Perfectly balanced. This whole thing should be. I hope they remember you. Yo, 10 years in the making with the Marvel Cinematic Universe and we are finally here with the Avengers Infinity War. And if you know me, you know that Infinity War was my second most anticipated film of the entire year. The first one was Black Panther, that camera. It was great. I loved it. But now we are finally here with the Avengers Infinity War. And, you know, I had a lot of expectations that really, guys, I don't want to waste your time. Let's just go ahead and get into all the nitty gritty. My name is Brennan Keith-Avery and this is just my opinion. Yes! Yes! I'm not even going to waste your time. I love this movie. Yes! Like, real talk. Okay. Like, I'm filming this right now. What time is it? It is 10 to 58 Central Standard Time Thursday night. I just got back from the theaters.  I'm not excited. This is Avengers Infinity War. You know what I'm saying? We got to do it right. This is my second most anticipated film of the entire year. So, you know, of course, I got my Captain America over here. I got my Thor, the amazing Spider-Man. I got this nice little comic poster that was given out. I got another Captain America Iron Man right here.  And then, you know, we got X-Men because we're hoping that Disney Fox deal goes through and that it is approved. Guys, thank you so much for tuning in to my opinion slash review of Avengers Infinity War. My second most anticipated film of the year. I really do appreciate it. Now, this is going to be a non-spoilery review. A non-spoiler review. I'm not going to tell no spoilers. If you do want my spoilers, you can subscribe to my channel. Please and come back on Saturday because I just got back from seeing this in IMAX, guys. And I'll talk about that in a second. But I'm going to see it again Saturday at 11.30 in the morning. You know, I'm going to see it in IMAX again, too. And after that, I'm going to come home and do my spoiler review after that. So, if you want me to, you know, yeah, spoilers. I'm coming after that. I might see it again Friday. Now, I'm going to take my time and give you my review, my opinion of this of this film here that I love so much. And I'm, you know, I just want to let you guys know that I did something before I saw this movie that I ever done before. Usually I have a rule within myself to our brain. And if you're going to give your critique, your opinion, your thoughts of the film, do not watch or read any other reviews out there by any other critics, pundits or whatever. Because with me, at least, and I've heard other people do that, too, when you do that, you tend to, by mistake, subconsciously mimic or say similar things that somebody else did in the review. So I didn't want to do that. But again, this is Avengers Infinity War. I'm super hyped. I couldn't wait. So there was, I didn't read any reviews, but there was a number of reviews that I saw on YouTube. And I know the people that I watched. I can trust them to not spoil anything and nobody spoiled anything.  Everybody was just so vague and afraid to give spoilers and this and that. And I respect that. That's what's up. You know what I'm saying? Y'all are keeping the real my brothers and sisters in the film community. You know what I'm saying? But I'm not going to do that. Now, I'm not going to spoil anything here. But whether there is a character that I liked or didn't like, I'm going to talk about that. If there is somebody made a dumb decision or a smart decision, I'm going to talk about that. So if you don't want to know that at all, let's just say that there's a character in this movie called Globberman. Okay, there's no such a vendor called Globberman. If Globberman did something amazing in this movie, did something mediocre or stupid, I'm going to talk about that. Like Globberman did this. It was great. Globberman did that. It was dumb. I'm going to talk about that. I'm going to talk about real characters. I'm talking about friends. So if you don't want to do it, if you don't even want to know that, then you should just turn the video off now. Or you can add it to your watch letter list and come back, you know, at a later time. So I got my preface and disclaimers and all that out the way. Let's go ahead and get into this movie.  Like, man. Like, the best villain in the whole MCU across the board. I liked him better than Loki. I liked him better than, not, not to say Archer Killian, the Iron Man 3 villain. No, no, no. The Vulture character, Michael Keaton, I liked him better than that. I even liked him better than Killmonger. And Killmonger to me, I don't really like calling him a villain, you know what I'm saying? Because I understand where the brothers coming from, you know, but he was better than Thanos.  Wanting to destroy half the universe. You know all this from the trailers. But at the same time, he does give you a very great reason of why he feels this way. And you've heard it before and you've seen all the reviews and stuff like, but seriously going into this, um, hold on, let me, let me, let me back up before I talk about Thanos. When I saw all these other, the reason why I said all that and even give you a point of why I said that. I'm just so excited guys and you're, you'll know why in a second. The reason why I wanted to watch other people's reviews before I saw this one is because you guys look, look, I mean, look around me, you know what I'm saying? I love kind of book stuff. This is my favorite, you know, cinematic movies like of all time. These are my favorite movies and in the MCU, I enjoy all these films and, you know, but there's been a few times where I saw this movie, this movie, my expectations were so high and I left a movie or two a little bit disappointed. So I did not want to do that. I just wanted to go in here and go into this movie, you know, uh, expecting the, you know, um, to be maybe slightly disappointed here and there and things like that. So I just wanted to go in while my expectations, you know, and check. And I was going in like, okay, it's not going to be perfect. I'm going to go in expecting like an 8.59. So I just had to let y'all know that. But Thanos is a boss. Like as soon as you see him on screen, you know what I'm saying? He just grabs you and like he just, he just, he demands your respect and your attention. And he just, you know, he just has this authority about him to where, you know, you can't do anything but acknowledge him. And the great thing about his character is he's not doing it on purpose. That's just part of who he is and his charisma, his swag, like Loki, for instance. You know, he had to stand on top of a mountain and proclaim, you know, just how great and awesome. Yes, I am the real son of Asgard and, you know, the ruler of the throne and blah, blah, this and that. It's like, no, Thanos can just be over here just chilling like this. I'm Thanos.  Like even if he wasn't in all these other previous films and, you know, this is like the first time you've ever seen him.  And I loved him. Something else I just want to jump into real quick is the action. I am so over like, that didn't even make sense. I'm 100% satisfied with the action. Me personally, guys, I was the loudest person in the theater and I felt bad about it. But I was literally geeking and jumping and going like this and hitting my home. But like this certain action of Beast in this movie, like it was just so dang dope. Like it was the action in this movie was like a dream come true. Have you ever watched any of the other MCU movies and just kind of just thoughts or stuff like, man, it would have been kind of cool if this character would have used this ability here or this power here or this type of combo technique, whatever, you know what I'm saying? They gave you all of that in this movie. Like I was just blown away. And like I got I'm got a IMDB right here, right? And I got the whole the whole cast. And I'm not just saying I'm going to just go through everybody. But like, like, like I was talking about how I'm going to talk about certain cases. I like Dr. Strange is a badass. Like hold up. Like, okay, after you subscribe to my channel, go back and look at my. I did the 17 MCU films ranked from worst to first. Now I did that in November and I ranked Dr. Strange. Well, I ranked it, of course. And you know, Dr. Strange was cool. And I was kind of disappointed in that movie. You know, you can go check out with my review for it or go check out that video to kind of see why. But man, Dr. Strange came through with the Sorcerer Supreme. Like, you know, I am Dr. Strange Sorcerer Supreme.  And I'm not saying that that's in the movie or not or whatever, but I'm just saying Dr. Strange came through or whatever. And just like, you know, he was doing the magic and the mysticism and now that and I was blown away. Just like the little mannerisms, like, you know, like he doing a kato or form and he getting to it, you know, he making a little magic stuff pop up on the screen just the way he was moving his hands. Like the way he was just squaring up. Like he wasn't scared. Like, you know, Dr. Strange about that life. Like for real, you know what I'm saying? Like, hold up. You know what I'm saying?  Like, I don't know. I was like, seriously. Like, four or five times when I was watching the movie, I was just like, hold up. Like, I just said that, you know what I'm saying?  Don't ruin his mood for me. You know what I'm saying? But like, I was just like, I was like, it was a few moments where he just came through and I'm like, hold on. Benedict Cumberbatch, I didn't know you was like, like he was like squaring up. Like some people like it was in the streets. Like he was in a box, but it was like magic, like magic boxing. Like I was like, like this is like amazing. Like, I'm only into one character. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, he was, I'm impressed. Like, he was doing this thing at the beginning of the movie. But it was just, okay, you saw in the trailer that he was on Titan. You know what I'm saying? What it like, it was just, my voice is cracking. Like it was, it was nice or whatever. It was cool. And like, I was just like, I cannot wait to see this movie again. He's like, okay, so Dr. Strange is dope. You know what I'm saying? And so I heard other people talking about, you know, like some other views. Like, okay, the Guardians of the Galaxy, that's their favorite. And then Thor 2. What?  Like seriously. Like, man, like this dude hurt.  Like, seriously, like, seriously, Thor is like, just like one of my favorite Avengers now. You know what I'm saying? I've always liked Thor, but like, I just like him on the whole of the level now. You know what I'm saying? Because we had the first Thor movie that came out in 2011 directed by Kenneth Branagh, the guy that did Cinderella. Cinderella, that was great. You know, he did some other stuff. Not the pineapple express, the Oriental Express or whatever. Thor 2011, it was all right, man. That's kind of the bottom for me.  Now, at the time that movie came out, Thor Ragnarok, that was my number five ranked MC movie. And I loved him in that. Man, this Thor and this movie craps on Thor Ragnarok, as far as like the Thor nests or whatever. You know what I'm saying? Like, oh my goodness gracious. Dude, Thor knows how to make an entrance.  And they always got to come up with some type of creative way to get the, the, the care. Am I even a kid? Oh, hold on. Let me, so excited. Hold on, guys. Let me, let me send it a little bit. Oh, you got the white over there. Okay, my bad. That's why I did that. Okay. Anyway, my bad. You know what I'm saying? What was our time? Okay. You know, they always like how to have them, you know, like pose some type of way. You know what I'm saying? Scoot over. I ain't nothing. I'm having fun. All right. We're going to do it like that. Make sure. Sorry, guys. You don't care. So that was got to do that. So like, for example, in Captain America, Civil War, when Captain America's Chris Evans, when he was holding the, the bottom of the helicopter and then, you know, the, the roof, I don't know the bar, it was something up there. And he was just flexing. It was all badass, not a women going crazy, you know, in the movie. Oh my God. The monsters.  She broke her return. I'm like, God, God, dog. Like, you know, I need to do some push ups. You know what I'm saying?  I'm all badass.  Like just flex like, oh, like the ultimate like manliness of men is like, if I don't flex harder, I'm flexing now. Everybody's going to die flex.  But it was just like that. It was, it was like the store. How do you write in a story a good way for somebody to flex? You know what I'm saying? Usually that's just like, oh, this is just a shot where they want to take off the shirt and show all the muscles. This is no subtle. No, they gave a scene of flexing substance. So that's just like, you know, Dr. Strange is a badass. Thor is a badass. Iron Man like took his armor up to like infinity levels in this movie. Infinity War like seriously like Iron Man was pulling. I'm trying to because he was pulling stuff out of everywhere. I'm like, God dang man. I don't know. He must have went to, I don't know what he did. I'm trying to come up with something clever to say, but I couldn't think about nothing. But Iron Man was a badass too. But you know, he a badass in really all of his movies. I wasn't expecting Iron Man not to do anything. And when I watched these trailers, I had so many, of course you have questions.  That's the point. But I just like how everything tied together. Like, okay, why is Spider-Man jumping out of the school bus right here? Or, you know, just everything in the trailer is why I was just wondering why, how they got here or whatever they answered that. And this is freaking fantastic. Okay, let's take a break from the events. Let's talk about, I talked about Thanos, Doctor Strange, Iron Man and Thor. Let's talk about the Black Order. All of them was raw as hell. There was some people talking about Ebony Ma was raw and then, no, all of them was cold as hell. All of them can fight. All of them can box. Especially Ebony Ma.  Man, there he is. Man, I just want to... Dude is just a straight up gangster. You know what I'm saying? He's just the ultimate SHIT talker. You know what I'm saying? Just like, look, we the Black Order and I serve Thanos. You know what I'm saying? Monologue, monologue, monologue.    I mean, he didn't say all of that but I'm just saying his dialogue and he just like... He was just like his own character or whatever. He was just like swag-tastic. You know what I'm saying? Just like, I loved it.  Like, golly. Y'all are like... Y'all are just... You just don't understand if you haven't seen this movie. Like, for me at least, people are forgiving this movie like a, you know, a B plus. The Smoles, you know... I like Smoles. I ain't crappin' on them. Christian gave it like a 4.3. Mark gave it like a 3.9. I didn't get... Oh, man. Man, what a... We finna go to Rotten Tomatoes real quick, man. Like, look. Avengers Infinity War 86%. Bull crap, man. This movie was off the chain. Like, seriously. Y'all know me. Y'all know I'ma talk down on the movie. Not talk down on the movie, but if I don't... If a movie is not amazing, I'm not gonna say it's amazing if it's not amazing, you know what I'm saying? I talk down on Black Panther. I don't talk down on all these movies. This movie... I don't even care no more. Avengers Infinity War is my favorite movie out of the whole MCU with this eight of man. But that's just for me. All of them is subjective, you know what I'm saying? But I am 100% satisfied. Now, I'm not finna say that this movie is 100% perfect. I can nitpick it. And I'ma just talk about that in a second. Okay, I got some time. But, guys, like, I'm 100% satisfied. Like, oh my gosh, I cannot wait till this comes out on home video Blu-ray 4K, like, in September, October. Because it's gonna be like... I'm just saying, like, okay. For the longest time in my life, I was like, man, I would... I love movies. I would just love for me to have this, you know, my own spot with this nice size TV, just a beautiful display. And for a while, you know, I wasn't able to do it. You know, you got to save and take care of responsibilities.  So when I was watching this movie, I just said, I kept saying, like, at least 17,000 times. I was like, I cannot wait till I have this movie at home so I can just watch it over and over and over and over and over again. Because, like, I love this movie like the... Oh, God, dog. Like, the action in this movie was just really a dream come true for me, guys. It just really was... I can't stop thinking about just how, like, how much I loved it. Oh, okay. I just got to... I had to come down. All right. So I'm done with Rotten Tomatoes. I was talking about the Black Order. Ebony Moe. Like, all of them was not... You had, okay, Ebony Moe. I liked...  I liked his powers, too, and I don't know much about him. Now, you had that other big... God from the Black Order. I forgot his name. I don't know the Black Order that well. The big dude that looked like Hulk. He was cool, too. I liked his abilities and things like that. There was not much dialogue from him, but he was still strong as hell and I liked that. What was the Corvus Glaive? And I don't know... What are these characters' names? Excuse me. Corvus Glaive to do with the Glaive. I liked him. I liked what he was doing with his weapon. And then the other one, I liked her, too.  Peter Dinklage in this movie. You know, he was cool. I kind of liked what they did with him.  I didn't even want to talk about him. I'm just going to say that I liked him. Okay. I'll do it. Let me see. Okay. I'll talk... Let's... Chris Evans made a clean-ass entrance. Everybody was clapped. Everybody did a clap when Chris Evans first popped on the screen and Thor. I liked the weapons that War Machine had with his updated thing. Spider-Man. I liked what they did with him. The relationship with Tony and Spider-Man. I really do like that. That was nice. It really, really was. I really do get a sense that Iron Man really does care about Tom... Not Tom Holland. Peter Parker and Spider-Man. Like, he really does genuinely care. You know, I've heard people complain. I'm sorry, guys. I'm not talking to the mic. I've heard people complain that they don't feel that Iron Man and Tony Stark really cares about, you know, Peter Parker in the MCU, that he's possibly just using him. And no, there was a nice relationship that they had in this movie.  I like the strategy of them, that everything you saw in the charters, I really do like that. Yeah, there was nothing in Wakanda that I did not like. I got to see some different type of acrobatics with Black Panther as well when he was fighting too. I got some really great performances from Zoë's South Downer work, Gamora.  Of course, you get a lot of backstory with her and Thanos.  And it was nice. She was rich. And the effects was great. And I really felt like I was there, you know, like I loved all that. Let's see here. Let's see. Now, Vision. Let's talk about Vision a little bit here. What do I want to say? What I was spoiling anything. I liked his mindset in this movie. I wasn't trying to make a pun since he has the mindset in his stone. But, you know, sometimes, damn, I don't want to spoil. I'll just say this. I really liked Vision in this movie. But I could have got a little more from him. And you're probably thinking something and I'm really positive that you're not thinking what I think you're thinking. Let's see here. Let's see. Now, I will say this. This is the 19th film in the whole Cinematic Universe, right? And when this movie ended, I was like, oh, my gosh, it was just so much. It was a great ending, but it was just like so much. Everybody was quiet. And I was saying to myself, like the whole MCU is kind of just like one big movie. Like, you know, when directors and producers and actors and actresses, when they are doing promotions and marketing for their films and the interviews, I mean, I watch a lot of them and you can tell a lot of times where they just add living and just saying stuff and don't really mean it. I mean, they're actors or actresses and things like that. Not the directors and all that. But you heard the Russo talking about how, you know, the whole thing is like chapters. And, you know, this is the final chapter in the book. It really does feel like that. Like, you may know what I'm saying if you haven't seen the movie, but if you haven't seen the movie, you really don't know what I'm saying. It's kind of like, you know, how in any movie to where at the very end you have the climatic action scene. This whole movie was a climatic action scene. It's like, literally, Phase 1 was the first act. Phase 2 was the second act. And, you know, Phase 3 was, I guess, the third act of the film in Avengers Infinity War.  I mean, like, I don't... There is no possible way.  But I keep talking about the action. Now, I said that this is my favorite film in the whole Marvel Cinematic Universe. Now, is it the best... That is a tricky question because this film here had to accomplish so much more than a single film. So, I really don't even like to compare it that way. But so, if I were to say, is it the best? Like, did they execute everything? No, but let's say Iron Man 1. That, right now, to me, is the best in the whole MCU. I talked about why. I mean, as far as execution, it's not my favorite, but I found that it's the best. But let's just say Iron Man 1 had, let's say, just 20 things that it had to check off to be perfect. Avengers Infinity War has 772 things that they needed to check off to be perfect. 20 to 762. So, while Iron Man 1 over here may have checked off all 20, Avengers Infinity War may have checked off 745. You know what I'm saying? It had much more to accomplish than this over here. So, why it wasn't, may not, this particular movie may not have been perfectly executed. Like, 10 out of 10. There's no mistake in the whole thing. You know, Iron Man, you get what I'm saying. But guys, this movie is just freakin' badass because the person was well, I love the very beginning, I love the very end. There was a part in the middle of it that did drag just a little bit, but not bad because it just wasn't as as uplifting as everything else. You know what I'm saying?  And I'm just like, dude, what the F is wrong with you? You are getting way too emotional right now. This movie is full of emotion.  But I'm just like, it was just one character. I was gonna tell you, but I'm not. I'm just like, why, why, why? Why would you do that? But it's not even like a big gripe here.  But I really don't, like I just enjoyed the hell out of this thing, man. Like, real talk. Seriously, it was just, oh man, it was just, so Thanos, I talked about the Black Order. I talked about a few of the Avengers. Don't wanna talk about anybody else. The story, you're gonna be so surprised. You're not gonna guess the story. Since the plan that the Avengers came up with to take to fight Thanos on Titan, I love the plan. I love the plan. And just like, just a little nuggets here. And you got like so many different things for more character backstory. Just, you know, like where they come from and I don't wanna spoil that. I don't wanna spoil that. I don't wanna spoil that. But I do love the plan that the Avengers came with on Earth, when it was in New York, when it was on Titan. I would say something about the Guardians. Drax, he almost got on my nerve. He almost got on my nerve. Because I was laughing at him at first, for a second I was like, bro you just ain't here for making jokes. But then it wasn't the case. So he almost got on my nerve. Man, what else, man? This movie was, I didn't wanna write no notes. I'm just freestyling this thing. Cause I'm just, I'm like gushing everywhere. I have no, there's one credit scene and it is a great credit scene. I cannot wait. This movie has a great conclusion. But it also teases the F out of you, man. Oh man, like it just does. I cannot wait to see Ant-Man and the Wasp. I cannot wait to see Captain Marvel. I cannot wait for Avengers 4 that comes out. I cannot wait to see this movie again, guys. Like seriously, my expectations were through the roof. And I can honestly say that my expectations was met. My expectations was a met with Black Panther. But my expectations was through the roof. I wanted to be a perfect 10. My expectations wasn't met entirely with Captain America's Civil War. I wanted to be a perfect 10. It wasn't a perfect 10.  But at the same time, like why they may be the best, like seriously, y'all, Avengers Infinity War. This is my favorite in the whole MCU. This is my favorite comic book movie. I'm a 100% satisfied life. Man, like, I got everything I wanted. I got my character development and all the other movies. I got all my story in the other movies. And everything that it did with Thanos was, it was just so beautiful. And it pays off if you see every film, guys. Like, if you can wait and if you watch all other films, you will enjoy it more. If you haven't seen all the films, there may be a character to the pop-up. And you're gonna be like, who is that? But you can just follow it. But I mean, there was this action beast in this movie, you know, a character that I didn't think I was gonna see pop-up here in there. I called back to this, you know, some dialogue. I love this movie. Like, oh, I cannot wait to see it. I may try to go see it again Friday when I get off work. But guys, like, please subscribe to my channel. Go back and look at my Captain America Civil War review. Go back and look at my Captain America... No, my Thor Ragnarok review. Go back and look at my Mac... Go back and look at my Thor Ragnarok review. Go back and look at my Top 10 comic book movies rated of all time and my MCU rank from worst to first after Thor Ragnarok. I'm gonna do that again, but after, amen. Guys, I freaking love this film. I said this 17,000 times. If I had to rate Avengers Infinity War out of a 1 out of 10, I'm giving this a 9.5 because it was just that dope to me even though with some nitpicks here and there, you know what I'm saying?  Godly, just lovely, lightning, heavenly, just wonderful moments that just will make you geek as a comic book fan. Did I don't even care, man? Like, oh, gosh. Like, I enjoy it this much in black. This is my favorite. A 9.5, I said that. Man, go see this movie. That's all in IMAX, real IMAX. I'll talk about that later in my spoiler review. But, y'all, that is just my opinion of this dope-ass movie of Avengers Infinity War I'm going out of control. What you think? Have you seen the movie? Do you want to see it? Have I turned you on? Have I turned you off? Do you agree with me or do you disagree with me? Let me know down in the comment section below. Let's get this conversation going and keep it flowing. If you like this video, go ahead and give me a thumbs up. And if you don't, man, I don't care because I like this video and I'm gonna thumb up it myself. You can also subscribe to my channel. You know, go to my website, check me out at that book market and also look me up on social media. And, guys, it's right through the bottom of the screen and I made it very easy by providing a link to all that good stuff down in the description box below. Thank you, Kevin Feige. Thank you, Anthony and Joe Russo. Thank you, more of us, for giving such a great movie. I really did enjoy this movie a whole, a whole ton, a whole lot. So, before I go, guys, just don't... I forgot my outro. Forget that. My name is Brandon Keith-Avery and that's just my opinion. Peace.


So, so far, brief review of the different technologies. I'm sure if you go out and do your own research, you'll find some of the technologies that I didn't talk about. But, you know, if everything is based on what I told you, and I, please remember again, everything that you saw so far, except the flat-pound PD, they're all from the backstage. You know, people are working on it. They are making things better, and they are trying to make them more viable financially, economically, and to see if they can actually sell those. So what are the challenges for the energy? Three challenges. Is the cost, always cost, intermittency, and production difficulties. We can't do anything with production difficulties. You know, we have to learn, learn, develop machinery, and these kind of things to develop the good system and the low cost system to produce those technologies, but we might be able to do things regarding the cost of intermittency. So how we can tackle cost? We can increase efficiency basically from the same system that costs us a certain amount of money by increasing efficiency to get more power. So basically cost per generated unit of power or energy drops, but people are working on efficiency, but efficiency changes are going to be in the range of one or two percent, and there isn't going to be drastic change in efficiency. I mean, suddenly efficiency is not going to do anything. Okay. They kind of gradually will increase as we learn more and the technology actually advances. The other one is the use of power electronics. Currently for PV technology, there are like three main power electronics that people use. There are DC optimizers, microinverters, and soft panel level power management. The third one is what I've been working on in the past three years, and actually a company announced it publicly two days ago, so I'm allowed to announce it here to be so far, but it's secret. No one here allows it. This is happening. And very quick overview of why power electronics are important. Solar panels, the solar cells give you a small voltage because it's just a little diode. Diode voltage is going to be random, like 0.5 to 0.7 volts, right? So in order to get the voltage is like 220 or 480 volts, we have to put this diode in series to build up the voltage. However, because PV cells act like current source, basically this group of cells that are working with each other, if there is a weak cell, that is weak either because of some manufacturing problems or it's shaded by a shadow or a leak that kind of falls on the panel or things like this, it's going to be the weak link in this team. And everybody is familiar with this saying that the team is as strong as its weakest link. Right? Nobody wants to be the weak link. So therefore, if in this spring up, let's say 100 or 200 cells, one of the cells is kind of weak for whatever reason, the whole cell is jeopardized and it's not going to generate electricity. So they use power electronics, like this up in my room, in my converters, and the soft panel level to isolate the cells from each other. So if one of the cells is weak, it doesn't affect the entire system. Okay. We can, to reduce the cost, we have to create better manufacturing processes. I've been to China and India and I kind of looked at how people build these panels because most of the solar panels are being built in China and India, as we speak. There are some in Korea and Japan as well, but everything happens manually. So there are just people, they grab the cell, they put it on the table, they solder the wires by hand one by one and kind of take about three hours to build one panel. Okay. So that's one of the reasons that most people prefer to do the manufacturing in countries like China or India because labor is an extensive, so they can reduce the cost. But if the manufacturing processes are improved and everything is automated, there is no reason to do the manufacturing in those places. Right? Because everything just happens and you don't need no cost to be done. So this is another area that really, really people can contribute. The solar power as an industry so new is at its infant stages that people haven't developed machinery for building those machines. So if someone comes up with an idea to have this big machinery to build a solar panel in one minute, that's a fantastic achievement. Balance of system. What is balance of system? To generate electricity from solar panels, we don't need the solar panel only. We need a lot of things around it. We need cables, we need racks to hold the solar panels. If they're stopping the sun, we need electric boilers, softwares, we need like inverters and invertees, this is official AC, we need all the circuit breakers, control system, everything, everything, like fault detection, we need so many things to actually put together a solar power system. Anything other than the solar panel of the cell itself is called balance of system. And as we speak, actually from the top, the balance of system comprises about 50% of the cost of a solar power system. It's a huge portion of that. So if somehow a system can be redesigned or something that someone can do to reduce the balance of system costs, it's going to be a huge contribution. Shipping and installation too. As I said, everything is being manufactured in East Asia and are being shipped back to where they need to install. And the way they do, so basically the cost of a solar panel is a tiny sheet. It's like your student ID. It's like laminated between two layers and that's it. It's a cardboard, but they put it in big frames and all these kind of things. It becomes bulky to be shipped. So it takes a lot of space and the shipping companies charge a lot of money and it's also heavy. So the shipping and even installation is a big deal in this arena. Also the operation. So we installed a system there, especially imagine like a utility scale solar system. You have, let's say, one million solar panels and you know, somehow you have to understand if your solar panels are operating well, if there is a problem with any one of the solar panels and if there is one, each one of these one million panels has problems. You know, you can send someone to check one of the solar panels. You listen about solar themes. Pain. Solar paint. Yes. We talk about right now about solar panels, yes? But I listen about paint, solar. You can paint it in your roof and no panels. Only viking, yes? How you paint? What you listen about then? Yes, I've heard those ideas, too. But as I said, those basically go in the category of solar panels because they basically have particles in the paint that somehow they basically connect electrically to each other and it's supposed to generate electricity. But if you read the literature properly, you have to be careful about the reliability and that is one very important thing. I mean, which paint has lasted for 30 years? I don't know, you know? Pardon me? Thank you. Like thin film technology is very inefficient. You know, they are hardly about like 10 or even less than 10% efficient. Which, again, someone can argue that and say, you know what, you say solar panel is free, it's efficient. Someone can argue that. But if you compare the efficiency, the efficiency is lower and the reliability and all the balance of system that is going to come around it. As a research project, it's a fantastic idea and good to think about it. The real problem is because all these technologies are right now very expensive, yes. All the work is really great. Just the sound gives us free energy and we can use it free. But right now one of the most expensive energy, yes, it's solar energy, yes. And we can realize I write somewhere and because I ask you about that, yes, about that paint. But it's, if scientists can realize that you can everywhere, you can use it everywhere. In cars, yes. I don't know, in facets, in all roofs, yes, all everywhere. Absolutely, yes. So as I said, as a research project, great. So people are working on that. They keep working on that. But at this point, it's not ready to become commercialized yet. At some point, it may prove to be the best thing and it goes out of business. Everybody takes the walls. That could happen. Over the past 10 years, I can show you how many companies were bought, which one's made out of business and how similar things are going to happen over the next couple of years. And that... And the thing is, when we say expensive, technology is expensive, I want all of us to understand what is expensive. We compare with the regular ways of creating the generated electricity. That's it. As I said in the US, they mostly generate electricity. So basically, when the utility company sent you a deal at the end of the month, because their generating electricity is in coal, it's like the cost of electricity generated by coal. And that's what people are used to pay for. So when they say solar power is expensive, it's expensive than coal. Now, maybe after 20 years, when we run out of coal or petroleum resources or all these kind of things, the electricity price starts creeping up, then boom, everything makes sense. You know, it's okay. That's expensive, but solar next. So these things are a matter of technology development, making things, engineering things in the best possible way, the most reliable way, the cheapest way, but also environment or the atmosphere that we're working in. It makes the place a bigger place. After five years, the electricity prices kind of go up by a factor of five, it's easily everybody who goes to the store, nobody has to do any marketing for that. We're trying not to use another big doting policy. Yeah. Here are the emissions produced in the coal and the use of the solar energy and the influence of emissions on the health and the expenses on the health. So, it's going to be the solar energy of solar energy and the expenses of the coal. We should consider also the influence of emissions on the health and the expenses of the health. The expenses in the environment, in the environment of the coal. So, you mean like the solar technology has worse no, no, no. She's talking about the conventional technology. If you count the external costs of the conventional technology, then the solar energy, yes. That's absolutely true, but like an intellectual, like all intellectual people in this room will think about it and will make that true statement that it is made. But people in the streets they don't know this, you know, and those are the people we're dealing with. Yes, of course, a person who knows all these things will go because that person wants solar power to become like widespread will even go spend the expensive money through just to help the improvement of the technology. I contribute to this technology like as early adopters. But, you know, those people are very small to send in so we need to educate people to help people. Hey, you know, this is the case so people start becoming concerned about, you know, the side effects that you mentioned and they kind of are willing to send slightly more expensive technology for the side benefits. You know, any social change takes a long time. I mean, if you look at social change as a system it has a very long time constant. You give the impulse and the response takes decades to show. But eventually it will happen like this. Anyways, I want to move fast. I'm very quickly so over almost past decade from 2001 to recent, like last March the retail prices of modules have gone through various kind of play. Initially they dropped and they went up and here there was this basically crisis in economy and nobody knew what was going to happen and they saw a good or bad event of state flood but 2008 suddenly started coming. So in 2008 nothing happened. There was no breakthrough in efficiency. There was no nobody to solve the intervitancy of solar panels. There wasn't any specific like big numbers of installation to actually force the prices to go down. The main thing that happened was actually the China dumping battle that happened in the war. What happened is that China's solar industry received massive subsidies from government to actually create solar cells and solar panels and dump all of them at very low prices because the industry was getting they could sell their product at very low prices. Government was compensated for the losses of the companies so government told the companies hey sell yourself sell your module at loss below your cost or even at your cost I'll pay that for you but for now just do that and sell it outside of the China which is mainly US market and the result was that it basically killed all the manufacturing jobs and companies in the US and Europe because those companies couldn't compete in this project nobody was buying their product so they went out of business they closed the doors or they consolidated and laid out the people I'm sure you have heard the stories like Solindra or some other companies that business happened it basically couldn't compete with the prices of kind of that China was off it's not that China was making money off of it no China was at a loss but China was doing this to exactly to actually push out all the competition and basically they say and China itself still doesn't have a big market Chinese people still aren't into getting this new technology or solar panel so China had to send all these things to the US and Europe to kill the competition and basically have a higher market to enlarge the market as much as possible then it becomes the only manufacturer of solar panels that everybody has to buy solar panels from China and they usually say when you have when you own your customer you own the price and you own the volume so basically China becomes like a big huge solar power like giant everybody has to buy from China because all the competition is not in China you know what now I'm selling this you don't want to buy it I'm sorry there's another person there is no competition from other countries but still the balance is going on lots of people have like five companies international and so on but what the US has done so far is discharging technology so any solar panel that is being imported to US from China the order person has to pay 30% on power cash and recently we were brought in some panels from India and they charged us 205% as a share so US is trying to charge these things so people don't buy panels from China they buy from local manufacturers see like local manufacturers go through the economy difficulty they learn to go through the learning process and become capable of generating the kind of building solar panels at low prices so they can so there is a style going on between the US and China and the US the second problem is the renewable energy this is just a graph that shows this is for a solar installation this is for a wind turbine it shows how during a day you are losing power maybe here because of the clouds or these things like this because the wind dies down so this is a big problem with renewable energy they don't exist all the time they only can generate power and energy when you have the sun when you have the moon when you don't have it systems don't work so this is another thing that everybody in this room can think about the contribution that you can bring into on the table to tackle the needs the most important way that you can tackle the needs is to generate some kind of an energy source so when you have energy and you are generating more than what your load is demanding you just store the excess energy somewhere and then when you lose the sun or when you are losing you use that store energy and supply to your customers energy storage can be in the form of thermal energy it can be a flywheel that kind of stored like in like inertia I don't know what you call that energy that is stored in like mass of the system that is turning it can be used yeah it's like mechanical energy like kinetic energy right you have a compressed air superconducting magnetic energy storage is very interesting it's like a inductor you know what inductor is what inductor does it actually stores energy form of magnetic energy in the magnetic field to be smaller exactly this is basically so your conductor, this is a big copper they are superconducting material it's basically the same mass this only operates at very very very low temperatures so you have systems around it to keep it at very low temperatures if you can do that, if it makes sense great like pump hydro or different kinds of batteries also are options for energy storage or any other new things that you guys will come up with so what battery is the latest technology you have like two big tanks of chemicals and you throw the chemicals through a membrane it generates electricity okay and then when you put electricity into this membrane it generates the same chemical and goes in the tank so basically you have big tanks that energy is stored there when you want to use the energy you create that electrochemical reaction or store it backwards but if you are thinking about energy storage you always have to think about energy density so if you are comparing different energy storage options you have to think about the cost so which one makes sense self discharge is like side effect of an energy storage system when it sits there it doesn't always keep the energy like think of your water heater if it hits up the water and you turn it off after a few hours it's cold because the energy discharges out of the system so you have to resolve these problems and there is a round-trip efficiency so you do some work to store the energy in your energy storage medium and then you get it back what portion of the energy that you store comes back to you that's the round-trip efficiency can be from 66% to almost 100% in different technologies and also life if you are using the batteries you have a low life time but if you are using like thermal or hydro it depends on your application and what you want to do with energy storage but these are the factors that need to be considered other arenas I don't think talk too much about this but you maybe take a note and see how you can again contribute these are like smart grids coming area and renewable energies that basically has a lot to do with emerging computer software with electric distribution okay how the network infrastructure can be designed what architecture how the grid should be optimized because after 5 or 10 years when each house or like each big building has a TV system you have this power generating nodes in your entire system currently we have this big huge nuclear power plant or steam power plant they generate enormous amount of energy and electric lines overhead lines bring that electric power for households so currently the power grid is designed to be backing but once each house now is generating 2 kilowatts, 3 kilowatts like the Yereban city is generating 15 kilowatts of power and the whole system dynamic changes impact this generation and consumption and what problems might come might be what kind of challenges we will face, you still don't know until the number of distributed power generation become more prominent in our system and we start causing problems it's good to think about a lot of time so when they happen we can resolve them about building automation you know when you are not in a room or in a cleaning system these are very busy stages they have a lot of room for development demand response and all the software and applications that come in controlling this big huge infrastructure I know that lots of students here have very strong background in software engineering and computer science so this might be of particular interest we are thinking about and see how we can contribute and what kind of things we can add to make things work better so I think since I am already way over time I will stop right here and thank you all for being here and listening to this presentation so you leave this room and you know something or something in your mind is now bothering you to go open a book or read about something that happens I think I have some questions questions


Stevenson wins a sixth straight Matt Commonwealth championship defeating Weidner 12-6 here tonight at Mustang Stadium. Glenn Clark MC McFadden and the head coach of the Mustangs, Coach Paul Cantabene, told her for you to find yourself conference champions. Not at all. You know the guys did a great job and I told them who to thought we would have got to this point after losing those first five games of the season and losing all those defensemen and to get to where we are now is really kind of a miracle. The guys have done a great job buying into what we need to do especially defensively. I thought the first half is one of our best you know best defensive efforts we gave all year. They did an unbelievable job getting out on those guys contesting everything and really you know did a great job right up to the last few minutes when we subbed a little bit and they got a couple goals at the end. You know I thought our guys are great. You know it was really great to see us play defense like that. We're coming around and gelling and offensively you know if you shoot the ball a little bit better the goalie doesn't have 16-17 saves could be a little bit different. He had some 16 or 17 quality saves so it's great to win another one here and the guys are really proud of them and you never get told to win championships that's for sure and the guys couldn't be more excited and I'm really excited for them and we can't wait to see we play tomorrow night and get ready for on a Wednesday. So you've talked about your defense. Did you do anything differently tonight in your defensive scheme than you normally do? Well yeah we don't want to give any secrets. No secret I don't think it's a secret but we wanted to make that we wanted not their gnomes to beat us and we made it really hard for 32 and 44 to get the ball there. Two of their better players 44 had four goals against us the first time and we knew about him and 32 is their best you know a playmaker. We really made it hard for him to get the ball shut them off a little bit shut 44 and I think that they really put a lot of pressure on them to make their other players feature and I just didn't think they could and I think we did a great job with Austin and Costco and Chazz our polls and they just did such a great job getting in there and Kevin McCarthy was great tonight you know just making really them hard and I thought the biggest part is just getting a piece of them in every shot that didn't have any clean looks and I think that was the biggest reason we got and Sam made of the saves we needed to early on and we were able to get them and then they got a little frustrated at the end and started shooting the ball over the place that made it a little bit easier for us. You know you mentioned what happened eight days ago this is a one-goal game and a team that really gave you fits and they've battled you the last couple years you know they've been close to gold game a year ago in the regular season double overtime going back two years. I don't want to say need because obviously you need to be whoever you play but does it feel better to have gotten them again in the championship game and to deliver this type of performance. Well I think it always had you know last year you know we played the same thing happened with Albright and we had a close 16-14 game in the regular season with them I think last year and then and then we beat them pretty handily in the championship game. Widenary you know they played us really tough last year then we beat them 18-2 in the semi finals and so I think once we get a chance Tim does such a great job defensively really changing things and understanding and we're able to change things in offense that we think that we see to help us out and I think that had a lot to do with it you know us playing so clean in the first half only four turnovers you know really getting some quality tough goals that put a lot of pressure on them to play to play better than they could and I think that we just did a good job with that and now you know we get a chance to continue to play and think the biggest thing for our guys is that you want to practice on Monday you know that's the biggest thing you want to keep practicing and we want to practice on Thursday you know then we want to practice on Monday again you know you just want to keep the team together if you're practicing good things are happening and I think our guys still want to practice and we're very happy what we happened and we'll see who we draw and whether we travel or at home who knows but I think we're just happy and I'm really proud of all the guys especially drew who you talk to in a minute you know drew came into my office of mid-year what do I have early in the season what I got to do to play is just a little fresher that he wasn't playing because you know we had three pretty other good defensemen playing a lot and it's told me just got to keep working hard and then when you get your moment you know you'll help us you're gonna be a time you help us and he's got his moment and he's played great ever since so I think he's really happy with it and we're happy that he's playing so great for us right now that's Andrew Costco who is tournament MVP all right before we let you go coach just wrap what what needs to still improve now as you go into the incident in the second half he did a great job I thought we got a little and offensively I thought we just settled a little bit for things and got some sloppy turnovers I think we got to play 60 minutes of offense still a little bit but defensively we did a good job and you know Justin didn't have one of his greatest days but in the first half but he bounces back and wins the day over all the face-off battle and that's gonna happen as a face-off guy you're not always gonna be 80% every day yeah I know I've been through a lot of those bad days but I told I told Justin the only face-offs that matter with the face-offs in the second half and that's really true what I always believe in facing off is the ones in the second half so even though he didn't have a great day uh he'll bounce back it was a strong day on Wednesday we know he will because he's that kind of kid and uh and uh he'll be great so you know there's there's always things you can improve on but you know for us it's more of a team win by team concept you can't rely on individuals to carry us we gotta win by team nine of thirteen in the second half by the way that's a good coach congratulations on another title and we will see it wherever it is on Wednesday night thank you very much appreciate it he is coach paul can't to bend


ways but actually we are running a schoolbook Ponzi scheme. It's a schoolbook Ponzi scheme. I'm not meaning it as an analogy, I'm meaning it as an actual. A Ponzi scheme is if you use the future to pay for the present. In a Ponzi scheme you pay the present investors by scanning the future investors and then as long as you can expand the investment based. So that's what we're doing ecologically. So no Ponzi scheme doesn't end. I mean it's just not possible. So it will end. So how do you deal with Ponzi schemes? First you need to recognize them.  They lose less. So getting out early. So it's not a tragedy of the common seater. It's actually very helpful to recognize that you're in a Ponzi scheme and ended as quickly as possible.


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Hello, everybody. I am your host, Johnny Q. Welcome to my YouTube channel. And I don't know why I said host, but it just makes me feel kind of cool. Like a podcast style, but not really. Here we go. And we're gonna get right into it guys, because I've been talking about this for quite a bit. And I finally saw an article online. This is by Education Week. Let me read it to you. Will having teachers carry firearms or school security make schools more or less safe? What teachers think? And this is the graph portion of that article. If you want to read the article, I'll link it down below. But this is the graph. As you can see here, we have a circle graph. And about 54% of this graph teachers are saying it's less safe that teachers carry firearms in the classroom, like in school to protect their students. Another 20% said more safe. And then 26% said, eh, I don't really know. Kind of saying I don't really care, but they will go to school for 10 plus years to be an educator to teach students about the parallelogram, the paragatherium, whatever that's called, like, you're saying that you're gonna spend more time and money educating yourselves on education and the option to carry a firearm in a school to potentially protect your kids and other kids at the school is like, no, we're not doing it. I don't know about you, but that to me is just wild. That's crazy. Now, that chart does display about 1000 different educators that were surveyed for this specific topic. And I guess what I gathered from that is that teachers, even let's say a police department or a good training company would come into the school and they would teach a certain amount of teachers. Even then, they wouldn't want to carry a gun because it's deemed less safe for the kids.  I am trained. I know what to do if that thing happens. And I will go do it gladly to save my family, myself and other people. If I was a school teacher in a school, middle school, a high school, a preschool, a university, I would most likely, I would 110% sign up to take that course to get myself a everyday carry gun, a licensed gun to keep my students safe.  That's not what I'm saying. I was strictly looking at this graph specifically that over 1000 people, men and women were surveyed. And what was it? Over 54% said that teachers carrying firearms to help students be safe, it would deem it less safe. How does that make sense? Make it make sense? I mean, do we not see what's going on in our country? We have school shooters almost every single month. We have legit school shootings at preschools, middle schools, universities, places of worship. We need people to step up in this country and actually care about the well being of other people. What happened in Uvaldi is wild. Okay, if that teacher or even one or two teachers would have been armed and potentially licensed to carry and wanted to do that to protect their kids and the school, that may have been a lot less deadly. And it's unfortunate and tragic that happened. But I truly believe that as Americans, as people who live in this country, we need to start thinking about this because people are going to get guns, no matter what, if they want to do something bad, and they're barred from doing it, they will find a way.  They still did it because it was who they were. That's what they did. So to see something like that chart and say that teachers would deem it less safe, if teachers would carry a gun to protect their students, I'm honestly a little frazzled. I feel like I got bamboozled. Maybe I read that wrong. Maybe the study was wrong. But there's just no way like I would want it to serve a five or 10,000 educators in the country now and see what they would say, because I want to think that educators would say, yeah, I would love to be trained. And I'm not saying every single educator in the school, I'm talking like one to two, maybe three core educators that want to take that role on. And I understand that's not their job. Their job is to educate their job is to foster that learning ability within their kids in their classroom. The other thing should be dealt through the police. I get it. We're even a school resource officer. But even then that's one person. Okay, when I was a police officer, our this is wild. Our city voted to have SROs in schools and they had to vote on it. And it was so close that people didn't want a school resource officer in schools. Like we're talking a police officer who is somewhat trained and would hopefully train firearms that they would be able to stop a threat if a threat came in into a school. People were having a hard time voting. Yes, we should have an SRO in our school to protect my kids. Are you kidding me? And it wasn't even all the schools in the city. And this happens every single day everywhere in this country. And it just honestly, it baffles me. It's irresponsible. In my opinion, we're spending millions of dollars on school, high school alone, we're spending millions of dollars on locker rooms, football fields, gear, the students, scholarships, cool. But all that goes away if someone with a long gun and some okay training walks in with 25 mags, 30 rounds each and starts going ham. I mean, it is just it's truly baffling to me that we're in this stage. And so I would hope in 2024 and beyond one or two core teachers would want to take this role on and be trained and say, you know what, I'm going to do this because I care about my community. I care about my kids and the students here and the teachers that I work with my coworkers that if something were to happen, I have some level of training with the firearm with entry level room clearing that I can go do this and make sure that that threat takes a forever nap. Man, it is it baffles me. It really does. It makes me angry because I just feel like why wouldn't you? Why would you say that guns make it less safe for students? And I understand this is what people are using to hurt other people. Okay, this is what they're using. So you need to be smart and use that. But in a safe manner, like for example, cars are not inherently dangerous. But if someone whoever were to just drive through a parade of people going 80 miles an hour, that's pretty dangerous. But we all know how to drive. Some of us know how to drive. We put our seatbelts on and we go from A to B and back to A without dying. Okay, like that's just we know how to do that. All I'm saying is a couple of core people, individuals who would take that on that role, that responsibility to say, you know what? I'm going to train. I want to protect my kids and make it a little bit more safe for students to come to my school, to come to my classroom. How much more do you think that we would be more well equipped to handle a school shooting? Just my tidbit. So there's a lot to unpack here, even in this short video. But if you have some thoughts or comments, comment down below, read that article. Let me know what you think. Do you think your teacher, your professor would carry a gun to protect themselves, the students and coworkers? I sure would hope so. I would think. But you know what? People just let you down all the time. So maybe they don't. But just please understand, I'm only saying this because police, they're trained to do this kind of thing. Well, some departments are. But even then, if they get there quick, we're wasting one, two, three, four, five minutes, if not more, where a shooter can walk in and for about two to five minutes, just do whatever. Unless we have trained and somewhat capable people with a concealed carry firearm and know what to do when it happens. And that's all I'm saying to be open to the idea that a gun can be used as a good thing from a teacher's standpoint in a school to potentially stop a deadly threat. Anyway, that was a lot to unpack. I hope that you guys enjoyed this video. Please comment down below what you think. I would love to know what you think. And I will catch you in the next Johnny Q video. Peace out.


Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States and Mrs. Reagan. Ladies and gentlemen, our National Anthem. Today we celebrate the far more than this new facility for NSA. Our words today, of course, are really the President of the United States. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. I'm delighted to be here today. By the way, I mentioned to General Odom and Bill Casey the unseasonably warm weather predictions for today, but they told me to wear my trench coat anyway. Then when I asked for directions to this great new building, all they would say is, Mr. President, leave the White House, go to 6th to 17th and K and wait for the phone to ring. I even offered to bring over some White House cufflinks as souvenirs for all of you, but I was told that you prefer the NSA cufflinks, you can tune in the Redskins game. Ladies and gentlemen, I didn't come here today to tell you a lot of speak into the potted plant jokes. I do have some fairly high-grade intelligence, though. We've just learned that from now on, KGB agents have been ordered to do all their work in groups of three. One agent to take notes and write the report, and the other two to keep an eye on the intellectual. But if I may be serious, I do have another story for you today, and it goes like this. In the spring of 1942, shortly after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese were planning a decisive naval engagement that would crush American power in the Pacific and open Hawaii and our west coast to attack. To accomplish this, the Japanese assembled the most powerful armada in history. Against their cruisers, battleships and carriers, the United States could assemble really only three aircraft carriers, one of which was still badly damaged from the Battle of the Coral Sea, and aware that the Japanese were preparing for this decisive battle, the commander of the Pacific Fleet, Chester Nimitz, knew the odds against him and understood that his only chance of victory lay in the skill and daring of his outnumbered sailors and fliers and in his superior intelligence services. Although aware of Japanese preparations, the Americans did not have the answer to the all-important question of where the Japanese would attack. A young naval officer who had with a small group of cryptographers been monitoring Japanese transmissions successfully deciphered their code. From his intercepts, Commander Joseph Rocheford knew the target of the planned attack was a place the Japanese were calling AF, and in his own mind he felt certain he knew what AF was, an island not far from Hawaii, it was called Midway. But as always, there were those who dismissed him, who scoffed at the notion that intelligence based on radio or electronic data could be accurate or reliable. Fortunately for America and for freedom, Admiral Nimitz had no such doubts. He authorized a message sent from Midway, a message they knew that the Japanese could decipher and would be sure to transmit to their own intelligence services. The message reporting water problems at Midway went out. Commander Joseph Rocheford and his dedicated cryptographers listened as the Japanese intelligence services reported the Tokyo Naval Headquarters that AF reported a water shortage. Commander Rocheford had his confirmation. Midway was the target. The rest, as the saying goes, is history and what history it was and is. Because of that critical intelligence, Nimitz placed his outnumbered carriers on the Japanese flank and with several devastating strikes not only dealt a blow that guaranteed naval superiority to the United States but made Midway one of the most dramatic and decisive naval battles in all of history.  Indeed it's hard to think of any group that made a greater contribution to victory in World War II. You of the National Security Agency are like them part of a proud tradition, a tradition which is in fact older than the nation, a tradition that has its beginnings with George Washington and the American Revolution. And you too make history quietly, silently, aware that your greatest moments, your greatest victories, if ever known at all, will be divulged only to generations many years from now. This does not deter you. You have chosen this work because you know that in a world where the dangers to our nation's freedom and security are grave and great, you provide a vital line of defense. You understand that since World War II, accurate, up-to-the-minute intelligence has saved lives, averted war, and kept alive the cause of freedom. You also understand that the loss of our own sensitive information can undermine the very foundations of our free society. And you work to get those twin challenges, to meet those twin challenges, by providing the crucial intelligence and safeguarding the security of our own communications and electronic networks. Today, your work continues not only to prevent conflict, but to fight terrorism, protect our security from hostile intelligence threats, guard the men and women of our armed forces around the world, and generally protect the values that we, our friends and our allies, hold dear. Without the product of your painstaking and dedicated efforts, we would, in a dangerous world, be blind and deaf. Without your long hours of selfless duty, often in far and forgotten corners of the world, we could neither protect America nor advance the cause of freedom. Without your success in guarding our vital communications, information, and technology, our adversaries would rob us of the secrets we need to be strong and secure. The simple truth is, without you, I could not do my job, nor could Secretary Schultz conduct diplomacy, nor could Secretary Weinberger and her admiral crowd muster the forces that depend us. And so, while you serve in silence, while your success must go without recognition, often even by your own families, while you cannot share with them or your fellow Americans the pride you feel in protecting and guarding their future, let me today, in this place, speak for all of them. We are grateful for what you do, for the sacrifices you make, for your selfless commitment to our country and for the limitations on your personal freedom, which you accept so your countrymen can live their lives in freedom and peace. We understand your burden, and we salute you. You carry on the struggle for freedom, and you too are heroes. America is proud of you, and we thank you. Of course, you cannot perform your work without proper support from the Department of Defense, the Director of General Intelligence or Central Intelligence, the White House, and the Congress. Finally, we are celebrating an example of that support, a new building complex, the most modern of its kind in the world. I want to congratulate you all, Cap Weinberger, Bill Casey, Bill Odom, and the members of the Intelligence Committees of the Congress, who co-operated so effectively to make this building possible. When we took office five and a half years ago, we promised to make America strong again. And today, we see a monument to that reassertion of American strength and security. And yet, we're also aware today of a growing threat to that security. Especially in the espionage trials of the last several years, you've glimpsed the terrible damage that espionage does. And as events of recent days have highlighted, the intelligence threat to our country remains very real. Our adversaries are employing all the means we associate with spies, including electronic espionage against sensitive communications and databases. Our most sensitive defense secrets and most advanced technology have been stolen, given to our adversaries out of misguided motives or attempts at financial gain. Such losses eliminate the technological advantage on which our defense rests. Similar efforts to infiltrate long-term agents into sensitive government departments and agencies are underway. Those around the world who would seek to steal our secrets and technology to subvert our values and institutions and to violate the privacy of our communications must realize this fact. The American people will no longer tolerate this conduct. Already, we have taken steps to demonstrate that we will not allow our adversaries to abuse the great freedoms of this country to our detriment. The recent flurry of espionage indictments and convictions expresses our unwillingness to tolerate betrayal of the special trust given to those who guard the nation's secrets. So, too, recent efforts by NSA have helped the private sector make it profitable to provide secure telecommunications and information systems to both government and industry. But on the issue of espionage, let me say again, we will root out our spies. We will punish them severely. And on this point, let me assure you, we have broad bipartisan support in the Congress and the overwhelming backing of the American people. And let me add, nor will we tolerate the imprisonment of innocent American citizens in retaliation for protecting ourselves from espionage. So, to you also falls the task of being especially vigilant against threats from hostile espionage services as well as other unauthorized disclosures of the information that you hold in safekeeping. Professional honor, these are code words. You protect the secrets and hold them in trust for your fellow citizens. And there can be no excuse for breaking that trust. Let us remember that those who would take it on themselves to declassify vital information endanger all of our lives, our freedom, and our way of life. So, you remain the guardians of freedom. But nothing sway you in this noble endeavor, no matter how trying the struggle, how little the reward. Know that the American people support you in your efforts and rest easier because of your devotion to country. As the words on your new building say, in grateful tribute to the men and women of the National Security Agency who have devoted their lives to the service of their nation. Thank you and God bless you. Mr. President, I know I speak for everyone here when I express thanks for those inspiring words. And we will remember them and we will follow your dictates. Now, I'd like to ask you to join me in concluding the ceremony by unveiling the plaque over here to our left.


I did a video just the other day and I'll leave a link to it, but that may be what had brought you to this video of how do you host or where do you host the Unify controller. And from an IT perspective, we have different needs than maybe an end user or a company that maybe only has a couple offices and they want to manage it in-house. We're a little bit different because we're an IT provider, a managed service provider and we manage networks and infrastructure for our clients as well as their entire computers and everything else. Unify is a very popular product line that we like. It's not our only product line, but it really hits the sweet spot of what value it provides for clients at a very reasonable cost. Someone is going to point out maybe there's something they like better and they're going to mash the buttons in the comments about this and I'm fine with that and it comes down to value that you can perceive to the client versus the cost. Unify, like I said, does really good job in that particular category. Now let's get a little bit more specific about why we like it and what you need to do to host it. First thing you need is to pick the right URL that you want to set this up at. Unify.youracompanyname.com, that's the first step. Pick something that is not just an IP address. The challenge you have with an IP address is if that IP address changes or you want to change it, you then have to go push a lot of configuration changes out to get all the systems updated versus if the backend server changes at all and we've upgraded, we've even replaced it when we are rearranging infrastructure, you just update the DNS entry for that, you know, unify.youracompanyname.com in a way you go. Now you don't have to call it unified and call it whatever you want.youracompany.com as long as it's common and you establish this in the beginning when you're setting all these up. It helped a lot of companies that started by just using IP address and transitioned it to make life a little bit easier. Now where you host it, that can be internal as in physically within your building or externally in some type of cloud hosted environment, digital ocean, AWS, etc, etc. Whatever you wherever you want, wherever your infrastructure resides in your comfortable with what needs to be exposed. That's the third part and that's we're going to dive into a little bit. So when you're setting this up, you want to have, and especially because we have so many MSP clients and so many people's, you know, everything tied into this, we don't want much exposed. We keep the exposure to the absolute minimum. That means only opening on ports that are necessary and no more. What is necessary though? Necessary is for just the functionality of Unify 3478 and 88 and I'll leave links to this. This is right from Unify site to tell you which ports you need open. The access here to use the GUI's slash API that you use in a web browser, we keep that behind a VPN and lockdown and IP restricted even on our own network. Even though we have, you know, good usernames, not reuse passwords, I still don't want any external exposure at that. So I do not leave port 8443 open to the general public. If you're using captive portal, that's going to be a little bit different.  If those are things you want to do is host the captive portal and host a speed test. Neither one of those we're doing. If the client has a captive portal or requires it and we're going to be using Unify, we will put a controller on site. That's pretty rare instance. And I think zero of our MSPs currently have it. Usually their portal is something else and more related to how they're running their firewall. But with just these two ports open, we can keep the server here and not a problem at all. I have full control and I'm going to show you with only these two ports open and no, I'm not going to go over to firewall rules. Some point you have to take my word for it. This is one of our clients, which is a football field soccer for those of you that are American. But what this allows us to do is even get into an SSHN without opening any ports, by the way. This is all done through the toolbox that they have here. So I can actually go to tools, open up the debug terminal, and then I can ping other devices. And the only downside is, in case you're wondering, yes, the font's really small. But I can get in here, ping things, see the devices, see the uptime, push configuration changes, push updates, push firmware updates. And by having all of my clients in a single controller, I only have one controller to update, and then I can push all these updates or changes between all of our clients. And it works really, really well. This has been just so convenient when someone's having any connectivity problems, when they have all unify switches and unify access points, we get to drill down very quickly their IP address. Can we ping that workstation? Can we see it? So even our other tools that we have that monitor workstations directly, this is one more tool in the toolkit. So maybe it went offline from the monitoring standpoint, but we can see it online from the network infrastructure standpoint. And without having to get inside their network or pivot in or even cut through the firewall, which if we're managing a firewall, obviously wouldn't be too difficult, I can quickly open up a debug terminal and start pinging things and seeing things on their local network. So there's a real advantage. And like I said, this is all done with just those two ports open. Just using port 3478 for UDP. This is the STUN protocol that's used to basically keep alive information that so we can understand some stats. And we're gathering all the stats on all of their devices so we can see things like neighboring access points. We can get all the diagnostic data from unify right through that. And combined with port 8080, port used for device and controller communication. So it's a combination of those two ports is all you need to have all that data fed back come coming in here. Now, a couple things about this configuration that I highly recommend. One, we have our backups set up hourly on Unify. We just have so many clients in there, there's always a change coming in. So whether my staff is doing it at, you know, any different interval, if a client needs a change made, we need to do something or push an update or anything, we really need to have that data backed up. And this is done pretty simply through the auto backup methodology that you can use right inside the Unify controller. So here's our Unify backup. And you can see that we have it set to be every hour and 30 minutes past the hour. This allows us to keep plenty of revisions in case we ever needed to restore a different revision and I only care about the settings. I'm not backing up all the other data we collect because that makes the file very big and it's just not necessary because it's mostly configurations that we're read about. Also, the controller itself is part of our VM stack and we have continuous replications where we're replicating the controller itself in case our VM stack were to die. And then to go further, we take these files with a really simple cron job that looks for changes and new files to show up inside the directory that these are in and copies them over to another backup server, which then replicates them again offsite. And all this is done with really simple tools. It's just all Linux cron jobs that take it from the back end off because Unify is just simply creating a file here. So all of these different backup methodologies and of course immutable snapshots that we take when we do our weekly backups and keep them offline is all part of the strategy. So if anything happens to our infrastructure or physically happens to the building where it's in or anything else, we keep a series of revisions of these. And hourly backups to me make the most sense when it comes to the data because that is huge. Like we may not, I mean we could always reverse engineer and go through our logs and say, all right, these are the changes the client request. But obviously, if you loaded an old controller, it would unravel all the changes and break things at your client. So you go, oh, I'm two hours behind in a backup. I need to restore it. It'll push all the changes back. Then you have to update it again to put all the changes back in. You can see how this could be a real problem, especially when you're talking about a lot of sites. It's a lot of work. Hourly backups are easy. You can see the files are really, really small because you're not retaining the data. Other than that, there's a couple more things that you want to look into and do some reading on Unify. Here is their whole sites discussion. I'll leave a link to this one. People talking about large scale sites and some of the challenges with it. And the more specific thing that you should be reading is this. How to tune a Unify controller for high number of devices. And this is one of the things that is really important is device tuning. When you start using this at a larger scale, you're going to be doing it like we are as an manager or provider. And we're going to manage a whole lot of sites in one single controller. You want to increase the amount of memory and increase a lot of other little tuning details. It's all broke down in here. Database, connection, timing, number of hosts. And it's basically that the Unify controller out of the box runs perfectly fine on like one of their small boxes that's somewhat limited in memory and things like that. Because you're only expecting to run a handful of sites. Once you start scaling it up and you have 50, 100, 200 sites, and it's not actually the sites that take as much memory. It's the devices. Because we have a client that has a single site with over 350 devices all together on their network that are all Unify devices. That volume of data coming back at that particular box plus the number of clients they have and the logging they have turned on. We just had to up the memory quite a bit. But even with that scale of a single site, I believe the machine isn't slightly older i5 with eight gigs of RAM. And it's not completely full on memory to do this. So it's not like it takes an incredible amount of power to do this. But it does take a little bit of horsepower to run it once you get to that level of scale. So think accordingly. And for us we're running in a virtual machine and we can pretty elastically just add more memory as needed and add more processors as needed. So it's not that big of a deal. But this is kind of a real basic overview. I have other videos where I deep dive on how to load the controller, how to set up a controller and things like that. But this is just the basics of how we manage it, how we host it, and having that visibility into the client's networks all in one dashboard versus installing a cloud key at every single client or a controller just in general at every single client which would be more difficult for us to manage. Because well then I'd have to make sure I update all the different controllers. Now we do have clients who we manage their external controllers for them. And of course that comes at a higher cost than when we have them in our dashboard and part of our MSP plan. That's going to be a lower cost. In which you're billing for is the time. We bill more because it takes more time to manage the external controller and all the updates that may come with it. And you know whatever exposure it may have versus us we're only exposing in two ports so I feel as though we're mitigating the risk. We're not tying it even to the cloud account. We keep it very locked down internally. And then only those two little pinholes exposed. Those two ports is all you need to be able to manage it as long as you're not earning anything like you have to portal. So hopefully this was helpful and thanks. And thank you for making it to the end of the video. If you like this video please give it a thumbs up. If you'd like to see more content from the channel hit the subscribe button and hit the bell icon. If you like YouTube to notify you when new videos come out. If you'd like to hire us head over to laurancesystems.com. Fill out our contact page and let us know what we can help you with and what projects you'd like us to work together on. 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