you work hard? Of course. Okay. You feel like you're the hardest worker in the market? I do. Bingo. Bingo. Bingo. Here's the thing. Agents say, oh, you know, clients that want to see property at six and seven and eight o'clock at night and, you know, writing offers really late and stuff. And really, I look at it, and I say, how often does that really happen? You know, and I know that some markets in certain situations, it could happen a lot like you might have, you might be in the demographic where there's a lot of buyers who, you know, look after work, you know, stuff like that. I get it that there are certain scenarios. But generally speaking, this is not something that happens a whole lot. And when it does, for me, like if it's 11 o'clock at night, like you just said, I'm not even gonna see that. Like I'm not even gonna see that one. I don't really answer my phone or email or anything after five or six o'clock, unless it's one of those things where somebody wants to write an offer, if somebody wants to write an offer, and it's a serious situation, I'm gonna do that.  Do you work hard? Of course. Okay, you feel like you're the hardest worker in the market. I do bingo bingo bingo. All right, you're the hardest working agent in the market. Listen, listen to me, man. Everybody loves a hard worker. Okay, right? And not only and let me take it a step further. Not only does everyone love a hard worker, which what that's what makes you different. Oh, Ricky, everybody can work hard. Yeah, no, everybody can say that they work hard. Very few people actually work hard. What I'm saying is is working hard with no bodies looking like I've been doing for the last 20 years. Nobody has to tell me to grind it out. 10 years ago when there was no red X, there was no dialer, you know, looking up addresses copying and pasting and spoke you on white pages.com to find 100 numbers took me eight hours. I like to find 100 numbers and another eight hours to call them with my hand. Right? Nobody had to tell me to do that. Nobody was watching me over my shoulder. Everybody knew I was doing that kind of stuff. Why? Because when I called them, they knew I had to look up their number on white pages.com to find them. Right? And now they're like, wow, this guy is out here really getting after it. People look at you a lot differently, man, when people know that you're working hard behind the scenes, and that's what's going to separate you. So taking it a step further, when you when you do become and merge as this person that people recognize as a hard worker. Alright, now that if you can stack your intentions, if you can stack your intentions on top of being not only a hard worker, but also caring about exactly what they have going on and being empathetic towards their situation, right? Empathy, right? Empathy that your biggest tool is to listen, right? To listen to what they have going on. Right? That's the biggest toolbox. It's literally putting yourself in their shoes, right? Of why they're buying or selling a piece of property. You understand what I'm saying? Like, let's let's go deeper with this. Here's the thing. Okay, I just I just put a property under contract for like 515. Okay, this this property is worth like 458 months ago. Okay, and now we're 515. Another one just went on the market for like 560 and went under contract in a matter of minutes. Okay, this is a two bedroom on the beach here in Gulf Shores, Alabama, Orange Beach, Alabama. Okay, like, okay, this time last year, as prices really started surging, you know, after we came back from the shutdown and everything was going crazy, you know, I'm sitting here saying, okay, the market is solid. Like the fundamentals of the real estate industry are solid. Why? Because most buyers, right, like probably in the 90% range or more are end users. Okay, people who are using the house is using the property, investing to buy and hold, not speculators, right? Not not people are speculating on the market to increase. Right? These are end user buyers. I'm thinking, okay, with the regulations on lending right now, how tough the lenders are compared to 2003 and four when they're literally giving money away for nothing, the regulations on lending, you know, the end users, like when you see a lot of speculation in the market, that's when you should start getting a little bit worried about a bubble and maybe a possible like crash, like a real crash. So I'm sitting here looking at, you know, a year later, right, and I'm seeing these two bedrooms that are now in the 550 range, right? And now I'm thinking, I was talking to the owner today that we're under contract and now we know one went under contract at a higher price or at least it was priced a lot higher price. And we're thinking, he's like, listen, I'm happy. I'm happy with getting my 515 and I mean, if it keeps going, I'm still happy because this is going to end somewhere. This cannot continue to go like this. I said, yeah, if it continues to go like this, it's going to be these two bedrooms are going to be in the 650 range here by the end of the year. We're going to be in the, you know, 700s on this two bedroom on the beach that's like, you know, now that's ridiculous for us down here. We know this is building and we know what the end results going to be. Now, what's going to happen when that moment occurs? What's that going to do to the market in terms of inventory? All right, I'll tell you that before I tell you what we need to do now to prepare for this. What it's going to do is we're going to get flooded with inventory that's going to be very temporary because when the market flattens out, that means we lose probably half our buyers. That's what made the market flat now, but we're still going to have half our buyers sitting there. They're going to be in our pocket and they lost out on 10 houses so far and now all of a sudden their agent has four listings. That's exactly what they want. So what's going to happen? We're going to double in a bunch of properties. It's going to be euphoric. We're going to have the buyers and the sellers and it's going to last about 30 to 60 days before that inventory gets eat up. So we're going to be right back where we were in terms of inventory. I don't think it's going to raise the inventory all that much. And then from there, I think we're going to be in a pretty balanced market. We may see prices decrease a little but then kind of settle out. We're going to be in a very... Could you guys imagine how incredible the market would be if we had a little estimate, prices were a little lower and we had more inventory? That's what I'm talking about that's going to happen once this bubble burst. We get that initial shock in the inventory system and then everything levels out. We're going to be in the most incredible market at that time. All right, right now between now the three to six to 12 to 18 to 24 to 36 months before this happens, this could happen tomorrow. Between now whenever it does happen, you guys need to be on the phone using social media, whatever your means of reaching out to people are and getting into one-on-one real conversations over the phone or in person. You need to be having hundreds of conversations with property owners just to make friends. Just to make friends, right? Just to make friends and see if there's anything you can do to help them. I'm talking about like 2023. You guys could literally take advantage of this moment right now and do exactly what I'm saying and quit caring about getting listings today and just focus on building relationships with property owners, getting tons of listings in the process, but more so focused on 2023 to become the number one agent in your market because you took advantage of this market cycle that we're in. If you're not just creating emails like generic information actually creating them, creating original content, giving your opinions on market, giving your opinions on new restaurants and so on and so forth, it's like if people can really get to know you through your emails like I was telling Devon earlier about being a hard worker, you know, like this email, okay, when it comes to your inbox every single Wednesday people realize how much of a hard worker you are because they open it and they realize you actually built it and it's actually you and it's actually your opinions on stuff and it comes consistent. It's dependable like they realize that you are this this consistent person that does what you say you're gonna do, right? It does all the heavy lifting for you guys, right? And it puts you in a position where people realize who you are and you can scale it. This is how you can actually scale your business, right? Scalable means, right, do more in the same amount of time basically to me, it means do more in the same amount of time. So if I spend 30 minutes a week on my email and I have five people 50, 500, 5,000, 50,000 it still only takes 30 minutes to get my to get to get my content out to my clients in a way that, you know, even though they realize it's a bulk email it still has a little bit of me in there. That's the trick to all this. People are doing these drip campaigns and automation and stuff. I don't do any automation at all. Listen guys, there's no cookie cutter system, there's no coach that's gonna get up here and tell you, oh this is how you do it. This is what everyone should do, alright? Everybody has different strengths and weaknesses. Everybody has a different story, everybody has different motivations, everybody has different ambitions, everybody has a different life, you know? Some people have, you know, seven kids. Some people, you know, there's so many different things, right? So I would say, generally speaking, number one, like hit me on Instagram, okay? Like hit me on Instagram and message me and kind of let me help you through like whatever, like always hit me there with questions and stuff and let me help you through whatever it is. But, you know, the next step is this. Go to zero to diamond.com. You said three months, I mean I have a 90-day action plan. You know, go there, grab that, do the 90-day action plan and take what you can't out of it. The whole point of the 90-day action plan is to take you through every single type of scenario in terms of lead generation, you know, like social media, open house, like it takes you through all the different things whereas, you know, when you get through the 28 days, which is inside the 90 days, then you literally can pick and choose, okay? What's the top three things I like? What are the top three strategies here out of everything that I did that are in 28 days? Now, the biggest thing is routine, okay? Every single, I just got off the phone with an agent who said he's just bored every day doing the same thing over and over again and I said, bro, like successful people can stomach the boringness of this, the monotonous of this, right? Not everybody can stomach doing the same things over and over again for a decade or two to get to the top and that's why a lot of people don't make it to the top. So one of the biggest things I want to tell you is don't over complicate it, keep it very simple, right? And just realize that once you've set the foundation for perspective in terms of realizing, closings happen every day, right? They're going to happen every day for the rest of your life, okay? No matter what the market does. Once you realize that and you realize business is unlimited for everyone, right? And then you realize, okay, competition doesn't exist. Then if that's the case, you know, once you realize these things and you start to get a better confidence in the industry that you're in and the career that you've chosen, okay? Now we're going to set a real routine around understanding that, okay, I'm going to be the best, okay? That's where it starts.


Thursday, Google joined Metta in saying it will remove Canadian news from its platforms in response to Bill C-18, a.k.a. the Online News Act. Molly, what do you make of this particular version of this fight? These platforms are going to have to figure out a better solution. Blocking news I don't think is a viable long-term strategy. They're not being asked to pay for content. They're being asked to pay to link. The argument was, well, you're carrying the important part of our news, the snippets, right, the subject. And that is what's stopping people from coming to our website. I can see an argument to say, well, if you're going to use part of our copyrighted material, you need to pay for it. I get that. But what then happened is Google said, well, fine, we'll just carry the headline and the link. So then it was, you can't use headlines. Then they're like, great, we'll just carry the link. And then it was, well, you can't link. Suddenly making someone pay to link to something feels like that is not what the web is supposed to be about.


I'm a Master of Surface Warfare Engineer in Warfare, Brett Lugini, CrewServe Weapons Instructor, onboard the guided missile destroyer USS Jason Dunham. We're currently operating in the fifth fleet area of operations here to support maritime security and stability in the Central region. Today we're out here qualifying some of our personnel on the CrewServe Weapons to include the M240 machine gun and the M2HB 50 caliber machine gun. The purpose of these weapons systems is self-defence of the ship. We use them in our everyday operations to defend against any threats or would-be adversaries we have come our way. Or if we're conducting a straight transit, moving through a choke point, we'll have our SCAT team manned up, providing 360-degree security for the ship. 50 cal, we've got several of them mounted around the ship. You can realistically reach out to a one nautical mile, effectively engage a target, which is pretty good when you're trying to defend a ship from a further distance. It gives us that time and opportunity to classify the threat and engage the threat as necessary. M240 Bravo, it's a 7.62 millimeter machine gun. Slider to carry, we can implement it on the go. We tend to use it as a roving machine gun so we can set a gunner up and have them anywhere they can find stable support. So when we're teaching sailors, we'll qualify them on the CrewServe Weapons. We're trying to make sure they're sufficient on all aspects of the weapon. So we start them off with trigger control, firing one round, two round, three round, rhythm shooting short, short, long, and get them proficient at reloading the weapon. And throughout the process, we go through a couple different fundamentals we teach them about remedial and immediate action if something breaks or runs out of ammo if there's an issue. We want them to know how to get the weapon system back up and get them back in the fight. We try to train our sailors to employ their weapon to the best of their ability because you never know when something is going to happen, whether they're asleep in their racks or if we're going through a choke point. They have to be ready 24-7.


Hey everybody this is Brian and welcome to the 20th cute tutorial with C++ and GUI programming. Today we're going to cover a much more difficult control. I think you guys have learned the basics by now. And it's time to step up from the junior level to the intermediate level. Today we're going to cover the list widget.  You notice how there's a list view and a list widget. Now those of you coming from .NET may be inclined to slap a list view on here because you're familiar with the word list view. Don't do that. Here's why. These are two different controls but they do the same thing. Let me explain. The list view uses the cute model view framework which is an advanced topic we won't be covering just yet. The list widget is what you're expecting, which allows you to add, edit and delete items manually. Where the model view framework, the list view, you would have to update the model and the model updates the view. Like I said, that's an advanced topic we won't be covering just yet but we'll get to it eventually. So just throw a list widget onto your form and let's go into the dialog here. And in case you're just joining us, you're wondering how I got all this stuff. Just go file, new project, cute GUI application and follow the dialogs. I haven't been doing it just for the sake of time but I did have a question last night where somebody said, hey, how did you get that dialog? So that's how. In short, go back to cute tutorial one and watch all the videos. But moving right along, let's do UI, list widget and you guessed it, add item. And of course there's add action, add actions, items, etc. Now you notice how, I don't know if you can actually see it here. Let me see if I can scroll this over here. When you get the IntelliSense up, it says cue list widget item and it wants a pointer to it. Well that is a class and that's actually what goes into the list widget. Those of you from the .NET land will be familiar with the list view item. Those of you new to this may be going, I don't understand. Well basically what happens is when you add an item in here, we'll say hello. Instead of just adding a string, it actually creates a cue list widget item. So it creates a whole another class and puts the class in there. That class has all sorts of properties that we're going to discuss here in a second. So let's just compile and run. I want you to actually see this thing working. So that's a list. It allows you to put multiple items in there. So let's actually go ahead and do that. Let's go. I probably could have just left the combo box tutorial open and just modified it, but that's okay. We'll start over. I9 and then I++. And those of you that remember our last tutorial, we won't make the same mistake. We're going to convert that I into a cue string. Let's say add item. Cue string. Number I. And then we will just say just simply, you know, a number with item here. We're just trying to real quickly populate this list. Just so you can see what's going on. Compile and run. Make sure everything looks and acts the way we expect. Sure enough, there's our items. Now, one thing I will kind of want to show you here is if you go into the dialogue, let's just set a layout. Just any layout we'll do. Compile and run. One thing the list widget will do when resized is automatically throw a scroll bar in there. So you can automatically, you know, a little small, but you get the idea. You'll automatically throw scroll bars in there. So you don't have to have these giant forms. You can have a huge list and the user can just scroll through them. All right. Let's get back in here. And actually, sorry about that. Let's go in here and throw push button on. Let's set this to that. And I'm just, in case you're wondering what I just did, let's set the layout to the layout vertically. That way I can put the push button underneath it. We'll say click me. And let's just add a simple slot in here. In case you're wondering why I've been doing the repetition over and over again with these projects, is that Qt is a very much an event driven framework when you get into GUI programming. Or I should say any GUI programming as an event driven experience. So you got to get really good with signals and slots in Qt. And they're very simple to work with. All right. So when we push this button, what do we want to happen? We're going to say GUI list widget and we want the, you guessed it, current item. Notice how we have an index and current item. Not current text. Why is that? Because remember, we're adding a Q list widget item. So we're going to actually get a reference or a pointer to that Q list widget item. And then we can access it. So we can do really neat things here. Like we can change the background color. We can set icons. We can say is it hidden? Is it selected? We can change the text. And you know, for example, let's say set text and we'll say, oops, fuzzy, fuzzy bunny. Why not? In case my daughter ever watches this tutorial, she'll get a kick out of that. Current item. Now one thing you should know is instead of doing this current item, or et cetera, et cetera, every single time, is you can just simply say Q list widget item. Remember, this is a pointer. So we're just going to grab that pointer. And then we say item. And then we can just say set text color. We'll set this to red. And actually let's just use our current reference here and do it this way. A little cleaner. We'll say funny bunnies of doom. I got a weird daughter. She'll love that. All right. So when we click this button, we're going to grab the current item. And then we're going to say set the text to fuzzy bunnies of doom and set the text color to red. So let's save and compile and run. And once it's done compiling, you can click an item. There you go. So that is why you have a Q list widget item in the Q list widget, because you're not just setting text. You've got a whole class that you can work with and all these properties that you can screw around with and really do whatever you want. You can very heavily customize the Q list widget and the items. I'm not going to have time to cover that in this tutorial, but you should just kind of go through here and get a feel for all these different things. For example, you can set the alignment. You can set the foreground. I'll see if we can even set the background color. So let's say black. Let's compile and run this again. So I mean, you can see you can very easily do some heavy customization on this list just with the standard item. So that is the Q list widget and the Q list widget items. And this is Brian. I hope you found this tutorial educational and entertaining. And thank you for watching. I should mention that this is not the official Qt tutorials in case you're wondering. I'm just kind of learning Qt myself and going through a couple books. And as I learn the stuff, I'm making the videos. So if you got any questions, comments, concerns, drop me a line.


Thank you all for inviting me to be with you here today on the anniversary by a day of events that not only traumatized your community but started a national conversation that I hope will continue for quite some time. And thank you to Tom Bailey and to the Kwame Foundation for organizing this event. Fifty years ago, just a few months ago, Martin Luther King gave a commencement speech at Oberlin College in Ohio and in that commencement speech he said the following. Let nobody give you the impression that the problem of racial injustice will work itself out. Let nobody give you the impression that only time will solve the problem. That is a myth and it's a myth because time is neutral. It can be used either constructively or destructively. Well we've been seduced by that myth that segregation will take care of itself, that our racial problems in this country will solve themselves and we've been seduced by that myth because there's another myth that we also are seduced by and that's a notion that's widely held across the political spectrum that we have something in this country that we call de facto segregation. We have somehow come to the belief that African Americans are separated from whites because people like to live with each other of the same race or because of private discrimination or perhaps because black people don't have enough money to live in middle-class communities or maybe real estate agents steered them to different places. In fact, we have the jury segregation. We live in a society which has been segregated racially by law, not by accident. It's been segregated by public policy that was racially conscious and purposeful designed to separate the races not only in St. Louis but in every metropolitan area in this country and the effects of those policies which persisted well through the 20th century still endure and because those effects endure and because we believe that our segregation happened somehow accidentally we've never been motivated or really figured out how to reverse the public policies that created it. Now I've written a lot about this as some of you know in St. Louis in particular segregation began with local ordinances and ordinance that separated blacks and whites and told blacks which blocks they could live on and which blocks whites which blocks they could live on. St. Louis in the early 20th century established a zoning commission whose purpose among others was to segregate St. Louis neighborhoods that had white single family homes white owned single family homes in which their deeds prohibited resales to African-Americans were given protective zoning classifications and neighborhoods where African-Americans lived were zoned at a much lower level and saloons were permitted to locate their factories that polluted were permitted to locate their the area was permitted to turn into a slum specifically because it was inhabited by African-Americans public housing in St. Louis was specifically segregated by race as it was in every metropolitan area in the country in St. Louis in the 1930s the neighborhood of DeSoto car was once an integrated neighborhood where working-class families black and white European immigrants and African-Americans had to live in the same neighborhood because they had to be able to walk to work they didn't have automobiles and they had to be able to get to the factories in downtown St. Louis. St. Louis and the federal government raised that neighborhood in order to build a public housing project for blacks only they took an integrated neighborhood and converted it into a black community then they built a separate public housing project on the south side of St. Louis for whites only public housing segregated St. Louis in a way it had never been segregated before this was a nationwide phenomenon in 1949 President Truman proposed a much expanded public housing program the bill came before Congress and Republicans in Congress who were opposed to any involvement of the public sector in the real estate industry figured out that they could kill the National Housing Act that President Truman had proposed by adding an amendment we call today a poison pill amendment an amendment that if it passed would guarantee the defeat of the entire housing bill and the amendment that the Republicans put forward was an amendment that all public housing had to for the first time be integrated this was in 1949 Northern liberal Democrats who were in favor of public housing fought against the integration amendment because they realized that if the integration amendment were passed then southern Democrats would join with Republicans and defeat the entire public housing bill as a result and they were successful they defeated the integration amendment as a result the public housing bill was passed and a vastly expanded public housing program on a segregated basis was instituted across the nation not just in St. Louis but everywhere in St. Louis you may recall the Pruitt-Igoe Towers that were built with authority of that National 49 that 1949 Housing Act of Pruitt Towers were for blacks the Igoe Towers were for whites that's how it was constructed as a segregated public housing project now eventually it became all black and that also was the result of federal policy designed to segregate the races the federal housing administration once World War two ended once the Korean War ended and material was again available for civilian housing construction the federal housing administration guaranteed bank loans to mass production builders across the country to develop subdivisions for whites only that was an explicit federal housing administration condition the most famous of these you probably have heard of it is Levittown in New York here in St. Louis there were many of those developments subdivisions created with federal housing administration guarantees for whites only African-Americans were prohibited from buying into those subdivisions even though they had the same incomes as the lower-class working-class white families who bought into them in St. Louis there was one very liberal builder a fellow by name of Charles Vatterot still a famous St. Louis name who decided he was going to build subdivisions for whites and a subdivision for blacks he built St. Anne for whites with federal housing administration guarantees when he proposed to build a separate subdivision for blacks the porous he was denied federal housing administration guarantees because the federal housing administration would not guarantee bank loans for builders who proposed to build housing for African-Americans well as these subdivisions developed across St. Louis metropolitan area and in every metropolitan area in this country in the country whites began to abandon public housing they could bail purchase homes in FHA subsidized subdivisions in the suburbs and pay less monthly carrying charges than they were paying rent in the I go public housing project I mean sorry in the in the yeah in the I go public housing project or in public housing projects for whites anywhere in the country as whites were lured out of public housing and out of the inner city generally across the country and subsidized to move to single-family homes in the suburbs industry moved as well jobs became inaccessible to African-Americans who were left in the inner cities as the FHA succeeded in segregating metropolitan areas and the economic conditions of black communities deteriorated the black communities became slums they became slums partly because housing supply was so short for African-Americans there were very few homes areas where they were permitted to buy whites could purchase anywhere in the metropolitan area and because of the demand being so much greater than the supply families had to double up they subdivided their homes they doubled up with with other families living in the same apartment slum conditions develop the city of St. Louis did not collect garbage as frequently and in these neighborhoods as it did in neighborhoods with less density and as a result slums were created again as a result explicitly of purposeful federal policy well once slums got created the next development instituted by the federal state and local governments was slum clearance the Pruitt-Igoe Towers were dynamited in 1972 areas in downtown St. Louis where which were vibrant African-American communities although overcrowded and very dense were demolished in order to build for example your gateway arch highway interchanges to build the to bring the new white suburbanites into their downtown jobs a university expansion all of these things were built on former African-American neighborhoods that were cleared because they were slums well where the residents of those neighborhoods go once they were once their neighborhoods were cleared the federal government gave some of them not all of them but the very few of them vouchers that would enable them to rent apartments at market rates in other areas but throughout the St. Louis metropolitan area very few communities would permit the vouchers to be used Ferguson was one of them which would permit the vouchers to be used and as a result of this series of events African-Americans started to move to Ferguson soon it was one of the only places where they they were permitted to live Ferguson became a predominantly African-American community other communities in the same area Jennings became even more African-American this was a history of purposeful deliberate racial segregation promoted by the federal state and local governments we do not have de facto segregation we have the jury segregation it's a violation of our Constitution all of these racial boundaries that we have created in every metropolitan area of the country violate the 14th the 5th and the 13th amendments to our Constitution they require a constitutional remedy as Martin Luther King said they will not just disappear by themselves unless we undo the segregation of our metropolitan areas with policies that are as aggressive as those we use to segregate our metropolitan areas we will not see the end of the racial polarization that we have in the society will not see the end of the kinds of events that took place in Ferguson a year ago and that triggered a national conversation that as I say I hope will continue our first job it seems to me and your first job is to make this history known because unless people become aware of this history there is never going to be public support for the kinds of aggressive policies that we need to reverse the segregation of our metropolitan areas that we've created so long as we're oblivious to this history and we believe that our racial separation happened by accident that happened because people like to live with each other of the same race or because African Americans just happen to have lower incomes in the whites so long as we believe that if we believe it happened by accident we're likely to believe it's going to undo itself by accident unless we understand that the racial segregation of St. Louis and every metropolitan area in this country was deliberately created by public policy we're never going to motivate our allies and the public to support the kinds of aggressive racially conscious policies that are going to be necessary for desegregation again I want to thank you very much for inviting me to be with you today even if remotely and I wish you the best of success for a very successful conference thank you


British Prime Minister Mr Boris Johnson said on Monday that he wanted to get the travel industry moving again with a simple user-friendly system to allow for trips abroad without importing new variants of the coronavirus. We need to get people get the travel industry moving again according to Johnson to reporters that he wants an apparat that is as simple as he can possibly make it. Britain has double vaccinated a higher proportion of its population against COVID-19 than most other countries where the government has prevented travel to many destinations by imposing rules that the travel industry say are hobbling the economy. And what I want to do is obviously understand that people care very much about their holidays, people want to go abroad, I understand how much people plan, prepare for the summer holidays. But we've also got to remember that this is still a dangerous virus and that we must try and stop variants coming in, must stop importing variants from abroad. So we have to have a balanced approach and what I want to see is something that is as simple and user-friendly for people as possible. But obviously the double vaccinations that we've got really do offer the way for. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.