Just Correctional Centre comes under attack by bandits suspected of trying to free colleagues who will be getting more information about the situation this morning. Elsewhere in Platoon State, the regal people will release the names of 10 people killed and suspected following the attack. We'll be talking to both sides. Countries around the world enact travel bans against South and Africa over Omicron coronavirus variants but Africa isn't happy. We'll be reviewing the deal daily this morning. Stay tuned with us as we also have a guest join us to make sense of all of the headlines. Welcome to the breakfast on PLOS TV Africa. I am Justin. And I am Messi Boko. It's good to have you join us this beautiful Monday morning. And of course we'll begin with what is trending in Nigeria across the social media platforms and of course the global space this morning and Uganda is in the news this morning. The country risks are losing their only international airport all because of some deal. They signed with China and right now they cannot repay and it is. And you're just about losing that particular airport and the lessons to be asked to get from that particular story is just how far would you go about borrowing when you did not really protect your international sovereignty and some of your international assets that is about time to be lost. You know they signed that particular agreement with China on November 17, 2015. That's about six years ago and they were to borrow or they borrowed two hundred and seven million dollars at two percent upon disbursement and it's supposed to have a maturity period of 20 years including a seven year grace period but over time they've been defaulting to some of those agreement and right now they have even sent a delegation that is Uganda sent a delegation to China to see if they can sort of refinance or talk about how to go about it but right now the Chinese companies they are not budging and they are saying that you have to pay us or take your report. Well I feel that that particular conversation has generated a lot of reaction in the space I mean over it started from when up until the weekend and up until this morning I'm sure a lot of people are still talking about it and the big question is you know the next year is that Nigeria's indebtedness to China calls for a lot of concern as well. So but first of all you would also want to agree with me that the clause that was signed because it has to do with it some people have described it as a toxic clause and the fact that relocation so if you look at that you know contract that was signed 85% at the end of the day they actually had over 85% of you know the airport that's what he meant they would have control over it so about 85% and some persons are saying that you know that's to ensure that China I mean Uganda actually pays you know her debt at the end of the day so they're able to manage and ensure that they pay their debt but however the case might be the fact that you know a lot of persons are worried about you know Nigeria also losing her asset it's also generating that particular conversation and whether or not you know some people are saying okay that's not the case the case is it's in the clause it's in the agreement and that's what happens if you go to actually lend money from someone they are usually terms of agreement and so at the end of the day if you're not able to keep up to I mean leave up to expectation then the expected will happen right but usually because of the desperation and wanting to take money most time we don't pay attention you know to the details that we actually say let's not forget that in 2020 there was some you know reaction concern including the National Assembly concerned about the you know the clause in you know our borrowings to China and all of that and of course you have the Minister for Transport Rotimi Amici saying oh you know nothing really at some point they were saying oh we also started chance of you know losing our asset right but at all the point of saying okay it's nothing to worry about there's nothing really really to be worried about well I'm thinking that you know this is actually a global I don't know how to call it it's actually a tool that's been used by different countries including the United States including you know what's it called again the monetary institutions financial institutions they call them the debt trap diplomacy debt trap diplomacy and so at the end of the day this is what happens I think it also happens amongst individual the fact that you know the these powerful nations that have the resources to lend they also you know give excess credit to the borrower at the end of the day the essence with the rational behind that is that so they can actually giving that they make it so much that you know getting back the loan it becomes when it becomes very difficult for you to pay back they are looking at you know having political control and some other economic control over your asset if you talk about China a lot of people also China's involvement in you know African's development if you look at it right now the fact that you know China has a huge presence in Africa in terms of you know pushing for organization and what have you the fact that all of these loans that you have for development of infrastructure infrastructure yes so whether or not it has happened it has happened in the case of I think Zambia in Sri Lanka it has also happened whether unable to repay their loans and of course they took over you know the asset they had to take it because agreement is agreement like you want to see the local parents yes and the truth is that when you sign agreement or when you sign contract for loans or the financial obligation you should be wary I'm sure they call it the covenants of the contractor what you would do what the other party would do you know you should study this you know clauses clause by clause and be certain that as much as possible you'll not be caught in some sort of a quagmire at the end of the day you'll not be able to maybe on the surface you might like okay it's about 20 years in 20 years now give or tell I should be able to meet this particular you know amount and if I don't I might have a way of maybe refinancing but it's not always the case if you go into any contract be it loan be it maybe for something just as much as possible go through the clauses to be certain that it is something that you can handle say for me right now I am saying that this is for me it should be a call that Africa as a continent should stop the borrowings enough of it we have we have just become you know the thing where you don't look inwards and try to solve your problem and every other time you're running to you know this nation and they would always dictate for instance when you have the IMF Loaning Monastery when you have the World Bank and what have you Loaning Monastery they give you condition they tell you what to do they tell you how to use the money sometimes they ask you to devalue your currency we have seen that a couple of times in our country where we constantly devalue our currency that's the Naira and that's what happens because you are a beggar you borrow and yes that's what happens so you always be faced with all of that choice so I'm thinking that is high time you know Africans wake up and the big brother of Africa is Niger it's that we put our feet down and begin to look at you know look inwards I get all of that and stop all of the excessive borrowing because first of all that's what you said excessive we will not be talking about you know anybody losing her national asset there will be no consent for it in the first place if we are not going to borrow okay yeah I get it but economically you know the economists would tell you that there's nothing really wrong with borrowing because even that even finance in general you could do equity you could do debt financing but as much as possible when you do debt financing you should be able to as much as possible to measure you know the risks involved before and then not to borrow beyond what you need sometimes some people borrow you know to you know to finance unreasonable you know things for instance if you're trying to borrow 40 millionaire to or billion to offset you know recurrent expenditure does not really make sense maybe for salaries at the end of the day there's no particular or capital project attached to that particular borrow at the end of the day you might struggle you know when it comes to refinancing or repaying those loans now in the case of Surinaka I mean they actually utilized the money very well but they were unable to you know meet up and pay their debt my point is you know borrowing yes now like you rightly mentioned there's nothing wrong in borrowing but you know in the case of Africa it feels like we borrow for oh and bear we borrow for parties we borrow for favoritism yeah because that's what the case is we borrow most lines are the money just at the end of the day we don't see especially for Nigeria as much as we're still saying yes we're borrowing for infrastructural you know development how many of these we see introduce infrastructure how well have we utilized it my point is you will not blame China for because China has a stringent policy in terms of loan I mean everyone should know that including Africa the fact that we're not even learning the lessons what's even hard breaking so you wouldn't really would you blame them that's what I would it's the same thing as saying as an individual I come to borrow from you and what for what purpose am I borrowing and because most times we're always desperate I would say the word at least the word desperate we don't pay attention you know to the terms to the terms and agreement and that's almost the case you know right now they're asking for renauguration according to you know those who have described that as a toxic you know class but who do you think China was I mean it was there because from the word they should have noticed whoever is actually lending would be lending and you know having an interest at the end of the day her interest will be protected and that's what it is so even if Nigeria you know gets to a point where they are borrowing to other nations do you think that you know all of those classes would not be there in the first place I'm thinking that this should be a lesson for us we need to you know relax on all of this going and look for other means I have been hearing of diversification of economy since 1960 since 1966 I mean up until now we're talking about the diversification of you know our economy and we haven't really you know gotten to anywhere this point in time so we're still talking about it every other time to develop the class we should move beyond that and try to grow our idea you know yes away from all of that away from the Uganda episode and the entire airport being lost to China our stories are making you know the rounds across and various spaces you know not just in Nigeria but still in Africa let's stay with Africa for a bit and talk about the Omicron virus which was detected in South Africa you know and a lot of countries including the United States the European countries and some of Southeast Asian countries are actually placing travel bands you know from South Africa and of course other countries as well because of how dangerous and how transmissible this particular virus is that Omicron and here in Nigeria some virologists are saying that the federal government of Nigeria should also follow suit you know just as much as possible so we don't have you know the case of a fort a fort wave of the virus in the wake of Christmas and the Utah being around the corner restrictions you know that's been put usually when you have an outbreak and of course there's a scare that you're going to have a new wave or whatever view the point is I don't think that has really been very effective and you would also want to agree that some you know stakeholders I mean some persons a special advice at a time to President Joe Biden has actually raised a concern and I'm thinking that you know a lot of countries especially for the continent Africa will be punished for it punishes and you know pushes the economy South Africa is actually complaining when I'm saying that it's a punishment to this economy because we begin to restrict travels and we begin to restrict people from coming as soon as that variant was actually discovered or whatever there's been a lot of economic implications for South Africa and for me the choice of saying let's begin to put out all of that restriction does not solve the problem as much as some other persons will say okay it's time for us to vaccinate Africa it feels like you know Africa is the problem and it costs a lot of concern because I remember the time I can't remember its name really really there was really a concern that when we had the coronavirus and there were a lot of speculation saying you know we're going to have a lot of dead bodies in Africa people are going to die so we at the time Africa was actually the case Africa recorded you know the entire continent recorded 100,000 cases now when you want to look at you know number of persons who have died the record was you also had to look at the record of you know 3,000 and so that you know there were a lot of questions as to what is going on because if you look at the number of persons who have contracted the virus and the number of persons who have died there's no correlation why do you have 3,000 in the entire continent out of 100 alright mercy I understand that you have a particular track to this report let's see that video I will come back and talk some more stay with us it's still the breakfast most predominant clinical complaint is severe fatigue for one or two days with then the headache and the body aches and pain some of them will have what they call a scratchy throat and some will have a cough a dry cough but it's not a cough it comes and go and that's more or less the big symptoms that we have seen we also have seen clinically that the oxygen requirements when you do that what we call the sats that's normal in all of the patients I haven't picked up one and so my other colleagues as well I picked up anyone at this stage requiring oxygen some of them would have a temperature it's not a very high temperature I only had one child that was severely ill with a temperature of what we call 40 degrees and with quite a fast pulse rate but we managed to treat it home and within 48 hours it was dramatically better can't believe it was the same child that I have seen alright welcome back that's just you know it's a lot really still happening concerning this Omicron and mercy just yesterday before we just leave this topic just yesterday a lot of you know travelers were stranded at airport in South Africa they said that they needed to get home and they are not being allowed you know exit out of that particular country like I mentioned earlier I don't think that you know putting out restriction travel restriction has solved the problem you know of the spread of the virus that's number one so we need to rethink you know the economic implication it has for you know some of those countries but whether or not we need to vaccinate the entire continent some persons have actually post elated it's another you know conversation but we need to just move away you know from this particular topic at this point we should we should really yeah and to the last you know issue trendings all over the social media space is that of the minister sorry the DG of the Nigeria of Indaspora Commission that's an advocate that she is in the news again and she tries to block the journalists call yeah of course do you remember I don't know if you remember I think some time recently we had David and they talking about you know the debt of it to new the lady who lost her life in and quite quite sad yeah but I mean what she did because I actually saw a video of that it's very unprofessional right I'm thinking that first of all you are in a space and then the guest is now trying to tell us what to do and what not to do I'm thinking that if there's nothing to hide it's okay to go ahead with the conversation put your facts straight put your argument rather than saying oh you don't want you can't it is really really not good and that's the high-handedness we talk about every other time that we see in display in our country it really doesn't really you know make any kind of sense so that's it I saw that video she constantly was saying no I don't want to talk to him you can't talk to him don't bring him on air why who say so he's concerned about what's going on I mean this issue is something that concerns not just Nigerians at home but also Nigerians living abroad so they want to really know Nigerians would actually really want to know how you know much of worthiness the issue of contention here has been the fact that the Nigerian government has not really been involved at a time you know she also said that she got the information I mean they were really in the know five months ago and they were already in the works and you know they even they is of the opinion that that's not the case that they probably had because all of that was already in public space they had he had reached out personally and nothing was done but like I always say it's better to put out your facts you put out your issues rather than you know putting that out it is totally you know not professional and unacceptable alright so let's take yet another video and send in this particular issue hello hello go ahead right so my name is Deagon Dane and I'm a journalist who actually broke the story about it in March now I have a very it's a very simple question which isn't it's not exactly directly ministered to the work of need come but it's it's an adjunct and I'll explain why I'm asking this question now what was said in the aftermath of it's news there repeatedly was that there was no money the commission is underfunded the ministry of foreign affairs is underfunded there's basically no money that's how called for eight months it wasn't possible to raise no number one that is not even true no no no sorry that is not true nobody said that what you went out and put the picture of some guy you said he was defrauding people and the ambassador we asked him they might have said yes at that time if you wait for bureaucracy you will not do anything so immediately to news broke because the father was in touch that guy that you said was a fraud actually was the contact person look go to like I said this girl's case is an abjure you took her to fire away it's like you are in Lagos you took her to my degree so they raised funds I think they were looking for a thousand surface and immediately so that did not stop now the lawyer was engaged but they raised thousands of dollars to pay the lawyer because the ambassador thought outside the box yes there are still no funds but that did stop into this case because we know that the father can't even afford anything and when this case broke they said you also said that guy asked for 400,000 they said okay what do you have we're all raising funds I think that's an unfair thing for the guy whose picture you put up very embarrassingly to ask so the guy said okay what do you have we have raised this amount of money when they said that they have anything they would say went out and raised the money yes funds is an issue but in this to news case the people raised the funds themselves and the Nigerian community went out so no excuse me if you are a lawyer ask any lawyer the loss of this guy had been jailed for two years this was not the question I was asked okay what is your question you put the facts to answer your question so that is the thing if it took in eight months right the commission then there was no money on ground it's not the commission please it's not the commission whatever the case is that is not even true let's hear it's a question let's hear it's a question so that we can address it alright welcome back that's the DG over night come there in a heated you know back and forth which I'm John Lister David Hunde over the issue of Nigerian who died in a court of war and he could not really get his question out there because he felt he was being blocked by the DG of the night come that's actually blocked by the DG of night come I just thought that would have been handled better anyway that's as much as we can take on this particular segment we will take a break and when we return we'll be talking about what's on the front pages of major dailies this morning stay with us


Aaron Boone just talked about how sharp he thought you were in that first inning What shifted a little bit from the first to the second nothing just didn't make pitches when I needed to got two strikes and can make a Pitch does it add to the frustration runs scored in the second and then again in the fourth had two outs in both of those Situations almost out of the end. Yeah, two strikes both times always frustrating. Just got to make better pitches What made Lamar such a tough out He gets some pitches didn't execute Overall you go six innings still give him a chance to and how do you evaluate this one overall? That's all I'm trying to do is just go out and get a team a chance to win Was this played lately? Do you just kind of even when you give out three runs at six innings you expect that They're gonna figure out a way to just stay in the game. Yeah, of course. I mean, this is a good team and we always hit So yeah, you just got a game of chance I mean it is what it is You know you go out and play the game hard and sometimes you win and sometimes you lose We lost this series we go out tomorrow and try to win the next one To the teams at the bottom the standings hurt any more than other saw the same


Hello. In the previous talk, we saw a demonstration of ILS goofing and ADSP de-cast goofing. In this talk, I'll be going over the fundamental principles and security issues of these systems. The ILS work was done in collaboration with Damian Sherpas and my advisors, Professor Anjan Ranganathan and Professor Kivara Novir from Northeastern University. Well, yes, the ILS part is very similar to what the bad guys did in Die Hard 2. Actually, that was one of the motivation factors behind this research. Sometimes fiction does turn into reality. In the recent years, aviation industry has seen a significant rise with approximately 15,000 flights in the sky at any given time. Of course, with the onset of COVID-19, this has drastically changed, but nevertheless. Atlanta's Hartfield International Airport is considered to be the busiest airport. It itself caters to over 2,500 takeoffs and landings every single day. Right from taxing to the runway for takeoff to arriving and taxing back to destination gate, these flights rely on the plethora of wireless navigation aids. Pilots continuously interact with ATC using RF channels. Controllers use surveillance radar for aircraft localization. Automatic dependent surveillance broadcast enables aircraft tracking. Traffic and collision avoidance systems like ACAS and TCAS also relies on these ADSB packets. Flights use satellite systems for general point-to-point navigation. At the end, instrument landing system gets you safely back on ground even in extreme weather conditions.  It is possible to include ghost aircrafts by spoofing ADSB packets. In the previous stock, we witnessed the effects of spoofing ADSB packets to disrupt collision avoidance systems. It has been shown multiple times how GPS is vulnerable to spoofing attacks. With the advent of real inexpensive software-defined radio platforms, it has become much easier to fabricate such disturbances. Let's take a look at instrument landing system in detail. Final approach or landing phase is one of the most critical phases. According to a Boeing report, about 59% of all fatal accidents have occurred during the final approach phase. ILS is the de facto landing system used all over the world. It provides precise guidance even in extreme weather conditions. It has three subsystems. First is a localizer. It's a component which provides lateral guidance. Glide slope provides vertical guidance and marker beacons act as checkpoints during the approach. Let's look at the localizer in detail. Localizer enables the receiver to calculate its location with respect to the runway centerline. The instrument guides the pilot to properly align itself. Antenna array installed at the end of the runway transmits a 25 watt signal. Transmission pattern creates a loop on each side of the runway. 90 hertz tone dominates the region on the left side of the runway and 150 hertz tone dominates the region on the right side of the runway. The receiver is configured to interpret the power levels of the tones and guide the pilot. For example, if the aircraft is on the left side of the runway, the needle will point right, indicating that the pilot has to fly right to intercept the centerline. The glide slope helps the pilot to align the aircraft with the prescribed glide path. Usually it is a 3 degree path, but it depends on the environment. An antenna array located near the dust town zone transmits an 8 watt signal. A transmitter is similar to that of the localizer. However, it results in a slightly different pattern. 90 hertz tone dominates the region above the glide path angle and 150 hertz tone dominates the region below the glide path. The receiver is configured to interpret the power levels of the tones and guides the pilot. For example, if the aircraft is above the glide path, the needle will point down, indicating that the pilot has to fly down to intercept the glide path angle. In ILS, the localizer uses a VHF carrier and the glide slope uses a UHF carrier. There are two main components of the ILS signal, a 90 hertz tone and a 150 hertz tone. The unique transmission pattern is a result of elegant analog radio engineering. This unique pattern results in two zones on either side of the runway. This is achieved by implementing space modulation technique. In this technique, the characteristics of a received signal are determined by how two signals add up in space. Thus, they change with respect to the receiver's position. As a direct result, 90 hertz tone dominates the region on the left and 150 hertz tone dominates the region on the right. Amplitude of these tones is equal on the runway centerline. The signal modulator uses two distinct signals called carrier sideband signal CSP and sideband only signal SBO. For generating the CSP signal, 90 hertz tone and 150 hertz tones are added. And for generating the SB tones, these are added in a slightly different way. Here, 150 hertz tone is inverted. That is, it undergoes a 180 degree phase shift. These waveforms are passed on to a modulator which generates the final CSP and SBO waveforms. This is the design of the signal modulator which is responsible for ILS's unique transmission pattern. The CSP modulating tone is modulated with a VHF carrier. To get the desired amplitude modulation form, the carrier is added back to the modulated signal. This results in a conventional amplitude modulated signal with a full carrier and sideband. Similarly, SBO modulating tone is modulated. Note that the carrier is not added back to the modulated signal. This results in a double sideband suppressed carrier signal. Before feeding these signals to the antenna elements, the SBO signal undergoes specific phase shifts. This is done in order to achieve the desired space modulation. Alternatively, there is a provision of adding more score or voice to the CSP signal. It contains a four character run identifier which can be used by the pilots to identify and verify the runway. As compared to the transmitter, the receiver has a rather simple design. At the receiver, the signal undergoes amplification before it is demodulated. The demodulated signal is passed to a 90 hertz filter and a 150 hertz filter. The difference in DC voltage of 90 hertz and 150 hertz tone is the difference in depth of modulation. This TDM value is used to calculate the deflection of the instrument's needle. Radio engineering involved in the pure analog instrument landing system is quite remarkable. However, simplistic nature of the system also makes it very vulnerable to attacks. Before software-defined radios came into picture, executing these attacks was extremely difficult, not to mention expensive. Thus, only state actors had the means to carry out such an attack. However, nowadays, even you and I can execute such attacks and can potentially cause quite some damage with the cheap pocket-sized radios. A deeper analysis of the receiver design reveals that the needle deflection is solely based on the power levels of the received tones. In the past, there have been instances of ILS showing weird deflections as a result of an aircraft taxiing near the localizer antenna. Thus, an attacker simply has to transmit a signal which is similar to the real signal. That is, the attacker need not implement complex features. This is very similar to a not so widely used landing system called TLS or Transponder Landing System, where the landing system relies on modest transmissions to find the aircraft's position and transmit an ILS-like signal specifically crafted for that aircraft at that particular location. In these attacks, attacker's goal is to force the aircraft to overshoot the runway or completely miss the approach. Given the simplistic nature of the systems, the attacker can manipulate DDN calculations by simply altering the power levels of the received signals. In our work last year, we discussed two attacks. First is the Overshadow attack, which involves signals with fabricated power levels and Singleton attack, which involves low-power signals to achieve the objectives. With minor changes, the attacks work for the localizer as well as the light slope. ILS implements basic principles of space modulation, that is how to signals add up in space. Being a simplex broadcast system, it possesses a fundamental challenge to implement any type of security mechanism, thus making attacks on these systems quite trivial. In Overshadow attack, the attacker transmits a high-power pre-crafted ILS signal equivalent to what will be received at a specific location. One important aspect, characteristic of a typical wireless receiver is that it will always lock on to the stronger signal. This property is exploited in this attack. Since the receiver has a very simple design, the attacker has to transmit a signal similar to the received signal, even though the legitimate transmitter has quite a complex design. Hence, the attacker needs to only craft the signals with specific amplitude. For example, in this case, this signal represents the signal that will be received at the wireless interline. Hence, if the attacker wants to cause a deflection, the attacker simply transmits a signal with altered power levels of 90Hz and 150Hz. In this case, 90Hz is dominant, thus the needle ratio will give a fly-right indication. The advantage of this attack is that the attacker has granular control over needle deflections. Even though the Overshadow attack requires just a few watts of transmission power, we wanted to find if the attack can be made more efficient and stealthy by reducing the energy footprint. For this, we came up with a single tone attack. Since the needle deflections depend directly on power levels of the tones, it is enough to transmit just one of the two tones that make up the ILS signal. In this way, the attacker can manipulate the power levels without having to transmit the entire ILS signal. The attacker signal is similar to a double-sideband suppressed carrier signal, which is very well known to be spectrally efficient. In this case, the attacker just transmits the 150Hz tone. As a result, the amplitude of 150Hz is greater than that of 90Hz tone. Thus, the instrument shows a fly-left indication. This attack, as compared to an Overshadow attack, has low power requirements. However, this attack is sensitive to a face difference between attacker tone and legitimate tone, which makes it quite complicated. The two attacks may seem quite simple and straightforward. However, there are certain challenges associated with executing these attacks. The first is that the aircraft can intercept the localizer from multiple directions. If the attacker is not careful while starting the spoofer, it may result in certain needle jumps. This results in detection. The second challenge is with a naive Overshadow attack. If the attacker simply starts transmitting a pre-crafted signal, it results in a fixed, unreactive offset. This will make it super easy for the pilot to notice something is off and will totally forego ILS or may use some other system to land. To overcome these challenges, we developed two mechanisms. Offset correction algorithm and a spoofing zone detector. Let's look at them one by one. The offset correction algorithm provides signal corrections in real time. The attacker's signal is adjusted as a function of aircraft's current GPS location. This provides seamless takeover of the onboard instrument. The algorithm calculates the difference between the angle with the legitimate path and the spoof path. This offset is then used to calculate the required amplitude levels of the tones. The spoofing zone detector is responsible for timely and automated triggering of the attack. The aircraft can be vectored in on the final approach in multiple ways. Hence, to prevent any sudden needle jumps, we developed the spoofing zone detector which uses even our algorithm to check if the target aircraft has entered the spoofing region. The zone powers 17.5 degrees on either side of the center line and extends 35 kilometers beyond the touchdown zone. The attacker starts transmitting as soon as the aircraft enters this region. Alright, now let's take a look at ADSP. Automatic Dependence Surveillance Podcast is a reporting technology where an aircraft repeatedly transmits position, velocity and aircraft identification information. These packets can be received and decoded by MODES receivers. ADSP is similar to MODES except it doesn't require specific interrogation messages. As of January 2020, ADSP transponders are made mandatory for aircraft operating under certain conditions in the US airspace. ADSP greatly improves safety and efficiency by providing better situational awareness. It is also spectrally efficient and costs much less than MODES setups. Collision avoidance systems like ACAS and TCAS leverage ADSP packets. These are the signal characteristics. ADSP uses a carrier frequency of 1090 megahertz. The bandwidth is 50 kilohertz and it uses a simple pulse position modulation technique. Data rate for ADSP data is 1 megabit per second and two packets are transmitted for every second. Polarization of the transmission antenna is vertical and transmission has a transmission power of about 20 watts. All this is good about ADSP. It improves overall safety by increasing situational awareness, decreases load on the controllers by automating tracking of aircrafts. Overall decreases operational cost and all. But what about security? Well, nothing does absolutely run. The only thing close to security it has is a checksum. There is no way to know whether a packet is really from the aircraft that it says it is from. Moreover, everything is in clear text, which means any person with $30 to spare and effectively set up a so-called air traffic monitoring center in their homes. This has led to a lot of serious privacy concerns and equal number of poofs moments. For example, when the Air Force One was spotted on one of the flight tracking websites. But that's not it. The security community has taken one step ahead and has actually managed to put ghost planes in the sky, which is quite concerning. Think of a scenario where on a busy day, ATC screen is flooded with thousands of aircrafts. What's even more concerning is the fact that the same insecure system is used in critical avoidance systems. For example, a demonstration of this was witnessed in the previous talk. These are some notable prior works which have addressed security and privacy issues associated with ADSP. The research community is now actively looking into security and critical next generation navigation technologies. OpenStand Network founded by Stormer et al. is a crowdsource network of ADSP sensors located all over the world. This is a key resource in air traffic research. Following issues have been identified by the security research community. ADSP lacks any kind of authentication. It lacks integrity checks against intentional tampering of messages. Sure, CRC checks can correct errors, but what if the messages including the CRC checks are carefully manipulated over the air? It lacks encryption and temporal identities. As it raises a measure of privacy concern and is a heaven for EU stoppers. And finally, it lacks a secure handshake protocol for verification, authentication and validation of data. So with all these issues, what are the threats that current aviation ecosystem faces? Well, all these issues give rise to a number of threats which includes jamming and denial of service attacks. As discussed earlier, flooding the radar screens with thousands of aircrafts. Well, intelligence gathering. There have been researches or there have been incidences where people have inferred or predicted business dealings by simply monitoring flight data, which was again made available through services like flight at 24 and OpenStand Network. Well, it also, there's also threat of message injection and manipulation disruption of situational awareness, which is very specific to ACAS and TCAS buffing demonstration of which, which we saw in the previous talk.  Let's look at the ADSP transmitter ADSP transmits position velocity and aircraft identification information. The preamble is used for synchronizing the receiver and for indicating that an ADSP packet is arriving. The downlink format field is an indication of the type of message that is being transmitted. Capability field defines the subtype of the message being transmitted. Next are 24 bits, which are for aircraft's IKO address. This is followed by actual ADSP data, which includes altitude, latitude and longitude. At the end, 24 parity bits are transmitted, which helps the receiver to detect errors. Raw message bits of the prepared frame undergo Manchester encoding. This is a line encoding scheme, which is very similar to binary phase shift key. The encoded data is then modulated using pulse position modulation technique before being transmitted using the radio frequency front end at 1019 megahertz. ADSP follows a very basic insecure protocol that encoding and modulation scheme that is used is easy to implement. Actually, there are straightforward functions in MATLAB that can perform the encoding and modulation, thus making it quite trivial to build a transmitter with a couple of hundred dollars worth of equipment. Even better, there are open source tools out there which can do the heavy lifting for you. Lack of security measures and simple design makes the system vulnerable to spoofing attacks, especially with cheap over the shelf equipment like low cost software defined radios, amplifiers and antennas makes it rather easy to generate and transmit malicious ADSP packets. Well, once you have a transmitter design ready and understood, you can simply code everything and boom, a transmitter is now a fully functional ADSP spoofer. This is a small spoofing example. Imagine being a controller and seeing this on your display.  Now that we have seen the security issues associated with ILS and ADSP, let's go over some potential counter measures. Recently GPS based landing systems are being introduced. They are not yet cleared for CAT2 and CAT3 approaches. However, they will be replacing good old ILS sometime in future. But we all know how vulnerable GPS is. Signal strength monitoring can be implemented for detecting overshadow attacks. Most of the ILS attacks can be executed from within the aircraft cabin while it is on the final approach. Hence, detecting transmissions from within the cabin may prove to be useful in detecting these attacks. Given the simple analog nature of ILS, it is extremely challenging to develop a feasible counter measure as it is impossible to encrypt physical characteristics of a signal. Over the years, various counter measures have been proposed for ADSP. These include cryptographic solutions which involves message encryption, message authentication codes and use of public infrastructure. However, given the widespread use of ADSP, it is a logistical nightmare to deploy cryptographic solutions as they require overhaul of the entire ADSP ecosystem. Multilateration uses a network of ground stations which share information. Ghost aircrafts can be easily detected using this technique. ADSP data can be combined with primary radar for identifying ghost aircrafts as they won't have a radar signature. For preventing ACAS and TCAS spoofing, onboard receivers can deploy distance-bounding protocols which can verify the distance between the receiver and the transmitter without relying on position data received from the ADSP packets. There is widespread use of machine learning and AI for anomaly detection and traffic analysis for detecting spoofed ADSP packets. Given the simplex broadcast nature or implementation of these systems, it is not trivial to develop counter measures which can safeguard against a variety of attacks. Finally, the most important counter measure is effective pilot training. Pilots should be trained to detect and counter such attacks using instruments at their disposal. Thank you.


All right then, back to looking for a reason behind our unfortunate, very unfortunate accident. Let's see, can we see anything from this side? Should have clicked use the flashlight in the first place, but hey, at least I can get a mission. It's too dark. Come and nothing. Well, that's this pointing. Let's see, does Pete have anything to say? Yeah, I don't think Mentings are in the, as you say, warranty. I hope it's still not working. Right, maybe a few more conversations. We'll do the trick. Let's actually take a look at the shoreline by using the binoculars, of course. I feel like I'm going to see someone moving in a minute now. It would be worth checking out, you know, extra parts, some food. Let's take a look at these. At least we've got some more food, right? Yeah, I wonder if you will be around to taste any of them one of these days. Let's see. Now there's one. Let me guess, we need parts. That's going to be tough. I just want to get out of here. Whatever helps you do that, I'm on board. Mesheed would be able to help us if we can find him. It's worth a shot. Let's round up the crew. Sure. Mesheed and I will scout the ferry, see what we can find. So we're just going to sit around, wait for you. You wish. You've got work to do. Let's sharpen up the Mesheed. Christ, here we go again. Guys, you three catch the boat, pull it out of here and lay anchor near the shoreline. Got it. Don't go anywhere. Stay near the boat and keep her safe. This was strangely complicated. Unexpectedly so. Who knew using a sandstone could be so tiresome in the hand? Now that we've turned into a rescue mission, forget his friends, right? We'd better get the parts and get back here. That means well, but you know what they say about good intentions. I can't make that promise. If someone's in trouble, I'm not going to just leave them. We can't lose anyone else. Come on. I'm with you on that one, mate. But if we find someone who needs the help, well, I'll be hard-pressed not to give it to them. Not as long as I try to act as Mishon would, at least in my mind, act in the comic books. Whether I'm getting it right or not, well, we'll see soon enough.  Sure is quiet out here, huh? Mmm. Uh-oh, the floating dead. Yeah, looking like a pirate is not bad. I feel like he's going to get bitten every moment now.  I keep expecting to wake up and find this dingy gone. And you with it. Here you are. Haven't got sick of me yet. What can I say? You're not a terrible company. I'm flattered. I hope you will. When we met, you were... I mean, I saw what you were about to do. You haven't had it easy out there. No, never. I know you want to keep it to yourself. And I want to make you talk about it, not unless you want to. I wasn't going to do it. I hope you know that. Yeah, I actually didn't pull the trigger. I didn't know that.  Convinced myself, I liked it that way. But after a while, I just... See? The floating dead.  I spit out my monitor. Jesus, I knew the quartz was bad. Oh, come on. It's parted to the Caribbean all over again. Yep, I like the machete. No! Mush, mush, mush, mush, mush. Let me go, you dead. Fucker. How did you survive the first time?  That was necessary.  Can't believe it. Jesus. Thanks for having my back. Me? No, you did all the work.  And you saved mine, twice. So, we're even. Going back is going to be tough, isn't it? If we do go back. I don't like this. Might be someone who can tell us where everyone went. Yeah. There's no sign of anyone.  Yeah, I feel like something really freaked them out. Maybe they found some place better. Well, unless we can find another boat. Looks like we're stuck here. Looks abandoned. Doesn't mean it is, though. We'll figure something out. Glad your feelings were optimistic. Yeah, I am. Looks like there's two ways in. The ladder or the window. You know, I feel like taking the ladder will involve the ladder falling down and me falling down with it. We need to get going. Or wills yet beat falling down with it. I mean, I know I will survive. Let's examine. Close quarters in there. Easy to get trapped if we're not careful. Yeah, I know, I know. How about the ladder? We could get to the upper deck this way. This seems sturdy enough. Choices, choices. Someone took a lot of care to keep this ferry from listing. We should build a rift mob jack. Right, we're taking the ladder. Same for those way. All right. Now go. Let's hope this thing holds. Come on. Don't fall. Thanks. Try not to. Well, fate black means probably we survived the deadly ladder. Uh-oh. Oh, God. It's going to fall. This ladder terrifies me.  That's three. And it seems that Michonne is in the lead. Let's see. We've got a map. Seems like this place was someone's home for a while. Wondering if there are any life rafts left. Hard to be sure. We should look around. Yeah, we should. Think we can float back to the companion on this? It's empty.  That's a hunk of old metal. Yeah. The walking dead is not really a universe where anything goes your your way for long. Or at all. Nuh-uh. Nice callback. No damn it. You know, I'm going to use the metal thing. Nice. I feel like there will be zombies somewhere down there. I didn't see anything. Doesn't mean there's nothing there though. Yeah. The question is, which one of us wants to reach in there to open it? I will. I've got to close armor. One of us has to do it, right? I'll do it. Here goes nothing. Be careful. Uh-oh. Need some help, Pete. Ready when you are. There is a dead body there. Question is, is the body a reanimated corpse or just a corpse? I have a bad feeling about this. These aren't your friends. No, no. They don't look like walkers. Wonder what happened to them. Someone killed them. Whoever did this made sure they wouldn't come back. Their wrists are zip tied. They couldn't fight back. These people hadn't turned. They were executed. Jesus. Yeah, we're dealing with the psyche about here.  Chances of those people being the bad guys? They're kids. Vanessa and Rachid were here. If they left this behind, Michonne, you okay? You've got that look. Shame look you had when you haven't seen it in a while. I can't deal with this. Not right now. Yeah, I understand. Yeah, if you haven't gathered already. They wouldn't have left this on purpose. She used to have kids. I gotta hope they're still alive. They made it off this thing. Something dead inside. That sounds positively. Oh, you two are not walkers. Which one is the walker? Oh God. Someone ate his legs off. How gruesome. If we're going to find anything in this boat, it'll be in here. I've been strung him up and left him to be eaten. That was the captain, wasn't it? Let's put him out of his misery.  He'll probably get the body out of the way. Yup. A cookie for that guy. What we saw up there, the execution of those people, was turned to that poor man.  It wasn't war. Wasn't even self-defense. It's just sick. No one else did this to them. They did it to each other. I've seen it before. This world changes the best of us. Sometimes for the worst. Yeah. Like this. Exactly like this. I'm afraid. I know so from experience. We don't know what's in there.


No! No, no! Oh my gosh! Hey friends, it's Madison Harnish back in my blue kitchen with some blue hair for another anti-MLM video. Before I get into this video, I wanted to say thank you guys so much for all of the support you guys have been showing me. I honestly have just been so interested in MLMs and also just bad business practices in general and wanted to make videos about it just kind of for fun and to see other people actually relating to what I have to say or agreeing with it is just like crazy and still mind-blowing to me. Today I wanted to talk about an MLM distributor who pushes the humbop boundaries to caring levels that I've never seen before. Her antics remind me of a childhood bully and I have no respect for her or the companies that she pushes. Which is why today I will be mentioning her name and the names of the companies that she advertises. Usually I'd have respect for other people and not mention their name and not show their face but honestly the shady practices that this person has done are just beyond levels of respecting someone's privacy anymore. When you've done countless immoral things like this person has, I'm sorry but you need to be held accountable. Today I'm going to be talking about Kim Mitchell and all of her scammery. Most importantly I'll be discussing the bizarre beads that she sells and advertises all over her Facebook page. It gets crazy. If you like MLM content don't forget to subscribe and give this video a thumbs up before we get into the video. I also want to do a series where I talk about other businesses aside from MLM companies that have really shady practices or just do really sketchy things. So let me know in the comments if you want to see videos like that. And well let's get into the video. Before we get into these bizarre magic beads let's talk a little bit more about Kim Mitchell and who she is as a person. Many in the anti MLM community may already know who Kim Mitchell is. She's kind of made a name for herself but not in a positive way. Kim Mitchell or KM as she's often called is known for her many many many controversies. Kim is an orange level presenter with the MLM company Unique. Unique is an MLM scheme that does mainly makeup products but besides being so involved in the unique pyramid scheme here are some other kind of negative things that Kim Mitchell is known for. Kim constantly is on her phone and making posts while driving even when her kids are in the car. Kim has also taken part in what seems to be a charity scam.  You hear me talk about her frequently, you hear me talk about the girls and so we need your help with something and so we wanted to come here and ask for help. What we're going to do is I'm going to let her talk in just a second but I want to go over a few things quickly. So the first thing is we cannot give the location of the hospital, we cannot talk about the girls names. We have to be extremely, extremely vague. The reason that we're doing the cash app and not go fund me and all that malarkey is because we just can't yet. The worst part of all of that was that the charity was about giving young children who are dealing with cancer or struggling with cancer clothing and they raised sympathy by describing these children in this hospital who had no clothing at all. I started to volunteer, I came across these girls, I found out that they were the worlds of the state. They had no families, was so ever. None, nobody comes and visits them but me and my family. It's because I needed to get those girls summer clothes and I got them underwear and white t-shirts and that's what they said in for three days until I could get those girls clothes because they had nothing. People don't realize that their chemotherapy and their radiation that they go through, they get holes in their clothes when they sweat. It really was like the most, doing the most to get the sympathy card to get people to want to get involved because I mean sick children is literally like one of the saddest things ever.  Completely silent and that's really sketchy. A lot of people, a lot of people believe that they basically scammed everyone and just took the money. Honestly like what kind of person raises money under the guise of helping sick children and then completely goes silent and takes the money and runs.  Kim also has this like following that she calls her tribe which I literally hate the word tribe. I don't know, it feels so like cheesy but also like manipulative. Like oh we're a tribe, we stick together. It's like no, you're a person who's trying to get something from me aka my money. Like no, we're not a tribe. She calls them her tribe and basically uses cult like practices on her tribe or her following and also bullies them, literally her own following.  It's so bad and ugh yeah. KM also heavily uses affiliate codes which we'll talk a little bit more about later but she doesn't disclose any of them or let anyone know that they're affiliate codes which are against FTC regulations which we know is illegal to do. Why are my cats going crazy? Literally the moment I decide to film. I feel like they can sense my energy and that I'm riled up from this but anyways. But hands down the most bizarre thing that Kim has done is continually promote these like bracelet beads, bracelet beads that like have magical healing properties. Like what? Even the pearl video that I did earlier when the MLM pun bots were like revealing these magical colored pearls they weren't saying that these pearls will like cure your depression and anxiety. They were just like look it's a fun pearl. It's like fun colors. That's pretty cool. Literally this woman is claiming that bracelet beads can help cure like a variety of ailments like what? Who believes that? Who does? She has claimed that these beads can cure things such as lupus, cancer, heart disease, depression, anxiety and many many other illnesses. KM has literally posted testimonials on her Facebook page of people claiming that they've stopped taking their medication in turn for using these beads or wearing these beads. As if she's proud of that. Like this is not something to be proud of. You're literally like potentially harming people who have stopped taking medication that was prescribed to them in turn for just wearing a bead because you claimed that it'll help them with whatever they're dealing with. Like you're putting so many people in harm's way. Not good Kim. Not good. Not good. It's also completely illegal to advertise anything with scientific or medical claims that you cannot back up or prove. It's illegal. KM needs to get herself in check. So let's dive deeper into what these magic beads are and how Kim chooses to advertise them on her page. I initially came across a post about these magic beads here and I tried to find out who this person was, but I couldn't find anything. I had to do a lot of digging to try and find out who the presenter was and what the company was, but when I found out that it was Kim Mitchell that was talking about these beads, I really wasn't surprised. A lot of the posts also call this company BS Beads, but if you try to look up BS Beads, not a lot comes up. It's like everything's very hidden and really hard to find, which is why I'm going to unveil all of it for you guys today. I only was able to find this company by going onto Kim Mitchell's page directly. What's interesting is I noticed something about the way that she advertises this beads company, as well as other companies that she's affiliated with, that I think in her head is a way of skating around the FTC regulations. But before we go into that, let's look at some really, really cringy posts made by her regarding these BS beads. Now, some of these are going to be posts that I found myself, and some of these are going to be from the anti-MLM community. Hence why sometimes her profile and picture is crossed out and sometimes it's not. Here's the first post and probably the funniest one. Since we tell each other everything, let's talk about the bracelets I needed to wear when I got done swimming tonight. I love how manipulative that is too. Since we tell each other everything, you're my tribe, I tell you everything. No, you just tell me what to buy. I have mentioned to you that they aid in bowel issues, specifically constipation. Yes, ew, but I know I'm not the only one that has issues from time to time. Shh, don't talk about it. How is this possible? Dalmatian Jasper has the most noticeable vibration of all the others. I can physically feel the vibrations at times. I look down thinking my Apple Watch is vibrating from a text message. It helps with digestion by assisting in the breakdown of food. Yada, yada, yada, discount code, yada, yada, yada. She literally made a post about how a bracelet helps you poop. Literally. Here are just some funny Reddit comments that I saw about this particular post. Poop bracelet. Vibrating poop bracelet. Shakes the poo right out of you. She's full of in more than ways than one.  So yeah, that was really funny. Someone also said that they have a scratch on their arm that was cured by just putting the bracelet around it. It's just like, some of the, it's just crazy. Another really sad testimonial that she posted is, I have stage four chronic kidney disease. My lab went up 7%. That has never happened in two years. It's so sad because a lot of times when people have a really, really intense disease like stage four kidney disease, they're looking for any solution possible. So if you're claiming that this solution is going to help them with that, they're likely to try it because they're desperate. And this is just taking advantage of that in very sick ways. Yeah, and these bracelets, when you see her wearing them, they literally look like cheap Mardi Gras bracelets. It's just so bad. KM also made this post about her termeline bracelets saying they basically help you lose weight. And it's just like, yeah, a bead helps you lose weight. A beaded bracelet helps you lose weight. I was a personal trainer for a little bit and weight loss is such a complex, hard journey. And it just like makes me cringe in a level of intensity that I've never felt before to see someone recommend using a bracelet to lose weight. This post I think is just really funny. I'm just going to read a little bit of it because it literally, the first sentence is vulnerability ahead and science. Science about a bracelet, letting you lose weight. It's no secret that I have struggled with weight and my swollen ankles for a very long time. I know you've heard me talk about the bracelets I've been wearing. I'm here to scream it from the rooftops. They work better than you can imagine. So what is this science that she speaks of? Today, quartz makes up 12% of the earth's crust and has used in almost every kind of technology, including timekeeping, electronics, information storage and more. If it's possible for crystals to communicate through computer chips, then isn't it possible that this vibrational energy could be transformed in other ways? And with its connection to the earth and its life giving elements, it makes sense that crystals are universally healing. Where does that talk about science linked to quartz causing weight loss? Where? Kim, tell me, where's the science about quartz causing weight loss? Where? Especially, and not only that, but your specific tourmaline bracelet. Where is the clinical trials and studies that that causes weight loss? I'm sorry I'm getting heated, but oh my God, to say that you have science about what this does to bring up how quartz is 12% of the earth's crust, that's your science of why you need to buy this bracelet to lose weight? No! No, no! Oh my gosh, it just, it makes me so heated and angry. I'm upset. I am upset. The funniest part of this all is that her, like, tribe, her tribe, literally have posted photos of their bracelet that's supposed to have this like specific color literally fading in color over time, which shows that it's not an actual stone but probably just a dyed bead. Similar to Vantel pearls that I discussed and them just dyeing pearls, I highly, highly do not doubt that that is the case with this company. I mean, there just seems to be no level that this woman will not stoop to. No low level this woman won't stoop to. Does that make sense? Hopefully. So, of course, after me reading all those posts, you're probably thinking, oh my gosh, how do I get my hands on these magical beads? And here's where things get really strange. No, actually the poop claims is where things get strange. Here's where things get even stranger. If you look on a post of hers where she's advertising these beads, you'll see she doesn't link to the company's website itself. No, instead she links to her own personal website. On her personal website, which is called her favorites website, that's where she advertises all the links to what she talks about. I think that Kim thinks that by doing this, she's able to skate around FTC regulations. She's not actually linking the company's website. So you could technically say she's not actually linking in that post her affiliate link. Instead, she's linking a link that links to her affiliate links. So I think that she literally thinks that that's how she can skate around FTC regulations and guidelines, which is still like so shady and it's still illegal. You're still talking about a company that you're affiliated with and giving an indirect link that's an affiliate link. Like that's still illegal Kim. You're not skating around anything.   In order to find this like bead company, you have to click on Kim's website and then find the link to 20% off using her code for this bead company and then click on that as well. And it finally directs you to the company. This company's official name is bombshell beads. Hence BS beads, bombshell beads. And boy, these Mardi Gras beads are pricey. When I found the homepage and scrolled down and saw that they were selling beads for $685, my eyes lit up in flames. To even think that someone who follows KM may have possibly spent $685 on these magical beads is heartbreaking and should be so shameful for Kim.  Of course, since not enough BS has been peddled by BS beads, they have a guide to their beads and charms on their website, which goes over all the benefits of their supposed beads. And of course you have to go down the entire list to find at the very bottom some extremely tiny print that says this guide is not intended to diagnose or prescribe as means of healing. Yeah, sure. But you tell everyone that it does this thing and you post about all the cures that it has done. But yet it's not intended to diagnose or treat anything. All of this is so wrong and distasteful that it's almost unbelievable. We need to work to stop this. This is too much. Kim, I'm sorry, needs to be stopped. I really, really want to emphasize at the end of this video, please, please don't say anything mean or hateful to Kim. And that's not because I don't want justice to be brought on to Kim or that I think any of it would be deserving. You shouldn't say anything mean or hateful to Kim because it's just going to provoke her to keep doing what she's doing. It gets her the victim card that she gets to play and honestly she doesn't deserve the victim card. The cancer children that she scammed out of getting clothing deserve the victim card. The people that have serious diseases that are buying $600 bracelets deserve the victim card. Kim does not, so please don't say anything mean or hateful to her and allow her to have that card. Instead, there is something else that we can do. We can report Kim to the FTC. Please, everyone who cares as much about this situation as I do, click the link below, right below this video. It'll take you to the FTC website where you can report Kim Mitchell and all the things that she has done because it's just so wrong and we need to stop this. It is time for MLM humbots to learn that false claims and lack of affiliate disclosures will no longer be tolerated. And if you do help out and report Kim Mitchell, thank you. It's really time for this to stop and I think with all the anti MLM content coming out now and the community that is gathering, we really can make a positive change. Of course, if you enjoy this video and want to see more anti MLM and bad business practice content, please subscribe below. Leave a comment down below if you have any other MLM companies that you want me to do a video on and thank you guys so much for watching. Until next time, have a good one.


Back to a week of my life vlog. Wow. But Macy just got back from New York. It's because, I mean, I wear this all the time. We have a uniform from my house, my free people shirt that's bleached, or I spilled bleach on. Obsessed, obsessed.  But this morning, I woke up and I went to a needle point class with my grandmother and let me show you what I'm working on. Oh, I have a good TikTok that I need to edit, remind me of that. It's gonna be like when I wanted chaos, or no, just kidding you about wanting chaos. It's Tuesday at 10 a.m. and I went to a needle point class with my girl, like, chaos. I'm like laughing, but like I'm gonna cry. Hensley's having a hard day. No, it's just, I want to see Nala, it's just like, whatever, anyways. We have this needle point. Look at how perfect I did that up there, as you guys can see. And I want this to be on a pillow, and I understand that like the reality, like this is a very easy needle point thing, right? Compared to like what the other woman were doing, it was like a bunch of other people, similar age to my grandmother. And I was talking, and like normally, I would just be like really talking to like, that is my ideal demographic. Like a woman over 60, like oh my God, I love that I love hearing about their lives, I love everything about it. There's like not having a good day. So we didn't talk to them that much, but there's this one woman next to my grandma, who was so fabulous, and like that is who I'm gonna be obsessed with. And we're gonna regularly do these classes. Anyways, all I have to say, their needle point stuff was very advanced. And I'm like, I don't even know to finish this by Christmas, because I'm gonna have to go back in, and like get all the other stuff with colors. But I'm gonna try to do as much of the like, actually did natural white, not white. See, this is what my YouTube channel is about, I'm like, this is what people don't watch my YouTube, because like I'm sitting here for two minutes, like my needle point. You know what I mean? I went to at home after needle point, and I got the cutest trigger-winning Christmas, Christmas tabletop, but I'm gonna go get more. But like look at how cute it is. I need so many more just to have forever. It does give me a friend of mine vibes. It's just perfect. Good morning, y'all. It is Wednesday. I just made my coffee. I'm about to take Coco to her appointment. It's now October, and the weather's dropping a little bit. And I just am like, I don't know. I just have been in a like weird funk. I feel like I've just been kind of in like a weird mood the past like month or two, just like wanting something new in my life, like maybe being born. I don't know how to describe it. Like, you know what it's like in a weird phase, and you kind of feel like numb to everything almost, like it sounds really depressing. I thought it was my PMDD, which has really been acting up. I'm like going back on meds and figuring it all out, but I don't know. I've just been in like a weird place lately, and I'm starting to stress out because I'm like, this is my favorite time of the year, and I just thought it was gonna go away, and I'd be happy. And I feel like I'm getting in like a better spot. I would go to a doctor, should I say like two hours? Not really helped, but yeah, I don't know. If you guys are in a weird mood, I see you. I get it. I just like, there's something, it's not good, it's not fun. Okay, I'm gonna talk more about this on the podcast. And just like, I don't know, we'll go into it there. But I make coffee. I'm about to take over an appointment. I actually have therapy tonight, which I took a break from. I have a happy hour thing tonight for the family place, which is the organization that I work with that helps the victims of family violence or domestic violence. And it's for like, watching all these people to like, see how they can get involved and whatnot. So hopefully lots of people come to that. I keep ordering from friend of mine. Well, I've done it. This is my second time. I'm being dramatic. But because I want to see what the customer experience is like, so we're gonna do a little friend of mine unboxing. Here we go. I don't know why I would just wonder if I could not coax you on afghans. Oh, I did that separately. Look at how cute. Here's the recipe journal. I just keep giving these to people.  I decided we're gonna do like quarter four vision boards. So that's gonna be good. I wish I had enough to give to everyone that's coming tomorrow, but I don't. Unless someone already have them, I'll figure that out. But this is my recipe journal and the friend of mine cards. And then this, which I love these cards. So fun. And I'm shooting the product that we have. I don't know when I'm gonna say what it is. I'm shooting that product Monday and I'm very excited about it. And I'm already working on the second one of it. I'm gonna have all of it done besides finalizing the design. And then it'll go into sampling. But I'm very excited. If you guys don't know, a friend of mine is my brand. It is, I don't know how to describe it. It's just, it's like Nancy Meyers means Martha Stewart means like Gen Z, Kenzie Elizabeth kind of vibe. Like what's a lot of it is like hosting. We'll expand into other categories. This recipe journal I'm just saying for the holidays is the best gift for anyone, especially if you want it to be like a family like heirloom type thing where you like pass it down. But it's just such a good gift. I would get them now because I don't even think. I don't know if we're gonna even have any for sale by the time like December rolls around. Just depending on our inventory. We are like way more than halfway through inventory. And I ordered a lot more than I thought I would need. So I would get them now if I were you. Anyways, I have my coffee. I haven't even been drinking my Califia farm because now you know my anxiety isn't bad. Haven't even been having my Califia farms. Califia farms because I've been so anxious. I haven't been drinking coffee. Yeah, mm-hmm. Well guys, as if this week couldn't get worse. Let's see what Fitz got up to.  This is his hotspot he already had last week that we've already taken care of. This is charcoal because someone decided to get into chocolate chip cookies. Isn't that right? Isn't that right? So now he has to go to the happy hour with me and I'm late. And we sent the whole afternoon at the ER. Poor dude. He's totally fine though. So, you know, he's, he has, we've had better times. Oh, okay. Maybe, maybe not on my white hoodie. Thank you. Thank you. Happy Thursday. So today is dinner party day.  Fitz is currently covered in charcoal and I've tried to get it out. Thank God he's getting groomed today. So it's worked out. He's fine. I never leave things out on my counter but also he never gets into anything. Like he's such a good dog. So I wouldn't even have thought if I left something out on the counter he would have gotten into it. And Jess had made us cookies and it was like chocolate chip chocolate cookies or something. I don't even know how much he had. We took him to the ER as you guys know and it was fine. He was totally okay. But it was just something. The first half of this week, not my week. Second half of this week, really gonna be my week because we have the dinner party today and that's gonna take all day to prep for. I've got a lot of stuff going. And then tomorrow I'm going riding with my manager and then we're supposed to go to the State Fair tourney. Saturday I have PBR, which I am so excited about. It's professional bull riding. If you guys didn't know, I'm going with Kate Davis who I love Kate Davis. I'm so excited to finally meet her.  And she has this brand at First Class Cowboys that is so cute. So we're going with them. They're doing the pop up and then we have like a whole thing and I'm really excited. Oh my God, I ordered outfits and they haven't come in. I don't know, I'll have to figure that one out. It is just coming together. This is actually kind of like my ideal dream week. Everything's going together. The weather's dropping. It's only 60 degrees right now and it rained like crazy last night. So the dogs were like in my arms freaking out all night. But anyways, I'm off to get my Thursday blowout and then I have a lot of errands to run this morning. I need to go to the car wash. I need to go to Trader Joe's which is where I shop for gender parties that's cheaper and I can get, well, like I like the flowers there better. I need to go to CDS for other stuff cause we're going to make quarter four vision boards. And then I need to also go to at home cause I need to get more bowls for pasta. And then hopefully I can get more of those like Christmas tabletop things. Last night I literally laid in bed and I watched a podcast and I need appointed. So yeah, like I feel like this is a PSI. You know, I said I went a lot of chaos in my life in my 26 year, it's already October and like I've had enough as is. Like I can't do it anymore. Like something happened. I met chaos in my life, not chaos in like my personal life. Like in that I need stability. Okay, so I feel like I wasn't clear enough. I wanted chaos and like my fun social life, not serious not chaos and things that actually matter to me. You know what I mean? So we're done with chaos. Chaotic year canceled no longer. Actually, I don't know. I kind of do want to come back to it. I'm thinking now that this has happened I'm like maybe I'll just be like more chaotic than ever. I don't know. We'll see. Just got my car wash and my hair done. Now we're off to Trader Joe's and to run a couple errands. I'm trying to get this done as fast as possible. Here's my hair. It's already falling. It's so humid. If I wasn't already buying so much stuff I would be getting pumpkins today. Oh, wow. This is so exciting. These are so creepy like, ew. But I feel like I need pumpkins. I just don't have time or I don't have room today. I'm gonna have too much stuff. So many. Got so much stuff. Oh my God. So much food. Oh my God. And I had to make another door desk order from Sprouts for short rib and a couple other things. Wow. Back at my favorite store. These just to see. All right. We're out. Last errand finally. Getting stuff to make our vision boards. All right guys. I've been in the kitchen all day. I have Cooper here which is just a strawberry now. This is our little tablescape. I need to take this candle away for inside. I need to get the utensils out. And then we also have one for outside. The thing is, it's either nine people coming or 11. So I don't have my exact correct amount yet but I made these floral arrangements as you all saw. They're super cozy. Look at how cute. It looks so cute. So simple, amazing. I put a pasta in my mouth and it burned me. Did you guys see that? I didn't know it was going like that. You made me wear that. Happy Friday. So the dinner party last night was great. We just hung out. We sat outside in my pool right now. Looks so gross. It's literally like green out of nowhere. It was perfectly clean.  Anyways, I'm going to the ranch today to go riding. My manager and I are going. Like I said, this week isn't really weird. I also have such low energy levels. Like I've canceled two workouts and I couldn't even tell you the last time I canceled, like one workout a year. Like I never ever cancel. So I just wanted to lay in bed in order to play and wash the Kardashian. So that is what I did. I loved the episode. I feel like I just been in a weird funk. I don't know. I can't remember what I said to the vlog and what I said to my friends. I want to have some of the podcast and everything, but I just feel like I've been in a weird funk and then I just had a really bad week. Like so many, everything that could go wrong, basically so many different things have gone wrong. Even to the point where like my neighbors last night, they're gonna parked on the street. We have people over, everyone parks on the street. It's like not that big of a deal. And I wasn't out there when this happened, but like one of them came out and started yelling at Jess and was like, you guys are blocking. Which like my neighborhood, the streets are weird. I'm like, by the way, things are blocked on streets all the time and I just drive to the next one and go around and it happens literally all the time. And I, when I went out there, I don't know if I just like didn't see what they were talking about, but like no one was even blocked. I don't know. They were like screaming. And then just like they were just so rude.  And I'm like, first off, like I have introduced myself to people on the street. Like I also like, I'm like 26. Everyone who lives in my neighbor, I don't know why I'm like telling you guys my neighbor going. Like everyone who lives in my neighborhood, they're like, their kids are like in college. Like there's no young kids. There's a very big age gap, right? Like I just like already feel awkward. And then when, I don't know, I just had like weird experiences. Okay, so anyways, I've always, if I see a neighbor, I'm always like, hi, I can introduce myself, whatever. I've met like three of them. But a lot of them just like aren't out. And then one of my neighbors told me that like two of the people are like one of the houses someone, they don't live there during the summer. I don't know. I don't know. And whatever, maybe I should have been trying harder, but also like I, they weren't outside. I'm like, I just feel like are we still in an age where you go over and bring cookies and also mind you, they haven't introduced themselves to me either. So I'm like, what? Anyways, he was so rude and yelling. And I'm like, see, normally I'd be able to handle that and just be like, hey, like what's going on? Like I'm pretty good at like those kinds of situations because I grew up in a very like reactive household. Anyways, I literally was like, I'm gonna lose my mind. Like I, I'm gonna lose my mind. I do feel like I'm like getting, coming back to, but like I was just saying I've been feeling very almost like, I don't know if not myself is the right way. I just feel like I've been in a weird kind of funk the past like couple of months, but I had other things going on. So it was distracting me. And now I'm like, wait, no, I actually do kind of feel that way. So anyways, with that being said, I watched Kardashian this morning when Kardashian goes to Harvard and something about that really inspired me and made me feel better. I feel like every other vlog I come on, I'm like, I make sure this is a role a lot. I just feel like it's annoying of me. But the other thing is that like, I just feel like it's so normal in your 20s. Like how these weeks where I've just been feeling like very lost and confused and like things are just like not going my way and like people are being mean and just like whatever. And that happens and it's normal. And I get it. I really, really, really do get it. Maybe I'll record a podcast episode. Like at this point I really might. So anyways, I'm getting dressed right now. I'm gonna wear Abercrombie jeans this top, it's 70. So I can wear this is from Abercrombie also. It's my favorite top and I also have it in the bodysuit, which I like the bodysuit better. I will link these. They are literally my favorite things ever. I also, we were here to the fair tonight but it's like the Red River weekend. And I feel like that's just the worst time to go to the fair ever.  So I feel like I'm just gonna have some family over and we're gonna like cook or something. I don't know, we'll see. And just chill and relax. So I'm gonna change and show you guys my outfit. Okay, I'm gonna do my makeup but I mean barely any makeup. This is my look. My hat is from friend of mine. These are dropping very soon actually. We're shooting some stuff on Monday, which I also really need to finalize today. Honestly, I just need to like stay in and work tonight, I think that's just gonna happen. But anyways, this is the look. My Annie is my favorite cowboy boots ever. Could do an entire YouTube video on cowboy boots. I feel like that's not really like a YouTube vibe. Maybe TikTok, I don't know. But I love it. I also have my find me in Texas hat that I love. This hat kind of looks better. No, it's like too casual. Camo, this is merch of mine, find me in Texas. It's really sick. It's on the deer media shop merch page, it's linked below. So anyways, I'm gonna go get ready. Hi, can I just get a sausage, cheddar, and egg sandwich? Sausage, cheddar, egg sandwich. Of course, anything else for you today? Yeah, and then a grande pumpkin cream cold brew, please. And then a grande pumpkin cream cold brew, of course. Anything else for you today? That's it. 10, 28, thank you. Thank you. Good morning, y'all. It's Saturday. We're not gonna vlog the PBR for the vlog, but we are gonna film and get ready with me and then we're gonna vlog the rest on TikTok. Macy's coming over in like an hour and we're gonna get ready. I'm very excited. The PBR is professional bull riding, if you didn't know. So yesterday I went to the ranch, we went riding and I had guys like just the irony of everything this week.  It went down by like five p.m., probably, but like this has been happening to me lately on the ranch that I just get like my face puffs up and like I had like a line here that was just like puffed, so painful. And then I worked and then Macy and I watched the Beckham documentary, watched the first like episode and a half. We really liked it. And now we're going to the PBR and we've decided that today is gonna be such a good day. That's Macy. She's just crazy. Okay, I'm getting my coffee. I don't know when I became like a Star Wars girl again. I just cause I've had the weirdest week of my life. Hi, get her you. I have points I think too. Perfect, thank you. Thank you, can I get a straw as well? Thank you, have a good day. Okay, it's time to get ready. Macy was supposed to come and get ready with me but she just called me and she just got out of the shower. And so anyways, we need to be on time and I'm getting ready right now. I'm wearing a very simple outfit you all see. Honestly, I don't even know just saying this, get ready with me because I'm like, it was gonna talk to Macy. But I guess we'll talk about a couple things that I wanted to do for friend of mine because I've just been thinking about like the staples of my life and things that I like really need. I've decided what we're talking about today. Disappointment in your 20s and friend of mine. So things that I wanna do, I've mentioned this before but I really, really want to do like a dinner party tour which is gonna take a lot of planning and a lot of work around Texas or just like random cities to where I can host dinner parties for you all and you guys like buy a ticket and then it kind of serves like as a pop-up but obviously it's a little bit different, you know? So I'm excited about that stuff. I really wanna do robes. I wanna do more kitchen stuff. The thing that I'm shooting next week and I'm sure I'll share with you all soon is I'm like so confident in this and I just feel like it's like the best thing that I could do like product-wise and I'm really excited for it. It's something that I actually want you guys to comment below. It's something that I bring with me to dinners all the time and it's like something that I play with friends. And my friends, I have other products of it from like other brands and my friends are always like, please bring that to dinner because we just love playing these like games if you will. We love them. So I feel like after that you guys will understand. But anyways, I feel like I'm kind of coming out of this weird funk like yesterday when I went to the ranch as my manager and I was talking and I was like, I just feel like, like your 20s are obviously like so turbulent and up and down and like there's not a lot of stability in it which I feel like I used to hate and then I started to love and I was like, it's fun. But I feel like when I start to hate it is when I like and really like let down in a certain area of my life, like not even like let down but like something hurts me and I'm like, God, like I just want the stability as if like I'll never be hurting in life. But like someone just like, I don't know if you think something good is happening or you think like a drug wants to cover you think like whatever it is, fill in the blank, you know?  And I'm like the luckiest girl ever. So I feel annoying. But then at the same time it's like you actually need to be able to like feel a certain way. Like I've been telling my friends I'm like give me like three days and I won't care anymore. And they're like, it's okay though. Like if like it's not three days and you still care like you're allowed to do that.  You know what I'm saying? So like I want to like not be bothered by things. And it's like why it's hard for me to let like people in my life, not like friends. I feel like I have like the best friends in the world but like it's hard for me to look like people in my life because I don't like when people can like affect my emotions. That makes any sense, which isn't great. And obviously I have to like work on that. But yeah, I don't know. I've just been thinking a lot about like disappointment and how like every single time in the past I've been disappointed or let down or like hurt by someone or whatever. I always say this, like there's not a relationship in my life in any capacity that I no longer have that I wish I did. You know, like I always end up being like thank God. Like that was not. It doesn't even mean like that person or that situation or that work thing or like whatever opportunity it was. It doesn't even mean that like it was necessarily bad.  Like I'm actually so glad that didn't happen because now I see why it didn't happen because this needed to happen like whatever. And you know what I mean? So I'm just like thinking that way but also I'm like it is okay because I'm so like, I don't know because I love like, I think like self-development and like therapy and all these things and just like trying to be like a really like as healthy as I can possibly be.  It is okay, you know what I mean? And I think sometimes I'll be feeling that way. And also I have PVD and that's been like pretty bad lately but I'll be feeling that way and I don't like allow myself to feel that way. If that makes any sense. Also I got this, what is this? Who is it? Like I'm like prison ball? I don't even know what it's called. I don't know, whatever on accident. I think I like had it in my car and then I like forgot to take it out of my car and everyone's like, oh, everyone's like, okay so I'm not supposed to apply that way. Everyone was saying it's like the best powder ever and I really do like it but I'm just noticing that I have no idea what I'm doing. I might not think eyelash is today. I might as well because like if I'm going to Kate's thing, you know, it's like her eyelashes anyways. I only wear rain lashes but I feel like lashes for 12 hours is a lot but it also makes you look like you've got your makeup done. So maybe I'll do that. It was the only one that I can do.  So we'll see. But I was leaving yesterday and I was just like, I don't know. I just feel like I'm in like this weird rut and like blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, whatever. And obviously like it's pretty dramatic for no reason, you know, whatever. And then I left and I got like the coolest email ever and I was like, see like good things are like always right around the corner. You know what I mean? But I don't, I don't know. I just feel like I always am like thinking and like hopefully like when I'm like 30, 31 and I feel like I have more stability in my life, I'll be like, oh my God, like that was like so dumb. You know what I mean?  Like that kind of eye. But I try to channel that in every area of my life where I'm like disappointed. I'm like, no, like trust me, I'm gonna be happy about it one day and that day is probably gonna be sooner than not. And I also feel like I've already at that point but I don't know. It just sounds like when you're like excited about something or when you like take a chance on something or whatever. And then it's not that. I'm gonna finish doing my makeup because I feel like I just keep rambling on. But I'm excited for next week's vlog because I'm going to Memphis and I'm going through the single country cares, which if you guys follow me on Instagram at this point, I'm sure you've seen. It was like a really big honor. It's with St. Jude. So I'm really excited about that. I don't know anyone who's going on the trip at all. So it'll be like a good experience. I feel like a lot of the time when I do things like this that are like really outside my comfort zone ends up being like a really like monumental week almost to where I feel like I just get like new like clarity or like direction or something. And then maybe I can use, I can just like do better things in the world. My sister's calling me. I gotta go, bye. I finished getting ready. I wanted to do my fake lashes but couldn't find my lash glue. So this is the makeup look. Also can someone explain to me why my left eye always looks worse. Like the mascara just like doesn't work as well. And it drives me crazy. I'm sure it's like no one else notices. But I notice, okay? So I obviously use my setting spray. I feel like I'm just constantly spraying this thing. Also, I've been wearing this Saint Laurent perfume and I've got a lot of compliments on it. What even is it? I don't know. Libre? I'm not sure, but it smells really good. And I get a ton of compliments. You know what else is amazing? This is my second one. I'm already down on anymore. The Capari Golden Aura Body Oil. This is amazing. There's nothing I've ever put on my body that hasn't made it, that has actually even compared to this. It's so glowy and it's so moisturizing by not being too oily and it doesn't make you look greasy. Like it is just, I don't know what they did here but it's amazing if you need any body oil or anything. Like this is my holy grail product for the rest of my life. I'm not kidding. So I'll link that below too. It's unreal. Okay, so this is my outfit. It's cute. I feel like the belt. I like the belt with it but it kind of like messes up with the vest. It's my boots of Lucacy. I need to put like my body oil on and then I'm pretty much good to go. I'm like out the door. I need to add my earrings that are in one of my purses. Why does it look like I'm crying? I feel like it always looks like that when I'm in this room. But anyways, I just like can't decide because I feel like the belt, it just like doesn't work but then what if like throughout the day this gets loose? You know what I mean? I don't know. Maybe I can fit it in my purse if I really want to. Hopefully that'll work. Okay, we are off. I hope you guys enjoyed this vlog. There's a lot more content on TikTok and next week the vlog will be better and I'll be in a better mood. I love you all and I will talk to you soon. Bye. I feel like people who came in during that time had a very different idea of who I was and it wasn't necessarily that I was being fake on mine at all actually. I just like, I was actually sharing like what was going on in my life at that point. It was just like a different period of time but I couldn't share a lot of them. Anyways, with that being said, I just wanted to share with you guys the story of how I got the nickname Delilah in Bible College.