My name is Margaret Lewisen, language specialist for Good Hope, Chief of Silly School. Teaching the students the language and the culture, and it's mostly based on the language. And for the culture we have a teepee outside that the students go out during the summer time. Teaching hand-on things like craft work, fixing nets, fish nets and all that, etc. Teaching K to 9. I guess it's important for me because I was brought up, I was taught nothing but my language and my culture. And I like to carry that on to the new generation. Because most of them parents can't speak the language. So I like to carry that on with them, especially with the elementary. It is very important for me. For me as a teacher, I'll rate them quite well, above average. Some that don't speak, they're more like kids. They have done very well, and they even left a community. I got good comments back from their parents. They said they're still learning their colors and their numbers, which made me very proud. I should say most of the elementary and the seniors, because we like to go out and do hand-on things. We had one elder come in, teach them how to set snares. Just behind the school, out in the bush, how to set snares. We don't use the wire ones, we use the string that they used long time ago. So that was a little different for them, because it's set up differently. But they're all amazed and their eyes pop out. The string flies up with the strings. It was a little different for them, which was really good. For the seniors, they're doing a lot of craft work too. They did mitts one time, they did some small duffels, which they were really into. The craft work we do, there's a lot of naming the materials. Like the needle or con materials you use, like mousse hide, airway, and all those. You still could label them. The one that I really want to aim is get the community involved and even take the students out for a week, out in the land. Just stay out there and just teach the kids just culture and the language. Don't speak English, just bring the elders there. We have quite a few elders that can just talk. They don't use English, so that is my aim. I'm trying to look at that. To me, it's just like getting their use, get their use and the elementaries. The newborn babies into the language and the culture while they're young. For now, it's just like a new generation. Everything is just high tech things like TV, radios and all that. It would be nice to get all that out and just concentrate on their language. They're talking to them when they're small. Teach them things like cooking and sewing. But now they're growing up too fast. But I guess we can help it, but try. Just try. And I would try. I may have been doing that for my grandchildren. Nowadays, they're asking for iPods and all that, but I would say normal. Yeah, that's my aim in a way. For 10 years down the line, God willing, if we're still alive, our grandchildren and other kids will pick something up and continue. There are lots of youth, teenagers that they can still carry it on. Just got to find a few of them, a handful of them and just tell them to keep going. Carry it on. Just like carrying a torch, run with it and teach everybody. Teach one another as much as you can. But don't give up. Never give up on the culture and the language.


Good morning, T.L.O. what's poppin? Seeing as it is Seeing as it is morning time What other day where you start your day than a hearty breakfast? You hear me? So what we gonna do man?  I mean T Yorkshire Got my tomatoes Got my beans Got my Yorkshire pudding.  I'm a Lincolnshire brand pork bangers sausage Got my eggs, of course. Got my mushrooms And I got some American bread down there because I forgot to get the bread from the store, but you know This is how we about to do it this morning Full English breakfast. No hash browns man. I forgot hash browns too, man. Dang now me personally I am a three-star Michelin rated chef When Gordon Ramsay gets confused he hits me up and I give him pointers on What to do and things of that nature? So this is gonna be you know I'm saying this is gonna be top tier top level. You feel me? This is probably gonna be one of my best One of my best cooking adventures yet Plus it's for y'all. You know I'm saying y'all gonna love this. You know I'm saying we don't get no better really This whole time. I thought I was recording. I wasn't but Okay, so I want to let y'all know off-top I don't eat pork Not for religious reasons, but just because it's a personal preference. I don't really you know I'm saying I don't really indulge in things of that nature, but for y'all I'm gonna do it. So hit that like button. I Got the sausage right here pause Opened up my meat properly so I can reseal it Now we're gonna get the blood pudding Which I tried last night, which is not bad. I Don't know why y'all was making it seem like it was you know, I'm saying the worst thing on earth When in reality This night is not sharp enough. So We're gonna go one.  I didn't let four pieces of blood put in. You know I'm saying And if I try like this and I live in America And you haven't tried it and you live in the UK First of all get in the comments and tell me why why are you living your life like that? You know, it's not that good raw, but why are you living your life like that? Don't let me try your own food You know, man Backsealed because we clean as we go and we're gonna open the bake on The bacon y'all bacon is so different than ours. Like this looked like a whole piece of peed right here. You feel me like This look like him. He might not be able to open this correctly I'm probably gonna have English breakfast for the rest of them week.  You're coming in my video. I don't need you in my video You know, I'm just saying Good cuts of bacon We just gonna go two cuts of bacon man Because I want to savor this for the rest of the week. It seems like there's not a lot in here So we're just gonna go two cuts of bacon We seal that as best as we can Because I'll be back tomorrow for you so don't even worry about it. You feel me and these are the cuts of me Got them all together Boom, I'll be back Got my mushrooms Remember when you open and stuff. Oh Don't rip it like that man. Just take your time Don't rip it so you can reseal it properly man Feel me Take your time That's also what she said We should watch these. I'ma only go three All right for we go for do this like this So you can reseal it, you know, I'm saying slide over here with me Mushrooms meat water. Just a little quick rent See this why I watched them mess around be on a psychedelic trip somewhere. I ain't messing with this two hands for this What's going on trying to get me turn I can't go out like that Uh-uh. All right, we back over here with it.  So I got my mushrooms me personally. I'm gonna cut them up. So I'm gonna cut these up man How's y'all morning y'all coolin? Yeah, I'm cool man. I'm just Making a little traditional English breakfast chopping it up with the people the people being y'all Whoever thought that I'd be putting this much effort into videos. You know I'm saying y'all thought I was just reacting But I'm honestly We just crumbled up like we're going wrong Now let's be real will I edit this video who knows who knows honestly? All right, my tomatoes are my sturdies up. They're going low and slow.  I Gotta do what I got to do Some of y'all might be mad at that. I don't know why but anyway looks like I overestimated the size of this skillet the The black pudding's not gonna be able to fit in there, but you know, we'll do it last whatever Let y'all right now know my bacon looks terrible God damn it Still gonna make it work still gonna make it work man. I Know this does not look great, but I like color on mine man.  So it's getting there y'all got real bacon, I guess we don't But I'm trying man. Hey listen, I'm trying to bring y'all some content. There goes the mushrooms So a quick saute man Make sure they cook all the way through those look good And while we're waiting toaster, I mean in the oven Grate a bread put it in the oven Make me some toast because I don't got no toaster. Do you feel me? So boom now I'm saying clean up as you go Have a mess left and it's preheated to 350 Damn, it's a pot in there. Yeah Is it fun to be? We don't want mushrooms undercooked.  They're not cooking up. Okay That's done the mushrooms are done now.  It's okay. I call that flavor Flavor I honestly like if there's one thing that I'm gonna cook correctly This is black pudding Nice little crisp outside on that No, we ain't we trying over two eggs sunny side up or I'm an attempt at least check me out That went way better than expected. I can't even lie to you Way better than expected. I feel like I'm accomplishing and this is one of my greatest feats Yo, yo, listen. I Just want to thank everybody You know Sam Keep inviting me into their homes every day send me on big TVs. You know, I'm saying cooking the greatest American Chicago breakfast is One of my biggest accomplishments. I feel proud y'all probably looking at this like what what is that? What is he making but me myself? I'm proud of it. Okay greatest like I Like so proud of myself y'all don't even understand. Let's get that couple going You gotta get the like button if you proud of me, man Even if you want some hate and stuff in the comments, but I doubt it man. Y'all gotta be this is my new mental Look at that. I'm sweating. I'm sweating about this. You feel me? This is passion Adam this is past. This is past eat man. Can't forget sugar in my tea, man Took me one hour, but I did it. Watch out man. Watch out. You stop in the the progress of what's going on Everybody on here. I gotta make sure everybody get me. You feel me? Everybody get me. Come on, man. Sure.  It's time to eat man. You feel me? It's time to eat It's time to eat. I gotta do this right. You feel me? I'm even eating with a fork and knife like this is different. I'm moving different. I Feel different. I'm a new man out here. Get a little bite of everything For the first bite you feel me?  I'm gonna tip top too now Give me some beans. Give me some beans. Stop being stingy. Give me some beans Give me some of that black pudding. You feel me? Put it put it put it. You know, man. All right, man. This is a bite of everything dipped in a runny egg Taste test. Electrifying thing I've ever cooked. Might as well kick it. Hey, listen. I'm so proud. Y'all know why I'm so proud of this I couldn't do this But I think come on man. Try to ask me if I care about that. I Absolutely do not. Boom, man. I tried to do fork and knife for y'all, but you know, I'm saying I Wouldn't really talk how to use a fork and knife like that. Give me a little piece of bread Boom put the toast on there the beans Mm-hmm, put a whole egg on there put a whole egg on there. Oh I'm sweating man. Look at my hat Y'all can almost see my scalp. It's crazy Mm-hmm. My bad. I'm supposed to be talking I'm just one of the viewers that almost burnt this thing down trying to get this broken. I don't get no better than them I need a wife from out there, but I'm just trying to you don't sound get busy like this man Eating this whole thing like this. This is a lot of food. Like you would think that man. I bang this I eat the whole plate, but it's a lot man. It's just good though What's up? My bad and cursed it and brought a curse word about me This didn't turn into a ASMR video I'm enjoying myself y'all got the point.  So, you know I'm saying of course. I'm gonna finish this man This gotta be my first video of the day, man. I'm about to go edit this. I'm about to go edit this That's a piece of heaven. Like I think I took these sausages all the way.   I like the way I watch Joel every day Mm-hmm.  I love y'all man. I love y'all. I have a good day man. Say blessed


Hi everyone, Joe from jaskiescasebreaks.com coming at you with 2020-2021 Panini Prison Basketball Salapak Break No. 2-5-0. At the end of the break, we're going to re-randomize everybody's names. Top 8 will not be winning spots in Hit Parade, but we'll be winning 3 Mystery Crate spots. That's from an old description. Big thanks to this group right here for getting in on it, and there are the teams right there. That's the first dice roll. The second dice roll will re-randomize for the Mystery Crate spots, the three of them. Roll it, randomize it, one and a four, five times for names and teams. One, two, three, four, and five. Five times for the teams, one, two, three, four, and five. Alright, here's the first half of the list right here, and the second half right over here. Let's just print and pop. Pop that pack open. Mystery Green, CJ Alibi, nothing too crazy there, what about in here? Red, white, and blue, Brogdon, Rodman, and Ibaka. Alright, nothing terribly crazy there, but let's flip back over here, and let's see who's going to win those three Mystery Crate spots. That's three big hits in it of itself. So second dice roll for the giveaway, four and a three, lucky seven times. Again, top three after seven, one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven. Since it's only the top three, there's going to be a lot of sad faces here, but I appreciate you giving it a shot. Martin, very close, but no cigar. So thanks to you, thanks to everybody for giving this a shot, but it can only be the top three. Three times. Receive Birch, Steve Birch, and Jarrett. Congrats to you, to both of you. We'll see you in that Mystery Crate a little bit later. Bye-bye, jaspyscaserates.com.


The Pan-American Health Organization and the University of the West Indies Climate Change and Health Leaders Fellowship Training Program have teamed up in an effort to educate individuals on the effects of climate change on health. The collaboration is being unveiled in St. Lucia through an affiliate group called CHARGE, Climate and Health Action for Rising Generations. CHARGE President Kezias and Bryce Isidore says the group was recently formed by local environmental enthusiasts. So basically the group is newly formed and it's a great bunch of environmentalist activists that are interested in keeping our environment clean and also concerned about the environment because as we know the environment is where we live and if we do not protect it then we all will suffer. On Wednesday 17th January, CHARGE took to the community to begin their National Primary School Climate Change and Health Awareness Campaign. St. Bryce says the inaugural event is geared at educating the younger generation about climate change and its dangers. So the initiative is a two-day initiative which is one day in the north which is at the Marigold Secondary School and one day in the south at the Mekong Bolsheva Center that way we can get all students involved from all aspects of the island so both from the north and from the south. The target audience for the event was grade five students who are considered to have the right attitude to help initiate change. Nicole Atenez is a grade five teacher at the Forserjack Primary School who hails the initiative as a positive one in the fight for a healthier climate. I think grade five is a great level to start at because they're in the transition stage where they're heading to grade six preparing to head to secondary school so they're at that point where they can advocate with their peers to make that change to make steps to probably stop the littering, stop the deforestation and then with that knowledge they're getting here today as they transition to the secondary school they can keep it up and you know do even better things, bigger things as they grow older. The Bureau of Health Education of the Ministry of Health, Wellness and LLE Affairs also praised the initiative. Being that this program is so significant we will take what we can from this program today and utilize the information at the Bureau of Health and we're educators, we're out in the community so that we can further reinforce the message within the schools and within the community and within NGOs and possibly the churches as well. Student participants coming out of the activity who are already offering advice get at helping build a greener nation. The health fears, though it's too much jumps, work out a little and have a good life. I think that it's really nice and I learned that climate change is really important. Volunteer Shem Hippolyt says the group will be looking into hosting more activities. A few of the plans are, apart from the schools we want to go around in St. Lucia probably into communities and just have campaigns there where we do the same thing with educating them about health and awareness of health and physicality. The campaign is entitled, Promoting Climate Change and Health Awareness in Primary Schools in St. Lucia, Act Now for a More Sustainable and Resilient Future. Charge says the future events will target all ranges as they look forward to hosting annual events. For the Communication Unit of the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Early Affairs, I'm Sant Justin.


Hey guys John Hammond here bandit level 30 from the new over-the-wire levels So I've got the repository downloaded and cloned and everything after I've logged into the account here So let's just dive right in Now that it's created the normal steps that I've been going through and a couple of the other ones were checking out the files That we have currently in the in the repository. They say it's just an empty file So we'll check out the log messages see if there were any previous commits and that's all that we have So obviously just get showing that there was nothing that was there before it's the only commit there ever was So I figured okay. Well, I'll learn my lesson from the the last level check out the branches and there's nothing else particularly interesting there I check out. Okay. What are all the references that we've seen so far? Well, we are just again at the head of the clone from here So what I started to do is I started to explore some more of the git internals because you'll see that whenever you have a Git repository you have this dot git folder that is created whenever you run get in it or clone repository, etc So if you move into that directory You've got other interesting things you can look at a little bit of the internals and kind of more that you can read About is how git works the pack files that it uses between zealot compression. It's deflate, etc Blah blah blah and the references so that's something I want to check out because I checked out this packed refs folder or file Sorry, so I explored that and we have the initial commit message that we saw up top the same shot one hash But there's something else here. We have a refs tag secret. So I want to check out what that was I figured well, I will take a look at this git show that hash and it gives me another hash This is kind of confusing because you may think like well, that's probably just another shot one identifier But it's not it is actually the password for the next level that is going to get us to Bandit 31 so let's keep track of that make sure that we save it and I want to show this to you because I thought it was kind of Funny and interesting I jumped on this bandwagon of looking at these new over-the-wire Tutorial or bandit level sorry because they released just yesterday so I was trying to go through them like as soon as I could and This was all around the same time that I created this discord server for some mirror some more communication and cool Conversations between the people that actually follow and watch me following the stream And we were looking at bandit together and you can see originally last night Saturday, July 21st This has a different commit message than what it has like right now like this was Sunday July 22nd with a different commit message So I thought that was kind of peculiar because when we were going through this last night I was talking with this other individual decolts super cool guy on the on the server and We kept like poking at this we kept looking all around but no matter what we were doing We just couldn't find it. We were looking at pack files We were reading up on it and then this morning decolts props to him Honestly, he was the one that found what seemed to be the solution But then we kind of realized that hey the challenge had changed like from last night We have the new commit message. We have the new time stamp on it, but he found this cool guide wildly inaccurate a hackers guide to get and this had a bunch of really interesting stuff So I was looking at some more about the tags. I ran show ref I think and that determined Okay, these are the other references that we're looking at here if we if you actually do that get Show hyphen ref it will give us okay Here is that same shot one hash that we looked at just now in the packed files in the packed refs And I thought that was really kind of interesting because once we solved it. We were like oh hang on This was different from last night So I showed that to him and it says this looks different because this is the current one that 179 hash And then this is the previous stuff that I had looked at the other night when it was 3 3 2 7 and a complete different time So from some conversations with people it looked like the solution to this wasn't even in the original release That's kind of awesome to see just kind of the creators of bandit and over-the-wire guys Releasing these challenges and creating new ones like as we are moving through them. That was really really cool. So Hey, if you aren't on the discord server, please totally check it out. Link will be in description Please come and hang out with us if you like cool CTF hackers cyber programmer guys Come join the party and I want to give a shout out to the people who love me on patreon So if you are not on that bandwagon already I would be super duper grateful if you would join this list of awesome people I want to say thank you and I say it at the end of every video because I can't say it enough It's incredible and really surreal to me that you've been willing to kind of jump jump on this this thing with me attack Attack YouTube and kind of I don't know showcase some cool stuff So thank you for being willing to go on this journey with me one dollar on a one dollar a month on patreon We'll give you a shout out just like this at the end of every video Five dollars a month will give you early access to everything I create on YouTube Just before it's released if you did like this video, please you press that like button Maybe leave me a comment if you're willing to subscribe and check me out on patreon discord in my website www.johnhamman.org later


Kani hiibamia Awanet zapebinokulasi Weze bero weze Weze Abwaio ni di maju Aha, bero nani ka mimio kumia Bero binasayo Tilasi Hastini, haa Izumino Awai karim started forma ngi chetimu na kama na kwa Izumino Apani nga kuzi na bina kuzi Awana bu naka mbana wa He is coming from this side. Is that your bag? Where's your bag? Can I have that bag, please? Is that your bag? Misaka in the HDMA has found friends who he wants to bring and build them more there, displace the people and end up building them more. This vote in Kavata is a vote on behalf of the Zambian people. This is a vote to punish liars. This is a vote to make sure that Misaka in the HDMA should put his batoks down and think before he takes an action. business of troubling people's lives. Na bachusha sa anomi wa shiawantu, okurundama fiyo ho, okurundama electricity, fiyo onsenafi durano wunga. Sotrelando kutiruku piti na muri voti awkabuata. Bakaka in the taken amataka panshina government ien, mambuku tontongkana no tifi, murekita io. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.


Okay, we are going to get started. Welcome everybody and thank you everyone who has joined us today for the first session in what is going to be a 10 part series called Become a Cyber Security Ninja. Today's session is Digital Security Strategy or Risk Assessment and Threat Modeling. These sessions are going to occur every two weeks for the next 10 weeks. We're going to end on, I believe it's May 30th is the last date. Next week is going to be, or that in two weeks, our next session will be Basic Network Security and our guest will be Ken Montenegro of Asian-Americans Advancing Justice. And if you want to view information on the entire series, you can of course visit at ninja.rtt.nyc and we'll be updating that site with additional information, resources, everything we have through the course of this series. So here's our ninja plan so to speak and this is very much subject to change just so everybody knows. Today, we're of course Threat Modeling, Threat Modeling and Risk Assessment. In two weeks, we're going to do Network Security Basics. Our plan after that is to cover authentication on February 21st. We're going to be talking about passwords, password managers, two-factor authentication, other ways to authenticate two systems. On March 7th, we're going to be talking about encryption, document email device encryption. On March 21st, we're going to be talking about phishing, social engineering and ransomware, it's called Gone Phishing. On April 4th, we're going to be dealing with mobile security, so smartphones, laptops, working on the move, joining wireless networks, that kind of thing. On April 18th, we're going to be dealing with digital privacy, we're going to be talking about virtual private networks, the onion router or tour, reining in your kind of social exposure, the amount of information that's available publicly. On May 2nd, we're going to be reviewing security tools and services. So we're going to cover probably 30 or 40 different security tools and services. So it'll be a very quick overview of just some of a bunch of tools that some of us and our colleagues have assembled that work well for them. On May 16th, now what? We're going to be covering incident response. And then the last session is going to be a general question wrap up. We might, again, this is all subject to change. So if there's a lot of questions along the way or there's other topics that emerge, we might reserve that session for that. And then of course, there's a ninja certification quiz at the end of this, we're going to offer a quiz. It's not going to be a cakewalk by any stretch, but if you've attended all or most of the sessions, it should be something you're able to complete. And for those of you who are able to get the quiz, we're going to not only send you an official ninja, cybersecurity ninja certificate, but you'll also be eligible to win a whole variety of prizes that we're offering. They're all kind of security related things, all right? So hopefully that will help everybody. We've got a bunch of folks here now and I'm just going to make sure I can see the questions in case things are coming in. I have somebody saying they can't hear anything and someone saying they're having trouble going to Ninja.RTNBC. Well, I will correct both of these things at the end of the webinar. It sounds like the audio is fine now. Okay, thank you so very much. And I'm going to continue on, excellent, excellent. All right, so I of course, I'm Joshua Pesky, Vice President of Technology Strategy. I will be with you here for all 10 sessions and today is hopefully the only session I will be doing by myself. I have guests lined up for over half of the remaining sessions and I'm working to get different security experts for each one of those. So we'll have a variety of voices and we've got Ken Munch, Negar next week. I've got some other folks lined up as well and we'll be presenting a variety of voices for you round table technology. We are a team of dedicated technology professionals. We operate out of Maine and New York, primarily in New York City and we help hundreds of organizations achieve their missions through effective use of technology and we're hoping that this series is something that everybody finds helpful. So we're going to start things off. So today we're covering digital security strategy, risk assessment and threat modeling. We're going to dive right into what we mean by that. All right, and our learning objectives are to learn how to perform a basic risk assessment. So first of all, decide what that means because there's a variety of different things that a risk assessment could mean. We're going to review different approaches to risk assessment. We're going to understand different types of risk that your organizations may face and how they might impact you in different ways. We're going to introduce a whole bunch of resources to help you undertake a risk assessment and we want to learn about your biggest concerns and we're going to ask in a few different ways, what are the things that are kind of keeping you awake at night or worrying your staff or worrying your folks and we're going to start off with a quick poll here. We just want to get a sense of, has your organization ever performed a technology related risk assessment? So people can go ahead and just give some answers to that and I'm just curious, we're going to be kind of collecting some data along the way and we're curious to know of the attendees of this, sort of what their history around security and risk assessment and different things are. So we're going to ask these questions along the way. We'll leave this poll just open for a few more seconds and see what additional responses we get here and let's take a look at what folks are seeing here. So let's share the results here. So just under half of the audience has never performed a technology related risk assessment. 4% want to know who's asking. 31% have done it once or twice so it's little or no follow up action. So that gets us well over 75%, three quarters of the people here. However, they've never done it or have done it once or twice but never done anything with it and under 10%, 8% of us have performed an annual risk assessment and good for you guys, those of you who are doing that. So thank you very much. All right, let's go back to our deck here and thank you all for your answers. So let's cover risk assessment. I'm going to, and I apologize in advance. I'm about to show you two different slides, one with seven steps for risk assessment and one with five and I'll explain why I'm going to do that because there's a lot of different perspectives here and while I certainly didn't want to show you all of the points that I've encountered over the years and as I do risk assessments for organizations and by the way, I should at this point probably give you a little background on myself and my history doing cybersecurity and risk analysis. So for the last probably three years I've been engaged by a variety of organizations to perform risk analysis or cybersecurity work or threat modeling or different things for their organizations. And it's increasingly becoming something that is the primary sort of work that I'm doing because a lot of more organizations are asking for this. And while I am not an entrenched cybersecurity expert in the sense of working in cybersecurity organizations for a long time, this is work I've been doing for quite a while with a variety of organizations and I would say I approach it at the kind of high level common sense level as much as I can explain that and that's where we're going to start here. So when organizations ask me, is our security okay? And that's kind of where they start a lot of the time. I generally say, well, to answer that I have to understand what sort of risks you're worried about because I don't know whether your security is okay until I understand more about your organization and what would be the consequences of different kinds of bad things that might happen to you. All right, and so there's these sequence of questions and this is a framework from NIST from a NIST publication around risk assessment or risk analysis and there's a bunch of different names for it, but essentially first, what information do you have in your organization, right? That's a good starting point. A lot of organizations actually have a little bit of a difficult time answering that, especially larger ones. How much do you care about that information?  What could happen to the information? So what are the bad things that could happen to it? And it's really important to understand that we're not just talking about hacking or just talking about information breaches, which is where everybody leads to, but something like a hard drive failing is a bad thing that could happen that could cause you to lose information or not have access to information, which is actually a security problem in many instances. So it's important to understand not just kind of hackers or deliberate malicious attempts against your organization are things that you're thinking about, but you're also thinking about things like, well, what if the power goes out or what if a hard drive fails or what if our staff accidentally delete a bunch of information? Those are equally things that you need to consider here. How likely are these things to happen? How bad would it be if it happened? Well, we'll help you think about that. How will you know? This is one of the hardest things, especially around breaches, is how do you know if your information has been breached, if someone has accessed your information and taken it? Sometimes it's really obvious you can't find any of your files because they've been lost or you can't access all of your files because ransomware has encrypted all of the files, right? And sometimes you may not know or there may be some signs, but you're not really sure. And then lastly, and this is a really important one, is how are you going to respond, okay? So here's the second one I did warn you about this and this is threat modeling, okay? And this is a different word for risk assessment, okay? They're kind of two different names for similar kinds of activities. And this is from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. So my kind of summary of the NIST risk assessment framework was seven basic questions or seven things to think about. EFF breaks it into just five, all right? Which is what do you want to protect? Who do you want to protect it from? How likely is it that you will need to protect that information? How bad are the consequences if you feel? And here is I think my favorite question that the EFF asked and this is not one that's in that NIST framework that I put up before. Because this is kind of a fundamental question, right? How much trouble are you willing to go through? How much effort are you willing to expend, all right? To prevent those consequences? That's really the fundamental question. Because again, we had, I think it was 30, some odd percent of people who'd performed a risk assessment, but not really taking any action, right? So the risk assessment showed them that there was some gaps or some risks that they had, but they didn't act on it because they decided they weren't willing to go through that much trouble yet. And by the way, this often can change quite, sometimes quite radically, immediately following something bad really happening, right? So you might have not a lot of willingness to make security changes or put forth a lot of effort at your organization. And then the day after something really bad happens, all of a sudden there's a massive amount of effort. And neither of those are really good things, right? No effort before you have a breach is not good. And massive amounts of effort that are probably not necessarily appropriate are also not great. And when you put all of these things together, you arrive at, and this is, I'm more just sharing this with you because it's a term that you'll hear. And I think that's useful when you start talking about security at your organization is the idea of your security posture for your organization. And I think this is relatively common sense for most of us, which is that if I'm a theater group operating in New York City and I do children's theater and a few times a year we put on some plays and some families buy tickets to our plays. And the only information we have are people's names and phone numbers and email addresses and their credit cards go into something. And we have a website where we just promote the acts that we're doing. Our security profile from a cybersecurity sense is not very high, right? We're not targets in a meaningful sense for a lot of different kinds of bad people. We don't have any personal health information so we don't have to deal with HIPAA compliance. We are collecting credit cards but in a very simple kind of basic way that's relatively easy to safeguard. And we don't have information on anybody other than emails and phone numbers. Maybe we have addresses and that would be maybe bad if it got breached. But overall we have a pretty mellow security profile, right? On the other hand, if I'm an international human rights organization and I have staff in Iran and Syria and China and other countries where their governments may be actively looking to access our communications, possibly arrest our people as they go across borders, possibly scan, take their mobile devices and look for any information on them. And if they find information on them, our staff could wind up in jail and our clients could wind up in jail. Well, that's a very, very different kind of security posture. And organizations by the way that are like that tend to be very aware of this, but not always. Okay, so you kind of put these things together and you arrive at this idea of security posture. And I think that's a useful way to think of security posture. And here's the biggest thing that I find about security posture is that people are really inconsistent about it. And that consistency I think is a hugely important thing to try to make consistent, sorry, that was a very awkward sentence, make consistent for your organization. Because I see, I was dealing with an organization just a couple of months ago and they wouldn't let me, I needed to download an application for a project we were doing and I couldn't even get to their website to download the application because they would only allow whitelisted network addresses onto it. So they had me go to a proxy server that they would provide me so that I could download it to that proxy server and then use that proxy server to upload it to some other place where I could grab it. And of course I needed a login to the proxy server. So then they just email me the IP address to the proxy server, a username and a password all to log into that proxy server just in plain text email. And I was kind of confused from like what's your security posture? Is it extremely secure where only whitelisted IPs can get to the server or is it not secure at all where you're emailing credentials around in plain text which I considered to be just in case anyone's curious, a very bad practice. Okay, let's talk about categories of risk. So I talked a little bit earlier about how I was gonna give you a little bit of a framework to think about how bad would it be if something happened, right? So what information do you have and how bad would it be if something happened to it, right? How much do you care about that information? So I would submit to you that there's three ways while I wouldn't submit to you. This is kind of a standard in the industry, NIST and other entity stands use this framework. The CIA, which of course is a lovely acronym, it's easy to remember. So confidentiality, which you think about how bad would it be if the information was exposed to someone who wasn't supposed to see it, okay? And that's the one we all jump to when we are thinking about security and cybersecurity, we all jump to the someone breaks in using some sort of hacking tools or using social engineering or one of my staff emails it out or somehow someone gets access to the information that we have and now does something with it, right? They have our confidential information and they can go do something with it. But that's only one third, right? Of the things that we're actually concerned about, right? Integrity is how bad would it be if the information was lost and I couldn't recover it, right? That's something that is probably pretty bad for lots of types of information that you have and might in fact be a lot worse than the exposure. And in fact, most organizations that I work with would probably much, if they had to choose would much prefer that all the information was exposed rather than all of it being lost if they had to pick one or the other. And then the third one is how bad would it be if the information was not available for some period of time? And this is something that people get kind of freaked out about with let's say email, right? So most of us are on cloud platforms now like Gmail or Office 365. We don't experience a lot of email outages but I think most of us can probably remember five, 10 years ago when email servers were more common and not having email for a day because there's a problem with email server was like a catastrophe, right? Everybody kind of couldn't function. In reality is now we'd probably be grateful if email stopped working because we could actually get some work done but that's a separate issue. Anyway, so these are three different things, confidentiality, integrity, availability, okay? And then we think about the impact. So if the integrity of the information was compromised meaning we lost information and we couldn't recover it, how bad is that? Okay, so you can think about the impact or how bad, right? In terms of how much time would it cost you to recreate the information, to recover the information, to get back to an operating state. How much money would it cost you to do that and how much money, there's a variety of ways to think about money. You could think of lost productivity for your staff as something that costs you money. You could think of the time that it takes your IT department or a consultant to recover that information and if you're paying that consultant then how much time that costs if you have to pay some sort of data forensics person or organization to pull data off drives or pull them off something that that could cost. And then there's reputational damage. It's much harder to quantify in like a dollar sense but it is an important thing to think about which is if you lose all the information for all of your clients and have to tell your clients, sorry we lost your email address and that kind of hurts. And if you lose all of your donors' credit cards and have to tell your client sorry your credit cards were exposed the same as they happened to target that's pretty bad. That's a pretty bad reputational risk and could cost you quite a bit of money. So we're gonna throw up another poll now. I'm curious now that we've walked through those which category of impact most concerns the folks here in the audience today. So which category of impact most concerns the folks here today? And I'm just interested to see. I'm only letting you pick one, I understand. And it's interesting. I'm gonna show the results here in a minute as we get other responses. And by the way, feel free to keep putting in questions. Remember I've got plenty of time at the end for Q and A. I'm playing stick around for a little bit. All right, let's go ahead and show the results. We got just a couple more in here. All right, let's take a look. To over half of you, that confidentiality number is high. So there's obviously, and this might be a self-selecting group of people who choose to come to a cybersecurity ninja training, right? Where you have information that you're worried about being exposed.   So thank you all for jumping in on these polls. We have only one more to go. And let's go ahead and jump ahead. So I'm gonna show you a couple of templates that we have. All of these are available to you as resources at the end of the webinar, so at the last page. And by the way, everyone will get an email tomorrow with a link to the slide deck and a link to this recording. So you'll get, and that'll be true for every single one of the sessions that we do. You will always get the slide deck and the recording a day afterward. And any resources that you see in the slide deck, you will, all of those are hyperlinks. So you don't have to worry about trying to quickly grab any of those while we're here on the session today. So this is a Google doc, a lot of the, or a Google sheet actually that I'll share with you. And this is something I actually use in my risk analysis project that I do with organizations where we put together all the different sources of information that they may have. And we actually ask them to classify it on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. I generally encourage people to reserve, by the way, if you do wind up using these tools yourself, to reserve the classification of high for threats that are potentially kind of organization ending, you know, that go back to that earlier slide that I have. So I kind of have the joke there, but that's the existential threat, an existential threat. So in this sense, I kind of mean this almost literally. If it's an existential threat to your organization, then it's something that I would consider to be a high threat, right? So if it's something that, if this happened, you might not be an organization anymore. Sorry, I skipped ahead. Then save that for high or very, very bad. And then everything else is gonna be moderate or low, and the reason for that is if you have a ton of stuff that's high, then going back to this idea of how much effort are you willing to expend to resolve this, you might wind up with too much work to do, and I'd really want people to find things on which they feel that they can take action, right? And so you wanna limit that kind of scope to things you can actually do. Some things to keep in mind, all right, as you go through this. Okay, number one, threats against confidentiality. All right, can be the most challenging to address. And one of the reasons for that is you have to safeguard essentially every possible arena and any weak spot in your organization is a potential path through which a breach can happen. And that is most often a person, but it could be a firewall that isn't patched up. It could be a server that isn't patched up. It could be a single computer that has an older version of Adobe running on it. And of course, there's all kinds of zero-day threats that can happen. An employee can accidentally expose information through email. There's so many different ways that information can be exposed. That trying to keep information really feel tight is very hard. If you have any doubts about that, reading the news, I think pretty much should put those doubts aside, right? There's really hardly an organization that we could think of, the NSA included that has been able to effectively keep their information under wraps.  It's tough. And these very big organizations really struggle with it. So it's gonna be harder for you. Now, one of the ways to do it is to reduce scope, which we'll talk about in a little bit. Threats against availability can be the ones that most impact productivity. So again, if someone can't get access to key information or a key application, that keeps them from being productive and that is a cost to your organization, right? You probably have information in lots of different places and what do I mean by that? You probably have most of you, probably have a file server still. You also probably have information in Dropbox that's whether you know it or not, your staff are keeping some information in Dropbox. Probably also have information in Google Drive. You probably have a CRM application like Sales Forest or something like that. You have information on your website. You have information in your email marketing tool. You have information and tons of it in your email system, whether it's Gmail or Office 365. You probably have an accounting system. There's information there.  So there's information in a lot of different places. So starting to get your head around all the different places where you have that information and where there's sensitive information that you care about in this place is a really important starting point. You can't eliminate risk. Going back to that earlier point of all the different breaches that are there that should be clear. All right, the goal, all right, is again thinking about the security posture idea is to find the right balance for your organization. And over the course of this whole 10-part series, that's something that I wanna remind people of again and again and again. We're gonna be showing you so many different things you can do. Doesn't mean you need to do all of them. It's up to you and your organization to figure out what's appropriate for us. Here's another template that we'll share with you. This is a risk assessment report template. This is again based on, I believe I pulled this from this, although I can't remember. This is based on like a 80-page report, but this is just a little risk and mitigation matrix. And what we're showing is that we've got a file server just looking at the top row here. So we'll say, okay, we've identified a vulnerability on the file server. All right, that's risk type. What is it impacted? It impacts all three areas, confidentiality, integrity, and availability. We have a brief description, which is that the server is over 10 years old and running Windows 2003, which went under life in July of 2015. Still a lot of those out there, believe it or not. We're calling that risk level high. We're saying this could die, could be breached, could get malware on it, and this could potentially really damage the organization to the point of the organization not existing. So we have some recommended mitigations, which is to look at moving it to a cloud-based document management system like Google Drive, Dropbox, et cetera. And then you go down in Salesforce, which we don't believe impacts availability because Salesforce, the availability is managed by them, but the passwords don't have enforced complexity requirements or expiration. We view that as a risk, so we suggest increasing the complexity. This is actually done a while ago. Right now I would certainly have the recommendation to implement two-factor authentication with Salesforce has supported now for some time. Again, this is a template that you'll get. You'll have access to all of these. Another thing you look at as part of a risk assessment when you're trying to figure out is what are your existing safeguards? So what safeguards do we currently have in place? And the main reason that I wanna show you this table is to make the point that backups don't really safeguard against confidentiality or against availability. Backups protect against integrity if they're done well. So if it's a good, quite cloud-based backup or something that's using different credentials than the server, the basic server credentials, if you're backing up servers because ransomware otherwise will encrypt your backups as well and it only safeguards against integrity. And it can even be argued that backups worsen confidentiality because they in effect create a copy of your data that is now in a different location with a different set of protections around it. So it's expanding the scope of that information that you're trying to protect, right? So integrity and confidentiality in some ways can work against each other as you try to safeguard both of those. But you'll see that a lot of these other things that you do, having robust policies if people are adhering to them, having a response plan, managing your access controls well, having IT controls such as antivirus and firewalls, providing security awareness training to your staff, which is something we're absolutely gonna be talking about in future sessions, performing a risk assessment like what we're talking today. These can help across all the different areas. As we kind of get to the end here, some of you, if you're having to kind of talk to executives about risk assessment and they're not very excited to work on it, I just want to point out that a $5,000 bad thing that does not happen because you identified that this was a risk and mitigated it or safeguarded against it is just as valuable dollar for dollar as a $5,000 good thing that does happen, right? So if you avoid some disaster or some very expensive problem that would have cost your organization $5,000 that you hadn't planned on spending, that is just as good as if someone wrote a check to your organization for $5,000. And if you take into account the cognitive bias of loss aversion, which is a different webinar and it's actually worked quite a bit more almost twice as much. But unless for those of you who are not cognitive bias nerds, that joke is lost in you but it's true, all right? That takes us to our last poll. This is the one I'm kind of really curious to see what the responses are, all right? So what are the biggest obstacles to addressing risks at your organization? So you can choose as many of these as you want. This is the first one where I'm letting you make multiple choices, you can enter other ones into the questions field if you want. And one of the questions that came in are a comment around the EFF in terms of how much trouble you're willing to go through is how much money you're willing to spend, right? And I'm interested to know how much money really is an obstacle to people and I guess we'll obviously find out here. And again, that ROI hopefully helps you understand if to the degree that you can start to monetarily quantify on some level the risks that you have, that's where I think it can start to make sense to invest into these other things. All right, so let's take a look at the results here. 60% of you said skills, so great, okay? So this webinar series hopefully will start to give you some of those skills that you need. Hopefully today feels like a good start for folks. All right, money, I can't help as much with. I can say there are some pro bono resources out there that can help with this stuff. And Taproot Plus is one, Catch-A-Fire is another, you can use your LinkedIn network and there's some potential other groups out there as well but those are all places where you might be able to get some pro bono help doing risk assessment. Time, it's always a tough one, right? And how do you prioritize that? Leadership buying, hopefully the ROI can help with that. And again, I think just education of leadership as to you have to earn integrity by not yelling fire when there's not really serious things going on, okay? And questions are starting to come in, I really appreciate that. So let's just get through a couple of slides. So here's the list of resources from today's deck. That top one is something that we'll be keeping throughout which is selected digital security and privacy resources. We're keeping kind of a curated one page list of what we think are some of the best things we've seen and that'll keep getting updated throughout. And on the ninja.rgt.nyc page, we will also keep some useful resources there. It's actually a really great one that came out today from ZDNet, got in Zach, something that was a kind of, more for individuals, but very helpful. The information identification classification template that we showed you, the risk analysis report template that we showed you, access controls template, which I didn't show you, but it can also be a useful tool. A primer on backups, disaster recovery and business continuity, kind of talks about the difference between backups and high availability, which is something that I find people often don't understand well. The NIST publication, which this risk assessment was kind of based on and then some sample policy. And I'm a little bit over. Next session coming up in two weeks, February 7th is basic network security. For those of you that have already registered for this or any future sessions, I owe you a huge apology. I'm going to have to delete all the sessions recreated that go to webinar thing. I didn't understand the way they set up their series. They're designed to basically be different versions of the same webinar. And I did not understand that when I set it up. So I'm gonna have to delete all those and re-add them. The link here is to the correct one and I'll be updating them on the way. Well, if you, most of you I believe found out about this via emails. So we won't send as many emails going forward for each webinar, but you will get emails. So you can sign up for any one of these. You don't need to attend all 10. You're certainly welcome to. We'd certainly love to have you at all 10 of them. But you will send a nice old description for each upcoming webinar series or each upcoming webinar, who the guest is and things like that. And with that, we are at the Q and A. Oh, oops, I'm sorry. I forgot that I was still showing the poll results. So let me, here's the resource list that I showed you. Right. So sorry about that. Everybody missed a couple of slides. Here's the resource list that I ran through.  There it is now. And here's our next session, basic network security with Ken Montenegro. And now we're at the Q and A. And with that, I'm gonna open it up for questions. And if people do want to unmute, you can raise your hand. And if I can, I will attempt to unmute you. I believe I can. Yeah, I think I can do that. So for those of you who are in via the web and have microphones and stuff like that, I can unmute you if you want to raise your hand. And other than that, I'm going to just start answering the questions here. I'll read them off. And then I will ask them. Hang on a second. Okay, so let's see. Will I list out the pro bono company somewhere? Yes, I will. And I'll just type those into the chat for everybody. Okay, so taproot plus is one. If you just Google these, I think you'll be able to find them. Okay, catch of fire, which catch of fire does cost $200 a month or $2,000 a year for nonprofits, but they do have some different pro bono projects that include some risk assessments and cybersecurity related things. So that's another one. LinkedIn for nonprofits. And just using the LinkedIn network of your nonprofit is another, if you're a nonprofit organization, and there's a number of private sector organizations here. And all of these are for nonprofit organizations. Okay, if you're a private sector organization, unfortunately these resources are not available to you. So I apologize to that. But those are the three big ones that I know of, okay? And let's see. All right, oh, sorry, everybody was seeing stuff about the quick poll. I did hide the poll, right? Everybody's seeing the slides again now. I think we should be, yep. Okay, we will send the email. So here's the question. What is the best form to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability? I'm not sure that I understand that question well enough. What is the best form to protect confidentiality? Do you mean like Google Forms versus SurveyMonkey versus something else? If that's the question, I actually am not sure off the top of my head what's the best form tool to use to protect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. If that question can be elaborated on or if you wanna attempt to raise your hand and I'll see if you wanna have your hand up here. Did you unmute it? Nope, okay. So another question, a firewall, is it enough? Short answer is no. Just having a firewall for your organization is certainly not sufficient for all security needs, right? And firewalls can vary a great degree depending on whether they're updated, how they're configured, a number of things along those lines. So no, just having a firewall is certainly not enough and firewalls themselves can vary a lot in terms of their, how well they work, how they're configured, whether they're updated and firewalls definitely need to be updated in order to be. And now we will cover that somewhat more extensively next week in the Basic Network Security where we will definitely dedicate some time to talking about firewalls. So hopefully that'll help people. Okay, I'll stick around for a little bit. If there's any other questions from anybody, again, you can raise your hand. You could let me know in the chat if you want me to unmute you. You can have a conversation. If anyone has anything to contribute or anything to share with the audience, I would also invite you to request to be unmuted and I can have you come on and you're welcome to share something or share a story or something like that. These little extra time is going to be dedicated to people sharing information for as long as people want to stick around. But it looks like we are done with questions.  So thank you very much everybody for attending today. Hopefully we will see a lot of you back in two weeks on February 7th. We'll send some emails around about that. And thank you all so very, very much. All right, bye everybody.


Good afternoon. If you are a scientist working on water samples from lakes and oceans, I'm sure that you would rather spend your time working on representative samples, rather than on samples that are artificial mixtures produced by your sampling apparatus and procedures. If so, I urge you to take a look at the 2020 Limnology and Oceanography Methods paper authored by my former student Chris Parvet, Lucata Spade, that's me, Victoria Coles and Lee Cooper. This paper is entitled, Sampling Errors Arising from Carousel Entrainment and Insufficient Flushing of Oceanographic Sampling Bottles. In this paper, we show that neglecting the impacts of entrainment and bottle flushing times can produce samples that are not representative. We also show that UPCAS CTD data can be misleading due to entrainment. In addition, the paper includes data suggesting that there can be sample stratification within-water sampling bottles and provides evidence that haphazard cocking of bottles can lead to increased flushing times. Finally, suggestions are provided for alleviating these problems. I hope that you find our paper informative and useful. Happy sampling and apologies from this amateur video, a story in an age of social distancing. Good afternoon.


It is Sunday morning, June 26th. It is just before 10 o'clock. Bob is off to enter his barracuda in a car show contest thing. I normally like to go in with him, but it's gonna be like 100 degrees out today, and I really would rather be busier than I thought it was going to. So it's a good thing I didn't go to the car show with Bob because our contractor is coming by to start some work on the kitchen today. Today he was gonna come tomorrow, he's coming today. So he bought a couple of test pieces to replace some things in the kitchen that aren't working very well, some slide out shelves, and to make them more heavy duty to actually hold pots and pans and not have the bottoms fall out because that's a thing anyway. So the two pieces from the company he ordered them from, which is kind of a test of their quality came in, he's gonna come by today and install them. If everything goes according to plan, then he's gonna double check all of his measurements for the other things we need replacing in the kitchen and we're gonna have him do some work on the pantry cabinet to make it more sturdy and things like that. So we need to test pieces to go in and make sure that's gonna work first. So it's taken months, you guys, actually more than that. I think it's been like a year since we contracted this job with him anyway. So he's gonna come by today and do that instead of tomorrow. Yeah, everybody, it is just before nine a.m. Monday, June 27th. Don't get excited, I looked already. It's already been a busy morning. So our robot vacuum, do the floors already. I went out in my pajamas and bathrobe and watered all that potted plants outside, which we forgot to do last night before we went to bed. My God, you guys. So I'm getting the impulse to do something else with my downstairs art stuff. Not the watercolor bag, the watercolor sketchbook bag. That's that. At the most I would switch it to a different kind of bag but it'll be on its own thing because I'm finding when we do travel, which isn't a lot, but I'm really only taking that. I have these two beautiful leather suitcases, and this one and a bigger one, that I used to take with me when we would travel but I'm really finding like I'm really wanting to pack minimal and I'm really only wanting to work in my watercolor sketchbook when we're away. I do still collect bits and pieces but I work on sort of that life journal when I'm home. That being said, there is a watercolor sketchbook in here that I think I'm gonna try to finish up. So I might like leave this out and in the bag, I'm gonna have downstairs and when I do go somewhere, I'll take this with me because it does have, I should finish this. I haven't, of course, worked in this since before COVID was a thing.  I found a pack of baby wipes completely dried up because it's over two years old. This is like, you guys, I think the last time I packed these was when we had the massive wildfires here, which was like right before or right after COVID and we were worried about having to evacuate. So I just jammed a bunch of stuff in here. I was obviously not in a good mental health space because I just, there's duplicates, there's triple hits, there's, I never unpacked them. It's just a thing. So I'm gonna go through it. I'm gonna use the tote bag I made, which is so cute. I'm keeping it because I do rotate how I do things frequently, it's part of my creative process. I'm gonna put some of the travel stuff and or emergency go bag stuff that I wanna keep together in here. I can just grab this and the little suitcase and whatever's downstairs. And if we need to evacuate, along with of course, personal important things. And yeah, but you guys, oh my God. All right, I'll be back. I got that travel bag, downstairs bag situation sorted and a new setup that I think is gonna work for me for the moment. So I do, this is why I do sort of have a hoard of bags and organizing supplies, because I do find myself churning things often and it seems to be part of my creative process. I don't know about you, but it does seem to work for me. I am, however, finding that I needed to change this part a little bit, but now that's leading to me needing, I need to do something about that. And I've actually needed to do something about that for a long time. Again, oh brother, all right, here we go. I was less about throwing a whole bunch away and more about just cleaning things up and rearranging it just a little bit. Looks a little better, maybe. All right, I think that's it for the minute. I need to go downstairs and have some lunch. Bone broth, yeah, I'll be back. But I add the July mood board for my Facebook group, a life of art and self-expression, the first Monday of the month, every month for 2022. We have what we call Moody Monday and I post a mood board and some photos associated with are used in the mood board in an effort to inspire myself and everyone else for your creative life for the month. If you want access to this new mood board and all the previous other ones, you can join the Facebook group. Anyway, I'm gonna add that to my notebook here. I am keeping a composition notebook of all my mood boards. I do mood boards for a few different things. And so I'm keeping track of them this month and that just reminded me. I need to print the Arte Trio one because that, yeah, that has to go in here too. All right, I'll be back. Everybody, it is Tuesday morning, June, yes, I wanna say January. It's not January. June 28th? Yeah, June 28th, hey, I got that right. It's about 9.30 in the morning. And we went from 90 plus degrees, almost 100 yesterday, 100 the day before that. Bright blue skies, no clouds to overcast and I think it's like 60 something outside. Welcome to Oregon. Anyway, and if you hear the faint sound of what sounds like chainsaws in the background, it's accurate. We live next to the woods, which are owned by the school district and they're supposed to maintain them, but this year it's just radio silence getting them to come out here and trim trees and do some maintenance and, you know, make sure dead trees are removed so that they don't, I don't know, fall and kill somebody. Not to mention trimming back the ivy and the blackberries. So my neighbor got tired of waiting and he actually hired a gardener that we all use here in the neighborhood to come take care of it. The meanwhile, I'm at least once a week sending email, making phone calls, as well as other people in the neighborhood. So I don't know if we just nag them long enough, maybe they'll come do something about it. I don't know, we'll see. I don't have any specific plans for today and it is 60 degrees outside, by the way. I don't have any specific plans for today, but just hanging out around the house and we'll see what I get up to.  I think that's it for the moment. I feel like I need more coffee, you guys. It's just one of those days. All right, I'll be back. Drawing in public is different than vlogging in public and for some reason it makes me nervous but I did it anyway. I didn't let my fear stop me and I didn't let what other people might think stop me. That's what the book I'm reading is all about. Anyway, I also went where my instincts led me and I thought it wasn't gonna go far, do a few drawings and go home. That's not actually what happened. I probably walked about a mile and I started with my street, then the main street outside my neighborhood, then I went to the duck pond and then there's this cute little park where we're at now that's down the street from my house. So I am going to show you all the page and I'm gonna do some journaling and then we'll go home. All right, let's get started, shall we? Looks right now. My street, the rose bushes outside my neighborhood, the duck pond and the park we're at now. So I'm gonna do some journaling and I will put a finished still image of it in this little short video when I get home and I'll be right back. So I'm working one of my journals and I don't know if I'm gonna get in trouble for showing this or not. Not gonna say what they are. Y'all can get the idea. I had my mammogram. It's all normal, negative, we're all good. So yeah, gotta do a page to celebrate that, right? That's it for the minute. I'm gonna turn the computer off and I'll be back. 1040 a.m. I haven't done anything spectacular this morning. I just, you know, nice slow morning, not mad at it. I did do the pages you saw me working on. I am working on, I used to call in the year of my life journals. I don't know what else to call them. But anyway, I do these pages to document certain things that happen or that I do. And this one is about the Tigard Organ Balloon Festival that we went to. I went to one day, my husband went to two days and he also, they had a car show on the last day and he brought his old Barracuda and he won second place. So anyway, I'm going to document that. I did a page for that. No, let it dry. Got some leftover painting, some painting papers from leftover paint. I just can't speak this morning. I have had all my coffee, I swear. Anyway, I've heard my computer dinging in the background, so I'm gonna check and see what that was about. I'm sure it's a social media chat or something.  I need to get rid of it. And then I need to go down and sit down downstairs and have my bone broth. So, I know, exciting and riveting. All right, I'll be back. One of our kids is gluten-free. She's got Ciliac. And anyways, so we are trying some gluten-free bread in the bread machine. Now, this is an old bread machine. I bought it in a state sale for 10 bucks for those that don't know. It still works great, but it doesn't have a gluten-free setting. It's too old and there's no recipes for it that are gluten-free. So I'm going by some things I found on the internet and tips, we'll see what happens. I don't know, we'll find out. So anyway, if it works great, we've got some bread for Friday family dinner. If it doesn't, well, we'll keep trying. We'll let it stop us, right? Just like with our practice, practice, practice. Okay, I'm gonna go check the mail. I'll be back. Bread didn't rise as much as it should have.  Anyway, it does smell really good. It also, it looks like a little bit of the flour didn't mix in completely. So let's see what it looks like inside. It's still pretty hot. It just came out of the bread machine. The texture inside looks really good if I can get it cut evenly, but that's just me. And that seems done. Probably could have cooked a little bit more. It's a teeny tiny bit doughy, but let's see, it doesn't taste bad. Tastes like bread. Let's see what the husband thinks. It's 10 something a.m., I don't know. I just looked on, you know, give me two seconds, I've forgotten already. 10, 17 a.m., Thursday, June 30th. I have counseling at noon. Hopefully the people who wanted the coffee table and end table that we no longer need, it's a charity, and hopefully they're gonna actually come by and follow through on that and get them today. We'll find out, they're supposed to text me. The birds are in the food bowl. I've made eye appointments for both Bob and I because it's been a year, we're overdue. And my mother had glaucoma. So, and I have messed up eyes, you guys. Anyway, just have to keep an eye on it. And my husband, he just basically blind is a bad, his eyes aren't as bad as mine, so. Anyway, so I made those appointments and I got the dishes done, some bread is working. I checked on email, all that stuff. So now I get to go help and power wash. Yeah, I'll be back. For family dinner night and we've noticed we have this new little friend who's coming to eat the bird food.  But yeah, I mean, he's cute. He just needs to stay outside and not come in the house. And Lily is trying to figure out how to get out there and eat him. Or catch him and play with him. Lily, there you are. Yeah, she's like, I want the rat grandma. I don't care what you're doing. Typical. Saturday morning, July 2nd, just like one or two minutes after 11 o'clock. We just slow start to the morning on purpose, which is fine. Bob is outside right now doing some yard work in the back and neighbor's walking her dog in the front. But you know, anyway, we live in Oregon for those who don't know and wild blackberries are just a thing and we have them in the six feet of easement space, between us and the neighbors behind us. And yeah, so he's out in the backyard cutting the ones that are trying to come through the fence. I've got all the chores going. You can probably hear the washing machine going in the back. Last night was really fun, family dinner night.  And then you bake it and then you pull it apart. Like it's really good. It tastes like just like a cinnamon roll, but at least the way he makes it. Anyway, you're supposed to bake it and then flip it over. He flipped it and butter and sugar went everywhere.  Bob and Rebecca mostly did that and I was working on the dishes because literally there was butter and cinnamon sugar everywhere. So anyway. Look at those, we planted those last year. All the birds back there by the pond, which isn't even turned on and is not clean and currently has a leak, so it's not working. The water is disgustingly dirty, but the birds must not care. These little tiny teeny birds, I don't know what I'm not a bird person, I don't know what they are, but they're having a good time eating the bird food, hanging out on the rocks. I kind of wouldn't be surprised if there's a nest in the corner there somewhere. Guys, guess what I forgot to do again? That's right, close the vlog. That seems to become a habit with me right now. It is Sunday morning, the squirrels and birds are fighting over the bird seed. The possum was by last night. If you're watching this clip, I'll include that clip and you've seen that one already. It is 10 44 a.m. Here's even still wet. So anyway, I don't know what we're gonna get up with for our day. Tomorrow is the 4th of July and the kids are all coming over for a barbecue, but anyway, that's for next week's vlog. There's some fun stuff coming up and if you wanna see some of what I'm doing in real time and or get extended footage of when I go on little vacations or adventures and things like that, you need to be a patron or supporter. They get all of that over there. So anyway, I'd appreciate supporting the free content here on YouTube by shopping in the Etsy shop or becoming said patron or supporter or something like that. The links for all of that are down in the description below. Some of it in my link tree list of links. Both bird feeders have birds in them. Anyway, it's all good. So yeah, I hope you guys have had a good week. We are having some interesting weather here in Oregon again, one of our friends who live in Southern Oregon actually had rain and hail yesterday and we just started the month of July. Welcome to the land of munch water. I don't know. Anyway, I hope you all have a great week and if you're celebrating the 4th of July and or spending the day with family, I hope you have a good one. Don't forget to like, share and subscribe. I'd appreciate that.   And I'll see you next week. Bye guys.


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