How to use SEO secrets to explode your sales. Hey guys, in this video I'm gonna talk about SEO.  Don't forget also before we get started to subscribe, hit that subscribe button down there. Turn it from red to gray and don't forget to ring the bell. Turn on all bell notifications so you're notified each and every single time I go live or I upload a video, okay? And at the end of this video I've got a free course all you gotta do is click and learn. 100% free, doesn't cost you anything at all so you're gonna wanna check that out. So, the first thing we wanna do is kinda think about what is SEO? Search Engine Optimization. Okay, so let's talk about what SEO really is. SEO is a form of bringing back results to somebody who's searching online. So, when they type in the search bar whatever they're looking for, they can get a bunch of related results to what they were looking for and not have to sort through a whole bunch of other stuff. Now, business owners historically have not liked SEO. They have said, oh my gosh, SEO's holding me back. My page won't rank, I can't get it up there. But in this video I'm gonna show you how you can actually use that to your advantage. It's actually very advantageous to understand SEO and implement it on your site and your pages.  SEO is probably my friend. Now, let's talk about how SEO works. Every single search engine has developed their own algorithm, their own way of bringing back search results. Now, some of them are better than others, right? A lot of us use Google, right? Google is one of the biggest search engines out there. And I think it's because they figured out how to bring back more relevant results to the searcher. The more relevant the results are, the happier you are if you're searching online, right? If you type in a particular subject and you find exactly what you're looking for very quickly you're gonna be satisfied. So that's all search engines are really trying to do. I want you to understand they're on your side, okay? If you have exactly what somebody wants and you optimize that page, it's gonna show up and people will go to your product and you're gonna be successful. It really is that simple. Now, why should you care about SEO? Okay, it's time to be blunt. If you don't rank on the first page, the odds of you ever getting clicked on on the second page are almost zero. So it is very, very important to understand SEO. It's very important to be able to rank on SEO. Once you get the concept of this, you will be wildly successful. It's the truth that algorithms are secret, okay? No search engine publishes their algorithm and lets you know exactly what they're doing. However, with enough experience, with enough years of the internet, which we've now had, we pretty much know what works and what doesn't work. So in this video, I'm gonna walk you through all those steps so you have those tools at your disposal. Now I want you to think about keywords. Keywords are those words that match up to what somebody types into a search engine. And that search engine could be Google, it also could be Amazon, it could be Etsy, it could be eBay, but those words match up to what people are typing in, then your results come up in the search engine. So the next part comes up is, how do you find these keywords? And the first way is your own brain, okay? If you were searching for your particular product, if you were searching for your particular service, what would you type in the search engine? And you can start with your own brain with what would you type in, what would you do? Number two is the search engine itself. If you notice in any search engine, as soon as you start putting words in there, it does an auto-fill. It says, do you mean this or could it be this? And it starts to try to figure out what you're searching for. Those are great keys, those are great terms, those are great long-tail keywords. And when I say long-tail, several words that you can use on your page to rank for that particular product. So that's the next thing you wanna look at is the actual search engine auto-fill to see what they're saying. Number three, there's third-party tools, okay? There's keywords everywhere. There is Google AdWords. There's all kinds of different tools you can use out there that you can use to figure out what your SEO keywords are. So you can use those third-party tools also. Number four, heck, ask your customers, okay? What is it when you're searching for a product like mine, what are you searching for? What are the keywords you're searching for? We're trying to optimize our pages to make it easier for you to find our products. What keywords would you use? Actually go out there and talk to people. This works incredibly well and most people never do it. Now the next question I get asked is, does Facebook use keywords? And the short answer is no, okay? They don't. However, they may incorporate that into their algorithm. I don't know for sure, but I know one thing is for sure is that they will show content that gets interaction because that's what they want. They will show content that gets likes. They will show content that gets comments. That is the type of stuff they're gonna share. They will share content that gets shared. So if a lot of people are sharing your post on Facebook, they're more apt to show it to more people. So Facebook is kind of a different animal. The next question is, does Etsy use SEO? Oh my gosh, yes, 100%. They definitely use SEO. If you have a nice clean posting on Etsy and you have the right keywords in there and the right search terms in there, you will definitely rank on Etsy. So if you're on Etsy and you're trying to sell products, yes, keywords are gonna be tremendously important to you. The next question I get is, does Amazon use keywords? 100%, yes, they do use keywords. They incorporate them a little bit more differently though. What's gonna happen on Amazon is that you get some of the right keywords and you sell a couple products, bingo, that's what's really gonna trigger Amazon. If your product starts selling, they want to sell products.  So if you have a product that starts selling, they're gonna start showing it to more and more people and you're gonna see your sales climb more and more and more. They also base it on a lot of times on reviews. So try to get reviews on your Amazon products. It's not an easy thing to do and you don't wanna cheat the system there. I see a lot of people trying to cheat the system but reviews and sales are two of the biggest things that Amazon actually looks at. Next question I get asked is, does Pinterest use SEO? Pinterest does use SEO and it's very important on Pinterest. However, the images are very important too. So if you have a great image that gets a lot of interaction and you have the right keywords, you're gonna crush it on Pinterest, okay? Because Pinterest really is about the pictures but to find the pictures, you gotta have the keywords. Next question, since we're on YouTube, does YouTube use keywords? The answer is absolutely yes. They do use it. They use it in titles. They use it in descriptions. They use it in the keywords that you add to your particular video because I mean their whole goal is to bring back a video that somebody is actually searching for. If they can do that and the customer is happy and they see a video that they were searching for, then they're gonna stay on the platform. They're gonna watch more videos. If they watch more videos, guess what? More ads can be run on videos and they can make more money. So absolutely YouTube does use keyword search tools. Next question I'm gonna ask is how does SEO affect my website? It absolutely will affect your website. It's super important to understand these basics of SEO because if you get these basics down on SEO, if you get the right title, you get the right description for your products or services, doesn't matter what it is, you're gonna get traffic to your website so it is really important to incorporate that on your website too. So in conclusion, SEO is super important. But you know, overall it's pretty simple. It's a pretty simple thing to do. I think a lot of people are intimidated because maybe they have, you know, 500 or 1,000 products on their website and they're like, well, that's just too many products. I just can't do that. When in fact all you have to do is just a little bit. Pick some of your top products. Work on those products first. You know, a lot of people say, well, you know, I can't run, I can't do a lot of work but you tend to ignore how a little bit of work can really add up. So you say, well, I'm not a runner, so I can't run much. 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And it's about 16 months to the 2023 general election, and a coalition of youth groups in Bialsa State have called on the Independent National Electoral Commission to censorize young people and religious leaders on electoral ethics. They believe this will help the youth to make better choices. Our correspondent, Jesse Essay, now reports. Unions in Nigeria always happen with allegations of irregularities, like wood-buying, ballad bus snatching, thugry in other forms of rigging. It's not uncommon for young people to collect money to sell their votes. The bulk of people were employed as thugs during campaigns, and on election day are also young people. These are some of the reasons a coalition of youth groups want Nigerian youths to see the 2023 general election as an avenue to change things. We don't have anything, and yet the people cannot see that, look, there must be a change. So the best thing to do is to keep educating the people. We must educate the people, we must censorize them, we must guide them, that, look, you must depart from this way. You must follow the right way. We are willing to see the hands of politicians, and these politicians will know that is why deliberately they have refused to create opportunities for the youth of this country. The security personnel that are supposed to work with INEG to ensure that there is peace and stability for electorates to vote are also part of the crisis. The youth leaders are calling on the Independent National Electoral Commission to be neutral and the conduct of future elections. They also want young people to de-emphasize religion, ethnicity and tribalism during elections. Despite the religious background or your ethnicity background or your social background, it doesn't matter where you come from, but all we need is to ensure that we have a better Nigeria, we have a better country, and we have a better leaders that can make the people have that sense of belonging. We vote on ethno-religious lines, that is how the pattern of the vote goes. This man is my brother. Even when the man does not have the capacity to govern a state or a country or to even become a good legislator, because he is your brother, we need to do sentiment. And there is somebody who has the capacity to do the work because he is not related to either by greed or by blood or by ethnic lines. We will choose not to vote for that candidate. They also want the federal government to adopt the electronic transmission of election results in the 2023 general elections. They believe it will have to reduce electoral mark practices.


As taught by the Wabanaki Traditions Keeper, Donald Soctema of Indian Township, I present these wampum strings to honor the inauguration of Wabanaki Confederacy Ceremony. The first string is to open your eyes to what you will see. The second string is to open your ears to what you will hear. The third is to open your hearts to that which you will find. My ancestral friend, koasic chief Nancy Mallette, once taught a basic principle of her family and community, she called it Nau'ila. This is also an Odinak-Habanaki word that roughly translates as coming home, but the ancestral koas village forelicks to our east in that direction. It seemed more, returning once again to a place of consequence, a place of knowledge of power. Today we return to a place of consequence, but we are incomplete. As taught to me, hold a vessel of remembrance. As taught to me long ago by Kozi Nicholas and David Francis of Sipaik, I tell you that the Wabanaki Confederation Wampum of Memory, Wampum of Morning, offers condolence and a measure of solace to those who weep for the great dead, or yearn for the esteemed living. We are not seen here due to distance, politics, time, illness. Today, the Wampum of Memory serves to witness to the defenders of Wabanaki legitimacy who are not here. They who sought Wabanaki acknowledgment 25 winters ago then stood against the darkness until the pathway of indigenous recognition was revealed 15 summers later. I hunt their names in the forests and fields of community memory. The register is incomplete, but let us hear of their identity once again. Hello, my friends, you all appear new to us, myself and my father. Me, you wish to greet you and thank you. We give greetings and we give thanks to our great creator, Kasinawask, and to the sun, and to our grandmother, the moon, the night traveler, and to the Dr. Lakwasak, the distant stars, those beings that give us light. We give thanks to this land and to the waters of this land, to the rivers, the lakes, to the great ocean, and to the rain that brings moisture and life to all living things. Thank you. And we give thanks to those four-legged ones, to the animals, the bear, the deer, the turtle. We give thanks to the birds that fly to all of the living creatures that our relatives will lead to go long gone on our relatives here on this land.  We give thanks to our chiefs. We give thanks to Kitsi Sankamo, the big chief. Also, Kitsi Sankamo, the second big chief, the governor and the lieutenant governor. I had to all of those who are gathered here with good hearts to celebrate this day and all those who have made this possible. Thank you, Joseph and Jesse Brushak. I'd like to now introduce Lieutenant Governor David Zuckerman. He's going to say a few words. Thank you. I've got a couple different things to do. I'm going to be reading the governor's proclamation, because unfortunately he couldn't be here, but he did sign it this morning. I'll be reading that. I've also gone in reading the proclamation from the governor, executive department of the state of Vermont. Whereas Abenaki recognition and heritage week marks a time to honor and celebrate the history of the Abenaki people who long before the arrival of the first Europeans inhabited all of Vermont and New Hampshire, parts of western Maine, parts of southern Quebec and parts of upstate New York. And whereas centuries of oral tradition have kept the history and the ancient culture of the Abenaki alive and many contemporary Abenaki families intend to continue to pass on these indigenous traditions to the younger generations. And whereas unfortunately we must acknowledge the history of the Abenaki people is marred by disease and upheaval, war and the atrocity of eugenics, discrimination and injustice. And whereas beginning in the early 1970s, the Abenaki people sought recognition as Native American Indian tribes. And whereas on May 14, 2010, Governor James H. Douglas signed into law Act number 107 of 2010, an act relating to state recognition of Native American Indian tribes in Vermont. A bill which set forth formal criteria and a process for Abenaki tribes to be recognized as Native American Indian tribes by the state. And whereas in order to recognize the historic and cultural contributions of Native Americans to Vermont, to protect and strengthen their heritage and to address their needs and state policy, programs and actions, the act also established the Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs. And whereas Vermont is now home to four state recognized Native American Indian tribes, the Elnu Abenaki tribe, the Nalhegan band of the Kusak Abenaki Nation, the Kossak Abenaki of the Koss and the Nasiskoi St. Francis Sokoke band. And whereas through mutual honor and respect for the rich heritage of Vermont's Abenaki people, this week we celebrate the Abenaki and their ancestors and acknowledge and honor these members of the community both past and present. Now therefore, I, Philip B. Scott, Governor, hereby proclaim May 1 through 5, 2019 as Abenaki Recognition and Heritage Week in Vermont. Now what I have before me as well is the work of our House and Senate bodies in the legislature. And you'll be hearing from the President Pro Tem shortly as well as the Speaker of the House. But both led the effort to get through S68, which is this is the actual bill. It's got all the little stamps on the back. This is the official document that will be changing how the state recognizes that day in October with respect to the people of this land to Indigenous Peoples Day from the prior name of Columbus Day. And it's really an honor as President of the Senate to be able to sign this document in that capacity. And I think back to my high school years where a people's history of ourselves was my U.S. History textbook by Howard Zinn, where I first learned of the consequences of European landing on this soil and the warm welcome and embrace that the Native people brought to them and yet the not so reciprocal treatment that was given by those of us with European ancestry. And so I think back to those days of learning that truth that so many more folks are still yet to learn who walk on this Native land. So I signed this with great honor to those of you with such ancestry of this place. There it is. It'll go to the governor. He'll sign it next. I'm Chief Don Stevens of the Nalhegan Band of Kusuk Avanaki Nation. I wanted to say a couple of words. We have a display. If you haven't seen it yet, we worked hard with a bunch of people here. And we have a permanent display in the state house. So please, when you get a chance later on today, please walk through these doors. It's right underneath the stairs. It's about the road to recognition. So I would like to thank the governor's office, the lieutenant governor, the legislators for their willingness to recognize and celebrate the Avanaki people who are the original stewards of this land. I would like to thank David Sheets, friends of the state house, Carol McGranigan, Fred Wiseman, and many others gathered here to help make this day possible. Our ancestors who have crossed over are here with us today, standing tall and feeling pride in what our generation is accomplishing for the continued future of the Avanaki people. Our parents and grandparents who survived adversity, singing celebration, joining us with one heart and one voice. We must honor and acknowledge these sacrifices, which have allowed us to stand in front of you today. We must remember the struggles and how we got to this place in history. For centuries, the house of the people that now stands behind us did not hear the cries of our Avanaki voices. We were treated as unwanted visitors, outcasts in our own homeland. In 2006, the Avanaki people summoned the strength to knock on that door one more time. In hopes that our voices would be heard, the legislators and governor opened that door just a crack by recognizing our people as a minority population, but still would not recognize our tribes or let us in the front door. We continued to stand on these steps here under this great golden dome until we were recognized in 2011 and 2012 for who we are, proud Avanaki Indians. Since then, the legislators and governor's office have gotten to know us a little bit better. Their fears have eased about what recognizing our people would really mean to the state of Vermont. This cooperation has opened the door to endless possibilities and opportunities for all to enjoy. We now work in partnership with many state agencies and a government-to-government relationship as equals to uplift our people and provide guidance to the state of Vermont when needed. Voices that were once discounted in silence are considered and respected. We offer unique insights, knowledge and wisdom on various subjects affecting the state and our people. We need to continue to lend our voices in order to make positive impacts in the ever-changing world and climate we live in. We need to continue to walk together on this path to protect our planet and our very existence. Today is truly a historic moment. We have been finally invited into this great house of the people as friends, equals and partners. The gifts given so long ago at recognition time and friendship now have a permanent place in the lobby of this great house. It is no longer a stranger's house. It is now part of our home in which we all share and have items in it. Let us continue to work together to celebrate diversity which is so tightly woven into the fabric of Vermont's landscape. Let us reaffirm our efforts and commitment to learn from each other. We must do this for the sake of our children and the generations that will benefit from our continued cooperation. Together, we can continue to do great things. Aho! I recognize Eugene Rich from Miss Isgoy. Thank you. Quite like. My name is Eugene Rich. I'm the chief of the Miss Isgoy Abinacki Nation. I had a real long involved drawn out speech but quite frankly, Chief Don Stevens took all the good stuff. So why are we here today? The beginning of a heritage recognition is an amazing step. People have been trying for this for decades. We had people very loud and voiceless, large personalities, and we've had some quiet people working behind the scenes. And the conversation between our people and the government is finally one of unity or building a trust and shaking hands. At my office, we have at least a dozen state entities that we partner with. And that comes a long way. But what makes us Abinacki? Our heritage, our customs, our ceremony, these things that we practice and you're going to get to see part of a ceremony today being performed by Al-Nubawi.  If you keep it up and you realize how long and how old these traditions are, the teaching of Columbus Day, when I grew up it was the whitewashed version. Everybody hugged and lived happy. When you talk to children today, they have no different view but we're making strides. We're taking steps and we are coming together to come up with a curriculum that would make sense. And it's one that we can all embrace because I remember my grandparents. I now have grandchildren and I want them to know the truth. So being indigenous, I mean an immigrant by definition cannot be indigenous. Indigenous is our birthright. And the fact that we're all coming together, I just want to say Uliuni. Thank you. Introduce Carol, the chair of the commission. So she's going to say a few words. I think I must be the shortest one here. I'm Carol McGranny-Han and I am chair of the Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs. This is a great day. It's a great day to celebrate and give thanks. First, the Apanaki State House display is now in place. Many thanks to the Friends of the State House, the Curator's Office, the Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs, the Apanaki leaders, the legislators and our allies for all of their support. We are here. Second, we will be officially celebrating Indigenous Day this year. Many thanks to Brian Cina for his continued persistence and support. Rich Holschew of the Vermont Commission on Native Affairs, Governor Scott, the legislators and all of our supporters. We have always been here. Third, the proclamation of Apanaki Recognition and Culture Week. Thanks to Governor Scott and the Curator's Office. We are still here. This is also a time to thank the ancestors, the present generation and the generations to come. My children and grandchildren can share their heritage and not be afraid. Be proud of who they are and no longer hide and teach their children what it means to be Apanaki. We are here. We have always been here. We are still here. I'd like to introduce the Chief of the Coasec of the Coase, Shirley Hook. It was a beautiful day, wasn't it everybody? I'd first like to thank the Governor and the Legislature for making this Apanaki Heritage Week. It has been a long process from the recognition of four tribes to this moment. The Vermont Commission of Native American Affairs have put in endless hours through the years. We are grateful for all their support and hard work. I'd like to remember the late Chief Nancy she'll be looking down on us and smiling. I thank Mother Earth, Father Sky, Grandfather Sun and Grandmother Moon for such a beautiful place as this place. Thank you, everybody, for all your support. Thank you. Hi, it's Jim Taylor. Words, but I speak today on behalf of the Illinois people as tribal councilmen. This is a good day. It's a good day to finally see the things that we gave to the State House actually displayed so that all the people of Vermont and anyone that travels here can see the relationship that we have now with the state of Vermont that we didn't once have. So on behalf of my people, my brothers, my sisters and all of my brothers and sisters in Nidolba, thank you very much. Peace. We ask that Grandfather and Grandmother Eagle lift our prayers to the heavens that will carry their songs and the prayers to our ancestors. That'll wait. That'll wait. We offer in the southern direction to our grandmothers who bring this love that everybody here has a warm heart. We offer to the West the great medicine bear that will help heal our people and heal everyone here. We ask our grandfathers to help us remember our songs and to be good people and to be with us always. We offer Mother Earth to continue to pride for us and also we ask that she accept us back in the ground when it's our time. We need to protect our Earth. We ask the spirits above our ancestors to be here with us today. For the spirit of the drum, the spirit of the pipe and all the spirits that we ask that rely on giving us guidance, we ask for their help. And the last direction is for the fire that burns inside our heart. We tutor ourself and tutor our people and know who we are and be proud of who we are. Oh. Okay, open the drums. It means it was kind of like a conference. Unsecured water lure. I get to listen to the Navajo people talk about the damage that was done to their water supply. And as they tested their water, they realized that one of the schools had 100 times higher levels of uranium than the federal government would allow. And in that, the woman that was putting it on had just received her doctorate in Colonialism from Dartmouth College. I got to listen to the VP of the Navajo Nation ask her who the Abinaki are. And she spoke of the result of the Abinaki people. This next song will speak to that. Most tribes in this country had 20 years worth of war with their suppressors. The Abinaki, most people don't realize, has had over 100 in hundreds of years of suppression. And you've just witnessed today we still have our language. This is Tom Petty's, I won't back down with the chorus in Abinaki.


What a glare on my glasses Hello everybody, I'm filming this in lieu of a Saturday video that I don't have To share here with you this Saturday. I was doing a reset in Mount Pleasant, Iowa I was at the pilot and it was actually a it was a pretty nice week and just relaxing I got a bunch of stuff done got some computer work done caught up with some vlog stuff and We didn't film a video on a Saturday So With there being no video to release to you today I just wanted to take this opportunity to let you know that there's a couple more contests coming up in the next few weeks We're going to be doing ten more giveaways for house products And we're also going to be doing weekly giveaways for Bolsonaro So I want you to pay attention very closely to my videos because those contests will be coming up in the next few days We want to get all ten house giveaways done before Christmas yet probably in the next month or so And then bulls not we're gonna do every week for the rest of the year Last month there were four winners of the house goodie bags I want to congratulate you guys here Brian Vreeland Amir Yuckabove Dale Schultz and Moses Miller You were the four winners of the house goodie bags And I believe how I should have gotten in contact with you already if not your package will be on the way soon so like I was saying ten more of those going out and Also doing weekly bulls not giveaways. I'm doing a lot more giveaways as we get closer to Christmas For the house giveaways They'll include a 64 ounce of diesel treatment and a coffee mug And I can let you know that for the bulls not giveaways Bulls not will send you each a can of visible shinable Blastable and greaseable so visible is the glass cleaner shinable is the the tire shine Blastable is the odor eliminator and greaseable Well, I think that sort of speaks for itself You can use that grease for whatever you need it on whatever you need to move silently or smoothly You can also use it to grease your fifth wheel So there's these two different Friends of mine that are going to be giving giveaways through my channel leading up to Christmas here Really looking forward to it. So pay attention to all my videos coming up You never know when I'm gonna launch one of these giveaways I'm not gonna tell you when because I want you to watch all the videos and all the way through But I'll let you know when it happens and how you can Compete in this contest. So we're gonna start off right now with the first giveaway from house What I want you to do if you want a 64 ounce Drug of diesel treatment and a coffee mug go down below into my description. There's a link that will take you to their website I'll put it right at the top of the description. So it's easy for you to find Click that link go to their page go over all of their products and let me know how many of them You've used before maybe you didn't realize it was a house product, but go down there Let me know which ones you have used before Come back to this page here leave your comment down below this video and I'll pin the winning comment and We'll get some contact info for me so you can get your drug of diesel treatment and coffee mug We're starting it off right now today So go down below click that link go to their page there check out all of their products Let me know how many of them have you used before which ones were they so while I've been waiting here I have added a few more pictures To my truck these were all there already, right? right We started off with Othio when he was small this was Britt and I when she was still pregnant It's her maternity photo shoot see it there. Oh, there you go Added a couple more my daddy is the world's best truck driver Just to give me some motivation when I'm feeling down, you know got some more pictures up here And of course back across here as well I think it's important to put up pictures of your loved ones in your truck To remind you why we're out here, right? And when you're feeling down you can always look at these pictures and they can lift you up I know the glare is pretty bad. This is my favorite. That's why it's right in the center So do you have pictures of your family and your loved ones in your truck? I'm sure you do I might have more than some me. I'm not saying you got to have this many There's just there's so many memories that I want to take with me everywhere I go, right pretty soon I'm gonna have to start taking down some of the earlier memories and replacing them with more recent ones but I Like I think it's important to remember what I'm doing out here Because when I'm out here by myself sometimes it can it can get lonely and get depressing You start thinking yourself, you know What's the point of all this? What am I doing out here take a quick look to the back or to the side wherever wherever you want to see and Remember, that's why that's what I've been up to here. I haven't been doing much. I don't have anything to show you really I'm sorry. I just got the giveaway for you today and a Little tour I went to Walmart. So that was fun. We can talk about that Got some groceries I replenished my my stockpile of plates and bowls Very exciting time. This is what I mean, like I don't always have exciting vlogs for you guys and very often I just Leave that day out then though. I don't like missing a day in the ball It's supposed to be a daily vlog, but sometimes I wonder when When there's just nothing going on during the day like what can I share with you guys today? Obviously, I wanted to announce the new giveaways that are going to be happening in this third quarter of 2023 I'm excited for that and I'm excited for the generosity Now to be able to be a part of this with the generosity of house products and bull snot this was all their idea they reached out to me and They wanted to get some of the products out to you guys You know Christmas is coming and I don't know any more generous people than them they've been The guys at Bulls not to have been great. I've been working with them for over a year now already I have a more of a newer relationship with the guys at house, but they're they're great as well, too and You know if I can help them out get the word out about their products their products actually are relevant to my channel There's lots of people out there that want me to advertise like for let's say Nike Air Jordans And I turn them all down.  So a few here and there I think are fun and especially if we can make it into a fun type of giveaway I think that's fun rather than just giving you a 30-second clip of Trying to get you to buy something, right? I can't tell you what to do and I'm not gonna be able to convince you what to do Well, what I can do is get some of these products into your hands so you can see what they can do yourself Because I'm not gonna recommend anything to you that I wouldn't use myself So if you like them go and buy more of them If you heard about them through my my vlog with maybe you haven't heard a bull snot before You won't know until you try it You can either try to win some here through my channel or if you find it at the store buy a can for yourself try it out It's really good stuff Everybody knows house products because they're on every shelf across all of America and Canada Do they have house products in Europe as well? That is something that I should clarify here both of these contests Unfortunately are only available to residents of the United States and to Canada We don't have the ability to ship them out overseas to Europe or Australia at this time So I'm really sorry about that for you guys who are out there I got to keep it here on this continent, but maybe in the future we can come up with something special for you out there So I've got the screens in my truck here, which lets a nice fresh breeze through here Without letting the bugs in here because for whatever reason because when I first got here I just you know, I just opened the door for a little bit get some fresh air in here and Stuff and what do you know as soon as I opened the door? There was like 15 flies that just took the liberty and just flew right into my truck So I've been chasing them down this whole time. I got so frustrated. I just finally put the screens in I'm not gonna mess with this all night. Otherwise, they're gonna keep me up all night So I stayed at the pilot in Mount Pleasant for my reset And now my reset's over and I move closer to where I've got to pick up. This is the Phillips 66 Believe it's called Highway 34 truck stop in West Burlington, Iowa My reload It's just down the road Right over there got to be there tomorrow morning. I just moved a little bit closer So I can get started from here Mount Pleasant was only a half hour drive from here But I stopped there on Friday night, and I didn't know if this parking lot would be full And I didn't want to risk coming all the way over here not having parking because look at this Midday or mid-afternoon on a Sunday. It's already pretty much packed I didn't want to risk coming all the way here. Not every so I stopped at the pilot and I got myself a shower there I had a free shower on my account. So that worked out and now we're here just waiting Waiting to load tomorrow. I don't have many of these weekends on the road anymore Usually for a weekend like this I'd go home But since I'm gonna be off work for about a week and a half while we move I still got to get completely packed. I'd say we've gotten a good start a good head start We got to do a lot of packing yet And then we got movers coming to help us move and then we got to settle in yet So I took a week and a half off To help with that And get that all done. So I figure, you know what? I'll stay out over this weekend I got a really good load out of here on Monday Let's start the week off with a bang Deliver this into Saskatchewan. It'll probably be Wednesday morning, but I deliver it and then Probably go home from there. Maybe I'll do one more rounder. Maybe the Brainerton bag whatever they have available to me I don't want to I don't know what's on the table. So we'll see what they have I'm gonna try to get one more short trip in yet before the weekend and And we both talk to the lawyers Sign up some papers Make everything legal and official and then we start the whole process. I'm Hoping this will be the last time we move I've moved nine times since I've moved out of my parents house when I was 18 in 2006 So 2006 to now 2023 this will be the ninth time that I've moved And now that we have a son I Want to make this the last time because I want there to be stability in his life I want him to have one childhood home that he grows up in and that he takes his kids back home to one day You know, that'll be That'll be the family home That's what we're really gonna try hard to make happen for for our family So big life event. I talk about it almost every day. I know because this is the big one the big life event We put everything else on our in our lives lives on hold to get this done now You know, once we get this done then I'll work on getting that mortgage what's left of it there paid off as soon as possible Because we're fixed in for five years, right? So in Canada, we have a fixed interest rate five years the interest rate won't Change and that's pretty standard. I hear that in the US. You can get like a 30 year fixed or 25 year fixed interest rate That's amazing. I wish we could do that But we can only lock it in for five years and if interest rates have gone up in five years That means our payments will go up, but if interest rates have gone down Hopefully then our payments will go down But either way what's best is to pay that mortgage off as fast as possible So that interest rates have no effect on you and you have no debt and the interest rates can do whatever they want, right? So short little update video for you today. Thanks for hanging out real quick Sorry, there's not really much trucking content But tomorrow's video is coming and I drove a half hour from Mount Pleasant to here where I am right now And I included that in tomorrow's video. So it's a little bit out of order. I know I'm filming Saturday's video on Sunday and then making you watch it on Saturday or whatever day this is on but tomorrow we've got a little bit of trucking in and Monday it's gonna get back to the grind full-time. So I hope you're ready. It's a buckle up. There's more to come Thanks everybody and don't forget to check that house link down below in the description I'll see you there Remember I think of me when you're on the road, please drive safe. I know I know what you guys do Think of me and all this other truckers out here. We're all just trying to get home to our families There's no rush


Chapter 52 of Science and Short Chapters. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Chad Jackson. Science and Short Chapters by W. Matthew Williams. Merchison and Babbage. The curious contrast of character presented by these two eminent men and the very different course of their lives conveys a striking lesson to all those superficial thinkers and unthinking talkers who make sweeping generalizations concerning human character, who assume, as a matter of course, that any man who writes poetry must be merely a dreamer of daydreams incapable of transacting any practical daily business, and not at all reliable in money matters, whose eyes are always in a fine frenzy rolling, that he is, in short, a sort of amiable, harmless lunatic. All actors, according to such people, are dissipated spin-thriffs, and if Sim's Reeves or any other public performer is prevented by delicate larynx or other in disposition from appearing, they look knowing, shrug their shoulders, wink wisely, and assume without the faintest shadow of evidence that he is drunk. In like manner they set up a typical philosopher of their own manufacture and attribute his imaginary character to all who devote themselves to science. Their philosopher is a musty, dried-up, absent-minded pedant, whose ordinary conversation is conducted in words of seven syllables, who is always lost in profound abstractions, takes no interest in common things, regards music, dancing, play-acting, poetry, and every cheerful pursuit as frivolous and contemptible, a creature who never makes a joke, seldom laughs, and who, in matters of business, is even more incapable than the poet. The singular contrast of character presented by Babbage and Murchison affords at once a most complete refutation of such generalizations. Here were two men, both philosophers, one the very type of amiability, suavity, and all conceivable polish, the very perfection of a courtier, but differing from the vulgar courtier of the court in this respect, that his high-toned courtesy was not bestowed upon kings only, but also upon all his human brethren, and with a special gracefulness upon those who ranked was below his own. I doubt whether there is any man now living, who has lived during this generation, that could equal Sir Roderick Murchison in the art of distributing showers of compliments upon a large number of different people in succession, and making each recipient delightfully satisfied with himself. In his position as chairman to the geological section of the British Association, he did this with marvelous tact, without the least fulsomeness or repetition, or any display of patronizing. Every man who read a paper before that section was better than ever satisfied with the great merits and vast importance of his communication, after hearing the chairman's comments upon it. None but a most detestably strong-minded and logical brute could resist the insinuating flattery of Sir Roderick. How different was poor Babbage? Who that attends any sort of scientific gatherings has not seen Sir Roderick? But who in the world, accepting the organ grinders and the police magistrate has ever seen Babbage or even his portrait? What a contrast between the seclusion and the public existence, between the hedgehog bristles and the velvet softness of the one and the other. Those who are on intimate terms with Babbage, I have never met or heard of such a person, could probably tell us that all his irritability and roughness were outside, and that, in the absence of organ grinders, he was a kind and amiable gentleman. But, even at meaning this, the contrast between the two philosophers is as great as could well be found between any two men following the most widely divergent studies or professions. Those who would reply that mathematics and geology are such different studies have only to go a little further back on the death roll, and they will find the name of De Morgan, a pure mathematician like Babbage. He was a man of exuberant fun and humor, and so far from hating music of either a humble or pretentious character, was a highly accomplished musician, both theoretical and practical, and if we are to believe confidential communications, one of his favorite instruments was the penny whistle, on which he was a most original and peculiar performer. He had not intended to reprint the above, which was written just after the death of Merchison and Babbage, but the comments that have recently followed the death of Darwin induced me to do so. Many have expressed their surprise at the unanimous expression of Darwin's friends concerning the geniality of his disposition, his gentleness, cheerfulness, his genuine humility, and simplicity of character. A third type of character is here presented, and that which corresponds most correctly with the true ideal of a modern philosopher, also represented by that great master of experimental science, Faraday. In both of these, there was the full measure of Merchison's amiability, but without the courtly polish of the ex-soldier. Philosophic meditation and close application to original research may, and often does, induce a certain degree of shyness due to a consciousness of the social disqualification which arises from that inability to fulfill all the demands for the small attentions which constitute conventional politeness, a disability due to the habits of consecutive thought and mental abstraction. A sensitive and amiable man would suffer much pain on finding that he had neglected to supply the small wants of the lady sitting next to him at a dinner party and would withdraw himself from the risk of repeating such unwitting rudeness. This holding back from ordinary society, though really due to a conscientious sense of social duty and tend to regard for the feelings of others, is too often referred to as a churlish, unsociality or arrogant assumption of superiority. If Newton really did mistake the lady's finger for a tobacco stopper, depend upon it the pain he suffered was far more acute than which he inflicted, and was suffered over and over again whenever the incident was recollected. End of chapter 52, Merchison and Babbage Chapter 53 of Science and Short Chapters This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org Recording by Chad Horner from Ballet Claire in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, situated in the northeast of the island of Ireland. Science and Short Chapters by W. Mateu Williams Chapter 53, Atmosphere vs. Ether One of the most remarkable meteors of which we have a reliable record appeared on February 6th, 1818. Several accounts of it were published, the fullest being that in the Gentleman's Magazine of the Time. I may here add, parenthetically, that one reason why I have the special pleasure in writing these notes is that they contribute something towards the restoration of the ancient status of this magazine, which was at one time the only English serial that ventured upon any notable degree of exposition of popular science. Upon the data supplied by this account, Mr Jewel has calculated the height of the meteor and to have been 61 miles above the surface of the earth, and he states that this meteor is one of the few that have been seen in the daytime and is also interesting as having been one of the first whose observation afforded materials for the estimation of its altitude. It was seen in the neighbourhood of Cambridge at 2pm, also at Swaffham in Norfolk, and at Middleton, Chenney near Banbury. The distance between this and Cambridge is sufficient to afford a measurement of its height, provided its position above the horizon at both places was determined by tolerable accuracy. According to the Orthodox textbooks, the atmosphere of this earth terminates at a height of about 45 or 50 miles, or if not absolutely ended there, it ceases to be of appreciable density anywhere above this elevation. But here we have a fact which flatly contradicts the calculation. At 61 miles above the earth's surface, there must be atmospheric matter of sufficient density to offer to the passage of this meteor, through it an amount of resistance which produced an intense white heat visible by its luminosity in broad daylight. In the above quote paper read by Mr Jewel for the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society on December 1st, 1863, he refers to subsequent observations and estimates 116 miles as the elevation at which meteors in general are first observed. That is where our atmosphere is sufficiently dense to generate a white heat by the resistance it offers to the rapidly flying meteor. It is curious to observe how in dealing with actual physical facts a mathematician of the solid particle character of Jewel becomes compelled to particularly through overboard the orthodox theory of limited atmospheric extension. Here in making his calculations of the resistance of atmospheric matter at this elevation, he bases them on the assumption of a decrease of density at the rate of one quarter for every seven miles and indicates no limit at which this rate shall vary. Very simple arithmetic is sufficient to show that this leads us to the unlimited atmospheric extension for which I have contended we may go on forever taking off a quarter at every seven miles and there will still remain the three quarters of the quantity upon which we stand operated or more practically stated we shall thus go on seven after seven until we reach the boundaries of the atmospheric grasp of the gravitation of some other sphere. Surely the time has arrived for the full reconsideration of this fundamental question of whether the universe is filled with atmospheric matter or is the vacuum of the molecular mathematicians plus the imaginary ether which has been invented by its mathematical creators only to extricate them from the absurd dilemma into which they are plunged when they attempt to explain the transmission of light and heat by undulations travelling through space containing nothing to undulate. They have filled it with immaterial matter evolved entirely from their own consciousness which they have gratuitously endowed with whatever properties are required for the fitting of their theories properties that are self-contradictory and without any counterpart in anything senior or known outside of the fertile imagination of these regular starists. We know of nothing that can penetrate every form of matter without adding either to its weight or its bulk we know of nothing that can communicate motion to ponderable matter without itself being ponderable that is having the primary property of matter vis mass or weight and subsequent vis-viva when moving. We know of nothing that can set bodies in motion without proportionally resisting the motion of bodies through it and if the waving of the ether as Tindall describes it as real and as truly mechanical as the breaking of sea waves upon the shore the material of the breakers must be like the jelly to which he compares it and have some viscosity or resistance to penetrate or pushing aside. We have not a shadow of direct evidence of the existence of the inter-atomic spaces occupied by the other and in the midst of which the atoms are made to theoretically swing not even of the existence of the atoms themselves the ether of today with its imaginary penetration and its material action without material properties has merely taken the place of the equally imaginary flog-a-stone caloric electric and magnetic fluids the imponderables the past. I have little doubt that our long the modern modification of these physical superstitions will share their fate and we shall all adopt the simple concept that heat, light and electricity are like sound merely transmissible states or reflections of matter itself regard it bodily as it is seen and felt to exist. This may possibly throw a good many mathematicians out of work or into more useful work but however that may be it will certainly aid the general diffusion of science as the intellectual inheritance of every human being. At present the explanations of the simple phenomena of light and heat are incomparably more difficult to understand and to account for than the facts which they attempt to elicit and of chapter 53 recording by Chad Horner for Bolly Clare in Countyampton, Rowland, Ireland, situated in the north east of the island of Ireland Chapter 54 of Science in Short Chapters This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer please visit LibriVox.org recording by phone short chapters by W. Machu Williams A Neglected Disinfectant When the household of our grandmothers was threatened with infection the common practice was to sprinkle brimstone on hot shovel or on hot coals on a shovel and carry the burning result through the house but now this simple method of disinfecting has gone out of fashion without any good and sufficient reason. The principle reason is neither good nor sufficient that is that nobody can patent it and sell it in chilling and half-crowned bottles. On September 18th last Michel Dabadi read a paper at the Academy of Sciences on marsh fevers and stated that in the dangerous regions of African river mouths immunity from such fevers is feared by sulfur fumigations on the naked body also that the Sicilian workers in low ground sulfur mines suffer much less than the rest of the surrounding population from intermittent fevers. Michel Fouquet has shown that Zaviria on the volcanic island of Milo or Milos the most westerly of the cyclades which had a population of 40,000 when it was the centre of operations became nearly depopulated by marsh fever when the sulfur mining was moved farther east and the emanations prevented by a mountain from reaching the town. Other similar cases were stated. It is well understood by chemists that bleaching agents are usually good disinfectants that which can so disturb an organic compound as to destroy its colour is capable of either arresting or completing the decompositions that produce vile odours and nourish the organic germs or ferments which usual accompany or as some affirm cause them. Sulfurous acid is next to hypochlorous acid one of the most effective bleaching agents within easy reach. I should add that sulfurous acid is the gas that is directly formed by burning sulfur. By taking up another dose of oxygen it becomes sulfuric acid which combined with water is oil of vitriol. The bleaching and disinfecting action of the sulfurous acid is connected with its activity in appropriating the oxygen which is loosely held or being given off by organic matter. Chlorine and hypochlorous acid which is still more effective than chlorine itself act in the opposite way so do the permanganates such as condies fluid etc. They supply oxygen in the presence of water. It is curious that opposite actions should produce light results. A disquisition on this and its suggestions would carry me beyond the limits of a note. Chapter 54 Chapter 55 of Science in Short Chapters This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer please visit LibriVox.org recording by phone. Science in Short Chapters by W. Matthew Williams. Another Disinfectant The above named disinfectants are objectionable on account of their own odours and their corrosive action. Both sulfurous acid and hypochlorous acid the active principle of the so-called chloride of lime have a disagreeable habit of rusting iron and suggesting antique green bronzes by their action on brass ornaments. Under serious conditions this should be endured but in many cases where the danger is not already developed the desired end may be attained without these annoyances. Sulfate of copper which is not patented or brought out by a limited company may be bought at its fair retail value of 6 pounds or less per pound the oil shop named for its blue vitriol and crystals readily soluble in water. I have lately used it in the case of a trouble to which English households are too commonly liable and one that has in many cases done serious mischief. The stoppage of a soil pipe caused the overflow of a closet and a consequent saturation of floorboards that in time would probably have developed danger by nourishing and developing those germs of bacteria, bacilli etc. which abound in the air and are ready to increase and multiply wherever their unsavory food abounds. By simply mopping the floor with the solution of these green crystals and allowing it to soak well into the pores of the wound they cease to become a habitat for such microscopic abominations. The copper salt poisons the poisoners. Dr Berg goes so far as to recommend that building materials, articles of furniture and clothing etc should be injected with sulfate of copper in order to avert infection and in support of this refers to the immunity of workers in copper from cholera, typhoid fever and infectious diseases generally. I agree with him to the extent of suggesting the desirability of occasionally mopping house floors with this solution Its visible effects on the wood are first to stain it with a faint green tinge which gradually tones down to a brown stain giving to the oldie appearance of oak a change which has no disadvantage from an artistic point of view. If the wood is already tainted with organic matter capable of giving off sulfurated hydrogen the darkening change is more rapid and decided owing to the formation of sulfide of copper. The solution of sulfate should not be put into iron or zinc vessels as it rapidly corrode them and deposits a non-adherent film of copper. It will even disintegrate common earthenware by penetrating the glaze and crystallizing within the pores of the wear but this is a work of time weeks or months. Stoneware resist this and wooden buckets may be used safely. It is better to keep the crystals and dissolve when required. Ordinary earthenware may be used with impunity if washed immediately afterwards. Chapter 56 of Science in Short Chapters This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer please visit LibriVox.org recording by phone. Science in Short Chapters by W. Matthew Williams. This subject has been largely expanded and discussed lately in the Times and other newspapers. As most of my readers are doubtless aware it is simply a substitute for hay making bits, paving and building them round with stone or concrete then placing the green folder therein and covering it over with sufficient earth to exclude the air. We are told that very inferior material such as coarse maize grass mixed with chaff when thus preserved gives better feeding and milking results than good English hay. I may mention the experience of my own that bears upon this. When a boy I was devoted to silkworms and my very small supply of pocket money was overtaxed in the purchase of exorbitantly small penny-words of mulberry leaves at Covent Garden. But a friend in the country had a mulberry tree and that rather long intervals I obtained large supplies which in spite of all my careful wrapping in damp cloths became rotted in about ten days. I finally tried digging a hole and burying them. They remained fresh and green until all my silkworms commenced working and fasting stage of their existence. This was encelage on a small scale. The correspondence in the newspapers has suggested a number of reasons why English farmers do not follow the example of their continental neighbors in this respect. Climate, difference of grasses etc etc are named but a real reason why this is commercially impossible and farming properly so cold is becoming a lost art in England mere meadow or prairie grazing gradually superseding it is not named in any part of the discussion that I have read. I refer to the cause which is abolishing the English prairie which drives us to the commercial absurdity of importing fragile eggs from France, Italy, Spain etc apples from the other side of the Atlantic tame house-fed rabbits from Belgium and so on with all other agricultural products which are precisely those we are naturally best able to produce at home. I mean those demanding a small area of land and a proportionately large amount of capital and labour. A poultry or rabbit farm, acre for acre, demands fully ten times the capital, ten times the labour, and yields ten times the produce obtained by our big field beef and mutton grazers. The scientific and economic merits of encelage are probably all that is claimed for it and it is especially adept for uncertain hay-making climate but what farmer who is merely a lodger on the land holding it as an annual tenant at will or under a stinted beggarly lease of 21 years would expend his capital in building a costly silo which becomes by our feudal laws and usages the absolute property of the landlord. Our tenant farmers employ the latest and best achievements of engineering science in the form of implements but take care that they shall be upon wheels or otherwise non fixtures and use rich chemically prepared manures provided they are not permanent while they abstain from improvement which involve any serious outlay in the form of fixtures on the land. Those who lecture them about their want of enterprise should always remember that their condition is merely a form of feudal serfdom tempered by the possession of capital and that older agricultural operations are influenced by a continual struggle to prevent their capital from falling into the hands of the feudal lord. Anybody who has ever read an ordinary form of English farm lease with its prohibitions concerning the sale of hay and straw and restrictions to forecours or other mode of cultivation must see the hopelessness of any development of British agriculture comparable to that of British commerce and manufacturer. Imagine the condition of a London shopkeeper or midland manufacturer holding his business premises as a yearly tenant liable at six months notice to quit with confiscation of all his business fixtures. End of chapter 56 recording by phone Chapter 57 of Science in Short Chapters This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information auto volunteer please visit LibriVox.org Recording by Avae in August 2019 Science in Short Chapters by W. Matthew Williams Chapter 57 The Fracture of Comets The view of the Constitution of Comets expounded in one of my notes of April last, that is that they are meteoric systems consisting of a central mass or masses around which a multitude of minor bodies are revolving like satellites around their primary is strongly confirmed by the curious proceedings of the present Comet which proceedings also justify my last note of last month pointing out the omission of our astronomers who have neglected the positive and irregular repulsive action of the Sun upon Comets, that like the great Comets of 1843, 1880 and 1882 come within a few hundred thousand miles of the visible solar surface. The solar prominences are stupendous eruptions from the Sun, consisting as the spectroscope demonstrates of hydrogen flames and incandescent metallic vapours ejected with furious violence to visible distances ranging from 10 or 20 to above 300,000 miles. But this flame shown by the spectroscope is but the flash of a gun, the actual ejection proceeding vastly farther, far beyond the limits of the corona as described in last month's notes. These eruptions are so abundant that Setge alone observed and recorded 2767 in one year, 1871. Speaking generally, the Sun is never free from them and they proceed from all parts of the Sun, but most abundantly from the Sun spot zones. A system of meteoric bodies such as opposed to form a Comet, I mean the Comet as it exists in space before the generation of its tail, which is only formed as it approaches the Sun, could not approach so near to the Sun as did the present Comet at Perihelion without encountering more or less of these furious blasts. The flash of some of which have been seen to move with a measurable mean velocity of above 300 miles per second and a probable maximum velocity sufficient to eject solid matter beyond the reclaiming grasp of solar gravitation. It is evident that such a meteoric system as I suppose to constitute a Comet would, in the course of a rapid Perihelion flight crossing these out blasts be liable to various degrees of ejection in different parts that would disturb its original structure by blowing some of its constituents out of their orbits, or even quite away from the control of the feeble gravitation of the general meteoric mass, and thus affecting a rupture of the Comet. Now such a disintegration or dispersion of the present Comet has been actually observed. Several Able observers have described a breaking of the head of this Comet shortly after its Perihelion passage. Commander Samson Observations was the great 26 inch equatorial telescope of the Washington Naval Observatory are very explicit. On October 25 he saw the nucleus as a single well-defined globular body. On November 3 with the same telescope he saw a triple nucleus due to the formation of two additional minor bodies. These were more distinctly seen on November 6. Mr. W. R. Brooks of New York saw a detached fragment of the Comet which afterwards faded out of view. Professor Schmidt observed another and similar fragment which has likewise disappeared. All these observations indicate disruption due to some disturbing force, acting with different degrees of violence upon different portions of the Comet. Minor disturbances of this kind will, I think, account for the trail of metallic bodies which Scaparelli has shown to follow the paths of other Comets. A great disturbance might give quite a new orbit to the meteoric fragments. These considerations suggest another and a curious view of the question of possible cometary collision with the Sun. That is that a Comet might be travelling in such an orbit as to make it mathematically due to plunge obliquely beneath the solar surface at its next perihelion, but on its approach to the surface of the Sun it might encounter so violent an outrush of solar prominence matter as to drive it bodily out of its course and avert the threatened peril to its existence. End of Chapter 57 Chapter 58 of Science in Short Chapters This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer please visit LibriVox.org Recording by Abai in August 2019 Science in Short Chapters by W. Mathieu Williams Chapter 58 The Origin of Comets We read in storybooks of uncomfortable people who have cherished a guilty secret in their bosoms, that it has nought their vitals until at last they have carried it to the grave. I have such a secret that does the knowing business whenever I write or speak of comets concerning the origin of which I am guilty of a hypothesis that has hitherto been cherished as a foreset from the very shame of adding another to an already exaggerated heap of speculations on celestial physics. It assumes in the first place that all the other suns which we see are stars and constituted like our own sun, that they eject great eruptions similar to the prominences above described and even of vastly greater magnitude, as in the case of the flashing stars that have excited so much wonderment among astronomers, but which I regard simply as suns like ours, subject like ours to periodic maximum and minimum activities, but of greater magnitude. If such is the case, some of the prominent matter or vaporous constituents of these suns must be ejected with much greater proportional violence than are those from our sun, but those from our sun have been proved to rush out on some occasions with a velocity so great that the solar gravitation cannot bring them back. If such is ever the case with the explosions of our sun, it must be a frequent occurrence with the greater explosions of certain stars, and therefore vast quantities of meteoric matter are continually ejected into space and travelling there until they come within the gravitation domain of some other sun, like ours, when they will necessarily be bent into such orbits as those of comets. But what will be the nature of these meteoric matter? If from our sun it would be a multitude of metallic hailstones, due to the condensation of the metallic vapor by cooling as it leaves the sun, and such meteoric hail would correspond to the meteoric stones that fall upon our Earth, and which, for reasons stated in the fuel of the sun, I believe to be of solar origin. Besides these, there would be ice hail, such as Chevedorf claims to be meteoric. A star mainly composed of hydrogen and carbon or densely enveloped in these gases, as the spectroscope indicates to be the case in some of these flashing stars, would eject hydrocarbon vapors, condensable by cooling into solids similar to those we obtain by the condensation of terrestrial hydrocarbon vapors, paraffin, camphor, terpentine, and all the essential oils, for example. And thus we should have the meteoric systems composed of these particles circulating about their own common center of mass, as above stated, and displaying the spectrum which Dr. Huggins has found common to comets. If this is correct, the present comet comes from a sun that contains metallic sodium in addition to the hydrocarbons, as the spectrum of this metal was seen when this comet was near enough to the sun to render its vapor incandescent. End of chapter 58 End of Science in Short Chapters by W. Mathieu Williams


Sudakar asks, how is gas used? Is it used only in Ethereum? This is a very interesting question, Sudakar. Gas is a fascinating topic when it comes to Ethereum and other smart contracts-based platforms. When you hear people talk about Ethereum, a term you will hear almost immediately is the term Turing Complete. When you hear Turing Complete, it sounds like something that is a great feature to have. After all, if you're not Turing Complete, that means you're Turing Incomplete, and that sounds like you're missing something. In fact, it's not the case. A Turing Complete language, such as the languages used in the smart contracts running on Ethereum or the virtual machine, is one that can execute a program of arbitrary complexity, usually that means the programming language has the ability to run loops. In fact, it's very easy to make something Turing Complete. Even very simple systems are Turing Complete. In some cases, even systems that were not meant to be Turing Complete become accidentally Turing Complete, and end up being far more flexible than originally thought. It's actually harder to make something Turing Incomplete, meaning preventing it from executing all kinds of arbitrary code and keeping it constrained. Part of the reason for all of this has to do with proof made by Alan Turing in 1936, which was the halting problem or unshidings problem, where Alan Turing proved that if you have a Turing Complete system, you cannot predict whether that system will ever stop running, or whether it will simply run forever. You also can't predict if it will follow a specific execution path or execute a specific part of the code. This causes a significant problem, because with a smart contract running in the Ethereum virtual machine, every single Ethereum client that is participating on the network has to validate that program by running it. How does it know how long that program will run? Can the Ethereum client predict how long a program will run, and whether it will consume a certain amount of resources? What Turing proved back in 1936 is that you cannot predict that. Therefore, Ethereum doesn't have any way to know if a program, based on some starting conditions, like a specific input from a transaction in the blockchain, as it is at the time of execution, will run for a second, a thousand seconds, a million seconds, or infinity. It doesn't know if it will execute one command, ten commands, a million commands, or infinity commands, never stopping and going into an infinite loop. If your Ethereum client has to run a program in order to validate it, how do you make sure that these programs do not consume all of the resources of all of the computers participating in Ethereum? Vitalik Buterin's solution to this was to make the language of Ethereum Turing complete, so as to give maximum flexibility, but then add a way to constrain it, so that it didn't consume resources without end. That mechanism is gas. So, gas is a way of prepaying for a specific amount of execution or resources for every computer that will validate it. Every transaction in Ethereum provides an upper limit on the amount of gas that the execution will be able to consume. When the smart contract is executed by the Ethereum virtual machine, the Ethereum virtual machine starts accounting for gas by debiting an amount of gas for every instruction executed by the smart contract. If, during this process, the smart contract runs out of the available gas in the transaction, it stops it. It forces it to have an upper limit on how much execution, how much resource can be consumed by any smart contract. There is also a gas limit for every block, which ensures that no matter how many transactions are in a block, there is an upper limit on the maximum amount of computation and resources consumed to validate and execute that block. That is the role of gas. Gas is the solution to the problem introduced by the extra flexibility of a Turing complete language that, as a result, has no ability of predicting how long a program will run and could create conditions where a single transaction takes forever to validate and locks up all of the processing of all of the computers participating in Ethereum. WinterMatico asks, Andreas, can you please explain how can I, as a smart contract developer, be able to know how much the execution of my program will cost on the blockchain? That's a great question. I have a difficult answer for you, and maybe you won't like this. It is not possible to guess how much gas the execution of a contract can use. In fact, Turing proved that even long before stored program computers existed, smart contracts and blockchains existed, he proved that it's not possible to predict whether a certain execution path will be executed by a program, other than running it, and in running it you never know what's going to happen. You can estimate the amount of gas that is used by a smart contract, but you can never predict it accurately, because the conditions under which it runs may change between your estimate and what actually happens. Let me give you a silly contrived example that shows how this works. Let's say I write a smart contract that has a counter in it, and every time you call it with a transaction, it increases this counter, and the first 99 times you call it, all it does is 1 plus 1 equals 2. It does a simple addition, and that's going to cost a certain amount of gas. Let's say that costs 400 units of gas to run. It's a simple addition, but in that contract it looks at how many times it's been called, and on the 100th time it decides to do something else. On the 100th time it decides to run a hash function a million times. Now that's going to cost you, I don't know, let's say 5 million gas. So the difference between the 99 times you run this contract and it only consumes 500 gas, and the 100th time you run the contract when it consumes 5 million gas is simply the order of transactions. It's very simple to create contracts like that, it's also very simple to accidentally create contracts, where the amount of gas that's used varies considerably between one execution and the next, based on circumstances that you can't predict. Let's say for example that you estimate the amount of gas that's going to be used to call this contract, and your software estimates this based on you being the 98th transaction in a row. As you transmit your transaction to other transactions, first call that contract. That means your transaction is now the 100th transaction in a row, and instead of costing 500 gas, it costs 5 million to run your transaction. So you can't predict how the conditions will change until you actually run your transaction, and it's included in the block, because the transaction just before yours may change the state of the contract in such a way as to cause it to follow a completely different execution path, to call other contracts who knows what they're going to do, and to use gas in a completely unpredictable way. So this is one of the challenges with writing smart contracts, and actually the ability to have the contract pay for the gas gives us a bit more flexibility in how to plan gas expenditure and estimates for smart contract developers.


I'm seeing stars. Whoa, I yelled way too loud and went too fast. I'm seeing stars The thought of clapping Bella porches cheeks Woking me for my coma if I'm ever in a coma and my family's there and they're like what do we do? Do we we pull the plug we let him die or should we like see if he can stick it out? Just get Bella porch in the room. Just get her in the room. Do you agree?   Julama's really starting to get on my nerves Who said that? He said Belle Delphine is better than but I bet inside Julama's cage here snowball cage I swear it's Belle Delphine's bathwater.  Julama. Shouldn't you be celebrating?  Kwanzaa? Is it Kwanzaa? What is Kwanzaa? Kwanzaa, a secular festival observed by many African Americans. Wait, what? What did I just look up? Black Santa?   What what is the?   As long as you're having a good time, baby Wait, I can't leave anybody out though. What do, um, they're a Buddhist Christmas Buddhists also celebrate their own important holiday on December 8th. Oh, it's already gone. Well, happy late Bode Day Hanukkah 2021 starts Monday, November 29th. I'm so sorry, Julama bro I would have celebrated Hanukkah with you if I could wheel of mud Sorry, I'm trying to distract myself from the massive the massive playoff run that we have ahead of a playoff three More wins. We are seven and two. We're not actually supposed to be seven and two We're supposed to be seven and one and I'm an idiot and I queued up a game thinking I was on my burner account And I was not I was on my main account doesn't really matter because we're in the playoffs Seven and two. We have the wild card right now and I'm nervous, dude Our team is a 91 overall with a 92 defense. We added a 93 left guard thing So our rage could wheel last last episode.  Low-key Sean Taylor could be upgraded But that is a prestige. It's just like DK Matt Capral We're gonna get blessed with an amazing Sean Taylor card at some point. We just gotta be patient I could take another corner. I could take another detackle other than that. We look really good We really do we got a focus kicker too and guess what baby? It's the Christmas playoff wheel as you know, we get a juice wheel for making us in the playoffs Let's see what our first juice spin is. Oh boy. Top 10 guests age Nobody invite Chris Hansen over for this out of all the celebrities I've met I will say Chris Hansen has got to be the rudest dude.  I just met shake my hand at least right all right So this one could be good, but it's hard to say right now We're gonna have to see what this looks like. I'm gonna sort the entire auction house my overall one Two three. Oh, there's not that old Vernon Butler would actually be huge, bro So would will Fuller. I have no idea how old either of them are will Fuller is kind of old Vernon Butler, dude. I don't know. I'm gonna guess that Vernon Butler. I'm gonna say 28 Say Vernon Butler is 28. That would be a huge pickup Vernon Butler age 27 he's 27. Oh, well, I don't want to overshoot on will Fuller either. Let's go will Fuller 27 Yes Well, dude, and you know if I knew my NFL knowledge, they probably were the same draft class if they're both 27 Although that might not necessarily be true will Fuller. I'm pretty sure he's nasty He might be faster than both of my dudes right now Honestly, that's clutch because those are the only two people on this whole board that I wanted I didn't want anybody else So that'll take aj green out which I actually don't mind because I was talking to aj green a lot and here's my worst wide receiver 93 speed. Yeah, let's go. Wow.  It's so good Even urban mark cannot complain about this wide receiver locker room right here will Fuller added to the squad I think that might butt my offense to a 92. I'm not actually sure, but we'll see our next wheel spin is gonna come in It's a polymorph. I gotta get rid of three 80 to 88 overall players for one 90 to 94 There's two that I can think of which is Damian Harris the 88 and Jonathan Taylor the 80. Who else can we get though? Joe Thune is an 88. Let's go. All right. Good. This is why it's huge to actually establish depth at positions In case we get a wheel spin like this. So will Fuller's in now Joe Thune Well, I guess I'll go Cameron Irving because he's actually even worse So Cameron Irving is gonna come out Damian Harris is already deep in the bench Because we sub tape on Austin in for him and then Jonathan Taylor that is three 80 to 88 overall players and we're gonna get one of our choice 90 to 94 and I'm going for a center I'm not even gonna think about this one.  There is a Rodney Hudson 93 There's an Eric McCoy marquis pouncy. Wow.  I think I can do that. Let's go Marquis pouncy up to a 94 Let's go. That really didn't even cost that much. This market is tanked That was 115,000 coins plus a good amount of training for a 94 overall center Oh my god, there's so much rest on this, bro Imagine I lost right now on Christmas. You'd be watching like episode three of the new season. That'd be horrible I have to win here 92 overall offense. We add will fuller and marquis pouncy some offensive threats Surprisingly not what I expected to get here But both amazing grabs huge clutch up by the playoffs wheel be getting us new stuff 90 93 94 92 91 an amazing Offensive line that gets me going dude and the challenge wheel is extra important right now as you guys know If I complete the challenge wheel in the playoffs, I can get any of the training store packs as well We need a 20 plus yard pitch back. Ah, I completed this on the final play the final second the last time I got it wild card playoff game Let's go boys in a 20 plus yard pitch back if I'm winning I'll try a hook and ladder or if I get an interception. I will Thief of a light you spelled thief wrong, but that's all right. James Robinson. Jibril peppers and decai versus a 97 Cam and a 94 Lamar the Lamar did not have escape artists. Did I see that correctly? I actually kind of like that I'm really scared of those escape artists for backs. I love playing in the st Stadium, dude It has this feeling it has this playoffs feeling honestly very much I'd like forward field where I just feel like alliance fan and I just don't like that No money spent bro. Go away through these dudes. There's no way. He has roaming dead I quick draw on pass lead elite. I'm gotta say I'm shocked that he doesn't have escape artists But hey, maybe you just want to make the good calls the good play calls. Yeah Oh, Camara's gonna be open first in ten. It might be read option. No I see Camara again on the shake hat back corner out He's not gonna throw anything. He's just gonna get sacked. That's that route. I'm always going for bontas sweat in the qb Spy. Let's see what he goes for here Throws one quick underneath the devon hester, but that's a third and ten Play action crosser left is open crosser left is so open hate that play dude first in ten. I'm send the blitz Give him to make a mistake give him to make a mistake That's a what oh my god. They could have been a pick Oh, they could have been a pick thank god. We have montez sweat in a moment like this, dude Do that when you're zero and zero. Oh, let's go, baby Will Fuller's over there on an island.   Let's hope you'll feel cool playing a really good defense right now Come on throw pick throw pick.   I don't think I'm gonna be able to use this against him like too much Because this guy's definitely pretty good. Dude. He is in the backfield.  That wasn't even a blitz Oh my god, turn four.  He just ran commit. He's not gonna get it James Robinson. Let's go He is up in my grill dude great block by robert hug He got out there, but james robinson can't run through his tackler. I'm looking for robinson.  Let's go shake hat back corner keeping us alive Oh, he tried to stay on will fuller, but he wasn't fast enough. Let's go will fuller. Welcome to the team, buddy Low key james robinson has not been breaking a lot of tackles I know i'm not playing perfect with him or anything. He just isn't breaking the tackles. I kind of expect him to First and goal. He's on kinship. He's like break this one. Well, he went low Derek Henry wouldn't have broke that either. He went low. Let's go j rob. I see you buddy Yes, sir Yes, sir j rob He's in just barely and he got tackled there again, dude.  We do get the ball half We can pretty much put this put it away. We can be in such a good position if we get a stop here Play action. Yep. The screamer getting on lemar too fast for him to make the throw great play Heaves won.   I'm back to back games. I am low-key perfectly fine with that Ooh going for two. I love this what you got buddy what you got this playoff football. I really respect this Step up and get more. Oh, he throws back across and there's a man wide open The two point is good eight to seven. I don't mind this at all. Wow Okay, maybe I'm on this because I don't actually know how to stop this If it's like a perfect kick or whatever. Okay. Jabril is gonna grab it easy Got a minute seventeen just to get a little field goal. This is the very hotlets DK matcalf absolutely torches his man. I'll throw a few things that could potentially be a touchdown Just kind of chunk our way back up there But nothing crazy, okay, okay j-rom. I see you and he's out of bounds at the 15 Great catch by theron waller. We've got time outs. We can get a touchdown here.  He's seen this a few times Let's see if he's gonna adjust to it. This is the stretch He's not gonna James Robinson with one second on the clock. We have a five point lead. I'll just pat this james robinson Halfback stretch two touchdowns. You got to love it, dude. I'm so glad I was patient and looked he's on side kicking again Start this half apparently there's a way you can do this and like get it pretty consistently But uh, hopefully our boys will just clutch up. Yeah big clutch Big clutch matcalf. He's not in that strong glitz. I'm gonna take james robinson.   They looks like there's a massive hole They just shed it as soon as I get there. I'm not giving up on it. I'm not giving up on the run game Let's go inside zone. He pulled camp chancellor all the way out of there. James Robinson breaks the tackle Oh my god. Look at this blitz Josh Allen easy pass down the will forward and let's go His onsite kicks are getting him in trouble right now. I am already in scoring range We're gonna run down a little bit of clock here stretch it out to the left again And he is just this is a nightmare for him. The he cannot handle the stretch Let's go 12 rushes 63 yards and two touchdowns for james robinson.   That's what I'm talking about. That's why we upgraded you baby Camp chancellor so far out of position Let's go james robinson for his third three touchdowns james robinson. What a savage. What was my challenge? What's my challenge completely forgot? Yeah, I'll go for two here I'm diving right up the middle james robinson has been everywhere so far this game That was a crazy animation. He got lucky there That was kind of open. He's gonna throw right here He would quit it when I was low-key about to get a pick. I'm on this one, which is really good There's a left side route. That's very open though. I'm going on the quarterback this time. Oh, maybe not. Maybe not. Maybe not I didn't even need to oh Great play boys. Can I get toasted deep? That's the only touchdown. He's got is that absolute burner deep Get down Jabral, I think jabral decides this game. What a diving That was real challenge. We just got a rage good wheel spin, which is huge But what was my challenge and I complete it? I don't even remember Oh, it was a 20 plus yards pitch back. Damn. I could have done it.  I thought we were gonna get team of jackpot. We got steal a player What was his top three bro? He had cam chancellor. I actually can't get hit lemar Okay, I went back and looked at the footage his top three was cam chancellor alvin kamara lemar jackson So i'm gonna go with the 94 alvin kamara as my steal a player. He is really good It just like I am not going away from james robinson I guess if james robinson gets tired in any of the next games will have an incredible backup And I also feel better about camara than I do about tape on austin tape on austin to me is just a walking fumble He's so small. He's just gonna get crammed huge dub scary dub But a huge dub, but we're 92 overall. We added camara. We added marquise pounds We had a will fuller in two days. You will see the divisional We get a big dub here with a rage when we got the divisional the conference and then the super bowl on christmas Which is incredible. I uh, I think I timed that out, right? Maybe I did but no matter what Guaranteeing you an absolute super hit banger on christmas day. I love you boys Thanks for watching as always another banger in the books, and I'll see you in the next video. Peace


Okay, now this is a system, okay, this is not just who's just throwing together.  Does that make sense? I'm not just going to move together for you. Okay, you've got to have systems. Now, when you get higher in level, you've got to have a system. You've got to have a system for your single leg. You've got to have a system for your high crotch. You've got to have a system for your double leg. You've got to have a system for your inside trip. You've got a system for your first week. You've got to have a system for your snap down. You've got to have a system. Now, when I talk about system, it's not about one move. It's one move, second move. Back to your first. Then you have a third move. Then it's like, then you have different setups. A setup system. Does that make sense? The more you get higher in levels of wrestling, you've got to have systems for your setup, for your attack, and for your finish. Does that make sense? You don't have that. You just have one setup, one shot, one finish, nice. You're going to have very... You're going to have trouble. You're going to have trouble. You're going to teach you a system here. An system within the system. Does that make sense? Alright, so now, there's my partner. I'm going to teach you the system. So now I'm here. I have this. I have this move. He's wrong. I come up. I grab my waist. He squares up. I won't be here. Now, when he squares up, a lot of times, what he's going to do is he's going to square up a lot here. Alright? He's going to square this. Yes, see that? He's going to have this tight. Okay? See what he did? He's going to square up. So as he squares up, he's starting to square up. Okay? Makes sense? I love it when you have a tight waist. I love it. When you have a tight waist here, he's coming. See that? That's what I want. Okay? This is not my inside trip without a partner. My inside trip without a partner. My overhook side. My overhook side.  Little jab step. Jab step. Make a seal of my foot. And I drop down. Okay? And I'm finishing the double leg. Again, it's here. Jab step. And center it here. Double. Again, launch. I'm here. He squares up. Jab step. Jab step. See my foot. Drop down. Double leg. Now he's stuck. Okay? Now I'm going to start getting back points. Alright? Is that that? Any questions? Alright.


On July 30th, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt amended and signed Public Law 689, which had established the women's reserve, unofficially known as WAVES, earlier in 1938. During World War II, 90,000 female officers and enlisted reservists were stationed at U.S. shore commands, as well as overseas. WAVES served as air traffic controllers, artists, cryptologists, hospital corpsmen, linguists, and weather specialists. Through the direct contributions of over 350,000 women who served during World War II, military and congressional leaders were convinced that women should be allowed to serve not only during times of war, but also during times of peace. In July 1948, the Women's Armed Service Act allowed for the first women to be sworn in for regular active duty. The WAVES were later disestablished in 1972. Today, women in the Navy continue the WAVES legacy through their service throughout the fleet.


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