With six minutes of full titles rescue wars the U.S. Coast Guard America's forgotten heroes It's kind of counterintuitive for me as an investigative reporter to actually find a part of government that worked and One that I like the way they mix adrenaline and altruism. So I'll just read Beginning of chapter one for five minutes It's Friday, August 26 2005 The crew of the fishing boat Mary Lynn pitched enrolled in raging 40-foot seas 85 miles west of Key West With the controls gone and their vessel threatening to break up they activated an E-Purve an emergency position Indicating radio beacon buoy and hope someone would hear its signal. They tried to launch her life raft But the storm winds capsized it and dragged it away. All they could do now is hang on pray for help Coast Guard air station Clearwater 210 miles away. Their signal was received in HH 60 J Hawke helicopter launched and 40 knot winds around 10 p.m Soon the big chopper was flying along the leading edge of the storm blinded by heavy rain clouds and darkness It's crew unable to see the ocean rising and falling below them Would take three hours of manhandling the aircraft through buffeting winds and ballistic rain before they finally arrived on scene a big 4-inch and see went 30 hercules from Clearwater was already circling overhead Unfortunately, the rough track had depleted the helicopter's fuel supply leaving them only 15 minutes on scene Below they could see the Mary Lynn being tossed around in the rolling seas the crew as the crew clung to the stern Rather than trying to rush things and risk someone being swept away They decided to head to Key West to refuel battling 75 mile per hour headwinds the trip which should have taken 45 minutes took two hours They landed at 3 a.m. Refueled and were back over the Mary Lynn at daybreak if anything the storm had worsened in their absence Pilot Craig Micello told rescue swimmer Kenyan Bolton that he was not to come off the rescue hook for any reason Smith the boat crew would have to get in the water to meet him The first twice wasn't pretty flight mechanic and hoist operator Robert Kane noted dryly First they swung Bolton into the stern of the fishing bolt and then as he came free dangling like bait on the line He was hit head-on by a monster wave Silly managed to get in the water and swim to crew member need a miller He got a quick straw pond or surround her But then cable jerk them dropping the straps free rings and jamming his hook open He replaced the rings and made sure he had a tight grip on her Then got them lifted back of where the helicopter determined that his cable hook though damaged was still operable He went back down for a second hoist this time a lifeline from the foundering boat to the second crew member in the water Got entangled with the hoist cable. This was even less pretty Where the boat to sink at this point it could drag the survivor the rescue swimmer even the helicopter down with it Well Bolton and the fishermen remaining on the Mary Lynn worked to free the line a shark two or three feet long swam through Bolton's legs I was surprised it was that close to the surface made me think twice about what was out of sight. He later reported With the lines cleared he was able to make the second hoist the third hoist went without a hitch or much of a functioning hook The entire rescue took about 30 minutes rather than fight the winds to Key West They headed toward Clearwater with Cyclonic tailwinds They made around 200 knots and ground speed ridiculous for a helicopter Grand Copilot Dave Shepherd Who like the rest of the crew was rotting in adrenaline high The storm which had already battered Florida leaving six dead would continue to pick up strengths as across the unusually warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico The survivors of the Mary Lynn Mark Gerlick and Eda Miller and Charlie White would be the first three over with 33,000 people to be rescued by the US Coast Guard in the coming days as Hurricane Katrina continued on toward the Mississippi Gulf Coast New Orleans and the history books and Anyway, if you want to hear more about it. I'm on C-SPAN book TV tomorrow at 7 p.m. And it's just from a Diane Reem show I did talking about the coasties who as I say it's unusual to find a part of government that works and Even more unusual. I've just been going around to different Presidential Ocean Task Force that are meeting in different parts of the country and to now have feds who would not only know what they're talking about but listen to the public it's a whole adjustment and You know as I say, I think I'd like to see a Department of the Ocean made up free the Coast Guard from Department of Homeland Security Noah from Commerce and Anyway, one of as I said in the introduction My environmental project raw savage was rescued by my book project the Coast Guard the first time we sent her off to We're across the Pacific She's now two-thirds of the way and she's part of a lit quake this week because along with being an environmental project She's now also a fellow author. So I hope you'll go listen to her as well. Thank you


I got my first breakthrough in business a few days after I borrowed a book from one of my friends. That book was written by Dan Kennedy. I can't even remember its title as I make this video, but that's not where I'm going. To actually develop that idea, I needed a friend, actually a few of them, and sometimes later I was having a discussion with one of my friends. Just a casual discussion, but that discussion led me into a better idea about how to grow my business. And a few months after then, I asked a friend to invest in my business and he willingly dropped the biggest amount anybody ever invested in my business. All the stories I'm telling you in this video are useless. I mean, I don't need you to know these stories. I only want you to notice a key word there, and that is friend and friends. When I look back at my entrepreneur life, I don't know any other thing that is as valuable as friends and books. Not even my father is as helpful to my life as my friends, and there is something very important I need to tell you about that. You see, one simple secret only smart entrepreneurs know about building a business is that you need to be connected with quality people within and outside your industry. I can't emphasize this enough. How I make a lot of money on Facebook. Sometimes ago, my company created a new product, and we were looking for ways to market it. As you probably know, I'm kind of old school. I don't get involved in much trendy stuff because I love to focus on a few things that matter. So, I didn't know anything about the Facebook bot. I was planning to market our new business with email marketing, but I had to call one of my friends who was a website designer to design the website we needed. As we discussed, he told me about Facebook bot. Hearing that, for the first time, I headed to Google to know more about it, and a few weeks later, I was there making thousands of dollars from the Facebook bot. But if my friend had not told me, well, I would get to know about the Facebook bot when every dog in the world already knows about it, and when you know something when every Joe knows it, you're a latecomer who will only eat the left over. I can tell you several other stories about how simple information from friends end up making me a lot of money, and my message will still be the same. You have to make friends and keep friends within and outside your industry. If you want to build a business, a meaningful business. I've seen some people who are trying to build businesses but never build their network. You can't build a business without building a network. Why most people don't have quality friends? Well, it takes time and it's boring. Most people like to do things that are simple and easy. Making and keeping quality people in your life is hard work, and it's not exciting. Take for instance. I do travel from my state to another state to go and say hi to my friends. Who on earth does that? Why should you leave your business to travel to another state simply to go and have time with some people? Why don't you pick up your phone and send them some WhatsApp messages? What if you just call them? Well, the internet and phone conversation is very important and you have to do a lot of that, but that will never take the place of face to face, flesh to flesh contact. I love using stories and analogies, so here is one. Imagine a man who wants to build a skyscraper. What will this man do? First he will need a whole lot of people with different building expertise. He will need a lot of consultations and advice. In short, no single man alive is capable of building a skyscraper all alone. And that skyscraper is your business. It's tough. It's a lot of work. You can't do it all alone, so you need to consciously build a wall of quality people around you. Entrepreneurs without entrepreneur or friends. Who do you think is the best friend to an average soldier? Simple. The best friend of an average soldier is a soldier. Who is the best friend of an average scientist? Simple. The best friend of Albert Einstein were other scientists. Who do you think is the best friend of an average accountant? Well, you know the answer. Except when it comes to entrepreneurship. Most entrepreneurs don't have entrepreneurs as friends. The reason for this is very simple. Entrepreneurship is a boring journey. If you're an accountant, you probably work in the same office with other accountants. If you're a medical doctor, you'll probably be in a hospital with other doctors. If you're an entrepreneur, then the gods are against you because it's easier for day and night to cohabit than for two entrepreneurs to be together. Yes, my above analogy is exaggerated, but you get the point. Entrepreneurs are usually lone rangers.  Most other entrepreneurs in your shoes are too busy making mistakes. How can they ever have time to hang with you? Secondly, if you're not rejected by your friends and family members, then you're lucky. But not too lucky because these people oftentimes are employees. Yes, you can have them as your friends, but they are not supposed to be your friends. You get the picture and painting here. It's easier for everyone else in the world to have friends in their industry except for entrepreneurs because the journey to entrepreneurship is lonely. That's the reason why many entrepreneurs' best friends are employees. Don't get me wrong here. Not everyone can or should be an entrepreneur, but entrepreneurs whose five best friends are employees cannot succeed as an entrepreneur because first, you'll be exposed to the opposite ideas and thoughts and belief systems to what you want to believe. Second, you won't have the right support and inspiration you need. Let me explain these two. I have some very good friends who are employees and whenever we meet to talk, we almost always see things differently. The other day, one of my friends who happened to be an employee said that our forefathers were lucky because things were easier in their time.  The opposite is the truth. We are the most fortunate generation to ever live, but I wouldn't go into that today. One of my other employee friends thinks that he needed to run away from our country before he could become successful. Since I was 17, I have hated that idea. You get the point here. When your best friends are employees and you're trying to build a company, you're doomed because they will always be pulling you into their world, which isn't the world you've chosen. Their world isn't necessarily a bad one. It's not just the kind of world you want to choose. Yes, it's difficult to make your best friends and entrepreneurs because other entrepreneurs like you are crazily busy fighting a visible World War III. But think about it this way. You have chosen to do difficult things and if you have not done that, let me announce to you humbly that choosing to be an entrepreneur is like choosing to fight a war. You have to do any difficult thing that's needed to be successful. And here's one of them. Make sure that your best friends are entrepreneurs. If your best friends are not entrepreneurs, I assure you, you won't succeed because the road is tough to go alone. Every successful entrepreneur knows the secret I just shared with you and now you know. I hope you do something about it so that you'll have the right information and inspiration to fight your battle as an entrepreneur. Talking about inspiration, do you know that we've created a new YouTube channel designed to give you inspirational videos at least three times a week? We call it Hunt TV. Look at the description box to join the Hunt TV. We love you.


Tezal Manuel Antonio Costa Rica is a very popular location for taking a Tezal course. The natural beauty of the country combined with the relatives of finding jobs teaching English in Costa Rica and elsewhere in the region makes her Manuel Antonio Center a good choice for your course. Costa Rica is well known for being a very stable and peaceful democratic country. The people are friendly, the climate is warm year round and prices are comparatively low, all of which has led to Costa Rica becoming a very popular location for tourists and travelers. However, probably the main attraction which draws people from far and wide to Costa Rica is its incredible natural beauty, with tropical rainforests, volcanoes and glorious beaches. Costa Rica is also home to a wide variety of flora and fauna. The small town of Manuel Antonio is located magnificently on Costa Rica's Pacific Coast, where you can see lush and exotic rainforest running down from the mountains to the lovely pond-lined beaches. Manuel Antonio is an absolute delight for nature lovers. It is located next to one of the country's most beautiful national parks. The national park is home to a diverse range of plant and animal life and you can expect to see tropical birds, various species of monkey, sloths and wild orchids amongst others. Manuel Antonio is also famed for its stunning Pacific Coast beaches. Close to Manuel Antonio is the attractive small town of Cui Pous that offers a chance to experience traditional Costa Rican life and culture. Cui Pous is situated just a short journey from Artezal course campus and despite its small size, it offers a wide selection of local and international restaurants, bars and shops. All of this can be experienced while you are taking your Tezal course. Although the course is intensive, we have structured the timetable to allow you to have plenty of free time to explore this magnificent region.


My name is Beatriz Valadez and I grew up here, I was born here at 808 Sherman. We were a 13-year family, so we lived in the 808 Sherman for many years until my mom moved us over here to Austin Street and we lived on Austin Street on three homes because my mom was not a property owner, so we were always moving around. Finally, we bought a home here right here on 418 Hays and I've been there over 45 years. And we were there when the bus used to go by and traffic used to ride on the bridge street. I have a lot of memories with my brothers crossing the bridge to Austin Street, racing each other on the side, not where the traffic was. My mother was always worried that we'd gone right over the thing that we did. My sons, I had three sons that also grew up on the east side and they also did the same thing I did. At that time the bridge was already closed but they still would go up there and play, race, look at the train and those memories never fade away from them or from me. We love the east side, we love the view downtown. At night you can go out to my backyard and you can see the tower and all downtown area. During the holidays, on July the 4th, New Year's Eve, we go up the bridge like we've been doing for over 40-something years to look at the fireworks and all my family comes over. We have like a picnic with the family and with friends in the neighborhood. So east side is my home, it's everything to me and to my family. We enjoy everything here, especially the bridge. So that's my story.


Welcome to the Endnotes, where I put all the fun facts I can't fit in the main videos. Today, some extra bits of information from my video about the Bellini, and if you haven't seen that yet, click on the card. In the later part of the Italian Renaissance, a new style of painting emerged called Manorism. It's in some ways an extension of and reaction to the art of the High Renaissance. Instead of the harmony and balance of the High Renaissance, Manorism is characterized by exaggeration and asymmetry. Elements of Manorism can already be seen in the later works of painters such as Florentine Michelangelo, but it is most evident in somewhat later artists in Rome and Florence between 1520 and the end of the 16th century, though not so much among the Venetian painters. But the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Church's response to this, known as the Counter-Reformation, had an important influence on artistic styles going forward. Many reformers were concerned about the idolatry of religious art, so there was an element of iconoclasm there. The word iconoclast, by the way, comes from Greek achonos, image, plus clastase, breaker, originally referring to the destroyers of religious icons in the Eastern Church in the 8th and 9th century, but subsequently applied to Protestants in the 16th and 17th century who vandalized Catholic Churches. By the 19th century, the word iconoclast could be used metaphorically to refer to someone who attacked any traditional or orthodox beliefs. Well the response of the Counter-Reformation to those reformers was to kind of double down on the core values of the Catholic Church in a number of ways. In particular, as it related to religious art, in the final session of the Council of Trent in 1563, it was decreed that veneration should be directed at the person depicted in the art, not the image itself. And to that end, they wanted to clamp down on the excessiveness in the artworks, focusing instead on clearly understandable subjects. They rejected the use of nudity and pagan elements drawn from classical mythology. In other words, art was supposed to promote these core Catholic values, kind of propaganda for the Church. And indeed, both sides during the Reformation engaged in an aggressive propaganda war, as it was right around this time that the printing press was developed, making mass media propaganda possible for the first time. In 1622, Pope Gregory XV established the Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide, the Holy Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, whose job it was to oversee the missionary work of the Church. In particular, the Church was worried that the new colonial expansion around the world was mainly in the Protestant hands of the Dutch and the English, and they hoped to contain the spread of Protestantism through their missionary efforts. And it's from this congregation that we get the word propaganda, propaganda fide, Propagation of the Faith, a gerundive of the Latin verb propagare, to spread or increase. The word propaganda gained its modern political sense during World War I, which featured the first large-scale use of propaganda by governments to unify their own populace and demonize the enemy. Today, the word propaganda has gained a pejorative sense of governments indoctrinating the people with false information, though the sense is perhaps continuing to widen beyond just government, and is being joined by newer terms like fake news and alternative facts. As always, you can hear even more etymology and history as well as interviews with a wide range of fascinating people on the Endless Knot podcast, available on all the major podcast platforms as well as our other YouTube channel. Thanks for watching!


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G'day, welcome back to Boot Lossophy, and if we haven't met, my name is Tech. I'd like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land that I live and work on, the budget people of this Nunga country. Today, I'm taking a look at the Nyx Robert Boot. This is the casual boot with the genesis of their work boot experience and expertise and incorporating a high dogger heel. So this is the Robert Boot made by Nyx from the US Pacific Northwest tradition. As you can see, although it's marketed as a tough casual boot, this definitely has work boot genes. Nyx Handmade Boots is famous for making boots for loggers and firefighters in the forests of the Pacific Northwest. So you can see that when they make a casual boot, it's still as tough as all their work boots. This is a plain toe boot with a shaft that's about six inches high from the top of the heel. However, it looks taller because it incorporates this two inch dogger heel, which I'll talk about later. I'm not an expert on these higher heel boots, and so I'm not really sure what the differences are between a dogger heel, which I've told this is, a logger heel, and a cowboy heel. Aesthetically, I can see that this dogger heel looks similar to the heel on my Western cowboy boots in that it has a slanted angle at the back. I can also see from the web that what people call a logger heel has a curved back to it. That's about all I know about these heels. Later on, when I talk about the construction though, I'll discuss the need for a higher heel in these boots because of the arch support that's built into them. Let's talk about how you would pair these boots with outfits. Look, I have to admit, these things look like outdoorsy woodsmen in a logger work boots, at least in the American work boot tradition. This is even though Nix themselves described the Robert boot as originally made for serious workers wanting a weekend boot. At the same time in making this boot, they differentiated it from their falcon boot by giving it greater arch support and a higher heel, making it consistent with the other serious work boot models. On top of that, they constructed with this thick wicket and craig veg tan bridal leather. Bridal as in horse tack, not bridal at a wedding. Now that's a thought. Anyway, you surely can't go wrong wearing these boots with basically work gear. For example, they seriously go well with a pair of denim jeans and some sort of work shirt or flannel shirt and a work or leather style jacket. I think they also work with things like canvas pants, canvas shirts and maybe other bomber jacket type things. I have tried them with chinos but I think you have to be careful that in that case, you dress to look just neat rather than dressy casual. These are not dressy at all. While they were designed as weekend boots for manual workers, I don't think they extend to anything towards that dressy end of casual. So before we go on, let's take a look at the history of Knicks Boots. I think in order to understand where Knicks Boots come from for non-Americans, we have to see what a holy grail of a center for quality boot making the American Pacific Northwest Coast means to Americans. That once upon a time heritage boot making was available right across the United States, globalism and the world economy, as well as I think it's fair to say our 21st century throwaway culture, that's meant that the American heritage boot making business has declined. However, the Pacific Northwest states, primarily Oregon and Washington state, still remain a critical center of quality boot makers as represented by whites, Knicks, Franks, Wesco, JKs and if my American viewers don't mind including their Canadian cousins, Weiberg. Within this epicenter of boot history, Knicks Handmade Boots was started in 1964 by Knick Blahutsin, I hope I'm saying that right, in Spokane, Washington. The original Knick has an interesting history being born in the Ukraine of Russian descent. He was still in the Ukraine when Germany invaded the USSR in 1941 and he was conscripted into the Soviet Army during World War II. After the war he immigrated to the US in the 1950s and eventually settled in Washington state. He worked for whites boots for a while until he started his own business in 1964. The original Knick finally retired in 1986 after the business had been bought over by Gary Myers and Leonard Smith. Throughout that period, Knicks was gaining a quality reputation, particularly for forest firefighters from all over the US, Canada and even Mexico. The business has changed hands a few times since then, but it has grown from strength to strength as a quality maker of work boots for loggers, packers and woodland firefighters. They have since increased their product range to include work boots for builders and other trades, or at least in America, as well as their more casual boots such as this Robert Boot. Clearly, some of these names that I've mentioned like loggers and packers are foreign to people not in the US, but you can guess how steeply entwined Knicks boots is to the US logging industry. Now let's turn to how these boots are constructed. Starting at the bottom, the outsole is a rubber Vibram 430-430 outsole with mini commando lugs. This provides a reasonable grip on most surfaces while still looking reasonably flat in profile. The heel, as I said, is built up to 2 inches using stacks on stacks of vegetarian leather topped by a thick Vibram rubber top lift. You'll notice this bow at the arch here. Keep that in mind. I'll talk about what happens there when I go inside the boot and talk about arch support. Moving on up comes a leather midsole which is over 5mm thick. Combined with the rubber outsole, you have over 1cm of sole construction that's under your feet, and that's even before we talk about the insole. The uppers of this boot are connected to the sole layers using a double row stitch down method. This is where the front part of the uppers are flanged out and then stitched down through the midsole and the outsole. The back half of the uppers are turned in and then stitched and nailed to the layers in the insole. If you look inside, the bottoms are made up of layers of leather and then more leather. Forget about foam or poron, there ain't nothing to see here. Now we come to the arch support. Forget about a thin steel shank. The arch support in the Robert Boot is made up of layers of shaped leather creating the contours for this arch as well as forming the shank. The layers of leather are built up at the bottom in such a way as to create this bow here in the arch area of the outsole. And this is where the high dogger heel comes in. The high heel accommodates a high arch support coming from the layers of leather in the arch. If a block heel was used, all that leather that creates a hump under your arch becomes quite annoying. But on the slope caused by the higher heel, they form a shape to comfortably support your arch on the inside. Now moving on up, the upper leather is from Wicket and Craig. It's their vegetable tanned English bridal leather. It's up to three millimetres thick in some places, certainly one of the thickest leather in any of my boots, comparable to the chrome XL and my white MP boots and the collata in my Weiberg service boots. As a tannery, Wicket and Craig have been tanning leather since 1867. They are said to be one of the just two remaining vegetable tanneries in the US. The leathers that they are famous for tanning include oil litigo and this English bridal leather. This is vegetable tanned as I said and used in equestrian gear as well as other high end leather goods. It is drum dyed and hot stuffed with waxes revealing a smooth full grain surface. I found this leather to be extremely supple and flexible and yet tough and certainly it doesn't mark very easily. Okay, I haven't built a house wearing this nor have I done anything particularly spectacular outdoors but you can tell when the leather is resilient. The stitching on the uppers is pretty good for a work boot manufacturer. Don't expect to find stitching like in dress shoes but there's nothing really wrong with this. This is made by work boot makers definitely. The double row stitch down stitching is neater than on my white MP boots and the stitch per inch density is actually quite uniform. Really not bad for being hand stitched. Elsewhere it's triple and quadruple stitch where it counts at the quarters and the heel counter covers. There is a two piece heel stay made up of a well stitched backstrip and the counter cover. The collar of the shaft is rolled and securely stitched but the lace edgings are raw though. The toe box is a lightly structured toe box stiffened with I think leather. It's quite giving. The external heel counter is all leather. The whole boot is unlined, unnecessary to line it really when you consider the thickness of the leather and its suppleness. The tongue is made of a softer thinner dark brown leather. It looks and kind of feels like chrome excel but I don't think it is.  A cutie is provided and it's made of the same thick English bridal leather. This boot has eight brass eyelets no speed hooks. I understand though that if you wanted speed hooks they could be put on a custom fit. The construction is really solid. You can feel the layers and layers of leather when you slip your foot in and you can feel the support of the arch as well as the leather heel counter as you lift the boot in your hand it's heavy. This is built on Nix 55 last which is a high arch last. The 55 has a reasonably round toe and good support around the ball of the foot, the waist as well as the heel. The aesthetic is not for everyone I think but it has a certain appeal to me. I guess in terms of aesthetic the only thing that I'm undecided about is this high heel something that I'm just not used to. Now looking at leather care, while Wicket and Craig don't provide any information it is a waxy smooth leather and I think conditioning with any oil or wax based conditioner would be fine. This includes a small jar of grease with the boots which I think is actually open offs. I have conditioned these with that. It hasn't really darkened the leather and it feels really fine. I think also condition it with say Knitz foot oil or mink oil although I'd be careful about the mink oil which I have found as darkened leather. This leather is pretty durable and from my experience decently waterproof so from time to time washing it down with saddle soap or even just plain water I don't think we'll harm it. As usual though the most important care is to keep it clean and dust free by brushing it with a good quality horse hair brush as regularly as you can. Dust and grit is leather's worst enemy. I bought these from eBay in good condition in a size 8D that's a US size 8D. My US brannock size is 8.5 in D width so I size down by a half and it really fits well. Now I know that you can order these for a special fit but I assume the original owner of these bought these as a standard fit. Assuming that's true in this standard fit I'd recommend going down a half size from your brannock. When I got these I could see that they were only lightly worn I mean look at the heel. There was zero wear. Look at the sole and the stitching at the bottom of the outsole is barely touched. The leather at the vamp was only lightly creased so even though these were very lightly used I didn't find that I needed to break these boots in. Maybe the few wears by the original owner had already broken them in but my feeling is that they don't actually require a lot of breaking if you get the right size. So in terms of comfort the fit around my foot heel and ankle is a really good fit and extremely comfortable. As for the arch support when I first put these on in the morning I really feel that lump digging into my slightly fallen arches. However within 20 or 30 minutes whether it's my feet adapting to the boot or whether it's the way the arch support has been moulded in leather they really start to feel good. By the end of the day I'd have forgotten about the lumps under my arches and I do really feel supported and comfortable. I know that the high heel adds to the effect but nevertheless that's the one thing about these boots that I'm not particularly fond of and I do feel like I'm standing in high heels. Now how about value? So as I said I bought these on eBay for Australian $300. Given the very light wear I think that was a steal. On their website the standard Robert model sells for US $569. I believe depending on options they can go up to $600 plus US. So bear in mind you can't compare these to mid-range boots in terms of material and quality of construction so don't even try to attempt to compare them to say Red Wing or anything similar. I think for a true comparison you do have to look at the other Pacific Northwest brands. With the high $500s they're in the same ballpark as boots from Whites and even some Viberg models. Other brands like Franks and JK also have their boots around this range. Viberg's service boots sell for $700 and above but I think they market their service boots as dressier tough boots rather than rough work boots and you can tell that from their finishing. I think as value they compare really well with their competitors taking into account the materials that Nix uses, the amount of leather that's in these boots and the quality control that I can see. Would I buy them new? That's a tough one. I don't really have a need for boots built this well. My Grail boot was the Whites MP boot and I wanted that not for its construction but simply because it is a Grail. I have a pair of Viberg service boots, again not bought to be used as a work boot but because I want that dressy quality. As for this Robert boot, I don't wear it that frequently because I just don't need a boot built this well as a casual, let's face it, work boot as opposed to a smart casual service boot. So the answer is no I would not buy new because I would not use it for what it's intended to be used for. However, having bought it for $300 I'm glad I've got this at that price. Let's get that clear. My hesitation is not about the value to price ratio but the fact that I just wouldn't use it. So let's summarize. These are one pair of tough boots. The leather used is remarkable in my opinion. The weighty construction, the layer on layer of leather, the hand stitch construction all add to a very pleasurable boot to wear. On the other hand, despite Nick's saying that these boots were for weekend wear meaning casual wear and not work wear, they're not something that I would wear on many casual occasions at least not in Australia. Not frankly, they're overbuilt for me and their design aesthetic as a Pacific Northwest forestry boot just doesn't suit my use cases in Australia. Your experience, particularly your American, might be totally different. Having said all of that, I'm not at all sorry that I've got this. They are something to admire. So that's it. I hope you liked the review. You know what to do if you did. Click on the like button below and if you haven't already please click on the subscribe button to help me to grow my channel and to notify you of the other boot reviews, boot cleaning videos and boot brand comparison videos that I have coming up. Until the next time, please take care and I'll see you soon.


This talk is about injecting electromagnetic pulses into digital devices and I'll tell you how I got started working on this. NASA publishes a post-mortem on airplane difficulties with electronic devices. And what they didn't realize is basically they're getting somebody a roadmap to build a device to create so much interference that they could bring the plane down. And I have a number of these NASA things that I've been able to take off of the internet. They don't seem to do it today and I'm not sure why it may be they realize that these things could be used for other purposes. I'm really not sure. Okay, in this talk I have some foils about 27 PowerPoint slides. The slides really, they're okay but they don't really tell you anything. They don't tell you much. I have nine videos. The videos you come away from here, seeing the videos, the plane sleeping on the plane. You get up tomorrow morning and you'll remember the videos that will create a big impact. I was supposed to have ten. The tenth video was actually my posting a Pentium 166 megahertz laptop, an old laptop. And the hard drive I already fried. And I post it and I boot it up over Windows 95 diskette. I'm posting it and it stops. It dies. It needs manual intervention. So I stop it. I bring it up and I use a Red Hat Linux boot desk. Post it, it stops. Basically what that shows is that if you inject electromagnetic pulses into digital devices, they react with irrespective of the operating system. Actually irrespective to some degree with respect to the CPU. But they do disrupt the device. I'm going to show the first video here. And that's a Spark app.  Why do I say it's dumb? It's dumb because it continues working even though I'm posting it. Smart digital devices do one of three things. They stop. They freeze. They need manual intervention. They try to reboot. Or they turn themselves off. Obviously I haven't tested every single device in the whole world. How I came up with that is just reviewing literature on the internet. Anything I get my hands on, that's what I've come up with.  The other thing about dumb digital devices, not only this calculator, they're also standalone type of analog detectors. A standalone detector could be on a pipeline, something else. It could be a precious detector, a temperature sensor, a pH sensor, a voltage sensor, something else. That produces an analog output. And then this output is digitized onto a network. And it's fed into a supervising control and data acquisition system. And I'll talk a little bit more about that. The pulse is created here by Marks Generator. And I have a video, even though I talk about Marks Generator, I have a video showing you the actual components, the charging circuit, all the good stuff. So that'll be there. I'll step along with the talk and the videos. And again, the videos are important. You'll learn more from the videos. You'll be more impressible than the videos and the foils. I'm talking about the history of EMP. Starfish was an atom bomb exploded. Actually, I think it was a hydrogen bomb that exploded in 63. It caused a number of allergies in Hawaii. And that was how the big thing about electromagnetic pulses came about. Marks Generator. I'll explain to Marks Generator. I have a video for that. Pulse parameters. Not all pulses are the same. There's a number of parameters that define the type of pulse. And you can actually pulse things where it's innocuous to digital devices. Dumb devices, smart devices, Byzantine faults.  Let's say you have 100 components. How do you know you're getting the accurate information from all these components? And how can you formulate an end result? Supervisor control and data acquisition. Hospitals. Hospitals are very electromagnetic pulse susceptible. Today, tremendous productivity of the hospitals. It depends upon devices monitoring. EMP, process and operating system independent. Degree revolution. Flyby wire. TWA to 800. And in there, I have a video of a throwaway camera with a strobe. And I take it apart and I use the equations to figure out how many joules of energy it is and to see whether that is possible to have created spark for TWA flight 800. I'll talk about 800 a little bit more. This is just a formula for power in joules. You had to figure out the power in joules coming from, let's say, a Marx generator just from a capacitor. I talk about the power grid. Something that I came across is that you can take the power grid, the national power grid down by injecting pulses into it. And this is not so much, this is more physics than anything else. The power grid has been taken down before because of magnetic disturbances from the stun, magnetic storms. To power these devices I'm talking about, I would not use a Marx generator. I'd use a Tesla coil. One of the original Tesla coils that Tesla built in Boulder, Colorado, he actually brought the AC generators from the power station down. So there's a lot of historical data that you can put together and say, you can inject pulses into a grid, bring it down.  In other words, you can destroy equipment that you don't have the outage for a day or two days. You may have it for weeks. And I talk a little bit about Tesla coil. And also power quality. The grid is almost a living being where you have to maintain homeostasis constantly. History of EMP. The Compton effect, the H-bomb, you create it also with Tesla coils. Not so your Tesla coil has more electromagnetic interference, but you can create pulses with a Tesla coil easily. Marx generator, that's what I use. Explosive device armatures. That is more of a military device that you charge this armature, and then you explode this armature with high explosives, and it creates a pulse. We're not going to do anything with that. The H-bomb, Starfish, 1962. US exploded on H-bomb, 800 miles from O'Wowel, Hawaii. 30 springs of street lights went out. 300 street lights in all. That was the first when there was this notice that you can create pulses, and they can bring down electrical systems. The Marx generator, and everything that you see on the videos is powered by Marx generator. Invented in 1924, it's just a concept now to create high voltage. Capacitors are charged in parallel. Capacitors are discharged in series. Now we're going to have another video showing a Marx generator and a charging circuit. The orange things are capacitors, and they're in parallel. They're being charged in parallel. And you see the rails that they're charging from are resistors. This is off-the-shelf type components. Off-the-shelf type components do not like to work in a Marx generator for very long.  If you want to build a... Right now I'm showing you a wire that they discharged through. They discharged in series. If each capacitor I have, what? Would I have five, six? Well, let's say I have five. If each capacitor charges to 5,000 volts, and I have five of them, I have 25,000 volts in series. And it's discharged through the spark app, which you already saw before. Just PVC pipe to conductors. The thing about my Marx generator that is different from everybody else's generator is that I optimize an extremely high pulse rate. Not a high voltage, but a high pulse rate. Now I'm showing you some analog meters. An analog meter is an analog meter. There's no electronics. It's good to keep an eye on what's happening in your generator. Now I'm showing you a control circuit for... It's a great circuit called a 555 timer. Millions of references on the Internet. You put in Yahoo, Google, whatever. Millions of references. It creates a pulse, and it's fed into this thing called a MOSFET, the type of power transistor. It sends this pulse to that green wire. The green wire is attached to the gate of the MOSFET, turns the gate on and off. In other words, I put high voltage, battery voltage across this transformer. Specialized transformer. It's a flyback transformer. These are transformers used in TV sets, cathode rate TV sets, plus high voltage. I purchased flyback transformers. Just off the Internet, in other words, I've also gotten a flyback transformer for old TV sets. The old TV sets always seem to work better. I don't know why. That's it. If anybody wants me to repeat any of the videos or anything else, I'll do it. This is another type of MOSFET, generally. This is a little different. The spark gap is actually inside of this PVC pipe. The capacitor is on the outside, the silver things, and then they have a resistor on the rail. When you start creating voltage sparks, high-voltage sparks, they start to increase intensely, in terms of dB10-hensely. 120 decibels. It could be over 130 decibels. The pipe is basically to muffle them, putting a muffling in there. That was more of a specialized version that I had to do because my Mark's Generator is saying it's a type of alarm in buildings. That finishes with Mark's Generator. Pulse injecting. You can inject these pulses. I haven't shown it yet. You can inject the main type of electrical wiring. The difference between creating a pulse and free air, and that's what I've done in showing you that dumb device, and the difference between injecting into wiring. Free air, the pulse drops off as 1 over r squared. If I'm one foot away from the spark gap, and then I move two feet away from the spark gap, it drops off by 1 over 2 squared. In other words, at two feet, it's one-fourth as high the value. If you inject an electrical wiring, which could be any of these wiring in here, it basically becomes an LCR circuit, an inductance capacitance resistance equivalent, but travels for many, many meters, many, many hundreds of meters. Again, it's very destructive when you do inject it into pulse into any type of wiring, or even, again, grounding. Dumb digital devices, simple digital devices, they keep on working after being pulsed. Stand-alone sensors like SCAD-Air, temperature-fresher voltage. You're actually doing type of EMP fuzzing on the device. The device is dumb, it's going to just pick up the pulse and send out any type of value at all. Again, if it's some type of pipeline where it's saying that an erroneous value of pressure or temperature, whatever else, and this is going back to a computer where it's figuring out some dynamics of the system, then that could be a problem. I mean, it depends on what type of edits are in the program. I mean, you just cannot beforehand figure out what would happen. Smart devices, again, they reboot. They need some operator to manually reset them. They turn themselves off. Again, surveying all the literature I get my hands on. Laboratories that have these devices. What happens to these devices inadvertently, putting it all together? Again, they do one of these three things. And I got, again, the Spark app there. And I have a TI calculator. And smart devices are generally much more susceptible to a pulse. Like I'm trying to put numbers in and I can't even get close enough that I could keep the number in. I try to even move it back, but it keeps trying to know if I just cannot get it to show. The one other thing about smart devices is that they do have a memory qualitatively observed at smart devices when you pulse them. You do cut down the life of them. In other words, if this device would normally work five years and you stop pulsing, it may only work one year. And I did find literature that validated what I was able to observe. So it was a real event. If you're injecting these pulses into a network, it could be through network wires, or you better off through the electrical system. The ground seems to be the best choice, because the ground goes every place. And even though you might say, well, this wire is grounded into a a grounding cable into the ground, well, that grounding cable going into the ground has a much higher resistance than the electrical connectivity of the rest of the ground. So it's not a big deal. As long as you keep injecting these pulses, somebody cannot, if it's a network, bring up the network, or you're going to have different devices doing different things. Turning it off, either reset, trying to reboot. That's not going to be a problem for them. Again, it's invariant with respect to operating system, to some degree, and that's a special case, architecture, electrical architecture, but the device will have a problem. Moore's Law, we all know it's Moore's Law, that number of transistors basically doubles every 18 months. As the die size decreases, and the electrical voltage that you need for the device and the new voltage that you need for the CPU decreases, you make them much, much, much more susceptible to pulses. Significantly more susceptible. So again, we're making devices that are more susceptible, and we're building more smart and green devices which use, again, more solid state devices. I can't stress this anymore that not all EMP pulses are the same. You have basically built a design EMP pulse that you know experimentally is very detrimental to any type of electronics, solid state electronics. Again, you're going after the transistors, the integrated, so you're not going after the resistors or capacitors because you would need a significantly higher power level for that, and you don't have to do it.  You really don't have to go after anything else. The pulse width, the pulse rise time, the pulse rate, how many pulses per minute or second, harmonics, harmonics are very, very important. You want something extremely harmonic rich. Frequency, contrary to what most people think that if you use microwaves to disable device, actually they seem to be much more susceptible for under 10 megahertz. And I do have, I don't have references in here, I should have put it, but there's references from something known as the old crows. It's something done in Australia and that was the only reference which validated what experimentally I observed. Byzantine faults, they're large real-time distributive systems. Byzantine fault tolerance and recovery has a number of processes. T is a number of corrupted processes which is only possible if N is greater than 3T plus 1. It basically works out that if you have 100 devices and more than 30 of them are giving erroneous readings you have a serious problem. This comes more to effect if you have a serious real-time systems, fly by wire, any type of real-time process control, chemical process control where there's a real issue with just correct computing. This video is not very easy. You see me plugging this 3-prong adapter connected wire to it, then I'm going to plug it into a 3-prong adapter into an outlet connected to a metal box and the wire I'm going to connect to one part of my spark app. This is basically proof of concepts that you can inject these pulses into wires. Unfortunately this video is not that good but at the end you will see that this pulse. I'm still doing it, I just had to get my wife to take the video camera. What I was trying to do was video everything by holding the camera in my hand while I was doing it. The problem is I have so many video camera and the Sony video camera did not want to be that close to things that were in pulse. I had problems with it. Well, yeah, I mean it did not want to be that close. Probably I aged the video camera too. I don't know how much. She's got to zoom in more. I guess you really can't see it. Now can you see it? Can you see the numbers appearing and disappearing? Yes. This is just like more of a proof of concepts that you can inject pulses into conductors or into the electric grid if you want to disable that. It has a metal box because I live in New York City. New York City has a very strict housing code because you live on top of each other and they don't use plastic boxes there even for residential constructs. They use a metal box. A supervised control and data acquisition again, large real-time descriptive systems controls chemical water, oil, power systems, grid.    Going green, green buses, I'll say controls, green cars. Everything that we go as we try to go green or smart, it's vulnerable. Robotic trains. The DC Metro train is actually a robotic train. It's a train that has an operator and it has a communication system that communicates where it is with respect to other trains on the system. And there was recent crash of it. The L train in New York City is also going with the same system. There's a problem in that the third rail shoes awk. I don't know if you've taken subway systems or subway systems in New York City with a third rail to awk. When they awk, they generate a pulse into the system. And even if the electronics is protected with a pulse compensating materials or whatever else if it's injected into the electrical system there's not too much you can do about it. There's not really a way that you can adequately filter that. I have another video here that I'm injecting the pulses into a pulse actually a surge protector. I covered all the names. I'm not really using a surge protector correctly as it should be used, but I have the surge protector there.  And I turn the march generator on and you see zero in there and as I move it you see whatever else. It's not pretty. I mean hospitals especially would be very susceptible to this type of attack. And again you could either inject it in the basement of the hospital, you inject some of the outlets, the grounding, the grounding why is one of the best places to inject it. FlybyY, actually this is the thing that got me interested in the work that NASA was doing in electrical interference with controls in a commercial jet. And FlybyY seemed like they were just going in the wrong direction. They're making the machines too smart and too susceptible. There's two different versions of FlybyY. The Boeing version is the pilot is always in control. The Airbus version is the computer is in control. There's a small envelope that the pilot can actually maneuver his jet through. You know my prediction with that is that that would be a major disaster running Airbus. Boeing is in my opinion the better way to go. Again FlybyY Advanced Computer Systems a lot of the devices have different operating systems somewhat different network protocols they try to make it as safe as possible. They're thinking of virus worm independence that somebody couldn't upload it but it doesn't matter if you inject the pulse to it, you're going to bring it down. You can't inject the pulse externally to an airframe. The airframe acts as type of priority shield and just goes around it. Airplanes have been hit by lightning many times. They've gone through very high radar fields with no possible no problems. If you go to the laboratory and inject it into the electrical system or even into the internal metal superstructure problems. I haven't done it but I know we'll create problems. Actually I don't want I'm not going to do it on a plane that I'm on either so but if people fly planes into buildings and do other things like that you know the TSA is not going to tell them it's a marks generator charging circuit, they're not going to say what the hell do they know I mean they're looking for explosives they're looking for doing things the old fashioned way and you're doing things the new fashioned way the TWA flight 800 it went down in long and sound and they didn't really know what happened some people said it was a rocket the official version is they had to send a fuel tank explosion if you created a pulse if you injected pulses into an airplane and let's say you brought it down it would also have an effect on the black box and the solid state memory that records all the flight information the audio tape magnetic tape of the pilot conversation it probably wouldn't have too much of an effect but it would have some effect so like the artifact that you would find is that some type of pulse dampening pulse or you might just find the memory erased what I have now is hopefully I have the right video here this is a disposable camera and before when I spoke about the flight TWA 800 I said that it took independent experimenters experimented with a 737 center fuel tank and they posted and they injected up to 75 millijoules and they found that 75 millijoules this center tank exploded all these are disposable devices confined pulse devices measured part measured the capacitance measured the voltage that I'll charge and I don't know if you see too well but I'm charging it up I don't have the video turned on but I'm charging it up and it charges about 300 volts and I measured the capacitance at well it's on the next screen but 100 microphones I think when I go to short it out again I don't have the you hear a big spark and I have a probe that I'm going to short it out and you see me jump because it is quite a whopper I've gotten burned more on these than I have gotten burned on a Marx generator or anything else yeah that's why I said no I mean it really is a loud these pulses produce loud noises industrial labs where they do generate large pulses high voltage pulses you will get over 130 decibels which will hurt your ears here I'm giving you the formula on the power and joules the capacitance of the voltage yeah I did that I measured one or two microfarads the voltage is 300 volts and it comes out to approximately 4.5 joules so a little camera like this still has enough potential to explode a shield tank in a jet the airfrans I just recently went down they didn't recover the black box it would have been interesting I know that groups that are working on pulses and possibly using their airplanes or jets from just information I've been able to put together from different blogs I know jet scenes are working on it I don't know of any other group that's working on it certainly not any Arab group that I've come across but you know that Air France was an interesting story and I hope they recover the black box I'd like to see if they did find any type of ringing the other thing is that if let's say you pulse one of these flabby wire airplanes what do you think would happen my guess is that the jet would make violent movements and maybe the tail of the wings would come off and it basically would crash down from there it's almost like a Apollo 13 that Apollo 13 was the Apollo flight that the air tank, the oxygen tank would hold it on and it caused it to go out of control the thing is that there was no atmosphere in space so even though it wasn't making violent it was not breaking apart and again the telemetry and everything else they couldn't really put together what happened until they reworked pictures of the damaged craft and figured out what happened hospitals are very microprocessor rich hospitals are probably the most microprocessor rich of any type of entity that we have here, aside from that's a flabby wire plane you have ventilators, you have patient monitoring you have combination of dumb devices smart devices again if you'd start injecting pulses into the electrical system they would not be able to restart or try to reboot everything at one time and if the patient was actually on a ventilator or a hot-lung machine they'd probably pass away that's probably something more for somebody who was extortionist would try the power grid next year at DEF CON 18 I'm going to do a full talk on the power grid how it works I'm talking about AC power grid, how it works it's basically a living type of entity it has to maintain a type of homeostasis the frequency between generators has to be tightly monitored the reactance the capacitance the transience, any type of wave that's occurring in the grid has to be dampened out in the United States we have three major power grids we have the east grid the west grid and the texas grid from the type of attack that I'm talking about the texas grid is independent of anything like what I'm talking about an attack it's independent because it's not coupled through AC power lines it's coupled through direct current power lines so if I try to inject pulses into the grid it probably won't have effect on that it might have effect on the high voltage rectifiers that rectify the AC going to the DC for the texas I'm not sure again we have a high voltage AC grid we have high voltage DC grids power quality power quality is very important inductance happens from an inductor a wire wrapped around some type of ferromagnetic material capacitance, capacitor stores up charge harmonics, harmonics are very important in the system the frequency stability very important the video that Homeland Security did showing that generator that was actually burnt up they said somebody hacked into the supervisor control data acquisition generator was diesel generator it probably they ran it let's say a 58 hertz on a 60 hertz system and it destroyed itself transients again the gadget I think you can bring the grid down with about 20 to 30 different gadgets probably cost between $25,000 $35,000 about 60% of it would be based on the Tesla coil you can create it using a solid state devices MOSFET RGBT you also create it using tubes the A33A vacuum tube is a big monster tube the positive thing about using a tube is tubes and electromagnetic devices electromechanical devices are immune to pulses in other words you could run it and run it anything if you create it using solid state devices eventually they'll die eventually you'll have enough power reflected back from the grid into it and it will destroy it grid stresses the grid actually has a number of stresses a new network worm could be a stress for the grid new windows viruses the Microsoft change cycle weather and checking pulses in the grid the time of day 5pm is a good time for the grid to have a power blackout winter summer that again is a high stressor for the grid again bring down North Mac power grid 20 to 30 devices distribute over weak nodes there are actually weak nodes in the grid where these nodes if these nodes fail other nodes will come down it will have a cascading effect there are some nodes that are not weak at all they are relatively strong there are some nodes where a lot of power goes through them interconnected with other regions and they have a high failure rate you just basically push it over the edge and again this is a system that has to maintain homeostasis a system that is really always in a metastable state it can be at any one time I'd disturb from that state each device would have to be tuned this is very doable although I don't know anybody who has done it yet and let me show you the list this is my kilowatt meter that I have down there and I didn't intentionally pulse it or anything else and it plugged into the power my visual meter reads 126 volts and this is reading like 201 to or 8 and just pressing different power buttons indicating totally erroneous results this was not intentional this was in the general area where I was doing things and this was about 10 feet away from everything and I was very surprised I would have taken farther, farther away actually my Sony video camera I probably should have done something different with it because it did have a lot of hiccups when I was doing videos but again this is defective now I'm going to do another one and be a lot more careful when DEF CON 18 I'm going to do a talk on how the power grid works most of this information is readily available on the internet I'm going to put it together and much more detailed and I will put together either I will build a device that I believe I can take the grid down with or at least talk about it Tesla coil is easy to build much more difficult and I work by myself and I have my own limit funds but it's very doable again Tesla's bigger coils of a bolder Colorado took down the electric power AC powerhouse that was powering it magnetic storms have also taken down parts of the grid so it's just a question instead of an external source I'm injecting the pulses directly into it that's it for now and I probably finished early so and instead of going to the other room does anybody have any questions I guess not one other thing that this information is readily available on the internet I mean you build your own device they may be better sources than I'd rather people build their own devices and show it to me next year and this way I could learn something from them but this is all readily available the box generator the power the charging target everything one interesting thing is that if you do bring down the power grid as I said this is not going to be a power blackout this is going to be power outage because you're actually destroying equipment on the grid when you start injecting pulses the first thing to go down will be the super-短 control and data acquisition system that monitors the grid in other words they will not know what voltage is what lines are up or whatever else yes what I have no idea if somebody is creating the right of pulse I could create a generic pulse and pulse something and I have no effect I can create a pulse and again I said the pulse parameters are very important there's not one pulse that will bring it out there's certain pulse rate harmonics frequency range power range that you really need one other thing is that I'm also doing a longer term study of New York City what happens if the power goes on for an extended period of time and I'm talking about a week, over three days to a week and believe it or not one of the first problems you can have in New York City is cholera epidemic the reason being is that in New York City most people live in apartment buildings the water actually has to be pumped up to a top tank, a wooden tank on the top of the building to provide water for everybody we have a gravity-fed system that only goes about two or three stories sorry, go ahead you can protect it but if it's grounded into the same system that I'm pulsing into it's not going to help you I'm basically talking about using the ground I found the ground is the best thing it is like an open invitation to go into a device yes, as high as possible yes there are problems when you create a Marx generator there are problems that you have when you create higher voltages that the air field the air AIR breaks down, the electric strength breaks down and also I felt that for what I need the Tesla coil would be more controllable because I'm talking about creating anywhere from 100,000 volts to more but I'm also going to pulse it I'm not going to continuously feed it into the grid this is all experiential this is what I've observed what I think will work interestingly enough the cable box I demonstrated the cable box did I? the cable box was almost all metal and I also found another thing that I've had some other things that the box was all metal and I would think that it would act as a further gauge and I found I was able to pulse it and bring it down the only thought I could have is I must have injected enough of an energized charge into the external shell that it re-radiated the charge internally and externally and it brought the CPU down so in other words the Faraday shields may not be as they may have been tested in such a limited way that if someone is trying to create destructive pulses and does a wide range of experiments they may find that these Faraday shields do not hold I hope that answers the question yes it's difficult because the power grid is very parallel they have a they actually have a grid a wiring so that if one set of feeders burn out, others feeders will take over you probably localize them in some area but like New York City I'd say that I need about five or six machines so you probably locate them they're in Brooklyn or Queens or Bronx or whatever else I don't think you do much closer than that basically this is like the internet nobody thinks of the power grid as being something that you can exploit you just plug things in and nobody thinks that hey, maybe somebody could inject something that creates damage by the way if you inject these pulses to the power grid you're taking down all of your neighbors and all the other people's devices too that's the other effect I'm sorry first of all if it's wireless it's one over all squared they fall very rapidly what I found is that if I'm pulsing something and let's say in my house I have beams that are both wood and metal the metal also becomes a conductor and the metal it also travels I found that there's a high issue of fratricide in other words you're burning a lot of other things out inadvertently like that kilowatt meter and again my Sony video cam I hope it's going to last and I was actually shielding my body, my body was not that effective anybody else? yeah if I use it for a Tesla coil I would not try to control the pulse rate through the coil itself I try to control the pulse rate through some type of magnetic mechanical device that is basically arced in other words some type of rotating device so I would not have the Tesla coil continuously arcing out solid state devices are a big problem I'm not sure how I'm going to do this I'm probably going to have to go with the vacuum tubes just so that because solid state devices they're going to fail and I don't know when they're going to fail and by the way if you do do this I talk about MOSFEDs power transistors 555 timers buy a whole load of them because you're going to start things are going to go down on you just like that, you're not going to also use batteries don't use an electric power supply or regulated power supply because that power supply is going to go down what happens is that unless you have the impedance matched up perfectly part of that pulse is being reflected back at your equipment and into the 110 wiring of your building use batteries period but the solid state device I would not try to control through that I try through a mechanical type of switch I'm not sure yet I know it will work the trouble is that I don't know how to test it I don't have a test environment that I can test it in and I do know people who do build Tesla coils for a hobby and I do know of cases where they into the cable system and the electrical system and what's happened is that they did take down a lot of infrastructure but generally the cable company electrical company they describe it as some type of fake lightning some type of strange lightning so usually if that has that arc over happens you're going to be very quiet about it I mean if you have an arc over and let's say there's a hospital nearby they're going to get some type of pulse and you don't want people from the power company or the cable company want to sue you or sue your home owner's insurance because this happens and if you do go to some of these Tesla meet, Tesla meets and everything else you will hear some anecdotal stories nobody will say yeah it happened my coil because it's always described to some type of rare lightning because the engineers at the other end they don't realize this happens I'm sorry I haven't yes how does this work at digital locks I don't know my guess is a digital lock it's probably a small device and it would fail it would go to the failure mode where it would lock that's my guess I haven't tested it anyone else I think the question was what happens when lightning strikes a power line what else will they have lightning poles on power stations where they have let's say they bring a 138 kilovolt line in they have long poles so that if lightning strikes it strikes the pole there are also lightning arrestors there are a number of devices with this Tesla coil you cannot automatically put a million volts into the grid because what you'll just do is arc over you basically have to sneak up with it sneak up with the voltage and the pulse rate what you want to do is take down the supervised and controlled data acquisition systems which is the weakest and that will go down transformers will ultimately go down what will happen is you have a step down transformer but on the low side the low power side you put in high voltage so it's being stepped up tremendously on the other side but what will happen is these transformers these pole pigs is that you'll eventually break down the insulation and you'll have a capacitance also type of effect where you'll still be induced enough to get the pulse into the wiring anyone else? I think the question was couldn't you harden the supervised and controlled data acquisition systems I don't think so because I don't think that this is an attack that anybody on the drawing would ever thought of I could be wrong but there is data out there where these grids have had problems with men made and also natural sources anybody else? I don't think they can well okay how do you think you can defend against it? do you have an idea? I don't think so because this is like an attack that coming from a vector or methodology that nobody thought of before although I did run this by some people with PhDs in physics and electrical engineering and they wonder why wow they never had that idea before you can make a lot of money as a terrorist or go into a well this is very asymmetrical for about $50,000 you can build a lot of these devices and you can take down a multi trillion dollar economy like the United States and as I said if New York City doesn't have power there's no water in the buildings if there's no water in buildings for a period of more than 72 hours you have a cholera epidemic who would think a cholera epidemic in New York City? I mean like this is just but if anybody has an idea of how you can defend against this let me know and you can make a lot of money with power companies anybody else? yes how can you how can you utilize neutralize? okay that's again how do you defend against it I don't know but you got to realize the United States is looking to and they have actually an EMP group that is trying to defend the United States against an EMP attack an electromagnetic pulse attack and I think as Edward Teller who is one of the nuclear physicists he theorized that if you set up an H-bomb I think about 400 kilometers above Omaha, Nebraska you create a pulse that will wipe out all the electronic control systems in the United States well this is sort of a cheap system to wipe out the grid I mean you don't need a hydrogen bomb you just need about $50,000, $60,000 and other people who are going to work with you and it's tremendously asymmetrical and again there is a historical basis for it but nobody has ever thought of it before I mean the people that I've spoken to who do have events degrees and they're familiar with physics or engineering they said wow, why nobody thought of that before and if somebody has a degree and they say this is just bullshit what I'm saying tell me now yes, sorry I would say more than a million fold because first of all a hydrogen bomb is a very powerful source but its power is going off as 1 over r squared it's decreasing very rapidly as distance I'm injecting into electrical cable that's a conductor so it doesn't attenuate according to the mix inductance, capacitance, resistance clumping of the wire and it dissipates much more slowly but you're probably talking to a water magnet over a million, probably far larger than that excuse me, sorry it may explain it at the pulses but again I'm not doing it through air if you do the pulse through air you need a hydrogen bomb I'm doing it on the cheap I'm doing it through electrical system that already exists that basically is not protected from this type of attack and as I said it's tremendously asymmetrical the feedback they got is why didn't anybody ever think of that before anyone else? okay, I ran out of time sorry about that


Hey stampers, welcome to another week of watch it weekly Wednesday I'm Beth part of the creative team with stamping Jill and I am so excited about the project I have to share with you today. I wanted to create a cute little gift idea But I wanted to challenge myself and do it using only one piece of designer series paper. It was amazing I chose the tropical oasis designer series paper pack because I am in love with this paper So all of our DSP with stampin up is double-sided So you have this really really great pattern on one side and then you have more of a solid pattern on the other side So when you're using both sides in a project, it makes it great because they coordinate beautifully together So I had a hard time choosing the designer series paper that I wanted to make this project out of because in this pack There are so many beautiful pieces the flowers and the tropical colors are just gorgeous So you really could make this project using any of these designer series papers from this pack Let me first show you the project so you get an idea and then I'll walk you through how to make it yourself So we have this little box that I made with a little belly band that says hello pretty general and easy to give slide that off and it opens up and You have a little box here with four note cards and envelopes I Thought they turned out so cute our little note cards are The size of the card is five by three and a half. So they're just the right size To put your little greeting in or give as a gift anybody could use them And then you always have to decorate your little envelopes too So that's what fits in our little card box All of these cards and the box and the belly band only take one piece of 12 by 12 designer series paper I'm so excited to show you this The stamp set that I've used on these cards and with the box is called timeless tropical It has great sayings in it. The sentiments are awesome and that's why I wanted to use it for this project They're nicely sized. They're not too big and not too small And so it makes it fit great on that little note card sized. So let me show you how I did this I Had to choose another piece of designer series paper from that set to show you It's just beautiful on this side You've got that bright splash of color and on this side. You've got the more solid old olive looking color This is how you cut your designer series paper in Order to get all of these pieces that you need It's a little crazy looking from the template, but I'm gonna walk you through step-by-step on how you can do this So you don't waste your paper But these are the measurements that you'll need for all of the cards and the box and the belly band that we're making today Let me first start with the box This is what we're gonna do with our seven and an eighth Inch piece by 12 inch piece of designer series paper that we're gonna cut off first This looks a little crazy We'll post a still picture of this on our blog so that you can have it for you when you recreate this project But I'm gonna walk you through step-by-step and show you how to do it first. We'll take our paper the first piece I'm gonna cut is a seven and an eighth inch piece by 12 inch piece I'm gonna set this aside. This is what we're gonna use for our cards in just a minute I'm gonna take this piece that we're gonna use for our box and I'm gonna score it On our stamping trimmer, we have a cutting blade and a scoring blade Something that's so great about our scoring blade is it's a little wheel So it doesn't break through your designer series paper Even if you push hard, which I tend to push a little bit harder on these heavy pattern papers because it's easier to see So with your seven and an eighth inch side pointing up in your trimmer You're going to score this side at a half inch And then scooch it over and score it at one inch You're gonna flip your paper over and on the other side score it again at a half inch And then at one inch. Okay, you see that Now I'm gonna turn it to the 12 inch side I'm gonna score it first at three and a half inches and then at four inches seven and three-quarter inches and Eight and a quarter inches So if you can see that on the video, you're gonna have something that looks like this Three and a half four seven and three-quarters and eight and a quarter Okay, you want to figure out which side is your three and a half inch side because that's gonna be the bottom of your box I think it's I think it's this side Yeah, three and a half right there So I want to make sure that that's the right side that I've got here fold on my score lines It's really great to use a bone folder for this Because it folds it nice and tight. It's gonna give you a really crisp box. Hold on your score lines This is gonna be The bottom of our box and this is the flap that's gonna go over But we have to get rid of some of the sides here I want to cut off And I'm gonna use my trimmer because I like To have really straight lines, but if you're nervous you can always use your Scissors for this part. I'm just gonna cut up to that top score line on both sides at one inch I'm gonna cut along that score line To get rid of those extra flaps that I don't need you go And then I'm gonna trim that little piece off with some scissors and I don't need these pieces So here's where we're at These are the parts you cut off That's what I've just done. This is the part we're gonna have We also need to punch this with a two inch circle punch. I'm gonna fold my score lines here really well For my one inch and my half inch so I get a nice tight box and then I'm gonna bring in my two inch circle punch About right in the middle And I'm gonna punch it Half way in So this is how our box is gonna look when it's totally assembled Just like that.  I'm gonna put it right on there and right on there Then I'm gonna take my bone folder and I'm gonna just push it down nice and tight on the inside Just like that. Okay, so then you've got your box here your little designer series paper box Super cute and you can just set that aside while you work on your cards So now we've got this portion of our DSP to cut out We have this little piece that fits right here and we're gonna follow these cuts I'm gonna walk you through it because you have to do it in a certain order in order to get all of the cuts that you're looking for So first we're gonna start by cutting our belly band that's gonna go around our box It needs to be one inch by 12 inches So we're gonna cut a little one inch piece off and we're gonna set that aside because we're gonna work on that in just a minute The next cut you're gonna make is that you're gonna make this piece straight to three and a half So you need to cut this piece right to three and a half Because we made our box a little seven and an eighth inch You have this little piece that you could keep you could choose to put it on your envelopes Or you could use it in another way. I didn't choose to use it. So I'm gonna set that one aside The next cut I'm gonna make is a two inch cut So this will be two by three and a half I'm gonna set that one here And then I'm gonna do a three inch piece This will be three by three and a half So it's gonna look one of the cards is gonna look just like that Then I'm gonna turn my piece and I'm gonna make it One inch a one inch cut This is gonna be one by seven and I want to cut it in half at three and a half So it's gonna be one inch by three and a half inches and I'm gonna use those two pieces on one of my cards Next I'm gonna take this piece and I'm gonna cut it to five inches I'm gonna save this piece because I'm gonna use this piece on my box as the embellishment Then I have this piece left left and I'm gonna take it and cut it to one and three quarters by three quarter inches Sorry, I'm gonna cut it to three quarter inches by five and one and three quarter inches by five And those are my other two pieces. I'm gonna use on my card So we've got these cuts here And we have all of our pieces right here Okay, so now through the magic of television. I'm gonna show you these cards that I've made using these little pieces I'm gonna start with our first cut This cut was a three and a half by two inch and three inch cut And so you've got the two pieces. This is just the back side of the designers year's paper super cute and The saying I love this one rest and relax. You deserve it super cute The next cut that I made was this one It was a one by seven inch piece that I cut to one by three and a half and I love this one tip with this stamp if you choose to use a stamp set I stamped it first and then put my paper on second That made it so that I could put the paper just right by the stamp and I didn't have a hard time stamping that little sentiment in the middle Super cute though. The next cut This one just a little three quarter inch piece three quarter inch by five and it says thank you Just simple and cute and then this one is that one and three quarter inch piece by five And it says may your birthday be memorable. I've only used one stamp pad with all of my project today This one I chose for this paper was old olive and I think they all look just really cute It works really well with that paper and Don't forget your envelopes. I put the cute little flower stamp in the bottom hand of my envelopes Because it's always more fun to send a card when it's decorated Those cards are gonna go into our box that I made earlier. You can slide them in just like that And that tarant tape is gonna keep it nice and together. So you've got those just like that so cute So now we just need to make our belly band.  Then you're gonna take your Flower that you cut out of that same DSP Then we're gonna take some dimensionals on the back of our little flower And we're gonna add that to the belly band again Make sure you're not adhering it to your box because it won't slide off And we're gonna cover up the seam that we created with our belly band and Then we have our little hello Here's a little tip if you ever put a sentiment over something that's popped up You don't want to put a dimensional here and a dimensional here because it will make it kind of lopsided So I like to put look at it where I want to put it and then on this side I'm gonna put a dimensional because that will make it the same height and then you can use a little bit of adhesive or a Glue dot on the other side Because it's gonna make it then just sit just right how I want it And we're gonna add that just like that And then we've got our cute little box Okay, so let me show you how cute They look different because they have the different designer series paper But you could make bunches of these out of one pack of designer series paper 12 pieces of paper come in our designer series paper packs and each one of these projects only take one of that So if you were to purchase Whisper white cards and envelopes our note cards and envelopes And you had a stamp pad and a stamp set with some sentiments and some cute cute DSP You could replicate this project in no time if you want to see these templates in still pictures Go back to the blog at stamping Jill calm so that you can recreate this project on your own Don't hoard your designer series paper. You ought to use it. The best way to do is to give it as gifts I've hoped you've liked this if you have any questions, let us know and we'll see you next week for another watch it weekly Wednesday


My name is Tristan Portwood. I am a senior from Flemish in Alabama and I'm majoring in nursing. What I like most about UA is all the opportunities they have for us to get involved and once you get involved and start making these friends and families you start finding your community within this huge community and it's just a great thing. I think what surprised me most about UA was how it just seemed so big when I first got here and then after getting involved with so much it was like I was walking from class at first I didn't see anyone that I knew and now it's like I can't walk from building building without running into someone that I know. Sometimes I have to throw my headphones because I'm like I don't want to talk right now so the nursing school here is really competitive. It was challenging and for me I like challenges. I definitely would like to become a pediatric nurse and eventually get my nurse practitioner degree. My biggest advice to incoming freshmen or transfers would be to get involved. We have almost 600 organizations here and it's steadily growing and so there's something here for everyone and once you get involved with an organization or a club or something you find people that have like minds as you do you just kind of become this like family that you never had.


The Vietnamese community have come here over the last four years and today culminating in citizenship for the first group of those who came here in 2008. This has been a program of 5,000 refugees over four or five years. This is the first group that have reached the four year mark in terms of acquiring the right for citizenship and it's a pretty exciting moment for them because they've come from Nepal where they were in a refugee centre for nearly 20 years so for them it's very exciting to be able to go in Australian citizenship and to be a member of the community here. I left Bhutan with my three children and wife and finally landed in the refugee camp in Nepal which was run by the UNHCR for 18 years we were in the camp and the life in the refugee camp is really difficult to live there and then there came a program called Heart Country Resettlement and that gave us a new hope of living again we were so happy I was the first person to choose Australia. I had heard Australia is very peaceful as a very beautiful country and which I am seeing now it is really a beautiful country and very peaceful. This day came after 20 long years of waiting so we can't express in words how happy we are. Our life has been transformed, our despair and all the struggles has been completed and we are very happy and we are living as a very good community here. Because we have been living in a refugee camp situation for 20 long years without a country, without a citizen it was very very important for us to belong to a country. We discussed with the community and we found many people who were interested and we decided that we will do it as a big group. The last 15-20 years we have been celebrating refugee day in the refugee camp and on that day every time we said we want to go back home. Every year we on that day we say we don't want to be refugees. We are very fortunate that the Government of Australia decided to invite us to this country and we thought that let us celebrate the end of our refugee life on a refugee week itself to know ourselves, to feel ourselves that we are no longer refugees. We are normal citizens of a great nation called Australia.


My name is over 2 hours, 100 yards, and I'm not sure if that is a good thing. I'll explain what that means in just a few seconds. I practiced here. I didn't have, okay. Most people do what's called monophagic sleep. That's one block of sleep at night, usually 8 hours. That's what everyone tells you to eat. These green dots here show you the REM sleep that you're getting. We'll explain that a little bit in the next slide here. With monophagic sleep, you sleep for 8 hours. You get about 2 hours of good REM sleep. It's the normal schedule that everyone's on. It means that about 5 hours of the night are wasted, as far as we know. Basically, if you're not sleeping, you're not in REM. It's going to be wasted time. So, polyphagic sleep. There are 5 different methods of polyphagic sleep. They all focus on many 20-minute naps. If you watch Seinfeld, you better remember, I think, Kramer and Dragony, what's called the Uberman, which is not what I'm doing, because that's crazy. This shows a couple different methods that there are. The Uberman at 2 now is one block of core sleep at night, 4 and a half hours, and then 2 20-minute naps. This is what I've been trying to do. I'm going to just zoom in. So, you can see I get my REM sleep at 4 and a half hours, and then I also get my 2 20-minute naps. Well, in theory, it's pretty hard. I've been doing this for about 23 days. I bought a cot. I'm lucky enough that in my office, we have two different offices. And in the warehouse, I could go in there, turn the lights off, put my noise-canceling headphones on, and take a 20-minute nap during the day. Admittedly, not everyone would be able to do that. So, I do my core between 12 and 5, and then I take a nap between 11 and 1, and another nap between 4 and 6. What I like about the other man, one of the two, is it's kind of flexible like that. You can take your naps in a block of time. I keep track of what I'm doing in a little just-in-it-notes. If someone knows of a nap out there that I didn't know about or wants to create one, let me know. But I basically just keep track of wanting to go to sleep, wanting to get up, and then wanting to take my naps. So, one thing I want to talk about, caffeine. I used to drink a lot of coffee, like two to three cups a day. Caffeine doesn't work on this. And so, now I drink tea, which that's caffeine in it, but I only do that about three to four times a week. Hopefully Kevin's not ahead of me for a drink of coffee. I used to set a timer for about 25 minutes to actually get a 20-minute nap. Sometimes I just lie back, like I don't go to sleep. But even that helps, because in your busy day, it's kind of good to focus on breathing. Some other benefits. I used to stay up late and work done and go to bed. Right now I go to bed at the same time as my girlfriend. She likes this. And then I also, there's a really morning Rocky that I never used to play with at the start of the sixth. Some of the drawbacks. The first three weeks are really tough. It's hard to work naps in that weekend. It's hard to nap in general. You have to explain yourself all the time. And when you do, people think you're crazy. So, I've been doing this to days 23. So, I average about 5.57 for the four. I haven't gotten down there yet. I'm trying to get down to five, and then get down to four and a half. Just a little graph to make it look pretty. So, right now I average about 22 minutes for my nap. So, right now, I'm getting 6.29 hours. So, the title is a misnomer. I'm not getting more than two hours than you yet. But the plan is that I will. I've also missed six to 44 naps. It's a bad thing. Different strokes are different folks. It might not work for you. It might not work for me. I just decided I wanted to try it. So far, three weeks in. You know, the jury's still out. I keep track of every day so that I can, you know, try to analyze this because I'm a nerd. Other. I'm thinking about getting a fifth in, or a job on. There's an app out there, but I tested it and my girlfriend moved and it didn't work. If you sleep alone, it won't work. These are things I monitor or sleep, and they help to not wake up in the ground. You wake up and you're really groggy because you're in the middle of deep sleep. Who am I? I'm Anthony. I own a t-shirt company. And I have a lot of things to do, so I need two extra hours on my day. Speaking of t-shirts. Wanted a night bottle of t-shirt. I lie. It's actually $15. And we're going to donate a meal for every shirt is old. See you tonight. Thank you. Sometime during the night. I don't have. This doesn't match. That's what it is.