I'm Scott Ortman. I'm with the University of Colorado in Boulder and what I wanted to do with my time here is present sort of a thought experiment about one possible way of expanding the contemporary relevance of archaeology. It's something that a lot of us are talking about and I have some thoughts about how we might go about doing it and so although there's a study here I think it's probably better thought about for this audience as a stylized example perhaps of how one way we might go about doing this. So the first thing I want to mention is that you know contemporary archaeology is already relevant in all sorts of wonderful ways whether it's supporting marginalized groups by getting the facts of history right, by helping people to imagine alternative worlds, to inspiring people. I mean archaeology already does all of that so I'm not trying to say that we shouldn't keep doing all of those things but what I want us to think about is what would an archaeology that contributes directly to discussions around contemporary issues look like. And from that point of view I think you know one of the things I think we could do is just think about the archaeological record a little differently than we have. I think a traditional approach in archaeology has been to say our goal is to reconstruct the past and so when we do our work you know what we're thinking about is the way it was back then. I think most people who aren't archaeologists if you were wanting to say the things we learned about the past are relevant to today the first thing they would say is but the past is different. We know it was different and there's a million ways in which the past was different than the present. So why should I believe that what an archaeologist is telling me should have any impact on my view of what's going on now? So I think the shift we have to make is from thinking about the archaeological record as a record of the past to thinking about as a record of as a compendium of human behavior and as a source for investigating social phenomena regardless of when or where they occurred. And if you start thinking about it that way and let those thoughts roll downstream I think what you realize is that there are some kinds of problems that people that we confront today that are much more easily addressed by other means than archaeology. So there's lots and there's lots of things we would like to know about the past that are hard to learn about the past for which the results are more difficult to link to the present whereas there are some things we can learn about in the past that are more are easier to answer and perhaps more directly relevant to the present and that we need to just accept that and focus on those sorts of things. There are some problems that archaeological data are well suited for and some that they're not. You know one of the other things I think we have to think about is what archaeological data really come into their own at the big scale at long time frames along the long time horizons. This is something ethnography can't do this is something an opinion survey can't do and so forth. This is where our data really shine and where they stand out from other kinds of evidence that we have about social phenomena. And of course the way most of the data that's being generated to address these sorts of things today is coming out of cultural heritage management. So figuring out how to leverage the massive amount of data coming out of that process I think is critical. One of the things we have to do is continue to work on developing the linking arguments that connect the things that are easy to observe archaeologically to the dimensions of social phenomena that people care about today. We have to turn them into proxies for the things we want to know more about and contribute to and my example here will be focusing on that. And then finally I think we need to again in a way be more specific reconstructing the past is too general. What we need to do is say what is a specific social phenomenon that we want to learn about and what does the archaeological data have to say about it. You know these need to be specific problems that matter beyond our field and they'll often be problems that people in other fields are grappling with not the traditional problems that archaeologists have grappled with. So the example I'm going to talk about here is a very simple one. It's the accumulation of pot broken pottery or the consumption of pottery in archaeological sites as a potential economic indicator. I think we all know as archaeologists you know one thing there's lots of in the archaeological record is pottery. It's pretty systematically preserved. Of course there's ways in which you know it's not 100% preserved but it's preserved pretty well compared to most things. There's a tradition of research on pottery accumulations that suggests it's connected in a pretty deep way to demographic signals. So what I'm going to explore here is the possibility that pottery consumption also tracks economic development and can be used as a proxy for thinking about social economic development. And I'm going to use two just terrific data sources that I've come across that have been are available through the Archaeology Data Service in in Britain. One of them is the results of the Rural Settlement of Rome in Britain project. So this is a project involving 3,800 excavations at non-urban sites in the UK since 1990. For every one of those excavations there's a database that tells us the area of excavation, the number of structures encountered, the occupation span of the remains, the total pottery found in that area, and also the total number of coins found in those excavations with the coins subdivided by rain according to the scheme created by Richard Rees who's a numismatist that works in the area. And the second big data set I'll look at is a current compilation of chance finds of Roman coins in the portable antiquity scheme that you mentioned earlier. Many of you probably already know the links to the sources but they're there at the bottom. This is a map of the database for the Rural Settlement of Roman Britain project. So from this database there's information for about 2,200 excavated sites if you put it all together. And of course there's a jillion reasons why the specific measures that we have for individual excavations would not be a precise estimate of the properties of that specific settlement if we could excavate each one systematically using systematic random samples and so forth. So most of the arguments here are going to be based on the idea that we're not looking for the properties of individual settlements, we're looking for average properties of all of the settlements and major ways in which they vary. So there's a couple of measures I've plotted here. The kilograms of pottery per year of occupation per hectare of excavation is in green. The number of coins per year of occupation per hectare is red and the number of structures per hectare is in blue. And I've log transformed all of these before making the plots because as a way of saying well let's say that these simple measures are really reflections of socioeconomic rates. Well one of the first properties of most social and economic rates in the contemporary world is they have a log normal distribution. Actually you think about a wealth distribution for example it's always log normal. So that what that means is if you take the logarithm of the measure and then plot the distribution it should look Gaussian. And so here's the distributions here from these databases and all three of them they're pretty good. They look pretty pretty like you know Gaussian. So even though I'm sure there's incredible lots of unknown and unquantifiable error in the individual data points in these distributions you know the logic of large data synthesis is that all of those what ifs sort of balance each other out and that the signal still comes through. And so that's this let's say is a little bit of evidence that that's that that is perhaps the case. A second way of thinking about it is in the contemporary world social and economic rates tend to be faster in larger settlements than in smaller ones. So a next check would be to say well how do these measures what is you know if these are rates per year of occupation how do they change with site size. So in the database each of these sites has been categorized by area here's four categories of the sites that are the data that are available.  So the densities of the settlements go up the rate at which pottery was consumed and the rate at which coins were lost all increase with settlement size. There's a third way of investigating this stuff that connects to the the ideas that Jack was talking about earlier. These are ideas that are involved in something we call the social reactors project that Jack and I are both a part of. This is the typical pattern of urban indicators today. On the left you see measures of social infrastructure in contemporary cities. If cities needed infrastructure at the same at a needed to add infrastructure at consistent rates as the population of the city grew you would see all these dots line up along the black line but in fact they line up along the red line which has a shallower slope than one. So what it means is that larger cities get by with less street per person. There's an economy of scale there. On the on the right you have a measure of outputs GDP versus population. Again a GDP group apportionately to people the data would line up along the black line but they actually line up along the red. What shows you is that as cities get bigger the people in them produce more per person. There's increasing returns to scale in the way contemporary cities function. Empirically the ranges of the slopes of these relationships are shown at the bottom of the slide here and there's we have a theoretical framework that you know suggests why that is the case that we're investigating here. So what we're going to be looking at now is the degree to which the data from Roman Britain follow the same pattern and they do. On the left is the relationship between the number of structures or the found in an area. So structures over area versus the area is the structure density. What you see is that the densities of Romano-British sites increase with population following the same slope as contemporary cities do. And on the right we have two different measures of outputs the rate at which pottery was consumed and the rate at which coins were lost. They both show increasing returns pretty darn close to the rates that you see in contemporary cities. So far so good. There's actually you know the possibility that some of these simple measures might actually be useful for this. But there's a little bit of a wrinkle here and I know I'm trying to walk through this quickly. This is what's going on in contemporary cities. This is data from the People's Republic of China. Each city is a dot. There's 20 years worth of data here. There's a fit line for each year and the yellow dots are the centers or the mean coordinates of the data for all the cities in China for each year. So if you look at what happens year on year and year out is that the average sizes of cities is increasing a little bit. But the end the slope of the relationship between a city size and GDP is the same. You can see the slopes of those fit lines are basically the same. But the height of the fit of the relationship is changing. It's growing up. What it means is that the baseline rate of production in China is expanding per person. That's what's typically what you see in contemporary data. In archaeological data so far we do not see that. This is data from the US Southwest to give an example. It's the population of Pueblos in the Southwest versus the pottery consumption rate that we have for them. And I have the centers there are the yellow dots again. And what you see is that for a variety for time periods in a time series the centers just meander along the same fit line. The fit line is not growing or increasing as it is in the modern world. And the same data are represented as a time series on the right. So you have the average populations of cities growing. You have the average consumption rates of cities growing. But the black line at the bottom shows you the intercept of the fit line for each time period. You can see it's just meandering about a fixed value. So what's going on here? Is it because we don't have good data? Is it because the methods we use to generate these proxies are washing out the possibility of what we might call intensive growth? Is it because our measures aren't sensitive enough? Is it because pre-industrial economies didn't do that? Perhaps economies of the past didn't generate this kind of process that we see in the modern world. Well I would say so if there was ever an ancient society that experienced intensive growth it was probably Roman society. So let's see if there's evidence of this in the data for Roman Britain. Well the answer is complicated. The pottery measure, this is a time series where what you see is the intercept of the scaling relation. So the intercept of the fit line putting all these data together. The series for pottery in red meanders about just like it does in other cases. But yet the intercept for coin loss shows consistent growth over the century, century on century. So what's going on here? It seems as though the baseline rate of coin loss is growing even though the baseline rate of coin or sorry pottery consumption is not. Well you know folks you know I'm no expert on Roman coins so you know I'm looking forward to talking to more experts about this but I do know from reading that inflation was an issue in the Roman Empire and that the values of coins got less over time. The purchasing power you know at least by their face value. So one thing to investigate is the role inflation in that pre-factor there perhaps the economy didn't actually change. Perhaps it was static it's just that people had to you know had coins that were less valuable and so there was more small change because it was worth less. So that's where the portable antiquity scheme comes into play. What I tried to do in this slide is in a sense convert the coins found in the PAS to the silver standard. So what I did was I used an index from Numismatis about the silver content of coins over time and combined that with the you know the face values and the conversions from different denominations of coins and the end result of that process at the bottom here is the graph to look at. So the silver line is the the silver the grams of silver in the average coin the blue line is the average face value and the point here is that even after you control for the reduction in the silver content you still see that the in a sense the silver standard real value of coins seems to have increased a little bit. So at least by this way of thinking about it it seems like we could say that perhaps the Roman economy did experience this intensive growth over time but at rates of maybe a fraction of a percent a year up to maybe two percent when it when the area was first brought into the empire but it means that our pottery consumption index that I was sort of hoping would work doesn't show the intensive growth it only shows the agglomeration effects. So it's a partly disappointing answer but it seems to be the reality in this of the data here. Perhaps what's going on here is as the Roman economy expanded people shifted from pottery containers to perhaps containers made of other materials like metals and other things like that so perhaps pottery consumption in this environment in this context just doesn't show the intensive growth but it does show agglomeration effects. So this is sort of a progress report of ongoing research and thought processes that we're going through trying to think about ways of developing arguments that connect these common observables to properties that we care about today. Welcome your feedback on that and here's some links to some of the websites of the groups involved in doing this work. Thank you. Thanks.


The Lagos State Governor Babajideh Sao An Lu has assured Legosians that they would not regret voting them in for the second term just as he appreciated the citizens for the steadfastness, contribution and support demonstrated during the last elections in the state. Governor Sao An Lu gave his assurance while speaking at the second term inauguration thanksgiving Jumat Service, which took place at the Lagos Central Mosque, Lagos Island. The governor who was represented by Deputy Governor Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzad, his deputy, appreciated everyone for the support demonstrated during the elections, saying that his administration planned to build the biggest children's hospital in Africa as part of its commitment to guaranteeing the future of the children. Governor Sao An Lu has assured me that he would regret voting him in for the second term just as he appreciated our agenda, which would be great if it was not for the transportation of the nation, the government, and the others. Thanks to this piece, we will let many, few-year-old children of six in the world of Africa so you get notified about fresh news updates.


We have seen the need and some of the benefits of a learner centric approach in e-learning. Before we delve into the details of designing e-learning based on these learner centric principles, let us do a brief digression and look at an overview of the process of designing and developing learning content, the materials, the strategies, the formats and so on. Let us first pause at a reflection spot. In case you want to create some e-content, what are some of the fundamental questions that you would ask before you go ahead and go into designing and developing the content? As usual, pause this learning dialogue, write down your answer and then you may resume. You may have thought of questions like, what am I going to teach through this e-content? Why am I going to teach this? For what purpose? To whom? Who all would want to learn this and or who all should be learning this? How am I going to teach this? What are the pre-existing conditions under which we need to develop these learning materials? These are some of the fundamental pre-design considerations. See how many of these you have addressed and in the rest of this learning dialogue, we will consider a systematic process by which we will try to address many of these questions. To answer these questions in a systematic manner, the process of instructional design needs to be adopted. Instructional design is a systematic process of translating general principles of learning and teaching into plans for instructional materials, strategies, formats and the training programs. Instructional design is a systematic and iterative framework that guides us. It is also a process of creation of instructional materials and learning activities and strategies. Instructional design is based on research and most importantly, most fundamentally, it focuses on the learner and the learning goals. Now, a bit of disclaimers, some of you will know or at least have heard of instructional design, especially if you are experienced in e-learning or you have been working in the e-learning industry for a while. So, what we will do in this learning dialogue is only to look at an overview. We will not go into details of instructional design, but we will pose some pertinent questions for everyone who will be designing e-learning. So, regardless of whether you are a student looking to become an instructional designer or design some e-learning or whether you are a teacher who is trying to design e-learning for your students or whether you are a professional ID in an e-learning company. When you create e-learning, you will be an instructional designer. So, a lot of the points in this learning dialogue and the next one will be relevant for these categories of participants. Let us first look at why at all we need instructional design. So, for this let us consider a scenario. Let us say there is an e-learning multimedia design team that is creating some instructional materials maybe hosted somewhere on the web for college level science and engineering courses and their primary animations at this stage. The team creates a template for all the screens to be created within the animation. The development team creates what are called storyboards which are very systematic screen by screen plans and this is approved by all team members. The coding of the content begins and the team moves along very swiftly. At this point what happens is one team member gives feedback that his daughter who is a college undergraduate student was confused by some sequence of steps in the animation that he was working on at home. He suggests some sequence, he suggests a change in sequence of steps based on his daughter's feedback and then a design expert in the team says that the template button should be modified for ease of navigation. At this stage the development team is unsure if they can make all these modifications and still meet the project deadlines. So what went wrong in this scenario? Perhaps you thought that the project could have been well planned from the beginning. Some of you may have thought that there is a need for constant evaluation especially with the stakeholders and the entire team should be in sync and they should be act on the feedback and communicate with each other all of you are right. These problems are avoided when a team follows a systematic instructional design process. So the instructional design process enables consistency across multiple people in the team like we saw across various courses or various modules in one course across various instructors it pays attention to effective ways to communicate content of different types. ID is actually the driver of the quality of the learning materials. It structures the students path through the course and again like it was emphasized earlier instructional design begins with the learner, the learning experience, the learning goals and so on. What exactly does an instructional designer do or what exactly will you be doing when you design e-content? Essentially you will be making a lot of decisions. You will identify what learners need based on the subject matter you might talk to experts on this. You will develop learning objectives ensure that there is an alignment between the content and the objectives and the pedagogical strategies. You might structure the content create activities you might decide on the media and the formats you might develop assessments and you will put it all together. Now that we know what is instructional design and why instructional design is important we need to discuss on how to implement instructional design. Implementation of the instructional design process is done through instructional design models and an ID model is a representation a visual or verbal representation of the various steps of the process various elements of the process that are used to guide and complete the design in the training and educational settings. There are many instructional design models the more popular ones are Addy Garnier's 9 events of instruction, Dick and Carrie model, Merrill's 5 star model some of you may have heard of some of these in fact there are many many such models. Now in this course we will focus on Addy which stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation. It is essentially a sensible structured process that guides us to design, create and develop e-learning. Thank you.


Hot couple Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly have been shacking up in an Airbnb rental costing them an estimated 30k per month. Located in the upscale Sherman Oaks neighborhood of LA, the home boasts 5 beds, 5 baths and endless amenities not to mention it was newly constructed. The affectionate and PDA loving couple moved in around spring and today we'll check the space out along with a couple of Megan and MGK's former properties. We even have some of the listings. In these videos we don't reveal any addresses and even though I've done a house tour of my own place, please do not show up at any private residences because it's not safe for anyone. Megan Fox is an actress and model and has long been considered a sex symbol. Aside from starring in movies and shows, she's known for gracing the covers of multiple magazines like Maxim, Rolling Stone and more. Her man, Colson Baker, better known as Machine Gun Kelly, is a rapper, singer, songwriter and actor who's noted for blending contemporary hip-hop with rock into his music. Ever since Megan starred in MGK's Bloody Valentine music video last year, the couple has been inseparable and I gotta say I can't blame them, they look great together. At the time of this recording, Megan's estimated net worth is around 10 million dollars and MGK's is estimated to be the same so clearly the couple can afford a 30k rental no problem. Megan and Kelly reportedly met on a set of their thriller film Midnight in the Switchgrass in early 2020 and confirmed their relationship in May of the same year. Megan was formerly married to actor Bryan Austin Green so before shacking up with MGK, she had to unload the real estate she used to live out with her ex. Hey everyone, I'm Cara the Vampire Slayer bringing you another exclusive house tour here on Famous Entertainment, this one checking out the homes of Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly. If you haven't already, be sure to subscribe and ring that bell for notifications cause we post brand new content daily. As always, you can follow me on Instagram if you'd like to chat and now let's get into this video. In recent news, Megan and MGK have been renting their new love nest for 30 thousand dollars per month in an off-market deal since May 2021. The couple's home is located in LA's upskill Shermanoaks neighborhood which is growing in popularity among the rich and famous, not to mention Megan herself used to own a home here. The loving couple have been living in this 5,300 square foot of boat which offers five beds and five baths. It was newly built in April 2021 so everything is fresh, modern and upgraded. Amenities in Megan and MGK's brand new mansion include a swimming pool, spa, basketball court and an open deck outside, not to mention an additional terrace located off of the master suite. Elsewhere, there's a 26 foot sprawling entryway, Baja shelves installed throughout the home, a fancy chef's kitchen and a two car garage. At the back of their main residence, there's also a second family home on the property which is said to be separately up for rent. I guess any major fans of the couple can try to afford it and move in next door. While that's where Megan is living now, let's take a look at a home that the actress owned and lived in with her ex but sold a few years back. 2009, a home was purchased in the trendy Los Feliz area of Los Angeles and according to property records, it was bought by a trust tied to Ms. Fox. At the time of purchase, the place cost her about 2.9 million but she ended up putting a lot of work and money into extensive renovations on the place. At first, it was described as very vanilla. The Mediterranean style villa spans over 5,300 square feet of living space and add four beds and five baths. According to the listing, the location allowed for views of downtown LA, Long Beach, Century City and even the ocean. The thoroughly remodeled villa blends old world architecture with all of the most recent technologies and comforts. Megan transformed the almost all-white slate into a colorful inviting space. The private compound offered an ideal floor plan fit for the California lifestyle. The interiors had hand distressed wood floors and refurbished antique lighting. The main floor of the home had a spacious living room with fireplace and family room with floor-to-ceiling front doors opening up to expansive covered balconies in the city below. Perfect to dine outside. The formal dining room and breakfast room flow out into the landscaped courtyard. There's also a media slash games room on this level and a chef's kitchen with wood floors, marble countertops and stainless steel appliances. Megan's previous master suite had a walk-in closet, private terrace and spa-like bathroom with a soaking tub and closet that even has a window. The former couple styled the home with bold wallpapers, Spanish tile and more eccentric touches. It got updated technology too, adding projection screen, a sound system and video camera surveillance. Outside, the gorgeous property was completely wall-dongated for privacy and situated on a beautifully landscaped lawn, spending over 13,000 square feet. Of course, there was also a swimming pool with surrounding patio and spa-sta lounge. When it came time for a new place, Megan put the home on the market for almost a million more than she paid at 3.9 million. Megan also used to own a home in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles, which is an area in the San Fernando Valley that's pretty suburban and where she's living right now. She listed this home for 1.3 million a few years back, which was an increase from the 900k she bought it for back in 2012. This home was rebuilt in 2007 and was a contemporary one-story property, spending 2,494 square feet of space. It had three beds, three baths and although it would look slightly smaller from the exterior, there was still ample space. There's a large, great room with vaulted ceilings, which combines the kitchen and living and dining areas. The kitchen had a large island with bar seating, stainless steel appliances and one of the living rooms has a fireplace and built-in bookshelves. Their bio finds an area that was designated as an office, but could be easily made into a playroom or something else. The airy master bedroom has a vaulted ceiling and glass doors that open onto the terrace and the attached bath had two vanities and a soaking tub. On the patio outside you'll find an outdoor fireplace, living area for cozy nights and a koi pond with a waterfall. Megan also transformed the garage at her casual and elegant home into a lounge and games room. In 2016, Megan and her ex Brian also sold off their ranch style carriage home in Toluca Lake, Los Angeles. Toluca Lake is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley about 12 miles from downtown with that beautiful natural lake as the highlight. This house was actually part of an estate that once belonged to crooner Bing Crosby so it has a cool history and public records show the couple bought it around 2014 for 3.35 million. The house sits on approximately an acre with a curving driveway that leads you between gorgeous central oak trees and olive trees to the door. Inside you'll find over 6,700 square feet of living space spread over one sprawling level with four beds and six baths. This doesn't include the 500 square foot plus pool house on the property that also has its own kitchen and bath. The main room is a spacious area with exposed beams and quartz slate floors. Other features throughout include wrought iron chandeliers, wood floors and floor to ceiling windows. There are raised ceilings throughout the common areas, rows of skylights and a wall fireplace that divides the open plan living room and kitchen. The kitchen offers an opal granite island with seating all around and there's a formal dining room on cherry hardwood floors. Other rooms and Megan's previous Toluca Lake home included a library with electric skylight, a rec room and sonosound system for the entire property even outdoors. The master suite here had his or her bathrooms as well as a pair of large walk-in closets or dressing room. Not to mention there's a second story loft spanning over 600 square feet. Outside the backyard featured a salt water swimming pool and spa as well as a fire pit. During the time Megan and her ex were living here the house was actually featured on Bravo TV's show Flipping Out. But the couple pulled out of the show for unknown reason. It's assumed the project was actually halted due to the upcoming breakup of the couple. It still got a no expense spared renovation though. Given a rustic yet modern makeover by Todd DeMan and David Kramer of Paradim Developers and now the home is part farmhouse part Hollywood glam. So now we've taken a look at where hot couple Megan Fox and machine gun Kelly are currently living. A brand new rental mansion in Sherman Oaks. After seeing that spot was it what you would expect from the couple? I think that it's only a matter of time before they move into a more permanent place but who knows. And you know maybe it'll even be in the same neighborhood. We also checked out some Los Angeles properties Megan used to own and what did you guys think? Did you have a favorite? I think that I like the villa style Los Feliz abode the best but be sure to let me know down in the comments. Thanks for watching. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram and I will see you all in the next video. Bye.


The Matrix Resurrections. Wow. Yeah. Awful. Pardon? That was awful. Awfully great? You mean? Part of that was great to you. Hobo Neo, Trinity being a Karen. How about Chad, Agent Smith coming back? You know what I just realized? You know what just occurred to me? That maybe you shouldn't have yelled out dodge this to a woman just trying to find her seat before the movie started? At which point you took your own soda and hurled it at her? You didn't even understand it.   Honestly, as horrible as that was, it was far better than what was happening up on the screen. Bite your tongue. Nothing about the movie worked. The visuals and the tone don't even match the original trilogy. Didn't need to. The music was bland and lifeless. So are you. Tell me what you actually liked about the film. Trinity is also the one, which makes them the two. And as we've learned from the Spice Girls, two become one.


Hey, this is Brett and this 2017 GMC Sierra 2500 Crew Cab Short Box Denali is stock number 14396Z. I am here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, your new and used heavy duty truck headquarters. This 2017 GMC Sierra 2500 has the 6.6 liter Duramax diesel engine. It's paired up with the Allison 6 speed heavy duty automatic transmission. It puts out 445 horsepower. This truck has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop. It has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off and this truck is 100% ready to go. Super clean all the way around. That's exactly what I'm going to do in this video. Go all the way around inside underneath, start it up, take a look under the hood, show you all the options and give you the most accurate representation that I can of the vehicle. Onyx black clear coast color should all my videos in 4k if you like the video. Subscribe to the YouTube channel, click the bell notifications, get updates on the videos I do each and every day as well as having access to one of the largest catalogs of vehicle walk-arounds on YouTube. Stay current on our ever-changing and vast heavy duty truck inventory here at Summit Automotive. This one does come with the 20 inch chrome alloy wheels part of the Denali package and it has Goodyear Wrangler SRA tires. These are LT26560R20s. I would say they have right around 50 to 60% of the tread life, probably a little bit more closer to 60, even a little bit more than that. In the front, frame and underbody. It's a nice shape. This is a one owner clean title history, clean car facts out of New York. Front fender is in fantastic condition. This one does have the HID headlamps, LED running lights, and the factory fog lights. We'll turn all those on at the end of the video so you can see just how bright they are.  No major dents on there. Lower valence looks really good as well and you do get the chrome trimmed grille. This one has the true air induction here, cold air induction. I'll show you how that works at the end of the video. No major dents or dings on that hood and it does have the cab lights up top. Passing your side front fender is in fantastic shape. No dents or dings on there. And the passenger side front wheel, no major scuffs or scrapes. Now take note of how clean this paint is and how clean the body is on this truck as we go down this side of the vehicle. This 2017 GMC Sierra 2500. Really nice condition down this side. I take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down. But you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle. You can see the truck here, the truck, and of confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. If this video helps you make that buying decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video, that it was helpful and that Brett sent you. Boy, that paint is just mirror like. His back wheels in really nice shape as well. Back tires have right around 50% of the tread left on them. Maybe just a hair bit less than the front frame and under body. Pretty nice shape. It does have all the remaining factory exhaust so it hasn't been altered in any way. Everything is stock under here. And the underbody looks really good. Lower rockers, cam corners, didn't see any corrosion on them. Does have the nice factory chrome step bars. And once again this passenger side box. No major denser dings in there. Looks really really good. Coming around to the back of the vehicle. Rear bumpers in great shape. It does have the rear bumper steps, backup parking sensors, full towing package which includes a receiver package, four pin and seven pin wiring. The tailgate, very nice and clean. Comes with a very nice spring and bed liner. Beds in really nice shape. It does have LED bed lighting and side box tight ounce. And the spring bed liner goes onto the tailgate, which is a nice feature as well. Going down the driver's side here. Just as nice as that passenger side. Box looks really good. This one does have, and then for full disclosure, this back wheel. Just as nice as the rest. Down the rest of the side of the truck. Cab and doors all look really good. And I didn't see any dense or dings on the doors on this side. Very nice and clean. This one does have the telescopic tomers, LED side lights, built in directional signals. They do telescope out like that. And in like that. Take a quick look at the back seats. They are in really nice condition. No major rips or tears back here. It does have the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have. Power sliding rear window with the built in rear defrost. These seats fold up. Does come with a set of factory carpet floor mats and a set of weather techs back here. Carpetting is nice and clean underneath. And you do get side corner bags on the front seats. Inside and bottoms of the doors all look really good on this truck. Show you the VIN sticker. No previously owned in Canada trucks here. Then the tire and loading information sticker.  There are no rips or tears on these seats. They are in very nice condition. You get the Denali stitched into the headrest there. Seats are in great shape. Weather tech floor mats in the front. And both these front seats are heated cooled and power. Auto headlamps turned out four wheel drive factory brake controller tilt telescopic steering wheel. Power windows locked to mirrors and memory driver seat. Get the wood grain trim on there. Bow sound system. And these mirrors do power fold in. I always like showing both sides so you know that both sides are working properly. We'll hop inside check out the miles, the radio and everything that this one has to offer on the interior. You can see that this one has 51,783 miles on it. You do get the digital speedometer. Instrument cluster is very nice and clean. Comes with the heated leather wrapped steering wheel. Bluetooth and information center controls on the right. Cruise controls and information center controls. I'm sorry cruise controls and forward collision warning controls on the left and your heated steering wheel controls. Has audio controls on the back of the steering wheel. This one does come with the Allison six-speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift. It does come with the GMC and telelink radio. There is highway 41 so that is working nicely on the navigation system there. You also have AM, FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities. This one does have projection where you can project your cell phone to the screen and you get all these other different apps right there. Down here your more tactile volume tune and climate controls including the CD player. Dual climate controls there. Heated and cooled seat buttons. Power pedals. Stability control that's for your cargo lamps. That's also how you turn on the LED side lights in the mirrors as well as the LED bed lights. Parking sensors. Lane departure warning. Downhill assist control and your factory exhaust brake. You get two usb's to 12 volt power points and 115 volt, I'm sorry 110 volt, 150 watt plug-in. This one does have the wireless cell phone charge pad which is a really nice feature. And the past new side glove boxes floor mat and seat are all in really nice condition. Smells very clean inside this truck. I don't think it's been smoked in and the headliner is in great shape. You do get the power sunroof on this one. Up here you get home link buttons for your garage door security systems, lane systems, map lights and your power sliding rear window and sunroof controls. Onstar and SOS buttons in the mirror. Let's start it up and take a look under the hood. Starts right up. No check engine lights or anything like that. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video you've been able to verify the quality condition and options and of course cleanliness of this truck. There your LED side lights they are very bright and working nicely. And there your HID headlamps, LED running lights and factoring fog lights. All of those are working nicely as well and those HID headlamps are very bright. And under the hood we have the 6.6 liter Duramax diesel engine engine day. It is very clean. Runs very smooth and once again this truck has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop. Has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. This truck is 100% ready to go. Really nice condition. There is the emissions sticker. That air comes in the cull there down the side into the air cleaner and that's how that hood scoop works. And I would highly recommend this truck from a quality and conditions standpoint. I think whoever's going to get this one's going to be very happy with it. And to see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 550 new new cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, half tons, three quarter tons, one tons, you name it. We got to go to the website right there. Summitauto.com. Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle all at Summitauto.com. And if you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash summitauto. Click the bell notifications to get updates in the videos I do each and every day. 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14 steps to launching an online business. Hey, are you thinking about starting an online business or maybe you already have and you've missed a few steps? You're gonna wanna check out this video because I'm gonna go through the 14 steps that you need to start an online business and we're starting right now. Hey, I'm JR Fisher. Thank you for joining me on my channel. I really appreciate it. Don't forget to subscribe. Hit that big subscribe button down there and don't forget to turn on bell notifications. All bell notifications, all of them. That way, you'll be notified as soon as I do a video, as soon as I go live. You'll know all about it. You'll be in front of the line, the VIP group called the Fisher Family. Thank you so much for watching this video. Now, I have been selling online since 2009 and I've sold millions of dollars of both digital and physical products. And I gotta tell you, when I started out, I made a lot of mistakes. This video will prevent you from making a lot of the mistakes I made that I had to learn on my own. So let's get going. Now, in addition to these 14 steps I'm gonna give you, I also wanna give you a course. It's below, it's a $97 course, but it's absolutely free. It's in the description below. All you gotta do is click and learn, no credit card required. Now, the first thing I'll tell you is, you gotta have, number one, is find a niche. You can't just say, I wanna sell stuff online and make money.  You need to find a niche, a particular niche. If you find a niche, you can sell all kinds of stuff to that particular niche. So for example, my niche is people who wanna make money online. So I have courses on Facebook ads. I have stuff on SEO. I have things on WordPress websites. I have stuff on finding products, on drop shipping. I can sell all those things to that niche. Those people who wanna make money online. And that's a pretty big niche. That's not as niche down as some of them could be. My wife has dog training.  So it's niche down a little bit more right there. So the number one thing you gotta have is a niche. Not a product, a niche. Number two, you have to evaluate the market, okay? So if you've decided on a niche, that's great. But is there a big enough market out there to support your niche? Let's say you wanted to do, I don't know, pottery ash trays. That was your niche. People who wanted to make pottery ash trays. I would say, and I haven't researched this one, but I would say that's not a good niche right now, okay? Smokers are not really thought well of anymore. People are trying to quit smoking. Not a lot of people have the time to make their own ash trays anymore. Though you may think it's cool, probably there isn't a big enough audience. Now I could be wrong. You could research this and find me wrong, but I don't think so. So you wanna be really careful out there. If there aren't other people doing what you want, it's not a sign that you're brilliant and you came up with a great idea. It could be a sign that other people tried it and it didn't work. So you wanna check that out and make sure that there is a demand for what you wanna do. Number three, once you figure that out, you wanna conduct market research, all right? So what you wanna do is if you do find some companies out there that are doing what you want, you gotta look at what they're selling. What products do they have? Do they have digital products? Do they have physical products? What are their sales? How long have they been around? What are the keywords they're using? All of these things are super important for you to be successful online. You've gotta conduct this market research. This is so, so important. If you conduct the right market research in the beginning, then your job's gonna be a whole lot easier later on because you know you're on the right path. Number four, conduct competitive analysis. Now this is where once we've figured out the niche and there's a market and all that good stuff, who are our competitors? I wanna know exactly who those competitors are. I wanna know what they're doing. I wanna know what they're selling. I wanna know what prices they're getting. I wanna know what their sales volume is. I wanna know who their customers are because maybe I can get some of those customers if I do that service or product even better. So conducting that competitive analysis is very, very important. And with the internet nowadays, that's pretty easy to do, okay? It doesn't take you a lot of effort to do this. Number five, learn online business laws. Now you may say, well, I don't know much about law and I don't know much about all that stuff, so there's not much I can do. You could learn. That's what you could do. You could learn. You wanna learn about shipping restrictions. You wanna learn about zoning laws. You wanna learn about trademarks. Are you infringing on somebody else's trademark by what you're doing? All these things are super important. You gotta know the laws. What kind of business license do you need for your town, city, state, federal? You know, what type of business should you set up? Should it be a sole proprietorship? Should it be a corporation? What should it be? So all these things are super important. You gotta know the online business laws. Number six, analyze your target market, okay? So now what we've done is we figured out our products, donation, all those good things, but we need to analyze our target market. So if we've got people who, let's say, like to color their hair and who are over 35, we wanna figure out where are these people located? Are they male or are they female? What kind of jobs are they in? What are their hobbies? What are their likes? What are their dislikes? Because you can target these people from many different areas. If you find single women at home who are over 35 who wanna color their hair are people who also play tennis at a rate of 80% of these people play tennis, well, you could actually target tennis players with your hair coloring products. So it's really important to analyze that customer out there and figure out where are they at? What are they doing? What are they thinking? Next up is source your product. That's number seven. Where are you gonna get your product from? Now, if you're doing physical products, maybe you're gonna be doing drop shipping. Maybe you're gonna use AliExpress. If you're gonna be making your own products, who's the manufacturer? Who's gonna do this? Who's manufacturing that product for other people right now that could get you a good price? So sourcing your product is super, super important.  Are they gonna ship it out? What's gonna happen? Number eight, choose the right e-commerce platform. Now, I see this time and time again where somebody will get an idea to sell something. It's watches or sunglasses or whatever it is, which is not a niche, by the way. And they will build a website around it.  You do not want to do this. You want to test the product first and then build the website. So how do you do that? How do you sell products? We don't have a website. You use something like Cartra. I will put a link below. Cartra, you can build your sales pages. You can put your products there. Doesn't matter if it's a digital product, physical product. And you can actually put up these pages in like 30 minutes and send traffic to them, whether it's email or ads or whatever, and find out if that product's gonna sell. Now, if that product sells and it works out, then you go ahead and build your website. You add more products to it. You build your sales funnel. You should do all this other fancy stuff. But bottom line is you've got to find the right e-commerce platform. And the first one you want to start with is Cartra Barnon. There's a link below where you can actually watch and see how Cartra works. If you choose to get Cartra, you can actually get it for a $1 trial. So check out that link below. Grab yourself some Cartra. Number nine, you gotta launch your store. Okay, I mean launch it. I remember when I built my first website and I put the website there and I just looked at it and I'm like, well, there's nobody there. Nobody's buying anything because I didn't launch it. I just put it there. There was no launch to it. I didn't know how to get it in front of people. I didn't know how to make people go there. I didn't know any of those things. So you gotta actually launch, right? Your store, your website, your Cartra page. You gotta launch it. Number 10, you gotta drive traffic. Okay, so having a website is not like a store. You don't really put your website in an area where there's a lot of traffic. Like if you were opening a restaurant, you may go to a strip mall and say, well, this strip mall here gets a lot of foot traffic. There's this store and this store and they're all popular. A lot of people come in there. If I put my restaurant in the middle of it, surely I'm gonna grab some traffic. You can't do that with a website. Essentially, what you do with the website is you put it on the internet and there's nothing around you. Nothing, there's no traffic. And you have to push traffic there. You've gotta use social media like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. All these things that can get out in front of people where there is traffic and then direct that traffic to where your store's located at. So you do have to drive traffic. Number 11, and this only applies to you if you have physical products, but you have to master small business shipping. Shipping is a nightmare, okay? Shipping is tough. Shipping is tough because, number one, it's very expensive. Shipping is really expensive. Now we sell survival food and we have some canned meats and they're super heavy. So it costs us a lot of money to ship to people but we had to figure out about shipping rates. We had to figure out how to package them. We had to figure out how to protect them so they wouldn't get dented, which we had a lot of damage in the beginning. There's a lot to shipping, okay? So if you've got physical products, you wanna master the small business shipping. It's super important. Number 12, measure your online success, okay? You've gotta learn how to look at analytics. If you're driving traffic to your site, if you're sending out emails, if you're doing social media, you gotta be able to look at the data. What happened? Did you get results? Did they go to your page? Did they opt in? Did they buy? Did they not buy? Did they take your upsell? What happened to these people? If you don't analyze this and you don't have the software to do it, you're not gonna be very successful. That's why I recommend Cartra because Cartra will do all this for you. Once traffic starts going to one of the pages, it starts looking at analytics. It can start telling you if things are working or not and like I said below, there's a link to Cartra. You can watch a video there. You can get a trial for only $1 so you wanna check out Cartra. Really super important to have that if you're gonna sell online. Number 13, you gotta scale your business. What do I mean by scale my business? Well, what I mean is I wanna grow it. I want it to grow fast. I want a lot of things to happen and there's several ways you can do that. One of the ways, of course, is if you're running ads, you spend more money on ads. If you get an ad that works, you're gonna spend more money on ads but you don't leave it at one ad. You try another ad and another ad and another ad. You try different platforms and you keep trying. Most of these things won't work. But you don't need too many of them to work because you spend a little bit of money figuring out the things that don't work and then the one that does work, you just start dumping all your money into that particular thing. Then what you do is you add on more products. That's a great way to scale your business is the customers you already have. Instead of them spending more on that product, you offer them more different related products. You get more money out of those customers because you're offering more to them. Now the next thing, and I think this is one of the biggest and a lot of people don't do is number 14, get insights from industry's top experts. Go to people who have already achieved what you want to achieve and talk to them. Now I have courses, I've been selling online since 2009. We've sold millions of dollars of both digital and physical products and people come to me and say, hey, I need advice on this or that and I give them advice. Now, do I charge for that advice? For the most part, yeah. You're getting some free stuff right now but I have a couple friends who will come to me and say, hey, I need advice on this. I have a friend who just started a YouTube channel and I noticed he sent out an email today and the subject line was how to migrate your sold business off of Amazon and then there was an email.  It's just going to get deleted. It's going to go away. So, you know, I look at that and I say, well, I've got experience with that and I know that a subject line, like you're not going to believe what just happened, check this out, it would work a whole lot better or did you see this? You may need this, check this out. Those subject lines would work a lot better. So, he could come to me as an industry expert and say, hey, nobody's opening my email, why is that? And I could immediately look at that email and go because you got the wrong subject line, okay? This could save you a tremendous amount of time because you may not understand that a subject line is not a subject line. It's not to tell you what the subject of the email is, it's just to get somebody to open the email and then you tell them what it's about. That's how that works. And the email is not to sell them anything, it's to get them to click, to go to the page to sell them the thing or to watch the video or to opt in, whatever it is. But if you don't go to an industry expert, so you could come to me, you could go below, you could grab my course down there.  And you can say, well, this guy sold some stuff online, he may know something, okay, industry expert. And you could learn that, you could do that without a credit card. That's pretty cool. And then I have other trainings that do cost money, okay? And they're worth it because they work and if you apply the information, you get good results too. So that's my list of 14 things and I wanna hear your input. I wanna hear what you think of these 14 things and I wanna hear which ones work for you, what things don't work for you. Put it in the comments below. Also, if you haven't done so, make sure you subscribe, hit that big subscribe button there and turn on bell notifications. Turn on all of them, turn on all bell notifications. So that you get notified every single time I do a new video, you're part of the Fisher Family, the VIP group, that gets notified before anybody else, you're at the front of the line. Pretty cool stuff. Also, you'll wanna check out this video, it'll help you a lot. Thanks for watching this video and I'll see you in the next one.