmed everything. Anthony Loder: 16:17 So she was disappointed and bored and , and let down by the parts that she had. And this one thing kept sticking in her mind. She wanted to be an inventor. She wanted full time. Let me think of things to improve society. And she came up with little cubes that you put in a water glass and it turned into fizzy Coca-Cola, but there was different types of acid water and this and that. So the water wasn’t the same. So that didn’t work out at one point Hedy even dated Howard Hughes though. He was the worst partner she had. He was the best partner she had intellectually because he did loan out his scientist that helped her develop that Coca-Cola cube. And she encouraged him to make faster airplanes. She bought a book on fish. She bought a book on birds and she found the fastest bird and the fastest fish. She merged the two together. She said, look, Howard, your airplane, wings, go straight out. Why don’t we bend them back and see what happens? I think the plane will go faster. She said, you’re a genius. And he started doing swept wings. So Hedy actually came up with that idea as well. So she was a smart cookie and I would’ve loved to been with her as a scientist mom, instead of as a cookie movie star mom who had no platform to stand on. I mean, the better you look, the more we’re going to love you that nothing to do with science and the science and the inventive nature is what’s real. And what’s important. What people can really hang their hats on. And Howard Hughes hung his hat on Hedy and Hedy helped Howard and Howard help Hedy and, Richard Miles: 18:03 That’s a great story. Anthony Loder: 18:04 There’s a lot of little stories like that in their life. So she didn’t have a friend to encourage her to go down the path of a scientist as inventor. So she kind of let it go. And she was resigned to be a famous movie star. And the fame part of it was she was known as the most beautiful woman in the world. And how long can that last, when gravity is pulling your beauty, making wrinkles and becoming not a young firm, pretty beautiful actress anymore. I mean, her life was kind of sad in a way that she didn’t have anyone to encourage her bright mindedness. And she was very inventive and she didn’t know how to add two plus two, really, but she was very bright minded and she knew of the problem. There’s a problem though . Torpedo gets interfered with, by the enemy, it’s a radio guided torpedo, but the enemy takes over the signal and changes the direction or jams your transmission controller. How can I fix that ? Richard Miles: 19:08 You know , Anthony, that almost captured perfectly the essence of a true inventor, this intellectual curiosity in which you’re wanting to know the answers to questions or wanting to find solutions to problems that don’t even directly concern you. I mean, she was an actress. This was not really in her orbit, but yet she had that intellectual curiosity. And I was struck by something you said earlier, Anthony, in which you said, if all my mother was, was just a beautiful woman and a famous actress, no one would really remember her past a generation, right? Cause actors and actresses come and go depending on the generation. But because of this, the invention part of her, her reputation and her memory is going to live much, much longer. That’s why we’re talking about her. Now. We wouldn’t really be talking about her, except for she had this inventive part of her mind. Anthony Loder: 19:54 When she was alive and active in the forties. All everyone clamored about, Oh, you’re so beautiful. And it was a short term superficial thing that everyone focused on and raised her up on a platform of superficiality. And now the science part of her is a long term , significant, not a shallow, but a deep understanding where it reaches out to millions of people helping improve their lives. So Hedy, without people knowing it is touching most everybody’s life on the planet. And in ways we don’t even know of that, Richard Miles: 20:31 Like that time we pick up our cell phone, right? Anthony Loder: 20:33 Right, like in the future, you’re going to walk into a store and the store is going to recognize you with your electronic cell phone device as being, Oh, this person’s still lives at the same place. Their credit is good. They’re welcome to the store, and they go and take everything they want put it in a bag and they walk out of the store. And immediately everything you took is charged to your cell phone because of the little transmitters that are in all the products for inventory control, for charging people. So there’s a whole bunch of stuff that’s not even happening yet. That will happen with this idea. Most all military wireless things have it . The satellites have at TRW, Lockheed Martin they sends signals to satellites that are frequency hopping. So nobody can listen to it or jam it or interfere with it. And it’s controlling the communications with the onboard computers on these $38 billion satellites that are going on around the planet. Richard Miles: 21:34 And this is truly a revolutionary idea. And it’s reminds me of the phrase, beauty fades, but ideas lasts forever. Anthony Loder: 21:40 That’s a good point. Richard Miles: 21:41 I got to say of all the guests I’ve interviewed. I think this story really captures the imagination because again, you just sort of see this pure intellectual pure inventiveness coming out, but yet from a woman who was so gifted in other ways, and maybe didn’t get to capture that talent in many different aspects. Anthony Loder: 21:57 She, she was living in a time where women weren’t taking seriously. They were just pieces of meat. They were just like a human adornments that men had and men ran the world and women were just put in the background, but how do you have to fight to be heard and had to fight to get good parts and at the fight to be taken seriously. And she wasn’t, and she didn’t have anyone on board on her side when she was going through all that, to respect her or to give her the encouragement she needed to keep going down that path. So the hot end people, the inventors who come up with the ideas, it seems that the flow of ideas go in one direction to the marketing people and the developers into the people who buy the product and the money comes back upstream and it stops to the inventor. But if we fed the inventor, the inventor might come up with more ideas. So we have to encourage inventors and support inventors and pay inventors to do more. We have to like include the hot end in the gratitude payments and into the monetary payments. We have to be grateful to all of these people who enhance our lives, Steve Jobs, Isaac Newton, Howard Hughes, whoever it is, we need to wake up in the morning and be grateful to all these individuals who helped enhance our lives. Because without all this stuff, we would be horrible. Imagine not being able to flush a toilet or do the basics. So many people thought of so many things to make our life better. We better be grateful human beings, because if we’re not grateful, we can’t be happy. One of the formulas to be grateful is to enjoy what you’re doing. Look forward to doing something that you’ll enjoy in the future. Richard Miles: 23:48 That is a great way to sum up this episode, Anthony, thank you so much for joining me this morning, telling your story. Anthony Loder: 23:54 There’s so much more to say, Richard Miles: 23:56 We could go on for quite a long time. Anthony Loder: 23:58 Hopefully people get a chance to see Bombshell, The Hedy Lamarr Story. Richard Miles: 24:01 Right, Bombshell it’s on Netflix. Bombshell, The Hedy Lamarr story, Netflix, encourage listeners to look that up. Anthony Loder: 24:08 And your website’s important too, because you basically are making a platform for inventors to stay alive and for people to understand what inventors went through, to bring their idea to market and your museum and your idea of promoting invention and inventors and keeping that whole stream alive with youngsters that come and see you. I’m just very touched by what you’re doing to keep the ball moving. Richard Miles: 24:39 Well, thank you very much. Anthony, I think we’re going to put you on the Cade Museum marketing team because And we encourage listeners to come visit the Cade Museum in Gainesville. What’s that website it’s cademuseum.org. Anthony Loder: 24:52 How do you spell that ? Richard Miles: 24:53 C A D E museum.org. And in fact, we do feature an exhibit on Hedy Lamarr, an audio tour on your mom. So I think people will enjoy seeing that. Thank you very much. Anthony Loder: 25:03 Thank you, it’s been fun. I mean, there’s so much more to say and we had such little time, but I hope you got something out of this. Richard Miles: 25:10 Absolutely. Thank you very much. Anthony Loder: 25:11 Thank you, Richard. Richard Miles: 25:13 I’m Richard Miles. Outro: 25:14 Radio Cade would like to thank the following people for their help and support Liz Gist of the Cade Museum for coordinating and vendor interviews. Bob McPeak of Heartwood Soundstage in downtown Gainesville, Florida for recording, editing and production of the podcasts and music theme. Tracy Collins for the composition and performance of the Radio Cade theme song, featuring violinist, Jacob Lawson and special thanks to the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention located in Gainesville, Florida.

Growing up in a segregated Georgia in the 1940s, Howard Lee didn't know where his life would lead, but eventually, it led him to earn a master’s degree from the UNC School of Social Work in 1966. “The students in the School of Social Work embraced us, and of course we just simply didn't feel any different from any other student,” Lee said. “That started me on a road of feeling recertified as a person.” But outside the classroom, Lee and his family continued to feel the racial tensions they experienced in Georgia. It was this tension that pushed him to run for mayor of the town in 1969. “I decided to run for mayor not so much to win — because I didn’t think a black person would be elected mayor in Chapel Hill — but to make a point to push certain issues that needed to be dealt with,” Lee said. Lee’s victory helped to pave the way for future black leaders. On this episode of Well Said, Lee details living life in the segregated South and his path to the mayor's office.

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Synopsis During a visit to an art gallery with , the Doctor's interest is caught by a painting of a church by Vincent van Gogh: there's a face in the window of the church – a curious, shadowed creepy face with a beak and nasty eyes. The Doctor is worried, and is sure he has seen the face somewhere before. There is only one thing for it: a trip in the TARDIS back to , so the Doctor can find out from the artist himself. Plot The Doctor and Amy looking at van Gogh's painting of the Church at Auvers. In a field of wheat, something begins running through it, scaring the crows away, while an artist paints the scene. The same painting, years later, hangs in the Musée d'Orsay in . A man, Dr. Black, in glasses and a bowtie tells a group of people that the painting is one of van Gogh's last paintings and that the last few months of his life were the most astonishing months of his artistic outpouring. As he compares van Gogh to , the Doctor and pass behind him, admiring the pieces of art around them. Amy thanks the Doctor for bringing her to the museum and asks why he is being so nice to her. The Doctor defends himself and Amy says that she was only joking, asking why he was being so serious. Dr. Black tells the group the value of van Gogh's work today, tens of millions, and compares it with the value of it when van Gogh died, the value of a sofa and some chairs. A child says "He's the doctor." Thinking it is him, the Doctor turns around, only to discover the children are looking at a picture of van Gogh's doctor. Amy grabs the Doctor's hand and pulls him towards a painting of a church. As the Doctor admires the work, he notices something in the window of the church. Amy asks if it is a face and the Doctor tells her that it is, and that it isn't a nice face. The Doctor approaches Dr. Black, interrupting his talk and asks him when the painting was painted, asking him to skip a long speech. Dr. Black tells him that it was probably between the first and third of June in 1890. The Doctor thanks him, then the two men compliment each others bow ties. The Doctor then grabs Amy's hand and pulls her away. She asks about looking at the rest of the paintings, but he shoves her ahead, telling her that it is a matter of life and death, and that they must talk to Vincent van Gogh. The materializes and the Doctor and Amy exit. The Doctor tells Amy the plan, to find van Gogh, wait for him to take them to the church, then defeat the monster. Amy exclaims that it will be easy, but the Doctor disagrees. He says that van Gogh will probably be in the local café and describes it. Amy flicks through her van Gogh guide and finds a painting of it. The Doctor tells her that that painting is the one, then Amy points out that the real café is right infront of them. The Doctor approaches the owner and asks about Vincent van Gogh. The owner disappears inside, so the Doctor asks the waitresses. The waitresses tell the Doctor and Amy that van Gogh is a mad drunk who never pays his bills. The Doctor tells them he's a good painter and the two women just laugh at him. As the Doctor sits at a table, a man follows the owner out of the café and tries to bargain with him, one painting for a drink. The Doctor points to the man and mouths to Amy that he is van Gogh. The owner says that the painting is no good, and tells van Gogh to either pay for drinks or get out. The Doctor offers to either pay for van Gogh's drink or to buy the painting, to which van Gogh asks who the Doctor is. The Doctor tells him that he is new in town, to which van Gogh tells him three things; that he pays for his own drinks, that no-one buys his paintings lest they be laughed out of town and that Amy is cute, but the Doctor should not interfere. Van Gogh returns to bargaining with the owner who still refuses to give him a drink, until Amy interferes and tells the two to shut up. She tells the owner that she will buy a bottle of wine, and will share it with whomever she wishes, looking at van Gogh. The owner agrees and follows Amy inside. Inside, the Doctor and Amy talk with van Gogh. Van Gogh asks about Amy's accent and whether she comes from Holland. She replies "no" while the Doctor replies "yes" at the same time. The Doctor introduces himself properly as "the Doctor", which causes van Gogh to believe that he is a doctor sent by his brother to help him with his mental state. The Doctor laughs at the notion and points to a painting beside van Gogh. Amy says that it is one of her favourites, to which van Gogh tells her she's never seen it before. She covers up her mistake and van Gogh comments on her hair colour, so she comments on his. Vincent and Amy at the Café. The Doctor interrupts and asks Vincent if he has painted any churches lately and van Gogh tells him that he has been thinking about painting one church. The Doctor says that is good news, when someone screams, the Doctor says that that is not good news. Out in the street, the three find a girl who has been killed. The mother of the girl pushes her way through, then blames Vincent for her daughter's death. She and some of the crowd throw stones at Vincent, so the Doctor, Amy and Vincent leave immediately. The Doctor asks Vincent if a similar murder has happened before. Vincent tells him that there was one a week ago and the Doctor says he thought so. He tells Vincent that he must get home. Vincent asks where the Doctor and Amy are staying, which the Doctor takes as an invite to stay with him. Amy nervously laughs and follows the Doctor, Vincent in tail of the two. Outside Vincent's home, the Doctor comments on the dark and the starry night. Van Gogh says that Amy and the Doctor will be alright to stay with him for one night, and one night only. Amy exclaims that they will be staying with him and the Doctor tells her until he paints the church. Inside, van Gogh lights a lamp and apologizes about the "clutter", saying he must really clear it out. Vincent offers coffee and after seeing Vincent put coffee on one of his works, the Doctor tells him to be careful with his work and that they are precious. Vincent disagrees with the Doctor, but Amy tells Vincent that they are precious to her. The Doctor asks about the church, to which Vincent asks about his obsession with it. The Doctor asks about Vincent, and Vincent tells him that it seems to him the world offers much more than the normal eye can see. The Doctor agrees with him, glancing at Amy. Soon after, Vincent wildly talks about colours and how he can hear them, and how he thinks. The Doctor stares at Vincent saying that he believes he has had enough coffee. The Doctor asks where Amy is and a scream comes from outside. Vincent and the Doctor rush outside and find Amy on the ground, shaken, but not injured. The Doctor says not to worry that the attacker has gone, but Vincent screams and runs to get a fork. The Doctor tries to calm Vincent down, but Vincent runs towards them. Amy and the Doctor move to the side and van Gogh tells them to run. The Doctor agrees and tells Amy that Vincent is having a fit. The Doctor again tries to calm Vincent down, telling him that it is only him there, when something large knocks him off his feet. Amy shouts that she cannot see anything and asks what it is. The Doctor agrees that her question is good. He gets up and grabs a stick, telling Vincent he will help him fight it. Vincent asks the Doctor if he can see the creature too, to which the Doctor says he can, kind of, and finally not. The Doctor then gets hit again and thrown over a table, landing on his back. Vincent tells the Doctor that he couldn't see the creature. The Doctor returns to where the creature was, swinging his stick around, while Vincent attacks the creature and fends it off. Both Vincent and Amy watch as the Doctor continues to fight nothing, swinging his stick around. Vincent tells the Doctor that the creature has gone, to which the Doctor stops. The three return inside. The Doctor says that the creature was invisible, and asks Vincent what it looked like. Vincet says he'll show them and begins to paint over one of his paintings, much to the Doctor and Amy's horror. After he has finished, the Doctor takes the painting from van Gogh and gives Amy instructions to keep Vincent safe. Amy protests the Doctor going outside as it is dangerous, but the Doctor decides to still go, telling them he'll be back before they can say "where's he got to now?" The Doctor leaves and Amy turns back to Vincent. The Doctor screams "not that fast" to keep the two on their toes and says he'll be pretty fast, then leaves. The Doctor walks down the alleyways, seemingly being followed by the creature, but reaches the TARDIS before he comes to any danger. Inside, he drags a chest from one of the alcoves, talking to a specific item. He apologizes to the item, saying he thought it was just a useless, embarrassing present from his godmother, who had two heads and bad breath, on both the heads. He pulls out a machine attached to a mirror and puts it up on the TARDIS console. He links it up to the TARDIS and sticks his tongue out at it. The machine identifies the Doctor as "Doctor" and his home planet as and prints a copy out on the console's typewriter, including pictures of the first and incarnations. The Doctor then shows Vincent's drawing of the creature to the mirror in order to identify it. The machine first identifies it as a parrot, then a polar bear, both of which the Doctor dismisses. He then complains that the impressionists are not accurate enough and that it wouldn't happen with one of the "proper" painters, but then apologizes to Vincent. He says that Vincent will have to draw something better and throws the painting away behind him. The Doctor attempting to identify the 'invisible monster'. Leaving the TARDIS, now day, the Doctor alters the machine. The creature appears behind the Doctor, appearing in the mirror. The machine's "match" noise sounds and the Doctor says that there may be a time delay, but the machine always gets it in the end, not noticing the actual creature behind him. The Doctor reads the details on the creature, a , before noticing that it is directly behind him. The Doctor begins to run and hides behind a corner. He uses the mirror to see the creature charging towards him, before running again. He tries to slow the creature by blocking its path, and the creature hits its head on an archway. The Doctor hides behind another corner and sees the creature fleeing. He breathes a sigh of relief, before turning the corner and seeing Amy. Both of them scream and the Doctor says that she scared the living daylights out of him. Amy apologizes and says that she was bored of Vincent's snoring. The Doctor enters Vincent's room and opens the windows, letting in a flood of light and waking Vincent up. Vincet gets up as the Doctor leaves the room, telling Vincent that Amy brought him a present. Amy tells him she brought the present for saving her the previous night. Vincent looks out to see the outside surrounded by sunflowers. Amy suggests he paint the flowers, but Vincent says that they are not his favourite flower, much to the surprise of Amy and the Doctor. Vincent explains that he finds them complex, half-living and half-dying, a little disgusting, but a challenge. The Doctor tells Vincent he is sure he will rise to the challenge. Amy amidst the sunflowers. The Doctor shows Vincent a picture of the Krafayis, explaining how the species travels in space as a pack and that they are a brutal race; if one falls behind, the rest of the pack do not return for it. He explains that this particular one has been left behind, and like the other Krafayis abandoned across the universe, it will kill without mercy until killed, which they usually are not, given their invisibility. The Doctor tells Vincent that they are in a unique position of being able to stop this one if Vincent paints the church. Vincent asks about the monster, but the Doctor tells him that if he paints the church, the monster will come. Vincent agrees and the Doctor tells him that he and Amy will be no longer bothering him by the next day and will be gone. After Vincent has left the room, the Doctor tells Amy that taking Vincent is risky. Amy asks if it is riskier than normal. The Doctor checks to see that Vincent is not listening and tells Amy that if Vincent is killed, half the pictures in the Musée d'Orsay will disappear and that it will be their fault. The Doctor knocks on Vincent's door and enters. He finds Vincent on his bed crying. The Doctor asks if he can help. Vincent tells the Doctor that he and Amy will leave as everyone always leaves him, that he will be left with an empty heart and no hope. The Doctor tells Vincent that his experience is that there is always hope, but Vincent tells him that he does not have a full experience and that he knows it will not end well. The Doctor tries to console him, but Vincent gets angry and tells him to get out. The Doctor leaves. Amy asks the Doctor what is happening and the Doctor explains how delicate Vincent is, that he will eventually shoot himself, and that is why they should leave. After looking at some of Vincent's paintings, the Doctor says that he and Amy must go to the church and hope that the Krafayis still turns up. Before they can leave, Vincent appears at the door, fully clothed and ready to go, selecting a paintbrush. Amy, walking arm in arm with Vincent, tells him that she is sorry he is sad. He tells her that the moods he has last for weeks or even months, but that he can soldier on if she can. She tells him that she is not soldiering on but he says to her that he can hear the song of her sadness and points out that she is crying. He tells Amy that he understands but Amy replies, telling him that she does not. The Doctor, having listened to the conversation interrupts and proposes a plan. Vincent says that they will fight the creature, but the Doctor explains that it needs to be more developed, that he needs to be able to see the creature as well. Amy asks how the Doctor is supposed to see the monster, to which he replies that he has the answer inside a box he is carrying, giving praise to his godmother. Further up the road, the three see the funeral of the girl who was killed the previous night. They stand at the side of the road, Vincent having taken his hat off in respect, as the coffin passes with sunflowers on top. Amy asks the Doctor if he has a plan, to which he tells her that he doesn't, but something similarly greater. Vincent sets up his easle as the Doctor makes sure that he will be told when the creature appears. Vincent tells the Doctor that he is mad and not stupid. The Doctor begins to explain that he may not actually be mad, just deeply depressed, but Vincent tells him to shush, and that he is working. As Vincent paints, the Doctor talks about watching painting the Sistine Chaple, and how he winged because he was afraid of heights but Amy tells him to shush. Later he moves on to , and how he tried to advise him on his paintings. Much later, the Doctor, bored, asks if time normally passes really slowly and in the correct order. He stands up and tells Amy and Vincent that he can't stand an unpunctual alien attack. Amy asks if he is nervous, when Vincent tells the two that the monster is now at the window. The Doctor tells Amy and Vincent that he is going in, so Vincent tells him that he is going in too. The Doctor stresses that Vincent is Vincent van Gogh, and that he is not going in. Vincent protests that the Doctor is not armed, but the Doctor tells him that he is, with overconfidence, the machine and a small screwdriver. The Doctor says that all he needs to do is find the correct prozac setting to stun the creature. He gives Amy one simple instruction, not to follow him and signals to Vincent to watch her. Amy agrees and the Doctor heads towards the church. Vincent leans in towards Amy and asks if she will follow him, and she tells him that she will. Vincent then tells Amy that he loves her. Just outside the chapel, the Doctor opens his box and takes out the machine. He puts it on and before heading into the chapel, looks at a carving above the door, a carving of an angel slaying a dragon. Inside, the Doctor looks around for the Krafayis. Outside, Amy asks Vincent if the Krafayis has moved. Vincent tells her that it hasn't, but suddenly tells her that it has turned around. After approaching the window where the Krafayis was, the Doctor believes the creature has moved. Suddenly, a hand knocks the Doctor flying. Amy and Vincent hear the crash, look at each other and head inside to help the Doctor. The Doctor recovers from his fall and tries to stun the Krafayis. He runs towards a room when he bumps into Amy. The two of them hide in a confessions box to hide. While inside, the Doctor tells Amy to breath quieter. Amy says that she cannot, then believes that it has walked past them. Then the Krafayis begins attacking the confessions box, and the Doctor compliments its excellent hearing. Vincent then calls on the monster, fighting it with a chair, while telling Amy and the Doctor to get behind him. The Doctor, twice, tries to stun the Krafayis again but is unsuccessful and on the second attempt, the Krafayis actually seems to enjoy it. Vincent tells the Doctor to duck as the creature takes a swipe at him, then to move to his left. However, because of miscommunication, left being Vincent's left and not the Doctor's, the Doctor is hit by the monster against a wall. The Doctor suggests that they run like crazy and regroup, so Amy chooses the nearest room to hide in. They get in the room and attempt to close the door until the creature blocks it with its foot. Vincent, however, stands on the foot and the creature retreats. The Doctor begins to tell Amy and Vincent his plan, but accidentally calls Vincent, Rory. When Amy asks what the plan is, the Doctor tells her that the only plan he is sure of his that he will only use his sonic screwdriver to screw in screws in future. Vincent tells Amy and the Doctor to give him a second and that he will be back. The Doctor considers talking to the Krafayis and hearing his side of the story. Although he thinks the Krafayis may not be in the mood for it, the Doctor but tries anyway. The Doctor explains to the creature that he understands that it is trapped on the planet and alone, and tells it that he is also alone. Suddenly, the window behind them smashes open and the invisible creature jumps through. Vincent returns with his easle, holding the feet up, the spikes being used as a weapon. The Doctor asks what it is doing and is told it is feeling it's way around the room. The Doctor calls himself stupid and comments that he is getting old. The Doctor figures out that the Krafayis is blind and raises his voice when mentioning the fact it has perfect hearing. Vincent then tells them that it is now charging towards them. Vincent runs forward as the creature charges, telling the Doctor and Amy to get back. The creature is stabbed by the easle, and Vincent is sent hanging in the air. As the creature falls to the ground, Vincent lets go of the easle and lands on his feet. Vincent tells the Doctor that he didn't mean to kill the creature, and the Doctor comforts it as it dies. He makes out that the creature says that it is afraid and the Doctor tells it not to be while stroking it. Vincent compares the Krafayis to humans who lash out when they are frightened, much like those in the town that scream at him and the children who throw stones at him. The Doctor then says that sometimes winning is no fun at all. Amy, Vincent and the Doctor lie in a field and hold hands. Vincent asks the other two to see the world as he does, describing the night sky. The Doctor tells him that he has seen nothing as wonderful as what Vincent has. Vincent tells the Doctor and Amy that he will miss them when they are gone. The Doctor, Vincent and Amy gazing up at the 'Starry Night' The next morning, Vincent tries to give the Doctor a self portrait as a gift, but the Doctor refuses (though Vincent isn't surprised). Vincent hugs Amy who tells him to be good and kind to himself and to trim his beard before next kissing someone. Vincent also tells Amy that if she tires of the Doctor, she should return and they could have children together. Vincent then tells the Doctor that he thinks he might not do as well on his own than when he was with him. They embrace in a hug, then Amy and the Doctor leave. Outside, the Doctor asks Amy if she is thinking what he is thinking. She replies telling him she wants food before they leave, not exactly what the Doctor was thinking. The Doctor then calls Vincent, who hangs out a window, and tells him he has something to show him and to tidy himself up first. The Doctor takes Vincent to a poster covered TARDIS and lets him inside. Vincent then peers out of the TARDIS and feels the outside walls before going back in and asking how he is crazy and the Doctor and Amy are sane. The Doctor enters and takes Vincent's hat off him, placing it on the hatstand. Amy closes the door and they head to the console. Vincent asks what all of the buttons do and the Doctor explains several of them; one which plays soothing music, one which makes a large noise and one which makes everything shake. Vincent asks what a button does and the Doctor lunges forward to stop Vincent from pressing it, telling him that it is the Friction Contrafibulator. Then Vincent asks what another button does, to which the Doctor tells him that it is ketchup, then points to another which he calls mustard. Vincent asks them back to the café, but the Doctor tells him that he wishes to show him something first. In Paris 2010, outside the Musée d'Orsay, the last few posters burn off the TARDIS. Amy, Vincent and the Doctor step outside and head into the museum, the Doctor explaining when and where they are. The three enter the van Gogh exhibition. Vincent looks around at his work in awe at the number of people looking at them. The Doctor then asks Dr. Black to tell him where van Gogh stands in the importance of the history of art. Amy positions Vincent behind Dr. Black so he can hear all the positive things he thinks of him; that he is the finest painter of them all, the most popular painter who managed to transform his pain into beauty, that he was not only the world's greatest artist but also one of the greatest men of all time. Vincent in the Musée d'Orsay At hearing these words, Vincent begins to cry, but when the Doctor asks if it is too much, he replies that they are tears of joy. Vincent then kisses, hugs and thanks Dr. Black, apologizing about his beard after. Dr. Black then walks away, but pauses for a moment to ponder. He looks back and then dismisses the thought. The Doctor returns Vincent to his own place and time. Vincent tells the Doctor that he will be a new man and the Doctor tells Vincent that it has been an honour. Amy then hugs Vincent as he jokes about her marital status, to which Amy tells him she in not the marrying kind. The TARDIS departs and Vincent walks off. Vincent's dedication of Sunflowers for Amy.Amy and the Doctor return to the Musée d'Orsay, Amy believing that there will be hundreds more paintings, but the Doctor is doubtful. In the gallery, Amy finds no new paintings and hears Dr. Black still saying that he commited suicide at age 37. Amy thinks that they didn't make a difference to Vincent's life at all, but the Doctor explains to her that although good things can't remove the bad things, the bad things can't spoil the good things, and that they certainly added a large amount of good things to Vincent's life. The Doctor also shows Amy that they did make a couple of minor changes, such as the non-existance of the evil face in the church window. As Amy walks away, she walks towards another painting, one of sunflowers, which she sees is dedicated in her name. She tells the Doctor that if they had been married, their children would have had very red hair. The Doctor calls them the "Ultimate Ginger". Amy smiles at him and says the "Ultimate Ginge". The two chuckle together as Amy tears up. Cast - Matt Smith Amy Pond - - Tony Curran Dr Black - Bill Nighy (uncredited) - Chrissie Cotterill Student - Student - - Nik Howden Waitress - Sarah Counsell Crew Executive Producers: Steven Moffat, and Beth Willis Produced byPatrick Schweitzer Directed by Richard Curtis Brian Minchin and Director of PhotographyTony Slater Ling Edward Thomas Visual Effects Make-up DesignerBarbara Southcott Casting DirectorAndy Pryor CDG MusicMurray Gold Costume DesignerRay Holman Special Effects Original theme music by Ron Grainer• Title sequence by • With thanks to ,   General production staff Production Executive - - Location Manager - - Rhys Griffiths Production Co-ordinator - Jess van Niekerk Production Management Assistant - - Production Accountant - A/Production Accountant - Carole Wakefield Directorial/DOP staff 1st Assistant Director - 2nd Assistant Director - 3rd Assistant Director - - Nicola Eynon Price, - Non Eleri Hughes - B Camera Operator - Matthew Poynter - - John Robinson Assistant Camera - , Jon Vidgen - - Mark Hutchings Best Boy - - Ben Griffiths, Steve Slocombe, , Art department Supervising Art Director - Stephen Nicholas Art Department Co-ordinator - Associate Designer - - Ben Morris - - Catherine Samuel - Storyboard Artist - Concept Artists - Richard Shaun Williams, - - , Standby Art Director - Tristan Peatfield Standby Carpenter - - Keith Freeman Standby Painter - - Paul Aitken Dressing Chargehand - - Martin Broadbent, Props Fabrication Manager - Barry Jones - Penny Howarth, Nicholas Robatto Construction Manager - Matthew Hywel-Davies Construction Chargehand - Practical Electrician - - , - BBC Wales Graphics Costume Costume Supervisor - Crowd Supervisor - Lindsay Bonacorssi Costume Assistants - , Make-up and prosthetics Make-up Supervisor - Make-up Artists - , Morag Smith Movement Stunt Co-ordinator - Crispin Layfield Casting Casting Associates: , General post-production staff Post-production Supervisors - , Chris Blatchford Post-production Co-ordinator - - - Matthew Clarke, Mark Bright Special and visual effects - - Mick Vincent Sound - Bryn Thomas - Tim Ricketts Sound Maintenance Engineer - Jeff Welch Supervising Sound Editor - Sound FX Editor - Foley Editor - Not every person who worked on this adventure was credited. The absence of a credit for a position doesn't necessarily mean the job wasn't required. The information above is based solely on observations of the actual end credits of the episodes as broadcast, and does not relay information from IMDB or other sources.            This was the first episode of the BBC Wales series to have two credited script editors. Oddly, was credited at the end of the roll, suggesting she was considered more "senior" than .  As on , Patrick Schweitzer was double-credited as both and . References The episode makes numerous direct and indirect references to van Gogh's most famous works, though artistic liberty was taken in regard to their chronology and the locations in which they were painted. While the setting for the episode was ostensibly Auvers-Sur-Oise, the last place of residence and resting place of van Gogh, where he painted Church at Auvers, inspiration for the set decoration of his home and the cafe he frequented (or rather was frequently thrown out of), came from works he previously produced while living in Arles several years before (Bedroom in Arles, Cafe Terrance at Night). Also, while the episode suggested Amy Pond inspired van Gogh to paint sunflowers, particularly Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers, to which he then 'dedicated' to her, they were, in fact, painted in 1887 and 1888. Van Gogh works referenced in the episode include: Church at Auvers (1890), Bedroom in Arles (1887), Cafe Terrance at Night (1888), Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers (1888), Portrait of Dr. Gachet (1890), The Starry Night (1889), Wheatfield With Crows (1890), Vincent's Chair with His Pipe (1888), Self-Portrait with Straw Hat (1887). Among the posters covering the TARDIS are those for the cafe Au Tambourin at 27 Rue Richelieu in Paris, which was the first place to exhibit van Gogh's artwork in Paris. The Doctor refers to having met and . The Doctor expresses frustration with van Gogh's 'impressionist' style when attempting to identify the invisible monster (though van Gogh is considered to be post-Impressionist by art historians), suggesting that this would "never happen with , one of those proper painters." While this suggests the Doctor's affinity for some notion of 'scientific accuracy' over emotive artistic expression, he later humbly tells Vincent that while he has seen many things, "you are right, nothing quite as wonderful as the things you see." Story notes The episode was incorrectly entitled, Lend Me Your Ear. However, no mention or reference was made in the episode regarding van Gogh's ear at all. Unlike most stories in this series, this story focuses much more on characters than plot, and has hints and references to van Gogh's depression and suicide, something the series has not explored very much before. In fact, a message and phone number for the 'BBC Action Line' was broadcast following the 'Next Time' trail, for those wanting more information on 'issues raised in this program.' Pictures of the First and Second Doctors are printed on the TARDIS' typewriter. This is the second story in the series to lack any cracks, silence, or other foreshadowing of the series' finale (the first being Amy's Choice). However, it does tie in to 's death and establishes that, on some level, Amy is aware he has died. Although originally believed to be standalone, spoilers make this story involved with the series arc, some mentioning van Gogh's paintings, one of which is Dr. Gatchet, relating to the finale. Dr. Gatchet is supposed to be appearing in the mentioned episode. Others include van Gogh communicating a disturbing prophecy to the Doctor in the finale through one of his paintings, and a van Gogh reference in : The Lodger. Bill Nighy was not credited for his role. Numerous positive or affirmative references were made in the episode to van Gogh and Amy's hair colour, perhaps in a conscious effort to address the accusation by some viewers of the program being 'anti-ginger' (the so-called 'ginger' controversy). The song used for the final scenes is "Chances" by Athlete. Amy attempting to get Vincent to paint 'The Sunflowers' is similar to Rose trying to get Queen Victoria to say, "I am not amused." (: Tooth and Claw) Ratings 5.0 million Filming locations National Museum of Wales Trogir, Croatia Roald Dahl Plass , which is supposed to double for the Musée d'Orsay in Paris Rumours It was rumoured that either the Timoreen, the Ha'rik or the Skarkish will appear. The monster was a Krafayis. It was rumoured that Vincent van Gogh will stab a yellow monster. He stabbed the Krafayis, the monster was pale yellow. Howard Lee plays a character called "Dr. Gachet" . Dr. Gachet was van Gogh's real doctor, who nursed him during his final years. He was mentioned but he was not actually in the episode. Nighy plays a van Gogh expert, with similar fashion tastes to the Doctor himself. This turned out also true. He also wore a bowtie. Steven Moffat stated in a recent interview that the controversial topic of the regeneration limit for Time Lords will be "addressed in a very, very cheeky way by an old friend of mine" at some point in Series 5. As the "old friend" could very well be Richard Curtis, the issue might be addressed in this episode. This turned out to be false for this episode, but it could happen in later episodes with Alex Kingston's character River Song addressing the subject, as Steven Moffatt created her character. As a Vincent van Gogh painting will feature in the events of "The Pandorica Opens", it was likely that this story would bring more developments to the main story arc of the series. This was not the case, with the episode being more or less a stand-alone story, but apparently the finale will still feature a van Gogh painting in some way. This connection may be illuminated in "The Lodger", as a pamphlet for a van Gogh exhibit can be seen on Craig's fridge in the trailer. Although, the Doctor does take a van Gogh painting inside the TARDIS trying to identify the Krafayis, he pitches the painting over his shoulder into the TARDIS. Perhaps that painting is the one to carry a message 1,000 years into the future. It was rumoured that Vincent will propose to Amy or ask the Doctor to travel with them because in the preview clips, he shows a large interest in Amy and the Doctor and even tells Amy that he loves her. This turned out true. Production errors When running through the streets with his mirror, the Doctor screams "Ahh", but his mouth is not synced with his screaming. For most of the episode, Amy is wearing tights. During the church scene, when van Gogh starts painting the Church, they've gone. Later on when the group are hiding from the monster, she's wearing them again, as was the case with the previous episode. When in the chapel looking for the monster, the Doctor switches the mirror from his left to right side while holding his sonic screwdriver. For each change, the camera angle also changes, and the sonic screwdriver changes from being in closed mode and extended mode. At the beginning, when looking at the painting of the church, the Doctor scratches his head. When the camera is behind the Doctor, he uses his right hand but when the camera cuts to in front of him, he is using his left hand. Continuity If you'd like to talk about narrative problems with this story — like plot holes and things that seem to contradict other stories — please go to this episode's discontinuity discussion. The Doctor and compliment each other's bow ties, the Doctor exclaiming again that "bow ties are cool". (: The Eleventh Hour, Amy's Choice) The Doctor mentions that he had a godmother with two heads. Before his , he declared that he might have ended up with two heads. (: The Parting of the Ways) Although it seemed like a joke at the time, this statement suggests that a regeneration actually could result in the creation of an extra head. It may also be a reference to the . (: The Time of Angels) The and second Doctors are pictured. The Doctor finds his species identifier device by rifling through a chest in the TARDIS' alcoves; this plot device for providing artifacts and tools was utilised in several of the previous incarnations' series (e.g. : The Abominable Snowmen, where the Second Doctor finds a holy Tibetan bell and Jamie a set of bagpipes). It has also been used in the Tenth Doctor's era, in which he retrieved an Agatha Christie novel. (: The Unicorn and the Wasp) The Doctor once again mentions that he is aging mentally, contrasting with his physical appearance. (: Time Crash, ) Amy mentions that the Doctor took her to . The planet was featured in : , and the "fall of Arcadia" was mentioned as one of the events of the Time War in : . The Doctor mentions , to which Amy asks "who?" Amy also says that the Doctor is being extra kind to her, feeling guilty about Rory's erasure. Van Gogh also sees that Amy is crying, although she doesn't know why; he theorises that she has lost someone. After receiving a half-joking marriage proposal from Vincent, Amy tells him that she's "not the marrying kind". (: Cold Blood). This marks the fourth episode this season which opens on a nature shot. : The Time of Angels, Amy's Choice, The Hungry Earth and this episode all open on beautiful, wide-open fields on bright, sunny days. Vincent van Gogh is the second historical figure in the new series to have romantic feelings for one of the Doctor's companions and the third to have such feelings for a member of the TARDIS crew. Previously, made advances towards , and Madame de Pompadour fell in love with the Doctor. (: The Shakespeare Code, The Girl in the Fireplace) Home video releases - Doctor Who Series Five - Volume Three will feature , The Hungry Earth, Cold Blood and Vincent and the Doctor. It will be released on Monday 2nd August 2010 (UK Only) on DVD and Blu-ray.