Hello! I'm here with my new lack of background for the moment. I'm sorry I haven't gotten things set up. Like maybe next time I'll get my green screen here, just chill in a volcano while I talk to you. But yes, I am here on this special edition video, not released on a Saturday, to talk about the last of us, Season 1. This is the introduction song. It's not very good, but it's not too long. This show has really blown up over the past couple of months, and for good reason. It's based on a very popular video game franchise. I've been a fan of the games for years, and it's just a huge budget show from HBO where they're just putting these big stars in it and pumping in tons of money and giving it a bunch of marketing and all kinds of stuff. They're trying to get it to a huge audience, and it looks like it worked. It has had massive success. It's gotten good reviews. It has a lot of viewers. It's already been renewed for Season 2, and overall I am really happy that it's been so successful because I watched it. I think it's a great show. I do not think it's perfect though, and I sat here for a while trying to come up with a way that I could meaningfully talk about this without going into spoilers. You know, don't just say generic things like, the characters were really good and deep, and I bought into the themes or anything like that. I really couldn't think of a way to do that, so this is mostly going to be a spoiler-filled review. My brief thoughts, like I said, it is great. It's not perfect though. My main problem is the lack of subtlety, or my two main problems. Number one, lack of subtlety. A lot of characters will just straight up say what they're feeling and say what their arc is, particularly Joel, the main character. Number two is the pacing. The season is nine episodes long. It should have been ten, because the episode before the finale, that one in particular feels like it should have been two parts, and then a lot of the individual episodes along the way do feel like they should have been five minutes longer, maybe? Not even a lot. When the camera is focusing on actors and they give a dramatic line or a dramatic moment happens, it doesn't really linger on them to let that sink in or anything. It's just too concerned with getting to the next plot beat as fast as it can, and so it just cuts ahead, cuts ahead, cuts ahead. As far as video game adaptations go, yeah, this is one of the best. It helps that it's being adapted from a game that has a really good story, but it's not perfect again. The story, if you're unfamiliar, is about there's a zombie apocalypse, only this time the zombies are caused by a fungus instead of a virus, and the main character Joel loses his daughter early on, and then 20 years later he gets tasked with escorting this other small girl across the country somewhere else that they can help make a cure, and that's not really a spoiler, it's revealed by the end of episode one. It's the generic zombie story, but it's told very well both in the show and in the games, and, or game I should say, because season one is just based on the first game, and just in terms of the actual filmmaking, absolutely phenomenal. The special effects on the infected and everything, absolutely phenomenal. Every single actor in this is amazing, and I mean like the main actors, like Pedro Pascal and Bell Ramsey as Joel and Ellie, all the way to side characters that are only there for one or two episodes, like Nick Offerman as Frank, and hell, even characters that get like one line of dialogue or no lines of dialogue, in the case of the actors playing the infected, they are just absolutely amazing on every level they could be, like any issues I might have with like their dialogue and stuff, like that's a writing issue, as far as I'm concerned the actors did no wrong here. I do wish there was some more zombie action though, because while we do get some, we don't get nearly as much as you might think based on, you know, the premise and the setup for this, like the beginning part of episode one where you're seeing the outbreak first happen, and then the scene with the clickers in episode two, and then the big one in the middle of the season, which I won't give away here, those are like the three main zombie action scenes, and all of those are great, but it does feel a little light on zombies especially near the end, because I think the last like two episodes there were, I think there was one in the last two episodes, so like yeah that is a little disappointing, and I get it, it's budgetary constraints, you can't throw them in as easily as you could in a video game, and also they want to make the characters seem a little bit more vulnerable, which is fine, but it still, it bothered me just a little bit, that's it though for non-spoiler stuff, I really cannot go into deeper discussion without going into spoilers, so if you are at all interested in the last of us, go check it out please, it's a great, great show, a great, great adaptation of the game, it changes a few things, but overall it does still hold to it, and so now spoilers. So wait, is my grandpa really dead? Right, so Broziff, I thought this was supposed to be a kids movie! The main issue I have with this show as an adaptation is that thematically it is far, far weaker than the game, and part of that is the lack of subtlety I mentioned earlier, like the game would have a lot of characters, they left things unspoken and you had to just read into it a little bit, like as Joel is first getting to know Ellie and getting attached to her, he doesn't just say, you remind me of my daughter, and he doesn't have like flashbacks of her or anything, whereas at the end of the first episode when a soldier is pointing a gun at Ellie, it just literally shows flashes of his daughter and everything, and it's like, come on man, like that in addition to being ungodly corny, it just removes any ambiguity or any subtlety about him and his arc, but the main thing that makes it like just weaker thematically is that the main theme of The Last of Us, the first game again, is that people will do absolutely horrible heinous things in the name of love, and even if you want to criticize them for it, you kind of get it, like at the end of the story, Ellie is going to be killed in order to make a cure slash vaccine for the cordyceps, and Joel just murders a bunch of doctors in order to do that, and in fact it's made clear in the game that Joel is a horrible person, you know, we understand him and we kind of go to like him because we see the positive sides to him, but he will do absolutely horrible things to protect those he loves, like even before the end of the game there, it's pretty clear because it's made, it's mentioned that he and his brother Tommy used to be bandits, and Joel just murdered people in order to keep both himself and his brother fit, and this is reinforced throughout the game with him killing people without hesitation or torturing people, like the torture scene, which I mean there's actually two of them, but one's early in the game and it's not that long or focused on, and the second one is much later in the game when Ellie's kidnapped by cannibals and he is prying a dude's kneecap off with a knife, like this dude's horrible, he's a horrible person, but the thing is the show didn't want to commit to him being as horrible as it should have, it seemed like it was going in that direction in the first episode because during the initial outbreak it shows him, you know, run somebody over and just keep going and drive past people without even considering stopping to help, and we see somebody in the background who does try and go help and they get immediately eaten, so it's made clear, okay Joel has kind of always been this way, he's kind of always been callous other than to those he loves, and then later on again we see him like selling drugs and stealing stuff and threatening people and killing people again in the name of those he loves, it just doesn't go far enough with the violence I mean, and I know that might sound strange, but like the most violent thing we see in the show is Joel torturing two people, and that scene goes pretty much as it does in the game, like he threatens to pry a dude's kneecap off with a knife and then he kills him, and then he immediately kills his friend with, not with his bare hands, but in a brutal manner, and so that works really well, but beyond that the most violent thing he does is punch a soldier a bunch of times, and I think he kills that guy, but to illustrate my point, the main thing where this stood out to me was in the final episode, right? Like in the game, Joel goes into the operating room where the doctors are, and the doctor picks up a scalpel, says I'm not going to let you take her, she can save so many lives, and then Joel takes the knife from him and brutally murders him with it, and then he kills the two nurses while they're begging for their lives, and it's not a pleasant scene, like the game has a lot of violence, but none of it is like really fun or satisfying, it is brutal and unpleasant, and it's supposed to be, but in the show, when Joel gets to the operating room, the doctor also threatens him with the scalpel, but Joel just shoots him in the head once, and then he holds up the two nurses at gunpoint, and then he grabs Ellie and leaves, like he lets them live, and so it doesn't really make him seem like as much of a horrible person as he is, let's be clear about that, he is a horrible person, we sympathize with him and we understand him, but he's a really nasty dude, and scenes like that just make it seem like okay, they're trying to redeem him a little bit, and that's really not what they should be doing, and then there's the whole two episodes where they're in Kansas City, now this is an adaptation of the Pittsburgh part in the game, I don't know why they moved it from Pittsburgh to Kansas City, it doesn't seem to really change anything, but whatever, like Joel and Ellie are driving in there, and in the game they get stopped by some raiders, their car gets wrecked, and they're stuck in the city, they have to fight their way out, and eventually they succeed, and the show starts off very similarly at least, it's in a different city for some reason, I'm still not sure why, but they're driving down the road and this dude comes out pretending to be wounded and begging for help, and then Joel immediately knows this is fake, and so he drives forward and nearly runs the guy over, and then they get attacked, and I guess ambushed is the word, but is it really an ambush if you know it's coming, I don't know, whatever, they get attacked and then the car gets wrecked, and it's pretty much the same, and Joel mentions, both in the show and in the game, that he knew it was a trap because he's been on both sides of that, because as I said, he was a raider, he was a bandit, he murdered people to keep himself and his brother fed, but the thing is in the game, they were just generic faceless bad guys, you know, we didn't see a leader that they had, and what little dialogue and everything they had was just them laughing about killing people, and in the game, while yeah, they're kind of cartoonish in how evil they are, it's made clear Joel is just as bad as them, like he was exactly this type of person in the past, he isn't anymore, but he has still done things like that, and so it's made clear, okay yes, this guy is, he's a really really bad person, but he still loves Ellie, he still loves people in his life, and so that's why he's willing to do these horrible things for them, and while I love the two Kansas City episodes in the show, the people there aren't bandits, so like for starters, it doesn't make sense that they ambushed Joel and Ellie's car, because these guys aren't raiders, they seem more like border guards or a border checkpoint or something, I'm not sure what, why they would attack them in the first place, but okay, whatever, but these, they're not raiders, they're people who just recently overthrew the government in Kansas City, which is totally understandable, because that is one thing I liked about both the show and the game, is that the government still exists, it's much weaker, and it's much nastier than it is in the real world, but it is still there in some form, and in the show we actually get much more of a sense of what it's like for people to live under these circumstances, so I liked that, and yeah, so people in Kansas City, they recently overthrew this government and got rid of it, and now they have control of the city, and they're coming after Joel and Ellie because, you know, they killed some of the guards there, and it doesn't, I don't know, when Joel says, I've been on both sides of an ambush like that, it doesn't really hammer home how much of like, oh yeah, this dude has killed a lot of people for very selfish reasons. It's not that the theme here is bad, or even all that weak, it's just weaker than it should be, and mostly in regards to Joel, like there are other characters where this shines through even better, like again, when they're in Kansas City, they meet Henry and Sam, and Henry murdered somebody, the leader of the resistance in the city, because he was trying to get drugs to help his brother who has leukemia, and you can tell it weighs really heavily on Henry, and also the people are after him for revenge, like the new leader of the revolutionaries is the guy he killed's sister, who is played by, look, her performance is really good, like I said, and I actually kind of like that she's different than you would expect, like she's really physically unassuming and soft-spoken, but she's still very clearly psychotic and willing to do absolutely horrible things, and they show her doing that, so I do like that she's different than you would expect from a revolutionary leader, but at the same time, when I first saw her, my immediate thought was, that's the crazy ex-girlfriend from Two and a Half Men, I can't take her seriously, and while yes, she is doing these horrible things, trying to murder this dude and this young child out of the love she held for her brother, it doesn't feel quite the same, because, well, that's something you're doing out of hate, rather than love, and that's really more the theme of the second game, which I'm not going to get into here, but like yeah, the first game is about, and the first season of the show, is about the horrible things you'll do for the people you love, whereas the second one is about the horrible things you'll do and everything you will destroy out of hate. And while at some points I did really like the shot-for-shot remake that this show was at a few points, because like, you know, if it isn't broke, don't fix it, but if there are issues with the original source material, the original game, then tweak it a little and make it better. And at a few points where it's in the better scenes and it's just shot-for-shot remade and some of the dialogue is verbatim repeated, I did like that, but it is inevitably going to make me compare it. You know, like, that's just, it's going to happen because I played the game. Like, that's not a problem if you haven't played it, but I mean, looking at this as both its own thing and as an adaptation is part of what I'm supposed to do here. Like, there are lines where characters say it, and it's the same in both the show and the game, and I think it's better in the show. And then there are lines where I think it's better in the game. And I think overall they just kind of cancel each other out, but the fact that it's that similar and that I have to compare it, like I just, my brain will do that automatically, that is unfortunate because I can't really judge it on its own merits and at a few points I was going, oh okay, that acting wasn't as good as it could have been. And I feel bad for that because like I said, the actors did nothing wrong in this show. I really want to emphasize that on every level. They're amazing. And one last thing before I go, the show made Ellie seem a little bit more helpless than she did in the game. You know, because in the game she has a lot of moments where she doesn't really need Joel to protect her, or maybe she does, but she doesn't act like it. Like for example, when they meet Frank and he handcuffs her to a bar, she like pulls the bar out and is about to hit Frank with it and Joel stops her. Or later on, when she's fighting the cannibals, it's like a whole long sequence for her. Like first she has bone arrow and she hunts down the deer and then she runs into David and James.  So Ellie takes down a whole bunch of infected and then she's captured by them and she's about to get eaten, but she escapes and she has to go through like this whole town avoiding people and killing people.  Like she doesn't need to be rescued by Joel, at least not physically, like emotionally, mentally he needs to help her through that.  Whereas in the show, she just runs into David and James after killing a deer and then she gets captured right away and then she does manage to escape, but she doesn't get that far and then her and David fight and she kills them. So again, she's still able to look after herself, but she doesn't seem nearly as strong and capable as she did in the game. And in fact Joel seems a lot weaker too, but that is I think a good thing because in the game he seems like an unstoppable juggernaut at times. Whereas in the show they wanted to bring him down to earth, make him more of a flawed fragile person, I suppose, which is part of why they made him older as well and had him complain about his age and he specifically mentions like he's lost some hearing in one year, he's slower and weaker than he used to be. Like I'm fine with that in his case, I just wish they hadn't nerfed Ellie as much.  Like this is one of the best video game adaptations ever, if not the best. It's one of the best shows I've seen in a long time, like even knowing most of what was gonna happen and most of what was coming, I was still super invested every week. Like I watched this with my family rather than watching it alone and I am super glad I did that because I got to experience it with other people, including both other people who have played the game and people who have not. And just overall yeah it's a fantastic show, like it looks fantastic, the sound design and everything is fantastic, like so many modern shows and movies are like too dark or the sound mixing is terrible so it's hard to understand what people are saying, this didn't have any issues with that. And it's just like it's not always a pleasant experience but it is always an engaging experience and that's about it. And yeah my next video was filmed before this and it'll actually be in my old bedroom so yeah that's the thing. Anyways subscribe and all that, I'll see you later. Goodbye. 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talk about Stanton and his return and just seeing him in that two-spot with judge behind him I think much more intimidating for an opponent. Oh I don't think there's any doubt Bob if you're going through that pitcher-catcher meeting in the Detroit Tiger clubhouse and your young right-hander Casey Mies and you have to think about the first inning at the top of the first LaMayou had a couple of hits yesterday he looks like he's gonna get back on track and then you have Stanton hitting in front of judge and why is that such a big deal because Aaron Judge is one of the hottest hitters on the Yankee club right now so if you're Casey Mies going into that first inning you have to be aggressive with John Carlos Stanton knowing that judge is hitting behind him and protecting him that's going to mean that Stanton should get some good pitches to hit you wonder if his timing might be off a little bit the 18 games before he went on the IL he was hitting 378 with six home runs and we know he can carry a club but just the sight of those two guys hitting in the first inning it's intimidating for an opposing pitcher it's a confidence builder for Yankee lineup all right


Hi, I'm Joyce Graff. I'm with the VHL Family Alliance. I represent the 5% of people with kidney cancer who have it because of some genetic disease, a genetic syndrome, and VHL is one of those syndromes. It's the largest of the syndromes, but there are a number of other ones. Burthog-DeBay syndrome, HLRCC, and so forth. What we have to deal with in VHL is not just kidney cancer, but in fact tumors of the retina, brain, spinal cord, kidney, pancreas, and adrenal glands, and a newly discovered tumor in the inner ear. So, almost all of our senses are threatened by VHL. And it's very important to monitor for tumors, find them early, and deal with them appropriately with the best surgical or other treatments that are available at the time. And doing that, we've been able to improve people's quality of life and length of life very significantly over the last 20 years, even though we still don't have a drug. Most of the drugs that are currently on the market for kidney cancer are in fact based on VHL research. VHL is a gene that is on the superhighway for angiogenesis. VHL controls HIF, HIF controls VEGF, and on from there. And it's this discovery and research on the VHL gene that has led to all of the four drugs for kidney cancer that are currently on the market, and many of the ones yet to come. So, we're part of this community. We are an integral part of the community. We appreciate the work that the Kidney Cancer Association has done. And we go on also to deal with the other aspects of our conditions that go along with kidney cancer. Thank you.


Welcome to Top 20 Controls. Critical Control Number 1, Inventory of Authorized and Unauthorized Device. Control Overview. New devices on your network can expose your entire network to numerous vulnerabilities. Many times, these devices are not immediately patched or configured with the proper security updates until it's too late. Attackers, which we a lot of times think of as hackers, but attackers use these devices to access the network and compromise other systems on the network that they are after. While these vulnerable devices may not really have anything super important on there, realize they can serve as a gateway or as a pathway for the attacker to get to systems they really are targeting. So this is a security control of great importance. To implement a policy that satisfies this control, this is required. You need to maintain an accurate up-to-date inventory of all your systems, whether they are deployed actively or not. You need active monitoring of your systems and management configuration. Following these steps can significantly reduce the chance of the attacker getting access to the network through your poorly configured or unpatched systems or devices. When possible, automated asset inventory tools should be configured and deployed. This will provide administrators with the preliminary assessment of how many devices are attached to the enterprise network. Such tools allow discovery by scanning for network addresses as in IP addresses and also by monitoring your network traffic. The inventory count should be maintained with details about each and every machine, such as the network address, the computer name or device name, purpose of the system, end user attached to that asset or device, department responsible for the end user. Any devices that are assigned or acquired through DHCP and IP address should be included in this inventory count, such as desktops, laptops, servers, routers, switches, firewalls, printers, storage area network devices, and voice over IP devices. Automated network asset discovery tools, when properly configured will, are going to consistently monitor your network, making sure that any new devices are detected as they should be. Keep the asset inventory up to date in real time. Properly alert the administrators when there is a discrepancy detected and disable unidentified devices on the network when they are detected, because we only want to have devices that are authorized on our system, not unauthorized devices. To maintain the effectiveness of the asset database, integrity of its content has to also be maintained. We do this by including the database and related systems and routine vulnerability scans, which we, there's a lot of vulnerability scanners out there that are available, Nessus, St, GFI LandGuard, and so on, encrypting the asset information with encryption protocols, adhering to a strict access control policy with regards to the database and related systems, and maintaining separate secured copies of your database even outside of your network in case there's a compromise. To enhance the effectiveness of the control, the administrator could develop a database that invitaries and identifies such things as the critical information, relationship between the critical information and on which hardware assets, your servers, your computers, your workstations, laptops, and so on, the information is stored, and also the department and the end user or individual who is responsible for these assets. To test the automated tools, administrators should deploy devices on the network and ensure the system is operating properly, as well as noting the amount of time that it takes for the device to be recognized by that particular tool. Any failures by the automated tool should be recorded and fixed immediately. Administrators can also include removal media and their control automation. This includes external hard drives, USB, flash drives, and anything that can store information. Additional hardware resources could be required depending on the size of your organization, as well as the number of devices that you need to inventory. Some automated asset discovery systems require a separate server to be set up to handle the monitoring and the administration of your network. Adequate preparation should be made ahead of time to ensure that the controls will be implemented successfully. Additional information, automated network tools will also introduce additional bandwidth strain on your enterprise network. These we need to look at preparations for this, because we do not want these automated tools that are giving us a great feature or they are helping us to at the same time interrupt our business continuity. Because of the dynamic supportable and wireless devices such as your laptops, consideration should be made with regards to tracking of the inventory of these devices. These devices tend to come and go, they tend to travel with the user and they may, it could be easy to forget about these, but not careful. Likewise, remote and virtual systems will need to be inventoried carefully to ensure they are accounted for as well.


I'm sure there are Republicans and independents who couldn't imagine crossing over to support a Democrat. They fear Joe may turn sharp left and leave them behind. I don't believe that. And less than a year later, John Kasich is already saying that Joe Biden has in fact turned far left. Now, unfortunately, that's not true. I wish that it were the case that Joe Biden just embraced the far left and became a far leftist himself. But that's not actually the case at all. He's calling for a bigger military budget. He's backed away from moderate positions when it comes to health care, the public option. He won't even cancel $10,000 worth of student loan debt, which he ran on. So no, it's not the case that Joe Biden has gone far left. So what is John Kasich even talking about? Well, will humor his idiotic argument and let him make his case in an interview with Don Lemon on CNN. And as you're going to see, his belief that Joe Biden has turned far left is based on idiocy. Take a look. Let's put it. The person is in charge, the legislation that he's proposing, the things that he's doing that he's trying. How is that far left? Don, what he's proposing is not what he campaigned on. I mean, he's proposing spending money and changing the nature in many ways of the way we do things in the United States. Look, I endorse the guy. What he's running on and what he's saying now is not what he campaigned on. He campaigned on bringing us together. Now, there's an infrastructure bill. The Republicans have a proposal now to get to about $1 trillion. John, how can he bring people together when they don't want to work with him? That's a, that's a, he's meeting, hold on, hold on, hold on. He's bringing people to the White House. He's asking Republicans to get on board with this. He's asking if you don't like my plans, can you offer me your own proposals? I don't understand how, when you say he's not, he's trying to, he's trying by partisanship and Republicans are saying, hold on, Mitch McConnell is saying, I'm not going to do it. What we're going to do is just basically block everything that Joe Biden wants. Don, you're filibustering me. I just told you the Republicans have a plan. I'm asking you a question. Well, I've given you an answer. Okay, well, let me give my question out and I'll give you time to answer. You can't, you can't jump in and answer while I'm still, I asked you the question. I said, how is he, he's the one, quite honestly, who's inviting Republicans to the table. Republicans are saying no to every single thing that he is asking for and not offering any proposals. How is it false? Tell me what they, what are they doing? That's because the Republicans have offered an infrastructure plan. Now they've, they've upped their number to about trillion dollars. It's about the same number that Biden has if they're going to put that on the table. But I guarantee you the Democrats won't accept it.  They have a plan and it's focused on bridges and highways, the things that are true infrastructure and they're taking money that is not, that is not even going to be spending this year. Wait a minute, I'm finishing now, Don. And there are things that were true infrastructure in 1987. We live in a society now where you need broadband. We live in a society now where you need to be on the grid. Ask Texas what happened in the winter. You know what, that's in their proposal, is in their proposal. And by the way, I don't want the government running broadband. I want the private sector running broadband. So they have a trillion dollar proposal. Well, what's funny about that? That's what they put out there. Now what Biden could say is, yes, I'll accept that. But you know why they won't accept it? Because they don't want to give either. And they're dealing with the same problem internally. They're dealing with big problems internally about is the left going to come after them. And he's on a tightrope. I mean, look, they're going to tell it like I see it done. I don't like what they're doing on the January 6 commission. I think it's outrageous. But John, to quite honestly, to say that it's both sides is really disingenuous. And the proposals that the Republicans are making now has nothing to do. It's not even close to what Joe Biden offered initially. It's not it's not even close to that. And to say that, Don, and there's nothing that's not true. That is true. There's nothing about. I'm sorry. It's not true. Okay, okay. We'll have to disagree on that. I mean, I'm just telling you, they're going to put a trillion dollars on the table, a trillion dollars. That's exactly what Biden had. Okay. No, it's not. And understand that John Kasich is saying that the reason why he believes Joe Biden has turned to the far left is because he refuses to take a joke of a deal, a counterproposal on infrastructure from Republicans, specifically because if he takes this deal, which is a watered down version of his already watered down infrastructure proposal, then the far left will be mad at him. Therefore, since he's trying to appease the far left, theoretically, which is not true, but theoretically, that therefore means that he himself is far left. I shouldn't have to explain this to a former governor, but John, this isn't how political ideology works. You know that, right? Joe Biden is not far left. He's still very much a right wing Austerian. He is a neoliberal. He says what Biden is proposing is not what he campaigned on. Now, funny enough, I actually agree with John Kasich here, but for different reasons. Joe Biden abandoned a lot of his promises that were even remotely progressive. I mean, they were incremental reforms, right? Again, he ran on cancelling $10,000 worth of student debt. He ran on a public option. He promised to be better on immigration, and he walked back those promises. So I agree that he's not proposing what he campaigned on, but it's because specifically he's not far left because he's trying to appease not just the Republicans, but the moderates in his own party, which is a bad idea. If you actually want to be popular, he already knows what to do to be popular. The COVID relief package, where you gave everyone $1,400 checks, that was really popular. Do more of that. Stop being an Austerian. Stop trying to work with individuals who don't want to work with you. But John Kasich says that it's actually Joe Biden who's not doing enough to work with Republicans. Can you believe that? Like, as they literally try to obstruct every single thing that Biden does, John Kasich is saying, oh, well, you're far left because you're not accepting their counter proposals. It's preposterous.  Like, you're not a serious person if you're actually making this argument, but he's being serious here, right? He's being serious here. He says he campaigned on bringing people together. Yeah, and he's naively still trying to go out of his way to include Republicans in the legislative processes. He's still doing this. He shouldn't, right? All he needs to do if he actually wanted to accomplish anything, kill the filibuster, put pressure on individuals like Harrison Sinema and Joe Manchin. You can get them to budge if you're the president with a high approval rating, which he has, but he's not doing that. He doesn't even need Republicans, but he's still trying to reach out to them. So you're making me defend Joe Biden when I don't want to defend Joe Biden because he is trying to work with Republicans. And as a leftist myself, as a far leftist, that's why I have a problem with him, because he shouldn't be working with a party who is authoritarian and deeply unserious. He threw in there. Oh, well, you know, Joe Biden is proposing public broadband. I don't want the government running broadband. I want the private sector to run broadband. Yeah, because we see how well that's working out. I'm sure that everyone loves Comcast. First of all, Joe Biden isn't just saying we should have a public option when it comes to broadband. What he's doing with this infrastructure bill is investing in municipal broadband. So that way, if a municipality wants public broadband, they have the infrastructure needed to set that up. He's not just saying, let's nationalize broadband, but to John Kasich, you know, he is a shill for large multi-billion-dollar companies. And this is something that even Republicans support, not Republican lawmakers, but Republicans across the country who support net neutrality, because they don't like Comcast, because Comcast rips them off as does AT&T, as does Verizon. So I mean, John Kasich here is doing a phenomenal job at reading the room. I mean, can you appear more out of touch? If there's any issue that has bipartisan support, it's that we all want net neutrality and we hate these multi-billion-dollar companies who basically have monopolies in each area, right? Now, what I find absolutely hysterical is that John Kasich thinks that it's unreasonable for Joe Biden to not accept the Republican Party's counter-proposal. I mean, sure, this is the way that negotiations work.  They propose a counter-proposal. You come back with another offer. I mean, sure, this is the way that it works. But if you think that we're at a point where what the Republicans are proposing is reasonable at all, then you're kind of disproving the idea that there are moderate Republicans at all. And I'll explain what I mean by that. So the Republicans' counter-proposal, it's not even a trillion dollars in infrastructure spending over 10 years. I mean, with all that is needed to be fixed in this country, it shouldn't just be a trillion dollars. It should be far higher than a trillion over a 10-year period. But Republicans are saying, we'll give you less than a trillion. You should still accept that. But that's not even the most ridiculous part about this. Not only is it extremely low, right? They're low-balling them. But on top of that, they're trying to stipulate how he funds this. So they don't want him to increase taxes on wealthy Americans to fund infrastructure. They want him to reallocate resources for COVID relief from former bills to infrastructure. So not only are they saying, we only want to do a small fraction of what's being proposed, but we want you to use money for COVID relief. Now, I know that COVID is getting better in America because vaccination numbers are ticking up. Having said that, the pandemic still isn't over. And people are going to need economic relief who lost their livelihoods during this pandemic for a while.  You don't need to use those funds, but they're saying, no, no, no, you have to use those funds. So John Kasich is trying to present them as good faith actors who are proposing something that serious when in actuality, their proposal is not serious. Now, getting back to my point about moderate Republicans, what he's proving here is that there are no moderate Republicans, which is why Democrats are wrong to ever try to take the Republican Party serious. And I know that saying this makes me sound like a partisan hack, but trust me, I don't like Democrats as well. But the Republican Party is not a normal political party, right? The only moderate Republicans that exist are called Democrats now. John Kasich may be more reasonable than individuals like Mike Flynn, who's calling for a Myanmar-style coup in the United States, or Donald Trump, who lies about election fraud, but he's still unreasonable. He refuses to acknowledge that they're obstructing everything. There are no moderate Republicans in the Republican Party. Again, the moderate Republicans are all within the Democratic Party now. I'm talking about Joe Manchin, Kirsten Sinema. So I love this story because it really shows the Democratic Party that this is what happens when you try to work with Republicans. Like I get that this was a strategy that Joe Biden tried to use to try to coax moderate Republicans into voting for him. But I mean, understand that the Republican Party is controlled by the extremists.


Still I just crossed the sky, I turned my head and wondered why Brought some visions in my brain, am I a man who's got to say It's what I like for the thing, someone is talking in my head And it's not voices from the dead, it's like I'm on with a friend What am I changing if I can tell you one thing? Well it's alright, well it's alright, yeah it's alright Just say you and me, don't feel scared, no not at all Don't see reasons for the walls, no these things have come in place And that all my fears will say, well it's alright, it's alright, it's alright Just say it's alright, yeah it's alright, well it's alright Just say you and me, don't stop what they told you The government lied, area 51, whether to lie, yeah it's alright Well it's alright, yeah it's alright Well it's alright, just say you and me Maybe he ain't the big girl, one more time Well it's alright, yeah it's alright If you believe we have crashed craft, stated earlier, do we have the bodies of the pilots who piloted this craft? As I've stated publicly already in my news nation interview, biologics came with some of these recoveries, yeah Were they, I guess, human or non-human biologics? Non-human and that was the assessment of people with direct knowledge on the program I talked to that are currently still on the program Why have you come to our planet? Your planet? Yes, this is our planet No, it is not


The fact is, people look at Bitcoin and they say, well, it's too volatile for a store of value. Let me give you a couple of data points to understand why that is more or less an idiotic thing to say. What's up, YouTube? My name is Jackson. Today, I'm joined by CEO of Coinroots, Dave Weiserberger. How's it going today, Dave? That's going great. Can't complain. Excellent. So, a user poll of 400 VIP traders conducted in January by Kraken found that most traders are expecting Bitcoin to break all-time highs before 2021. The poll was conducted before the March market crashes, with the trader's average price target at nearly $23,000. Do you believe Bitcoin will live up to the January expectation of Kraken's traders despite the current economic crisis? Interestingly, I think it's possible, although obviously the likelihood is significantly lower. Consider what's happened since the crisis started and you're going from a lower base. The difference is, in the case of Bitcoin in the longer term, and when I say longer term in Bitcoin, Bitcoin time scales are compressed. Bitcoin will do its moves in a month what other assets ordinarily would do in a year. Although over the last month, Bitcoin is actually inarguably with the exception of a couple of Thursdays ago, it's actually been less volatile than the S&P or the Russell or some of the other indices that people follow. But be that as it may, I'd say that the macro backdrop would support that possibility, but it's going to be hard until there's some certainty and resolution with the pandemic for it to actually happen this year. It's possible, but there will need to be some certainty on the pandemic resolution front before a really strong sustained upward movement can happen. Got it. So, CoinTelegraph recently spoke to a number of experts to determine how central bank strategies of unlimited quantitative easing will affect Bitcoin in the long term. Maddie Greenspan said that in the short term, the stimulus would float all markets, including Bitcoin. What short term moves are you expecting Bitcoin to make? Do you expect further downside or an upside reversal? I mean, look, at the end of the day, the thing you have to understand is that there's two factors that are going on in any, in financial markets. There is conviction and there's need. Conviction is where people believe things are going to go, and quite often they follow through by investing to that conviction, making it a self-fulfilling prophecy. There are many people who believe that Bitcoin will go significantly higher because the fact of the matter is the idea of Bitcoin is hard money, and what we're finding out is that all fiat currencies are really not hard money to the extent that had never really penetrated the consciousness of people. The idea of a Fed balance sheet exceeding $10 trillion was inconceivable. Even in the aftermath of the financial crisis, because the thought process was, even though it got to half that size, it was like, OK, we're going to back off now. I don't think there's a person who believes the Fed balance sheet will be less than 10 trillion and it might be more. Those are very large numbers, but the other side of it need to contump that. If you are, if you need to eat, you may believe Bitcoin is going to the moon, but if you need to sell it to eat, you're going to sell it to eat because people don't like to be hungry. Now, most of the selling that we've seen has not been from individuals who are hungry. That's a bit of an overstatement. But if you consider how many funds, crypto funds or hedge funds that have Bitcoin in their portfolio that have had wholesale redemptions because their clients need to eat or their clients need to raise money, and what you end up with is a situation that people sell assets, anything that's not nailed down gets sold, and the more liquid assets get sold pretty fast, regardless of conviction. That's why when you see these huge downdrafts in the market where all equities are selling off by like 10% or so, in those times, gold goes down, Bitcoin goes down, etc. All of that said, if you look over the last couple of days, yesterday was an extremely important day from a trading perspective though because yesterday you saw the markets in Europe and the United States were down 3% or 4%, which is pretty substantial for equities in a normal world, and even in the current world it's still a sizable move. Against that backdrop, Bitcoin rallied, and that's kind of important. Those sort of delinking days, the more often that they happen, the more emboldened traders will be, and you might see it building a base, but creating a bottom in a panic is a process. It's not a one day, and you have to balance that against the way markets work. People always look for V bottoms, but you don't get rich trying to pick a bottom, and you don't get because you end up catching what they call catching a falling knife. But at the end of the day, bottoming is usually a process, and when that bottom is found, then all of a sudden people who are shorting stop shorting. Now your supply goes down, and all of a sudden there's no one willing to sell, and that's when the market starts to move. I think we're in the process of a bottoming process in the 6,000 to 7,000 range, and it feels like we can go higher from here if the macro backdrop doesn't deteriorate causing people to say, crap, I need to sell this to pay my mortgage or eat or whatever. So I think those are the two cross currents that are going on. So you feel that the institutions have been forced out, as with the decoupling, with the correlation with the stock markets, and now it remains to be seen whether the retail investors will liquidate their assets in order to survive. As far as I understand, that's what you're getting at. Yeah, more or less, I think that's a little more nuanced, but there's a couple of data points there. Over the last week, both Crackett and Coinbase have reported increased retail account openings, which we haven't seen in a while. And so I don't know if that's a leading indicator or not. I suspect it is, but it's hard to tell. The other thing that is really important here is basically the state of the global economy. At the end of the day, you can want, as I said, conviction over need. There is still plenty of money sloshing around, and a lot of that money has yet to get into the hands of people. The Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank have both indicated they're going to be pumping more and more money into the economy. A lot of it hasn't gotten to the point where it can actually start floating the market. It will. And so it's really a question of what happens when that happens. Great. So billionaire venture capitalist Mike Novogratz appears to be bullish on Bitcoin in the long term. On March 22nd, he tweeted, Bitcoin will continue to be volatile over the next few months, but the macro backdrop is why it was created. This will be and needs to be Bitcoin's year. Do you agree with Mike, why is this year in particular so important? Well, I agree with him very strongly. I don't know about the this year part. I know about this event part. The fact is fiat money, what we take for granted as the dollar or the pound or the euro didn't exist as a concept financially until 1971. So the fact that Bitcoin is only 10 years old, but 10 years ago, whoever Satoshi Nakamoto is said, you know, look, this isn't going to work. It's going to break down. So we should have something that doesn't need an intermediary bank that we can establish trust among people on something that's mathematical that cannot be manipulated. That experiment is really being put to the test now because as all the central banks start revving up the printing presses and you start talking about trillions of dollars and euros going into the economy with no backing, the idea of Bitcoin really is to counter that and to say, we don't need the central banks. We want to have something that is back that we know is a store of value that we can actually depend upon. So the first part of what Mike said, absolutely I agree with. The only reason I hedge a little is because I don't know if we're going to exit the panic stage in 2020. I don't know that. I want that to be true. God knows pretty much everybody wants that to be true. But if we do exit the patent stage and people are then saying, okay, I'm going to use the rational part of my brain rather than the lizard brain, the limbic system saying, oh my God, I have to sell. Once we get to rationality, then I think he will be proven correct and I think that that is what we're seeing. But it may be later in the year than people realize and so that's the only reason I hedge. And continuing to look to the longer term, Garrick Heilman, head of research at Blockchain.com, told CoinTelegraph that the aftermath of the fiscal crisis will push up hard assets like Bitcoin in agreement with your statements. However, Ariel Zeitlin-Jones, associate professor of economics at Carnegie Mellon University, thinks Bitcoin would still be one of the riskiest stores of value in the world because Bitcoin price volatility is more than five times that of gold or equity markets, usually. How do you see Bitcoin evolving in the aftermath of the current crisis? Well, the problem with academics are academics love to live in the rearview mirror. And he's missing the forest for the trees. I've actually had this conversation with a couple of my economic professor friends and it's really fascinating. The fact is people look at Bitcoin and they say, well, it's too volatile for a store of value. Let me give you a couple of data points to understand why that is more or less an idiotic thing to say. It is true today as Bitcoin stands, it is not a store of value. In 1971, somewhere around the over 90% of monetary aggregates were backed by gold. Gold's market cap and the total monetary aggregates in the world were more or less the same. Today, gold represents around 10% of global monetary aggregates. That's really a very important factor. But what's really important is the market cap of gold at somewhere around 9 trillion, which is 10% of the 90 trillion of total monetary aggregates represents over or somewhere in the neighborhood of what is that, 50 times or 40 times Bitcoin's market cap. So Bitcoin in its infancy, as it grows towards a sizable percentage of global monetary aggregates, the volatility of its price moves is obviously going to be exaggerated. The issue with Bitcoin as a store of value will be very simple. If it becomes trusted, if it gains critical mass of acceptance of among enough people worldwide to be a store of value, by the time that happens its market cap will at least be near where gold is and be approaching monetary aggregates. Now when that happens, it will have a much, much, much, much larger numerator, meaning the price fluctuations of $100 in a day is de minimis and won't matter. But looking at the volatility of Bitcoin today when it is undeniably a risk asset is not relevant to understanding whether or not it can become a store of value. The issue is the two are absolutely unrelated. What is relevant is will it develop that critical mass of acceptance? Will enough people over time decide this is important, this is what I want to put my value in? And as that gets critical mass, that's when you'll see the price go through its next big movement. If you listen to people like Mark Yusko and Pomp from Morgan Creek, they'll talk about the need for establishing trust and the economy of trust. What does that mean? That means people accept it. People start to accept Bitcoin as, yes, this is what I want the denominator to be of my financial assets as opposed to the dollar. At that point, it won't be volatile in the sense of what you see today because the price will be substantially higher and those small moves won't matter as much. But we're a long way from there. Now, will it happen? Obviously, I don't know that. Obviously, I'm bullish on it to the extent that I think that this macro backdrop will make it more likely. But the absolute reality here is to look backwards, that's just wrong. Histories is being made. Well, Dave, thank you very much for coming on the show today. It was a pleasure talking with you. Thank you. Cointelegraph, like, subscribe, and hodl.


Hello and welcome to the session in which we would look at the US cybersecurity framework and specifically we're going to be looking at one of the five core functions and that is the detect function. Why? Because in the prior session we looked at the cybersecurity framework overall we looked at the identify function and the protect function now it's time to look at the detect function and this is the big picture we already completed the identified function and we covered the six categories and subcategories we looked at the protect function covered the six categories and many subcategories and the session we're going to be looking at the detect function which will cover three categories remember overall we have five core functions one two three four five and we have 23 categories and 108 subcategories and many references so we already covered this part we already covered this part now we're going to be covering the detect function before we proceed any further I have a public announcement about my company farhatlectures.com. 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the earlier you can detect those activities the faster you can respond so timely discovery using the proper tool is important and this is what the detect function will emphasize simply put the detect is like an alarm system you are raising the alarm now someone is inside the system and you want to continuously monitor for indicators for compromise if someone is penetrating your system you want to be on the lookout you are hunting and being proactive this is what the detect function is so it has three categories anomalies and event security continuous monitoring and detection process starting with anomalies and events what are anomalies and events the objective of this category is to identify unusual activities or occurrences that might indicate a potential cyber security event you might indicate that someone is trying to invade your system place a virus place a malware so on and so forth it helped the organization to detect and analyze anomalies and events and their information system by monitoring the network user behavior and system logs how do you do that through subcategories one of the subcategories is creating establishing a baseline for network operation and expected data flows what does that mean let's take a look at this figure here and let's assume this is your website traffic notice your website traffic is approximately a little bit less than 12 000 10 000 suddenly your network traffic drop so this is an anomaly you want to know why if someone blocking users are you being hacked some of the some of the pages down what's going on so by looking at this it kind of alerted you why because you know what your website traffic should be now you find an anomaly are you monitoring this okay another subcategory will be detected event and analyzed to understand attacks and methods use user behavior or suspicious activity for example you know most users are logged in between 8 a.m. and I don't know 10 p.m. let's assume that's the case that that's that's the user behavior let's assume you're suddenly finding heavy activity from 3 a.m. to 5 a.m. unusual activity because that's not your user behavior this is a.m. well guess what are you looking at this are you analyzing those events or suspicious activities event data is aggregated and colorate colorated from multiple sources and sensors so you're not looking for example at web traffic you're looking at web traffic you are monitoring also the number of purchases it's being made on your website how many people are logging out and trying to log in several times you are looking at multiple sources you don't look at one event you'd look at several events all at the same time to make sense of them you want to immediately assess the impact of events is determined now what would happen you want to say okay my traffic went down what does that mean what could happen what's the impact what's the impact of the event on me and you want to have an incident alert threshold at at what point I declare emergency we are under attack let's go ahead and respond because the next step is responding so on the detect function is you have to determine this threshold because the next thing after detecting is responding another function of detect I'm sorry another category of the detect function is the security continuous monitoring and it's as it suggests continuously monitoring so this category emphasizes the importance of ongoing monitoring of organizational system and asset include hardware software information as well you want to monitor people continuous monitoring helps organization maintain an up-to-date understanding of their cybersecurity position and detect any vulnerabilities before they are exploited so you want to keep watching what's going on okay so one is you want to monitor your network for potential cybersecurity events you want to have a physical monitoring the physical environment is being monitored you want to maybe have a person security guard because why because if somebody is physically inside the building then they have access to physical data and once they have access to physical data it might give them access to logical data so personnel activity is monitored to detect any potential security event if an individual said should not be in that building or in that office why are they there you want to monitor this process malicious code is deducted keep scanning your system for any code also your mobile code is deducted you know if you have mobile services mobile apps you want to keep on monitoring those apps see if there's anything is embedded in that code also extra service provider activity is monitored remember one of the functions under identify is third-party supply chain supply chains are third-party extra service provider you also want to monitor those what's going on to detect any potential cybersecurity events so it's inside your company as well as that supply chain third-party third-party that have access or involved in your system you want to monitor for unauthorized personnel connection devices and software you want to monitor this continuously and those are all subcategories now how would you do that it all depends on your on the software you have the personnel you have so we don't go any specific specificity here all we're looking for is the overall security framework and also scan for any vulnerabilities for example i have a norting and i scan my system every 24 to 48 hours why because i want to see if there's anything that's inside the system you just keep scanning just that's all it's automated for example 3 a.m the system the whole system is scanned now the third function of detect at the third category of the function detect is detection processes what are we looking at here it's this category focuses on ensuring that the detection processes and procedures here looking at procedures are maintained and tested regularly you have to have some sort of a policy how to respond to incident this include incident respond plan communication protocol who are you gonna talk to are you gonna talk to the engineers the software uh cyber security the legal department and coordinate this with external organization if legally you are you are required to do so some subcategories here would include defining roles and responsibilities of this detection process who's responsible for what in case something happened detection activities comply with all applicable policies laws and regulation do you have those applicable laws and regulations especially in the health and the banking industry well defined and are we complying with those also event deduction information is communicated to appropriate parties when needed for example do i need to report this event to my legal department or i don't have to do i do i need to report this event to the state regulatory agency to the sec so on and so forth do i have detection processes that are tested and maintained and continuously improve on regular basis i have to one two and three do i keep updating those making sure attested maintain and continuously improve keeping up with laws and different threats this is the detect functions and those are the three categories and they have many subcategories now after i detect an event what do i do next i am going to respond and then the next session we would look at how do you response what are the various categories and subcategories under response what should you do now go to farhat lectures look at additional resources mcqs whether you are studying for your cpa cma exam or any other professional certification invest in yourself invest in your career good luck and stay safe


What is going on guys welcome back to the channel and I appreciate you being here now I've had so many questions over the past week or so people asking me if I know a decent dust light shard farming spot Now the spot I use and it's quite efficient. I'm not gonna lie to you guys It's basically within the trust lens of in the EDZ So what you want to do is you want to fly down here when it loads up because it's just a little So you want to fly down into this spot right here trust lens. I want you to fly here You're spawning here. Now you got to remember guys The main thing you got to think of when you're trying to find materials is You want to get a location where there's plenty of them in where there's plenty of them around this area Yeah, and you want to find a quick route out if you can find a quick route out of the area You can find the same material twice works with chests and everything now I've got a couple of fast routes out of this area so it helps farming these shards but also as well guys if you've got a gold shower which Helps you locate these things you're looking for say an EDZ gold shower which helps you find resources If you got one of them it makes this so so so much easier. So you can see one right here Right there you can see that then that is a dust light So what I do is this what I do if it's anything to remember this side of the church This is what I do the left side so to speak. I've got another route out So I grab that I quickly jump on my sparrow And like I said you want to find a fast route as quick as possible and that's what this is That is what this is. So this is what I do if I don't get stuck on a box or whatever that was Jump off here jump up I'm doing this on a tight and I ain't the best on tightness to be honest I should have probably should do this on my own time You see the area loads up bottom left hand side of the screen That's what you're looking out for when that happens You've basically loaded that the first area then you want to simply turn back on yourself and head back to that same material And this works on any planet as long as you can get out the area and back in quick enough You can farm any material twice some materials you can even farm three times. It's that crazy. You see it's still there right there Wait for me to pick it up for a second time Now like I said anything on this side that's the route I'll take I'll pick it up and quickly run down there now It's gonna be hard to actually show you guys where these things can spawn because you know that a a goal shot at Well helps you find these. It's pretty hard to spot them, but there's another one right there I don't know how I just seen it, but there's a chest as well. So I'll do that one more time. I'll pick that up I'll pick that up And I'll quickly jump on my sparrow and fly out the area as fast as I can Remember guys right side of the church. This is the route you want to take left side of church I'll show you guys in a quick second just want to demonstrate this to you guys one more time It's pretty it's pretty quick. It's it's quite efficient And like I said if you have got a goal show which helps you find these things. It's so so so much easier I mean if you haven't got one that's pretty hard to spot the EDC is right blue and a lot of a lot of spots So it's really hard to see him. It really is so yeah, just quickly fly back to that same spot And you'll get it pretty easy No fun today, so this side wasn't it here is there we go. You can see they're both still there So I'll be able to farm them again Simple as that people there's one and there's two So yes now anything on the left-hand side at his church. I don't even know if it is a church Is it? Well, I don't know but I'm calling this church see anything on this side the route you want to take And that's another thing.  Damn you Let me see if I can find one Would help if I can find one. I Do you need it? And it's trance. Oh, there you go one's right here. Okay, so let me grab another one. I start the patrol I don't want to start the patrol. So I grab that and this is the route I take I'll run into the last sector within this church, which is located Right in this back corner So you simply and they can use your spell here if you want to I'm just gonna run and it isn't too far down here Nice. It's a little bad, but it ain't too far. If you're on your spell, you can get up and down this hallways pretty quick You really can so it should be down here. I think it is There we go. Loads up, but I'm left-hand side of your screen as you see as soon as that loads up head back people And this is what I do if I need these materials This is what I do come to the trust lines within the EDZ circle the church One left side of all the other route this side of all this route. It's as simple as that people The right side of all the other route left side of all this route, and it really is that straightforward now Where was that you were there? I will probably be able to pick this up without there we go And it is really simple as that people now like I said these fingers can spawn all over the place here I mean I've seen them in the in the grass. She's hard to see Just just hard to really hard to see but yes guys. This is the farm I use I mean it's quite fast. It's quite efficient, and it really does help you and I do hope it helps you out I know a lot of people after a great spot, but yes guys I hope you enjoyed the video thanks as always for stopping by if you did help you out leaving a like It really helps me out. Well, thanks as always for stopping by people and hopefully I will see you on that next one


Hey guys, we are here for the last video of the year for art joy of sharing Hopefully it's something that y'all find interesting this month. I got to pick so of course I picked a paperclip because you know I've been doing them for a few months now, and I'm totally hooked and addicted I got I'm gonna show you how to do a shaker clip. I have done one at least one before at the time of filming and I I Want to see how I did it. So these are actually coin holders and for you coin collectors out there You'll recognize them. My husband is a coin collector fun fact, and he said I showed them to him and he goes Yeah, huh? Evidently here. He knew what they were. I had no idea As far as I knew his coins are just shoved in a box Somewhere so I don't know anyway. They cut I have a couple different sizes. I have this big one, which is I Want to say it's 45 millimeters I think so and then I have a littler one that's like 26 millimeters or something we're gonna use the bigger one and We are going to use one of these wood rounds. These are from a Bag of them that you can get in different shapes in the same bag at Michaels If I can find the link for it, I'll put it in the video description This also came in the same bag. It has a few different shapes in it and this 45 millimeter round perfectly fits this Wood base, so we're going to use this as our base. We have a three inch paper clip I have a few different colors up here in case this is not the color I end up wanting and a strip of a Tyvek envelope Which we are going to use to attach the paper clip to the back So first thing we need to do is cover the wood base with a piece of paper because whatever I do on the inside of the shaker part is Probably the back isn't going to show so We need to find a little bit of something something to stick on there and Uses a background. Ooh, what about this music paper? That looks interesting now whatever I put on the front I usually put something similar on the back although most of it ends up not showing just because I don't like to leave the Raw wood on the back. I am going to use some tacky glue and I'm going to take my wood round and I'm going to just put a bunch of tacky glue on there You're going to need tacky glue glue and or E6000 for this project I'm going to put the glue face down on the paper and then I'm going to give it a little bit of a wiggle smush that glue around and then grab my scissors and Cut out around the edge of the round shape You can see I've already used this paper for paper clips before Okay, so we have that on one side We're going to do the same thing to the backside We can get the lid off the glue and we're going to do that again Just pick a spot Let's smush it around And then cut it out Then I like to take a old gift card and I like to just push Make sure that paper is stuck down really well okay, and Now we need to figure out what we're going to put that in the shaker part. So The first thing I usually do is cut a piece of plastic to fit the inside of the circle now You could of course do this by hand, but you know, we all have punches out there. And so I like to at least Try and punch through the plastic with one of them now it doesn't always punch very well But let me go find a punch that's the right size for this or at least close And I'll show you what I mean this viscous punch might be close. I Don't know what size it is I Don't know doesn't say Does it know But let's try it and see now sometimes because this of the nature of the plastic It doesn't want to punch all the way through but it leaves enough of an impression that I can usually Finish trimming it with scissors, but we're going to try and see what happens. I don't think it punched all the way Let's see punched part of the way Let me put my reading glasses on so I can see what I'm doing Yeah punched part of the way, but not all the way, so I find that with most of your paper punches, they're intended on painting Painting punching paper are not plastic. So they sometimes work and sometimes don't But it's usually Much easier to punch it with M One of them then it is to try to cut up a hand now. This might be big Yeah, so we're gonna trim it smaller It doesn't have to be perfect. That's why we're using clear plastic But I do want it sort of round Just keep trimming it until it fits. I didn't mean to throw that. I really didn't that fits, okay? So now we have our little piece of plastic Need some of this mess up off the table Now I like to put words inside my shakers. You could put an image in the background, but I have to put a word So the next thing we're gonna do is push all this aside We're gonna look forward now I want a word or phrases that will fit inside here without too much trouble and Be able to be seen through the background, but they don't necessarily Have to be huge Let's try I do also try to like Match the color of the background. So for instance, this is like an off-white music paper So I would probably use off-white stickers rather than black or white or some other color And you I have a lot of digital downloads of stickers in my Etsy shop So you could definitely use those I actually need to print more of my own downloads because I've used almost all of them up I also have lots of these other stickers. So I like this one and I usually just go with my first instinct This says be brave comma be bold So I am gonna need to cut it in half So it fits on our piece of plastic I will be adding a little bit of tacky glue to the back of the sticker to ensure that it stays And doesn't at some point come off It'd be bold same thing Okay, and then at some point you probably want to have handy a q-tip I want to get some of this excess glue off So I like to use a q-tip or something caught some kind of cotton swab to get all of the excess glue off or at least most of it So then the be brave and be bold fits right inside there and Then what do you fill it with to make it a shaker? Well, you could fill it with anything you could fill it with Doesn't fit completely flat. So hang on You could fill it with just about anything glitter or seed beads Flower seeds tea leaves That's better. So we are going to Find some things to put in there and I'm gonna go on a hunt because I have a couple of different things in mind I'll be right back. I have lots of these around These are nail art glitters from the Dollar Tree. They come in sets of colors and they are great for projects like this There's not a lot of it, but it's a really small tiny little glitters and Small tiny shapes and they are great for shaker cards and there's even usually some like small oops Where are we microbeads?  I have some dried tea so the first thing we're going to do is Put some glue around the edge of this base a little bit of glue and glue It to our wood round. I need to get our e6000 open, which is generally a challenge for me Because there's a lot of glue on the lid. I need to get some pliers. Hang on second for you guys But it was a few minutes for me. I couldn't find my Big pliers, okay, so we're gonna just carefully Hopefully without making too big a mess Put some of the e6000 Glue around the edge of the coin holder Why e6000 because it is made for gluing non-porous surfaces together And it'll work good for this Try to wipe off the excess a baby wipe and I'm gonna just take the baby wipe around the edge and try to get some of the Access glue off Then we're gonna put our be brave and be bold in there. I'll zoom in just a little bit. There we go Then we are going to pour in a few of each of these things. I picked out a few colors orangey coppery colors and some of these little gold microbeads and Some little silver stars I think we're gonna change the paper clip out to a silver one And as I said, I've got the dry tea out and we'll see if I want to add it or not But I do have some some of this pretty so pretty coppery color Let's see there you go Doesn't want to focus All right, here's a tip. Don't do that unless the lid's on Okay I like the idea of putting something unusual in there that people go. What is that? So I do think I want to put a little bit of the tea in this is an old washed out Spice jar that I put the dry tea in after I dried it and I put the shaker lid back on So I don't get too much Just give it a dark Again, like with the glitter any little bits that didn't make it in and pick it up with my finger and put it in Okay, now to glue the to put the lid on we're gonna use some more of that e6000 and I'm going to there's a couple different ways you can do it. I Found the easier way is to do this And put some e6000 in a few spots around the edge You couldn't use super glue But if I did that I can guarantee you that I would probably end up gluing my fingers to that paper clip So I don't usually do that. All right, I'm gonna put the lid on push down Again, take our baby wipe remove any excess of glue Now you could do this and it could just be an embellishment Could be the other front of a card We're gonna of course make it like I said a paper clip I'm gonna put that lid back on our e6000 because I think I Bad enough over here. I Don't know how a person can like mess up their glue more than I have So now we're gonna put our paper clip on and to do this you can of course use more e6000 or I just use Usually use toky glue. So the first thing I do is take my strip of tie-back and why I use tie-back because it's stronger than regular paper, so so tie-back envelope and I put it between the layers of paper clip and Put it to about like halfway like that. This is the part that's going to be glued to the Shaker this is the part where you would slide it onto a page or a journal cover so this is the part that you want to glue you want the little bit out and We are going to put a bunch of glue on this like this. I'm going to center it on my clip Sometimes they use a smaller clip or a bigger clip. Sometimes I hang charms off the top or the bottom It just depends Now I'm going to turn it over I'm going to push that little bit down into the tie-back so that that center tie-back has good contact Then I'm going to push like this until that tie-back is Touching the wood base. I will usually move it over a little bit make sure it's in the middle and then I will Grab some clips That are big enough and Put them like this to hold them down While everything dries. I got glue on the front of my shaker. Don't do that Don't be me Be better than me Okay And just do that and push it as far in as it will go And this will be sort of the clamp that'll hold your tie-back down while everything dries You don't necessarily need to leave it dry a whole long time But you need to leave it dry long enough for that tacky glue to dry the e6000 will take a while to dry overnight potentially But you want to leave your clamps on there until at least the tacky glue is dry. I Usually leave things on there long enough until the tacky glue is dry Then I take a few pictures and then I put the clamps back on and leave it overnight and then I call it done You can clean up the edges later With a razor blade or your fingernail generally If you get glue somewhere where you don't need it to be like right here And once I get it to where the tacky glue is kind of sticking well, I come in like this and I trim off the extra tie-back This is when I look and make sure that there is nothing that needs to be cleaned or changed. I Give it a decent once over Okay, and then put the clamps back on shaker paperclip There you have it. I hope it's something that you find enjoyable and that you enjoy doing What strange small art parts do you have in your art room in your collection that you can use in new different and unique ways? For me, that's what the paper clips are all about and the tags when I do art tags So look around to try to get a new perspective on the stuff in your collection Especially for the coming year and see what new different and unique ways you can use it and incorporate it into your art If you have something new that you think we'd all be interested in Whether it's a video or something that you've did a picture, please share it over on our joy of sharing We would love to see what you're doing If you're not a member of the group and you'd like to be the link for it is in the description below If you want to follow me on social media see what paper clips or other Interesting art things strange art things I'm up to you on a daily basis Support the free content here on YouTube or over in the Facebook art groups Or any one of a number of think places that you can find me click on my link tree list of links Which is in the video's description along with my happy mail and a bunch of other stuff. So check it out That's it for today. I hope that you found that interesting and that that give you some ideas and above all go out and have a great day have a happy holiday and Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. I'll see you later. Bye guys


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Welcome back to ITW Extra, powered by JSA. We are here live at ITW 2023, and this is the official broadcast of ITW here in National Harbor. And joining me today is Mayank Sravesta. He is the CEO of BDX. Welcome. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Yes, it's such an honor to have you here. It's our first time finally meeting in person. I'm so happy. Three years. Three years, JSA and BDX have been partnered. Such an honor to represent BDX here. So for viewers that may not already know, but I'm sure many of them already do, can you tell us a little bit more about BDX? Sure. So we are a data center platform focused on APEC, Middle East and North Africa. As we speak, we have our running data centers in Indonesia, China, Hong Kong, and Singapore. And by the end of the year, we're hoping to be in four more countries. Expanding so rapidly across the globe. So congratulations. Well, it's a market asking for it, so yeah, thank you. And our customers, so yeah. For sure. And this has been an amazing year for BDX, truly. Knockwood, yeah. Yeah, knock on wood. Let's kick things off with one of the biggest announcements coming out of BDX in its history, BDX Indonesia, one of the area's largest wholesale data centers you launched there. So why don't you give us a little bit more information about that and some of the cloud-focused operations that you're working on? And what prompted your entrance into this key market? Yeah, so let's go the other way around. Prompted our entrance into Indonesia. It's a thriving digital economy. There's a lot of focus from the government, as well as the players inside of the country to take what they call Indonesia 4.0, which is all digitizing the country and the transactions. So that is what prompted us in terms of how we see ourselves doing there. We announced a green field. We've purchased land for another green field. So yeah, I mean, we're going gangbusters in Indonesia. Yeah, I know that for sure. And last month, you officially broke ground on that green field data center in South Jakarta. That's correct. Why don't you tell us about this new facility and some of the expansion plans that you have? So this facility is going to be a hyperscale focused facility. And within the same campus, we have another data center, smaller one, where we are hosting an IX. It would go live in the middle of June. So the whole idea is to have to enable the hyperscalers to A, access all of the Indonesian eyeballs, connect to the CLS, connect to other data centers, and have part of their heavy workloads deployed on the same campus. And you also announced some plans to develop a new 16 megawatt facility in Hong Kong for hyperscale and enterprise customers. How many data centers now do you have in Hong Kong? So with the latest announcement, we have four data centers in Hong Kong. Four. Yeah. And this facility is going to come live early next year, so Q1-24. 16 megawatts, hyperscalers, predominantly enterprise. Yeah. So so many exciting plans for BDX. And it's a fun time. Yeah, it is definitely a fun time. And we sure have been along for the ride there. Is there anything else that you wanted to add today? Well, I guess I'm thrilled. And thrilled to be sort of leading the charge. The good thing that goes with us is that we have a very strong sort of background within the team to be able to enable both edge, which is a network edge, and the heavy deployments. And that's sort of the way forward for us. And tier one markets, which is Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, et cetera, in those markets we're going to be focused only on hyperscales. And for tier two markets where the networks are not solved for us yet, we are enabling our customers, like in Jakarta with an IX network dense facilities. And tier three markets, some of the markets that we're going to get into, for example, Philippines, et cetera, where networks are not solved for at all, our entry strategy is going to be a network edge. So yeah, we're trying to really facilitate our customers, grow their businesses in these countries. Dominating the market, for sure. And so good to see you here at ITW 2023. And congratulations on your appointment as CEO. That was also some big recent news this year. So where can viewers go to learn more? bdxworld.com, the website. That's, I guess, the safest place for now. Yeah, also on LinkedIn, right? LinkedIn and I think we're working those channels, so yes. Yeah, for sure. So bdxworld.com, such a pleasure to have you here. Thank you so much. And thank you viewers for tuning in to another episode of ITW Extra, powered by JSA, here live at ITW 2023. Happy networking.


Hello and welcome to CMC Markets on Tuesday the 20th of January and the weekly market update and what a last few days it's been. Now those of you who attended the Analyst Debates webinar last Thursday will already know that I've covered one of the particular topics that I'm about to cover in this video and that's namely the gold price but as far as this week is concerned I'm going to be focusing on the key event of the week and that's the European Central Bank rate meeting. Now I could go into an enormous amount of detail about what Mr Draghi may or may not deliver on Thursday but I think the key thing to watch out for is the press conference because we've had all manner of numbers bandied about with respect to what we're going to get on Thursday and it's been leaked so much beforehand that I think there is a potential danger that maybe the Euro could be in danger of a little bit of a retrace. Now we've seen a significant lows in Euro yen, Euro sterling and Euro dollar and I'm going to look at the potential for a little bit of a rebound. The market is looking extremely short of Euros and I would argue that it's going to take a significant beating of expectations with respect to what Mr Draghi can deliver on Thursday to push the Euro that much lower. We've already seen in Euro sterling, lows of 0.7590, we've already seen in Euro yen, lows of around about the 134.5 level and I'm going to look at the daily charts on these particular charts because I think there is a danger here that we could be starting to get some evidence of trend exhaustion and a potential pullback and I think that's particularly noticeable on the daily candlestick charts. I'm also going to be looking at the gold price in light of Collins and my assessment of it in the trading debates webinar on Thursday. Now if you want to look back at that particular webinar, it is on YouTube, it's fairly easy to find and it was dated last Thursday. So we'll start by looking at the gold price that Colin and I were talking about on Thursday and we've made some progress from where we were on Thursday afternoon and we're actually testing the 1300 area, $1300 an ounce area and there's certainly potential for further gains towards the upside. Now we've broken out of the triangle earlier this year and to project the triangle breakout, what I've done is I've measured the distance from the lows that we saw at the beginning of November to the peaks in December as a really feasible target. I then projected that from the breakout point that we saw earlier this year. Now 100% of that distance comes in around about $1,330 an ounce. So we've already reached the 0.618 target. The minimum price objective for a triangle breakout is basically 100% or the equivalent to the base of that triangle and that currently lies around about the 1,330 area. So what could drive us up there? Well loss of confidence in central bankers, we've certainly seen evidence of that last week with the Swiss National Bank where they stated that they would keep the peg and then decided that they wouldn't. So much for forward guidance there and I think that's likely to underpin gold going forward, particularly if the European central bank continues on what it looks like a significant path of further easing. So let's move on to Euro sterling. Again it's a daily candlestick chart and again we found a little bit of a base around the 1,750 area. Now the likelihood is that as long as we hold above that low we've already posted a potential bullish engulfing pattern and as long as the price action stays above the lows of the last few days there is certainly potential for a squeeze higher towards that trend line resistance that I've drawn in from the December highs. So basically where I've circled that price action there. Which brings me nearly on to Euro yen and now this particular pattern looks to be potentially an awful lot more powerful. This is called a three white soldiers pattern and basically this pattern generally tends to come at the end of a very strong downtrend. Well we've certainly seen that from the highs that we saw in December on this daily candle chart. We've come down from highs just below 150 and found support around about the 134.5, 134 level and as we can see from this daily chart there is a significant area of support through those lows. Furthermore the oscillator is very oversold and three white soldiers is essentially three bullish candles in succession at the end of a downtrend with very, very strong bodies. Now at the moment the daily candle for the third day hasn't as yet closed so we need to see where it closes tonight. If we get a significantly strong close at the close of business tonight then there is certainly potential as long as we hold above the lows that we've seen for the past few days for a significant short squeeze. Now whether we get that as a result of a spike higher in Euro dollar or a spike higher in dollar yen is neither here nor there. This chart is giving me plenty or ample warning that there is certainly potential for a sharp short squeeze. Okay so that pretty much concludes the weekly market update for this week. All that's left for me to say is be careful out there. It's quite volatile and thanks very much for listening. This is Michael Houston talking to you from CMC Markets.


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