Hi everyone, Joe for jaskiescasebrakes.com coming at you with 2020 hip parade baseball sapphire edition series 1 3 box half case random team break number 1 from jaskiescasebrakes.com big Thanks all of these folks right here for getting into the action appreciate it There's all the teams right there. Let's roll it. Let's randomize it a full 12 times 6 and a 6 2 And 12th and final time after 12 we've got Adam down to Enoch 12 times for the teams 11 and 12th and final time after 12 times we got the Padres down to the A's right after this BD Right after this All right, Adam with the Padres and the Cubs Dan with the twins Jimmy Connell with the brew crew Kurt with the Tigers Adam Harper with the Nats and the Marlins Kurt with the Indians rich with the Angels Adam with the Red Sox Rich with the O's Kurt with the Rangers and Rockies Ian with the Astros Daniel with the Rays Charles with the Diamondbacks Chad with the Braves Eric last spot mojo Reds lamppros with the Giants Dominic with the Royals Tony with the Pirates Amber you have the Mariners Brandon with the Blue Jays Adam with the White Sox and Mets Daniel with the Cardinals John with my Dodgers Josh with the Phillies Enoch with the Yankees and the A's trade at your own risk They only made five cases of this. They didn't make very many of this And there's really no checklist and the repack product product tend not to have those kind of checklists right there There it is. We got five out of five now while you're considering trades Let's pop this open and let's see which three boxes we're gonna do. I Don't know how many are in each box, but I guess we'll all find out together It's probably not in description. All right. We got one two three on the left side right here and four five six on the right side We're gonna roll the die. I'm gonna select a die and we'll go one two three four five six We'll use that one right there nice Dodger blue and It's five one two three four five six. We're gonna save this For next time the second half is already in the store ladies and gentlemen. There's break two right there All right, I'm gonna pause the video and when we come back We're gonna see if there's any trades. We'll have the break stick around. We'll be right back All right, welcome back folks No trades there were no trades. So the list here remains the same Again, this is a half case Ram team one on Tuesday the 21st July Half case two already in the store. So if you want to run this back tonight, I would be down All right, so let's take a look at this. They've got they're using some fancy boxes here 43 out of 50. They only made five cases of this. There's your info right there interesting All right See what we got or how many things are So good. All right. All right. We got to see where sapphire We're hit parade got got those boxes. It looks sharp. Oh, it's just one thing. I Think as you can look on the top camera right there. I think it's just one thing It's gonna be wow nice boba shed from 2016 bowman draft baseball Gem mint 10 that's nice. That's awesome. Who's got the blue jays Brandon Metzler With the blue birds nice and the next one All right, this one's not graded, but what do we have here? Oh Whoa Nice orange one soda from tops chrome baseball Wow 20 out of 25 from 2018 That's awesome nationals Adam Harper with the nets not graded upside down It's gonna be Wow, Mariano Rivera from tier one baseball one out of ten silver ink autograph He's got a he's got excellent penmanship as well Who's got the Yankees that'll be for E not Kim with the Yankees Very nice and there you go. That's it folks That was hit parade sapphire baseball ladies and gentlemen some excellent stuff second half in the store They only made five cases So check out the next one on jazzy's case breaks calm. I'm Joe. I'll see you next time for the next break. Bye. Bye


I often find the stories of a film's production to be just as interesting as the film itself, such as the case with The Exorcist, a film which would go on to redefine horror film making, influence hundreds if not thousands of subsequent films both in and out of the horror genre, and would prove to be one of the most successful films of all time. But let's take a step back to 1971. William Peter Blotty had just published a novel, The Exorcist, and it was an immediate success. Although several very important details were changed, it's based on the allegedly real story of Ronald Doe, a 14-year-old boy who was allegedly possessed. The story goes that furniture and glue bases would fly around the room and he would speak in tongues. Words appeared carved into his chest and the religious family sought help from a local priest who performed an exorcism. While this happened, the bed shook and the boy finagled his way out of his restraints to attack the priest. This is a fascinating story and made for an excellent book, one that everybody was reading. It stayed as the number one bestseller for 17 weeks, and remained on the New York Times bestselling list for over a year. Now naturally, Hollywood wanted to capitalize on this, and had William Peter Blotty adopt his own novel into a screenplay, and sign director William Friedkin, whose most recent film, The French Connection, had just won five Oscars. Despite that, Friedkin wasn't their first choice, nor was he their third. Stanley Kubrick, Arthur Penn, and Mike Nichols had all turned down the project for various reasons. Producers were hoping for the movie to be huge, and were willing to invest a lot of money into it. However, trouble started to arise once casting began. Friedkin wanted to use a cast made up of mostly unknown actors, or at least unknown to an American audience. Meanwhile, the studio wanted to cast Marlon Brando as Lancaster Marin, but Friedkin felt they would turn into yet another Brando project. The same could be said about Jack Nicholson, Paul Newman, Jane Fonda, Audrey Hepburn, and Anne Bancroft, who were all instead replaced by talented, but up-and-coming actors. This ultimately amounted to nothing, but production didn't start out on a very strong foot, and things only got worse once cameras started rolling. The film was supposed to shoot for 105 days, but production lasted over twice that long. Shooting began in Iraq. Over a sequence that lasted a little less than 10 minutes of the film's runtime, the shooting had a dramatic impact. Much of the crew became very sick, and illness brought around the production, eventually causing 9 of the film's crew's members unfortunate deaths. Production was naturally delayed with this terrible setback, but after the overseas production wrapped and Friedkin came back to the United States, the problems only continued. First, the film faced quite a bit of backlash from religious groups. Linda Blair, the actress playing Reagan, at the time a 14-year-old, received so many death threats that for the entire production and for six months after the film was released, the studio paid for bodyguards and private security for her. Let that sink in for a minute, a 14-year-old. Things were so bad on set that the story goes that Friedkin hired a real priest to perform an exorcism on the set. Unfortunately, the film's exorcisms proved to be more successful than the real one, and things continued to go wrong. Mercedes McCame Ridge was chosen to provide the voice for the demon. And I ain't that devil. Knock kindly and do these threats. Originally it was going to be Blair, but Friedkin felt that it would be best to create a separate voice entirely, have this be two separate entities. She said, I should swallow raw eggs. I should smoke cigarettes constantly. You've got to give me some booze, which is going to make me nuts. And I'm getting off the wagon to do this. She also wanted to be tied up and bound, much like Reagan was, to try and get into the right mindset of the demon. It was an extreme level of dedication for a role for which she didn't even want to be credited at first. Friedkin himself was just as extreme. As Afre mentioned, his most recent film was The French Connection, a film on which he and cinematographer Owen Reusman strapped a camera onto a car and had it drive into oncoming traffic. He took a similar approach of trying to capture realism in The Exorcist. During scenes like this where characters fly. He used an elaborate system of pulleys and levers which would violently pull the actors sideways backwards or in some cases both. These screams are authentic. Now in Bernstein seriously injured her back during the filming of this scene. And yes, again, that is her real scream. I screamed in horrendous pain and I was so furious and said, turn the effing camera off. The breath that can be seen in Reagan's room is real. The set was built into a freezer and lowered to below freezing temperatures to capture the breath on the air. He would randomly fire blanks into the air to get authentic looks of shock and fear on the actor's faces right before film began to roll. He employed a similar tactic where he slapped Father William O'Malley who played Father Dyer right before this take and told Jason Miller that the fake vomit was going to hit him in the chest instead of, well, in the face. So what was the point of going to these extreme measures? Well, in 1993 Thomas B. Allendon investigated a report into Ronald Doe, the boy who the story is based on, and found all of it to be false. He suggests that Doe was a mentally disturbed young man who went to the extreme going so far as to carve words into his chest for attention. And it made a fascinating story, one that was just wild enough that if you believed in possession, it could be believable. And Friedkin tried to take this impossible and make it real. He put his actors through literal hell. And the result was a film that feels like the characters are being dragged through hell. There's a reason that 45 years later, the exorcist is just as scary as the day it was released. And that's because not only does it feel real, it is real. I'll leave you with this one thought. Think about how much of the film says that it's fake. There's a reason that so much of the film revolves around literal filmmaking. It's a filmmaker who is murdered, Chris works as an actress, and the reason that she and Reagan are in Baltimore is because of her career. Or take this from the opening scene. After Father Marin discovers the statue of Pazuzu, he takes this ominous looking capsule out of his pocket, only for it to be revealed to be a tin of mints. Here's my interpretation of what Friedkin did here. He begins by telling us it won't be real. It's just a film. Look, there's a camera. You can literally see it. And don't be afraid. There's nothing demonic. It's just a tin of mints. And both of these signs happen in the first 20 minutes of the movie. After that, almost everything is real. This is a real reaction. This led to a real injury. And here, he is a real reverend. He lets down our guard of what is real and what isn't. And he doesn't let us hide behind the excuse of it's just a movie. Because although Ronald Doe was never possessed, the Exorcist is more than just a movie. It totally zombied me out. I couldn't believe this. It was so believable. Yeah. So this video was made possible because of Patreon. I'm trying to make my content the best that it can be. And trying new things is definitely going to be a part of that. If you want me to try more experimental comments, please let me know if you want to be a part of this new wave. Feel free to support me on Patreon and get some of the bonus content I put up over there. There's a link on screen if you're interested. There's also a link to my last video in which I looked at Clint Eastwood's Two Arcs of Redemption. So check that out if you're interested. And thank you for watching.


Oh, there was a flash fly there. I actually got that Be body boat, babe. Bye, babe. Oh I need to this I'm really bad about sharpening my weapons guys. That's gonna be a thing cuz I'm not used to it How similar is this the Dauntless? I mean gameplay wise very very similar Dauntless is faster It has like more arcadey combat. This is slower and more strategic kind of combat You'll find that a lot of movements resemble dark souls and their heftiness Whereas Dauntless, I mean if you can compare it to a Dauntless thing that he's still here. Oh, man. I'm going to the wrong guy All right, I'm coming If you compare it to like the axe and the hammer and Dauntless, that's like this game in the nutshell It's like slower But not as fast as some of the other ones I mean there are some fast weapons in this game But a majority of the combat is a little bit slower That's my opinion. I'm not a more. I'm not a monster hunter aficiado, but I just Dauntless is feels faster And that's not necessarily a good thing, you know depending on how you like to play I thought I had switch targets stupid flies led me astray This game has a lot more weapons and a lot more monsters. It's been out for a long time So there's just a lot of stuff a Whole lot of stuff. I remember him now What was that jump? How did I do that? Like I don't know how to not swing after a charge No, I want to keep the charge. I don't okay. You misunderstand me. I I'm like swinging every time I charge and I don't want to would you please put this away I'm like swinging every time after a charge. I think it's because I'm holding out control too long That's right. Let me go early is still not doing it. All right. Let's try now. So if I hold down I I charge my weapon. I let go both She still swings. I don't want to swing there. I want to keep the charge on a weapon. So And there's a swing. I don't I don't want to do that Maybe I keep holding it down. I don't know Keep holding down the charge I just took the mantle Charge okay, if I keep holding it down it keeps charging. So I guess I Just I just don't let go of control Yeah, okay, that's what it is. I'm I I just can't let go of control if I don't want to swing as soon as I let go of control It swings So I just have to keep it down. I got it makes sense It makes sense What's the best on there? How you doing dude? I need some um Quick ration real quick. You thinking of goodness. Is this game worth the money? Oh, yeah I think it is worth the money even with all those problems. It's worth the money It's incredibly fun There's some annoyances and some things you have to That if I were the new back then then I probably would have more fun on the ps4 version Uh That's okay Is there a way to skip the screen? There we go.  Uh, yeah people I think in general people prefer with controller I'm playing with keyboard and mouse now There you go The steam fix Didn't work in that case We got a dc I had a feeling it was it was still going to keep doing that Because I think everybody has to do that for it to be effective because if some people are using website and some aren't Then I think it'll still happen Oh, well, I have to remake the session now That's a big change There's a big thing at the top that does things that I don't know what they do Um Getting bigger all the time. Hey, we got a third slot chat. You know what I'm putting in there Them there. Oh, I already did that. Um them flies Give me them flash bugs chat Um Yeah, man Cool. We got all three of our slots. That was a big thing for me Okay, nice Um hammer Why is that not yellow? Weird I know it's right before I lose connection. I know steam goes to not responding on my other screen Connection lost in game and steam goes back to running fine What quest is just neat? Uh, I just did it. It was um seven star It was called It's probably not completed now Talons of ire and ice Talons of ire and ice That's the name of it. That gives you the third the third basket The third cultivation slot Is there a lot to do in this game? There's It's arguably too much to do There's arguably too much to do. Um There's so much going on there's so much game. There's so many components Hey, I got some more new things Hey, and I got a jury. Okay. We got some six stars there. Cool. Cool. Cool Uh, let me unregister these because I don't need them anymore All right so Who's down Who's down For some nirgante hunting Yeah, I got to reset my session though Who's down for some nirgante? I got to get my hammer chat About the max out this armor chat I mean, it's kind of run its course I'm kind of proud that I'm mad. I'm almost maxed it out I'm still using bone alpha armor chat. Hey, sergeant veyla. How you doing, man? So I got one more piece to max out and uh, what are we setting that? 287 defense Oh, yeah, I thought we were in two nineties. Hold on Yeah, we're 287.  So there's all this low rank armor These are different armor sets that I can preview for you Does it shift? Yeah And one thing that I wish they do Which they haven't done is offer transmog Because some of these look really good.   Look at this The amount of work they put into these is just Diablo Nero's Yorguan Damascus Dober There's a skull, by the way, you can craft Nergagante, which we're about to fight now I'm going for the Nergagante hammer and dragon king Which is an eyepatch And this is the weapons. So if I go to the hammer If I go to the tree, this gives you a better idea of all the All these are different weapons and upgrades So the game that's the chase. That's that's what you're grinding for That's what you're that's what the repetition is going towards So right now we're going to be doing after I reset my stuff. We're going to be I'm going to be going for this The Nergagante hammer Yeah, this guy I got it on fours don't I? No, I got an upgrade I need to have an upgrade. Uh, let's sort this by So this is the guy I'm going to upgrade. I need two tails from Nergagante You can see on the right side the red stuff and I need one regrowth plate And I will get a rarity seven Nurgle crusher Which has an attack of a thousand forty versus my Attack of seven twenty eight now.  I'm just going to restart the game I find that's the best thing to do So if I do a manual save and I quit I don't have to do the save Here I could just say no Yeah That didn't manual say We need exactly the same stuff All right, so I'm on the old steam If you look at my friends list I did that little trick to go to the old steam. Okay, I Want to do that yet Is it fun to play co-op or solo? Yes There's people who play do nothing but play solo and they're fine So start I'm coming up on 42 hours or 41 hours in this game But the weak spot is the online multiplayer connectivity issues that are going on It is uh It is quite the thing I haven't taken a break in three hours uh So New session Going to chat I'll put in the title as well Mermenu mermenu mermenu Steam is a hot mess right now chat. I'm just going to say it because Just overall The stability of steam has been Very poor. All right. This looks good. Everything's in here I think monster in the world is a good first monster hunter for people So you pet this pig when you stop? There we go He loves me chat Piggy loves me All right session ideas up. Uh, we're gonna we're gonna farm nerger gante.  Oh All right, so nerger I wish they add filters to this Because there's like a million pages. There's 19 pages of this Like at least a sort. Oh, okay never mind Okay, you can uh, never mind forget I said anything Um, they do have it chat They do have it I have two nerger gante, uh investigations So we can just chain off of each other if you guys have some All right, I'm gonna queue it up I'm gonna go with hammer man. I feel confident If I die you guys know why all right We'll go for the gesso first. This one has a time limit of 30 minutes. So we got to be quick We will fail if we faint three times Schmant man eat bat built bat bit book Investigation is a type of a research mission Where you get extra rewards because your purpose is to get research data So and you have to unlock them. They're not just given to you So the more you learn about monsters and stuff like that the better off, you know fights will be in stuff So investigations give you more rewards From our perspective that's the way I look at it It's better than just doing an optional quest Mm-hmm.  I guess you can call him without eating Going in on the empty stomach. All right, I'll throw up an sos in a bit I get I'll try to get the chat room chime first to join food Now now let's grab this And that's good.  That means anybody who's playing the game Can join they don't have to be in my session All they gotta do is just find the mission and uh, they can come in and join So if you need to farm something you can like search for missions that are online that somebody fired an sos for Basically saying I need help and you can see as soon as I fired your sos people are showing up now It's your boy. I think I'm here by myself. I had a little bit I don't want to go near by myself. Not as a hammer user They can't connect What do you mean they can't connect? Oh, they're fighting. All right, let's go. I better put on the mantle first You know what I'm saying? Man, I can't hit them. I'm learning this hammer. So I'm really focusing right now And I'm dropping the 30 frames Not sure why I think there's an effect going on this. I think that was a mistake. What why did I stop doing that? Oh, and I roll it kind of cancer that I don't know how I did that, but that looked really cool Yeah, I am enjoying my surrender Leave that nirgagonte alone I It's kind of chaotic right now. Okay going for the head on this guy This isn't exactly the best idea And every time I get rid of hitting me does that I'm just stomping on his toes now.  Maybe I should have been looking out for myself All right, it's time to chill We've got two downs one more and we fail That's another difference between this and Dauntless Um Dauntless you get like unlimited revives until you reach like a hundred percent danger And then you can't


Hello and welcome back to the craft box. My name is Brenton today. We're an episode 27 of the Privateer Walkthrough. Last time we talked to Captain Dan and we were in the Scooby-Dog hideout, basically. See here, pirate. I have a bone to pick with you. Ooh, they've all up already. Nice. That's good. Not bad enough to fight them monsters, Captain.  Okay, so yeah, we also had to defeat a whole bunch of things and it was bad, so yeah, let's try not to do that this time. In between episodes, I had to defeat 10. Yes, 10 of these really OP monkeys and ships, so be careful of that one. But we did it, so that's always good. Where are these fools? Ooh, I really hate this. I get so nervous in this area. We are also leveled up. Can we promote... I shall do that later, because I have kind of a way of doing it. We'll just defeat these guys. We'll just do this. Okay, what do we need to do? Just defeat all... I think I've already defeated these guys before. I mean, we'll do that. Sounds good. We will probably just buff up a bit. Definitely good to have some will, because there's a lot of privateers in this area. I think they're all privateers. He's definitely a privateer. I don't know about the others, but they may be or may not be. I wouldn't be surprised if they were. So yeah, will. They can't crit as much on us, which is good. Yeah, they are privateers. Yeah, so they are OP. Put some critical on, and that should all be good. We'll then bomb probably next round. That was my phone. That's a bit cheeky. Okay. What are they doing? He's moving not very far. Kind of weird. Okay, nice overwatch there. We can probably bomb these guys, I suppose. Yep, we can do that. Sure, why not? We'll do that. We'll do that. And we'll do that. Just focus on those ones, but I suppose probably a good idea. Okay. Oh, I felt already fantastic. A watch is annoying. Okay, epic. Nice. Mega nice. That's good. That was very good, actually. I'm surprised. Very surprised. Okay, they were going for different targets, which is kind of bad. I was going to put a VOE on one of them, but don't need to anymore. Done. Okay, overwatch. Slightly annoying, but it's fine. Dodge again would be nice. Oh, look at that one. Look at that. Oh, nice. Okay, 80. Good. It's locked. Oh, that's unlucky. Mega nice. Always good to get those mega hits. No dodge. That time, that's unfortunate. Oh well. Mega hit. Nice. We're doing that really well. I'm surprised. It's all blocked. That's unfortunate. Okay. What do we want to do? Do that one? Sure. Do that. Sounds good. But we'll try and get this one out first. I think that one there, which might have happened now. I did. Fantastic. Look at Bonnie Ann. Look at her go. All these crits. I'm surprised. I'm also impressed. You need help. You need health. A lot of health. Um, what we're going to do is we are going to team heal. We are going to do this on you. We'll hit you and you.  That would be good if he did. If he doesn't, that's just unfortunate. Hip hip. Yay. Double tap onto the same guy. That's good. Yes. Okay. He's gone. There we go. Fantastic. Two down. Two to go. Dodge. Nice. Dodge again. Nope. Okay. That's fine. That's fine. Resist. Nice. Um, let us go for, I still got four rounds of will. We will do that. Sounds good. Get some accuracy up in there so they don't dodge as much because that's annoying. Oh, Megan. Nice. That's always nice. Burst fire. Megan. Nice. Sweet. We also get double tap as well. Unfortunately, the double tap went to him, but that's fine. He's close to dead, which is good. Okay. Half health. And I think he's also half health from memory. Yes, he's nearly dead.  And you can go for him. See how that does. How'd that do? Okay. Nice. There we go. Okay. One left. And it shouldn't be too hard. We'll just go all four home, I think. I'm gonna get Overwatch, but that's fine. We'll deal with that, I suppose. Yep. Oh, well, it's fine. It's fine. Yay, we did it. Fantastic. Okay, that wasn't too bad. It wasn't too difficult at all. This way. Gotta go over here. Hello. Oh, he's a witch doctor. Okay. Okay, then. That is interesting. Let us go for that. Sure. We will go for that. Sure. We'll go for that. And we will just wait there with you. Done. Okay. Slow them down. Nice camera angle there. Oh, I love this one. Always love that camera angle. That's great. Overwatch. Finally, they were kind of more close together. That would have been good. Double tap. Nice. They're not nicely arranged. We will do critical then. We'll just do that, I suppose. You have parting shot. Okay, you're fine. Okay, critical. And double tap. Okay. That's fine. How do you pronounce that? That's kind of a weird man, but that's fine. It's weird. So weird. Okay, they're in a much nicer formation now, which is good. Who did that? Who did that? That looks good. Okay, that was good. Double tap. Nice. Best fire. Yes, thank you. That's always good. Super, fantastic. Okay, no block. That's unfortunate. Dodge. Whoa. Bonnie and Dodging. What? Okay, we'll let us... Mm-hmm. They moved again, which is not fair. We will do this then. We'll do that, and that, and just split up a bit. Okay, that did quite a bit, oh well. Okay, mega nice. Epic and a mega, fantastic. Got that crit, is good. Blocked nice. Okay, we will probably... I need a heal, probably, because I'm quite low. I'm nearly quite low. I'm gonna heal. We'll do that. Good heals are good. But, but, but... Look at these crits. I'm impressed. These crits are impressive. I'm surprised as well. Very, very surprised. No burst fire. Burst fire would have been nice, but that's fine. Okay, Bonnie in slowly dying. I will team heal then. Goodbye. Goodbye. Let's go for a team heal. You can only go on you. This might move you there. Done. Okay, see how this does. Team heal good. We need a heal, Bonnie, instill. Okay, look at that. Fantastic. Impressive. And he's nearly dead, which is great. Okay. We will probably do a lot of team healing. I mean, everyone has a heal, so we might as well just use a lot of them. You can shoot, and you can heal me, because I love health. Put up, put up. Okay, fantastic, and heal me. Good job. Yay. Nearly full health. Fantastic. I'm happy with that one. Yay, Captain Dan. Let's head on over to him, who is all the way back over at the first place. All the way over here in the temple hideout. I must press the wrong button, that's great. I always get really nervous during this bit, because they are so close to the wall. I don't like it. I'm always afraid that I'm going to get pulled. That's not great. Oh, gosh, there's another one. But wait, there's more. Okay, that was good. That was very good. Captain Dan, what do you want us to do now? Good hunting. A final word. Sally mentioned someone named Gilbert. If you make it to Port Regal, he may know where she's gone. Oh, the Brass Monkey. Okay. This is going to be a fun one. I love the Brass Monkey. He's great. I'll be back when I'm at the Brass Monkey, in fact. Okay, I am back and we are heading in here to the Brass Monkey. Hello. Let us defeat you. I think this is the first of the first time we face him, but we face him a lot of times in the future. Okay. Just typical boss. Oh, he's got... Oh, yeah, that's right. He's got like tricky wee barricades, because he thinks he's cool, but he actually isn't. So that's fun. What we're going to do is we're going to do that. Didn't think about that one, did he? Nope, not really. Oh, they're so broken. They're so broken. He shouldn't be too bad. They're all like musketeers, I think. So not too bad. It also means that we can determine exactly how they go. Quick draw. Cheeky. Okay. Didn't realize he had quick draw. Didn't look over what he had. Jeez. Quick draw. That's kind of serious. I think he's stuck there. I think it's really easy to get stuck, and I think he is stuck because both of those... Yeah, he's stuck.  So yeah, that's fun. We'll do that. We'll do that. We'll do that. What does he have here? Quick draw and double tap. Okay. That's fine. Come up. Okay. We got nice. Okay, half health already, and double tap. Cool. Not onto Castillo Brass. Burst fire. Epic. Yay. Double tap. Yay. Didn't know it did. That's good. That's really good. Okay. They're hitting me kind of hard, and you're just stuck, which is unfortunate. Don't really care if he's stuck. He doesn't deserve to fight me at the moment. So he can stay stuck. We'll do that. We'll do that, and you can do that. Dumb. Fantastic. Gotta love that pirate. Oh, hello. Nice. That was impressive. But, but, okay. Fantastic.  Blocked. That's good. I'm going to block there. That's unfortunate, and you're still stuck. It's really funny how he can get stuck. I love it so much. It allows you just to focus on these guys a bit more. That's great. That's great. What are we going to do? Let us do that one. Do that one. We'll do that one. That one, I suppose, done. Okay. Try and defeat him quickly before we get onto the last, dude. He didn't die. No. That's not good. I've still got one of them left. Damn it. At least we dodged that. That's good. Okay, there he's gone. Good. Okay. Just him left, and this guy who's still stuck. Did that. Done. Okay. Fantastic. Quick draw, but attack. Epic. Nice. Quick draw. Okay. That's fine. Okay, he's gone. Fantastic. And we will now allow this guy out of his pin. I think that would be a good idea. We'll destroy that one as well. And we'll just chill there for a bit. He can come out when he's ready, I suppose. Go move, you won't. Ah, right into my trap. Okay. What we probably should do... Okay, we can't go around, but that is fine. We can hit him with all we've got, so that's fine. That's fine. We're good. He's gone. He's so gone. He's so dead, honestly. He's so dead. Dodge. Oh, hello. Okay, he's gone. And a half. What are we going to do? Do that, or do that, or just do it? You know, just do it. Oh, dodge. Hello. Okay, fantastic. Look at that. We're done. Fantastic. There we go. Um, okay. Inspector. The inspector, I believe, is on the ship, and that's how we get into Port Regal, which is fantastic. Load please. Would be great. Thanks, Tiwai. Please load, please. Is that possible? Apparently not. Apparently loading is not a possible possibility. Oh, it is, don't worry. We will be back when we're at the Inspector. Okay, I am back. Oh, this is not the Inspector. JK. Just kidding. I didn't realize that wasn't the Inspector. Haha. That is not the Inspector. I thought that was, but it isn't, in fact. So go somewhere else, apparently. I think, actually, he must be at the gate. Um, yes, he must be at the gate this way. Good job. Good job. Good job. He's here. Yeah, he is. Hello. Inspector Kemp.  Well done. Take this little monkey to the governor in Port Regal for his just desserts. For his just desserts. Okay. This is the Port Regal Skyway. Look at that. Fantastic. Kind of a small place, but still get to Mushu and Valencia there. Cool. And Port Regal's there. So yeah, we do a lot of stuff in here, and it's quite fun, but we will head over to the governor. We're just going to use the rest of this fuel. I mean, might as well. Okay. Yes. Hello. Port Regal. Yes. Port Regal's kind of cool. I don't like it, but, you know, that's fine. You don't have to like everything. You just have to do it. New place, though. Then we can find Mr. Gilbert. But before we start anything, we are going to upgrade our ship. That's a parts vendor. Good job. Because Malibunian ships are cool. And I like them. Where is the ship vendor? Easy over here. Ship vendor. Hello. Oh gosh, a bit of lag in here. Jeez. So we're going from level 17 to 26. I think that is a really good upgrade. And adventure. Let's just call it adventure. Oh, we can't go numb. Admiral adventure. Adventurous adventure. Oh my gosh, that's kind of funny. I want some alliteration, you know. Beacon. Brilliant beacon. Brazen beacon. Barren's beacon. Let's go. Brilliant beacon. Brilliant beacon. Brilliant beacon. Brilliant bounty. Brilliant beacon. Oh, champion look good. Courageous champion. Constant champion. You know we're a constant champion. Sure. Why not? Okay, done. So yes, that is new ship. We will collect some parts as well. We have a lot of gold, I think, from memory. Yeah, we have decent amount. So we're going to kind of upgrade this quite a bit. And just because it is probably best too. Anchors, what one do we have? Mmm, nine, eight, six. In fact, I'll be back once I've made up some decisions here. Okay, I am back. This is what we are looking like. We've got 53 accuracy, 53 defense, which is dodge, basically. 42 to 71 damage and 1330 health for the ship, which is fantastic. Humongous upgrade. So yee, that looks great. We will definitely be using this. Also looks great as well. So yee. Let us head over to Governor Stanley in Port Regal. Yay, Port Regal. Finally. Fantastic. Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. Blimey you again, hello. Sidequests, hello. Can you move? That would be great. Thanks, Tiwai. And talents from Scarecate, so I can make a skip to Scarecree's leg. So big. You would think that it would be small, but it is, and it's big. Wow, that's the last we'll see. Captain, I hope. Okay. Let us head over to Gilbert, who is over in the shop, which we spend a lot of time at. A lot of time. I can't even speak today. Geez. Spend a lot of time at for the rest of Port Regal. That in Catbeard, who is a character we'll be meeting very soon. Steven von Trauser. Okay. Okay. Here we go. Gilbert. Gilbert, hello. Forgive my pardon. What do you mean? Okay. You will find the drain leading into the sewers under the bridge. Oh, we have to go into sewers already. Go check on Mr. Rackstraw and see what's what. Okay, we're going to end off the episode here next time we will head on into the sewers and do a whole bunch more things. 12 pages of sidequests. Oh my gosh. Look at that. That's going to be fun to do. Well, we're going to have fun time. Anyway, next time we will be doing sewers. So thank you for tuning in to the episode. Like and subscribe. And if you've already subscribed, press the bell so you know exactly when I post another video. And remember, craft outside the box.


Hi and welcome back to the session. I am Asha and I am going to help you solve this question of your NCID textbook which says write the coefficient of x square in each of the following. So in an algebraic expression there are variables and constants. The constant written in the variable is called the coefficient. So the constant which is written before the variable is called the coefficient of that variable. This is the key idea we are going to use in this problem to find the coefficients of x square in each of these problems. Let us now start with the first one which is 2 plus x square plus x. Now when any number is multiplied by 1 then the result is the number itself therefore we can write this expression as 2 plus 1 into x square plus 1 into x. And now we are required to find the coefficient of x square and coefficient is the number on a constant which is written before the variable and the variable here is x square and the number before x square is plus 1. Therefore the coefficient of x square in the above expression is equal to 1. This completes the first part. Now proceeding on to the next one which is minus x square plus x cube. Now this can be written as 2 minus multiplying x square with 1 gives x square. So here multiplying x square with 1 and also x cube with 1. On observing this algebraic expression we find that the constant before x square is minus 1. Therefore coefficient of x square in this algebraic expression is minus 1. This completes the second part and now proceeding on to the third part which is 2 x square plus x. Now we have to find the coefficient of x square in this algebraic expression. So the constant before x square is pi by 2. Therefore coefficient of x square in this algebraic expression is pi by 2. It completes the third part and now proceeding on to the last part which says find the coefficient of x square root over 2 x minus 1. Now on observing this algebraic expression we find here that there is no variable x square. So this can further be written as 0 x square plus root over 2 x minus 1 and here the coefficient of x square is 0. So we have coefficient of x square in this algebraic expression as 0 which completes the last part and hence the solution. So hope you enjoyed this session. Take care and bye for now.


You know, times are going to get tough, like I said, we got a tough schedule, everything out of conferences seems like it's against ranked opponents, playing the best team in the country, but this weekend, a few days. So I mean, that's what, I think that's the way you learn, and we have a really tough conference. I mean, added Stevens, one of the instituted technology, one of the best perennial powers in men's volleyball in B3. We did all meet individually, we all have individual goals, you know, I wanted them to, you know, we played in a great preseason tournament in George Mason, went to Italy. So now that's all kind of settled, we played a great alumni match, or alumni day kind of scrimmage. One that's really good too, so you know, for me, what I see this team is, although on paper, we might be not as strong in its experiences last year, I can see it's definitely competing for the conference championship, although, like I mentioned, they added Stevens and all the teams are better now. There's a lot of boys playing high school volleyball, so that even the news teams like Kings that are in our conference or Eastern, they'll be stronger. So it's just more parity in our league. And teams like Messiah and Albertina, they're always in tough matches, and Arcadia has really coached well, and they broke our hearts last year, and sure they want to break our heart this year, but I think this, I have a new team, you know, so that it's going to be, you know, they're going to decide, you know, kind of our destiny, the new players. I think that they're fresh, they're young, they, that it's unknown how good they can be. In Italy, they, like I said, they took the fifth set from a team that will probably be playing in the top Olympic division next year. So you know, they're capable, it's just the consistency. I enjoy coaching guys that are enthusiastic, and they're coming to the practices, they're doing the double days, they're doing the weights, they're doing, and they're smart.  I don't know if I'll be like, keep it for a third straight year, but they're smart, and they train really hard. I'm just honored to be coaching them.


presented by your local forward stores. America can't wait to see what's in store between these two teams tonight and also what the lineup looks like because it's really been in flux lately. So what's going on there? Bob, new day, new lineup for the Lank. Yankees, you've mentioned that it has been in flux lately. It seems like Aaron Boone has had to get creative this whole season long. Tonight you're gonna see Joey Gallo, DH. Aaron Boone said he's been wanting to get him a DH day for a while. He's played 11 straight in the field since being acquired from Texas. Also, Aaron Judge is in right field. Boone said he could potentially see him DHing tomorrow to get him off his feet a little bit. And John Carlos Stanton is back out in the outfield playing left field. It'll be the fifth start for Stanton in the outfield this season. It just gives Aaron Boone another option, some more versatility there with that DH spot. He's able to rotate guys around a little bit. John Carlos Stanton has said that he has felt comfortable out there. Aaron Boone has been pleased with what he's seen from Stanton so far. So there's no reason to believe that he's not gonna continue to do that at times throughout the rest of the season. Now with a lefty on the mound for Kansas City, Tyler Wade and Brett Gardner are out. You're gonna see Rue Gnetto, Dora at third base and Jonathan Davis in center field. As you mentioned, Nester Cortez gets the ball for the Yankees tonight. It'll be his fifth start in this previous four. He has pitched extremely well, pitching to a two ERA opposing batters, hitting just 190 against him. I asked Aaron Boone, if he was all surprised with how seamlessly Cortez has slid into the rotation. I don't wanna say surprised because, you know, Nester is always, I feel like surpassed our expectations or so nothing he does anymore surprises me. And I think the biggest thing with Nester for as well as he did for us, you know, in 2019 and filling these different roles, I feel like he's even a much better pitcher now, just delivery command, which has allowed him to obviously continue to get better and better. And, you know, I think we think of him as this crafty old veteran sometimes. It's a young man that, you know, is a really good pitcher and has been very valuable for us in a number of roles. From your vantage point, what's different about his delivery and how does that essentially help him? Yeah, I think he's just more in control of it, able to repeat it a little more.  But I think he just owns his delivery more, which lends himself to really be on command the baseball at a high level, which, you know, ultimately, if you're gonna be a really good pitcher in the major leagues, you better be able to command the baseball and he does that well. With Cole and Montgomery, their 10 days on the COVID-IL are almost up. Will they come off that when the 10 days are up or will they need more time? Yeah, so we could see them this week. They'll probably rejoin us on the road and hopefully throw a bullpen at some point this weekend and then we'll kind of evaluate along with them where they are and, you know, as far as when we insert them back in, you know, I have some ideas in my mind and I've spoken with them a little bit about it, but, you know, first things first is they're both doing well. They've both been able to throw with one another and work out and things like that. So they're doing well, but, you know, let's get a bullpen under their belt, see where they are, and then decide when we want to insert.


Hey guys it's Liana and I'm here today to compare the Woman in Black movie to the Woman in Black book. So I put up a poll on Instagram and asked if people wanted me to talk about it because I had just watched the Woman in Black movie and it's not like the book and was like does anyone want me to film a video to compare them? And the answer was yes. So here we are. I did this before with the mortal engines so I'm going to structure it kind of the same because I called that video and I think I have called this video what went wrong. So what I did in that video and what I will do in this video is go through what was the same in both the book and the movie and then talk about what was different and then talk about like why I think those changes don't work. Everything I'm going to say in the beginning is going to be like I'm not going to specify if it's book or movie because this is the same in both and then yeah we'll go from there. Needless to say but I'm saying it anyway so apparently it's not needless. This will be spoilery because I'm going to go through like beginning to end for the book and beginning to end for the movie and talk about compare contrast and like why the book is better. Much like with mortal engines I feel like a lot of the changes because sometimes I get it like why when you're adapting something for the screen why certain changes need to be made either because of runtime so you can't fit it all in. This is a short book so there's no reason you can't fit it all in or because like it's something that it's one of those sort of game and eschatite things where you could get away with describing that way on paper but there's no realistic way to depict that visually. The example I use is like if in a fantasy book I'm pretty sure gaming has done this when you describe something as like the absence of color. I mean that works in a book but in a movie you're gonna have to do something so you can't actually show an absence of color. So stuff like that like I get it like sometimes changes have to be made. In this case the change is made in my opinion detract from the quality of the story and there are changes that did not need to be made for any kind of like cinematic reason. So without any more ado let's get into it. So the book and the movie the basic sort of premise and plot I can't really say from the beginning what is the same because even the beginning is not same but some bare bones of it are same. So both the book and the movie it's a story of this youngish man in the movie he's played by Daniel Radcliffe who is working for uh he's a solicitor which in England is a lawyer and he's working for a firm and his firm sends him to this remote town because their client has died so he's been sent there to wrap up the affairs of their client to go to her house which is even in this remote village the house is even remote her from the remote village it's across like this swampy causeway so he's sent there to go she's supposedly like a hoarder and had a lot of papers so they have like her will and stuff but they have to go through and sort through all of her papers that's it's not super gone into but it's the reason for him to be sent there and it does um because he's sorting through papers it leads him to discover things that's true in both he's sent by his company by his firm and this takes place in like 1800s if you did not know i just i'm kind of assuming you vaguely know so he goes to this remote town and so much is different in the movie but okay that basically again he goes to this town and like people in the town clearly know something about the house and know something about um the lady who owned it and like there's clearly something more mysterious and sinister going on everyone kind of tries to talk him out of going to the house or like questions him going to the house but he's like this is my job and i'm here to do my job and he goes to the house and the house is being haunted by a woman in black and uh the woman in black again is different in the book and movie but what is same is that when people have seen the woman in black children die that is like what makes it so terrifying it's not just that she's like scary to encounter but like doesn't actually do anything sightings of her tend to coincide with children dying so people have connected the two that when she's been seen children have died when he goes to the house again in the book and the movie although what he finds is different in the book and the movie when he goes to the house he experiences like the haunting he sees the woman in black and he's also when he's sorting through the client's papers that's when he kind of learned between what the villagers tell him and what he finds in the papers he learns the story of the house and he learns the story of the woman in black and who she was and why she would be haunting the house in the town and why children dying would be a thing with her that's true in both that's kind of where the similarity ends the movie adds in a lot of stuff but it doesn't just add it also changes so it isn't just that the movie thought that because again this is a short book so if the they felt like it wasn't enough story like it wasn't long enough to to fill a two hour movie I would disagree but it isn't just like taking what's in the book and then adding to it it changes what was in the book and adds to it and I don't honestly I think the book is more sinister the order in which I experienced these is book first well honestly it was play first and the play by the by if it's ever in your town or your village or your city or wherever you live the play is like that where it takes the book and it's almost like word for word the book and then it tax on a framing device so it expands on it in that way but really like it doesn't make the story much longer it just it makes gives a reason for it to be kind of being acted out for you but the story itself remains the same and then the framing device adds like one extra layer of scariness to it so the play is really good and if the movie had done what the play did in its own way it would have been fabulous and I don't know why it did it anyway okay so in the book he's Arthur is his name Arthur this is his last name maybe we will check Kips I was gonna say Gibbs and I was like it's not Gibbs it's Kips Arthur Kips in the book he's a young man he's like pretty like early in his career he's excited about the opportunity of like the responsibility of being sent to this town on behalf of his firm and he's like this is like a big chance for me maybe I'll hold up the books since I'm talking about the book right now you're welcome and also this edition is like super cute so he's happy excited jazzed about going to this town and he meets a guy on the train this also happens in the movie he meets a guy in the train who's also going to that town or from that town and kind of semi befriends him he's like oh you're going there too okay and um he kind of gets him to the inn where he's staying the people at the inn are really welcoming and really nice they give him nice food they give him a nice room he's like this is great but when they find out where he's going to that house that that's why he's there every time someone finds that out the cheeriness kind of like fades and like they're not mean to him but he can see they're like unnerved or upset by the house like the mention of the house but they don't say anything they don't tell him anything about it he just as soon as he brings up the house they just get all hushed and like freaked out and they all subtly in their own different ways to kind of try to talk him out of going to the house not aggressively and they're not mad at him they're not mean to him they're just like are you sure you want to go there and he goes then with this uh the guy that he met on the train he goes with him i think it's with him well whoever he goes with somebody from the village it might be his contact there from the firm um he goes with him to visit either to the funeral just to the grave of um it might be the funeral i think it's the funeral of their client yeah i think that's why he hurried up there to be there for the funeral and then to go through her papers to go to the funeral and there's like nobody at the funeral and he's like how sad that there's nobody at the funeral like this lady like she lived and died and nobody cared enough about her in her lifetime to come to her funeral that's so sad he does see like a bunch of children nearby but they're not like at the funeral and he's like that's weird but he does then kind of notice that there's like kind of not in the distance stuck not super in the distance he can like see her face but kind of further off is a woman in black which is appropriate at a funeral of course you'd be wearing black so there's a woman who he's like oh but she did have at least one friend and then he kind of like looks at her and that her face is like kind of horrific looking and so he's like oh it makes sense that she's kind of keeping her distance and has like a like a veil on um and have you bond it because like she's clearly sickly but she like came to the funeral and that's nice he says something like that to the guy he's with and is like well at least she had like that one friend and he's like what are you talking about he's like well there was that lady in black that came to the funeral and he's like uh no so then he thinks that's weird that like that freaks people out and he kind of begins to piece together that people think that this is a haunting and then when he goes to the house he also then spots that same woman in black on the property near a grave that's on the property and he's like that's weird that she'd follow me here then he looks again and she's gone and he's like I don't think there's anywhere she could go but she must have done like there must be there's like a lot of shrubbery and other buildings around like yeah she must have just gone off it's still weird that she came out here but whatever and there's a guy that used to work for the woman who's his client who worked at the house and he drives him to the house and back again but they have to be careful and time it with the tides right because of the the water that comes in and out and and cuts the house and the property off from the village so he can't come for him at any time he kind of has to pick him up and drop him off at certain times and in between he goes back but he's like he's really silent he doesn't say anything but he does his job he's there like like clockwork he always shows up when he needs to and he always takes Arthur there and back again so at first so Arthur goes there for one day he barely gets there like he gets there pretty late in the day because of the timing of the tides and he sees the woman in black but he doesn't have a lot of time and not a lot of daylight to go through papers so he goes back to the town when he gets back to the town he says that you know it might make just more sense he'll get his work done faster if he just stays at the house instead of coming back to the village every night because he can barely get anything done and everyone in the village is like you sure you want to do that you sure you want to stay overnight in the house and he's like yeah it's just it's more efficient it's faster and like he I think he mentioned someone again that he's seen the woman in black again and they're just like yikes but he doesn't believe in ghosts and there's nothing that freaky has happened he's seen a woman who was in mourning like whatever so he's there to do his job he wants to get it done so they can't talk him out of it but his for the guy that met him on the train he's like let me give you my dog or one of my dogs to take with you the dog's name is spider so he's like okay and it's like nice to have company so he has the dog with him so then he does spend the night at the house and he sees the woman in black again this time he is more freaked out because like what she's doing is not like if he can't like explain it away anymore because like a door that was totally locked before is now unlocked and he hears like a rocking chair well he doesn't know it's a rocking chair he hears a thudding and then he goes up and he realizes that it's a rocking chair and he finds an abandoned nursery and then like he goes he starts going through all the paperwork and he finds letters and everything and he discovers that this woman and had a child out of wedlock and that had been forced to give her child to her like um sister-in-law or her sister and her brother-in-law whatever to raise as their own because you know propriety she ended up coming to the house later to see the kid I don't think as a governess but like she was permitted to see the kid later because she was kind of relentless so I wanted to see the kid but then the kid died on a carriage right across the causeway because there's like the dangerous mud and water and that's something else that Arthur hears he hears he thinks he's hearing an accident and he rushes outside and there's like mist and fog and then he realizes that this is that accident playing itself over and over again every night so he hears it again and that's when he's like this is obviously not actually happening so this is probably a haunting or it's my mind playing tricks on me so he pieces all that together and then finally learns that children have been dying every time the woman of black is seen that's and that all those children he saw before at the graveyard for the funeral are dead they're not real and they're all it's all like circumstantial which I think makes it scarier so every time the woman of black has been seen kids die but it's always the kid of the person who has seen her not just any kid and it's always an accident or illness like it could be explained by just bad luck but the the timing of it the coincidence of it every single time is making everyone think that it is this woman in black but there's nothing like concrete nothing substantial every single one of these kids has died of either a tragic accident or natural causes so you could write it off as like a superstitious little town that's wanting to blame someone because they're all explainable deaths after sorting through everything and getting his shit together and going through the papers Arthur gets out of there I also should have opened by telling you this that the framing device for the book is that Arthur is older now he's like in his he's middle aged and he's married for the second time and his step kids want to tell ghost stories on Christmas and he finds that whole idea very triggering and so then he's decided after that that it might be like cathartic to write down what happened to him when he was a young man so that's this story I recall that now because so he leaves this town behind and he's like he thinks that that's it but like he's done with that like that was scary but it's over and it's done and that part of his life is over and he gets married later on when he returns to his normal life in London he gets married and he has a kid and then they're in the park one day and his wife and the little boy that he has um want to do a little pony ride in the park and suddenly like they lose control of the of the carriage and it goes like racing towards a tree and there's a tragic accident both his wife and the boy die and just as he sees that carriage colliding with the tree Arthur turns and he sees the woman in black standing by the tree so he couldn't escape her curse even by leaving the town and which explains why now in the present day he's remarried and those are not his kids those are his wife's kids and they're fully grown so it's just like chilling that there was nowhere to escape and that's pretty much how it ends which I like it was creepy and because you could kind of still explain all of it like what happened to his wife and kid it was an accident like they lost control of the horse and it ran into a tree like that could just happen and be tragic but he saw her again which you know you could say he's crazy or it's really the woman in black doing it I thought that was so much creepier than the movie so in the movie to begin with there's no framing device of it being the future and he's telling it now it's just opens with him already mourning the death of his wife because she died in childbirth so he's a single father who's already like super depressed and he has a little boy and the little boy has like a nanny looking after him and he keeps flashing back to memories of his wife who's dead now and he's like really upset about it so he's like not like a young happy man like going to this village he's like already super emo and so then his firm this isn't like uh we're gonna give you more responsibility type thing they're sending him because they're like he's been he's been like a fuck up at work because he's been so moody and depressed so they're like we're sending on this assignment and if you fuck this up like we're done like you're like we're not a charity or a business so if you can't work here then you can't work here so he's like I have to do this for my family or I'll lose my job which again the whole tone of it is like totally different from the book in the book he's like happy until he gets to that town and that's what like ruins his life so he's like super sad and emo but he goes to this town and when he goes to the town everyone is like really hostile to him and hostile about the house they're not like warm and welcoming they're like glaring at him like he's already evil and they find out why he's there they're acting like he's like purposely there to incite more hauntings I don't know they're like really in that really cliche horror movie kind of way where you go to a village and everyone's just like peeking out of windows at you and glaring at you it's just like so cliche and it makes it less scary to me it's way scarier to me that everyone's like really nice and normal until you mention the house and they're like oh that makes it more mysterious anyway so people are pretty much warning Moth the house to begin with so he's already dreading going there but he's going there because he's like if I don't do my job then I lose my job and I have to feed my family he's not like a young man who's like I'm here to do my job and like whatever they are they're being a little weird about the house but like it's fine he's like for sure that this is not fine but going anyway and then the way the children are dying is really like cartoonish it's not like unhappy accidents that people have tied to the woman in black these are like this is like a bird box or like the happening where the kids are like killing themselves it's not like the woman in black was seen and then like the next thing you know Susie has scarlet fever or the woman in black has been seen and suddenly a kid fell off a swing no these kids are like once a woman in black is seen they like jump out of a window or there's a horrific moment where this girl has she drank lye and um Daniel Radcliffe who plays Arthur so Arthur finds the girl and he's like oh no oh no and she just like spits blood at him and now she's like the next to go but all the kids are dying in like a really absurd way so like there's no doubt it's that kids don't act like this like there's clearly like a haunting creepy thing going on so he spots the woman in black in much the same way he did in the book where you like Caesar around Caesar on the property kind of whatever and he's going back to going through this papers um it doesn't make sense that he kind of dismisses the woman in black in the movie because he's already basically been told about the haunting already knows there's something up he's not just like oh i'm a nice mourner came to the funeral he's like that's clearly the woman in black but he decides to like go to the house by himself anyway he's not like yeah it's fine he's like no i'm gonna go by myself because this is a horror movie so i have to make terrible decisions and then they add to it another layer of stupid which is that when Arthur goes to visit that man who he met on the train who lends him his dog he goes to visit his house for dinner and it turns out he also lost his kids but the wife is like crazy and not just like crazy because she's like grieving she's like actually like having she's being like possessed and having visions and like during dinner she all of a sudden like loses it and starts like scraping the table like the dinner table and like Arthur later like takes a peek at what she scraped and it's like the image of like i think it's the image of like somebody hanging like by the neck like it's like a rough cartoon of like somebody being hung and it's like meant to be like a premonition of something because she like says stuff that like doesn't make sense like she's being possessed i was like this is so stupid anyway despite all of that weirdness Arthur does go back to the house again intent on spending the night again where the haunting is like way more over the top than it is in the book the woman in black is like it's just like a very cartoonish haunting where she's like a lot of jump scares and appearing out of corners and making things move and it's it's it's like it's creepy like for sure like i kept like you know i would jump it was like stupid like i was like i'm the music and the jump scares are like unnerving me but overall it's stupid it's not a lasting kind of creepy and so he the the story is a little different with her in than it is in the book in the book she was upset that her kid died in that accident and then she ended up dying of a wasting disease which is why her face is all messed up in the movie she was pissed about it and she kept writing angrier and angrier letters about it saying he's mine he's mine he's mine uh he's my kid and then she hung herself so that's just adds one more jump scare because he finds like all of a sudden like there's like she's like hanging in the nursery and then like everything's back to normal again it's like another jump scare which if she died of a wasting disease it's not possible and then we have the added time bomb of like he's invited his son and then i need to come stay with him in this town and like you'd think the moment he saw a single child die in a weird way he would have immediately telegrammed like back to london and been like you know what just kidding don't come here but it's like until the last minute when this like final like most epic of hauntings has occurred that it occurs to him they're like oh my kid is supposed to arrive tomorrow like i need to tell him not to come but of course like the post office is closed the last train is already gone like there's no way he can get word to his kid before he's already gonna be on his way here so he's like oh my god like I have to do something to make sure my kid doesn't come here and die so like how do we like how do we stop her from continuing to haunt this house so the master plan and this is where the movie just goes full off the rails i was like actually laughing he convinces the guy who lent him the dog his wife is cuckoo crazy to go with him in the middle of the night in the dark and go into the like marshy quicksandy mud and go to the site of where the accident happened and he goes out and he like he goes and and tries to dig up the body of the child that this woman lost and it works which is the craziest thing this accident happened who knows how long ago like years before their client died and he but he manages to find the exact site of it and then like he ties a rope around himself in the car and he like dives in and finds the fucking body of the like finds the carriage and the body of the kid and is able to get it out and out of the mud and then they bring it to the house and then they bring the this like half decomposed body of the kid and they put it in the nursery and then he himself turns on all the toys that she's been making operate as part of the haunting like attract her attention i guess like i'm pretty sure like you don't have to call her with the toys anyway he does that so it's extra creepy and then of course she does show up and see the kid and it's like creepy haunting type thing and so arthur thinks he's solved it she's got her kid back haunting resolve done so so he greets his kid and the nanny in the train station he's like there's been a change of plans we're heading back to london immediately we're not staying and of course while he's explaining this to the nanny the kid lets go of his hand as a train is coming and the kid steps off the station platform in front of the train and at the last minute arthur i think he sees the woman in black first and then he turns and he sees his kid in front of the train and then he leaps in front of the train and um after that then we see like the ghost version of arthur and his kid reunited with his dead wife and that's the end it's so stupid okay so i'm pretty sure again it's clear why i think this is stupid in the book he doesn't have a wife or a kid until after the events of this haunting and it comes back to bite him way later on which to me is way scarier like you think you've put it behind you then just kidding you can never put it behind you she'll always find you there's no digging up the body which is absurd to reunite her with her kid like no he just leaves the town and years later it's still haunted by her because he's had a kid and like her haunting has to be complete which is just more chilling here because he's been emo from the beginning then there's no there's not this like gradual like he was happy and everything was fine until he went to this town no like his life was already kind of fucking tragic before he went there and it's just worse now or maybe it's better because he got to be reunited with his dead wife's like i don't really know what the takeaway here is and then the hauntings with her were just so much more like jump scary and like not remotely subtle and the way the kids are dying again what makes it creepy to me in the book is that there is that plausible deniability of is it a haunting or are kids just dying is it like a self-fulfilling prophecy you think you're being haunted and you think your kids are dying because of it like might people be actually causing this to happen themselves i'm the fact that they're just accidents and illness it's not a kid drinking lye or jumping out of a window because then it's it's like it's 100% definitely a haunting it's definitely a ghost which makes all of your actions going to the house extra extra stupid because at least in the book he's like a happy young man and all the townspeople are like but he's like you guys are being weird but whatever i'm going to the house it's my job it makes sense that he was sort of dismiss it and be like oh you know like i'm feeling a little creeped out but you know like it's just because i'm by myself in a creepy old house like it's fine it's fine and then oh shit it's definitely not fine because there's definitely a woman in black here a slow breakdown of that in the book is what really wakes it work and i think the there's no reason the movie couldn't do that there's no reason they couldn't make him like a happy young man who went to the village where slowly like he learned about this house and like what's going on and then like they did like an epilogue at the end of the movie where many years later like they don't have to have the framing device of him as an old man now writing down a story you don't need that that's what makes it work as a book because you need a reason for it to be written down but they could open it with him as a young man and then at the end do many years later where he's in the park with his kid and the kid dies like that'd be such a spooky way to end it instead of two seconds after he's fixed it by digging up the body in the train station where he once again is an idiot because he lets go of his kid's hand and i was like don't let go like i know you think you fixed it but like are you fucking kidding me of course and then the kid dies and he dies too and no one is surprised like i didn't feel creeped out at the end of the movie i felt annoyed and was like that was stupid so yeah i think it's pretty clear why i think the book is better and again i do not see why those changes were made there are they could have made changes again taken out the framing device of the old man telling his own story you don't need that in the movie and that's fine if they wanted to add a few more instances in the town of like seeing her or like if they wanted to instead of just have townspeople tell him about the dead children they could do flashbacks to when those kids died or i think you could add stuff and make it scarier but checking up the body and the cartoonish way the kids are dying and the ending just so stupid just so stupid why i think it would make a really good movie and again the play the play nails it the play is amazing and super scary super scary so i highly recommend the play if you have a chance to see it do it let me know in the comments down below if you've read the woman in black if you saw the movie the woman in black if you've seen the play um if you agree with my assessment of the two if i've encouraged you to pick up or experience whichever one you haven't yet um if you've only seen the movie i recommend the book it's much better if you've only read the book don't bother with the movie maybe if you want to have a laugh yeah so let me know all the things in the comments down below i post videos on saturdays so like and subscribe and i'll see you next saturday


Thanks to the Patriot system Ukraine shot down the Russian Kinzel for the first time. Ukraine, probably for the first time, used the Patriot systems received from partners to shoot down in Russian ballistic target. The Kinzel missile, Defense Express writes. On the night of May 4, in the sky over Kiev, as reported by the Kiev City Military Administration, in addition to enemy Shahid Kamikaze drones, there were missiles probably of a ballistic type. According to the photo of the wreckage that fell at the stadium within the capital, the experts determined that the down missile was the X-47 Kinzel. They note that the wreckage shows that it received a penetration defeat, which indicates that the interception was quite effective with the destruction of the warhead while still in the air. This downing also debunks the myth of the Russian occupiers that the Kinzel is a hypersonic missile. Ukraine has already officially received funds that can fight ballistic targets.


My name's Paul Abbottella and I'm here to talk to you about using open source as part of a system safety mechanism. Now I've been working with complex software systems since 1990, starting with banking system mainframes and then PCs and mobile phones, and most recently Linux based systems in automotive. Most of my development experience has been at the system or platform level but over the years I've become more and more focused on software engineering processes and how we use them. I first started working with open source software in a mobile phone context, working with platforms like Mego and Android which have Linux under the hood, but the thing I really enjoyed about these projects was the way we used open source tools to improve and extend what we could do and I've been passionate about that ever since. This passion is what led me to join CodeThink in 2019 when my focus has been on safety and open source. At first this involved a lot of time learning about safety from the first principles and trying to decipher the safety standards and then thinking about how we could apply these to open source software and development processes. Now I've been able to do a lot of that thinking in public as part of open source projects such as Trustable and Elisa and in talks like this one. But last year I was finally able to apply some of that thinking in practice, working with my colleagues to qualify an open source tools integration using ISO 26262 which is the automotive safety standard. This talk is about extending the principles from that to safety systems that include open source components. So what do we actually mean by safety? Well this term can mean a number of different things in the software world so I've included some definitions here. To be clear I'm talking about functional safety which is a discipline concerned with those parts of a system that are intended to protect us from harm, that is injury or death, when that system or a related system malfunctions. And what's a safety mechanism? You can see the ISO 26262 definition of it here but that really boils down to two roles either transitioning to or maintaining a safe state or detecting, alerting a user or other safety mechanism when a fault occurs. An example you might be familiar with is a watchdog which you can implement either in software or in an external hardware device and its job is quite simple, it's about detecting when a software process that we care about is hanging or in more complex implementations using a challenge response interaction with that process to verify that it's actually doing what it's supposed to be doing. But when we have one of these safety mechanisms or a safety related system how do we decide what is safe? There's two different parts to this, there's the technical solution itself and what are the hazards or risks that we're trying to avoid with it and how does the solution work to prevent or mitigate them and how is it integrated into the wider system context. But we also care about how we can be confident in that solution. How can we be confident that it actually addresses the safety goals that it's supposed to, that there aren't some additional faults that it might introduce that could compromise that and how can we be confident in its implementation, has it been specified correctly, has it been verified correctly, does it actually do what it's supposed to do and also how can we be confident in the organization's responsible for doing all this, for implementing it and for verifying it and for that we look to evidence of their safety culture and for quality and safety management processes. Now the established answers to a lot of these questions which you'll see enshrined in the safety standards have been around 30 or 40 years and in some cases they're starting to show signs of their age. This is something that Nancy Leverson talks about in her book Engineering a Safer World in which she talks about how the fast pace of technological change and a reduced ability to learn from experience with accidents as well as a changing nature of those accidents is preventing a challenge to those traditional safety approaches and particularly she focuses on new types of hazards which arise from the increasing complexity in coupling between systems and between safety systems and how that is defying the ability of some of the traditional fault analysis techniques to identify those hazards and how to prevent them. But there are some software specific challenges too and not just because we have increasingly complex software functions and systems involved in our safety related systems, there's also a proliferation of components and dependencies involved in those systems and they use pre-existing open source software instead of purpose built software for that particular safety system. And when it comes to open source there are some additional perceived challenges, there's a lack of an entity to take legal responsibility and licenses that explicitly disavow liability and components are often not developed for a specific purpose because they value immediacy of use being able to apply something to a variety of different cases, adapt it and rapidly iterate it and that means that formal requirement specifications are almost always lacking and FOS communities don't operate like commercial organisations, they don't have management processes that we see described in the safety standards and they can't even command or direct the people developing them to do the particular tasks so they can't ensure that particular types of work are done and this means that they may have informal or inconsistent development models, they may apply good engineering practices but not as part of a formal process and so you can't be certain that those practices are being applied consistently. So how can we meet these challenges and how can we achieve safety certification for a system that involves open source software? Well with my colleagues at CodeThinker as part of the ELISA project I've been working on a new approach to safety which we've been calling RAFIA which stands for risk analysis, fault injection and automation and this involves using top-down hazard analysis to identify the risks involved in using open source software as part of our system and the constraints that we need to put in place to deal with those risks. We then use automated construction and testing techniques to verify requirements that are based on those constraints and software fault injection to validate the tests but also any system level safety mechanisms that we've introduced to deal with risks that we can't manage in the open source software itself. To do this we've been using a methodology called System Theoretic Process Analysis or STPA to drive our software engineering processes. This was a methodology that was developed by Nancy Leverson at MIT. Our first application of these principles was to an open source tools integration called Deterministic Construction Service which is designed to create a change controlled and reproducible software construction and verification environment that we can use to verify our software. We used RAFIA to achieve an ISO 26262 tool qualification for this reference integration but our next step is to apply RAFIA to the systems that we're building that have open source components in them. What I'm going to talk about today is the kind of roles and responsibilities that open source can have in a safety related system and some of the challenges involved in integrating it with other components. To do that we're going to look at integrating with actually a proprietary software safety mechanism which is the ARM software test libraries which are used to detect hardware faults in a CPU. We work with ARM to investigate our approach to integrating these with a Linux based system and the purpose of this exploration was to understand the role of FOS as part of system integration, the challenges of integrating the software test library with Linux using other open sources as part of the solution and also managing the safety integrity claims we want to make about such components using open source tools. So what is a safety test library? So this is an example of using software to mitigate hardware level risks. So when you have a hardware component of a safety system such as a CPU, you want to understand the kind of faults that might occur in that and what you can do to mitigate them and not all of those can be mitigated in hardware. So what we have here is a suite of tests that verify the correct operation of the processor. It was first introduced by ARM for the Cortex A53 and the idea is that you run it on boot and then periodically during operation of your system so that you can detect permanent hardware faults and also latent faults that are kind of waiting to manifest while the system is running. From a safety standard perspective this is about increasing what is called the diagnostic coverage for hardware faults and it's a key requirement for safety certification. Now this doesn't achieve safety by itself but as we were saying earlier about safety mechanisms you can combine it with other mechanisms for active protection. So for example you could trigger another mechanism to activate a safe state when you detect a hardware fault and this kind of principle is an alternative to having hardware redundancy. So instead of having multiple pieces of hardware running in parallel to make sure that you can always rely on them you can understand the reliability of a single piece of hardware by running some software tests. Now there's a number of particular technical challenges involved in using and integrating STL. The first is that we need to run these tests during system operation and we want to run them on all of the cores in the CPU and we need to do that within a specific time frame which is called a fault tolerant time interval in the standards and this is really to give us time to activate a mitigation so if we want to activate another safety mechanism that puts this into a safe state we need time to activate that when a fault is detected. But it also means that it has potential to interfere with other running software which would include of course any safety related software that we're running. The other problem with these tests is that they require the highest system privilege level to execute and that's because they test some of the processor functions that are only available at that level. Now in ARM architecture there's a number of different levels of privilege described in the trust zone architecture. The programs running in Linux user space for example would be what's called EL0, the kernel itself operates at EL1. Above that you have EL2 which is if you have a hypervisor system as part of your device and then the highest level EL3 is reserved for trusted services only. But when we're thinking about this it's not just the technical challenges it's also the safety challenges. How do these technical solutions fit into the wider safety argument? What do we do when we detect a problem and how can this safety mechanism interfere with the software and with other safety mechanisms? But we also have some challenges associated with using open source components and the first of these is software license restrictions. Now Linux is licensed with the GPL which places certain requirements and responsibilities on the end user. STL has a more restrictive commercial license which means that combining the two can be tricky. There are some strategies for combining, for integrating non-free components into the kernel but the Linux kernel community generally regards these as harmful and undesirable. And the end event in this case we know that we can't run all of the STL tests within the kernel itself because some of them need to run at a higher privileged level so we'll need to look at a different way to manage this. But we might also have some challenges associated with building with open source tools. Safety certified components often require the use of qualified tools. Now these tools might potentially be based on an open source tool such as GCC but they might be based on a specific older version of the compiler or they might assume that we're using specific proprietary tools and using different tools to compile different components and then integrating those components can result in unexpected behavior. So how did we approach integrating STL with Linux and how did we address some of these challenges? Well in with we turned to another piece of open source software which is the Trusted Firmware or TFA project which is an open source reference implementation, a firmware for ARM trust zone. Now this is primarily concerned with security and a secure world concept but from a safety perspective it also has some very useful functions which are concerned with system initialization and system management and the particular function we were interested in was a method for invoking a secure monitor running within that firmware from an operating system. But it's also concerned with the initialization of the system so operations that happen during the boot up process before the operating system is even invoked so we would be able to run the STL tests on boot to make sure that the hardware is all functional before we even start the operating system and then when the operating system in this case Linux is up and running it can call back into TFA to run the STL tests. So this means that we have an indirect integration with Linux rather than integrating the library into Linux we're integrating it with Trusted Firmware and to do that we have a new service which we added to TFA that will run the STL tests and the STL tests themselves are rented in a library which we can link in with that service and that just means that we then need a way for the processes running on the operating system to invoke those tests to do that we implemented a simple character device driver which lets us send a message to TFA and invoke that service via the SMC instruction which is a low level assembly language instruction that is already support for in the kernel so that we can run our STL tests and this means that we're running those tests at the correct privilege level at EL3 because they're running in a secure monitoring application within the Trusted Firmware. Now to actually control when those tests run we have a number of test processes running on the operating system in Linux these are running in user space and we can assign or give each one an affinity for a particular core so that we're sure that we're running our tests on each of the cores how we actually manage running of those test processes and when the tests are executed is it's a slightly bigger challenge because we need to run that within our fault tolerant time interval but the important thing is that because we're splitting them up into individual processes we can manage those processes individually more importantly the operating system can manage the scheduling of those processes around the other tasks that it needs to do and which could include some safety related functions or some non-safety related functions that the operating system needs to to run in order to support whatever our system is intended to do. It's important to note that this is just a proof of concept implementation it's about understanding the technical challenges in integrating the STL library in this way and just establishing the feasibility of it as a way of invoking those tests. If we wanted to use this as part of an actual safety mechanism then we need to do an analysis of this integration method as well so we actually need to look at the different software components involved in invoking the STL the different circumstances in which that's going to happen and what could possibly go wrong so to give an example those test processes that we have running in user space we don't want them to interfere with the other things that are running on the system but we also need them to to run within our fault tolerant time interval so how can we ensure that they do that how can we ensure that they're a high enough priority that they run frequently but not so high a priority that they interfere with the actual function of the system and similarly there's a whole sequence of steps to invoke the library it's not just a simple function call from the from the test process so there's a number of things that could go wrong on that pathway and we need to look at each of those and understand how it might be compromised and how we could ensure that we have confidence in that pathway so we then did a prototype implementation of this approach for the Raspberry Pi 4 which we're able to do because there was existing support in trusted firmware for that hardware platform and because it was using the correct processor architecture for the STL version that we were integrating and that meant that we could confirm the viability of our approach by running the tests on boot by running the tests from user space via our invocation method and start to understand what the technical challenges were in more detail and just confirm that the tests were able to run as we expected but to go further with this we want to integrate it into into a reference system not just a prototype and we made a start on that by using a demo platform that we've developed for a presentation at OSS Japan which is an illustration of a a rear-facing camera application running in parallel with an IVI for which we were using the AGL reference IVI and this was built using the deterministic construction service tool that I was talking about earlier which meant that we could confirm that we have a controlled and reproducible way to construct all of our components and an environment with which to verify them and this meant that we had a basis for investigating the application integration strategies that we need to to explore to understand exactly how this safety mechanism would operate as part of a wider system so having developed our prototype safety mechanism involving open source how would then go on to use something like that as part of a safety related system and how we then certify that system so to do this we would first need to use our deterministic construction service integration to help us to specify control the way whether we're using our open source components this means having a specific integration and configuration of those software components which we're storing in Git repository alongside the source code for those components to have that within a CI environment within which we can perform verification of those components but also of the integrated system itself and also which we can control changes to the integration to the source code itself and to the tests that we're implementing to do that verification and we're also going to use this environment to coordinate our collection of evidence for these various engineering processes which is what we need to satisfy the work product requirements in standards like ISO 26262 which are all about building up a body of evidence to support why we have confidence in the processes that we've followed in constructing our system but in order to do that we actually need to understand what those requirements are and this is where we're going to use RAFIA to analyze the role of the open source software in the system and use that to specify exactly what we need it to do so that we can then verify that so we first need a system architecture which lets us understand what role our software has within that system we're going to use STPA to document the safety goals associated with that system and analyze the associated risks and from that we want to identify component level and system level constraints that we need in place to manage that risk and in some cases those constraints are going to be implemented by our open source software so we're essentially going to need to show that its design and its behavior meets those constraints in other cases that's going to be part of the wider systems responsibilities to manage risks that we might not be able to address in the open source software itself and we're going to derive tests from these constraints to verify that software but also to verify its behavior as part of the system so we really want to derive system level tests here and to give us confidence in those tests we also want to use software fault injection to validate them so that when something fails the test actually detects that the failure has happened but we also want to validate our external safety measures you know to make sure that that they're working so when the system is up and running and we have a detection mechanism such as STL as part of our system how can we be certain that it actually detects a fault and invokes the appropriate safety measure to deal with that we can use software fault injection to to explore what happens when our software components fail here you'd need to use hardware level fault injection to do that for the hardware components to detect those hardware failures but ultimately we also want to automate this testing and the fault injection where possible using our DCS instance so that we can manage all of this as part of our coordinated engineering process and collect all the evidence we need about it that we can then use to certify our system so what do i want you to take away from this talk the first thing is that safety is a system property which might sound like an obvious thing to say but it's easy to lose sight of this when we're talking about certifying individual components and then putting them together to make a safe system safe components alone don't make a safe system to have that we need to understand their role in relation to each other and in relation to the system's safety goals only then can we be sure that we're achieving those goals what certification of components can give us is confidence in the safety integrity of those components which means that we understand what they're intended for and why we can have confidence in the development process is followed to achieve and verify that purpose and historically this has been a problem for fos components because the materials typically provided by the open source development communities don't always give us that clarity of purpose however that doesn't mean that we can't use open source components as part of our safety related systems provided that we as system integrators are prepared to specify how we're using those components in our system analyze the risks that are involved in doing so and show how we are managing or mitigating those risks and why we have confidence in our specific integration and safety measures and open source can also contribute to this in the form of tools to support the software engineering processes that we use to achieve that safety integrity but open source can do something else as well it can help to promote understanding of safety topics and safety concepts we can use reference implementations like the trusted firmware one that we looked at in this example to illustrate how components are intended to be used and integrated what risks engineers need to consider when integrating them in their own systems and how these can be mitigated and open source projects like elisa can help to identify these common risks and mitigations so that engineers using open source components can learn from previous safety analysis and build on that instead of having to start from scratch every time to my mind that desire the desire to share our work and our hard one knowledge so that others don't have to reinvent the wheel is what open source is all about thanks for listening and if you have you you have any questions i'd be happy to answer them now