Lle dim yn ymddangos, dyma'n rhys! Hei, peti'r ffordd, mae'n rhys ac rydw i'n ei ddweud i'r gwaith o tales yng Nghymru Llywodraeth C.O. Cyngor mewn gwelio ddu alw erion. Eyna'r mwyfawr y gallwn, mae'n dda i c roi gael, dyma'n dweud o gwelio mae'r gwaith o'r gweithio. Wrth gwrs, maen nhw'n dweud o half gwrdd, mae'r dda i ddweud o'r fwrdd o gwaith, mae'n dweud. They are pretty much the best ones out there. So this is basically other things that you can use. So, to begin with, when people talk about SEO, they generally mean, I want to rank high in Google. Now, Google has very much a love hait, mainly hate relationship with SEOs in general, but they do provide tools to website owners that can help you along. The first tool is Google Analytics, which is free, and basically Google Analytics tells you how many people arrived at your site, where they visited, and where they have left by. This is not strictly an SEO tool. This is a tool generally for anybody who runs a website, and show of hands really quickly how many people are familiar with analytics. So, pretty much everybody. Most people are familiar with it, but here's something you may not know. When carrying out SEO projects, you generally need to prioritise work, and one of the things you do to begin with, which is more user experience, is to try and speed up the site. It can be a case of prioritising certain pages and prioritising certain areas of the site. So, if you go in Google Analytics and go to Behaviour, Site Speed and Site Suggestions, you can find the slowest pages on your site. You can also find the most popular pages on the site, and those are good pages to start prioritising, because they are the busiest pages on the site, and the slowest. It also integrates with Google PageSpeeds to offer some sort of recommendations. Now, some of those recommendations you will not be able to do, because they are pulling things from other services, but you may give you a few ideas on where to start. Some recommendations may be site-wide, and others may be for individual pages. The next tool is Google Webmasters. Again, this is free and is formally known as Google Webmaster Tools. This one gives you a little bit of a technical overview of your site and how Google sees it. So, it tells you how quick it took to browse your site, what was the bandwidth used and various other URLs on your site to check. You can also then provide it with some information how you want Google to see your site. So, you can provide it if you want a WWW prefix or a non-WW prefix. If you've got a .io domain, you probably don't want to rank in Google's Indian Ocean territory, because there's probably not that many people, so you probably want to rank in the western world. So, you can specify the country you wish to rank for, and you can also define what site links show up when people Google you. There is also some ranking data as well. It's probably the best ranking data you'll get from Google without paying them. So, quick show of hands. How many people are familiar with Google Webmaster Tools? Okay, so a few of you. Again, here's my little top tip for it. It's to switch on email alerts, and you can do that by going to the gear icon in the top right-hand corner. I don't know if you can see that. And go to search console preferences, and you can switch on email alerts. When I first, when I did this, it is actually switched on by off by default. Now, this was about four years ago, because it's linked to your Google account. So, it may be switched on by default now. Basically, what this will tell you is it will tell you if they think your site's been hacked, if a manual penalty has been applied. And it will also tell you things like, oh yeah, by the way, you need to update WordPress. Now, WordPress itself will be quicker in telling you to update WordPress, but this is something else that you've got. It goes to the email address that's linked to your Google account, so make sure that somebody is checking. And if nothing else from this talk, please make sure that analytics and webmaster tools are on your site. The reason being is that one of the questions I get all the time, particularly in Manchester WordPress user group, is who do you recommend for SEO? And I've got a few people who I do recommend. SEO's jobs generally rely on interpreting data and making the best use of data. The more data you can give them, the better job that they can do. So, my advice would be if you go away from this talk, make sure you've got Google webmaster tools and Google analytics on your site. Even if you never check them, and even if you don't think you're ever going to use SEO, make sure, just make sure, because who knows what tomorrow may bring. Okay, so when generally you start an SEO campaign, most SEOs will generally tell you to install this tool called Google Tag Manager, which is free. And what this does, it allows you basically to easily add meta tags to your site to validate services. So, you can add things like Google, AdWords, and things like Crazy Egg, which is like a heat map tracking tool, and things like that. It's quite useful because it allows people to add things to your site. I mean, when I say it allows people to add to you, it doesn't allow everybody to add things to your site, so basically anybody who's allowed to add things to your site without playing around with templates and things like that. I will show another tool that does something very, very similar. The beauty of this, there are two beautiful things about this. First one, it has an audit trail. So, you can see what people have been doing to your site and adding things, and you can tell people off if they've been doing something naughty. The other really good thing about this, and this is for people who are generally not very comfortable with code. Quick story for you, I've got a client, one of my clients is an author. He sells his books on Amazon, e-books on Amazon, iTunes, Kobo, I think it's another one, and various other publishing services. His way of converting on a site is he doesn't get conversions on the site itself. His conversions are people leaving his site to go to Amazon, to go to iTunes, and things like that. Now, there is a way to, if you're familiar with code to allow Google Analytics to track it, it is quite complex. It allows you to do quite a lot, but if you want something very, very simple, you can set this up in Google Tag Manager really, really easily. So, if you're not familiar with code, use this instead. Okay, next I'm going to talk about a few tools. Tools are basically non-wordpress related tools that I use. Okay, the first one is one called Screaming Frog SEO Spider, which is free up to 500 pages, and if you want to browse more than 500 pages, it's £99 a year. It is a website crawler and spider tool. So, what happens is you put your website or a list of URLs you want to check into the top bar, which is on the top of this page. I don't know if you can see it, and it will go through your site, crawl the data, or it will crawl the list of URLs you've added. It's a very, very quick way to give a basic overview of all the pages on your site. It will allow you to see status codes, so it will tell you if it's 200, 301, or 404. It will tell you what those status codes mean, so if you don't know that 404 is a page not found or 301 has moved permanently, it will tell you. It will tell you the content type, so if it's JavaScript, JPEG, HTML page, or CSS or whatever, any meta information associated with it, so title tags, headers, whatever, and also where it's linked from. Two reasons I use this. The first one is if I did a migration once, and I had to check that 1,600 URLs were going from one place to the other.  So that's quite useful. The thing which I use it kind of on a month-by-month basis is to spot deadlinks that are on your site. So you can go through there, and you can kind of find 404 links. You can find out where they link from, and you can go ahead and fix them. Now, there are a lot of broken link checker plugins out there, and you may be wondering why I would recommend this over a broken link checker. The reason being is broken link checker plugins generally are quite a bit of blow to the database. This is actually really lightweight. If Google can spy on your site, this can. So it's pretty safe, and it's quite lightweight, so I would recommend that. Next tool is a tool called Majestic, which is free for your own sites, but if you want to look at other people's sites, it's £44 a month. What this is, is it will check backlinks that are pointing to your site. I'm quite old school when it comes to SEO, so I'm still like of the keywords and backlinks and everything like that. So it's moved on a lot since I've probably got out of the game. So this basically checks the backlinks pointing to your site. It tells you if they're clean links, so if they're no follow or do follow, it tells you the anchor text, so how they're linking to you, is it through an image, or is it through a keyword, and they also give an opinion on how strong that link is. So they crawl the internet and they have their own algorithms, which are separate from Google's, but they give an opinion on how strong those links are. Basically, every now and again, it's good to see who links to you and if there are any bad links that are linking to you and you can go in and check them.  Next tool is a tool called Surplab, which is free, but there is a paid one which starts at $4.99 per bot per month in dollars. This is another one of my old school things. It's a rankchecker. It's a very basic functional rankchecker. My advice would be not to rely on rankchecking. Treat it as a metric, be aware of it, but don't make it the be all and end all of your site. A very quick example, if we were all to get our mobile phones out, don't all get your mobile phones out, but if we were all to get your mobile phones out and check for something like plumbers, for example, you'd probably all end up getting the top 10 results pretty much around London unless you've been looking for plumbers recently. When you all go home and assuming you don't live literally 20 minutes away from the Emirates over there, it will tell you your other rankcheck, it will tell you plumbers from where you are located. It also things that you've looked at and previous search history, so they are very, very personalised, but this is just going to give you an overview of ranks. What I do is generally when I'm writing a blog post or writing a blog page, I will put whatever, if there is like a Yoast Focus keyword, so if I want some sort of Google traffic going later on, if it's not just a news post, I will put whatever the Yoast Focus keyword is into Serplab so I can track it, and it gives you like 30 days worth of data for free. So I just find it really, really useful. The next tool is a tool called Answer the Public and I love Answer the Public. Generally speaking, when people come up to the first line of defence when people say, oh, how do I do a good SEO? They start with the line, oh, create great content, which is really kind of, I struggle with that, and the reason being is it's like saying, oh, the reason, the way in which you can win the 100m gold medal is to run really fast. It's a little bit of a disconnect, it's going from one thing to another, and nobody really tells you exactly how or to create great content, so this is quite a good tool to start with. It's a tool to kind of generate content ideas for your site. So for example, I've got a Pilates client or I've done some work for a Pilates client and you go in here and you put in the word Pilates. It will find keyword suggestions based on Pilates. The other thing it will do is begin to ask a few questions so it will say what is Pilates, where can I do Pilates, various other things, and it produces it in a really kind of nice graph like that. You can then go through all these keywords, this is not Pilates, this is WrestleMania because I was at WrestleMania last week. I'm jet lagged, but never mind. So these are all keywords related to it, and you can go through these and get relevant ideas for pages and blog posts. This is a really easy way to get generated traffic to your site because you're basically answering questions that people have. Over time, people are asking more and more questions and they're asking questions through search. A classic example is how more and more people now are searching using the mobile phone and voice. So you're not going to go Pilates, Manchester, you're going to go OK Google or Hey Siri, where can I find Pilates training, that's a word, in Manchester. So you're going to get more formed question keywords. The way you can see this on a day to day basis is things like newspapers do this all the time because they have pages on their site which are things like what day is Christmas day. It seems like a really strange thing to put in a newspaper, maybe not, I don't know. But the reason being is they want to rank for that phrase and then it will be like OK, oh yeah, by the way, if you want to go to Lapland and see Santa Claus, here's the flights from the nearest airport by the way and that's a way of getting traffic generated to the site because they use all their things. But that's just a quick example and I do like answer the public. OK, link building and outreach, five years ago this was so, so easy. It really, really was because it was basically spamming and it worked so well and anybody who said it didn't work well is a pathological liar as far as I'm concerned. Nowadays there's a lot more in common with traditional PR and that is a talk in itself and I'm not the man to give you that talk because I don't like speaking to people. So these are things that I find useful and these are more like geeky tools to kind of reach out to people and things like that. OK, the first one is a tool called Harrow which stands for help of a reporter out and is free.  It also does separate by location so there's a UK list, I think there's a European list and an Australian list or something like that. And then three times a day every single weekday you will generally get an email look something like this. And it's basically reporters asking for help on various things. So if we have a look at this, the first one there is how will Brazil's recession affect its IT sector. Now I don't know about you but I know nothing about Brazil's IT sector and I didn't even know they were in a recession. So I can't really offer an opinion about that. However, generally on average about three or four times a month I can find ones that I can reply to and actually give an opinion which maybe were something. And then what will happen will be they will write the piece on whatever their thing is and they'll include my opinion within it and then they'll cite me as a source. And it varies, you know, there are a lot of requests, it varies from simple anonymous requests. I have seen the CNN and the BBC in here so there are some good sources in there. And my advice is if you don't hear back from them either they email you back or there's no sort of link track into all the things like that. Whatever you wrote to them, turn your reply into a blog post. I have been known to outrank the pieces that they've written which they didn't include me, which can annoy them a few times but never mind, should have included me. So yeah, there's that. OK, the next tool, Crystal, crystalnose.com is free and this is terrifying. You have to sign up via either your Facebook or your Twitter or your LinkedIn. And when you do, I was going to do this with somebody in here but I decided against it so I decided to do it myself. It builds a profile on you and your contacts. And then it kind of looks at the language and looks at how you will speak to people and it tells you how to send emails and speak to them. So for example, if you are emailing me, use an emoticon. Now, if anybody's ever received an email by me or checked me on Twitter, I use a lot of emoticons in my emails. So generally emoticons are good because I'm really bad at reading between the lines so a smiley face is a good thing as far as I'm concerned. When working with me, schedule meetings over food and drink. The fact that I picked up a XXL t-shirt shows that I quite like my food and my drink. So yeah, that's really, really, you know, so yeah, when working with me, food and drink, good. It also gives you some predefined templates such as inviting people to an event, asking for advice, asking for a favour or asking for a raise, which is quite interesting. So my piece of homework for everybody in this room is my boss, Alex Moss, is on crystal. So feel free to connect with him and ask him on my behalf to give him me a raise. Thank you very much. Okay, just going to finish off a little bit with some WordPress plug-ins. First one, insert headers and footers. This is one of those plug-ins that doesn't leave any sort of anything to the imagination because it allows you to pull headers and footers into the page, a little bit like Google type manager.  So if you don't want to give Google all your data and still want to add headers and footers really, really easily, use this. The reason why I like this is that this plays really well with Yoast SEO. There are a lot of plug-ins out there that will strip Yoast SEO's data. This one is to use in conjunction with it, and it plays really, really well. Next one, Jetpack, which is also free. Most of it's free. It has a module called the Enhanced Distribution Module. So WordPress.com has a big Piper post.  And every single post is publicly available to the best of my knowledge.  What Enhanced Distribution does is it puts your WordPress.org or self-hosted blog posts into said pipe or fire hose. And whilst Google doesn't read the fire hose, many other services do. So lots and lots more people become aware of your blog post a lot quicker. Excuse me. And it helps to get your blog post index a lot faster. So for what it's worth, you might as well just activate it if you've got Jetpack installed. Excuse me. Next one, this is quite a new development called the Accelerated Mobile Pages Project. And this is a plug-in called AMP for WordPress. And Accelerated Mobile Pages is a project backed by Google. And this is an automatic plug-in running on it. Now Google does back a lot of projects such as Google Author Profiles, which is dead. Google Wave, which is dead. And Google Plus, which is dying, you know, so I was nearly there. So all because Google backs it doesn't mean that it's going to be around forever, but this seems to be the one that they're getting behind now. AMP basically is a way to serve content over mobile faster. And Google does seem to suggest that they want to rank sites that have their standard for standards for some reason better in Google. Now, I don't think they're doing it straight away, but they are marking sites and saying this is an AMP backed page. So anyway, what you do is you install this plug-in and you go to any page on your site with the forward slash AMP. And it produces a very, very simple page with little styling and almost no scripts. And it is quick. It is very quick because it's a very quick way to load a lot of content. The problem with it is that it doesn't work well with complicated sites, e-commerce sites. It doesn't really work with particularly well at the moment. But if you are a content-rich, heavy site, you might as well add this plug-in so you can rank better in mobile search, in theory. And what happens is it canonicalises to the original blog URL so you won't have duplicate content listings in the search engines. And you can actually template it as well, so you don't have to use the original styling, but it requires a little bit of knowledge of filters and actions. One of the other standards is Facebook's standard, which is completely different. And there's another plug-in called PageFrog, which uses Facebook Instant Articles and Google AMP pages, so it does both Facebook and Google. And the other beauty of this is if you're not familiar with templating is that it does allow you to use simple stylings. It also allows you to integrate your Google Analytics. Now, I'm not entirely sure if AMP does yet. It should do, and considering it's a Google standard, you would think they'd include Google Analytics, but there we go. So it allows you to style things very, very easily. You do have to activate it on every single blog post, which is a bit of a pain.  I don't know if you can see that, but right at the top it's purple and it has my picture instead of the WordPress logo. From speaking to people, some people have had problems with PageFrog and some people have had problems with AMP not validating Google Webmaster Tools. I've got both activated and I haven't had any problems. So it's still quite a new standard, so it's going to be changing. And there's four standards because Apple have one and somebody else has one and I can't remember who. Oh, I think there's like an open standard as well. Finally, check search engine visibility on migration and allow me to indulge myself for a minute because this is my plug-in. And it's free. So another quick show of hands. This box in WordPress.  Oh, there are a few honest people in here. Okay, that's good. Okay, because I've done it so many times and I've put dev sites live. It's great when they get inquiries as well. It's great. It's like, I've got a freeing of dev site. This will tell you basically if the search engine box is ticked and Yoast plug-in does this as well. However, it will also tell you basically if it is ticked or you're aware of it being ticked. The other thing is, should you ever change domain? So if you ever change the site URL. So if you go from dev.site.co.uk to site.co.uk it will check again to make sure it's still ticked. If so, it will ask you that question again. So therefore, you can stop putting sites live with that box ticked. So thank you very much for that indulgence and thank you very much everybody. All right. Thank you very much indeed, Rhys. I suspect we might have quite a few questions on the floor. Quick, if you have a question for Rhys, please raise your hand and we'll get to you as soon as you can. Okay, we'll start at the front and work towards the back. Rhys, just a quick question about the AMP and other plug-ins. How does that... Is it necessary if you go a responsive site would you still recommend installing these plug-ins? Yes. Basically responsive will... depends on how well the site is coded. But generally speaking responsive basically is just the actual full site shrunk down in width but not necessarily taking a lot of the scripts out. So if you've got say like a slider, for example you shouldn't use sliders at all. But if you have got a slider you probably don't want it on mobile because it'll dominate the actual thing. So why would you load the scripts to it? Because generally speaking some people when they do responsive it's just like display none. So they still load all the scripts but they hide it. So AMP will strip out a lot of the things which will make your site a lot faster as well. And say for example if you've got like a WP Rocket or Cloudflare would you still... I still would use it. I'll be perfect. I've not played with WP Rocket or Cloudflare but I would probably still use it because I think as well is that it does cache something on there. It's still quite a new standard. But generally speaking the smaller your site is the quicker it will load anyway. So it kind of makes sense and it's more for scripts as well. So you don't really want to load too many scripts. Sorry is there any reason why you haven't mentioned say Moz or Ahrefs because we come from a very much an old fashioned link building background and we obviously go and undo lots of reputation issues for people and we have to use all the tools and it costs a lot of money. I only use tools that I use. So that's why. I mean I know Ahrefs is one, Moz is another one. From my background I've always used Majestic which is why I mentioned it. So it's not because I'm not aware of them. I would feel bad coming up on stage and saying oh yeah use this tool by the way I've never used it. So that's why. But yeah there's nothing wrong with them or anything and I'm pretty sure they're very very good. As SEM Russia was talking with somebody last night about that's another tool. So there are other tools out there. It's just these are the ones that I use which is why I recommended them. Do we have another question maybe something more from the back of the room over there. Thank you. Do you think it's worth installing Jetpack just for that one feature because it seems like quite a large plug in with loads of things. It's up to you. From my understanding Jetpack is very good if you switch off certain rules if you switch off certain packages except for if a package is not activated should I say it will not run on your site those packages so it's actually quite it can be quite lightweight to the best of my knowledge and they seem to know what they're doing so my yeah it's it's for one thing you may not want to put that on but even if you do it probably won't add a huge amount of blo to your site generally speaking because it's all they are quite light if you take those packages off generally. Okay a further question or okay I get to answer questions now. So AOMP is coming through. That's quite new. I'm going to look into the articles Apple news the open standard are those actually making as bigger difference as we all went when we saw them appear maybe two three months ago or do you think it shouldn't worry about them too much and the core tools are still what it's about. Yeah from what I've seen with first of all the site of load generally are a lot quicker so if you've got a content rich that works really well for news based sites for those ones it loads really really quick and if you care about your content you want your content loading quicker as far as ranking goes I've not the only way I've noticed AOMP is in the news section of Google is that any page any site that has the an AOMP activated it will put AOMP next to it that's all I've seen so far people seem to be talking about it being like it could be quite a big thing but I haven't quite seen it yet but it can take time okay we might be okay for now we might be okay for now further question oh there we go against the wall over there I think we've got time for a few more so review your notes of the presentation maybe we have another question yes sir when you do a search in Google AOMP is like a star or there's a picture or there's extra information which Google picks up what is that so generally speaking those are what they call schema s-e-h-e-m-a dot org it's a way of structuring your data around certain things so the stars generally are for things like reviews so a very very quick example one you can do is and they kind of share a lot of data so things like recipes show up and things like that it's a way of putting data into your site and it's like a HTML language I think at the moment I think there are other ways of doing it and if Google recognises that data it will generally display it dependent on how well it views your site so a good example would be cinemas for example there is a standard for like cinema listings or film listings so it will say right Batman vs Superman is on a 610, 720, whatever time and it lists all the times you say the film name and then you can also link to the review of it so if you think it's good or bad then it will list the star rating as well so that's something called schema.org which you can probably check out but it is fairly straightforward to set up one of Google's tools as well is the rich I didn't put it this in the rich snippet checker which will allow you to view once you've actually structured your page to include schema.org data you can put that URL into this checker and it will validate it to make sure that it looks okay and everything is set up but when will Google get round to your site once you've done that remains to be seen but it does depend on what you're using it for a lot of SEO companies I know got into trouble a few years ago from Google because what they did was they gave themselves five star ratings on their homepage and Google was saying oh yeah this is a five star SEO company and it was so they got in trouble Any more questions? I think in that case then what we might do is wind up because I'm sure quite a few people would like to have a one to one conversation we should probably end up with


It was very soft. It was very shiny. Moisturized. It felt really good. And then it dried. Hi guys. Welcome back to my channel. Thanks so much for tuning in for another video. For today's video I am going to be doing one and done product wash and go. I'll be using a product from the Curls line right there. So it's hot and humid here in the south and I have been trying to find products to combat frizz. My hair gets so poofy and so frizzy it's already like cotton as it is. So I like to kind of wear my hair out more during the summer months. I like definition. But I want to make sure that I have the right products on my hair so my hair can withstand these humid temperatures. So finding products to hold my frizz down and to keep my curl definition is been a little difficult. I found maybe one or two here and there. But I want something a little lighter. I didn't want something too thick that is going to wave my hair down like a heavy gel. I just wanted something a little more lighter that still has some pretty decent hold and can combat the frizz. So I was in Kroger and I were having a sale on some natural hair care products. And then I saw the Curls line and noticed they had a sale on some of their products and they had a gel. This is Goddess Curls Botanical Gel Frizz Fighting Botanical Holding Gel that is formulated with certified organic mango and shea butter and Plumeria Flower Extract proving to revitalize damaged hair and adds moisture. This product contains no sulfates, silicones, parabens, artificial oils, colors, or fragrances. So the claims of this product states this botanical gel will banish frizz define and hold your curls in place without the stiff crunchy feeling that most gels give. It's alcohol and protein free and ideal for humid climates great for all curl types. It don't get no better than that. This is a natural dream to read stuff like this on a bottle banish frizz. I like those words free of this free of that ideal for humid climates define and hold. So as I was looking at the products the first thing that stood out to me it said frizz fighting and that's what I was looking for. So I'm hoping this gel is going to perform well on my hair. I hope it's going to do my hair some justice in fighting this frizz. So we're going to find out and I'll put the ingredients in the description box below so you can check it out. Okay so my hair is freshly washed. I just have it under this plastic cap just to keep the moisture in so that way my hair doesn't dry out. So without further ado we're going to go ahead and jump on into this thing. Let's get started. This goddess curls botanical gel this stuff is actually really good. Now as far as the frizz we'll have to see about that so I will go throughout my day and give you guys an update and I'll put that at the end of the video but yeah there was no trouble getting this product through my hair. It was pretty moisturizing I would say a little tacky but that's okay. It wasn't all that bad but it was a little tacky. What was so crazy is my hair once I took the bun at all it started drying so my hair was pretty dry for the most part. It dried quickly and I was still able to get this product through and brush it through and it was just moisturizing my hair the whole time. So I had no trouble actually brushing it through with my tangle teaser which this is actually a really great tangle teaser. So I had no issues getting the product through my hair it was penetrating my hair so hopefully this does come back to frizz. Hopefully it does help because if so I'm definitely going to keep this in my hair stash because this is actually really great and it's light it wasn't heavy it was clumping my curls. As far as the claims of the product I can't tell you if all of them are true as of yet until I actually put this to the test and this humidity. So but for now I got the moisture um I don't think I'm going to get any crunch with this. It's a soft hole but it's a it's a pretty decent hole to be a soft hole. Now I know I said I was going to do a wash and go using just one product and that is true. This is still a one product wash and go video because I only use one styling product for my whole hair. I say nothing about the images. So I had put in my Insta story that I had got the Style Factor um gel but as it turns out this is not the actual gel. This is the pomade which is more like an edge control. So I was going to do a video on this because I thought I got the gel. I thought I got the right thing and I was just going to do a whole wash and go but I picked out the wrong product but I'm going to put this on my edges. This is just for the edges. This is still a one product wash and go. This is what the product looks like from Style Factor Edge Booster and this is in a grape scent and they come in different scents, different fragrances and this one smells just like grape. If you remember the Hubba Bubba grape bubble gone back in the day I think it was Hubba Bubba. That's what it smells like. It smells just like grapes. It smells so good. So I got my one little twist here. Got the edges laid on both sides. Hey! Of course the shrinkage is so real all my hair just went so it is about two days later and you can see my hair for yourself. So my thoughts this product. So with this particular product I will say upon applying this product and immediately after applying this product it makes your hair feel really really good very soft very moisturized curls popping really great shine really so this is two day old hair and I will say that my curls stayed. The definition is still there and with my curls they did not go flat for the most part. There are areas of my hair where I use more product than on other parts of my hair particularly right here. I did not use as much product in the middle of my hair so there are parts of my hair where I can tell I use more product than on other portions of my hair. So of course the frizz there was some frizz only because like I said I didn't use enough product. The parts of my hair why I did use more of the gel those parts are still defined.  I will say that it did not get frizzier. It did not get more swollen or bigger with the humidity it pretty much stayed kind of compact like I said a little mini fro but shrinkage my shrinkage looks worse than ever before. I will say this there was no flakage there was no residue. My hair feel like it has a lot of product in it. It feels like I got a lot of buildup even though I can't see it but I can feel it. It's not crunchy but it's like um it's rough it my hair feels rough but I'm gonna give this one more shot. I'm gonna give it one more shot because I like the initial look and application but I think I want to do something a little bit different um maybe double up on a moisturizer maybe add a moisturizer or something um but I'm gonna give it one more shot and then I'll let you guys know in the Instagram post I won't be doing another video on this product. My hair does feel stiff though it says without stiff my hair feels stiff. Get a little closer so you can see the definition. I do have definition the back of my hair is a little bit more frizzier. It just looks rough it feels rough it don't look good after the fact I'm definitely gonna wash this because this just it just feels awful. I will say this when it was time to reactivate my curls I just spritzed some warm water on my hair my curls liven back up they look good again they look refreshed it looked like day one but again I hope you enjoyed watching my take on this product and just my experience. 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Transcribe. Ladies and gentlemen, the railroad hour. And here comes our star-studded show train. Tonight, the Association of American Railroads presents the charming Broadway musical Irene, starring Gordon MacRae and his guest star Elaine Malbin. A choir is under the direction of Norman Luboff, and the music is prepared and conducted by Carmen Dragon. Yes, tonight another great musical success is brought to you by the American Railroad.  And now, here is our star, Gordon MacRae. Thank you, Marvin Miller, and good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Well, sir, tonight Elaine Malbin will be the unforgettable Irene. I'm a fellow named Donald Marshall, and I'm giving a party at my Fifth Avenue mansion. And of course, you're all invited. Here on Fifth Avenue is tracing our family background. You mean genealogy, Bob? That's right. Climbing up our family trees until we find William the Conqueror. Sometimes you climb your family tree and all you find is bark. That's called barking up the wrong tree. In the art of genealogy, we find the pedigree of your family tree. And if it's what it ought to be, the tint of blue is. If you want to find an uncle or a cousin or an aunt, we knew your tree. When it was a plant, we can make them what your family. When the nations keep beneath the cover underneath. Glad to see you're taking an interest in this new hobby. Breeding always shows. Oh, I don't know, Bob. John, you've got to help me. With what? Well, I put a lot of money into a new shop, a Modisse, Madame Lucy. I brought her here from Paris, but nobody's heard of her yet. Well, what can I do? Well, get some of your good-looking girlfriends to wear Madame Lucy's clothes, where other people will see them. Bob, I couldn't ask a gal to change her Modisse. She might think I don't like her clothes. I beg your pardon, Mr. Marshall. Yes, Clarkson? There's a girl from the shop about the seat cushions on the veranda. I'll be right out, Clarkson. Excuse me, Bob. Yes, of course. The cushions seem OK to me. Well, hello. Hello. Mr. Marshall here wished to complain about the cushion. Clarkson? Yes, Mr. Marshall. You can go. But the complaint... I have no complaint. Yes, sir. Well, what's your name? I'm the girl from the shop, Arino Der. I know your name, Marshall.  No. Not in this old shirt waist and this 98 cent hat. I hope you don't mind, but I've been peeking at all those really lovely girls at your party. They're dreamy. Gowns don't make any difference. Oh, yes, they do. I had a gown one. You did? Mm-hmm. It was Alice Blue. One of the women who comes into our shop gave it to me. It was just a cast-off, but do you know that originally it cost $85? Imagine that. I took it home and pressed it and fluffed it up, and I felt like a princess. Where is it now? It's gone. I wore it out. It just faded away. Oh, I wish you could have seen me in it. It was so wonderful. I even used to put it on a hanger. I once had a gown with all the dangerous things to squeeze. It's wonderful. Clothes make a lot of difference to a girl. Even if I do live on 9th Avenue, I love beautiful things. I've got a great idea. Listen, I'm going to see that you get not $85 dresses, but $300 dresses. $300? Irene, have you ever heard of Pygmerion and Galatia? They are a portable team. No, no, no. He was a sculptor and she was a statue. He decked her out in the most beautiful remit and she came to life. And they loved each other forever and ever. I don't believe it. Well, that's what I'm going to give you, Irene. Gowns and jewels and hats and slippers. You're going to be Galatia. Gee whiff. How much do you make a week at the shop? $15. Well, you're making $25 a week right now. And all you have to do is wear beautiful clothes, go to parties and tell everybody you bought them at Madam Lucy's. Is it a deal? It's a deal. Let me put down. Oh, mother. Why, a girl in this very tenement house was a model for clothes and hats. And it was her ruin. She got used to fine feathers and wanted to be a fine bird.  An old crow. All right, mother. All right. And didn't I have enough experience with your old man? He had to get a job in a distillery. Oh, daughter, did he love his work? He drank everything they made. Never hurt him could have killed him. Yes, mother.  Just out to sit on the fire escape. Oh, we owe you money. We owe you money. We owe you money. I guess all a gal can do is dream.  It's the rampart of a castle. We built our castles in the air and did the world go by. So half of dreaming in the sun in dream twelve Oh, shame there can't be more. Every girl could have all the garbage cans over there. And that isn't Mr. Maholi's washing, flapping in the wind. It's Mr. Marshall. Don, on the White Horse, come to serenade me. I want slippers, stockings, hats and gloves, under things, over things, everything. Design a gown. Beautiful gown this town has ever seen. Um, mademoiselle O'Dare. Do you have a color preference? Oh, yes. Blue. Problems she's sensational. Such boys. Such breathing. Oh, yes, Bob. You always said that yourself. Breathing shows. Uh, Don, which O'Dare family is that? Uh, the O'Dare's. You don't mean it.  All the other men at this party seem to have the same idea. Listen. Gentlemen, gentlemen, please, one at a time. Oh, I'm having a lovely time. Well, it says it should be, Miss O'Dare, because we all think you're the loveliest girl in the world. Gentlemen, I thank you. I only hope at midnight I don't turn into a publicist. We'll return in just a moment for act two of... Just imagine, if you will, the longest underwater electric power cable in the world, seven and one-half miles long. Then think of a 525,000-pound base for a huge steel tower. Finally, picture in your mind a tremendous mirror, 17 feet in diameter. Only the railroads, in fact, have the facilities, the flexibility, the ingenuity and inventiveness to meet the challenge of these modern-day transportation jobs. To begin with, only the railroads privately financed highways of steel could stand up under such weight, and only on the railroads' privately-owned network of steel rails can such outsize loads be moved with safety and efficiency and without jeopardizing the safety and convenience of motorists. To do these jobs, the railroads have designed and built special cars capable of carrying tremendous weights and furnishing extra feet of clearance. They have, when necessary, torn up their tracks, dug out the roadbed beneath them, and temporarily replaced the tracks at a lower level. And always they have taken full advantage of their extreme flexibility, their ability to use a large variety of alternate routes, if a shipment is too oversized to make it on the most direct routes. Now, the railroads' ability to adapt their operations and facilities to handle special oversized loads is vital to the nation's economy in peacetime and absolutely essential in wartime. But more than this, the railroads' ability to handle these difficult transportation jobs with the same efficiency and dispatch they use in their day-in-day-out job of hauling the bulk of the nation's freight is a clear indication of why the railroads continue to be the very cornerstone of our transportation system. Here's Act 2 of the Lawrence and Lee version of Irene, starring Gordon Macrae as Donald Marshall and Elaine Malbin as Irene. Oh, John, business is booming. Every woman in town is buying her clothes at Madame Lucy's and all because Irene has been the toast of every party. Well, I'm happy that you're happy. Oh, you have no idea. Don, I'm in love with the girl, too. I've asked her to marry me. Yeah? What'd she say? She said she'd let me know. Meanwhile, I've been investigating her family tree. Oh? What'd you find? I've had the top genealogy expert make out a chart. Paid him $500. It proves she's an aristocrat. $500? If you paid $1,000, Bob, they would have said her father was the Prince of Wales and her mother was Queen of Romania. You don't approve of genealogy? Oh, what good is a fancy family tree? It makes you feel like a potato. The best part of you is underground. Well, all right, here's the odour history. It's all on this scroll. Let me have that, will you? I'll be right back. Irene. Oh, Irene. I'm right here, Mr. Marshall. Oh, you having fun? Oh, yeah. I wish it could last forever. I've kept a diary, so if anything happens, I'll have something wonderful to read about, at least, when I'm an old lady. You know what I have here? The history of your family. Oh, dear. Does it tell about pop and the distillery? And about Uncle Gus and the Jersey cop? No, no. It's all about queens and princesses in Ireland. It's all poetry. Here, look. Oh, it's like a fairy story. And I'm in it. Yes, you are. A little bit of salt and sweetness. Irene, a dainty slip of rare completeness. Mannerism, magnetism, eyes of youth inviting. Dancing by, with glancing eye, the flush of her exciting siren. The sword who captures hearts to charm them. Careful beware. Here, now she's there, followed by her sets. Up she goes, down she goes. Everybody's pet. Near or far, there you are. Captured in the net of tippity, which Irene, oh, dare. Irene, a little bit of salt and sweetness. Irene, a dainty slip of rare completeness. Mannerism, magnetism, eyes of youth inviting. Dancing by, with glancing eye, the flush of her exciting siren. The sword who captures hearts to charm them. Careful beware. Here, now she's there, followed by her sets. Up she goes, down she goes. Everybody's pet. Near or far, there you are. Captured in the net of tippity, which Irene, oh, dare. That's so nice. Oh, I wish it was true. I wish it was for real.  But I'm the one who made it all up. That pig guy. Pigmalion. Yes. Did his gal ever have to go back and be a statue again? Or could she keep on pretending she was a girl and keep on being in love with him? Well, I think he was the one who had to pretend, because you see, she is so very beautiful that he never thought he was worthy of it. Golly. Ooh, be worthy. Just a little little smile. Oh, hi, Bob. What's up? Well, the party's almost over, and I'd like the last dance with the most beautiful girl here. Oh, no, no, no, no, you don't. Irene's gonna dance with me. I'm awfully sorry, Bob. I always said, Bob, the last part of a party was the most fun of all. You know that. Oh, the line. I wouldn't change your disposition, though I may have the intuition. Oh, not so much to miser, I should say. Oh, do tell. Now you're coming around, or else you wouldn't smile. And I know despite your attitude, you show a little gratitude and make the way we waitin' worth a while. Mother! Whoever snoozes on the corner of 8th Avenue told me where you'd been high on to me, fine lady. So this is why you quit your job in that shop to mix with these squirrels.  I should think so. Get out of those fine feathers and come back to your roost on 9th Avenue. Irene. Don't say anything, darling. Please. Well, this certainly changes the whole picture. I obviously can't marry you now. Well, nobody asked you to. Uh, Irene. What if a guy like me stood in line and waited, and maybe Sunday if she thought he was good enough for her, then maybe she'd want to go through life with him? Hmm? Do you hear that, mama? Mr. Big Mailing here is asking me to marry him. It sure sounded that way. Oh, you have lovely ears, Galatier. Oh, the saints' preservers look at them, too. They're in love. Oh, yes, mama. And it's just like in a fairy tale. Thanks to Verna Felton, Tom McKee, and to our entire company. Irene with music by Harry Tierney, booked by James Montgomery, and lyrics by Joseph McCarthy was dramatized for The Railroad Hour by Lawrence and Lee. The Railroad Hour is brought to you each week at the same time by the American Railroads. Every time you see one of the men or women who serves you by working for the railroads that serve you, and there are more than one and a quarter million of these men and women, remember this. For each of those people, it is at least one other person employed by the many industries that supply the railroads. Railroad purchases of materials, supplies, fuel, and equipment annually total up to several billions of dollars. They represent a realistic cross-section of the output of American industry and agriculture. The result is that in providing the nation's number one transportation system, the railroads not only create millions of jobs, but they are also one of America's best customers. Thank you very much, Marvin. Where are you taking the show train next week? Well, you just listen. You're going to be one of the three musketeers. No, no, you're wrong, Elaine. I'll be the fourth musketeer. And Dorothy Warren's show will be with us to fill the air with music. We'll all be listening. Good night, Gordon. Come back soon, Elaine. All aboard! Well, dear friends, it looks as though ready to pull out. And so until next Monday night, and three musketeers on behalf of the other members of the cast and of the American Railroads, this is your friend Gordon McRae saying good night. Irene was presented by special arrangement with the Tams Whitmark Music Library. Gordon McRae may be seen starring in Two Sailors and a Girl in Technicolor. Our choir was under the direction of Norman Luboff, and our music was prepared and conducted by Carmen Dragon. This is Marvin Miller saying goodbye until next week for the American Railroads. And reminding you, this month is Easter Seal Month. As you know, this campaign benefits the hundreds of thousands of crippled children who need the services of the National Society for Crippled Children. Won't you support the work of this organization? And now keep tuned for your Monday Night of Music on NBC! Transcribed. Stay tuned now for the telephone hour with Barbara Gibson on the NBC Radio Network.


What is up everyone happy Friday Friday before Labor Day weekend September 1st first trading day of September 2023 so don't trade a lot on Fridays usually but got in three and Off to a red hot start plus 565 in a volume runner in Tesla 309 in Roku try to mighty 90 and Netflix that didn't work and And gave me gave me two red bars, which it was a mighty 90 short But by the time I got those two red bars I was down to 80 in it, so I'll show you what I did so start off with Tesla right here big volume bar and I jumped in right here as it kind of With right when this bar closed. I just jumped right in It came down got out of half and then it popped back up to this pivot and I added to it And then it came back down and I got out of half and then I just kind of held on to it and I ended up getting out of it right here at this pivot and you can see what it did Things were getting really strong and I thought Tesla was gonna push through this pivot and So I ended up bailing on it right there But otherwise it could have been an even bigger win, but really nice add at the pivot helped me get that to a nice 565 profit Then Roku so Roku had this big volume bar Okay, so it popped up here and before this bar closed I got short and then I just you know it came down to about here I got out of half and I just kept scaling out scaling out and I got down to three contracts left at this pivot And then it bounced all the way up and when it came through this pivot. I got out and You can see that was a good out. So I gave I gave some back. So plus 309 would have probably been a $500 winner again if I would have got out down at this pivot, but And this and this is why I got out of that Tesla I just showed you because things were on a rip You know Netflix was on a rip so that brings me to my Netflix It had a nice mighty 90 here. So when it pushed back up here, I got short This is a good mighty 90s setup Continue to go against me and then it gave me two red bars Was hoping it would push down through here Maybe I can let it run, but it didn't so I just cut it right here at minus 280. So You know, it gave me two red bars, but it just had too much of a push up It's I couldn't I couldn't get it all back and it ended up being a red trade, but But you know, that's why I got some of it back And that's why you that's why you wait for your two bars in your direction If I would have finally got spooked and got out of it up here I would have been probably double what I lost, but I got some of it back By waiting for two red bars. So anyway, you know Friday before a holiday weekend I will I'll take it 594 can't argue with that can't be mad about that. So I Will see everybody back on Tuesday have a great holiday weekend be safe out there be tough Do the right thing Don't make excuses and never quit. Talk to you later. Peace


Today is a very happy day as far as I'm concerned I have seen brought to a safe and successful conclusion a very important operation which is the carrying out of a promise made by the President of the United States to the Prime Minister of Japan that we would remove these weapons from Okinawan soil and that has now been accomplished but most significantly it was accomplished completely safely and that was the prime objective. The purpose of this ceremony today is to pay tribute and offer thanks to all of you who are in formation today to the members of the 267th chemical company sitting to my left and through you to the more than 1,500 people who participated successfully in one of the most difficult operations ever accomplished by the United States military forces. I personally had extensive opportunity to observe the dedication to duty the great skill and the plain old-fashioned hard work which is performed by all of the people involved in the operation. I have only the highest praise for all of you and the highest commendation for your efforts. During peace as well as war an army must maintain its capability to respond to any assigned mission. Operation Red Hat removal of toxic chemical munitions from Okinawa to storage facilities on Justin Island exemplify this responsiveness. It was a mission involving meticulous planning by dedicated men to ensure the safest most efficient coordination of mine, muscle and machinery. The long hours under a swathing sun dried up reservoirs that caused water rationing the tense political situation the armies desired to complete the mission flawlessly for all part of Operation Red Hat. In 1969 President Richard Nixon told Prime Minister Asako Sato the US would remove the more than 13,000 tons of toxic munitions prior to the reversion of the islands to Japanese control. Planning for Red Hat began in the fall of that same year but due to delays in selecting a suitable storage site was postponed until January 1971. I promise to remove it and we will not return munitions of this type I am sure to Okinawan soil ever again. Phase one of Red Hat originally scheduled to begin January 11th was delayed two days at the request of Chief Executive Chobyo Yara of the government of the Ryukyu Islands who asked High Commissioner James B. Lafford to postpone the movement in order for the GRI to work out last minute details with the villages along the route. On January 13th the first convoy moved up from Chibana Ammunition Depot to begin its seven-mile trek to Tengan Pier. The second convoy departed Chibana on schedule moving along the route to the villages of Nemorikawa, Ikihara and Inobi without incident. Loading operations went without incident and the ship the USNS James E. Robinson was loaded late that afternoon and began the voyage to Justin Island early the next morning. Planning for phase two which included the construction of additional storage facilities on Justin Island began immediately. While extensive construction was being accomplished on Justin Island at alternate route was constructed through the Chibana Ammunition Depot to the convoys would for the most part travel on military control land. After lengthy negotiations the new road was constructed in less than two months with the government of Japan paying for the construction and the US providing the manpower for the project. A joint USGRI committee of specialists in all phases of the operation was established by High Commissioner Lampard and Chief Executive Yara to coordinate phase two operations. This committee published a joint safety plan, worked on medical problems, established emergency safety stations and contributed to the successful completion of the operation. In an effort to calm the fears of military employees working inside Chibana Depot, General Hayes and Mr. Sakai Nakamura representing the USGRI Safety Committee spoke to employees and explained the safety precautions that would be taken. Strike plans by the Okinawan employees were canceled when they learned of the safety measures. In spite of the exhaustive efforts that were made to relieve the fears and anxieties of the Okinawan people living along the Red Hat route to convince them that all possible safety precautions and then taken to protect their well-being all were not convinced. A demonstration by villagers living along the route erupted shortly before phase two was to get underway. But no major problems were encountered. Strike was averted and phase two was ready to get underway. The Red Hat commander addressed the participants, his theme was safety. To speak to all of you, we're going to participate in phase two, which is much longer, much more difficult than the job. But at least this time, when we're finished, it's all over. It's our job to see that the operation is completed safely. It's a principal consideration. So everything else has to take second place, the having the operation accomplished safely. This means that we're going to be going through many, many checks, rejects, third-check of people's equipment of procedures. As we go through this, I want each and every one of you to keep that thought under control in your mind at all times. And for a good as it, if you think there's some way that can be done more safely, please speak up loud and clear. The Red Hat area of Chabana Ammunition Depot was one of strict security and closely controlled entrants. The mission of providing security was assigned to the 267th Chemical Company, commanded by Captain William Goforth. During phase two loading operation, Captain Goforth traced the company's activities. Our main function in the Red Hat area of 267th is to package, load on trailers and ship to Tin Gan Pier, all chemical munitions stored in the Chabana Depot. Some of the procedures that we go through in order to do this is to check through our security gate, go straight to our dispensary, check through the dispensary, come back out, have a briefing from our section sergeants, collect our ammunition inspector, take escort representative, and go down to a site. We first have to check the site out with personnel in full-butyl rubber to ensure that there is no leakage inside the igloo by using the detectors or monitors. After we determine that it is not contaminated in any way, we open the structure up, spot a trailer in front of it and start loading the trailer with the electric forklift working on the inside and gasses working on the outside. After a trailer has been loaded, blocked, and braced with a plastic on it, the section sergeant will ship the trailer to the holding area which is inside the Red Hat area itself where tarps and placards will be placed upon the trailer and the convoys form. I will pick up the convoy, paperwork, escort the convoy out of the Red Hat area itself to the convoy forming area here in the Chabana Depot. In the Red Hat area there are a few men who stand by the igloo as the pallets are brought out and they check the pallets and the munitions over pretty carefully. Just what are they looking for? This is the ammunition inspector and tech escort representative. We are respecting the pallet for a good pack, loose bands, bursted pallets, and if we find any they are replaced and repacked on site. We are getting up in the company area now at around 4.30 in the morning and shutting down our operation no later than 1800 at night. This is a seven-day-a-week proposition. We are working four days on one day off per crew. They are working hard, they are doing a good job, and they will produce more. And the 267 is getting those trucks out on time? 267 will play with that. The convoy commander, accompanied by a technician from the 267th chemical company escorted the loaded trailers from the Red Hat area to the convoy holding area. Here the convoy commander inspected each trailer to ensure it contained the proper load of chemical munitions and that the munitions have been properly placed on all trucks and trailers and that the vehicles have been inspected by technicians from the 531st Transportation Company. At the same time, GRI representatives conducted their safety checks. After completion of the checks, the convoy commander briefed convoy members concerning the route and emergency procedure should any driver encounter a problem with his truck. Major Donovan Kirkpatrick, a convoy commander. There is a paramount importance in this operation. We are trying to be as careful as is mainly possible to ensure that there are no accidents or incidents with munitions. Everyone has a protected mask that I am wearing here. Additionally, each cargo bearing vehicle is equipped with a small hand decontamination unit. There are two decontamination trucks in the convoy and there is technically qualified escort personnel who are trained in the decontamination of the munitions themselves. The U.S. NSC lift arrived at Naha Military Port approximately a week prior to the commencement of Phase 2 for sheathing. Meldon Kerry, Chief of Terminal Operations, discussed the reasons for the selection of the ceiling. Square footage was the primary reason for selection of this ship. Most of the cargo on our first shipment will be stowed one high as opposed to normal storage for ammunition where you stack it about as high as it will go. This one high stow will allow the technical escort people who will be aboard the ship as it goes to Johnson Island to have access to and observe all the ammunition that's aboard the ship with relative ease. Emergency safety stations do constantly monitor convoy movements and provide evacuation, medical assistance and decontamination should the need arise or established by the U.S. GRI Safety Committee. These sites were placed at four strategic locations along the Red Hat Route with automatic alarms and micrometeorological experts standing by. The decontamination vehicles traveled with each convoy. Other decontamination trucks were at each emergency station and at the pier. Each truck carried a cargo of decontaminates to be used should the unexpected occur. A special technical escort team from Edgewood Arsenal accompanied each convoy. Only once was the technical escort team called upon to perform its task and that it was done only as a precautionary measure. While the fourth ship, the sea lift, was being loaded, a pallet containing 15 rockets dropped from a height of 40 feet into the hold of the ship. The impact caused the rockets to scatter about and was no leak or personal injury. After an inspection of the rockets, the tech escort team placed them in airtight containers when the journey to Johnson Island. Each convoy followed a set procedure for entry onto the route. After clearing the holding area, clearance to cross checkpoint 1 and checkpoint 2 was granted by the Airborne Control Officer. For clearance to be granted, no aircraft preparing to land or take off at Gideon Air Base could cross over the route while the convoy was moving. Another direct communication between Gideon Tower and the Airborne Control Officer was a must. At the intersection of highways 13 and 24, many visitors observed the convoy's daily. Each morning, when convoy's were scheduled, High Commissioner Lafford observed the operation along with Chief Executive Yara and other high-ranking GRI officials. And throughout the day, other senior officers from both U.S.A.R.A.S. and the Second Logistical Command observed convoys from this vantage point. Lieutenant Colonel Harry Bailey, the commanding officer of the 196 Ordnance Battalion, who was directly responsible for the activities within the Red Hat area, discussed the operation from the standpoint of planning. The 196 Ordnance Battalion has been involved for well over a year and a half. We could reflect back even further than that because we were the recipient of the munitions when they were first sent to the island in 1963-1965 time period. But in so far as the removal of the munitions is concerned, the Zion has actively participated for about a year and a half. Of course, my predecessor Colonel Ford O'Rourke, was one of the chief planners involved in the project and was the architect for the first move of the nine trailers, what we call the phase one move. It was completed on the 13th of January of this year. All of my companies had a bit of the action. The 267 chemical company is the principal participant in that they've had the responsibility for loading the munitions, checking the munitions before loading, and they've worked long hours in getting the trailers ready for the move. But we've had other participants too. The conventional ammunition workers from the 175th ammunition company that manages conventional death blow have participated by producing force or by sending us some 37 bodies to assist in the work of the 267. Our EOD detachment, the 50-wheat of EOD detachment, has a standby crew of five people, and rated all times to participate in case of emergency, and we certainly don't expect that. Captain Jack Evans is commanding officer of the 531st Transportation Company. It was his drivers who piloted their trucks from Gemana Depot to Tengan Pier. 150 drivers were used for the mission. One half hour was used to transit the route from Chibana to Tengan. This was because of the speed limit restrictions that were placed on us for safety. We were concerned mainly with the maintenance and the morale aspect. With maintenance, it was very time-consuming, making sure all safety items were checked. As for the morale, a few of the items that we tried for the individuals for their benefit to race their morale was the red hat pin, which you can see some of the drivers are wearing, the red hat themselves, and the emblem that's placed on the front of their vehicles in the shape of a red hat. Each evening, following the final convoy, the red hat task force staff met at the second logistical command field headquarters. Here, General Hayes and his staff reviewed the day's operations and prepared the convoy schedule for the following day. Many subjects were discussed, including weather, public affairs, maintenance, convoy operations, and loading progress. Trucks arriving at Tengan pier had assigned positions on the causeway while waiting to be called forward for the unloading process. As they were called forward by the pier crew, the technical escort team met each one, inspecting them to ensure there had been no damage to the munitions during the 7-mile ride from Chibana. Following this, pier workers prepared the trailer for unloading by removing the truffleant and plastic covering. Forklifts then moved the pallets of bombs, rockets, bulk containers, mines, motors, and artillery projectiles to the loading area. Once in the ship, another forklift was used to move the munitions to their storage area. Major George Jackson, deputy pier officer, spoke about the mission, the heat, and the performance of the men on the pier and in the hold of the ships. We've had a task force assemble within the director of transportation operations composed of Department of the Army civilians, military personnel. We have had additional advice coordination from the Coast Guard representatives, from Navy personnel, from the CNO's office, and from representatives of the Department of Army, tech escort team, primarily chemical officers and NCOs in here for the movement of this munitions under the safest of conditions equal to or greater than those requirements in continental United States. On Tengan Pier itself and on the ship, we have the 412th Terminal Service Company, which is located here on Okinawa. It's a permanent unit here. It's composed of 329 personnel commanded by Captain Ralph Lewis. As such, he provides me the stevedores to work the ship to include winch operators, hatch foremen, and the stevedores in the hold. These catch the ones that are taking the brunt of this heat. We're pumping a lot of water to them and we've only had one man that's had a dehydration problem so far in the first six days of the operation. How hot does it get down there? It can get up to about 110 to 120 degrees if you have no breeze. We've been very fortunate to last three days and had a good breeze. Captain Ralph Lewis, the commanding officer of the 412th Terminal Service Company, discussed the performance of his men during the 38 days loading operations were in progress. It's really hot and humid here and they do spend some long hours to meet the accomplishment of the mission. They rise about four o'clock in the morning and they're out to about 1,800 at night and that doesn't leave too much time. Johnston Island, a 700-acre atoll located 750 miles southwest of Hawaii, was where the sea lived, the first ship to participate in Phase 2 docked. At one time, at emergency airstrip, this small island was selected to house a 13,000 tons of munitions being moved from Okinawa. Work began immediately and since the storage area was but a mile from the dock, the offloading procedures moved along quite rapidly. Small convoys escorted by tech escort personnel moved back and forth between the new Red Hat area and the dock in a dawn-to-desk operation. The majority of munitions were placed in small metal warehouses with the more hazardous munitions, such as rockets, being placed in bunker constructions. Critical monitoring of the munitions also took place on Johnston Island with tech escort personnel checking every pallet and truckload of munitions. As was done in Okinawa, all safety procedures for securing the pallets to the trucks were accomplished in a safe and expeditious manner. I will give you a categorical complete statement that every round of toxic chemical munitions stored on Okinawa has now been removed. The last of them are on that ship right there. This action today completes the land phase of Operation Red Hat involving the removal from Okinawa of the toxic chemical munitions which have been in storage here. I want to say that I think that the fact that we were able to carry out this operation so successfully and as we had said that if not interfered with, we could assure that it could be done safely is a tribute to the cooperation that we received from the many people in the GRI government and elsewhere here on Okinawa. The United States will never initiate the use of chemical warfare. We have renounced completely the use of biological warfare. We are prepared to use toxic chemical weapons in retaliation only against a nation which may use them against us. The morning after General Hayes' press conference, General Lampert, General Hayes, Colonel Bailey at an official party including Japanese Ambassador Takase and Chief Executive Yara went to Chibana depot for a joint inspection of the empty igloos. Before I got in here yesterday, I had a good night's sleep for the first time in a number of months. I did start a reflection on the whole operation and what it's meant to me since back in July of 1969 when the headlines in the Wall Street Journal on a Friday morning put the Pentagon in an uproar over the fact that toxic munitions were stored on Okinawa and the political uproar that came out of that and subsequent to that the decision of the President and the promise that he made to the Prime Minister of Japan that the United States would remove all toxic chemical munitions from Okinawan soil and this became Operation Red Hat. General, how did Operation Red Hat get dubbed that? Actually, it goes way back to 1962. I was then the deputy commander at Edgewood Arsenal and we were under a very highly classified operation instructed to ship these chemical munitions to Okinawa. At that time, because it was such a highly classified operation it required a code name and we went to the Pentagon to the assistant chief of staff for intelligence who handles all code words and assigns them and merely asked for a code name which would not be of any significance to the movement of toxic munitions and someone in the Pentagon, in the lexicon that we used to use in Washington, probably some little old lady in tennis shoes reached down in her book and gave the word Red Hat at the time the meaning of Red Hat was very highly classified and it was really never revealed until 1969 when we began the removal of them and we just kept the same name. You might like to mention a few of the units and some of the commanders that under your direct control that helped move this in a very highly safe manner. Well, I think that the great bulk of the credit goes to the enlisted men and the company officers of the 267th chemical company, the 531st transportation company and the 412th port company. These three units aided by the rest of the personnel in the Second Logistical Command and a number of other units here on Okinawa bore the brunt of this removal operation. It has been an example, however, of joint inter-service cooperation which brought people here to Okinawa from all over the world. So I would have to mention a number of personnel and units, detachments that came from the Army, Navy and Air Force to support this operation and I shouldn't forget the Coast Guard eating. I believe in our convoys we had two Air Force sergeants riding the fire truck almost every day. Is that right? That's correct and as I ran the airborne control it was those tower men at Kadena Air Base who gave me all the advisories which permitted us to have the convoys transit the route carefully without interference from aircraft. The sailing of the U.S. and S. Francis X. McGraw on September 10th brought to a close the most successful operation ever accomplished by the United States Army Ryukyu Islands and in particular the men of the Second Logistical Command. More than 1,500 people were directly involved in the planning and execution of the operation. Air Force controllers at Kadena Tower Coast Guard loading experts on the ship. U.S. Navy technicians on the pier. Specialists embracing and blocking from the United States. Forklift operators and many more. The magnitude of the operation from just the viewpoint of the total number of convoys is a tribute to the planners and the doers. Including Phase 1, 1,222 trailers made the journey from Chibana Ammunition Depot to Tengan Pier. This operation completed so successfully is a story of the men who wore the red hat and were in fact the very pulse of red hat.


Welcome to the screencast on functions. This is a really important video, because functions are probably one of the most central concepts in all mathematics. You've already dealt with them quite extensively if you took calculus. What we'd like to do here is expand our idea of a function to include not only what you've seen in calculus, but also lots of other things as well. So what's the big deal about functions? Well, in mathematics one of the main ideas we think about is change. How can we change one quantity into another? Is it possible to change one quantity into another? In calculus you ask lots of questions like this about change. At what rate is a quantity changing with respect to time, or with an integral you ask how much change has accumulated in a quantity over a certain amount of time. This line of questioning continues throughout further subjects like linear algebra, where we ask things like if we stretch the x, y plane out a certain amount and then reflect it over a line, are there any vectors that don't change their overall direction? We care about change because the world changes and we want to be precise about the way in which change occurs. Functions are the tool we use to model and understand change. And functions really consist of three parts. First, they're the things that we intend to change. We usually think of those things as belonging to a set. Second, there is a rule that we follow that tells us what to do to those things to change them. And then third, there are the things that the objects in part one change into. Those also belong to a set, possibly a different one. So here's a simple example using numbers. For my set of things to change, I will let that just be the entire set of real numbers. My rule I will follow is given a real number, I want to round it up to the next higher integer. For example, if my real number that I start with is 5.2, then my rule says to turn the 5.2 into a 6, the next higher integer up. If my real number is pi that I start with, then this is going to get changed into 4. If I start with a 10, then that's already an integer, so the result is just 10. If I start with negative 3.8, then the next higher integer up from there is negative 3. Remember that negative 3 is greater than negative 3.8. And this rule applies to any real number. The set that contains the outcomes here is really the set of integers. So this is a different set than the one that contained the things that we put into the process. Now note that there's two important things about this process, too. First of all, every real number can be run through this process. There is no real number that cannot be rounded. And secondly, and very importantly, when I take a real number and run it through this process, the outcome is unique. That is, it's not possible to take a single real number, run it through the process, and end up with two different results. A real number will only round up to one thing, not two. Those two properties are very important for having the kinds of processes that we want. Now, here's another process that's very similar in how it works, but it's not something you'd normally see in a math class, and that's a vending machine. A vending machine is basically a large piece of hardware that implements the change process. How does a vending machine work?  How is this like our numerical process from the earlier example? Well, the things we intend to change here is a combination of money and text. You have to feed the vending machine both a certain amount of money and a code. The process is whatever the machine is programmed to do. It will read the amount of money, read the code, and then send the little robot arm or whatever inside the vending machine to get your food to the right place. And the outcome, that would be just the food that you get. So notice that the vending machine has these two important properties as well. Any valid combination of money and vending machine codes will, if the machine is working properly, return something. And secondly, if I put in a valid amount of money and a code into the machine, then the outcome is unique as much as I would like to be otherwise. Only one food item is going to drop out if I give it a certain amount of money and a code that's valid. So here's a third conceptual model to help us understand how functions will eventually work. And here at Grand Valley State University, every faculty member and student has an eight digit identification number called a G number. Quite often, for example, in the admissions department, we want to change names into G numbers. For example, if I want to look up one of my advisee schedules, I have to enter in their G numbers into a special website and not their names. But I know their names, but I have no idea what their G numbers are. So I have to have a process for changing a name into a G number. And that can be done via a special website that advisers can access. So let's run through and see if this has the three basic properties of any process we want to consider. The things that I intend to change here will be the set of all names of faculty and students at GVSU. The process of change is the computer program that's on our website that takes this first and last name combination and does a database look up and then prints the G number to my screen. And then the outcomes of the change would be the set of integers between zero and nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine. So notice again, with this process too, those two important properties hold. Any valid combination of first and last name, if put into this website properly, will produce a G number. And if I put in someone's first and last name, that person will have only one G number. It would be kind of bad if one person had two identification numbers. So the outcome of the query there is unique. So now we're ready to formally define what a function is and we'll do that in the next video. But for now, let's take away the things that all three of these conceptual models have in common. There are five things to note. First of all, for each of these conceptual models of a function, there's a collection or a set of objects that we are putting into our process. These are the things that we wish to change. Secondly, there is a process that carries out that change, or at least describes how we're supposed to do it. Thirdly, there is another set that holds the outcomes of that change. And then fourth and fifth are two important properties. Fourth, any valid input to the process needs to produce an outcome. And finally, any single valid input to the process produces only one outcome and not two or more. So those five ingredients are the keys to defining a robust notion of a function that will stand up to the use to which we will put it. Thanks for watching and stay tuned.