Thanks for checking out this movie review video. This is for the 1982 So bad, it's good classic by Frank Hennan-Lotter and that is basket case And I will say on a personal note. I believe this was the very first so bad It's good film I ever saw so I remember the first time watching it just being like What? What did I just see you know and then after that I was oddly intriguing and I It I was drawn back to the film and I've been drawn back many times since so I forgot to grab Where I was watching it from I actually have the trilogy Blu-ray pack from Germany that I got from diabolic DVD about a year ago And it was the only one they had in stock so I got really really lucky But because of that I do plan on doing all three of the basket case films reviewed I might even put them out, you know day after each other But for the second one, I'll go ahead and show you the the Blu-ray box set that I have anyway, like I said written and directed by Frank Hennan-Lotter who did other films such as brain damage Frank and Hooker bad biology Herschel Gordon Lewis the godfather of gore, which is a documentary Chasing Banksy another documentary and boiled angels the trial of Mike Diana another documentary So obviously he did all his more creative stuff in the beginning of his career and then he transitioned to more documentary stuff later I do have reviews on my channel already for brain damage and for bad biology Like I said, I'm gonna do the other two basket cases and actually I will also be doing Frank and Hooker Quite soon within the next month or so so that'll be up there, too There is a playlist on my channel for the Hennan-Lotter reviews. So you can check that out Kevin Van Hintenrich appears in all three of the films. He's the one who plays Dwayne Bradley brother to the detached Siamese twin Belial, I guess People just know him as Belial, but I guess he has a last name because he's a living thing and it was as Siamese brother So it's Belial Bradley So I usually don't think of him think of him in those terms because you think of him more as a creature or monster because of a the way he looks Be the way he acts and see the way he's been treated his entire life Which by the way this film kind of as I was watching it made me wonder What would have happened if Belial had been accepted if he hadn't been uh Separated from Dwayne and they accepted them as one person or as two people conjoined or if they separated him And kept him alive but treated him somewhat normal or gave him love to some degree It would have been a different story, but then we wouldn't have had Basti case So that would have been a problem Anyway, uh, they had about a $35,000 budget in this film and supposedly from some of the tidbits I looked up Frank Hennan-Lotter said that the scene in the film where Dwayne first gets to the The motel where he ends up renting his room. He pulls out a wad of cash that the the guy at the register comments about and Excuse me, apparently that was the actual budget for the film Like all that money that he pulls out on screen was the money that they used for the budget of the film So that's crazy. Now that thing said that said $35,000 in my opinion even back in the 80s For what they were able to do in this film, especially with the gore and the practical effects I think that Hennan-Lotter did an excellent job kind of stretching that money and getting a lot of bang for the buck One of the things I really point to is with such a low budget For this film I would have assumed that they would have just talked about the actual surgery and separation of belial from Dwayne But no, they actually show it and do a pretty solid job for being as you know, low budget as it is So I was very shocked by that Knowing how low budget it was So man, Hennan-Lotter knows how to stretch his money He wrote the film Based on some inspiration that he gained from just walking around Times Square. He called Sorry, excuse me He called New York City at that point CD CD wonderful atmosphere And I think that's a accurate at that time and b really comes through in the film Especially with how much of it he ends up showing, you know when Dwayne's walking from You know point a to point b or running nude down the street, which by the way that scene they did not have a permit to shoot They literally just had a van on the road and Bradley was in it and they had a heater going on there And then they would just like when it seemed kind of clear the coast is clear He would jump out nude onto the street go running and they would film as much as they could Do a little bit of it and then jump back into the van real quick and take off So guerrilla style filmmaking at its best you could say Belial is a mix of a puppet on Hennan-Lotter's hand at certain times and you can tell when he's you know Being manipulated as a puppet and then there's some portions of stop motion, which I love stop motion animation So the fact that there is stop motion in this is great And I think potentially one of my favorite scenes in the entire film is the stop Is a stop motion portion of belial the one where he's flipping out in the room because Dwayne is gone And he's just mad that he's alone and has nothing to do really because he broke the television that Dwayne got him But that whole like freak out scene is potentially my favorite It's great and the stop motion looks good for this being such a crappy low budget film So yeah A lot of the in credits apparently for this are fake names because they had a very small cast and crew And they didn't want it to just be the same people's names over and over So for fun, they basically made up names so the credits look more impressive Than it actually was In the beginning of this film the shot of the shadow cutting the phone line looks amazing the first part when lift later I think is is the the doctor's name the first guy to get killed But you don't see who's doing it There's a like a phone line that gets cut outside of his house because it's dark out But there's some light But it's the it's the shadow of Dwayne at that point And you just see the shadow put its hand up and then it gets clipped that shot looks really cool And it's a cool way to start it. It looks menacing. It looks, you know, it looks good. It looks great in my opinion I love the belial breathing noise that you end up getting when he's kind of on the hunt In general though, the noises that they have belial make are wonderful because they're sinister sounding They sound feral, which is important for making him more sinister and more Dangerous and then like the freak out moments where he's just like Like it's distressing to a degree too So I just think that how Henen Latter designed these sounds all the sounds that belial makes worked really well for Him as a creature, I guess I'm just gonna say creature because he kind of is The contrast of the clean cut Dwayne in a dirty city That looking, you know The look like new york city had is very mismatched and obviously that's very early on, you know When he first goes to the motel It's just a cool kind of visual of like how he looks so out of place And he really is very out of place because he is kind of a wholesome type person Except for the fact that he's on On a mission to help his brother go on a murderous rampage of all the people who separated them So yeah, you know, no point is he kill anyone But he's an accomplice for sure He he didn't even drink that's another thing the other clean cut aspect of him is that he didn't even drink Like he had never been drunk until the one drunken scene in the film with kasey in the bar Which is funny because the acting is insane like van hentenricks Acting about acting for being drunk not so great, but hilarious. I might have been in The mystery of why dwayne is there and what's in the basket is pretty engaging at least early on in the film And then he pulls out the blood splattered documents and your interest gets peaked even more Like you understand then the opening scene he was involved with Then you also start to question. What is the point here? What are those documents? What is the significance it's going to make to the story and where are we going from here? Especially someone who looks so clean cut as dwayne and out of his element The cuts are rough in this they are very rough when it goes from one shot to another shot the The screen legitimately jumps real quick. So it hasn't held up that great Obviously it's very low budget. So it's a little hard to watch sometimes because of that you have to be able to Kind of block that out If the guy who ends up stealing the basket early on when he was in the theater when dwayne was in the theater If he could just kick that lock off of it What was really the point of having the lock in the first place? That means it really wasn't working and belial as strong as we see him being Probably could just push his way out of the basket Or someone could just break in easily by just you know pulling it off because the guy doesn't even kick hard He just opens it up. But you know Dr. Needleman looks greasy But that goes with kind of the whole field of the film because new york city and this looks kind of greasy It's the seedy underbelly thing that i was talking about before The first reveal of belial is surprising and the feral yelling he uh when he attacks Sells the savagery of needleman's death Now the savagery in general with all the noises of belial is sold like crazy With every time he attacks someone all the kills all the blood flying all over the place and My favorite scene where he's just flipping out and tearing apart the motel room In general for being so low budget the practical facts are not bad at all And i would say that the design of belial is pretty freaky. So Good on that I think my favorite scene. Oh, I already talked about that one the reveal of the psychic link between dwayne and belial Takes it to that kind of next level of weird and they don't do it immediately. They kind of wait for it It's a little bit eluded to when he initially tries to go to sleep in the hotel room that first night Because he's you know kind of trying to ignore He's arguing with belial and you're not hearing anything as an audience member But at that point you think oh, you know, maybe it's low budget Maybe they just didn't you know put his voice in there or something But then later on you actually realize. Oh, there is kind of like this psychic link. They can talk in each other's heads So that is that it's that next level of weird The visual of the toilet talk scene when belial comes out of the toilet because he was hiding in there from people And then dwayne and he and dwayne are having like a serious conversation A it's like an iconic scene for this movie and b it's hilarious and I love the visual of it It's so great But this is the first time when they're talking there that you start to actually get a feeling that dwayne is not liking his position in their relationship he's Not out outwardly hating it But he is a bit frustrated by it because he's starting to feel really kind of hand handcuffed by his relationship with belial and doing all these things for belial and all the things that He realizes he's not able to go and do himself because belial will have a freak out or be discovered or whatever Or just be mad Dwayne drunk is not convincing But it's hilarious and his laughing when he's talking to kasey in the bar That made me laugh his laughter made me laugh because it's ridiculous, but I love it Showing the separation surgery is awesome and impressive like I said for how low budget it was I could not believe they did that but it's a great scene and it's a great scene for the Impact of the actual backstory of how belial and dwayne came to the point They are where they're on this kind of bloody revenge rampage um The groundwork is laid for the final shocking scene because of the scene where belial starts groping kasey When he sneaks into kasey's bed in the motel and starts groping her breast That's the precursor to letting you know that the belial is starting to have or has sexual At least thoughts, you know, I don't even know if he has a penis and in the end with that shocking scene I don't know like was he actually having sex with her. Maybe I'll find out in the second one I actually haven't seen the second one yet. So that'll be my first time.  I mean when he's flipping out in the hotel You don't see it So I assume he doesn't even have one So just saying the screaming and attack scenes end up being drawn out a little bit long Now some people might really like that because of the ridiculous aspect of it It just kind of takes it even further over the top.  I'm talking about when I think it's Sharon when dwayne and Sharon are in the bedroom and they're starting to get a little bit physical Maybe and then belial pops out of the basket and he starts just like screaming yelling and getting crazy That's that's an awful cock blocking moment, especially because Usually in a normal situation that woman is running away and she is not coming back Now the weird thing is that Sharon reacts to it by after dwayne pushes her out of the room Banging and trying to get in and what's going on? What's going on? She saw belial a normal human being would get out and not question anything Because she doesn't even really know dwayne that well either So in reality, she would be out No questions or anything just gone and he would never hear from her again But here she is trying to get back in and help the situation Not a good idea Although I I guess at that point it wasn't really gonna matter Because no matter what belial was going to be coming for her In two ways Anyway, so I'm guessing when dwayne's asleep belial's actions come to him like they're kind of a dream That's kind of how I would explain the end that part where belial's sneaking out at night I don't know if it has anything to do with his eyes turning red, but that's a freaky fun moment But when belial's trying to sneak out, you know, that's when uh, Dwayne is having that nightmare about running naked down the street now. I kind of view that as he he is Aware then or he is getting some sort of like brain frequency of what belial is doing where he is going But because he's asleep He's not getting it clearly that it's kind of being filtered through his subconscious instead of his conscious And it's coming through as some sort of dream. So he's not a hundred percent sure that it's real Like he thinks he's just dreaming it.  That's what I needed to know Uh belial grabbing dwayne by the junk at the end was a unexpected be funny And the fact that also, I mean it was c I guess I could say impressive because of how far he lifts him up And that's another thing that I'm you know going back to something I said earlier That's such a show of strength that by his crotch. He can just lift him that high up That's why I'm saying that that lock on the on the basket would not hold him in there Definitely not not with that type of strength You do hear belial's emotion change. This is a very interesting thing I thought you hear is a motion change at the end going from like upset and rage filled To sad and concerned when he's hanging out the window holding on to dwayne by his neck And he's realizing that he is murdering. He is at that point accidentally killing his own brother The only one who's really cared for him other than the ant that passed away The only one who's really cared for him and has really done much to show him love at all in this world so And and all that after belial betrayed him too. So it's a it's a tough ending For this Which you know, it actually kind of feels a little bit like a version of a frankenstein story just saying The acting is so awful in this obviously, but that's one of the best things about this film That is one of the things that keeps me coming back is my ability to laugh at the acting. It's wonderful Uh, I love it The film is somewhat about the negative impact on a child from the abortion kind of of a twin brother Now this could be viewed as um Maybe having an actual abortion angle But if you think about it the fact that belial is removed from dwayne and then literally like thrown in the garbage Like a dumpster baby on prom night Yeah, it is kind of abortion esque like underground abortion esque So I don't know if that was an intentional thing or if that just kind of happened Don't know. We don't know we'd have to hear from frankenon lotter on that one So anyway, this obviously is one of the films. I have to rate two ways So I would say in the pantheon of all film taking it seriously out of five stars with half stars in play You got to give it like a One and a half star Right One and a half star now on the scale of so bad. It's good films I'm gonna give it a very very solid very good four star rating because it is out there. It's not the best awful So bad. It's good movie But it's it's a fun time And I am very very excited as you may be able to tell to get into basket case two and basket case three The progeny because I've never seen either of those before and I'm ready. I'm very ready Anyway, give me your comments down there your feelings on basket case some of your favorite scenes Whatever you want to talk about, but do me a quick favor hit that subscribe button If you appreciate this video appreciate any video. I've ever done that is your best way to repay me It is very painless for you literally takes a second But if you are going to do that also hit the notification bell That way, you know every time that I'm putting up a new review or unboxing Or doing a live stream But you know all that said I do I do appreciate you guys checking this out quite a bit Uh, it keeps me going the views keep me going, but the biggest thing is the subscribing So really help me out there, but regardless. Thanks for checking this out until next time. 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Getting started in Adobe Spark. In this video, we'll be going over how to build a digital portfolio using Adobe Spark and get a detailed look at the example portfolio we will be creating. We'll begin to explore the features of Adobe Spark and go over how to create a project, change your theme, add a banner photo and title. This is what our completed portfolio for a sample student will look like to give you an idea of what you can achieve after watching this series. Every great work of art starts from nothing and so too shall we. To begin the process of creating a digital portfolio, open Adobe Spark and navigate to the left sidebar. Click the blue plus sign and a menu will drop down. Click on web page. This will bring you to a blank page with prompts to add a title and subtitle. The first thing we're going to do is change our theme. Click on the word themes in the upper right corner of the screen. A drop-down menu will appear with a wide variety of choices. Remember, your theme can be changed at any time, so don't worry if you can't decide right away. The theme will establish the look and formatting of your portfolio, so feel free to play around with different themes until you find one you are happy with. For this project, we'll be using Chronicle. Next, you'll want to add your name in the add a title area. Click anywhere on add a title and type your name. Then we're going to add a subtitle by clicking on add a subtitle. This is where you can introduce your area of interest, whether that be your field of study, the job you are aiming for, or even a short mission statement. Our sample student is a carpenter. Finally, we will add a photo behind the text. Click the plus sign at the bottom of the page and you will be prompted to add a photo. Clicking this will open a navigation bar on the right with various options for adding a photo. You can upload your own or find free Creative Commons license photos. We're going to click on upload a photo and navigate to our folder with the photo set aside for the portfolio. Double-click on the image you'd like to use and it should appear in the banner section. This banner will be the first impression people will get of you and your page, so we recommend using a large, high-quality photo, either a professional photo of yourself or something else that will set the tone for who you are and what you do. As a default, your name will be in the center of the banner. If this is blocking an important part of your image, you are able to move the title by clicking and dragging it to one of the other designated areas on the banner. Before moving on, it is important to change the focal point. This will optimize your page for mobile viewers. Start by clicking anywhere on the photo. Three options will pop up. Focal point, replace, and delete. You'll want to choose focal point.  Drag the dot to the point of the photo that you want to be the main focus, such as a face. Make sure that on both web and mobile previews shown in the upper right corner, the photo is positioned nicely. Once you are happy with the positioning, click on Save in the top right-hand corner. Here is a preview of what your header should look like when it's completed. To see yours, click the Preview button in the top menu bar.


Hi, I'm Jessica Cruz and I am one of the recipients of the Director's Scholarship of Excellence for incoming students for Spring 2020. And I just wanted to take a minute to extend my gratitude to Dr. Sandra Hirsch and anyone else who had a hand in making this decision. I am really excited to be starting school in about a month. It's been a while since I've been in school. I graduated in 2014 with my bachelor's degree from Missouri State University. And since then I've been moving around with my husband who is in the military and it's been taking care of our two children. But now that they're getting a little bit older, I'm really excited to have a chance to get back into the swing of things for my own career. And this scholarship will definitely go a long way in helping me achieve my goals of getting my MLIS degree and also hopefully becoming a public librarian in the next few years. So again, thank you so much. This means a lot to me and I really, really appreciate it.


Hey, this is Brett, and this 2021 Ram 1500 Crew Cab 5'7", Short Box Laramy Level 1 Sport Package is stock number 24T45A. I am here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, you're new and used light-duty truck and Ram headquarters. This 2021 Ram 1500 has the 5.7-liter V8 Hemi engine. It's paired up with the 8-speed automatic transmission. This truck has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop, has a fresh oil and filter change per the state of Wisconsin inspection process, and it is 100% ready to go. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. This one has a max tow rating of 11,229 pounds and has a max payload of 1,588 pounds. Found those numbers on Ram's tow guide website. This one can tow so much because it has the 392 gears. I'm going to go all the way around in this video inside underneath, start it up and take a look under the hood to give you the most accurate representation that I can of the vehicle. Bright white clear coat is a color. I shoot all my videos in 4k. If you like the video, consider subscribing to the YouTube channel, click the bell notifications, get updates on the videos I do each and every day. As well as having access to one of the largest catalogs of vehicle walk-arounds on YouTube and stay current on the inventory coming through here at Summit Automotive. This one comes with the 20-inch painted and polished aluminum wheels. My favorite wheels on the Laramies has Bridgestone dual or HL tires. These are 275, 55-hour 20s and I would say that they have probably about 60 to 70% of the tread left on them. Frame and underbody is very clean on this truck. This is a one-owner clean title history out of Wisconsin. Front finders an excellent condition. You get the LED headlamps, running lights, and fog lights. I am going to turn all those on at the end of the video so you can see just how bright they are. You get the painted front and rear bumpers with the sport package. That front bumper is in fantastic condition. No dents or dings on there. The grille is in really nice condition in the hood. I didn't see any dents on there. Looks really good. The paint is in really nice shape on this truck as well. And passing aside front fender and wheel. No scuffs, no scrapes, no dents, no dings. Looks really, really good. As you go down this side of this 2021 Ram 1500, take note of how clean that body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. I take these HD videos, so if you're far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can see the truck here, the truck end of confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at so that you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. Now if this video helps you make that buying decision, let your salesmen out. Just saw the video that it was helpful and that Brett sent you. Very clean down that side. This back wheel is in excellent shape as well. No scuffs on there. And the back tires have about 50% of the tread left on them. Maybe 50, 60. Very similar to the front frame and underbody. Once again, very clean. This is actually probably the cleanest, nicest Ram 1500 we've gotten in on trade. I would say maybe all year. This was going to be one of my deals of the day that I was going to do just because it is extremely nice all the way around. I mean we basically did the oil change to this one and that's all it needed. Has the LED tail lamps, the chrome tip dual rear exhaust, the rear bumpers, absolutely perfect. You get the backup parking sensors back here as well. Full towing package which includes a receiver hitch four pin and seven pin wiring. And the tailgate is in excellent condition as well. It is a power drop down tailgate. Shock down assist. You get the spring bed liner, the bed rail storage system with these tie down cleats LED bed lights. That bed is very nice. The spring bed line goes on to the tailgate. Just a really, really nice job. Shuts nice and solidly. Driver's side box just as clean as the passenger side. No dents, no dings. And for full disclosure this back wheel just as nice as the rest. Does have the capless fuel fill which is a really nice feature. Never get gas on your hands again. And going down the rest of the side of the truck cabin doors just like I said one of the nicest trucks that we've gotten in on trade in quite some time when it comes to Rams has the heated power mirrors, blind spot monitoring, built in directional signals, blind spot mirrors. I'll show you the back seats real quick. These back seats are in excellent shape. You get the suede and leather, the suede inserts, latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have. Power sliding rear window with built in rear defrost. Speakers in the ceiling part of that alpine premium sound system. Now these seats do recline like so. And then they go back like that. Do that with the handle right there. You get the all-weather floor mats back here. Two USBs, two USB-C's and 115 volt 400 watt plug-in. And then under these floor mats are in-floor storage bins with removable bins for easy cleaning. You can put ice and drinks in there.  Then you get the child safety locks in the back doors inside and bottoms of the doors other than a little dust. Really nice condition. I'll show you the VIN sticker here. No previously owning Canada trucks here. And then you get the tire and loading information sticker there as well. Inside once again you get the leather and suede inserted seats with the gray piping. You get the Laramie stitched into the backrest. No rips, no tears. Very very nice condition. This truck's never been smoked in. Factory all-weather floor mats, auto headlamps, power pedals, tilt telescopic steering wheel, power windows, locks and mirrors. You get the suede bolster on the doors and the kind of diamond plated looking trim on the doors as well. It's kind of a neat trim. Anyways these mirrors power fold in. I always like showing both sides so you know that both sides are working properly. Hop inside, check out the miles, radio and everything that this truck has to offer on the interior. You can see this one only has 9,352 miles on it. You get the seven inch LCD display, compass display, digital, speedometer, battery, voltage, oil temperature and you can change all those corners to read pretty much whatever you want. Instrument cluster is nice and clean. Comes with the heated leather wrapped steering wheel, cruise controls and gear selector on the right, Bluetooth and information center controls on the left, audio controls on the back of the steering wheel as well. This one has the push button start, the push button four wheel drive, the eight speed automatic transmission, has the Uconnect 8.4 4C radio. This one has AM FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities on it.  You can press those and then you can check out your backup cam. They've made those HD so you can get hooked up to your boat camper or trailer the first time every time and you can zoom in on that receiver hitch for even better results. Up here is your alpine badge and then you get all your different apps on here. So this one has Android Auto and Apple CarPlay capabilities where you can project your cell phone to the screen and why that's important is because this one doesn't have the factory navigation system but projected up there with a nav system such as Waze or Google Maps off your phone and it's like you have Navra in the screen. We actually did a demo with an 8.4 4C radio and Android Auto. If you want to check out how that system works that's in the upper right hand part of the screen. Down here are your more tactile volume tune and climate controls including your dual climate controls and heated seats, steering wheel and cooled seat buttons. Factory brake controller has the stability control, tow hull mode, front and rear parking sensors right there, two USBs, two USB C's and an aux jack and down there is a 115 volt 400 watt plug in. You also get the cup holders and coin tray right there. Keyless entry, remote start, power drop down tailgate, dual glove boxes, passenger side format and seat part in excellent condition. Once again this truck's never been smoked in, smells very clean inside. The headliner is absolutely perfect. Map lights, power side and rear window button, power drop down tailgate, auto dimming mirror and home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems. All right let's start it up, take a look under the hood, check out all those LED lights in the front. Starts right up, no check engine lights or anything like that. And like I said this is probably the cleanest RAM we've gotten in quite some time. I was gonna make it my deal of the day just because it's that nice. You can see all those lights are working very nicely as well. And I got to pop the hood. Thought I did that. There we go. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video you've been able to verify the quality, condition options and of course cleanliness of this truck all the way around inside out. Let me know what you think in the comments below. Under the hood we have the 5.7 liter V8 Hemi engine. Engine base very clean, runs very smooth. Once again this truck has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change all the fluids have been checked and topped off. This truck is 100% ready to go. There is the emission sticker. I would highly recommend this truck from a quality and condition standpoint. 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This study presents a multi-label convolutional neural network CA, MLCNNCA, model that simulates the complex evolution of mixed land uses by labeling multiple land use types to each grid cell, and compares its performance with previous CA models. The MLCNNCA model was applied in Huiju, China for mixed land use simulation during 2009 2013 and 2013 to 2020, and showed satisfactory performances with an accuracy value of 0.912 for 2009 to 2013 and 0.896 for 2013 to 2020, and a hamming loss value of 0.048 for 2009 to 2013 and 0.055 for 2013 to 2020. The MLCNNCA model with the VGG-based architecture showed the best performance and outperformed previous and based CA models. Sensitivity analyses were conducted to investigate the uncertainty of the proposed model. The MLCNNCA model can provide a new tool for better simulation of fine-scale mixed land use changes and is expected to help formulate urban planning guidelines and achieve sustainable urban development. This article was authored by Shinshin Wu, Xiaoping Liu, Dachuan Zhong, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


Yeah, we on Boss Talk 101. Say, man, we here a man with the aim of infamous man. This guy right here, man, the goat, man. You know what it is, man, blogging king, man. Say cheese, y'all, cotton in the bills, man. Yeah, we on Boss Talk 101. Classic, you want to see? Shout out to Money Moses, ECEO, and Ms. Jamaica. I'm on Boss Talk 101, man. Classic interview, dope platform. This is not a smear campaign, man, just as facts. Today, I want to speak on Charleston White, because it's all gonna end in a twirl. Okay, let's get it. Let's go ahead and get it out of the room, man. I hadn't spoke on this, I stayed away from this. And I wasn't gonna speak on it. And you know, I basically, when I thought about it, if I was gonna do it, it would have to be with somebody like you. To be honest with you, because I know already how you speak, and I'm real professional. You look at our platform.  I'm just gonna be real. To me, we try to keep it real professional. So I was like, man, I can't do the back and forth thing. That ain't my thing. And plus at the end of the day, when we built, we've been doing this. So we've watched people walking it out of our lives. But when I seen what happened with you, I was like, dang, man, I didn't see that coming, bro. I did not see it, but I didn't see mine coming either. So I was like, okay, so just give me a spill on, what makes you say, man, when he say, you know, when somebody, when he talk about somebody, it's all good. But, you know, the tweet that you put out, I love the fact that you put a tweet out too. You thinking Trump nigga. Yeah. To keep it all the way real.  Yeah, yeah, yeah.  Man, I can't put a dude to be honest, which I couldn't put a dude like. Man, like I really like mess with Charleston. I wouldn't have met you if it wasn't for Charleston. And I could do that with two or three different people, bro. Yo, it's a lot of people Charleston white met. You don't have to say cheese platform. He's a great guy. Even my homie didn't even cut for him at first like that. There's a lot of people that stopped messing with me because of Charleston white. I got to say that. A lot of people, New Year's Eve, who we have an argument about in the garage. Charleston white, like my own homies. Yeah. Day one homies. I know. That I used to hook with looking at me like, why are you, but me being the loyal, me seeing the end, the finished product made me keep messing with Charleston white. So you want the long story or the short story?  You got to snicker. You got to snicker Barney. You got to snicker Barney. But I do want to say this again. This is not me attacking Charleston white because we may work again. I don't know. I'm just keeping it real. Well, according to him, he said that'll never happen again. Well, he said that about black and different. I know that. I know that. But because y'all had a falling out, I don't want this to look like me and you came together and clicked up. No. So that's all I want to say that before. But to my point, Charleston white has cussed out everybody in a mom on say cheese. Julio Fulio, real street cats that really stepping, searching, hunting from Dr. Rose. Everybody. To a lot of different people. I don't speak to Dr. Rose for four months because Charleston white.  Yeah, that's my God. Dr. Rose fixed my teeth. He fixed my mom teeth. Didn't charge me. But y'all didn't talk for four months? We didn't talk for four months. Break that down, man. I mean, why would you not talk? Why would he get mad at you for just dealing with Charleston? Charleston and you, that's business. So Charleston had made a comment about Dr. Rose in our interview about Dr. Rose is rapping now. Yeah, I've heard this music. And Charleston white, he didn't understand it. And Dr. Rose. And it's funny because the day before I upload the video, I didn't feel right. So I asked my girl, I'm like, damn, should I edit that part out about Dr. Rose? She was like, no. That's how Charleston white feels. So I said, bet. And I know Dr. Rose is going to understand me because I'm super unbiased. So I upload the video. He says that about Dr. Rose. Dr. Rose calls me immediately. And I could tell where her Dr. Rose. And it hurt me because me and Dr. Rose is like my friend. Dang. You something saying? I thought it was something about all this other. No, no, no. This is just one of the. Wow, was this the first distance? Well, this was the first friend that really stopped calling me. You know what I mean? So me being loyal to Charleston white, I call Charleston white and I'm like, hey, because Dr. Rose does a lot for the community. And doesn't say nothing online. You know what I'm saying?   And it's time Dr. Rose will call me.  And he'll be like, yo, reach out to this kid. I want to do his teeth.   Loads your mind. It's shit like that that's not on the internet that people, because if it doesn't happen on the internet. It's not real. People don't see it. It never happened. So when Dr. Rose called me, he was really upset. And he was like, well, Sean, you're supposed to control the narrative. You're supposed. And I felt bad because I'm like, I'm just letting Charleston white talk on my platform. Just me being the unbiased, loyal guy. You know what I'm saying? I let him talk about everybody. That's what people love about him. That's what people love about say cheese. So I get him in Charleston right on the phone. Two guys who do stuff for the community. I do a lot for the community. I got a youth basketball team that I sponsor out of my pocket. No investors. The kid that he brought, that Charleston bar last time, I already knew him. I talked to him in the juvenile facility, in the facility. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying?   I don't have to, but to my point. But I get it. I get it because let me say this, you know, if you really look at the track record of Charleston being on Boss Talk, it's the same thing. The kids that he brought over here, I clothed those kids. I made sure that wherever them kids came by, once we went and spoke at that facility with him, I made sure to give back to whoever. Never charge nobody anything because those kids are special.  I just want to stay on point. So him and Dr. Rose get on the phone and Charleston white spoke the whole time. And you know, Dr. Rose is just like, I just want to do, I just want you to do your research on me. Like I do a lot in Charleston white custom smooth out. That's the Charleston white style. And I'm like, I'm like, cause Charleston white said the other day online, he thinks I feel some type of way about the big chief podcast. I heard that. He thinks I feel some type of way about it. He was like, you should have called me and be a man about it. And I don't feel no, no way about it. We'll get to that too.  Well, he was just like. So, yeah. So I wanted it to be on the phone call so they can talk and do things together. Cause they're both different type of people coming from two different places. So I'm like, all right, maybe this, it could be a solution. And you'll be the mediator. And he custom smoothed out. And I didn't talk to Dr. Rose after that for like four months. Wow. You know what I'm saying? And it's stuff like that that the internet don't see. How much I cut for Charleston white. You something? But after he cussed him out and hung the phone up, whatever, what did you say to Charleston white? Charleston white called me apologizing.  Dr. Rose called me apologizing. So after that, I thought it was cool. But me and Dr. Rose, we talk almost every day. Text messaging, post to open up a few businesses together. It stopped. So I just talked to Dr. Rose the first time last week and we was all good. But to that point is, is how much I really rocked with Charleston white. Now when I interview, okay, now Charleston white, he could talk about a Crip Mac. He could talk about a band man, Kevo. He can cuss out the psychic girl that I interviewed. He can cuss out a Julio Fulio.  But when I interview Sauce Walker, I can't mention your name. That's what we doing? Yeah, we on boss talk one-on-one.


What is going on guys, today I am back with another Destiny 2 video and today we have news on the I Am Banner and the Leviathan Prestige Mold Blade, but before we get into the video guys do you want to win some epic loot? I've got emblem calls, I've got sparrow calls, I've got gift cards, I've got much much more. To win some simply drop a like and a video and leave a comment down below. Ok so this info comes from Bungie's Weekly Update and it talks about I Am Banner, it talks about the raid so let's get into it. Ok so starting on October 10th 2am pacific I Am Banner will be here, so what is different? Well combat will be between 2 teams of 4 players as we know all PvP Molds are now.  So unlike I Am Banner in Destiny 1 your level doesn't matter, just your skills. Bounties and ranks with the I Am Banner have been replaced with I Am Banner engrams. This is what you need to do to compete in the I Am Banner, you need to complete the Destiny 2 campaign, this is the only way to reach the tower and seek out Lord Saladin. You have to visit Lord Saladin in the tower to begin the I Am Banner quest. Fight in the I Am Banner playlist with quick play modes and matchmaking. What's in it for us? Earn I Am Banner tokens in every match, earn more if you win. Daily and season milestones that track your progress to glory. Claim brand new armour made in the forges of the iron lords.  Form up into a fireteam or let the fates choose your fireteams. The game mode is controlled so this should be pretty fun and look on screen now we can see the gear and it looks absolutely incredible people. Check this out. Me being a hunter I am super happy with the look of it but I'm guessing guys those of you who are warlocks and those of you who are titans are also just as happy because all the armour in my opinion looks absolutely incredible and imagine what this will look like with some of the shaders that are available in game now I cannot wait people I seriously can't. But yes that is the info on I Am Banner. But people it doesn't end there. The ultimate PVE challenge also arrives in your director on Tuesday at 10am pacific. This will be roughly 5-6pm UK time and that is the prestige version of the Leviathan raid. Now the recommended light on the Leviathan raid prestige mode is 300. Its date is the ultimate test of might and metal. Enemies are stronger and smarter and new mechanics will require new strategies. Bunging the update go on to say we do not expect everyone to be successful in completing this activity. Mechanical changes to the encounters are minimal but they are there. The prestige raid is about mastering a more punishing sandbox. Our goal is not to provide a boon to your character progression but there are unique rewards to help you shine. Consider this your invitation to prove to the world that you are among the very best of the raiders who overlook the city. Worlds first will be counted we can tell you no more. So next week's weekly reset we get I Am Banner. Eight hours after that we get the prestige mode raid which I can just not wait for people I seriously can't. But yeah next week is going to be a seriously busy week for sure. I Am Banner prestige mode raid which are you looking most forward to. For me personally I think it's I Am Banner looking at this gear I mean it's just unbelievable but yes guys that is it for another video. I hope you enjoyed it if you did leaving a like really does help me out. If you are new around here and enjoy daily destiny videos be sure to subscribe. If you never want to miss a video I upload hit that bell button next to that subscribe button to receive email notifications of when I do upload but thanks as always for stopping by people and hopefully I will see you on that next one.


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He is in Philadelphia now, but he's too busy. With grandpa today, they're feeling better. I'm... It was crazy. I was at a coffee shop, you know, since 7 a.m. and probably about twice every hour. Hittin' wall, folks. I was feeling good for like three hours, not so good anymore. It's time. It's in your chair. Sick, tired. This is life. Trying to figure out... It's time. It's just... It's time to get... Well, I'll have to say it, drugged up. I'm ready to go to bed.  I need some something, because I am not feeling well. Question of the day. How do you take care of yourself when you're sick? What's your best remedy? My dad is old school. I specifically told her, could we please have some medicine in the house? Because when I grew up, back in the 90s, I don't know. We just never really had the right medicine on hand. My dad was a big fan of oranges and kiwis and hot water and tea and just kind of the natural, more natural way of getting rid of sickness. We're not in that boat, just so you know. Anyway, question of the day. How do you take care of yourself better? Oh, okay.


Fedora tries new things that's part of who we are We've got we've got Freedom as our core value and I think a lot of people you know identify privacy and digital privacy as part of the free software Sort of software, you know, but it's one it's part of that value and I think that's true in Fedora We also have values for features and first so we want to try new things That's really important and most crucially we are friends all working together It doesn't mean we think the same but it has to be safe to propose things that other people might disagree with like people have strong opinions on things but That's okay. We don't always have to agree But we're always working together towards this common goal to make this world that utopian world like where everyone benefits from free


Hello and welcome to Dispatches from India show by People's Dispatch. In this episode, we take a look at the Pegasus scandal in the country that avails of a tribal community in the state of Tamil Nadu and the impact of the past few years on tourism in the Union Territory of Kashmir. In our first tour, India has figured majorly in project Pegasus, which has rocked the world in the past few weeks. The scandal consists of the leak of a huge database of numbers which belong to those who are believed to have been of interest to the clients of an Israeli company, NSO Group. So what was the product of the NSO Group? It's the Pegasus spyware, one of the most advanced in the world, which can infect someone's phone without them even clicking a link. Once the phone is infected, it becomes a spy in the pocket and can send all your information to those spying on you. Now globally, the names on the list include presidents, prime ministers and activists. In India, the main opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, serving ministers, journalists and activists have all figured in the list. An analysis of the phones as some of those mentioned in the list shows that they were indeed compromised. Now the opposition in civil society have of course accused the government of spying, which it is denied. The government has said that there has been no unauthorized surveillance in the country. However, it has not actually said that it has not purchased Pegasus. In this context, many have asked why common citizens, for instance those who are not in positions of power, should care about this issue since their names may not figure on the list. Journalist Anandio Chakravarty explains the various dimensions of this issue. I'm going to talk about, of course, Pegasus. The Pegasus Snoop Gate, where Neta's opposition leaders, bureaucrats, activists, journalists were targeted, their phones hacked and we don't know what information was taken out of it. Who did it? I'm not getting into that. But let's start with one particular point and that is, look at this. The Pegasus project involves 17 news organizations across the world. Pegasus, from these 17 news organizations, have been working very hard for the last several months to track down people who were targeted by this Israeli software. And remember, this Israeli software, the company claims, is sold only to governments and state actors. No one else. So whoever used it is most likely a state actor. Which state? Which country? I'm not going into that. The only way for the investigators to find out if there is ever an investigation into this. However, the point is, out of these 17 organizations, there's not one mainstream Indian news organization that was included. The news organization, that Indian news organization, which is part of it, is an independent website, The Wire. And one particular reason it got into the process was because The Wire's editor Siddharth Vardarajan was one of those who had been targeted by this particular Pegasus software. So they got into that. But think about it. In the past, we've had WikiLeaks, US WikiLeaks, we've had the Swiss Bank accounts and mainstream Indian news organizations were involved in this process. Out of these 17 news organizations, we have big names globally. We have Washington Post, one of the big newspapers of the world. We have Haaretz of Israel. We have The Guardian in the UK. We have Le Mans in France. We have one of the top newspapers in Germany. But in India, not a single big newspaper or news organization TV channel was included in this. This tells you what global, the journalistic community, the news gathering community which does journalism, which is speaking truth to power, exposing the way in which power operates, what they think of Indian news organizations that they were not even asked to participate in this process. And if they were asked, they clearly did not agree to do it. So this tells you about the state of news media in India. And in a sense, this also leads us to the second part, which is surveillance. I have often said that one of the biggest reasons that India's news media is so timid right now that it does not take up this massive case. Think about it. This is almost like what happened in the US Watergate, the Watergate scandal. It's almost like that, where the opposition was being spied upon by this sitting president. Here we don't know who did it, but we know that Rahul Gandhi's phones and his associates' phones, Prashant Kishore, who was working for Mamata Banerjee, his phones, they were all targeted. And yet not a single Indian news organization thinks or any news editor thinks it is important or worth their while to take this up as a story and to investigate it. Well, the reason for this is partly because today news media is corporatoned. I know I keep saying this, it is corporatoned and it's very easy to lean on corporates. Because every day to do business in India and probably everywhere in the world, you constantly break rules. It is extremely easy for any agency to send a notice and say, your production in this particular factory is being shut down because you violated rule numbers so and it's a huge loss of business. An income tax notice or an ED notice to the company is unnecessary hassle. The stock price falls, you have huge legal expenses. So as soon as corporates or big companies begin to own media houses, they become vulnerable to state action, very easy to handle them. They're no longer independent. Number two, number two is that when corporates own media houses, they essentially represent power because corporates are part of the ruling elite, the ruling class, which basically determines state policy. So it is in their interest to keep running the state as it is, to reproduce the system of power as it is. And that is why corporate ownership of news media, which has happened in various ways either directly or through the extensive dependence that news media has on advertising, has made it timid, easy to manipulate, and in general, in favor of power. It does not speak truth to power. It essentially bats for power. Now that is one of the crucial reasons and that becomes even easier when the state undertakes surveillance. In our next story, we'll bring you a ground report from the state of Tamil Nadu, specifically the city of Chennai, on the situation of the tribal Narikurva community. The community has always faced a variety of issues relating to livelihood and social discrimination and the pandemic has only made it worse. Take a look at what they have to see. We don't know where to go, where to go, where to stay, and who to ask for help. If we come to this country, people from other countries are coming to see us. We don't know what to expect, we don't know what to expect, we don't know what to expect. We are a group of people. These are the people of the village of Nadu. In Tamil Nadu, no one knows about this. When it comes to Tamil Nadu, Narikurava is well known. In the Indian development gateway, there are more than 60 people from all over the world around the world, including the people of the Karkasia. Along with that, there are also 10% of people who are active in India, including the people of the Karkasia region of Nadu. More than that, the area of Karkasia, the Karkasia region of Nadu, It is also clear that there are only 500 of them in the country today. In 2016, the majority of the people in Tamil Nadu were brought to the OBC party. There is a large number of them. In Tamil Nadu, there are more than 30,000 families in Tamil Nadu. In many places, in Manila, there are more than 30,000 families in Tamil Nadu. We have to go to Thirumulayal, where Chennai is well known. There are more than 110 families in Tamil Nadu. They have been living here for 35 years. Let's meet them in person and see what they have to say. We are not in our house. Mani is not in our house. We have to go around the shop to buy food and food. We don't have a shop. We don't have a place. We have to give someone a message. We have to teach them a lesson. We have to teach them a lesson. We can teach our children. We can also listen to them. We have a name. We have 15 children. What do we do with them? We have lost our children and children. But we do not have to eat. We have to show our children where a Chitra Mittra Mallai is. The Chitra Mallai will sit with their children. When they are done eating, they will give the Chitra mallai. They will buy the Chitra sambar and the Rasachada, and help them eat. They will keep a plant in front of them. The main problem is that these people do not have basic facilities and land with patas. The Renke Commission in 2008 had submitted a comprehensive report on status of denotified, nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes. The most important recommendation in the report was to provide adequate basic amenities and government land with patas to be used as their residence. Similar to the Renke Commission, another commission has submitted a report on them in 2017. That report insisted on not only providing adequate places to these communities but also said the government should ensure the constitutional rights of these people by giving appropriate reservations to the communities. As far as Tamil Nadu is concerned, 14 nomadic communities fall under the OBC category. Thus, the rights and priority of these people have been denied socially. Professor Sumathi, a researcher and anthropologist at the University of Madras speaks about this community. Particularly in Tamil Nadu, there are 36 communities are listed as scheduled type which does not include Narikuravas. Okay, so this is the one thing. But if you could compare the list of communities which has been mentioned in Tamil Nadu with Andhra Pradesh and other Karnataka and there are a lot of variations in this list also. And if you could ask me, from the culture perspective, they can very well fall within the category of tribes. And hence, the ethnographic studies and the socio-cultural anthropologists have constantly recommended that they should be in the list of scheduled tribes. But whereas this process is a very long process, as I said, the number is not really curious for the politicians and the administrators and they have been neglected. That's what raised my strong feelings. The pandemic-induced lockdown period is causing additional problems to the Narikurava community. Children of this community attending school find difficulty in accessing online classes. I am studying online classes. I am sitting on the phone and I am studying. How did you get in touch with your parents? I am studying.  Do you study online? No, I don't. I don't attend school. What do you attend? Collector. My name is Inchal. I am studying in the 6th grade. Since I was in school for the last two years, I was not able to study properly. I used to go to school two or three days before the pandemic. After that, because of the lockdown, it was very difficult for us. Even though the other thing is, again, claiming themselves and falling into the categorisation of a scheduled drive-in, it will become 37 communities as far as I am not least concerned. So, again, getting into the competition and among the communities who have already seeking or grabbing the reservation facilities is not simple, again, I would say. But still, their perceptions has been completely streamlined and felt strongly. If they could fall into the category of drive-in, they always think they can also seek the other facilities. There are other facilities also because the central government is also coming out with a lot of facilities and a lot of funds has been unloaded for scheduled drive-in. The ministry is giving so much of funds so that they could become a beneficiary of that. But definitely falling into the line of MBC and competing with the groups like One Year's and Davos and Pramalai Kallas are very, very highly impossible for these people to think about such competition because all these categorisation, all these claims ultimately revolves around the developmental component in our country and every individual who are part of the community always think they should be. And that is a reality also. So though we all say in Chennai also we can say that caste and community know it is not, even today I could say 95% of marriages are endogamous. They marry within the community and hardly 5% all over the world. India, if you could take that is what the reality is. We believe in communities but my only concern as a community expert, every community has its own beautiful culture as a part of it and it has to be relished and it should not be perceived in a derogative sense. That's what I've been constantly putting it and I strongly felt this, their culture, their language, their kinship patterns of this community, has to be strongly supporting that they should be categorised into scheduled right, not in any other categorisation. That's how it goes. If we don't study, if we don't read in the forest, if we don't study in the forest, will they help us? If we see so many leaders, they will definitely change. If we go to M.Jar, we should go to Karnanidhi. If we go to Karnanidhi, we should go to Jalaltha. If we go to Jalaltha, we should go to Pannirchala. If we go to Pannirchala, we should go to Mukashtani. If we go to Karnanidhi, we should go to Kalesh, if we go to Adulensa, if we go to Adulisa, if we go to the village, if we go to the village, we wouldn't be a part of this country, we wouldn't be a part of this country, we wouldn't be our family, we are human beings. And finally we head to the Union Territory of Kashmir where the past few years have seen tourism really take a hit. Kashmir is famous as the hub of tourism but the pandemic and even before that the political crisis stemming from the stemming from the removal of special status from the then state, had led to a huge decline in footfalls. Some of the worst affected have been those whose livelihoods depend on tourism. Here is a report on their conditions. The current economic crisis, a by-product of the COVID-19 induced lockdowns, has brought economic activities to a standstill in India. But for Kashmiris, the lockdown had started much before the pandemic. With the abbreviation of Article 370 and 35A of the constitution, on August 5th, 2019, the central government had put the state under an indefinite curfew, resulting in the collapse of its crucial tourism sector. In the past two to three years, no one has come here. Now it has been two to three days and the locals have come here empty-handed. We have no work to do. We have no work to do with the locals. The government had given us a thousand rupees, a thousand rupees, a thousand rupees. But what will be the expenses in that thousand rupees? Will be the expenses of a horse, the expenses of a horse, or the expenses of a house? It has been three years, three years. It has been three years. There is no work, no tourism.  You know how much the expenses of the house are. If the private children are paid, then how much the expenses of the house are. The day at that time, thank God, the day at that time, we used to get such expenses. So now there is no work to be done. Due to countless lockdowns, the commercial drivers are badly hit and they see a huge challenge to pay the monthly installments of loans that they have taken to buy their vehicles. The people working in tourism sector feel completely let down by the government in Jammu and Kashmir. That's all we have time for today. We'll be back next week with more news from India. Until then, keep watching People's Dispatch.


Lucy Lepard is one of the original champions of feminist art. Throughout her career, she has documented and defended social and cultural upheaval and change. Her support and activism placed the growing feminist art movement on the map at a time when it was all but ignored. Her insights were a vital conduit between visionary women artists like Eva Hess and an uninterested public and recalcitrant art establishment. Lucy Lepard has curated more than 50 major exhibitions and has 21 books under her belt. Her contributions to defining the conceptual art movement of late 1960s and the early 1970s will be the focus of the next exhibition here at the Elizabeth 8 Sackler Center for Feminist Art, which will open this September. Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming Lucy Lepard, the first feminist art critic. This is really quite an amazing event. Linda is a hard act to follow. My only connection to Brooklyn really, aside from coming to the shows here for years, is that my son has a studio in Brooklyn, so at least I have some. And thank you to everybody at the Sackler Center for Feminist Art, and especially to Liz for her vision and persistence. Rumor had it that somebody wanted it called the Center for Women's Art, and Liz said it was feminist art. Bravo. And thanks to my fellow New Mexican and pal of over 50 years, Judy Chicago, whose dinner party provided the impetus for all this to happen. It's very exciting to be invited to this particular party. I can't wait to say I'm a firsty. And thanks to Linda Knoklin, who recreated art history in Eve's image and to all the other artists and art historians and art writers who inspired us. I feel kind of awkward about awards because everything I know about art, I learned from artists. Women and men, feminists, activists, conceptualists, minimalists, public artists, heretics, photographers, D.Y.I. collectives, and so forth. Without them, I wouldn't be standing here. Collaboration is an extension of the collage aesthetic that's been a staple of feminist art. Brainstorming and working with other women changed my life. In our common search for an inclusive art world, or rather a broader world that accepts art as a necessary part of human experience, we've made some strides. But there's still a lot to be done. Artists work between the questions and the answers, finding ways to envision alternative futures. One of the most interesting Occupy signs was, I'll be post-feminist in the post-patriarchy. Catherine Morris just reminded me of that before just a minute ago or so. A lot of us here have said for a long time that post-feminism will arrive only in the post-patriarchy at patriarchy or when all our goals are met. But even in that utopian moment, we'll still be feminists because feminism in just a strategy or a style or anything, it's a way of life. So thank you very much.


Hey there, it's Brett Chittum with Lawrence Systems and I'm here with Tom Lawrence and we're kind of doing a coffee talk here And we're really actually Want to talk about how much per seat do you charge and and Tom and I have had a lot of discussion in this We've also seen this in forums on on Facebook forums on Tom's forum It's it's everywhere because people are always trying to figure out. Well, how much do I charge? What do I what what what am I gonna make? How much am I gonna make and and I think that's a great topic To really delve into today. So Tom, what do you think? I think the first question because this comes up How much do you charge is not the right question because you're starting out with this whole what not Knowing what you're offering and making a lot of assumptions. So I've seen people claim Oh, I'm getting X dollars per head or per seat per person However, you do your pricing models, but you'll see people with wildly different offerings You're like, hold on this person's charging 50 bucks a month per person This person's charging 500 bucks per month per person But it comes down to what are they bundling in and offering for those services? And one of the things that I've seen a lot of MSPs do and this is fine And there's a lot of there's reasons to do this But there's reasons sometimes we don't do this comes down to what you want to do is they try to offer Everything they possibly can they take over the phone bill the internet bill as many things as they can they put under their roof So not just like fixing the computers or managing computers or you know managing security on computers But to go a step further to do everything from certain levels of auditing certain levels of compliance monitoring even like I said right down to I've seen someone that said they offered some of the accounting services bundled in with their MSP So of course you're gonna get more proceed because you're taking the burden off and that's what business owners are looking at even you as an MSP business owner IT business owner you probably don't do everything in-house you outsource certain functions So businesses decide what's worth it to have in-house and what's worth it to outsource and that's the balance you try to create So you can't start with how much are you charging until you talk about what you actually want to offer and one thing I can give as a piece of advice Don't try to offer everything if you're not good at it because if you're not good if you're really good technically But then offer a couple other outlying services that you're really bad at offering that's gonna taint your whole Perspectives they're gonna go. Yeah, my computer's work, but boy every time I deal with them all these other issues. They're really difficult So you have to really think about before you just throw everything in as you're offering of focus on things You can offer. Well, that's the first most important part before you think about the price Well, because when you think about what you offer your your clients are gonna want to know what you offer And when I have these conversations with clients, I never start out with a price I always talk about what is offered. These are the certain things You're gonna get with us when we take over your managed services and when we are working with you So I always the customer wants to know what you offer. That's that's the bottom line You start with that and then the the price just comes out and some of the clients We some that are very tech savvy that we work with we really enjoy them as clients and one of the reasons They left their previous MSP was the MSP wasn't all or nothing you either do everything We hold your internet we hold your phones We do it or you don't use us and they said we won't use you that was their solution and they've been great clients We have no reason You know, I always take it with a great assault when someone's complaining about their previous MSP But when someone tries to offer all services and the client doesn't want it You're not a good fit if that's the offer you have you have to find people that want to accept that Yeah, we have niched ourselves into being you know, the heart We don't really do hardware as a service and a lot of people preach you have to do hardware as a service You're leaving money on the table if you don't do it But some people aren't really into that you have to figure out what your market niche is and it's not that I'm thinking those people are wrong offering it. We are just pursuing different avenues and different clients By the way, this is Tom in October of 2021 There could be a future Tom that's talking about her as a service So don't get mad at this time because hey things change life change, but this is Good point to me. Yeah, well, and then we also talked about you know when you when you're looking at what you charge What's your employee cost? Yeah, how much is that gonna be and what are your thoughts on that Tom? Well first to start with the tooling cost the there's an assumption that if you're paying Let's say a couple dollars per endpoint that means you'll just triple it or quadruple that cost per endpoint The reality is that few dollars a month you pay when you're starting out it starts to add up And you're like hey, I'm managing four hundred five hundred systems times five dollars a month ten dollars a month That seems like a lot until you have staff and you can't just go on the tooling cost And the most important thing and I've run into so many people who are stuck and then we've talked to them We've still a little coaching and Brett does some of the business coaching It's actually how I met Brett but a little background on that But if you don't price your services as if you have employees even though you don't you won't ever have employees Right, this is where people really get stuck. They just look at the cost and go I'm making great money matter of fact. That's a good thing to think about You will probably make a lot of money when you're doing yourself There's a time at which you can keep doing it yourself for quite a while without any employees make a whole lot of money But if you aren't pricing it so you can eventually fill someone in a job I don't get me wrong. You'll enjoy that time when you're going man. I'm just me. I'm enjoying this I'm loving it about a year into it. You're like I would love a day off I would love not to be the one person that the entire world falls on all the time I need to hire someone and if you didn't price it because that's what people will be stuck on going Everyone loves me. I gained all these clients and I'm like, yeah, how do you take it out? Well, I don't because I never priced it so I could ever fill anyone in a position So you have to be thinking this like the day one you're putting your costing together Right.  So price it right up front And there's less you're going to have to raise prices once in a while, right? But less often when you do it right up front, right? And you got to remember the cost of living goes up There are increases the as that small increase happens as long as you're At the minimum your price costing model should at least raise at the cost of inflation If not, you're losing money if you made a million dollars this year and you did a million dollars next year Unless there was zero percent inflation, which I don't think that's ever happened, Brett But you definitely didn't make as much money the next year So at the minimum you're doing that at the other side of it you should be increasing it And this is something your clients you can understand because they have everyone Has increased prices around them cost of this went up cost of that went up cost of insurance went up The cost of managing computers went up, but you can't go in there and say i'm going to Do a 30 40 price hike because I decided now I need to hire employees That's a little bit harder of a conversation to have and it also from their own perspective You're like, oh, you didn't plan to have employees. Yeah, this is you know Your client talking back to you when you slap them with a big price increase They're like, oh, I guess you never thought about actually having people I thought you would offer these services for a really low cost forever You know you make an awkward conversation versus hey, you need to do about a five or ten percent price increase because You know what my insurance costs more or this costs more or these factors have changed in the world And that's a more understandable conversation. So just something to think about and keeping the perspective on there of how you manage your business Absolutely, net. That's a perfect segue into other costs What are some of the other costs that are involved when you have are you are you renting space? Your equipment um your equipment costs money and the right equipment costs money So you've got to take those into consideration as well because at some point everything has a useful life You're going to have to replace that equipment at some point as well So all of these factors have to take you know, you need to take into consideration Yeah, and this is when we see equipment that there's the tangible like the physical things you may use And then there's a little bit less tangible But there may be different training things you need to do and things you need to invest in yourself You still have to factor that in you still have to think about are you am I going to take another course? So I have to get a certification. Do I have to keep up with some type of Any type of you know, I how would I describe it? All the different things in the industry sometimes that you have to keep educating yourself on so you're being On top of things that may require either you spin up a lab in the cloud So you can better understand something that has a cost that's recurring or you have a physical location to put it in We have chose the physical location of help, but you don't have to it It's not like everybody needs a building I would say you need a professional address But you can get for very very little money at most cities here in the u.s There's usually places that offer this they'll offer you like a building address Not just a p.o. Box and do it for very little money where you don't actually go there You know, you can still work out of your house. You can still have all your Staff remote that's perfectly fine and acceptable But you know, it's just something you want to decide and you have to kind of decide that early Because if you are going to take on the burden of doing physical hardware like we do You have to have a place to set that up Or maybe you have a really big house and you can do it there and just all these little factors at the Worked into your equation when you're doing it and the last one is how's insurance looking brett brett came from the insurance industry for context That's my mainstay in background.  Um, when you think about cyber security insurance now, this is Something that the insurance companies are struggling to really price and when insurance companies struggle the price things They just price them higher until they figure it out. Yep. So, you know, you those costs are are associated with every point of our pricing Yes, and also you've got to make a profit Right, you didn't come you didn't build a business. You aren't starting a business just to break even you also have to make a profit Uh, and and you know what you offer Um, your tool set your rmm Your employee cost other costs all have to come into that factor and then what's your margin? Yeah, that's important. You should be making some money if not your it's not a sustainable model It's not like i'm saying here be greedy or anything like that It's more about finding a sustainable model finding a good living that you can make out of this It does take a long time But these are some of the things I wanted people to think about so I can send them this videos We reply to how much do you charge or how much should I charge is actually the question I see in forums and things like that and so me and brett just wanted to kind of throw this out there Address it give you a couple ideas a couple things to think about on there for price points These are guidelines for a formula because I don't want to throw out a pricing out there because that's One very limited. It's going to change with markets labor rates You know if you are here in michigan where we are it costs a whole lot less to live here than it does in certain areas of like california Or west brett was from I mean it's crazy This the just the housing prices are so dramatically different from areas So those are all things a factor into what you should charge But I'd like to this as a guideline so you can at least have some ideas what to think about So you can start throwing things in there, but what are you offering tooling cost staffing cost? insurance building vehicles type cost and go and hopefully make money at the end of the day That's right. All right. So thank you all for listening This is coffee with tom and brett business talks and what we do every day And how we want to help you. Yeah, we're gonna try and do these every tuesday Don't hold us to it, but we're trying That's our it's in the calendar. 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So, yeah, my name is Yuri Litvinovich, and I'm a senior cloud engineer at Scotiabank, and today I'm going to talk about the journey that we're currently going through, and it's how to become a technology company in financial services. But first, how many of you heard of Scotiabank here? Well, quite a few. That's good. So let me give you some numbers on that, and Scotiabank is the bank that is based in Canada. We have 24 million customers globally, and that's actually about the same number of people living in Australia, and among our top markets are not only Canada, but Peru, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and other Latin American countries. Scotiabank employs 96,000 people globally, having the 27 billions of dollars in revenue. It's a decent size, and only the IT budget spends are on the scale of $3.1 billion annually. And in 2016, our CEO, Brian Porter, said this, we are the technology business. No product happens to be banking, but largely that's delivered through technology. And that has set a course for the whole bank for until now. Basically he set an objective that we want to transform a 186-year-old organization into a modern technology company in financial services. But today I'd like to share with you how, about this journey, and how Scotiabank is becoming the technology company in financial services. So how are we doing all that? To undergo this transformation, we have an organization called Platform Organization, and it's also known as PLATO. So PLATO is the name for that org within a bank, and we often think of PLATO being an engine of modernization. And we're changing the way that things get done, including changing the way that organizations like ours, they normally operate within a bank. And let me give you more details for that. So we consider PLATO as a software company within a bank with all its benefits. Like being a software company, we are profit-oriented, and we're also customer-focused, customer-centric, as opposed to cost-centric. And operating as a software company, PLATO pretty much equips their clients with services just needed to get job done, abstracting them from all the neat, egregious details, knowing how infrastructure works and all these things that, so they can focus our application teams and developers, they can focus on solving their business problems. And also, we're kind of a fintech in that sense, operating like a fintech. It's innovative, it's forward-looking, and it's operated like a startup. But the difference between having that org within a big bank and typical fintech is that we have the backing of a big bank. And it means that we have support from all the way from CEO, and that allows organization like ours to get things done. PLATO is also the name of the platform we have. And if you look at the slide here, you'll find the components of that platform. And I would like to focus on a number of them. One of the first products within PLATO I'm going to talk about is Accelerator. So think of Accelerator as a software development pipeline. What this pipeline does, it takes all the complexity that it takes for a typical application in a bank to go to production and automates all that within this one software delivery pipeline. It's like an interface, like an abstraction layer that gathers all the tools, security scanning tools, different repositories, and it makes sure so the security policies are enforced. And as you know, being working in a bank, you've got to make sure your security is on the high level. And all the other requirements and components for application to go live to production. And that all happens within that one single pipeline. When developers run their code, they use it. And after successfully running through it, they get their app in production. So single pipeline, single way of deploying to production. And that allows us to deliver fundamental benefit of cloud, which is making change faster, velocity. Accelerator deploys applications to a different product called Cloud Development Platform, or CDP. CDP is based on Pivotal Cloud Foundry. How many of you have heard of PCF? Quite a few. And it just provides the cloud capabilities for digital and web applications. When deployed to CDP, they are permitted to connect to on-prem services and to existing systems, and they also can store data in the cloud instead of just being stateless. So let's talk about the cloud, because as I said, we have cloud as our primary fundamental foundational part of Play-Doh. And we use cloud because of the number of reasons. So first of all, cloud provides you with an easier and fast access to a superior infrastructure. And that accelerates delivery, that shortens the deployment cycles, that also have security all building. And one of the key features of cloud is the automated way of getting to infrastructure.   It's very easy. It's convenient. There is no longer need to go and wait for hardware to get installed in a data center. It just happens like that. So it's instant provisioning. It happens in seconds, minutes. But also cloud gives you dynamic provisioning, which means that if you have a bigger load, you get automatically scale resources to accommodate that load. If you don't need those resources and they're in the idle state, it's automatically scales down, which is great. And you pretty much pay for what you use. And for cloud at Scotiabank, we decided to go public cloud. You may ask, why public cloud? And there is a number of reasons why we do that using public cloud providers. And one of them is that public cloud allows you to get economy of scale. It means that there is this major cloud provider that has this infrastructure and it's shared by many customers. What it brings? It brings better speed and much less overhead. Because their primary thing is to build this infrastructure. And that makes our costs less. Another good reason to go public cloud is higher performance. Because cloud providers, they invest money in building this infrastructure and services. And for example, storage in public cloud can have like seven or more nines of durability. It can have geo-replication, which might be a little tough for a regular enterprise, let's say, to build the same good technology around it. Among other reasons is, of course, it's better security. Big cloud providers, they can afford hiring thousands of people to actually secure the cloud. Despite having this word public in it, it's actually can be done very securely. And of course, you pay for what you use. If you use this, you pay only for X amount of resources. And there is no upfront cost on joining the cloud. But we also love to say that using cloud is just a method. It's not a location. That's the phrase that we often use. And what it means is that it's not only about moving things to the cloud, but taking your application and putting it as is to running in public cloud. It's about building all the processes around it. It's about transforming the way application is built.  That also gives you, it's about modernizing development processes, it's about building continuous integration, continuous delivery around it. And that all increases velocity, because eventually it's all about velocity, software, technology companies, they operate as faster. That's what makes this technology company, a software company. And that's what we do at the bank. We try to operate as a software company. And this is a cloud journey we've been going through. And Scorsche Bank can be proud of being an innovative leader in many areas. For example, Scorsche Bank is the first Canadian bank to open branches outside of Canada, beyond the UK and US. It also is the first Canadian bank to appoint women as a branch manager. And I'm also excited to say that Scorsche Bank is the first bank in North America that goes open source. We've open sourced a number of components of the accelerator pipeline I've mentioned. And we believe that doing so promotes this innovation among the industry. And that also keeps us diligent. So if you're interested, check this link, github.com slash Scorsche Bank to learn more. But that's not it. And Scorsche Bank, another way of modernizing things there is by becoming a value-added reseller. We're in that journey and we believe that being a value-added reseller by adding some custom software on top of services from Microsoft, from Google, from Pivotal, and selling it to the rest of the bank. But also demonstrate that you operate as a software company and with all the benefits that it brings. And our innovation journey continues. So I want to say the quote by Steve Jobs. And it says that technology is nothing. What's important is that you have faith in people and that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them right tools, they do wonderful things with them. That's what we believe at Scorsche Bank as well. So modernizing big organization, it's not only about changing the technology. It's also about changing the culture in it. It's about changing people. It's about changing the mindset of how you approach problems, how you solve them, and bringing agile practices in place. Even changing your workspace, and right now Scorsche Bank is in the process. The platform organization is moving to so-called activity-based working workspace. How many of you have heard of activity-based working? One person, good. So it's innovative and we believe that it will improve our efficiency and all that stuff. So and from being an engineer working for this kind of projects, I can say that I love the journey for a number of reasons. Because one of the reasons is that you find yourself being part of this transformational journey that happens once in a while. And what I like also is working with the greatest and latest tools. Like we use Google Cloud, we use Microsoft Azure, we work with Pivotal Cloud Foundry. We work with Kubernetes, Cloud Databases, real-time event streaming. And also you work with smart people around you that make these ideas a reality and they generate bright ideas.  And when you get the support, you know that these ideas, these bright ideas of innovation and modernization, they are happening. And we have enough fuel to make that success, to make that successful. But I think the most importantly is that that gives you this sense of purpose that you do work that matters. And by performing that way, you're contributing to the well-being around. And that you're changing the face of the industry, which is considered to be pretty conservative by many and not that innovative as, let's say, software industry. So being a part of that project really gives you some kind of purpose and feeling that your work matters. And if you're excited about the journey, too, about solving interesting engineering challenges and you like working with agile teams and digitally transform industry, I have good news for you. We are growing and we are hiring. Thank you.