Welcome back everyone to theCUBE's live coverage of Teradata Possible. I'm your host, Rebecca Knight, along with my co-host and analyst Rob Streche. We are joined by Billy Spears, and he is the Chief Information Security Officer here at Teradata. Thank you so much for coming on the show, a future CUBE alum. This is exciting, thanks for having me on the show. I really appreciate it. Yeah, so research shows that business leaders are so excited about the potential for AI to transform their organizations, their productivity, their workforces, but there is also a lot of concern, fear, anxiety about security, privacy, and governance. How do you think about these things as the CISO of Teradata, and then how do you talk to customers about these very important issues? Yeah, great question. I think first, breathe a lot. Breathing is always good and helpful. Deep breaths. For sure. When you wake up in the morning, you have to think about things like what you're talking about. It starts with fear, uncertainty, and doubt, so what that means is people know a lot of facts and figures, and when they compile them themselves without understanding exploitability or some of the other risks, sometimes they can spiral out of control. And at Teradata, what we try to do is we try to take this layered approach, but think about anything always, meaning we can go back into things like gen AI and say, here's some way that we're going to help you get better, faster, smarter, smarter, accumulate the results of your data much quicker, and we think about the adversarial consequences so you don't have to. Our goal with security at Teradata is to do two things. The first is we want to continue to build trust with our customers. We want to grow that trust so they'll continue to expand their use of our platform and get all the goodness as a result. The second thing we want to do is we want to think about resiliency right from the start. So if bad things do happen, we're right there side by side and helping you get back up and running as quick as possible. A lot of what your job is is not only keeping the customer safe, but it's keeping Teradata safe as well. Teradata must have a lot of data. So what is advice you can give to other CISOs who are out there who are sitting there going, okay, we're at Teradata customer. How do I keep this safe? And where do they start? And one of the things we've heard over the last, obviously with the MGM and Caesar's Fund that they had from a social engineering perspective, but also is authentication and things of that nature. Where do you look that CISOs might want to think about starting? Oh my gosh, you guys are awesome. This is like a Houdini trick, right? So if you go back to magic, it's really about the exploitation of the artifact itself. So I could bring in an unlimited budget, which would be awesome, but I don't have that. And we could build the most robust security system on the planet. But if the people walk the adversary through the security system to the crown jewels and back out of the house, then we haven't really done our job. So if I think about the people first, right? We have to educate them. For example, let me tell you a quick funny story. This is a real life thing that's occurring in our industry right now. We have all these things called something.ishing, right? So it might be fishing, but not the kind with a pole. It's the kind where people are trying to target your companies and exploit data or get your people to take action. We have this new thing since working from home, this smishing where they want to send you this text message and say, buy me gift cards because somehow that's going to be how you pay your bills. And then this new one, there's plenty of others, but this new one that got my attention and made me giggle a few weeks ago is this thing called QR code fishing or quishing. When I first heard that, I thought it was this funny playoff, like a quiche or something. And I was like, what is this term? The more we got into it, it's interesting how quick people are to take a selfie or take a picture and it drive them to somewhere else, that pass the paywalls or whatever. And it starts to solicit things like your Uber or your MFA. Hey, this is resetting. Take the code and connect to your device. But really what you're doing is you're connecting to the adversary or you're putting a credit card in or something to pay, someone that's not designed to be paid from your system. So for us, the education, the community, bringing it together and making it fun, this is not like it was at some point in the past where we have this big stick and we're scaring people. That doesn't help when people work from home and they can work from anywhere. We have to educate them not only in the company but extend the network into their homes so they can be better and safer as a result. And so much of what Rob and I have learned from conferences that we've been to in the past is how you can sit back and say, oh, I'd never fall for that, the cushion, please. I know better. But in fact, it really is, people are so vulnerable. And so the education piece, the component of what you're talking about is so critical. It's so true. When I think about that, you have to go back to all the things you hear a lot. You hear a state sponsored, you hear local, you think adversary. And you don't realize the puzzle that people are putting together by the time it gets to you. These people are smart. They're capable. They're intelligent and they change. And the industry doesn't keep up with the innovation of your adversaries. So it's really important for security leaders, CISOs, folks that are on the front lines to make sure they educate, they improve, but also put some controls in place because sometimes it's really important to help people when they don't know they need to be helped. And that's what we try to do here at Teradata. We bring it together. So while we're extending the footprint of our controls, whether it be corporate or the product we sell, we're doing it in a way that it drives efficiency, meaning just the way that you open up your iPhone and you look at the camera and now, boof, you're working. There's so many layers of control in between you looking at the camera and the product you're actually attached to. We want to do the same thing behind the scenes to give people a better experience on the front end but protect everyone through all the different layers in between. Yeah, it would seem that that's a key given that data is, as they were saying earlier today, one of the keynotes is gold, right? I mean, that is what people are fishing for and trying to get at and try to steal or obfuscate or encrypt or what have you. And to that point, I mean, it's not about zero days or something like that. It's probably going to be more a fishing attack or something of that nature that's going to get you. To your point, I've gotten those text messages about gift cards quite often saying, hey, it's the CEO of the company X and I'm on somebody else's phone but can you go and get me $5,000 worth of Starbucks gift cards? I'm like, I'm undercapitated today or something like that. So what are other things that people should be looking out for that maybe they're not as aware of? Because I think that the text messaging is starting to become pretty, the QR code actually was new on me. So I haven't gotten hit with that yet. So probably will now after this. That's right. All of your audience members, oh, we got you now. Exactly. What other things should they be learning about? Because to your point, I think it's not about protecting against the first person who gets hit. It's about making sure that the second person doesn't get hit. How do you see that? Well, I think a couple of things. So here's that cool one for your audience at home. Everyone has a Wi-Fi. Everyone sets their Wi-Fi password and everyone's proud of it. But there's an administrative credential behind your router. And so people don't know, look it up and Google it. But if you put that in, typically you'll see that the SSID is admin and your password is password. That's not good at all. So change it. Because you're connecting your work and your home and they're uniting and you have all these smart TVs and all these things where you put your credit card and you certainly don't want to leave yourself open or be susceptible to it. Something simple. You're attaching your garage and your alarm systems and whatever, so that's at home.  Seven or eight different variations of it. They're all fairly clever. And what I'll tell people always is it depends on what's happening in your life of whether or not you're more or less susceptible.   When do you do whatever you do and what are the most common services you use? I'm going to be able to put together an attack that's likely going to be able to fool you and it's not your fault. I think that's important. Users have to start understanding that it is not their fault. These people are awesome at what they do. So companies have to have that next couple layers to protect themselves. For example, all developers in the world know that when they have a cool solution and they start, they always embed the credentials into the innovation part of the product. If you don't know that, now you do. What's really important is to come back and get rid of those things. But that's a common misnomer. People forget. So the attackers in this particular case, they know very well how to exploit those things. So on security teams, it's important to have good logging. You have to be able to see things. As a CSO, what keeps me up at night is not being able to see. The unknown attacker is super scary. The things that I understand, it's easy. We have things like this mitre attack framework and whatnot. As long as I can keep you to the left, I win. The further to the right you get, you win. Which really means the company loses, the customers lose. We can't afford to have that in 2023 going into 2024. One of the things you started talking about when we first began this conversation was the importance of trust and resilience. And obviously you get both those things with having great products that work the way they're supposed to do, that are easy to use, that people understand that are accessible. But those are also behaviors. So how in your organization, in the security office at Teradata, do you try to model that and then make sure that that is something that is reinforced in your workforce? Yeah, it's a great question. Inside of Teradata, we work on the model of not just trust and credibility. Like for example, all of listeners and you at stage, we've had security people walk in the room and it's like the air goes out of their lungs. That hurts my feelings, everybody. Like when you put it in the room, you shouldn't be like, oh, security's here. No way, we're going to make your day better, turn your phone upside down and we're going to get to an answer. And if security's done right, it drives efficiency. Because again, you have all those layers and if things are working, you don't know security's there. It's when there's friction in one of those layers or something's broken or there's a misconfiguration. That's the problem and that's what goes to trust. Security has to come in, partner with you and get you to a yes. I like to say yes if because there's always an intangible of saying I can get you to where you want to be if you do these two or three things. But it doesn't stop there. We're not leaving the room. We have to stay side by side with our counterparts to help them engineer and architect these great solutions because while developers and IT folks, they're awesome at what they do. They don't have the experience that we do. We have to compliment their experiences to get a better product for our companies and we do that a lot. So lots of trust falls but also lots of support. So we're constantly earning credibility and doing what we say so we can be more relied upon internal to the company. It's a new improv game, yes if. That's right, yes if, always. It's great. You're here first, yeah. So what are some of the things that you're hearing that is exciting to you but then maybe some things that are unnerving to you that you're hearing at this conference, conversations you're having with customers? I think it's always exciting to get the customers reaction to our new innovation. Behind the scenes, we're in this, I'm paying a picture for your audience, we're in this lab and we have all these things and we're throwing things against the wall and saying, ooh, this is cool. We have all these new products. Like for example, I really get excited about our regular product, which is the serverless product we have. It changes the game for Teradata. 40 years, the way we've been doing it. We've been putting everything in a cage and we've just literally ripped the bolts off the cage. So if you haven't seen it, you got to come check it out because it's a 2.0 version of where we've been. And then getting our customers from on-prem through what we call Vantage Cloud Enterprise and eventually into Vantage Cloud Lake so you can really have all the versatility of your data, driving results before you even know you need them, that gets me up and gets me really excited. Yeah, yeah. So I think it's one of these things where you were just talking about and kind of said the attack service though has definitely grown. Oh my gosh, yeah. Yeah, so how do you take that into consideration with everything that's going on? Yeah, lots of excedrin' for sure. I mean, again, as you do new things, your footprint expands, the attack surface starts to grow. But again, I think it's about discovery. So if you go back to fundamentals, just like maybe a great football team and you watch your film and you make some tweaks and adjustments and come back, that's how we do it. So as our attack surface continues to change, we follow the risk. Wherever there's more risk, we purposely appoint resources to minimize that risk and we go back and find the new thing. However, we always try to fix the root, not the symptom. So for me, I'm saying here's all these symptoms, I think those are distractors. What's the root? Let's solve that root and watch how the behavior of the symptoms also follows suit. What are some things that you are looking forward to in the year ahead that we're going to be talking about it next year as possible? I'm looking, so I'll get nerdy from security. From security, I'm looking forward to the introduction of Gen AI into security operations. I'm looking forward to showing the power of Teradata and how we merge it to you and deliver compounding results out to our customer. That's going to be really, really cool. I know it was sort of a teaser for all of you. Stay tuned, check back with us and I hope you come back to possible next year and get to see all about it. Yeah, that's what I want to hear is how are you using that so you can get and enable your team to actually find things faster, look for anomalies and stuff like that. That has to be some of the stuff that you're kicking around in the lab and looking to use. Because I mean obviously being a data company, I'm sure you have a lot of security sensor data and things of that age. We do. We look at billions and billions of events every single day. Not joking, multiple billions. So it's hard for any human to really hone in. So it's really important that you have great intake, so data from everywhere. You have a great accumulation so you get everything into that same place so you can make a logical decision. You write rules to weed out sort of the data that's unnecessary. But you also have great threat feeds because that's the landscape. We need good intelligence. So as we understand what's happening from left to right across our landscape, we know how to adjust internally. And most importantly, we have to have great plans we can follow. So as we get from a tier one all the way through tier three and then those incident response plans, we have to be able to stand them up effectively so that we can again deliver consistent results, not just for internal customers, but external customers alike. Excellent. Well, Billy Spears, thank you so much for coming on theCUBE. It's been a lot of fun. Thank you. This was awesome. I'm Rebecca Knight for Rob Stretch A. You are watching Teradata Possible, theCUBE's live coverage. Stay tuned.


Good morning ladies and gentlemen. On behalf of ICD-Cata is my pleasure to, it's our pleasure to work with the government on this event and we hope that you will enjoy the interactions and discussions this morning. What I'd like to do is to share with you some thoughts and ideas about how we in Qatar are progressing towards the knowledge society as well as some strategic directions that we think will be useful to guide us into the future. ICD-Cata supports our national development goals through the use of ICT and we aim through the use of ICT to enrich the quality of life in Qatar to increase economic efficiencies and competitiveness as well as current access to all the information and technologies that people can use. Over the past four years, we have seen very good progress in terms of ICD development in the country. The latest report from the World Economic Forum has ranked Qatar as a rank of 29th among 134 countries. This is based on the Network of Redulence Index, which is a way to benchmark ICD competitiveness of those countries. So ranking of Qatar has progressed quite steadily, very steadily over the last four years and this is good news for us. We have also done local surveys of the ICD landscape in Qatar and we have gotten very good evidence that indeed ICD adoption and integration has been happening quite well in schools, in education, in businesses, as well as in government. As an example on this slide, the Hukumi government portal has been an excellent example of how government entities have come together and to provide more than 300 online services through a single online gateway. So while there has been good progress, we certainly must not rest on our laurels and we believe that the future ahead of us is going to be a lot more exciting and a lot more challenging. So what is this future going to be like? And I'm going to share with you some thoughts about what it's going to be like. We believe that the world around us is moving towards what I would call Knowledge Society 2.0. I'm not going to give you a definition of what it is because the world around us is still discovering what it is and we may never get to fully understand what Knowledge Society 2.0 is until we are through it. But what I can do is to illustrate what it is and what it's going to be by speaking about three particular phenomena. And this is just three out of possibly many, many phenomena that will characterize Knowledge Society 2.0. The first phenomena is about the new field for hyper growth. It may seem ironic to talk about new fields in our economy here which is heavy in fossil fields but there is a new field and it's called Knowledge. Human beings started producing information about 20,000 years ago. Now if we liken this history of 20,000 years as a tower of a thousand floors and someday there should be such a tower in Doha. Now in terms of the passage of time the most recent 20 years is nothing more than the top floor of this 1,000 floor tower. However, in terms of the amount of information that has been produced in the most recent 20 years it is easily 99% of all the information that's ever been produced in the past 20,000 years. So think of it. Think of all of this information that we have produced in the last 20 years and how that has changed our lives. And all of that is Knowledge Society 1.0. Now think of the next 20 years. Think of the millions of floors that you add to this tower over the next 20 years. Think of all the creative views that we can find for this new information. Think of all the new knowledge-based businesses and knowledge-based professions that will be invented over the next 20 years. This is what I believe would be a huge phenomenon driving us forward. The second phenomenon that I would like to highlight is what I would call the shift in the power of E until today we see a lot of the power of E all the e-commerce, e-government, e-whatever concentrated on the core concentrated in the governments in the big corporations in the huge central ICD facilities such as data centers. What we are seeing today is that this power of E is rapidly shifting to the edge. The edge is where we are at. All of us. The individual consumers and our widgets or devices we are at the edge. This power be knowledge, be computing power, be the freedom of choice or freedom of expression, be the ability to contribute socially or economically. All of this is shifting rapidly to the edge where all of us are at. So this phenomenon shift in the power of E is going to bring big changes in the ways that we have to develop and manage this power. So I think this is another very important phenomenon. The third phenomenon that I'd like to just share is what I would call the grand conversions. When we worked on IT strategies 10 years ago and at that time when we spoke about technology conversions we were only talking about how computers, communication networks and content are converging. That was 10 years ago. Today, that technology convergence is taken for granted. It's an opinion. Today, the convergence that we're speaking about is much, much grander. All of this online tools, social media which many of you are using YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, etc. All of these tools are converging on you users. It's bringing to us to our disposal just about everything we need in order to work. So this is a grand convergence that's happening and with this grand convergence on us on you you are now able to work and live anywhere, anytime across cultures you are able to interact seamlessly not just man to man but between man and machine you are able to operate in both the physical and the virtual world. It's like even as I'm having a physical conversation with you right now maybe your avatar is having a parallel conversation with my avatar online at this moment. I don't know. So this grand convergence is going to be again phenomenal in the way that we have to bring ICT to you and exploit that advantage for your company for your country for your operation. So we realise that as we move ahead over the next 20 years things haven't been a lot more exciting and challenging and definitely very, very different. We are beginning a process of conceptualising what might be in our national ICT strategy for the year 2015 and we know for sure this process of developing the next strategy we have to learn about we have to adapt to and fully exploit all the opportunities that Knowledge Society 2.0 will bring to us that is going to be very important and it's not going to be easy because we're going to discover what Knowledge Society 2.0 is as we go along. We will need a whole new set of models of collaboration among the public sector private sector and the people sector it's no longer about everything happening at the core it's no longer about governments doing e-government companies doing e-commerce it's going to be about everybody from the core to the edge participating in this process we're going to need a deep focus on innovation because if you go back to my example of the 1000 floor towers and you think of the millions of floors that will add to this tower over the next 20 years it's no longer going to be just having more information to use or using that information it's going to be very much about having very creative use of that information and knowledge so innovation is going to be key another key focus for us is sustainability it is one thing to have 1000 floors boom and it's another thing all together to have 1000 ICT initiatives sustained for the years to come and it's not going to be easy because initiatives are not going to be run just out of the core but all of us along the edge are going to be involved so there's going to be millions and millions of initiatives that we can all participate in so we need to take into account all of this phenomena all of these driving forces to shape the policy direction that will place the forefront of modern society 2.0 if you have any ideas so also questions I'm all ears and we hope to work together with you to develop this strategy and move forward, thank you


It's never been easier to be great never guys look I want some of you guys to make a decision today make a decision man to stop can play in small dude stop listen you don't wear it well it's not who you are you're perfectly capable to be crazy and to do anything that anybody else in the world is done and even do it bigger but you have to commit you have to become a student of the game if you're not a student you're not learning and if you don't fall in love with learning you don't want to learn you're gonna stay the same the more you grow the more you scale what's gonna come to your life adversity and distraction it's proven the three years that I've scaled and gotten better in my life the more distractions have come my way you name them from you know people reaching out offer me different jobs offer me a better positions I'll pay you more money women all of a sudden DM and me coming into my DMs I'm trying to mess with my marriage that I'm talking just all kinds of shit and as you grow and scale if you don't have the discipline like a lot of men and women would take that distraction and be like oh I'm out new job more money whatever it is so these disciplines that you're putting in your life and the stack that you're putting in the site this new knowledge it helps you unlock here in your mind to understand that all these things that are gonna come against me these adversities are built for one reason to make me derail I want to ask everybody how much you training right now you know what I think I think the word training for some reason some people it's just not sexy right like to train like but if you were to go to a professional athlete and you're to say hey you want to train they'd be like hell yeah I want to train you go to anybody in any other industry say I want to train or train the automotive space so we're training has almost become a turn-off because of the people that the people in the automotive space hang out with okay there's so many people listen to me if you've ever been around somebody that says you don't have to train that person they have settled they have settled and they may even have a better life than you have but here's the deal they have settled let me tell you the truth anybody you're around who is a good mentor who is a great person they will tell you to never stop learning never always pursue always pursue until you die becoming the best becoming a great you got to remember that okay we have a very competitive family at the LA I got the Macklins I beat the out of them every day they haven't beat me in a competition they can say whatever they want they have not beat me they don't beat me in the physical game of life and it comes to working out running I hope they're on this call because they know this old man will serve a more disciplined they're not on this call let's go guys I'm gonna I want you to make a decision write this down do you want to be and tell the truth do you want to be coached hard or do you want to be coached soft okay I needed to be coached hard I needed somebody that that would just tell me the truth don't make me feel good listen I don't want to be right I want to win so many people just want to be right screw being right I want to win so I need to be around a coach that's like dude you're wrong like you're doing this wrong and I am coachable so I'm like okay all right so what do I need to do and then they can tell me and then I go do it and then I win but so many people now when you tell them some they don't want to change and if people don't change nothing changes and why do people change because of their why okay so why do I do this why do this obviously because I want to give my family a lifestyle they never could imagine but I'm already past that they're already got that now that was my why in the beginning my why has changed now I'm not after trying to make money guys I'm after one thing I want you guys to become the best in the freaking world and I want to be there for you guys like I didn't have someone there for me but I'm gonna tell you the truth number one you got a quick quick and you got a quick getting in your head a lot of you guys you get in your own brain and you self-sabotize yourself concept dude you're the elite you're the best you're the freaking baddest dude if you don't like you how the hell is anyone else gonna like if you don't like you how's anybody gonna follow you how are you gonna do anything and be great at it if you don't believe I always call being an active participant your own rescue because if you freaking see something that you know will rescue you swim towards the wrap yeah don't swim backwards don't be like kicking when the guy's trying to rescue you know you know like that like just let the guy you know so you want it you want to end your day and you want to start your day with gratitude and what will happen is the middle part of your day will tend to go a lot better yeah like you know you need to start it in gratitude so I always write down three four or five things I'm grateful for it can be my family it can be getting on this I was gonna say I was gonna say I'm grateful that I get to see Memphis every day and I get to talk to my clients that provide a level of energy for me you know we're people too decide to develop when your time to train it has to be planned the day before so there's a deal I always say plan tomorrow today okay I was writing down talking about time with my team right and I want to reach up to you guys and you can write it down if you want but I was explaining to my guys the difference between productiveness and busyness okay I was talking to them about that the person that does the most tasks right isn't the most successful person okay it's the person that gets the most important tasks done is the one that wins and I asked them the night before you should be right down a list of the most important tasks that need to be done to me listen to me my business and my life and my family it all mingles into one I don't have any separation okay the gym flows into the way I produce when I sell the gym flows into my organization and my discipline that I that what I'm gonna do I'm gonna do it the gym does okay so that's part of my work out my working out I mean my work right the way I feel about myself gives me confidence to flow back into the gym also the way I lead my team I lead from the front the sides and the back at 360 leader I don't lead from people I just leave from the front I leave from all angles I want to set the example I need you guys to do me a favor can we decide to set the example can you guys raise the standard set the example you write you for other people around the world winning is noble it's the right thing to do I really would like to see you guys be the future that everybody looks up to in the world the number one thing that people won't do is they won't have direct conversation with themselves you nailed it one problem you know if we can do that you become a million you become a millionaire and I'll tell you why if you can change that and you actually understand that look if something sticks up on the back of your neck that should be the one thing that you might be being a pretender on that might be the one thing that your brain's like I'm doing that no that might be the thing that you're not doing that if you actually wrote down and you were consciously paying attention you could go back and you want to be free if you ask people hey what's freedom everybody's got a different version mine is not caring what other people think about that is my ultimate level of freedom okay the times I've lost was when I over thought it and I became paralyzed with fear and I was thinking what someone else was thinking about well you made it till the end of the video you're a true one percenter I've already got your next training video lined up and ready to go click on it before you do that like the video subscribe makes you set your 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I just had to clean them before the video here and they had wax all over them so you can see just how nice of a condition that they're in and it has brand new general grabber tires. These are LT23580R17s and we put those on in our safety inspection and we changed all six tires. So brand new tires all the way around. Framed underbody is an exceptionally nice clean condition. Front fenders in nice shape as well. Run around the front here. No major dents or dings on there. Maybe to just see one tiny little ding right there. So anyways, grille is in nice shape. Does come with the true cobble induction hood. I'll show you how that works in just a little bit. I didn't see any major dents or dings on the hood and it does come with the cab lights up top. Passenger side front fender is in nice shape as well and the passenger side rim actually can still see some of that turtle wax on there. Comes right off but yeah, rims had turtle wax all over them so definitely took care of the truck. As you go down this side, doors all look really good. You do get a storage box on this side and closes nicely. Take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can see the truck here, the truck, have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at. And when you do come to look at the vehicle, there will be absolutely no surprises. You can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. Lower rockers all look really good on this truck. Framing underbody looks really good too. Little dusty but nothing too bad. It's back rim, excellent shape as well. And the back tires, brand new too. Framing underbody looks really good here. And coming around to the back, you get the towing package, receiver hitch, seven pin wiring back here, nap hide. And for full disclosure, this back rim and tires, brand new as well. And the back rim is in nice shape too. Even the back ones had turtle wax on them. Kind of crazy. I've never seen that on a work truck but they look good so it must have worked. Has the telescopic tow mirrors built in directional signals. They telescope out like so. They fold in like that. They're a manual telescope.  The 40, 20, 40 split bench seating in the front. No rips or tears on the seats. Now you do get the power driver seat so that must be a convenience group feature or something. You get some nice all-weather floor mats, five auxiliary up-fit switches, auto head lamps, that's for your cargo lamps, push button, four-wheel drive, power windows, locks, and mirrors. Back seats are just as clean as front seats, no rips or tears back here. Latch child safety system. It does have a fixed glass rear window with built-in rear frost. Once again seats are in really nice shape and you get those husky all-weather floor mats back here as well and then the heavy-duty rubber floors. Those seats come down like so. Child safety locks on the back doors and the bottoms of the doors all look pretty good on this truck. Hop inside, check out the miles, the radio, and everything that this truck has to offer on the interior. You can see that this one has 27,956 miles. You do get the digital speedometer on there and spring cluster is very nice and clean. Comes with the steering wheel, got cruise controls on there. Steering wheel is in nice shape, no major wear. And you get the Chevy infotainment system. It does have AM FM radio on here. Let me see if I can get to the different... I think it's just AM and FM. There we go, AM, FM, and Bluetooth. So while this one doesn't have the factory navigation system on it, it does have Android Auto and Apple CarPlay where you can project your cell phone to the screen. So you can put Android, like, Google Maps or Waze or whatever nav system you have on your phone right onto the screen. So that's... It's like you have nav on the screen, which is pretty sweet.  And then I think this is a power take-off unit to turn that on or off. Passenger side format and floor are in excellent shape, as is the passenger side seat, no rips or tears, headliners in really nice condition. And you do get map lights up there. We'll start it up and take a look under the hood. So this one does have a backup camera as well. And I wanted to show you that, to show you that that is working nicely, which is always nice on a truck like this with a flatbed. No check engine lights or anything like that. And 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 and condition of this truck all the way around inside out. There is your VIN sticker. You can see a tire and loading information sticker on it, probably because it's a chassis cab. And hopefully, like I said from this video, you've been able to tell just how clean this truck is all the way around inside and out under the hood. We have a 6.6 liter Duramax diesel engine, the L5 key engine. Engine bay is very clean, runs very smooth. Once again, this truck has been fully safety inspected by a service shop, has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off. There's the emission sticker and has six brand new tires and it's 100% ready to go. Air comes in the coal induction there, goes right into here into the air box. And I would highly recommend this truck from a quality and condition standpoint, considering it is a work truck, heavy duty. And to see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 550 new and used cars, trucks, SCVs, minivans, wranglers, halftones, three-quarter tons, one-tons, work trucks, you got to go to that website right there, summitauto.com, full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at summitauto.com. And if you'd like to check out more HD videos, you can go to youtube.com. So I have Summit Auto. 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Hello traders. Many of us are waking up this morning to see that overnight Bitcoin dropped to as low as $22k. There's been a slight recovery since the lobes, but this swing was a massive 6% move. And it happened in just 15 minutes. You're probably asking why this happened. What caused BTC to crash like this? In this video, I'll explain the simple order flow mechanics that set up this entire move. And listen guys, there's going to be a tonne of hindsighting this morning. People naturally want to know why this happened, so news sites and journalists will start to retrospectively fit stories to the move to get those all-important clicks. But I'm going to explain how this move has actually been setting up in the order flow the previous few days. We've been tweeting about the warning signs all week. I'll show you how the order flow and real-time volume drives the market. So please watch this short video to the end, and hopefully you can learn something. On Tuesday, Feb 28, we tweeted this. Sellers have been in control since the recent highs of $25k on BTC USDT. Substantial selling volume yesterday morning. More than 1000 Bitcoin resting on the bid at $22.2k. Will this bear flag play out for more downside today? Or will the selling momentum slow? So let's dive into this guys. First of all, high liquidity at $22.2k. This is our first clue. Resting high liquidity often acts as a magnet for price action. And this liquidity was in the book for several days, so it's less likely to be a spoof order. Of course, price doesn't have to move down here, but it gives us a target and helps start to paint a picture. Secondly, as price has been moving down with the prevailing trend, new liquidity is being added to the offer. Note the difference between these two types of liquidity. The lower level is just sitting there, kind of like standing in front of the train, while this higher level is newer and being added behind the train. And thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, look at the volume in this area of consolidation. By the way, it's also a bear flag, which we'll get to next. But particularly look at the selling volume in this area. It's higher than it's ever been over the past week. So this is not exhaustion. In other words, it looks like continuation. There are still aggressive sellers in this range. So lastly, and probably least importantly, there's a bear flag formation. Now you should never trade off patterns in isolation. They're terribly unreliable. What's important is the order flow and volume that's happening within the bear flag. And as discussed, we have increasing number of sellers as time is passing. This means there are still sellers interested. By the way guys, if you're finding this interesting or useful, please hit the like button as it helps shape our future content. Thank you. Now moving on to the second tweet we sent just yesterday. A large market participant getting involved in BTC USDT. Almost 40 million dollars entering the book and getting filled. We don't know if they've entered or exited, nor if it is one single actor. But if they've entered and price goes against them. So this was just a few hours before the drop. What we see here is the potential for trapped traders. This essentially fuels large volatile moves. As we said in the tweet, there is some uncertainty about this. This could be three separate actors. It could be someone exiting a short position by adding to the bid. But given the context, I was happy when I saw this. As I said, it potentially provides fuel to push prices lower. Because if price moves against a buyer, they're forced to exit their position. Which is a sell order. Or worse still, their account is liquidated. So by puking their position, they become an aggressive seller. And 40 million dollars is kind of a drop in the ocean for what happened next. But remember, it wasn't just this one actor. Anyone that had been buying for the last week could have had stops in this area. This was just one particularly big player that we managed to catch in the book. Where did price drop to? The area of liquidity we spotted on Tuesday. And what confluence did we have? Well again, this is one good use for patterns. They can help frame your trade. And by creating a measured move from the bear flag, we can get a target area which aligns with the order flow. Measure from the low point of the flag to the high point. And drag that to the point where the price breaks from to get an approximate target. Let me re-emphasize here though. Trading patterns in isolation doesn't work. You need to understand the higher time frame momentum and order flow happening within the flag. They are only useful for framing positions and potentially invalidating moves. So there you have it guys. Was this move destined to happen? Did the news create this move? Or was the order flow setting up days before? Let us know in the comments what you think. And again, please smash that like button if this is the kind of content you enjoy. Thank you for watching.


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The Chartered Institutes of Treasury was passed into law at the second quarter of this year, 2022, by the President Muhammad Buhari and made an act of the National Assembly. But members of institutes want more powers given to the institutes, as it seeks to create a pathway towards promoting not only the study, but the practices of properly managing the Treasury as a safeguard against fraud, misappropriation of resources placed in the custody of fund managers in both private and public sectors. Mr. Ulu Mide Adi Doi, Register Chartered Institutes of Treasury, said this during a briefing in Newsman in Abuja on Wednesday, stating that it is the only way that the country can benefit wholly from the expertise of institutes. There are some little processes and challenges within that platform, because the back end for the audits was not adequately secured. So if you do not secure the back end, despite being able to net resources and bring those resources, then there is a little bit of opening at the back that could lead to hemorrhaging of resources and so on. I think as it is, we have actually reached out to government on different fora, try to make them understand that the importance of putting this back end in check is quite what's important. This has to do together also with what is called a zero-based budget. And this coming when we are talking of international public accounting standard Ipsas, when we say we are coming or we are planning a Kua-based Ipsas, we are talking of capitalizing our assets. Now we don't want assets, say we are presently applying Kua-Ipsas, but I don't see it that way, because every year we budget for the same thing. Why should we throw away the chair that the director used and buy another chair for the next director? Why should the director go in and go with the vehicle that we just bought two years ago and another director has to buy a new vehicle? No, all this needs to be capitalized and depreciated just the way it is being done in private sector. It is when we do this, we will eliminate waste, we will manage capital expenditure effectively, and we will be able to progress in this country.


Individualism, a reader, edited by George H. Smith and Marilyn Moore, narrated by James Foster. 20. From the Voluntaryist Creed, Oberon Herbert The Voluntaryist Creed being the Herbert Spencer Lecture delivered at Oxford, June 7, 1906. London Oxford University, 1908. Oberon Herbert, 1838 to 1906, studied at Oxford and served in the British Army. Herbert was a member of Parliament from 1870 to 1874 only to repudiate under the influence of Herbert Spencer the political process as a means of bringing about social change. Herbert turned instead to individualism and the spontaneous voluntary cooperation of free individuals in a free market. In the following excerpt from The Voluntaryist Creed, Herbert contrasts a society governed by political power with a society of free individuals. We who call ourselves Voluntaryists appeal to you to free yourselves from these many systems of state force which are rendering impossible the true and the happy life of the nations of today. This ceaseless effort to compel each other in turn for each new object that is clamoured for by this or that set of politicians, this ceaseless effort to bind chains round the hands of each other is preventing progress of the real kind, is preventing peace and friendship and brotherhood, and is turning the men of the same nation who ought to labour happily together for common ends in their own groups in their own free unfettered fashion into enemies who live conspiring against and dreading often hating each other. What good, what happiness, what permanent progress of the true kind can come out of that unnatural, denationalizing miserable warfare? Why should you desire to compel others? Why should you seek to have power, that evil, bitter, mocking thing which has been from of old as it is today the sorrow and curse of the world over your fellow men and fellow women? Why should you desire to take from any man or woman their own will and intelligence, their free choice, their own self-guidance, their inalienable rights over themselves? Why should you desire to make of them mere tools and instruments for your own advantage and interest? Why should you desire to compel them to serve and follow your opinions instead of their own? Why should you deny in them the soul that suffers so deeply from all constraint and treat them as a sheet of blank paper upon which you may write your own will and desires of whatever kind they may happen to be? Who gave you the right? From where do you pretend to have received it to degrade other men and women from their own true rank as human beings taking from them their will, their conscience and intelligence in a word all the best and highest part of their nature turning them into mere empty worthless shells, mere shadows of the true man and woman mere counters in the game you are mad enough to play and just because you are more numerous or stronger than they to treat them as if they belonged not to themselves but to you? Can you believe that good will ever come by morally and spiritually degrading your fellow men? What happy and safe and permanent form of society can you hope to build on this pitiful plan of subjecting others or being yourselves subjected by them? We show you the better way. We ask you to renounce this old weary hopeless way of force ever tear-stained and blood-stained which has gone on so long under emperors and autocrats and governing classes and still goes on today amongst those who whilst they condemn emperors and autocrats continue to walk in their footsteps and understand and love liberty very little more than those old rulers of an old world. We bid you ask yourselves what is all our boasted civilization and gain in knowledge worth to us if we are still like those who had not attained our civilization and knowledge to hunger for power still to cling to the ways of strife and bitterness and hatred still to oppress each other as in the days of the old rulers. Don't be deceived by mere words and phrases. Don't think that everything was gained when you got rid of autocrat and emperor. Don't think that a change in the mere form without change in the spirit of men can really alter anything or make a new world. A voting majority that still believes in force that still believes in crushing and ruling a minority can be just as tyrannous as selfish and blind as any of the old rulers and are the conquerors in the great conflict better off if we try to see clearly than the conquered. We can only answer no. For power is one of the worst, the most fatal and demoralizing of all gifts you can place in the hands of men. He who has power, power only limited by his own desires misunderstands both himself and the world in which he lives. If you wish to know how power spoils character and narrows intelligence look at the great military empires, their steady perseverance in the roads that lead to ruin, their dread of free thought and of liberty in all its forms. Look at the sharp repressions, the excessive punishments, the love of secrecy, the attempt to drill a whole nation into obedience and to use the drilled and subject thing for every passing vanity and a grandisement of those who govern. Look also at the great administrative systems. See how men become under them helpless and dispirited incapable of free effort and self-protection at one moment sunk in apathy, at another moment ready for revolution. Do you wonder that it is so? Is it wonderful that when you replace the will and intelligence and self-guidance of the individual by systems of vast machinery that men should gradually lose all the better and higher parts of their nature for of what use to them is that better and higher part when they may not exercise it? And thus it is that seeking for power not only means strife and hatred, the splitting of a nation into hostile factions, but forever breeds trick and intrigue and falsehood, results in the wholesale buying of men, the offering of this or that unworthy bribe, the playing with passions, the poor unworthy trade of the bitter unscrupulous tongue that heaps every kind of abuse deserved or not deserved upon those who are opposed to you that exaggerates their every fault, mistake and weakness that caricatures perverts their words and actions and claims in childish and absurd fashion that which is good is only to be found in your half of the nation and what is evil is only to be found in the other half. Such are the fruits of the strife for power. Evil they must be because power is evil in itself. How can the taking away from a man his intelligence, his will, his self-guidance be anything but evil? If it were not evil in itself there would be no meaning in the higher part of nature, there would be no guidance in the great principles for power, if we once acknowledge it, must stand above everything else and cannot admit of any rivals. If the power of some and the subjection of others are right, then men would exist merely as the dust to be trodden under the feet of each other, the autocrats, the emperors, the military empires, the socialist, perhaps even the anarchist with his detestable bomb, would each and all be in their own right and find their own justification, and we should live in a world of perpetual warfare that some devil, as we might reasonably believe, must have planned for us. To those of us who believe in the soul and on that great matter we who sign hold different opinions, the freedom of the individual is not simply a question of politics, but it is a religious question of the deepest meaning. The soul to us is by its own nature a free thing, living its life here in order that it may learn to distinguish and choose between the good and the evil, to find its own way whatever stages of existence may have to be passed through towards the perfecting of itself. You may not then either for the sake of advancing your own interests or for the sake of helping any cause, however great and desirable in itself in which you believe place bonds on the soul of other men and women and take from them any part of their freedom. You may not take away a free life putting in its place the bound life. Religion that is not based on freedom that allows any form of servitude of men to men is to us only an empty and mocking word, for religion means following our own personal sense of right and fulfilling the commands of duty as we each can most truly read it, not with the hands tied and the eyes blinded, but with the free, unconstrained heart that chooses for itself and see clearly that you cannot divide men up into separate parts into social, political and religious beings. It is all one. All parts of our nature are joined in one great unity and you cannot therefore make men politically subject without injuring their souls. Those who strive to increase the power of men over men and who thus create the habit of mechanical obedience, turning men into mere state creatures over whose heads laws of all kinds are passed, are striking at the very roots of religion which becomes but a lifeless, meaningless thing, sinking gradually into a matter of forms and ceremonies whenever the soul loses its freedom. Many men recognize this truth, if not in words yet in their hearts for all religions of the higher kind tend to become intensely personal, resting upon that free spiritual relation with the great over-soul, a relation that each must interpret for himself. And remember, you can't have two opposed powers of equal authority, you can't serve two masters. Either the religious conscience and sense of right must stand in the first place and the commands of all governing authorities in the second place, or the state machine must stand first and the religious and moral conscience of men must follow after in humble subjection and do what the state orders. If you make the state supreme, why should it pay heed to the rule of conscience or the individual sense of right? Why should the master listen to the servant? If it is supreme, let it plainly say so, take its own way and pay no heed as so many rulers before them have refused to do to the conscience of those they rule. Such are the fruits of power and the strife for power. It must be so. Set men up to rule their fellow men to treat them as mere soulless material with which they may deal as they please, and the consequence is that you sweep away every moral landmark and turn this world into a place of selfish striving, hopeless confusion, trickery and violence, a mere scrambling ground for the strongest or the most cunning or the most numerous. Once more, we repeat don't be deluded by the careless everyday talk about majorities. The vote of a majority is a far lesser evil than the edict of an autocrat for you can appeal to a majority to repent of its sins and to undo its mistakes, but numbers, though they were as the grains of sand on the seashore cannot take away the rights of a single individual, cannot turn man or woman into stuff for the politician to play with or overrule the great principles which mark out our relations to each other. These principles are rooted in the very nature of our being and have nothing to do with minorities and majorities. Arithmetic is a very excellent thing in its place, but it can neither give nor take away rights. Because you can collect three men on one side and only two on the other side that can offer no reason, no shadow of a reason why the three men should dispose of the lives and property of the two men should settle for them what they are to do and what they are to be. That mere rule of numbers can never justify the turning of the two men into slaves and the three men into slave owners. There is one and only one principle on which you can build a true rightful, enduring and progressive civilization which can give peace and friendliness and contentment to all differing groups and sex into which we are divided, and that principle is that every man and woman should be held by us all sacredly and religiously to be the one true owner of his or her faculties, of his or her body and mind and of all property inherited or honestly acquired. There is no other possible foundation. Seek it wherever you will on which you can build if you honestly mean to make this world a place of peace and friendship where progress of every kind like a full river fed by its many streams may flow on its happy fertilizing course with ever broadening and deepening volume. We ask you then to limit and restrain power as you would restrain a wild and dangerous beast. Make everything subservient to liberty. Use state force only for one purpose, to prevent and restrain the use of force amongst ourselves and that which may be described as the twin brother of force wearing a mask over its features, the fraud which by cunning sets aside the consent of the individual as force sets it aside openly and violently. Restrain by simple and efficient machinery the force and fraud that some men are always ready to employ against other men. For whether it is the state that employs force against a part of the citizens or one citizen who employs force or fraud against another citizen in both cases it is equally an aggression upon the rights upon the self ownership of the individual it is equally in both cases the act of the stronger who in virtue of his strength praise upon the weaker has not the real prosperity the happiness the peace of a nation increased just in proportion as it has broken all the bonds and disabilities that impeded its life just in proportion as it has let liberty replace force just in proportion as it has chosen and established for itself all rights of opinion of meeting of discussion rights of free trade rights of the free use of faculties rights of self ownership as against the wrongs of subjection and do you think that these new bonds and restrictions in which the nations of today have allowed themselves to be entangled the conscription which sends men out to fight consenting or not consenting which treats them as any other war material as the guns and the rifles dispatched in batches to do their work or the great systems of taxation which make of the individual their tax material as conscription makes of him mere war material or the great systems of compulsory education under which the state on its own unavowed interest tries to exert more and more of its own influence and authority over the minds of the children tries as we see specially in other countries to mold and to shape those young minds for its own ends something of religion will be useful school made patriotism will be useful drilling will be useful so preparing from the start docile and obedient state material ready made for taxation ready made for conscription ready made for the ambitious aims and ends of the rulers do you think that any of these modern systems though they are more veiled more subtle less frank and brutal than the systems of the older governments though the poison in them is more thickly smeared with the coating of sugar will bear different fruit will work less evil amongst us all will endure longer than those other broken and discredited attempts which men again and again in their madness and presumption have made to possess themselves of and to rule the bodies and minds of others no one and all they belong to the same evil family they are all part of the same conspiracy against the true greatness of human nature they are all marked broad across the forehead with the same old curse and they will all end in the same shameful and sorrowful ending over us all is the great unchanging law ever the same unchanged and unchanging regardless of all our follies and delusions that come and go that we are not to take possession of and rule the body and mind of others that we are not to take away from our fellow beings their own intelligence their own choice their own conscience and free will that we are not to allow any ruler be it autocrat emperor parliament or voting crowd to take from any human being his own true rank making of him the degraded state material that others use for their own purposes force whatever form it takes can do nothing for you it can redeem nothing it can give you nothing that is worth the having nothing that will endure it cannot even give you material prosperity there is no salvation for you or for any living man to be one by the force that narrows rights and always leaves men lower and more brutal in character than it found them it is and has ever been the evil genius of our race it calls out the reckless violent cruel part of our nature it wastes precious human effort in setting men to strive one against the other it turns us into mere fighting animals and ends when men at last become sick of the useless strife and universal confusion in the man on the black horse who calls himself and is greeted as the saviour of society make the truer the nobler choice resist the blind and sordid appeal to your interests of the moment and take your place once and for good on the side of the true liberty that calls out all the better and higher part of our nature and knows no difference between rulers and ruled majorities and minorities rich and poor declare once and for good that all men and women are the only true owners of their faculties of their mind and body of the property that belongs to them that you will only build the new society on the one true foundation of self ownership self rule and self guidance that you turn away from and renounce utterly all this mischievous foolish and corrupt business of compelling each other of placing burdens upon each other of making force and the hateful trickery that always goes with it into our guiding principles of treating first one set of men and then another set of men as beasts of burden whose lot in life it is to serve the purposes of others true it is that there are many and many things good in themselves which you do not yet possess and which you rightly desire things which the believers in force are generous enough to offer you in any profusion at the expense of others but they are merely cheating you with vain hopes dangling before your eyes the mocking shows of things that can never be force never yet made a nation prosperous it has destroyed nation after nation but never yet built up an enduring prosperity through your own free efforts not through the gifts of those who have no right to give them that all these good things can come to you for great is the essential difference between the gift whether rightly or wrongly given and the thing one by free effort that which you have won has made you stronger in yourselves has taught you how to know your own power and resources has prepared you to win more victories the gift flung to you has left you dependent upon others distrustful and dispirited in yourselves why turn to your governments as if you were helpless in yourselves what power lies in a government that does not lie also in you you have in yourselves the great qualities though still undeveloped for supplying in your own free groups the growing wants of your lives you are the children of the men who did so much for themselves the men who broke the absolute power who planted the colonies of our race in distant lands who created our manufacturers and carried our trade to every part of the world who established your cooperative and benefit societies your trade unions who built and supported your non conformist churches in you is the same stuff the same power to do as there was in them and if only you let their spirit breathe again in you and tread in their footsteps you may add to their triumphs and successes ten fold and a hundred fold but nothing can be well and rightly done nothing can bear the true fruit until you become deeply and devoted in love with personal liberty consecrating in your hearts the great and sacred principle of self-ownership and self-direction that great principle must be our guiding start through the whole of this life's pilgrimage away from its guiding we shall only continue to wander as of old hopelessly in the wilderness for its sake we must be ready to make any and every sacrifice that is worth them all many times worth them all for its sake you must steadily refuse all the glittering gifts and bribes which many politicians of both parties eagerly press upon you if you will but accept them as your leaders and lend them the power which your numbers can give enter into none of these corrupt and fatal compacts see also another truth there are few greater injuries that can be inflicted on you than taking out of your hands the great services that supply your wants why because the healing virtue that belongs to all these great services education religion the winning of land and houses the securing greater comfort and refinement and amusement in your lives lies in the winning of these things for yourselves by your own exertions through your own skill your own courage your friendly cooperation with one another your integrity in your common dealings your unconquerable self-reliance and confidence in your own powers of doing this winning these efforts are the great lessons in lifelong education that lasts from childhood to the grave and when learnt they are learnt not for themselves alone but for your children and your children's children they are the steps and the only steps up to the higher levels you can't be carried to those higher levels on the shoulders of others the politician is like those who boasted to have the keys of earth and heaven in their pocket vainest of vain pretenses the keys both of heaven and earth lie in your own pocket you the free individuals who can unlock the great door all these great wants and services are the means by which we acquire the great qualities which spell victory they are the means by which we become raised and changed in ourselves and by which as we are changed we change and remake all the circumstances of our lives each victory so gained prepares the way for the next victory and makes that next victory the easier for we not only have the sense of success in our hearts but we have begun to acquire the qualities on which it depends refuse then to put your faith in mere machinery in party organizations in acts of parliament in great unwieldy systems which treat good and bad the careful and the careless the striving and the indifferent on the same plane and each on account of their vast and cumbersize their complexity their official central management pass entirely out of your control refuse to be spoon fed drugged and dosed by the politicians they are not leading you towards the promised land but further and further away from it if the world could be saved by the men of words and the machine makers it would have been saved long ago nothing is easier than to make machinery you may have any quantity of it on order in a few months nothing is easier than to appoint any number of officials is of another and much sterner kind and the victory comes of our own climbing of the hills not by sitting in the plane with folded hands watching those others who profess to do our business for us do you think it likely or reasonable do you think it fits in with and agrees with your daily experience of this fighting working world of ours that you could take your chair in the politicians shop and order across his counter so much prosperity and progress and happiness just as you might order cotton goods by the piece or wheat by the quarter be brave and clear sided and face the stern but wholesome truth that it is only you you with your own hands you with your unconquerable resolve without any dependence on others without any of these childish and mischievous party struggles which are perhaps a little more exciting than cricket or football or even bridge to some of us but a good deal more profitless to the nation than digging holes in the earth and then filling them up again without any use of force without any oppression of each other without any of these blind reckless attempts to humiliate and defeat those who hold different beliefs from ourselves and who desire to follow different methods from those which we follow without any division of the nation into two three or more hostile camps ever inspired with dread and hatred of each other it is only you yourselves fighting with the good pure honest weapons of persuasion and example of sympathy and friendly cooperation it is only you calling out in yourselves the great qualities and flinging away all the meaner things the stripes the hates the jealousies the mere love of fighting and conquering it is only you treading in the blessed path of peace and freedom who can bring about the true regeneration of society and with it the true happiness of your own lives and through it all avoid that favorite that much loved snare of the politician by which he ever seeks to rivet his hold upon you refuse to attack and weaken in any manner the full rights of property you who are workers could not inflict on your own selves a more fatal injury property is the great and good inducement that will call out your efforts and energies for the remaking of the present form of society deprived property of its full value and attractiveness and we shall all become stuff only fit to make the helpless incapable crowd that the socialist so deeply admires and hopes so easily to control but it is not only for the sake of the magic of property its power to call out the qualities of industry and saving it is above all because you cannot weaken the rights of property without diminishing without injuring that first and greatest of all possessions human liberty it is for that supreme reason that we must resist every attempt of the politician to buy votes by generously giving away the property that does not belong to him the control of his own property by the individual and the liberty of the individual can never be separated from each other they must stand or fall together property when earned is the product of faculties and results from their free exercise and when inherited represents the full right of a man free from all imaginary and usurped control of others to deal as he likes with his own destroy the rights of property and you will also destroy both the material and the moral foundations of liberty to all men and women rich or poor belong their own faculties and as a consequence equally belongs to them all that they can honestly gain in free and open competition through the exercise of those faculties it is idle to talk of freedom and whilst the word is on one's lips to attack property he who attacks property joins the camp of those who wish to keep some men in subjection to the will of others you cannot break down any of the defenses of liberty you weaken liberty at any one point without weakening it at all points liberty means refusing to allow some men to use the state to compel other men to serve their interests or their opinions and at whatever point we allow this servitude to exist we weaken or destroy in men's minds the sacredness of the principle which must be as regards all actions all relations our universal bond but it is not only for the sake of liberty though that is far the greater and higher reason it is also for the sake of your own material progress that you the workers must resolutely reject all interference with all mutilations of the rights of property resist therefore all reckless unthinking appeals made to you to deprive the great prize of any part of its attractions if you surround property with state restrictions interfere with free trade and any part of the open market interfere with free contract make compulsory arrangements for tenant and land owner allow the present burdens of rate and tax to discourage ownership and penalize improvements you will weaken the motives for acquiring property and blunt the edge of the most powerful material instrument that exists for your own advancement only remember as we have said that great as is your material interest in safeguarding the rights of individual property yet higher and greater are and ever will be the moral reasons that forbid our sanctioning any attack upon it or our suffering state burdens and restrictions and impediments to grow around it true liberty as we said cannot exist apart from the full rights of property for property is so to speak only the crystallized form of free faculties establish freedom and open competition in everything and all forms of trade and enterprise all relations of men to each other tend to become healthy and vigorous pure and clean the better and more efficient forms as they do throughout nature's world slowly displacing the inefficient forms it must be so for in the fair open fight the good always tend to win over the bad if only you restrain all interferences of force it is so with freedom everywhere and in all things freedom begets the conflict the conflict begets the good and helpful qualities and the good and helpful qualities win their own victory they must do so for they are in themselves stronger more energetic more efficient than the forces the trickery's the corruptions the timidities the selfishness to which they are opposed the same truth rules our good and bad habits only keep the field open and allow the fair fight and the bad at last must yield to the good sooner or later the time comes when the clearer cited the more rightly judging few denounce some evil habit that exists gradually their influence and example act on others in ever widening circles until many men grow ashamed of what they have so long done and the habit is abandoned such is the universal law of progress which prevails in everything so long as we allow the free open fight between all good and evil but in order that the good may prevail there must be life and vigor in the people and this can only be where freedom exists and now place before yourselves a picture of the nation that not simply out of self interest but for rights sake and conscience sake took to its heart the great cause of true liberty and was determined that all men and women should be left free to guide themselves and take charge of their own lives that was determined to oppress and persecute and restrain the actions of no single person in order to serve any interest or opinion or any class that flung out of its hands the bad instrument of force using force only for its one clear simple and rightful purpose of restraining all acts of force and fraud committed by one citizen against another of safeguarding the lives the actions the property of all and thus making a fair open field for all honest effort think under the influences of liberty and her twin sister peace for they are inseparably bound together neither existing without the other how our character as a people would grow nobler and at the same time softer and more generous think how the old useless enmities and jealousies and strivings would die out how the unscrupulous politician would become a reformed character hardly recognizing his old self in his new and better self how men of all classes would learn to cooperate together for every kind of good and useful purpose how as the results of this free cooperation innumerable ties of friendship and kindliness would spring up amongst us all of every class and condition when we no longer sought to humble and crush each other but invited all who were willing to work freely with us how much truer and more real would be the campaign against the besetting vices and weaknesses of our nature when we sought to change that nature not simply to time ends hands and restrain external action no longer setting up and establishing in all parts of life that poor week motive the fear of punishment those clumsy useless penalties evaded and laughed at by the cunning that have never yet turned sinner into saint how we should rediscover in ourselves the good vigorous stuff that lies hidden there the power to plan to dare to do how we should see in clearer light our duty towards other nations and fulfill more faithfully our great world trust how we should cease to be a people divided into three or four quarrel some unscrupulous factions ready to sacrifice all the great things to their intense desire for power and grow into a people really one in heart and mind because we frankly recognized the right to differ the right of each one to choose his own path because we respected and cherished the will the intelligence the free choice of others as much as we respect and cherish these things in ourselves and were resolved never to trample for the sake of any plea for any motive on the higher parts of human nature resolved that comes storm or sunshine we would not falter in our allegiance to liberty and her sister peace that we would do all dare all and suffer all if need be for their sake then at last the regeneration of society would begin the real promised land not the imaginary land of vain and mocking desires would be in sight this has been individualism a reader edited by George H Smith and Marilyn Moore narrated by James Foster copyright written by the Cato Institute production copyright 2015 by the Cato Institute


Morning class, I'm Will Kemp from Will Kemp Art School and in this lesson we're going to do a Monet style impressionistic painting. We're going to use brighter colours than we've done in the past so you can really get to grips with how Monet painted. Very quickly, very impressionistic, with acrylics is a really simple exercise. All you've got to do is click the link below, you can download the image direct from my website to paint along at home. All the colours are listed there, the brushes that I use. Really hope you enjoy this lesson. Let's get started. This is part one in this free impressionistic landscape lesson showing you how to paint in a style similar to how Monet painted. So the first thing we've got is a coloured ground. A coloured ground is just when you've painted over the initial white or the initial raw canvas just so you've got a colour to work on top of rather than just painting on top of white. This will help you a great deal because it will be easier to judge the different tones, the lightness and darkness between objects and because of the image that we're using has got quite nice bright colours underneath any little gaps that we leave this colour will shine through. This is a yellow ochre underpainting, Monet used a variety of different underpaintings. Here's probably a little bit more muted than this one but for this particular scene I found that the yellow ochre with its nice warm colour is going to work perfectly for us. Now what I'm going to do is just put out the colours that we're going to be using for this painting. So what we've got here is a titanium white which is like a modern equivalent to lead white which is what Monet would have used. Lead is quite toxic so titanium white has been produced so it's not as harmful when you actually paint with it. We've also got a cadmium yellow, we've got a cad red light, a crimson, this is a permanent alizarin crimson. We've got a green here, this is just a permanent green light which is quite close to an emerald green. Again the original painting that Monet would have used, the original colours, aren't used anymore so often you'll find that paint manufacturers make a version of those paints and these are often labelled with the word hue. I'll just show you here on this paint, this is cobalt violet hue. The hue denotes that the paint is made up of a mixture of other pigments to create something very very close to an original cobalt violet colour. I've also got a cobalt blue, an ultramarine blue and a cobalt violet. This demonstration is used in acrylics so acrylics will dry a lot quicker than oils which is what Monet used when he did his paintings. But it will still give you an idea of some of the techniques that you can use and how you can mix the colours to get that nice impressionistic feel into your paintings. Because he often painted outdoors and sketched initially for his paintings I'm going to show you how to approach it quite quickly. So what you do is you block in the actual painting you're working on we're just trying to cover over this just to give our eyes an idea of the different parts of the painting. So I'm just going to dilute the brush just with a bit of water. So the brush I'm using is just a hog brush, this is from Jackson's Art in the UK. So to start with I'm just going to wash in the sky just with the cobalt blue. Notice how watery I'm using it just to give us an idea of where to start with the painting. You start to see what happens is what's called optical mixing where you get the paint optically mixing with the colour underneath it. We're going to be covering this over but it's just something to bear in mind often when you're working in thin layers to start with, you know just washing the paint in kind of like a watercolour technique really. The colours won't be exactly as they will be when they're finished and especially not when we add white to them. This is just to give you a feel for getting used to working with acrylics just so to see how easily you can brush them in. As it gets a bit lighter towards the base I'm just going to add a touch of the white and the mountain here has got a very very slight green tinge that goes towards this end. So we're just going to start with the cobalt blue to start with. As it gets towards this side I'm just going to add in a touch of this green. So it goes towards this lovely kind of turquoisey colour. As it gets further towards this left hand side I'm just going to start to add a bit more of that green. So you're not worried if it goes over the edges or if it looks a bit wrong to start with this is just the first layer, the first time we're just kind of blocking in the painting just to get a feel for how everything is going to work together. What you'll find when you're painting is when you just mix to fresh colour and you paint it on an area of your picture what's very handy then to do is just scan the rest of the image just to see if there's any elements of that colour anywhere else in the picture. The images that we're working from I can start to see all these little blocks of colour just all around the piece and what this helps to do is bring the viewer's eye around the whole painting and you start to get a feeling that you haven't just got the sky and the foreground but the whole painting is all working together as one. Now the other parts of green that we've got here are a lot brighter than this there are a lot more yellow so I'm just going to add a touch of the yellow to them and again with this green with the work atop of those other greens we've already put down in the painting. If you have trouble mixing greens and they often be a real issue when you're painting landscapes if you have a look at my video how to mix green you'll start to see how the different blues and the different yellows that you mix with them can make a really big difference getting the right green that you're after. So click above to subscribe so you don't lose out on the next episode where we start to introduce some warmer colours to the painting.