Winner Home on Afternoon Express with three design contestants are turning three empty properties at Valdivia State in the Cape Wildlands into dream homes using finishes provided by Caesar Stone and Plaskon. Vote for your favourite and you could win. Yes that is right, it's time for Winner Home on Afternoon Express and did you know that you can increase your chances of winning that grand prize apartment if you buy any Plaskon product in SMS the keyword Plaskon. The last six digits of that barcode and your full name to 32979 this puts you in line to win a golden ticket which allows you to be one of the finalists in the grand prize competition. Teas and seas do apply. Today we once again are on the couch for our weekly private property chat where we take a look at a breathtaking home and its surroundings but before we get into that our Winner Home contestants recently met up with their mentors to discuss plans for their kitchens. Let's see what they have up their sleeves. Team Old Decorations Minentla and Bal Bellingham have big plans for their kitchen. Looking at the trains the kitchen space is becoming a place where people want to show off their talents and they want to have fun and show off their cooking skills with whoever interacting with in the dining area or the lounge area. Picking up from the concepts I had in the other rooms the industrial steel having exposed storage which is also going to act as a decorative element just to bring life into the kitchen and maybe slot in some plants in there. I've also taken into account the ergonomic triangle which sort of limits the steps one takes in the kitchen so everything is close to you from the cleansing to the cooking area up to the fridge. So what I'm doing with the flooring is I'm using it as an element to define my spaces so I'm using different flooring in the kitchen here compared to the rest of the open plant space so I saw an opportunity of creating a feature where the two meet so I created this nice pattern transition pattern so it's definitely something to look forward to. I love the veneer you've chosen I love the palette and I think in terms of a resale and investment point of view it's I wouldn't say safe I think there's kind of nuance brilliance in it but it's not it's not going to offend anyone so I think that's great. Maybe what you can do is bring in a bit of colour again to express the personality think about the people that are in this kitchen. I think the best thing about kitchens now you don't have to take them so seriously so you've got your structure and your exquisite skeleton so now you can kind of play a bit think about the lady maybe in terms of your your exposed storage what are you going to put there. So I think you're on your way I think if anything just stay in close contact with one design make sure that they understand your vision your exposed storage what are you gonna put there. Even though Rudolf's mentor real estate's Michelle Snadden is currently in London the two are still meeting up thanks to the Wi-Fi at Valdivie. Rudolf has concerns regarding not having a formal dining area but Michelle is not worried she says the Central Island plays an important role as it pulls out from the main kitchen area and with the beautifully contemporary bar stools she feels Rudolf is creating a real designer kitchen slash dining room area in the open living space. Thanks for all that advice Michelle I really appreciate that enjoy London. Meanwhile Joanne and Sumin Brunk of Team Vizi are relishing a little shopping inspiration.  I know I love shopping. So all other spaces are very neutral and relaxed and minimalist but for our kitchen and our living spaces all the energy is we're going for a more dramatic effect. I'm so happy that you're going for dark. Dark kitchen cupboards are very untrained at the moment we've been sitting with oaks and light woods for such a long time so it's a new thing it looks very sophisticated and it contrasts beautifully with white. You can create a lot of drama but you're having piles and piles of light-colored whitish ceramics. How do you think I can bring in some light elements to contrast that? So I think that it will be a very dramatic look and it will be totally sophisticated and then you contrast that with a light color on the wall and obviously your snow white Caesar stone island. Food looks brilliant against white so whatever you put on that counter is going to shine. I'm bringing copper because we're bringing copper into the whole apartment and appliances I'm thinking we should go for white to contrast the dark wood. How else do you think we can bring in some light colors? Oh I'm so happy that you're doing that because copper is really the trendiest metal at the moment. Gone is the stainless steel and all of those copper creates a beautiful glow and any food looks beautiful on it and it will contrast beautifully with your dark wood and the white counter I think you've got it wrapped up. Wow some pretty interesting ideas then I do know that Joanne is going to have to put everything she's got into this challenge because Rudolphs won two immediately as won one now it's all up to Joanne to blow us away with that kitchen and her final challenge. Now moving on to something very interesting that I love doing every single week today we're joined by Anthony Strubel Pam Golding's marketing director he's here to share a breathtaking home situated in the pristine beach town of Camps Bay. Now I must say Camps Bay is such a beautiful space to be. Stunning. Without the view like what more do we need to sell us a beautiful property there. Why is it such a sort of a space do you think? Well because it's a holistic enclave I mean it's surrounded by wonderful mountains 12 Apostles lines head yeah probably one I don't know if it is the best top 10 beaches in the world but I think it should be. I think it has been listed yeah. So wonderful beach the strip the Camps Bay strip so you've got wonderful nightlife and then I think they're nooks and crannies it's quite an unusual suburb because they're all different kinds of nooks and crannies different kinds of homes as opposed to being sort of homogenous it's quite heterogeneous in terms of a place to live depending upon what you need. Everything else in the sort of western Cape area is sort of segregating to little bits and bobs. Camps Bay's got this it's kind of here to here. Exactly. North facing you know beautiful views beautiful sunsets some best sunsets in the world and then I think positioning close to town close to Hark Bay on that beautiful road so it's highly unusual I think in that regard from a world perspective not a short Africa perspective. You know I'm very interested in investments and I keep saying this every week because it's something that fascinates me it's changing its dynamic it's always new and Camps Bay I've always understood to be quite a highly populated area lots of lots of property lots of demand for the space. Well there's no more land. Yeah well there's no more land. Which is interesting so talk me through why that area is such a good space to invest in because aren't people going to move away because it's so populated and busy or does this mean that because it's so busy it's just going to keep growing invest now. Well I think an interesting stat there Dan is that more than in our standard correction I think it's more than half of the people have lived there for over 11 years. So and there are only about a thousand properties in fact 700 what we call freehold and another three four hundred sectional title which is sort of apartment living. So that's a that's a very interesting stat because it shows that people don't like to leave Camps Bay so people don't like to leave people want to arrive. And when somebody who comes available is not available for very long. Exactly. So I mean you know you're talking we nearly did a deal on the house that we're going to be looking at yesterday I wish we had done the deal. It would have made a slightly different story but so and I think another interesting aspect of Camps Bay is that the people that are selling are over 60 for more than half of them over 65 and the people that are buying more than half of them are 35 to 45. Your money. Your money. Interesting. So and the nice thing is it's got that old traditional feel if you want it but then what we're going to be seeing today a very modern feel. So you've got choice and it's an holistic suburb. We like choice. Let's look at that property that you brought us today stunning. Well stunning. I want it but I can't afford it. We'll talk through it anyway. OK. Let's have a look at it. Let's have a look at it. So I mean it's an amazing property. I actually went there with Barbara Rogers the agent last night and it's when you walk into it. It's what you feel firstly is the space and the flow. Yes. I mean you know you just you can't you can't get a better property than this. The external views are amazing. Yeah. From every single room it's spectacular and interestingly enough we were in New York recently a couple of weeks ago and we went to 432 Park Avenue which is one of the leading apartments in New York City. The highly coveted and we were amazed by the finishes. These finishes here leave that building standing and you put it in shame. $25 million there for a same size apartment. So it's an incredible property in terms of its finishes is brand new. It feels like it's a newly built home. Looks like that but it hasn't been. So let's talk through the interiors and the living spaces. What have you got inside this property. You've got wonderful entertainment areas on the main floor and it just flows beautifully. The bar and I'm not a drinker but even I inspired probably one of the best bars in Camps Bay because it overlooks the entire the entire bay and it's a lit bar. The doors open out on all sides. It's made to entertain. It's made to entertain. So you've just got this wonderful flow from bar into lounge into granite kitchens and it's all incredibly modern but I'm not a modern furniture guy but it's modern yet it's got a very warm feel to it. What about the living spaces? So you've mentioned the kitchen entertainment and those spaces which are your favourite and going to be my favourite always. What about the bedrooms and things? They also open up into these beautiful decks and look over this fantastic base. You're on top of the world. You can see 12 apostles from your bedroom on the left and you can see Lion's head on your right. There's the mountain behind you and then of course we'll be talking about a copper bath. So if a copper bath turns you on then this is a great house for you. But he has the bedroom looking out onto this deck looking out over the sea. It's just absolutely spectacular. What an incredible property. It's an incredible property. You know our design contestants are designing also on a beautiful estate in Valduvie and they are trying to work out what it is that private property is looking for them to do with these properties and they're really struggling to add value to these houses and you've worked in the industry for long enough to know what adds value to a property. Please give our design contest some advice because they need this advice from you.  A big thing and in this house that we've just looked at all four are on suite and they haven't skimped at all. So bathrooms and kitchens and then spend time in your garden. There's no question that there's a movement worldwide back into nature. So if you've got even apartment living you can develop a green environment from a growing perspective. That definitely works. Sure. Good advice. People look for gardens. Great, great, great advice. Anthony, thank you so much for joining us in the loft today. My pleasure. I always take a lot of stuff from this and one day when I've decided to get myself a new company, a new job, we'll be buying these properties. You and I, sure, deal. Remember to visit privateproperty.co.za for this and much more property inspiration in the neighborhood that fits your needs. While you're there, vote for your favourite design contestant's master bedroom. You only have until tomorrow so don't waste any more time. We'll be right back. It's not called Winner Home for Nothing. 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So the discussion related to voter outreach to black Americans was brought up during the debate and for whatever reason People to judge managed to get away from this discussion Relatively unscathed. Nonetheless, there was a moment where Cory Booker made an absolutely powerful point And he hit Joe Biden in a really really powerful way that is gonna leave a bruise so He hit him for not agreeing to legalize marijuana We covered this video this week and Joe Biden said in the year 2019 that he believes marijuana Could be a gateway drug. I'm paraphrasing, but that's basically what he said so Cory Booker had basically the perfect response to it the response that we all had when we heard the news that Joe Biden said that and This was absolutely great. I wanted to return back to this issue of black voters I have a lifetime of experience with black voters. I've been one since I was 18 Nobody in the stage you need a focus group to hear from African-American voters Black voters are pissed off and they're worried they're pissed off because the only time our issues seem to really pay attention to Why politicians is when people are looking for their vote and they're worried because the Democratic Party We don't want to See people miss this opportunity and lose because we are nominating someone that doesn't isn't trusted doesn't have authentic connection And so that's what's on the ballot and issues do matter. I Have a lot of respect for for the vice president. He is Swore me into my office as a hero this week. I hear him literally say That I don't think we should legalize marijuana. I Thought you might have been high when you said it Let me tell you Marijuana in our country is already legal for privileged people and it's what the war on drugs has been More African-Americans under criminal supervision in America than all the slaves since 1850 Do not roll up into communities and not talk directly to issues that are gonna relate to the liberation of children because there are people in Congress right now that admit to smoking marijuana while there are people our kids are in jail right now for those drug crimes And if we don't have somebody authentically we lost the last election, let me just give you this data example We lost in Wisconsin because of a massive Diminition a lot of reasons but there was a massive diminishing in the African-American vote We need to have someone that can inspire as Kamala said to inspire African-Americans to the polls at So besides the fantastic line about Joe Biden possibly being high to say something like that I mean, there was so much substance packed into that little clip that I really want to applaud Cory Booker I've been incredibly critical of him and I do not support him He's not in my top 10 out of all the candidates running probably well, maybe it depends You know, I'm a Bernie supporter right diehard Bernie person But I mean you've got to give credit where credit is due He made some solid points about the Democratic Party that needed to be heard on a national stage He made the point that black voters are pissed off rightfully so because their issues are only paid attention to when people are looking for their vote So once every four years You know, there's all this discussion about black voters and what we can do to improve their lives And then once the election is over They get an ignored and abandoned and this is the most loyal Constituency that the Democratic Party has and they have used and abused black Americans for years Not delivering on public policy that would help them, right? So he's bringing up a very valid point and Democrats need to pay attention and they need to listen and actually improve Right because you can only use a constituency in this brazen of a way for so long Until they abandon you and in 2016 we started to see that this constituency black Americans who have been loyal They're not too happy with the Democratic Party and they're starting to just stay home And it's not just them right many voters are doing this But this is a loyal constituency that the Democratic Party must be able to retain so what Cory Booker is saying here is You have to deliver on policy. You can't keep sweeping their needs under a bus You can't keep doing this so reaching out to them It shouldn't just be something that you do once every four years like you've got to talk to them and engage them and actually Act so I mean that was a really powerful point On top of that I want to read a quote He said with more African Americans under criminal supervision in America than all the slaves since 1815 Do not roll into communities and not talk directly to issues that are going to relate to the liberation of children Because there are people in Congress right now who admit to smoking marijuana while there are people in jail For those drug crimes on top of that He made the point that marijuana in this country is already basically legal for privileged people and the war on drugs has been a war on black and brown people I Mean that comment deserves a standing ovation Absolutely, and you know even though I have my criticisms of the Democratic Party and a lot of people running for president The way that so many of them are talking openly about how Horrible the war on drugs has been Particularly to black and brown people, you know Bernie brought it up Tulsi brought it up Cory Booker brought it up Andrew Yang talks about it all the time This is a really nice change right you you have to talk about this The war on drugs has been a complete failure and you have to talk about it in these terms This has devastated communities, right people have lost their freedom because of a drug That people smoke all the time that people in Congress admit to smoking jokingly, right? Bill Clinton admitted to smoking it. I believe George Bush admitted to smoking it So we can't keep talking about this as if this is only about marijuana legalization This is a criminal justice issue and this is a racial justice issue And I think that Cory Booker did a great job at really laying that out and educating Joe Biden there now Joe Biden tried to respond and he just he made matters worse throughout the debate I mean every time he spoke it really looked like he was in pain Right, I mean the look on his face. He struggled to collect his thoughts He lost his train of thought multiple times and would reverse course in the middle of the sentences He just he shouldn't be there, right? So he tried to respond and he made matters worse Now this isn't a direct response to marijuana legalization But he's going to defend this idea that he isn't you know engaging with communities of color in America and talking to black Americans Watch what he says and watch how embarrassed he gets I come out of the black community in terms of my support If you notice I have more people supporting me in the black community that announced for me because they know me They know who I am three former chairs of the black caucus The only black african-american woman that ever been elected to the united states senate a whole range of people That was cringeworthy that was genuinely cringeworthy you have a black female senator Right beside you on the debate stage and you forget that she's there and her reaction. I thought was Great. She capitalized on that Cory Booker capitalized on it I mean, what do you say to joe biden? What do you say to joe biden like when you see the candidates on the debate stage? What you should really be thinking about as a voter is who is going to be best equipped to take on Donald trump someone who will be energetic Someone who will be absolutely vicious and ruthless Think to yourself is joe biden that person is joe biden really Best suited to take on donald trump these debates time and again have demonstrated that joe biden absolutely Is not going to be competent enough to take on donald trump his debate performance Is not going to suffice right they haven't suffice and imagine him going up against donald trump Donald trump is going to run circles around him and it'll be all bullshit and nonsense Donald trump will espouse right-wing extremist talking points and lies But what people look for in a president is strength, right? That is one of these factors that americans seem to love They really seem to be drawn to people who speak with confidence and certainty right when uh, Kamala Harris went after joe biden. She demonstrated strength when quarry booker went after joe biden here Uh, he demonstrated strength when joe biden tried to be strong and went after tom stare, which was great I mean he did it in a really mealy-mouthed way that was kind of boring like it could have been more impactful So joe biden is not the candidate and these debates should be showing people That if you want to beat trump this electability argument has collapsed joe biden is not electable Right polling says otherwise right now so you can you can disagree with me when it comes to the polls But let's just trust our guts in this instance and let's just read the writing that's on the wall Joe biden is going to lose to donald trump Time after time candidates are demonstrating why he's not fitted here and quarry booker did a great job at showing people Why he shouldn't be the nominee now. Um, I think his chances have um been diminished I don't think he's gonna win without being said, um We'll see what happens, but either way a phenomenal job to quarry booker here Um credit words do I'm not a fan of him. I don't support him I think he's a corporatist who takes money from big pharma and should be ashamed of himself for that I think he's known for you know grandstanding usually However, in this instance You can't deny that that was absolutely phenomenal great on the substance great performance overall stellar job


The Equitable Life Assurance Society presents This Is Your FBI. This Is Your FBI. The official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Transcribed and presented as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community. Now for a moment we're going to hear from a representative of our sponsor, the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. No wonder if other men get to kick out of their jobs that I do for mine as an equitable society representative. For instance, every time I start an equitable education fund for some youngster, I say to myself, there's a kid who's going to get an education, regardless of what happens. And that gives me a feeling of real satisfaction. In approximately 14 minutes I'll be back with full information about the Equitable Education Fund, an important contribution to American education and the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. Tonight's FBI file, larceny will out. On this, the official radio program of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, your FBI believes that you, the citizens of the nation, would like to know something about the progress being made in the constant 24 hours a day fight against crime. All that can be said without a full discussion of the subject is that some progress is being made. To be sure it is being made slowly, but that is due more to the sheer weight of numbers than anything else. For example, the most recent study made by the Bureau of Census shows that there are now approximately 148 million people in this country. The total number of special agents of your FBI, in all field offices and at headquarters, is slightly under 4,000. A simple matter of division will show you that that means that there is one FBI special agent for every 37,000 people in the country. Recently, your FBI conducted a survey among its field offices to find out exactly how many files were under active investigation on a particular day. The total rose to more than 68,000 or to put it another way, each special agent has an average of 17 cases with which he is actively concerned. Progress is being made in cutting down that number, too. But here again, such progress is necessarily slow because while special agents are clearing up files every day, major crimes are being committed much more quickly. To be specific, at the rate of 3 a minute, tonight's file opens on the grounds of a rundown carnival as it opens for the evening. A middle-aged man edges toward the small crowd that is gathered on the midway. He passes the side shows, the games of chance, and enters a tent that displays a huge sign. Madam Bettina, fortune teller. Hello, Madam. Good evening. My name's Davis. I'm on the show. Oh, you're Farmer Davis, aren't you? Yes, that's right. I've heard of you. Oh, I'm sorry that I haven't been seen before this. I always try to welcome any new performers on the show. That's okay. And I also must regret that the call I'm paying tonight isn't exactly social. What do you mean? Well, I've come here two years, a customer. I've got a problem, Madam, a very serious one. Oh, well, sit down, Farmer. Take that chair, right? Thank you. Now, do you have any preference? Bourbon. I mean, do you want me to use the cards, crystal ball, or read your myth? Oh, well, I thought maybe we could just talk. Huh? Well, I'm afraid that my problem can't be solved by occult means. I see. Well, for talking, I'll have to charge you the same as the reading. That's all right. What is your problem? Well, up to three weeks ago, I had an uncle, Clem. He was a legitimate businessman. He died, left me 10,000. Dollars? Uh-huh. Cash? Yes. And your problem is you can't get it? Oh, no, no, I've already collected it. And you still got trouble? Yes. You see, since the inheritance, I just can't pick a pocket anymore. Oh. I got the money 10 days ago, and I haven't gone into a single kick since. It's terrible. I come out on the midway every night, make a mark, walk up to him, measure where his wallet is, start to dip, and you can't do it. I understand. Now, that's why I need your help, madam. Why, I haven't spent a week without lifting a wallet since I was nine years old. What am I going to do? How much did you say your uncle left you? 10,000 dollars. Tell me, madam, can you help me? I think I can. Oh, wonderful. How? Let me contemplate about it overnight. I'll let you know tomorrow. You really believe you can get me back in action?  The next morning at a nearby FBI field office, Special Agent Jim Taylor has just entered the office of the Agent and Judge. You understand for me, sir? Oh, yes, Taylor. Have a chair. Thanks. I know you've been carrying an extra heavy load lately, but I'm going to have to give you one more assignment. That's all right, sir. This is the report we just got in from the local police. A man went to a brokerage office recently trying to dispose of some bonds. I see. When the broker revisited attempted to question him, he got up and ran out. Leaving the bonds? No, he took them with him. The broker reported it to the police. Did he get the serial numbers? Just the one on the top bond. We can check that, sir. The police have already done that, Taylor. That's why they sent the case to us. The bonds were stolen across the state line. Oh, well. In Westville. A woman gave a lawn party at her home there about a month ago. It was for charity and they had several games of chance operated by men from a traveling carnival that happened to be playing the town. The bonds were stolen from her? Yes, they were taken from her desk. When did she first miss them? The day of the party. But you said, sir, the party was a month ago? Yes. She notified her local police, but we didn't get to the case until the day and there was some proof that the flute had been transported into state. I think there was a good possibility that someone from the carnival took them. It's more than a possibility now, Taylor. Oh, why, sir? That same carnival was playing here the day the man tried to sell those bonds to the local broker. Do you know the name of the carnival, sir? Yes. It's in this report. I want you to find out where it's playing now. You tried to poke and get the biggest bargain on the midway. Only 10 cents to play the wheel of fortune. A big, cuppy dog who's to the winner every time we spin the wheel. Yo! Oh, hello, Betty. Come on down off of there. I want to talk to you. Okay. Something wrong? No, no, I got real good news. What? I got a customer for the bonds. Oh, look, Betty, let's forget about those bonds. Well, get them. They're too hot. We can't pass them. Then why did you steal them in the first place? Well, it was an accident. I was casing that desperate small score. I came up with those. You should always have such accidents. They're hard luck, Betty. We already had to leave one show on account of them. I'm going to take them someplace and burn them. You are going to get them to me. But, Betty. Where are they? In my thunk. Go get them. Right now? Yes. Well, I can't leave the stand. That's the most in the whole midway. So go. You're going to pass them tonight? No. I want to show them to a guy tomorrow. I handle a deal right here by him for $10,000. Adam Bettina? Come in, farmer. Oh, thank you. Is he only better than you did last night? No, I feel worse. I just made a well-dressed man down to the fun house. He was with a young lady. Took out his wallet to buy some tickets. I got a peek at it. It was stuff like the inside of a frankfurter. He paid for his tickets, put the wallet into his back pocket. Please, leave me, madam. I could have taken it out with a spoon. And you didn't? I couldn't. I had no incentive.  And what was your solution? Some place back in your family, there was a streak of honesty. Ah, now, madam, this is no joking matter. I'm not joking. The reason you're bothered by the money your uncle left you is that it was made in a legitimate business. Yes, that's possible. But that isn't a solution. I have one. There's only one thing you can do. What's that? Buy something that's hot. That'll take the legitimate taint off the money. You really think that'll do it? I know it will. You see, if you buy something that's hot enough, you won't be able to sell it right away. That means you won't have any money and you'll have to go back to work. Well, what do you think I ought to buy? I've got just the thing for you. In the trunk? Take a look at these. These bonds are so hot, I ought to keep them in an asbestos envelope. Are they yours? No. A friend of mine stole them about a month ago. Nice day's working. The face value of the bonds is $20,000. This friend of mine will unload them for $10,000. Now, if you buy them, which I strongly recommend that you do, you'll not only clean up your problem, but you'll get double your money when you make a sale. I see. That's my cure, farmer. Is it interesting? Yes, I think it does. Then you'll buy the bonds? I believe I will. Good boy. Where's this dough your uncle left you? In a bank in town. The banks are open.  We'll close the deal. Well, I don't want to. Look, there will be times after you've bought the bonds when you made doubt that this was the cure. When that happens, you just say to yourself, I will be a thief. I will be a thief. I will be a thief. That'll put you right back on the beam. May I come in, sir? Oh, yes, Taylor. I located at Carnival we were looking for. Good. I just contacted the boss of the show. What did he have to say? Well, the first thing I did was describe the man who tried to peddle the stolen bonds around here. Oh, did he know anyone with that description? Yes, sir. A man by the name of Joe Johnson. Is Johnson with the Carnival? Well, he was. He used to operate a wheel of fortune, but he quit. Any idea where he might have gone? No, sir. The owner said that Johnson and a woman friend of his left the show at the same time. When did they quit? On the 12th of last month. 12th? That'll be the day after the robbery of the bonds. That's right, sir. Did you get anything on this woman who left with Johnson? Yes, sir. She worked with the show as a fortune teller. Did you get her name? Yes, sir. It's Betty Anderson. She operates as Madame Bettina. Check the files and see if we've got anything on either one of them. All right, sir. Could you get any lead at all on where they might have gone? No, sir, I didn't, but I've got a theory on that. What's that? Well, I think they left the show because they've planned to sell the bonds and not work for a while. That's logical. Well, when Johnson was unable to dispose of them, they were back where they started financially speaking. Well, my guess is they've gone to work for some other tent show. That's certainly a possibility. Check every Carnival tent show on Circus and see if you can locate either one of them. You busy, Betty? No, come on in. I'm just trying to put a little shine on this crystal ball. What about the bonds? Huh? What'd you do with the bonds? They're in my trunk.  I have. He should be along any minute now. He's going to buy them? For $10,000? Where'd you dig that kind of a sucker? He was right here on the show, a guy named Farmer Davis. A pickpocket? Mm-hmm. Where'd he get 10 Gs? An uncle died and left it to him. How'd you get him to go for it? Well, it's a long story. The point is he's coming here with 10,000 in cash. Now, we split it down the middle, right? Sure.  Before he changed his mind, huh? He won't change his mind. Well, that's a pretty big bundle we're clipping him for. Joe, we ain't being clipped. They're worth 20,000. If he's a smart operator, that's what he'll get for him. What time is it? A little after once. I better get the bonds out. He's due here now. You want me to get out of here? No, you can stick around. Hey. What? The bonds. What about them? They ain't here. What? I put them right in this drawer. Wait a minute. What's this? What? Just notice. It's from the farmer. What to say? Dear Madam Vatina, I came here to your tent with the 10,000 dollars. You were out. While waiting, I felt a doubt come over me just like you described that it would. So I quickly started to say over and over, I will be a thief. I will be a thief. It worked so good, Madam, that I went right to your trunk and stole your bonds. We will return to tonight's exciting FBI file in just a moment. Soon, the 1949 college football season will get underway. In hundreds of bold and stadiums, crowds will thrill to plays like this. Ryan's back in kick formation. He gets a bad pass from Saturday. He's being right. The whole forward wall's in on him. He kicks, but it's blocked. A blocked kick. College men may have a few kicks blocked on the gridiron, but there's nothing blocking their progress towards successful careers. That's right. The more you learn, the more you earn. For instance, the college graduate is 15 times more likely to reach a salary of 10,000 dollars a year or over than the non-college man. With odds like that in favor of college education, odds are 15 to 1. This fund, it's not surprising that the equitable life insurance society decided to create its widely used equitable education fund. An equitable education fund is just what its name indicates. A plan for far-sighted parents who want to make sure that their children get higher education. First and foremost, an equitable education fund is sure. Right. This fund combines plan regular saving with life insurance. So if the father dies or becomes permanently disabled, this plan makes it certain that his children will still be able to get the education he was ambitious for them to have. Second advantage, an equitable education fund is easy. You spread the cost of college over 12 or 15 years instead of taking a beating in four. It's surprising how small a monthly payment is required to build up a sum that is ample to see a boy or girl through college. Remember, higher education and higher salaries go hand in hand. So the more truly you love your children, the more determined you will be to give them a head start toward future success and happiness with an equitable education fund. Get in touch with your equitable society representative soon or send a postcard care of this station to the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. Now back to the FBI file. Larson E. Willout. The law violated by the criminals in tonight's case, the law which, when passed by Congress, was named the National Stolen Property Act, is only one of more than 120 federal statutes over which the Federal Bureau of Investigation has jurisdiction. Remembering that, it will give you some further idea of the amount of work done by the special agents of your FBI when you learn that in the past 12 months, those special agents have apprehended a total of almost 7,200 fugitives. Most of those fugitives fit it into the same category as the ones in tonight's case. Unglamorized, unpublicized and unimportant so far as the general crime picture is concerned. As you have seen, that fact did not deter the FBI field office from putting forth its every effort or in the eyes of the special agents. There is no such thing as an unimportant criminal nor is there any unimportant crime. Each file deserves and gets the closest possible attention, the fullest possible investigation because the men who form your last line of defense have learned that there is only one way to fight the war on crime and that is to wage total war. That phrase, total war, has a meaning beyond the dictionary meaning of the words themselves. It means that there will be no form of compromise with the forces of crime, that the war will be fought to a finish, to a point where the army of criminals in this nation has been driven to its knees, has been driven to an unconditional surrender. The night's file continues at the local FBI field office. Special Agent Taylor is just approaching the agent in charge. Are you busy, sir? No, sit down, Taylor. Thank you. How did you make out of that carnival checker? I just received an answer to the query I sent out. About that man and woman? That's right, sir. Have you located them? Yes, they joined a show called The Sunbeam Carnival three weeks ago. Have you checked to find out whether or not they're still with the show? No, sir, I didn't feel it wise to give them any kind of warning that we were searching for them. Where is the carnival now? They're working in the outskirts of a small town called Terminal City. Oh, that's not too far from here. I know. The first thing to do is to call the local police at Terminal City. Ask them to check and see if the man and woman are still there. All right, sir.  You worked for a carnival once, didn't you? That's right, sir. Fine.  It's been my experience that you never have too much evidence. If those brokers don't make positive identification of Johnson as the man who tried to dispose of the stolen bonds, we'll need something else, nicely. So get some kind of a job up there and see if you can get some concrete proof. Enough to convict Johnson. Betty? What is this? Don't you think you'd better slow down? Don't tell me how to drive. You'll get a ticket. If we do, I'll have it made out in your name. The whole thing is your fault anyway. My fault? Yes. Did I dig up the farmer as a customer? I'm going back before the farmer. Do you have any moxie you to sew the bonds yourself? No, don't bring that up again. You've been a dead weight in this deal since it started. Now, wait a minute. We wouldn't be going after the farmer now if it wasn't for me. Who went to his tent? Who searched it? Who found the newspaper with the story about a farmer's convention? Who noticed he had a mark around that story? All right, all right. What do you want? Membership in the Explorers Club? All I want is my five thousand. If this car holds together, we'll both have our money tonight. Oh, yes, Taylor. Where are you? Police headquarters in Terminal City. Have you been out to the carnival yet? Yes, sir. Johnson and the woman aren't there anymore. They've quit that carnival too? That's right, sir. Any idea where they went? No, sir. I spoke to some of the other employees around the lot and from what I gather, they pulled out of here in a hurry. Why? By whom? You lead on where they went? No. Don't see much point to it. Go to the next train and come back to the office. Or to me as soon as you get here. Oh, what is it, sir? Johnson and the woman are here in town. Oh, how do you know? That rented car was found abandoned here half an hour ago. Anything in the car that would help locate them? No. One of the agents went over it thoroughly. The only thing of interest was that the motor was still hot. Well, that could mean that pickpocket thing named the farmer is also here in town. It probably does. I've got his name for you. Oh, fine. I done got it from the nickname file. It's Willie Davis. Davis, Willie Davis. I don't think I know that name. No reason why you should. He's never been arrested in this part of the country. Have you got a record on him, sir? Yes. This teletype came in with the whole story. He's been arrested 37 times, starting 30 years ago. Always picking pockets? Yes. Any particular pattern? Tents, shows and conventions. He's been arrested half the time at one and half at the other. Conventions. His name is Farmer Davis. Sir, I've got an idea. May I go back to my desk and make a few phone calls? If I'm right, we could catch all three of them together. Any sign of him? No. Well, let's split up and make the circuit again. Can't we take a recess? My feet are killing me. They'll hurt worse if we don't find him. Oh, we don't even know if he's here. Maybe he's coming gone. There are 2,000 people in this armory. That many pockets is like smorgasbord for the farmer. Come on, let's make the circuit. Okay. Wait. What? Look. Where? Straight ahead. It's him. Come on. Oh, wait a minute. What for? Can't you see he's in that guy's poke? Let him finish. Look how he clipped that wallet. Oh. He's going over to the corner to empty and dump it. Yeah. Yeah, that'll be a good place to nail him. Come on. Okay. Hello, farmer. Nice job you just did. Coming from a fellow professional. I appreciate company. You know why we're here, don't you? Oh, yes. Beautiful cattle, aren't they? Get up those bonds, farmer. Bonds? I don't have any bonds. You left a note and said you took them? And I did. But I don't have them anymore. Where are they? I sold them. You passed them? Certainly.  They were too hot for you. He sells them the first day. He gets his hands on them. Or did you get rid of them? I sold them to a friend of mine who happens to be a fence. Okay. Turn over the cash. Oh, I couldn't do that. Joe, I'll shield you. Show him what you're carrying in that pocket. Okay. You haven't said it. A nasty-looking revolver. It'll go off right in your face if you don't kick in with that money. Now, let's have it. Very well. Stand right where you are all of you. Huh? Who are you? Special Agent of the FBI. Am I glad to see you. These people were just robbing you. Would you only proves that there's no honor among thieves? What do you mean, sir? I mean, you're all under arrest for bond theft. But I'm... I suppose you'd tell your story down at headquarters. Joe Johnson, Betty Anderson and Willie Davis were convicted for a violation of the National Stolen Property Act and each given a 10-year sentence in a federal penitentiary. Special Agent Taylor was able to locate the three criminals into nice case because he knew that the farmer who gave him a lift back from Terminal City was going to the city to attend the farmer's convention. He didn't know where in the city it was being held, though, but a call to one of the local newspapers gave him that information. The only question that remained was whether or not he would be in time to apprehend the trio, a question you have already seen answered. And so through the superior investigative qualities of a Special Agent, plus the cooperation of local police in two communities, your FBI was able to close another file. Upon being questioned at headquarters, Willie Davis, the pickpocket, confessed that he had sold the stolen bonds and told the name of the fence who bought them. That enabled the local police to recover loot from many another previously unsolved robbery. Loot which, like the stolen bonds, was returned to the victims of those robberies, which makes still another instance of the protection you receive from your FBI. Protection of your life, your liberty, and your personal property. In just a moment, we will tell you about next week's exciting case from the files of your FBI. But first, let's hear briefly from our equitable society representative on the subject of an equitable education fund. I'd like to make just one more point. It's never too early in a boy or girl's life to start an equitable education fund. In fact, as sooner you begin, the lower each individual payment will be. The man whose words you have just heard speaks for 6,000 equitable society representatives from coast to coast who are always ready to give you friendly help and counsel. If you do not know the name of the equitable man in your community, send a postcard care of this station to the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. Next week, we will dramatize another case from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. An expose of a new and vicious criminal racket. The subject, impersonation. It's title, The Chinatown Shake Down. The incidents used in tonight's equitable life assurance societies broadcast are adapted from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. However, all names used are fictitious. And any similarity thereof to the names of persons living or dead is accidental. Tonight's program was transcribed and the music was composed and conducted by Frederick Stein. The author was Jerry D. Lewis. Your narrator was William Woodson and special agent Taylor was played by Stacey Harris. Others in the cast were Harley Bear, John Beale, Kathy Lewis and Carlton Young. This is your FBI is a Jerry Divine production. This is Larry Cheating speaking for the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community. And inviting you to tune in again next week at this same time when the Equitable Life Assurance Society will bring you another thrilling story from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Chinatown Shake Down on This Is Your FBI. This is ABC, the American Broadcasting Company.


you have to reach across lines of difference, whether that be to a different part of the city, to people with different lived experiences, to people of different races. I think that there's been this really false narrative that our very limited opposition has said that, you know, approval voting is just going to make sure that we elect milk toast candidates, which is such a hilarious phrase to me, because to me what that means is we're electing consensus candidates, and if you are running on a consensus agenda, you are going to rule, rule, you are going to govern in a consensus way. You're going to work to make sure that people are on board and that you are serving the good of the majority. And I would argue that is not what is happening right now. We really have to look for candidates who want to run on a platform that is about building consensus, and who want to govern in a way that is about building consensus.


Oh I thought it was really exciting. I think there was lots of engagement from all the panel members and I really think there's been a lot of progress in the last 20 years about the whole deforestation issue obviously but also how agriculture fits very much into the equation before it was just talked about but not interacted with and now you see people who before were just working in the forest they're working in agriculture they're figuring out that that has to be part of the equation so I think there's been huge progress. Well I think the whole thing about stepping back from the macro and the global and actually it has to be context specific it has to be what forest type what kind of agriculture and who are the communities that actually live there what are the governments the governance and really get you have to get specific after a while. The global context gives you ideas of patterns but in the end actions have to be local regional national.


Hey, this is Brett and this 2013 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 is stock number 13158Z. I am here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, your new and used sports car headquarters. This 2013 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 has the 5.8L supercharged V8 engine, puts out 662 horsepower. This car has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off and this car is 100% ready to go. I'm going to go all the way around in this video inside, start it up and take a look under the hood. Sterling gray metallic is the color and I shoot all my videos in 4K, so if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or television I highly recommend turning them on right now because it is your best way to check out the quality, condition, options, and cleanliness of the vehicle before seeing it in person. And if you like the video and how I do things here at Summit Automotive that's great because I do these videos each and every day. You can subscribe to my YouTube channel and then click the bell notifications and you'll get updates every time I do the videos of a new and used inventory here at Summit Automotive. This one has the SBT performance package which gives you the special rims on here. You can always tell it's got the kind of eight triangle-ish spokes right there. And in the front these are 19 inch rims. You get the Brembo brakes in the front of course and the huge rotors has Nitto G2 tires or NT555 G2 tires. These are 27540 ZR19s in the front and they have a really good amount of tread left and you can see just how much tread is on those tires in the front here. So the back tires are going to be 20 inches or the rims and the tires are going to be 20 inches. Front fenders in fantastic condition. I didn't see any dents or dings on there. This one does come with the HID headlamps and the LED running lights and the factory fog lights. Front bumper and lower valance are in excellent shape. It also has a Shelby cooler there that has been swapped out for the factory one which is pretty cool. You always want to check on these GT500s for corrosion along the hood and this one is absolutely perfect so no corrosion there. And the rest of the hood is in really nice shape as are the stripes. Coming around to the passenger side, no major dents or dings on that fender. The Cobra logo looks good. Sticker looks good on this side. And the passenger side rim, no major scuffs or scrapes on there. Do note that you get the Cobra valve stem covers on there as well. Stirling gray, one of my favorite grays from Ford. There's a lot of metal flake in it. Looks good in the sunlight. And as you go down this side of this 2013 Shelby GT500, take note of how clean that body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. I take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the car, you can see the car, hear the car, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. And if you get the car shipped to you, you can have that peace of mind as well. And if this video helps you make that buying decision, let your salesmen know that you saw the video that it was helpful and that Brett sent you. Very clean down that side. This back rim is just as nice as the front ones. And on the back we have 295 35 ZR20 tires. And these tires have just as much tread as the front tires surprisingly. The frame and under body looks really good. Rear quarter, I didn't see any dents or dings on there. It does have the LED tail lamps. This one has the Ford Racing Performance exhaust and this thing sounds fantastic. We're going to start it up in just a minute. The rear trunk plastic piece here looks good. You get the GT 500 logo on there, deck with spoiler. And once again, all the stripes look really good. It has a nice louver on it for the rear window. And this one comes with all the stuff. So the original, I don't know if that's a secondary cooler, but that's what the Shelby Cooler is switched out with. The OEM hardware has the original window sticker, a whole bunch of stuff in the book here including the certificate of authenticity on this car. And just car facts and all that good stuff. So that comes with the vehicle, original air cleaner. Here's the original window sticker. If you want to peek at this, feel free to pause it. So you can see the optional equipment. This one has the SVT performance package, the navigation system electronics package and the Recaro Shelby Man leather seats. So original sticker was 62425 on this car. And then there's even more Mustang book, a whole bunch of GT 500 literature in there for you. And some more LED lights. And it looks like everything that was original with this car, original air intake and everything and a car cover. Now this is not the Shelby car cover, but it is a car cover. And then you get a tire inflator kit underneath there. Anyways, a lot of stuff in there. Comes with a GT 500 gas cap cover. That's pretty cool. And as you go down this side of the car, just as clean as that passenger side, the denser dings on the rear quarter. And for full disclosure, this back rim is in fantastic condition as well. I didn't see any scuffs or scrapes on any of these rims. Driver side door looks really good. And you do get the power mirrors with the built in blind spot mirrors. Inside, as promised, this one has the Recaro leather and suede interior seats. You get the cobra stitched into the backrest. You can always tell if you have Recaros because they got their name stitched on the seats as well. Take a look behind the seats here. Back seats are very clean. It does have latch child safety system. If you want to try and put a car seat back there, that's your challenge. Driver seat height adjuster. And it does come with Shelby GT 500 floor mats. This one does have the launch control, the different steering feels, and then the different suspension there as well. Power locks, power mirrors, and power windows. We'll hop inside, check the miles, the radio, everything that this car has to offer on the interior. And then we'll start it up and take a look under the hood, listen to that exhaust, and yeah, all the good stuff that this car provides. 8476 miles are on this vehicle instrument cluster. It is very nice and clean. Comes with the suede and leather wrapped steering wheel. Bluetooth and audio controls on the right. You get the Cobra logo in the center and information center and cruise controls on the left. This one has the touchscreen radio, has the factory navigation system on it. You get AM, FM, and Sirius XM radio capabilities on here. There we go. There's Sirius. This one also has a hard drive with the jukebox and you can upload music to it from a CD to this radio and then store songs in there. So that's pretty cool as well. It does have the CD player. It comes with a Shelby plaque right there. It also has the, a really nice GT 500 ball on the stick shift there. Stability control, that's for your trunk popper. This one does have the ambient lighting. You can change the colors on those and the passenger side. Format and seat are in fantastic condition. No rips or tears on there. Smells very clean inside this car. I don't think it's ever been smoked in and the headliner is in very nice condition as well. You do get home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lane systems and map lights. Alright. I'm going to open the door so that we can hear this thing start. Pop the hood here. Turn my light off and then we'll go check out that Ford performance exhaust and then take a look under the hood. Sounds really good. I really love the sound of that Ford performance exhaust on the 5.8 and I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video you've been able to verify the quality, condition, options and cleanliness of this car all the way around. Inside and out there are those HIG lights. Under the hood we have the 5.8 liter supercharged V8 engine. Engine base very clean. Runs very smooth. They got GT 500 caps on everything. We've got a Cobra for the features box. We've got collars on the strut towers and just very, very clean. You can see this one was made by Chad Walla and Amy Mamey. Anyways, love those motor coated heads. Once again this car has been fully safe to be inspected by our service shop as a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. It has some Shelby hood struts there. This car is 100% ready to go. There's your mission sticker. I would highly recommend this car from a quality and condition standpoint. I don't think you'll find too many as clean and as nice as this one. To see more pictures of this car, one of our other 450 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, sports cars, GT 500s, Mustangs, Corvettes, Camaros, Challengers, Chargers, you name it, we've got to go to that website right there, summitauto.com. Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at summitauto.com. If you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com.com. Remember to like, subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there. 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This much size should be there for the comprehension type of question for MCQ and all you just cut asses, but keep it as handcrafted form So this is for the comprehension type of question Whatever we have is this and the options also need to be in the same format. So once you are done with the images I Have saved the options here so I'm just converting it in the other five always prefer Send to compress. Don't do it with your Software that you have downloaded from the from the Google and all so you just always Zoom with the windows one sent to compress the folder Click on this option. This is we have got a Options folder and then similarly for the questions kindly Once you are done with the questions and images as images My question options as images then fill in it here Yeah, this English field which you need to fill in the Image here, so how to fill I'll explain you how to fill In question one just give the question has this format image Followed by what you have said m-i-c E1 s1 q1 dot jpg Then image second question. So for the first question only I have done so I will just do this for you An option correct option is one for the first option I Have saved this in this format So for options also give image the name of the image Call them by jpeg and then the same age So remember m-i-c Goes me so in the media management click on this In the right hand side you'll see upload button click on this browse first upload the options You always are Give the images name in the format that I have mentioned you since I have plenty of papers in this laptop I'm just reading it again because this should not overwrite my question paper upload the options and then now again upload the template over there First you have checked whether work then you need to upload with the original template which you have painted with the Option and the options and questions format has images So once you're going to upload it again, just delete what you have uploaded up before, okay? Because it will ask for overwriting But what will happen is the old file will remain there itself and again new file will get uploaded finally You'll get consist which one is the final so always delete the old file Which you have there in the software and then upload a new one and gives upload Click on this button click on tribute You can see this this question and the option option will be in the green color Restraiter the wrong options That color was the wrong options and green one is a Pat one and always check the right thing once you're done with this question paper You just give to one person in your office and check whether the question type Marks at the negative mark and the tie everything is clear Like everything is exactly as a professor has given don't make any change on that What is have a final check? So I think How to do the create a question paper and you have any doubts in this Yes, I have one doubt. Yeah Rightful. Yeah, right now we are following like cutting the images and Giving a tag and including it. What if the question paper does not have any major Z patients can't be directly Write the questions in the metadata No, no, actually why we are doing like this is sometimes the questions have some equations or if you are cutting it out Impressing it as images. No You know need to check for spelling mistakes over there if you type in that there will be a spelling mistake again So which needs to be checked by some other person Okay We have one question here That is the last time you have made it as in what fight That is in Cali free and one size was 11 12 But we have made it as 11 and Ruler is moved to 3.5 and we have made it pdf and then view it as 120 percent Okay, actually what happened is for the last exam we have given 120 percent days for Kanaku QP's and we have used the question paper like It's like a very big point the question is that has a long crawl like this much big So for our paper and for Bombay, I have did that question paper with 120 as the finances Then I have just made this mistake last thing and when I viewed it on the software It looks this much big the whole question covers a whole page and I can't even see the options also Then I have to go for a long crawl then what he might ask me to Read all day, then I have reduced it to 100% and I have not moved rule Actually, I thought of informing Because yesterday I made a call to him and he informed that I we have done all the Questions and options as images. I was really shocked. Actually, I told him that once going on proceeding with the question paper and cutting and Conflict creation just always upload the question paper in the drive because sometimes that will be a mistake and some stuff will be there I will check it and she will give a confirmation once we receive the confirmation from her then only we will proceed with that Okay, and I have one more question. That is when we're taking a question. So this will be as 100% in PDF, right? Again, you have to cut the image Your main question and the sub question both we should get reduced to the three inches Like the left side main question needs to get reduced to three inches. It should be very small. I think Options also Or one more question File name should be case sensitive or not. That is we are saving the file as Course name and in short, I mean in small letters E1, S1, etc like this So this this should be in capital letter or small letter or Excel also Okay If it's small this proceed with small capital Okay, that would be easy good Okay, thank you So once you review Chechna right? NTCC dot assessment admin is default It will be same for all the courses NTCC dot assessment admin That won't change even Okay Yeah Few of the team members are absent So can you share this recorded event later on So that we can Thank you Okay


Ukraine paralysed Russia's Black Sea fleet. Russia's Black Sea operations have been greatly complicated, if not paralysed. By the nearly two years of all-out war between Moscow and Kiev, Ukraine's Navy has said, in the latest indicator of the toll wrought on Russia's naval assets close to Ukraine. Newsweek Media Outlet reported this. It is noted that Russia has lost up to 25 of the approximately 80 naval vessels of various types it deployed in the early stages of the Kremlin's invasion in 2022. Dmitry Platenchuk, a spokesperson for Ukraine's Navy, told television in remarks, reported by several outlets. Up to 35 of these vessels have posed a real threat to Ukraine. Platenchuk said, offering Russia long-range strike capabilities and enabling Russian operations around the annexed Crimean Peninsula and in southern Ukraine. Now, 25 different units have been destroyed and 15 are currently under repair. Platenchuk said, Shortly after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Black Sea emerged as a key battleground. Ukraine has vowed to reclaim Crimea, which sits to the south of the mainland on the Black Sea, but has been controlled by the Kremlin's forces since its annexation in 2014. Ukraine has whittled away at Russia's naval assets in the Black Sea, successfully carrying out dramatic strikes deemed deeply embarrassing to Moscow. Kyiv's victorious operations against the Black Sea fleet have proved more fruitful than Ukraine's stalled hopes of peeling back Russian control across the east and south of the mainland. In late December, British Defense Secretary Grant Shaps said Russia had lost 20% of its Black Sea fleet in the previous four months.


Telephone conversation between President Johnson and Senator Everett Dirksen on November 29, 1963, at 5.10 p.m. Senator Dirksen, 2191. Good on that uniform of yours.  United States, Florida, Paris. Everett? Yeah. This thing's been heating up here on this investigation. Yeah. And I've got the House to agree not to do anything, and after I talked to you, I'd already talked to Jim in the Senate and wouldn't do anything if I had a point of special commitment. Now here's a commission I'm thinking about a point. Yeah. And I didn't want to do it unless, until I talk to you, I don't want this repeated because I haven't even got my orders drawn. Yeah. And it's going to take some time, but I'm going to ask the Chief Justice to go on it. Yeah. Because the country needs a high judicial officer to evaluate this report. Yeah. I thought I'd invite Dick Russell and maybe John Sherman Cooper. They kind of offset each other. Now, unless you had any objections to it, I thought I might name Hale Boggs and Jerry Ford, a couple of fellas over in the house, and then get Alan Dulles, maybe John McCloy, generally. Now, I don't want that to get out to a human because I haven't talked to these people. And I can't, I've got to talk to you. I want to, I want you a real counsel because I thought that this would be a pretty acceptable group judicial-wise. I talked to Russell. He didn't want to take it, but he will. I'm going to make him do it. I'm just going to order them all to do it and let them get in. Let me make one suggestion. What about John McCall? Well, he's in government in CIA. And I'm John McCloy. I think it would be a little better. Yeah. It's a question of calling him a knowledgeable guy. Well, he and Hoover, it'll give them all the information you got, you see. Yeah. Same reason I haven't got Hoover on him. They'll make a veil on him. Same thing, huh? I don't know. They'll learn. The other thing they'll guide. They'll guide. Okay. I'll be with you. Okay, now, I'm going to protect my pranks.


How are you guys doing today? Had a good lunch? I love barbecue. So I'm sorry about my voice, actually. I think I'm catching on to something. I was doing all right yesterday, and then I was like, oh my god. I didn't even party. I went to sleep. I got 12 hours of sleep, and thankfully I'm here. So this talk is about how to grow your email list six digits and beyond. I have multiple six-figure email lists, 300,000, 400,000, and more for different one of my websites. For those of you who don't know me, I'm Syed Balki. You can follow me at Syed Balki. I have about 16 different companies. The one that's more popular in this space is called WP Beginner. It's the largest WordPress resource site. I'm also the guy behind List25, a very popular YouTube channel on the blog. It's over 1.8 million subscribers. We had 370 million video views.  But because I've built so many different blogs and publication sites, I knew the importance of building an email list. And I ended up building the tool that I ended up using called OptinMonster. And that gets about 7 billion impressions a month. And we have helped hundreds of millions of email captures for our businesses. So I'm going to be kind of fast because I know I have like 30 minutes for Q&As. We're just going to head outside and do all the Q&As afterwards. I'm going to have a slide at the end that will have all the tools that I use, so you don't need to write down any specific tool because I'm going to be going fast. So what you'll learn, you're going to learn, first, my number one trick to increase email subscribers in five minutes, how I use the psychology principle to increase my subscribers by 785%, just one simple psychology trick. I got that because my wife is a PhD student in psychology, so kudos to her. Have you recovered 55% of our lost revenue with a simple trick?  And how to solve the biggest list building problem before you even encounter it?  So thank yourself for being here. And the exact workflow that I use to grow all of my email list and a whole lot more. So but before we start, I want to talk about the importance of building an email list and why you need to start today. I don't have an email list. Cool, OK, after this talk, you're going to have an email list. Because over 70% of visitors who are visiting your website, they're leaving, and they're never going to come back. So that means that blog content that you wrote pretty much went to waste. That means that PPC campaign that you're running, that you're paying for ads, went to waste. 85% of shoppers who add to cart do not buy. So if you're a business owner, that's a really big number, right?  Again, they're going to come back, and 85% of those people are also not going to buy. And it's just an endless cycle. So the bottom line is if you're not building an email list, you're wasting like 90% of your dollars in efforts. So in case it's not clear enough, building an email list is important for every business. Instantaneously, you can see a 2% to 15% increase in your sales and your conversions. And more importantly, people are like, well, isn't social media the thing? Shouldn't I be on Snapchat or Instagram or Facebook? Well, guess what all these social platforms ask you for when you create an account? An email. Because those companies understand the value of an email list. So I'm not saying social is not important. Social is very important. But you need to have a direct communication with your customers and your users to build an email list. So a proven five-step list building process that I use in all of my business. So I'm going to talk about a little bit theory first, and then I'm going to go into practical implications of it so you guys know exactly what I'm talking about. Number one, identify your target audience. If your target audience is everyone, that means you do not have a target audience. So narrow it down.  Where are they coming from? Go into Google Search Console. If you haven't set up Google Search Console, go ahead and set it up first. And then look at what keywords are people searching for when they're coming to your website. And after that, go and research your competitors. You all have competitors.  Look at tools like BuzzSumo. And do an analysis on what are your competitors' popular pages. Where are they coming from? By this time, you should know that 80% of the things that you're focusing on is not worth it. And the 20% that you are, 10x on those. To create an irresistible offer. What do I mean by an irresistible offer? Ebooks work phenomenally. Checklists are the hottest thing right now in email marketing everywhere. Worksheets are great. Coupons and trials are amazing for e-commerce site. They have to be irresistible. It's not the mode of an offer. It's the offer that really makes and breaks your conversions. And you have to create multiple ones. So don't just have one e-book and say, oh, that's the end of the day. No, create multiple offers based on different buying stages. Because somebody who's in the early stage may be OK with an e-book or a white paper. But somebody in the mid-stage may want a case study. And somebody in a ready stage, in the final stages of the buying process, may want a demo or a consultation or more one-on-one thing. Three, add a strong call to action button. People are like, well, say, what colors work best? Well, the one that stands out. So if your entire page is red, the red button is not going to work well for you. Yellow is going to work well for you. So whenever you read these articles in psychology of color, it's the one that stands out. Here's a good example. In this article, if I had added a red button, it wouldn't have worked. But a green works. Moving on. Have a Targeted Landing Pages. So Marketing Sherpa is a really awesome site. I follow it. Their research shows that 94% of companies find Targeted Landing Pages to be effective. What that really says to me is the other 6% of the people that didn't know what they were doing. Because they're 100% of the time they're effective. So here's a good example. This is a video's landing page for WPBGenerate. It has one clear action. Get admitted into the free video training course. Here's another example. On HubSpot, a free download. One clear thing. Enter your name, email, website, and click download. Targeted Landing Pages have one symbol action. Now you could actually have blog posts and mega guide pages also work as Targeted Landing Pages. Here's one for Moz. Instead of creating an ebook, they created this one web ebook. You can just click from this page and read all the different chapters. But if you look on the right-hand corner, there's a start my free trial button. So this is another example of a good landing page. Number five, just build high converting forms. Collect only what you need. You don't need to ask for people's fax number. Nobody's using fax. If you're not going to call them, you don't need their phone number either. Just an email address works just fine. Because you can always go back and ask them to fill in your name at a later stage. So the less number of fields you have, the higher your conversion is going to go. If you have three fields, first name, last name, and email, make it to name an email.  If it's name and email, get rid of name and only keep email, watch your conversions go up. So you've got to collect only the things that you need. And you focus on behavioral targeting. So whenever I'm talking about best lead capture opportunities, people are like, well, I have a form. It's not about having one form or two form or three forms. It's about having as many touchpoints as you can have. That's the secret of taking a high traffic site and turning it into a huge email list, or taking a low traffic site, turning that into an email list that helps you become a high traffic site and a high size email list. So the number one popular form is the famous sidebar forms. Everybody has a sidebar subscribe form. I have one. Why? Because everybody knows where to look for when they're looking to subscribe. Now, does that mean they work well? No, they don't. Their conversions are probably one of the lowest, like 0.1% conversion, which is terrible. But the reason why you have it on your site is because everybody comes to expect it there. So the 0.1% of the people who are subscribing there because they know what to expect. Two, after post or inline forms. These forms work really well if you have a blog post. Long form content, great. Put it after the fifth paragraph in between your content or at the end of the content. These work really well. This is an example from Michael Hyatt's blog. Three flight scroll triggers slide-in boxes. These boxes, as you're scrolling, slides out from the right-hand corner. You've probably seen it on the web. These are design agnostic. So that means they don't take any space. Once the user close it, they go away. So you show it one at a time. Same thing with floating bars. They're attached at the top or at the bottom. They are known as hello bars, foo bars, et cetera. These are very noticeable, can work well. Well-timed pop-ups. I'm a big advocate for it. Every time I talk about pop-ups, people are like, ew, pop-ups, right? I don't like pop-ups. Pop-ups are spam. Actually, they're not. What's spam is how annoyingly you trigger them. If you click on something and a pop-up shows up because you clicked on it, that pop-up works really well. And I'll show you how. There's different triggers you can add that makes pop-up not annoying and high converting. So it's not the pop-up. It's the timing of the pop-up that matters. And full-screen welcome gates. These have been popular in advertising since the early days. It's called interstitials. Now, the email marketers are starting to use it. And they're like, wow, I added a full-screen welcome gate. And I'm getting 8% conversion, or 10% conversion, or 12% conversion. Imagine 100 people come to your website and 12 of them give you your email address. So what's going to happen the next time you publish an article? You have 12 more people. That means you have your chance to share a score. Contact form and checkout forms. Look, this is a very simple thing I did on my WP beginner site. I have the name, email, website message. And I have a checkbox that says, yes, I would like to receive updates from WP beginner. So when you're asking me a question, you kind of feel guilty that you're not giving me anything in return. So you just leave that box checked. It's psychology. All of it. People don't uncheck this. And then they've seen me here. And they say, dude, I love your email newsletter. Thank you, and you're welcome. This thing works. Squeeze pages. All right, squeeze pages are really cool. Why? Because they serve one purpose. That's a targeted landing page. Works all the time. Joint webinar registration. Doing a webinar with yourself is great. But bringing on another celebrity is awesome, because now they're going to promote it to their email list. If they're promoting, all their subscribers are coming. And then you can swap email lists, or you can just share, or you can do a webinar for them and promote them. So it's a great way to cross promote and grow your list. So don't try to say, I have 1,000 subscribers. I'm going to go to somebody who has 100,000 subscribers and see if they will be able to deal with me. No. Go with somebody else who also have 1,000 subscribers, because chances are 700 of your subscribers and 700 of their subscribers are completely different. And you each are going to benefit from that. Contests and giveaways.  And I love contests, right? There's a bunch of tools out there. Contest domination is one. Heyo is another one. Refle compter is another one. I particularly like contest domination. Why? Because it focuses on email building. When you go to a page, it looks something like that. It has a clock, and it says enter your name and email. But what's really exciting is what happens next. On the next page, it says you'll earn two entries for each friend you refer. Now you're like, well, I want to win this iPad, or I want to win this juicer, or I want to win this frying pan, whatnot. And you're going to refer all of your freaking friends there.  And then they're going to build on this page.  So in reality, for example, in this result, 8,392 of my website visitors went and joined the contest. So well, they went to the contest page, but 4,000 of them entered. And then 4,000 of those people then brought me 26,000 more visitors out of which 1,100 of them converted. So in reality, my 8,300 visitors converted at 61% if you're thinking about it. Because you're not paying for that 26,000 additional traffic. You didn't pay for that. You didn't pay Facebook, pay for a click. You didn't do any of that. So these contests work really effectively. Next thing is behavior automation. And that's really where you start taking the conversion to the next level. The one that I really enjoy, exit intent, is something that my company was one of the first to do. What it does tracks the mouse behavior as you're trying to take it outside the browser window, shows you a pop-up. It's better known as on-site retargeting. Because what do you do when somebody leaves? Then you start targeting them on Facebook. And you're paying Facebook to show them your ads. But why pay Facebook when you can do it on your own website at the precise moment they're about to leave? 2% to 4% increase right there. Right there. People who are going to leave your website, 2% to 4% of them are going to enter your email list. I put it on wfubeginner and increased my conversion by 600%. That's when I was like, this is an awesome product. I need to launch it. And that's how the idea came about. Scroll detection. So how many of you knew that Google actually used scroll detection as a ranking signal? So how many times, how far people scroll on your page actually determines, is one of the factors that determines how high you rank in search. You're like, well, how does Google know this? Well, guess what? They own Chrome. So marketers figured out that this ought to be important. If people are reading my article all the way through, so maybe I should save and they get to the end of the article. That's when I should show them a pop-up because they're clearly interested. I don't want to show them a pop-up after one second that they entered because that's annoying. Or two seconds, that's annoying. But once they have finished reading, you're not interrupting them.  Do you want more? They're like, yeah, awesome. Now, two-step opt-ins. And this is where psychology comes into play. So I wrote an article about how I had five more hours in my day. I gained five more hours in a day. They're like, well, how did you do that? Did you change the clock? No, I didn't. I started using time-blocking and I became really, really efficient at what I did. And I was talking about it at the end. By the way, if you guys want to do it, you can download my time-blocking worksheet. And they're like, cool, I'm going to download it. When they click on it, I could send them to a squeeze page, but why do that? They click on it, and a pop-up shows up. It says enter your name and email, and you'll get a download. This is actually known as a zygonyic effect in psychology. And what it says is that when one person initiates, they're very likely to complete that task. If they don't initiate a task, they're not as likely to complete. So here's the results. So a generic pop-up, as you notice at the bottom, was viewed 195,000 times, and the conversion was about 1%. The content upgrade that you notice at the very top was viewed 377 times in a 61% conversion, the one below it 280 times in a 54% conversion. You can see that this thing works really well. So here's what I would do. I would go in my Google Analytics and look at my top 10 blog posts. I'll see what I can add to that blog post that will add value. So for example, if I have 14-point blog post checklist, I'm going to say, well, you don't really need to come to my blog. What you can do is download this version in the PDF. Or if you have six best ways to do it, like enter your email address and get additional three. Just go and expand that article and offer that as a content upgrade. Some of my friends, what they're doing is they're just turning that article into a PDF and saying, download this article in a PDF. People download it all the time. I guess because they want to print. I don't know why anybody prints articles. Partial form submissions. People don't know when I talk about partial form submissions. They're like, what do you mean by that? So how many of you have been to Amazon?  And then you get an email saying, here are the best headphones that you should be checking out. How did Amazon know? They're tracking you, right? So what partial form submission is, if somebody starts filling out their name, email, they selected what they were interested in, and they never typed, and they left.  And then they came back. It's time to sleep. They closed the computer, went to bed. They weren't interested in contacting you. So what this allows you to do is save that entry, even when they didn't submit. So when people were going through our checkout process, they entered the name and email, and then for some reason they would leave, we put them in a drip campaign. They were getting an automated email saying, hey, did you forget something? It's like Amazon does. And we recovered over 55% of our revenue. 55% more sales. Crazy, by just adding partial form submissions. Now, contact form plugins, Vufu does this really, really well, and I like it. Rejoiner is the one that you can use for card abandonment, but it's kind of expensive. Card hook is another one that's a little cheaper. We just built one in our in-house, so we don't have to pay them monthly. OK, targeting and personalization. So the number one rookie mistake that you're making right now is not building a segmented email list. When you go to a talk, everybody says, you need to build an email list, just like I did in my very first part. Yes, you have to build an email list. But see, most of the so-called experts haven't really been doing this for long enough to know that just building an email list is not important. You need to build a segmented email list. And what I mean by a segmented email list is group your subscribers based on interest. Because what happens is, let's say you have 1,000 subscribers, your open rate is going to be 60% or 70% or even 80%. You're like, wow, 80% are the people I sent an email to open my emails. But as that list grows, your open rate starts declining. I know a guy, he has half a million subscribers, and open rate is under 10%. That's equivalent of having 10,000 subscribers, not half a million. So he's paying the bill for half a million, but he really has 10,000 subscribers. Why? Because you're emailing these people of things that they're not interested in. But when you group them, you can only send them personalized offers. And the way you do this is you show targeted offer based on specific pages based on where they're coming from. If you have six categories, that means somebody who's coming to your business category is not interested in your history category. They might be, but more likely than not. So if you send emails about history to the business guy, he's going to unsubscribe, or he's just going to start ignoring your emails. So you need to build smart forms on your site and show them at different areas. So somebody who's subscribed in business gets put in a business section, somebody who's subscribed on history does it on history. And you notice Huffington Post, New York Times, et cetera, they all have that. That's what segmenting is, and you need to start doing it right now in your business. Figure out your target demographics, figure out your customer avatars, and start grouping them. And you can do traffic refer detection. That's another way of grouping them is based on where they're coming from. Are they coming from Facebook? Are they coming from a guest post that you wrote on another blog? If they are, you should put them in a separate autoresponder sequence. And this is what it looks like. If they came from ProBlogger, I'll put them in eBook. If they didn't, then I'll send them a video first. If they open it, I'll do this. And if they didn't, then I'll do something else. You have to start creating Grip campaigns. And I helped one of my friends do it. And he was making about $7,700 a month from his blog. He went from doing that to $48,000 a month. Why? Because he was now sending out targeted emails. And he had this sequence. If somebody didn't open, remind them. Send them an alternative. That's what a Grip campaign is. Before it was known as autoresponders because they were just automatic, but Grip campaigns are smarter because they have a workflow. If this happens, then do this. If it doesn't, then do this. And there's tons and tons of tools out there that are going to do it. So the tools that I recommend are the ones listed here. OptinMonster is the one that I built. Unbounce is great for landing pages. Contest Domination is great for running giveaways. CardHook is the one that does card abandonment. Woofoo is the contact form plugin. It's not a plugin. It's a service that does partial form submissions. But the form that I'm using on my side is Gravity Forms with that little checkbox because Gravity Forms have an integration with just about everything. MailChimp is the email marketing service. For anybody who doesn't have an email list, use MailChimp. If you want to do a little bit more advanced stuff, yes, no campaigns, active campaign. I have a lot of clients who use Infusionsoft. Infusionsoft is really powerful, but it has another name. It's called Confusionsoft. So if you're kind of new to it, you're not going to like it, stick with Active Campaign. But Sumo is a really, really awesome tool. If you have not tried it, give it a try. It's great to research your competitors or your industry. And SEMrush is another one. And then at the end of the day, tests learn and improve. I didn't go to any school to learn all of this stuff. I started building websites when I was 12, and I just start learning from every mistake that I made. And I'm like 13 years later, I'm here. So thank you. If you have any questions, go ahead. Partout is a great tool. So I have a luxury of working with over 30 plus email marketing services. So I've definitely said partout is a great option. No, partout is really powerful, but at the same time, the pricing is a little bit on the higher end. Any other questions? No? All right, cool then. Thank you again.


Sean Glover wants to know can you be independently contracted with too many companies Sean? I'm gonna surprise people with this answer. Yes, I started out getting contact with like 60 companies way too much Find three and there's people that may disagree. I don't care Find three to five carriers that you can put in the Less the better less is more the less carries you can have the better But find three maybe upwards of five to put all your business with and be super focused because it allows you to be an Expert with that carrier have a chance to win bonuses extra comp trips And it allows you to run in that lane and get really good at That so that I would say like you need to be the expert and know everything about this instead of trying to go It's like going, you know, it's like it's like going deep instead of wide, right? So that's a really really really good question


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