Okay. Hello all. Welcome to DevCon QS. And I'm here to present you on the topic of Container Security Automation with Ansible. Okay. So a little about me is my name is Sumit Jaswar. I'm currently working as a senior software engineer in Ansible Content Team, where currently I'm largely focusing on Ansible security content. And previous to this, I was actually contributing towards a networking project and Ansible Core as well. So as you can see, my GitHub and IRC handle is J-U-S-T-J-I-S. And my email ID is Jaswar at fethad.com. So at any point of time, if you feel any, if you have any query you want to reach out to me, either you can ping me over IRC or you can directly mail me on this particular mail ID. Okay. So today's agenda is very straightforward with respect to Container Security. So the first one is understanding continuous security concept. Second one is can using Ansible Automation Platform and continuing on understanding terminology for identifying vulnerabilities, automated vulnerability assessment for Docker container using Ansible. And then the schedules can using Ansible Automation Platform for Docker security and then a working demo for two of the tools that we can utilize in our Container Security environment. Okay. So the first one is understanding continuous security concepts. And in this, the key approach is to evolve out of DevOps and the idea of immutable infrastructure. It also means that every time there is a need for a runtime change, either in application code or a configuration, the containers are built and deployed again and the existing ones are turned on. And this allows for predictability, resilience and simplifies deployment of choice at runtime. And because of this, there is no surprise that many operation teams are moving towards this particular idea. And with this, the questions of when these containers should be tested for security and compliance are also answered. And by embracing the entire process of continuous security and scanning and monitoring, you can automate a variety of workloads and workflow basically. So what are the best practices that we need to take care and we need to keep in mind for the continuous security is the first one is we should ensure that there are no vulnerability in the container build. And we are re-scanning the images deployed on production systems. And also third one, the most important one for my prospects can be rebuilding of images instead of passing the particular images. And how in this particular scenario, Ansible and Ansible Automation Platform can help. So as you know, Ansible Security operation is not coming up with a security solution or it's not a security product. It basically comes up with the integration and with the integration of the vendors that are there in the security space, we come up with the integration and then try to resolve the use case using Ansible standpoints. So the first one is automating vulnerability standards that are currently there in the market, which is StackerOx, Accra Security, Anchor. And this enables the programmatic scanning as well. And this helps in automating runtime production tools to ensure images don't change during the runtime. So the continuous security scanning requires us to manage it in a software like Ansible Automation Platform. While most of the distance tool can be used by scanning and maintaining a benchmark for security, we should think about the entire process of the incident response and thread detection as a workflow. So Ansible Security initiative can actually help in either preparation, detection analysis, containment, eradication and recovery, and also can help in post incident activity. So before moving forward, basically I want to go over the basic terminology which is currently used for identifying vulnerabilities. So these are the common terminology that I've included in this presentation and are part of this list. The first one is CVE, which is actually a list of record and its full form is common vulnerability and exposure. And this list of record is that where each contains an identification number, a description, and at least one public reference for publicly known cyber security and vulnerability, basically. So the second one is open vulnerability and assessment language, which is oval. And it's an international information security community standard to promote open and publicly available security contents. Next comes the common weakness enumeration, which is CWE. So CWE is a category system for software weakness and vulnerability. It is basically sustained by a community project with the goals of understanding flaws in software and creating automated tools that can be used to identify, fix, and prevent those flaws, basically. So the last one is national vulnerability database. This data enables automation of vulnerability management, security measurements and compliance. And it's also a US government vulnerability management database which is available for public and can be used in XML format. So there are many different ways for evaluating security of containers, right? So containers, as you know, in this current scenario, containers are everywhere. And below are the basic tools that can be used to help in achieving continuous security and as well as hard in the your container environment or the community's environment. So the first one that I've included in this presentation is the Dockerbench, which is actually a shell script. And it is used to perform checks based on your Center for Information Security Database, which is CIS. The second one is Clare, which is actually a static or based static analysis based tool. And it has also helped to perform vulnerability analysis based on the CVE database. So the third part of the tools is Stackerox, Aquasec, or Anchor. So these are more elaborated tools, which actually exposes plenty of tools within. And those all come together to actually automate a workflow in the container security world. So it's basically a platform to security evaluation and helps make runtime policy decisions. Another one is Aquasec-Crivy. And it's basically a simple and comprehensive vulnerability scanner for containers. So the last one is OS Query, which is an OS instrumentation framework for OS analytics to do the HIDs type of activities. Okay. So the first one in the list was Dockerbench for security, which I told you guys that it's a shell script to perform multiple checks against the Docker container environment. So the Dockerbench for security is basically a script that checks for dozens of common best practices around deploying containers in productions. And these sets are all automated and are inspired by CIS Dockerbench. So there are what all criteria is a document checks for. It can actually checks for your host configuration. It can check for your Docker demon configuration and files. It can check for your Docker container images. It helps in checking the Docker rent times also helps in checking the Docker security operations. And last but not the least Docker swarm configuration as well. So I'll be showing over the working demo how you can use Dockerbench in your environment using Ansible. So I'll be just going over the working demo at the last of these presentations after discussing all the tools. So stay tuned. So the second one is Clare. So Clare allows us to perform static vulnerability analysis against containers by checking with the existing vulnerability database, which is in this case, ACVE. It also allows to perform voluntary checks against our Docker container images using the Clare database. If you want to have more details, it can be found over your GitHub repo of Clare, which is github.com. Or OS Clare. And Clare is also an open source project, which is a very good from container security world. And if you want to have like if you want to contribute to the project, we can directly do that. So it also ingests vulnerability made out of metadata from a complicated set of sources. It helps clients to use Clare API to index their container images and can match it against those vulnerabilities. And the last point is Clare scanner, which actually can trigger a simple scan against a container based on certain events to check for existing vulnerabilities. So I've included a playbook on run result from Clare. And I have done that because Clare installation and its setup is big complex. So I didn't want to come like run the entire setup and run that particular check during the work, working demo, because it could have taken too much of time. So here it is. You can see the playbook where I'm trying to scan the containers over local host. And I'm not trying to gather any facts. The variables I have used is first one input is image to scan, which is in which in this case, I'm currently using Debian SID. And I have created a Clare server, which is at this particular IP and port. So the first task is downloading and setting up the Clare scanner binary. So I've given the get URL module on various URL and destination. So I'm downloading from this particular URL and trying to copy to destination folder. Then I'm trying to scan that particular image, which I have used in variables, which is Debian SID in this case, SID. And I'm trying to fire the command player scanner on the entire command. And then I'm trying to register the scan output and trying to download the report locally and basically use that particular output to show the actual result. On the right hand side, you can see the result of the report. And you can see the image that I have scanned is Debian SID. And what are the unapproved CVs there is currently? And what are the vulnerability that has the particular container has? So that is how you can use Clare. And actually, it helps in static analysis for your container, like for your container. Now I'm just scheduled scan using Ansible automation platform for Docker security. So basically, in case of continuous security practice, you'll have to do everything in a repetitive world, in a repetitive task sort of manner, where you are planning, doing, starting and acting at the same time, and you are doing it continuously. That's how you can achieve your continuous security practice. So and by following standard checklists and benchmark, and using Ansible automation platform to execute them on the containers, we can actually achieve this. And we can check for security issues and act on them basically. So the first one, as I talked about was StackRocs, which is actually, which actually helps in continuous hardening, which helps in continuous hardening, automatically. So StackRocs basically provides the security across the container lifecycle, and StackRocs container security platform reduces the attack surface as well. It also ensures compliance and stop attacks. So and StackRocs leverages the benefit of Kubernetes native approach to security. And it's basically works on three basic principles, which is this a context where StackRocs add context container data using declarative data in Kubernetes. And it also increases the risk profiling, vulnerability management, runtime detection, and your overall visibility. And the second one is your native enforcement, which actually helps in policy enforcement. And here is StackRocs leverages Kubernetes built-in controls, which actually help in minimizing the operational risk of using third-party inline proxying or blocking solutions. And it also helps in continuous security and continuous hardening basically. So it actually helps in continuously monitoring and minimizing the attack surface, as StackRocs uses knowledge from runtime behavior to all the subsequent builds and deployments and basically vice versa thing. So the StackRocs focuses on Kubernetes helps, develops, and security team operationalized security simplifying the process of protecting and cloud native application standards. Okay, so StackRocs exposes Hugh Blinter as a tool, which actually is a static analysis too. And that checks Kubernetes YAML file and Helm charts to ensure the application represented in them adheres to the best practices. So it analyzes Kubernetes YAML and checks them against a variety of best practices with a focus on production readiness and basically security. So Hugh Blinter is configurable, okay? So if you want to enable and disable checks, we can do that. Also, if you want to create your own, if you want to come up with your own custom checks, you can do that because from company to company and organization to organization, rule might differ. So we can make a custom rule and apply in Hugh Blinter. And Hugh Blinter also helps in giving recommendation whenever there is a failure in the lyncher. Okay, so Anchor Engine is an open source project, which actually provides a centralized service of inspection analysis and certification of container images. And Anchor Engine can be accessed directly through RESTful APIs or Anchor CLI. But in our case, we will most probably go through a REST API. And the Anchor Engine is provided as a data image that can be run standalone or within orchestration platforms. And how it helps achieving the system hardening or the container hardening is via policy evaluation operations, your image operation, image operation checks, your policy operation checks, your registry operation checks, your subscription operation checks, and your system operation checks. Okay, so another tool is Accoset Cubebench for Center for Internet Security Benchmark scan. And Cubebench is a tool that checks whether Kubernetes is deployed securely by running the text documented in the CIS Kubernetes benchmark. And basically CIS is an organization which actually provides best practices for secure configuration of the target system. And it actually covers plenty of technology of which containers and Kubernetes is part of it. And it is developed through unique consensus based approach, which actually comprises of cyber security professional and subject matter experts around the world. And it also checks and verify Kubernetes deploy as for Kubernetes best practices. So what are the advantages of Cubebench? It's an open source tool. It actually performs automated assessment. It checks and verify for Kubernetes security best practices. It's installed directly or can be installed by a Docker container as well. Okay, so as I was talking about Truby before, so Truby is a simple and very easy to use tool. And it's also a static analysis tool. And Truby actually detects vulnerability of OS packages, basically your container OS packages like Alpine, REL, CentOS, etc. And it also helps in identifying the application dependencies. And Truby is easy to use. And if we just install and if you just install the binary, we can just directly consume it for a standing. And all we need to do for a standing is to specify a target such as image name of the container based. So that's why it's one of the most used tool in the container security world. And because because of its advantages like open source, it's an open source target, simple, it's fast, it can be easily installed. It actually helps in detecting comprehensive vulnerabilities. It has high accuracy, high accuracy, and it can easily be fitted in your desktop pipeline. It actually supports multiple formats as well. Okay, so now we'll discuss about schedule scan for file integrity checks. And this is basically hostable monitoring using Ansible automation platform. And the main advantage of being able to execute command on the host using Ansible is the ability to get the internal system information like file ashes, your network connection details, your list of learning processes. So it can basically act as a light based host based intrusion detection system. Okay, so before going to this, I want to show the working demo part of it. So let me stop presenting this and start presenting my command line. Okay, so I hope everyone can see the screen. Let me freeze the font a bit. Okay, so I hope the font is clear enough. Let me log into the device. Okay, let me check the version of Ansible that I'm currently using. Okay, so this is the environment is now set up for Ansible. Let me set that. So this basically sets up your Ansible environment. You can see the version now. So the current version that I'll be using is Ansible 2.11.2. So I have my demo content under my demo folder. And the first one that I'll show is Docker Bench for security. So let me go through the Docker Bench playbook. Okay, so as you can see, this is the Docker Bench security playbook. And what I'm trying to do is first I'm running on the local host and trying to elevate the privilege to urban level and trying to gather paths. And at this point, the task that I'm trying to perform is making sure that it is installed. And then I'm trying to download the Docker Bench security from the GitHub report to a destination to a local destination folder. And then I'm trying to run the Docker Bench security scan from the directory. And then I'm downloading the report locally and trying to report that result. So let me run this. Okay, so as you see, it gathered facts. It actually checked for git installation. Its access is already present. It will not show any change. And the Docker Bench for security also is already downloaded. It will not change as it will not show as change. So the first I will try to run the Docker command scan, the security command. And because of that, it is showing change as true. And then I just try to download it, try to download the report locally. And then it can be shown that, okay, at this part, my reports has been downloaded. So let me show you guys the report. Okay, so this is how your Docker Bench security result might look like. And you can see the first one is check result and it is checking based on host configuration. So these are the host configuration. And these are the results you can see, right? Warning info, warning info. And let's say if there is, let's see if there is any pass. Yeah, okay, you can see that there is one pass. And okay, sorry. This is for Docker demon configuration. And then for Docker configuration files. So likewise, it will go ahead and scan for all the parameters that it supposed to scan like container on time, Docker security operation, and Docker song configuration. And other files like, so this again started for Docker demon configuration. And another tool that I wanted to run with respect to continue security was aqua sectory. So let me just open the trivia. So this is very basic playbook. As you can see, I'm currently trying up. So first off, I have installed review. And then I'm the task that I'm including is verify image using trivia command. So I can use to be directly with the image. And here I'm using goal and version one, two, you'll find. And I'm trying to save the result in decent format. And then I'm trying to pass that decent file and trying to display the result. So if you can, now if I have the playbook should give the output in order, ma'am, to run the image scan. Okay, so as you can see, it ran the scan over goal find version one, two or one, one, two. And these are the volume that is currently found in this. So you can see the severity, right, critical severity as high, high. So based on your company requirement or your organization requirement, basically, we can choose to fix the issues that is being identified by trivia standard. So we can choose to identify critical, all critical issues and try to resolve first based on the priority we can decide on fixing high or medium or low priorities as well. You can see it has actually showed you all the results. They starting from high, medium, and low as well. So this was the demo that I wanted to show you all. So let's get back to our presentation and start presenting my slide deck. Okay, so hope everyone can see the slide deck again. So now this one is the most important part of our discussion, which is call for action. So basically, as we know, containers are rapidly changing the world of developers and operation teams and everyone wants to make it as a part of the DevSecOps pipeline.  So how you guys from the community can help us in achieving that particular security hardening and helps in achieving Ansible as a tool, preferred tool for container security. You can help us in identifying where you basically see Ansible as a benefit in container security world. Like you have a use case where you see that, okay, with this particular use case, Ansible can actually help in automating this particular use case and this can the entire use case can be automated and can be made part of CI pipeline or DevSecOps pipeline. So we ourselves are trying to come up with the integration with all the providers or the security vendors which are actually working in this case, container security and Kubernetes space. Well, out of those are StackRocks, AcroSecurity, Anchor, Prisma, Client, Vistlock, New Vectors and more. So Ansible would love to partner with container security vendor if there's an automation opportunity. So the first many of you might already know that Red Hat has, now StackRocks is part of basically Red Hat. So we are trying to come up with the first integration with StackRocks. So you can stay tuned for getting the integration news and with this particular integration, we'll have a dedicated module for StackRocks and with those modules, it will have all the documentation and everything like Ansible module has. So you can use those module, ready made modules and you can automate the entire scenario of what StackRocks exposes. So also as I told you, you can help us in coming up with the use cases and the things that you want to automate basically using Ansible. So to get in touch with us, you can join the IRC liberal channel which is hashtag Ansible Security and you can also ping us on Ansible network as well. And we have an Ansible Security e-book which is available and all of the demo source resources that I have just shown, all those contents are available and Ansible Security demo content, it has other contents as well. And if you want to check it out, you can go ahead and play around with it and let us know what are your thoughts. So okay, so this brings to the end of our discussion and if you have at any point here, if you have any question or queries with regards to what I presented just now, you can ask now. Thank you again for joining this discussion.


Hello, and welcome to the video series of how to create a super simple bootloader. I'm Bruno and I'll be your host. So here's the agenda for today. We're going to get started by creating a very simple project. Then I'm going to dive into how the linker file works and how to create a few things inside it. And then we're going to split between developing the bootloader and the application. Of course, we're going to also share an API between the two of them. And then I'm going to add a bonus track where I'm going to create a very simple static library to add in the project. So let's get started. The first thing is to create a project using the STM32Q by DE for the nuclear board G071. So here I'm going to create and I'm going to select tab for the boards filtered by TMCU, the G071. And then scroll down until I find the G071 board. And for this particular project, I'll label it as bootloader. And once the project is loaded, all I have to do is make sure that I know the settings for the UR, because that's what we're going to actually use throughout the video series. So I'm expanding here so everyone can see the above rate, parity and sub-bit. All right, now that this is all set, we can actually switch to the linker file settings. So before we jump into the linker file hands-on, I just want to share a little bit about the flow between compiler, assembler and linker file. The compiler and assembler will take the input source and produce the option files. Once we build and the linker file, which is the main objective of our videos, will be the one responsible to piece everything together and produce the final binary for us. As part of the linker file, we have the linker script, which is on the broad sense, the configuration file that tells the linker the details for how to combine the object files. This is the place we are actually going to change the play during this hands-on session. So our main goal here is to create a section in the linker file and then create a variable to place there. So by switching to the code and opening the linker script, I can actually go into a little bit more details of how the structure of the linker script works. So first we have the eStack variable that perceives the value that represents the beginning of the stack. By default, the stacks begin at the end of the run, as you can see on the declaration there. This has a sense if you consider the growing pattern followed by the stack. It grows in the opposite side as the heap. It grows from the ending of the run to the beginning of it. So for a broad perspective of how the structure of the run works, here's a chart where we can see the data, which is the segment that stores the global and static variables that are initialized by the application. Then we have the PSS, which stands for the global and static variable that are not initialized. And then we have the heap and stack. The heap will be allocated after the PSS and will grow in the same direction as shown in the arrow, where the stack, as I mentioned, will grow on the opposite side. And finally, we have our memory definitions divided into the run, which has the attributes for execution, read and write, and then flash with the attributions for read and execute. Alright, so I'll browse through here and scroll down into the sections. And what I'm going to create is a pretty straightforward section at the beginning of the yes run with the 100x address offset. And I'm actually going to use the buff section run that I just created. And I use the keep command to ensure that even if I'm not using the compiler will not remove that. And at the bottom, you can see that it was placed on the run region of the linker script. So I can actually go to the code now and use the attribute to place the variable into the section that I just created. So here I'm typing the section and placing the heap of the score run into that position. A simple way to check is by building the application. And at the end, you're going to see it's going to take a very long time to actually create the binary. And you can see here it took roughly 39 seconds to create. And if we go to the build analyzer and over the memory details, we can see that the region is there. The 128 bytes that we created on the buffer is present. And I can even see the name through the build analyzer. So this is very handy to know. But why did it took that much time to create the binary? So the main reason is because the binary file is actually a continuous sequence of bytes. So the array goes from the flash up into the run, populating everything in a continuous way. So an easy way to prevent it is to use the no load command to basically tell the compiler that this part of the run will not be filled. So it will just create the binary for the flash instead of going all the way up to the run. So if we do the same thing, we can see that the memory regions are the same, everything is kept roughly equally. But if we do go to check the binary size, then we can actually see that this size is what we would expect for around 11 kilobytes of information. Alright, so now I'm going to create something very similar, but instead of using on the run allocation, I'm going to use the flash. So I just copy and paste the buff, change the name, edit a few values to initialize that, and I'll just copy that and move to the linker part. So on the linker, very similar to what we had done for the placing in run, now we're going to do the placing flash. So I'm going to create the buff flash here, and this is the address I'm adding 1000x offset from the initial flash position. And inside it, I'm just going to keep and use the section that I just created. And of course, I'm placing that in the flash region. Alright, so if I build this, then I can actually see on the build analyzer that the flash now has the block flash buffer that I created with the 10 bytes. And of course, it's too small to perceive that on the flash size, but if we do enter in the debug mode, and I'm just keeping everything by default here, just connecting the board and entering there, we can go to the window, show view, and memory. And now I can actually add the memory region that I want to check upon. So I'm going to add the region that we created the buff. And by checking, we can actually see that the information is there present. So it was programmed while we updated the firmware there. So that's basically what I wanted to show for the first getting started part of the hands-on session. I hope to see you guys on the next video. And don't forget to like and subscribe if you enjoyed the video. Leave a comment down below. Thank you.


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It is possible that a simple form of life could persist somewhere below the surface. Scientists continue to explore Mars with small remote-controlled vehicles and it will be the target of several future manned missions. Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system with a diameter of more than 11 times that of the Earth. Its atmosphere is dense and very dynamic and is mainly composed of hydrogen, helium and methane. One easily identifiable feature of its atmosphere is the great red spot, a huge storm, twice the size of Earth, which has lasted for hundreds of years. Among Jupiter's varied collection of satellites are two of particular interest. Europa, which hides a large ocean of water beneath its icy surface and Io, with its many volcanoes and continuous lava outflows. Saturn is perhaps the most impressive planet in the entire solar system thanks to its majestic ring system. Saturn's rings are made up of pieces of rock and ice, mainly from former satellites that were torn apart by the planet's gravity. One of Saturn's moons, Titan, is an interesting world. Scientists have detected an atmosphere rich in organic matter and a surface with lakes of liquid methane. The next planet from our sun is Uranus which also has a large but less dramatic ring system. The outermost planet in the solar system, Neptune, looks quite like Uranus, yet has a much more active atmosphere. Beyond Neptune is a region containing dwarf planets such as Pluto, Eris, Makemake and Haumia. These dwarf planets, as well as probably hundreds more as yet undiscovered and thousands of smaller objects are located in a large zone at the edge of the solar system called the Kuiper Belt. Further in, between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt contains thousands of asteroids of various shapes and sizes. Space probes have managed to approach some of them and study them in detail. One probe even landed on the asteroid Eros and analyzed its surface. Finally, there are a huge number of celestial objects composed of ice and dust that we sometimes see from Earth as comets. In the past, their presence in the sky was thought to herald destruction and political upheaval. The sun and its planets belong to a giant complex of at least 200 billion stars that make up our galaxy, the Milky Way. Recently, we have detected planets in orbit around other stars in our galaxy and the study of these new and sometimes exotic worlds is a burgeoning field of observational astronomy. Stars come in many different types and sizes, but none of them live forever. Their lifetimes range from a few million to billions of years. But when their fuel is exhausted, they die.  Stars usually form in groups called stellar clusters, which fall into two categories, globular or open clusters. Globular clusters have a high concentration of stars, tightly bound into a ball by gravity. And their age can be deduced from the distribution of the types of stars within each cluster, giving astronomers a key to their history. They are very common objects within galaxies. Some giant elliptical galaxies can host up to 30,000 globular clusters. Open clusters contain a smaller number of stars, all of much the same age. Stars in open clusters are loosely bound by gravity. Such clusters lose some or even all of their stars to the effects of gravity from other star clusters or gas clouds as they orbit the Milky Way center. In general, open clusters survive for a few hundred million years. Between the stars there are huge clouds of interstellar dust and gas. The gas in these nebulae consists of hydrogen, helium and other ionized gases. There are reflection nebulae, emission nebulae and dark nebulae. If conditions are right, these clouds can also collapse under their own gravity until nuclear fusion ignites and new stars are born. The great act of creation continues to this day. Planetary nebulae are a type of emission nebula that are created when stars similar to the Sun expand, eject their outer layers and eventually become white dwarves. Phenova remnants are a special type of nebula which enrich interstellar space with the heavy chemical elements indispensable to the creation of life. These remnants are the last surviving traces of the spectacular final demise of high mass stars. Our galaxy is a spiral galaxy, 150,000 light years wide. At its center, a colossal black hole with a mass of about 4 million suns is lurking. Enormous as it is, the Milky Way is far from the only galaxy in the universe. There are hundreds of billions of galaxies and they come in all shapes and sizes. Elliptical galaxies are typically made up of older stars. Spirals are usually composed of a nucleus thought to host a black hole and two or more spiral arms extending outwards from the galaxy's center. More than half of all observed galaxies are spirals. Galaxies with no specific shape are called irregular. Their dust and gas content is huge. Most large irregular galaxies began as spirals or ellipticals but were deformed by the gravitational pull of other galaxies. Under the influence of gravity, galaxies have a tendency to form groups, clusters and superclusters. Within groups and clusters of galaxies, interactions and collisions are regular occurrences which can distort the shape of the interacting galaxies and even change the course of their evolution. The universe of galaxies is one that is in constant motion, a sweeping cosmic dance which, although beautiful, reveals the violence at its heart. It appears that the universe was created in a tremendous expansion, the Big Bang, almost 14 billion years ago. Since then, the universe has been expanding Today, its expansion not only continues, but is accelerating. But despite all that we have learned, many of the greatest questions about the creation and the eventual demise of the universe remain unanswered. We live in a vast and violent universe that exceeds human measures and imagination but is governed by firm physical laws that allow the extraordinary complexity we call life to arise. From our vantage point, on a pale blue planet orbiting an undistinguished star far from the center of our galaxy, we are privileged to be able to look out and seek the answers to these grand questions of existence. I guess you're about the only person around that doesn't have TV coverage of the scene. That's right, I don't mind a bit. Okay, you've got the flag up now, and you can see the stars in the sky. I'm going to take it up now. Are you getting a TV picture now, Hampton? Neil, yes, we are getting a TV picture. You're going to have to live in it now. That's one small step for man.


All right. What's next for oil prices after reaching bear market territory? Let's ask Eric Weigans, your portfolio manager at U.S. Bank. So, Eric, this is the first time oil prices hit bear market territory since last August. Clearly, those OPEC cuts from late last year didn't do anything to raise the bar on prices. They really didn't address the supply and demand imbalance. Interestingly enough, we've had a production response here in the United States that has effectively overwhelmed the reduction both by OPEC and some of the large non-OPEC producers. RIG counts have certainly surged off the lows and North American production continues to offset those decreases. But this drop in oil prices to $43 a barrel, is that more of a supply issue versus a demand issue? In other words, usually when you see, sometimes when you see falling oil prices, people worry about global growth, but that's not really in the equation here right now. Not just yet, but that will be cause for concern as investors look forward. Rightly so, you're looking at it's a two-sided equation. On one side supply, we are seeing North American production increase. Demand hasn't diminished, exacerbating that imbalance, but it's something that we'll truly look at. We're generally seeing firming economic activity around the world. The biggest consumer, the swing consumer has been the Chinese and there's some moderation there. So there's a lot to learn yet as we look towards the future for energy. And we know last year and the year before any time oil prices drop, the stock market would drop by a similar amount. So does this current bear market and oil matter much for the stock market? We know energy is what, 6% of the S&P 500. We also know a lot of financial firms are lending to the energy sector. It does have broad-based implications. We're not overly concerned just yet, but what will be very important will be as we move into second-quarter earning season, so much of the increase that's expected from an operating standpoint for the S&P is actually derived from the energy sector. Again, looking on a year over year basis, while we can talk about how we're back in bear market territory on a year over year basis, we've seen a significant increase in the price accrued. So that should be helpful to reported earnings, but their commentary as far as economic activity and expectations moving forward will be very closely scrutinized. The commentary could overshadow the positive year over year comparables. Correct. Alright, now where do you see opportunities in the stock market right now? We're still flirting with record highs. We are flirting with record highs, but there has been significant rotation within the market. It's very interesting to note that nine of the 11 economic sectors are in positive territory on a year-to-day basis. We've had size benefit, large caps have outperformed small. We've seen growth outperform value. From our perspective, we're continuing to find opportunities, select opportunities within areas like technology. We've actually seen some opportunities in health care and finance as well. Alright, we'll leave it there. Eric Weigand from U.S. Bank, thanks for coming back with us. Thank you very much. Alright, I'm Scott Gamm and you're watching The Street.


Yo, what's going on leaf nation sleeper back again and welcome back to another episode of Monopoly hut today We are starting off episode 3 of Monopoly hut if you guys did miss the last two episodes Be sure to get caught up before I spoil anything for the guys that are caught up If you guys do remember we did win the division 10 title last episode today We are starting off in division 9, but before we head into any gameplay We have to go roll the dice and land on a spot. Let's see what we get All right guys first roll on the episode and we are getting a four All right guys, so a four is open up three packs So let's head into the store and open up these three packs We didn't land on special packs again, which sucks, but we did land on three packs Which is these three premium packs So hopefully it'll give us something to upgrade the team three packs is a lot of packs Don't get me wrong So hopefully EA can bless us with some good packs on this episode. So here we go a couple silver players Start out the pack. We got an Anton Linholm. Don't know if he will upgrade the defensive now We got a pretty sick Wildcats Jersey We got a Rangers away contracts, which are gonna be good a Blazers Jersey a Pete William Carlson 82 overall. We will definitely definitely take that. He's he's a huge upgrade to the team That's for sure. He'll probably be second-line center Maybe not only 80 face-offs, but we'll see William Carlson. We will take that is a pretty good pull And that's our first pack out of the three. We will take that second pack here I mean a freaking top of William Carlson.  We can't complain of Vander Kane So there's another great pull. These packs are giving out to us man He will definitely be headed to the team one of the better players for sure of Vander Kane We will take that welcome to the Monopoly hot team Okay, I doubt we use him. We do have a better goaltender. We pull a prime time We could use him as our backup goaltender still pretty cool. It's a prime time card. We'll take it I doubt there'll be anything left in this pack No, but we will definitely take an Evander Kane. Okay, so I just figured out that Somehow my webcam was messing up So I don't know if there's even gonna be a webcam for the packs Maybe I fixed it now, but it was very laggy So I don't know if there's gonna be a webcam to start off the episode, which I do apologize But there will be for maybe this pack or the games. I still gotta fix it. So I'm not too sure. So we got a Ukraine Helmet there Luke Coleman, can we get anything to help out of the team so far these packs were good. This is our last pack So maybe there's something good. Racco Gouda Stel. He makes the team Sound Tigers Jersey Cabrera and Holzer will not make the team I bet you that's going to be it for this pack And it is but we can't complain about the packs, but now it is time to go upgrade the team All right, guys So we did make our changes to the team as you can see we have Evander Kane playing first line alongside Monahan and Pointus Arberg on the second line. We did put William Carlson in which we did pull He is a playing alongside Adrian Campe and Gauthier and then on the third line we put Coral down on the third We put Anthem to see you here and we put Kerry down to the fourth line getting rid of David camp I know he just had his first games last episode, but Paul Kerry does look like a better car than David camp Then on defense we didn't really pull anything to help upgrade the team So no upgrades on defense and then in net we did put that prime time in net for us Because why not it's a sick looking card, but nevertheless it is time to head into the first game Our first ever came in Division 9. So as you guys can see a clean slate in Division 9 We're ready to go in attack and just come out of Division 9 undefeated like Div 10 So let's get right into it. All right guys first game in Division 9.  That's sick. That's That's just great besides that. I don't think it's that good of a team So hopefully we can just shut down Gretzky and score some goals here Let's go Evander Cain the new acquisition with a beautiful toe drag Someone come with him aberg. What a save by Ben Bishop also Ben Bishop in that he's gonna be hard to beat man Okay, I Thought I was gonna pick up that puck it went right through me And we're down 1-0 this guy's a good player with a good team. It's going to be an interesting episode That's for sure Here we go monahen. There we go. Take that monahen. Oh my bishop.  It's Ben Bishop. No, it isn't Nice move back across Adrian Kempe.  We finally beat Ben Bishop Let's go. Like I said, I have faith in this team nothing but faith A few moments later We forced that across all day every day William Carlson in his debut pots it in we're up by one literally 10 seconds later Let's go boys Get that up Here we okay Towards the end of his shift, but you didn't care to William Carlson William Carlson I'm in love with this hot card. You just set him up. He'll shoot it. It goes in 3-1 We're loving it. The boys are still buzzing by the way. We're still buzzing I mean, what did I say last period if we kept going the way we were going We were eventually gonna find the back of the net and we did William Carlson having himself a debut We're playing well if we keep it up. We're gonna have this win in the bag All right, we're gonna cover the path the cross crease. Let's go suit Okay, we're gonna pray to god If this goal got called off, we're gonna blame suitor for rushing the goalie again If this goal goes in, it's on suitor. Nice gonna didn't help much.  That's gonna stay with him He takes any shots just Get in front of it and we didn't do that there Rasmus Dallin puts one in he's down by one Please do not choke. Please do not choke. Uh, huh? He picked that up with ease No way. No way. No way I don't know how I didn't get that puck I'm not happy and what did I say? Don't choke. Don't choke. Don't choke. What did we do? We choked Three seconds to go There it is here. That was it. I'll go into Uh, I mean you look on the bright side.  Oh my god No, that that's not good. Oh what a poke And we go now and we just go we skate We skate a little hard out campy and we pass out across and trolley quill finishes it for the win Let's go. We didn't choke We didn't choke, baby. Let's go boy. It's not the way I thought div nine was going to start off Nevertheless, we did get the window. We didn't choke it. So there's a confirmation of the two points One oh and oh two start div nine. We completed some jeppus. So that's some coins there and these are the final stats I mean it was a decently close game I did feel like I played better in the end.  We're up to 6k now That's an extra 200 coins and then we also completed something in the milestones, which isn't uh alone But we're not gonna use them All right, guys. So we did end up coming out on top last game as you guys just saw So now it is time to go back to the board roll the dice and hope for uh, either buy a player or uh, some Pack just no bankrupt, please. All right guys second roll of the episode and we get a 10 All right, guys. So a 10 is open up to premium packs So we're gonna go ahead and open up to premium packs So we did pass start for the first time already, which is crazy three episodes in we already went around the board Full time, which is crazy. So hopefully these premium packs do get us something good They were good to us last time. So hopefully it's the same. We had 10 contracts contracts.  So here we go I feel it. Ooh, okay a gold collectible that that should go for something The thing is if we do sell it and we go bankrupt That's a lot of coins we're missing but we will take a gold collectible for now We'll keep it you guys. Let me know what you guys want me to do with it. We'll keep the gold collectible though That's really nice to pull Now we're looking for a player to upgrade the team Uh, we still have about four cards left. Hopefully there's a gold player back here somewhere Graves Feel the thrill baby. Let's go feel castle. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome to the team We will take that all day every day. Welcome. Feel the thrill. All right, boys The one and only upgrade we got from those packs was feel the thrill But we will definitely take that. We are definitely excited to use this card 92 speed He is a fast boy with a really good shot. So he is going to help the team a lot And he's ready to snipe some genius for us in the second game of the episode. Let's get it All right guys, so the last clip was me putting castle on the team. We did go and play the game And uh, sadly, uh, the footage got corrupted. So I'm just here to update you guys on what happened For that game. We did end up winning eight to four We had a very good game castle had a great debut had two goals Scored one of the nicest goals I ever scored an initial 20 Which I can't show you guys because the files got corrupted But we did win eight four. We are now two o and o and division nine making a six and o Through division 10 and nine. So we were undefeated still But yeah, if you guys did end up enjoying this video of monopoly hut number three Make sure to drop a like if you guys are new around here Make sure to hit the subscribe button and we are on the road for 2000 subscribers and we were getting close Uh, very close to it. 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When people have something horrible happen to them, eventually it is a spiritual struggle. Many people have no qualms whatsoever to come to see me at any time. That's what I'm here for. We as religious people were wondering, you know, how in the world can we cooperate with all of these other entities, you know, and, you know, where do we fit? Everyone is a service provider, be it clergy, be it someone working in the field of domestic violence. The value of linking the faith community with the victim assistance community is that all are needed to serve the individual. We both speak the language of compassion. Fragmentation does not work with victimization and healing. Unity works, holistic works, and coming together to help the person come together works. In 1982, the President's Task Force came out with its report on crime victims. Studies have shown that clergy were one of the first places that victims started to go to in the natural course of seeking counseling or moral support. And clergy were almost forced to begin to learn more about crime victim issues. I got involved as a police chaplain with the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Department, the Santa Fe Police Department because of the trauma that these officers were going through. This was that shooting that happened out there off of Rufina Street, and, you know, I was the second officer there. I was back up to David, and I just was kind of overwhelmed with the whole thing. Ministers began being asked by police departments to assist in counseling of police officers. I saw a lot of law enforcement officers that were in pain that didn't know how to process. I was right there to help them. Of course, when events happen in different communities, such as the Oklahoma City bombing, clergy are often pulled into that to assist in the response. So I made my way back down to the temporary morgue, and when I walked in, our officers, our detectives who were working that scene, you could tell were traumatized. How do you deal with the human spirit that's been crushed by what it's seen, what it's smelled, what it's heard? Crises and traumatic issues are things that strip us at our very core values because we just never thought it would happen to us. So a specific trained chaplain working alongside of law enforcement and helping our community is the ideal person to be that first responder. The Clergy Response Institute was established in Oklahoma City to help train clergy for any kind of community response that they may face, and also to receive training on criminal victimization and violence. Our chaplaincy has great partnerships within our community with community-based organizations. So who do you have going with you? Well, Frank's giving me some direction. He's going to give me further direction here in a little bit. We're going to contact the counselors and psychologists at the school in order to make sure that they have a heads up as to why the boys are absent. What district is this? It's going to be San Juan Unified School District. We have over 70 chaplains that respond alongside of officers to victims in homicides, suicides, fatal accidents, child deaths. If they're standing in a rain because of a fatal accident, it could be just to hold an umbrella for them. Get them a cup of coffee. Here I have a beautiful crucifix.  I would say to them at the scene, it doesn't matter what I am. What matters is that I'm here. I'm here for you. I'm not here to preach to you about my religion or impose to you on my religion. The fact is that I'm here for you. What can I do for you? Sidron Institute is a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to educate all the different professionals and individuals who work with victims. And their expertise is on trauma. The challenge was to explore ways to bring the faith community and the secular service providers who work with victims together to form a cohesive network. We were hired to develop this project, bringing Elaine's gifts as a service provider and mine is clergy. The more traditional service providers actually will say to you, I cannot meet the spiritual needs of many of the people who come to me for help. So I know that there's parts of the healing that I cannot address. However, I'm not very comfortable in working with people of the faith community with clergy because they don't understand how we provide services and we don't understand them. The justice system is beautiful in this country but it's also complicated. What I see is the greatest challenge is trust between the two professions. Probably the most important way to build relationships is one-on-one contact. Also, joint training sessions where you know that individuals have been exposed to the same sort of material and learning that you have. I have to be honest enough to say to myself, I've taken this person as far as I can go. Now I need to give this person to somebody else but I need that person that I can trust to refer to that person. Today I feel like they have invited us in, they pulled us in and looked at us as a viable option for services to people. We can reach people where they can't, they can reach people where we can't. The church provides something tangible, although you can't put your hands on it, it's tangible and it manifests itself in how a victim behaves and goes about following the rest of the links of the chain. The person who's the service provider in the clinic only knows what the client presents them with. If I walk around the corner to go get a couple of kids and practice, I see them where they play, I see their house, I've chatted with the adult that they live with so I think there's an opportunity for exchange of information and support. We always talk about collaboration. Collaboration is very important and it's got to be modeled between the two of us and I can tell you that's when people see us, they say, wow, the two of you, you know. We have different methods sometimes, different ways of approaching people and one thing that we in our heart and soul believe in and the reason we're doing this work is because the core of it all is to respect the victim, to respect their needs, so we always say, remember the double Rs, respect and relationships. The Gospel Reservation is located next to the city of Usk in northeast Washington, about 40 miles south of the Canadian border. We experience, like any other city or population, a diverse array of crimes. We have a high population of the individuals that we work with that are experiencing domestic violence, sexual assault. Those are probably our highest. The first dream that was going to meet those needs was the Camus Institute. It would provide, you know, the health and wellness services and any other services, basically, would meet the tribal needs for the elders, the children and all that. The Camus Institute, the essence of the person is defined in four ways, which make up the spirit, which is the emotional, the psychological, the physical and the spiritual and this embodies the whole person. We just praise you as we pray for the Four Directions, Father. We just thank you for each and all things, Father, that is of living creation in your beautiful name, Ahoh. We call it Marlier Essial, which means medicine wheel in our language. And so we address recovery issues in that way, whether it's with victims of domestic violence, victims of crime, alcohol and drug abuse. It doesn't matter. We address all the issues. I can recall in my early practice that it was a no-no to talk about spirituality with our clients and we do need to address it and it needs to be what the person wants it to be. Victims of crime have been damaged in the way that they look at themselves and it's very, very hard for them to see anything good in their lives. We want to show them all their strengths and to start believing in themselves again. And we do it through our tribal traditions, our sweat house, our winter dancers, our morning smudging process with the sweet grass. When we light it and the smoke comes up, all that time we're making our prayers and cleansing, letting it go with the wind, making it go with the smoke as it reaches up. Native American tribes approach spirituality in different ways. Each tribe has its own sense of spiritual practice. Spiritual practices vary depending on region, location, time of the year. Sometimes if we find somebody faltering, I try to step back and bring them up with me and so that we all walk together. If there's something I can't handle, I say, well, go see Good Joe Wainer's group or refer him to Ricky or somebody. We have a talking circle for men and women. Then we have what we call our light bison recovery support groups. We have men's, women's, children's, family. I'm a survivor of domestic violence, so that means my children learned it, so they need to talk about it. I think my age group is saying, no, we need to talk about these domestic violence secrets and heal from them. Even though I was a professional woman, educated Indian woman at that time, that domestic violence, if it hadn't been for our tribal traditions, I could never have broken it. Ten years from now I see our tribe a little stronger than we are today because we are beginning to become aware of the importance of our traditions, the importance of our culture. We also share our gifts with non-native Americans because it works for anyone who believes. So we're trying to make the community the treatment center. It's like a center without walls. The idea of drawing together the daughters of Abraham came with 9-11. I was very compelled to do something but could not figure out what that something was. Until that happened, I didn't realize that people really don't know anything about us and all of a sudden they're looking at us like we are the enemy. For a while my housekeeper, she wouldn't let me leave the house because I wear a scarf and she was nervous she thought somebody would attack me. I thought if we could bring together Jewish, Christian and Muslim women, we could interact and teach each other. The daughters of Abraham derive the name from the biblical patriarch Abraham. All three of our religions trace our roots to Abraham and look at him as a spiritual father. The daughters of Abraham meet once a month and each meeting is rotated from church to synagogue to mosque. When we meet in a mosque, we respect their holy space by covering ourselves with a scarf or a hat. At each meeting there is a discussion topic and it's announced the meeting before. Some things flow from our meetings. Some of us have backgrounds in non-violence. I was a rape crisis counselor for five years here in Fort Worth and I brought that experience with me. Family violence isn't supposed to happen but it does happen and it does happen in families where they're supposed to be religious and it happens behind closed doors. In any faith community, there are women who are known throughout the faith community through their volunteer work, for example with rape crisis centers and battered women shelters and child abuse programs and so forth. I'm happy we have this group and maybe we need to educate more people that we have a support group that we are willing to help work with them. People in my area know me and they trust me. So if I have had people come to me and talk about being abused, women, and I have guided them where to go because not being in that work myself, I cannot solve the problem but I can help. We have to know how to help them. You know, sometimes we can help them by just listening to them and then advising them where to go for help. We developed a public awareness campaign that was funded by OVC, working with the newspaper here and other media outlets. We developed a poster that we distributed that listed the victim assistance organizations throughout Tarrant County as a place where women of any faith could go and get help. The value of linking the faith community with the victim assistance community and the psychiatric community with the medical community is that all are needed to serve the individual. I want every community to have a daughters of Abraham group where they can reach out to each other and get to know each other, to get to understand their faiths and be ready to help each other. Brittany, I just need to do a neurologic exam. I have been part of the faculty at the Medical University of South Carolina for now 12 years. But it's real easy, you'll do fine. I was fortunate to be involved with Church of the Holy Cross so that made me also think about what our church is doing, what our synagogue is doing, what our faith community is doing to help victims of child abuse and neglect. So at our Child Abuse Conference, we had a speaker there and she told me about a program that she had heard of in another community where she was helping workers with congregations. And I started thinking, we live in the city of churches, we can do that here. Eve sent a letter to many of the churches asking us to come to a meeting to form this organization to assist citizens in our community and she was hoping to get a conglomerate of different faiths and bringing them together to work within the community. Eve is a religious person and attends church regularly and I'm Jewish and I also attend synagogue regularly and it sort of just felt like the right place to start reaching out to people. As a case worker in the 70s, we were always taught separation of church and state and now with Halas especially, we're bringing the faith community right into our case work which is very different. It's very different but absolutely effective. When I was a case worker with the Department of Social Services about 30 years ago, we had a list of providers in the community to call when we needed help for a client. I can remember calling up to 10 resources before I could get one to say yes, I'll try to meet that need. So Halas has reduced the number of calls to one call. Our case worker today can make a call to their partner with Halas and make a request and receive what they need for their family. Whether it's back to school, back to school drive for supplies, book bags, uniforms, the angel tree at Christmas time, enrichment programs where there's a child who has a special gift that may need maybe piano lessons or they want to learn to dance. I might run an article in our newsletter at Grace Church asking someone to help assist a child to go to summer camp. It helps a child's self-esteem and it also helps the family because the family then can concentrate on something else other than say, well, my child now has essentials for school. Now I can devote my time to seeing that other areas of the family are stabilized. I have a couple of really nice thank you notes. He goes, dear Halas, I thank you for sending me to camp. I like it very much. I have a lot of fun and he drew a picture of himself in the pool. I think that one of the real pleasures about watching Halas grow and it started out really sort of as my baby, but it's an absolutely collectively-owned baby now. Charleston County DSS is the envy of some of my peers in the state because they often ask, how do you get done what you get done? And some have expressed interest in having an organization such as Halas in their communities. It's really a tremendous benefit not only to the case workers but to the families we serve. Thank you all. See you next month. The faith-based community has long been dedicated to helping those who are exploited. I'm a victim of trafficking and I wish this thing didn't happen to me. Human trafficking is any kind of recruitment, harboring, transporting, obtaining a person for the purposes of commercial sex or forced labor. As we all know, slavery has been outlawed for a very long time, but in fact this is modern-day slavery. I came here when I was 17 years old and I came here with a family from my country as a babysitter. When I got to this country, things were nice, but after a few months, things changed. People are tricked or forced or abducted or threatened into situations which against their will. Many times victims of human trafficking come from countries where religion is extremely important to them. So it has not been uncommon for a church to be the only point of contact for the victim of trafficking. I couldn't go nowhere. I couldn't have friends. I couldn't go to school. Trafficking victims often are, you know, observed and constrained. One opportunity for them to leave their trafficking location is that they are allowed, some are allowed to go to church. And so that may be the one small window of opportunity to engage with that victim and begin the identification and the rescue process. Before when I was there in Peru, she told me that, you know, you have your friend there. You could go out and never change. You could go to school and all that. But after that, once I got to this country, it was totally different. He ended up working many, many hours per day, per week under threat of deportation or harm to his family, his mother and sisters in Peru. I think it was five in the morning, four in the morning. Immigration officers came downstairs and they went to another room. When I heard them, I just tried to run away. So what can I do? I just tried to run away. But they caught me when I was outside. Once the investigation gave enough information to the ICE agents that they were possible victims of human trafficking, they were brought back and were placed in a hotel. However, the victims were not willing to come forward with a lot of information. They were absolutely terrified to speak. This is the most vulnerable time for a victim because they have just come out of a slavery situation. They need the most intensive services. A couple of people from my office, including me, and Safe Horizons, we went to the hotel. Once I identified that we were from the Catholic Church, that's when people started talking to us. They told me that they were going to help me. All they have to do is just tell the truth. And that's what I did. They were really nice. They were really nice to me. Many faith-based organizations, and this is certainly true of ours, have the networks to do effective work. And so that makes us unnatural in terms of doing the services. By working with refugees and providing resettlement services, we know whom to go to. We know that people need housing. We know that people need to eat. And how to organize large groups to provide these kind of services. We have many partners in the community that add pieces to our program that we don't do. And I think it enriches our services because it's a difference in agency and personnel and maybe philosophy. Faith-based organizations are part of this broad network. That's why it's been encouraging to see non-governmental agencies and government agencies really come together in, you know, victim-concerned way. Victim-centered approaches to work as a team to address all of those needs. Other crime victims don't get anybody to talk with them, to help them when they get in trouble.  And most of the time, that's just it. Good Samaritan's program is a crime victim assistance program that brings community volunteers into service of crime victims, particularly senior citizens, women living alone, disabled people, people who have no resources to recover after a crime, especially with property crimes, because property crimes are the ones that are solved the least and they are the most frequent crimes that are committed. We think, then, that our Good Samaritan's project could alert community volunteers to this problem that night. And if necessary, come fix the door or the window that night, or come stay there till dawn or till another family member can come. The Good Samaritan's program has been growing for the past year into some new communities. Priced is a city that has been stricken by poverty and crime. Our church is right in the center of a poverty stricken area and we do a lot of ministry work. The Good Samaritan's program, the major attraction to me was that we get community, faith-based community to be a part of looking after those that have been victimized. We work with volunteers throughout the community but we recruit the volunteers by going into churches. We train the volunteers by bringing them into a four-hour training session because they need to be compassionate and understand what crime victims experience. How many of you have been a victim of crime? Just show them hands. A lot of our victims need someone just to listen and it's important to be able to have the communication skills and the listening skills to help those who have been a victim of crime.  We also have a lot of exercises that we use to see what your values are. Sometimes it's hard. We think we know what our values are but when we do that little exercise, sometimes things change. And with this exercise they're able to see that these are my values but I can't force those things on others. Hey, how you doing? Fine, thank you. How you doing? Callie Sanders. Good to meet you Miss Sanders. Miss Sanders? We do some victim service specific training and then we also do some training on how to fix a lock or how to board up a window. We train against American volunteers and everything to do dead bowls, install doors, windows, fences, things of that nature. Whatever the job needs, that's what we train them for. It takes all of us working together to utilize our resources to make sure that the victim is taken care of. If we leave the peace of the community up to cops and prosecutors, we're going to lose. There's too much work to be done. And we have to have, among other things, faith-based institutions leading the way.


On Wednesday afternoon, right after these opening ceremony and the keynote speeches, the LANDAC Conference 2021 will open with a session on Strategic Environmental Assessment and Land Governance. We think this is a relatively new topic, and therefore we would like to invite you to come and explore this topic with us. How does Strategic Environmental Assessment link with land governance? How can SEA help improve land governance? And how can land governance benefit further from SEA? We invite you to come and share with our six panelists from different backgrounds ideas and experiences with this topic and see how LANDAC could possibly do things with this topic. Looking forward to having you Wednesday 3.45. My name is Gwen van Boven from the Netherlands Commission for Environmental Assessment. We are organizing this session together with Utrecht University. Thank you and see you there.


Kudubu kwa mwazimisu, kwa mwazimisu, kwa mwazimisu, kwa mwazimisu. Kwa mwazimisu na aleks. Ehi, aleks! Alexi. Alexi mwazimisu muoto wa wak... ... Drift... ... wa wak Alexi. Ehi, kwa kazi niku drift wa lafuni... Ya, kwa wakini, hiting wa drifting. Wakini, hiting wa drifting. Drift wa wakabit. Karimusana. And he is the CEO and founder of the Let's Drift Travel Company Thank you You are camera number 3 Just introduce yourself No acknowledzi vakho zote So that they can get to know you in death So my name is Alex Kamau I'm the founder of Let's Drift Community Basically Let's Drift is an adventure community We organize travel experiences around the country So we've been here for like 2.5 years we've been organising travel experiences, that's basically what I do. Organising travel experiences. What is your background Mr. Alex? I came from the art and design background, my college studies I did art and design. I professionally worked as a graphic designer before I bumped into the travel industry. So how did you bump into the travel industry? You say it like... You say it like... The reason I say it bumped is not because it's something I intentionally got into or planned to get into. So 2017 was the year I finished college and I went back to live at home. Like the rest of us. Ya. So for me it was like I felt like I was in a crisis. I wasn't sure that I wanted to go into the workspace and work. I didn't feel like I knew who I was. So during that time I took hiking as a hobby. So I would like I come from the village in Ghidongori. So most of my weekends I spent like going out and taking photos doing hikes. You went to groups of schools? Not really. After campus I went to KU, that's when I went back home. So most of the environment at home was either helping at home or I didn't have much to do. So I basically was trying to find something I can do just to keep me creative. That's when I started photography, started hiking with a friend. And during that time when we are now exploring and taking photos that's when guys started taking interest of what we were doing. And then eventually it was like we want to join you, we want to come and go to these places you're going. And again eventually we were like ok maybe we can create a community of guys who love what we're doing. And then just take them out and show them these places how fun. Ya so that's how I say bumped into. Alright. So you are the person who takes the pictures? Ya most of the photos I take myself. Wow, please check out Let's Drift. Let's underscore drift. You're definitely going to love that page. I love the photography work. How about the graphic design? Because I see you have a KF Shop up IV. This is still your work? Ya this is some of my work. So basically one of my laws and one of my passions has always been to merge my background in photography. And design. And bring it into the adventure space. What I do I basically look at Let's Drift as a communication company. In a way what we are trying is to tell a story of the places we take people. So one of the ways we do that is through photography. It's through stories. So our law is to figure out how to package those experiences in a way that people want to like. I want to go there, I want to check out this space. I want to be part of this. So that's basically what I do. I love this. Please check out Let's Underscore Drift. So you can check out the visual art game up IV. It's crazy. I'm loving it. One motor that I like is work, drift, repeat. Work, drift, repeat. What does this mean to you as a worker, as a drifter in the repeat? So there's something I just realized when we were starting Drift. We live in an environment where it's so much papa space. Like you wake up, go to work. It's all about productivity. It's all about hustle. Secure the future. But interesting enough it's amazing what happens in life when you learn to take breaks and see things from the outside. Most of our members are people living within the city. We're able to take out every weekend out and do hiking, load trips and camping. What that means to them as I speak to them every time is that what we're doing with Drift is the only thing you're doing for yourself most of the time. Because during the five days of the week you're either working to hit the goals in the workspace to make the money. But drifting is the one thing which you're doing for yourself. It's the one thing you're doing because... It's the only time you're selfish and experiencing nature. And especially in an environment where there's a lot of mental health challenges I believe one of the best solutions is for people to get out of the city and just go and experience nature at its fullness and that they're able to recalibrate and keep in touch with themselves. Be in touch with yourself and nature definitely helps in that. Wonderful man. So I'd like to know a few things about you. Are you more of a hunter or a gatherer? What do you mean? In whatever context that you want to take it? I'm a hunter or a gatherer. I think I would say I'm a hunter.  I don't know.  Okay, I like that one.  What color do you like? I love yellow. You love yellow for sure? It's weird that you come from Gidungudi. I expected you to come from Mayakut. Oh I'm yellow in my background. So I think yellow for me is a color of creativity. I love it's the best color to express myself. Yellow is the color for you. What is your favorite 90s jab? A song from the 90s. So I can estimate. I'm not into music. What ever other gospel song in your skin in the 90s growing up? Ahim maybe? Yes, give us that hym in the end. I grew up in a religious family. In an Adventist home, which I still am. So I think one of my favorite hym is a hym called How Great Thawat. How Great Thawat? Yeah. Okuna yo DJ. If you could be any animal in the world, which animal would you be? If I would be any animal in the world. Since you interacted with them so much. Ya. Ya. That's a tough one. Please, it's quite fishy. Ya. Definitely, I love behind. I think, let me say, I would love to be a deer maybe. A deer? Alright. Ya. Why a deer? So basically, one of my projects when I was in college, I did painting. I did a series of paintings for deers. So one thing I love about them, for me it's their beauty. And the fact that there are so many species of them. I love how they are formations and everything. How they are built. Ya. Kus you're a visual being. I get your point right there. Alright, what is the last thing you watched and why did you watch it? This is the last one. The last thing I watched? And why did you watch it? So, who is it? Takama ni YouTube. Ja na, taki ja. On the way here. Takama ni Instagram post. So I think yesterday I was on YouTube. Let me try to recall who I was watching on YouTube. I was watching, in fact she's a Kenyan YouTuber. She's an interior designer. So she was talking about how you can transform your small space. She lives in this small space. And I was interested because I also live in a small space and I was figuring out how I can make the most out of it. And I don't have to necessarily live in a big house That's the way to go. Minimalism. Ya, so I'm also kind of minimalism. Which just reminded like just like a few years ago I watched a new Netflix documentary about minimalism. So I think even my YouTube history has much of interior spaces, minimalism and those kind of stuff. Alright, quite an interesting guy right there. Ladies, if you'd like to get in touch with him. Alexu? Alex Kamao. Kamao, on IG. Alright, so we have some pictures from your Instagram page right there. I would like to talk about two or three. So please learn them out from me Mr. Producer. That is picture number one if you can say. What's going on there and what's the whole context? That photo was taken by a guy called Kosmas. That is me in the photo. It was a thing last year. So we were trekking somewhere in Kijabe. It's a lever goods. So for like 10 kilometers you were walking across the lever and then you expected to trek through a lever tunnel like one kilometer. And I think it was very exciting to close that lever. In Kijabe? That's in my mahiu. So we were starting up in mahiu and finishing somewhere in Lemuru. How do you even figure out these destinations? You will get on that one. Next picture please, what's going on there, who's there and why there? So this is a very fascinating photo. I posted it yesterday. So sometimes last month me and 3 friends decided to pack up and go for an adventure. So somewhere as we go along, one of our friends who is driving us doesn't know we are going for a camp. So for him just came with some shots and a t-shirt. And then we were in Nyeri and we were like, you know what, we came to camp. And we get into there but there are fallests and we realize that there is no network and we don't have food. So we only had 5 chapos. In fact he says that I made a milaku in the desert. So we go to this camp inside the Abadiya Forest. 2 fish and 5 chapos. So we go in this forest like there is no network. We didn't say we were going because we thought we were going and coming back. So no one said at home like I will not be there. So we get to this campsite and Abadiya can be insanely cold in the night. Luckily if we find that there were other campers at least they had some firewood and everything. But it's the craziest night I've ever had because we would just go to sleep for an hour, land to the car to Nawasha AC. Then we warm up a little bit, go back to the tent and that's how we survived that night. Wow! So we survived also dad. It's a crazy, crazy experience. Alright, the last question before you share with us. Before you share with us. Okay, we have another picture right there. So that's a place called Deya. It's a place where they mined, most people don't know, they mined the Atomite. The Atomite? Please take us back to Form 1. The Atomite is the thing that we made. So the Atomite is the stuff they use to make chalk. And the plaster. And the medical plaster that people use in the breakdown. So the Atomite is mined here. So these crazy big caves, because they mined them in caves. So when you get inside there, it's very, very artistic. You can get fantastic. Even if you go there in the night and just watch. Not really. They have cut them out in a way that they can't fall. They can't fall? Iki eni jitu mou kuna ma-engineer? Not engineer, just local people. Just local people. They have an association there.  And then you keep on... There's some kind of things they check when they are mining. They have a way, they know that this is where they are. Exactly, this is where to dig, this is where to live. So it's one of the most gorgeous places to visit. So living is learning, but definitely travelling is learning. And interesting enough, most of the places we do, I would say are around the Kiambu, Nairobi area. It's not that far. I don't know, but it's a very interesting model because what we do for the other community, we charge people based on a Mandri subscription. So what happens if you pay your Mandri subscription, which is 1000, you can attend as many trips as you want. So we just meet outside in town in the morning. We jav on the mat, go and visit these waterfalls, caves. Then Iki eni jitu na pita kwa kipandaski, we eat some yama. And go back to Nairobi. And the match you can spend is 300 shillings on the fair 24. So when you play a monthly subscription, you get newsletters on the plans, the trips. The calendar every month and you're able to choose the ones you want to come. So you just take from your calendar. So if you're subscribed, you can enjoy as many as you want to. How can they get to be part of this? The viewers are the people who are in the studio because I feel like people need some downtime. Much upon our stress. Tension is so much. So you can get us through. You can check us through on Instagram at let's underscore drift. Same on Twitter at let's underscore drift. On Facebook let's drift. So you can get you can DM us in any of those pages. You can also type let's drift on your Google search and you'll find a lot of options to get in touch. So you can get up on my personal Instagram at alex.com and then you can just follow me and I think I'm going to help you how to join our community. Alright, thank you very much Mr. Alex. So kuna waliwa tu ambawa nasemanga? South Africa is very beautiful. Egypt is very beautiful. In a scale of 1 to 10, how beautiful is our country Kenya? I think you can't even measure it with other countries. We're just unique. I think this is the best place to be and I think it's about the story we tell ourselves and the story we tell about our country but I think this country is just dope. Thank you very much Mr. Alex for coming through. Let's check them out at let's underscore drift on IG and that's how you can get to be part of that community. Hit them up, they reply to DMs, they reply to everything. Thank you very much Mr. Alex for coming through. Raji the DJ is going to be playing you some music then we'll be back with a second guess and travel edition and let's travel. Let's make 2021 a beautiful year for ourselves and let's fight mental illness. Amma to encourage mental health. Good mental health. Shout out to you for being part of this. We still love like an hours drive until we figure tomati so don't go nowhere, don't take that out.