Welcome to this edition of Vantage Point. One of the realities of life is that people come and people go. So we are in the midst of a transition here at the Connecticut Conference of the United Church of Christ. Our associate conference minister for proclamation identity and communication, the Reverend Eric Anderson, is leaving our conference after 17 years of service to the Connecticut Conference of the United Church of Christ. A lot of what happens here on this video production happens because of Eric's diligence, Eric's care and concern for the communication ministries of the Connecticut conference. So before he departs, I wanted to have an opportunity to be have a little conversation with Eric. This Sunday at First Church of Christ Congregational in Glassenberry at 3 p.m. there will be a time of farewell for Eric and we hope you'll come and join us. Eric, welcome to this edition of Vantage Point. Thank you, Ken. Eric, you've been part of Vantage Point from its inception and so we wanted to have an opportunity to talk with you about your ministry here in the Connecticut Conference. Can you just share with us your time here for 17 years, the kinds of things you've been asked to do, the kinds of things that you had no idea you'd be asked to do. Give our viewers a little bit of insight into your work in ministry here in the Connecticut Conference. Well, it really was a fascinating time to be joining the communications ministry of the church. It was a time in which there was an enormous amount of change, not just in the techniques that we used and the media that we used, but also in the direction in which we were taking it. We started really in a place where we were talking about things that were coming and we had an established community of churches that we're all interested in participating in things. That was what we were doing. The situation we're in now is that we are no longer an established church and so our outreach as much as anything needs to be inspiration to our congregations, but increasingly to that great mass of folks who are connected to no particular religious tradition, but are still hungry for the things of the spirit, things that we really are rich in if we only knew it. So as you and your mind survey these past 17 years of work in ministry here, with more job titles I think than anyone else that's worked in the Connecticut Conference before. Possibly Ken Taylor might have had one or two more than I did. What have been as you think back over those years, what have been the high moments of your work with us and what have been the greatest challenges that you think you faced? The high moments were those times when when the ministry and the medium came together. A story I've told for a number of years about the power of social media comes from the day that a young man died in Tripoli. He had been one of these citizen reporters that emerged in social media and particularly emerged around the Arab Spring movement. He went out to cover a protest march and sniper shot him, left him with a young widow and a baby on the way. He was a source for a man by the name of Andy Carvin who worked for National Public Radio at the time and Andy did what people do on social media. He began to grieve in public. Well when people grieve you get the sensitive responses and you get the insensitive responses. That's humanity. I watched this and realized this was all happening on Twitter, 140 characters at a time. Humanity being itself 140 characters at a time. I wasn't sure that was possible and there it was. So I wrote an essay and I did something I rarely did at the time. I tweeted it and tagged Andy Carvin. Well he did something that was routine for him. He retweeted it and the next thing I knew my phone was blowing up because because all these folks are either retweeting it or they're responding to it in a very positive manner. One of those tweets read the UCC are good people. Now I saw this as I was sitting at a stop light on my way to the office. There are plenty of days when I get to the end of the day and I shouldn't tell you this. There are plenty of days I get to the end of the day. I'm not sure I've accomplished anything. On that day before I ever arrived at the office I knew I'd done my job. So what have been the challenges in this work? Where have the frustrations been? Where have the bumps in the road been? What would you name as the biggest challenges of your work here in the conference? Well honestly the biggest challenge is that my position has this split personality nature. I'm the IT manager on the one side and I'm the communications director on the other. Communications is very much a deadline driven discipline. Things have to be done, presented, produced and distributed on a schedule or that's the difference between a publication and some sort of random communication that may or may not get attention. IT, although there's definitely a planning element to it, computers break. They do. And they do so without any planning whatsoever. With no planning, yes. Everybody calls Eric when there is a problem. Everybody calls Eric and it's got to generally be addressed as quickly as possible because these are the tools that we're using to accomplish our work. So the conflict between those two realities has been a juggling act and a frequent frustration many times over the years. Yes, of course. So you're headed to a new call. I am headed to a new call. We are excited for you and about this new call for a variety of reasons. Would you give voice to what's coming next for you? Well, I'm on my way to become the pastor of a church of the Holy Cross, United Church of Christ in Hilo, Hawaii. So in some ways, I'm sort of following in the footsteps of our missionary ancestors, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, founded the first churches in the Hawaiian Islands. The very first church in Hawaii will be about 100 miles away from where I'll be living. This, however, is sort of an ABCFM grandchild church. It was not founded by a missionary from New England. It was founded by a missionary from Japan. Interesting. 125 years ago to serve the immigrant population of the time. A huge number of Japanese immigrants were coming to Hawaii to work in the sugar cane fields. So these are their grandchildren, great grandchildren. And of course, it's a very, very diverse community in Hilo. The majority of the population is either native Hawaiian or of Japanese ancestry. Not nearly so many pale faces. I'll be kind of a rarity with my complexion. So there's huge amount to learn, a huge amount to grow into. I'll certainly be taking along these social media skills that I've been developing over the last few years. Of course. But it will be a real learning curve to figure out how does this work in this setting, in this culture or in this intersection of cultures. And there'll be a new deadline every week. I seem to remember this thing on Sunday morning that happens. It's around 10 o'clock usually. And so I get this 12 to 15 minute spoken piece that I need to be getting. So I wonder if you'd be able to make a promise as you depart from the Connecticut Conference and move to Hawaii that in January and February, you will not post on Facebook the temperature of where you are. I think I can do that. I have been I've been promising myself at least not to gloat when confronted with the snowstorm pictures from my friends back east. However, I can't promise not to share the beauty of the islands. Good. And I I also promise to share the beauty of the faith and the spirit that that I've already found here in the conversations with this church, and that I look to learning much more about over the coming years. So any last thoughts for this edition of Vantage Point as you prepare to answer God's call to you to serve in the local church. And for the time that you spend here, 17 years of ministry and service to the Connecticut Commerce. Do you have any any last parting thoughts? Of course I do. Whether they'll be whether they'll be coherent is another question. I I leave with with just such incredibly mixed emotions. The the prospect and the promise of this new call are simultaneously enormously energizing and completely terrifying. The idea of leaving this ministry that I've known so well for so long, and the people with whom I've worked for so long. I that's enormously sad for me.  But I know it's in good hands with Tiffany Vale and Drew Page, working as a team here in Connecticut and with Tiffany working throughout Southern England. This has been a place of great blessing for me. And it is a it is a not just a place, not just United Church Center here or the leadership studio here in Hartford. But this this gathered community that comes together in such a very odd way. It's not a regular local church. We're not getting together every week as a conference. But we really have in these 17 years, fostered, nurtured, extended, deepened and shared a profound spirit amongst each other. And that I know has been passed on to folks in the pews on Sunday, and folks who've been seeing Facebook posts on Monday or Tuesday. So I guess all I can say is, keep that up. Keep inspiring. Keep leading. Keep making a difference. Because we need that. Thank you, Eric. We want to wish you Godspeed.  We look forward to hearing more about when your installation is going to be so we all can charter planes to get there for this that event. But we are really thankful and grateful to you, Eric, for your ministry. I'd like to remind our viewers that there will be a fair time of farewell with Eric on February 21st, this coming Sunday at 3pm at the First Church of Christ in Glastonbury. Godspeed to you, Eric. Thanks, kid. What Saturday, March 12, all day, Super Saturday, I wonder what that's about. Ladies, you heard about Super Saturday. Yeah, we're really excited about it. Why are you excited? I'm really excited to meet some new friends and meet some new people. I'm excited to hear Tracy Blackman speak. I saw her speak last year and she just gave me chills. Are you excited about Super Saturday? You bet. I'm going to be leading a workshop for folks who are chaperones at the National Youth Event. Hi, Emily. Did you hear that Tracy Blackman is coming? She's amazing. And the facility at Killingly High School is really nice. You should definitely go. So what do you like best about Super Saturday? Oh, worship and the workshops. Hear a prophetic word from our speakers. And I'm actually really excited about workshops. So much is super about Super Saturday. Super speaker number one, Tracy Blackman, who is the new executive for Justice and Witness Ministries is going to be our keynoter. I'm also excited about the location of Super Saturday. First time Connecticut is hosted this event. We're going to be at Killingly High School. Saturday, March 12th, Killingly High School, Tracy Blackman workshops, meeting new people, making new friends, be there.


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Okay, good afternoon Welcome back. Now we have Luciano Bello who's going to talk about towards easier security patch porting. So please welcome Luciano Like a normal disclaimer. This is extremely alpha thing. It's kind of like an idea so The talk is kind of like a like a call for comments and suggestions So for that we are going to do something like we used to do a lot here in DevConf With Gobi. Now we are going to do it with another part. So here is URL in the bottom The URL will be there all the time in the presentation. So the Bullets of the presentation are there. So if you have any comments or something Please write it down there because I really interested in Super as much as possible with details in the feedback And Yeah, well the idea will be like I would take kind of like half the time for percent in the idea and then we're gonna discuss of course with you with the microphones, but also maybe on IRC if somebody is there or Well, we'll take a look to the comments that they are there in the other part Okay, so let's start so Nowadays if we want to patch something in Debian what we do is something like this We go to the Debian security tracker We see that in the bottom. There are some things One of them is to a GitHub commit so we click there we get the diff that solves that we assume that solves the The will ability that we want to fix and then we run patch on On the source that we want to fix with that patch and we get a lot of errors Basically, that's the workflow Any of you are familiar with this workbook any of you try to do this Okay, that's good. So this mostly a job for you.  So So for that in IBM where is IBM is my employer so half of the time I'm working down this project there We thought okay, maybe what we can do is to like pull all the URLs that we see in the security tracker put in database then Go to for example, you'd have collected the patches that we found there And then try to massage them to see if they fit in the whole level source code and Once that we have the results we put them back in the security tracker So the reason why the monkey is there is because for now we put it like in a Chris monkey extension You will see how it works. Let's let's go to them on time. So this is for example One vulnerability. This is a moving target because I mean all the time they are fixing problems in in deviant So we'll try to make sure that all the demos work, but maybe something that's not work So the normal the normal Security tracker looks like this You see looks like this So I'm not sure if you notice the difference, but the difference is like there is a column That used to be there. So that's the column that we are adding now with With a Chris monkey extension So if you activate Chris monkey, we see another column and we see for example that we have it check agree and that means that One of the patches that they were added here in the bottom You can see in the bottom. There are two patches from github One of those ones it could it was ported Automatically by the application the other one is still in process. That's why it has this loop See so we if we go there Take some time load it load it load it From there, we just can download this patch That is fully killed compatible. So if you download it and you import in your guilty, it will work. There will not be Hanks broken and some that kind of things so Automatically we grab it from github We run it in the in the in the vulnerable source code In this case in the version 7 3 2 5 And we Well, once that it merged We make sure or we make sure we try to check for example if it compiles. So if it compiles we have some sort of Guarantee that the patch is good Sometimes in the compilation process also we have to go through testing and that kind of things So that's that's that's the main idea of the of the juggle a Here, for example, we well in the initial stage. This is the stages that we path through So the initial stage we download the source code and then we apply By one one the hacks the hanks For example this bank We applied there and then at the end of it We build And if everything is fine We said, okay This is a super easy trivial case. You don't have to deal much with it. You just can download the patch So we have other situations too. For example In this example Check it out the three Patches provided by github by the by abster So these are these three x x means we couldn't for some reason we couldn't Adapt the patch to make it go through But there are also one one check mark That means because we could get the patch from jess Check it out in oh, sorry for that's the back there From wisi should be wisi there Because in wisi it's already it's already fixed. So we could go to wisi We because The kilt format has the header and the kind of things we knew that that patch fixed that vulnerability We could adapt it check it out because because the version is exactly the same Or almost the same That's adapting was so much easier than trying to backboard something from 8.1.3 Which has basically took the patches from here or from here And we adjusted to here and we took And we know that now works So also we can download The patch from here So if you notice there are some situations that they say single solution here in the top and why is that? Because as part of the of the of the massage in the patch to to port it automatically We introduce ambiguities What what that means? So check it out this situation This situation we have Some patches that they have this double check This double check means We have multiple solutions How we end up with multiple solutions? How we end up with multiple packages and with multiple patches? Well because in the In the process to try to put the patch back to another version Maybe for example, we remove the offset So we said, okay, try to find the context of this patch Sanguared the file and maybe that context is repeated in the file. For example, in this case we try to to Backport this patch. It's a super simple patch But we could find many places where this could match So in this particular case we found two situations where it can match You can match in this context You don't have to pay attention to the details here, but basically this is one possible patch This is also one possible patch. Check it out. There is a different Different line number. This is 283 and the other one was 259 Or we have a third option Where we Patch both situations. Okay. I don't know what happened here So this this is incomplete, but it should have both both We should insert these lines twice in the in the in the in the in the file So again Patch one was that example. Thank you. Oh, yeah. Thank you. Good catch. So here you can see that the same insertion was twice So that that's why we end up with this with these multiple solutions where you can Where you can download three versions of this backboard patch And that's what we represent with this with this small tree Yeah, there are other situations like that one. For example, this one a Again is the insertion of this single line The insertion of a single line can happen twice We're gonna happen single times Or three times and this one happened three times So we represent these some b which is with this tree in the bottom So what happens sometimes is like for example this case that um The real patch is the combination of those two commits So if we want to create the patch that creates those both commits, we do the following We take one of the existing patches and we create something Something based on this so we we click there And here we have all the hands that are included and we can choose which ones do we want to insert We don't want to consider We can filter by file by cde or by origin for example in this case both coming from github So in this case, we change this filter. We're going to focus only on this vulnerability And we just add The other hack that was in the other In the other commit Once that we choose all the hands that we want to insert we just keep clicking proceed And the backend will again try to measure them again try to compile it um In addition we can say okay for example this this hank in particular maybe Try to have a different strategy So we have this idea of heuristics Which is out the way to insert a patch in an old version So, uh, for example, let me set the fault strategy Let's let's take this one Which is basically tries to okay It says first tries Normal patch The command patch then tries to Find in the same in the same file Trying to find in any offset of the file where the context matches Then something called it fast in patching which is basically ignore the first line of the context Then we lower the bottom line of the context. That's that's what we do with with these parameters Uh, we have other strategies. For example, ignore the fine name. Maybe the maybe the Maybe this Difference belongs to a different file because the file was renamed or something like that So we can we can set different strategies different heuristics Uh, we have to consider that more generic are these heuristics more big which we may insert So, um So yeah, it's yet another thing that we can we we can do so when we click proceed here We're going to ask for a transition token because this push in the in the backend I'm sure if I if I will be able to Um And then this will put the the the full process in the queue and after some time will give you the results A to see if how how that went So if you go to the middle probably will look like in progress Or probably waiting because I'm I'm trying to process my some patches now. Yeah, so now this one is in waiting Okay, so you can create your own patches very quickly from the web Based on the on the patches that we have already there A common very common thing is for example The the push also include changes in the changelog or something like that that we don't care about So we can disable those ones automatically So so far with with with with a very simple strategies Uh, which is offset fasting ignore files uh All the from all the the the patches that we found that about automatically found which is the full bar We could automatically port those ones in blue which may not represent a lot But consider that these ones are patched for free. So now you can Basically focus on those they are around 100 So on those 100 patches and they are trivial cases You just scan directly download the kills and it's done. You don't have to do nothing else than compile it And of course make sure that the patch Patch is whatever you want to patch and That's usually because the security team makes a really good effort in putting this The patch information in the security tracker So this is basically a small list of of of the features that we have so far. So For testing that the patch works that at least makes syntactic Syntactic sense We build it in a in a in a pbuilder in a pbuilder Also, we provide you a kit ready patch Reddish because for example, that's not include the the header which db3 or depth 3 Ask you to include But that's probably something that will come in the in future versions And also we have multiple of providers In some cases different distributions in some of the different distributions from there yet But also could be also we we pull things from other version control systems Like for example, why should they have their own version control system? So we pull from there Could be great for example to pull from different distributions also We have a heuristics that are more flexible than patch And because patches It's a it's a good tool, but sometimes it's a bit old and was put was done with the different minds somehow And so we were implement patch and we were very flexible in what we can do with it And we managed to visualize and be which is the yet another thing that patch cannot do We easily can support which are the trivial cases So sometimes I am making the queue in the cafeteria at work and can see okay this one This patch will not take me more than 20 minutes because I know that works I know that works in the meaning that I know that that it will not be Super long. I can do it in 20 minutes. Just I need to compile it And if that's not I can quickly rerun something based on that strategy The the the the goal that we start the project With was to have a platform where security parties are shared Automatically ported to different versions and multiple stakeholders can define together. What is a good patch and consume solutions from others Because remember the the the ugly process that I told you the very beginning The same process is done by many distributions at the same time By by by many derivatives at the same time HP is doing the same thing for their own custom packages They try to back all patches constantly. So if we if we have a place where we already know Okay, this is the patch for this vulnerability and this is the way that you have to adapt it to your old version Just it's one click away. We can automatically Do this this transformation and People can define together what is a good patch. Maybe with thumbs up. I don't know exactly but The way where you said, okay, this patch is the good one. Just ignore this part And that would be great Also could be also great to have it in a way that everybody can consume it like for example with a rest api or something like that So we stop for once at all Duplicating job because that's something that I know it's been lost and So with this goal in mind, let's try to focus a bit more on the road map Something that we have to do at least this week is to perform to improve the performance We're doing a lot of things on the client side with that we can do in the back end So move the things that we can do in the back end Could be great to integrate better with this with the devian security tracker, of course, if that's okay with you Instead it could be great to have something like a field call it patch instead of because right now We are just pulling every URL that appears in the tracker and see if that's a patch So if instead of doing that, there is a way to say, okay, these are patches don't go around and search for things I'm sure you already know what I'm talking about, but I can show you quickly So that this is the source of the security tracker. This is the the file where the security tracker consumes for generating the website This is a good example of why we need it Instead of saying note, we should say something like And then the URL here Because something that we do right now, for example, is going to that URL And and this is a patch and we're going to try to back for that one But that's not a patch. That's a point where the the the back was introduced So that that's obviously we're doing is wrong Okay, this is this is typical situation where in that commit in this line the The vulnerability solved. So this is the case of of a patch. So what I'm suggesting is instead of having note She's basically having patch So we can automatically know or quickly know which ones are patches And of course this way with the token to push in in the the the the database Is not nice. We We plan to have a user registration interface But probably for the developer it's just basically It's just easier to use the signals. I know that we already have So this is on the on the on the integration part. We can discuss a bit more about this later And As I say, it would be great to to be able to crawl Other distros searching for patches We tried to do something with the red Website, but it's not so easy to find which is which is the patch that's all particular vulnerability And in the same way that I'm suggesting to have a patch field, it would be great to have Epoch field Because sometimes we add there in the tracker Like a proof of concept whether we know that this file is the one that makes the program fail And maybe we can use that program that makes you fail to check if the patch is good I don't know exactly how to automatize that but it could be great to to have something like that That will give you even more entities that that patch is a good one And About interface improvement for that I need you guys to test take a look to it In in here in the url you can You can find instructions about how to install it nowadays if we integrate it it will be easier, but now Right now you can go there and try it If you need a token for pushing things in the in the database, just let me know I can I can give you one Um The the the the the databases is an important part of it I have been using a bit and trying to detect some things that are here there But probably you come up with better with examples And in IBM a lot of people are very exciting about using machine learning In this context, I'm not a machine learning guy. So I have no idea how exactly the measure for example that it could be It could be possible to find the the the Injection point of the patch With machine learning. I don't know how Also that the the custom runs instead of being custom doing by by hand Maybe a machine can learn to do that Again, I have no idea exactly how because that's not my field Yeah, so Let me see if something about this part is missing Yeah, also like for example, if we if we start ignoring things like for example Changes in the changelog Maybe already the machine knows that we are usually ignored Text files for patching. So maybe automatically the the the back end can ignore those concentrations this this If somebody here is good at machine learning, you know have ideas about how machine learning can be a player or like I'm happy to listen more about it and Lately it would be great to add more new fancy ways to include this patch in bad proportions That right now we have really basic heuristics, but For example, if we take all the situations where we cannot handle it and we make a taxonomy of them We see why they cannot why they don't work or that call some sort of classification Maybe we can come up with more generic ways to solve the situations Something for example that exists in academia for some time already. It was developed by intria in in in france It's something called semantic patches Which is an idea that I would like to talk about that Shortly as an example of what it could be a fancy heuristic For example, take out this this this patch This patch hard solves An old problem. It's an old it's an old bug It solves a typical serialization issue, right? That is So the patch basically removes the Unsafe use of pickle in python adds a new model for doing proper Serialization and then modifies the use of it for serializing And this this hunk from the bottom is repeated several times in the patch So if we want to if we have this target This this patch is not working. It's not it's not merging properly. Okay. Can you see why? Check it out that the line 19 Sorry the line 18 Which reads a response Read It should match to the line 17 No 79 But the variable was renamed Because of the difference The matching does not work So semantic patch abstract this by using instead of the syntax using the ast So it's abstract from from variables. They use meta variables So it doesn't match the name of the variable and and it founds this matching point Quickly Another thing which is slightly subtle to see is the fact that The distance the tabulation is different the temptation is different That makes also the the the patch Hard to merge in the in the target a Semantic patches abstract from that kind of a syntaxes issues another thing that semantic patches Had is something called isomorphism Which is based on the situation that all these lines in C Are this do the same So basically If I search for the match for the first one doesn't matter if it's representing like the second one for C the the Israel project has already full database of isomorphism pieces of code that do exactly the same But if it's possible to extend these without the languages for example in panther Check it out the patch in the top needs to to match in the target in the bottom the line 19 and 20 Are semantically equivalent to the line to the lines 12 of the chain? but in the top We're using concatenation while in the in the bottom. We're using a replacement strictly present a substitution Um If there is there is a way okay to say okay the line 12 is exactly doing exactly the same that like Like line 19 in that case the march the the the merge of the budget is is that right? So this I've tried to start playing with these kind of ideas There are a lot of engineering issues that I couldn't finish too But if you come up with other ideas And all years it would be great And everything is this MIT license you can download the source of key in this URL And Yeah, the patch crawler is written in Node.js in case you want to to to write something there the patch itself is written in panther And Another thing that you can contribute with is to add patches in the security tracker Uh, if you know the commencing github is fixing the security security patch, let the security team know And the last point is about if you are fixing a vulnerability Put in your header in the in the patch header, which is the cda that's key because we can you also use that information for a Boarding that patch to a different version So that that's that's all my presentation. So now we start playing with you. Let's Try to see if you have comments ideas I'm I'm already here. Thanks. That looks nice I'm willing to try it out A couple of features that I had One particularly useful would be to check like whether a patch does not apply at all in the case that Might not yet be present. I'd say pretty like that For example, patching a function which does not exist. That would be something that could like even be like mostly automatic another So hold on that that's that's super interesting. So what you suggested is like If the part that we're trying to match does not exist in the code Maybe the code that we're trying to patch is not one of them. Yeah, I mean there like you could you could I think pretty there could be pretty reliable heuristics to detect whether Holder below code is not at all at least to give it a strong indication that I can still review That's that's a good one. And I think and another um, so whenever we receive patches Which target so often let's say there's some hypothetical application called Inversion 3 and the upstream fix adds a new library function which fixes a specific problem like interviews in the length check, etc and for that patch the upstream office usually only Fix the call sites of course only the call sites which are present in version 3 are present and Whenever we receive patches One of the things where you need to be very very careful whether the backpot has been done Right is whether actually all call sites in the older version are fixed because it might be that there are actually like let's say for example, there's the fix involves introducing a new function which now verifies user input for example, and The upstream author has fixed like all the users of the affected function in the current version But the whole version might simply have different functions. So um Just applying a patch like simply with the existing hunts might simply miss existing defective functions in the original version so that would be a really useful to Yeah, I have no idea how to summarize that with that idea though. Yeah, we can discuss it later I can add it to the to the copy that and I was speaking for the changes to the security tracker and um We can certainly do all that and I think it needs to have some further discussion on the specific syntax in the design, but Right now's note is like a catchball for anything like arbitrary comments, but we can definitely make this a little bit more Structurized so that fix version and specific branches that entertain Yeah, yeah, it could be it could be for example that the patch type depends on specific versions. It's not generic Yeah, yeah, I think Okay, thank you any added comment What are you back another one from I don't think this necessarily of course some of the existing data sources are title security tracker, but I don't think this necessarily should be Limited or tied to security updates. We have the very same problem with backporting standard Standard functionality bug fixes to a model release. Yeah, so I don't think this should be like a part of security tracker For the specific case of backporting security vulnerabilities. It would reuse a lot of the logic, but I think it should be equally supported and So the use case should be kept in mind to simply Yeah, the thing is we start which has patches in jail but security patches has the feature of of being Super small and that and that being key because when you have a huge patch the the possibilities of not having a match is huge too and even worse When you have these ambiguities They explode exponentially. So if in every step they have new ambiguities You end up with a lot of possible patches at the end of the of the trade. That's why we we focus on security patches to Just keep it Keep the patches small So I will see some also inside. That's like you Yep So thank you so much for your attention


Hello in this lecture we will define inventory turnover. According to fundamental accounting principles wild 22nd edition the definition of inventory turnover is number of times a company's average inventory is sold during a period computed by dividing cost of goods sold by average inventory also called merchandising merchandise turnover. So what we're trying to determine is going to be in calculation and we're trying to estimate the average inventory that is sold during a particular time period. So if we sell inventories such as t-shirts we're looking for the average inventory sold to customers for a particular time period calculation will be the cost of goods sold which is going to be the income statement account the expense account we're going to divide that by the average inventory. It can be confusing to know what the average inventory is because the inventory of course is as of a point in time in the balance sheet so we're usually going to take the ending inventory we're going to add that to what the beginning inventory is for the time period which is equivalent to last period's ending inventory and add those up divide by two the idea being that that will give us kind of the average of what inventory should be at any given point during that particular time period


How's it going everybody? This is 1920 court Kings basketball four box break pick a team one first thing we need to do actually is Randomize the New Orleans Pelicans in this one Little prize for everybody who joined these court Kings breaks four box break The the top name is gonna win the pelicans So roll the dice and we're gonna go Five times so name on top gets the pelicans should be 29 names nice So here we go break number one two three Four and fifth and final time five Neil P. Congrats Had a few teams in that. Yeah, it's like five teams. That's the way to do it You know kind of go big on one break. Hopefully land the pelicans There are some teams that are you know, 15 20 bucks. So Those teams are still available. I try to grab them up in the in the court Kings basketball Because you could hit a multi thousand dollars iron Not every year you're gonna have a chance to hit a once-in-a-generation Talent like this. I don't think we hit any one-on-one cut autos Yeah, I think you saw that Clemente or did you sell that Jack? I saw you mentioned that the other day Good luck everybody looks like Haven't been breaking in a while All right, so there is a list of NBA teams Good Yeah, the head traps we do we try to add valley in those Think Ted has a pack tonight too anyone wanted a pop over on Instagram Looks like my night is pretty much full. We said to see what's all that first Yeah, that was from tier one right Jack last year's tier one Instagram feed gets kind of wild So lower age demographic and more graphic content so we got four stacks of four will go one two three four Once again one two three four five six will reroll and let's head over to random org once again One two three four roll again roll again to Stack two in the top right there What I'm gonna do is mark even though these are pretty dark boxes. You might not even be able to see it Just kind of Draw lines in these Tensure everybody knows they're from the same case. I don't think there's any case. It's anything. There are very rare inserts There's different level work. He's so you got level one level two level three. You got sneaker cards in here All sorts of stuff. I think Teddy said Teddy said he hit a spongebob square pants sneakers card Someone's wearing spongebob sneakers. I guess So here we go why you saying all I'm glad they don't do the box offers anymore. That was a saving grace. Oh, they don't do anything. No, they haven't done it Three years. Yeah, I'll try and say no, you're right because they made the box It's the box of tiny. I'll try and says Tyler hero and Kobe white wear the spongebob Kyrie's All right an all-card ship in this so don't worry Andre drumming points in the paint we got an aura That's nice or Aurora. Yeah, I can't do the double ours like that I Leonard pause for a second. Yeah It's like the city in Colorado. I can't say it Denver. No this city Blake Griffin No, there's a city in Colorado named. Oh, Aurora, Colorado. Yeah I always I get tripped up by Russell Westwood. Yeah, I was gonna say Russell rest books The W and R and there's a kawaii. That's our first numbered card. That's number to 149 Points in the paint went on to the Clippers and Danny. Oh, these might be a case hit. Yeah That's a nice one then Clippers Neil Neil won the Pelicans and gets the I didn't know I was showing the hit and gets the the car what kawaii insert nice All right Art Nouveau Goga batata for the Pacers Going out to Derek 16 that's 25 one more not two more hits. It looks like Kind of stuck together there 92 of 99 Robert Covington High Court for the T wolves That is Jack B Gets the Covington 92 of 99 And we have an Al Farouk Aminu High Court signatures for the Orlando Magic going out to Neil That was number 130 at a 170 Yeah, I wonder if that's a distraction to the pitcher Yeah, it looks like a panda Donald Duck Spider-Man Looks like Ted from the movie Ted is back there. Oh, did I pull a hit? Yeah, I did One too far. All right. We have a maestro Joellen B. There's our first sneaker card It's for the calves. It is Darius Garland. I think those are the Spongebob Kyrie's That looks like SpongeBob's house Those are cool first steps Yeah David see with that one and we have a goga That is a one of the level parallels and it's got a foil to it too. Nice. Oh Same one Ted pulled nice. I like Garland a lot. I feel like people forget. He was like the fifth pick Head of Kobe wide had a hero head of So only guys that out sell them. All right, there's a Kobe white Ricky Carr Brandon Clark. What do we got here? James Harden points in the paint blue. That one's one of 25 Yeah, he that's right. He is exclusive to a Topper deck. Ooh, that's a level four goga as well people are saying We got Rick Fox out of for the Lakers impressionist. He's always got an interesting offer Danny Yeah, I always forget that and we have a 10 of 10 autograph brushstrokes of Julius Randall two packs ago Yeah, a lot of this a lot of the value member is in the non-autograph stuff looks like no relics this year either so just autos and Short print rookies inserts all that. All right points in the paint Dame Lillard. Oh Look at this Nikila Alexander Walker apprentice artist. That's cool. Kind of got it like a graffiti look there And Grant Williams, I guess they call it street art now Kind of got a street art look and Devin Booker Nikola Vuchovic Eric Pascal Level one PJ Washington level one Jimmy Butler orange That one's 37 out of 49. Looks like we have for the Nets Otis bird song auto the old New Jersey Nets logo there number to 99 kind of miss them being in New Jersey to be honest That's Serenity and We have a door auto for the thunder Lugans door. Okay, see that is Gary third 18 of 99 Ooh, this is a nice one. I Thought the last box was this guy. It was a Nikola Nikila Alexander Walker This one is Zion apprentice artist very nice Neil won the pelicans in this break Very nice Prentice artist Zion. That's cool looking card. We have a maestro of D book and we have a Jackson Hates level two What else we got here? Jamal Murray buddy healed Darius Garland Kendrick Nunn. Ooh Maestro Luca. That's a red 14 out of 149 Very nice one there for the Mavs. That's going out to Matthew Powell Last two hits is Mia Oni for the jazz on card That's our first on card auto in this one air apparent That is for the jazz and Carter and we have a taco fall Auto air apparent for the Celtics Going out to Neil. 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you shouldn't beat yourself up about it because I think one thing that particularly goes through my mind when I'm having a meltdown or after or having a shutdown and I'm going selectively mute in those circumstances that I have control over myself like I can I can somewhat tie together some faults sometimes it feels like I can do something about this and I'm choosing to be this way but every time that I've had those faults and I've tried to convince myself that I can it hasn't worked it just doesn't work so you may have those faults while going for a meltdown or after a meltdown like you could have done like this was a conscious thing that you wanted to do but try your best to disregard that that feeling that fault because in a lot of cases it is not your fault you haven't done it on purpose it's not a fun thing it's not a it's not a pleasant thing you wouldn't want to put yourself in in that situation it's not fun purple Ella what exactly is an autistic meltdown it's a pretty short video but I think it would be interesting to see what purple Ella has to say I have interviewed them on a previous podcast if you want to go check that one out but yeah definitely something something worthwhile to watch because I have seen some content creators get a bit confused about like the terminology and the differences between specifically around autistic meltdowns and shutdowns I haven't really heard people talk about much the difference between meltdowns and panic attacks it's something that I've covered quite a bit so I'll be interested to see if this is representative or I feel it's accurate to my experience right let's get into it guys so many of you might be wondering what is an autistic meltdown we use the word meltdown a lot to describe all different kinds of loss of control for example a young child having a temper tantrum or any kind of loss of control in an adult I want to talk about autistic meltdowns which are specific events which happen to autistic people of any age they are an intense response to overwhelming circumstances causing a complete loss of behavioral control I'm often asked what's the difference between a tantrum and a meltdown so let's start there I've heard it used in a lot of different circumstances like that like people people generally say when they are struggling or feeling overwhelmed they're somewhat dysregulated and they somewhat lose the ability to to think clearly and they're perhaps quite emotional that they are having a meltdown or you might have heard people use it in the phrase of I'm going to have a meltdown about this I had an absolute meltdown you hear a lot of people talking about that specifically but the actual origins of the word the terminology that you know sort of brought this idea of a meltdown into the mainstream was was actually you know due to autistic meltdowns it's not really something that allistic people experience you may experience panic attacks as an allistic individual and perhaps might get quite overwhelmed but the actual experience of going for a meltdown is very very different cherries jubilee says my not noticing that I'm getting emotional makes it feel like I go from zero to a hundred that's the order likes to find me I think it's a really important thing to to mention I do talk about likes to find me quite a bit but if you are struggling in terms of controlling meltdowns and in terms of managing it I highly recommend looking into this idea of autism to collect find me I do have some podcasts and I do have some videos and posts which go into exactly what that is and what it can look like but in general it is a difficulty noticing identifying your feelings in the context of meltdowns or even in the context of general overwhelm and panic because we have sort of a dulled sense of like noticing our emotions it can often take a lot more of an intense emotion for for us to notice it so quite often perhaps we might only realize that we're anxious when we get like 60 70 80 percent of the way to a meltdown and by that time most people would be able to say okay like I'm getting a bit overwhelmed and anxious I need to like take a break from what I'm doing or I need to step outside I need to regulate in some way I need to calm down whereas for us it can be sometimes quite hard to notice it up until the point where we kind of reach the the crossroads of perhaps getting into that very overstimulated kind of dysregulated state which we do call meltdown there are ways that you can learn to be a bit more cognizant of it you can look at like physical signs you can try and characterize sort of different sort of ways that you you might change in terms of thinking and the the ways that you might behave outwardly being able to find different ways of understanding how you're feeling through sort of atypical kind of cognitive like understanding of your own experiences with anxiety is definitely like a really really good thing when it comes to meltdown prevention there's a lot of people that might say okay here are some anxiety reducing strategies that you can use you go to the doctor you're just psychologists and the like okay do some deep breathing you know or you can look around the room you can you pick two things that you can see or one thing that you can touch and things of that nature it's only really useful when you can be aware of how you're feeling when you get to that point where you are approaching a meltdown it's not like this switch that goes off and you just have a meltdown it's a ramping up kind of effect you know it is a if you are on the way to having a meltdown it can be exponentially more more and more difficult in order to implement those strategies and think clearly when you're on that way so i think that's definitely one big tip that i just want to say before we get into this an autistic meltdown is bigger more emotional longer lasting and more difficult to manage than the average tantrum an autistic meltdown doesn't have a purpose tantrums tend to be manipulative a child learns that they can get their own way by crying lying on the floor and lashing out this behavior is then repeated when they want to get their own way particularly if it has worked in the past autistic meltdowns are not manipulative there is no goal it is an intense sign of distress tip you can sometimes tell the difference by watching the behavior in a tantrum you would see signs of the child looking to see what reaction they're getting from their behavior and trying to negotiate to get their own way the tantrum would end with them either getting their own way or realizing that it's not going to help them to get i think there's that's a really really good distinction and that's probably how i would describe the differences too i do want to highlight that it can sometimes be a result of something that's happened that they don't want as well like it's like the the actual initiation of it if if a child you know what's in schools if a child's not getting something that they want it could be related to like routine and certainty and something in the head that they've decided that they're going to do and it kind of changes and it causes them to be sort of dysregulated but it can start off looking a little bit like that but once it kind of moves into this idea of a meltdown it doesn't really matter if you give them what they wanted in the first place because it's it's kind of like you just it's set off it's like it's triggered and once it's it's like that it's it's no longer sort of a defiance or you know they don't necessarily have the ability to see themselves when they get what they want because it's not this kind of manipulative display as purple ala is talking about you're not really trying they're not really trying to get anything out of the situation at that point they are just in a very hypers very overstimulated like completely sort of dysregulate an emotional state so it's it's very very different in that way every stout sound stacks as if it's a priority you can't filter anything out yeah i've had tantrums turn into meltdowns 100 percent long bouts of people pleasing masking caused years of severe depressive episodes as an adult i'm sorry to hear that really i mostly had autistic meltdowns start as an older child an adult i thought it was kind of background backwards um i have had a situation in my own life where you know in teenage hood from early childhood to teenage hood i did have quite sort of consistent meltdowns especially during teenage hood um but nowadays it doesn't really transition from a shutdown into a meltdown very regularly um it only tends to happen when someone is causing causing it so i have been in a very difficult sort of unhealthy sort of romantic relationship in the past where i have been somewhat triggered or forced into a meltdown because someone wouldn't stop asking me questions you know someone continued to be emotive even though i'd i'd express that you know i might have a meltdown some feeling dysregulated um sort of continue to do that that's that's usually when when it tends to turn into a meltdown for me you know it's it's when it when it doesn't stop it's when the shutdown no longer serves the purpose of cutting me off from the rest of the world which is call it causing me to get into that state at their own way in a meltdown the person will have no control over what they are doing and they may look panicked or frightened they may shut down or try to escape they will lose their ability to problem solve or negotiate the meltdown won't necessarily i i i don't know if like because it is definitely very very accurate to my experience but i've heard other people sort of characterizing it as a somewhat loss of function not necessarily a loss of all of your functionality ability to communicate etc it really depends for me on the intensity of the meltdown because i can have really really intense ones which you know come with a lot of you know uncontrollable like motor ticks on ability non-ability to communicate you know pretty much what pepola is describing but sometimes it can be somewhat of a minor meltdown not necessarily as intense and i still have the ability to sort of say yes and no i have the ability to somewhat be cooperative when it comes to people sort of leading me into to a space which is a lot more quiet or a lot less dysregulating i think it really depends on the person like i can definitely make decisions and do things if i'm having a meltdown it just takes an extraordinary amount of time for me to to get to a point where i have an idea of what my thoughts are and i'm able to execute things and i'm able to process things it's like everything's just slowed down to like a massive degree and there is just this emotional wave of panic you know and i think it's worthwhile saying that it can look different from person to person 100% like for me my meltdowns tend to be typically around anxiety some people might have them a lot where they express a lot of excitement a lot of happiness some people might express a lot of anger you know perhaps being being quite quite aggressive in some circumstances that's not my experience but i know of people who who do who have so talked about that their experience particularly with that for sure i mainly shut down and stop responding well the shutdowns very is is different to a meltdown like some people characterize it as having an internal meltdown i don't think that's necessarily the most accurate you know i see it more of it as a protective mechanism not necessarily like an internal meltdown because i don't tend to find them to be as horrible over stimulating difficult my communication does go sometimes with shutdowns but that's more of a compensatory thing you know it's it's to kind of stop me from becoming even more stimulate over stimulated you know kind of like a protected mechanism that's my experience with it people think my cataplex is a shutdown that's very interesting what what is i imagine the catam element of that is like related to like catastonia maybe i'd love to know more about that jerry's i agree i don't agree with the internal meltdown why do why do you why do we think so much alike i i'm not sure there really end when the trigger problem is resolved next i want to talk about what causes autistic meltdowns meltdowns are caused by high levels of stress they can be the result of sensory overload an overwhelming situation information overload unexpected changes or other challenges that that person is dealing with causing them to feel overwhelmed in my experience meltdowns are not the result of one single thing yes they are usually triggered by a final straw after a series of challenges yes to give you an example i recently had a meltdown which looked like this first i was on holiday for the weekend dealing with schedule changes and usual activities and extra socializing next i had been unwell the night before so i was feeling tired and in pain and just generally a bit wobbly i decided that the way to fix all this was to get a particular drink from a particular cafe when we got to the planned cafe it was shut so we went to a different cafe and mr purple went to get us some drinks but when he came back he hadn't gotten me the drink that i had asked for i had a meltdown on the surface it looked like i had a meltdown over a frappuccino but if you look more closely i was in sensory overload i'm feeling physically unwell the frappuccino was just the final trigger and is i don't necessarily think in this case like i think some people might interpret this story as like this is like the final straw was the result of not like getting her own way you know um quite often when we feel stressed like trying to assert some degree of certainty in our heads about like how things are gonna go what things like how things are gonna happen provides us a lot of relief in terms of anxiety i have had situations in the past where i've had i mean peplella was talking about overwhelm i think meltdowns can happen from any overwhelming emotion it could be anger and i have had one or two times where i have had a happy meltdown as i describe it getting way too overly excited and happy particularly when i spend large amounts of time socializing with people when i'm sort of in the the social groove and i spend i don't like take breaks because i'm enjoying interacting with people i can get myself into a happy meltdown or if i get a really good piece of news really really good piece of positive news that's happened to me as well so it's can be ignited by lots of different things i do actually have i think a series of posts that i put out so these are sort of the the things that i've characterized as possible reasons for artistic meltdowns obviously the social overload overload that can be something where we sort of overreach our social battery illness and chronic pain can be an aspect lack of sensory accommodation so sensory overload general low mental health as well so if you are having a particularly large sort of bout of anxiety not necessarily due to anything but just due to like your brain chemistry on any certain day routine changes is the big one that's that kind of removal of certainty also sometimes related to dehydration or not having enough food you know sometimes we can neglect our body needs because some of us do struggle with interception confrontation can be a really really big trigger for a lot of people including myself especially with someone that i care about a lot burnout if you're in like a long period of burnout you can be a lot more sensitive to meltdowns very very fast transitions from one thing to another that we don't have control over that can be hard if we don't get that time to transition from one state of being or one activity to another hyper-focusing or having a large amount of autistic inertia for a long time very much eating into our energy supplies not knowing when to regulate that's the aspects of alexa thymia pressure to communicate which is a really really big one for me particularly usually the thing that causes me to go from shut down to meltdown when i'm pressured to communicate and i can't uh sometimes related to rejection and failure that can sometimes be a trigger for some people a lot of small things to manage so extending ourselves in terms of our capabilities in terms of like executive function strong overwhelming positive emotion i've talked about that sometimes related to uh pda demand triggers so persistent drive for autonomy pathological demand avoidance forced out of hyper focus too quickly so if someone's not respecting our monotropic mind and our sort of focus on one particular task and sort of trying to force us out of that it can be somewhat quite overwhelming and unclear instructions so not really having much clarity around something that we're supposed to do or things that we're doing you know obviously these these can be you know triggers can can also be anything really that causes someone to experience a high amount of anxiety so it could just be non autism related thing non autism related things which definitely like contribute to that and what purple a la was describing in terms of how they get into meltdown states so there's a usually like a string of events that happen there is actually a um an actual like scientific reason for the reasons for this and it can be the same for people experience holistic individuals experiencing panic attacks and that is this idea of trigger stacking and it's something that's primarily talked about in terms of animals but it's related to this hormone that we secrete which is related to anxiety called cortisol and cortisol is a very strange one because it's released when we are stressed or we're needing to get ready for something or waking up in the morning but it doesn't just stay elevated for like a very small amount of time sometimes well in a lot of cases it's elevated for quite a significant amount of time so if you have lots of strings of things that happen for you during the day um you get a spike of cortisol and perhaps you have another thing that happens maybe a couple of hours after an hour after it spikes again and so it increasingly spikes over this period of time and so there's a very very small window of you know sort of cortisol left before you get into a panic attack state or you have a meltdown and it's usually that kind of end trigger that we're aware of but we don't always like look back in hindsight and realize just what what kind of like the string of events had led to in that way cortisol I get very angry irrational slamming things short throwing soft things scratching and hitting myself for air screaming shouting crying yeah I think that's something that I that's that's how my meltdowns express when I was when I was younger I'm not saying that that's necessarily like an immature thing I'm just saying that that's what happened when I was younger nowadays they tend to be a lot more internal and anxiety related but I do have a lot of experience when it comes to sort of harmful stings as you would say sort of hitting yourself it's something that does happen if I have a very sort of intense meltdown totally so what does an autistic meltdown look like typically but not always you will see pre meltdown signs of distress this is a warning signal this can look like increasing irritability and sensory distress like hands over ears increasing volume of voice or restlessness these warning signals could also include stimming rocking pacing nail biting and more just as autistic people are different so their meltdowns are different not all I think as well another good sign would be if we are hyper fixating on one particular aspect of how our day's going or what we want to do that's usually a good sign if we if we just can't let things go and we're continuing to like sort of have like a loop of thoughts around one particular thing that's going to provide us certainty I think that that's also a really good thing so good example for me when I was making my documentary I had quite a few meltdowns because my computer wasn't working and I'd said to myself I was going to get this far with the editing today and because I didn't I stayed up very very late and I fixated on it even though I couldn't do anything because my computer wasn't working properly so having that kind of state of cycling through a you know so obsessively sort of trying to get something finished or focusing on a result or something that needs to happen can also be sort of a sign in my in my books meltdowns are a result of deficient emotional regulation and may occur with anyone with deficient executive functioning such as autism and ADHD um I think it it definitely looks different in autistic people in my my experience but I wouldn't necessarily say that autistic people struggle with emotional regulation because we're pretty good at it when it comes to stimming and when it comes to like that it's just it's just quite often the elixir firemere before that and sometimes the amount of stress that we experience is somewhat amplified because as I was talking about court or before we we also do have a higher sensitivity to it we usually release more of it and it usually sticks around in our system a lot more than the most people I rock and stem when I'm feeling happy but when I am like that I usually sing too oh that is cool it's cool all meltdowns look the same they might involve lying on the floor hiding running away crying shouting swearing throwing things hitting themselves or lashing out side note I went through an entire fruit bowls worth of apples at a wall when I was in meltdown awkward my meltdowns usually start with an increase in irritability and circular thinking that means saying the same things over and over again when I melt down I usually cry and sit down or lie on the floor I may appear angry and irrational and I might shout as I said I've also been known to throw things that autistic people autistic meltdowns will vary from person to person now you're probably asking how do I prevent meltdowns so I'm going to break that into two parts short term and long term meltdown prevention long term meltdown prevention is about living a life that day in day out suits and neurology this could include things like meeting our sensory needs avoiding sensory overload learning to recognize and manage our emotions routines time spent doing our special interests appropriate support built into our lives making and managing boundaries energy accounting and more I've made videos on many of these topics and I'll leave a link to anything relevant in the description box 100 yeah really really good good sort of long term ways of doing it I would say the same I would say as well on top of that perhaps having some semblance of an outlet is quite helpful or it has been for me I'm not necessarily saying go to the gym you know but for me sport and exercise has been quite a consistent sort of regulating thing for me that goes beyond like it being an interest of mine I have heard it as well from my interview of like temple grand in at one point I think she was talking about how like her body weight sort of exercises routine that she does in the evenings I can be a good way there's a lot of good sort of hormones neurotransmitters there and dolphins even that are released when we when we do sort of have that exertion so that could be something to consider you don't necessarily have to do sport or exercise but having some form of emotional outlet can be quite good long term just as sort of a built-in thing that you have in your life like I tend to find that my anxiety tends to be a bit better when I am consistently doing that as well as I was saying before about the elixir family or what go on about it again but I think that's a really really good way of learning to manage anxiety when you know in in sort of like the long term if you can manage to cognitively kind of understand your own signs of any particular emotion that you might be feeling and have that sort of built in and perhaps having a routine of sort of checking in with yourself certain times that can be really really helpful when it comes to situations that are outside of this kind of controlled daily routine so if you're wanting to go out and do something new if you're wanting to go to somewhere new if you're going into a new situation or environment I think having that in place can be very very important being able to like sort of adjust sort of on the spot next is short term meltdown prevention so what can I do to prevent a meltdown when I see warning signs that one might be about to happen first of all to say there is a short window of time from when you receive your meltdown warning signs to having the meltdown where you could possibly do anything to prevent that meltdown so if you try and don't succeed and the meltdown happens anyway don't feel bad about it it's not your fault but these suggestions might help walk away get away from anything which is triggering you at this time find a quiet low stimulation space to relaxing do not try to fix whatever it is yes that is stressing you out yes close your eyes simply closing your eyes can reduce sensory input and help you to regulate get to know your meltdown warning signals and this can help you to implement the following strategies use any stims or sensory products that you might find helpful for regulating this might include stimming rocking weighted blankets flapping hidey holes and stroking your pets take some deep breaths sometimes I find it helpful to breathe in for four and breathe out for four and concentrate on nothing but my breathing and my counting wait until you feel calmer and more regulated before trying to do anything else yeah really good suggestions again these things are just general like anxiety sort of regulating things as purple Ella was talking about there is kind of that very small window so as much as you can try and try and widen that window I would say is probably a really good thing to do I think long term if you can if you can get things into your routine that generally reduce anxiety you're probably going to be 90% of the way of mitigating meltdowns it is pretty hard to because you do get into that kind of pre meltdown state it can be really really difficult to actually like like break away from something that is causing you that stress like the thing that you're wanting to fix so it's not always going to work and I'm not 100% are doing this either myself it all it can be also trying to recognize times or things that you do where you are much more likely to have a meltdown and putting things in place preemptively like having regular breaks in like a social situation perhaps or from a new place doing that kind of thing can can be really good because sometimes you can sort of get very concentrated on like a conversation and you sort of you're not as aware because your focus is somewhere else so having like check-ins with yourself or having some breaks that you can have during those those sort of out of routine things can be really helpful um usually if I'm in a pre meltdown state I'll just lay on the floor that tends to do a lot for me and listen to music um as as we're they were talking about before in terms of functioning like I can function to a certain degree and usually the way that I can function is the things that I do on a very regular basis pretty much all the time which is using my phone so sometimes I can actually text even though I can't speak if I'm in a very perhaps shut downy situation where I can't really speak very well um all sort of do much sometimes if someone puts a phone in my hand I can like to a certain degree like usually there's a lot of spelling mistakes and it doesn't make a lot of sense but um I can that that is usually quite a good good way for me to communicate but um anyway what I was saying about coping mechanisms playing a mindless game listening to music laying on the floor that's usually what I do that usually gets me to a good place but sometimes it can just be way too much especially if there's something that I'm trying to fix yeah especially if it's like time bound as well like I've got I've got like a deadline or something really hit me a lot at university very consistently the rest of the day low pressure if possible and finally what to do if you have a meltdown anyway for those of you who are supporting an autistic person here are my top four things to do to help an autistic person in meltdown number one clear the room help the autistic person to be somewhere alone and safe number two stop talking this person's brain cannot handle any more input and even supportive words can make this worse number three don't touch us again this is more information for our overloaded senses to process and will make things worse and number four be there ready to support and reassure when the meltdown is over and for autistic yeah um I think I think this is important to recognize here that this is talking generally and probably about strangers or people who don't really know the autistic person very well if you if you find yourself you're listening to this you support like an autistic another autistic person in your life and reassuring them during the meltdown helps them and hugs do help or pressure or physical touch does help them don't stop doing it if it's something that helps them you know is very dependent on the person there you go I disagree with the no touching personally I love a hard hug yeah um if you want to communicate if you want to ask the autistic person something and you know them very well um perhaps think about different ways that they can communicate like one good thing one good way that um helps me sort of communicate the affirmative or or the opposite of that yes or no is basically is squeeze something or like shake your head or you know do any sort of physical movement asking the question very very slowly not overloading with words but asking asking the question and saying squeeze squeeze my hand squeeze squeeze my leg if you want me to do this or something along those lines because it is very variable time to time and it may not always work but it could be an option if someone is is in kind of a maybe like a low intensity meltdown high intensity meltdowns like no chance of communicating with me but um that can that can help a lot hugs are amazing variety is good yeah try different ways you know same goes for shutdowns people here are my top four things to do when the meltdown is over number one don't beat yourself up you didn't choose or cause the meltdown and you are okay number two yeah I think this is talking about like aftercare I have done a post on this before as well talking about meltdown aftercare and definitely really really important even though Pobolo is telling this and maybe I'll tell you this and other people tell you this though there is no reason to feel ashamed well there is a reason or else you wouldn't feel ashamed but you shouldn't beat yourself up about it because I think one thing that particularly goes through my mind when I'm having a meltdown or after or having a shutdown and I'm going selectively mute in those circumstances that I have control over myself like I can I can somewhat tie together some faults sometimes it feels like I can do something about this and I'm choosing to be this way but every time that I've had those faults and I've tried to convince myself that I can it hasn't worked it just doesn't work so you may have those faults while going for a meltdown or after a meltdown like you could have like this was a conscious thing that you wanted to do but try your best to disregard that that feeling that fault because in a lot of cases it is not your fault you haven't done it on purpose it's not a fun thing it's not it's not a pleasant thing you wouldn't want to put yourself in in that situation it's not fun so although you may feel those kind of feelings of shame and embarrassment just remember that it's not something that you can control and if you put yourself in a third-party shoes perhaps with some someone else who is going through this or even someone who's going through like like uh someone who's having like a seizure or something you wouldn't you wouldn't you know you wouldn't feel that way towards them you'd be very concerned you'd very you'd be very you know empathic and sort of understanding about it but you wouldn't you wouldn't feel badly towards them like it's not something that they've done purposefully so make sure to keep that in mind you know make sure to keep that in mind if you do want to learn more about my specific ways of aftercare particularly for people around you and also for yourself i do have a post on that over on my instagram care for yourself very gently do what you need to do to feel okay number three get rest and avoid stress for the next couple of days to avoid repeat meltdown and number four worth repeating don't beat yourself up you are perfect you didn't cause this and i think you're great i hope you found this video about meltdowns helpful if you have i'd really appreciate you clicking the like button very brilliant video a lot of stuff um definitely a lot that i would add but i think pepallela does a really good job of distilling topics into very sort of um digestible sort of short form and even to to be honest like even though it was a particularly short video there was a lot of really really useful information and points that i would definitely say myself as well i would be really really careful after meltdowns because you will find that perhaps your sensory sensitivity is higher is higher than usual you may also find that your social battery is a lot lower as well so definitely taking that into consideration you know use as many sensory supports as you as you need to use and try and avoid stressful situations try and avoid social events if you have to cancel things you have to cancel them or if you have to move things to like your home environment to socialize and you feel able to good idea all the stuff that we're talking about on how to prevent meltdowns take that even more seriously over like the next day next two days it can change as well it's not always the same over time well i hope you have enjoyed this video and if you have make sure to like subscribe and also go check out purple ellers video give that a like subscribe maybe drop a comment down say that tom has sent you maybe do another podcast with him


I have a theory that it actually is the eagle mama just a A material incarnation of an astral god Whoop water and I hate water. That's one thing about this game that I this very much dislike so We just defeated what mud called the the danger noodle, which was kind of fun And we're heading to the fourth plateau and this one looks a little more significant The the god of this one was not on this giant totem up here It looks like this giant totem is where we're headed Up into the mountains we go Now these sigils is how we move around we we blast these sigils with our arrows and Sometimes because we defeated the second boss We get more powerful ones Where we do a weird backflip Hey, there's a path one of the few paths in the pathless here And then the name of the game for each level is there's three totems and then we have to get a Number of talismans to place at each totem to cleanse it then the totems start to cleanse the The boss and then we go fight the boss after he runs from this for about for a while So this giant whirlwind should take us to the top with the help of our buddy Frank And away here we go So we'll probably get to see what we're fighting it looked like those things from Rygar I've mentioned this before if you're a blade in the Nintendo game Rygar it was like a 2d side scroller But then it would turn into like a top-down thing and you would have these weird crab turtles that became a came after you and this Boss looks like some kind of crab turtle judging by his hieroglyph We've got a path through the mountain. We got a tunnel through the mountains here. Nice. That's kind of cool A little bit of a frame rate drop. Oh We got a cutscene already We get to see our turtle. Oh, no, it's the path.  This can't be the final fight. We still got one more boss to cleanse Shit I cannot did I actually dodge that? I don't know I have no idea. I don't have any stamina We've got very little stamina. Oh I did not dodge.  Oh No, no, you let go of him.  Oh Don't do it.  No, oh look at him poor thing No, oh No Yeah, that's right. It doesn't compare to yours. You just leave him alone.   Maybe they are slain and those are spirits. I was cleansing He just wants a path.  Oh no, she passed out. Come on. Come on.   Hell. Yeah. Oh my god.   That was a great movie the never ending story. I don't know how it holds up today a Lot of times you think movies are great from your childhood and then you watch them It's like it's not so great. I imagine never ending story holds up pretty well because like I've watched the labyrinth and I've watched on the dark crystal fairly recently and they both held up quite nicely I think it's cuz they used instead of relying on like cheesy special effects. They just used like puppets like real puppets But they did never ending story. I think that's why it holds up so well We're going to a burning forest here. It looked like a tunnel into the mountain, but I guess not Finally we get some stamina we can move along Okay, so we are under the mountain the burning forest just an Elysian. I used to play arc a lot. Oh And I would get so attached to my dinosaurs They're just pixels. They're not real, but I would still get very attached to them. Just like I'm a Just like I love my Frank Don't you touch my Frank? All right, so there's the towers in the background that hold the There are the totems. Looks like we got some red right over there. So let's head on over I thought we had Five flies that all he did is he took a flap away That's all the guys there did he didn't hurt Frank at all. He just took a just took a little flap away Okay, now we get to see What we're gonna be fighting against it's always a mystery because they never look like what they actually are Humo as it's gonna be a bear so Soros was a lizard. I Guess Sarabus or whatever. I guess that has something to do with deer. Kumo is definitely bear. Oh He looks badass. I know Kumo Kumo is bear in Japanese I know that because I'm an anime weeb as I'm sure a lot of you also are Like kuma is bear.  Yeah, just go right up over there No, one thing about this game. You never know if you're going the right way. I guess there is no right way One of the one way to skin a cat in this game at it's going to add to the replay ability Well music to get in a little epic epic II We're in a luge. Well, this is fun I feel like I'm playing apex legends. Whoa We get to another cutscene.  Okay, we can't go that way anymore up tongue to run from the bear All right, so this thing is going to have a flashlight inside its face and We can't be seen by the flashlight. Oh that thing. Let me get a screenshot. Oh, I missed it. Where is it? Right there So we can't move in the light.  All we need to do is get the Frank once we get the Frank We're good He's coming right for me Okay, I can't Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay?   I am so fucked right now The okay, he didn't see me He didn't see me. Whoo. Whoo. That was close. That was close All he does is he stops and you lose all your crystals At least he's got a low light that doesn't shine over things and he doesn't have four of them like the Like the Hydra had he's not so bad At this point we could just run straight to Frank, I think And pick him up got him. All right. Now we got to wash our bird Whoa, okay.   There's a lantern right there. There's something red up there. There's a tower up there And I'm out of stamina because I was over in that fire realm Oh, we go I like sliding that's fun So it seems like each plateau has been a different season this one Obviously winter. What's that big? That's big statues got. Oh, I Got liftees. I'm just going to kind of go wherever Wherever the wind takes me here Oh, oh There we go Now we're cooking with gas. What we got up here Talisman, perhaps Nothing inside there drop me down Frank Okay, so there's something we can hit there. It's one of those things where we can change the symbol Okay, it looks like we got a Lava pit inside this cage. I'm sure that'll have something to do with something Yes, we got another symbol thing right here Hey, let's change it to bear right now. Okay.  Okay. Oh I gotta stop clicking We change that one to bear. I don't know what order was supposed to go. Okay, so we got Seribus there Bear Is there one of these things over here? Let's change it to bear got it What I just accepted this Crab thing is a bear and this is The hammerhead giraffe a source got it see what this one is There didn't we change the bear? We did So what the problem is? Oh, we did do this final one. So where is Where is it that it fall all the way down or something? We need to change something over here to Seribus. Oh, it's all the way down here.  Oh, there's not a pit of lava. Oh, there's a talisman. Very nice. Oh Those we gotta do is press it down Nice, we got our first talisman. I don't know how many we're gonna need there's a chest of Kristal Very nice.  I guess we go over to the tower and figure out What we got to do how many talismans we're gonna need Wonder if we can make it all the way over. Can we land here? Okay, good. Good. Good. Good What's that the power sigils? Some of them are still orange and some of them are blue I think the Well, it looks like the storm's coming for us again, or we're just really close to it How many we need we need to we're gonna need to so where is our next one? Looks like we got stuff over there and over there and over there and right down there There's stuff all over the place We'll just float down nice and gentle Oh, I had mentioned in a previous video the No, it's a prison guard We call the guy keep it because he supposedly killed his girlfriend and her left arm with one arrow by Pinning them both to the bed. I looked it up to try and find out if that was actually true Cuz I never looked it up while I was at the prison the prison I worked at was a Rockview State Penitentiary in Pennsylvania max security prison But uh, okay, it's one of the things we're gonna shoot down. Oh Why did I why did I drop let's try and shoot down? I'm sure that's not it. We're gonna have to move something. Let's just try and shoot through all of these See what happens But um, no, we actually did something nice But um, yeah, I looked it up. I couldn't find anything. I could find if it was true or not There were a few inmates Oof Where I actually did look stuff that's all that was we're actually did look stuff up to see if Find out if their stories were true Cuz like one guy told me he was in for doing doughnuts on School football field.  He was doing doughnuts and he got caught and he got put in a county jail And while he was on work released from the county jail like pick up trash or some shit he He just walked away and went home He ended up getting charged with Escaping prison, which is a felony offense is why he ended up in a maximum security prison for going doughnuts on a football field Kind of funny.  That's self-defense but what got him was he Followed the other one out to the street shot in the back as he was trying to run away, but I guess the other guards just felt that that was He was vindicated We're shooting the guy And so they just didn't enforce a lot of the rules with him and he got his own He was allowed to have his own Cell which is uncommon. Oh god. I have to go all the way down here Which isn't right. I mean we weren't we weren't there to like we weren't there to punish them We were just there to enforce the rules of prison like their punishment was being removed from society or whatever so we shouldn't have been More lax with one person than another but we were It happens, I guess Now these things I kind of like float the shoot like I got it like these torches Maybe there's another torch that we can light. Maybe I'm shooting at the wrong one. Maybe I need to shoot at that one Hey, and we'll drop and fire Haha, I got it.  It was 99% of it Was just watching dudes live their life. It's like being a glorified babysit.  Oh, maybe I should just stand over here.  There was one time I was working at kitchen. I was on kitchen detail I'm trying to figure this out which was kind of a dangerous job to do because There were like knives and and other stuff in there the knives were attached to metal bars with Steel wire, so it wasn't that dangerous Come on now But they also had these giant steel paddles that they use to like stir shit, but And you don't have weapons when you're a prison guard like What's the use when you're outnumbered like a hundred to one?  What did that go? Now I assume I need to use this to Call that out. Do I need to light this one? I walk over here. I guess Yeah, I was in the power went out when I was in the kitchen What am I kitchen duty?    We go. So I grab my radio That's the only thing I had I was ready to start coming out swinging with my radio But the shape stopped in front of me And just I just stood there the whole time. It was like, okay. Okay. What's going on? Finally the lights came back on it was this inmate named we called him beetle. What's going on here?  He just turned around looked at me. He's like I had you mr. Bragg. You're good Thanks, man So he was just looking out for me. Nice guy. Nice guy that beetle Don't even need to light that torch. Okay. It's lit Now can I do anything with it for fuck's sake?  Thank you. Well, you know You know shoot all the way through here, man, I do not get it. What do I do I? Can't hit it.  That's all I had to do Yeah, beetle had my back a whole time that do it is that even Hitting anything So it's not going all the way through Yeah, yeah, I keep thinking I have this one figured out and turns out I don't What are these here? I'm fire while we're in the spirit realm here. Okay. Okay. I guess that's what it was cool. Oh My god, did I just do all that for some chests?   I was just uh, we're there for some training and That's something over there Why is it not red? It's a different color Calor But I went to the dining facility to get some cream and sugar because I wanted it for my coffee They didn't have any in the training room While I was on the way over there a shank fight broke out you know shanks being the Manufactured knives that they would make and uh So I just sitting there watching because I'm not gonna get in the middle of it I'm gonna try and break up a shank fight. I don't have my own shank.  I don't know. We've already been up there I chased him down Um He threw the shank away in mid like mid run, but I figured somebody behind me would see it and pick it up And I just keep uh keep going tackling down Start to cuff him up And uh, I'm looking around for the guys that came with me.    Uh, does your wife know you're pregnant?  I'm gonna have to cut this this one up into a couple different videos. I think Yeah, I hated being a prison guard as well went active duty army I just wanted to do something other than be a prison guard And I missed the uh, missed the military Yeah, okay, so the blue ones pop you up The other ones shoot you forward. All right, so we got us a puzzle here. Is it going to give us just uh What we got All right, so I got a shoot around these so let's move this one a little bit. Let's just move them a little bit Move this one a little over. How long right good But uh, yeah, um Yeah, I got bored so I joined the Actually joined the national guard first But I hated that national guard unit. So I joined the army reserves The only reason I didn't join the Marine Corps reserves is because closest Marine Corps reserve station was like two hours away from me Whereas the army reserve station was or the national guard station was like 15 minutes away from me and the Army reserve station was maybe 20 minutes away from me Yeah, I hated that hated the national that's all I got was crystals Did they did even give me the crystals? Do I have to go collect them? No, they just straight up gave them to me Yeah, I hated that national guard unit when I joined the national guard unit The only position they had available was for a medic and I was like, yeah, cool. I'll be a combat medic. That sounds fun But they have this thing in the national guard where you that's your that's your job. That's your mos as they call it But they say you're you're not mos cubed. You're not qualified for your mos, which is fine. You just You just that's what you're going to be until you go to school and then you're qualified.  I just I knew basic first aid for being in the Marine Corps That's about it But they're like, I know one time we were doing our like, uh, you know one week in a month training we went to um God, I forget the name of that place was it's a national guard base in Pennsylvania I'm gonna go up that path. I got nowhere else. I got nothing else better to do yeah, so, um And we can we're going to grenade range live grenade range And they and you have to have a medic On standby whenever you do a range like that. They're like, okay, cool We need you to be the medic for when we do the live grenade range.  Like how's that?    It's I want to do my job, but there's no opportunities for for training So I caught in contact with the local hospital and organized a blood drive And I set it up. So he couldn't take blood from civilians But they did allow him to take blood from soldiers that volunteered to give blood So at least he got some experience with medical stuff Because that's your job as an nco not really to know your job as much as train your soldiers to do their job So I at least got him some training and alleviated his boredom a little bit but yeah, like Nobody else had tried to do anything for this kid.  He was rambunctious and like nothing better than to wrestle Bear wrestle and Okay, so we gotta go through a whole bunch of these So this is the only one we can move, huh? Okay, we move this one too. All right, so frank moved that up Okay, so let's fly up Okay, now grab it frank Pull that up to me Is that too far back down and release Hopefully that'll be good enough Oops, I flapped what I meant to drop. There we go. But yeah, and then um Oh that one floats back down. Okay. Is that it? Is that it?  Do I need do I need three though? There's a tower right over there Just float one over Take the slow scenic route. This is gorgeous right here. Let's uh screenshot that I screwed up my screenshot There we go, maybe we'll stop over there No, we already did that This is blue. Is that right? Is that how it goes? Yep, already did that. All right. Let's go have to run up the side of the mountain here It was half cricket half billy goat up All right, so let's hope we just need to Get to the ring this last level like I wonder if they're going to do the thing We're like, you know a lot of times the boss Like they have like a sub boss before the main boss and the sub boss ends up being like way harder than the main boss Yes, we just need to All right, folks, that's going to do it for this portion of the pathless next time We'll uh Talk some more story and do some more fun stuff As we cleanse this evil land and we'll probably go if I go over there that looks kind of oh, no, it's uh It's surrounded by the dark stuff But anyway, if you enjoyed the video, please hit that like button subscribe for more if you want to Over now.  Have a good one mango