and welcome to the 5 p.m. to 5.30 session of the 2019 Open Simulator Community Conference. In this session, I am very honored to introduce Dr. Eileen O'Connor and her presentation, Design Challenges in a Youth Safe VR Environment. Dr. O'Connor is a professor at SUNY Empire State College teaching the creation of education level open source environments. She's been involved in VR for graduate education for 13 years. Today she'll talk to us about challenges in these environments. And don't forget to please check out the website found at conference.opensimulator.org for speaker bios, details of sessions and the full schedule of events. This session is being live streamed and recorded. So if you have any questions or comments during the session, you may send tweets to atopensimcc with the hashtag OSCC19. And welcome everyone and let's begin the session. Eileen, it's all you. And thank you very much for, first of all, hosting this conference, all the work that goes into it and for the attendees and all that make Open Simpossible. I'm going to be answering questions and I hoping we won't have the naked avatars coming into these school safe environments. But what I'm going to run through is a little bit and trying to keep my eye on the time just about what got me here. And I wish I could say Scott who went before me was my creation, but Scott certainly and the wonderful students we have bring art to this. I have a technical background and I will say that when I started in Second Life back in the early, kind of the round 2007, the school had the environment and they were doing a nice job because they had a lot of artists who set things up and they allowed me to come in as the technical STEM person.  And so we did, they did find, the combination of bringing arts in was very important, but cost eventually became prohibitive. Some of the bloom on the Second Life had gone away and I still continue to use it. I was in the science education area, eventually we developed a whole program for emerging technologies and thank goodness with OpenSim we've been able to continue to bring in our wonderful students and have them going further. But now I'm in a position where I've been working with people in the K-12 world.  And so I've been very thankful for the world that right now Kitely's put together with the virtual private networks. And I'm now moving beyond my job. My job is to work with graduate students who are an adult. And so I don't have to be so concerned about them, but I'm going to be asking those of you here because mostly this is the choir. You are the people who develop and to bring people in. I was very impressed to hear about Eureka out of Israel. That would be the model I would love to someday be. I have to bootstrap this myself though. And I'm using the virtual private networks as a way to get to this. And I have a very lovely person who's been out spreading the word of what can be done in K-12 environments and in home schools and Sunday schools. But what I need is to be able to leverage this. Now, Bethany Winslow, who'll be coming on shortly, talks wonderfully about the emerging culture that's happened within virtual reality coming through Second Life over the past 15 years or so. What I wanna do is somehow emulate that. Now my challenge, and I'll be asking you, please type in the chat, get in touch with me later. I also have a link that I'll put out to the end to a Google doc for anyone who wants to share ideas with me. I'm hoping to start with that little seedling. Do what I can do, which is tech support, motivation, courses to get it starting to grow. But then I wanted to ultimately get its own legs where I would like the teachers and organizations and the different students themselves to be part of developing this. So I think that's where we'd all like to get. So I'm looking for going into some of the constraints, some of the problems that I know will happen and asking here as I know in advance the design issues I'm up against for ideas from those of you who either challenges yourself or have new ideas to please share them with me either in the chat now and I'll copy and paste it out or in the Google doc I'll put out at the end. Definitely, and I've been hearing a lot of this during the conference, we need to be sure that everything is secure. And I'm counting very much on the virtual private networks to help me here. I know Kitely's been doing a good job. I've just gotten access, my semester's ending, I'm getting the grades in, I'm gonna be jumping into this to learn as much as I can. With the idea of eventually with the environments I go to getting their IT departments to become a lot more involved but I need to get that seedling going. I need to be able to get others involved. And as we all want, we need to get to that engagement factor. And engagement is not simply showing a virtual world. You have to have storyline, you have to have motivation. Today we get cyber invitations from everybody and who gets the time and space? And we're dealing with K-12, we're competing with entertainment, which is really knows how to create motivating stories, how to get people engaged. So I'm trying to get educators to be thinking that way. But part of what I have to do is really get the educators to let the kids themselves become part of this. And so I'm trying to read my own slides here. What I need to get is the youth involvement. That's going to be key to getting anything to work here. And I think you all know that. What you compete with today in trying to balance the creativity that kids can bring in with the structure that you're going to need to have to get to some learning objectives is the first thing, when you get older teenagers, they're going to say, well, I can do better with Fortnite. The graphics aren't as good. Okay, and then you remind them, there are SIM cities and things. So it's not in the graphics. It's not in that, you have to deal with attitude coming in from older students. You also have to, yeah, and people are talking, we've got FERPA, we have identity things. We have to be encouraging them to explore, but we have to limit exploration. And one of the things I'm thankful for with Kitely, in their virtual private network, you can set up six avatars. You can have an avatar that cannot become totally naked. And I was surprised they actually have, they call them non-naked avatars because the first thing kids know is how to do a lot more than their adult monitors. So what we have to do is be able to bring kids in, encourage them, but at the same time, realize you can get attitude that this isn't a great game. I see that all the time with Kitely. So, yeah, no, this isn't a Kitely sponsored event, but I'm very thankful for Kitely because they really have made a lot of things available to me. Now, I've been blessed recently to have an advocate who's bringing me into K-12 schools that I couldn't have gotten into before. My life is very fractured. I'm spending a lot of it developing VR spaces. I have 50 graduate students, I have to publish. So to get into the K-12 area, which is very important to me, is almost impossible, but I have this advocate. But now I have to look at the fact, if you remember from Prenski, I meant to find his thing from way back in 2001, he divided us into digital natives and digital immigrants. Immigrants will always have quote accents, but myself, he's certainly got debunked because he's never researched background, but I've certainly seen that in so many cases, there is this division. And I've been in technology before most digital natives were born, but they still, I will tell you, my grandchildren are faster at the computer than I am. So what we need to do is get, most of my teachers that are coming in will be what you might call the immigrants. So I need to get them on board, which was why I was very interested in Eureka, how they worked about getting people involved. So, and again, please in the chat, as much as you can tell me, as many ideas, tips, places, the more that you can tell me to get into this group, it will be important. So I'm going to be the initial owner. And the scary thing is I am not an IT person. So I will be depending on Kitely and leaning on them a lot to help me get everybody on board. I'm going to need the quote teachers who are people who are already passionate about their subject area, but need to begin to understand a virtual environment. I'm going to need the participants, I'm going to need the students that will be now in this environment that hopefully we can monitor their behaviors, we can make sure they're dressed appropriately. And I'm going to need the on-borders. As Scott just said in his presentation, on-boarding people into this area was really important. And for bringing kids in, they're not too difficult. They're gonna have to learn to bring the viewer in. So I'm looking at creative ways of getting on-borders from among the kids themselves. So if I can get them to get the viewer onto their computer, because I hope to work somewhat systematically with the schools, then I want to start getting the students themselves to be part of the on-boarding. So what my initial model, which does reflect on what I saw from the Israel model too, is I want to have what I was calling here VR sets, where there are some backgrounds to stimulate thinking. And as Scott pointed out, we have, thanks to wonderful artists who've made the available, we have walled cities, we have swimming pools, we have things that could become backgrounds. And in their modeling simple pedagogical techniques, we want to get them, sometimes lecture will be appropriate, but with a group of K-12 kids, we want to get beyond the lecture. So I want to have models that can help the teachers themselves start thinking, basic, simple models, that then can embed that pedagogical content. Yeah, no, and the pedagogy can be anything from problem-based learning, we can have role-playing. And I have a number of publications on that area that I'll be using with these teachers to really get them thinking. But the more experience is ideas that you can put in the chat for me, I would really appreciate it. And so my background is the education piece with the technology. So I can pull up these models and try to make them available. But again, if you've got experience in this area, things that you think would work or know would work, I would appreciate that greatly. Now, what I have to keep in mind too, is as I'm making these models, there to get the teachers themselves excited about the work. I need to do that scaffolding from RUNER. I need to get the scaffolding in to move them over to the other side of the scale where they now become creative, where they can move out themselves, where they can also realize that virtual doesn't exist without all of the work that this group is doing, where you need tweets and Twitters and you need Facebook. The virtual in and of itself is not everything. So I have to get all of these folks kind of onboarded in this area. So I think this, excuse me, is kind of my last slide in this. What I'm trying to do is mindful of the complexity which I know is there. And I think all of you know is there and I've been appreciative of the supportive statements coming in. But we're all here because we have a passion for seeing where we can go with this. So I'm interested in any ideas about how you have thought about can suggest and I'm gonna put out a link to a Google doc at the end where if either now or later you come up with ideas, websites, links, please put them in just so that becomes part of my brainstorming with some of these people who I'll be working with. And what I wanna do is craft some small scenarios to begin with. So when I get this pilot group in, that they get enough legs that they can see some of the potential. And again, that's where that group from Israel was very informative. And then from there, I would hope to see this self-generative model come out of it, which I think is what everybody hopes for. And, you know, easier said than done. Yeah. Well, and I'm seeing with, and Beth, thank you with Kids Exploring Minecraft, make up their own stories. And I just pushed out the link if anyone wants to keep telling me things too. And I did tell Joyce, if you folks come in, if I did this link right, you should be able to just start throwing in ideas to the extent I can then sort them later. I will be glad to feed them back to anybody else who's in this delightful conundrum. I have now in front of me the potential to develop a model that if I could get it working well, could be scalable to many thousands of students. This potential organization is quite big. But, you know, I have to get, that's why I have to get it moving so that it gets its own legs. And I think you can appreciate that yourself. And so I'm thinking at this point, Scott, do people want to give me more comments or feedback or have any particular questions? Yes, if anyone has any questions, feel free to put them in the chat window and I will relay them to Eileen. And please do take my email. And if you have other ideas later, send them to me or you please jump into that Google doc at any point. I think if you have a Gmail account, you should be able to just type in ideas. And there's a couple of people here in the chat, Eileen, who would like to speak with you later. Lily may come. Okay, okay, good. Scott, where would you suggest I go for that? How do I do that? Or, well, they have my email too, so. Yeah, and they can friend you right now. Oh, okay. All right. Yes, that's actually a very good thing. If anyone has any questions or further side discussion they want to have with Eileen, friend her now. Okay, and thank you, everybody. Yes, thank you, Eileen. She's been a wonderful mentor. All right, everyone. Well, thank you very much, Eileen, for such a terrific presentation. Oh, thank you, Scott. As a reminder to our audience, you can see what's coming up on the conference schedule at conference.opensimulator.org. Following this session, the next session will be up at 530 or 5.30 p.m. Pacific time, I have to remember that. And it is entitled Art Gallery, a plug and play OER immersive activity. I can't wait to see that. And also we encourage you to visit the OSCC 19 poster expo and the OSCC expo three region to find any accompanying information on presentations and to explore the hypergrid tour resources in OSCC expo region two. There's some great stuff there. I've already gone shopping. And along with our sponsor and crowd funder booths located throughout all of the OSCC expo regions. So thank you again, Eileen, and thank you to the audience.


In this video I'll explain to you why there is no future you you know that that that lie that you tell yourself of Yeah, when I do this or when I get this then I'll be this person No, it doesn't exist. It's it's it's a fiction. It's unreal.  Yeah, then we'll work out.  It obviously your brain has never Read any book about success. It doesn't know anything about you All it knows is does this feel good or does this feel bad?   Well, what happens when you're successful? Oh, yeah One day when I'll be more successful then I'll be happy or let's say you're a guy who likes to to win To lie. Sorry. That's a big difference.  I'm gonna turn back. What happens when you get to 20,000 or the 50,000 that you wanted You're gonna start like you're on your way to the 50,000.  I'll have like a private trainer. No, you won't.  You'll have like this anxiety about it. You'll be like, oh Maybe later. I don't know if it's the right time. I'm afraid that, you know, it might get in the way of my My opportunities. Oh, no. Oh, no So, yeah, the the lesson from this video is Wherever you are Fix it. Don't say that the future will fix it. Whatever you have right now You're gonna get more of in the future.   Don't wait for it to go away Don't wait for it to get better. Whatever problem you have right now. You need to fix it at the level of now I'm not trying to tell you how to fix it. I have other videos for that I'm trying to tell you that you have to fix it now. You can't delay it because any problem you have now in your life will grow The more you wait and the more it grows if this problem makes you unhappy the more miserable you're gonna be because and Anything good that grows is better.  Okay, and message me if you need help. I'd love to help you.


Hello my name is Salma Oula and I'm the January student of the month for the DCL STEM Academy. I chose engineering as my CTE because in middle school I was part of a lot of clubs that talked about building new things and innovating new things and I wanted to learn more about it. Being chosen as student of the month felt like a shock to me at first but I understand now why I was chosen to represent my CTE and now I'm very grateful for it. After high school I plan on studying mechanical engineering in college. I like to participate in a lot of community service clubs such as the leaders emerging amongst peers and the student interact club. I also am part of two honor societies such as the world language honor society and the national honor society and I also like to participate in academic clubs such as the history club. I like to participate in religious activities in my local mosque as well as community service activities outside of school. A fun fact about myself is that I'm an aunt of three so I like to spend a long time playing with my nieces and nephews. I like to thank my family for always encouraging me to do my best and always push forward and I also would like to thank my friends for always helping me through struggles such as school work.


Hello. Today, I'm going to give you a short overview as well as a demo of Project Alvarium. Project Alvarium is seeking to be the newest at-large project within the LF Edge umbrella organization, and we'll talk a little bit about the problem space and what it's trying to solve. My name is Trevor Kahn. I am a technical staff engineer at Dell Technologies in the office of the CTO. I'm also a member of the LF Edge Technical Advisory Council, and I'm also a board member. And I am a founding member of the Project Alvarium. So to describe the Alvarium concepts, modern applications are extensively distributed, and we no longer think of data as residing in a single centralized silo. Data is originated at one part of the network and traverses that network, perhaps being mutated, filtered, etc., all along the way. What Alvarium seeks to do is to create metadata that attests to verifiable authority at the origin of data, but also through all those hops as it traverses the network, as well as any mutations that may occur. We do this by creating metadata, what we call trust insertion points, which I'll describe in a minute. And at each one of these insertion points, there are a series of factors that we can evaluate in order to determine that data is being created, that are modified and handled in a way that conforms to best practices or policy. And each one of those factors can be independently weighted because some things are more important than others. The trust from these factors is then calculated by what we call the confidence score. So that confidence score then is an objective measurement of the level of trust that you can have in how the data was handled. The trust score may be used for various scenarios like governing system behavior, sending out alerts for things that go wrong, notifications of possible attack, or even just applications that have been deployed and are misconfigured. So by trust insertion points, we mean the various hops that data goes through. Data, which originates at the edge, might just go straight to the cloud, but it might go through any number of hops in between on its way to its final resting place. It could go through gateways, regular compute that's stored in a data center, perhaps on-prem, finally making its way to the cloud, maybe it doesn't even go to the cloud. So one of these hops, there will be applications that facilitate the business and which will consume the Alvarium SDK that allow us to capture the annotations that eventually roll up into the overall confidence score. So this is a simple example just to illustrate the point. You see in the lower left hand corner down here we have some sensor data that's coming in. We don't really think of the Alvarium SDK residing directly on the sensor. It's more likely going to be on the gateway that the sensors are attached to, but if you have a rich compute device, there's no reason that it couldn't, like a camera or something like that. In any case, the gateway receives the sensor readings, and through the SDK is able to annotate certain aspects of its environment relative to the creation of that data. Does the gateway have a TPM? Did the gateway go through secure boot? Are the individual readings that are being collected being put into a distributed ledger for immutability and traceability? The level of confidence at this point is simply yes or no. Is this criteria satisfied or not? When we move to the next hop, which is the Edge server, there's also applications running there with an SDK embedded in them, you may add on additional annotations related to encrypted communication. You know, was the data handed over TLS? Does the data have a signature on it that can be verified through public private key pairs? And then finally moving into the cloud, maybe we add another annotation on top of that that uses a hash or a checksum to determine whether or not the payloads have been tampered with. These annotations are stored in a separate data store from the business. So the business applications are writing their data to one place. The Alvarian annotations are being stored in another place, and that could be a distributed ledger. It could also be a database sitting on the other side of a pub sub. But if all of these were to pass, then numerically we would have a score of six. But as I said before, if you want to independently weight some of these factors relative to others, then you'll want to think about that confidence score more as a percentage, because that will reflect certain things being more important. So the demo that I'm going to show you today essentially involves three different workstations. These are simulating the roles of a gateway, a core compute node, and then a cloud compute node. And the data is going to originate over here at the gateway on workstation to it's going to then move to workstation three, where it's going to be transformed. And then that transform piece of data will be moved over to workstation four. Now you can see at the top that workstations two and three their business applications will be writing that data to a database, just like you would have a database under support supporting any number of business applications. The annotations on the other hand, are going to be written to an iota stream, and then there's going to be a subscriber that is looking at that stream waiting for the annotations to come in which will eventually calculate the score and persist that data into an alvarium database. So you might be wondering, well, how can I relate the application data to the alvarium data. And right now, we're looking at application data as a document. And so think of a sensor reading that comes in in JSON format, you can turn that into a hash very easily. And all the players in this network understand that we're using say the shot 256 algorithm to do hashing. Then when I go to fetch records out of the application database, assuming they haven't been tampered with. I can hash those up using the shot 256 algorithm and use that hash as the key to go find the annotations and the score in the alvarium database. So that's how we link the two together. The other thing that I want to show you on here is that I've got these PKI yes TLS no TPM no and so on. This reflects the annotations that are going to be captured at each point of the process. So for workstation to we're going to catch for two of them, a PKI annotation which says that the data going out has been signed, and the fact that there's no TPM none of these, none of these boxes have TPMs on them. And finally we have an extra annotator for TLS. So I've set up a simple rest endpoint with no TLS certificate. And so that's going to fail. But then when the data is passed to workstation for there is a TLS certificate there. And so that one's going to succeed. So, our philosophy in building annotators and these are the only three we have right now I'm sure there will be more in the future. And one of the things that these should not be satisfied by virtue of a developer passing a Boolean flag into the annotator. The annotator should be written in such a way that it can capture information from the environment from its context that then allows it to say whether or not it meets the criteria. So on top of that the actions that are going to be taken at each point which I think I've already briefly touched on but this will make it more explicit. The data is going to be created over here on the left workstation to that's the gateway, then it's going to be passed to workstation three that's going to result in a transit annotation. And then it's going to be mutated it's going to be changed into something else than that mutated version is going to be handed off to workstation for and we'll see another transit annotation over there. Okay, so that's basically the flow that we're going to go through. And I set it up so that this is only going to execute once because if I just turn it on and let it rip. It's too much to keep track of for something like this. So this is somewhat contrived but I think you'll see the point. All right. Let's get into the demo. So you can see here I've got workstation two three and four. I've also got my sort of personal workstation here and that's what I'll eventually be running the dashboard on the very first thing I need to do is I need to stand up the iota tangle. The way I have this setup. I'm using version 1.1 point zero of the iota streams library in order to set put the stream on top of the Hornet tangle. And I have two nodes participating in the tangle one of them is a coordinator and one of them is just kind of a secondary. And then as part of the stream there's going to be what we call the author console that's going to register that stream and then all of the people that want to publish and subscribe are going to register themselves through that author console. It kind of ties the two ends of the pipe together. All right. So here goes starting coordinator. And now I will start the secondary. Okay, so those are both up. And now I'm going to come down here and start the author. Okay, so now I essentially have an address up and ready to go to be able to publish information on my stream. Now the other thing I have to do is I have to start some applications that support the back end process the subscription the calculation the population across databases and so forth so I'm going to go do that now. Okay. So all that's up and running. Now we're ready to actually kick off our business applications that consume the very MSDK. So I'm going to start workstation for first. And it goes through this key load operation in order to connect to the stream provider and here you can see it's connected successfully. Sometimes it has to try that a few times so we may see some retries in here. Provider connection successful workstation to now. This is really, this is really the trigger for the whole process. This, this application is going to create the data, the other two are sitting over there they haven't received anything yet so they're not taking any action. When I start this, then that will then start the whole chain of events running. All right, there's our message. So let's just see real quick. If we can go over here and maybe capture one of these things doesn't always work out the way I want it to but let's just go see. This is actually visualizing the tangle. I may have been too late. It looks like we're just getting milestones. Now, you can see here that the other applications have received their information so I may have just been too late to actually capture those. Well, let's go look at the dashboard. Okay, so there's our two pieces of data. Remember, we created one, and then we mutated it right so there's two pieces of data. And you can see they have two different confidence rankings. Alright, now, this is sample data. So there's just gibberish in here. All I'm trying to capture is that hey this is a thing right so this would be a sensor reading or something like that. So, this one has 57% confidence this one has 71% confidence so let's drill into that. So if I click on this, I can see here the annotations. And then you'll recall, I said that there were going to be two coming off of workstation two, and then three coming off of workstation three. And the only ones that we're going to pass for going to be the PKI annotations. Let's see if I can get back to right. So, essentially, what we were just looking at is this create, and this transit, and both of those PKI annotations passed. And we're saying okay well there's five there, and two passed. So shouldn't that be 40% but the reason that it is. What was it 56% 57% reason it's 57 is because the PKI annotation just happens to be weighted more in the static policy that I'm using. Because there's more weight given to the PKI annotation that's why we have a higher level of confidence. So let's look at this one this is the mutated piece of data. Right. So, workstation three, we have, we have two here we have TPM and PKI because we do a mutation. Obviously the data is being sourced on that box so there's no reason to do a TLS evaluation. And following from that we have the handoff to workstation four. And you can see here that yes the TLS handoff succeeded the signature was validated and we signed the data going out. So, because of all of that, we now have the confidence score 71%. Again, remember the PKI annotations are weighted higher. So, what you see here then is the alvarium database, which is everything that goes into supporting this one column, and then the application database, which is all of these other fields. So in this way, we can provide a dashboard to show how the level of confidence is measured against every piece of data in the database that you're interested in. So functionally that's the demo. But what I'd like to do is just very quickly show you how the SDK is used. From a go perspective, in your go mod you would import the SDK go, the alvarium SDK go, we have a logging provider as well that's a very slim dependency it doesn't import any external packages. And then let's look at the creator. And so, like I said, I generate a piece of sample data, and then I store it in store it in the database this is Mongo sitting behind that. And here's where it gets marshaled right so it's marshaled into bytes, and then we hand it to the SDK and say okay create. Now, when the application was bootstrapped in the configuration, there's a series of settings for the SDK and I can tell it, you know which annotators to use what algorithm to use for a hash. If you're involved, you know, you don't have to use keys on the file system obviously you can get those from other places but for the purposes of the demo that's what I did. And then here's where I can figure the stream. And this provider is essentially the author console that I was telling you about before. And the tangle is the node in the tangle that I'm going to be writing to so for purposes of the demo. I'm not writing to the coordinator. I'm actually writing to the secondary node. And then the two of them sync up. And so then going back to the main, I read all of that out of configuration you can see right here I'm going after the annotators node within the SDK config. There's a factory that allows me to get the instances of the annotators which I then pass into a constructor for the SDK. And then that SDK is fed to what I call the worker which does the actual work of creating the data. And then down in here whoops that's the wrong worker down in here that's why I'm able to call create. And then this is where I pass it off to the next hop in chain. One other thing that I would like to just describe is in our repo for the SDK, we actually do have some documentation around how you can use this so the SDK interface itself is very very simple. You construct it, and then you call create, mutate or transit. You know, whatever is happening to the data. One thing that's interesting about mutate which I don't have the ability unfortunately to show as part of this demo is we're working on the concept of lineage for data so recall that I said you create the data on workstation to gets past workstation three, and then somehow it's filtered or transformed, we call that a mutation. And we have a pointer from that mutated document to the original document both of those documents are being written to the application database, and we within the alvarium database have the ability to track that that mutation happened. So eventually what you could do is write a visualizer that says for a given document, show me not only the confidence for this target document but all of its former revisions, and then you could have a history of all the machines and all the different checks that went into creating this entire lineage of data, which I think is pretty cool. I think that's probably it. Let me wrap up here real fast. Just a few pieces of information in case you'd like to know more. So our official github organization is right there project dash alvarium on github.com. We have a few different repos that we're actively working on the go SDK. I always work a lot on that. We also have an example application that is a single process application but it leverages some, some of the go concurrency primitives that go routines and channels and things like that to demonstrate each one of the SDK methods in a sequence. So take a look at that that's pretty interesting and then we're doing the same thing for Java, because we have some use cases some internal customers who are interested in having this capability with a Java SDK. But we're certainly open to porting the SDK to additional languages. And so if you'd like to be a contributor in that regard, certainly like to have that discussion. On Twitter we have an account project alvarium where you can find various announcements and things like that. And then the resources that I'm using in this demo I have under my personal account in github. They're public repos of course, and you can see there, the ONES demo 2021 has the services that I deployed to workstation 23 and four, and as well as an example stream subscriber, and that shows you how to subscribe to the iota tangle and pull a message out. One thing I'll say is that the iota tangle that I should say the stream provider. We use a C bindings library that the iota foundation provided in order to have interrupt with the tangle. Everything iota does is written in rust. And so in order to have some integration there we need some C binding so that we can go back and forth between go. And that's it. Thank you very much for watching this talk, I hope you found it informative I hope it sparks your interest in the project, and you know would love to hear from you if you are interested in contributing to the project. Thank you very much.


Hi, I found my pen. I was just looking for it. So today we're going to talk about the process of science. We're in a science course. We're going to be studying biology, the science of life for the rest of this semester. So it makes sense that we better have a decent understanding of the process of science so that we can understand how the process of science applies to studying living critters. And then we get to learn all these really cool fun things about critters for the rest of the semester. Before we start, we should probably have a definition of the process of science. Like, what is science? Really? I mean, it's one of those things. I don't know why we start the class with all these definitions that I feel like, oh, that's like really philosophical. Like, what is it? We'll have a definition for you. Science is a process by which we attempt to understand how the natural world works. And there are a few key words in here that I want to highlight just so that you're focused in on the significant pieces. First of all, I keep emphasizing this. It's a process. It's not a linear process. I'm going to show you a visual in a second that illustrates how, no, it actually is kind of completely not linear and is very rare if it ever is linear, but it's iterative, it's creative, and it's web-like. It's a web-like, iterative, creative process by which we attempt to understand. Like, the goal is understanding what the natural world, how the natural world works. So inside that definition, we actually have some exclusion. There are some things that we can't use the process of science to explore because we have to be exploring the natural world, and if we're not, then we're actually not using the process of science. So let me show you this visual of how, you know, we tend to think, okay, science is the scientific method.  And that is completely not how science works. Although the scientific method and the steps of collecting data through the process of experimentation, that's kind of central to the process of science. And you can see that, yeah, that's kind of in the middle that we are gathering data and we're interpreting the data. This alone is a pretty iterative process because interpreting the data often leads to further gathering of more data that needs to be interpreted that then leads to gathering more and so on and so forth. But that little central piece where we probably could put the scientific method inside there somewhere, that little central piece, there are other factors that feed into that and that receive what input from the experimental aspect. And this includes like simple exploration and discovery, like simply going for a walk and making observations or reading something or asking questions of somebody who's doing the science in the area that you're interested in. I love this because notice that there's actually even a part of the process of science that is random and lucky, serendipitous and like you randomly come across an observation that kind of strikes a chord and makes you think, oh, this would be an interesting thing to explore. There's a huge role in science for community.  You actually put your information out into the world, you put your experiment out into the world and you ask for feedback from the rest of the scientific community and then the feedback that you receive from there will inform whether you go forward back into the testing process, whether you actually come back and do some more exploration and discovery or it actually can feedback into benefits of the process. Like we can actually get things out of the process that we look at and go, oh, cha-ching, like that's awesome. We're really excited about that piece of it. Oh, our course, we're going to have opportunities to do science. We're going to, in our process of doing science, in order to understand doing science, we need to have a grip on this center green bubble which involves designing a quality experiment. So we're going to take a look at experimental design in the next section.


Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make a well any card that you like with your own voice recorder inside. So this is something that I've actually been sitting on for a while, I purchased these a while ago now when I was at my nan's and I brought her one of those I think Build-A-Bear is pretty much worldwide and you can record a voice and I done a build one of these Build-A-Bears for my nan many years ago and I saw it and heard it again and I thought that would be great to do in a card I wonder if anybody sells them, had a look online and I found some. So this is the card so this is the front really nice I'll show you how I done all the decoration as well and then when you open it up okay so this is a 30 second recording little device which I'll show you in a moment you can get 10 second 20 second and 30 second I'm sure there's probably more that you know will record for longer out there if you want to. Now this can be you can rewrite over them so I will show you how to use it all in a moment but it was mainly to kind of just do a basic kind of card really and then you can incorporate this any way you want once you see how they work it took me a while to understand them to be honest it came with no instructions at all they just told me that they were light activated but until you actually start to make it in a card you have to kind of play around a little bit so I'm hoping now that I've done all that hard work for you again when you open it up okay so around here once you get familiar with it there's a little click if I hold that down now you've got that beep it's now recording and you hold your finger down on that I'm going to show you this again with the actual device when we get it but now this is recording everything I'm saying I'm holding my finger down now when I remove it it does two beeps and that means it's now taken your recording so that is now all in there and I'm not sure if there's a maximum time that you can record over them I know these play for I think a thousand times so I mean that's that's more than enough so now if I close that up it's light activated so I have there is black in amongst here to just make sure that's really nice and dark when it's inside but now and it will go off as soon as you close it so that's recorded everything I can go over that again when I go to actually give this to somebody because these are I won't be selling these I'm going to keep these for me to give to family and friends another thing is this records very well and it records music that's all I'm going to say I'm not telling you to do it I'm just saying it does record very well but if you're going to sell these cards publicly then I wouldn't be selling them with anything that is copied you know it's copyright so yeah this is what we're going to make I'll show you everything I've used on top it's really easy it really is it's just I thought a nice fun thing to add to this creative card series I have a box here this is the same box that I use on the concertina garden card so this is your five by seven one inch you know dimensional envelope because there's a lot of dimension to this and it's got a quarter of an inch kind of width to it because you need to give the actual little device a space yeah I think it all works really nice makes a lovely really special gift so if you want to send someone a personal note you know for the servicemen abroad you know working so I know that we used to do this for my dad when he was away because he was in the Navy for a long time we would send voice messages little recordings and cards and stuff so it is it's really nice I think a lot of you're going to really enjoy this okay so this is how they look so I picked up five of these for seven ninety six they're not the cheapest so it is going to be for those special cards but how they use them is they literally just stuck this this is double sided tape they just stuck that in the card like that so you saw all of this it looked awful I thought I get the you know the the concept's great but you've got to cover that up because that does not look nice for someone opening the card so that's what I've been playing around with and I wanted to make sure I got it right but um yeah I'll share the links to these it was either Amazon or eBay and like I said you can get the 10 second 20 and 30 once you get them I there is nothing on here that tells me this is 30 second but it is so if you do buy different ones it's worth keeping them in bags and writing on them because yeah that's it they came like that no instructions nothing so I had to play around with them for a while so I'm using the secret garden dovecraft papers for today's and the one that I've already showed you now this is all my stuff because you kind of want to make the inside quite dark so I'll talk through that in a moment so you want a piece here which is 11 by 7 and you're going to score at a quarter of an inch half an inch five and a half five and three quarters and 10 and three quarters okay then you want a piece of 10 by 7 and you're just going to score at five okay so what's going to happen is if we first of all just fold and burnish all of these score lines be careful because obviously some of you know they are very small but you want to make sure do get them perfect because this is going to give our card our shape and a little pocket for the actual voice recorder to fit in okay so on the left hand side when we first scored we scored a quarter of an inch and half an inch that is always going to be on the left hand side so those two score lines here on the left you've got your middle school like two here and then you've got this one quarter inch this will always be on the right so you want to make sure you've always got it in that orientation this is all going to fold around and this second quarter of an inch piece here will end up sticking against that one this is going to be a hinge which we are going to stick our front onto and close it up so basically this width here is what our circuit's going to sit in okay just that little bit there I'll talk you through the mats and the layers when we get to decorating but now let's get straight into preparing this okay so this like I said this is how it comes and you've got the double sided tape this is your speaker and I think this is just picks up I don't know because you never see it it gets stuck right down so I'm not entirely sure what it is but this little piece here this red dot whatever it is that is the light detector that is what needs to be covered and then lifted the card will lift and that will get exposed so again if I show you here on the card you've got that tiny dot there and it's that dot that is got that little red bit just there inside okay sorry because that's going to keep talking in fact let me just so I just recorded nothing then I held my finger down then wait for the the first beep then just leave it holding down then let go you get the two beeps and now I close that up okay so that's it now I can show you that in the tutorial and it's not going to keep hearing me talk okay so I've got here this paper again always remember those two score lines are on the left hand side this is going to be the inside of my card so I've got this pattern paper here and it's actually going to work quite well because what I'm going to try and do is have the center of one of these flowers as my hole punched hole for this to sit behind okay so I've got my x-cut circle sorry screw punch but you can obviously use just a normal hole punch but if you've got a normal hole punch you're restricted obviously how far in you can go with this here I can go all over it and punch my hole but again if you don't have that you can just cut a little square so there's other ways you've got a cutting knife and things like that but what I'm going to do first of all is I'm just going to stick this down and then I can actually see kind of what flower is going to be best I think I've kind of roughly think I know which one I'm just going to pop that in there so this mat here is four and seven eighths by six and seven eighths so it's just slightly smaller than the five by seven area that I've got here okay I love this paper it's really really nice then I'm going to open it up this way because I need to obviously punch my hole but you can have this any way you want it doesn't have to be up that way so I'm going to have it on its side here remembering that this here it's got a little P next to it again I don't know what any of this means but I'm going to have I think that one and it's going to come out of this middle of the flower there okay so I'm going to punch a hole if you've got one of these I know lots of you have I'm using the largest one because it is exactly the same size as that little light detector so now I've punched my hole you can just see my finger behind it there now that it doesn't come through but you can see there it's just behind it but I think it blends in really really well I mean that one is still fine you know at the end of the day this is a voice recorder so people are going to expect there to be an area for the sound to come through but it's still you know I might put something decorative around that but don't cover it possibly vellum you might be able to put some vellum over it I haven't tried because I didn't really want to interfere with it too much but I've got lots of room here I'm going to write my message you know and stamp it on some plain white paper and then stick that into that section there so now I'm happy that that's going to go there like this what you need to do is hold this in place oh no before we do that sorry then you've got these two pieces here which we want to stick inside both sides and this is just going to kind of black everything out it's just going to help that card I don't know if it does actually need this again I just put all these measures into place because what I didn't want happening is someone taking it out of the box and the light kind of get into it before the person's even opened the card so then I've got these two pieces of fun foam which I'm going to cut down but they're going to go there and there to not to help support the card because I don't want it to cave in but also to help block in any light that might come through the top and the bottom of the card okay so I mean once you play around with these but I thought these are just quick simple things to do and you know what have you got to lose you know you don't want to waste money and stick it all together and then find out that there's light has got in somewhere and it's yeah it's not working how you want to so just do these couple of extra bits and I think it's going to yeah guarantee that it will work this is really scrap paper if you're wondering why it's all creased because I thought I'm not going to just cut into a brand new piece so I just yeah I've got it out of my bin but once the glue's down it all flattens out and you will never know because you're not going to see it anyway so I'm just going to stick these two again these are the same measurement as my front piece so four and seven eighths of an inch by six and seven eighths of an inch probably should have stuck this one in before I punched that hole but it's fine I can just go over it okay so then I'm just going to go back over just punch that back out again okay right so now we're ready to stick this down so I want to line it up yeah so take the backing off I'm going to hold this down it doesn't matter if it's not straight inside but you want to make sure that that stays right there like so perfect so you can see mine's crooked there it doesn't matter that's another one that I've done so now if I again you feel your little wherever that is it's always to the right hand side or well when it's upright you see it's off to the right hand side so you'll just need to remember which way you put it in but if you feel around you'll find it straight away and the other thing with this is don't think it's easy for someone to record over because that would have to have constant pressure on it like so and now it's recording again because you imagine something squashing it so are these going to travel well in the post yes as long as you put them in another box you don't want them to get squashed so let go got to have those two beeps and then you know you've got the recording done and then obviously we need to close and cover that because it's light reactive so it's not been kind of closed off yet until we put the lid on but you'll hear that again in a moment but you see what I mean you can feel it so don't worry if you think you're not going to because you will then with this these bits here because this is a quarter inch height on the sides I've just put two pieces of thumb foam together in a color that's kind of going to coordinate with the card so I'm going to have those pieces there and then I want to have one piece right along the top so I'm going to just stick these together I'm just going to grab my red tape okay so I've just prepped all my pieces and I've cut some of them down because I need to put a strip along here obviously it's quite a small area now these are it depends what depth you want them but they're all four and seven eighths just slightly shorter again of that five by seven width I took me a while to get that backing off there so this one so you want to make sure it just lines up with the black that you've already laid down and it's just going to help keep out any light that might kind of get in there before so that's that one there and then I'm going to pop this one down and always make sure you get your two score lines on the left hand side this one I'm going to pop just a little bit up from the bottom because you don't want it to be you know really noticeable and then I've got those I'm just going to pop in there and this is just a obviously help block out any light but also to give the card support because you don't want it to cave in and kind of dip because obviously yeah it needs that support because it's got that piece there so again I'm just going to edit this all out because I'm struggling I can't find my pokey tool anywhere I could put another bit there if I want to but I think it's going to be okay so again I think I had I use this thing here and then you just want to take all of the backing off oh my god that was a fight to get that off anyway we're there now I'm just going to re-burnish that one a bit so now you want to fold everything over make sure you keep everything nice and straight which it should anyway just stick that down okay so I can see that's all secure like so okay so next we want to add on our front so I'm going to use I'm going to use the red tape here so you just want to turn it over and you're just going to add tape along the outer quarter inch piece okay because you've got two you're just putting it on you can see there because I turned it over it went dark because obviously it was covered so it really they work really well but as soon as you stop that light it will um yeah it would turn off so now I'm just going to take the backing off of this piece there you go I've just got rid of that sound because otherwise it's just going to keep going off so now I'm just going to stick this on the outer piece like so and again just make sure that's all nice and secure and then all on this inside piece I'm going to add my wet glue so you just want to add the glue over the first score line well actually because you do want to stick that it's up to you whether you want to stick this against this piece here you can leave it I'm going to just leave it just to show you how it looks then you can decide if you want to stick it down so if you want to stick both down you just want to add glue now to everything even the inner quarter inch piece okay but if I just stick this right over so now it's going to conceal that little kind of hinge okay so I've just done a quick test record on it because before it had nothing on it because I was doing the tutorial and it was annoying me so I went over it so now I'm just resetting it by making sure it's dark and then okay I recorded that quite far away so the closer you are obviously the louder it will be you obviously have got the speaker in there if you did want to you could cut a hole on the back for the speaker it's up to you I mean this one here I done hang on no did I do this one no I haven't if I do happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday blah blah blah blah okay I've done this so many times okay so when you're closer so I took that off camera because I had it right up to my mouth it's nice and loud okay so that is the card done but like I said I am going to add glue along that bit because if you don't it just that ends up kind of poking out and it stops your hinge kind of where it just catches so I'm just going to run just a thin bead of glue down here so this tutorial is really just about getting this voice recorder working you know and yeah making a nice card with it so this is a basic card because I think first of all do it on something like this get used to it and then you know we can start using on some other things so yeah I've got lots of nice ideas for this one okay so that's all stuck down better now so then I'm going to decorate the front so I've got this piece here which is four and seven eighths by six and seven eighths and this is four and three quarters by six and three quarters so I'm just going to mat and layer over the top I bring this one over you can see what I've done there so I've used all of the secret garden well not all of it but a lot of the accessories I'm going to pretty much follow that same pattern so I'm going to stick these mats and layers down and then I'm just going to speed up the video and yeah show you when it's all finished okay so I've decorated my card so there it is all finished I love it and I love the holographic card stop just poking through there just add some sparkle finished off with some little gems the only difference is I didn't add the bunting on this one I thought I'd leave it off but now when you open it up so that was just a quick test there but um there was a little bit of crackling at the beginning of that one as well but like I said you can rewrite over them at the minute I've probably rewrote over quite a few of these a few times so I'm hoping that there isn't a kind of limit on that but I know it did say that it will play for up to a thousand times so yeah that's probably included in all the replays I guess and sorry overriding it you know rewriting over it so yeah and there's that one so I don't know whether there's that one might be a slight dud because um I didn't record I guess particularly close on that but it's not as clear as this one so and I've got another one which I'd already done and given to somebody and that one was perfect so yeah they've probably all been made in China I can't guarantee that every single one is going to be perfect so I'm putting it out there now this is all new to me but um yeah let me know what you think let me know if you've done this yourself maybe you've purchased some and you can recommend some other sites and stuff but they're the only ones that I found at the moment so uh yeah let me know pop anything in the comment boxes below so yeah that's it from me like I said the box for this is on the concertina garden card and that would have been linked in up here somewhere so just go to that it's you want to go in at 16 no sorry 13 minutes and 42 again I'll put a little um box up here just telling you that I will do some box tutorials separately so it's easy then for me to just tell you to revert to that tutorial rather than go into another one so that is on my list of things to do but until next time I hope you've enjoyed it give me a thumbs up if you have and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye


Airstrikes in the former Yugoslavia, after peace talks, meant to restore order in Kosovo failed. These strikes came after a humanitarian crisis followed many years of fighting between ethnic Albanians and Serbs for control of that region. I'm joined today by DAV member and Army veteran, Adam Greathouse, who deployed to Kosovo in 2001 to assist with the NATO peacekeeping mission that happened after the NATO's airstrikes ended. Even though his role was as a part of a peacekeeping force, he nearly died in Kosovo. And his recovery hasn't been easy. He's walked down some dark paths. However, his story is ultimately a story of hope. He eventually found DAV and a community of veterans he now serves alongside. He now uses his experiences to help other veterans. So Adam, thank you so much for joining me today and thank you for being willing to share your story. Thank you for having me. Just to start off, can you tell us a little bit about yourself and why you decided to join the Army? Yes, I'm a United States Army retired, medically retired. And one of the reasons I really joined the military, I wanted at one point in time in my life, my children's life, if someone asked and I wasn't around, I wanted them to stand tall and be proud and say, my dad was a soldier. So that was one of the main things that kind of pushed me. I'm from the small town, so I wanted to really look up to me. So I joined and I ended up with the Sigma Corps. That was my MOS. And I was stationed at Fort Steward, Georgia, Third Infantry Division. I was really ecstatic about that and it went from there. Okay. So, and this is right around 1999 and everything that's happening in Kosovo and the surrounding region had been coming to a boiling point for years. NATO's involvement with the airstrikes, to my understanding, had ended shortly before you joined the Army. So what do you remember from them? Was Kosovo even on your mind when you decided to join? I remember hearing a little about it here and there at the beginning. And then one of the main things was, I just wanted to join, period. Again, for the freedom and the peace that we not only keep in our land, up before and as well, I know what I signed up for. So hearing about it here and there, I didn't really have it on my mind, but where I was stationed at, and then the buzz and the news going around, hey, this is coming up. Prepped myself a little bit more. My leadership explained exactly why we were being deployed. And again, I was really ecstatic about that because that's exactly what I signed up for. We were so lucky. Some of us take for granted and I don't understand the definition of freedom when you're deployed, especially for a country and you go to Kosovo. And you can be part of keeping the peace and the freedom there. That's way bigger than you can even be part of, I feel. And when you were saying you're going over there, you're in the signal corps at that time. What were you like trained to do? What was your role when you got in country as a peacekeeping, as part of as a peacekeeping force? For my role, for the Third Infantry Division, we was one for one field artillery and I was with headquarter support. So my job was to do retrans at the moment. So we was going out doing certain missions through the villages and going to the ridghtops and we'd set up our retrans antennas. What we would do is do the communications. We'd retrans communications from like the British and Swedish, Ford observers, what have you through us down to the American Command Post. So communication is very crucial in any mission. So that's why you have to take it very serious. There are all details upon the mission prior and exactly what you need to do. And that was what I was taking part in at the moment. I went on a few different missions there and it was one of my last ones that I didn't know was gonna be my last one but through there when we traveled, I could see some of the destruction from the airstrikes. I mean, it was just, some of the structure was so massive that it just couldn't be cleaned up in time. So they're still functioning as best they could as a society amongst the rubble. And I've seen it firsthand and seeing that again, it made me really proud to be there and be part of something that would relinquish that and there wouldn't be any more of the hostile environment. And we're gonna get to your personal story here just in a second, but just to follow up on that. This is two years after the airstrikes, but I mean, this is also following many, many years of just civil unrest and humanitarian crisis when you're seeing them. But what were your impressions, just of the people and of Kosovo itself? I mean, as you're going out into these villages and these towns and doing your mission. Being on my first deployment as well, you hear horse tours no matter from left from some of the other guys that are seasoned.  Driving through in our convoy to the missions, absolutely the children absolutely, they'd stand there. Some would salute, some would wave. They were just so excited to see us all the way up into teenagers. I mean, like it was, it was really, that was really awesome to see that they were really encouraged, encouraged by further security by seeing our presence there. And it depends on where you went through. You can tell friendly from not, you knew exactly who appreciated us, our presence. Well, transitioning to your story, can you just talk a little bit, how were you injured? Where were you and what happened? Well, the best way I can kind of figure out cause it's still kind of been there.   It shut down my organs to have an enlarged heart. I quit breathing so long later on. I found this out that, you know, I have a brain injury. So don't have a TBI from a blast. It's from a Noxic brain injury from lack of oxygen. So all this took place. Everything was going great until my last mission. I came off that and it was a pretty long one. And it was just me and another American soldier hook linked up to two other UN military forces. And when I came back, that's just started felt like the next day that I had the flu kind of, I guess if you could say, I've never been that sick. And then that evening I ended up being in a mass tent. And then I remember that morning they rushed me out and said that we need to get him out of here. And they ended up going to the airport. And from that point, I had a colonel checking on me. We landed. I ended up at Launstool, Germany. And I remember, tell me, you know, you need to come back from 10. I had a mask on and I remember like seven. And then I remember waking up and hearing voices that wasn't really like English and what we'll say. And I was in Germany. So I was in Aachen, Germany University Hospital for like, I was in a coma for two months and then woke up there about 110, 115 pounds. And I was 215 pounds prior to this. I would call it going to sleep. And I woke up in that condition and I had muscle atrophy so I couldn't move. I had dropped feet and my hands were drawn. And just I had a lot of stuff kind of going on with that situation. And then from that point on, it was a mental health issue, I feel with not on top of the physical cause I remember the nurse saying, you know, you're very ill, you was very ill. So he explained about the burn and when I woke up, I had staples on my left side all the way around to like my spine where they moved my left lung there. And then I had scar tissue on my right. And she's trying to explain all this and I'm not retaining it until later. But yeah, that was a, I woke up and everyone says it, but like I was Rambo, you know, and I was bull proof 10 foot tall. And then here I am, I woke up and I can't move. And, you know, so that was a huge blow at first, but I needed to get better. So I'm just laying there looking at the wind and it kind of went to like, you know, I'm not going, I'm not going home. And then I failed my country and I failed my unit and I failed my family. So I was my own worst enemy, which we all are with certain issues. And so I almost gave up. I just didn't want to take my last breath in Germany. So I fought hard enough as much as I could to I could get able to be flown back and they pushed it, but they flew me back as early as possible. And I woke up and let me see how I was working at Water Read. And when I was in Water Read, I was there for a while with the physical therapy and that kind of the rehab and stuff. And I was there for a while and then realized when the, it was the case managers came in and thank God for them. At the moment with the brain injury, I didn't really understand cause, you know, I need to get better cause I have a PT test coming up. I'm getting ready to make my sergeant. That's all in my head. I'm not thinking of anything else. And they, they reached down and ripped my heart out right there in the bed when they told me, you know, we need you to listen to this and understand this and sign this. You're medically retired. These are your benefits. This and that. And from that point on I put earmuffs on and I didn't understand anything from that point on. I went at that moment, I was pretty cracked and I just climbed up.   So once you were, you left Walter Reed, went back home, like what happened? Like what made, what was life like? And then I guess what changed? Life, when I got back, I know even if you come out just as a service member to veteran and your transitioning is super hard. That's why we have, you know, our DAV advocating for stuff like that transition programs and stuff. Unfortunately, I didn't know about that. I felt it a cracks, as they would say in the VA, told me myself, it was about 10 years before I received any physical help, any mental help, any physical therapy, physical, what have you help at all, and didn't even know about a VA. So 30 seconds of what I've just told you of any part of this story, I would have self-medicated heavily until I forgot it.   And that's what I did.  My mother's helping raise my children making and that made me feel even worse. I was a burden and I'm a failure.  I tried to live on my own. I couldn't, I'd pay the bills when they'd show up for the check and didn't even know if I had it. And then I came homeless and I lived in a little Chevy S10, I'm at a dam or CalCert to every once in a while. And then I sucked up my pride and all I had left and moved back in with my parents and then I just didn't like how I sit and I contemplated so many times, but whatever I do, I give 150%. So, I contemplated really hard and it took a long time to say this, but you know, I was going to commit suicide because words have power and people need to hear that word. And if you know me and you see me, you know, I'm just, I feel like I have an aura and I just glow and I'm just full life and I'm experiencing life to the fullest now. And it wasn't that at that then. And I know what that dark spot's like.   And then one day, I got a call from a TBI unit from out of the Herschel Woody Williams VAMC. I'll never forget that phone call. Hey, I need you to come and see a REC therapist. See a REC therapist. I heard the word therapist and I said no. But the thing is that lady built so much trust with me, I drove two and a half hours because she asked me to meet him. And I met him and from that point on, I looked at him once. I was only rude one time to anybody at the VA, it was him. I said, you know, when it's don't work, don't ask me again. And he said, great, I need you to sign this paper, we're gonna do this. So I ended up going to the winter sports clinic in 2012. And I was on very thin dental floss hanging on to life. My plan was to go there, prove to everybody that it don't work, my mom, myself, everyone who root me on. And then I could be justified on taking my life. And then I went there and the big man had different plans cause I've seen exactly what that DAV, the VA together and how that's set up and what their mission is and the miracles on the mountain side. That had not been disrespectful as a complete understatement, it is in that place. It changed my life. I got off that plane, you know, I just, I didn't know where I was at. I didn't know, I knew I wanted to hurry up and go home and commit suicide and be done with this. But I gave it a week and that changed my life. And I felt, I had an epiphany I feel. I feel I felt at that moment, like this whole injury was a blessing in the skies. I'm really proud to say that, you know, I almost gave my life for the freedom and the peace in Kosovo as a United States Army soldier. And to make me who I am today to go through that hard dark road and find DAV and that Winter Sports Clinic, man, because then I found my purpose in life and it fell right in my lap. And now that's all I do is I wake up every single day. You know, I work on myself every single day but what makes, I smile, I feel it. I wake up and put my feet on the ground. I'm ready. I'm ready to start looking at emails and looking at notes. Here's a food pantry drive. We have a clothing drive for a homeless vendor to stand down. I mean, look at the people we can help. And it all started with, you know, the DAV, you know, believing in me and that's how come I continue my mission to give to the DAV. Well, Adam, I mean, this is just, I mean, first off, thank you for being so open and willing to share such, it's a difficult subject. Like you said, it's words that have to be talked about but it is hard and it's hard but to be at a place now where we see you, you're right. You do have an aura. When you walk into a room, we've spent time together. We've seen each other around and it's clear. It's evident that something changed. Something changed on that mountain. We're getting ready to go back. We're gonna bring out about 300 more service members out to the miracles on the mountain side here coming up on April 1st. It's gonna be great. I didn't understand until I witnessed the two but it is absolutely what you say. You hear that story. I don't wanna diminish yours at all but I mean, I think that's the great part about it. It's saving lives. But as we wrap up here, obviously DAV gave you that purpose like being involved, helping out like you're talking about these clothing drives and all these other volunteer opportunities. What would you say? As someone who I think can speak on this better than most like obviously you've come from a place where you thought it might have been the end and it was very real possibility. You came from coming back off the streets after having a career stripped away from you but you've walked through and you look at you now and doing great things for veterans. You're doing great things for, I mean, in a way you're still serving your country but what would you say as we wrap up here to other veterans who may be currently experiencing some of their own difficulties in their own lives? Well, I tell you what, I like to, I heard this phrase and I just love it because there's so many ways I could say, hey look, please trust me, the DAV has this, this, this, I can give them the flyers, I can give them paperwork but I've never heard it put this way and it's amazing. Dave Riley put it in the dark. It is very, very dark and then the lighthouse. You see that little beacon and it's a light, it's a very small but if you follow that, like that light equals the DAV and that's where our safety and that's where the harbor, if we follow it and we find it and that's where we get everything that our benefits were fighting for, that's our safety net, that's our brothers and sisters waiting with open arms and saying, hey, how can we help you?  Adam, so do you. Really, again, thank you so much for sharing your story. As we reflect on the 25 year anniversary of NATO's involvement with Kosovo, if anyone needs any help or more information about DAV, we, you can certainly message us on our social media platforms, you can also reach out to us at DAV.org.  So again, thank you for your time, Adam.


the tiger financial news network update good morning folks this is Steve Rhodes coming to you live from the shores of well very sunny and very pleasant and a lack of humidity del raid beach floor that's something that we don't see unfortunately humidity was dumped up to the north of us in Orlando Jacksonville that whole area they got just simply crushed out there uh so uh hey this is your 11 am update right now we've got us equity futures traded the upside you've got doubt futures up 30 points uh nasdaq futures up 17 s and b seven the russles up three points gold straight out of 1672 that's up four bucks silver straight out 1891 that's up 20 cents light sweet crude is basically flat at 81 14 a natural gas is basically flat as well at six dollars and 86 cents out there let's go take a look at our nine panel market update chart let's go look at our white background charts out here as opposed to the black ones you'll see all the td9 counts that are out here and they're going to see a plethora of them yes many's got both the td9 count and buy the d-point pattern its issue is resistance which is its oscillator and changeline it's also got a profile support level that has held the resistance series at 37 32 watch resistance turn the day watch support as well support for the daily time frame is out at 36 22 the nasdaq nq out here the same kind of pattern it's a yes day test and reject that red oscillator and changeline that's an ominous thing out there it's really a bearish condition price would need to overtake 11 465 to suggest that there's really some kind of legs to its bottom signals and a counter trend move otherwise expect lower price the doubt td9 count bottom as well by the d-point bottom again resistance here is going to be 29 754 support is going to be the bottom of its profile that's out of the 29 123 level high grade copper formed a td9 count bottom price is trading with inside its daily profile it's a bearish structured profile so resistance at 346 352 and then finally 355 you close about 355 then it's got its bullish legs back gold has got a nice roads meant to mitigate her bottom a nice td9 count your price can take out the bottom stay above the bottom of its daily profile 1670 40 that should get us up to the 1695 area above 1695 1742 it's possible that the low on Wednesday was the c-point of an a to b equal cd to the upside that should take silver to the 2102 level we don't have a confirmation of that but price is trading above its bearish structured daily profile so that is a likely outcome light sweet cruise got a td9 count bottom as does natural gas as does the 30 year treasuries folks stay tuned tomyo brian is up next with the morning market kickoff have a fantastic friday i'll look forward to sania 11 o'clock sharp on magical magnificent monday take care


Good afternoon Foundation staff, the level 4 researcher Theron Sherman, and today's broadcast is a brief view on one of the largest, most dangerous anomalies we know of. Item number SCP-5909 Classified Level 2-5909 Restricted Containment Class Pending Disruption Class Amida Special Containment Procedure The Foundation currently has no method of feasibly reaching and or containing SCP-5909. All efforts are to be reallocated to discrediting, confiscating, and or destroying any information or evidence regarding SCP-5909. The Astronomical Anomalies Department will continue to monitor SCP-5909. Description SCP-5909 is a crustacean measuring an estimated 2.1 light-years in length, located 7.5 light-years from the solar system. Aside from its size, SCP-5909 possesses features congruent with those found in the Alaskan pink shrimp, genus Pandalus Eus. SCP-5909 has shown no signs of life or movement, remaining in a fixed position since its discovery. SCP-5909 was originally discovered by astronomer Julian Martin at SALT-1 on May 20, 2020. The Foundation became aware of the discovery when Mr. Morton attempted to publish his findings. All evidence was confiscated and Mr. Morton was administered Class A amnestics. Update June 21, 2020 At 12 am Greenwich Mean Time, Foundation Telescope Anna-9 detected SCP-5909, moving at 120,000 km per second on a direct course for the solar system. The Foundation has reached out to contacts within the Global Occult Coalition in order to formulate a method of neutralizing SCP-5909. SCP-5909 Neutralization Proposal Summary Operations Shelfish In the situation that SCP-5909 continues on its current velocity and intersects to 6-2-2-5-p-6-7-8-2, neutralization has been authorized. Utilizing several anomalous items, the Foundation will transport GOC's ZX-6 Relativity Bomb directly above SCP-5909. Detonation of the ZX-6 will lead to the immediate erasure of Sector 6-2-2-5-p-6-7-8, effectively removing SCP-5909 from reality. 05 Command Approved High Command Approved Preparations are currently underway. Note, the threat posed by SCP-5909 is unparalleled. It is nearly 1.1 light-years larger than the solar system. It would be catastrophic if it is allowed to reach even 1 light-years distance from solar. The gravitational pull along would dismantle our solar system entirely, and at its current velocity, impact would instantly disintegrate through remains. If our response to this situation seems excessive, it is only because you do not fully grasp the threat posed by SCP-5909. Alabaster Cobb signed this, Director of Tactical Response, Astronomical Anomalies Department. Update, June 21, 2020. SCP-5909 abruptly ceased movement at 6am, Greenwich Mean Time. At 11.46am, Foundation Webcrawler GG-501 detected a total of 579 posts discussing SCP-5909 on the social media platform Twitter. The accounts used for these posts were owned by civilians in and around the city of Lockhart, Texas. The posts discussed the billboard featuring SCP-5909, along with a link to www.bigshrimp-endless-taste.com. Accessing this website leads to a live camera feed of SCP-5909. The following is a transcript of events taking place between 12pm and 12.05pm. The footage has been confirmed via two separate Foundation telescopes. Begin log! 12pm, SCP-5909 begins to move counterclockwise, exposing its underside to the camera. 12.01, the subject releases a brown cloud of unknown composition. SCP-5909 is coated in the brown substance. 12.02, subject continues to rotate. Steam begins to release from SCP-5909. 12.03, SCP-5909 is taken on a brownish-pink hue and is exposed its topmost carapace. A dark discoloration is visible on its shell. 12.04 to 12.05, the camera zooms in on the discoloration, revealing writing. If you'd like to enjoy real Endless Shrimp, come on down to Red Lobster for our Spring Steam Bake Endless Shrimp special. End log! The billboard was rented by Brant Seymour, now listed Person of Interest 5909-A, Manager of Lockhart's Red Lobster Restaurant, Red Lobster Corporate as well as their parent company, Darden, have refused to answer any questions regarding the billboard, Mr. Seymour, or 5909. A disinformation campaign is currently being formulated. Efforts to apprehend Mr. Seymour are underway. Look guys, I don't know what to tell you. I told you it was big and dangerous.  Alright staff, that ends our broadcast. Use your foundation encrypted YouTube account to like, comment, subscribe, hit the bell, and support our broadcast at patreon.com so I say 42.