What's up boys time for another tech consumerist video where I tell you what stuff to buy Well, well, okay.  What is it six seven eight years old something like that doesn't matter It works great think pad x2 20. I'm doing this video because I got a new accessory for it And it's an accessory that's actually a little bit expensive now I got this thing used for 90 bucks and the accessory which I'll go ahead and show you is this slice battery This came in a little above a hundred bucks So it's actually a little bit more expensive than the computer But I wanted to do a video on it just to I guess you know since I have a platform I might as well because other people might be interested in buying this thing now before I talk about the battery itself Well, I'll go ahead and tell you it's probably obvious what it's for it's for extending the battery life of your computer Now by default I want to say I have one of the nine cell batteries the ones that stick out Usually when you have think pads you could have the nine cells And I think the six cells that don't stick out and I got the nine cell because you know I wanted longer battery life and I actually like I actually like holding it back here It's probably dangerous or something, but you know, whatever Now the nine cell battery on Linux I want to say it gets maybe four to five hours of usage depending on what you're doing of course I mean, whatever you're doing is going to change drastically your the kind of time you have if you're doing something more intensive like rendering a video It's gonna run out of battery really quickly But you know, I'd say four to four to five hours is your typical nine cell battery battery life depending on what you're doing Now if you use think pads, you know that one mainstay of think pads are of course the ultra bases Now this is not the same thing as the slice battery. They just look nearly the same I'll go into the specifics of both of them in a second, but you know ultra bases. I've done videos on them They have extra USB plugs. They have, you know VGA cords HDMI or that's display port not HDMI and Most importantly for me, you can put in a Well, it comes with a DVD drive You can replace it with a caddy for hard drive and that's what I use this thing for and of course It's just also very convenient to keep this thing plugged up all the plugs, you know At your house and then you come home and put your think pad on top of it And it's a very nice and convenient. Now, you probably know about ultra bases I know a lot of people have them, but I don't know anyone before me who actually owns a slice battery One of the reasons I wanted to try it out But anyway, let's let's go ahead and look at well, okay Let me compare how they look first off now Obviously, both of these are gonna add some Thickness to your laptop, but you can see that there's a big difference So the one on top is the ultra base the one on the bottom is a slice battery So you'll see that the ultra base is considerably thicker now part of this thickness if I show you the whole thing You'll see that it actually rises at the end. I actually like this one thing I like about the ultra base is that when the laptop is on it I'll go ahead and put it on It actually sort of leans leans upward and that's very nice for when you're typing You know at a desk or something like that. I find that very convenient So I actually like this about the ultra base, but if you're taking the slice battery from place to place That might not necessarily be so convenient. So the slice battery is pretty much the same width all the way through Now anyway, so let's talk about what well, I should say one other thing I'll go ahead and say one thing I don't like about the slice battery and that I've used it so far You'll notice. Let me put back on the ultra base Now the ultra base to remove it. It's the easiest thing in the world You probably saw me just do it a second ago. There's this latch here. You just undo that latch take it off and that's it Well, really, I think you're supposed to press the button first first, but you know, I never do that Now the slice battery Here's the slice battery it goes on in the exact same way you really just put the computer on top of it But there is no latch on the side There's no simple release in fact the release on the slice battery is a little weird to undo it you have to flip it over basically and there is There's a little unlock mechanism and then there's a switch and this unlock mechanism It's not like it sticks in the unlock position So you really have to do this with like multiple fingers. Actually, it's hard to do with one hand I all pretty much always have to two-hand this but that's how you take the slice battery off Now that can be good and bad. Obviously, it's a lot more difficult than the ultra base to remove So that can be very inconvenient but the thing about this is When your computer is attached to this if it if it sort of comes off at an inopportune time your computer will in fact Think it has no battery and shut down So that's very unfortunate and I will say that is one thing that's happened to me with this slice battery a couple times There there have been a couple times when you know, I'm using this and maybe I pick it up funny Maybe I pick it up by the computer instead of by the slice battery and it just I guess it sort of disconnects for a second And it'll turn off so that's one downside to the slice battery But anyway, I'm saying all these bad things about it I should tell you what kind of things it actually gives you now as I said usually the think pad x220 with the 9-cell battery gets you around five or five hours at the most Something like that the slice battery now. I haven't timed it out all the way But all I estimate that the slice battery probably triples your battery length so you could pretty much take this thing Really to work or wherever where you're gone all day and expect it not to run out now The only time I've actually gone all now I've owned this thing for I well I it's a long story I ordered this thing a couple months ago, but I couldn't pick it up I had ordered it like to my dad's house accidentally and I never went there for months So I just picked this up a couple weeks ago from there But I had an opportunity to try this out where I was taking it on a bus from Atlanta to Chattanooga and That's that's a you know around a four-hour drive for a bus Which is about the length of this battery length But what I was doing during that period is I was doing really hardcore rendering really hardcore you know some compiling and a bunch of other stuff really rendering videos and stuff and That was extremely intensive and with the slice battery it actually lasted the entire time There's no way that would have happened without it But I would estimate you know in in real life the the battery probably triples your battery time now I don't want to even give you a Rigid estimation of how long that's going to be because frankly batteries could just be different your usage can be different depending on what Operating your system operating system You're running depending how intense it is that can change a lot So just I would say probably about three times your your typical length. That's what you're going to get with this thing Now as I said the downside I'm going to have to remove this thing Downside is taking it off um now one other thing Oh, jeez gotta actually think about this You can see how painful it is, but I guess it is partially for safety now You can plug this thing in and you can charge it at any time It does not have to be connected to the computer. So you can just keep this at home plugged in. There's a little uh Indicator thing here a little button you can press and it'll tell you how full the battery is Mine is that right about a hundred percent because I let this thing charge yesterday Now in terms of how useful this thing is um Well, okay. Well one thing related to that is as I mentioned before size Now I said the ultra base is a good bit thicker As you can see so if you are carrying these things in your backpack I'll note I'll just say that the slice battery although it adds some width It doesn't really add enough to really be noticed So the ultra base is a good bit heavier than this. I haven't weighed both of them But I'll say that the slice battery it barely adds anything. I I don't know this thing Couldn't be more than a pound or so. It's it's not really anything And it doesn't really I mean I kept this thing in my backpack And when I have my think pad with my ultra base in my backpack I can tell that the ultra base is on it's big enough, but this this thing isn't so Uh encumbering so I wouldn't necessarily worry about it So in terms of like how to use this thing or when you're going to use it Um, I guess the decision you have to put up with or grapple with is Do I want to take a charger or do I want to take this thing? Or do I want to take both and I'll say in My daily life. I don't really see myself using this very much now As I said, it's been useful to me because I took this on a bus And where I didn't really have consistent access to power they did have plugins, but they didn't really work very well So it was very nice to have this thing Or if you know, you're on a plane that doesn't have power outlets Or if you're somewhere else if you do work outside or something like that This can be very useful for this But in terms of daily life When I go out with my think pad, I think I'd rather just take the charger and plug it up while I'm somewhere else instead of using this Now that's not to say this thing is super useless or something. In fact, it's very convenient in that Uh, one thing you can do if you're even if you're just lounging around the house and doing random work from day to day one thing that you can do is keep this thing plugged up and Go around the different parts of the house to work on your laptop. That's often what I do And when it's almost running out of battery plug it up or something like that So I should tell you what actually happens when this thing is plugged up. Um now by default, so if I just put this thing on And let it run What it's going to do is it's going to run through the slice batteries battery power first So this thing is going to go from 100 to 0 Percent after that's done the only then is it going to use the laptops batteries So that that's sort of what you expect it to do It'd be really bad if it were the other way around like if you used the slice battery And although it kept running after a period it the you know, it runs out of the laptop battery In the same way if I were to plug this thing up right now and again You plug it up the slice battery Even though you put the ac adapter into the slice battery It's really going to be charging the laptop. Now once the laptop reaches 100 percent. It's fully charged Then it will start charging the slice battery And again, that's pretty much what you you'd want Because you don't really care and you care more about your laptop than your slice battery. So So that's basically how it works and now you could theoretically Plug in an ac adapter to both ports, but uh, well, there's actually a part Well, it's on so I can't show you but they tell you not to do that on the slice battery It's like no no on this so although I did it and nothing terrible happened But someone who knows more about electronics can probably tell me how terrible that was But either way this thing has been very helpful and uh recently I don't know now for my purposes. I certainly don't regret buying it because of course I also get to do a youtube video on it and a lot of people are going to learn about it because of that So that that's sort of worth it. If if it's worth is it worth actually $100 for an average user? I don't know. It depends on what kind of work style you're working with Um, I will say things that as I said, thanks that don't bother me It the size of it is not too intrusive. So if you're worried about that, I wouldn't fret it too much It's not going to be a big deal. Um, I I guess if you want to think about if you're going to buy this thing It's just an issue of um, am I actually going is it going to get me $100 worth of goodness out of it And that's the only thing you you should really consider. I guess I wouldn't worry about that much else My only gripes again are the difficulty of it. Oh, I yeah, I don't know if I mentioned before but aside from it being difficult to remove Every once in a while if you lift this thing up in a bad way, I might be able to replicate it Okay, maybe not. Um, but there have been a couple times where I try to lift the laptop up And not the slice battery and it will become disconnected for just the second and it'll go out Uh, that's one of the reasons it's so the slice battery is so difficult to remove. But anyway, um What was I saying? Yeah, so I think this thing it depends on your work style if this thing is actually worth it Maybe throwing a hundred bucks on it is not a big deal. I will say you can't get these things Both new and used. Um, my experience is that used batteries are pretty much always bad or Extremely depleted or they don't charge properly. So I bought this thing new. It's the only new think pad Uh accessory I've gotten in quite a while actually I actually just bought a new keyboard for this So that's one other thing But typically I don't get new products because they're usually not really worth the money But in the case of batteries, I always buy new ones and if you get one of these A new battery is going to put you back about a hundred bucks If you go on ebay, you can find Used ones for a good bit less, but I'm not going to vouch for any of those. I don't know how they're going to be I mean, they might be fine. They might be fine refurbish, but I'm just not going to vouch for them But anyway, so I hope this has been informative. Oh, well, you know what? I should add something else There are others. So this is the x2 20 this slice battery will work for the x2 20 and the x2 30 Other kinds of think pads have different slice batteries that are a little different Some more recent think pads will have a slice battery that only Fills up the back of it. So it's not like the full body They're only on the back side. That's like the more modern think pads I've never used one of those and another thing you can get I don't know what models this is for but you can get an ultra base where instead of having a cd drive a dvd drive or a Hard drive caddy, you can actually put in a kind of battery pack and that's another option for some thinkpads out there I don't know if that works for the x2 20 I think maybe the only thing the x2 20 has is this slice battery that I have But you might want to look it up yourself. It's just I don't have any direct experience with that kind of stuff But anyway, uh, hopefully this has been informative for those of you guys who might be interested in this If you have any other questions about it, feel free to put them in the comments section Anyway, well, see you guys. See you guys next time


The greatest of spiritual beings and rishis and masters and all, they all have their moments. Nobody is totally immune to it, but those moments, they don't shake the system. It happens, you might get irritated, but you won't get deeply angry or deeply depressed or deeply affected. So it's your decision first. Do I want these people around me to torture me like this? No. Will it help if I get rid of them? No, because somebody else will take their place. Why is all this happening? Because I'm not tuned in, because I'm not in touch with the truth of my being. If I'm in touch with the truth of my being, will this happen? No, in that moment it won't happen.


Hi everyone and welcome. This is Melissa Armel with The Stock Swoosh and today I wanted to talk to you about what is a gap. Again, I've discussed this before in many, many webinars, but just very basic definition of a gap is a gap is a difference between the close and the open. Everything in the US stock market closes at four o'clock Eastern time and everything opens at 9.30 a.m. the next day, again Eastern time. But after four o'clock, there's something called the post market. And before 9.30 in the morning, there's something called the pre-market. During that time in the post market and the pre-market, there are trains that occur and happen in stocks and the overall market ETFs. And when I say the market, I mean the spy, which is the ETF for the S&P, the diamonds, which is the ETF for the Dow and the QQQs. Another ETF and there are many other ETFs as well, but all of the stocks that you know of the companies that you're familiar with that you train, they can have trades go on in the post and pre-market. That is when the gap is actually being created. Now I personally do not trade that after hours. I never, never have. I've never had an interest in trading it, but I use that information to analyze and create a plan of action for the particular trading day that I'm going to trade. Am I going to go long a stock? Am I going to short a stock? I look at the gap itself after the gap occurs. So I'm not predicting the gap itself. I am seeing the gap, waiting for the gap to happen in whatever stock symbol I'm looking out of the market and then I will rate it. I rate it, use my 26 point rating system. If the gap rates 20 points or more, then I'll take it in the direction of the gap. So again, there are bullish gaps and there are bearish gaps. Why? Because a stock can close at one price and open at a lower price, which would be a bearish gap, or a stock can close at one price and open at a higher price, which would be what? It would be a bullish gap.  If it would be that easy to train, no one would ever lose any money in the market. So it is about analyzing and pinpointing and really being detailed, which is something that I'm very good at doing in reference to trading. So I'm very, very detailed by looking at 26 things on a daily chart to determine if I want to do that stock at all and if I do how I want to play it. So if you'd like to learn more information about gaps, I am a gap expert. That is how I'm able to predict so well with such a high degree of accuracy where something's going to go after the gap. I teach my method in a class once a month. It is called the golden gap course. The next class is January 29th and 30th. If you'd like more information, email me and Melissa at thestockswish.com. Have a great day everyone.


Hello everyone, good afternoon. I'm Urs Kassir, I'm with the Berkman Center and I have the great pleasure to welcome you to Harvard Law School. On behalf of the Berkman team, as well as of course the Hewlett Foundation, it's a real pleasure to have you here. If my information is correct, what is the eight OER grantees meeting? And it's fantastic really after such a long planning process to finally come together. Actually Barbara and Kathy, we meet for the first time face to face, had many conference calls, so this is very exciting. And of course we're especially grateful for those of you who have traveled from afar. Actually about the fourth of the participants are coming from outside the US, including myself being European, and I'm really grateful that you have taken the time to join us here today for what I believe will be a fantastic conference with really wonderful peer contribution. So I'm looking forward to that. I will be very brief in my remarks. I will talk a little bit more tomorrow, serve as your emcee throughout the day. Today we have a very compressed timeline, lots of things to cover, to warm up actually and set the stage for tomorrow. So what I would like to do is just to say a few words about the arc of the program, the goals of the meeting and walk you through the structure of the agenda very briefly so that you get an idea what we're up to over the next three days. So as you can take from the invitation as well as from the program, and I hope everyone got this booklet here, we actually printed it in this format because it's less likely that we lose it if it's smaller than we lose it. So hopefully we'll have this version each of us at the end of the conference still. The goal of this meeting obviously is to focus on the ways we could work together within this room but also beyond to increase the impact of open resources on education. So the focus of the meeting is on education, building upon last year's conference of course, but really trying to address the strategic challenge, how can we team up, how can we collaborate to leverage our impact together of existing as well as future educational resources including of course content and tools and platforms as well as policies. The goal of the conference, and we summarized it also in the booklet here, is to work towards an actionable roadmap. So ideally on Friday or Thursday evening for sure we would have identified some implementable interventions that we could work on together to make OER even more powerful across different educational contexts, both of course within classroom settings but also in informal learning context. So that's the goal. Let's see, let's be ambitious and work hard towards that goal to have an actionable roadmap. Short-term interventions may actually even be addressed on the hack day on Friday. I hope you've all read what we're proposing for Friday. So that's the first opportunity to make concrete next steps but then of course there are also mid-term and longer-term interventions that require collaboration over time. So with that just a brief overview of the agenda. If you look at page 18 and 19 you will find the agenda at the glance. That's kind of a helpful starting point. We start right now after my remarks with an opening exercise in two parts. First Colin McClay our managing director and Rob Farris our research director will play navigation aids through a heat map that is based on your pre-conference submissions of ideas how we could increase the impact of open resources on education. We'll then have our Dean coming in at roughly 4.45 for a few welcoming remarks and after that we will hear from our colleagues and friends from Hewlett Foundation about their thinking of how the overall OER strategy looks like how to prioritize some of the issues that may hopefully be included also in the heat map that we are going to hear about in a moment. Of course special thanks to Barbara, Katie and also Vick for making all of this possible to start with. So this for sure is an applause. We'll then have cluster meetings more on that later and finally for today a dinner together where we will also introduce the Birken Center a little bit more. Of course one of the goals also of the event is to bring together different communities the OER community many of you being of course part of that and bring it together with the Birken network with the Birken community. There is significant overlap but it's also in some respects complementary so this will be great and we have many more guests also joining in and hopefully the dinner will give a first opportunity to kind of mingle and get to know each other a little bit. Tomorrow morning we'll start with segment one which is a stage setter essentially looking at the current state of play open resources in education what are trends what are perspectives from a conceptual perspective. We'll start with a keynote session and then switch to moderated roundtable discussions addressing this question of impact on education from three distinct but also partly overlapping perspectives as you can see from the program here as essentially really an opportunity to reflect on what are the experiences what do we know but also where are potential gaps and where is need for action again from a broad conceptual angle when we talk about open resources in education and try to increase impact. Segment two then is complementary to that is essentially a deep dive from a practical perspective where we hope to learn from all of you about the projects you have been working on the work you're doing in the field. The idea is here of course to identify possible areas of collaboration but also to identify powerful narratives that we all can share and use while we work towards a roadmap for OER so I'm very much looking forward to the second segment. This will be a mix between feature projects obviously we cannot do justice to all the great work you've been doing so we selected a few projects to highlight them but then have kind of more of a breakfast bazaar where we can walk around and connect with each other and learn from each other in an informal mode on Thursday morning actually. So segment three then is the synthesis of the more conceptual view and the practical perspective where we really try to synthesize the experiences and translate it into an actual roadmap and framework focusing on some of the pillars that at least the Hewlett Foundation has put forward as a very helpful framework how to think about our work in the space. So that's roughly the game plan. We'll have many opportunities also with in the program for smaller group conversation for breakouts. More on that later I just want to give you a very high level overview of the agenda there's much more to be said of course but I think for the moment the most important thing again is that you feel welcome here we are just absolutely thrilled to have you here. It's a team of Berkman people here we all wear these kind of things here that you can identify us easily if there are questions there is an information desk throughout the day tomorrow as well whenever you have questions please approach any of us from team Berkman we are here to make this as a great stay as possible for all of you. So with that thank you again and let me turn our to my friends Colin and Rob and I'm really interested in this heat map thing and I assume many others in the room too what is a heat map right we'll see thanks.


Distance is an amount of space between two things or people. Makoto Shinkai stated in an interview that he wants to achieve emotionally what Mizaki did for lots of people, including himself. The emotion that Makoto Shinkai effectively engineers is love. He displays many different forms of love in many different settings. Whether it's the realistic portrayal of love or a magnificent fantasy, Shinkai is always able to see the heart of his viewers while they're lifefully playing with our own hearts in the process. His goals seem to be to ensure that people gain a deeper understanding of what love is and what it represents. Just how Mizaki instills wonder and hope in his own films. Shinkai is an anime director, mostly known for the number one grossing anime movie of all time which he produced, Your Name, or Kimi no Nao. Shinkai has other great movies as well, such as Garden of Words, 5 centimeters per second, The Place Promised in Our Early Days, and his short solo film, Voices of a Distant Star. Shinkai is mostly known for his breathtaking animation in which he incorporates beautiful scenery, backdrops, and the way he perfectly recreates certain known areas in Japan. Shinkai is also known for his sometimes heartbreaking or heartwarming love stories. And one of his most popular themes that reoccurs in all of his movies is the theme of a distant love. In Shinkai's films, distance doesn't always pertain to physical distance, but other kinds of distance as well. Shinkai uses his theme of distance as an antagonist to the love that his protagonists are attempting to achieve. He uses distance to further explain the strife and the constant struggle that love is. Shinkai uses his separation to ground or to further elevate the fantastical ideas in his films. First, let's look at Your Name, or Kimi no Nao. Taki Tachibana and Mitsuha Miyamizu are the main characters whose lives are intertwined by the fact that they can switch bodies from time to time. Taki lives in Tokyo, whereas Mitsuha lives in the small, calm town of Itomori. Taki and Mitsuha enter a citywide search for each other, and they remain emotionally connected throughout the entirety of the film, even as they grow in age. Though they forget each other's names, the memories and feelings for each other are never forgotten. Your name encapsulates two types of distance, physical and a temporal distance. The first being physical distance. Mitsuha and Taki are often separated by where they live, Tokyo and Itomori, but they are also separated by time, which we will call temporal distance. Mitsuha and Taki both occupy different temporal planes during the movie, with Taki sometimes being three years ahead of Mitsuha before Kataware Doki happens. Your name's distance is used to show a connection between two people in spirit and in mind, as well as in life and in death. Next, Garden of Words. Garden of Words follows Takawa Kizuki, a high school student who skips class on rainy days and has dreams to be a shoemaker. And Yukari Yukino, a high school teacher who skips work and is having trouble overcoming her fears. As shown, the distance between the two characters is in their age, and this we can call the generational distance. Takawa is 15 years old and Yukino is 27. Now, as for the love, the way in which I interpreted it is this way. Takawa and Yukino weren't involved in romantic love, but a platonic love. The ancient Greeks used filia as the form of love. It is defined as the type of love that has felt among friends who've endured tough times together. In my interpretation, Yukino and Takawa weren't in love, but both of them needed someone to fill a certain role that the other did not have in their life. Akizuki needed someone to encourage his dreams and someone to help guide him in the right direction. And Yukino needed someone to help her walk again, someone to help her life regain meaning, and that person ended up helping her regain her taste as well. They were each other's guiding light and emotional conduit, which is why the two shared a meaningful moment of embrace at the end of the film. Now, I do believe that Takawa loved her at the moment that he stated it himself, and she reciprocated the same feelings, but Yukino repressed her own feelings out of her understanding society's norms and her being realistic, especially since she was moving away. I believe the two later understood the type of love that they felt for each other, and later understood the situation that they were both in, which is desperation. Garden of Words' distance is present to tell us that the emotional comfort that we need doesn't have any boundaries. And third, five centimeters per second. This is a film split into three episodes, and it takes a more realistic view on distance to love, while focusing on Takaki Tono and Akari Shunohara as they struggle to maintain their relationship due to distance. This movie falls into the category of spatial distance. From the title, five centimeters per second, we are immediately told how slowly we drift from one another. We are shown in the very first scene of the first episode that this cherry blossom tree that we see is the constant in their relationship, as a place where they always reunite, but also as a metaphor. As Akari explains to Takaki that cherry blossoms fall at the speed of five centimeters per second. In the first episode, we watched Takaki and Akari who live far from each other, but they still visit one another once in a while, and they constantly write letters to each other. In the second episode, Takaki and Akari have drifted away from each other. As Takaki now only dreams of Akari and sends emails to himself of the things that he should be telling Akari. And in the final episode, we truly see the effect that distance has on people. There's too much time and emotion lost between the two characters. Akari is now getting married to another man, and Takaki still holds that dream of being Akari so much that he dreams of seeing her by the cherry blossom tree. We can identify this as emotional distance, as the two character sentiments are just not aligned with each other. We understand that Takaki and Akari have slowly moved away from each other, emotionally and physically, at the speed of five centimeters per second. To continue, we look at the place promised in our early days. This movie takes a fantastical approach to love. It takes place mostly from the perspective of teen genius Hiroki Fujisawa, alongside his best friend and fellow genius Takuya Shirakawa, and Hiroki's future love interest, Sayuri Sawatari. The movie focuses on a promise made when the three were younger, which is that they will go and fly to the Union Tower, which is a galloping tower that pierces even the clouds. After Sayuri disappears for three years, it is revealed that she's been in a coma, and that her mind now occupies an alternate universe, one where she's completely alone. This is spatial distance. Over the three years, Hiroki and Takuya have drifted from each other, after the two took different paths due to the grief that they felt after Sayuri's disappearance. It is revealed that over the three years, Hiroki has been dreaming of Sayuri constantly, and he's been trying to find her, whereas Takuya has been focused on his work. And it is off of the simple longing that Hiroki and Sayuri have had for each other over the three years, and their love continue to grow and grow. And it is this longing that causes Hiroki and Takuya to reunite and to finally save Sayuri, though wiping Sayuri's memories of Hiroki during those three years. We identify this as spatial distance. As Hiroki and Sayuri were separated by universes, the place promised in our early days' distance is utilized to explain the importance of a promise. Fifth, children who chase lost voices. This Shinkai film looks at a young Asuna, who is the main protagonist, and her journey to revive the dead. Her and Mr. Morisaki both have people that they've lost. Asuna has lost Shun, a boy from the land of Agartha, and Mr. Morisaki has lost his wife. The two of them end up traveling to Agartha, a place where it is possible to revive the dead. But such a process is forbidden. Now this falls under spatial distance, as Asuna and Shun are separated by the realm of the living and the realm of the dead. Their tumultuous journey teaches them about the cycle of life and how precious, but also how short that life is. Children who chase lost voices' distance is used to explain the greatest distance of them all, life and death. And finally, voices of a distant star. The oldest of the aforementioned movies trails Mikako on her journey through space as she constantly emails her love in Noboru. As Mikako moves through space, the time it takes to deliver her emails get longer and longer, ranging from a couple days to several months, a year and a half, and finally, eight years. In 24 minutes, this movie is able to depict persistence and patience. After the eight years have passed, Noboru states that he's given up on their love. But as soon as he receives that email from a 15-year-old Mikako, telling him that she loves him, Noboru's patience becomes revitalized and his love for her is stronger than ever. This is spatial and temporal distance as Mikako is several light years away, and her messages are eight years behind. And lastly, voices of a distant star's distance is employed to show us the sheer might of love. Every single shinkai work has distance and love as this common theme, but each movie teaches us something different about it. Children who chase lost voices teaches us that some things are better left alone and that some distance is meant to be intempered with. The place promised in our early days is melancholic tone and instructs us that sometimes even giving a simple thought and having perseverance can maintain a dream or a promise. Five centimeters per second's conclusion grounds us and it brings us back into reality. It lets us know that sometimes distance isn't just an obstacle, but a wall, viewing our path to somewhere, some thing, or even someone else, and that life must go on. The garden of words instills the idea of love having no boundaries and that friendship has no distinctions. It also teaches us that it's okay to need other people. Voices of a distant star in your name teaches that separation or even time and space are no match for the kind of love that is decided by fate, a pure love. At the end of the day, distance is simply an interval, a space and an obstacle that can be overcome, but sometimes it isn't meant to be. And love, well, everyone needs love because love is putting another person before yourself. Love teaches us to be selfless, whether it's romantic, friendly, or apparent to their child. Everyone needs it. Makoto Shinkai understands this and he bases his movies off of this premise. Shinkai's plots aren't exquisite or extremely complex, but he doesn't need them to be.  Makoto Shinkai expresses his understanding of emotion by being an astounding storyteller of love at a distance of course.


I still don't like it, but I understand it. Yeah, this feels like a dream. So you two team keep it clean. What's going on? It's Aang Raven here with another video. And in this video, we are here to review the Sean Wade trade to the New England Patriots. As you all know from my first thoughts on it, from my initial reaction to it, I did not like it. I did not like it at all. I still don't like it. But like I said, I do understand it. I understand why. And what we're here to talk about today is the positives from this trades for both sides, for the Ravens, for Sean Wade, for the Patriots, and for everybody involved. Before we get into this, I got to say I appreciate y'all and I appreciate you all's respect. In the video, we talked about a lot of reasons why we didn't like this trade. And but the fact that so many of y'all came through in the comment section, probably about like 99% of y'all came through and y'all shared your opinion on how you felt about the trade, whether you liked it or whether you didn't like it, but you shared your opinion respectfully. Like I always say, like we always talk about, no matter how we feel about whatever it may be, whether we're all on the same page about something, or we're not on the same page about something, the only thing, literally the only thing I care about is that we show each other respect. That's it. Nothing else matters. Doesn't matter if we like stuff together, doesn't matter if we dislike stuff together, doesn't matter if we agree or not. Like I said, respect at the end of the day. That's all I care about. I respect y'all, I appreciate y'all and I love y'all. So thank you for that. Real quick, shout out to all the Team Keep It Clean Patrons. Appreciate y'all. Thank you for showing extra support to the channel. Like I always say, if you want to become a Team Keep It Clean Patron, you can go to patreon.com slash engraving vids. But if not, then don't go to patreon.com slash engraving vids. I love y'all. Now, Sean Wei, let's first let's talk about the compensation. The Ravens received a seventh round pick in 2022 and they get a fifth round pick in 2023. So they get two additional draft picks over the next two years. Again, one a seventh round pick and then a fifth round pick. So that's not bad. That's not bad. You get more ammo to make some moves within what not over the next couple of years. Cool. One of the positives on this is that I've seen a lot of people saying that Sean Wade, he probably was not going to make the 53 man roster. And not only that, but he also, he wouldn't have cleared waivers. He would not have cleared waivers. Because, and I remember, I remember when we drafted Sean Wade and I remember so many people being so happy and so excited, like, oh man, this guy is a steal. This guy, the previous year, not this last year, but the previous year, he was rated as one of the top cornerbacks in college football and whatnot. I know last year he had sort of an off year, but just knowing his potential and the Ravens actually getting this guy in the fifth round, it was like, wow, I can't believe it, but I love it. And I'm with it. And the way that I viewed this move, I was like, oh yeah, this is definitely a move for the future. For sure, it's for the future. And I love that. And I was excited about that. And of course, y'all know we had the interview with his father. His father dropped a lot of knowledge on us in that interview, a lot of knowledge about Sean Wade, a lot of knowledge about his game, things that he was going through last season and the season where a lot of people feel like he struggled, he let us know about all of that stuff. And that was, shout out to Sean Wade's father, Randy. But now he's gone. Now he's going to New England. And a guy that the Ravens had just picked up this year is gone. Now, my biggest thing, why I did not like it, like I said, every single year, we know as Ravens fans that the secondary, they get tested by health. The depth gets tested every single year because of health. It's a long season, even when it was 16 games, but now it's a 17 game season. So it's even longer. And NFL is a very physical game, as we all know. And the cornerback position, it takes a lot. Now I know that, cause of course, yes Ravens have a lot of depth at corner right now. They do, and I love that. And I appreciate that about the Ravens. Stay ready so you ain't gotta get ready. Again, Marlon Humphrey, Marcus Peters, Jimmy Smith, Tavon Young, Anthony Avent, Chris Westry, Nigel Warrior, Brandon Stevens, Ardarius, Washington, yes. Some of those guys are safeties too now, but those are all guys who Ravens can have play some cornerback, whether it be inside corner, outside corner, the depth is great right now. And yes, I understand that Sean Wade, he was behind most, if not all of those guys. So this is why I say I understand the trade. I understand it. I still didn't like it, but I understand the why. Now, another big positive about this trade is for Sean Wade. One of those things, one of the biggest positives about it is that he's going to the New England Patriots. Now I've seen so many people say, oh man, why are the Ravens helping out the enemy? Why are they helping out the enemy? Listen, every single team in the NFL is the enemy. So whoever the Ravens traded Sean Wade to or whoever they trade any player to is the enemy because they do not play for the Ravens. That other team, they do not play for the Ravens. The only time they would go, they would play with the Ravens would be them playing against the Ravens. There's only one Super Bowl winner. You don't share a Super Bowl trophy.  It's both of ours.  They can only be one. So with that being said, I don't mind that they traded him to New England, but the great thing about it, two great things about it. One is that he's being traded to an organization, to a team that knows how to get the job done. He's not being traded to a team where the organization is garbage, where they just, they do everything the wrong way. No, he's being traded to the New England Patriots and they have a history. And even as much as some people may not like that history, you got to respect the history. You have to. So he's in a good situation. Now, something even better for him is that he has a much better chance and a much better opportunity to get playing time there than he did with the Ravens. Because this, what this situation seems like it was, was that you, the saying you can never have too much of a good thing. And that ended up coming true with this because they had a lot of good corners. They got a lot of guys that's playing well. They got a lot of guys that's been doing their thing. Sean Wade, in my opinion, I think he would have been another one, but they couldn't, they had too much. They had too much. They had too many corners and you can't keep everybody. So it is another positive about this. And again, they could have cut them. They could have cut them. They could have released them. And that would have been, that would have sucked. But with the Ravens, what they did, instead of cutting him, instead of waving him, instead of releasing him, they traded him. So they got something for him rather than nothing. So that, I again, understand, didn't like the trade, don't like the trade, but again, I understand it. I understand it. So because if you got an extra, whatever it may be and you like, man, this is a good, whatever it may be, but I don't need whatever it may be, and you feel like you're gonna discard whatever it may be, then it's better that you are able to get something for it rather than just tossing it away. I mean, even though with me though, depending on what it is, I'd be ready to throw something away quick and I wouldn't be worried if I got nothing for it, especially if it's something that I ain't using. But this is obviously a different scenario than stuff that I'm talking about. But anyway, the fact that the Ravens were able to get something for him is great. Now it's also been said that the Ravens, they had been getting calls about other cornerbacks as well. And you gotta feel like it would be everybody besides Marlon Humphrey, Marcus Peters, and Jimmy Smith. You gotta feel like it would be everybody after those names. Marlon Humphrey, obviously you just signed a deal with the Ravens and everybody knows they're not getting rid of him. Marcus Peters, Raven's not getting rid of him right now. And Jimmy Smith, I don't really think anybody would trade for Jimmy Smith at this point in his career with him pretty much probably being in the last year of his deal. Now, Tavon Young, I did not exclude him off that list because it could have been possible that people may call for Tate, maybe. But everybody else, it's been said that people have been making calls about numerous Ravens cornerbacks. So Anthony Averett, who they gave a lot of praise to in the press conference a few days back. And somebody who I thought was gonna be traded. I didn't want him to be traded because like y'all already know, I've been saying it for so long, Anthony Averett is right on the verge, man. He's so close to being a really good cornerback. He just gotta work on tracking that ball, man. That's the only thing he gotta work on. He got the speed. He knows his stuff. He don't be getting burnt or nothing like that. All he gotta do is work on finding the ball. And then he will be such a better cornerback. But anyway, when Wink was praising him, y'all know, I thought, I was like, oh man, yeah, that's business. They're getting ready to trade him, uh-oh. But it didn't happen. Chris Westry, he, young guy, used to be on the Cowboys, obviously didn't work out there, but six, four got speed and they see some potential in this guy. And I can understand why. But with Chris Westry, maybe they were getting calls about him. Somebody see a six, four corner moving around like that with that speed and all that and that physicality.  Who wouldn't? And they could have also been calling on guys like Nigel Warrior, who was undrafted last year, Ardarius Washington, who was undrafted this year. And just the list, it goes on. But with Sean Wade, with him being at the bottom of that list, then I guess the Ravens were like, you know what? Like I said, if we're not gonna keep him on all roster, if we would wave him, then he would go to another team regardless. If we would cut him, then he would go to another team regardless. So you know what? Let's try to get something for him instead of just letting him go for free. So again, I understand it. Don't like it, but I do understand it and I respect it. And this is the unfortunate part of the business because it is a business. It is a business. And with it being a business, business decisions have to be made. You have to do what's best for business. And that's what Eric Dacosta and the Ravens felt like was best for business. Okay. So another thing and something that we spoke about earlier as well with this trade is that I was really eyeing the future with Sean Wade in this trade, especially after my guy, Ham, brought it up about guys like a Jimmy Smith, guys like a Tavon Young. And of course, there's still other guys that are on the Ravens roster right now that could be part of the future as well. But I felt like with Sean Wade, you have somebody, fifth round pick. And the worst that I thought was gonna happen to him this year, especially since the Ravens had so many cornerbacks, worst I thought would happen would be maybe a stash. Maybe they do an I.R. stash with him, sort of a red shirt year, what not.  But with the future, again, with us, again, Jimmy Smith probably in his last year, Tate, I think is probably in his last year with the Ravens. And again, not cause they're bad players cause they're not, but with them, their injury history and with Tate, his high salary cap numbers, especially since he's in his second contract. I just think that the Ravens, I think they would look to move on next year. But hey, nothing is set in stone at all. So we'll see what happens moving forward. But I certainly thought that Sean Wade, again, who was known as a steal in this draft, who was known as a steal, I thought that he could be part of future plans. So this season, really with every season, I always hope that just everybody stays healthy from top to bottom on every single roster, not just the Ravens roster on every single roster. And I know that, unfortunately, it does not happen. Injuries are a part of the game, they're the worst part of the game, but they are part of the game. But I am happy for Sean Wade. I'm happy that he is gonna get more of an opportunity. And somebody that I was talking to a little bit ago, they brought out some really, really good points about Sean Wade and this opportunity. He's coming from having been around a Marlon Humphrey, a Marcus Peters, a Jimmy Smith, Tavon Young, those four alone, he's coming from being around four really good corners, really good corners. And he goes from that in transitioning to the New England Patriots, where he'll be around, if they get everything worked out, he'll be around Stefan Gilmore, he'll be around JC Jackson. So he'll go from one good group to another good group. And I'm not sure who else they have over there at the New England Patriots in the secondary, but even just those two alone, he can learn a lot from and use both of their games and use both of their powers and combine them. Cause Stefan Gilmore is more the lockdown type. JC Jackson is more the ballhawk type, the interception type. So it's like a Marlon Humphrey and a Marcus Peters. Same thing. So I'm excited to see him blossom as a cornerback. I'm excited to see him just really do his thing. And like I said, I'm happy for him and I'm still rooting for him. I'm rooting for him, rooting for his family. And I just hope everything, I know everything is gonna end up working out. I know everything is gonna end up working out. Again, I still don't, I don't like the trade. Didn't like it, don't like it, but I understand it. So team, keep it clean. I appreciate y'all. I appreciate you all understanding. And again, I appreciate you all being respectful. I love you. Y'all keep your heads up. We looking forward to a real, real fun season this year. So I love y'all. Stay up, and we out. Shout out to Graven.


Welcome to nursing school. Explain in this video on medication half-life. This is a very important topic to understand when it comes to the pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of the medications. So a half-life that's also abbreviated as T one-half means how long or the amount of time that it takes for half of a medication to be eliminated from the body. So for example, diazepam has a very long half-life of 48 hours. That means half of the diazepam is going to be eliminated after 24 hours which is half of the 48 hours. If we look at it on this graph here, it might be a little bit easier to understand. So here we have the medication concentration and down here we have the half-life T one-half. So at point zero, right when we give the medication, the concentration is at its highest at 100%. But then because we know the half-life is 48 hours, so after one half-life 50% of the medication is going to be eliminated. After two half-lives 25% of the medication are going to be eliminated. After three half-lives that'll be half of the 12 of the 25 which is 12.5 and then after four half of that will be 6.25. And sometimes it can be a little bit confusing as to how does it go down. But it's really always only half of the medication gets eliminated but the time frame stays the same. So the half of the 48 hours is 24 we said. So one half-life is 24 hours, two half-lives is just 24 hours added to that. So 48, three half-lives would be an additional 24 which is 72 hours and then four half-lives in this case would be 96 hours. And typically after four to five half-lives the medication has no effect on the body because the concentration is just so small. However it may still be detectable on a blood test. So this is important especially in addiction medicine for example or when we run a drug test on patients because the patient might not be exhibiting any signs or symptoms of whatever medication or illegal substance that they took but it may still be detectable in the body and that is because of the drugs half-life. So also this principle is very important when it comes to the steady state of a medication which I'll explain in a different video. So please head on over to that video to check out the details there. Thanks for watching.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's CaseBreaks.com with the promo randomizer, the Hit Parade promo randomizer. We just had to sell out just a few breaks and give away some of those Super Bowl Mixer spots and we told you that if we accomplish that, then we'll give away some stuff that we got from Hit Parade. So thank you Hit Parade for sponsoring this giveaway. So we're going to randomize all the names in those breaks. Team on top will get a box of Hit Parade, Case Hits, Sapphire, Series 7, it's all Case Hits. And then the second name down will get a box of 2022 Hit Parade, Autograph Jersey, Series 8. So we were keeping track of all the names here, so we had to do those three promo breaks. The team all break had a couple fillers attached to it, so there's the first filler, those are included in the promo too. There's the second filler, there's the prison break itself, there's the contenders we did, no fillers, and then there's the original 10 names for XR. So top two out of 138, new dice, new list, and good luck. Let's roll it, randomize it, three and a one, four times, top two after four, one, two, three, and a one, fourth and final time. So big thanks everybody for taking the risk on this, appreciate you. Another round of these fillers are loaded up, and we'll see if Nick will add maybe another promo to it. So keep your eye on jaspyscasebreaks.com, either way, let's just keep chipping away, maybe give away some more Super Bowl Mixer spots tonight, jaspyscasebreaks.com. All right, so spot three, Chad, just on the outside looking in, but I appreciate you getting in. Spot two, you get the autograph jersey box, this very one right here. And that's going to be Justin, wow, nice little, get a lottery ticket Justin. And name on top, Nico. And Nico, you'll get the cases, Sapphire edition, which is, if like limited is their base edition, then it's platinum edition, then I think Sapphire for their more regular releases are the top level ones. And they're all case hits. There you go, so congrats Nico and Justin, thanks everyone for giving this shot, listen even without these promos right here, it's worth getting into those big game mixer filler breaks because you can get yourself a full spot in that big 127 box hit parade mixer for a fraction of the price. All the details on jaspyscasebreaks.com, thanks for watching, thanks for breaking with us, and I'll see you next time for the next promo.


How about a budget for outreach post-website launch? So when you're thinking about a website launch, most people have allocated budget to build the website, and they're very excited to get it out in the world and start sort of explaining who they are and kind of updating their brand and their imagery and kind of explain the value of their content more fully. But the reality is that during the website project build process, you're gonna learn a lot about what you wish you had known when you started the process. And it's important for you to sort of budget for that initial burst of improvements that'll happen right after launch. And I think that's often an unexpected cost for organizations. They're like, we just built this website. Why do we have to spend more money right after launch? But the reality is that the building process is a learning process. And to get the most value out of your web project, you wanna reserve 10 or 20% of your total budget to do post-launch enhancements. And that's a good thing to plan for when you're gonna launch a new website is to say, we're going to have great ideas at the beginning, but we're gonna improve them no more at the end. And once it's launched, I'm gonna take advantage of those and refine and improve all the little pieces that were headed in the right direction but aren't quite there right after launch. And I think that's a really important thing to both publicize around the organization and have people understand that the website is not a static thing. It's not like a building that you can't easily update or add something to. If you have a great idea, three quarters of the way through the project, it may be possible to act on that idea. And I think that's a key part of the planning process.


Good evening everyone and thanks for tuning in tonight. Our emergency response management team has been working non-stop today responding to ongoing rain and flooding throughout the state. As we continue the recovery from this summer's flooding, I know this is the last thing Vermonters want to see right now and especially during the holiday season. So let me say although there will be damage to infrastructure, homes and businesses, we do not expect this to be the same scale as July. That being said, some of the places that were impacted in July are currently experiencing flooding once again. So for them, this is July and it's a real gut punch. So no doubt there will be significant challenges for some which we're responding to and we'll respond in the future as well. Right now that means the state emergency operations center is activated. Swiftwater teams have been staged and the agency of transportation crews are responding to flooded roadways and mudslides and unfortunately it's still raining and coupled with snowmelt due to the elevated temperatures rivers are still rising and we expect them to crest within the next 12 hours or so. So we need Vermonters to follow the advice of local and state officials throughout the night. First, if a road is flooded, don't assume there's a road underneath. So if you encounter one, turn around. Also sign up for VT alerts to stay up to date on road closures and other notifications. Go to VEM.vermont.gov slash Vermont alert. If you're an immediate danger or see someone who is, call 911. I want to reiterate to all Vermonters because I know many are still dealing with this summer's flooding. Although this won't be as wide for many, it won't feel different and will require response and even more recovery. I want to assure you we will be working around the clock with our local and federal partners to make sure our neighbors are safe and I hope you will be doing the same. In a minute, we'll hear updates on our ongoing emergency response from Public Safety Commissioner Jen Morrison on road conditions from Transportation Secretary Joe Flynn and on the status of DMs from Secretary Julie Moore. Also joining us for questions is Emergency Management Director Eric Foren, our urban search and rescue team leader Mike Cannon, as well as my cabinet who are on the line. With that, I'll turn it over to Commissioner Morrison. Thank you Governor. Good evening and thank you for being here. I'd like to start my remarks by acknowledging that for many people this weather event is likely to cause anxiety, fear and some flashbacks to July's devastating floods. I will admit to feeling a bit of these emotions myself. I want to say that what we are experiencing today is dangerous and there will be damages. We just won't know the scope of them until daylight. As the governor said, we are hopeful and there are indications that this weather event will not be as severe as July's floods. We're going to do our best to provide you with timely and accurate information about the conditions around the state. This morning the Department of Public Safety activated the State Emergency Operations Center. Vermont Emergency Management is working closely with our partners at the Agency of Transportation, the National Weather Service, the Urban Search and Rescue Team, local officials, the Agency of Human Services, the Agency of Natural Resources, the Agency of Education, and many other vital partners. Tonight, our top priority will be keeping people safe and evacuating or rescuing those who are in danger. Stay out of flood waters. The water is too cold, it's filled with pollutants that are unhealthy, and the currents are unpredictable. We have staged swift water rescue assets throughout the state. The National Guard is providing high water vehicles to assist with rescues as needed. So far, three people have been rescued from a home in Jamaica and one person was rescued from a vehicle swept away by floodwaters in Waterbury. There is another rescue operation underway as we speak. Additionally, some communities have proactively evacuated occupants of vulnerable properties. We encourage for Monters to heed the advice of local officials or emergency responders and seek higher ground if you are advised to do so. We expect that the high waters will recede by daylight in most areas. Because the peak of this event will happen after dark tonight, I urge everyone to exercise extreme caution tonight. Stay off the roads if you can. Do not drive around barriers or road closure signs. Do not drive into standing water. You know the saying, turn around, don't drown. Please use common sense and air on the side of caution. Clear communication will be key in keeping people safe. If you are in danger or see someone who is, call 911. If you are in need of shelter or other assistance, call 211. I would like to remind local officials that all concerns should be communicated to the State Emergency Operations Center through your local Emergency Management Director. Please stay organized at the local level so that we can accurately track the situation in each community. The State is here to assist when local resources are exhausted. Please communicate early and often if you perceive you need assistance from the State. Related to power outages, we had a spike this morning with nearly 10,000 outages across the State. As of 4 p.m., there were just over 1,100 power outages reported. We are working with the City of Barrie, the Agency of Human Services and the American Red Cross to open a shelter in Barrie at the auditorium as of 5 p.m. tonight. We are also exploring the need to open shelters in other parts of the State. Thank you. I will turn things over to Secretary Julie Moore from the Agency of Natural Resources. Good evening. I wanted to provide a few updates regarding the current status of our flood control facilities on the Winooski River. At Waterbury, at about 8.30 this morning, the floodgates at Waterbury Dam were closed in anticipation of the high water levels in the Winooski River we are seeing currently. As of 4 p.m., water levels in the reservoir were about 7.5 feet above normal, but this is 14 feet below action levels. High peak inflows continue to be observed into the Waterbury Reservoir, and the current peak has exceeded that which was observed during the July 23 event. Current National Weather Service predictions of peak water level in Waterbury are similar to what we saw during the July event, which would again make this about the fourth largest event captured by that reservoir in history. At Wrightsville, again as of 4 p.m., water levels were about 12 feet above normal and rising, but still 39 feet below the spillway, and finally in Eastbury, water levels were roughly 15 feet above normal and rising. We know that water levels in this area are close to that at which Route 302 floods, so urge caution for anyone in the area of that facility, but this is still 20 feet below the spillway elevation. Our dam safety engineers have headed into the field and are inspecting each of the flood control facilities and will be keeping a close eye on them overnight. In addition, staff have reached out to the fire chiefs and incident commanders in Waterbury, Mount Piliar and Barrie to establish communications, and the agency has sent out a flood watch email to all dam owners we have contact information for, as well as speaking directly with leaders at Green Mountain Power and Morrisville Water and Light and have received no reports of incidents for emergency conditions. And with that, I'll turn it over to Secretary Flynn. Thank you. And good evening. I'd first start by saying you probably I think have reported already today Amtrak has suspended operations in Vermont until they're sure the condition of the lines. We are not at this point hearing of any damage on rail, which is good. Cape Bear also suspended flights into the city of Rutland today. As of 4 p.m. today, there are 34 roads across Vermont that are partially closed. I won't read that whole list, but I will read the 15 roads that are fully closed at this point as of 4 p.m. Vermont 11, near 100 in London Dairy. Vermont 100 in Rochester, just north of the village. Vermont 100 in Granville between Mattson Hill and Kennedy Drive. Again in Granville, Vermont 100 from Jeans Road to Buffalo Farm. Vermont 106 in Weathersfield at Vermont 131 into Reading. Vermont 14 in Randolph between South Randolph Road and Kingsbury Road. Vermont 128 in Essex. Vermont 2 in Jonesville near Richmond closed. Route 12A in Roxbury. Vermont 12 in Berlin. Vermont 14 in Hardwick at Bridge 95. US 2 in Marshfield is closed. Vermont 100B in Moortown. A second spot on Vermont 12 in Berlin. Vermont 100 at US 2 in Waterbury. You can come off the interstate, but you can't go any place after that. You can't connect any side roads in Waterbury. On Vermont 108 up near the Spruce Peak, there is a large 48 inch town-owned drainage structure, which we have information has failed. And as a result, there will be a long-term closure at that section of Route 108 in Stowe that began at four o'clock today. At this point, we have no information as to how long that will be. More information will be coming, but suffix it to say it'll be a while. US 2 in St. Johnsbury is closed due to a mud slide. Vermont 122 near US 5 in Lindenville. Vermont 118 in Berkshire between Pearly Road and Privet Hill. And we have heard from 10 towns, and while they have reported some problems at this point, no towns have asked the Agency of Transportation for any assistance. That's the report that I have. Thank you very much, and now I'll turn it back to the Governor. Now open up to questions. Obviously they're still here, and I'm sure they're still aware. General Roy actually lives in Vermont, so I'm sure he's aware, but we have not, I have not communicated with him at this point in time. It's just too early tomorrow. I'm sure that there'll be more discussion about the extent of the damage, and then we'll go from there. But right now it's about life and safety. You mentioned that there's a number that have already been impassioned and staged. What time were they staged yesterday? When did Swift-Walker be staged? They were staged or rolled out this morning at about between 7 and 9 o'clock, and we have five teams out working actively. Another five on standby in the State Urban Search and Rescue team is dispatched probably mid-afternoon, and they have two Swift-Walker teams embedded with them, so we have seven teams out working right now. But normally in an event like this, how much lead time do Swift-Walker rescue teams need? They're getting accustomed to this, unfortunately, so they've done a great job over the years, and they can turn on the dime, so to speak, but let Mike talk about that. Most of the teams are our partner organizations that we share trained individuals with, so for instance like Rescue Inc. Ambulance Service down in Brattleboro, Colchester Technical Rescue, Lindenville Fire Department, just to name a few. So those teams are actually pretty quick to get out the door. So those are usually our first go-to agencies as we did today. And then the Urban Search and Rescue team is a much bigger team. It's 90 people. It's a larger machine, just takes a little bit longer for that to get out the door. So that did not get activated until about 10 or 11 this morning, and they were out the door at about three o'clock this afternoon. It's called a gut punch. Commissioner Morris said we were feeling like a little bit of a flashback here to the summer. Can you just maybe, I heard the same thing from folks in Barrie today. We just got, or people that spoke just got their heat on three days ago, maybe can you just reflect on just the recovery timeline for recovery of this past flood and sort of where we're going for? Yeah, again, we're not going to leave anyone behind. We'll do everything we can to assist them in recovery. But when I saw some of the pictures of London Dairy, for instance, and seeing some of the businesses there, they were impacted in July, being impacted again. Same with Barrie. Barrie Main Street is closed. We know in Montpelier, I saw that the elevated amount of water, I would assume, I don't know for sure, but I would assume that there are some businesses that are impacted in Montpelier as well. So I would like to turn over to Secretary Curley. She's been actively calling some of the organizations and some of the communities that were impacted before to check in on them. Maybe she has an update for Secretary Curley. Yes, thank you, Governor. I have been checking in, and as of right now, what we're hearing is that mostly it's basements that are impacted, but certainly this is devastating to people who are already in a rough spot, but local communities are really stepping up right now. There are volunteer hubs that are activating and there are folks that are out cleaning out sandbags and setting up some pumps in an effort to mitigate the impact as well as trying to get inventory up higher. So certainly if folks can safely help in that area, and as Commissioner Morrison said, please listen to local police and follow the rule of the local authorities because I don't want to encourage people to get out and about if it's not safe to do so, but if there are folks that have some pumps that they can donate, I know that local businesses would be very happy to have those right now to keep their basements pumped out. But again, they're trying to do everything they can to mitigate right now, but as you mentioned, right now we want to keep everybody safe. That's the first and foremost, but we are seeing some businesses impacted at this point. What has this thing done so far to assist local officials? Well, we've activated the SCOC. So they are part of that organization. So I'll let Eric maybe answer that. Yes, thank you. So we did activate the SCOC to a partial activation this morning to provide resources to both state agencies as well as coordinate resource requests from local municipalities. As of now, we haven't had any. We have made a couple assistance with VT alert messaging, which is out for road closures. We've also coordinated their information as to sheltering and other requests as for school closings. So that's really what we've done so far, but we are here for them. And as Commissioner Morrison said, the process is for the local EMDs to get the information from the local individuals and push that up through the Emergency Operations Center to make sure that it's coordinated and then we can provide the best response as quickly as possible.  I'm sorry, other evacuations. Other than Moortown? There are some sporadic evacuations that we were hearing third hand. Nothing came into the EOC. We were hearing it through some of the local fire departments that we deal with. So I think that there were some going on that were voluntary, just because river banks were coming up or the water in the river was coming up and getting close to some of the residents. So we really weren't aware of anything beyond that. Were you surprised by the extent of this moment? Was the state prepared for this? Well, we're always prepared. We always have the State Emergency Operations Center and the whole plan in place. But it hit me by surprise. I knew there was going to be an increased elevated amount of rain today and the snow melt was, we knew was going to be a problem. We didn't expect this elevation to the demand or the amount of water that we're seeing right now. A few folks on the line. We'll start with Tom Davis, Compass Vermont. Thanks, Jason. Governor, a lot of the weather reports and weather stations that came out during the day talked about a lot of the impact being mainly in Central Vermont. Can we hear a little bit about how the rest of the state is there? Yeah, I would say this is maybe more widespread than even July in some respects. I'm hearing reports from all over the state. Again, London Dairy in particular, Ludlow, Addison County up north, Caledonia County, and so forth. So I believe when this is over, we'll see a wider range and hopefully it won't be as extreme as July. But time will tell. We'll get through the night and we'll be able to answer that better tomorrow. Thank you, Northern Questions. I appreciate your service on this. Ed Barber, Newport Daily Express. Lexi Krupp, Vermont Public, back to the room. Lexi, it looks like you're muted. We'll try back in a couple of minutes, Lexi, but we'll go back to the room. The shelter in Barry that was set up and that you're looking at other areas to potentially set up the shelters who have you guys been in communications with that you're hopeful could be a potential option for people across the state. That's more widespread So we've opened Barry and I believe the census is currently about 20. Some of those individuals came out of Northfield, but it is open to the public for those in need to go there. Otherwise, the requests are coming from locals, municipalities, and they're going to try to stand up shelters locally for their short term. And then if they go beyond capacity or they need extra resources, they'll reach out to us. But as of now, we have the one regional shelter in Barry. We will be getting into that on probably tomorrow or Wednesday. If we could do that, then I would appreciate it. We have information on that, but I want to make sure that we have it all right. We expect during the night within the next 12 hours, maybe, you know, soon after midnight. But again, Mother Nature plays a role in this as well. It's got to stop raining first. So, but that's our expectation. Do you expect major flooding in Barry in particular? Well, it's flooding now. So I would expect that that would continue again over the next few hours before it starts receding. Should I go back to Lexi one more time? Lexi, feel free to send me an email and we can follow up with you. Any more questions with that? Can you say where the greater danger might be tonight? Is there a specific area that might be in greater danger than in other areas of the state? Again, I'm expecting that we're seeing this all throughout the state. And we're just not hearing back from everyone at this point in time. But for those areas I've seen pictures in the London area, Budlow area, and so forth, and Barry in Montpelier, Waterbury in Richmond, you know, it's somewhat the same as what we saw in July, but it seems to be expanded from my standpoint geographically. So if you see, if you have a neighbor, check in on your neighbors. If you have a business owner who needs some help, please step up, help them, give a helping hand to anyone who might need it. We'll get through this. For monitors are tough and it's part of our DNA and I'm confident, again, regardless of what happens, we'll get through this together. So thank you very much.


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こんにちは、みなさん。このセッションをご覧いただきありがとうございます。私の名前は吉浮田バターです。そして、USSオリジナルソリューションセントアブヒタチです。このセッションは、ライトウェイトゼルトラースネットワークインプリメンテーションとキックローク&NGXを使用しています。このセッションは、ライトウェイトゼルトラースネットワークインプリメンテーションをキックローク&NGXに配置されています。実は、多くのシステムが遅れに迷ったアイティクタクチュアを使用するためにそして、このシステムは、多くのアイティクタクチュアを使用するためにこのシステムのために、このインプリメンテーションの提供をでて、このセッションは、最も楽しい使用法を使用するためにまず、私自身をご紹介させてください。私の名前は吉浮田バターです。そして、私はソフトウェイトゼルトラースネットワークインプリメンテーションセントアブヒタチです。私はシステムに使用するためにサウトアントフォーエピアシステムAnd I've built various API systems,for example, a high-security banking API system.And I'm a contributor to 3-Scale,which is an OSS for API management.I've developed features around securityand access control,for example, edge limiting,roll-based access control,wall-cell materials, and so on.And I'm also a contributor to KeyCloud.I've developed featuresfor API use cases based on OOS and OIDC.For example, token revocation,refresh token setting pack Ryan,and so on.So let's get started.This is today's session's overview.In the traditional API system,the security boundary between the public networkand the private network is clear.So we only needed to focus on the security boundary.Inside the system is the private networkand outside of the system is the public network.API system is typically built byfollowing OOS 2.0,the default standard of API security.So a client applicationdelegates authenticationand authorization to the authorization server.And the client application gets an access token.And it calls the APIexposed by the API gateway.API gateway access controls API callsand if okay,proceeds to resource servers.These internal communications are recognizedas saved,so typically not encrypted.Previously,the componentsthat expose API are limited.So building a security boundary is quite easy.In the world of microservice,on the other hand,various services expose their API.So it's much difficult to define security boundarybetween the public network and the private network.In the world of microservice,as the same as traditional API systems,we need to build an API systemby following OOS 2.0.So there is an authorization server.And there are many services that expose their APIs.These APIs are not only calledby the client application,but also called by other services.So it's quite difficult to build a security boundaryin this case.So we need to consider introducing a ZELTRAS networkto secure each service independently.For example, both service or power pod.The typical way to achieve ZELTRAS networkis with service mesh.But actually there are many systemsto which it's a little hard to introducebecause it needs which resourcesfor its rich featuresand perfects the architecture a lot.So we propose lightweight ZELTRAS network implementationwhich needs fewer resources than service meshand is easier to be introduced than service mesh.These are today's contents.First,I describe what is ZELTRAS networkthis session targeted.Next,I describe how to achievethe underlying technology behind the ZELTRAS network.And then I describe the transitionfrom traditional security boundary definitionto both service or power pod definition.After that,I describe two additional topics.First,I describe how to achieveeast-west traffic.Then finally,I describe how to resolvethe choke point issue of policy decision point.So first,what is a ZELTRAS network?What is a ZELTRAS network is totweet the system internal networkthe same as the public network.This assumes that the implicittrust zone is only inside the serviceor inside the podand all networks including networksinside the system are not safe.The default standard of a service meshis Istio and according to Istiothe underlying technology behind ZELTRASnetwork is short validationand mutual TLS.Istio requires MTRSand short validationin the public networkand Istio only requires MTRSin the system internal networkbut short validationin the internal networkis said to bealso needed amongABA security professionals.This is because we need totweet the system internal networkthe same as the public network.I describe the underlyingtechnology behind the ZELTRASnetwork by using thetraditional ADS system.First,short validation.In the context ofOS 2.0what the jotwhich is presented duringan APH callmeans isOS 2.0 access tokenand the access tokenis issued by anOSization serveras representing anOSization.In typicalOS 2.0OS 2.0 authorizationcode flowfirst,a client applicationdelegatesOS authenticationand OSto theOSization server.Then the OSissues an access tokento the client applicationafter theOS authenticationand OSization.After that,the client applicationcalls APIof the APIGatewaywith the access token.Then the APIGateway validatesjot.Generally,the APIGateway validatesjotwith theOSization server.There isfollowingtalk introspectiondefined byrc7662.Whatvalidatearefor examplesignature.Validatingsignaturewe can checkthe jotis nottempered.And validatingexpire.We can checkthe jotis not expired.Validatingscopeswe can checkthe client wasauthorizedtocall the API.Validatingaudiencewe can checkwhich resourceserverorAPIGatewayis intendedtoreturnthe resource.This isthe jotvalidation.Next,mutual tiers.As the sameas authenticatingthe serverusingthe servercertificate,authenticatethe clientusingthe clientcertificate.Duringtrshandshake,the APIGatewaypresentitsservercertificateand the client'sapplicationpresentsitsgrantcertificate.APIGatewayverifiesthegrantcertificateusingtrustedsharecertificate.This ismutual tiers.There isanothermutual tiersin thecontextofoast2.0.In thecontextofoast2.0,mutual tiersmeansoast2.0mutual tiersgrantcertificateboundaccesstarkensdefinedbyRSCH750H705OsMTLScan preventaccess token theft.I briefly describeOsMTLS.First,when theclient applicationdelegatesauthenticationandauthorization,the client applicationpresentsitsgrant certificateduringtrshandshake.After authenticationandauthorization,theauthorization serverissues anaccess token,and this access tokenincludesthehash value of thegrant certificate.After that,the client applicationcalls APIwith the access token.And also at thistiming,the client applicationpresentsitsgrant certificateduringtrshandshake.Then APIGalwayverifiesthegrant certificateusingtrustedsharecertificates.And alsothe APIGalwaycan verify thatthehash valueof thegrant certificatecallsoneintheaccess token.So if anattacker getssomeone'saccess token,since hecannotpresentitsvalidgrant certificate,hecannotcall API.And more,if extendingtalk introspection,theappGalwaycan delegategrant certificatechecksto theauthorizationserver.Thebillowtableshowstheauthorizationserverandresourceservernewtomanagetrustedsharecertificates.But in thecase ofauthorizationservernewtomanage them.In thecase ofMTLS,we cannotpreventaccess tokenseft.But in thecase ofauthorizationservernewtopublicnetwork,we believeoosm-tLSmaysuitable.In thissession,I treat thesetechnologiesas theunderlyingtechnologybehind theZeltrussnetwork.Next,I describehow toachieve theunderlyingtechnologybehind theZeltrussnetwork.Toachievetheunderlyingtechnologybehind theZeltrussnetwork.Next,I briefly describewhat isKickLock.KickLock is anIdentity Management OSS and providesOOS 2.0authorizationserverfeatures.It'smeasurefeatures,for example,it supportsIdentityFederationcorrespondingtomeasure standards,such asAnd also,it supportsSocial Robin,for example,such as GitHub,Twitter,Facebook.KickLock is becomingthe default standardof the OSSauthorization server.So,let's go backto the main topic,how toachieve short validationwithKickLock andNGX.KickLock supportstalking introspectionas a standardOSRequestModulewhich implements clientauthorizationbased onthe resultofsubrequest.Thesubrequest returnslike 200 response code.Accessisarrowed.Ifit returnsfor theone orfor thethree,accessit is deniedwith thecorrespondinger code.NGX sends an introspectionrequest toKickLock'stalking introspectionpoint.And if theaccesstalk isactive,NGXproxiesto theresource server.If theaccesstalk isnotactive,NGXdeny toaccess.Next,how toachieveMTLSwithNGX.NGXverifiestrustedCAcertificatesin theSSLcurrentcertificatesyntax.NGXverifiescurrentcertificatesusingtrustedCAcertificates.Thenhow aboutachievingawesomeTLS.NGXsupportstheoptionalnoCAparameterat thistime.This is intended for use in cases when a service that is external toNGX performs the actual certificate verification.TheSSLcurrentsescapedshort-variable returns the current certificate in the PEM format for an established SSL connection.So,we can pass thisviables value to the external service.In thiscase,KeyClock hasinterfaces that extend its features called SPI.By using SPI,we can extend token introspection to check current certificates at KeyClock.WemakeNGX send the access token and the current certificate to the token introspection endpoint.Thisis how to achieve awesome TLS with KeyClock andNGX.So far,we can achieve the underlying technology behind the ZELTRAS network with KeyClock andNGX by using the traditional AD system.Fromhere,we transit from traditional security boundary definition to both service or part definition.I described security boundary transition scenario.So far,we explained how to use KeyClock andNGX to achieve the underlying technology behind ZELTRAS network.From a macro perspective,we may be able to say that this is ZELTRAS network because this achieved the underlying technology,but this is not the general grain size of ZELTRAS network.From here,we make the grain size of the security boundary final step by step.Compared other services or products,KeyClock andNGX can achieve this transition much easier.This is also one of the main reasons why we select KeyClock andNGX.Step one is to change the API gateway toNGX ingress controller.First of all,lifting the existing traditional API systems to the world of containers.Compared to cloud services inNGX,this API gateway lifting is very easy because we can reuse theNGX confi.For example,we can use server snippet and location snippet annotationsor using custom resources named virtual server.NGX ingress controller plays the role of API gatewaythat is violating JOT and verifying client certificatesand proxies API calls to the resource server services.Step two is to shift the security boundary to pass service.This step is useful if the resource server service takes a real time to bemodified to adapt it to the Zerotlas network.Again,in this step,we can reuse theNGX confi.To pass through client certificates atNGX ingress controller,we use custom resources named transport server to configure stream context.This time,NGX ingress controller only passes through API callsand proxies services play the role of API gatewayand proxies API calls to the resource server services.The grain size of the security boundary becamefiner to pass service.Step three is to shift the security boundary topapod.I believe this is a general grain size of Zerotlas network.This is achieved by the so called sidecar.Again,in this step,we can reuse theNGX confi.and we can reuse the transport server setting too.This time,NGX ingress controller only passes through API callsand proxy containers play the role of API gatewayand proxies API calls to the resource server containers.So an API call is first sent to the proxy containerand if all checks are passed proxy to theresource server container.The grain size of the security boundary becamefiner to a pod.By using key clock andNGX,we achieve the transition much easier like this.So move to additional topic one.How to achieve east-west traffic?So far,we targeted no-south traffic that is traffic from a client applicationto the resource server from external to internal.The client application calls the APIs of the resource serverthrough anNGX ingress controller and the proxy container.The east-west traffic means traffic from service toservice that is internal to internal.This traffic is needed,for example, when the resource server wants to get resourcesfrom other services.This is not so difficult.In this case,the resource server container just sends a request using againthe proxy container.Then,how to achieve jot validation in east-west traffic?To validate jot,the proxy container must send jot to another service.There are two options.Option A is to send the same access tokenwhich the client application send to the resource server.Option B is to send the different access tokenwhich is got from the authorization serverby following OAuth 2.0 token exchangedefined by RFC 8693.For both options,we need to get the user's consentto use the access token for another service.In east-west traffic case,the audience check is very important.This is because,without the audience check,the user's resources may be providedto a martial service.What is the audience check is to checkwhich resource server is intendedto return the resource.If the resource server doesn't check the audience,the resource server may return the user's resourcesto a martial service becausethe access token attached to the API callis a valid access token.So,the audience check is very important in this case.Then,how to achieve MTRSin east-west traffic?As the same in the case of north-south traffic,there are two methods,MTRS and also MTRS.But,different in the case of north-south traffic,the requesting parties are limited,so MTRS may be enoughand also MTRS may be over-engineered.We can add grand certificate and a keywith proxy SSL certificate syntaxand proxy SSL certificate key syntaxin the NGX proxy container.Finally,additional topic,too.How to resolve the check point issueof policy decision point.As the number of API callsincreases hugely,KeyClock may becomea check point of this architecturebecauseKeyClock is accessedby token introspection every timeAPI calls.Following the trust architecturedefined by NIST SP800207,KeyClock plays the roleof policy endingand NGX plays the roleof policy enforcement pointand policy administrator.From here,we considerhow to reduce the load of PEthat is KeyClock.Here,we consider usingOpenPolicyAgent,OPPA,the default standard OSS of policy engine.There are two optionsthe way to reduce the load of PE.OptionA is tocash token introspection responses.OptionB is tomake OPPA act as PEand KeyClock act asjust policy information point.So first,OptionAcasing token introspection responses.By casing token introspection responses,we can reduce the access frequencyto KeyClock.When the client application callsthe BI with an access token,NGXdelegates short validationto OPPA.Then OPPA checkscash and if cache miss,OPPA callsthe token introspection endpoint.And after receiving the token introspectionresponse,OPPAsaves the result.This can reduce the load ofKeyClock.Buteven if the access token isrevolved at KeyClock,it's notrevolved at the resource server immediatelybecause the resource server checkscash first,andif there is the cache,the resource server doesn't callthe token introspection endpoint.This is a security weak point.So we should makethe access token lifespan bea proper short value.OptionB is to makeOPPA act as PE andKeyClock act as PIP.In this case,the OPPAcontainer becomesPE completely,andKeyClock becomes PIP,whichonly provides information for decisionsto grant access.Not depending on the grant access.KeyClock notifiesthe change of resources.For example,user creation,grant deletion,signingkeyupdate,and so on.This notificationcan be achieved byusing SPI.We can extend the event listenerSPI to notify operationsto the converter.Then the convertersaves the data toDV.The convertercan be also achieved by using OPPA.When the grant applicationcodes an APIwith an access token,ngx delegates shortvariation to OPPA.Then OPPA checksDV and makes decisions to grantaccess.This optionalso can reduce the load ofkeyClock.This is a compilationof the two options to reducethe load of keyClock.Option B is anideal implementation,but it is expensive to implement.Option A,on the otherhand,has a security concernthat access token invocationcannot be synchronized immediately.Althoughthe implementation cost isminimal.If yousee these optionslook like little extremeideas,a hybrid proposalcan be considered.For example,the option liketo cache the resultsof token introspection and synchronizeonly token invocation notifications.There are many ways toreduce the load of keyClockby using OPPA,so you can choosea suitable one for your requirement.So finally,thisis today's sessions summary.The underlying technologybehind the ZELTRAS networkis shortvariation and MTRS.And also MTRSDefined by REC8705iswhores compatible with MTRS.By usingkeyClock and NGX,we canachieve the underlying technologyand transit fromtraditional security boundary definitionto post-service OPPA port definitionsmoothly.Not only north-south trafficbut also east-west trafficcan be covered.And by using OPPAwe can reduce the load of keyClock.Finally,this is a trademark.Thank you for listening.