I'm Steve Nunn, president and CEO of the Open Group. Welcome to Toolkit Tuesday, where we highlight the various components and leading experts of the Architects Toolkit, a collated portfolio of the most pertinent technology standards for enterprise architects. During the series I'll be calling on a number of recognized experts who will bring their particular insights on how to most effectively use the various tools in the Architects Toolkit. We'll have a mix of interviews, panel sessions and pre-recorded presentations along the way. While all standards of the Open Group are designed so they can be adopted independently of one another, the greatest value for an organization can be derived when they're used in unison, the sum of the parts should be greater than the whole. In the Architects Toolkit we have collated a portfolio of the most pertinent ones for architects together all in one place. For most of these tools, certification from the Open Group is also available, so practitioners can demonstrate that they have the skills required and recruiters can take the guesswork out of the recruitment process all backed up by our Open Badges program. I was recently asked how do enterprise architecture and business architecture fit together? It's a puzzle I thought. Sadly in my opinion there's too much in the architect world of made of trying to divide architects up. Enterprise architecture versus business architecture versus solution architecture etc etc. There are differences, different approaches, skills, views but the debate can become more important than the outcomes in my experience. Essentially I personally come at things from an enterprise architecture point of view and without business architecture my EA is incomplete. So I see EA has to include business architecture or else I'm just not doing it properly. I also know there are many people who practice business architecture as a discipline in its own right and to me that's a very important specialism. I once did some architecture work with BA systems in their manufacturing which included design guidance for overalls, health and safety work in practices, apprentice training plans and we presented this at OpenGrid conference. Many liked the story but the audience was divided as to whether it was enterprise architecture or business architecture. In truth it didn't matter. The results did. Welcome everybody to season three of Toolkit Tuesday. When we started this we didn't necessarily expect to get to season three but the demand is there and we appreciate you taking time out of your day to join us. So welcome to a new season and great way to start there with Paul Holman. It absolutely doesn't matter how we categorize things as long as the results are there and value is demonstrated through the use of architecture. Wise words as usual and congratulations Paul once again on receiving the OpenGrid presidents individual award this year for contributions just like that. Anyway welcome wherever you are in the world. We're glad to have you and just a quick housekeeping note on how we do questions here at Toolkit Tuesday. Please submit any questions for our speaker today on through the Q&A channel which you will find if you can't see it you will find it if you click the three little dots in the bottom right hand corner of your screen that will give you the option to click on Q&A. Please use that to submit questions to our speaker today rather than the joining from today. Where in the world are you? Let's get that going on the chat channel if we can. Other than that I will dive straight in and our topic today reflects the fact that the Open Group is partnering with Forrester this year on the Forrester 2023 technical awards and we're delighted to be part of it and partnering with Forrester and to tell us a little more about it and why it's important and what we are looking for in those awards. We have no better person to speak about it than Charlie Betts. Charlie is from Forrester. He leads the Forrester's Enterprise Architecture Priority providing guidance to EA professionals worldwide on evolving a relevant modern and valuable architecture practice. He's deeply engaged in researching the transformation of the IT operating model, in particular the impact of agile DevOps and product thinking. He's previously led Forrester's DevOps and Enterprise Service Management Coverage and Charlie has been a long time contributor to the Open Group in various forums including the IT for IT forum and more recently our work in the Digital Practitions Work Group. So a warm welcome back to Charlie Betts and a warm I think first time on Toolkit Tuesday, Charlie. Yeah, that would be true and it's great to be here Steve. Thanks so much for having me. So once again I want to thank Steve and the Open Group for having me present today. It is indeed an honor that the Open Group and Forrester research have decided to partner on Forrester's annual EA awards and I'm going to share a little bit about Forrester research and our approach to Enterprise Architecture Coverage and the awards now in this time. So briefly up front, obviously we are in very dynamic, one could almost say, chaotic and turbulent times. We have a lot of uncertainty. We have new customer behavior. We are still coping with the wake of a global pandemic and the ripple effects continue to challenge IT and digital organizations worldwide. Forrester research is actively seeking and producing and publishing information and guidance and insights across a wide variety of topics digital and IT of course is where my background is but we provide services to marketing professionals, to sales professionals, to leaders of many organizational functions. One highlight is our annual survey research. We survey more than 700,000 individuals every year and I'm actually honored to own one of those surveys, the state of modern technology operations. We work in all of the major geographic markets and across most of the major verticals. You might say that we are research with a consultative approach. Sometimes people will lump us in with consulting but actually companies like Deloitte and Accenture we see more as partners. We start our feedback loop with qualitative and quantitative research that leads to us having the ability to tell certain stories, develop certain narratives because there is always a narrative that our customers find valuable and they turn to us for insight and assurance that they are on the right track. It's an important part of our value proposition. This provides us with access and feedback which then informs further qualitative and quantitative research. As we analyze the data that we have both qualitative and quantitative and we have leading statisticians who are well-versed in technology techniques such as factor and cluster analysis, we have established repeatedly that customer obsession is absolutely a differentiator for the modern enterprise to whatever extent it is digital. We also see that customer obsession plays out internally as well as externally. We're not talking purely market facing. We're also talking about questions of internal customers and internal customer empathy and sentiment which is I think very important for the enterprise architects out there. We see clearly that customer obsessed firms grow, they grow faster, they're more profitable and not surprisingly they retain their customers better. We also see that there are clear segments that we've developed models and we see the models continually reproducing themselves and reflected in the customer research. We see that there is a movement from traditional technology approaches, technology as a utility, an order taker, focusing on efficiency and modernization, still using operating model approaches such as waterfall software development, very functionally siloed. Then we see a broad emerging modern response and then a much smaller subset of companies that we would say are truly future fit where technology has shared accountability for business outcomes and we see the companies that become truly adaptive, creative and resilient as kind of the highest order value propositions we now see in the modern digital enterprises. Toward that end we developed the Forrester outcome-driven architecture model and I will take responsibility for this. You might just say well this is just a architecture but we put considerable thought into it. Yes it's not a precise metamodel but over and over again we've heard that the modern architecture organization needs to be grounded in a foundation of operating principles and these aren't necessarily architecture assessment principles in fact we're going to rename that bottom layer to architecture foundation but these are the values, the precepts that the modern chief architect would be well advised to keep in mind as they strive to deliver value and also stay out of the dreaded ivory tower syndrome. Architecture needs to have demonstrable value. It needs itself to be agile and to be deeply conversant with what agile development means. It needs to be pragmatic, influential, continuous and accountable. We've written and discussed all of these things. In the interest of time I won't elaborate further and that foundation then supports key capabilities such as people, practices such as the methodologies and frameworks that we love to talk about and debate. The whole question of artifacts and I'll always point out that the first three things you see in that capabilities layer architects love to talk about those three things but what does any of it matter if you don't have a clear engagement model? The engagement model is the means by which architecture actually delivers value in the context of your operating model or it is the operating model for architecture itself and this is where I challenge the modern EA practices and the modern EA leaders. It's not about the methodologies, it's not about the artifacts, it's about how you are making a difference towards the ultimate outcomes of projects, products and services that are adaptive, creative and resilient that deliver top line, bottom line value that reduce your risk and improve your customer satisfaction. Towards that end we have been sponsoring the enterprise architecture awards and I have been compiling the history which had not been done before. As it turned out these awards started in 2010 with partners in academia and media they have been unbroken ever since. We now have a combined a compiled list of 64 unique winners 71 total across all regions of the world. I'm very honored to now be stewarding this program and we are just delighted that for the first time this year we are partnering with the open group on these awards. These awards certainly do reflect the Forrester outcome driven model. We look for results, we look for value, we look for engagement. We might also query what methods and framework frameworks you're using but it must be in the context of ultimately are you creating those valuable outcomes for your business? Just briefly here I believe this is being recorded. We obviously won't have time to go through but here's a list of all the winners and this will be published on a blog that will go live I believe later today on my own blogging site at Forrester. Now if you're interested in participating in the awards I'm easily found online. I would simply either you can take a quick screenshot of the URL there to my blogs where there will be in the most recent blog a set of links for how you submit to this year's awards or I'm just a Google search away as we like to say and with that hopefully we've gotten past our minor technical glitches and I'd love to chat a little bit with Steve if we have the time. I hope so too Charlie thank you very much for that and yes repeating we're very much looking forward to the awards and what we hope and absolutely expect is that we'll get some great examples of how architecture is really delivering value and I don't know if you caught Paul Hohman's one minute EA said at the beginning and you know it kind of doesn't matter what we call it as long as it delivers. I love that I love that statement it was just so crisp and to the point it really doesn't matter what we call it. Yeah yeah no it's great so so thank you for that thank you for that overview and one of the things we see a lot in in architecture is this it's is it in fashion is it out of fashion whatever you call it it kind of comes and goes a bit but it seems to always reemerge and it's kind of I guess a consistent reason why it appears to reemerge is is economic challenges driving it. Yeah I mean any any thoughts on that or sounds like you agree with that yeah absolutely we see it all the time I mean when times are good you know people tolerate sprawl and you know why do we need the architects when times get a little more difficult then you have to cut and you have to prune and there's basically three ways that people will seek to rationalize the portfolio to cut costs they can do it completely command and control senior leaders just go in and based on just very initial perception they make a series of decisions and of course they're operating without sufficient context in too many cases and these are complex systems and when you impinge or jolt complex systems they tend to react in really unexpected ways and maybe you might have not saving money not having their outcomes you thought and then the the other way the other dysfunctional way we see is the rationalization happens but it's opaque it's the whisper network it's the old boys old girls clubs and this starts to demoralize the rank and file it starts to and again there's a lack of context and you know decisions are made and you know at least in the first case you know that the senior leader just pounded the table and said done we're getting out of that business well at least there's accountability and when the in the second mode decisions are made in the passive voice and it's also not a great way to run a business from my perspective so what's the third way transparent and rational and I would submit to the listeners if you have a transparent and rational approach for rationalizing your portfolio I don't care what you call it you're doing architecture because you're thinking systematically about your capabilities whether you use that word or not you're thinking systematically and it is the whole idea of having a systematic approach that is as transparent as possible in in in business environments and then that results in reasonable decisions that are clearly justified and hopefully take into account the necessary context of these complex systems so that you get the outcomes you're looking for in your rationalization journey right right great and you know in a similar vein Charlie you know if we agree that that things come and go there's this kind of architecture pendulum which which has to be a negative thing overall you know overall in an organization disrupt it you know it is terribly yeah yeah any thoughts because it we can trace we can trace several depending on what you count we can trace several examples of this back over over several decades now any thoughts for how we kind of stop the pendulum yes very much and this is this was the pendulum was top of mind for me as we did that the Forrester outcome-driven framework the idea that the number one and I've had numerous client conversations where senior ea's chief ea's have really latched on is accountability how is the architecture group itself held accountable how are its outcomes measured now we can't put in place six Sigma style you know high volume statistics the measurements might be anecdotal they might be case-based and that's fine Forrester we have a balance between qualitative and quantitative but at the end of the day you need to draw a line of sight and I have a an impact map that I use based on some extremely valuable mentoring I got a long time ago the I was at a reception and I tried to engage a senior leader in conversations and I was younger at the time and as one does at younger ages I went a little too technical a little too quickly with this senior leader who listened politely and then politely excused themselves and I was left there holding my drink and one of my mentors happened to have half an ear out and pulled me aside and gave me advice I've never forgotten he said Charlie it's very simple top line bottom line risk if you can't break down your conversation into those terms do not approach somebody at that level and being Forrester we add customer experience and I think Peter Drucker would approve you know creating a customer is why we have businesses so I have an impact map artifact a job aid call you want where I walk architects through and I say okay so you're governing the technology portfolio and architecture gets a lot of grief for trying to control the diversity of technologies it's not a bad thing it's it's something that reduces risk but how does it reduce risk how does it make things more efficient there's a missing layer of value that architects struggle to articulate for example if I have a smaller number of technical products I have a smaller attack surface to secure which then changes my staffing dynamics if instead of having 15 different flavors of relational database I concentrate my spend on two one or two flavors I now have more leverage I can say to the vendor I'm giving you all my business what are you gonna do for me right that's a conversation that's been around since commerce was invented right this is why we do these things is to seek these classes of value they are longer horizon value propositions harder to measure but not impossible so what I am my mission right now is to help architects just it's just this little hop you know to get to that top end that the top-end value propositions and not just be muttering things about well efficiency or something right you know which doesn't quite do it you know with the CFO sure no it'll make all the difference in the world to get something something more tangible yeah absolutely absolutely so a couple of questions well one question specifically about the about the awards came in and is there a deck or website for that will help people see what the criteria for choosing the winners are yes well I mean they should download the packet and they can infer that the packet asks a variety of questions based on the outcome based architecture model and then you can the questions will then be judged by a panel of judges from both Forrester and as you know the open group which is one of the reasons one of the concrete ways we're partnering here there will be a rubric rubric has not been not been publicized but in any event one might just simply look at the packet and say well you know they're going to compare the responses across these eight or eight or ten questions I'm sorry I should know off the top of my head but it's not a hundred questions and it's not three so that's great and in fact thanks to my colleague Lauren who's posted the the link to where you can find more information about the awards and back it as well so thank you Lauren done in real time that's a good question about Forrester research are there any plans to extend Forrester research to other geographies like Latin America or does it already operate there we have some operations and we call it the Americas I would say that Latin America and Africa both represent significant opportunities for us we do have substantial operations in Europe and in the industrialized APAC areas but Latin America and Africa remain areas where we have have more work to do we have some presence there I'm not the best qualified to speak in detail about it right understood all right thank you for that so I think we have time for maybe one more question Charlie and it to some extent it's an old chestnut but given your your responsibilities at Forrester include Agile and DevOps the question we hear a lot how can Agile and architecture coexist great question I have a lot of thoughts I think number the number one I'll just give I'll just I'll go real pragmatic here architecture standards should be baked into development platforms they should be baked into development pipelines now this doesn't solve all the questions about things like allocating systems of record and so forth you still need careful thought about these things and you need some kind of a process but certainly the at the technical and solutions level and secure even security having architects running around with checklists checking stuff off all of that should simply go into the CI CD pipeline as part of the platform and then architecture is in a whole different set of conversations so the question for the architect is strategically becomes what are our major approved platforms and do they reflect architecture standards and do I have a seat at that table and the architect actually should be driving those investments you know saying this is the golden path paved road platform if you deploy here you are architecturally compliant along you know 20 different dimensions and I'm not even going to bother you know coming after coming having a conversation with you because it's all enforced by the platform and then that then that frees up architecture to then also play a key role in the initial chartering of product teams much of the agile conversation and friction comes at the point of the product team has been formed and is trying to deliver in the architects trying to get in their way architecture should be upstream of that you know how did the plaque how did the product team come to be I think is is the the key question for the architect and then architecture also has much I think it has a strong relationship with something like site reliability engineering any given product will hit certain crisis moments and need assistance and guidance and what do you call that architecture SRE it's the need for a consultative capability what in team topologies is called an enabling team there are other ways where we can draw that line of sight but I would say get out of anything resembling stage gated approvals where people where the architect is blocking somebody's progress figure out some way to not do that and there's still plenty for architecture to do absolutely good good a good note to finish on Charlie and I thank you for your for your time today and your work with the awards we look forward to those being a great success and hearing some really really good stories of value delivered through through architecture so for today thanks once again to Charlie Betts thank you Steve thank you so we are just about done for today we try and keep these two 30 minutes folks so just a mention of next time around two weeks time June 13th I strongly urge you to join us again that day we are going to be joined by vision Wang who is going to be talking to us about architecting interoperability with argument promise to be promised to be a great presentation so please join us on June 13th if you can meanwhile thank you for taking time out today and for your questions and wherever you are keep safe and well and see you next time I'm Steve Nunn this has been talking Tuesday


Did you miss me? Hello and welcome back to another photo nerd University tutorial Sorry, we've been away, but we've been on assignment doing teaching some workshops out in Joshua Tree National Park But now we're back and we're ready to bring you some more Lightroom Photoshop videos those types of things and while we've been away a lot of you have been posting comments on our videos on this channel and Lots of really great feedback We've done our best to go through and answer everyone's questions If we've missed you go ahead and leave a comment down below and we'll be sure to get back to you But one of the comments that we got was in regards to all of these Nick filter videos that we've been doing It seems like a lot of you have really enjoyed watching these videos But you still have some questions in regards to a few things in how they work Ira Bruce and he writes An informative video Adam, however, once you dropped in the control points and failed to use the sliders It begged the question. How do those control point sliders affect the image? Even though you were happy with the image once you dropped in the control points I would have liked to seen how those control point sliders would have changed the image and their functionality a missed teaching opportunity Now Ira I'm not one for challenges But that sounds like one and so I wanted to take a second to answer this question and as I gave it some thought It's really a difficult question to answer and just one video I feel like if I were to do one video on all the control points Within the seven different filters that Nick filters is giving us I would really be selling you short or I would be creating a video that was like an hour long and While I don't want to create a video That's that long because one of the things that I think is an advantage about our channel is that our videos are shorter and Usually touch on one topic at a time So I don't want to make a video. That's an hour long but what if we made a video for each one of The seven filters that Nick collections offers and talk about how the control points in each of those filters worked I Think that that's a more productive way because whether you are a user using color effects or silver effects Or something like that then you can go to our video specifically for that filter and know exactly how the control points work So what we're going to do is exactly that we're going to create a video for each one of the seven filters that Nick collection offers and We're going to create a playlist specifically to talk about the control points and how they work differently in Each of those applications. Hopefully you will enjoy this series we'd love to hear what you have to say about it and And leave us a comment down below one more thing We understand the confusion with respect to control points and all the different variations that are offered So what we've done is created a print friendly PDF that you could actually print if you were interested and just taking a closer look as to what these different seven control points In each application offers you can find that on our patreon page We'll put a link down in the description below if that's something that you're interested in if not without further ado Let's jump into the first in this seven series color effects


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Since 2015, PF Blocker has been protecting assets behind consumer and corporate networks of PF Sense open source firewall. So PF Blocker, I've talked about it a couple times before, I want to talk about the latest version. I talked about it about a year ago that they were developing the 2.2 series and they've really come a long ways. It seems very stable. I've been using it. We have it on our production machines here. And so I figured I'd talk about it and go over how to configure and set it up. A couple of things I want to get out of the way. Please donate to them if you can spare a few dollars. It always helps the developers of these open source projects and you can see currently I am a $10 a month developer on this and maybe I should up it a little more. But I want to raise awareness of the project and raise awareness that, you know, open source, the code is free, but the time that these people spend on it is valuable. Therefore, I'll show your appreciation by helping them out. Further reading, there is a forum where you want to dive deep and discuss with the PF Blocker developer and other people using it and, you know, find details of questions or is it possible to configure questions. That is discussed right here under Reddit slash R slash PF Blocker NG. So there's a pretty active discussion group. You can see there's a lot of posts in here and it it's very helpful. You know, if you have questions or are want to interact with the development team right here is where you can post some of those and dive deeper into it. Now I am running, I've run in the past via the PF Blocker 2.1 series. I've tried the 2.2 at the time I tried it over a year ago. It was, it was pretty good, but I don't think it was really there. As of right now, it seems to be quite stable. I haven't had any problems with it and it works great. Now, if you already have PF Blocker 2.1 installed and you want to move to PF Blocker 2.2, it should keep all the settings. But as I always say, backup, backup, backup, just in case it goofs up or you need to rerun something on there and make sure you understand the settings. The concept I'm doing from here with our lab server is I'm going to be loading it fresh and that way it's not pulling in any legacy settings and that way if you're a new user to PF Sense, this will be the getting started with a 2.25 version of PF Blocker. So first things first, we click the install and then we click confirm and it downloads it. So this part's really straightforward and simple. How fast to install will vary greatly with the speed of your computer, but now it's installed. Now, PF Blocker, which you're going to go over here and it's going to bring us to the wizard to get it set up, couple quick items. A lot of people ask this, what if I'm running a Windows domain? Will PF Blocker work? Well, PF Blocker has two pieces to it. One does IP blocking based on firewall rules, one does DNS sinkhole. So if you're running a Windows Active Directory network, the DNS server generally is set to be that Windows Active Directory server to have the least amount of problems with Active Directory. But you can upstream from that, tell the Windows server to talk to the PF Blocker on PF Sense and use PF Sense for DNS resolution. So the computers will then go to the AD server and the AD server and can use this. That will work for the DNS blocking. The firewall blocking rules that block IP addresses based on firewall rules because it is just IP blocking. No problem that works whether it's on a Windows domain or not. So it depends on which piece of PF Blocker you're speaking to. But if you're doing it as I want to get to this IP address, but then it is sinkhole or blocked inside of PF Blocker with a firewall rule, it's going to work whether you have Windows or not. But when you're running a Windows Active Directory server and using DNS, it will first try to resolve those addresses inside of Windows and then Windows will then reach out with the Windows server or reach out to there. So DNS sinkholing or as people like to say like, you know, blocking of some of the tracking sites, that is only if the DNS in within your realm of network is set to this and it works with the DNS inside of PF Sense. So we're going to hit next on a wizard. Hopefully it answers the questions on there. The PF Blocker wizard will configure a default setup for PF Blocker NG. All the settings will be wiped if you don't need any previous installs. IP firewalls will be added to select outbound interfaces to block the worst defenders. DNSBL utilizing DNS resolver, Adverts, the worst known malicious domains will be blocked. So this is basically what it's doing. You select the inbound as in what's the external. Maybe you have more than one WAN address because you have dual providers. You would select all of the inbound external ones and then all of your internal interfaces, hold the control key and press there. So we have LAN and LAN2. Not creatively named in my lab, I know. VIP address, the virtual IP address, this is just make sure you don't have this network in use on your current system. So if you have this IP, the 10, 10, 10, 1, that is something you're already using. Okay, I use that IP, don't then change it. So you just change it here. I'm not using this one, so it's fine. But just a word to the wise, when I've seen people who have struggled with problems, they coincidentally, through a series of, well, disunfortunate alignments of events here, have had that as their root IP of their PF sense and because they change it to 10, 10, 10, it's even fun. That is the VIP address for this. But you can choose whatever you want here. I'm gonna leave it at default because I don't have that network. And then port 8081, 8443, make sure they're not in use on there. Local port upon which the DNS of a web server list protection, the default is 8443. This can be left on less different port needs to be used. When you change it here, it changes it all the other places. So I like that the wizard can do that for you, make it simple. And that's it, finish. It's set up magic. Takes a second here and it's set up. But the first thing it has to do is get those lists of where those bad reputation IPs are. So it's gonna download easy privacy and away and a lot of other lists. So I'll let it finish this real quick. Update process ended and completed. So here we go, total table entries, blah, blah, blah. You can read and scroll back through all the details. But basically it's all configured and successfully updated. So it's just saying that if there's any errors or doesn't seem to be any update process ended, I don't see any major problems. So the wizard is now finalized and it says a message has been saved to the wizard log. So if we need to see that, let's go all the way to the beginning here and run through what it has here. Now, right here is PF blockers enabled, keep settings. And this is the common settings for a lot of the plugins that way if you ever have to remove it, it has the options to, well, that you want these settings in here, it will remove them or wipe them. So that's pretty straightforward there. Crown settings, default every hour of this updates. Downloadment threshold, no limit. If you need to adjust any of these, in case you want a little more or some type of like, hey, you only tried this many times or how big you want the logs, or we'll leave it all at default for now. But you can get the idea. If you need or want more logs and have the space for it, you can adjust all that here. Same thing with all the crown settings, you can change it from every hour, two hours, three hours, whatever works for you. Here is where the IP reputation part starts. So here's the IP settings and placeholder IP address, ASN, etc., etc. Whether or not we want to reject or have it block, by default we want it to block on the WAN and reject here. Reject versus block, if you're not familiar with what the two rules do. So when it blocks, it gives no notice. It just drops and goes away. You don't even know you're, you don't get any notice at all. Rejection, well, it tells you no, you're not allowed to go here. You want to reject on the internal ones, that way there's actually some type of answer back. But from the external side, if someone's trying to get in, blocking works better because you don't even want to waste your time sending back a notice at all to the person that they're blocked, just let it go away. And this is for the IP rules.  So we're going to hear firewall rules. And you'll see, here's a rule under LAN and LAN 2. And there's two different schools of thought here. If you do them under floating, you can see the rules all in one place. If you do them, and for however many networks you create, it will have a rule under each one of these. You can then see where the things are coming from. So it all depends on how you want to consolidate things. If you want to consolidate it under a floating rule, that's where this checkbox does this. And I kind of like it that way, so everything's in a floating rule. But if you want it granular based on each network, you can put them under each network, which is where they end up by default. But remember, when we started customizing or adding a bunch of things in here, those rules start repeating throughout all the networks. So just something to consider and think about when you're doing it as opposed to, I just want them blocked, and we go here and hit save IP settings. Now that'll move to floating rule. By the way, it won't automatically move to floating rule. It won't do that until we go over here to update. We'll just reload things real quick. We'll hit Run. Now we didn't do a download. We just reloaded it. And it's going to grab everything again and reprocess, reload task force all, update process ended, all right. And now the floating rule is here. And there's not a rule under each one of these. So that's how that works in case you didn't know. For every time you make a change, it would have done it automatically on the hour. But we can just go to the reload option and reload either just the IP or the DNS of BL side and run it again back over to the IPs. So now we've moved it over to a floating rule. Keep it pretty simple. Let's you customize how the rules work. And I didn't save this, but I'll turn it on now. Kill states, when enabled after a Cronvent force commands any blocked IPs found in the firewall state will be cleared. Why do I do that? Well, what happens is, let's say you have a connection to some scary command and control server from inside your network to said server. Well, that server was not known to be a command and control server, and then an IP gets added to the list. I'm one of those hourly updates. When you change a firewall rule, and this is the way PFsense work, it will change the rule, but it won't block states of that rule running already. So I block a port or I block an IP address, but there's already an established TCP connection until that connection gets reestablished, which it wouldn't, because if there's a rule to stop it or that IP is in a block list, then it wouldn't, but the established state won't go away. By saying kill states, if an IP address pops up in there, if there's any computers with established connections, it will break those connections because it'll reset any connections that match that rule. So just something to think about when you're doing that. GOIP, this is where you have to decide how you want to handle, for example, the top spammers in the GOIP. So we're gonna go ahead and we can say deny inbound, deny outbound, deny both. Now, there's a few more options here. I'm not gonna get into the details for specific specific use cases, but if you go deny both, and we're gonna go ahead and edit this rule a little bit more detailed here, if you go to denying both, that means no system can make an outbound connection to those. Now that may work fine for the top spammers, which by the way, you can hold the control key, click which ones or hit control A and just grab them all, and then we'll modify, because we didn't hit save at the top here, deny outbound, or actually we'll go ahead and deny both on spammers. I think we're okay with this one. Then we'll hit save, and now we go back over here, and we look at the GOIP, it's enabled, and it says deny both here. And then let's go ahead and deny inbound from places we don't need. So we'll go and deny inbound for this one, but not outbound. And the reason why is, and it's only really matters for inbound, if you're hosting things, you have ports open on your firewall. So in our production environment, specifically for my office, for example, we do have ports open for things we host. I don't need anyone connecting from this particular country, or let's say Antarctica, we'll say list action, I don't need inbound, Asia, and we'll same thing, we'll deny inbound again, Europe, deny inbound. Now, if I were to deny outbound as well, for example, in Europe, that's when I would start having a real problem, and what do I mean by that? Well, I wouldn't be able to go into European websites, so I would actually be blocking my ability to talk to those, you don't realize maybe just how many sites may be hosted over in Europe. And obviously if you're in Europe, you do, but I've seen people where they've set these up and start breaking things right away by denying your ability to get there. Some servers, some companies you may buy services from are hosted over in Germany, they're hosted over in some place in Europe. And if you deny the firewall's ability to outbound those. Now inbound, this only matters if you have ports open because by default, the WAN interface on PF Sense, and a lot of home users, if you're opening no ports, this is your default rule, is deny everything. So it doesn't matter if you have this or not, you're wasting time doing it because if you have no ports open, well, it doesn't matter. Now I do like denying all these for our inbound because like I said, we do have hosting open. So you just have to think about the use cases when you're doing that. Same with, you know, deny all these weird proxy and satellite ones, we'll go ahead and deny those too. Which is a long list, so page, page, page. So I'm just hitting control A to get those and deny inbound. And now we have all the different ones. So let's do South America, why not? And like I said, you can see that this is granular so you can filter and find these. Now once you've done all this, once again, you could wait an hour or we can go back over here and we'll just go ahead and reload just the IP side of it and it's gonna update all those rules. That's done there and I'll just back over here and look at the firewall rules. And now you can see here's all the different blocks. It creates an alias list for each one of them. Now, this is also why I mentioned running floating rules. As you can see, now I have this list of rules here and floating, but these are still nice and clean. These would then end up repeating in each one of the networks if you didn't do it as a floating rule. So just some thoughts on that, like I said, for kind of my reasoning for why we do it. So source and it's got these blocked and then these ones as destinations are blocked. So here we go, that's kind of the basic for the GOIP blocking, which is important. Now let's talk about the DNSBL side of this. So this is where you DNS sinkhole. This is name resolution versus the other stuff is IP level blocking. And the default feeds it has is easy feeds utilizing domains blocked, the collection of advertisement domain feeds and collection of malicious domain feeds. This is where you can also add more custom ones if you have some particular list you want, things like that. So these are some predefined ones that are pretty basic, but it shows where they're pulling from. You can follow this format if you know another one and there's other companies or other groups that should stay in that really businesses, but they have these lists and this is where you can update or change these lists and be able to put like a specific list of things that you don't know you want resolved there. These lists if you wanna ever see what's inside of them, they're pretty easy, they're just basic text files. So you can actually see it's blocking whatever this is, whatever these domains are, these are lists that these people maintain and this is a malware domain list. So anything that tries to get there, it's some crappy website that these people have sinkhole, but you have to be careful because maybe these lists have false positives that is a risk you're gonna get with any list. So take them for what they're well and I've seen people debate and argue about who has the best list that's beyond the scope of this, but kind of get you an idea of what these look like. Like here's a ransom tracking list and these are sites for, I'm assuming a bunch of, yeah. And they look pretty crappy to me because if you're connecting to that site, you probably have a problem in your network on there for sure. So probably this list looks pretty valid to me, but hey, they also have some category options if you wanna try using the categories and they're pulled from these blacklist to enable and lets you do a little bit more filtering. I've not done much testing with this, but these try to group things into categories based on that. Now, this is where they've done a great job and where these feeds are because you're seeing all those really. Where is all this coming from? Where's this data? Well, they actually started filling them out in here and they made it a lot easier to add a list. So this is just the wizard and the default ones that they have on here and they do have some warnings of don't just click everything, do not enable all the feeds well, you're gonna break stuff. It'll be maybe more than your PF sense can handle. But we have some nice ones, like Taylor Snort, heard of Snort, I've talked a lot about Snort and I'll threat list from them. The Taylor Security Group, they've got a great blog by the way. You can then, they're in here by default as one of the lists. Now, all you have to do to add something to lists, let's go in here and let's say, well, here's the developer, he has his own list and I think Tor is in the list. Let's find that. Blacklist, DE, Tor, MyAPs, Spamhouse, Addaway, Abuse Tracker, oh, Mailwarebytes. So this is actually Mailwarebytes has hosted in here and this is actually kinda cool too. So when you click on these links here, they take you to some of the websites where these are so you can read more about what these rule sets are that you're adding in here. So if you wanted to add that in there, Mailware Domains, Ransom Tracker, where was it again? We just go ahead and hit the plus. All right, save. And now we have that one in there and then we just say unbound once a day, save, hit okay. Now it's gonna pull that list in there as well. So it's kinda cool that the way they did these feeds, so you can figure out what feeds you want, what ones you wanna add in there and I believe Tor is in here somewhere if you wanted to block some of the Tor sites as well. But you kinda get the idea for a lot of feed options in here and I thought this was cool too. They even have the alien vault list. So if we're gonna click plus on the alien vault list and it's an IP reputation list, not a DNS one, so we're gonna hit save and we'll go ahead and deny inbound from them, save, hit okay. Yeah, deny inbound every hour. And once again, they give a lot of fine tuning options if you wanna do a couple of specific things like only custom destination ports and block and things like that. But once you've done this, we're gonna go back over here to the update. Go to reload and we'll just reload both real quick. Okay, update process ended and we get back over here to our firewall rules. And we see all the rules are up to date and here's all the things we blocked and et cetera, et cetera. Now quick behind the scenes, if you're not familiar with the aliases, I think I've done a video specifically on how the aliases work in PF sense, but you go here to the aliases and you can see how PF blocker pulls these. So if you see it's pulling from HETPS and it's pulling from local host 555 PF blocker, it runs its own internal web server. So when it updates and pulls these aliases, it actually pulls from a file it creates and then pushes a web server back to so it can pull and update the alias every time it runs one of those updates. Just a little behind the scenes of what's going on when it creates these. It doesn't have to, I kinda like the fact that it's not doing anything magic, it's exposed through the UI, so to speak, how it's doing it. But when they say do not edit this alias, do not edit the alias or you'll cause unexpected behavior in PF blocker. Now, PF blocker itself is fun to have up and running, but I also spun up a box over here, a Windows machine. And I haven't done anything but boot it up and I wanted to show you what the reports look like. Cause obviously there's not gonna be a lot in these reports and there's not many alerts when there's no nothing behind it. And this is our lab server so the only thing behind it is one Windows box with this particular IP address,<PHONE_NUMBER>. And I like that just by starting it up, the first thing it did was reach out and go settings.win.data.microsoft, which is the Microsoft tracking, by the way. This is another feature I really like the way they have this built into PF blocker. So here's the fact that it was blocked and right here we can do threat lookups. So we're gonna go ahead and open it in a new tab and we can look up that threat. So what is, and you notice the reputation lookup search string is settings.win.data.microsoft and it gives you what that information is. It's actually a trusted website. Well, you trust Microsoft, at least it's trusted as and it's not doing anything malicious. It's just telemetry data coming from Microsoft or going to Microsoft I should say, and it got sync old. They give you a few different places you can look things up. And this is kind of cool because you can see how it's pushing this setting to here and then each one of these, it's then taking you to their website and seeing if it's in their list. Like this one's not in the list here but you kind of get the idea. But if we want to whitelist it, let's say we want to send telemetry data to Microsoft. That's pretty easy too. You click the little plus button and it says whitelist settings, win data Microsoft. No, this will immediately remove the block domain and associated C names from DNSBL and whitelisting actions. So we're gonna hit okay. And then right here, I don't, it's funny because it's in yellow here. Do you wish to wildcard whitelist? And that means anything.settings at Microsoft as opposed to just settings. And we're just gonna whitelist this but in case you want to do a series of potential prefixes that are in front of it, that would wildcard it. So we're just gonna whitelist this in general and it says, do you want to add a description? Yep, MS telemetry. I think that's how you spell telemetry. And now we've whitelisted this and when it does the reload, it will be in here now. So you may need to flush your browser cache. Yeah, and this is one thing too. Once it's been sinkholt, sometimes it may get stuck in the browser for doing it. And if we wanted to undo it real quickly, we could go right here and trash that. So there is options to go back and fix it if you need to. Now, if you wanted to go back and see that whitelist later, not just in the alerts, you go over here to DNSPL. I'll scroll down here. DNSPL whitelist. And you can see somewhere within here. Hey, look, there it is for MS telemetry. So there is where you can edit the whitelist from the raw, so to speak. And no regex allowed. This is let you put things in here for the whitelisting so you can do custom here. All right, now let's see what happens when we open up a browser. Because like I said, the report looks kind of boring. So let's open up the browser real quick and see what happens when we go to some news site, for example. All right, we go to news.google.com. Surely that will take us somewhere. Of course, launches into New Jersey building second floor. Oh, that's a sad story. Why do I have to pick that one? But I bet there was some ad tracking that just occurred. That's what really that was important about. So let's go ahead and update this. Oh man, look at all the things that just tried to pop up right there. So here's just by opening up news at Google and then that other one link we clicked, we can see right away, there's a lot going on here. And then we can dive over here to the stats and see, oh man, look at all the things, the CDNs and the bad being and all the stuff that got tracked on there. So you can see pretty quickly this alerts will fill up. Now, the last thing I'm gonna cover is, cause the question comes up of, do I need to build a really fast beefy machine to run this or will my network choke if I don't have a super fast epic or AMD threadripper on my PF sense here or some Xeon with 64 gigs of RAM is this thing a system hog? No, that's the last thing I wanna cover here is my own PF sense. So we're gonna go ahead and drag it over here. So here's my system, an SG-1100. And you can see that, I'm running the latest release here and I'm using all of 24% of my memory to run this. And it's got PF block reinstalled. So let's actually show you what happens when you run it at home. Obviously this, you can see, I do have some things open on my home system. And yeah, we've got some blocking going on here. Plenty of things being stopped and things that has been malicious and stuff like that. So let's go over here and actually look at the stats. And I may have to blur some things out here but let's look at the reports. And we'll go over here to the stats page here. Well, DSPL stats. And between my kids and my wife use an Instagram. We see that, well, graphs on Instagram. Some of that tracking's been blocked. Some of the other stuff's been blocked. So wherever all this is, I've know what data.flurry.com settings win data. Oh, look, Windows machines calling out because the gaming systems when running Windows. But you get the idea. So it works perfectly fine even on SG-1100. They seem to have done a lot of coding to make this a very efficient project. And I haven't really had any issues at all running my SG-1100 at home. This is one of the reasons I've talked about recommending the SG-1100. This is a lot of times what people wanna do and for a pretty inexpensive box it doesn't seem to have any problems handling it. I don't have any problems playing any games. But occasionally, and you're gonna run into some of the games, you may run into things you have to whitelist and not break things because they may require some of the servers that were on the blacklist. So some fine tuning and using that little, going through the alerts and whitelisting things as needed may be necessary. But all of this gives you good idea of the whole PF blocker system. And as I said at the beginning, if you can contribute and donate to the project, that'd be great. It's a wonderful tool, definitely a good add-on to PF Sense, one of my favorites for being able to, you know, block things coming in, bound and block certain things going out, bound that you may not want, or sink holding things via DNS. 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What's going on you guys welcome to the single guy channel? My name is Lloyd. I had a question from this guy I need basically writes Lloyd. I need some help Okay I'm able to get a phone number pretty easily. In fact, I've gotten 10 phone numbers in the last week and a half Okay, but of those phone numbers only two of them have messaged me back and of those two Basically both of them ghosted me within three days. So none of these phone numbers have panned out for him He writes Lloyd, I don't know what to do. Please help me out. Here's some of the messages that I'm sending these girls Please tell me why they aren't messaging me back Okay, cool Well, I'm not gonna go over the messages that he sends to be honest. I think they're fine I'm not even sure if it's the message. That's the problem here. Probably not But basically I can relate to this problem, man You know, I used to have this problem pretty badly when I was first putting myself out there first talking to people You know, I would get a girl's phone number I would think it would go well and then you know, I try and messenger and then nothing, you know And this happened to me again and again and again And it took me some time to learn why this wasn't happening and this is Extremely super common problem with a lot of the students that I have but we're able to work through it pretty well And I'm gonna go over how we're able to work through it in this video So I'm gonna cover why these girls aren't messaging him back and why they're not messaging you back If this is a problem with you And also to how to make sure to get these girls to message you back and not only message you back But want to go out on a date with you hang out with you in real life Which hopefully is why you got the number in the first place So before I get into this if you guys are wondering about how to get coached by me in person I just had some spots open up So there's one or two spots that are open in my coaching program If you guys want to get on that Fill out the form down below if we think you're a good fit. We'll get back to you Okay, cool. So why aren't these girls messaging him back? Well, dude, like in what I had to learn and this is kind of a harsh truth Is that the reason why they're not messaging you back is not because of the messages you're sending The messages you're sending are fine And I'm sure they're fine for a lot of you guys The message doesn't really matter that much But what does matter is having a solid interaction Before you ask for that phone number before you messenger You should have had a solid interaction, you know, you can only do so much over text In fact, if you have a bad interaction, it doesn't matter how good you are at texting How funny, smart, clever or whatever, you know She's probably not going to message you back if you don't have a solid interaction ahead of time So it becomes paramount to have a solid interaction because the truth is getting a phone number is pretty cheap It's pretty easy In fact, a lot of women will give you their phone number just so they don't have to talk to you anymore Or maybe they gave you their phone number thinking at the time. Oh, this guy's kind of cute Like I'm having a lot of fun. They're feeling good But then later on they start to think about it and they start to think oh like I'm gonna have to go on a date with this guy I'm going to be messaging him back and forth and going on the date or hanging out with a dude that she doesn't really know that well Is a pretty big deal for a girl, you know, sometimes they can get pretty nervous and scared So she has to be pretty sure and if she's not sure then a lot of times they're going to go to or they're just not going to message you at all Okay, so it's pretty important to have a solid interaction before you get that phone number Now, how do you have a solid interaction? Well, I'm going to be covering the steps in this video So I'm going to give you guys a you know Uh more of a guideline to make sure that you're having a solid interaction solid enough that she's going to want to go out with You again Okay, so the first thing that I would say is you have to make sure that she's interested in you She wants to go out with you but a lot of you guys Reading women is pretty tough Especially if you're first starting out and sometimes it could be tough for me too You know, I've been doing this for a really long time So one thing that you can start doing is to talk with her for longer Okay, make sure that you talk with her for longer than just like 30 seconds If you just walk up to her say, hey, I think you're cute. What's your phone number? Like she's probably not going to message you back Even if she does think you're cute, even if she does think, hey, you know, this guy's kind of cool Maybe I'll hang out with him for a little bit. No, she's probably not going to message you You know talk with her for a little bit longer Ask her some questions Now if you guys are wondering what to talk about how to keep that conversation going I have tons of videos on the subject I recommend watching my five questions I ask every girl when I'm out Basically, these are five questions that you can turn to your oh shit questions If I can't think of anything to talk about They're simple easy relaxed questions to keep the conversation going And they're at questions I still use to this day You can also check out my video on how to never run a thing to say that's a good one too but basically Ask these questions like where are you from? What do you do? You know who you hear with like what are you up to those types of questions are pretty easy to keep going Like if I just start talking to a girl on the street or something like that I'm like cool. So what are you up to? Are you walking to work or something like that? Oh, okay. Nice. Cool. Well, I'm walking that way too. Let's walk. So, you know, something like that can happen Okay, cool. So Talk longer remember to ask those five questions to keep the conversation going now once you've built up a little bit of Report then you can start getting into the man-to-woman connection where you start teasing her a little bit You start playing around having some playful banter between the two of you have some good positive man-to-woman energy um And then from there, you know, keep the conversation going for as long as she feels comfortable Honestly, like the longer you have a conversation the better your chances are Okay So if it seems like she wants to leave or I got to go for some reason Well, then it becomes time to ask for their phone number So basically what I'll do is I'll have a reason to ask for the phone number. Okay So this is the way I'll usually ask for it. If I can't think of anything decent to say I'll just be like, uh Hey, listen, I got a run right now, but I'd love to continue this conversation Do you have whatsapp or an instagram or something like that? Then that's the way I'll ask for it. Okay I typically like to get their phone number and not their instagram or a social media or something like that because um, I don't want to be Scrambled in a bunch of dms with other dudes You know, I want to get her phone number if I can so I'll usually just ask for that But again, that's a pretty good reason to ask for it. Okay. She knows why I asked for the phone number She knows what I'm going to do once I've gotten her phone number She knows I'm going to message her because I want to continue the conversation And it's enough of a commitment all she's committing to at that point is just to continue the conversation She hasn't committed to a day yet. She's not thinking too far in the future where she can psych herself out She's just saying hey, this is a cool guy. You know, I'd love to continue this conversation with him too Now after I get the phone number a lot of times what I'll do is I'll talk to them for a little bit longer after that Okay, so too many guys once they get the phone number, they just take it and run Okay, that's not a good way to end the interaction. You want to end it on a high note End it on a note where she's starting to feel good and comfortable with you So even then I'll even if I say what I just said where I got her run But I'd love to continue this conversation. I'll talk to them for a little bit after I'll be like, so what's going on with you this week? Can you do anything fun? Okay, cool.   Good luck out there


So my name is Brittany Bertrand. I'm the Youth and Community Project Assistant at Métis Nation, BC. I work in the Ministry of Youth and the program that I'm in charge of is the Rock Forum or Revitalizing Our Culture Youth Forum. So Rock Forum is a youth program for Métis youth across the province between the ages of 15 and 30. They come together, we for the past few years have done it at Strathcona Park Lodge which is just outside Campbell River. They have a beautiful venue there which is very supportive of living off the land. Even their meal plans are very much no waste so which is amazing that's something that we really promote. So when we bring the youth together we bring really amazing elders together and knowledge keepers and facilitators to come in and do workshops with us. So in this program youth have an opportunity to connect with other youth from across the province that are Métis that are learning about their culture. Some of them already know their culture and have been raised in it so it's a really good mix and a really good opportunity for some of those youth that are more experienced to be more of a mentor to these youth. When we do we bring them in and we do canoe journey, we do various hikes, plant identification with the youth. Some of the elders take it upon themselves to teach about spoons and how to play that and make it really fun and engaging. We teach about medicines that they can use to help with mental health as well as various different ailments. Depending on the time of the year it can be really amazing where you get the summer perspective on medicines growing but also when we've done it in the later part of the year when it gets a little bit of cold it's really cool that some of the elders are like hey this is how you can kind of survive in the winter months and what the winter provides for us. So there's amazing opportunities there when we get these youth out and we try to make it as fun as possible as engaging as possible and not intimidating because we want to make sure that we're meeting these youth at where they're at whether that's brand new and just discovering their culture and that reclaim piece to youth that are well experienced and ready to go to learn more and they're wanting to even move into those leadership roles. So we have our MIBC committee attend. They are youth from across the province that represent each region so we have region one which is the Vancouver Island, region two which is the lower mainland, region three is Thompson, Okanagan, region four is the Kootenai, region five is the it's like Prince George area so the center, region six and region sevens are east and west and they represent those youth so they come and educate youth on how they can come out and learn how to be engaged, get active in their communities and be in those leadership roles. So Rock Forum is offered annually so I believe this is either the fourth or fifth year that we've had it. It's usually offered we try to make it in the summer sometimes it's offered a little bit more of like a September, October depending on what venues are available. We've been really lucky with Strathcona Park Lodge that they've been really opening and accommodating to us but yeah so it's where this year will be in the summer we haven't announced dates yet so that's very secretive but it will be at the same location and and very very amazing. The forum is about four days so the the first day and the last day are travel days but we try to incorporate as much culture and support in those first two days as well but it's more of a get to know you when you arrive and then those final goodbyes so the the meat and potatoes comes in the middle the Saturday and Sunday and it's usually a Friday through Monday event. A lot of our a lot of our connection to youth this is of course social media so it's on the website through our Facebook pages and the Facebook group but also within our communities a lot of the youth here voted at community events whether they attended or their parents we try to promote that engagement for the youth that go out to these board meetings and community meetings and see what's going on because that's where you learn about the most stuff that happens. A lot of it's word of mouth too youth that experience the program they go and tell their friends in the community that they also know that are Métis and say hey this is what I experienced this is what I learned you should check it out and I feel that word of mouth is even more influential for these youth because a lot of them are trying to find out am I indigenous enough I'm Métis but I'm fair as as you can see I'm blonde hair blue eyed so when they they meet me they're like oh my gosh we're the same so it's amazing because we have very fair skinned Métis youth we have very dark skinned very Métis youth so I feel word of mouth when they talk to each other and share hey this is what I experienced that's probably one of the most powerful returns that we receive but community is very huge too when they're telling us hey we're getting a couple youth together and we're going to come out so yeah it's amazing we also reach out to the school system and and network through them as well as well as the Aboriginal support workers we have a good relationship with the ones in BC and send out all that information out to them as well to get out to the youth what I would like to share is mainly to the youth to just get out and be a part of your community reach out to your regional youth rep they're very approachable you can send them an email and kind of see hey how can I get involved if you don't know who your Métis chartered community is which I believe we have 39 across the province reaching out to us to say hey I want to get involved maybe not necessarily at the provincial level but at the community level how can I get involved and we can connect them to the right channels that's the same with any support workers or people that have youth in their care or in their presence that they know are Métis and and want to get involved is reach out to us reach out to me send me an email and say hey how can I get involved where can you lead me to because I definitely can connect them with the right people to get involved and following social media following our website it's got most up to date information on what's happening within the nation whether that's programs we're offering we also share various grant opportunities for youth and things like that where they can learn more about their culture so when we get youth coming into the program a lot of youth probably the vast majority don't know anything about their culture they were told by a grandparent told by a parent or somebody else in their family that hey we're Métis and it's youth coming in they're like I don't know what this means for me so they're very much uh in that reclaim situation where it's like I need to learn about this I need my identity and uh yeah it's an amazing experience watching them walk in they're a little scared they don't want to get to know anybody yet they're they're like hey do I fit in am I indigenous enough it's a constant question am I indigenous enough they come in uh they see other youth that are also in that same place so it very much provides that community peace right off the bat of hey this is what everybody else is experiencing too and then when we have the youth who are more experienced share their story and their journey from when they were learning about it really helps the youth to gain perspective on it so at the start they're like I have no idea what's going on and by the end they're like oh my gosh I need to learn more I need to get involved be a part of my community and it's the uh the aha moment for them that hey I fit in um it's not wrong of me to be learning at a later age if they're 15 if they're 30 and just learning it's like hey I can learn at any age I mean we have community members who are 60 years old just learning and they're getting involved so um I I know majority of them are like hey I wish I had a forum for my age to get involved and learn too so um it's just it's crazy seeing them come in and they're like oh I don't want to and then 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In last class, I have discussed about various loading condition for infinite beam resting on elastic foundation and infinite beam. So, what are the various what will happen if it is subjected to a concentrated load, concentrated moment then uniformly distributed load or triangular load then what would be the expression for the deflection, slope, bending moment and shear force. Now, to this class I will discuss about semi-infinite beam. So, last class I have discussed an infinite beam on this class it is semi-infinite beam. Now, first what is semi-infinite beam? That semi-infinite beam is basically beam where one end is extended in finite direction and another end is a particular fixed end or a point suppose if this is a beam x direction. So, this is the particular end A, so this particular end is fixed. So, that means, so from here it will start. So, infinite beam that is extended from this side and that side. So, here it will start from this side and it will extend from another direction and this direction is infinite. So, that means, here we can apply the loading here, we can apply UDL, we can apply concentrated load then how to analyze this. So, that means, it is the beam which is extended only one direction, one direction having a point A as a fixed end. So, that means, this is one end of the beam, so this is one end. Now, depending upon the type of end condition, it can be free end, this can be fixed end, this can be hinged end. So, that is basically one end of a beam and then it is extended in one particular direction. Now, how to solve this type of problem? So now, if first case we consider case A that is beam with free end that means, this end A is free, so that is a free end beam. So, then how we will solve this problem? Say if we consider that a particular beam and then we apply this load say one concentrated load and Q UDL and this point is A. Now, consider one then in this condition this point is free end beam. Now, how to solve this type of problem? So, first we will consider this is a infinite beam that means, this end is also extended in other direction this beam. Now, if we consider this is an infinite beam and at the same time it is assumed that this point A having a moment M A and Q A due to the application of this external load. So, we consider this is an infinite beam where we have two moments M A one moment and one shear force Q A acting at point for an infinite beam. So, this is one condition that means, these things is converted to an infinite beam and it is also considered that a moment M A and Q A will be acting at the point A on the infinite beam due to this application of this external load here this Q UDL and a concentrated load. But we have to keep in mind that this is actually a semi infinite beam where A end is free. So, that means, A end is free is only possible if the moment and the shear force both are 0 for this particular end and that is that condition we can achieve by applying. So, that means, we have to vanish this M A and Q A such that we can make this end A as a free end. So, that for that purpose we have to apply say one shear force P 0 and moment M 0 such that at point A minus A moment and minus Q shear force is developed. So, first M A and Q A is acting on this infinite beam because of this external load. Now, we apply a P 0 and M 0 such that we can develop a minus M A and minus Q force which is acting on this end due to the application of this two this one moment and force. So, ultimately so M A and Q A is developed due to the external load and minus M A and minus Q A is developed due to the application of P 0 and M 0. So, ultimately the net moment at point A will be 0 and net shear force at point A will be also 0. So, now so that means, here we consider that now we are acting here on this concentrate infinite beam we are acting on concentrated force P 0. So, concentrated force P 0 and concentrated moment M 0. Now, for the concentrated force we know that deflection expression for this infinite beam that will be P 0 lambda by 2 k into A lambda x. For the deflection equation for the concentrated moment y will be M 0 lambda square by k into B lambda x. Similarly, slope for concentrated moment will be minus P lambda square divided by k B lambda x slope will be for the concentrated moment will be M 0 lambda cube by k C lambda x. Then bending moment for the concentrated force will be P by 4 lambda into C lambda x and moment for the concentrated moment will be M 0 by 2 D lambda x and shear force for the concentrated force this will be P 0 this will be also P 0. P 0 divided by 2 into D lambda x similarly, shear force for the concentrated moment will be minus M 0 by 2 A lambda x. So, these are the expressions. So, these expressions for these two conditions have already been derived. So, we are just using these expressions. Now, as we know that due to this application of this P 0 and M 0 the net moment is. So, that means, net moment M at will be 0 and net shear force that will also be 0. So, now, for these two expressions. So, that means, net moment 1 is due to this concentrated force P 0 another. So, that means, the what are the moments that are developed one moment will developed because of this external loads that is Q Q and P 1. So, that moment value is M A another moment will developed at a point due to the application of this P 0 and the another moment is due to application of M 0. So, that is the three components of the net moment. So, that net moment is 0. So, first moment that we will consider that is M A that is due to the application of the external force. So, that means, M A we can write due to applied P 1 or Q. So, M A that will be plus. So, the moment due to this concentrated force that will be P 0 by 4 lambda. So, that will be P 0 by 4 lambda then another moment due to the concentrated moment that is M 0 plus 2. So, that will be plus M 0 plus 2. So, that net moment is 0 and another expression that net force shear force Q is also 0. So, that means, the Q A is also due to applied P 1 and Q or Q. So, here that is Q A then the shear force due to this concentrated force P 0 is this is actually this force is minus P 0. So, this will be P 0 minus P 0 by 2 then another one due to this concentrated moment and that is minus M 0 by 2 lambda. So, there will be M 0 by 2 lambda also this will be minus M 0 by 2 lambda that is also equal to 0. So, these expressions are already been divided. So, this will be minus and this is minus M 0 by 2 lambda. So, now, if I put these two expression will get. So, where the ultimately net moment is 0. So, after solving these two expression we will get P 0 is equal to 4 lambda M A plus 2 lambda M A plus 2 lambda plus Q A and similarly M 0 will be equal to minus 2 by lambda 2 lambda M A plus Q A. So, these two expression that will get for these two condition. So, now, the net moment at point A will be 0 if we apply this P 0 and M 0 based from these two expressions. So, from these two expressions first we have to calculate this P 0 and M 0. Now, if we apply this P 0 at M 0 that this point A or that is very close to this point A then we will get a condition for where we will get this is a infinite semi infinite beam with free end. So, now, next situation or case that will change that if the end is a fixed end or if end is a hinge end then how we will do that. So, next one is that this beam with hinged end. So, first if I draw that infinite beam suppose this is infinite beam. So, this is point A and we applying this U D L Q or this concentrated load P 1. Then, we are applying this P 0 and M 0. Now, that will be equivalent to this is also P 1 this is Q equivalent to this condition this is for case A where this is infinite beam and this is the same condition that is a semi infinite beam with free end. So, that this is the if this P 0 and M 0 are applied based on the previous two expression that I have derived. So, if we use based on those expression P 0 and M 0 that condition will be similar to this condition. So, next one that we have to calculate if it is a hinged end beam so A end is hinged. So, that means condition for this is case 2 or case B or this is condition for the this case B condition that as it is a hinged beam then the slope will be 0 as sorry deflection will be 0. So, as it is a hinged beam so deflection will be 0 and the moment that will also be 0. For the first case when it is a free end beam we consider that moment is 0 shear force is 0 here it is a hinged beam. So, we will consider that deflection is 0 and moment is also 0. So, if deflection is 0 now we have to apply same concentrated load and the moment on this line. So, you have to apply P 0 and M 0 to produce minus y A and minus M A. So, that means the y A y A is deflection of an infinite beam due to Q and P 1 similarly M A is equal to P A at point A. Similarly, this is bending moment of an infinite beam due to Q and P at point A. So, we have to apply this P 0 and M 0 such that to produce minus y A and minus M 0. So, that the net deflection at point is 0 and bending moment it also 0 that is at point A. So, now the net force that net deflection y A plus deflection expression P 0 lambda by 2 K that is equal to 0. This is the deflection due to the application of the concentrated load. Similarly, M A plus P 0 by 4 lambda plus M 0 by 2 that is also equal to 0. So, now just solve these two expressions we will get that P 0 is equal to minus 2 K by lambda y A and M 0 that will be K by lambda square y A minus 2 M A. So, K lambda square y A minus 2. Now, if we apply these two forces to one P 0 and M 0 from these two x according to these two expressions, then we will get a condition at point A that is deflection net deflection will be 0 and net moment that is will be 0. And then this condition will be equivalent to a condition. So, now similarly for this case 2 this is infinite beam and at point A M 0 and P 0 is acting this is Q P 1 is the load and that is equivalent to a hinged beam with Q and P 1 provided that this is infinite beam this is I mean infinite beam provided we applied P 0 and M 0 according to the calculation of case B. Now, similarly for the case C we have a beam which is fixed end. So, beam with fixed end. So, that means for this condition for the fixed end for point A of the infinite beam the condition will be net deflection is 0 and slope is also 0. So, this is deflection this one slope because this is a fixed end beam so at that end fixed end the deflection will be 0 and slope will also be 0. So, now if so now we have to apply the we have to apply again P 0 and M 0 to produce minus y A and minus theta A. So, that the net deflection and slope that will be 0. So, now for this condition that will be so net for deflection that is y A and for the concentrated load P 0 delta by 2 K that will be equal to 0 and theta A plus M 0 lambda square by K that is equal to 0. So, now thus for this after solving this 2 expression we will get P 0 will be equal to minus 2 K by lambda y A and M 0 will be equal to minus K by lambda cube into theta A. So, these are the 2 expression that we are talking about so that means here this will be M 0 cube lambda cube. So, that means M 0 will be so that means we will get final 2 expression of this case is P 0 is equal to minus 2 K lambda y A and M 0 will be K divided by lambda cube into theta A. So, now if we produce this P 0 and M 0 based on this 2 calculation then we will get the condition or we get this case 3 or case C that this is infinite beam that is Q and we apply a concentrated load and then at point A we are applying P 0 and M 0. So, that is equivalent to a fixed end beam or semi infinite beam this is Q and this one is this is A point and this is P 1. So, that means this is the third case where we will get this condition. Now, we have discussed that for this semi infinite beam then how to calculate the that means for this first to solve this semi infinite beam we have to consider one infinite beam where we assume that for at A point A will produce developed a moment and shear force M A and Q A because of the application of the external load. So, similarly it can produce a slope at that point and it can produce the deformation of that point due to the application of the external load. Now, we have three different condition one is free end condition one is fixed end condition another is hinged end condition. So, for the free end condition assume that the at A point that will be moment will be 0 and shear force will be 0. So, now we have to apply for all the cases we have to apply moment M 0 and force P 0 such that for free end moment there will be net moment will be 0 at point A net shear force will be 0 at point A. Now, if it is a hinged end moment hinged end beam then the net deflection of that point will be 0 and net shear force that will also be 0 net bending moment will also be 0 if it is a hinged beam and if it is a fixed end beam then the net deflection will be 0 and net slope will also be 0 at that point. So, slope will also be 0. So, now in this condition we can derive all this expression all this equation now how to where we have to apply this thing. So, now we will consider few cases or discuss few cases where we can apply these expressions or these theories to determine the various slope bending moments deflection and shear force. Now, first case we will consider that is the particular case first case. So, we will consider few cases first one we will consider first case that this is the original or portion of the beam now after the deflection application of this is x and the P is applied at point O. So, this is the deformed shape of the beam. So, this is a condition of the case 1. So, now we have to determine the slope bending moment shear force and the deformation of this expression of this beam. Now, it from this loading condition you can see that this is a free end semi infinite beam condition. So, it is a free end semi infinite beam.  So, at point O that as it is a free end beam and which is subjected to the concentrated load P. So, the moment will be 0 and shear force that will be minus P 1 that will be because P it is acting this side downward. So, we will consider this is minus 2 lambda m a plus q a. So, at point O that as it is a free end beam and which is subjected to the concentrated load P. So, the moment will be because P it is acting this side downward. So, we will consider this is minus P 1. So, m a so that is the moment which is acting. So, m a will be 0 at this point and q a will be P 1 at this point. So, now if we because here the net moment that means we are applying a load P. So, that means shear force at this point will be minus P 1. So, that means the m a will be 0 in this point and q a will be P 1 at this point. So, now if I put m a and q a at these two expression then we will get P 0 will be 4 P i P 1 and m 0 will be minus 2 by lambda into P 1. Now, we have to determine the slope or deflection of this point. So, now so we have we are applying. So, two cases one is concentrated load and one is concentrated moment. So, P 0 and m 0. So, the deflection of the net deflection for the concentrated moment and concentrated load then the for a infinite beam. So, we will get 4 P 1 this is P 1. So, that means for P 0 will apply 4 P 1 into lambda by 2 k then a lambda x minus 2 by lambda P 1 into lambda square by k. So, these two are coming from the general expression of this concentrated load and also the in case of P 0 we have to put 4 P 1 and in case of m 0 we have to put minus 2 by lambda P 1. So, now we will get this expression then we can take that is 2 P 1 lambda by k and this a lambda x.  So, b lambda x we can finally write that e to the power minus lambda x into sin lambda x. So, ultimately if we take common 2 P 1 lambda by k e to the power minus lambda x. So, this will be cos lambda x plus sin lambda x minus sin lambda x. So, sin lambda x sin lambda x will be cancel out and then e to the power minus lambda x into cos lambda x that is equal to d lambda x. So, final expression will be 2 P 1 lambda by k into d lambda x. So, this is the expression so this will be the final expression for the deflection of this condition where this end we are applying a concentrated load P o. Similarly, if I want to determine the expression of the slope then slope expression q as theta that will be equal to minus 4 P 1 lambda by k into b lambda x minus 2 lambda P 1 into lambda q by k c lambda x. So, that is that 2 superimpose are adding to effect one is due to the concentrated load and due to the concentrated moment. So, next one that if I take this minus 2 P 1 lambda square by k common then you will get 2 b lambda x plus c lambda x. So, this will be minus 2 P 1 lambda square by k into 2 e to the power minus lambda x, b lambda x is sin lambda x plus cos lambda x minus sin lambda x because c lambda x is cos lambda x minus sin lambda x. So, one sin sin will cancel out. So, this will be minus 2 P 1 lambda square by k into 2 e to the power minus lambda x. Lambda square by k into e to the power they are also this will be into e to the power lambda x. So, this will be e to the power minus lambda x into sin lambda x plus cos lambda x. So, this will be e to the power minus lambda x into sin lambda x plus cos lambda x that is equal to a lambda x. So, this will be minus 2 P 1 lambda square by k into a lambda x. So, this is the expression of the slope. Similarly, we can derive the expression of m that will be minus P 1 by lambda b lambda x. So, if I add the effect of 2 cases one is concentrated load and one is concentrated moment then we will get and then if I simplify this expression like the deflection and the slope then we will get this final expression of the moment in this form. Similarly, for the shear force this expression will be minus P 1 into c lambda x. So, this is the one condition particular loading condition. So, there we can discuss the few other loading condition also. So, where we can determine how to calculate the other forces other moments and these things. So, next condition the loading condition that we consider that is for the case 2 that this is the original position of the beam or the x axis then it is subjected to a moment at this end m 1. So, now, if this is subjected to a moment then the conditions will be m a will be equal to minus m 1 and the conditions will be 0 and q a that will be 0 because we are not applying any force here concentrated force. Now, this is the if the again from here we can see this is the free end cement infinite beam expression we can use.  Now, if I put q a equal to 0 and m a equal to m minus m 1 then finally, we will get P 0 that will be minus 4 lambda m 1 and m 0 that will be 4 m 1. So, for the expression the x greater than equal to 0 again if I again if we add the contribution of the concentrated load and concentrated moment and then simplify these things like the previous case then we will get the final form of the deflection in this particular case 2 that is 2 m 1 lambda square by k into c lambda x. Similarly, theta slope is equal to 4 m 1 lambda q by 2 lambda x.  So, previous case 1 is a free end semi infinite beam subjected to concentrated load and this is case 2 subjected to concentrated moment. Now, case 3 if we consider the next case that is case 3 where this is a hinged semi infinite beam this is hinged and this is subjected to a moment at this hinged end. So, this will be a deformation shape this form. So, this is a point. So, as it is a hinged beam so y a will be 0 and here m a will be minus m 1. So, y a will be 0 and m a will be minus m 1. So, y a will be 0 and m a will be minus m 1. Now, for this case if I consider this is the hinged end. So, and then if we put this y a and m a value on the 2 derived expression that we have already derived and then finally, we will get that p 0 that value is equal to 0 and m 0 that value will be 2 m 1 because the in that case expression was p 0 is equal to minus 2 k by lambda y a and m 0 is k by lambda square y a minus 2 m a. So, if y a equal to 0 p 0 will be 0 and if m a equal to minus m 1 then this will be 2 minus m 1 this will be 2 m 1. So, now again if I use these 2 value p 0 equal to 0 that means, there will be no contribution for the p 0 only the contribution for this moment concentrated moment will act here and then if we consider the contribution for this moment m 0 if we place 2 m 1 in place of m 0 then we will get the deflection that is equal to 2 m 1 minus 2 m 1 minus 2 m 1 lambda square by k b lambda x theta is equal to 2 m 1 lambda cube by k into c lambda x bending moment m will be m 1 d lambda x shear force q will be minus 2 m 1 d lambda x. So, this is case 3 where we consider a hinged moment or a hinged end where we apply a concentrated moment m 1 that is the hinged end semi-infinite beam. Now, case 4 we can consider a fixed end also that is the case 4. Case 4 we can consider that this is the axis x axis. Now, this beam at this end has deflection as well as slope. So, this is the pattern of the beam deflection. So, here at this point the deflection is y a and slope at this point that is theta 0 or theta y 0. So, y 0 is the deflection at this point y o or o point y 0 and this is theta 0. So, now as this is a fixed end beam we can consider. So, we can take at y a that will be minus y 0 because the y 0 is a deflection in the downward direction. So, that will be y a will be minus y 0. Similarly, theta a that will be minus theta 0. So, we have do these two things. Now, we can because we know for this particular fixed end semi-infinite beam p 0 is equal to minus 2 k by lambda y a and m 0 is equal to minus k by lambda q into theta a. So, now if I put theta a and y a value then we will get p 0 is equal to 2 k by lambda y 0 m 0 is equal to k by lambda q into theta 0. And finally, if I put the contribution of these two and then final form of the expression that will be equal to y equal to y 0 into a lambda x plus 1 by lambda theta 0 b lambda x after simplifying this. So, this theta is equal to minus 2 lambda y 0 b lambda x plus theta 0 c lambda x m will be equal to 2 lambda and then that will be equal to lambda e i and then this will be equal to lambda e i. Then lambda y 0 c lambda x plus theta 0 d lambda x and q is equal to minus 2 lambda square is e i this is e i then 2 lambda y 0 d lambda x plus theta 0 a lambda x. So, these two x expression this four expression that will get for this particular case of the where we are considering the moment and the shear force. So, this will be e i. So, in the today's class I have discussed that over the semi infinite beam and the previous classes that infinite beam also been discussed. So, next class I will discuss about the finite beam and what are the expression for the finite beam and where we can use these all these theories of the beams on elastic foundation in the real field. Thank you.