Yeppo here in Hong Kong fair and who are you my name is Mia and Yeppo you make a 88 dollar laptop yeah what is a moq uh one k one thousand what is the function inside uh what is tb u this is Intel bay tray bay trail and 2gb ddr 3 and 32 32 gb storage and uh how big is the screen resolution uh the screen is 14 inch resolution is one thousand three hundred seventeen 66 by 768 something like that yeah yeah and uh so is this a different room higher space yeah this is metallic metal case metal case yeah and uh what is the CPU here CPU is Apollo lake and the price price is the basic one 2gb uh ddr 3 and storage is 30 uh 32 gb how much price 118 for one k moq yes yeah so yeppo you make many many uh laptop you sell many yeah how many you sell every month every month we manufacture at least 50k it's go up so we more and more yes this is why we come here we want to look in for new client to cooperate so we made this model for special offer to uh new a new customer to cooperate like but this price not including windows yes need to pay for the windows yeah windows license the original windows license is 15 dollar 15 only 15 yeah and how about uh linux can you do linux uh no only windows yeah okay


Joining me now is Jonathan and Drew Scott the co-stars of HGTV's property brothers guys. It's great to see you here. Thanks for joining us So property brothers is such a huge success And I want to talk to you guys about this notion of the stay-at-home economy where people aren't going out as much anymore They're investing in their home so they can stay home and watch Netflix. What do you guys make of that? Well, we call it staycation.  They want to stay in their home I don't know what it is, but at the end of the day if you're creating these spaces that Basically make your homework harder for you. I think that's what it's all about Your home should make your life easier and what are some of the interesting features that people want right? I mean you guys were talking earlier about you know a self-flushing toilet. I mean it's bizarre Who doesn't want a self-flushing toilet? Technology is a huge thing energy efficiency Solar for example we converted our home in Vegas to solar. It's almost most of the year It's completely run by solar you have as well like the theater rooms entertainment rooms So people will have you know for example my house I'm putting in a screen that will come down out of the ceilings So you can have a large screen instead of just a regular TV and then being able to control things remotely You know whether you want to change temperature turn lights on and off Just don't do what drew does and freak out as fiance by remotely He'll be in another city and he'll have a TV go on in another room so she hears voices Let me ask you because every homeowner has a wishlist right they want you know this type of flooring or this type of countertop How is the wish list different for men versus women? Okay, first off. I'm gonna tell you the wish lists are always here for budget and then what they can afford is always here I would actually say that some guys think for example like a contingency your budget You have your budget and then you have a contingency for any problems that come up during a renovation for example Or if you're purchasing a place you always have a little bit of a buffer guys think that's for a big screen TV Women are usually a little bit more savvy, but they also think about the family spaces of the home Everybody adds stuff on add-ons are out even drew so we're renovating drew in Wisconsin's house right now in Los Angeles They're doing add-ons because once the space is coming together like you know this would be really cool So you have to really be diligent when you set your budget and understand what's going into it and understand What things you could always add down the road that aren't going to cost any more than they would right now? And those are the smart decisions, but the things once that when the walls are open during a renovation Those are the things that you want to make sure you get the right installation the right technology behind the walls because you Don't want to go tearing a wall back open after whether it's you know female or male buyers husband or wife All buyers tend to get emotionally charged whether they're buying selling or renovating and that's why us as professionals are here It's the same with chase bank when they're on the lending side of it All of us professionals are here to try and pull the pull the motion out of it Give you that third-party opinion as to what you can do to protect and bring them back to reality And then bring them back to reality That's exactly it you can't make emotional decisions with the biggest investment in your life now What is your advice for the millennial home bar? We know Millennials obviously are burdened with student loan debt credit card It's hard for them to be able to save for a down payment It is so looking at creative ways to get into home and don't never be desperate to get into home ownership Because that's a great way for you to guarantee you'll fail But sometimes we'll have people that will partner with a family member so that the two of them can get into home ownership Or they'll partner with somebody else Maybe they'll have a rental suite so that instead of having to pay the mortgage cost themselves They have something else there are products that are designed so you don't have to have 25% to put down But you really need to be diligent in making sure that your credit's in line and that you're organized when you get into home ownership I also have a part of the campaign with what we're doing with Chase They have a snapshot on Google of what people are searching surrounding home ownership Okay, and one thing that we've noticed for first-time home buyers searching in that category is up 44% from last year So that's a good sign. It's a really good sign It means there are a lot of millennials a lot of young buyers They're looking to get in there and and get into home ownership And the one thing to keep in mind is that not every product is right for every buyer You have different lending products that can work for different people And that's why it's important to talk with the professionals that can kind of lay that out for you and show You the best path for you to get into home ownership. All right And lastly, which is more important in the home buying process the realtor or the contractor? Well, the contractor carries power tools, so you don't want to mess well You wouldn't get to that point if it wasn't for me and you wouldn't get to my point if it wasn't for your lender So it's sort of it's that whole pie, right? You have all these pieces of the pie that really need to work together All right, I think there's some sibling rivalry here. Oh Just asked you on the one last question. Yes one brother versus brother this season. All right, this interview is over And with that we'll end it there Jonathan Drew Scott. Thank you for joining us. I really appreciate it


matching set. And I recently completed my latest one using this awesome linen fabric I got in the New York City garment district. You might remember the skirt as you have seen it already. It is the free pocket skirt pattern from Peppermint magazine that we all sewed for Sew Together 21. On Instagram, the monthly challenge I'm running. The skirt is obviously pretty voluminous, so you might be inclined to make something to go with it that's tucked in. But this fabric was way too structured for that, so I decided to make a boxy top instead. The trick with combining these two silhouettes was to find a top pattern that was the perfect proportion of the kind of wider hem, but also cropped length. Enter the Helen's closet Ashton top. The website describes the Ashton top as an all-season wardrobe staple that is easy to sew and style. It has bust darts and a signature A-line shape. View A is a hip-length top, and View B is a crop top ideal for pairing with high-waisted pants or skirts. Both views have the option to finish the neck and arms with an all-in-one facing or bias binding. The hem is finished using a beautiful hem facing. If you haven't guessed, I made View B the crop top. When I was cutting out the fabric, I paid a lot of attention to the placement of the stripes. I was only going to be able to feature one color of stripes in the top, and I decided that I would feature the pink stripes, since that is what is going down the center of the skirt. I think this ties the two garments into each other nicely and makes wearing them together more intentional. I finished the arm size and neck opening with bias binding because my fabric is semi-shear or more than semi-shear, it's just loosely woven and I didn't want the facings to show through. That said, I did stick with the hem band because I love the literal weight it adds to the hem of the top. The extra fabric there helps the hem keep its shape and helps it hang more downward than outward, if that makes sense. I also knew that the hem of the shirt would cover the waistband of the skirt, so there was already going to be two layers of fabric there, so I wasn't too worried about seeing multiple layers in the hem band in that area. I knew I was going to love this top as part of this set, but what I did not expect was to love this top as a standalone piece, but as soon as I put it on, I was ready to make more. It really has the perfect balance of width and length. I find it to be very flattering, even though it's not form-fitting in any way, it just suits my body really well. I do want to try the longer length too for those shorts and pants that are a little less high-waisted than this skirt, but that is going to do it for me today. Let me know what you think of my new Ashton top in the comment section below. If you have made this pattern before, let me know how it worked out for you, but otherwise, I will see you all very soon. Bye!


Our first reader this afternoon is Barbara Berman. Barbara Berman's work has appeared in the Village Voice, Washington Post, San Francisco Examiner, and elsewhere. She served on the board of the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, whose auditorium we are currently sitting in right now. And on the jury of the California Book Awards, her book, The Generosity of Stars was published by Finishing Line Press. And she also reviews poetry for the San Francisco Chronicles. So please join me in welcoming Barbara Berman. Thank you, Robin. Thank you all for coming. It's a special treat to be here in this wonderful space. And I'm especially grateful to the staff and the volunteers at Litquake. This is just a tremendous event. And I'm really delighted to be here and to share a bill with my friend Joel Gomez, who couldn't make it, and with Michael McClure, who my hope is here. He is following me, and he is wonderful. And if any of you are especially interested in a shot in the arm and getting a sense of what it's really like to lead a life of creative integrity, take a look at the introduction to Michael's book, The Rebel Lion, and to The Shape of Content by Ben Sean, which these are two real classics about how to lead a creative life. And I totally recommend them. I'm going to begin with a poem called Harvest. It was published a few years ago. It's dedicated to Amos Oz and David Grossman, Israeli novelists, and peace activists. Harvest, there is no enemy. Insist your rugged hands and muscled backs, half hidden in olive branches shading. Women, darkly veiled. None but the enemy of a piece of fruit. It's oil, a balm, for the rest of us who need to be so brave. Found poem, Orphans of a Forgotten War. And for New Year, they decorate the holiday tree in the backyard with the skeleton of a Russian soldier. Peter Baker, The New York Times. Bone flute. Creatures took bone long before language. Science now tells us and knew to cut holes in it, shaping note breath, to carve measured spaces that once held flesh. Literatures say music is a higher offering of prayer. So surely God knew bone gave praise in low whistling sorrow and greater praise in multitudes exulting. Surely God was pleased that song was formed by giving new life to trembling bone. The sun is metaphor. Study of stars said the sun had a violent youth. The New York Times, 9901. Scientists suggest the sun was born in vast and vicious particulate storms. Radioactive gas blasted at such high frenzied heat. Nothing but blizzards of brightness could live. The evidence found in patterns of scars that help herald our hope. I see a few of you from last night. David Duncan just did a brilliant excerpt from his book, The Experimental Man. And this poem that I'm going to read is for him today. It's called The Brittle Star. I wrote it some time ago. But if you take a look at his book and at the science writing of David Perlman, you'll see some connections, I hope. The Brittle Star. That's what it's called. And it is covered with hundreds of tiny, perfect eyes and is about the size of an average human hand. Magnified hugely in newsprint image, calcium scaffolding resembles a gentle, translucent, breeze-borne, philodendron leaf. In dreams that take place on laboratory benches, begin responsibilities and speculation about application. While I wonder if every pore on the skin of every human hand could learn to distinguish predator from healer, stealer from donor, and subtleties between astronomers' gifts for Selena's son. I have asked myself if and how I should break the news to my favorite six-year-old, sure to take it better than I did, not concerned about wonder stolen by science, which did not concern me until I learned that stars could be forced to stop twinkling, to give viewers a clear view inside churning interiors. I have never doubted the ability of the sky to communicate. And I'm grateful astronomers have assisted the generosity of stars. I don't plan to tell her how foolish I feel for the weeks it has taken me to accept the good news that first seemed so contrary to the need that's a gift to gaze up in the darkness, strive for the infinite, light, o magnanimous light. We are, as we all know, in the city of St. Francis. And the feast of St. Francis is today. It's celebrated over the past few weeks. I'm going to end with three very, very short poems. The peculiar mix of the earth here makes a perfect digestive for parrots and macaws, allowing them to eat nuts that would otherwise make them sick. Two, the parallels between the genetic structure of people and pufferfish have been tallied with fewer differences between us and sushi than might have been supposed. Those are found poems from the New York Times. I'm going to end with a short poem from my book called Otter. Sleekly he possesses current, shimmering, glad, wet grace, silver-brown, well-muscled, his whispers swift. It would be a sacrament of delight to guard him without words beside his river in each season, grateful without knowing all his ways. Thank you. Thank you, Barbara. Our next reader is going to be Michael McGriff. And Mike McGriff is the author of Dismantling the Hills, which was just published in the last couple of weeks, in fact, from University of Pittsburgh Press. It's a gorgeous book. He's also the translator of Tomas Tronstomer's The Sorrow Gondola, and is currently at work editing the selected writings of David Wevel. He also builds his own bookcases with his own hands, and he has the most remarkable record collection imaginable. So please welcome Mike McGriff. I'm Mike McGriff. I'm happy to be here. Thanks, volunteers, and library, and all of you for showing up. Six minutes of my best poems. The Last Hour of Winter. This winter is carnival of rain, tears down and moves east for the hills. No more working wet or boots by the wood stove, no more sweating booze in your rain gear, or fouled chains stripping the cogs. He sits at his bacon and coffee like a man at a piano. His hands begin to work. He becomes invisible. The coast wind chases the tide and passes through him. The jetty, the seagulls, the broken piers moaning on their barnacle stilts. He is tired of the gray world that says a man can't leave his body unless he leaves it for good. So like Chagall's rabbi, he floats out of himself through the kitchen window to the old coast highway where the sandstone banks lie etched with names and swastikas, arrows and desperate propositions. He sees fields that seed farmers will burn where Mennonite countries skirts paper mills and roadside nurseries. Sees himself in a bend of water filled with junked cars where the river eddies then changes direction. The old water riding from one season to the next through the skeletons of bucket seats. There's a tear in the world where he places the name he's called himself all winter then reenters his life. Now a short poem by Tom Gunn. Their relationship consisted in discussing whether or not it existed. Great poet, everyone knows that who's here. Entering the kingdom. The summer's gone. Now it's the gray machines of the rain. 530 November, the sun breaks through long enough to open something along the ridge. Then darkness and more rain. A woman sits in the middle of her living room surrounded by stockpots filling with the ceilings brown rainwater and chunks of plaster. Her eyes are the milk, a blue granite and blind as the salamanders. Earlier, a man came with a lawyer who came with a letter from the city. A letter condemning her three and a half acres for the new pipeline. She believes in many things. The cayenne should be sprinkled along the thresholds, salts along the window sills, that the pole should be taken each night before entering the kingdom of sleep. She believes in her hands that the sand scraped from beneath each nail contains a desert where a family of refugees discusses who will eat the last of the dried fish. She keeps the shadows of her hands in a jewelry box beneath the sink. She keeps the thoughts of her hands in a jar of raisins. She thrust two fingers beneath her jawbone and accounts her pulse backward from 100 as the sound of water and metal ferries her into sleep. She keeps the dream of her hands in her dream where she climbs a rope into the tree of sadness, hands that wind the clock and hands that divide the fish. Here's the first poem from my book. Iron. I was wrong about oblivion then. Summer mornings we walk the logging roads north of Fairview. The gypo trucks leading miles of gravel dust eddying around us. You were the queen of iron and I, the servant, Barcelona. The slash pile we tunneled through was the whale's mouth, our kingdom. Jake Breaks sounded the death cries of approaching armies as they screamed over the ridge where we held our little breaths and each other passing the spell of invisibility between us. Five years later, you brought your father's hunting knife to school and stabbed Daniel Carson in the hip and I never saw you again. I could say I left town for both of us that I drove I-5 south until I reached the aqueducts of California and for the first time felt illuminated before the sight of water as it rushed beneath the massive turbines spinning on the bays and dusty hills powering a distant city that would set me free. I could say after your father covered the plastic bladder of his waterbed with baby oil and wrestled you to it that in those days after your pregnancy I made plans to drive a claw hammer into a skull but I never left and when I moved it was only as far as the county line. If my life has been a series of inadequacies at least I know by these great worlds of dust how beauty and oblivion never ask permission of anyone. In the book I read before bed God lowers himself through the dark and funnels his blueprints into the ear of a woman who asked for nothing. Tomorrow night she'll lead armies and a few more she'll burn at the stake and silver birds will rise from her mouth. This is the book of the universe where iron is the last element of a star's collapse and the moon retreats each moment into oblivion. My blood fills with so much iron I'm pulled to a place in the hard earth where the wind grinds over the ridge bearing the wheels of tanker trucks oiling the access roads where deer ruin the last of the plumes where the slews shrink back to their deepest channels and I can turn away from nothing. Thank you. Thanks, Mike. Our next reader is going to be Elena Hairston. Elena's prose and poetry have appeared in Drunken Boat, Callaloo and Elsewhere, a 2007 to 2009 Kavek Hanem Fellow. Her poetry collection, The Logan Topographies, won Perseabook's Lexi Rudnitsky Memorial Prize and was a finalist for the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. Please welcome Elena Hairston. Thank you for coming. Thank you for having me. Thank you, thank you. I'm going to read from my book. It's set up as a postcard book and it's loosely based upon the history of southern West Virginia coal miners and the book is parsed into four topographical sections which are mythological locations in southern West Virginia. And each of the poems are set up as postcards so that the poem operates at the level of the page and then the poem can also be read within the context of the topographical region in which it exists. And then all of the poems can be read as one long sort of sequence. So please bear with me. And they're all sort of different and kind of wild and kind of just wild. This is from a 22 Mountain. Pregnant belly of coneflower and lark spur, coal caves of Lupine and Barbary, where shale grows up and bumps into sun, breeze across the moon, lunar party, dream of history striated. People find here, people found here, people lose here, people lost here, people hunt here, people hunted here, people trapped here, people trapped here, people live here, people lived here, people sing here, people sing here, people take here, people taken here, People come here. People left here. People return here. People stay here. People gone. At its base, a labyrinth of rivers spilling sedge and cat tail into an island creek, beholden and cut for use. Sentry and citadel flying. They know their poverty only when the wood of those who have crossed shine a deepening brown. Otherwise, they live amidst a mountain they claim daily and proudly in an ethos of only we belong here.  They do not speak often, but speak enough. Sons of early men, there is brotherly duty to keep what is kept, to spit where there is dirt, to stand in the wind. Worry is for what is left behind. The future is a fist of coal. The tyranny of pig boys. Brotherhood of men children whose hands split coal and faces that sweat more than smile, than their own. But they do not own these sweating faces that shout and pray like their own. And they are not home, and thus they are not welcome, nor welcoming. Homelessness makes home for the dust spot. Even the caress of clover or flocks does not sway cruelty when cruelty knows its own. Yet there are those who plow for other water, dare love through any loam. Exogamous, willing history and death, but more smiling lives beyond their own.  They smile because they are born from a dare men who eat their own flesh must abide. She was to give birth to a child who had not maintained her skin, this one night woman hunched in hemlock, churning earth, looking for her other side, her papa snatched away, threw into the galaxy of forest, dared her to find it in the matching peat and wet, this rifle eating her breast. They say you can hear her only after midnight and only with your ear to the ground. Love, not a crucible nor reservoir, between them a limbo of desire and lynching. She, a daughter of an early man, he, a son of brailed believers. They, children in a forest of midnight, they meet when the dirt opens in the moon and only light. She, barefoot and unashamed, he, open-handed and bold. They dance here in the secret roomless room where shale and peed and ash do not protect, but witness. She straddles him, cleaving dark memory between pale thighs, call it time traveling. She, filled, he, filling. An ancient exchange, the land too, a country of minds. No water for this love, only the thin light fingering oak and the music of skin, kissing skin. The fathers work their hands to meet, side by side, Terry Manor lining throats. This one, an early man, alabaster devout, helmed by immigrant arrogance, a willful ignorance and sometimes not. It was work and he needed Sicily in a small garden behind the three family company house. The other, brailed believer, mafic and refined by the quiet of bootstrap mobility, this too, a willful ignorance, a necessary erasure of plantation prologues, red long and deep in Alabama fields. The sweat of days on homemade collars, britches, crackling tar and sulfur ash, down there in tunnel after blackening tunnel, away in anaerobic, danger was a walking shadow camouflaged in coal. The early man did not see it, panicked, threw his shovel into its belly and was enveloped. The gilsonite now on tongue and legs broken under rock after rock, dark now and darker. The brailed believer crawled, crawled, clawed, hollered, heaved through silt and lime, ash pressed close and heaviest skin, found him, pulled him out, wiped his black face so that he might breathe. The two of them black together on blacker rock, pressed against the shadows of the hole. It was work, yet they were brothers, only then. Outside the caves and the daylight of public, they remained and grew continental drift. A saved life could not steer the course. Thank you. Thank you, Elena. Our next reader is Clive Mattson. And Clive Mattson's first book of poems, Mainline to the Heart, was published in 1966. His most recent book, which I know I'm going to mispronounce, Calcedony. Am I even remotely close? Calcedony. The first 10 songs came out in 2007, which means he's been writing poetry for, at the very least, 40 years. He's also the co-editor of An Eye for an Eye Makes the Whole World Blind, which is poets on 9-11. And that book was the winner of the 2003 pen, Oakland, Josephine Miles Literary Award. Please welcome Clive Mattson. We're still trying to figure out how to pronounce that word. I was coming across the street with John Rhodes, who put together this DVD, and my son Ezra.  Seven, six, five. And then they saw my t-shirt, and they yelled out the window, we don't got poetry. I wanted to say, thanks for not making it dead poetry. They were just having fun, though, it was good in nature. I hope you're having fun. Calcedony's always having fun. Here's her song number two. Not one button, not one stray curled hair. You think you've left nothing here, not even a skin fleck tickling my nostril. Cut strong clover, horse manure, and the ocean salt breeze, what is that odor? Heavy machine oil links to notes from a lilting organ that fly over bumpkin fields and dance, sycopated over red-tiled roofs over my head. Do I have you in my mouth in nasal cavities? Is that you dripping down walls through my esophagus? I breathe you in and out. I bend faux boundaries with my lungs.  That's past. You're disseminated over water. You're on the airwaves in your dotted across Pine and Juniper High Desert. You're inside and outside my body, spread up and down my belly and my legs.   You think you can put your heart back in your chest and go? No, you've left your essence. I'm eating you with strawberries. I'm sipping you with black tea. Your glands left a mark on my eye, the oil from your skin osmosis balm through hungry membranes.   How independent you are. How distant your profile against distant trees. How foreign your boot in the dirt. How unique the metal keys you toss in your hand. You think you're as discreet as the cognac bottle the drunk hides in his trousers. But the warm sun lifts your smell from your neck, from your pores tagged molecules jiggle off into wide surging breezes for places known and unknown and to one new place known very well. Can you feel your soul escaping?  In 2004, a character in one of my stories, Cal Sidney, began writing poems and asked me to write them down. It felt pretty strange writing somebody else's poems, but by now, four years later, they feel like me. Here's your song number five. Can you remember for one day, for one hour?  In those far reaches, one small ear listens through faint hissing of neutrinos and here's the words I whisper.  That cold wind winds clock hands around and forever around and with every whirl my lips shaped the same few words. Can you remember? Can you remember for even five minutes? For one minute? Does sweetness land on your skin and turn to vapor? My body and my soul turn to liquid and I enter your every pore. Volumes and candy volumes, delicate taffy streams pour into you and go where? Right through? Into thin air?  Does your tongue not remember the question poised on its tip like a moth with wings quivering and then fluttering into the vast emptiness? But it's not empty. The moth is that void and its wings caress every thought and every atom, committing their shapes and sizes to memory and waving flags in a parade down Main Street. Does asphalt remember the imprint of feet? Does the chick remember its egg? Does the egg remember soft down of its nest? Does your blood remember its course? Can you remember for even five minutes? Even rock remembers and turns every morning toward the one bright spot of sky, a single grain that hasn't heard, I love you. I love you. I love you. Thank you. They're taking the stage apart. Thanks very much, Clive. Unfortunately, Michael McClure and Maxine Chernoff and Jules Gomez were not able to be here today, which is a disappointment to many of us, but fortunately, we can read their work. And we have the pleasure, actually, of having a poet here who will read his. And our final poet for the hour is Sean Hill. And Sean has received fellowships from Kave Kahnem, the Bush Foundation, the McDowell Colony, and the University of Wisconsin. And in March 2008, the University of Georgia Press published his first book, Blood Ties and Brown Liquor. He's currently a Stegner film poetry at Stanford University, and an incredibly nice guy. Please welcome Sean Hill. Thank you for coming out. Thank you, Robin, for having me here. I'll be reading a couple of poems from Blood Ties and Brown Liquor. This is a book that sort of explores the history of my hometown, Millageville, Georgia. I had to sort of invent a central character to do that exploration. This fellow named Silas Wright. And this first poem is about Silas learning to write. Silas Wright at age seven, 1914. Silas Wright follows a fish's wriggle in the shallows between reeds. He scribes the line in his tablet as much pride in that line as a man in his son. He almost giggles. Still he goes on. The next letters come easy. With this, he'll have more than a mark to bind. Rambling across the page again and again in messy rows, on it flows until he goes a little off the page's edge. He smiles. He's surprised to hear when his mouth opens. That's mine. This poem is about him. It's very important in the South. Uncle John, that was the year granddaddy Thomas died. Left the family worse than broke. Uncle John stole a ham from Mr. Enos's meat market. He was 17, lost his taste for it, locked up 14 years. Ham, salt cured and earth red.  Yellow sunshine on a white plate. The ham bone cut crosswise, rings marrow. A dark eye, all in the skillet, making gravy for grits. Lost his taste for all things salt. The ocean he hasn't seen, woman and man. He don't never want to see no more ham on his plate. Hate's pigs was hard for him. Hate's white folks too, time off for good behavior. They didn't hold him to the last six. He's a hog farmer, only eats beef and chicken and turkey. Fish, turtle and rabbit.


Thank you so This is something that we touched on a little bit yesterday, and it's something I've been working on for about the last 10 plus years I want to start off by saying that from an economic analysis perspective the importance of perspective and and one of the difficulties that we have with economic analyses is that most of them in the academic world are performed from the societal perspective So that's where you have the qualities and and all this other sort of stuff But if you're trying to make decisions at a different unit than society that type of perspective doesn't really translate very well, and in fact Particularly in the United States since we don't have a national health system a societal perspective is particularly problematic and so one of the things that I've done in Collaboration with my colleagues has adapted the tools of economic analysis for different settings this irritates the bejesus out of the Academic economists, but it does work and so I'm going to give you four examples of this We're going to go through these very quickly And so a lot of this falls into and then a miracle occurs between these two things So I'm going to set it up I'm going to give you the answer and there's a miracle in between there But I do provide references for everything so for those of you that are interested in checking our work. We do in fact explain our miracles Dan made an interesting comment yesterday about the afternoon that would take to slap together an economic decision analysis This is one branch of a tree that my Analyst came up with for the universal Lynch syndrome screening the entire thing actually covered his door of his office at eight point font So these things can get incredibly Complex, but fortunately through a process of pruning and other things you can actually get down to the point of getting useful information out and so We as a system when I was in an amount of health care decided based on the eGap working group recommendation that we were we're going to implement universal screening Tumor screening for Lynch syndrome, but there are several different ways that you can do that You can use immunohistochemistry with BRAF and methylation from LH1 and et cetera, et cetera, et cetera and so and the eGap Recommendation was silent in terms of the best way to do it And so what we did is we used our economic model to say well we know the costs of all these things We know exactly what it costs us For this and so we just use those as our input variables So we didn't have to mess around with sensitivity analyses or assumptions. We knew the number and what we found was that Using these different approaches essentially had no impact at all in the number of Lynch syndrome cases that we were going to identify But if you look at the cost of the different approaches, there's a significant Difference in terms of the cost per case of Lynch syndrome detected from 10,700 with this approach to over 13,000 So from a system perspective that's going to have to spend money on this This is a really important piece of information because they can spend $3,000 less per case detected Which in the long run is with no loss of sensitivity. So that's a was really important in terms of decision-making And I didn't show the data, but as we were implementing this We had seven different hospitals that were doing colorectal cancer resection One of the hospitals came and say well, we really should only be using this for under age 50 That's really the best place to do it. And so we said well Usually we have then at that point in an eminence based medicine discussion Which is well, I think this and you think that but we went back to our model and we modeled out the different ages And what we said was you know, it's cheaper if you use a under 50 cutoff But you miss half the cases and the system when they looked at the total expenditure said, you know If we poked around in the C-suite couch cushions, we could probably come up with the money to cover this We're screening everybody and so the data was extremely useful to move this forward in a consistent way across the system the second example is IL-28B and protease inhibitors in hepatitis C and protease inhibitors at that time were routinely used in HCV viral genotype 1 and there were several economic analyses that supported the cost effectiveness But because viral genotypes 2 and 3 are more responsive to therapy The standard therapy did not include protease inhibitors However, we also knew that there was a patient genotype in IL-28B that predicted good responders versus poor responders in response to treatment in all HCV viral genotypes, but there was almost no evidence Related to the impact of this in genotypes 2 and 3 and so the question we asked was if you did IL-28B genotyping and use that to select candidates where you use triple therapy from the get-go the poor responders you Initially used a protease inhibitor just as you would for genotype 1 How much improvement in sustained viral response, which is the intermediate end point of interest is needed to cross a threshold across cost-effectiveness and We did this analysis and what we found was that if you administered triple therapy to patients that had the resistant IL-28B genotype you only needed an improvement in sustained viral response of about two percent To cross a cost-effectiveness threshold, which was stunning Whereas if you treated all patients with triple therapy, then you'd need to see a Improvement of 11 percent. So this was groundbreaking work, which was immediately supplanted by the new medications So so this is all completely irrelevant, but it still was fun to do Science marches on the third Study that I wanted to briefly present shows the importance of using a patient perspective. So this was a prospective trial there was a small prospective pharmacogenomic informed trial of war for an at Intermountain Healthcare And so we worked with David Veenster and his group at the University of Washington To develop a policy model using these data to assess the cost-effectiveness And what we found out when we did this was that if you tested versus Preemptively versus not doing testing the arms were essentially equivalent. We couldn't really detect Much of a difference between the two arms. However, the prospective trial data showed that the tested patients those that underwent pharmacogenomic Testing required two to three fewer INRs to get the stable dose And so all things being equal I think a patient-centered perspective would say, you know, if you can disrupt that patient's life Two to three times fewer by having them come in for INRs That's a pretty important outcome from that patient because you're not taking them out of work Or you're not taking them out of home having come down to the clinic find parking etc. etc. etc. So This Basically says the costs are the same. So why not choose something that would be less disruptive from the patient? So that's a different perspective. We haven't done much of this from the patient perspective But I think we should do be doing more thinking about that And then the last thing I want to present was something that we've been working on recently On generic modeling now the problem with economic modeling is that it is complex. It requires specific expertise That expertise is not necessarily broadly available I was really fortunate at Intermountain that I had an analyst who was very interested and we kind of learned how to do it And we found it was useful, but most places don't have that type of expertise And the other problem is that most models are created for a specific Perspective so they're one-off so I can build my model for Intermountain health care but then somebody else would have to build a model for Geisinger or UAB or whatever And and all of the inputs then are customized which means you can't really reuse the model And so the question that we asked was could you take a generic approach? Build a generic model that would allow stakeholders to enter their relevant key parameters and Generate results that would be relevant to decision-making so we knew it wouldn't be as good as a Customized model, but it could it be good enough. Could we expand this? And then we wanted to see how does this model perform against a gold standard approach to modeling And so we used the test case of HLA B 1502, which we've heard a fair amount About in association with carbamase a pain to reduce the risk of severe cutaneous adverse events And the rationale was this is a medically significant issue It's already been implemented in some settings There are significant differences in allele frequencies of 1502 in different populations as well as cost and practice patterns That lead to variations in cost effectiveness, so we knew that we could see Variable inputs plus there was an existing gold standard economic model that had come out of Thailand And so we did this under the a supplement that was through the University of Florida Economic modeling project for pharmacogenomics for prevention Stevens-Johnson syndrome, so I want to thank Sponsors and our collaborators at the University of Florida and our global collaborators for doing this so This is an example of the decision tree here where you would have three options You would have no HLA B screening in which case you would have HLA B 1502 carriers That might develop Stevens-Johnson syndrome or not and the non-carriers and the We made the assumption which is okay for modeling that there would be no Stevens-Johnson syndrome or 10s in the non-carrier Population that's not completely true, but the rate is low enough that you can essentially treat that as zero We then had a universal Genetic screening arm where again with those tested positive were used we had them use an alternative drug Which in this case was valproate because we heard yesterday about the fenitone Issues and assumed that no one would have severe cutaneous event in that which is a pretty reasonable assumption We also it's not shown here, but we also built in the fact that VPA is not as effective a medication for for a seizure control as Carbamazepine in these particular types of seizures So that was built into the model and then in those that tested negative The truth is there's the possibility of false negatives on the testing that would be relatively low We know those numbers and that those individuals might be at risk for 10s And then we also model against the third alternative, which was being seen Just emerging in Taiwan I believe where everybody was just moving away from carbamazepine. They were saying I'm not going to test I'm just going to use valproate and we modeled that and I'm just going to show you a few of the This is the approach so here we said here are all the variables that we need and when we looked at the inputs There were three types of inputs one input variable was the one that the users had to specify So for example, what is the prevalence of this allele well that varies from population to population? So that would have to be entered for the specific population that was used in the generic model We also needed to make it clear that the prevalence is different from the allele frequency and that you needed to Multiply the allele frequency by 2 to get this input value. So we tried to make it as user-friendly as possible There are also the costs of care that vary from place to place and so these are the Pieces the components of the cost of care that would need to be included cost of disease treatment, etc We also had default values values For things like the laboratory test performance in that where we had pretty good Information that these are going to be consistent And so these could be pre-populated in the model and then we had a third group of inputs where we had default values That were based on reasonable evidence But if the group had a specific input they could actually insert their input into that value Sat rather than using the default and Then we ran this against three models the time model that I had mentioned and then there were two groups from Malaysia and Singapore that actually also Participated in this project and they developed their own country specific model, which we then compared Against this and I'm not going to go through all the numbers here because it gets reasonably complex, but the bottom line was is that we found That this actually Performed reasonably well. It's feasible And it's an efficient and timely value-based method So we get you in the ballpark of you know Is this something that looks cost-effective or doesn't look cost-effective using this a generic approach? And so we think that if we were able to do more of this generic modeling that it would allow more people to sort of rapidly perform this type of Modeling exercise without the extensive training that is needed to create these models De novo and that hopefully that would help us to facilitate how implementation in different settings Would really look and so the manuscript That is describing this has just been circulated to our internal group will be revised and submitted shortly So that's the one Manuscript that I don't have in my reference section since that's still a work in progress so in conclusion Defining perspectives is critically important Economic analysis tools can be used Pragmatically to rationalize decision-making. I will tell you it's tough to get these things published because the reviewers tend to be of the academic economist variety and They have problems with the way we use their tools But I I think in the long run We've demonstrated that there's enough value from the perspective of the decision-maker that irrespective of the Academic criticism they are still highly useful for decision-making These are references for the things that I had specifically mentioned and I for those of you who are really interested shameless plug here This is a book that came out two years ago economic evaluation and genomic medicine that I wrote with some colleagues in In Greece and the Netherlands The the thing that's a little bit unusual about this book is that we have an introductory chapter on economics for geneticists And then we have a chapter genetics for economists Which was they were very fun to write But we use a lot of pragmatic examples all the way through to illustrate the different perspectives So I find it very useful, but I do get a you know a a royalty for every copy sold So that that and another 50 cents will get me a coffee at Starbucks In the morning, so with that I'll end Great. We have time for some questions. Yes, Sandy I just am curious, you know from a computer science point of view But you know the first thought would be to take the generic model and you know add parameters to enable it to Be as specific as the you know the country specific models But I'm guessing that in in reality, it's more complex than that I'm just wondering Where that complexity lies and why that's why that's not possible, right? So the complexity lies Partly in the model construction itself So the the generic model trims down some of the decision points that if you really wanted to get a fine-tuned model You would add additional complexity So for example, if I think my recollection is correct that in the generic model when when we looked at the country specific models We realized that the difference in efficacy of Valpro 8 Doesn't contribute a lot to the end result and so I think we Suppressed that in the generic model Whereas it does give you a little bit more accuracy if you were to include that so what we tried to do is to say What are the things that would require a tremendous amount of effort to populate a model? But at the end doesn't give you much of a bang for your buck Meaning that you're using resources that are are probably either not available or Our could be used better in other ways And so that's how we tried to streamline this to some degree and I think that What you'd ultimately have to do in any of these situations is that you're not going to be able to create a generic model That's going to work, you know globally you're going to have to have some sort of a best practice model That is well understood and ideally probably tested in a couple of different settings to make sure that it's robust That you would then use to develop a generic model that could be put out Jeff Thanks mark. So since the notion of doing some of these economic modeling studies is relatively new to us at least Do you have a set of standard measures that we should be thinking about capturing in order to allow us to do those? To develop those models, you know going forward is there are things that we can incorporate into our ongoing studies. Yeah, so The world of economic modeling does have published best practices in terms of how this should be done And so what we've attempted to do in all of those is to go to those reference works of best practices And make sure that we're following those and so we don't need to Adapt those I think for genetics or genomics in particular. I think they work well And then it's a matter of Clearly identifying what are the things that we want to study and then being able to have the Outcomes that are important and find the data sources. And so that's the big decision for the lint syndrome one We frankly would not have been able to do that without with the current Published data that was out there, but we were able to work with Ohio State University and Heather Hample Who had done a very large scale? Study where they'd sequenced everybody so we knew sort of the right answer related to the Sensitivity and specific Specificity of a tumor-based approach none of none of that was in the literature, but using that sort of gray data We were able to actually make the model work So the data sources are the biggest are the biggest issues, right? And that's so I'm wondering can you provide or colleagues provide, you know It's the the types of data and where we can find them to incorporate into our studies It depends Because all the data are would be specific to a given modeling exercise So what you would what you really do at the beginning of that is to say here's the question Here are the inputs and then you have to map that to data sources and so You know some of it is here are literature sources that can be used and in some cases and with the IL-28B Study there clearly were no data for certain of the nodes And so what the way you deal with situations where there's no data is you generally get You know an expert consensus of what do you think the right number is then you use a technique called Sensitivity analysis that allows you to vary that say what if I'm off by you know, two or five or ten in either direction How does that impact the result of the model and what you find is is that some of those inputs for which? There's no data it makes no difference that the end result is the same Irrespective of what value you choose in there and that was the point I was trying to make yesterday is that the real value of modeling is that when you have No data for certain decision points you can use the model to determine Do we need to invest in getting that data or is this something that really isn't important in which case? We should ignore it and put our resources elsewhere Okay, yes, Mary Mark for your war for an example you mentioned that in the genotype guided group They got by with two to few two to three fewer INR's than in the non gene So how did that not translate into a effect on cost? because the way that the cost is model doesn't include all of the Travel time away from work and that sort of thing it just includes the INR costs And so if you added up the cost of the three and I three INR's it essentially was equivalent to the cost of the of the genotyping And so that's so that's why so if so you could literally legitimately criticize And say that if you included those attendant costs that that would have actually showed a difference huge, right? Not huge enough So if you actually three days where somebody has to leave work find a babysitter get a cab Get your daughter to take you to the doctor in the cold hard reality of a lifetime perspective You it's Several death decimal points down the road but the point that you're making is The critical one is that from an economic modeling perspective that makes no difference from an individual's perspective It makes a huge difference and the economic modeling is not adequate. No, that's not into it It is adequate and it's just it's the limitation of if you look at you're looking at lifetime events the the impact of a bleed Or a clot related to to warfarin The and the frequency of those is so small in the in the in the context of the rest of the individual's life That three days Doesn't show up in the model. It's lost in all of the other noise But we can't lose sight of the fact that three days for that individual is a huge impact So economic models will help but they don't answer all of the questions that we can we can answer So we have to understand the limitations of what modeling will tell us and we have to Understand that wait a second. That's three days And that's a huge input in that very short period of time for that individual in that one week out of their 80 years of life But you can't measure three days out of 80 years of life and expect that to show up in an economic model Mark what I heard you were saying is that economically it was a wash that you the cost Right, but when you take in patient preferences for having fewer, you know to your point Mary that that it Intuitively, I don't think they that you or Dave directly Assess this through patient, you know questionnaire or anything like that It just made sense to say that patients may prefer to have fewer tests. Is that the point you're making? That's the point I was attempting to make. Yes. Yeah But if you say the cost of those three days Is divided out amongst 80 years if you also take the cost of the test and divide that out among 80 years of health Care costs, then the cost of the test is insignificant also. That's correct So then it seems like it would almost always be either A waste of time to do any economic analysis because it's never going to be significant on the total cost or it's always going to be You know significant because it's such a small problem of presenting data like this at a very big because the impact of having a death Related to you know, so the data that Was presented about the you know having a mace, you know that impact economically is Enormous and it and it detects the signal the problem with you know The the the the warfarin is is that the at least based on the data at that time that we had available to us We did not have much of a signal at some of those major bleeding or clotting events that we could really You know that the would show up well in the model and that's why the economic modeling that was done around that time Because that study now is about eight years ago that we published that so there were a number of economic models of Warfarin that came out and they were all over the map because the assumptions varied so widely in terms of you know One model showed it was highly cost-effective Because it prevented all events which we know is just ridiculous. You can't prevent all the events So does the sensitivity analysis on the cost of the actual cost of the genotyping come out to be Significantly does it not really matter whether the cost is two hundred dollars or two thousand or it does make a difference But it depends on the model that that you're using so for example in the HLA model the cost of the genotyping was it was and we Show this in something called a tornado diagram where you show for all the different input variables What is their impact from largest to smallest on the model and cost of the genotyping testing in that one? was a significant driver of cost effectiveness for the For the model whereas for others the cost of the test is much less sensitive It's much more about the performance of the intervention Okay, I think we need to you can see that this group is highly engaged on the topic of cost effectiveness Which is great, but I think we need to move to our overall discussion


Welcome to the third lecture in the end-to-end machine learning course 112. Getting ready to learn Python, Windows Edition. This is for anyone who is very brand new to computers or brand new to coding, to know the very minimum amount of what you need to know to start writing your first line of Python. In this video, we are going to focus on creating and editing text files. This is super important because every Python file we write will be a text file. It will have some name and a period and a P-Y. That just shows us that it's a Python file, so we as humans can identify it. The computer doesn't care, it's just a text file to the computer. So all we need to start writing it is a program that can create and edit text files. In Windows, we have a text editor, which is a program that can create and edit text files, called WordPad. It's really nice because it's very simple, there's very little to get distracted by. And because we're just writing text for the computer to read, we don't need to worry about fancy fonts and formatting and all that stuff. It doesn't have to be pretty, it just has to be clear. Clear to us. WordPad is a great bare bones text editor to get started in. To find it, you can go to your magnifying glass search window, type in WordPad, and the WordPad program, the WordPad app will pop up, you can double click it, and you get a little window that looks like this. This will be familiar if you've used a word processor of any sort ever, but you can just jump right in, start typing. This is a short text file, period. We can adjust the appearance, make it larger, make it smaller. The appearance is just for us, so it's whatever makes it easiest for you to read and edit and interact with. Computer doesn't care. After you're done typing, you can go in and save. Using this handy little selector, you can choose the directory you want to save it in. We'll choose the directory with several files in it, and you can also tell it the name that you want to save it as. We'll choose another text file, .text. Notice that there's a lot of different options under the save as type. There's Word documents, a rich text file, RTF. We don't care about any of these. We want it to be a text document. So it ends in .txt. Very simple, no frills, no embellishment, no assumptions, no special formatting. When we're done, we can click save, and this file then gets saved into our directory structure right where we want it, right where we told it to. We get a little warning. It says, hey, you're going to save this as a text-only format. This is going to remove any special fonts you had or formatting or bolding or italicizing or any of that stuff. We don't care. We want it to be simple. So you can say, yes, this is what we want. Now there's something that is a nice to have, and that is a fixed-width font. What that means is that every character, whether it's a capital W, which can be very wide, or a comma, which can be very narrow, they're all represented by the same width. So if I come here and I type 8 Ws, 8 Is, and 8 commas, notice they all line up. They all go the same number of columns. This is really good for text readability in Python. Highly recommended, but it's for you, for the writer, for the human. The computer doesn't care. So Courier New is a fixed-width text font. If we were to change this to be a different font, another font that I enjoy is Consulus, fixed-width again. You can see that the Ws, Is, and commas all line up perfectly. Totally a matter of personal choice. And if you want to dive into the world of optimal computer programming fonts, it's a fun little rabbit hole, but I believe all of them are fixed-width. So you can choose any fixed-width font you want, and it will work just fine. So for comparison, if we use Calibri, which is a default font for some Windows programs, you can see there's a huge difference. We have the Ws stretching really wide, and the Is and the commas are narrow and packed close together, which makes sense for readability because there's not as much going on there graphically, but it's terrible if you need your columns to line up. If you need to have the length of every 80 column line be the same. So that's why any fixed-width font is recommended. Now we have our short text file here. If we want to change it, add something to it, for instance. We can just go in now and add some more text, and here is some more text. We can save it out, reassure WordPad that yes, we do want to save just the text file. And then once it's saved, we have changed it. We have edited that text file. If we want to verify that it's there, we can open up Windows Explorer, go to Documents, Directory with several files in it, see another text file dot text, and we can open it up and see that it's there. And then once it's open, we can even add more. We can add extra text later if we want. This way we can continue to evolve whatever it is we're working on. So this is an important bit. This capability to create, to write, to edit, to come back and modify text files is really the nuts and bolts, the mechanics. It's like an important piece of what you need to sit down and write code. So you'll see very soon how this comes into play when you go to write your first line of Python.


I think I found it, alright. I think I found the best theme for Elementor and WooCommerce. Now, I know this is a really bold claim, but after using several themes and my usual go-to themes and building many, many sites on WooCommerce with Elementor, I believe what I found is the best theme currently for Woo and El. Now, I'm not a sponsor or an affiliate or working with the theme in any way. My purpose behind this video is to help other Elementor users. This theme has helped me so much, not only sped up my workflow, but has allowed me to build far better and more polished e-commerce websites. And I wanted to share this with everyone out there because I know this will help others as well. And the theme that I'm talking about is the Ray theme. This is a lightweight theme dedicated to WooCommerce websites and built with Elementor. And really quick, before we get into the Ray theme, if you do like this video, please make sure to hit like and subscribe. The support really helps out. I appreciate it and I'll continue putting out Elementor and web design related content. Alright, to the Ray theme. I've always been hesitant whenever using a new theme. That comes with a lot of features and pre-built stuff in it. It's because I don't like the bloats and the heaviness and ever since I started using Elementor, I feel I could do anything with just Elementor and a blank theme. And since I've got Elementor, I have not gone back to theme forest and all those bloated themes. The problem is there are things missing that are needed to build a really proper and professional looking e-commerce website. And I'd usually have to use a bunch of extra third party plugins that I didn't want to use and do a lot of custom coding. And if you're not a coder or don't want to use custom code or to buy and add all those plugins, well, that could be a challenge making a website or e-commerce website that looks good. 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Welcome back folks, Dow, Dow Industrial has finished up 86, NASDAQ up 201, S&P is up 27, and that's quite a day, folks, when you take a look at actually where we were. If we take a look at the S&P first, you can see the S&P was down at 4,056, and the bottom line is 98 points off of that bottom. And it also did, it came down into the March 24th low, that March 24th low is 4,095, bottom line rejected it, so you're going to get a bounce out here, you know, we'll see what this thing can bounce up to this 42, 47, right now you're 41,53, NQs, NQs did the exact same thing, actually, you know, it's so intriguing because the NQs did lead the market higher today, let it lower, then let it higher, bottom line inside the NQs, what did you have out here, mind you, they're both in ABC structures down, that being said, guess what, today, you rejected lower price in the NQs at a price point of 12,709, and this thing can bounce up to about 13,297, so that's 200 points from where we are, that's how this thing is shaking out right now, and if you get above that, it'll bounce back to ICE, ICE is laid out at 13,729, which really would be a nice little bounce, so gold, gold contracts, also in an ABC structure on the way down, we did 184,000 contracts out here today, you took out a B point, took it out with volume, that sets up 1788, 1788 is right down at this lower end of the last low, we had 1783 was actually the number, so you get a nice bar at 1824, I mean 1824 to 1870, we'll see how that holds up, you're into that bar already, we're at 1872, and what this is going to be all about of course is that, well you get the interest rate structure, that's what it's about, as well as the US dollar, the bottom line is this dollar, you know, this dollar, bottom line looks to me like this could basically break this area, and if you break this area, we're going to go to 121, which just be, and 121 folks, okay, and the dollar, you know, will do some destruction to this broad market for sure, as it will to gold, you can see, you're laying out here, anything over 103, 820, bottom line, next stop up here, pick your, pick your poison, 119, 121, 120, have a great night folks, have a safe night, come back and visit Tommy tomorrow morning, kicks us off, 9 o'clock in the morning, great show, have a great one folks, have a safe one.


Thanks for checking out this movie review let which is what I'm calling these things where I pull DVDs from and And or Blu-rays from my collection my stacks over here, which you can't see there are two more further off-screen I pull out three random ones totally random I literally close my eyes and just kind of move my hand and then pick pick one I do three of them and then I let you know what those are you vote on them So the one for this one for the first real Review let because you get it's like review and relet. Yeah, it's demonic toys as voted on by you viewers The other options were this is spinal tap and Was the other one kick-ass was the other one so you guys went demonic toys, so that tells me a lot about my viewers horror related and Love crappy movies. This is actually this is in my collection, but it's actually the first time I've watched it There are a bunch of movies in there like that to be honest So we might come across some more at the very end of this review I'm gonna go in depth on this film But at the very end is when I will review or I'm sorry reveal the three new ones that you have to vote on So all you have to do is put a comment down there and say the name of the movie that you would like me To do next I'll tally up the votes and the next video that I put out will be that one So let's talk about demonic toys This is a 1992 release so it's from some time ago As people as I'm sure people know if you're watching this and you've seen demonic toys, you know, it's a full moon entertainment film Charles Bands Company, so it's not gonna be like a good film It's gonna be a film and it's gonna have bad acting, but it's going to have fun creatures And the script is gonna be not Coherent not really Making sense. Yeah, so this was a straight to video release Which actually a lot of full moon releases are straight to video Full moon if people don't know best known for like the puppet master series But also known for these demonic toy films They also did like a puppet master versus demonic toy demonic toys and after seeing this I kind of really want to see that They also do like ginger dead man Doll man evil bong, you know stuff like that. So One of the very Interesting things I found out about this film when I was doing my research, which by the way if I sound stuff He sorry, it's like rainy outside and it gets my sinuses and allergies going so sorry about that But anyway, one of the crazy things I found out doing my research before I watched this was the writer of the script for Demonic toys was David Goyer now listen to some of the scripts that he's written since demonic toys Okay, he wrote blade blade to and blade three all the scripts for that Okay, way way loftier Goal writing wise than demonic toys. He also did dark city, which is a great film. He wrote the script for that That's a really good one. That's actually in my collection over there He wrote he did the the script for Batman Begins, which is quite a well-written Film then he did the the story ideas for the dark night and the dark night rises So obviously he was working with Christopher Nolan So going from working with full moon and entertainment and Charles band to working with Christopher Nolan on Batman. That's crazy He also wrote the script for man of steel Which I haven't seen but I've heard decent things about and Batman versus Superman, which I've seen it's not good It's not as bad as everyone has said, but it's not good So but my point being David Goyer started with stuff like demonic toys and he continued to do more scripts with some of these films and He went on to do some big things and be really successful just goes to show especially with acting as well And some directing actually if you think of people like James Gunn People who start off in like crappy horror and become something much bigger It's a really good starting point. So just know that if you're looking to get into any film genre You should start in horror. That's the best way to go. So In the very beginning of this film how it starts off I love how, you know, the the two two undercover cops are talking in the car and they obviously have a Relationship going on and the guy says we should get married He's like we should get married to have kids because she's like, what are we gonna get to you know? Get married is like we should get married if we're gonna when we're gonna have kids And she's like, okay, when do you want kids? And he's like, I don't know at some point basically being like you're stuck in this relationship the way it is for like The foreseeable future. I just thought that that whole exchange was actually kind of funny, but then they Use one of the things that I really hate in films to kind of like up the stakes immediately Which is like she's like, oh my god, I'm pregnant and it's like, oh no So now you know anytime she's in danger, you're gonna be like, oh, there's so much more at stake It's not just her it's her and the fetus But that ends up becoming even more of a plot point because it's you know This demon who's trying to be born. I mean it kind of alludes to it being like not just a demon But being like Satan, you know trying to be born into the world So he's going to use her fetus to be his new vessel basically So yeah, it's it's kind of ridiculous. I mean the whole film. It's ridiculous. It's not a good It's not well written or anything But then again like when you're watching a film like this when you see the cover art You know, you see this cover art you see the name of it and you see it's from full moon What are you watching it for?  I think they delivered on that to be honest The concepts for the demonic toys were really cool that some of the kills were relatively decent The practical effects as far as like the kill practical effects like the gore and everything was not that good They could have used a lot more fake blood I would have liked that because like the parts were like the toys were like chewing on people's faces like they just like wiped Blood on like fake blood on there and there weren't like any chew marks or anything like that that I could see Actually, I think the the first chewing death There was a little bit of makeup to make it look like they're actually gouges of skin taken out But it's subsequent ones not so much It's like they were like spend the money up front and then let's skim towards the towards the end So it was kind of funny Yeah rough acting but also hokey music like Richard Bann makes a lot of the music for full moon entertainment, which is Charles Bann's brother he's Good at composing that type of music, but it's like hokey horror music But it's funny because any time I see a film that he's done music for I can tell it's him It's just there's just a certain sound to it and it's kind of fun, but it's very hokey. I don't know It's you have to put it to the right movie. So in This we have a horrible security guard, which I feel like in the 80s and 90s There was this whole long-running Trend of having police officers and security guards in the films be total idiots Just well actually not not just idiots, but like totally negligent like didn't do their jobs had no interest We just sit around and like screw off and get drunk like this security guard and just not pay attention to anything and Yeah, it's kind of crazy that we went through that period where where that was such a popular thing in like 80s and 90s film It's weird, but I just thought about that. So the chunky chicken I thought that was a lot of fun the the main employee who ends up becoming a one of the heroes of the film I liked his character quite a bit.  I I Like small funny details like that put into these types of films. So I appreciate that Also the fact they call it chunky chicken is is pretty hilarious and I'll in my notes I'll get to a quote tied to that that I really liked in this film, too Okay, so as soon it takes a while but as soon as the toys the demonic toys come to life You get this feeling of like, okay, here we go now. We're getting somewhere now We're getting to what this film has promised And it's fun. Like I said the designs on the demonic toys are pretty cool You have you know the demonic clown Jack in the box Which is fun because he's kind of he can kind of get out of the box and he's like the snake Type character and the sculpting of his face looks cool. He looks good and demonic and fun Then the the demonic teddy bear is a lot of fun, too He looks funny like the part where he's got a baseball bat and he's like hiding around the corner gonna like Knee cap the the security guard. He looks hilarious like that like the way they shaped his face It was just really funny and just to like see him kind of standing up and like holding that bat It's a funny scene and then I like how they threw in like the evolution of the demonic teddy bear where he He has that moment where he grows to like super size that was a lot of fun and I didn't see that coming I thought they're gonna keep them all small So it's it's cool with crap like crappy movies like this that are like We know we're not a good film and everyone knows they're not a good film where they throw in like little surprises like that It's like we know why you're here. So now the demonic teddy bear is super sized like you get excited for that stuff I do I'm just like oh sweet. I wasn't expecting that.  I literally just watched a movie. So I don't know I forgot the was it called like the oopsie daisy doll the little like a baby doll that talked like had a real attitude and extreme potty mouth and Yeah, that was pretty great.  Yeah, the jack-in-the-box was pretty cool Actually, I already talked about a bunch of this stuff. So sorry Okay, so here's the quote.  That's so funny. Like that's before she was I think it was the The security guard that she was about to kill. Yeah, like that's when they all like tag teamed it and jumped on him and started killing him So, yeah, that was pretty hilarious. I loved it Man the potty mouth doll. That's what I wrote down. I was like this potty mouth doll is the best the best Another really great quote from this I was like, oh, yeah, must be some sort of satanic ritual or something and I wrote down isn't it always It's usually some sort of satanic ritual with all these things Like I said the actual story for this not good not good at all It plays off some really tired tropes, but it's kind of what you expect from a film like this like I was saying The astral planes The the whole thing where they had like the demon who was saying he was existing in an astral plane and then possessing these Dot these toys and it's just like it seems like you're throwing so much together right now It's so jumbled up that you're just kind of like if it's not gonna be a great film Then we're just gonna keep piling stuff on in the script Just like it's demonic toys and this you know demons trying to get born is and it's probably Satan and then less Introduce these astral planes now and it's just kind of like Oh my gosh, just like slow it down just a little bit. We don't need all this. We do not need all this The wine drinking demon was funny though.  That's so weird Like why wouldn't you want to be a more able-bodied? Like grown up and that does happen at certain points during the film But I feel like that should be your default is more able-bodied less short Just saying especially if you want to get something done as a demon. That's all I'm saying When they do the backstory on the on the demon the first time it was born and then it was like kind of buried under this this warehouse Intel blood was spilled and it finally came back to life that was hilarious because like the Demon baby being born and then the people like going and giving it away to trick-or-treaters Which is ridiculous, but this is one of these things were like like I was talking about before It's just like now throw this on now throw this on this is one of those thrown-on things that I actually like because it's it's like Ridiculous, but they know it's funny ridiculous, you know So those types of things I'm like sweet. Let's do it. It kind of reminds me of the movie Demon wind if no one seemed demon wind also from the 90s Kind of similar ish in ridiculousness to demonic toys. You should definitely see that that's one of those ones It's like everything including the kitchen sink type crappy horror films. Check that out. It's ridiculous But a lot of fun for that reason I did write down and the sucks the movie drags it really does drag the problem is they try and like stretch the the runtime on it and Right, I'd rather it just be kind of cut down to like maybe one hour because it's about an hour and a half I think it's like an hour and 20 some minutes But they should have cut it down closer to an hour just to like keep it tight and more entertaining because there were legitimately times I'm just like Okay, okay, are we there yet? Are we done with this portion? Yeah, they just put too much dialogue and as we all know the story is not that good So like why do you feel like you need to have exposition in this just saying Wrote down another quote.  Do you want it chunky style or extra crispy? I Love love love that quote especially because they're tying it back to the chunky chicken in the beginning Great I Assume when they were writing it. They were like all chunky chicken. That's such a funny cool name for this chicken place We got to incorporate that later on because it's so good and they did and I loved it And then I thought like when the demon was dressed up as a woman Sorry, my cat's over there being weird when the demon dressed up as a woman who got naked for the guy I it just popped into my mind I was like there's nothing worse than a demon trying to seduce you and that's not just in this film That's in any film in which a demon tries to seduce a human being it never ends.  That was really impressive I did not see that coming because the the other the demonic toys For the most part we're just like hand puppets basically So I was not expecting any sort of stop motion animation and it looked good They did they pulled it off pretty well But I guess I should have known that that's something they could do because they've done that with the puppet master films Which I own I don't think I own all of them, but I own almost all of those films So those could show up in this as well.  That's a good part of the film It's it's enjoyable to watch and it just made me think the people involved with this probably had a great time shooting those things Super-sized demonic teddy bear with great. I already talked about that the card game the the the war card game between the Good and the bad kid those flashbacks were awful and the fact is they start the film with that and You're just like what and it's not even interesting like I understand if you start the film with something that is Interesting and then tie it back in later like those things work But this is just stupid pointless idiotic You really could have had the good kid kind of come out of nowhere with no problem You didn't need the the card playing thing in the back or at the beginning of it to kind of lay the groundwork For it. You don't need it. Just saying And then like I said, you know to wrap it all up not a good story, but the toys were fun so I am giving this a star rating out of five stars and People may think this is really harsh because it is a relatively fun film But then like I said the story is not good it drags and you know I mean really it's just the creatures and some of the kills and some of the dialogue is is like bad fun So I'm giving it one and a half stars out of five I feel like that's fair because I I'm not taking it from standpoint of Four crappy horror movies. It's a one point one and a half stars If if we're doing that I might have it like two or something like that. I'm doing it. It's like film Period it's a one and a half star and it gets to be one and a half star because of the effects being relatively good And how it's crappy but fun. So There you go. There you have my review for alright my movie review let for demonic toys Good times So now let's reveal what the random selections were for the next one and go ahead and put your comment down there And vote on which one you want to see but first hit that subscribe because it can help my channel out a lot And then we'll get even more people involved voting on this Hit the notification bell if you want to know anytime one of my videos is available and Do some commenting not just for the sake of voting but also just to say, you know, what did you think of demonic toys? Have you seen it? Give me your opinions and thumbs ups are always cool So the first random one we have is and this might be weird hard to see It's a lenticular cover. It is the signal. I'll kind of like move it the signal see the lenticular Okay, so the signal obviously another horror film I'm not gonna read like the synopsis on these if you really want to know you'll have to go check those out because I don't Want to make this unnecessarily long, but yes, so the signal is the first one horror film The second one is not horror good fellas This is a classic So it'll be interesting to see if people will break ranks with voting for horror films for a classic like this Good fellas as a long one too It's been a while since I've seen that it's actually been a while since I've seen the signal as well And then the third one for some reason I think this is gonna be the one that is most popular going back to horror is the descent This is actually a film that I saw in the theater with my wife I actually talked to my wife into seeing it She's not like horror and she was like terrified and when we got out of this movie. She was like you owe me The claustrophobia in this is awesome But anyway, I don't want to talk too much about it because if people end up choosing this then I will do a full review on that More of like an analysis. So there you have it the signal of good fellas and the descent Cast your votes now and thank you everyone for checking this out until next time when we have our Exciting next movie review let's keep it brutal


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