We leave Lagos for Adama State and there the Commissioner for Health says the state has recorded 1,700 cases of cholera with about 54 deaths. The State Director for Public Health, Dr Salin Lowry, represented the commissioner in receiving commodities from the World Health Organization. That's to assist the state and the fight against cholera. While the organization has deemed it necessary to support the Adama State government with commodities to help in the fight against cholera. The Adama State Coordinator of World Health Organization says the move is to complement the effort of the state government in addressing the situation in the state. At the center of the coordination of the cholera response, we have an incident management system in place which is done at the state public health EOC. This is just an occasion where we are going to hand over commodities, health commodities and other supplies that are relevant to addressing the cholera situation in the state. We have made significant progress with the support of the government. The government has also provided funds and human resource towards achieving a cholera-free state. The State Director, Public Health, Dr Lowry Salin said the state government is not relenting in its continuous fight towards curtailing the disease. Chips is all about an influencer to the community. Like before you run to the clinic or facility, you get to meet a chip.  Of course they are trying to know anyone who wants to listen, we surely will listen. Because it's all about you convincing that person that your health is very, very much important to you.  In fact, proper hand washing is very, very important. The State Primary Health Care Agency chairman, alongside an estate epidemiologist, commanded World Health Organization for the support, while promising to use the items donated optimally. As we know, the outbreak started since June and is lasting up to this time. We have we have a total cases of 1,734 cases for now in the state and we recorded 54 deaths. So when we go by the case fertility rate, we have only 3.0%. Now the case fertility rate, what we mean by case fertility rate is the total number of deaths divided by the total cases times 100. That will give you 3 points. Ideally in an outbreak, we want to achieve 0.1 or less than 1% case fertility rate. But as of this time, it's still 3.0%. This is one of my most happiest moments. We've been praying to get out of this cholera outbreak and its response. We've done quite a lot with the support of the state government and we're able to curtail the first spread of the outbreak. Items donated include jerrycans, oral rehydration salts, industrial boots, nerve sac sprayers, among others.


the future what's up money geeks mr v here welcome to another video guys so into this video we are going to take it on the road guys we are going to go out and talk to the actor people that are behind this wonderful company i've been talking about here on the channel so i'm super excited to kind of bring them on and you guys know i started profiling this company here on the channel before any of the body are here on youtube or even in the media so i again super excited to have somebody to come here and really take us in depth into their technology and so the company i'm talking about here again guys is Arriver and if you guys know this is our UK based electric car manufacturer like i say electric car manufacturer but there's so much to eat which we're going to learn about today we have the president mr avanage robert borough on the channel to talk about Arriver so i'm super excited hey mr avanage welcome to the channel thanks it's a pleasure to be here so for all the viewers i saw the video um close friend of mine sent it to me and it was um it was amazing i think you really understood what we were actually doing and um and yeah i'm really happy to be on and just take you through some of the story and background about what we do at Arrival that's awesome all right so just before we get started for people that don't quite understand Arriver can you just talk a little bit about the story of Arriver sure so we were founded in 2015 actually and we've actually been in stealth mode for the last four odd years we sort of came out of stealth mode in at the end of 2019 with an investment hindi and kia invested a hundred million in Arrival but we've got over 1300 people uh predominantly engineering so 90% engineering of that half is software the other half of i would say automotive robotics um and what we've really created is a new method of designing and producing vehicles so right we started from the ground up we were trying to answer the question how do you make electric vehicles the same price as diesel and fossil fuel equivalents because once you do that then you're really able to basically change the whole market over to being electric there's no reason why you shouldn't go electric right if it's a smaller price and it's cheaper to run and it's a better product and then we focus on the commercial vehicle segment first because that's that's really rapidly growing the corporations have esg goals you know the governments really want to move um a lot of the car park as they say into being electric so we thought that was the first area to start and we've announced a bus and a van we've got also got a small vehicle platform coming out as well okay but a lot of this is pioneered on on these micro factories which at ease you know instead of taking these huge really expensive um production lines we are creating these small 20 000 square meter micro factories that produce the vehicles in our lineup and to do that we had to really develop a whole lot of technology and a lot of IP within the company there you go you touch on some key things there number one is that you guys at some point you're going to go from commercial to regular vehicles for people is that is that breaking news here on the channel well what I would say is that the the initial focus is on the commercial vehicle segment and it's large enough and there's still multiple segments for us to really enter okay um you know there is but then there's also things that we're doing around mobility so you know think about the different types of mobility modes of transportation right a lot of what we're doing when you combine the vehicles and we call them devices on wheels so they're essentially all connected um and when you combine that with with the software layers that we have right you're really able to use a lot of that data to create sort of new modalities of transportation okay you know I mean stay tuned on that but for now you know it's very important to stay focused we have the commercial vehicle segment to go after awesome and the second point that you talked about was these micro factories can you kind of take us in depth as to how that is so different from the current um OEM model and why it's very important so you know I spent um about two decades in the traditional automotive world in and out and you know what what tends to happen whether it's a startup or a traditional player whenever there's a new vehicle platform being designed and developed there's almost this sort of assumption that you manufacture it through the process that Henry Ford started you know decades ago right and of course it works but the issue with it is you have to make hundreds of thousands of vehicles for it to be profitable and that area hasn't really been tackled the rest of the things have you know gone through a lot of I would say there's been innovation but that hasn't had a step change in in a generation right so we looked at okay how do you fundamentally produce these electric vehicles at the right price point but do that in a way that you can be profitable at any volume then you unlock something special there you go and to do that though you have to start really at a blank sheet you have to ask the question well you know like well most most most happen uh most uh startups for example if they're going to go do production they you know we'll get a contract manufacturer or um they will go on buy a plant but right uh once you buy a plant you're kind of stuck down that path you know you spend a couple of billion and it's the same problem the OEMs have they have to amortize that plant you can't just you know you spend a couple of billion on it you better make a lot of product out of it so we saw that that was a barrier to what we wanted to do uh which is democratize the electrification how do we bring that anywhere right it doesn't matter if I'm in you know I'm in Minnesota in the U.S. or if I'm in London or if I'm in Mumbai or if I'm in Johannesburg I should be able to produce these vehicles locally and serve the local mobility requirements because every city in every area is different that's right but to do that it took five years of really deep engineering right so you know we've got things like the composite materials the composite materials that we have um basically it starts as a fabric and we've got unique IP that um creates panels from it these panels are lighter more durable than steel by doing that um we don't need the metal stamping plant so we starting to really reduce the the capex in the space required for a factory right but also we're able to color the fabric so that we can have uh the not no need for paints wow because the panels themselves come out in the color so you take the paint shop out so you know innovations that's leading to reducing the factory then we design and develop all of our own components oh well we've developed the ones that are I would say smart and connected and plug and play the ones that can be swapped in and out so the batteries uh high voltage low voltage components like the humer machine interface the compute module um DC DC all of these can be uh swapped in and out of the vehicle so you can upgrade the vehicle over time right but we design them to be assembled in the micro factories compare that to the sort of traditional approach where you're getting you know a bunch of different parts at all different dimensions and you're spending a couple years trying to package it into a vehicle and then you figure out how to manufacture it ours is a harmonious loop every component the skateboard the composites are all designed to be manufactured within these micro factories right so once we have developed that technology then we we actually considered a micro factory as a product in and of itself and what it unlocks is amazing it means that you know our micro factory can produce 10 000 vans uh 1000 buses we use a cell-based approach instead of a line yeah these we basically have these robotic cells inside the factory and we have autonomous mobile robots that move the the parts from cell to cell okay to do specific operations okay no it's fine yeah so we end up being able to do multiple vehicle types by simply reorganizing how the the component the parts move from cell to cell whereas a line the typical line runs at one speed and you have to do all of the different developments uh sorry the different assembly on that line and then if you time you have a new vehicle you have to add another line whereas for us you simply change the the operational order i mean it's it's it's really groundbreaking so that would you describe that as component-based uh development yeah i'd call it like a modular-based modular-based okay got it cells act like a module the components are like a module the the materials are like a module the skateboard itself is like a module and they all fit together and can be assembled in a micro factory okay and these are so great no i was just gonna say based on that would you describe ariver as more of a technology company or yeah absolutely absolutely we are building uh technology and systems that build vehicles and the vehicles that come out uh you know best in class real strong focus on user experience right i know you've seen some of the the video and photos of the bus and the van i mean they're incredible um but they're also lighter because of the materials and approach we use so you leave better range efficiency so they're best in class vehicles coming out better payload uh lower weight better cargo volume but it's done through a you know a harmonious ecosystem that can produce these these products and that is very heavy tech focus so definitely uh it's a technology company producing electric commercial electric vehicles there you go there you go okay so um as we all know one of the key components of electric vehicles is the battery technology and so we've had these different uh you know companies coming out and telling us no groundbreaking so uh can you talk a little bit about the technology that you guys are using for your baddie i mean just what you expect us to know not in depth and how that compares to what we currently have in the market today yeah so we use batteries from lg camp for cells yeah we do the modules so we've got some you in really unique technology in terms of how um we we do the cooling and how we assembled actual uh module so right we don't do a battery pack what we've got is a battery module okay and those battery modules can be um sized according to the commercial uh operators needs and got it actually this is this is pretty important so if you have a typical battery pack that you're seeing you know works in the retail segment you're trying to keep as much range as you can in batches the most expensive part of the of the vehicles right in the commercial segment if you look at commercial fleets some vehicles are doing you know 50 miles some are doing 300 miles but if you're running a vehicle that's doing 50 miles but paying for 300 miles of range you know you're really you've got an inefficient system there so with the arrival uh battery modules what you're able to do just think of like plug-and-play like a laptop you're able to just size the battery capacity as you need you just add more modules or take them away depending on uh what the actual commercial requirement is so you know there's a lot of uh you know unique technology within how we design and assemble that that battery module let's jump into like the big one so right now you guys have about 1.2 billion dollars in pre-orders um what's the what's the goal here to try to go to market and have or start doing some delivery when should people start expecting to see some of this stuff out there so we've actually been prototyping um so our components have been in testing for the last two years okay we've got prototype buses we've got prototype vans uh the the buses and the vans will be going to to customers for trials in the in the new year okay and then we're looking to produce the the bus actually uh towards the end of next year and the van will be out in you know in the wild middle of the year after so we're really um on that direct path to uh you know start a production and because the technology and the prototypes are mature enough so you know we're in a we're in a position now where actually what we're looking at is how do we now start to scale the business given that the products are coming and so you know something special for your viewers we just announced about an hour ago so that we've announced our US headquarters in Charlotte we'll be looking to the employee 150 of people there that goes along with our first micro factory in the US which is in Rock Hill in South Carolina okay so you know we're starting the rollout of the micro factories and different um engineering centers we got breaking news here right from the president himself so I really do I really do appreciate it so um you for the on the commissioner's side are you guys do you guys have any contracts yet with like city buses or how is that going to work yeah so um the way the the sales work on the buses are slightly different to the van so on the van as you mentioned you know we've already got 1.2 billion in in orders we have UPS we've ordered 10 000 with the option to order an additional 10 000 we have we're in late-stage sales just in the UK for 5000 per annum so you know that the numbers that the interest in the in the product is really really picking up and and I don't see any reason why if you can buy a better product at the right price and lower operating cost why you're not going to shift to electric I mean that that's the key and arrival enables that in terms of the bus the buses typically you know the segment sort of split up into private operators and public operators a lot of government-owned bus fleets as well right and in that it's more of a case of running the buses in the trials and then moving to direct sales of the actual product so we've got LOIs for the bus and in next in the over the next you know six to 12 months they'll be in trials and we'll be expecting those buses to generate the initial revenue for the company what's what's important about our bus I mentioned the 8 tonne unlaid away with an 8 tonne payload right you know we have they're fully connected so on the side for example we've got screens that can do advertising geolocation screens inside to provide any geolocated information route information we can monitor the operators can monitor the fleet and do predictive maintenance I mean this is really incredible technology and you know fully flat floor so they can serve maintenance maintain it really quickly so we're we're thinking about it from the user experience of the operator but also the driver and then the user all three really need and and actually service and maintenance all more need to be considered you know with myopic view on how do they do this day to day and a lot of that five years we've been talking about where we're in stealth we've been chatting to operators we've been working with them both on the bus and the van on how do you actually create the ideal product for this commercial segment it's really it's critically important right that's awesome so one key thing that I see to me logically you go from you know fossil fuel to electric vehicle the next logical step to me is autonomous vehicles so what are you guys doing from that at angle because I know you guys are thinking far beyond just electric vehicles so we are a little bit about the plan you guys offer so what I let me think about what I what I can what I can say so I've got quite a deep background in autonomous vehicles from my previous history and I don't know if you've seen rubber race yep hey now that was going to be my next question so rubber race is for for your viewers an autonomous racing series arrival it's arrival tech arrival has a racing team in it and it's really about getting universities and partners to try out like the craziest algorithms to get the autonomous vehicles to go as fast and all the sorts of movements that you couldn't do on the railroad road but as you can imagine that is a great way for the team to understand what are the systems whether they be hardware or software that's going to be needed for our vehicle platforms to be enabled to be autonomous so I would say there's sort of two things that we're actively doing now that that I can speak about one is that's your vehicle platform itself the skateboard plus the modular components right those components can swap in and out and what's important about that is when autonomous is ready road going autonomy is ready we're able to just swap in and out the hardware that's required for autonomy so the same asset is autonomous ready today and can be converted for full road going so that's important because if you're buying a vehicle now you don't especially in the commercial segment you don't want in three or four or five years or whenever full road going autonomous is there you don't have to buy another vehicle right you want to be able to upgrade the one you've got but the second thing we're doing is we are actually going to be well we're in active development of depot autonomous operation so that is actually things that an area that existing technology for autonomy can actually handle so depot is a controlled environment right and you're not going to have any sort of wild edge case use cases it's controlled you can get from the charging station to the cleaning station to the docking station in full autonomy you can rearrange I don't know if you've ever been for example to a bus depot in the night and you're trying to see them organize all the buses it's crazy yeah those sorts of things that you know the team's working on you know using autonomy for because it's really good and efficient use case for today's capability of autonomous vehicles but we'll be ready for when we do go full road going okay so one key thing I want to see here is we talked about technology and that's huge for you guys and so do you guys see at some point a rival being maybe a supplier to all their companies because of the technology you guys have built I think you know when you think about the fact that arrivals creating the systems that are creating vehicles and not just the vehicles themselves right deep integration there's a there's a range of possibilities open to us okay what I will say is for example Hyundai Kia and arrival we have our partnership where we are jointly developing vehicles together so you can imagine there's not much I can really disclose about it except to say you you can imagine that there is technologies from both sides that are that are coming together and they've got the global scale so watch this space but again I think what's really important is we've achieved what we've achieved to date and there's still a lot to do but we've achieved that through focus okay and so right now the focus has to be on you know we've got these factories coming up we've got the initial production run we've still got a large commercial vehicle segment to go after so that's our primary focus but the upside potential of the company you know includes things like you know autonomy that we discussed right but you know what what we are able to do with our components and our materials the software stack you know there's significant I would say future potential opportunities for arrival but it's very important to get to stay focused and get the first vehicles in customers hands and driving over the next 12 to 18 months all right it's awesome and so one key thing I wanted to bring up here too is uh recently in the news uh Gene Krimmer uh you know mentioned the fact that a rival is the son or the daughter of Tesla and I was like oh okay I was I was hoping that he'll probably be brothers or you know it could be step brothers but he says son or daughter what do you see about that well what I'd say is I think you recognize the potential of a rival even earlier so you know congrats to you but I think uh I think that that uh Kramer you know I think that just means he really understood the growth potential and the fact that you know similar to Tesla there's a heavy tech focus here but what Tesla was able to do and I think it's similar in terms of what a rival is able to do is really shift the mindset like if you think about what people were thinking about electric vehicles before Tesla really came out and showed everybody just how amazing they can be yeah I mean that's that's us in the commercial vehicle segment to begin with right yeah that is taking you know cutting-edge technology applying it to an underserved market and really going out there but we are we are different too so you know I don't know if we're a son or daughter of Tesla maybe a right step brother or you know close friend or whatever it is exactly we're using the we're using these micro factories and you know I just want to touch on that a little bit because that means that we can bring these micro factories to any city around the world and that is a very different proposition than putting large factories you know typically out in the middle of nowhere yeah we can help work with cities and governments and local communities you know hire local talent pay local taxes build local product for the mobility well for the city and the mobility needs of that of that and that is um I think something that has just never been seen before in the industry that's awesome so uh would you say that uh one of the biggest thing that's fueling a rival is it using technology to make money or using technology to change the world oh it's absolutely changed well I mean we started with that mission of how do you sort of break this these barriers of entry for uh folks to build electric vehicles and how do you how do you make best in class products so anybody can get into it anyone you know what's really important about us doing the bus is that it's for everybody you know it's not a you know two three hundred thousand dollar sports cars as cool as they are yeah it's something that anyone in any city anywhere can actually interact with out with our products and use them and you know commercial vehicle segments growing and it's it is an important market and yes of course we are looking to be our leaders in in our segment and generate revenue but underlying all of that is how do you you know really decentralize and democratize the production and design of of electric vehicles so that it can go everywhere because you know the worst situation here would be that the price premium for electrification remains and therefore only a select few ever really get the gift over all right that's awesome you mentioned earlier about when you were talking about a rival just giving a little bit of the background you talked about how your majority of your workforce is actually engineers what can you say about a rival that has made that mindset shift from the traditional way to now we're using more so engineers to come up with all these different technologies that's a great question so I think you know if I if I just to clarify the workforce so you know over thirteen hundred people ninety percent are engineers of that okay software yeah yeah so it's ninety percent fifty percent of software the other fifty percent is about robotics and automotive and in other technical fields and composite materials that we're developing I think what's really important is blending different industry backgrounds so you can take what works and what what experience you've seen and bringing that together and engineers have a phenomenal way of solving problems I yeah I've actually done engineering background and he's done engineering background and we sort of think a little bit you know see our problems like how do we go around and solve it so our job's really to go and focus on which problems are critical solve which are the priority ones to go after and then let people get as creative as they can but when you mix a software focus we have a robotics mechanical electronics engineering that's when you start to get things like a micro factory because it's a blend of you know different disciplines to solve the problem so I don't see how a rival would have been able to get to where it was if it wasn't so strong in its engineering culture and team of talent so to me yeah it's critical and that shift well to us it wasn't really a shift the company was designed that way from the beginning and software was always a critical part rather than trying to sort of add it on afterwards everything is for the software layer even now we design our own internal tools to validate the micro factory I mean that's you know that's really thinking about what do we need to be able to do what we do yeah right so at this point what do you guys have in the pipeline that it's not public yet I would say I mean I can't just unfortunately I can't say much come on I want some breaking news you got some on the on the on the headquarters yes I will say you know watch this space when you think about the way these technologies essentially can be repackaged multiple times and built using a micro factory I think you'll see some really exciting products coming out of rival you know we're we're making the bus cool so I think we can we can do a lot and you'll see a lot now make sure that I come on and give you some breaking news and there we go we're always here ready for you so now let's let's switch over to you know the investor side is that's what a lot of people are going to be looking like hey should I buy or not buy so what was the decision behind you guys going with CIIG too for for the marriage so what was interesting about us is we stayed in stealth we got an investment from Hyundai Kia first they invested 100 million euros in us UPS also invested and bought the made the did the vehicle order and then we also had an investment from from black rock so we while we were still private we had really good backers really strong backers and what we found in CIIG was a partner you know we're very heavy engineering focus the background of CIIG is really about building brands and scaling companies in particular running public companies in the US so we saw a really good synergy and they just believed in the exact same mission that we've got right and so for example you know Peter Cunha who's part of CIIG to see he's actually going to be part of our board going forward so we are you know really staying close together this isn't you know this isn't just a financial transaction this is a strategic alignment of two parties and for us what was really important is you know we want to we want to just focus on developing the product what are the key things here the talent the culture the technology right and the production operations right that's where our focus needs to be so this was the best strategy for us to raise the capital we need so you know we we're looking approximately 660 million in total proceeds but we've got a capex light you know factory model right so that really goes well in terms of what we need to do to start scaling the business and we expect to be you know cash flow positive by 2023 so this was a partnership I would say that you know we just felt really aligned on what we were doing we were evaluating multiple different you know avenues but when we met the CIIG team we just really really aligned really well and so you know we announced the merger with them and you know closing should happen hopefully sometime that's awesome so yeah I know you got to go lightning round last question biggest competitor in the space so I would say I mean look there are a lot of entrants coming in for the commercial vehicle segment but there's there isn't anyone I think taking the approach that arrival is taking so you know when you can produce the vehicles the the way we can you know I'd never say we don't have any competitors of course we do but I would say that our method and approaches is is fundamentally different to anything that's been done before so I would say that puts us in a pretty unique category and it also enables us to compete in multiple segments that you know another EV company won't be able to attack as quickly as as arrival could go after so I think we're in a we're in a we're in a good place there you go so basically the answer is with number one there's no competition I like that I like that so I appreciate you coming on and I would definitely love to bring you back again and just continue to talk about the amazing work that you guys are doing out there at the River so yeah so whenever feel free now to reach out and you know if there's anything that you think that you know all the investors out there need to know about River we're here to get that conversation going yeah absolutely and look again before I sign off here what what impressed me was you know you really understood not the going public part but you understood what we were actually doing quite well so I wanted to come on and have the chat with you so I appreciate the time and keep doing good work and to all the viewers this guy knows his stuff so pay attention appreciate it all right so guys you guys got it that was Mr. Avinash president of a River here on the channel and so if you do have any questions you know about a River as a company just leave those in the comment section definitely make sure that his team gets this question back to him and we'll get some answers for you and also you can check out they are on social media you can definitely reach out and ask any questions or go to the website there's a ton of information there even the investor presentation I'm gonna put that in the description below the link there so you guys can definitely go to me again this company is not just a traditional company this is a technology company that is changing the way we do EV car manufacturing so definitely go check them out and as always guys don't be greedy savage and stay motivated


Hey, this is Brett and this 2021 Chevy Silverado 2500 Crew Cab Short Box High Country is stock number 12770Z. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, near New and used heavy-duty truck headquarters. This 2021 Chevy Silverado 2500 High Country has the 6.6-liter Duramax diesel engine, puts up 445 horsepower and it's paired up with the Allison 10-speed automatic transmission. This truck has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop per the state of Wisconsin inspection process. It has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off and this truck is 100% ready to go. We're going to go all the way around, inside, underneath, start it up and take a look under the hood in this video. That clear coat is the color and we shoot all of our videos in 4K so if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone or television I highly recommend turning them on right now because it is your best way to check out the quality, condition, options, and cleanliness of the truck before seeing it in person. And if you like the video and how we do things here at Summit Automotive in the lower right hand part of the screen is a subscribe button to our YouTube channel. You can click that and then click the bell notifications and you'll get updates every time we do videos here at Summit Automotive. This one comes with the 20-inch polished aluminum rims and it has brand new Lofen X-Fit AT tires. These are LT27565R20s and they have all the tread left on them. You can still see the little wear knobs on there. Comes with the Z71 off-road suspension as well. Lofen is in excellent condition. I didn't see any dents or dings on there. Comes with the LED headlamps, the LED running lights, the LED fog lamps. Front bumper is in very nice condition. Has the front bumper parking sensors, the chrome tow hooks. You get the chrome trimmed grille along with the kind of bronze painted inserts there. The hood is in very nice condition as well. It does have the true cowl induction and I'll show you how that works in just a little bit. You get the clearance lights up top on the cab. And the passenger side front fender is in very nice condition as well. Passengers side rim, no major scuffs or scrapes on there. Looks very good. And as you go down this side of this 2021 Chevy 2500 High Country, take note of how clean that body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down, but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here there's absolutely no surprises and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. And if this video helps you make that decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video, that it was helpful, and that Brett sent you. Back rim is in nice shape as well. And the back tires are brand new too. You get the felt wheel well liners and the frame and underbody is in very nice condition as all the remaining factory exhaust. It's like that all the way underneath. Lower rockers all look good. It does come with power running boards. And you get these side box steps on here as well. Passenger side box looks really good coming down to the back. Rear bumper is in nice shape. You do get the reverse parking sensors. Full towing package, which includes a receiver hitch, seven pin wiring. And then these are for additional cameras that you can set up on your trailer or whatever you may be towing. Tailgate is in very nice shape as well. This is a power drop down tailgate. Comes with the fifth wheel and gooseneck prep package. You get four pin and seven pin wiring back here. LED bed lining, very nice spray and bed liner. Guessing this is a factory spray and bed liner. And then I think this is a power up tailgate as well. Pretty handy to have. This has a Rev Industries hard folding fold up tonneau cover. And that is in pretty nice shape. Coming down to driver side just as clean as that passenger side. No dents or dings on the rear quarter. And for full disclosure, this back rim is in fantastic condition as well. Down the rest of this side of the truck, doors look really good. Does come with the 360 camera, the telescopic tow mirrors, blind spot monitoring, LED side lights, directional signals, these power fold in, power telescope out. You can see those power running boards work nicely. Inside the High Country package gives you the black leather interior. Both of these front seats are heated and cooled. No rips, no tears on the seats. Smells very clean inside this truck. You get the factory all weather floor mats. This one has five auxiliary upfit switches. Auto headlamps, fog lights, that's for your cargo lamps. It's also how you turn on the bed lighting and the LED side lights on the mirrors. Heads up display, push button, four wheel drive, power windows, power locks, power mirrors, memory driver seat, wood grain trim on the doors, Bose sound system. I'll show you how these mirrors work. They power scope out like so. I always like showing both sides so that both sides are working nicely. You can see that one power scoped out nicely and it comes back in. And then they do power fold in as well. And both sides are working nicely. You can see those LED side lights, how bright they are. And we'll hop inside, check out the miles, radio, and everything that this truck has to offer on the interior. So I think we're going to have to start it up to check out the miles and everything. So you can see that this truck has 35,840 miles. You do get a digital spinometer, compass display, the digital instrument cluster. Instrument cluster is very nice and clean. Comes with the heated leather wrapped steering wheel, Bluetooth and information center controls on the right, cruise controls, forward collision warning controls, and heated steering wheel controls on the left. One thing to point out, no check engine lights or anything like that when we got it started. There's your Allison 10 speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift. And notice you get the kind of bronze finish around the steering wheel as well. And it's on the dash there too. I'm going to turn the truck off in just a second because I don't want to smoke us out inside the picture studio here. You get the factory navigation on the Chevy infotainment system. Get AM, FM, and Sirius XM radio capabilities, Apple CarPlay, Android Auto. You can check out your backup camera, also your 360 cam, you can change your different camera angles. Kind of gives you a rough look around the sides, down the sides of the truck, which would be really handy if you're towing or parking a trailer or camper or boat or something to look down each side of the truck. So really cool stuff. I just said I'm going to turn off the truck right now.   Factory brake controller, USB, USB-C, 12 volt power point. And I believe this is a 120 volt, 150 watt plug-in in these trucks, the new body style, cell phone charge pad, keyless entry with your remote start and power down and up tailgate controls on the key fob. Passenger side, floor mat and seat are in excellent condition. Like I said, I don't think this truck's ever been smoked in. One thing to note, you do get the high country stitched into the headrests, and that headliner is in fantastic condition. It does have the power sunroof. Home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lane systems, map lights, on-star and SOS buttons in the rearview mirror. This also has the camera mirror. I don't know if I can turn it on without turning the truck on again. So once I turn the truck back on for the final end of the video here, I'll show you that. But it's basically a video camera that shows what's going on behind the truck. Back seats are just as clean as the front seats. No rips or tears back here. It does have the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have. Power sliding rear window with the built-in rear defrost. You do get little storage compartments behind our inside of the backrest of the seats. They open up like so. You get storage underneath here.  I'm pretty sure that's what all that wiring is. All weather formats back here. These back seats are heated on the outboard side, USB, USB-C and another 12-volt PowerPoint back here. Seats come down like so. Child safety locks on the back doors and the bottoms of the doors are all very, very clean. We'll start it up and take a look under the hood. Once again, it starts up, no check engine lights or anything like that, letting me know the hood's open. But there is your camera, your rear view mirror camera. So now you can turn that off and then it's just a regular rear view mirror. Or you can change, you know, the brightness or you can change the angle or the zoom actually, so that's pretty cool. And then you can change the angle as well. So a couple different things you can do on there. There's your heads up display. I don't know if you can see it in the windshield there. Digital speedometer. I'm gonna turn all the lights on so you can check all those out. 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Good morning, everyone. Thank you for being here so early to listen to me talk about Microsoft Office of all things. There's a lot to get through and I hope that you learn a lot. But even if you don't, at the very least, I do hope that your budget application for coming to DEFCON was helped by being able to say that you took part in Microsoft Office Shrain. That is a little bit of a joke, but at the same time, there's a lot of truth to that because this talk is effectively about how we as attackers can be better at using Microsoft Office, how there's a lot of legitimate functionality to extend what Office can do, including execute arbitrary code. And that's something as attackers which we can abuse for purposes such as maintaining persistence on compromised workstations. So in terms of the motivations for doing this research, the first one was that Microsoft Office is so ingrained in the workflows of a typical business user that if you compromise a random workstation, you're almost certainly going to come across Microsoft Office. That means if you have persistence techniques that use Microsoft Office, they're going to have a very wide application. Another thing was I wanted to follow on some research that was popularized in the past couple of years, in part by a colleague of mine at MWR Costless, but also around the same time by Matt Nelson, and that was on the topic of office templates. So if anyone isn't familiar with this, essentially all documents that you create with Microsoft Office maintain a reference back to their original template. And if you put a macro in that original template, when you open up a document, that reference will actually get followed and that payload, that macro will get executed. Now, these templates are stored in trusted locations. What this means is they're trusted to be exempt from normal macro policy. So even if you disable macros without notification, documents that exist in these folders such as the templates, the VBA, the macros will still get executed. Now, when looking at these, some of them are very clearly marked as being for the purposes of templates, but others are being marked as for startup. And that got me wondering, what's the difference between the two? What does Microsoft want us storing here and how can we potentially use that? So one of the things which I came across was WLL files. And it turns out that these are basically just DLLs which export particular functions which can be used to extend what Word can do. Now, if you look online for how to create a WLL file, what do these functions need to be called? Do they have to be implemented in a specific way? You won't actually find a huge amount of information and it turns out that one potential answer for this is that they were actually developed for Office 97. But despite this, they're still supported in modern Office versions. So in terms of for what we need to do, what are these functions that we need to export? It actually doesn't really matter. What you can just do is create a DLL, stick your payload in the DLL main function. You don't actually need to export anything. All you need to do is rename the file extension from a DLL to a WLL. So one letter change, drop that in the startup location for Microsoft Word. And Word will actually arbitrarily load that DLL for you and you can get code execution that way. One interesting thing about the way that Microsoft Word treats WLL files is that it doesn't actually list them as active add-ins. Which is something that those involved in defense should be aware of. I think this potentially could just be because the correct functions are being exported in order for it to identify them. But regardless, it works for the offensive purposes. Excel also has an add-in, Excel. This is considerably more updated. The software development kits were released in 2007, so only 10 years ago. You do have to export the right functions in an Excel add-in. There's one specific function that you have to export called Excel Auto Open. And when Excel starts up, it will check the startup location for any files in there. It will see if it's exporting this function and then it will call that so we can get arbitrary code execution through this way as well. A couple of curious things about the way that Excel treats Excel add-ins. The first is that Excel doesn't seem particularly concerned about file extensions for anything in the startup location. So you don't even need to rename your DLL to an Excel L. You can call it .txt file, or if you want you can have no extension at all. Excel seems to just fingerprint all the files, see if it understands them, and then will load them anyway. Another thing is there is this particular registry key, which you can see there, and then it has a particular property which you can create called Open. So the value is open and you can have multiple of these open and then an integer. And then the value of this, if you specify the slash R switch and then the absolute path of a Excel L add-in, you can actually load Excel L add-ins from outside the startup trust of the location. And that doesn't give any warning prompts to users. So just a quick demonstration of this. So if we open up Excel, we can see that nothing gets executed. And if we go into the options, go into the trust center and look at the trusted location. So we can see for the user startup location, so this is for our user. This doesn't require any administrative rights. It's in the roaming profile, which is good for persistence in transient environments, Microsoft, Excel, Excel star. So we've got this .txt file on the desktop. And if we check that with dependency walker, we can see that it's actually a DLL file because it's exporting a function called Excel auto open. So all we need to do is copy this into the startup location. So if we go into app data, which takes us into the roaming profile, then Microsoft, Excel, Excel star. Copy that in. Excel should load this DLL, which in this case just spawns calc. If we delete that file now, so it shouldn't execute because it's not there. So just to show the registry variant and that there's no sort of security warnings for that, there's this .reg file, which creates the property that we just saw before, the open property slash R and then the absolute path to an Excel file on the desktop. One thing that I forgot to mention was that if you're doing the registry method, file extensions do matter, so it needs to be Excel or DLL. But there we have the registry key being created and then again, when it opens, it executes. So it's possible to create VBA add-ins as well. So VBA, of course, is the language of macros. The way that you create them is pretty much the same as the way that you create a macro document. You open Excel, you open the VBA editor, you stick your macro in. The difference comes when you go to save it. If you drop down the list of supported file types somewhere near the bottom, but not quite, there's actually something called Excel add-in, which has an XLA or XLAN file extension. So if you basically save it as this format, which is just an Excel document without any associated spreadsheets and drop it in the startup location for Excel, that will get executed when Excel opens in the same way that we've just seen. PowerPoint has the same sort of thing, different file extension, same way of creating one differences that you do need to indicate to PowerPoint through a registry edit that it needs to load up. So you create a particular key and that has a couple of properties, first of all to load, you set that to the value of one, which means load at startup, and then you give it the path, which is just a file name, and then PowerPoint will know itself to check in the startup location for a file of that name. Now all of the add-ins that I talked about so far involve basically dropping something into the startup location. Another form of add-in, which is sort of slightly different in terms of the way that you deploy it, is those add-ins which are based on COM. So for anyone that isn't familiar with COM component object model, this was a technology developed in the early 90s by Microsoft, and basically it's to create a sort of a binary interface standard so you can create reusable software components which can be interacted with in a language-independent way. I guess the non-wikipedia definition is you create something and as long as you know how to interface with it, you don't really need to know how the innards are implemented. So these are used all over Windows. You know, modern Windows operating systems are still very reliant on COM. These COM objects, and you can use these COM objects as add-ins for office programs. In order to do that, you have to implement a particular software interface called the IDT Extensibility 2 interface, and basically that involves implementing a series of five methods which basically act as event handlers. So one of these, for example, would be on connection, which executes code when the COM object is loaded as an add-in into the office application, which is very useful, but you could do more interesting things if you wanted to. So, for example, because COM add-ins, you can basically create them so they're portable between all office products. You could have one for Outlook, for example, which only executes code when an email is received with a particular string in the body. In terms of the way that we actually go about registering and using these add-ins, once we've created them, it becomes sort of a little bit problematic and sort of a little bit mysterious, and I felt that it was best to explain through an example. So for anyone that's done COM programming before, you'll note that you sort of register them normally using tools such as RegASM, which requires administrative rights. Basically the reason for that is because these tools apply directly to the place in HKEY classes route in the registry where COM registration information lives, but this information is just derived from other information from part of HKEY current user and HKEY local machine, which actually gets synchronized when you log out, and one of those highest HKEY current users we obviously have right access to. So if we manually register COM objects, we don't need administrative rights. So just to show you a very sort of simplistic example at a very stratospheric level, if you look up at the top here, this is sort of creating a key called in conspicuous.com.in.connect, and that has a subkey CLSID with a default value of a GUID, and that GUID has its own key in the green section with various bits of information associated with it, and it's not important really to understand what all of them are for our understanding, but this line here is particularly important code base as that points to the file on disk, which is actually implementing this COM object. So we've got a name that's associated with a GUID, and that GUID is somehow mapped to the file on disk but implements it. So then we can basically go down to the bottom bit, which is the application-specific registration. So telling the application to use that COM object where we can basically just say use this friendly name, and then Windows does the mapping back to the actual COM object on disk. So this way we can, using COM objects, we can create a cross application add-ins, which are very portable and don't require administrative rights. Another form of add-in based on COM is for the VBA editor. So these are add-ins which don't execute when you open a document, but they execute when you open the VBA editor. So whenever somebody comes to look at the VBA code itself at the macros or edit them, that's when it gets executed. So it gets executed when the VBA editor loads. It doesn't really have a huge application, but it's perhaps one of my favorites. The way that you register these is basically the same as what I just discussed. You register it with Windows, like the first two boxes, and then it's only the application-specific bit at the end, which is different. So in this case, creating a key which has the name of the COM object, and then it's got various properties associated with it, such as load behavior, which means load it when the VBA editor starts up. Another form of add-in is now sort of specific to Microsoft Excel, is called the automation add-ins. So if you open up Excel now and you look at the list of supported add-ins, you'll see that it distinguishes between COM add-ins and automation add-ins, but really, automation add-ins are also based on COM. The difference is that they don't implement the IDT extensibility to interface. I should have mentioned as well that the VBE add-in also implements the IDT extensibility to interface, so the COM add-ins and the VBE add-ins are kind of more or less the same thing, whereas this, automation add-ins for Excel are slightly different because you don't need to implement that interface. Basically, you just define public functions in the COM object, and those public functions become user-defined functions within Excel, so you could have a formulae, for example, which is equals calc and it spawns calc or injects shellcode into the memory of another process or whatever you want it to do. Again, registration is exactly the same in terms of what you do for Windows. The difference is when it comes to the application-specific bit, again, we see a reappearance of the open registry key property. Only this time, we're using the slash A switch, and then we're giving the name of the COM object, and then Windows sorts everything else out for us. A lot of the stuff that I've talked about so far is using technologies that have been around for a while. What is Microsoft pushing at the moment in terms of add-ins? One of them is Visual Studio Tools for Office. This, despite the name, is not something which is specifically for developers. It's just, I guess, you create the templates in Visual Studio. It's a bit of a strange name. Basically, this is a cross-application add-in, which is supposed to be a replacement for COM add-ins. There's a few differences, but I guess the main one is that it sort of simplifies the IDT extensibility to interface, so instead of having to implement five methods, you only have to implement two. But there's problems with using it for offensive purposes, namely that you need a specific runtime, a special runtime in order to use these add-ins, and also they're quite noisy when you install them. The thing which Microsoft seems to be really pushing at the moment is web add-ins, and these are really quite interesting because they're based on HTML and JavaScript, and they can be not just cross-application, but they can be cross-platform. So you can have add-ins that work not just on Windows, but you can have it for Macs or mobile devices. I haven't really looked at this, and it's certainly an interesting research project if anybody wants to look at it, but very briefly looking at the API documentation, there doesn't seem to be any immediately obvious way of executing operating system commands or indeed anything sort of more interesting than that, such as interacting with operating system APIs. In terms of defending against these add-ins, it's very easy for COM automation and VSTO. You can disable add-ins, and that will stop attackers from using them, but of course in many cases, that will also stop legitimate organizations that need to use them from using them. So in this case, you can actually require that add-ins be signed by a trusted publisher. However, if you do this, I highly recommend that you also click the box which says disable notification for unsigned add-ins because if you just require that add-ins be signed, users can still actually click through that and load the add-ins. So it's basically you need to click these two sort of options at the top. Despite the name of WLL, XLL and VBA add-ins, disabling add-ins doesn't actually work for these, so they still execute for some reason. So you have to take a different approach in terms of prevention and detection. So the first recommendation that I would make is to remove the trusted locations if you're not using them, or at least relocate the trusted locations to an area where administrators only have access. So you're maintaining administrative control over that area and low privilege users can't write into it. But also improving detective capability. So monitoring the trusted locations for changes. So that is looking at what existing files are in there, have these files been modified, what new files are being put in there. Remember with the case of XLL, it doesn't matter what extensions that you're using. So don't just simply look for particular extensions. Really it's any files that are in those folders. I've mentioned various registraries during the course of this talk. Monitoring these locations in particular, the sort of the registry key property open, that's a big one and it's used quite widely. And then basic EDR stuff, you know looking at process relationships and so on. In conclusion, so this talk was about looking at the attack surface of Microsoft Office, how there's many legitimate means of extending its functionality and executing arbitrary code, which we can abuse for the purposes of persistence. And pretty much all, in fact all of the techniques that I've talked about today don't require administrative rights. Which is of course sort of the key situation for persistence techniques. My Twitter account is at www.william.store.nulles. If you want to follow me please do. I will look at posting the slides online in the coming days or weeks. Thank you very much.


Hey y'all, it's Timmy with Collard Valley Cooks. Today I'm going to show y'all a shortcut on a coconut cake. When I was growing up and mama got older, she was too tired to get in the kitchen and make her a homemade cake. So she would buy a peppered farm coconut layer cake. I'm using lemon today because I do like the flavor of lemon with my coconut, but you can do it either way. Now I'm doing this because if you are by yourself or there's just a couple of you, you would be better off making this delicious shortcut coconut cake for Easter this year or any occasion.  Back in the day when you bought a fresh coconut cake from Rich's department store in Atlanta, they had a lemon curd in between the layers. So lemon pear is really good with coconut. So I wanted to show you guys how to make a small cake for just you and maybe there's just two of you and you don't want to make a big cake and this is going to be absolutely delicious. Now you're going to use fresh frozen coconut out of the freezer section of the grocery store. It's always typically on the top shelf. It is on the in the area where the frozen fruit is typically and this is the fresh sweetened coconut okay and it's absolutely delicious. So we are going to open both bags. Now this is a small bag if for some reason where you're at you can get a larger bag then you may not need two of them. These are six ounces I believe let me look yeah six ounces. Now I didn't have any cream of coconut in my pantry but I did have some coconut milk and so we're going to put just a little bit of coconut milk and a little sugar since it's not the cream of coconut into here and you don't have to do this part if you're not supposed to have a lot of sugar so I'm just going to put a couple of teaspoons in there for now and now we're going to mix this coconut and this coconut milk up with that sugar and if you want to know how much you want it to be kind of soupy but you know like not like really soupy okay I want it to be a little wetter than that so I'm going to add a little more and I will taste it as well now that's about right here it's kind of good and wet so you can see in the can about how much I used for two of these containers of coconut now I'm going to taste it and see if it's sweet enough and like I said you don't have to add the sugar if you don't want to because there is buttercream on the cake already now fresh coconut has to be refrigerated and the cool thing about making a cake that's small like this you can use a square plate or a round plate to put it on okay and you're going to have to keep it in the refrigerator and wrap it so just sit it down and I'm actually going to lift the layer all right we're going to lift this layer up a little bit and try to get up against the cake as much as you can because it's got frosting in there now once you lift it up I'm going to spread this more evenly on here now you can just take your coconut and put it in between the layers y'all my mama did this like I said once she got old enough she just didn't feel good anymore and I remember one time when my brother was in a pinch and he wanted to make a a cake for the church he went bought several of these cakes and did this very same thing and made a rectangular cake and he said everybody just loved it now we're going to start putting the coconut on the cake we'll start with the top and then whatever coconut you got left you can put on the sides now I'm only have to use my hands to do this you're going to take what coconut you've got left and just put it on the sides of the cake as well just pick it up in your hand and pat the side with it and if you're if you're scared to lift up the cake and put that layer inside you don't have to because there's you know uh you can just use it all over the sides of the cake in the top of the cake and just pile it up if you want to instead of lifting it up like that I've been a cake decorator for years so it doesn't bother me to pick it up but some people might be a little intimidated by it so uh you do not have to do that just put it all over the sides in the top like that and um you got you a delicious coconut cake for one or two now my plate so messed up I'm gonna have to get a different one too to uh let's taste this lemon display it on yummy now we're gonna pick it up and put it on something a little more presentable since we made a mess I'll put this in my sink you're just one person or just two or three but I mean there's six good servings on this cake and you could even make it like this and freeze half of it and have it later as well um because it would freeze well okay even if it's already been frozen it'll be fine now I just thought today we would dress at the top with a few strawberries so if you're wanting to make this for Easter and you want it to be special on your table then you can dress up the top with a few fresh fruit whether it's strawberries or blueberries or raspberries or even a slice of lemon twisted since there's lemon on the inside you could do that too so isn't it a pretty little cake and look it was so easy are y'all ready to try this cake I hope you tried it home and if you haven't had a fresh coconut cake in a long time because you're just slap tired or you're not up to it physically trust me on this one it is worth every minute you put into it all right so I'm going to move this little strawberry we're going to cut us a piece right out of the middle and you're going to see there's one two three four really eight good little slices doing it this way this is actually three layers y'all so we got coconut in between those two so let's take a bite yummy and you can get about a strawberry with it if you want to look how soft it is just perfect for my long dinner fork for three layers y'all I'm not kidding and most of y'all know already that their cake layers taste like homemade cake oh this is so good and so simple for Easter for any time of the year when you want to taste a fresh coconut like mama made but shortcut pack okay y'all after eating that by a cake me and Chris both are like oh yummy it tastes like my homemade one minus the cream of coconut so if you've got cream of coconut you can use it in that coconut because coconut milk is not as strong with the coconut and the sugar but it's perfect you don't really need extra sugar with this cake and if you've been longing for that fresh coconut that I posted at Christmas I'm telling you this is the next best thing so give it a shot see if your grocery has the fresh coconut frozen and this cake thanks for watching Colored Valley Cooks where we cook like mama did and even do some shortcuts like my mama did bye y'all love ya