Do you know anybody? Did you ever know anybody personally named Archibald? No, I knew a guy named Brad once. Hey, welcome back to Red Deer reaction, I'm Corvin. I'm Brad. And you can follow us on Instagram, Twitter, forward cheesy content.  Any spinach feta cheese wrap? Doesn't look like it. Welcome back. Today we're doing a movie review of the new 2023 Netflix movie, The Archies. The new film by our Dost. Yes, we can say that now. We can say that now. Zoya Akhtar, written and directed by her and also some dialogue by Farhan and her writing partner is Ayesha Daviesry. Is she a brand name? She always writes it. And two more, it's a collaborative team apparently. I forget who her, she always has a writing partner. Yeah, regardless.  A lot of newcomers. Anyways, but obviously it just came out so we're gonna do first non-spoilers and then we will get into spoils but we will tell you before we do that it's on Netflix so we'd like to go watch it before you see anything. If you just wanna go watch that and come back. But the first will be non-spoilers. Rick, you're under-official. You're official non-spoiler thoughts. Non-spoiler thoughts. So right out the gate, the first thought is is it a must-see? Is it a see it? Is it a skip it? Is it a avoided at all costs? It's definitely not an avoided at all costs. But for me, it was definitely a, it's not something I'm gonna be telling people hey, you should go watch it. It for me, you can skip it, I'm sorry to say. There's some good things I wanna say about it and there's a lot of things about it that I'll say that would be critical of some aspects of it that I was expecting a lot more from it but we'll get into all of that. But the ultimate takeaway from it is I wish I could say it's something that you should see but I don't think you miss anything if you don't. Other than if you're very interested in wanting to see how the kids do because for kids that have never done anything before and especially some of them will talk about them in a second who come from some pretty big names in the industry, there are some things I found charming about a couple of people that I'll talk about in a second but other than that, it didn't meet my expectations. I thought this, and it might be similar, I thought it was fine. Which is what I came away with a little bit. Did your wife watch it with you? Okay, because I'm interested in her input because she knows the archies. She liked it more than I did. Okay, was it because there was a lot of references? That makes me happy. And so like, that makes me happy. She, because I don't have that reference point. Yeah, me either. She could tell all the characters and what they were trying to do from each of the, obviously they're very famous characters from the comics and stuff like that. And the relationships. Yeah, relationships, where they went, like the relationships between Veronica and her. Right and Betty and Archie and their love triangles and all that kind of stuff and stuff that they called them. Like it was a big thing that she called, whoever called Archie Archibald or no, Archie Kins. That was a big thing.  So like there was a. Unsurprisingly, they did justice to the comic. I'm guessing. She still had some like, she probably wished it was a little better in terms of certain things. But I think she liked it more than I did. But she was giggling every so often because some of the time was green. That makes me happy to know that somebody who's familiar with the material would appreciate it because we don't have that reference point. So which is one of the reasons why it might be more of a fine than anything else. There's, we'll talk about a bunch, but I got into it actually, surprisingly more as it went along, even like an hour and a half into it, I got more into it after the hour and a half. Me too. And so I guess that's a good thing. Yeah. So a good thing is that while I was watching it, cause there's been movies we've watched, and I'm just checking the runtime, looking at my watch, when's this gonna end? I never got to that place. And it's like an hour and a half was gone. I'm like, okay, not what I was wanting, but then I did get more into it post, I think an hour and a half, which is not something that normally happens. And so that's good. That's why I think I came away with a final grade. It felt like using that, what you're describing, it almost felt like a ton of runtime could have been cut to get to that salient point in the storytelling without giving away any spoilers. I think they were trying to build the characters and show them from the comics and their relationships, and they were trying to put a lot in that via, and I think it was actually shot a lot like a comic. As opposed to more flowy scenes, they'd have a scene, and then in a comic book, you'd have the next scene in a completely different setting because I think she was trying to do something like that, which is maybe one of the reasons why the beginnings is kind of jumping all over the place. It also felt, and I know you haven't seen it, it felt like it was for a younger audience. Agreed. The writing of it and everything, and maybe if you haven't seen a Wednesday, Netflix, I know you haven't. We've seen about five episodes of a Wednesday. We got through a Wednesday, but there's a bunch of issues I had with a Wednesday outside of Jenna Ortega. I loved Jenna Ortega. Me too, it's why we stopped watching it. It felt like they were going for a very young audience. Agreed, and I think they're doing that here for sure. That was a Netflix thing, this is a Netflix thing, so maybe they were told to go for a teen, young 20s audience, which is weird because it's a comic that is for a much older generation. That's what my understanding. But maybe they wanted a younger generation. And because Zoya told us this, that the trailer gave us the feels, and I asked her, I said, it felt like this is really gonna harken us back to the kinds of things that are of this era, grease, hairspray, and she said, absolutely. So my two favorite takeaways, because that's the thing is accentuating the positives in the front part about if there's anything you think you're gonna like about it. My two favorite things that I thought were excellent were the production design. What a surprise. Man, it could be a dummies nod, honestly. Production design on this is top notch, everybody. Like the world building that you get is impeccable. That a lot of times because I wasn't deeply connecting to a lot of things story and character wise, I was just reveling in how good and the attention to detail was on little things that you might not notice, but just certain things that they pay attention to where the door is open to the bookstore and they have the open sign on the bookstore, but they don't want it to glare and they want it to be seen in frame so they made sure the open sign was facing more in off the door, little details and the, not just that, but the period, making sure it was the era that it's in. And I thought the majority of the songs, I was tapping my foot. The majority of the songs were wonderful to listen to. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And if you're not a musical theater person, you wouldn't probably catch all the references in the song. Like there's a direct, almost a remake of a very famous Chicago song, which was. It was, I thought, is this a tip of the cap or is this a straight out steel? Well, it's not a remake because it's not the exact thing, but it's a clear, it's very, it's clear because obviously the situation and they wanted to make a song that was obviously, it started the exact same way. If you haven't seen Chicago, please go watch Chicago. Please go watch this song. It's called, I think it's called, He Had It Coming, is it what it was called? It's Great. Yeah, it begins with sounds and, yeah, it's a great, great, it's a great one. But yeah, I immediately thought of it. A couple other songs also had references to older musical numbers from Hollywood. And it also was, it had a very Western feel to it.  Thanks very much. Yeah. Gotcha. Gotcha. But yeah, I enjoyed those. Like the set design, production design was impeccable. Impeccable. Probably the most impressive thing about the entire thing. I agree. The songs I thought were really fun. And I even enjoyed a lot of the song. Costuming did a really nice job. Costuming, the world building was incredible. Yeah. And I thought a lot of the actors did well. I don't think anybody did amazing. No. But I thought that- I have two favorites. And I say favorites, not as in, I felt like there was anything that was revelatory for me. What I really enjoyed, and part of this is because of what I see in their faces and because they did well enough that the weight I'm sure they're carrying being the kids of the people that, I mean, we're naming, this is Shah Rukh Khan. Shredevi. The grandson of Amitabh Bakchan. I mean, guys. Yes, there is a level of privilege they receive. There's also a level of expectation and weight and shadow that no one else understands but those kids. And the legacy that they're expected to live up to that newcomers, no one else has that except a kid of a superstar. I just really liked watching the two girls, watching Sahana and Kushi. The Shredevi. Yeah, because in Kushi, I saw so much of what we love about Shredevi in her eyes. And I saw so much of Shah Rukh Khan in Sahana. And I loved watching them working together. And I thought, it must feel really, it must be really neat for their families to see the kids doing this. And for everybody who's grown up with Shredevi and Shah Rukh Khan, for me with the little exposure we've had, I really enjoyed it. And I felt that they, so much of the acting you will see. And it's not just because Zoya told us this, but you're gonna see, not just from the kids, but from the adults, you're gonna see a lot of people hitting their marks, not moving their arms because they were told to be still. There's just a lot of things that are done because they're... In fact, I feel like the supporting cast was worse than a lot of the main cast. I thought the kids were the best. The kids were the best. And I said to Johnny though, I said one last thought on the acting and we can get into whatever else you wanna do. But I said, watching the girls in particular, they're just starting out. So it's like looking in the garden and seeing your new planted rose buds that have just started to bloom. You get excited about the fact that there's so much potential there, but you can't measure it by a fully blossomed rose. And that's how I feel about the girls in particular. I felt like there is greatness in the bud right there. And they're just beginning, I'm excited for them. Yeah, I like them too. I also liked, I can't, I don't know his name, but he's the little smart kid who... I think... Reggie? The Reggie character?  The little kid, like he had glassy... Thank you! Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I liked him a lot, I liked his... And I asked Steph, I was like, was he supposed to be gay in the comic? And he said no, he's more just... They never alluded to it in the comic. It was just more, he was a really smart character. But I liked him as well. But I liked the girls of the kids. They were probably the best. But they also had the most screen time. Probably the most to do as well. Yeah, they did. And I don't know if the supporting cast was either bad or it's just badly written. It could be both. Could be both, but I found the writing to be pretty... Yeah, it was hard to deal with. Something that, oh, and I alluded to, maybe it was dealt for a younger audience because it was all very, I guess for lack of a better term, surface level. Yeah. It was like... As good as the songs were, I felt like not just the songs, but for making comparisons, which Zoya herself felt she was wanting to get the template from, of things like hairspray, of things like grease, even the most recent musicals of things like the remake of West Side Story. Barbies and musical, technically. It was missing the verve and the energy and the testosterone and the hormones and the just, for lack of a better term, in every way, both in the choreography and the musical numbers, but also in the way everybody interacted. I felt like there was a, I don't know if this is conveyed in the Archie comics, but everybody seemed to be completely reserved and prim and proper compared to what you typically get from this type of musical, where all of the energy become, and having musical numbers that are so show stopping. Every one of those things we just referenced has a showstopper or two, where you hear that song again and you wanna see that number again because it had a showstopper. This didn't have a showstopper for me. Yeah, I don't know if it had a showstopper, but Vavavu actually has been in my head the past few days. Like I've just been repeating, Vavavu. Just because the songs are good. The songs are good. The songs are good. And I think that my favorite number, like visually, was probably the, she had a common number. Me too. Me too. I enjoyed that one a lot. Me too. It was really original. But yeah, the Vavavu was just, I've been, for some reason, just in my head. Really catchy, really good. Vavavu, which was a good, they are playing a real section of Indian that has not been portrayed, the Anglo-Indians. Right. I don't know anything about them. Right. So if you're an Anglo-Indian, you can tell us if what they portrayed was accurate, because I can't, for the life of me. Yeah. This almost seemed fantasy land. And maybe it obviously partly was. It was partly like Anglo-Indians and kind of a fantasy Riverdale of from the comics, obviously. Right, right. And so, you guys can let us know. Cause it's just like, it's like accents, Indian accents. I really can't tell. Yeah. So that would be something for someone else. I think it was just, for the first like hour and a half, it was like, even though the production was great and I thought the performances were okay. It was all very, I don't know, just high school musical. Which is fine. But also. I love high school musical. I want it to be a little, I need to care for the characters more. Until basically an hour and a half in. Right. I didn't. Yeah, me too. And it wasn't like I was like, fully connected an hour and a half in either. I just got more than I was. Yeah. And so. I was about as connected to it as I am most, cause there's some Disney shows that I've watched, especially when the girls and Micah were growing up, that I got connected to characters on. Like Sweet Life, for example. Was that Disney or Nickelodeon? That's Disney. But I felt, I felt as disconnected from them as I do from a lot of those kinds of shows that I'm not really connected to. Like if they came on and I was watching it and I got a little bit interested, I never really felt really connected to them. And by the way, I wanted to point this out. I'm glad I'm remembering. The, anybody who has a problem with this being of what they refer to quote unquote, I've read this in some reviews as a Bollywood launch for the kids. And Johnny and I were at a Q and A for the morning show. The review of it is on my YouTube channel. It's about relationship. You need two things in the entertainment industry. Wish I had family in the industry. Yeah. Yeah. You need to have the ability to do the craft. Yeah. You have to be able to do it well. And then you have to have the relationships. And the one thing that came off is it always does at the Q and A where we had the full cast there except for Billy Crudup and Mark DuPlask. But Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon have wanted to do this project ever since for years. And they've been friends since Reese played her sister on Friends. The assistant, the character's name is the actress is Tig who plays the assistant to John Hamm. People asked her, what's it like to work with John Hamm? She's known him for many, many years. And John Hamm said, it was like a Tuesday. You know me. You've got Sherry Belafonte. One of the cast members is her goddaughter. Guys, why is it that the entertainment industry is the only industry where people get mad that a family member is involved in the business? There's, obviously there's something to be upset at if people use nepotism and they're not talented. They're not talented. And they also don't realize their privilege in it as well. Because obviously there is a privilege in nepotism. You get, it's more than a foot in the door. You have the entire door swung open. You have the door slammed wide open for you. And yes, do I think that if they had done a search they could have found some people that would have blown us away in these roles? Probably, I do. I think they could have found some people that would have been so superlative that we would have all said, who the heck are these newcomers? However, they don't attract the kind of eyeballs and the conversations and the attention that name kids do. I'm happy to say nobody here was blatantly awful that made me think the only reason they're in this thing is because of a family member and it pisses me off. I'd say that if it was the case. Except for some of the supporting characters. There were, which is one of the issues. I just, I felt like maybe the writing might have been the biggest issue in this, which is so strange to say with Farhan and Zoya. It is. Writing. It was kind of all over the place at the front end, right? But yeah, overall, I thought it was fine. Would I watch it again? Probably not. What's funny is we didn't get into any spoilers, so that's good. There's nothing really to get into. Yeah, it's what I said. Would I watch it again? Probably not, but is it, and I also think it's probably Zoya's weakest work. Without question. But not in all aspects. Not in all aspects, but as a whole, I think it is her weakest work. And you get points for just doing different stuff, man, and just doing what you want to do and charting your own course, and Zoya does that, and human beings, man. No artist is gonna make great stuff every single thing they put out unless you're the Beatles. That's true. It's very, very rare to find anybody that could ever do that, so but I agree with you. But anyways, let us know what you thought about the Archibolds, or the Archies. If you liked it, if you... Cause I've actually heard mixed opinions all over the place. And were the Archies a band all the time? Like the, cause at one point I wrote on my notes and I went, what happened to the band? Yeah. It's like the band was at the very beginning and at the very end and throughout the film we didn't really see the band. Well, it wasn't like all about the band, but they are a band. It's like, I'm hearing John Belushi and the Blues Brothers. The band! Great musical, by the way. I've heard a bunch of mixed stuff about this. I actually heard people that absolutely despise it think it's awful garbage. And then I've also heard people that really, really enjoyed it as well. So the opinions on this one are all over the place. So you guys let us know what you think about this film. If you liked it, if you didn't like it. Why we're wrong. Why we're wrong, why we're right. Why we are the white devils of YouTube. Let us know down below. I want that, the white devils of YouTube. Let us know down below.


I'm doing I make videos I teach I teach math So this is this is just doing mathematics. I'm How to do unit conversions? Like have you guys did you guys do math? Are you taking math? Have you guys done any converting units? Like do you guys do stuff like going to the store pay a dollar by two candy? Yeah, that's unit conversion because you're giving you're giving somebody a dollar And they're giving you two pieces of candy Right, so that's that's all I'm doing. I'm sort of gonna teach teach teaching how you do it generically like for color squares and triangles and then you can apply that wherever you go like for example if you go to a store if You have if you have two dollars, right? You could buy seven Orange boxes, right? So if you have two green boxes, it could be your two dollars You buy seven Something chocolate bars if you want. Yeah, and I put it on you, too Hi, this is chichou again, and if you've been following the language of mathematics, you would have recognized this wall Someone's already been here for a happy face on there we've used this wall a few times over the last few years in the previous four series that we've done and It served us pretty well, and we're here to you know use it again And we're gonna do sort of lay out the work This is concept what we're about to do For the first few videos in the units and ratios section, which is basically to learn how to do unit conversions How to move from one system to another? So the way you should think about a system is basically us human beings Grouping things together things that have similar behaviors things that have similar properties, right? Or things that have similar ideas similar thought patterns, you know if you're preparing food We ended up calling that cooking right if you're making pastries We ended up calling that baking right if you're studying the motion of objects We've ended up calling that kinematics, which is a branch of physics What we're gonna do is take a look at some of these systems Just list some of these systems and take a look at some of the unist that exists within the systems, okay? You know science engineering Technology medicine food fitness or fashion music gambling economics or politics and some of these some of these systems some of these disciplines Overlapped with each other a lot of these things overlap with each other Some of them have units that only exists within themselves a lot of them have units that exist Beyond themselves, right? They cross over between all the different Different disciplines that exist here Sciences again, it's a large umbrella. It has multiple branches going going off multiple systems multiple disciplines going off There's get in sciences. There's there's physics. There's chemistry. There's biology. There's earth sciences and meteorology Astronomy whatever you want, right? And each one of those has a sort of discipline within itself physics has kinematics physics has Electromagnetics, right? You can just study just continue to branch things off and go deeper and deeper into a system And as soon as you group things together as soon as you branch off and find it Find a whole bunch of other things that interact in a similar way Then you might create specific units that exist within that system only so let's list some of these units that we may encounter and Just just you know, so so that we're familiar with them. Okay Now there's seven base units that cross over a lot of these different disciplines these different systems And for those we've come up with the international system of units Which is recognized almost everywhere except three countries, which is the United States Liberia and Burma and those are the seven base units that have written down here, which is meters kilograms seconds and peers Calvin moles and Caldera, I've never I've never used it myself. It's and they represent each one meters is, you know, length We need to find out how how long things are right how, you know What what their dimensions are right and that's internationally we use meters There's also the imperial system which uses feats and inches and And miles right there's kilograms for weight the other system is Is pals which is we'll use beyond you know outside of the United States Liberia and Burma in Canada When you start talking with people very few people give you you know If you ask them how much they weigh very few people will tell you how much they weigh in kilograms They use pounds right so these international systems that have been developed They're not necessarily used in everyday talk and they're not necessarily used in every calculation. There's Seconds seconds time. It's pretty internationals Seconds and you know, I don't know any any country in the world that doesn't use seconds, right? There's amperes research at your current and current again as far as I know amperes is used internationally this Calvin, which is Unit that we use for temperature in the sciences in calculations because it's convenient to use Calvin It works with a lot of different formulas and a lot of different properties of different materials But in every day speak and I don't know any place in the world if you went up to someone and said hey What's the temperature outside? They would give you the temperature in Calvin You're either talking about degrees or degrees Celsius or degrees Fahrenheit Fahrenheit and then there is a Moles which is the amount of a substance and that again is never used in everyday life because moles is a huge number which is used in chemistry for finding out talking about molecules, right and You know if you had a mole of people that would be probably take over the world or something like this, right? So moles is very specific to certain disciplines here certain Certain systems that exist and the other one CDS caldera. It's it's luminosity. I don't I've never used it myself I might have used it when I did my studies in sciences, but I never used it myself in everyday life now in these SI units the first three those basically Encompass every system that we're talking about right if you're if you're running you talk about how far you've ran if you're if you're Make you know doing reps. You're talking about how much weight you're lifting, right? If you're cooking something you're looking at your clock and you're figuring out how long you've had your Pastry your pastry in the oven or or whatever you have on the stove, right? If you're talking about economics There's time involved in economics. There's distance involved in economics There's weight involved in economics, right? If you're going to be selling something Taking something from one location transporting to the other you need to take into consideration distance, right? you need to take into consideration the weight of the The things that you're transporting from one place to another you need to figure out how long it's going to take you To take something from one place to another, right? You also need to you know, if it has to be refrigerated you have to figure out how to refrigerate it now when you're doing that You're not going to start using Kelvin. You're going to start using degrees or fair and you're going to start using Celsius or Fahrenheit, right? You're going to have to figure out How much Quantity of a material you have but you're not going to measure them in moles You're going to measure them in whatever system that you're using to do your business, right? To to conduct your politics, you know, may it be dozens may it be crates, okay? So these seven SI units they're used internationally for calculations in the sciences specifically Now from these SI based units you can drive a whole bunch of other Unists which are basically called SI drive units, right? And that's unlimited and they come into a lot of different disciplines May it be music, may it be medicine, may it be economic, fitness, may it be in cooking, in baking, whatever it is that You're studying There's going to be some form of units that you're going to be using which are SI units or derived from the SI units Okay, so some of the derived based units here is you know, there's a whole list of them It could be Hertz which is one over seconds. You could have radians. You could have Newtons, Pascals, Joules, Watts Coulombs, if you're talking about volume of something you talk about leaders if you want if you're getting into Electricity, you're going to talk about volts if you're getting into magnetic flux them if you're studying magnetism You're going to get into Tesla. Okay, you're going to encounter Tesla Which is the magnetic flux of something and if I can recommend something to you if you're gonna if you want to read about You know some of the accomplishments of some one of the greatest scientists that our species has produced look into Nikola Tesla because What what he was able to do is the the foundation of our society Which is you know bringing like you you know introducing a system We were able to use electricity the way we are able to use it right now some of the ideas that he came up with and Again, if you want to study someone's Someone's work life work and how that has influenced our society Definitely look into Tesla and some of the stuff that he created and some of the ideas that he had You won't be disappointed. Okay Now for us to be able to figure out how to do unit conversion We're not going to study a specific system because as I mentioned before mathematics It's just a language and how you use the language is very personal So if we start delving into a certain discipline to learn how to do you do unit conversions We're going to alienate somebody right because I may like something that you may not like so what we're going to do We're going to learn how to use unit conversion on a generic system We're going to come up with your own little scale system and we're going to figure out how to just apply mathematics to switch from one system to another and The way we learn how to do this is going to work with whatever system that we're going to study because We're not really concerned about right now Delving into a system and learning how the system works. That's going to come into Play we'll start doing math in real life and start applying some of the mathematics What tools that we have in real life may be for gaming and gambling Economics politics whatever it is food and fitness may be in sciences, right? So what we're going to do right now is Set up a sort of our own scale system We're going to use this for a few videos just to learn how to do Conversions from one unit to another and that's where ratios is going to kick in so I'm just going to go here Lay down the system and we'll take a look at it and discuss it very briefly but keep this in mind what we're about to do and definitely keep this in mind because This is what units are units are sort of a convention that we've come up with to explain certain properties of Things in certain disciplines right in certain systems that we're either functioning in or studying So this is the scale system that we're going to use to learn how to do unit conversions from one system to another From one unit scale to another Okay, and it's basically you know a generic system that we've come up with the if you want call it the The realm of colored squares and triangles, right all it means is Over here if you have two boxes two green boxes equals Seven orange boxes. So if you had two green boxes the boxes would be your units And the green boxes would be your units over here and the orange boxes would be your units over there, right? So if you have four green boxes, then you should get back 14 orange boxes, right and that's all it is and it's a relationship between Colored boxes to each other and colored boxes to color triangles and color triangles to color triangles, right? So it's basically a pointing device telling you what is equivalent to what? Okay, and that's all we're doing right? We're using ratios and what we've learned about the equal sign to be able to convert from one unit to another That's it for now This is going to be what the units and ratio section is going to be about and you know We're going to build on this and grow it to a level to a place where we can actually go into certain disciplines Go into certain realms and start working with them and understanding them based on the units that we're being presented I'll see you guys in the next video. Bye for now


Tommy here from Orange Systems and we're gonna talk about Sentinel one endpoint detection and response now The thing is I want to just be as clear as I can up front. This is not paid for or endorsed by Sentinel one I'm not a salesperson for Sentinel one They have an entire team of sales people you should reach out to if you want to know the full breath of the product and all the features it has I Did this video because a lot of people have asked me about the tools we use I don't mind talking about them and offering up my insights or what I like or don't like about them And I do not reach out to these companies specifically I have not reached out to Sentinel one to let them know I'm making this video Of course, I tweeted to a few people I was making this video. So it's not a secret, but they have no editorial Oversight on this video. They had no advanced copy of it and it was not paid for or endorsed by them This is just me talking about the product and the tools we use that said this is really not for end users This is for people that maybe work in the IT services manage services space and would like to understand some of the tooling So that's what this demo is. It's just something on my own This is also not an endorsement to tell you that Sentinel one is the best product in the world that will stop all threats Because anyone who makes that type of claim is just lying to you I work in the real world where sometimes things get through and sometimes there's false positives. These are Things that happen with any of these tools and understanding how to use the tools ultimately leads to better security Also for any type of security, you should have process procedures methods for dealing with it Now that i've thrown out all those qualifiers now, let's talk about the tool itself Before we do if you like to learn more about me and my company however to laurance systems.com If you like to hire a short project such as managing the security for your business and all of your computers There's a hires button right at the top if you like to support this channel Other ways there's affiliate links down below to get you deals and discounts on products and services We talk about on this channel. All right, let's start here at the dashboard This specifically in this test environment. I have set up just for this youtube demo Is our laurance systems? What we refer to as an nfr not for recent license that we have so we can do testing because it's important that you understand the tools So having test environments where you have a few licenses set up where you maybe play with some ransomware, which we're going to do today And understanding how the tool response is really important for training of yourself training of your technicians Because a tool that you don't know how to use is not going to be a very effective one Despite any magic these tools claim you should take the time to really understand how to use them Now the dashboard gives us some general mitigated not mitigated insights healthy infected the system that we're going to be using We're going to be infecting on here. It is the same system I did for my ninja one video that I posted i'll leave a link down below to my channel So any of the ip addresses that you see in here? Don't worry. They're not mine. It's not a big deal I don't have to redact any of that information second ninja one is loaded on a system for the rule management and monitoring But I do not have our full security stack of tools Which does include huntress which some people may ask what about huntress I've done other videos on that product and talked with some of the team over at huntress We continue to use their product and normally on a full environment We would have both of these loaded but for demo purposes. I only loaded sentinel one on the system Now let's go over and look at what it sees as the sentinels, which this is a test environment with only a single system in there It shows me the visible ip It says this is tom's test Which is a special group because we're going to be changing some policies in there updated four minutes ago January second is when I've registered this currently set up as healthy It's a desktop running windows windows 10 pro 64 a bit eight gigs gives you quite a bit of information about the end point I know the mac address. I know it's online. I know it's connected I know everything that's up to date one of the last fold this scan was run It works in very much like a Normal antivirus in some ways because you have features like I just want to scan all the files on there Because you have static threats You have threats that are determined through behavioral heuristics and you also have Hey, let's just scan this drive and find things that were left over in the downloads folder And finding knows is important because you may find something in there But no one's activated or it was something copied over from another machine So those are you know good to go through once in a while because they're not actively looking at things just statically sitting on the system So that's why it does have that option We can click on the system itself brings up a little window down here to summarize it And where you can go and look at the app inventory any tasks that you have queued up for it You can go to the action recently use do things like fetch logs Enable different features agent edit edit the customer identifier and everything can be pretty simply done right here One of the other cool features they have under endpoint actions You can approve reject uninstall reboot shut down. So it actually works a lot like A rmm tool remote management and monitoring where I can directly access the system and have actions done on it So easy enough to do also if for some reason would be weird to do this We can move this to another site if you group different sites together when you're managing like we do many different businesses You have them all grouped together under their respective customers That way you can set up policies and actions based on customer But you can actually move it between them as well You can revoke randomize migrate agent approve local upgrade because we need to do the agent upgrade Among the other things that are kind of neat you can do is host isolation So if you think a host has become problematic, you can isolate it to where the only thing you can talk to is the Sentinel 1 dashboard This means that other devices on its local network even can't ping it That computer becomes essentially Muted to the internet with one exception of a connection between the Sentinel 1 product and the dashboard So you could still do your task of Or sorting out what's wrong with that system while isolating it so it can't talk to all the other devices Now the other things that i'm not going to dive deep into like I said talk to a sales rep is you have the option to Build out firewall rules offer device control like usb and bluetooth controls so you can block usb ports There's a lot of things that are going to be of course a big crossover of what you can do with a lot of other tools But hey, it's nice that they have them in here when you're focusing on doing threat management and understanding the threats Now what do the threats look like? Well, let's start with incidents and you can see history of incidents here Now this is where don't let the sales reps fool you I always like to say because I've heard people tell me well. I heard it doesn't have false positives Matter of fact this particular system The ninja rmm patch agent was flagged and lockhart was part of it as well for the backups I believe that's what that tool does as part of the backup when we loaded that it flagged them And we had the other day it decided that quicken when it wanted to do an update for one of our clients Well quicken it flagged as malicious as well This is where you have to do some investigation Take a look at and understand whether or not that tool you're using Is a false positive is a true positive? It's suspicious and of course this one's false positive and then when you go through and Essentially mark it as such so it's not going to get flagged again Now this is common Especially when you have let's say you're managing an accounting firm and they all have to do an update If quicken gets flagged as bad on one system is probably going to get flagged an arrest So if you catch it on the first system and you go no I looked at it as much as I may not like the product I don't think it's actually intentionally malicious So therefore we will flag it and then you can say mark that as benign for everything in the fleet That way the next person it has to do that update doesn't get flagged as well And this is what we did with the ninja rmm update We're not sure why it did this but once we did this any other machines loaded It says oh you've already seen this before we have a hash for it now speaking of having a hash for it right here We can go I don't have a recorded future account, but we could open it up and record a future You can open it up in virus total And then look at Some information. Okay. Here's all the other different Platforms think about this particular product. It's nice that they keep the shortcuts right there They generate the hash This is all with the goal of making it easy for you to start gathering knowledge on whether or not something's really a threat Because sometimes you don't know the system starts as suspicious and then you work your way through of this Is this suspicious? Is this something new that's trying to get through? Or is it just another false positive of which it does happen But honestly there's not that many for the number of systems and endpoints we manage and how few false positives there are And because so many of our clients from common software you figured out on one system you Basically say this is a false positive and then it won't flag on all the other systems Just part of the security and threat management now back to the actual system here It killed in quarantine But our ability to undo that killing quarantine Is over here under the actions. We'll show more about that later But this is where you can do the mitigate unquarantine it if you want to put it in there We actually just end up recopying the files, but for that's why I didn't do it I wanted to do some playing here. Normally you just unquarantine it can put the files back Then you go over to explore and this is where you can dive a little deeper and it gives you some of the Process management. So this is the execution path What did it do it took a network action and it contacted this destination ip So you can start seeing the source ip internally of the system was 192 168 13 13 Reached out to this ip address here. It was the ninja arm and patcher name Then we have this part here. What did it reach out to neck? What were the next network actions and you can start tracing these out? Load more you can then look at like the ninja bar right here And these are all timelines of when it started process timeline when it ended from start to finish So this is at 10 16 and 39 seconds since the whole process was done and quarantined at 10 17 0 5 So you can kind of walk through and this gives you that in Data you're looking for in all those points So you can understand what each piece was trying to do and what the events were that led up to this This is like I said all that intelligence data that you're looking for so we can get a deeper understanding of it Network actions Once again reaching out to the same idea address processes and your arm out Now you can also do these other timelines for the entire event of who did what when This gives you the history because it's for our team internally more than one of us working with this sometimes Where we'll start an investigation Dive through it and now I can see who did what including my internal users for how this was done How this resolved and how we went through this particular threat and determining what we did Now let's look at something. That's actually a real threat. Now. Here's what a real threat looks like So we're going to go ahead and look at it in virus total 11 security vendors and one sandbox flag. This has malicious. This is just some random malware found It's interesting that this is still not being found by some of these other ones It does also a relatively recent malware act 21 hours ago to upload it And uh, there wasn't a lot of stuff on there So it is flag malicious by a few things including central one You can look over here and read through the threat indicators attempted to evade monitoring process Etc. So you have each one of these you can dive into the matter of defense evasion You can go through each section and start learning more about Everything going on with this you can even go and fetch if you want download the threat file Give it a password if you wanted to pull it for local analysis Less often I need to do that. I usually have enough information here to see that. Yeah, we have some type of unsigned Originating form explorer xe because I actually did double click on it using explorer just to try and get this to execute It's a small piece of malware and you can go through and you know kind of see that Yeah, this is probably something that needed to go away and then for the actions you can go through and remediate Now let's actually deploy ransomware on this system Now these were all done with the protection enabled on here We're actually going to disable the protection and change the mode of operation For sentinel one so you can see what actually happens and how if a threat gets through what you can do with that And for that we go back over here to sentinel I mean go over the policies The way you set the policies is a little obscure. So here's the default group for my nfr licenses Here's the one toms test So I have a few other things that we're working on in demos outside of this particular demo we're doing here When you're doing this by default well not by default but by the way you configured sentinel one you want it on To protect and protect for suspicious and protect for malicious You can turn this into a detection only to tell you what happened but not Stop and do something about it. All those different incidents were me having the protection on So you've seen like a lot of things that were caught which means nothing really bad happened on there It did its job now This would be kind of a closest I can do to a demo because actually I tried a lot of different mailware And nothing got through that I could find because I thought that'd be fun To be able to have that on there But hey sometimes you can't find anything that'll get through because like I said nothing's perfect And there could be an incident but so far our satisfaction rate and the reason we keep using sentinel one is because It seems to catch everything which is always the ultimate goal that we want But we're going to put this on there to detect as and do not take action I've actually um Seen a few people maybe configure their system like this because I don't know why This is obviously what it's going to let the mailware through So we're going to run the actually one of the same mailware things that this caught But we're going to run it in this mode right here. Are you sure you want to save these changes? Yes, by the way for security reasons It does log always the last person To modify this and we can actually go through an action history if we need to do who touched what From a global view. This is something that sentinel one does a nice job of tracking all that Now that we've got this into a delicious threat detect. Let's have some fun And this is my completely sandbox system with a handful of files. Nothing important That is isolated from any other networks. This is really important and even though I've been doing this a while There's still this nervous factor when you're going to detonate ransomware on a system Did you not make a mistake? Did you make sure this is isolated from anything else in network in it? There is no potential problems that could come back and bite you with production systems Physically, this isn't even in my building. This is actually an independent lab. I have set up We'll just leave my house and I've set it up on an isolated network If you're not sure if you've did this right have a friend that is a expert in security Double check it because it's better to have a second set of eyes I've had me and my staff go over this to make sure that this isn't isolated system I just warned people because I've seen people make mistakes trying to test ransomware on their own systems And it gone horribly wrong. I've unfortunately had it people who've tried it in there What they thought was a lab environment that was able to escape So lots of warning even to people who are professionals mistakes can't be made have someone else double check it All right now for the fun part. This is a detect only mode So let's go ahead and see if this ransomware will work. We're just going to run it as administrator because yes It does Detect that a file execution suspicious one was detected. Let's see what it does. Hopefully this will actually work Well, it's just running processes. All right. It's all in detect mode. So it's just going through and alerting us of things Actually, what we'll do is while this is running in the background so this computer is not incredibly fast Do you want to empty recyclable in on this drive? Uh No, it's corrupted. That's weird. Well, not weird. I guess if you're running ransomware Oh, I see something on desktop popping up There we go. There's a read me here And I will say no again to that. I'm not sure what it's trying to do I guess I need to say yes. I don't know Your files are encrypted and currently unavailable. I don't think they are yet. So let's uh Give it a minute to finish what it's doing There we go. Now the files are encrypted. We got to see the document change now. This makes sense It's all encrypted and everything's bad. So this is that worst-case scenario where well Everything has gone wrong and Yeah, let's go through what actually happened. Let's break down the incident and how we see it in here Now this was a False start it I had a decryptor on there and it picked it up. So that's not what we're really looking at We're looking at these suspicious. This is me pulling out the malware and the suspiciousness is going to be The opening of this particular tool. So when we start looking at the exploration of this, what happened here? This is the event Scroll down here. What exactly had happened? Network actions. This is like the kickoff event that started it So this is me clicking on it and then that kicked off this And then this process and we're going to go back over to here to the threats This is where all the bigger event happened and let's look through a timeline go down to explore There's all the processes everything it touched. Hey, look, there's that little readme file it created for us You know to let us know Processes that started on this you can kind of see how we can go through and say, all right This is the whole event and it's grouping these together to let you know that this incident as a whole This is what happened. We can expand it out And yeah, this whole system is just broken now because of the ransomware Now this is the part that people want to know if it works So far we haven't really had ransomware incidents that allowed something to truly get through But the testing we have done is which we're doing right here This does work and we're about to watch this in real time So we want to mitigate the action and we know this was ransomware. Do we want to kill it? That seems like a good idea Normally it would have killed it automatically and do the killing quarantine is at least the default levels of protection you should have Uh remediate automatically. Well as long as killed in quarantine, we don't mind doing manual remediation This is where you set some of those parameters on there but let's go ahead and do full rollback because This is where we youtube demo for full rollback Because we want those files back and this is definitely a true positive So we can flag it as just something suspicious positive and analysis verdict to go ahead and throw in some notes right here Mark has resolved when we're done Add to blacklist don't really need a blacklist to put sure why not it already flagged it So we're we're not doing any normal investigation where it's like suspicious but unknown This is yeah, this is ransomware. We're going to go ahead and hit apply Incident status say save successfully action successful note was added now. What does that mean for the system over here? It's going to take a few minutes is what it means It's slowly going through and running through those remediation process because One of the things that one does is keep an eye on the volume shadow copies and try to stop any tools from Breaking volume shadow copies. It actually just used those to go ahead and roll back the system Terminated processes Quarantine malicious files reverted changes made by the Florida threat. I say go back over here Let's look at our documents folder Documents are now fully back to where they were now There is this is not some guarantee that absolutely every scenario that no threat Actor will find some way around it. That is not what this video is about to demo This is a known piece of malware that I was able to find fairly recent version That is commonly out there that was able to you know get this far with the system so to speak And we are able to roll it back because we had it turned off Let's just show you what that looks like if we have it in the other mode just for reference So if we go back over to our sentinels now that this is a remediated threat We can look at the incident real quick though and we can see that it's mitigated We don't have to worry about this one here We could just mark this one is done because we did it off of the later process that happened We did the rollback from that point So I for cleanup reasons would go and fix this one But let's actually turn this back on to normal policy And you can see actually still showing a red right here because of the last action it happened And we have some unmitigated things on there, but let's go ahead and Do this And we'll leave it at kill and quarantine You could do it remediate if you want for most part killing quarantine And then you can remediate manually this kind of depends on how your policies are internally So we'll put it on kill and quarantine save this policy Go back over to the test machine Sentinel one needs a reboot to finish what it was doing. No problem We'll go ahead and reboot and we'll come back to this and we're going to execute the same ransomware again But with the detect and protect kill and quarantine to show you how far it gets with just kill and quarantine turned on All right, we've rebooted the system everything's back to normal now We want to try this again, but as you notice in the background here We have the suspicious threat and detect turned on and let's go ahead and do an extract And uh, let's try and run that again Well, that didn't get me very far it Immediately deleted the file it got rid of it as soon as I tried extracting it didn't even let me get as far as executing it This is important if we go back over here to incidents And you can see it's unresolved But then again, we have a nice checkbox here because it immediately seen it ran somewhere again Found it said we're just getting rid of this and it's then sent a notice We have this set up to send notices to our ticketing system So we would have got a notice on this but nothing really happened It's like yeah Look, they tried to do something that you try to figure out what the user was trying to do Dive into why were you trying to extract this file? Did it come from an email and as you do your investigations and we'll actually do this right here It didn't find any processes because all it was was a file But if someone actually tried to even execute the file or click it It would tell us the application that they tried to click it out of this Deleted right away as soon as it seemed the file getting extracted is that no the moment I Unextracted a file with seven zip it immediately killed it and that's the end of the story Now we've been using Sentinel one since 2019 and here in january 2022 We plan to continue using the product as I said in beginning. It's not absolutely perfect There are occasionally some false pauses But they're so minimal that they're not creating such a burden on my staff And occasionally the things they do flag are pretty suspicious things that are written by third parties That's actually been majority of any of the false positives Which means proprietary software line of business applications run by one-off clients And you just whitelist those and not a big deal It is probably always good to look at them because they are once again one-off products The flagging of quicken that was weird doesn't happen all the time But hey, I will mention it because I'm just being honest It does occasionally get a false positive But as I said not not the end of the world not enough to make us stop using the product If you're interested in getting sent the one we are resellers of the Product you can also reach out to set no one directly and find a reseller because for whatever reason you don't like me That's fine too. 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Hello everyone and welcome to the program, Agriculture on the Move. I am Philip Sidney, your host. With me today is no stranger to the studio is Honorable Alfred Prospe, who has responsibility for agriculture, fisheries, food security and rural development. Welcome to the program, sir. Thank you very much and it's a great, great pleasure for me to be here. It's always a pleasure to have you. First of all, I know this is a burning issue for you. It's on the front burner and I know you want to see something happen to the sector which is the banana industry. I'm also aware that we have not shipped any bananas to the UK. You also got a banana task force organized to look into the operations of the NFTU and to look at some success because we need to get the quality aspect in order and also your production, the consistency in production in order. Where we are today? The banana industry, I must say, is very, very, very important. Not only as a country was dependent on it and it has really contributed to the economic development of the country, but it's about the farmers and the farmers who have been in this industry for maybe over 70 years. And this industry, we know it has had its own challenges. Oh yes. We have had hurricanes on a regular basis and in most cases, the banana industry has been directly affected. But one of the good things about it is that it has always come back after hurricane, which is something that we are just experiencing because we know what happened to the banana industry last year during Hurricane Elsa. But the collapse of the industry really started in 2019 when Winfresh, the main marketing entity for our bananas, collapsed in 2019. And remember, I want to make the point that it was before our government came in, 2019. And since then, the banana industry has had its fair share of challenges. You know, the NFT took on the responsibility after the collapse of Winfresh and we have found ourselves in a situation now where the UK market, although it is available, but there is a slim chance of us maintaining this market. And you'll recall I went to the UK to get an understanding as to what the industry was going through. And as I mentioned after my visit to the UK, it was really about quality and consistency in production. Now that has been a major problem for our farmers because we know export of our bananas to the UK is it would usually take two weeks to three weeks, but it has to go through the process of the ripening facility, which is another three or four days. But when that happened and your bananas get to there without before it gets to the ripening facility, there's a problem. And that is what that major challenge is. We are working with the farmers in terms of making sure that we are putting things in place to ensure that they get ready for export of our bananas. Because we have two thousand, two thousand to three hundred, three thousand boxes of bananas that we are exporting to Primo on a weekly basis. Fives as I indicated have not really engaged us unless we put and present to them our action planning strategy, which we are working on through the banana task force. But we see opportunities for the regional market. That's very important because right now I think while you're waiting for the export to the UK, the regional market seems to be very active. Very, very active. So I know you had a trip to Antigua and of course we saw the many photos. So tell us about that trip to Antigua. Yeah, that trip to Antigua was basically to really engage a new buyer of our bananas. He actually purchased 450 boxes of bananas that is during that time. So I really thought it was a very good opportunity for me to engage and to say thank you and to have a discussion as to possibilities of increasing exports of our bananas to Antigua. We also engage another buyer who has been purchasing two containers of bananas. I think it's between about two thousand boxes and what we will say to her is can we use Antigua as a hub that would cause us to increase our production, our export of bananas to Antigua. But that hub now would allow countries like St. Kitts, St. Thomas, St. Martin to really benefit from that hub in terms of moving it from that point to the other countries. We are also looking at areas like Trinidad and just last week another thousand boxes left St. Bush for Trinidad. In the coming weeks I am hoping to be in Trinidad to also engage this buyer to see how we can help increase our exports. While that is important and we are making some good progress in terms of the regional market, we still have to prepare ourselves, get ready for us to continue to take advantage of the UK market because it is important for us. This market has been there for many years and the good thing about the banana industry is that farmers are able to make money every week. As again a normal employer that would have two weeks to make money, it allows the farmer to make money from bananas every week because he sells every week and he can make money from that. So that is very important in terms of impacting the farmers livelihoods and the whole rural areas as a whole because the rural communities are those communities that have a direct benefit from the industry. So it is very important that we continue that work and we are hoping that in the coming weeks we will continue our engagement with the other countries in the region to see how we can increase our exports of our bananas to England. Just imagine if we can get between 10,000 to 12,000 boxes of bananas in the region every week, that is going to make a big impact in terms of penetrating the original market and reducing all the implications and realities that we have been facing with the UK market. Now I am hearing that the boat takes close to 21 days between St Lucia and the UK in addition to four days, five days for the banana to go through the ripening facility. So if we can really, really continue to focus on the regional market which I can tell we are doing very well so far, I believe there is a future for bananas in St Lucia. Quality is very, very important and I don't think we are looking at quality just for the UK market. Quality should be across the border. I am hoping that that is a message that is sent to the farmers. Quality is quality and it should not be substandard to the regional and even local. And this is what we have to do is produce a quality banana that can go both to the region and the UK. It makes no sense for us to be saying that the region deserves a lesser quality fruit as compared with the UK. We have to produce a standard quality fruit. If it goes to Trinidad, Barbados, Antigua, the UK, it is one standard. Correct. We must never forget our bananas are well known for the taste. Our bananas taste a lot better than a lot of the bananas from the other countries. We need to never forget that but at the end of the day I am urging our farmers of the quality requirements it should be at one standard and don't think that because your fruits are being exported to the region that it should be of a certain quality and another quality for the UK. Let's produce one quality fruit that would be making Saint Lucia, put Saint Lucia in a particular bracket I want to say in terms of banana exports. Definitely. You know there is a market, I know there is a market locally but after El Serialise the name Green Gold became Green Gold because it was scarce and people were asking what is going on. So there is a market locally and also I want to emphasise the point, I don't know whether you want to challenge that. We need in the school feeding programme we need to get the children to eat a banana a day. You know how much money that will be there for the farmers in the pocket. This is we need to look at our local market. Very good point and this is why aside looking at the regional market, looking at the UK market we must take responsibility ourselves as the local people to consume more of our bananas. And this school feeding programme as you mentioned is a wonderful opportunity for us to encourage our children to eat a banana a day and aside the children we can do the same for the prisons, the hospitals, you know and really increase consumption, local consumption of our bananas. There is a ripening facility as we speak at Lakai and it has been there for many years and I have always been in discussing with the national factory organisation that they should get this ripening facility operational and make available to local, to St Lucian's more of our bananas and so we can create our own market locally because we are producing it and we have a responsibility to consume it. And so this is something that we think is very, very important. The whole school feeding programme, targeting the prisons, targeting the hospitals and other public facilities, you know and really increase use and consumption of our bananas. Where is your ministry as far as assistance to the farmers are concerned? I know the BPIP has come to a close and the BPIP was responsible for agronomic practices, increasing production, control of diseases. Where are we today? Well the Banana Productivity Improvement Project, what do you call the BPIP or BPIP? BPIP. It was really a five-year project funded by the Taiwanese government. Now this project, the fifth year, it came to an end on the 45th of March, which is just a few days ago. But as you mentioned, that project was responsible for soil health and the black sticker talk and a number of areas that are critical for the industry. But recognising the detrimental effect that the black sticker talk can have on that industry, we as a ministry has decided to set up a small unit which would comprise six or seven percent to continue working extremely hard in terms of controlling the black sticker talk problem. Because if we are now saying let's improve, make quality the key thing now for the export of our bananas, we cannot leave black sticker talk out of control. So we must ensure that we continue this. And under in this new budget year, an amount of $950,000 was approved for by the banana industry or the banana sector. And most of that will be going towards ensuring that this sector, sorry, this office or small unit is maintained and you have the oil and so we can continue that whole program of black sticker talk control. It's unfortunate at a time when we are focusing very, very seriously on quality that this project came to an end. And I'm hoping that we can have some dialogue with the Taiwanese government to see how we can maybe get some funding for us to be able to maybe in the next few years or so find some way of getting it back because it is very, very critical for the banana industry. Before we get to break, the question of inputs, we have gone to have meetings with the farmers and one of the main issues that come to the fore is the question of the high cost of fertilizers. How are you going to deal with this? This is a global problem and the farmers, I understand the concern. The concerns are genuine because we're talking about quality. But if we do not have the inputs, which is fertilizer and the vidate and all the other chemicals that we need for production and quality, we must be able to have the requisite resources in terms of the fertilizer and so on. And not just having it. We need to have it on a timely basis because it's not about applying the fertilizer today and wondering when is the next step. It must be a continuous cycle in terms of that. But we know COVID has caused that because there's actually increase in freight and cost of manufacturing. But we have a bigger issue, which is the Ukraine and Russia war. And if from what I'm hearing that Russia is the major producer of crude oil, which is linked to the production of fertilizer, we have to anticipate a major increase in fertilizer and other farm inputs in the coming years. I am hoping not too long from now our government will come to the assistance of the farmers in terms of helping them, in terms of reducing the cost of fertilizers and other inputs for our farmers because they really, really need it, considering that since last year, July, they have not been selling much in terms of bananas. And so I understand their concerns. I was very happy that the government gave some financial support to the NFTO, to be able to assist NFTO in getting fertilizers and other farm inputs that farmers can benefit from in terms of a subsidized price. That's very good, very good. Which is very important for the farmers. And the signing ceremony for that was done sometime last week, week before. And I know for sure that soon from now, the farmers will stand to benefit in terms of... So there's hope for the farmers? There's hope for the farmers. Very good, very good. This amount of been a little patience. We just received from the government of Morocco nine containers of fertilizers, which we are hoping that a decision will be made in terms of the distribution of the fertilizer to our vegetable farmers, our planting farmers, and maybe some of our banana farmers as well. So there is some level of assistance coming on the way. And I'm just hoping that it will not take too long for our farmers to benefit from that. Thank you. You're watching Agricultural in the Move. We do for our break. Don't go away. Black Cegatoka is a fungal disease, which affects the leaves of banana and plantain plants. It causes a reduction in the size of the bunch and the quality of the fruit. In commercial banana and plantain production, Black Cegatoka disease is controlled with chemical as well as non-chemical measures. Chemical measures involve the application of spray oil and fungicides. However, it is neither practical nor safe to use agrochemicals to control Black Cegatoka in backyard gardens. Non-chemical measures include good agronomic and cultural practices, such as weed control and proper drainage. Affected parts of leaves should be pruned or cut off from the plant. Use a clean, sharp cutlass or knife. Infected leaves should be disposed of properly or added to a compost heap. For more information on how to treat and control Black Cegatoka on your farm or in your backyard garden, contact the Black Cegatoka Management Unit at 451-5491, or email BPMU at candw.lc. This message is brought to you by the Ministry of Agriculture in collaboration with the International Cooperation and Development Fund of the Republic of China in Taiwan. Welcome back to the program, Agriculture on the Move, and of course with me is Honourable Alfred Prosper, the Minister with Responsibility for Agriculture. And Mr. Minister, we spoke about the banana industry, and of course I'm hoping that that sector gets back on its feet for the farmers and for the economy of this country. The other sector that's very important for us is the fisheries sector. I heard, you know, you in parliament during the parliamentary debate make some pronouncement. Tell us exactly what is there for the fisheries sector in this budget cycle. What is there in this budget cycle for the fisheries sector is very small. It's just a little over one million dollars, and that amount is really get towards the upgrade of the fishing facilities on the island. And it was really targeted, it was really targeted for free areas, the one in Sansu Sea, the one in January, and the facility in Vufuot. But during my budget presentation, there were many calls coming from my colleague ministers indicating that they also had concerns with regards to the fishing facility in the constituency. But one of the things that I'm really concerned about regards to the fisheries facilities, it is really, most if not all of those gifts coming from the government of Japan, they actually built or donated those facilities to the government and people of St. Lucia. But what we notice is that we do not have a maintenance program for those facilities. You know, it's one thing to give you a gift, but allowing it to deteriorate and there is no maintenance plan. And this is one of the things that I have discussed with my peers in terms of putting a maintenance program in place for those facilities, because they are deteriorating very rapidly considering their close proximity to the sea. So we have to bear that in mind, but the whole aspect of the fishes in terms of the fisheries sector, I'm happy to announce that we passed a new agricultural and fisheries amendment bill the last few weeks in parliament. And it was really to include a number of those sub sectors that were not there when we had the first act in 2014. And so Seamos farmers stand to benefit in terms of rope, twine, and a number of other things. We have even the forestry sector stand to benefit from in terms of, you know, parts for chainsaws and other milling equipment. And so we have really included a number of those those persons who were not in there. But really and truly we need our fishermen, especially our fisheries cooperatives, to be a lot more organized and honorable. MIA Polit and myself, we met all the fisheries cooperatives, which really included the chairpersons and managers a few days ago, to really get a feel as to what are some of the challenges. And the challenges are many. They are concerned about the high cost of fuel. They are concerned about high cost of managing the facilities that they occupy. They spoke about training for our fishers. They spoke about training for the persons I'm serving on, the executives of those fisheries cooperatives and a number of areas. They mentioned fad and the issues that they have with the fad. They mentioned areas like theft of fish pots and so on. There are a number of challenges. And what we indicated to them is that we will sit, we will discuss and see how we can assist them in dealing with a lot of those challenges. But I was very happy that we were able to get 1.1 million dollars in the budget, that I'm hoping that we can use to upgrade, improve and to really give those existing fisheries facilities a face lift and to really encourage our fisheries cooperatives to be prepared to take on the responsibilities of managing what belongs to them. Just imagine you have a fisheries cooperative, for example, the Denry, manage the Denry facility. There are tremendous opportunities for them. They can benefit from health insurance. They can benefit from education for the children. And you know, pension scheme for the own welfare. So it is really something I want to urge them to really do and really make an attempt as fishers to benefit from what belongs to you. Blue ocean. I suppose it's also, people are asking questions. The fishers are saying, look, where are we going to sell our fish? We're still unaware of the operations of Blue Oceans. Where is that with your government and the private sector? First, I want to say it was an arrangement that Blue Oceans had with the previous government. There was a lease agreement and I did not want to go into the details of the lease. But the entity encountered some serious issues financially. And COVID from what I was told was responsible for that. That has led to the closure of the facility since November last year. And I have been very, very, very concerned about that because this was a facility constructed for our fishers to sell and to market the fish. But they are currently in a very bad situation because they have to now be going night and day selling the fish when it was easy for them to just sell the fish directly to the facility. The cabinet has discussed it. We had a discussion with the leaser or the lessee. And we are trying our best to see how we can get the facility operationalized as soon as, because we know the fishers already depend on it. And we are doing our best to make it happen. Very good. Very, very good. Good news. I hope the fishers are happy to hear that will come soon and the problem will be solved because they are very, very concerned. Because every day, trust me, I mean, I'm by the bay nearly every day and I'm getting that feeling. Since I work at the ministry, I keep coming and asking questions. It's a very, very serious concern. The other thing is that's of serious concern to you, I'm sure. And it's the jetty in Miku. Sadly, it's just a sad situation. And how are you approaching it? You notice I take a deep breath. I notice that this jetty, I must say, unfortunately has not met the expectations of the fishers in Miku. Simply because three and a half weeks after it was installed, it was proven to be useless. It was a donation made by the government of Jampan. That's, you know, $2.9 million. So just imagine $2.9 million spent on a jetty and it only lasted, well, it didn't last three weeks before it was just ineffective. So now our challenge is we have to get rid of it. We have to remove it because it's very dangerous to the fishers, to the boats and so on. And what has made it even worse is that you have a buildup of the sagasam right around the jetty. Now let's imagine the Atlantic side of St. Lucia. You have a floating jetty. How would you expect or anticipate that a floating jetty would last only three weeks? So now we are in a situation where we must dismantle it. Wow. But there is a cost attached to it. We have begun engaging the government of Jampan in terms of informing of the situation. And in the coming days, I am calling on the people, the fishermen of Niko that expect in the coming days that we will dismantle the jetty. But you know the unfortunate situation is that we are not, I'm not in a position now to indicate to the fishers what will be the alternative in terms of a jetty. Until you get the results. But I want to make this point that you see when you rush projects, these are some of the end result. And just imagine if we had taken that 2.9 million EC dollars and build a stable jetty of fixed jetty out of wood. I am certainly sure that we would not have a situation like that now. So I really understand what the pain that the fishers in Niko are going through. But I just want to inform that it's unfortunate and this is the reality. And our government will do its best to see what can be done in terms of an alternative from assisting the farmers in getting the jetty. Final words from you sir, we have come to the end of the program. I must say I'm always happy to be here to really engage the farmers. I wish I had more time to discuss the whole food security issue and the whole, the possibility of increased food prices based on what's happening in Ukraine and Russia. But I want to encourage our farmers to understand that it's a reality. We had COVID, but now our COVID situation has been compounded by the situation in Ukraine. And I want to just call on them to ask them to consider maybe, because one of the things I'm concerned about is all our seeds that we use to produce comes from outside of St. Lucia. I want to encourage our farmers to in light of what is happening and what is expected to happen. Start storing seeds from foods that they grow and eat, because we may find ourselves being challenged in terms of high cost of seeds and high cost of inputs, et cetera. But I want to say to them, just be hopeful, we as a ministry, as a government will do our best to ensure that we give them the level of assistance that they require. Thank you so far for being here. I wish you success in every endeavor. And I know you mean well and I know you will succeed. Thank you again for being here. Thank you very much. You've been watching Our Reculture on the Move. Thank you for viewing the program. And don't forget, we have our Banana Expo 2022 coming up on the 6th of May. Our Reculture is our business and eat fresh. It's not just best. I'm Philip Sidney. Goodbye.


guys that you're going to see at the gun range. The first one is the tactical tough guy. They take the authoritative position. Why did you get that?  You didn't know that? Does this other one's way better? Don't buy it, I'm telling you. They're a professional video watcher, very condescending, very arrogant. Next is the show off. Has a very nice gun, but needs to make sure everybody in that range knows that it is he who has that gun. What is the best that nobody else has? That's right. Bobby got the shadow too, because the very few people have this gun. Next is the Mag Dumper. Now the Mag Dumper has a full auto fantasy. They're probably a video gamer. So purpose is to pretend they're in combat and... But yet the Mag Dumper is blowing through 500 rounds of ammo in 15 minutes. Didn't even hit the paper that's seven yards away.


I'm sure it's really high. So we had the SID display week 2019 here with the JBD. And hi, so who are you? Hi, my name is Anderson Liu. I am the business director of JBD. Hi. Hi, I'm Chi Ming Li. I'm the founder and CEO of JBD. Hello? Hi, my name is Jingjie. I'm the director of ISEA of JBD. And right here, we're seeing your display in action. Yes. Here. We're showing a light up panel of 720p 5 micron pH green panel. And this is a neutral density here to prevent the eye get burned because extremely high brightness. So this could go up to 2 million nits. 2 million nits. 2 million nits, yes. Last year, we demonstrated 1 million nits. And I think we won the ISEAN Most Innovation Award. And this year, we're coming out with the 2 million nits. And we believe this is the highest in the world. How you do 2 million? This is a vapor level technology. There's no phosphor, no peak in place, no mass transfer, no quantum dots. Everything's made by silicon and compound semiconductor like Allen Gap or Indium Gallium Nitride Phosphide. So this is your wafer right here? Yes. So each one of the panel here is the 720p 5,000 dpi panel that you just saw. And this is how they look on a 4-inch wafer. So each one is a 720, 5,000 dots per inch. Extremely high pixel density. Yes. 5,000 is very high. Actually, we have something even higher on this side. We have 2.5-inch, I'm sorry, 2.5 micron in pitch. That's 10,000 dpi, 10,000 dot per inch. I think we should light it up. Can you light it up? Yes. It's extremely bright. How bright does it go? At this level, it can go up to 1 million nits. So I need to wear my sunglasses, right? Pretty much. Yeah. And this is actually the world record. Nobody have ever demonstrated for that dimension, for that brightness. What do you say how many nits? 1 million nits, 4.5 micron in pitch. Is this full brightness or not? Oh, this is only in a few percentage of the total power. It's very bright. So you have something you can cover it also so it can turn my shutter speed down? So what's the resolution here? The resolution is very high. It's 4K by 5K. 4K by 5K? Yes. And how many inch diagonal? It's 12 millimeter by 9 millimeter. It's roughly half in 0.6 inch. 0.6 inch, you have a 4K by 5K? Yes. I think that's a good idea to do 4K display in a very small, right? Yes, small is the new big. That's our slogan. What is the idea? Why do you do such high resolution, so small? So each tiny panel, only the total weight is less than a gram. But these combined with properly designed optics can give you a large vision. I'm talking about 100 inch display in an AR glass. So small is the new big. So this is for the AR market augmented reality? Yes. The AR, only AR. You can use it in AR. Certainly, they have more advantage in AR domain. Isn't it a bit dangerous to have 2 million nits in the eye? Well, the customers need something even higher because their optics requires very high power light output. So this will go to a wave guide and through back to the eye? Yes, a series of optical devices. To make it look like a big screen? Big screen, smart. Do you have a customer already, or what is the status of the company? We have customers, but unfortunately we couldn't disclose the... Top secret customer? Exactly. So where are you based, the company? We're based in Shanghai and Hong Kong. Our manufacturer and research team is in Shanghai. And what's in Hong Kong? Hong Kong is our headquarters and also our sales and business team. And what's your job? My job is in charge of finding the particular ZOIC. Developing this IC? Yeah. This is an IC? What is this? Is this display or IC? What is this? You look at the bottom, there's a silicon CMOS. There's a silicon substrate on the top. We have 3.5 semiconductor integrated. What do you say? 3.5? 3.5. 3.5 and 3.9 tri. That's a type of semiconductor. Which is very common? Oh, this is very matured materials. But it's very reliable, very efficient. We're using monolithic technology, something like DRAM or CMOS, wafer level. There's no need to pick and place, no quantum dots. So one wafer like this is very expensive or how is it? Oh, there's extremely affordable. Much cheaper? Extremely affordable. Much cheaper than what? Much cheaper than alcohols, then DLP, then OLEDs. Really? Yes. Affordable is a good idea. That's right. For consumer electronics, this is very good. Affordable is good, but also higher brightness is important? Yes. Smaller size is important as well. Smaller DPI? More DPI. More DPI, yeah. Smaller pitch. Smaller pitch. How about full color and everything? What's the status? We do have a bi-color here. I'll put a filter on it. We do have a free color in development, and we're planning on pushing out later next month. And we'll definitely have it out by the end of the year for a three-color display. So what am I looking at? Yellow and red? Or what is it? Green or? This is green and red. Green and red? Yes. What's missing? The blue. The blue. Ah, blue. Blue is a challenge or not? You know what to do. We know what to do. In late June or maybe early July, we'll release all RGB color on the same panel. Because your logo is blue, so you better know how to do it. Yeah, we have to have blue. And do you use any quantum dots or how do you do things? Everything is semiconductor. There's no quantum dots, no liquid crystal, no organic LED. Is that cool? Anybody else? Do you think you're the best or what's the status? I think we're the top micro LED company. We're not only demonstrating very high DPI, small pitch, but also extremely high brightness. And actually, we just released our 5,000 DPI, or five micro pitch panels. They come in RGB separate panels. They are off the shelf. I can buy one? Yes. How does it work? Like you're selling them to who? Swap your card, then we'll sell one. But where do you sell them to who? We sell to a lot of AR customers, a lot of developers, but couldn't disclose their names for now. So what's the challenge? How to develop something like this? Oh, you mean as a backplane? Yeah, can you explain something about the challenges every day? What's happening? The happening is the challenge is about the refresh rate for AR glasses. Some customers may be require very high refresh rate up to 1K. 1K? Yeah. 1K hertz. Yeah. But I think 120 hertz will be OK. Well, you can do 240 here, like the panel we are showing here. Is it 240 now? 240, yes. Really? Yes. This is doing 240? Yes, but the video itself playing is not 240 hertz. You need a special camera to record 240? Yes, that's right. Oh, you can speed it up in editing or something like that. So what's next?  That's right. And what's next? Well, we continue to release our new product, support our customers, and continue to push the limits, continue to improve the quantum efficiency, and continue to make big screen using small panels. And you totally will have full color, like this bird there, red, green, and blue. I mean, the other thing. We will release that in the summer of this year. We are in the summer nearly. Oh, there's just two months? Yeah, like early July. So you're working fast or how big is the team? Is it secret or? It's not a secret. We have about 100 people now. We have doubled the people from last year, and we plan to double the people by the end of the year getting ready for production soon. So how do you make a wafer, what you call a fab for this? Is that your secret sauce? That's a true secret. You're developing this fab? All I can tell you is monolithic. You can think about the way where DRAM or CPU is made. This is standard semiconductor processing. It's kind of like printing kind of or? Plasma edge, lithography, thin film coating. But everything is done in a wafer level. How many other in one wafer? This is about 90 dyes per wafer. And how many I can use? How many are good? Above 70% yield. That's pretty high, no? We're still improving. So you can go up to what, 80, 90? We're happy now as a 70, but I think we can push it up to 80%. And how do you do that? Just continuous development and hard work. So many, many details. Do you think AR is going to be huge? Do you think a lot of people are going to use that? Well, you do believe AR is huge. Think about this. Instead of using a big TV, you only use a tiny small glass and you can see a large screen and also a lot more function added on. The nice thing about that is you can add reality and virtual reality together. We do believe it's going to be the next big thing. So do you think the app developers will keep up with your innovation? Because you need to have a whole ecosystem of AR application killer apps, right? Can you also make those? Or other people will do them? We are the panel company. We don't do content. We don't do apps. We support hardware company. Of course, they are software company and content company. Everybody have to get together to make it happen. Because it would actually free us from the phones a little bit if we have AR. We can keep the phone in the pocket. That's right. And then we can focus on what's important, which is talking with other people, right? And just on the side, maybe checking what's happening. Right? Exactly. So next year, this year? Next year, we're going to attend the SID again at San Francisco. And early next year, we will be in Las Vegas, CES. And everybody is welcome to go to our booth and see our new progress and improvements. What you will promise to have for CES? CES will release the 10,000 DPI or 2.5 micron panels as a standard product. And when you talk about 2.5 micron, that's every pixel? Every single pixel. 2.5 micron? Yes. And every single one is perfect? Well, there's some defect. And you have a trick to hide the defective ones. And then you can't see them. And then everything looks perfect. Because this is a modern lithic technology, so the defect is very, very low. The uniformity is extremely high. Certainly, there are a few dead pixels. Right now, we're on the other of PPM level. But we're improving it, hopefully, to get down to PPP level. PPM, it means one per million? What does it mean? One per million, yes. And PPP is one per billion? That's right. And it's possible to do that. One per billion, that means no defect, no? If you count 1,000 panels, that's 1 billion pixels. Oh, cool. All right, that's awesome. So let's see if this video can get double as many views as last year, right? All right, thank you. Because now it's double as 2 million nits, so it should be 2 million views. Cool. Can you just?


Rare photographs of excavations at the Greek island of Delos from the 19th century have come to light in a book by French archaeologists. The book sheds light on the challenges facing the scientists and other skilled and unskilled workers who unearthed ancient monuments and artefacts in one of the most important mythological historical and archaeological sites in Greece. Its claim as the birthplace of Apollo gave Delos a strong religious identity that lasted all the way until Byzantine times. Over the centuries Delos was a truly cosmopolitan centre with a diverse population that included people from all over the Mediterranean. But in 88 BC the Romans raised the island to the ground, a calamity Delos would never recover from. The French School of Athens in 1873 sent archaeologists to begin work on excavations on Delos. Up until the First World War the emphasis was on clearing the areas of the sanctuary zone although the rest of the island was never neglected. From the 1920s onwards the effort of the school members focused on the study of monuments, batches of equipment and inscriptions discovered in previous decades and exploratory research concentrated more on the buildings and groups of monuments. Exploring Channel Memberships for the Lost History Channel As YouTube continues to suppress our channel we thought we would explore alternative revenue portals and the memberships could be a crucial tool for our survival on the platform. Become a member of the Lost History Channel and unlock access to membership only perks like badges, emoji and other aspects of the channel that doesn't always make it into production. Here we can share updates with our members and show little snippets of our pre-produced content before it goes public. Join one of our pre-loaded tiers and show your support for the channel that refuses to go away. With your support the journey continues. Now wait till you hear this.