You know, and the one reason I could be openly publicly optimistic about 2021 in terms of the real estate market is because number one is what I believe, but number two, I don't care if it crashes. This is what I believe. I'm sharing that with you for nothing.  What are your thoughts on the market crashing here in the next few out crashing based on, because I think we're about to hit a year mark from COVID and obviously the low and forbearances, et cetera, et cetera, about to become an issue. So do you think the market's about to tank in certain areas? You mean like as far as stocks or real estate? Real estate, yeah. Yeah, I think tomorrow, I think next year it's going to be great. I don't think that's, I think the government's going to have more assistance for the forbearance people, the people that are, you know, running into issues there. I think, you know, I really think, I don't think the government's going to continue to help those people out and going to kind of smooth everything over. The thing is, man, is that the market has so much momentum right now. There's so much cash. There's so much cash and interest rates are so low, so nobody's spending their cash. They're borrowing money cheaper than they, you know, will cost them to buy cash. And so the cash is continuing to stay on the sidelines. So as long as that cash is on the sideline, the way it is, I mean, in massive amounts, there's so much cushion in the market. I mean, if the market comes down, there's so much cash that's going to get dumped into the market, which is going to make the market come back up. Supply and demand is a huge issue, right? Supply and demand is a huge issue. There's very little supply and nobody's really buying with speculation. Everybody's buying. Everybody who's buying is buying to live there. They're buying it long-term. You know, they're not buying it to sell it tomorrow. They sell it next year. They're buying it to live in it or keep it, you know, buy and hold and rent. Nobody has a strategy of selling next year, right? So if you do think the market has a ways to go up, you're still not speculating that at this point because it's up so much. It's went up so much in the past eight years that you're not speculating that it's going to go up anymore. You're not like, okay, this is for sure. I want to put my money here. I'm going to sell it next year. No way. If it goes up, then great. But that's not what you're planning on. I think we'll see a slight increase next year, man. Overall, to be honest with you, I think we're going to have an amazing year. I think it's going to be a really, really, really, really good year for real estate. You know, one reason I could be openly, publicly optimistic about 2021 in terms of the real estate market is because, number one, it's what I believe. But number two, I don't care if it crashes. You know what I mean? It doesn't affect me at all, man. Like, you know, my business is solid. You know, if it crashes, I have tons, hundreds of people that are ready to buy if the market goes down. If prices go down, I have so many. I mean, they would come out to woodworks. My phone would light up like a Christmas tree at the market crash because people would want to get in, you know? And so I would continue just crushing sales. And you know, if the market crashes that hard and people are selling cheaper, there's going to be sellers that need to sell. And that's why I'm going to be right there to help them, you know? So regardless of what it does, I'm going to win big. So that's a good thing. That's what you want to be. You want to be in the position where it doesn't matter. It's a win-win. You can't lose. That's where I am with stocks and my holdings. That's where I'm with my real estate holding. That's where I'm in my real estate business.  So I'm good either way just to get that out in the air. But furthermore, I'm really optimistic on the market itself. I think we're going to have a hell of a year. So I know a lot of people are calling for a gloom and doom. I know that there's a, I mean, I heard that the guy that was short, that shorted the market back when it, when it crashed last time is calling for another crash due to natural disasters causing insurance and to go up and plus your property taxes are going to go up because prices have went up. And so you have all these things that it doesn't matter if interest rates don't move or if interest rates are lower, your monthly payments are going to increase because your insurance is higher and your property taxes are higher. And I've heard that scenario and I just, I think that there could be a little merit to it, but I just call bullshit. I mean, I just don't think it's going to cause this massive crash that's going to devastate us and we're going to see prices go down. We may see a slight decrease in prices. I just think we're going to see more of a flat either a slight increase or a slight decrease, but at the end of the day, I think we're going to have a really, really good year, you know, um, you know, for agents anyway, you know, say, cause like, we make money, we make money regardless.


This is covering the spread part of the Fandall podcast network We are into November and yet on Saturday. We have three undefeated teams taking on ranked opponents We have got Michigan taking on Penn State. We have got Utah versus Washington and Ole Miss at Georgia all on deck for Saturday We're gonna break down all three of those games toxin college football playoff scenarios and much more today with dr. Adfeng this is covering the spread right here on the Fandall podcast network and Fandall research My name is Jim Sonnis I am a managing editor of digital media for Fandall research joined here as I am every Wednesday by dr. Adfeng you can find his work at the power act calm and check about on Twitter at the power I can add we keep talking every week about this condor stallions thing There are new updates every single day. It seems and now the pushback is coming Michigan as well So it's an evolving story I'm still being fun with it. Honestly, like you asked me about the Travis Kelsey Taylor Swift thing. I was still enjoying that I think it's the same bucket. We're like it's a lot of content, but it's still kind of fun. How are you doing today? I'm doing great I think I'm enjoying it more than most Michigan fans who are kind of worried about it and I'm not I'm really not I enjoy Finding, you know, the new leaks every day and it seems like Michigan is getting into the investigation and leaking game as well Which is I don't know if you're a third party. You got to think that's interesting, right? Like fighting back and playing the game We'll see where it all lands. I don't think anything's happening this season. Yeah, pretty sure No one's getting suspended. No one's they're gonna be not not gonna be able to play football games And I think that's good for college football And and then we'll see where it leads to in the future. Yeah I mean like you need to audit all communications in order to prove there was like collaboration and intent And that's gonna be a big part of it Like you could ding people for oversight not, you know, knowing that this is going on But like that's a different level of offense than it was being coordinated. So I don't think this is a fast thing like you're gonna see the That the daily talk shows talking about like, oh, can they ban Michigan from the college football playoff? Like that's not gonna happen. So that'll be like a talking point But in reality, it's not gonna happen. So why bother wasting your breath on that? But honestly, like that's why it's fun for me is like the stakes for now are kind of low And you know, like it's just kind of a funny story that keeps on giving us more entertaining stuff Like Connor stallions with the vacuums outside his house is the new thing. So honestly, it's just better It's been a thrill so far and I'm not bored of it yet. What was the vacuums thing? I might miss that Was that he moved into a house in our in Arbor and had a bunch of like vacuums piled up outside his house I think he was like selling them on Amazon or something like that and a neighbor complained He accused the neighbor of being a Michigan State fan who was mad at him for being on the Michigan coaching staff I gotta find this guy's house. Yeah Gotta go walk around gotta go walk around town looking for scouting mission. That's your assignment your homework assignment for next week when we have our 13 new updates on the story that we'll have to talk about but luckily and also the on-the-field product pretty fun and for the Peak as mentioned all those good games coming up were to break down those games and more in just one second First a reminder to make sure you're subscribed to the covering the spread podcast feed wherever you get your podcasts later on today Tom Vecchio is going to preview the Panthers at the Bears the thrilling Thursday night football matchup for this week Tom will break down props for that game in the same podcast He'd also over on fan dual TV plus to get fandal TV plus go to fandal.com Slash watch and log into their fandal account Or download family TV plus app on Amazon fire Apple TV or Roku devices tomorrow I'd be back with us to preview NFL week number 10 score early this NFL season with fan dual America's number one sportsbook right now new Customers get $150 and bonus bets with any winning $5 Moneyline bet That's a hundred and fifty bucks if your team wins if you've been thinking about joining a fan dual There is no better time to get in on the action. 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Call 1 800 gambler or visit fandal.com Rg Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia Call 1 800 next step or text next set to 533 for 2 in Arizona 1 8 8 7 8 7 7 7 7 Or visit ccpg.org slash chat in Connecticut 1 800 9 with it in Indiana 1 800 5 2 2 4700 or visit ksgambler.com in Kansas 1 8 7 7 7 7 7 0 stop in Louisiana visit md gambling health at Oregon Maryland 1 800 gambler.net in West Virginia 1 800 5 2 2 4700 in Wyoming hope is here visit gambling helpline ma.org or call you 100 3 2 7 50 50 for 24 7 support in Massachusetts or call 1 8 7 7 a hope and y or text open y in New York Now I had last week here on the show you talked about Oregon how they had been on the rise and They're now even money to make the college of football playoff at fandal sportsbook If you take a look at the hypothetical matchups later on fandal makes them Oregon a six and a half point favorite over Washington in the pack 12 championship games should that wind up being the matchup so Even money now to make the playoff and is the value in Oregon now gone with this rise Probably I mean Oregon's team that I've been pretty high on They were really unfortunate to lose that game against Washington a pretty close game And you know when I updated my site on Sunday, it wasn't Ohio State. That was first It wasn't michigan. That was first in my college football number rankings. It was Oregon They really have uh, they really have performed over the last couple of weeks And um when I looked at your question, I was like, oh, that's interesting I would actually make Oregon a nine and a half point favorite over Washington Well, we'll get into Washington a little bit more later in the show um, but You know, Oregon is a team that's done really well. I mean we talked about how Dan landing brought in a bunch of transfers and uh Oregon Washington usc all had issues on defense coming into the season Oregon has definitively fixed them about four weeks ago I proclaimed that I thought I had some faith in usc's defense that turns out to be one of my worst takes over the last decade and uh, you know, and now uh usc is uh Kind of bad and uh, I don't know how many point favorite is Oregon over usc this week. It's it's a lot yeah, so Yeah, you know, Oregon even money that that honestly Sounds pretty enticing right now to make the playoff. I think there's obviously not a shoe in but I I I like this team um bonex could win the heisman that that's absolutely in the realm of possibility And you know, honestly, he would be the frontrunner had they just converted a couple fourth downs against Michael Panix in Washington A couple weeks back. He's been incredible Uh, yeah that total or the spread for usc Oregon 14 and a half total is 73 and a half these pack 12 games rule from a total's perspective So a huge fan of that But Oregon 14 and a half point favorites there as you mentioned the hypothetical Matchup is Oregon by six and a half against Washington. You've got a nine. You said or nine and a half I'd make about nine and a half. I mean, I would definitely see value in Oregon minus six and a half right now Would you grab that now just to kind of get ahead of things or is that not the way you tend to operate with these? Because I know that your your college football numbers do update pretty aggressively as you get new info So it could change by then I guess I mean, it depends on your goals. I'm pretty sure you can't get too much down on Oregon minus six and a half in the pack 12 championship game right now. So You know If you just want a fun bet. Yeah, sure go for it. Bet it now Yeah, so take a look at the the Oregon prices Even money right now at vandal sportsbook ed seemed some potential value there But just in general being high on Oregon does seem to be the way to go right now Let's dig into some of these games that across saturdays action begin With the michigan wolverines taking on penn state and this spread is tightened. It was five and a half It's now down to four and a half at vandal sportsbook total is 45 and a half and penn states offense against ohio state Really underwhelming there and now they face another very very good defense. So Can penn state do enough on that side of the ball to cover this four and a half point spread? Yeah, we'll see. I mean the spread doesn't interest me too much simply because my numbers have michigan by 4.8 points about five pretty close to the markets A couple weeks ago. This is pretty much what I said. I would make this game and and not much has has changed Sense, uh, but I do think there is an angle here and I think it's on the total And one of the reasons that I think there's value on the total is because of strength of schedule um Coming into the season we knew that michigan for the second year in a row was not playing anyone And that has been true. I kind of expected even when I was calling michigan overrated at number two in the preseason poll It didn't really start until this week, right? Like I expected them to be nine and o and they are nine and o and so Um, so yeah, let's let's talk about michigan and their schedule, right? And I think it's important to break this down in terms of offense and defense So let's look at success rate and we'll make my adjustments for opponent But when you talk about like michigan's defense like the raw success rate allowed numbers are phenomenal They've allowed 30.8 success rate That's very good compared to 41.1 college football average Penn state is actually right there. They're a tick better at 30.7 percent in raw success rate Uh, but you kind of got to look at who they played when you look at michigan They haven't faced anyone good the best offense they faced by my numbers was Purdue last week Uh, the 56 in my adjusted success rate. You look at teams like minnesota, michigan state, nebraska They all rank 98th or worse You're taking a raw success rate. That's one of the best in the nation You make my schedule adjustments and michigan's gets dropped all the way to 16th That's a significant drop. That's the effect of of this schedule, right? And when I look at this team, I have a lot of faith in the offense. We'll get to that in a sec But I don't have a lot of faith I mean I have faith in the defense, but I still think the defense needs to prove itself When you look at penn state just for a comparison remember they had about the the the same raw success rate They faced better offenses most notably ohio state, uh, but west virginia is also not bad They opened the season against west virginia A top 25 team when I look at adjusted success rate When you adjust their numbers down, um, they actually end up fourth in my college football Defense rankings by adjusted success rate actually third Um, so that just gives you a sense for how the schedule is impacting what my numbers will say I think the image of michigan's defense is better than their actual performance There's a little bit of a danger that this is a defense that is just beaten up on opposing offenses That are not very good And uh, you know, they may or may not be true. We'll find out this weekend Um, but on offense like the story is actually a little bit different, you know, they Michigan has a really good offense by raw success rate as well 53 And that's fourth best in the nation and they've actually done this against some pretty good defenses as bad as nabrasca's defenses Ah, excuse me as bad as nabrasca's offenses. Their defense is pretty decent. They're 21st Michigan actually had a 54 success rate in that game Uh, Purdue is another team. They're 49th In defense and and michigan also had a pretty good success rate 47 last week In honestly what I thought was jj mccarthy's worst game so I think the michigan offense is good. I think the michigan defense is bad My numbers are showing value on the total. I make this closer to uh, 52 So I think there's value in over 45 and a half Uh, I guess we should talk about pennstay's offense a little bit. Uh, I don't think they're as bad I don't know if jr l are as bad as he showed against ohio state He actually kind of let loose a little bit last week against maryland had 240 pass yards Which was his biggest total against the big 10 defense Do I think he's good? Probably not but has the pennstay offense undercheap a little bit Probably um, I think they can keep it close And I do think there are going to be more points in this game than the market expects So so I like the over here Over at 45 and a half is minus 105 right now at vandal sportsbook and you have it close to 52 So a good amount of value there. I'm curious with you. Uh, when you're looking at those adjusted success rate numbers If I look at like sp plus over the spn It does still have michigan pretty high even after the adjustment. So Is that because they've done a good job of? Suppressing big plays. Uh, you know, they're not letting up a lot or they're getting, you know Is the big play factor to kind of explain how that's going on there What what do you think is the key to explaining why michigan? Has been so good in some metrics when you adjust your schedule. Maybe not as much in success rate Uh, I mean, I don't know. Let me look real quick what I have them in terms of yards for play Um, you know, I mean, they're they're actually worse when I look at yards for play adjusted for kona. They're 22nd. Um I mean, I'll just say like I really trust the way that I do schedule adjustments I wouldn't be talking to you right now if I didn't if I weren't pretty good at that. Um They've beaten up on a lot Of bad offenses and I don't think penn states Offense is nearly that bad. So this is a test. They got to go on the road. I actually see like I don't know. I see a pretty wide range of outcomes. Sure. I can see michigan mauling them I can see penn state like having a great game and and winning big. Uh, I think there's a wide range of outcomes here. So um Yeah, I think it's gonna be a good game And I think that the the one of the big edges in college football is making proper schedule adjustments I know we're into november already. There are nine games in but there are still very Disperate strength of schedules across each team. So That's where you can find an edge. You have been studying this for a very very long time So if you can find an edge in that regard specifically the total or something like that I'm very willing to trust it. So I do think that there is Uh, a lot of incentive for me to add to follow you on that one with the over 45 and a half Which is minus 105 at fan dual sports book Let's move now to our second game, which is utah at washington where right now The spread in this game for utah in washington nine and a half points, uh favoring washington total is 51 and a half that's down two points from where it was yesterday and washington able to top usc in a shootout there, but They did have a mid-season lull And I don't know if it's too early to say that they're past that now, but they did at least play better there I know the receiver room still not fully fully healthy as of yet. So how do you see this game playing out at? Right, I think the final score of last week's washington at usc game was a little bit deceiving Washington was able to pull away at the end But honestly that game was back and forth the entire night and it really came down to one play where kaleb Williams just couldn't get out of the grasp of a defender took a sack usc It had to end up punting instead of tying the game with a field goal There's many different ways that that that could have gone. I mean, I don't see that as a really good Game for washington. Uh, this this program is kind of, uh, you know, they haven't been as good recently, which is fine I mean, it's just You know, they they haven't been particularly good lately Their defense ranks 50th and my justice success rate. That's not particularly good. They haven't been able to solve the defensive side of the ball like like orion has And then, you know, you can kind of make a case that utah is figuring it out Uh, uh, okay, so they're they figured it out all year on the defensive side of the ball They've always been good but You know, you come in the season you expect him rising to play and he doesn't and breson barnes has kind of come in And they've had some decent games, uh recently on offense So again, the college football average is about 41 and they did 45 and a half percent against arizona state They're the 47th best defense by my numbers 47 percent Against usc Uh, they're 54th in my justice success rate A lot worse in my yards per play. Uh, I mean, obviously they got their coordinator fired So if if you laugh at 54 percent 54th in the nation You're welcome to do that But also, you know, like and then 51 percent against cal Which has the 76th best defense So, you know, we're starting to see some decent success rate numbers for this this utah offense is probably a little bit better of uh an offense than uh, what Uh, what was happening at the beginning of the season and you know, my numbers actually like watching in by about five and a half here I do see a lot of value in in utah plus nine and a half Uh, I do think there's some value on the side Okay, so the plus nine and a half on utah is currently minus one ten at vandal sports book and I think that this is this is something that kind of helps explain why You're so far above market on the organ Hypothetical to with with washington where it's kind of your numbers like in organ state or organ justifiably But then also it does seem like You're lower on washington and again you talk about your explanation with that usc game It makes sense to be lower on them if the final score in a high profile game does not match with What the underlying numbers say actually occurred during that game utah is not a sexy team necessarily But like they've been a good team and it's something they're trending up And and I think that's also kind of explainable edward too right where they've had This turnover at quarterback kind of fluidity there It makes sense to take a while for things to click offensively So I feel like to me that makes me more willing to buy into what your numbers are saying Just because you can kind of explain why that may line up narrative Absolutely and at this point in the season I look at my numbers I compare them to the market and if if you can't find an explanation for this I usually tend to stay away. I think the college football markets are very sharp at this point in the season So, uh, I really do need reasoning like this. Um, you know, one team's coming down a little bit That would be washington Another team is probably trending in the right direction on one side of the ball. That would be utah. Uh, I think that kind of Reasoning is is really important before before you make a wager All right, so we are on utah plus nine and a half here against washington in that game Let's finish up here by talking about ol miss at georgia Now they're pretty fun game here as we have georgia as 10 at that point favorites that fandal sports book total in this game Is 58 and a half and ol miss ed has won five straight since they're lost to alabama But a lot of close games and that's banned against some decent competition for sure But some close games So can ol miss keep this one close enough to cover a double digit spread in Athens Yeah, uh We'll see. I mean old miss has been really interesting just with uh, you know coming into season How much lane kiffin was using the transfer portal and you look at the list of names that he brought in on defense And it wasn't exactly power programs that he was getting these guys from But I feel like you know when you're when you're doing the transfer portal thing You're kind of rolling the dice a little bit and you rolled the dice and it's actually been pretty good Uh, they rank 43rd in my adjusted success rate a lot better by yards per play. They are 12 So, you know so far so good on offense. They do what lane kiffin teams do they are pretty efficient 19th in my adjusted success rate So, yeah, you know, it's an interesting season. They're eight and one They got throttled by bama by two touchdowns and then they're four and oh and one score games against other teams in The scc west arguably one of the toughest visions and and and all of college football My number is like them. Uh, you know, I have georgia winning by 8.3 points Same argument as last week. I'm not Uh, I'm not willing to get in the way of georgia. I think they're I mean a lead program that is probably trending in the right direction Uh, I I don't think there's enough You know, obviously boldness is able to move the ball against the georgia defense that looks I mean very suspect compared to what they put out on the field the last few years Uh, sure, can they keep it closed for sure? Uh, I'm not too interested here I'm gonna stay away even though my number is like it I think that that we're at the point in the year too where it's pretty easy to Find reasons that's like a bet and that's always okay to not bet it. You know, you can show value all you want You never have to bet anything So I think that knowing when to not take the value is also a pretty valuable skill to have and you've been doing this for long enough where you kind of know Where you just rather watch the game, uh rather than taking it. So I agree I think it makes a lot of sense here georgia has looked good despite the absence of Brock Bowers Playing some pretty tough teams the other one here for sure I'll do respect to all this but I do understand why you wouldn't really want to Dabble in those waters betting against georgia right now But still two bets ed does like here for this week michigan and penn state over 45 and a half minus 110 And utah plus nine and a half Also minus 110 in that game against washington That's all we got here for today on covering the spread ed. What is going on for you this week over at the powering? So many things. I just had kevin coal on the football analytics show always so knowledgeable about nfl Football analytics and the rest so catch that Anywhere you get podcasts my podcast is the football analytic show and then you know working on my email newsletter Every saturday i send out five no get saturday, which is my curated list of sports betting tips So if you're looking for any action on any given weekend, uh, check that out at the power rank dot com All right powering dot com at the powering dot com for that the football analytics show for the podcast with kevin Cole was always a delight to listen to find ed on twitter at the power rank I am on twitter at jim sonnis You can follow fendal research on twitter at fendal research and obligatory I am on threads at jim dot sonnis as well Pronto on tom it's on vekio coming up later on today to break down bears and panthers for thursday night Football ed is back with me again tomorrow to break down all of week number ten in the nfl You can find that right here on the covering the spread podcast feed the fendal youtube page And fendal tv plus we'll talk to you all once again tomorrow. 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For security, Lagos Government's Building Largest Food Logistics Hub in West Africa assures of sufficiency. Lagos Government approves 500% car refurbishment loan for state workers. Details of these are many more. When we return, please stay with us. Lagos State Gov. Babajide Sawunlu has assured manufacturers of government continuous support for the growth of their businesses in the state. Sawunlu gave the assurance during the completion ceremony of the first 2,000 vehicles assembled in Lagos by GSE Motors in Akeja. He said government support would come through business-friendly regulations, provisions of infrastructure and investments in quality technical education to produce world-class workforce. According to him, the government is committed to ensuring that Lagos remains the first choice for businesses, not only in Nigeria but across the West African landscape. Lagos State Gov. Babajide Sawunlu has restated the commitment of his administration to activate integrated plans to bring about infrastructure and funding that ensures food sufficiency and security in Lagos State. The Governor was speaking at the Grand Finale of the year 2023 World Food Day celebrations held at the Police College in Akeja, Lagos. It is the Police College Playground, venue of the Grand Finale of the year 2023 World Food Day celebrations. The day celebrated annually provides a platform for farmers from all 20 local government areas and 37 local council development areas, individuals, organizations and governments to unite in the fight against hunger and malnutrition. The arrival of Governor Babajide Sawunlu heightens celebrations by the farmers. Governor Sawunlu says farming is important to his administration to ensure that food is affordable and accessible to all. He disclosed that his administration is building the largest food logistics hub in West Africa and that phase one of the project will be commissioned next year in order to ensure food sufficiency and security in Lagos State. Two years ago, we started with a five-year strategic plan, is to now take them to the middle-level market where two, three of them were building additional five or four or five. So the middle-level market will now take it from the main homes and before it now goes to the last mile, the corner shop market and the market that all of you see on the table will have a robust integrated plan, you know, are then showing that food sufficiency, food adequacy in Lagos is secure. Governor Sawunlu said his government has achieved a lot through the APIS project. He was quick to call for collaboration with farmers in the state and neighboring states to grow more rice per day. 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Also here are heads of state government's parasitists, retired heads of service, state employees in different cadres and traditional rulers. They thronged the banquet hall and government house and Lausa Ikeja, where the ceremony to usher in the new Lagos Public Service, Hemsman, was held to witness the formal swearing-in of Olabode Aguru into Lagos Public Service as the 22nd Head of Service. Aguru saw six Hakem Muriwokola, who voluntarily retired last September, after about five years at the saddle. Aguru Sawunlu, Olabode. Salam Niswere. Salam Niswere. And Kledge. And Kledge. That is the Service of Lagos States. That is the Service of Lagos States. Following administration of the oath, Aguru performed his first official assignment, getting the governor's approval for the long sort of a 500% increase in the car refurbishment loan scheme for the state employees. I don't want to showcase the another example of how it's here for public service. You directed me to bring up a file. I'm not supposed to bring it here, but I'm bringing it up here. So you directed me to bring up a file. And I brought up the file for your kind approval.  But sir, you do it also your working day. And as we know, you work 24 hours, seven days a week in the sun, in the rain. I'm working through fraud waters. And I didn't do that the way I know about Lagos States. So, sir, I have the file here, sir. It is towards the welfare of public service. I will address you when I talk. Can I bring it up? The welfare scheme heralded the arrival of a new sheriff in the Lagos State Public Service. Governor Sawolu congratulated the new head of service, noting that the Constitution entrusted the office of the head of service with enormous responsibilities to provide direction and leadership for the public workforce. The governor urged Aguru to dedicate himself to the task of governance and work to build on the achievements of his predecessors. Our administration remains committed to the welfare and training of our public service. Even as we continue to find ways to support the public service, this is a good platform once again to express administration, appreciation to the entire public servant in Lagos State. Given his vote of assurance, Aguru said he inherited a fantastic vibrant public service from his predecessor, pledging to build on the legacy bequited to him. The head of service hailed Sawolu for prioritizing the workers' welfare, pointing out that the approval of the car refurbishment loan scheme would go a long way in motivating the state employees and raise their dedication. Women have the capacity to transform not only lives, but also the broader landscape of the nation and the world, if given the needed support. This was a submission of Nigeria's first lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, while declaring the 23rd National Women's Conference which held in Lagos Open. The National Women's Conference is an annual event organized by Committee of Wives of Lagos State Officials, KAOSU. It is a platform that brings women together to discuss and develop ideas and solutions that will help to place them at the Centre of National Development. 23rd in a series, the event just like previous ones had women from all spheres of life in attendance. The arrival of Lagos State Governor Babajide Sawolu father ignited the hall. The first lady of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, declared the conference open. She urged participants at the event to collaborate and support one another in ensuring that every woman in Nigeria has the tools and opportunities to reach her full potential. In his goodwill message, Governor Babajide Sawolu described the theme of the conference as apt. He underscored the need for women to be more intentional and determined in harnessing their innate abilities. In her welcome address, Chairman of KAOSU, who is also the wife of Lagos State Governor, Dr Ibijukesawolu urged participants to take risks, face their fears and push past their comfort zones in order to discover what they are truly capable of achieving. Whatever you do as wives to your husbands, as mothers and grandmothers to your children and grandchildren, as guardians to your works, as sisters to your fellow sisters, as bosses to your employees, as employees to your bosses, as mentors to your mentees, as business women, as captain of industries and leaders in the marketplace, please make sure that you move your mind to your world. Think out of the box, if there's any box. In the world of Winston Churchill, continuous effort, not intelligence, is the key to unleashing our potentials. Other speakers at the event included the Senate President Senator Goswila Kwabiu and the governors of Oyo, Ogun and Oshu, who were represented. They loaded the giant strides and developmental projects already delivered by KAOSU. Women have been charged to carry on with the spirit of empowerment and believe that they can truly make a difference by supporting one another and continue to break down barriers. Lagos State Governors Papaji Desawunlu handed down this charge at a closing ceremony of the National Women Conference held in Lagos. It's been three days of intense brainstorming, inspiration, conceptualizing and creativity. These women have locked hands in this hall, fashioning out how to unleash their potential. They were taking through different presentations and in-depth analysis from brilliant minds with industry experts sharing their thoughts and experiences. In her closing remarks, Chairperson of KAOSU, Dr. Ibijukesawunlu advised all participants to apply lessons, skills and network garnered at the conference to improve on their daily activities. It has been an amazing and life-transforming experience for all participants at this year's conference. We have had top-notch presentations and in-depth analysis from brilliant minds and industry experts who have shared their thoughts and experiences on carefully chosen topics, in furtherance of their agenda to ensure that women make the best of our strengths and capabilities as pillars in our various homes and society and effectively deploy the matter, no woman, no woman, towards achieving phenomenal heights. With the high-level participation of political and economic leaders and women from across the country as well as the quality of contributions during the interactive session, I am confident that the various conversations at this conference will further inspire women to unleash their potential and influence their state and nation significantly. It has also addressed various challenges affecting women and promoting their well-being for a productive and fulfilling lifestyle. Aside from the main thing, we have thoroughly examined other sub-topics and these include homestead farming, a positive step towards sustainable national food security. She also encouraged the women to participate actively in the forthcoming national farming competition organized by the first lady of Nigeria, Senator Uluremi Chinubu. And I'm hoping after this lecture that you had listened to, you will take part in the competition that is coming up where the first lady of Nigeria has said that she wants to encourage every woman towards national food security and there is a competition that is taking place across the 36 states in which we will have to upload and post pictures of us women doing some basic farming in our homes, in our little farm or large farms. And all of us are going to send pictures of these women that are taking part in this competition and the winner gets all 20 million Naira, 20 million Naira. She has told us all first ladies please search for the winner. Governor Baba Jidesawun Lu was represented by the secretary to the state government Mises Abimbola Salu Hundehi. He described the theme of the conference as equal to action for everyone to make a difference no matter the background or circumstances.  Let us support one another and continue to break down barriers, challenge stereotypes and create opportunities for women to excel in every field. In conclusion, I would like to express my appreciation to the faculty of this conference. I know that your vast experience and deep knowledge have impacted positively on everyone who participated in this conference. My gratitude also goes to Kowso for their dedication to this conference and their tireless effort to empower women. In his keynote address, the governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohamed, who was represented by his deputy, Mohamed Awal Jatau, disclosed that his administration is committed to the cause of empowering women in a bid to achieve gender equality. We have a responsibility to create an enable environment that encourages entrepreneurship and fosters economic empowerment for women. Access to capital market, business training and mentorship programs are essential in supporting women owned businesses and facilitating their growth. By doing so, we are not only empowering women economically but also driving economic development and puberty alleviation within our states. As the tradition, this year's edition of the National Women's Conference also saw some men and women who have distinguished themselves in various fields honored. See you on this episode of The Greater Lagos Vision on Plus TV Africa. I'm Lovie Kuku Oyeduku. Bye for now.


Hey, this is Brett and this 2015 Dodge Challenger Hellcat is stock number 13826Z. I am here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, your new and used Dodge Challenger and sports car headquarters. This 2015 Dodge Challenger has the 6.2 liter supercharged V8 Hemi engine, which pumps out 707 horsepower with the red key. This car has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop per the state of Wisconsin inspection process. Has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off, and it is 100% ready to go. I'm going to go all the way around in this video. Inside underneath or inside under the hood, started up and take a look at all the options on this one. Sublime green pro coat is the color, and I show all my videos in 4K, and if you like the video, you can subscribe to my YouTube channel, which is youtube.com slash Summit Auto. Click the bell notifications, you'll get updates on the videos I do each and every day, as well as having access to one of the largest catalogs of vehicle and sports car walk-arounds on YouTube. This one comes with the 20-inch painted black alloy wheels. Of course, has the Brembo brakes with these slotted rotors, and it has General GMax tires on here. These are 275-40 ZR20s, and I would say they have just about all the tread left on them. I think actually they are brand new tires, we put those on in our safety inspection. Front fender is in fantastic condition, no dents or dings on there, and coming around the front, bumper and lower valance are in really nice condition, it's never been drilled into. You get the HID headlamps, the LED running lights, and then these are actually air inductions right there. We'll turn all those on at the end of the video. You get the wrapped hood with the cull induction, and then the two heat extractors, definitely my favorite hood on the Challengers, looks really good. Didn't see any dents or dings on there, and the passenger side front fender is in fantastic condition as well. No dents or dings on there, passenger side front wheel, no major scuffs or scrapes, and sublime pearl coat actually has a little bit of metal flake to it. As you can see there, it's hard to get the camera to focus on that, but it does have just a little bit of metal flake to it, really a neat color. As you go down this side of this 2015 Dodge Challenger, take note of how clean that body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. I 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 car, hear the car, 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. If this video helps you make that buying decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video, that it was helpful, and that Brett sent you back wheels in excellent shape as well, no scuffs or scrapes, and the back tires are brand new as well. Coming around to the back of the vehicle, no major scuffs or scrapes back here, you do get the backup parking sensors, the LED tail lamps. We'll turn all those on when we start it up a little bit later. Back storage area, trunk area is very nice and big and very clean. You do get the Harman Kardon Dual Subwoofer back here, tire and plater kit, and this is where your battery is located. Shocks are doing a nice job holding that trunk lid up, and that closes nice and solidly. Coming around to the driver's side, just as clean as that passenger side, no dents or dings on the rear quarter. And for full disclosure, this back wheel is just as clean as the rest. Driver's side door looks really good, and you do get the heated power mirrors, blind spot monitoring on there as well. Enter and go system. Inside you get the black Laguna leather seats. These are honestly one of my favorite seats, material types. I love the Laguna leather. It's really a soft leather. You get the SRT in Boston to the backrest. No rips, no tears, no actually even wear on those seats. Very nice factory format auto headlamps. You get the power telescopic and tilt steering wheel. That's working nicely. You get the carbon-carbon sound, power windows, locks, and mirrors. The back seats are just as clean as front seats. No rips or tears back here. I don't think this car has ever been smoked in, and you get the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have. We'll hop inside, check out the miles, the radio, and everything that this car has to offer on the interior. You can see this one only has 6,436 miles on it. You get the 7-inch LCD display. Instrument cluster is very nice and clean. You notice the machine finish dash trim on there. It looks really good. You get the SRT steering wheel, cruise controls on the right, Bluetooth and information center controls on the left, and audio controls on the back of the steering wheel. You get the thumb pads there. So it comes with the Uconnect 8.4 3C radio, AM, FM, and Sirius XM radio capabilities. It does have the factory navigation system. There's Highway 41, so that is working nicely. And you get AM, FM, and Sirius.  You also have your SRT and apps. You get your performance pages. It's got to get run mode for that to work. So you get SRT pages right there. You can change the settings, sport, track, custom, default. Changes the suspension as well as the brakes and everything. And then you have your performance pages. They take a second to load. So while they're loading, I will point out that you get your more manual tactile climate volume and tune controls down there, as well as climate controls. There are your performance pages. You get timers. You can do gauges and everything. G-Force, what the engine's doing. And even though it's up, it does take a second for that to load. Did want to point out that we have a nice Barton shifter here. Six-speed manual transmission, keyless entry. So there's your timers, your gauges. Gages 2, G-Force. And then what the engine is doing, obviously, it's off right now. We're going to turn on just a second here, passenger side format and seat. Excellent condition. Once again, I don't think this vehicle's ever been smoked in and the ceiling and headliners in great shape. You get map lights, home link buttons for garage door security systems and lane systems, assist and 911 buttons in the mirror. All right, let's start this guy up and take a look under the hood and listen to that exhaust and check out those lights. Starts right up. And because we're in track mode, we got the stability control off here. So you can change that, obviously. There we go, no check engine lights or anything like that. Let's go listen to that exhaust. Love those LED tail lamps. Sounds really good. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today. And hopefully from this HD video, you've been able to verify the quality condition options and, of course, cleanliness of this car all the way around inside and out. Got those HID lights there, LED running lights. And under the hood, we have the 6.2 liter supercharged V8 Hemi engine. Engine base, very clean, runs very smooth. Definitely show-like quality and condition on this car. Once again, this car has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop. Has a fresh oil and filter change. Has four brand new tires and is 100% ready to go. There is the emissions sticker. And I would highly recommend this car from a quality and condition standpoint. I'd ship this one anywhere in the country. Whoever wants it's going to love it when they get it. And to see more pictures of this car, one of other 550 new and used cars, trucks, SCVs, minivans, Wrangler, sports cars, challengers, chargers, Mustangs, Camaros, Corvettes, you name it. We got to go to that website right there, summitauto.com. Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle all at summitauto.com. And if you'd like to check out more HD videos, you can go to youtube.com slash summitauto. Click the bell notifications to get updates on the videos I do each and every day, as well as having access to one of the largest catalogs of vehicle walk-arounds on YouTube. In fact, in a second you will see a link to subscribe to my YouTube channel in the upper left. A link to more Challenger videos I've done in the upper right. A link to this vehicle on our website in the lower left. And a link to one of our latest YouTube videos in the lower right. Click those, check us out. We're super excited to help you with this ultra clean 2015 Dodge Challenger Hellcat in sublime green pro coat. Thanks again for checking out the video. I'm going to like, subscribe and share on the YouTube channel. I really appreciate it. Thanks again.


From Las Vegas, it's theCUBE. Covering VMworld 2018. Brought to you by VMware and its ecosystem partners. Welcome back. This is theCUBE's coverage of VMworld 2018 here in Las Vegas, Nevada. We'll go back to San Francisco next year, but here in Vegas, third year in a row, and I'm Stu Miniman, my co-host is John Troyer. Welcome back to the program, Gil Schneersen, who's the SVP and VxRail general manager with Dell EMC. Gil, great to see you. Good to see you. Still great to see you, John. All right, so caught up with you at Dellworld just a few months ago down the strip. At that point, we couldn't take an autonomous vehicle, but since then, that Blift-HOW is like autonomous vehicles, so we know things can change pretty fast in the area. Why don't you give us, what's the update on your end? What's changed since last we've talked? Thanks for asking. As you know, we're moving very fast. We're moving very fast, picking up many, many new customers every quarter, but the reason for that is because we keep innovating. So for example, in this show, we announced a new G-Series, a new 560, which is a new two-by-four Dell-based model with more memory, more CPU, more capacity, very popular form factor by our customers. We announced that we're now doing a sim ship with VMO. We're calling it synchronous releases. Our customers told us that they don't want to wait between a V-SAN release and a VxRail release. We announced VxRail participation in Dell's customer loyalty program, which is a lot of features for future proof. We just included VxRail in the network fabric design center, which is kind of a sign for things to come as where do we need the whole solution to be with networking inclusion. More configurability for VxRail SDDC. In other words, we keep moving forward very quickly. Yeah, and Gil, we've had the chance to document this since day one, so V-SAN, I said when it was first announced, this was the rising tide that will really raise all the ships in what we launched as the hyper-converged environment. VxRail was at the time EMC and VMware creating a team together, took the product people, took some various components and made a product that really accelerated the marketplace. It was very successful, thousands of customers. V-SAN's got 15,000 customers. You've got to be one of the top deployments out. Is it still the, you're all under the Dell family, but is it still made up of those people? And how does that teamwork and innovation between various groups work today? No, look, when we did this, there was no runbook. How do you take two teams from two companies? But we discovered all the time that what we've created is extremely powerful. We were growing three times the market. And obviously that's not a simple thing. And so on both of our sides, we're doubling down on the roadmap, the integration between the companies. And as I said, synchronous shipping is an investment because what you really have to do is move more things towards the VMware side so testing are done quickly because you don't want to forgo quality. So we're very happy with this model. And I think customers are happy with this model. You take the software, you put it with a specific configuration, you automate it to match and you get something that's very resilient. And I think both of us know that and both of us keep investing it because it's working. That's great. Gil, I wanted to kind of follow on with what you said about the VMware and the Dell teams coming together. So my tribe is on the VMware side, right? And the VMware admins have always been very involved with storage and for the last couple of years, they have been very involved cross-training on vSAN. So I'm kind of curious about the demand for VxRail and where it's coming from. Is it the VMware folks that are saying, hey, let's look at this? Is it the C level? Is it the old storage team? Is it the business unit? Like what's driving this transformation? Yeah, I'll tell you what. Two years ago, you needed to talk to people about YHCI. More and more, the conversation is why you're HCI. And we have a very unique position because we are part of the VMware stack. And in fact, maybe we'll touch on it later, but HCI has its place, but we're already looking at what multicloud means from infrastructure standpoint, right? And so if it's a transformative conversation, it would be some sort of an architect in their environment that's transforming. And they'd have a cloud project and they'll have a name for me, you know, cloud one, my cloud, one of those. But most of the cases is still a tech refresh. They're moving from a three tier architecture to a consolidated hyperconverge. And V admins have a lot to say. The server admins have a lot to say. And the reason they buy an appliance or basically buy our automation is because they realize that it saves them time and it takes away risk. And many of them, by the way, choose to deploy Visa on their own with servers, which we call ready nodes. And also very successfully. In other words, it's how much value you want on top of Visa and that you're willing to pay for and they're voting with the wallets. Yeah, Gil, I'm really glad you brought up multicloud because it's one of the big themes of the show. And it's funny because we know that Visan is a critical component of the VMware cloud foundation, you know, the VCF stuff. But I hadn't really thought about, I mean, VxRail is just built with Visan. So I still, even though I know it's a software thing, I think of it as an appliance and something coming from Dell. Talk to us about how VxRail fits into the multicloud world for customers. So VxRail, you know, today we have VxRail and we have VxRack. They differ only in parts of the management stack on top of them. There's a VxRail manager, there's an SDDC manager that comes from VCF. And by the way, those over time will find their way into some way of consolidating the stack. And the reason I'm talking about multicloud today is because we have not, we keep innovating with the Visan team, we keep benefiting from their innovation, we keep adding on top of it. But more and more you'll see us integrate with other parts of the VMware stack. So for example, I think Pat touched on our future or upcoming integration with our cloud assembly services. Right, so you could take a software based management and you realize and manage VxRails that you own as a service. So our current roadmap and investments are not only to invest in being the most resilient, robust, Visan based infrastructure, but tying to every part of the VMware stack so we can really be that infrastructure for multicloud. So between VxRail and VxRack and the different touch points across the stack, we're really weaving it into the entire stack. That's our strength. We are a VMware product essentially. Right, and so we've realized that we need to take the whole breadth of the VMware stack and integrate as appropriate at every level so this choice becomes a no-brainer for customers. You know, since VxRail is an appliance, like what's the, how often does it get updated? And are people capable of taking those updates since it's an engineered system like that? Yeah, look, in the past, when people wanted a lot of things to work together, they'd qualify them, they test them, and then they'd go upgrade them manually, piece by piece through a recipe, if you will. What we've done in the appliance model, we've added our own IP, which basically takes all of that and automates it. So what our customers get is a downloadable package from the EMC that includes the entire VMware stack update, all of the drivers, all of the firm are involved and does a one-but update for each node in the cluster and cycles with it automatically. So because we now are synchronously shipping with VMware, and by the way, customers are concerned with express patches, those we do within seven days or even faster. So every time VMware moves forward, every time we move forward, we package it all up and we make it downloadable and upgradeable automatically. So it happens as fast as they need it to be, you know what I mean? It's, there is no limitation because it's an appliance. It's the same thing as having a stack. I wonder if we could talk a little bit up the stack. The early customers that I've talked to, we know that modernizing your applications can be really challenging. A pattern that I've seen from a number of customers is step one, modernize the platform. Step two, start modernizing the applications. What are you seeing from your rack and rail customers as they go through that kind of transition? That's a good question. I think most of the customers we're talking to today are still modernizing the infrastructure. That's the reality. They need a more agile environment because they need to take care of things up the stack and go into development models of all sorts. You can also see that there's a lot of success with our joint work with Pivotal on Pivotal-ready architecture. And so Pivotal and us have created the ready architecture based on VxRail. The value in that is really Cloud Foundry and what it brings to the table and the design. And we see a lot of adoption for that. So people are adopting Cloud Foundry as a development model and a deployment model. They're using VxRail as an infrastructure and obviously because of its ability to migrate across environments, that infrastructure transcends, it makes sense. So there are two angles, but I think a lot of people are still modernizing their base infrastructure to be ready for greater things. Absolutely, all right. Gil, want to give you the final word? What should we be looking for from your group as we go through the rest of 2018? We're going to keep moving. We're going to keep innovating. We're going to make sure that the solutions fit into the existing VR environments in a more seamless way every time we work on it. And I got to say, if there are customers, are customers watching this Cuban interview, I keep reaching out to customers, say, look, we have many, many thousands of customers now. We do not want to lose the intimate relationship with them. So if anybody's watching and they're interested in a conversation, telling us what they wish to see on the roadmap, voicing their opinions directly to the product group, I know my title and Twitter handle are going to appear at the bottom. I invite people to reach out and talk to us. All right, great closing point, Gil. We're always loving fostering conversations and feedback.  John Troyer and I'm Stu Miniman. We're also always loved the feedback when you said it on Twitter. And we'll be back with lots more coverage here from VMworld 2018. Thank you for watching theCUBE. Thank you.


On the following screens, you will be presented with several scenarios that will reinforce key ideas in the presentation and give you a chance to discuss weed management with the group. Follow the instructions for each question. For many of the questions, you will be instructed to hit pause so that you can have time to discuss your thoughts. Resume play when you are ready. What types of weeds are these? Sedges, grasses, or broadleaves? Press pause now. The answer will be revealed in five seconds.  How do you know? Grasses have narrow leaves with parallel veins. Leaves are arranged in sets of two. Stems are round or flattened. Broadleaves have wide leaves with branching veins. Sedge leaves are arranged in sets of three and have triangular stems. Remember that sedges have edges. Knowing what type of weed you have is necessary to determine the best management strategy. Can you identify this weed and conditions that may have caused this problem? This is nut sedge and is usually an indication that the landscape is over-watered. How does this weed spread and how can you manage the problem? Nut sedge spreads by underground tubers. Remove weeds when they are young and change irrigation practices. Can you identify this weed and conditions that might have caused this problem? This is dandelion and usually invades thin areas in lawns. How does this weed spread and how can you manage the problem? Dandelion spreads by its seeds and new plants can regrow from its thick tap root. Make sure you dig out the entire plant and follow practices for maintaining a vigorous lawn. Refer to the Healthy Lawn Guide on the UC IPM website for more information on lawn management. Proper weed identification is important. The weed species present can be a good indication of an underlying problem. Remember that weeds need to be removed when they are young. Before seeds are vegetative structures such as tubers, rhizomes or stolons form. Be sure to always remove the entire plant. What can be done to make this turf healthier? Make sure you are growing the correct turf species for your area. Water and fertilize properly. Air rate as needed. And keep your lawn mowed at the correct height. Overseed lawns that are thin or dormant and consider renovating very weedy lawns or lawns with weedy patches. Herbicide should only be used as a last resort. Also avoid fertilizer products containing herbicides. Where will weeds invade? Weeds may invade in bare open areas near the fence line in cracks where water is leaking and from the lawn into beds. What could you have done to prevent weeds in the first place? Fill bare areas with competitive plants and apply fabric barrier. Apply mulch on top of the fabric barrier around plants or place mulch along fence lines. Add a mowing strip between the lawn and landscape beds. Seal cracks or use a high pressure hose. And fix leaks. Continue to remove weeds as you see them while they are still young and before they spread. What is wrong with this mulch? This mulch is too old and thin. How can you fix this problem? Remove all weeds. Mulch is more effective if applied over a fabric barrier. Be sure to apply mulch at the proper depth about 3 to 4 inches for a medium mulch. Replenish mulch as necessary. Mulches must be maintained in order to work effectively. However, some weeds will sneak in. Remove these weeds by hand as soon as you see them. Which tool will best manage these problems? Use a propane torch to manage weeds along a fence line. Use a hula hoe for annual weeds. And a weed trimmer to break older weeds. How did this happen? This is herbicide injury. How can you prevent this? Follow all label directions. Avoid drift to nearby plants. And make sure the product is registered for the weed and safe to use in the surrounding area. Injury can be avoided by using non-chemical control. Use herbicides as a last resort.


Greetings friends, survival doc here. This video is about what not to wear as a new survivalist.  You do not want to stand out in a worst case scenario. You want to blend in with the crowd. I do not recommend all this camo stuff. Well, like this hat, National Rifle Association. You know what this hat says to the police and to the military? It says, that guy's got a gun. It's the same with camo. They're going to say, that guy is packing. I don't want the police to know that I've got a concealed weapon. Even though my gun is legal, during an emergency, the police and the military are trained to disarm citizens, even honest law-abiding citizens. Learn a lesson from Katrina. After Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, the military went in. They went right to the well-to-do neighborhoods where the people had arms. These people were law-abiding citizens. They had arms simply for the reason to protect their homes, like the Second Amendment allows all Americans to do. And yet these military people were ordered to go in, forcibly take all the weapons from these people, and they left them defenseless against the looters. Now, in this video, I am not knocking the military. I don't want you to get the idea that I am anti-police or anti-military. My son is career military. He's currently active duty. I support the military. But at the same time, I realize how the police and the military can be corrupted and how they can be used by an illegitimate government, or a corrupt government. This has not been reported by the media, but I have heard from people who were there that in the aftermath of Katrina, approximately 50% by some estimations of the soldiers who were ordered to confiscate guns refused to do so because they knew that those Americans were law-abiding Americans and they knew that the Second Amendment gave those people the right. However, what that means that 50% refused is that it also means that 50% went along with it. There are a lot of people who are just follow orders regardless of whether they are constitutional or not. And in cases like that, it may help, it may get you shot. But it may help to remind these people about this right here, and this might be an effective weapon. I'm not saying it's the only weapon you should have with you, but this might actually turn out to be your most effective weapon. This is the Constitution of the United States. I wouldn't hesitate to turn it to the Bill of Rights and read to the military person if I'm given a chance. Amendment number four, the Bill of Rights. The right of the people to be secure in their person's houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause supported by oath or affirmation and particularly describing the place to be searched and the person's or things to be seen. I'd also point out the Second Amendment, which they are well aware of. The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. The military people do not have to follow orders that are illegal, even if their commanding officers give them the order. If they know the order is illegal, they do not have to follow it. Also remind people in the military periodically about the oath that they took. There was a young man, a nephew of mine in my family, who had just come back from joining the branch of the military. He'd just come back from boot camp, and I talked to him about this. And I said, do you remember swearing in those? He said yes, I do. And I said, do you remember who you swore allegiance to in that oath? Well he thought for a minute. Now at the time he swore this oath, I'm sure there were a lot of things going on. He was new to the military, he was being bombarded with a lot of information, and he couldn't think of actually who he swore an oath to. And then he guessed, I said, I think the president. And I said no, you did not swear an oath to the president. This is your oath, and this oath is used by all branches of the military. And a similar oath is used by most police departments and by most politicians, including the president and Congress. I, state your name, do solemnly swear or affirm that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. So our military people, and if there are any military people out here, out there watching this, I remind you of this, and I'm sure most of you do not need reminded of this, especially the people who are watching my videos, I'm sure you don't need to be reminded of this. But I'll say it anyway for the people who are not aware of this. Our military takes an oath, and our policemen do the same thing, take an oath not to their commanding officers, not to the president, but they take an oath to the Constitution of the United States. In this country, the individuals are the sovereigns. Continuing with the oath, semicolon, that I will bear truth, faith, and allegiance to the same semicolon, and that I will obey the orders of the president of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, comma, according to regulations and the uniform code of military justice. So help me, God. All right, notice that first of all, the first thing they swear to is they swear allegiance to support and defend the Constitution. There are no conditions on that part of the oath. All right, secondarily, that I will obey the orders of the president of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, and there is a condition to that part of the oath, comma, according to regulations and the uniform code of military justice. And if you will check that uniform code of military justice, you will find out that the soldiers do not have to follow orders from the commanding officer or even from the president if those orders are illegal, according to the laws of this land. And what is the law of this land? This right here, the Constitution. So in a worst case scenario, when the crap hits the fan, it may help to remind the people who are given orders to violate this. It may help to remind them about the oath. Now some of them, it probably won't help. Some of them will probably just cheat you just for reminding them. But for others, there are a lot of good people, and I believe in our military and I believe in our police officers. And I know that there are a lot of good people in the military and in our police. Now the problem, another problem of course is not only military people who will follow orders over their oath, but also the fact that they have been bringing foreign troops into this country and training the foreign troops to take actions against Americans. Yes, there have been cases reported in the news of foreign troops being brought over here by the United Nations, and what are they training to do? They are training to go door to door and confiscate guns of Americans. Well, the thing about foreign troops is they do not take an oath to the Constitution of the United States, and not only that, but there are a lot of people out there who hate us, and they hate us for different reasons. One reason they hate us is because we have a lot. They're envious of Americans because we historically have been so rich.  And our government has created a lot of enemies over there. And a lot of those people over there will be all too happy to come over here and subdue and shoot Americans. So when the crowd hits the fan, if we have to turn against our military, we don't have a chance. Our military is the largest, the strongest, the best-equipped military in the history of the world. We won't have a chance. Our chance will be if our military is on our side. And it may turn out to be a case where our military is fighting the United Nations military. I don't know. I'm just saying that's a possible scenario. But regardless, our Constitution is our greatest weapon as a people. Now getting back to what not to wear, if you're some young 18- or 19-year-old military eager beaver, and you see a guy wearing clothes like this, if there is a group of people moving through a checkpoint, and if you see a guy with clothes like this, what are you going to do? You're going to search him and you're going to de-arm him. You do not want to wear a hat that says National Rifle Association. You do not want to be wearing camo clothes and certainly do not want to be wearing a tactical vest, especially when those see people with these vests that have a holster right here and they're wearing their gun right here. What are you thinking? You want to blend in with the crowd. You want to wear normal civilian clothes. If you're a United Nations troop or an American troop and you're watching people go through a checkpoint and you see someone dressed like this, what are you going to think as compared to someone dressed like this? And on the subject of your bug out bag, in my video on bug out bags where I showed you the contents of my bug out bag, I got a lot of flak from my viewers about the bright orange color of my bug out bag. Well, the reason I got bright orange is because when I bought this bag, I bought it for a two-month hitchhiking tour across Europe and traveling down the highway, I didn't want to get hit by a car or a truck. So I got bright orange for a reason. Now I would rather have bright orange than camo. Here's my wife's bag, yellow. We don't want to get hit by a car or a truck. But I've decided that bright orange and yellow, even though they're better than camo, it still might not be the best choice in some situations. Here's another option. This is one of my smaller bug out bags. I like this bag, it has a nice leather bottom, it's a good quality bag. Of course, there is one problem with this bag. This is not designed to be a military style bag, but it is olive green, and it does have a little bit of a military look about it. I prefer not to have this color bag. I believe the ideal color is black. Black will blend in a very, very common color. This is the most common color for suitcases and packs of all sorts. Also black does not stick out, it's easier to hide at night of course. And if you're in the woods, black does not stick out. Of course, there may be times when you're in the woods where you want bright orange. If you're traveling through the woods during hunting season, I would not recommend black. I'd recommend bright orange. So if you get lost in the woods, and people are trying to find you, for helicopters flying over orange bags, it's going to be a lot easier to spot than a black one. But these are things that you just need to consider. Here's one of my favorite bags. This is a photographer's bag. And what I like about this bag is it says right there, photo. So at a quick glance, it lets people know exactly what's in this bag. This is my camera equipment, right? High capacity magazines. Of course they still might search my bag, and they might find my equipment. But I think this is still preferable than carrying your equipment around in a tactical vest, especially camo tactical vests. This is my range bag. This is what I carry to the shooting range, though. I put my pistols in here, my ammo, my gun cleaning equipment. This is just an unassuming black bag. It is actually a type of briefcase bag. Well, when I go to the range, of course, I'm not really concerned about the type of bag that I have. But if I ever grab this, because it has ammo in it, it has my pistols in it, if I ever grab this, or I need this to carry some of my weapons with, I'd much rather be carrying this bag than an ammo bag.  Now there are certain situations where camo would come in handy. I have a lot of camo because I am a hunter. And if we ever have to hit the woods and hide out, camo might come in handy in that situation. But let's face it, if we get to that situation, we are up a creek. We're hoping that it does not ever get so bad where we actually have to hit the woods. And ordinarily after a disaster though, in most situations, if you need to bug out of your house or you need to carry some warm clothing or you need to carry some equipment, I do not recommend you go out wearing a lot of camo, a lot of military looking equipment because you're just flagging the police and you're flagging the military. And they're going to say, that guy has a gun. We need to disarm him. And I don't know about you, but in a worst case scenario, I'd rather keep my guns. This is Survival Doc, reminding you, be prepared or be prepared to be pleased.


Welcome to Monet Cafe. I am excited to bring you a product review video of a product I think every artist can use. And if you haven't subscribed yet, I hope you will. There's lots of artistic learning and lots of fun. Let's get started. Hello and welcome to Monet Cafe. I'm artist Susan Jenkins and I'm bringing you a product review video today that I'm excited about. It's from a company, Arteza. I have loved working with Arteza. They have great products. They've provided products to me over the years to review and I'm really excited about this one. It's an organizational product which should work for artists no matter what medium that you use. Now many of you may know that my mother passed away. It's been just weeks now and she had had a stroke and I was going out to help my family. They live about three and a half hours from me and I packed up many of my art supplies but I did it rather quickly and found out that she had passed before I could get everything out there. And so the world just turned upside down. I know many of you know of this loss and this heartache. So I came back home. This is my first day back home in my studio and I knew I needed to pack some more things up. I just didn't have everything I needed. So once again these storage caddies are going to be so awesome for me. So I want to thank you guys too for many of your messages. I can't explain how much it meant to me and how much love I feel from so many of you on this YouTube channel, in our Facebook group, Monet Cafe Art Group, and my patrons from my Patreon page. God bless you and thank you so much. So I'm literally being an art gypsy like I've had to do many times in my life before. And you know it's actually there's some positive things about having to downsize and take your show on the road. So hopefully this will help you and hopefully this product will help you too. I think these products could be used not even just for art. There's just great little organizational products for you to use. So I am excited to bring you this and I'm going to get started loading this up and it should be very helpful and practical. Oh and one other thing I'd also like to thank the company Love in Faith. It's a t-shirt company that has provided me some t-shirts to wear in my videos and this one in particular is the first time I'm wearing it and it says consider the wild flowers how they grow and it's a verse from Luke 12 27. Now my mom loved flowers. She was just like a botanist. She was so good with planting flowers. So this is a very special shirt for me and it happens to be my birthday today. So anyway, well I held it together as long as I could for that video and now I have to do a voiceover. So I just thought I'd share some of the other t-shirts from Love and Faith. It's love in faith dot life by the way, but I will have a clickable link in the about section of this video if you would like to get a t-shirt from Love and Faith. Love that company. All right let's do this product review. All right and now I have my little camera gadget. It's called an Osmo that I use with my iPhone camera that can actually follow me. So now you can see me walking around my studio here, but I have a lot of things on shelves. I love open shelving to make things easy to get to. My books are falling over, but I need to gather up some books. I have some acrylic inks, some other pastels. I have my shelf here with pretty much my studio pastels here and let me let my camera follow me down here. I have a lot of things in baskets, sketch books. I've moved a lot of these already to put into the baskets, but it should be fun seeing what things I can gather and put into the storage bins. So let's go. I better stand up. So let's take a look at these organizational products from Arteza. The first one is called storage caddies. Now this comes in a two-pack or that's how they send it to me anyway and it has a white and a gray. I'd like to find out if you can get them in just white or just gray. This may have been what I asked for, but this is the storage caddies. And the other one is called two, comes in a pack of two carry all baskets.  So I'm going to open these up and see how much I can fit inside of these. So here we go. I haven't even opened them yet. First, I will be filling up the storage caddies. Once again, this is a two-pack set. I do love, like it says, how it's easy to clean and store. And I like the efficient organization, how you can stack them on top of each other. So these are just very practical. Here you can see how they fit on each, on top of each other with the handle. Also, there are five compartments inside and in that front section there, the middle portion comes out to make that one big section. If you'd rather just have it large in the front, you'll see me do that in a minute when I'm adding products to these. Now I was just randomly throwing in all kinds of things before I tried to get any order to it. I even put Bob Ross down in there. But this is just giving you an idea of how much you can actually fit down in these storage caddies. There you go. You can see how you can make it one big section by removing that piece. All right, now let's look at the carry-all baskets. Once again, easy to clean and store. This one has three compartments and it has a bigger compartment in the back for things like books or paintings. And also incredibly practical. I like both of these products. And here I am filling up some of these storage carry-all baskets with random products. I did like the back section that had space for books, for even some pastel supplies. And in this one I put some watercolor palettes. I put eight containers of acrylic ink so it fits a lot. I was very impressed with how much I was able to fit in these bins. Also too, of course, we can fit our paintings, pastel paintings, whatever paintings you have. It's really handy for some different sizes. And also it's just so easy to carry with that nice wooden handle as well. And of course, lots of books. This happens to be a book that I made for my mom with her photography. She used to love to take photos of skies. So I made her a book with some of her favorite Bible verses. Now, here's some of my sketchbooks, my drawing pads, and just so many different products you can add to the storage caddies or the carry-all bins. And I am definitely going to be using these a lot. I know I'm going to order some more of them. Super handy not only to take your art places, but to keep things organized in your studio as well. So here's a little photo of some of the things I packed in my fun little storage bins, which I will have available as clickable links in the description of this video. But I wanted to show you one other practical storage option that's worked really well for me over the years. Often you see my pastels laid out my studio palette of my pastels laid out in a line on one of my shelves. But you probably didn't know that it's part of a drawer storage system. And it really comes in handy when I have to go somewhere and take my pastels. I bought this at a store that I would say is equivalent to a Hobby Lobby. Those are my neutrals. I have one drawer just for neutrals. And it's called Southern Hospitality where I live, but it's like an art supply store. So if you could find anything with a little drawer system, it's really a great way to not only use the drawers to lay out for a studio pastel palette, but to put them away to take them on the go. So I hope this video was helpful for you for some storage solutions. I will have clickable links for these products in the about section of this video, along with a clickable link for some of the t-shirts from Love and Faith. So thank you everyone for your love and kindness, beautiful heartfelt messages during this trial with the loss of my mother. And as always, happy painting.


with Color Valley Cooks. Today, I had six ears of corn, so we're cutting it off the cob today, making some good old corn for supper. I'm going to wash it a few times so you can hear my wash from the background, but I've got some corn that I just shut, and I'm going to make some cream corn out of it. I've got a new scrubber. I really like it. I've got it on the website. It's a lodge, and of course it's used for your cast iron, but also I'm going to use it for my veggies. So I'm going to brush the corn silk off of them with this first, lay them up here, and then I'm going to show you how I cut it off the cob. This is just corn from the grocery store. I think I actually got this at Walmart. I had a nice conversation with a little older gentleman while I was standing there about St. Mary's.  He was telling me a little bit about growing up here and how much it has grown, so I enjoy talking to him. But I like corn on the cob, and I've showed you how to do it pretty recently, but the kids really like for me to cut it off the cob. So I thought I would cut this off the cob the day I've got a chicken and the crock plot just to make it easy for a Saturday, and it's so hot I don't want to heat up nothing today in the kitchen. So what I typically do is I cut it off the cob like that and get all the silk out of here before I start. Rinse out my sink. I love having a garbage disposal. I haven't had one since I lived in an apartment when I was in my early 20s, and I am so enjoying the garbage disposal. Okay, I'm going to lay these right here and get me down the bowl and start cutting this off the cob. So I typically start with a really sharp knife. My seven knives, I have cutco's. They're really really nice. This is a serrated. I like to use a serrated blade when I do my corn on the cob, of course you don't have to. When I was growing up my mama and granny always used those with the silver handle. I don't even think I got one anymore. I don't think I brought them with me, but I'm going to cut. I usually cut it in at least two layers and I cut it pretty small.   Cut and then I scrape. Once I'm done, then I'll go around the edge and scrape. But first I cut. You can cut. This knife is so good I can just go down it like that and don't leave a lot of corn on it. Make sure you scrape it good. And I told y'all when we grew up we made soup and out of our field corn because kept it from being too sweet. Tomatoes are already really sweet and when you put corn in vegetable soup, if it's sweet corn and you have the sweet tomatoes, to me it just is too sweet. So we would use our field corn. A lot of people think that you don't eat field corn because that's why everybody feeds the cows and the pigs and the animals on the farm. But we grew up eating it as well. Now it only has about a week when it's ripe.  And if you miss it by a couple of days you're too late. It also sours so you can't take it off the stalk and store it for a week before you cut it off the cob. You really should cut it off the day that you pick it or the next day at least. And it better be conditioned if you wait till the next day. So if you know of any farmers that grow field corn and you've never tried it, you're not going to get it anywhere but on a farm. You're not going to find it in a market. You're not going to find it in the store. You would actually have to go knock on somebody's door that's growing corn in their field and ask them, is that field corn? And then you could ask them, do they mind you getting a couple of, you know, some of it when it comes in. And more than likely they're going to say, sure you can have some because it's not like you're going to be cutting it to sell to people. So I cut once, I cut again. I'm going to show y'all how thin that is. I usually go around it when I'm not talking and then I go around it again.  I'm glad I don't have a lot to put up or I would get worn out really quick. And it's really not hard to do this. Now I know now you can buy corn in a tube out of the freezer section. And it's pretty good if you get the white, but it does have a lot of water in it. So I will tell you that much. So if you think you're going to get a tube of corn and it's going to be enough to serve several people, you better get at least two tubes because it's mostly water. And when they first came out with it to me, I had more corn in it than it does now. But just like everybody else, I guess, to try to save a little money, they added more water to their corn. Y'all know what I'm talking about. And I'm not trying to badmouth anybody. If you don't have the energy to stand up and do this, it's much better to buy it that way than to eat, try to eat cream corn out of a can. It's really sweet. The only thing I use cream corn out of a can for absolutely only thing is Nana's Mexican cornbread in our first volume food booth. So when you scrape it, it scrapes what starch is in against the cob. It scrapes that into your corn. And it'll help it have a little starch to it. If you want thick cream corn, I guess for the most part we make for what people would call fried corn. Because I don't always thicken it with a little corn starch because this corn that you buy today don't have enough starch in it to thicken it, make it creamy. You also have to use a little corn starch when you cook it. If you don't want to do that, then you're pretty much just eating fried corn and that's just throwing it in there with some butter or some bacon grease and cooking it on a high heat for about five, really five to ten minutes at the most. And serving it up so you don't add a little water to it. But you don't add cream or milk and you don't add corn starch. That would be cream corn. I think that would be my difference between cream corn and fried corn would be if you make, you know, a thicker gravy with the corn starch in it and put a little milk in it. That would be my idea of cream corn. Now once you get finished, then you're going to add a little water to it. Enough just to the top of the corn. Now you can make this in the microwave if you want to. But I'm going to put this on the stove top. We'll put in a little butter and I'll see you at the stove top. All right. In our first volume cookbook, you'll find cream corn on page 110. Really, I've got cream corn, parenthesis, fried corn, and I've got corn, water, salt, pepper, milk, butter, or margarine. And really and truly, if you do it this way, it's not creamy with this kind of corn that you buy in the store unless you use a little corn starch. So I'll put an option on recipe revisions and y'all can write it in in your cookbooks on page 110 to add the corn starch to the milk before you make this corn. And I'll put that under the recipe revisions on my website. And you can make it with just water if you want to. You don't have to put milk in it unless you're going to use the corn starch. Today I'm just frying this up. I don't think I have any bacon grease saved. So I won't be putting any bacon grease in it. Some people put it in there. Some people don't. I don't. Most of the time I just use butter. So what we're going to do is let that butter melt in this corn. Here's our corn. So you're just going to add water up to the top of the corn.  That will determine the amount of water really you need to put in it. I know y'all like recipes, but sometimes you don't absolutely have to. See how the corn should be right at the top of the waterline just like that. And now we're going to add a little salt and pepper to it. Excuse my reach. So I'm going to add some salt and some pepper. And that's pretty much all I want in my corn today. I'm not going to use milk. I'm not going to use corn starch. And I am only going to put the butter in there for the oil. And all I'm going to do is simmer this. I'm going to bring it up to a boil and let most of the water boil off of it. And then I'm going to pour it up for supper. It's only going to take this once it starts to boil. The corn's done in five minutes. What you're really doing is just cooking the water off. If for any reason you've got corn that's a little tough and you've waited too long to cut it off the cob, instead of using water make sure you use milk because it will soften the kernels up for you a little bit. So let's bring this to a boil. That's good y'all. You know what? I know a lot of y'all are probably going to say, well you could have added onions or you could have put in bacon grease or you could have done this or that. But let me just say this. Many times when I eat vegetables I just like plain old salt, pepper and butter. To me there's nothing that makes and tastes any better. I mean all of them just about. That's all you need. So all I'm going to do is simmer this until most of the water's off of it. I'm going to set my timer for at least five minutes so I know it gets done. You should all use a timer when you're trying to cook stuff. There's something black right there. Try to see what it is. A piece of pepper. This pepper I used to grind or to grind so it has some bigger pieces in it. It won't take you that long to cook down. Many of y'all are like me when you grew up. Y'all grew corn and you would cut it off the cob and mama always froze it. She never took the time to can it because corn is something that you got to be really careful with to can. I mean it's one thing to add a few kernels to your vegetable soup when you can it. But it's another thing to can corn. It takes a long time. So mama would always cook it up like this and put it in freezer containers and freeze it. We had a deep freezer and then she would get the corn out and it sure was good in the winter time to get some good garden corn with supper. If you've never experienced walking out in a cornfield to take some corn off the stalks, there's nothing like it. You better go early so you don't get too hot and the bad thing about going early is the spiders are still in place. So spiders love corn and there's always spider webs everywhere in between the stalks. So you have to watch what you're doing if you're scared of spiders and don't ask me what kind of spiders just plain old spiders.  But I just remember as you know anytime I've ever went and picked corn I hated getting the spiders. But you get the good stuff. It's worth it in the end. Now see this corn is not going to be creamy. It's just going to be corn. But you can eat. It's just off the cob. See that? If this were field corn and I did that, you wouldn't even have to add corn starch. It would already be thick. Field corn has a lot of starch in it. All the corns that you buy do not now. So if you want it to thicken, then you've got to add a little corn starch. Just take a little milk in a bowl, about a cup of milk, and add you for about six stalks of corn. This is about how much we have. I would put in a couple of tablespoons of cornstarch in a cup of milk. Mix it really well with a whisk so that it's not lumpy. And pour it in here to thicken it just like you would a roast gravy or anything else. And then you would have nice pre-creamed corn. We've got a minute and 30 seconds left on our five minute timer. And I will probably leave a little bit of water in this corn because I'm going to pour it up for the day and put it up for supper. Just let it sit for a minute and then put it in the fridge and then warm it back up at supper time. I'm getting my supper done early today. So this is my bowl that I used to pour it out in. I'm going to go over there and rinse it out and then we're going to pour it up. All right, so we're going to pour this up. I've got chicken in the crock pot. We'll have some corn and I'll make some fried potatoes or something like that since the chicken's in the crock pot and it'll be soft texture. This corn is a soft texture. So I need something crunchy on the plate. So I'll probably fry up some good potatoes. Thanks for watching Colored Valley Cooks where we cook like mama did where we eat like the family did. Right? Thanks for tuning in. Please hit the subscribe button and I will see y'all next time on Colored Valley Cooks. Bye y'all. Love you.