Morning guys, I actually edited up this video yesterday and the whole time I was thinking to myself, Drew, you are crazy. So I needed to do a little intro to preface that I'm not crazy, but today's video is going in a bunch of different directions. We're doing some shopping, we're doing some sampling, we're doing some swatching, some construction, some demolition. There's something for everyone in this video, but I don't know if you guys have been able to tell with kind of the content I've been creating lately around the new house, I'm really just vlogging and documenting absolutely everything and then sharing it with you guys in real time. So that's what can cause a little bit of bounce back and forth throughout the video, but let's dive on into this one. Today is the first day of demo, so they're already starting to tape off or protect everything because one of the archways is gonna be going right here. Marie, are you excited for demo day? Demo day.  You're gonna open this. Yeah. How much you want? I feel like probably as wide as it can go would be better. Yeah, that's totally fine. So let's do this. Let's open the mask you can, the existing opening. Okay. Look how the fireplace is off, it's on the left. Okay. So I actually like the light. So the hook's perfect. The hook's perfect with the fireplace. Yeah. Good. Besides that, it's open right now? No, I think we should go as possible though a little bit this way, because there's nothing behind the wall over here. Right. I think if we could just go a little bit wider. Yeah, maybe like 36. 36 and arch above it, it's moving too high because I want to keep the header. Yeah, so that's fine, you can go a little lower. Like this. Yeah. Okay, done. And off to this. Yes. So. I had to take my pair of glasses with me. Guys, it seems like seven was good. Don, so all this is gone, we're gonna keep this. Yes. I'm just gonna take the door off of this because it's not necessary. The door's off? Okay, we got it. Okay. We're good? Yeah. Beautiful. We're back at St. Vincent de Paul because I'm hoping that this buffet that I saw a couple weeks ago here, which I'll pop up a photo right here, is still here. Oh my God, it is. I literally see the legs of it. I left this here. I'm so sorry I left you here because I left this here for the past probably two weeks and I've been staring at the photo every single day since I took it and I'm like, why didn't I buy that? But I just assumed that it was probably sold out. So I'm gonna get it. It is $3.99, but it is the perfect sink vanity for the large bathroom upstairs. I just met Caitlin at the thrift store. I'm getting this right here. Oh my gosh, I was talking about that one too. Because I think that I want to turn it into a bathroom vanity and then put a sink on top. Yes, I want every single one of your needles. Oh, thank you so much. Yeah. Okay, I just pulled the tag off and walked around the corner. Look what I just noticed. Green is 50% off today. Are you kidding? This is green? It'll be 200. I'm so lucky. What is this? Thought I liked it for a second. Okay, be 199. That is such a great deal. You probably can't hear. I just got over here.  He goes, it's easy for us. I'm like, yeah it is. This is Roberto. He's doing the arch template right now. This is literally the first day. How did they already do this? I'm confused. Whoa, that looks so good. Wow, this is so interesting. Like cause how all the electrical runs through the wall. Stop by the house a couple hours later. They are actually on lunch right now guys. And look, there's so much happening. The tile has been removed from the walls because they are cutting it out. And then let me show you over on this side. They actually already started the opening here. So I believe they've just so far removed the flap doors that were there. But this is going to turn into an arch which you can kind of see the shape of the arch right there forming. And then over here, this is what that's looking like. This of course will come back down and then they'll patch all of this over here. So this won't be a doorway anymore. Since the workers will be here as well this week, I figured I might as well go out and search for a chandelier today because I do want to do something statement in here and I'm okay with splurging in this living room because it's so grand. So I'm thinking we can do a chandelier up to probably three feet, if not up to four. Like definitely will fit up there. And then I'll just hang it probably as high as I can get it and drop it a little bit. Four feet by four feet max. Made it to revival antiques and this one right here was one I was looking at online. It's one of the larger ones.  This one looks a little more of a kind of Victorian maybe. I love these Micah shades and thank you guys so much. You guys let me know if these were Micah shades. I love them, but they have this arts and crafts pendant which I'll hop up a photo of it right here. I saw it on their site and I think I might wanna get that one too. It is a little pricey but it fits the era of the home and I was thinking about maybe using it in a laundry room or just another area in the house. I also love this floor lamp here and I will say that this floor lamp has a better price than a lot. I have seen of this particular style. This one's 9.50 which definitely is a lot but floor lamps, like if you were to get a floor lamp from Restoration Hardware it'd be $2,700 and it's new. Hey guys, they brought out the arts and crafts chandelier and I'm obsessed with it. It kind of has this like medieval look to it but then it has arts and crafts stained glass shades but they have to rewire it. So I'm gonna pick this one up later but I am going to grab it. Back in the car and the Lady Marie from Revival Antiques you guys is the sweetest ever. So if you're ever in Pasadena and you're looking for antiques, definitely check out her store. She has like some of the best quality antiques I've seen too, I love it all. And she gave me such a great discount. A couple of you guys came up to me in her store and said hello which was so nice. I got two lights. I ended up getting that arts and crafts pendant and then I also got that floor lamp but I'm checking out another antique store before they close at six just to see if there's anything in there. Wow, look at this light fixture you guys. Ooh, that one's super pretty. This one's quite nice as well. Kind of Spanish-y but a little smaller and they said it was 750, only $750 which I know I'm saying only. These are antique lights like one of a kind. I mean you don't come by that very often. He said he'd do 500 on it though. And I mean it is larger but I feel like I could use it. I don't think in the living room, actually I could. It's beautiful though. I love the scroll work on it and I have a bunch of sconces throughout the house too that have this same exact Aranthus leaf I believe is what I read but I'm not too sure but I think I'm gonna get it because I feel like I could put this in my room or another room. So this light right here is the first option. This is my favorite option. I'm sure you guys might find it next to this one which I also love. I found this.  They sold it at such a great price. I am gonna have to get it rewired but the reason I love this light first of all is it has that cast iron. It's Spanish revival, it's vintage or almost antique actually but it has these. Again I might be saying it wrong like around this leafs on it and it also has these floral cuppings on the candle but I wanna show you something. It's a little challenging to see here because there's still some work going on but we have the same exact form in a sconce. It has the cup up here and then the leaf here and there's three of these throughout the home and these are original to the house so I cannot believe I found a light that has like that same exact styling but in like a chandelier form and imagine how beautiful that would be in this lower dining room. I mean I don't know if it's gonna go here. It is pretty comparable in size to this one here and I'm gonna be swapping this one for sure. It's just, it's not my favorite in this space and I wanna play up the Spanish and I love this. How beautiful is it? It's all cast iron. It has some natural kind of rusting to it as well which I think just adds so much character. Good morning guys. We are heading over to the new house. Again checking out updates. This got here and look at the arch. The larger arch is coming along, great. And then over here we have the smaller arch which also they fixed, they're starting to fix the rounded edge that you guys saw the other day. It's looking so, so good but I'm actually, Marie's here too. Hi. You guys saw me pick up that antique lamp from Revival Antiques just because I couldn't pass it up. I loved it and I got it. This is what it looks like. I'm just gonna put it over here for now. Yeah. Okay. Illumination. I think it's so much light. It's so pretty. That's such a pretty light. Mm-hmm. I love it. I also have some paint samples. So I picked up quartz of three different colors. Oxford white, white dove and then one other color that I actually didn't share with you guys. It is called Simply White and I was actually talking to Arvin Alano who is also here on YouTube. I'm sure you guys know who he is. And he used Simply White in his home and I just love the color of his wall. So I got that as a swatch just to test out but I wanna do larger painted swatches as opposed to these like sampleized ones just because I've narrowed it down pretty far, so far. I also definitely wanna swap out the curtains here. This one just isn't my most ideal pattern. I'm probably gonna keep the fabric on this in one of the closets and maybe I can repurpose it somewhere else. Maybe like a throne pillow or something but I do wanna get an idea for a height of curtains because I probably wanna hang them a lot higher than they were. We literally need 108 inch curtains perfectly. Perfectly. So there's something else that I wanna look for while the people are gone at the moment and that is the thickness of the current hardwood. So this is the hardwood here. I feel like it could be sanded down again. It's not too thin yet because basically we were thinking that the hardwood had already been sanded up here about two to three times. So we weren't sure if it could be sanded again but I do think it can because it looks like we have a decent amount of space. It's probably like three eighths of an inch at the moment.  I don't even actually go outside. I can just walk right up. Just walking out of the way. Just walking over here. Walking down. We're at my charger down here. Oh my God. At least we don't have to go outside and walk around. Oh my gosh. I don't wanna get something to eat upstairs. The archway downstairs is almost complete as well which is amazing. I think actually I'm not sure if this one is complete because in reality I'm gonna be painting. They're not gonna paint it the same color as the blue of course. I went to lunch with a friend yesterday and when I was driving back home I noticed that there was this store on La Brea that said that they're going out of business when they had antiques and chandeliers. So I just popped by because I do wanna see if they have any large scale lights because I'm still looking for a light. Oh, they look very, very, oh my gosh. This is chandeliers galore. What is this ceiling? This is unreal. I cannot believe this is just on La Brea. Everything's very French though which is not the exact style I'm going for. I love this rug here. This one. So I found this checkerboard rug. I love the colors of it though and I really wanna see it out because it seems to be really fluffy too and she said she'd give me a deal. A wool rug like this on Etsy would be like four or 5,000. It looks like the middle is like more of a tan. It looks so pretty though. It might be perfect. Oh wow, I really like that. It's like 1,500. Yeah. It's really pretty. Okay, so she was saying that this is dark when you look at it from this angle but when you come this way and from this angle it's light, which is very true. This is a six by nine. So here's a eight by 10. Yeah, I did six by nine. Oh, I love the shade on that one. I think this might be perfect for like a gas room or smaller bedroom or this more tonal eight by 10 option. Good morning guys. It is bright and early. I'm actually putting money in the meter right now. I ended up stopping by the house this morning and just kind of did a walk through with Berlin quickly. They still are finishing up the arches today and tomorrow. The thing that's taking a bit is that the plaster takes quite a while to dry between coats. So that's just what's taking like a little bit of time to make sure they're nice and similar to the plaster that's already there. But I'm heading into this store called Country Floors and in here I'm gonna see if they have some terracotta options for the flooring. Wow, you guys look how pretty some of these are. I love the tones of colors that the store uses. Like look at this. These are super pretty too. I love this, this particular tile. So here are some of the terracotta options that they have. We have a square brick up here or a longer felt brick. And I think this is called a leaf shape and then a Paxagon as well. He also showed me this one. These are all reclaimed but I don't know. Not loving the variation. It's a little bit, he did say to you they can vary like even more extreme than this. So look at these dark brown tiles. They're handmade in Italy, but I love these. I'm gonna take a photo of those and add them to my mood board. There are some color variations and I'm loving these here. I also love this dark brown one up here too. I love the way that this looks together and look how these have this like antique glazing on them that gives them this like cracked appearance. Those are so pretty. I just walked into the lower living room. Look what arrived. The guys that are working upstairs actually brought this in for me, which was so kind of them. But this is a buffet and I found this at the thrift store. It was 400 bucks. I got it half off you guys for $199, which I thought was such a great deal. I'm gonna be putting this actually in the upstairs bathroom. So my bathroom is what I'm thinking at the moment. Of course, things could change by the time I get there but I wanna do two sinks on top. So two bowl sinks and then bring the actual plumbing down into here because it's fully open already. So I'm gonna try to rework that DIY that. But I thought this would be such a great vanity and for $199, such a great deal. It's another day at the house. Hi, Marie. We have a ladder here because we have a friend coming over. So Marie from Revival Antiques is actually bringing over a couple chandeliers and we're going to try them in the living room space which is gonna be so much fun. I love that she offered to do that because I was just gonna let you know, grab one and then hope that it worked but we're gonna be able to see I think three different styles in here. Look what has arrived, some lighting. So you guys might have seen some of these in my video. We have this chandelier here, which is the 1920 Spanish. This is the light that I actually purchased that they rewired for me. It's the Arts and Crafts style one. And then we have the larger rod iron chandelier here which is hard to see or cast iron. And then we have another one hanging here. So these are the options that we're gonna try out in the space and let's bring them up. Thank you guys. I think so. It might be a little small, but I can't really tell. He actually has a rope, so he's gonna go get a rope and we're gonna put it on that. Let's see if it's strong. Should I paint from it? Oh my God. I think I should. Oh, it's real sturdy at least though. What do we think? What do we think? So here is one light in here and it's a little bright at the moment. We literally built this little contraption to hold it up but it's super, super pretty. It actually doesn't seem too small in here either. I thought it might. You can see it really good from this angle. So this is option number one, which I love. We're lowering chair. Yeah. That's probably where it would have to go. Yeah. I think we're good with this one. I feel like I'm gonna like the last one. What do you think? I'm hard at work. Or hardly working. All right, so this is my favorite one. This is the one I've been waiting to see and it comes in pieces, which I guess is nice. And I'm gonna clean this piece up first. So pretty. I love it. So much. I am so in love with this, you guys. Look how perfect this fits in the space. Now currently it's not centered. We're gonna have to move the hook over a bit more probably to the left of the hole there. It's just like the most perfect size and it's so large. If you can kind of see in comparison to me how like it is up here. I got some very, very exciting news yesterday. Belin texted me and said they wrapped up a date early which was super exciting. I haven't been able to get over here as much as I wanted to guys. I was planning on like literally coming over and filming so much of the process but I've been working on so much behind the scenes for you guys as well. I'm launching a fall collection on the site soon and it's just been taking up quite a bit of time but I wanna share with you guys the arches. I can see the lower one from here. Look at the arch. This connects up the lower unit with the top unit so now we essentially have one house and something that I am so happy about with this by the way is that it's on the same level as the floor. So I was a little nervous because I don't know if you guys can see. There's a few steps that you actually have to take in order to get up to the top there. So I wasn't sure if the living room was actually going to be level here. So basically as you can see when you walk through here before this was a complete wall. Now you can walk right through and it takes you right up to the stairwell. So realistically there are two front doors. There's this front door here and then there's another front door just right over here and then there's a look at what that arch looks like. There's a little bit of a shadowing that kind of makes it look like it might be like dipping a little there but it's just the lighting I promise. Then we go upstairs. This is so exciting guys. This is my first time ever doing any renovation and then we have this arch that connects up to our breakfast nook here and that is what that one looks like. Oh my gosh, it looks so good.  They ran out of the mortar supply that they were using. They had to order a bit more. They're gonna be rounding off this corner the slightest bit. He already told me that on the right side of the larger arch to match up more with this one here. So just to let you guys know but this was not here before. This was a full wall. It actually had a door over on the right side. Here if you guys remember and they patched that they redid the electricals. They moved the outlet over to this side for this entire wall here was fully covered in tile. This entire complete wall covered in tile. Now it's a nice large opening to kind of walk in to the dining space and something else I wanted to show you is that I absolutely love how when you walk through the main doorway here, this is actually centered in the arch. So from this angle here, you can see that the coffee bar area is centered. Now when you're actually kind of straight on, of course it's not, which doesn't bother me. I'm not mad about that at all. But I do love how it's actually centered from this area. So if you shoot in the room like or photograph into the space, this is actually centered which is quite nice. I didn't realize that but I actually do love that because I knew we wouldn't be able to center it with the wall to make it look symmetrical. So I figured this was the best option. And also we got the chandelier which was so exciting. Look how beautiful that looks you guys. I love it so much but I'm going to let you guys go. I am sweating up a storm. It is so hot, probably 90 degrees in the house right now. I'm driving to Arizona and it's gonna be a long one. So I wanna get on the road. Thank you guys so much for watching today's video and just wait for the next one because we are starting the kitchen demo and reno. Bye.


our head is at or my head is at with some of when building something you know um have you found with a lot of your coaches like so level wise so if you start like a program that's like a three six month program or whatever yeah and are you and you do small groups are you only coaching like one level or one age because obviously you can't really have a 14 year old with like a seven year old in the same group um so do you run I remember seeing in one of your videos you said you went from running a bunch of sessions to only running like three a week um because you adopted this small group mentality and so um with that being said you know do you work with different levels or do you work with like one level and one age or do you run multiple sessions a week which I don't think you do because you said you run three times of different age groups it's a good question good question so when I when I made that transition to groups I had kids of different age groups and different ability levels now it was quite difficult at the beginning but what I had to do is I had to change my coaching and the way I changed my coaching is I made it all completely technical training where if we did do like one b ones for example or or or situations where it was competitive then I made sure players of similar ages and ability levels were paired together but everything else was literally player and ball and everything you know they they're doing the same drill but they're working by themselves in that group so there was no pressure now what's going to happen with with your program and this is just something that happened naturally is kids start to come and go and the ones that stay are then what happens is it's it's that's how the business then starts to grow because I remember for example I had one group of six players when I switched it into groups four of them were 10 years old and two of them were nine over time the nine year olds left and then what happened was that another two 10 year olds came in and that group just naturally became a group of under 11s okay okay so sometimes you just have to adapt your training to what you're working with yeah but what the most important thing is you have to make sure you communicate that to parents okay because when parents when parents sit there and watch your session and they see right there's a seven-year-old there's a 10-year-old that there's an eight-year-old you know they don't they don't all they see is the different age groups like they don't know what's actually happening so you just have to make sure and this is something I learned very quickly over communicate with parents right yes I understand there's different age groups but this is how we're going to work with your child and this is the type of training we're going to do to help them okay now some parents won't like it other parents will like you and they'll stick with you it's just it's part of the game yeah okay but you have to just make sure that from from a coaching perspective you are ticking all the boxes you're communicating you're showing parents what you're working on okay and you're just treating each individual as an individual rather than as like a team at a club


I'm joined now by Professor Helen O'Sullivan, who's Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost of the University of Chester and Chair of Alt. Helen, welcome. Why is digital technology so important in the education sector? Well, because it provides us with an opportunity to give students really high quality learning resources. And also it gives them the opportunity to collaborate, communicate and learn wherever they find themselves. So we can have students all over the globe who are able to collaborate and work together on a project or what have you. And it opens up opportunities therefore for students who wouldn't have ordinarily had that opportunity. Really importantly, it gives students a lot of flexibility. So students are increasingly having to balance paid employment, caring responsibilities, but also students who are studying full time on things like healthcare professions. They're spending all day in work placements or in professional placements. And having that flexibility to review materials, to collaborate, to communicate with their tutors in a digital environment is really, really beneficial for them. The pandemic obviously saw you undertake a huge shift in how you operate. How did your sector respond to that? How have you managed through this time? Well, in many ways, the sector was prepared for the digital transformation that went ahead. I mean, most universities and parts of the education sector already had digital strategies. They already had courses that were completely online. And they were already well set up for blended learning. We're hearing a lot about blended learning now, but this was really widespread before in the sector. But of course, nobody was really prepared for the pandemic. And we had to completely change our business models almost overnight. And learning technologies suddenly found themselves in the real heart of universities having to make decisions about how to use technology, how to direct learning, how to change assessment, so that students were still able to study and staff were still able to provide those learning opportunities for students. Moving on now, how is the sector moving past crisis provision? Well, I think there'll be a transition year or two where we start to look at what we've learned from that emergency remote learning, look at the lessons and think about how to move forward. And of course, the pandemic isn't going to be just suddenly over one day. It's going to be a very gradual transition. This post pandemic period will probably last for a couple of years. So I think consolidating what we've done, really talking to our students and trying to understand what it is about what we've done that they really like. But then looking forward to how we can re-embed that into our business models into the future so that it becomes much more commonplace, it becomes much more comfortable. And that our staff are more confident and comfortable with some of the changes that have taken place. And Helen, how do you at ALT support learning technologists? Well, in several ways. First and foremost, we provide a network, a community of practice and of collaboration, so that colleagues can share their experiences, share their good practice and really support each other. Secondly, it provides an opportunity for learning technologists to be recognised. So we've got a framework of professional recognition, and this really supports them in their personal and professional development. And then I suppose finally, we provide, we are advocates in the sector for learning technologists and learning technology and all the value that it brings to institutions and to our students. And finally, Helen, what does the future look like? There's no doubt that technology is really going to disrupt the higher education sector. We're going to have much more involvement of things like virtual reality. Improved simulation is going to really revolutionise how we train healthcare professionals, engineers, scientists and other parts of the sector as well. And I think the personalised learning that we've heard a lot about will finally come into fruition. Using things like AI will be able to give students a personalised experience, helping them develop their own strengths, helping them identify their weaknesses and really engaging with learning material in a way that suits them personally. An exciting future to look forward to. Professor Helen O'Sullivan, many thanks for joining us today. Thank you. Thank you.


43. In Merlin's Cave, Clarence and I, and fifty-two fresh, bright, well-educated, clean-minded young British boys. At dawn I sent an order to the factories and to all our great works to stop operations and remove all life to a safe distance as everything was going to be blown up by secret minds, and no telling at what moment therefore vacate at once. These people knew me and had confidence in my word. They would clear out without waiting to part their hair, and I could take my own time about dating the explosion. You couldn't hire one of them to go back during the century if the explosion was still impending. We had a week of waiting. It was not dull for me because I was writing all the time. During the first three days I finished turning my old diary into this narrative form. It only required a chapter or so to bring it down to date. The rest of the week I took up in writing letters to my wife. It was always my habit to write to Sandy every day, whenever we were separate, and now I kept up the habit for love of it and of her, though I couldn't do anything with the letters, of course, after I had written them. But it put in the time, you see, and was almost like talking. It was almost as if I was saying, Sandy, if you and Hello Central were here in the cave instead of only your photographs, what good times we could have. And then, you know, I could imagine the baby goo-gooing something out in reply, with its fists in its mouth and itself stretched across its mother's lap on its back, and she laughing and admiring and worshipping, and now and then tickling under the baby's chin to set it cackling, and then maybe throwing in a word of answer to me herself, and so on and so on. Well, don't you know, I could sit there in the cave with my pen and keep it up that way by the hour with them. Why, it was almost like having us all together again. I had spies out every night, of course, to get news. Every report made things look more and more impressive. The hosts were gathering, gathering. Down all the roads and paths of England the knights were riding, and priests rode with them to hearten these original crusaders, this being the church's war. All the nobilities big and little were on their way, and all the gentry. This was all as was expected. We should thin out this sort of folk to such a degree that the people would have nothing to do but just step to the front with their republic, and—ah, what a donkey I was! Toward the end of the week I began to get this large and disenchanting fact through my head that the mass of the nation had swung their caps and shouted for the republic for about one day and there an end. The church, the nobles, and the gentry then turned one grand, all disapproving frown upon them and shriveled them into sheep. From that moment the sheep had begun to gather to the fold, that is to say the camps, and offer their valueless lives and their valuable wool to the righteous cause. Why, even the very men who had lately been slaves were in the righteous cause, and glorifying it, praying for it, sentimentally slabbering over it, just like all the other commoners. Imagine such human muck as this, conceive of this folly! Yes, it was now death to the republic everywhere, not a descending voice. All England was marching against us. Truly this was more than I had bargained for.  For all these are a language, a language given us purposely, that it may betray us in times of emergency when we have secrets which we want to keep. I knew that that thought would keep saying itself over and over again in their minds and hearts. All England is marching against us, and evermore strenuously imploring attention with each repetition, even more sharply realizing itself to their imaginations, until even in their sleep they would find no rest from it, but hear the vague and flitting creatures of the dream say, All England! All England is marching against you! I knew all this would happen. I knew that ultimately the pressure would become so great that it would compel utterance. Therefore I must be ready with an answer at that time, an answer well chosen and tranquilizing. I was right. The time came. They had to speak. Poor lads, it was pitiful to see. They were so pale, so worn, so troubled. At first their spokesmen could hardly find voice or words, but he presently got both. This is what he said, and he put it in the neat modern English taught him in my schools. We have tried to forget what we are, English boys. We have tried to put reason before sentiment, duty before love. Our minds approve, but our hearts reproach us. While apparently it was only the nobility, only the gentry, only the twenty-five or thirty thousand knights left alive out of the late wars, we were of one mind and undisturbed by any troubling doubt. Each and every one of these fifty-two lads who stand here before you said, They have chosen. It is their affair. But think! The matter is altered. All England is marching against us. Oh, sir, consider. Reflect. These people are our people. They are bone of our bone, flesh of our flesh. We love them. Do not ask us to destroy our nation. Well it shows the value of looking ahead and being ready for a thing when it happens. If I hadn't foreseen this thing and been fixed, that boy would have had me. I couldn't have said a word. But I was fixed. I said, My boys, your hearts are in the right place. You have thought the worthy thought. You have done the worthy thing. You are English boys. You will remain English boys. And you will keep that name unsmerched. Give yourselves no further concern. Let your minds be at ease. Consider this. While all England is marching against us, who is in the van? Who, by the commonest rules of war, will march in the front? Answer me. The mounted host of mailed knights. True. They are thirty thousand strong. Acres deep they will march. Now observe. None but they will ever strike the sand-belt. Then there will be an episode. Immediately after the civilian multitude in the rear will retire to meet business engagements elsewhere. None but nobles and gentry are knights, and none but these will remain to dance to our music after that episode. It is absolutely true that we shall have to fight nobody but these thirty thousand knights. Now speak, and it shall be as you decide. Shall we avoid the battle? Retire from the field? No! The shout was unanimous and hearty. Are you? Are you? Well, afraid of these thirty thousand knights! That joke brought out a good laugh. The boys' troubles vanished away, and they went gaily to their posts. Ah, they were a darling fifty-two. As pretty as girls, too. I was ready for the enemy now. Let the approaching big day come along. It would find us on deck. The big day arrived on time. At dawn the sentry on watch and the corral came into the cave and reported a moving black mass under the horizon, and a faint sound which he thought to be military music. Breakfast was just ready. We sat down and ate. This over I made the boys a little speech, and then sent out a detail to man the battery, with Clarence in command of it. The sun rose presently and sent its unobstructed splendors over the land, and we saw a prodigious host moving slowly toward us, with a steady drift and a lined front of a wave of the sea. Nearer and nearer it came, and more and more sublimely imposing became its aspect. Yes, all England was there, apparently. Soon we could see the innumerable banners fluttering, and then the sun struck the sea of armour and set it all aflash. Yes, it was a fine sight. I hadn't ever seen anything to beat it. At last we could make out details. All the front ranks, no telling how many acres deep, were horsemen, plumed knights in armour. Suddenly we heard the blare of trumpets, the slow walk burst into a gallop, and then—well, it was wonderful to see. Down swept that vast horseshoe wave, it approached the sand-belt, my breath stood still, nearer, nearer. The strip of green turf beyond the yellow belt grew narrow, narrower still, became a mere ribbon in front of the horses, then disappeared under their hooves. Great scot! Why, the whole front of that host shot into the air with a thunder-crash, and became a whirling tempest of rags and fragments, and along the ground lay a thick wall of smoke that hid what was left of the multitude from our sight. Time for the second step in the plan of campaign. I touched a button, and shook the bones of England loose from her spine. In that explosion all our noble civilization factories went up in the air and disappeared from the earth. It was a pity, but it was necessary. We could not afford to let the enemy turn our own weapons against us. Now ensued one of the dullest quarter-hours I had ever endured. We waited in a silent solitude, enclosed by our circles of wire, and by a circle of heavy smoke outside of these. We couldn't see over the wall a smoke, and we couldn't see through it. But at last it began to shred away lazily, and by the end of another quarter-hour the land was clear, and our curiosity was enabled to satisfy itself. No living creature was in sight. We now perceived that additions had been made to our defences. The dynamite had dug a ditch more than a hundred feet wide all around us, and cast up an embarkment some twenty-five feet high on both borders of it, as to destruction of life. It was amazing. Moreover it was beyond estimate. Of course we could not count the dead, because they did not exist as individuals but merely as homogenous protoplasm, with alloys of iron and buttons. No life was in sight, but necessarily there must have been some wounded in the rear ranks who were carried off the field under cover of the wall of smoke. There would be sickness among the others, there always is after an episode like that. But there would be no reinforcements. This was the last stand of the chivalry of England. It was all that was left of the order after the recent annihilating wars. So I felt quite safe in believing that the utmost force that could for the future be brought against us would be but small, that is, of knights. I therefore issued a congratulatory proclamation to my army in these words. Soldiers, champions of human liberty and equality, your general congratulates you. In the pride of his strength and the vanity of his renown an arrogant enemy came against you. You were ready. The conflict was brief, on your side glorious. This mighty victory, having been achieved utterly without loss, stands without example in history. So long as the planets shall continue to move in their orbits, the battle of the sand belt will not perish out of the memories of men. The boss. I read it well, and the applause I got was very gratifying to me. I then wound up with these remarks. The war with the English nation as a nation is at an end. The nation has retired from the field and the war. Before it can be persuaded to return war will have ceased. This campaign is the only one that is going to be fought. It will be brief, the briefest in history. Also, the most destructive to life, considered from the standpoint of proportion of casualties to numbers engaged, we are done with the nation. Henceforth we deal only with the knights. English knights can be killed, but they cannot be conquered. We know what is before us. While one of these men remains alive, our task is not finished. The war is not ended.  Loud and long continued applause. I picketed the great embankments thrown up around our lines by the dynamite explosion, merely a look out of a couple of boys to announce the enemy when he should appear again. Next I sent an engineer and forty men to a point just beyond our lines on the south to turn a mountain brook that was there and bring it within our lines and under our command, arranging it in such a way that I could make instant use of it in an emergency. The forty men were divided into two shifts of twenty each and were to relieve each other every two hours. In ten hours the work was accomplished. It was nightfall now and I withdrew my pickets. The one who had had the northern outlook reported a camp in sight but visible with a glass only. He also reported that a few knights had been feeling their way toward us and had driven some cattle across our lines but that the knights themselves had not come very near. That was what I had been expecting. They were feeling us, you see. They wanted to know if we were going to play that red terror on them again. They would grow bolder in the night, perhaps. I believed I knew what project they would attempt because it was plainly the thing I would attempt myself if I were in their places and as ignorant as they were. I mentioned it to Clarence. I think you are right, said he. It is the obvious thing for them to try. Well then, I said, if they do it they are doomed. Certainly. They won't have the slightest show in the world. Of course they won't. It's dreadful, Clarence. It seems an awful pity. The thing disturbed me so that I couldn't get any peace of mind for thinking of it and worrying over it. So, at last, to quiet my conscience, I framed this message to the knights. To the Honourable, the Commander of the Insurgent Chivalry of England, you fight in vain. We know your strength, if one may call it by that name. We know that at the utmost you cannot bring against us above five and twenty thousand knights. Therefore you have no chance, none whatever. Reflect. We are well equipped, well fortified. We number fifty-four. Fifty-four what? Men? No. Minds. The Capablist in the world. A force against which mere animal might may no more hope to prevail than may the idle waves of the sea hope to prevail against the granite barriers of England. Be advised. We offer you your lives. For the sake of your families do not reject the gift. We offer you this chance, and it is the last. Throw down your arms. Surrender unconditionally to the Republic, and all will be forgiven. Signed the Boss. I read it to Clarence, and said I proposed to send it by a flag of truce. He laughed, the sarcastic laugh he was born with, and said, Somehow it seems impossible for you to ever fully realize what these nobilities are. Now let us save a little time and trouble. Consider me the Commander of the Knights, Yonder. Now then, you are the flag of truce. Approach and deliver me your message, and I will give you your answer. I humored the idea. I came forward under an imaginary guard of the enemy's soldiers, produced my paper, and read it through. For answer Clarence struck the paper out of my hand, pursed up a scornful lip, and said with lofty disdain, Dismember me this animal and return him in a basket to the base-born nave who sent him. Other answer have I done. How empty is theory and presence of fact! And this was just fact and nothing else. It was the thing that would have happened, there was no getting around that. I tore up the paper and granted my mistimed sentimentalities a permanent rest. Then to business. I tested the electric signals from the Gatling Platform to the Cave, and made sure that they were all right. I tested and retested those which commanded the fences. These were signals whereby I could break and renew the electric current in each fence independently of the others at will. I placed the brook connection under the guard and authority of three of my best boys, who would alternate in two-hour watches all night and promptly obey my signal, if I should have occasion to give it, three revolver shots in quick succession. Century duty was discarded for the night, and the corral left empty of life. I ordered that quiet be maintained in the cave, and the electric lights turned down to a glimmer. As soon as it was good and dark I shut off the current from all the fences, and then groped my way out to the embankment bordering our side of the great dynamite ditch. I crept to the top of it, and lay there on the slant of the muck to watch. But it was too dark to see anything. As for sounds, there were none. The stillness was deathlike. True, there were the usual night sounds of the country, the whir of nightbirds, the buzzing of insects, the barking of distant dogs, the mellow, lowing of far-off kind. But these didn't seem to break the stillness, they only intensified it, and added a gruesome melancholy to it into the bargain. I presently gave up looking. The night shut down so black, but I kept my ears strained to catch the least suspicious sound, for I judged I had only to wait, and I shouldn't be disappointed. However, I had to wait a long time. At last I caught what you may call indistinct glimpses of sound-dulled metallic sound. I pricked up my ears then, and held my breath, for this was the sort of thing I had been waiting for. This sound thickened and approached from toward the north. Presently I heard it at my own level, the ridge-top of the opposite embankment, a hundred feet or more away. Then I seemed to see a row of black dots appear along that ridge. Human heads? I couldn't tell. It mightn't be anything at all. You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. However, the question was soon settled. I heard that metallic noise descending into the great ditch. It augmented fast. It spread all along, and it unmistakably furnished me this fact. An armed host was taking up its quarters in the ditch. Yes, these people were arranging a little surprise party for us. We could expect entertainment about dawn, possibly earlier. I groped my way back to the corral now. I had seen enough. I went to the platform and signalled to turn the current on to the two inner fences. Then I went into the cave and found everything satisfactory there. Nobody awake but the working watch. I woke Clarence and told him the great ditch was filling up with men, and that I believed all the nights were coming for us in a body. It was my notion that as soon as dawn approached we could expect the ditch's ambuscated thousands to swarm up over the embankment and make an assault and be followed immediately by the rest of their army. Clarence said, They will be wanting to send a scout or two in the dark to make preliminary observations. Why not take the lightning off the outer fences and give them a chance? I've already done it, Clarence. Did you ever know me to be inhospitable? No, you are a good heart. I want to go and be a reception committee. I will go, too. We crossed the corral and laid down together between the two inside fences. Even the dim light of the cave had disordered our eyesight somewhat, but the focused straight way began to regulate itself, and soon it was adjusted for present circumstances. We had had to feel our way before, but we could make out to see the fence posts now. We started a whispered conversation, but suddenly Clarence broke off and said, What is that? What is what? That thing yonder. What thing? Where?  I gazed, and he gazed. I said, Could it be a man, Clarence? No, I think not. If you notice it looks a lit. Why, is a man leaning on the fence? I certainly believe it is. Let us go and see. We crept along on our hands and knees until we were pretty close, and then looked up. Yes, it was a man, a dim, great figure in armor standing erect, with both hands on the upper wire, and, of course, there was a smell of burning flesh. Poor fellow, dead as a doornail, and never knew what hurt him. He stood there like a statue, no motion about him, but that his plumes swished about a little in the night wind. We rose up and looked in through the bars of his visor, but couldn't make out whether we knew him or not, features too dim and shadowed. We heard muffled sounds approaching, and we sank down to the ground where we were. We made out another night vaguely. He was coming very stealthily and feeling his way. He was near enough now for us to see him put out a hand, find an upper wire, then bend and step under it and over the lower one. Now he arrived at the first night, and startled slightly when he discovered him. He stood a moment, no doubt wondering why the other night didn't move on, then he said in a low voice, Why dreams thou here, good Sir Mark?   Killed by a dead friend, in fact. There was something awful about it. These early birds came scattering along after each other about one every five minutes in our vicinity during half an hour. They brought no armour of offence but their swords. As a rule, they carried the sword ready in the hand, and put it forward and found the wires with it. We would now and then see a blue spark when the night that caused it was so far away as to be invisible to us, but we knew what had happened all the same.  We had brief intervals of grim stillness, interrupted with piteous regularity by the clash made by the falling of an iron clad, and this sort of thing was going on right along and was very creepy there in the dark and lonesomeness. We concluded to make a tour between the inner fences. We elected to walk upright for convenience's sake. We argued that if discerned we should be taken for friends rather than enemies, and in any case we should be out of reach of swords, and these gentry did not seem to have any spears along. While it was a curious trip, everywhere dead men were lying outside the second fence not plainly visible but still visible, and we counted fifteen of those pathetic statues, dead knights standing with their hands on the upper wire. One thing seemed to be sufficiently demonstrated. Our current was so tremendous that it killed before the victim could cry out. Pretty soon we detected a muffled and heavy sound, and next moment we guessed what it was. It was a surprise and force coming. Whispered Clarence to go and wake the army and notify it to wait in silence in the cave for further orders. He was soon back, and we stood by the inner fence, and watched the silent lightning do its awful work upon that swarming host. One could make out but little of detail, but he could note that a black mass was piling itself up beyond the second fence. That swelling bulk was dead men. Our camp was enclosed with a solid wall of the dead—a bulwark, a breastwork of corpses, you may say. One terrible thing about this thing was the absence of human voices. There were no cheers, no war cries. Being intent upon surprise, these men moved as noiselessly as they could. And all was when the front rank was near enough to their goal to make it proper for them to begin to get a shout ready. Of course they struck the fatal line and went down without testifying. I sent a current through the third fence now and almost immediately through the fourth and fifth so quickly were the gaps filled up. I believed the time was come now for my climax. I believed that that whole army was in our trap. Anyway, it was high time to find out, so I touched a button and set fifty electric suns aflame on the top of our precipice. Land! What a sight! We were enclosed in three walls of dead men. All the other fences were pretty nearly filled with the living who were stealthily working their way forward through the wires. The sudden glare paralyzed this host, petrified them, you may say, with astonishment. There was just one instant for me to utilize their immobility in, and I didn't lose the chance. You see, in another instant they would have recovered their faculties, then they'd have burst into a cheer and made a rush, and my wires would have gone down before it, but that lost instant lost them their opportunity forever. While even that slight fragment of time was still unspent, I shot the current through all the fences and struck the whole host dead in their tracks. There was a groan you could hear. It voiced the death-pang of eleven thousand men. It swelled out on the night with awful pathos. A glance showed that the rest of the enemy, perhaps ten thousand strong, were between us and the encircling ditch and pressing forward to the assault. Consequently we had them all, and had them past help. Time for the last act of the tragedy. I fired the three appointed revolver shots, which meant turn on the water. There was a sudden rush and roar, and in a minute the mountain brook was raging through the big ditch and creating a river a hundred feet wide and twenty-five deep. Into your guns, men, open fire! The thirteen gatlings began to vomit death into the fated ten thousand. They halted, they stood their ground a moment against that withering deluge of fire, then they broke, faced about, and swept toward the ditch like chaff before a gale. A full fourth part of their force never reached the top of the lofty embankment. The three-fourths reached it and plunged over to death by drowning. Within ten short minutes after we had opened fire armed resistance was totally annihilated. The campaign was ended. We fifty-four were masters of England. Twenty-five thousand men lay dead around us. But how treacherous is fortune! In a little while, say an hour, happened a thing by my own fault, which—but I have no heart to write that. Let the record end here. I, Clarence, must write it for him. He proposed that we, too, go out and see if any help could be accorded the wounded. I was strenuous against the project. I said that, if there were many, we could do but little for them, and it would not be wise for us to do so. I, Clarence, must write it for him. He proposed that we, too, go out and see if any help could be accorded the wounded. I was strenuous against the project. I said that if there were many we could do but little for them, and it would not be wise for us to trust ourselves among them anyway. But he could seldom be turned from a purpose once formed, so we shut off the electric current from the fences, took an escort along, climbed over the enclosing ramparts of dead knights, and moved out upon the field. The first wounded maul, who appealed for help, was sitting with his back against a dead comrade. When the boss bent over him and spoke to him, the man recognized him and stabbed him. That night was Sir Mellion Groves, as I found out by tearing off his helmet. He will not ask for help any more. We carried the boss to the cave and gave his wound, which was not very serious, the best care we could. In this service we had the help of Merlin, though we did not know it. He was disguised as a woman, and appeared to be a simple old peasant goodwife. In this disguise, with brown-stained face and smooth shaven, he had appeared a few days after the boss was hurt and offered to cook for us, saying her people had gone off to join certain new camps, which the enemy were forming, and that she was starving. The boss had been getting along very well and had amused himself with finishing up his record. We were glad to have this woman, for we were short-handed. We were in a trap, you see, a trap of our own making.  If we moved out of our defences, we should no longer be invincible. We had conquered—in turn, we were conquered. The boss recognized this. We all recognized it. If we could go to one of those new camps and patch up some kind of terms with the enemy—yes, but the boss could not go, and neither could I, for I was among the first that were made sick by the poisonous air bred by those dead thousands. Others were taken down, and still others—tomorrow—tomorrow, it is here, and with that the end. About midnight I awoke and saw that hag making curious passes in the air above the boss's head and face and wondered what it meant. Everybody but the dynamo watch lay steeped in sleep, there was no sound. The woman ceased from her mysterious foolery and started tiptoeing toward the door. I called out, Stop! What have you been doing?" She halted and said with an accent of malicious satisfaction, Ye were conquerors, ye are conquered. These others are perishing, you also. Ye shall all die in this place, every one, except him. He sleepeth now, and shall sleep 13 centuries. I am Merlin.  His mouth is spread open yet, apparently he is still laughing.  The boss has never stirred, sleeps like a stone. If he does not wake to-day we shall understand what kind of sleep it is, and his body will then be born to a place in one of the remote recesses of the cave where none will ever find it to desecrate it. As for the rest of us, well, it is agreed that if any one of us ever escapes alive from this place he will write the fact here and loyally hide this manuscript with the boss, our dear good chief, whose property it is, be he alive or dead. The End of the Manuscript Final PS by M.T. The dawn was come when I laid the manuscript aside. The rain had almost ceased. The world was gray and sad. The exhausted storm was sighing and sobbing itself to rest. I went to the stranger's room and listened at his door, which was slightly ajar. I could hear his voice, and so I knocked. There was no answer, but I still heard the voice. I peeped in. The man lay on his back in bed, talking brokenly but with spirit, and punctuating with his arms, which he thrashed about restlessly, as sick people do in delirium. I slipped in softly and bent over him. His mutterings and ejaculations went on. I spoke, merely a word, to call his attention. His glassy eyes and his ashy face were a light in an instant with pleasure, gratitude, gladness, welcome. Oh, Sandy, you are come at last! How I have longed for you! Sit by me. Do not leave me. Never leave me again, Sandy. Never again. Where is your hand? Give it me, dear. Let me hold it there. Now, all is well. All is peace, and I am happy again. We are happy again, isn't it so, Sandy? You are so dim, so vague. You are but a mist, a cloud, but you are here. And that is blessedness sufficient. And I have your hand. Don't take it away. It is for only a little while. I shall not require it long. Was that the child? Hello, Central? She doesn't answer. Asleep, perhaps? Bring her when she wakes, and let me touch her hands, her face, her hair, and tell her good-bye. Sandy? Yes, you are there. I lost myself a moment, and I thought you were gone.  It must be so. It seems months to me and such dreams. Such strange and awful dreams, Sandy. Dreams that were as real as reality. Delirium, of course, but so real. Why, I thought the king was dead. I thought you were in Gaul and couldn't get home. I thought there was a revolution. In the fantastic frenzy of these dreams, I thought that Clarence and I, and a handful of my cadets, fought and exterminated the whole chivalry of England. But even that was not the strangest. I seemed to be a creature out of a remote unborn age, centuries hence, and even that was as real as the rest. Yes, I seemed to have flown back out of that age into this of ours, and then forward to it again, and was set down, a stranger and forlorn in that strange England, with an abyss of thirteen centuries yawning between me and you. Between me and my home and my friends. Between me and all that is dear to me. All that could make life worth the living. It was awful. Awfuler than you can ever imagine, Sandy. Ah, watch by me, Sandy. Stay by me every moment. Don't let me go out of my mind again. Death is nothing. Let it come. But not with those dreams, not with the torture of those hideous dreams. I cannot endure that again. Sandy!" He lay muttering, incoherently some little time. Then, for a time, he lay silent, and apparently sinking away toward death. Presently his fingers began to pick busily at the coverlet, and by that sign I knew that his end was at hand, with the first suggestion of the death-rattle in his throat. He started up slightly, and seemed to listen. Then he said, A bugle? It is the king! The drawbridge there! Man, the battlements! Turn out the— He was getting up his last effect. But he never finished it. End of chapter forty-four. And end of a Connecticut Yankee in King of— End of chapter forty-four. End of chapter forty-four.


Hi, I'm Awupakara, and in this session, I will be sharing with you how you can secure your continuous everything strategy. The software development life cycle is rapidly evolving, with new stages added quite often. But security is just catching up. First introductions. My name is Awupakara Siddiq Angu, and I am a developer evangelism program manager at GitLab and also a CNCF ambassador. I'm an engineer based in the Netherlands. If you are learning Dutch, please let's me study about this. At least I will be able to say more than hold more hands. Software development has evolved due to the increasing requirements and complexity. That has been thrown at software development these days. Those need to increase productivity and get into market faster has led to the line between development and operations blurring into the background. DevOps allows companies to build applications, test, deploy or release and monitor them with the metrics or data from production environments informing decisions for bug fixes and future proposals. All these happen within the same cycle. Thus, the work never stops. But we learn from the mistakes we've made and fix them immediately. But one stage is often missing, forgotten or neglected till the end. That's security. And that's where DevSecOps comes in. Now, with DevSecOps, security is shifting to the left and made a priority at every stage. This allows bugs, vulnerabilities and other issues to be discovered much earlier. Not just security, governance is also shifting to the left because decision makers need to be part of the process at every stage. Adding to the context and informing wherever the development is moving off the product pipeline instead of showing up just at the end of the life cycle. But with recent happenings in the world there has been a surge in the need for a lot of services to happen online, thus putting a strain on existing DevOps strategies. Everything needs to move fast. That's where Concurrent DevOps comes in. Now, take for example the comparison between regular Microsoft Word that we use offline and Google Docs. With Word, only one person can edit a document at a time and it needs to be handed off via email or sent through some messaging app to other people to work on most often concurrently. This often leads to conflict. But with Docs, lots of people can be editing the same document at the same time with Russian history and real-time feedback. This is what Concurrent DevOps achieves. Multiple people involved in software development at every stage can be working concurrently without getting blocked by others. Except of course, when there is a dependency that needs to be resolved. This way, more speed is achieved in going to market. Coupled with automation because everything has to be automated if we want to move fast and we have lots of people working at the same time. Now, the demand for software development lifecycle now requires automation. Something is wrong with my slide. Let me move to the next slide. Awesome. Something is wrong with my slide. Let me continue. Now, the demand of the software development lifecycle now requires automation. After developers have built parts of the system concurrently, those parts need to be integrated, tested, deployed, and monitored. The old style will involve manually getting all these steps done. But making all the processes continuous means everything is automated using CI CD2s. There are lots of them out there, including open source ones like Tecton and Jenkins X. With GitLab also making a very awesome solution. Now, developers only need to focus on what they do best, which is creating good software. Continuous doesn't necessarily mean just continuous integration or continuous deployment or delivery. It means the entire lifecycle, aside from the development, needs to become continuous, which leads to efficiency, speed, and increased productivity. Now, but with speed consecutive challenges with several team members pushing codes at the same time and introducing changes to the system, it's increasingly easier to introduce vulnerabilities. Among the top vulnerabilities listed in the 2021 top 25 most dangerous software weaknesses from the CWE list that most secretive use for analysis, privileged escalation ranks high among all of them. And these vulnerabilities often does not come from the code the developer has written, but from the dependency or base container image of the operating system which they are using. We use a lot of tooling and a lot of dependencies. So if any of them has bugs, the whole code needs to have a bug. Now, listed here, common security challenges that we are visually battled with, especially nowadays, we have things like continuous vulnerabilities. And because we are an industry that stands on the shoulders of giants, we use dependencies very heavily and not vetting them before you use them in your software can be detrimental. Even when you are working with safe dependencies, you cannot be sure that it won't be yanked off the interface of the earth abruptly with such situations like that. Another issue is license compliance. The dependency you love so much might not fit your license requirement, which often leads to legal issues if left unchecked. There are several discussions that we've seen online lately about changes in licenses, which often doesn't go well. Bugs, privileged escalation, license compliance and secret exposure are major challenges. Honing in on a few of those challenges, I will start with privileged escalation. This is the most exploited vulnerability as it usually happens due to a vulnerability in a software or the tooling being used or the underlying operating system images running your software. Most times, staying up to date is a remedy, but the rate at which bugs of vulnerabilities are discovered these days is way more faster than the update strategy in place in some organizations. Most organizations stay versions behind, which can be an issue, especially with bugs out there. Supply chain vulnerabilities are also a major source of privileged escalation. We've seen a lot in the news. We are only as secure as the tooling we use. Now, with same privileged escalation, next to container vulnerabilities is a major concern as container technology has gone mainstream, powering most of the infrastructure running today. But bad design is a major concern. Building images of bad-based images or exposing the wrong ports or mistakes that can introduce problems into our system does exposing our production surfaces. Now, secret exposure is another major concern lately. A recent research presented at the network or network and distributed system security symposium showed that despite how it's a well-known fact to not include secrets in repos or expose them in CI, thousands of projects on GitHub that will analyze half-secrets exposed in different forms, different types of secrets, mostly API keys or secret keys of AWS and so on. Some of these projects also assume you can simply rewrite history to fix an explosion mistake. With the right tools, bad actors can dig secrets in Git history. To learn more about the findings and see how secret is a major concern, please visit the link referenced on this slide to learn more. Now, there are lots of security checks that can be done at various stages of the development life cycle. We have sars, we have dust, we have fuzzi tests, especially secret detection and so on. And most of them can be automated. In particular, security tools now have the ability to automatically even remediate discovered vulnerabilities like rotating, expose AWS keys or creating a commit to correct or suggest container images, also just changes to container images and other fixes. But chief among the security features is vulnerability management, like a dashboard. You and your security team need to have a dashboard to see the vulnerabilities discovered, which were automatically fixed, which of them are automatically fixed and which of them were fixed by the developers and those that required attention of the security team. This way, it can help inform changes that need to be made to the system and reinforcements that need to be put in place in order to avoid such vulnerabilities. On this slide here, you can see the traditional approach to security. It's often an afterthought. The whole development life cycle goes on before an assessment is done and it gets created for the development team to fix. But with DevSecOps, but when your DevSecOps strategy becomes concurrent, everyone is part of the process and everyone is involved in making sure that as soon as security vulnerabilities are discovered, they are fixed with a dashboard presented to your security team in order to be able to see what has been happening, what are the vulnerabilities that have been discovered and how they were fixed and gives them an overview of what are the main challenges happening on the system and ways to fix it. Now, shifting left is not just enough, but it requires a changing culture plus comprehensive, continual security testing. Like I said earlier, continuous is not just for integration and deployment or delivery. It involves all part of the development life cycle, including continual security testing.  Images needs to be checked before they are built and those images needs to be checked. Your manifest files need to be checked before they are deployed to your cluster or your Terraform plans need to be checked and verified before they are deployed. Now, once you achieve margin security, shifting security as a culture within your dev cycle life cycle, shifting left becomes naturally easy. Thank you very much for joining me and for you to learn more about GitLab and some of the ways you can use GitLab to visit about.gitlab.com. Thank you.


Well, folks, welcome back to your Friday edition of VG News. Today we just have four stories, but they're all about Nintendo. So hey, the name of the channel is Nintendo Prime. We're gonna bring you the Nintendo stuff here and now because we have a lot of big things to get into.  Let's just dive right in. Cause the first thing is that Nintendo finally announced something worth talking about. That of course being brand new titles being added to Nintendo Switch online. Now they dropped a nearly two minute trailer here in the US and the three games that they actually announced here for the United States anyways was Wrecking Crew 98, Super R type and the amazing Hebereke for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. And some people making some jokes about those being considered classics, but hey, that is what it is. Per usual, Japan's lineup features actually a couple of different titles. Instead of the amazing Hebereke, they are getting Battle Toads in Battle Maniacs, which by the way we already have here in the United States and this is the more interesting one. Marvelous Mojito Tsuno Takarajima, which I know, I butchered that. So here's what it actually means. The games titled in English, Marvelous Another Treasure, which is a really interesting title simply because it was directed by A.G. Aonuma and it took inspiration directly from willing to the past and even used the exact same engine. Of course, switches region free. So you can make a Japanese account and download the Super Nintendo Entertainment System Japanese app and play the game if you like, although it does not have an English language option. Now, outside of the A.G. Aonuma special here, there really isn't a lot of notable games here. Honestly, this is maybe one of the weaker updates, but it is really cool that at least in Japan they have that A.G. Aonuma game and it kind of gives you an idea of where he came from before he started all of his work on the Legend of Zelda series. So I find that to be rather fascinating. You know what's also fascinating? Discord. Yes, I use Discord all the time, right? We have our own Discord server.  There's a World of Warcraft server I'm a part of or whether it's obviously for my YouTube channel. Well, Discord is also popularly used for other video game related things such as emulators and it turns out that two major developers and their emulators were shut down by Discord. Now, all of this comes from an article over at The Verge and as you're seeing here, it's quite an interesting take because the emulators that were affected were Suyu and Sudachi that are two spinoffs of the Yuzu emulator. Now Discord did give a public statement from their director of product communications, Kellenstone, and here's what they told The Verge. Discord responds to and complies with all legal and valid digital millennium copyright act requests. In this instance, there was also a court ordered injunction for the takedown of those materials and we took action in a manner that's consistent with the court order. Now, the developers did provide some images supposedly to The Verge showing that they were only given vague messages from Discord on why they took the actions they did. They aren't actually sure this was a valid DMCA takedown or a violation of IP rights. This is mostly because while Nintendo owns the emulator and did get all the copies that were out there destroyed, the problem being that the software was originally open source and provided freely to the public under the GNU public license and Nintendo didn't actually get that license for the software. Now they can obviously use it because it's a GNU public license, but they couldn't get that license reneged and that's because, hey, this did actually go to court. It was settled and that was not part of the settlement agreement. So from a legal stance, they couldn't really shut it down based on it just being using the code of Yuzu. However, Nintendo can get things legally shut down that advertise and or use their cryptographic keys, firmware, let alone anyone on their server that might have been sharing ROMs. Now, right now all Nintendo Switch emulators actually require the use of cryptographic keys. And so that is very fascinating because it's a, at least here in the United States, a legal gray area on if you're even allowed to have an emulator that uses cryptographic keys. Now you might wonder, well, Nintendo's going through all this work and, hey, the people who made SUE you actually were United States based. Then why are they not going after like Ryjunix? And well, the answer for Ryjunix is that they're actually located in Brazil and subject to Brazilian law and it might not be as legally gray there. Here it is actually legally gray on if you're even allowed to have software that uses copyrighted cryptographic keys. So there is that regardless of advertising them or linking to them, just being able to use them or requiring their use for your software to function could actually be illegal. But we don't really know because the case that Nintendo had against Yuzu never went to court but it was Nintendo's strongest legal argument because without those keys, their software just doesn't work. So it is a fascinating thing that would have been at least just from an interesting perspective, would have been cool to see that play out in court but it didn't happen. Now what's obviously mixed up in here is another emulator. But before we dive in, SUE you might be more at fault here than anyone. And I want to explain because the SUE developers, they dared Nintendo to come after them saying that they had some legal advice that turned out it came from a law student, not an actual lawyer with experience. So in the end, that legal advice might not have been great and it's kind of funny that that's the route they went. Now SUE you looks to be completely abandoned. There's a rumor that after the servers got shut down, the developers have now abandoned the project and I wouldn't really be surprised. I think they literally thought Nintendo wasn't gonna do anything to them.  I don't really know. But what we do have is another emulator involved in this and that emulator is called Sudachi. That was the other emulator shut down. And we don't know if there's anything Nintendo can do legally or whatever. The developer of this emulator is actually located in Australia. So it'll be those laws that needs to comply with. But it seems like the developer isn't so upset about the server being shut down. They did put out a tweet where they seem more upset that their personal account was banned from Discord because they used it to talk to their brother and other friends. Of course, I assume you can still talk to your family and hopefully you're real friends because you should have ways to contact them beyond Discord. That being said, this is obviously something where I, there's a lot of legal mumbo jumbo in a lot of gray area. Don't wanna dive too deep into it, but hey, look, if you wanna make an emulator for Switch, one, don't be located in the United States. And two, maybe you don't use the code base from Yuzu. Come up with your own code base. I know Rajunix is not open source, but find a way to make your own stuff, right? I'm just saying, if you could make those from the ground up, Yuzu and Rajunix could create something from the ground up. Why can't you guys? I'm just throwing that out there that maybe that's the best way to start. Also, maybe don't be located in the United States because Nintendo has shown they will press legal issues in the US simply because it's so legally gray in many areas. All right, now we need to get into something that should be exciting and is like the lead headline topic, but isn't as exciting as it seems and is gonna create a longer form conversation. And that is an update surrounding the rumored indie world and specifically the Nintendo Direct that was supposed to happen this month. Now, if you guys remember, it was rumored originally by Pedro Henrique, otherwise known as Brazil Online. Now, this is the person that originally put out into the ether that the Nintendo Switch shoe had an internal delay to 2025 that was then corroborated by video game Chronicle, Eurogamer, and even Japanese publication, Nikkei. Now that's fascinating and that's cool and that's that report, but his other report here came shortly thereafter stating that there would be an indie world before on Nintendo Direct and that the Nintendo Direct would happen in April and there would be some sort of Switch 2 reveal or something in June. Now, that was stated back in February and then a couple weeks ago he came out and basically restated that yes, I still have a source telling me there's a direct happening in April. Okay, so that's neither here nor there. That's interesting. Now, that Nintendo Direct thing was also backed up by Necro Philippa Lima, the owner and basically editor-in-chief of Nintendo Universo and he said it would be a general Nintendo Direct. Now, why does all of this matter? Well, because he put out a statement yesterday over on a popular Nintendo forum called Familyboards and here's what he had to say and we're talking about what Brazil had to say. Hey everyone, didn't wanna leave you hanging for the entire month, so here I am. You'll remember that the info I had back during the Switch 2 delay week is that we'd have a direct in April and an indie world presentation prior to that. I had those talks a couple of days after the Switch 2 discussions but I now believe that the event info itself was already outdated at that point. I no longer believe we'll get a direct this month. Apart from one person who heard some rumblings two weeks ago, no one else seems to have heard anything about an April direct since then when they probably would have at this point. One source in particular that had talked about an April direct before is now expecting one to happen around the obvious Summer Game Fest timeframe so late May or early June and then he put an edit in here, maybe even this is wrong but we will get PlayStation and Xbox events in that timeframe at least, which Xbox has already confirmed. The indie world seems to have been planned to air pre-game developers conference but I guess all those plans went out the window immediately as well. Anyway, that's it. The beauty of talking about planned event dates months in advance, ha ha. I'll catch flak for this and that's all right but hopefully that helps people settle back and enjoy the games coming out instead of getting anxious over more announcements for a while. Also, obligatory apologies to anyone who was really looking forward to this due to my earlier info. I've said this before but I only said anything because I was on cloud nine that week and I probably should have restrained myself, ha ha. And Necrophil de Valima as far as I can tell on all of his profiles has yet to make any statements as well as since he was someone who backed this outside of Metro and he got a new job so congratulations on getting a new full-time job. Now, what I wanna throw out there into this ether is one, this was all rumors in the first place and rumors are always meant to have significant doubt and skepticism. So it's not really shocking that there might not be a direct this month and I'm saying might not because he's not even saying the sources or telling them there won't be one. His sources are just not telling them anymore that there will be one. I, there's a few little red flags in here that I just don't like like mentioning that he only talked about all these events back in February because he was on cloud nine. The news delivered in February was bad news. Like if I had direct information from a source that told me that switch two was gonna be pushed into internally pushed into 2025. I don't know why that would make me excited. If anything, that would actually make me not excited and then maybe because he gave this information through a podcast and now his podcast got a bunch of attention, maybe that part made him excited as the podcast maybe had boosted views for him compared to prior episodes and that I can understand a little bit. I too get excited when we have a podcast episode the Nintendo Prime podcast when it ends up popping off for more views than usual. So I can get that excitement but it seems like his excitement was around the information for switch two which didn't seem exciting by the way. It seemed kind of off-putting but you know that's whatever, that's his reasoning and like he's been a fairly reliable person in the past and this is one of those things where all these insiders I never really doubt that they have real inside information but we have to remember is that people like Brazil even Nate the hate and others and pretty much everyone but Piero all their information comes from third party developers with dev kits and third party developers are already second hand information because Nintendo is the one ultimately deciding when these events are gonna happen, when directs are coming and yes, when Nintendo switch two is gonna come out and be revealed. Nintendo decides that a third party developer that might be making games for it will be made aware of certain things but that's already second hand compared to Nintendo and then by the time it gets to someone like Brazil who heard it from those third party developers he's now third hand information and then when you guys hear it from me talking about this stuff it's now fourth hand information so you have to remember in the world of reporting on all this stuff and given you all the information that when you hear it from me it's already gone down the pipeline several layers before you even got it out at my YouTube channel and because of that it actually just makes it even more unreliable as it were just because of that and that's why we always say rumors are not leaks that can't be verified and there wasn't a lot of people corroborating this stuff just one other person who was also wrong about information in the past about directs so there's no direct this month that now is two things against Necrophilipe Lima and the last two directs so I'm just gonna point out that rumors are just not meant to be believed and they are just meant to be fun conversation points so we are gonna continue to cover rumors from people that we find credible and Brazil is someone that we do find credible however you just need to keep this in the back of your mind that until it's officially announced it doesn't mean anything take rumors as more fun conversation points than inherent facts and if there are rumors that tend to be significantly more reliable than others such as Tom Henderson at Insider Gaming that's been nailing everything lately or even Piero obviously those are things that we could indicate but for right now everyone else whether it's Nate the hate, Brazil, Necrophilipe or whoever we cover in the future just note that hey you're supposed to doubt things that's why it's called a rumor now let's get into our last story here because this was something that just happened this morning or was announced this morning anyways Nintendo is hiring someone who used to be and I wanna make sure I get his exact role right he was the PlayStation director of third party games I did that for six years leaving the company in 2019 just before PlayStation 5 marketing was beginning now the person they hired is named Geo Corsi and we found out because he made the announcement himself publicly on X he has joined Nintendo's triple A third party portfolio management crew according to his post and he is saying he wants to help great teams bring their amazing games to a legendary platform and talking about Nintendo here now besides working at PlayStation he had a couple other jobs over the last handful of years one of those was as head of publishing at Ilphonic who has made things like killer clowns from outer space and Ghostbusters spirits unleashed and then more recently he was the head of commercial at Iron Galaxy you might have heard of them because they've been involved with a lot of stuff killer instinct and rumbleverse of course but then they've also co-developed things like Uncharted games and Spyro and so many others Iron Galaxy's actually a pretty big name in the industry especially for co-development reasons now this is generally considered a really good hire for Nintendo because it puts Geo back in a similar role he was working at PlayStation and honestly that role is that he brought a lot of games to PlayStation 4 that might not have otherwise been there whether it was in the West or in Japan from triple A developers and what Nintendo really needs heading into the next platform are people with experience and relationships with major triple A developer partners so they can convince them to bring their games over and while already we had heard some rumors and reports that Switch 2 was going to get more third party support than people might expect towards launch the exciting thing is bringing someone in with this sort of experience working at PlayStation they already had these big relationships with companies like EA and Square Enix and all of that and that's just going to increase the likelihood of this person being able to convince them that Nintendo Switch 2 is a platform that their product should release on so I think that this is just a very good hire by Nintendo very smart of them if you're going to hire someone to help convince third parties to support why not bring on one of the guys with the most experience in the market who's been working with triple A developers for the better part of the last decade just saying this seems like a smart move to me and I am very, very happy to welcome Gio into the Nintendo employee family I'm not actually part of that family so I don't know what I'm welcoming him into exactly who do I think I am just because Nintendo's in my channel name doesn't mean that I work for them in fact actually Nintendo can tell me any day now I can't use this anymore Nintendo please don't do that to me I understand we have a backup plan if you ever yell at me but please don't yell at me I love you guys I love your games I love what you're doing I'm really excited for Switch 2 I'm really excited for the next Direct I'm really okay I'm not really excited for most of the rest of your lineup this year so far so far you could announce something though that might tickle my fancy soon and that could be exciting don't know when that next Direct's going to be honestly today's news is both like exciting and also disappointing and kind of all over the place as we head into the weekend so everyone you guys have a lovely weekend we'll be back with standard videos and who knows maybe a bonus live stream who the heck really knows at this point we're just here to do our damn job catch you guys in the next video