The role that I adopted this particular class is really one of a facilitator. So I'm telling my students that, you know, this is your class, this is your canvas, and it's for you to communicate to the rest of the class what you got or didn't get out of a particular information source. Because remember, the goal of all of this is to really have students understand the limitations and the strengths of a particular information source. By serving as devil's advocate, I think students start to recognize that it's okay to offer ideas even if they are not one's own. You know, we'll, and typically in a class, offer multiple competing narratives to explain a given case study. You know, I think that I'd really like to emphasize surprise because surprise does some really good things to our brains. Surprise forces us to carefully evaluate the thing that surprises us. So, you know, if we're walking through the woods, we see something we've never seen before. It's really important that we pay attention to what that thing is. And once we see it, then we can expend some mental effort to categorize it based on what we already know. So for example, we'll go to the World Bank website and we'll look at their measurement of corruption across countries and we'll say, well, you know, they give a quantitative measure of how corrupt India is versus how corrupt Nigeria is versus how corrupt the United States is. But what does corruption really mean, right? How is the World Bank defining corruption and how does that differ from how I might define corruption or how does that differ from what corruption might mean in a completely different political or social context. So really kind of unpacking the ideas and the assumptions that go behind the information sources that we trust because we tend to think, oh, the World Bank, you know, they're full of really informed individuals that know a lot and that's true, but they also come with their own assumptions that we're trying to unpack. But we start off by experimenting with a new approach to thinking about what experimental design might be. And so it takes a certain amount of courage to approach a class and say, okay, today we're going to go outside and we're going to drop Mentos in Coke and at the end of it, you're going to understand how to run an experiment. I'll present case studies that they may or may not be familiar with and I'll build up that case study from one particular narrative. I'll offer, you know, the insights maybe from a discipline and we'll develop those arguments fairly fully from that disciplinary orientation or from that particular framing. And then it might be that same day or it might be on a following day. I'll present them with a different narrative that might come from a different stakeholder's perspective or a different disciplinary orientation and we'll develop that one fairly fully and create the opportunity for students to, I guess, really find their footing in both explanations of a particular policy situation. In my experience, the most progress that I've had is in the quality of their written work and what I see at the beginning of the term is that it's difficult for students to capture an argument in that short of a format in part because they've been encouraged to write more and more and more in other classes including some of my other classes but I tell them that in this particular class the idea is to be concise and to be clear and that takes practice and I tell them I practice at it all the time as well so as they get to their second, third, fourth briefing paper I find that they tend to be much, much stronger and just getting to the point but getting to the point in a way where their explanation is clear and that's a very difficult balance. My goal is to give them a structured environment where they can think about where, I guess, disciplined insights coming from those different perspectives can come together and inform their understanding of a real-world situation. So they are already aware that the world is complex and messy and anything I can give them in terms of a framework to make sense of that, I would say, is a net benefit. The students themselves are coming out of our classes not just with a set of tools and a knowledge base but they're also coming out with the ability to thrive in a dynamic environment so they can change as the industry changes as their work environment changes as their responsibilities changes because they have the critical thinking skills and the creativity to take those capabilities that they've developed and very confidently adapt them to a new space and that's what's going to help them to thrive.


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Okay, so this is going to be less on the technical side though if anyone wants to cover some of the technical stuff please hit me up afterwards I'm more than happy to jump in. And what we're going to cover is how to engage so a your InfoSec team as an engineer as a developer how do we really engage them and help move the organization towards a towards a zero trust environment. And the reason why I'm focusing on you as engineers is that I think the source of a zero trust strategy has to have a very strong component of application developers being part of that like it's not something that you can just say oh I'm going to go buy a product we're zero trust now or we're going to create some definitions in InfoSec and configure some firewall rules and now we're zero trust. So this is something that really requires a fundamental shift in some of the controls that exist within the application or that the application itself is designed so that it can make use of some of those some of those controls. And in order to properly engage with InfoSec it also helps to understand who they are where they come from why they why they do the things that they do there we don't want to treat them as like yours brick wall we have the scale but instead as valuable partners that help us get to where we want to go. So a very brief intro whenever you talk with someone who's in security or InfoSec you will often see this triangle as the CIA triad which covers confidentiality integrity and availability. And so what they mean by by these three things is that you can take pretty much any security control and try to map it to to one or more of these. Interestingly availability is often ignored people often focus on the confidentiality and integrity but the fact that your system has to stay online that has to meet its SLAs is a critical component of that availability as well. So if you look at what InfoSec is really trying to do they're not trying to tell you know what they're trying to do is try to identify what risks are there they're trying to work out how to inform you of what the risks are inform the executive leadership executive leadership has to then take those risks and then make a determination based upon what what the outcomes are going to be and what those risks are as to whether they're going to accept the risk or if they're not going to accept the risk then what can they do to mitigate the risk mitigate as unlike we're going to stick a firewall in front of it or we're going to stick a policy engine in front of it or how do you transfer the risk? Transferring the risk is an important aspect but that's something we won't that is probably not our first line of defense that we want to head towards a really good example of transfer of risk that we're seeing today though is you're seeing cyber security insurance so if someone gets ransomware then they can say hey we're going to bring in this particular thing to help with that but generally that's like worst case scenario and another example of that from a personal perspective is like if you're driving a car you can transfer some of the financial liability to an insurance company so transfer of risk final one is avoidance which is like you know what this is too dangerous or we don't want to accept the risk value is not there so you just eliminate the the thing that was bringing in the risk in the first place so it'd be like let's go and remove the data and go purge it or destroy the medium or so on and now it's not a risk and so they also like to establish policy standards procedures and guidelines what we mean by this is policy is I all data at rest must be encrypted proceed a standard to be we use AES procedures would be something like we use BitLocker in this specific way to implement AES to have that encryption and then guidelines are things that are good advice to follow but you don't necessarily have to follow them but there may be implications if you do but it's not like strictly required so in terms of the other thing that you often see as well is response to security incidents and breaches so as in like something happens there are the teams who they have teams there who go and do the forensics and so on one word of advice though as well since is if you try to avoid the word breach and the reason you want to avoid this word this specific word is because there's only a small number of people in the in any organization who is able to say that something is a breach because there are serious legal ramifications that come with that word so always start with the word incident avoid the word breach until someone from the appropriate group has said this is a this is a breach and then from that moment on you would then use that that particular term but whatever you engage with them or you're engaging with a colleague like always use the word like we've had an incident you know I think this is serious or something you can say like what's what's what's happening but but stay away from that specific word because there are serious legal implications so just as a heads up and so but all of this comes down to two things do care and and do diligence and do care is like you're doing the right thing due diligence is how can we show that we've done the right thing or what are the actions we're doing to ensure we're doing those things so the every major infosec group has to show that they're following do care and that they're following due diligence an easy heuristic to this is what would a person who is trained in this who is an expert in this do what what would a reasonable set of actions be if you if you can consider those to be reasonable then you're probably following due care and this also becomes very important because when you start looking at massive organizations this do care if you're not following do care then there may be major implications that go to the actual person themselves who is supposed to have that do care so so let's jump a little bit forward now so we've gone over some of the basics for for infosec it describes like how they think like why why they do things that they do one of the things that we're moving away from is this concept of perimeter defense so this is like your standard network that you tend to see there's so many variations of this one of the variations is uh kubernetes is actually historically started off as a perimeter defense style approach you have your pod network pods can talk to pods pods can talk to nodes nodes can talk to nodes so very very perimeter defense like you had ingress controllers and so on and eventually you started to put more policy which helped drive it down but um like this this is a pattern that you see over and over and over again where we want to move is towards this nebulous thing called zero trust where you have controls that are more granular closer to the workloads you have this untrusted network that you're no longer basing your your system on and you have this attacker that's on the far end so if they get in just because they're on the network does not mean that they have access to the rest of the system so in a nutshell this is sort of the view that we want to to approach for hitting that zero trust approach but interestingly if you go to a company and you say we need zero trust one of the problems that we're running into is that every vendor has a different set of of what zero trust is that we actually we actually have a lot of of issues on on this particular path as a whole industry because the term is diluted it's it's been hyped up it's everyone selling you a zero trust thing things that were invented 15 years ago are being pitched to zero trust it's like it's it's really hard to make sense of it so the very first thing that you need to do if you're migrating a company of sufficient size is you actually have to define for yourself well when we say zero trust this is what we mean so you need a framework so one framework that i've been working with some colleagues on is this concept of like the same way we have the cia triad we have this concept of zero trust where we have identity policy and control and when you establish this actually gives you something like we're bringing in a product where does it fit does it give us identity does it make our identity story better does allow us to manage a scale or is it a policy thing like are we able to to drive and control things and create rules around it in order to control it is from the control side is this something that's automatable is it observable is it something that i can that i can manage at scale so we have so we have this framework and diving a little bit into it a little bit further so we have identity and when we say identity the area that i have been trying to push companies towards is this concept of cryptographic identity so if you think about how your identity is done today in a lot of organizations it's actually ip address import you all your firewall rules like you start looking at them they're like i ip address import you maybe dns helps break this little bit but it still ends up boiling down to my ip address import so if we can land a cryptographic identity one of the ones that i'm involved with is spiffy so if you like i hope that it ends up being something like spiffy but it doesn't have to be spiffy the the fundamental thing is the is the principle you get a cryptographic identity then you have something there that you can that you can control that it's ephemeral so that identity eventually goes away after some period of time so ideally you want to keep those short in spiffy's case the expiration time is an hour so you actually issue an x5 line certificate instead of it lasting for a year you have to renew it in 30 minutes to an hour which gives us the ability to constantly validate the workloads so in other words we can check does this thing still meet our requirements based upon what patch said it is is it running the software that it should is it configured in the way that we want to configure it is it attached to a system that has the right set of tpm's maybe it's gone out of compliance and then you can notice you don't necessarily have to kill it but you could you could look at the workload and say well let's go ahead and flag it and let's make sure that that that we're able to properly audit and get the right people who own that in order to go pat patch the system or or go fix it we that also gives us the ability to have systems communicate with each other using something like mutual tls where you can think of mutual tls like you in the same way like when you go to like google.com or your bank.com you're able to validate the server as the client mutual tls allows you as a workload to do the opposite as the server i can validate the client the i can validate the identity right off of the transport so this means i don't even have to bring secrets i don't have to have bearer tokens or jots we want to make that initial connection out to the system that in both directions they can validate each other so the x519 certificate becomes part of that chain of who you are and allows you to identify yourself to others in a in a uniform way you also have to pay attention to user identity i'm not diving into user identity in the scenario but it's also very important that you consider what are your user identities doing generally we want to stick with standards something like jots or or similar that'll play well into into policy so then you want to establish something around policy and generally you want to have policy consume your identity so the with policy if you if you make them declarative so there's a few engines that exist in cncf but there's others as well throughout the entire community so if you if you're able to say i want this family of certificates or identities that are cryptographic is secure and you're able to add that into your policy so you can say the front-end server of this application is able to connect to the back-end server or back-end database of this particular system you can model that which means that if something else is trying to connect to those systems it violates your policy and that gets you a fast feedback on your observability platform that's something went wrong this is actually key because if you look at many previous attacks they managed to break in through the front door through to car to struts that on an unpatched system or or some other similar technology and then once they managed to get to capture that system and then they end up extracting out information from from the perimeter but if you have this policy in place it says system a is allowed to talk to system b and is allowed to send these type of messages because it is that it's playing that role then the scopes down the types of attacks and the attacker does not necessarily know what policy you are running on the other side or what are valid messages you can send so this actually ends up increasing the risk to the attacker and simultaneously reduces the value to the attacker that's really important whenever you look at a security control you always want to consider how does this increase the risk to the attacker and how does it decrease the value to the attacker like that it is pure economics to them and this this also plays all the way up to advanced persistent threats because even apts they even they have limited resources they still have to make decisions on where they're going to attack and if you look like you're well defended and you're not going to get much value out of it they'll actually go find software targets in terms so we also want to have policies over time we want to make them human readable so people can audit them and and create them and we want them to be machine readable so that the machine can implement them a really good heuristic is you look at how GitOps works imagine having a GitOps system that allows you to control and manage your policy through that so you have a place you can commit your your code here your policy you're able to get that policy reviewed they go to the right stakeholders in the same way like you would with a code pr you know it's like oh i have something checked into something that touches the database so i'll get the database admins to look at it i have something that it's going to touch this particular area let's make sure that i bring in the right set of owners for that from the various groups and and that gives us a path towards also maintaining that policy over time it becomes something that is visible to the people who needs to and those we can actually tie that that identity as i mentioned to the mutual tls transport credentials so we actually look at the transport credentials you're not saying i am this you're relying on your cryptographic certificate to prove who you are then control all of this doesn't matter if you have no way to control it so this is where you want to start looking at things like how do i how do i build automation around it how do i add observability to it how do i control this like if you're controlling a single cluster you can install things like istio linker d you'll be in good shape if you want to control a large number of clusters many of them ran by different teams and start get a more uniform approach then we really need to start thinking a lot bigger about how these interactions occur so it's more like an intro versus inter approach there's also issues around how do you how do you log where do you keep your metrics ensure that you do your sla so all these are important if you don't have good control over your system you're you're not going to achieve your your goals so again framework identity policy and control so now that we have a zero trust definition time check how much time do i have left nine minutes thanks so one of the things that we want to do is we want to consider what do we actually want to model as part of our policy as part of identities and at the root of it all is trust uh we know we call it zero trust but that's actually what we want is to establish what can i trust what should i trust and if we can model trust then we we're able to describe the relationships and how much we want to trust it how much suspicion do i have of a given system does that suspicion uh is that over my threshold or under my threshold that i'm willing to to trust it and if we maintain these models of trust the overtime that also gives us the ability to sunset the things that we no longer meet our our trust so this concept of trust even though we call it zero trust it's actually about managing the the trust that's there and this to hit a to hit zero trust in a large organization as well you have to also get cooperation so you have to start working with your infosec teams get transparency between between the various engineers and people who are who are there and so the i mentioned before at the start you have to get the software to be able to make use of the zero trust components the the applications that are there and you want to establish a good relationship with with infosec and one of the ways that i found is effective is you always want to start with something to small something you can get a small win i'm saying it's an easy win but it's a but something that's tangible so if you start with an application you say we're going to apply zero trust controls to an application this is something that you talk to your infosec people about they're they're going to be interested in because they know that this is where the world is heading and this actually gives them something small that limits the risk and gives you the ability to experiment and uh you want to focus on in the beginning you want to focus on interest service communication as opposed to inter service you want to say how do the the individual components internally communicate with each other and that prevents you from affecting the outside environment in the beginning in the long run you want to actually control inter service that's where your high value is but in your initial version when you're doing that first application you want it to be something that is smaller in scope smaller in size reduce the risk make it makes it palatable and also allows the system to pivot if for some reason the security model doesn't work out and one of the things you want to do as well is you want to regularly share your findings with your infosec team engage them in from the start tell them what you're going to do get feedback from them treat them as a partner like they're they're not a brick wall they're they are partners in us getting to where we want to go hitting our hitting our requirements and as you start to develop that trust you actually find that the conversations will will shift and to give you an example previous organization that i did some work with they uh i had a group of engineers who vented for quite a significant period of time about infosec saying oh you know they're doing all this terrible things all this red tape that's going on and after about 20 minutes i stopped them and i said have you considered their side of the uh have you considered infosec's point of view on this because you're talking about the red tape you're running into they're living and breathing it so any advice you can give them or any information you can give them maybe there's a process change that you could that would help you understand what they need in order to help you succeed you help help help them help you don't just sit there and complain about it and in fact in some scenarios they may even say hey we don't even have these controls it might be something that you can build easily that you can that you can work through cncf or some other similar group and get those controls built and automate those particular portions and end up in a better place so the next time you run into these scenarios you actually end up with an accelerated path as opposed to getting stopped and having to do this back and forth and missing your deadlines because the collaboration was too late and once you've done that and you have that first application you get that early win then show how that intra service uh path ends up working in inter service over time as well how you can if you're careful on how you demonstrate your intra service communications you can then show how these could then be applied at the broad in the broader sense as you add more controls in a careful way and the other thing that as well remember we were talking about policy and standards once you have this in place you actually have something tangible that you can point towards policy and standards because if there's not a policy if there's not a standard we can't have thousands of little exceptions everywhere you have to actually get it into the policy you have to get it to be to be part of the standard so you could say policy we're going to use your trust workload identities standard we're using spiffy you know the procedure here's how you install spire so by helping set these things up and actually collaborating with infosec with them you actually become a a collaborator with them and you end up helping them de-risk the things that you want to see there and you actually get the things that you want in there while at the same time helping maintain that maintain that security make sure you also engage with the community as well so there's a lot of really great resources we have cncf security tag we have the kubernetes six security group and all of these all of these groups have people who are very interested in seeing you succeed in this particular space and so and people from different walks of life some from vendors some from end users so engage with the community they're they're here to help they're here to to help also set follow like guidelines that people can follow as well so there's a lot of different areas that you can actually help collaborate with and find what those best practices are across a wide group and then those feedback into your into your organizations so it ends up becoming this feedback loop where you get a wide variety of people and a lot of eyes on on things that we end up with something that's way better than just a small team in a company by itself looking at so definitely get involved bring bring your colleagues bring your friends you'll get a lot out of it and finally make sure to help your peers learn because these type of things it's it's not it's not something that we can do by ourselves you know we we need to make sure that we de-risk it by making sure we have a lot of people who don't understand and can work with it they can also help us find where the holds are and at the end of the at the end of the day we all want to practice very important we want to practice self-care we don't want to burn out we don't want to end up in a in a bad place physically and mentally and the only way we do that is by helping our peers helping our colleagues learn and helping them and help set up the system in such a way that we can that we can step away for for periods of time um so if you notice a theme effective communication and collaboration is key so keep this in mind if there's nothing else you take out of this keep keep this thought in mind um and finally there's a little term that I like uh superior out there I'd probably but you're the uh the way you say it but it's like there to know so don't stop learning don't take ownership go ahead and uh spend the time to to learn not necessarily saying work harder but work smarter work with your friends collaborate with people so thank you very much thanks so much frederick awesome staff


So I'm sure that not many of you have heard about this, but apparently yesterday the Superbowl was taking place I mean, they didn't even they didn't even know about this. So I'm sure it's the same for you And you know, I usually don't pay attention to sporting events But the halftime show is something that interests me if there's any commercials afterwards that are entertaining or interesting to me video game announcement or something I'll watch it afterwards And I heard that the halftime show according to Charlie Kirk was Extremely extremely problematic and he is actually saying that something that bad something that risque Shouldn't be on television. So here's what he wrote about the halftime show The NFL is now the league of sexual anarchy. This halftime show should not be allowed on television So he is explicitly calling for censorship over the halftime show now I just watched the halftime show in preparation for this segment I didn't tune in live and I have no idea what he's talking about the halftime show was incredible first and foremost Seeing all of these hip-hop and R&B legends from my teenage years. It brought me pure Joy, it made me actually feel happiness, which I didn't think was possible given how cold and dead my heart was But it was incredible It was just 15 minutes of pure bliss and I don't understand What in particular he finds so offensive the sexual anarchy comment makes no sense because at most We see legs, but it wasn't risque Even in the slightest bit. I mean compared to other halftime shows. I'd argue that those were probably more Sexual, but I mean this is on television So you just you know that there's not gonna be anything too overly sexual sure though, you know sex cells So they'll put in there to an extent, but this halftime show was was not like that But yet he says that this is essentially sexual anarchy and it's so bad. It shouldn't be allowed on television What halftime show did you watch Charlie Kirk? Did we watch the same one? Were you tuning into something different? Because this was not bad at all. In fact, it was incredible This was an enjoyable experience, but because you are you know a pearl clutching puritan You just you can't enjoy it. You know you freak out. Oh my god a leg. We have to ban it.  It just loved it hip-hop Was what I grew up on.  Totally agree Brian Tyler Cohen googled how old he is and I didn't even realize this but he's only 28 years old Yet he has the mindset of a 94 year old conservative David Pakman chimes in saying are you six years old? HD retrovision shared one of his own pictures and I don't even know if this is real because so many of these have been memed But it says just because you were offended doesn't mean you're right But you know apparently when it comes to Charlie Kirk if he's offended then, you know ban it I don't like it ban it. I'm offended. I saw a leg Don't like that Gravel Institute chimed in saying conservatives seem to get offended by everything these days Exactly variant cousin says Charlie and his wife will not be pushing their beds together for Valentine's Day Even a fellow conservative Frank Lutz Dogged on him saying did someone change the channel on Charlie's TV during the halftime show? Yeah, even conservatives think that Charlie Kirk is Being a little bit too ridiculous here and this is supposedly a thought leader for conservatives This is supposed to be the core representative of conservative young people But yet he's clutching his pearls because he saw a little bit too much Skin, I mean again He's talking about it wasn't bad at all.   Nobody cares about your opinion. Just keep it to yourself Okay, we're not going to censor this from television because you find it offensive if you don't like it change the channel you goddamn Snowflake so easily triggered and again like the thing that's really perplexing to me is that I don't know what triggered him specifically I just I don't know. Maybe he was just a little bit offended that there were too many black people on the screen I mean, that's obviously speculative. It's a bit of a strawman, of course He specifically, you know pointed out the sexual anarchy, but that wasn't there It was not a very sexual thing So I just I don't know but for him to get offended at this I love it. I love this save this tweet If you if you've seen this screen shuttered on your phone and whenever Conservatives talk about the left being a little bit too easily offended to triggered by things, you know, they're too Sensorious throw this tweet in their faces throw this in their faces because this is not anything new, right? They're just trying to rebrand themselves, but Substantively conservatives haven't changed over the years. They've always been the Puritans They've always been the authoritarian little pricks who call for censorship and because they have that reputation Well, they're trying to rebrand the left, you know students on college campuses as the ones who are too sensorial It's not like they're perfect as well. The left sometimes does I think go a little bit too extreme with regard to their responses to Things that they find offensive. We're all human beings, right? Nobody's perfect.    Just Enjoy it.  I don't know


What's up guys and welcome to trendy updates up our SPM boys. Now on to the trendy news today is singer Akkothé who is just a newly wedded and he is going to be flying her entire Kenyan bridal team to Switzerland for the second part of our wedding to her Swiss husband Dennis Swayza. Now of course this is a wedding that happened just this weekend, it's been trending because it was quite a star-studded event and Akkothé got married to his husband Omosh. Now of course people have been asking what is going to be happening how come we did not have many people coming from the husband's side. Now of course Akkothé was able to confirm that they are going to be going to Switzerland and the bridal team as well is going to be coming with her. Now of course the Asperer event is set to happen on the 10th of July and Akkothé took to her social media platform to say that and I quote allow me to introduce to you the royal bridal gang, party gang, our super gang heading to Switzerland on 10th of July 2023. As the wedding is the whole of this year I'm getting married so if you want to start planning your wedding start planning it next year. Now of course we all know some of the celebrities that were part of this bridal team and among them was the three daughters of Akkothé of course that is the Roe baby Vesha and Fancy Makadia. Of course some others were singer Janet Otieno, Langata and Peter Langeau and the wife and then there is a tiktoker Asiad, merely what Jesus are among others and of course this is the team that is going to be flying to Switzerland for the second part of Akkothé's wedding. The comment section is lit as always and I believe it's covering the events and then Timor says, you guys and then there is Honey Badja who says, come on guys and then there's of course others who are really positive about this thing and someone says someone check our Jesus, Akkothé list, Alafu anasema, Khalifa says, Sihi Kenya Kuna Pesta Buana and then Kushvi says, Jaluo Jeuri. Alafu Kuna Slim Jess anasema Pesta Othas and clearly people are appreciating this gesture. Miliwa Jesus anasema beautiful. I loved being part of this amazing lineup. Is that a confirmation that Miliwa Jesus is going to be heading to Switzerland? I mean it's only time that it's going to tell and then Kunashini O'Kehl anasema, save the date, Esther wed Xenis in Switzerland. I can't wait to organize the second royal wedding in Bern. That is the capital city of Switzerland. Wow! Like any 821, it 241 Pauline says, Jan you are to put a passport ma pema. Congratulations once more the team was a vibe. Let us know down on the comments section what are your thoughts about a singer Akkothé flying her entire Kenyan bridal team to Switzerland. But in the meantime, keep it trendy updates, hapa SPM buzz.


Okay, good afternoon, everyone. Can you hear me? Okay, okay, I'm very glad to have this opportunity to introduce the just tourism in China, and I'm your home son from tourism college of Beijing Union University, and I've been working in the just tourism area since I'm a master student, and now I'm still working on that so today I would like to share some of our researchers in China. And I want to start to talk about something of rural tourism because just tourism happens in a rural environment, and sometimes they are connected very closely. As we know, the COVID-19 brought many impacts on tourism, and in China, the domesticated tourist decreased to 52.1% than last year, and a while it started to recover 60% of the same time in 2019. And the main reason is people started to travel to city around the area instead of the long distance travel. In that case, the rural tourism is getting more attention than before. And in fact, the rural tourism developed very quickly from for many years in China. In 2006, the tourism theme was the China rural tourism, and over 100,000 villagers benefited from the rural tourism development. And over 80 million farmers are benefited. And in 2021, the rural tourism income is up to more than 30% of the whole tourism income. And since GS is a new concept, people can easily mix it with the rural tourism easily and sometimes also can be mixed with the equal tourism, agri-tourism, etc. And to some extent, and they have the similar part, I think, like they're all based on the community and their environmental friendly and the small scale, but they're not exactly the same. Because the core of the GS tourism is the heritage tribute, and the identity building is very important for the GS tourism, while not just the mass sightseeing. So we can get some experience from the rural tourism, agri-tourism, and equal tourism, but we have to capture the core essence of the GS tourism. And the people will be attracted by the theme of agricultural heritage sites. That is why we need to talk about the GS tourism from the first place. And many recent examples of tourism actually support the conservation of heritage sites and artifacts. And from the beginning of this project, the tourism was considered as the dynamic conservation approach. So in China, we think GS tourism is a very important approach for the local development and the community identity building. Can I put the video on? We don't see you. Okay, how about now? I have some problem with my video. How about now? I don't see you yet. I see you now. So you can see me now? No, now no. Sorry, there's something wrong with my video, I think. I was seeing before. Okay, I'll do it again. And how about now? Yes. Okay, so now I would... It's the problem of my computer. No problem, go ahead. I'll try to... It's kind of a waste of time. So, okay, I'm sorry for that. So I'll continue my presentation. And now I would like to share two researches we have done in recent years. And all in the first GS sites of China is the rice fish system in Tinkian county of Jajian province southeast of China.  And the first one is about the traditional food to conservation and tourism. And because we find that tourists are easily to be attracted by the delicious food of the agriculture heritage sites. And the food can feed people, bring commercial opportunities, convey many and may evoke authenticity, the identity, culture values, education opportunities, which connects to the heritage conservation and the tourism development. So, in this research, we concentrated how the rule of the traditional food plate and how their functions can act on the local development. And in the Longxian village, people plant many kinds of plants as food and they also raise the fish. And they baked the traditional homemade dried fish. And it is very interesting to find that those fish, those food can be found most of the time around their houses and the living places. So we have to adapt all the plants and the food and analyze them by the arctis and by the research of the tourist data, we classified them as two categories and of the tourists. The first group is the food flavor pursuer and the food culture pursuer. And it proves that the first type of the tourist to have for lower environmental responsibility, and the leader has the higher responsibility, which are the, that means that the second type is the target of the tourist we need to focus. And we also want to transfer the first type of the tourist into the second type. And another, another research is about the community participation and the tourism development, which is related to the role identity of the community, and also connected to the livelihood for the local community. And this research is trying to reveal the relationship between the community role identity and the heritage conservation during tourism development. And in 2019 we have interviewed 40 villagers during 40 days of the summer vacation. And we use the time lock method and to try to find the different types of the interviewers of the residents according to their daily lives activities. And the four types of the residents are found, according to the use of their delay time. And it is very interesting to find that tourism is not the reason for less farming if they have more time. If they don't do tourism, they will use more time to watch TV to do some little things sleeping, but they don't do more farming. So, we don't need to worry about that tourism can occupy more time for their farming time. And according to the research, the majority of the residents of the heritage site can be grouped into four categories by the interaction between the level of tourism participation and the degree of the role identity. The degree of the residents role identity is related to the degree of tourism participation. The highest degree of the role identity is found, which means it is the second secondary strongly participation type of tourism residents. We call it heritage garden residents. And if you look at here, the garden residents have the higher heritage recognition, they have the higher police attachment, and they also have the higher farming intention. So that is very interesting findings. And we have published the two papers. And if you're interested, no more information. And I would like to share the paper with you. So those are the keys in China I want to share because of the time. We don't have more time to share more. So if you want to know more, please email me. Okay, thank you very much for listening.


Hey guys, welcome back to another one. If you are new to the channel, I am Goldpony. I do new car truck SUV reviews on YouTube. And today, we are in the new 2020 Infinity Q60 Red Sport, courtesy of Infinity of McKennaxburg, of course in McKennaxburg, PA. For more information on their inventory, please feel free to check out the link in the description box below. And so I am definitely quite excited to be in this one today. The reason being is because I actually owned an Infinity G35. This is kind of the possessor of that one back when it was color of the year. And I absolutely loved that car. Remember my now wife and I drifting that thing all over the place, it was super fun. And so now years later, we are back at it again. So what do you say? Let's just go ahead and jump right into it. And as always, let's start with pricing. And so MSRP for the 2020 Infinity Q60 Red Sport will start at $57,150. And that one would be a rear wheel drive configuration. You can get all wheel drive. And we do have the all wheel drive configuration today. If you went that route, that pricing is going to start at $59,150. And so regardless of which setup that you go with, power plan is actually going to be the same on this one. Powering this beast will be a three liter twin turbo V6 putting out 400 horsepower at 6,400 RPM, 350 pound feet of torque available at 1,600 RPM, power sent to rear wheels or all wheels through a seven speed automatic with paddle shifters. Thank you, Nissan and Affinity, for not throwing a CVT in this thing. But there's paddle shifters will actually include downshift rev matching as well. Another added bonus there. And zero to 60 time comes in at approximately 4.5 seconds, which we will be testing out a little bit here. With MPG numbers coming in at 20 in the city, 27 highway for the rear wheel drive, 19 city, 26 highway for the all wheel drive configuration either way, taking premium unleaded fuel, AKA 91 octane and higher basically. And so before we do any kind of paddle shifter test or fun accelerations in this one, I did want to mention there is a drive mode button directly behind the circular dial and shifter there. And so when pressed, there's driving modes are going to include standard snow, eco, sport, sport plus and personal, I emphasize snow because that is pretty darn cold for a car like this to have a snow driving mode and all wheel drive for that matter, back when it was the G35, it was just a rear wheel drive set up, but still a fun car, don't get me wrong, but I love that it's all wheel drive, especially living here in Pennsylvania, but getting off point, what there's driving modes are actually going to do is adjust things like the throttle response, shift points, the steering sensitivity and the suspension settings as well and I'll get more into that later. But having said all of that, let's go ahead and play around with that driving mode. Let's put it in sport plus sounds like a fun one. Let's go ahead and push the shifter all the way to the back and to the left. That is going to give me full manual shift mode here and that is going to allow us to go ahead and test out the paddle shifters. And so let's go ahead and find a straightaway here and let's see how quickly they are going to react for us here. You guys hear that downshift rev matching?  Yeah, paddle shifters are ridiculously quick. Kind of took me by surprise there. I was expecting a little bit of delay. I'd be quite honest, but dang, they were quick.  Certainly not going to have any regrets playing with them. That was fun, dude. And another thing with the paddle shifters, they did have downshift rev matching. That was pretty cool. There's not a whole lot of cars with paddle shifters that do that. So I love that infinity does that with the Q60 red sport here. So well done. All right, now let's give control back to the car here. I'm just going to slide the shifter all the way to the right here. That's going to give the Q60 back full control and from a standstill. Let's hit the gas. Wow. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. I missed that. That was ridiculous. No spinning whatsoever. And that is key because of course, with the rear wheel drive configuration that I had back in the day, I kind of used it as a drift car. That was fun, but dang, you can feel it. You can feel it in your chest when you get the gas there. That was amazing. Wow. That brings me back. Kind of tempting. Kind of tempting. That was fun. And so, but anyways, to go along with that acceleration, as always, braking is equally important.  As far as the braking feel goes, 100% no issues whatsoever. There's certainly no brake pedal delay. It brings you to an immediate stop as you would imagine with that kind of a brake setup, to be quite honest, but definitely a very nice braking setup for the Q60. Touching on suspension and handling up front, you're gonna get an independent double-wishbone type front suspension. In the back, independent multi-link rear suspension, front and rear stabilizer bars. And the best part about the suspension system, as I was alluding to earlier, is the adaptive suspension, the adaptive damping system. So essentially what that is going to do is it's gonna absorb a lot of the roads and perfections, not only giving you a smoother ride, but it will also tighten up that suspension during heavy cornering. Again, giving you the best of both worlds, a little better handling there. So, I absolutely love that the Q60 Red Sport comes with that. That is a huge plus in my book. And a very smooth ride, I can tell you, without a doubt, definitely absorbing PA's road and perfections quite nicely so far, so you could tell it's there. It's definitely a night and day difference if you were to not have that adaptive damping system. As far as steering feel goes, it is just fine, definitely a heavier weight. When you get into that Sport and Sport Plus driving mode comparatively speaking to the standard driving mode that I actually just put it back in right now, but in addition to that, if you wanted a even heavier weighted steering wheel, there is actually a proactive package and that package goes for $2,850. That's gonna give you direct adaptive steering, essentially. Better steering feel, heavier steering feel, I should say. And just more of a direct response. So, that is yet another option you can go with, although we don't have that option today, but if you were planning on really taking this thing through the back roads, it's definitely something that's gonna give you a little bit more fun on those back roads and something to consider there. As far as cabin noise goes, it's been perfectly quiet in here today, so definitely no issues there. This is a luxury vehicle, so you're of course not going to have any issues there. Touching on visibility, I can see perfectly fine out the back and never had any issues in my G35 either, so visibility is right on point there. In addition to that though, rain-sensing windshield wipers coming standard on the Q60 Red Sport, so that is a huge plus as well. Perhaps the only room for improvement that I really found when it comes to visibility is a head up display might be nice, better help keep your eyes on the road, but other than that, it's not necessary. It's just maybe an option that they could throw in there if they wanted to, but they don't allow to. But anywho, that about rounds out the performance segment of this review. Let's now go ahead and take a look at the exterior of this Iridium Blue 2020 Infiniti Q60 Red Sport. All right, and here she is, you guys, with this amazing design, part of the reason why I got one back in the day. The design is 100% on point, really always has been with the Q60 and my old G35, but anyways, let's go ahead and start up front here. Black mesh front grille coming standard to the side's LED headlights with LED daytime running lights. And those headlights, of course, coming with the automatic feature, meaning when it starts to get dark out, they will turn on automatically for you there. Just below, front fog lights coming standard once again. And like I mentioned earlier with that proactive package that is also actually going to give you an adaptive front light system with auto leveling, meaning when you're going around a bend at night, that adaptive front lighting system will swivel based on your steering angle, better help illuminating what is around the bend. It's your less likely to hit a deer or any kind of other animals or even people really, but so that is definitely a huge safety feature in itself. But let's now go ahead and make our way to the side on this one. Chrome window surrounds coming standard, also chrome accending found on the doors. And you will get some chrome fender accending as well. They kind of look like boomerangs, but they definitely look good down there. Gloss black power adjustable heated side mirrors with LED integrated turd signals will come standard. And they will actually also be auto dimming side mirrors with the reverse tilt down feature. And so auto dimming meaning you usually have an auto dimming rear view mirror, but auto dimming side mirrors is one of those luxury features that you really do need to go with the luxury brand to get. So that is definitely a huge plus there. Taking a look down at the wheel set up 20 by nine inches up front, 20 by 9.5 inch aluminum alloys. If you were to go with the rear wheel drive configuration.  If you go that route, but either way, if you go with the all wheel drive setup, you don't have to worry about that. Then you can rotate the tires. And that is a 20 inch non staggered aluminum alloy setup with summer tires for the rear wheel drive setup and all season performance tires for the all wheel drive setup. And you don't need summer tires with the all wheel drive setup. Let me tell you, there was no loss of grip whatsoever during that acceleration. So tires are definitely on point with this one. So we're now making our way to the back integrated rear spoiler coming standard LED taillights. Also standard on this one. And just below it all, perhaps my favorite part, dual exhaust outlets with brushed satin tips. And look at the detail on these brushed satin tips. They look absolutely aggressive and menacing. And so I do believe you guys know what we have to do next. Therefore, as always here is that exhaust clip. All right, you guys, and so now since we are round back, when it comes to opening that rear trunk, there is a button on the key fob. So simply hold that down if you like. There is also a button by the driver's side left knee. That is another way to go about opening that rear trunk. But my favorite way to go about opening this one, there's actually a silver button within the driver's side taillight. You almost never see that. That's pretty quirky and that's pretty cool. So I do like that it's there, but I'm gonna pick that way to open it up any day of the week. But once opened up, cargo capacity is gonna come in at 8.7 cubic feet. If that was not enough space, there's rear seats, of course, do fold down for quite a bit of extra space there if you needed it. Make your way to the rear leg room. This is one of my favorite parts from my G35 back in the day. Rear leg room is actually all right for a two plus two-seater. It comes in at 32.4 inches. So believe it or not, I was able to fit my friends back there. And yeah, they weren't the most comfortable in the world, but it worked. So it does work for rear passengers, even if they're adults. So I don't know, for reference, I mean, even six feet tall, this is how much space I have back there. And they do have a little tray area in the middle with a couple cup holders as well. So rear passengers, although it might be a little bit cramped, of course, it's doable and it has been done by myself. So that's pretty cool. Make your way up to the front seats. Eight-way power adjustable front seats will come standard with power lumbar adjustment and power torso adjustment. You don't often see that. So we do love that. If you're taking the back roads a little bit faster, that's pretty cool. Heated front seats coming standard, of course, with a leather finish, although there are no ventilated seats. So I guess that's one drawback, but I don't really care quite honestly, personally at least. But taking a look at the steering wheel, it is tilt and telescoping. It is leather wrapped and it is heated. And that is a huge plus as well for super cold days in Pennsylvania. And I don't know if I mentioned it before, but the paddle shifters are finished in black to match the steering wheel. So a lot of other paddle shifters, just about in every other manufacturer, they're finished in a silver or a magnesium finish, but in the Infiniti, they are in black. And I kind of like it. They look pretty good up there, but taking our way to the startup, you will find all of those buttons located on one side of the key. Infinity logo at the very top. Lock-on-lock button to pop the rear hatch, that circular button at the very top, just below the Infiniti logo. That is your remote start coming standard, by the way. That's a huge plus. And of course, it's all keyless entry. So simply just leave the key in your pocket. Walk up to the Q60. There is a push button start located just to the right of the gauge setup. So I'm just gonna put my phone in the back here and press that engine start button. And so, but once started up, tachometer is on your left, speedometer is on your right. There is a smallish digital display front and center, which by the way, can be controlled by using the steering wheel mounted controls on the right side of the steering wheel.  There's your trip A, trip B, of course. There's a compass up there, what radio station you're on. There's some safety features, tire pressure information. When you need your next oil change, you're gonna find that actually saves you some money there. And there's a couple other things you can display up there if you wanted to as well. But maybe in the future, Infinity, if you wanted to throw a digital gauge setup up there, like Audi or Mercedes Benz or something like that, that'd be pretty cool too. But nonetheless, still a very nice gauge display up there. But now let's make our way to overall interior quality here. Power moonroof coming standard. There is a black headliner that comes standard since we're looking up at the moonroof right now. Would have loved to see that as like a microfiber suede headliner. That would be cool in the future as well. Dual-Zoon climate control coming standard overhead sunglass holder as well. And overall, a very high-end finish to the Q60 Red Sport.  There's a lot of fake carbon fiber going out there right now with other manufacturers, but Infinity uses the real deal on the doors, of course. Also just around the infotainment displays and around the cup holders down here by the shifter as well. So all of this authentic carbon fiber. I love the two-tone leather, the light leather with the dark leather contrast. There's some red stitching within that leather as well. Very, very high-end finishes. Also like the Pennsylvania Turnpike ticket holder up here on the driver's side vanity mirror. That's pretty cool. Also, home link controls for up to three different garage doors. That's a huge plus because the alternative is a rattling garage door opener on that vanity mirror. Nobody likes that. Overall, it's a very high-end finish as far as room for improvement goes. Maybe some ambient lighting would be pretty cool or some microfiber suede finishes to go along with that super high-end carbon fiber. So in the end, a very on-point finish just in front of the shifter, you have a 12-volt power outlet and some more charging ports within the center armrest. You got a USB charging port, phone port, auxiliary port, 12-volt power outlet once again. So definitely a very nice finish here. But to know you guys, I put it in the title of this video. There is one major change for the 2020 Q60 Red Sport and a change that is needed. And I wouldn't buy a car without this these days actually. And it has to do with the tech display. And so actually you have two infotainment screens front and center here. You have an eight-inch upper screen, a seven-inch lower screen. They're both color touch screen displays. Wouldn't have minded seeing one large tablet-style display screen up there or even a larger horizontal screen. But that's just my personal preference. But Bluetooth and audio streaming coming standard. But now the best part for the 2020 Q60 Red Sport, Android Auto and Apple CarPlay has finally arrived. That does come standard now in this one. And this is a huge deal for me. All you need to do is simply hook your smartphone up to the Q60. Therefore you have free navigation displayed up on that upper tech display. And with Google mapping, you know it's constantly updated. It actually detects speed traps on my way here for instance even. These are some of the reasons I love Android Auto, Apple CarPlay of course. You can actually also like and dislike your Pandora songs up on that screen as well. So definitely a huge fan. I'm glad Infinity finally put that on this one. Factory navigation system though, nonetheless coming standard. You can of course check out your radio settings up there as well. And by the way, when it comes to the sound system, I have a feeling this is gonna be another huge plus on this one. 13 speaker Bose sound system with metal or aluminum speakers. And they look absolutely wonderful. So what do you guys say? Let's go ahead and turn on the radio, see what we got playing today and let's test out the clarity of this one. Like it's water on my level, can't afford it, I'm a lying in my room. Massaging seats is what you get with that sound system. That was amazing. I also had a Bose sound system in the G35 that I used to have. It never broke on me, never failed me. Always had a ton of bass just like this one. Crystal clear. I absolutely love that sound system in the Q60 here. It's a well done infinity, well done Bose, I should say. So that was intense. Last thing I wanted to mention to you guys on that tech display though is when you do put the Q60 Red Sport in reverse you will find a rear view camera with a 360 degree monitor. Letting you know what is all around you so you don't go running anything or anyone over which is always is going to lead us into safety. And so to start front side, side curtain airbags will come standard. In the back you're gonna have latch AKA lower anchors and tethers for children for the rear car seats. Also tire pressure monitoring system. There is a blind spot monitor with rear cross traffic alert. Forward collision warning, forward emergency braking with pedestrian detection. All of this stuff coming standard on the Q60 Red Sport. And then once again alluding back to that proactive package that is going to an additional to what I already mentioned. Add adaptive cruise control, distance control assist, lane departure warning, blind spot intervention system, high beam assist, pre-crashed seat belts and an adaptive front lighting system like I had mentioned earlier with auto leveling. Ain't so good anyways, that is about it for this one you guys. Thank you so much for watching. Feel free to follow me on social media at the bottom of the screen there if you like. Be sure to hit the subscribe and the bell notification button if you're into new car reviews that is what we do here on this channel. After all, do appreciate you guys watching more than you know and I will see you guys all in the next video. Stay gold. All right, for all my JDM guys out there questioning where this thing is actually made, where the Q60 is assembled, it is 95% Japan. This is 100% JDM still to this day. That is awesome.