Tom here from Orange Systems and we're gonna talk about web filtering today because well a lot of people ask about it There's a lot of confusion about how websites are filtered at the firewall level or at the endpoint level And I want to clear up a few of those things including why it's not as simple as people think it is Especially when they go well Just gonna block the IP address of that website until they realize that's part of a content delivery network and The nuances of the way it used to work and the way it works today have caused a lot of changes now It was easy in the early days of the 90s when I first started getting into tech and we had filtering systems And it was just really as simple as there's not many websites compared to today at least things weren't encrypted So we could see the traffic and many times a single IP block would be all you need to block out a certain website And there were nice little lists of these things So it was reasonable to manage back then all the way here in 2022 Well, it's a lot more complex with the majority of the traffic being encrypted now It being a lot more difficult with having to install certificates to have a firewall do traffic Inspection within there and we're gonna talk about different ways to solve that problem and some good and bad when it comes to using things Like PF sense or untangle or an endpoint solution for that And we'll talk about the different solutions that we use for this before we get into the details of this video Let's first are you an individual or company looking for support on a network engineering storage or virtualization project Is your company or internal it team looking for someone to proactively monitor your system security or offer strategic guidance to keep your it systems operating smoothly Not only would we love to help consulting your project? 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I do know there's ways to encrypt dns and there's ways to encrypt the sni But it's not very popular or well implemented right now. That's why I said as of july 2022 So we had some context of this video This is where a lot of firewalls do have the ability to see what websites people are going to now They're only seeing that requested domain or sub domain, but they're not seeing the full URL You're going to but this provides combined with dns at the firewall level Without installing deep pack and inspection certificates that allow for you know unraveling the entire Certificate to be able to do some blocking and this is where I want to start with What about pfSense or what about other firewalls and how they work and pfSense is just not a good solution for this pfSense does not have a good system That can easily manage and someone's going to say what about squid. We'll get to that Does not have a good system by which you can manage and see the sni information even though it's too passing through the firewall It's just not a facility really well built in there that gives you granular control It does have be a blocker which does do some dns blocking. Yes, you can use app id with snort But it still doesn't give you any granular blocking and now let's mention squid It's very manual doing squid in there and for anything you set up to run through squid proxy It's still going to have a lot of management problems There's a little lot of things you have to bypass and it's just well not easy to manage within pfSense And then from our perspective we're an outside it contractor and we have to manage lots of separate client locations Combine that with work from home being so popular over the last couple years as well It becomes a not great spot to try to manage it But before we get into how we solve that solution Let's talk about how some of the other commercial firewalls do it including untangle Now I brought up untangled firewall because it's one I have reviewed It's not the only one of course that supports these features But I have reviewed this on my channel and it does offer application control web filtering SSL inspection provided you install a certificate But on the basis of do you have the ability to Do some basic blocking with it without going through the trouble of installing a certificate and having to manage that on each end point Yes, it can do it and it does Use the advanced ways of detection of dns and looking at the traffic and applying policies to computers And it's a good solution for people who really want this controlled at the firewall level And the one challenge though and people always ask does this slow things down? Yes, you do have to add a little bit more robustness to any firewall from palo Alto from 40 net whoever it is or the Untangle which yes is now owned by RSA networks. These do have a higher performance need if you want to do that traffic inspection because you're now you're going through Decrypting the traffic as it goes through and on top of that companies such as 40 net Required that you disable the qic protocol that also includes and we'll have this over here This is the tech doc from palo Alto networks. Both of these wants you to disable quick in order to Get the firewall able to filter these things. Let's bring that back over to here like the road to quick Which I'll leave an article Quick is a better way in the way many many sites if you wonder when you go to google and many other sites that offer Really fast interaction as you type kind of auto completing. You see that's on social media The normal tcp handshake system is complicated and good and secure But just doesn't allow for that really submittal seconds response time So introducing qic which goes over udp as that protocol has become more popular it offers amazing response and a better web experience Unless you're trying to do filtering and then now you've slowed down by disabling That's the rules that they want you to add onto the firewalls blocking udp over port 443 where the qic protocol lives and Ruining their web experience But there's you know ruined a web experience versus Having the filter is kind of a thing you have to weigh out You can have it fast or you can have it, you know filtered And that is a challenge when you're dealing with this And as I mentioned before with the work from home problem that people have or as it happened the last couple years Lots of these people are not all behind the same firewall So you could say well Well, then we want to take everyone's traffic and send it over to the firewall until you realize It's a scalability problem and tunneling all traffic There are just also creates a lesser experience. Usually you want to use split tunnel There's exceptions to that but obviously these challenges kind of get compounding Which is why let's talk about how we solve that problem And for us we're doing that with a tool called zoros But let's step back a little the reason we focus on the endpoint is because it doesn't matter where the endpoint is They can have a laptop that they take to the office two days a week from a hybrid Work environment and working from home the other days And I still offer the same level of filtering and protection and monitoring on their system Currently we're using zoros We only started using them About november of last year and we're still using them here in july of 2022 And they've been a good company to work with we have no affiliate or offering for these Companies were not a reseller of them. We're just a client and just letting you know what we use and but they get it It's protective monitor endpoints anywhere your users work and that's really what matters Because managing a series of installed certificates and users that are wandering around of your or sometimes that only work remotely Can be a bit challenging tools like zoros and I know there's other ones out there They're just the one we settled on with that we liked and we've had really good engagement with them and their team And it seems to be a well supported product It gives us that visibility into all of our clients endpoints grouped by the individual companies that we manage and this allows us to See or apply policies based on the criteria of our clients So if they don't want them viewing these particular websites or an easy example is like block social media Which is often You know such a time suck at times and you want to maintain those lists and have them up to date Zoros handles all that on the back end We just apply policies and groups without having to go Too much granular and actually define every website ourselves coming back to something like pfSense. Can you do it? Yes, can you buy some lists from different places? Yeah, but when you're using a more complete tool when you're managing things at scale Tools like zoros are really just make that process a lot easier now Just for clarification. I did not have time to review every potential program out there There's many other ones out there and for example years ago when we were using Enable before we switched to the ninja platform I've mentioned before in other videos. We use their protection management system Well, which is integration when we move to ninja one. This is when we switched over to zoras Now one thing I want to mention here is this question comes up a lot And this is where zoros ends and this particular product sas leo begins This is full disclosure my friend john's company and I've just recently become acquainted with them Did some demos and this is something we're not deploying right now in july of 2022 But something we're really thinking about because this gives us some insight that we didn't have even with all the web filtering and monitoring tools that we currently use and get through zoras and this is application discovery management shadow it is what he put I look at it as a Really deep insight because they're using a browser plugin to not that someone went to drop box Or not that someone went to g suite or office 365, but the additional information of what account did they log into so this is a Program essentially that is a cloud app, of course that uses a browser plugin to Report on all the different places a client has been the reason this is so important especially when you think about it from a data loss prevention standpoint is We secure all the applications and tools that are on the system And we may block usb's based on data security policy So we know people aren't hopefully using usb to copy or exfiltrate data out of a company Because well, there's a lot of proprietary information, especially at these engineering firms But what often happens is people don't bother with the usb's they're going to upload something to a cloud Not to mention this is where a lot of problems are And you just don't have that same visibility because we're looking at the software on the computers But by having a browser plugin that can say not only did they go to office 365 They logged in with this account that can be really important because they logged in with a non Business-related account maybe because they want to copy something out there or just because users sign up for things And offer a greater risk sometimes to a company through different applications because they're Putting data in the cloud and you're kind of getting blindsided by it. This is another tool I just wanted to bring to people's attention. Um, I did the demo myself of it It's pretty cool what they can do reach out to john and his team. Like I said full disclosure, he is a friend of mine So I'm promoting him, but there's no affiliate keys. No kickback. I'm kidding for this I just thought it might be interesting people, uh Who found it interesting like I do to cover this little aspect of it to conclude and wrap this up While pfSense is a great firewall and we talk a lot about it It just falls short when it comes to being a web filtering device And then the next question people are going to start asking is but what is a good web filtering firewall And you know, I mentioned untangle and then people are going to say but it has a cost with it And I don't really know of any firewall right here in July of 2022 That offers really good filtering granular control group policy settings for certain computers to go certain places That doesn't also have some type of subscription with it And that's because maintaining these lists is tricky and the target's moving Especially if things go to a full encrypted version of the sni You have less visibility unless you install a certificate Managing certificates managing the installer to put those in each system to break the encryption So the firewall has visibility deeper into that traffic is very tricky But when you think of it from an endpoint standpoint, how zoros does it or how Sasslio does it by putting something in the browser. You're getting ahead of the encryption and doing it there This makes it a little bit easier to manage because well, you didn't have to try and unravel the encryption Especially if someone did a full implementation proper of tls 1.3 where it's essentially double encrypted with an Outer and inner encryption if you want to dive into the details of that now It's not just a man in the middle There's a secondary encryption and it gets even more complicated if a site wants to use that and more and more Banking sites are using things like this or high secure websites Because they don't want man in the middle being a potential problem because man in the middle That may be good for firewall inspection is also one of the methodologies used by people who want to tap your network They may get a extra certificate installed in order to do bad things like a threat actor If they get control of certain endpoints, they may put something in to help some decrypt or send data along the way So it's a trade-off a bit when you're doing it that way This is one of the reasons we focus on just putting these endpoint tools on in order to do it Now any of these tools once you start doing any of the inspection, especially as zoras or any of these install certificates are going to do You may have some false positives You may have some things that get blocked accidentally and having a good management platform being able to go through especially as you manage many many clients and say This site had this problem We need to fix it very quickly because we don't want unhappy clients is what lends us to using those tools But in a nutshell, this is a reply video probably sent to people who ask What are you using for end point management when it comes to web filtering? How are you doing it? And isn't pf sense a great solution for it and not particularly a well managed solution Even though it does have some ability to do it And that's why I made this video links to the articles. I talked down down below Go through all that stuff that cloud clarity got some really solid good write-ups to give you a deeper understanding of how all this works and then you'll understand better some of the Challenges that are faced when it comes to doing web filtering and Yeah, and why it's tasked for everybody to do but not as easy as a lot of people think it is It's not just blocking a website or ip address Leave comments down below or head over to the forums for a more in-depth discussion of why you love Or hate web filtering and the fun challenges you've had with it. 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If you update from Gaza, oh, where is this? I had a list of a few things. Okay, so we don't hear a lot about it in the news right now because it's, you know, it's passe, it's people are bored with it. It's gone, but let's hit a few highlights. Israel still is fighting, they're still fighting significant fighting in the north of Gaza, where Israel is still trying to gain complete control of every part of the north. Remember, this is all very dense, urban areas. And the areas in the north, where there's still several Hamas strongholds, which Israel is slowly cleaning out and destroying. You might have seen video of Al-Azhar University in the Gaza being blown up yesterday and people are horrified Israel's blowing up universities. Yes, Al-Azhar became a symbol of Hamas. It not only was there that many of Hamas trained, it was also filled with guns, ammunition, rockets, and an intelligence center tunnels, of course, leading in and out of. I think one of the best things that Israel is doing right now is it is destroying not just Hamas, but the symbols of Hamas. I think it is important to destroy the symbols of Hamas' power, the things that Hamas has built, anything associated with Hamas, including, by the way, the mosques. I've seen many destroyed mosques, and I am cheering for that. It needs to be a complete destruction, a complete eradication of this view of the world, of a Hamas view of the world, of an Islamist view of the world. So they're still fighting, so they're still fighting going on in the North, and they keep popping up, they keep more and more resistance, and indeed, as I said the other day, this week I've seen some of the heaviest resistance we've seen since the beginning. In the south, Chanyunas is the main town in which Israel is operating right now. In the south, you have a heavy concentration of Hamas in Chanyunas. Israel has now surrounded Chanyunas completely. Troops have entered into the center of Chanyunas, and they are hunting down the Hamas. Yesterday we saw video primarily from the North, but also from the south, of dozens of Hamas members surrendering, or having been captured. And a lot of the news media is freaking out because the pictures show dozens and dozens of men basically down to their underwear in long lines.  Anyway, you saw long lines of basically semi-naked men what was interesting is all these men were military age, they were all in 20s, 30s, 40s maybe. There were no women, there were no children, there were no babies, there were no elderly, and yet people were making comparison between Israel taking quote hostages and Hamas taking hostages, which is again, disgusting and despicable, the people are doing this and that they get away with it, not that they get away with it in terms of being silent, but they get away with it in terms of people not standing up to them. So what does the Geneva Convention say about prisoners of war? Now, I am not a big advocate of the Geneva Convention, but that's the standard that people use, right? According to Geneva Convention, prisoners of war may include the following, members of armed forces, volunteer militia including resistant movements, civilians accompanying the armed forces. All of these men are likely members of Hamas, affiliates of Hamas or Islamic jihad, or people who are helping them out. When prisoners surrender, I'm quoting again from John Spencer who did a whole thing about this, about the Geneva, when prisoners surrender, some unofficially, unofficial, right? Surrender or capture, they're immediately searched. Many militaries have internal processes. In the United States military, it's just a search, silence, segregate, speed to the rear for processing and safeguard. In Israel and Gaza, combatants often have weapons and explosives, suicide vests and such. So the tactic of the IDF has been for a long time when dealing with them, is to have prisoners remove their clothing down to their underwear from a distance to ensure that they're not a threat to their captors or other prisoners. Once searched, prisoners of war are rushed to safe areas, safeguarded for processing, for intelligence, and detainment. This includes collecting individual information, so prisoners' information can be submitted to the Red Cross and other institutions, but also so that intelligence can start screening them and interrogating them. All these stripped-down prisoners were all put on trucks and shipped off to prisons in Israel. They've had to expand the prisons and open up some new ones in order to facilitate all the captured Hamas. They will go through interrogation by Israeli intelligence security, Shin Bet, and by military intelligence to gain any kind of intelligence about where the leaders of Hamas are, where the tunnels are, where centers of command and control are. All of that stuff is going to be part of what they're going to be interrogated about. As I said, partial disrobing is standard practice in the Israeli military because of their experience with suicide bombers. Don't want to be stripped down when you're captured. Don't encourage a culture of suicide bombers. So Israel's making real progress. Again, it is being super cautious, partially because of its own just-war theory in Doctrine Nation and partially because of the Israeli government's capitulation to the US government's pressure, which I think is absolutely wrong. The Israelis should be ignoring the Americans. They should stand up to Biden. They should do so proudly and vocally and constantly and in a clever PR way. They should not let the Americans slow them down. They should not let the Americans tell them that they're going to fight a war. They should not let the Americans dictate to them. I mean, one of the things that has happened, just I was reading about it this morning, there's now indications that the Biden administration has told the Netanyahu government that they expect the war to be over by the end of the year. In other words, they're on a clock. They have three weeks. Now, what do you think this does? This basically inspires Hamas. It basically tells Hamas, if we can just hide, if we can just manipulate the battlefield in a way that our leaders do not get captured and we can sustain ourselves somehow, some way, for three weeks, we are safe. This is horrific. Israel should repeat clearly and unequivocally that it will not accept the timeline for Biden or anybody else. It will do whatever it is deemed necessary to defend itself. This war will last as long as necessary. Israel will bomb whatever is necessary. It doesn't accept the UN's authority. It doesn't accept the United States' authority over it that it is an independent country that would decide its own fate for itself. Of course, Biden is not the first American president to put such pressure on Israel. Go back. Richard Nixon in 1973, Israel had the Third Egyptian Army. Hundreds of thousands of Egyptian troops surrounded. Basically had cut off all water and food. They were in the desert. They were starting to have real water shortages. Over 100,000 Egyptian soldiers could have died. This is 1973. Israel had surrounded them. They were trying to get food from water. Richard Nixon called Golda Meir and said, You open up a supply route to them. We demand that you open up a supply route to them. Golda Meir basically called him back and she said, I'm sending you a list of every single Israeli soldier who is missing, who we believe is in captivity by the Egyptian military. We demand that every single one of them be seen by somebody from the Red Cross. Once that happens, once every single one of our soldiers is accounted for and is being seen by the Red Cross, then and only then will I allow water in. Nixon said, But you're going to have 100,000 or more Egyptian soldiers dying and she said, then they will die. What do you think Richard Nixon did? Did he cut Israel off? Did the strategic reasons why the United States supports Israel change? No. He forced the Egyptians to accept Golda Meir's terms. Every single one of the prisoners was seen by Red Cross. Then and only then did Israel permit water to be provided to the Third Army. Unfortunately, that's I think the last time an Israeli Prime Minister has actually stood up to an American when, when Ronald willed the Israelis not to kill Yasser Al Fahd and to allow 6000 Palestinian terrorists out of Beirut on safe passage on a ship to Tunisia. Israel said, yes, so we'll do what you say, Ronald Reagan. Of course, he promised him to, he would support them, not after the Marines were killed, tail between the legs, America retreated. In 1981 and 82 during the Second Intifada that we just talked about. I'll show on twice or maybe three times had Yasser Al Fahd cornered, surrounded, in the crosshair, ready to be murdered, killed, not murdered, killed, self-defense. George Bush called him and said, uh-uh, can't kill, can't kill Yasser Al Fahd. Retreat, leave him alone.  And even Alex Sharon, who was one of the tougher Prime Ministers Israel's ever had, withdrew, he listened to Bush. So this is, this is throughout Israeli and US history. I've got to talk out there about, you can find it on YouTube, about the, the, the, the, the horrific nature of the Israeli-American relationship and how America has crippled and continues to cripple and has crippled for decades Israel's ability to defend itself and how that only makes things worse for Israel and the United States long-term. It's not unique to Biden, but Biden's in office right now, so to hell with him, right? He is the source of this. The US needs to back off and let Israelis do what they need to do. They know exactly what needs to be done. I think Netanyahu, this is the one time when Netanyahu's political, what do you call it, power lust, political power lust is consistent with doing the right thing because the Israeli people want him to do the right thing this time. This time, he knows that if he doesn't destroy Hamas, he is out. And if he does destroy Hamas, he's probably out as well, but at least that gives him a chance at political comeback. I hope he's out for good and forever, but his only hope of staying is to really, really crush Hamas. So Netanyahu's survival instinct and his power lust are now consistent with actually what the right thing to do is. So let him do it. Let it rip. And Israel should be a lot more aggressive than it is because every day, we hear about Israeli soldiers dying and to a large extent, those deaths are not necessary. The result of the fact that Israel is holding its punches, particularly when it comes to bombing from the air.


Hey everybody, welcome to the Waldoch Way. I'm Jessica. In today's video is going to be a look inside my planner setup for the 2021 2022 school year. And before I show you inside, I just wanna take you through some of the basics. The first thing is that the covers are printed on 110 pound cardstock and then laminated. So all I did was print it on cardstock, laminated and then I used the pro click to bind it. Now with the pro click, why it's my favorite is because these spines open up and then can be closed again. So almost like a three ring binder. So I kind of get the benefit of being able to add and remove pages as well as the benefits of it being spiral binded. So that is why I use the pro click. Now for the pages inside, it is printed on a 28 pound paper, mainly because I wanted to be able to print front and back and it not bleed through because being able to print front and back means I can put double the pages in one of these spines. All right, so now let's take a look. I haven't filled anything out yet because I didn't wanna have to cover and not show you everything. So this way you'll be able to see the whole planner. So the very first page is my favorite quote which is education is not the filling of a pill but the lighting of a fire. I like that to be the first thing I see to remind me. After that, I have the year at a glance and then I have our goals for the 2021, 2022 school year. Now these are our math and language arts goals. The way I make those is I'm going to be using my grade level skills checklist which you can download this for free if you haven't yet. I'll put a link in the description box and I've already gone through third grade and highlighted things that I feel like she didn't master as well as the fourth grade list and you can see language is the top half. There's not as many on the fourth grade list as math. So I also went ahead and went to fifth grade and chose a few from fifth grade as well. So all I need to do now is take all of these things that I highlighted for math and language arts and transfer them over so that they will be in my planner for the year. The next thing I keep is a passwords page. I keep this because we do a lot of online type of learning but I do everything here. So my personal passwords, my business passwords, homeschool passwords, I'll just write the website, the username and the password. That way I have a record of it. I don't lose it. And if Emily or Kevin needs to access something they can look at it here too. On the back of that I have my contacts page. I like to keep names, phone numbers and addresses for friends and family members especially when we are doing Mail Time Monday so that we can send cards which is why birthdays and anniversaries is the next page because this way I can say, okay, we're sitting down in August to do a Mail Time Monday. Here is everybody we know that has a birthday and then it's super easy for me to look right here and go ahead and fill out their card or for Emily. And then each one of these dividing pages that I made is also printed on a 110 pound card stock. It's just not laminated. It just makes it kind of easier to find in the planner. So next up I have my records pages which is the attendance record. I don't legally have to keep this but I just kind of like keeping it knowing at the end how many days we've done and just in case Florida ever changes their laws while I'm ahead of the game. On the back of that is the curriculum checklist. The only thing that I know that we are more than likely doing that has lessons that we will more than likely follow is teaching textbooks. So what I will do is I will write a one through, I believe it's 119 and then I just check them or highlight them or cross them off as we go. But if you're using structure curriculum, this is a great way to plan in a kind of easy format to see it over the whole year and see what you've completed. Next up I have the book log on the front and then the game log on the back. Now I only put one of these in here but I will definitely need to add more of those. Luckily the binding opens so I can do that. Resource log, what I do for the resource log is I will take, let's say I'm planning and the first thing on her skills checklist is know the meanings of simile metaphor, alliteration and automotivation. I would write that up here for the subject or concept and then I would write books, games and hands on resources that I have to cover that subject. So I kind of know everything that I have for that skill and so I can work through it. So that is how I will plan versus having a full curriculum for that kind of thing. And I have a couple of those in here for now and then I always can add more as we work through our goals. Next up I have the unit study planner where I can list out the books, websites and videos and games and activities that we're going to use for a unit study. Again, I have a handful of those in here but I can add more as we get there. Each month is set up exactly the same. So the first date or the month name has another 110 pound card stock page and then I have the blank month. The planner comes undated so you never have to purchase it again and I'll just write the dates in. On the back of the month, I have an ideas, plans and goals page. What I use this for is I will use different boxes for different things but I use it to fill out things that I see that are happening around town that I might want to go to but I don't know for sure yet. So let's say you see one of those things on Facebook that's like a homeschool day. You're like, oh, that sounds fun but you don't know if you can commit. I have a section for that that I write down like what's happening around town. I'll write down things for homeschool. I'll write down like our personal life, my business, just all the ideas and plans and goals that I have for that month just kind of land here. And then I have our August morning basket and August bedtime basket. Now technically our bedtime basket does not change monthly. I'm not even sure our morning basket is gonna change monthly this year. We're trying something a little different. I'll let you guys know about that soon in our full homeschool plans but whatever is in the basket at the time I'll just fill in so I have a record of it. And then this is the planning pages that I'm using. Now these are new this year. They've been added to all of the planners so if you have purchased in the past and you want this one you'll just need to re-download to get it. I like being able to write what week of school we're on so like week one. Fill out whatever we have going on that week in life in homeschool. We have a doctor's appointment on Monday. We have gymnastics on Tuesday. We have a field trip on Friday or whatever but to be able to see it at a glance. And then I have like a section for math, a section for language arts, a section for unit study and then a to-do section and this would be my to-dos. Whatever I need to do for homeschool or my personal life or business, whatever needs to get done that week will be written here. So it's just a really easy way to look at the week. Now if this is not your choice for weekly lesson planning there are five other layouts so you're not stuck with just this one. If you download the planner this is just the one I really like. And then on the back of each weekly lesson planner I have the meal plan. So that each week I have the week at a glance and then what we're eating for that week. So breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks and then my shopping list. It just makes it really, really easy to say, okay, what do we wanna eat? Write it down. I can say what we have going on that week whether we'll be eating out, eating at the house. Just makes it really easy. And like I said, every week is set up in that same way with the lesson planner on the front, the meal plan on the back and then the next month again is printed on cardstock to divide it. So it just repeats through the whole year. The very last thing I have in the back is a book list. And it is the printed book list from Read a Loud Revival which is the picture books for each month of the year. I find that these are picture books that we typically really, really love and it makes it easy when I flip to January to go, okay, let me go ahead and place a hold for January's books or let me go ahead and place a hold for March's books. And even if I don't have like my homeschool planning or my mindset right, I can at the very least place a hold for these books and know that we're gonna read some great literature that month. So that's why I keep that in there. And then we just have the back cover and there you have it. That is my 2021-2022 homeschool planner.


Efficient screening of protein drug interactions, PDIs, has been impeded by the limitations of current biophysical approaches. Here, the authors present a funneled Y-A-C-A-B nanopore sensor which allows label-free, single molecule detection of proteins and PDIs. This article was authored by Kebek Jong, Minju Ryu, Jin-Sik Kim, and others.


The point of using games in a TEFL classroom. Teaching language to children is a rather delicate and complex process that requires a careful approach and patience from the teacher. To make this process more vivid and interesting for children, it is necessary to remember the existence of such an important and very useful tool as games. Basis. In my opinion, games act like some kind of a magic wand which forms the foundation of trust between the teacher and the child, to build a psycho-emotional connection, and greatly diversify the learning process as well. Games in my opinion have a very important advantage over conventional teaching methods, a shift in the focus from learning itself to the gameplay, resulting in stress and tension decreasing from language learning, allowing kids to engage in interaction with the teacher in full volume and with genuine interest. At the same time, it does not interfere with the learning process. That is why it is very important to use games during the lesson. The game form of the lesson increases the efficiency of learning on the one hand, and makes children want to continue the learning process regardless of what specific topic the teacher has chosen at the moment, as well as on what level the children are currently on the other hand. Motivation. From the moment children begin to learn the language in a playful way, their motivation increases and the fear is greatly reduced or even disappears, as in the game the child can relax and behave naturally, which in turn helps the teacher to use this fact in their favor to increase the effectiveness of each individual lesson. The importance of games is hard to overestimate, and there is a lot of scientific evidence. A lot of work dedicated to the subject of games application is written, and it shows a positive correlation between the use of the game form of the lesson, and improving the performance of learning children and their interest in the learning process. However it is important to take several factors into account before applying games in your teaching practice. This will help to avoid a situation where the game, instead of serving its main purpose, to develop the level of language proficiency in children, will bring very little benefit, or even interfere with the implementation of this goal in life. Approach to games. Therefore approaching the choice of games, it will be very useful at my site to take into account the following, the following three important factors. They have some impact on the success of the games in the lessons. First, you need to be able to clearly and succinctly explain the rules of the game, and visibly demonstrate the process itself showing an example. If this step is done correctly, the success of the game will likely be very close to the maximum. Teaching point. The next important issue that should be addressed, is the teacher's understanding of what language point will be worked on through the game. Likely the best choice for the study of the vocabulary of a certain subject can be a game like Monopoly, while for the study of the structure of tense a suitable game is Battleship. Of course these examples are only a relative illustration. The last factor closely related to the previous one which I would like to highlight, is the teacher's understanding of what kind of game is best suited for children. I am referring here to the type of interaction between teachers and students. Working out different models of interaction with the teacher and with each other, children in my opinion learning to approach the learning process more responsibly and consciously. This factor in turn is largely limited to the language point being worked on. At the same time, different types of games are aimed at developing different language skills, namely listening, speaking, reading and writing. These factors clearly demonstrate the importance of choosing the right game, as well as skillfully combine them together to achieve maximum results within the tasks. The game will not always be a useful resource in teaching practice if it is chosen incorrectly and does not meet the goals. On the other hand with proper analysis of the above factors, you can achieve tremendous results, even if your teaching experience is very modest. Do you want to teach English abroad? Take a TEFL course today. As a result it is important to remember that the game should not replace the learning process itself and become a priority issue for the teacher in the organization of lessons. The game is just a tool that in the right hands turns learning into an exciting event. Certified to Teach English Abroad and Online


Live from Seattle, Washington, it's theCUBE, covering Smartsheet Engaged 2019. Brought to you by Smartsheet. Welcome back, everyone, to Seattle, Washington. We are here at Smartsheet Engaged 2019. I'm your host, Rebecca Knight, along with my co-host, Jeff Frick. You're watching theCUBE. We are here with a CUBE alum, a CUBE veteran, Dion Hinchcliffe, VP and principal analyst at Constellation Research at Washington DC. Thank you so much for returning to theCUBE. Absolutely, thanks for having me. So we're here to talk with you about the future of work, which is a huge topic, but a fascinating one. Oh, absolutely. I want you to start by giving sort of a broad brush of what you see are the biggest changes right now happening in the workforce, driven by the rise of digital technologies. Sure, I mean, well, digital is infusing everything in the workplace these days, right? And so, you know, we've had the past waves of productivity tools and then mobile devices came through and then eventually augmented reality and virtual reality are going to literally change how we perceive the workplace.  And now people can work from anywhere, right? It's fantastic. And that's really revolutionized a lot of things. Things in 2% of the workforce per year is becoming a remote workforce. Companies like ADP have a quarter of their workforce working from home, right? Accenture, same thing, they get rid of office space and they work out of their house unless there's, you know, on a client's side. And because you can kind of create the experience that you want and one of the really big trends is this trend towards being able to shape the employee experience the way that you want to using the tools that you prefer. And so, people call this shadow IT, other people call it innovation, right? And so, that's one of the big changes. And then we have things like the gig economy which is allowing people to build the lifestyles they want, doing any kind of work they want when they want to, when they feel like it on their own terms. And that's really quite exciting too. So all these confluence of forces are enabled and driven by technology but it's also leading to a lot of what we call cognitive overload.  But you also get this tools proliferation which they're just not word and excel anymore but you've got a tab open with Salesforce, you've got a tab open with Slack, you've got Gmail open, you've got Docs open, you've got Smartsheet open, you might have Jira open. I mean, so how is that going to sort itself out as we just kind of keep adding new tabs of apps that we have to keep an eye on? And we need all this technology to do better work. I mean, these apps provide value except that it's increasing the onboarding time for workers. It's making it hard for us to train people. In some companies it's hard to attain people because they feel like they have to go to work and there's this onslaught of technologies, they have to have 30 tabs open to get their jobs done and they do. And so we're seeing things like, you know, we're at the Smartsheet conference where, you know, how can we centralize work a little bit better, streamline it by integrating the tools and creating more focus on what we're doing and that's a very big trend. So in my latest digital workplace trends report, we say this, we're seeing these hubs form, you know, like Slack is another work hub that's become very popular inside of organizations. They have over 1,100 application integrations that allow people to spend their time in one place and kind of work through all these other systems from one hub.  So what are you seeing now? So what is the answer then? I mean, we have, you've just described all of these trends that are taking place that are making the work, modern workplace so much more complex, dealing with workers they're dealing with cognitive overload, leaders who want more with less. What are some of the answers? What are some of the most exciting tools that you're seeing right now? Boy, we talked already about Smartsheet and Slack. We see new digital experience platforms are emerging and low code and no code is also becoming popular to be able to take the pieces of the applications you want and create more streamlined experiences. So the CIO of Accenture, Andrew Wilson, you know, saw this problem right away, their knowledge workers were just being choked by all of these tools, but yet we need the value they provide. So he began to divide up the employee experience of the 100 top moments. And then he built experiences that enabled, you know, project management and onboarding and all these key activities to be friction free built out of their existing applications but streamlined to just what they needed to do. And he views this as his top priority as a digital leader is to say we've got to take as much complexity away so we can get at the values with streamlining the simplification. And we now have tools that allow that shaping to happen very quickly. It almost reminds me of kind of the competition for devs, right, now it's the competition for employees. And we've talked a lot about the consumerization of no IT and mobile devices for the customer experience, but there hasn't been as much talk about leveraging that same, you know, kind of expected behavior, right, or expected inner engagement and interaction with the apps on the actual employee engagement side, which is probably as fierce of a battle as it is to get customers, because I think there's a lot more than 2% customers out available, but yeah, we've only got 2% unemployment in the Bay area now. It's crazy. It's effectively negative unemployment, right? Right, right. Anything under 3%. Yeah, so, you know, this is the challenges. Employee experience is usually low on the priority list for CIOs. They usually have analytics and cloud and cyber security and all these things that they have to get done that are higher priority. Yet, customer experience is one of those priorities, but how does an employee give a good customer experience when they have a poor experience to do it, deliver it with, right? The worst thing you can do with talented people is expect them to do a great job and then give them a bunch of hard to use tools, right, which is what's happening. So we are now finally seeing that prioritization go up a little bit because employee experience is part of delivering great customer experience and it's how you create that experience to begin with. So, small progress. And leaders are seeing that as a priority of retaining their top people because they understand that their workers need to feel satisfied with their work life. Yeah, and now we have data on a lot of these things we didn't have before. You know, and I'm sure you've seen the numbers, most employees are disengaged at work, the majority, right, between 50 and 60% depending on whose data you're looking at. That's an enormous, untapped investment that workers are not performing the way that they could if they had better employee experiences. And what's disengaging is, as I mentioned, giving a talented person lousy tools or a lousy experience and expecting them to do great. It doesn't happen. How much do you think AI and machine learning will be able to offload enough of the mundane to flip the bit on how engaged they are in their job? Yeah, it's interesting because there's two sides to a coin there. Some people like a job that they can just kind of phone in and it's kind of rote and they can come in, they don't have to think too hard and then they can go home to their family. Some people are hired on that basis, right? Because that's the challenge. AI and machine learning will absolutely automate most rote work. If you look at like Adobe Sensei, I was at the Adobe conference and they were talking about how all of these creative types that have all these mundane tasks automated for them and I could see everybody looking at each other going, I could pay to do that. I could pay the creative rate to do the mundane. Yeah, right, right. So you see things like robotic process, automation is working. I mean, I hear anecdotes all the time from CIOs how they cut like 25% out of their call center because they handed it over to the box, right? You know, it's bill processing. That's one of the, you know, and sorting. I'm matching bills to invoices. It's a manual job even in today's world until very recently. So we are seeing that happening but at the most rote level. But it's just going to climb up from there. What do you see down the road though? I mean, in terms of those employees who are raising their hand saying, wait, I kind of want that job. Are you seeing what's going to happen to those people? Are they going to have to learn new skills? Are they going to be invested in by their companies? We hope so. You know, it's interesting we see that all the big vendors now have these big education programs. Salesforce has Trailhead, SAP just announced open SAP where they give away massively open online courses. And, you know, Microsoft has done this with Microsoft Developers Network way back in the day trying to educate people. I mean, you can get reskilled for nothing for free now if you want to do it. But this is the challenge is even though every technological revolution in the past and it looks like this one too has, you know, utterly changed the employment picture, by and large it creates more jobs than we lose. And that looks like it's going to happen here but the people who lose the jobs are not the ones that tend to gain the jobs. They get the new jobs, right? Yeah, they often know it's hard to take somebody who's sorting bills and say, I need you to develop a new AI algorithm. Because that's where the next strategic jobs are going to be directing the AI to do all these things, right? And so I think the short term is going to be dislocation and it's happening so fast that unless society, government and enterprises really intervene to upscale these folks, we are going to have a challenge. We're in this really weird time too in between. I mean, the classic one is long haul trucking, right? Which is perfect for autonomous vehicles, you know, to carry a lot of that freight and everyone pretty much agrees that's going to happen. At the same time, there's a huge shortage of available truck drivers today, like there never has been. So it's weird and it's probably not the best for a young kid to get into, right? Because it doesn't have a great long term future. Right, right. Well, and you look at Uber and their state of direction is they want to get rid of all these drivers, right? They want self-driving taxis. And, you know, we're getting close to where that might actually happen, right? And so the unskilled labor is going to be hit by far the worst. You have to become skilled labor in the digital economy. And so a big part of the future of work is going to be finding ways to get the skills into people's hands. You know, like Facebook and other large organizations don't even require a college degree. What they want people is the people that can deliver. They can take these things and create the, you know, the great products of the future.  And as Laird Hamilton said on the main stage today, it's the formula of learning to really understand when you're starting from a point of, wow, I don't know much about that. I guess I'd better learn about it and then learning about it along the way. We all have to be able to adapt and adopt those new. No, absolutely. No, the, and so we see upskilling and cross-skilling becoming more transdisciplinary. So business people are becoming IT folks now and IT folks are becoming business people. You know, we've had this business IT divide for a long time. It cracks me up. I still go to big companies and the IT department is usually in its own building, right? But those days are going away. And I've seen, you know, now there's IT people over on the business side that live there now, right? You know, so we're seeing this kind of, this blending where digital is infusing everything. And so you have to become digitally competent. And this is where we have to make that simpler. This is going back to the, you know, the digital workplace. The average user has had the number of applications they have to learn double or triple in just the last five years, right? So it's a big challenge. So what should kids be majoring in today? What's your... Oh, game design. You know, the gaming industry is bigger than the movie industry by a large, large margin, right? And that's where all the experience of these immersive experiences and virtual reality and augmented reality is going to come from. And then you can go into business, right? You know. Even sociology majors can design games. Yeah, it's just, you know, it's just get, like you said, it's the poor tweeners, right? That get bumped on the old and aren't necessarily in a position to take care of the new. I'll have to take care of an, unfortunately, not a lot of great record of retraining to date, but maybe that's going to have to be a much more significant investment because there just aren't the people to fill those positions, period. Yeah, well, and there's these big marketplaces now. You can build the career of your dreams. You go to Upwork or Gigster. I mean, these are big job markets where you can go and find work and do it from anywhere using a tablet you bought for $50 off of Amazon, right? Right.  Right, right. So it's, you know, it's a fast-changing world.  You know, they're not really banking that thing for building a career. Well, I've crawled through those platforms and it's interesting, entrepreneurial activity is very common in places like Asia, right? Where, you know, they come here, they build businesses right away, right? And they're used to that. So, and we lost some of that, but I think we're, now the economy is giving a lot of that back to us. We have to relearn it again, you know? Right, great. Well, Dionne, thank you so much for coming on theCUBE. It was a pleasure having you. Absolutely. Thanks, Jeff. Thanks, Rebecca. I'm Rebecca Knight for Jeff Frick. Stay tuned to more of theCUBE's live coverage of Engage 2019.


Your bed is up the middle the NFC West tell me why though this team is not a 99 overall like there's a few 999s, but almost everything on this team is a 99. I don't get it fill a dope team though Let's go through it. So the NFC West the 49ers the Rams the Seahawks And the Cardinals I gotta say my favorite bandwagon conference conference division So my favorite bandwagon division Seahawks great team to bandwagon Cardinals great team to bandwagon the Rams Stafford's now a ram. I could totally bandwagon that team 49ers man. I don't like bandwagoning the 49ers I don't know why don't ask me why we got 99 overall Russell Wilson at QBA almost wanted to use Stafford But I haven't used Russell Wilson in a long time 99 gold Jerome Bettis We've got arm bar bulldozer and tank breaks hits thick tackles It's three AP, but it is a busted ability tank used to only be on tight ends last year It was so specific you'd have to get a tight end with it and most people didn't do that Jerome Bettis with is gonna be something 49ers Larry Allen 97 overall 99 99 899 Jimmy Graham Vernon Davis 99 Will Disley Jerry Rice The Andre Hopkins at a 99 Braylon Edwards Tyler Lockett Ezra James Sean Alexander with 399 overall halfbacks Yes, you're seeing that correctly and defense is even crazier dude This is one of the coolest things ever this Bobby Wagner gold at 99 ultimate freeze part our Bobby Wagner You can bet your ass that's on the thumbnail my boy Eric built this entire team. He's letting me use his account Hey, you're the homie bro for real. I appreciate you golden ticket you Debbie and Clowney. We got 99 Sam Mills 99 London Fletcher Chancellor Ronnie lot Sean Springs who's unlike every team Shaquille Griffin gold 99 gold 99 JJ Watts It's kind of cheating. You can give him give many chem Frank Clark DeMarco far John Randall. I'm actually gonna not cheat. I'll put Carlos down lap here at left end You got abilities on Clowney Cam Chancellor and Bobby Wagner. Wow It's kind of like Legion of Boom with a little upgrade without further ado boys. Let's hop in NFC West I think I have three or four divisions. I haven't done yet If you have any of those or want to build one, please shoot me DM on Twitter I would love to get all the divisions done. We'll see if we can do it before men 22 Additionally today's video sponsored by Harry's Harry's is a personal care brand that delivers a close comfortable shave at a fair price As low as $2 for refill.  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Ah Ah Wendy's dude, why am I connected to Wendy's Wi-Fi one more time, baby?  She'll help us to say he's a steam plow, bro One more run commit do it again.  He look at how close we are. We're so close. Let's go left side left side left side Yep. Yep. No, I have to do it once more. Come on Jerome. Come on. Absolutely lift this man up.  Oh My gosh, and I'm just gonna hit lock it in the middle because this guy's bad and can't guard it. Oh Maybe Ken Russell Wilson. Oh wait. Wait Oh He caught that It's gonna go the right side run. There's no way he's kidding. He hearts on that. Oh, come on. Throw me that in. Throw me that I'm T Oh He might throw right here. Oh Playmaker playmaker playmaker Lobs one up You just ran into one of the hardest-hitting safeties in the league. I know it's not Darren sharper But hey came chance, you know, sadly, I don't think a lot of you are gonna get that reference. Oh, that's play action Don't know what's the flag. Oh attention. Okay, Nick, dude. I swear. It's like he's playing pretty well through the lag I don't think he's getting the leg. I think I'm the only one getting it here No, I wish I could shock that one up to lag, but it wasn't first and ten Uh ace open, but I can't see I delivered the laser, but dude, can I please play? All right, I guess we're just gonna go back to the Jerome bettas show since we can't really do much here Drone bettas up the middle The air truck took him out of the stumble animation.  Oh That is not your own bettas. They put Adrian James in of course.  Oh Intentional grounded. Let's go boy might be over.   We're blitzing clowny. We'll go to coverage of Ronnie lot Okay, that's fine. Even if he caught it, he was about to get rocked by cam chance Let's go and now we're on the 12 bro. Let's go three touchdowns Jerome bettas. Ah, we quit It was so fast All right, I'll see if the white bike and possibly handle another game if it doesn't work You just got some of the best rushing highlights of my year. So we'll be all right Ooh Lamar does Kenny golly. Respect bro. I like the squad. Whoo Okay boys, we're in. I don't think it's lagging. This could be our chance Was I running them all so well because I was lagging or what? That was insane I gotta get back to that what I can in this game Ooh, definitely. I definitely like what I see here too. Oh I barely got that off the Tyler lock in who's dropping his linemen into coverage Let's get back to the ground game.  See how it looks looks like there's a man there Jerome bettas will run through the first person he sees on every play zone week This play is historically ass, but I'm gonna go for it anyway.  I'm going with the slip screen. Uh, he sees it but kind of late And we are gonna break that prime time tackle literally every time you're not rage quitting dude, bro I bro, I finally got onto burger.  Derek Carr. There is hammer big Randy must Herators team team and don't even question me. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Yeah, absolutely. I'll talk to you soon Bye. Good. I'm burger king's wi-fi, bro Oh, wait, what button are you always mess it up with the lefty kicker because I hold b Because I it's always b, but it's x when you go to the other side either way I just ran for 80 yards with Jerome bettas. I also almost got in trouble with that showboat I would say I'm sorry. This might be asked, but this is kind of cool Ronnie lotter on the edge. No that happened too. I had to hang up to give my reaction.   Oh my god Just rage quit bro.  I'll take literally four wins on this account. Yo airwick I got you bro.  He's gonna get two point. Does that matter? I guess it kind of matters because if he gets a field goal and a touchdown, that would matter But it's still too possession game one more stop boys. Oh, it's great. Wait, put you back.  Okay, so this game is so over. All right, let's get Jerome betted to the edge pretty much guaranteed teddy How do you get an x-pack?  I do not care what your adjustments are. I do not care You see running this ball Oh, he does no just shake them chill. I'm guessing run up the middle And I'm going for it. Uh-oh. Uh-oh, that's not up the middle. Hey, I think we gotta stop. Is that their ninches now? I got the first. All right.  Thank you for watching as always. I'm sorry about the lag You know, I did have some nasty runs at Jerome betted despite the lag though So hey, I appreciate you boys watching as always. I'll see you in the next video. Peace out


Authorities in Colombia have blown up an illegal mining site and destroyed mining equipment in the country's Amazon, as part of joint efforts with Brazil to crack down on gold mines in the area. Colombia and Brazil destroyed 19 illegal gold mining treaches in the Amazon rainforest, which were producing about $1.5 million of the precious metal a month and polluting rivers with mercury. Colombia's armed forces said on December 6. Monthly production at the illegal mining operation was 23 kilograms, Colombian authorities said the US-backed bilateral operation targeted the infrastructure of the transnational criminal group familia del Norte, whose illicit gold mining dumped 114,000 grams of mercury and polluted 68 million liters of water every month, according to authorities.


South Africa's post-apartheid government placed universal access and service at the center of their communications policy and regulatory interventions. This included establishing a universal service fund, USF, and a dedicated universal access regulatory body, UARB, as well as awarding targeted operator licenses in areas of low-tele-density. While these interventions were successful in increasing access to telecommunication services, they have not been effective in improving overall quality or coverage. In fact, fixed line tele-density has fallen and prepaid customers now make up the vast majority of telephony users. Additionally, the rapid growth of mobile technology is at little to do with the success of these interventions. As such, the implications of this for future universal access and service policy and regulation must be considered. This article was authored by Charlie Lewis.


Are we the only ones that think the latest Starbucks Christmas cups are utterly ridiculous? Hey there njrude22.com with a quick commentary on Starbucks Starbucks coffee cups. I hate this company. I mean, I don't know I only drink there when I get the coffee given to me, but their latest Christmas they have Christmas colors, you know, they got red they got green And it looks like I don't know some sort of weird lettering It looks like some sort of like person has an attention span problem or drug addiction They're seeing all these weird letters and it says marry a coffee. They're not even really saying anything They put all these words and letters in different directions and it says Have we wish you a merry coffee? We wish you a merry coffee Like they have Christmas colors. They have a new theme, but they can't say have a merry Christmas or have You they can't even say merry happy holidays. They're having an egg like acknowledging. It's a frickin holiday Not that I care. That's a whole nother story, but They're non-committal like kind of like Ambiguous that middle of the road type.


Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Frank Bassa of Granada Gold. How are you today? I'm very well Tracy. Thanks for taking the time to talk to me. We're getting a lot of phone calls right now. I guess the Europeans and the Swiss are all looking at gold right now Frank. Can you tell me why everybody that calls me all like Granada Gold? Well, we had a very good turn when you first started this project and we went from basically a halted stock and 18 months later we're 121 million market cap and it came a combination of drilling good drill results And of course a lot of marketing and at that time everybody wanted to hear a good gold story And so we're hoping to redo that story in this cycle Okay, so let me understand that so you were upwards of 120 million market cap And of course today you're just under 10 million. Is that correct? Yes. Yeah So for those of you that appreciate how depressed the the gold small cap market is you would argue that you are one of the most Competitive undervalued gold stocks in the market presently. Is that correct? I think we're fairly undervalued to the point. I think we're significantly undervalued You know, we believe that there's a gold cycle beginning And you know, we have two false starts. You'll notice if you look at our charts We did take the stock to 40 cents and then we took it to 22 cents this year And I think we prematurely started the process But I think now and I'm starting a new year. We started a very nice drill program We've got some very good high-grade results over a very long whisk And I think we'll give a very good story to the market what our property which is on a Cadillac trend Okay, all right. So for those of you out there, they're going okay We've made our money in the cannabis markets. We're looking to get in in this gold uptick cycle Okay, even the Elliott's wave. I think they're all forecasting a gold bull market here in this upcoming year Can you give us a quick overview about who granada gold is please? See the lot of gold people where a group of people actually came from industry. We're actually from the operational exploration A group were been what are called fairly well seasoned and we've worked all over the world And we took on projects and as this project and we try to look for quality That other people have missed and that this is a very nice property was a former producer He used to operate at 8 to 10 grams a ton the mill burnt and then it went through a lot of colorful hands We acquired it and we're the first ones to develop a meaningful resource on the property And now we're taking it to the next level whereby the intent is to increase the resource at a higher grade and actually go in production And of course I I deal with some pretty Uptight analyst out there in the market and one in particular is very picky and completely independent And he loves granada gold and I think it has to do with your your high-grade gold as drill results Is that correct to your high grade can explain that a little bit more for some of the Investor Intel audience that may not be familiar or understand what this means The deposit could be developed two ways and originally developed this thing as a near-surface low-grade open pit But the reality what we did is we bunched together a nine to twenty two veins trending east-west and when we bunched them over about a hundred meters thickness We developed a resource about one gram one point two grams But then we can selectively mine that which has been mined in the past from the open pit And basically you can get grades from the open pit at three to five and a half grams So we're looking to do and develop the pit We have the option doing at one point two grams or a four and a half grams Which we did a PFS on and we're still within a six fifty eight hundred All in cash cost and that's as a shipper So the potential is develop it as a high-grade shipping deposit Which we have permits for and the intent is to expand on that and then from there go underground We feel we might have one point two to maybe two million ounces Inferred at eight to ten grams a ton and of course It's my understanding that one of your most significant advantages of course in addition to your bulk tonnage Your high-grade gold is that you have a great location for actually getting it to the bill Can you tell us a bit more about that? Yes, you know what we did was when we acquired this property. We're looking for access to mills You know you look at mills now if you want to build a mill in Quebec You're talking two three years for permitting you're talking $200 million to build a mill There's actually between eight to ten mills within a hundred kilometers distance of our property Three of them actually shut down and the other mills all are short on rock So our intent was you know, we did knock on the door to some majors They've been on our property some have spent nine months on our property and they've confirmed the deposit is there the grades are there So what we're going to do for them We're going to increase the resource increase the grade and hopefully either they take us out Or we end up changing our approach and that's where we call ourselves now Bernadette Goldmines Which was originally and to go into production And of course for those of you out there that may not understand this obviously What you do in Frank maybe you can explain this because you're a seasoned veteran is the idea of course with the exploration Is to find the gold create as much of the architecture as possible and then sell it to a major gold company Producer is that correct? Yeah, that's the best model for us because The ideal structure for us is like we said we only export 20% of the structure and now we're going to increase that 20% exploration Target and then of course we've already let people on our property three majors showed up with mills in the area They're all short gold in the intent is meet their requirements We got the permits for them, which is a very complex thing now. We came back that took us over two years and six million studies So we're fully permitted So at any point that they wish to come and you know take over our asset that can give us paper for paper But we'd like to be sold by the ounce not by share price We feel it's not unreasonable to ask 60 to $120 an ounce in the ground Okay, so what should we as shareholders anticipate in this upcoming quarter or do we need to wait and see Frank? No, I think we just finished another drill program I think you'll probably be surprised that the drill results will be getting So far the results have been pretty good. We released some numbers We're just checking on the core lengths because of the nature of the drilling We're actually using a similar pattern that was Cisco use when I developed their 10 million ounce deposit It's a kind of a high intensity high frequency drilling our other drill program Which is about 120,000 meters that we took undertook on a property was not designed that way It was actually was designed to drill for structure and now we're actually what we call drilling for grade Well Frank as always, it's a real pleasure. Thank you for joining us today. No, thank you very much Tracy and have a wonderful day Thanks a lot


Hello people, I'm Ginny Metherill, I'm a fourth generation witch and I'm here today with my True Scary Stories series about the Hope Diamond or the Blue Diamond. Now before we start I'm just wanting to say I am indebted to the information or some of the information in this video to the great and rather magnificent Tom Sleman who is one of the finest writers of true scary stories true horror stories that you can find living today. So I'll put a link to his Amazon author page in the description and should you want to read his books you can take it from there and believe me they're well worth the trouble. So I hope you liked this video and if you do please do give me a thumbs up button and subscribe to my channel so I can make more videos like this for you. Well let's get straight into this video with the very beginning of the story which starts in India. So a huge gem weighing 115 carats which is about the size of my fist was mined out of Collier Mine sometime before 1660. It was bought or possibly stolen depending on who you believe by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier who was a Frenchman and explorer and merchant and he returned to his homeland and promptly sold this jewel to the French king Louis the 14th. Louis the 14th had a bit of a thing for large gemstones and so he immediately bought it and then spent the next two years instructing a jeweler to cut it down to about 67 carats which is still quite a sizeable gem and he used it as part of his royal insignia and he was very fond of it apparently. He loved it. Louis the 14th liked to keep this vast gem in the cabinets of his room at Versailles where he would produce it and show it to his guests saying look at this vast gem that I've acquired. So it became known as the blue diamond of the crown of France or the French blue. So Louis the 14th loved this diamond and had it set and he used it in his state occasions and when he died it passed on to his son Louis Kans and Louis Kans also adored this diamond and he had it made into this rather ostentatious and slightly hideous pendant that you can see here. On his death it then passed on to the very glamorous Louis the 16th who was married to the equally glamorous Marie Antoinette. Now we are all I'm sure completely familiar with the fate of Louis the 16th and Marie Antoinette who were guillotined by the National Assembly of France and the Republic therefore was sprung from their deaths. It seems that Marie Antoinette was rather obsessed with the stone and used to spend some time just staring at it in her rooms and kindly Louis seeing how much his wife loved it therefore gave it to her. She is alleged to have worn it at a very grand fancy dress ball in the Tuileries. She loved it because she thought the blue of the diamond matched the blue of her eyes which were well known for being a lovely clear sparkling blue. Her bosom friend was a lady called the Princess de Lambele and the princess also had these amazing blue eyes and so Marie Antoinette used to let her borrow the stone to hang around her neck to complement the blueness of her eyes. As we know though life could not go on in this manner for any longer so the jewel was confiscated with many of the other jewels that were held by Louis the 16th at the beginning of the revolution by the National Assembly. Now this is where they were rather naive because they believed quite rightly so that the French people owned all these jewellies and should be able to see them so they put them on display in the royal stall house which is the Guard Merbler and they posted guards to stand around the front. However they were a bit lax on security because there was a first floor window around the back which a band of robbers discovered and climbed in and they pilfered over six nights the Guard Merbler of the royal jewels and it stole the lot and nobody noticed and at one point there was 50 people climbing in through that window. The jewel may be lost but we do know the fate of Marie Antoinette and King Louis the 16th. They were taken and guillotined by the National Assembly and so the Republic sprang from their deaths. The Princess DeLombale had a much more terrifying fate in my opinion. On the 19th of August 1792 she was jumped off into a kangaroo court where she was asked to denounce the monarchy but with tears in her eyes and in a broken voice she said I will not denounce the king the queen and the monarchy. Very bravely she was then descended on by the mob. They ripped her clothes from her. They took her into the centre of town and gang raped her whilst surrounded by everyone else. Someone produced a knife and sliced off her breasts. She was then disembowelled.  The head was then styled apparently whether this is true or not I don't know about the styling that is but it was certainly put on a pike and paraded around Paris. Then they carried on parading the head up and down beneath Marie Antoinette's window to jeers and catcalls. A bit horrific isn't it? This is when the Rumamungas really went to town they claimed that Tavernier the person who'd originally bought the stone to France had actually stoned it from the crown of a deity in a temple in India and therefore they had incurred the wrath of that temple. It was also claimed that the blueness of the stone meant it was a curse on all those blue eyes such as the French monarchy. There were many other rumours that surrounded it including one which I particularly like which is that it admitted a reddish glow at night. That last one is actually true for 1965 the curators of the stone knew to glimmering phosphorescence of red light coming from it at night. They didn't understand what it is and no one really does but it seems that the stone reacts with any ultraviolet light that is out there and causes this glimmering red crimson glow to come from it. After the theft of the stone from the guard murmur it disappeared it was paradou before 20 years or so until it popped up in London with a diamond dealer who promptly sold it to King George IV. King George IV also was a rather keen on having very fine large gems but it is not part of the crown jewels of the United Kingdom. George IV himself believed that the stone held a curse and was unlucky. When he started to own it he developed a compulsive eating disorder and became absolutely vast with the stomach expanding to 50 inches. He also started drinking extremely heavily and then furthermore developed a drug addiction to Lordenham which is a form of opium. Paul King George used to wear these specially made large reinforced corsets because he was really quite vain. I mean bearing in mind he was a morbidly obese man and any pictures and portraits that we see of him made him look as slim as possible but he was vast and that his fatty heart could not cope and gave out in 1830. Now he was a compulsive gambler as nothing else and so discreetly the Duke of Wellington got his hands on the jewel and decided that he'd better sell it off to pay for the monarch's gambling debts which were not unsubstantial and this is where it was bought by the very rich banker Lord Henry Philip Hope. It takes its name from this gentleman. He was an immensely wealthy banker. He'd inherited something along the region of 75 million dollars in today's money and he was a good looking, very flamboyant and rather beautiful young man who liked to indulge his taste in fine art and especially diamonds. He was very keen on them and had a built up huge gem collection. On the 26th May 1834 Hope held a ball for the glitterati of Georgian society at his incredible mansion on Mansfield Street in central London. He opened 11 of his 14 state rooms and each room was decorated with a particular theme of his fine art pieces. During the party a young 16 year old serving girl called Meg was revealed by one of her colleagues to be a real life Roman egyptian with the power of foresight and she was also pretty good at tassie amounts which is the reading of tea leaves. Meg blushed and stuttered but eventually the guests around her got her to read their palms. The first person to produce his palm for her investigation was a great lord, a peer of the realm. What Meg saw in his hand she immediately realised she could not reveal at all because it was a list of all the women that he had ruined by making love to them and leaving a trail of illegitimate children throughout the land. He was a depraved and slightly lechie soul to say the least. However she did say to him that he had three beagles and had recently had a very great loss. The lord of the realm did have three beagles and had just lost his beloved mama so he was mightily impressed. The next person to produce his palm for Meg to read was a general and as soon as she took hold of his palm she had visions of all the battles that he'd ever been in and all the traumatic details of those times. She also had a foresight that he was going to be shot in battle with a bullet through the head. Realising that she could not reveal this to anybody really because you know it's a bit much isn't it. She then told him that he had a sister who played the piano beautifully but had long passed and now looked down upon him as a guardian angel. The general with tears in his eyes thanked her and turned away. Talk of the girl finally reached the ears of Henry Hope and he decided to have a word with her after the party. So when the guest had left at about four o'clock in the morning he dismissed the rest of the servants who were clearing up the house and asked Meg to join him in his own personal drawing room. He invited to sit down on the sofa which he did quite nervously because he would be wouldn't you if were only 16 and he said to her could you explain your talents to me. She blushingly told him that she did have foresight in reading palms in reading tea leaves but she also had the power of psychometry which is where you hold an object in your hand and you can tell its history. On hearing this Henry Hope jumped up ran out of the room and returned a short while later bearing a case within which was the blue diamond. As he opened the case Meg looked at the blue diamond she then turned and looked at Henry Hope and started to stare at something over his left shoulder. Her eyes began to bulge she jumped up and backed away from him and then suddenly turned and ran from the room. Henry Hope put the blue diamond back in the case and tracked her down in the servants quarters. When he asked her what was wrong she started to cry and shake and said that she had seen a tall at least seven foot turbaned black robed gentleman with a skull face standing behind the left shoulder of Henry Hope as soon as he revealed the diamond.  She grasped Hope's arm and begged him to get rid of it as it would cause such great death and destruction for him if he kept it. Meg left Lord Hope's employment to that point and she left a note saying that she was too scared to remain with him because she did not want to see that blue diamond ever again. Needless to say Hope's health now deteriorated and he suddenly died in 1839. His nephew Henry Thomas Hope inherited the stone on his death and he decided to display it at the great exhibition of 1851 in Crystal Palace in London. Now Queen Victoria toured this exhibition and she came upon the Hope diamond and asked to hold it and as she pulled it out and turned the diamond through her hands she could see galloping horses in its facets.  Lord Francis Hope was the next person to inherit the stone. Lord Francis Hope was a fast drinking gambling bon vivur who had a penchant for fast ladies and slow horters. He married the American show girl who was at the epitome of her career, May Yohei. She enjoyed living the lavish lifestyle just as much as Lord Francis and together they galloped through his fortune. Sadly once the fortune was gone so did May. She always claimed however that the duel was haunted and she said she was once approached by a psychic who told her that the stone was part of a common root of all evil that stretched back to ancient times causing death and destruction in its wake. She wore the blue diamond with great pride and swandered about showing it off to the guests in society wherever she was. She was once wearing the blue diamond on a cruise ship in the evening as she was taking air on the deck and round the corner came a blind man leaning on his carer and as soon as he turned the corner he went what's that there's a devil before me and cringed back. May tells the story of Greater Plom obviously. The duel now passes through the hands of a variety of gem dealers some of whom go bankrupt some of whom die. Eventually the stone ends up with Pierre Cartier the famous Julia and he very cleverly lends it on approval to Ned and Evelyn Walsh McLean saying that it's got a curse attached to it and why don't they just hold it and see whether they want to buy it. Ned was heir to the Washington Post publishing empire and Evelyn was heiress to a huge mining corporation. They threw incredibly lavish parties they were young they were good looking they were super rich and they bought the hope diamond. The way it happened is that Evelyn took the hope diamond back and put it on her dresser. She sat there brushing her hair and she had this overwhelming urge to put the stone on and she sat and stared at it for a few hours and eventually took the jewel and hung it around her neck and as she says it was from that point that her dread curse was linked to the stone. It can be fair to say that Evelyn almost became obsessed with the stone she wore it to every society event and high class ball that she attended. She went around saying that the curse didn't affect her she did believe that things that are unlucky for others weren't necessary for her. This was not to be in May 1919 their firstborn son their beloved Vincent who had been nicknamed the hundred million dollar baby by the press when he was born due to the fact that he would inherit both of his parents fortunes ran away from his body guards and crossed a street and was knocked over and killed by a passing Ford car. Evelyn then became addicted to morphine whilst dealing with the grief of losing her eldest son and she went to a priest and asked him to bless the stone and the priest commented that no blessing would remove the sinister evil that he felt was inherent in that stone. It was just after the death of their son Vincent that a Sri Lankan seer claimed that in ancient times when the world was one great land mass an ancient race of beings made from pure energy lived upon that land. However some of these beings turned to the dark side of the occult becoming obsessed with destruction and death and a battle was fought. The good beings won and the remaining dark ones took refuge in the stones under the earth. When continental drift occurred these stones were found in the minds of Kallur. The Sri Lankan seer claimed that sometimes these beings manifested themselves as at least seven foot tall, skeletally boned, black-robed and turbaned beings just like the one that the 16 year old serving girl Meg saw. Evelyn Walter McClain did not believe the story and said the seer was trying to get her stone through deception and so ignored it. Things went from bad to worse for the Walter McClains. Their marriage broke up when Ned left Evelyn for a younger prettier model. The Washington Post Empire went bust leaving Ned practically bankrupt. He started drinking and then developed psychiatric problems and ended up in a sanatorium where he finally died. Poor Evelyn couldn't kick her morphine habit. Then their eldest daughter also named Evelyn died of an accidental overdose of sleeping pills. You know that's pretty much disaster after disaster for the McClain's divorce death destruction. A famous jury dealer eventually bought the stone from a claim estate and exhibited it throughout America and it became known as the American Crown Jewels. Since then it's been donated to the Smithsonian Museum where you may see it and the Smithsonian are brilliant with it. They say that they've had greater numbers of visitors ever since they got the stone and that there is no curse. So good for them. So that is the story of the Hope Diamond. I hope you enjoyed this video. If you did please give me a thumbs up and don't forget to subscribe. And in the meantime watch out for my next true scary stories.