Welcome to NTN Nightly, I am Anicia Antoine, this edition's top stories. Adherents to COVID-19 protocols detects a new case of COVID-19. The Ministry of Health's rigorous pre-testing policy is credited for protecting the island from COVID-19 as borders opened. And, dengue fever poses an increasing threat during the rainy season. The adherents to COVID-19 protocols has assisted the Ministry of Health and detected a new case of COVID-19, bringing the number of confirmed cases in St. Lucia to 26. Dr Sharon Belma George is the island's chief medical officer. Results received on Tuesday, August 18, 2020 reveals that St. Lucia has recorded a new case of COVID-19. The case is a 32-year-old female who traveled from the United States and has been in government quarantine from arrival. She is stable and will be transferred to the respiratory hospital for care. This brings a total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 to date to 26. A total of 4,768 tests have been conducted to date. As we manage new cases and investigate possible contacts, the public is advised to take personal responsibilities to protect themselves and the family. We advise against mass crowd gatherings. We advise on responsible behavior without unnecessary panic. The public is also advised that all of the protocols are still in place. These also include the use of face masks in public places and to maintain safe physical distance from others. We appeal to everyone to continue supporting our national effort to minimize the threat of COVID-19 on our island. The five respiratory clinics remain open to facilitate any one of respiratory signs and symptoms or any concerns. Also, the 311 hotline is available where questions or concerns can also be addressed. We continue to advise on the importance of maintaining the standard recommendations for infection prevention and control. These include regular hand washing with soap and water or the use of alcohol-based hand sanitizer where soap and water may not be available.  The Ministry of Health and Wellness will continue providing further updates on COVID-19. Tourism Minister Hon. Dominic Fede has lauded the national fight against COVID-19 as St. Lucia is rated number one in the Caribbean for the national COVID-19 response. In a comparative data analysis of confirmed COVID-19 cases per 10,000 population, St. Lucia has a rating of 1.4. Minister Fede says government's position on testing played a pivotal role. More from Lisa Joseph. The government of St. Lucia has been firm on its position of pre-testing for anyone coming to the island amid the COVID-19 pandemic. When the island's borders reopened to international travel on June 4, 2020, travelers were asked to provide a negative COVID-19 test result 48 hours before arrival. There was widespread concern about the measure from the public and stakeholders which subsequently led to a revision of 72 hours. With the island's own testing capacity beefed up, the reopening of the tourism sector on July 9, 2020 saw the protocol further revised to provision of a negative test within seven days of travel to St. Lucia. Tourism Minister Hon. Dominic Fede says the unwavering stance has served St. Lucia well in the COVID fight. We were hauled over the coals by many stakeholders, not just in St. Lucia locally and internationally, for the rigid pre-testing mechanism that we have put in place to ensure that we can sustain the opening of our tourism sector. And today I would like to say that we have been vindicated by ensuring that we stay the course and remain very strict as it pertains to the pre-testing protocol. The setting up of the health facility at the Hironora International Airport for the screening and processing of passengers, the minister says, has added tremendous value to the national effort against the pandemic. Since July 9, some 5,000 visitors have been welcomed to the island, a stock number to the hundreds of thousands who flocked before the deadly pandemic struck. That means that we're somewhere up to about just around 10% of our pre-COVID capacity. Nowhere we would like to be, still a lot of catching up to go, but what we have to do is to continue to build up momentum. We're confident that as we continue this phase and this phase continues to be successful, what will happen is we will see more hotels coming into the fold. Some 13 hotels have already opened their doors, providing employment for over 2,000 employees within the tourism sector. Our last count has shown there are some 500 taxi drivers who are operationalised. Minister Fede says despite the low load factors, airlines continue to show confidence in the island's future. The airlines that would have come to St Lucia ordinarily would have had a load factor of about 80-85% in some instances on key markets. Now we're seeing an average of about 30%, so you can tell that it's very very difficult on testing times for a number of stakeholders within the sectors. The hospitality sector again continue to experience low occupancy levels and those occupancy levels are a cause for much concern when you think of the profitability of the various hotels on the island. And so what we've got to do is to do our best to keep working with them to try to create the best enabling environment to try as much as we can to incentivise our hotels to keep operating as we get through this rather difficult time. The tourism minister assured that government will maintain the health of all citizens as its main priority even as it seeks to protect livelihoods. From the Government Information Service, Lisa Joseph reporting. Meantime the national COVID-19 protocols guiding the reopening of the economy will be reviewed August ending. Health Minister Senator Mary Isaac says the assessment of the opening of borders is critical to the decision making process. Well you know we said we are going to test this open borders for a 30-day period and that comes to an end at the end of August. So then we are already discussing and looking at how it is working out. So given that we have another two weeks in August, we are going to keep looking and seeing what is happening. We also look at other countries, what is happening in other countries in the region and then we can take a decision based on what we have experienced for the past 30 days, what we experienced and then we can decide how we move forward. With several Caribbean islands rolling back measures in the face of increased cases of COVID-19, Senator Isaac says government will not hesitate to act similarly if such a situation presented itself in St. Lucia. The state of emergency which is in effect, the Minister reminded, will easily facilitate that. If we have to roll back, I think we will do it smoother than we did the last time. Minister for Health and Wellness Senator Mary Isaac. Minister with responsibility for physical planning Hon. Harold Stanislaus has reiterated government's commitment to guarding the right of citizens to access all beaches on the island. The assurance comes amid public concern regarding the proposed Cabot St. Lucia Development at Cape State. The Cabinet of Ministers has approved a lease of the Queen's Chain adjacent to the development site for 75 years. However Hon. Stanislaus says the approval does not bar St. Lucia's from accessing the Casabar Beach. The Cabinet conclusion clearly states that Cabot Development had a surplus on the parcels of land, it was already in existence. Those leases were issued to Cape State Limited in 1973 for 75 years. There is a 28-year grace period and time remaining on those leases. And basically the Cabinet conclusion is an extension of those leases to another 75 years. Secret Beach, Casabar Beach, Donkey Beach, none of those beaches were leased to Cabot Development. So in essence the beaches remain public. In fact all the beaches on the island remain public so that citizens have unlimited access to the beaches. There should not be any impediments of our citizens for the use of our beaches for recreational purposes. The Physical Planning Minister says the Government is aware and sensitive to the concerns surrounding the continued operation of Marjory's restaurant which has been a staple at the Casabar Beach for more than 20 years. Marjory Lambert in 2001 was issued a lease for five years for the block and parcel that her establishment is situated. Miss Lambert currently holds a one-year lease. We are not going to infringe on the rights of Miss Marjory or prevent Miss Marjory from earning a living which she has been doing so for about 20 years or more in this particular area. There will be discussions with Miss Marjory and the developers and also with the Parliamentary Representative Honourable Motut and the Department of Physical Planning on the way forward. But we are going to do everything within our powers to work with the developer, with Miss Marjory and all stakeholders who currently have establishments on the beach at Casabar. But I want to reinstate again the beach is public. There is going to be unrestricted access to the Casabar Beach, to Donkey Beach, to Secret Beach by the citizens of St. Lucia. Leasing of the Queen's Chain, Minister Stanislas says, has been practiced for decades. You have a lease in 2000 there between the state and the business for the Queen's Chain. You have amphitheatic leases for 75 years, 99 years. In 2005 we had leases. In 2004 we had leases of the Queen's Chain. In 2006 we had leases of the Queen's Chain. I could go on to this other section right there, those other leases. We had leases in 2008, amphitheatic leases of the Queen's Chain. We had leases in 2011, 99 year amphitheatic leases, two hotels, two developers. We had amphitheatic leases issued in 2008 again in 2009, 2014. So this is not something new. This is not a new practice, it's not a new policy. This has been a policy and initiative, a practice of governments since the 1970s of leasing of the Queen's Chain to developers, to persons who own property adjacent to the Queen's Chain. Again, all beaches are public. There is unrestricted access to the beaches either by foot or vehicle access. There are certain properties where you do not have vehicular right of way on the map sheet or the land registry, so persons usually access those beaches by foot. There are beaches where there is unrestricted vehicular access. If you come in by sea, you could access any beach on the island for recreational use. Kabot Saint Lucia has submitted a master plan to the Department of Physical Planning. Honourable Stanislas says the department is processing the proposals in phases. Upon final approval, the minister stressed, there will be no restricted access to the Kazabah beach. Health officials are ramping up efforts to protect the population from dengue fever. The Ministry of Health has noted an increase in the cases of the vector-borne disease. With the rapid onset of the rainy season, the Ministry of Health and Wellness continues to encourage individuals to maintain health and safety measures to prevent the local transmission of dengue fever. Dengue fever is one of the most common vector-borne viral diseases affecting humans and is transmitted through the bite of the female Aedes aegyptis and, through a lesser extent, the Aedes albopictus. For serotypes of dengue exist, however, persons receive lifelong immunity against a serotype once infected with it. Only serotypes two and three have been recorded to date in Saint Lucia, with the majority of the cases being children. Dr. Michelle Faswa is the national epidemiologist in the Ministry of Health and Wellness. Normally, when you get one type of dengue, you are predisposed to a more severe form. So, that one type, you get lifelong immunity to it, but not to the other three. So, for example, if I get dengue serotype one, I am immune to it for the rest of my life. However, if I do happen to get a type two or type three or type four, with each progressive infection, I am more at risk of developing a more severe form of the illness. And this is why, with the circulation of two serotypes in Saint Lucia, as well as the one, two and three in our nearby countries, we are very vigilant and very concerned about this. Chief Environmental Health Officer in the Ministry of Health and Wellness, Parker Ragnanen, also highlighted the intervention measures being undertaken by the Environmental Health Division, including Lava Siding and Foggin. Foggin is one of the treatment measures that I implemented to kill the adult mosquito. But if that adult has laid eggs already, the eggs will not die. The lava will not die. The pupa that is in the water drum will not die. And so you might pass around and fog the area, kill the adult mosquito. But in two days' time, you have new kids on the block. New adult mosquitoes are formed. Householders and property owners are encouraged to inspect their household at least twice a week in an effort to contain the AIDS-Egypti mosquito population. Persons are also advised to avoid the indiscriminate dumping of garbage, which also serves as breeding ground for the mosquito. Ragnanen explained the importance of the community working together to prevent the local transmission of dengue fever. Very often, what we find is one household is doing all that it can in taking the preventative measures. But two houses away from you, nobody cares. And mosquitoes have a reasonably long flight range. They can travel up to a mile depending on the wind direction and wind speed. So that means if you are to look at a safe zone, you need to look at a one mile perimeter from where you live. Because it means that if somebody has dengue fever and they are living half a mile from where they live, it is possible that a mosquito can, by that person, get infected. And when that mosquito gets infected, we say technically the mosquito becomes infective. And when you have an infective mosquito, it can fly from half a mile to another person that distance. And by that person, that person can get the dengue fever as a result. The Ministry of Health and Wellness urges persons who may be experiencing signs and symptoms of dengue fever to seek care at the nearest wellness center. From the Government Information Service, I am Anisia Antoine reporting. This is NTN Nightly. Up next, Primus Hutchinson with the NTN Louvello Quaiol. If you are in receipt of an abnormally high bill, it is highly possible that you have a leak. That leak may not always be visible. Before you contact WASCO, conduct a do-it-yourself test. 1. Record your meter reading. 2. Do not use water for 30 minutes to 1 hour. 3. Take another meter reading. If the reading changes, you have a leak. Contact a plumber to identify and fix the leak at the earliest. A message brought to you by the Water and Sewage Company Incorporated, WASCO. Welcome back. We now join Primus Hutchinson for the NTN Louvello Quaiol. Thank you so much, Anisia. Thank you Madam Department for the WASCO's ability to inform the Government on this matter. This is GIS, the National Television of the NTN. This is the news of Quaiol. This is Primus Hutchinson. Since the 14th anniversary of this incident, I have found Limoyon in Kawebla to address the coronavirus. We have analyzed the number of people in Kawebla who have been infected with COVID-19. This is the first time that the whole country has been infected with COVID-19. This is a record of the number of people who have been infected with COVID-19.  Minister Isaac added that it is not possible to say that we are not safe with the coronavirus. Because the coronavirus is still the cause of the vaccine for the patients. And that if the coronavirus is spread to the citizens of the UK, the rest of the country will die. Minister Isaac said that if the virus is spread to the citizens of the UK, the rest of the country will die. 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President Jair Bolsonaro appears to dismiss a question on the high number of deaths from COVID-19 in Brazil, now more than 5,000. In North Korea, satellite pictures of boats used by leader Kim Jong-un suggest he is near one son. Kim has not been seen in public for weeks. In South Korea, a fire at a building area kills at least 25 workers in Isheon. And Indian actor Irfan Khan dies in Mumbai. Khan was famous for his parts in both Indian and Hollywood films. Doctors found that he had cancer in 2018.


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Hi, my name is Milozovman, I'm in charge of smart power products for factory automation and together with my colleague Wojciech Elias from SD application laboratory, we will introduce you our transceivers for IOLINK communication. Let's take a look at the key points we are going to cover. We will start with a very brief IOLINK technology introduction. Then we take a look at our IOLINK transceivers for master and device applications. And before a conclusion, we will show you also our extensive evaluation ecosystem. Let's start with the IOLINK technology overview. IOLINK is an interface used at the lowest level of factory automation systems. The technology is standardized under international norm IEC 61131-9. It interconnects field devices like industrial sensors or actuators on one side with programmable logic controllers, distributed I.O. systems or gateways on the other side. IOLINK technology has been developed exclusively for this purpose and therefore it perfectly fits various industrial fields such as production systems with different machine tools or robotics. It finds place in assembly lines in automotive or pharmaceutical industry as displayed here. And there are plenty of other applications where IOLINK brings benefits. We can hear very often about industry 4.0 or in other words industrial Internet of Things and about digitization in automation. IOLINK is clear enabler for these mega trends. The technology is based on a point-to-point communication between the IOLINK master and connected IOLINK devices. It uses a standard unshielded cable for industrial sensors to transfer binary data in the form of 11-bit UART frames using 0.24 volts logic. IOLINK allows transfer of process data at the cycle rate as short as 400 microseconds. Every cycle telegram can carry up to 32 bytes of process data and the protocol supports also large data transfers. The communication runs at one of three transmission rates depending on the capability of the connected device from 4.8 to 230.4 kilobits per second. We are coming now to the ST product offer. IOLINK is a point-to-point communication bus with one master on one side and one device on the other side. ST provides integrated solutions for both applications. We have L6360, which is one of the first IOLINK master transceivers released on the market since the technology introduction. For the device side, we can propose a single-channel transceiver, L6362A, featuring very efficient power stage for the lowest power dissipation and extreme robustness. I would like to take the opportunity to introduce also our brand new device transceiver, L6364. I will show you more details about it later. An integral part of our IOLINK offer are microcontrollers. We propose mainly the STM32, but besides the hardware, you need also a software to implement IOLINK communication. And for this purpose, we have a partner. I talk about TE Concept Company, which offers professional stacks for our microcontrollers. As promised, we are now going to present you our brand new dual-channel IOLINK device transceiver released recently on the market. L6364 is a highly integrated dual-channel IOLINK device transceiver with really advanced features. Let me highlight just very few points. The IC has two configurable input and output channels, which can be set to high side, low side or push-pull modes. Each output can deliver up to 250 mA. For higher currents, up to 500 mA and lower on-resistance, both channels can be connected in parallel in so-called join mode. The chip has an integrated frame handler supporting all IOLINK M sequences according to the most recent specification released and implements an automatic checksum calculation and verification. With this, it offers several other modes enabling full flexibility to generate any transmission sequences. You will find also a DC-DC converter and two linear voltage regulators on the chip, all rated up to 50 mA. The supply voltage range is very wide and starts even below 5V. All the chip functions are accessed through SPI bus and in the same way you can get the diagnostic information. Last but not least, the IC implements full set of protections like adjustable over-temperature, short-circuit, reverse polarity, but also search protection which significantly reduces external component count. You can get it in a very compact QFN or in a miniature chip scale package with dimensions as small as 2.5 by 2.5 mm. There are two identical channels embedded with possibility to select high side, low side or push-pull modes. They have configurable over-current thresholds as visible here in the table. They can operate either independently and drive currents between 110 and 250 mA or they can be switched in so-called join mode. In that case, the output currents are doubled and can go up to 500 mA. The equivalent on resistance is halved and power dissipation reduced. The power switches are capable to drive inductive loads with active glamping function for their fast turn-off. All the process pins are protected against surge pulses up to 1 kW using 500 ohm surge generator coupling. Let's summarize the key distinctive features of the chip. We have advantage in integration as we embed the IO-Link frame handler with checksum calculation and verification, the automatic clock extraction, and all power management circuits. L6364 offers high flexibility. Many parameters are accessible for configuration through SPI and the data transfer is also done through the same interface. We can select among several communication modes. We have clear advantage at immunity and protection performances. All the process peripheries are protected against EMC disturbances including surge pulses achieving the highest immunity levels. Thanks to the enhanced diagnostics, we have clear overview about what's happening around the application. This includes, for instance, adjustable thermal shutdown and undervoltage levels and integrated 7-bit temperature sensor with possibility of calibration. Besides the newest part, we have also other interesting transceivers for IO-Link applications. I'm talking about the single channel IO-Link device transceiver L6362A. It has a power stage with the lowest on resistance on the market in range of 1 ohm. It can be configured to high side, low side, or push pull modes by hard firing in the application. It has an embedded linear voltage regulator with output voltages at 3.3 or 5 volts. It supports all IO-Link communication modes and one of the key strengths of this chip is an integrated full protection and truly an extreme robustness.  It has an integrated L+, and CQ power stages with low on resistances in range of 1 ohm. It's possible to configure the CQ line to high side, low side, or push pull driving modes. It has two programmable LED drivers and linear voltage regulator providing 3.3 or 5 volts. The access to configuration and diagnostics is enabled through I2C bus. SD offers a rich portfolio of hardware and software tools to accelerate and simplify design and development of smart applications. Let's get an overview of our evaluation ecosystem for IO-Link. Like with any other ST product for factory automation, our newest dual channel IO-Link device comes with a full set of prototyping tools including Exnucleo Expansion Board, STM32Cube based firmware library, and a complete documentation. The brand new Exnucleo IOD02A1 with SPI, reverse polarity protection and two LEDs can be used as a reference for evaluation and application PCB design with the L6364. Associated firmware package XCube IOD02 includes the IO-Link Ministec and an IODDXML file to operate with IO-Link masters. Industrial IO-Link device software expansion for STM32Cube allows to build and evaluate applications based on the new dual channel device. It includes an IO-Link device Ministec and all needed routines to operate GPIOs, SPI, UARTs and interrupts in the microcontroller. The library is compatible with STM32L0 and G0 series, however it can be ported to any other ST micro thanks to the STM32Cube hardware abstraction layer. In order to allow testing of the new dual channel device in a complete sensor application, we offer a sensor-nucleo kit PNucleo IOD02A1. It consists of the Nucleo board with STM32L4 microcontroller and two expansion boards. One with the IO-Link device L6364 and the second one with a 3D accelerometer and gyroscope, magnetometer and a digital omnidirectional microphone. ST supports designers with a wide portfolio of tools for prototyping and development. We offer an evaluation expansion board for each of our IO-Link integrated circuits, including our single and the dual channel IO-Link devices and the IO-Link master transceiver. In addition to the basic evaluation boards, we offer also a complete IO-Link system solutions like industrial form factor multisensors for predictive maintenance, the IO-Link device Nucleo kit or the four-port IO-Link master. All of these solutions are fully compliant with IO-Link and they can also operate in combination with IO-Link products from different brands. STM32 Open Development Environment is the world-leading prototyping platform built around the Nucleo board and the STM32Cube software technology. Last but not least, the ST software packages include project files for the most common and user-friendly development environments, including the free-of-charge STM32Cube IDE. You can find all information about our IO-Link products and evaluation tools at st.com.io-link. We have talked a lot about our integrated circuits and evaluation ecosystem so far, but what else can ST do to help you turn the building blocks into a real and successful product? First, we will gladly support the free-of-charge shipment of IC samples to your hands to kick off the first stage of your project. We will also provide you with the application support during the design phase and help to ease your software development thanks to our partnership with the leading IO-Link software company, the E-Concept. Just don't hesitate to contact your local ST or distribution representative or use any communication channel on our website. Let me quickly summarize the content of today's session. We have talked about IO-Link technology which is specified by market leaders. As fully standardized, universal, easy to use and rapidly growing on the market. Then we have seen the scalable portfolio of master and device integrated circuits. The key advantages of our parts are very low on resistances of the embedded power stages, extensive features and protections, and wide configurability and diagnostics. And in the last part, we have seen the offer on evaluation tools and the complete ecosystem including our system oriented designs in terms of hardware, firmware and graphical user interfaces and IO-Link communications tech. Let us thank you for your attention. We hope you received some interesting information. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us through our distribution partners, sales representatives or through the online support. We are looking forward to talking to you soon again. Goodbye.


In this video, you will learn five strategic searching tips that will help you get better search results faster. Utilizing these tools outside of school can help hone your research skills and will produce more accurate and timely information when you need it. Typing your entire question into a database such as What is the impact of overall health and wellness on a student's success will end in unnecessary outcomes. The database or search engine will search for every word in the sentence, which will overwhelm your results. Common words that are only relevant in the context of the entire sentence will be picked up by the search engine, like the word impact. Try to identify the relevant core ideas of your topic, which are health or wellness and student success, and search those terms instead. Not all authors use the same words to describe the same ideas. It can be advantageous for you to think about a couple of different ways your topic or research question can be described. Health and wellness could also be described as well-being or fitness. Why is thinking about synonyms advantageous? A search engine or database will specifically search for the terms you typed in and will not necessarily know to include results with synonyms. By thinking of and including alternative synonyms in your search, you will get more relevant results. The words and or or, sometimes called boolean, can be used to group sets of search terms together in a meaningful way, which will customize the results to suit your specific needs. Use or to group together synonyms while typing your topic into a database or search engine. For example, health or wellness. This allows the database to include both terms and will increase the number of results. Use and to reduce the number of results by letting the database know that two concepts must be together, such as wellness and student success. These two words must appear together somewhere in the article, book, or document for it to appear as a search result. Library databases often have filters to help you narrow down your search. There are many filtering options and they vary depending on the database. Consider limiting by publication year or resource type, which are two of the most helpful filters for narrowing your search results. Limiting by publication year is helpful if you need recent information on your topic or if you are trying to research a specific time period. For example, if you want to know what scholars were talking about right after the Kennedy assassination, limit your publication search to the years 1963 to 1965. Limiting by resource type will help you target specific types of information for your assignment. Ohio University Library staff are there to help you navigate our resources and answer your questions. Please reach out to us with any questions you may have along the way. Finding information and making it accessible is our job. Consider bookmarking our contact page. This concludes the search strategies tutorial.


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We have three. Hi, welcome to CCTV Channel 17 Live at 525. It's the Preservation Burlington Show. Preservation Burlington is a non-profit 501C3 organization. Our mission is to preserve and protect the historic architecture and livability of Burlington through education and advocacy. I want to thank everybody for joining us this month. As usual, Lisa and I are co-hosting the show tonight. And we have some folks from Champlain College, Vandora and Lily, and we'll get more into... We're partnering up in a program, right? So we're going to talk about that tonight. It's going to be really cool. I mean, you guys have done all the heavy lifting. Yeah, well, it's easy for you to say. Well, it's amazing. I can't wait to talk about it. But we're winding down for the season, right? What do we have going on? We've got one more big event planned, and that is our Lakeview Cemetery Tour on Saturday, this coming Saturday. The 28th of October at 10 a.m. And so that's going to be... Well, fingers crossed, the weather's going to be good because we got rained out last week. We had to postpone. But we've got some folks coming from the General Standards Society to talk about General Standard and his legacy and anniversary events that they're planning right now. And we've also got somebody coming to talk about General Otis Howard, right? General Otis Howard. Okay. Well, I live in one of the Howard houses from Burlington. And I don't know how he relates to General Otis. Maybe we can figure that out by Saturday. I'll learn that on Saturday. It'll be good. It'll be a fun event. I always love Lakeview Cemetery. It's beautiful. As long as the weather's great, you can see the lake, and it's like one of those turn of the century... Park-like cemeteries. Yeah, which is always pretty neat. Yeah, it's a beautiful place. Lots of history, lots of great characters, and there are lots of stories. Some good, some bad, some a little rascal-ish. Yeah, so we've got that, and we had our annual awards this past week. Celebration, and that was great, so... Yeah, that was a lot of fun. Carolyn Bates, who does all our photography for all of our events and the homestore and everything, she's putting out three volumes of a new book called Burlington Murals. Volume one is out, and it's just pretty neat because she's very excited and animated about the whole thing, and she's been meeting all these artists and researching by-gone murals, and it's pretty neat. And current ones too, yeah. Yeah. And Carolyn, we have to give Carolyn a shout-out because our featured speaker had to cancel unexpectedly. Yes. Unfortunately, and Carolyn stepped up at a moment's notice and regaled the audience with stories about her books. Like, I had no idea Burlington had so many street murals, let alone three volumes worth, right? Right. So they were really fascinating, and she knows every artist's name, where every mural is. Chase them all down. Oh, she was just like, it was great. Yeah, yeah, it was really fun. It was really nice of her. So introduce yourselves. Okay, sure. Well, hello, everyone. I'm Vandora Williams, a professor at Champlain College, also the assistant dean for administration in the Division of Communication and Creative Media, but for your purposes here. I am the faculty that is part of the grant and project on Urban Renewal, which is, I believe, what we're here to talk about. Yes, there you are. Who are you? I'm Lily Sakiniwa. I am a recent Champlain College graduate, and I have been working on this project along with Dr. Williams. I've been responsible for putting together the documentary that's going to be coming out at the end of November. And I've also done some stuff with some podcasting around the topics. So, yeah, that's awesome. Well, welcome to our little show. Thank you. Yeah, thanks. And it's exciting, because we were invited by Champlain College to be the community partner in this grant. It's not an NEH grant. What's the grant? So the grant is from the Council on Independent Colleges, Public Humanities, Grant Public Humanities Research for Good. Grant. It's a very long name, but it's basically, we were awarded a grant to use, to connect students to these special collections at their college institutions, and to do some sort of public project with it. So, working with Erica Donis, the Special Collections Archivist at the time, we went into the Special Archives to see, you know, well, what can we do? What's here? And she, Erica was wonderful. She pulled out so much of it. So much, yeah. Right. How did you choose this? Sort of my happy place. Yeah, it's classic. Right. And I was like, well, what can be compelling and what story is there that they have? And I looked at the urban renewal and looking at what was, how Burlington had changed over time under the urban renewal policies. And I was like, okay, this is a good one to use and to get the students connected with it. So, that was sort of the genesis of it. It's neat because that's such, and you'll be able to tell us more than anybody right now, but it's such a, it's an ongoing Yes. Discussion. Issue, discussion process. I mean, as they're still doing work in that area, you know, it's just this evolution now that was sort of kick started for, in my opinion, the wrong reasons, you know, but maybe I'm wrong. So, but yeah, so I thought when I heard that that's what you were interested in, I was just like really excited to be a part of it. And I think it's like, and again, that's a part of Burlington that we've, you know, the original part, the neighborhoods that were there are lost, you know. So we try to tell that story as best we can. But you dove deeper into it. So how did you come to the idea of urban renewal and researching that? So I think that when I first started working on this project, I kind of, I started as, for my kind of final senior project at Champlain, I'll do like a capstone project. So that's how I got involved with this. And I think the idea of working within the framework of urban renewal was always there. It was more so my choice to kind of be like, all right, you get to decide exactly how you want to tell this story and through like what lens you want to show people. So, you know, like Dr. Williams said, I was working really closely with Erica, who was, you know, just giving me all sorts of really good avenues to explore and go down. And I really just kind of connected with the idea of, you know, people like having this really amazing kind of self-built community that was meeting all of the needs and taking care of all of the people that were there, kind of like on its own without any outside help or support. And having that, having something so like beautiful and natural be just like taken away for something, you know, that didn't even really, you know, in theory, there were a lot of like big ideas and some of them were great. Some of them maybe weren't so well thought out, but in the end, it still doesn't really take away from the fact that we lost something really great and people should know about that.  It's not unique to Burlington. Oh, absolutely, yeah. Yeah, that's a great way of saying that in my past life as a journalist, I did in Norfolk, Virginia, I came across the same thing, the same themes of a neighborhood that was vibrant and it was meeting all of the needs of the community and the city and then it's like, we need to, you know, urban renewal, we need to revitalize everything and the revitalization was basically destruction, right? So I started to see some of those similar themes here in Vermont and I was like, well, what does that look like here? So we were able to, I think Lilly really found a great story in what that looks like in Vermont and what's, you know, what was lost there. So I don't want to give away too much because we have to come to the local history event. Right, right, right. We want people to still come to that. It's a little, it's just a little tease, just a little tease, but it's, I think it's just fascinating where we're able to tell this story and show how a federal policy, how city and state and federal policies that are meant to help or assist communities to, you know, help them in their physical structures and how that policy just turned into something that really destroyed lives, which was not intended. And in every community, it may look slightly different, but the same result. The dynamic is the same and then the end results are often the same, you know, and it was like, and you're right, it's not some mean conspiracy or anything like that. It's just this, again, vague notion, this well-wishing, this is like, oh, look at these communities. We want to do this thing that's going to be so much better. And then sometimes something like our one-story mall was there for a long time, you know, because I guess we needed another one-story mall. You know, but yeah, yeah, yeah. So you're telling the story. I know there's the documentary and I've got a preview of that and I think it's like, hey, you did an amazing job and everybody should come on the 30th. The local history events at Champlain College are always fun. It's always a big deal and it's always fun. I have a second question for you, but so with the documentary, you mentioned a podcast. So how did you decide to share this information? How did the podcast work out in the documentary? Yeah, totally. So I think the way I decided to do it was in my podcast, because podcasts, obviously, are something that, you know, or mainly you can't really see it, it's mostly you listen to it and that's a really unique opportunity to kind of really, what am I trying to say, activate your imagination, I guess I'm trying to say, like you really can submerge yourself in just like the world of what, you know, the little Italy neighborhood, which is the neighborhood that we focus on, was what it was like, you know, back in the 1940s, 50s and 60s, you know, when it was a thriving and vibrant community. Nice cool picture. Oh, there it is. Yes, but so yeah, I really wanted to use the kind of podcast medium to allow people to listen and you know, figure out what it's been like to walk down the street and hear what people were saying or, you know, what was like, what the kids were doing and fun things like that and so we really kind of used it as an opportunity to explore the more personal side of, you know, the people that were impacted and the lives that were, not just, you know, lives as in people, but you know, the livelihoods that were lost, people had businesses there, they set up their whole lives there and things like that. So having all those things taken away from you is something that's incredibly difficult. So it was really cool to be able to give people a way to learn all those cool things but also use their imagination and be able to kind of imagine what it would have been like and so, and then for the documentary, I kind of wanted to definitely still talk about that aspect of it but focus a little bit more on the kind of gap that we see between kind of government federal agencies trying to figure out from the top down, okay, well, what do we think communities should look like versus the people who are actually there living there every single day and just that kind of disconnect between the two. You know what I mean? Yeah, absolutely. So I'm curious, you know, what were your resources? Where did your research lead you? Who did you talk to as you were starting to assemble this documentary? Well, I talked to a lot of really good people for this project, so I was very lucky I found a lot of great sources. I did a lot of my research components through the Champlain College Archives, I utilized the UVM archives, the Vermont State Archives, I found a lot of great stuff there. I was able to find some people who still live in the around Burlington today. Monica Farrington specifically, she lived in the Little Italy community when she was growing up. Her whole family lived there as well. I talked to John Vercione, who also his family, he grew up there. They were living in the Little Italy neighborhood when urban renewal happened, so they had a lot of, you know, very impactful things to share. I also was able to talk to some people like Pat Robbins, who was, you know, a brilliant architect and designer. I'm pretty sure that's why he designed the Church Street. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just getting his opinion on, you know, how government worked then and kind of, you know, the behind the scenes of, like, how decisions were made and understanding a little bit more of that process and that side of that story. I also spoke with Brennan Kellacher, who's so knowledgeable on the topic. He's written so many amazing papers about Burlington and Monuski in general, so he had a lot of great things to share. And I've talked to so many people, but yeah, yeah. See, we've got some pictures that you brought cycling through. Can you talk about those a little bit? Yeah, absolutely. So this is actually a picture of Monica's family. This was right after a wedding and they got married at their house, which was on South Champlain Street, one of the streets in the urban renewal area, which, and I just love this picture because it shows just, you know, how many fun things happened and how many people's lives were lived in this neighborhood. People got married there, you know? What years do these... Well, this is a different one. What span of years did you find? So these are probably from the, anywhere from the 40s to like the late 50s, I would say. And this picture is cool. I found, I included some from what would have been Horizon Tower, one of the kind of newer, more modern buildings that they wanted to bring into now. This one never came to fruition, right? No, yeah, it did not come to fruition, which is a, you know, kind of another interesting aspect of this work. And another example of the top-down, you know, this is what the new New England is going to look like. This is what you need. Right, exactly, exactly. A tower. Yes, yeah. This is John's family, so... Nice. Yeah. I'm loving the shoes, though. Yeah, I know, I know. The outfits. We really... Halloween's coming up! Yes, yes. Is that South Champlain? This is the corner of, yeah, North Champlain Street and Bank Street, yes. So I've included somewhere in here there are some before and after pictures of the streets. So this is College Street. And it's also just, you know, for me, having lived in Burlington for only a couple of years, it's just so amazing to know that, like, it even looked like this at one point, you know what I mean? Like, and this is some of the aftermath of after the destruction happened. Sort of in process of just erasing the neighborhood. Yes, absolutely. With high hopes of a giant tower. Mm-hmm. Because you just tell dramatic that is. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. This was a local market in the neighborhood. It's Morola's. Yes, yeah, Morola's. It moved up to North Ave. Oh, really? For a while. Yeah. Not there anymore. Mm-hmm. Yeah. So I'm sure you've talked a little bit about it. You came across tons and tons of research and material and sources. How did you decide what to leave in and what to leave out? Well, there's a volume two and a volume three. Is there a sequel? Well, there could be, for real. Yes. But so that, you know, that was definitely one of the hardest parts, I think, when we were first figuring out. Yes. I think Dr. Williams started, she was like, all right, it'll be 10 minutes. And then I came back and she was like, all right, we can make it 15 now. And then I came back and she was like, okay, maybe 20, 20 is the most. Right, right. Ended up being. It's actually about in total 18 minutes. Okay. And that includes the credits, so I think that sounds bad. That's pretty good, yeah, that's pretty hard to achieve. I know sitting at some of the meetings, planning for the event for the 30th, you know, we're trying to parse out who gets what time for what.  You had fellow students that did other components, right? What were some of those? Yes, so we, in the spring, we asked, we partnered with another liberal arts class and it was called Urban Sonic Placemaking. And so the students were just, you know, they're all about looking at sound and how to incorporate that into what they're learning. So we said, you know, we went to the professor and said, you know, an assignment maybe, one or two around urban renewal and what does it sound like? Right? Or the sounds of the city and how it has changed from one neighborhood to the next. So, and I think the students loved that. They went overboard and the students created an album. Oh, wow. And we even have, I think, a song that was absolutely brilliant and very, very clever. So. Was that the one about the restaurant? Was that, I liked that one. Single pebble. I do remember that one. Yes. Single pebble. Yes. My family loves the single pebble. So, yeah, there were several songs and just sound effects and everything on that particular album, which I think the students really enjoyed. And it was, again, one of the goals to connect the students with the special collections research and then interpreting that into the tools that they wanted to. So, that was one class and then we had the photography class where students went to take pictures and looking at the different architecture, looking at the physical structure of the city based on the urban renewal parts and the old parts and the story there. What can we learn from that? So, those were the two classes that we did that worked on it in the spring. So, at the local history event, we're going to exhibit some of those photos and the songs and the sound effects as well. Yeah, that's going to be fun. I like the fact that, you know, in seeing some of their work, you know, it was mostly based on current conditions, right? So, what's there now? You know, and when you, like you said, juxtaposition, when you put that next to all your research, it's powerful to see every, the story you're telling and then to see what's there now and then, once again, you know, there's another tower that's going to go up and it, maybe it's great, maybe who knows, you know, it's better than nothing, right, better than the pit. But, you know, it's just such connections. It's not just the physicality and the sound, but also the voices and the story. So, it was really wonderful to bring all of that together to say, you know, this wasn't any place that you go to. It's not just rocks and cement and there's a story here. There are lives, right? There's, there's something that was created. There's culture there that you don't know about and perhaps you should learn about that. Because, at least, my ulterior motive, right, history matters, you know. Thank you for saying that. So, where, where does it go from here? I mean, you've done the documentary, you're unveiling and you're, we're having this event on November 30th. Where does it go from here? Well, I will encourage Lily to submit her documentary to some film festivals. We're also going to submit it to Vermont PBS and I believe they may be of interest so that it will be a statewide broadcast.  But also just to extend this type of project and it will live online for, for, for posterity, for others to work with. But other than that, I think it's up to the young people where, what do you want to do with that knowledge? You know, once you graduate, you know, if you become a reporter at a station or something like that, do you want to extend that knowledge and bring that into what, what you do every day. Whether it is in, in media or some other platform to have that real deep understanding of, of a place and respecting that, I think it's something important, but who knows? You know, maybe I don't know. But I, but I love, I love the, the openness to see where it will go. Yeah, for sure. And I think, rather than couragely, I think you should force her to submit it. But, that's fair. Yes. Congratulations. You've graduated, right? Yes, yeah. So what are your hopes with, I mean, so this was a really neat project. You pulled this whole thing together. Well, do you mean specifically? Not to put you on the spot. Oh, no, no. Specifically generally all of the above. Okay. Well, I agree, I think that, well, I agree with Dr. Williams, I think that it will be really cool to see what people make of this documentary and how they choose to, you know, take that information. I think it will be particularly interesting to see in the next couple of years as Burlington kind of develops with all the new kind of construction that's going on there. I think that will be one big area where I actually, after graduating, I did recently just take a job as a reporter. So, yeah, and I'm really loving being able to, like Dr. Williams said, use all of this kind of knowledge and like passion to really dig in and really understand. I've really, through this project, I've become very passionate about Vermont as a state and also our city just kind of understanding like not only how we got to where we are, but you know, where we can go from here. So I think it's really able to use that kind of passion to share important information about this kind of stuff with everybody, you know, that watches our channel. So it's cool that I'm really, I feel really lucky that I get to do that for people. So you like to tell stories? I do. I do like to tell stories. You like to do that research and then tell those stories. Yes, yes. Which is so important back to your comment, you know, I mean about history and just about our culture and you just said where we are now and how we got here and where we go from here. It's so important to, you know, to telling those elements from the past or future, making those connections because that is the one thing that people, you know, gets them interested, holds their interest, right? Right. And keeps their brains engaged. So storytelling is hugely important and how you tell the stories and who you tell them to really makes a difference. Right. Right. And telling the story of Urban Renewal hopefully will inform how they make decisions in the future. Yeah. Going to Wood, right? Right. We hope, but I think it's just really important that as I tell my students there's always a story, there's always a history to it. If you understand the history, your storytelling will be so much more stronger, much more informed and, you know, it will ignite your passion about what's been here and what is going to be here. Right. So always encouraging them through that because I'd never heard of Little Italy until we got that. I just knew, oh, okay, there's construction and they couldn't raise the funds to build the building, so it's just there. I didn't realize it was maybe 50 years in the making and still in the making. You know, there's something to be said about that. I know. That's quite a lot, but we won't go into that. Right. But that's interesting. That's the whole story and the backstory about all that. Yeah. Well, we also know that when less than positive things happen in communities, it tends to get buried and, you know, the stories sort of get pushed aside and it's really great to see them come to the forefront and humanize them so that people start caring again. Yes. And I posted about the event on social media. I don't know what social media is, but I did it and I said that, mistakes, mistakes are made, always made. Well, hopefully we learn from the, once we learn about the process where we got, how we made those decisions and made those mistakes and what are we going to do from here? That's the whole big thing, especially with this project and the documentary you put together, the active growth of what's trying to be created there, which is erasing something that erased something else. Yeah. You know, that's such a crazy process to watch and be part of, but just to be aware of that whole history of that is just so amazing. That's why this is important. You hit on those two two spots. One is the top down, sort of, we know what you need and what will help you mentality, as well as this sort of brushing aside and forgetting and so many people come in with a passion to serve their communities, this, that, and the other and then don't realize what was there, right? And we always have to keep looking back and people tend to forget that. So, Yeah. I love that where perhaps policymakers, even down at the local level, can learn to, you may, I see an area that you think needs revitalization or change before you make these decisions, ask the people that live there, you know, what do you need. This should be in their orientation packets. This should, should be. Perhaps in the you know, approaching it from the bottom up. What does that look like, right? And, and on a national level, that's, that's sort of been the stories of small, small communities, large communities where they've gone through this urban renewal process and it's always been the same as the top down and real destruction of some vibrant communities that have hurt the city in the future. Right. And keep hurting. Right. Yeah. That's really don't think there's much future, really thinking about the future, the tax base and what people bring to the table. Right. I think there's, there may be some, they're not really thinking deeply enough about that. About the community, about what the community wants and needs. Deep pockets, not deep community. Right. Yeah. That's a little bit of human nature. I don't, I'm going to go out on a limb here.  I don't know. I don't know. I don't think so. I like that. I like that. Is it Pine Street and Champlain are going to be reconnected? I like that. Yes. You know? That was really the only thing about the mall that drove me crazy. I couldn't go straight through. I was like, you know? Right. Because I can never remember so I always hit it and then I have to turn. It's a big thing. That's, that's interesting that I don't want to keep going on and on. But one of the decisions were made. It was because of cars. Yeah. Yeah. Right. And removing structures just to make place for this new technology that keeps you mobile. Jane Jacobson, her arch enemy. What was his name? I just bought his book. He was the urbanist. It was all about cars and circumferential highways. And it'll come to me after the show is over. Of course. I just want to thank you guys. It's like where we've run out our clock because I can talk for another hour, but I can't wait till the 30th. Thank you. Thank you so much for all your work. It's been really fun being a part of this and being the community partner in Champlain College. I'm glad you're not the Invisible College anymore. Thank you. You guys are right there on the hill. Doing great things for that neighborhood and community. So thank you both for being here. Thank you so much. And we're going to put the event on the, on our website and a link to yours and all the information and highly encourage people to come out and see it. After the fact with your permission we'll share the documentary. Absolutely, absolutely. Like you said, we want to keep it going. Well, we want to keep it tight-lipped until the 30th. It's really good. It's really good. It really is. Yeah, he's got it. Yay. I'd like to thank everybody for tuning in to CCTV live at 525, Preservation Burlington. Thank our guests and always the community stuff is just so much fun. For more information on Burlington history, our tours and events, including the one coming up, or to get a marker for your historic house, go to preservationburlington.org and we'll see you next month. Thanks for watching.


Hello, and welcome. This is Chris films by Chris.com. That's Chris the K and we've been looking at capture the flag the Google capture flag 2018 I'm again a little behind most other people who have been working on these projects and This security by obscurity one It was annoying because I knew what needed to be done and actually I was able to solve it fairly quick But trying to automate it because I'm making scripts for each one of these that completely automate And I want to have them complete you run the script and it automates it So for example for this one this gives me through up to security. I run this and After a few seconds you get your flag right there. Okay, it took me forever to figure out how to To do that so again, I want to shout out to live overflow and John Hammond just because they have awesome channels check them out. They're the ones that brought this capture flag project to my attention and Just because they were doing awesome videos. So let's go ahead and look at so what was What was such a pain in the buck about this one? So you download this attachment, which is a zip file and and again Read these what they say here because they say things like John They're telling you to to brute force it. They're recommending John the the Ripper, which I didn't use in this particular case and Basically what you happen and they also you know by name security through obscurity You know that this person tried to do something crazy to hide something rather than securing it So you download a zip file and inside that zip file is another zip file Which is another zip file another zip file another zip file and it goes like ten levels down and then the zip files change from being zip files To being XZ files, which are another compression format. So What I originally did was I tried using unzip now the annoying part is unzip is Very particular about extensions it wants your file to be dot zip instead of just looking at the header of the file Which is how in my opinion it should work it should go Oh, yeah, this is a zip file even if it doesn't have that extension Well, when you extract these files like we have the original zip file we extract file inside it It is a zip file, but it isn't dot zip. So I had I was trying to write a script that extracted it renamed it dot zip Deleted the old one it did that and then finally got that but then again. I got ten levels down all sudden now it's their XZ files So now I had to figure out how to write my script to to check the file type and wait for you know If it's a zip file do this if it's an XZ file was this and it was just becoming a pain button and and the files It's like it starts. It's like the alphabet. It says password alphabet And starts adding and removing letters as you extract stuff So I started getting conflicts of files already existing and then I was like, uh, let me try a different zip program I was like seven zip seven zip will extract both XZ files and zip files, so I don't need to change program using and luckily it doesn't care what the extension is So I don't have to worry about adding the extension So let's go ahead and look at my script here real quick again The first line here is just downloading the original zip file and I'm calling it pass one dot zip And then we do a while loop and what it's going to do is it's going to extract each file So while one What I do is I'm right here to get the name of the zip file because it's going to change for each one That's extracted and I can't say you know You know for each file list because they aren't they don't exist yet So I'm looping and then I'm going to list all the files and directory dash t is by time So they're sorted by times the newest should be at the bottom So then I'm saying tail and mean grab the last line Which is the name of the newest file that directory which in theory should be our latest extracted file And we're putting that into a variable called f Okay, and then to extract a file with seven zip you just use seven Z E and the file name So what I did here was I'd added dash a away to say override So if the file you're extracting already exists override it because I was getting too much of this file already exists And then here the dash p is for a password Okay, and I'm giving it password test, which is not the password So what's happening is going to extract every single one of these files And it gets the last one which actually has a password so all the ones that don't have passwords It just kind of ignores this and continues we get the last one which asks for a password Well before I put this the script run run run and they get that last one And it would wait for me to enter a password and I just hit enter and then it would continue Well, I realized if I give it the wrong password it will continue and the pipe pipe means the last command failed So basically it's going to extract file extract file extract file and then we get to the last one which is password protected It's going to pass at the password of test, which is wrong. So it's going to go up. It failed So it will break out of this loop. Okay, and I also have it remove the previous file So after it extracts a file that removes it, but It continues extracting files until it passes the wrong password to that last one that breaks out of the while loop and Continues on now. I want to get I want to crack the password on that last file Which after being extracted this way you get a file called password x which is a zip file So I installed using aptitude or apt getter apt I installed fcrack zip which is for cracking zip files and I assume with these beginner Google capture the flags when they ask for a password. It's usually something pretty simple. So I just told it to start with There's an extra space in here. That's bothering me boom, okay We're saying to go through and I'm basically saying brute force this, you know start at a a a a a a a b a a c and we're saying start at four characters and go through up to eight characters and hopefully it will go pretty fast because Brute forcing takes a long time And luckily it did the password ended up being ASDF so it's it's you know starts with an a so it's caught pretty fast only takes a couple seconds So then I just rep for equal equal because that's the line that will have our password on it And then I use oct to grab just the password and we're putting all that so after it cracks the password It outputs just the password and it puts into a variable called password And then I say using password this and then we extract it that happens so fast that you actually don't even really ever see This up on the screen but it extracts it clears the screen and then it says your flag is and it cats out the file That has your flag and then it removes all our temporary, you know files that we've created. So again Let's go ahead and run that So that's all the The sevens it output and theoretically I could probably suppress that but I figured why You know and as you can see the last one it says error because the password didn't match And then we brute force it and because it starts with an a and it's only four digits and that's where I started with cracking it It only takes like half a second for it to get to ASDF So anyway, I didn't use John the Ripper. I use that f crack and actually I looked at the f crack zip man page and in it I'm pretty sure if you go down to the bottom there is a Sworn somewhere out here Here they're talking about a program that says it's an underperformance FZC Which seems to be a widely used fast password cracker claims to make this made checks per second on my machine measures under plain DOS with memory manager It's saying that this program this f crack zip file zip program It's been written in C and not a similar site so naturally it is slower So they're saying there's another program out there that might be faster. I Don't I didn't look into this one worked fine You know, it's slightly slower 12 percent slower, you know, I don't know if this program Runs on anything but DOS because I did read somewhere just a second ago. It said it was in DOS anyway You might get faster results if you really had to crack a password because brute-forcing really takes forever I went with brute-forcing because The nature of this game was telling me that it was going to be a simple password. Anyway, again go to Git lab.com for slash metal x1000 Ford slash capital CTF You can get all my scripts for the automation of this that you can pick through again check out John Hammons YouTube channel and live or flow just because they're awesome You know, they didn't ask me to give them a shout out, but I am because their channels are awesome I hope you learn something new again This one was just a headache this one was simple to do by hand But then automating it became a headache until I just switched the tools I was using so You know if you're stuck in in the rut try changing what you're doing. Anyway, I thank you for watching again Does it films are Chris calm? That's Chris the kids link in the description. Check me out on patreon patreon.com Ford slash metal x1000 link in the description to that as well also on my Page under support got patreon.com or PayPal if you want to support me that Wave you can't be sure to like share and subscribe Comment all that stuff because it does help with the views a little bit and I'll cross out my website You can search through both my channels for search No, yeah, whatever There we go The my second channel is mainly on hardware stuff and my website searches through both channels So you can learn a lot there. Thanks for watching and as always I hope that you have a great day you


The goal, just so you know, is to raise, for every person that is selected, uh, $1,500. There we go, everybody! Okay, seven miles in the books, a steezy kind of day. I think about 750 a mile approximately. Excuse me, there it is on your screen. In the Ultra ProVision 4s. I think, sadly, these are my first Ultra shoes of 2020. A zero drop shoe. I like Ultras for stretching out the calves, stretching out the soleus, and they felt great, great today. I gotta say, really, really good, the Ultra ProVision 4. So there you go, and alright, kind of foam rolling stretch. And it's just gonna have to wait, everyone. The foam rolling and stretching has to wait. I'm too excited about talking with all of you on all these updates. Oh my goodness, it's happening. And thank you for your patience. A lot of people have been asking how to register for the virtual races, how to get t-shirts, and how to support those who have been affected by COVID-19 in a big, big way. So here's the updates. Here we go, we're diving in, and I'm looking over here because I got a lot of notes, and I don't want to mess up any of the dates. So first of all, let's talk about the D'Amour Global Running Virtual Races. I can't believe it's gonna happen. Um, alright, here we go. So, April Sunday, April 19th, 2020, it's go day. 5K, 10K, half marathon, and marathon. And yes, shout out to Wolf Creek Race Management out in the PA. They are helping me. They set this entire thing up on RunSignUp.com, okay? So if there's any day to go down to the description of a vlog, today is the day. The link to the sign up is down there through RunSignUp.com, and you can register $0, okay? It's free, 5K, 10K, half marathon, and marathon. And as far as the t-shirts go though, here's another date to mark down. They will cost money, and they will, we're gonna do it through Teespring here on YouTube on April 10th. So the t-shirts will be available through Teespring on April 10th. So mark that date down. If you want a t-shirt for the virtual races, the design is almost done. I love it. They will be available April 10th. Now, as far as submitting your results from your 5K, 10K, half marathon, marathon, you will send your results to demorevirtualresultsatgmail.com. And this is all explained in the link down below, and it's official. Like, these results from around the world, you will have to show proof, okay, through Strava or through Garmin or Nike, and then you will submit it to that email, and then a couple days later, all of the results will be aggregated together, put together, and we'll see how everyone does around the world.  And of course, we're all gonna be running different courses, and I'm registering for the marathon. It's gonna be insane. So that is the deal with the demore global running first-ever virtual races. I can't believe it's happening. And one last point on the races. Like, if you're in high school or you're part of a running club, like, invite everyone to join the virtual races. Like, anybody can join literally around the world, and it's $0, okay? So I think if you're in high school and like your track season was canceled, this could be a fun kind of run. Don't go run together now.   I think it would be fun. So anyway, or maybe you were training for the London Marathon, and the London Marathon, you know, is delayed until early October, I believe it is. So maybe this is an opportunity to invite your friends in the UK or around Europe that we're going to run London. Who knows? Or Boston? Oh my gosh. The list goes on and on and on. Okay, moving on here. The light keeps going out on me, so I've got to keep this concise. Here we go. Moving on from the races to the COVID-19 relief. If you didn't see the vlog from last week, upper right-hand corner, you can go watch it. I go into a lot of detail about what we're going to do to help people in need, all right? Because of COVID-19 and what's happening out there in the economy, all right? Again, upper right-hand corner, so you can go into more detail. So here's the deal. April 8th, 2020. I'm going to run around the track. Wednesday, April 8th, 2020. Mark it on your calendar. That is the day.  And I'm going to go run. And every lap that I run, people are going to pledge a certain amount of money for each lap that I do, okay? And I'll just tell you right now. The longest run of my life was 50 miles, and I guarantee I'm going to run at least 20. I'm just putting it out there right now, okay? So there's another link down in the description right now where you can go make a pledge, and this is going to be a gift, okay? Individual to individual. Just want to make that clear. I talk to an accountant, and as long as it's a gift, okay? This is not a donation. This is not a fundraiser. This is a gift where you're going to gift me money, and then I'm going to gift the money to those people in need, okay? Just want to make that clear, and I'm just going to pull up just to confirm. Here we go. The gifting, all right, is going to be on PayPal, Venmo, and Google Pay. Not on Super Chat here on YouTube, okay? It's going to be on PayPal, Venmo, and Google. You guys, you know, many people have used all of those three platforms, especially Venmo. That's how it's going to work. And if you do make a pledge, here's the deal. I'm going to ask for your email address, your name, the country that you're from, and then the amount that you would like to pledge. Maybe it's five cents a lap. Maybe it's five dollars a lap, okay? And then after I'm done running around the track, you'll get an email back with the amount of laps that I ran and then multiplied by your gifting, your pledge, okay? Does that sound good? So that's how this is going to go down. And live on the day, there's going to be some other, well, yeah, you're going to also be able to do one-time gifting on the day as well, okay? So if you don't want to make a pledge today, that's okay. You can do it during the live stream when I'm running around the track. I'm trying to make sure I'm not missing any details on that. Wednesday, April 8th, 2020. And yes, I am still calling and interviewing everyone that needs help, just so you know people a lot. Oh my goodness, you would be blown away by the stories that I'm getting via email from people who are basically, they don't know what they're going to do as far as staying in their home in the next couple of months. It's heartbreaking. It's heartbreaking. So thank you for helping and we're going to do this. We're going to do this together. I'm just wracking my brain, making sure I'm not missing anything. I'm going to go inside and make some signs, actually, for the day of. And we're going to make this happen together. All right. So thank you for everyone that reached out and a couple of accountants reached out. CPAs reached out to me as well, just confirming that as long as it's a gift individual to individual, we're good to go. All right. All right. And break. All right. Here we go, everyone. Okay. We're going to get to those signs in a minute. All right. But first I need to actually make some phone calls to the people that we're going to be helping. Okay. So here we go here to help you and help everyone get through this just horrible situation. So all right. Have a great day. Bye. The goal, just so you know, is to raise for every person that is selected $1,500. And so the idea is that that's, you know, basically I wanted to try and select a number that would come close to covering like someone's rent for a month. Okay. So just hanging up with the last person for today, I'll make more phone calls over the weekend, left a couple of voicemails, but hearing the voices of these folks who lost their job because of COVID-19 and are just very, I think I spoke to two single mothers, a single dad, just really challenging situations right now. So I invited them to film a two to three minute video. They don't have to though, only if they want to, if they want to share their story with me and therefore with you in the first live stream Monday night, when we'll do more of the pledging for the laps around the track. And basically they'll send me a two to three minute video through their phone, and then I will show it to you in that live stream just so you can see the faces and the voices of the people that you will be able to help and impact their lives in a very tangible way. And I just heard their voice through the phone and it's like, you know, one of the moms was crying over the phone just because it's actually the day the video published last week was the day she was fired. So, okay, let's go make these signs. Okay, my love, we're gonna beat the virus. We're gonna beat the virus together. If there's any artists out there that know how to make beautiful signs, you know, I need some signs for the live stream Wednesday, April 8th. We're going around laps. Yes, it's go time. It's go time. I might need my little chicken sandwich. Oh, yes. I don't know how long I'm gonna run. I have free coupons at Chick-fil-A. Oh, perfect, perfect. So, we're gonna beat the virus together. You would be amazed at the stories that I heard today on the phone. Thanks for sharing. If you're out there watching. Eyes are devastated. Yeah, very, very devastated. So, both together we're stronger. And question of the day, real quick, is not connected to running, but to your life, how has the virus impacted your life? Say one of the biggest ones for us is probably... Homeschooling. Homeschooling. It's a whole new world. God love teachers. It's a whole new world. So, anyway, yeah. Beat the virus, baby. Beat the virus. All right, boom. Oh, elbows. Why did you not get it? Because you went and got it at Costco. Yeah. Yeah, it's perfect. So, my high was... Oh, my high was making the... Beat the virus sign. There we go. Boys, this is for Papa's gonna run a long ways to help raise some money for people that lost their job because of the coronavirus. So, I made a sign and we're gonna need to make a lot more signs. Maybe you guys can make some signs. Maybe we're gonna...  In America, we work hard. We like to work hard. Stop working. I am was signing off from the DeBoer Global Running Dinner. There we go. Tossing it back on the right, too. Right there, last week's announcement of this great endeavor. All right. The boys are excited. The boys are excited. Seek beauty, work hard, and love each other. See you tomorrow. Ciao!


Hi, everyone. Oh, that's so loud. OK, we are going to make a start. So welcome, everyone. Bienvenue. That's all the French I'm going to say. So welcome to the very first platform engineering day. Hopefully not the last one, but the first one. We are so happy that you could all be here. We're excited to be talking all things platform engineering today. We hope you have a really good experience. Yeah. And we will start off with some short introduction and housekeeping announcement. OK, so let me introduce myself. My name is Hazem. And I'm Paula. Hi. We will be your hosts for today. Hazem and I, you'll see quite a lot of us. And you'll see us at the end as well. Yeah. And as you see, our official hashtag is play, so please get posting on social media that everyone wish they were here. We want everyone to feel welcome here today. So please treat others as you would expect to be treated. We have a code of conduct which you can scan this QR code to read. There are details on the code of conduct about who to report incidents to. If you witness any behavior that's unacceptable or if you experience it. And there are volunteers here in the building today who will be on hand to assist if any incidents happen. Also captioning and translation are available. Please scan the code and use your language and enjoy it. So let me also thank you. Big thank you to our diamond sponsor, Upbound, and also to Plotinium sponsors today. Cortex, GetBot, Octopus, Deploy, Red Hat, and CL. And as well to our startup sponsors, Heomanetic Port and Sintasso. And definitely to our session recording sponsor, Cloud Geometry. OK, so how did we get here today? I'm going to tell a very short story. So the idea for this event came about probably just around KubeCon Amsterdam last year. So I was having various conversations with people about all things platform engineering. And it really felt like people wanted to have a space to come together to talk about these topics. So my team at Sintasso and I, we thought about maybe, we briefly thought maybe we'd run something ourselves. But what we really wanted was a community event for the community, by the community. So we reached out to some people we knew in platform engineering space. And luckily, Stacey Potter agreed to help us. So together, Stacey and I wrote the proposal. We submitted it to the CNCF. And long story short, here we are today. So I want to first of all say a big thanks to Stacey for writing the proposal with me.  I'd like to thank the program committee for reviewing all of the submissions. We actually had the most submissions to the call for proposal for any co-located event. So there's clearly a big demand for an event that talks about platform engineering, not just the tooling, but the practices and the ideas and how we can share our experiences. I also want to thank everybody who submitted. We had a really tough decision to make when we were trying to choose the lineup. But hopefully, you'll see from the agenda that we've got some fantastic speakers here today. We're really excited to be talking all things platform engineering. And I want to thank our speakers in advance, because I'm sure you've all put lots of hard work into your talks. So we're really excited to see those later. And beside the fantastic agenda we have, there is tons of refreshment, drinks and snacks outside. And please don't forget to catch up later after the day and to meet outside. Thanks. So that's it from Hazem and I. We will be here all day doing introductions. We will be here at the end of the day doing our closing remarks. We're also looking for feedback. So please, if you've got ideas or thoughts for how to make this day better, please share them with us if you see us in the corridor. And we will be handing over to our first speakers, Abby and Whitney in just one second. Thank you.


My friends, we all have different reasons to improve our English. A working professional might want to improve his English so that he can give a praiseworthy presentation. A student might want to enhance his vocabulary so that he can pass an exam like SAT or IELTS. Irrespective of where we all are in our lives, we all want to enhance our English, from fluent in English communication so that we can communicate effectively and face the world confidently. And we all are looking for various ways in our day to day life so that we can improve English on a day to day basis. So this video is exactly for people like you who are looking for a simple way through which they can improve their English on an ongoing basis. But in this video I am going to talk about a very simple tool that will not only expand your vocabulary but will also help you know the grammatical errors you are making in your day to day life and the pronunciation of different words that we generally mispronounce. So all of this would happen just by using a simple tool and that tool is TED Talks. In this particular video I am going to address this simple tool in three steps. In the first step I am going to tell you what TED Talks actually are. In the second step I am going to talk about why you should be using TED Talks, what are the benefits of using TED Talks and finally I am going to take you through a process in which you can use TED Talks and expand your vocabulary by putting less than 30 minutes every day. So are you ready? Let's get on the board. TED Talks according to me needs no introduction. TED is a non-profit organization that started in 1984 with an intention to spread ideas across globe and I am very sure that all of you who are watching this video would have stumbled upon one or the other TED Talk while going through their YouTube. You would have watched at least one TED Talk. So this icon of TED would not be something which is very unfamiliar to you, right? So TED is basically a word that stands for technology, education and design. So you can actually connect the three dots and see that TED Talks are basically on these three issues. So there are different people who are invited by TED organization every year in their conference. They come on stage and they talk about either their life story or some accomplishment that they achieve or something related to technology, education and design. Now that you know what this organization TED is doing, you would be wondering that why is Arpita talking about TED Talks as a way to improve English, improve fluency. There are so many other ways. There are these YouTube channels that are available or there are so many books that you can buy. There are courses that you can attend. You can even talk to a friend. You can use the traditional way of reading the newspaper and highlighting the important words. There are so many ways to enhance your English. Why TED Talks? And what is so different about TED Talks that this would help you improve more than anything else? Let me answer this by giving you three valid reasons. The first reason, see in India we all love anything which is free, right? Be it a free toothbrush that we get with a new tube of toothpaste or be it anything else we all love free stuff and this is the beauty of TED Talks. These talks are absolutely free and available on YouTube without any charge. You can just write TED Talks and you will get the YouTube channel and there are more than 30 100 free TED Talks available. So the first thing is that it's free. You don't have to spend a single penny. The second valid reason why you should opt for TED is the fact that TED Talks are extremely interesting. See there has been a lot of research going around this issue that how do we learn and all the research synonymously say the same thing that if you're motivated, if you're interested in what you are hearing, you will automatically absorb the vocabulary, you will automatically absorb the sentence structure. But if you're finding something really boring, then you will not pay attention to those sentence structures to the key words that you come across. This is what happened with me when I tried improving my English through reading newspaper. Current affairs is something which I have never been interested all my life and while reading newspaper, you feel like it's a task, it's a daunting task. Whereas in case of TED Talk, it feels like you are just browsing and having fun on YouTube. You're not actually feeling as if you're learning something and that is the best way to learn. When learning doesn't seem like learning, it seems like play. It seems like an activity that you enjoy the most. You look up to that activity all your day, that's where TED Talks come to the play. So TED Talks are available on a variety of topics. You can pick any topic you are interested in. There are topics related to Bollywood actors. So you have speakers like Shah Rukh Khan coming and talking about his life story. Then there are TED Talks related to world leaders like Bill Gates. So you can choose the genre that you are interested in and you can go ahead and watch that TED Talk. And the third and the final reason why I would suggest you to improve your vocabulary by using TED is the limited time that you have to invest every day. See, guys, we have so much to do every single day that if I ask you to devote three hours every day to improve your English, I think none of you would be able to take it forward more than 15 days. You might do it in that intrinsic motivation for 10, 15 days. But after that, you will be back to square one. But TED Talks are very easy. Why? Because they are very short in length. So there are certain TED Talks which are hardly 10 minutes. There are talks which are about 15 to 20 minutes. But there is no TED Talk more than 20 minutes.  At the same time, it is sufficient time that you can take out from your day to day life. See, you might not be able to take out an hour's time every day. But I'm pretty sure that it is easy for each one of us to take those 20 minutes out from our day to day life. You can just watch a TED Talk while going or traveling to your college or you can watch it right before you want to sleep. Any of that slot you can pick, but just invest 20 minutes of your day and see the change in your English fluency within one month. Finally, we land on to the most important segment of this video, where I'm going to talk about how you should watch the TED Talks. We are now clear about the importance of TED Talks and why it is an effective way to not just enhance your vocabulary but to also find out the pronunciation mistakes that you're making on a day to day basis to improve on your grammar and to enhance your fluency in general. But it is also important to understand how can we achieve so many goals by just watching one TED Talk. Most of us, when I would say you to go and watch a TED Talk, I would simply play the talk on YouTube and would watch it and you're done. You think that your job is done, that's not the correct way. I'm preparing my little brother for SAT exams and it is during this preparation that I and he sat down and we tried to chart out ways we can improve on his vocabulary. For SAT, you need expansive vocabulary and that is where we were able to find out a step by step process in which he can expand his vocabulary using TED Talks and I'm going to share the same strategy with you guys. So step number one is to download and take the print out of the transcript of the TED Talk that you have decided to watch. See, I've done one sample for you. So basically this is a TED Talk that was given by Shahrukh Khan on the topic Thoughts on Humanity, Fame and Love. This is a very, very simple TED Talk, you will find it easily on YouTube. And the transcript of the same, that means whatever Shahrukh Khan has said, those lines you can download from the website of TED. So TEDx ka jo website hai vaha pe, you will find the TED Talk and just below that you will find the transcript. You just need to simply copy the transcript, paste it in a Word document and get the print out. Why this is important, I'll tell you shortly. So the first step is to download the transcript and take the print out. Second step is watch the TED Talk while keeping the transcript in hand and marking the pronunciations of words that you have been mispronouncing so far. So while you are listening to Shahrukh Khan, I'm pretty sure that there would be certain words that he would be pronouncing, which you in general would pronounce in a wrong way. For example, we all say neither. It's not neither, it's neither. So when you listen to Shahrukh Khan saying neither, you automatically understand that okay, I have been pronouncing this word as neither. So I'm wrong. So you mark the correct pronunciation right after that particular word. And if you are a Hindi speaker, I would suggest you to write down the pronunciation in Hindi. Because in Hindi, the sounds are way more clear than English. Aap agar neither likthe hai English mein, so it is difficult whether it's neither or neither. But agar aap Hindi mein na, na mein aakhi matra lagaate hain to aapko automatically pata chulata. It's na. It's not neither. E nahi hai, aahe. That is how you will understand the correct pronunciation of so many words. So that's step number two. Step three is after you've watched the TED Talk, you take the transcript with you and highlight the important phrases that are new to you or important words that are new to you. For example, there was a beautiful word that Shahrukh Khan used. That was pedil. P-E-D-D-L-E. Pedil means to sell. So he said that I love to pedil love. I pedil love to millions of people. What he meant by this phrase was that I sell love to millions of people in India by making movies that people are like, those movies which are very close to the hearts of people. Right? So you mark all these phrases and if in case you don't know the phrase or the word, you can check the meaning on internet and you can write down the meaning. That's step number three. Step four is to now make sure that you use these new words in your day-to-day communication till the time they become part of your active vocabulary. See, we all have two kinds of vocabulary. One is the active vocabulary. That means the word that we generally use in our day-to-day life. And one is a passive vocabulary. That means words which we understand, but we don't use it. For example, happy is a word that we have in our active vocabulary. Whenever I'm feeling happy, I would say I'm happy, right? But there's another word for happy. That is elated. I'm extremely elated to meet my new friend. Now this elated word might be in your passive vocabulary. You might have come across it. You know the meaning, but you don't use it. You don't substitute it when you have to express your happiness. You can go to your mom and say I am happy that you made my favorite dish today. Or you could substitute happy by saying I'm extremely elated mom that you made my favorite dish today. This is how you have to make sure that the words that you've mugged in your transcript are becoming gradually a part of your day-to-day vocabulary. And finally, after all of this is done, after every 15 or 20 days, make sure that you go back to the transcript of the previous TED talks and you revise them. Revision is the key, guys. It's not just something you would do for a competitive exam. It is also something you would do whenever you want to learn something new. Nowadays, I'm learning dancing. And when my dance teacher comes every day, she makes sure that we first recall the dance move that we learned yesterday. And that is how, that is those dance moves are getting imprinted in my brain. If I learn a move today and I don't revise it, I'm going to forget it. I'm not going to master it, right? So that's where revision comes into play. So a particular TED talk has to be approached in this manner. It might take three days for you to complete this activity with one TED talk, or it might even take five days. You have to download the script, then you have to listen to the talk, mark the pronunciation, then you have to highlight the new words, then you have to make an effort to consciously make sentences from these new words. And finally, you have to revise the TED talk. And once you're done with this TED talk, you can then move on and decide to watch the second TED talk. So this is how you are going to use TED talks to improve your English fluency, along with enhancing your vocabulary and checking the pronunciation mistakes that you're making on a day-to-day basis. So that's it for this video lecture. I hope the video will help you to improve on your fluency. We'll meet very soon in the next video lecture. For such videos, make sure you subscribe our channel because I would be putting up a lot of other videos on different topics that will help you to get over your day-to-day challenges. That's it from my side. I'll meet you very soon. Till the time we meet next, happy learning, keep loving literature, and stay tuned to arpitakarwa.com.