Good afternoon lovely people. How are you all feeling?  Oh now thumbs up very good. So it is 345 and I do like to start on time But there's not a lot of people in the room Shall we see if any other people want to get on the boat before we take off or shall we set sail? One person just made it Yeah, that's what I'm sort of wondering Hola We could And we're gonna chat a bit Nice and easy So what's consensus we wait a little bit?  All right. Well, just in case you were wondering what session you've come to you have come to the tools for talking session And this is a core conversation is Every one of you in the right place right now so far so good Remind me to slow down by the way. I listened to my presentation of last time and it was like Ching So I'm going to try to talk more slowly, okay So tools for talking this is very meta. It's the core conversation track The title is tools for talking and it's a talk This uh, this is amusing to me or was amusing to me at the time I submitted the session I Have a hashtag so, you know, feel free to extend the the meta-ness of the conversation about communication to social media channels Hash tools for talking This is not meant to be read. This is the for the fact that this session is being recorded I like to put the session abstract on a slide so it's easy and Referenceable and plausible and you can see what this was meant to be about There's also a bit of an outline there of how I hope the session will go I'm just going to refresh my memory Yeah, that's what I had in mind So just by way of a little bit of an introduction Probably about half of you. I don't need I actually know you for those of you who don't know me My name is Donna Benjamin. I'm also known as cut a club So you can find me on the Twitters and on dripple.org and on Skype and various places Also at Gmail if you want to get in touch with me cut a club is my handle from last century I also chair the community working group and It's that work which really led me to Want to give this kind of presentation or more correctly host this kind of conversation Communication is something that comes up a lot in our work in the community working group in terms of conflict resolution in terms of Resolving the kinds of issues that get raised the way we talk to each other the tools that we use All play a part and that was very instrumental in why I wanted to do this I've also I also sit on the board of the Drupal Association. I run my own business. I have a few other roles I'd like to say I have five jobs one for each day of the week It gets a little intense sometimes so why do I care about communication and Why do you all care about Communication you've come to this talk And if you read it carefully if you read the abstract and not just the title and the program It said at the bottom that there will be some participation Yeah, so you're up for that so Why do we care about communication? Why would we spend precious time at Drupal con? talking about talking in Terms of actual tooling So just to repeat for the recording Joel says that you know, we have two main methods of communication in our community We have IRC and we have the issue queues the issue queues aren't really weren't really designed for communicating They were designed for issue tracking more IRC is a communication channel and we wonder what other kind of tools they might be so what sorts of other Why else why are we why do you care about communication to come to a session like this? Megan Vicky Vicky Yep, as a designer Vicky's worried and I share your concerns that the Drupal world doesn't talk enough to Other kinds of communicators such as designers. Yeah Yeah, talk to Morton about design and the issue queue Megan you had a Struggling with communication itself and the challenges that the balance between what's intended and what's received and these things Aren't often can sometimes be different and how what are some of the ways we might look at look at that. Yeah other other contributions Why do you care about communication? Why have you come to Drupal con to sit in a session called tools for talking? Is that for good to sell what we are supposed to do so it cost counter reaction When we communicated the things correct way and solve these things to people who are working with us And they started to believe what we are doing That's when things change dramatically So I think that this is one of the reasons that you should care about communication Okay, so I'm going to try to summarize that is that as a as a team leader you were working in Thank You Allie you're working in a In a situation where communication was really important and you the communication worked in one way But then wasn't really filtered through the team in another and that then at a later point in time A better communication process was brought in into into practice And you were able to see the results were dramatically different from actually having a better process for communicating Thank You So I'm going to use a mic because I like people using mics I'm here because I have my own stack and tools for communicating But I'm interested in what everybody else everybody else's stack is like Thank you, and that's good practice This is going to be a challenging session to run in this way with a single mark and an apologies now for anyone listening to this After the fact there are going to be some dead spots as we actually have some group discussions But we're going to then have feedback and I'm going to work with a Archiving team later to see if we can just cut out those dead spots from the recording for the future archive So we don't need to worry about it in the room. Okay? So when we do report back though, we will be using the mic But the group discussion pieces will obviously just be nice moments of reflection for those watching the video Okay, so moving on Communication is a fundamental kind of human thing. It's a bit of a truism You know and why would I say it but we have you know We've all been given ears to hear and eyes to see and read so we have oral cues We have visual cues we read we watch we see body language and facial expressions We have mouths to speak and actually use our voices and you know, and it was actually Theo who reminded me It's also about the feelings that we have about communicating and when we're communicated with and I think that comes a bit to what Megan was saying is sometimes the feelings that we Our responses to what we're hearing may not necessarily match with the intent of the communicator and all of this all of this mixes together, so What I really wanted to do was break this into two Sections I want us to think about the tech tools that we use and so Joel's point to Using issue cues using IRC and there are a whole bunch of others Some of them are synchronous some of them are asynchronous real-time some of them let us hear tone of voice Let us see facial expressions You know the last one meet-ups and camps where we get to be face-to-face and read each other and we you know The role that that part plays so the actual methods, I guess that we use Technological methods, but then the other part that I want to also get into and explore Are the human tools for talking there have been? Communication skills and strategies and approaches and ways of responding to human behavior There's a whole range of these tools and this is by no means comprehensive. This is just some that I'm aware of There are a few more that I'm aware of that. I haven't put on the list this list, so I'm not going to come to you and say that one is the one that you should use what I've been What I've taken from a bunch of these is there's some really common elements in in all of them Some of them have actually the same message, but also they all have different elements and I'm kind of It's messy in my head But I feel like I pull on different tools at different times And just like the tech tools like sometimes IRC is right and sometimes the issue cue will do But sometimes we need to go to a hangout the kinds of Communication skills and strategies and approaches also you might need a different tool set for different scenarios So far so good Okay Now what I really want to do So I kind of go into the human tools a bit more I don't think with this audience that I really need to go deep into explaining what IRC is to any Does anyone actually not know what IRC is? Very good. Thank you the internet relay chat. It's a real-time chat forum. It's been around a long time It's being replaced by things like slack and hip chat and whatever but yeah, okay So what I want to do now and for the recording we're going to have a group discussion now So you probably want to kind of pause shortly after this And what I want us to do is kind of to huddle into groups and talk about the the tech tools that we use And what I what I would really like is if could someone could take some notes in that in during that discussion So that we can have a bit of a report back So we're going to have two separate discussions one quickly on tools One quickly well the tech tools and one then quickly on the human tools And then a slightly longer discussion on bringing those together and whether or not some some of the human tools Content fits better with the tech tool kind of content and yes, please use your feet if this isn't for you Please feel free to go somewhere else. That's fine by me. It's not going to be for everybody I I I appreciate that so Probably I don't know probably about three groups. I think this sort of cluster here cluster here and See if it's it's like a two or three over here. I'm not sure So I want you to the thing about the tech tools in specifically is To actually tease out why we use one over another What are the kinds of The kinds of discussions we have in orc What's the nature of the discussions that we have in issue queues, right? So that sort of you know really kind of tease it out to see what those kind of key criteria are So we'll do that one first and then we'll come back to the human tools so gather up Okay I'm going it's this is always harder to interrupt the conversations because I think they're really good ones But I do want us to move on to more of the the human tools for talking Now I've got a quick list here, um, and I I just want to give a quick summary of each of them I can't possibly cover the breadth of these But I also want to get as we go through each one a bit of a show of hands if if you're familiar With any of these approaches as we go through. Okay, and I know my my guru on one of them is in the room So I'm hoping that some of the others are familiar to you as well So powerful non defensive communication and I have a huge amount of gratitude to Melissa for introducing me to this because It is a really useful set of Tools for thinking about communication and more about how we respond and how we choose to respond I think is the real depth of this is Responding in a non defensive way is really key to not escalating into conflict A lot of the time. So this one's really powerful. So anyone who's familiar with this one before today Two of you. Okay, great. The next one is a little bit more commonly More commonly known is non violent communication anyone familiar with this one Few more. Yeah, so one of the things I think is interesting is there's there's definitely parallels between these two So you see observations Making observations is really important in PNDC as well as in NVC and then the the way you kind of respond to having made those observations is a bit different Active listening this one's even more widely known. Yep much more familiar Um, and and this is one of the ones where our online Communication tools really don't let us do that physical part And how we have to compensate for that is sort of one of those crossover areas that I want to explore Now I've put too many don't there's way too many words here, but who's familiar with appreciative inquiry? Okay, only a couple of you on that one It's less about Um pure communication skills and more about I guess a holistic approach to taking a positive Um Looking at things in a positive way and focusing on the positive to kind of move things forward in a more positive way to Bant rather than trying to figure out exactly what went wrong. Let's abandon that and focus on what went right It's a very crude summary, but Forgive me Transactional analysis Anyone familiar with this one? Listen those all the things. Yeah This was this one is actually the first that I was ever Familiar with because I was given a book called ta for tots when I was actually very small And the the parent adult child is a way of summarizing The nature of our interactions or our trends our communication transactions And whether or not they're at an adult to adult level Or a parent to child or a child parent the kind of different interactions there Who's familiar with ta? Couple of you The drama triangle and its flip side. Um this one this one when I was first First exposed is that the right word to to this one? It really was a real aha moment for me is to kind of get drawn into this and you don't really understand What's going on and you've been pulled into a what is actually a triangular kind of Transactional relationship with with someone or a group And the flip side is to take a more positive angle of it is to call the empowerment dynamic Instead of having victim persecutor and rescuer you have a creator a challenger and a coach To take a more More functional way of exploring that dynamic Who's familiar with either of those both Yeah, just the previous one. Yep And um and this one actually I've only just sort of come across even though it's just really a nice really obvious one The seven seeds of effective communication and actually I did see a nice little graphic which had a boat and Anyway, uh Carrying on clear concise concrete correct coherent complete And courteous which is kind of nice compared with the others there. It's it's a really nice collection of things so um That's really uh, I think that was yeah Those That one um just as you know a collection and they're probably others and so you know Many of you were familiar with one or more of these So, you know in the notes and perhaps in the feedback if there are others that I would I would really love to hear about them And share so what I want you to do now is just like we kind of explore the nature of those tech tools that we use How might some of these sorts of tools be used more effectively in our community to improve the nature of our communications Like this is a core conversation and came out of my work in the community working group that we were seeing Coming out of frustration of where we were in the cycle to be honest But the communication was key to either solving those or understanding those issues Sometimes poor communication was the cause of an issue. Sometimes great communication resolved something that had been Interactable, you know looking at something from a different perspective. So again, let's huddle up into our groups Share what you know about these kinds of tools and if you know of others Talk about perhaps the the commonalities between them and perhaps some of the outlying ideas over to you Pause the recording. Okay What I want you to do now is To you may have already been doing this but to start spring together those threads of the actual technology tools that we rely on and the nature of These kinds of approaches like not necessarily any given one of them But how would we how might we start to take some of the knowledge of this kind of stuff and apply it to the real Challenge that most of us, you know, we most of us have to communicate day to day Using tools of one kind or another our opportunity to get together and actually talk to each other and eyeball each other Like we're doing now is so slim in our community that we have to rely on these technologies But can we bring some of the knowledge from those other Strategies and approaches into when we have to communicate with these tools That's where I want you to bring those two threads together now for the next probably 10 or 15 minutes What I also want you to do though is to Come as you come to the end of that conversation is to bring it together because what I'd really like us to do Is to report back via the microphone from each group to just have a a bit of a quick summary of the kinds of insights That you've come to after this conversation Make sense clear Go Okay We're ready to do a bit of report back for the for the broader group and for our friends listening at home Anyone want to volunteer to go first? We've only got three groups. Yeah. Thanks, Megan Hello um From our group Well, do you want to hear from all of the brainstorming or just this most recent? Well, I was kind of hoping that the final one would bring bring together thoughts from the first so yeah um We kind of came up with the idea that communication really Goes through the interaction type you need so Email is asynchronous whereas a phone call could be immediate or intrusive also at the same time and A timeliness immediacy and the type of response desired kind of dictate what we use when um We also talked about one to one communication versus one to a group or many to many and what type of tools are useful And also public first private communication Like twitter and irc are very public whereas an email would be assumed that it was private um For active listening online When someone's typing you can say yes or okay kind of like you would in a conversation where you acknowledge that you're listening Use emoticons ask questions and follow-ups Uh with newer communication tools. They're more sophisticated with for example read receipts and um Not an answer means something now because delivered and not read is different from delivered red in no response um You can humanize online reactions I adding a person's picture next to comments in the issue queue So you know that you're talking to a person and not just an anonymous troll um and then um Kind of trying to stay Grounded when you're interacting with people online Any other from the rest of the group want to shout out any other key bits that Wanted to reinforce or no noddings all good. Thanks so much. Thanks so much Okay, and in either of the other groups want to do the middle spot Thanks, Becky So we had far fewer people. So we sort of were a bit more focused on one or two particular areas um, what we were Sort of the discussions came about with the first part were um our problems with sort of the issue queue and irc with the former that um, you know Things get buried and that you sometimes don't want sometimes it encourages sort of negative comments There's you don't have things such as you know plus one or you know I like that it's easier to sort of be negative or giving comments With irc, um, even though our team, you know, are mostly developers are saying it's the issue of it being Just overload you go in and there's just too much you have to turn it off And it's also um in ephemeral that you know, if you suddenly drop off you've lost everything There's no sense of history. So it can potentially be quite a sort of disjointed experience um So sort of thinking about ways to um, you know to improve that sort of some of the things which I think the other team Discussed came in having things such as being able to just have you know, plus ones or um acknowledge things I think as I was saying with the more sophisticated tools And um, I think that was sort of I'm trying to think if there are any other things that we discussed in terms of solutions Short and sweet Thanks Vicki And our and our final group Have a volunteer share back your thoughts Everyone's looking down somewhere else anyone No one Please pretty please You're being volunteered Ali All right, melissa. Thank you I'd say for the first part when we were talking about tools We started with just um the tools that were being used either in the business or just how many there are And then spoke a little bit I'm not even sure we put it in these terms, but now that I think about it About how much disclosure is required in advance So when you're in the issue queue You kind of have to put your whole message together and to put yourself out there and then you wait and there's latency When you get into irc, you don't have all the nonverbals, but you can still correct a misunderstanding Quite quickly so it doesn't sit out there misunderstood for a really long time potentially So there's the opportunity to go back and correct and then when you're talking on a hangout or face to face You cannot even have to disclose before you see they're not getting what you meant at all And maybe you want to back up and try again So we talked a little bit about that and then as we talked about the peep which is kind of people process not tool exactly but Then when we were talking about the people processes We went pretty quickly from these are all about our personal style of communication But they sit alongside decision-making structures And so we spent a little time talking about Actually most of the time talking about the decision-making structure More than we did about the human tools for talking because they're related in in how they work Very nice. Thank you any other It's that Thank you all so much for that even even in those summaries and I managed to pop into You know eavesdrop a little bit on some of the conversations But even in those summaries there were definitely elements that I hadn't really Gone into deeply in my thinking before this so Some of the key ones that that kind of really resonated for me as you spoke me megan was speaking about the using using Acknowledgements in irc like just to acknowledge that you're still there and you're listening you may not have something Necessarily to respond but an okay a yes and an act effectively you know just those sorts of little kind of things and You know vicky's note about you know how the tendency with irc is an example where you can just lose The conversation because of the nature of the technology and some people might use tools to stay online all the time But you know there is this kind of disjointedness about it and and earlier Sorry, what was your name? Christian was sort of saying that you know, there's there's a sort of Intimidating nature to irc that there's this huge long list of names there and it can sometimes really feel Like you go in you say something and then there's kind of crickets You know was that was it something I said or is no one awake? You know there's this sort of element of unknown You know and I really like that bringing in that sense of the decision-making structures alongside these kind of processes and methodologies is yes, they are they do either support or Distract from you know what the the work that might need to be done the decisions that that might need to be made so thank you all really Very much for you know Humoring me I guess and you know having these conversations and taking these insights further I guess now I I kind of want to give you all a job to do And that is Taking you know the big this is basically the beginning of a conversation and a way of thinking about the way we communicate now There are some heavy hitters in the room here today um, I really want to Recruit you I guess to have a more intentional and meaningful um Way forward in the way that we communicate how we might carry this conversation through our community To improve it generally I think a lot of the kinds of issues and conflicts that i'm seeing in the community working group really could be uh easier If we were more intentional about the about the way we actually communicate But it's not an easy meme to spread Right Which is why I need help And why if you have bothered to come to a session like this Um at dripple con I'm waving at you And thank you for you know putting this on You know if you if you've come and sat here through this session that you know, how might we You know, and this is I think another opportunity just to hear some last thoughts How might we take this forward into our community? How might we be more intentional about the way we communicate? Thanks, kane I'm going to use the actual microphone I don't know the rest of the group might Disagree with me, but Really the way I'd like to take that out is to have some kind of standard Right, one of the things that we've seen recently that I thought was pretty useful if not perfect is we have issue q summaries now Right, which say hey, this is why this is important. This is what remains. This is what it breaks. This is what it changes Can we have something like that for responding to issues for asking for decisions to be made? Right some kind of standard that we all just agree to that says okay when we interact in this type of situation This is the model we're going to follow and the example that I had is if you're submitting a medical paper to a journal Right, you have to start with research. You have to start with Here's the prior art Here's the status of things when we're talking about leukemia treatments, right? Here are the knowns Here are the successes. Here are the unknowns. Here's what we're going to talk about And and we don't do that consistently. I don't think so if we had a if you said hey, let's try this model I'd Be excited I like that idea or if we can come up with a model right, but can I subscribe to your newsletter? I know I really do and I wonder how we might take that forward I mean if we do have we do have coding standards Can we have Communicating standards and like the the issue the issue summary as a template when you go in as a tool to support that process so yeah Maybe we should file something in the community working group issue queue to say, you know, this this this is some work we could do to support To support that kind of work. Thanks. Can awesome Melissa I like that idea and I'm very supportive of it I just want to acknowledge that I think that it's at Deep odds with the narrative of the duocracy and we talked about that a little in the group The idea that you just get in there and do the work and Everybody is able to contribute and I think that there's a tension that we would have to pay as a community to reconciling A research-based experienced expert approach, which again, I am not arguing against this All right with the hey, you can this is approachable This is easy because clearly with the example from the medical Community we're talking about specialists and we have become A community of specialists and I don't believe that our identity as a community has caught up with that interesting reply But I think I think we do have and we talked about this too I think we have positive models for this already in the community And if how many of you have committed participated in a security issue? So what happened in a security issue? Of course is someone files it it gets reported and then the experts on the security team then reach out to subject matter experts Generally either the maintainer of the subsystem and or the module maintainer. I still get pinged I'm in maintainer dot text for node access. So if there's a node security issue I get pinged to review it right and then the process of course is you know the person who's Owns the responsibilities Takes on the the task of trying to fix it But that's then reviewed by another subject matter expert And then reviewed by the security team and then coordinated for release So, I mean, I think we do have some structures for these sites sorts of things. They're just not standardly applied Right. I guess I should also say that I actually hate the issue q summary And I never fill them out because I don't have I don't feel like I have enough time And I so I'm contradicting myself is what I'm saying That's a very human part of communication. So I think we've got time to hear tim and then we are out of time So, yeah, thank you all but yeah tim I just like I really like your idea Melissa's and Well, you know the whole everything about it I just there was interesting I was talking to Kathy Thays in the previous session about Trying to you know add something to the issue q to convey to people Like what basically whether or not they should bother working on something So like if this is it's a you know a major task for 8.0 Of course, you should spend the time on it But if it's some like minor feature requests for 8.1 Not everyone seeing that page knows that they Probably shouldn't spend the time on it today because it's not going to happen for for years But the the problem with that and the same thing with like the issues submission guidelines and the thing that says Don't put public security issues in the queue is no one reads that And I think we'll need to find some way. I don't have the answer But we need to find some way to convey it that isn't a block of text And I think that's going to be a huge challenge even if we come up with great guidelines and you know and they're easy and and not stressful and Not biased against on the English speak native English speakers and I'm all that if we take advice from Natalie's keynote this morning We should put pictures of food next to the guideline Sounds good Thanks, Tim. No, it's really really useful. Okay. We we are right on time I can has feedback, please um I know it's a really different kind of session to what we usually have at dribble pond So I would very much appreciate you taking the time to actually I've just done a you know a short url. That's just my session node Please Share your thoughts and it doesn't necessarily have to be pure session feedback if you've got some further thoughts to share And you want to share them with me? Privately then then put it in the evaluation notes If you want to share more publicly then perhaps leave some comments On the node and you know we can we can pick up some of these threads I think I will follow up with an issue in the community working groups Just to you know explore that idea and some of the pros and cons that we might hit there, but Really Can't express my gratitude enough that you know There were actually people in the room for this topic And that you were all so willing to engage in and participate in in discussion because You know, I'm this I have this discussion in my head. So it's really nice to hear The kinds of thoughts of other people some that resonate and Match and some new and some challenging ideas too. So thank you very much. Give yourselves a round of applause


Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to 31 Days of Halloween. I didn't get as much reading as I wanted to get done this month, so here for the last week we are going to be doing movie week. So some of my favorite recent new horror movies. I will not be talking about any of the Halloween's, but today we're going to be talking about Hellraiser. And if you're worried about book reviews, any more book reviews, I have one more coming for the final day of the month on Halloween. I will be reviewing Adam Cesar's Clown in the cornfield too. I'm currently reading that. I'm almost done and I wish there was more book reviews to give you. I just didn't have time. So anyways, I watched the new Hellraiser. It is available, I believe on Hulu. It is, here's for the too long didn't watch the TLDW here. I like the first Hellraiser. I like the second Hellraiser. I like pretty much all of the Hellraiser's. And I tell people that all the time and they're like, oh, what about the, now I have to do, I have to add this. I love all the Bradley Hellraiser's judgment and revelations. I think I didn't like either one of those, but I liked all the other ones with Bradley well enough. This one is my favorite Hellraiser since part two. If I had to do a listicle, it would probably be my third favorite right after one and two. My previously in the third spot, it was Hellraiser Bloodlines because I do love a bit of wackiness in space. I love Leprechaun in space, Critters in space, Jason X, Jason 10, whatever Jason in space. I love that whole subgenre and the cheesier the better. Not that Bloodlines was uber cheesy, but it had some really cheesy moments. You can't go to space without throwing some cheese in there. That's how I feel. I'm also a big fan of horror movies that don't take themselves too seriously. It either has to be super dark and serious for me, or it has to be cheesy to the point of comedy. Now, going back to talking about Hellraiser, this new one, I believe the person who plays Pinhead is Jamie Moulton. I probably should have researched that, did a fantastic job. I have no complaints about their performance. I enjoyed it. I loved it. In fact, I don't really have too many complaints. I don't have any complaints. Now, the more that I think about it, I don't really have any complaints. I think all of the staples of the series are there. Did they improve anything? No. Did they make anything worse? No. I like the new puzzle box. I like the new configurations. I liked all of that stuff. I love the cold open. Having that scene right there, right off the bat, was really, it pleased me as a horror fan. The way they kind of kept it hidden, the way Pinhead and the Cinnabites were not in it a whole hell of a lot, the clicker and the one with the hands. Those two really bothered me. I've never been scared or frightened by any of the Cinnabite designs. Cinnabite. Anyways, they've never upset me. But those two, the clicker, the one with the chattery teeth and the black lady, those two were absolutely horrifying. I love their designs. I do want to talk about one thing and that is people are saying the Cinnabites look plastic, they look fake, so on and so forth. I don't know. I enjoyed it. I liked the way they looked. I saw Bracken McLeod said it's the tamest of all the Hellraiser movies. Or it's the, I don't know, the most clinical or whatever. I don't want to misquote them, but that's paraphrasing anyways. And I don't know. I really, really liked this one. I think it was brutal. I think it was very well done. There was one thing that Duncan Ralston said that I kind of agree, that I actually not kind of, I completely agree with, was the characters, the victims were more interesting than any of the Cinnabites. So I don't know what, I'm having a problem saying Cinnabite. Is that right? Now my brain, you know when you say a word so many times, it doesn't, it doesn't sound right anymore. Is now I'm thinking of like Cinnabites, like Cinnamon Bites. What, what, what restaurant had that? Anyways, maybe I'm just hungry. But that's my review of Hellraiser. I don't know. I hope you liked it. I really enjoyed it. Like I said, top three for me out of the entire franchise, but I have very weird tastes. So if you have watched Hellraiser yourself, the new one, let me know down there in the doobly-doo where it stacks up, where it ranks for you in the franchise. But until next time, I have an E, you have an U. This has been another episode of 31 Days of Hala Wien. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye-bye.


How's it going? You might be thinking to yourself, Ethan, why are you using an ASMR microphone for this segment of the video? Well, I'll tell you why, it's because I have a slight cold, and so my nasal passages are very clogged up. So I don't want to make a lot of noise, but today I'm here to tell you about our wonderful sponsor. They've been on love to get real, which I also want to make. Gamers, it's time. I've been planning this video for a while now, and it's dumb.  If I were MrBeast, I would title this video. I spent 24 hours and a million dollars in round one. But I'm not MrBeast, but I might still title it that. We're about to go to round one, and by we, I mean me and all of my friends. Guys, say hi. I'm alone. But there is a game in round one that's a coin pushing game. And so what you do is you make little towers and stuff, and then the towers, you can push over and knock them into the thing.  So I'm going to max out five cards, which is about $500. And we're just going to spend the morning in round one. It is 10.17 a.m. They opened up at 10. So let's get to it, baby. Here we go, baby. We're going to get five of those. 31 times. That gets you the super bonus, baby. So we're currently building our first tower. It's right there. The total amount of coins so far is 120. But I have 26 spins left. So every one of these, you get another thing. What you want is the super bonus, because that's what gives you the most amount of tickets, which right now would be 1,000 tickets. But you let it spin. You let it spin. And then you can get 36, 24, 18. So I got 36. Wow. And I have 25 spins left. But the towers take forever, literally like 25 minutes. And it doesn't let you play until the tower is complete. So I might be here for literal hours trying to see what I can get. And the tower doesn't build that fast either. So we'll see how bad I regret this. I've also got, I have five of these.  And I've only used one.  This is going to take such a long time. I have four more cards after this. This was not a good idea. See, that's part of the challenge, I think. Trying to spend all of the cards. Oh baby, that's the super bonus. I have 1,089 extra tickets. What will that give me? Something really shitty probably. Okay, it's finally to the final one. Our coin tower is currently 756 coins tall. I think the max is 1200, but I don't actually know. Okay, okay, it's pushing. It's pushing it all out now. Yes, okay, so now what we have to do, gamers, is we just have to spam it so it gets all in the center. So, but the thing that we don't want is there to be another tower.  Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Guys, I got another tower. I got another tower. All right, 33 spins. I have 1,500 tickets though, so I guess that's cool. We're on the last couple of spins. I did get another super bonus, so I got another 1,000 tickets. So am I like almost 3,000 tickets? Last spin, maybe. What are we gonna get? What are we gonna get? Nope. I've been here for way longer than I should be, and I still have so many coins left, and that's still only the first card.     I'm gonna be here forever. This isn't even that fun.  Okay, here we go. It was 918. It's pushing it out now. God, they're right next to each other. So now I just have to spam it again. Hopefully I don't get another tower, but I will. Maybe I get some tickets. That would be fun. But you just gotta spam in the middle so then it goes in the center. It's literally just back to back things. That too, for another tower. Jesus Christ, please. Also, I can miss because there's a winner and a miss. The winner has to be dead in the center, which is why I'm doing this. And I'm probably about to get another tower. Yep. What if I just get a couple? What if I just strategize a little bit? 14. Easy peasy, baby. See now, we have 14 spins.  Or something. I don't know. I don't know. Stop looking at me. I'm loving this. I'm loving life. I'm loving everything about this. My favorite thing I've ever done. The best video I've ever had, any idea I've ever had. Look at these guys, so they're kissing. So after this one, I will try genuinely to get the tallest tower that I can. Because that one I slacked off, so next one I'll really try.    Now we just spam. Now we just spam. So get them all in the center. I want these full. Oh, it's close. And so am I. Oh, it's close. Come on, baby. Oh, it's close, but it's leaning. It's leaning. Oh, you can do it. I know you want to. I know. Oh, it's the whole thing.  My last guy.  Look at all the coins. Jesus Christ. Look. Oh, he's rocking. He's rocking. It's time. It's time. Oh, my God. That's a game. Or I have 4,000 tickets. That's it. That's it for that card. On to card number two. Let's go, baby. There it is, gamers. And it's still spitting out coins from the last thing. And we're about to get another tower also. All right, we'll see how many spins I can get, baby. 29 spins.  Here it comes. $8.94, baby. Hey, kids bonus. Wow. I have another 3,000. I have 6,000 total. Oh, another tower. Oh, great.  27. See again in a few. I haven't eaten and I'm starting to feel it. I just finished this last tower. It's currently at 726 coins. It'll probably go up to the top. Still no food in my body. I've been here for almost two hours now. I've gotten a few looks from people. Not because I'm having the camera out, I don't think. But I think people keep coming around and seeing me still here.  Time to spam it, baby. Let's see how many I can get. Oh, look at that. 822 on there. Oh, baby. You know we love it. Oh, but we are close to another tower. There it is. There's another one. See, look at this. 6,000 tickets, huh? We love that. We're about to go onto our third card of the month. And I just can't wait to be done with this. I have 40, 30. It already dumped over? There's an error. Here, you can keep this rolling while I have this conversation with this random person. Hi. I just had a game break over here when you have a sec. Oh, my tower's gonna tower just drop. You can hear it all. He's giving me so many free coins right now. Okay, he just dumped in both towers into here. So now I have a bunch of coin tickets, which I don't actually know what that translates to. Now it's onto the next card, baby.  I did. I sure did.  I sure did. I sure did. He gave me almost 3,000 tickets. I think after this run, I'm gonna just quickly go to another game. Maybe I'll get a slice of shitty pizza, too, because I haven't eaten anything. We have 1,200 coins left to dump into our little coin bussy. Look, this is going to be the last one. And then I'm gonna find one last coin for your game to just finish her out on. Because why not, you know? I've done my time here. 12 years of it in Azkaban. This guy down here, what I kind of want to happen, how did that, what the fuck? I got 900, exactly 900 on that last tower. And boy, oh, boy, friends, this guy is catering close to the edge. And that's how you do it, baby. Thank you so much for believing in me. I'm about to get another tower again. So I don't actually want another tower. I want to be free from this hell. That's actually what I want. I've been recording for 46 seconds and I'm already gonna get another tower. Oh, I am one away from another bonus, though. I have four spins to try and get the super bonus. Could be huge. Let's get some Pogs and Chat gamers. If you're watching this right now, put some Pogs in the comments, dude. I want to see Pogs. Oh, thank you guys so much for the Pogs. Look at all those Pogs and Chat. Come on, come on now. That's gonna help me with the win.  Oh my God. I've been here for almost three hours now. And uh, sorry. I have a boner. That's why we do this. I was busy swiping. I didn't even see it happen. That was our second to last card, gamers.  That's just that card. We have four other cards or three other cards. This could be some of our final towers happening. All right, gamers. It was a thousand things. I've got 78 coins left. This is the final thing. Here we go. Happy New Year, Pogs.  And we're about to get 10,000 tickets.  This is gonna keep spitting out coins for a bit. And it's only gonna go to my thing. So I have one card left, but I want to actually go and play a different game. And then we're gonna see how many tickets I ended up getting. I've been here. It is currently 143. I've been here for almost four hours. I've been here since 10.15 a.m. Here we go, gamers. Oh, see? The kids behind. They're going over there while the thing is still on my thing. We found our new game. I'm loading up this entire thing with one final card.  You shouldn't do this. But hey, I'm making content so I can. See, am I still getting? I am still getting tickets. Okay, it's still going. Great, good stuff. We have a thousand shots, gamers. I don't really know what this is. I don't really know what we do. Oh, we get marbles. Look at all the marbles. We get three marbles. What you have to do is you have to collect the cards. So these cards drop. And if you collect all of them, then you get three thousand tickets. This is still going. And it's still all me. I go, oh my God. It's so close. I don't know why it's still going. Here we go. It's the last shot. And I get this final card. Does it even really matter? I've gotten like 50 cards so far. There it is, baby. The last balls. Wow. I got a bonus wheel for the very last ball. All right, here we go. Bonus wheel. Bonus wheel. I thought we were about to get super bonus marble. Is this still going? It finally stopped. Wow. Somebody else can finally play. I think it stopped because it got an error. I might see if the guy can get me all those things. Oh no. Okay, so this is right here, the thousand thing. And I got an error on it. So they're sending a person over. I kind of hope it's the same guy from last time because he might just swipe it in. So I lied. It's still going after all this time. There's a chance of this guy going in. He said that there were so many points down there that they jammed up the entire thing. I have 11,000 tickets on just this one card. So I think I might be closing it on 30. Here we go, here we go, here we go. Here we go, here we go, here we go. It's about to go in. No way. With it right here, it stopped. It got another error. Come on. Happened. Happened for me. Do it. Do it. It's so close. There it goes, baby. There it goes.  I didn't get all of those, so I'm leaving me. Good luck, child. All right, it's time to check how many points I have. This one. 11,000, 17,000, 12,000, 10,000, and 615. Whoever's editing, add up the math, ready? That's so much. Wow.  You get a bike. I could get a snowboard. It's endless.


Well, hi there. My name is Sandy Olak, artist and paper crafter here on YouTube, and I'm calling this video The Great Dog Pumpkin. I don't know if you've seen The Great Pumpkin by Charlie Brown, but this is The Great Dog Pumpkin here with a Lawn Fawn stamp set. These are so cute. I love these dogs. I did some fancy stamping and masking with them. And if you haven't seen my masking video, a lot of people have found that to be very helpful. And I use that technique to create the scene that I'm using here, along with my misty. And just stamp the things in front first and then the things behind afterward. What I'm doing is coloring with my watercolor pencils. And you can see I'm kind of scribbling along, and I'm not worrying about every bit of coloring being absolutely perfect. And you'll see why as soon as I hit it with the water. These are the Albrecht Durer pencils that I'm using today. And on each of the dogs, I wanted them to feel a little bit different from each other. Didn't want them to feel like they were exactly the same.  And with any of the animals that you've got in your stamp collection, always consider making some adjustments to them so that they look like animals that you know. It's a whole lot more fun that way. And I am filling in all my colors. And you can see I'm using a dark shadow color for my shadows. A lot of folks will use just one color for their shading. But I wanted to show you how you can do this with multiple colors without the watercolor kind of blending all the colors together. Because that's one challenge that I found as I was teaching all summer with watercolor pencils, that a lot of people had a big aha moment when I realized that if you're used to taking your brush and touching it to the darkest area first, all the color mushes into one color. So I'm going to show you when I get my water out how to do this so you retain some of that shading. So I'm coloring everything in. And I'm sharpening my pencils pretty good in between. And I'm using the cold press paper. This is not the rough. The rough is a little bit challenging to use with watercolor pencils. But I'm using the the pencils in a very sharp fashion. And the pencil sharpeners also listed in the description if you want a good one because I did find one good one that I've shared with lots of people. And many of you have said you were skeptical because it's not an inexpensive one. But as soon as you sharpened your pencil, you went, oh, now I see what she's talking about. So I share that again with you because yes, it's important when you want a good sharp pencil. So I'm going to add a little bit of purple color now to all of my browns and oranges. And that's the color that I decided would be one of my accents. Get my mustard on the dog. And now let's jump in with the brush. I'm using a silver brush. This is the number six. And even though I often recommend a four or a six, I do find that having a larger brush can often be a really big help. As I probably, I hopefully have mentioned before, I may have mentioned it to people in person and not as much here on YouTube. But I watched a video where the person said in order to get looser with watercolor, she found that using a brush bigger than what she thought she needed was helping her to become looser with her watercolor. And that seems to have helped me a lot as well. So I'm using a six, almost as my tiniest brush nowadays and switching to larger brushes as I'm able. So however big you're able to afford, I would just recommend trying a larger brush if you can. Just add another to your order next time you place one and try it and see what happens. So here you notice that I did my yellow first, I watercolored the yellow first, and then started touching the orange and I didn't touch the brown yet. And now I'm going in to touch the brown. I'm going to get some blending between them. And I can, once I've got all the colors in there, then I can start moving the color around in a controlled fashion. But I'm, I guess I used to and I don't know how many of you guys do, but I used to start with the darkest color and then paint toward the light. But if you start with the light and then paint toward the dark, you can retain some of that light area. And sometimes you don't even actually need to do strokes. And I'll show you some of that as we go along. So I'm going to speed this up a little bit further here. And keep on the painting, just adding my water in the lightest area, and then going into the darker areas. Whatever pencils you use will determine how much water to use. I find that a good amount of water is usually really helpful. If you use a damp brush, you're not going to get much to move at all. And here's one of those places where you can see that I added the water in the light gray, and then I'm tapping into the black area. And that's going to help to keep the dog space from getting all black. You can see it there better than you could even in the pumpkins. So hopefully that was helpful. But anyway, depending on the the kind of pencils you're using, you may need more or less water. And depending on the kind of paper, you may need more or less water. So experiment with it. Try it out on some scratch paper, try a few swatches or even stamp a few images and try them and see what works best for you in that particular image so that you can kind of know by the time you're ready to go to your finished card how much water you want to try to use. But it's helpful to to use a good bit because that pigment floats up off the surface of the paper. If you have a smoother paper, then you may find a different amount of water is required or not required so that you may need to change depending on what kind of paper you're using, as well as what kind of brand of pencils that you're using. But these favor castells are really fun. And here I had some brown that was left on my brush. So I decided to add a little bit of shadow to each of the dog bones. Now the background is going to be a whole lot of fun. And while everything else is drying, I thought I would start with a layer of the glowing color. So I'm going to have a color glowing around each one of these so the little magical bones are going to be flying through the air as well as a glow around the moon. And so I'm using the same kind of purplish color that I used on the little cape on my little caped puppy. And then just going to add water. When you want to blend something into white, and I don't necessarily want to blend it into white here, but I'm showing you this so you can see that, just add a lot of clean water around it. Every time my brush leaves the camera here, you can just guarantee that I'm dumping my brush into some clean water and bringing clean water back to the image.   And you'll also notice one of the things that I did during this whole thing was to color just kind of bounce back and forth with my brush and not color areas that were right next to each other that were wet, because I didn't want to pull from one color into another. So while everything else is drying, I'm trying to color the sky, just trying to manage how much of everything I'm doing so that I can keep working. And I'm trying to stay away from any of the areas that are damp. So I'm staying away from that pinkish area. You're going to see something in a few minutes that will show you what happens when you start coloring over something that's not dry. I tend to not like to heat set things in between anymore when I'm doing watercolor or watercolor pencil work. It just does something to the paper that I'm not really thrilled with. But you can see right around the moon. As I touch, I'll go back up there in just a second. But right close to the moon, you can see a shift in that blue color. So as soon as I saw that blue color starting and right there, you can tell there's a little lighter blue. That's where some of that water had been. So I'm being a little bit careful around there, because if you color with watercolor pencil over top of water, sometimes you can never move that color again. And I don't want to get to that point. I want to be able to move it all. But since I was plowing through, I decided to just keep plowing through and be really gentle with it and cross my fingers that I didn't have to start the video all over again if I messed this up. So I'm going to add a little more purple, that darker purple color that I used on the little puppy's cape and put a little of that color in the sky. And everything else is pretty much dry enough now that I can start doing my water coloring. I'm starting with my lightest areas and keep going in with clean water to add to them. Because if I pick that brush up and I move it right back over those areas right next to the moon, I'm going to end up dragging more of the dark blue right in there. There's a bunch of different ways that you can do a background. Here I'm just kind of tapping the water. Once I get a flood of water in there, just a total puddle, I'm tapping to move the color around. And depending on how dark or how light you want that color, then this might work for you if you're doing a lighter sky. Watercolor pencil and watercolor in general will always dry a little bit lighter than what you put it on as. So if you let it air dry, you'll notice it will end up getting lighter. But you can do a sky like this. I'm just kind of moving the color around with the brush and trying to clear off some areas. And I'm watching where any of the hard edges start to appear as things start to dry. So you want to keep an eye on it and just start to keep your eye moving around different areas so you can control them if they start getting weird on you. Now once it did dry, I decided that I was going to add more to it. You can see how much it dried back. And I wanted a richer sky. I didn't want to have just that really super light sky. So since this is watercolor pencil, I thought I'm going to leave it looking like watercolor pencil. And I started going over a lot of this and I used a very sharp pencil. And I used a couple of my blues that I'd already used as well as switch to an even darker blue here for the sky. And then just kept going in, you know, with my very sharp pencil into that texture so I could try to make it smooth. And you can add more water to it again and make it just another layer on top. But I was really liking how this ended up looking with the texture. I thought the texture was pretty cool. It took a while to do this. So I'm not going to tell you this is not for the faint of heart. It's not something that I recommend to anybody who doesn't have patience. But I loved how this one came out because I was able to really control with the pencil and not worry so much about the brush and the blending and the hard edges and the soft edges and everything. It's a background that is kind of behind the image. And the little dogs are what everybody's really going to be looking at. So I added some gel pen stars in the background and a sentiment on the bottom. A couple layers of paper on the card. And it's a nice flat one that I can send easily through the mail for Halloween.  So I hope you enjoyed that. On the left is a comparison of a couple different brands of well I should say a bunch of different brands of watercolor pencil that I did recently. And the other two are different watercolor pencil videos that I have done if you're interested in seeing some more of those. And you can also hit the subscribe button if you have not yet because I put out lots of videos and have lots more I'd love to share with you. And I will see you next time. Take care. Bye bye.


Song still has it. Danny Rose in support from the left-hand side. Danger once again. Rose is crossed. Morris header! Travers again! Brilliant goalkeeping! Morris header! Travers heading for the top corner, threw up his hand and calmed it away. Here's Song from the short corner now. Song tried to go past Lerler, but no way past the Colombian wall, and Cherries will try and bring it away. Fraser can't quite manage to smuggle it clear. And then he goes down under Preston, Song. And Song's pushed Lander over. That's going to be a red card for Song. You don't get away with that at Jefferson Lermer. Song couldn't win. It's a moment of madness in the career, and he's just back from suspension.  I just don't understand what he was thinking there, Song. It was some sort of altercation, but he just, two arms, pushes him over, and the referee's got no option. Fraser was pushed by Song. Jefferson Lermer tried to take a quick free kick, and Song, for some reason, Song wasn't... That's just what he's doing. 4-2-2-1. That's a bad challenge. Bad challenge on Simpson from one point. He's gone through the young man. It's another red card! After two minutes having come on as a substitute. And Spurs are down to nine. Oh, this could get interesting now, Chris. Well, Jack Simpson has been left in the heat by that challenge from one point. And Spurs are literally falling like flies. We're getting a replay here. Has he lost control of the ball for it?  Sliding. He's made an attempt to get the ball, but it's a high one. He's caught him high. It's a horror tackle, lad. Four minutes remaining. About a time. The ball says four. That's not at this moment, but whatever he says, finish it. Game it, if he could get a goal. That's one of those. Does he go up with two million pounds of place in the Premier League? A point could be very valuable at the moment. Crazer's ball in. The head's going up again. It's one Tottenham Mill.


We're here at the ITU Planning Potentiary Conference 2014 in Busan in the Republic of Korea, and I'm very pleased to be joined by Monique Moreau, who is CTO of the Services Organization of the Cisco. Monique, thank you very much indeed for being with us today. Well, it's great to be here. Thank you. I also want to state a great thank you to the ITU for bringing this issue forward on behalf of all women in technology as well as the UN Women's Organization. I think this is a great opportunity and platform to have this level of a discussion, so absolutely passionate, as you well know, about this topic. Because we're going to be talking about the GemTech Awards, which are happening actually tomorrow, the 28th, and I wanted to ask you, why are you passionate about gender equality and mainstream reform in technology? Oh, absolutely. I mean, we've had women pioneers before us, and we have those who are actually taking a great deal of risk now, and of course, we want to set the tone for the future. Until we have parity 50-50, this will always be an issue, and it's a global issue throughout the world. And so what we talk about, what I want to see is no glass ceiling. What I want to see is a pipeline that we keep forward for women in technology and also not only for girls studying technology, but also women who are actually entering the workforce. And I can't stress enough how important this issue is for me personally because it touches me personally, but also for all women in technology. I think we need more advocates in this space. How achievable is that? I mean, could you provide us an example, for example, of what private industry needs to do better, for example, at Cisco? Sure. And I think this is a great example. As you well know, Cisco is a tremendous advocate for STEM, as well as for girls in ICT. We have our network academy, so we have an external view. We also have a CTO, who happens to be a woman. Her name is Padma Sriwoyar, as well as a CMO. Her name is Blair Christie, as well as our CIO, who happens to be Rebecca Jacoby. But here's the issue. I think what we need to do is not only talk about what we're advocating externally, but what we're doing, what we need to do internally. So here's the opportunity. We have at Cisco women in science and engineering. We have women in technology. But what is more unique, and I'm so happy to speak about that, is men for inclusion, Cisco men for inclusion, Cisco men who are going where no male allies have ever gone before. Because this is the power of the end. We need more males to advocate for women. We need more males to be part of that in terms of changing not only the talent force, where we can become a great company to work at, but also the culture. Because there's a lot of bias that we need to pay attention to. Just because a woman is quiet in the room doesn't mean that she's not less intellectual. Or just because a woman doesn't take on a risk assignment doesn't mean that she's non-capable. So we want to have, what I'm so proud of is that now you have Cisco men who are actually looking at metrics for inclusion. And they're looking at the next five years of breaking down the barriers within Cisco to make it very, very a force for women to, as partners, for opportunity, and for women to look towards men for reciprocity. I think this is great. And I also want to state one thing, is the former U.S. Secretary of the United States, Madeleine Albright, had stated, there is a special place in hell for women who don't help women. But I will say there's a special place in heaven for men who help women. That's a great positive attitude. I'm very much on that side. I mean, I've got two daughters, age nine and 11. They're going to be coming up through the workforce. I mean, how long do you think this will take? You know, it's a great question because we're talking about 50-50 at the end of the day. I mean, this is a world challenge. I always talk about the Hall of Fame and the Walk of Shame. And I know that there are, we have millennials coming into the workforce. We can look at all kinds of opportunities to change. And I always stated that it's no longer an issue when it's really ingrained in our DNA. And where countries have platforms that are encouraging more women to go into technology. And actually, we have companies that are actually advocating women in technology. And universities at the same token advocating women to pursue perhaps a career in technology or in research. You know, I'm optimistic. I'm cautiously optimistic that there will be change. But remember, it's all about 50-50 at the end of the day. Cisco is a silver partner of the GemTech Awards. Why is it important for Cisco to be supporting these awards? Well, as my colleague Dr. Robert Pepper could not be here for this interview today, Cisco believes very strongly in this space about STEM and about really advocating for women and girls in technology. And the ITU has served as a wonderful platform to do so, as well as United Nations. So we have no issue to be a sponsor. And we would like to also pursue our sponsorship moving forward. We think this is a great platform. It's for us a no-brainer at the end of the day. Monimora, thank you very much in Deeping-Lews today. Thank you very much.


Hey guys a little bit of a different video here today but I'm going to be talking about what I think was the best racing game of 2017. Now if any of you have watched my last few videos you have noticed that I've talked a little bit about Victor Lucas being a sponsor and helping out his show EP Daily a show that I've grown up with as a kid and it's one of the greatest media platforms for anything about video games and movies. So Vic sent out a message to all the current sponsors talking about contributing to the Rocket and Ray Gun Awards. He gave us a list of all these categories and he told us to do a little video talking about what we thought was the best game in that category. I didn't play a lot of games this year admittedly I was really just waiting for Shadow of War but I did find another great racing game. I've had this unorthodox tradition of finding a great racing game at the end of each year. In 2016 I finally dived into the Forza Horizon universe and played Forza Horizon 3 which in my opinion is still one of the greatest racing games of all time. In 2017 I dived back into a series that I started playing back when I was 14 years old. If anything it's probably the first racing series I ever played the Dirt series. Call of McCray rally games have been a part of my life for years. So when I finally dived back into Dirt 4 it was like coming home. The game has some of the best driving simulation mechanics in the industry today. Admittedly going from Forza Horizon 3 to this game was a bit of a challenge considering you go from a game where you can drive into trees and have no consequences to a game where you make the slightest mistake and everything goes wrong. The game offers three different styles of rally racing starting off with the classic stage setting. This is a single car race where you have to navigate through twists and turns over and under and through several different obstacles. One of the greatest aspects of Dirt 4 is how you will never do the same stage track twice. There is a random map generator which will generate different tracks, different turns, different aspects of each stage. So you are always going into something new, you are always having your limits tested and it is an amazingly fun time. Then there's the rally cross segment that lets the player get behind these super powered tiny little rally cars and drive in these multi car races with different changes in the environment, changes in the weather and he goes from pavement to dirt and back.  Then there's the off-road truck portion where you're pushing these super high powered vehicles over these giant jumps smashing the chassis and bashing against other trucks and just revving the engine. Now like I said earlier, this is a simulation game first. You can play with a casual difficulty but you're robbing yourself of the real experience of playing it on simulation. The game is so committed to being an actual simulation environment that the manual gearing can go as far as having to use a clutch and move the right analog stick into the proper position. If you can do that well, good on you, I'm still trying. Every time you think you've got the mechanics of the game down with the current car you're driving, they put you in a faster car and you start from scratch basically. Now some racing game fans especially from this current generation may not enjoy this game as much because of its frustrating difficulty. It is nowhere near as forgiving as the Forza series. While the game is challenging, it's always rewarding you for finishing stages. As you level up and get more and more abilities in terms of what you can get for your crew as well as what you can get for your car, the game opens up more avenues. The visual aspect of this game is also fantastic from the damage to the car to the sweeping vistas that you drive through to the actual different gradations of dirt that apply to your truck or your car as you go through stages. And of course you can't talk about the dirt series about talking about the absolutely fantastic sound design. From the roar of the engine to the pop of the exhaust to the squeal of the tire going from dirt to pavement to snow to the authenticity of the navigators. In the end, Dirt 4 is fun, aggressive and it's incredibly loyal to the fans of the Dirt series and the Colin McCrae series before that. Codemasters definitely brings back the glory days of the Dirt series and that's why it's my favorite racing game of 2017. 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I'm Atil Noy Hoseyamada from NTT and Nagoya University.This is a talk on quantum collision attacks on reduced SHAR256 and SHAR512.This is a joint work with my colleague Yusasati.This is our results.We showed the first directly to quantum collision attacks on SHAR2.More concretely, we showed a 38-step attack on SHAR256 and 39-step attack on SHAR512.クラシカルセッティングで コリジョンアタックスを達成31-step for SHAR256 and 27-step for SHAR512.So, we extended the number of attack steps by 7 and 12.However, these steps are still far from full rounds, full steps,because the number of full steps are 6, T4, and 80 respectivelyfor SHAR256 and for SHAR512.The attack idea is like this.We convert classical semi-free start collisions on 38-step SHAR256and 39-step SHAR512 into collisions in the quantum setting.Our attacks are valid in the setting of time-space trade-off,but invalid in other quantum settings.So, in the quantum setting, we can consider three settings depending on available computational resources.I will explain details later.And next, first, I'd like to explain about the basics of classical collision attacks.So, in the classical setting, the generic attack or the birthday attackfinds a collision of a random function in time 2 to the power n over 2if the output length of the random function is n.And so, in the classical setting, a dedicated collision attackon a concrete hash function is considered to be validif and only if its time complexity is less than the birthday bound2 to the power n over 2.And next, I'd like to explain about the number of attack steps.So, usually, a hash function is made from a smaller primitivesuch as compression function or permutation and so on.And such compression function and permutation iterates many steps like this.And suppose compression function iterates 10 steps like this.Then, usually, it is very hard to find a valid collision attackon original primitive.And so, when an original primitive is hard to break,usually, symmetric equilibrium analysis try to break its reduced step variance.And this picture illustrates the case of a six-step variant.So, here, we try to find a valid collision attackon this six-step function.And if we succeed to find a valid collision attackon this function,then we try to find a dedicated collision attackon seven-step function.And then, we try to attack eight-step function and nine-step function.And then, finally, the original ten-step function.And if the original ten-step function is broken,then we consider that the hash function is broken.And the important thing is how many steps can we breakrather than the actual complexity.This is the important point.And next, I'd like to provide a brief remarkon differential cryptanalysis.So, in the classical setting, one of the most basic approachesto mount a collision attack is differential cryptanalysis.And very roughly speaking, when we have a suitable differentialtool over which probability is P,then we can mount a collision attack over time one over P.And this attack is valid if and only ifthe time complexity one over P is less than 2 to the power n over 2.So, it means that the differential tool is to a valid attackonly if the differential probability P is greater than the birthday bound2 to the power minus n over 2.And next, I'd like to explain about some observationson dedicated quantum collision attacksthat we presented at Euroflip 2020.So, as I mentioned before, we can consider three settingsin the quantum setting, depending on available computational resources.In the first setting, we assume that a small quantum computerof polynomial size and a large quantum realmof exponential size are available.In this setting, the best generic collision attackor the best generic algorithm is the BHD algorithmwhich finds a collision in time 2 to the power n over 3by using a quantum realm of size 2 to the power n over 3.However, it is unclear whether such a large quantum realmis available.So, we also consider these other two settings.In the second setting, we assume that the efficiencyofa quantum algorithm is measured by its time-space droid-off.And we assume that a quantum computerof sizesand classical computerof sizes are available.In this setting, the best generic collision attackis the parallel row method as observed by Bernstein.And its droid-off is t is equal to 2 to the power n over 2 over s.And in the third setting, we assume that a small quantum computerof polynomial size and a large classical memoryis available.In this setting, the best generic algorithm is the CNS algorithmwhich finds a collision in time 2 to the power 2 n over 5by using a classical memory of size 2 to the power n over 5.So, we consider these three settings and we considergeneric attack in each setting.And next, the important point is the quantum speedupfor generic quantum attack is always less than quadratic.Because in the classical setting, the generic complexity is 2 to the power n over 2.And in each quantum setting, the generic complexity does not achieve 2 to the power n over 4.So, we can say that the quantum speedup for generic collision attack is always less than quadratic.And next, I would like to explain about the speedupfor differential of cryptanalysis.Very roughly speaking, the time to find a collision with a differential path of probability p is in the classical setting 1 over p.But in the quantum setting, this can be speedup like this.The square root of 1 over p by using the global search.And so, very roughly speaking, we can obtain a quadratic speedup for differential cryptanalysis.And so, the situation can be summarized like this.For generic collision attack, we can obtain always less than quadratic speedup.But for differential cryptanalysis, we can obtaina quadratic speedup by using the global search.And so, the differential cryptanalysis becomes relatively stronger in the quantum setting.And this implies that the validity condition p is greater than 2 to the power minus n over 2 can be relaxed in the quantum setting.For example, in the first quantum setting where a smallcomputer and large quantum RAM is available, the generic complexity is 2 to the power n over 3.And the complexity of the differential cryptanalysis is like this.So, in this quantum setting, derogated collision attack based on differential cryptanalysis is valid only if the square root of 1 over p is less than the generic complexity 2 to the power n over 3.And this is equivalent to this condition.And here, please note that this condition is much relaxed from the classical condition p is greater than 2 to the power minus n over 2.And so, in particular, the differential probability p may lead to a valid attack even if p is this than the birthday bound 2 to the power minus n over 2.And similarly, in the second quantum setting of time-space tradeoff, the generic complexity is like this.And so, in this setting, a collision attack based on differential cryptanalysis that requires space S is valid only if the time complexity, the square root of 1 over p is less than the generic complexity, this one.And this is equivalent to this condition.And this means that the differential probability p may lead to a valid attack even if p is very close to 2 to the power minus n if the space S require to differential cryptanalysis is very small.And so, at Eurocrypt 2020, we observed that the condition for differential probability p can be relaxed in the quantum setting.And this means that derogated quantum collision attacks can rate more steps than classical attacks.And we indeed showed derogated quantum attacks quantum collision attacks on AIS-MMU and Warpul that break more steps than classical attacks.However, these functions AIS-MMU and Warpul are less popular compared to more popular functions such asSHA2 orSHA3.So after Eurocrypt 2020, we had this question.Can we similarly extend the number of attack steps over SHA2 in the quantum setting?This is the starting point of our research.And next, I'd like to explain about the basics of SHA2.So SHA2 is the current most popular hash function of the family standardized by NIST.And it consists of several functions, these functions.And the first one, SHA224, is a trans-liquid version of SHA256.And these functions are also trans-liquid versions of SHA512.And SHA2 is built based on the Davis-Meyer construction and the Margaret-Dangan construction.And recall that the Margaret-Dangan construction looks like this.First, the input message is parted and split it like this.And then, the first message block is processed with the compression functionwith the initial value.And then, this output, or chaining value,is again processed with the second message blockby using the compression function.And again, this chaining value is processedwith the third message block by using the compression function.And this value becomes the output.And the important point is this initial valueis specified and fixed constant.So this is the Margaret-Dangan construction.This construction converts a small compression functionof fixed input output links into a large hash functionof variable input links.And next, to make a compression function,we usually use block cipher.So we first make a block cipher and then convert itinto a compression function by using constructionssuch as Davis-Meyer construction,or MM construction,or MPA construction,and so on.And SHA2 uses the Davis-Meyer construction,which looks like this.So in this construction,T corresponds to the input messageof the block cipher corresponds tothe input message of the compression function.And the message of the block cipher correspondsto the chaining value of the compression function.And then, the output of the block cipheris addedwith the chaining value,like this.Actually, this operation is notmodular addition in SHA2,so the operation does not playa significant role.So I do not explain details here.Anyways, in summary, SHA2 is built like this.First, there is a block cipherand it is convertedinto a compression functionby using the Davis-Meyer construction.And then it is convertedinto a hash functionof variable input linksby using the Markl-Dungard construction.Next, I would like to explain aboutsemi-free-start collision.So recall that a collisionof a Markl-Dungard hash functionlooks like this.So messages are different,but outputs are equal.And next,so the initial values are also equal.And the important point isthis value is equal tothe original specified constant.This is the important point.And next,so this is a semi-free-start collisionof a hash function.Again,messages are different,and output values are equal.And iVis are equal.But now the important point isthis value, iVprime,is not necessarily equalto the original specified constant.So in summary,we talk about collision,we assume that iVis are equalto the specified,original specified value.And when we talk aboutsemi-free-start collision,we assume that iVis are the same,but not equal to the original specified constant.So this is the differencebetween collisionand semi-free-start collision.And next,I would like to explain aboutin the classical setting.So in the classical setting,Mendel et al. showed a 31-steporiginal attack on SHA-256and 38-stepsemi-free-start collision attack on SHA-256.These attacks are based on differentialclip-types,and differentialcharacteristic,and some partsof conforming message pairs,andinternal states are such simultaneouslywith automated tools.And the characteristic isvery complicatedlike this.So this is the 31-stepcharacteristic.And I do notexplain details,but this partcorresponds to some conditionsfor internal states.And this partcorresponds to some conditionsfor message walls.And very roughlyspeaking,these characters 0and 1and n and usays that there existsome strict conditions forGIS bits.And other bitsdeleted by hyphomemeans that these bitsdo not have such strict conditions.And so anyways,thecharacteristic is very complicated.And the important pointis the 31-step collision attackis mounted by combating31-stepsemi-free-start collisionsinto a collision.This isthe important point.And I would like to explain details next.So,menterator showed thatwe can make many semi-free-start collisions of the completion functionfrom that complicated differentialcharacteristic.So the part ofsome part of messagesand some part ofsome part of IVsand some part of internal statesare fixed by the differentialcharacteristic.However,some part still have somedegrees of freedom.Imean,this part stillcan be chosen freely.Andthis means thatthe semi-free-start collision attackwork for many IVs2 to the power 163choices of IV primes.However,unfortunately,thissemi-free-start collisioncannot be a collision of hash functionbecause this value isnot the same as the originalspecified value.Andso,menterator convertedthese many semi-free-start collisionsinto a two-block collision by usingthese degrees of freedom.So,suppose thatthis is the second block andthis will be the first block ofMarco Dangard hash function.Andsuppose that this is the originalspecified constant.And next.Sohere,when we testtwo to the power 96 random message here and compute the outputvalue,here96 comes from256and 160and 256is thelength of output and lengthof IV.And 160comes from here.Andwhen we test such manyM0,then oneof the outputs will matchan IV prime of the second messageof the block.Andif we find such match,thenit means that the pair ofM0 andM1andM0 andM1 prime will betwo-block collision ofthe Marco Dangard hash functionbecause this valueis the originalspecifiedconstant.Andso,this means that we can findtwo-block collision in timetwo to the power 96 by testingtwo to the power 96 messageshere.Andso,in the classicalsetting,this attackof complexity2 to the powernext to the power 19760x2 to the power 0.6 is considered to be valid only if this equation, this inequality holds. And this is equivalent to this condition.So this condition is the validity condition for the number of initial values in the classical setting.And the main derivative also does not only the 31 step collision attack, but also a 38 step semifree start collision attack in the same paper, but it is not converted into a collision attack.Sometimes the parameter x for the 38 step attack is not large enough.And next, in the quantum setting, our attack idea is the validity condition. This one may be relaxed in the quantum setting in the same way that the condition, validity condition for differential probability can be relaxed in the quantum setting.And next, I would like to explain about our idea of conversion of semifree start collisions into collisions in the quantum setting.So I recall that we can consider three quantum settings.And in our paper, our focus is this setting of time space droid off.And next, I recall that in the classical setting, the time complexity of two block collision attack is like this, 2 to the power n-x.And in the quantum setting, we can speed up this attack to the square root of2 to the power n-x by using the global search.And so if s qubits are available, the attack of a two block quantum collision attack can be paralyzed and the time complexity becomes the square root of 2 to the power n-x overs.And in the setting of time space droid off, the generic complexity is like this.And so the derivative attack of this complexity is valid if this inequality holds.And this is equivalent to this condition.So this condition, and please note that this condition, x is greater than 0, is much relaxed from the classical condition, x is greater than n over 2.But actually the condition for x, this condition will be stronger than this one, because hereI'm learning many things, for example, qubits require to implement global or time for sub procedures and so on.But still, the new condition, x is greater than 0, seems much weaker than x is greater than n over 2, the classical condition.And actually, so indeed, we mounted, delegated quantum collision attacks on shadow based on this idea.And next, I'd like to explain about our main results.So, in the quantum setting, based on that observation for the number of initial values, we converted the 38-step semi-free start collision attack on SHA-256 by Mendel-Eto and the 39-step semi-free start collision attacks on SHA-512 by Togranic-Eto into a two block collision.And so, these semi-free start collision attacks are not converted into a collision in the classical setting because the number of highways are not enough.And with some analysis and the computer experiments, we confirmed that the attacks are valid in the quantum setting.Actually, this sum of analysis is not so much trivial, but I cannot explain details, because I do not have enough time today, so please read our paper for details.And the time complexity of the attacks are like this.And finally, I'd like to provide the summary of today's my talk and some future directions.So, in our paper, we showed the first delegated quantum collision attacks on SHA-2, 31-step collision attack on SHA-256 and 39-step attack show for SHA-512.And the idea is, the attack idea is, we converted classical semi-free start collisions into collisions in the quantum setting.And next, so actually, there are many functions over which construction is similar to the construction of SHA-2.For example, live memory, 160 and so on.But so far, we haven't found any two block delegated quantum collision attacks on these functions, because existing characteristic on these functions are not suitable for our idea of a two block quantum collision attack.Nevertheless, finally, I'd like to emphasize that we should revisit differential characteristic start activities, and the possibility of quantum attacks should be taken into account.Because even if differential characteristic does not lead to a valid attack in the classical setting, it may lead to a valid collision attack in the quantum setting.That's all.Thank you for your attention.


Hello friends welcome again to another session on problem solving and proving theorems So in this theorem, it's given that there are three or more parallel lines and they are intersected by two Transversals we have to prove that intercepts made by them on the transversals are proportional Okay, so I have shown it in a diagram. So P and Q and R are parallel to each other So let's write given first So given what is given P is to P is parallel to Q is parallel to R three lines are parallel to each other Okay, now L and M L and M small m are transversals Transversals right now what is to be proven so to prove We need to prove that a b by b c is equal to d e by e f This is also called intercept theorem right so any I have shown only three lines But you can go for four lines five parallel lines and all that so the intercept So what is an intercept intercept is nothing but this is called an intercept So this is an intercept. This is also an intercept. So these are all intercepts. So these intercepts are proportional That's what we need to Prove okay, so let us do some construction. So again if there are ratios involved, you know the best tool in our quiver is the Basic proportionality theorem, so let's try and prove that using the basic proportionality theorem only okay, so how to Go about it. So, you know that in basic proportionality theorem, you need to have a triangle and There must be a line parallel to the base and then you can write the ratios equal, right? So here you can see ratios are there lines are parallel We have to achieve some ratios in equality. So hence we need to first find out a triangle Yeah appropriate triangle to establish or to apply dpd So what I'm going to do is I am going to do a construction where I am going to draw a line Like this which is parallel to M passing through Yeah, like that. So what is the construction? Construction is Let's call it LMN, right? So let's call this line as N. So N parallel to M drawn Right and it is intersecting the PQR at N points A and let's say G and H Okay, G and H now what can we what can we say? Clearly now you can see a triangle a C H appearing isn't it so in triangle in triangle a C H What can we say we can say? since BG is parallel to C H BG is parallel to C H therefore What can be very easily said a B upon BC is equal to a G upon G H and this is because of Dpd basic proportionality theorem Right now somehow if I prove that a G by G H is equal to D by EF Then my game is over Is it that's what we need to prove? So a G by G H somehow is equal to D by EF which is indeed. So why? because if you look carefully What's here if you see N is parallel to N is parallel to M as well as M P is parallel to Q therefore. What can we conclude we can conclude that? a D e g is a parallelogram Is a parallelogram? I Hope there's no doubt in this correct, so a b a D e g is a parallelogram therefore opposite sides of a parallelogram being equal I can write a G is equal to D E. I hope by now you would have guessed the rest of the proof Is it similarly write the word similarly? right P Again L is sorry N is parallel to M N is parallel to M and Q is parallel to R therefore again You can say G E F H Is a parallelogram? Again same logic opposite sides are equal So hence the quadrilateral becomes a parallelogram therefore You can conclude G H is equal to E F right now Look at this particular theorem or this part which you need to prove now if you see a G by G H Can be written as what is a G guys D e so write D e and And G H is equal to E F. So right E F So a G by G H is D e by E F. So let it be one and Let it be two So in one and two In one and two from one and two rather from one and two. What could you conclude? You can conclude that a b by bc is equal to a D e by E F That is what we intended to prove now you would say this is true only for two lines. No This is true for any number of parallel lines. You can see let's say there are lines like these one two three Four so you can you know Let's say these are the intercepts so you can very easily say this by this is equal to this by this Similarly This by this will be equal to this by that like that Right. So hence in that chain if you go you can prove that This by this by this will be equal to this by this By that right so one by one you have to prove so this by this is equal to this by this by the earlier proof proven theorem And again this by this will be equal to this by this So like that the chain will continue so you can see that All the intercepts will be proportional So it can be Validated or it can be established for more now more than three parallel lines as well Okay, so here was the proof of this particular theorem, which is also called intercept theorem


we've seen that in the United States mass shootings have become more deadly over time and it seems to be directly related to this. There seems to be too much demand for fame in America, Lankford writes, and not enough supply. We see people posting videos and outrageous statements to get attention. Mass killings is just the most extreme version of this, where people aren't just being offensive or outrageous to get attention and they know this works. Essentially, this is guaranteeing them fame and celebrity status. One of Lankford's studies found that winning a Super Bowl or Academy Award garnered less media attention than committing a high-profile mass killing. Perpetrators get pictured more on front pages than their individual victims, and there's a strong correlation between the number of victims harmed in these attacks and the amount of media attention that perpetrators receive.


Hello everyone and welcome back to Investor Intel. We don't usually do this. We last spoke with Normand from QPM last Thursday, last Wednesday I believe, November the 14th. But we're doing this because this is one large drill program and the first holes came out last week, new holes came out yesterday. I'm very excited to talk about them. So Normand welcome back to the show. Pleasure to be back. Thank you Peter. So we're pleased to report a significant drill intercept of 42 meters at 1.31 grams per tonne goal at the La Pointe Extension Discovery on a secondary project. It's very exciting. I didn't know much about the project before we talked. I did my own research, I've got my own diagrams and you are stretching the one find over here to the northeast. Exactly. So we have no extended where we've been drilling in the fall and late summer. The mineral is on over 600 meters on the Extension Discovery and in conjunction with the La Pointe deposit two kilometers away, we have now a two kilometer long structure and this is a very prolific structure that's 13 kilometers long as well. And there is a map, a section and a plan included with the press release. I'm looking at the map right now and you can see the trend with the La Pointe deposit and the extension. Yes, we are seeing that and we're excited the fact that this is a very significant mineralized system and the result that we just published is significant because it continues to define mineralization about twice as thick that we had at La Pointe itself and we've received 10 holes of the 19 drill during the summer drilling campaign and we're very excited to see the continuity that we have observed. Well, there's no reason not to assume that we're going to see more of the same but you can't say that. I can say that. You can't say that but we'll get the rest of the result. They'll be published over the next few weeks but what we announced yesterday again is another step towards delining our target of two million ounces for a resource estimate. What I found interesting about all of the results is I didn't see a nugget anywhere. It looks like it is a very broadly mineralized consistent system. That is correct. We're talking about the highly siliceous rock, either a paradise or something that looks like an intrusive rock, verifying grain or a scenopyridic company is it. We can predict where we're going to hit the zone then we have to send to the lab to find out how much there is but it is consistent with good grams and certainly bodes well to define an open pit potential. So what annoys me is a company that seems to be as well run as yours.  It's been telegraphed to the market.  Well the market is what it is. All we can do is continue to produce good results and we believe at some point there will be market recognition. Well those are really good numbers. I'm looking forward to the next batch. Are we going to be talking again in about a week? Possibly because we keep getting results so as soon as we have a press release we'll be happy to talk. Excellent. It's a story I'm now following more closely than I have some others. I'm very curious about the next set of drill holes. So looking forward to it we are with Quebec Precious Metals, trades as QPM on the venture exchange. Normande, thank you for your time. Pleasure Peter. Take care. Peter Clausi from Investor Intel. Bye-bye.