Off topic Tuesday is just gonna cover altered carvings. I finally got this guy to binge watch it I well Almost I binged most of it. He binged most of it binge watching the thing You just scratch off your day and say there's nothing going on today I'm just gonna watch a show from start to finish Well, and I will admit though This is a show that has a lot going on in it So I did have to kind of there were points. I had to go back and like wait a minute You know like something would happen that we kind of like wait a minute Who is that again or like, you know, what what is that? And so I'd have to kind of you know, go back and like kind of watch another like 10 minutes from like a Previous show episode or a previous in that episode or whatever. So, you know, I got he's a little methodical about it. I He's a writer. It's a writer. It's what I studied. I Study story. Yeah, so he's fascinated by the story now If you haven't seen the show spoiler alerts ahead Why don't watch it go binge watch it come back just pause binge watch come back It's only it's it's 10 episodes at like 10 hours. Not even that because it's like 45 an episode It's a little under 10 hours of your life. You won't regret that worth it. Yeah, so other things you can do for 10 hours However, and I'm sure we'll cover this don't get to like episode 5 and be like, oh, I totally figured it out I don't need to watch the rest of it because you didn't figure it out, right? I'm gonna tell you that you think you did you did not get episode 5 you figured it out You did not figure it out. So let's let's dive in there. So I'll do carbon in the series In maybe you'll still watch it even if you haven't watched it Maybe this is why you watch this and then you go chem I'll waste the however many minutes on these guys Talking about it, and then I can go waste time watching this.  So yeah Yeah, you're all you just may as well just Broke it up so one. Yeah. The good news is that the action is fast-paced If you're looking for by the way, and I do this occasionally and I got to stop so I can enjoy a movie If you're looking for every little plot hole or saying that couldn't work Just don't watch those shows watch documentaries or something. I don't know Because that's I actually sometimes I catch myself doing it So you tried to overanalyze and take apart a movie and you realize the movie is there Do you enjoy it? So I Mentioned this guy because he started taking apart a couple plot holes And I got in me we're gonna talk about them because we still disassembled at least a few ways They maybe we're gonna armchair this as if we're producers and say we could have a better view On that writing staff. This is how we this is how we would have done it. Yeah, it's clearly someone's hired us to do that Maybe they will after seeing the brilliant insights that we give them on this vlog. Yes Now this is actually based on a book So if you're not familiar alter carbon knows a book written a few years back 2002 I think is when the book was ready to 2000 2002 yeah, so a few years back the written book and it's a this is an adaptation now normally an adaptation I'm I wanted to I didn't read the book So I didn't have any vested interest in this but you a lot of times hope they keep it to the original Especially if the book was really popular And there's very few times that occurs though Harry Potter is actually one of the few that and I didn't my daughter's had The books not me I'm lazy. I just like to watch the movie, but I understand that they kept very very close to the book Which is great. Yeah, it was a lot of other times. I've read the book and I don't read a lot of fiction But some of the ones I've read and I've watched the movies and I'm like, yeah, they really diverged But sometimes it's harder to tell in a Story, yeah, but I used to get like really upset if they if they went too far away from a book or whatever But then like I kind of had to realize They're two totally different mediums, right? Yes, it's it's it's printed word in a movie Like it's different languages that that's different storytelling methods. So you can't expect a movie To just be word-for-word verbatim what a book was work that way There's a very different structure to the way you present things and you can literally you're leaving everything through the imagination So I just got to put a big dome with lots of lights on it versus someone has to draw a big dome with lots of lights But There were some actually fundamental changes and I read I believe there's some director's notes I thought I'm pushing a link to it because I read it. I read it and then I didn't bookmark that and I can't find it But with the notes some of the notes and a change for the book were was the book Had a lot more killing Wait, I'm gonna screw up people's names. Yeah, my understanding is that the book was was much darker The book was much darker much, but also the the concept of Where's the guy's name and the show is pretty dark already? Yeah, yeah, but yeah, what things I was reading it said that Even like the world itself like the you know the world of the book itself was just a Griddy or more dystopian Yeah, more even it was pretty dark in the show. Yeah, so the entire concept is there's a Stack as it's referred to and the stack is inserted During like Rafter birth apparently I think it was like they said when kids are like a month old whatever it is Yeah, they insert this thing like a bris. Yeah But they're adding to now Different thing So the concept is your consciousness lives in there and therefore your body can be replaced in your consciousness lives on and they apply some of the problems we have with With disparity and wealth and things like that and they expand upon that what happens in the future Well only rich people can afford these perfect bodies and they become So wealthy that they are almost omnipotent because there's never anything a lot of times disruption and wealth happens when people die Or we see some of the wealthy people when they become at the Right-bold age of near death of 70 years old they become very heavy into philanthropy So me and Marvin were actually talking about this would this stop some of that So Bill Gates is someone who's been controversial of her some very cutthroat business practices He had he's now a philanthropist Mm-hmm.  I want to own everything and we looking at that at Jeff Bezos now does end of life what turns them into philanthropists or is it they just never become it because there is no end of life they live forever they What's the guy whose murder we're solving his name is Lawrence Lawrence so the whole time it's not like you No, no Lawrence Lawrence.  So there's a whole 48 hours of his two days. Yeah, two days There's not extra hours in this future. No so the concept is really interesting that kind of lays the premise for it and Kovacs is someone who was a freedom fighter who was against the entire like the betterment of humanity is why this whole Technology was developed and the ultra rich said we can just live forever and never have to transfer wealth Okay, yeah, and it also they they actually play in all the problems of all of his children that he has Yeah, so you have this super rich guy with all these kids But they never get to inherit dad's wealth or become king of the empire because the king never gets to throne because he never dies Yeah, that becomes a big issue of like he's he basically keeps his children his children like the one The daughter says something about being like 63 years old. Yeah, but she's she's the body of like a 20 year old Yeah, and it's something else a rich can do they can just keep swapping to these young bodies So they stay in their youth the whole time Well, one of the things I find interesting too, just as like a side note was travel how it how it like changed travel because you can Needle they call it. Yeah, like I got to go to Tokyo which is plays into the show like Like you just like beam your consciousness to a clone if you have it or a sleeve They call the body sleeves a sleeve, you know available and like now I'm in Tokyo Yeah, and this is and this is a service only available to people that can afford it And this is where you see in a very beginning the sad case of it So yeah, if you commit a crime they remove your sleeve.  Yeah, this yeah It's like 40 50 year old drug addict woman. Yeah now is like who the six-year-old girl was living in So it's like so everybody's entitled to a sleeve like who is not a criminal But it's unless you're rich like you don't get you don't get a nice one you get right and when you're the ultra rich You get to just have them cloned. Yeah, this is anything with when when the officer is dying, what's her name again? Oh the Ortega Ortega Ortega gets she gets really torn up by Ling and They have to go fix her body Well, they put her hand everything just put your hand on it and that's how they do the payment Oh, it's not a credit card, right? It's all DNA.  I didn't realize you're platinum status Right and so he like buys her like a new arm and he's just like whatever like I got so much money They've paid him.  I think she even said at some point He left an open tab for me at the hospital. Yeah, like so she could just go in and like Yeah, if you need your arm fixed anything just go ahead and go ahead and take care of that We'll fix it for you. But yeah, very much is Like that's still an issue our health with our health care system Is it money and our friends in Europe are sitting back laughing watching this. Yeah, you don't have these problems It's funny. This is literally discussion. We're having on one of the IT boards because it's international audience one I was like We're one of my American friends complaining because their health care cost went up to over $50,000 a year for his company and just for a handful employees. Yeah, like yeah, that's that it is like a massive business fix So yeah back to off topic So the the other things that are interesting is with the whole body in prison They also can take your consciousness and put you in a VR construct. This leads to some very interesting torture scenes Now this also comes back to fundamental writing changes that they did When they take covax out to torture him when they capture him and torture him for a while They do things because they could just keep killing you over and over again and keep torturing you infinitely because you never actually die So they make for some just horrific gruesome things that aren't really really happening But they feel like they're really happening and they can just reset and start the sequence over again In the book they changed your writing about this because the and I like the way the author said this he thought the women didn't have Powerful enough roles in there So he rewrote some of the characters that were male-dominated characters to Balance it out where you have women kicking ass and them but also the torture scenes They would sleeve him into a female body to torture him further by being a female with abuses related to that So that was another fundamental writing change they did but also they wanted it to be him being tortured not some Torture fest where they put him in a woman or just torturing some girl Yeah, I thought that was actually writing enhances where they differed from the book that make a lot of sense Well, I think it I think it to you then you kind of lead into like these people watching it basically as torture porn Yeah, if some people just want to watch them torture things like that. So that's not you know, it's it's different Um, I think it was the right decision. I mean I did not read the books So I don't know but anytime you can give more powerful Female characters. I'm all for it. Yes, one of the things we'll and I'm sure we'll get into is the character of Lizzie Yes, and Lizzie doesn't exist in a book in the same way. She exists the fact that she was one of the girls who worked in the Head in the clouds place. So she was one of the hookers there that got killed. Okay That part is still in the book What's not in a book is the story of her recovery and turning into a fighting machine, which was pretty awesome Like I said, if you haven't seen it This is a complete spoiler.   She built for herself just kind of in a loop and no one could talk to her And that's where Poe comes in the saber. Oh my favorite. He's already one of my favorite authors, but yes, they have These I think even by the time we're in this story these theme hotels have become passé But it's these theme hotels his was called the Raven and it's Edgar Allen Poe as an AI artificial intelligence Running the place. So you have Edgar Allen Poe as your as your host And so that's where Kovac goes to live and this is very interesting because this is also a fundamental change from the book The book it's called the Hendricks and it's a Jimmy Hendricks themed hotel But for any of you who are familiar with how licensing works Apparently they didn't have the budget to call it the Hendricks, right? They would have had to pay a lot of royalties to the hey Jimmy Hendricks Estate so they change it to the post.  I love the character because everything Poe is in the public domain now. So yeah But yeah, he I Shotgun just made me I don't I I don't think I would I know I wouldn't like it as much. I don't think I can picture a Jimmy Hendricks AI doing as great a job. Yes, the Poe I mean just having Poe. Yeah with a shotgun and the and the the Machine guns that come out of this.  He's these goons. It's all that's like our first episode. Yeah And like and like Poe is just sitting there like drinking his tea and he's like once you you know Once you check in I can provide all Protection services.  So like once you're there He will go to any links to protect. Yeah, and it that there's a whole um a lot of spinoffs They can do off this because there's meetings the AIs have with each other because they Poe happens to be someone who's studying Humans and what it is to be human. So there's almost like a side But they don't dive deep into it But the AIs have their functional meetings and their own little things they do They're always playing a poker match and discussing what it's like to be around the humans Right, which is becomes like this interesting side story, but they don't really dive in depth with it Yeah, they do and I mean that itself is great symbolism of the poker game with these AIs like cuz like Poe is Exists in this, you know kind of as the other AI see it this like useless sort of like like they're like Oh, you have a like Kovac is his first guest in like 50 years, right? And so he's all excited when he used to the poker game is like oh like I have I have a guest and they're like Oh, it's only been 50 years like the one guy runs a whorehouse.  You're making money. No pun intended. Yeah So it's really interesting too because all these leads to so many weird concepts Because of the way you can just change bodies and this is the whole head in the clouds thing is if you can just change bodies You can go kill people and just buy them a new body and drop them in there's a lot of fight scenes like this So one of the rich people just find people to fight and kill each other and the winner gets a new body After they die. Yeah, it upgraded better by upgrade a better body.  It was it was a married couple That they had hired to fight each other to the death. Yeah Which I mean So there's yeah, I won't go there. Yes. Oh, all right, man. You have this pots and pans discussion with sorts When it gets a new body, yeah, yeah, they also in they one of the problems is the The couple Lizzie's parents they sleeve them in they sleeve his wife who was killed who's a hacker They get her out of prison, but they put her in a man's body instead of women's body That's actually something that didn't happen in the book kind of an odd choice But it's one of those weird things that can happen. Yeah It seems odd. I yeah, I think it was I was okay with it because I think the the actor who did it I think did a great job. Oh, yeah, like Portraying that like Really portraying like that femininity that is that would be within You know, like he is he is a woman's consciousness, right? So yes, like you I don't know I'm not that I'm trying to not sound misogynistic or anything because it's not he isn't by no means weaker I mean she is like the super hacker like she can get into anything. That's why she was put in prison So, you know, she's like definitely a hero of the story, but the actor himself like just did a really good job Like like I totally bought him as the mother of Lizzie and the wife of Now my favorite use Which one the his friend the military guy that was his dad and yeah, Lizzie's dad. I'm low. I lost Lizzie's dad Now my favorite was this guy Which which was his name? Oh, he had many because he went many names Yeah, he was basically like a sleeve that gets passed around. He first shows up as just a criminal. Yes, it was like Like knocked out or whatever. Yeah, so he shows up as a criminal. Yeah, it's a guy with the Spider spider web on his head tattoo. So you got this thug-looking guy, right? So he shows up there and he's he's a bad guy criminal don't know what he really did He's in a police station. No one really wants to deal with them. They tease him and knock him out and it's The day of the dead, how do you say that in Spanish? Dia de las muertas. Dia estate emojis and Halloween basically Halloween. So or tega or tega This is this is where this gets fun. She Every time the day of the dead you think about this for a minute. They bring grandma back to life Yeah, grandma something we didn't something we didn't touch on was there is a religious movement of People that believe you should die.  And so they have their sleeves coated So that when when they have sleeve death like when their body dies, you are not allowed to spin them back up, right? They have to stay dead, right? The family I guess apparently can choose to do it For dia de las muertas kind of things But like their religious belief is that you you cannot be spun back up, which is a becomes a big plot point Yeah So so that's why grandma wasn't just sleeved into another body and like living with them like this It's a it's a her or tega's family kind of most of them believe in this in that religion Yes, that people wasn't we have leave us dead when we die But when this criminal guy comes in they're like she's like well There's a handy body for us because they knock them out and they they slip grandma in there and they bring grandma home So you got this guy with nose rings beard tattoos on his head of everything and he's a white supremacist Yeah, yeah, yeah, essentially of that era fog the fog is a white supremacist like he still has he has like some tattoos that are like supremacist well, yeah, well, that's it's a nod to ms 13 by putting a 14 on his head Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so gang gang affiliation. Anyways, so he shows up and he's hugging the grandkids and Stories hats off to that actor. No kidding because they use his body for numerous different people So first he's the asshole that comes in there Then he turns into these grandma and then he turns into The rushing guy the rushing guy who wants vengeance deemee deemies and then actually somebody between grandma and Demetrius Yeah, I think he's someone in between but they really got their use out of that actor and as an actor That's got to be tough as he played physically one physical look, but three different roles.   This is self is just mind-blowing. Yes, and this is where things get really deep Yeah, it is because of those type of dynamics in the show I'm amazed one of the things I kept thinking of watching it is like the amount of trust that people have that I'm really talking to the person That I'm looking at you know what I mean, right because like I If that was me like I would anybody I looked at I would be like I don't know that you're really the person I which is a big concern. So you're talking about when you tell my identity theft This isn't level. Yeah, exactly future identity. That's really strange Yeah, cuz I mean by the construct the construct that they have constructed like I could conceivably just take Tom's consciousness out Put it in a VR and be Tom for the rest of it like right, you know, just that's it I'm Tom now and Tom is living in beyond that. I don't But I would I would definitely get an upgrade I will say that Maybe I want to drive the toaster around for a while you could do that anyways Anyways, I'm the toaster. I'm the big thick of sourdough that just doesn't go in the We can't fit Marvin in a toast no matter how much you push it down Well, yeah, we'll leave you that visual So I'm realizing there is so much we're gonna have to do a two-parter my gosh I know so much to the show. Yeah, but we'll cover it. We'll kind of wrap it up here though So do you have the envoy? We'll talk about that real quick. So these are some freedom fighters So Kovac starts out as a working for the military essentially Realizes they're corrupt be by start working for the freedom fighters who fight against the system the man Which are not as in-depth on there I don't know if the book has more or less on that topic But there are groups of people who are fighting this and fighting the way the systems are run because there's so much inequality and problems and Blah blah blah. I mean the rich people literally live like the poor people literally live at ground level Like they're called rounders and the rich people live in the in the clouds Like yeah, their houses and everything and they're literally floating in the sky Yeah, so you have all that dynamic going on and he's part of the freedom fighters Well, he gets busted as a freedom fighter and captured which leads to him being on ice for like 200 years before And things get worse. I mean this is one of freedom fighters They kind of destroyed a bunch of the freedom fighters 200 years later they revive him and he's like oh everything's worse Then what this is what we are fighting against and now it's even gotten worse and but during when him and his sister They find each other because he's fighting corruption. She works for the Ikuza yeah, so she works for the Ikuza and they meet each other in battle In that's how he kind of runs back into his sister. He was a still being like a criminal organization I just got back up a little bit.  There's no reviving him They that gets him arrested and that's where they lead him into the path of working for the government as a Essentially like the military where he works. He doesn't know what happens with sister They say she gets a better life. They don't really follow through with that That's also what turns them against the government because they told him one thing and didn't do another So that's kind of how that dynamic and where it all comes back together They meet in battle which seems odd like that.  That is a weird plot point the way they meet But yeah, his sister is Supposedly Killed and this is what you think was it probably episode five or six Yeah, something you think his sister's dead because he goes one way the freedom fighter camp where he gets caught and everything Goes awry Everything goes awry there. She seems to die She seems to escape in a pod but then appears to die. This is where we think there's a lot of weird plot points And it comes to writing style not that I'm picking apart the whole plot, but his sister allegedly dies Well, his sister sabotaged The freedom fighters that were supposed to get away and she's the one who killed them She's apparently like a megalomaniac herself determined to be the richest person So the 200 years that he's on ice and prison not in a body She's a massing wealth and becoming one of the wealthiest people of all time and being a higher gun and running Whorehouses and becoming everything that they fought against In concept, but she never seems on board They kind of give you that impression that she's like yeah, I'm hanging out with my brother because I'm hiding from the Akusa I guess I'm against the military. The kusa wants me to So I kind of got to hang out with the freedom fighters because I don't fit in anywhere else Yeah, so you kind of get that impression from her, but then she's trying to save them the rest of the show And then she becomes his Trying to get him to do this So here's someone who's cutthroat doesn't care about human life. It's it's the rich for the taking. She's like not apologetic I don't care that I let them kill people for real and I've done this and done this all this cool all this crazy evil person stuff But she wants to save her brother all the time and that's the part doesn't make sense Like why does she care about him so much like is it it's the only family? But he's still no matter what fighting against everything she does That's the part that becomes like a weird and even if she even if you buy that like okay Well that she loves her brother so much because she claims that she did all of this She amassed all this wealth and all this so that she could get him off ice and you know They could happily ever after so even if that is the case that she loved him so much as why she did it Why why did she go through so much trouble this ruse of like This as you find out like she kind of manipulated all of this to happen to get him off to get him off ice right well If she has all this wealth already And she's running the type of business where you could very easily blackmail somebody.  I mean, she's got an entire massive underground operation of killing people in a whorehouse Yeah, but beyond that she doesn't care about the the the hookers that are working there So she could very easily just get a person of power like lorns bancroft They they do their thing.   And so that's a weird plot point. Like she is so just has a complete disregard for any human life or value of it It's only The world's for the wealthy and for their taking it's her entire mantra and attitude But hold on my brother's off limits here like just yeah, or if she has that much money She seems to be on par maybe not quite as much power as bancroft has I why couldn't she just pull the strings that bancroft can pull right right? So that's kind of a weird point on there and the other weird one was ling So he's the guy who can't be seen on cameras. He disappears from any camera. He's on he's one of the sister He's like the hired gun for her. Yeah, he's like her her muscle Why can't I remember but he's he worships her like a god and this is a weird thing too Yeah, he seems to have a religion around it But is it a religion if it's just him or does he just like her a lot? I don't he just seems Oh, you're not a believer. He says to the other people.   You know what I mean? Like especially sense spoiler alert Like it's not like he's gonna come back and you'll get that explanation later. Like he is rd. He is he is Real death. Yeah, he is giving real death here. So they removed him from the show So it was like they it was like they went Farther than they should have for a throwaway character. Like he seemed like he became So it's like they didn't go far enough and explaining You know the things he can do and everything is like why why go why make him that why go through that trouble of saying Oh, he can not appear on cameras and and then not explain to me why right? He also or leave it open for it to be explained later Yeah, and they also I didn't like the way because it maybe it's just the way I think of things Because you know technology and backups like oh, we can back up a human and clone them To another consciousness and they call it A double sleeving all this other stuff cool. They got all those technologies But then ling destroys the aisis to make it on po.  I don't know But that's how they eliminated him. So I'm kind of like I guess I guess I kind of assumed that because what he used, uh, you know A um like pulse. Yeah, I guess I I assumed that he was destroying everything backups and everything Right, I assumed that's what it was. But I guess at the same time Something we preach here all the time have an off-site backup. Yeah Is there not an off-site backup of po? We're not sure. Yeah, I really hope there is because I want him back Yeah, so that was interesting I liked at the end too when he had to address the fact that there's two covaches and I got to figure that part out Yeah, so that's interesting. Yeah, yeah, and so Part of the issue other issues that I had was was with the sister actually the sister sort of Shows back up somewhat out of nowhere Yeah, like save the day and then she becomes spoiler alert again She becomes really the villain of the whole thing you find out. She's really the whole thing and so For me, I would have I think it would have been tighter writing if she had been along for the ride Um from earlier in the series she shows up in like episode six and she's there But she's not in herself. She's like the little girl at the place, right? So she has interaction with them. So it's weird It's I don't know I to me. It just like she It just she just came out of I say came out of nowhere. But I mean, yes, you're right She's showing up as a little girl and you're getting flashbacks and stuff like that, but like For me, it would have it would have made she was a little girl at the museum too Right. Yeah. So I'm saying she was a little girl and and then but you also see her in flashbacks and flashbacks But for me, it would have been more of a I guess a betrayal or a more powerful turn or powerful twist if she had kind of been along with with present day Current kovacs sort of like helping him or like being an ally to him Somehow right and then like making that turn because she just kind of shows up When kovacs is like pretty much, you know at the bottom like he's about to be killed. She shows up saves the day Which even that when I was like, oh really like the sister just kind of showed up Yeah, that's like she's sort of like, you know, like I had no inkling that like there was no foreshadowing or anything that she might be around like to me It was a do-sex mock and that kind of thing. She just showed up and saved the day. Yeah, and now Oh, we have her here. Let's twist. We're gonna make her the villain Yeah, so that was weird too because he showed it. Yeah, but the fight scene the fact that he had max headroom in there loved it Yeah, he's not playing max headroom, but I will always know him as max headroom. Yeah And it's a great character too. Oh his character is really good. The costume and everything costume and everything I know I saw somebody there was a forum post or somewhere where they refer They they thought that it was the guy playing him was kramer from uh, no It's not it absolutely is not but like I read it and I cracked up because they were like Oh and kramer when kramer showed up and I was like that was not kramer dude. He's max headroom Well, thanks for watching. Um, I don't know if this made you hate the movie love the movie Let us know your thoughts and if you have watched it, um, or if this made you want to watch it Or if this makes you never want to watch us again, we may have rambled and jumped around way too much. Yeah We took we took an already confusing show and made even more. Yeah, if you're not completely confused watch this show And then you'll be more confused. So yeah, tell us what you thought about the show Yeah, we're curious. Yeah, give us your Furies and we want to do this because I got busy and didn't really also I didn't put together a lot of news stories because that's becoming it's kind of A work in progress of coming up on news stories all the time for these So I'm trying to well it trying to keep them in the off-topic genre Um, well, but I think this is because like alter carbon itself Like it sort of was like the little show that not a little show But like the show that could because I did not see any Advertising about it. Like no, they've done a great job This show has grown word of mouth pretty much. Yeah, and hands off to Netflix for doing that. So they did Production value really high 4k everything really amazing. Yeah, so It's lots of visual eye candy. So I'm a massive actually most of the movies. I like our sci-fi That's my preferred genre of anything. I watch the sci-fi. Yeah, they do a good job building the world It's very blade runner. Oh, yeah, the world that the visual look the world that they've built.  It's really really not for you I like what my one like Kyle said so don't this isn't a family movie you let you watch for my parents I'm like, yeah, not not yeah, right. No, no, I wouldn't do those scenes are awkward for you Not too long ago. They did a they did a A sketch on snl that was like a family watching terminator But like everybody has forgotten that there's the sex scene in terminator And so it's like the kid and the parents watching it like then they do like the voice overs like Oh, I completely forgot that they had sex.  It is no not at all. It is not at all But all right, thanks for watching if you like subscribe Let us know if you hated it give us thumbs up if you want to be notified of new videos as they come out get the bell We got more stuff Yeah, you got more stuff coming. Um, I really do want to hear what people thought of the show and any other theories You might have or you know things you like didn't like in ways that could have made it better You know be an armchair producer like we were yeah, yeah, and you have an opinion on things Especially what we do in a sci-fi where we have lots of opinions on these things. Yeah I don't really want to hear my opinion when I finished the star trek series And I got some opinions on that and it should not be called star trek. So that's a whole new one the new one Yeah, it is a star trek inspired series. Uh, the orville is way more gene rodin Mary's orville. We should do a show on the we should do a show on the or I want I want yes All right, thanks


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to have a lot of time to spend in each of them. Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States and Mrs. Reagan. The United States has nations with no immigrants, both enjoying many ties to the old world. We both have growing links with the nations that we are still to each other as the largest trading partner. The commercial reaction of our people generally leads from ready-and-expanded on our many bonds of K5 and commerce. We also have a great commitment to traditions, especially those dealing with airports and the serial challenges. The day we must build on what has already been accomplished and with an inquiry to make this a more prosperous world and also to make visits a safer and peaceful world and save a deceived mankind from tyranny. I hand to the United States, Canada, and the United States of Syria to begin to the next century. If all its members carry their fair share, NATO will be able to preserve the peace, which is after all its primary mission.  The free and democratic nations of the world are just now mobilizing to rid mankind of this plague. There's every reason for optimism that this fight will be won and that international terror of the people of our two countries are setting an example to the rest of the world. We are proving that two proud and independent nations can live side by side, each respecting the sovereignty and the rights of the other. Our course of welcome, that owns our job. Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. President, it's good to be with you again. As you will recall, you were the first head of government I met with. This was the first capital I visited only days after the installation of our government, 18 months ago, yesterday. Some days in the House of Commons, and I want to repeat now, the harmonious and fruitful relations between Canada and the United States are a top priority with us. With that in mind, we agree from the beginning that it would be useful and indeed indispensable for us to meet annually. And so we met one year ago with Black City. You remember, Mr. President, it was a cold day. You wore a green tie, and TIP wasn't there. And we launched a new airfield. They're called Tiedike. He did go out and reached out to the director. He said, Tien honoured his team. Indians and Americans, though different in many ways, share many of the same values. He means. But let me say first, Mr. President and Nancy, that I come here today with Mila to celebrate the common heritage, the community. We are more than one another's best friends. We are far away one another's largest trading partner. But we don't take one for the grand... President Reagan and myself, keeping in touch with three stars, and we are striving, resolutely, to make sure that the commercial association between our two nations continues to grow, nourished by common interests and mutual trust. First wave will be... Americans still can talk. First, second wave will be Canadian press. And the third wave will be American TV and writers and correspondents. I forgot.  I forgot what I was saying. There's quite a lot going on. Can you tell us whether you're going to endorse the Congress report on asset name? I think we should be before he goes back to Canada. Can you tell us what your temptation is? What? Can you tell us what your temptation is on asset name? No temptation. It's politics. It's nothing but hard work. Lights, please. Thank you very much this way. This way, please. This way, please. Although some people from Southern California disagree. Prime Minister, why is Canada giving aid to Nicaragua? I beg your pardon. Is Canada not providing aid to Nicaragua? It does. It does. It does. It does. It does. It does. It does. It does. It does. It does. It does. It does. It does. It does. It's done pretty well. It's an old tradition that we plan to maintain. What do you feel about that from the state of Canada? Lights, please. Lights, please. This way, please. Thank you. Anyone else on the seat. Yeah, no, that was a, I thought they asked me. That was all the thinking I thought I'd do, but I was losing my mother tachs. In the area we had sage accessories. Ancestry, I mean, smoking, and they would be in a claim without anyone being able to say anything that stands for me, I don't remember hearing it. I thought it was possible that one of them made it. If you don't ever talk about that, the reason why I don't do vehemently protested was because I had to confess I was thinking. Maybe one of the types is SESP. Well, before I needed to die, I thought I could tell you what to do, so it was right again. Maybe that's the U.S. lab tradition. Well, there was supposed to be inter-gaming pictures, a photograph of this thing, but they kept throwing shots. It had nothing to do with the meeting.  Because I said, I was guilty of anything. And I said nothing. Well, I'm sure you did.


Income tax 2021-2022, circular 230, regulations governing practice before IRS. Get ready to get refunds to the max, diving into income tax 2021-2022. If you want to find the circular 230 and I recommend looking over it, you can find it at the IRS website at irs.gov. You can search for the circular 230 and then go into it here. We're just going to be touching on some of the key components, but you can read over more of it here. Regulations governing practice before the internal revenue service. Take a look at the table of contents on down below where we have the rules governing authority to practice, offices, definitions, who may practice eligibility to become an enrolled agent, enrolled retirement plan agent, or registered tax return preparer, application to become an enrolled agent, enrolled return plan agent, or registered tax return preparer, term and renewal of status as an enrolled agent, enrolled retirement plan agent, or registered tax return preparer, presenting oneself, participating in rulemaking, limited practice and special appearances, return preparation and application of rules to other individuals, continuing education providers and continuing education programs, Subpart B, duties and restrictions relating to practice before the internal revenue service, information to be furnished, knowledge of client's omission, diligence as an actuary, prompt disposition of pending matters, assistance from or to disbarge or suspended persons and former internal revenue service employees, practice by former government employees, their partners and their associates, notaries, fees, return of client's records, conflicting interests, solicitation, negotiation of taxpayer checks, practice of law, best practices for tax advisors, standards with respect to tax returns and documents, affidavits and other papers, competence, procedures to ensure compliance, requirements for written advice, establishment of advisory committees. And then, Subpart C, sections for violations of regulations, Subpart D, rules applicable due to disciplinary proceedings, and we then have Part E, general provisions. We're going to go over some of the items on the Circular 230 here. If you want more detail, go to the IRS website, irs.gov. So it contains rules governing the recognition of attorneys, certified public accountants, enrolled agents, enrolled retirement plan agents, registered tax return preparers, and other persons representing taxpayers before the internal revenue service. So our focus here, we're kind of pulling stuff out that's related to, in essence, tax return preparers, which could include attorneys, certified public accountants, enrolled agents, and tax return preparers, for example. Subpart A of this part sets forth rules relating to the authority to practice before the internal revenue service. Subpart B of this part prescribes the duties and restrictions relating to such practice. Subpart C of this part prescribes these sections for violating the regulations. Subpart D of this part contains the rules applicable to disciplinary proceedings. Subpart E of this part contains general provisions relating to the availability of official records. Practice before the internal revenue service. Comprehends all matters connected with a presentation to the internal revenue service or any of its officers or employees relating to a taxpayer's rights, privileges, or liabilities under laws or regulations administered by the internal revenue service. So note that if you're representing someone else in front of or to the internal revenue service, you're looking out and basically acting as an agent on someone else's behalf of the rights, privileges, and liabilities under laws and regulations in a similar way as you might see basically a lawyer doing like a criminal type of case. And in that instance, then, you're basically acting in a position where you might have more information or kind of specialized information that the client does not have. And that's usually what defines something as a profession. So when you're talking about a profession, you're often talking about something that needs some kind of regulation either through government regulation or possibly self-regulation because you're looking at a situation like a medical profession or a legal profession or a tax profession where it would take a lot of time to gather the information to really understand what's going on. That's what you're getting paid for is the ability to know the information. And because there's that disparity of information, that's where market forces can kind of get a little out of whack because a traditional market transaction is one in which both sides of the transaction have all the information necessary in order to make an intelligent transaction that would be in their self-interest when you're looking at types of issues where one person doesn't have the information possibly in a situation where it's inherent that they don't have the information because that's what they need is that kind of information. That's when you often need some kind of profession that could help to legitimize and give faith and trust to the person acting in that profession. And of course, tax preparation, especially as taxes get more and more complex and representing your rights in front of the IRS, becomes more and more in alignment with that kind of profession that needs some kind of rules and regulations in order to foster trust within it. Sets presentations include but are not limited to preparing documents, filing documents, corresponding and communicating with the Internal Revenue Service, rendering written advice with respect to any entity, transaction, plan or agreement or other plan or arrangement having a potential for tax avoidance or evasion and representing a client at conferences, hearings and meetings. Who may practice? Attorneys, certified public accountants, enrolled agents, enrolled actuaries, enrolled retirement plan agents. So notice when you're thinking about a situation where you're actually representing, say, a client to the Internal Revenue Service, then you're acting kind of in a traditional role that attorneys have played in other areas. Attorneys you can think of as kind of more of a broad component of this type of activity, right? So if you had some kind of legal problem, if it was a criminal problem or something like that, you might have your attorney then represent you actually making decisions on your behalf in a specific area related to a specific case. If you're talking about tax law, then the attorney could act in that area as well. Although attorneys, oftentimes the attorney is a much more broad designation, legal designation in a broad sense who could then specialize in the area of taxation. And if they do, they're probably in a more specialized area of the tax code as well. Certified public accountants then also could have a more limited capacity to act as an agent that would be specific in this case towards taxation and so on in that area. They're also a little bit broader as well, but not in the sense that the attorney is, which is in legal area in general. The certified public accountants are usually broader in the areas of say business taxation because they also have the accounting knowledge. So that's where their broadening comes out. So oftentimes CPA firms will be pretty good at dealing with issues that are going to be related to business returns that have, you know, an accounting kind of component to it possibly. Enrolled agents then also can be representing, might be more specialized oftentimes and say more likely to be possibly individual types of returns, although again they could broaden their arrangements out as well, picking up, you know, any types of returns as well. And then we got the enrolled actuaries and enrolled retirement plan agents, which you could see are getting more and more specialized in the areas that they're representing. Specialization being oftentimes a good thing. Many people have problems when they're like an attorney, for example, could often have problems that their ability to do things is so broad that they have problems specializing where they want to be. Do they want to be in the tax area? What kind of tax area? Same with certified public accountants. They often have a really broad area that they could be doing stuff in, which stops them from basically specializing sometimes and specializing would often be good because it can allow you to focus where you want your attention and do a better job and often make more money in a specific area. But in any case, registered tax return preparers and others, any individual qualified under section 10.5e or section 10.7 is eligible both to practice before the IRS to the extent provided in those sections, government officers and employees and state officers and employees in some instances as well. If you're looking at those items, you can look at the, go to the IRS website for more detail about them. Fees, so we're talking about practitioner fees. We're not talking here about penalties and interest from the IRS, but practitioner fees in general, a practitioner may not charge an unconscionable fee in connection with any matter before the Internal Revenue Service. So obviously I know none of you would be charging an unconscionable fee, but if you were thinking about doing that, don't charge an unconscionable fee. Obviously that word's somewhat vague. What does it mean to have an unconscionable fee? I'm sure we can think of a few situations that would be unconscionable, but we got a little bit more specific in some of the other items here, except as provided in paragraph B2, 3 and 4 of this section, a practitioner may not charge a contingent fee for services rendered in connection with any matter before the Internal Revenue Service. So a contingent fee is usually something that's going to be a contingent on the outcome. And you can see how that kind of causes a problem when you're a tax preparer or a practitioner. For example, if you're preparing taxes and you're saying, I'm going to charge you a fee based on the refund I'm getting you, then you have a clear incentive to try to maximize the refund. And that's a really big problem because we don't want that kind of incentive there because what we want to be saying is, as a practitioner, we want you to be able to trust the person preparing the tax return and their goal isn't really to optimize the refund. The goal is to file an accurate return optimizing the refund as much as they can within the context of the law. And the fact, the way the structure is with regards to tax preparation, it's quite possible that if someone wanted to scam the system, they could try to charge a contingent fee, they could try to do things that are not legal or would not be sustainable positions to get large refunds. The refunds possibly then being received, then the practitioner disappears before the IRS finally comes back and audits some of the returns at a future point in time, leaving the clients holding the bag at that point in time saying, hey, the practitioner is the one that filled that out, the practitioner is gone now. And so you can see how basically the contingent fees would be a problem here because it leads to negative incentives for unsustainable position. Contingent fee is any fee that is based in whole or in part on whether or not a position taken on a tax return or other filing avoids challenged by the Internal Revenue Service or is sustained either by the Internal Revenue Service or in litigation. The contingent fee includes a fee that is based on a percentage of the refund reported on a return that is based on a percentage of the taxes saved or that otherwise depends on the specific result attained. So the general idea, the contingent fee being dependent on obviously something that's going to be contingent in the future, some result that's going to be happening at some point in the future. So a contingent fee also includes any fee arrangement in which the practitioner will reimburse the client for all or a portion of the client's fee in the event that a position taken on a tax return or other filing is challenged by the Internal Revenue Service or is not sustained whether pursuant to an indemnity agreement, a guarantee, a recession rights or recession rights or any other arrangement with similar effect. And you can see why this might be the case as well because you can see that when you actually file the tax return, if you were to take a position that's a questionable position that might not be sound under scrutiny. In other words, if you had an audit on it, it might be reversed or have a large likelihood of being reversed. And you were a practitioner, if you were to say, I can do this for, you know, a hundred clients and if one or two of them happen to get audited because the likelihood of them being audited is fairly low just in general terms, unless the IRS, you know, did something specific and went down the client list for some reason which possibly they could do if they saw something was bad at some point in time. But just in terms of that, they could say, well, look, I'll just do a hundred tax returns and then if say like a couple percent of them get audited and I base my revenue on the contingent fee which is going to be higher based on this position we're taking and the refund being higher and if they actually overturn a few of them, then I'll just reimburse those few. So then I would have gotten my benefit on the contingent fee being based, getting the higher returns for the hundred returns and I would only have to reinvest them or reimburse in a small percentage that would actually get audited under kind of normal conditions. Obviously, that's kind of like a scam kind of position and the IRS is saying that's another reason the IRS doesn't like these kind of contingent fee kind of arrangements because if someone was to set something like that up, it lowers the professionalism of the whole profession and people lose, you know, trust in general. So return of clients records and generally practitioner must at the request of a client promptly return any and all records of the client that are necessary for the client to comply with his or her federal tax obligations. So there's some instances you would think this would be obvious but there's some kind of instances where someone doesn't get paid, what if they haven't paid you in a few years and whatnot, what are you going to do? Are you going to hold their records hostage that they need to record something else? That's kind of petty but it happens sometimes and you know, you've got to give them their records, right? You've got to give them the records back and if they're not and then take some other actions, just cut the future engagements off or something like that would be the general action taking if there's any kind of problems but you've got to give them the records back because they're their records typically. And that might not be as much of a problem these days when the records are electronic. So you get a lot of this record transfer electronics which means both parties still have a copy of the records oftentimes but may still be an issue. A practitioner may retain copies of the records returned to a client. The existence of a dispute over fees generally does not relieve the practitioner of his or her responsibility under this section. Nevertheless, if applicable state law allows or permits the retention of a client's records by a practitioner in the case of a dispute over fees, the services rendered, the practitioner need only return those records that must be attached to the taxpayer's return. So if the state law in essence is different in some instance then maybe you could just give them the records back that are in compliance with the return and in that event I would think that the best practice would be if they want their records back, give them the records back if you want to cut future engagements then cut future engagements generally. I would generally think that would be the best practice but the practitioner, however, must provide the client with reasonable access to review and copy any additional records of the client retained by the practitioner under state law that are necessary for the client to comply with his or her federal tax obligations. Conflicting interest, except as provided by paragraph B of this section, a practitioner shall not represent a client before the Internal Revenue Service if the representation involves a conflict of interest. A conflict of interest exists if the representation of one client will be directly adverse to another client or there is a significant risk that the representation of one or more clients will be materially limited by the practitioner's responsibilities to another client or former client or a third person or by personal interest of the practitioner. So obviously if you're representing somebody and you have some kind of interest involved in it that can influence your decision, possibly having another client that has some direct influence or possibly having some other kind of possible financial interest in the outcome, then you can't really act as an impartial agent. People get kind of upset when you bring this up because they say, hey, I'll still act honestly even if I had some other client that has an interest or if I have a direct financial interest in the outcome and so on, and that may well be, but the fact is that many people will still, it'll still kind of influence your positions at least subconsciously, most likely, and too if an outside observer was to look at it, they're going to say, hey, this person that's positioning themselves as an agent has a direct interest so it doesn't look like you can be independent in those cases and if you doesn't look independent because of those interests, then again it's going to decrease the level of faith that people have in the system and in you as the practitioner in particular and in the practice in general if that was to happen a lot. So advertising and solicitation, so what kind of advertising can you do? A practitioner may not with respect to any internal revenue service matter in any way use the participant in the use of any form of public communication or private solicitation containing a false fraudulent or coercive statement or claim. So clearly you can't advertise and just lie about it. For example, you can't say, you know, I guarantee everybody's going to get this amount of refund on their tax return 100% or something like that because that doesn't make any sense or a misleading or deceptive statement or claim. So they want to be honest in terms of the advertising. Once again, this being basically a profession trying to regulate its own professionalism to try to increase the value and trust within it which is beneficial typically to everybody involved but obviously one person that violates that kind of thing is going to benefit and they're basically benefiting by lowering the goodwill. They're cashing in the goodwill just like a company that had a good name and then they trashed their good name by having a bad product and bad services and they basically just cashed in their goodwill because people still bought it based on past history but the goodwill will go away sometime because you're basically cashing it in. So enrolled agents, enrolled retirement plan agents or registered tax return preparers in describing their professional designation may not utilize the term certified or employ or employee relationship with the Internal Revenue Service. Examples of, so you got to basically say what obviously your credentials are accurately, examples of acceptable descriptions of the enrolled agents are quote, enrolled to represent taxpayers before the Internal Revenue Service end quote or quote, enrolled to practice before the Internal Revenue Service end quote, and quote, admitted to practice before the Internal Revenue Service end quote. Similarly, examples of acceptable descriptions for enrolled agents, plane agents are quote, enrolled to represent taxpayers before the Internal Revenue Service as a retirement plan agent end quote and enrolled to practice before the Internal Revenue Service as a retirement plan agent end quote. An example of the acceptable description for registered tax return preparers is quote, designated as a registered tax return preparer by the Internal Revenue Service end quote. Advertising and solicitation restrictions continued. A practitioner may not make directly or indirectly an uninvited written or oral solicitation of employment to matters related to the Internal Revenue Service if the solicitation violates federal or state law or other applicable rule, e.g. attorneys or precluded from making a solicitation that is prohibited by conduct rules applied to all attorneys in their states of licensure. Any lawful solicitation made by or on behalf of a practitioner eligible to practice before the Internal Revenue Service must nevertheless clearly identify solicitation as such if applicable, identify the source of the information used in choosing the recipient. Standards with respect to tax returns and documents affidavits and other papers. A, tax returns. One, a practitioner may not willfully, recklessly or through gross incompetence sign a tax return or claim the refund that the practitioner knows or reasonably should know contains a position that A, lacks a reasonable basis. B, is an unrealistic position as described in section 6694A2 of the Internal Revenue Code including the related regulations and other publication guidelines. So in other words, when you prepare the tax returns you're still basically taking the information from the client. It's the client that's giving you the information that you're compiling together in terms of the tax return and they're ultimately responsible for the financial data given to you. But if you see clearly that there's something that's wrong with it that just doesn't make any sense and you should know that just by basically doing the data input I mean if like the W-2 was adjusted or something that's put in the data input is clearly wrong then that's basically the situation that they're addressing here. At what point do you have to say, hey, is it your responsibility to say, hey, this doesn't line up, these are your, this is the records of the client that I'm trying to compile together but something doesn't line up. So in other words, let's go for it one more time. Tax returns, a practitioner may not willfully, recklessly or through gross incompetence sign a tax return or claim the refund that a practitioner knows or reasonably should know contains position that A lacks a reasonable basis, B is an unreasonable position as described in section 6694A2 of the Internal Revenue Code. Okay, C is a willful attempt by the practitioner to understate the liability for tax or a reckless or international disregard of rules or regulations by the practitioner as described in section 6694B2 of the code including the related regulations and other publication guidance and two, advise a client to take a position on a tax return or claim the refund or prepare a portion of a tax return or claim for refund containing a position that A lacks a reasonable basis, B is an unreasonable position as described in section 6694A2 of the code including related regulations and other publications and C or C is a willful attempt by the practitioner to understate the liability for tax or a reckless or intentional disregard of rules or regulations by the practitioner as described in section 6694. So you can't recommend taking a position that you don't think is going to be a sustainable type of position. Now there are positions that you don't know yet. There could be positions where the code isn't clear, the tax law isn't clear, the court cases aren't given you a clear position, but obviously there are other positions which aren't, which could be clear and that's with those are the kind of things that are getting into here. So again, you can get into this in more detail if you would like to by looking it up on the IRS website, irs.gov.


So River is another romance option within this game, as there are 4 in total, Judy, Panem, Kerry and River, who you can have a relationship with and not just a one night stand so to speak, and within this video I will guide you through every option which you need to make in order to romance, River Ward. How's it going guys, my name's DPJ and if you enjoyed this video leaving a like really helps out and if you like what you see and want to see more Cyberpunk, be sure to subscribe. So firstly you have to be a female to romance River, so let's just get that straight out of the way. Okay so to get to the stage where this option opens up to romance River, there are as you'd think missions to complete and it starts with Life June war time. Which guys is the 11th mission after the prologue. Now after completing this mission people you need to be at least a second street creditia in either Westbrook, Haywood or city centre. Once this is achieved, which probably you're already here guys, you are open base side mission called I fought the Lore. Within this mission you meet River, but the options to romance don't start yet, so just complete this mission guys. Once this is done wait 48 hours in game and you will receive a call from Jefferson, who you will know by this stage if you don't already know. This starts the next mission in this chain called dream on. Again guys with this mission there is no dialogue option in which you must select which affects any river romance, so just get this mission done. Once this is complete wait 24 hours in game time and you will receive a call from River. This starts the next mission called the hunt. Now this mission will affect the chain of missions that follow so it's very important to get a few things right here. Towards the end of the mission you are basically trying to track down a certain person's location and I'll try my best not to spoil anything for you guys because this is actually a great mission to do, but near the end you are basically looking for a certain farm and there are two options here but you need to find the right one first and this is done by looking through a few brain dances. So when it comes to this guys I'd actually advise you to save the game via a manual save before doing this mission just in case you do mess it up and you do on romance river. So when you are in that brain dance make sure you are scanning and don't leave anything on that bar so just make sure you check all three timeline bars. So once you exit this brain dance River will mention if you've done this right that Edgewood farm is the right place and where this person is that you're looking for. If it isn't what he states then you need to guess and again guys it's Edgewood. Doing this wrong he will take you to the wrong farm and the possibility of a romance is over. Also when you get to this farm guys you must not leave it until the very end of the mission. You need to stay with River until he finds the person he's looking for. Also at the end of this mission there is a few dialogue options you need to select. So when River talks about seeking vengeance you need to select the dialogue option of not leaving him to pursue it by himself. Also try and talk him out of it by selecting don't do it or select the option of we both will so you're helping him out. This mission then ends guys and waiting 25 hours in game River will then call you and he needs to accept his request to help. This mission is called following the river and this is a cherry on the cake people. So this mission really requires no guidance from you at all until the end of the mission where a few things are here which you need to do. So well upon that war tower the dialogue options already point to a romance between us but you need to electric his river in both instances and then the next morning guys after that sweet sugary night you need to confirm your interest in river by selecting the dialogue of I feel good around you and there you have it people. This one doesn't seem as long as the others aren't after moving this game but the missions leading up to this are pretty long for sure and like I said it don't start until you've completed the 11th story mission so it takes quite a while but there you have it people this is how you romance a reward and on that note guys the end of the video has arrived if you enjoyed it leave a like really helps out if you're new around here and want to see more cyberpunk be sure to subscribe and if you never want to miss a video upload you can turn notifications on by hitting that bell button but guys thanks as always for stopping by hopefully you enjoyed the video and hopefully I will see you on that next one


SCP-821 is a structure located within the former town of Asheville, Florida. Records recovered from the local government indicate it was constructed sometime between 1955 and 1957. The interior is in a permanent state of degradation, with all attempts at maintenance or restoration being unsuccessful. SCP-821's interior contains a varying number of devices intended for children, such as a carousel, a stage with a set of 4 animatronic figures, and a variety of midway games. There are also a number of kiosks which sold food and souvenirs when SCP-821 was active. During initial containment, these devices were fully functional. Maintenance was performed by humanoids within SCP-821, formerly known as SCP-821-1, who also operated the devices within SCP-821.


Like, I literally have no clue what they even do. Anyway, I saw this clip of a podcast with Kendall Jenner, and even though I would normally not touch it, I decided to watch more of the interview, and what I found is actually very emblematic to what a lot of people believe about finding happiness, peace, and purpose. And maybe, just maybe, you're believing some of the lies as well. So, let's dive in. This video is made possible by The Daily Disciple Club on Patreon to support my mission of equipping people to follow Jesus daily. Join Patreon today. You can fall victim to so many things that don't serve you and that don't make you happy. If your happiness depends on the actions of others, you know, you're at mercy of things that you can't control. And that's never where I wanna be. So, I always wanna live in, like, me and my therapist talk about, like, my higher goddess, my higher self, like, I always wanna live there. You know, when I'm there, you can't take that away from me. That's mine, and no matter what, you can disagree with me, you can agree with me. That's not going, I'm not changing, I'm not shifting. I'm here, I'm in my higher goddess, so. So, this is kind of shocking to say, but Kendall gets something right here. Her happiness shouldn't be determined by other people and their approval of her. Great, that's a great mentality. Don't let your joy and your happiness be, you know, contingent on how other people feel about you or what they say about you, that's great. But what I find often happens in our culture is that we identify a problem correctly. We say, this is not good, let's stop doing this. But then we go from one ditch to the other. So yeah, we shouldn't find our happiness or joy in other people and their perspective and what they say about us. But then, what Kendall does is she goes internal. She says, okay, I need to reach this higher goddess and appeal to this and this is where I find my happiness. You see, many people cling on to this idea of self-actualization to become the ideal person, the person that they were meant to be. And who is the ideal person? Well, this is defined by myself. This is what I would call the gospel of me. I call it the gospel of me because essentially in this world view, I have become savior to myself. I am the good news that although the world is destructive and heartbreaking, I can look within at the power, comfort, peace and happiness that I store within my being. I just need to tap into it. So why is this a mistake? Well, we'll get to that, but I hope you're beginning to think through it for yourself, but let's watch more. I was wondering, how has your purpose changed? You had this very confident view of I wanna be a model, you know, you've superseded, exceeded and continue to flourish in that world. And I always wish that you do. My purpose has evolved from obviously within business, doing what I wanna do and making sure I'm happy and finding the thing that I love and all those things. But I've kind of like I said, really tuned into me. And I think my purpose at least at this very moment and what I've kind of evolved into is my higher goddess. Like I am determined to tune into her at all times. I was given this life for some reason, for whatever reason I was placed here. And I do feel a purpose to share and connect and put a smile on people's faces or make someone feel a positive feeling. And so I think that within me wanting to achieve me tuning into my higher goddess, I think that also entails me being a great version of myself for other people to then experience. So once again, Kendall is talking about tapping into her higher goddess, her purpose to really just pour into her and becoming the most ideal actualized person she can be. So then she can also help other people. That sounds great, doesn't it? Well, there's a big problem. It's like we're trusting in a shipwreck boat to carry us to shore. Meanwhile, it has major holes in it. It will not take us to safety, but meanwhile we're saying all sorts of good things to it.     But meanwhile, it's sinking. That's what we do to ourselves when we simply say, I am enough in myself. I am a strong person. I am a good person. I am a happy person. But in the midst of all these affirmations, if we look deep within the core of our being, we see all these broken pieces and cracks and holes. This is the result of sin. Sin that we've committed and sin that others have committed against us. But without Christ, we continue to suppress this truth about our own brokenness and instead see ourselves as these divine beings, capable of anything we desire. But here's the truth. You don't actually have everything within yourself that you need. The Bible says that we are a slave to sin, that we're a slave to these sinful desires that we can't seem to get ourselves out of. And that's why we need Jesus because we have these broken pieces within us that are tending towards sin and that cause havoc in our lives. And actually because of our sin and rebellion against God, if God is good, he must punish sin. So we stand guilty before God and we can't do anything in and of ourselves to patch these pieces. We may try by affirming ourselves or pouring into self-love and saying, you're such a good guy, you're such a good guy, you're such a good guy, but it won't change the fact that we are in need of a savior. Kendall's talked a lot about finding peace and happiness within herself.  So it's pretty easy to have that kind of surface level peace and happiness when all your basic needs are met. But then when you enter the real world, you encounter the anxiety and depression that is so prevalent with people that are crying out for hope of some kind that they realize they can't actually muster this peace, hope, happiness within themselves. They need something else. So we're encountering these two problems and they're deeply connected. The first thing is that we're slaves to sin that we follow our desires and we can't help ourselves but to fall into what is wrong. And then we have this idea of trying to find peace, joy, happiness, delight, joy. Like we know we were made to experience these things and yet we can't find them. We definitely can't find them within ourselves as much as we might convince ourselves we can just because we're in a kind of a good circumstance in life. When those things fade, we began to experience once again, the emptiness of life. But here's the thing. When Jesus came to this earth, he came to free us from the power of sin that we would be alive to Christ and be made into new creations where our desires wouldn't be towards what is wrong and what is self-centered, but rather to what are the things of God. The scripture says that our joy is made complete in Christ and that through him we have a peace that surpasses all understanding. It is not temporal or circumstantial, it is eternal. Tapping into your higher goddess for strength, joy, peace is like trusting a freezer meal to give you a restaurant experience. Or it's like filling your gas tank with water, expecting it to bring you to your desired destination. It can't deliver, but Christ always delivers. Okay, here we go, John 10, 10. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life and have it abundantly. Please don't try to insert your own definition of abundantly in the Bible here because we're still gonna experience trials and tribulations, but through Christ we have an eternal hope that lasts. And a present reality where we can live in the love of Christ. And that's where healing comes, when God begins to mend and heal those oral wounds that have lingered on for such a long time. And where growth actually happens, where we grow more and more into the person that we were designed to be. And stepping into our true purpose, which isn't delighting in myself or affirming myself or glorifying myself, but rather delighting in God and bringing glory to him. Until next time.


Ask very early in a relationship, do you wanna have kids? Because I always say there's two types of women. There's STL, short term, mating STMs, and LTMs. And you can meet the perfect girl, but she's an STM. She's interested in short term only. Because if a girl tells me, you know what, I've never really wanted to have kids, I'm not really into it, I'll, then you can't, don't be good, and the worst is when they're beautiful and they tell you that, because then you're just wasting your time.


Hello, welcome to toffee TV is the ever news daily. Andre Gomez is in contention To be in the squad for the trip to spares tomorrow. He's obviously played a couple of the 21 games now and um Sean Dice feels like he he could be set For a place at least on the bench and obviously ever at the moment are struggling a little bit with injuries That's here from the manager on all the latest Michelenko, excuse me back in the thinking and the other three touching over shameless Because of the involvement side of things where he needs a few more days training young. He's making progress, but I think I'll make this one um Duke not for this one When are you looking up for Duke? We'll see. I mean, he's making good progress. I think I mentioned in the week He's a good healer from what I gather from his past here. So we're hoping it settles quickly as it is doing Yeah, so there you go. Obviously The Corey Isn't going to be involved and you'd imagine with that kind of injury probably won't be involved for the Christmas period Sean Dice being incredibly tight lipped about the situation. Um Yeah, so it's it's a big blow again to be missing him again tomorrow And with Manchester City and walls coming up as well in quick succession and then crystal palace after the fe cup Evan could do with some players back. James Coleman Ashley young Again, it could be you know tomorrow too early for them Man City could be too early for them. So We'll have to wait and see Michelenko It's good that he looks like he could be back in contention For the game. So we'll have to wait and see Evan have been linked with a move for josh brownhill from bainley He has out of contact in the summer of 28 year old midfielder Um can play really anywhere in in in the centre of midfield Proper proper dash kind of play and if you imagine Evan could get A deal done because the player is out of contact maybe for a minimum fee Minimal fee and if the player has no intention of staying at the club then barely might be willing to just um Do a do a quick and easy deal So be interested to see what happens in January. Evan do need a few plays in but obviously with money tight And obviously obviously we've got the situation with dan jumer as well where He is being linked with a obviously move back to his his pairing club There could be a little bit of movement I can't see much as I said money is tight and Evan will have to move a few things around and with the With the squad already being small Evan would have to almost guarantee plays where coming in before letting people go But would have to let people go to facilitate the people coming in So it's a very tricky balance that Evan have got um going into january and obviously With the disorganic a going to the athcon as well It's it could be it could be a sticky few weeks for the toffees A player who could be staying at everton longer is domino carvin louis He has just changed his agency And apparently there's going to be contract talks His contract runs out in the summer of 2025 which is about 18 months left But apparently With him moving to a new agency That will facilitate new contract talks with the club and obviously it is It is the right time really because if he isn't going to sit down Or or contact a new contact can't be agreed You'd be looking at a situation with Evan would have to sell him this summer if they want to make money. So Yeah, hopefully that happens. Hopefully it's smooth a smooth deal can be done and domino carvin louis commits himself for His peak years at everton football club We'll we'll find out more over the coming weeks and months I would imagine right this is the last ever news daily of 2023 So it's up to me to say happy christmas and a well many christmas and a happy new year to everybody out there Thank you for your continued support For toffee tv and uh, yeah, everyone have a good one and up the toffees tomorrow. See you later


July is going to be hotter than ever because you get up to $50 off any smartphone at Appalachian Wireless to your agreement required. Better service, bigger savings, that's today's Appalachian Wireless, an East Kentucky network company. It was once the crown jewel of the city of Jenkins, the Beth Elkhorn Country Club. Today it sits vacant and damaged. The country club has recently been the target of vandals who have damaged walls, stolen copper, broken windows, and thrown about furniture left in the building. So far what we've found is a lot of windows broken, there's a lot of doors removed, there's been piping and wiring that's been removed, a lot of damage to the walls, just sheer vandalism. There's some furniture in here that's been overturned or cut up or whatever. Some people have also left trash and stuff in. Pretty much anything they can do to deface the property, which again is too bad because there's a lot of people that have a lot of good memories here and it's made a lot of people angry in our community. The country club was once the social center of Jenkins, the new building opened in the early 1970s replacing the original country club that opened in the late 40s. It hosted numerous events over its lifetime before eventually being sold to another private owner. The old country club has been here for a long time. It's a fixture in Jenkins, unfortunately it hasn't been used for quite a while as well. What we've had is people on four-wheelers, people in cars have come down here and have been vandalized in the building. It's really too bad because a lot of people have had their proms, their graduations, they've had birthday parties here, they've had all kinds of good celebrations and stuff. So there's a lot of memories that are in this building. Unfortunately, these people get down here and tear it up just for sheer meanness. Now Police Chief Jim Stevens is warning people to stay out of the building or face prosecution. Stevens said three people from Pike County were arrested last weekend for entering the building and causing some damage. He said more arrests will be made if necessary. One of the things we find is people will say they're coming down to take pictures of the old buildings, which is fine if you're out on the parking lot, you don't have a problem. The problem comes when you enter that building that you don't own. If you want to take pictures and it's on somebody else's property, find out who owns the property and ask them. Think of it this way, you would want somebody coming to your house unannounced, uninvited, just walking inside and starting to take pictures. So kind of use some common sense. If you don't own it, get permission. Chief Stevens said the owners have allowed the Jenkins Volunteer Fire Department to use the Old Country Club building for training. The city of Jenkins may also have some interest in eventually acquiring the building. For now, though, those who aren't authorized to enter the building are hereby warned to stay out. If you don't own it, stay out of it. In Jenkins, Chris Anderson, EKB News.


So, once again, namaste and a very good morning, a warm welcome to the workshop on the basics of safety and open form. I am Payal Mukherjee from the FOSI team of IIT Bombay. Our core team members, Mr. Abhushan Raghmi, Mr. Rajdeep Addyap, Mr. Krishnakarn and Mr. Binayak Lohani will be there with you throughout the sessions. Our team is led by Professor Janani Sri Muralidharan. She is the PI of this project, the principal investigator of the open form project of FOSI IIT Bombay and she is a faculty in the mechanical engineering department of IIT Bombay. We also have Bindusara, Rishabh, Mahargya, Chaitanya Kishore, Meena and Tinto to support you during the workshop. All of them worked with us during the summer fellowship program of the open form project of FOSI. Mr. Ashutosh, who is a technical contributor of open form project, will also be there for support. And once again, I thank you all for joining us in this workshop. And I'm sure that you will get a very good learning experience. You will be able to brush up your knowledge on CFD and you will be able to explore open form. You will know how to use open form. Okay. So my next slide talks about FOSI and NMEIC. So to begin with, let me explain who we are and why are you here with us today? Why are we offering you this workshop? So we are working for a project called FOSI. What is FOSI? This FOSI stands for free and open source software for engineering education. So earlier it was only for the engineering students, but now it is all for all streams of education, including science and arts, even graphics designing. And this project is being developed at IIT Bombay and is a part of the NMEICD, which is the national mission on education through information and communication technology. This project is funded by the Ministry of Education, Government of India. So this mission, this NMEICD is promoting learning and usage of FOSI. Now what is FOSI? The word FOSI stands for free Libre Open Source Software. So the word Libre means freedom. And the word free does not only means free of cost. There are four kinds of freedom associated with the word free in this context. Number one, you can use it. Number two, you can distribute it to other people. Number three, you can modify it. And number four, you can distribute the modified software. So for all these four activities, you will need permissions. And the software that are categorized under this clause grants you the permission, hence the word freedom. We can use them legally, free of cost, and they come with the license of GPL and BSD and so on. So let me give you an instant suppose the AICT sends you a note saying that you will have to use licensed software in your institute or in your company. It doesn't mean that you will have to buy the software. And it doesn't mean that you have to buy the licenses of the expensive commercial software. You can always use FOSI in this case, because they are also licensed software. But you can legally use it free of cost. So we encourage the usage and learning of FOSI. We encourage the use of FOSI not only because it is free of cost and it is free to download, it is free to use, but because it is a kind of knowledge that once you acquire, you'll be able to use it throughout your student life, throughout your career ahead, be it in the academics or be it in the corporate sector. As I could see that many of you are students here, some of you are faculty members and a few amongst you also belong to the corporate sector. So suppose you have been assigned a project on CFD and you do no open form. OK, so this knowledge of your open form, which is a floss will enable you to not be dependent on your institute or on your company to deliver the project. You can deliver the project free of cost to your institute or your company. I mean, this enables the institute or the company to save money. And I need not explain how much important is this. OK, now let me talk about the training part. The Fossi project is into training a force to students, faculty members and corporates. By training, I mean training on skill based education. We envision to bridge the gap between the theory centric academic training and the skill based industry requirements. So this training will add an edge to your education, to your career and will help you to get jobs and finally excel in your career. OK, my next slide talks about spoken tutorials, self learning through spoken tutorials. So I will not explain much about spoken tutorials because today in the hands-on session, you'll be experiencing what are spoken tutorials actually. So they are simply they are audio visual screencasting tool. They are like your private tutor, so it's a it's a one to one interactive learning. You can play, pause, rewind and learn at your own pace. OK, but a very important point about using spoken tutorials is you will have to follow the site by site method, which is you have to un-maximise the window that is containing the spoken tutorials and you'll have to open your terminal or the window adjacent to the original spoken tutorial videos. So you un-maximise both the windows, the original spoken tutorials and the terminal that you are going to use. So once you play the spoken tutorials, you can observe the commands, you can pause them, you can actually type the commands in your terminal and eventually you will learn the whole software starting from the basic levels, starting from the installation, from the basics, eventually to the intermediate levels and finally to the advanced levels. They are very short, crisp 10 minutes tutorials, but you can always like if I use a spoken tutorial, I may spend half an hour to learn one chapter and you may take one hour, some other people may take 45 minutes. So it's depending on our learning capacity, our pace of learning. And yes, very important things. Internet is not required while using the spoken tutorials. You can always download it and keep it in your PC and you can use it after your classes at your free time, anytime. Okay, and yeah, it comes with the supporting documents like instruction sheets and manuals. And a very unique thing about the spoken tutorials are they are available in all the 22 Indian languages and a few foreign languages as well. Okay, now let me come to the workshop briefings. I hope by now you have gone through the workshop schedule. So in day one, we will have lectures by Professor Janani of IIT Bombay, Professor Hari Krishnan of the Coaching University of Science and Technology and Professor Dheeraj of Shivnathar University. In day two, we will have sessions by Professor Manasweta of IIT Bombay and Professor Raghavendra of IIT Guwahati. In day three, we will have sessions by Professor Narayan of Sastra University. Apart from these lectures, we will have hands-on sessions and we will have some invited sessions, invited talks. For example, in day one, you will have a talk by Dr. Chandan Bose, who is a research scholar from the University of Edinburgh. And in day three, you will have a talk by Mr. Dvesh Varya, who is the CFD expert and working in Adani Solar. So during this session, we will have sessions by Professor Narayan of Sastra University. So during the workshop, you will get to know how to use open form through the hands-on training sessions. You will be introduced to a GUI on open form block mesh as well by our team members. So during the workshop, I would suggest you to keep your microphones on mute and cameras off during the workshop, during the entire session. So if you, so, you know, this will avoid any bandwidth issues. You may definitely ask questions. We will have interactive sessions at the end of each session. You can interact with our team. You can interact with the professors. We will have interactive session during the end of each day as well. So we are always there. You can also use the chat box, but please use the chat box only if it is needed.


In Africa, four out of five families use primitive cookstores for cooking a meal, especially women. And the indoor pollution is one of the two major reasons for premature death for women in Africa. This is a real issue. 500,000 women died because of respiratory diseases. So this is in my view the biggest injustice, but the good thing is we can solve it. We will do everything that we can do to make 2024 next year a turning point in this critical issue. I promise. 2024 the turning point.


It's because Baker played really well, as he got more familiar with that new system, and the offensive line played well too. Beckham in those first six games before the injury had 25% of the team's overall targets and 35% of the deep targets. If he gets that in an offense that will be as efficient as it was in the second half last year, he could explode. I've got him as a wide receiver 20 this year, going wide receiver 28 to me. There is a lot of value in Odo Beckham in his second year with Kevin Stefanski.


When we're discussing the row, there is a particular neck position that I want. And it's kind of like just the neutral or the desired position in all your other lifts as well, pretty much. So as I'm doing a row, I want a slight little curve in the base of my neck and I want my head to just kind of follow in with it. What you'll notice is people tend to like tilt one way or shift one way instead of keeping that nice little curve. We're generally looking for a collective curve of about 30 degrees if I made a nice angle from it all. We call that your cervical lordosis. That is just the normal curve that your neck is supposed to have. You don't really need to know that term but you do need to know what the right position is.  And then as I look up, eventually I get my neck to start curving. At the start I can just do my eyes and my neck doesn't have to move but if I keep looking up, eventually my neck will get to a reasonable position. Now, this is not where I want to row from, man. Ooh, that is hard to do on my eyeballs. This is not where I want to row from because my head is too far tilted back. I don't want to row like this. I don't, there's no, you know, the head is still part of the neck, okay? And so I want that to follow that normal cervical lordosis. So again, when I'm trying to find the right position, I look my eyes up until I get a slight curve in my neck and I just check to make sure that I'm in an okay position by turning my head. And if I don't feel too blocked in either direction, then I can feel pretty comfortable that I'm in the right spot. If I am flat in my neck and I try to turn, I can't turn as far and I feel a lot of tension in the back of my neck there. And it's the same idea if I'm too far back here, it feels like I'm choking, okay? So play with that. Use your eyes to guide the movement and get that nice normal cervical lordosis. Now, once I get up here and I feel like, oh yeah, I'm loose and goosey, I'm feeling good here, now I need to tilt my head down, my chin down, until my gaze is about forward or maybe even slightly upward just to bias myself into a nice curve. And then I can double check that I still have my motion by turning my head and you may even feel like you have more motion now because now the OA joint of the head is in the right position and that's not blocked either. That is our desired position during the row.