For more videos and people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. COVID-19 is continuing to spread rapidly across Palestine. The Israeli blockade is worsening this crisis. Authorities are worried that if drastic steps are not taken, the health system might collapse. Partial lockdowns have been imposed in different regions of Gaza and the West Bank, but a number of other problems are hampering the efforts of Palestinian authorities to combat the pandemic. This includes shortages in medicines, vital healthcare equipment such as test kits and financial difficulties. In the first week of December, authorities in Gaza had halted testing after running out of testing kits. The interruption came when one-third of COVID tests were coming back positive and alarmingly high rate of infection. Lack of testing would have halted any efforts of monitoring and containing the virus and caused a much larger outbreak. The World Health Organization was able to prevent such crisis by providing test kits for the next few days, but the long-term problem remains. Israeli blockades have devastated Palestine's health infrastructure. Moreover, the existing system is under severe strain as it also has to regularly deal with fatal injuries, gunshot wounds and other similar medical emergencies. Most of these are the result of Israeli attacks on civilians in Gaza and assaults carried out by the Israeli military. Also, Gaza is one of the most densely populated regions in the world. Over 2 million people inhabit an area of 360 kilometres square. The number of hospitals in the region is grossly inadequate to accommodate them. On December 10th, the Palestine Chronicle reported that all the hospitals in Gaza were full. The occupancy rates had reached 100%. The Israeli Apartheid regime has created a permanent emergency in Palestine's healthcare. For years it has been on the brink of collapse. Agencies such as the WHO are able to provide temporary relief, but even they have their limitations. For instance, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees, or the UNRWA, caters to around 5.6 million refugees. In late November, the agency said they are stretched beyond capacity and are about to crash. The situation is a result of a massive fall in funding. The US, which was formerly UNRWA's largest donor, withdrew its funding in 2018. Saudi Arabia donated $50 million in 2018 to help fill the gap created by the US. But last year, it donated just $2 million. Israeli blockades and restrictions on movement have destroyed Palestinian infrastructure to the extent that Palestinians often have to rely on Israel to meet their essential needs. The human rights group Al-Haqq stated in its position paper on COVID-19 that the pandemic poses a disproportionate and substantial threat to a Palestinian society deliberately denied for decades the right to develop a functioning healthcare system. The biggest obstacle in the way of Palestinians access to healthcare is the denial of their right to self-determination. It is only with financial, social and cultural autonomy can they build the systems required to meet the needs of the people.


What's going on, everyone? Sam here with late in sports cards. I've been 22, upper deck skybox, mental universe, champions, hobby, one box break, number 12, random hack style. There is a, we're gonna do the random now. Forgot to say, maybe I don't do the random yet. Four times. So we've got 15 participants and 15 numbers. One, two, three, four. Will-Z twice down to Dean. Four times on your hack numbers, one, two, three, and four, one down to four. They like the, you guys like the thumbnail today? Halley master class. Will-Z 112, Dean with 13 and 10, Chase P8, Troy H15, Chase P3, William M2, Dean with seven, Steve C11, Richard H5, Will-Z 14, Jono 9, Michael G6, and Dean I with four. All right, let me get these copied over to the website really quick. Ooh, nice, let's go, dude, that's awesome. Yeah, Kyle is live over on channel two, by the way, guys. He is ripping personals tonight. He is ripping the old personal eronies. Steve. Steve-O. What up? All right, let's do it, everybody. Here we go. Great thumbnail, thank you, thank you. It was my idea. Good stuff.  It's me and Sam first. You and us, Shane. Don't get all over you. One through five, six through 10, and 11 through 15. All right, one, all right, let me organize these first. So with range, by Columby. Will-Z at one. I know I want to see a huge door in this box. Different Dean, not Dean W. Yeah. Get him out. Roger Garius, Z-Force, Joel Felix. What's up, Dean West? Man's shade, I'm sure. The man in the middle. What up, Kev? Kev. William M. At number two, good luck to you, William. Blazes, Dush, what up? Jared Wilson, Moorakawa, Amman Thompson. DJ Yuga Lele, nice one there. A Fresh Foundation Ortiz and Walker Kessler. There can only be one. Number three, Chase P. Jordan. Toby. Michael Jordan.  There's a little damage to it. I'll send an empty box and a wrapper with you, Chase. Free sauce, let's go with packet three. Pack four, we've got Dean, Dean I. One Dean I, one Dean W, there you go. That's fair, that's fair. That is Intimidation Nation, A.J. Griffin. Steel of the Draft, A.J. Griffin. Trinchao and Caterina McCarrey, I bet you missed that, right? No, no. Number five, Richard H. Found this out here. Schwartzman, Griffey. Fresh Foundation, Scoop, Andrew Jones. Number six, Michael G. On our first pack of stacks, two. Michael G. at six here. Person strong, Matt Corral, Brady House, and Ken Griffey Jr. Remind me to have you switch it over to ESPN afterwards. I think the Yankees and Reyes are on. Dean at seven. I don't believe so now, Dean. The Intimidation Nations. Unless they're like a different, you'll be able to tell if they're a different foiling. Scoop, Jabari Smith. And Fresh Foundation, A.J. Griffin. Dude, he is so short. It's so funny watching him run. Chase P. at eight. Deuce Vaughn, he's like five, six on the Cowboys. We got a green, green PMG for Chase. That is gonna be Ray Cooper. Nine of 10 on the green. Congrats, Chase at number eight on the PMG. Very nice. I would say so just because it's low numbered. Garrett Wilson and Armando Cruz. Five, four, dude. Oh my Lord. John O. at nine. Jeremy Sohan. That is a Jahan Dotson, red auto. Number two, I guess nothing. Nice, still a Jahan Dotson auto. Congrats, John. And Jabari Smith. Number 10, Dean.  Faster than Sean, oh for sure. Drew Jones, Elizabeth Lou. Jeremy Sohan, nice one there on the universe. And Jeremy Sohan again. G-Line. 11, Steve C. Wayne Gretzky, the great one. Looking into the future, Colin Morkawa. And Henry Davis. 12, we got Will Z. Good luck again, Will. A Armando Cruz. Shade on Sharp. And Jackson Holliday. Hit the like button, thank you, Timmy. Dino again at number 13, good luck, Dean. Max Christie, Giddy Cappy. There's a Kennedy Chandler. And Will Zalatoris. Sean's thoughts on the music at the VIP party. Will Z, they do damage, I feel like, very easily. But if you get a nice one and it grades well, it'd probably be pretty solid, because there's obviously the only PMG's. I was down with- Garrett Wilson. Big boy, but- B.J.U. Galele. Diplo just saved my thing.  Right. For age at 15, round and round. I wouldn't have paid to see that dude, if it wasn't that much. But big boy killed it. Round 2,500 Greaves, Maria Sharapova. Traylon Burks and Matt Corral. All right, guys, that is gonna do it for the break. Thanks again for the fill. Coming up next is Select H2-


hey what's up guys it's been a while it's been a while hasn't it i've been away and i've been ill i have a hamster on me uh as always she's she's always here this is harrier to anyone who doesn't know we love harrier so i've been ill with um i can't say the word but i'll put it on screen and uh it's been hell i literally haven't been able to breathe properly but i'm doing better now so i thought i'd sit and film a video just because i haven't filmed for a while and i kind of wanted to talk about this subject because it's kind of relevant because to anyone who doesn't know last month i was hospitalized so today i'm going to be talking about when police get involved with mental health and i figured this would be a good subject to cover just because a lot of you guys know the police have been very heavily involved in my mental health both when i've been in crisis when i've made attempts hospitals etc i figured that it was an important thing to talk about because so many of us have experiences with police and mental health i'm using my phone using my phone torch as a line so police can be involved with mental health for a number of reasons the main one is if you are in a public place they can detain you under section 136 of the mental health act which is a 24-hour hold they take you to a place of safety that can be anything from a police station to a psychiatric hospital any somewhere that is safe because they've deemed that you are not safe to be out in the community and they take you to hospital for an assessment known as a mental health act assessment where you couldn't either go into hospital informally under this under a section usually section two sometimes section three or informally like i said which way you go involuntarily all they discharge you home to the care of a team of some kind now personally the police have literally saved my life on a number of occasions most recent being january um i was taken out the flat under the mental capacity act which is not the same as the mental health act and i was also placed on a section 136 i was assessed and i went into hospital voluntarily i did then get sectioned under section five but that's another story for another day so police can become involved for a large amount of reasons say bye everyone police can become involved with your mental health for so many reasons the most common thing i think one of the most common things definitely in my opinion is where people make attempts on their life if you attempt suicide in public chances are the police either intervene notice it's happened to me more times than i speak about the police have the power to protect and preserve life that means they have a duty of care police can become involved if a hospital has recalled you or it's been said you need to go into hospital and you've walked off police can become involved if you walk out of A&E or an appointment and people think there's a risk to you or others police become involved when there's a risk of safety so that can be due to mania that can be due to suicide that can be due to a homicidal thought it can be due to any level of risk if you present a risk and you're in the community everyone has a duty of care to keep you so and sometimes that means involving police and having police turn up is absolutely terrifying and having police prevent you from any life is one of the worst feelings ever at the time and believe me it's not as simple as they turn up and it's fine when you're in that mindset you'll do anything to do that and i don't want to go into details but i'm definitely someone who let's put it like this i didn't care that it was there i was determined to do what i was going to do i will say this the police have undoubtedly saved my life more times than i will ever be able to mention and i am grateful now looking back at it at the time i wasn't very happy but when you look back at it you're just like literally saved my life and it is it is scary when they get involved like i'm not going to sit here and be like it's fine you know everything's gonna be okay because that's just not reality is it the most common thing i've experienced with police is when i've been detained under section 136 and if you want me to make a video on what a 136 is in different types of sections let me know in the comments down below and i'll do that i'm still struggling with the after effects of covid when police get involved please try and remember that it's only in your best interest it's not people trying to get you it's people trying to protect you i know last month i was experiencing a lot of like deluded deluded thoughts and i was a hundred percent convinced that they were trying to keep me somewhere to do something to me and i got handcuffed to a bed and i sprayed my room my phone went off again mental illness is so much more complicated than people think it's not as simple as you know once you're there it's fine whatever you know having police around you and also having these intrusive thoughts it's really really hard to deal with and i'm not going to sit here bullshit i got lorazapand a lot because these thoughts were so much for me to deal with and it visibly made me agitated i've done a lot of things i regret when i've been in that state of mind and i'm not going to sit here and list everything i've done when you're ill you're and it's not an excuse to lash out and do things and do like act in certain ways but sometimes you genuinely don't realize that you're doing it and you don't realize until after when you're back on the mud how bad things actually got all i want to say is that on the whole police are there to protect you most importantly and sometimes when they whack the handcuffs on cuff you to the it may be like what the fuck not a criminal it's to protect you and keep you safe they stopped me leaving a a a lot i slipped my wrist through the cuffs which is why it's how it's brain death it's not that bad anymore i do have to wear a splint like most of the day but the night i can take it off that's a whole other thing his video again actually i had too much time on my hands and i didn't have a choice if i went there or not then the award i was on made me go to the hospital to get a trace they thought i'd broken something i didn't just brain down 100% my film like 100% my film but yeah i just wanted to say that on the whole police are there to protect and while like everyone i have had my first share of bad experiences with police i don't want to go into all that right now there are some good people out there and while i've lived in london i have not had a bad experience with police every police officer i've met has actually every police officer i've met down here has been helpful and has tried to help in them situations even when they handcuffed me there was like we'll take them off we'll take them off we'll take them off when you calm down like they were trying to reassure me the whole way through it yeah i did just want to make this video because i think it's an important subject and to say hello and that i'm slowly coming back to youtube i am still getting over covid so covid has really taken absolute everything out of me i'll do a life update video at some point but i wanted to make this video because i thought it was an important subject to cover and some reason i haven't covered it before so anyway i'm gonna stop filming and i'm gonna edit this video and try and get it up tonight this is gonna be fun bye everyone


Hey, this is Brett with Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Your new and used Ram and heavy-duty truck headquarters. Today we are checking out this brand new 2020 Ram 2500 Crew Cab Short Box Big Horn Sport Package. This is a Big Horn Level 2 Diamond Black Pearl Coat as the color. This one has the 6.4 liter V8 Hemi motor which pumps out 410 horsepower, has the MDS system, the LED lighting group, and we're just going to do a walk around here on the truck and then we'll get up close and check out all the specific options on this truck. And if you'd like to check out more pictures of this truck in the upper right hand part of the screen is a link right to our website so click that and check out all the photos there. This one has Firestone Transforce AT, LT 27570 R18 tires and they are on the polished aluminum 18-inch rims, definitely an all-terrain tread on there. So you get the LED headlamps, the LED running lamps, and the LED fog lamps as well as the front bumper parking sensors. The Sport Appearance Group gives you the color matched grille outside and the painted bumpers. You have the clearance lights up there, I believe those are part of the Snow Chief Group which will take a look at the original buyer's guide here. Yeah, it's part of the Snow Chief Group so you get the anti-spin, the clearance lamps, the instrument panel mounted auxiliary switches, the special tires, and the skid plates. But here's the original buyer's guide, feel free to pause this and check out all the options. I'm not going to go through everything but you can see all the options on there and if you want to check out this window sticker in the upper right hand part of your screen is another link to our website which you can see it does have that level 2 and a spray and bed liner, the Sport Appearance Group, and the LED headlamp group as well as the Snow Chief Group. They don't do fuel ratings on the heavy-duty trucks so that's why that says NA. But these trucks do have the rear coil suspension on the 2500s and what that does is gives you a much smoother ride when you're unloaded. Does have the receiver hitch, 4-pin and 7-pin wiring, backup parking sensors, locking tailgate, backup camera, you can really see that diamond black pearl paint has really got a lot of metal flake in it. You can see it has the shock down assist tailgate so it's never going to slam on you. Also has the side box tie downs and that spray and bed liner is from the factory. Tailgate is really light to put up, you also get the LED tail lamps in back as well. So that sport sticker is just a sticker or a decal, you can just take that off if you don't like it. This one has the power fold in fold out tow mirrors so they fold out like so. You can see it does have the blind spot monitoring on it as well as the directional signals, those are LED lights in there. They fold in like so and they also power fold in. So how you do that, you just press this button right here and they'll power fold in like so. Press again and they'll go out. Get the nice dark wood grain trim, the cloth bolstering on the side there. Power windows, power locks, power mirrors, the Laramie level 2 or I'm sorry the Bighorn level 2 group gives you the dark charcoal cloth interior. Both these seats are heated. Power driver seat with lumbar, factory floor mats, auto headlamps and power pedals. As we hop inside the truck here you can see it has the 7 inch LCD display outside temp and compass display. You can change those corners to read pretty much whatever you want. The heated leather wrap steering wheel, cruise controls and gear selector on the right and Bluetooth and information center controls on the left. You also get audio controls on the back of the steering wheel and the reason they put the gear selector here now is because you get the 8 speed automatic transmission so you don't have the shifter with the tap shift anymore. But this is new for the new body styles, the 8 speed with the gas motor, push button 4 wheel drive, push button start. This one has the 8.4 4C radio, AM, FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities.  You can do your heated seats and heated steering wheel buttons here. The main thing on this radio that I really like is that backup camera that is so crisp and clear. It is an HD backup camera. You got the center grid line showing you right where your receiver hitch is so if you're hooking up to a boat or camper or whatever you may be pulling, I'm going to be really easy to do so with that.  Now if you don't like doing your climate controls on the radio, something they added this year, you can switch your modes right here on that push button. It used to be you could only change that up here but now you can change it down here so if you like the more tactile buttons and knobs and everything, you can still do that all right down there. Factory brake controller, you got your six upfitter switches, part of that snow chief group. Toe haul, stability control and your front and rear parking sensors, you can turn those off and on. You get two USBs, two USB-C's and an Augsjack. You also get a cell phone holder, 115 volt, 400 watt plug-in and your key fob here is the nice chunky ram key fob. You get remote start on there as well and dual glove boxes on this side, side current airbags, map lights and the power side and rear window. You got your home link buttons up there for your garage door security systems and lighting systems. And we'll take a quick look at the back seats. Back seats, both the same room as they always had.  Get that nice dark cloth interior. You do get two USB-C's, two USB's back here and another 115 volt, 400 watt plug-in. They kept the load floor in the 2,500s. I know a lot of people like that load floor. If you got a pets or something, you can put both sides down.  Or if you got muddy boots or tools, you put them on here, you're not going to get your seats all muddy.  You also get storage underneath here. This one comes with an upfitting wiring harness and you also get your receiver hitch reducer in there as well. You get two in-floor storage bins, one on the driver's side and one on the passenger's side with removable containers there so it's easy to dump out so you can put ice and drinks in there.   We're going to do one more quick walk around here. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully you learned a little bit about the big horn level too. The sport appearance group and the snow chief group. Really like the LED lights on these trucks, they shine really far, really bright. To see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 450 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, halftones, three-quarter-tons, one-tons, you name it, we've got to go to our website, www.SummitAuto.com, full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations, all at SummitAuto.com. If you'd like to check out more HD videos, you can go to www.youtube.com. SummitAuto, remember to like, subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there. In fact, in a second you will see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel on your left. A link to more heavy-duty truck videos like this one on your right. If you have not been to our website on the bottom, a link to this vehicle on our website, click those, check us out. We really are excited to be offering the 2020 Ram 2500 and 3500s in heavy-duty trucks. It's very popular and especially this one with the Big Horn Level 2 Sport Edition. Thanks again.


I mean, like, talk to my chief already? That's not, that was a guy.  It's not okay. No, I don't. It's not okay when you see it swim. Electrically and mechanically isolated. That's what you need to hear before entering the space, right? Yes. If there's water on the deck and it's not electrocuted.


These are ten minutes, ten minutes. Look, any later and you're going to be in serious trouble. I'm going to be the main presenter if you're an animator. Okay. We'll sing, singing the songs of angry men. This is the music of the people who will not be slaves again. When the beating of your heart heckles the beating of the drums. There is a life about to start when tomorrow comes. You join and our crusade will you be strong and stand with me. Be on the bone to see, then join in the fight.


It wasn't the biggest battle to happen during the Civil War, but it was really fascinating how it really did change the course of history. So one of the Civil War, but then also of our president. So Colonel Garfield, who later became President Garfield, he was one of the very few military men that actually served and then went on to be president in an actual battle. So this is where he led his Union troops against the Confederates in this site here. It is amazing. So one, the battle reenactment happens, but then all throughout the day you have tons of events going on and so there's also educational stations. So if you want to learn about the weaponry that was used or if you want to learn how clothing played a very important role in the battle or medicine, all these different stations you can go through and speak with these reenactors and these educators and they're in full traditional outfit time period and so it is absolutely fascinating. You can eat. There's music. There's remembrance ceremonies. So there's so many good things happening in addition to the actual reenactment.


Hey Psych2Goers, welcome back to another video. Have you ever stopped to think about what you're doing with your life? With how hectic things have become, it's very easy to forget what you're doing and who you really are. Perhaps you've gotten so used to working at your 9-5 job and doing the same thing over and over again, day in and day out, that you've given up or forgotten about your initial goals and dreams. You might also be so focused on being accepted by society and doing things for others that you end up losing yourself.  1. What are you thinking right now? What is your current mental state? Do you take time to self-reflect? Asking yourself about your current mental state and being able to reflect on it can be very helpful in many ways. For example, when you question and analyze your thoughts and feelings, you can become more introspective, which in turn can make you more aware of your needs and wants. By doing this, you can make better decisions that are aligned and in tune with how you really feel. 2. Are you happy with your life? Why? This might sound a bit redundant, but asking yourself if you're happy is essential in your search for happiness. While you might think this is a given, you may be surprised by the number of people who avoid this question. Instead, a lot of people get trapped inside the idea that you should work a 9-5 job to be economically sufficient and happy. But most of the time, they end up stuck at a job they don't like, completely forgetting about their initial goals and their dreams and their own happiness. 3. Is there anything bothering you? If so, why is it still there? And is it okay to ignore it?  Addressing things that are bothering you is one of the main ways that you can protect your emotional stability. Of course, if it only bothers you slightly and you can ignore it without getting affected, then it may be okay to leave it be.  4. If you had three days left to live, what are three things you would do? This question has the main objective of letting you identify what it is that you really want to do. It might spark a sense of urgency in you and help you get your priorities in order. For example, you might be putting so much effort into your job that you completely forget about spending time with your parents or friends. By asking yourself this question, you can remind yourself what is really important to you and help you break out of whatever it is that's not allowing you to prioritize correctly. 5.  Let's get a bit creative here. Can you think of a routine that makes you happy and helps you achieve your goals? Even if your idea of a perfect everyday routine involves playing video games or watching TV all day long, you still need to get there. This may mean being financially or emotionally independent in order to be able to do whatever you want. By following your ideal everyday routine, you'll be able to get rid of activities or tasks that don't contribute to your goals. 6. How do you want to be remembered? This question can have a huge impact on what you do from now on. You might believe that only celebrities can leave legacies, but each and every person leaves a legacy when they pass on. Your legacy or legacies are those special reasons that you're remembered for.  Do you want to be remembered as a loving and caring person who was always there to help others? If so, you might want to become more active with your relationships, like to catch up with your family and friends. Have you tried asking yourself these questions? As a general tip, remember to be as honest as possible with yourself whenever you self-reflect. Let us know in the comments below. If you found this video helpful, be sure to like and share this video with those who might benefit from it. Subscribe and hit the notification bell icon to get notified whenever Psych2Go posts a new video. The references and studies used in this video are added in the description below. Thanks for watching and we'll see you in the next video.


I really always try to keep a positive outlook. I'm a realist, but I also like to put out into the universe what we want back in my life and in how I run Breaking Wave and how we move. Our goal is always to put the good out when always knowing that it'll return. We really try to break down the barriers of traditional theater and focus on connecting more with indigenous storytelling and practices. We try to put people before productions and stay true to who we are and the work we do and so manifest good things all around for us personally, professionally and with our company. You're listening to Building Our Own Tables, a podcast produced for HowlRound Theater Commons, a free and open platform for theater makers worldwide. I'm your host, Yura Saffi, and I'm the founder of various organizations and projects including a 501C3 non-profit, a six-hectare farm and food sovereignty project, an LGBTQ plus healing and art space, and I've helped numerous creatives, leaders, and other founders unleash their excellence into the world through my programs, workshops, and coaching services. In this podcast, I'm showcasing the high-vibration solutions for you as a visionary leader to implement into your own practice and thrive. Stay tuned this season to hear from other founders who have built their own tables for their communities and for the world in this evolutionary time on Earth. You are here for a reason and I am so honored and grateful to support you on your journey. So stay tuned and enjoy. I'm shining in the night in the night. As a theater practitioner, have you ever considered yourself a doctor? Have you ever considered yourself a healer? In this episode, I talked to CJ Ochoko of Breaking Wave Theater Company, a 501C3 non-profit based out of Guam. CJ shared her incredible story of starting off as someone who was studying to be a doctor and actually made the shift to study theater instead and really follow her true soul's purpose, but still connected to this way in which theater and the arts can heal with Breaking Wave Theater Company. She has co-produced with her team and co-founders events that support the local theater and creative community of Guam at risk youth and the community at large. Breaking Wave is all about bringing accessibility for the arts and highlighting the diverse community on the island of Guam. In this episode, we really dive into this understanding of theater as medicine, of how to connect with the earth in your arts producing work, and why this work that we're doing as founders, as creators of these new movements and organizations are making a ripple effect on generations to come. So get excited about this beautiful episode with CJ and Breaking Wave Theater Company. Enjoy. Before we get into this episode, go ahead and hit subscribe on this podcast. This is the best way to stay updated on new episodes and it helps build a thriving planet where all beings experience joy and harmony with each other and mother earth. So go ahead and hit subscribe and keep this good energy flowing. CJ, Ochoko, thank you so much for being here. Welcome to the podcast. Thank you so much for having me. It's such an honor to be here with you and I wanted to start us off with this question. What is your superhero origin story? What was that pivotal moment that led you to forge your own path and build your own table? I remember reading the question and I was like, ooh, I'm not gonna think about this and kind of answer organically. So I started college thinking that I wanted to be a doctor. I think as many arts people do, they start with something completely different. I started as a pre-med major and this was my first year of college, way back when over a decade ago, I was good at it. I had a lot of fun with bio and chem, but it wasn't necessarily something that I really had a strong passion for and then I ended up leaving the school I was at and moving back to Guam because I was going through some mental health struggles and issues. In 2010, I returned home to Guam after spending my first year away from Guam and decided to start attending the university and when I first attended there, I was like, oh yeah, I'm still gonna do pre-med and the issues persisted and I was really struggling. It wasn't until I found the theater that I started to feel more at home and at peace. I found this support system that was really great within my theater classmates and colleagues and I would say that's kind of my pivotal moment when it started as, okay, well, maybe I'm gonna minor in theater and then it was like, no, let's just be real about who I am and I decided to major in theater and that was really the moment that shifted for me when I personally found my healing space in the arts and that's what really encouraged me to then build my own table eventually with Breaking Wave so that we could create a healing space for other people the same way it was for many of us back with my cohort. Wow, that's incredible. I'm really resonating with this shift that happened for you. It was just a moment of saying yes to your soul's purpose, to what you're meant to be doing on earth. Yeah, and if you're meant to be a doctor, good on you, just wasn't for me. Yeah, I hear that. I mean, I also really liked biology and chemistry and science and I think it's more that I actually really like earth and plants and now that I've gotten into farming as well and kind of really seeing how we're doing arts on land with the earth, like in connection. So that's I think where that comes from and flows into what I'm doing now. I think it's always kind of part of it, but yeah. It sounds like you were really able to take that leap of faith of maybe whatever was causing you to feel like you had to go down this other route but then choose what your heart, what your soul was saying. Actually, this is what is gonna have me be healthy both emotionally and mentally and then that reflects kind of in the physical too. Absolutely, yeah, and I think at the core of it, it was that I wanted to help people and finding my piece and getting the help I needed through of course professionals but also realizing that the arts had so much healing power. I think that was my moment of, hey, I could help people not just as a doctor or a nurse or whatever we're kind of fed as that these are the careers you need to get into if you wanna help people and realizing that, yeah, we could help people with theater and the arts too. This offering of letting folks be reflected on stage and seeing your story of having a place to have your catharsis, have your release, understand more about yourself. What else draws you to this idea of art as medicine, theater as medicine? I think there's just so much power in being able to see yourself on stage. So whether or not you're the audience member or an actor or behind the scenes, there's just so much power with being able to connect to these stories. It's part of why with Breaking Wave Theater Company, we do a lot of different work but we encourage a lot of original works because we're so passionate about making sure people are seen and making sure that their stories are heard. There's such a healing power as the person writing or the person producing, wherever you are in that spectrum of a life cycle of like a theater production or a film or anything like that, there's so much healing to it. And I think it also empowers people to share their stories with Breaking Wave. We actually, our signature production that we've done for three years now is this production called Unspoken and we work with the community to take their stories about mental health, substance abuse and suicide prevention and we help them create the stories and then put it on stage. Whether they wanna be an actor or help backstage or not even be involved and just wanna see their work, we empower them to take that work and bring it on stage and we help them do that. We've done that for three years and it's been such a powerful experience to see how so many people are so much more willing to talk about their mental health when we share those stories in that way. So yeah, I think that's where I find theater as medicine, getting a little emotional. I am very emotional person. I should have, every time I do a podcast, I somehow like cry, so please excuse me. No, I love it. Yeah, we're getting into it. We're showing the real, we're giving the energy. I'm curious to hear more about Breaking Wave Theater. How did you transition from making that decision to study theater into actually saying I'm actually gonna start my own theater company? Breaking Wave Theater Company, we're based on Guam or Guahan is the indigenous name of the island. We are a US territory in the middle of the Pacific, closer to Japan and the Philippines than we are to the continental US. I was born and raised there and like I said, I left for a year and then ended up coming home and studying at the University of Guam. And the thing about Guam, it's literally 35 miles long. So, you know, that's really, really small. And there's about 150,000 people on the island. So it's very, very small. We don't even have cities, we have villages and it really is just like one big city because it's so small.  And actually my uncle who helped inspire me to do theater runs it, my uncle Ernest. So between those two, that was pretty much when I graduated college in 2016, that was pretty much our options. You either keep, you know, volunteering for the university which we were so happy to do and still continue to do or you help out with the high school productions through the high school public program that we had. So my colleagues and I that co-founded Breaking Wave, Chris Santiago, Jerome Ocampo, Joey Datu and Sierra Cervillo, we were all looking at ourselves around 2018 and being like, hey, we love doing this work with the community. And we also know that maybe at some point we might wanna go to the States and get our MFA's or things like that but we're not all ready to leave right now, right? And other people may never wanna leave Guam and that's okay, they might want. So what can we do to make a home for people who may not have access to the university or may not wanna just do the musicals that the high schools do, what can we do? And for a long time, we were like, yeah, we're gonna go out, get our MFA's, work out in the theater industry and then we'll come back and start the theater company. And then we kinda just sat and we're like, well, why are we waiting for that? You know, why not now? Like if one of those, if not now, then when? If not you, then who kind of moments we had? And so we deep dove into it. We taught ourselves how to start a nonprofit because the last nonprofit theater company on Guam prior to us was like 20 years ago. So there hadn't been a nonprofit theater company on Guam for 20 years. And so we kind of taught ourselves how to start a nonprofit. And I was also going to, I was getting my master's in arts leadership at the time. So it was kind of like real life, being able to do both, learning about it and then working on it. In 2018, we got a small grant to do a show I had always wanted to do, which was Tuesdays with Maury, just like a super simple show. And we're like, well, we need a theater company to put on the show and so we made our own. And that's how we began. What we try to create is we try to create a space to fill in the gaps between what the other theaters do since we started a for-profit theater company started on Guam as well, but they kind of focus on musicals and whatnot. Then of course the university theater focuses more on educational theater. And so we've really filled in the gaps with original works, taking pre-made or already made shows and different takes on it. We do a lot of work with youth and actually bringing theater to schools and the community. So that's where we kind of exist. And it's been six years coming this summer. So it's been great. Wow, congratulations. Thank you. I would love to hear your reflections on these past six years. And if you were to give a pep talk to that younger version of yourself, what are the words of encouragement that you would say? Yeah, I think I would let younger CJ know to keep doing the thing, even when things get hard. And maybe this is a pep talk to myself. When things get hard, when the funding isn't as robust, that it's always worth pushing through. I think about younger me facing the pandemic, leading this brand new two-year-old theater company and just being like, keep pushing through, it's always worth it. And so I guess that is a message to me. Now that no matter the challenges we face, the work we do matters and the work we're all doing to uplift like theater and communities and BIPOC indigenous voices that it all matters. And so I think that's what I would tell myself is just keep going and keep centered on what we're all about. I feel like there's been a couple of times in our short history that we veered the path a little bit when just always centering that we're really here for the community and for uplifting Guahan artists and stories. So that's what I would tell myself. Yeah, yeah, that's so important to come back to the why in those difficult moments. And also in those moments of confusion, feeling like we're almost like two in the moment, but then not in the moment because we're worried about the future. Connect to the possibilities of what might come from our work in the generations to come after because when we think about a lot of the theater companies that exist now that are really big, that are well known, or even businesses or movements or projects that have been around for a long time, there's that really incredible history to it all. And there's something that comes from this aging process, from this ability to gain wisdom and this new being that we've created and co-created has that life. It's this beautiful offering that what we do now actually will be something in the future that others will benefit from being able to be almost a future version of ourselves, a future generation that kind of can look back and say thank you for having started because yeah, I think that there's a lot coming for us and for the things that we're creating now. Yeah, exactly, all about manifesting and really looking forward. Yeah, well, tell me more about how you manifest. I really always try to keep a positive outlook. I'm a realist, but I also just like to put out into the universe what we want back. I think in my life and in how I run Breaking Wave and how we move, our goal is always to put the good out when always knowing that it'll return. With Breaking Wave, we really try to break down the barriers of traditional theater and focus a lot more on connecting more with indigenous storytelling and practices. And so I think all of those combined, that's just what we try to do. We try to put people before productions and trying to stay true to who we are and the work we do. And so just manifest good things all around for us personally and professionally and with our company. Yeah, yeah, that really resonates. Do you have any examples that you could share with listeners on how this type of work shows up? Yeah, so we actually like to call it the culture of care. And it's something that came out from the pandemic when we took the moment, you know, when all the reckoning was happening for everyone everywhere, but in theater structures as well of taking the moment. We are a BIPOC-led company and we're mostly all BIPOC, but taking the moment to be like, hey, what are the ways that we perpetuate white supremacy and things like that and really questioning some of the things we had been taught or been practicing from our experiences of why do we put this pressure on our people?  Like this pressure on theater is like so made up because at the end of the day, the arts are so, so important, but it's not life or death, right? And so that's the kind of culture of care we do. Your life and your health and your wellbeing is so much more important than any production that we can put on. And so how that started to come into practice is not that we let people get away with like being late or being absent all the time. You know, we're still, we still keep people accountable to the things they commit to, but having a lot more grace on, you know, hey, like I just need a mental health day and you don't have to explain it, take your mental health because we don't run on a full-time staff. We mostly run on contractors. We've had times where our folks are like, hey, I just need like a week and just being like, hey, I respect that, come back to me when you're ready.  And so that's how it kind of has manifested and I hope and I think we've gotten good feedback from that. Having more people willing to work with us because we're not here to put any pressure. We're putting on a play and so we wanna play. And whether or not the topic is super serious or not at the end of the day, we want people to have fun and enjoy what they're doing and never make it feel like a chore. Modeling and reflecting back to others to take care of themselves as well. Because especially as a founder, I've discovered about myself and also can see it in others as I've gone through so many of these interviews that we go through the transformation through the process of stepping into this leadership in this way and become a new person. What I've found that has really been helpful for a lot of people, including myself is to really invest in my own capacity to hold space and hold space for keeping the vision alive and keeping the energy, the positivity, the manifesting, the it works out versus it's not gonna work out or we're kind of stuck in an issue. And so I found really doubling down on all of the practices, caring, connecting with the moon, the four elements and being intentional about a lot of things as well in terms of how we structure our day, being able to receive the rest we need as well. So I'm curious, what are your go-to practices around being able to hold space for yourself so that you can also hold space for a larger group and a whole vision? One of the things I recently, just in this new year, have really connected with is hiking. So it's really funny prior to January 1st.   But I've always, I've loved nature especially because I left Guam about four and a half years ago right before the pandemic hit to do some theater work out with Oregon shakes. And then that all fell apart with the pandemic. And so I ended up moving to Nashville, Tennessee where I'm tuning in today and have lived here for the past four years. And so I think living in a landlocked state helped me appreciate because I go back to Guam often for Breaking Wave and helped me appreciate the land and the ocean more. And so when I went home for this long period of time, this past winter, I decided I was like, you know what, it's a new year. Let me just go on a hike because I had a friend who really loves hiking and he was like, let's go. So he took me on the really easy one and I absolutely fell in love. In eight weeks, we went on eight hikes, one hike every weekend and that was like going from zero to eight real fast. And so now I absolutely love it. Like, and it's everyone who knows me because like this is wild because I'm usually very like, I'm gonna stay inside. I'll go to the beach, but I'm not gonna exercise or go out in nature. I don't like being hot or sweaty and I hate bugs but now I actually love this. I'm no longer scared of bugs. So I've been climbing rocks and scaling down caves and going to cliff sides for the past few weeks. And so that's my new form of self-care and then, you know, going on walks. And so even here in Nashville, learning to love the land here too and gonna be going on some hikes soon. Amazing. Yes, that is what I'm talking about. That is turning something into a habit to a practice to wow, that's about transformation. How do you feel it has affected your leadership and your work at Breaking Aid? I feel like it's been really good for me because it's time for me to not lead. I definitely have no sense of direction. So I always take the rear and I don't take the lead in this because I know that I'm not the person who knows the best in this situation. And so I think it's been good for me mentally, personally to have that time to be, this is the one thing I get to do where I don't have to take the lead because I'm sure as many other leaders do in our personal lives, we're probably the ones making the plans. We're the ones leading the friendship group and whatnot. I think it's been really nice to have a space where I can learn, I can learn and I can see my friends who I've worked with for years because they're both colleagues and friends seeing how they lead and how they take the reins. And I think that's always so inspiring to have these opportunities to learn from others. I really resonate with what you say about connecting with nature and the moon because I think having this time to connect as well has helped me open up my heart to different possibilities and how the arts can connect so much to the land. And so I'm really interested to learn more about your work and I feel like that's where this is taking me with my new journey on learning how to be a hiking girl and then also leading an arts organization. Yeah, for me, I realized actually in Colombia so ancestral lands after a shift from life in the US in New York and connecting more with nature, finding, farming I had actually been visioning, manifesting, farming for years fell into place. And I realized, especially in the community of Nuki Choco Pacific Coast community as well black and indigenous community, we don't have to think about activism or change the world's energy from only one perspective, like that there's only one way that that might look. And for me, I was thinking very much in this protest energy and kind of anti-racism, kind of figuring out what is it that we don't want, basically. And yeah, finding out actually the opportunity that comes from connecting with the earth and realizing that actually all of these problems that we're facing as humans on earth at this time really comes back to this disconnection that we have with both ourselves and also each other and the earth in that way. We are a reflection of the world where cells of a body that is the entire earth. When we think about being a part of something bigger in that way, even though we are individual cells, there's a huge opportunity to reconnect. And so I've definitely found that through living in nature in this way, like really close to the forest and river and ocean and also in a community that's a village where you know everybody who lives around just a different way of understanding. And I think a lot of indigenous communities, I would say, around the world have that connection still. And so I think that is part of what is wanting to be reconnected. It's a gateway through because there's something about both having a mural with a message and creating the mural together brings this connection energy, this ability also for people to be able to see the mural later for a music piece for a song, both singing the song and experiencing that connection, feeling the support. Mycelium Network, when you are singing and connecting and then to each other, dancing and theater and performance and this storytelling opportunity that is so ancestral. There's so much there around how we use the arts to reconnect with ourselves and with each other and with the earth. So that's why I love doing events and programming convenings and gatherings where we actually spend time in nature receiving sunlight, moonlight, fire. It's been really such an honor to get to do this now with my own organization, that really it's like you said, I'm a leader but leaning into my strengths, it's more about keeping the vision alive, having visions, seeing a place and saying, oh, this would be really great to do something here. And so applying to brands and thinking about who the people can help. Basically putting other people in charge too because it's yeah, my strength to kind of put together the team. I love that. Yeah, I love that. Yeah, that's been a journey. That's so inspiring. And I'm already taking so much with me too. So that's amazing. Yeah, I feel like we could definitely do some collaborations with. We're all about that. We're all about collaborating and reaching out. Guamso geographically isolated. And so any chance we can get to connect with other artists, we love that. That's incredible. Yeah, so right now the project I'm working on is bringing a music group from Nuki to the US. And we actually got a grant to do a festival in the Rockaways in Queens, Far Rockway where it's gonna be this like ocean festival, afro diasporic with communities of the Rockaways as well as welcoming this group from the Pacific Coast in Colombia. And I just see this as an opportunity for what we can do in the future in terms of this global collaboration and exchange because we worked on a festival for Tambacum for this music group in Nuki this year, like in Nuki, a festival that's been performed for years before. And so this ability to kind of go to a place and with the community and then also have them come and visit in the US where we're incorporated. And yeah, I think it's a way to both be able to exchange and offer this sense of reparations as a US organization, this ability to have funding in a different way than other places. So yeah, growing and keeping this idea of what we could do all over. I think that's really powerful and yeah, that's amazing.  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If everyone shared their solutions, everyone would have solutions. So what is one solution to the world's problems that you wish everyone knew about? This is a good question. Solution to the world's problems. I actually, I think it's connecting to what you said where it's just connecting back to the land and connecting back to our ancestries and where we came from. I feel like that would help jumpstart a lot of issues. Our ancestors took care of the land for years before there was even Google to tell us how to, if we all take some time to really connect to ourselves and to the generations that came before us, I think we could have a better hope for the generations to come. Yeah, and if you were to connect this to the theater industry, how do you envision this shifting or supporting any challenges that the theater industry might be facing right now? I'd love to see theaters really connect more back into indigenous practices and roots. That's actually something we're really passionate about and trying to do more actively with Breaking Wave. We try our best not to operate on a hierarchical structure and really connecting back to a more community-based and that we're all working together and thinking about the people of Guahan and the Pacific. There were navigators and thinking a lot about how it takes every single person to steer the ship and to steer the canoes and get people around. And so I would love to see those practices implemented in theater in the United States. And I think so many people are doing it already, so many great organizations that we've connected with and so many we have yet to connect with that do that already. And I'd love to see that implemented on a bigger scale in these bigger theaters because I think that when we go back to the heart of what theater is, it's supposed to be storytelling and it's supposed to be something we all come together to do. There's less of the red tape and the bureaucracy and whatnot, I'd love to see that. Yes, this sounds like a really great conference workshop, a whole even long-term course that you could take, that one could take on this. I actually have been working on this methodology called revolutionary organizational structures, evolutionary organizational structures where we look at this connection to nature and the earth and the systems that already exist in nature, in the earth, the solar system, even our body systems, things that show us how things work already, ecosystems. And really looking at, okay, actually how can we model our understanding of how we run our organization based off of these systems in nature because they've been around for much longer than this hierarchical organizational chart of boxes has been. If you've ever seen that type of boxes chart where it's like the directors of top and then the managers and then the workers and then interns at the bottom, all this kind of understanding is very limiting as to what you can be, how you fit if you're just a box underneath or above other boxes. So I actually have been working on this and for Liberarte, we created this structure that is a tree. So we have the roots being the board of directors and the trunk being the people internally, the more in the center you are, the more internal you are, the more outwards in the bark, the more outward you are. And then upwards through the branches or consultants and people who work as contractors helping out and then the leaves or audiences and clients who interact with us. And then the fruit are artists and the folks who are really presenting and performing and being out there in this way. That is amazing. Yeah, it's really liberating and helpful too. Sometimes people talk about, oh, we're in the hierarchy, are you?  I'm technically at the bottom because I'm in the roots. It's just been so helpful for me to understand. I'm really excited to keep sharing this. I'm getting goosebumps because this is exactly what we, I think we've been working towards. So I'm really eager to connect more about this for sure. A lot of theater companies could benefit and probably want the type of guidance as you might be transitioning, transforming, realizing that you actually wanna do things differently because it is a different time and the earth is calling for a different way of working together for us to continue living on the planet. So yeah, I think if anybody's listening, wanting to have our support hire us, feel free to reach out. I have one more question for you. I would love to hear what has been the most rewarding aspect of carving your own path and creating your own space, really building your own table. I think the most rewarding aspect is to see all the people who have come to the table and continue to. I don't do theater for myself. I do it for the community. I'm always behind the scenes because I really believe that my purpose on this earth is to make the paths, for people the most inspiring thing and the thing that brings me the most joy is knowing that I have been able to create that table and to bring so many people. It's wild thinking about where we've gone. Like I mentioned, we're six years old now and we have kids who started with us when they were 16 who are now majors at the University of Guam and theater to know that we played a part in that I think is the most inspiring. And even the ones who don't major in theater but go on to do all the great things and knowing that they were able to get a foundation through the work we do and that they like it so much that they keep doing it has been the most rewarding part of this journey. And I look forward to continuing to do that. And I'm all about access and accessibility. We don't believe in gatekeeping with Breaking Wave. There's no reason to not share and open up all the seats because we've been let out of tables and rooms for so long and so we will always open the doors wherever we can. Yes, so beautiful. Oh, I definitely want to visit. Yes, come to Guam, so much possibilities. I'm so excited. Let us know how we can connect more with Breaking Wave Theater Company. Breaking Wave Theater Company, we're at bwtcguam on Instagram and Facebook and then we also have our website which is also bwtcguam.com And we're always happy to connect. If anyone wants to connect with us directly, info at bwtcguam.com and we'll definitely reach out because we'd love to collaborate and work with folks. Like, subscribe, follow Breaking Wave Theater Company. Thank you so much, CJ. It was such an honor and pleasure to connect. Thank you so much for having me. I'm so grateful to have this space in this time. Thank you. 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So there's a sticker on the bottom of my laptop that says, you own it, you own it. And it's from the EFF. Definitely a sticker that rings true to my heart as someone who anything I've owned, I've probably taken apart at some point and dive deeper into it. Cause, you know, curiosity. And well, it's my device that I have purchased therefore I wanna know more about it. Now I'm not gonna physically tear this apart but we will show some inside photos from someone else who did. I think it's part of the FCC registration. This is the Unified Dream Machine. I have a video talking about the setup of my overall thoughts on it. Real briefly, this is an integrated Wi-Fi unit, four port, managed switch and router all tied into one. Now it is kind of like a USG but different because when you have the USG or the USG Pro, there's not a lot of advanced features. This is the thing I've complained about before. And this kind of has some of the same limitations like I don't still see a way to add multiple IPs on the WAN but I wanna dive into a couple things I did find out about this device that I didn't cover in my first reviews. I just didn't know they existed and I couldn't find the person's name that they had mentioned in a comment. Hey, check out the fact that it has a honeypot and I'm like, there's a honeypot on this? So that got my curiosity going. So we're gonna start with photos of the inside. This is actually, looks like the certification submitting when you're doing product. I believe this is an FCC thing but this is the teardown of it and this is also why I don't wanna take it apart myself. You can see the way these little clips are. It would probably be challenging to get inside of those little clips without damaging the box in some way because of the way the edges are on it. It feels like I would scuff it up, scratch it up. So I didn't wanna do that. So I figured I'll just show you and I'll leave a link to this so you can stare at it and it dives down in the teardown of the device itself. The way the LEDs are hooked up on this little top thing, the way it's designed. Overall looks pretty good and like I said, these are the diving into each little component of it and sizing and scaling and how it looks. So for those of you curious, here's what it looks like and I'm not, like I said, tearing it apart myself. I just didn't wanna go that far with it and destroy it because I like the unit. It physically looks nice. But now we can talk about the other things that are interesting about this. So I turned the threat management on. I wanna see how it worked and because this routes with threat management turned on faster than previous USG devices. So there's the first thing, GOIP filtering. I've got that turned on. DNS filter. Not a lot of information on how this works. It lets you choose a setting and that's not very in depth. But then again, for maybe something that's targeted to less advanced users, they just want an on and off switch for things. Deep packet inspection, I got this turned on so it's doing this and you can add restrictions and categories and things like that. I haven't really tested to see how good that is but it's cool they added it. This is where it's really something that's a turn that I haven't seen in any of the other softwares. Now, I don't know if this is the controller software Unlocks because it's on a unified dream machine and these just become exposed and it's some backend that's been there for a little while they've been working on. Not sure, but interesting is there is and a lack of documentation I can find on it, an endpoint scanner. And I don't have anything to show up in the endpoint scanner to show you what it looks like because I don't know what it's looking for. I am assuming if I put a host on here that had some open ports it would find said open ports and let us know about them. Internal honeypot, this is where it creates and if you, I only have one LAN so there's only option is just to tie it to the LAN. It apparently doesn't have an external honeypot option not that I can find. And it says pick a honeypot IP. So my LAN IP is 192.168.11 and 192.168.12 I did for the honeypot. And then we did some testing to figure out what the honeypot sees and that actually shows up over here under threat management. So if we go over here threat management and we can look at the honeypot and we'll start here. So I just tell netted from my IP address of my laptop which is the 116, tell netted over to FTP, SSH and SMTP. It doesn't really tell you what I was doing here I just mash in buttons and sending data but it does give you the option when you click to blacklist or kick that client. Now why would you want a honeypot on a network? Well honeypots are generally a indicator that something on your network is scanning that maybe you, if you go in here and find it you go that's interesting something shouldn't be scanning there and then gives you a further reason to investigate further on that host and try and figure out why it's doing what it's doing. So that's pretty cool. Like I said, the end point scan, no threats detected. I don't know what to stick on the network that it's looking for but I don't have any ports open on my laptop so if I can find some documentation on that or maybe I'll hook up a handful of computers and open up some ports and see if it finds something on there. Now traffic log, I have Tor running on my system right now. So by opening up the Tor browser I was able to get it to flag that I was using Tor. Okay, cool, it's seen it. It's just categorized as miscellaneous attack but this didn't get flagged. And this is testmyids and alls it does is send, this is the only thing that's on that site testmyids.com, uuid, zero root, gid, zero groups, zero root. And it assumes it's some type of privilege escalation when it gets flagged in Saracota or Snort there's a rule set for it. It does not seem to flag that site in any way but it did at least recognize Tor. So it does something. It is a challenge with IDS systems is if they don't give you a lot of findering control or the backend access to it in detail then it's hard to really know why something or something is just suppressed because they suppressed the test site. They're like, yeah, we suppressed that rule. So they don't give you a lot of that. I mean they do give you control let's jump over here back to the Dream Machine and you can go through here and suppress block, blacklist, whitelist, these type of things. So it does give you some tuning options but it doesn't give you like the backend access of like for example, why it didn't flag that. And this is in the trouble with any IDS system you have to sometimes just trust their magic or get and start doing it yourself and then you have to work the magic of figuring out what to flag or not to flag. I didn't, it says you have zero countries blocked. I had people mention and I don't know the truth of this because I don't have this on a public-facing IP that the GUIP database is not 100% accurate in there so I didn't really dive into that. But now let's take a look at the backend on this. So the backend and oh, here's the Tor browser running it's still running right now in the background here. It does have and I'll show you where I'm at here. So this is, I was digging around to see what files I can find on there. So here's user share, UBIOS, UAPI server, config board. And interesting, I see both the config for UDM Pro 2x by 10 and a UDM.json file. So I do see where you can start customizing and maybe changing some things in here. So it does have a few different little things. I was just kind of poking around through where you can do some configuration. So it looks like there's some potential but not documented and I bring this up too. If we go over here, one of the things is this is on the Unify Advanced Configuration note and requirements, Ubiquity support cannot assist in the creation of a config.json file nor will they assist to be right up on the command line configuration. And I kind of feel I didn't find a same notice for the UDM but I'm pretty sure the dream machine is going to fall into the same policy of this ain't supported. And by the way, for those of you that contact us to hire us to help you with your setups and network setups, we don't support it either. We do get a lot of people requesting that we write some very custom config file to do something advanced with the USG. It's just not, we don't offer it because it can be a real pain to support. And so, other than me poking around with it or when I wanna test things, I don't really officially support doing this but I encourage people to tinker and do some learning on your own. So, if you go over here and look at some of the things under slash Etsy here, this is like I said, running standard Linux. Like I said in the first review, it is a flavor of Debian but it's a lot of customization that's gone in here. And I also not clear on how all the config files are managed on this. I did do some digging to figure out like how the Honeypot, that it's just listening on ports and saying that something hit the port but it doesn't really seem to do that I found at least of our log, any particular logging of the Honeypot that I could find. So, it doesn't, I don't think it's collecting any of that data. But you can get under the hood of some of the other things and like, well, kind of like serocatalog. Here it is, it's got zero bytes. So, even though we have current data in there, it's actually doesn't seem to be doing anything. So, that's, you know, November 21st, that's today's date, but there's nothing in the log. And we'll do a quick look at all the logs here. So, there's a few different, so like that unify log and everything else. So, there's a few things you can dig into and learn a little about the system, system.config. But like I said, so far I haven't found any good documentation about this to really dive deep into how it works. Well, one thing I did find interesting is that they're not using it in this particular model, but maybe other models support this to be my assumption, but Docker seems to be part of the image that's in here. And so, maybe they're gonna add more features and I believe there's a Docker image, but not set up on here for Unify Protect. So, maybe there's a way to make the Unify Protect work on here, but there's no external hard drive storage, so that would be a problem. And maybe some of the other devices that's how they're gonna be pulling it is with Docker images. So, I found that under the hood, which was kind of interesting. Now, the device itself is a lot different than a USG because unlike a USG where this just handles basically routing, and this is, you know, the USG is basically in some backend fashioned forked from the earlier, I believe it's called Viata project, but it's just a dedicated router box. This is a lot different overall because you're running on here the MongoDB for the Unify Controller, so the database engine backend, EngineX for the web interface to get to the Unify Controller, and then running all the switch management and Wi-Fi management and everything all inside of one system. So, this does make it a little bit different in a box, but to me, having it all right here with a reasonably powerful board, it seems like there's gonna be some more people exploring and coming up with some new fancy things that they can do on it. So, the Threat Management is a nice advanced feature. The teardown of it looks like it's pretty well designed to put together. I wanted to take a part, like I said, but these edges right here, I just feel as though I'm going to really rough this thing up and I don't want it all ugly looking unless we decide to completely hack it apart and make it something more fun. But for the most part, I'll leave it in its current configuration. I was satisfied with those pictures for seeing inside of it. But I'm looking forward, if anyone has some links that they can send me, post in the forums or have a discussion, just link me to the Unify Forum where it's posted of people who maybe have made some advanced changes on it or done some playing with it to see what other functionality you can get out of it or what's coming out of it. I'd be interested in learning. I did some digging. There's not a ton of information out of there, but you can SSH into this pretty straightforward. It's just your UI.com because you have to register an account to set this up. But when you SSH into it, it's just your route and that password you get into it and SSH is open. So, I'm glad Unify left it open that we can tinker around. They seem to not mind when people start playing around with stuff. But of course, like they said on their site, it's not officially supported. So, let me know if you know of any more advanced stuff on there, but it's pretty neat. So, that's kind of the tear down in part two and a couple of interesting looks at those advanced features on there.  So, even though the threat management's basic. So, I think it's a good thing that they put this all in there and for home users or even a small little two or three person office that may want these. We have a salon that we might put one of these in. It's a perfect solution for them. It's a small four person salon. So, we need Wi-Fi in that. We can give them Wi-Fi, a guest network and all that and one little compact thing. And it actually kinda looks cool. So, it's not like we have to hide it somewhere. It's not ugly. I gotta admit, it's cylinder shaped. So, it's kinda cool. Thanks. And thank you for making it to the end of the video. If you like this video, please give it a thumbs up. If you'd like to see more content from the channel, hit the subscribe button and hit the bell icon. 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laying y'all up right there because I'm too lazy to go over to the table and get the cell phone good morning everybody it is sunday morning times at 9 21 a.m. sunday november 21st good vibes good vibes anyway um so shirt i bought yesterday it's a medium you guys it's a medium oh yeah you know i still have my high school graduation ring i haven't been able to wear it in years not that i would wear it why would you wear that something like that but i'm just kind of wondering if i can get it on my finger i might have to try that later today if i can't i can't but that would be interesting a medium i haven't worn a medium and i can't remember when anyway hi how is everybody i hope you're all having a good sunday we just started our day i do think we're puppy sitting um lily this week or this today not this week just today um while polyus and his dad do some more work on their kitchen reno his dad flies up from california um as many weekends as he can right now to help polyus with remodeling their kitchen polyus's father is a contractor by trade and um among other things he's done a lot of things in his life archerist but um he is a very talented contractor and so he comes up to help the kids out with free labor and advice and um yeah and he's teaching polyus the tricks of the trade and um yeah i hope polyus learns a lot because i need some stuff done around here anyway uh we're so i think for the most part we're going to be home today and we do have a carload full of donations now and i've got that book list i've got to work on um because we're going to donate a whole truckload or a whole back load of books to the local donation place there's just no good way to resell them i'd love to do that but you don't you get pennies on the dollar literally and yeah so i'm going to just donate them and then they'll go on to a good home and earn the you know place i donate them to some money so that's it's all good all the way around good vibes all the way around so in the meantime i will make a list for our tax accountant because it is a write-off i don't normally do that but in this case we will because it's quite a chunk of money anyway uh hey guys this is my high school graduation ring i graduated in 1981 from fremont high school in sunny veil california it is well worn well aged tarnished i haven't been able to wear it since shortly after i graduated so let's see what happens oh my god you guys holy cow that's amazing okay it's just before lunch on sunday and it is all of 37 degrees outside and we have decided to go for a walk 37 37 it's cold anyway and yes my hair is clipped back because now that it's growing out it's in my face all the time anyway we are gonna go for a walk i put my old orthotics in my tennis shoes and the hopes that maybe it will help alleviate some of the annoyance my knee is feeling at the moment so we'll try that for a few days and see if that helps anyway we're going to go for a walk and see what we can see take nut job not bob the dog uh for a walk and uh i'll be back guys it's monday morning 9 32 a.m. november 22nd pretty sure it's the 22nd see the 22nd i already was checking on the computer and social media i did some physical therapy exercises on my knee because i'm trying to avoid having another cortisone shot it may be necessary at some point but i don't want to have that done if i don't have to so anyway i'm gonna go sit down and rest it for a little bit maybe after i take a shower um anyway we have some stuff we need to do um um which not only include getting rid of all those donations in the back of my car because you literally can't get anything else in the back of my car for all the books and shit that are back there so we're gonna take care of that today so anyway bob is off this week for Thanksgiving and yeah let's get going shall we i'll be happy to god to do the book donation or stuff donation yet mostly it's books um because bob is working on the car he's not quite ready yet he's working on the barracuda uh that's okay i edited the vlog i got it all edited i am gonna save i think three clips out i'm gonna think i'm gonna try to do a youtube short and there's one clip of me working on that that i included a sped-through clip in the vlog but i think i'm going to do a longer non-sped-through but non-talking clip of the patrons that will go on that channel so i've got at least two more maybe three more videos to edit so i got shit to do while he's working on the car so it's fine all right and you know the table is semi-clean yeah that's only because i haven't taken the paper clusters out yet so there you have it i'll be back it's 4 30 p.m on tuesday i want to say february holy cow november 23rd and i don't think i've logged yet today oops so we spent most of the day today just relaxing or lazing around the house because the cleaning lady was there and my neighbor has yet another neighbor with christmas decorations so yeah bob isn't too happy of the camper anyway we're behind the times we need to get ours up uh anyway um my knee is still bothering me i have good days and bad days with it but i think i'm going to go ahead and bite the bullet and go to the knee doctor tomorrow bob's gonna go with me and if they'll let him he'll come in with me and i guess maybe i'll get a cortisone shot we'll see definitely physical therapy be making knee exercises part of my routine you know i've worked on everything else why not that i've been lax uh lax in my knee exercises and we did a little bit of traveling recently as you all know and i didn't wear a brace to prevent my knee from doing anything it shouldn't and all of that stuff i just yeah anyway we're gonna take care of it now and do what we can so anyway try not to step on a slug because they're kind of all over the place all right i will be back we're gonna go see what we can see and uh maybe take a few pictures of the pretty sunset i'll be back so it is wednesday november 24th 11 45 am i almost said p.m anyway um i need to do the breakfast dishes i already checked on social media corrected a couple of things in the rt trio facebook group that i forgot to do on my post because this month is my month and um anyway um so yeah so all that happened we had a phone call with a dear friend of ours from california who i didn't know one of his kids lives up this way i had no idea um so he's been in town visiting and we are gonna meet up with him before he leaves on saturday um um either tonight or friday not sure which um so that's happening and yeah um i have i think i mentioned in a prior clip i don't know until i edit but i have an appointment with the orthopedic knee doctor guy actually his physician's assistant to look at my knee probably get another cortisone shot set up some physical therapy so i can be better about myself care and my knee exercises you all remind me have you done your knee exercises feel free to nag the crap out of me because it's important bring my knee brace when i'm traveling or going on long car rides high heels or a no i might have to do a shoe purge like i just can't do the high heels anymore much less i need to be better about keeping up with having the right inserts in the shoes i do wear um so i'm gonna have to see a podiatrist to get some custom inserts made and i do have a referral coming in the mail for that i did request that already so yeah all the things for the things because of the things right okay wow lighting is very red that helped a little bit anyway we are on our way to the grocery store i know the night before thanksgiving i know we could have asked the kids to get some more stuff for us but they have enough going on at their house with the kitchen reno anyway we're done at the doctors and i got another shot in my knee and more physical therapy already been there and scheduled it i need to be much better about my knee exercises so we don't have to do this again anytime soon if this doesn't work i'm gonna have to have orthoscopic surgery so let's pray it works shall we all right take care of yourself people go to the doctor when things are bugging you hashtag don't be my mother all right we're gonna go to the doc the doctors we've already done that we're gonna go to the grocery store our list isn't too big but i'm kind of wondering as is he how many things are going to be out of and how crowded it's going to be because it's like the night before thanksgiving it's going to not be pretty i think i'll be back hey guys it is the end of the day what time is it i don't even i got no idea it's thanksgiving day i hope you all had a great one um we had the family over i got one quick clip i'll put it here take the sound out my great nephew kept playing in the dog crate i won't put the pictures but i mean it was pretty funny i think he thought it was hilarious to lock grand dog lily out of her out of her crate i don't i don't know if i can get my computer to open okay anyway but it was a good evening lots of food three courses it's 6 44 p.m everybody's just gone home all the dishes are done except for three glasses everything's drying we have more more people coming over tomorrow um here we haven't seen old friend dear old friends of california one at least one i think he's coming by himself anyway um yeah and we will be putting christmas decorations up maybe tomorrow maybe saturday not exactly sure good footage where i can but anyway busy weekend but it's all good it was a good time anyway i'm stuffed i'm gonna go downstairs after i turn this off and go put my foot up my leg up it's feeling good but i have been on my feet all day cooking and cleaning and stuff so that's it for the minute i hope you guys all had a great thanksgiving that you spend it with family friends loved ones you had a good time and we will see you in the morning bye for now hey guys good morning it is literally two like a couple minutes before noon on friday november 26th the day after Thanksgiving and rocky is just sitting on top of the fence staring at me he's like what are you doing where's my corn bowl yep there he goes tell the kids you need to come over and help us decorate or we're not going to be bothered this year like all the kids are busy on friday like sorry dear that's him it's a very old it's like nails on a chalkboard anyway they can't be bothered they're all super busy so we're doing it ourselves if they don't like it that's not our problem we've also changed our front yard landscaping and so what we used to put out here in the front since we moved in doesn't work anymore so we are going to have to go shopping tomorrow hopefully the hardware stores have stuff i don't know how hard that's going to be we're going to be a couple towns over so we'll probably try some lows and home depot stores out that way and hit if we need to hit a couple of them on the way home looking for stuff we'll see what we can find i don't know anyway we're going to get some lights up above the garage we are not up to doing the gable end because that's really high and scary and i'd rather the husband not do that we will put like there are lights in those two upstairs windows and we're going to put lights in those three windows which we need to buy lights for i know right it's one of the things we need so anyway and we're going to get some light up packages or something for there and maybe a snowman family or reindeer or something for over there and i'd see look at his car that's we're picking up car parts tomorrow which is why we have to go out so anyway we're going to get the lights up then have lunch we might meet up with a friend later we'll see if he has time today before he heads back to california and yeah it'll be a good day i think i'll be back right so it is 9 34 a.m on saturday november 27th i'm pretty sure right yes okay um we are obviously in the car and we are headed out to go buy some car parts for the barracuda and run a couple of errands we don't really expect to find anything that we're looking for errands wise and that would be because we're looking for christmas decor every year we try to find one or two new christmas decor items for the house um this year like everybody started decorating and buying up all the inventory like a month ago and because of the supply chain issues there's just like no more stuff so we'll see what we can find and or we'll make do with what we have we'll see but we have to go get the car parts a couple of towns over from where we normally shop so i don't know we'll see anyway um we're shocked and shocked and saddened this morning to hear of more mall shootings and more smashing grabs around the country especially here on the west coast and what the hell are you all thinking people like come on be decent humans go get a goddamn job all right anyway my rant of the day for two seconds neighbors waving um strangers anyway we're gonna go get what we need to and um see what happens it's rainy day out i was hoping to put some more decor up outside when we got home some lights or something even if i had a diy something but it's raining so i don't know if that's gonna happen but we'll see i'll be back okay guys uh we're in or near organ city westland we're at charquers hardware i'll put their link down below we are buying a few things i like this store well stocked yeah i'd recommend visiting it they have a really nice selection of stuff not just your standard hardware dog treats clothing housewares stuff that's been kind of hard to find and stuff i haven't seen before so check out 45 p.m uh still saturday hold on there we go um we got home we put everything away i think we got the christmas decorations finished outside um i could use more of the stakes to stick your lights around the ground but we made it work with what we have and oh my god hold on do you hear that it was sort of drizzling when we got the yard done i think maybe it's a good thing we got done when we did because it is dumping right now holy crap anyway so we got it done and it's all good and it's all finished had some lunch bob is down in the garage hold on fingers in the way all right um bob is down in the garage um playing with his car parts he is um yeah so he got his barracuda needs a new steering column and the old one was just completely shot there was such so much wrong with it so he got a um brand new one from a company that makes new parts for old cars only it wasn't exactly the same then he found a guy that was local that rebuilds them like new and um so he got one of those and i think he's going to try to return and or sell the other one that he got there's nothing wrong with it it's just more complicated to get it in the car then the one that's the refurb of the original so and they both are going to work equally well so um and when um he was also able to trade in the old shot one to the guy who refurbs them and got some money off on the purchase for that so it's all good and then we found this new as i told you park park rose hardware i guess there's five stores in the area one in portland proper three in vancouver and one in westland we went to the one in westland i like that store it's a small mom and pop chain and prices are a little high but i mean what isn't right now i love their selection of stuff and um yeah i'll be back really impressed anyway uh yeah so we got all that done i'm gonna see what's up with my computer hold on a hair truck fedex but i didn't order anything it's way too early for my medication i don't know what it could be so anyway uh forgot what i was saying i'm gonna see what's up with my computer i haven't done much art up here in the art room since what the wednesday before thanksgiving it's just been too busy the two or three days after a holiday like that are just super busy between the cooking the cleaning the visiting with family um resetting the house for the next holiday um i have to catch up on my daily drawing and artwork and but i can do that downstairs but i'm gonna check on some stuff up here and i don't know if you're gonna let's see just grace with the camera today holy cow my table's not like awful awful but it's just sort of become a dumping ground the last couple days for like parts i've come across and i'm like oh i want to save that i don't have time right now but dump it on the table that's what happens uh anyway um so i'm gonna just check on some things here see what's up check on some social media stuff that i've just kind of unintentionally ignored but you know because life gets in the way um anyway and then turn my computer off and then i'm just gonna leave it off until tomorrow tomorrow i will probably come up here and i'll edit the vlog and i'll um work on smart work i want to catch up on that felix shinberger class that i um paid that i bought um i want to watch some of those um tonight and then maybe i can come up here and do some of the work tomorrow that would be great um so that's the plan anyway so we'll see how it pans out anyway i am gonna close the vlog here we are probably not doing much else today um we're not going anywhere we've got a house full of food that needs eating it's pouring outside i doubt we're going walking i could be wrong but i doubt it so anyway i hope you guys have had a good week i hope if you do celebrate thanksgiving uh that you had a good holiday with family and friends and um if you don't that you just had a great week um that you've made some fun art and or just collected parts and pieces and gathered inspiration go out and see nature do what you can safely stay safe stay healthy stay creative uh we're not past this whole craziness yet and uh go out and have a good day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it don't forget to like share and subscribe check out the video description for relevant links um when you guys do see this there will still be a sale going on in my etsy shop um it's like a once a year thing 30% off everything in the store the code is down below and my etsy shop social media all that stuff is in the description some of it's in the link tree list links so check it out and i will see you in the next vlog bye guys


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