Yes, it's another case for that most famous of all man-hutters, the detective whose ability at solving crime is unequaled in the history of detective fiction. Nick Carter, master detective. Tonight's curious adventure is... The Echo of Death. They're just like that. This has got to look right. Anything you say, I'll forget everything I know. Only don't... Yes! This is Nick Carter speaking. Case? What kind of case? It is apparent. Well, that's hardly my line. Oh, I see. Yes? Yes? Yes, I understand. All right, expect us late this afternoon. You got that on the extension, Patsy? I should say so. Echo Valley Lodge, private amphibian plane waiting for you at the airport. Come at once, never mind the fee. Who is this Howard Manstead who tosses money around like confetti? A well-known millionaire sportsman, Patsy. But wouldn't it be more to the point to ask about the man who's disappeared? Oh, you mean James Thirlow, the columnist. Why, he's... Hey, who is he, anyway? That's what you get for not reading the financial pages of the paper, Patsy. Well, come along. We've got to find a taxi and get to the airport. Well, aren't we going to take anything with us? Oh, yes, of course. I was forgetting. I thought you were. I'll need my new dress. Well, once, Cubby, call him and tell him to meet us at the airport. He knows Thirlow. They write for the same paper. Oh, and one other thing, Patsy. Bring along Volume 3 of the Encyclopedia, E to H. Cubby Wilson and Volume 3 of an Encyclopedia. That's just what a girl needs for a visit to a millionaire's hunting lodge. So, seldom visited because of its somewhat inaccessible location, Echo Valley is a natural freak of singular interest. I have friends you could say the same thing about, but the Encyclopedia doesn't mention them. Quiet, Cubby. Let Patsy finish reading. Echo Valley is of great interest to scientists. Sounds occurring in certain areas of Echo Valley may be repeated as many as 13 times, echoing from clip to clip in gradually diminishing volume. Why do Encyclopedias always use so many words to say so little? That's what I wonder about newspaper reporters sometimes, too. So we'll change the subject. What else does it say? That's all. Well, that's no help. Thurlow certainly wasn't carried off by an echo. He's probably just lost in the woods. In any case, I don't see why Manstead insisted on you coming out to look for him, Nick. You're no Indian guide. Patsy, if Thurlow isn't found alive, it may cost the public millions. Millions? Whoosh, just a columnist, isn't he? Just a columnist? He's the smartest financial reporter in New York. If Thurlow's more than just a reporter, Patsy, in the financial column he writes, he sometimes tips the authorities off to big stock swindles and other kinds of financial scalduggery. Right. It was Thurlow who broke open the Nemo Bank scandal three years ago and set the whole board of directors to prison. And for some time, Patsy, Thurlow has been hinting in his column that he was on a verge of revealing some kind of tie-up between certain politicians and one or two big operators. That would rob the public of millions. Oh, then if anything happened to him now, before he's had a chance to tell anybody what he knew, the scheme would go through his case. Right. That's why he went to Echo Valley Lodge. Manstead, an old friend of his, invited him out so he could work in peace for a few weeks. Scubby, huh? Is it true that Thurlow was on the verge of a nervous breakdown when he left? Oh, he was walking around in circles talking to himself, Nick. He had almost all the dope he wanted, but he still hadn't got the name of the guy behind the whole scheme. He took along a whole bunch of records of stock transactions. He said they might give him the clue he needed. And... Hey, look ahead of us. Echo Valley. It is, isn't it, Nick? No doubt of it, Patsy. But look, that isn't any Echo Flying tortoise. A plane? Nick, it's a plane flying up out of Echo Valley. Yes. Yes, it's a private amphibian. I thought this plane of Manstead's was the only one in these parts. Now, the pilot's seen us. Huh. He's turning on a lot of flight. You suppose he wants to avoid us? I'll bet he doesn't want us to see his markings. He is trying to avoid us. Oh, pilot. Swing over so we can get a look at that plane down there. Right, Mr. Scottard. He knows we're trying to get closer to him. Look at him back to avoid us. He's turned back. He's heading away from us now. Oh, pilot, overtake that plane if you can. Yes, Mr. Scottard. Say, isn't that the Manstead hunting lodge down there, right on the edge of the lake? Yes, Cubby, it is. But we're not going to land until we get some idea what that plane's up to. He's diving straight down now. He's going to try to get away underneath us. Oh, he'll never make it. Those private planes aren't filled.  He couldn't take the strain. He's heading straight for the ground if he hasn't got a parachute. Nobody has. Look, he's helping. There, the chute's helping. And there goes his plane into the tree. That was a narrow escape. He didn't have more than 500 feet of altitude. Come down on the top of that tall pine. He's caught there. See, his parachute won't come loose. Yes. Well, we'll have to land and rescue him. Besides, I want to know why he was so anxious to avoid having his plane identified. Oh, pilot. Yes, Mr. Carter? Land in the lake and taxi up as close as possible to the place that fellow came down. Okay. Watch out for that branch. There's a snap back in your face there. Aren't we almost there? Yes, there's the clear ringer. That's the head. Only a few more steps. Oh, and they say exercise is good for you. Oh, there. There's his parachute. I think I can see him hanging among the branches. He's hurt, or he'd call to us. Come on. His shroud lines are caught among the branches. I can see that much. Well, he's just dangling there. Yeah.  Can you hear us? You all right? He doesn't answer. Look, I'll climb up and see if I can... No. Wait. What is it, Nick? Look at those shroud lines. They're wrapped around his neck. Yeah. Look at the way his head is twisted to one side. Yes. His neck's broken. He's dead. What? Oh, when he landed in the tree, he got tangled in the lines and... I wonder... Nick, what do you mean? Look down at your feet, Scubby. What? A cigarette butt. What? Somebody must have been here before us. Maybe. But its position makes me think the cigarette was smoked by him up there. But that's impossible, Nick. It's been just about an hour, Scubby, and he's passed. He knew we'd come after him. So if he was hurt and couldn't get out of his shoot harness, what would be more natural than for him to smoke a cigarette and wait to be rescued? But he... He's dead? Because somebody reached him before we did. And murdered him. And so that's the story, Mr. Carter. As much as we know, anyway, Thurlow just wandered away yesterday morning and never returned. Hmm, I see, Mr. Manson. And you don't think this mysterious airplane we met just before we reached here had any connection with Thurlow's vanishing? Well, I don't see how it could. But then, as I said, I haven't the slightest idea where the plane could have come from or who was flying it. Now, let's go over the facts again, if you don't mind. Of course not. Thurlow arrived here a week ago? Yes, with his wife. I had them flown in in my plane. They had the lodge to themselves with my permanent housekeeper to look after them. And you arrived yesterday? In the middle of the afternoon. But Thurlow wasn't here when you arrived? No, he'd already gone out. He was taking his revolver along and would take pot shots at the trees and rocks. So you never actually saw him? That's right. The woodsman I employed to look after the property asked me to come and examine some trees he wanted to cut down. About sundown, I got back to the lodge and Thurlow still hadn't returned. Mrs. Thurlow was becoming worried. I ordered the floodlights we used for landing the plane at night, but he didn't show up. And then in the morning, you called me. Well, first I phoned the nearest forest ranger station. And after that, Mrs. Thurlow was so agitated that I promised I'd send for you. Where is Mrs. Thurlow? I'd like to ask her a few questions. Well, she's sleeping now. She was up all night and this morning the housekeeper gave her a sleeping tablet. Shall we wake her? No, no, no, not just now. There's still an hour of daylight left. I'd like to take a look around outside. Perhaps I'll... I'll open it. Mr. Menstead. Johnny. What is it? His hat. We found it. Thurlow's hat? Where? Near the waterfall. Well, that's not far. It's only a mile from here. It's still light. Do you want to come with us to the waterfall? Yes, I think I do. There, there. There's the hat, Mr. Menstead. In that bush. But what in the world could Thurlow have been doing in here? This isn't a trail to the waterfall. It isn't a trail at all, as far as I'm concerned. It's a jungle. It used to be a trail to an old one-room cabin, but there's no reason Thurlow would go there. Well, maybe if we yell, he'll hear us. He might be in there with a bustin ankle or something. Go ahead and try, Scabby. Thurlow! Good gosh, would you listen to that? Well, that's one reason this is called Echo Valley. The cliffs around the waterfall, down the trail, make a perfect sounding board. Well, if he didn't hear that, he must be dead. If there's a cabin in there, we'd better take a look at it. Right. I don't see what in the world Thurlow could have come this way for, but maybe he did. Let's find out. There it is. Where, Menstead? Oh, there, between those two trees. See it? Oh, yes. It's only another 40 yards. Well, come on, then. Oh, Scabby, wait. Well, sure, Nick, what is it? That bare patch of ground there. Those footprints. Thurlow's footprints? You sure, Scabby? Sure. I've seen those pointed shoes of his too often not to recognize the footprints anyplace. Come on, Nick. Um, yes, yes. I'm coming. Thurlow's a tall man, isn't he, Scabby? He's a tall man like I'm Henry Ford. He's about five feet five. Why? I thought so. Well, never mind. There's the cabin. Gosh, it doesn't look as if it had been opened in years. Well, it hasn't, but I know of. But there are Thurlow's footprints going right up to the door. And somebody's opened the door recently. Look at these broken spiderwebs around the door jam. And it won't open now. Well, here, let me try. It ought to open without any trouble. Yeah, but it doesn't budge. That's strange. Let's take a look through the window. The window's boarded over. The boards haven't been touched. I nailed the window up myself three years ago. Nobody came here since. And someone has come here. Thurlow. And he must be inside now. But the window hasn't been touched. And the door is barred on the inside. It looks bad. We'd better break the door down. Suppose we have all Johnny use his axe on it. That'll be quicker. Of course. Johnny, smash the door open for us. Come back, please. That door was locked to stay locked. Standing to go. There. That doesn't. It's open. I'd like to go in first. Of course. It's dark inside. Here, take my flashlight. Thanks. There he is. Thurlow. He's dead. He came here, bolted himself in, and shot himself with his own revolver. Yes, he's dead, all right. And it does look like suicide. Doesn't it? No, no, Mrs. Thurlow. I couldn't have killed himself, Mr. Carter. I couldn't have. I'm sorry, Mrs. Thurlow. I wouldn't intrude on your grief if it wasn't necessary. Now, first of all, what kind of mood was your husband in yesterday morning just before he disappeared? He was very agitated. Agitated? Well, do you know any reason why he should have been? I think he just found a clue to the identity of the man he was seeking. The one behind this plot to upset the stock market. Did he say who it was? No. No, he just said he'd stumbled on a clue. And he'd be so shocked he could hardly believe the evidence. That was why he went out into the woods. He wanted to be alone, to think the matter is through. Perhaps his notes will tell us what he found. You know, I thought of that, Nick. After Mrs. Thurlow woke up and I talked to her while you and Scobby were out with Mr. Manstead, we tried to read his notes. But they're in some kind of a shorthand that nobody can read but himself. I can make out a few words here and there, but that's not enough to help. Well, we'll have another try at it later. Please go on, Mrs. Thurlow. Well, that's almost all, Mr. Carter. Jim went out about 10 in the morning. I stayed here in my room reading. About half an hour later, I thought I heard a shot. All of a sudden, I was terribly frightened. Frightened? Of what? I don't know. It was just a feeling. Then I heard the far-off echo of somebody hammering. It sounded like somebody hammering down the lid of a coffin. And I'm positive it meant that Jim was dead. It was probably someone chopping down a tree, she heard, Nick. Anyway, she went back to her reading and forgot about it. Then around one, Manstead frowns in the village. That's a little town about 10 miles from the hills.  Manstead phoned. What, didn't he fly in by plane yesterday? Seems not. The plane was in New York getting a new propeller, so he took the night train. Is that so? Anyway, Donnie went to meet him. He got here about 2.30. The rest of the story is just the way he told it to us. Nick Thurlow must have killed himself. It just isn't any other answer. I wonder, Patsy. I wonder. Hello? Yes, speaking. Did you get the dope I wanted? He was? And the plane? Then check every airfield within 50 miles of the city. Yes, I know what's a big order, but somebody's playing this game for big stakes. No, that's all. Call me back when you've learned something. Oh, uh, hello, Carter. I didn't know anybody was here in the library. I took the liberty of phoning New York. I was trying to check on that mysterious plane that we saw crash yesterday afternoon. I see. Did you learn anything? Nothing yet. You know, I have a theory about that plane, Carter. I'd be interested to hear it, Mr. Manstead. Well, we're only 100 miles from the border, and in the past, planes engaged in smuggling aliens into this country have landed in this region. Now, I'm willing to wager this chap, who was so anxious to avoid being seen, was engaged in doing something like that. Hmm. Certainly sounds plausible. Nick! Oh, Nick! Oh, yes, Cubby. Oh, there you are. Oh, top of the morning to you, Mr. Manstead. Good morning. Say, I was looking for the two of you. Forest Ranger Thompson and two of his men are down at the landing waiting in your launch, Mr. Manstead. They want to get started down the lake to bring in the body of that flyer who... who was so unlucky when he bailed out of this plane yesterday. Of course.  Yes, indeed. I'm just as interested as you are to see if your theory turns out to be right. Oh, what about Patsy? Shall I go find her? No, no, Cubby. She's staying here in the lodge with Mrs. Thurlow. They're going to spend the morning going over Thurlow's notes, trying to decipher them. Well, let's get going. I want to get back in time to phone the story to my paper. I was afraid it's no use, Mrs. Thurlow. Please, just call me Patsy. It's just impossible to read these notes of Jim's, Patsy. They're not only in his own shorthand, but most of them are in code, too. Here's something that seems as if it might mean something. See, it says, I can H.B. it. H.B.? Hardly believe. I can hardly believe it. Yeah. Of course, that's what it means. And here's some more. It's clearer. Shall I tell Manstead what I know? The next line, better, not. Instead, must get back to New York. That's clear enough. But the next line, my life, M.B. in D. That doesn't mean anything to me. My life, M.B. in D. My life may be in danger. Oh! And then there's just one last sentence that he never finished. To think that the one man in the world... And that's all there is. Oh, oh, if it only finished. To think that the one man in the world... Who do you suppose he could have meant? I can't even make a guess. The one man. Mrs. Thurlow. Oh, Patsy. Mrs. Thurlow, we're going to go and take a look at that cabin now while all the others are away. I have a theory, and we're going to find some evidence to prove it. It has to be there. It just has to be. Hello, Nick, my friend. Hey, what's troubling you? You've been sitting out here on this rock for an hour ever since we got back. Looking mean enough to bite your grandmother. Scubby, that poor devil of a Navy at whose body we brought in was murdered. And Thurlow was murdered, and I can't prove it. But Nick, couldn't you be wrong? The aviator certainly looked like a natural accident. And Thurlow, if I ever saw a case look more like suicide, well, I don't know where it was. That's just it. The aviator, I can explain. Someone slipped through the woods, reached him before we did, climbed the tree he was caught in, and strangled him with the shroud lines and his parachute while pretending to help free him. But Thurlow, his own footprints leading into the cabin. The window boarded over and the door bolted on the inside. If somebody killed him, well, how did they get out? I don't know, Scubby. It isn't possible. And it was done. I'm going to break the... Hey, Scubby, what's that in your hand? All just a shiny new nail I picked up somewhere. Somebody must have been fixing something. A nail? And Mrs. Thurlow said she heard the echo of hammer blows the morning her husband died.  They sure have imagination. But that's just what she did here. Huh? She heard the echoes of somebody nailing down the lid of a coffin. But there must be a clue. There must be.  If there was anything here, we'd have found it. Mrs. Thurlow, somehow your husband was murdered here. And his body left inside this cabin so it would look like suicide. I'm going to find out how the murderer got out, leaving the door and window bolted, or die. I'm afraid you're much more likely to die, Patsy. Mr. Manstead? Yes, Mr. Manstead. After we returned to the lodge and I learned the two of you had disappeared in this direction, I thought I'd better find out what you were up to. You. You killed my husband. Of course he did. Who else could your husband have meant by the one man in the world he'd never have believed guilty? But, but he was Jim's friend. That's what he wanted you to think. He pretended to be a friend so he could always keep checking what your husband learned. He invited you both here so he could commit murder if he decided it was necessary. A very interesting theory. But I'm afraid I can't give you a chance to tell it to anyone else. Johnny. Right here, Mr. Manstead. Come inside and close the door. What are you going to do to us?   Johnny, the old mineshaft is close by. Now if these two ladies out walking had the misfortune to stumble into it, it would be very tragic, wouldn't it? Luxious people fall down, old mineshaft. So they do. And I'm afraid another such accident is about to happen. You can't get away with it, Mr. Manstead. Nick Carter won't let you. Well, perhaps even clever, Mr. Carter may have to have an accident. Help me silence him, Johnny. Quickly! No, no! Quiet! Quiet, I say! Now, Johnny, knock them both on the head to keep them quiet. All right, Manstead. Let go of her. You, Carter! Nick, look how he's got a gun. Grab it, Manstead, or I...  Johnny, put down that ax or I'll shoot. Yes, sir. I'm afraid so. That's it. Either of you hurt? No, Nick. You came just in time. But how? How did I know Manstead was a murderer? I knew that from the time we found this cabin. But it took an echo to prove it. The echo, Mrs. Thurlow, that you said sounded like someone hammering. But I don't understand. Scuppy's bringing Ranger Thompson. As soon as they get here, I think I'll be able to clear up a lot of mysteries. So Manstead was behind the plot that Thurlow uncovered. He invited Thurlow here in order to find out what he knew. He discovered Thurlow had evidence which would tell him the truth. And therefore decided to eliminate Thurlow. But, Mr. Carter, Manstead didn't get here until after Thurlow was dead. He came by train. Well, Ranger Thompson's right, Nick. He appeared to come by train. Naturally, he flew in the night before, in a plane whose pilot was used to taking big fees for keeping his mouth shut. That was the plane that we saw crash. Something deleted from leaving in time to avoid us, and in the pilot's effort to keep away from us. Well, we all know what happened. But, Nick, why was the pilot murdered? That was Johnny's work. As soon as Thurlow saw the crash, he sent Johnny by a secret trail to the woods to make sure the pilot didn't live to talk. Otherwise, his murder scheme would have collapsed. Isn't that right, Johnny? So Manstead flew here the night before he murdered Thurlow. In the morning, when Thurlow left the house, he and Johnny waylaid him. Is that it, Nick? That's it, Betsy. They brought him to the cabin here. Manstead put on his victim's shoes and made a trail of footprints. Then they killed Thurlow, put his shoes back on him, and left him in the locked cabin. A clear case of suicide. But Manstead made a mistake there. His footprints were too far apart. They were the steps of a tall man. When Scubby said Thurlow was a short man, I began to suspect. Well, it certainly does sound plausible, Mr. Carter. But you've still got to convince me Manstead could get out of that cabin and leave the door barred from the inside. Make it good, Nick. Johnny knows the answer. You all remember that Mrs. Thurlow said she heard the echo of hammer blows. You mean she really did hear someone hear me? Exactly. This is a small cabin, with a roof lightly nailed in place. Now look up there. What's that flashing in the sun? Looks like nail heads. Somebody's hammered new nails into that roof all along this side. Nick, is that the clue I was looking for? That's the clue you were looking for. Scubby and I saw it yesterday, but we weren't smart enough to know what it meant. Here, I'll take Johnny's axe and push the blade in under the eaves and pry upward like that. The whole roof's lifting up. Well, blow me down. Manstead and Johnny pried up the flimsy roof before they killed Thurlow. Then leaving the door pod, they climbed out. And Johnny nailed the roof back into place. Right. So they were hammering the lid in the coffin, so to speak. Thurlow's coffin. And due to the curious echoing qualities of the rocks, the sound carried to the lodge. And Mrs. Thurlow heard it. I didn't think it meant anything until I noticed the nail scubby picked up someplace. The nail Johnny must have dropped. And then I remembered the hammering sound Mrs. Thurlow spoke of. And suddenly the whole thing was clear. Well, it sure wouldn't have been clear to me if you hadn't explained it, Mr. Carter. I certainly wouldn't ever have worked it out with just an echo for a clue. Oh, but that was an unusual echo. Remember how cleverly it answered? And when it comes to answers, scubby, Nick Carter is the man who gets them. This was another strange experience of Nick Carter called the Echo of Death, or Nick Carter and the Phantom Clue. The curious adventures of Nick Carter, are brought to you every Monday night at 9.30 Eastern wartime. We'll let Nick himself tell you about next week's story. What'll it be about, Nick?  It began with the murder of a detective. A railroad detective who lived in the station alongside the tracks. He was working on a case, but he had it only partly solved when he was murdered. And I picked it up from there. I'll say you did, Nick. You almost picked up a few bullets into the bargain the way the victim did. When you called it Death Across the Tracks, there were more ways than one. This sounds more and more intriguing. And how did it wind up, Nick? Well, we'll tell you that next week. But I can say this much. I had a stroke of luck. Nick always calls it luck when he uses foresight. Good night, folks. Yes, good night, folks. And good night, Patsy and Nick. In tonight's strange adventure, Nick Carter was impersonated by Lon Clark. Patsy was impersonated by Helen Choate. Original music was played by Lou White. 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By this Tuko from MusicIDTV and this is Use The News. So I got a request to do a video on dealing with managers. Now a lot of us either have had managers, want a manager or currently have a manager and may be a little confused on what they should be doing and what we should be expecting from them. So I decided to do a video on this kind of breaking down six things that a manager should be doing. And if they aren't doing those things, kind of a couple of tips on how you might want to let them go. So let's get into it. Number one, a manager should be building relationships. If they don't have relationships already, they should be building relationships, building up a network with people to help you advance your career. So this can consist of producers, photographers, industry execs, booking agents, show promoters, whomever has some sort of access to something you may need to further your career. Managers should either have those relationships or be building those relationships on a very consistent basis because you're going to need those people to get to your goal. So hopefully your manager is one of those people out there who knows how to make relationships. If you aren't one of those, you really need a manager like that. So that's number one. Number two, gaining exposure for you.  They can also just be recreational things that happen. Sometimes people do Sunday fundays that consist of people who are in the industry, things like that nature where you can build genuine relationships with people who you need to be connecting with. And your manager should be trying to foster these situations for you to be able to make this happen. Number three, helping you set and achieve your goals. A manager should be helping you construct your vision. So if you say that you want to be on some singing competition or some show like that, then your manager should be hard at work figuring out what steps are needed for you to be able to achieve that specific thing. Especially if you all agree that that would be the best thing for your career at the time being your manager is the one who you kind of say, Hey, I want to do this and your manager is supposed to figure out how, but also be mindful they aren't just some genie making your wishes come true. They are people and it does take steps. So you have to also be patient with them doing this. Another thing is if you are working with a team, your manager should be the point person orchestrating your team to help you achieve your goals in the end. They're kind of like the general manager or CEO of your business and you are the owner. So think about it in that light. Number four, a manager should be a business partner. A manager should be empathetic to an artist and their art and their process, but also be looking for opportunities to bring notoriety to that art through good business decisions and business deals. Consider them a business partner. They should always be looking at where can I find the best deal, find the best opportunity for what it is my artist is doing. Number five, financing. Now a lot of people look for managers who have deep pockets that they don't have a deep network, but I will say this, you want to be very careful when it comes to this, because if you have any inkling that you might be wanting to go to another manager in the some way shape or form, it'll get a little bit shaky when your manager has invested tons of money in your career thus far. So as much as this might seem like a cool thing, people get a little entitled when they feel like they've invested so much in you. So I would kind of steer a little clear of this if you can, unless it's really the right situation. And you think that this manager will make good on the things that they're promising and it won't be shaky relationships with all things are really hard to judge, especially when money gets involved. So look to try and figure out ways you guys can find financing rather than the manager financing your career. I would suggest that. Number six, a manager should not be driving the car. This is your career. You are at the wheel. Remember, nobody's going to want this more than you. Nobody's going to care as much about your career as you do. So stay loyal to your dreams and make sure you are always at the wheel of your career. And number seven, let's say you want to let a manager go. Let's say a manager isn't doing these things. We just kind of went over. There are also other things that they can do. There's other breakdowns that I've seen, but based off of my personal experience, these are things that I've worked with on managers and they've done these things or they've helped foster these things. So if they are not doing these things, you might want to consider taking a manager out to lunch, letting them know what you feel is not happening, what you really would like to happen and be honest and ask them, do they feel that they have the capacity to make this happen? If you're dealing with somebody who's an honest person, they'll be candid with you. And if you are dealing with somebody who is not an honest person, you pretty much have put their back to the law with what your expectations are and what they should be delivering on. So the truth will come out either way because results are results. So pay attention to that. Also be mindful of signing anything with a manager. Manager contracts can be pretty bad at certain instances. You want to get a lawyer to look it over and make sure it's the best thing for you. One suggests doing that from the very start and also consider the fact that if you do work with a manager, they might need at least a year to really get a feel for the way you work, to get a feel for how that works with what they want to accomplish for you and then begin to build from there. So it could take up to a year. I suggest giving a manager 10 months to a year to show you some sort of results for your career. But let us know your thoughts in the comment section below. What do you feel I left out that a manager should be doing? I'll definitely be in the comment section responding to those opinions because I'd like to see what your expectations are. I mean, we want to have realistic expectations because that makes us better when we work with people if we can manage our expectations. So let us know your expectations of a manager in the comment section below. Be on that. Once again, I am Tuko. 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I'm Joe Rickman. I'm the Program Leader for Eirean Eastern Southern Africa. We've been in Eastern Southern Africa now for four years. Many things have happened during that time period. In the last four years we've introduced more than 4,000 varieties to Eastern Southern Africa from Uganda in the north to Mozambique in the south. We've also imported equipment and other technologies that we're trying to get both through the research program and also down to farmer level fairly quickly. This year we've concentrated a lot more on trying to get technologies to farm levels. Some of the reason behind that is quite simple in that the national programs just do not have the capacity to actually take technologies and through there people get it to farmers. So now a lot of our program including the breeding program involves farmer participatory variety selection trials where materials taken out amongst the farmers, planted in farmers fields and they actually involve in the evaluation. We're also doing a lot of on-farm demonstrations where we take agronomic practices and show farmer the differences in things like fertilizer use, time of planting and establishment rates. We're also bringing in mechanization where we combine mechanization and demonstrations with these other two activities and another very important addition to our program has been the use of farmer field schools. In that area we're now using farmer field schools in Burundi and also in Mozambique. So we brought 4,000 breeding land from Iri and from those 4,000 breeding land we select for the first year about 100 breeding lands and for the second year we select about 20 varieties. So from those 20 varieties we contact the previous where we invite farmers to come to select what they think is better for them. And the major criteria for farmers the yield obviously and the green quality short direction. And as I'm saying we are going to release 2 varieties in Burundi, 2 varieties in Mozambique and the 3 in Tanzania. And those varieties which will be released are going to replace IR64 which I've been in Africa for a long time and they have good yield and they are resistant to diseases than IR64. Another important component in the program is capacity building. As I said earlier one of the major restrictions in the program is that we just do not have a large national program to support us. All in all we have less than 60 researchers working in the six countries and less than 60 extension people. So capacity building is very important. The idea is to bring our technology down to the fields and then we have a special group of women and ex combatants they are having they are organized in associations and those groups we go to them and to have Eliha's help to them to have land and we accompany them from land preparation to her vesting. We are doing that on a number of fronts. We're looking at it from the higher level masters and PhD programs right through to technician training and now we're going down to extension training as well. So we're really covering the full gamut of a total program. We're trying to integrate all of the operation so that we are combining plant breeding with agronomy with farm mechanization and with training.


Taipei Medical University is home to cutting-edge research in neuroscience spanning several thrusts from traumatic brain injury and stroke to radiogenomics and child neurodevelopment. Here's a look at what neuroscience researchers are currently studying at TMU. Directed by Wen Zhang Zhang, academician of academia Seneca, researchers exploring the mechanisms and effects of traumatic brain injury are dedicated to three critical areas. Genomic research including studies of neurotrauma, neurodegeneration, and neuroprotection. Clinical research including neuroimaging and clinical trials. And the cultivation of talent through the PhD program for neuroregenerative medicine, managed jointly with the National Health Research Institutes or NHRI. Equipped with state-of-the-art technology for brain imaging, testing neurological function and genomic studies. Researchers at TMU have established one of the largest databases for traumatic brain injury in the world. And as their publication output has steadily grown, so too has TMU's repository of key patents including those for the wireless detection of physiological signals and detecting and examining traumatic brain injury. Since it was founded in 2003, the Stroke Research Center at TMU has grown to address a wide variety of research topics. Those falling under the umbrella of cerebral venous disorders include transient global amnesia and monocular blindness, exertion and cough, headache, migraine, panic disorder, and age-related white matter disease. Those related to cerebral auto-regulation include vasomotor reactivity and neurovascular coupling. The Research Center for Brain and Consciousness brings together researchers from numerous walks of academia. Neurophilosophy, cognitive psychology, electrical engineering, cognitive neuroscience, biology, and physics and physiology. That varied expertise has directly translated to active research, probing everything from sleep and consciousness to depression and psychiatric disorders. And the breadth of disciplines reflected by researchers at TMU has allowed for a unique multimodal approach that integrates brain imaging and monitoring, mathematical modeling, and data from animal models. At the Neurophysiological Research Center, researchers are addressing critical issues surrounding patient neuropathy. These include peripheral polyneuropathy, fibromyalgia, and pain syndromes. Previous research has focused on diabetic polyneuropathies, autoimmune neuropathies, and toxic neuropathies. Researchers at the Translational Imaging Research Center are currently directing their efforts toward four main research topics. Brain tumors, ischemic stroke, mild traumatic brain injury, and dementia. Historically, the center has matured from establishing translational imaging core labs and a neuroimaging biomarker analysis lab to translating image and biomedical information. Recent publications have examined issues such as radiogenomics, magnetoresonance theoronostics, the prediction of ischemic penumbra and stroke, and biomarkers for mild traumatic brain injury. Recognizing the need for a better understanding of parental health and child neurodevelopment, TMU has collected a team of experts in mental health and counseling, infant and child development, environmental assessment, and clinical obstetrics and gynecology to explore trends in prenatal and postpartum health in Taiwan. This collaboration has culminated in a long-term cohort team for parental and child health dating back to 2009. Since then, more than 1,450 families, including mothers, fathers, and babies, have been recruited with an overall follow-up rate exceeding 60%. Some of the main findings of this longitudinal study include a positive association between maternal second-hand smoke exposure and perinatal depression and the increased risk of shorter body length among children presented by mothers getting less than six hours of sleep. Brain research at Taipei Medical University is alive and well, combining vast expertise across several domains of brain and mental health with state-of-the-art facilities. Researchers at TMU are well-equipped to tackle several of today's most outstanding problems in neuroscience.


Item number, SCP-270, Object Class, Euclid. Special Containment Procedures. Due to SCP-270's immovable nature, a structure has been built around it that outwardly appears to be a large farmhouse, henceforth called Outpost Delta. Outpost Delta is to be staffed with trained personnel. All of the records of SCP-270 ciphers are kept at Site-11. If the security of Outpost Delta is compromised, SCP-270 is to be destroyed, along with all on-base records of verified or unverified information accumulated, and manuscripts outlining various encryptions SCP-270 has used. Description. SCP-270 is a nondescript black phone of mid-20th century make. There were no human populations at the location of discovery, and SCP-270 itself was well hidden by surrounding native vegetation. The unusual properties of SCP-270 were apparent upon discovering that the power cord extended an indefinite length into the soil directly below SCP-270, despite which a steady voice was speaking through the earphone. Investigations regarding how long the cord is have since been officially discontinued. What makes SCP-270 of continued interest is the audio stream from the earphone, which has since been discovered to contain encrypted messages that are of value to the Foundation, said ciphers are referred to as SCP-271. For the most part, SCP-271 consists of a mildly distorted human voice speaking in a steady monotone, which has been recorded listing names, cryptic phrases, patterns of numbers, quotes, mangled quotes, strings of letters, data expunged, and comprehensible words, sounds that cannot be produced by any known animal that continue for extended amounts of time, monologues, nursery rhymes, leading to speculation as to whether or not the narrator is in fact human, etc. The following has also been recorded, melodies, metallic scraping noises, metallic scraping noises that have been looped and recalibrated so they play roughly the same tune as several classical music tunes and a handful of data expunged, Morse code, human screaming, various computer programming languages, every known language on Earth, including in one incident, Data expunged, possibly of biological origin, condescending laughter, music, music played backwards, conversations that have evidently been recorded ranging from politically significant and extensively protected area to what was most likely an average household, discussing what grocery supplies to buy from the supermarket, static, ambient soundtracks, etc. The following is an approximate one minute long demonstrative sample of SCP-271. SCP-270 is otherwise a perfectly normal phone and is susceptible to damage, as similar phones would be. Disassembly has not uncovered the source of SCP-270's unusual properties. Attempts to decipher SCP-271 have yielded partial successes. In one notable case, a complicated cipher proved to be an intensive description of an SCP's imminent attempt to breach containment. Containment breach was accordingly prevented. Decoded portions have alternately been startlingly useful to the Foundation and immensely frustrating to both personnel working on SCP-271 and Foundation officials. For example, one several-hour study of what seemed to be a significant cipher proved to translate into a long and painstakingly thorough list of extremely unofficial synonyms for a human, data expunged. Likewise, information gained from SCP-271 has both prevented a possible XK-class End of the World scenario and listed secret ingredients of Dr. R's widely praised cherry pie. As it is impossible to determine how useful portions of SCP-271 will be, personnel are advised to choose whatever segment of SCP-271 they deem to be most promising. However, some portions of cipher are either too intricately encrypted for our most perspicacious personnel to decode or indeed may hold no meaning at all. Attempts to decode SCP-271 are continually ongoing. Addendum 270A, a probe was extended a total of 1 meters along the wire before the maximum extension length was reached. The matter has since been declared not of sufficient interest to merit a more thorough examination. Addendum 270B, as of the unidentified female voice of SCP-271 stuttered for several seconds before breaking down into what researchers described as disconsolate sobs, pleading to be data expunged. This continued for several more seconds before audio cut off abruptly to an excerpt of SCP-271. Immediately afterwards, SCP-271 proceeded as usual. The only noticeable difference being that the voice narrating SCP-271 was male. Addendum 270C, further examinations revealed that this was in fact not silence, but audio stimuli both too high or too low pitched for human perception. Numerous additional unidentified languages have been discovered upon supplying outposts Delta with appropriate audio equipment. Addendum 270D, as of late, SCP-271 has been becoming noticeably more difficult to decode. This includes utilizing more convoluted methods of encryption, loud background noises being added while the narrator is speaking, multiple voices speaking at once, and in one case, loud extremely personal details about Dr. A who was visibly shaken by the event. Morale has since plummeted while stress levels have skyrocketed. A computer program has been coded in order to automatically decode portions of SCP-271. A recreation wing has been added to outpost Delta. Addendum 270E, data processor 271 has been discontinued. All attempts to electronically resolve portions of SCP-271 have thus far failed. Note by Dr. A, as of late, concerns have risen regarding the psychological states of personnel working on SCP-270. What I'm talking about, of course, are the natural issues that arise when you have a situation like this. Namely, putting a bunch of highly intelligent, motivated, tenacious people together and ordering them to solve a puzzle that may or may not have a solution, and telling them that lives may depend upon their success or failure. Recently, Dr. A by some superhuman effort, cracked several minutes worth of cipher that had been discarded by communal agreement as a dud and data expunged, resulting in the aversion of an end-of-the-world scenario. This has not been beneficial for the mental states of many personnel, as every dud they discard may contain information regarding equally disastrous event. Since then, there have been rapidly emerging paranoia and or obsession related disorders. Some personnel are beginning to insist that the most trivial details of the cipher contain important messages. Others have not slept or eaten in days in their pursuits, and still others have suffered from psychotic breakdowns. Outpost Delta has since been supplied with more personnel in an attempt to spread the workload more thinly. However, the effects of having a few days of diligent work crumble into a dud, repeatedly, have proven to be an absolute disaster for morale and, at times, mental stability. Currently, we only have enough staff to decode roughly 0% of the cipher. So far, reassigning personnel after a prolonged stay at Outpost Delta, applying Class A amnestics, and returning them to work on 271 at the end of a several-month period of low-pressure jobs, has worked fairly well as a short-term solution. This, however, requires a rather large number of personnel to be continually circulating in and out of Outpost Delta to maintain the minimum amount of staff required to decode the greater portion of what comes out of SCP-270.  I request for this matter to be discussed more in depth sometime in the near future. Dr. Item Number SCP-377 Object Class Safe Special Containment Procedures SCP-377 is kept in the personnel break room, third cabinet to the left of the refrigerator. Any personnel desiring a cookie from SCP-377 may take one, and only one cookie, every 48 hours, to ensure that all personnel get a share. Personnel read their fortunes at their own risk. Description SCP-377 is a box of La Choy brand fortune cookies. The box was full when it was recovered from data expunged and has since restocked itself regularly every 12 hours. The cookies within the box are individually wrapped, for freshness, according to the box, and are, according to all tests, totally ordinary. Each cookie contains one 18mm x 58mm piece of paper, on which a fortune is written in blue ink. All of these properties are consistent with a box of cookies from this brand. However, the fortunes contained within each cookie are not consistent with those provided by the standard product. Fortunes appear to be specific to the individual opening the cookie, and have thus far shown to be 100% accurate, ranging from vague indications of coming success, to specific predictions regarding personnel's personal lives. The fortunes are not, however, always positive. It is unknown whether the fortune cookies actively predict future events, or in fact cause future events to occur. Document number 377-01 The following is a partial log of some of the more notable fortunes given out by SCP-377. Fortune text It's a boy. Corresponding result Subject's wife's water broke less than an hour later. The child was male. Fortune text The weather is really just not your friend today. Corresponding result Subject was struck by lightning later on the same day. Subject made a full recovery. Fortune text Keep playing. You're going to win soon. Corresponding result Subject was a regular player in the state lottery, buying two lottery tickets a week. Four weeks after receiving this fortune, subject won over 100 million US dollars. Fortune text Life is laughter. Enjoy it while you can. Corresponding result Subject suffered an aneurysm, leading to massive hemorrhaging and sudden death. This occurred while the subject was laughing. Fortune text Duck Corresponding result Data expunged Addendum Following SCP-377's prediction of the deaths of several personnel, a request was submitted to upgrade SCP-377's class to Keter. These were denied, citing a lack of evidence that SCP-377 had any actual connection to the causes of the deaths. Addendum Dr. W. received a fortune reading, you don't have long to live. Dr. W. was then startled by a guard who entered the break room and began to choke on the cookie. The guard did not know the Heimlich maneuver, and Dr. W. tragically suffocated and died. This has been regarded as an accident and coincidence. Note from Agent W. I strongly discourage the recreational use of SCP-377.  Believe me, I know. Item number SCP-246 Object Class Safe Special Containment Procedures SCP-246 is to be kept in a wooden crate with incitement and secure storage. Researchers who requisition its use for experimentation are responsible for their own room arrangements. SCP-246 is otherwise not to be removed from its container, especially for recreational use. Description SCP-246 is a 16mm film projector. When activated, SCP-246's projection lamp lights up, and the reels begin turning. When the projector is pointed at a screen or other white surface, a film appears. Even though SCP-246's film, hereafter referred to as SCP-246-1, does not pass in front of the projection lamp. The film feeder has been welded shut, making any attempt to load SCP-246-1 into the second reel impossible. Requests to cut through or replace the feeder have been denied, due to the possibility of inadvertently breaking SCP-246. Examination of SCP-246-1 suggests that it is blank while inert, though high-speed photography shows images on the film when SCP-246 is in its active state. Analysis of these images is underway. When replaced with any other role of 16mm film, SCP-246 continues functioning as described below. After using SCP-246 with a reel other than SCP-246-1, that reel exhibits similar properties to SCP-246-1. Microspectrometer analysis of reels made blank by SCP-246-1 has shown anomalous forms of further analysis by Foundation researchers other than Dr. is not permitted. Despite SCP-246-1's content, or lack thereof, when activated, SCP-246 projects a short film in the style of 1950s educational films. SCP-246 seems to have a limited degree of awareness, as a female D-Class subject was shown a film entitled, So You're Not Going to Live Very Long. Shortly afterwards, she was terminated at the end of the month as per procedure. An introverted D-Class subject, despite previous convictions for was shown three easy ways to remove a film explaining tools and techniques for home surgery and was subsequently terminated after his attempt to use a toothbrush as a surgical instrument. That night, Dr. employed as a surgeon before the Foundation data expunged and who had supervised the subject attempted to follow the film's advice. He was found dead the next day and viscera scattered on the floor around him. Further experimentation resulted in the film's digestive systems of woodland creatures, three handy tips for handling amputation, and sightless eyes dealing with total paralysis, which involved graphic descriptions of stroke victims slow death by starvation before being found by relatives. All subjects suffered the described affliction shortly after exposure to SCP-246. Researchers are therefore discouraged from following SCP-246's directions and to report any urges to activate SCP-246 to their research supervisor. And make sure you don't miss any of our upcoming videos.


This is more of a cultural reality that we have in many cultures where we feel that, well, we can't go, we can't reach out. We're, we're shaming ourselves. When we put our, you know, when we acknowledge to some other party, some other individual about the fact that we're not getting along and we need help. So number one, when we seek help, it's important that we seek it from the right sources, right? If you need medical help, you go to a doctor. If you need religious advice, you go to Imam Tahrir, Allah bless him and preserve him.  Fasaloo ahla dhikri in kuntum la ta'lamun, as Allah says, ask the people of expertise. And the same thing goes here, right? You go to people that are going to be able to help you in the best manner and going to help you bridge that gap, who know how to bridge that gap. And that is not putting yourself, that is not erring your dirty laundry. That is seeking to help to repair the rip in the garment. That's seeking to fix what has been broken that you don't have the ability to repair yourselves because there's a lot of hurt and there's a lot of pain and there's a lot of argumentation and there's a lot of, a lot of emotions that don't allow you to get to where you need to get to and put your attention to where you need to put your attention to. There's a famous incident that's related about a man, he comes to the door of Sayyidina Umar and he was having trouble with his wife and he comes to Sayyidina Umar to complain to him, my wife doesn't listen to me. He comes to the door of Umar and he hears Sayyidina Umar's wife giving it to him. Right? And so the man, he hears from outside what's going on inside and he's like, let me get out of here. Man, he has his own problems.  What did you need? And the man, he says, well, I needed to come to you to get advice how to deal with my wife because I can't deal with her. And Sayyidina Umar, he said, and but I found you, O Umar, Ya Amir al-Mu'mineen, that your wife, you have the same issue. So Sayyidina Umar, he says, this is my wife. She cooks my food. She takes, you know, care of my needs.  And so can't I be patient with her because she's patient with me? And so Subhanallah, you know, the point here being related to the question that they sought, they would seek advice, they would seek to speak with each other to kind of figure out how to deal with their marital needs. This is the time of the sahaba even. So that we have that precedent there as well. Now, there's time for one more question.


Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another one. If you're new to this channel, I am Gulf Pony on Do New Car Truck, SCV Reviews on YouTube. And today we are in the brand new 2024 Acura RDX courtesy of Bobby Ray Hall Acura in the KenExpert PA. For more information on their inventory, please feel free to check out the link in the description box below. So I am in this one today because my first car was a white Acura, much like the one I am in today. Take a guess at what Acura you think that was in the comments section below. But also you do get two years or 24,000 miles of complimentary maintenance with this one as well. And there is one major change for the 2024 RDX. So ultimately in this video, we will be testing out and going over everything about this one from acceleration to braking, steering field, ride quality, sound system, exhaust clip, all that fun stuff. So having said all that, what do you guys say? Let's just go ahead and jump right into it. And as always, let's start with pricing. And so as you can imagine, there are a few different trim levels for the 2024 RDX. First one being the base starting at $44,050, technology for 46,700, A-spec for 49,7, advance for $51,850, A-spec advanced then being the one we are in today, starting at $53,850. But regardless of trim level that you go with, the power plant on the RDX is going to be the same. Powering the beast is a two liter turbocharged inline four cylinder, putting out 272 horsepower at 6,500 RPM, 280 pound feet of torque coming in at 1,600 RPM, power sent to all four wheels. This is newly standard by the way for 2024. There's no more front wheel drive available for the RDX through a super handling all wheel drive system. That power being sent to the ground through a 10 speed automatic with paddle shifter, zero to 60 time, approximately 6.2 seconds with MPG numbers coming in at 21 in the city, 27 and then on the highway taking premium unleaded fuel. But so that before we do any kind of fun acceleration or paddle shifter test here in the RDX, didn't want to mention to you guys the drive modes. It's labeled dynamic mode, it's located front and center just above the shift buttons there. Those modes will include normal comfort, sport and snow adjusting things like the shift points, the throttle response, the steering sensitivity, ambient lighting, engine sound and suspension setting. So probably the very most I've ever seen a vehicle adjust. Anyways, now I haven't got all of that out of the way. What do you got to say? Let's go ahead and find a straightaway. Let's put this thing here to the test and let's see how quickly the paddle shifters are going to react and let's see how quickly we can get this one here up to speed. All right, this is going to be an interesting one. This is an acceleration test in the snow here with the paddle shifters. So three, two, one, go. Woo hoo hoo.  I gotta be honest, I feel like a rally racer. Yeah, buddy, super handling all wheel drive. Put to the test, baby. Nothing wrong with that whatsoever. Let's take it out of the manual shift mode there, which by the way, there is a manual shift mode. You just press the D slash S button. So that was pretty cool. Yeah, paddle shifters are pretty darn quick. I got no issues with that. And obviously the acceleration test was kind of a flop because, you know, we're just accelerating in snow here, but yeah, it held its ground, man. Like nothing wrong with that whatsoever. This is super handling in the snow, all wheel drive. So yeah, absolutely nothing wrong with that. So again, acceleration test, I can't really do, but anyways, to go along with that acceleration, as always, braking is equally important.  As far as the braking feel goes, since there's nobody behind us here, it's on the softer side of things. No doubt about that. Definitely a soft braking feel. So it's fine. This is an SUV. I don't expect it to have a firm braking feel like a sports car or anything like that. But having said that, wouldn't mind it if they firm that up just a little bit for me, but then touching on suspension and handling upfront, you're gonna get a McPherson strut front suspension in the back, independent multi-link rear suspension, front and rear stabilizer bars. But for the advanced trims, you also get an adaptive damping suspension. So since we have an advanced trim, we got that. So essentially what that is, is it monitors each shock absorber individually, not only adjusting to the road imperfections, giving you a smoother ride, but it also tightens up that suspension during heavy cornering, giving you a better handling. So essentially it gives you the best of both worlds. So if you want the best ride quality in the RDX and you want the best handling as well, go with one of the advanced trim levels. I'll just put it that way. So far, my short little test drive here today, the ride quality has been 100% perfectly fine. So I definitely wouldn't mind taking this thing on a long road trip. As far as steering feel goes, it depends upon the drive mode that you put it in. So let me put it back in Sport. Yeah, it is a noticeable difference. It instantly points you in the direction that you want to go in that Sport driving mode, a heavier weight to the steering. But then you put it back in normal and it definitely loosens up the steering feel again. It has something for everyone. I'll just put it that way. And there's nothing wrong with that. And touching on cabin noises, we are kind of cruising over some snow right now, other than some of the snow noise here that's been perfectly fine as well. Typically with luxury automakers, you're not going to have any issues there. There is an acoustic laminated front windshield that does come standard on all trim levels across the board. So you got to appreciate that. That's going to contribute to the more serene cabin that we have here in the RDX. So love that. And touching on visibility, as far as rear visibility goes, I can see perfectly fine out the back. I should probably take the plastic off this rear headrest, but yeah, I can see perfectly fine out the back. So again, no issues. Rain sensing windshield wipers do come standard on the advanced trim levels.  I will say, you can't really see it with sunglasses, but if I take these off, it is definitely in my line of sight. So I do like that that is there as well. But they're pretty much rounds out the performance segment of this review, you guys. Let's now go ahead and take a look at the exterior of our brand new 2024 Acura RDX. All right, so here she is, you guys. The new 2024 Acura RDX finished in platinum white pearl. In case you were curious of our exact exterior color name that we had on this one here today. But as always, let's go ahead and start with where the RDX is made. Taking a look at the bin. First character is the number five, indicating that the RDX is built and assembled here in the US, specifically Ohio in case you were curious. But let's go ahead and start up front.  Probably the biggest logo I have seen on any other vehicle that I have ever reviewed. That is just a massive logo. But to the sides, July LED headlights do come standard for all trim levels across the board. They definitely look good. They do come with LED daytime running lights. You get the automatic feature. You get automatic high beams as well. Also though, LED fog lights for the A-Spectrum level end up. You guys can see them down at the very bottom there. That's definitely very nice. And of course, to the corners there, you will find front air curtains helping direct air around the wheel and tire combination for a little better aerodynamics. But that pretty much rounds out the front end of this one. Let's now go ahead and make our way to the side. All right, so Benel, since we are around to the side of this one, you're either going to find chrome or gloss black upper window trim dependent upon the trim level that you go with. Of course, there is a floating roof line on the C-pillar there differentiating the roof line from the rest of the body. Rear privacy glass does come standard.  You guys could probably see that for the A-Spect trims, of course. Chrome accenting found on the door or gloss black again, dependent upon the trim level that you go with. Take a look at the side mirrors. They are body colored power adjustable side mirrors. They will be heated with LED integrated turd signals. But also all trim levels are gonna get the reverse gear tilt down feature. So when you put it in reverse, it's gonna tilt those mirrors down. So you're less likely to run over a bicycle or a skateboard or whatever the case. LED puddle lights coming with the advanced trim levels. That's pretty cool. And also the mirrors will be power folding for the advanced trim levels as well. Then take a look down to the wheel setup, 19 by eight inch alloys for the base and technology trims, but then 20 by eight inch alloys for the A-Spect trim level end up. So that's what you guys are looking at. But pretty much rounds out the side profile. Let's now go ahead and make our way to the back. All right, so now since we are around to the back of this one, all the way to the top, body colored shark fin antenna. Just below that rear spoiler with an integrated brake light. Just below that rear window wiper. Of course you got some C shaped LED tail lights. They definitely look good. And also since they're LED, it's added illumination at night there. Got the super handling all wheel drive badging down there as well.  I think that looks pretty darn good. But my favorite part, the exhaust outlets are actually going to differ dependent upon the trim level that you go with. So you gotta find dual exhaust outlets with satin chrome tips coming standard. But with the A-Spect like we have today, they're gonna be massive. Those are some very large exhaust outlets especially for an SUV. I think they look so dang good. But anyways, having said that, I do believe you guys know what we have to do next here. As always here is that exhaust clip. All right, so now since we are around to the back of this one, when it comes to opening that rear tailgate, it is a power tailgate that does come standard. However, for the advanced trim levels, you do get a hands free power tailgates.  So I do like that. But once it opened up, car capacity comes in at 29.5 cubic feet. If that was not enough space, there is a 6040 split, meaning the rear seats do fold down, bumping that up to 58.9 cubic feet. There were actually some levers in the cargo area to actually fold down those rear seats. That was convenient. Cargo landing can be found back there. There's a 12-volt power outlet for the advanced trim levels. Do have some chrome-plated tie-down anchors. And if you were to lift up underneath of that cargo floor, you're going to find a massive amount of in-floor storage. Do not expect to see that much in this size of an SUV. So Acura did very well with that. But the maker weight up to the rear legroom, that comes in at 38 inches even for reference, I haven't even six feet tall. This is how much space I have back there. There is a rear center armrest with cup holders coming standard. There was some rear ventilation coming standard as well. USB charging ports, of course, and then heated rear seats are going to come on the advanced trim level. So you can spoil the rear passengers a little bit. But then making our way up to the front seats, 12-way power adjustable front seats with power lumbar does come standard. Heated front seats also coming standard. I've had them on this whole drive today. Ventilated front seats for the A-spec trim leveling up. Milano premium leather for the technology and advanced trim levels. However, for the A-spec, you're going to get a leather suede combo. So the black portion in the middle is going to be the suede. The red is going to be the leather. 16-way power adjustable front seats for the advanced trim levels. And that comes with power thigh support and power side bolsters as well. That's nuts. Overall, as far as seat comfort goes, definitely plenty comfortable on my short little test drive here today. And that's due in part because the seams are vertical. You guys know I've griped on that before. If you do horizontal seams, sometimes it creates awkward pressure points. But with the vertical seams like we have today, seating was plenty adjustable. And like I said, power side bolsters and power thigh support, it doesn't get any better than that. But then taking a look at the steering wheel, it is tilt and telescoping. It is leather wrapped for all trim levels. It is going to be a flat bottom for the A-spec trim level only. And then heated for the A-spec and advanced trim levels as well. So that is definitely nice and something I haven't turned on yet. So I'm going to go ahead and press that because it's on the steering wheel itself there on the left side. But then make your way to the startup. Let me start by showing you guys the key. Got your Acura logo on the one side when you flip it over. Lock, unlock the button to pop the rear tailgate and then the engine hold button. That's the remote start, which comes standard on the advanced trim levels only. But then it is all keyless entry with a push button start for all trim levels. So all I'm going to do here is simply put my foot on the brake and press that silver engine start button indicated just by the driver's right knee. And so what started up, this is one of my favorite parts here because of the gauges. What you have here essentially is RSX throwback gauges. How do I know this? Because that was my first car. That's the answer. I had a white 2003 RSX, tachometers on your left, speedometers on your right. I love the look of it. I feel like my gauges were a little whiter and these are more of a silver hue, but still love them. But digital screen front and center to control what is on that. There are steering wheel mounted controls actually found on the right side of the steering wheel to control what is up there. There's digital speedometer, how many miles you have left until you hit empty, navigation information, oil life meter, tire pressure of each individual tire, the list goes on. So pretty much everything you could possibly want on the digital portion of the gauges there. But now let's go ahead and make our way to overall interior quality. A panoramic roof comes standard, believe it or not, on every signature level across the board. You gotta love that. You do get Himmler control shot at the three different garage doors found at the bottom portion of our Frameless rear view mirror that comes standard for all trim levels as well. Wireless phone charger coming standard for all trim levels as well. And that's located kind of in this hidden area just underneath of all of the shift buttons. You got a lot of room down there actually. So wireless phone charger, yes, but you got more storage down there too. A 12 volt power outlet. So good bit going on down there. Overhead sun glass holder up top here coming standard as well. Dual zoom climb control also coming standard. You do have ambient lighting with 27 different themes for the technology trim level end up. And overall the interior quality was absolutely amazing. There's so many cool little texturized finishes and suede finishes as well. Take for example, just above the passenger side glove box you have this black suede finish with red contrast stitching, which by the way continues onto the doors. That suede finish and red contrast stitching as well. Love that. Just behind the shift buttons here just in front of the center armrest you have this nice silver finish and it's texturized as well. So also liked that. You have aluminum speaker covers for the ELS studio 3D sound system which we're gonna test out here in a little bit. So that is very high quality as well. It's just so many high quality finishes to this thing. I absolutely love it.  You have a USB charging port which is charging my other battery for my camera. Couple cup holders as well. That's kind of hard to say. But anyways, interior quality like I said is absolutely wonderful. But now let's go ahead and make our way to the infotainment screen here. It is a 10.2 inch infotainment screen. It is not touch screen because it's a heck of a reach if it were to be. But the way it's controlled is by using the touch pad controller and buttons located just behind the shifter. So this kind of style in my opinion is a little outdated and a little hard to use quite honestly. Wouldn't have minded if they somehow made that a touch screen because it is a little bit difficult to use. It's one of those things, I'm sure you would get used to it over time. But for me, being that I don't drive this car on a regular basis here, it's just a little bit to get used to. And like I said, you should get used to it. But Bluetooth and audio streaming does come standard. You do get wireless Android Auto Apple CarPlay. So you don't always find that, I like that. Factory navigation system coming on the technology trim level and up. You can check out your climate control settings up there as well, along with your radio information. So as I said, we will be testing out the sound system. So you got two different sound systems here. You get a nine speaker sound system with the base trim level. But then for the technology trim level and up, you're gonna find a 16 speaker ELS Studio sound system with 710 watts and aluminum speaker cover. So you gotta love that. So having said that, let's go ahead and turn on the radio, see what we got playing today and let's test out the clarity of this one. I did a little extended sound system test there. Like I'm only gonna show a portion of it, obviously, but that wasn't just a good sound system. That was incredible. Like that is an incredible sound system. The base was intense. Like that is the best base you can hear these days. And it wasn't too much. It wasn't rumbling, like rattling anything, but it was intense, man. The clarity was crystal clear. I've said this before. I've tested, I know at least 850 cars. No, so 800 over 800 cars, something like that. ELS Studio sound system has become my favorite sound system after all of those cars that I've tested in the Integra and in the RDX. For some reason the MDX doesn't sound as good. Maybe it's because of the size of the vehicle. I don't know, but in the RDX and in the Integra, the ELS Studio sound system is my favorite. It is amazing. If you like music, this will take you to a different world. It's insane. Anyways, last thing I wanted to mention to you guys on that infotainment screen is, of course, when you do put the RDX in reverse, you will find a rear view camera coming standard across the board. Also, a panoramic view monitor for the advanced trim levels, which is always is going to lead us into safety. And so, IIHS top safety peg plus, which is the very highest designation given by IIHS that pretty much says it all right there. Front side, side curtain airbags do come standard driver and passenger knee airbags as well.  And yes, every single company has a special name for their advanced safety features.  Then if we were to go with the technology trim level enough that's going to add to that front and rear parking sensors. And so, overall, when it comes to my final thoughts, first thing I've got to mention on this one, sound system is incredible.  I'm telling you guys, I've a little bit of experience with testing out sound systems. This one is brilliant, but love the exhaust look as well. So hopefully the exhaust clip turned out pretty good. I'm not sure how it's going to sound because I haven't played it back yet, but the look is my kind of look. This is exactly what I would be looking for. Great handling as well, especially in the snow. This thing held its own in the snow. We actually passed an accident. Unfortunately, I did check to see if they were okay, but this thing held its ground, man. This thing is brilliant in the snow. Absolutely no issues there. Gages, although some people might say they're boring, I love them because they remind me of my old RSX. So I really can't find anything to knock this one for. Minus maybe the fact that I don't know how the reliability is gonna be on a turbocharged four cylinder. Maybe it's proven, maybe it isn't at this point. I don't know. Let me know in the comments if you have an RDX and how long you have had it for, how many miles you have on it. But anyways, that about rounds out this review you guys. Thank you so much for watching as always. Feel free to follow me on Facebook and all those social medias so you can see different spy shots of these vehicles before they actually get to YouTube. Be sure to hit the subscribe and the bell notification button if you're into new car reviews because that's what we do here on this channel after all. Do appreciate you guys watching. More than you know, I will see you guys all in the next video. Stay Gold.


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On the 28th of May 2004, children were fresh out of school and on summer break. Many of the said children were watching Nickelodeon when a network intrusion was detected at 8.36 p.m. Coordinated Universal Time at Nickelodeon headquarters. The events which transpired in said hijacking were never caught on any publicly owned DCR recordings, except for one known example, kept tightly secured in an unknown top secret FBI archive. It is mentioned in released FBI reports that many children committed suicide on the spot upon the hijacking's conclusion, a small percentage entered a traumatic catatonic state, and some surviving viewers of the incident went on to end their lives decades later. The few survivors that still live have mostly repressed the events that transpired that evening in 2004, and if they do, it's not much. All that is known is that the hijacking led to the airing of a lost episode of SpongeBob, simply titled, The Starving. The perpetrator of the hijacking was never identified, but it is suspected that a disgruntled ex-employee was behind the event. That was taken from a transcript of LostEpisodes.com, where users found a SpongeBob lost episode. The name of the lost episode is, The Starving. On viewing, it starts with the title card, along with no credits. It then transitions to Squidward's house, there was no visible dialogue, only images and jump scares. Squidward was seen saying, while you're about to hear his entirely Squidward's dialogue. Boy, I am starving. Holy Neptune, I haven't been this hungry in my miserable life, no use in complaining at this point. Might as well pass the time rehearsing. But what the crap? This has SpongeBob written all over it. This is low even for him. Oh well, I yell at him later. Time to play. At this point, you'd hear SpongeBob say, Hey Squidway! Squidward then says, Oh for the love of, What? Nothing!  Squidward shouted, and then said, Oh Neptune, I'm so hungry. It's driving me nuts. What's going on? Oh, I'm losing consciousness. By this point, this is where things get unsettling. When Squidward woke up, he's in the middle of darkness with Mr. Krabs shown. Mr. Krabs only said, You're starving us, boy.   Finally, Squidward acknowledges he needs to eat. This blue figure is what people see replacing Squidward's face. At this point, Squidward isn't Squidward anymore. By this point, people called him, The Starver. It shows the blue exterior of SpongeBob's house and Squidward's own house, now consumed with gluttony to eat. As SpongeBob wakes up, he's suddenly taken by Squidward. As the cockfish says, Dear Neptune! The infamous jump scare is shown, Squidward's face is distorted, eating SpongeBob with a distorted buzzing noise, ending the episode with an FBI warning. After this, a YouTube user uploaded the entire episode on July 3rd of 2023, citing the website. It was theorized the episode was found in an abandoned store that used to be a location for Walmart. Who knows the original findings of the episode? All we know is that the internet is making SpongeBob disturbing.