What's going on everybody got Kyle and Donnie here with late in sports cards and we are ripping putting any collegiate Draft picks football eight box case number five Random team style did a randomized for the break. We had Gregory with the Cowboys down to rich with the Seahawks Can always check those results guys on our website late in sports cards.com got a results tab at the very bottom Good luck. Good luck guys. Let's see what we got spots coming in. Thank you Matthew Alan Tom and Sean taking spots here Appreciate y'all. All right, you guys get a go box one digit draft Silver's Pat Tillman to start us off first auto is to 35. It's gonna be Saturday star Jamal Williams is this the To a 35 is the Saints Jamal Williams? No idea I can't tell from the helmet on Yeah, so this is all veterans it is the Saints the Saints Jamal Williams Saturday star Jamal Williams currently on the Saints Ty J Spears orange Pulsar that one is numbered to 49 We've got a Jordan Addison red wave not numbered Jameer Gibbs hype and prism break Joey Porter Yeah, I wasn't sure if it was the same Jamal. I couldn't tell from having the helmet on Say flowers Quentin Johnston This one is gonna be auto Tyreex Smith Tyreex Smith out of Ohio State Let me see here Tyreex Smith Seahawks Seahawks Tyreex Smith rookie auto Got a Jaden Reed rookie silver And this one is gonna be Charlie Thomas draft picks autograph silver Charlie Thomas out of Georgia Tech looks like he's still at Georgia Tech. This one will be a random Silver auto Georgia Tech there Charlie Thomas still at Georgia Tech Won't be a random got John Taylor red Jonathan Taylor numbered to 299 and To a pillow to rookie blue ice to 99 trophy hunters got a Hinden Hooker Xavier Hutchinson Silver's Mike Evans for the Bucks and this one is Orion advance Orion Vance out of a hot of Iowa State We check that one as well still at Iowa State. That'll be a random to all as well Orion Vance Still at Iowa State God Brian Robinson blue wave to 249 commanders. We got a Jalen waddle red Miles Murphy and a prism break of Anthony Richardson Colts silver at Perry Saints rookie And this one is gonna be Jacob Slade draft pick autographs out of Michigan State Jacob Slade still in Michigan State The Iran it's all as well Jacob Slade draft pick autos blue ice breeze haul Breeze the beast for the Jets Blue ice to 99 and a Pat Tillman Cardinals to 99 and Blue ice this one is will Anderson Houston. That is also to 99 prism break ready guys There is box one and go box two Mojo Mojo Silver rookie Kenny McIntosh at Seahawks rookie This one is DeMarco Hellams on the silver auto draft picks auto DeMarco Hellams Let me see here Falcons Falcons DeMarco Hellams Silver auto Got purple ice this one is Pat Tillman again number to 149 nice Tillman Yeah Got blue blue Tyler Scott to 199 got a BJ ojolary and Mojo It is CJ Stroud brilliance there number to 25 nice hit Houston Very nice hit on the Mojo Stroud New starting QB for the Texans very nice hit there Houston. That is a sick-looking card Can mag that for you Texas? Brilliance to 25 Silver Derek Henry Got auto this one is the 49. It's gonna be Aiden O'Connell. That is the Raiders there Raiders backup QB for rookie QB to 49 Aiden O'Connell Got a blue almond Ross St. Brown Lionston 199 deuce Vaughan Cowboys Peyton Manning and will Leviss hype We've got auto it's gonna be Caleb Elaby from last year's prism draft Caleb Elaby See if he ever played anywhere um played quarterback for the Houston Roughnecks Yeah, let's see if he got drafted first Yeah, it looks like it'll be random to all He went from college to XFL So this will be another random to all Caleb Elaby from last year's draft picks silver Zach Evans and This one is D Winters draft picks auto out of TCU D Winters Niners Niners D Winters got red rookie Jaden Reed to 299 Got a blue Joe Montana prism break Duggan and Tyjay Spears silver Mark Andrews We've got auto this one is Saturday star of Nesta Jade Silvera Nesta Jade Silvera gonna have to look that one up as well Raiders Raiders Nesta Jade Silvera on these Saturdays star auto Blue ice is Maisie Smith and Kyle Pitts Brilliance is Andrew Anthony Richardson and Jordan Addison Ready guys box three good luck. Good luck Still got 23 to go on the next one guys exactly like this half caser breaking next Righty. Let's keep it going here Box number three. Let's see a manga. Let's see a manga Silver Noah Sewell Silver rookie, we've got a Davis cheek Davis cheek their quarterback It's like out of Boston College. Let me see Davis cheek sign with the Panthers as an undrafted free agent Davis cheek hyper auto blue Debo Niners and red wave Rajas for the Jets Hype's a flowers and blue blue ice hype to 99. We got Zay flowers nice one there Ravens keep on going Silver Marcus Allen. This one is Jalen cropper Jalen cropper out of Fresno Let's look it up here free agent Looks like he was with the Cowboys for training camp. I don't know if he made it through but um Jalen cropper go to Cowboys He was with them for training camp Hey you too mark you too. Have a good night, sir purple ice is Lenny to 149 On that I'll go to bucks longest tenure since he's not on a team right now Marvin Mims red Broncos Prison break Bryce Bryce young this one is Bernard converse Jared Bernard converse Let's see here Jets corner for the Jets Bernard converse blue wave is Keanu Benton and Red ice Garrett Wilson Jackson Smith and will Anderson height Garrett Wilson made some nice catches in hard knocks, but I don't know how much we're putting like up to uh practice catches, but It looks like he can snag them. There's a Derek Carr Silver and rated prospect this one is Saturday stars of Quinn Ewer This one is an on-card auto nice one there Quinn Ewer is the uh Texas QB This will be a random to all as well rated prospect auto It's the only on-car we've seen so far nice Ewers McCaffrey red for the Niners and Jalen Hyatt on the red wave ready box number four We got a snakeskin silver Tyson badgent This one is Brinton strange number to 75 on the blue ice auto Brinton strange out of Penn State Place for the Jags Brinton strange Jags auto number to 75 Red is Kalei Ringo and BJ Ojalari nice one there on the rookie snakeskin Not numbered in this uh prism draft nice one there Ojalari snakeskin rookie Tank Bigsby Silver Jalen Hurts and this one is going to be Hunter Renfro Saturday stars go into the Raiders Hunter Renfro I hated him at Clemson men Silver there not numbered Got Terry Bradshaw blue TB 12 to 199 and Sean Tuck Bucks Jameer Gibbs We've got Mike Rose on the auto out of Iowa State Let's check that one Mike Rose Is a free agents Looks like he was signed originally by the dolphins Only team he's played for dolphins here Mike Rose silver Nice one there silver Bijan Bijan for the Falcons and number to 199. We got Christopher Smith on the auto out of uh, Georgia Christopher Smith Raiders Christopher Smith on the draft pick auto red for the Raiders to 199 Got blue Maisie Smith Purple Ice Rookie Zach Evans for the Rams to 149 AT Perry and Malik Willis Silver Seyquan This one is going to be Stephen Jones out of App State Stephen Jones Jr. Titans Titans Stephen Jones Jr App State there on the Silver Auto Got red Derek Carr for the Saints uh Marino Vince Young and Bo Jackson Alrighty guys halfway Box number five 21 to go now 21 to go on the next one Silver Michael Pittman This one is going to be Payne Durham Payne Durham on the auto Payne Durham red rookie auto there number to 199 Bucks we got a Jackson Smith rookie blue for the Seahawks to 199 and a uh Iosovas Zappy and Chuck Woodson This auto is Jared Stearns Jared Jared Stearns He is Scatcher one We'll do a random for this one. I don't see any uh Any team for him do a random Jared Stearns Hyper auto God douce Vaughn Silver for the Cowboys This one is Brenton Strange Brenton Strange Just had this one Jags our Jags Brenton Strange Silver Auto Cam Smith on the blue this one is to 199 And we got a Mojo Tyson Badgent to 25 Rookie Mojo Save flowers Silver Joe Burrow And this one is Michael Jefferson Michael Jefferson on the Silver Auto looks like random Random to all here Michael Jefferson Yep, random to all Michael Jefferson Auto Got a red Miles Garrett And red wave Montana Sean Watson Quentin Johnston Silver Rookie Sean Tuck Bucks Got seven banks seven banks on the auto Looks like random Yeah, I'll be random here seven banks of LSU Red Douce Vaughn Rookie for the Cowboys to 299 and Debo nice one there on the Snake Skin Snake Skin Debo Charbonnet and Addison 8 randoms already Box number six Silver Dante Demis Chase Garbers Chase Garbers on the Hyper Auto Looks like from last year Looks like he was with the Raiders at one point Raiders Chase Garbers Rookie Red Jalen Hyatt to 299 and a blue Marvin Mims And blue ice nice one there Tana McKee for the birds 299 Eagles The guy behind me looks like Julian from Trailer Park Boys Julian Cowpits Silver And to 299 we got again for the birds Tana McKee On the Red Auto Back up for the birds Blue Cam Smith And red wave Malik Cunningham Bryce Young Hyatt It's a good show man I like Trailer Park Boys Bryce Young Rookie This one is Auto Tay Martin Tay Martin there Niners Niners Tay Martin Darno Washington Silver for the Steelers And Jacob Slade Jacob Slade on the Auto I had that one as well Random Jacob Slade Blueway Barry Sanders To 249 and Mack Jones QB1 for the uh Pretty Pats QB only yesterday Looks like they uh added some reinforcements today Silverberry Sanders This one is going to be RJ Snead Saturday Star RJ Snead Looks like a random RJ Snead I think he's still on Colorado Saturday Star RJ Snead Purple Ice is going to be Dion Crime there Number to 149 and Peyton Manning Red Wave Hyatt Jackson Smith Ready guys two more I know players are all in their college and yours is but it makes sense for the Saturday like Saturday Star is to be still in college That's not the right way Yeah that does make sense Spade is a Cardinal All right let me check here Jacob Slade It's Slade L-A-S-L-A-D Let me see Yeah Slade not Spade You know what that might be it Like the Saturday uh showdown Oh there we go Oh yeah he is Cardinals My theory is debunked Yeah Cardinals Slade thank you for that uh Mock Cardinals on that There's a Silver Chris Rodriguez And Otto to 75 This one's going to be Draftpick Otto's Evan Holt Evan Holt out of Northwestern Holtz Evan Holt Blue Ice to 75 Purple is Rookie Clark Phillips To 75 and Ricky Williams on the uh Snake Skit He's Ricky Trayvon Walker Silver Olave We've got Payne Durham That one is Raiders I believe Red Payne Durham Second red to 199 Payne Durham Bucks Blue Jalen Carter for the Birds Number to 199 And Dwayne McBride Red Ice A red wave not numbered Bryce Young Hype Got Jeremiah Holt Number to 199 Jeremiah Holt I don't think so Is a free agent We're a Giants dirty there Yeah he was with the Giants for training camp We'll do Giants here Jeremiah Holt New York Giants Jackson Smith Silver Rookie for the Seahawks And Demario Douglas This one is number to 149 Draftpick Otto Out of Liberty Demario Douglas Patriots Patriots Demario Douglas Number to 149 Blue Wave Kelsey Got a red John Taylor Miles Murphy And Bryce Young Silver Jash Allen And to 199 We got a Lance Boykin On the Draftpicks Otto Lance Boykin Seahawks Seahawks Lance Boykin Draftpicks Otto is to 299 Marvin Mems Broncos We got Barry Sanders CJ Stroud on the brilliance And Jackson Smith Righty guys Box number eight Box number eight here This was an eight box break Number five random team style Got number six right up right after this one 20 to go 20 to go Breaks next Good luck, good luck Box number eight Let's do a multi-random here at the end guys We'll do one random for all of the multi-random here Got Silver Emanuel Forbes This one is Bryce Ford Wheaton Silver Otto Bryce Ford Wheaton Out of West Virginia Country Road Take me home To the place West Virginia Giants Giants on these Silver Otto there Hope you guys enjoyed that The Silver Otto Giants We got a Blue Maisie Smith Rookie To 199 and Cam Smith Red To 299 Sharpenay and Blue Ice Is Malik Willis To 99 for the Titans That was me trying to get some energy I like it Take it What about having the drinks Celsius Some country energy Justin Jefferson Silver And Tanner McKee again On the Blue Otto this time Draft pick Otto for the birds Tanner McKee back up for the birds Go birds Got a Red CD Red Wave Jameer Gibbs Lions Rookie Trophy Hunting of Zappie And Chuck Woodson Terrell Bernard This one is number to 75 Terrell Bernard I should know that one I think Beals Carl Keywell with their band-aid The Beals Oh yeah Carl Oh The camera's over here yellow Yellow Yeah so nothing Silver Jaren Hall Silver Jaren Hall We're good This is a signing day Jack Campbell out of Iowa Jack Campbell Let's look that one up Before we do that Where's Bernard at again Beals Jack Campbell is Lions Lions on these signing day Silver I like these autos man It's a clean looking card Traylon Berks Purple And Jerry Rice Blue Zay Flowers And a Bryce Young Prism Break And last pack here guys CJ Stroud Silver Sauce And this one is going to be Michael Jones Draft auto out of Syracuse Let's see who we got here for the last one The orange Hand right Not very creative on the name The orange Chargers Chargers Michael Jones Blue Tray Lance That'll be uh Cowboys now Tray Lance the 199 And red of Nick Chubb Quinton Johnston Alrighty guys That'll do it for the break here Let me do a random here I've got seven Seven teams in the random We'll do top spot Gets this Quinn Ewers Saturday star rate of prospect Only on card one Second spot We'll get the RJ Snead red Um and the rest we'll get Actually there is one hyper auto And one silver So third spot we'll get hyper Four spot we'll get silver And then base autos after that Alrighty guys So we got top seven in the random here Let me roll dice How many times we'll go Go seven times Seven times for the top seven Alrighty guys Good luck here I've got lions down to Falcons Going to go seven times Top seven we'll get um a card here Can I get the cards really quick? Yeah There's one Two Three Four Five Six And seven Top spot is Raiders Raiders taking home the Quinn Ewers On card rated prospect auto Second spot Steelers Taking home the um red Third spot's going to go to the Chiefs Fourth is Packers Fifth is going to be Saints and Browns combo Six is Cowboys And last one is going to be Jags Taking home a card there Alrighty guys That'll do it for Prism draft picks Eight box number five We'll get number six going here in just a minute


Hello, and welcome back to the craft box. My name is brenton today. We are on episode 52 of the completionist crafters series We are back at Calos still last time for a bit though today We are crafting the adept wintery toga. That's a bit weird. It's like a bit of the white bit there It's kind of strange. Um, but yeah, anyway, this is where you get it Calos, obviously Last time here for a wee while and as always everything you need is on screen and all of the requirements as well So it's always useful. Just pause the video if you need to and we are gonna craft this bad boy up at the equipment crafting station Because that's where it is and here it is So you need one wintery toga, which as always I just recommend farming the first boss Six colossus TC I went to Fitzium But I think you can also definitely get them at the bizarre and there'll be other play pool around the spiral that can Sell them crystal vials 20 of them You can buy them from reagent vendors Seven black pearls, I would transmute black lotus 20 water lilies transmute cat tails if you need cat tails go and look up my cat tail video Which I believe is on my channel blood moss pink dandelions as always or dragon spire in the Athenium and spider silk well currently there's like 999 in the bizarre so you should be able to get it. But yeah, there we go. There's the adept wintery toga and that gives a total of 100 200 and 90 max health 3% power pip chance 4% Resist to all scores 7% fire resist 2% ice accuracy 6% ice damage 4% incoming heal and 7% storm damage so kind of an okay set ice always gets lucky with the resists obviously level 30 plus ice score only So yeah, if you are on screen as always is the comparison to the Zeus robe for ice I don't know what it is, but some of them are better. Some of them are not So yeah, I'll be interesting to see but anyway, otherwise. Thank you for watching next episode. We are going somewhere very very special I'll give you a small piece of it as one of these tapestries here This is the night side. This is dark more and then obviously this is aqua. We're not going to aqua So it's one of these two over here. Anyway, thank you for watching room to like and subscribe and first subscribe press the We little bells to know exactly when I post another video and remember crafts outside the box


Welcome to World's Best Videos. We've compiled a list of bizarre objects made from human skulls. Let's get into it. Candy. An online confectioner offers life-sized skulls made entirely from Belgian chocolate. The sweet treats are anatomically correct in every detail because they're made from a mold cast from a human skull. The candy skulls, which remain edible for six months, are also available in dark, milk, chili, and caramel chocolates. Cast by hands, they're finished with a dusting of fine chocolate powder cups. Ancient Britain's drink beverages from 1400-700-year-old human skulls. The cups found in ghost caves in summer as England were likely employed in ritual props. Rumors says that Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean attraction featured actual skeletons amongst its exhibits. Finding the fox skeletons unrealistic, they persuaded friends at UCLA Medical Center to give them some Grisbeest pops from the anatomy department. Tools. 5,000 skulls, bones, and bone pieces found in the very old city of Teotihuacuan near present-day Mexico City shows that Teotihuacuanans changed their bones and skulls of their dead relatives into different tools and household items. They're creations were vines, combs, needles, spatulas, and dozens of everyday utensils. Mass. An Aztec temple in Teotihuacuan, Mexico, contains eight mass made from different human skulls. The skulls may have been obtained through human sacrifice. What on the means of which was the heady? The mass worn by social elite were decorative headpieces. Well, that concludes the video guys. Hopefully you guys enjoyed it and if you did remember to smack that like button, let us know which one you want to see in the comments section below. And if you haven't ever subscribed, please just subscribe to keep up with the rule of best videos.


Sunday Iguho arrested in Kota Nuu. And an assassination attempt at the interim leader of Mali. And off the press very soon with our guest. Welcome to the Breakfast on Pots TV Africa. Good morning. Thank you for joining us this bright and beautiful Wednesday, the 21st of July 2021. I am Annette Felix. And I am Usaogi Ogbon. Welcome to the breakfast this morning. It's the second day of public holidays across Nigeria. And we would say happy salad once again to all the Muslim faithful and everyone across the country. And join these two days of rest and celebration. Indeed. And let's go straight into our top trending story. I am very excited for this one because we've been talking in recent time regarding sports. And the sports in focus has been basketball.  Now the person in focus today is Giannis Adito-Kumbo. At least that's the original name before he went to Greece and had to change it. Because you know the people couldn't pronounce it and they made fun of that name. So Giannis Adito-Kumbo has scored 50 points in Game 6 of the NBA Finals. Now he plays for the Milwaukee Box. And now this has represented the Milwaukee Box first NBA title since 1971. I mean this is just amazing what this young man has done. He was fresh off being drafted 15th overall by the Milwaukee Box in the 2013 NBA draft. And on Tuesday nights there were more than 80,000 people crammed in that stadium. And you know he put on a spectacular show. A spot analyst and I'll call it a legendary performance. That before now only Abdul-Jabbar and Robertson had ever done this. He basically led the box to an NBA title. And I have a couple of fantastic points that would definitely spin your heads regarding Giannis. Right now we know that he's the only player in NBA history with five all-star selections. He's the second season player born outside the US to win the MVP and finals MVP. He now joins Michael Jordan and Hakeem Olajuwon as the only players to win MVP finals. And he's the fifth player born outside the US and that's in Nigeria to win the finals MVP. He's the ninth player to win multiple MVPs and the laurels go on and on and on. So we say congratulations to Adito-Kumbo. Well I'm not sure why it's now pronounced Adito-Kumbo. Well it's got to help us understand that because Adito-Kumbo and Teo... I get that explanation. You know when he relocated people couldn't pronounce that. So I guess maybe it's a way of representation of the characters in Greece. They had to modify that to suit the times and to make people pronounce it easily. Because see believe it or not this racism thing is real and you have situations where Nigerians have to modify their names so that people can pronounce it better in the countries where they go. We've been pronouncing Arnold Schwarzenegger. However that is for as long as I've been aware. And nobody had a problem with it. So I'm sure they can pronounce that. That's the racism we're talking about. Well anyway moving away from his name congratulations to him and Milwaukee Box. We spoke about basketball yesterday and how much we probably need to... Move away from the focus of football. See what we can actually achieve with basketball. We're talking about him today and I'm sure that this is all because of people like Akim Olajuan who paved the way for Nigerians in the NBA. People that even... What's his name? The guy who unfortunately passed last year. The basketball player Kobe Bryant even mentioned how much he looked up to him. So yes we do have Nigerians blazing trails across centers. Absolutely. Akim I think played for me before 2002. And he was one person that a lot of people were proud of back here in Nigeria. We didn't watch that much basketball. But anytime that the NBA was mentioned there was always a reminder that there is an Nigerian called Akim Plain. So congratulations to him. He still has a pretty long career to go. He has broken a couple of records with regards to signing. He currently ends one of the highest in the NBA. And he's taking away the spotlight from the likes of LeBron James and the other light-skinned guy. So congratulations to him and their family. I'm proud of what they've been able to achieve. And this really once again is the level of success that you will achieve when you have a system that supports you. A sports ministry that supports you. And an environment that really supports your dream and your goals and all of that. I'm sure that there's going to be more Nigerian parents thinking now maybe my child isn't good for football. Let's look into basketball. Maybe my child isn't meant to be a doctor or lawyer or engineer after all. A broadcaster. Maybe they should be footballers. Maybe they should be basketballers. Just sportsmen generally. Yes, absolutely. The good thing about Gianna Di Tocumbo right now is that he's the most outstanding player of the just-ended NBA season and he's one of the Nigerians who would also be playing for Nigeria at the Olympics. Fantastic, fantastic. But the sad thing about the Olympics, I mentioned this yesterday, the organizers of the Olympic Games have not ruled out cancelling the games last minutes because I told you about a young American who came down with COVID-19 and how that might affect the game. So we just might get a surprise. It wouldn't be a surprise to me because it's something I've expected and they have said it too that you should not rule out any last-minute changes that they could just cancel because they are taking health precautions very seriously and are putting the health and lives of all athletes and possibly fans first before even the games. But what would then happen to all the sponsors, people who have bought broadcast rights and all that? And a money amount of billions of dollars. We'll see how it goes. If it has to be postponed, it will be postponed. If it has to be canceled, then it will be canceled. But I doubt that that will happen. I think they're going to consider a lot of things and rather they would put in more precautions. They would maybe reduce the amount of people that are going to be allowed to watch games and some of all of that. Instead of outrightly canceling it because it's already been delayed way beyond what we had imagined. You mentioned the word billions of dollars a few minutes ago and it just reminds me of our neck top trending story. It's about Jeff Bezos. The words, richest man, went to space yesterday. It was a Tuesday morning. Some stations are reporting 10 minutes. Some are reporting 11 minutes. But between 10 to 11 minutes, joyride from Earth to the Kamen Line. Now that Kamen Line is the internationally recognized boundary where Earth ends and where space begins. So Jeff Bezos went on a ride out of space. He was there with an 18-year-old German teenager, Oliver Damin. And a bit of a story regarding Oliver. The story is that people had bid to basically follow Jeff Bezos out of space from about 159 countries. Thousands of people put in a bid to go out of space. And we don't really know just how much was paid for this because definitely Oliver's father, what CNN is reporting, definitely paid the ticket. The man is a rich investor. Paid for that spot for his son to be on that flight with Jeff Bezos. There was also Jeff Bezos didn't go alone. He went with his brother as well. He did announce he would be going with his brother. He also went with the 82-year-old pilot. So basically this flight saw the oldest person to go out of space, the 82-year-old pilot, and the youngest person to go out of space. And that's the 18-year-old recent high school graduate, named Oliver Damin. Now you asked me behind the scenes why exactly is Jeff Bezos going to space. And lots of people definitely have that question on their minds. So we know that when Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin, this space expedition in the year 2000, just about six, eight years after he founded Amazon, he said he wanted to make space tourism. He wanted to basically break the frontiers of space tourism and make it affordable for people to go out of space, to have tours, to just explore what exactly is out there beyond the world as we know it. So that's exactly what happened yesterday, that 10-minute joy ride to the Kamen Line and back. But Osaragi, would you love to take a tour out of space? Absolutely. Obviously I can't afford it. You can't? It's the same thing with another 6.9 billion people, plus we also can't afford it. But definitely yes, for 11 minutes. I think all of this happened in about 30 minutes and he was back on Earth. There's also been people who laughed at the shape of the space. Yes. And said, oh, what is part of that? So there is that. But other things, first of all, like you mentioned, it's something that he had had as a dream since the year 2000 and continuously worked until he was able to achieve yesterday. There's another part where it seemed like an ego thing with himself and Richard Branson. Branson, yes. He was going to do it first. And Richard Branson did get to achieve that first, going to space and back. There's also been criticism about how much this has cost. The rumors that it may have cost potential passengers, about $30 million more or less. But it cost about more than $1 billion to eventually pull this off. And there has been criticism concerning that from the American people who are saying, that's a lot of Amazon money. That's a lot of taxpayers' money. He went on to thank Amazon buyers and clients and say, oh, you paid for my trip. Thank you. And it would take thousands of Americans to put that together to be able to make that joy ride. And so it seemed like it was just wasting money going to space for absolutely nothing, because I don't know what he has achieved going there and coming back. You didn't bring back water or anything. Another thing people also criticized was the CO2 emissions that went off yesterday simply because of that spacecraft. So the conversations have been in different directions. There's also people who have said, you spend this much money to go to space. And yet you pay the least taxes amongst thousands of Americans who have been working for so, so long and pay heavy taxes simply because you own Amazon. You don't pay taxes and yet you're burning and wasting money like this. But it is his dream. He can afford it. So yes, he can absolutely go to space. He wants to go under the Earth and see what's also beneath there. He can do that. There's still a lot of under what exploration that needs to be done. So maybe somebody should try that next time. I wouldn't see it as wasting money. I wouldn't see it that way because in the world we're in, everything is defined by innovation. If we never had that first trip to space, I don't think a lot of the satellite images, lots of advancements in aviation and all of that, we would begin to talk about that. So I think it's great for people to push the frontiers, see what exactly is out there. If you have the resources to go ahead and make that push, we should support that. After all, it's his money. He didn't steal people's money to do that. So I would never criticize Jeff Bezos for taking that step. Well, Americans have the right to see what they feel. There's those who celebrate him and say, yes, I would like to also do this someday. There's those who would say, why are you wasting money? If it's about discovering what's in space, NASA has been doing that for decades. What are you going to do there? He never went there to discover anything. Like he said, I am not Jeff Bezos's spokesman. What he said is that they're basically trying to do space tourism. And if they go on and make advancements into this, definitely people who can afford it, like Oliver Damon's father, who could afford it, would be able to go to space. You know, people do things. People do skydiving. What exactly did they achieve? It's for the thrill and the fun of it. If they can't afford it, I mean, why not? And if they're not hurting anybody. Way to go. All right, we'll take a short break. When we come back, Demola Kimballa will be joining us this morning. It's a Wednesday, and he will be going through the papers with us to see what major stories have made the headlines this morning. Stay with us.


Well, hello, my friends, and welcome back to my channel. It's been a hot minute since I filmed a video, but I figured let's start it out with a bang, right? I am going to be doing an open box first impressions and pen test on a planner that was sent to me. As always, a full disclosure, this company reached out to me and wanted to know if I wanted to take a peek at one of their planners, and I said, sure, I'll take a peek at it. I've looked at it a little bit, but I wanted to just go over it with you guys and just show you kind of some different things that are on the market. This company is Clever Fox, and this is the Clever Fox Planner. This is an A5 size, and it's 5.8 inches by 8.3 inches. It retails on Amazon for $24.99. It is available in Prime, and then there's a black, orange, and pink version, and I got the black. No surprise there, right? So anyway, you get it packaged very nicely. I took it out of the package already, and then it comes in this nice little white box that has the little Fox logo on there. It's got some little information about Clever Fox, and then it's got information about how to set up your planner if you want a guide. I know some people like guides. Some people like to do what they want to, and then there are these as well, and it says, give this card to someone you love, and it's coupon codes, and it's all the same. So if you want 10% off of your order on Amazon, you can screenshot right there and apply that to your order. So I'll leave links down below as well. And then when you open it up, you have three sticker sheets. They're all the same, and so we've got a little graph, some people, more people, presents, kind of a workout thing, a meal, finances, love reading, and then kind of like a little yoga thing. So anyway, I got three sticker sheets, and then here is the planner. So let's actually take it right out of here. Move the box. All right, so here is the planner. And first impressions, I was actually with my mom when I got this because I stopped at my public mailbox with her, and I was kind of taking out of the package, and she felt it, and she's like, oh, that feels so nice. If you guys are familiar with the Aaron Condren bound notebooks, that's what this feels like. I'm not sure, I'm actually on the Amazon right now, on the Amazon, yeah, right now, and I'm looking to see if there's any more information as to what this actually is. Okay, I just kind of skimmed the description, and I couldn't figure out what this actually was, but it does feel kind of like a leather-like material, but it's very smooth. It also has the embossed fox on it. I don't know if you guys can see that. It's right here. Yeah, I think you can see it. It's hard to tell on the monitor if it's going to show up in the video, and then it has one of these little strappy guys, and then it comes with this little thing around it, and then this comes off. There's a little pen loop right here, which I think is really nice, and then on the back, it just has some information. So let's pull this off.  So, yeah, I like how sleek this looks, you know? It's like something you could have, like, sit on your desk at the office, and it wouldn't be like that crazy.  And then opening it up, really nice front paper. Ooh, this paper feels nice, too. It's very smooth paper, and that just has like an information page, and then goes into the planner. So, the first page is my gratitude and self-awareness, and that says I'm grateful for what I'm passionate about, and then my daily rituals, skills to learn, affirmations, and then it has like a vision board on both sides, and then my goals. So there's all these different things. So you've got health, business, and career, family, friends, significant other in romance, finance, personal development, fun, recreation, and spiritual. And then over here, it has my focus, and it has all these goals, one through five, and then my mind map with some graph paper, so you can draw, or you can just put some text in there, or whatever. And then this comes undated, so then you can just write in the month and year, so you can start it at any time, which I think is kind of cool. And then you can write in, you know, what day it is, and then you can do use your plan, your month's goals, the month's wins, and then what you need to improve on, because we can all improve, right? So yeah, so then let's see here. How many months do we have? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12. Okay, so there are 12 months, so you can really start at any time, or you can start at the beginning of the year, whatever you want. And then after that, we have, it looks like weekly pages, so you've got your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and then Saturday, Sunday are these smaller columns over here. And then over here is kind of like a goals and lists page, it looks like. So it says this week's main goal, priorities, notes, to-do list, habits and skills, and then it has a little tracker for all the days of the week, and then the wins and what to improve on next week. And then yeah, you've got this basically for the bulk of the planner. So that's kind of nice, so like, depending on what day you're at, you can just go like this and know where you're at in your planner, right? So let's pull this off again. And then, I wanted to show you guys this because I thought these were interesting. So these are little ribbons that are attached, and obviously you can put one in one section, and then put one in another section. And so on and so forth. So I think that's kind of a nice thing if you want to mark certain pages or whatever, however you want to do things. So yeah, I think it's really customizable to be honest. And then, let's see. Okay, and then we get into a ton of graph paper it looks like.  Well, cool. All right, well that sounds good. And then what is this? Oh, this is neat. All right, so this is like a little pocket folder. Oh, is this where you put the stickers? Let's see, did the stickers fit in here? They're tight, but they fit. There we go. I just needed to wiggle them in a little bit. So yeah, your stickers can fit back there. Obviously you can put other stickers in there too. But I don't know, I think it's kind of neat and interesting. But yeah, it's like very, very nice. I like the spine a lot. And yeah, it feels just like that Aaron Kondren leather-like material. I don't think it's leather just because of the price point, to be honest, but I like the feel of it. Also, the paper is really nice. I mean, I'm going to reference Aaron Kondren a lot because I have an Aaron Kondren planner. But it's not as nice as the, oh, what's that? Those inserts, those crafting inserts, what are those called? I'm like totally brain farting now. A lot of people use them in ring bomb planners. I can't think. If I remember when I'm editing, I'll put it down below. But it's a very smooth paper and it's a very thick paper. But the Aaron Kondren one is a little bit more grippy, if that makes sense. And this is a little bit more slippy. I don't know if that's a good way to describe anything, but that's the way I know how to describe things. So we're just going to go with it, you guys.  And I'm going to do it over here, so we can zoom in a little bit more. I do apologize about the shadowing today, you guys. It's very, very dreary outside today, even though it's not raining at all. But I wanted to do it with blue ink because I've been using blue ink lately and I don't really know why, but we're just going to go with it. And I figured I would use a bunch of different types of markers and pens. And then we would look at the other page and see if there was any shadowing or anything like that popping through. Because I know in the planner world that is a big deal and we like to know which pens to use if we like this planner. So let's get into the pen test. All right, I'm going to zoom you guys in just a little bit. And then I'm going to use some regular pens, or not regular pens.  And then also markers and things like that. So the first one up here is going to be the PaperMate InkDoy gel pen in the 0.7. This is the blue one. I do have a navy one as well, and I'll be testing both of them. Also, this is the jelly roll, the 0.8 in the blue. Next up is the PaperMate InkDoy gel pen in the 0.7 in the navy. And then we've got the jelly roll 0.8 in the navy as well. And then next up is the PaperMate Flair. In the blue. And then we've got the Aaron Condren marker. I'll do the fine point, and then I'll do the medium as well. And then I have the Le Pen. I don't know what point this is, but I think they only come in the one style. I think I'm really not sure. This is like really satisfying to write with. However, I'm just letting you know. And then we have got the Micron 03 in the archival ink in the blue. And then last but not least, this is the Pilot Ultra Fine Point permanent marker, but it feels more like a pen, but it is a permanent marker. All right, so now all of my blue things are done. Let's do a little test here. Okay, so now you guys can see everything. So anyway, probably the most satisfying to write with is the Le Pen. But I do really like the way that the jelly rolls felt on this paper, just FYI. I don't know if that makes any difference to you guys. But let's look at the backside. And really, the only one I see, even the finest bit of shadowing on, is the last one that I wrote with. And I know it might be hard to see on there, but it's this one. And this is the only permanent marker, well, not permanent marker, but this is the one that has the thickest stroke, if you will. But that's the only one I can see that has even the finest bit of shadowing at all. And it's right here. To be honest, I can't see anything else, especially if I put the page down. Sorry, I'm like really zoomed in right now. If you put the page down, the only one you can see is that, if you have the page up like this, just because there's a light coming underneath here, you can see it a little bit more. But this is the only one I see. But you know what, to be honest, that wouldn't really bother me. If you like to write with these as well. And I have found, I don't have a blue Sharpie Fine Point, but I have found that the Sharpie Ultra Fine Points do about the same performance wise as the pilot on most papers, but don't quote me on that. But if you're into using markers like this, if that shadowing didn't bother you, I think you definitely could use this planner. And this has the same paper all through the same, all through the exact same planner, except for the first page. When you first open it, this front page is, oh, hold on, let me zoom me all out again. Sorry about that. Except for this front page is a little, like really, really thick. It's like a cardstock kind of paper where these are, you know, more of that silky thicker paper. But yeah, that is what I wanted to share with you guys today. This is kind of a short and sweet little video, even though now my viewfinder is telling me I've blabbed on for 17 minutes, which, you know, is pretty accurate. But yeah, I really think this is a cool planner, especially like on the go or in the office or just like having something for like goal setting and, you know, to keep your life a little bit more compartmentalized if you don't like a lot of freedom. This is definitely something that could possibly work for you. But let me know in the comments if you guys have tried out a clever Fox planner or what your thoughts are on the layouts and everything. I love learning about new planners and just showing you guys new things on the market. But I just wanted to give you guys my thoughts on this planner since the company was gracious enough to reach out to me and give me a planner to show to you guys. Also, if you are interested in this planner, the Amazon links will be down below for you guys. So anyway, if you have any questions, feel free to post them below. Also, if you like these kind of videos, make sure to leave the video a thumbs up as well as subscribe. And I will see you guys in the next video. Bye, guys. Well, folks, it's time to kick it old school.


Today, we're honored to have two guests from the company Native Technologies join us to discuss about how to navigate through complicated major construction projects for condominium associations. The first guest we have is Mr. Lincoln King, who is the president of Native Technologies. His company was founded in 2012 and they specialize in pipe replacement projects. They provide all kinds of professional construction management services for Hawaii condominium associations. He is the director of operations and native technologies. He is a licensed architect and a certified project management professional welcome. Thank you so much for joining us today. Thank you very much for having us now. We really appreciate the opportunity. Thank you. Yeah, so I think before we start on the substantive discussion, why don't you tell us more in detail about the services you guys can offer for associations? Sure. Thanks a lot. As you stated, we provide construction project management services for condominium associations. So in a nutshell, that means we plan for and execute major projects on behalf of these associations. Importantly, in that role where we're managing the scope procurement, managing the communications, the schedule and the cost. So I think overall the way you look at our services is that we provide guidance from start to finish. And we make sure that the many components required for these projects to be successful come together at the right time and in the right sequence. It's annual season, annual meeting season. So that means there will be a lot of new directors sitting on the board for associations. And I understand you guys work with the board directors all the time. And there will also be new property managers joining the profession and start working on projects. I think for most people, even when I started doing construction litigation at the beginning of my career, construction projects always looked daunting to us. There are so many players, so many terms, and so many different issues that could go wrong. So I guess to help these new players in our industry to get familiar with some area that's kind of daunting to everybody, can you walk us through the main players and the different phases for such projects so that we have some basic concepts ready for the discussion? Sure, sure. So as you know, we work with you along with many other professionals that come together to join a project team. And there are many. And I think a lot of the times that a new board member might not see just how many professional entities need to come together at just the right time to make these projects work. I mean, I'm not going to name probably everyone, but we've of course got the board members themselves, the owners, their agents, the property management professionals, the building managers that could be site management, you know, an offsite management service or a resident manager. We have you as legal counsel, we have us as the construction project managers, the contractors, the lending institutions, we have government agencies. And if I didn't see it already, of course, most important is the owners and residents that live in those buildings. So as I said in the introduction, all of those stakeholders and professional entities need to come together and do the part, their part of the project, often at several different stages of the project at just the right time. So there are many players and we all need to work together to make sure that these projects run smoothly. So we all understand for construction projects, there are these different phases, right? So there's the pre-design, there's the design phase, there's also the procurement, you know, involving bidding, you know, selecting a vendor, negotiating contract. There's also the construction monitoring. There's also the post of construction. So for each phase, who is responsible for what? Got it. I'm actually going to let Dwayne handle this one. We're going to try and not make it long-winded. I think I alluded to the fact right now that there's so many different spots that all these people come together and collaborate. But I'll have Dwayne expand. Yeah, thanks, Lincoln. So it's really difficult to, in a nutshell, say exactly what happens with each of the phases because each project is so different. They're going to have different phasing for different types of projects. Sometimes you'll have a schematic design, design development, construction documents, bidding and permitting, pre-construction and construction phase. Other times you may skip and may not have all of those present. But what really generally holds true is that as you progress along the project, you'll see that we generally go from a phase where we have more uncertainty. And as we move forward and make decisions with the board and bring different consultants in, those engineers, other contractors and vendors will help reduce those uncertainties. So by the end, when we get to the end phase of construction, all of those answers have come together and we have a full project. That's so true. I mean, I think, you know, as a legal counsel, we're also more familiar with the certain type of phase, for example, the pre-design when, you know, board even needed to consider whether this is visible and whether it's association responsibility, whether this is a unit obligation and then there's also the financing working with the lending institutions. Obviously without money, nothing's going to happen, right? And then, I mean, it's super helpful to have a construction manager like you guys, the professionals, sort of really ease the burden on the board directors, on the property managers to have a professional to walk along, you know, basically, sort of overseeing the whole process and make sure it's heading the right direction and making sure it's within budget, it's on schedule. I guess, you know, for condominium associations, like especially in Hawaii, we have so many old buildings. What are the typical major projects we have to deal with and what a kind of dollar amount range we're dealing with for this kind of projects? I'll jump in on that one and then I'll probably have Dwayne expand a little bit, but you're right now, we have so many buildings, especially in Honolulu, 60s, 70s, 80s, and a lot of them are having the same issues, you know, and a lot of times it's the same issues come unfortunately coming up at the same time for these properties. So they're obviously not, sometimes not looking at just one major project that can be multiple at the same time. That is something we help a lot of clients with. In terms of the individual projects, of course, we're getting a lot of the drain waste and vent plumbing replacement. So in general, the cast iron piping is lasting around 40, maybe 50 years. Some of the very early buildings have a slightly different manufacturing process and their pipes have lasted a little bit longer, but especially in a thing from the 70s and the early 80s, they are generally experiencing a lot of issues. Subsequently, there's a lot of related insurance costs that are coming along with those issues. So that is one of the primary projects that we're seeing and that's what we specialize in. The other big one, of course, is fire sprinkler installation. There's a lot of boards making the decision whether they want to opt in or opt out of that. And of course, there's also the related fire life safety evaluation modifications to be able to gain a passing mark with the fire life safety evaluation. Other projects that we see quite commonly and is becoming more common is window replacement. I've done a couple of big projects with window replacement. They are particularly complicated and I know you and I have talked a little bit about this for a client about who owns the windows and the process of replacing them can become quite complex from a legal standpoint and a bylaw standpoint. Spore repair, painting and border proofing. Obviously, we see that one come up most buildings if they're following a regular maintenance schedule is doing those around about every 10 years. Railings, of course, are often part of that process and we're aware of a recent collapse of a railing at a nearby hotel. Roof replacement as well is very common for us and the list really goes on, but they're pretty much the main big ones that we see time and time again. And each of those comes with its own complexities. Dwayne, do you want to expand on that? No, I think that's pretty much the, they come into two major categories, which is your building infrastructure, your utilities, your power, your electric, your transportation systems, your elevators. And then the rest of it on the outside is your building envelope. Everything that keeps the water out keeps everything on the interior protected and protects your steel reinforcement. The other items I think we see are some of the upgrades and improvements such as hot water systems and replacement of chilled water installation. Things of that nature, which are more upgrades, things that have changed and over time, and maybe now need to be brought up to modern standards. So for construction manager, I mean, everybody knows that term, but we don't, you know, as a late person, we know exactly, we're not sure like what you actually do and what part of the services you actually do not do. Can you help us demystify that process? No, I just wanted to make sure I covered the last question and you did ask us what, you know, rough costs are on some of those projects. I want to make sure I did give you an answer on that. They are so varied, obviously, with all the different scopes of work and the complexity and size of each property. So hard to put a dollar amount on them. But I think for the confidence of moving forward into these projects, we are able to provide reasonably good estimates early on in the project of what those will cost, depending on the specific property. And sorry, moving on to the next question. What do we do? I'm going to tag team this with Dwayne a little bit. Both of us have our roles even within our company that, of course, overlap somewhat. But I think big picture, like I said at the beginning of our interview today, we're providing guidance and coordination. And we do this by implementing a comprehensive project plan. Within that role, where managing the scope of work, scope of work is first and foremost in any project to clearly define that scope of work and consider adjacent scopes of work. We're handling the majority of the procurement process. We work, of course, with professionals like you to go through contract negotiations. You will, of course, handle the legal side. We will be handling the description of the scope of work that goes into those contracts. Within that, you've got procurement of the loan to the association and various other runs of the procurement that need to take place. Critical importance communication. We handle all the communication by that. I mean, we're producing most of the bulletins to the owners holding town hall meetings were available for questions. It's something that we brought ourselves in the services that we provide for the time construction comes. Every owner and resident knows exactly what the project entails and what to expect. We actively manage the schedule. We drive the schedule forward to make sure a project keeps moving. And of course, on everyone's mind is that we manage costs by doing all these planning in advance. We closely are managing cost. So as I said before, all these projects have so many interconnected components and tasks that need to be done on time and in the right order to maintain the schedule on the cost. That's what we drive. That's what we manage. And that's the service we provide. Okay, so I guess, you know, there are different definitely like a wide range of projects over there. They're small ones, big ones. There's also this different faces. Then, you know, obviously not every association can afford to brought you guys on like from the very first moment. So really for, you know, clients who want to make smart use of their budget. I think it would be worthwhile to know how do we, you know, really.   I'll let Wayne start on this one and I'll let him do it. Go ahead. I think in terms of the products we've seen come in. I don't think there's anything we would say though that's that's too small. Don't don't ask us. For me, I think for a new property manager or a board, the moment you want to bring a project becomes too big is the moment you're uncertain. It's the moment where you think, oh, I'm not quite sure I have everything. It's the moment you think I'm not sure how much this cost is there a better way to do this. It's our way to find efficiency. And as soon as any anyone has those questions, I think that's the best time to contact us and bring us into the conversation. So the very least we can start pre planning as to all the considerations that the board or property manager want to start thinking about, regardless if they bring us on board or not. That's the best time to bring a construction manager in is is when you start thinking about what to do so that you can look at all the possible ways things could go wrong. And what possible solutions you could have at the beginning rather than finding out later. I see. I mean, obviously, in order to bid on a project, you got to have the specifications ready. And that's something that you would be helping clients to prepare. You know, the client would have to rely on sometimes a vendor like a supplier for material, they will come up with a SPAC. So what kind of difference that would make. And also, you guys must be dealing with a lot of the vendors or contractors all the time. Is there any advantage for a client using you guys to negotiate on price with those vendors. I'll start on this one. So now we think the best time to call us is at the very beginning of these projects. And, you know, I think we're going to talk a little bit about some of the things we've seen go wrong with these projects. But one of the main things that that we think leads to difficulties is when we get called in by a board and they say, oh, can you help us manage this project. Here's an executed contract and here's the scope of work that the contractor wrote. Right now we have a scope of work that's probably not sometimes not well understood, and we have to go back and try and fill in the gaps on that. So typically the best time to call us is at the very beginning because defining that scope of work, making sure that as Dwayne said, everything is considered that goes into that scope of work. The devil's really in the details, the plans and specifications rely on the scope of work in the beginning and that moves in the plans specifications. They go into the contract. So the contractor really should come after the majority of the rest of the project team has gone through this planning process and design process. So, yeah, big, big picture. I don't think any board is saving money by calling us towards the end. Our services make up a very small proportion of the overall project costs. And in general, a construction manager is going to be the one managing your part of money. We're going to be able to, in general, do a lot to make more efficient use of that budget from their experience in running these projects. Yeah, definitely. And as far as the specifications go, you really want to get those set with someone who's taken a look and made sure that everything that the stakeholder requirements have are being met by those specifications, not just the material, but also its application, how it's being applied, and what to do in situation, unforeseen conditions. I think too often we see presumptions made that we brought someone on to do something without seeing how they're going to do it, and then you can be hit with change orders. It can really lead a project to go sideways. Great. So the overall goal, really, we all try to obtain quality services from an association's point of view and then get the job done within budget smoothly, hopefully without any disputes arising during this process. So how do we accomplish that? I mean, that's really the major question here. I mean, what factors play the most important roles to make that happen? Based on your experience working on prior projects, can you share with us some examples without, of course, naming, building names as to what kind of scenarios it would, everything went smoothly, and if for horrible situations like what was the driving factor there, we can just maybe lessen learn from the good and the bad? I think the main thing to maintain a budget to ensure that we don't have these cost blowouts, which of course the biggest concern for owners, it all starts with the well-defined scope of work, as we said, and a well-defined and planned out procurement process. What goes into the contract is of pivotal importance. Avoiding disputes, especially when it comes to ownership, is making sure that there's a lot of communication. As I said before, communication is key in forming the owners and the residents. Dwayne, anything to add? No, definitely at the end. I think everyone knows that the biggest, what people consider a horror story or something that's gone tragically wrong is a big cost overrun, a big change order, or finding something that prevents you from doing what you want to get done. All the product arrives and it doesn't fit. So I think really setting that expectation with the owners early, knowing all of the different perspectives they have on what means success, is something you have to define very early in the project. And if you don't start with that, then by the time you get to the end, it takes 10 times more effort and cost to fix. So I would say start early, make sure you've looked at all the different perspectives, not just at what you're doing, but what are the other ways you could get it done and use that before you run forward and get someone on board and contract it. I think one of the things where projects have gone wrong that we've been requested to come in and give assistance to later in the project cycle is when things have been done out of order. The scope has not been well defined. They're really some of the, some of the biggest ones and a lack of communication, you know, keeping the owners in the dark. We want to make sure that owners know well in advance exactly what's going on and that a board doesn't always meet behind closed doors.  So the leadership of your client could change and then also, of course, unavoidably for any property management company, the managing agent could change also. So how do you deal with that and for clients facing that kind of situation? What is your suggestion for the board to keep that continuity in, you know, when that happens, you know, I'm sure having somebody with the knowledge continue on that will help go a long way, right? So what would be your suggestion? You're exactly right now. And it's one of the biggest challenges in these projects is that we start with one board of directors who has a certain vision and a certain plan and nine months later that group of people can completely change. So we've managed that turnover of board members by making sure that each of our phases and sub phases is very accurately documented. There is documentation of what board members or what stakeholders revise the plan. And as we move forward through the project process, we have a record of the approvals, how these things were done, why certain decisions were made. That way, when new board members come on to the team, we can give them a summary of here's what we planned, here's reviewed it. This is where we are today and here's the plan moving forward rather than backtracking, changing things and moving on. So we're very careful to make sure that our documentation is very detailed and provides an accurate record of the project up until that point. Okay, we only have a few minutes left and I will have Dwayne and also Lincoln to help us summarize the takeaway tips for board directors and property managers. So you want to go first, Lincoln? Oh sure, sure. So I think number one, bring a construction manager on board early. That's a key takeaway. There is no point waiting until sometime down the track. Clearly define the scope of work and consider adjacent scopes of work. What else might be worth doing at the same time? Communicate with your owners and residents, as I've said many a time. Also make sure that the financing procurement process is part of the project plan. It doesn't need to be separate out in the world before or after. That should be in the project schedule so we make sure that we get it at the right time and of course minimize interest. Finally, your project should always have an actively managed schedule and someone to drive that schedule forward, which is typically us as construction project manager. Your turn now, Dwayne. Oh, thank you. What's left after Lincoln? So, D, I think one of the best things for communication is having, seeing if you can get a project committee assigned that will stay on for the full duration of the project, which could be two to three years on certain projects. So that we have constant information moving for the entire project. You want to make sure that any information you release to the stakeholders in the form of a bulletin, a newsletter, anything of that nature is very carefully monitored. It's really important not to put anything that's not definite because owners can really take that and go in a weird direction. You know, then they'll hold on to that information forever, especially costs. You don't want to put out any cost information until it's very firm because once you put a number, it doesn't matter how many times you say that it's preliminary. They will not let go of it. You want to make sure that you've planned for all your unforeseen conditions. Make sure you have a contingency for what's for paying for it with an allowance and also have a plan for things. Disruptions. Homeowners who are not cooperative with certain renovations. What will we do in that situation have a plan before you get to it. And I think the last thing is just be flexible. Realize that as you move through the project, things may change. We may have to shift with it, but that's what a good project manager is going to let you do is they're going to bring to your attention all the different options you have and how we can go around the problem rather than just running into it. Great. Thank you so much. I really like those all these tips. We really appreciate you taking, you know, valuable, believable hours after your schedule and join us for the show today. And thank you so much. Thank you very much. We appreciate your time as well. Thank you. Thank you.


is all about franticating end point artifacts in the world of cloud storage services. So this is going to be my who on my page. Again, my name is Renz and Chris. I'm working as a DFIR or digital forensics and internet responder. I'm currently working here in Dubai. I was a former member of NCSA or what we call the National Cybersecurity Agency that is based in one of the countries in Middle East. I'm also a co-founder of Gaidem. Gaidem is the one of the leading training provider in the base of the Philippines. We do specialize in cybersecurity courses such as VAPT and cyber defense and threat hunting there. I've also accepted to various conferences before. I'd like to send a lot of CFP submissions in all various B-sides conference all over the world. So I get accepted in B-sides London, also in B-sides Vancouver in 2019. I presented last year for B-sides Doha and as well as in root control the base. And now I'm very, very grateful and also very honored to be part of NorthSex 2021. So shout out to all the NorthSex staff out there. So this talk, so this is just to clear some confusions because when they saw my title cloud services, cloud storage services, they might think of the B-3 in the business. So this talk is not primarily related to the B-3 cloud service providers such as Amazon or AWS, Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure. So this is something that I'll probably do in the near future. Most commonly like IR or Forensics type of PUC to AWS or how you can get them back into the response to Microsoft Azure kind of thing, but not for now. So my talk is all about common footprints or artifacts that are leaving behind on the endpoints. Once you install the following cloud, excuse me, cloud storage applications. So these are the primarily cloud storage apps that you can see that enterprises use it. So normally there are two versions of this. So one for personal and then second is the business. So the personnel is typically controlled by the consumers like me, the users, the normal users. And then the business version is kind of more on the enterprise level. So the business version is, this is actually interesting because business version includes a lot of added features like files on demand, different retention times or dates for related items, of course, and the more robust logging capability. But on this talk, we're going to just showcase more of the personal version of it. So you can think of in a world of where the most important files are residing probably in third party systems. So how can we effectively accomplish these kinds of investigations? Is there anything left on the endpoint that is used for forensic analysis? So that is the main topic for today. That is what I'm going to discuss to promote or to just showcase those forensic goodness for predominate cloud storage apps. So which are the Dropbox, the OneDrive, Box and lastly the Google Drive. And these are my agenda. Why do we care? Why do we need to talk about this as an IR or as a digital forensic caterer or forensic examiner? What are those cloud storage services? And what are the footprints, the artifacts that it leaves behind? And those metadata or informations that we can use as part of our evidence. And of course, how can we acquire these things? Where can we acquire it? What are the default locations? What are the directories? And lastly, my demo for today is all about cave usage. How can we leverage cave or how can we acquire or perform cloud storage artifacts or acquisition in just less than a minute? So I've recorded a video, I'll just play around that later on. Now the main question is this. So why do we care? So a lot of adversaries nowadays are using it. So adversaries may perform data exploitation to using the cloud storage provider or the apps that I've just discussed, rather than over their primary command and control channels. So cloud storage services allow for the storage, allows for edit, some retrievals of data from a remote cloud server over the internet. So a couple of adversaries that are using cloud storage apps for data exploitation or purposes are listed on the MITRE when you visited that. So that's going to be the sub-technique idea for that is T1567 that 002. So you can see that on the right side of my slides. So this is just a sub-technique over the exploitation over web service. So when you go there, you can see most of the adversaries that's using it. So as you may know, like last week, I think there's a couple of news related to dark side ransomware. So they've been using that like mega as part of their data exploitation service. We just dump most of those confidential files that they got into this cloud platform. Kimera, another APT or adversary that they've used or they've exfiltrated the stolen data over OneDrive using multiple accounts. Even Toyota, Toyota is not new. We've been hearing these even a couple of years ago. They've used OneDrive and Forkshade for their exploitation purposes. Half new, just a couple of months ago, every security professionals are so busy. There's the patch there, Microsoft exchange servers, the on-premise ones because of these half new. And most of the customers that are infected by half new actually, we've seen that half new attackers are using mega just to dump all those files or all of those confidential data that they just got for their victims. And lastly, Empire. So Empire can use Dropbox for data exploitation purposes as well. And why do we care? Of course, just like what I've just mentioned, these can be heavily used as part of the data exploitation and sometimes using command and control. It can be trivial before, of course, but nowadays these can be one of the favorite exploitation methods of adversaries. Not just adversaries, but also insider trends. So if you want to upload something, if you want to download something coming from your enterprise, coming from your company's laptop, just use cloud storage applications. Easy as that. And also, blue teamers, and especially the DFI are folks, or we can leverage these kind of footprints, these kind of artifacts that are leaving behind, because we can get a lot of information by extracting this, by parsing it, if we know where can we find it. So this will be a very good part of our forensics report in every cases that we have. And what are those evidences that we need to collect? So we can collect a local and even cloud files. So these are the same files on the local drive or even on the cloud files. Of course, databases and logs, because we can see the value, a lot of values are beneficial when it comes to getting most of the metadata that we need, including the modified timestamp, the file hashes, of course, the file size, and the file name, et cetera. Deleted items. Of course, every forensic examiner loves to examine deleted items, as we'd like to know what they're trying to hide for some reason. OS artifacts or the operating systems artifacts, this could be a bunch of, I would say, Windows artifacts, like NLK files, jump lists, registry entries, MFT, or master file table, and even in memory dump, we can see a lot of value over there. So endpoint footprints, these are some of the categories that we can get from using these cloud storage applications. Unsurprisingly, cloud storage applications leave a very large kind of footprints like this. So I'm not going to mention everything here, but by checking the local systems, you can see a lot of artifacts that can be very, very useful when you're trying to investigate some cases, such as the username, the uploads, the downloads. If ever a user shared something to another user or to multiple users, the username, the email address that they've used to authenticate into a cloud storage services, you can see those things into the endpoint. Okay, let's start with our first cloud storage apps. So welcome to Dropbox. So one of my first ever storage, but also the worst. The worst not in terms of features, not in terms of usability or user experience, but the worst cloud storage solution for forensic examiner. Why? It is difficult. It's difficult for a cloud storage to investigate as the primary databases of Dropbox are encrypted using a W or Windows data API or the DP API, which we will discuss in a bit. So once you decrypt, of course, it has been encrypted. So you need like a decryption tool or decryption keys for this. So once you decrypted it, it will be easy to navigate as it employs a decrypted format of escalate database. So most of these cloud storage applications are using escalate database, which are easy to understand, which is, which are easy to parse and to navigate. So it used to be pretty straightforward. So this Dropbox thing, because they kind of use escalate, escalate like as their database before, but they've changed how they did things. As you can see here, some of the local files are residing on the Dropbox default folder. So this is the default folder or directory. Let's say you're trying to sync five gig of movies or a file to the cloud coming from your local files, then those files can be cached. So there will be a cache files or a temporary files container, which will be on a dot Dropbox cache folder. And this is the metadata. So the file cache that DBX is the most important thing that you can get on Dropbox applications. So there was a talk or there was a talk a way back 2012 in hack.lu, which is a conference in Luxembourg by two great gentles or gentlemen on the topic of a critical analysis of Dropbox software security. So they've discovered that the encryption keys used for these DBX files is kept in the registry and it is protected using DP API keys. So that's why by using a toolkit made by a Francesco Picasso, so he's a very good security researcher and also a former science instructor. So we're using his DP API toolkit. We need to supply the issue in the password. And then that's the time that we can decrypt the encrypted databases or the DBX files such as the file cache and the config DBX on the Dropbox. So after that, after we decrypt them that, then that's going to be an easy way for us to get things like the information, the metadata of different files residing on the Dropbox. So let's welcome another one which is OneDrive. So this is being noted as the most popular cloud storage. Let me think for a second, why this is the most popular cloud storage? Because this is owned by Microsoft. This is owned by Microsoft. So that's why it's very popular due to the fact that it has been installed by default since Windows 8 Plus. So in most cases, you may see on the default folder of OneDrive, but sometimes you can also see like SkyDrive. So SkyDrive is the old term or the old name of OneDrive when Microsoft acquired it. So in OneDrive, there are two versions of it. So I just like what I mentioned before, there will be a personal and there will be a business. So the good thing about the business side, which we'll talk about because we're just going to talk about the personal version, but just to talk a bit of the business version of OneDrive, the good thing about this is that it contains a unified audit logs or what they call UAO, wherein you can extract a report using the web applications of OneDrive and to get the audit logs that contains a lot of information, very rich information that you can find on the OneDrive, such as IP address, account names, file tasks. Does the user modify the files or has it been deleted? Was it accessed by the user or whoever user maybe? Was it being copied by user or shared to everybody? So and so forth. But for this stuff, we're just going to use OneDrive personal only. So these are the local files as well. You can see that this will be installed under the user profile and then the OneDrive. There will be also another register keys that you can see depending on the version of OneDrive. So as you can see here, an example that this would be under the anti-user software Microsoft OneDrive accounts personal, but if you're reusing a business account, then you just have to change the personal into business. So most of the metadata that you can see here are also useful when performing investigations, such as the sync diagnostic.log. It gives us the metadata for not just for the local files, but also for the cloud files. The user's seed. So this CID is not the SID of Microsoft or on the windows that we probably know about. This is not the security identifier, but this is the user identifier that OneDrive provides because you can have multiple accounts. So that gives you a unique identifier per user. So if you try to parse this user seed.dat, it contains a list of cloud and some local file names. So this is just an example of the OneDrive that I have on my local laptop. So you can see that there are a couple or different status icons. So there's a cloud icon. There is a green check mark and then there's a white check mark down there. So for the cloud icon, these are the files or folder that is only the cloud. So it's not existing on the hard disk itself. But since there is these features called files on demand, you can probably see that on your local drive. But technically it's not there. So once you image a certain hard drive and it has an icon like this, just a cloud, then it's not going to be existing there. So there is also a green check mark, which is this is just a temporary cache. So let's say if I open a certain file that has a cloud icon, then that would probably be changed as to a green check mark if we open it. It means that it's just a temporary store there. So it's not like permanently being there. So sometimes let's say for some reason your hard disk might be full, then this could be the first thing that will be deleted. On the white check mark, then this is the file that has been always kept on this device. So if you right click on each file of this, then there will be an options of always keep this file local. So once you click that file, then that means that this can be exist on the local disk as well as on the cloud instance. So just don't be confused on this different icons on the one drive. So an example of that again. So this file or another metadata that we can leverage. So this file, so as you can see on the icon or on the arrow down here, this is the file with DAT or that file is the user seat. So this is how Microsoft identifies whoever the user is. This is not in a text file format. So what do we need to do? We need to parse. So good thing, we have B strings. So B strings is one of the tools of easy tools or from Eric Zimmerman that we can use to get a bunch of strings of text, excuse me, to get more insights related to the file in one drive. So which I will present later on the next slide. And then the other one is the INI file. So the INI file contains a lot of good information related to the last thing time usage stats, etc. And then the response text, which is highly on the text file, this gives us the full limit of a user who authenticated. And of course, the Microsoft account email that was just logged in. So on the next slide, as you can see here that when I try to go on the directory of the one drive personnel, I can see that there is these stats file. So when I perform these things that the XCN and dash F, then I can see that these are the files that needs to be or are existing on the cloud instance. So we can easily see that even if you delete the file, it will still be there. So you can see the metadata of the files that have been deleted, which is very, very useful when it comes to incident response and digital forensics perspective. When I open the profile service response text file, then that gives me the name of the user. And of course, the Microsoft account that was used to authenticate on one drive. So again, another useful artifacts or informations, especially when you're dealing with or if you're in the middle of IR engagement. Now let's move on to the bus. So bus is the most forensic friendly applications that you can deal with because they're, you know, they're reducing escalate databases that provide all metadata like timestamps, like shower and hashes for online and offline files. So again, the local files will be stored on the user profile slash box, which is by default. And it also uses a reparse point, which I'll talk about later on. And a couple of metadata that you can see on the app data folder on the local box box, there's a logs folder, and also there is a data, which contains the databases from the block from the box itself. So see the beat here, as you can see, this is another metadata that we can open via the escalate database browser. So it contains a lot of information such as this, like box items. So if you open sing that DB, there will be a different tables or with multiple tables, but the bus underscore item is the most common that they can use for investigations or analysis. As you can see here, you can see the filenames, you can see the modified time, you can see the hash value, the created and last modified time. That's what I said, these are all epoch time. So you just have to convert it into a human readable format as you may prefer. Having a checksum is very useful, especially if you're trying to compare one file to another. So that's a good thing. And that's the bus. And also we have Google Drive. So I think most of the Gmail users are very pretty much aware of Google Drive because once you have a Gmail account, you'll probably have at least or a minimum or maximum of 15 GB of free cloud storage. I think that's like a default features or I would say advantage of having a Gmail account. So Google Drive has also these two versions. There is a Google Drive for consumers and of course for business. So Google backup and sync. So this is now the new name of Google Drive that is being installed at the endpoint. So it replaced the original Google Drive applications since 2018. So it is now the default desktop application for a consumer of Google Drive. So if you want to install Google Drive on your desktop applications, the name has been changed into backup and sync. And then the other one is Google Workspace or they call it G Suite FS or the FileSync or G Suite FileSync. So it is available for G Suite customers. Almost the same features of backup and sync with of course additional like minimum additional features like files on demand. But still the databases of the Google Drive is in a form of extra life. So that's why it's also not that hard to parse and not that hard to examine. Most of the metadata that we need from Forensic standpoint are sync config.db, cloud grab.db. This is the most important here in Google Drive because that contains the complete listing of the metadata that we need for our investigations. So as you can see here, I've opened my own cloud grab.db. So almost the same on the back sides when I open the database there. So it also contains the file name. It contains the modified time. So the modified time is again in a Unix E poach time format. We also have ND5 hash here of the file. So we can again run some comparisons of the file. We also have here shared column, which means if it's one, then it is being shared. If it's zero, if the value is zero, it means not shared. So very, very common or very no brainer. The dot type column here is kind of interesting because the dot type number one value, excuse me. So if we have a value of one and dot type, it means that we have a real file, a real file in a Google Drive terminology means that this is a PDF, this is a text, common files like dot, ppt, xls, or csv. But if the dot type contains a zero value, that means that we are looking at a folder. So other than that, like two, three, four, five up to 13 plus dot type value, that means that this is kind of different types of Google files or objects. As you may see here, I think I do have, yeah. So if you see here on the guided images, if you see on the dot type, you can see that I have a folder name called guided images. So that has a value of zero instead of one. So those are pretty much the common storage or cloud storage applications. So now let's talk about how we can perform some acquisitions of these artifacts because we're just humans. Sometimes we tend to forget things and we might forget where are these artifacts or files being located on the endpoint. So we probably need some automation or kind of tool that does the work. So we have some cloud storage API collections or collectors that we can leverage. We're in, we need to supply the username and password or the credentials for this to be connected on the API of these services. So we have fResponse, which are very common. This is also being used by law enforcement. So fResponse has the capability to collect such things. Celebrate is also an amazing platform that we can use because they have their cloud analyzer just to get these kinds of artifacts that we can use for the FYR thing. Magnet forensics, the Axiom one, they keep on having various updates now and then. So they're pretty amazing. Speaking of magnetic forensics, they have this, they have their ambient mentorship, I think, this week as well, and they're running their own conference. So shout out to Magnet forensics folks out there. Again, their magnet Axiom is very useful in terms of almost everything. They've collected a lot of stuff, but of course, in cloud storage, they have their own set of features down there. And Google, like when getting some logs or artifacts from Google Drive or any G Suite applications, there is this takeout.google.com or take Google takeout. So this is a common collector of the logs that you need from any like your G Suite applications or even your Google Drive. I've put here a Github repo of G Suite collector because I think this is amazing. I haven't tried this, but I've seen that this has been used by most of the people around me. So they've been using this to perform a collection of artifacts on G Suite as well.  So this is just pretty much the summarized version of how cloud storage or what are the artifacts that we can get depending on the cloud storage apps. So yeah, pretty amazing that we can get most out of it if we know what can we wait to look for or what to get for in terms of our investigations or whenever we have an engagement or there was a time that the user that are infected or probably the images that we're receiving from the IR side or from the DF side has been using cloud storage apps. So at least we know what are the things that we can extract from this depending on the application that they're using. Now the question is how can we acquire or how can we get these artifacts in a very fast manner? So Cape to the rescue. So if you haven't heard about Cape then Cape is one of the best collector out there or one of the best tool of the decade. I would say decade. It was written by Eric Zimmerman. So an ex-LVI and now working in crawl and also working as a science instructor. So Eric Zimmerman created or he he wrote a lot of tools. He called it easy tools that was used in so many aspects of incident response and digital forensics. So I have a demo here which I will be playing right now. So let me just share my screen. So I hope you can see a second. Not this one. Okay. So this one. So here my local host. So this is just a demo of how I can acquire cloud storage artifacts. So as you can see that I have a Google Drive box drop box installed in my local host. So how can I get those artifacts? Let's say I've been infected by something or I've been dealing with insider threats. So this is how I escape. So in Cape there is a target and module. So target. This is the things that we need to get or we're trying to acquire for depending on the types of evidences. So right now I'm trying to search for a cloud storage. So there is a section here called cloud storage wherein it will acquire all of the artifacts if the user is using box, either drop box, Google Drive, OneDrive, and SugarSync. Okay. So shout out to Chad Tilbury and Andrew Rotman for having these cloud storage section key. So yeah. So I've tried to highlight most of these cloud storage apps and then I can execute in a bit. So once I check that one out, so that means that I want to get those artifacts. So I want to put that on a VHDX format and then I just have to put the base name or the filing itself. Once I'm done, once I know the target source, once I got the target Cape files, then it's about time to execute. So it might take a couple of seconds. So normally it would take, it depends on how large the files that you're trying to acquire for. But in my case right now, it might take less than a minute. So just have to wait a bit. So it runs in a background like as you can see on the person in here, this is the progress status. So as you can see, it's almost done. So in just less than a minute, I was able to acquire most of the artifacts I need for my investigation purposes in terms of cloud storage applications. So as you can see, the total execution time here is 40.3756 seconds, very, very easy, especially if you don't know where are those directories that you need or those directories or metadata that I've just discussed. So once you open the VHDX files, you can see that I have acquired the artifacts from box, from Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft, that means that I'm acquiring a OneDrive artifact. So I'm trying to check each of the folders here if I was able to get things that I need to get. So now I'm opening Dropbox, and yeah, this is how easy it is by using Kabe being created by everyone. I really recommend, highly recommend this tool when you're working for ADF IR cases or IR cases that you have there. So that's it. That's my demo. So let's just go back to my presentation. Okay, so this actually ends my talk. So do you have any questions? Do you have yeah, things in your mind? So again, thank you so much for your notes, for having me here. I'm just very, very grateful and honored to be part of the speakers in NordTech 2021. So watch out for our panel discussions later related to cloud security. So I'll be waiting for your questions there. And again, thank you so much. If ever you have questions, just let them know.


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