Hi, my name is Mr. G and I have a series of lesson plans for you that are based off lettering. First of all, I want to let you guys know the materials that you guys will need for today to do the project that we have at hand. One would be a ruler, two would be a Sharpie, two colors prefable, three would be a pencil, and four would be a get eraser. And again, this is Mr. G's lesson on starburst lettering. Welcome guys. So we're going to start off with just drawing a letter. Just with this pencil here, I'm going to draw and I'm going to do a G because that's the start of my name. And I want you guys to draw the letter pretty big. So to take up most of the paper. Second thing that we're going to do is that we're going to make this line drawing into a block drawing. So I'm going to expand on this. So, so now I've made a block letter. And now I'm going to make a registration mark and that's just one simple dot. So I'm going to make a dot anywhere on the page, preferably kind of in the center of your letter, not up to the side. And you'll see why I say that to you in a minute. So I've made a dot right there is my dot and that's going to be my registration dot. I'm going to bring six, that would be six lines through this G and then we're going to start to break it off and make our negative and positive space. So again, grabbing your ruler and your pencil, first line will go through your registration mark or the little dot that you made on your page. Now I will take and make my second and I'm going all the way to the end of the page. Okay, guys, don't have it not go all the way through the end of the letters. And again, you guys might make some mistakes. That's why we have an eraser. Okay, so I have three lines now and now this will be number four. And then again, make sure that you get all the way to the end. And again, don't worry about fine tuning your design. You're going to end up doing that. Okay, so now I'm going to start looking at how I'm going to want to put my black fills. So if I'm going to have this one be black, I always try to map out stuff, then I would have this one be black. And this one and I usually leave a little bit of a dot on there, just so I know which ones I need to color what colors. And that was another reason that I asked you to make six lines or an even number of lines so that you can have an even dispersion of opposites or positives and negatives. Okay, so now I have some elements that I can already start to fill in in black. So I'm going to start to fill. And I want to give you guys a tip. When you guys are using Sharpies, you guys should try to color as even as possible and color all the way through what you're coloring through to the end so that you don't make darker marks on stuff. And I'll give an example of that now. So again, trying to get your fill so that it's a nice even fill and that you're not getting any areas that are lighter or darker than the other areas. You might have to go over stuff a few times to be able to get to that point. And then on the opposite, you are going to add what other color that you want. Let me show you an example of it when it would be filled just with black. So now you can start to see the letter shapes form and the letter forming with the black and white and you're seeing negatives and positive space. Negative space would be the black, positive space would be the white. But we're going to add another color to it. Okay, so we're going to add a green to it. And I have. So as I started to do this here with the black, let's say that I'm going to work with green, I'm adding green opposite of it. So I'm running black, green, then black. So you're running opposites of your colors. And again, take your time, go a little bit slower than I am. Right now I'm just trying to give you guys an idea of what things look like. And that's what you're going to do throughout the whole piece. So somebody might go here where you're looking at something that is has a piece coming up, but there's sectioned off pieces. This would be green, where this one would be black. And I'll fill those in real quick for you guys. And again, taking your time to get nice, even runs with your colors. And then something like this right here would be black. And then you're going to work out through your whole piece that way. So I have an example of a finished piece.  Really cool thing to be able to work with when you're building up words and things of that nature. And I'll give you some examples of negative and positive space to use in word graphics to. I hope that you guys had fun learning about negative positive space and applying it to a lettering technique. Thank you. My name is Mr. Greg and I'll see you next time.


Hey there welcome back to my channel. It is Drew here from Lone Fox and I am just in such a good mood today you guys I woke up I finished my wall decor projects And I'm just feeling so good about each and every one of them in today's video probably saw by the title We are going to be focusing on wall decor today And I've actually done two of these videos in the past both of each which have five wall decor projects and them and I'll put them in a card up here somewhere top that way in case you guys want more ideas or more DIY projects You can go ahead and watch those videos as well The thing about each of these is I love how each project uses a different technique. We're doing some Spackling we're doing some painting some sewing even a little bit of woodworking if you will I think wall decor is crucial for any space. It's a great way to add color texture pattern visual interest Whatever it might be every space needs a little bit of wall decor So let's go ahead and dive on into these DIY projects. So let's get started Jumping on into our first project here. I'm gonna start off with a couple of embroidery hoops I'm using a 7 inch and a 10 inch embroidery hoop here And the next step is going to be to take your larger hoop and cut it in half So I just used a ruler to find the center point once I had the ruler I just used this saw from the dollar store and I went ahead and cut it in half I basically are gonna have two half pieces like this and you're only gonna need one of them So you could save the other for a project in the future now as you can see I'm laying it out as shown here and this is going to be the shape of our wall hanging But of course we're gonna need a little bit of wood to connect these pieces together So in the wood section at Joann's I went ahead and I found this wooden dowel That really resembled the same wood of the embroidery hoop same width same thickness I cut it down to size and went ahead and sanded all of the edges That way we can go ahead and hot glue this together to create the base structure for our piece I used just a simple dot of gorilla hot glue on all of the wooden dowel edges and connected the pieces together To create the structure for our wall decor piece now. I love the way that this turned out I think it looks great, but let's go ahead and move on to the tassel portion So I grabbed this cream colored yarn and I measure out nine inches And then I went ahead and kind of wound it back and forth until I had ten pieces I'm personally using ten pieces of yarn per tassel folded in half and then pull the ends through that folded loop Just like shown here to create a simple tassel on the bottom half of your wall hanging Now I'm gonna create tassels across the whole entire bottom half underneath those dowels that we glued on Making sure that I do nine inch sections and I do ten strands of each for a cohesive and consistent looks So I'm just gonna go ahead and continue this process along Just adding the finishing touch to those tassels there I added a little bit of yarn at the top to hang it and I strung on a couple of wooden beads from my stash To just add a little bit more detail and dimension and that finishes off this wall decor For project number two, we are starting off with a simple poster board This is just a poster board you would use in a school project But I'm going to use it as the base for our wall decor So I just cut out a piece from this poster board that was 12 by 19 because I had a particular frame I wanted to go for but of course you can cut out whatever size you would like and I taped it down to my surface I just find this makes painting so much more simple and next what I did was I got a couple of these rolls of washi tape at Michaels and these rolls I made sure were pretty thin because I'm going to be masking off a ton of different lines to kind of create a very Linear abstract piece of artwork that also has like an ombre effect to it So as you can see here, I'm using this green washi tape on the left side here I already went ahead and mapped out a couple of just random triangles But basically this project is a whole bunch of masking with tape and then we're going to go through and paint over the top Remove the tape after to reveal our design So I'm using a thin gold one up at the top here to create more chunky sections and do keep in mind Wherever the tape is not covering is where your paint is going to go. So next what I did was I grabbed this paint here This is a dark kind of rusty orange color and I'm using just this color along with some white to create a variety of shades So I'm using some white and mixing it up with that rust to create a kind of more peachy tone And then more of a terracotta tone and then we're also going to of course use the base red color itself as well But in each triangle section I'm going through and using some of that paint that we diluted down with the white and I'm just going to go Head and paint it on there. So each shade is just a little bit different It varies slightly and once you remove all of that tape You can really see kind of that ombre effect that it creates which I think is really cute And this is a great project for you to customize and do whatever color palette you would like So let's say you want it a little bit more yellow in your living room You can totally create this piece with some yellow paint and add that pop of yellow now when you go back Once it is fully dry I'm going in and removing the tape and of course this is the most Satisfying part but do keep in mind to take it pretty slow because sometimes with poster board It's not the most durable paper and you can get some areas that do peel up just a little bit where the paper kind of comes off But what I did was I just went back and made sure not to wash my original paint colors that I created so I can go in and Just use a fine detail brush just clean up any lines there Remove the tape on the outside edge and that finishes off this wall decor piece I think it turned out really cute and if you have to touch up anything you can totally do so I love the tone-on-tone texture this creates Now I have been dying to sew on a canvas since I saw it on TikTok a while back So I started off by grabbing a small canvas creating a half circle shape with a roll of tape on the bottom there and from there I am using my ruler to create some rays from our half circle shape to all in all create a sun shape So I'm just using a pencil that way is easily eraseable because we are gonna go back and erase all of these lines We're just wanting to create a guide to start so I am going through adding some rays off of our half circle to create What's going to be our sun shape? But of course you can embroider whatever you would like on your canvas going through touching up any sections there and using my needle To pre poke some of the holes here and why I'm doing this is it just makes it a little bit easier when you're actually sewing You don't have to kind of think about it The holes are already done for you so you know where you're going next and I just went ahead I poked all the holes I wanted to do for the rays and I did actually go through after doing the tops and bottoms and just did a Couple of holes throughout to create a couple of breaks in the rays which I think just adds a bit of interest So as you see here on the right side, I'm going through I'm erasing just a couple sections at a time and I'm starting off with my orange color here now I'm using three different shades of embroidery floss and orange a pink and a yellow So I knew that every third section I wanted my orange to go through I was just going to do a pattern for Simplicity so I went ahead. I did my first row of orange there at the bottom. I then skipped two holes This is why I pre poked my holes and I did my third with the orange again And as you can tell some of the lines are not full on lines And that's what I meant by the broken sections and creating a couple of holes in the middle I just think this adds a nice pop of detail and it just makes it look a little bit more interesting You can totally make the rays full on lines if you want to and do no breaks in the centers But I loved the break sections. So I went ahead. I did my orange first Then we're moving on to pink next and the process from here is pretty repetitive So I just went through with my pink and then lastly, of course, I'm going to do my yellow next And of course we had to go through and fill in our little yellow section at the bottom there So all I did was I grabbed some yellow embroidery floss and I'm doing a series of parallel yellow lines Just to fill in this half circle So as I work my way up the lines are gonna get smaller and they're gonna cascade into our half circle shape But I just thought this was the easiest method for me to fill this in and I probably spaced them out Just about an eighth of an inch just to make this section seem really full But also just appear as stitching as well, which I think looks really nice in the end so just stitching up that section there and Lastly if you do want a nice clean backing which is totally optional if you're gonna hang this on the wall No one's gonna of course see this but I just didn't really like the way that it looks So I had this scrap piece of canvas in my stash I cut it out to fit the interior of the backside and use a little bit of fabric glues Just adhere that down to the backside of the canvas and that finishes off your sewn wall decor I think this looks super cute and would look great in a little girls room or a boho themed space I think this next project is probably my favorite in the video or one of my favorites as you can see I'm starting off with a wreath ring from the dollar store and a 10 inch mirror from the craft store This is just a craft mirror I'm using some memory wire cutters to go through and snip my ring that way I only have two of the interior ring section So as you can see here, I just want those two sections there These are gonna fit perfectly on the underside of our mirror and I also grabbed this raffia material Which you could find at Michaels in the floral section. I'm actually gonna cut these down to 8 inch sections So I just grabbed my ruler there measured out 8 inches in length and I cut them all at once because you're gonna need quite a few pieces of this Raffia material. So all you're gonna do for this next process This is again a very repetitive but kind of soothing process You're gonna grab it three to four five six even seven pieces of your raffia Fold it in half and just create a locks head knot on the outside by folding it in half and pulling your tails Through that loop that you created as shown here. Now do keep in mind that the entire Ring or underside base is gonna be hidden underneath your mirror So it doesn't need to look perfect, but you are gonna want your tassels to be pretty symmetrical So I'm just gonna repeat the process all the way around I actually created a mirror pretty similar to this a while back with some macrame cording and you guys really loved it And I had so many of you recreate it. So if you recreate this one, I would love to see it But I'm just gonna continue the process on the outside ring here So of course I couldn't just stop here I also wanted to add a second section onto that interior ring So for the next section I actually cut these pieces to seven inches So just an inch shorter than the last that way they kind of just cascaded over the top and created a little bit of a layered look So I'm doing the same exact technique just on the interior ring making sure that the pieces lay right on top of our first section Once you are done, it's gonna look something like this, which is a perfect base for our mirror I'm going through with some industrial strength gorilla hot glue sticks, which I'll link below for you guys I use these in all of my projects They just make everything stick really nicely and I'm placing my mirror right on top of the base that we created But I really was not a huge fan of how the mirror was just sitting on top of the raffia So I grabbed some wooden beads and I just went ahead and I strung them on a strand here There were three different sizes in this pack So I started off with the largest size first and I'm going to be stringing them on our string That way we can create a little bit of a border for the mirror and hide that raw edge Once you have your beads all strung up I did go ahead and glue them to the exterior of the mirror that way it kind of conceals that raw edge Just makes it look so much nicer and like there's an actual frame on the mirror So I glued these down went all the way around the exterior of the mirror and once I reached my starting point I did tie it off with the ending point that way It was just a full-on circle frame, but I thought adding just one more strand of beads would look really cute So I went in with our medium size and strung them up Just like I did the first section and just glued them right next to our larger ones on the interior of the mirror And that finishes off our mirror you guys it turned out so cute in the end And I cannot believe this project only cost around $15 to create I can totally see this for like 40 50 60 dollars online and for our last project. I'm starting off with this chalkboard It was a perfect base. I found this at Michael's only $9 You could totally use a coupon as well But I was originally gonna create my own kind of base for this project But it was gonna end up costing more so I was like let's make us a little bit more cost and time Effective and purchase this chalkboard now as you can see here I actually went through and painted the chalk portion of it with white paint Totally not necessary. It literally peeled off as I was working with it So I don't even suggest painting it with white paint. You can totally just start with it from this section right about Here so let's just pretend that this is where we started I'm using a little bit of this Alex plus spackling, which is just from Lowe's It's like six dollars for the entire tub and you're gonna want to go through and actually apply a generous amount of the Spackling on the entire board here This is where I also think that it might be nice to have the blackboard showing so you can kind of see if you have Spackling in all of the sections I just figured a white base would be nice in case I didn't have the spackling But I did go through in the end and paint everything anyway, so just you know, don't even worry about it I'm just going through and spreading an even amount of spackling across It's almost like you're frosting a cake, but we're just creating a thick layer of this that we can go back and Create a design in it once we have our layer down So I'm also going through and just smoothing it out a little bit just to give it a bit more of a solid kind of clean base To start with and once you have that all down. I'm using a trowel This is a grout trowel that you would use for originally like putting down grout You can get this at the hardware store for a couple of dollars And I'm just going through and creating a rainbow shape and pressing it into our grout here now There are a couple sections. I had to lift it up It was kind of peeling a little bit and that was actually because of the paint layer that I applied first It was peeling off of the chalkboard. So I just suggest going right in with your spackle and don't even paint it to start Now originally I was just going to keep the one rainbow shape in the center But it just looked too symmetrical to me and I wanted it to be a little bit more random and abstract So I created a half rainbow shape on the right side there just to kind of you know, throw it off a little bit Not make it super symmetrical and even I smoothed out any sections I didn't like and removed any of the spackling from our frame there So you're gonna let this dry fully overnight and once it is dry you can go back through and fully paint all of your spackling This is going to create a nice clean finish. I used a kind of warm white tone I believe it's literally called warm white by folk art and it really just has like a slight cream tone to it So I went through I gave two generous coats of this on all of the spackle making sure to avoid the frame Of course and then once you're done, you can let this dry and hang it up It's a very kind of tone on tone textural art piece, which is really fun Made it all the way through those wall decor projects you guys I hope that you enjoyed today's video. It was so much fun I had such a blast creating these projects over the past two days And I hope that you guys can gain some inspiration Or maybe take one of these projects tweak it a little bit to your own personal style Copy it if you want to whatever you guys would like to do. I would love to see some of your guys's recreation So if you do create any of these wall decor projects totally tag me over on instagram and make sure to follow along It is a lone fox home. I'll put it on the screen for you guys and do not also forget to subscribe to my channel It's a hundred percent free and I post really fun DIY and home decor content every single week here on lone fox and you will be part of the lone fox family Who does not want to be part of the lone fox family? I hope that you guys enjoyed today's video I hope these projects were inspiring I love you all so much and I will catch you guys in my next one Do not forget to also check out my kitchen makeover which went up last week Such a fun video still obsessed with the kitchen space and yeah, I will see you in my next one I don't even want to I'm like trying to think of other things to say because I don't want to put the camera down I feel like I haven't filmed in a while. I love you guys. I'll just see you in the next one. Bye


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Mae'n fwylo cyfaint gael y byddai â'r newid a'r newid yn lleol, a'r newid a'r newid yn ffrindiau, a'r newid i'r berthynas, mae'n tuad o'r newid i ni gwirion. A fyddwn ni'n gwybod i'r start-ups. Mae'r logo ar y taradwch wedi nadweud mewn cyfan ar yr unig oaintedwyr. Rhyf sydd wedi gael y gwybod, gweithio gwahodd a gweithio i'r bwysig ar y rhan oedd. Ond, a dweud faint, mae cynyddu rhaid, dweud am yr ymddindig o'r ffordd iawn iddi'ch我們的 ar y rhaid. Urmillion mynd rai Lywodraeth, enghraifft, yw 4,000 bwysig, yn 14 hours map 15,000 miles of roads, 110,000 buildings that have not been mapped before and literally built before our eyes a more complete representation of the ruined capital to help the relief effort. That is the innovative power of open data, it is why we are all passionate. It is why we believe that there is both social and economic value locked in there. Mae'r ydych chi'n ziwg ar hyn o ran y cyffredinol. Mae'n ymdweud o'r hyn o'r pethol. Mae'r hyn o'r ysgrifennu bod y ddweud o'r hyn o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r dysgu. Mae geniw, mae'r gwirio gyrgynig wedi cael ei chogelodd. Mae'n arweinydd o'r hyn o'r ddweud o'r Cyfrifod Cymru. Mae'n gyfrifod Cymru. Mae ydych chi'n ddweud o'r dyfodol, oedd yn yr oedd yn y ddweud, o'r cael ei wneud o'r ysbuniynau yw'r ysgolwyddiad yw'r gwaith i'r gweithio'r data yma. Mae'r gweithio'r gwaith yn ymwybodaeth yn gweithio'r ysgolwyddiad yw'r gweithio'r gweithio. Felly, mae'r gweithio'r gwaith ymweld yw'r data yw ymweld yw hynny o'r amser i'r hynny a'r bwysig yw'r hynny. Ond rwy'n mynd i'n gweithio i'n ddigonio'r ddigonio'r gweithio'r data ei wneud. Mae'r cyfan o'r rhan o'r barach yn y cyfnod yn gweinol. Roedd yn gallu bod y Unig yn gweinol, oedd yn y UK, ond rydw i'n deall yn ddylai. Rydym wedi'u chael gynllun o ddod o'r ddodol a'r ddod o'r ddod o'r gweinol. A ei ddweud o'r cyfryd i gynnig o'r ddod o'r ffaith o'r ddod o'r cyfrnod ymlaen. Mae'r ddod o'r ddod o'r cyfrnod ymlaen. Mae'r ddod o'r ddod o'r ddod i'r ddod, Ielwch, ond mae wedi'i cwestiynau ffawr o'r data o'r oed bringingol. Roedd y ODI ydyn nhw'n gwybod bwysig o'r mynd i chi. Rwy'n r indeb oedd wedi'u cwestiynau i meddyl i'r spectrum. As gweithio, ar y grei gyda'r spectrum, rydyn ni i amgylcheddu o'r bank ac yn ddweud ymwysig yn adion. Felly rydyn ni i gyd fel hynny i mi br bloodyniadau meddylu mewn gwaith ODI ar y CAF. Now I've got courtesy of something running on here. I've got a couple of years of all the exercise I've got and not to mention every single place I've been has been recorded. Now I've got my laptop and I can play with it and I can deduce things about it. I can fill in forms for the various tax people about which countries I was in just by doing all kinds of fun things from mixing data together. When you look at the ability to use data powerfully for yourselves or for that matter, to write it as a developer to be able to write programmes that other people will use for themselves, you realise that a person with all your data you need to be able to do and to be fully empowered, you've got data from all these different parts of the spectrum. Yeah, you need to have open data and that's the focus of the ODI and it's the focus of today. Open data which is completely opened and licensed and available and is in machine readable standard format and then you've got your five star data ideally even linked and at the bottom you've got data. The reason why lots of people have heard about these experiments I do with my own data is that I'm sorry I'm not going to show you these samples because they're all my very personal data. This is kind of the irony of that. It's hard to share experiences and it helps to get those apps to take off because people don't see them by example. I'm not interested in looking at my shoulder when I do my taxes and when I look at my health profile. So, even though there's a lot of sharing of that sort of thing between families and between you and the accountant, so sharing of the data on this end of the spectrum. And then there's of course when you work for a company or part of an organisation it's a really important part of that organisation to have its own data, its own information. A simple example is when you look at if you use a calendar application like calendar on the Mac you can set that up to I've got maybe 20 different calendars I've subscribed to. Some of which I've got read, write, accessed in there because they're to do with groups. Some of them I'm just subscribed to because I think it's going on. They're stored on different sorts of servers around them. Well, some of them, some of it's public data, some of it is personal data. And the nice thing about the calendar application is it brings it all in. So I think in the future we're going to see basically any application you use should have that sort of spirit. It should be running across the data spectrum. So obviously having a very solid end of the open end of the spectrum is very valuable. It supports everything else. The fact that I have my bike in, I've got a Gpex file, which has just gone from here over to my computer, my laptop. When it arrives at my laptop it gets turned into a map. When it gets turned into a map it gets turned into a map by pulling out open data, of course from the open street map to put into the map behind it. So it's putting together a personal data and open data to make the thing actually usable. Without either, without both, the thing is useless. So you can see he's passionate about this stuff. This is absolutely a world of the quantified self in which he lives. And me too. I think this is absolutely the way the world is going. So the point about this spectrum, the point about a lot of our conversations now with businesses, with companies, with government is to explain that there's a continuum. And I often think of this as a food chain, an ecosystem. The foundation, the bottom of this pyramid must be open data. It has to be open data. Everything else is generating off the back of it, feeding off the back of it. Now we can speculate about how this food chain works and who the top level predators are, the carnivores of the data world. But it is certainly the case that we need to understand how these various elements link together. And much of the work that the ODI is doing is making sense of that because the permissioning, the way the apps function, the legislation you need, the regulations that will emerge will need to be cognisant of these differences. At the bottom though is the foundation of open data. Without that, much of the rest could not flourish at all. Really, really important message. And that brings us on to a final point. We just wanted to emphasise the fundamental role of data as infrastructure. This work we've been doing in the last few months has really resonated. People are used to thinking about the roads and the power grid as infrastructure. It's tangible. You can see it. You invest in it. You can set up committees to kind of sustain it and maintain it as part of the critical infrastructure. Data is just because you can't see it is just like that. The registries of our legal companies, the actual post codes, the actual administrative boundaries of our geography, where the hospitals are, what the hospitals are, who the consultants are, these are fundamental parts of our national data infrastructure. They must be open, they must be managed and we must think about how we maintain and invest in them in the future. I think that's off. We said to stop at half past. I am literally being walked off the stage at this point. But look, have a great day. We are going to be around and about. There are many things happening in parallel, not least exciting meeting with my French counterparts, looking at an open data task force that the Chancellor has asked us to stand up and look at how we can make the spirit of open data work across borders really more effectively. Thank you.


The Navy's newest submarine squadron stood up December 14th at Naval Support Activity Bahrain. Commander Submarine Squadron 21 replaces Commander Task Force 54 Detachment. Submarine Squadron 21 will provide operations and oversight for our deployed submarines in the region with a primary focus on safety of operations and ensuring the best quality support to 5th Fleet operations. The squadron will help prepare submarines for the unique and challenging shallow water in high contact density environments in the region and provide assessments and additional training as necessary to the deployed submarines. The squadron will also provide more localized support and enhance existing relationships with the Kingdom of Bahrain. The standing up of Submarine Squadron 21 is another example of the Navy's commitment to engagement with partner nations here in the area to include establishing a permanent submarine presence and to support the Theater Security Cooperation mission. For Commander Naval Force Essential Command, I'm Petty Officer Damien Berg.


This is a big place guess we better find out I'll try at this window I beg your pardon but could you tell me who I should see about a key to a safety deposit box certainly miss mr. Burnside is in charge you'll find him in that window just this side of the safety deposit ball thank you very much still holding your thumbs back I certainly am let's see I guess this is the window looks nice enough you'll hear you are you Mr. Burnside yes is there anything I can do for you yes sure is just a minute Jerry you see it's kind of a long story Mr. Burnside have you got the key Jerry yeah here it is this key belonged to this boy's father I see well after a lot of inquiries we thought it was made by the Brunner lock company and they sent us a list of banks that used to use this pattern oh yes yes we used to use it ourselves but we've long since changed to a more satisfactory pattern I'm sure this key hasn't been used for a good many years at least that's what we think and we thought perhaps you know let me see it's possible if the box hasn't been open for some time a new lock hasn't been put on we still have a few left of the old type what is your name son Jerry Dugan my father's name was Tim Dugan but you'll excuse me just a minute while I look through this book it records all the renters of deposit boxes of course D now let me see please let this be the best down the way down in Dugan oh yes yes here we are Timothy J. Dugan let me see this box was rented about ten years ago no payments have been made in the past several years and no answers to any of the letters of inquiry sent to Mr. Dugan yes dad was too broke to pay well young man you've come in good time this box would eventually be turned over to the state I'm sure glad we found it so am I may we see what's in it you see Jerry's father well he died a little while ago I'm sorry my boy so I guess the box belonged to him of course you'd have to pay the past rent I guess I can help him out if it isn't too much I'm afraid it isn't as easy as that young lady what do you mean well you see there are state laws when the renter of one of the safety deposit boxes dies the box is turned over to the courts but it belonged to my dad well the courts opened the box and then disposed of the contents according to the laws of the state of course to the will dad didn't leave a will he didn't have anything at least I didn't think he didn't do we found this was a key to a safety deposit box but Mr. Burnside there must be some way for Jerry to well well it does seem as if an only son would have some rights well there is a way but it's quite a job you'd have to have a lawyer well what would I have to do well you couldn't do very much of anything son seeing as you're under eight your lawyer would have to get the permission of your guardian then he'd appeal to the Superior Court to allow you to open the box many lawyers are kind of expensive too I'd like to help you out son but I guess there's only one thing to do in this case well Mr. Burnside do you think we could find a lawyer who wouldn't be too expensive well now there's a young friend of mine has an office upstairs in this building he hasn't been in business long but they wouldn't cost so much but I was just going to suggest that after all anything important enough to be kept in a safety deposit vault is likely to be worth something oh I see and if it belongs to Jerry being the only member of the family he could pay the lawyer from whatever's in the box you're a smart little woman I know most lawyers wouldn't bother with such a thing and perhaps Grayson won't I can't say for him but but you might try that's well let's try that you will find him on the third floor Richard Grayson room 306 tell him I sent you and then you'll know it's all right thanks awfully Mr. Burnside we'll go right up now good luck miss hope you can help you buy it thanks the elevators are right through this passage oh thank you Jiminy will occurs we find a box and now we can't open it certainly is lucky finding the right bank right off yeah and I'm grateful to but golly seems as if we get so far and then something new turns up mm-hmm wonder if we ever will find out oh there's an elevator now you better get in Jerry all right third floor please and then third floor out here we are there Richard Grayson attorney come on Jerry in just a minute what's wrong now well hold your thumbs again you think it brought us like the first time I don't know but no you stake in chance I guess you're right Jerry okay I'll hold tight are you ready yeah good morning how do you do is Mr. Grayson in what name shall I say well he wouldn't know who we are you better just say that Mr. Burnside from the bank downstairs sent us up just a minute colleague I hope this is our lucky day but has been so far yeah if you just step this way please thank you good morning good morning Mr. Grayson hello won't you be seated thank you I understand Mr. Burnside sent you up yes he did you see we're strangers in town yeah we're with the Randall brothers circus just in this morning my that's exciting it's nice to meet show folks well it's like this Mr. Grayson Jerry oh yes this is Jerry Dugan how do you do Jerry and I'm Patsy you know the star area less I'm delighted to meet you miss Patsy well Jerry Dugan joined the circus just this season his father was an old friend of the owner mr. Randall as a matter of fact Jerry's dad was an old performer himself and all the timers knew and liked him it's pretty nice to have a dad you're proud of isn't a Jerry you bet it is my dad well you see he died just before I joined up with a circus oh I'm sorry to hear that it's a long story mr. Grayson but this is the thing we've come to see you about Jerry's dad had a safety deposit box that Jerry didn't know anything about yeah I just carried this old key ring around not realizing that the little key might belong to something then finally we traced that box to the bank downstairs you don't say well no mr. Burnside says that as long as Mr. Dugan isn't living the box has to be turned over to the courts he's right it does but Jerry's the only child it does seem you should be allowed to open the box the law tries to protect people miss Patsy but sometimes it can manage to cause an awful lot of red tape red tape Jerry that means often the law is so complex that you have to go a long way around to reach your destination sign a lot of papers and oh go to a lot of trouble that seems kind of foolish to the outsider like coming to you and and all you'll have to do before I can see what dad left in that box exactly mr. Grayson has agreed to do it for us yet Jerry what did you two have in mind well mr. Burnside said of overtaken to the Superior Court they might get consent for Jerry to open the box that's true but I'd have to have a lawyer and so you came to me yeah could you do it I mean would you pretty anxious to see what your dad left in that box aren't your son I sure am and you shall I'll be glad to take the case oh that's fine of you mr. Grayson not at all I'm glad to do it they'd be perfectly frank I'm just starting out in my practice and I've got more time on my hands than I like to admit I guess I can afford to take a risk in a case like this oh gee you're swell you won't be sorry either I'm sure I won't now I'll have to get some information from you here's the key to the box you need that no only the number and all the information about it when it was rented and so forth I can get that from Mr. Burnside then I'll have to have the signature of Jerry's guardian guardian I haven't got a guardian well and your closest living relative oh my uncle Dan of course if you'll just write his name and address here on this paper I don't suppose he lives in Jackson City no does that matter not at all I'll get a wire off to him have an airmail is notarized signature back to me with the permission to go ahead oh he'll do that all right there can you read that then you'll do them sure I can't it's good and clear oh in a hospital yeah he had a pretty bad accident but he's getting well now very well I'll get this right off off to have an airmail back sometime tomorrow if he intends to start it right away well that's well hey what time is it 10 minutes of 11 well is that all right that's it of course it is you see that he's breaking in a new number this afternoon it's a humdinger to do how bad it is wish I could see it yeah that's a good idea why don't you go to the circus in the middle of the day well you didn't say you didn't have so much work to do here here young man you needn't rub it in oh gee I didn't mean it that way I think it's a pretty good idea anyhow I like a circus best when the kids are there yeah most of them do come in the afternoon I'll be very glad to range for a ticket for you mr. Grayson no that's mighty nice of you miss fancy I guess it's a pretty big honor to be a guest of the circus it sure is I'll accept with pleasure fine what time does it go on 2 30 but if you come early you can see the side shows and everything you bet I will I haven't seen a show in a long time it's about time I saw a good show again I kind of miss all the excitement of show you mean you were I was brought up in the theater I haven't been around show folks for a long time but I I guess it kind of gets in your blood I'll say it does work what your folks do mother was a dancer and dad was one of the finest Shakespearean actors of his time oh that's exciting but how'd you happen to well become a lawyer yes I did well you see dad had a crazy notion that I had to have an education so when I got to college did you go to college of course Jerry now how do you think mr. Grayson could be a lawyer without going to college golly guess I didn't think well after dad put me through law school out west he helped me to open this office here oh it's awfully nice you bet it is that's one reason I'm so anxious to succeed so someday I can pay dad back for all he did for me well is your dad still acting no not so much nowadays but he plays now and during a good season the rest of the time he coaches coaches Jerry that means he helps others teach them how to play their parts yet dad's been coaching our most famous stars in New York on and off for many years now gee that's well I was little mother used to take me to shows now and then you might have seen him his was a big name in the theater once John B. Grayson oh yes I've often heard that name you see now hi I'll be looking forward to your show this afternoon gee I'll say all right folks I'll get this wire right off and get in touch with you as soon as get an answer from your uncle I'll leave a ticket for you at the box office thank you miss fancy thank you mr. Grayson for well for I haven't done anything yet well and thank you for all you're gonna do


You may have a great idea for a new business, but don't have any idea how to get started. The Portland Public Library held a series of workshops designed to help small business owners learn about the many resources the library has to help them. Tom talked with Sonia Durney, the leader of the library's business and government team, about the program. I'm here with Sonia Durney, the leader of the business and government team for the library. And this week the library is holding a series of presentations for small businesses. Can you tell us why the library is doing this and what it's all about? Sure, we basically have two main goals. We're trying to promote resources available here at the library for small businesses or people looking to start small businesses. And we're also forming relationships with other organizations in the community that help small businesses. For instance, today we have Josh Saunders here from the Small Business Development Center, who's going to discuss different ways to finance your startups. I'm here with Josh Saunders, the certified business counselor for the Small Business Development Center. And he's doing the presentation today for this series of discussions and presentations. What is your presentation going to be about today? My presentation today is about various funding sources for small businesses and entrepreneurs to help start and grow their businesses. What kind of resources do you provide generally for small businesses? The main Small Business Development Center is focused on helping small businesses and entrepreneurs start and grow their businesses throughout the state of Maine. The main resource that we provide to them is business counseling services, which are at no cost to the client. Our funding comes mainly from the Small Business Administration on the federal side and the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development on the state side. We also do workshops both in person and online. How important is it for organizations like libraries like this one to offer local business owners this kind of opportunity to meet with you and have a presentation like this? Well, we really appreciate the fact that Sonia and the Portland Public Library are working with us because one of our missions is to make sure that people are aware of the services that we provide. Many small businesses aren't aware that they can get free counseling and those that do don't really understand what they might be getting. So the opportunity to meet small businesses, entrepreneurs, and the public in general is great for us in order to make sure that they know about the services. How involved has the Small Business Development Center been with the library and its efforts to reach small businesses? I think we've really become a lot more involved since Sonia came on and I've only been here since, or I've only been with the Maine Small Business Development Center since August of 2011. So I don't have a lot of basis for comparison, but Sonia has really made some outreach efforts not just to the Maine Small Business Development Center but also to score and other agencies that are out there working with small businesses. Do you know the genesis of why the library should be a resource for small businesses? Why target that in particular? Well, basically our goal or our mission is to support the community. So if local small businesses prosper, the community prospers and the library does well. It's a very symbiotic relationship. And your title is the leader of a team. So what does that team consist of? Sure, well here at the library we've been broken down in the past year into various teams. There's a cultural team, there's the city of readers which deals with the e-books and readers advisory. So I'm the leader of the business and government team, so I coordinate the government documents. I'm doing outreach to the local business community. I'm going to do collection development in that area. Have you been in contact with a lot of businesses already that have taken advantage of this and how has it helped them? We have. We've really been making an effort to get out and talk to people in the community. We went to the business expo two weeks ago here in Portland and made a lot of great connections. And people were surprised when they learned about some of the things we have here to offer. And since then I've had emails and a few calls from people wanting to learn more about our resources and further find out how to use them. It's great that you're offering an actual series of presentations people come to on their lunch hour when it's convenient. What other resources besides books or periodicals that you offer here at the library? Sure, we have subscriptions to many online databases. We have ReferenceUSA which is an online directory, Business Source Complete which is online SWOT analysis, industry profiles, different business information that anyone can use right from home on their desktop. If there's somebody who wants to get more information about what you offer, what would they do? How can they contact you? Is there a website, part of the website for the library that they can go to? Sure. They can either come to the library. We're downstairs on the lower level at the information desk or they can call. My phone number is on all the brochures. They can call me personally or the reference desk. Or also they can go to PortlandLibrary.com. On the right hand side of the website we have all of our various research areas and there's a tab for business research.


Salams, you are watching the International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch, our selection of some of the top stories from around the world. Let's first take a look at today's headlines. Ecuador sets a major precedent for indigenous rights. Mass protests continue against the coup in Sudan. Australia has deployed its military as its aged care crisis has worsened. And Honduran lawmakers have resolved the crisis in Congress. Ecuador's constitutional court has delivered a victory for the territorial and self-determination rights of indigenous peoples. Communities will now have a stronger say over oil, mining and other extractive projects on their lands. The court's ruling is based on a 2018 lawsuit filed by the Ayacofan people of Sinangue. The community had been resisting illegal gold exploration along the Agua Rico River. After they found out that the government had approved mining on their lands, they approached the court. 52 mining concessions were then cancelled. The constitutional court's ruling extend to all 14 indigenous recognized groups in Ecuador. Their territories cover 70% of the Amazon or 23 million acres of lands and forests in the country. The order says that a project cannot be carried out if it, I quote, generates excessive sacrifices to the collective rights of the communities and nature, end quote. However, if an indigenous community refuses a project, the government can move forward under exceptional circumstances. The ruling has still set a major precedent for indigenous peoples' rights to free, prior and informed consent. It will also protect indigenous groups against President Guillermo Lasso's plans to double oil production in Ecuador. The country's share of the rainforest has been damaged by two major oil spills, one in 2020 and another one just last month. Nearly 6,500 barrels of crude oil spilled after an OCP-Equador pipeline ruptured in the eastern region. Around 21,000 square meters of the Cayambe coca reserve as well as the coca river have been contaminated. Over 190 people were injured after Sudanese forces cracked down on protests on February 7th. Mondays saw mobilizations in at least 19 cities across the country against the October 25th military coup. As protesters began their routine march to the presidential palace in Khartoum, they were attacked with tear gas, stun grenades and water cannons. Protests were also held in the cities of Omdurman, North Khartoum, Badmadaani and the Red Sea in Port Sudan. Security forces also deployed tear gas against protesters in Atbara who had blocked the main road leading to Khartoum. The Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors has reported injuries from live bullets, projectiles, sound bombs and tear gas canisters. Protesters demanded justice for those killed and the release of activists arrested by junta forces. Barricades were also set up in the northern state to maintain the blockade of the Sudan-Egypt Highway. Protesters have blocked key routes to Egypt which is said to be supporting the junta. The Resistance Committees and the Sudanese Professionals Association are leading the protests.  They have also refused talks with the UN mission citing its failure to explicitly condemn the coup. A statement added that the mission's consultations with the coup leaders had contradicted the aspirations of the Sudanese people. Australia has deployed 1700 military troops to respond to a worsening crisis in the aged care sector. The recent Omicron-driven surge has disproportionately impacted aged care centres accounting for over 500 deaths since January alone. There are currently nearly 12,000 active cases of COVID-19 among aged people. Outbreaks have been reported in nearly 1200 care centres across the country. Health workers have been highlighting several issues including staff shortages and late distribution of vaccine booster doses. Care providers have estimated that 25% of all shifts are going unfilled each week. Aged and disability care workers have been demanding adequate government assistance. They have been working in unsafe conditions without proper protective equipment. Health workers have also rejected the lack of proper wage reforms in the sector. The government had introduced two retention payments of $400 each to address the staffing shortage. However, disability care workers were excluded from this. Workers also argued that the payments were inadequate. They have blamed neglect and a lack of action by the Conservative Scott Morrison government. Unions have argued that the government has failed to take the necessary steps after the crisis first hit back in 2020. And finally, an agreement among lawmakers has ended a political crisis in the Honduran Congress. Conflict grew in January over the leadership of the Legislator. President Jomara Castro's Libre party had chosen Luis Redondo to serve as the chamber's president. This was part of an agreement between Libre and its coalition ally, the Salvador party. However, 17 lawmakers from Castro's party opposed Redondo's candidacy and were subsequently expelled. Redondo was sworn in before 48 lawmakers on the 23rd of January. Meanwhile, the expelled Libre lawmakers joined the now former ruling party, the National Party, in a parallel session. These lawmakers appointed Jorge Calis as the Congress president. Castro rejected the act as a right-wing attempt to hijack Congress. The crisis also threatened the position of Libre and its allies in the chamber. However, it was announced on the 7th of February that an agreement had been reached to end the conflict. It includes an endorsement of Libre and its allies and recognizes the presidency of Luis Redondo. Signatories have also ratified their support for President Castro. Meanwhile, Libre has reversed the expulsion of the 17 lawmakers. Jorge Calis has said that he would support Castro's agenda of anti-transparency and anti-corruption as well. The Libre party and its allies now have 68 members in the 128th seat chamber. And that's all we have on today's episode of the International Daily Roundup. For more on all of these stories, you can visit our website peoplesdispatch.org and also do give us a follow on all the regular social media platforms for updates. Thank you for watching. Goodbye.


When you mention United States Army to the average citizen, he usually thinks of troops being trained for combat. To a certain extent, this is true. The Army's primary mission is to organize, train and equip Army forces for prompt and sustained combat anywhere in the world, as directed by our nation's civil leaders. However, the Army has yet another vital mission to perform. A non-combat civil assistance mission, of which the average citizen is not usually aware. This film is about that special assistance mission. The Army's other role. Throughout our nation's history, the Army as an instrument of United States policy has been called upon to fight in numerous wars. During and between those conflicts, it has continued to render our country as well as other friendly countries, priceless services in such fields as public health, construction, waterway development, technology, agriculture, disaster relief, exploration and domestic action projects. Unfortunately, the time limit of this film permits the presentation of only a very few examples. One of the most significant of the non-combat activities undertaken by the early U.S. Army was the Lewis and Clark Expedition. At the direction of President Thomas Jefferson, Captain Mary Weather Lewis and Lieutenant William Clark, together with a party which included 29 Army personnel, set out to explore the Louisiana Purchase in May 1804. To reach their destination, the mouth of the Columbia River, the men traveled some 4,000 miles by boat, horseback, on foot and in canoes. The importance to our nation of the fund of information obtained on the geography, topography, climate, fauna and flora resources, and inhabitants of the Great Northwest can never be overestimated. For the next half century, the Army was the only organization able to encourage and assist our pioneer ancestors in their development and westward expansion. It conducted nearly all the exploration. It constructed roads and trails leading west, built bridges and canals, and prepared the maps which were so necessary in the opening of new lands. As the citizens moved west, they not only moved over Army roads and trails with the aid of Army maps, but their goods and lives were protected by Army troops. When the importance of the West increased, San Francisco grew into a considerable city. With its growth, there was a growth of commerce. The Army developed the railroads and protected the trains. Then later, when the need for water-borne commerce became urgent, the Army played a momentous role in the construction of the Panama Canal. Building of the canal began in 1904. The French had tried it previously, but were forced to abandon the project because of, among other problems, the high... However, thanks to Major Walter Reed and Army surgeon, the team of Army physicians and enlisted men who gambled their lives by submitting themselves to yellow fever infection, the answer was found to the dread disease. The experiments were heroic. The results? Historic. Had it not been for Major Reed's discovery, a frightful death toll might have prevented the accomplishment of the undertaking. The canal was completed in 1914 and was opened by presidential proclamation on July 12, 1915. It was a remarkable achievement of engineering and a lasting monument to the ability and efficiency of the United States Army in the accomplishment of a peacetime mission. But the construction of the canal was only one of a continuing series of projects conducted by the Army for the development of our country's waterways. Its main thrust is in the United States, where some of its accomplishments include the construction and operation of 28,600 miles of waterways, comprising the most extensive navigation in the world, as well as the construction and maintenance of almost 300 coastal harbors, through which hundreds of millions of tons of freight are shipped each year. Among its many services to the nation, the Army has a statutory responsibility of providing relief in the event of disaster. For instance, on March 24, 1964, Alaska was hit by one of the most violent earthquakes ever recorded. Thousands were injured. Many were dead. The damage was estimated at more than $450 million. Within minutes after the disaster, every military installation in the Alaskan Command went into action. The active Army, Army National Guard, and Army Reserves rushed troops from the Medical Corps, Military Police, Corps of Engineers, and Signal Corps to the stricken areas. An emergency communications center was quickly established. The sick and injured were taken to military and civilian hospitals. The homeless were sheltered. Many at the Army's Fort Richardson and Elmendorf Air Force Base. In the meantime, the Army, together with the other services, continued its round-the-clock job. Throughout the night, troops and civilian volunteers searched tirelessly for the dead and injured. Private property was placed under military protection. Water and sanitation facilities were repaired. Army water tanks from Fort Richardson were set up in areas where the need was greatest. And Army field kitchens operated on a 24-hour schedule. From civil defense headquarters, calls for help were relayed through Mars, the military affiliate radio system, the only means of communication to the outside world. Medicine, food, water, clothing, and hundreds of other items were requested, including a complete Army hospital. The supplies, mostly from military stock, were flown in by the Air Force. Time was short. Alaska had to be put back on its feet before winter set in. There was much to be done. Top priority was the repair of the Alaska Railroad, a vital link in the transportation network. Harbors were dredged. Docks were repaired. And highways were rebuilt. By the end of the fall, Alaska was getting back on its feet. The fishing and canning industry was in operation again. The trains were rolling. The children were in school. And the people were looking forward with confidence to a greater prosperity than ever before. Just as the Army prepares men for military service, so does it prepare them for a non-military re-entry into civilian life. Through a program called Project Transition, Maximum Guidance and Training, or Educational Opportunities, are provided the serviceman during the last six months of his duty. The purpose of the program is to give the returning soldiers a marketable skill, which will enhance his chances of good employment. For example, men requiring further education are placed in programs which will upgrade their educational status. Men with skills developed through Army training and which are civilian-related receive refresher courses in such fields as automotive maintenance, data processing, welding, machine shop, postal work, and radio and television repair. The major thrust in the training area is to involve American industry to the maximum in providing skill training in jobs for which there is a specific requirement. When the serviceman receives such training and a placement opportunity prior to separation from the service, he is in a better position to make a social and economic re-entry into civilian life. Through its extensive resources and human skills, the Army, including the National Guard and Reserves, is attempting to overcome some of the serious domestic problems which face our nation today. It has shown an awareness of its responsibility to the community by supporting the President's Youth Opportunities program and by conducting domestic action programs for less fortunate children all over the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii. One example is a program conducted at Fort Tilden, New York, located within a stone's throw of the Atlantic Ocean. Here the Army has provided equipment and facilities for Camp Kiwi, a project sponsored by the New York Association for Brain Injured Children.  Brain damage can occur at any time. It can happen at birth, from a childhood disease, a bad fall, being struck on the head, or from various other causes. Each morning, within sound of pounding surf, the Camp Director discusses the problems and progress of the children with his counselors. Jeff, I'm moving Steven to your group this morning. He's 13. I think he can work out well with the older boys. Paula, your group is really beautiful. Your exercises are wonderful. Thank you. Oh, by the way, yesterday Sandra fell and scraped a knee. I put a Band-Aid on it, but what do we do in case of a serious accident? Well, in case of any emergency, notify the Department of Health and the Department of Health in case of any emergency, notify John or myself immediately. Major, can we count on you for your help? Yes, I have a doctor and an ambulance at your disposal at any time. If you have a real emergency, I can have a helicopter here within minutes. Fine. Thank you, Major. It's good to know we have the Army behind us. This morning we're going to... Because all the children are handicapped, they are formed into small groups with two counselors and one aide assigned to each group. These are carefully planned so that each child receives maximum therapy. Most of the children have a great fear of water and an important phase in the program is to get each one into a small pool. Then, as they gain confidence, they venture into the larger ones. Every activity is geared to learning, such as learning not to be afraid of the water, learning to sing and to walk properly. There is no known medical cure for brain damage in children. Drugs are used to help them function a little better. But the best medicine, as the camp director puts it, is an abundance of fresh air and an area where the children can play and run and feel free up to a point, of course. Most important of all, however, is lots of TLC, Tender Loving Care. One of the most outstanding programs which has brought the army and civilian communities closer together is Project Summertime, conducted at Fort Devon's, Massachusetts. Project Summertime was created in the fall of 1969 as a result of the development of a new program in 1979, as a result of the domestic action program initiated by the president and congressional interest in providing summer youth camps at military installations. Coordinating with the mayors of the seven major cities within commuting distance, the commanding general of Fort Devon's organized a council of advisors staffed by civilians and army personnel to establish a summer youth program. A budget was drawn up by the council and submitted to the senator instrumental in the birth of the project. Funding was obtained from several government agencies and foundations. Project Summertime is designed to accommodate 550 children each week for a period of nine weeks. Of this number, 180 boys between the ages of 12 and 16 camp overnight in barracks from Monday to Friday. The remaining 370 boys and girls all between the ages of 9 and 16 commute daily for one week. In the summer of 1970, the U.S. Army played host to a little over 400,000 children. The commanding general of Fort Devon's welcomes the children on arrival day. I wish to extend to each of you a very warm, sincere, and most hearty welcome to Fort Devon's. We have been accorded the privilege and the opportunity of being the host to many hundreds of young people who will come to visit us this summer from nearby large cities. This project has one main purpose and that is to ensure that all of you have a rip roaring good time while you're here at Fort Devon's. We have outstanding facilities we have outstanding counselors but we need a third ingredient to make this a winning combination. And that third ingredient are enthusiastic eager youngsters who want a good time who cooperate and give and take. And when these buses rolled in a minute ago that third ingredient arrived and that's you. So all of us at Fort Devon's want you to know that you're very welcome here and all of us want to ensure that during the week that you're with us you have a wonderful, enjoyable time. Good luck. Following his address, the general who is vitally interested in the program mingles with the children. It is doubtful of these kids have ever seen a general let alone talk with one. Well, you got to shoot baskets while you're here.  In addition to the recreational activities and demonstrations the youngsters will enjoy there are discussion periods concerning personal hygiene cultural differences drug addiction and community involvement. First things first and making up a bunk is one of the first things talked to the boys who will be billeted overnight. Each group has its own counselor who is from the same community. This makes for better communication during small group discussions. Keeping more than 500 youngsters happy and contented every day is no simple task. However, good planning and preparation by the civilian camp directors and army personnel assigned to the project provide the children with a broad program of diversified and interesting activities.  This one happens to be Mirror Lake in Fort Devons. To the parents of these youngsters who have not the means to send them to private camps, Project Summertime is a blessing. One look at their happy faces and you can tell these kids are having the time of their young lives. Lots of exercise and plenty of fresh air eventually brings on pangs of hunger and by mealtime the youngsters are ravenous. Army food prepared by army cooks served army style except of course for the young food handlers. Each day different boys volunteer to help serve the new meal. Commendable. But rumor has it they also have the inside track to the ice cream and cake. There is more than enough to eat for everyone. And after five days of good wholesome food like this it's no wonder most of the children put on a bit of weight. Forever there are kids you find a soldier who is interested in their welfare. This kind of friendliness goes a long way in convincing today's youngster that maybe grownups aren't so bad after all. In addition to recreational activities orientations and demonstrations are provided by some of the units stationed at Fort Devons. Here at the airfield for instance an orientation on the basic theory of flight. This morning I'd like to tell you something about our aircraft. This is a C-45 type aircraft. It's a command aircraft. It's designed to carry approximately in non-technical language the characteristics and capabilities of an aircraft engine are explained. As well as the purpose and operation of a control tower. Who knows but because of this brief introduction to aviation one of these boys may someday be the pilot of a giant commercial airliner. Another demonstration the boys enjoy is one put on by the 18th engineer battalion. The presentation lasts two hours during which time the capabilities and functions of the more commonly used items of army engineer equipment are explained. At the end of the period the youngsters are permitted to examine the vehicles at close range. It is hoped that through such presentations these young boys will benefit from experiences hitherto unavailable to them. The same applies to the girls for whom a different type of program is arranged. What you're working for here is to overlap the bandage about halfway each time. It's a little bit of snugness so the blood is aided going back up from the leg to the heart. Continue up the leg until you get to the knee. How come the blood has to go back to the heart? Well, when the blood comes down from the heart to the leg it comes by gravity because you're standing up. Now you need to have some way to help it get back up to the heart, particularly when you're lying down and you're not using your muscles to help move it back up to the heart. To become anonymous you have to go to college or you don't have to go to college at all. No, you don't have to go to college but there are different programs. Because of this initial experience one of these little girls may embark on a career in the healing arts. Highlighting the week's activities is a program conducted by a unit of the 10th Special Forces. Some of the boys show how brave they are by negotiating the Rope Bridge.  Today's menu is sea rations and the kids love it. This little fellow seems to be having a bit of trouble opening the can but there's always a friendly soldier around to do the job. One of the features of the day is the demonstration of precision parachute jumping. The youngsters are thrilled and delighted with the exhibition and they don't hesitate to show it. The Special Forces program culminates with the make-believe parachute training jump from the junior mock tower. Just like the real thing the jump master hooks the trolley to the jumpers harness and away we go. Upon completion of his training jump each boy receives a certificate of qualification as a junior parachutist. Because of close supervision and a well-planned schedule of recreation, orientations and demonstrations coupled with plenty of good food, fresh air, rest and expert counseling Project Summertime is a great success. We Americans as a whole too often think of our army solely as a violent instrument of national policy. This deduction is erroneous for as you have just seen the army in its other role has performed and will continue to perform incalculable service toward the development of our nation and to the safety and well-being of our people.


Hello everyone and welcome to today's session. Today we'll see two classes, Binary Reader and Binary Writer from Csharp.NET. At the end of this session, student will be able to implement Csharp.NET program to perform various operations to files using Binary Reader and Binary Writer classes. We'll begin with Binary Reader class. Binary Reader class reads primitive data types as binary values in a specific encoding. The Binary Reader class provides methods that simplify reading primitive data types from a stream. For example, we can use readBoolean method to read the next byte as a Boolean value and advance the current position in the stream by one byte. The class includes read methods that support different data types. When we create a new instance of the Binary Reader class, we provide a stream to read from and optionally specify the type of encoding and whether to leave the stream open after disposing the Binary Reader object. If we do not specify an encoding type, UTF8 is used. There are three constructors of Binary Reader class. The syntax of constructors is shown here. The first constructor takes one parameter that is the input stream. It initializes a new instance of the Binary Reader class based on the specified stream. The next constructor takes two parameters that is the input stream and the character encoding to use. It initializes it initializes a new instance of the Binary Reader class based on the specified stream and character encoding. The third constructor initializes a new instance of the Binary Reader class based on the specified stream, character encoding and third parameter is of type Boolean. It is used to optionally leave the stream open. It is true to leave the stream open after the Binary Reader object is disposed, otherwise false. Now we will see the commonly used methods of Binary Reader class. Close method, it closes the current reader and the underlying stream. Dispose method releases all resources used by the current instance of the Binary Reader class. Read Boolean method returns Boolean. It reads a Boolean value from the current stream and advances the current position of the stream by one byte. Read Care method returns character. This method reads the next character from the current stream and advances the current position of the stream in accordance with the encoding used and the specific character being read from the stream. Next method is read double. This method returns double. It reads an 8 byte floating point value from the current stream and advances the current position of the stream by 8 bytes. Next method is read in 32 method. It returns integer. It reads a 4 byte signed integer from the current stream and advances the current position of the stream by 4 bytes. Next method is read string method. It returns a string. It reads a string from the current stream. The string is prefixed with the length encoded as an integer 7 bits at a time. Here we have seen few methods of Binary Reader class. Now pause the video and find the answer. Which method of the Binary Reader class is used to read a string from the current stream? Write the syntax and example of the method. The answer is given here. The syntax is public virtual string read string because it returns a string. Then example is binary reader reader equal to new binary reader. Here we are creating object of binary reader and a specific path is also given so that the file is open for reading. The object of binary reader that is reader is used for reading from the file. Read string method is used on reader object. It will read a string and it will assign it to string variable s. Now we will see binary Reader class. It writes primitive data types in binary to a stream and supports writing strings in a specific encoding. The binary Reader class provides methods that simplify writing primitive data types to a stream. For example, we can use the write method to write a Boolean value to the stream as a one byte value. The class includes write methods that support different data types. When we create a new instance of the binary Reader class, we provide the stream to write to and optionally we specify that type of encoding and whether to leave the stream open after disposing the binary Reader object. There are four constructors of binary Reader class. The first constructor doesn't take any parameters. It initializes a new instance of the binary Reader class that writes to a stream. The second constructor takes one parameter that is the output stream. It initializes a new instance of the binary Reader class based on the specified stream and using utf8 encoding. The third constructor takes two parameters that is output stream and the character encoding to use. It initializes a new instance of the binary Reader class based on the specified stream and character encoding. The fourth constructor takes three parameters that is the output stream, the character encoding to use and the third parameter is leave open. It takes Boolean value either true or false. True to leave the stream open after the binary Reader object is disposed. Otherwise false. Now we'll see methods of binary Reader class. First method is close method. It closes the current binary Reader and the underlying stream. Dispose method releases all resources used by the current instance of the binary Reader class. Flash method clears all buffers for the current Reader and causes any buffered data to be written to the underlying device. Seq method accepts two parameters. Offset is a byte offset relative to origin. Upfed Seq origin indicates the reference point from which the new position is to be obtained. It sets the position within the current stream and returns it. Then we have write method with only parameter that is string. This writes a length prefixed string to the stream in the current encoding of the binary Reader and advances the current position of the stream in accordance with the encoding used and the specific characters are written to the stream. Next method is write. This is a method with Boolean parameter. This writes one byte Boolean value to the current stream with zero representing false and one representing true. Then the next method is write with character parameter writes a unicode character to the current stream and advances the current position of the stream in accordance with the encoding used specific character is written to the stream. Now let's see a program with both binary Reader and binary Reiter classes. In this program we have used classes binary Reader and binary Reiter. So we need to include namespace system.io. This is the main method. Here we have integer variable i which has value 25, double variable d which has value 3.14. Here we have created object of binary Reiter class. First we have specified path, then the mode for creating the file. If this statement raises an exception, if the exception is IO exception that will be handled here. Then we have used write method of binary Reiter class. This write method accepts integer value. So i is integer. We have written i to the particular file. Then we have used write method with double parameter d and this also will be written to the file. If IO exception is raised it will be handled here. Then we have closed binary writer. Now we have created object of binary reader class where we have specified two parameters. The file path and file mode. File mode is open in this case. If the IO exception is raised by the statement it will be handled here. Now here we are reading from the file. We have used method read int 32 to read integer from the particular file and the read value will be stored in i and this will be written or this will be displayed on console. And this read double method reads double value from the stream and it will be stored in d and this is also written to the console. If the IO exception is raised it will be handled in the sketch block. Now the stream is closed through closed method. Let's execute this program. The program has written value 25 and 3.14 to the file and it has again read it from the file. Let's see this file. This is a binary file. So this is not human readable. In this session we have seen binary reader and binary writer classes with example. Thank you.


Critical Role is an incredibly popular D&D live show. It is incredibly popular within the TTRPG space and is really entertaining to watch. A couple years ago, they did a Kickstarter, which absolutely blew everyone away with how well it did, to make their own animated show. While originally only planning on doing, I think about two episodes of an animated show, like an animated special just as like a, hey, here is how the gang got together for Vox Machina. Instead, it did so well that expanded to an entire TV show, which got picked up by Amazon and released last year and did absolutely phenomenal numbers. Season two just released last week, and now that we are halfway through the season, I just wanted to talk about my first reactions to season two. Season two is the start, and I believe going to be the first half of the Chroma Conclave arc. Chroma Conclave is an incredibly fun arc in the original Vox Machina campaign, basically going around finding weapons to defeat a group of dragons that have decided that they want to take over Taldore. And it was a lot of fun in the campaign when I watched it play, and it is even more fun to watch it play out in an animated form. I think the show is incredibly well done. It's a lot of fun to watch, especially if you already have watched Critical Role and you have an idea of what is going to happen. It's really entertaining, and it's really fun to see how they took elements from the game and had to adapt them into a show.  Why are we here now? Oh, and we're going over here. Oh, now we're here. Because in a D&D game, there's kind of a home base that you can constantly return to and go back to a place to reset. That doesn't exist in a story because it's not as fun, especially if it's a continuous narrative like the narrative of Vox Machina, so that they were able to take the story that was told in the campaign and adapt it into a show with a really solid, very narrative flow story was really, really cool, and I think is a phenomenal job and speaks to the storytelling ability of the Critical Role crew. The voice work in the show is phenomenally well done. Everyone does an absolutely phenomenal job, obviously being that they are a group of professional voice actors, and I also really love all of the little Easter eggs to other Critical Role games that have been played. It's really cool to see small little things that if you watched the Critical Role live games, then you will notice and be able to pick up on, and it's really cool to see. The character oath is also very well done, and I also have to commend them that even if you know what is coming in the Critical Role show, you know these moments that are about to happen. It's really like bombastic and out there moments, and you know what's going to happen, you know exactly how a scene is going to play out in the end. The ability to make you feel emotion during these moments is absolutely astounding. Be it incredibly tense moments of a fight that you know everyone is going to make it out of, or a potential character dying. The storytelling of this series is in absolute, in my opinion, masterclass on how to build tension and keep it up there. I've watched some of these scenes, and I'm like, I know everything's gonna be fine. I know they make it out. I know they're not going to die. However, it feels like they can, and I still feel the stress of someone who doesn't know what's coming, and I think that is phenomenal. I think it is amazingly you're able to do that and keep it relevant and moving forward within the context of the show. I absolutely love this show, and I honestly cannot wait for the rest of it. I think it's going to be so much fun. I think the show is currently doing a really good job. I think the storytelling is phenomenal, and I can't wait to see more of it. That's all I have. Hope you all have a fantastic day. Peace. Oh, and by the way, it was also announced recently that we're getting a Monday Night Animator show. Bye.


It's DDK and I'm back today with another door dash video. Huge shout out to everybody tuning in. If you are subscribed, make sure you subscribe. Huge shout out to you. But to say good morning, I want you guys to go ahead and hit that like button. Today is November 28th. It is a Sunday and we're about to start dashing. But before we start dashing, we're going to see how much snow white costs to fill up. Snow white is the new Corolla we got, if you guys didn't know, because that means you didn't watch the other videos. So you need to go and go back to a few videos ago and watch those videos. A comment below and let me know how much you think we're going to cost to fill it up. See how much it costs. Comment below and let me know. We putting that 87 in here, maybe? That's cheap. Yeah. $35.21. So we just left the gas station. We only spent $35.21. Compared to before, it's enormous different. Before we were spending about $65 to $67. So we're saving about $30 there. So that's a good plus. Just so you guys know, I will be doing a video showing you guys how much we spent previously on gas for the last two vehicles. Then I will do an updated video at the end of December, showing you guys how much we spent in snow white. So you guys want to make sure you stay tuned for that. We're about to start dashing. We're not going to go to Gurney today because it seems like it's not that busy. So we're going to go to Libertyville. So I'll see you guys when we get back to this money. $.1 for $8.81. Let's make it happen, captain. It's not done yet. Canon, Canon B. It's getting worth going right now. Okay, thank you. This is where he said leave it. So we got to leave it right here. Now how you want the photo? We already know though. Take that picture. All righty. Thank you. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. That's a beautiful dog. Look at the dog. I'm sitting this one right here. So I don't tip over. I'm not supposed to give it to her. That's a beautiful dog. Yes. That's a beautiful dog, by the way. You enjoy, you have a good one. 2.6 miles for $6.75. You already know what time it is. Oh, critical. Jesus. Hello, how you doing? I'm having a DoorDash delivery for Daniela R. Yes. There you go. Thank you. Thank you, have a great day. It's dollars for 1.4 miles. Let's make it happen. I'm not sure if the other jewel has this, but it actually tells us the hours where the stuff is at, which is very, very helpful. So this should be fairly simple. We're going to see you guys when we get inside that you're doing. Which is an Altan, some ginger ale, and then some apple juice. Okay, water, water, water. Fresh water. Checking out the 24K, 16.9 horses. Fresh from spring water. This is it. Hold on, wait. Gotta make sure I'm getting the right one, because it's the pure fire. This is pure fire. Like me, I'm pure fire. We have to get a 60 pack Canada dry. 7.5 ounce cans. This is it. Add that juice. Here we go. Signature. 100% of 64 ounce juice. It's also signature. And signature. Right here. We'll say 80% but yes, 80% bottom seat, 64 ounces. On my own feet. This is it. Add this. We'll see you to check out. Luckily we didn't have to take more stairs if this takes the water. Hello. This for you? I have a door that's delivery for I just sweet 100. 100? Yeah. I shut that. Oh, okay. I got it. I'll take it. Huh? You just need two? Yes. Okay. You want me to carry the water or? I could pick it up. We can just leave it there. That's okay. All righty, thank you. You have a good day. Donuts, 12.2 miles for $18. We're actually going to go our way to Gurney anyway. Gurney is like right here. So we're going to take that order. I'm going to have a door that's pick up for El Dorado S. All righty, thank you. You have a good one. You already know though, we're going. 1.6 miles for $4.75. So how you doing? Door that's pick up 205. Can you hear me now? Can you? Can you hear me? Can you hear me mother fucker? Door that's 205. There you go. Appreciate it. You have a good one. Door that's pick up for Coby C. All righty, thank you. You too. Already know though that the pitch is off. So it is 4 p.m. and we're about to start dinner shift. The breakfast and lunch shift was kind of slow. So I had to go, I went to go edit a video. My business partner did a few more orders, but currently we are at 109.30. So we're going to see, let's try to get to, I really want to get to 250. It's kind of pushing it because the morning shift was slow and I already don't know what's going to happen, but we're on our way to Gurney to go over there and see what's going to happen. And hopefully, comment below and let me know how much they're going to make. I'll see you guys when we get there. Back down was order three and a half miles for 650. Is it the ball rolling? Late. 898. Door that's 315. You have a great one. Are you guys in line right here? Merlin F. Door that's Merlin F. All right, gentlemen, cool. Okay. Thank you. I'm trying to get. All right. 8 miles for 975. We're going to take it. McDonald's 475. It's like literally, like across the street or something. Oh my God. Excuse me. I'm, I'm sorry about that. Door that's number 902 is seven right here. Thank you. Door that's what I'm supposed to leave at the front desk. Excuse me. Hi. I'm supposed to leave this for Kelly M. and Cardinal and Electrical. Okay. You can leave it right there. All right. All right. I'm going to have a door that's for Mike C. A bag, please. There you go. I have your soda, too. Thank you. I got the door for you. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Have a good one. I want to make sure that this is, this is not happening. Oh, it's coming in. Hello. I'm trying to make sure this, I'm not sure if this goes with that one or this goes with this one. This goes with this one. Okay. Yes. All right. YouTube. All right. Still set up right here. Go 1545 for 6.6 miles. We've got to do it. All right. You work here? I'm going to have an order for Kelly Joe. Kelly J.O. Now we got this photo. Good photo. You already know this picture. Taking a million years. This one, it's another Dan, but I'm picking this one. Can I give you that one? All right. I appreciate you. All right. This is crazy. 0.9 miles for 1241. My pizza and pot belly. I'm going to have a DoorDash Pickle for Gladdy's H. There you go. You have a good night. You too. You're welcome. So today we went to Six Flag. It was a roller coaster today. It was something we'd never had before. When we came out the gate, boom. We went up. At around 1.15 and it went down. Almost to a halt. Then it went back up again. At around five. Then it went start gradually going down. At around 6.30 to 6.45. It is now 8 o'clock and we're on our way to the house. But we did make $197.98 today. So we almost took a $200 mark, which is not bad for a Sunday. But when I hear my guy Bentley Crew, huge shout out to him. He said that tomorrow, which would be Cyber Monday, is one of the busiest days for DoorDash. It's two days. It's just one of the days. So we got to be nice and rest up and ready to go for tomorrow. I'll see you guys tomorrow. I hope you guys enjoyed the content again. Make sure to smash that subscribe button. If you're not subscribed, if you are subscribed, make sure you give me a thumbs up. If you liked the video, I'll see you guys tomorrow in DDK and I'm on my way.