This is a LibreVox recording. All LibreVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibreVox.org. That's librivox.org. Recorded by me, Glenn Halstrom, also known as Smoke Stack Jones. Smoke Stack Jones at gmail.com. You'll also find my blog at toomuchjohnson.blogspot.com. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Stay for the last of the three spirits. The phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached. When it came near him, a scrooge bent down upon his knee, for in the very air through which the spirit moved, it seemed to scatter gloom and mystery. It was shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its head, its face, its form, and left nothing of invisible save one outstretched hand. But for this it would have been difficult to detach its figure from the night, and separate it from the darkness by which it was surrounded. He felt that it was tall and stately when it came beside him, and that its mysterious presence filled him with a solemn dread. He knew no more, for the spirit neither spoke nor moved. Am I in the presence of the ghost of Christmas yet to come? said Scrooge. The spirit answered not, but pointed onward with its hand. You are about to show me shadows of things that have not happened but will happen in the time before us, Scrooge pursued. Is that so, Spirit? The upper portion of the garment was contracted for an instant in its folds, as if the spirit had inclined its head. That was the only answer he received. Although well used to ghostly company by this time, Scrooge feared the silent shape so much that his legs trembled beneath him, and he found that he could hardly stand when he prepared to follow it. The spirit paused a moment, as observing his condition, and giving him time to recover. But Scrooge was all the worse for this. It thrilled him with a vague, uncertain horror, to know that behind the dusky shroud there were ghostly eyes intently fixed upon him while he, though he stretched his own to the utmost, could see nothing but a spectral hand and one great heap of black. Ghost of the future, he exclaimed. I fear you more than any spectre I have seen, but as I know your purpose is to do me good, and as I hope to live to be another man from what I was, I am prepared to bear you company and do it with a thankful heart. Will you not speak to me?" It gave him no reply. The hand was pointed straight before them. Lay down, said Scrooge. Lay down. The night is wailing fast, and it is precious time to me, I know. Lay down, spirit. The phantom moved away as it had come towards him. Scrooge followed in the shadow of its dress, which bore him up, he thought, and carried him along. They scarcely seemed to enter the city, for the city rather seemed to spring up above them and encompassed them of its own act. But there they were in the heart of it, on change amongst the merchants, who hurried up and down and chinkled the money in their pockets, and conversed in groups and looked at their watches and trifled thoughtfully with the great old seals, and so forth as Scrooge had seen them often. The spirit stopped beside one little knot of businessmen, observing that the hand was pointed to them. Scrooge advanced to listen to their talk.  I don't know much about it, either way. I only know he's dead. When did he die? inquired another. Last night, I believe. Why, what's the matter with him? asked a third, taking a vast quantity of snuff out of a very large snuffbox. I thought he'd never die. God knows! said the first with a yawn. What has he done with his money? asked a red-faced gentleman with a pungent excretion on the end of his nose that shook like the gills of a turkey-cock. I haven't heard, said the man with the large chin yawning again. Left it to his company, perhaps. He hasn't left it to me, that's all I know. This pleasantry was received with a general laugh. It's very likely to be a very cheap funeral, said the same speaker. For upon my life I don't know of anybody to go to it. I suppose I'll make up a party and volunteer. I don't mind going if lunch is provided, observed the gentleman with the excretions on his nose. But I must be fed if I make one. Another laugh. I am the most disinterested among you, after all, said the first speaker, for I never wear black gloves and I never eat lunch, but I'll offer to go if anybody else will. When I come to think of it, I'm not at all sure that I was his most particular friend, for we used to stop and speak whenever we met. Bye-bye. Speakers and listeners strolled away and mixed with other groups. Scrooge knew the man and looked towards the spirit for an explanation. The fatum glided on into a street. Its finger pointed to two persons meeting. Scrooge listened again, thinking that the explanation might lie here. He knew these two men also perfectly. There were men of business, very wealthy, and of great importance. He had made a point always of standing well in their esteem in a business point of view, that is, strictly in a business point of view. Oh, how are you, said one? Oh, how are you, returned the other? Well, said the first. Old Scratch has got his own at last, eh? So I am told. Returned the second. Gold, isn't it? Seasonable for a Christmas time. You're not a skater, I suppose. No, no. Something else to think of. Good morning. Not another word. That was their meeting, their conversation, and their parting. Scrooge was at first inclined to be surprised that the spirit should attach importance to conversations apparently so trivial, but feeling assured that they must have some hidden purpose, he set himself to consider what it was likely to be. They could scarcely be supposed to have any bearing on the death of Jacob, his own partner, for that was passed and the ghost's province was of the future. Nor could he think of any one immediately connected with himself, to whom he could apply them. But nothing doubting that to whomever they applied, they had some latent moral for his own improvement. He resolved to treasure up every word he heard, and everything he saw, and especially to observe the shadow of himself when it appeared, for he had an expectation that the conduct of his future self would give him the clue he missed, and would render the resolution of these riddles easy. He looked about in the very place for his own image, but another man stood at his accustomed corner, and though the clock ported to his usual time of day for being there, he saw no likenesses of himself among the multitudes that poured in through the porch. It gave him little surprise, however, for he had been revolving in his mind a change of life, and thought and hoped he saw his newborn resolutions carried out in this. Quiet and dark beside him stood the phantom with its outstretched hand. When he roused himself from his thoughtful quest, he fancied from the turd of the hand and its situation in reference to himself, that the unseen eyes were looking at him keenly. It made him shudder and feel very cold. They left the busy scene, and went into an obscure part of town where Scrooge had never penetrated before, although he recognized its situation and its bad repute. The ways were foul and narrow, the shops and houses are wretched, the people half naked, drunken, slip-shod, ugly. Alleyes and archways, like so many cesspools, disgorge the offences of smell and dirt and life upon the straggling streets, and the whole quarter reeked with crime with filth and misery. Far in this den of infamous resort there was a low-browed, beatling shop, below a penthouse roof, where iron, old rags, bottles, bones, and greasy oval were brought. Upon the floor within were piled up heaps of rusty keys, nails, chains, hinges, files, scales, weights, and refuse iron of all kinds. Secrets that few would like to scrutinize were bred in hidden in mountains of unseemly rags, masses of corrupted fat, and sepulchres of bones. Sitting in among the wares he dealt in by a charcoal stove made of bricks was a grey-haired rascal, nearly seventy years of age, who had screamed himself from the cold air without by a frowsy curtaining in miscellaneous tatters, hugged up in a line, and smoked his pipe in all the luxury of calm retirement. Scrooge and the phantom came into the presence of this man, just as a woman with a heavy bundle slung into the shop. But she had scarcely entered with another woman, similarly laden, came in too, and she was closely followed by a man in faded black, who was no less startled by the sight of them than they had been upon the recognition of each other. After a short period of blank astonishment, in which the old man with the pipe enjoyed them, the all three burst into a laugh. Let the child woman alone to be the first, cried she who had entered first. Let the lordress is alone to be the second, and let the undertaker's man alone to be the third. Look here, old Joe, there's a chance if we have an all three met there without meeting it. You couldn't have met in a better place," said the old Joe, removing the pipe from his mouth. Coming to the parlor, you were made free for it long ago, you know, and the other two ain't strangers.  Oh, how it streaks! There ain't such a rusty bit of metal in the place as its own inches, I believe. And I'm sure there's no such old bones here as mine. We're all suitable for our calling, we're matched. Coming to the parlor, coming to the parlor! The parlor was the space behind the screen of rags. The old man raked the fire together with an old stare on and, having trimmed his smoky lamp before it was nighed with the stem of his pipe, put it in his mouth again. While he did this, the woman who had already spoken threw her bundle on the floor and sat down in a floating manner on a stool, crossing her elbows on her knees and looking with bold defiance at the other two. What odds, what odds, Mrs. Dilba, said the woman. Every person had the right to take care of themselves. He always did. Now, that's true indeed, said the laundress. No more men so. Why then don't stand staring as if you were a frayed woman? Who's the wiser? We're not going to pick holes in each other's coats, I suppose. No indeed, said Mrs. Dilba and the man together. We should hope not. Very well then, cried the woman. That's enough. Who's the worse for the loss of a few things like these? Not a dead man, I suppose. No indeed, said Mrs. Dilba, laughing. I wish it was a little heavy a judgment, replied the woman, and it shouldn't have been. You may depend on it. If I could have laid my hands on anything else. Open the bundle, old Joe, and let me know the value of it. Speak out plain. I'm not afraid to be the first, not afraid of anyone to see it. We know pretty well what we're helping ourselves. We're met here, I believe. It's no sin. Open the bundle, Joe. But the guarantee of her friends would not allow this, and the man in faded black, mounting the breach first, produced his plunder. It was not extensive, a seal or two, or a pencil case. A pair of sleeve buttons and a brooch of no great value were all. They were severally examined in a praise by old Joe, who chocked the sums as he was supposed to give for each upon the wall, and added them up to a total when he found there was nothing more to come. But ask your account," said Joe, and I wouldn't give another sixpence if I were to be bore for not doing it. Who's next?" Mrs. Dilbaugh was next. Sheets and towels, a little-wearing apparel, two-old-fashioned silver teaspoons, a pair of sugar tongs, and a few boots. Her account was stated on the wall in the same manner. I always give too much to the ladies. It's a weakness of mine, and it's the way I've ruined myself," said her Joe. That's your account. If you asked me for another petty and made it an open question, I'd repent of being so liberal and knock off half the ground. And now I'll undo my bundle, Joe," said the first woman. Joe went down on his knees for the greater convenience of opening it, and having unfastened a great many knots, dragged out a large and heavy roll of some dark stuff. What do you call rage? said Joe. Big curtains! Ah! returned the woman, laughing and leaning forward in her crossed arms. Big curtains! You don't mean to say you took them down rinks at all with him lying there, said Joe. Yes, I do, replied the woman. Why not? You were born to make your fortune, said Joe, and you'll certainly do it. I certainly shan't hold my hand when I can get anything in it by reaching it out, for the sake of such a man as he was, I promise you, Joe. Don't drop that all upon a blanket now. It's blanket? asked Joe. Well, who else do you think, replied the woman? Is it likely to go without him, I dare say?  Don't you be afraid of that, returned the woman. I ain't so fond of his company I'd lord her about him for such things as he did. Ah! you may look through that shirt until you rise, eh, but you won't find a hole in it, not a threadbare place. It's the best he had in a fine one, too. They've wasted it, if it hadn't been for me. What do you call wasted it? asked old Joe. Put it on him to be buried in, for sure, replied the old woman with a laugh. Somebody was filled enough to do it, but I took it off again. If Calico ain't good enough for such a purpose, it isn't good enough for anything. It's quite as becoming to the body.  Scrooge listened to this dialogue in horror. As they sat grouped about their spoil in the scanty light afforded by the own man's lamp, he viewed them with a detestation and disgust, which could hardly have been greater, though they had been obscene demons marketing the corpse itself. Ha-ha! laughed the woman, when old Joe, producing a flannel bag with money in it, towed out their several gains upon the ground. It's the end of it, you see. He frightened every one away from him when he was allawed to profit us when he was dead. Ha-ha-ha! Spitted, said Scrooge, shattering from head to foot. I see. I see. The case of this unhappy man might be my own. My life tends that way. Merciful Heaven, what is this? He recalled in horror, for the scene had changed, and now he almost touched a bear, a bear, on curtain bed, on which, beneath a ragged sheet, there lay something covered up, which, though it was dumb, announced itself in awful language. The room was very dark, too dark to be observed with any accuracy, Scrooge glanced around it in obedience to a secret impulse, anxious to know what kind of room it was. A pale light rising in the outer air fell straight upon the bed, and on it, plundered and bereft, unwatched, unwept, uncared for, was the body of this man. Scrooge glanced toward the phantom. Its steady hand was pointed to the head. The cover was so carelessly adjusted that the slightest raising of it, the motion of a finger upon Scrooge's part, would have disclosed the face. He thought of it, felt how easy it would be to do so, and long to do it, but had no more power to withdraw the veil than to dismiss the spectre at his side. Oh cold, cold, rigid dreadful death set up thine altar here, and dress it with such tears as thou hast at thy command, for this is thy dominion. Of the loved Riviera and honoured head, thou cast not turn one hair to any dread purposes, or make one feature odious. It is not that the hand is heavy, or will fall down when released. It is not that the heart and pulse are still, but the hand was open, generous and true. The heart brave, warm and tender, and the pulse a man's. Strike, shadow strike, and see his good deed springing from the wound, to sow the world with life immortal. No voice pronounced these words and Scrooge's ears, and yet he heard them when he looked upon the bed. He thought, if this man could be raised up now, what would be his foremost thoughts? Averse, heart-dealing, griping cares. They have brought him to a rich end truly. He lay in the dark empty house, with not a man, a woman, or a child, to say that he was kind to me in this or that, and for the memory of one kind word I will be kind to him. A cat was tearing at the door, and there was a sound of gnawing rats beneath the hearthstone. What they wanted in the room of death, and why they were so restless and disturbed, Scrooge did dare not think. Spirit, he said, this is a fearful place. In leaving it, I shall not leave its lesson. Trust me, let us go." Still the ghost pointed with an unmoved finger to the head. I understand you, Scrooge returned. And I would do it if I could, but I have not the power, Spirit. I have not the power. Again it seemed to look at him. If there is any person in the town who feels emotion caused by this man's death, said Scrooge quite agonized, show that person to me, Spirit, I beseech you. Phantom spread its dark robe before him for a moment like a wing, and withdrawing it revealed a room by daylight where a mother and her children were. She was expecting someone, and with anxious eagerness, for she walked up and down the room, started at every sound, looked out from the window, glanced at the clock, tried but in vain to work with her needle, and could hardly bear the voices of the children in their play. At length, the long-expected knock was heard, she hurried to the door and met her husband, a man whose face was careworn and depressed, though he was young. There was a remarkable expression in it now, a kind of serious delight of which he felt ashamed, she struggled to repress. He sat down to the dinner that had been hoarding for him by the fire, and when she asked him faintly what news, which was not until after a long silence, he appeared embarrassed how to answer. Is it good? she said, or bad, to help him. Bad, he answered. We are quite rude. No, there is hope yet Caroline. If he relents, she said amaze, there is. Nothing is past hope if such a miracle has happened. Is past relenting, said her husband. He is dead. She was a mild and patient creature if her face spoke truth, but she was thankful in her soul to hear it, and she said so with clasped hands. She prayed forgiveness the next moment and was sorry, but the first was the emotion of the heart. What the half-drunken woman whom I told you of last night said to me, when I tried to see him and obtain a week's delay, and what I thought was a mere excuse to avoid me, it turns out to be of been quite true. He was not only very ill, but dying then. To whom will our debt be transferred? I don't know, but before that time we shall be ready with the money, and even though we were not, it would be a bad fortune indeed to find some merciless creditor in his successor. We may sleep tonight with light hearts, Caroline. Yes, softened as they would, the hearts were lighter. The children's faces hushed and cloistered around to hear what they so little understood were brighter. And it was a happier house for this man's debt. The only emotion that the ghost could show him caused by the event was what a pleasure. Let me see some tenderness connected with the death since Groot, or that dark chamber spirit which we left just now will be ever present to me. The ghost conducted him through several streets familiar to his feet, and as they went along, Groot looked here and there to find himself, but nowhere was he to be seen. They entered poor Bob Cratchit's house, the dwelling he had visited before, and found the mother and the children seated around the fire. Quiet. Very quiet. The noisy little Cratchits were as still as statues in one corner, and sat looking up at Peter, who had a book before him. The mother and her daughters were engaged in sewing, but surely they were very quiet. And he took a child and set him in the midst of them, where hence Groot heard those words, and not dreamed them. The boy must have read them out as he and the spirit crossed the threshold. Why did he not go on?  The color hurts my eyes, she said. The color? Poor tiny Tim. They're better now again, said Cratchit's wife. It makes them weak by candlelight, and I wouldn't show weak eyes to your father when he comes home for the world. It must be near his time. Past it rather, Peter answered, shutting up his book. But I think he walked a little slower than he used to these past few evenings, mother. They were very quiet again. At last she said in a steady cheerful voice that only faulted once. I've known him to walk with— I've known him to walk with tiny Tim upon his shoulder, very fast indeed. And so have I, cried Peter, often. And so have I, exclaimed another. So had all. But he was very light to carry, she resumed, and turned upon her work, and his father loved him so, and it was no trouble, no trouble. And there is your father at the door. She hurried out to meet him in little Bob in his comforter. He had need of it, poor fellow, came in. His tea was ready for him on the harp, and they all tried who should help him to it most. Then the two young Cratchit's got up on his knees and laid each a child a little cheek against his face, and they said, Don't mind it, father, don't be grieved. He was very cheerful with them and spoke pleasantly to all the family. He looked at the work upon the table as the industry and speed of Mrs. Cratchit and the girls. They would be done long before Sunday, he said. Sunday? You went to date then, Robert? He asked his wife. Yes, my dear, returned Bob. I wish you could have gone. It would have done you good to see how green a place it is. But you'll see it often. I promised him that I would walk there on a Sunday.  He broke down all at once. He couldn't help it. If he could have helped it, he and his child would have been farther apart, perhaps, than they were. He left the room and went upstairs into the room above, which was lighted cheerfully and hung with Christmas. There was a chair set close beside the child, and there were signs of someone having been there lately. Poor Bob sat down in it, and when he had thought a little and composed himself, he kissed the little face. He was reconciled to what had happened and went down again quite happy. They drew about the fire and talked the girls and mother working still. He told them the extraordinary kindness of Mr. Scrooge's nephew, who we had scarcely seen but once, and who, meeting him in the street that day, and seeing that he looked a little, just a little down, you know, said Bob, inquired what had happened to distress him. On which, said Bob, for he is the pleasantest spoken gentleman you've ever heard. I told him, I am heartily sorry for Mr. Cratchit, he said, and heartily sorry for your good wife. By the by, how he ever knew that, I don't know. Knew what, my dear? Why, that you were a good wife, replied Bob. Everybody knows that, said Peter. Very well observed, my boy, cried Bob. I hope they do. Heartily sorry, he said, for your good wife, if I can be of service to you in any way, he said, giving me his card. That's where I live, pray come to me. Now it wasn't, cried Bob, for the sake of anything he might be able to do for us, so much as, for his kind way, that this was quite delightful. He really seemed as if he had known our tiny Tim and felt with us. I'm sure he's a good soul, said Mrs. Cratchit. You would be sure of it, my dear, returned Bob, if you saw and spoke to him. I shouldn't be at all surprised, Mark would I say, if he got Peter a better situation. Only hear that, Peter, said Mrs. Cratchit. And then, cried one of the girls, Peter will be keeping company with someone and setting up for himself. Get along with your retorted Peter-gritting. It's just as likely as not, said Bob. One of these days, though there's plenty of time for that, my dear, but however and whenever we part from one another, I'm sure we shall none of us forget poor Tiny Tim, shall we, or his first parting that there was among us. Never, Father, cried they all. And I know, said Bob, I know, my dears, that when we recollect how patient and how mild he was, though he was a little, little child, we shall not quarrel easily among ourselves and forget poor Tiny Tim in doing it. Now, never, Father, they all cried again. I am very happy, said little Bob. I am very happy. Mrs. Cratchit kissed him, his daughter's kissed him, the two young Cratchits kissed him, and Peter and himself shook hands. Spirit of Tiny Tim, thy childish essence was from God. Spectre, said Scrooge, something informs me that our parting moment is at hand. I know it, but I know not how. Tell me what man that was whom we saw lying dead. The ghost of Christmas yet to come conveyed him as before, though at a different time he thought, indeed, there seemed no horror to these latter visions, save that they were of the future, into the resorts of businessmen but showed him not himself. Indeed, the Spirit did not stay for anything, but went straight on as to the end just now desired until besought by Scrooge to tarry for a moment. This court, said Scrooge, through which we hurry now, is where my place of occupation is and has been for a length of time. I see the house. Let me behold what I shall be in days to come. The Spirit stopped. The hand was pointed elsewhere. The house is yonder, Scrooge exclaimed. Why do you point away? The inexorable finger underwent no change. Scrooge hastened to the window of his office and looked in. It was an office still, but not his. The furniture was not the same, and the figure and the chair was not himself. The phantom pointed as before. He joined it once again in wondering why and whether he had gone, accompanied it, until they had reached an iron gate. He paused to look round before entering. It was a worthy place, walled in by houses overrun by grass and weeds.  A worthy place. The Spirit stood among the graves and pointed down to one. He advanced toward it trembling. The fenter was exactly as it had been, but he dreaded that he saw new meaning in its solemn shape. Before I draw nearer to that stone in which you point, said Scrooge, answer me one question. Are these the shadows of things that will be, or the shadows of things that may be only? Still the ghost pointed downward to the grave by which it stood. Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends to which, if preserved in, they must lead, said Scrooge. But if the courses be departed from the ends would change. Say it as thus with what you show me. The Spirit was as immovable as ever. Scrooge crept towards it, trembling as he went, and following the finger read upon the stone of the neglected grave his own name. Ebenezer Scrooge. Am I the man who lay upon the bed? He cried upon his knees. The finger pointed from the grave to him, and back again. No! Spirit! Oh no! No! The finger was still there. Spirit! he cried, tight clutching at his robe. Hear me! I am not the man I was. I will not be the man I must have been for this intercourse. Why show me this if I am past all hope? For the first time the hand appeared to shake. Good spirit, he pursued, as down on the ground he fell before it. Your nature precedes for me, and pities me. Assure me that I may yet change the shadows you have showed me by an altered life. The kind hand trembled. I will put a Christmas in my heart and try and keep it all the year. I believe in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three will strive within me. I will not shout out the lessons that they teach. Tell me I may sponge away the writing of this story. In his agony he called the spectro-hand. It sought to free itself, but he was strong in his entreaty, and detained it. The spirit stronger yet repulsed him, holding up his hands in a last prayer to have his feet reversed. He saw an alteration in the phantom's hood and dress. It shrunk, collapsed, and dwindled down into a bed-post. The End of Stage 4 of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens The End of Stage 5 Yes, and the bed-post was his own. The bed was his own. The room was his own. Best and happiest of all the time before him was his own to make amends in. I will live in the past, the present, and the future. Scrooge repeated as he scrambled out of bed. The spirits of all three shall strive within me. Oh Jacob, molly, heaven in the Christmas time be praised for this. I see it on my knees, oh Jacob, on my knees. He was so fluttered and so glowing in his good intentions that his broken voice could scarcely answer to his call. He had been sobbing violently in his conflict with the spirit and his face was wet with tears. They are not torn down, cried Scrooge, holding one of his bed curtains in his arms. They are not torn down, rings and all. They are here. I am here. The shadows of the things that would have been may be dispelled. They will be. I know they will. His hands were busy with his garments all this time, turning them inside out, putting them on upside down, tearing them, mislaving them, making them parties to every kind of extravagance. I don't know what to do. He cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath, making a perfect leco-sin of himself with his stockings. I miss light as a feather. I miss happy as an angel. I miss many as a schoolboy. I miss giddy as a drunken man. I'm merry Christmas to everybody. A happy new year to all the world. Hello there, hoop, hello! He had frisked into the living room, and he was now standing there. Perfectly winded. There's the saucepan that the ghoul was in. He cried Scrooge, starting off again and going round the fireplace. There's the door by which the ghost of Jingamali entered. There's the corner where the ghost of Christmas presents sat. There's the window where I saw the wandering spirit. It's all right. It's all true. It all happened! Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years, it was a splendid laugh, a most illustrious laugh, the father of a long, long line of brilliant laughs. I don't know what day of the month it is, Scrooge. I don't know how long I've been among the spirits. I don't know anything. I'm quite a baby. Never mind. I don't care. I'd rather be a baby. Hello, hoop, hello there! He was checked in his transports by the churches, ringing out the lustiest peals he had ever heard. Clash, clang, hammer, ding, dong, bell, dong, ding, hammer, clang, crash. Oh, glorious, glorious. Running to the window, he opened it and put out his head. No fog, no mist clear, bright jovial, stirring cold, cold piping for the blood to dance to. Golden sunlight, heavenly sky, sweet, fresh air, many bells. Oh, glorious, glorious. What's today? cried Scrooge, calling downward to a boy in Sunday clothes who perhaps had loitered in to look about him. I returned the boy with all his might and wonder. What's today, my fine fellow? said Scrooge. Did I? replied the boy. What, Christmas Day? It's Christmas Day, said Scrooge himself. I haven't missed it. The spirits have done it all in one night. They can do anything that Ike, of course they can, of course they can. Hello, my fine fellow! Hello! returned the boy. Do you know the polters in the next street but quiet at the corner? Scrooge re-quired. What should help our dead? replied the lad. An intelligent boy, said Scrooge, a remarkable boy. Do you know whether they've sold the prize turkey that was hanging up there? Not the little prize turkey, the big one. What, what as big as me? returned the boy. What a delightful boy, said Scrooge. It's a pleasure to talk to him. Yes, my buck! It's hanging there now, replied the boy. Is it? said Scrooge.  Oh, God! exclaimed the boy. No, no, said Scrooge. I am an earnest go buy it and tell him to bring it here that I may give them the direction where to take it. Come back with the man and I'll give you a shilling. Come back with him in less than five minutes and I'll give you a heart for crown! The boy was off like a shot. He must have had a steady hand at a trigger who had got a shot off half so fast. I sent it to Bob Cratchit's, whispered, screwed, rubbing his hands and splitting with laugh. He shot no one who said that it's twice the size of Daddy Tim Joe. Miller never made such a joke as to get the bombs will be. The hand in which he wrote the address was not a steady one, but right it he did. He went downstairs to open the street door, ready for the coming of the Polter's man. As he stood there waiting his arrival, the knocker caught his eye. I shall love it as long as I live, cried Scrooge patting it with his hand. I scarcely ever looked at it before. What an honest expression it has on its face. It's a wonderful knocker. Here's the turkey. Hello, how are you? Merry Christmas. It was a turkey. He never could have stood upon his legs that bird. He would have snapped them short off in a minute like sticks of seeding wax. Why, it's impossible to carry that to Camden Town since Scrooge, you must have a cab. The chuckle with which he said this, and the chuckle with which he paid for the turkey, and the chuckle with which he paid for the cab, and the chuckle with which he recompensed the boy, were only to be exceeded by the chuckle with which he sat down, breathless in his chair again, and chuckled till he cried. Shaving was not an easy task, for his hand continued to shake very much, and shaving requires attention even when you don't dance while you're at it.  He dressed himself all his best, and at last got out into the streets. The people were by this time pouring forth, as he had seen them with the ghost of Christmas present, and walking with his hands behind him, Scrooge regarded everyone with a delighted smile. He looked so irresistably pleasant, in a word, that three or four good-humoured fellows said, Good morning, sir, a merry Christmas to you, and Scrooge said often afterwards, that of all the blithe sounds he had ever heard, those were the blitest in his ears. He had not gone far when coming on towards him, he beheld the portly gentleman who had walked into his counting-house the day before, and said, Scrooge and Molly, as I believe, it sent a pen across his heart to think how this old gentleman would look upon him when they met, but he knew what path lay straight before him, and he took it. My dear sir, said Scrooge, quickening his pace, and taking the old gentleman by both his hands, how do you do? I hope you succeeded yesterday, it was very kind of you, a merry Christmas to you, sir. Mr. Scrooge? Yes, said Scrooge, that is my name, and I fear it may not be pleasant to you, allow me to ask your pardon, will you have the goodness here Scrooge whispered in his ear? Oh, bless me, cried the gentleman as his breath were taken away. My dear Scrooge, are you serious? If you please, said Scrooge, and not a far thing less, a great many back payments are included in it, I assure you. Will you do me that favour? My dear sir, said the other shaking hands with him, I don't know what to say to such munific, don't say anything, please, retorted Scrooge. Come and see me, will you come and see me? I will, cried the old gentleman, and it was clear he meant to do it. Thank you, said Scrooge, I much obliged you, thank you fifty times, bless you. He went to church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and fro, and patted children on the head, and questioned beggars and looked down into the kitchens of houses and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed at any walk that anything could give him so much happiness. In the afternoon he turned his steps towards his nephew's house. He passed the door a dozen times before he had the courage to go up and knock, but he made a dash and did it. He's your master at home, my dear, said Scrooge of the girl, nice girl, very. Yes, sir. Where is he, my love, said Scrooge? He's in the dining room, sir, along with mistress. I'll show upstairs, if you please. Thank ye, he knows me, said Scrooge, with his hand already on the dining room block. I'll go in there, my dear. He turned it gently and cycled his face in round the door. They were looking at the table which was spread out in great array, for these young housekeepers were always nervous on such points, and liked to see that everything is right. Fred, said Scrooge, dear heart alive, how his niece by marriage started. Scrooge had forgotten for the moment about her sitting in the corner with the footstool, or he wouldn't have done it on any account. Why bless my soul, cried Fred. Who's that? It is I, your uncle Scrooge. I've come to dinner. Will you let me in, Fred? Let him in. It is a mercy he didn't shake his arm off. He was at home in five minutes. Everything could be hardier. His niece looked just the same. So did Topper when he came. So did the plump sister when she came. So did everyone when they came. Wonderful party, wonderful games, wonderful unanimity, wonderful happiness. But he was early at the office next morning. Oh, he was early there. If he could only be there first in catch-bomb-cratch-and-coming date, that was the thing he had set his heart upon. And he did it. Yes, he did it. The clock struck nine. No, Bob. A quarter past. He was full eighteen minutes and a half behind his time. Scrooge sat with his door wide-open that he might see him come into the tank. His hat was off before he opened the door. He's comforted, too. He was on his stool in a jiffy, driving away at his pen as if he were trying to overtake nine o'clock. Hello, crowd Scrooge. It is a custom voice as near as he could feign it. What do you mean by coming in here at this time of day? I'm very sorry, sir, said Bob. I am behind my time. You are, repeated Scrooge. Yes, I think you are. Step this way, sir, if you please. It's only once a year, sir, pleaded Bob, appearing from the tank. It shall not be repeated. I was making rather merry yesterday, sir. Now, I'll tell you what my friend, said Scrooge. I am not going to stand this sort of thing any longer. And therefore he continued leaping from his stool and giving Bob such a dig in the waistcoat that he staggered back into the tank again. And therefore I'm about to raise your salary. Bob trembled, and he got a little nearer to the ruler. He had a momentary idea of knocking Scrooge down with it, holding him, and calling to the people in the court for help in a straight waistcoat. A merry Christmas, Bob said Scrooge, with an earnestness that could not be mistaken, as he clapped him on the back. A merry Christmas, Bob, my good fellow, that I've given you for many a year. I'll raise your salary, and endeavor to assist your struggling family, and we'll discuss your affairs this very afternoon over a Christmas bowl of smoking Bishop Bob, make up the fires, and buy another cold skull before you dot another. I, Bob, crash it! Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more. And to a tiny Tim who did not die, he was a second father. He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world. Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them. For he was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened in this globe for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter at the outset. And knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes and greens, as have the malady in less attractive forms. His own heart laughed, and that was quite enough for him. He had no further intercourse with spirits, but lived on the total abstinence principle ever afterwards. And it was always said of him that he knew how to keep Christmas well if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that truly be said of us, and all of us. And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless us, everyone. End of Stay of Five of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. End of Book.


just saw the recent new logo. I would love to know what is that whole cut about which is diagonally added. So I did see the visual eraser kind of cuts through the company but why just company why not Bombay. Everyone to ask this question that's the whole point right. So I myself am in order to psychology and I love visual branding psychology of brands. So that's a area I focus and I would love to know why you wanted to cut it through company why not sharing or why not There are 2-3 things I think one is it is big bold it's challenge or it's outlaws rebellious right people okay this might get into a little bit of a psychological discussion because you have but people who want to stand out have I say this in a very positive way have self-mutilating tendencies. Piercings and tattoos right they want to stand out they are outlaws they are rebels like I have tattoos it is it is a mutilating cutting the company is a self-mutilating thing to be a challenger and outlaw it shows how much we are willing to give up to actually be to stand out to be someone the consumer identifies with that's what this brand is about also Bombay shaving company in verbal conversations between our distributors our teams our offline teams our amazon relationship everywhere we don't call ourselves Bombay shaving company anymore it's Bombay shaving yeah I'm from Bombay shaving Shantanu my friend is from Bombay shaving Deepak is the co-founder of Bombay shaving right people don't say the whole way people like short form everything right so these 2 things but I think the brand identity is one that has just understood you will have a lot of consumers who may not also like it right so but that's fine


The expectations for this study period is very similar to what we achieved in the previous study cycle. In the previous study cycle we had nine questions. In this study cycle we have seven questions. So it is possible to focus more and allocate additional resources to the fewer number of questions that we have in this study cycle. The questions were framed by WTEC in such a way to contribute to the attainment and achievement of SDGs, the Sustainable Development Goals. And I expect to repeat the same success stories that we achieved in the previous study cycle. It was very interesting to note that so far since our final reports of the previous study cycle were released, more than 220,000 downloads were made of the final reports. That shows the interest of many stakeholders and the usefulness of our reports and our work to them. And I expect to achieve even better results in this study period. Well, I was very delighted to note with much interest that they are quite active in the discussions. They are contributing to the subject that we are dealing with. And the message that I have for them is continue the excellent work that we did in the previous study cycle and even advance it further in this study period. Well, I think the questions were framed as indicated earlier by WTEC having a number of points in mind. First, they should contribute to the achievement and attainment of SDGs. Second, they are important topics that are of much interest on a daily basis by many stakeholders and the ITU membership. So in all, the questions would contribute and would provide useful guidance, case studies, success stories, as well as areas that we would be facing challenges. So overall, the expectations are to benefit from the work that Study Group 2 in collaboration with Study Group 1 are doing under a broader umbrella of 14 questions. And so far we have established excellent working relations not only within the management team of the ITU-D Study Group 2 but with our colleagues in Study Group 1. And we are very hopeful to move forward in a smooth and productive manner. Well, we have seven questions. And the seven questions in Study Group 2 are extremely important. We have Question 1 focusing on IoTs, on smart cities, on new modes of developing services in order to improve and advance the efficiencies in the economies and other sectors of the society. Digital health, e-health is another question. Cyber security is our third question. In Question 4, we are dealing with conformance and interoperability and theft of mobile devices. Question 5, of course, we have to consider different topics that are important in achieving the goals in this question. Question 6 is on environment. As you know, environment is extremely important for the future of humanity. And finally, Question 7 is focusing on electromagnetic radiation and its impact on the well-being of human beings specifically. So, as you can see, there are a number of topics that we are covering. All of them are important. All of them contribute to solving important and relevant problems that we are facing overall in developing countries. And I'm very hopeful that with the active participation of many participants and engagement of the management team, we would be able to have excellent results at the end. We are planning to have annual reports, which would provide interim outputs to many stakeholders, including ITU membership. And as such, I do hope that the work that we are doing in this study cycle would be of even better practical value to the membership. As I said earlier, the questions in study groups were framed by WTDC in Argentina last October in such a way that to ensure first that they are in line with achieving and attaining sustainable development goals and at the same time solve some of the urgent problems that many of us in developing countries are facing. So, all questions, they have elements of contributing to the achievement of sustainable development goals and we would be playing our role, our part in this endeavor.


As interest has grown in my photographs of local ancient sites, I thought I'd start to document some of these sites and the walks around them in videos. To begin, one of the furthest run places I regularly travel to from Bambri, Minster Lovell Hall. For me, the journey inevitably starts at the White Heart Buster on the old day 40, then descending into the Windrish Valley and across the water meadows towards the ruin, unless it's really wet weather, in which case I wonder who the village is required. Minster Lovell has often been the site for a first stop, using the picnic bench to have a snack, before setting off across the landscape between the Windrish and Evenlode valleys on a long day walk. Using the two free free bus from Hambri station, travel the half hour by bus to Minster Lovell, then walk back to one of the stations on the Cotswaud line to catch the train home again. Note that Coom, Finstock, Ascot and Ships in the stations are effectively closed right now, but Hamburg and Chalbury and even Kingdom are easily walkable from Minster Lovell, crossing the wide ridge between the valleys of the Windrish and the Evenlode, including the path through whichwood forest. Minster Lovell Hall has a surreal quality, especially if the weather adds to the atmosphere. It's a classic ruin, but at the same time you can see that centuries of less reverent visitors have scrawled graffiti over many parts of it, a practice common before modern times. More than anything, it's just an ethereally beautiful place to visit. From my own experience though, you can easily lose yourself for an hour or more exploring the nooks and crannies of this ancient building. The parish of Minster, its original name before the Lovell family took possession of it, is ancient, with history stretching back to the Stone Age. The modern age 40 is the course of an ancient ridge route, and the river valley itself has been a place of settlement for millennia. The Hall was probably a significant farmstead by the time in the Doomsday Book. From then it passed from one Norman Baron to another, until the Lovell family took up residence around the 13th century. William, 7th Baron Lovell, built the largest parts of the foundation and walls of the present Hall around 1431 to 1440. Unfortunately for the family, the next generation chose to support the losing side in the Wars of the Roses, and after 1485 the property was seized by the Crown, thereafter it was used by members of Henry Tudor's extended family. At the beginning of the 17th century, it passed to the Koch family, who occupied it until their wealth and power outgrew this quiet corner of Oxfordshire in the mid-18th century, when they moved to Norfolk. It was at this point the core of the building was ripped out for its valuable dress stone, leaving the shell much as it is today. As romanticism influenced popular culture at the beginning of the 19th century, the Hall became a place of pilgrimage for the new culture tourists of modern England, and, as was common in these times, they would scratch their names into the walls to mark their presence. In fact, it's only relatively recently that doing that has been frowned upon. I find the graffiti rather strange. Much of it is dated from the 19th to early 20th century. At one level it detracts from the building, but at another it speaks to the rampant individualism which grew out of the romanticism movement, where people sought not only to experience, but also to possess places like this by scrawling their names on it. Personally, I'm more than happy to pass through here, just taking a break on my travels and leaving no trace that I was ever here. More than anything, as in the tale of the other figure of romanticism, Ozymandias, for me this is somewhere to come and peacefully contemplate the impermanence of human society versus the enduring power of nature, which slowly and certainly is taking back the sight as the structure ever so slowly decays as the river ever so gently, incessantly flows by. On a bright autumn day, when this video is captured, or even in the fog of an early morning, it's a lovely place to sit and contemplate our place in time.


Hey Bolo Buddies, thanks for watching. All right in this video We are going to talk about big money Bolo's items to be on the lookout for items you can hopefully buy low and sell for a profit Hey Bolo Buddies, thanks for watching Amazing, right? All right, let's get started In this video I am going to talk to you about the best March Bolo's that were posted in my Bolo Buddies Facebook group by members of the group and members of my YouTube channel I'm gonna tell you where they got it what they paid for it and what it sold for and Some of these Bolo's are going to knock your socks off So let's get started here with the first one. This one comes from flipping it good and this is his YouTube channel definitely go check him out He does a lot of retail arbitrage where he goes into like Ross and TJ Maxx. No, not TJ Maxx I used to go to TJ Maxx Ross Burlington and then he also buys Lost cargo and stuff like that. So check out his channel lots of fun But here's an example of an item he picked up at Ross. He said I found these at Ross for 2999 they sold on eBay for a hundred and eighty plus shipping.  I found them at a yard sale. I paid $20 and they were new with the box I took an offer of 199 plus shipping on eBay.  He found also at Ross for 3499 These are converse star-run motion platform shoes They sold on Poshmark for a hundred and seventy plus shipping and they took two weeks to sell Wow, I have never seen any type of shoe like that. So Somebody put I almost bought a pair of these from Ross weeks ago because weird cells and these shoes are crazy I passed them up. They were 2999 seeing them sell over all over for so much. Yeah, it's crazy He does a great job of knowing what to pick up retail arbitrage I used to do a lot of RA clothing, but Kind of dabbled in shoes, but man. Oh man. He knows his shoes. So definitely check out his channel this one comes from got junk in our trunk right here is her YouTube channel and She is a moderator of the Facebook group. So go over and sub her up and tell her thank you for helping out in the Facebook group She said this is a is the second set of Disney Park Mickey specialty ears I have sold this month. They are always good pick up and I find them at the bins pretty often for pennies on the dollar I purchased this one at a yard sale for a dollar sold for full-asking price plus shipping. So they are it's like a Minnie Mouse headband and she sold it for 44 99 and got it at a yard sale for one dollar So if you hear me shout out a YouTube channel or an eBay store That means they are members of my Bola buddies YouTube channel this channel There's a join button down below if you would like to have a mention in the video and get linked down in the description You can join at level 2 you can share. It's completely free. This is just if you want the perks Another wonderful item from Donna telebotelino came in a banana box with other items. She has awesome Dibble boxes always very Very packed with great items. All right, so this one is a I'm trying to read it It's kind of small honey suckle Easter Bunny rabbit by Russ lifelike face lace dress 12 inch plush vintage this is what it looks like it looks like it sold for 35 95 plus shipping and Donna telebotelino is a YouTube channel. This is her YouTube channel. She is a Bola buddies member as well and She does live selling events on her channel, but she is focusing more on what not right now and her what not is just her first name Donna tele and If you want to join what not I have a link down below You can get $15 to shop if you use my referral link to join what not and you can basically go over there And people sell live. It is completely awesome. I absolutely love it I am Bola buddies over there all one word definitely follow me that link will take you to follow me as well So if you're already on what not you can use that link to follow me, but check out Donna tele on what not All right, this one came from tea auctions for you who also does YouTube auctions And she is also on what not as Capital tea auctions for you. So definitely go and follow her on what not as well and then auctions for you on YouTube I will link her down below Another awesome box packed to the rim with good stuff sold in less than a week for full asking price So appreciate what you do because it makes me feel special when you show my souls. Thank you so very much You're welcome and thank you for sharing and it's pretty awesome that she picked these up from Donatella and tea. So this one is from tea. It is a Fuji color Complementary table lighter new old stock with box advertised scenes. So it's Fuji color film check that out It sold for 48 98 plus shipping This one comes from Bola buddies member stellar seller Sam and this is her YouTube channel And she is new to YouTube channel But you would never guess by her videos her editing skills are awesome Let's see. I am still new to reselling. So I don't pay up I've been sourcing cheap until I learned more this plate caught my eye and I paid 15 for it Most I've paid on an item to date got an offer for a hundred and thirty five and they paid shipping It was signed on the back of by the artist and said Italy and this is what it looks like It says vintage LB Italy Fratelli oh boy Franschelica I don't know what that says. Just look at it But anyway, yeah, she picked it up for 15 and sold it for a hundred and thirty five Nickerbacher plush is a good name to look for got this at an estate sale paid one dollar took a while to sell But got full asking price and my favorite eBay feedback of all time So it is a vintage stuffed animal. This is what it looks like And it's a big 28 inch stuffed bear sold for thirty nine dollars and 99 cents plus shipping And it says and this is from Jersey short thrifter He has been a follower of the channel since almost the very beginning. So thank you Jerry for always sharing on this post as well So the feedback he got it says he is such in Perfect condition and very thankful Heart my sister she had one just like him. He had lighter color, but he is so perfect He looks just like her Chester That's what his name was and I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything And he is in such great condition and that we're in love. Thank you So that is one thing that is so cool about selling plush is there's people that have these childhood memories They're nostalgic and people look for plush. So things Sometimes are long tail with plush, but there's usually a buyer out there He said by the way this oversized plush was shipped out wrapped in shrink wrap then taped up snugly in a contractor bag It looked like I was shipping a small body, but my buyer clearly didn't mind So instead of shipping it in a box. He just protected it with a saran wrap and a contractor bag Which is pretty common. All right, this next item It says we found this new with tags jacket at the DAV which stands for disabled American veterans thrift We're veterans. So we received 10% off and bought it for only $9 when out thrifting always look up camo outer outerwear that is not the tree or leaf print because many are not hunting and fishing items, but rather highly desired Military pieces our military branches partner with American outerwear Companies like Patagonia and adventure tech to make cold weather gear that meet their high Requirements we had a watcher within an hour of listing who messaged us about this reversible day night cameo jacket Camo jacket. Sorry. It was listed at 298. We accepted an offer of $268 he paid fast and has already left great feedback. We hope everyone is having a good March So it's adventure tech men's large camo gore techs outdoor water windproof hood zip jacket And this is what it looks like. So that was fantastic information Definitely something that I didn't know about and you can see what she means by the pattern here The next one comes from eBay store find lots for you and this is what it looks like She is a Bolo buddies member and she said my husband went to our local thrift store and found this He paid $20 and it sold on eBay auction for 265 it is a vintage Mki Kamenstein world of motion steam engine train teapot kettle in box number 613 Never seen anything like that. This is also from finds find lots for you She said I picked these up at a thrift 20 miles from my house for 50 cents sold them in two months for a best offer of $20 and you guys know I love this one. They are 1980s goody hair clincher clip Banana comb ponytail holder and this is what it looks like.  They can do really well This one also comes from got junk in our trunk and she said I purchased these Baron steam Okay, I always thought it was Baron steam, but I think it's Baron stain. I don't know I think I've always said it wrong bears plush family toys from Dollar Tree They were selling individually for $1.25 each But I knew it may be hard to find all the characters in order to resell as a set We do what we do have a Dollar Tree store in our area But I decided to purchase a mixed case of characters online 48 total pieces each set shipped was a little less than six dollars I sold some sets immediately at Christmas and sold two sets in one day in March The sets are selling at full price of 1899 plus shipping I plan to buy another case or two this week Okay, so I'm I guess she got them from Dollar Tree Huh new PBS kids Baron stain bears a Baron steam. I'm just gonna say Baron steam That's how I've always said it Plush toys cartoon mama papa sister and brother, so it's all four of them They're kind of cut out in the picture, so it's kind of hard to see but they're all four there So 1899 and the buyer paid shipping This next one says Plato's closet clearance 70% off Who sources at Plato's closet if you source there, let me know down in the comments She paid $4 and it sold for $60 on Poshmark Nike Nike I always say Nike to Nike men's thermo Sphere All I've put in training jacket size large and this is what it looks like I would have walked right past that I Received this and an estate sale lot for around a dollar. It's kind of boring So it stayed in my death pile for a while Eventually I took it into my booth and marked it at $25 and it never sold So I finally decided to put it on eBay and I took a best offer of 40 plus shipping So this one comes from vintage booth pro. This is her YouTube channel and She has I think more than one booth and she talks about that on her YouTube channel So definitely check her out over there if you're interested in to get it and into like, you know Where you go into the stores and they have a bunch of booths. That's what she does So she couldn't sell it in her booths So she put it on eBay and sold it for 40. It's a Bombay company Mahogany Brown wood jewelry box from 1993 made in Korea I can't remember where I found this probably goodwill I took a best offer of 30 plus shipping This also comes from vintage booth pro. It is a handcrafted old world santa. It says 1888 apples Wasa 8 inch figurine Christmas vintage. I'm not sure what that word is sold it for 980 well, I'm sorry it was listed for 39 87 and took a best offer of 30 So I see these Santas all the time to me. I feel like 30 was probably um I wouldn't have expected to get 30 out of that But you know, they all vary a little bit some of them go for more than others And she says she can't remember where she found it or what she paid for it. So And then she's got one more here. This was another item that was in my booth forever I included a video of the sound it had a ton of interest and questions I finally took an offer of 30 plus shipping. I found it at the goodwill for five dollars It's a hanging brass singing bowl healing meditation unique hard to find Never seen anything like that. That's what it looks like Another item I would have walked right past This one comes from Bolo buddies member flipping hot finds that is her eBay store No youtube channel and she always finds really cool stuff She does a lot of shopping at youtube auctions and this one came from auctions for you I mentioned her earlier in the video again auctions for you She said I bought a lot of spanish latin cds from t auctions for you I'm in it for three dollars and forty cents apiece sold for so for so far with many more listed This is a rare ray rod regue rod regues And orchestra it's kind of cut off, but it's sold for $74.99. Oh my goodness. And then this one is Roguelo Beto. I don't know another looks like maybe orchestra cd sold for 50 bucks Did you guys know that these orchestra cds could sell for so much? Wow That is incredible Sold the rest of my english angora rabbit wool used for spinning and felting This was three different colors in separate bags It went international and the buyer asked me to bundle it because it would it wouldn't allow her combined shipping or invoicing I accidentally put nine ounces of the white. It was one ounce So a total of eight ounces again. I had nothing but time in it A vintage smirnoff vodka bottle sold for full asking price of $150 and 84 cents plus buyer paid shipping I paid three dollars and 69 cents for it in a local online estate sale lot of random glass items this sale was obviously on etsy But I also sell on multi platforms using list perfectly. I love it My buyer personally messaged me to tell me how pleased he was with the bottle and how well packed it was So it says vintage smirnoff bottle one gallon with bar shot pump Vodka glass man cave decor So number one she mentioned list perfectly, which I also use and if you guys are new to the channel You haven't heard me talk about it. If you've been here. Wow, I talk about it all the time because I absolutely love it Um, I use list perfectly to cross post my items I start them on ebay and then I cross post to mercari imposh mark And if you would like to check out how it works, there is a demo video down in the description If you watch that and it looks like something that you would benefit from which you definitely will Um getting more eyes on your items is really important in my opinion So I always say more platforms different eyes more eyes. There's people that shop on those other platforms that do not shop on ebay and um vice versa if you just sell on mercari or poshmark You may be missing out on those ebay sales So you can cross post or you can list to the catalog I show you how to do all of that in the video And if you like what you see you can get 30 off your first month of list perfectly with coupon referral code bolo buddies all one word This one comes from p and w flips who is also a bolo buddies member and this is her um What is it called her youtube channel But she that's her uh ebay store name too found this at the goodwill and they had seven dollars and 99 cents on it but Was color of the week Was asking 40 but accepted an offer of 35 plus shipping. So I don't know what color of the week means I'm guessing some sort of discount. Maybe 50 off She said my ebay and youtube are p and w flips It is an hp 951 xl color ink cartridge. Um, and it's the colors and it sold for 35 plus shipping I think that some ink can't be sold internationally. I can't remember, uh, but definitely, uh, it might be in one of my Vero videos. I feel like I remember hearing that but not a hundred percent sure if anybody can verify. Let me know down in the comments This one comes from follow me for a fantastic finds that is her ebay store. This is what it looks like She said i'm still fairly new so my bolos are not that big, but i'm still proud of them I got these first two items from someone selling a whole lot of leftover yard sale items I filled my suv up for 30 dollars worth of junk uh, oh Crusade set a la crusade. I'm probably saying that wrong. I say it wrong every time. I try. I really do I just can't get this one crusade crusade Set for around 75. I was so nervous about The same word. I originally sold it for 10250 on auction But I wound up giving a 25 dollar refund because she wasn't happy with the scratches which I had mentioned Nonetheless still a great profit. Yeah, that's always a bummer when um You sell something and you disclose it, but they don't pay attention to the details And then they are not happy and come back at you with a complaint So, um, this is what it looks like And it even says in the title shows where so Um, I'm sure she took photos and everything. So that is a bummer Um, here's another one for follow me for fantastic finds. This was another item I got in my 30 dollar car load this pair of saddle oxfords for 35. So it looks like, um They are ladies shoes size eight and a half and auction style They actually sold for 36 plus shipping and that's what they look like. I feel like I wore those as a kid Did anybody else wear those as a kid? Um, and she's got one more This came out of my grandpa's barn I'm cleaning out just two simple glass mugs free to me and sold for 20 dollars set of raven head england pint glasses 16 out muck 16 ounce mugs thumb print design And this is what they look like. Oh, and by the way, I had these at my garage sale for a quarter before I decided to list them Oh my goodness. That is so funny. Um, how many people take things out of their own garage sale to list on ebay While they're having the garage sale. Have you ever done that? I'm guessing a few of you had All right, you guys, thank you so much for being here Um, this there's probably going to be eight or nine videos this month for march because I had so many people that shared So many great bolos So look for this series watch for more videos to come if you would like to share an april Bolo head on over to my bolo buddies facebook group under the featured slash announcements section There is a post everyone is welcome to share a bolo If you would like to get that shout out or that mention And have your link down in the description of the video. You can join perks at level two There is a link in the description or a join button down below It depends on which device you're on whether or not you see that join button So if you want the perks, you're welcome to join if not come on over and share a bolo for uh, free everybody's welcome to share All right, you guys, thank you so much for being here and thanks for watching


Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners. Thanks to all of you including Andrew Bradley, Dale Mulcahy and Matt Zaglin. Coming up on DTNS is the age of brain computer interfaces upon us, plus Google cracks down on productivity, and Nika Monford highlights how bees helped one entrepreneur build a better supercomputer. This is the Daily Tech News for Monday, August 1st, 2022 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. And from Just Outside of Atlanta, Georgia, I'm Nika Monford. And on the show's producer, Roger Chang. We have bees to get to, as well as brains, but no brain surgery, at least in one case. Let's start with a few tech things you should know, not that one, that one. Apple added Apple Pay Web support for third-party browsers in the latest iOS 16 beta. Developers confirmed Apple Pay works in Chrome, Edge and Firefox browsers on iOS. The register points out that this may be a response to draft legislation in the EU's Upcoming Digital Markets Act. Last week, Elon Musk filed a confidential countersuit against Twitter in the Delaware Court of Chancery. That's where Twitter is suing Elon Musk. The countersuit is not public, but a version could be published with the sensitive details redacted. Also, Twitter investor Luigi Crispo filed a proposed class action lawsuit against Musk for alleged breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty to Twitter's shareholders. Twitter's lawsuit against Musk over the deal is scheduled to begin October 17th. So not at all messy, as expected. Tim Hortons reached a proposed settlement and four class action lawsuits in Canada over accusations that it used its mobile app to frequently collect sensitive location data on users. The fast food chain would offer impacted users a free hot beverage and baked goods worth roughly nine Canadian dollars, as well as permanently deleting the data. The settlement still needs court approval. Also won't be messy. Nobody's gonna mind, right? Nope. The Economic Times of India's sources say that the Indian Food Delivery Service Zomato, a name that I have to say I really like, plans to rebrand itself as eternal. The rebranded company would include its subsidiaries Blinkett, HyperPure, and Feeding India. Those would act as peers under a single organization under CEO Depender Goyal. Let's hope it remains eternal, or that's a terrible name. Twitter began testing a way to get more app usage from people who say, eh, am I really ready to sign up for Twitter? This will let people use the service without an account with a feature called Try Twitter. It's offering limited functionality to some users on iOS, which lets them read tweets, follow up to 50 users, and also get notifications. So it's limited usage, but still Twitter usage. Product manager Laura Berkhouser said that the idea is to allow users to get the Twitter time on experience without the extra step of account creation. Genius and about 10 years too late. Like, you know, if Twitter is a place where people follow stuff, make the following easy. I know, right? Yeah. Let's limit your usage so you get used to us. All right. Let's talk a little more about the brain. Let's do it. So Wired's Grace Brown has an article up called, the age of brain computer interfaces is on the horizon. Brain computer interfaces or BCI generally means a device that read signals from the brain and then uses those signals to trigger actions like moving a robotic arm or controlling a cursor on a screen. The devices don't read minds as much as they're detecting unique single signals and then learning how to interpret them. So the person gets the thing they want to get done done takes training on the algorithmic side and also the patient side. So Tom, what is the new news here? On July 6th, the company called Synchron successfully implanted its BCI in a patient in New York. It's the company's first implementation in the United States. Synchron is one of two BCI devices approved in the U.S. for implantation. The other is the Utah Array from BlackRock Neurotech. That one requires brain surgery.  Synchron's device is less invasive. It's a mesh about the size of a AAA battery. So pretty small. You implant that through the veins. So you go in through the jugular and up into the brain's veins, requiring no cutting into the skull. The mesh then nests in the wall of the blood vessels in the brain where it can receive the signals. Now, that sounds complicated, I know.  Synchron surgery will let you go home the same day as implantation. I guess it's implementation of the implantation. Synchron's devices implanted in four patients in Australia over the past year and indicated prolonged use was safe. You might have heard Tom's description and saying, this doesn't sound safe at all. Well, indications are that it is. The implantation in New York is the beginning of safety and feasibility studies to see how well this can work with different people. Synchron hopes to have it implanted in 15 people by the end of this year. They also want to find out if it improves a patient's life. If it does, the company can apply for FDA approval to make it available under Medicare. The next step after that might be wider commercial availability for non-medically necessary reasons. And with that comes quite a few ethical considerations. For example, who owns the data on your brain? If it's collected, where does it go? If a company goes out of business or gets bought or just ends support for some sort of device that you have used or you may use in the future, it might be in your brain. So who pays to get it removed or updated? Yeah, these are starting to become practical questions, not just academic questions, because if you noticed, we said it was Synchron's first U.S. implantation, not the first U.S. implantation at all, not Synchron's first implantation. Sarah just mentioned, they did four in Australia. So there are other folks with other BCIs implanted. One of those people is Ian Burkhart, paralyzed from the chest down, who uses a BCI to control muscle stimulation to restore finger and wrist movements. He leads the BCI Pioneers Coalition of BCI users sharing their experiences and advocating for safe development. So they're trying to say, we need these, we need them to be done safely, and if they're done safely, then we can get more of them and get more advances on them. The group wants to establish, quote, best practices for future patients, clinicians, and commercial entities engaging with BCI research. Because I imagine there's more than one of you that shuddered a bit at one part or another of this story, and yet it's life-changing for the people who have it. Nika, what do you make of this? That's exactly what I was thinking. For me, I would probably not want to get this, because, again, tons of ethical issues, health issues, but for people like Ian, this is a life-altering type of technology. So I would probably say for extreme cases or cases where improvement and quality of life is significant, then this is probably something that people in those situations will be probably more open to you than just someone who has functioning limbs and body parts and are just not encumbered by any type of health issues. I mean, as somebody who's had some brain issues in the past, I've never had really limited mobility, but definitely brain-triggering unwanted actions in the rest of my body, I feel like if I was a candidate for something like this and I felt confident enough that my life could be improved on the other side of it, I'd be really interested. But yes, this whole kind of the ethics of who has the data, what could the data mean for anything that I could do in the future if I got put into some sort of category with other people who had enough of the same, I don't know, neuron activity that I did, whether or not that was known to me or something that could negatively impact me in the future, all very important questions that I just don't think we have the answers to yet. Yeah, and I could see a tech backlash against this reducing the usefulness of it, putting too many restrictions on it that make it harder for the people who do need it to get it. That's why I was fascinated to find out that BCI pioneers existed and is a very small number of people, but very organized and active to say, let's do the right thing with this technology from the beginning. I think that that is unusual to see that level of organization around something. And that could lead to a safer implementation of the implantation later on down the road that lets us have less medically necessary things that are also less invasive than even the Synchron one that we were talking about that could provide some enhancement to life that is not as problematic, both on the, you know, like having to be surgery, maybe it could be on the outside. We have examples of that where it can just, you know, skull caps that's on the brain. But more importantly, having pioneered the ethics from the beginning, I mean, that'll be the biggest legacy of BCI pioneers, I think. For sure. And starting on the health end rather than on the vanity end, I think is also a huge benefit as well. Well, folks, if you hear a decades old song all of a sudden appearing on the billboard charts, it usually means one of two things. Either a new season of Stranger Things has dropped, congratulations, Kate Bush, or the song blew up on TikTok, or possibly both. By design, TikTok is already very much a music discovery platform. It was built partly on the bones of Musically. But it looks like, Sarah, it might be trying to expand that role a little more. And indeed, Insider reports that ByteDance filed a trademark application for TikTok music in Australia followed by an application with the US Patent and Trademark Office on May 9th, listing a service that would let users, quote, purchase, play, share, download music, songs, album lyrics, live stream audio and video, edit and upload photographs as the cover of playlists and comment on music, songs, and albums. Now, a lot of this is already done on TikTok, but not in much of an official sense. Other use cases include live stream audio and video interactive media programming in the field of entertainment, fashion, sports, and current events. Now, you might be thinking to yourself, wait a minute, I think I live in India and I know ByteDance is a big giant company that already owns a music streaming app here and you're right that those of you who thought that, it launched a music streaming app, Reso, in 2020 that's spelled R-E-S-S-O. It's available not only in India, but in Brazil and Indonesia as well. It's not clear if TikTok music would be built on Reso's platform or not. They might, they might not. But if you look at the implementation of Reso in Brazil, TikTok redirects users to full songs on Reso if they want to find out more about them. That certainly seems like a likely integration for TikTok music. Reso has licensing deals with Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, Merlin, and Beggar's Group. It does not have a deal with UMG, Universal Music, at least not yet. Now TikTok does. They just couldn't get it for Reso. So I look at this and I think a few things. One is I used to use Shazam with Google Music before Apple owned Shazam and it was always difficult to get the song I recognized in Shazam to open up in Google Music. But I could do it. It was easier once I switched to Apple Music even before Apple owned Shazam to get something to open up in Apple Music. They implemented it better. I could see TikTok being able to take advantage of that and say, hey, wouldn't you like to have this TikTok music service? The key is it's going to have to be really easy to use. You should already get a version of it, a free version of it with your TikTok account. And it should be a really good music service if you want to get people to pay extra for it. Nika, what do you think? You're going to jump on TikTok music? Probably not because I rarely use TikTok itself. I see TikTok when it comes over to Twitter. But I think it's very useful in the fact that, again, these songs go viral and it's only these short clips and it's like, what's this song? What's this song? It sounds familiar, but I don't know exactly what it is. So the ease of being able to get to the song, that's the song of the moment from TikTok straight to a music source, I think that is probably a bit of a game changer. But what I do wonder is, does this TikTok music, is it going to take away from sort of the organic nature that things happen on TikTok? Now, putting some structure around it, is that going to change people's, I guess, perspective or engagement with it being quote unquote official rather than just something that organically happens on the app? I kind of thought the same thing, Nika, is TikTok is obviously banking on the fact that enough people are going to want and already do want the service. I mean, I'm one of those people. I hear songs on TikTok all the time where it's like, oh, I hear it more than several times to some dog video. And I'm like, who's the song? Oh, it's Harry Styles. Okay, I didn't know that song already. Got it. You know, I'm an old, so I don't always know Harry Styles from the radio. But what's radio anymore? I think at the same time, it making it easier for TikTok users to make the most of popular songs maybe makes this whole thing feel a little less special. I'm not trying to be a naysayer here.  It's like they don't need me to, you know, champion them too much. But I wonder how much this kind of just becomes a, eh, everybody can do it. It's old hat at this point. Yeah, I think it's interesting too that they're doing live streaming as part of that trademark. Now that may just be because they want to make sure they integrate it tightly with TikTok, which already does live streaming, but if they made it like the really easy way to do a DJ set on TikTok music, something they already can kind of do on TikTok, but full songs aren't as licensed as the clips. I don't know. There's some interesting stuff they could do there. It's like a versus thing for sure. Well, it's time again for teching while black. This is a segment where Nika shines the light on a technology leader. You might not have heard of yet, but it's very important and you'll be glad she told you all about. So Nika, who are we highlighting in this episode? So this individual is quite interesting. He is Philip Ime Aguali. He is a mathematician, engineer, and computer scientist. So before we get to kind of where we are now, you have to go back a little bit to kind of get the overall picture. Dubbed the name calculus by his schoolmates at 14 because he had mastered the subject of calculus that early. Nice. Even so much so that he out calculated his teachers. So he kind of got that nickname. So you have this young kid who's super smart, can pick up math without a whole lot of effort, but on the other side of that, due to war conflict in his home country of Nigeria, his parents had eight of the children, and they just couldn't afford to continue to pay for his education because in most African countries, to get primary elementary, high school education, you have to pay for that. He had to ultimately drop out at around that same age. He got dubbed the calculus, but he was able to continue self study, which ultimately led him to immigrate to the U.S. at 17 on a scholarship to Oregon State University. So he gets to the States at 17. He ultimately earned not only a BS in mathematics, but he goes on to earn two additional masters and a PhD. So, you know, out of that initial, you know, struggle, he goes on to get all of this additional education. Now, there are a couple of things that he is most noted for, and is primarily in the supercomputing space. He's most known for his invention that is based on the study of bees. Now, you may think, how is bees going to relate to your supercomputing? I usually run away from bees. This guy figured out how to make a supercomputer off of them. That's amazing. Right. It's really, it's really fascinating. And that's the thing that really kind of drew me to this story is that he saw how inherently efficient the ways bees construct, you know, their hives and how it works with the honeycomb. And he was able to determine just from seeing how bees naturally work, he was able to determine a way that computers could emulate that process and could be, you know, more efficient in computing. So in 1989, by using what he'd learned from emulating bees, the bees' honeycomb construction, he designed and programmed the, he designed the program and formula with the connection machine to use 65,000 processors to run the world's fastest computation, which ultimately performed 3.1 billion calculations per second. Now, I don't know how the mind works to get from bee construction to designing and formulating a program that runs the world's fastest computation. But ultimately, what he was able to design, the systems that he was able to design from this as a part of parallel computing is basically used in all search engines, Yahoo, for example. So it's one of those things where it's like, wow, that's, how do we get here from there? So that's one thing that was pretty fascinating to me on that front. But that's not all. He was also able to use his, this what is called a hyperball computer that he designed. And this allows for the forecasting of long-term global compatibility. So we go from supercomputing with bees over to forecasting global warming patterns. So the mind is a very interesting thing. And the way he was able to take, you know, just real world things that you see and parlay this into something that we all use, you know, on a daily basis is pretty fascinating. So to kind of wrap it up, in addition to this work that I've kind of laid out that he did, this has earned him undoubtedly, you know, awards at Triple E's Gordon Bell Prize, Nesb, which is the National Society of Black Engineers, their Distinguished Scientist Award. And there's one other thing I think on there that he was able to get from that that I cannot see. The National Technical Association's Computer Sciences to the Year, is it that one? Yes, that's the one. So yeah, so that is... It's fun when you have so many accolades that you've been listening to all of them. You're like, and there was another really cool one. There was another really good one. And those are just kind of the top three. But of course, obviously with, you know, his skills in his background, there are other awards, but those are kind of like the big three. But yeah, bees. All right. Thanks to the bees for inspiring Dr. Emi Aguali. And thank you, Dr. Emi Aguali. That's awesome. Thank you. And thank you, Nika, for telling us about it. Folks, if you haven't thought about something on the show, but you don't know our email address, let me solve that feedback at dailytechnewshow.com. Given the last quarter of tech earnings, it's not surprising to hear a lot of talk about belt tightening across the tech sector. Most companies aren't announcing layoffs, but they are announcing slowdown and hiring for open positions. Microsoft calls this a strategic realignment. Apple said it's being more deliberate with its hiring, and Meta is being more deliberate in recruitment. Yeah. So for the first two quarters of 2022 this year, Alphabet hasn't been exactly what you'd call cautious with hiring. In fact, 2022 has been its biggest hiring ever, at least in terms of years, increasing its headcount 21% on the year in Q2 to over 174,000 employees. That is a not insignificant city. But after lackluster earnings, the company announced, as some other companies have, it would slow down hiring through 2023. CEO Sundar Pichai is now asking employees to become more productive. Yeah, last Wednesday at one of those employee meetings, all hands meetings, Pichai told employees, quote, there are real concerns that our productivity as a whole is not where it needs to be for the headcount we have. He added that employees could help, quote, create a culture that is more mission focused, more focused on our products, more customer focused. We should think about how we can minimize distractions and really raise the bar on both product excellence and productivity. So Pichai did what any good engineer might do to solve a problem. He launched a sprint. He called it the simplicity sprint. It runs through August 15th, asking employees for their ideas. Example questions include what would help you work with greater clarity and efficiency to serve our users and customers? Where should we remove speed bumps to get better results faster? How do we eliminate waste and stay entrepreneurial and focused as we grow? Mika, I know you have familiarity with sprints. Yes. So in my work, I have mentioned before, I am an engineer, and the work that we do on the software side, in conjunction with the hardware side, we run sprints. For our work, we do two-week sprints. We have an overall kind of plan that's longer, maybe eight to nine weeks, and then you kind of chop up that bigger chunk into two-week increments. So you can incrementally improve and get work done. That's worked for us. You have to refine and tweak things as necessary. Some things take a little bit longer, some things take a little bit shorter. So as it suggests a sprint, you run a short distance, and then you kind of see what happens, and you run another short distance and kind of see how you get from there. So one of those things, this is a very interesting concept that he has, and I'm a little surprised that they don't already run that type of, I guess, program is not the right word, but I'm surprised that they don't run sprints already over there unless they do. I'm sure they run them on individual projects, but it doesn't sound like they've done a lot on productivity and efficiency, at least not company-wide anyway. Right, and that's a very interesting concept, how you can have it kind of at the micro level, but not have it at the broader level. So that's interesting, especially for a company that large and has been that large for quite a while. Yeah, what struck me as, I don't want to say poor timing on Google's part because Google could not have predicted a pandemic where a bunch of people were working from home for the first time, maybe ever having worked for the company. Obviously with almost 200,000 employees, Google has some remote working that has been done for a long time, quite a bit more over the last couple of years. So with an economic downturn that's hitting large tech firms and small, but certainly large tech firms have to deal with it as well. For the person at the top saying, hey, we just want to know what you think could be better about the company. Probably questions that should have been asked a long time ago.  But I think it's so many folks are trying to get back into the new normal and what's the new rhythm. And maybe on being optimistic here, maybe you start getting some thinking outside the box stuff that people might not have been comfortable bringing up in the past. Yeah, you have to remember, at least this is the way I look at it, Google is a money printing machine. It has been a money printing machine since the mid 2000s. When your company doesn't have to work as hard to make the money, which Google has not, you don't focus on things. You can do things like 20% time. You can spend money on chefs in the house. You can be a little lavish. You don't have to count every penny. When the ad market starts to dry up, when you get more competition from other companies, when there's inflation, when there's a war, when there's COVID, when that profit margin starts to be attacked, it focuses the mind. And so, yeah, I agree with both of you. Like Google should have been looking at this a long time ago, but they didn't have to till now. And now is the point when they're like, oh, you know what, we should probably milk a little more productivity out of each hour in these 174,000 people we have. Yeah. Now they're on the more of the reactive in rather than proactive and you would think if you have that much, you know, room ahead, you would kind of start to think about, you know what, this gravy train is probably not going to last forever. Even though we've had a good run, we should probably start to think about what could happen. And we've seen how long the pandemic has gone on. So you would think maybe kind of upfront, they would say, hey, let's, we don't know where this is going to go.  And if it, you know, after the pandemic, we didn't know how long it was going to last. And it's like, oh, it's been on the last three months. Then hey, we've given ourselves even more runway to kind of run. So I'm surprised that they didn't, you know, give it a little bit more forethought in how they were going to make this work. Well, let's move on to, well, back to music. In fact, we talked about it earlier in the show, K-pop stars, Blackpink, very, very popular. If you don't know them, where are you been? I didn't know them until Tom and Eileen told me about them.  It's kind of cute. You're probably pretty pumped about the world tour, which starts in October, but Blackpink has also recently collaborated with pub, pub G mobile, which featured the group's first ever in game concert, including a new video for a song called ready for love that takes place inside of the game's world, performed by virtual avatars of the band in a post-apocalyptic landscape, riding motorcycles across abandoned highways. Looks fun. You might say, well, hold on. Didn't Fortnite do this with some success? Travis Scott had a concert. Ariana Grande had a concert. And yeah, you're right. Riot also tried multiple virtual music projects inside the League of Legends, with a K-pop group KDA, also the hip hop group True Damage, virtual influencer Mikaela also debuted a music video at Lollapalooza, and pub G's parent company Kraften is working on a virtual human of their own, a pop star named Anna. Blackpink's in-game concert called the virtual ran over the two past weekends on pub G mobile. Tom feels very Coachella to me. Did you tune in? Yeah, I did. I am a blink and I jumped in there and I took a look. It was short. It was kind of fun. I think we're more excited about an actual album release date and an actual tour than this, but it was interesting to see, you know, the avatar representation. I think you're going to see that more often. And I think it was interesting to see pub G try to get in on it too, saying Fortnight's been getting all the attention. Let's partner with arguably the second biggest K-pop group on the planet, Blackpink, and get some attention on us. 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