Hey everybody, this is Brian. Welcome to the 131st Qt tutorial with C++ and QE programming. We have been doing a lot of multimedia lately, and we're going to kind of continue on with that. This might be the last multimedia, I'm not sure, but the adjust of multimedia is that it's very complex. There's a lot to it, a lot more than what we've really covered. Well, I wanted to point out that if you go to examples in Qt Creator, a lot of people don't really pay attention to this. If you just type in video, which I've already done, so it's already filtered, you'll see there's some examples in here, and you can actually sort by compiler. So, you know, there'll be like different ones for, well, it's not really working for mine, but if you have like Visual Studio, there'll be different ones, but you notice how most of their examples are QML. So, it's good to know that they're there. Just play around with some words like media and you'll see there's different like audio device sampling and things like that, and how to do a spectrum, so what it's called a spectrum. Somebody asked me, Brian, how do I do this? And I was like, well, if you open examples and blah, blah, blah, blah. So just be aware that that's out there. But I'm also a big fan, if you've watched any of my other tutorials, of doing things that aren't here and that you may not find out on the internet somewhere. So we're going to make a graphical video player with a little seek bar and all that. So let's just create a new project. We're going to make a Qt Widgets. And let's call this video GUI next. Now, usually we do dialogue, but we're going to do Q main window. So just make sure it's Q main window, generate form, we're going to hit next, and it'll finish. All right, so let's give this a good build. And I'm going to run this just in case you haven't seen one of these before. I don't know if the video can pick it up, but there's this little, yeah, there's this toolbar here, and you got this little status bar at the bottom. And that's what a Q main window is. You'll have a toolbar at the top, a status bar at the bottom, and you have this central widget area. So it follows a pretty similar design pattern. All right, so first things first, we need to add a few things here. We're going to say multi-media and multi-media widgets. Very important that you add those or this tutorial will not work for you. And once you've done that, give it another good build just to make sure everything links and everything's working, and you should see that. Sometimes I actually do a rebuild just in case, because sometimes Q gets a little funky. I don't know what the deal is, but you can see how it's linking here. So it's got the media widgets and the multi-media. That's how you can tell it's actually linking to those libs. Sorry. I bit my tongue the other day, and it's really just bugging the heck out of me.  So now we're going to jump in here, and I've got these icons, because I didn't want to waste your time drawing icons. I've got them already there. I'm just going to copy and video GUI. We're just going to paste them right in here. I'm going to add a new resource file, and we'll call it resources. And it's been a while since we worked with a resource file, so I'm going to go through this a little bit here. You need to add a prefix, and we're going to call it slash images. And then in your prefix, you can add files. Just add a whole bunch of those there. So now we've got our pause, play, stop, and the folder icon. I also want to go out here to video two. Let me pause the video. I need to find that sample video that we had. Okay, I found our little sample video here. I just wanted to use a video that I know works that we're not fighting with codec issues to this tutorial. So when you download this project from my website, you'll have the icons in the sample and everything be ready to go. All right, so we've got our resource file in here. Let's close that. Save all. And you should know, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but these images need to be in a sub folder of your project. Otherwise, it won't be able to find it when you build it. Of course, give it a good build, make sure it finds everything. Bring up your main window. Now, we may not have done this in a while, so I'll also go over this. This is your window designer, because I know we've been doing a lot of command line stuff lately. And your toolbars here and your progress bars here. Now, remember, Qt uses a concept called actions, so you can make a new action. And we'll call it open. Notice how it says object name, action open. And open a file. And the icon, this is where you can say choose a file or choose a resource. We're going to choose a resource. And ta-da, there's our icons. So, once we have an action, we can just drag and literally drop it right up onto the toolbar. You can also say go to slot, and then choose triggered. And there's a source code. So, when they click that button, this little function right here will get called. And I'm just going to flesh those out for the rest of the window here. We'll see. Play. Gosh, I really bit my tongue. Man, that's really sucking.  I got hooked on Skyrim. Don't ask me why Skyrim's like an old game, but it was on Steam. It was $15 for the legendary edition, so I got like everything.  And I went to say son of a, you know, you can expletive finish the rest of that sentence for me, but I bit my tongue when I did it. So, it didn't really sound all that great when I did it. Actually, we're going to right-click and you can add a separator in here. So, I don't know if it'll shut in the video, but there's this little bar that separates them. I'm going to add play, pause, and stop. All right. And you can also, actually let me, you can type up here and make a menu. And then in the menu, you can drag and drop, whoops, into the menu. So, we'll say video. And if that's not abundantly clear, you type up here to make the menu item. This little sub-menu appears and then you can drag and drop the actions you want up in there. Yep, you can do multiple. Let's do video. It only did the one.  So, we have play, pause, stop. And then make sure we've got our associated slots. So, yeah, Skyrim. Really cool. I've been playing Dota a lot, but Skyrim just, I don't know why, just totally got my attention here. So, let's give this a good build. And let's run it and make sure our icons, our beautiful little icons, appear. And sure enough, they do. So, the premise of this is we're going to have these buttons. We'll click this, an open file dialog, play, pause, stop. The video will show here. And then down in this little bar, we'll have a progress bar and a track bar where we can, you know, or actually we'll put the track bar over here and then we'll have the progress bar here so we can seek through the file and see the progress. Man, that was mouthful. Let's speed this up a little bit here. I don't want this to be a 30-minute video. I get complaints from some people. They're like, your videos are too darn long. Other people say they're not long enough. So, whoops. Include. See, I say we got to speed things up and then I start talking. Media player. Ah.  Cue media player. We're just going to include a few things here. My keyboard's acting all funky on me. Cue video widget. Now, a Cue video widget, remember from our last tutorial, it's what the video is rendered on. If you think of a video like a painting, the canvas would be the video widget. And then we're going to do a Cue file dialog. And let's just do a Cue progress bar. Yeah, let's do this. And include Cue slider. All right. Down here, we're going to say Cue media player. And we're just going to make these super quick. Cue video widget. Call this video widget. Cue progress bar. We'll call this bar. And Cue slider. We'll call that the very descriptive slider. All right, so we've got the bulk of our program fleshed out here. We're going to actually go in here. And now we're going to say we're going to make a new player. Ah, keyboard.  And someone once asked me, why do you make pointers when you're in a form? You can just make it a local variable. You don't have to make a pointer. I don't know what to work with in my opinion. A little bit more dangerous if you don't follow some memory rules. But I just, I don't know, personal taste I like working with pointers. Because what happens is when you go to connect signals and slots, I always forget if it's not a pointer. I forget to put the reference to.  All right, so this.CentralWidget. Remember the central widget is that central image. We're going to do the video widget. And actually it's back up here. And we're going to say player.setVideoOutput. We're going to set our canvas here. So what we're doing is we're saying, all right, we want to render the video to the video widget. And we want that video widget to be the central widget. So the video is going to appear right here in the center. Cue will take care of all that for us automatically. Now let's just work this out a little bit here. We're going to do our open file, open file dialogue. Cue string, file name. We're going to get open file name. And this always, I don't know why. I always have to look at my notes because this always kind of messes me up the way this is laid out. Open a file. This is the title, obviously. And then we need to specify video files. And then like a real world application, you'd really want to make that a little more professional by searching and seeing what available codecs you have and things that are just vastly beyond the scope of this tutorial. I should note, if you're looking for industrial strength video playing capabilities, there's an open source video player called VLC. And I can't multitask here for some reason. My tongue is really bugging me. Anyway, if you Google Qt, the letter Q and T, Qt VLC, somebody's actually taking VLC and wrapped it inside of Qt and made it actually really, really easy to work with. The reason why I'm not doing a tutorial on that, which I actually might, is because it doesn't really follow pure Qt. And I've been kind of bashed in the past where people are like, well, you shouldn't use third-party libraries. I tend to just ignore them and blow that off from local file. Got kind of sidetracked here. That and it is actually a pretty complex topic. And I'm already getting a flood of mail from this. So what we're really doing here, and let's kind of explain this, is we're going to pop open this dialog box. We're going to call stop to make sure it's stopped. We're going to set the media. And we're just doing the local file, which we chose in the file dialog, and then we're going to play it. Now I have to preface that with an industrial strength program. You're going to want to make sure that the video is valid, that it's playable, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. This is a very dumb-down example. We just kind of want to, you know, elementary level, high school level kind of player here. We're going to show a message here. Maybe if I can spell. And then through the magic of copy and paste, we can just kind of, you know, do some quick coding here. We're going to pause. We're going to whoopsie. I don't know what button I hit, but that was kind of awkward. Now the difference between pause and stop. Stop will stop playing and actually close the file, or you should say it goes all the way back to the end, where pause will just keep the file open and stay exactly where you are. All right, so let's actually give this a good run and see if our beautiful little file player works here. Yeah, now you can see this black box here. That's the video widget. We're going to open. Oh gosh, good luck finding anything in my mess of a hard drive here. I really need to set up another virtual machine. Hmm, why is the sample not in there that's going to bother me? Let me go look. MPG. Start on MPG should actually grab it. Let me pause the video once again. Hmm, that is just weird. Anyways, on Windows you can actually have the filter, but on my Linux box I had to actually change this to star.star. You can actually set the filter, but it's just getting the filter out of here. So change that to star.star and then it was actually doing it. Let's actually close that and run this just so I can show you that it's actually working. And we're going to go to video GUI samples. So it is playing and you'll see this, or maybe not depending on what platform. That's debug information from the QMedia player. Now if we pause, you notice how the video pauses. We can play it again. We can pause it, play it, pause it. We can stop. That's how it says stopped. Play. That's how it jumps all the way back to the beginning. That's the difference between pause and stop here. So now our goal is we want to put a little track bar down here so we can seek through the video and a little progress bar so we can see how far into the video we really are. Bear with me. This may take me a minute because it's not actually in the original plan for this. I'm kind of like free-styling it right now. So this may be very good or very bad, I'm not sure. Slider equal new, Q slider. We're going to see how much I remember about these objects here. And bar equal new, Q progress bar. Alright now if I remember right, we got to say slider. Oops, set orientation. Otherwise it's going to be a vertical and we want a horizontal. Now we're going to say ui status bar. And we're going to add a permanent widget. And let's add the slider first. And via magic of copy and paste. Somebody told me what the command was to copy the entire line. I just don't remember what it is. Alright let's run this and make sure that's actually going to work. Yep, so there is our slider and there's our progress bar. Which don't work because we haven't wired up the signals and slots which is what we're going to do right now. Alright so let's actually connect up and we're going to say player. What do you guys think of the new connect signals and slots? I kind of like it, it took me a while to really get used to it but now that I've actually gotten used to it instead of typing signal and slot and having all these other mock garbage in there it's actually gotten quite used to it and it's much more elegant in my opinion but just curious what you guys kind of think. So what we're going to do is we're going to connect the duration change of the video to the progress bar maximum and I should warn you right now if you choose a large video this will explode your computer or actually not at your computer but the program because these take integers and a file takes a queue into 64 or 64 bit integer which is much, much larger. So if you're going to do a large file this may actually not work for you so in a professional strength program which unfortunately we don't really have time to do you're going to want to actually you know calculate the value out and then do a percentage etc etc and whoops I kind of did that backwards didn't I? It's okay. So we're going to connect the signals and slots for the slider in the progress bar there's one more we want to do for the slider here we want to say slider and let's grab this that's not queue progress bar it's queue slider that would have been ugly it would have been really ugly so grab that put that there I love copy and paste it's like the best invention ever alright so when the what is it the position that's not position darn it I thought I was going to be all slick and I was going to look through here and just magically know what it was I'll say slider moved ah slider moved that's what it is when the sliders moved and notice how it's an int then we want to set position and notice how that's a queue int 64 that's the difference that's what I'm talking about there is the 64 bit is going to be much larger than it is some compilers will do that for you magically on the fly but it's very rare and I wouldn't depend on it so just know that if you use a large video something that goes bigger than int then you're going to have problems so what you would do is you would you would make your signals and slots and then in the signals and slots you would actually calculate like a percentage of where you are in the file translate it basically from int to int 64 etc etc alright I'm sure there's a more elegant way of doing that but that's how I would handle it let's test this out oh come on anybody I know what the problem is alright so when we run this this should automatically work let's give this a try here and you can see how it's showing our progress and the track bar is moving with it and we can grab this track bar back and forth through here and if it had sound it would actually play the sound etc etc and we can pause this and while it's paused we can seek through it and it stays paused you know pretty neat huh so that is the basis of how to make a video player and I should note that these menu items work too like you can actually go here and play and it'll because it's calling the same action under the hood whew sorry for all the babbling pause is like I said my tongue is just wrecked I don't know why I bet it's so hard but Skyrim man that dude that I shot in the face of the arrow he really had it coming he was kinda making me mad alright so that's it for this tutorial hope you found this educational and entertaining thank you for watching and if you want the source code for this and other tutorials visit my website voidrealms.com you go to tutorials and then you choose cute and it'll be in here and last but certainly not least if you're still watching you're probably interested on Facebook we have a void realms all one word void realms group just asked to join that group there's like a hundred and last I counted I thought there was like a hundred and twenty of us in there we all talk about all different languages not just cute so that's it


It's up there. Winning on Monday night at home in the fashion we did is awesome. Having big plays on offense, defense coming up right there at the end and making the play. We knew at fourth and one our defense always comes to the challenge. We're just proud. I'm proud to be able to be on this team. No, they got great players. They got great coaching staff and they're trying to win a game. They're not trying to put in the kickers on the kicker or go to overtime. They're trying to win games and we've probably been the same situation we're trying to win the game. That's awesome. And we know if we get a hat on the hat, he's special. And I'm glad he's on our team and he's a once in a generation kind of running back and he's something else. It's fun. He's special. That's all you can say. You can say he's big. He's fast. He's special. We love him over and over again. He takes care of us. He puts the work in. You see how hard he works, how much he cares about this team. And we got there and we love blocking for the guy. You never want to see a teammate go down. All the blood, sweat and tears you put into it.  There's a hundred percent injury right in this league and they're going to bounce back. We're going to get them back and just put your hands on and say a prayer for them tonight. And we just want them back as soon as possible. We executed critical moments. We made the plays when they came to us and we answered the call. Play after play. You got to play to the last whistle of the game. And that's this kind of team. They have a great team over there and we're trying to win the game just like them. But the last play we answered. Yeah, we're happy they're going for it. We got all the faith in the world in our defense. Fourth and one, I feel like we've seen it multiple weeks. Last week against Jacksonville. Charges a couple of years ago on fourth and one. Our defense answered the bell. Yeah, it's always week to week. You know, they're a great team man. We got them at home. Glad we got them at home. But we know we got a challenge next week and we got to get in there. We got a short week this week. We got to get in the playbook.  Yeah, we know it's always one play away when you got Derek in the backfield. And you know every play you're doing a little extra because you don't know which play it's going to be in the game where he could break it. So that was definitely special. It definitely brought spark to us. And it definitely makes the defense think, hey, we got to stop him or he can change the game. Yeah, this is an NFL. Everybody's paid and everybody can win it on any Sunday. And if you don't bring your A game on any Sunday, you can get beat. And we had two good teams going tonight and we had the ball in our hands at last and our defense made a heck of a play. And I'm glad it came out that way. Yeah, we have a great fan. I'm glad it came out there. They got loud tonight. You know, Bill's fans travel the best in the league and being on third down and a defense, stepping up, getting the fall starts for them on defense, our fans showed out tonight. And we're happy to have them. We're trying to win one at a time and we know if you can get humble really quick in this league, we got to put this one to bed because we got another great team coming into our house next week. And so we got to soak it in the night and be ready to go back to work. Yeah, Monday night, winning in that fashion and having some big plays. It's going to be special. I know we had the chargers in the past, our defense stepped up for us. We've had some Thursday nights with Derek Brooks along. But this is what I'm going to remember. Guys laid it on the line and it took whatever it came down to the last play to win this one. Thank y'all. Good seeing all y'all.


Rob has spoken about some of the issues that face Nexus and you wouldn't be here if you didn't believe in its mission, but I hope you will say to other people what I feel about it, which is this is the only conference or gathering I ever go to where on the same platform you can find an admiral and an opera singer. That's going to happen later today. It's truly amazing the range of human ingenuity and talent that gets brought together at Nexus. That's the first wonderful and unique thing about this organization. But the other thing is you. The second thing that makes Nexus unique has always been the audience because this is not a gathering of specialists or a little elite conclave. It's always been a gathering for the citizens of a great city. And it's the only conference of its kind that I know that reaches out in this way to the citizens of a great city. So I just, you know, speaking personally on behalf of Susanna, my wife is also here. I do hope that the Netherlands finds a way to keep this wonderful and quite unique experiment going in the future. Okay, let's do some work together. I'm standing on the set of a Wagner production, so we better begin with Wagner. The ring could be interpreted as a mythic genealogy of human emotion. It describes the battle between the impulses of love and the drive for power played out inside our own souls way back to our archaic beginnings. Our fate, Wagner tells us, is tragic. We should choose love, but we always choose power. And in the drive for domination we use technology, techni, to control nature and other human beings. And reason driven on by acquisitive lust gives us god-like powers, but in gaining the ring we doom ourselves to Götterdamerung. We abandon the gods, and they abandoned us, and in the twilight we are left struggling often in vain to use these god-like powers with wisdom and foresight. And the wise use of power Wagner tells us can only come when we love our fellow creatures and respect the only planet we know as our common home. Now, this summary might not satisfy the true Wagnerians in the audience, and it won't work as a summary of one of Western art's most profound and troubling masterpieces, but it does tease out a theme that I want to concentrate on for the rest of this lecture. Wagner's attention to man's alienating and alienated relation to nature and the price we pay when domination, the drive for the ring, causes us to lose our love of the natural world and see it only as a resource to be plundered. And this establishes the theme of my lecture, which is the impact of the environmental crisis on our understanding of history. In the last 20 years or so, we all seem to have realized that mankind has entered a new epoch, the Anthropocene, in which the chief forces shaping nature are the work of our own species. Now, some date the dawn of the Anthropocene to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and some trace it back to 1945 and Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But whatever the dating, we know we're living in a new epoch in which human beings must assume responsibility for natural phenomenon, the weather, sea levels, air quality, soil fertility, that we once attributed to God or to fate. In this lecture, I want to think through just a few of the political consequence of what it means to live in the Anthropocene, this new age in which for the first time human beings like us hold the future of our whole species in our hands. Wagner's Götter Damerung reminds us that while the concept of the Anthropocene is new, the general idea that man's god-like powers now in danger are very survival is a very well-established theme way back in the 19th century. This pessimism even then expressed itself in warnings of environmental nemesis. You should recall that when Götter Damerung finally occurs in the final act of the ring, the Rhine rises its banks and floods the world. Nature takes its revenge on human presumption and folly. From its first performance, Wagner's audience has understood the Götter Damerung as a fable about ecological destruction and capitalist greed, and this theme has surfaced in interpretations of the ring ever since. This emerging narrative of catastrophe is putting enormous pressure on all our political beliefs. Now, there's still some conservative parties, some U.S. Republicans, for example, who deny the basic facts, but we can be pretty sure, I think, that any politics that denies the facts doesn't have much of a future. And then there are populists on the right, Salvini, Orban, Vilders, take your pick, who change the subject, who tell you the thing to fear is not climate change but immigrants and foreigners. But politics that changes the subject doesn't have much of a future either. It's only the Greens, surging in Western Europe, especially here in the Netherlands, that have identified climate change as a central political issue of our time. But it's important to notice that they still don't command support for more than a quarter of the electorate, many of whom I hope and suppose may be in the room this morning. I think the reason that Green support has stalled at about 25% of the electorate is that the Green agenda asks for more change than most electors are as yet ready to make. The times may be revolutionary, but people are not yet ready for a revolutionary politics. For no political movement does climate change pose a more difficult challenge than liberalism, the political force that I've been associated in my lifetime. By liberalism, by the way, I mean a centrist, gradualist politics of all stripes. Liberalism can come in small-sea, conservative, social-democratic forms. It can come in some Green forms. So when I talk about liberalism, I don't get hung up on party political labels. Liberal convictions seem out of step with a fashionable apocalyptic mood that warns us that we're all headed for Götterdamerung. Our institutions are in crisis, elites have failed, capitalism has failed, und so weiter, und so weiter, und so weiter.  Climate change, if sufficiently frightening, could cause us to vote ourselves into an authoritarian state. So climate emergency will test the viability of liberal democratic societies more than populism ever will. But that's not really the core challenge. The core challenge runs deeper. There's a deeper crisis in the liberal confidence in the very stories we tell about our past. In this story, we tell the story that it was techne, technology, that lifted the burden of labor off the backs of men and women. It was medical science that enabled women to face childbirth without terror. It was science that gave us the prospect that everyone could be born, grow up and live a normal life, that freed millions and then billions from starvation and hunger. This is the enlightenment story, the wonderful story that we inherit from Bacon, from Newton, from Adam Smith onwards. The empowering relationship between knowledge and freedom. And this is what liberated mankind from servitude, hunger, disease and premature death. And frankly it's the only good story left. It's the one that made us feel that all the senseless brutality of capitalist modernity served a higher purpose even if we could not see it or even enjoy it ourselves. I want to make the point that we've made more progress in understanding the science of climate within the last 80 years than in the entire history of humanity. And that's something. We have a widely diffused and generalized awareness spreading way beyond narrow scientific circles of something called an ecosphere, of interactions and correlations between environmental phenomenon on sea, land and air that we never suspected before. We've made striking progress in aligning market incentives and regulation so that for the first time renewable energy now competes with fossil fuels and nuclear. But despite this intellectual and technical revolution, it's common these days to read articles in which our species is described as a virus, as an infestation or even as the chief serial killer on the planet. Thanks to these metaphors we worry aloud whether we actually deserve to survive at all. Instead of feeling empowered by what we have come to know, the more we know the worse we feel. So we've met the enemy as the great American cartoonist Pogo used to say, and he is us or she is us. So what do we do about us? Being human demands of all of us a dual act of recognition, taking responsibility for what is worst in our history as a species, while keeping faith with our cunning, our resilience, our staggering resourcefulness. We should admit that the stories in which we attempt to give shape to time and Gauter Damarung is merely one of them, are fables at once deceiving and self-deceiving. But the past itself, the physical remains, the old stones, the pictures gleaming from the walls, the howlbirds taking the light in Rembrandt's night watch, the light on the pearl earring, the bent lintels over which we step, the immense accretion of the human presence, its tenacity, ingenuity, brilliance and vision. This is inspiring because it reminds us once again what human beings fortified by faith in themselves and in purposes larger than themselves can accomplish. This is the faith we need to save our planet. Thank you.


The concerns were related to the ability to build on Minespoil and Silverliner is another building of the exact same size as being built on Minespoil that has encountered no obstacles at all during its construction and it's nearly complete. We continue to work with them as issues come up. Again, it's important to realize that he was only speaking about the 1.5 million square foot facility and not the assembly building. This is not one of those projects that has been announced in the past that never comes to fruition. Every day, every week we are working with Interblue engaged with their design team and their executives on this project and there has been no acknowledgement that this project is not going to happen.


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That's all you really need to start off I add a list of my recommendations to start off car washing business down in the description But this startup investment is all it takes for you to start your entrepreneurship journey now that you got your equipment You have to advertise next thing that you got to do now that you got your tools The next thing that you got to do is have good advertisement good advertisement can take you a long way start by leveraging your social networks Your social media family friends and neighbors Word of mouth can be a powerful tool for a small business consider offering a discount for referrals Beyond that use social media to create advantages create a Facebook page or Instagram account for your businesses Show before and after pictures of the cars that you clean It's a fantastic way to showcase your work guys now before you skip over this I'm show you guys how you could Almost triple your money in car washing So don't skip over to the next house Please stay inside this one because I'm gonna show you a little tip to where you can triple your income just from washing cars Alright, so now that you got your first client you're earning some money now How do you take this $500 investment and turn into a hundred thousand dollar business within a year? The key is in the volume and in scaling if you price your service at $50 per wash You'll need to clean around 2,000 cars in a year. That's around 40 cars a week as your business grow You can hire additional workers and expand your reach now to me. That sounds like a whole lot of cars That sounds like a lot of work. So here's the number one tip to get you to 100k Three times as fast and that is with upselling. So let's say you're adding more services as you build your clients Consider upselling by offering premium services like waxing interior Detailing our headlight restoration These add-ons can significantly increase your income without requiring much additional time All you have to say is hey, I'll notice while watching your car some swirl marks I can both those out for you and give you a wax to to show you have a shiny brand new car Shiny brand new car finished for extra hundred dollars for extra $200 or hey I vacuumed out the inside of your car, but it could really use a deep wash a wet vac See cleaning for X amount of dollars upselling can account for an extra 60% of your income So that's a great tip the number one tip to add to any business guys So finally don't forget to set your goals track your progress Setting milestones can motivate and give you a clear path to success using simple spreadsheets to track your earnings Suspenses seeing that progress visually could be incredibly Satisfying and as if folks on your $500 side hustle can potentially become a hundred thousand dollar business in just a year I've seen it done before there's tutorials all over YouTube on how to get that done. It's a good strategy It takes a whole lot of determination, but I believe in you guys I know you can make it happen next up You're looking at a side hustle that not only helps you make money But also keep you active and connected with some of the best friends you'll ever make Are for a fur-legged friends the dog. So we're gonna be walking dogs using a dog walking app called wag So what's wag wag is an app that connects owners to dog walkers? It's basically like a Uber for dog walking. It's an amazing platform to start your dog walking side hustle All you need is your smartphone and the love for dogs. So this is how you get started wag is Pretty straightforward first you need to download the app and create a profile on your phone Wag does require a background check which costs around $25. I'm not sure if that's still around But I do think they it costs around $25 I know it's a upfront cost but consider it as an investment towards building trust with your potential clients Once your profile is up and running you can start accepting dog walking requests in your area Now how much can you make from dog walking on the app wag dog walkers can earn as much as $15 to $25 per walk and you can increase your earnings by walking multiple dogs at the same time Plus there are tips there are tips. So remember to be as friendly and as nice as possible Remember excellent service often leads to generous tips tips are always key Especially when it comes to dog walking guys, you'll be amazed of how much they tip dog walkers All right, so here are some of the tips that you can maximize your earnings Consistency is key. You want to be consistent regularly walking the same dogs help build relationship with both the dogs and their owners Which can lead to more freaking bookings and better tips now There are peak hours the early mornings and the evenings are usually the peak time for dog walking Utilizing these hours can help you earn more be active on the app The more active you are on that the more visible you are to the clients and have good customer service always provide top-notch service Good reviews can increase your bookings guys. So so guys that side hustle number two dog walking Let's move over to side hustle number two now side hustle number three is dryer vent cleaning all of these things You could do within your neighborhood every just about every side hustle I'm bringing you guys today you could do inside of your neighborhoods a first thing first Why do people need that dry vents clean well lint accumulating dry ducks which could be a fire has it in regular cleaning helps to maintain Appliances efficiencies like the drive most home owners either lack the tools or the time to do this themselves And that's where your service coming to play. So how can you get started with the? Drive inside hustles Well, you need some basic tools like a long-handed brush a vacuum and a few other items like a leaf blower or drill You could get a basic dry duck cleaning kit for around 30 to $50 like this one on Amazon So for less than $100 you are quick to offer a service that you can charge a pretty decent amount for now Once again, how much can you make well? A lot of people charge around 125 dollars per house But the the standard dry cleaning vent service can charge anywhere between 100 to 150 dollars per job Plus if you're upselling gutter gutter cleaning services, that's an additional 100 to 200 dollars per house You do a couple of these jobs in a day You're looking at a a pretty large handsome income guys now You can market this the same way you did the car washing businesses local advertising is key You can start by distributing flowers are using online marketplaces like Craigslist or offer up or next door the next door app Yeah, where the mouth refers can also be really effective once you've done a few jobs improving the quality of your work A lot more people will reach out to you. So remember guys up till up till up till so while you're already at a client's house for the dry vent Why not offer the cleaner gutters as well? It's an additional task home owners often neglect But it's a crucial part for preventing water damage to these houses You might need a few additional tools for this but the investment will pay off in the long run So you could say after you clean the events. Hey, I noticed that you got our leaves clogged up in your in your gutters I clean those for you for extra hundred dollars two hundred dollars Depending on how big the house is make that money guys That is the number one key is to upsell every single side hustle no matter what you're doing Yeah, you can even upset your job guys upset yourself wherever you it go make that money Okay So now we're gonna move over to the next side hustle and that is window cleaning now This one can be a banger if you're good at selling So what do you need to get started honestly? Not much you need a squeegee a scrubber some cleaning solutions in a bucket You can get all of this for around for under a hundred dollars And if you're planning to clean windows on higher floors, you might want to invest in that good ladder Or you could buy extension poe We will still keep your total investment under two hundred dollars now Let's talk about the earnings the fun part all right a typical Residential window cleaner service can charge anywhere between seventy five to a hundred fifty dollars per house If you're just getting started off some people charge around ten dollars per window And then you could up sell yourself to charge ten dollars for inside and ten dollars for outside So y'all is upselling yourself now. I just watched the episode of Graham Stephan. There's a guy out in Las Vegas or in Nevada He's charging two hundred forty nine dollars per house. I seen the video. He was in a pretty nice able hood But he was selling his window cleaning service To hit the screens to hit the windows to hit the to hit the borders He was doing two hundred forty nine dollars per house and he was bringing in twenty thousand dollars per month And this kid was twenty maybe twenty one years old making twenty thousand dollars per month Every side hustle Every entrepreneur that's making over a hundred thousand dollars per year Started off as a side hustle and then they just got really good at that side hustle and it start to grow over time Just like me with YouTube YouTube was a side hustle got really good at it And now it's making me a pretty good amount of income for me doing YouTube video So no matter where you start if you're charging a hundred dollars per house hundred fifty dollars per house in this case this dude was charging two hundred fifty dollars per house making twenty K per year You guys know as possible if you stick to it now if you can line up a few jobs in your neighborhood in a single day You're looking at a a very Solid income. It's gonna be very hard It's gonna get a lot of nose for window cleaning services But all they do is take is a couple of yeses and once again, you can always upsell now Once you establish a regular customer base and streamline your opportunities You could consider scaling your business You can hire a few helpers to take on more jobs or even expanded to other related services like pressure washing or gutter cleaning Of course now let's move over to the last side hustle That's gonna be respring drive ways. This one is pretty cool It's pretty fun and it takes no time at all to get in and get out now The things that you need to for respring respray padding addresses is very simple Now why would someone need to resprank that address? You want to go to the older neighborhoods not neighborhoods that just been built address numbers are essential They help people locate their homes be it friends family emergency services over time these numbers fade They all fade due to weather and game. It could be difficult to see This is where your new side hustle comes into play providing a solution for this problem You always want to provide a solution to someone's problems. So this is how you get started. What do you need? The startup cost is surprisingly very very low. All you need is paint a brush and a stencil That's all you need Which you could get all of these things at the local hardware store off of Amazon from around $50 Of course, you'll also need a good eye for detail in a steady hand now I'm in Texas where we have the craziest football fans in America. Oh, man. We call them cowboy fans That's right So if you have a stencil with the Dallas star or the Houston Texans or the Houston Astros Fans of these teams are gonna want their address done Especially if you do one in your neighborhood all it takes is for one you go over to Joe House You say hey, Joe, let me respray paint your address one one one one right here And also, hey, would you like any of these team logo spray painted on there as well?  He see Joe get his Dallas Cowboys and then you already know what Sam gonna do He gonna say hey if he got the cowboys, I'm gonna get the Texans right here I'm not gonna have him updo me on my street.  That is a pretty cool idea I've seen neighborhoods where every team had the Eagles the Cowboys to Houston Rockets They had everything the whole street had the address is done I'm pretty sure one person had hit that whole street So all it takes to feed for you to get in one of course have your social media platform You get yourselves that way now how much can you make you can make you could charge anywhere between ten dollars And fifty dollars ten dollars is respray paint the numbers fifty dollars Of course is if you go through the logos with different teams depending on the Complexity of your images is how much you could charge now if you do anywhere between twenty dollars per address That's around four hundred dollars But of course you make a lot more than that if you're doing the fifty dollar logos 20 houses times fifty thousand dollars you can make a thousand dollars 20 houses times fifty, but I'm pretty sure not everyone is gonna want Their logo of their favorite team spray painting But you could make around a thousand dollars per day if you are looking now finding your first customer might be Kind of tough, but you have want to walk around old neighborhoods of course looking for faded addresses knocking on the doors asking them But like I already told you guys all it do is takes one on your street Leave your business card and use the word of mouth and social media to get started And there you go dreamers that is the top five side hustles that you could start inside of your neighborhood today. All you need is a Walk around your neighborhood drive around your neighborhood look at these houses Do they need dry cleaning service window cleaning services that car wash do they need their address respray painted? There's a thousand things that you could do within your neighborhood If you're a team you don't even need a car all you need is social media the next door out walk around in Neighborhood right your bike around the neighborhood. There's ways to make money guys These side hustles right here can start off very small and all of them can grow to over a hundred thousand dollars per year Side hustle our business if you want to treat it as such, but yeah guys, that's it Let me know which one of these five is your favorite down in the comment section I can't wait to read what you guys write down in the comment section which one that you're gonna pick You could look up more information on all five of these side hustles if you think I'm lying people are doing this It's on YouTube that got tutorials on it on YouTube look those up But let me know down in the comment section which one is your favorite and one if you're already doing it If you're already doing these side hustles Let me know how it's working out for you down in the comment section Or if you have a better side hustles that you could do inside your neighborhood leave that down in the comment section as well I might cover that in that future video This channel don't exist without you guys recommendations. So please recommend Some other top side hustles down in the comment section I might try some of those out myself. Who knows I might have a brand new side hustles from your recommendation I can't wait to make a future video guys. Don't forget to pick up free money from Moomoo Signed up deposit a hundred dollars get free stocks. Don't forget to get free money from Weebu Signed up deposit any amount of money one penny get 15 free stocks It's literally free money guys do not miss out on those opportunities But other than that guys, I'm Zeke bring you the dream green show and I'm out. Peace


We've gone for blast off x-minus five, four, three, two, x-minus one, fire. From the far horizons of the unknown come transcribed tales of new dimensions in time and space. These are stories of the future adventures in which you'll live in a million could be years on a thousand may be worlds. echa echa echa echa echa echa echa... Minus minus minus minus minus one, one, one... Tonight's story, The Parade, by George Lefferts. Mr. Sid Ryan the same. My name is Lushar. I am a Martian. Pleased to meet you, Mr. Loe... What was that again? A Martian. A Martian? As in Orson Welle? Precisely. I'm a rotarian myself. Sit down and now that we've had our little joke, Mr. Lucian, what can publicity associates do for you? It has been my observation that advertising and publicity are the very backbone of earthly civilization. Foken like a true Marsha, Mr. Lucian. Now, if you'll tell me the name of the client. The client, of course, will be the Martian. You don't give up, do you? Give up? The gag, I mean. Oliver. Oh, yes, Mr. Ryan? This is Mr. Lucian. Mr. Lucian claims to be a Martian. Take him outside. Will you all ever get the name of the sanatorium he escaped from and tell them to bring the butterfly net? Wait, sir. I'm happy to see, Mr. Ryan, that my telling you I am a Martian has approximately the effect I supposed it would have. I believe we can do business. I have here the cash antenna of $5,000. All right, sir. Sit down, Mr. Lucian. Oliver, get the client a cigar. Yes, sir. No, no, no, no. The other ones, the other ones. Thank you, no. Well, now what can I do for you, sir? I wish you to manage a publicity campaign. A very large, a very important campaign. Is the product established or is it something brand new? Oh, something quite new. Now, what would you judge to be the most effective type of campaign? Well, if the client has a lot of dough to throw around, a suspense campaign is best. First, you place ads in the paper saying, watch this space. Then, about a week later, you run an ad saying XYZ or PDQ, and you get people guessing what it means. Then finally, when you've teased them enough, you bust loose and unveil the product. Excellent. Very well, sir. We shall conduct a suspense campaign. Coursing this kind of campaign secrecy is very important. Once the name of the product leaks out, it spreads like wildfire, and the whole campaign is ka-flopo. Yes, quite so, quite so. But most secrecy. That's right. You realize, of course, these things cost like crazy. Would say $1 million cover the expense. Come again? I said, would $1 million cover it. Yes, I imagine. You did say $1 million. I understood that you had handled some very large accounts. Of course, if this is too big. Oh, not at all, not at all. As a matter of fact, I seldom touch anything less. Right, Aldo?  That's right, Mr. Ryan, absolutely right. Good. You will begin, then, by saturating the newspapers, radio, street cars, with a very simple statement. What's that? I should write it for you. The Martians are coming. Sorry, that's not a bad teaser. Got that all over? Yes, sir. The next ad we'll read, June 1st is Martian Day. June 1st is Martian Day. What happens on June 1st? The parade takes place. What parade? I wish you to arrange a parade up Fifth Avenue. You mean like the Macy parade? Exactly. Except that the theme will be the world of tomorrow, the Martian world.  Bloons, clowns, pennants, pretty drum majorettes. Hey, that sounds terrific. I might be able to interest the department stores in a tie-in. The parade will climax the campaign. On June 1st, the product will be unveiled. Good enough. By the way, Mr. Lucia, just what is the product? What are we selling? Oh, no, Mr. Ryan. Secrecy, remember. Oh, but after all. All will be revealed to you in good time, Mr. Ryan. Moment. Let us say we are selling the concept. Concept? Precisely. Concept of invasion from Mars. Benny Marcus, please. This is Benny. Benny, this is Sid Ryan over at Publicity Associates. Listen, Benny, how you fix for midgets? I got midgets. Fine. I need 40 midgets for a parade. 40. June 1st. And listen, Benny, I want them dressed in little spacesuits. You know, like men from Mars. OK? Midgets. And I want some movie extras. Maybe 50 of them. Also rigged up like men from Mars. Make them look gruesome. Got that? Crucified. Also, I need some horses with pretty girls on top of them. Maybe you can get that bunch from Maroney's Traveling Circus. The ones we booked for the firemen's parade in Albany last year. Oh, try, Sid. And never mind the expense. Just get me the talent, OK? I got to hang up now. I'll call me back, Benny. How you doing, Oliver? Oh, fine, Mr. Ryan. Just fine. We got full page ads in all the dailies and 10-second spot announcements on every local station. But it's costing a fortune. The more it costs, the bigger our percentage. Spend like you are going to the electric chair, Oliver. Yes, sir. How are you making out on the parade?  I've got Macy's, Gimbal's, and Saks to contribute floats. Everything is built around the Martian theme, see? Even horses will have long feelers attached to them and funny-looking extra legs. It'll be sensation. Oh, yeah, yeah, it sounds fine. Only, uh... Only what? Oh, Mr. Ryan, we don't even know what we're selling. Oliver, my boy, do you think old Sid Ryan has been sitting here spending all this moolah and not putting two and two together? You mean you know who Lushar represents? Just by accident, understand? I have learned that Century Pictures is making a big new epic, a space opera entitled Invasion from Mars. Get it? Oh, oh, I begin to see. Also by mere coincidence, it happens to be the premiere sometime around June 1st. You follow me? But Mr. Ryan Century has an exclusive contract with new feature syndicate for all their publicity. Suppose Century Pictures doesn't like the way new features is handling their stuff. They want to get out of the contract, but new feature says no. So they have to get around the contract. A man named Lushar, client unknown, starts publicizing the Martian Invasion. Need I go further? I get it, Mr. Ryan. Gee, I suppose I should have thought of that. No, Oliver, that's what I like about you. You're so innocent. Let me talk to Commissioner Patrick, please. Sid Ryan. Commissioner, Sid Ryan. Oh, it's you. Well, what is it this time?  The answer is no. Also, we are not arresting any fan dancers. You know I don't handle fan dances. I want a permit for a parade. June 1st, Fifth Avenue. It's a Sunday. There's no traffic. Oh, come on, look, Ryan. Macy's gets a permit. Gimbal's gets a permit. The American Legion gets a permit. The Sons of Aaron March. Every time Morton Downey sings, the wearer in the green. Don't give me a hard time, Patrick. This is too big. I have the Fifth Avenue Merchants Association behind me. OK, Ryan. That's my boy. Oh, by the way, what's the occasion? Don't you read the papers, Patrick? June 1st is Martian Day. Mr. Ryan, how is the campaign going? Like fire, Mr. Lucia, like fire. Everybody and his brother is going along with the gang. Yesterday, we distributed 50,000 Martian hats to school kids. I even arranged for Commissioner Patrick to accept a $50,000 check for the policeman's benevolent fund from the man from Mars. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Thank you, Mr. Lucia. I understand century pictures spend over a million bucks making that space uproot. I beg your pardon? Oh, calm, calm, Mr. Lucia. Sid Ryan wasn't born yesterday, you know. I know who our client is, even if you don't admit it. You do? Always thinking that's me. Well, as long as you know, let's keep it to ourselves, shall we, Mr. Ryan? As you once remarked, when these things leak out, it destroys the surprise and ruins the effectiveness of the campaign. From our portable transmitter atop the reviewing stand for the much-heralded Martian Parade on Fifth Avenue. Beautiful sunlit day here in New York. Perfect day for a parade, and the streets are packed with thousands of spectators, all eager to find out what this is all about. There's an air of real expectancy. OK, tell them all right. I just have word from Saul Brown at the Central Park that the Martians have landed from big pink balloons. And while we're waiting here for the arrival of the parade, we brought some people up to our microphone to tell you their reactions to this spectacular affair. What's your name, madam? Miss Aida Shackley. A little outer, please. Miss Aida Shackley. And where are you from, Mrs. Shackley? I'm not alone. Columbus, Ohio. I see. And I see you have your family with you. Two little curly-headed boys. Are you in New York for your vacation? Yeah, we came for the Shriners Convention with their daddy. What do you think of Martian Day, Mrs. Shackley? Well, it all seemed very strange to me, but the boys have been testing me to watch it, so we've been standing here for two hours. I can't make head or tail of it. Well, neither can a lot of other people, Mrs. Shackley. But judging by the thousands here already, there's a lot of curiosity. Curiosity killed a cat. No, no, no. Let's hope not. Thank you, Mrs. Shackley. And now, here's the... Here they come, ladies and gentlemen. The first unit of the big Martian parade, swinging down to staff. Manfare, colored streamers, music, confetti floats, and all that trash is in the article. Let's listen to the band from here. The folks look a little midget in weird-looking pink and blue spaces, carrying blue Goldberg weapons with fine-spated omens. I can read one which says, Atomic Blaster. Another has a placard reading, We're marching through Georgia. And here come the clowns, laughing and fooling all over each other. They're giving free sugar candy to the kids a long way. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this is a happy, laughing crowd long to stand here today. A true reflection of a great sense of humor and good nature that makes America the place it is. Why, only... What's that? What's this? Crowds murmuring now. They've fallen somewhat silent. Something's coming. I'll try to get it for you. What? Oh, ladies and gentlemen, here comes the Martian contestant. This is promised at the climax of the show. And now a great plush has fallen over the crowd. Quite a sight to see these thousands of people standing here expectantly, hearing only the great, regular sigh of their mass breathing. Now here they come, ladies and gentlemen, the Martians, marching in booted, helmeted ranks, row after row. This is an impressive sight, ladies and gentlemen. And around a serious contrast to the rest of me, the joyous slapstick parade we've been witnessing up until now. There are perhaps over 200 tall broad-chested men dressed in metallic gray spaces with thick glass crisis drawn across their faces. These ones holding an ominous-looking ray gun at the ready position. And marching in absolute silence, and being stepped perfectly as though some mute, unspoken command is marking down for us. Even the children are awed by unexpected, war-like realism of the Martian Legion. And now the first ranks of the Martians move past us down this avenue toward the revealing stands at the square. No one moves. A woman, ladies and gentlemen, just dashed out into the street. For what reason, I don't know. She just slipped through the police cordon somehow. They're after her now, but she's already reached the ranks of the marchers and she's trying to lift the visor of one of the Martians' faces. Wait, wait, she's falling. She's screamed and then fell forward in a dead pain. The Martian column keeps right on coming. Unless they break ranks, they're going to trample her. No, no, no, the policemen have got her now. She's trying to revive her now. What's that? All sorts of rumors have begun filtering back through the crowd. For some reason, whispering is the woman's death. We don't know yet, but whatever has happened, the incident seems to cast a slight shadow over the mood of the crowd. Carefree holiday air seems to have vanished. The crowd is stirring uneasily. A little disturbed at what we've just seen. Nothing to be alarmed at, however. It just seems a shame that anything like this should happen to spoil our enjoyment of the Martian parade. Brian, did you see that? A woman fainted. She ran out into the street to get a close look at the Martians. Then she screamed and fainted dead away. I'm well aware of that, Oliver, since I paid her 50 bucks to do it. What? The dramatic moment, Oliver, the stock and trade of the good publicity man. Relax. Holy smokes, you should think of everything. For my share of this deal, roughly $100,000, I can afford to think of everything.  Okay, but don't you want to see the finish? We'll get out of the reviewing stand for the finish. Right now, I want to make a phone call. And by the way, where's Lucia? I haven't seen her. Well, I'll close the window, Oliver. Okay, Mr. Ryan. This is Sid Ryan. What do you mean, sorry? That's terrific. No, don't joke, Sid. I mean it. I mean it, too. That's great. Never felt better. Yes, I mean it. What is this? There are Martians in the parade. About $150. Of course, I only ordered $50, but under the circumstance, what is it? Sid, but you know, I couldn't get you a single movie extra. Wait a minute. Where these guys come from if you didn't hire them? I don't know. Hold on. Oliver. Oh, yes, Mr. Ryan. Did you hire those Martians? Well, no, sir, I didn't. Benny, this is on the level, isn't it? I said I would. Okay, Benny, I'll call you back. Madam, Mr. Ryan. Oh, no. Just don't know. Wonderflucia, Adam. What's a Century Pictures number? Tremaine 4, 1,000. Thank you, old stars. Give me Marty Sanford, your publicity director. My moment. Marty, this is Sid Ryan. Oh, hello, Sid. Fine, fine. Listen, Marty, this is dead serious. On the level, get it? What's wrong? I've got to locate Lucia. Lu who? Lucia, come on now, Marty. This is life and death. The guy you sent over to hire me for the invasion picture. Invasion from Mars, the space opera. Thank you, Benny. Marty. You took your shell last month. What? Mr. Ryan, you look terrible. Mr. Ryan, is something wrong? Open that window. I want another look at those Martians. But 150 movie extras learned to march like that in, say, 24 hours? No. Not in 24 days, Mr. Ryan. Now, the second hesitation. Now, the one other step. Look at the way they carry those ray guns at the ready. The only other time I've seen troops march like that was the film of the Nazi SS troops marching to the streets of Paris. Mr. Ryan. Oliver, get down there. Find that woman who painted her. Her name's Gloria Montez. Get her up here. Make it fast. What about the act of relax? It's me, said Ryan. Gloria, settle down. Baby, it's me, said. Baby, snap out of it. Listen, what happened down there? You ran out and screamed like I told you. But the fainting, that wasn't in the act. Go away, please. Go away. Just one question, baby. Inside that helmet, what did you see? Nothing on her. Ryan, she needs a doctor. Okay, Oliver. I've written up anyway. You take care of Gloria. Get her a drink. Where are you going? To see the commissioner. You've got to stop this parade before things begin to happen. Okay, Ryan. What's the beef? Listen, Patrick. I don't know what it is. See, but something's wrong. You've got to stop that parade. I suppose you'd like the riot squad. That would get you a front page spread on every paper in town. Now, look, Ryan. I've got no time for your cheap publicity. Gags are a busy man. Listen, I'm trying to tell you I don't know where those Martians came from, who they are, anything about them. I'm wise to your tricks. Now, if you let the sergeant show you out. You won't do it, huh? An honest citizen appeals for protection and you refuse? I most emphatically do. Now, beat it. All right, Patrick. I'll go right to the mayor's office. I'll have you busted, flattered on the Friday. Go ahead. I'm sure his honor will be glad to toss you out on that phony, nickel-plated skull of yours. You heard me, Ryan. You can't see the mayor. Adolf, please. This isn't a gag. I don't want publicity. All I want to do is maybe prevent something horrible from happening. In case you don't know it, wise guy, something horrible is already happening. A couple of hundred little kids are in the hospital. It's the main poisoning. From that phony marchin' candy you passed out. What? Or didn't you know? I... I didn't. We've got to stop that parade. Sure. You'd like nothing better than to start upon it now. Maybe a few hundred people get trampled to death. Think of the newspaper space.  I won't stand for this, Adolf. This may be a matter of life and death. Get out of here quick. It'll be your death. Go on, beat it. Get out. You and your publicity, sons.  Scream at him, Mr. Ryan. Your friend is quite dead. Lucia. He wanted to run to the police with some story about a marchin' invasion. I found it necessary to restrain him. Restrain him?  No, no, Mr. Ryan. Collect yourself. After all our panning, it wouldn't do to have everything spoiled now, would it? Lucia, I'll start talking and talk fast because when you get through, I'm gonna take you apart piece by piece. What's this all about? Surely you know, Mr. Ryan. After all, you've been publicizing it for months. See, before colonizing your planet, the marchin' government sent some of us as scouts in advance, disguised as earthmen, of course, to study your habits, your weaknesses. We found that the people on earth are predominantly conditioned by advertising and publicity. So we conceived the idea of treating our entire invasion as a vast publicity stunt. Clever, yes? After all, Mr. Ryan, who would suspect an invader who advertised his invasion in the newspaper invited the public to his surprise attack and spent millions publicizing his plan? Holy chump. You've done very well, you see. Then there was no product. Ah, but there is a product. The product. Yes. What are you trying, Lucia? We marchins are a humane people, Mr. Ryan. We do not like to destroy thousands where a few hundred will suffice. In exactly two minutes, our troops will treat the world with a spectacle of death, which will bring the rest of your planet to its knees in horror. Nations will clamor to surrender. Perhaps, Mr. Lucia, but not if I can help you. Stop! Stop! Operator, this is Mr. Ryan. Get me the field telephone on the reviewing stand of the marchin' day parade. Hurry. Just hurry. Get me Commissioner Patrick. Hello? Hello? I want Commissioner Patrick. Patrick! Patrick! This is Ryan. I have to talk to the commissioner. It's a matter of life and death. Listen, you're going to stop him. Tonight by transcription, X minus one has brought you The Parade, written by George Lefferts, featured in the cast, where Joseph Curtin as Ryan, Barry Kroger as Lucia, Alexander Skurby as Ron Heilman, music by Albert Berman. X minus one was produced by Van Woodward and directed by King Fred Collins speaking. X minus one is an NBC radio network production. Next week, the Cave of the Night, the gripping story of the first man to pilot an Earth satellite beyond the reach of gravitational pull, and of what happened when a watching world learned that something had gone wrong, that he could never return, that he was doomed to die a lingering death in the arching blackness of the sky, the Cave of the Night. Hear it next week at X minus one. Did you ever stop to realize that four American coins show us the importance of elections? The first one is the Washington Quarter. It was George Washington who reminded us that on the unity of our government depends our independence, our peace at home and abroad, our safety, prosperity and our freedom. The second coin is the Jefferson Nickel. It was Thomas Jefferson who said, no government can continue good but under the control of the people. The third coin is a penny bearing the likeness of Abraham Lincoln, who said, among free men, there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet. Finally, the Roosevelt dime reminds us of something Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, every man and every woman in this nation, regardless of party, who have the right to register and to vote and the opportunity to register and to vote have also the sacred obligation to register and to vote. These four Americans, by recognizing the importance of elections, added another page to your political history. Thank you.


Bemidji's Hockey Day Minnesota event wrapped up on Saturday with record low temperatures for the event. It was 26 degrees below zero when the first game of the day began, making it the coldest hockey day Minnesota game ever. Temperatures warmed up later in the day but still remained well below zero. Fans, though, came prepared. We have lots of little heaters and layers. We lived in this state all our lives and you just got to bundle up. There's no such thing as bad weather, it's just bad clothing. I think we're five layers deep. Yeah, we can start zipping them down here. Organizers say the event was a huge success. Attendance for the three days was 13,400 with more than 6,000 people at the hockey day site throughout the day on Saturday. It takes a village and the village showed up despite the cold temps. And again, it's hard to say thank you enough for everybody that played a role because it took everybody to have that end result. We had hundreds and hundreds of people involved and to see it all come together, I certainly warm my heart and I hope, you know, from a local organizing committee perspective, you know, our whole goal was to do our region and our community proud. And we certainly hope we've left people with that feeling here today. At the conclusion of this year's event, it was announced that the 14th annual Hockey Day Minnesota will take place outdoors next year at Parade Stadium in Minneapolis. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


We had a potential crazy ending to the Giants and Dodgers game last week or a couple of weeks ago, but I got to talk about it because a lot of people that watch the breakdowns aren't diehard baseball fans, they're more casual fans. And whenever something weird happens that I think can enlighten them on the weirdness of baseball, I got to make a video on it. And this one's brought to you by DraftKings. Download the number one sportsbook app, DraftKings. Use it, bet on the Giants to win because they're going to win every game because weird stuff happens, they always come out on top, and they're really good. Mookie Betts puts this one in play. Chris Bryant scoops it up. That's one out. One out. It's the ninth inning. The Giants need two more outs, and they will win this game. JT puts that one into left field, though, so he's going to be on first base. And do the Dodgers have something brewing? Are they going to tie the game in the ninth inning? Next up, another ball put into left field. Cut off nicely by Ruff, so he's going to hold Turner at third base. That gets to the wall. Is that the tying run? The next pitch fouled back. They're still searching for two outs, are the Giants. This one's in play. They come home to get the out. JT has to run back to third base, and here's where all the action happens. Two men on a base. Now, we've done this a lot. If you've seen the movie Little Big League, you know the rule. Come on, ump. What's it called, Billy? The base goes to the lead runner. The base goes to the lead runner, so as soon as Posey tags Turner, nothing happens. He has the base. He's safe. But for the trail runner, it's basically like he's not even on the base, because it only goes to the lead runner.  Get out of here. So he gets out of there. But now, everyone kind of forgets the rule for a moment, because Justin Turner thinks that he's out, because he got tagged. So they both start walking away, and now Posey knows, well, only one of them was out. I got to tag the other one, and it's not only a double play, it's a game-ending double play while the tying runners on third base mayhem. Posey chooses the wrong guy. You can see Chris Bryant saying, no, no, no. Tag this guy. Tag him. Tag him. But he tags Seager, who's already out. The ump was very rude about it, so he tags Seager and looks to the ump, and now Turner smartly gets back to third base, and Posey's like, is he out? And he says, no. He was already out. Damn it. Damn it. Would have been badass to have an inning-ending double play that way. Gabe Kapler's going to come out looking all intellectual and smart, and he says, blah, blah, blah. And he says, well, I mean, yeah. He tagged him. I called him out. He left the base, and he tagged him again, but he was already out. And Gabe says, OK. And Turner's like, boy, did I get lucky there. And then the next batter takes a ball inside, takes a ball top of the zone. That's a strike. Yeah. And then the 1-1 pitch put into play. That's going to dunk in. The game is tied. The play matters. It could have been over. The Dodgers would have lost. The Giants would have won. Didn't happen. Tie game, game goes into extras. Giants just won anyway. On a bizarre play in itself, the Giants just win. So you go to DraftKings. You use the sportsbook app. When you download it, use promo code Johnboy to let them know I sent you, and then you just bet on the Giants to win. All the time, at all times, the Giants. They just win games. In games, when the Giants are down in the 8th inning, they've won 25% of those games. That's insane. You can't count them out.  One of those games, they will win it. That's what they've done all season. So you just bet the Giants to win, DraftKings. Posey, JT. No, the rules better.


Yeah, we can be our own worst critics. I think I'm I think each one of us here are our own worst critics I think that tends to be the case for most people except for people are egocentric, but Putting that aside What else is there to fear? You know, yeah, so you make a mistake and you move on but that's here prevents you from what makes you so fearless I mean you kind of alluded that you're running out of time, but in saying this you seem so strong well, but when I was your age, I didn't have kids and I had a lot more freedom. I could choose to do whatever I wanted this path that path one door shed I just turned to the other one with a smile on my face. I mean it's a time where you could be selfish because kids Lifetime commitment. It is a difference between not having responsibilities I just want to say kids and having a few more responsibilities in making decisions But for me and my husband every decision that we make is surrounded around our family So we have to think about it and sometimes we don't make the best decision So, yeah, what are you doing? We don't make the best decision and it has a consequence on our family But what we have to realize is one we made a decision and how to bounce back Right, and I think that's what happens. We focus on we made the wrong decision and we don't show how to bounce back That's what we're working on in our home right now We made a very difficult decision for our family and it was wrong. It was clear the wrong decision and now we're


So for those who came yesterday to the climate change session, you might see some different pictures today, I hope. So I'll give you a quick rundown of a citizen, the Coastal Intertidal Zone Archaeological Network. So I talked about citizen science yesterday as a very useful tool for monitoring coastal intertidal archaeology that's at risk. We've seen this slide before. So we've raised it three different offices to access the coast easier and support our volunteers more quickly with Nautical Archaeology Society, Council for British Archaeology, and Museum of London Archaeology. So citizen science is involving non-professional scientists into data collection and its analysis. That's a key thing to point out. It's not just about data collection. It's about the full process. I'll give you a quick little look at some of the things we've been looking at. So when we talk about coastal archaeology or intertidal archaeology, people think of usual maritime subjects like vessels. But also we've been looking at different types of coastal archaeology. So this is a form of atomic weapons research establishment on the coast, which we were assured never actually had any live nuclear weapons in it, but we'll see how that goes. Heck of a risk assessment. But here we've got some volunteers looking at a sort of aerial bombardment target, which is now eroding out of the shingle. It's very active around here. The lighthouse is not looking so good either, but that's another story from another time. We look at more ephemeral things. These are prehistoric footprints preserved into laminated silts. Formed beyond Merseyside, you find them all around the coast in England. So you can see little criss-crosses of feet here and here and animal tracks as well. These usually only last for a few tidal cycles before they're washed out. And so I'll mention this later, but it's very important to have a rapid recording tool for things like this because they can be so quickly lost. And it's very important for people who can recognize them to take pictures right away. So on that note, we do a series of an outreach and training program. So training is essential, like I said with those footprints. You wouldn't notice that they were prehistoric otherwise. So here's a little workflow for you. So we raise awareness of archaeology even being on the coast in the first place through sort of national outreach, especially using the media. Then we do local outreach. That's more direct to actually talking to people, shaking hands on the ground, et cetera, and making it fun. So people want to actually keep coming back because especially when good tides usually are around very early in the morning. So if it's not fun, people won't come. And training. So again, developing those skills so that you can recognize this kind of archaeology and what's at risk, what does risk mean. And then that eventually, hopefully, would lead into a sort of long-term monitoring because they want to keep doing it. It seems fun to them to keep monitoring this archaeology. So what have we been up to? Well, we do a lot of, like I said, outreach and training, but it's more outreach because of course you want to raise that message first because you can't just jump straight into the training. No one will show up. So we do a lot of different kinds of things, talks, walks, lectures, et cetera, because not everyone's interested in the same kind of thing. So that's giving you an idea of that. We'll give you some numbers later if you want. And we were tasked in our three and a half years funding from Historic Heritage Lottery Fund to carry out a certain amount of outreach and a certain amount of training. And it was so popular, actually, that we didn't think, we weren't sure how many people would show up to a muddy beach in Essex, for instance, but it turns out lots. Lots of people were really into it. So without much more effort, we went really over target for the numbers of people we're reaching. So this is actually quite an interesting subject to a lot of people. So that was quite cool for us. Same with the training. A lot more people showed up than we expected. Great, that was awesome for us. And yeah, they're all still smiling in those pictures, as you can see, hopefully. I mentioned yesterday about the smartphone apps that was developed using the same web developers as the Sharp app, the award-winning Sharp app. But it has GPS built-in. It allows you to take photos and you have controlled fields. So it's a perfect recording tool for people to use. And most people have a smartphone in their pocket. And like I said yesterday as well, it works offline. So people do not have to use their own data to use it. So it's again, trying to tackle that technological poverty that might be an issue for some people. But we have extensive guidance online as well. So everything's free to use if people want to do so. So we've been working all around the coast, including the Elves of Silly, which is a hoot. But kind of mostly doing reconnaissance work to see what's out there. Because there's some baseline data surveys done in beginning in the late 90s. And then some of those sites hadn't been revisited since. So that was a big part of this project was to galvanize local communities to go and look at these again. And see what has changed because a lot can change since 1997 and had done. So that was a big part of this project. And then to revisit sites that were important to other people as well. So we were working with a lot of local archeology societies. And then they would ask us for support. So I'll quickly talk about our app as well. I'll give you a little bit of number crunching. So these are where anyone who provided us a location actually do live. I wonder who those red dots in Scotland are. And Wales. So you can see there are differences in our region. So we were divided into three regions to more easily access the coast from our offices. There are quite a few big dots in London because of the Thames Discovery Program as mentioned yesterday. There are big dots around Chichester from the local archeology society there as well as Morecom Bay. And 4% of app users are located outside of England including Wales, Scotland, America, Belgium, Barbados there was one as well. So people are trying these things out. And because it's based on GPS it can work anywhere. It's just there's no baseline data set in there. That's all. And moderating it would be a bit tricky because I wouldn't know what Barbados archeology looks like. So there you go. And so I think you saw some of this stuff yesterday. But what is our data? So it's feature level data then underneath that related condition surveys. So you can have multiple condition surveys for each type of feature and then photos related to that. And despite having 2,400 registered users, only 166 active users. So people are using it as a contextualization tool and we're not forcing them all to update everything that they can see, it's just whoever wants to use it can use it. So we have 1,500 new features including some footprints like I said before, some piers. So historic piers have been added to it which were more sticks in the mud then and so forth. So anything and pill boxes anywhere in between. Like I said, hotspots here are mostly our key sites. So we've been focusing on some key areas around the coast, areas of sort of high erosion or easy access to local people. So these are our updated features. You can then see the hotspot around London and certain national trust properties where they have a lot of volunteers who are using the app. So these are people who are updating existing points and adding their own information and interpretation to it. Another sort of rapid recording tool that we use is photogrammetry. It's gotten a lot cheaper to do this recently. So we can have volunteers who take photos themselves and then we process it for them. This one was carried out with a drone but some of our volunteers actually have their own drones now because like again, those have gotten cheaper as well. So certain volunteers who got a drone for Christmas for instance, then go out and fly certain areas with us and have produced some really amazing stuff. That particular survey style is really important in really sticky intertidal mud like here in Hull where it would be too risky to go out there and survey those vessels on foot. So it's really useful. This is a mammoth tusk we found in Mersey Island Essex. So that is an easy solution to that question every archaeologist gets asked. What's the coolest thing ever found? But it was a kilometer offshore. So it's on a super spring low tide and we had a high pressure day too. That sounds pretty handy. But it is two meters long, if you can tell from the tiny scale and weighs a ton. So we could not take it with us. And to lift these kinds of things you have to pack it in plaster. You have to wrap it up in cotton wool and you have to drag it with a sled and all this stuff. And we had about 30 minutes to look at this because of the tide window. So next best thing, we cleared away some of the gravels that were sitting in and this is actually our volunteers took all these photos. They made sure they have their north arrow and scale in there. Took all the photos around the object and drop box them to us and we created this. So it's sort of the equivalent of Victorians making plaster casts of dinosaur bones. We have the data of it, but we don't have the object. So it's something we can look at. We took a sample of it as well. So the Natural History Museum are looking at that and trying to date it for us. Like I said yesterday, we have an annual conference so our volunteers can present their work to their peers. So it's not just thank you very much for the data and we'll write it up for you. It's they get a chance to say what they have learned. So this is one of our volunteers Lawrence from again from Mersey Island, talking about sites they've been looking at including a lot of unabrated Roman pottery that's eroding out of somewhere. So that's pretty exciting. So that's something we can then start looking into together because we can pull all of our resources from our partnership working and sort of throw it at that. So pretty cool. And I'll just leave you with my last slide here. I think I flagged up yesterday that citizen science, it's not exploitation. It's not using people for their labor. It is working with people and making sure that they get something out of it as well. So it's about communicating your message and them understanding the value of what you're doing and them seeing a sort of tangible contribution to that as well. And I'll leave you with that. Thank you very much.