So your fur is all going to lay in a similar direction. This is also referred to as nap, if you've ever seen that on your pattern before where it says with nap or without nap. So fur has a nap. Mine feels smooth running this way, but when I go this way, it kind of catches. You can see that a little bit with the wrinkling, but when I go this way It's all nice and smooth. So I want to make sure that my pattern pieces are laying First of all all in the same direction. So with the shoulders The bodice pieces and the top of the sleeve and all of that up in this direction Pointing with the hems all being down here that way when I'm wearing it and like, you know I rub my hand down the jacket. It's gonna be nice and smooth and not all rough Okay, so because the double layers of the fur is so thick and also kind of plush I didn't think that Pins would be very helpful. So I have put down all my pattern weights and it's also very Smooth and shifty. So even if you nudged it just the littlest bit with your scissors or your rotary cutter I also felt that it could easily get a skew. So what I did is I just simply took a regular marker I did try my Taylor's chalk that didn't produce much of a line that I could see because my backing is kind of already has that white color to it, but I did trace around it with the pink marker and You guys can see there is a line right there for the upper collar You also, you know mark all your circles and your dots and your notches and everything else with the marker and that's going to keep your Pattern lines cutting line very accurate So cutting fur is really messy Because as you can imagine when you cut a line through your fabric, it's going to end up cutting all these little furs It's going to cut them Away from this backing of the fabric. So if you have super super long fur I would recommend cutting everything on a single layer and trying to wedge your scissors in between the pile So if you have like a long strand kind of pulling back some of those strands and cutting through the strands My pile is really small or short and it also kind of goes in all kinds of different directions So there's not much I can do other than make a mess, which is completely fine Mildly annoying but such as life whenever you are working with a fur fabric Okay, and when it comes to cutting I just wanted to weigh it down a lot so that the fur itself Didn't shift around while I was cutting. I needed to make sure that you know both Sides were going to be symmetrical. So I just put down as many pattern weights as I could I even weighted it down with this tray and I used super super sharp scissors to Cut, you know around the line that I had marked with the pin I am also only going to cut the pieces that are Intended to be cut on the fold on two layers the pieces that are intended to be cut and have two separate Mirrored images of them like the front and the sleeve I am going to cut on a single layer Because my fabric has kind of like a stripe to it And I want to make sure that I get that stripe placement kind of symmetrical across the entire front And as well have the sleeves kind of mirror each other with regard to the Stripe placement, but that's just with my fur if your fur has like an all over color Scheme then cut into layers and you should be fine Okay, and as I get my pieces cut because the pile is so short you can see I'm getting all of this Like furry fuzz stuff. So I'm rolling it up gently and I'm carrying it outside To shake it out watch It's like snowing. Oh my gosh Fur everywhere So after a while you get most of it out and at least it's outside and not in your sewing room Okay, so I've got one front piece cut out the exact same way I just showed you and I'm trying to you know match up this You know variant that is producing what looks kind of like stripes on my fabric So you can't see through the fabric. So it's kind of difficult to match up But what I'm doing is I'm peeling back Like the top like the shoulder and the hem and then just trying to eyeball Kind of where these white parts are landing Across the bottom. So I feel like I have that and then the same thing across the top Just making sure that this part doesn't end up over on top of a white part. It's not going to be exact But it'll be close enough for me. So now obviously I can also not trace Around here with the pin on to the fur that won't work So I'm just going to weight it down with all of my pattern weights Try not to shift it at all and just cut around the edges with my scissors Very carefully very slowly little snips at a time Okay, and once you get all your pieces cut out you need to clean up I like to just take a regular water bottle and an old dirty washcloth and spray the washcloth down and then wipe The area carefully and then you can go shake this rag out outside the same way that you did your fabric and Then you also need to wipe down anything that you used like my ruler and my Scissors and there's even fur on the tip of this pin and then after all that's done You need to go take a shower because that's the only way you're going to get all this stuff off of your body It's a little bit annoying to work with but it's gonna be so worth it. I promise Okay, and so now we are ready to stitch and I had to have a couple suggestions there as well Okay, so this is the shoulder seam I have placed a ton of pins in here and remember you are lining up the backing so like if the hair is long and it sticks out just try and Line up the raw edges of the backing and not the fur Because you want to make sure you get that perfect five eighth seam Okay, so then you're gonna go to your machine. You're gonna stitch your seam I like to use a larger stitch length. I think I have mine set it like four millimeters I also use a walking foot and that's just to make sure that the top layer and the bottom layer Kind of move through the machine at the same time Then once you have your seam like I have here So here is the other shoulder seam that I have stitched right here You want to on the right side of the fabric take a pen and anywhere where the fabric is like or where the fur is like You know kind of pushed in you want to get into that seam using a straight pin and you want to pull the little hairs out of The seam and then you'll also see because my hair is short I also have some hairs that are sticking up through the other side So I just went again on the seam from the other side and pulled those out So really what I'm doing is just trying to make sure as best I can that the only thing that is stitched The only thing that the thread is catching is the backing and as little bit of the hair as possible okay, and then my final tip on working with fur is For your seam allowances, so my jacket is going to be completely lined But I do want to make sure that the seam allowances are flat and they stay flat forever So I am just simply placing a bead of liquid stitch You could also use like rubber cement or any kind of permanent Glue that is okay for fabrics So I am just placing a small bead on the wrong side of the fabric and then just pressing it down and Holding it Close so this is going to take 24 hours to completely bond I've done I did this side a little bit ago and it's kind of coming up a little bit so you want to make sure that you just Get it on there get it pressed really good with your fingers and then just kind of let it be for a day and it should stay flat and Press together forever. I'm not ever going to wash this but even if you were going to wash it I think it holds up in the wash as well


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Strategic Cybersecurity, Module 6, Adversaries and APTs. Once you have completed the readings, lecture, activity, and assessment, you will be able to define the term Advanced Persistent Threat, APT. List the four major cyber adversaries of the United States. As our country under siege, many intelligence experts would agree that indeed we are, given the evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, and U.S. multinational corporations making weekly revelations of breaches into their computer networks. In May 2017, Daniel Coates, Director of National Intelligence, testified to the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee that our adversaries are becoming more adept at using cyberspace to threaten our interests and advance their own. And despite improving cyber defenses, nearly all information, communication networks, and systems will be at risk for years. Cyber threats are already challenging public trust and confidence in global institutions, governance, and norms, while imposing costs on the U.S. and global economies, remaining undeterred from conducting reconnaissance, espionage, influence, and even attacks in cyberspace. Who are these adversaries whom Coates and others speak of? Most intelligence analysts following the cyber threat landscape will tell you that our most formidable nation-state adversaries are Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea. In fact, Director Coates listed these same four countries as our primary cyber foes after the remarks to the Senate Committee just mentioned. Each of these adversaries has various offensive cyber capabilities to affect various outcomes. Russia possesses a multitude of cyber tools, but seems to focus largely on information operations. Information operations encompass various techniques of deception and psychological operations, such as the dissemination of propaganda or fake news to disrupt the ability of one's adversaries to make logical and informed decisions. China, on the other hand, tends to use its cyber capabilities to commit espionage, or the theft of information from governmental or corporate databases. China often focuses on stealing information that can be used for economic or military advantage. However, Director Coates has noted that Beijing has also selectively used offensive cyber operations against foreign targets that it believes threaten Chinese domestic stability or regime legitimacy. You may recall from a prior module's reading, Rosenweig's discussion of the Chinese intrusion set, GhostNet. GhostNet is believed to be malware engineered by China to spy on computers used by the Dalai Lama. China fears that the Dalai Lama could stoke massive insurrection within Tibet, which China considers one of its provinces. Although Iran is currently not as capable as Russia or China in terms of cyber capabilities, the country is quickly catching up. Iran suffered under strict economic sanctions for many years that prevented its purchase of advanced computing technology. However, the sanctions regime ended in January 2016. Iran is now free to import advanced computers, leading many experts to believe that the country can make enormous strides in its capability to conduct cyber attacks. One area of particular interest to Iran seems to be breaching adversaries' industrial control systems. This is likely due to the country's own victimization by the Stuxnet worm, which affected an industrial control system operating uranium centrifuges at one of its nuclear facilities. In fact, Director Coates noted that in 2013, an Iranian hacker conducted an intrusion into the industrial control system of a U.S. dam. Of the four U.S. adversaries noted in this module, North Korea is likely the adversary with the least cyber capability, although the country has managed to wreak havoc on several U.S. corporations. In 2014, North Korea launched a devastating cyber attack against Sony Pictures after threatening Sony not to release the motion picture comedy The Interview, which was highly critical of North Korea's leader. Unlike Russia, China, and to a certain extent Iran, North Korea employs its cyber capabilities to gain respect from the international community. This allows North Korea to punch above its weight, for instance, as the country has been largely marginalized by the international community. How do these countries organize their capabilities to conduct cyber attacks? In many cases, especially with regard to China and Russia, countries organize their efforts via an advanced persistent threat, or APT. Recall the various intrusion sets from Rosenweig's Chapter 3, Titan Rain, Byzantine Hades, Byzantine Kander, Operation Shady Rat and Night Dragon, as well as others. Countries often will organize an effort to steal a certain type of information or disrupt a certain capability into an APT. Depending on the size of the effort, dozens or even hundreds of computer experts may be found in the same office building, all with the same express mission. As an example, Rosenweig mentions that the APT, known as Byzantine Hades, may have stolen designs of the F-35, America's newest fighter jet from the contractor who is building the plane. This theft of advanced military technology from the United States makes perfect sense, given that China is rapidly trying to reach military parity with our country. This module should have provided you with a good idea of who our adversaries in cyberspace are and how they are organized. The next module will turn to the problems that an open system, such as the Internet, creates for sovereign nations that want to restrict the flow of information into their borders. Question 1. Which of the following nation states was not listed by the Director of U.S. National Intelligence, Daniel Coates, to be among our most formidable nation state adversaries? A. Afghanistan B. Iran C. Russia D. China E. North Korea The answer is A. Afghanistan Quiz question 2. Which of the following best describes an advanced persistent threat, APT? A. A highly organized, continuous process of computer hacking, often orchestrated by a nation state or highly sophisticated criminal entity, and with the purpose of targeting a specific type of information or person for exploitation. B. A type of malware that is able to take mere images of specific computer networks. C. A type of logic bomb invented by the U.S. military. D. A strategic threat posed by one of the United States major adversaries with the potential to disrupt the majority of industrial production in the country. The answer is A. A highly organized, continuous process of computer hacking, often orchestrated by a nation state or highly sophisticated criminal entity, and with the purpose of targeting a specific type of information or person for exploitation. The activity for this module asks that you locate a map of the world, indicate where the United States four most formidable nation state adversaries are located, and next to each provide a text, description, or illustration of how each uses cyber capabilities most typically.


Hi everyone. This is Donna Prosser, Chief Clinical Officer with the Patient Safety Movement Foundation. I'm here today to bring you a little update on what's been happening with our actionable patient safety solutions, otherwise known as our apps. Now those of you who've been with the movement for a while know that our apps are a summary of evidence-based practices. We focus on 18 specific patient safety challenges that pretty much all hospitals are dealing with. We now have 39 apps under those 18 categories. This content was historically created by volunteer clinicians and patient advocates once a year when all of the apps were revised at once. I was hired as the first Chief Clinical Officer here at the Patient Safety Amendment Foundation in November of 2019. And one of the first things that I did was to talk to people across our network about our apps. What I was interested in is understanding what was working for them and what wasn't working and what we could do to improve. Now overwhelmingly what I heard is that our apps are well respected and that organizations really appreciate not having to do this research themselves each year. They really like the detailed information that we provide and they don't want to see that change. But one common request that we had was to include a clinical workflow or an infographic, something that would provide step-by-step direction for the frontline to easily know what to do in addition to having all of that detail and narrative. We also had several requests to help organizations with specific information about how to implement the apps. Because as we all know, it's the integration of these best practices into existing processes that's really the hardest component of performance improvement. So in order to provide organizations with what they need, we have expanded our apps beyond just summaries of best practice. Our actionable patient safety solutions now include blueprints, education, and coaching. The blueprints include the evidence-based practices that were historically in the apps before. With the addition of a clinical workflow, a performance improvement plan, and specific information about what clinicians need to educate patients on. And we're also building an educational library that will include videos, webinars, articles, and other content that we produce internally. But also, we will provide links to amazing external resources as well. And for those organizations that don't have the resources to effectively manage performance improvement projects, we'll now be able to provide virtual coaching to project teams all over the globe. We can help them to analyze their current state and identify their safety gaps, as well as to design improvement plans and evaluate outcomes. So the blueprints and the educational resources are available for free download by anybody on our website, as long as they register with the Patient Safety Movement Foundation. Our virtual coaching is available for free to committed hospitals and also to hospitals that are not in our network for a fee. So as I mentioned earlier, in the past, we revised our apps at the same time each year. But with the continued addition of all of our new content and expansion of our apps, we shifted to an ongoing monthly revision process. Now, as you can see by this calendar, we plan to revise or develop new content for about four to six topics a month. Our fiscal year begins in April. So we started then with our new calendar and with the work groups for handoff communications, hand hygiene, ventilator associated pneumonia, and non ventilator healthcare associated pneumonia. So each of those work groups spent the first month making recommendations for content revision. And we're really fortunate that this year we have several interns who are helping us to take that content and their recommendations and add it into the new apps blueprint in addition to putting the content from last year into the new template. So we did that in April and then we spent May finalizing those revisions and getting the editor to create PDF documents so that we were able to publish these new apps on our website in June. This month is July. So our focus is in disseminating the information to our network through educational videos and blogs and all of the education resources that we discussed before. And this process has been repeated each month since then with a new group of topics. And I think the work is flowing very smoothly. Olivia Longsbury is our clinical research coordinator and she oversees this schedule. So if you're on a work group you can expect to hear from her when it's time to schedule a call for this year. And once we've gone through the entire year we'll begin again in 2021 and this process will remain ongoing. So there are many ways that work group members can help us with our new expanded apps program. As always we welcome your help in researching best practice updates and making recommendations for edits to the blueprints. And in the past the work group had a little bit longer to work on these but because of our new schedule we really need to complete the initial edits within the first month. So please take note of the deadlines that Olivia shares with you so that we can stay on schedule. We are also going to need help from our experts to produce educational content. So if you're interested in recording a video, hosting the webinar, writing an article, or presenting at a conference then please let us know because we need all the help we can get. And finally as we continue to grow our coaching program we're also going to be looking for content matter experts as the need arises based upon the projects that we're working on. So if you have any questions about our now expanded actionable patient safety solutions or the work group process then please let us know. As I mentioned Olivia is going to be your main contact for correspondence but please feel free to reach out to either of us if you have any questions. Thank you so much for your interest and support and I hope you have a great rest of your day.


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From the classroom to the field, new firefighter personnel are getting some hands-on experience thanks to the annual Wildfire Academy. Lakeland News reporter Shrell Moore has a look at the training going on at Itasca Community College. We've basically filled every hotel in the Grand Rapids area, plus we have students in Deer River, we have students in Hibbing. The Grand Rapids area has been burning up with excitement this week thanks to the Wildfire Academy. The Academy has been going on for 18 years. It started out originally over in Evelith. At that time we had maybe a dozen to 15 classes that we taught. This year there were 670 students and 98 instructors from all over the United States. 32 courses were offered from basic Wildland Fire 101 to air operations, simulated injury class and even a chainsaw class. We try to incorporate a lot of classes like the Urban Interface class has a volunteer fire department on it plus our agency people on it and what they do is they come to this class and for each position within the Wildland Fire program they have to take training, they have to go through a task book and then they can advance on up the line. The Academy has grown immensely in the past 5 to 10 years. For 2019 they're planning for more of the same with only a few class changes here and there. One year we might teach a supply unit leader class because we've taught trained 15, 16 people that year the next year we might offer one of the other classes that are available. So the class mixture changes a little bit each year. Reporting in Grand Rapids, Shrommore, Lakeland News. The Wildfire Academy will continue through tomorrow. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


to the 8.30 a.m. to 9 a.m. session of the 2023 Open Similar Community Conference. In this session, we are pleased to introduce the presentation, Expanding Virtual Experiences with EEP Creations. Our speaker is Nick's Breen. Nick's is known for fine art photography for over 30 years, private and commercial from traditional to modern. He is a founding member of the Revere Public Arts Commission and Fort Point Arts Community Member. Please check out the website at conference.opensimilar.org for speaker bios, details of the session and the full schedule of events. The session is being livestreamed. Please let us know if you have questions at Pound OSCC 23. Welcome, everyone. Let's begin the session. Hello, welcome to OSCC 23. As Lear said, my name is Nick's Breen. I'm a virtual 3D artist who creates immersive art experience. This means your avatar can enter into a 3D immersive space and be part of the art. Your view of the art experiences changes every time you look, move, fly or change your viewer perspective with distance or direction. There's no longer just a 2D piece of art, but an immersive piece of art on the image that you see on the screen. That's a long shot inside of an 8x8 var where the sky is moving and the reflection on the ocean is moving itself. And that's all created by using EEP. I was asked by Thursday the following question. EEP is a great creative tool because. And I have to think about that for a bit. And I came up with the EEP project is one of the last unexplored artistic possibilities for creators in virtual worlds. Individuals constructed environment that enhances the theme or mood of the type of creation that they're currently building. You could have a standalone as an arbitrator for the desired perception of what the effect can be. You don't even need prems. You can make an environment that is not seen usually in virtual worlds. Ready? These are a couple of different looks. And all I'm doing is changing the EEP effect from the same location where the last shot was. And you see that the sky has changed what's in the sky has changed how the lights look upon the prims that I do here have and the water effect itself. We'll give you one more to the point where you can have three dimensional looks down into the ocean as you fly over or go over it in any vehicle, a boat, a car, or just walk across it itself. Come on with the hood. All right, half of what you see in the screen is sky and water. This leaves a massive creative possibility that's unchanged in artistic ways. It seems like a loss of creating a comprehensive immersive virtual experience. So today's discussion examines something other than the steps to create EEP effects found available at either the SL community or the Firestorm Quick Preference, the Firestorm project. You need to go in and read them and learn the basic fundamentals. That's not what I'm going to address today. I'm going to address beyond that. So if you'd like to visit, make sure that you have all of what you need on. I'm getting lost with people talking. Excuse me. On a personal note, I utilized a Firestorm viewer, so I follow the Phoenix guidelines is what I did to help augment after I'd learned this process and they came up with a process that was a little more inclusive and how to do it. The step by step tutorials will introduce the fundamentals to required, read them, learn them, apply them, experiment with them, explore them. All right, I'm going to focus on the creating EEPs that produce artistic moods and effects beyond traditional sky and water environments. And as you can see, same place, a different look and how the sky moves, the water moves and what I've got up in the sky itself. The critical process steps and how I interpret them in an artistic mindset addressing the pre effects required with texture creations and applying post application effects settings will affect what it looks like and how it affects the look of your builds. Ready? The challenge is that OSCC version open Sims 0910 does not support EEP. So what I'm going to ask you to do is during the lunch break, come and visit me over at Pangea to experience the actual effect itself. Looking at a photo as we all know is not the same as being immersed into the space. There is the hop to get there. If you ask me later on during lunch, I'll be here going over to the Pangea Sim to show people this, you'll be able to experience a lot more of what this looks like. When you get there, though, you're going to have to have a shared environment on max draw particles, music, the higher settings, the better your viewing experience and immersive experience will be when they're. Alright, let's get to the creative process itself. Think of the approach as creating an environment that accentuates or even conveys the mood of theme of your build or theme on the land that you have itself. I started the process to create a distinct art gallery style that fits the type of 3D virtual art I create. I used images of the artist's textures while applying them to the sky and ocean. It was basic and fundamental, but then I started to work with them a little bit more and more and applying them up in the sky and it created a great working environment. So when it's combined with mesh, prims and particles, I have a completely immersive environment that expanded and complemented the build, i.e. the gallery I had where pictures were displayed in unique ways, not usual. It's a picture frame up. I use holograms, I use projections, I use mesh, prims or I alpha it a bit so you can see through it. It's a unique experience that is not seen a lot in virtual worlds. Alright, once I mastered the required basic skills, I expanded the style and effects by combining different textures and settings selected when adjusting the textures themselves. Combination of different sky and ocean EEP selections will change the look of two textures that are sets of the sky and ocean created the match. So I've got, you know, Bizarroland is the sky and a Bizarroland ocean or sea effect. But I might change that with moody gray or whatever I want either the sky or the sea and it makes them different. So you've got a large combination of what you can do and create once you start this process. You'll need to have a photo editing program to create compelling effects. But even with basic photo manipulation skills, one can create a dynamic effect inside of their region where they're working. The view allows you to manipulate the settings producing multiple effects to the texture or textures you apply to the sky and ocean settings. Basic steps for textures are simple. One, find the images that fit the theme. Maximum effect required are four textures to create the broadest range of multiple derivative sky, ocean, sun and moon is what you're going to be working with inside of the fixed environment HUD that changes those features inside of your SIM. With a JPEG ensure it's tiled so it has a clean look when applying. JPEGs allow for essential looks that work well with the sun and moon application. An example could be an artist portrait as large as from the ocean to the top of the sky as part of it or for different regions in the sea or ocean. Ready? So let's move to the next texture. PNG at target textures create wonderful sky and ocean effects. Cutting out portions of the PNG background allows the sky, sun and moon to shine through and when it flows across because you control the speed and how it looks and where it goes is dramatic and dynamic looking. As you can see on the screen, the EEP process is all in inventory. So it's basically assets that you're working for.  So what occurs is you get a look like this. I always start off with the clouds first and I recommend for more advanced looks that you use PNG or alpha textures because they're just going to be more traumatic. So your settings right click, select the sky, water, day, cycle, eye open and did sky first. Alright, then I'm going to take and pull my texture in and apply the effect settings. You've got your coverage, scale, variances, directions, the density and the cloud details. All of these information, the details of what they are and what they do are in the tutorials from either second life or from the Firestorm viewer. Not enough time to drill into all of them. Alright, the process I use activate the fixed environment HUD. Start with the clouds, put a PNG texture in there and start playing with the effects. Learn how they work, how they move back and forth, how you see depth perception, the density, all of that's important. You've got to do that by trial and error at first. Stand in the middle of your pot is a good trip tip, forgive me, and then select fly and move up to about 1000 meters so that you can see how it looks at different heights and what it looks like from the land. My tip is to type GTH, then a space and then the height you want 1000 in local chat and hit and enter the keyboard. Make sure you're flying, otherwise you'll start falling when you get there. When you hit it, it will bring you up to the meters in the sky that you had designated. I usually do about 1000 because that gives you enough to see the whole area at one particular time allows you to view area horizon viewing from above and looking down. It's a helpful way to build this.  It's a process to do this, but once you get it down, it's not that hard. Alright, the cloud tab, the settings you can change the size, depth and direction of how the cloud apply texture looks in the sky. Practice and discover what the effects are. Coverage and scale should move in small amounts. In most cases, variants can be applied in a much broader range and it sounds like what's he mean? Do it and you'll see. It helps a lot. Alright, let's go to the next one. Cloud density in detail changes the X and Y axis and D the density position of the applied textures and the density of how it looks when you look at it. By density, I mean fuller or less of what you're looking at. Alright, important. Cloud applied textures, speed and directions are critical. Too fast to speed can be uncomfortable to observe. It makes me ill and usually I can go and I do a lot of 3D art stuff that's crazy looking, but it's just a little too much. So the speeds tend to be a lot smaller personally for me and for people that visit these things because I don't want anyone to be overwhelmed or feel queasy when looking at the type of things I create. Alright, sun moon tab. We're in the sun moon tab. What it was up here and these work with a few extra steps. You apply the colors. Did I miss it? Hold on one second folks. Clouds, color controls, altitude. It doesn't want to seem to apply, but you put your textures in the sun, moon and tabs. Alright, forgive me if we can't see them. And what it's going to do, it's going to open your map up, look and identify what direction you're looking at and decide if you want to change the east and west sunrise or sun settings in some situations. You might want to bring the sun and moon to overlap each other. There's all different ways that you can apply these effects for the best for your theme. You place your pointer on it, move it or you can take and use the sliders. Always remember that if you want them equal distance from each other, it's going to be 180 degrees opposite. Final degrees of positioning, different looks that can affect when changing the direction of the sun and moon are seen. I usually use artists or artistic looking things that fit the theme of what I'm doing. The azimuth is the location of the sun and moon. Razor lowering the heights produce different effects of the sun and moon or the textures that are in there reflect on the water and the size of it for the horizon itself. Larger and closer to the horizon, the sun applied textures look creates a massive effect across the full height of one side of the sim when you have it set up. You can have both sun and moon, 180 degrees apart. Work with them, see what works best for you. Atmosphere and lighting tabs, that's where we're at right here. Alright, these control the color and effect of how the applied cloud, sun, moon, textures appear in the sky and underneath the water it affects the whole region that you're in. Ambient, blue horizon, blue density controls colors I used to create moves and the color palette that you're creating. I have discovered personally that the ambient color will affect the overall light cast of your builds and on your avatars so you may have a shade of the color that you pick as your ambient color. So you may have a pink cast to yourself or a blue cast. So it's not going to be clear but it's definitely going to be workable for you when you're in your sim doing it. Moving the intensity of the color and using darker colors seems to work best. Remember your color wheel and use complementary or opposite type colors that will give different effects to what you're doing. Then you want to save and name your new sky and water EPP settings. Follow the SL or Firestorm EEP directions to save and apply and you will have the ability to change the effects while you're in your sim in a live situation. Thank you for your time. I'm trying to keep on time here. I want to answer any questions but as you can see you go to your world, you open up your environment, you know use settings and that'll pop open on the right here and these are all the different settings that I have created and you can see that it's dozens and dozens of skies and water effects that are available to you. Yes I will be doing tutorials. I'm inviting you to come visit and take and physically if we can physically do things like that the environment itself. You know Nix we have under Get Involved we have these events and you could schedule a little Zoom session where you talk and demo the settings live on a share and then take them to the reach and then actually experiment with it if you so desire. That's so we're offering those next week and you could schedule that. I will work on that but I am going to schedule and invite people to come to the sim to see this. You just cannot it's just so hard to physically describe this without actually being there. I guess it's the way to put it. So go back to the front of it just imagine this thing moving and it's just it's mind-blowing. It is a different one same place same location but it's just a different effect. Absolutely. It's moving and then finally I've discovered ways where you go over the water and it's a 3D effect that moves as you go through it. That's right. You know in the in the chat I put in the information and during the break which is at 1130 join Nix as he provides this demonstration. Well thank you Nix for an informative and interesting presentation. And thank you OSCC crew for your work. Thank you all that have participated and I'm looking forward to meeting you at the lunch break all. Thank you. Sounds great. As a reminder to our audience you will want to check out the conference.opensimulator.org to see what is coming up on the conference schedule. You won't want to miss our next session which will begin at 10 a.m. in this keynote region and it's entitled kinsugi contemplative pathways for the wounded healer. Also we encourage you to visit the OSCC 23 poster expo in the OSCC expo 3 region to find accompanying information on presentations and to explore the hypergrid resources in OSCC expo 2 region along with our sponsor and crowd funder booths located throughout all of the OSCC expo regions. Thank you again Nix and to you the audience.


Today I wanted to talk a bit about the monetary aspects of KDE. Now there are some people wondering whether KDE is a company or not and it is not. It is a non-profit organization which means that it isn't meant to make money and because of that it has some restrictions as an example like the money that it actually makes has to be spent within a certain period of time. Now let's start from the beginning. How much money and how does KDE actually earn money? Because even though it's a non-profit we do can get some money. There are some restrictions on how like we cannot sell products but we have this nice graph done by the financial working group that tells us how the money is actually coming in from KDE. So this is income and it's mostly supporting members and donations. So it's actually mostly about donations as a whole and there are there are many ways to donate to KDE. There are even like a people but there's also and this is probably a better way a donation system in KDE.org. Now the donation system is actually getting revamped. There is a working group whose name I currently forgot that is working to do a new way that will make it easier to donate to KDE. There's also we can see your academy a google summer of code which are a minority and I mean often goes to actually the academy one is balanced by the academy one here in expenses. In here we also get patterns sorry and patterns are the ones that are listed at the bottom of KDE.org web pages canonical google susan and dot and so on. Within the patterns we do see blue systems and keep in mind this one because it will actually be important. So let's go see what KDE actually does with the money so expenses and we can see that mostly it's about staff and contractors. Before we get into that also let's give a quick look to the other things of course organizing academy which is the event that's every year and everybody goes there like every KDE developer or people are very interested in KDE go there and there is a lot of talks about what's KDE what KDE is doing but also BOFs actually for developers to discuss things on how to do things. A pretty nice event I joined the first one a couple of years ago and it was very nice so of course I'm counting like the last two were online so that's not the same thing so hopefully the next one which is in place will be super cool and then other things like infrastructure office sprints is interesting it's about organizing a smaller group of developer to all see in a place for like I don't know a week as an example and all work for that week on something together which is pretty cool I have never been to a sprint and luckily because you know the pandemic and then taxes and stuff so stuff and contractors that means there is some stuff which is most of the expenses so it would be rightful to ask okay so the stuff is probably the developers how much are the developers paid and it's not actually the developers right now there is no developer that is being paid by KDE to work on KDE software so you might ask okay but are the are all the people then volunteers and kind of there's also people paid by third companies like third-party companies let's call them like that that companies that are not KDE that pay people to work on KDE and that happens because there's a lot of software that actually relies on KDE and a pretty important one is blue systems before we get into that though okay stuff then what is stuff who is being paid inside of KDE and there are some people that are being paid so as an example some people in the promotion group that do actually as a work promoting KDE managing the social media actually putting together these reports on the KDE AV website these sort of things there are people that are actually paid to do them then other stuff like one person a while ago was paid to do a review of the documentation and what had to be done to improve it but also there is a community manager that between other staffs also organizes how goals work inside of KDE and I'm a goalkeeper so that's pretty important to me those sort of stuff that are all related that are all not related to development can be paid directly by KDE so you might ask okay but is not paying developer than like a choice that was made and it is like the KDE community at a certain point decided not to hire any developers however recently there is a strong ongoing movement to change that and to actually hire some people focused on development but up until now it hasn't quite worked there are some positions I think that are still open and those positions are not related to like KDE core products like as I don't know the plasma shell as an example I think there is one for hardware development that sort of things so blue system who are they so blue system is founded by a person this is my understanding a person that I had had a lot of money and decided to do some good stuff and that good stuff included doing yes some products by blue system itself but also work on some projects that are not directly done by blue systems as an example KDE Plasma, Plasma Mobile, Manjaro, KDE Neon and a lot of stuff that KDE actually relies on a lot there are a thing about like five to eight developers from blue systems working full-time on KDE Plasma and related projects but of course being employed at blue systems also means that you don't just work on KDE Plasma but also on the products that are made by blue systems and the things that blue systems things are important in this case the products I see here is there's this Netrunner which is a Linux distribution and there's also this C1 ARM powered microcomputer which is out of stock if you were wondering so maybe it will get in stock but I only today learned about it it sounds interesting but you know this is the stuff that I'm most interested in all of the other people actually working on KDE that are not being employed by other companies like me are doing this basically as volunteers so the vast majority of people working on KDE are not actually paid to do it there is and this is pretty interesting uh Liberapay Liberapay KDE account with a lot hello Liberapay KDE KDE hello okay community there is a Liberapay community for KDE people and you can actually see that some people let's say cloud as an example it's 11 euros every week it's not a lot but it's a way to try to do oh it's me hello I also have a pattern though it's a way to try to take some donations through other ways to actually finance the way to work on KDE most of the people I know from KDE work on it under free time and as far as I know as statistics go the vast majority of people working on KDE do it under free time personally it was a bit hard for me because my free time I could have more free time if I hadn't to do like other part-time jobs so what I tried to do was this channel and then set up a Patreon and I actually managed to do a decent amount of donation money plus advertisement it's not enough to make a living out of it at all but it's something that actually helps me a lot to keep on going it's it means that every time I see a part-time job offer I can say nah I'm good kind of kind of so that was everything for me and on my left on my right which is your left you can see actually the patterns that are giving me money monthly which is super duper appreciated appreciated because of the reason that I've just talked about and also people doing donations so if you want to help me get my channel going and also keep me working on KDE I'm trying to do like my best there and trying to work a bit more on KDE this week and I'm finishing up a completely right of KDE panels and then I will finish up floating panels and then floating uplets hopefully this whole thing will be ready for KDE Plasma 5.25 so if you want to help me do that meanwhile you can also subscribe and those sort of stuff if you can't afford like donation that's fine subscribing also helps me to actually go with the channel and that's about it see you tomorrow


Once the messengers of Allah was along with a group of his Sahaba his companions were returning from an expedition He had gone up for a battle and then they were returning back home So remember this would take many days to get back home and most of it was just by foot So as they are as they are traveling They're overcome with tiredness and so they decided to take a small break Tired to take a rest so the Prophet's on the law I was sitting this is a Sunnah by the way is sick a midday nap Not like for five hours, but just for a short nap So Nami alaihi salatu was salam is takes the siesta and he sleeps underneath a tree and his companions are sleeping around him before he does So Salam he takes his sword and he hangs it over a branch on the tree And then he lays down so I send him he goes to sleep as The Sahaba are there and everyone is sleeping a man sneaks into the camp No one is aware. He's undetected. He comes in Comes to the Prophet salam. He knows who he is salam and he grabs the sword and he unsheaths Then and then he wakes up and he sees the man standing over him with the sword in his hand pointed at him So the law how he was on so he stands up the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam and He addresses the man so the man asked him a question. The first question he asked him is at the coffee The man asked him, are you afraid of me? What do you think your Prophet's response is salallahu alaihi wasallam? La looks him right in the eyes dead in the eyes. No Imagine the courage of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam the bravery in today's parlance It would be like looking down the barrel of a loaded gun and the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam looks at him straight and says no And so the man obviously, you know has a question that immediately comes to mind. Why is any afraid? It's a lot of honey wasallam. So he asked him Many of them in me who will defend you from me right now? Why aren't you afraid?  He doesn't say hey, man, try me. I'm the Prophet of God. Try me. See what happens doesn't say that He doesn't say that. Why don't you look around got hundreds of companions here? You try anything see what they do to you. He doesn't say that either What is this response of Allah? He said who will defend you who will protect you? He said Allah That's it. The moment he says the name of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala the man's sword drops from his hand Look at the conviction the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam had just in that one word the strength of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam's faith and his Eman his Yaqeen his certainty that if Allah went to subhanahu wa ta'ala He could suspend cause and effect right there. This guy's got a sword in his hand Allah can turn it into a drop of water right then and there And so the man drops the sword the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam reaches over and he grabs him the man is paralyzed He can't move Can't move the problem grows. He grabs a sword and he points it at the man now and he says to him the same thing My name now come in me. Okay, who's gonna protect you from me now? The man has like what do you think he's gonna say right? He has no one around him to defend himself Don't want around him. So he looks at the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam and he ignores the question He ignores a question. He says something totally irrelevant. He says Listen like just be the better of the two guys, you know be the better of both of us like please And so the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam looks at him and he says, okay He doesn't strike him salallahu alaihi wasallam and then he asked him a question He says I touch it. Oh, I love it. No, no, no, he doesn't accept Islam. He's like, yeah, you think man Oh, this is you know, this is the Prophet of war, right? He should be striking the guy down right now What is the Nabi alaihi wasallam do looks at him. This is okay The man says what I can however, however, okay, I won't accept Islam.  I will never wage war against you Nor will I ever support any group of people that ever fights against you I promise you have my word and the Prophet's awesome takes him at his word and he says, okay No problem, but let's go home. The man goes back to his people and he comes to them and he says man You're not gonna believe this. What happened? He said jiddukum min ndi khayyidin nas I have come to you from the presence of the greatest human being I've ever met In this hadith there's so much to be taken and so much to be learned But we'll light two things number one You see how to behave how to act when you are in a position of supposed inferiority When someone else has power over you when you feel like man, what am I gonna do and Then on the flip side when the power comes into your hands, what do you then do then? How do you deal with it and not just with any other person, but the same one who is threatening you who made you feel inferior and Ostensibly weaker. How do you deal with that person? Our Prophet's awesome showed us exactly and today in light of everything that is happening We have to think how can we bring that into our own heart? Because the Prophet's awesome didn't look at the means he didn't look at the asbab He didn't look at the world around him. He looked beyond that which is Allah He says yeah, I have a lot of strength. I have a lot of power, but at the end of the day That's nothing. Yeah, my companions are here, but at the end of the day, that's nothing What can they do?  Allah will help those who help him So I remember there's a hadith of Abdullah ibn Abbas, the cousin of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam And he which he says One day I was sitting on a conveyance with the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam So he, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is in the front seat. I'm in the back seat And he says This is that my son and though they were cousins he was very very very young compared to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam So he addressed him as he would a child. I will teach you something So what is he going to teach him sallallahu alayhi wa sallam He says that protect Allah Allah will protect you Protect Allah wherever you look wherever you turn Allah will be in front of you If I read this hadith it's from one of the first hadith that I learned I asked my teacher and I was like man This got my scratching my beard over here trying to figure this out. What does this mean? And so then he told me He says this doesn't mean you protect Allah Allahu wallahu khairun hafizan Allah is your best protector. Allah is your helper. It means that you protect the deen of islam And you help the deen of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. That's what it means Allah deena immakannahum fil arda Aqamu s-salatu wa aatu zakaatu wa amaru bil ma'ruf wa nahahu anil munka Those people when Allah takes care of all of your needs And not even the children here today. Allah has taken care of all of our needs.  So now he will ask what did you do with it? After I took care of all of these things Especially in light of recent events we can see people who don't have any of these things Nor clothes on their back nor food in their stomach or a roof over their heads But for us Allah swt will ask us did you do what I told you to do which is what number one aqamu s-salatu established the prayer It's not just establishing prayer as in oh, they prayed sometimes It's not just praying sometimes. It is making it a consistent part of your life Why because it connects you to Allah So that every single thing you do in your life, whatever it might be you do it for the right reason You do it for the right reason. That's why you pray five times a day Exactly five. Why it's a constant reminder That i'm going to work. Why i'm going to school. Why i'm doing this. Why i'm not doing this.  They command one another to do good They command the good Every one of us has some form of platform whatever it might be for me It might be standing here for you. It might be somewhere else be it at work be it at school be it online Whatever it is It is your responsibility and mine to speak up or that which is true and right You know in the science of hadith there is a type of Hadith which is called ikhrar or taqreer Which is when the messengers on the wahari was that I saw something happen in front of him The prophet saw something and someone did or said something and then he didn't stop them He didn't stop them Which means what it means that he saw the one is approved of it Or he didn't think that it was so bad that he should stop it Which means that he saw something was okay with it. So it's not haram. It's allowed to do Now you and I when things happen in front of us Things happen in front of us if we don't speak up that is a type of approval If you know that it's wrong, why are we speaking up?  Why don't we say anything?  Let me see. Are you a Muslim or not right there? Are you going to do amr bil ma'ruf nahi'an in munqa?   Okay It's a very embarrassing story, but you know what sometimes it's necessary. I remember back in college once I was sitting in a lecture I'm sitting in the lecture and the teacher is bringing up some kind of random topic and a person a few rows ahead of me He says oh, yeah, like how Islam oppresses women and subjugates women You know and he says this and the teacher immediately butts in he's like, uh, okay Yeah, so let's change the topic and I'm sitting several rows back And I felt a type of anger as you rightfully should a person is insulting your dean And a person is insulting Muslim women as if they have no agency of their own So I heard this and I got really upset and I was gonna say something, but I didn't And now this has been years. It's been years and I still feel ashamed And I'm like man, that was my pop quiz Allah tested me at that moment right there. Am I going to speak up and say something in defensive Islam? And to be honest, I got an f I should have said something and now every time I remember this and I think I'm not going to let that happen again And in today's day and age when we see what is happening to our brothers and sisters And people are making it literally illegal to even use the words pro-palestine or free palestine Which is how you stand in support of palestine a place that Allah swt has selected for the believers Just that sacred as Makkah and Medina Allah swt has selected Palestine. He has selected Jerusalem. He has selected that entire area That place We are not speaking up in defense of it. This is our obligation Do it with wisdom use your platform with wisdom Howsoever it might be and Allah swt will give us that help that he has promised You want help in your personal life forget on a umatic scale Obviously, we should be worrying about the global umma But people sometimes, you know, you tell them that if you do this Allah will help you in your personal affairs The thing that you are dealing with that you really want taking care of take care of other people. Well, Allah will take care of you That's it Take care of other people and Allah will take care of you May Allah swt give us to do this and increase us in our yakin in our certainty in his words From the greatest Of islamic, you know academics and intellectuals that have ever graced this earth Is Muhammad ibn Idrisa Shafi'i rahimahullah Imam Shafi'i rahimahullah, and he was born a few generation a couple generations after the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam And he was born in the city of ghaza Today the Shafi'i madhab is built upon him the Shafi'i madhab is built upon him And he was an illustrious and eminent scholar He was an absolute polymath and he was the genius of the highest caliber and degree So he excelled in every field including in the field of poetry. So he had a few lines of poetry and I thought you know Why don't we share them especially in light of what's going on? Because every time you turn on the news you open your phone whatever you see it just fills you with all kinds of emotions And so he says rahimahullah Sahirat uyunun wa naamat a'uyunun fi umurin takunu awla takunu fadra ilhamma mas tataata fa innahimla nuka lhumuma jununu innahabbin kafaka bil'ams ma kana siyaka fee ghadin ma yakunu He says rahimahullah He says and this is again as an explanation He says some people they can't sleep all night They're up every single night They take pill after pill after pill after pill and they can't fall asleep Meanwhile other people never want to get out of bed Why? He says because these people are worried about if The word if if if if what if this happens? What if that happens hypothetical after hypothetical and there are so plagued with worries and anxieties. They can't face the world They can't face life So after he makes his observation he says that you know try and leave off as much of these worries as you can Because if you're going to keep carrying these worries all these possibilities and hypotheticals you're going to drive yourself crazy Is what he says now you might say Imam that's that's wonderful advice, but it's a lot easier said than done right I'll just stop worrying. So he gives us a reminder. Why you should stop worrying? He says Ma kana siyaka fee ghadin ma yakunu The same Allah who took care of you yesterday. Do you think he's going to abandon you tomorrow?  Absolutely not We have to remind ourselves of that constantly Allah took care of me at my lowest point at my difficult most difficult point in my life That same Allah will help me through the same Allah that helped Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam When he was there in khandak and the ahzab are in front of him the army is 10,000 people stronger in front of him They haven't eaten for four weeks. Allah took care of him. Didn't he Allah subhan Allah took care of musa alaihi sallam when he's walking through the ocean and the rivers and the water is there A mountain high Kataulid aadim Allah took care of musa. I didn't he Allah took care of Of the Rahim when he threw when he was thrown into the fire He took care of him took care of use of when he's left at the bottom of a well Allah swt took care of each and every single one of these prophets And he will use any and every means that he wishes Allah swt divinely lifted Jesus to the heavens where right now Where they are bombing right now in that same place Allah swt lifted isa alaihi sallam Jesus to the heavens So Allah took care of them Don't think that Allah will not take care of you and don't think that Allah will not take care of them Those people who are there still today And so when we see these things, you know in these moments of darkness and confusion Moments of what is it manufactured consent? That's what it is or moments of You know disinformation and misinformation Moments of atrocity propaganda. It's darkness after darkness. I will not bother about how do we perceive? How do we look to see beyond all of this look at the light of the Quran and the sunnah The light of the Quran and the words of our prophets And Allah swt tells us how we should look at our brothers and sisters And sometimes it can become desensitizing to see video after picture after video And it really gets you down. So Allah swt tells us how we should look at it. What does he say? You know today when a person passes away, they're just another tally add it to the death toll to add it to the death count Allah swt says stop counting Literally he says stop counting. What do you think means counting? Don't count them amongst the dead Those who have been killed They're not dead, but they're alive with their lord We believe each and every one of them is alive with Allah swt And not only that but today they are being starved and they're being you know The electricity has been cut all of these things. They're going through Allah swt That says Allah swt is taking care of them. This is our faith. This is our belief That Allah swt has taken care of our brothers and sisters Or those who have passed away in Afghanistan or those who have passed away in Morocco and many other places in the world Allah swt has taken that affair upon himself. He will deal with it So this should be a moment of happiness as sad as we are to see this We know that Allah is rewarding them in ways that we could never give it to them Ways we could never do And then finally I want to make a little point about aqeela Okay, it's a little small aqeela lesson. Allah swt is aqeela to ahles, tunna thi wal jama'a This is the belief of every single muslim and as it should be that each and every prophet of Allah swt is alive in his grave Each and every prophet of Allah is alive in their graves, right? And so how is it that we should look at those brothers and sisters of ours who are going through a great struggle Who are going through a great difficulty right now at this very moment as I give this khutba Can you imagine at this very moment as we are listening to me here? How should we look at them? Allah swt says Do not think that Allah will break the promise that he made to his messengers Don't ever think that Allah will break that promise he made to his prophets So what is that promise Allah made to them? What does he say? We will help we will assist give victory to our prophets and those who have believed Allah swt says this with absolute emphasis And those prophets now, why did I make that point of aqeela because those prophets of Allah swt They are alive in their graves the hadith of the prophets In which he specifically says That Allah has made it a haram for the earth to decompose or decay the bodies of the prophets They are alive in their graves the prophets When he went from Makkah to Jerusalem the only time he went there When he went he says I passed by musa and he was praying at the red sand where his grave is in the red sand dune And I saw him in his grave He was praying in his grave And the prophets there on the aqsa compound where today they limited the access to it So there's only a very few amount small amount of people who are able to pray juma are there today That same place our prophet was there and he led over a hundred thousand Prophets of Allah swt in salah Can you imagine there's only one place on earth where every prophet of Allah was gathered only one Not in Makkah not in Medina nowhere else but in Jerusalem Allah gathered each and every single prophet there And they prayed behind our messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Imagine how sacred and blessed that land is that every prophet of Allah stood there and they all prayed there And not only that but today how many of them are buried there today There's a place there in Jerusalem. It's called Khalil. It's named after Khalilullah ibrahim alayhi sallam the friend of Allah And that place is today where it's being under constant, you know bombardment cluster munitions white phosphorus It's being used on innocent men women and children and Allah swt specifically says We will help the the prophets and the believers And the day when all the witnesses will be made to stand so who are the witnesses if not the prophets of Allah swt And Allah will bring them all in testimony and say okay, you tell me what happened We talk about other side of the story and in today's day and age Unfortunately, it's just one side that is being plastered all over the news. We only see one side Don't worry. Allah will have the day swt When we will hear the other side and the prophets of Allah will be the witnesses And they will tell Allah swt because hadith of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he says When you come to my grave and you say salam to me, I will respond to your salam The prophets are alive and they know exactly what happens around them in their midst And so the prophets of Allah in their graves in germany in hazzat in philistine all these areas They know exactly what is happening and they will stand in front of Allah swt and tell them In explicit detail exactly what happened and Allah swt will be there No excuse will suffice for the person who has committed bun and oppression in the world No excuse will be enough So as sad as it is and as obsessing as it is to see this We have to remind ourselves in light of the Quran and the sunnah that Allah swt is in charge He is in control. The bombs may be over our brothers and sisters But Allah is over that. Allah is in total control and absolute control And justice will be meted out one day By him swt May Allah swt give us tawfiq And may Allah swt increase us in our yakeen in our certainty Of his words and the words of our prophets In the name of Allah