what's up guys we are back with the series where i review your cards on reddit and let you know is it worth it or is it not for you to grade these cards open the packs etc you can post whatever you want to r slash ruckson 34 i will look at it and let you know if it's worth it or if it's not before we start this i do have a quick announcement in regards to megatintz if you guys bought from sassy auto he let me know that wave one of the tens if you guys have heard about the waves they're waving the tens to distributors to people selling them etc so they're supposed to be two waves one was going to be when it first came out and then one in the next month i believe now they just dropped a bomb that the wave one that was supposed to initially show up on time is now being split into multiple waves so sassy is not going to get some of his tens until two weeks later so if you bought from him you do need to look out for that he thinks he can get 80 to 90 percent of them sent out but if he doesn't get all of his allocation because they added more waves which is just a bomb to drop on you know everyone who is involved in selling them it's really there's nothing they can do about it they're just kind of screwed so keep in mind that is what's happening if he messages or if you are not getting your order or whatever he can't really do anything about it so i just wanted you guys to know that it's a konami thing it is not a sassy auto or any other distributor thing we also have a giveaway i'll be giving away this open mfc pack so i open this mfc pack on the channel and inside are all the cards that we pulled all you have to do is like this video be subscribed just let me know what you think is your favorite or what you think should definitely be submitted first we have a parallel bubble man is this one of these super rare ones this thing looks bent right here honestly like getting it great it's not gonna help you that much and like if you guys remember the $80,000 card the cyber dragon apparently most of that was like a scam the guy was actually lying about the price and all that stuff so in terms of this stuff i don't like to get too involved like i think the bubble man is actually legit because i remember the toy but if you're getting into that weird stuff we're like we're not even sure if it's real PSA just sending it to PSA doesn't necessarily mean it's real like they might grade a fake card they've done it before i would not totally put all the stock in if they grade or not so honestly this is not something i would grade sdk 001 worth it or not grade predictions are you going to predict the grade that's the thing i cannot predict the grade very well i can try from what i can see but like just like two or three pictures or even 12 here it'll give me a good idea but not actually having the card there's almost no way i can do it accurately so on the first picture i mean it looks good but like we can't see any of the surface here this is why it's important to have like video with flash on and then also pictures with not flash on just like so you can see everything i mean it looks good i mean the centering is it's tilted as well so sometimes people will tilt the card not necessarily to make the center look better but some people will do that but this like up makes the centering appear better when you tilt it sometimes maybe if it's offset to one side back looks pretty clean right there um is there supposed to be some damage here or something we're supposed to be looking at i'm not seeing anything it all looks pretty good so far okay there's something all right there's a little ding right there it's that little spot honestly that could be on a ps8 in but you do like if there ends up being multiples of these then it's definitely going to knock the grade down okay that looks pretty good the corners are looking pretty good may is there is there a little spot maybe right there i can't tell if that corner has something or not corner looks good so from what i can tell in the pictures it's it's an sdk first edition blue eyes it's definitely worth a hundred and fifty dollar rate because it can be up to like a 15k card if it gets a 10 a ps8 i don't know exactly what it would go for but i'm sitting to send no matter what i think you're easily not going to lose money on this just sending it at 150 and since the 150 rate comes back in like a week or two it's already fast enough you don't even need to send super expressed if you did get the 10 they would definitely upcharge this though well i say definitely but they're very inconsistent about it so maybe they would upcharge it so yeah definitely worth it if i'm going to predict i would just guess a nine on the pictures just because because the blue eyes is going to be a lot harder to get the 10 i know it's not supposed to be a thing that it's harder but i would guess a nine i think you do have an outside shot of the 10 from what i can see is this worth grading okay worth it or not on the black cluster soldier is this a reprint that's the question um yeah we've already got some edge or some edge wear corner where uh that looks like down there it might be bent it looks like it may have a bend lightning try corn i think this is a very cheap card and it's unlimited so both these are unlimited so far usually when you're sending in 150 dollar rate it needs to be first edition if possible not always but usually just based off the top of my head i'm going to say no because one of the bls looks like it would be like not a great grade anyway probably like a six or something like that with this edge wear and if that's a corner ding it's probably going to be a six and then try corn i think is a very low value card like i think it's like five ten dollars at the most so i would not spend 150 to grade this so i would say not worth it for these two worth grading blue eyes has a couple tiny dings on the back as picture the rest looks minty fresh that is going to be at least a great right there dark magician as well rota collector wear interesting the rota i can give you a little bit better for sure but so i looked up the blue eyes i see there's one available for 300 for a 10 and as that one did have a corner ding it's going to be a nine when the best possible is a maximum of 300 because no one has even bought this so it's less than 300 you're paying 150 to get a potential of a less than 300 card definitely not worth it because if you get the nine which you're going to get the nine with that ding you're losing money on 150 and since dark magician is always like if they're this from the same set or whatever it's always going to be worth less than blue eyes so i know that balance is not going to be worth it either even though it would have the 10 chance it looks like a nine would be like under 100 bucks so i would save those for like a $20 rate the rota however it is first edition it looks like it's off centered so as for this card i would not grade this one a lot of its values coming from playability because it's still a very good card secondly since the center is off you're going to get a nine so you're looking at a nine of a card that a lot of its value comes from being played i would not grade that one either so i would say hold off on those i would grade the other two whenever you get a $20 rate because they're iconic blue eyes dark magician stuff for this one i think it's just good to be played i think it's the best value for it worth it we have more collector rare so we have arcana triumph joker this one we're going to need to look up some prices so this is a brand new card however it is on the pack art which is pretty cool so that's kind of something to think about since this is a newer card i figured not any maybe a couple have been graded so we're just gonna have to go off the raw price so low is a $55 card is what we're looking at you're gonna spend 150 this is a new card so it is less likely that you want to grade it because it's new there's a lot of people that can grade it there's a lot of minty copies out there personally i would not recommend grading this for $150 it looks like it has a good chance at a 10 though so if you do want the 10 maybe down there there's a little ding that might be a ding right there on the corner if you do want to get the 10 maybe go for it but i would say no because it's $150 for a $50 to $5 card i would expect that if this comes back to 10 it's under $500 i would say like 300 on my guess maybe like 400 max and then if you get the nine it's it's not going to be worth 150 i don't think so i would definitely wait for a lower rate for this one we have wing dragon a raw okay we've seen we've done wing dragon a raw before so we don't need to go over that again if you haven't seen what i think about the secret fairs rare is being great to check out the first two episodes we've seen them in both episodes so i'm not going to go over it again worth it or not for grading so we have slight for the sky dragon these are a legendary collection these are in every game board and game board was printed to oblivion so there are probably millions of these out there definitely not worth $150 to grade i would maybe grade them 20 is almost pushing it to grade them so maybe 20 but honestly with how cheap these cards are i would not i would just honestly buy like a gbi god card or some other version because this is the most common god card you can get it's just not worth grading worth it or not a first edition elemental hero flaming men ulti that's not a flaming man that's a uh is there another one maybe they just were thinking flaming man i don't know it's it's it's air neos is it yeah it's french okay maybe they couldn't read it air neos ulti ston french edition really nice condition in my opinion but i feel kind of lost to this card thanks for the help so it's french i don't know a lot about french but i do know air neos has never been reprinted so these foreign copies are actually like kind of like reprints that i mean they came out at the same time so like old and they're like the other reprint you know what i mean so it looks like from what i can tell it looks pretty nice but as i said you need lots of pictures there is a little spot right there on the back so that spot is going to probably make it a nine just that big scratch right there or scuff or whatever it is this is a tough one because i don't really know the value of the foreign but i would guess that this is still a pretty valuable card let's see if we can find one on ebay okay we've got a um it says japanese wow that seems that seems cheap that's a really cool card okay we've got uh elemental hero psa eight for you gotta buy it for a thousand six fifty for a nine that is japanese as well wait is that japanese what's pd oh that's unlimited what's pd mean that's a qualifier that i've never seen i don't think let's see what and fight figure out what it means i'm not sure what pd means to be honest let me know guys in the comments i'm sure one of you guys knows what pd means i don't remember if i've ever i don't know if i've ever seen that okay so ps a nine ultimate rare that's unlimited okay so we're not really get the prices are over the place we're not really getting anything we got a italian for 350 so honestly i'm just gonna have to guess if you think it could get the nine maybe but because it's a nine max i'm inclined to say maybe wait it's a really cool card though i don't know what kind of demand there is for this card either so personally i would probably hold off it's just but if you're like itching to send something in this is not a bad candidate i would personally say not worth it but i could see if you just wanted to send it in and you're like willing to maybe not be able to sell it if you're going to sell it or to take a little bit of an l potentially then maybe do it because this is a pretty rare card and a pretty cool card worth it or not arch lord christia first edition so vr thanks for the help okay so arch lord christia that's a very cool card if this gets a 10 it's very low pop it's very rare a lot of people are actually interested in these stardust overdrive as you guys know there are no booster boxes in north america for the first edition stardust overdrive they're pretty rare stuff like guardianiatos in this they do have silvering a lot of time i think i can almost kind of see some there but it looks like it's maybe a little bit because the lighting wow this is super clean okay ding ding i mean not ding like more of like a slight baby nick and then a little dot look at that uh foil bleed which psa is grading foil bleeds that's good to know before you wouldn't have been able to grade this and then a very small ding so this is very good these are these are the kind of pictures you need if you want to be able to guess so a very small ding there just small little dimples so this card honestly this is the kind of thing that they're so small it could sneak by and get the 10 without cleaning the rest of the car does it would possibly get the nine it's nine to ten this is a gradeable card this is a card you send in for $150 because if it gets the 10 i think it's around $2,000 something like that maybe even a little bit more if it gets the nine i would guess it's still worth several hundred dollars so i would definitely grade this one for 150 100 worth it probably the most worth it card i've seen so far besides the blue eyes uh sdk worth it or not the iris sword soul starlight rare i really appreciate your opinion so last time we had the iris sword soul secret rare which i said definitely not this one is a little bit different if it's starlight rare and it can get a 10 i say just go for it this one let's see the centering it looks a little thick up here that is it looks like it might be in the range though it might be in the range i can't tell for sure okay it looks a little bit thicker it looks like it maybe it's off just both of these ways which i think would probably knock it down might be able to sneak through let's see if we see anything else um back looks pretty clean maybe there's a couple dots on there uh i feel like that centering might get you a nine so that's a tough that's a tough one because centering is one of the only things that gets the newest cards it gets the centering is off they give it a nine if it gets the nine it's not as worth it but i think new starlights are usually decent to send in i wouldn't say send them all in immediately as soon as you pull on me definitely send it in but it's a cool card this is a very playable archetype though so the value may go up just by being playable and being the highest rarity of this card so maybe consider that so i would consider sending it in i would personally not send this in based on the centering but i i could see why you would worth it or not i think these are definitely nine's possible tens okay so we just have to take your word for it here okay so these pictures are not going to do me any good because they are in a sleeve okay the legendary collection gx is that what both these are okay legendary collection gx first it at least this one's first edition so for the flame wingman first edition is nice but it's still legendary collection gx so it's a reprint set not worth 150 i would say and the unlimited one's definitely not so i would not grade these for 150 dollars when you get the 20 right back maybe go ahead but definitely not for 150 worth it or not prize card speed dual genzo cp sniper hunter okay so just based off that prize card guess it's worth it i don't even have to look at it even if it's like bitten half and it gets a one it's still it's still worth sending in it's worth it raw as well but like just that level of a card it's nice to have slapped so i would send that in oh okay so all these so this is the prize card i believe this link dueling dragon the dual dragon which i'm pretty sure is not a dueling's prize card which seems like a huge missed opportunity am i wrong about that is it actually a dueling's prize card because if it's not then like come on looking to maybe send these in to get graded not sure what the market is like or if it'd be worth it or not any advice should i send the speed dual card still sealed and grade them that way or should i open them first so you can send stuff to be like that is sealed to be graded it just depends on what you want the slab to look like it looks a little janky in my opinion it's just in the plastic and the slab is massive usually they're leaned off to one side or something it doesn't look as clean but they're still sealed so it's kind of like if you want to open them or not so here's a video of the dueling dragon that's just really cool to have like any sort of prize card okay so are these these are all new speed dual tournament cards is that what these are and they're pretty like they're like five hundred dollars is that right i think i saw something about this wait that book of moons really expensive i think and then the the genzo which i saw this is also expensive so if they're like really like five hundred dollars like i'm thinking then yeah i would send them in and also i'd probably keep them sealed because that's pretty cool to have like a sealed sort of prize sort of card yeah i would probably keep it sealed honestly i think that'd be pretty cool to have and then we have snipe hunter here this is champion pack three these are very valuable so the condition on these okay based on that back condition right there i'm going to say no i would not grade these these are pretty heavy i mean not heavy play i would call moderate play not worth the grading because they're going to get like fives sixes maybe probably a five i would doubt that's what i would guess that one's a little better but i would say not grade these two so overall i'd say grade the prize card and the speed dual cards but i would not grade the snipers this is not worth it or not but also looks interesting a spanish pack pulled a french ulti has anyone heard about that i've never heard of that sounds insane congrats i guess that's pretty cool worth or not few cards at lower cost retro pack lob and movie promo so lobe reprint probably not grade this until the 20 dollar rate but i would grade it thing because it's blue eyes looks like there's a scuff on it too that's probably like an eight so i definitely would not grade that now plus ultimate dragon has foil bleed that's really cool from retro pack one the promo this looks like a nice card it does have that ding down there i would say not grade that now it's like a 90 dollar card near mint but this thing is not gonna really grade that well and then it's 150 dollars yeah i'd hold this off for later i'm just checking out that top border that looks like it's gonna grade pretty poorly based on that so i would not do that now even later it's probably not worth grading this looks like a moderately played so i would probably hold off on this and just keep it raw blue eyes shining dragon this is only worth it at the lowest rate because this is like a five dollar card maybe at the cheapest rate you send in it it's cool because it's blue eyes shining it's the movie pack so if you can get it for 20 dollars go ahead but not for 150 worth it or not blue eyes white dragon unlimited ultimate rare this is not worth it at 150 this is a cool card to grade at the cheapest rate but because one it's unlimited there's a lot of them and two it's just a low value card right now the value might go up in the future but even it looks minty so but even that i still wouldn't grade it right now worth or not blush shining dragon first edition legendary collection kai but this is a card that it's so new that i'm almost not grading it at 20 dollars so i definitely would not spend 150 because it's like a two dollar card you don't want to spend 150 on a two dollar card gets a 10 it's worth 30 dollars you know like you spend 150 and it's now worth 30 at best you know so it's just not not a card i would grade worth it or not first ed mrd catapult turtle so i like this light he's using it is a little bit hard to see from far away but it looks like it's in pretty good condition for what i can see oh in the back yeah i see all the scratches and the ding right there so this is our this is probably light play mod play catapult turtle ps a 10 your borderline worth it but because this thing is going to get like a five or six i would not grade this for 150 i would probably hold this off just for like binder collection anyway because it's not gonna grade that well worth it or not javelin beetle and packed okay so from premium pack a lot of the cards are very cheap so even if these are minty i would hold off to the cheapest rate for these for sure at best so let's see if they're minty though it does look pretty good i would say for the packed okay the front looks pretty good and the back looks pretty decent so from what i could tell i would say wait for the 20 dollar rate and send those doing gbi secret rare god card set worth great worth it or not grading so we got obelisk we're on a paper towel here so that's interesting let's see we've got it looks to be from what i can tell pretty nice condition maybe there's some dings on the corners it's really hard to tell with these gbi's a lot of times it'll look like they have damage but they don't or i'm definitely for grading gbi god set secret rare so the secret race have the secret name etc and the secret background you can't really see it well on obelisk i'm for grading those if they're actually like nine to ten worthy it appears these are pretty good conditions so maybe worth it i can't see the pictures that well they're a little bit blurry not a hundred percent sure on that but i would say probably worth it worth it or not to grade so that corner looks pretty rough i can't tell for sure we have a bpt red eye so honestly not bad for bpt red eye is actually pretty good on the back pretty nice card but if that corner is actually messed up like i think it is the centering is off i mean you're gonna look at like an eight maybe a seven on this thing and it's just not worth the price currently maybe you send it in cheaper but personally i would say don't grade something that's gonna get like worse than an eight like a seven and below i probably not great so especially if you're paying 150 definitely not worth it then maybe do it for on the 20 dollar rate this is the last one we're going to do worth it or not dark paladin first edition special artwork that i had to mail in upper deck many years ago to get oh so you actually did mail it in which is super cool so the story with this dark paladin if you don't know if you get the first edition mfc and you open a booster box you pull the dark paladin you will not get this artwork right here you will get error artwork and that's because they accidentally put the dual masters guide artwork into the booster box so if you pulled it you would get that one if you actually wanted the correct artwork which is this one you would have to mail it in i've never actually heard from someone that actually did the mailing it's actually pretty rare because you know you actually have to get the card be like all right i'm gonna wait to get a new card i'm gonna send it in you're a kid usually so you're probably not gonna do it so this is pretty cool that he actually mailed it in and now he's wanting to grade it so this is a pretty rare card there's a theory that there stacks of them sitting somewhere because they were just ready to replace all the ones that they they sent out some people have graded like multiple copies of this but even then it's still very valuable and desired first edition they call it the uh corrected artwork because it's you know just the regular artwork that you're supposed to get so let's check out the condition if he's just had it sitting in a top loader since he received it i'm guessing it's going to be worth it so let's see condition so far looks really nice the centering is terrible on this it's not gonna really matter i'm still probably gonna send this in if it's in good condition because even ps a9 to this or worse a few thousand which is obviously crazy so what i can see so far it looks like it's very very minty very very clean it's a very long video so let's kind of like try to speak to this surface looks great i mean the surface looks really good yeah the surface looks absolutely awesome on this thing i'm just gonna he's he's this is a perfect video though if we haven't you know we just don't want to spend all day there's a maybe a little print line up there i'm gonna say for sure you want to send this in even though it might end up with like an eight this is still a really good card to have even graded an eight so eight or nine is probably way looking at because the centering is really bad on the front and maybe a print line but this is like if it gets an eight this is like a super minty eight which is really nice to have and it's also a very rare card and a cool card because one you actually send in an upper deck because that's really cool so 100 worth it i would definitely send that in all right that wraps it up for this episode of worth it or not i hope you guys have enjoyed it if you guys want to be in the next episode check out r slash ruckson 34 the reddit page and you guys can post whatever you want here in terms of asking me if it's worth it or not if i've missed you i'm gonna attempt to get you in a future episode before we end the episode i need to shout out the ultimate tier patrons and new members so we have tcg trusted cards over on youtube and then for patreon we have stanley mic nance and the mimic gecko thank you guys for supporting the channel i appreciate you guys and that's it for this video i will see you guys later peace i will jam


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Hi, this is Dr. Don. This is a problem from Chapter 9 in which we're given raw data on two variables. And we're asked to, first of all, run a regression to find the equation of the slope of the line with Row 1 as the predictor and Row 2 as the response. And then do that again, reversing with Row 2 as the predictor and Row 1 as the response. To come up with a conclusion about what we see. We can do this very easily using StatCrunch. I'm going to click on the little rectangle there and open this data in StatCrunch. It comes up. And all we need to do is go to Stat, Regression, Simple Linear. First of all, I'm going to select Row 1 as the predictor, Row 2 as the response. I'm going to leave all this normal, but I want to select the fitted line plot and click Compute. And we get some results here. We have the R and R square. We have our slope and our intercept for this first condition and we have a plot that we can use to select what's going on. To do the second part, I'm just going to repeat those steps, Stat, Regression, Simple Linear. This time I'm going to select Row 2 as the predictor and Row 1 as the response. Again get my fitted line plot and click Compute. And so now we have the second answers there. Again, same R square, which we would expect because we're doing a correlation. Then we have the intercept and slope. You can notice that the values for the intercept and slope change, but that the sign of the slope, the M, does not change. And again we've got the plot for the second condition. So with that, you can answer the question. Hope this helps.


Cool, but at the end of the day where the rubber meets the road it's services So what we're seeing now is the transformation of the services industry generally and support specifically new ways of interacting with customers Chat email forums certainly phone, but faster more proactive service We're seeing instrumentation We're seeing things like the sea of sensors and data being collected so that when I call or I Email or I reach out to a portal the support organization knows more about me than they have in the past In fact, they know as much about me as I know Maybe sometimes even more and that's the transformation that we're seeing and today John That's the big message that I heard you know and and before we get in with Scott I want to just share with everyone my notes from today. It was really extracted a lot of good data out of this event We had a lot of guests on but some of the highlights for me Dave were we heard the goal of multi vendor We heard you know automation and technologies is enabling one and personnel and and personnel usage is another one retraining this notion of Data replication huge issue dynamic use of resources service will not be idle We heard from the Tinker twins the notion of public private and hybrid cloud how they all play together and really ultimately It's about data center scale and a lot of the support issues are not about what they were just a few years ago And that the support challenges are changing and they are around the new usage and the new behaviors Of the enterprises around how they're using their data how they're using their systems and ultimately It's collaborative environment working with social media networking and compute so to me that that social Collaborative piece ties everything together so it's really the key is leveraging this new environment Dave And that to me is the walk away from me. Yeah, and I guess the way I would sum it up With this with this statement. We're seeing the IT as a service economy and now we're seeing services as services That mentality is driving through services in a way that I've not seen and you know ever in the IT business So Scott what was today all about for you and what do you see going forward? We know we're We're launching a whole new set of services today It's it's really the culmination of a couple of years of work a lot of money went into this So we're really just thrilled to be able to go to market with us now We've we've tested this over the last six months with a number of partners and and customers And they're very excited about this. I know there's been some questions through the day about What this means for customers that we are we locking them in and I'll tell you we understand completely that that What customers want our agility choice and ROI so we're absolutely committed to choice if you look at the way We support single platforms with all the ISV relationships. We have back-to-back service agreements That's all about choice and in the data center you've heard about data center care And that's again about enabling a multi-vendor environment through these these partnerships that we have to make it simpler for our customers You know the the whole notion of this this new service Portfolio is all about being more personal in the experience more proactive and finally more simple And the only way to get to simple is to have that single point of contact And that's what we aim to do without creating any sort of lock-in in the environment Yeah, I mean customers are concerned about lock-in There's no question about it used to be hardware lock-in. You know, there still is in certain sectors certainly software lock-in operating systems and so forth and You know with Services this notion of self-service what struck me today is talking about hyperscale and how customers are saying look we want you to You to embed yourselves into our supply chain become part of that supply chain drop a pallet of disk drives on there I'll take care of it myself That's a unique business model approach that I've not heard at least forcefully And I think HP given its supply chain leverages in a good position What are your thoughts on that talk about that? So, you know hyperscale is just one of the many sourcing options I talked about this morning and really if you think about what those environments need It's it's a it's a misnomer to think that they don't need service What they may not need is classical traditional services, right? And that's one of the reasons why you see our services transforming into the new model, right? So so service is important to these guys It's just not what they used to buy from us and and we're going to keep developing The kinds of services that are meaningful to these guys Do you see that as a harbinger for traditional it organizations or is it more sort of a one-off or mega-scale web company? So I think you know that's an interesting question because I think as we build these components These component building blocks for for custom services We're going to have traditional customers saying, you know, I want that I want my own parts kiosk on site Or I want this aspect or or another thing that's typically tied to hyperscale or some of these other playbooks that we talked about So yeah, I do think that it's going to make the rounds and be adopted other ways It was interesting we talked to michelle weiss this morning and I put forth the notion and it puts you Making less money doing this being you know more proactive and more autonomic and she's an absolutely disagree with that And and I infer from that that the big part of that disagreement is that you can gain share You can be more competitive you can get more repeat business if you do a better job servicing Is that the basic economic philosophy inside? Well, I think so I mean I we we believe and we've demonstrated that when we do a good job when we produce a lot of value at the Right price point and then we went in the market. Absolutely right, okay john so So some of the other themes that we talked about today how cloud and and virtualization specifically are changing the whole notion of Stove pipe device oriented services Well breath and depth we heard a lot about you know Scott you mentioned when you came on A breath was a big big part of your initiative We also heard from your the way you guys are organizing your specialists out there your t s's and your experts master Master chiefs or master gurus. They're going deep too. So right right that seems to be a great theme Not a lot of people do that. It's very difficult to do so. It is that's a big theme Collaboration was another big theme I was really excited to hear about and something that I'm going to continue to watch because Social media is a big part of this and right will continue to be the tip of the iceberg here Around you guys just getting getting into the social data Not just for outreach and marketing but like for real transactional knowledge when things break when people complain Right to whatever So yeah, it's interesting because we have a very large call center operation field operation. But the fact is people Interact with us and interact with each other over these kinds of issues and in different ways today And we have to be not only aware but tracking all that stuff So absolutely So my question for you just a rep of the day is I say as the general manager you got to look out You got you got to look at the 20 mile stair and look at the future You got to understand what the next mountain is to climb while you're currently in on one now What's the 20 mile stair like for you? Obviously, you know these things are all themes What's your action plan going forward without you know, it's going to details, right? You know provides information, but just generally what are your what are your views in terms of what you need to do the next year or two? So we're just uh, again, we're just on the cusp of A major shift in the way we provide services and the way we create service experiences And so you can see us play this out right with all the things that you heard today But especially around data center care as the the industry shifts Pretty quickly. We believe to more cloud more hybrid More mixture of sourcing options cio's roles changing as we talked about this morning to being more about governance than management So we want to be in the middle of all that that shift, right? And we think we've got the right Formula the the right secret sauce to make that happen So that's really where we're going to focus over the next 18 to 24 months And you have the personnel with I love the The twins were on tinker twins is the first time we've ever done that on the cube twins before So another first for the cube, but really that's the challenge, right? You know as we've heard before on the cube it's like changing an airplane engine going at, you know, 35 35,000 feet, right? It's very challenging. You just can't it's not that easy, right? You can't evolve a customer into an operational capacity. That's right Overnight and Wallace in the air. So so that's the key balance. What do you see about that that environment? I mean, what do you say to those those customers? Yeah, so they give them comfort because they're scared, right? So so the tinker twins are part of the answer, right? We need more guys like that more depth and also breadth in the skill base and and so you'll see Continuous investment on our part to make sure that we've got the right people the right process tools all those things that create the value experiences Yes, so I actually see, you know, the the tinker twins I see as obviously on-site fixing problems, but I see that knowledge going into Automation going into proactivity, right and right and that drives the whole value It's like the rising tide lifts all ships that drives the whole value proposition up Right what what I'm very interested to see down the road is is how these offerings the foundation care the proactive care The the data center care and we really didn't get much into the life cycle event services How they evolve because I think that um, there's a lot of flexibility designed in at the same time They're designed to scale and I think it's it's going to be very interesting to come back a you know Year from now and say, okay, how would what was the uptake like? What was the interest? What was the feedback from the customers and and it's it's hard to predict, you know sitting here now But um, I don't know if you have any sort of expectations Well, I mean without going into you know, the future roadmap I mean, I think What you can see here is that we are trying to take again complexity and risk out of the equation for customers Make it possible for them to to rely on us to navigate through a lot of the issues while still having choice Right and and and that's the way the the the whole services line will continue We'll keep driving choice We'll work the partnerships will build the tools and the skills and so on to enable all that And I think what you'll see is on a system basis our services are Are, uh, I would say for the moment pretty mature What you see in this portfolio and the service base is a fairly mature view on how do you manage a system The bigger challenge now is how do you manage in a whole environment?  Versus having to worry about all these sourcing options and how to turn them on and off and combine them in Interesting ways to enable these new business models. That's what we want to be about That's really the future for for technology services. I think I agree with you I think one of the things we were talking earlier about rogue it rogue developers Is it just is just a way that highlights the the key challenge right now or key demand point for customers Is that it's a real-time environment right where speed and business speed is is the key driver And so, you know people are circumventing, you know compliance just to get things to the market So so this is a big problem for these big enterprises. It's not you know, the products get all the sexy, you know news Oh, new, you know pro-liant new gen eight, but at the end of the day, you know issue prevention and first time resolution Our core you don't get that done right a lot of things happen that are bad You know compliance is obviously one the lawyers and the cfo will care about Um and the cio eventually gets fired for that but uh, you know, um, but there's big problems So eliminating that is what's cool. You guys are leveraging those technologies Yeah, the way we talk about it is you can't enable agility choice in roi if you don't have a stable environment So that's table stakes And that's the other thing I'd say is we have to be excellent at that We can't take our eyes off the ball in that regard But we've got to be able to do that in our sleep and then add all these other pieces of value I feel like um, you mentioned complexity and risk It is complex and it is risky. Yes, and um, I feel like the I wonder if you can comment on this. I feel like the complexity is getting more concentrated When you see cloud service providers, you see, you know, google and facebook There's a lot of complexity in their in their it operations And now you see enterprises sort of mimicking them or trying to at least in certain aspects So that complexity is still there, but it seems more Concentrated and I think the risk is actually getting lower because it is becoming more consumerized more throw away The life cycles are, you know much faster of devices open source You know takes away certain virtualization. I mean, we heard from Paul Moritz at vm where Two years ago said that, you know, that was the year that there were more virtual machines shipped than actual physical machines But I mean you think about the support business that we've been talking about here I mean, I mean, it's not mainstream news, but people look at break fix was the old way when something was broken Made a phone call get fixed now with virtualization You're getting a whole another dimension of what break means what fix means So I think what you guys are doing here kind of points to this new model of break fix was an old way Based on machines now you have software and other technology enabled in this fabric It's just different model. I mean a completely different model and the complexity is being hidden from the user In a large way, but again, it's it's probably more complex than ever And my my thinking is that that has implications for you in terms of how you deploy your resources And you know the skill sets that you bring and the the technology the automation the data analytics that you bring to bear So when I look out you do buy that premise that it is getting more complex yet concentrated But certainly less risky from an end user standpoint But what about the overall organization or do you think there's a flaw in that? Yeah, so I I guess I see it differently than that because we do think complexity is going up But you know you don't get choice for free Right if if if you want absolute choice to be able to mix and match and create platforms Based on a lot of the the great technology that's out there from from all these companies We build those relationships with those companies so we can bring that all together for our customers That's huge and if and if you try to do that on your own That's very difficult and then managing is very difficult keeping it aligned and up to date and Diagnosing where issues are it's hugely complex. So I think actually you get risk From all of the choice that you have and you need somebody to take that away from from the equation And so we're willing to do that we've invested to do that and a lot of customers are saying to us that that's great Because that lets me go focus on innovation and other things that are important. Yeah, so let me restate So I think as you concentrate the complexity through integration There's obviously value that reduces risk to the extent that you don't concentrate that complexity You have you're going to face a lot of risk. That's really I think that clears it up from my mind Anyway, fair fair enough. We're aligned. Okay. So that's that's good. Well, Dave. It's been a great day I want to just say that we're excited that the cube and silicon angle TV and wiki bond can be here at the hp event Scott, thanks for hosting us and allow us to to come here appreciate your thank you all your support Your team's been great. It's been fun to work with and and we're excited about services angle.com Where we're going to be profiling and talking about all the trends around services from customer support To cloud services to the business of services the disruption of services in this new model of cloud mobile and social I'll say on wiki bond.org. You have all the research Dave.  That's the impact convergence converged infrastructure. We size that market I also want to say watch services angle over the next couple of days You're going to see a lot of blog posts come out a lot of these videos will be highlighted We'll have an aggregation page. We'll share that with you on twitter and and on our network So thanks everybody for watching and john. I'll turn it back over to you All right. Well, I just want to say that's a wrap from here in Los Angeles. You're going to watch the cube We have more events coming up the whole calendar in the spring film We're going to have a summer tour again, Dave So it looks like we're going to do the summer tour again like we did last year There's a lot more i'm trying to get google to give me the approval to come into google io in june Although they don't have a lot of space requirements because it sells out literally the minute this tickets go on sale So we're going to be at bmworld emc world sapphire Hp discover i hope yeah, oh riley wants to go to the where conference So we'll see you'll see us expanding rapidly with the cube You'll see a 24 7 network come out next quarter So you're going to see a lot more video a lot more production from the team I want to thank kian for doing a great job today out there on the on the production alex williams for being executive producer today for markers and hobkins and Well, I think everyone at hp for their great support and for you guys hosting us. Thank you very much And thanks for watching and we'll see you at the next cube


Thank you very much for having me here, so what I'd like to do with this presentation is open up a conversation about inter-communal violence, which is becoming a kind of category that is increasingly prominent in a lot of both academic and policy and grey literature on violence in Africa. We're starting to see it in a variety of sub-fields, on local peace-building, on post-conflict security, and particularly in Malthusian claims about climate change and conflict as well. I don't think this is desirable, I don't think the term is particularly good, I think it is imbued with a lot of meaning that we should be a bit more aware of and cautious of when we use it. So, that's what I'm going to be talking about today, we're going to look at the meaning and origins of inter-communal violence, then we're going to look at some of the problems that accompany the use of the term, and then finally, time permitting, get onto a way of potentially overcoming some of these problems. Okay, so what is inter-communal violence? We'll come back to the origins in a moment on the next slide, but for now it's worth thinking about what it was replacing, because this term is relatively recent in African studies, and that is because it ended up replacing the kind of new wars and ethnic wars discourses of the 1990s and 2000s. Now, these haven't completely gone away, but they are much less prominent compared to their heyday. They both had a number of problems, new wars generally criticised for its mistreatment of history and questionable empirics, ethnic conflicts for at least in the cruder accounts for kind of essentialising conflicts and raising more questions and answers about conflict dynamics. And I would see inter-communal violence as a kind of softer revival of some of these themes that de-emphasises the kind of identity or ethnicity aspects, but retains certain other aspects or re-emphasises, particularly the centrality of militias to understanding modern conflicts. As well as a kind of set of assumptions and claims about conflicts being essentially decentralised, the state doesn't have that much of a role in it, and they're largely apalysic, or they're not really about much. Okay, so definitions of inter-communal violence, there are some that exist, but they tend to all point to different aspects of the same sort of phenomenon. Even in cases where authors don't really define what's going on, you can kind of infer what they mean, and that is a type of violence primarily between non-states, irregular youth militias, over what are essentially local issues, often occurring at the outskirts, the fringes of state power in relatively anarchic environments, or alternatively taking the form of kind of mob violence in urban contexts. Now the term originates in 1890s British imperial accounts of violence between, of riots between Hindus and Muslims in India, that's where it actually comes from. And it was used to present this violence as being kind of spontaneous violence between two relatively evenly matched groups, that was not necessarily the case in reality. And it was used to exonerate colonial rulers from any role in this violence, it was because these were communities who were engaging in it. They would have done so without colonialism, was the implication within that. Now the language of communalism entered into Indian mainstream political discourse in the 1920s and 30s, where for those advocating for independence, freedom from colonial rule, communalism was something that needed to be overcome, for those who were more sympathetic to the British imperial project, it was something that was a powerful argument against hasty kind of independence. Now many scholars, Indian and non-Indian have extensively criticised the assumptions implicit within the kind of language of inter-communal violence. In particular one of the main problems is the way in which it wrote out elites who were actually orchestrating a lot of this violence. In later incarnations in post-independence India, the complicity of security forces in this violence also tended to be written out. And the violence was generally more one sided typically against Muslims than being a kind of contest between two evenly matched forces. So I think the term has a lot of baggage with it. It's quite a loaded term. It tends to be used as a way of, I would say, insulting a society claiming it's backward. And I think that we probably should be cautious about that. But I think also it risks smuggling in a number of distortions and misrepresentations of what's actually happening with the violence. And that I think is being carried across into its use in Africa more recently. So two countries where the discourse of communal violence is very common, Nigeria and South Sudan. This is drawing from Macled data from last year. We can see in the top left corner in northwestern Nigeria all those kind of orange dots. Those are cases of communal violence, which is often described as being between vigilantes and bandits. In South Sudan, as you can see from the light blue here, the types of actors usually associated with communal violence, so identity militias, self-defence groups, that kind of thing, have become increasingly prominent in patterns of violence, particularly since the 2018 peace agreement. Now, the way in which the governments in these countries describe this violence, they're very keen to emphasise its inter-communal nature, they're keen to emphasise it as being essentially apolitical, and they're very keen to distance themselves from that violence. So in Nigeria, as I mentioned, violence is being presented as being between bandits and vigilantes. These are euphemisms for lani pastoralists as bandits and house of farmers as vigilantes. In South Sudan, the state claims that this violence is either inter-ethnic, inter-clan or linked to unknown gunmen, which is usually understood to be the security services in reality. A lot of this stuff is reproduced by donor governments, by the UN, by other agencies who buy into these sets of claims. I mean, in the case of Nigeria, we see that actually what happened here was local elites tended to sponsor the different groups, what became bandits and vigilantes, and then they lost control of these groups. In the case of South Sudan, we often see that elites are closely linked to the formation and maintenance of these groups and will sometimes violently disarm them as well when they become too much of a problem or they risk affecting somebody else. Now, this graphic shows part of South-Western South Sudan's Western Equatorial State. Last year, there was intensive violence in Tambora, which is to the far west. Now, this violence was being presented as inter-ethnic between the Zandi and Belanda, even though these groups have no real history of serious violence. That's because in reality what was going on here was this was a set of inter-elite among the Zandi community, an inter-elite power struggle that was ethnicised in order to allow elites to advance their particular claims. There was also some economic incentives to monopolise control of the border with the Central African Republic. In Warap State, where most of South Sudan's elites come from, there was a very complex violence in 2020, some of which involves local elites who were raising militias, but also involved national elites. There was a power struggle at the apex of South Sudan's very complicated security system, where elites close to the president were getting worried about the spy master, Kulkur Kuch, and decided to attack his power base and his militias under the pretence of a disarmament campaign. That culminated in a fight that killed almost 150 people in August of 2020, and which a Kulkur's militias won against the state. Thank you. If there are these different problems that accompany the term of inter-communal violence, what can we do to overcome these or to mitigate against them or even replace this? I think there's a few things we can do. I think one of the most obvious ones is to be alert to the kind of elite interests and the role of elites in manufacturing these types of conflicts. There also elites are very capable of making conflicts appear random and anarchic, but that's not necessarily what's actually going on. I don't mean to suggest that we become conspiracy theorists who are always looking for elite interests. There's always the elites meddling, follow the money or anything like that. That would be going too far. There are, of course, instances where elites are not involved, or they were involved in the past, but are no longer involved. Nonetheless, I think it is something we should be wary of. My final point is to consider and situate the types of actors that engage in so-called communal violence within the architecture or the political and military systems that they inhabit and often form quite an important part of. This can change over time. This is a graph from last year in South Sudan. In terms of thinking about or rethinking about communal violence, I found it helpful to actually split it into different types of violence. Some of these overlap has kind of indicated on this different graph. Generally, we're talking about how closely this type of violence and the actors are linked to the national level elites on one end of the continuum and how distant they are on the other end of the continuum. These groups can and can move from being an elite proxy army into being discarded as a irregular militia, potentially targeted for disarmament. They can then make a revival in subnational contests between local elites. I think if we consider the degree to which these actors associated with intercommunal violence, the extent to which they are integrated or disintegrated from these systems, and consider and break apart the different types of violence they're actually involved in, I think we get a much richer understanding of what's actually going on. I'll leave it there. Thank you.


I'm Kristin and I'm Kinsey. Welcome to Brough Food Hall. We're gonna start down here so basically when you walk in to Brough Food Hall you'll come up the stairs you'll be greeted with some floor stickers and then masks are required so per ADHA and the campus and the state we are requiring masks as well as just other social distancing with tactics for us so basically whenever you're wearing a mask until you like eat or drink you can take it off but when you're ordering and just walking around our facilities we ask that you have your mask on. On this next screen we've actually got since Brough Food Hall is a complete new thing for us and just generally with swiping in and it's not like your normal food hall or your dining hall anymore we kind of want to crack you and so that way whenever you're coming in you can kind of figure out how does this work like it's all really great really fun but how do I actually go through this operation and we're gonna do that today. Yes. Alright, we'll take you upstairs. Okay so things are gonna look a little different but we're hoping that different will be okay and you'll still get to see our smiles. Right, smiles.  We're gonna take you over here a little bit just so that way you can see what's going on campus and what we're doing before we go view a tour of Brough Food Hall. Yes, so now more than ever there are so many grab, grab and grab. To go often I have not had enough coffee today. Yeah. Because we wanted to nip those rumors in the bud so ours are slightly gonna change but not really and we're gonna all of these locations are gonna be open. So basically we're at Brough Food Hall right now we've got Pig Theory down here that has barbecue. Yes, it came to campus last year. Yes. For a pump for it and a dohee if you're there definitely go there as many times as you want but we also have comfort dining hall which is all you care to eat option down there as well. Where the wild greens are we've got two of those locations on campus so what's really cool about that is the lettuce is grown from a freight farm so it's a shipping container that's done right here on campus which is so cool. With grain bowls, salads, smoothies. Right. We've got Eureka Pizza that's brand new to campus this year. Open 10 30 to 10 seven days a week downstairs of breath. Yes. And the best part about it is for one meals meal trade you get a large pizza and a drink. So it'll be an amazing option to have your friends. Yes. Yes. It'll be amazing true burger that's at the Arkansas Union at the food court. So 5% of your purchase goes back to student scholarship. So we love that concept. Very cool. Chick-fil-A everybody's favorite. We've also got a Starbucks to kill coffee that's also located at the union. It's a local roast for mountain bird. We've partnered with them. It's their second year on campus. It's our concept but we partner with them for that coffee feast. Yes. With homemade pastries and sandwiches anything you can find it's there. Another new grab and go option is grab and roll. So if you if you have been here for years then you know if breath will go go. But we really just changed it to grab and roll. Not only here a breath underneath breath but also at Maple Club red freshened. This is another thing that will be great for meal trade.  So just another option to make sure that all of those grab and go options are optimized. So while we are while COVID is happening we're actually bringing more grab and go options to campus. However one great fact is we are complying with the what is it called 66 percent occupancy. So you will be able to dine in as well. But we just wanted to make sure that if you weren't comfortable doing that you have the option to take it out. We have about 25 people tuning in right now. We love to have you here watching with us. Let us know where you're watching from. We know you're coming this fall and we're excited to meet you even virtually. So and so let's talk COVID. So these are all the measures that we're taking. Our team to keep you safe to keep our associates safe. We'll be wearing your safety is our priority. They everybody will be trained and wearing these pins and taking the precautions by social distancing washing hands regularly. A lot of these things we've already done before but we're just taking it to a whole nother level. Yes. One cool thing too that we're really implementing and we have been this whole time we've been here is daily wellness checks when our associates come in. Everyone that works for Chartwell's they're getting their temperatures taken. Whenever they clock in they are told our do you have symptoms. Have you been tested. If they answer yes to any of those questions prior to clocking in they meet with their supervisor and then they're sent home. But we are doing all we can to make sure that our associates are as safe as possible when they come to work to ensure that your student or if you are a student or any customer is safe too. So we have two people tune in from Houston. Hello. I'd have you. Yes. And then speaking of that so we also are going to be placing these around campus as well particularly the high train stations high traffic areas to document last time things were sanitized. We will be holding our standard of every 30 minutes just to keep you guys in the loop and being transparent in those high traffic areas and this summer we've been preparing now more than ever to not only have our amazing cleaning staff that have been here for years but just making sure we're well equipped whether that's with more sanitizer with more cleaning carts just making sure that our associates have the equipment to to sanitize. So that's all set. We're super excited. And yeah speaking of sanitizing well we will be sanitizing plenty. You can also stop into each of our locations will have hand sanitizer as well. So you can hand sanitize to which is great. We actually have a question from one person. Do you have to socially distance at the tables. Yes. So you'll actually get to kind of see a sneak peek at one of our dining areas right here around the corner. You will still be able to sit with with groups of friends if you would like to. But the tables will be socially distanced. So you can see we've got some with two some with four. So you can still gather. But those tables are distanced. Yes. We ask that they don't obviously like move the tables or chairs or chairs.  So there's that which is great. Those tables will be 60 to be fully honest. Our tables are already pretty spaced out because we didn't want our chairs to clink. So they're the noted the change in the speed the seating in the space is not much different. I yeah. We still have a 56 percent is still really good at the current time. So yes. Yes. And another question is will parents be able to eat in the dining halls during move in. Yes. Everything will be open meal plan start on Thursday. Yes. Do you have to know the cost of what that's going to be. I will have to check. I believe it is 10. Don't quote me. But we will be publishing that before move in. Yes. And then just a sneak peek. So you can see. So we have nine new locations. They all have their own brand identity. We've got morning Debbie's morning drive brief for you. Ark and style. Passport to pasta. Tailgate. Urban more. Lothan pickles. El Cerdo which means the pig and the green table. And we're going to get to see a sneak peek of all those today. Yes. But what's great about rough is that we still have a ton of the equipment because this was a dining hall just so you know. We still have so much equipment to where we were able to create freebie stations. So what that means is whenever you're swiping and grabbing that receipt you can still choose the three freebie stations and enjoy those as well. So this is one of the first one. This is called the nook but we like the pantry. So what that means is like you can come here and get a bagel. You can get some cereal. Yeah. Toast however you want to make it. Our team will be behind the counter and making sure if you want cream cheese they'll do it for you if you want or toast that kind of thing. But whatever that whatever however you want it they'll try to make it for you. So this is a great option. This is free with your swipe into breath. And someone asked when do student meal plans. August 13th. It's coming up. We're so excited.  It's crazy. We've been prepping so much this whole summer for this week this week next week and then the next. Yeah. We're just so we really are so happy that everyone's coming back. So this is first of Debbie's morning drive. She's actually Debbie has been a long time associate for us. And so she always worked early morning shifts. So we really wanted to surprise her when she came back and name a concept after her. So it's going to feature all of your breakfast favorites. Egg and cheese bacon sandwiches.  And then another option is they'll have a breakfast plate. So say you want like pancakes, eggs and bacon, they'll kind of make a different variation of that breakfast plate every week. So you will still get that like full course meal if you want it. But say like that sandwich isn't enough for you, there will still be freebie stations for you to enjoy with your items from this place. We've got argan style, which is a home style station. So just think of your grandma's kitchen. That's got meatloaf was on or really anything you can think of this real homey and comfort food. That's what's going to be featured. Yes, one great thing. So what we're trying to do is offer a protein and then two sides, say that protein, like chicken or chicken fried steak or whatever we've got meatloaf say you aren't someone that really loves meat or eating meat in general, we will have a vegetarian plate where you can choose the three sides. So that's great. One thing we wanted to point out here too is we actually partnered with experience Fayetteville to get these photos. So if you are new to Fayetteville, love biking, this is one of the best towns to do that. Just a little plug. So you can see that there. Definitely check them out too. So if you're new and you want to see some ways to still socially distance and enjoy the city, they've got those options for you too. Great. And somebody asked, will there be to go boxes and all the dining halls? And what will be in those boxes? And what will the process be? Perfect. So everything will be in disposables, even here, here, Pomfret and Fulbright. So we should have said at the beginning, Pomfret and Fulbright will still be all you care to eat. So you could leave four boxes if you wanted to. These stations, like we said at the beginning, you'll redeem your receipt for that combo meal and then have access to those three additional stations as well. So the value is still there. Yes. And we're able to give you a more high quality product here. That all of them will be to go. Yes. So you if you don't want to, you can eat your to go option in the dining hall, but all of them will be to go. And then root for you. So it's a salad that will have you rooting. So these will all be prepped to go once again, like a chef's salad, Santa Fe salad. And that will be kind of a set menu with at least four to five salad options for you. Yes. That'd be the dessert station, another one of the freebie stations. So package cookies, brownies, sweet tooth, this is going to be like your heaven right here. Yes. So super simple, just like the other concepts, you're just going to will have an associate behind the counter, you tell them what you want, and they will give it to you. So super, super easy. And they can get as many of those as they want, right? Correct. Which is great. So this is another option. If you say, for me, personally, if I went to Debbie's, I definitely want to grab like a little fruit parfait with it. So they're going to have fruit parfaits, and then they're also going to have smoothies until they last. So obviously, we don't want to have like warm smoothies. So we're just going to keep going until they run out. But each of those smoothies will have like fresh ingredients, too, which is awesome, because that is a part of the freebie station. And then we'll go back to why, or the green table. You have allergies. This is the station for you. Our dietitian can be reached at any time. Her email is died at uf.edu. If you're just kind of scared coming to campus, or you're a parent that you're just worried about your student, feel free to reach out to her. She's on social media as well. R.K. eats well. Yes. But so this station is going to be a lot of this station was one of my favorites when it was just Breff Dining Hall. And it's not really going to change much. A lot of people love this station. And that's because a lot of these ingredients are really sourced based on the season. So if you're craving that like sweet squash soup or something like that, this station normally has it, too. Each of our locations have fresh ingredients, but this one a little bit different because you'll have more like chopped zucchini, chopped squash, roasted veggies, chicken breast, salmon, that kind of thing. So this is great for that like simpler meal. If you're not really feeling like our home style or something like that. And again, like Kristen said, if you have a food allergen, this station is capable of complying with it. So you're going to go here. We've got amazing associates that go through training to make sure that they are giving you the safest meals possible while we're getting back on track. If you don't already give us a follow on food on the hill. We're on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. We're going hard in the paint this year with lots of giveaways, taking everything virtual, maybe some trivia nights are in store. Just kind of stay tuned. And if you have any questions about like the meal plan, COVID and anything, we're happy to answer those there too. So definitely never hesitate to reach out on our social media platforms because we want to make sure that you're well informed before you get to campus. This is one of our favorites kind of near and dear to our heart. It's called Tailgate. So kind of a little punny there. So every broker has a story. We're using it to highlight our staff and our culinary. And so we're developing stories behind the burgers and behind the chicken tenders and different things that we're going to be featuring on the sauces. Yes. Things that we're featuring on the menu. Yes, we didn't quite know whenever we were planning for the station, we had no idea football was actually happening. So we were like, well, we don't know. Yeah. Whether it's happening or not, we're going to still have some tailgate favorites that you would see on a Razorback game day. So that's really great. And not to mention, like Kristin said, we'll get to really highlight our chefs and the bold flavors that they come up with. So definitely try it out and tune in for the stories that come with this station. Yes, and feel free to grab two. These are here for you when you come. So we've got some tailgate cookies for you. Yes. All right. Another new favorite. We've got El Cerdo. One thing that was, we've done tons of like research and focus groups with students trying to figure out like, what do you want on campus, right? What is something that you wish you had more of? And that was Mexican cuisine. So this is El Cerdo, which means the pig. And this station will offer burritos and chips and salsa, chips and queso, all the crowd favorites. So this one will be really great. We're really excited for this one, knowing how many students really wanted more of that, like Mexican cuisine. Yes. It'll be topic Tuesday every day. It'll be amazing. Here we have Urbamore. So it's a vegan and vegetarian friendly concept. So we kind of have a little definition over there, a number of plants and more plants. It's going to be more of a grain bowl station and that features all different types of bowls. The range from a Japanese bowl to a Chinese, I mean really anything. Yeah, vegan, vegetarian, friendly. Just kind of making sure we had another focus group. It was kind of like, hey, we want more options for vegan and vegetarians, right? And so just like an Urbamore, they're going to have Urbamore options. Honey and not okay, but it's funny. So we're really excited for this one. We really hope that like this places some of the student body. All right. Passport to pasta. So super fun. Things are going to be pasta baked. So chicken alfredo, spaghetti and meatballs, you name it, the Italian that's going to be here related to pasta. Yes. Big mac and cheese with some homemade garlic knots. So those homemade garlic knots, there's a guy named Mike that works here. And so when this was a dining hall, this was pizza, right? But now we have eureka pizza downstairs. So we were like, let's just do pasta. Because Mike is great at both. I feel like you have to trust a guy named Mike. Right? Right? Exactly. It seems like he would know what he's doing. 100%. But he's originally from New York City, so he's got that. Those garlic knots are unreal. So they will still be here, along with some really great pasta that you can take to go, dine in. And then the reason we said passport to pasta is because at each of these locations, it's not going to be like the menu will still change. There still will be some like limited time offer as a new things to try. So with Passport to pasta, that's our vision to just bringing in some more pasta bakes each month, having something new and fresh. You seem very excited about this. I was a student here. So I recently graduated stayed on with Chartwells. And so I just I'm excited because I think it's it's something that we needed. And it's really fun. And you still have those dining halls if you want to get all the food you care to eat. But this option is going to be so great, especially not only during this time, but beyond, because Fayetteville and our our campus is so lucky to have these like amazing spots to eat, right? I mean, Old Main Lawn Technics. Yes, please, all the time. I'd love to do that. Yeah, great theater. So many, how's it freshman? I mean, that's probably what you fell in love with. So we're trying to conform with that that gathering piece where if you want to go and sit on Old Main Lawn and eat your food, we hope that you do that. And so I'm excited for that. And Taggess, we want to see it. Yes.  So kind of like the name, it's going to be Subs to go with some Subs and then customized as well with chips and that whole combo meal. We do want to add to all the drink stations. So you'll be handed that combo meal at each concept.  Yes, and sanitizing this. That is going to be one of the this was this item was sanitized at. And that's really something that we've been preparing for. So yeah, yeah, I think that's all. Thank you guys so much for tuning in. If you have any questions, we have one question. Are all the meals here included in the meal plan? Yes. So what's great is this is adding nine new locations technically. So we're going to have 25 plus locations open and available during covid for your students. So we're really excited. Yeah, they are meal your meal plan goes a long way. And one thing I would suggest as a previous student is like shameless plug. But following us, we eat on campus too. We know what's going on if there's something new on campus. If your student likes to try new things, we often will take photos and tell them where to go. Whether it's like a meal trade or learning how to use your meal plan. We explain that there too. That does raise the question. Would you mind just going over meal trades again? Kind of how that whole process works? The main three that come with your meal plan. So you get a meal swipe, a meal trade and a dining and your dining dollars, right? So your meal swipes are for all you care to eat dining halls. And what that meal swipe means is when you swipe in you get to eat anything and everything you want. You can have four meals and one meal swipe, right? So you're going to go to those dining halls while they will still be to go. You can still get as much as you want. Just ask the associate and then you've got your meal trades. And so what that means is instead of swiping into a dining hall and eating all you care to eat there, you're going to trade that swipe for a combo meal somewhere else. So I eat here the food court at night. So this rough food hall will be closing at four p.m. daily, but founders where sushi with Gusto Wild Green where the Wild Greens are and Slims will open early and then Eureka will remain open that 10 30 to 10. So there will be options here. So all throughout the day breakfast, lunch and dinner there's different meal periods where you can do that instead of eating that whole bread and comfort. Exactly. And so when you meal trade, what that means is you're getting that full meal. So whenever you go to Chick-fil-A for dinner, you trade that swipe for a combo meal and eight count nugget with a fry and a drink, right? So that's your meal trade. Same with Slims. Same with sushi with Gusto Wild Greens. You can get a grain bowl. Here you can get nine different things. So those meal trades are great. And then we were also talking about that concept grab and roll. So say you really want something a little bit faster not something that you have to wait. That grab and roll option is available to you and that's where you can get the wrap, the salad, the sandwich with a chip and a fruit and a drink. So meal trades are great. And then lastly, we've got dining dollars. Dining dollars come with your meal plan. So no worries about that. They just automatically are on there. And that's for when meal trade, say the timing doesn't work out. I mean, for here, this is going to be open 6.30 to 4. So you'll have a lot of time to trade your meal. But say you want Chick-fil-A at lunch. Chick-fil-A doesn't do meal trade at lunch. So what you would do is you would pay for Chick-fil-A with your dining dollars. It's a lot like a gift card. So automatically it's loaded on your student ID. So you start with $150. That meal costs $8 and I got $142. Best part about those is that they work at all of our locations.  Yeah, scantron. I mean, emergency at Club Red. They are just a little bit more versatile than your ordinary meal plan. Another great thing, they're tax-free. So your dollar goes just a little bit further. And if your student runs out, they are relittable through housing and increments of $50, $75 and $100. Yep. And that's how your meal plan works. And if you forget all of it, reach out to us. Let us know. We want to help you and Dine on Campus as well. So we have an app and website Dine on Campus dot com back slash Razorback. Yes. Or that just is everything dining. Yes. All the information. Please go there too. Yeah. Great. Thank you. Someone asked what about the union dining? Yes. That is those are the union food court is like your meal trade options. So we've got rustic true burger Chick-fil-A paper lantern and flying burritos. So those are more locations that you can do. They are also open like 1030 to 10 at night. I think Chick-fil-A opens a little bit earlier.  So Chick-fil-A is open a little bit earlier. But those are the options for meal trade. And if you want to use your dining dollars throughout the breakfast and lunch period. And then other things at the union is where the wild greens are that we mentioned earlier plus Hill Coffee Company and then Club Red. Yes. Union's great. Super centralized location. And they again will still have that 66%. So each of our locations for right now we have our we have seating available. And speaking of coffee, someone asked, would you use dining dollars for coffee or start? Yes. Yes. Yes. And that is why you need to know how to reload them because our coffee is amazing. You're going to want it every day. Hill Coffee is actually what we were talking about earlier. Local Coffee Company, local roaster. And then they we actually have a pastry chef. All he does is pastries and he makes amazing bread, amazing bread. Yeah, bagels. He also does the pizza crust for rustic. So everything is house made. And so yeah, that's where I would use my dining dollars. That's where I did use my dining dollars. So definitely go there and check it out. Great. And I think our last question is, is there a limit to the number of meal trades per day? Yes, there are three, you can have three meal trades per day. However, with breath food hall, if you have the unlimited plan, you can come in here more than once. Yeah, so you can swipe once per meal period. So there's a breakfast lunch and dinner. Yeah, so we've got breakfast here, Chick-fil-A, and then roll, grab and roll. And then lunch we've got here, grab and roll. And then for dinner, pretty much every restaurant you see on campus, whether that's sushi with gusto, wild greens, limbs here. Pretty much all of our restaurants on campus are made at night. Maple Grill up in Maple, if you're one of the maples, a pig very up comfort for comfort in the Dohee people. There's pretty much a location close to every single dorm. So definitely I challenge you to try all of them out. Because I also could. Yeah, they're all good. Yeah, it'll be it'll be you'll have your favorites. You're going to want to go there every night, but definitely try all of them. That's it. All right, thank you guys so much. We can't wait to see you. Yes.


So, you are a YouTuber, a YouTube creator who lives and works outside the US. I haven't seen many videos about this, you've probably seen all the warning signs saying you've got to fill in your tax details, you've got to declare yourself to the IRS. Sun has come out just at this exact moment just to emphasise, I'm not an accountant or a tax advisor, I just wanted to make a video showing you the process that you might face when filling in your US tax information into Google AdSense for your YouTube channel. I'm only going to show you some of the questions that come up just so you can prepare and get ready to fill it in yourself. In the description I'll put a help article and a help video as well that YouTube have issued. All I hope is that seeing what's ahead is useful to you but I'm very aware that if you get this wrong you could lose quite a lot of money. The place that I'm using to go through all of this is this YouTube help article and there are step-by-step instructions here so we're going to hit sign in for my AdSense account. This is what my Google AdSense dashboard looks like. The next thing we need to do is to click on this menu in the top left hand corner and go down to payments. You can see I've already got a nice friendly red bar. It's always a good sign isn't it when your account has a big red banner. Now I could click on that button now that would take me straight there but I'm going to show you the way just in case you don't have that banner. We're going to go down to settings and click on manage settings and then on this page there's a little pen icon next to the words United States tax info so I'll click on that and then click on manage tax info. That takes you to this page which only has one entry at the time that I'm doing this. Who knows this might be populated by more countries in the future but it's labeled United States tax info and we will click on this button here add tax info. Now I've had to reconfirm my Google login. The first question is what type of accounts do you have individual or an entity or non-individual? The next question down is are you a citizen or resident of the United States? The final question on this page is select your W8 tax form type. So that's if you are an individual or a business entity. Have you can drink your weak apple drink now or save it for later? To tax identity make sure this information is exactly the same as on your tax documents and that the form is signed by an authorised representative of this legal entity. Now on the individual tax form it asks for your taxpayer identification number. Seek some advice then you have to put in your permanent home address. This is going to be fun for all of those vloggers from Vans. Then it asks you this question under tax treaty are you claiming a reduced rate of withholding under a tax treaty? Again I'm sorry this is so boring but you've got to seek your own advice I can't help you with this. The next section is document preview where AdSense will show you a preview of how your tax document will look before it's issued and then the next friendly fun field section is certification. Basically it's a signed declaration where you get to sign the form electronically and then the final section is activities and services performed in US and affidavit where you're asked if you've performed any activities and services for Google within the US and then hit submit and now you get the swirling loading wheel of doom. Now obviously I'd love to show you all my personal details but I've blurred them out just to say that you are told instantly whether or not it has been approved or not so that's good and if you need to change any details there's a submit new form button so you can change if your circumstances change or if you see that there are any errors. I can only hope that showing you the questions that come up help you prepare for filling in your own form with your own correct details but good luck us non-US YouTube creators so if I can continue to help you by by showing you what's ahead then why not click the subscribe button it's on screen now and thanks for coming along this journey with me


What's up guys welcome to today's video so on the video today. I've got my model Chelsea We're gonna be cutting a one-length long bob haircut, which is what she got previously But you can seek some layering that happened in that cut So what I want to do is share with you guys my technique to where I'm gonna go through I'm gonna cut a one-length Bob We're gonna do that first and then I'm gonna show you guys how to take out weight without actually Exposing layering within the cut. Alright, so we're working on that one length. No elevation. That's what I want you guys to focus on I don't put any of the hair on my fingers at this point or below occipital bone. So it's really at its lowest point I want to keep that that heaviness of the line So I just continue all the way up the head shape No elevation until I get to about the crown area and that's when I'm gonna start putting it in my fingers and traveling around the Head shape so just continuing to cut that balance line in the back all the way up the head All right, so now you can see I'm working it in my fingers. So I got a one finger Elevation that's just gonna soften it a little bit because as that head starts to curve away Everything's gonna get heavier and heavier the lower you hold the hair the heavier it is So I want to hold the hair in my hands to have a little bit more control And I'm also gonna start working around the head. So watch my fingers. They work parallel to the parting That's the key and I'm just gonna work around the head shape around that shoulder So just watch as my fingers start to rotate my body position starts to shift a little bit and I just follow that All right, so now we're moving on to the right hand side We're gonna do everything the same the only difference is I'm gonna be doing a backhanded cutting technique So you'll see right here as I start to cut. I'm cutting from the center out I did the same thing on the left hand side I cut from the center out and that way I keep consistency with how I'm pushing the weight with that scissor blade So just be aware that everything you do you want to mimic exactly the same on the opposite side Otherwise you might end up with lengths that are different on both sides and you want a haircut that matches up So here we go I'm gonna cut through the top once I get to that crown area I'll start to elevate and I'll start to travel around the head shape in my hands All right, so now that we've got both sides cut We're gonna go in with the joyco defy damage protective shield discards against any thermal UV damage And I'm gonna use that to blow dry your hair keep your hair nice and healthy I'm using the Dyson blow dryer and then I iron it out with the Dyson Corral iron Just to get it nice and smooth ready for that dry cut So I'm going in with the tip of my scissor and I'm gonna work that outer perimeter line You can get a little bit once you start elevating in your fingers You get a little bit of an edge around your outer perimeter So I just go in and I take that off using the tip of the scissor and now I'm using my texturizing scissor I create I take out the crown of the head and I use my texturizing scissor to go in where the hair is the bulkiest in that Nape area in that occipital bone area. That's where there's so much density packed in So I just slide on a diagonal with my texturizing scissor through and then when I put that crown back down It completely disappears. You don't need all those short layers You get a nice one-length appearance on the bob and you can see this is our end result I hope you guys like it. Let me know in the comments below Make sure if you're not subscribed subscribe to our channel on YouTube. Thank you so much for watching


What is happening? Magnet sights! So you've been asking for it since last year, since before last year, and finally I have Magnus Merchandise, or for short, short Magnus merch. That's right, so now you can all get your own Tyrone Magnus t-shirt. And I've been working on this for a few days, actually recently. So, just so you know what I have in store for you, t-shirts, I have hoodies, I have leggings for the ladies, I have sports bras for the ladies. Okay? I got more and more things coming. I even got Magnus teddy bears. That's right. See, because I know that I can't go with you everywhere. I can't be with you all the time, Magnus eaters and Magnus sights. So if you, the fellas need a new toy to put on your shelf in your man cave, if the ladies need to snuggle, okay, at night, and you can't have Magnus there. All right, baby. I got the Magnus teddy bear. All right. He's cute. He's brown like me, and he even says woo on his t-shirt. You know what I'm saying? So make sure you go check these out. Get your favorite shirt, hoodie, sports bra, leggings, teddy bear. I got a lot of things, a lot of more things coming. Trust me. This is just the first nine things that I could think of to make for you all. They all have my specific flair and flavor and style added to them. I designed these all myself. So I'm sure you'll like at least one of them. And if you don't, I got more coming. So you do like them. Just so you know, I mean, just to give you an example, I have a dark Mjolnir t-shirt. Okay. I have a black Viking t-shirt. I have the black tiger returns hoodie. Okay. I'm working on Jim Savage. Okay. Because all of my fellas and ladies are Jim Savages. We go in there and we give 100%. Okay. We kill it in the gym.  So just make sure you go check them out. And I got more coming for you. I hope you'll like them. Get your favorite one. And let me know how you like it. All right. What am I saying? Just so you know, the link is in the description box and also on my main channel page to the far right. Okay. In the banner, you click on that. Looks like a V, a squared V. Looks like you click that icon there up there with Instagram and Facebook and all that is. And it'll take you straight to my stove. So either look in the description box or the top right hand corner. Okay. It's also the link can also be found on my Facebook page on the right in the box where it says website. All right. One million subscribers. Woo.