Hi guys, this is a little bit of a familiar intro already because I've actually filmed this once before. So last week I headed to Lowe's and I got all of the demo materials and supplies I felt like I needed to start on the kitchen demo because there's still a little bit of work happening in the house. I figured I might as well make a little noise as well while there's other noise happening and get the tile out of the kitchen and here's what that looked like. Made our way to Lowe's. I think we need this. Like what do you do with it though?  This one literally looks like Balenciaga. This looks like Kim Balenciaga. Wait, those are actually kind of cute. Those are so cheap. These ones are Gucci, Gucci goggles. I've never demoed anything in my life. Doesn't seem from what I've seen anything crazy. Where are you just getting ready? She's getting her demo outfit on. I'm ready to demo on my demo outfit. It looks like you're in a music video. That's gonna break.  Maybe I should have gotten one of those actual mallets. But then like what do you do with all this on the wall?  I'm demolishing things right now, I can't answer. See, I took off a big chunk of the wall. Is that a spastic spec there? I don't even know what a spastic is. I just thought you just like kind of hammer on the wall and they fall off. This is bad. I sent a photo to Balin and said, I think I broke the house. The tile won't come off and he's calling. I moved to the wall.  It's the only way, you have no choice. This is hard. I've been spending like 30 minutes on this little section. So clearly it didn't go as planned. I ended up making quite a few holes in the wall. The tile was extremely hard to remove and I don't know if I just didn't purchase the correct tools or maybe I wasn't using like you know the proper hammer, which I kind of realized I probably should have had more of a mallet. But in the end I decided since I've never done any rental like this before, I'm going to bring in a professional that can teach me but also teach you guys some maybe tips and tricks, some helpful tools that might help in the process. And I would just like to learn because I'm gonna have to be removing so much more tile throughout the space. So I figured might as well have a little help on the first one. And then of course I could do the rest on the entire home with a little bit more knowledge. So currently just waiting for Roberto to come over and then we are going to get started. Roberto's here. Hello. How did you only bring these two tools?  Ask my blows. This is all we're using? Yeah. We're gonna have like jack hammers. It's not that bad? No. This is so hard. These are what I had used. What are your thoughts?  The only difference is because look, that's the only thing we're gonna have to damage and we have to be keep these circuits. Oh, okay. Got it. So we want to keep this. So like what you guys did over here. Exactly. Got it. But if you want to be just replace the tile, we just need to be pop the tile up. Yeah, and leave that like layer, this layer here. Exactly. Got it. We're about to get started and thankfully I brought my mask today and my gloves. I also didn't really mention that we're gonna be removing the upper cabinets in here as well. So there's two uppers on this side and then there's two uppers on this side. And I just don't really like them. They're kind of out of place and I don't think I'd use them cause we have quite a bit of cabinet space over here. So we're gonna pull those down and I'm gonna be getting rid of those. When you start, it's basically we need to just just door first. Remove the door and then the screw. So I decided to remove the upper cabinets in the main kitchen area. And that's because I want to have some open shelving in this space and I'd like to have more of an airy open design since I couldn't open up the walls completely. I decided that this would open up a little bit more of the space as well. So in that we had to remove all the upper cabinets which just basically requires using a crowbar to pop the cabinet off the wall. We got it. All right. That's the first one. And yes, my friends, I really thought I was gonna be able to give you some great information on how to remove this tile, but nope, we're just using exactly what I started with. A mallet and a crowbar. See that mallet? The little one? You have to get through a precise. Yeah, maybe that's what I'm doing. And it mainly was that I was doing that wrong. I wasn't as precise as I probably should have been but something that we also found out a little bit later was that the drywall that I was actually working against was a bit older and there was more of a sheetrock layer over on the opposite side, which is a bit more durable. So the drywall was kind of just crumbling. And at this point, I realized the drywall is gonna need repaired anyways. So I might as well make this easier on myself. Come here. It's like bricks in. At least it's not me. This up here probably wouldn't have broke as much. This is a lot of work. So tiring. Now I understand why people pay for this. Extremely sweaty. The first thing I could say is it's super hot in here and this is a lot of work. I did not realize how much upper body strength you need first of all to hammer. Like even the mallet itself is super heavy and we're using crowbars mallets and the drywall's damaged in a lot of the area.  So all around it is definitely trial and error. And I feel like every kitchen's different. Of course, this one is an older kitchen. It has a lot of older drywall in it. So that's probably the reason as to why, you know, I'm creating a bunch of holes. So we are gonna have to get the drywall patched and then I'll be able to tile over the top. And then as you guys saw, we started removing the upper cabinets. I wanted to really open up this space because it's quite a small kitchen in a large home. So I wanna make it feel larger without having to remove structural wall. So I'm removing the uppers and this is the last upper that I have to remove over here. He was here for like two hours and we got a majority done. But now I'm on my own, which is lovely. And then I have to finish the rest of the kitchen and then the wall behind and then this entire wall over here. So let's get started. That is sweat on my butt. All right, guys, we have our last piece. This is the last piece. Well, at least besides the wall, but... So this is what the demo kitchen looks like in the end. I know it looks absolutely insane at the moment. But basically what you guys are seeing is a lot of open drywall. We're exposing the framework and that wasn't the original goal. Originally I thought that we would be able to chip it off the top of the surface. Kind of like what we did on this side. As you guys can see this entire wall, really we didn't puncture any holes in it at all. And the floor tile that was applied to the wall was just so much easier to remove. It kind of came off in large chunks. Whereas for the smaller tiles, you needed to use a crowbar and kind of push against something to pry them off. And when you pushed against the drywall, it kind of collapsed inside unless you had a stud behind it. So that's why we have a lot of exposed drywall. So now basically what needs to happen is Balin's team is going to come back in and redrywall and just do brand new drywall all over this area or sheetrock.   And I hope this isn't gross, but I have to share it. I didn't even know you could sweat through denim. For some reason I thought it was like sweat proof. And clearly it's not. These are actually heavy at the moment. Like listen, back from the store and I got some bags and we discard all of this. Now I saw these on TikTok actually the other day which came in handy but these are basically like woven contractor bags. So they're heavier than your traditional bags. So if you need to haul out like material, you can do so. Let me open these. So here's what one of those bags looks like.  So let's start getting rid of all the trash but I'm gonna put on gloves and a mask first just so the dust doesn't go everywhere. Come the stars, come to shine when it's dark from so far away, show us where we are. What makes the sun go to sleep every night and what's it dreaming of? About two hours later and the kitchen is clean. Look at this guys, it looks so different already. It looks like I did a full gut job in here but this is really removing all of the tile. They are gonna have to drywall patch all of those areas that the tile of course ripped the drywall off of and they will be retiling over the top. Now I have a ton of fun ideas for this kitchen, been brainstorming and I am so excited. We also opened it up so much. So this is what that area looks like here and then over here, this is what that area kinda looks like when you go around the corner and then we have this demoed area as well because I'm gonna be redoing the backsplash there. Countertops are gonna be redone as well which is probably going to be the next step because I actually ended up bringing the countertop guy over but he told me that I needed to demo all of the tile before he could properly measure that way we can see the actual spacing that we have. So, the tile is demoed and we are ready for the countertop guy. I'm genuinely scared of this state that you're going to see me in throughout this house makeover journey but just don't hold it against me please. I really say my body has never been as sore as it currently is. I'm over at the house this morning because as you guys know, we finish up the kitchen demo or at least removing all the tile. I still do have to remove the floor tile but I'm hoping and I'm thinking that might be a little bit easier because they are larger and I'm pretty sure there's like a special tool to get it up. I've seen it online before but what I wanted to go over today was just a little bit more of the direction as to which I wanna take the kitchen because I believe the kitchen is gonna be one of the first spaces I'm planning on making over and that's because it's gonna be a space that's going to be utilized quite often. Of course, this is going to be the main kitchen used in the home. Now there is a second kitchen downstairs which is going to stay. A lot of people are asking me if I'm keeping two kitchens in this entire house and yes I am because the entire bottom floor is more so going to be like the Lone Fox headquarters in a sense if that makes sense and I might add people onto the team and such so I wanna have an area that I can expand and I already need a lot more space in general. So I actually wanna start with the upstairs kitchen first and I pulled up my mood board here. Exciting guys, we got internet at the house which is really great and it was fiber as well which is the best. I've slowly been creating little boards like this for every single room and just adding things as I go but this is using a site called Mila Note and this is sponsored in absolutely zero way but I thought it could be maybe a little bit helpful for you guys so I wanted to share a little bit of the kitchen direction. So in this board here, I have three images right here and this is kind of the color palette and tone that I kind of wanna go for a bit in terms of cabinetry. So I love these wood cabinets but we already do have cabinets in the kitchen space.  So I'm thinking of doing like a dark brown paint to kind of resemble the look of one of these. I just love the dark cabinetry contrasted with the like creamy, lighter cabinetry and I think that's something I wanna play around with is maybe doing the darker cabinetry in the main kitchen area and then maybe doing the creamier cabinetry in the butler pantry section and then over on the right side here we have some flooring options. Now, if you guys remember in my past video we went to country floors and I actually saw these terracotta styles here which I think are really great are decently priced for terracotta. Now this one was the one that I ideally wanted. I love this flooring. Something about it is just so moody. I thought it would be such a great base to kind of mix with some of our other photos over here but this flooring is so expensive. I can't even tell you guys the pricing of it. I emailed and asked for a quote on it and I can't even let you guys know but it's over $100 a square foot which is absolutely crazy but it's so pretty. It's all handmade which is definitely why. I thought that the placement of these bricks was really nice and I love how they utilize it in the kitchen. I just really love that really raw look in a kitchen like using brick or terracotta or natural stone and just make me almost feel like an outdoor, indoor environment in the kitchen space. That's something that I absolutely love. So this was another option over here from Bedrosians which is a lot more of an affordable option but it's more uniform and so I'm not loving that. I kind of want something a bit more organic. So I'm leaning more towards the terracotta but I'm still not entirely sure because our kitchen is really going to be dictated on the countertops and that is something we are conquering next guys within probably the next two videos or so we are going to be purchasing the slabs for the countertops and that's gonna be able to give me a bunch more direction because once I have actual photos of the slabs I could pop those in my little Mila note here but once we do up the slabs that's gonna give us a lot more direction because I'm really letting the marble slabs in this particular kitchen space determine a lot of the other selections and colors that we do utilize but something I wanna do which actually isn't on this mood board is I do wanna do a bit of a marble backsplash in the kitchen too so if you could imagine we're gonna have the marble countertops across the bottom or on the countertop and then up the backsplash I want it to go up probably about 18 to 24 inches of marble as well and that's because I really want this marble to be on display if I'm splurging on some Calcutta, Monet or Viola or these beautiful marbles with grain work in them I also want them to be almost wall art as well so I wanna bring it in the countertop bring it up the wall a bit I feel like that just gives it such a lux look and then on top of the marble I'm also considering kind of adding more of that Spanish element back into the kitchen with using some authentic 1920 Spanish tile and now these two are just reference photos for like some ideas I guess but I love the idea of maybe a mosaic style on top as like a trim border on top of the marble or maybe just a simple trim border that I can salvage from a salvage store I really can go two ways with the hardware in here you can go very Spanish revival and take it you know a little bit gothic in a sense and go black hammered iron with kind of those like scroll work details on the ends or we can bring it a little bit more transitional and kind of a little bit more modern as well but keep that Spanish flair and style with the terracotta because it is going to be one of the first spaces that we're working on in the home and I will say too that spaces are gonna be worked on simultaneously and that's just because when you have a house and you need flooring or wall tile or a new oven or anything like that it takes a very very long time normally when I'm doing these rental friendly makeovers I can go on Amazon and get a two day shift floor tile you know peel and stick for an apartment in my case I need about eight to 10 weeks to get the floor tile for like the bathroom or the kitchen so there is going to be some bouncing back and forth here and there but I think it's gonna be really fun and I'm trying my best to make sure that I'm editing it in a way that makes it really kind of fluid for you guys and makes sense as well so I hope that you enjoyed this video and it gave you a bit more of a direction as to where we're going for the kitchen space now I cannot wait for our next one new video coming this Sunday and guys don't forget to also follow me over on Instagram and TikTok because I post so much more over there which are both Lone Fox home I'll put them on the screen for you guys I finally got a pumpkin coffee my first one of the season I will say Duncan's though tastes a little bit like a pumpkin candle but I can deal with it, it's okay I'll catch you guys in my next one Bye!


Well, as a day to remember yesterday and brainered for the Pillager softball team, here's Clayton Castle for more on the Huskies punching their ticket to the state tournament. While they did it for the first time in school softball history, the Pillager Huskies are headed to the state tournament North Mankato after beating the Sabika Trojans eight to five here at Brainard High School. The Huskies got out to an early six-to-one lead after the first two endings, but ran into some trouble in the middle endings when Sabika came within one after the Huskies pitching staff was having trouble finding the strike zone. But the Huskies were able to settle down after that and tack on a few insurance runs in route to the victory. I talked to coach Greg Bennett after the game and asked him how it felt to be the first team in Pillager softball history to be headed to state. Very exciting. I think it's exciting for the whole community. I saw a lot of people here today and that's great. The girls, they deserve this. Like I said, they've worked hard. They've worked really hard. You know, from Miranda pitching, a great playoff run. Ella coming in today finished that off. Haley Brooks and Sam Thomas hitting so well and leaders like Vanessa and Vanessa Peterson and, you know, and Emma Licky. They're just huge leaders and they deserve this. Those girls really deserve this. Now the Huskies will begin their state tournament run next Thursday night in North Mankato. Reporting in Brainard, Clayton Castle, Lakeland News. So congrats again to the Pillager softball team. Here is their journey to get there. Four games, four wins. Of course those back-to-back wins against Sabika 12-9 and 8-5 to get that section crowd off. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casewrakes.com coming at you with 2019-2020 upper-deck allure hockey one-pack Random team break number 2020. This is the last one we got to do to do that cup hockey break given only the final 10 spots Which is coming up in a separate video if you're looking for that big. Thanks everybody here for getting in on the action appreciate it We're gonna do the pack break first and then we'll use a different dice roll to see to do the giveaway part But for the break three and a four seven times very quick pack One two Seventh and final time and seventh and final time. We've got the blue jackets down to the red wings In this lure pack. All right, so here's the first part of the list here No, no trade windows in these filler packs. We just want to get to the giveaway part as quickly as possible There's the other part of the list right there Let's print or else alphabetize. Let's print and rip and Then we'll re-randomize that list of names right there to see who wins those cup hockey spots Should be a lot of fun. There's the lure rookie here Lake Lizotte Kirby dock rookie die-cut red rainbow for Chicago Here's the final printout right here And that's gonna be for Sean M Blake goes to Sean and the Kings and the Alexander Taxi a Goes to Columbus. I think that's how you say a jack with the blue jackets. All right now Let's flip back here. Well, obviously the whole point of this is not necessarily what's in the pack But who's gonna win those cup hockey spots? So there's some new dice. There's a new list Let's get everybody's names back in there And let's roll it and randomize that list three and a one four times one two three and a one fourth and final time All right now from 11 on down sad times Not in the break, but I appreciate you giving this shot. Thank you taking things for taking the risk top 10 You're happy though because you're in that next cup hockey break steves in so is Logan Chris Sean Sean John Adam Mike Josh and Mark Congrats to the top 10. Happy times for you. You are in I do that. Yeah, four times four times.  We'll see you for that. Jasper's casewakes.com. Bye. Bye


Joe has a connection with Jamar Chase from his time at LSU. They showed their dynamic duo and I think Joe just played for him, you know, into the front office. I need this guy. We can be something special. We've already proven it. Get this guy in. I'll show you what's up. I don't even know if he's on track to come back for the beginning of the season. It was just ACL, right? It was, but he tore it I think week 11, somewhere around there. Yeah, it would be close. I mean with technology now, you know, people are returning a lot sooner than what it used to be. So they're not going to rush it. You know, they're not a playoff contender. So, you know, unless he's 100%, they're not going to risk it. Some people think otherwise, whether they're not a playoff contender or not, they just feel like there are a few pieces away. But you see right there on the bottom, if you guys are watching this live, you see that the team needs a wide receiver offensive tackle. Obviously we talked about Jamar Chase, Pines, who will tie it in. If Kyle Pitts felt them, I think they would have chosen him over Jamar Chase personally. Interior offensive linemen and an edge rusher are their biggest needs that they, that the Bengals would like to address at some point in this draft. As expected, Jamar Chase is now going to be a Cincinnati bangle for the foreseeable future. Joe Burrow's former teammate from LSU will now make that transition into being a wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals. Mikey, what are your thoughts on Jamar Chase? That's dressed so far. You can just tell he's elite. He looks like Randy Moss, about to just go in there and cook. I agree. He's definitely dressed really well. You know, this was my pick for the Bengals since day one. You know, Jamar and Joe, they just have that special connection. It'll be fun to watch them in the NFL. He can beat you so many ways. He's a great route runner. He has that top-end speed. He can line up inside, outside. Just a complete receiver. I mean, this draft is so much fun just because of the wide receiver class between Smith, Chase, Waddle, Bateman. I mean, the list goes down to about, like, seven guys that are, you know, first-round talent, but I think Jamar is just, like, on another level compared to those other guys. And, you know, I think the Bengals' mindset is they can get a tackle later on. I think they'll be able to get one early second round. So why not take the best wide receiver in this draft class?


buzz chat and I'm here today with Ben. Hey, hello. Hey, Christian. How's things? It's going well over here. So it's thanks for joining on your Friday afternoon. And as we go into yet another weekend, it's the community never stops. You know, it's a non-stop train to Funville. Exactly. That's a positive way to think about this stuff. You've got to be positive, haven't you? There's too much negativity in the world. When you think about the two, I mean, your MVPs in general are just very gregarious, very community focused, outspoken, friendly people. And one thing I always say is just that, well, first, you know what, before we get into the conversation, why don't you introduce yourself formally, who you are, where you are, what you do. Who is this guy?  My name is Ben Whitmore. I was recently awarded MVP in Enterprise Mobility. Literally, what are we on now? Nine days ago.  You might be able to tell from my accent that I'm here in the UK. And so I've been, okay, a bit about me. I've been working in IT for 20 years. I'm almost legacy status. So not in skill, but in terms of, man, he's been there a long time. And so I've come in, you know, I started at the, what I'd call the bottom. I knew nothing about ITIN and I kind of worked my way through. So I started building PCs. Then I started chucking network cables into places, you know, I think we had cat. Pull and cable. I have a friend that had business and did some of that with him. And that's real work.  Seriously, those are fun days. Actually, there's a really scary moment when I had to maybe I shouldn't say this on camera, but I had to crawl through a loft space. And it was all big pipes and lagging. And it was above a school hall.  And it's like a scene from aliens, you know, where Ripley is going across the pipes and the aliens are rushing through. And this stuff was lagged in asbestos. And I laugh about it now, but it's actually quite dangerous. And it was, so it's like a mix from aliens and Bruce Willis. So I had the cable between my teeth and I was crawling through this tunnel. So great memories of cable. Sure. I got some stories and things from that. Yeah, helping out. I was just doing my helping out with my friend's business. But yeah, yeah, it's, well, it's, I know that I'd love to hear more about that because a lot of people ask that question, like kind of what is your path into becoming an MVP. But I mean, career wise, I mean, it's very similar. It's like you start out, you make connections, you just, you are open to learning and kind of go from there. So what was the rest of your path with your role? Well, see, I had no idea what I wanted to do. So I left school and I went to work in the local supermarket just to get some cash. And then I became a fishmonger. And I guess that got me into IT because I knew I didn't want to be a fishmonger for the rest of my life. So that's not a common term in the US and I've heard it. Like I usually hear it like in reference, like in Lord of the Rings, it was referenced as a warmonger, not a fishmonger, as you know, chases after that. So what's a fishmonger? Oh, it's just somebody chops up fish and sells it to people. Well, there you go. Okay. Yeah, so from there, I was really fortunate to go and work for a local company just to build PCs and, you know, and that's where my love really, the spark really clicked. And I thought PCs, you know, IT is for me. So building PCs, doing the networking cabling with a local company, you know, I had maybe five, six years experience doing that. And it kind of set me off on my path really. And then I moved into a local school, was looking after their network. And from the local school, I then went to work for local government. And I sat in local government for 14 years, just working my way up through the different ranks. And when I started that job, I said, I'm going to be here for two years. This is going to be a stepping stone and I'm going to move on. But 14 years later, you know, it's great. And I met so many great people. And it gave me kind of space to breathe and grow. Because I guess in public sector, you don't have the same pressure as you do in the private sector. So I had that room to grow and improve, which kind of brings me, I guess, to where I am today. So back in March, I had the opportunity to join a company called Cloudway. And that company, for me, who was then just starting, you know, to look at enterprise mobility and Windows 10 and migrations and things, they were the kind of stars to have the opportunity to, you know, Ben, do you want to come and work with us? It's like, man, all you guys are MVPs. And there's just little old Ben from the UK. But they never made me feel like I was anything less than them. You know, they looked at my skillset, what I was doing in the community, because I was already blogging at that stage and doing events and things. So I joined them. And it's been a wild ride ever since, you know, from March until today. So joining an awesome company. So there's eight employees, all MVPs, you know, they're so good at what they do, to be in a team and working with people at that level. And then to get invited on to the MVP program and to be accepted, it was just, you know, stuff of dreams. And because it's something I love doing. I love, I love working with people who have that same passion, you know, the same drive to work with technology to just make the experience for users better.  And if I can make people's lives better, that sounds a bit cliche. But if you put in all the work under the hood and then you see a really great outcome, that's, that's where I get the love from. You know, there's, no, I think there's a lot to be said about that. And I think that's one shift that has happened shift in thinking due to the pandemic, as people have started in such a tight, you know, market now for, for, for work.  Like if you are a, if you're in a crappy situation with the bad manager, not, you know, you've got skills that you can go and market, then there are opportunities that are out there. Companies, you know, my company, tons of hire, we've, in the last 10 months, we've hired over 400 people. And it's just, we're just growing immensely. But the struggle, what slowed us down is finding the right people with the right skills. Yeah. And it's a tight market. It is. And it's like you said, there's, there seems to be a lot of opportunities at the moment. And throughout the rough ride, we've all had over the last 18 months, that's maybe, you know, from our perspective in IT, that's a good thing that's come out of, you know, a good thing coming out of a bad thing is that it's, there is a lot more opportunity now. And, you know, everybody's moving stuff to the cloud. And it's, if you've not started the journey, you're halfway through it at least. Well, it's not just about finding a job for the technical skills match. But, you know, where I was going is, is people are reflecting on what am I really trying to do? Am I, am I passionate about this? Is it, am I, you know, the right personal growth? Is it doing the right things for, for, for my health, for, for the world, for the, the, you know, the economy to for, for nature is like, what are the impacts out there? And so it's really allowed people to, because we had extra time sitting at home, to think about what are we doing and why are we doing that? Absolutely. And, and the exciting thing is that I've seen a lot of companies now pick up the newer technology where they may have been a bit slow and apprehensive to go into it before they've almost been forced, you know, and in a good way, because they're seeing a lot of benefit from it, you know, and if, if the IT team is seeing benefit from it, because they're getting people working from home, you know, that makes my job just awesome, because I'm doing something I love and they're getting something awesome out of it as well. And, and you're right, it's a bit of a passion. And, and for me, coming into the consultancy role, to be able to work with like-minded people who had that same drive and passion in what they did is kind of the icing on the cake. Absolutely. You know, there's something to say. So my company, there are five of us that are MVPs and then three regional directors. And so it was actually, it's a huge part of my decision to join. They were one of my clients. I was independent until last December, but was that because I knew the company, you know, worked with the company for years, and I knew that they were very supportive of the community side of that and what that meant. Obviously, I have a job to do. I have my, my manual commitments. I've got like those things that I'm doing day in and day out, but they also recognize and leave room for the community activities and even help with, especially if you can find a company that, you know, occasionally I say, look, there's no like, we're not there at this event when events are happening again. You know, but we're not there or we're not sponsoring or maybe we're doing a digital sponsorship, but we're not there, but they may still cover my travel to go to this event because it is visibility. It is brand building for the company. There's goodwill that's, that's developed. That's actually, that's actually been a discussion point of, of like the value because a lot of community, it's almost, it's like a, it's a long play on marketing. There may not be the immediate short term, you know, clearly identifiable metrics out of you attending monthly community meetings or going to weekend community events or even to the larger conferences. So how does your organization measure those things and look at those activities? Ah, you're not, they're so cool. We've, we've just brought in this concept of no meetings, Fridays. And yet here we are. No. Oh, it's, oh, this is, this is fun stuff. Like I said to you before, I'm not having to cook the, my kids didn't make some talking to you about stuff I love. So that's good. So yeah, we've got this concept of no meetings, Fridays. So, and this is the awesome thing. So you're absolutely right. I need time to grow and to learn and to play with stuff and to blog and do that stuff that gives me enjoyment to keep my spark and my interest. And especially with a family, I was doing that in the evenings and on weekends. And then I was thinking, well, how can I balance my time? No, because I've got a young family who needs me. And so this concept of no meetings, Fridays, we all block our calendar out. No meetings. And we are literally working together on solutions on blog posts, on community stuff. We're listening to podcasts. I'm trying to get through that stack of books behind me. And it's all about personal growth. And we're going to be measuring how that works over six months using Viva Insights. And, and hopefully it's going to be here to stay because I know the feedback I've had from the people I work with is, it's just awesome. We're not spending the weekend evenings or the weekends sometimes on that learning process because we have to keep fresh, don't we? Yeah. If we don't keep fresh, somebody else comes along and takes our job. Well, it's funny that, you know, and having worked for companies that did not allow for the community component and viewed it as competing with your time. Like they just weren't, you know, in fact, I was, I had one company that I worked for that was, I would argue jealous of the community activities and the executive team of the attention that I was getting, the recognition through that and was furious every time I did a blog post, even on my personal blog, that I wrote over the weekend of my time that didn't mention the company or one of our products. Really? Like, yeah, that's kind of not the point. Yeah.  I don't want to bring this, I don't want to bring the vibe down on that. Let's keep the fire going. Yeah. Well, hey, why don't we go? So I always like to ask to like, kind of, so enterprise mobility MVP. So what are you writing about and talking about right now on that topic? Oh, wow. Do you know this, this, that category spreads, you know, so enterprise mobility. So I look at things from, from the Windows 10 and device management through to identity and security and kind of everything in the cloud that pulls that together. So it's such a wide spreading category. I mean, my most recent post was we've started we've called it the mega series on single sign-on. So there seems to be this misconception that if you've got an Azure AD joined device, so these are people who are going clouds, you know, like in tune for management devices joined to Azure AD, no on-prem. There's companies out there who still want the users to be able to connect back to on-prem and access file shares, you know, and stuff because there's some legacy workloads that are really difficult to move.  And that's just not the case. So we've tried to demystify that for people if we can. Historically, hasn't that been the, hasn't that been the case historically though? I mean, yeah, yeah.  I think there's this preconception and hopefully we're breaking this down, you know, so, and there's a lot of people in the community singing from the same hymn sheet. So if I've got a machine in the, you know, in the cloud, then I have to hybrid join. I have to join it's my domain to better access my domain resources. And that's just not the case. You know, so where companies have like a domain and Azure AD, they normally have an AD connect synchronizing identities between the two. Yeah. And when you're logging on to an Azure AD join device and you get your primary refresh token, if that's a synchronized identity, you already have the necessary information about the domain. So if you've got line of sight of your domain and your domain controllers, then the Kerberos authentication just happens.  So this blog series with I blog on MS endpoint manager.com. So it's over there. It's going to be like a nine part mega series showing people how single sign on works, how single sign on works for Windows Hello for Business, and then how they can set up like a very basic VPN to get connectivity back to the company, you know, you have to send me the links to that stuff in the blog post profile that all so if anybody that's finding this video or listen to the podcast, if you go out to buckleyplanet.com and there'll be a summary blog post around this as well, and I'll provide all those links. So send me all the links that you'd like on that series. It'd be great. Yeah, yeah, it's so much fun. And actually, just yesterday, we were doing the Windows 365 community event. And we were just, that was so much fun as well. We would talk about Windows 365 from what's coming in all the new cool stuff and how easy it is and how cool it is and so yeah, so and surprisingly, you get spread like butter, you know, you might be interested. So I just posted today. So this, of course, this our conversation will go live in a couple of weeks. But episode 22 of my podcast, which I'm doing weekly now, we talked about the impact of Windows 365 and not just of Windows 365, but the nature of software as a service and how that is impacting customers, partners, and Microsoft and how they're delivering and what the market looks like. It's yeah, we're in an interesting world now where we have still a ton of on-prem and that's alive and kicking and strong and Microsoft supporting them hybrid, of course, and then all the cloud pieces, but also how we sell those, how we consume those different pieces. It's there's a lot of interesting things going on now. It is. It's like we said before, it's like being a kid in the candy shop, you have all this technology, but there's so many choices now. And the biggest challenge I've found is it's kind of convincing people that it's okay to put that toe in the water and try something new. Have a look in that catalogue of new tech that's available and just start trying it out, even if it's in the lab. Because I think you'll find it will free up the way that your customers are able to access their PCs and data. And this is coming off the back of the Windows 365 event and just seeing how simple it is to have that persistent PC in the cloud that is accessible from any device at any time. I can be working at my desk in my office, go downstairs and pick up my tablet and carry on from the same PC. That's just. I'm just thinking of like giving your background as well. And I didn't have a similar role, but was very worked very closely with the IT teams and a number of different companies that owned the desktops that owned the devices. And when somebody knew starting up, they needed a couple of days to load the new PC or just set it all up. Yeah. Constantly fine tuning things and how different of a world that is now. So where I mean, especially with Windows 365, I mean, have that control and not worry about let Microsoft do the heavy lifting on the things that they own. Absolutely. So we had the concept of autopilot, which was literally taking machine off the shelf. It's already registered to the tenant. The user switches the machine on and it's pre-configured and that is awesome. There are still use cases for tar sequences and config, man. Absolutely. And it's still a very strong product, but to be able to pick a machine off the shelf and just switch it on and you're there is amazing. And Windows 365 just comes on the back of that as well. That whole persistent experience where you're not having to build custom images or deploy scripts.  It has to be automated and that's key. Absolutely key. When I was especially, how complex our worlds are, the fact that we have the different profiles built into our laptops. So it's not just that. It's being able to switch between the profiles. I mean, multi-tenancy, how big of an issue is. It's funny with a lot of the multi-tenant issues. A lot of the stuff, it used to be that Microsoft, they did not have them at high priority, the issues that we're having because MVPs and hardcore consultants were having this issue, but the vast majority of customers were not having these multi-tenancy issues. That's not really the case anymore. It's becoming very prominent. So Microsoft has had to address that. Yeah. And literally, I just find my edge browser now and I've got about actually 7 million and 52 profiles. But it's cool because those profiles contain a unique identity. So for me, accessing different tenants now is as simple as just switching a profile on my browser. Well, Ben, really appreciate your time talking today. Folks that want to find out more about you or connect with you, what are the best ways to reach you? Yeah. So I blog at MSnpointmanager.com. You'll find me on LinkedIn. If you follow hashtag Cloudway or hashtag team Cloudway, you'll see me pop up because we're doing so many cool stuff with those guys. I'm on Twitter at Byteben. My DMs are open. So if you see anything I'm blogging about and you've got questions, I'm happy to jump on board and try and answer those for you. Awesome. And again, I'll have all the links to all your social profiles. And I don't promote this enough, but you can go to mvp.microsoft.com, of course, you can find any MVP. It's not good at finding who are all the MVPs in the UK that are focused on enterprise mobility. You can't do that, but you can do keyword searching and, of course, name searching and find folks on there. And from your profile, click on and find kind of all of those main social platforms as well. It's cool. It feels like I'm walking on the shoulders of giants now. To see your name up there in MVP is such an honor. It's pretty cool. It's kind of a running joke when you describe it like when you get renewed to stuff to say I'm humbled and I'm honored and humbled or humbled and honored. And it's the same two words that everybody used so it becomes kind of cliche. So try to find other words to describe it. But I mean, it is, it's a great honor. I'm excited to be in the community and get to meet other MVPs and find out about what you're working on. So hopefully we'll see each other face to face at the next summit in person. That'd be awesome. And maybe we can play bass guitar together or something. I don't know. That's right. I know. I should pan the camera over to gathering dust right now. We need an online jam, MVP jam live. There you go. We've set the scene. That sounds like a hot mess. We open that up to others, but it's great talking to you and connecting with you and we'll talk to you soon. E2, all the best.


the previous lecture we talked about the particle energy field and I described the components of the particle energy field and what are the particle energy fields which normally we talk about and our interest is to understand how the particle or the geomaterial is going to behave in these electric fields. And this is where we also talked about you know possibilities of different new concepts which have to be researched and applied in day to day life. I will henceforth I will move on on more focused areas of environmental geomechanics and particularly the waste. The context is like this that waste is also created by human beings and hence human beings are the best species which should be utilizing the waste which they create and if this happens this becomes a zero discharge concept which is being you know enforced by most of the industrial units where they say it is a zero discharge unit nothing comes out of the industry everything is consumed there everything is recreated there and so on. This is becoming a very interesting philosophy that so called waste which was not having any value how this is becoming a man made resource and if I can convert any of the waste materials into a man made resource that would be an engineering or that would be a technology that would be a very interesting initiative to safeguard the humanity or the mankind against this curse of you know unattended material which is lying on the surface of earth. So, with this in context the subtopics which I am going to talk about would be the waste generation what are the forms of the waste which are normally generated we will talk about the hazardous waste we will talk about the non-hazardous waste and then we will talk about the examples and differences between these two types of waste and then what is the need for characterization of the material because the waste itself is a material as you must have noticed I have written this is a man made resource. So, any resource you would like to understand to the precise details before you start utilizing it or before you create the strategy for its utilization. Now, when we talk about the need for characterization the most important thing is that we would like to talk about the issues which are related to its utilization its reuse its recycling and if I can recover some of the precious materials from the waste. So, this is what the complete cycle is where the waste is treated as a man made resource and the present day circumstances are like this that there is no way except to treat the waste as a resource material and this resource could be for infrastructure development different type of composites development and so on. So, the first thing is that we have to understand what is the generation or what is the source of so-called waste normally we do not use the word waste this is a shift in recent times sometime back people used to talk the unwanted material which is coming out of the industry or from the municipal activities as the waste material. Now we say that this is a man made resource so the more emphasis is on man made resource rather than the waste so nothing is a waste for me in this universe provided I do judicious thinking investigations and then if I develop a approach to utilize it in the most ingenious manner. So, as far as the source of generation of this metal is concerned that is I hope you are aware of mostly it comes out of the industries or the municipalities. So, the material depends upon from where it is getting generated its toxicity will depend upon that normally it is understood that the industrial waste are going to be more toxic as compared to the municipal waste alright because of the level of activities which are quite different another interesting aspect is the waste may degrade in harmless products or sometimes this may also be a harmful product also. Waste could be hazardous and non-degradable and sometimes the hazardous waste depending upon their cumulative effect or cumulative different detrimental effects they might become very critical to handle. So, these are the four forms of the waste which normally we tend to deal with solids for example would be you know any industrial process you take the solids that generated mind tailings particularly different types of fly ashes which come out of the system slag which come out of system red mud which come out of system alright. There could be the soil which is disintegrated completely and you are trying to create an infrastructure and somebody has recommended that remove the soil and fill it up with the right material, granular material. Now the question is where to dump this type of soil. So these are the solid form of the waste similarly dredged material could also fall in the category of the solids whatever you are taking from the water bodies be it sea, oceans, lakes whatever you are dredging and you are keeping aside this could be in the solid phase liquids are also associated with industrial process domestic process sea waste sludge could be of any type it could be industrial or it could be domestic. Any type of sludges and sludges normally contain gaseous phase and liquid phase and solid phase alright. So, these are the four situations which normally we have to deal with and so solids, liquids, sludges and gases and then there could be a combination of all this depending upon the multi-phase system which we might be interested in dealing with as I said it would depend upon the source and sometimes the waste may get disintegrated or degraded into harmless products. This concept is now being researched by Arif my student. So we are more interested into degradability of the materials, geomaterials and I have been emphasizing since first lecture that you know the practical situation is where the material does not remain as it is always. So modeling becomes very difficult that means the properties of the geomaterials including the waste materials they keep on changing with respect to time. So this is the new dimension which now everybody is trying to work on they are trying to see how degradability of the geomaterials be soils, be it rocks, be it industrial bi-products, waste products and so on is taking place number one and how to model it mathematically so that it can be employed in day to day life. Sometimes waste could be non-degradable also. Now the question is which one is better degradable material or non-degradable material? What will be your answer? So this question itself is a philosophical question it might be having different types of answer depending upon the type of material you are working with. So sometimes we want waste to this degrade like municipal solid waste there is a whole idea of putting into landfills so that it gets disintegrated degraded and then after 10 years when I come over there it is all in the passive form very nice but you might not be able to convert all the waste into this type of passivated form because they are non-degradable and then the problem lives along with the material for several years. I hope you are getting a feel of this. Sometimes the materials could be hazardous sometimes the materials could be toxic so these are the attributes associated with the material which we will be talking about in details. So it is very interesting to understand what are the definitions which people have given for defining the waste as such. So there are several definitions and interpretations and why I am citing it here is that it gives you an idea about that how abstract and incomplete the definition of the waste are and hence many of you question that you know what are the research components associated with the subject. So when you start reading these definitions and interpretations lot of ideas come to your mind and those ideas become a very very glaring example of contemporary research. So if you read the first definition which is given by United Nations environment program this being a UN body their emphasis or their focus is entirely on a different aspect of the waste. So if you read the first sentence that self says waste other than radioactive waste. I hope you are getting a feel of you know why the directly they talk about radioactive waste only why any reason for this. Sir let us say always waste are not reactive so radioactive it starts up like for very reactive words. Why UNEP should be talking about all the waste put together in one class and radioactive waste put in another class that is the question all that is fine first try to understand the language. Why UN is more interested in all the categories of waste on one side and radioactive waste on the one side obvious reasons try to understand. Anyway so waste other than the radioactive waste which by reasons of their chemical reactivity or toxic explosive corrosive or other characteristics cause danger or likely to cause danger to the health or the environment whether alone or coming into contact with other ways are legally defined hazardous in the state in which they are generated or in which they are disposed of or through which they are transported. So a lot of things have been talked about the materials alright transportation disposal utilization reutilization combination of different ways interacting with each other any chemical reaction which might occur in the system alright in isolation and in combination. So I hope you realize that see this is how you read the text and then you form research ideas are you getting this idea or no that is the genesis of the research. So when you think about all these issues then the research develops so if you read these words they connote to some phenomena a process is this okay I think I am trying to tell you how to imagine something which you should be working on in the days to come. So this is how newspaper headlines might you know bother you and you might start working on those topics. So materials which are inherently dangerous to the human body or to animals including but not limited to materials that are toxic and poisonous these are the attributes of the ways which have been talked about you know they are irritants. I might see you and I might get irritated so for me a person whom I do not like might be an irritant you agree that could be a situation. So it is an attribute it these type of materials are strong sensitizers their strong sensitizers means what is sensitization so it is one of the sensitizing agents so if you are traveling in locals and maybe congested malls what you feel you get sensitized the smell of the sulphur which bothers you suppose a person like me walks through a fish market I know many of you would not get sensitized but a person like me will get sensitized because I normally I am a vegetarian but those who are not for them there is no sensitivity but those who are they get sensitized just by seeing just by feeling or just by smelling and so on this could be flammable also I think we have talked about these issues in the previous discussions that many times it happens that the waste in the landfill under certain conditions of chemical activity or environmental temperature and pressure might become flammable a good example would be different type of oils or the hydrocarbons which are lying in the landfills and when peak summer comes you know there is something known as their flashpoint index or there is something known as vapor pressure they may catch fire and once these materials catch fire in the landfill the landfill system is going to become unstable then we could have explosions also because of fire or vice versa there could be a fire and there could be explosion or there could be explosion there could be fire so I am sure when you were a kid maybe 10 15 years back when the Iraq war took place and lot of Indian companies they brought this crab from Iraq to India particularly the steel scrap so the chances were that when they brought it and they were smelting this material there were unexploded bombs also in the scrap and when they put it in the furnace their whole industry got blasted particularly this happened in Delhi a lot you must have read about this no so I mean this is something we directly influences the society alright this is the waste material from another country which I thought that I will carry along with me to my country and I can flourish and ultimately what happens there were some unexploded shells life shells and the moment you put them in the furnace they exploded alright they could be infectious so many times the attribute of the waste is that they are infectious either by themselves or when this material comes in contact with some other material so this is a potential source of transmission of disease to humans domestic animals or wildlife alright so these are the attributes which normally we talk about this could be radioactive also the waste could be radioactive material which I have been discussing so sufficient radioactivity and it so happens that nowadays because India is becoming a atomic major we have to establish several atomic waste disposal sites so that our atomic program goes uninterrupted and this is a lot of association of geotechnical engineers has to be and I think I have discussed about these issues in earlier classes where the question was how to isolate the radioactive waste from the geoenvironment how to dispose it after disposal how to monitor what is happening in the geoenvironment and so on. So these are beautiful examples of why environmental geotechnologist should be very active in today's world pesticides so the more and more agriculture you are trying to have in the country the more and more issues we have discussed about this so more and more fertilizers more and more pesticides and ultimately either this goes to the plants which is known as plants uptake capacity or sometimes the soil itself might get deteriorated because of application of pesticides and fertilizers particularly chemicals and hence people are nowadays talking about the organic fertilizers. So I am sure you can imagine now different types of situations which might occur in the society a farmer would be having a different type of issue associated with farming and hence production of the waste products as compared to the guy who is coming from industry and he or she is facing another type of problem but the magnitude and the type of the problem remains same.


It's insane. Okay. Everything we've talked about and everything we've said is worthless. The top two teams, the top two teams from every division are automatically in the playoffs. Astros and A's probably in. Twins and Indians, Twins and White Sox probably in. Yankees raised probably in. Nothing matters. So nothing matters. Nothing matters. This whole regular season is a farce.   I will accept it after I'm done giving the rant. As soon as I'm done explaining why I hate it, I will accept it. I will embrace it and I will dive into the silliness of it. But everything that we thought mattered doesn't matter. The top two teams are automatically in. Yeah.    I understand. I know. Okay. The labor negotiation side. I understand why everyone did this because MLB wants more playoff games because they want to make up all the lost revenue from COVID. MLB players, half of them are now going to start the season thinking, fuck, this isn't going to be worth it if we don't even make the playoffs. This gives them a better chance of making the playoffs. This also gives them a ton of money because they weren't getting any money on playoff shares really before this. So now they get this. So I understand why they all said yes to this. As a fan, I think this sucks. As a Red Sox fan, as a Blue Jays fan, as a White Sox fan, as a Angels and Rangers fan, you guys should be ecstatic, ecstatic. How nice of you to include the Red Sox in there. You're welcome, Red Sox fans. After Trev said your whole city sucked. Now here's where it gets so funky. I need your guys' help. I can't even figure out what is being said in this tweet by Jeff Passin. Okay, let's go. The one and through three seeds will go to the division winners based on record. We got that. So the west, the central, and the east, that's the one, two, three seed. Bang. Overall record between those one, two, three. Yeah. Huge. Seeds four through six will go to the runners up based on record.  Okay. Seed seven and eight are the wild card seeds, just overall record. What are you confused about so far? Well, I just think that's dumb. There's a possibility the third best division winner. So say the Red Sox get in as the wild card, right? And they have a really good record. They could play a worse team than the two best division winners. So if you're the wild card, you can potentially play a team that's worse than who the Yankees would have to play as being the first place seed. You lost me a little there.  You lost me a little there. It's incredibly confusing because they're ranking the four through six. They're ranking the second place finishers. So does anyone get a buy? Let's start there. I don't know. We haven't got there, man. Okay. Well, that would help. I think we're not even we're not even there yet. Okay. I think if we were there, that might help, though. What's the set up right now? We have three division winners, two wild cards. And three, three second place division. No, I'm saying. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So we had we had 10 teams making the playoff. Essentially, we're adding six more teams, which is ridiculous. It's too many.


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Women make up more than 50% of the population, so where are we in history? I was taught that there are two sides to every story, but the American story has mostly been written from just one side. I think that the future of our nation is dependent on the continuation of a diversity that made us healthy and strong and unique. Not acknowledging this full shared story of America has cost us. It's robbed us of our natural path, once forged, but then forgotten. And oh how hard we've worked to find it again. It's very important to include our story as immigrants and as Native-born Americans and our contributions. Without it, there are holes as big as Swiss cheese in the American story. It's so important to recognize the contributions, the progress that has been made by women throughout the ages. If we don't honor the accomplishments, leadership, and vision of all the people, including women, then we really haven't told the full American story, have we?