When it comes to social media, some people want to automate the process of getting their message out there. So there's software such as buffer.com, Hootsuite, RecurPost, Postplanner, etc. that will where you can schedule a series of content and then just have it post to your various, all your different social media platforms on a recurring basis. Now that seems to sound good, right? Why wouldn't you do that? Well, let me tell you why. Number one, the algorithms tend not to like it, okay? Facebook especially, Facebook page, Facebook, the Facebook news feed tends to decrease the visibility as far as my experience anyway, and I've seen this several other people say this, of posts coming from buffer.com or Hootsuite or other automatically scheduled posts. There's a difference though with using Facebook has its own scheduler. If you use your Facebook business page, you can schedule posts from your Facebook business page, and that's fine. That that shows up regularly as a Facebook post. But using third-party apps is what I'm talking about here, and the algorithms tend not to like it, and you know why the algorithms don't tend to like it? Because humans don't tend to like it. You have a limited amount of attention looking at a news feed. Do you want that news feed to be cluttered up by automated postings from people who weren't there, but they scheduled it and they just it just kind of like doing its own routine, like, oh post this thing every three months or whatever like that or every three weeks or whatever. Human beings want to feel like, well, social media is social, okay? Social media. It's media of the people, from the people, for the people, okay? So what we humans like is to know that when you're posting something that you are actually there, like in the moment, present, your thoughts are genuinely of of the present moment. Like, yes, I believe what I'm saying right now. Versus, oh yeah, I definitely believed it three months ago, but I haven't checked to see if I've evolved my thoughts since then, and especially as authentic businesses and as solopreneurs, your framework, your ideas evolve continually, especially before you have a lot of practice doing tons of content, it continues to evolve. My thoughts, even though I've done over a thousand videos by this point and over a thousand blog posts, I should clarify, most of those blog posts were just written companions to my videos on Facebook, but they're still evolving. My thoughts are still evolving. As I continue learning more about myself, as I continue learning what works even better in terms of business or marketing and what's more authentic and how the society is changing. So even three months, your thoughts will evolve. Maybe even one month, your thoughts will evolve. So I think one month should be the maximum amount of time that you're scheduling something to be showing up. I prefer to give myself a rule of one week. If I write something or record something, I wanted to show up on social media within a week so that it's still fresh and true. Right? So because we humans don't like it and we start to notice, if we start following you and we start seeing certain things, post it again and again on some recurring basis, you know, we might start to question that and that's why the algorithms have learned that humans don't like it. But whether or not the algorithm likes it, do you know that yes, you've got more visibility with that piece of content, but at what cost?  But also, I mean, I think there's just a kind of a sense of fairness about it. Your audience's attention is limited, right? They can only see a certain number of posts per day. Well, your own time is also limited. So you can only post a certain number of things per week or per day or whatever. But robots are not limited.  And so there's a sense of fairness there. I think a future where more and more of us depend on automated social media posting, Buffer, Hootsuite, et cetera, is a future that is less than less human and less than less authentic. And you have to also look at your own sense of integrity about it, which is, do you want a message that, like I said, that was true for you three months ago to be recycled again and again without your conscious attention back on it to say, is this still what I edit? So every time I repost something, I always do some light editing this to make sure that, yes, it's still me. This is still what I believe. This is true and genuine of my voice right now. So that's the main thing I wanted to say today is to, even though there seems to be, it seems to be convenient to be using these things to post everywhere at the cell. That's the other issue that I wanted to address. Is it a good idea? People always say, George, how can I put something in one place and it goes everywhere at once? Why do you want to do that? Do you think it's really going to save you time?  How much time is it going to take you? To take the same thing you put on Facebook and manually put it on LinkedIn. How much time, honestly? Okay, let's calculate, let's time it, right? You open up, you've already written something for Facebook or you're for your blog or whatever. You take five seconds, ten seconds to open up LinkedIn. You copy and paste to your LinkedIn.  You edit, maybe you add a few hashtags. The whole thing takes you less than five minutes to manually put it on LinkedIn or on Twitter or, you know, on Instagram, you might need to put an image or whatever. But it takes you less than a few minutes to do it for that other platform. And each platform has its own etiquette, has its own feel to it. You have to know the feel of each platform by practicing posting there enough and looking at other people's postings. And so I guess I'm a purist when it comes to me. I don't use any automated software. Everything you see, I do it myself and I have a full roster of clients and I have 45 person, full group program that I, that I facilitate. And I create a new course every month or at least redo a course every month. And all of that is done, you know, with very good work, life balance, working hours. So I don't think anybody has any solopreneur has an excuse for using Buffer or Hootsuite. Honestly, I don't. I don't, I don't see the case for it. If you comment below and let me know what you see as the case for it, why it's working for you, maybe. But does it match your authenticity? Does it match your audience's sense of your authenticity? I don't think it's a benefit. Honestly, I don't. And so I post everything manually. Everything is done manually. Just take that extra few minutes to post it on the other social media posts. What's the big deal? Honestly, honestly, it's not like you post that often. You create original content how often maybe some of you do it seven times a week, right? One a day. Take that extra two minutes to post on LinkedIn, extra two minutes to post it on Twitter. There is an extra four minutes right there.  Don't be, don't be so lazy. I don't, I don't understand why you are wanting to do one place and everywhere. It doesn't respect the culture of these different platforms, you see. So let's get that fantasy out of our mind. It's the fantasy of automating. Automation is great. I use automation. I use that beer to automate when someone buys my course. They get automatically added to my email lists. They get automatically sent the access information. There are certain things that automation makes sense. But when it comes to content, automation does not make sense.  That's what content works the best as. That's what people want. They don't want something that's auto generated. OK, I even see people using software that auto generate stories for them to post. I'm like, what are you doing? What are you doing? This is not social media. It's becoming automated media. Your audience will sense it, your own conscience will sense it. And then the future, it's not going to work in the future because, you know, people don't like it. So I hope this is helpful. And the other thing I want to mention is that that, by the way, this live video has more viewers than usual because all of many of you are like, yeah, I want to learn how to automate things. This is not a thing you automate. Content is not to be automated. OK. Anybody who tells you that the only case where I see content being automated, I think that might work, is bigger companies that have teams for social media and bigger companies don't have a single voice. It's more like a brand and they have it's very artificial in terms of the they have to match the content needs to match the voice brand where it's us solopreneurs, us authentic businesses. We're not we're not doing artificial content. We're not doing content that's like overly thought out to be as authentic as possible, which is why, by the way, this is why live videos are being emphasized by the different social platforms. Why does Facebook emphasize live video? Why does Instagram, you know, emphasize that? Why does YouTube emphasize that? Why does Twitter even has live video? Why? Because humans like authenticity in the moment is authenticity. Not something I scheduled three months ago or wrote a year ago and just repost without any thought is not authentic. OK. And the algorithms, therefore, have noticed that, like I said, and that's why. So I hope this is helpful and thanks for those. Just so you know, my I'm testing something going forward where my my videos, my twice a week videos are going to be a bit shorter now so that I have additional time to try out IGTV Instagram TV. I'm going to start playing with that and putting my content there as well. If you want to follow me on Instagram, find me. It's at Geo Cal, someone else took George Cal and he never uses it. I contacted him. I tried to and he hasn't responded to me. I don't know what he's doing at G. G E O K A O on Instagram. If you want to kind of see how I do things there, I tried it for a while. I gave it up because I didn't like the one minute limitation. But now with IGTV, Instagram TV, IGTV now has 10 minute limitations. So I feel like, OK, 10 minutes, I could I could say something in 10 minutes. So that's why these videos are going to be shorter. I'll be I'll be on IGTV as well. And thank you for thank you for being part of my audience. I I'm always open to your feedback, to your questions. By the way, I'm not always right. In fact, if you believe everything I say, you know, it's then none of us learn, none of us learn new things, right? So feel free to challenge me, always ask me questions. Say, hey, George, so and so says this. What do you think it feels true to me? What do you think about that? Please feel free to do that. So thanks for those who are joining me live here, Lisa, Ryan, Alejandra, Miriam, Elisa, Arturo, Sharon, Caroline, Grayson, Danny, Daniel, Donna, Amanda. Thank you so much for being here.  Blessings.


Hello everyone and welcome to Blackstar Potential. My name is Lee Fuge and I'm here today with MusicTeacher.com and in this video we're going to be learning the classic riff from the track Layla by Derek and the Dominoes. The guitarist in this track was played by Eric Clapton who was going under the pseudonym Derek and the Dominoes at this point in his career. He recorded the original on a strat so I'm using my early 80s talk I strat for this in the second position which is the bridge and the middle pickup on together and the guitar tones you're hearing are coming from the Blackstar Silverline Standard. I've got this set to the crunch channel. The actual original version of the track was recorded with a small tweed style amp so to replicate this I've got it on the crunch channel with the six V6 response and everything is dimmed so the gain, the channel volume, all the EQs are all dimmed and the ISF is in the American side. You're also hearing the amp mic'd up with a Lewitt Audio LCT 440 condenser mic so here's the riff in full and then we'll break it down. So this riff has a few tricky moments but it should not be anything too daunting that would stop you from learning it so we're starting off with this simple hammer-on and pull-off phrase you're using the open A and D strings and the third frets. So to play this I'm playing the open A and doing a hammer-on to the third and I'm playing the open D doing a hammer-on and pull-off playing the third of the A and then the open D again. Then I'm doing this descending power chord run starting at the fifth fret of the A string. That was the fifth, the third and the first. So once we're in that first position power chord this is the bit that some people do find a little bit tricky. So what I'm going to be doing here is taking my first finger off playing the third fret on the D with the open A string playing the third fret of the low E string with my third finger and then jumping to a third fret power chord on the A string. You may find it more comfortable to play it this way and actually move your entire hand for that change but the way Eric Clapton would play this is by taking the first finger off and using the third finger to play that G note. Once I'm then in that third fret power chord position I'm taking my index finger off once more playing the open A with the fifth of the D playing that third fret on the E string again and then jumping to this fifth fret power chord on the A string.  So here's the full riff played slowly and here it is once more at full speed. So there you go guys there is the intro riff from the Eric Clapton, Derek and the Domino's track Laila. Hope you guys have enjoyed that riff let us know down below in the comments if there are any other riffs you'd like to see us break down in these videos. Don't forget to check out Blackstar Amplification on YouTube there's a bunch more riffs and other free lessons that we've broken down for you guys to enjoy and if you're looking for a guitar teacher please check out MusicTeacher.com and check out the Music Teacher Database there's a great network of teachers all around the country waiting to help you guys out. Thanks so much for watching and I'll see you soon.


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Welcome to JSA TV, the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals. I'm Jamie Scott-O-Kataya, here at beautiful Honolulu. Take a look at this drone footage, care of Excite Modular of PTC 2019. Joining me here today is my good friend, Mr. Philip Marangella. He is a chief marketing officer of EdgeConnex. Philip, welcome to JSA TV. Thanks, Jamie. Nice place to be. I know, can't complain. This is some view we've got. And we have some big news coming out of EdgeConnex. You've got some European expansion news. Can you tell us a bit more? Yeah, sure. This week we announced an expansion into Munich. It's a fourth market for us in Europe. It's our ninth data center in Europe. So we continue to kind of replicate the model that we've established here in the States. So now we're roughly 40 plus data centers around the world and 30 markets. So we'll continue that expansion. And why is the European market so important to EdgeConnex? What's important to us is our customers. And they're the ones that are really driving us to these new markets. Their demand asking us for markets like Munich earlier this year or end of last year we announced Warsaw. So they will continue to drive us to new markets around the world as they always have. And so any potential hints here or where are you going next? Yes, what we'll continue to do, you'll see more news from us this year in new markets in Europe. We announced South America, Buenos Aires, that will actually be going live later this year. So in general the data center demand from our customers is significant. So you'll see a lot more dots on the map coming forward. I love how you're going where your customers are leading you. Clearly a sign of a company listening and responding to their customers. Always a good thing. So EdgeConnex 2019, the word is expansion, growth, organic and an organic? Yeah, it's finding the right market, the right data center to support the right applications for our customers. So we'll do whatever it takes to help them go to the Edge. There you have it. And so for our viewers who want to learn more about EdgeConnex, where can they go? EdgeConnex.com. Yeah, it's a new site I hear. So pretty exciting stuff. Go ahead and check it out guys. EdgeConnex.com. Philip, always a pleasure. I'm so excited to have you here. Our first time I think at JSA TV. Proud to have it. And thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV. Happy networking. Aloha.


Not every Zionist is Jewish. And not every Jew is a Zionist. This is for Palestine, Ramallah, West Bank, Gaza. It's about same global as the interfauna. Listen closer. Free, free Palestine. And thank you all for being here. This rally is organized by Vermont Coalition for Palestinian Liberation. My name is Moe Singletary and I'm an organizer in the coalition. I would like to start us off by grounding us in the words of the Revolutionary of Saudi Shakur. Repeat after me. It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains. Thank you. We have a short speaker list before we are gonna head in to sign up. And if you're planning to testify and you haven't signed up in one of the sheets, come forward to the front and there are folks who have some for you. To start off, we have two students from UVM's SJP. Hello everyone. Can everyone hear me? Yeah. Okay. We're gathered here today because we have been bearing witness to the atrocities committed in Palestine for the past nine weeks and for the past 75 years. Some of us have been following the freedom fighters on the ground as they called for us to gather today and through our union, call for a ceasefire. As an out of woman, I have seen a blatant disregard for human life, for Middle Eastern and Palestinian men, women and children in the rhetoric of the media. I have seen the dehumanization of Palestinians where with their dying breath are asked to condemn the actions of others while simultaneously being blamed for their own martyrdom. Mayor Murrow has given us nothing but empty words, promises unkept and he has proved to us that he is disingenuous in his work as a representative of the people. He states that a ceasefire would not cause peace. Shame. Shame. But he cannot talk of peace. To him, we say, do not speak of peace when your words and actions actively prop up an apartheid state. Do not speak to us of peace when you support a state that imprisons eight, nine, 10, 11 year olds.  Do not speak to us of peace. Shame. Shame. We want liberation. We want the statement of dignity, of the human right that people can live on their land and raise their children. We need liberation for there to be peace. I implore you all to use your voice to go in there and point out the hypocrisy of Murrow and other officials and show them what peace really requires. Free, free, free, free. And they're gonna vote tonight on the most bare bones moral litmus test that Burlington has ever seen. And we're here to send them a clear message that their city is watching and the state is watching and the world is watching. Two years ago, they voted against the BDS bill. Their refusal to stand with our Palestinian community culminated in the shooting of three Palestinian boys in our city. Every coward in there who has refused to stand on the right side of this fight should hang their heads in shame. Shame. Shame. Tonight is their chance to make a small step towards undoing the damage that they have done and using their power for good for once in their careers. We will not forget what happens here tonight and we will remember the names of every politician that votes in support of genocide.  And regardless of what happens tonight, we will turn Burlington into a city against imperialism, against genocide, whether they like it or not. They will either get with us or get out of the way. Freedom within our lifetime. Freedom within our lifetime. Freedom within our lifetime. Free Palestine. Right, everybody. So as they just said, the city council stands at a moment of decision. Are they with Palestine or are they against it? There's no middle ground in this. You either oppose genocide or you aid and abet it. The US government is aiding and abetting the genocide with guns, with bombs, with political support, with vetoes in the UN. We are here to say tonight to the city council of Burlington and our mayor that you have to get with the majority of the world. You have to get with the majority of people in the United States who are demanding a ceasefire now. So what do we want? Cease fire. When do we want it? Now. What do we want? Cease fire. When do we want it? Now. What do we want? Cease fire. When do we want it? Next up we have April Fischer from Food Not Bombs. To you all tonight, as an anti-Zionist Jewish woman, as a person whose Jewish ancestry goes back countless generations, I refuse to allow Zionists to say that Israel stands for Jewish values or acts for the liberation of Jewish people. Take a hard look at the genocide happening in Palestine right now and ask yourself, is this what liberation for Jewish people looks like? Once Israel bombs every last hospital, every last school, every last kindergarten classroom, will Jewish people then be liberated? As Israel blocks humanitarian aid from entering Palestine, forcing doctors to perform surgeries without anesthetics, are Jewish people any closer to liberation? Of today's violence lies an essentially long, white supremacist settler colonial project. It began with the British who had the anti-Semitic goal of ridding England of Jews and establishing Western imperialist control over Palestine. Between 1948 and 1967, Israel expelled over a million Palestinians from their homeland and captured 78% of historic Palestine. Since 2007, Israel has maintained a suffocating blockade on Gaza, turning it into the world's largest open-air prison. Now, in this latest chapter of genocide, Israel has killed more than 17,000 Palestinians, including more than 5,500 children. One out of every 200 children in Gaza has been killed since October 7th. Now, are Jewish people any closer to liberation? Liberation for Jewish people means ending cycles of violence. Liberation for Jewish people means a ceasefire, demilitarization, decolonization. Liberation for Jewish people means liberation for Palestinians. Make some noise for April. Make some noise. Let them know we're here. We're not gonna look away. We're not gonna be silent. Hear from Jewish voices for peace. Welcome, everyone. My name is Dana, and I am another anti-Zionist Jew here with Jewish Voice for Peace. We're gathered tonight on the fifth night of Hanukkah to call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza and an end to the Israeli government's genocidal onslaught against the people of Gaza, which has killed over 18,000 people and threatens full ethnic cleansing. We are unified in our support for the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement, unrestricted humanitarian aid, Palestinian self-determination, right to return, and equal rights. We call for Israel to free all Palestinian prisoners and hostages and for an end to the occupation and apartheid system. No matter how bleak, the Hanukkah light never extinguished. And so even in the darkest time, when the Israeli government is massacring hundreds of Palestinians every day with U.S. funds and arms, neither will our commitment to act. The genocide of Palestinians is being done in the supposed name of Jewish safety and Jewish Zionist institutions, many here in the U.S., continue to provide moral cover for the Israeli government and military to continue ethnic cleansing. As Jews for Palestinian liberation and JVP members, we reject this narrative. Tonight we are here specifically to support a proposed resolution before the Burlington City Council for a ceasefire to Israel's genocidal attacks on Gaza and conditions on U.S. aid to Israel. At the public comment tonight, you may hear Zionists try and make the case that supporting a ceasefire is anti-Semitic. We know this is a dangerous lie. That's right, Dana. The real anti-Semitism is the assumption that all Jews support the settler colonial state of Israel. That's right. We say not in our name, not in our money, and we call on the mayor and the city council to use their power to pass the ceasefire resolution tonight and support the referendum to make Burlington an apartheid-free city. The Israeli government is counting on us to be too tired to keep organizing and showing up, but the people of Gaza refuse to give up, and so do we. This Hanukkah, we rekindle our own commitment to struggling for a ceasefire and to struggling for full Palestinian freedom. We are here tonight and gathering across the country in growing numbers to say no more. Cease fire now. Palestinian freedom now. Palestinian freedom now. Because Palestinians deserve safety in Gaza, in the West Bank, in Palestine, and here in Burlington. Woo! We recommit with everything we have, and we will not stop until Palestinians and all people are free. And now we invite you to join us in lighting the Hanukkah candles. This year, these eight nights, we are not celebrating, but holding a vigil for the eight weeks that Gaza has been under siege in the eight decades of occupation in Palestine. Woo! Just getting our menorah set up. Now you're lighting the menorah. Some technical difficulties. Kid is Shah Nubim, it's full time. Thanks, Dana. We should be clear that the entire political establishment is against us. Both parties, the Democrats and the Republicans, there's only a handful of Democrats that have shown they have principles. The rest of them have lined up voting for bills in support of Israel. They've lined up either voting for the equation of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism or in a sign of shameful cowardice have abstained. As the great socialist historian Howard Zinn said, there is no neutrality on a moving train. You have to pull the handbrake of history and stop the madness. But we should also be confident that all our demonstrating, all our sit-ins, all our occupations of buildings, all our disruptions of meetings is beginning to turn people to our side, including those in the establishment. We know we are the majority. 80% are for a ceasefire in the Democratic Party. 66% overall are for a ceasefire. We are a majority. And here in Vermont, because we've taken that majority power to the streets, to protests, to confrontations at Becca Ballant's fundraiser, we've begun to flip the political establishment in Vermont. So Becca Ballant is now for a ceasefire. Peter Welch is for a ceasefire. The only exception in our congressional delegation is Bernie Sanders. We are here tonight to tell Bernie Sanders to get with the majority. As a socialist, as an internationalist, he has a responsibility to stand with the oppressed without exception. And we're here tonight to tell the city council that not only should you pass the ceasefire resolution, but you should also include the pudding of conditions on all aid to Israel. But we are also here to say much more than that. All aid to Israel should be immediately suspended. No arms, no bombs, no money, nothing to a state that's carrying out genocide. Not in our name. Never again means now. All right, everybody, please give it up to Wafiq Fawor from Hunters for Justice in Palestine. Salaam alaikum. I wanna start this by saying happy holiday to my siblings, my sisters and brother from the Jewish faith. May this season give us the light, all of us to see each other as a humanity. May this season give us the light for more courage so we will walk through this dark, dark tunnel together. Our freedom from our Jewish siblings, the freedom as well. This resolution written by some members of the Berlington City Council, it is their language. And I wish everybody who agrees with the language, it is watered down or not to stand by it and supported for the struggle of Palestine. One stab for all. If it comes to us to write a resolution, it will be five words resolution. We would have called for a stop genocide, ethnic cleansing and simply free Palestine. But when you are in Rome, you do what the Romans do. For that, please be all disciplined inside. You're going to hear language you don't like. You're going to hear a lot of lies, don't get upset. Be determined, but please take a little bit of Palestinian patience and look them in the eyes and stand up with your testimony. Be courageous, make Vermont courageous, make Berlington courageous to stand with justice one more time. We are not alone. There is many resolution across the United States is going. The waves are with us, the wind in our back and the victory is coming and freedom for Palestinian people coming. So please, calmly, let's enter inside, be determined and say the right thing for history. The people who will vote against this resolution, history will judge them. The people will coward and stand against justice. History will judge them. So please make stand and thank you. Thank you so much. It's humbling. The Palestinian in Gaza, Palestinian everywhere, they're going to hear about this. Free Palestine! Free, free Palestine! Free, free Palestine! Free, free Palestine! Free, free Palestine! Long live Palestine! Long live Palestine! Long live Palestine! Long live! Just a few words about tonight and then we can line up to testify. The city council is an executive session now until six o'clock. We wanted to end early so that everybody could line up and assemble to testify. We also wanna tell people that when you fill out the form, the item number that you will be speaking to is item 8.1 and on the issue regarding right ceasefire. And then put your name, Burlington address, et cetera. That's all straightforward. But it's 8.1 and ceasefire. The other thing is we have heard that the city council will suspend the meeting if we disrupt the proceedings. So tonight we are gonna respect that because we know that our arguments are infallible. We know that if we get up and testify, we are on the right side of history. We want our words to be heard and we don't wanna give them an alibi to suspend the meeting so they avoid taking a public position. We want our testimony to be heard. We want their vote to be documented. And when loser draw tonight, this is just the beginning in a long fight to free Palestine. So if you have enjoyed the Vermont Coalition for Palestinian Liberation, April who spoke is going around and will take your email address and add you to the Vermont Coalition for Palestinian Liberation email list so that you can hear about all the other demonstrations, actions, et cetera. The final thing, this is a stepping stone for the referendum that will be on the ballot in March. That referendum is a popular vote for or against Burlington becoming an apartheid free city. We wanna use tonight as a platform to then go out into the community, into the workplaces, into the schools, into the colleges and universities and make the case that everybody should vote for Burlington to be an apartheid free city. When we brought the same thing to the city council, they scuttled it.  We are gonna stand as Burlington for a free, free Palestine. So please tonight be disciplined, don't disrupt the event, testify, let your arguments speak and let the arguments win, lose or draw and then we're gonna win the referendum to make Burlington an apartheid free city. So everybody calmly assemble inside the chambers and we'll line up to testify.


We really wanted to grow the local food economy at all points. So we wanted there to be more agricultural production happening. We also wanted there to be more local food processing happening. And we really saw the need to sort of work on both of those at the same time. The capital investment upfront to invest in a commercial kitchen is huge. And most small businesses just aren't going to have that capacity to do that right off the bat. Us providing that infrastructure to them and building the community of support that they need to get going is really what allows them to dream about what they can do and how they can grow their business. Here at the stir we call our members stir makers. The stir makers when they come to the stir kitchen, they have access to our large scale commercial dehydrators as well as our kettles and skillets for making jars and sauces and using our semi-automatic filling line. We also have a bit more of a flexible style of equipment such as convection ovens, gas ovens, gas range and a deep fryer so that people can do meal prep businesses, food service, ghost kitchen kind of operations and catering. The infrastructure support from the food hub, it takes away some of the financial risk but it also takes away the time investment and the knowledge gap that a lot of producers have. We work with processors that they used to work every day in the kitchen maybe five hours a day making maybe 40 jars per run. And now they're able to come into our kitchen and scale up to a thousand jars per day using our filling machine that's semi-automatic. So that way they can take five days in the kitchen to one day in the kitchen and have more time to work on their business rather than in their business. We have so many community partners that this is built off of. So we have our partnership with Community Future Central Interior First Nations who run the Quisselton Kitchen which is a mobile processing trailer. And that project is so exciting because it means that we're able to take the vision of the food hub out into our rural Indigenous communities and support those businesses to grow where they are. And eventually the hope is that then they would be able to scale up to come to Kamloops and work out of our main stir kitchen when they're ready to do that. We think of ourselves as a food incubator. We're really trying to springboard the next generation of entrepreneurs here in Kamloops that are making local food with local ingredients. And it's not a goal to keep them here forever. We're happy to see these businesses graduate and do their own thing. That's really the ultimate goal. Opening the stir has been one of my proudest accomplishments in my life. And I want to see a community where everyone has enough food to eat that is healthy, local, delicious and available to them.


Planning my time. Priority. A priority is something that is important to you. Some examples of priorities can be spending time with your family or completing your homework before watching TV. Prioritize. Prioritize means to put things in order of importance. Many people prioritize by creating to-do lists. The most important items go at the top and the least important at the bottom. Important. Important means necessary or valuable. If asked, many people would say that spending time with their family and taking care of their health are very important to them. Urgent. Urgent means that something needs to be taken care of right away. Fixing a broken-down car on the highway is an example of something that is urgent. Less. Less means not as much. Xiao enjoys talking to his friends online, but it is less important to him than finishing his homework or spending time with his family. More. More means to a greater degree. Mariko's career is important to her, but spending time with her husband and children is more important. Productive. Productive means being able to get things done. Making a plan and following it often helps people to use their time in a productive way. Create. Create means to make something. A way to keep track of everything that you have to do is to create a calendar. A calendar helps you organize and plan your time effectively. Calendar. A calendar includes the months of the year, days of the week, and dates. Calendars help people organize and keep track of the things they have to do. Event. An event is an activity or special occasion.  Schedule. A schedule is a plan for the things that need to be done and the time that they need to be done. A class schedule shows which classes to go to and when. The end.


This is Royal J. Harkins, daughter. Greater Southwest Insurance in Los Angeles. Yes, Mr. Harkins. If you're flighting to York, you can catch a midnight jet to put a ride here at 4.20 in the morning. Oh, I can. There'll be a room for you at the Beverly Hilton for whatever rescue you may require. And I'll see you at my office promptly at 9 a.m. Well, I'm sorry, Mr. Harkins, but I'm tied up this evening, so I'll grab a morning flight and see you about noon. No, 9 a.m. here at my office. Why? What's the big emergency? A conspiracy. All right, then. I'll see you first thing in the morning. This radio network brings you Mandel Kramer in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-tact expense account. America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator, yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, the Greater Southwest Insurance Company Los Angeles office. Following is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the Four Seas Matters. Item one, and this does go on the expense account, I've dined for a phone call to Betty Lewis, the one gal who really counts for your truth. Oh, darn. I can't, Johnny. I'm sorry, hon, but I've told you from the time I started chasing you until you caught me, this sort of thing would happen now and then. I know. Look, I'll call you as soon as I get back. Okay. I'd love it.  We'll let's do it again. Oh, take it, please, sir. Oh, yes, here you are. Good, Mr. Dollar, get right aboard, please. Yeah. Well, good-bye, dear. Oh, and come to think of it, the dollar's promised to stop and visit me all the way to Europe this fall. Oh, the dollar's still what's the name? Yes. Mr. Dollar, would you like to hear a word, please? Oh, look, I've got to go, baby. I've got to go, baby. I've got to go, baby. I've got to go, baby. I've got to go, baby. I've got to go, baby. Oh, look, I've got to go, baby. The real beauty, too, Johnny. You'll love it. I'm sure I will. May I close the gate, please? But I understand she's married now. Oh, really? Wait here, Johnny. I need the plane, I'm not sure. Just go do us a right thing when she's here. The dollar? Oh, look, would you please? Break it off? The plane is waiting, please. All right. All right, I'm coming. I'll fly to a landing in L.A. International.  All right, Mr. Dollar, I knew it. Mr. Hawkins, it was no problem. I know, I know, I know. I've been on the poles of the airline. I'll wait for you. Okay. And listen, the name of our client is Crutton. That's C-R-U-T-T-E-L. Harvey Crutton. That sounds familiar. We see his import company, Crutton, Carding & Gallagher. So? Harvey Crutton is the senior partner, a man of about 15. He and his wife live out on Mulholland Drive, about a mile beyond Sepulveda. You know where that is? Yes, I think so. Here you are. Put it in your bag. All right. Now, how much insurance on this man, Crutton? Two hundred and fifty thousand, double indemnity. And his wife is the beneficiary? Dari Scutton? Dari. But more important, Dollar, according to the partnership agreement with Carding & Gallagher, his share of the business will pass to them. Oh, this conspiracy you told me about. Yes. They're after him. Both of them. Here. Look here. In yes of his favor. Like those 62... Man threatened to kill businessmen. Yes. Now, this other item right next to it. Man threatened to kill business partners. They ran the same item twice. Read them, sir. Read them.  Yes, yes. Now, read the other item.  There. Do you see? No. Oh, now which one is it? Kellinger and a night club are carding at a restaurant. They're threatened to kill him. Both of them. Don't you see, darling? Both of them did. You take that kind of threat seriously? Why? Because Crutton is bad for their business. He's one of the most disliked men in the city of Los Angeles. Well, again, why? Oh, shady deals and generally bad, moral character. Crutton has more than any client I ever had. Really? Well, I could name you a scorer of people who'd be glad to see him out of the way, be glad to help him out on his way. How about his wife? Because he won't sell out to him before the business goes completely to pot. Wilbur carding hates him most of all. Well, except perhaps for young Kellinger. What's his beef? Well, Crutton is quite the playboy. He said he's married. Oh, he is. He is. Wait a minute. You mean that Crutton is... That he's been... Yes, darling. His own partner's Earl Kellinger's wife. And judging by these news stories, it's out in the open. It's public news now. In other words, there's a telephone call for you. Huh? Mr. Arkin? It's the Boots B, or whatever that is. Oh, yes, yes. I told my office I'd be here. Oh, all right. Come on, come on. Do you honestly believe that one of his partners would go so far as to kill him? Yes, and that each of them would do everything possible to protect, to ally by the other. My sin. Oh, now, excuse me, will you? Oh, my name is Harkins. Thank you. Hello? Yes? Yes. Oh, I see. Yes, well, have you notified the... I see, I see. Thank you. Wait, wait, wait, darling. That was my office. Oh, yeah? They just received a call from Doris. Are they Cruton's wife? Yes. Cruton is dead. Oh. And, darling, that means that he was murdered. You have to stay alert.  The safe way to stay alert without harmful stimulants. Remember, when you're driving, working, studying, and monotony makes you feel drowsy. Work up. Work up with no dose. No dose. As his wife said, the police notified her only a few moments ago. There was some trouble identifying the body. Where? He drove an imported sports car in the Nerva Petini. Expensive. It would seem from what little the police told her that he lost control going around one of those tight curves, but they're a mohollum drive. Dead man's curve. I see. He tore around through the guardrail and dropped some 300 feet into the canyon. Tell me, was Cruton a pretty wild driver? No, no, no, no, no, no, definitely not, in spite of owning that Nerva Petini. That car was purely a matter of prestige for him because of its cost and exclusivity. I doubt it. There are more than three of them in the whole state of California. I can believe that. In any event, they've finally done it. They've murdered him. In spite of the fact the police claim he simply lost control. I believe otherwise that he was killed first and he and his car were pushed into that canyon or that somebody cites right in or forced him off the road or something like that. That somehow he was murdered. Do you find out when it happened? Sometime after midnight, he didn't know exactly. Well, I guess I'd better get going. Yes, Stella, get him out there immediately. Right. At the top of the pulpit of Boulevard, I turned left on Mulholland Drive to the mile of the circle of the Cruton Dress. But I'd gone only half that distance when I came to what was obviously Dead Man's Curve. A couple of power cars were parked there, also an emergency truck with a powerful crane on it. After showing my credentials to a patrolman who was busy keeping traffic moving, he came across as a way I had to have a slit and a half stumble down the perturous side of the rocky canyon to where the sports car lay and bits and pieces. You might see us if you turn around the climb and back to where you are. Oh, there's this guy. Johnny! Oh, Conroy. Sergeant Conroy, now Johnny. Well, congratulations. How are you, Mike? Oh, fine, Johnny. Of course, Mike. Where is it? Now, Doc Homie was here and said it was the accident cars that's there, so they hauled what's left of them off to the morgue. An accident? No, a suicide. Doc of course had to do a post-mortem to look for alcohol or poison or whatever, but he found no sign of anything irregular here and Doc's right, he found it. Exactly what happened, Mike. Now, you try to take that car too fast. Just look at the way this thing is wrecked. And I'll tell you this, Johnny. Yeah? I checked with a man that did his service for him. And this car was in absolutely perfect condition. Well, even so, Mike. And I'll tell you something else, too. He must have had breaks when he left the house. I know where he lives. He couldn't have backed out of the steep driveway without him. But he didn't use them when he hit that curve. Nope. Or he couldn't. One more thing. Yeah? Nobody sideswiped him. He charged at him to make him swerve suddenly. You sure? Well, we're sure. No other trucks were out of luck of them. Have any idea how fast he was going, Mike, when he plowed through that guardrail? Hamilton had asked me figures about where he first hit the side of this canyon on the way down. He must have been doing close to 90. Hmm. All right. Okay, Mike. Now, I'll grab this, Johnny. Some of these guys who own these hot rods drive much too fast when they get out of city traffic. But they lose control because of too much speed. It happens all the time. So? But you know what this looks like to me? You know what I think? What do you think, Mike? Suicide. That I doubt. From what I hear about the man, he wasn't the type. Well, why do you leave his home around midnight, then? Who set that time? Doc Holme. He has to look at... Ah? What's the matter? Okay, Gordon. Lower the swing whenever you're ready. And I'll tie it under the left. Okay. What's going to be taken, Mike? Back to headquarters. The lab crew will take another look. After that, it's up to Mrs. Kruppen. See him yet? No, not yet. Oh, why did this? But a strange one. Oh, why do you say that? Not despite of all their money. She works like a handyman. And the way she dresses, and that old geloppice she drives in, well, you'll see. Yeah, I think I will. Why not? Okay, Gordon. Lower the way. In the morning sun. The outside was all freshly painted and obviously by an expert. Someone who really cared. Even the floor of the garage was painted black behind grease marks. And the so-called geloppie parked in there, well, it too was spotless and a real beauty. Do you like it? Oh. 1938. Cleaner and runs better than the day it was born. I enjoy it myself. The museum's whole street retains it. It all works. And it runs better than the day it was born. But come into the kitchen, will you? Sure. You're Mrs. Kruppen? That's right, Darius Kruppen. Are you another policeman? No, my name is Dollar, a Johnny Dollar. The insurance investigator. That's right. Been hoping to meet you for years, Johnny. I'm a fan of yours. Well, thank you, ma'am. Call me Darius, huh? If you like. Here. Take one of these wrenches and tighten up the wall bolts while I hold this sink in place. You're installing this new sink yourself? Why not? I do all the fixing around here. Why? Just like the car, it's my hobby. I want to do something to keep you busy. Hey, to vegetate. Oh, dear. I get a bang out of all this do-it-yourself jazz. Uh, Mrs. Kruppen. Darius. All right, Darius. Yes, Johnny? Oh, you know, for a minute, I thought maybe this hard work, well, this sort of activity was just to keep your mind off of what's happened. But I guess I was wrong, wasn't I? I don't think I know what you mean. Well, I mean that it's rather evident you aren't terribly upset over your husband's death. Oh, you don't. No, why should I be? Johnny, it's the one thing I've been waiting for ever since I married that miserable man. Treat your taste kindly with kent. Want to give up marsh-tasting cigarettes? Treat your taste kindly with kent. Want to give up rough-tasting cigarettes? Treat your taste kindly with like the right filter cigarette. That's kent, that cigarette that made the filter famous. Let's you get away from cigarettes that sometimes taste too strong. Too harsh. Refines away harsh flavor. Refines away rough taste for the mildest taste of all. If you want to get away from strong harsh-tasting cigarettes, change to kent. Remember, the finer the filter, the milder the taste. Treat your taste kindly with kent. Want to give up marsh-tasting cigarettes? But his insurance is half a million now because of his accidental death. Anything wrong with that? Johnny, once I found out the rougher he was treating me like dead under his feet and with other women all the time, I stopped entitled to anything I could get. I still feel that way. Tell me, Doris, where were you when he left the house last night? You can check, Johnny. I was at a poker game with some girls I know. I got back about 1.30. I saw that his car was missing. I think it often was. So I went to bed. Then this morning the police came and told me what happened. After they got through, I called the insurance office. Where was Harvey going, do you know? Whoever knew. Some cozy rendezvous, I guess. Johnny. Mm-hmm. Did you ever meet Earl Kellinger's wife, Mara? No, why? Just wondered. But why have you come here? Do you think maybe Harvey's death wasn't an accident? What do you think, Doris? Well, I have no reason to think it wasn't. That's all I know is what the police told me, yet. Yes. Well? Johnny, it's either Wilbur Carding or Mara's husband, Earl Kellinger, did get to him somehow. Did manage to cause that accident. All I have to say is thanks. Well, sorry if you like. Any importance, except that Doris knew more than I did. So I left. Item five, a dime for a phone call to headquarters to Sergeant Mike Conroy. No, Johnny, Doc didn't find a thing. No charge of alcohol or anything in his general condition, that's who it was. And he didn't apply the brakes? Mike, I'd like to look at that, Con. Well, sure. Good, I'll be right over. Before doing so, I dropped in at the three C's import company. Earl Kellinger looked anything but sad over his ex-wild partner's death. Sure, I'm glad he's gone. Sure, I'm glad. Not only because of the business, but now it'll give Mara out, that's my wife. He'll give her a chance to come back to her senses again, behave like a decent wife and mother again. And you'll forgive her, Kellinger? She's only a kid, darling, a naive kid. And if Harve had a chance to charm her with his funny manners and all his money, well, maybe it was partly my fault, because I was so tied up with his business. Just the same, you had a mighty powerful motive for wanting to kill him, didn't you?  Hey, wait a minute, darling. You mean that crash wasn't an accident? Where were you late last night? On a train. I'm only back from San Francisco, a business trip. I got in here at eight o'clock this morning. Can you back that up? For sure I can. Asked Wilbert Carding. He was with me. I was afraid of that. And three of our salesmen, too. Ask them. Ask the cops. They checked us out. Listen, darling. All right. Just keep your show down. I think that Wilbert Carding gave me exactly the same story. So did the salesmen that they'd had with them. The police had checked their alibis thoroughly. They both insisted that I call headquarters to confirm the fact. So kind of left me sitting there with egg on my face. All right, now, Mr. Dollar, be honest with us. Do you really have any reason to think it might have been murder? Well, Mr. Carding, I guess I thought I had. What reason? Motives. Your motives. Yours and your partners. The only motives that seem to make any... Now, wait a minute. Hold everything. Yes? What is it, darling? Three Cs. That's the name of our company. Yes. Three Cs import company. Yes, I know. But there's another one. A fourth C. Excuse me. What? I'll see you later. Punch? Not by a long shot. Because of something Betty Lewis had said to me before I left Hartford. About Doris planning a trip to Europe this fall. Doris alone. I drove to headquarters and back of the place, a crew was going over what was left of the maneuver that she named. And here, Johnny, look underneath lineup of the tools for one of these babies. Here under the rear deck. That's exactly when I came to look at them. Especially molded velvet line compartment for every one of them. Even the lug wrench. And all of them in the metric system instead of American standard. Wait a minute. Yeah? Where's the little tool that was supposed to fit in this compartment? Well, it could be most anywhere in this mess. The brake system and the maneuver patchini and the bleeder valve for letting air out of the brake lines. Johnny, you think maybe somebody could have opened that bleeder valve just a hair? It's a possibility, isn't it? Oh, but you can't tell by looking at this wreck. It's too far gone. I know, Mike. But a special wrench is where I think it is. Mike, I'll see you. Want to tell me where it is? If you mean the tools I used to fix up my older lobby. Yes. Including this very special little wrench metric system. I guess you know them, don't you? For a maneuver patchini, isn't it? To fit a bleeder valve on the brake line. You loosened it, didn't you? Just a little.  Why, Doris? Why you? Somebody had to do it, Johnny. I'd waited so long and nobody else would.  I shouldn't have, I guess. No, Doris. You shouldn't have. Once again, it's up to the courts. I suppose if she hadn't done it, somebody else would, like her, and the mistaken belief he could have gotten away with it. Expense account pool including mileage on the rental job on the trip home. 40123. Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Can you get premium gasoline performance at regular gasoline price? Find out what so many other car owners have found. In free out of five cars, regular price Sinclair Dyno gasoline matches performance of premium gasoline. Saves you up to four cents a gallon.  Drive with care and buy Sinclair Dyno gasoline. Truly, Johnny Dollar is written by Jack Johnstone, produced and directed by Fred Hendrickson. Johnny Dollar is played by Mandel Kramer. Also featured in our cast were Grace Matthews, Mercer McCloud, Frank Milano, Wolverkin Seller, Vivian Smollin, Robert Dryden, Joseph Boland, Barbara Cliffle, and Larry Robinson. Music supervision by Ethel Huber. Sound patterns by Walter Otto. Technical supervision by Fred Turner. Be sure to join us next week, same time, same station for another exciting story of yours truly, Johnny Dollar. We'll talk in a second.