It's DDK and I'm back today with another spark video. Two shots of everybody tuning in. If you want to subscribe, make sure you subscribe button. Give me a thumbs up and do not skip those ads. It is June 23rd and it's time for us to get to this bang in this video.  First off, the day started off terrible. We went to Sam's club and I had to wait outside 20 minutes to get to order. I had to wait so long.  It was just crazy, baby. So you guys want to make sure you stay tuned for that. Also, if you want to buy some of the merch, all you got to do is email me at growntimesofusdva.com and let me know what you're trying to do or flow sick like the flu. I hope you guys enjoyed the video. Make sure you subscribe and make sure you give me a thumbs up and do not skip those ads. It's time for us to get to this bang. Let's go.  One more thing before we go.  Just so you know, I move fast, talk fast and get cash. Let's have a blast. We won. We pulled up to get it done. Let's go. I have an order on my queue. I'm here at Sam's club to pick it up, but Sam's club is not open right now and no one has come out yet. So I was wondering if you guys can call them. I've called them multiple times but no one has answered. I'm not sure if you guys have a different phone number or something. Okay, understand you. Don't worry about that. I'm here to help you. Let me try to contact them to see what's happening. So can you tell me in which spot are you located? I mean the parking lot. Yes, I'm in the parking lot. Yes. Yeah, but what is the number of the parking lot? The number? Oh, the number. The parking space? I mean number one. Number one. Okay, perfect. Just give me a moment please. I'm going to cry that information to this door. Okay. You guys would not believe what's going on. It's the first order and it's already happening, right? So Sam's club is closed right now because it is now 746. They don't open until eight o'clock, right? I've been sitting out here for 20 minutes. I don't think they know I'm here and I couldn't get in to talk to somebody. Last time I had somebody walking, talking to somebody, but this lady that was working at the door, I asked her to walk and talking to them. Can she tell them I'm here? She said I just gotta keep calling them phone number, man.  So I found out what happened, guys. Guess what? All the way sparked up dispatched the order. Somebody got the order, they accepted the order. Then they went to Sam's club to pick up the order. Then when the people brought out the order to get it in them, they drove off. Then the people at Sam's club had to call Spark all the way sparked up and let them know to dispatch a new driver. The new driver was me, but when they dispatch a new driver, I'll guess what happens. Sam's club don't get a notification letting them know that somebody is here. And it was closed. So I'm just, I don't look, Chuck. That's what happened. Either way I go, we gon' continue to get to this door and y'all know we go, let's go, let's go. Order number two, I like them new hunters because they move. Order. One more two orders, 9.1 miles for 24, 39. We ain't stopping until we shine. Let's go. I heard your office ordered to get an order, baby. They do have to sign so we can get on the ground for the end of time. You know what I'm talking about? We're in this doorbell so we can come out here and get busy. That's all they got, baby.  I'm trying to start off getting this money, man, but it is what it is. Hello. How you doing, man? I'm getting that long. Oh, that's okay. Okay. You want me to sit it right here? Sit it right here, sit it right here. Right here? Thank you. You're welcome. I just did it. I just need the signature, too, when you're done. I need a signature. One more. Yes, ma'am. Okay. You want your seat? Don't get, no, I was awake, but don't get too close because I should have on my mask, I had it right there to put on. Okay. God bless you. Thank you very much. You have a great one. You too. Okay, bye-bye. Bye-bye. Three. Before we do this, oh, I got a P. One more several there for 14 items, four more three miles for 2650. Oh, I'm P. Nipsey, let's go. Climbing my trap, jumping like a grasshopper. Make me feel like a doctor. Yeah, baby. We went in there and got busy. Actually, it wasn't that bad at all. I just like the produce and everything. I'm not the greatest at the produce, but it wasn't that many things. I couldn't find the organic oranges that they wanted, but other than that, everything else flow pretty smoothly. And I've started learning new things. So this is where I'm gonna start doing. But I need to get some meat cut. I'm gonna go to the meat first and then shop the other produce and then come back.  We're gonna get this sack. You know what I'm talking about? And we ain't wack. Let's go. Shop and deliver order.  We got to give him, he has to sign also. He said he's disabled and everything. But guess what? Oh my God guys, it is beautiful out here. I'm talking about. Look at all that. Look at that drone.  This is beautiful, man. This is what I'm talking about. This is what I'm trying to be dunked up. He got like a wood cabin type of things going on. This is very, very nice. I'm gonna be out here to stick with a stick. Come on. Don't get me doggies. Oh hey doggies. I can see the doggies. They're beautiful. Nice doggies. Don't get me doggies. Okay, sir. You gotta get them doggies together. This is beautiful, man. I really like this. This is what I'm talking about. This is perfect for me right here. Out here, nice little yard. Two car garage. Ducked off. That's what I'm talking about. Right here, baby. Got the wood cabin feel to it. This one. I'm definitely gonna get me a wood cabin eventually, God. How you doing, sir? I'm just gonna put it right next to the strippers there. Sir, where were the easiest for you? Right there is good. Right where the mouth is. I gotta open the front door. Okay, I'll put everything here for you. Oh really? This is beautiful out here, sir. I really like it. It's very nice. Very nice house. Thank you. You're welcome. You've been staying here for a long time? You did it? You guys, you have great taste.  And that's good. You have a great day, sir. Thank you. Order number little shoppers and liver's is gone. I'm at number 10, I was 1.3 miles. We're 1950. We about to pull up and get jiggy. Let's go. Maybe we back at it again, back at it again with another door there or... Okay, door there. I'm gonna try it. This car is janky, but we gonna move in rules. You know what I'm about? Let's get busy. Let's move kind of flip to it. Look at these ones, hold on. Brake, brake, brake. They better get some bananas and grapes. I'm trying to be... I'm not that fast now. I'm gonna go up here. As those out of done right here, it's like I want you to put a number in right there. Should I just come here? Yeah, this is fine. Okay. Hopefully I'll be done with this one fast too and I can get another one. We shall see. There you go. The shopping liver ordered to get an order. This one says place about a garage door. So that's what we're gonna do. And I'm gonna steal a window doorbell. You know what I'm talking about? Just so they know it's our box. I'm putting in the shade a little bit. They got that milk. They got milk in. They got some tombstone pieces. I ain't had no tombstone so long. You know what I'm talking about? We about to get it on. They got some cereal, some tuna. We about to get busy. Drop it like it's hot. I don't have the photos. Man. Let's go and bring this doorbell, baby. So they can come out here and get busy.  You know what I'm talking about? Stop until we get rich. We're touring 3.8 miles for 2102. Y'all know what we about to do? Or number six is all. We're touring 5.8 miles for 2118. We about to pull up and get this green. Let's go. This one was going to an apartment. But guess what? We got lucky, baby. It says leave it at the front desk. So we ain't gotta do all that. Walking up the stairs and all that stuff. He said leave it at the front. Let me close this trunk. I'm out of pocket. I'm out of pocket. Let's go. They usually got to let me in because it's like an older pro foam or something like that. Hello. Hello, man. How you doing, sir? My name is Orlando. Orlando? Yes, ma'am. Let's go over here. Okay. That thing pretty fast. No, not really. You know? Nah. There's better ones. Mm-hmm. This is the lowest of the line in here. Is there more or is that everything? This is everything. Okay, you can just put them at the door. Okay. Just slide them in. I see you got some decorating going on. Looks nice. Yeah, I only see. Wow, that is good. You got them in a bag. Yeah. I mean a bag. My partner came up with this idea. I can't take the credit. It makes it way easier for us. Oh, yeah. That would have been several scripts. Yes, ma'am. Okay. And that is everything. I just need to take a photo already fast and then I'll be out your hair. I dropped my phone. All right, thank you. You have a good one. Thank you, too. We are here to drop off order number two. And this one said meet at the garage door. So I'm probably going to have to bring the doorbell and come back to the garage door so they can get busy. I hope they whip me. I'm trying to move, trying to shift. I'm trying to get another order to get an order. And we do have another order. My business partner is doing it right now. Or is about to do an Instacart order. You want to come out? Let's go. I'm going to bring the doorbell right quick. Hopefully come on with it. I think it's probably because the kitchen is probably closer to the garage door. But we'll see where they go. Wherever they go, we go. We're trying to get this door. Let's open the door a little bit. Hello, how you doing, sir? There you go. You just sitting, sitting, sitting there out here. All righty. Dude, he said sit him down here. So let's hop, hop, hop, hop. That's the next one. I'm going to keep on taking all of these right here down. Let me get the phone in the back pocket. Step back out of the photo. All righty, sir, you have a great one. Order seven and eight. I just pulled back up to get this cake. Instacart Mariano's 46 items, 4.2 miles for 32.66. Y'all know we in the mix. Order number eight is all the way smaller. Tesla boarded 4.3 miles for 1,509. We ain't stopping till we shy, let's go. Look at this guys. Look at all those cars over there. Guess what I'm about to do? I'm about to go in here and get my own order, baby. I ain't got time to pay no game. So I do have another all the way park that we're going to get. So I'm going to try to rush and get this because somebody parked in the parking spot. I said I was in anyway. So we try to get busy. Try to move kind of shift, you know what I'm talking about? And you got to get this money. Understand me, understand me. So we got everything now. We got to put everything in the car and guess what? This joint is going to apartment. This cat litter weighs 42 pounds. So my arm going to be hurting but this is how it is, what it is, baby. It is what it is, baby. I'm going to put this in here and I'm going to put this in this right here. Wham, wham, this is definitely where I worked at $15. We're going to get busy, let's go. Like that, we are here to draw up this order to get an order. This gun is, this son is beaming. I'm talking about this joint beaming, baby. I'm going to see. I know some of these places over here you can't go inside. So, because a lot of the times the thing doesn't work. The doorbells and all that but some of them be open and some of them don't. So we're going to see what happened. Oh, somebody got this door open. I'm going to take it to that door. I think we're going to throw your fault. Time for us to scoff. He's going to try me out on my block. You already know how I flop. Get that, y'all. And we do have another all the way spark. They're going to have to drive all the way to the Walmart. We're kind of running behind because everything that happened at the sandwich club is okay, baby. We're going to keep on moving. We're going to keep on moving. We're going to keep on getting this money because I love it and soothing. It's actually not 3-0-4. It's 3-0-5 because it's going to be a lot. And come on, 3-0-5. That's what I'm talking about right here. One right there. Hit it with a pick. Just smack. Let's go get a job. What is about that time? 4 to 6-1-1 miles for 28-36. We need to stop it until we get rich. Let's go. Hey, this one, that's in the trunk. Isn't that actually in the trunk? Yes, sir. You can put it in a nose bag. It's in bags back here. Yeah, I got you. Have you guys been very busy today? A bit, yeah. It's like it's rising and everything. It's like it's going fast and it's going slow. And it's fast and it's slow back and forth. It'll go really fast. It's getting slow, it's on slow speed. And right before we get there. A lot of people come again. Yeah. It makes the day go by faster, huh? Exactly. This is spark. How's that? It's been going pretty good today. It's usually, it's been slow the last week or two. It has? But yeah, we haven't been getting as many orders. But that's all. Wait, you want this in here? Yeah, I'm gonna put that in there. Go ahead and work it in there. Yes, sir. And then I just need this. And I'm good to go. Thank you very much, sir. You have a good one. Yeah, you too, man. Yes, sir. Guess what, guys? Pray for me, because I'm at the park right here. And this for sure is not a parking spot. I have the park right here, man, because I ain't about to be walking all the way from those trees. Hopefully nobody's the Lake County Housing Authority. I don't know what's going on, baby. We're about to go over here. We're about to go over here, talk about this order and get in order, baby. I don't know. Hopefully you haven't told me, baby. Pray for me, baby. Let's go. Maybe we can talk about this order and get in order. I know they put the park right here, man, but I gotta do what I gotta do, man. I don't know what, you know, they don't have any more parking spots. So I ain't trying to carry this lift in I.C. and all the way from over there. So this is what we gotta do, baby. And this is reserved for people right here. I went to the park right there before, but somebody just left. So we're gonna see what happened here. Let's say the park right there, coming this door. They ain't too haunted. We run it. Alrighty. Let's go. Can I go to floor two? We go to room 200. I mean, apartment 200, who run it? At least I, you know what I'm saying? In fact, I'm gonna make it easier. I'm not saying to put this on an arm ski. Put it on an arm ski. Ski. Yeah, that's way back. Let's go. Luckily it wasn't a lot of items, man. Because it would have been critical trying to get this stuff in here and parking right there. So it would have taken me longer, but. Hopefully. This drawer was a little suspect. That drawer went down a little hard for me, baby. 200. Who run it? 200. Hello, how you doing, sir? Are you 200? Huh? Oh, right here? This is your apartment, or no? 200, that's probably 240. Okay. Yes, sir. How you doing, sir? Bring it in. God, I swear, this stuff is like a precious commodity. Yes, it is. You can see that it's hell to get a hold of it. Yes, it is, sir. I guess when I got on your site yesterday, I guess you had to have just delivered gotten this in. Yeah. Because I think Wednesday is your delivery date, isn't it? I have no clue. I've just, I've worked for like another third party. So I'm not sure when it delivers and everything. Oh, okay. And you can sign right there, sir. Oh, I'll scribble to the best of my knowledge here. Yes, sir. The fingernail works rather well. And that's everything, sir. It'll be a really thin writing, sir. You have a great day, sir. Thanks, man. Take it easy. Yes, sir. Now we are here to jump off order number two.  You know what I'm talking about? I'm gonna get this. I don't know why they put all these most of the bags in this one bag, but it's all good. It's fancy, right, too. We got the bleach and we got the milk. That boy needs some milk. Some people need some milk. See, I leave it at the front door because they just know we about to go. Look at that thing right here. Drop it outside. Don't get me, doggy, doggy.  You know how we about to move. Come below and let me know how we about to move. Get that much room right here. Put some eggs right there. Bam. Put the rest of the stuff over here. Strawberries, healthy choice of little things and put them in the oven. Let them go and be banged. There's little, like, lean cuisines and all that. Thank you so much. You're welcome. You have a great day. Take a picture. Got the photos back. We're done. And just like that, it is the end of the video. I hope you guys enjoyed the content. Today, we made 229. We was gonna go out to the end of town. Y'all saw us shine. Look at the time. What? It's 11.39. We came and got busy. And y'all was with me, baby. Y'all saw how we get busy. Y'all saw how we doing it. Y'all know I spent that hot fluid. We gonna keep on doing it. Make sure you lock in tomorrow cause we're going back down. When you're playing around, 2022 is back season. We gonna give them a reason. Also, if you wanna buy some of the merch, email me at www.bromestownsauce.gmail.com and let me know what you're trying to do about flow sick like the flu. I hope you guys enjoyed the video. I'll see you guys on the next one. Be cool, be cool, be cool. And you already know I'm the DDK and I'm on my way.


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This is stock number 10971, we are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, you're new and used SUV headquarters. Today we are checking out this super clean 2017 Chevy Suburban LT1. This vehicle has the 5.3 liter V8 motor, it has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop, has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and tapped off and this Suburban is 100% ready to go. Siren red tint coat is the color, we shoot all of our videos in 1080p 60 frames per second, so if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device, turn them on right now because it is definitely your best way to check out the quality and condition of the vehicle before seeing it in person. And if you want to check out all the photos on this Suburban in the upper right hand part of your screen is a link right to our website, click that and you can check us out there. This one comes with the 22 inch painted alloy rims, this is probably the first Suburban I've seen with these particular rims on them, I really like them. Comes with the Bridgestone Duler HL28545R22 tires with right around half the tread left, front fender is in nice shape, didn't see any major dents or dings on there. Comes with the projector lamp headlamps, the LED running lights and the factory fog lights. Front bumper is in really nice shape, has the front bumper parking sensors, no major dents or cracks on there and the lower valance is in nice shape as well. You get that nice chrome trimmed grille and the hood is in excellent condition too. Under side front fender, no dents or dings on there and the passenger side rim, no major scuffs or scrapes on there. As you go down this side of the vehicle, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by, just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can see the vehicle, hear the vehicle and have confidence in what you're looking at before you even get here. So that when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises and that's why we offer the Summit Auto Fastpass option in the upper right hand part of your screen, a link right to our website where you can apply for financing, get pre-approved, see a payment quote, even appraise a trade all from the comfort of your own home. So when you get here, all you gotta do is drive the vehicle, love it and you'll be all set to go. Now the back tires look like they have right around 80% of the tread left so a little bit more tread on the back tires, four wheel disc brakes on this vehicle, rear quarters in really nice shape, rear bumpers in nice shape as well, get the back of parking sensors, gate is in nice condition too and this does have a towing package so I got it loosened up here so all we gotta do is lift that off, you get the receiver hitch and seven pin wiring there. This is a power lift gate, back storage area is very nice and clean, that cover is in nice shape as well, a couple of little water spots but I always like showing how these seats go down because they are very fast, always amazed at how fast these seats go up and down in these suburbans, really kind of cool but anyways back storage area is very nice and clean, no rips or tears on the carpeting back here and you do get a little bit of storage underneath here and of course that cargo net, to get this rear gate down press this button right here you can see that shuts nice and solidly, does have the flipper glass and you can see those shocks are doing a nice job holding that up, as we come down the driver's side just as nice as that passenger's side, no denser dings on that rear quarter, does have the capitalist fuel fill and you can see that it is a E85 compatible, back rim for full disclosure is in excellent shape as well and down the rest of this side of the vehicle looks really really good, didn't see any denser dings on the doors and the running boards are in nice shape as well, you do get the blind spot monitoring in the mirrors as well as the directional signals, inside the LT1 package gives you the gray leather interior, both of these front seats are heated and power, no rips, no tears, has max liner, all-weather floor mats throughout, Bose sound, memory driver's seat, power windows, power locks, power mirrors and these mirrors do power fold in, I always like showing that both sides are working good so that you can see that all the options are in proper working order and you do get memory driver's seat, you got auto headlamps, turned-out four-wheel drive, power telescopic and tilt steering wheel, power pedal stability control, lane departure and your parking sensors you can turn those off and on, now this is an extremely loaded up LT1 package, you get the digital instrument cluster there 48,613 miles digital speedometer, compass display up there but I like to show that it has the forward collision warning, you got the heated steering wheel, leather wrap steering wheel, Bluetooth and information center controls, you get the six-speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift, it also has the factory navigation system in it, AM, FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities, does have the power screen that you can kind of put that up and you can put valuables in there out of sight, out of mind type deal and then this is also where your backup camera is going to show up right there, this one also has projection manager so you if you got ways or Google Maps on your cell phone you can project it through Android Auto or Apple CarPlay to the screen and then you can use that application through on the screen, also media and music and stuff like that so really a lot of cool stuff that you can do with this radio, it also has a CD player, dual climate controls, if you're heated seat buttons down here it has your remote start here as well as your rear gate buttons, passenger side floor mat and seat are in excellent condition as well, no rips or tears on there, I don't think this suburban's ever been smoked in, smells very clean inside, you got the power sunroof up there, headliners in great shape, up here you got your map lights, home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems and your on-star capabilities in the review mirror there, we'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll check out under the hood it also has the wireless cell phone charge pad which is a pretty cool feature, the other great thing about this suburban is that it is an eight passenger vehicle so you do get the second row bench seating, no rips or tears on those seats, you do get the latch child safety system for any child car seats that you may have, you get those max liner all-weather floor mats back here as well, these back seats are heated on the outboard side, there's your heated seat buttons, you also get two USBs and an HDMI port, 110 volt 150 watt plug-in and a 12 volt power point as well as rear air controls and that's because it has the dual Blu-ray players in the vehicle so you get one there, you also get one there, take a look at the third row seats here, so these fold up like so you get those all-weather max liners right there, third row seats are in excellent condition as well, no rips or tears back there and just a really nice suburban all the way around inside out, once again the headliner is in great shape, we'll take a quick look under the seats, under the hood, I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video, you will have been able to tell just how clean the suburban is all the way around inside out, under the hood we have the 5.3 liter V8 motor, engine bay is very clean, runs very smooth, the suburban has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and 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Welcome back. State government borrowed about 46.17 billion from three banks to pay salaries between January and June 2023. That's a quote into findings. Now these findings were based on analysis of the false half of this year. Financial statements of Axis Bank, Fidelity Bank and Zenit Bank Group revealed that. In the wake of their borrowings, how far can these state governments go about paying salaries? International Finance and Economic Analyst Muktah Mohamed joins me now to discuss further on the minimum wage salaries and of course all of the biting effects of inflation in the country. No thanks for joining me Muktah. Thank you. All right, the Federal Government on Independence Day, that's the President, you know, wrote out some messages and top top salaries for federal civil servants right now at the minimum. Not really much per se. The next is when they should be earning about $65,000. In your opinion, is it a welcome development or is just scratching the surface or we are just trying to look for temporary solutions so that the economy can keep running? What's going on Muktah? I think you said the two words altogether. Temporary, you first of all come, is it just a temporary solution then a short-term major? I think those are the two words and I think you have hit it like that. I think the federal government is looking for a temporary solution and the short-term majors by what they've just done. And we must not forget that minimum wage doesn't mean the state government will have to pay the same thing. Everybody is going to negotiate its own minimum wage. That's what the true federalism is all about because the cause of living in Abuja and Lagos or the cause of living in KB and the cause of living in Anambra state is not the same. So every state will have its own peculiarity in terms of doing its minimum wage. But what it means is that ordinarily the minimum wage, that means they should pay, should be what the federal government will pay. But again, based on those reports from those auditory results, you and I know that that means it's probably going to be very difficult because at the time they bought this money, the minimum wage was 18, I think was 18, is it 18,000? So I think there's still lots that the government will need to do to get people excited about them, especially with the current hardship. I don't think it should be a problem for states to pay this money these days because they are beginning to end move from the federation account. But they are still buying. So let me just button, sorry if you can hear me. You said you don't think it might be a problem for them to be able to pay this amount. But from reports that we got, some states actually borrowed in the past six months to pay salaries in the first half of this year. They were actually borrowing. Yes, that's what I'm saying. I think we need to look into that because most of them have received more than what they've used to receive before, up to three to four times what they used to receive before. I remember when this president came to power, the highest share in every state, between state federal government and local government ever had, they had got about 1.1 trillion. The last one was 1.1 trillion. That they were the three tiers of government share. So for me, I don't think, I think why you see, let me tell you something about the bank, we borrow you money because they know you can pay. So definitely what it means is that once this money goes into this account, they are deducted from sources and then they will crystal as long as you have the means of paying, it's not a problem. But the challenge we always have is that most of the state government, after they finish paying salaries, they are not able to do developmental projects in their state. So that for me is a major problem. And most of the state government, sometimes commercial activities, they are very low. And that means they have low internal generated revenue. It's also very low. In the only state that seems to be able to pay salaries and the internal generated revenue is here, is Lagos and River State. All of that seems to be struggling in the area of internal generated revenue. In the not the only state that I've been doing very well when it comes to internal generated revenue, also Aduna State, when the former governor, Matt Nassif Erufai, was there. So we don't know what is happening now, whether they are going to increase it or not. It's a big problem for the states. But I think they should be equal to the tax with the kind of money they are receiving from the federation accounts. Okay, I haven't said that right now. But even if we increased minimum wage to that particular month to 65, Adina's Motor Assam label is saying they had one term between the hundreds to 200,000 there. Let's compare side by side with the inflation rate of 25% right now. Would that even be realistic to still be able to get staples and for the households? Just officially 25%. Officially, we'll say that again. Officially it's 25%. Officially.  Let's look at that figure, 25% and then the federal government came up with a fixed rate of 25,000. If you look at that by the minimum wage, then you see there's been a little bit increment. Minimum wage was 18,000. I can't remember. Minimum wage was 30,000. So when you say that with 25,000, the government can tell you that they have increased it by almost 100% in their allowance. Let me tell you the challenge I have. Let me tell you Justin.  Once workers start paying, when they start paying them increased salary, then the tax for government goes up. But we want to believe that this money that the federal government is planning to pay now, it called it allowance so that your allowance are not supposed to be taxed. If it is like that, then fantastic. For the next six months, I think it's a fantastic move. But if you're going to add it together and tax, then if you're not taxing, what I said labor should be looking at, I said it on your program was for labor to begin to look as structural palliative. In terms of what? Taxes? Say for the next two years, workers should not pay taxes. Tax holidays. Because when you do this structural palliative, it affects every worker. That is TUC Nigerian Labor Congress, which is generally like the government sector. Because for me, that's the major challenge we have. Because when you go to negotiate, you're only looking at the federal government workers. We're not looking at the private sector. And how many of these companies business are still stable to be able to meet the minimum wage? So if you want to do that to touch every Nigeria, then you need to look at the former sector. Most of these companies that are their employees pay taxes and also they should benefit also from it. Those are structural reform that touches everybody. And then you see the impact in the economy. But if you are negotiating now, the federal government workers can get that. The state cannot get it. It's a big challenge. Okay. So aside from the tax holidays, what about, okay fine, if you don't get to tax so much on the income of Civil 7, what about increasing taxes maybe for luxury items or maybe for VAT or something like that? How far would that go? See increase taxes on all those things.  And even their luxury items, most of the people that run companies and all these things are the ones that can bring in the luxury items. So to keep their appetite in these luxury things, then they would turn it back again to their workers. They would say, okay, you know what, because I want to live my life, I can't keep employing 10 to 15 or 20 people. I need to, because I'm being taxed in my luxury items, I need to reduce my work strength. And so they will send other workers into unemployed market. So in as much as I agree, but what I think the government have not been able to do adjusting is not be able to cash the informal sector into the tax bracket. If we are able to cash the informal sector into the tax bracket, then we would have seen the kind of revenue that we're getting. And then that will also help government to be able to fund their budgets and then state government and others will be able to get more returns from the federation. I can't be able to pay salaries. But again, for you to get the informal sector, you need to give in something to get in something. Then for that, you need to build infrastructure for them. You need to begin to see how they can begin to assess soft loom. When I talk to the informal sector, I'm talking about the guy that is driving Kekena Pep, talking about the guy that owns the Barbie Saloon. I'm talking of the Petty Trader. I'm talking of the woman that has a shop in the market. How much have you been able to generate taxes from those people? If you are able to do that, I'm telling you that you are capturing about 80% of Nigeria. And if 80% of Nigeria are capturing the tax bracket, definitely I think all these economic challenges we have been facing we could be seen like at the end of the tunnel. So when they say widening the tax bracket in government time is taxing people like me and you again. They will tax us the more. That's the only way when Nigeria governments want to widen the tax bracket. They are not thinking of what they want to widen the tax bracket to get more people into the tax net. And so that we can get more Nigerian paying taxes. And those Nigerians will begin to see what these taxes are achieving. What these taxes are doing to their economy. We have good rules. We have power. You are not providing for yourself. So you can't be taxing the woman that has it in her dressing saloon. And yet he has to go and buy food at $700 to power his territory. So why are you collecting taxes from too? So I'm saying we need to give in something and get something from them. Alright, on the final notes Mukta, my directors are asking me to run away from the yes to yes. That's on a lighter note. So having said all of that now I just want us to just talk about something as we were talking about on the show now. Vis-a-vis the issue of CNG bosses and maybe other sort of palliatives for you know for the masses that it were. We see we are yet to see these bosses and would they in any way cushion any of them this challenge that we've been hard to go through in the past five months? Yeah they will. But again we have to look, I'll see come back to the challenge. CNG boxes when the CNG bosses when they come in they drop you. If you are working, I know your office, the CNG bosses will not come and drop you at the doorstep of your office. So by the time they drop you in the bus stop how do you get, will you track from that place to your office? So if you are using that also they also have to be looking at mini means of transportation also because again the way our road networks are is not as straightforward like when you drop so few people will be able to drop them and track to their offices. So we need to look at that. I think it's a good, it will reduce the cost of transportation. It will make more people to keep their car at home and want to go but again like I said even when we are doing that they should also think about the mini transportation within the locality not just within the cities. So if the CNG bosses are there going to be those bosses, CSG bosses that will be used to carry food items from the villages to Lagos so that they will bring the cost of those food items cheaper so that we can get it cheap or it is just a means of transportation within urban cities. We need to look at the structure of what we are about to do. Alright, thank you so much Mohamed for all of the useful insight that you always profess when we talk about these economic issues. Would you appreciate all of them? Thank you Justin. Alright, and that's the size of the show for this morning. My name is Justin Akademi. Many thanks for being a part of the show. We'll return again at the same time next time. Bye for now.


Hey there friends. Thanks for checking in at the range now, and we've got the x-star EP9 a lot of people were asking about this for years people said hey Are you going to review an x-star? I'm at the range now, and these are more of my first shots with this Now this is not my pistol this belongs to my friend Evan, and he allowed me to review it It's currently selling for 449, so it's a bargain. It does have a polymer frame primarily a polymer gun with an SB brace and then the sites the flip-up sites were added extra a big bonus with this is AR light controls and Glock mags people love Glock mags, and that's what this offers side charger rail throughout Angle for grip was added extra And I said air like controls here. We have the bolt release and The safety as well as the magazine release. I've got a couple more here Let's go ahead and take a few more shots Let's take a closer look at this x-star EP9 short lightweight 9 millimeter sub gun that many people love It is budget priced at 449 now it was 419 but it was raised to $30 come standard with this SB brace It's called an SOB brace works just fine the owner changed out this grip for a magpole grip Okay, you can do that because it does have AR light controls. Here's the thumb safety the bolt release You'll see on the other side the mag releases the in the same place as AR's Glock mags.  You can see it does have a side charger there. All right And you hold that Bolt does lock back with the last shot and then of course the bolt release right there Very familiar with AR 15th and if we look on the other side here We'll see that the mag release is right there and once again big-time advantage with Glock Magazines does come with this handguard pretty standard rail on top. There's a closer look at the flash hider And then the SB brace also a quick detach Sling mount could go there single-point sling would work perfectly with this setup now I mentioned it is a polymer frame and I think that's what is keeping the price down on this Is it the best way to go? No, but it's the most affordable way to go I had a a polymer lower on an AR once it worked just fine and I Honestly don't have a problem with it But the magazine release is right there as I mentioned and then the trigger The nice trigger. Let me go ahead. You know nothing special Just your standard trigger, you know that that functions and it just works So what you're getting here is a nine millimeter sub gun that just works it runs it It's less expensive. You know, I would not put it to the Degree or the higher degree I should say with my Ruger PC charger You know that happens to offer more but for a budget nine millimeter sub gun with a six and a half inch barrel I don't even know that I mentioned that yet six and a half inch barrel And the brace included you throw an optic on there get some Glock mags either keep the grip or Change it out. You know it offers that Flexibility in here you have the X-DAR EP9 and you know so far I've run steel case through it I've run brass through it and it performed very well even when I backed up the 40 yards I was able to hit the target took a little bit of Sighting in to see where exactly it's hitting on that front post But overall it's real fine, and it's a nice hit nice. I was gonna say handgun It's a nice nine millimeter pistol for a budget price for 49. I think that is really good This assembling the EP9 is real easy. Don't have that pin right there. Just push it through pull it out the other way Break it open, and it just comes apart just like that Couldn't be easier and then the bolt just take that side charger push it up pull the bolt out Clean it up real simple process And then to put it back together This will just fit into place Let's see if I can do this While holding it together There it is then push that pin through it's kind of a tight puzzle putting it back together But overall the process is pretty simple and once you get it once you'll have it probably forever So there it is the X-Star EP9 cool little nine millimeter sub gun for a budget price If you like videos like this, please subscribe and share I always appreciate thumbs up button Thanks for watching and you guys be safe


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Hi, I'm Rony Benami, and I'm going to show you how to do the Paralloid B72 labeling method. B72 is a thermoplastic resin with excellent aging characteristics, and it's highly reversible, so it's preferable over using something like flacker or a cellulose nitrate-based varnish which can yellow over time and flake off, resulting in the loss of primary information. This is ideal for non-porous objects such as metal, glass, ceramic, and stone. So these are the materials I'll be working with. I have reagent-grade acetone. I have Paralloid B72 30% concentration in acetone. I have golden hypo acrylic in carbon black. I've put some of that in a steel bowl. I've decanted some Paralloid B72 into this beaker, and some acetone into this beaker, which I'll use for cleaning the brush, and in case I need to do any cleanup. I've got a small brush for applying the B72, a really teeny brush for applying the catalogue number, and I also have this white Posca pen which I'm going to be using for darker colored surfaces. It's an acrylic-based pen and also a cotton swab in case of cleanup. I'm using extraction because I'm working with solvents. So to demonstrate, I'm going to label a dark and a light glazed ceramic. I'm going to start out with this light glazed plate. Before applying the B72, be sure to spot check with a cotton swab moisten with acetone to make sure there's no interaction with the surface. This is especially important for painted, varnished, or otherwise treated surfaces. I've selected an unobtrusive location to label on the underside of the ceramic plate. I've made sure I'm working on a clean surface by brushing it free of dust and degreasing it with acetone. Now that everything is ready, I'm going to apply the B72 in one stroke that's just big enough to fit the catalogue number. On the other side, get all the B72 off. I'll wait for it to dry for about 20 minutes and then apply a second layer the same way. Two layers should be enough for a smooth surface like this, but more porous surfaces may require thicker applications to prevent absorption of the ink and consequent disfigurement of the object. After applying the second layer, let the B72 dry for about half an hour and then you can write your catalogue number on it. So I've already created a swatch for me to do that over here. It's a little hard to see so that we don't have to wait.  You do have to have a pretty steady hand for it. I'm just going to write the date as the catalogue number. I can clean that off with a little bit of acetone. After the ink is completely dried, which I have over here, you can put a top coat of the B72 on which will prevent the number from wearing away, especially if it's going to endure a lot of handling. So that's what I'm going to do and that is relabeled. I'm going to do the same thing on a darker colored ceramic. So starting out again by putting a swatch of the B72 down. Wait for that to dry for about 20 minutes. Apply a second layer. Let that dry as well. And now I can write my label and I'm going to use this white Posca pen. And that ink is fully dry. Then I can do my final top layer. I'm all done. So before you apply this to an object, practice the labeling method until you feel confident. Alright, thanks to Connecting to Collections Care for having me and thanks for watching.