FOURTH BY O5-2 On an investigation was launched into the continued viability of SCP-083. Several factors were taken into account, such as the relative danger involved in sustained containment and cost-benefit of the costly procurement of virgin blood on a regular basis. In conclusion, a unanimous decision to terminate SCP-083 was made amongst the O5 and handed down to Site-19 administrators. After researching the difficulties involved in terminating a regenerating superhuman and potential Keter object, the termination was set in motion. The man chosen for the task was an old standby, a man of great experience and expertise in the elimination of humanoid SCP objects of great destructive potential. Known for his clean, almost surgical method, he was quickly approved to carry out the termination. Unfortunately, he was not available. Despite urging from peers and subordinates, Dr. Kondraki was chosen to perform the termination. After giving himself the proper clearance and approval to do so through a loophole he had found in relevant regulations, O5 grudgingly accepted his self-appointment. O5-8 It should be noted here that O5-8 was a new appointment and had not been present for the previous disciplinary actions involved in the senior doctor. As waged the board's fears with Dr. Kondraki's impressive credentials and claimed that, given such an important responsibility, he might finally take his position seriously. Included below are the relevant logs and documentation concerning the duke termination. Note, for information involved in the collateral damages sustained during the termination, see document 083-DKK 052. Containment log 083-DKK Dr. Kondraki enters SCP-083's containment, carries a folding table and two chairs with him, proceeds to set up all three, as originally planned, taking a seat on one end. Dr. Kondraki. Well, isn't this a nice little accommodation? They treat you well, duke, real well for something out of a Bram Stoker novel. SCP-083 takes the seat across from him. SCP-083. Well, I must be doing something right, doctor. You know, come to think of it, I don't think I've seen you around Site-19. Dr. Kondraki. Good, you shouldn't have. Now, let's get on with this interview already. I've got better things to do than chat with a bloodsucker. SCP-083. I'm not calling you on your diet, am I? Besides, I asked for the interview, and as you know, I do get what I want. Dr. Kondraki. Sure, sure. Although I remember that you requested a woman, hope you're not too disappointed. Count, Dr. Kondraki proceeds to light a cigarette and produces a container of a specially treated fluid. In the pre-determination report, Dr. Kondraki did not specify the contents for security reasons. SCP-083. I can't say I'm pleased to accept a brutish specimen of humanity such as yourself over a lovely morsel of femininity. Don't worry, I'll just have to make it up with Mrs. R. Once we're finished here. Dr. Kondraki proceeds to unscrew the top from the container and sets it to the side. SCP-083 appears to recoil from the smell. Agent Infred stepped forward to frisk Dr. Kondraki. He swiftly liberated a handgun from Kondraki's person. Agent Infred. Sorry, sir, this isn't authorized. Dr. Kondraki. Right, whatever. So why don't you tell me about yourself, Drac? Are you the mythical force of darkness that plays the psyche of humanity or are you just a spoiled man-child playing vampire? SCP-083. Looks a bit annoyed. I don't think I like your attitude, Dr. Or your lack of respect. Dr. Kondraki blows smoke in SCP-083's direction. Funny, I don't recall giving a s***. Dr. Kondraki proceeds to grab the container and splash the liquid onto SCP-083. Far before containment teams and backup agents could get into position. SCP-083. What's the f*** did you splash me with? Dr. Kondraki. Cat urine and garlic juice, bad boy. With a bit of silver nitrate. Dr. Kondraki flips the collapsible table up into SCP-083, grabs the firearm from under the table, muttering about, always keeping a backup. He discharges his handgun seven times into SCP-083's chest and neck before producing a wooden stake from his lab coat. The bullets were confirmed to be comprised of a silver alloy. None of these actions had been planned or approved. Dr. Kondraki. Cross that off the list of things I've always wanted to do. Post-incident interview, DK-083. Interviewer, Dr. V. Interview Dr. Kondraki. Dr. V. At what point did you conclude that SCP-083 might be vulnerable to the same weaknesses of a stereotypical vampire, despite no previous evidence? Dr. Kondraki. Honestly, that was guessing. I figured either it worked and I got done early enough to catch some lunch, or I'd have to think fast before he killed me. Dr. V. Think fast? That's it. Dr. Kondraki. Yeah, I couldn't think of anything else, so I decided to play it by ear. Dr. V. You're saying you made it up as you went along? Isn't that grossly irresponsible, considering SCP-083's capabilities? Dr. Kondraki.  I don't have to explain myself if I get the job done. Dr. V. All right, fair enough, but I have to wonder about one more thing. Dr. Kondraki. Shoot. Dr. V. Why can't you run? Dr. Kondraki. Well, if I was wrong and it didn't work, he'd still be the one covered in cat piss. I didn't think he'd take the offense like he did, though. Excerpt from post-incident interview 08396321. Interviewer. And after viewing the logs, do you think Kondraki acted recklessly? Bright. Silence. Interviewer. Dr. Bright? Bright. This tape is undocktered? Interviewer. That is correct, Dr. Bright. Bright. Dr. Bright shows signs of agitation, swearing in several different languages, and throwing equipment about the room. Interviewer. Dr. Bright. What's the matter? Bright.  Do you realize how much I'm going to lose from paying out on that? God damn. At this point in the logs, we are unsure how Dr. Kondraki survived the following moments after the failed termination due to the destruction of all surveillance equipment beforehand. Security cameras outside of SCP-083's containment showed Dr. Kondraki and SCP-083 exiting the containment approximately half an hour later. Forensic examination of the damages incurred within the containment are underway. Regardless, a red alert was issued, and security teams were dispatched to contain SCP-083 and get Dr. Kondraki to safety, including Mobile Strike Force RH02, Hawthorne's Heroes. As hindsight shows, it would have been more economical to have just shot Dr. Kondraki. 052. Except from post-incident interview 083 KPC-13. Professor Kane Pathos-Crow. It really was a pity about 083. I had a couple of things I wanted to do with him. Like, stick him in 914 on various settings and see what happened. Or see how exactly he regenerated from decapitation. Or how he reacted to 217. Or if he'd be a good organ donor. Or if he was interviewer. Sir, could you please just answer the question? Professor Kane Pathos-Crow. Oh, yes. Well, Dr. Kondraki seems to get by in these sort of situations. Master pulling it out of his ****, so to speak. Interviewer. So would you label him as reckless then? Professor Kane Pathos-Crow. Yes, without a doubt. Interviewer. Uh-huh. So he's a potential liability. Professor Kane Pathos-Crow. Oh, I never said that. Granted, he's about as inaccurate as a faulty hand grenade. Or something of that ilk. The only safe place to be around him is probably inside him or something.  Interviewer. Professor Kane Pathos-Crow. What? He does. Security Log C083K. Dr. Kondraki exits down hallway R14, while SCP083 pursues. Severe damage caused due to blindness inflicted by Dr. Kondraki's camera, which caused considerable thrashing until regeneration could set in. SCP083 recovers and pursues Dr. Kondraki further into the central containment areas. Dr. Kondraki, with a small lead, is able to enter non-sentient object containment and makes his way past two armed guards by flashing his ID. SCP083 enters non-sentient containment, kills and drains several nearby researchers, searches for Dr. Kondraki within the area, resulting in further casualties. Dr. Kondraki accesses a safe within containment, removes a circular object and retreats from containment back into hallway R17. SCP083 continues to pursue and appears to take chase. Moons later, a flash of light is seen by a camera down the hall and a bright disc-like object impacts SCP083. SCP083 loses his leg and falters. Dr. Kondraki stops to observe the damage as the disc confirmed to be SCP388 continues through site 19 and eventually comes to rest two kilometers away from the research facility. Dr. Kondraki approaches SCP083 with a firearm drawn. SCP083 begins to regenerate and stand up while bracing against the nearby wall. Dr. Kondraki is seen speaking before taking off down hallway Y8. SCP083 follows shortly after, hopping on one leg until the other regenerates. Seen screaming curses. Log ends. Audio log 083DK4. Dr. Kondraki. Well, at least you've got to let the stand on count. SCP083.   What was that? I couldn't hear you over all that arterial spurting. He gestures to the missing leg. Hey, you know, if this vampire thing doesn't work out, you'd make a great pirate. SCP083. In about five seconds, my leg is going to regenerate. I'm going to tear you to pieces. Dr. Kondraki. Break a leg, Drack. Dr. Kondraki departs. SCP083.  It was at this point, as Dr. Kondraki exited the area with SCP083 in pursuit, that MTF-R2 arrived to attempt to restore containment of Duke. The termination attempt had been considered a failure by command, and the orders were limited to damage control. Unfortunately, the other security teams were still en route, and were never able to assist MTF-R2. If the order hadn't gone out to evacuate all Euclid objects from the sector, they might have been able to. 052. Security log Y083K. Dr. Kondraki makes it to a three-way intersection before SCP083 begins to catch up. A forklift moving a large metal box is moving up the incline directly to Dr. Kondraki's right. SCP083 rounds the corner, but impacts the forklift which had been maneuvered to block the hall. Dr. Kondraki is seen at the door of a central staircase. At this time, they were on the 15th floor of the facility. SCP083 proceeds to throw the metal box in a fit of frustration before beginning to move the forklift. Dr. Kondraki flees down the staircase. The metal box opens as it impacts the ceiling, and a large, disheveled ball of metal objects is dislodged and begins rolling down the incline. MTF-R2 arrives by way of the central staircase to SCP083's current location. Dr. Kondraki passes MTF-R2. Contact with MTF-R2 lost. Excerpt from post-incident interview, 083CLEF-01. Interviewer. Seriously? No mistakes? CLEF. I can't really see that Dr. Kondraki made any mistakes in his termination protocol up to this point. No. Interviewer. Seriously? CLEF. None at all. He had a primary kill mechanism, a backup plan, and a tertiary plan as well. The fact that his plan didn't survive for his contact with the enemy wasn't his fault. The deaths of MTF-R2 were a sad and unforeseeable consequence of the Euclid-class SCPs being moved. Interviewer. I see. So, tell me, Dr. KLEF, what if all of this wasn't part of some plan, and he'd been making it up as he went along? CLEF. In that case, sir, I'd say that Dr. Kondraki was a suicidal fool, but he certainly wouldn't have. Interviewer. CLEF. He did? Interviewer. I have here a copy of Dr. Kondraki's termination procedure proposal. Step 1 of his plan is to use cat urine and a pistol loaded with silver bullets. Backup plans 2, 3, 4, and 5 are listed as, and I quote, wing it, make something up, cross that bridge when I come to it, and put my head between my knees and kiss my a** goodbye. CLEF. Expletive redacted. Mobile Task Force Row 2's combat log. MTF-R2-1. We're coming up the staircase now to SCP's last known location. Sounds of a struggle are coming from above. Our intel must be spot on. MTF-R2-6. We really screwed the pooch on this one. Garlic piss. Where does it get that? MTF-R2-1. Quiet on the approach, Six. MTF-R2-3. Sir, incoming object, humanoid. MTF-R2-9. It's, he's in a lab coat. It's not Duke. He's running straight at us, sir. Neutralize him. MTF-R2-1. Ready sub-derminal electro-neuralizers.  Unidentified.  Run for your f**king lives! MTF-R2-2. He's taken up down the stairs. Must have been Dr. Kondraki. But I don't see SCP-083. MTF-R2-1. No contact on Duke. Continue up this, MTF-R2-5.  It's massive. MTF-R2-1. Open fire! Open fire! Unintelligible screams. Unknown. It just crushed him! Get out of here! Get! Screams continue. Audio cuts out. It was at this point that Command began to realize that SCP-083 wasn't the only threat to Site-19 during this incident. Although at this point in time, SCP-083 had caused the death of 17 personnel, Dr. Kondraki, had been involved in three cases of containment failure. Most of these personnel had been minor employees, making their loss minor in comparison. MTF-R2 would be found by Site Security teams at the bottom of the staircase, completely entangled in SCP-162, with several already having been crushed to death or bled out due to numerous lacerations. Containment of SCP-083 was quickly becoming a distant possibility and Dr. Kondraki had vanished from visual contact. At the same time, another SCP had breached containment on the opposite side of the facility and the chaos made details scarce. Meanwhile, SCP-083 was on a rampage trying to locate the doctor. Command was in disarray and a choice would have to be made soon. It wasn't soon enough. 052. Excerpt from post-incident interview, 083, Iceberg, 42. Interviewer. And so you're of the opinion Dr. Kondraki handled things recklessly? Iceberg. Oh, yes, definitely. Interviewer. Would you call him a potential liability? Iceberg. Obviously, he's a danger just walking around. Interviewer. I see. Well then, Dr., I... Iceberg. I mean, look at him. The guy's a lunatic. And one given far too much power. Interviewer. Alright, then. Iceberg. Clearly, he needs to be removed from his post. Probably terminated. Interviewer. Dr., Iceberg, that is... No. Iceberg. Now, see, this leaves a slight opening. Head of research at Site 17. Nice job. Now, you see, with him gone, we need someone reliable to take his place. Interviewer. Iceberg. And I think I'm just the person to do it. I'm reliable, hardworking, good at hand to hand, intelligent, mostly sane, good at organizing. I know over 40 kinds of improvised explosives. I... interviewer. That's quite enough, Dr. Iceberg. I believe our interview is over. Iceberg. Inter... interview? You mean all this was recorded? Interviewer. Yes. Iceberg. And Kondraki will be able to see this interviewer. Possibly. Iceberg. I need to go write my will. Security log C083K. Visual contact resumed with Dr. Kondraki. Scene breaking into a testing lab on the seventh floor takes possession of an experimental high-tension cable constructed from an SCP-143 alloy with carbon nanostructures. SCP-083 scene arriving on the seventh floor in pursuit of Dr. Kondraki. Security teams arrive to contain SCP-083, but fail to make an impact. Teams 4, 8, and 14 are wiped out. SCP-083 continues on his path. Dr. Kondraki recovers and dons a pair of Converse sneakers recovered from safe object containment. Dr. Kondraki appears to move at an accelerated pace. Exits containment sector heading down hallway D3. SCP-083 continues pursuit of Dr. Kondraki, ruining the containment sector, is unable to catch Dr. Kondraki due to his enhanced speed, but is able to make up time by bypassing walls in his path, physically. Dr. Kondraki begins to move towards the Ketter containment sector, his clearance bypassing the automated security systems, proceeds to next checkpoint. All mobile task forces are alerted to the situation. SCP-083 is slowed by the security checkpoints and further resistance by site security. SCP-083's regeneration is able to keep up with any wounds inflicted. Sight put on full alert and all forces are redirected to Ketter containment. Dr. Kondraki continues to pass through checkpoints, arrives in a large containment room with a single door opposite to the entrance. Dr. Kondraki's security clearance is unable to clear the last checkpoint. He pulls an object from his coat, resembling a conical object with a pistol grip. SCP-083 arrives in the room, looks confused, proceeds into the center of the room. Dr. Kondraki no longer visible. SCP-083 approaches the lone door. Dr. Kondraki's voice is detected. Appearance of SCP-408 reveals him standing at the entrance to the room. A verbal exchange is observed before Dr. Kondraki speaks into the handheld object. Visuals confirm it to be a megaphone of insignificant make. Tremors begin to rock the area and several stress fractures are opened on the wall within the door. Containment of Ketter level threat SCP-682 compromised. Excerpt from post-incident interview, 083 Dr. Gears, 62. Dr. Gears, reckless is a relative term. Viewed purely from the vantage point of a termination test carried out against a nearly invulnerable humanoid SCP object, Dr. Kondraki's test achieved only a low to medium degree of collateral damage interviewer. So you feel that Dr. Kondraki's actions were acceptable? Dr. Gears, he achieved his intended goal. However, the loss of manpower, multiple containment breaches widespread damage to Site-19 and a general lack of planning represent a gross oversight on the part of Dr. Kondraki. Interviewer, demolishing a good chunk of a site is a little more than oversight and planning. Dr. Gears, Sir, if I may say, I think we are focusing on the wrong direction. We assume that Dr. Kondraki is a loose cannon, a person who is reckless and puts zero foresight into anything he does. However, this is a narrow and dangerous assumption. Interviewer, what are you talking about? Dr. Gears, the human brain has a tendency to view highly complex and rapid patterns as random events. I believe that Dr. Kondraki used the termination of SCP-083 as an excuse and the resulting highly destructive chase and containment breaches as a distraction. Interviewer, so you're saying he planned it? Dr. Gears, not in a traditional sense. To use a mathematical example, he started with the solution and worked backwards to create the problem. The multiple containment failures, the evacuation of items, SCP-083, and its attacks on site staff all these stretch the resources of Site-19 to a dangerously thin level. This allowed him to achieve what I hypothesized to be his true goal. Interviewer, which would be? Dr. Gears, to ride SCP-682. Excerpt from post-incident interview, 083-CLEF-01. CLEF. Wait, what? Audio log, C682K. Dr. Kondraki. Well, well, well. Look where we've ended up now, Duke. Any guesses as to what's behind door number one? SCP-083. I couldn't give any less of a damn because all I know is that I cut off the entrance to this area as I came in. You're trapped in here, doctor. Trapped with me, and I'm going to enjoy every moment of it. Dr. Kondraki. I figure to do something like that. I'll admit, this wasn't the best place to make a tactical retreat, but I do still have my trump. SCP-083.  You can't hide forever, and I will find you. Dr. Kondraki. Oh god, I cannot wait to see your face gestures to the megaphone. But first, why don't we invite our friend out from his little room? Dr. Kondraki begins screaming a series of sanities into the megaphone. SCP-083 attempts to cover his ears to no effect. SCP-083. What are you? Roars and sounds of buckling metal and cracking concrete fill the air. SCP-083 looks behind him. Phew, phew, son of a... Transmission lost. It was at this point that Command for Site-19 made the decision to quarantine all of Sector-3 for floors 7 to 15, sealing it from top to bottom, and effectively sealing everything within the premises. With SCP-682 on the loose, SCP-083 still a threat, and Dr. Kondraki still breathing. It was hoped that the three would end up killing each other. With the survivor being significantly weakened by the preceding brawl, containment teams would move in to restore order. There were several unversing issues with this plan, namely not accounting for SCP-682, who was contained in the sector on a purely temporary basis, or Dr. Kondraki's ingenuity. If it had taken such things into consideration, it would be wise to have suggested the use of nuclear weaponry. 052. Security Log C682K Dr. Kondraki is able to escape the initial charge of SCP-682 as it plows through the room, disappearing once again in a cloud of SCP-408. SCP-083 is seen engaging SCP-682, looking severely damaged from the assault, but rapid regeneration is already observed, helping him recover. SCP-083 is seen attempting to speak to SCP-682. SCP-682 pauses for a moment and speaks for a moment. Without warning, SCP-682 strikes at SCP-083 and tosses him across the room while severing two of his arms and one leg. SCP-083 attempts to retreat and regenerate, but isn't able to make distance between himself and SCP-682. SCP-682 devours SCP-083 whole, no activity, until a large rearing motion is made back. Dr. Kondraki is seen now on the back of SCP-682, holding two ends of the high tension cable he had recovered earlier. The rest was fitted into an improvised set of reins. Dr. Kondraki is observed riding SCP-682 while haulering something and waving his hand with his free hand. SCP-682 enters an enraged state and makes a powerful charge towards the entrance. It easily plows the obstructions made by SCP-083 and then through the ceiling walls. Dr. Kondraki and SCP-682 have reached quarantine. Full evacuation protocols, now in motion. It was obvious at this point that things had truly escalated out of control. SCP-083 had been presumed neutralized, yes, but at the cost of releasing SCP-682 into Site-19 without proper personnel to enact containment procedures. Much like causing a flood to put out a kitchen fire, Dr. Kondraki's actions would put the entirety of Site-19 in grave danger. Most of the Site personnel had already been fully evacuated, while emergency teams attempted to stem the losses and mitigate what damages they could. The entire situation had become an unmanageable mess. Ironically, that's the exact kind of mess that Dr. Kondraki excelled at managing. 052 Security Log C682-19K Dr. Kondraki stays atop SCP-682 for the duration, holding on, despite the rapid, jerking motions made by SCP-682 during its run. SCP-682 begins to adapt, as seen in previous observations, having incurred noticeable damage in its attempts to break through various obstacles. Spikes of a bone-like material begin to shoot up from its back, in an attempt to harm or kill Dr. Kondraki. Dr. Kondraki incurs several wounds in this manner, able to avoid most of the protrusions. He attempts to make a hard turn by pulling against the cables and is able to direct SCP-682 from his course. SCP-682 continues to charge forward, now directed towards the personnel dormitories. During its dash, SCP-682 breaks through SCP-173's containment. At this time, both SCP-682 and Dr. Kondraki are observed to keep direct eye contact with SCP-173, despite each continuing their attempts to outmaneuver the other. Dr. Kondraki is observed to speak to SCP-682 and a series of growls are recorded, matching SCP-682's voice. SCP-682 begins to crash its back into walls and ceilings, trying to crush the doctor. The apparent conversation continues. Dr. Kondraki appears to laugh and then makes another harsh tug. He redirects SCP-682 once more to the personnel cafeteria after checking a device on his wrist. SCP-682 crashes through the second quarantine dividers and arrives in the personnel sector. Dr. Kondraki waits until SCP-682 arrives in the cafeteria. Holding onto the cables, he vaults forwards with tremendous force, swinging up and over SCP-682's head. SCP-682 now attempts to bite down on Dr. Kondraki as he scrambles to sit in a lone chair, placed at the end of the table. Dr. Kondraki vanishes from visual contact as SCP-682 devours him. SCP-682 continues to cause further structural damage, begins advancing towards current evacuation zone. Audio log 682K. Dr. Kondraki, you really hold a grudge, don't you?  Killing you will be a favor for your whole reality. Dr. Kondraki, no need to do me any favors, Godzilla. Since you made lunch at the vampire, why don't we just let me off and call things square? Sounds of crunching concrete and stressed metal. Dr. Kondraki, I guess that's not an option.  SCP-682, not only the most annoying, but the one most lacking of common sense. The only way this ends is with you dead and rotting faster than you already are. Dr. Kondraki, fair enough, let's try that. SCP-682, that may be the first thing I've ever heard from one of you repulsive things that I've agreed with. The sound of metal scraping against enamel cancels out any conversation. A sickening snap of SCP-682's jaws concludes the recording. Evacuation log SE-19. Removal of safe and euclid items for Site-19 continue. Transport to Helipads A.E. for temporary offsite containment goes well, despite the current chaos. For the sake of relevance, this log has been redacted to focus on SCP-298 and the events in Hallway D-17. Several level 1 personnel are used to transport SCP-298 due to its large size. The width of SCP-298 takes up most of the hallway. One of the personnel is seated on top of SCP-298 as it is carried, mock playing the organ. Audio logs confirm that the seated employee has won some form of bet previous to the incident. An explosion occurs elsewhere, causing a tremor. Several personnel falter and SCP-298 is dropped. An odd sound is heard and noticed by several of the men. The sound is now conferred to be that of displaced air. The personnel move to the back of the organ as they begin to hear a struggle. Dr. Condraki is spotted, having incurred several injuries. Making a leap, he bounds over SCP-298. SCP-083 is also spotted, covered in an unknown fluid. He rounds the corner after Dr. Condraki, but only spots several personnel and the organ. Seen speaking, Dr. Condraki directs the man next to him to begin playing. Audio logs see 298-K-083. SCP-083 yelling, Where is he? You must have seen him.  Personnel 1-298-3. Who? That crazy guy who just ran past? He's right behind this thing. SCP-083. Good. Maybe I'll even add you to my security detail. What an honor that would be.  Dr. Condraki. Buck. It's Buck. I like to call it.  SCP-083. What are? Is that my blood? What are you doing to my blood? Personnel 1-298-2. Should I keep playing, sir? Dr. Condraki.  Not even for a moment. SCP-083. Stop. I'll do whatever you want. Anything. Just stop playing that thing. I can't. Dr. Condraki. So I was right.  SCP-083. I don't want to die. I shouldn't have to die. Not me.  Everybody dies, Duke. Just matters who dies on a given day. And today is your lucky day. SCP-083. Son of... Expires. Security Log SE-19. SCP-083's blood is drained from his body by the effect of SCP-298's music. It forms into a solid gel in the air, appearing as branches of a leafless tree. Dr. Condraki moves from SCP-298's platform, instructing him to keep playing. He disappears into a room down the hall. SCP-083's blood is now completely drained, causing his desiccated corpse to fall prone. His body seems to undergo an extremely rapid decomposition, the corpse being reduced to a hollow skeleton within a minute. Dr. Condraki returns with a glass container and instructs the player to stop. He begins to collect the gel of the blood from the air, placing it into the clear container. After less than a minute, the blood liquefies. Personnel appear to lack comprehension of the event that has just occurred. Dr. Condraki seals the container and approaches the skeleton. Retrieving the skull, he places it under his arm. Dr. Condraki exits Site-19 via helicopter, with little trouble, assumed to be part of the evac team. Personnel are still somewhat stunned. The Klaxons remind them that SCP-682 is still loose within the site. Exit from post-incident interview, 083-AR-959. Interview. So you do not think that Dr. Condraki behaved recklessly? Dr. Wright's. I didn't say that, but relatively, compared to some of the things he's done, at least this one almost had a plan. Or some facsimile of one. Interview. You have viewed the entirety of the logs, yes? Dr. Wright's. Yep, all of it. A few times actually. And I had to review my favorite parts. Interview. And you have no worries about Dr. Condraki being a liability or a danger? Dr. Wright's. Look, the man's a master of the in-deploy. And sometimes, actually all the time, there's collateral damage. But that doesn't change the fact that he, in some bizarre way, knows what he's doing. And hey, if it saved my a** a few dozen times over, that doesn't hurt. Interview. So your personal opinion is that he is not a liability? Dr. Wright's. Not as much as Edward F. Incullen there.  Plus, throwing cat pee on him? That was beautiful. Interview. And in your professional opinion, having worked with Dr. Condraki in the past? Dr. Wright's. You clearly haven't been to Site 17 lately. Professional is not my forte. Or Condraki's for that matter. Shame about Site 19, though. At least it went out in a blaze of badassery. Break room surveillance log, S17. Dr. M. Oh my God, how does he keep making things worse? Dr. T. No idea. This thing is on a delay too. By this time, he probably leveled the whole facility. Is he riding 682? Dr. M. I can't believe we worked for this guy.  Dr. Condraki. What are you guys watching? Dr. M. Nothing. Just our boss wrecking the foundation's biggest site. Can you believe that guy? Dr. Condraki. Well, that is pretty intense. Dr. T. Dude might want to cut the chatter. Dr. M. Lay off it. It's not like he's gonna know I said it. If I could get away with it, I terminated my Dr. Condraki. Terminate who? I like this talk already. Dr. M. I think I've seen enough. I think I'm going to go take a walk. Dr. Condraki. Dibs in your seat. Anyone got popcorn? And a file. To learn more about the SCP Foundation, subscribe to SCP Orientation today and turn the notification bell on so you don't miss any of our videos.


The same phenomenon, roughly about the same time, around 4,000 calibrated BC at the western fringe of this mega-side world, the Michel's Berg culture, and I will not be focusing on the French evidence, but on the western central European evidence. It's an outcome of a project we've had together for several years, the Michel's Berg project, which we're by now finalizing its final publication, I believe. It's also my fault that it hasn't come up. All right, this is, for those who don't know, this is Michel's Berg. It's the period of 4,000, 300, 4,000, 400 to 3,500 calibrated BC. It's the blue bubble there in France and Germany. It might have slightly outdated, but it's still okay for this purpose. We think, or many people think, not all, but many people think that Michel's Berg emerged somewhere in the Paris Basin, maybe with early outliers in the Neuville Basin. One incident or one archaeological site is the site of Kuban-Gondorf in Neuville on the Rhine River, which has also a surprisingly early date, and I'm being told that the pottery there is like the early pottery from the Paris Basin region. So the exact points of origins are still under debate, but it is by and large a French or Western European phenomenon, as many influences in Michel's Berg come from southern France. Interestingly, at the very early periods, we also have indications, burial indications, from France only of elite burials, like those from the Bourriere and Valley, and other than that the evidence for burials or elites is unfortunately very dim, but we do have an increasing number of burials. I'll be speaking about the burial aspect tomorrow in another session today. I'll restrict myself on the aspect of the settlement system. This is the settlement system as I have sketched it out so far. We have a central area which is highlighted right there in the Rhine Mine area, so presumably people moved from the west into the Rhine Mine area in the process that we don't yet really understand fully. We see in many areas that there is a hiatus between the later Middle Neolithic and Michel's Berg, so presumably the area was empty for maybe 100 or 200 years, a bit uncertain, and then all of a sudden we see Michel's Berg sites appear, very small Michel's Berg sites, not many really, just a few dots here and there, and very small sites too. So that is the full evidence that we have when we plot the entire time as slides together. We have a cluster of large sites like Omed's, I'll be talking about it soon, Schierstein and Kapellberg all in this area along the Rhine, and then we have an outlier of those large sites here, presumably at the site of Zost in Westphalia, but it's a site that is fully covered now by the modern or medieval town of Zost, so we don't really know its extensions, but the biggest sites here with Omed's, Schierstein, Kapellberg and Glauberg are right here in the Rhine Mine area, and you can see if you plot the Michel's Berg economic system or the long-distance trade system as we conceptualize it very vaguely though, you can see that the Rhine mine area might have served sort of as a hub between the western French regions and the regions where people got sold from, and there's good evidence that one commodity that was important in the Michel's Berg long-distance economy was really sold, and they might have geared towards the salt sources in Eastern, Central Europe today, Halle, and if you plot, which has been done by colleagues from France, if you plot the salt sources together with the jade access, you can see they sort of overlap. Nowhere is there one archaeological site where you can find those two aspects together, but it's just on this grand scale that you see, okay, we have those deposits, the depots of jade access, and near-salt sources, and all this might be linked to a long-distance trade net, a trade net which follows, and that had been said before, which is using or which started long-distance roads, which are still in use today. So many of the German autobahns follow those routes, and this is, for instance, A3 right here, which were probably being started in Michel's Berg, and the link between Michel's Berg site and long-distance overland route has been said before, so it's nothing that I or we invented in our group, and this is another cluster that shows the dimensions. We have sites nothing above 100 hectares, so they're minute compared to the Tripelio sites, but it's the biggest that we have. Ormits right here, which are slightly above 100 hectare in size, and this is the site of Ormits right here. It's been excavated before World War II, fortunately because after World War II, the volcanic ash layer there was completely taken away, so that the entire soil now was four meters below what it was during the hollow scene to rebuild bombed Germany, so we don't have any evidence of the site right now any more. The site is completely gone, so all we have to look at is the excavation evidence largely between the first and the second World War, and you see people there concentrated really on the ditch system right here. We have two ditch systems, and we have evidence of five houses in between, but very little of the interior was excavated, nor surveyed, so we really don't know what's inside. This is the entire conjecture. That's why I had the artist put the fog right here. We don't really what it looked like in the interior, but we know that the ditches were of enormous size, and we also know that the palisades were of enormous size. The moat length is three kilometers, interior size is 100 hectares. Sima Man calculated about 10,000 people if you think of a dense occupied space. I agree with this. We can come up with 14,000, but we only have, actually we only have five house features documented, so it's all really conjectured. This is the palisade right here. You see the excavators in there, so it was really massive, massive structures which remind me of the Mississippian structures in North America where you have similar posts around the site of Cahokia. Not that I'm suggesting that Ulmets was like Cahokia, but there are certain similarities in the site structure, but that's about it.  Let's go to Sheerstain. Again, we know nothing anymore. Again, an excavation between the wars. No, no, even earlier, before World War I, a layman excavated this ditch system right here, two ditches again, and it sort of follows on the outskirts of this medieval fishing village, which is now completely overbuilt. We think we can reconstruct the site to this sort of D-shape right here, but you see nowadays you can't find any evidence of the site anymore. State heritage has looked. There's no evidence. So all we have are these early excavations. There's a Mischelsberg 3, 4, 3, 4 pottery assemblage, and we're now running C-14 dates from the little bone evidence that we have. So a site of possibly enormous dimensions. We don't know anything about the molding, but possibly 100 hectares again. Again, calculated inhabitants, if you think of a dense occupation space, about 1,000, but here in this case zero house features documented. Another site, Glaubert, underneath the Iron Age site and underneath the medieval site with a Neolithic occupation layer underneath, the Neolithic site was bigger than any other site thereafter. Wall-mode length uncertain, possibly 25 hectares, so minute compared to Tripolgia. Calculated inhabitants about 7,000, again if it was densely occupied, like the Tripolgia sites, but again zero house features documented but continuous layer. We envy you for this data because we have the phenomenon, but we don't really know what to do with it. Only one site, the site that we're working on for about nine years now, is Kappenbeck in the Rhein-Main area right here, an outlier from the Taunus Hills. You can see the extension of the site right here. It's three kilometers mold length right here between Wiesbaden and Frankfurt. My remember here, Schierstein is right here, so it's very close between, or midway sort of between Schierstein and Glaubeck, a Neolithic site which has the entire wall-and-mode system preserved, three-dimensionally, it's still there because the site was never plowed over or never built over. So this is our latest reconstruction, wall lengths three kilometers, maximum extension 1,300 meters north-south, east-west 500 meters, encompassed space in the outer-mode, 45 hectares, so slightly bigger, but the actual settled space is only 24 hectares. So here at first, we have the evidence that the outer-mode is not the space that was completely settled. It's half of it, really. How do we know it? Because the site has been surveyed by a gentleman who was unfortunately died some years ago for 30 years and he picked up in the deeply forested territory, where he picked up each shirt, and we can now plop this shirt. You can see almost little dots represent the shirt or a lithic artifact, and you can see it's restricted to the ridge, whereas the outer-mode is right here. So you have a covered, settled space on the ridge, but the outer fringes were not settled with houses. Two minutes, oh goodness. We caught the entire site and we found out that still, although the site is well preserved, the entire hill ridge is turned over, so we have sedimentary loss there as well. We don't have any house remains either, but we have pits and we have parts of house foundations, but unfortunately we can't come up with any pictures like we've just been shown, but we excavated within those regions and found a layer of pottery and some pit features there, and what we've did with this stator here again is some foundation structures, pottery here, so we do have an in situ layer about 30 centimeters from the top layers are now missing, and we think that the site became already decomposed at the time when the people settled there. So this is our calculation for Kapellenberg. If we compare it with Lakeshore sites and the density of houses there, we come back to the conclusion that the density of house sites from the pottery remains that we have would have been only about a few years. This is still in German, I'm sorry. It would have been just a few years. So our first calculation was 7,200 inhabitants, but if we use comparison data from the Lakeshore settlements, we come up to a much lesser number, 700 to 900 inhabitants for about 7 years of duration. We know pottery is missing, but still this is the lowest number that we can up with. So just about not more than 1,000 people live at this site for currently we think about the lowest number at 7 years. However, the C14 data that we have showed that the site was inhabited for about 200 years.  And this is the model that we use it right now at the moment. We have an erection of the first wall system around 4,100 to 4,000, no evidence of inside occupation, a reconstruction of the wall, of the moat and ditch system, again no evidence for inside occupation, then a reconstruction, a re-fortification of the defense system, then we have for 200 years evidence for interior occupation and then a final phase, well a most massive wall was built, but for this period again we don't have any inside occupation from the little data that we have. So a very volatile, very fluctuating system which we have to somehow fit into a settlement system that we don't really understand, but we think circles around those keywords, that's why I use those keywords because we don't have really much to say but just giving glimpses and aspects of what the Michel's Berg system consisted of. We have this concentration of huge sites of probably short-term occupation, interior occupation, but which were built for almost 800 or stood there in the landscape for almost 800 years and that's why it sort of composed an inner core settlement system from which the Michel's Berg culture radiated out to its periphery with compositions of slavery, violence and aggression involved, I'll be talking about this tomorrow, and all this was somehow tied together by a long distance trade system which circled around bringing jadexes in and possibly taking salt out to the more western regions. These are the dynamics, our site numbers and we see that the sites were inhabited towards the peak and towards the end of the curve system, so a pattern which is roughly similar to what we see in the LBK system and this probably has to do with the end of it. We have a draw up here very much at the end of the Michel's Berg culture but this is of unimportance right here. Thank you for your attention.


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I'm Keena Nicely and this is The Life of the Land is in its real estate. So I'm an agent at Keller Williams Honolulu and today I have an awesome guest. I have John Kiefer who has moved to guaranteed rate. He is an amazing lender here on this island. So welcome John, thanks for joining us. Thank you so much, Keena. So nice. Thank you for the nice introduction. I appreciate it. And thanks for having me. Yes. So tell us a little bit about yourself. Yeah, sure. Thank you. I'm a mortgage lender and I recently moved about three months ago. I moved to guaranteed rate as the vice president of mortgage lending here on Oahu and I've got incredible rates in service and quick turn times and quick processes and I'm ready to just keep moving forward. So great.  I think it's we don't have a way of knowing but we do know that in May we did hit a record for Oahu for single family homes reached $978,000 for a three bedroom two bath single family home which is just crazy. And they are selling at a record pace. We had 403 sales last month compared to 248 in May before. Now we were in a lockdown in May before but that is a 63% increase in the number of sales of single family homes from year to year which to me is just crazy. So are you seeing a lot more mortgage applications come through? What are you seeing? Yes. Yes. That's so true. We're seeing a lot of mortgage applications. Last year I would say that refinance business was just out of control. We could barely keep up. There were so many refinances going. And just like we predicted, 2021 became a purchase market. So we're getting lots of new purchase mortgage applications. Every week we get more. I mean now and then there'll be a little uptick in the rates and things will slow down just a little bit. But as you've seen and what you just mentioned about homes are just flying off the market. Most people need a mortgage, not all these days. And because of that we get a lot of mortgage applications every day and week over week it's increased quite a bit. So yes. And we are seeing that these homes are going over asking. 58% of the homes sold in May went over asking. So basically that list price you see is just the suggested starting point. Yeah. We are also seeing condos go over asking mostly in the 600 to 699 range. 38% of those went over asking, which I know eight months ago we didn't know what the condo market was going to do but it has also just taken off. So yeah. So that is the market is crazy. So you talked about the rate maybe going up a tick. So where are the rates right now? That's another great question. The rates were historically low interest rates of course. We have been for over a year now. There's been a slight uptick after Chairman Powell made some comments about inflation last week but it has since recovered and I can give you some of the details on that. But for VA loans we're still down in the low to mid two's. So we're still right where we were last year just a little bit higher and then for conventional loans we're still under three. With the homes that you were talking about that are in the million plus range 980,000 wherever that super high number was. With 20% down those homes are going to be with good credit. Those homes are going to be under 3% as a rate right now without paying points for those. It's funny with condos on the other hand. You know how you mentioned the condos? We're not really sure. We're not really sure how they're going to react or what's going to be like for condos. But in my experience and my experience is just anecdotal with lending. I don't have a pulse on the market as much as you do on the sales side. But I'm seeing that the folks that are missing out on those higher price homes are actually they just want to move so badly that they'll just buy a bigger condo than the whatever home they're living in now just so they can buy a home now while rates are low. And so I think, I don't know if this is going to be the case, but I think the condo prices are going to start going up too. I think that there's just not enough inventory at that higher price point that people are going to start looking at condos more. And I think that's what's going to happen. What do you see in that? Well, so I will tell you that I have sold listings of condos to people who were shopping for single family homes and they I hate to say gave up, but in a sense they gave up. They couldn't get into a single family home. They wanted to move here. They're moving here for their job. They want to set the kids up in school and so they go and they purchase the condo that was comparable to a single family home as far as space and amenities and price. And yeah, so I have seen them people who are in lieu of a single family home choosing to go condos. Yes. And I will tell you eight months ago when somebody came to me with a listing for a condo, I was like, oh, but now I'm like, yes, because they are, they are going. I mean, we saw in condos, we saw an increase in price by 14% from last year and 135% for the number of sales. So so a year ago May, we sold 254 condos last May, we sold 598. Wow, that's a big increase. So that's because people are buying condos and people are paying top dollar for them now where, like I said, eight months ago, we weren't quite sure where it was going to go. Yeah. The higher the high end condos are they also selling because I'm seeing them like a year ago, luxury homes were sitting on the market and it was just tough to sell. Now they fly off the market multiple offers, hundreds of thousands over asking. And I'm noticing and again, this is anecdotal. I'm noticing the higher end condos are sitting, just kind of sitting there and the ones that are in a 600,000 range 700,000 range are flying. Is that the norm? Is that just what I'm seeing? No, the ones in 600 to 699 are the ones that are getting the over asking price. But if you think about that, 600 to 699, someone who's approved 800, 900,000 and then turn around and buy a $700,000 condo, because once they take into account the maintenance fees, which has impact their buying power, it's about the range they're at, 600 to 700,000. So it is what we're seeing. So it's not your imagination. All right. So sometimes I see things that are a little bit of an anomaly because I'm on the lending side, right? Yes. So I like to say it's anecdotal. This is just what I see.  So thanks for clarifying that. Yes. Yes. I'm following it every day and we are seeing more luxury than we were seeing in last year, just because I watch the souls every day and you are seeing four or $5 million closings pop up every day, which means the market is going in the right way. So with the rates, we are still relatively low because I know my parents paid 18% for their first house they bought at Port Waimimi, California, outside the Naval base. So these rates we have now are incredible compared to what we're paying. But what do you think we can expect to see? Just a crystal ball. My crystal ball? What is in your crystal ball? My crystal ball isn't as see-through as it used to be because I thought I knew what was going to happen and then things changed. Like you follow the market every day for what's listed and what's sold, I do the same thing with rates every day, right? And the mortgage back securities and all of those things. So basically it depends on inflation. And so we're recording this on Wednesday, right? If we recorded this last Wednesday, I would have a different answer because last Wednesday is when the Fed had their meeting that they hold periodically every year, right? And Chairman Powell from the Fed made some comments about inflation and how he's expecting it to spike. And the market overreacted and the rates jumped up all over the place. And then the day after that, he had some more comments and he said, no, we're not going to superficially increase inflation because when inflation goes up, rates are going to go up. Prices of everything goes up. And so now even today he made more comments saying that we're not going to push it because the economy is bouncing back now because we're opening back up and people are going back to work. So this increase in the economic activity, if we increase inflation based on that, it's not a real marker because we have the spike because now everybody's going back to work. So it's not something that they want to engage inflation on, which is something really smart that he said. I was really happy to hear that. And now rates are back to where they were last Tuesday. So that's the thing, the spikes just go up and down. Another thing for the crystal ball. So today they announced that the FHFA, the Federal Housing Administration Chairman, can be fired by the president. He can be. I mean, they took it all the way up in the courts because the previous administration said that they could fire him at will. And they couldn't at that time. So they had to fight for it. It's a really long, somewhat interesting story. Feel free to look it up. I won't spend our time on that now. But his name is Mark Calabria. And I think last time I was on the show last year, I think I was just kind of like just giving him a business because I was so upset with him, right? Well, and he couldn't be fired. That's the thing, he couldn't be fired by anyone. Like he can't be fired, except for cause. If there's cause, it can be. But difference in opinions and stuff like that, he couldn't be fired. So now they won the appeal that they can. And today they fired him. Like today, he's out. So, okay. What are we going to see from that? Exactly. That's why, that's why my crystal ball is murky right now. Because what Mark Calabria did was he put, he added a half a percentage point fee to all refinances. He did that probably six, nine months ago, maybe nine months ago. And so the amount of refinances tanked at that point, right? Because now that's a half a point higher than it was. So some people, there wasn't really a big benefit to refinancing. For some people, it wasn't worth it. So we don't know if that's going to go away. Hopefully it does. And another thing is that he instituted any investment property loan refinance or otherwise. Simply, if a company has, if a company sells, if a company has 7% or more of investment properties in its portfolio, and they sell that to the government, then there's going to be a hit on those two. So basically it's another fee that they're collecting on investment properties. That one should go away for sure. Yeah, I know, right? I was like, what is this guy doing? I read this morning that because of his, his actions, he has brought in $124 billion into the FHFA. And for what? I mean, he's coming from us at a time, not us, but us, the homeowners and taxpayers at a time when a lot of people don't have the ability to pay extra for a mortgage when the whole point was to refinance into a lower rate so you can save some money, right? Instead, we got hit with a tax. So he's out. Who's, who they're going to appoint into his place? Who knows? This is brand new news from this morning. So prior to that, my thoughts were that we're going to slowly tick up as we get to the end of the year. Just as, you know, the economy opens up, inflation starts to tick up a little bit and people are buying things. But now, I think that's probably the course, but it could be a slower increase than I expected. There's the long-winded story. Yeah.  So should folks buy now? Should they wait to buy?  Yeah, I would definitely buy now. Just because we don't know what these rates are going to do, we're historically low, like we always like what we've been talking about.  Rates are going to start to go up. Until then, I mean, it's going to, it's perfect timing to buy a home. You're going to save money. If you wait, the cost of waiting is too high. So like let's say you're going to buy a home for $800,000. Let's say you have a $600,000 mortgage, right? You know, if that's going to be about $18, $19, maybe $2,000 a month, just a principal interest, right? If you wait until next year, rates are going to be higher. So that's going to be a little bit higher monthly payment and the price is going to be higher. So you're going to need more money down to still get that same rate. So long story short, you should buy now if you can. And if you can't, you should start planning on doing it as soon as you can. Yeah. So we are, I know we both set through a great economist. I don't know if we can name him. We have to pay to name him. But phenomenal economist here on Island, and he also recommended that people buy now based on the fact that the demand is not going to go down and the inventory is not going to go up. So especially here on Oahu because we're so limited, right? With land to build and the demand we're not seeing any less of a demand. So he also recommended that we buy now, which is easy to say. But as all real estate agents know, and probably you too, I'm sure you've written quite a few pre-approval letters and offers don't get accepted. So I know I'm writing a lot of offers to only be told no. And keeping that spirit up with your buyers is difficult.  Do not give up. What are some strategies that you are seeing to get offers accepted? Yeah, that's great. That's great. And you have to be creative now to get offers accepted. It can't be just I've got 20% down and I'm a strong, well-qualified buyer anymore. It has to be more than that, right? And you're right, we have to be motivators too. Like we have to be like the Tony Robbins type. So I'm okay, we're going to stick it out. You got to have perseverance and grit and all this thing. And it's so true in this market. You really have to. So there's different strategies for the higher end homes with the larger down payments. You can, you know, with an escalation clause, meaning, you agree to pay, the buyer agrees to pay more than the agreed upon price. If the appraisal, I'm sorry, then the appraised value, if the appraisal comes in at a certain price and we agreed at this price, then they agree to go up to that price regardless of what the appraisal is, right? The appraisal clause. And so we have some strategies around that and it has to do with the loan to value of a loan. So like let's say somebody wants, they're going to have a conventional loan and the loan and they need it to be 80%, 20% down minimum. But they write the offer and they're going to put in, you know, 30% down. But then the appraisal comes back and it's lower than the price. And if that price is within that 10% difference, they don't have, they don't have to come out of pocket. We can just lower the down payment amount. Okay, so there are some tricks. There are some tricks. But that's more on the buyer side to help them put in and feel confident they can put in and offer to win a home that's over what they feel is their comfort zone possibly, right? They have to think differently and they have to be aggressive. And like I'm dealing with one today with $700,000 down payment and we're competing with someone with a similar offer. And it's probably, I don't know, I don't know how many hundreds of thousands over the asking price. I lost track. But that strategy that I just spoke about is the one we're going to use if we win and the appraisal comes in lower than the appraise value. So the more sellers, agents know about that strategy. I think that they will see that those types of homes with the larger down payments are less risky even though the escalation clause is higher. And I know we're getting kind of too deep in the woods for our audience, but strategies that I use and my team uses is that we always call the sellers agent and let them know that we vetted the buyer. We've told them all, how great they are. And we've looked at the taxes and then we've looked at their W2s and their pay stubs and run their credit. And we've run them through the approval process. So they're already good to go. And back a year, a year and a half, two years ago, people just weren't doing that. But now you have to do that at minimum if you're the lender. You have to. You just have to. And you have to be able to tell them that you're going to answer their calls. If you have any questions, call me and then you have to really follow up with that. So we sometimes send videos to the sellers agent about how wonderful our borrow is and how great we are as lenders and we're going to close this thing in X number of days. There's those kind of strategies. What have you been doing on the buyer side to win? So we have been the buyer side paying, covering termite, covering, which you know with the VA buyer, the VA buyer cannot pay for the termite, but I can as the buyer's agent. But even with my credentials, making there are basically no contingencies, no cleaning, I'll cover that, I'll cover the termite, I'll cover the survey. So there's the basically the seller can kind of go and walk away, right? And no added expenses. And then relationships are so valuable in this market. Calling the other agent, being kind and being kind on both sides because I do have listings also. And I used to always, I remember when I started real estate, I couldn't wait to have listings. And now it's kind of brutal. You're getting kind of up on. I have days where my husband's like, oh man, you look exhausted. And it's like, yeah, I had two listings with offers due today. And it, yeah, be nice to the listing agent. Because it's not easy and realize we're the listing agent, we're presenting not. You're not making the choice. You're advising and educating, right? So I've had some, some get pretty upset with me. I'm kind of like, I don't know. And the relationship is really important. I mean, if you as the, you know, the seller's agent or the buyer's agent, if you know the other agent and you have a good reputation and report that person, they know it's going to be smooth. And if there's any obstacles that will be handled with professionalism and class, it goes a long way.  And I had, I had an agent trying to get, you know, as a listing agent, you get calls all the time. Can we see the home? Can we see the home? Can we see the home? Right? Well, this agent was so tired of those calls that he wasn't answering agents calls. And I was working with a realtor who she was brand fairly new. So, you know, people don't really know her name much, right? You know, the company and stuff. She couldn't get him to answer the phone. I'm like, Oh, I know that guy. Let me call him. So I called him up and he answered. But he was just tired of realtor's calling him. So he picks up the phone. Hey, John, hey, man. Hey, our buyers want to see this place. Okay, here's a lockbox number. Perfect. It is totally, it is relationship and reputation. It has a lot to do with it. So as you always want to pick an agent, it doesn't have to be me, but you do always want to pick an agent with a good reputation and a lender with a reputation. So now what if folks do want to buy and they've been affected by COVID? They didn't work for a year. What should they be doing to recover and get into a position to buy? That's a good question. That's a tough one. I mean, if they haven't been working, if they're back to work, then they can qualify for a week. We can look at their income as if they were working the whole time. As long as they're back to work full time, again, and they're back to where they were last year, when they were last working, then it's okay. I mean, everyone knows that there was a pause button on a lot of people's employment, right? So then the tricky part with that is down payment and things like that. And hopefully they didn't get into too much debt while they weren't working. An interesting thing about the unemployment and the stimulus check. Thank you. A stimulus check. Yeah, I didn't get one. I didn't either. Can you count the stimulus check in your income? You can't, but they can use it for a down payment. Okay. What I learned about the stimulus checks is that people, I think there were two, maybe three stimulus checks that went out over the last year, right? They were meant for people to use to spend to get the economy going and help with groceries and things for people who really need it. A lot of people didn't really need it, but they took it. Of course, it's free money and they didn't spend it. They saved it. Wow. They saved it. And a famous economist whose name again we can't really bring up was talking about this. And after I heard him talk about that, I looked it up myself. I'm like, wait, what? Is that true? And sure enough, when stimulus checks go out, people who don't need the people who need them, they use it. Of course, gas in their cars, food on the table, clothes on their kids' backs, right? But the people who didn't need it, they just put it in the bank, like rainy day. Like I need this in case the bottom falls out of my work, right? Well, the bottom isn't falling out for a lot of people now, right? It's kind of becoming more solid. So now there are people that have thousands of extra dollars that they didn't have before. And I'm saying, why not use that for your own home and not have to pay rent or live with your parents? Even though living with your parents is fine too. But who doesn't want to own their own home and write off all that, all that interest on your taxes and have all those deductions, right? Yes. So yeah, so great idea. Well, thank you for so much. Thank you so much. I always learn so much when I talk with you. Yes. So if anyone is looking to buy or invest in real estate, I can connect with John. He's a great lender. He's a great company. And I will see you all in a couple of weeks. And this has been the life of the land is in its real estate. And I will talk to you all soon. Thanks.


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As efforts to promote the development of Sintushan tradition and a diverse culture as a valuable commodity continue, the IONOLA Natural Resource Management of the North East Coast project, which is in its final year of implementation, with a focus on establishing sustainable initiatives held a media launch for the Cultural Heritage Initiative. The IONOLA project, which focuses on natural resource management in the islands northeast, recently launched the Cultural Heritage Initiative in an effort to elevate and promote the value of St. Lucia's traditional and cultural heritage in support of St. Lucia's management. A 10-week training program will be provided to 10 cultural groups as part of the initiative. Deputy Director of Agricultural Services Barry Innocent says that the initiative will contribute to the overall goal of the IONOLA project, which is increased management effectiveness and sustainable use of the northeast coast natural resource base to generate multiple environmental benefits. This event remarks the culmination of a long journey, which started several years ago in the life of the project, the IONOLA project. It started by identifying the cultural asset base within the communities of the IONOLA project, which could be packaged in very creative ways and presented in a form that would capture the attention of the public. But more importantly, such a cultural asset base, the use of the Queo language, local instruments that we heard this morning, unique traditional costuming, provocative songs, rhythms, dance, can be used to sustain the cultural traditions themselves, enhance and create livelihoods for persons within the communities, and also to foster cohesive communities within the project area, and also in a very creative way to highlight and emphasize the importance of the rich biodiversity, the unique wildlife and forest which characterizes the northeast coast region, Minister for Education, Sustainable Development, Innovation, Science, Technology and Vocational Training, Sean Edward, commended all stakeholders involved in the success of the IONOLA project thus far, and expressed gratitude to the Global Environment Fund for their continuous support. The other thing that happens to me from the standpoint of government and I'm not wearing the technical hat today, is the fact that we've been able to source from the global environmental environment facility, otherwise known as Jeff, a grant of 2.3 million U.S. That is almost 7 million E.C. dollars. And that is very significant at a time when the revenue streams of the government are not performing as well as they are supposed to. Every country in the world, irrespective of which continent it happens to be on, has been adversely affected by COVID. And so any friendly government or agency we are able to partner with to get the resources to roll out programs for our people, we must embrace and appreciate the effort that they make working with us. The Media Launch of the Cultural Heritage Initiative took place on Friday, January 28, 2022, at the Gabriel Charles Forestry Complex, from the communications unit of the Ministry of Agriculture, I am Anisia Antoine, reporting.


I won't mind that either. Live from San Francisco, it's theCUBE, covering Red Hat Summit 2018. Brought to you by Red Hat. And welcome back to theCUBE. We're here live in San Francisco on day two of our coverage of Red Hat Summit 2018. I'm John Troyer. I'm here with Larry Socker. Larry is the, hi Larry. We are Larry, you are the global lead for infrastructure growth and strategy at Accenture. That's great. Welcome as a first timer to theCUBE. You're now a member of theCUBE alumni. I'm now a member of theCUBE alumni. Good to be here. Awesome, awesome. So one of the themes here that we've noticed here on day two of the conference is the reality of hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, the demos up on stage have been real production workloads from real companies at a global scale. And the theme, it's been a lot about OpenShift and OpenShift and that as a bridge with the rest of Red Hat's stack. So Accenture, global SI, you know, work with very big companies, very complicated problems and enabling them, hybrid cloud, is that important for you and your customers? Absolutely. Accenture actually got out very aggressively about four or five years ago with our cloud-first strategy and it was very public-centric. You know, how do you start to take advantage of the innovation of the hyperscalers, the AWS's, the Azure's, to really start to innovate, drive agile application development and get out there very quickly. However, if you take a look at our clients, you know, they're typically large, complex, global 2,000 companies and for a variety of reasons, whether it's regulatory reasons, the GXP compliance, if you go to the pharmaceutical industry, HIPAA for healthcare, you know, PCI, they've really, you know, they continue to invest in their data centers. I mean, other reasons, telco cloud's an interesting one. It's a proximity thing. It's the thing that actually connects the public providers and NFE's getting built on that. Performance, you know, if you start to look with SAP driving an eight terabyte HANA, you know, where do you start to deploy that? So, you know, and then even investments, a lot of our clients have significant investments in their data centers and infrastructure. So what we've been doing over the last, probably six to eight months, is really taking a look at a lot of the innovation that we saw from those hyperscalers and bringing it to the data center and really trying to create industrialized private clouds with the same kind of standardization that you have in the world of Amazon and Azure, and, you know, same automation, the cloud operating model, and really start to do that, not just in the data center or private cloud, but also the rest of infrastructure. And ultimately our clients are going to end up with hybrid environment. So we're, you know, we've been using our extension cloud platform to integrate, you know, the public providers now in the private side, you know, with open shifts, you know, the VMware's of the world, and even back into the legacy infrastructure. Well, that's fascinating. And also I think really grounded in reality. I mean, the tech industry, there's all these pendulums and hype cycles. And a few years ago, it's right, right? We were talking a lot about public, there was a lot of innovation, and maybe it's taken a few years for the private stack and the hybrid stack to catch up, to give you that advantage in terms of agility, and in terms of speed to market, speed to production. Can you talk a little bit about, maybe what that relationship with OpenShift, you say you're seeing, we saw, like I said, we've seen a lot of OpenShift in production, are you seeing that as well? Yeah, we definitely are. I mean, you know, we have a lot of our clients who are looking, okay, hey, I want to start getting to more serverless architectures. I want to start adopting the new technologies, agile development, you know, start to really embrace DevOps. At the same time, it's, you know, either for data gravity or for compliance reasons, there's certain applications that just can't move into the public environment. So SAP has been challenging to do it, particularly as we start to get HANA.  So a few years ago, for better or worse, one of the terms people were using was lift and shift. Yeah. And people were taking their, you know, or legacy that this, a lot of years of battle-tested infrastructure and do you just hoisted into the cloud? Do I have to rewrite it? Can I containerize it? I mean, what are people doing and how are you helping them prepare? It's a great question. Going back to the scale of our clients, you know, our clients will have anywhere from 2,000 to over 20,000 workloads and applications. So the notion of lift and shift or modernization, it's not a binary problem. So what we actually did was we took our app modernization practice, which is part of our technology business. We coupled it with our infrastructure migration team. I'm a part of our Accenture Operations Group. And we created an integrated cloud factory. And then we actually took, we had two different sets of tools. We combined them into one Accelerate toolkit. And what that does is it allows us to do the upfront application portfolio assessment. We figure out the dispositions of the applications, what needs to stay together, you know. We determine which ones need to be refactored or remediated or modernized. And that's our technology organization. And then for those that we need to just migrate or, you know, a few minor changes, we then had, you know, do all the planning, the migrations of that. And we're able to do this at, you know, at scale with the factory, leveraging all the combination of onshore and offshore and these tools to do all the automation and do the, you know, the wave planning, keeping dependencies and moving data around. And we're able to do, you know, anywhere at one client, we're doing over 1,200 workloads a month. That's amazing. I mean, the scale and the speed and time to market, even in the demos here on stage, has been actually pretty surprising to me because it means that it's real. As people shift, as people are shifting their portfolios into a hybrid stance, some workloads here, some workloads in a multicloud, can you talk a little bit about how you're approaching multicloud and how you're approaching maybe multicloud over time?  We've now started to integrate into the private side much more aggressively. We were always doing it at our clients, but it was a very custom one off. As we start to industrialize and standardize on the private side, it now gives us seamless hybrid cloud management. We're actually extending that to go to legacy. We've still got a number of clients, like insurance companies, where they've got significant business logic trapped in their mainframes. And our app modernization guys are starting to wrap those with microservices, starting to do front end development in OpenShift, it's an example, and get closer to the users for better customer experience, much more agile delivery, while still maintaining that frame. And what we find is, as you've got these distributed applications based on microservices, you now need to manage across that hybrid environment. And it's public, it's private, but it's also legacy infrastructure. Yeah, and that's got to be complicated. One of the other themes of this show, probably coming out of Red Hat's own culture of openness and of, we had a great, I love the keynote this morning talking about, well, you know, planning is great, but you know, eventually the plan is going to hit the battlefield and you've got to be adaptive and you've got to be agile. So when you are talking with a CIO and when you're talking with these leads of business and their IT leads, you know, what are some of the things that you're preparing them with and what are maybe some of the signals that they're ready to do this versus maybe not ready to do this? Yeah, you know, that's a very good question. What's interesting is, when I talk to most of the CIOs, I think they've got a pretty good handle on the technologies. I mean, it's, and not to trivialize, it's not simple technology, but I think most have focused a lot of their energy on that. I think their biggest challenges are the culture and the operating model.  They don't have that discipline to have a standardized service catalog. What you need to automate. Traditionally, in the enterprise, everything was custom. Everything was bespoke. Exactly. So, it's not in their DNA to go to that standardization. And I mean, think about the hyperscalers. I mean, while Amazon innovates at an incredible pace, they still have a discrete set of services. And if you can automate and do real cloud operating model, you really need to have that level of standardization. The whole operating, the business and operational transformation is very difficult. You know, it's interesting. Now, the apps guys have typically done a reasonably good job. I mean, getting out there and using agile development. You know, they're embedded in the BUs, doing their sprints, et cetera. Still some work to be done for the infrastructure guys. You know, if you start to take a look at it, if you could have an app team doing two week sprints, they're ready to drop code. All of a sudden they have to wait 12 weeks for the infrastructure to catch up. So we've been spending a lot of time looking at how do we enable software to find infrastructure? How do we start to even do, you know, infrastructure as code with similar sprints and embed into the BU scrums, et cetera. Talent's a huge issue. I mean, they're all struggling. It's very hard to get people with native cloud skills. You know, it sourced them in the market. So most of our clients are really struggling. I mean, it's good for us as an integrator and bring them to bring those skills, but they too need to develop those skills. Well, and that all in some way solves itself over time as standardization happens, right? As Kubernetes becomes more ubiquitous, you will have more people trained up in Kubernetes. Same thing with some of the infrastructure layer. Maybe can you drill down maybe a little bit more into the infrastructure and how are you helping, so they say the infrastructure folks become more agile. You know, at some point you've got mainframes. They're not moving. So you kind of have to wall them off with some agile layers in the middle. We've been big proponents of software to find infrastructure. I think VMware's actually done a pretty good job getting the market up to speed on software to find data centers. So how do you first use virtualization techniques? Like, you know, if you think about VMware's NSX or Cisco's ACI, how do you deploy those to provide a vehicle to do the automation and then severe, just very intense automation? Now, if I have to standardize first, but then I start to automate. So whether it's VMware with V relays, it's Ansible. So I mean, we've seen Red Hat do some great work around Ansible and doing that automation. We use Chef in our extension cloud platform, but really starting to drive that similar type standardization and automation. But you have to change how you operate to do that. And I think that's where a lot of people struggle. So they may have automation projects, et cetera, but they haven't really fundamentally shifted how they do it. So at one of our clients, a life sciences client, we actually were doing, we were implementing a software to find data center. We had ServiceNow as the front end portal, V relays automation integrated with the GXP compliance system. And we just kept iterating through in two weeks, sprints, we would incrementally deliver first minimal viable product to compute and storage and up the t-shirts. We got into more database as a service, eventually even being able to spin up SAP basis instances. And we were able to leverage a lot of the automation, including the network, which is oftentimes a long pull in order to accomplish that. Right, right. So starting with bite-sized pieces, incremental improvements. And that's the great thing about Agile, right? I mean, and the problem is that the apps guys have known it for a while. As infrastructure guys, we're a little new. So we've actually taken our Accenture DevOps platform and we've created an infrastructure as cloud plugin, you know, that uses GitHub and Jarrah to now deliver drop releases of infrastructure as code. Well, that's great. I mean, you mentioned a lot of different tools and platforms here, a lot of them open source, right? We're here at Red Hat Summit. I think one of the, again, one of the signals of this week, they were, you know, announcements with Microsoft, announcements with IBM, you know, very serious, and you all have been working with them, very serious, enterprise ready ecosystem here. Do you get any pushback about the open source nature of some of these things? You know, less and less. And a number of years ago, there was clearly, you know, because of particularly licensing enterprise-grade applications, I think that, you know, I think people have become much more comfortable with open source. I mean, one thing I would often look at is Kafka.  It's, you know, an open source model. It's, you know, I'm seeing it used in so many different use cases and development. So I think a lot of, and thanks to Red Hat, you know, give them credit for bringing open source to mainstream and to the enterprise market, putting, you know, licensing around it. So I think, no, I don't see the same kind of pushback anymore, and I think the world's changed. It's kind of the new model, right? It's either both at the cloud layer and then at the infrastructure layer and the automation, everything like that. You know, maybe talk a little bit more about some of the Accenture, what I've been gathering here, right? There's a bunch of open source tools you're using, but you have your own tool sets too, right? And the Accenture cloud. Can you talk a little bit about? Yeah, so the Accenture cloud platform, I mean, we do use a lot of third party technologies. We're not going to go reinvent the wheel. We're going to pull in the best of products that we can. And it does, and we started off, I mean, it's been out there for about five years. You know, we have an orchestration platform that's built into it. We do use a lot of Chef to do, you know, the provisioning of the environments. You know, and we keep evolving it. We've changed out billing optimization engines and now are very focused on how do we push it into the private world? So that brings in new tools and capabilities to do that automation. So we continue to push that. The next big step that we're focused on is the application and infrastructure management. So one of the emerging problems is we start to see microservices get adopted and you're going to get applications that might have a front end running serverless in Amazon, you know, with Lambda, you know, a distributed private cloud with a couch DB, you know, database cache. How do you manage all that, right? Yeah, and then a mainframe reservation system. So this is one of our, you know, one of our clients has that environment. How do you manage and troubleshoot across that environment? So the ability to first look at what I'll call the application or service topology, you know, up in the tools, like I just saw a Dynatrace presentation at the ease of the world, but then go, you know, the east-west topology and then mapping north-south into virtualized and physical infrastructure.  You know, I think containers become much more dynamic. You software-defined networking becomes a lot harder to sexualize and troubleshoot that. So we started to look at the assurance or service management side and really start to innovate, you know, more there. Yeah, that's amazing. And I think that's going to become more and more necessary, right?  Yeah, exactly. And we've all been on those calls with 50 people that we can't afford to do, you know, and it's, I'm a network guy, everyone points at us. So I really do want the tooling and instrumentation. I mean, the other big change that's interesting is the operator is going to change. I mean, I think there's two major elements to that.  SRE is a great example of that. And I think we, you know, if I look at DevOps right now, I feel it's still very dev-centric. I mean, we're great on CICD pipelines. Not quite as good on the ops side. I think we got some room to change there. Oh, there's a lot of growth and journey. And I love that the community, like we can all learn together and I think open source and all these pieces are a big piece of it. But I look at on the infrastructure side and the infrastructure operation side, one of the things we're looking at now is how do we transform both our clients' operators and our own operators when we do outsourcing? So how do we take them from what was traditionally eyes on glass looking at consoles and now write the next, you know, data ingestion scripts, the analytic algorithms of visualizations, you know, write the next automations to streamline something. And over time, tune the AI engines as we start to adopt AI to particularly around performance optimization. You know, how do we start to incorporate that? Absolutely. I think, yeah, we're all facing that. I mean, it sounds like I really enjoyed learning about how all everything that Accenture's bringing to the table on this enterprise journey to the cloud. Larry, thanks for joining us. Larry's Larry Soccer, Global Lead for Infrastructure Growth and Strategy at Accenture. Thanks for being on theCUBE. Thank you, I enjoyed it. 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