Linux unified key setup. Crypt setup is utility used to conveniently set up disk encryption based on the DM Crypt kernel module. So this is the tool most commonly used because it's popular across all distributions, it's been around for a long time and it's very solid, it's very trusted, it's very fast and it's for Linux full disk encryption. And full disk encryption is incredibly important if you care about the data that is on your system and you care that it doesn't wander off somewhere it shouldn't and have someone else have access to it. Now this does not protect you against something happening to your computer as far as when it's unlocked. So encryption is one of those tools that it's meant to lock up your data at rest. That's an important concept to remember that it won't really protect you from a lot of other attacks but it will protect you from the physical access to your device while it's off if you've properly implemented this. Now, important parts of implementing this. When you install your Linux distro whether it's Debian based, Red Hat based or any of the many, many derivatives this is pretty much one of the options of all the popular distributions to fully encrypt not the home drive encryption. It works for that too but you want to fully encrypt your drive. Now why would you do this? As I said, if someone for example has wandered off with my laptop my laptop has a lot of things in there which those things include my SSH keys which allow access to some of my servers and whatever other information I may have put on there. That being said, the best way to protect against this is having a Luxe encrypted partition. So if they were to take the drive out and someone was to try to examine the data on there it would be well encrypted and very difficult to figure out. Now, you could you brute force it? Not easily, it can be done. Obviously if you're just replacing you're just protecting all this with a password so if your password is password one, two, three it's protected until someone types in those set of characters and decrypts it. So it's important that you set a good password. What is also important is that you remember the password you set because I've had people contact me going hey, I lost access to my server what's the easiest way to get around Luxe? I'm like restore from backup. There's not an easy way. That being said, always make sure you have a backup because it does make some people nervous encrypting others drives because there is that higher risk that not only could you lose something from a hardware failure now you have an extra layer of risk because you could have a memory failure a real memory failure of your own memory and forget the password. People have done that. They leave a machine off for a long time. So make sure you put it in a physical safe put it somewhere, keep it in your head whichever your methodology is for doing that but that's an important aspect to the Luxe encryption is it is really good and being good doesn't just keep people you don't want out it can keep you out as well. Okay, so we're gonna start with something simple this is a 16 gig flash drive I have plugged in it's formatted to the EXT-4 Linux file system not encrypted. So that means any data I put on there could easily be read by any Linux machine without any encryption. And this is just a disk utility built into a bunch of base distributions this is particularly pop OS. So nothing you really have to do here to get encryption set up in terms of command line or anything like that. It's pretty easy. So this is what it looks like on encrypted and we're just gonna go ahead and format partition. ENCRIPTED what is called encrypted 16 type internal for extent four password Luxe. Now a couple of things the Luxe encryption is not well supported on windows there is an old project to try to get it on there but on top of that it's formatting at EXT-4 which is also not supported on windows. Those two things are gonna make a challenge if you want this to be interoperable with windows. This is focused only on Linux. Goes outside the scope of this talk to talk about encrypting on windows. So we're gonna go next and wants to have a password. Now I'm gonna show the password. I don't know why it thinks $123 sign is good for password at least it does know password 123 is weak. So it won't even give you the option to click next until you have a decent password please use a decent password because as strong as the encryption is is only good as the password that you use to encrypt it. So an easy password defeats easily strong encryption. Let's go ahead and next format and it's going to automatically create the file system and create the encrypted partition all in one step. All right now here's the drive now that it has Luxe encryption on it. This is where it may be a little bit confusing to look at it looks like there's two partitions on the drive 16 gig each but in fact there is only one. Now the unlock right here shows that it is unlocked so you can see unlocked and then we can mount it right here. So we're gonna go ahead and stop this and we're going to lock it. And this is what the drive looks like locked. Now the way Luxe works because it's working at the kernel level it essentially wraps it through the kernel and creates a new device. So when it's not unlocked it does not create that extra device and what I mean is right here is dev SDC. So that is the name assigned to the thumb drive that we put in. And when we unlock it we put our fancy password 123 and unlock it we get to see what's inside of that Luxe container. Now it creates the kernel does a device map to works like a normal device unlocked. Now this is how it gets around having all of your applications have to understand anything about encryption. It's treated as just another drive. It just isn't mounted at SDC anymore. The encryption is mounted at dev SDC and it's mapped to the unlocked right here. And like I said, this is what makes Luxe very interesting and very easy to manage because you don't have to have every application be aware because the kernel is aware and taking care of it for you once it's unlocked. And then we can treat this and right by default using this utility it creates just a single partition right here. So it's just one encrypted EXT4 on here. So pretty simple, pretty easy to manage and anything you do on here is gonna be encrypted and that same password, if you plug this into any other Linux just show that has Luxe in it, which is like I said, pretty much all of them has been around for since 2004 in the kernel. So it's easily read on other Linux instances with the same password. So it's a great secure way to put data onto thumb drives. So let's now show you what it looks like from the operating system level. And I set up an encrypted Debian system to kind of give you an idea. Now I did this with full disk encryption based on the install. So when you do the install, I chose to install a Debian server with full encryption right from the big get go. I'm gonna show you how that looks. So I created this in a virtual machine. This is XCPNG with, in case you're not familiar, I have other videos on this. I log into it because it's already booted and we're just gonna restart it. And I'll show you what the boot process looks like on an encrypted drive that's in a VM. Now the good and bad of doing this, great for security, great if someone ever were to try to take one of my backups of this particular VM, they would not be able to boot it without the password because when it boots up, it loads the kernel because it needs at least the kernel to load so it can stream the Lux encryption and unencrypted. And this is the same way if you do a full distro install, it does the same thing. It's gonna have a password when it boots. I've seen this as easy when it's a laptop. Difficult if you're in a virtual server environment because you have to get console access to do this. Beyond the scope of this talk, there are ways to have it download a key file from a certain location to unencrypted itself. Those are other methodologies that can be done. Like I said, that's maybe a later video if there's enough interest in this. So now it's booted, we typed in the password, it finished the boot. So let's go in SSH into it. All right, we are now logged into that particular machine. Now this is how it looks on the other side when you're logged in. The boot device was XVDA and XVDA1 is the boot partition which contains the Linux kernel. So that's the part that starts that is unencrypted after that. It's XVDA5 and XVDA5 maps to this right here, dev map or dev encrypted VG route and that is the rest of the file system so we can have all the encrypted. So anything saved anywhere else but except for boot is going to be encrypted on this machine. So all of the databases, all the things that I may store in here are completely and fully encrypted. All right, so let's talk about kind of how I knew, how I know what is or isn't encrypted. So to give you a better idea here, if we do Eftis L for list XVDA, it's a 30 gig partition I set up for this demo and it tells you, right here's the Linux, this is the extended partition and this shows as a Linux partition but it is technically an encrypted partition so it sees it but the only way to mount it is via the crypt command. So let's also look at going like this, talk about the crypt setup and how the command structure works for it. So we're going to do crypt setup, lux dump dev XVDA five and what this does it lists all what they refer to is the key slots that are in there. So for each lux encrypted device you can have multiple key slots and what those key slots do is each key slot is just a password in there. That password can be changed per key. Now it's just extra keys that are not necessary but neat that you can do them because what these extra keys do is you can have two passwords that unlock the same lux encryption drive and that way if you ever wanted to revoke a second password but keep the primary password you could later revoke it if there was some reason to do so but it also means different people can have different keys to restart the machine. Kind of gives you different revocation methods so just a thought it is something that is built into there which I think is pretty slick. Now, what about volatility of this? Obviously there's some risk added when you add lux encryption. Well, specifically the risk that's added is this right here. Crypt setup lux header backup dev xvda5 header backup file and I just named it lucky header.bin. Why did I do that? Well, this is where the challenge can come in with lux. Lux just relies on a header file. The rest of the drive is noise so if there's some data corruption at drive you can't just run fseq against it to fix it. Not if the header is corrupted. If it hits that header if some type of corruption messes that up you have lost the drive because without the first piece of that header that is stored on the drive the rest of the drive cannot be decrypted. That is a critical piece to how lux works. So one of the recommended things for security and it's up to you is to back up the header.bin. I say it's up to you because the other way that we handle is we're less worried about backing up the header file we back up the entirety of the data set itself. So if I ever ended up with one of the volumes I have encrypted with lux I would check my shoulders and restore from backups as opposed to just trying to do the header bin. The risk with the header bin is of course now you have some of the information that you would be storing outside that system to restore that header which of course I guess you could put it on a lux encrypted thumb drive as well but then if it doesn't boot there's a process to getting that header bin restored. How do we get that header restored? It's actually pretty easy. This was lux header backup. There's a lux header restore command. And you type in yes and it restores the header. Now another thing about the way lux setup works this is a case sensitive.  So it's not that it just has an uppercase letter in here for lux open or lux header backup. If we were trying to type the same command lux header restore and I just didn't capitalize the R it won't work. So please note the case sensitivity nature of the lux commands. So what about changing a password? So I set my system up and it had me type a password and I want to change it. So I have to re-encrypt the drive. No, so re-encrypting the drive is not necessary with lux we can just do lux setup change key. Now you may have noticed that there's multiple key slots and there's two of them in use. What it does is it wants to know the password of the key I want to be changed. So if I type a password that matches the key I typed one that didn't on purpose right now no key matching this pass phrase. Let's try it again. I type the key that does match the pass phrase and our new pass phrase. Verifies the pass phrase and it takes a second and now this drive once this pops back is now re-keyed on boot to have a different password. Please make sure you don't forget what you typed. That's obviously a really important factor in doing this because it's that quick to re-key a drive but if you forget the password, oops I think I know I typed it wrong that time on accident and our pass phrase be changed. Change it back. Now we've re-keyed this drive to there. And remember this is the pass phrase on boot and when you do this you can also add new key. So there's options to do the same thing it was actually the command is gonna be think it is yeah lux add key. So now we can add another pass phrase to unlock this drive. And sometimes this is a good way to do it as well from a sanity check of add a new key before you remove the old key and there's a way you can delete the key as well. So those are a couple of different factors. Now another way to set up your server so you don't have to get council access every single time you boot because obviously that can be very pain is to set up a second hard drive that you store your data on that is encrypted. That means you would be able to boot up your virtual machines. This is frequently the way we set them up. We don't necessarily load the whole virtual machine encrypted but we attach a data drive to it that is encrypted. That way the machine will boot up and I have to actively log into the machine because there's sometimes a remote and far away where I can't easily get to them and then type in the password to decrypt the drive with the actual databases where the files are kept where the actual critical data is. This is a convenience over security. So it's hard to get inside of a data center necessarily and take a machine out. So you're in the list worried about that but if you have the data in an encrypted part cool but if you have to reboot the machine which happens when there's a kernel update I know you can use kernel splicing to avoid those but if you have to reboot a machine or there's an outage at data center that causes the power to go out and come back on physically logging into machines from a console access can be challenging. So that's why you frequently want to load the machine if it's a server and then encrypt the data drive attached to it. So let's cover that part and how that works. So if we do fdisk-l we list out all the drives. So we have the disk XVDB which is the second 15 gig hard drive and we have the boot one XVDA that we're working on. So we're going to start with this. So let's make sure there's no partitions on it. Dev XVDB nothing free blank space. Now, normal process you would make FS well you create some partitions and you do a make FS and create partitions on it but we want this to be a lux encrypted drive. So we're going to create one starts with the crypt setup command like they all the lux formats do lux format dev XVDB. Yes, we want to destroy it within a precarious. Yes, create a password for it. And that's it. We've created the lux container. So now if we go back to CF disk it warns me that if I write this it's a crypt slux signature on there and I'd be overriding that header and destroying it we certainly don't want to do that but there's no partition we didn't format it. The UI version when we do this in a GUI makes it easy because it does all this in one step. This is what happens when you're doing it manually. So now we're going to go ahead and we're going to say crypt setup lux open because the only thing we did was create the container with a password but we didn't open it or mount it. So it was dev XV because we're dealing with it as a device. Now we got to get the device name and this is where it shows up in the mapper part. So we're going to call this data drive. I spelled driver actually will D-A-T-A-D-R-I. We'll use a case sensitivity here. So we're going to crypt setup lux open which means unlock this partition and then create a data drive. So go here, type in the password. All right, now we're going to go over here to dev mapper. There is my data drive. Now let's look at how behind the scenes that's working. So as I said, because this works to the kernel level it creates a new device for each unencrypted drive. That way when you have these drives they are completely treated like any other hard drive and the kernels taking care of all the abstraction layer of doing the encryption and decryption and getting the data to the device in an encrypted manner but then your programs accessing it access it like any other hard drive. So it added it to data drive and it's pointing at DM three behind the scenes in case you're wondering as why I did it that way to show you but you can give it easier, easier to remember names and you can write scripts obviously to do this, this can all be scripted. So now that we've done that the only thing we haven't done is create a file system. So now because it's done there we like I said we want to create the file system inside the encrypted containers. So we're going to make fs.ext4.dev mapper because that's where it stores or unlocks and creates all the unlocked devices that can be treated like a normal file system. And once again make fs doesn't have to be any awareness of the encryption it's taking care of at the kernel level so it just doesn't make fs as if this is any other storage device, done. Now what if I wanted to fsck that, I can do that. I once again if I would need to fsck dev mapper data drive you can do your standard fsck tools and everything else it works just like a regular drive and if we go over here to slash mount make dir data we would do mount slash dev mapper data drive mount data shows up like any other mounted drive. So it's really simple how it works once you kind of get the concept of it's streaming through the kernel and handling it behind the scenes. So everything you create with Lux Open it adds another device here and like I said all this can be scripted and then you choose where you want it to mount. So it mounts and all of your data goes inside of here but anything that goes inside of data now when it at mount is automatically encrypted under Lux side and we can close this we can open it every time it reboots it does require the password you put back in like I said there's ways you can automate some of that but of course at the risk of security but this is a good way to make sure all of your data is encrypted so you would store all of the data that's critical to the machine so the machine can be rebooted remotely SSH back in remotely and then manually mount the data drive back so whatever services are running on it can start and this is a good way when you have remote server setup to lock down the data so they're encrypted in case anyone physically tries to take the server because obviously that's really a big concern. So hopefully this was helpful hopefully it gets you an idea and get started with Lux. It's amazing easy to use once you have a few concepts down and there's a lot of documentation for it. And the last piece I'll leave you with is the Arch Linux wiki on this is the DMCrypt device encryption. It's outstanding in detail of all the different functions you can do talking about how to do things with keys how to do all kinds of functions with it so there's a lot more to Lux this is just to get you started so if you have something really specific or different use cases there's a lot more expanded options but this is great disk encryption at the minimum you should be using it on any of your computers whether it's a laptop desktop in case anyone ever walks off of the drives or in the case that you have to send a drive out do you want to make sure that data is encrypted? It's arbitrary easy to use and with modern processors they have AES modules for encryption decryption there's really not a speed loss on this it's so minimal it's not like you're having a performance issue when you encrypt it which is wonderful about the way this works. So like I said get started on it here if you want to continue the discussion I'll be posting this in my forums if there's some follow up videos on how to do some more things and there's an interest in this let me know and maybe I'll make a follow up video or just answer the questions in the forums. Thanks. Thanks for watching. If you liked this video give it a thumbs up if you want to subscribe to this channel to see more content hit that subscribe button and the bell icon and maybe YouTube will send you a notice when we post. 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I caught myself an interception to Taylor for a tub for a tub. Yeah, because to be honest a lot of people have the stereotype that football players Right, that's the stereotype. Yeah, right You know quite a lot What's going on everybody? Welcome to a very very very special NFL episode of Fung Bros food today We are in San Gabriel, California We are at Chang'an restaurant and we are joined by NFL safety Taylor Rapp. What up, brother? How you doing? Thanks for having me. All right So this episode is really really special because we're gonna be eating a diverse spread of Chinese food and you for those who don't know You're half Chinese. Yes, sir There's so many things to talk about about you being raised half Chinese and and your Chinese side is really traditional But you're a rookie in the NFL now. So that's crazy I had to open up with the Shanghainese section because that is the part of China that your heritage is from. Yeah My mom was born Shanghai Born raised there my dad was actually born in Oklahoma, but he was actually raised in Toronto Okay, so he's he's Canadian as well My mom was actually my dad's translator when my dad was over there working. That's actually how they met Just any of this food look familiar to you right now. Yeah Pork belly look bomb. I'm ready to taste that home shall row. What's the word on nutrition? Are they are you like Lebron where you're like just steamed chicken fish or is there a little bit more leeway? It's kind of all up to the players obviously try to eat as clean as possible personally me like I kind of on that Lebron Eatin clean eating like a lot of Whole Foods chicken fish and a lot of veggies. All right, but we got to break the diet Pork belly some people know this me and Andrew are from Seattle and you we actually went to the same college Yeah, you're from essentially Washington. Yeah, right, right, right? You're from Bellingham, which is up there Yeah, right next to Vancouver, right? Obviously we used to cross Bellingham when we would go to Vancouver Yeah, growing up because we're from Kent how traditional was your upbringing growing up? I mean, I think it was it was kind of mixed mix of both my mom She's definitely more American eyes, but my grandparents they're the ones that obviously always traditionally You're going in man.  Yeah, see we fried it It's kind of like a light seaweed batter, and it's a fried fish fillet pretty cool. And then you dip it in the white pepper Chinese fancy fish sticks you dip it in this uh, there's a sauce Let's get into this By every every Chinese New Year's or like your birthday my grandma always cook up a million different dishes Is it your birthday that you have to eat the long noodle? It's birthday, right? Yeah, you know what's wild is that like you're half Chinese But in a way since you grew up with your grandparents you grew up with even some of those traditions that like we didn't do in our family Oh, really? No, we did it. My parents didn't do it. Yeah every birthday my my grandmother cook up these long noodles Grandparents they like grandparents. They're the best. I like the light seaweed flavor that it's got to it You know you don't really taste them in dishes like this. So did you go to Shanghai? I was what when I was like six or seven years old, so I mean it must be completely the change Now I think you went back ma'am couldn't even recognize it. Yeah, it would be crazy long jing shall we're you use chopsticks correct? I know I use it unconventionally.  I always use it. Whatever works. Whatever works also you only half Chinese So you don't gotta write that Did you feel pressure to be Chinese growing up? I was almost ashamed of like my heritage and like who I was I look different kids like would make fun of me like Like they made my jokes. Yeah Throwing up I was like more ashamed or embarrassed And that's I think that's one of the reasons why like I'm really trying to take on that role now and try to Embrace it it's weird like I would be home be all the traditional Chinese stuff And then like I'd go out in the real world I'm almost like put on this mask and like try to get away from it. I think that's like I use that That's fuel like fuel to fire like I use that to push myself in in sports really I think that's that's what really drove me. Well, it's funny because at Bellingham You're probably one of the more Asian kids, but if you grew up in like Seattle, you would be like the hopper kid You're like a half kid That's that's my dish right there All right, I got the cow young pie cow young pie that breaks down a grilled lamb Steak, this is the shall cow section shall cow basically is like Chinese barbecue. This is our Texas barbecue These chouar that's called chouar. Okay, the young people eat it in Shanghai But I would like your grandparents for sure probably didn't this be so I would say obviously lamb chops is in itself Is not only Chinese but definitely the seasoning these seasonings actually come from like Western China Really good. It's different very fragrant got like that kind of seed flavor These seasonings actually come from like Western China spices tastes more Middle Eastern. What do you call your grandparents? Wagon wapa. I think that's shanghainese. Wagon wapa. There's I could tell there's a shanghainese Yeah, I heard people compare shanghainese to like French. Yeah, cuz it's like And shanghainese like you know that phrase knee chelama. It'll be like known to be a lot. Oh You're not digging on the shellfish too much, but what about strange cuts of beef of course man Okay, wait, I'll tell you this you don't become the safety for the Rams Eating shellfish did your dad play football in high school. Yeah, did he push you into it? Or was it literally like it just happened. It's kind of my my brother and I streams. They spent countless Money baseball tournaments traveling all that stuff football all that gear and stuff But they're just really supporting us. So what did your Traditional Chinese mom say when you wanted to play football? I mean, I don't think she knew what football was When she watches games, but she didn't stop she didn't stop it. No, okay. Well shout out shout out to Well, she's still like make sure you get good grades though cuz you did We had to get a's or like we weren't playing football you have a older brother, right? Yeah, how was his journey with being Asian as well because you know you said he ended sort of like I guess like an Asian profession I never really had that conversation with him But like throughout high school or like growing up. I think he had a similar Experience like it would be interesting like ask him and talk to him about like how he is like in his engineering world and stuff like that Yeah, yeah, shout out Austin man. Yeah, what up? I always said though that sometimes for Asian parents man best you can ask for is them to not stop you from doing it As long as they don't stop you and they still love you, right? That's all you can ask for it not stopping you is love. It was big for me to have my Grandparents come to a lot of home games, too. Do they understand what's going on? Oh, yeah, no, I do They will knew we have the wagon right here man But what point did you feel comfortable repping Chinese culture more when I ended up going to UW? I think it brought in my horizon. Obviously it comes as you mature obviously You start to you know think about you know where you come from and as I as soon as I got to UW I started to embrace my heritage and culture a lot more Did you ever think it was weird like I guess what do you think about like the racial issues because like obviously you got Kind of jokes or anywhere from light hearted jokes to maybe real discrimination when you were playing football, right? I think a big stereotype for Asians is that like we're soft and it can't be aggressive So I mean it's pretty cool for me, you know playing football and being how aggressive and tough that the sport is me being Asian So it's it's pretty cool. It's I think it just came with you know me loving the game and me Understanding that you have to play the game with that mindset and that mentality and I I don't like to get hit I don't I don't like to To feel that jolt right now, but I mean it's just something that comes with the game Something that you have to do prior to that doing this video. I was like researching on Reddit Why don't aren't there Asians in the NFL or playing football even anecdotally? I guess like in a high school level there's barely any Asian right one was like Yeah, because like the parents just want to protect the brain You have to hit the brain, but the brain is the money-maker I would go to college camps and stuff like that and Just because I didn't look like a typical football player What what is out in like the real world right now in the NFL like what looks like a typical football player? I think I was you know Just not giving the chances or like as many looks right college coaches, right? Which I don't really blame the college coaches because like they never seen it, right? Yeah, they're just so new They're just like I don't know you know I kind of relate to that when I was a freshman in high school And they would just like never throw it to me But in practice I could do it, but then there was just some sense of like all he's gonna Do it in the game. Yeah, what positions do you think Asians typically would be best at you have young Ho Choo Oh, you said quarterback quarterback. You don't got to get hit. You got to be really smart You got to be able to analyze definitely be like a skill position Okay, I don't think it would be like Ed Wong Which I think he's like a definitely outlier because he played off as mine, right? Yeah, he was a linebacker. Yeah, he was a linebacker, Pro Bowler, Vina means on the cowboy shot to him I did play a Cornerback though for a year. Oh, yeah, I caught myself an interception to Taylor. I accept I ran mine for 80 yards Oh, really? Yeah for a tub for a tub. Yeah, no, this is real authentic.  Yeah It's like the spices for the lamb. Yeah Have you found a pretty big Asian fan base that's supporting you? Yeah for sure I mean I get messages all the time from you know kids Who are Asian playing sports and saying like oh, how they look up to me How my inspiration stuff like that when you were breaking these barriers in people's minds Did you feel that way or was it once you got there and arrived you more were able to look back at it? So I was really like doing something that people almost thought they they couldn't see or wouldn't yeah I mean I would say it's more the latter like as soon as I got to the NFL You know, I would like look back on it was like realize You know how big it is and maybe it shouldn't be this way because maybe we should just relate to everybody's story Even if they don't look like us, but it just there is something innately about human nature where until you see somebody who looks Like you or has a story like you know family background. It's like kind of relatable to your own You're like, I don't know if I could do it. Yeah, exactly. I didn't have And that's why I kind of took on this role of trying to be this like role model or like figure Kids who are like in my position When they were when they're growing up like who I didn't have growing up to look up to someone like you said If you had to point to an athlete that was the biggest inspiration for your identity thing I would say Jeremy Lane, right because you know, obviously during that Lynn Sanity era Right those couple months like he was he's probably the biggest biggest deal in pro basketball in all sports Yeah, and you were probably in high school at that time. Yeah, and that's when I really was like trying to go on in the next level Right. Do you think that actually help push you? I think so for sure. I kind of use that You don't have anyone to look up to you like when you're thinking about the future and you're like Oh, can I like really make this happen like huh? There's no one out there But like for me to be able to see Jeremy do that on like a not national stage obviously in pro sports and stuff like that You know that kind of gave me a little a little a little hope that little hope try to go after and attack it All right, so what do you think of this man? We got a gigantic short rib sitting on a bed of lettuce This is not have you seen Chinese food look like this? No, I'm just gonna dive right in I think that's the same braise as like Similar is it more the self-limiting belief of what Asians can do or is it there are systems that just doubt us and once you get a Few bad breaks you just get a give up it goes back to like what we're talking about how like, you know a lot of Asians play the odds and not do the easy route, but like do the statistical route where it's like, you know, if I if I put my heart into Sports and then like I don't make it like what do I have to fall back on? So as I think a lot of them play the odds go into something that is like a sure thing like Engineering or like go to medical school or if you have to give some advice like I mean at some point Do you think that there's a time that a player just got to hang it up and be like, you know what? Listen, I'm not made for the next level. Yeah, I heard that you were the top athlete at your school or on your entire football team Right. Yeah, so that's a good chance But how do you know like that you had a really good shot and that was gonna be worth it? Even education to us don't know that I mean, that's the hard part. We're talking about that's the answer I just don't want to hear because I know I didn't think when I was in high school I didn't think I was gonna play at the next level in college and then even when I was in college I didn't think I was gonna make it to the NFL the one advice that I would give is like You have a dream and you really want it Like you've got to put everything all your effort all your dedication into it and go after it in college, you know Just doing the right thing and always hanging around the right people I did everything in my control to put myself in the best position to make it to the next level So that was like maybe everybody's going out on Thursday or whatever and it's you being like either what I'm cool I'm just rest. Yeah look over rest.  You actually understand a lot of Mandarin. Yeah. Yeah, you like you understand it pretty well Chonggong Salad Chonggong salad. Have you ever had the Santhemum leaves? No, man. Go for it man You got it. You got to try this. I in my personal opinion. I take this over kale I take it over arugula. So it's it's like almost like a tea leaf salad My poor spicy I don't know people don't understand how many set plays there are and how much practice You know what I don't think fans just watching football like they have no idea of what's going on behind the scenes Because to be honest a lot of people have the stereotype that football players are dumb, right? That's the stereotype. Yeah, right No, there's so much more going on behind the scenes But also there's like memorization of plays and coverages and calls Especially defense you have to be able to adjust on your calls based on what the offense is doing Yeah, you think defensive players are they traditionally they don't get their shine on as much because most people only know quarterback Running back wide receiver. Yeah, and then maybe linebacker. You know, what's our lack there? Yeah, we'll score touchdown Yeah, defense players. I don't think it's much spotlight. They don't get any love. They do all the dirty work All right, we got to get it these desserts. Are you familiar with this? No, I'm not. What is this? This is called a tongue you had growing up this little snack called hall flakes the little round red things That come in like the paper Cylinder that you would eat their sweet Yeah, those are called Hall Flakes that is the fruit that makes the little flakes really oh really press this into those Mike from money on the outside or what is it? Yeah, it's a molasses. It's candy Oh, so he'll dip it and then let it cool Tom Hulu From us to you wait man, they're gonna have you do a new year's commercial. I don't know if they had you do it Yeah, oh wow Yeah, this is a good one. It's like jam. Yeah. Yeah, I'm right. What is the Hawthorne Berry? It brings back memories like yeah What are some other plans you have like representing the culture?  Yeah, that's a mixture between your Chinese name Yeah, my full Chinese name to your gym Yo is is the name that my grandparents gave me but they really just gave it to me because it's it looks like my Initial TR. Okay, grandparents always used to call me Jinjin, which is like handsome horse. Oh, okay I don't know why they called me that but they called me Jinjin growing up. So yeah, we put together that The logo with the with the yo so what you got the merch going on right now Yeah, is that that's just the hats or the shirts or what is it? Yeah, so we just have the hats I did this deal with a new era and we've got to design my own rams design hats And then we also have my own custom just brand. Oh, you're going to China Yeah, what are you guys expecting on that trip and where you guys going in China first heading to Beijing? And then we're gonna take a train the bullet train up to Shanghai We're gonna host a couple of play-60 and football camps in each city You know go there with my family my mom show me around so it should be a good time Chinese is gonna get better out there. Oh, yeah Right ask you to say some stuff. No, I know it needs to We just figured out how to say it Meishu to choose big American style football. Nihao. What's the Taylor app to your Jen? What's it? May sir due to grand very grandma used to make this all the time, bro You got goji berries. I think you have some egg white in here. You got quite some black sesame inside the suicide Oh, it's got a little wine in there Tongrae how to We just did a Chinese commercial brother come chop that up send that to Shanghai We got to go through real quick potential sponsors Chinese sponsors. They do this with Jeremy Lynn Hey, you guys got to help me out, you know because your sport is so athletic based Definitely, we got to look at vitamin brands and energy drinks like yeah, all right What about yes clothing clothing lines the big ones you have our like except that's what Jeremy's with now You have leaning you have peak you have Anta Anta leaning is the biggest one actually, okay you got leaning that would be dope. Yeah, would you endorse? One piece of workout equipment because one thing about China is they don't really like holistic gyms. They have this like Rubber like pole right with two balls on the end and they just shake the pole up and down You know the resistance training. I know like a shake weight except with Yeah But yeah, thanks for doing this video man, I'm super excited for your future. You're my favorite I guess what do you want to say?  You'll be good shape. Yo, what was your favorite thing last thing? I'd say the pork belly and the wagyu my top actually low-key the shrimp early in the first round Yeah, I need shrimp and I actually really am into this salad low key I was eating this and we never really got to it. Oh really eggplant shrimp dishes The reason why we wanted to bring you to Chang'an is because it was just like authentic modern Chinese food, right? All right, you guys to end off the video I guess it's just fitting to wish you guys a very happy Chinese Lunar New Year All right guys, thank you so much for watching that video big shout out to Taylor rap here You guys follow it him and his story down below man Wrapping up your rookie. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I'm sure it's been a crazy ride And man, we just wishing you the best for the future man. Appreciate it.  So definitely yeah my social media there T-Rap zero seven on Instagram All right, you guys thank you so much for watching that video in the comments section below I need you to do three things number one Let me know what is one life goal that you have that seems Improbable or unlikely to other people number two make sure you let us know what is your plan to achieve that goal and number three Make sure you leave your Instagram tag We will be giving the best answer a twenty five dollar Amazon gift card. Huge shout out to you, bro Yeah, thanks for having me guys.  Thank you so much for watching the video and until next time we out You know, we're wearing helmet and we got all our pads on so it's like it's not like basketball Like you can see their face you can relate to them football's part of a fans to relate to just because they're You're wearing a helmet.


The 5 Best TEFL Games for Adult Students Most TEFL certified teachers abroad will come across adult students sooner or later in their career. While you might have already prepared a folder full of fun TEFL games that work like a charm for young learners, not all of them will be useful for adult students. That does not mean, however, that adults don't enjoy games in the classroom. Here are our 5 favorite TEFL games for adult students. 2 Truths and a Lie This activity is a great way to get adult classes going and it's so easy to play. Have your students think of 3 statements, 2 have to be true and 1 of them has to be a lie. Next, the students share their 3 statements with the class and the other students or the teacher have to guess which statement is the lie. This is especially great as a way to get to know your students in the very first lesson. It's even more fun when the teacher joins in as the students are always curious to learn interesting facts about you. Jeopardy Jeopardy is a popular game for all types of students but when playing it with adults, you can choose harder categories and they get really fired up. It will take some time to prepare but once you have done it once, you can use the material over and over again. Here's how you can play it with adults. Select your categories depending on your student's level or background. For example past continuous or business focab. Next, write the value of a clue on one side of the paper and the question on the other side. Prepare clues valued at $100 $500 for regular and $200 $1000 for double jeopardy, just like in the TV show. Divide your students into 2 or 3 teams depending on how big your class is. When you're ready, determine who starts and have them choose a category. For example, business focab $300. Read out the question and wait for the student to answer. The student may consult with his team. If they don't know the answer, you can pass the question on to the other team. Keep track of the money and don't forget to subtract money for wrong answers. Movie trivia This game works especially well for adults as it allows them to talk freely and express themselves in English on multiple levels. Basically, you divide the class into 2 teams. The student from each team writes down facts about a movie onto the board for everyone to see. His or her team members now need to guess the correct movie. If they get it right, they get a point, but if they don't the other team gets a chance. You can also play this with books or even songs for example. To make it harder, you can limit the students to only sharing 3-4 statements about the movie. It also saves time and makes sure the game won't take too long. How-to game A very fun game that really gets your students creative minds going is the how-to game. If your students don't know this game yet, show them a video of a short how-to tutorial. Once they understand the concept, divide them into groups and have them write their own how-to instructions for a secret task. Encourage advanced students to be as creative as possible, such as how to travel back in time or how to become a millionaire. Next, the groups present their tutorial and the other students need to guess the secret task. You'll be surprised what your students come up with. The Great Debate Advanced students always love a good heated debate. Show your students photos or articles about recent or controversial topics, such as war, protests, etc. Next, divide your students into two teams and assign an opinion on the matter to each team. One team will be pro and one team con. For example, one team is for the reunification of North and South Korea and the other is against it. It's important to assign the opinion to each team so that the students don't need to share their personal opinions. Next, have them start debating in an orderly fashion switching from one team to the next. Also be sure that every member of a team expresses their thoughts during the debate and nobody is left out. Are you ready to teach English abroad? These five TEFL games for adult students will make you their new favorite teacher. Apply now for your TEFL Tezol certification course and start teaching in a matter of months. Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad. Send us an email or call us toll-free at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today.


Thank you for focus to organize this webinar. I think this is a part of the change that we have now during the pandemic. Usually we are gathered in a certain place and organized as a seminar, but now we're trying to find the solutions so that we also can exchange our thoughts especially today about the food situations in the world. So can you, the host can present my presentation? Yeah, next. Next please. Yeah, pandemic and impacts. The COVID-19 virus is dramatically changed the economic, human relations, healthcare, transportation, education, and food system around the world. Impact also fell through across society. It's no matter the places, north and south at this moment. The past international trade system, free trade, especially on food, fall down since the supply chains is disturbing and increased in the cost of imports and exports. Next slide please. And poor the hunger. I think DIPA and also Walden already share some points as well in the beginning. So we can see what happened in Indonesia. As the COVID-19 pandemic strikes in Indonesian economy with almost 3 million people having lost their jobs and 70 million at risk of losing incomes because of physical distancing, many people, especially among the poor and informal workers, are worried about escaping not only from the disease but also from starvation. Before the pandemic, there were about 24 million poor people in Indonesia, or is equivalent 9.22% of the 260 million Indonesian populations according to Indonesian statistics. Projected that millions of people will fall into poverty and unemployment due to the pandemic. Next slide please. That's in general the situations in Indonesia related to the current pandemic. So let me try flashback a couple of years ago or a couple decades ago. Indonesia and global food trade. Indonesia was one of the states joining the World Trade Organization's WTO system since the beginning. The global trade system was starting January 1st 1995 as we all remember in many countries since they are joining the WTO they will start beginning 1995. Indonesia ratified the WTO as the outcome of Uruguayron with low number sevens on 1994. After that Indonesia had campaigned strong for trade liberalization and economic cooperation with other nations, regional and international level such as APEC, APEC, AFTA and other FPAs. Next please. Let's see for a couple a few years back. We can see that Indonesia import a million tons of rice which is in Indonesia rice was the main diet for many Indonesian people. We can see how is the highest one is on 2018 which is with the amount of 2.2 million tons. Next slide please. As well as with sugar. Indonesia for the last five years we also import a lot of sugars, a million tons of sugars just to give you some background some and also contradictions. During colonial era actually Indonesia one of the biggest sugar productions in the world but now after more than 75 years of our independence we are getting as imported sugar countries. Next slide please. As well as garlic. It's become a huge issue in Indonesia in the beginning of COVID-19 pandemic that the price of garlic at the national market increasing up to 300% of 400%. Like in the beginning of my presentation I already said because the pandemic is disturbing the transportation so there's a lack of garlic in the national market so the price is going up. Next please. So what happened with the Indonesian small farmers? This is I'm using the the data from the national statistic of Indonesia. We can see year by year month by month the the small farmers exchange rate in Indonesia is really really minimal. Meanwhile when we can see that the inflation is getting highest compared to the exchange rate or the price taken by the farmers. That's the the the situation. Next. And dealing with this pandemic as also Walden already mentioned that FAO and other international institutions already said that they worry about the food production. Can you next slide please. And there is currently the big program in Indonesia is a food estate. Dealing with the challenge of food supply near future as the impact of the pandemic COVID-19 Indonesia government is planning to set up a food estate in the central Kalimantan province. Around 165,000 hectares land will be used for it and 6 billion rupiah is allocated in the pipeline national budget. And food estate is a part of the existing government set is national strategic project. So the meaning of this national strategic project means its budget will be allocated from the central government and then across collaborations among several ministries. And it will be one of the top focus for the Indonesian program. And just today during our this webinar Indonesian president living to central Kalimantan province this morning to take a look with the locations and the program of the food estate. And like Salmali said the differences between food sovereignty and food security in Indonesia the food estate also will be lead by a ministry of defense. So you can imagine that the defense ministry will take a lead on food production issues near in the future in Indonesia. Actually there are several other programs related on food productions in Indonesia such as sustainable family food yard, village stock food bank, diversity local food and etc. But not as the main project. I mean here is it's mostly like a ministry level project or provincial level project even district level project. So it's not and the budget is depend on its government. Next slide please. And what happened in Indonesia? The land ownership in Indonesia is really small. Majority small farmers only own 0.8 hectares per family. Meanwhile 2,178 companies own more than 6 million hectares of land. I quote this from Jamal books on 2014. And what the other situation it's a big gap between farm gate price and retail price. So like we can also see from the small farmers exchange rate like I said it's also cannot afford with the national inflation. The next is reform agraria program is moving very slow and far from the target. For the last five years there is a program on reform agraria in Indonesia. But it's really really slow from the target is 12 million hectares. Now it's almost six years. So it's not more than three million hectares is already distributed. And it's also part of it is linked to the shell forestry system. Then among the Indonesian populations 29.04% is working on agriculture sector. And agriculture sector is contribute to 12.84% of national PDB. I quote this from agriculture minister. So you can see that in Indonesia almost 30% Indonesian people are living from the agriculture. And the next is the week of trade and logistics system between village district and provinces. I think Deepa already share with us also what happened the situation in India. So more or less the that's what happened as well in Indonesia. Next slide please. And I would like to add here on 2014 Indonesia released the new law. What we call is a village law. So based on village law or we call here in Bahasa is number six 2014 for the last five years from 2000 to 2019 Indonesian central government already spend more than 257 billion rupiah village fund. So village fund is the fiscal comes from national governments goes directly to the village level and is organized and managed directly by the village community and the government. And in Indonesia our total village Indonesia is 75,000 in 33 province. For the last five years those village funds was used to build such for small irrigations. I just would like to add some background here because for the last 10 or 15 years back the irrigation budget for irrigation is really really small even is nothing. Maybe some of you also already knows about the water structural adjustment program that supported by World Bank at that time so it's really small. But from the the village fund many many villagers decided and use the village funds to prepare and to build the small irrigations in their foot area. And then the village fund also used to clean water village road small bridge village market and village own business unit water conservation and etc. Next slide please. So why I put two main program at the moment in Indonesia. The first is the food state the food estate and then the second one is the rural development for the past five years. So as you see Indonesia already spend hundreds billion rupiah budget for development in the rural area. But after the pandemic the solutions and the policy is decided to set up a food estate. Our questions and that's what also many civil society and also scholar was why not to ask the villagers the small farmers the peaceful indigenous people to produce the food for their own first and then also for the their neighborhood and then for their village itself. Because we all Indonesia already spend a lot of money so I mean in the in terms of infrastructure already there in the village. But later after the pandemic the solutions or the national program is the food estate. So let's to the next my presentation. The big lesson learned from that we have from COVID-19 pandemic there is a strong need to recognize that the previous system and policy is driving people to the worst conditions out of the disease itself. Need a fundamental change include on agricultural production and food system. And I quote here from the guide to food sovereignty produced by La Via Campesina on 2018 that food is fundamental need. Access to food is essential to human survival and basic human right. There is no one size fits all solution to merit of the complex problem we face in today's world. That's I think it's very short but very fundamental concern that we need to bring it up now during the pandemic and onwards. Ensure every single family farm has enough land for their cultivation process and fiscal support should be provided by the state. It means reform agraria should be taken as the main priority. Now globally reform agraria is out of national policy and disappear from many civil society concern. Why I put at the last point here about the reform agraria as we talked in our webinar today is about food sovereignty. Without the reform agraria I think food sovereignty is far that to achieve. So some some precondition that we need also to consider about the food sovereignty that to make sure that it's every single family farm has enough land for their agriculture work. That's it my presentation for our webinar today. Thank you.