Welcome back to Kids Fun Science. My name is Ken. Today's experiment is the anti-gravity structure. As always, adult supervision is required. What you need for this experiment is eight popsicle sticks, glue gun, drill, thread, and a box cutter. So we're going to start off first step. We're going to take six of the popsicle sticks and we're going to take a hot glue gun. Be very careful. Adult supervision with that as glue is very hot. And you're just going to make two triangles. It doesn't matter what part of the popsicle is on top or bottom. And once you get both of your triangles done, it should glue pretty quick with the hot glue gun. And then here's my second one there. And now we're going to take the two other popsicle sticks and cut those. First, we're going to measure each popsicle stick to be seven centimeters long. So once we mark both of those, we're going to take a 45 degree angle and mark those up. So they have a little bit of an angle on here. See right here, right to the seven centimeters right there. And then we make the 45 up from the seven centimeters right there. And now we're going to cut them. So we'll be very careful with our box cutter or some kind of knife. I'm using the end of the 45 degree angle to kind of keep it straight. Be very careful when you're pulling it down after I cut a little bit through the popsicle stick. I kind of bent it back and forth and then got them all the way there. As you can see, both pieces are off. We do not need the little pieces. Throw those away. So take one of your triangles and on the bottom of it, we're going to measure halfway across. So this is a nine centimeter popsicle stick. And so four and a half centimeters, we're going to mark on one of the popsicle sticks. And then we're going to take the two loose pieces and mark them. The two pieces we cut now, we're going to mark a little dot right in the middle on the curve there. Like if there was a half circle, you're going to mark that there.  So I'm using a five and 64 bit. Just want to make sure you have a small enough hole that a piece of thread could go through. But not too small where it's going to stop the thread from going through. So be very careful with that. Once you get both the holes in, you can kind of, you know, stand down those pieces there and you'll be fine. So now we're going to take one of the pieces that we cut already. We're going to angle toward the middle of the triangle. So be very careful. Use your hot glue gun, put it on there so it's facing to the middle. It should dry pretty quick.  So now we're going to put the second piece on the triangle. This time it goes on the top of the triangle, not the bottom. And it angles into the middle just like the other one. So be careful. Put your hot glue on the tip there of the angle, angle it to the middle. Once that dries, then I'm going to put a second coat on each side just to make sure it's, you know, enforced and it's not going to fall off. And then now you're pretty much set and done with the easy part. The hard part is going to be putting the thread on. So I will be showing you that next. But right now you're going to stack it so it's like this. So it's like a little T-P or an A. So it stacks up just like this. So now that it's stacked together, we're going to mark. And it actually looks like it's about nine centimeters long. So we're going to take the string out and cut it a little bit longer than nine centimeters. And this is where it becomes a little bit tricky. So we're going to have to tie these around each end. And then you can cut it off with your box cutter or I just got a pair of scissors here and cut off the excess string and measure it by pulling it out and measure it to make sure it's the right distance for you. That was set up in the triangle. So it's eight centimeters right there. So the next two have to be eight centimeters. And so this is where it gets a little tricky. So you're going to spin it around to the triangle the other way and do the other side just like this. So I did the second one and I measure it up and it's eight centimeters again too. So I'm all set there and then I did my third string and so all three are just about on top.  Now the final step is putting that last string on the middle has to tie to the bottom to the top and so it's exactly tight. Once it is, there you go. There's your anti-gravity structure. Bars or anything and then there's just four pieces of string and when you stand it straight up it actually will stand straight up and hold therefore being hence its name the anti-gravity structure. I mean it is just it might be really amazing. I hope you enjoyed this experiment. If you did please click thumbs up and to subscribe and thanks for watching. Okay that video seems really interesting. Oh and that video too. I read subscribe button down below and


shushing. Oh sorry why uh why are you here? You told me there was a birthday. Hmm a birthday a birthday. I can't think of whose birthday it could be. Yeah come on in. Happy birthday to the switch. Look we got party balloons. We got things dangling from the ceiling. Even if you want to worm your way back here. Oh I'll just get a shot of it later. Look we've got happy birthday around the back here. It's you know it's like a Mario themed birthday extravaganza. If you could just step back that way a little bit. We've got drinks but we also have snacks so uh would you like anything Kim? Would you like a drink or something? Are they his friends? Then yeah that's all the birthday boys right there and girls birthday boys you know. But we got we've got some delicious G Fuel on tap. All the G Fuel you could possibly want. We're mixing flavors today so it's going to be a little bit of you know anything you want but it's a big day you need energy for it you know what I mean and if you want energy for it you know code beat them up to gfuel.com they're just a little bit of a shameless plug but you know they are doing a whole promotion right now where whoever sells the most G Fuel gets a shaker cup and I've always wanted a shaker cup because I really love G Fuel and if you could help support me it would actually mean a lot to me. I mean I did go through the entire effort of hosting this entire party after all so that's good. Tastes delicious. Do you want a snack? Anyone hungry? Sure. Okay well take your little party plate here Kim you want to just hold that out in front of the camera there. Some delicious G Fuel pop rocks for you. You can go ahead and um a little bit of a fun dip situation so anything else nope just gfuel code beat them up get 30% off right now help me win the competition I'd really appreciate it look at all the people we have to try and beat. So it is the switch's birthday and I wanted I wanted I wanted to do something special so we're going to take a look back at the switch and the last five years but also take a look at this year and the future of the switch because it's going to be really exciting and it also was very exciting I have not had nearly enough G Fuel but I'm going to use this camera now so okay bye. Wait hold on a second you didn't you didn't do your party hat here you go there's one for you there's one for you and there's one for me and then you know what we'll put one on the camera and that can be everyone at home yeah there you go you guys can't sit shut the that's what you guys are wearing so hold on I went out of all the effort to get these and I'm gonna have to clean this later sir happy birthday happy birthday all right thank you Kim just get a they pop in your mouth all right cope but in all seriousness or as as serious as we can get with a thousand balloons in my room it is the switch's five-year anniversary and we've had a ton of fun with this console and I want to celebrate it I usually don't do these anniversary milestones but it's half a decade I can't believe I've been making videos about this console that long on the hunt to find a switch see if anywhere has any actual pre-orders left for the switch we did it buddy yeah switch with breath the wild we did it we did it everyone switch also in all seriousness I wasn't kidding about the G Fuel thing it's like a whole tournament there's blackouts and knockouts blackouts and G Fuel is delicious zero calories zero sugar energy I mean I got three cans right here it'll get me through the next week if you've appreciated the five years of content I've given you for free just saying there's a link below I really want to appreciate and celebrate Nintendo and the switch today and the joy that that console and its games have given all of us but it's a little hard for me to walk down memory lane without also looking at my content and what we did with the switch early on nobody thought well I did but nobody else seemed to think the switch was going to be all that successful and looking at it now that is insane hi guys how is everyone to pick up my Nintendo switch and Zelda and most likely that is it the Nintendo switch launched March 3rd 2017 with one of the strongest launches I think a console has had I mean it released with a new Zelda but not just a Zelda Breath of the Wild which since has become a pinnacle of open world gaming experiences and many games open world or not that have released since then have been measured up to that masterpiece but on top of that we also had Super Bomberman which well it was there I am set sooner one two switch I can't believe that's still $60 launch day was strong but honestly it didn't take long for a plethora of quality games to start releasing on the console in 2017 alone we had Super Mario Odyssey Mario Cart 8 Deluxe Platoon 2 Xenoblade 2 Arms 1 2 Switch Snipperclips Fire Emblem Warriors Mario and Rabbids Pokemon Tournament Golf Story Hollow Knight and Stardew those two games alone I feel like the switch helped make them the success that they are Steam World Dig 2 we got a Minecraft Switch Edition Overcook is still a staple of the console Wargroove enter the gungeon it was clear in that first year that not only were first party exclusive games hoppin on Nintendo's new hybrid handheld console but Indies also had a ton of opportunity to hit the system and blow up I saw a statistic that Steam World Dig 2 sold 10 times more on Switch than it did on Steam the Indie scene not only was very successful on the switch but I believe it's what helped the switch be so successful early on there are so many great games on the Nintendo eShop right now that don't have physical releases and downloading them digitally is the only way that you can play them there was a bunch of other random games that released on the switch in that first year and it's funny looking back how fondly I remember those experiences because you got to remember I know it's weird to say this like we don't remember five years ago but handheld gaming before the switch was the 3DS and then before that Game Boys it wasn't exactly the technological pinnacle of gaming at the time don't get me wrong there were fun experiences but they kind of looked like this all of a sudden we were able to play these games on the go it was a huge step up so even though a lot of these games if they released now you probably wouldn't think much of them but playing fast RMX on the switches launch in 60 FPS was crazy games like Mighty Gun Vault Snake Pass Binding of Isaac Wonder Boy Blaster Master 0 Puyo Puyo Tetris were all games that are burned into my brain of memories of playing them at home on the TV on the tablet on the bus when I was going around Canada exploring because I lived there when I got a switch I bought my first switch is Canadian maybe that's why he's so apologetic about his joycon drift so I just put $45 on my own money down I put it on the line I bought a game that I know is going to suck I essentially just wasted $45 and of course you had your terrible games when we started to realize that while the switch is cool and it can do a lot we've never seen before it has its limits and it was interesting in that first year discovering the limits because you know we didn't really know where the ceiling was at the time Breath of the Wild was crazy but then we had something like WWE 2k18 where you couldn't have more than two wrestlers in the ring at the same time or else the game would chunk down a five FPS and very quickly a lot of publishers that planned games for the switch started to think maybe this isn't a good idea Steve was supposed to come out in 2017 that never happened can we take a second to look at these trees if I take two steps forward they change look at these shadows they're loading in and out right in front of my face but it's funny how much those games again I remember them because there wasn't the thousands of games that there are now the first year were strong and we had some great titles but it wasn't until a year or two later it started exploding and I do want to look at this year as we get into the video because it's funny while we've had some great years since and I would argue some years that are comparable this year on switch is already set to be the best that we've ever seen but before we get to 2022 I want to look at some videos that I made and the experiences that I and I think it reflects the experiences that you and we had early on with the console if you were an earlier doctor oh I second I'm thirsty it's gotta get my jug of G fuel there's three different flavors in here I don't recommend mixing three G fuels by the way or we should put a disclaimer there recently with the NX being really being revealed and the Nintendo switch and everything that's going on with that and a lot of people going back and watching my is the we used to watch the video and leaving a lot of comments like do you think it's still worth buying the Wii U with the NX or the switch not being backwards compatible so I went through and grabbed a few videos of the uh in the history of beat em ups and should you buy a Nintendo switch or Wii U five years ago that's the first video on my channel I could find with the word switch in it I think this was my first switch video and I mean again the NX it's just recently been announced I don't know what they have planned for the system I don't know if the system is going to be terrible the concept and the possibilities and the Nintendo being Nintendo it's gonna be fine it's gonna it's gonna be a good system with a lot of good quality titles it's funny looking back at this now I'm trying to convince people the switch is going to be fine like after the Wii U the thing I always tried to nail home was yeah the Wii U failed but even if you got even if you bought one right at the end of its life you would still have as many exclusive games to buy and play quality titles to play as any other console like it doesn't matter that no one else bought it if you buy it you'll have fun with it there's more than enough to play on it the hybrid nature of the switch is what I initially always saw as the obvious this is going to explode this system is not going to be the Wii U mark my word if in like five years from now this system is the next Wii U and you want to go back to this video clip it and then take it and put it somewhere online and say wood hawker has no credibility but I don't feel like I'm gonna be wrong this time I knew it was gonna be good I knew I just knew in my heart of hearts I'll be honest I if you had I had no idea it would be this successful like it really has but it's a major major success one of the best-selling consoles of all time I wouldn't have guessed that after the Wii U but I knew it was going to be way better than the Wii U in the last nine months since release they have sold 10 million switch units so I live streamed waiting at eb games on the day an hour and 15 minute stream I mean back then there wasn't that many people watching I doubt there were more than 50 people in chat but I you know I went I got the switch it was not a super exciting video I tried really hard to hide my credit card and everything at checkout so the phone was at a weird angle it's kind of horrible to watch back because other than the fact that you're literally there for it you don't see anything okay so we're all done all right thank you so thank you have a nice day thank you what's your name zane nice to meet you zane I appreciate it I am I'm gonna run home now and it's funny to think that that was five years ago today and how much my life has changed since then and the fact that the switch has been everywhere with me I mean I'm married now I'm in Texas now I went to Japan with my switch I took my switch back home to Australia and I played my switch with my high school friends who are you always used to play games with growing up my switch has honestly been by my side every night I go to bed because I take it to bed just in case I want to play something before I go to sleep and I don't always do but it's just a routine now that if I'm going to bed I grab my switch and I've done that for five years there are a few things that Nintendo probably could have done better there's a random video I found five things I would switch about the switch I would switch the battery life on the on the tablet apparently you can run Zelda for about three hours on it so what I wanted to watch this video for is I couldn't remember the five things I wanted to change and it looks like the first one was I wanted a better battery you're welcome let's see what number two is but I don't like the name the name oh I'm sorry wood you don't like the name it's not a bad name and it makes sense with the whole theme of the console which is switching the controllers all the time let us change that right away for you would let us change it right away there's no way it's going to be a success with the name switch not a chance I don't think anyone's going to catch on to that now you and I both know when this system came out I went a little overboard making videos about the switch and not the video games the switch I made way too many videos about the actual switch so how about I make one about the games okay so this is really where it all began I started covering switch things early as you've seen you know I was talking about things I would change things that I want but it was when I made five Nintendo switch games that are worth the price and five that are not when everything started to take off when you go back and watch some of these videos that I'm talking about today they might have 10 20 30 000 views now because people have gone back and watched them gotta remember at the time they weren't getting that many views I was a very small channel but this was the one it blew up and there's a lot of reasons it immediately did pretty well not a million views but pretty well it was just at about six months into the switch people started to look at the console and see oh there's a new Zelda there's a new Mario Odyssey there's you know Mario Kart 8 Deluxe there's some things going on here but what else is there what games are worth buying and again nobody was really talking about the switch back then people still didn't think it was going to be a success so when people went to YouTube and searched what Nintendo switch games are worth buying there was like two or three of us making videos about it at the time and mine was one of the only ones people had nowhere else to go I was it for the longest time I mean one of a few but you know what I mean there was also a video called the Metroid Prime 4 coming in four months maybe maybe Bandai almost has this thing finished and we can expect to see it between spring to summer 2018 I didn't even I didn't even watch that one I man we've been on a wild ride with that one Nintendo all right we could talk about 2018 19 20 and even 2021 but I don't really want to have a five hour long video I thought it would just be fun to look at the switches release and then look at its fifth year it's actually kind of freaky when you look at it and you think about it because this year is almost like a repeat of 2017 but even better we already had Pokemon Arceus which I think is one of the greatest games on switch and so much fun and jumping ahead to the end of the list we just got two new Pokemon games Scarlet and Violet announced for the end of the year just let's just throw Breath of the Wild 2 in there immediately and it is funny looking at the first year breath of the wild fifth year breath of the wild two keep that in mind as we go along we're also getting a brand new Kirby game and I don't know if we're getting a Mario Odyssey or a sequel to that I think it's coming my theory is it's going to launch with whatever Nintendo does next but I think it's funny that the new Kirby looks a lot like Mario Odyssey which was also released in 2017 we're getting Splatoon 3 so is the writing on the wall for that one Splatoon 2 in 2017 Mario and Rabbids 2 Mario and Rabbids 1 was 2017 Xenoblade 3 Xenoblade 2 was also 2017 you don't you see it's weird it's a weird year but it doesn't end there Fire Emblem Warriors 3 hopes is releasing this year and we also had a Fire Emblem Warriors in 2017 on top of that Nintendo Switch Sports which is just cool I mean you could compare it with one to switch but why would you it's just this is just better also while we're on sports games we're getting a new Mario Strikers which is just incredible on its own Golf Story a cute little indie that took the world by storm and still a Switch exclusive released 2017 and was supposed to get its sequel as well so even the indies are coming out and repeating the last five years was sports story in 2022 on top of that that Sonic Frontiers game is supposed to release I think my god I sound like a broken record but I think that Sonic Forces game was 2017 Advanced Wars 1 and 2 is getting a reboot triangle strategy I know Octopath was I think 2019 but it's still an incredible game to be getting in the middle of everything else this year you can even look at the new Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC tracks I mean the game released in 2017 and for some reason now in 2022 we're getting a bunch of new content for it and then if we do finally get Silksong like this year like we're supposed to we also got Hollow Knight in the first year 2022 is a repeat of 2027 but like souped up to 11 I think there's too many games even I don't know how some of these games are gonna survive being released crammed in between other releases it'll definitely be the best year the switch is ever seen I mean just judging by that lineup we know this already either way I don't see anything ever competing with this I mean look at that it's insane you know I planned out pretty much this entire video up until now and I'm now realizing that I don't really have a way to end it I get pretty emotional when I think about the switch and the last five years because I mean the switch changed my life you know it really did Nintendo and all the content that I've made how it's intertwined with my life it's my favorite console of all time it really is Nintendo's history and lineage all wrapped up in a one I remember when the switch was revealed they did a whole montage of like we've taken this from the NES and this from the 64 and this from the Wii and it's all led up to this moment and honestly it really did all lead up to that moment for Nintendo I had this thought the other day but Nintendo always did the handheld and the home console they did both independently and then as soon as technology met a point where they could combine both and they could have that competitive edge also tied up in a hybrid console where they could have their portable and their home all in one and stay competitive they did it as soon as they could they did it because it just it just screams Nintendo so thank you Nintendo and the switch for the last five years thank you to all of you for watching my content for the last five years and whatever the future does look like for both Nintendo and my content I'm excited to experience all of it with you and just in general happy birthday to you happy birthday you should have seen you should have seen the guy's face when I was buying all these balloons you should have seen how insane I looked when I was coming out of party city look that crazy do I


Hey Psych2Goers! Have you ever been on a first date where you ran out of topics to discuss and it made the rest of the date awkward, and you noticed your date being distant? Or maybe you had an awkward, fidgety conversation with your crush? If so, you're probably wondering how to turn this awkward situation into attraction. Here are 5 ways. 1. Mirroring their actions Have you ever found yourself or others imitating the actions of their company? This could be a sign that the imitator shows a liking towards them. Studies have shown that, subtly, imitating another person's actions and behaviors helps to create social bonds, and maybe even romantic ones. People tend to find their partners more attractive if the other mimics their own verbal or nonverbal behavior. For example, sipping a glass of water or leaning against the wall when your partner does it. So the next time you get stuck in an awkward conversation, subtly mirroring your partner's actions could help release tension and make you feel more comfortable with each other. 2. Engage in eye contact In romantic movies, couples are usually portrayed gazing into each other's eyes. This is no different than in real life. Occasional eye contact between two individuals has been known to bring people closer together. So when you feel like a conversation is going nowhere, gaze into your partner's eyes occasionally to show them you are interested and attentive. Who knows, it could be the start of a long-lasting romantic relationship. 3. Use open body language Often, body language can tell a lot about a person and affect how the other person behaves in your company. Closed body language like crossing your arms may give off a feeling that you are mentally closed off, making conversations difficult and awkward. This could lead your partner to think that you are not interested in them. Keeping your abdomen, torso, or chest open are examples of open body language that can increase your attractiveness as it portrays availability and confidence, thus making others more comfortable and trusting around you. 4. Laugh off the situation Have you ever made an awkward comment that made the atmosphere heavy or uncomfortable? If so, joking and laughing off the remark can help turn the situation around because humor is a highly valued quality in others. In fact, such humor could be considered a powerful tool to overcome dissimilarities in attitudes between two individuals. humor helps to maintain a relationship despite differences of opinion that may make things tense. It also creates a loving bond between both individuals and increased attraction towards each other. Remember, the use of jokes is no laughing matter. 5. Apologize and make amends when necessary Have you ever made a mistake around your partner or crush? Maybe you were late to meet up or some other small mistake. It can make situations awkward as such behavior could be viewed negatively. Apologizing when needed demonstrates accountability and responsibility, both of which are important traits when it comes to romantic relationships. This gives your partner a sense of trust and assurance, making you seem more attractive in the process. So, did these five methods help you out? Remember that awkwardness is bound to happen throughout your life. We're all human after all and we're not perfect. Take it in stride, laugh it off, or find some other method that works for you. Please like and share this with friends that might find some good advice in this video as well. Make sure to subscribe to Psych2Go and hit the notification bell for more content. All the references used are added in the description box below. Thanks for watching and we'll see you next time.


Sharing the joy, shining the light. Singing the place of soaring Christ. Sharing the peace, shining the truth. Singing and soaring as you. Joy and purpose to heal. Okay, so, David, can you tell us a little bit about sharing the joy? Sharing the joy, well, that's what life is all about. It feels like life is a series of opportunities to let the joy from deep inside the heart just pour through and shine out and radiate out. And to me, that's what I look forward to every day. That's why you get out of bed. I think it's great any kind of project or any kind of situation that arises when you can let that joy shine through and just pour through you. There's nothing greater than opportunities like that. There's nothing that you look more forward to than to having this opportunity. So the song with so many ways, I think this collection of songs really has a lot of joy behind it. So it's quite appropriate. Sharing the joy is a beautiful appropriate title. It's great to have the opportunity to put it down onto an album and to let it touch people's hearts.  And this is like the fulfillment of a life's journey and life's purpose. So it's exciting. It's exciting to get to this point to just feel like sharing is coming through so strong that you can hardly stop from laughing. That's a good sign. Your cup runneth over. Oh, oh yeah.


Hello, everyone, and thanks for joining us today to talk about policy as code, and how can you use it to manage risk in your Kubernetes environments? Before we begin, let me introduce myself. My name is Cesar Rodriguez, and I'm the head of developer advocacy at Acrex. And I've been working on the cloud security space for most of my career, helping secure public and private cloud environments in the military and financial industries. I want to begin by talking about some of the challenges that I've had before using policy as code in my experience. So one of my first jobs, I worked on a project to help write and revamp the security policies for our organization. And this was taken security policies and standards like those provided by NIST, SANS, and OWASP, determining which of these were applicable to the organization I was working for, and how should we comply with those standards. Once the policies were written, we performed some of the traditional security activities, which had some challenges due to the approach that we were taking. One of the challenges was that the way we assess our environment for compliance with the policies were through point-in-time assessments. And these were things like verifying the security of our systems at deployment gates, or periodic security reviews that don't really take into consideration the evolving nature of the systems and applications that you're trying to assess. The problem is that when you take this approach for only checking your security issues at certain dates, there are going to be gaps in the understanding of the security posture of your environment. And what most organizations do is to just focus on acquiring and running tools that check for security vulnerabilities at runtime as opposed to trying to prevent issues as soon as the code or configuration for your system is written. Another challenge in the traditional security world is that we have security appliances like firewalls, IDS, IPS, WAFs, and proxy securing our environment, but only a handful of people on the security team have visibility into how these are configured. And most developers and operators don't really know how these effects their applications and systems. This usually leads to having unnecessary calls to the security team every time there might be an issue that could possibly be related to some of the security systems, because no one really understands what's going on and how these systems work. Also, since these were primarily manually configured, no one knows if these devices have been configured correctly to comply with the policies of the organization or if there are bugs that might expose the environment in an unintended way. The final challenge that I want to highlight with traditional security is that everything was manual. Starting with the way you engage with the security team, for example, if you need a firewall rule updated, you open a ticket with security, wait for them to look at it, maybe schedule a meeting to understand what you're asking, probably saying they'll say no the first time, you go back and forth and once everything, everyone is on the same page and the schedule a change, then finally someone manually makes a change and we all hope it goes well. This approach is not only error prone, but it's inefficient and sometimes it's very frustrating. Another example where things are done manually is when you want to verify if the organization is in compliance with a particular policy. For example, if you have a security policies where all of your data must be encrypted at rest to enforce compliance with the policy, you need to check that all of your storage systems are correctly configured and appropriately and that's usually done manually by going into each of those systems to verify that they're properly configured. This can be time consuming and doesn't guarantee that you'll be in compliance 100% of the time because things can be missed when you're doing it manually. A lot of these challenges can be fixed once we move to a cloud native architecture and systems and start using declarative languages and infrastructure as code to provision and manage our systems, whether they're security related or business centric. So what is policy as code? Policy as code means that you're codifying the policies that are important to your organization into your development process to allow consistent enforcement of those policies through automation. So this allows you to move your security posture from reactive where you're only checking things at runtime to proactive as you want to detect and remediate issues as soon as they're codified and not at runtime when they're made in the actual environment. So from our previous example, if you wanna ensure that encryption at rest is applied to your environment instead of manually checking all of your storage systems with policy as code, you will write a rule or a policy that can be used to programmatically check that the code that's going to provision and manage your storage system is using is half encryption properly configured. So the first step to start implementing policy as code is to start defining your infrastructure and its configuration as code. Let me give you an example of how I've used it on my experience and how I've used the declarative APIs and infrastructure as code to improve the security posture of an organization I've worked for. So a few years ago, I was working on a big cloud migration project for a financial firm. To kick off the cloud migration, we were tasked on developing and deploying a significant customer-facing application in three months as part of an MVP. We formed a cross-functional teams with members of the business, developers, infrastructure engineers, operations and obviously security. And the idea was to build the initial core cloud infrastructure for the firm at the same time that the development team was working on the application. There were some engineers where this was their first cloud project and they wanted to learn everything using the console and doing things manually. To them, this seemed like a good idea to start learning, but once they tried to replicate what they've done manually through the different environments and into production, things were painful and delayed. So I was tasked with security and I've had experience before. So I knew things about infrastructure as code and I also knew that we had a short timeline to start delivering. So to get things up and running from the beginning, I decided to use infrastructure as code from the beginning. So things like how we were going to manage security groups and network security controls and the inbound firewalls and identity and access management were able to do using infrastructure as code. And the way that this was delivered was in repositories that everyone in the team has access to and visibility into and ability to create pull requests. So I even had time to create some core opinionated modules that had security controls built in that the development team then used to provision the infrastructure and deploy their application. One of the great things about doing infrastructure as code was now that the security controls of our environment were codified and were easy to govern in a way that was transparent to the development teams. So for example, if the development team and if anyone in the development team needed an update on a security group, it was just a matter of opening a pull request to the repository and have someone just review and merge. Having this type of getups workflow also enabled scalability as once we started migration and modernizing the rest of the application portfolio, the same repositories we set up for the initial project were able to support hundreds of applications and multiple environments and regions. In that original MVP, it was also important to iterate quickly security policies to deliver our business objectives while keeping our environment secure. So with infrastructure as code, we unlock the ability to codify the security policies and programmatically apply them. An approach to do this as well is to have centralized modules and reference implementations to have security opinions embedded in them to ensure that your environment is secured by default. So in contrast on how we've managed our traditional security infrastructure with infrastructure as code, we were able to expose our security controls for other technology teams to learn and possibly contribute. And I've had many instances where development teams have found misconfiguration in security infrastructure when they were trying to learn how the environment worked and they offered pull requests to increase the security and the resiliency of the security infrastructure that everyone relies on. So shortly after working on the cloud migration project that I talked about, I took a month off for paternity leave and at that point, developers were heavily relying on main for security assessments of our cloud environment. So during some sleepless nights with the baby I was thinking, what would be a good way to analyze our infrastructure templates similar to the way that we did static code analysis of programming languages like Java, JavaScript and Python so that they wouldn't be so much reliance on the security experts to do this. So I looked online and at the time there weren't that many tools to do this. So I decided to build my own and release it as open source to help anyone look into security cloud environment. And that's how Terescan was born. So Terescan is an open source tool that can help you define your security policies as code and enforce these on your infrastructure as code. The tool currently supports scanning of Terraform, of Kubernetes, JSON and YAML configuration files, JSON in help, vTree and customized vTree. So here are some of Terescan's features. It's packaged as an executable so you can easily integrate it into your workflow by running it locally on your desktop as part of your CI, or as part of your CI CD pipeline. It can also be executed in server mode and this allows you to centrally govern IAC scanning by having a central hub with rules to help meet your organization standards. The tool leverage the regal language from the open policy agent project as part of the policy engine and this help us standardize in the way that we implement policy as code and we have over 500 policies included as part of Terescan and we're frequently updating it with more policies. We also wrote the tool so that it's easy to add support for additional IAC tools. So the idea here is that policies will be the coupled from the IAC language so that a policy written for a particular technology will be applicable regardless of the IAC tool. So for example, the Kubernetes policies are the same whether a Terescan is evaluating your Kubernetes YAML files directly or if you're using customized or if you're using Terraform to manage your Kubernetes environment. Here's how we visualize integrating Terescan into your workflow where you can run the tool natively in your local development environment so you can catch any security issues as early as possible. You can also have a pipeline that verifies compliance to your policies before pushing any changes into your cloud environment and you can also run Terescan in server mode where you're feeding it infrastructure configuration files before making any changes in your environment. If you're interested in configuring Terescan for your particular pipeline technologies we have examples in our documentation and it's also integrated into Superlinter if you're using GitHub actions for example and we have more examples for different types of technologies. So now let's talk about how to use Terescan to find Kubernetes vulnerabilities. And today I'm gonna talk about two recent vulnerabilities where we've published blog posts in our website to discuss in details how to detect this vulnerabilities in your systems and how to use policy as code to detect and prevent these types of vulnerabilities. So the first vulnerability I would like to discuss today is CVE 2020 8554. And this one was announced at the end of last year, December of 2020, and it was rated as a medium severity vulnerability. The issue in this one is a man in the middle vulnerability where if a potential attacker has access to create or modify services and pods in a multi-tenant cluster the attacker may be able to intercept traffic from pods or other nodes in the system. So the initial reaction to a vulnerability like this might be that you think that it's not that important as there's a limited number of people or systems with access to create pods in your environment. But even if you've accepted insider threats as part of your threat model, if any of your insider systems with access to create pods or services or things like your pipelines are compromised through other means then you can be exposed to this type of vulnerability. So now let's take a look at how to use policy as code to defend against this. So if an attacker has access to create a service such as the one depicted here, the attacker will be able to redirect any cluster traffic destined for TCP port 80 on the IP addresses 1.1.1 or 8.8.8 to my application on the target port 8080. And for this example, I'm doing TCP but you could also do UDP and redirect DNS traffic. The other attack vector is if the attacker has access to patch the status of a load balancer service and set the Ingress IP to an IP address of the attacker's choice. So here's an example where we're setting it to <IP_ADDRESS>. So a way to prevent this issue is by making sure that there are no cluster IP services with external IP specified. The use of external IPs is discouraged in general. So having this type of policy would catch any instances of this potential security weakness without causing too much noise. So on the right hand side, we have an example regal policy to help prevent this. And this policy we're checking that given a service, we're going to do a type check to verify that it's a cluster IP service type. And then we're gonna check whether the external IP attribute is defined. And we're gonna alert on that. So now let me show you the output of, you would see if you use Terrascan to detect for this type of vulnerability. So here I have two YAML files for the vulnerabilities that we'll be discussing today. The one that we're currently discussing is 85.54. So let me cat that. And as you can see, the issue here is when you have a cluster IP service type and you're using external IPs. So if we use Terrascan to scan this, here's the output that we get. Where it's saying on the violations that we're vulnerable to CVE 2020, 85.54. It's giving us the file and it's saying that it's a medium type vulnerability. The next vulnerability I would like to talk about is CVE 2020, 85.55, which is what's rated as a medium severity vulnerability. And the issue here is a potential server side request forgery or SSRF on vulnerable versions of CUBE controller manager. You do have to be authorized to create pods to exploit this vulnerability. And use one of the affected volume types like Gloucester FS. If you're not familiar with server side request forgery, it's one of my favorite vulnerabilities as it allows you to make requests from the vulnerable server into the network. And it's a common way to exfiltrate things like credentials from metadata endpoints in cloud environments. At the bottom of this slide, I have the link to the blog post where you can learn more in details about this vulnerability and what are the affected versions. So now let's take a look at how to use policy as code to defend this. So here's an example YAML file that can expose your environment if you're using one of the affected versions of CUBE controller manager. So this steps from the attacker's perspective are two. Number one, create a pod in your cluster. Number two, mount the Gloucester FS volume since that volume type is subject to the vulnerability. Number three is once the vulnerable volume is mounted, the CUBE controller manager can now make get or post requests from the master host network and can be used to make a request to any URL that the attacker chooses, which this URL is not validated in any form. So the best way to prevent this particular vulnerability will be to upgrade to the latest version of Kubernetes where this has been patched. If you can't upgrade, the next best solution will be to use policy as code to detect and restrict usage of the affected volume types or to restrict storage class write permissions through RBAC. This regal policy on the right, we're verifying the name of the volume for the given pod. So this is the pod and we'll check in the volume type, making sure that it's not one of the volume types that is vulnerable like Gloucester FS, StorageOS, Scale.io. So let me show you how this looked like when you're using Terescan. So let me go back. These are the two JAML files that I have here. So let me cat the CPE 2020, 85, 55.JAML. And this is where we got, where we're using the Gloucester FS volume type, which is one of the effective volumes. So now if we use Terescan to scan this, this one has a few issues. So there's a low issue, which is we're using the default namespace. It's also showing us that to a couple of medium issues here, one is the minimize the emissions of containers wishing to share the host process ID namespace and that containers does not have resource limitations defined and that's more of an operational issue. And then it's also showing me that we're vulnerable to CPE 2020, 85, 55. If, and this is only true if you're using one of the effective versions of CUBE controller managers and these are the list of the effective versions and there's a medium vulnerability. So I wanted to leave you today with the four security risk categories that Terescan helps to identify and you should be mindful of when thinking about security in your environment. So the first category is data protection. So if you have any sensitive data or information traversed into your systems, you want to make sure that that data is encrypted in transit and encrypted at rest if you're persisting that data in your system. The next one is access management. You want to make sure that any, that you only allowing access into your system with minimal, with the minimal privileges as possible. The next one is network security. And this is where we want to make sure that we don't have any exposed ports or services that should not be exposed or to prevent anything to me from being accidentally publicly exposed. The last one is visibility. And these are, do you want to make sure that you have the proper information captured as part of monitoring and logs? So in case of a security incident, you have the ability to reconstruct how the incident happened and have a trail of what actually happened in your system. So outside of security, but related, Terescan also have a category for operational efficiency policies that we think are important to consider from a best practices perspective. So that's the end of the presentation. I want to thank you for watching today. And if you want to learn more about Terescan or cloud vulnerabilities and policies, you can visit our blog where we're constantly pushing the latest findings from our research team at acrox.com slash blog.


Hi guys evil dear here. So today. I'm gonna speak to you about how I met my ex best friend now I say ex best friend not because we had like some type of big battle between us But just because one day he just got up and left like literally just poof and it was gone Just just like that. Anyway, so the story starts about eight years back when I'm in the army now I know for some of you out there who are Esperanto speakers. You're thinking whoa. Hang on. This dude was in the army Yeah, I know it's kind of weird army dude plus pacifist So that's just how it is rolling along with the story now. Anyway, so it's probably about eight years back I was within my first year of training and For those of you don't know when you're still in your first year of training You usually you're within these rooms of two bunk beds So that you'll even be on the bottom of the top and there's like no divider Just all clumped in there. So the story starts it was it was a weekend and I'm just I'm just sitting here I'm just gaming away because I was like a massive hardcore world of Warcraft player back then I was just gaming pretty much every night now the guy who was on the bunk bed above me he he was like a I think like maybe just turned 18 and He had just discovered the wonders of alcohol. It was like his birthday a few weeks ago So every night he was just out smashing it was just pissed man.   It's a weekend night and I hear And the bushes outside the window now just outside the window. We got like all these little bushes I don't it's kind of weird setup. Anyway, so we've got these bushes and I'm hearing a sound like What the hell is that? So I go out and have a look at the window and here is this guy like literally just turned 18 He's crawling through the bushes like this guy Can you hear them? Where are they? Where are they? And I'm like, what are you talking about? And he's like type of thing and in one hand He's got one of those little comb things that you use to remove the link from your from your clothes And he's he's acting as if it's like an f-88 star and he's ready to go to battle type of thing and I'm like Yeah, a little bit too much alcohol for you I'm just gonna go back here and play my games in peace. So I went back and I played my games and then after a while He comes stumbling in the room. He's like What's up? And I'm like, yeah, okay cool and he walks behind me And I'm just like yeah, he must be like do about the crash out type of thing So anyway, he jumps on his bed or I think he jumps on his bed What happened next was a little bit surprising to me and caught me off guard. I hear this and I'm like What the hell so I turn around I look behind me and I see him He's got my pillow in one hand and shaving cream in the other and he's like like as If this is just something normal that you do and I'm like, what are you doing?   Just getting that out there now. He helped us Like helped us introduce one of another type of thing. I don't know how you say it He created that relationship. So anyway, he's been pushed out of the room And he's sitting here. Go. Oh, thank you.  I'm around the club room and he's moving down the hallway now Just so you know All the rooms they connect into this one hallway and there's like room room room room room all way down to the End of the hallway and then there's a toilet and it's an open playing type toilet So anyway, he's it now moved down to the end of the hallway, but he's still going off He's like panning his chest like he's gorilla man type of thing and he's just continuously saying these things And I just I just snapped the pacifist of me just goes look I'm just gonna take a break I'm gonna turn around and I'm just gonna ignore what happens and at that point I just I don't know why but I just ran down that hallway and decided it was a good idea to fly kick him in The head and boy was it a good fly kick and like flat on you know straight into his face It really works quite good surprising to me and also very surprising to him as he hit the cold floor in the toilet So anyway, he's now laying on the ground girl. Oh Why would you do that? You're so mean and I'm like What do you mean?   I did see him the next day So we wasn't like hospitalized or anything which is which is good because it would have been really bad for me But military wise so yeah, that is how I met my ex best friend So if you like this story and you want to hear more crazy stories from me on Esperanto and my army trips on my wife I'm just random stuff Share the shit out of this video just share with all your friends share of the homeless going street I don't care. Let's just get this stuff out there. So thank you very much I hope to see you in the next video and you know the rules if I don't see you there You will pay


Now I have a real issue with my current bag set-up and I reckon there's a good chance you have too. You see it's that time of year when hardcore golfers, that means ones that play all year round and it's time to start thinking about your bag set-up and I know I certainly do. You see I spent all summer trying to find or put together a bag that made life as simple as possible in terms of playing golf at least but the problem is that came at a bit of a compromise.  In fact I have a nine wood in the bag but I think it might be time for it to go. Well for now at least anyway what a horrible pin placement that is. Get over the brow. Ah you see as you can see from that ball flight this nine wood launches the ball incredibly high. It also spins very high at the same time and whilst it's not too bad on this hole which is downwind you can see there's a possible problem coming with the winter coming and some high winds and if that's blowing this way this club is a real problem. But the problem I have is that the nine wood has been very much a go-to club this year very much like the one I'm about to play now and the issue I've got is how do I replace it. Get in. This chip is just genius you know now whilst we take a quick break for a bit of a rain delay you can perhaps let me know in the comment section below are you changing up your bag for the winter months and if so what are those changes are you facing similar problems to what I'm finding right now. So the problem is this I need if I'm going to take this out the bag I need to find a club that covers around 185 to 190 in terms of distance travelled but I want to lower ball flight and I want something lower in spin to allow for those potential windy conditions in terms of the winter but there are a few other issues that need to be considered. You see one of the other considerations is I don't want its replacement to be super low launching either because also in wet conditions in the winter I need a certain element of carry distance because there's going to be no rollout whatsoever and up until very recently that would have been a tough ask but I think I found the perfect replacement. Now the first point to mention is the 911 is lofted at 24 degrees the club I am replacing it with is 22 degrees they both carry the same distance but get there in a very different way and obviously the way I want it to be and that will be borne out in dry ball data which I'll show you very soon. So first of all let me reveal what the club is that I'm replacing it with it's another club from Taylor Made it's their DHY they're driving hybrid which I had huge success within the summer by putting the five DHY in replace of my five iron and I'm also now going to add the four iron which is like I said 22 degrees because first of all that covers that gap in terms of the distance the same travel as the ninewood but it's the fact of how it gets there. Now first of all just watch these two shots I've played from the same tee box and hopefully you can visually see that the launch angle is considerably different don't get me wrong these are still very easy to launch these DHYs and they do have a higher ball flight but there's also an ability to manipulate that ball flight which we'll talk about later but for now those two shots are different in their ball flight but if we look down fairway they're very very similar in terms of where they've landed and then if you look at the dry ball data I collected earlier then it suggests this club is doing exactly what I want it to do the main issues being it's lower launching and it's lower spinning but it's still carrying that same distance that I'm looking to cover. Now what I really like about this DHY range is the fact that they come in a two three four and five option so I always felt like when we did the initial review that this could play a major part on the top end of the bag in a number of different ways and the fact that I've got this infill now as an exchange for the nine wood I think is really good but the other thing that I mentioned is sort of playability workability in terms of shot shape and also being able to flight the ball down it's almost impossible for me at least with a nine wood it's a it's a it's one dimensional it pops a ball up really high it travels 185 yards ideally straight but I can't really manipulate it to do anything other than that and that's fine like I said for a lot of average golf of myself included that's a real good tool to have in the bag but if you want to flight the ball down which you're going to attempt to do now with this four iron it's near on impossible with that nine wood but with the four DHY and you know what that is exactly the ball flight that I was looking for so I'm more pacing and penetrating ball flight if you're playing into the wind that's absolutely superb and again that ability to move the ball from me left to right is much easier to do with this type of club in hand but then it's not all rosy in the guard and whilst I'm championing this DHY this lower lofted lower ball flight is a winter option there's certainly compromises you've still got to make in my opinion and none more so than a fairly heavy lie that you're about to see me play I believe the four DHY I sort of almost you know dug it out there if you like it is wet ground it's heavy lie and you can see the ball flight is low and we got to the position we are right now then I play it with the nine wood and first of all I'm going to say I've got a lot more confidence with the mass of the nine wood and it looks a lot more lofted to be honest with you so I almost felt like I was going to gouge it out that bit better and you'll see it pops the ball up a lot lot different even though we probably ended up in a similar position just the other side of the fairway but you can see that that mass that's in the nine wood just gives it the ability in my opinion to get through the rough a bit easier so that situation with the bag that I'm putting together I'd probably look to play that five DHY I've got in the bag with a bit more loft and hopefully help me gouge it out a bit closer to the green either way there's a pretty horrible shot to have to play but don't worry the chipperl comes with a rescue yeah so compromises to be made perhaps all that rough the nine would be a better option but for me again you're playing from the tee with this kind of thing you'll also be playing from a tight lie on the fairway if anything for me I'd perhaps prefer the DHY from the tight lie off the fairway always prefer that particularly on a links course than playing a kind of fairway wood but we'll try and hit this next iron in see if we can get one more out see what type of ball flight slightly higher ball flight maybe that we're looking for on this one yeah so again if you compare the two shots that I've just from the tee and then the one we've just hit in there a lot difference in terms of ball flight and like I've just said and I'm repeating myself but that's not something I could have looked to have done with the nine wood so I'll think really we've done about as much as we can do right that is it for me in terms of where I'm at and my deliberation was nine wood or four DHY or 185 yards let's call it but your deliberation might be quite different the point is I said at the beginning of the video you might be in a similar situation where you're looking to change out what was your main sort of course summer bag to what is a winter bag and in this case for me just that one club change can make a big big difference to when I'm out on the fairways so like I said it's only what's relevant to me in this case but I'd really like to know what your changes are your planning on making and don't forget don't just look at loft as being a direct equivalent and separator because they're clearly not we've seen 24 degrees getting replaced by 22 degrees and carrying exactly the same distance just getting there in a different way so that's always been the message throughout all the videos I have done and trying at yourself either custom fit if you're considering something new to be replaced or get down to a custom fit centre and see if you can compare your two clubs on track man and have a look at exactly how they're both doing in terms of performance before you make that switch anyway as ever I'm all done really weird day here at Cardin Park sunshine one minute pouring down the next but the review is done hope you enjoyed it thanks for watching and I'll see you soon


they report into Tampa on Valentine's Day. We talked to the manager of the New York Yankees, Aaron Boone. He joins us right now on the show. Aaron, Michael, Don and Peter, how you doing? I'm doing well. Sorry. This is not a landline, Michael, but we're just going to battle through with the old cell phone. So I was talking to Aaron earlier. I said, well, I'll give you the line to call in. Maybe you want to call on the landline. And he acted like I said, do you have eight heads? He just he made fun of me. I mean, I have a landline at home. I do too. Yes. Peter does it. My Peter. No, I do not. I do not. Well, I have to, you know, for the security system. Yeah, you're in the business. Right. So it all starts for real on February 14th. How do you feel about your team? Nice broad question. How do you feel about your team coming into the season? I feel really good.   And a lot of our, you know, guys that are will be on the team. So I'm excited about the winners. A lot of guys have had, especially guys that have needed to have that really strong winner to set themselves up for success. Doesn't mean they're going to go out and have it, obviously, but I do feel like the handful of guys, man, that you kind of like this guy needs to be all over everything this winter. A lot of those boxes look like they've been checked. So I'm excited where we stand going in with a lot of guys. You know, there's always things that could be better, Aaron, but really the biggest stumbling block for your team has been health. It derailed the series against the Astros two years ago, certainly hurt you in your 82 and 80 season last season. As a manager, is it just hope everybody stays healthy? Is there anything you can do to try to make sure this team is as healthy as it can be through 162? Well, hopefully we're getting better and better, you know, not just us, but as an industry of how do we keep guys more and more healthy or something that, you know, teams pour a ton of resources in to try and to get better and better at that.  So that gives them the best chance to be successful. So we're constantly, I feel like learning and getting better at those kind of things. And, you know, I hope that we're going in with book inevitable. You're, even in the best of seasons, you're going to have some injuries, obviously, but hopefully we're going in with a strong foundation. I do feel like that's, that's the case as we sit here in early February anyway. So Aaron, I've made what, you know, you might consider an insignificant list, but I say the top four things, you know, variables that you have to go right for the Yankees. Number one for me is Carlos Rodin. Number two is Nesta Cortez. Number three is DJ being the second half DJ, not the first. And then a distant fourth would be Stanton because I think the way you guys have built this team, you could actually absorb if Stanton does get hurt because you've got a lot of bats and you've got a lot of maneuverability. So let's start at my top two. I look at them as important because if they, if they pitch the way they've pitched in the past and not last year, I think your staff is as good as any staff. So what are your thoughts on Rodin and Cortez? Well, those are two of those guys when I talk about, I feel like they've had the winners they've needed to have, check on those two. You know, Carlos obviously just being behind the eight ball with us last year with, you know, two fairly minor injuries, but one happened. And then as he was coming back, the second setback with the, you know, back issue he had, so it just delayed him and he was just playing catch up all year and that didn't get off on a great foot and obviously it ended up not having a great year. He has had a great winner. He's done everything, you know, I think physically he's needed to do to put his body in a good place. He's a, he's a different guy when you watch him throw right now. So he's already throwing live BP now, but in his, in his catch play and his bullpens that he was when we got him last year at the start of spring training. It's, it's night and day. So that's encouraging.  You know, this guy that's had success in his young career and really starting to establish himself, made an all-star team. You know, I think the shoulder situation, I think, you know, put a little fear like, Hey man, I need to do everything I possibly can from a training, nutrition, throwing programs. So he was just like, you know, really, really a model, model player this winter as far as just making sure he was tracking everything properly. He looks really good. He feels really good. He's, he's throwing, he looks like Nestor when he gets on the mound for his live BP now. And there's no, there's no hindrance to what he's doing. So those two things are very encouraging right there. DJ, he's been down here for over a month. And I would agree with you on the DJ for us, just being such a key because if DJ is DJ and that guy that gets on a ton, then it solves our leadoff situation. And then I feel great about our offense behind that. And however, you know, I end up lining them up, but if DJ can solve that leadoff spot, you know, the majority of the time, the way he's capable, that's huge. And I think he's in a great spot. He looks really good. He's, you know, I think he's been able to train at a higher level this winter physically because he's, he's over the, you know, the tone and just the feet issue that kind of held them back a little bit. And he looks really good. He's moving well. So I'm excited there. Haven't seen G yet. He's not here yet. But I know he's seen the pictures on, you've seen the pictures on social though. Probably feel lighter guy. Yeah, I talked to him last probably about a week or 10 days ago. And I know he's ready to get here and excited. So excited about all those guys. I also think, well, why is it because a real key for us? Because he's when he when he's healthy and right, he's as good as any reliever. And it's just such a, he just is such a great bridge in our bullpen when he's going well. I think he's a real key. And I'm encouraged where he's as well. Marcus Strowman, great addition. If there's a negative, we know from what happened with the Mets, sometimes social media has not exactly been his friend. A, are you confident that's behind him and B, would you have a conversation with him on handle how to handle those situations with fans and media and the negativity that comes with that? You know, I'm confident that he's, you know, using both, you know, those platforms that in a much more positive, I shouldn't say much more positive, but in a positive way.    Talk with Aaron Boone, the Yankee manager, and we've been talking for 10 minutes, and it's incredible to me, Aaron, we haven't even brought up Juan Soto.  This is one of the best players in baseball history. I'm not just saying now, his numbers compare his first six years with Ted Williams. Have you wrapped your mind around the fact that, you know, when, when all the players show up, Juan Soto is going to be there. Yeah, yeah, I, I wrap my head around it every day, you know, and the, and the thought of him and Aaron hitting back to back in our lineup with, with what I think has the chance to be a really good supporting cat, you know, I think back to last year where it was the struggle for us offensively. And, and not only, you know, and again, I always preface this with, I understand we're in February, but I do feel like we have a chance to be great again on offense and obviously bringing a kind of like Soto and there's a bigger reason for that. All right. Where does he bat? Well, if, if, if DJ grabs that lead off spot, then, you know, likely in that two hole, but anywhere two or three, it just depends how that, that shakes out and then how the rest of why I'm so just try and create as much balance as I can, but somewhere two to three right now, I kind of, kind of envision them in the two hole. What's wrong with Aaron Boone? Just a brief respite from the Yankees. Adrian Wojcanski is reporting that OG Ananobi had surgery to remove a loose bone fragment in his right elbow and he's going to miss a minimum of three weeks sources tell woe. So that's not great news on a day that's been good for the, the Knicks that that's a tough loss because he's been such a great player for them. Another guy was a really good player for you guys, Aaron. I was Wandy Peralta. I was kind of surprised he didn't come back. How much of a loss is that? Well, I mean it's hopefully not huge, but there's no denying like how good a job Wandy did for us really since we got him from San Francisco. I think early in the 21 season was it. He's been super reliable. He loved playing for our team. He loved being a Yankee. Obviously fearless. You know, as you know, we haven't had a ton of left-handed pitchers and over the last year and a half where he's become a little more left on left dominant and you know, he was that guy you could go to against the other teams best lefty and you felt great about it. Really controlled the running game and just a great person and teammate.  And now we have, you know, some slack to pick up, you know, from a guy that's been a quality reliever for us the last few years. Another piece that Michael didn't mention in laying out sort of all the wildcards for next season is the Martian and what we'll get from Dominguez when he comes back. What are your expectations timeline wise? Have you spoken to him and how big a factor do you think he could be on this 2024 Yankee team? Yeah, Tom today, he's been down here for, for most of the off season. He actually, I think he starts throwing in, what are we, what are we here? February? February? I think he starts throwing like 10 days or two weeks. So he's doing really well. He looks great. He's in great shape. He's, he turned, he turned, uh, whopping 21 years old yesterday. Oh, wow. Yeah. So he's, uh, you know, it's just so good to see him. He's just got that easy smile and, um, he's working hard and, you know, again, I, he's gonna, he'll be back in the summer for us. I'm confident that, you know, hopefully that'll be, you know, some, uh, pretty good, uh, pretty good shot in the arm force at some point in the summer. All right. So Anthony Volpe, rookie year, wins the gold glove, did a great job defensively, showed power, showed speed, but the batting average to me, I mean, I know in this day and age batting average is not that big a deal, but I look at him and I say he's a better than 209 hitter. Is there more there? And when you mean batting average is an important, like we don't, you know, Anthony, we don't want him in 209. Like, um, I think, look, he's also an extremely young man that walked into a, you know, everyday role of shortstop and won the gold glove and did a lot of really good things, but also saw how the league is so good at attacking weaknesses and, and continuing to exploit those things. I just think Anthony has such a good makeup and such a good head on his shoulders. He's already made significant adjustments and you watch him take BP. He was one of the guys there today who's, who's been down here for, you know, months now. Like you can see the adjustments he's made in his swings to address certain holes and I'm, I'm very confident you'll see him take a, a large step forward there this year, offensively in the adjustments now that he makes to the league. You know, to try and counter some of the, some of the areas that they attacked him while hopefully continuing to, to have the same strength that he showed this year as well, offensively. What was your reaction to everything that's happened with the Orioles the last couple of weeks? Are you talking Corbin Burns here? Yeah. And then just ownership, ownership and being able to maybe now be in a position to hold on to those young players. It's now another rival in what is really an outstanding division. Yeah. Um, look, obviously they built a really, really good roster and a really good farm system. And, you know, when you, when you can tear it down and go down to the bolts and get rid of, you know, let contracts expire and, and, and nail the draft in a couple areas, they've set themselves up really nice to be, you know, to be a real team to reckon with here, not only this year, but for years to come. But, you know, that's also, that's what you kind of sign up for, especially in the American league.  We feel like we can match up with them when we're right. And we'll, we look forward to that challenge of, of going up against them, but they are certainly an organization now that they've done a really good job of, of setting themselves up for some sustained success. All right. So Pakota came out with their projections this week, Aaron, and they had the Yankees, the second best team in the American league at 94 and a half wins and the Astros is to half a win more. So they have you winning the American league. Do you like what the computer spit out there? Well, if it ends up that way, sure. I mean, it's our job to make sure we handle our business. So whether, whether they pick us first, third, whatever, it's our job to go out and be the best we can be. And that's, that's where our focus really lies. I know that's kind of a corny answer, but that's as simple as that for us right now. It's, it's about gathering and when we get together here as a whole squad now and, you know, about 10 days, it's about trying to lay a foundation to be a champion. Then that's the focus. That's the message. And, you know, hopefully when we look up at the end, maybe the computers won't get on their right. We'll see.  I get nervous about things. Aaron, I'm nervous. I'm nervous about you playing judge in center field.  He's so important, not just to the team, but to baseball in general. Is he going to be able to hold up playing a lot of center field? I think so. Yeah. I feel great about it. Aaron feels good about it. You know, it makes me like consciously say I'm going to use the DH with him a little bit more when I do that. You know, but his healthiest season in the last few years was the year he played center field. And, you know, I've kind of said I'm not, he's not going to play running back. You know, it's center field. He's actually got hurt. Where he's got hurt has been some plays in right field where it's a little different. So I'm not worried about it. We're able to measure, you know, what guys, how much guys are moving and, you know, when they get in any kind of a danger zone. And I do feel like hopefully the DH will kind of, you know, give him those days where I feel like I need to get him off his feet a little bit. But, you know, it's also, I go back, it's early February too. And there's still a lot to happen between now and even opening day and beyond that, you know, could keep that very fluid. But I am planning on playing him. If everyone's healthy, a lot at least in center. What happened to the Eagles? Oh, wow. He went right in. He went there. I'm not, I'm not gloating. My team was God awful. I'm curious to figure out what happened. I don't know. I, you know, I, I mean, I've never seen a team with pretty good health like fall off a cliff like they did. Like, I don't know. You know, I think team started just like blueprint of getting the ball out. So it kind of neutralized their pass rush, which became really a non-factor in the second half. I think their linebacker and safety play was definitely a significant notch below where it was the year before. But, but how much they could not, I mean, they were awful defense at the end. I mean, it's simple. They couldn't get off the field. I mean, third and 11 wasn't safe. It was, and for a team that was like a, you know, Super Bowl type defense, it was a headscarf. It's kind of a bummer, obviously, the way it ended for him. Yeah, we, you and I texted the night of that playoff game. I've never seen a playoff team play with that poor in effort. And they had the perfect draw too. That was the game. That was it. Yeah. Have you felt any juice for the, the Super Bowl this week? We were talking earlier. The three of us are just like not feeling super stoked about this Kansas City San Francisco. We believe it could be a good game. Just not feeling a lot of juice right now. Yeah, I do think it is a great game. You know, I think it's two great teams or at least, you know, Niners with an amazing roster in the homes. And I think the underrated thing about this whole thing is the Chiefs defense. I mean, the Chiefs have a, I think a great, great defense. And it's why they're probably here. Obviously, the homes is amazing, you know, but their defense this year is what kind of sustained them all year. They've been, they've been great. So yeah, I'll be excited for it. But, you know, I'm not a fan of the 49ers. Right. Yeah. I'm always got pulling for, I know Andy really well. So I actually texted with them after they won their championship game. So I always have interest when Andy reads doing it. So a pick now or a gift tomorrow? Well, what do you want, Don? I want a gift tomorrow. He wants a gift. Yeah, it's kind of our thing. He's waiting for the gift. Because you got great gift game. You really do. I mean, it's really cool what you do every week. So I look forward to that. I've already, I've already settled in on my, my score prediction and my team prediction. So I'll, I'll fire your way sometime tomorrow in the late afternoon. Am I, am I wrong in assuming that you probably use gifts a lot with your kids and they make fun of you for how much you do it? You know, a lot of people are always, I use, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a heavy use of the gift really with anything. You guys, as you know, my kids, people that you wouldn't necessarily think I'm sending a gift. So I like that. I use a lot. I've got, I just got a great, I just came up with a great idea. You're going to talk to the team when they all get there. You should give a win one for the giffer, you know, motivational speech. What do you think? Do you send gifts to the players? Oh, for sure he does. Yeah. Oh yeah. But that's how you can figure out like the order here of like who is really like a washed up boomer. Like you seem old to the players, but you seem cool to Don. That's how old Don is. Wow. That's so true. One final thing before I let you go. I know how competitive you are. I mean you're competitive about everything. How much did 82 and 80 rub you the wrong way all winter? Made the winter tougher. I mean, right. But I also, you know, I also know we weren't that at any point, you know, I just never, we never got it right. You know, and I think early on we were winning games and I actually would turn the Mendy every night and because early on, like into the first second month, we're winning games or that five to 10 over 500. And it was like, man, we just kept saying we needed to hang on until like Rodan, Nestor, savvy or back because we're kind of piecing it together so much in the starting location. But we're playing winning ball winning games and then judge you went down. We just couldn't couldn't get it going offensively to sustain it. And then, you know, kind of Nestor and savvy and Carlos never kind of got on track for us and and really just offensively we couldn't we couldn't do it like we needed to. And, you know, one thing we did, we're able to do to kind of hang in there just to keep it at that was we're able to close out games and we're in the but we're in so many kind of that low mid scoring range. So we're never, you know, we're in barbers all the time. So the games we're supposed to win, we're kind of able to hang on to those but just couldn't find enough traction consistently offensively and and then behind Garrett, you know, struggle to get that consistency in the rotation and, you know, hopefully we'll do that a better job of that. And the bottom line is we got to find ways when it's not because inevitable you're going to have adversity in the season.  But when you do have those injuries, you got to find ways to still win ball games and still, you know, have somebody step up or have a part of your team step up and we just weren't able to do that well enough last year.  And you got to keep grinding away and keep fighting and and try and figure out ways to make sure you're better equipped to handle, you know, those those inevitable, you know, when you're when you're missing, missing some TPs, you got to find a way to do that better. And I do feel like we're set up to hopefully withstand some inevitable pumps that hit us this year. Well, great stuff. Aaron, thank you for giving us this half hour. Good luck in spring training in the season. I'll see you next week. But we expect your gift tomorrow.  Awesome. Take care, guys. Thanks, Aaron. That's Aaron Boone, Yankee Manager.


On the breakfast ahead of the sixth anniversary of President Muhammad Abouhari's administration on May 29, the presidency has listed strides made in different sectors of the economy. Also on the breakfast, Nigeria's Employers Consultative Association justifies adjustment in third-party vehicle insurance. Don't forget we'll also be looking through today's newspapers analysing the biggest stories of the day. Welcome to the breakfast in Plasti, the Africa. I am Messi Ibupo. Happy New Year and it feels really great to be back on your screen on you know the second day of January 2023. Thank you so much. I hope you had a wonderful holiday or you're having a great holiday because I know that for some people the holiday continues but let's you know head straight to the conversation. Now our top trending, top trending is you know that segment and usually we get to talk about what's making the rounds, what are people talking about, what's the engagement. Top analysis that over the weekend over 1.6 million PVCs are collected in Ligas, that's according to INAC, the Empire responsible for the conduct of the elections, I mean free conduct of any elections in Nigeria. That's the body that's saddled with that. Of course that report has been put out and it costs a lot of concern because Ligas as a state is an epicenter. So yes the Independent National Electoral Commission INAC said that 1,693,963 PVCs have not been collected in Ligas state. The Commission had disclosed this in a document that was released to a journalist and out of all of this is said that 916,961 old PVCs and 777,002 new cards have not been collected by their owners in the state. According to INAC, Ligas had received 7,510,491 cards comprising 6,570,291 old and 940,000 200 new cards from the headquarters that's in Abuja. Also other total of 5,816,528 PVCs which is 5,653,330 old and 163,198 new cards had so far been collected in the state as of December 2022 that's the 29th. It went on to also reveal that 460,643 PVCs are yet to be collected in the federal capital territory that's the FCT. So it brings us to you know the conversation about the elections. Now we understand that a lot of people have lost interest you know in the polity okay. The issue is some persons have become uninterested in the system and so the word for it would be political apathy and too many persons say hey we don't trust the system because the system has been maneuvered it doesn't matter whether we cast our votes or not what will be will be. I mean these are some of the conversations you hear on the streets people would have including very learned you know persons these are the conversation but I think that has changed to some extent and with this particular report it calls for a lot of concern but let's also even say look at the reaction that's going on because if you look on the social media or look at the social media especially Twitter you would see that there's been a lot of outcry as regards the process and the procedure of collecting these PVCs.  Some people say that the going that the you know the system or the process of collecting the cards is quite frustrating and so you have to resume maybe at 8 o'clock in the morning and before you leave the space you know you're talking about maybe six in the evening and it's so much now we also need to factor in the fact that it's okay to say persons are not collecting the PVCs but what is INEC really doing about this outcry especially in Lagos I mean we're talking about Lagos now the states the consensus been too many outcry some people have said that the workers have been very very you know out of hand some people say they are you know very mean a lot of complaints that feel like you know the system is just deliberately being made all of these excuses are made so they can't collect their PVCs right so I think that it's it's it's it's okay to publish you know the numbers of persons that have not collected the PVCs is also okay to factor in the process of collecting it is this seamless because what the complain is that it's not seamless it's difficult and too many persons are discouraged right if you live in Lagos then you understand what it means you probably might be leaving from a certain location maybe you're from the island and you're coming to the mainland to collect depending on what it is what as an old card or the new card so yes we have a few more days before the elections February you know the 25th would be one of it now what do we expect INEC please pay attention to making it seamless for people to collect their PVCs can it be stress-free can the people just walking and then collect their cards there were several videos that made it to the internet where it felt like you need to see the crowd I mean if that's anything to go by then there's a lot we can't get to a system where a lot of people are disenfranchised not because they don't want to get their PVCs but because the process is very difficult it's cumbersome though I mean I'm out of words to describe the entire you know procedure and process how why can't we find a means or a way where people can work into this offices or different outlets and get their PVCs without wasting so much time without all of the harassment there's been also allegation where some persons are saying they have to pay or they have to tip the workers whether they are ad hoc workers or you know they are staff of the of INEC they probably have to do extra to get it and so it can't be very discouraging that's it so I know that we don't have time but with the little time that we have it's important that we make efforts on our part as an organization I mean as an agency of government that's INEC and then we also have to be committed on the other hand as a people to ensuring that you have a responsibility is a civic responsibility as much as it's not a crime because to vote is I mean you choose to vote or not to vote it's not a crime but it's your choice well if I were you I decide to vote whatever it would take any sacrifice that it would take it would be important you know why because the elections or elections is about numbers it's not about Twitter and banter on social media it's not about all the hailing and say hey this is why I want all of the criticism it's not enough it goes beyond all of that and so if you were tired of the status quo if you're tired of the system and if you're saying hey this is not what I want the only way you can express yourself is go ahead and get your PVC now we're saying this whether or not the system is seamless what I stress free just go ahead and get your PVC no matter what it takes that's the only way for you to say this is what I want that's the only way you can take a decision and isn't the numbers if the numbers are not there it's almost you know possible for the system to be overturned so the more people involved in the system the better for the people because it's about the people and that's what democracy is about but another one quite interesting is that Shimamanda Diichi has been honored or was honored over the weekend I mean all of this happened with a title in her hometown Odu Luau that title that she was awarded with let's not forget that she's an award-winning author right and during the weekend like I mentioned she was honored with this Chieftain C title in her hometown in Anambra now according to the organizers of this event it's because of her contribution you know to the development right of the community so the title that was confed on ice it's just a recognition of all that she has done it means that one who writes for the world and this would actually mean the first time we're having a woman to be conferred with a Chieftain C title in the hometown in Anambra state Abba with that title right it was beautiful there are a lot of pictures that made it to social media pictures of Shimamanda Adeichi video as well she looked very lovely pleasant to say and looking at the comments and reaction from Nigerians it was nothing you know it was nothing out of the ordinary was something very commendable and I was some persons have said that this is not new because with this title Shimamanda Adeichi will officially continue the legacy of her father professor James Mouye Adeichi who was also loved by the community and he was giving to writing as well so yes it's a very good one and it's very pleasant to start a year with all of this recognition congratulations to her and of course friends and families as well we hope that we get to celebrate Mouye's from very notable Nigerians as this next on the top trending is that the APC presidential flag bearer Tinnable denies meeting the PDP G5 governors in London Bola Tinnable who's the presidential candidate of the all progressive Congress had reacted to the recent report on an alleged meeting involving some governors of the People's Democratic Party and it's been that reporting recent times and the G5 governors who are members of the PDP had met with Tinnable in London and agreed to endorse him don't forget this G5 governors include yes some week of River State Shea Makin day over your state Iqpayazu of Abia State Samuel Otom of Benway State if I knew Ugunwai of Inugu among older stakeholders have been at the forefront of the call for the resignation of Iqpayazu your child you are beg your pardon stepping down as a PDP national chairman in the interest of equity you know because we're saying oh if we're talking about power rotation rationalizing power then it would just be fair for the party that you can't have the chairman from a certain region the north and then the presidential candidate it would just be fair that it goes you know to another party but that has not you know taken a different tone it's been the same and then you'll have the G5 governors I mean would probably be the first time we're having this in the lexicon in the Nigerian lexicon where you say the G5 usually you hear the G7 countries the G20 the G this the G that by Nigeria now we're talking about a G5 some people think that this is very interesting or not interesting but what should we expect did this governor's meet with tenable ten other questions yes because there are several feelers there are several encrypted posts and comments has been made by very prominent and respectable APC members alluding to the fact that yes there's been a meets maybe you have a one or two of this governor's giving a yes and so out of the five maybe two have said yes so it's just natural that there would be some denial and what a view but what has happened would have happened and maybe as a people were not able to verify because there's a lot of back and forth with this conversation yes it would there's no meeting all we have not confirmed yes we have confirmed a lot of that but should all of this be happening has always been the crux of the conversation but we leave that it's very important that you haven't gotten your PVC get your PVC because you have the power to decide who becomes what and who does not become become what now if you understand all of that then it's very important for our democracy as the people over time yes we know we live in a climb where people have been made to believe that it doesn't really matter your vote does not count and that's what a lot of persons have you know swallowed that's you know that information that's been out that it doesn't matter whether you vote or not oh yes it will be truncated the people would always have their will the system will be manipulated what will happen will happen but you see the times have actually changed and I think that that's important that you key into that you are very important in the electoral process in our democracy as a country and it's important that you understand that and get your PVC and get ready to cast your votes you know come February that's the much we can take at this point we take a break when we return we'll continue with the conversation right here please stay with us