you know that very frustrating feeling when after hours of procrastination you finally start getting a work done from home and then the next thing your phone rings and you feel like you don't really want to answer but you should because it might be something connected to work or an amazon package or something important and it turns out to be someone selling health insurance fortunately the state of israel in its infinite wisdom has decided to introduce a do not call me database loosely modeled after a similar database in the u.s. the service is called al titka share ally which means simply in english of course do not call me and it is a free service which anybody can register for i've just registered both of my phone numbers to the service and it was actually really really easy to do so firstly credit to someone who posted this on secret jr because i hadn't heard about it but it seems like it's relatively new and also that it's being stepped up the purpose of this database is really twofold on the first hand it creates the ability to find spammy businesses who decide to call people anyway after their numbers are registered for this database they can be fined by the state of israel the second thing is that and this is new starting from the first of january 2023 so just this month businesses are supposed to have to check against this database before making marketing call so hopefully if you're in this database it's going to significantly reduce the amount of spam and nuisance calls you receive i'll put a link to the sign-up link in this video description but it's super easy and only takes a couple of minutes but the url just to also read it out is gov.il forward slash h e for hebrew forward slash service forward slash do not call me with hyphens between those words just to make clear this is an official israeli government thing this isn't some kind of a scam like you know so definitely register there are currently three ways to sign up for the service firstly there is a muk head so you can call up the call center and they will take you off there's also an automatic whatsapp service which works really well and finally you can choose to complete the form on the website just know that whether you're doing this via whatsapp the call center or on the website there is a two-step verification process so the government will send you a code just to confirm that you indeed um own this mobile phone number and then you can go and get taken off the list a couple of israeli websites have raised questions over whether this is going to work and just to make clear i've only signed up for the service myself today so so far i can't really confirm whether it's going to reduce the number of spam calls or not but i figured it couldn't hurt to try hope this was helpful if you have experience with this database in the comments and if you found it helpful or not helpful i would be quite interested to know so feel free to leave those thanks for watching and feel free to subscribe for more videos


Welcome back to theCUBE's live coverage. Day four, RSA conference, I'm John Furrier, host of theCUBE. Dave Vellante has left the building, he's flying back to Boston. We had four days of great coverage, a lot of content coming out. And one of the big themes has been the platformification. You know, seeing cloud native become very important. A lot of open source, a lot of consciousness around hardening the infrastructure by enabling agility. We've got two great guests, we're going to talk a lot about that right now. Travis Stanfield, the co-founder and CEO of Stacklet, and Agoko Srinivasan, the senior partner of the Exclusion Architect at AWS. Gentlemen, thanks for coming on. Thank you for having us, John. So first, let's introduce you guys. We know AWS, Stacklet, what do you guys do? What's the company? Why do you guys exist? Sure, we are the cloud governance solution. We help organizations manage and reduce their costs and risks. We do that through our governance as code platform, right? Which can be delivered and available to customers through a very easy to use software as a service. And we've got a few other things which we'll get into. And you've got the open source angle too. Open source, that's correct. So we are based off of an open source project called Cloud Custodian that we are the core and creative team behind. My co-founder is the creator and lead maintainer. And certainly, as we will discuss here, it gives us a number of unfair strategic advantages. And by the way, just a shout out, super cool work, congratulations. Goko, what's your role as a solution architect? What are you putting together at AWS? I'm the senior partner solution architect supporting our global startups, such as Stacklet. And as part of the global startup program, we help the partners, essentially the startups with the co-build activity where we engage them and promote their activities. And then we support them in the go-to marketing and support them with the co-sell. Essentially, we wanted to ensure that the partner solutions that are being promoted by AWS are meeting all the security guardrails are the best in the class so that way the customer get the experience of just not the core AWS services. But also the benefits from the partner solutions. Yeah, great stuff. By the way, we're very familiar with the work you guys are doing with our startup showcase. We've been showcasing a lot of your success stories. So good job, well done. So let's turn to the governance. What is cloud governance? How do you guys define that? Define what is cloud governance today? So in a simplistic term, cloud governance is essentially a set of framework that helps the customer establish the processes and select the right set of tools for the overall management and the governance of their cloud ecosystem. And the customer look into the cloud governance into two different aspects. The first one, providing them the better control of their cloud management. And second aspect is the agility to build newer applications and innovate faster. And with AWS services, you do not have to choose either the control or the agility. You can have both for the scale of your organization. And slicing the cloud governance even further, the cloud governance is formed by four major pillars. First, to begin with the security control, which focuses on areas like the encryptions and also the permissions and their identities. And then comes in the cost control, where the customers want to achieve the cost control of their overall cloud operations. And then the most important aspect when it comes to the cloud governance is around the compliance. And compliance can come in variety of form. Either it could be a regional compliance like a SOC2 or a GDPR or an regulated industry governance like a HIPAA or a PCI compliance. And finally, the customer wants to ensure that the cloud governance is in alignment with their overall corporate governance. They do not want to have a multiple governance model. So the alignment of the cloud governance with the overall corporate governance model becomes very important. So in a nutshell, what our customers are looking out for is end-to-end visibility tool that provides all the aspects of the cloud governance that caters to all levels of the organization from a CXO to a DevOps engineer. That's awesome. And then you want to also have the governance and have agility and not slow things down at the same time. Cloud governance, what's your definition? Sure, and I think Gokul gave an amazing definition of it. I would add a few things, certainly the policies themselves, right? They're kind of the heartbeat of your governance definition as it is implemented and you want those to be as easy to use for all of the different stakeholders that get involved with governance. You don't want to create a high technical bar, right, for the organization to continue to contribute and collaborate around this important topic. And then also making sure that the governance, the policies can be deployed using techniques like CICD, that the organization is already using and perhaps Git, right, which is already well-known across multiple organizations for how folks can collaborate, right? Continue to use the best practices that developers use for making sure that your cloud is well-governed and you're well-managed in the cloud. It's certainly important. And globally too, we're seeing a lot of global activity, governance is huge, compliance, governance. Most people say, oh my God, it's so much hassle. But you want to make it fast, but yet hit all the numbers, not make it slow down, but also hit the compliance. Totally, totally get it. How do you guys help? What's the differentiation for Stacklit? What's your piece on this? And how do you make it better and go faster and differentiate? Sure, I'd say I'd start off with we help the organization unify several of these disparate teams towards the shared objectives around governance. So the different teams can be the cloud engineering team, the compliance and risk team, the FinOps teams, the DevOps teams. All of those, if they are working together, can help the organization achieve their efficiency goals around financial governance. They can achieve the compliance goals. They can achieve the security goals. That's kind of the first piece. The second is we do, which can be a bit of a controversial subject in security circles, we do the automated real-time remediation and prevention. We do that both in event-based and periodic modes and combination of both. And we do that by making action a first-class citizen in our policy language. You don't have to do anything else to, let's say, construct a workflow to integrate, to communicate with your team around your policy findings. You simply can dial that in and what it does is give you a declarative experience. You can design the instate of your cloud and if anything goes bump in the night, you know that it's going to get gracefully course-corrected in line with what your organization would like it to be. So, and then the third, last but not least, is the massive community that we have around cloud custodian. It is the de facto industry standard for governance and for policies. And, you know, certainly why this is important is folks like AWS continue to innovate at light speed. You want to keep up with that pace of innovation and you certainly want to do so across all of the different, the long tail of all the different things that Amazon offers.  Couple follow-ups, Travis, you don't mind. First of all, please give some color to the governance, the open source project. What's the success? Well, I know it's successful. Congratulations. I think it's now an event. Is it now an event? Yes, so the project is now part of the CNCF, right? It's in the incubation stage of the CNCF maturity cycle for open source projects. So that's- Right in line. Yeah, exactly. The next step is against indoors. That's exactly. The next step is the last step and certainly we are well on our way towards achieving that final stage. The community in terms of how wide and large and diverse it is, we've got almost 400 contributors all time in use by thousands of organizations. We've got thousands of people in our chat groups and that sort of thing, so it's already as mentioned, like the industry standard. It was a pretty fast rise, too, by the way. We just pointed out, good job on that. My other question is you went back to this, something that's controversial. What you were saying sounded great to me. Why would that be controversial? Declarative? Look, I think there's still some organizations for which the CISO or the security group maybe isn't empowered to take action, right? They want to perhaps cut a ticket, flip it over the fence, and that's okay. But at a certain level of scale in the cloud, you need the automation. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, you just said if the ideal preferred steady state, you want to have action built into the workflow, you've got automation, you've got corrections, self-healing, tuning, I mean, all that. You don't just want it, you need it at a certain level. That doesn't sound like country to me. It sounds like a preferred state. But WebAssembly, why don't we let that happen sooner? Yeah, exactly. It's obvious. It's kind of like, hey, don't brain it. All right, let's get into the Amazon side. The tool chain involved, you guys know this on the compliance side. It comes up all the time when I do Amazon interview, Amazon Web Services interview. Compliance is not easy when you're looking at regional, but you have a lot of region. You can make things work better across the cloud. How important do you see this piece of it? Because you got, now open source and developers coding in line, get the new preferred method. You guys are used to this undifferentiated heavy lifting being automated away. Absolutely. Can you get some color to how that works with the Amazon tool chain? Okay, so within the Amazon tool chain, there are two or three important aspects, right? Even internal to AWS, our recommendation is to automate and go with the API and the cloud formation and the infrastructure as a code, as the fundamental building blocks. Because essentially what we have seen is just not the success story of our customers, but also where our customers and partners had challenges. To give an example, we have a lot of customers who start bundling a lot of their business workloads into a single AWS account, and then without no governance. And then when they really want to scale and grow their business, there is a lot of opportunity coming in, but they are unable to scale and that slows down their business growth prospect because the governance was not in place. So they didn't, they was an afterthought relative to the deployment. Exactly, they started with the business functionality. And that causes a lot of problems for them. Exactly, so they started with the business first approach. The solution was great, the technology was good, but there was no governance in place. As you rightly brought up, there are multiple regions. When they want to scale across these different regions, there are different teams operating these workloads. So these different teams and departments, they look for their own set of controls, their own set of governance policies, and also they wanted to manage the cost because of the different geographies and the different compliance that are required in those geographies. So in order to manage it, this is essentially where the governance becomes an essential part. And this is one area where we found that governance platforms like Stackler really plays the differentiating role. And one of the- It's governance as code. It is, that's basically what it is. It's infrastructure as code to governance. You built your cloud with code, you should govern your cloud with code as well. Take us through on the Stackler side. So I'm a developer, say I screwed up and I didn't do the compliance, I bought a Bolton on after as an afterthought. You have to go back and redo it or should take me through that scenario and then what happens? I want to be more proactive. Is it built into my CICD pipeline? I mean, can you take me through the developer aspect of it? Yeah, so one of the things that we have just announced and just launched is what we refer to as our infrastructure as code governance. So as we are describing in this conversation, the way you get to cloud today predominantly is going to be through an infrastructure as code technique. And when you're doing that, as you're mentioning, there's a developer experience that you want to engage with and you want to have your controls engage with as well, your governance and compliance policies. So the way we do that is we give you the ability at the developer workstation, at the CI and at the CD level, right? The pre-merge, pre-commit, pre-deploy and then also at runtime ability to dial in these policies, right? We do that through the same experience that cloud custodian gives you. That's very easy to use, human readable, YAML DSL. And what that does is it unlocks a prevention story, right? You can fix things at the source, no pun intended, right? Are you shifting left? We are shifting left, yes, absolutely. That is exactly what we're doing. We have already shifted the challenges of governance left by embracing governance's code and creating a platform around that. Now we're also embracing that and making that possible right where the developer lives in the workstation, the pipeline and the deploy, right? You can now have that complete control inclusive of what's going on at runtime and do so in a way, as mentioned, that's going to 10x the organization because they're going to be more engaged in the policy creation. And how does the developer know that they got the governance as code? Is it more education? It's just got to know it's there? I mean, or is it more of, they don't really have to think about it? Well, so the experience is going to be very similar to another coding standard, right? Hey, you made this violation, this misconfiguration. This is not aligned to best practice. This being, let's say, the infrastructure as code that you, let's say, we're developing right there and your workstation are trying to merge in or deploy out, right? You will detect all of those things, inform the developer, hey, do you realize where you perhaps violated our best practice? Here's the recommended way of doing that and that creates the reinforcement learning that ultimately changes the culture for the developers to be more aligned in embracing of the organization best practice and what it does is it gets them going faster. What's the market like? Cause this is one of those things where I can see enterprise missing the boat on this and not paying attention. It kind of reminds me of the old days when the enterprise where backup was not thought about to like, oh, we're going to back this stuff up. They put bolted on as an afterthought and then that became, they flipped the script now with ransomware and security. No one talks about backup as an after this, all on the front end, it's all designed in. This is designing it into the beginning. That's right, this is what's happening. That's right. How aware are the customers on this?  And then so where are we on the progression in the mind share of the customers? You guys could share some commentary on that. I'll start. So I think my go-kool made an astute observation that a lot of the early approaches to cloud may not have appropriately taken into account, like how do I prevent these things, right? So there can be oftentimes with a customer journey, the need to let's say dial in some remediation and reduce the technical debt that may have been accumulated from the early entry approaches into cloud. But then I think everybody can appreciate, hey, if I can avoid that technical debt through preventative controls, we would absolutely do that. So there's a lot of resonance towards that approach and we do that in as easy to use and a way that embraces and unifies the organization. Yeah, as Travis rightly said, what we are observing from our end customer and partner side is that the detection earlier in the stages is really increasing the productivity of the developers by multi-fold. Because this is just not about the technical aspect, also from the overall DevOps process, it eliminates a lot of the unnecessary tickets and also unnecessary meetings. So it enables the developers and empowers them to experiment with a variety of aspect. And then in a lot of organization, the responsibility is spread across multiple teams. The developers probably don't have much insight into the security needs or the compliance needs because they are probably fully focusing on the technical aspect. So this shift-left approach helps them identify. It's a matter of time, I mean, no one does tickets. I mean, come on, it's just like, it's so antiquated, it's so vulnerable, it's, I mean, I think it's a wake-up call. I'm sure you guys are going to do really well. Talk about your customer base. I know you guys have a lot of confidential big customers. I know you can't say their names, but give them a taste of some of the organizations that are working with you. Sides, scope, needs, the residents, are they leaning in? What's the feedback? Can you share some information? We actually just had a customer advisory board a few weeks ago. It was amazing and very invigorating. Our customers love our product. They are growing in users, usage, use cases. They're becoming public advocates on our behalf. It's really a movement. And certainly that's exciting for us because we know and are passionate about the challenge that we're solving and making an impact in their lives. So in terms of the diversity of the customer base, we do have one of Amazon's largest customers. So we know that we can achieve the level of scale at cloud scale or cloud size, right? And then we also have customers across other diverse different verticals, like all verticals kind of face this challenge in the cloud. Once we do it. It's a horizontal solution. Every developer, organization needs this. That's right. And I got to say just my observation in covering Amazon's cloud and just knowing how the global landscape is, this is only going to get more pressure to be more sovereign in international areas. You're going to have to stay within regions. More policy is coming. That's not ticket friendly. Get me on the tickets thing. It's triggered me. It's just so old. I mean, it's not controversial. It's like it's going to happen. I think people who are not going to align with actual and self-ealing kind of thinking is going to be out of business. You get to a place in the cloud and we've seen a lot of that attachment happen at a certain point where the infrastructure just isn't knowable in a single person. It's mind. You can't throw enough people at the problem. Some of the existing toolkit, as you mentioned, perhaps doesn't scale as appropriately as our solution does or has proven itself to have accomplished. And you just get overwhelmed, right? And that's a big part of the journey that we take folks on is again, let's clean up some of the debt that you may have already accumulated and then let's really start to prevent it going forward. And that is the business velocity improvement that Gokul referenced. Yeah, it's first, awareness operationalize it and then it's going to self-tune itself. It's now part of the operation. It's obviously, you know that. And part of the culture, right? Part of the culture. I mean, and the fact that you're open source project has so much traction. Shows that it's not just tire kicking techies and you got real practitioners in that community. I think that's a tell sign. Obviously, Amazon, you know the cloud's global and has an opportunity. Absolutely. Travis Gokul, thanks for coming on theCUBE. Appreciate the breakdown of governance as code. Again, another sign that cloud is going to be at the center of the security equation. We know what's going to happen here. It's just a matter of time. Cloud edge on-premise as one operating model. Security will be with network. The key platform, the platformization, platformification of securities coming. This theCUBE will be right back with more on day four after the short break. Thank you.


And back to ThinkTek, this is movies you can learn from. There's a lot of lessons today. We're gonna talk about two movies that involve Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is the president of Turkey. And he is one range individual, an autocrat for sure. And these movies were both made by Dogewell. Dogewell is like the PBS of Germany, and they make documentaries. And these are two documentaries that look at Erdogan from two sides. One is the story of his ascension to power in Turkey to ultimately the mayor of Istanbul and from there, a national political figure where he has become an autocrat. The other movie is about a fellow named Osman Kevala. Osman Kevala was, what do I say, a modest activist, a humanitarian person who Erdogan has been chasing around for the last few years.  And the movie is about that. And these two movies help to define Erdogan. And it is, of course, they're excellent movies like PBS movies would always be. Dogewell knows how to make a movie in terms of color and sound and music and, I mean, all the documentary shots you could imagine really, really good. But more than that, these movies are current. And I wouldn't say that they're, I wouldn't say that they're way out there. They do try to be somewhat balanced, but even a balanced movie of Erdogan is demonstrates so much about what he is doing in Turkey and what he is doing in the world. He's a world figure now. So George Kasin, who is not only a movie reviewer, but a political analyst, will help us understand both of these movies. George, why don't you talk about the first movie, that is the movie dealing with Erdogan's rise to power? This is a little more than a 35 minute documentary, which pretty much displays Erdogan's rise to power from he lived in this Kamil Pasha, this poor neighborhood in Istanbul. His dad was a ship captain and his mother was a housewife. So he doesn't come from a wealthy family. And he was a very good soccer player in that community. And they all knew him as a kid. He was really good soccer player. And he started into an Islamist party. He was very involved with an Islamist party. And he was elected mayor of Istanbul, but he opened his mouth and started saying things about the domes of our mosques are our helmets, the minarets are our guns and whatever. So the secular Kemalist party, they didn't like this. They jailed him for four months. So he learned his lesson. It was a longer sentence, but he got out early. Yeah, it was eight months, but he got out true. Exactly, Jay, thank you. So then he concealed his true feelings. And he became a progressive politician, mainly into economics. And in his early years as prime minister, he kept getting elected. He's very much loved. They showed these small shopkeepers in Istanbul that absolutely adore him, women adore him. So he rose from those humble beginnings to become the leader of Turkey. And for many years, he was progressive. I mean, he made deals with the Kurds, tried to give them more language rights and other lights within Turkey, right? So he was appeasing them, right? And then there was a 2015, 20th anniversary of the Gesi Park in Istanbul. He wanted to take this park that I guess a lot of the residents loved, right? And used just like our Central Park in New York or parks here, we have in Hawaii, major parks. And he wanted to turn it into a shopping center, like tear it all down. Yeah, George, let me interrupt to say that I was there. Wow. Your friend, Shay, was actually in Istanbul at that time. Wow. And it was called Taksim Gesi Park. And Taksim Gesi Park was where they went with the kids and the balloons. And the food stands and all that. It was a beautiful part of the experience of living in Istanbul.  And the people in the park opposed that. And so there was this very modest, mild-mannered protest. And then he brought the police in with batons and gas, rubber bullets, and ultimately real bullets. And six people were killed in the park for protesting a shopping center. It was really something. It turned a corner for Istanbul, for Turkey. And he stuck with it, he doubled down. That's what happens with autocrats. And it was shocking to see this happen. And the people in Istanbul were just amazed that he would do that to them. So it spread to the rest of the country because the populations who had trusted him couldn't believe what he was doing in Istanbul. So it became part of the whole country. And it just created chaos all through Turkey. And just a year or two later, there was this 2015 supposedly a coup that he was gonna be the coup d'etat to remove him from office, right? And when this came, some of the generals and soldiers that didn't really want him there anymore, and he remembered the prime minister who was arrested back in 1970 and then eventually executed. So he was scared, right? And he was able to quench it. And then he started to go after anybody who he felt in his own mind was against him. And this included Fettol, you know, it was like this Gulen people, right? Who are just a progressive religious organization. So that after the 2016 attempted coup, he changed more and more and became more and more autocratic. And the next document, we're gonna talk about this philanthropist, Osman Cavala, why he was put into jail, right? So bottom line is Erdogan is a really crafty, wily politician. He knows not only internally, but also internationally, and in the Middle East, the greater Middle East, how to play one segment of the copulation against another, how to play one ally against another ally. Well, he'll double cross one ally because he wants to get close with another ally. And this is the last few months since this happened with Israel, with Russia, and where he doubled cross these people. And now, you know, current events, and I won't get into this too much, he's reaching out to the EU and to the United States because it's something to benefit Turkey in the present state where the economy is weak because some of his misguided economic policies. So he became more and more autocratic over time and put down any kind of anyone who disagreed with him. And the second documentary, which displays Osman Kavala's work in Turkey with in Istanbul with art, how art brings culture and how in a free society you have artistic people that are part of a, you know, even Bohemian culture. I mean, my master's thesis on Singapore, I tried to talk about how culture, even Bohemian culture is good for a country, you know, in the long run. So he put that down too. And then he was threatened by Osman Kavala who was really acting in some ways with George Soros, with funding from Soros. Soros was providing money for his foundation, that's all. But Erdogan took liberties and claimed that Kavala had conspired with Soros in order to foment the unrest at Paksimgezi Park, which is kind of ridiculous because ultimately the whole country was involved in that protest. And there were something over three million people who were protesting the shopping center. And I suppose more than that, but protesting what Erdogan was doing. So let me go back for a minute before we get into Kavala, because Kavala is a real spine-tingling story. Okay, so back in, what is it, 1453.  Yes, precisely. Was the year in which, I guess, Turkey became Turkey. Turkey. Through the Christians out, right? And it became a piece ultimately of the Ottoman Empire. And it's a proud country. It's got a long history. It used to have much more land than it does now as part of the Ottoman Empire. It is the, what, the crossing point between East and West, the Bosphorus, which is a river that ultimately enters into the Black Sea, or vice versa, which is not too far from Russia and Ukraine, actually. The Bosphorus divides Istanbul and Turkey in two parts. The East part, which is the Islamic part, and the West part, which is the European part, okay? And in 1922 or 23, Attaturk changed things around from an Islamic country to a more of a European country. And from 1923 or so until Erdogan became powerful, it was a kind of a European country. And all of a sudden, Erdogan changed it around because when he grew up in that poor neighborhood, he was a strong Muslim. Wanted to be an Imam, had thoughts about making that his career. At one point, he wanted to be a soccer player, a professional soccer player, and he was really good at playing the games. Got that of soccer. And so all of this is somehow relates to the division in Turkey between East and West, between Islam and Christianity, which still exists. And so, it's almost like Trump or any autocrat, when they find there's a division to be had where people don't necessarily agree historically on a given issue, the idea is to divide them. And through dividing them, you become more powerful, which is exactly what Erdogan had done over the past, what, 20 years or so. And now he is unquestionably an autocrat. What's more is that, as you say, he's looking to extend his power beyond Turkey. And historically, that's T-U-R-K-I-Y-E rather than T-U-R-K-E-Y, different. And that's him, that's him. Referring back to the time before editor, to the time when Turkey was an Islamic Republic or whatever. So what we have now is him playing his games, and I agree with your use of the word games, with every country around and trying to deceive them, play with them, achieve some kind of strategical success with them. And every country in the area has been victimized that way. And now, including the United States. And most recently, the news has been that he was going to support the United States' initiative to bring Sweden into NATO, which is interesting because for the past several years, Turkey has been a member of NATO. And it has also been an applicant for membership in the EU. He never did get into the EU. It's just an odd kind of juncture for them. And part of the reason is they don't really trust him. He's done things that are troublesome. The Turks can, they've done things and had wars that are troubling. And some of their human rights views on things are troubling. And of course, as you know, the Armenian incident is very troubling, and that's 100 years ago. But anyway, so he finally, he turned around. Everybody said, oh, good. Erdogan's going to support the admission of Sweden into NATO, and we'll all be happy. Ukraine will be happy, and he made this big announcement. And a few days later, when they met in what, Vilnius isn't just recently in Lithuania, he changed his mind. And he said, well, no, I'm not sure I want to do that. I need F-16 jets from the United States before I actually close on that. And Joe Biden in the State Department was saying, I'm not so sure that we can just deliver F-16 jets to you because we have to get Congress. Whether that's true or not, that's what Biden said. And so it's in suspense now. It's not clear that he is supporting Sweden. It's not clear that he's going to get the F-16 jets. What I find even more interesting about it, ironic, is that Zelensky in Ukraine have been asking for F-16 jets for a long time. But during the entire time of the Ukrainian invasion, and Joe Biden has been promising them that, most recently he said he would start training Ukrainian pilots on them before delivering them. And that was supposed to happen on June 1st, but it didn't happen. So there's no training. The Ukrainian pilots are not qualified, and they haven't delivered jet number one to Ukraine. Although other members of NATO have delivered F-16s to Ukraine. So what's really interesting is that Joe Biden would promise Erdogan some jets at all when it has not really delivered jets to Ukraine. I suppose that makes Erdogan somewhat suspicious as to whether the United States' suggestion that it would provide F-16s will actually come true. But the bottom line is, let's use your term, is it's not clear that his support, Erdogan's support of Sweden is going to happen. Yeah, you know, I know the Ottoman Empire, and I've discussed my own family, my great-grandfather's cousin was the finance minister in Istanbul, under Abdul Hamid, even though Abdul Hamid didn't like the Armenians at all. Killed some of them in Adana in 1895, 1909. But I mean, he was very, so there were people of ethic, racial, religious minorities that were in high positions of all different backgrounds. But that was the Ottoman Empire. And then when they got rid of it, when they became secular, right? It was Turkey for the Turks, right? So under Kemalism, right? It wasn't an Islamic Republic. It was known as being secular. And then, as you said, Erdogan took Hagia Sophia, which was a Byzantine church and had become a museum. It became a mosque in 1453, but then it was a museum for all those years from 1933, 34, up to just recently a year or two ago when Erdogan turned it back into a mosque. Well, the movie tells you that he is building a thousand, that's 1,000 mosques across Turkey. He is re-establishing Islam as the state religion, I would say, of Turkey. This makes Turkey a different kind of place. Yes, yes.  I mean, he's making deals with Russia, that's extensively a Christian country, you know? Soviet and then Israel, you know? And then trying to work out between Armenian and Azerbaijan, right? To try to get that corridor so he can get to Central Asia, you know? Direct water and land route to Turkey. But ultimately, he's pushing Islamism. I mean, he's a real strong, strong and very similar to the United States, you know, where you've got a lot of conservative Christians, right? That are pretty much trying to get this country to become less secular and to become more, you know, it's a, they talk about it's a Christian country. But if you know the Constitution, if you know how this country was founded under deists, they were not saying that's a Christian country, they said it's a country under God, which would take in all the different religious backgrounds. So you gotta understand who is, who is the real Erdogan? I mean, when he was mayor, he concealed his Islamism, right? In order to become Prime Minister and then to become President. So I was, I have not followed today what you said that he's backtracking on that agreement with Sweden. As of the last night, when I was looking at the news, he was still saying that Sweden, he's accepting Sweden. But I knew when he started talking about the legislature that there might have been some kind of a glitch, you know, that it's not quite done, but you've brought in something that I was not aware of. So we just gotta watch him, you know? Well, if he can backtrack that way, change his mind, and everybody dangling, that's what he does. And it's the same thing in the movie about Osman Kavala, exactly what happened at Osman Kavala. So Osman Kavala was, I guess he was prosecuted for some kind of, you know, crime against the state. It was trumped up and he was put in jail for four or five years. And it was interesting in Istanbul, I guess it was. And he was supposed to get out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the International Court of Human Rights said, there's no claim against him. There's no case against him. You have to release him. And so then what Erdogan did is he released him or was about to release him. It was a real cliffhanger. This is covered in the Deutsche Well movie. And he was waiting for hours to actually walk out the gate of the prison. And his family and supporters were out there. And all of a sudden Erdogan prosecuted him again for another crime against the state. And they didn't let him out. He never actually left the prison. And he's still there.  That's it for Osman Kavala.  He's a modest, mild-mannered intellectual. And is there something violent about him? He's not a terrorist. He has no intention of overthrowing Erdogan, but Erdogan sees him as our autocrats sometimes do as a threat. So Erdogan is using him as a scapegoat in these multiple prosecutions. When you watch the movie, you really like Osman Kavala. He's a likable gentleman is what he is. But right now he's been in jail for seven or eight years already. And he'll be in jail for a long time. He'll be in jail as long as Erdogan is in control of Turkey, which is the sad thing about Turkey because he's captured Turkey. He's taken control of Turkey. He's the Putin of Turkey. And the Trump of America. Well, always wonder what happens when a guy throws off a democratic society which Erdogan has done and becomes an autocrat and controls the courts and pulls the rug out on the rule of law, which is what has happened in the case of Osman Kavala and many others in Turkey. After that, no, there's ostensible boo, was it, back a few years ago?  Well, they're knocking at your door at three in the morning and you have no idea. That's what happened to Osman Kavala.  And there's nothing anybody can do to help you because the autocrat is totally in charge. And there are people who believe firmly that if Trump were ever elected president again, anyone who he felt was his opponent, his adversary would get the same kind of treatment but get the rule of law, but get the constitution as we used to know it. This is what happens when a country turns from a democracy to an autocracy under a guy who is an autocrat. That's the process. I don't think people realize when the press says, oh gee whiz, we're gonna lose our democracy. Exactly what happens to you as an individual and your civil rights and human rights, what happens to you? What happens to your neighbors? What happens to your job? What happened to the neighborhood and the society around you? And that's what's happened in Turkey. I wish I could feel better about it but I don't think it's going anywhere good. Well, you know the mayor of Istanbul, Imamem Klu, he's been brought up under trumped-up charges too, that he's a terrorism. And then a lot of the other politicians, maybe Kurdish politicians or whatever, I mean, he's arrested these people, removed them from office. When they, there's really very, it's very flimsy that they're, they may be Kurds and maybe they agree with Kurdish culture but you know, I mean, one of the things being Armenian, they showed D.R. Bekir where my great-grandfather was pretty much the mayor, he was the first and only Christian mayor of D.R. Bekir. And then four years later, he was brutally murdered. So the thing is, I look at the Kurdish situation and what's being done to all these mayors, that one Kurdish attorney was shot, murdered, he was speaking. And it's very similar to Putin, you know, what is going on with Erdogan is very similar to Putin being an autograph. And then as you alluded to, what happens if Trump gets reelected?  So there's issues with Erdogan that have to be brought up about his duplicity. And let's see what happens, is he gonna, as you said, is he gonna go through with this Sweden thing or is this another ploy for him to get the F-16s, to get other concessions from the EU? And you know, all Armenian Nagorno-Karagov plays into this because the EU is trying to make peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh, right? And then Erdogan goes and double crosses Israel to be confront, to sidle up to Iran, you know, just in the last few weeks as well.  So he's a player. Let's, I didn't wanna talk too much about this because I'm hoping that Erdogan will allow Sweden into NATO, but after what you mentioned that I was not aware of, I start to wonder, is he just playing more manipulation? So I'll leave it at that. So let's take a look at this movies we can learn from, okay? These movies were both made by Deutsche Well. They're both excellent documentaries. They're not long. The one is about half an hour. The other is about 40 minutes. They're both connected somehow because they both tell you very eloquently what is going on with Erdogan and Turkey right now. And you learn a lot from these movies that you didn't know before. It's like a PBS movie, but somehow it's even more of a revelation because we didn't know what Erdogan's been doing day to day in Turkey with his adversaries or anyone he perceives as an adversary. And so I give DW Deutsche Well credit for making these movies, just as I give PBS credit for making the front line movies. And I think it's part of the media we have to look at. These are more than movies. They're even more than documentaries. They're news and they're news in-depth, which, you know, think that we have half an hour not 30 seconds on a given subject. So we believe in going further in depth, if possible. And I think that's what these movies do for us. So you can call me a follower of DW Deutsche Well at this point, just as I'm a follower of Frontline. And I will be looking again for more movies, more documentaries about subjects like this. So I can learn more about what's going on in the world. I wonder whether these movies are being shown in Turkey. I'm not sure about the state of the First Amendment. And then I wonder whether they're being seen in Europe. I imagine they are and certainly in Germany, Deutsche Well plays to Germany. But I think it's a tremendous public service that companies like Deutsche Well and Frontline create movies like this, first class, on every level. They help to protect democracy. They help to protect the liberal world order. Whether they succeed in the face of people like Erdogan and Putin is another question. So you want to rate this, Jay? You want to rate it and you want us to rate it or not? Sure, let's rate it. But I would fold in to my rating the notion that this is a powerful political statement. It's beyond that. So I give it a 10 on the quality of the movie. The video, the audio, the music, the shots, the editing, all that, really excellent. And the coverage in general. They really took you there. So that's a 10. But I give them another 10 on the fact that they're going into Turkey where it may be a little dangerous to make a movie like this. And they're facing down an autocratic leader in Turkey in both movies. And so you got to give them credit there. Not only making a movie as a filmmaker, they're reporting. And I give them credit for both. I'm on the same place, 10 on both counts as well. Both the production values and the power of opening up the eyes of the West, what's going on truly and what's going on. One thing is clear. Erdogan, who wasn't necessarily on our radar before, I mean, not to the same extent, certainly has to be in our radar now. We should watch him like a hawk. We should cover him. We should question his motivations and some of the bizarre strategies that he uses in dealing not only with his own people, but with leaders, other leaders in the world, other countries. Thank you very much, George. Thank you for this discussion. Thank you, Jen. You have a good day as well. Thank you again. Aloha. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. If you like what we do, please click the like and subscribe button on YouTube. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. Check out our website, thinktechawaii.com. Mahalo.


Well, fine. Good morning, everyone. This is Patricia and I am traveling for history and If traveling for history sounds familiar to you, that's because I have a YouTube channel by the same name and On my YouTube channel. I offer a variety of topics for instance I film videos of buildings on the national or state register of historic places So I film a lot of covered bridges Which is a fan favorite and you know 1974 seem to be a very popular year for covered bridges here in Vermont because a lot of them were added that year One of the covered bridges I have filmed Was in Montgomery, Vermont and actually all of the towns I'm going to mention today are located in Vermont So there are six covered bridges in Montgomery Has the largest number of covered bridges not only in Vermont, but in the United States Now what I love about these covered bridges, especially that one there is they have Multiple names. So this is officially the West Hill covered bridge But it's it's also known as a creamery covered bridge which is on Creamery Bridge Road It's kind of handy when you're trying to find a covered bridge that they have the roads for them, too and although this is located in in The middle of nowhere really When I was driving there Google I use Google Maps and Google Maps said Turn right the next turn is gonna be right and I'm thinking well, there is no road I was on a dirt road covered with leaves because it was fall and Yeah, I the road looked like a driveway it was also dirt I mean, I'm not surprised it was dirt, but it was dirt But the reason I turned down there finally decided to turn down there is because I saw a stop sign on the road covered with a tree But in a tree branch, but so down there In the what is now the middle of nowhere. There are foundations of what have been a creamery so But so this is the creamery Covered a creamery bridge covered covered bridge. So that's pretty handy I also offer recommendations of books videos and even magazines. I Walk cemeteries that's something I've done most of my life anyway and You know, I remember a saying And it says that you're not truly forgotten Until no one says your name So as I walk a cemetery and I'm saying the names of these people by reading their headstones or monuments to my audience in the back of my head I'm thinking well, you're not forgotten right now. I Also love to film museums and if you've been watching my channel, you've been watching a lot of videos I filmed at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum And if you're loving those those videos, no worries. I have more for you to see and Let us not and oh the what you're seeing on the screen right now is a Fraction of the buildings on the National Register of Historic Places. It's Astonishing how many of those videos I actually have Another type of museum. I absolutely love which also holds a soft place in my heart are Historical Society museums. They do not get the love and the attention. They truly deserve now One of the things I do like about filming historical society museums and even before I was filming them when I was visiting them is How much they show us how similar we are? So for instance last year in 2022 I Filmed I seem I didn't film I visited the St. Albans Museum The original name of that museum was the St. Albans Historical Society Museum and In there the director was giving me a tour which was lovely She pointed out this treadmill that a small animal would have walked on and the purpose of that was to Power something that a human would want to use Once I saw it there. I then saw it again at the brick school museum which houses the The items from the Georgia Historical Society. I Then saw it again at the Sheldon Historical Society Museum. In fact, I was kind of giddy if you watch that video I I was gleefully looking for it and sure enough it was on it was at the back wall So they have one there and then again when I visited the South Hero Bicentennial Museum video coming soon look for it on November 1st but They also had one down in their basement now one of the people there had said to me well The the small animals would have walked it Maybe little kids would have walked on it which would make sense They would be a tantalizing to a little kid and there's powered a butter churn Now I also visited the Lincoln Historical Society Museum Now they don't have one of those kinds of treadmills. Do you know what kind they have? I hope you're sitting down because this is wild. They have this humongous treadmill a horse would have walked and that horse horse power don't you know that horse powered a drag saw a Drag saw is used to cut trees that have fallen I'm still I'm still just Got smacked by that. It's just wild So I Love Historical Society Museums for you know, certainly that and and the fact that they need more love and attendance and all that good stuff Also on my channel you'll find that I offer shorts videos these are videos that are under one minute long and They are on any topic whatsoever because the thing with history is everything falls under its umbrella It's fabulous. So everything is fair game in fact today's video, which is a short video is a day-long legs Crawling on a headstone. I Was filming in the cemetery this American Civil War veteran when I turned around to Leave to walk up the road to find another one of those men I noticed movement out of the corner of my eye and sure enough a day-long legs and What the heck why not film that and that as I said is today's video during Halloween week other shorts videos topics would be weather nature Heavy machinery had everything else in between I have a lot of shorts videos on my channel something for practically everyone In fact last year and pretty I was pretty excited by this that I actually captured snow starting to stick And when I posted that video and had that bit of a description One of the commenters said well, you know snow is supposed to do that Well, yes, yes it is so I mentioned these this Civil War veteran and It's because I offer videos on people and if you've been watching you've likely seen this series I've had I have a lot of them. I've been looking for 34 of these men buried at Prospect Cemetery in East Middlebury of Those 34 I have found 30 30 Now for the most part I have their enlistment information because I found a website that has all these things Some of them though have an obituary and what I'll say about an obituary is There's one whose video is not going live yet where the obituary was so well written it was clearly It was clearly written by someone who knew the person and respected him greatly. It's It's an amazing obituary and An even smaller number Have a photograph Let's think about that for a moment. These men have been dead for well over a hundred years and Some have a photograph so putting a face to a name a face to a headstone is Intriguing so Why on earth what I want to host a TV show since I have a YouTube channel, you know, that's a valid question It's one I even asked myself, but So I have a working document if you will and with a few ideas. So for instance if I find information on Any of the videos I have on my channel. I want to share that information here so so for instance I Have filmed a building on the National Register of Historic Places and that building is called the Louis and filament captains Louis and filament Daniels house it is far less about that house and far more about Filament Daniels and that's because she made International headlines I'm going to leave you with that teaser you don't watch my video on my channel for that for the rest of that's particular story thing is few months later, I found more information on her and So I'll share that here. This was a remarkable woman who deserves to be Filmed talked about Have her information shared now. I want to also offer behind the scenes Information, you know, it's stories really it's not it's far less about information and far more about stories The stuff that goes on besides the fact that I wonder how I get anything done on some days You may be surprised by other things that happen so in fact I want to share one of those stories now so Sometimes people make requests I can't always fulfill those requests and and That is a bummer But in 2022 I was asked to create a video on Highgate Manor Which is located in Highgate, Vermont near the Canadian border what I loved about that particular Assignment was the fact that I was able to get two videos out of the one request And why would I get two videos out of that? Well, it's because the the First video was the history of the building itself and the second video was its Haunted history Which is fantastic So let me start with sharing my experience of driving up there. I Was on route 207. I knew that that Highgate Manor was located on 207, but I didn't know where except I knew it'd be in Highgate So I'm driving along I had just entered Highgate and And I'm sort of waiting to see it and as I was driving all of a sudden I Was hit by an absolute wall of bad vibes Ever since I was a little kid. I've had Feelings about things I Am not psychic. I'm not saying that at all I'm just saying that every now and then I get a feeling about something and this was a wall of bad vibes And you know what I saw next immediately on my left Highgate Manor now Across from Highgate Manor is a church and by the behind the church is the cemetery I knew I was going to film the cemetery first because it was it was almost dusk and I it's easier to film in a cemetery when it's a bit lighter For safety reasons there are low headstones and I did not want to trip and fall that's no just no just know Especially since there was some snow still in the ground Because it's filming in March of last year So I'm in the cemetery. I found the Baxter family and we can see this this picture right here and I was specifically there to film Dr. Baxter There the the who owned Highgate Manor It's handy how all this works out now. I was there to film so I filmed Filmed a Video and didn't really like that video so I deleted it and Filmed the second one that this is fairly common actually when I'm out There could be problems with the first video. There could be just I don't like the first video and I film a second video No big deal. I Didn't like that video either Huh, that's okay, so I filmed a third one. I didn't like that I didn't like the fourth one the fifth one or the sixth one when I film the seventh one. Okay. All right, I like this one I Seven videos seven Holy cow at this point. It is now dusk. The sun is definitely going down. What you don't see is How dark it is necessarily I can I know that but my camera makes it look lighter than it is So that's great for filming for you, but I know how much darker it is in real life so I want to film the Highgate Manor next and I'm standing out there first of all. Yeah, so you see this 8,000 square foot house and I'm staying there to the right on the across the street The I Filmed the first haunted. I filmed the history video and that was fine one take boom boom done second video Which was the haunted video? I filmed it once I didn't like that one. I filmed it a second time didn't like that one either Film to the third time. Nope. No go filmed a fourth a fifth a Sixth a seventh and eighth and a ninth time I didn't really like the ninth video, but it was the ninth video and it was getting darker and I really just wanted to start heading home because I didn't know the roads all that well So I accepted that video Few days later was up in that area again I knew I was going to be going by there to go to another area and decide all right I will stop and film this haunted one one more time and if this doesn't doesn't work. I'm going with the ninth So I filmed the tenth video and wouldn't you know it? I like that one so bizarre this is a This is one of them the graves of Dr. Baxter and his wife So Dr. Baxter Had had his practice in his house. This was exceptionally common and quite frankly when I was a little kid and I saw a pediatrician that Pediatrician had his office in his home Granted that was over 50 years ago, but who's counting so So this is a very common practice now Dr. Baxter also had an operating room in his house supposedly which is now a library and Supposedly you can still see the blood stains on the floor rumor has it that Dr. Baxter experimented on his children and Most did not live to see the age of 10 those children Reputedly haunt the place to this day Now this particular area of the house since it is supposed to be haunted and this was a stop on the underground railroad Which makes a lot of sense because the Canadian border is pretty close This side of the house is supposedly haunted by an African-American man and Highgate Manor is a gorgeous house You know as of the filming of this video It was it was on the market in January 2023 and you can see video pictures rather You can see I have videos on the brain you can see photographs of the interior of that house pretty impressive well, it's 8,000 square feet and definitely I Mean it has that cupola on top and it's spectacular so as I ponder things to share with you another piece I'm thinking about is Having guests I have I Actually have one who who may be able to come on next month. So in November. So how fantastic is that? So I'll be reaching out to some more people I know to to join me here and have a chat with because who doesn't like to learn about People and what they do Places they they volunteer or work so a variety of historical society museum people. I'll be reaching out to So should you folks be watching expect an email? Oh by the way So That's another piece. I'm thinking about so if you have any suggestions of topics You'd be interested in learning more about I'd be happy to share now after I leave here. I plan to film at least two places maybe three and and There's no mistake why I wanted to start this channel before Halloween Halloween is my favorite holiday of the year Thanksgiving is tasty and Who doesn't love to give and receive gifts for Christmas, right? But it's Halloween. It's Halloween and that's because Years ago. I had co-owned a second-hand toy store called Janet's thingamajigs on Halloween these little kids, you know three or four-year-old kids would come in Dressed in the costumes and was with their faces painted. I remember one little kid had the face painted with the whiskers and this little one was wearing a Lions costume with the huge mane and a tail that was well dragging on the ground absolutely adorable and The thing that that kid is now pushing 30 is remarkable. That's so adorable The other reason I love Halloween is the spooky stuff. Who doesn't love spooky stuff? So When I was a little kid I was watching these these scary movies in the 70s Looking back on them now. I've watched them as an adult. They're schlocky. Absolutely, but they're still kind of spooky and And certainly because my mother enjoyed these old black-and-white films lots of Atmospherically spooky haunted house stuff Absolutely love that stuff Still love it now so I really wanted to offer this video because of Halloween so the places I plan to go after here. It's kind of interesting one One is I Can't park on the road because of what appeared to be culverts on either side So that's a no-go and If it's unsafe to park you can bet your sweet Bippy It's gonna be unsafe to stand on the side of the road not that that has stopped me I stood in the side of Route 7 with tractor trailers going by whoo. I've also stood in the side of Route 2 Because it was filming something I couldn't film closer to the space Now this is on a stretch of route to the place. I want to film today Which is a pretty busy road. It's a main thoroughfare so Cross my fingers wish me luck as I decide if I want to take that risk. It's a Halloween display It's a phenomenal Halloween display, so That will likely Overrule every bit of a common sense. I may still have The And the other is a cemetery Cemetery has the creepiest vibes I've ever experienced in a cemetery and I have walked oodles of them by now You can look at my channel. I have I have a I have a Vermont cemeteries playlist. I have a Lakeview cemetery playlist. I have two different green mount cemetery playlist because one is in Montpelier and one's in Burlington I have walked a lot of cemeteries But this one gives the creepiest vibe creepiest vibe and There I should be able to get three videos today three the creepy vibe one the fact that the cemetery and There's a section on Revolutionary war soldiers. I think people would be would find those interesting as well and then whilst I'm down that way I may as well go back to Prospect Cemetery and See you and find those last four men So in coming months, I hope to have guests Because you know understand although I have almost a thousand videos on my channel most of my videos I'm not even in my philosophy is you want to see what's in front of the camera and not who is behind it I could be wrong on that notion, but I'd rather see what someone is looking at myself in a video than what they look like which is perhaps unkind but It Show me what you're looking at so as I would say in any one of my videos is an ending is I appreciate your watching and This is Patricia and I am Traveling for history until I see you again. I hope you have a fabulous day. Thanks for watching now. Bye now


Hey y'all, welcome to what Chelsea eats. Thank you so much for joining me today. I am going to share with you how I made this Creamy white bean hummus. Oh my goodness y'all. It is so good and it happened pretty quickly I just added all the ingredients to the blender and it was done in under Say five six minutes. So if you'd like to see how I make it stay tuned So here are the ingredients I used for this recipe But I will be sure to put a link below in the description box that will tell you exactly what I used and how much for this recipe Okay, y'all so y'all see I'm using my Vitamix again y'all are gonna get tired of me talking about the Vitamix I absolutely love this blender first. We're gonna add the white beans great northern beans sometimes They're called navy beans. This is just one can Next I'm gonna add two cloves of garlic I know it looks like three but there's only two in there, but you could use as much garlic as you want I don't think this recipe would taste very good without it, but you could try it if you don't eat garlic I added some pink Himalayan salt because this recipe absolutely needs salt I try not to use salt very often, but if I use it, it's because I'm using a mineral salt now Normally you use tahini for hummus in this case. I'm using Almond butter unsweetened unsalted almond butter, and it made this hummus really really green. I love the texture Next we're gonna add about a half a teaspoon of onion powder You can actually leave the onion powder out if you would like to but it gives it a smoky flavor Next is the crushed red pepper flakes I added about an eighth of a teaspoon You can actually leave out the red pepper, especially if you don't like spicy food Next is the juice of one lemon. I'm using these Meyer lemons, and they are very they have delicate skins It's hard to squeeze the Lemon out so I like to use this Lemon squeezer. I'll put a link below in case you're interested in this squeezer, but it helps me to get all of the juice out as well as Helps me to keep the seeds from falling into the blender because when you blend lemon seeds up in hummus It doesn't taste very good Next I'm adding water I added a quarter to a half a cup of water You use as much water as you think you need for the consistency of hummus that you like So next we're gonna pop the lid on the blender, and we're gonna blend it until it's smooth It didn't take very long to pull this together So you blend it in the consistency in which you like if it's too thin for you You can add more beans and spices if it's if it's if it's too thick for you You can add more water and also you can add some more lemon juice if that is helpful for you So this is done blending now I am going to serve this up with some Cucumbers because that's the only vegetable that I had in the refrigerator that I could use at the time So that's what I chose that you could use any kind of vegetable you would like with this hummus So there you have it white bean hummus. It is so good y'all y'all see that texture You see how creamy it is it tastes so good But anyway, if you like this video, please give it a thumbs up share it with a friend and don't forget to subscribe and Hit the little notification bell next to the subscribe button so you can be notified when I put out a new video Thank you so much for watching and I'll talk to you soon. Love y'all


Before we start looking at limits, and I teach you how to work with a very exciting world of limits, I think it's always good to start with a tangible example. Can I use limits in real life? Now look at this very busy slide we've got here. We've got seem to have two equations, a P of T and a C of P. So that P would refer to the first P and the P of T. So these equations are somehow locked in and we see one is marked red. So we presume that's the red graph at the bottom and the blue one seems to just go up and up and up. And what's the story behind this? Well, I said we should make it real life. So let's come up with a good story. Aliens are about to invade the Earth. Oh, and everyone is concerned and the president asks what can be done? And the scientist says, well, actually aliens have landed before. We did some experiments on them and we came up with these two equations. What's these two equations? The president says one is we had a population model there and we called a P of T and as time increases that is in this area where we had the aliens and we experimented on them, that's the population of the people there. And this C of P that seems to be the rate at which the alien bugs can multiply and infect people and people turn into aliens. The president asks now what kind of losses are we looking at? The scientist says, not a problem. Let's see what happens as time reaches infinity. Let's see how many people we're going to lose. And so if we take the limit as time goes to infinity of P of T, there's the sum. You don't need to know how to do it. It ends up at 20. The answer is going to be 20 and if we plug that P value of 20 into the C of P, we see all the answers 4.2. So out of a maximum population of 20, we're going to lose 4.2 because the humans are going to fight back. So very useful example, real life example there for you. So let's look at these equations again. We have P of T and there's the red graph. You can see it sort of starts to climb but it reaches this maximum and it seems not to go up any further. It's hit some form of a limit there. It doesn't go up and if we let these bugs just go and we gave them ample humans to feed on these alien bugs, you'll see the infection rate just goes up and up and up and up. The blue line is going to go up to infinity. It's just not going to stop. As time reaches infinity, it seems as if in the y-axis the number of infections we're talking about is going to go up to infinity as well. But if we combine these two, it says to you that while these bugs can't just really infect humans and turn them into aliens ad infinitum, there's going to be some rate limitation here. So the population is only going to get to 20. That means these bugs don't have a resource of food that's limitless and the humans fight back. And so if we combine those two, then we get this little green line here that is the c of the p of t of drawn in green and you see that also reaches some limit. So with this very useful in real life example, I want to show you that we can model things. We can model what might happen in the future and we can see we can end up with these graphs that seem to increase. We might as well decrease, but they reach some sort of limit as opposed to this blue line. This is going to go up and up and up and never stop. But you can get these other equations that seem to go up or down as I said, but they reach some form of limit. And then we know we usually model time to go to infinity and realistically that might mean months or the next couple of years or the next couple of decades, whatever the situation might be. We can now estimate what the result might be under a set of circumstances and you have constrained the circumstances by allowing the population only to reach 20 over time. You can put some constraints on my equations there and there seems to be this natural limit things can get to and that is how things work in medicine in the disease, in the spread of disease. Some limit is reached. So very exciting stuff limits and it's well worth the effort to learn how to do the mathematics of limits. Let's get started.


Item Number – SCP-016-J Object Class – Euclid Standard Containment Procedures – SCP-016-J is to be kept in an armory with other explosive devices, all of which must be smaller than SCP-016-J. Use of SCP-016-J outside of testing is prohibited. Conversation is, whilst not encouraged, permitted. Description – SCP-016-J is a ballistic missile approximately 2.4 meters tall and 0.3 meters in diameter. Rude comments have been spray-painted on all parts of SCP-016-J, obscuring the original paint job.  SCP-016-J is capable of telepathic communication with any living being within 4 meters. While researchers have been reluctant to give interviews, information from said interview suggests SCP-016-J is both sapient and sentient. SCP-016-J insists on being used in battle, and claims, quote, to have been on the front lines many times, end quote. Addendum SCP-016-J-1 – Blow as a partial transcript from an interview with SCP-016-J Come on, doc, just fire me. You know I'll satisfy you. We're not going to use you. We're not fighting any wars or anything. Oh, I think you're just scared.  You don't know how much I'm going to hurt. But you can do it. I've seen your silos. Just waiting for me. I'll fit. But you're not even that big. What do you mean? I'm huge. No, I've totally seen. Never mind.  So just aim me toward the battlefield. I just want to explode all over some trenches. Okay, that's it. I'm ending this interview. No, don't stop. Talk ballistic to me. Addendum SCP-016-J-2 – After continued insistence from SCP-016-J and agreement from researchers that SCP-016-J's destruction would improve workplace morale, a test of firing SCP-016-J was conducted. SCP-016-J was aimed at a target 100 kilometers away and fired. During the flight, SCP-016-J greatly reduced in size, measuring 0.5 meters long and 0.15 meters in diameter two seconds after launch. Upon impact, SCP-016-J failed to explode. When questioned about the test results, SCP-016-J responded, quote, this never happens to me, end quote.


I started teaching here about three years ago, but I was currently, before that, I was a student at the University of California, and I started teaching here about three years ago. I started teaching here about three years ago, but I was currently, before that, I was a student here as well, so I come from Pre-K all the way up to eighth grade, and then I went on to another school, a public school, and then I went to college, and then I come back to teach. The Opposites and the Freedom School was formed by parents that wanted their children to learn the language and the culture and the ceremonies, and they didn't want no outside disturbances, and so they formed the Freedom School and they did it. It started in, actually, I remember my mother telling me that one of the classes were in my grandparents' house just down the road, and they would have some classes there, and they would teach the kids and stuff, and yeah, right in their living room, in their kitchen, so that's where it started, and then we gradually made it to this big school, and we're supposed to get even bigger, so. I would say children from birth, well, it was supposed to be birth because we have the language in us too, but now it's like 18 months into however long they want to stay here. We'll go all the way up to 12th grade if they want. We actually have one teacher that went to 12th grade, and then now he works here. Really? Went right from 12th grade to here, who works here, yeah. That's pretty cool. So it's like all up to the student, if they want to keep going, we'll keep going with them. Like, all the prophecies say that we're supposed to lose everything in our way, so the purpose of the freedom school is so that we keep our language going, and they keep learning about the ceremonies and what to do, and stuff like that, and to create more speakers. I think it's really important, because what's funny is in our community, it's split between two. Like, well, there's a lot more splits than just the two, but mainly for long- course ways, traditional ways, it's split into two. I find here that don't matter here. Our aim here is for them to be speakers. So we have both Long-Causes children that come here, and they learn the same thing throughout the whole thing. They learn all their speeches, and all their opening, they all learn it. So that way, when it doesn't matter which Long-Causes they attend, they can go in and keep continuing the ceremonies and stuff, and our ways of life will keep continuing. So it's really important. Grade one, I have to teach from language arts to math to science to everything. I have to have the whole umbrella underneath in art. Can't forget art. curriculum is all based on the opening itself and everything surrounding us. So the opening is like your people, your earth, your water, your food, your fish, everything. So our curriculum is based on the opening, and each month it changes. We're creating more language, and the more language I think we create will create less intergenerational trauma. Like I think it lessens it a little bit more, and then how we create to be thankful for everything. From the littlest worm out there to the biggest tree, you know, like we're always thankful for everything, and being thankful creates healing in itself. Being thankful for things instead of focusing on all the negative things. So I think it would be, I think it is a healing process, and for them to keep growing up like that from pre-K or the language nest all the way up, their way of outlook is different. Yeah. And I see it in my own, because my kids come here, and I went here, and my husband went to a different school, and he has a little bit more of a negative outlook view of things, and I'm constant, like me and my children are constantly like, nope, it's this way. Look at it this way, and then he always comes to us to see what our point of view is on things, and then when we give him ours, he's like, oh my god, never even thought of it that way. And I think it's because of the way the school differences is, because we're thankful for a lot of things here, and in public schools they don't really have to, they don't focus on any of that at all sometimes. I know it's kind of slightly changing now, but it's not enough of a change to be pushing them to really have gratitude and stuff. So when I explained that we do our curriculum by the opening, say it's right now maple season, right? So our children right now are learning everything about the maple, how to make maple syrup, why we give thanks to the wahtagili, I actually do not sap, that's what it is, in English. So like why we have to give thanks to that, and what the stories are behind that. So they know how to tap a tree, they know how to identify the maple tree, and along with the maple tree and the stories, there comes other trees in those stories, and so they learn how to identify those trees, and then that's just for this month. Or like for my class, we fit it into a week, so yeah. So we try and fit everything in within the semesters, and when it changes, they learn, when you get into the older groups, they learn more survival things on how to make your own fire and stuff like that, all depends on who comes in to teach too, because some of the teachers can't go out there and it's real hard. I have a hard time identifying trees, and I always pray, I'm like, please be the right tree so I don't teach my kids. That's a maple tree, and they'll tell their parents, that's a maple tree, and they'll argue with their parents, not ah, do not deal with it alone. They'll be like no, she told us it's a maple tree, and it's not a maple tree. And then they learn about birds, they learn about fish, they learn about the rivers and how it cleans the land around us, they learn about, um, what else, I can't even think, oh they do a lot of gardening, a lot of gardening throughout the summer and the spring. So right now we're, um, my class will start doing gardening soon. I think I'm going to do it, start it next semester though, because we're kind of only got two more weeks left and I don't want to try and squeeze it into one week, I want it to, like, be a longevity thing, so throughout the semester. If our students are able to return and teach the language, that's got to be some kind of success, I think anyways. I mean it kind of stinks that we're not all first language speakers, but we still know enough to come back and continue and work and build on it, because I know the teachers that are returning and that have returned, we're not stopping learning, we're gonna keep, we keep going, we keep having language classes, we meet up with, um, first language speakers and we're always constantly throwing out words and we're always learning more words, like when you come here, you come here to teach and you come here to keep learning. That's what I found, because I was scared, I didn't want to teach on the outside and teach Mohawk, because that's what I probably would have ended up teaching anyways, was Mohawk in the outside school, and I didn't want to do that, because I was like, they don't give you resources for that in other schools, like a teacher that goes to Sam and River, which is one of the schools that are up here, they don't get the out, the out thing that we get, like, we have first language speakers in our house, like, in here, and we can go right to them and say, I don't remember this word or I have no idea what I'm talking about and they'll help us all the way through and they'll help us translate everything and stuff and it's amazing, I love it, that's what I love most, is that I can just be like, okay, help me. When we go out, because we're always in the community, you can always find us doing something out there, because we don't have to strictly be in our classroom, we can just go out and we always get community, like community members, I was like, oh my God, those are the freedom school kids, listen to them talk, oh my God, look what they're doing, like, oh my God, they're so free-willed, that I was like, look at there they are, so yeah, I find that, I think that's one measurement as other community members noticing what our students and they're working on, what we're working towards and they're noticing it, just even on the grateful level that I was talking about, like, a lot of people notice that, oh my God, your students are so different, because we have a Boys and Girls Club here and some of our students go after school to Boys and Girls Club and then most of the main stream schools take their kids to the Boys and Girls Club and they all meet up there, while the workers at the Boys and Girls Club always tell me when I pick up my kids because my kids go and they're always like, oh my God, they're so amazing, they're so polite, they're so respectful, they have so much respect for anyone, no matter how mean they are to someone and they're like, they're so cool to just have around them, like, aww, thanks, yeah, so that's how I think we see it measured by, because there's no really, no telling how to measure it, right, so just people noticing, like, if you can notice then I guess we're doing something good, right, and then I love the aha moments from the kids, like, aww, I get what you were saying, because we do a lot of sign language, like, not sign language, I wish we could learn the sign language, sign language, but we do, like, we make up our own, so for like, in the opening we say, I could be in my classroom and start, like, I tried to, we had a couple incidents where, like, almost turned into bullying, but it wasn't just there yet, so I had to nip it in the thing, and I started talking about respect and I was trying to tell them what respect was in Mohawk, and I'm, like, doing a whole bunch of straight, and I'm trying to, like, this is what you do, this is, like, trying to explain it, and then one of the kids were, like, aww, and then I was just, like, a light bulb, and I love those moments, those are the best moments in school. There is a huge difference from when they, like, well, my students from coming in to leave it, and just where they are right now, there's a big difference from when they come into my classroom to now. They sit there when they're playing, like, I don't have to sit down and play with them, I could be at the table working on something real quick, and I can hear them talk into each other. It might not be, like, your full grown-up words, they might be doing baby Mohawk, but they're still trying to make the connection between their language and what they're playing, and that, I think, is, like, I don't know, it's amazing to hear anyways, and sometimes I give them, like, a little surprise at the end of the week if I hear a lot of Mohawk throughout the week, so that's when they really try, they're like, oh, what are we getting this week? So they try real hard to speak a lot of Mohawk, or if they don't know anything, they'll ask me after they, or they'll say it, and they'll be like, oh, man, that was English, and they'll ask me what to say, and then I'll tell them. So that's one way, I guess. Okay, so when I went to school here, there were 72 students, and this year we have 94, I think, or something like that. It's around the 90s, or at least the higher 80s and lower 90s. It's around there, right?  It's just, I do find the classrooms, the classroom sizes are a lot bigger from when I was in here, because fourth grade right now has six students, and when I was in fourth grade here, there was only three of us. So that's at least half an increase, so I would say it's doing a lot, like, really good. And then there's even, like, some years where she can't laugh, like, when she does enrollment. She can't let other kids from different families, because we do a lot where if you're already a family member, if you have a child in here, and you have another child that's coming to be here for four years old, they get first picks to come back in. So, like, they automatically come right back in. And last year, or the year before, she didn't have to ask anyone new. She didn't have to put it out there through the community and that. We were looking for enrollments, because we had enough that were, the parents are having babies, and they're coming in more. So two years ago, and then last year, she didn't think we were going to have enough, so she let out the calls, and we'll have, you can sign up your kid or whatever. And then it turned out we had more than enough and it was a big class. There was, I think it started out with 16 students. Wow. And then this year, for Pre-K was 14. We do, like, annual report cards, and then we do annual anecdotal report cards. So, anecdotal is like, we kind of touch base on what we learned, but mostly it's like on what your child is having trouble with, and what he's excelling at. He or she is excelling at. So that's your anecdotal. And then we just talk about, like, what they see at home if they hear any words or something like that, and then, excuse me. And then the report card is a big four-page thing, and we go through and we number, like, so one is they're kind of, like, they're there, but they need more help. Two is, like, they're there. They're just not showing there. They're there, right? So then three is, like, oh yeah, they're there. They're good. And then four is, oh my god, they're amazing. So, and then it's just asked if they can do the opening, if, like, if they're nice to each other, they have respect, and then it's, like, if they can do the math work that we're doing, or if they're having trouble, and it's just asked how their fluency is in everything, to every subject. Get asked about every subject to how well their fluency is. And then even for social songs, we have a subject for that, like, that and their social songs, and then how they do in the social, like, how they act in the social, because that's a big part to being respectful to the singers and the speakers, right? Because if you're talking amongst the speaker that's supposed to be announcing what's coming, you're not going to hear, and you're being disrespectful for them, to them. So our students know to be quiet and, like, so that we, they almost get graded on it, but, and then it's just, it's not really a grade. It's just, like, oh yeah, they do real good. So it's usually a four, because they're very respectful when it comes to the socials and stuff in the songs. Everything is a challenge outside from the school, because it's all English outside. Everything's a challenge. Every day is a challenge, because, um, not many speak. So every day a year, the child's leave here, the children leave here, the child, the children leave here, and everything outside of the school is English. Yes, our community has made some adjustments to be more, um, to have Morgania Geja in there, but I find it's still very challenging to face all that English that's out there, and then to come back and have our, like, it's almost like they leave and then they come back and we have to restart over again.  Yes, discouraged, because they come back and they're just speaking English and I'm like, holy man, where'd all this English come from, and then we have to back it up a little bit and restart over, and so that's kind of discouraging sometimes, so that's just the whole outside world up here is the whole challenge, and the only way we face it is face it head on and keep going, keep going, don't give up, just keep going, like, yeah, it's discouraging, but you can't give up, because once we start giving up, we give up everything, and it's like, um, I had an opportunity to leave here and work at another school, and I was just like, I can't, I can't leave here because if I leave here, everything we work towards and the things my children work for, because I have one that wants to be a speaker and I have one that wants to be a singer, so everything they work towards, and they're only like five and six, so they have big dreams. Big, little ones. Yes, and I don't want to discourage them, so I'm like, we have to keep working, like, I can't, I can't give up now, I gotta keep going no matter what, and that's, my biggest thing is who watches me, is, that's what keeps me going, like, I got all these kids watching me, I need to keep going, I can't give up. Well when high school they used to always ask me, what, what are you gonna do when you grow up? I'm gonna be a teacher. What are you gonna teach? The freedom school. They're like, well you still need an education, I'm like, no I don't. I'm like, what I needed was to stay there, that's what I needed to do, and when I was in here I did stay, because when I was in school here, we went from pre-k to sixth grade in all immersion, and then seven and eight, you had to get in gear and learn how to speak, like, not speak, but read and write English, everything in two years to go into, like, the bigger school, your high school, right? So that's when I was here, but now it's different, now we go from immersion all the way up. We don't teach them any English here, nothing. Indigenous education, I think mainly language, art, because Indigenous, and I find that like, in order to be, like, yes, your bloodline and everything, whatever, Indigenous, all that kind of other stuff, all your outside influences what makes you Indigenous, I think the biggest thing is your language, like, that, if you want to claim you're Indigenous, then you should be able to speak, right? Even if it's a little bit, I don't even care how much you speak, like, as long as it's a little bit, like, even if it's like, no, don't do that, or yeah, good job, like, stuff like that, or just saying segue to people, I mean, anything's an improvement for Indigenous education towards language, because I think that's what it should be, like, the way of life after, is after the language, because you need the language in order to give things to your way of life. So that's what I think, anyways. Because we have a lot of whata stuff, we have a lot of whata in our curriculum, so those are already all printed books and stuff like that. But we can always go to our elders and ask them, like, if there's something that wasn't in the book and we wanted more info on it, they would just say, all right, here you go, let's start talking, and you write it all down, and you just listen to them, yeah. That we keep creating speakers in our long courses don't have to give up having speakers in their long courses, because that we here are providing them. Like, I really hope, I don't know if that's the right word to say, but I really hope we can be able to say, oh my god, look at him do that, like, oh, I taught him that kind of thing, like, oh, I taught him how to say that part, or something like that, I don't know, that's my hope though, is that they can go into the gun assistant in the long course and be able to continue the ceremonies, that's what my hope is, is that it will just continue, and they won't ever stop learning.


So, last year, 2018, I decided to start getting back into Doom modding and making primarily right now, making levels for original Doom, actually Doom 2 is what my levels are for. And back in 2018, I did a project, you know, full Doom game is 32 levels, 30 regular levels and two secret levels. And I did a FBK, don't play Chris, won 2018 and that's been up and I did a playthrough of that. And just recently I finished a FBK 2019 Spring Hill battle, it's just a random name that I made up. And I finished that and this is the playthrough for that. So I like doing these playthroughs because I know there have been times where I play Doom mods and maybe I get stuck at a point and I can't figure out where to go or what to do, so I look up a video of someone playing and go, ah, that's what I need to do now. And I think my levels are pretty straightforward, but just in case I decided to make this video of the playthrough, check out the links in the description of this video for a couple of places to get this Doom mod. I always have it up on GitHub and whatever I'm currently working on because I work on these things and as I'm adding levels, I'm syncing it with GitHub and then once it's all complete, I try to get it posted over on Doomworld, so there should be, I think it's the name of the website. I'll link to that in the description as well. So install whatever port of Doom you like. I use PRBoom, it should be in your package manager on pretty much every Linux distro. And since Doom runs on anything, install Doom, get your Doom II wad, I wad, and then get my wad so you can play it. Let me know what you think. Definitely. I'll let you know. Some levels are better than others, but I hope that you enjoy them and I hope you enjoy this walk. Two levels! Two levels! Two levels!