Yup we're playing dragon quest 4 today. Yep, this is the DS version of dragon quest 4, but it's not just any DS version of dragon quest 4. As you can see we are in the town of Endor. I wonder what our party members have to say about that. Oh would you look at that? Elena has something to say. Using Colosseum for wedding is a waste of good fighting time. So as you can probably tell we got the party chat back in dragon quest 4 for the Nintendo DS. This is a feature that was removed in the DS version in North America and we haven't had it in the in the DS version for years. We had to play the iPhone and the Android version to basically enjoy this feature where basically you walk around town you talk to random characters and your party members have something to say. So Ragnar, when he first came here the tourney was over and the casino was shut. There was a waste of... there wasn't a thing to do. He's got like he's got the Scottish accent. You see how much characterization is here that was missing in the original. Now you might be wondering like how the heck this happened. Basically we've never been able to get this done because the American the English version, the English and European version had certain files we needed cut out. So basically this is the Japanese ROM with an entire English translation that also translated the party chat so that the characters can talk to you. And that's how this is done and it works pretty well. I have tested it quite a bit and it works very very well. This is the end of the game. This is chapter 6 of Dragon Quest 4. So this is like post-game stuff we're gonna be running around. So I figured it would be fun if we took everyone out for a little spin. We like talk to characters and see what the party chat... how the party chat works. Just have a little bit of fun playing Dragon Quest 4. I don't know. It's been a while since I've played it. So I like this game a lot. It's a very fun game and this is how it's meant to be played with the characters being able to talk. So let's do some exploring. Why not? So right now the wedding is going on at Endor Castle. Have you come to see the royal wedding? Yes I have. Just check one of the doors to the left or the right and go inside the castle. Alright so we'll go to the the right most door. And the cool thing is you hit the B button and then your characters have something to say just like that. So Castle and Kirill and Elena have Russian accents in this game. So Castle is being filled with Bustle and Hustle. Perhaps this is an effect of never-ending nuptial ritual. Never-ending nuptial ritual. Oh my god. Can you believe that we got stuff like that removed from the original game? So yeah the DS version if you had B then there would just be nobody there to talk to you. But in the iOS version and the Android version these people would talk. So this script was basically ripped from the Android and iOS version and injected into the DS port. So this is like the complete definitive version of Dragon Quest 4. The characters don't always say something though. They don't always have something to say. Let's call CM royal wedding is taking place here. Alright let's check out the royal wedding. Why not? So there's some sort of wedding going on over here from the princess and the prince. They are basically having like a feud with their families and Elena and Tornico managed to unite the two kingdoms. So here we have what the wedding going on here. It looks like they're just dancing. I can't rotate my camera much either. I'm gonna have a hard time you know ad-libbing this. It is no wee bit risky for the prince and princess to be left without a single solitary god standing watch. Yeah I guess so but it looks like this is pretty public. Oh look at them they're kissing they're hugging. Colosseum is sacred brothel ground where true warriors clash in dramatic faction. Damn so Elena is not much of a romantic type. She's disappointed that there's no fighting going on in the arena. Well Sadevna one day married prince and ceremony resembling this. And yet this is idle speculation. He's such a simp. He's a simp. Okay uh so Caryl is upset about that. It's bringing back bad memories for him.  Alright let's go let's go to different places in the world. This is a big world. Request for the big world with lots of different places. So we're gonna check out some other places too. Let's talk to some people. We're an indoor right now. This is like the the city trade capital hub of the world. Tornaco has a little shop around here as a matter of fact we can go check that out. This is Tornaco? No that's the casino. Let's check out Tornaco's shop. There's his wife. There's Tornaco's wife. I forget that. My fellas away at the moment he went off traveling in search of legendary sword. The accents in this game are ridiculous. There's it's it's all uh it's fiends. It's ridiculous. There's Tornaco Talun we save if he is being with us. His wife can desist from anxiety. James Tornaco's mrs is a Bonnie Lassie and no mistake. She's wasted on that great god.   Oh I'm sorry did not mean to bet on that Tornaco. Look at this. This is character interaction. These characters are like talking to shade about each other behind behind each other's backs. That is so funny to me. Think about it. They remove this in the original game. How how can we have a proper Dragon Quest 4 without this? This is the game is nothing without this kind of interaction. Here's Tornaco's kid his son. So they open up a bank. Establishing bank is not being simplistic.  Mental capacities. All right let's get the heck out of here. So yeah it's kind of cool. This is this is Endor and I figured we'd go check out some other kingdoms and see what else is there is out there. Princess Veronica and Prince Regan's wedding ceremony. Unbreakable universal only prince. Okay you see this right here. The the translation is not perfect.  It's not perfect. There's a lot of coding involved. A lot of weird stuff involved. The guy who did this translation did a very good job. Obviously there's gonna be little bugs here and there like this.   Here's the shady here's the shady weapons dealer in the back of town that sells all the good stuff.  A lot of strange things on sale here. Let's see. This is the armor shop. Cloak evasion. Look how expensive that is. I could buy it though. It looks like I have how many do I have in the bag? I have one. Actually no I've got several. Ragnar, Mina, Sorrow, Kirill and Tornico are all equipped with it and then I could have sworn this they sold the meteorite or no they don't sell that here. That's uh that's at the immigrant town that Hank Hoffman starts. Now let's just get out of indoor. This place is annoying. Welcome to indoor. Okay there's that badass music. Previously I consider no one was as formidable or courageous to fight as Sarefna. When Solo is wearing Zinnithian equipment he has an appearance of true Zinnithian. Okay so another interesting thing. If you use this mod you can't name your character. That's one thing I was disappointed by. You are by default called Solo by everyone. You can't even name yourself. So you have to be Solo or if you're a female you have to be Sophia and that's just hard coded into the game and there's no way to get around that which is unfortunate but whatever it's not a bad price to pay. There we go good old hot air balloon and the map the DS's map. This is this is how it's meant to play because the mobile port it doesn't I don't think it has the uh the map that that goes on while you're also flying around. So let's see where should we go. There's so many places to visit. I don't even know where to begin. Hot air balloon by the way. Really badass air machine. I don't care what anybody says. It's a lot better than a flying whale. Oh it's turn nighttime. Well I guess we should find a place to rest for the night. Maybe this place. I'm sure this looks curious. This is the place where uh Kirill was bed struck. Mintos. See they even talk about the town they're in. Mintos is the location where everyone is. See he's talking about how this is the place where freaking where Kirill was was sick and in bed and we had to go find a few seeds to bring him back. He's feeling shame. He's so sad. Kirill's collapse. Shade of peace. Slap his face repeatedly. She slapped his face. Let me drag her to the hotel. Oh he's cashing in here. I'll check that in a second. Oh wow this guy's this guy's got the his eyes on none. Man trembles so violently his flowers petals to the ground. They talk about all the random characters that you meet. Look at that. Isn't that cool? That's awesome. All right who's this guy? See they talk about it. She's talking about how this guy was sleeping outside. You see this kind of attention to detail. You see how cool this is. The characters will literally say something after you talk to anybody like they'll have some sort of comment to say. That's crazy. Let's jump on it. Let's jump on a well. Jumped on a freaking well. Oh look a mini-metal. All right here's another thing. You see how this found mini-metal. They had to edit it. Normally I would say what look a mini-metal but in this hack they had to make it to change it to found mini-metal because of like character character limits and things like that and also a bunch of other technical stuff but they had to they had to make a few little changes like that. So there's obvious little little changes here and there. If it's saying what luck a mini-metal is that important to you then you might be disappointed but it's a couple things little shortcuts they had to make to get this whole thing to work and it's impressive. This is like thousands of lines of dialogue they had to get fit in. What is this guy doing here? Oh Ilton's apprentices huh? Maybe we'll hop in the hot air balloon and go try to find another place because it looks like we're running out of things to do here. My quest for the magical stuff. Rowan the wandering wandsman. Found myself in a town. Remember to have the links to the magical stuff. Oh it's hidden in a cave nearby. I feel like I have it already but I'll have to check. Yeah let's get out of here. All right so the coolest thing about Dragon Quest 4 is that you don't just have four companions. No no you have more because they're all hanging out on that wagon right there. So what we have is these characters including Sorrow the manslayer. Or is it just Sorrow I guess you can call him. Let's get him going. Let's get my girl Elena. Toughest girl ever and I'll get Ragnar McGrine. Sure. Let's see what Sorrow has to say. I'm fortunate because that possesses a Nithin sword and armor. She wants this Nithin claws. They should have mixed Nithin claws that would be cool. Ragnar wants equipment. Everyone's jealous that this guy's got this Nithin equipment. She wants an enemy somewhere that we're required to fight against. Our Mary Lou saying nay so not much to say there. I want Sorrow to say something. Maybe we can go visit Rose see what he says there. Rose Hill should be around here somewhere. Sorrow's got a girlfriend named Rose. Yeah this is where she lives. All right here's Rose Hill. This is the home of the dwarves. Oh too sorry. Welcome back. Everyone in the village is doing well it seems. See he's talking about the village. This is his village. Let's see what else is around here. Another dwarf. Wait is Rose with us? Oh she is. She follows us around when we're in here. They need to realize the friendship is not about what kind of creature you are. Oh it's not a nice message to send home. So Rose follows us around one more and Rose Hill. That's pretty cool. So we have a party of five. Okay. There's a horse.  I forgot that he talks. Oh my god. It's great to see that Sorrow. Oh god. That always gets me out of it because I okay. Horses and Dragon Quest do talk sometimes. Like in Dragon Quest 3 there's a horse called Ed the Talking Horse. Always freaks me out. Always freaking freaks me out whenever an animal in the series talks. Sammy sells every time when you're not knowing where you should journey next. Yes I'm having that moment right now. Kind of wish Dragon Quest 4 would just last forever but it can't unfortunately because you know. Who's this? Rose. Stop being discriminatory towards humans lady.  There's good equipment here too. Rose Hill. Basically Rose was trapped in this. Oh look at this. Another dwarf man. All right. You get it. Talking to monsters and humans and all that. Give me that. Open it. Oh look at that. A mini-metal. A mini-metal. What do you know about what happened on Rose Snatched? The humans didn't go to a room alone. Some kind of monster led them there. Like well what is that supposed to tell us? You know where you need to go next I'm sure. Huh. Some kind of monster. That means that there was some kind of conspiracy against sorrow. Isn't that what that means? Huh. Interesting. Wonder what level everyone is. Level 99 huh? Not bad at all. Yeah these guys are pretty tough. Who's this guy? See Rose is a good lady. She agrees that humans are not so bad. Coming here is your way of showing pity towards me. I'm afraid you're wasting your energy. That is the eager to flower in our thoughts with my own eyes.  Let's go check some other places out. Let's see what little Hank Hoffman's up to. He probably didn't do anything yet. What is this place again? I forget which castle that is. Forget it. Let's go back to Zamasuka or whatever the heck that place Elena and Kiro are from. I know this map really well. When you play this game you gotta like learn where everything is is the thing. That's a big thing about the game. Here we go. Are there people in this castle? What the heck? Oh this place is still overwhelmed by monsters. I forgot about that. Forgot about that. Didn't we save everyone? Geez. I'm sure they're probably here. Maybe there's a super boss stuck around. Let's walk around and see what's going on here. There's this guy. I'm very much happy to see you after such a loop. Huh. See she's even talking about her father. If only we had a Kiro here. You could tell us what he thinks but we dropped him off in favor of Sorrow because Sorrow's a badass. We like Sorrow. What do you have to say? Interesting. You see how fresh this experience is? Just having the party chat dialogue makes this worth playing another time. It makes it worth playing a second time. What is with all these guys in this world and nuns? They're all into nuns. What the heck? That other town had a guy who was also in love with a nun and the nuns were probably like no I can't. Okay. Where the heck is Joseph Starling? I'm just really confused about what's going on here. This is an old save. It's an old save. I don't remember what happened. It's like one of those situations where you play an RPG after a while and you kind of don't know what the heck's going on. I have to play this from start. Like from scratch if I wanted to get a fresh experience. What's my favorite town in Dragon Quest 4? Let me think. Gotta think. Let's just fly around. That's the French place I think. Oh no the French. What's this place? Old Finn. Is this Tornico? Yeah this is Tornico's town. This is where he used to live. The dog's guarding his house. There's not much here for us to be honest. I'm looking around. Trying to find things to do. This cave. Did we go into this cave? Ah this is the water cave. Ah sandpipers. These guys are cake. These guys are easy. All right let's you gotta to get into there. You need to throw a certain stone. I wonder if we have it. Does it look like we have it? I don't think we do. Shoot. There's like a rock that you have to find that. All right looks like we don't have it. Let's go grab it then. No reason not to.  Look at that. Just destroying these guys. I'm a big fan of caves. They're always abundant with rare and powerful monsters. They are that they are. So they say something after any situation. It's like it's like they're real. It's like they're real people. It's like they're real life people. Okay uh let's to get that stone. I'm pretty sure we have to go all the way to the west. Yeah that's that's where we need to go. All right hopefully we can check that out. Damn it's taking a while. Ah here we go. Down here in the shore there's Is it night? It is night I think. What the heck? Where's that that that stone then? The sage stone? No that's not it.  I'm pretty sure uh I'm pretty sure this stone's not in our pocket right now. Silver tarot cards those are nice. Let's see. I'm just trying to check to see if we have it in our pockets. Dragon shell that's a lot of aegersil. That's four aegersil leaves. I thought you could only have like one at a time. I'm just joking. I know you can't, I know you can't get more by cheesing the game. But technically you're only supposed to, you're only allowed that one technically. All right we'll use the nightlight I guess. Who has a nightlight? Somebody's gotta have it. Forgetting about the nightlight also. These guys have some good equipment. I like equipping Elena. Not with this claws but she has good equipment. I like using the the falcon knife earring because it lets her go twice. That was nice.  What do I not have it? Oh here it is. Uh-huh. I need to pay more attention. All right so nightlight has been extinguished. I guess I must have taken it at some point but maybe it's gone. Whatever. Forget about that place. Let's just go keep exploring. What else haven't I found yet? There's gotta be some more cool places to visit. This is a pretty cool world but a lot of different things going on. Oh yeah the immigrant town. Forgot about that. Here's the immigrant town. We're Tank Hoffman. There he is. Has he started yet? All right let's see what he needs. Lazy fair. All right we'll help him out. All right instead of flying our balloon now let's use the old fashioned zoom. So let's go to Lazy Fair. Here we go. There's somebody over the church by Lazy Fair apparently. Looking for a new life? Yeah we can help him out with that. All right so here's a church. All right so she wants to leave. Sure I'll tell her. I don't know how much to say about that. All right I'll just zoom back to Hank Hoffman's town. Hoffman's Place. This game is cool because you can make your, basically this is your town and you can build town up and ask people to join and they start building settlements and buildings and all sorts of cool stuff and eventually it becomes a huge town. It's a long grind though. Probably won't do it when it's sitting right now. We're mostly showing off the party chat. That's the main draw of today's video. He has a little house on the prairie. So he has a little house now. That's nice. Oh here's my favorite character here. Europe like Chrono Trigger. You know Frog from Chrono Trigger. Look it's Frog. And he talks and he even has the sophisticated language that he uses. I feel as if I've woken up from a slumber of 1,001 years. I think this is actually the same one, the same character. See he's all he's all sophisticated. Oh yeah I've heard the rumor. All right all right keep talking. Let's get some mini medals. I know there's some around here. Our bunny tail. Oh it's that kind of game huh. I know there's a mini medal around here. There we go. Let's go.  Any good books? Get some good books lady. Who's that guy's wife? Oh yeah Adrian and Rocky. Rocky and Adrian huh. Isn't that an interesting reference to a certain movie? I didn't even realize that until now. The heck. He's a fighter. Wait wait she said he's a fighter right? He's out there in the fields living away. He always was a fighter.  He called you hound dog. It's funny. It's like really funny. All right let's get the heck out of here. So let's see. That was a castle. Oh this is a wee castle. It wouldn't last long against the battalion beasties. Princess Veronica this is her town right? This is her city. They were about to launch an attack on Endor and then Tornico saved it. Let's go talk to the king. Why not?  He's at the wedding of course. Yeah see he's at the wedding. So she raised Prince Regan huh?  He basically was going to invade Endor and he only decided not to because if his son marries Veronica then he'll still become the king regardless. So kind of not really. It's not really well let's get going. It's fine what else is here? Oh it's a poisoned marsh. Is there anything else to look for? There's gotta be some more interesting places to hang out. Things we haven't done. Oh this is the, I like this place. Femmescira the place where only women or only women are allowed. It's locked at night. Come back in the morning. Screw that. How am I supposed to go to sleep? All right I'm gonna have to probably rest up and in nearby. Let's go think we have a hot air balloon. Or where's the end? Point me in the general direction. A kitty cat. Okay he's meowing. This is the town that Ragnar came from right? What do you make of El Boni, Berlin? It's no bad spot eh? No I wouldn't say it isn't or is Berlin celebrated for physical strength of the army. A land I want to turn into palace guards. Hey we saved the world already with plenty of time.  Damn I did not realize there's that kind of homeless issue here in Berlin. Where's the king? Ah the king's already sleeping. We only came here to see if we can get some rest. He's asleep. 36 gold but hell that's a lot of money. No it's not really. All right let's get that guy out of here. Now we can go to the kingdom of only women. Top over the mountains and right here. This is a bonnie place all right? He calls everything a bonnie place. What's not a bonnie place to this dude? Castle guard of feminins. Certainly we are in Themyscira. All right let's go. There's only ladies here. There's something a boot a castle built by lassies. Everything this feels a wee bit different. Elena's great. I like having her around. Did you know if you go behind these stairs and go there's a staircase underneath behind it? Ooh did you know about this? I bet you didn't know about this. Oh look at that the fire claw. Elena would like that I think. Huh I bet she would. There's a dragon quest 4 so we jumped down wells on natural with the heck. There's a witch lady here. I think we have that. That's interesting right? There's so much interesting weird stuff in this game. Like you got on a well and there's a weird witch down there. Come on where else are you going to find stuff like this besides dragon quest 4? All right I want to go to the dungeon because I know the dungeon has a lady who likes solo. I hear you. Oh that's not the dungeon. That's where the treasure's in. Maybe here. I hear you. Got any good gossip? I guess not. Oh wow these guys. I could have sworn we had the jail key to let people out. No problem to me. Let's go see how did the queen before leaving.  She's a Bonnie lass. Everything's Bonnie to this guy. Oh thanks. This guy's letting me go into the drawers. I did not. Oh my god. Are you kidding me? Are you actually kidding me right now? I'm freaking punk. Getting arrested. I'm being framed for someone else stealing from the drawer really. There's no throwing us into the dungeon of course. You see how you can do stuff like this out of order? Most people have already done this by the time they beat the final game but it's like I haven't done it yet. We gotta get the heck out of here. Now what? No it's not correct. What if I say yes actually? Yes the lady was lying okay? I wonder who they're going to leave in the cell. Well I have no problem with them leaving Maya. She's kind of useless. Don't be leaving me here. This is obviously nonsense. I'm hating you now solo. Well I don't care. Bye. Let's get that guy out of here. There's no problem to me. Alright so we're just gonna leave Maya here because in the jail cell because I don't have the patience to go save her. They thought they did something. We're gonna take one of your uh your people as hostage unless you get our treasure back now. I'm good. Bye. Let's go back to Endor. It's messed up. That is so messed up. Well maybe we'll get back to her later. If you guys enjoy this, if you guys think this is fun and you want to play DQ4, let me know. I mean I can do it. This would make a really fun let's play don't you think? Why not? It'd be a great let's play. I'm trying to remember which one is Endor. It's probably this. Yep this is Endor. Alright well we should probably get some some sleep. Getting very tired. Even has a casino down here. I don't want to try to play casino. Let's play the casino.  Let's play the next tokens. Let's see if I win. Bull. Oh I ain't doing anymore of this. There's cards here. There's monster battles.  Like it's you are not gonna you're gonna be down here for hours. This game fuels your gambling addiction.  I'm leaving. Bye. Actually I want to see what what my party members had to say. Maya is a huge gambling addict by the way. You learned that through the party chat which was cut out of the original of course. I didn't get to read. He's talking about Maya. Maya likes gambling. Maya loves gambling. She obsessed with gambling and like money. Alright let's where's our room gonna be? This is my room. We can't really fit in here. I was just gonna guys say yep I agree with that. Nobody knows anything to say yet. Maybe here. Man this is like this is like one that the worlds have a wedding in real life. People are already obsessed with it. Yeah I just went there. Oh you made a pretty tack down there. Good for you. I haven't had that kind of luck. People see she's like I don't believe people care about splendid wings. I prefer splendid battles in the Colosseum. She's like so crazy meatheaded. Alright you know what? That was a good showcase of what Dragon Quest 4 looks like with this party chat feature restored. This is a DS version of Dragon Quest 4 and the party chat is back. They have managed to put it back in. Concreted on GitHub made a whole patch. You gotta know Python to install it and it was a little bit of a hassle but it works. As you can see it works perfectly fine. This is fun. This looks like it would be a great you know way to play the game. If you want me to play the game let me know in the comments. I might be able to do a let's play of this if you guys are interested because nobody's ever done a let's play of party chat to restore Dragon Quest 4 and I could probably figure out how to do it and we can get a little a little series going on if you guys are interested. So please let me know how enjoyable this video is. Did you enjoy the video? Please let me know. Anyway thanks for watching and I'll see you guys next time.


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Lee asks, if you've enabled security defaults on 365 and all accounts have set up two factor authentication, is there a way to disable 2FA or MFA on one account? I've checked the older style multi-factor under active users in 365 admin, and this particular user account as it is disabled, but yet it's still asked for MFA to be configured. The issue is that an app is having issues sending mail due to the MFA configuration. So the first thing is that he talks about default security for 365, that's a moving target, right? So I'm not sure what it was when this particular question or when he had the problem, but it may have gone up 180 since then because they keep on changing stuff. And what they've done is they've actually come across and said, hey, you have to have your users enable MFA, but it's only a suggestion, it's not a requirement, all right? So you can enable MFA across your entire org, you can enable it for a subset of users, a group, you don't have to enable it for everyone. And it depends on how granular you get with it. They've taken the old portal the way it was, is that it was really kind of convoluted to how you set up MFA. Now they've actually got it separated into the security portal and it's much easier.  Definitely, there are ways around the MFA, but if your app can't run, then definitely take the MFA off. Absolutely, because you gotta have your app run, right? So go in and what I recall, I'm not looking at it, but what I recall, it's basically going through the users and then going to the security console and then just unchecking MFA requirement. That's all it really is. So I'm not sure what they are looking at, if they were looking at the old way of doing it, since this question is a little bit older, or the new way of doing it. So it's not that difficult and yes, it can be done. You can also do it via PowerShell. So you can do MFA, add, removes, change policies, do all that kind of stuff via PowerShell as well. Yeah, I actually had this experience where we've talked about it in past segments where there was a security breach because of the one account where it was turned off for a reason, but that caused problems. One other comment too, I think part of it is as an admin, you're gonna get alerts or there'll be a report there of accounts that don't have MFA turned on, so you'll see that. But to your point, it's still an option to do that. But the other side of that is having two-factor authentication is becoming pretty much a standard and for an app to not, or to have problems to struggle with that, it could be an outdated app or something that might be another third-party solution, something, another option that gives you that functionality that can support multi-factor. Yeah, this goes back to, if you talk about that, this goes back to like, remember the old days where we had applications that would only take user IDs that were eight characters long and you couldn't have anything over nine characters and then all of a sudden Microsoft comes out with something saying, hey, your user IDs have to be user at whatever.com or .local and that just messed up everything with those apps. So users had to remember two IDs. Well, it's kind of the same thing, right? Because when you take a look at this, it's whether or not your app can adapt to the progression. Yeah, app can adapt. Yeah, Christian, I see it. React, adapt. React, adapt, yeah, kind of like, we do a schoolhouse rocks with that. That's right. The app, react, yeah, no, no. But when you think about it, it's like, maybe the app's just too old. Maybe there are ways around it from a programming perspective, you know, having the MFA pop up and creating a token, creating the, what do they call that?  So there are a couple of different ways to do it. Well, I think for the basic questions though, yeah, turn it off. Yeah. Yeah, I personally hate it because I have 16 different accounts and I'm logging in and logging out all day long. Wish evil people would just leave my stuff alone and stop. Like, don't look here, nothing to see here. But yeah, it's all turned on. And I have, God forbid you'll lose your phone or don't have your phone, right? Ridiculous. Yep. I put a link in the worksheet for the setup for MFA. What it currently is as of today. But of course, to Mike's point, that could be different tomorrow because it is Tuesday tomorrow. It's Tuesday.


I'm Captain Shelby Chapman. I am the Director of Operations for the Cultural Engagement Team that's been set up here for Operation Allies Refuge here at Ramstein Air Base. Our entire job is to facilitate communication with our Afghan populace here on base and also with our airmen and soldiers who are supporting our Afghan populace here on base. As CET, we just call it the set. We were comprised of public affairs personnel, Army Special Forces personnel, USAID, Army Civil Affairs, Information Operations. Honestly, everyone facilitates communication in a different way and brings a different skill set to the table. I'm assigned to the 361st Civil Affairs Brigade. We've been activated to come here and provide intercultural communication support to the Air Force and so mostly what I'm doing is liaising between the Air Force and the Afghan people, between the Army and the Air Force and then between interagency organizations such as USAID and the Army. This has been one of the largest learning curves for us. This is an Air Force led operation and so us as Army soldiers we've been integrating into their process and operation because the Air Force themselves don't have a civil affairs component and so there's been an amount of us explaining what it is that we do and how we can fit into their operational process and get out there and communicate with people because this is something that we do. When they infill we say hey who do you want to represent you? Do you have identified leaders within you know maybe the area that they're currently waiting in or something like that to help us communicate to them either what's going to happen next or to vice versa let us know what they're actually needing. Giving that control and that power back to this population who just went through so much turmoil, these people need our care and our support and they're going through a situation that I hope nobody ever has to go through and I think that all of our Airmen and Soldiers that are here doing that that's exactly what's driving them and so that's fueling me and my energy to do this every single day for however many hours it takes.


Hello! My name is Wim van Petgem and I work at the University of Leuven. I used to be the Vice President Research for Eden. I'm happy to be here with Joe Wilson, who is representing the Association of Learning Technologies, better known as ALT. Joe, maybe you can first introduce yourself. Okay, I'm very privileged. I'm the UK Ambassador for the Association of Learning Technology, ALT. My day job is I'm head of the Centre of Professional and Technical Education at a large vocational college in Glasgow. ALT is a grassroots organisation for learning technologists that was founded in the last century and does a broad range of work. Okay, last century, so that's how long? I think it was formed in the 1990s. Okay, and what was the reason why it was formed? Was there a need for it at that time? It was that bit when you think about it as the web arrived and the systems changed. And principally in the sector I'm from, in the college sector, technicians who may have been lab technicians or studio technicians were suddenly being asked to be learning technology technicians and we really had to find ways to collaborate and join up and that across the college and university sector so we could learn from each other. So it's a community of rather technical people, if I can say it like that? It does two or three things. So on one level it provides technical sharing. It also provides something called CMALT, a chartered membership of the Association of Learning Technology which allows people to develop and evidence their skills which helps them career wise move between schools, colleges and universities but it also does a lot of stuff in the policy domain both with institutions and also with government. And how do you do that policy work? What does that mean? What kind of activities are you doing for that? You're writing white papers? Yeah, so maybe if perhaps the burning issue just now I think is all around open education or open educational resources. What we've done in that kind of space is actually provide policy and white papers to government and again I'll chat about it later but education's organised in an interesting way in the United Kingdom so it's given us papers that we can take to both to our university chancellors at that middle level but also to governments to persuade them they need to pay more attention to what's happening with UNESCO and the broader world of open education. Okay, maybe we can continue on that aspect. UK education is a very particular system I think and internally and then you come from Scotland so there is that specific situation there in the UK. How does that go if you then talk about policy because I can imagine that Scottish and UK is slightly different? It's slightly different but it's actually very, very historical. It's not a recent thing. So the constitution of the United Kingdom allowed Scotland to have its own education system, its own legal system and its own religious system. So that's always been prized so even now we've got our own parliament and devolution we still have control over that so in terms of educational policy for universities, colleges, schools, work based learning is all controlled in Scotland. In England all of these controls come through Whitehall and Westminster and Wales and Northern Ireland similarly have devolved powers to look after the schooling college and university system. Does that mean that all tests have different approaches in Northern Ireland, Scotland, UK or you work on a general basis or so? Generally the issues in educational technology are not just cross-border in the UK actually global or European but what we try and do within the Association of Learning Technology is have special interest groups. So for instance as well as being the UK ambassador for the Association of Learning Technology I'm the co-chair of the Scottish Special Interest Group and that means... So you do have special interest groups geographically organised? Yes but really what we tend to do is have one quite small meeting every year where we share local practice and we usually just swap some good ideas between the college, the university sector or perhaps the libraries and other sectors that are interested in learning technology. Oh yeah I already said twice that you are UK ambassador so I mean that links up the work of what you're doing in art to the rest of the world I assume. How should I interpret UK ambassador? I think it just means that I help promote the great work that all does in building that network and doing all the good things that happen within the UK so my kind of public face out the way but also it's about making partnerships and bringing things back to the art community. You're now here at the Eden conference is there any particular message you already could take from the Eden community here that you heard in this conference and that you think oh that's something we should look at in the UK or that's something that we do different in Europe compared to what's happening in the UK? I think the refreshing thing is that we all have so much in common that changes happening so quickly that we all really need to work together and it's round all three levels that level of getting national policies right, of getting institutional policies right and also bringing you know while all focuses on learning technologies this only changes if both our teachers and our learners come on the journey with us so it's also getting the right vehicles to engage teachers and learners. So more or less across borders there is no differences. There's no big differences that we cannot overcome with technology. I think we can overcome almost all barriers now with technology and I think one of the challenges which we've seen with MOOCs and things is actually about accessibility and I think that that's the next big challenge of how we take our learning and knowledge and make it truly accessible and that's about overcoming linguistic barriers and things as well but I think there are cleverer and cleverer tools coming that's going to help us all of us with that too. Let's be back to what you said this morning in the keynote. You were talking about having, well the mission of ALT was having impact on let's say the broader and wider community. How do you envision that? What kind of activities are you specifically doing for that or is it more like a vision that you would... No we're doing, what I might highlight is somebody who's not here today but was on my slides, the work of Josie Wales in Leicester schools where taking the principles of all of that round openness brought that philosophy into the school system and then brought learning technicians from the school system up to share their expertise I think there's so much learning going on just now around back to that bit, the technology, the policies, how to engage staff, how to engage learners and the only way we will get that working is by all working together and it's the same in the library system in Scotland. For instance the Scottish National Library in some respects is taking the lead on opening up collections and things and the university system is learning from what the library system is doing. So it's not just restricted to higher education in that case. You're going much wider than that and to the whole community. It's opening things up and again that sits well with the principles of lifelong learning. Yeah okay that's an interesting topic. I think we cannot deny that there is something like it's called Brexit and so being myself from continental Europe I was just wondering how does that affect the work that you're doing? How does that affect the well okay the higher education sector in the UK will be affected and maybe also in Europe, but particularly the role of art in that. So I think there are two dimensions. First of all it was a national play-by-side and although I'm not in favour of the result I have to accept the result. I think the short term impact is probably maybe around Erasmus and a lot of the programs that schools, colleges and universities have been engaged in. We keep hearing promising noises that the government may do something in that space. We know for instance some of the Scandinavian countries that are outside of the European Union pay to be part of the Erasmus program. So we're hoping that that bit will be solved. We understand that the research part, the government will continue to fund so that bit will be solved. But I also think we're fundamentally in a networked world that these kind of political or economic barriers are things that actually all of the technologies that we use are things that we can overcome. I think also with technology that we can overcome these maybe artificial or virtual barriers that we are now implementing. I think Alt has a particular role to play I think to avoid the disadvantages of something like Alt. Yes and again I think that that's the importance of building partnerships with organisations like Aden and other global organisations. This is all about sharing and about the world of knowledge becoming a flatter and more open place. That was actually my very last question that I would like to ask. Do you have any particular message that you would like to share with Aden community but you just gave one? Or maybe you have something else that you would like to conclude with? No I think just really that Alt looks forward to working with Aden community. I can see lots of exciting synergies and I look forward to perhaps attending a conference in Bruges next year. Okay, just to reassure you Aden will not abandon the collaboration with the UK and I think there is so much in common and the technology will not separate us at all. Thank you very much Joe for this interview and hope to see you in Bruges next year. Thank you, that was a pleasure.


CHAPTER XVII The story of that battle upon the tumbling decks of the Nathan Ross was to be told and retold at many a gam upon the whaling grounds. It was such a story as strong men love, a story of overwhelming odds, of epic combat, of splendid death where blood ran hot and strong. There were a full score of men in the group that came aft toward Joel, and as they came, others, running from the foal and dropping from the rigging, joined them. Every man was drunk with the vision of wealth that he had built upon Mark Shore's story. The thing had grown and grown in the telling, it had fattened on the greed native in the men, and it was a monstrous thing now, and one that would not be denied. The men, as they moved aft, made grumbling sounds with their half-cut breath, and these sounds blended into a roaring growl like the growl of a beast. To face these men stood Joel. For an instant he was alone. Then without word, old Aaron took his stand beside his captain. Aaron held grip in both hands and adds. Its edge was sharp enough to slice hard wood like cheese. And at Joel's other side, the cook, a round man with greasy traces of his craft upon his countenance, he carried a heavy cleaver. There was an ancient feud between galley and focsel, and the men greeting the cooks coming with a hungry cry of delight. Joel glanced at these new allies and saw their weapons. He took the adds from Aaron, the cleaver from the other, and he turned and hurled them behind him over the rail. And in the moment's silence that followed on this action he called to the men, "'Go back to your places!' They growled at him. They were wordless, but they knew the thing they desired. The cook complained to Joel's elbow. I could use that cleaver!' "'I'll not have blood spilled,' Joel told him. If there's fighting it'll be with fists.' And Mark touched Joel lightly on the shoulder and took his place beside him. He was smiling, a twisted smile above the swollen lump upon his jaw. He said lightly, "'If it's fists, Joel, I think I'm safest to fight beside you.' Joel looked up at him with a swift glance, and he brushed his hand across his eyes and nodded. "'I counted on that, Mark, in the last long run,' he said.  They faced the men. One howled like a wolf. "'He's done us! Done us in!' And another, "'They're going to hog it, them two!' The little sea of scowling, twisting faces moved. It surged forward. The men charged, more than a score, to overwhelm the four. In the moment before Joel had marked young Dick Morell, at one side, twisted with indecision. And in the instant when the men moved, he called, "'With us, Mr. Morell!' It was command, not question, and the boy answered with a shout and a blow. On the flank of the men he swept toward them, and Joel's harpooner and one of Asa Werthen's old men formed a triumvirate that fought there. They were thus seven against a score. But they were seven good men, and the score were a mob. It was fists at the first as Joel had sworn. The first charging line broke upon them, and old Aaron was swept back, fighting like a cat, and crushed and bruised, and left helpless in an instant.  Joel dropped the first man who came to him, and likewise Mark. But another twined round Joel's legs, and he could not kick them free, and there was no time to stoop and tear the man away. He and Mark kept back to back for a moment, but Mark was not a defensive fighter. He could not stand still and wait a tack. And when his second man fell he leaped the twisting body and charged into the clump of them. His black hair tossed, his eye was flaming, and his long arms worked like pistons and like flails. He became the center of a group that writhed and dissolved and formed again. His head rose above them all. The man who gripped Joel's legs freed one hand and began to beat at Joel's body from below. Joel could not endure the blows. He bent and took a rain of buffets on his head and shoulders while he caught the attacker by the throat and lifted him up and flung him away. He staggered free, set his back against the galley wall, and when he shifted to avoid another attack he found his place in the galley door.  Give him the iron, sir, give him the iron. Once Joel, looking down, saw the cook's knife play like a flame between his knees. None would seek to pin him there. The black harpooner fought his way across the deck to Joel's side. He left a trail of twisting bodies behind him, and he was grinning with a huge delight. Now, sir, we'll do him, sir, he screamed.  His shirt was torn away from one shoulder and arm. Good man, said Joel, between his panting blows, good man!  Morrell dodged, but the blow cracked his shoulder and swept him to the deck. The man who had fought beside him, sproutled the prostrate body and jerked an iron from the boat on the davits at his back and held it like a lance to keep all men at a distance. A sheath-knife sped and twisted in the air and struck him but first above the eye, so that he fell limply and lay still. Mark Shore had been forced against the rail near where Jim Finch was pinned. Big Finch was howling and weeping with fright, and a little man of the crew with the rat's mean soul, who hated Finch, had found his hour. He was leaping about the mate, lashing him mercilessly with a heavy end of rope, and Finch screamed and twisted beneath the blows. So swiftly had the tumult of the battle arisen that all these things had come to pass before the harpooners asleep in the steerage could wake and reach the deck. When they climbed the ladder and looked about them they saw Morrell and his ally prostrate at one side, Joel and the cook holding the galley-door against a half-dozen men, and Big Mark's towering head amidst a knot of a half-dozen more. And one of the harpooners backed away toward the waist of the ship, watchful and wary, taking no part in the affair. But the other he was a caped verter, black blood crossed with Spanish. And Mark Shore had tied him to a davit, once upon a time, and lashed him till he bled for false committed. He saw Mark now and his eyes shown greedily. This man crouched and crossed to a boat, his own, and chose his own harpoon. He twisted off the wooden sheath that covered the point and flung it across the deck, and he poised the heavy iron in his hands and started slowly toward Mark, moving on tiptoe lightly as a cat.  He flung aside the men encircling him. One among them held the hand-spike with which he had struck down Morrell, and Mark smoked this man in the body, and when he doubled wrenched the great club from his hand. He swung this, leaped to meet the harpooner. They came together in mid-deck. The great hand-spike whistled through the air and down. An eggshell crunched beneath a heel, Silva dropped. Mark stood for an instant above him, and in that instant every man saw the harpoon which Silva had driven home. Its heavy shaft hung dragging on the deck. It hung from Mark's breast, high in the right shoulder, and the point stood out six inches behind his shoulder-blade. It seemed to drag at him. He bent slowly beneath its weight, and drooped, and lay at last across the body of the man whose skull the hand-spike had crushed. There were at that moment about a dozen of the men still on their feet, but in the instant of their paralyzed dismay two things struck them. Two furies. Dick Morrell, tottering on unsteady feet, brandishing a razor-tipped lance full ten feet long. He came upon the men from the flank, shouting, and Joel, when he saw his brother fall, left his shelter in the galley door and swept upon them. The fat cork with the knife fought nobly at his side. The men broke. They fled, headlong, forward, and Joel and Morrell and the cork pursued them through the waist, past the tripods, till they tumbled down the focusle-scuttle and huddled in their bunks and howled. A dozen limp bodies sprawled upon the deck, bodies of moaning men with heads that would ache and pound for days. Joel left Morrell to guard the focusle and went back among them, going swiftly from man to man. Joel was dead. The others would not die, save only Mark. The iron had pierced his chest, had ripped a lung, end of Chapter 17, recording by Roger Maline. Chapter 18 of All the Brothers were Valiant. Chapter 18. He died that night, smiling to the last. He was able to speak now and then before the end, and Joel and Priss were near him at his side, soothing him, listening. He asked Joel once, Shall I tell you where Pearl's? Joel shook his head. I do not want them, he said. They have enough blood to turn them crimson. Let them lie. And Mark smiled and nodded faintly. Right, boy. Let them lie. And his eyes shone up at them, and he whispered presently, That was a fight to tell about, Joel. In those hours beside Mark, Priss completed the transition from girl to woman. She was very sober and quiet. But she did not weep, and she answered Mark's smiles. And Mark, watching her, seemed to remember something toward the last. Joel saw his eyes beckon, and he bent above his brother, and Mark whispered weakly, Treasure, Priss, Joel, she's worth all. Kissed her, but she fought me. Joel gripped his brother's hand. I knew there was no harm in you or in her, he said. Don't trouble, Mark. When old Aaron had stitched the canvas shroud, they laid Mark on the cutting stage. And Joel read over him from the book, while the men stood silent by. Chasened men, heads bandaged, arms and slings. Big Jim Finch at one side, shamed of face. Vard sullen as ever, but with hopelessness writ large upon him. Morrell and old Hooper. Joel finished, and he closed the book. Unto the deep. The cutting stage tilted, and the wave leaped and caught its burden and bore it softly down. The sun was shining, the sea danced. The wind was warm on Fair Priscilla's cheek. And as though the brief dramatic chapter being ended, another must at once begin, the mast-head man presently called down to Joel, the long droning hail. Ah! Blow! And he flung his arm toward where a misty spout sparkled in the sun a mile or two away. Minutes later the boats took water, and the Nathan Ross was about her business again. Joel wrote in the log that night, with Priscilla beside him, her fingers in his hair. Priscilla had been very humble till Joel took her in his arms and comforted her. He set down the ship's position. He recorded their capture that day of a great bull cashelot. And then this day Mark Shore was buried at sea. He died late last night from wounds received when he fought valiantly to put down the mutiny of the crew. Fourth brother of the House of Shore. To below the ancient and enduring epitaph. All the brothers were valiant. Priscilla, reading over his shoulder, pointed to this line and whispered sorrowfully, But I called you a coward, Joel. He looked up at her and smiled a little. I know better now, she said.  He heard the scratch of steel on paper. And when he opened his eyes again, he saw that Priscilla had underscored with three deep strokes. The first word of that honourable line. End of Chapter 18. Recording by Roger Maline. End of All the Brothers were Valiant by Ben Ames Williams.


We are students from CCV, and we're here to talk about housing and sustainability and some of the projects we did individually. We're going to go around and introduce ourselves first. I'm Nick, and we'll start tomorrow. I'm Nashran. My research was about homelessness in Vermont, especially in regards to veterans and youth and young adults. I'm Jake, and I did the housing crisis in Vermont. I'm Dylan. I also studied homelessness. I'm Kai. I also did the housing crisis, but I focused more on solutions. And I'm Carly, and I focused a lot on environmental sustainability, a lot regarding climate change and what we can do about it and what we're not doing that we could be. I had studied the City Place project in Burlington, so essentially the huge hole in the ground where the mall used to stand. So I think what we're going to do is kind of go around and talk about the individual projects and the takeaways that we got from them. So again, we'll just go in a circle and Nashran. So after I did my research, I understand that the government works hand in hand with the stakeholders in every state in the U.S. to fight homelessness. And it is important that they work alongside with these stakeholders because the government needs...  Well the thing is, I'll talk about Burlington and veterans specifically. So many of the veterans choose to move to Vermont because of the state benefits that they receive from the government, and this shows how a lot of veterans choose to come to Vermont. They get a lot of benefits in terms of housing, a lot of benefits in terms of financial crisis and stuff like that. And it is important that the government works along with other agencies in the state to help them provide with the basic necessities they need in order to live life. What I learned from my research is that the cost of living in Vermont is 21 percent larger than the national average, and Vermont is among the top ten highest in property tax rates. So I studied homelessness and what they're doing about the problem. They're creating more opportunities for certain things to help live out. And how the ongoing problem is, and there's becoming less. Okay, so during my research I found that 12 million people in the US annually pay 50 percent of their household income towards their rent. And I also found that people in Vermont can't really live in Vermont without some kind of housing support, specifically low-income middle-class people. With the minimum wage, which is $10.78, you have to work 85 hours in order to afford a two-bedroom house and 67 hours for a one-bedroom house. And the majority of your money probably just goes to rent, those are. And so some of the solutions that I came across during my research was, one, to increase the amount of houses in Burlington. And they've been working on that project for a few years now, but it hasn't been going very great. And then other people like the Affordable Housing Coalition, I think, for Vermont say that we need more assistance programs for people in Vermont in order for them to be able to pay for housing but also have enough money left for other expenses that they may have. Another thing that relates to that is, ultimately I feel like if we hold in what I studied, Vermont is the second, has the second lowest carbon footprint in the US besides Washington, DC, which is more of a city rather than a state. That's a lot smaller. But even so, I feel like that kind of puts this facade of security in that, oh, we don't have to do much because we're not tripping, but I feel like that's not the case because if Vermont could be saving a lot of money if they switched to greener alternatives of energy like renewable, initially it would be expensive. In the long run, it would save money by, you know, you wouldn't have to get oil constantly because oil isn't renewable and it's very expensive, but if you were to switch it to something like solar power, which has started becoming more affordable, but yeah. That, in a way, kind of ties into the thing that I studied because I know with the City Place project there were proposals for renewable energy to run it and it would be a big project if it's actually completed, if it's actually completed. So they started in, I think, early 2017 or late 2016. There's been a lot of delays with it, obviously. A lot of that has come from disagreements between the developers and the city council. The developers got approval to lay foundation for it in late 2018 and it's almost 2020 and they still haven't laid the foundation for it. I think the way that connects to what we've all been talking about is this model of having more expensive housing units in the center of Burlington, which would draw in people that generally have more money, which I think if that gets out of hand, the issue can be that it drives out people to live on the outskirts of a Burlington, so you have this huge discrepancy in the price of housing and it happens in a lot of other big cities too, is that center city is very expensive. The outskirts is generally middle to lower class people and so it creates this huge discrepancy and there isn't generally a big middle class. That is a concern of mine when it comes to the new City Place project. Of course, it isn't finished yet, so we don't know if that's actually going to happen, but that is a big concern of mine. So I guess what we can do here to wrap it up, we have two questions that I'm going to pose and hopefully we can all kind of answer them together. The first one I have, which is pretty broad, is do you think the issue of homelessness in our community specifically in Burlington, do you think it's going to get any better and do you think there are things specifically we can do to reduce it or make it better? So what I found out is that there is a long term and a short term solution to this. First of all, tax the big tech companies. Why? Like here, if you tax tech companies by half percent, you can earn up to three hundred million dollars of revenue. And then you can use that to build permanent supportive housings. That is a long term solution. But for short term, you need to provide mental health support, which is very important in terms of especially for veterans and youth and young adults. Because one of the major reasons why youth and young adults are homeless right now in Vermont is because of child abuse. And they need a lot of mental health support. And I think that's a very good way to go. And the other two solutions for short term are rental assistance, because not all veterans know where to go to help if they want to rent a house. And it's really hard for them to rent a house in Vermont, especially because they don't have any history of renting a house in Vermont, which, you know, it's hard for them to just rent a house because they don't have any histories of doing it.  You need to go somewhere. You can't just sleep on the road and die, especially in this weather. It gets really cold in Vermont in the winter. So these are just some of the solutions that the government and the stakeholders in all the states in America can work towards. I know there's shelters in Burlington. I'm not entirely sure how many, but I don't think it's a lot. So it's definitely something that could help people. I feel like we can talk a lot about like government shareholders, but I feel like as citizens, there's things that we can do to help this problem. Like for me, for instance, I work at the YMCA, which is a nonprofit and we do a lot for families in need. Like I can find resources to help parents get diapers for their children or I can provide snacks for my kids to give them food. And also just like on the side, I also reach out through Facebook groups and offer free child care for like people who might need some assistance, like say they need to go look for a job. Like I can watch their four-year-olds. There's lots of different things people can do to support this population. So kind of more of a community model, a community model, like say, like there's this one Facebook group, it's like buy nothing. And it's like, if someone needs help, you can lend them things. Like instead of going out and buying, like say a generator, like here you can borrow mine and things like that. Maybe a community model, like if someone, being the friendly neighbor, like that kind of person being helpers. Anyone else have comments? If you think the issue of homelessness is going to get reduced or? I think it could to add on to like the rentals assistance. Like a lot of the programs that I found when I was doing research, like Word, things like that, they had subsidized. Yeah, where they, the government would pay a portion of your rent, give it to the landlord so that you have like this much left to pay and then you could cover that. And I think we definitely need more programs like that, especially for low-income and middle-class people. Like you said, they're going to have to pay for childcare in order to work, which is another expense.  As for, I don't, maybe building more houses, it could be a good solution. But like Nick said, if it's like going to be expensive houses, there's no point in building them because the people still can't afford them. What if you build, so I know tiny houses like are kind of like this trend. Oh, yeah.  I just want somewhere to live and you can have it because in reality, you don't need a huge house to survive. You need a small area, but if you made the land beautiful so people could be outside and enjoy the weather, it would be so much better and also be more sustainable because you see these huge houses. But imagine like how much carbon emissions are going into that. And a lot of these houses are old, so they're not powered sustainably. So it'd be interesting to see if that could be an option, like kind of a big plot of land where it's like a community of neighbors who are living in this like outdoor cookouts, like sharing food, you know, it would be really nice. It would be a nice community to live. It would be safe, good place to raise children. I think the issue with things like that, I think it's always funding. Yeah, it doesn't get funded. They're like there's a lot of good ideas that are possible. But the lack of funding that the lack of funding like the other things like if I looked, I'd look on the mayor's website, they have a lot of other things they're focusing on like they're trying to do. They planted a storm drain gardens to like so the storm drain water can go naturally into the plants, like make it beautiful, which is good. So it's not just like housing, like there's a lot of different things you have to do to run a city and it's not easy. But I mean, there's all sorts of things that we could do. And there's a lot of good ideas here. Yeah, I would agree. Well, let's see. Our next question was, does it seem like Burlington is going to become more expensive in the future? And I have, unfortunately, I think it may if the city place project is actually completed at any point. There's going to be a lot of apartment units there, like I said, and I do fear the pricing for that. And as I had mentioned before, kind of the discrepancy between lower and higher classes of people when it comes to the amount of money they make and how that might actually drive kind of a divide. Because I know there are definitely places in the center of Burlington that are already expensive to live in. But I fear that the divide will become bigger if that project is actually completed. And also, like I said earlier, we don't know because it's not actually completed yet. But that's kind of my theory on that. It's hardly started. Yeah. Yeah. They're bringing a couple of machines back. They're what? They're bringing a couple of machines back. Yeah, I hope so. I saw. We'll see. All right. Well, I think that is I think that's it for us, unless anyone else has anything else they'd like to add. Yeah, I think that's I think that's it. Is that it? Awesome. Awesome. Well, thank you very much for watching. Have a great day. Bye. What do you think when you hear the word sustainability? Sustainability, I have positive thoughts. And I think about like something that's going to be able to survive into the future. It can be it can be like a sustainable activity, like something that you can continue doing for a long time throughout life. Mostly, I think about like renewable energy and ways to make the environment better. I think it's about creating a society that can last for generations longer, not something that's just, you know, you use it once and then you toss and toss it in the trash or like using something and then completely just everything else being completely destroyed. I think it's about being able to continue to use things. I don't know. Yeah. Being able to just like live life without struggle or in a way that doesn't affect. That doesn't negative negatively affect other people. That makes sense, I guess. Recycling, like being able to be kind of like an independent. Do you think Vermont struggles with any issues regarding sustainability, be it environmental, economic? It's interesting, because I think that Vermont is struggling for economic sustainability, because even though Burlington area is is really popular and alive and vibrant, the cost of housing and some of the cost of living stuff is really tough in this area. And then when you look at the rest of the state in terms of being able to have good jobs for people, the population is dropping in other parts and that isn't sustainable either. And there's parts of Vermont that are really beautiful that I wish there was more kind of economic economic sustainability. They like definitely with homelessness, there is an issue around that. Also, like connecting to the homelessness, like affordable living is a I think is a huge issue in Vermont, specifically like in Burlington. On a scale of one to ten, one being without basic human necessities, ten being living a filling life without struggle. Where do you think Vermont stands there? I would say probably a six, just because, like I said before, we're doing better, we're definitely doing better than other states, but we're definitely not a ten. And I think there is room for improvement. Well, it's interesting, because I was listening to VPR and there was a survey about how lives in rural Vermont are really different than lives in this part of Vermont and also how economics play a huge part of it, so that if you're educated and if you have a good income, then you are usually pretty satisfied. And so, and if you have less education or not a good income, it's pretty dissatisfying to live in Vermont. So where do I think Vermont is? About halfway, maybe a six. Certainly the things that they're doing here kind of seem to look like that they're going in the right direction with the recycling and whatnot. It's a hard place to live, I think. I think economically it's developed. I think Burlington is more and more for the affluent. And I find that really disturbing. I think housing is a huge issue in Burlington. And I think that is part of sustainability. People don't have good places to live in Burlington. I would say, I mean, if you're living outside of Burlington, I would say probably not great. There's probably like fewer opportunities or job opportunities. I would say in Burlington, there's a decent amount. And I would say that I don't think the taxes are the rent is that high that I would say it's pretty good, probably on average. Are you a student here? Yes, I'm a student here. There are exactly not exactly about one thousand two hundred ninety one people experiencing homelessness in Vermont. And of that one hundred sixty nine were family households. One hundred four were veterans. One hundred one were unaccompanied young adults. And one hundred sixty were experiencing chronic homelessness. I'm not happy with the mayor. I don't feel like he has the best interest at heart for the working class people. And so I think that the gap not just here in Vermont, but certainly here between the rich and the poor are, you know, is the divide is much bigger than it used to be. Well, I'm a high school teacher. And one of the things, although I work in Winooski, where the population has been pretty stable of the school, most places in the state have actually lost a lot of population. And so from a teacher point of view, like all of the issues, not all, but many of the issues we have around education, finance, I think wouldn't be such a big issue if we had still had the vibrant population of kids that we had back in the like in the nineteen nineties when I started teaching. So I do think it's an issue. The other thing to keep in mind, though, is I've heard the population is pretty stable, like that ten thousand have left, but ten thousand have also come in from other places. But I think as long as people keep leaving the rural areas of Vermont, that is going to be a problem. So would you say overall you enjoy living here and has it been sustainable for you? I enjoy living here. I'm pretty lucky because I think I'm in an income bracket that makes it possible for me to live here. But my daughter lives here and she's on poverty level and I can't really afford to support her and myself. So I do see a lot of poverty here, but it has been sustainable for me personally, just because of my income. Thank you for your time. It was great. All right, bye.


video bonus video today all right talking about these smith sunglasses these are my running sunglasses and a lot of you guys have been commenting in the last week asking me what these sunglasses are like what's the model what's the brand and why i chose to go with these uh basically it's a smith by the name is kind of funny the smith attack max is the brand is the model attack max chroma pop is the type of lens that is on here and the number one reason i bought these sunglasses over other running sunglasses is that they wrap around the face you see that and so i wanted maximum coverage uh over my eyeballs so i didn't want any airflow going under or down or bugs or rocks or what have you flying into my eyes also these you know you may already know this but these sunglasses are actually designed for cycling for cyclists because they're so aerodynamic they're actually designed for biking they're not designed for running but i did my research and i was like wait a minute all these running designed sunglasses don't necessarily wrap around my face they're a little more uh blocky if i could say that like they don't kind of they don't have that curvature and that is what i love about these sunglasses in addition they have the chroma pop lens so it just makes everything especially out in nature like i was out in today it makes everything kind of pop a little bit so that means like rocks and roots and just hairpin turns everything just kind of pops a little bit when you're looking through the glasses at the ground that way when you're flying over the trails you can actually see where your foot is stepping and especially in bright obviously in bright sunlight when you're just like getting hammered with sun it's like these things doing these lenses do an amazing job at making everything pop a little bit now unfortunately they don't give them away they're expensive these sunglasses you're ready for the price tag oh baby oh baby 250 bucks that's crazy that's crazy i made an upfront investment and it's paid off like how often do you go through sunglasses maybe actually let's do it the question of the day how often do you buy sunglasses what type of sunglasses do you like to buy and listen i'm not saying like i'm a hundred percent sold on smith forever but over the last 12 months these guys have been incredible and a little bonus feature on this sunglasses is that the arm of the sunglass right here that rests on your ear this pops off watch this wait a second there it goes so basically like there have been so many times where i've either dropped them uh or stepped on them and this pops off and so you don't end up breaking the actual lens in addition the nose the nose pad can be adjusted to two positions for a really snug fit so yeah that's right this thing right this little nose pad can actually be adjusted for a tight in fact i'm gonna do it hold on there it goes there it is so it's like a more of a snug fit so when you're flying through the trees or flying down the trails or flying i don't know to catch the subway or whatever like it's it's a little more of a snug fit and these guys were a huge huge upgrade for me all right i ran the pikes peak ascent last summer in basically a five dollar pair of sunglasses that were being handed out at a colorado rockies game here's some footage i'm good i'm good i'm good this is what the start is like while we're waiting for you guys isn't that exciting that was a fun race in my five dollar sunglasses glad i did it glad i did it but i am so grateful that these guys have been durable and i know i keep saying that but for sunglasses for me to last 12 months that's a big deal again these are called the smith attack max chroma pop sunglasses and you can find them on amazon down below in the link and in essentially i love them i love them i would give them i don't know eight and a half out of 10 that's a good score in my book eight and a half out of 10 and of course comment below with your questions your thoughts any ideas you might have on other sunglasses that you have found i'd be because i mean i know i know i know the price tag is high it's high but uh you get what you pay for sometimes so 12 months of goodness seeing well i'll take that i'll take that all right love you guys see you tomorrow


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So, I want to tell you about this to my viewers. In fact, the light is very good. Give it here. Come here. Yes, all of you. So, it's a... It's not a photo.  And after I left here, I received a message and also led it, but for me, the message was in Korea, but above it was an English phrase, which says emergency message. And all the time I didn't know what it was about, because I thought it was a military attack. And what happened to you? Yes, I received it in the first morning. It was a shocking message. In the message it was in Korean, but in the title it was in Chinese, because I thought it was an emergency. Emergency alert. Emergency alert. Yes, emergency alert. I didn't know what it was about. So, what did you do when you received that message? I didn't seem like it at all. I was sitting in my hotel, I was just sitting there. Is this the end? So, I thought, Oh, I don't know, I'm just going to die. What are you doing in my cell phone? So, we are now at the end of the IKF conference, and I've been working at the IKF, and I think Chuck has been working at the cell phone in South Korea. So, today I'm travelling with a dream, and this is your limo, right? Yes. Your very prestigious taxi. Yes. It's a very good car. It's my symbol, my professor. Oh, yes, yes. This is a helicopter. A helicopter. I think it's very fast. It's a trip. Good. So, it's a big trip, just like me. So, we almost reached the congress, and we are outside the place, but we have already started to see Esperanto flags, and robberies, and I want to show you that. Like this. Oh, there is the Esperanto flag there, and there, and there is a big robberies, and it's called the 102th Universal Congress of Esperanto. So, this is a very joyful day for me, because it's my first universal congress. I learned Esperanto for 7 years, and finally I can go to the congress. Is it your first universal congress? Yes, yes. Oh, it's for us both. I... Hello. Hello. Hello, Tanya. Hello. It's very fun. We just saw a white guy on the street, and we blacked him. Hello, and he answered, Hello. Maybe there are more Esperanto speakers there. We saw them. We had to black the greeting to all the people. Oh, so we are now going to the place. There are a lot of Esperanto speakers. Hello. Hello. We are the oldest Esperanto speakers. So, my friend, who is called Sonjo, in fact, I forgot to introduce him to you. He is now going to park his car, and I'm just going to sit here with my packages, and then he'll come back, and then we'll find the acceptance. We think it's there. So, I'm here with an Esperanto speaker, who is waiting for my channel. Would you like to introduce him? Hello. Hello. I'm Adrian from Argentina. So, we are now in the official acceptance of the Congress. Hello. Oh, yes. This is a really nice place. Welcome to my world. No. The Congress is officially starting tomorrow, and there are already so many people here. It's really interesting, and it's still early in the day. This is the acceptance, and it seems that there is a filmmaker here. I've already seen my name there. In the acceptance book, I suppose. I have my official box, which is already full-time, and they also give me my name card. So, here it is. I just have to put it in this way, but I want to show you what's in the box now, because they just throw it at me, and they didn't show it to me. So, here is one university in Formula. Yes, and it's in English. How can I give that to me? Oh, yes. My wife really wants me to do that. What else? We have another book. This seems really weird. There are things where you just put weird books in that. So, we have a university in Esperanto, a social work in the world in Esperanto. What else? It's so much. Maybe I'll show you later So, I just put my official card in this permission to go to the congress. And, in fact, it's really interesting here, because almost everyone around me speaks Esperanto, especially the university. It's almost like I'm in Esperanto. Of course, we need a huge flag. Very sexy logo. So, now I and Sonjo intend simply go to the street and find a good restaurant to eat. Because, in fact, we didn't eat at all. So, we need to do that. I'm sweating a lot. So, we just ate our food while the other Esperantists started to come to this congress. And how can you see through my friend at the moment? There are so many people who are only 100 meters away. And then the list begins to be made one meter faster. But, you need to remember that the congress officially started in the morning. So, there are so many Esperantists here. So, we just ate and he ate all of my food. So, what do I have left? One, two, three, four, five, six, one, two. So, there is a lot of food after I just ate and this chamber was made in full. There are so many people here. So, do you know him? He is a very handsome guy and he is here to talk about the best show of this congress. Yes. And you don't like it, do you? Because, if you don't like it, now you just think. I am very amused by the fact that I am standing here and when I am checking the list in Amikumu, it actually doesn't work. There are so many people who are already accepting the congress. That they are simply not in the list because I can only see the 100 closest Esperantists. So, that is very funny. So, I am now in my hotel and the moving fire begins in 10 hours. But I just want to show you a few things first. So, we have a huge box here and it is full of things for Amikumu. So, if you are in the Universal Congress, you probably can't get one of them but if you don't, that's enough for you. And here, I have a lot of commercial plans. So, here is our commercial plan. The paper is so beautiful. I really like it. It feels good when you have it. Of course, my tech computer is out. But also, here is Chuck but he is in need of it. And apparently, he has something from Duolingo here. So, while the moving fire. I will take care of the Buddha for Amikumu but he will take care of the Buddha for Duolingo and maybe we will exchange. I don't know. But yes, I think maybe there are bags or something in here. We will see later. So, here is Chuck again. He does something. Do you want to say hello? Hello. Hello. Do you want to say something in Pona? No. You are very famous. You have to say something in Pona. So, of course, he is... He will be in Pona. Okay, good, good. Now he just wants to organize himself. It seems that the people are starting to get together for the moving fire and Chuck is now running looking for our place here. And then I will study my Buddha. So, there is another film here. Yes. He wants to infect my work for others. No, not at all. I made a photo of that. I am not a ginger man. I look at you. So, I will now release my Buddha and Chuck will take it. Because I actually want to show you the other Buddha here. So, we will just go from one Buddha to the next. And if we are interested in actions, I will just show you. Are you a bad friend or a devil? Always. Always. Always. So, I am very excited about the warm-up. So, I am in the Communist table, the International Communist Esperanto Collective. Yes. I just film the Buddha and I will show you. So, I am really in the next table, the extreme devil. So, I represent. So, is there a capitalism table? Yes. You are so good. Yes. Yes. Koreans see handicaps. Yes. They are your members. Yes. Yes. I am not. Yes. Speak, speak. Yes. So, this is an Esperanto table. Yes. Look, Esperanto is a handicapped person in Korea. The new Esperanto table. Greetings. Greetings. Oh, thank you. I miss my hands, honestly. So, this is an Esperanto table of French and Italian. Italian. Italian for sleep. For sleep.  So, this table is the original word for Italian. Yes. Some are products from Italian plants. Some are straightly written in Esperanto from Italian Esperantists. Yeah, kai kiel, shia mi volz danki mia in subtenanto in pet-a-peijon. Donatsu dolaron monate podet se ratigi la estonton de chi-kiu kanalo. Mi e jis nunai donatsantoi estas? Sara, Jo, Miguel, Bad, Tommy, Alex, Jake, Rafa, Chuck, Craig, Marvin, The Igor, Cuba, Jacob, Jason Knuckles, Shane and Greg.


Na kwa ni mwazimu hona maia accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. Ya, so, Gerard, I'm a TV and Film Director and a professional photographer. Then I'm based on making photos on films, cinemas, movies and anything to do with camera work. Alright, maybe the two of your models can introduce themselves. Ya, okay. Just share the mic with them. I'm Jany Tronza, a model for three years now. My name is Anna Amondi, a student at Kenyatta University. Posing a bachelor's degree in education, I love photography, I love modeling and most importantly, I believe in the power of prayers. So thank you. Currently, I'm Miss Kenyatta University. Alright. Thank you. Thank you so much for coming through. So maybe I can just start by asking Gerard. They say that a photo is worth a thousand words, a thousand unspoken words. Is this always the case in all photos that we take? Okay, that's not the case. Anybody can be a photographer. You can make as many photos as you can. You can use your phone, you can use a camera, you can use anything that takes photos. But the reality that comes in photography is that how do you make your photos presedable to the other people, to the client and to anybody that wants to make photos out of you? Now, when it comes to photography, you have to know the basics and what it's needed in our photo. Are you using the right equipment and then are you making the right writing sequences? Are you ensuring that the portraits and the full photos or the close-ups and the full photos are in place? So the most important thing in photography is to identify the basics and everything that you do in photography that a client wants to get out of you. So how did you get yourself in this industry? How did you get yourself in the photography industry? Okay, photography is passion. I did not start with photography. I started as a procurement officer. I was a storekeeper. But then after that, I got inspired by my bishop. He's a bishop, Nikola Smuli. I appreciate so much. He used to give me his camera, his phone that is to take photos in the church while he's preaching. And then inspired me. Everybody was saying, hi, Gerard is making good photos with the phone. So I got the passion and at the end of the day I found myself doing photography. All right, maybe you can just talk to the ladies. Let them not say I'm discriminating them. So how long have you been working with Gerard Fotos? Since I started modeling, actually when I was training as a model, he was my photographer. When was that? That was about three years ago. Yeah, three years ago. And you're liking it so far? Yeah, it's amazing. He's great actually. What about you, Anna? I've worked with Gerard for about four years now and I can assure you he gives the best photography so far. Because most of the time when he takes pictures of me, my classmates would ask me who took that photo and definitely market him. All right, so Gerard, maybe because we want to learn, maybe you can just start us by telling us the first steps that I need to consider before taking a photograph. Yeah, one, the first and foremost thing that you have to know when taking a photo, do you have the enough light for that particular subject? Okay, does the model have the right process to take that particular photo? First you have to do the three-point lighting. You need to have the backlight, you need to have the key light, you need to have the field light. When it comes to overdose, you can use the reflectors and then use the natural lighting from the sun and then make a good photo. But when it comes to overdose, you should do your own lighting. And for like this scene, the lighting is good, but we don't have the backlight. So we have to do the backlight. First. Yeah, you can use, these are portable images. All right. We can start with the janet to make the photo. Okay. What you do is make sure now she has the, she has the light that is needed. Yeah, you have enough light from the back. That's the backlight. All right. As you can see, there's a good light there giving me the key light here. All right. And then I have another light from that point. It's giving me the field light. So this one, I don't need any flash, I don't need anything. So what I do is... Can they use the microphone? I'm going to switch off my speed light because I really don't need it. But because I have enough lighting for that, what I'm going to do is to check the settings on my camera. Whether I got the right settings for that, we can play with ISOs, aperture, shutter speed, then balance the color tone. That's the white balance. All right. So what am I going to do? For, let me just interject you a bit. For people that don't know what ISO, aperture, oh, what are those? ISO is sensibility to light towards the subject. A aperture, these are the number of frames that will be taken out of that photo. I think I've seen someone taking a photo and then it's shaky. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, those are frames, we call them frames. If the frames are low, the photo can be shaky. You should be steady while making it. And then we apply the ISO when the room is not well lit up. Use the microphone. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When the room is not well lit up, that's when we use the ISOs. So if we adjust the ISO to a higher level, the camera opens the lighting well. But when the ISO is low, then you have to do enough lighting to that particular subject. All right. So take us through how this work goes. One, what do I need from her? If I need an extreme close up, I should have the right lens for that particular shot. So I have that five millimeter lens here and then I have a zoom lens here. These are 55 to 200 millimeter lens. This one can make a portrait but I can make it while I'm at a far distance. I cannot make it on a close up. But when it comes to these 35 millimeter lens, I can do it on a close up area. Yeah, but when making a group photo, I don't need these ones, I need a wide lens. That can be 10 to 24 or 18 to 55. But for now I can start with these 55 millimeter lens and then make a good photo out of her. All right. While you are making the photo, and then your model should just be prepared to make the photo. And then standby? You have to remind them that they have to be on standby. Yes, yes, you have to remind them. You have to tell them that the camera is rolling and then you should say action. All right, before you do this particular job, just move a bit closer.  And who do they blame? Is it you or themselves or are they just naturally ugly? Yeah, it happens. There are some people who are photogenic. Even sometimes I go to an event like a wedding, but my camera is still on one particular person. Why? Because that person is photogenic. Yeah, hana kubari kana camera. All right. But for this case, when I find a client complaining something like that, I normally ask her what do you want? What kind of photo do you want?  I go into my software. And Photoshop? I Photoshop. Then I send it back to her. Look good. That's what they normally do. But that is actually the fake image of them. That is what Kenyans love, so you didn't blame them. Yeah, but I just deliver what my client wants from me. All right. Now we can take a photo of her. Yeah, now we can position her now. You can be on my start by mode. And then today I'm using my Nikon D5300. It's a nice camera here for photos, but they are more good cameras than this. So we can start with portraits. I need an extreme closer. So let me interject that. Do you give them poses or they already know what you want? Okay, professional models, like I know they are professional. I don't need to tell them I need this pose. They know what we need. But a new client, it's not a model. Don't know these shorts. I just show them some poses. All right. Yeah, but for them they know what we need. So it's just a matter of giving them the extraction. I need an extreme close up, they know. I never need them short, they know. All right, let's take their photo please. I've taken most of your time asking you. You're taking extreme close up. Stand by, stand by. Camera rolling, action. And in a medium close up. So maybe you can come a bit closer. Yes. Stand by. So how do you determine the length that you're supposed to get from the person you're taking a photo from? Yeah, sure. That's why you are telling me come close up. Yeah. I don't want you to move out of there. No, as I told you before, I'm using two lengths here. I'm using the portrait kit. This one is for the extreme close ups and the medium close ups. But for this zoom lens, I can take subjects on a far distance. But this one blasts the background easier than this. So you should master the focus of this when you are taking the photos because in some way or one another, you are going to lose the focus of the subject. All right. So I'm using this one because I had done the distance between the subject and the camera. You just estimate or you use your eyes to just look and you can tell. There are some things we call focus points in camera. Focus points, when you start taking photos, you should know when you are here and then focus on that subject. You should know where that focus point is. Then the camera will automatically show you. All the lens will automatically show you. All right. Maybe you can just have a look at the works that you have on your online portfolio. Let's get to look at some of the photos you have on your online portfolio. There it goes. A very beautiful picture. What inspired you to doing this? I want to appreciate the amam. Amam is Mary. She is Brielle. Amam is a group of ladies in Kitingela. They call them themselves pretty moms. They love my job. All right. I understand children are so difficult to handle. Unataka kumpi, gapiche apa, nde ule uko, amekin bilia maua, ame una suiti mahali, and they want to go for it. How do you manage to contain them? Amat, you tell them, this is how you are supposed to pose. Actually I was coming to that point for that kid. It was an ektik moment for the photography shoots that I did. What happened? Once I arrived there, the kid slept. Mam told me how we are going to do it for the kid to wake up. Then we are going to do the shoot. Must be interesting. Then I have to be patient at the same time. I cannot tell my client how we should do this now. I have to go according to the time limit that I have given my client. So what happened? While taking that photo, the kid slept, but after 15 minutes she woke up and then we started taking the photos. All right, we will be continuing with this discussion in a bit. 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