horse with the speed of light a cloud of dust and a hearty hi-o silver the lone ranger the record of the lone rangers thrilling fight against outlaws and crime will not be found in the written pages of American history however the exciting stories of the mysterious phantom figure of the planes his great horse silver and his faithful Indian companion tanto are as vivid today as they were in the pioneer days of the west adventure returns as silver shot hoops thunder down the trails of long ago the lone ranger rides again at the end of the civil war bolliver baits and hacksaw Hawkins had driven westward with little to show for their careers of soldiers other than a saddlebag stuffed with worthless Confederate paper money as our story begins we see them mounted on a pair of swaybacked horses on the road leading to the capital of the territory uniforms are ragged their belts tightened to the last notches I tell you hacksaw team bright team just that's what it is what do you want more of it look at us just look at us here we are two of the finest soldiers that ever followed general Bob Lee and we ain't got no food no cash no prospects all we got his stomachs are from fully impenetrable like a bus yeah and a sack of Confederate paper money the useful to build a fire where that we had something to cook when the fire was built five thousand dollars worth of Jeff Davis paper money and it won't buy a mess of beans Bob can't you think of nothing we can do to get something to eat I'm powerful hungry you're hungry so help me hacksaw if I didn't get blisters riding bareback I'd eat the saddle of general Sherman here hold on a second here comes a couple of fellows on white horses they might lend us a hand one for his man I ain't particular I thought stranger stop a minute oh general Sherman whoa general Sherman yes my horse he kicked me once when he was in the cavalry so I named him after that yanky you seem better days mr. general Sherman was once one of the finest horses south of Tomok Jebs to it himself never rode a finer one so you rode with Jebs to it sure did why stranger I was Jebs right hand man and I was he's left go on ball of her you might just as well try it once more maybe the mask fella in the engine ain't as known as they look what do you want to ask me well you see we got our saddle bag full of paper money that we figured we might trade you for silver paper money it's right handsome Confederate money well what if it is it's still pretty looking you can't spend Confederate money now we found that out stranger shock she knew that a well bother I reckon we're going hungry again tonight I declare if I don't see food might as soon I won't recollect what to do with it maybe we may camp here yes time up this place is fine wouldn't you man like to camp here with us we food enough to go around food you mean vitals the real thing yes mr. we'd be downright ossified without not gratitude don't know how to fix them and we'd be right glad to help you in any way we could engine but I'm a fear the sight of food would be so weak and we wouldn't be worth much as helpers you man might be able to get jobs if you have a lot of courage strange if it had been it doesn't move like us the south of the one the war it'll mean work work gosh I so you hear that we can pride for stomach sake name the job stranger we got nerve and courage of plenty there's been trouble collecting taxes in Los Palmas County that's so the ranchers are not in sympathy with the federal government men who have been sent out to get the taxes haven't lived long how bad do we need that job bad enough to take it wonder if we can get it after we've eaten I'll tell you how to reach the officer mr. Bradley at Los Palmas the lone ranger fed the two old veterans then directed them to Clint Bradley the mask man in town of mountain and rode ahead that evening they went to Bradley's home and took cover in the concealing shadows outside watching the two old men as they meet the tax commissioner yes your name Bradley yes we'll shake the hand of Bolliver Biggs that's me and hacks or Hawkins that's him glad to know you what can I do for you but ain't what you can do for us it's what we have to do for you we aim to collect the taxes what's the matter you want to leave this world we need jobs Los Palmas people don't like paying taxes to the government take a look at what's left of our clothes Bradley maybe we can talk the same kind of language them folks talk confederates and proud of it say you wouldn't want to change some shin plasters for cash would you know if you're really serious about collecting the taxes you'll hide come inside and I'll give you the list of names and what each man owes the lone ranger thought of a plan to aid Bolliver and hacksaw in the collection of the taxes the mask man had learned the route the two old soldiers would take so he and Tata rode ahead of them as the first stop they'll make Tata Bonneville ease ranch we go there first yes we'll have to make sure the old man aren't too far behind us you take care of the horses take the horses around to the rear of the house I'll meet you there. Bolliver and hacksaw should be long soon and then near and be here maybe two three minutes well I'll meet you later then I'm silver white collar open the door Lee I want to talk to you well what the cover don't move what's this a whole lot of you think I want to say right where you are bring out your gold and silver robbery you mean money you have money here you refuse to pay your taxes so you must have money I'll relieve you over there hold on let's talk I have no time for talking bring out the cash I better get it Barnaby they don't sense in trying to talk him out of Robin yeah you better get it someone coming here maybe they'll save us listen to me Lee I'll be at the rear of the house I'll keep you covered while those men are here betray me and you can guess what will happen all my six a lot of hacksaw here's the first stop in the doors wide open I'm right with you Bolliver get rid of those men as soon as you can remember my warning Barnaby their soldiers southern ones yeah I see walk right in being the doors open if your name is Lee we hang out to make some talk I'm busy today and so are we busy that's why we don't hang out to spend much time here leave you all the government some tax money oh here's papers signed by mr. Bradley which gives us the right to collect that same as the amount you owe and here's my old persuaded to see that you pay up you you do a tax collectors southern yes solely and we fit as hard as any 10 men again the Yankees now we can some of the collecting of the taxes by thunder you can stand the pain of yeah sure sure I'll pay him here's the cash right here we pay the taxes and don't go glad to do it well fry me for a side of a take the cash take it all pay up my taxes for the next few years in advance and don't you try no skin games I take the cash and welcome just give me a receipt for it I'll mark my ex right here showing I got the cash you fill in the amount yourself my eyes ain't good hex or pick up that cash sure enough there and now I'm paid for years ahead good luck to your Jensen thanks for coming for that cash I still don't savvy but I sure can see the cash I got the cash ball over let's get going for mr. Lee changes his mind come on must be he's heard of us and my downright determined look shorty man was no you sarge fire nothing to steal come on there to stick up man reckon that's the time of would you stay do you get my cash I paid up my taxes and went back here I thought he'd be shooting me most any second seen what I was about to do I hey you where are you look at him travel and engine with his silver he called that whole silver marty great guns maybe I wasn't so smart after all the masked man carried on with his plans he raced away from Lee's ranch only to join tanto and ride to the next place where a bolliver and hacksaw would call they're they again pulls as robbers don't make a move bring out your savings and I'll take the money you've been refusing to pay off and taxes for the last year but string it out someone coming in get rid of them as soon as you can I'll be in the kitchen you're all pay my taxes there's the cash right there don't go to ball over there's something wrong about this but I'll be a six-regged cat if I can sell him what it is there's my tax money take it and welcome to it thanks for coming hacksaw I've never seen the like of it wherever bolliver and hacksaw called to collect the overdue taxes they found the ranch is surprisingly willing to pay men who had loudly claimed they'd never give the government its money turned over their cash to the two old soldiers without a word of protest bolliver and hacksaw carried on for several days we joined them as they make camp for the night nine fifty sixty seventy eighty nine hundred and eighty dollars now dad but it ain't that something magnanimous sure something why shucks bolliver folks are downright scared out in their wits of us must be the steely look I get my eye that ain't it hacksaw it's a ring of determination in my voice that gets them I never seen folks pay up like they've been doing we better get this cash back to Mr Bradley before it gets too heavy for general Sherman to do bolliver I've been having notions about that cash what do you mean hacksaw wishing it was ours shucks we ain't cut out to be outlaws I know that bolliver but all the same that our horses ain't built for fast travel wonder if we'd have to be outlaws we got paper money we hey what's the matter with hiding the silver summers and taking the confederate shin plasters to Mr Bradley hmm I wonder if it at work tell him that's all the lost Palmer's county folks had so we had to take it hacksaw maybe you've got a notion that it works we had to take confederate paper didn't we sure we did why should we get stuck with it when we can pass it on keep the silver for ourselves my thunder hacksaw we could do it and we will Bradley can't catch us because he won't never know and none of the folks around here be speaking to him it wouldn't have reason to the too far away from his office besides that they don't have no use for him because he's a Yankee hacksaw we've been honest men all our lives but right here and now is where we change we get dishonest and do it so slick we won't never get catched the curtain falls on the first act of our thrilling lone ranger drama before the next exciting scenes please permit us to pause for just a few moments continue our story Bolivar and hacksaw two civil war veterans had collected nearly a thousand dollars in silver they were tempted to keep the cash for themselves and turn over an equal amount in worthless confederate money to the authorities we see them now before the desk of Clint Bradley federal official in charge of the collection of taxes this is confederate money yep that's what is Mr Bradley but the folks we got it from was confederate folks worthless now ain't that a dog on the shame I sort of thought you'd be having a kind word for a couple old glutes that done the best they know how in full-filling new orders I suppose it's not your fault boss we just risk our lives and to find the folks and making them pay up I tell you one easy maybe we'll raise some hard cash in the next calls we go out to make I hope so we figured we better totally in what we're here yes of course well we'll get moving again old Jeb Stewart would tell you that Bolivar Bates and hacksaw ain't men that give up we are a couple of the most determined men come back when you made some all-collection yes sure Sunday we will come on come on hacksaw coming good day to you Mr Bradley good bye and good luck paper money confederate money this stuff won't pay the bills to run the government Bradley hey hello my friend those two old men who just left him afraid your plan was a failure because the settlers didn't have silver money they did have but this year is the tax money those men just brought in I know it Bradley we put temptation in the way of two poor old men what do you mean they collected silver but they hit it what it's hidden under a rock they replaced it with their own worthless paper money why go double-crossing one moment these they aren't thieves at heart Bradley they stole they made a mistake but it isn't too late to correct it how children that they'll have nothing to gain by what they did and make use of them and collecting the rest of the Los Palmas coffee taxes and let them steal more money oh Bradley you know that your regular collectors failed in every case yes Bolliver and hacksaw made a collection in almost every place they went to with your help nevertheless where writers had the cash they paid their taxes agreed but what is your plan but Bolliver and hacksaw carry on and then let them come in here with the rest of the taxes they've collected and then what teach them a lesson they'll never forget a lesson that will make them useful citizens in a country that needs good men I don't have much hope for that but I will listen to your plan when the lone ranger left Bradley he continued his earlier plan he rode ahead of Bolliver and hacksaw stopping wherever ranchers owed tax money come on silver get along now general Sherman I don't hacksaw if I weren't a modest man I'd be out not stuck up by the way we managed to get them taxes without so much as a complaint it's me as a way folks sometimes thank us for the taking of the case I never seen them like it that masked man was no outlaw at all ma he was here for no other reason than to make us pay the taxes after several busy days Bolliver and hacksaw had completed their collections they returned to their camp hid the gold and silver that had been paid them for taxes and substituted worthless Confederate money once more then they mounted road again to Clint Bradley's office there's Mr Bradley at the door thank goodness you gentle back safe come on in how we figured on I've been worried about you it didn't meet any killers did you go off you know well come in come inside it's a good thing we've got some extra rooms here you men are just two jumps ahead of a lot of trouble going out you have the money we we got the saddlebags here they got the paper money in them still paper money well it isn't the money I'm worried about I'd hate to be the cause of the death of two men like you what yes where does come here there's a chance that the lost farmers people are angry at the way you made them pay the taxes they're likely to come here looking for you oh gosh well we'll just turn this cash over and hide it away from here there's a list of the names and the money each is paid yes too bad that it's all Confederate money I'd hope we could pay you your commissions in silver well being as you got that paper I reckon we'll have to be satisfied with some of the same far pay too bad a man can buy this money for about ten cents on the dollar we meant to complain though now if you leave us going I couldn't think of letting you risk your lives you'll have to wait until tomorrow before you leave you tomorrow yes if you started out now you might meet the ranchers heading this way tomorrow I'll send a guard with you but mr. Bradley we could have no old general Sherman is the headness horse she ever seen when he heads no no the responsibility for your lives rest with me and you stay here for tonight I have a room where to be quite safe tomorrow we'll see about getting you away from here but dad right at mr. Bradley you manner my responsibility I can't shut my duty I just come right in here and I'll show you where you can sleep I'll see that your meals are brought to you hang it hacksaw we ain't no choice here Bradley we'll protect you if I have to use a gun to put you in your bedroom hey this year looks like a jail to me look at them bars on the windows they won't get at you here and we won't get up nothing while we're in here not even sunlight it's here up it's only for one night if you'd committed a crime you'd spend years here then you'd have something to complain about you ain't going to lock us in are you course how else could I be sure you'd be safe you're treating us just like prisoners cheer up it won't be for long well by a foundation if this ain't a fine kettle of fish we got into Bob I don't like what he said about being crooked and staying here for a year on thunder didn't think I felt about it if them ranchers get here and tell him they paid in silver stated paper money we will stay here we'll never see the light of that ain't the worst of it did you hear what he said about being able to buy the shin plastic for dime a dollar's worth he knows ball of her ain't no two ways about it mr.  Bradley is opening the door to the office inside maybe he'll have grub first I could eat bread and water go all right with me here he is morning gents did you sleep good when we slept but we slept during little I never slept a wink these jails are awful well step out your horses are ready and you can head north you mean that sure I guess that would just a scare about the ranchers ain't been no more word from them and we're free to travel of course is there any reason why you shouldn't be free jumping juniper look at all the silver piled on that desk oh that yes I'm counting it whether it's a sizable some layer must be close to a couple of thousand dollars hmm what where did it come from just an affair of the government that's all oh that's that red skin hello there tunnel oh he brought some of that silver in oh where'd he get it now chance don't get curious about the business of the government you got your commission on the tax collection in paper money that's what you brought me but mr. Bradley we that is a it's no good for spending I know it you and those who gave me the tax money in paper expect the county bills to be paid with it well good luck to you chance where can we be needing it come on heck so common ball of a good bye bye dad read it all heck so we still ain't it a man's meal let's get from hiding place as fast as them horses can take it yeah let's travel fast get along now gentlemen oh oh that's a hiding place I'll get to the ground dig up under that rock as fast as you can come on that's hard give me a hand the husband asked me my stranger how did you make out with the tax collection well we made out to them but we got paper money Confederate money that ain't no good yeah so that's what we was paid our commission with and dad read it all mr. we still ain't got no cash to spend are you sure you were paid in Confederate money well we I once heard of tax collectors who thought they get put one over on the government huh they hid the silver they collected and turned in Confederate money they did yes but they were sorry for it there are several kinds of men in the world what do you mean by that sometimes men turn crooked without being crooks at heart those men can be made to see the mistake and changed into worthwhile citizens the West needs that kind of men yeah I reckon so other men are naturally bad they don't take advantage of the second chance that's given them to make good they're the kind who spend all their lives in jail or end up at the end of a rope but what's all this to do with us mr. you men were tax collectors I hope you were good ones because I got you that job if you fell down on it you'd betray the trust I put in you oh oh by the way did you see anything of my Indian friend yeah we seen him this morning mr. Bradley's office very well I'll join him there come on silver that's all what you make of what he said I don't know what to make of it but I was doing on easy when he was saying it dog on it I wish we hadn't done well we did and we better get that silver cash and head north come and help me load it yeah that's all what's matter it's gone our silver ain't here someone's took it I bet that mask man got it that's why he was here he's seen us hiding it I bet however I'm delwitted and slow thinking but by during his finally got through my head that the silver we seen on Bradley's desk was that same silver that we had hit here and we got swindled out our commission hacks or at his plane as the nose on your face they know we tried to swindle them and they wanted us to know it yeah and we lost our commissions for doing that same you know we had it coming we ain't cut out for crooks now all we can do is chaw that sale grub that's in our saddlebags if that's still there and let it be a darn good lesson why I bother don't tell me we ain't even stale bread left what's that look on your face for it there's something in the saddlebag what is it silver cash money hard cash wait here's something else a bullet 45 hacks or this year bullet is of silver get it you get it it's sort of confusing remember what the mask man said he got the silver he turned it in and put our commission into the saddlebag in cash yes so and the silver bullet to let us know who he was silver bullet horse named silk the lone rangers giving us a chance to go straight hackshaw I don't hangar to see no jail again we are going straight or you have just heard is a copyrighted feature of the lone ranger incorporated


All right, there's sound here. Let's watch the whole thing. You have no idea what it's like to be a card. I see these horrors and... I do nothing. You have no idea what it's like. Okay, okay. So, watching this, a couple things. First thing is, I grab your scene and I'm not sure why the texture's not showing up, but I was wondering if this would be a better position of the character and this could be something where later on you darken the character and make it a bit blurry for depth of field. So, it's just there for context and balance of the shot. So, we have something here with this being the main focus. As opposed to... Let me get out of this here. This where... It's over a bit. Like this, you know, there's a slight tangent there where it's kind of like... It's a bit too low. We're gonna look at the face because we see the eyes and it kind of takes away from what that character is doing. Let me take off the scrubbing here. Because then you also have to end up animating that character and I think... I think it's either... I'm not even talking about the before. Either we're gonna have that like the Maya scene where it's just there for balance and context or we're not gonna have it at all and you might just have it more like this and it could still be something where the character is smaller in frame and it's just implied that they're talking to someone that's off-screen. I'm just trying to get... You know, you work focused on this character and not adding more work with this. But it's your shot. You'll let me know. I don't know if you think that's better.  I play this... I adjusted the eyes a little bit so he has a bit of a look and then you can play with is he gonna look at the character or not? Is he gonna be feeling a bit guilty? Will there be eye contact or not? And that's kind of... That's kind of that. Kind of move the bench around a little bit and then put the tree somewhere else. So it wasn't... So it wasn't... You know, like kind of overlapping, be uncomfortable or having like tangents with lines or something. So I kind of put that in here as if like a visual wedge between the two, whatever. Whatever, however you want to interpret that. So that was kind of the idea for this. Now looking at this, there are two things and I can turn off the sound for that. One is... And now you mentioned that this has a translate down instead of a rotate of the jaw. It's an interesting setup and it's just something where like on stuff like this, it just feels really strong. It's interesting. I should go back in there and actually look at that rig. I don't know if there is another option to change this into a rotation. It just feels so... Like I am legend. The mummy, you know, when creatures have this exaggerated and then they just translate the jaw down in VFX. Sure, I'm being guilty of that too, but that's kind of the odd feeling. And there are reasons why I mentioned this because it's just to me, it draws such attention to itself with something that they're going down for a shot that's more emotional and more subtle. The other thing is there are a lot of changes where you suddenly have some wavy lines in there and then it gets kind of to almost like a whistle with the corners in. Same thing again there. It's okay through there, but then we suddenly have again, it feels like there's just too many controllers that are activated there and we're getting some weird intersections. It just feels very... It's just very busy. It feels like they all have their own little minds there moving around where I would really keep it simple. And I think it might help you to dial it back a bit where you just concentrate on the ups and downs on the jaw for the opening and again, I can look at it as well. If there's something where it can be more rotational, but it maybe just have to just generally have less and just focus on this and just keep this really subtle and just reduce the amount of translate down of this and then just concentrate on your corners to go in and out for extremes and then for anything rolling lips in for M, F and all that stuff depending on the lines there and then kind of take these out. I'm just curious if we should dial it back in the start. I hate to just start from scratch but to simplify this a bit more because right now it just feels too busy and it feels like there's too much stuff going on where it's like the breathing is too too wistly on something like that. Like I see stuff moving here. So my bigger note will be to simplify things. Like stuff like that just feels overly busy. Bring the sound back. Look at these horrors. Like this really feels like you're like I think I said that before like just treat this as if the mic is really close by someone's holding this and it's really, really sensitive and it just picks up on the breathing and that's just how it goes and not going to full on like full on animating it. Like I know it's strong in the audio but I think dialing it back let's keep this subtle less is more and then we can always in animation layers bring back certain shapes or certain moments to push it a bit more if needed. You have no idea what it's like to be a card because right now all I'm seeing here just it's just again like a lot of you have no idea what movement here and there's a lot of business in the shapes. You have no idea what it's like to be a card and also wanting to be asymmetrical which I like but then it really feels like this is so rotated and pulled over where it's almost like a bit disconnected from there. I see a little bit of a curvature You have no idea what it's like to be a card but it's almost like someone's chest is looking this way and hips are looking this way where it feels slightly not quite connected there but I think it will help to just reduce the jaw and simplify the shape a bit what it's like to be a card and then watch out just little things which are that we don't have too much movement in one eye I will keep that eye box fairly far away so it's there a bit less cross-eyed because when he goes up here and see this horrors horrors for me is again it should be something in here and I'm just looking here yeah I think that might be like it would be interesting to it's also feels stretched it just seems so big what if it's only like this far like really keep it super small see how far we can get away with and then potentially keeping the head a bit more in this rotation not in terms of up and down but towards us so my concern too is that when you're here on moments like this we don't see the iris it's kind of lost well either we're going to get away I think I mentioned before where we just cover the eye or we move around so we can see both where it's a bit more like this and then you also have a lot of like separate movements in here you can see this here where suddenly only this side goes down separately then it goes up in here and then we have an overall shape changes everything feels very busy and it's an interesting update since last the last one that I saw by the way your reference is great like stay with the reference I love how you incorporated all the elements after showing me different reference takes into one so that version is definitely the way to go but what I'm noticing in this take is that this got really busy this got really busy and I mentioned two things so this to me is one like the facial aspect of it is really busy and the second part is the head is really busy like there like it's this would really just be like a small to nothing again maybe it's like a different approach that we have where I feel like this is much more subtle and contained and and we just want to read it all in here but now suddenly we have it's like a bobblehead that moves way too much but it's also subjective as always these notes are just you know take whatever you need from it but that's my my general impression the busyness in all of this and busyness you might say in the head as well instead of making it less is more because I think in this case I think my approach for this would be to simplify simplify simplify and keep it really subtle very small and then either how well your workflow is adjust the animation and putting animation layers to have more accents where you might want to do a little you know like your rotation in there and then maybe at the end have a little bit of head shake maybe but just start adding more like it's almost like the reverse of what I usually do usually I go big just like this go big on everything like all right this is too big and start chipping away like the things that I don't like oh let's keep this smaller but keep this because to me it's easier when you start with something to go too big and then adjust where you at versus start somewhere and then just go always a little bit more like this will take forever like this is for me not a good workflow but I think this is for bigger shots you know if you do an action shot or bigger broader acting shot that's how I approach things I start with something like I don't know or you get notes from a client and then you just you just incorporate those notes like 110% like go really big like okay I see where it's too big let's go down here let's go down here and keep the rest and you have kind of a middle line versus this is your shop you get the notes from the client and then well it's incorporate the notes like you barely did anything you can't really see the difference the client's not going to notice the difference and that's why I don't think I really don't recommend like you know like small increments that go big and make a change and then see where it's too big but in this case I feel like this is your animation and now we suddenly here and we got to bring his way down and I wonder if this is the better approach of do your animation really subtle and then it's not like an overall like a little bit more but you do your animation then pick moments like you're going to go a bit more maybe a bit more here maybe a bit more there just to to not lose the subtlety of it and give it a little bit of a kick every now and then I don't know if that makes sense so I'm going to leave it at that instead of confusing you even more let me know email me what you like what do you what do this real with and how we can move forward all right thanks all right there's an email you can sign up you can start whenever you want you can submit whether beyond you get 16 submissions either way like and subscribe would be awesome all right thank you


Hi, this is InterGioTV and next to me is Michael Wieland. He's the managing director of the ULV Dach, which is the Unmanned Aviation Association. And this year we had a premiere, because one day before inter-aerial solution as part of InterGio started, the first European Drone Summit was held. And Michael will tell us how was that first summit, that first conference for drones at the first day of inter-aerial solutions. Yes, it was even the day before. So ULV Dach Unmanned Aviation Association is looking back on actually four very successful days. We started on Monday while the InterGio was actually building up and invited the experts from Europe to talk about the current situation in Europe, but also to build a bridge between the community of unmanned aviation and the industry out there. How will business develop? How will we apply unmanned aviation solutions to industries? And we expected a large group, but we over exceeded. And so we look back on a very successful European Drone Summit 2018. The European Drone Summit was an international conference. You had guests from the EU Commission, you had guests from industry like Intel. And how did they think about the first European Drone Summit? What was their resume of the summit? Yeah, for drones, there are so many Congress and summits out there. So we had small doubts if we can really stand out. But with the sponsor of Intel, who did the gold sponsorship this year, and the presence of the Vice President, Anil Naduri, who holds the key message, we had already a first stake and that draws a lot of experts to us. Secondly, we had Cône de Fosse from the European Commission explaining the new moves, the new laws coming up, and also Jean-Marien Marinesco from the European Parliament, who was actually the reporter from the law between the Commission and the parliament that was actually decided this summer. And these three or the mixture out of the politicians and the industry was actually key to bring the experts together. So it was a good take off, a good start to go into the next three days with Inter-Air Solutions, first European Drone Summit, then Inter-Air Solutions. And here you had been also present with your association, the UAV Dach. And how was your impression of this year's Inter-Air Solutions IS Expo? That is actually true. We decided to build these two pillars together because we think if somebody has to travel from the US or from outside Germany to Germany, it helps when he flies one time in and out and can enjoy both events. So we kind of recommended our members to book a booth at the Inter-Air Solutions and over 30 of our members followed that call and out of those 130 somehow unmet aviation companies as exhibitors on the Inter-Air Solutions, our group was the largest one. And the first feedback we got already after the second day was absolutely positive.  There were enough people visiting the booths, even with the small ones. So overall we can say it was not only a success and we will continue with the European Drone Summit in 2019 in combination. I think we will even have more members signing for the Inter-Air Solutions 2019 in Stuttgart. So we are looking forward for next year. Yeah, and I think still that sector of the UAVs is still really uplifting. You said 180 companies had been here. There was a huge flight zone outside with the Unmend Aerical Vehicles and I think there's still so much potential in that branch to go ahead with the industry. That's right. We were proud to manage the flight zone as the Unmend Aviation Association to provide safety for the commercial flying. That's actually our goal to provide safe commercial flying with Unmend Aviation. And there is potential. That's also one reason why we applied with our members for the startup award this year. And we were very happy that Fairfleet, our member and supported by Allianz, has won this startup event and will receive I think a free booth next year as the winner, which is almost, I think, 3,000 euros worth and brings this startup in the position to get a better footprint, larger footprint on the UAVC next year. Yeah, and I think right now Inter-Air Solutions is the biggest networking communication platform. We had over 19,000 attendees this year. So I think, yeah, that's worth it. It's not only worth it, it's also a platform to communicate the different varieties of Unmend Aviation. And I can remember, or my personal initiative, the Drone Pioneer Award, which we had also on Wednesday, shows that drones can help a lot of people with commercial approaches like surveying, like monitoring. But there are also applications that have no platform and they need this platform of Inter-Air Solutions. Let me point out, third place of this year's Drone Pioneer Award is a mine-searching device that can find mines 10 meters below the soil with a drone so we can help those 100 million, help to find those 100 million drones that cause about 5,000 casualties every year. That is an innovation you can't find in big brochures on the internet. It's done by a startup and they need a platform like the Inter-Air Solutions to get notice and to get the press and to get maybe business partners or venture capitalists to get in contact with. Yeah, that's perfect, because in media you hear about transport drones, you hear about delivery drones, but I think these are really helpers for everybody when drones are used for these issues. Exactly, and we are very proud that the member, Winkopter won the Drone Pioneer Award this year, 2018, with a delivery vision, not only with a project, they actually flew 2,000 hours in Tanzania, medicals and blood samples from the one side of the Victoria Lake to the other side and saved six hours of traveling time, which is very important because you can't compromise the temperature of blood samples and it helps to analyze and also to help people and finally they get the right medicine just in time and at the very end it also helps people to survive in such an area. So it's not only bringing technology from us to Africa, it's also to learn how to kind of bridge the infrastructure problems in these countries with drones and this is a perfect example. So we are proud that they won under the jury out of really experts from Sony, from McKinsey, decided that this is the right project and donated them 5,000 euros for the next step. Yeah, thank you very much for these insights about these valuable projects or services with drones and we're looking forward to seeing you in Stuttgart. You said on the 15th of September? We will start on the 16th of September. This is the Monday again and continue with the Intel Solutions 2019 and looking forward to it. Well, very great. See you then. Thank you.


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Live from Las Vegas, Nevada, it's the CUBE at HP Discover 2014. Brought to you by HP. Okay, welcome back everyone here live in Las Vegas for HP Discover 2014. This is the CUBE, our flagship program. We go out to the events and extract the signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANGLE, joining with my co-host Dave Vellante, co-founder, chief analyst of Wikibon.org. Our next guest, Colin Mahoney, general manager of the software group of Big Data. Colin, welcome back to the CUBE again, great to see you. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, it's terrific to be here as always. Last time we saw you is at the Big Data SV event we had. I talked about the MapR relationship you guys had. And just overall the success of HP Vertica, Developer Conference last year was a notable highlight from your success. Give us the update. What's happening for you guys here? You've got the main stage here at HP Discover, showcasing all your stuff. What's the big news? Yeah, so lots going on. The big news, we announced Dragline, our next product release, with some great features as always. Every one of the Vertica releases we strike a balance between new innovation as well as performance gains, et cetera. This one, a couple really cool things, most notably inside it. We're introducing parts of what we call Project Maverick, which is our in-memory capability. We can also do live aggregation. So if you're doing very quick look-ups, if you're a telecommunications company and you want to have your customers check their balance, we can handle that type of workload now. We continue to do a lot more with Hadoop and the Hadoop ecosystem. We now support running Vertica on top of Hadoop. Obviously we made the announcement that you referred to with MapR previously, but we'll be able to do that with all the distributions. So we continue to do a lot there and just generally add to the platform around the whole mission of store, explore, serve information out. One of the things that's been really interesting to watch you guys come into HP since you guys were acquired as a startup is a lot of evolution around Haven, success around the developer focus, around some of your customers using the product, very big names. So give us the update. What's happened between last year and this year? Are you seeing autonomy sprinkled in throughout? He's a lot of the big data solutions. Vertica, are you guys in the same boat getting integrated across the division? What's different this year for you? Yeah, so I think the things that are different this year versus last year. Last year we announced Haven and it was here that we made that public. And what we've been working on is more tightly coupling the engine so that there's better integration so that you can load information from one of the engines into the other vice versa, also so that you can query across some of the engines. So we continue to add a lot of innovation in that area and then of course the end in Haven is the end applications on top. So you can see being showcased the digital marketing hub solution that we have here, the operations analytics solution that we have here, service anywhere that we have here. There's a number of different solutions on top of the platform, if you will, that are being built. There are also things like Idle on Demand now where you can actually leverage this from a hosted perspective, parts of the Idle platform. So there really has been a lot of progress in the year that we've had it and lots of partners standing up behind it too. We've announced over 100 partners who are part of the whole Haven ecosystem right now. You guys, Vertica specifically, is a bridge as I see it, a bridge between the old and the new. You're not traditional enterprise data warehouse and you're not pure play adobe. We just did a survey in the Wikibon community about 300 practitioners. Now we biased the survey a little bit. They had to have knowledge of analytics and big data. And the question was, had your organization shifted any workloads from a traditional data warehouse like TerraData Oracle or mainframe to adobe? 61% said yes, we've already done that. And 34% said no, but we're going to do it within the next six months. So by this year, that's 95% that we're taking resources away from the old, bringing it to the new. So where are you in that transition? You're in the middle of it. So you must be seeing all that action going from right to left to left to right. Yeah, so I think we're in a great spot because what happens is people want to move those workloads. So you might move the information to Hadoop, but you don't want to give up the sequel or the analytic capabilities or the performance that you might have associated with your traditional enterprise data warehouse solution. Or you want to augment it with a bunch of new data, log data, sensor data, other types of clickstream data that is just too expensive to put in the traditional data warehouse. I think that bridge that you're talking about with Vertica is we bring sort of the best of the old world, namely sequel, the ecosystem, the BI ecosystem that still works with the products. But we also address the things that didn't work in the old world, the performance, the scale and a much better price performance ratio. So I think that's where we are a great bridge between the two worlds. And it's an exciting time. I think so many customers are just tired of paying the maintenance fees to the traditional dinosaurs and they're looking for something new. But they're also looking to do workloads that they've never been able to achieve before. Have more people accessing information, ask more questions, get faster answers. And so we are in the middle of that with FlexZone that we introduced in our version 7. You don't even have to define a schema like a normal database. You just load your data in and that helps that bridge as well. So those numbers don't surprise you then? They don't surprise me at all. But it's different than a lot of the marketing that you hear, particularly, well, certainly from the traditional data warehouse vendors, but also the pure plays that are trying to placate their partners that are traditional data warehousing vendors. Now you don't have a problem placating Oracle and Teradata. So what do you think about that? Well, I think, I mean, one thing about the numbers too is that have you shifted any workload? And I think there are plenty of workloads that are shifted. The question now I think people are asking is what exactly is that workload that you can do on Hadoop versus what you could do before? And that's, I think, where our value really comes in because we can actually show that we can deliver those same applications at that price performance. So I think a lot of people are moving data over to Hadoop from traditional platforms. A lot of new data is coming into Hadoop, but now what are you going to do with that information and how can you leverage it? But we're happy. I mean, we're being right in the middle. We're happy to do both. We love Hadoop. We coexist with it. It's the H in Haven. And we're happy to take some of those traditional dinosaur workloads off the dinosaurs and help our customers out. Is that, yeah, you just said it. I was going to ask, is the traditional EDW a dinosaur? I think the traditional EDW, in a bloated sense, the economics just don't work for customers anymore. And the speed doesn't work for customers anymore. Having this batch process where you have all the time in the world to get the data together, it just doesn't, it's not the reality now. So when you look at how expensive those systems were, when you look at the rigidity of those systems, they just don't make a lot of sense. I don't think companies though are going to rip them out of the core. If you have something, you've got some great data models, you run a business with it, you're not just going to rip it out. What you will do is look at the periphery in the edges and say, well, it makes no sense for me to spend all this money over here or over here for that workload. I'm going to move that off or this new workload. I'm going to put it on this new system. And I think over time, what you see is the edge is being eaten around these dinosaurs and ultimately, The edge is where all the value becomes, right? The edge is where the value becomes. You've seen that story before. And then it just moves away. How well do skill sets and the customers translate from that traditional world to the new world? So that's one great question. As much as I love Hadoop, Hadoop is Java and it's been built for programmers. And there's a lot of initiatives now to add SQL on top, including our initiatives. But so many people have, like it or not, SQL has become a very standard language for the BI tools and ecosystem. So translating those skills that people already had before into this new world, you've got to be able to use those same tools. And we do that very well. Hadoop is getting there. It's not there yet. So I think the skills actually translate very well. And a lot of the traditional enterprise data warehouse experts and people that are working on these systems, they also bring a structure, no pun intended, if you will, to how businesses need to operationalize the data, which is a critical component of any type of information and analytics. So when we first met, you gave me sort of a good education on the whole big data and the Duke marketplace. And you know a lot about this space. So I want to ask you what your thoughts are on a lot of the recent moves on the chessboard. You're seeing Intel, Jettison, this distribution, which we're always sort of questioning what they were doing there anyway. Maybe it was negotiating leverage. Who knows that, you know, Intel just putting its foot in the water, spending a few bucks to learn. But you're seeing massive investments in cloud era You know, Hortonworks was mopping up a lot of the partnerships, responding with, hey, cash is not a strategy. Is this all goodness at the end of the day? It was great for media. Is it good for the industry and the customer because of investments or is it a distraction? I think overall I think for customers it is a very good thing. I think you always want to have choice and there's certainly choice in the market, but you also want the backing of that ecosystem to build around it and create some standards. You want it to evolve. You want people to build up a lot of new tools on top and that's happening now. So I think in general it's a very good thing. I think it's a natural progression of any industry. There's some consolidation that happens. There's investment that happens. And I think one thing that all vendors, especially HP realizes that Hadoop and its ability as a distributed file system to have video and audio and text or structured data, it is a great catch-all place to do that. So any vendors looking at the workloads that are running Hadoop and saying more and more of a data center is going to be running that type of workload and that's therefore important. So Meg mentioned Vertica, mentioned Vertica in the last call, maybe the last couple of calls as a growth area, along with a couple other areas that were growing within HP. The tree's not a growth story. We all know that, but there are pockets of growth that are highlighted. You're one of them. What's pumping up that momentum? Is it that you've done personally a much better job of integrating Vertica into the HP system? There's maybe the demand side. It's a big market. What's driving that growth? I think what's driving the growth is there's a perfect storm right now that is big data in my mind, which is massive amounts of information. Unlike, say, business intelligence and analytics 10, 20 years ago where you had to take a small sample size and extrapolate what you think happened, now you can literally look at exactly what happened. We have logs of it. Companies are realizing that in that black sand there's gold. And companies that differentiate themselves with data, that compete with data, they win. They dramatically outperform their peers. Return on investment dollars in big data projects is very high. People talk about 10, 12X, 12 to 1 returns on these types of projects. People want to spend. There's definitely a shortage in the number of people that know how to do this. They're turning to companies like HP that can come with a full solution from hardware to software to services. I think that really is driving a lot of our growth. We asked questions about that. I was, again, impressed with the percentage of customers that said, yeah, the project's really paying off in a big way. It was just an overwhelming percentage. And that wasn't the case a year ago. No, I think a year ago, five years, ten years ago, typically an enterprise data warehouse project would take 18 to 24 months if you were lucky to deploy. And it wouldn't even be clear at the end of that timeframe whether it was a success. And what's different now is that you can very quickly get something spun up and show value. It doesn't have to be boil the ocean, everything in the kitchen sink, but you can show that value and then double down and start investing progressively and leveraging, in many times, the same data for different types of modernizations across the enterprise. I wonder if you could talk about HP's software strategies specific to big data. So I know you don't run the software group, but you're a key part of it. But so as it relates to big data and analytics, Hadoop, how would you summarize the strategy? Yeah, well, and I certainly don't want to steal Robert's thunder this afternoon. But what I would say, and I think you'll hear a lot of this, is big data really permeates everything that we do in HP software. Whether it's on the systems and operations management side, you're getting a lot of log data. Autonomy, of course, with the human information, compliance, e-discovery, digital marketing, Vertica, obviously, with the analytic warehouse that we have, security, right? You can't talk about security without massive volumes of data coming through. And then on the application development side, life cycle management side, it's also all information. Data is changing the way we write applications. Applications are phoning home. Applications are telling us how they're running. They're kicking off health data about what's actually going on in application. All of these are leaving that digital fingerprint, if you will, that is data. And I think that's creating and driving a lot of what we're now hearing about and reading about and seeing and practice around big data. So I would say that there is no software business that is not being driven by data today. It is just permeating everything we do and it really is the software that is the difference between data being data and that black sand and data being gold. Software is what makes it gold. Colin, I got to ask you about the Internet of Things. Obviously that's hot right now, Internet of Everything. Whatever you want to call it, whatever buzzword you use. In the news today, Google is purchasing a satellite maker for $500 million. Everything is connected. The enterprises are looking certainly at this component of sensors or whatever is on the edge of the network. What are you seeing for architecturally with your customers around how they're handling that tsunami of data? If you think about things like satellites, you think about things like that enterprises are bolting on. It could be machinery, it could be manufacturing, retail, on and on. They got to put the data somewhere. What's your take on that? I think the Internet of Things is a great opportunity for all of us. I think having IP addresses on all sorts of devices kicks off that log data. I think the challenge that companies are facing right now is where do they put all that information? How do we ingest, as you said, John, the tsunami of data? More importantly, how do we correlate that with the rest of our business to figure out why does this matter? Should I keep this data around? We have a large cable company here in the United States that basically took the data exhaust, the log data, SNMP data, and they used it for predictive network capabilities in terms of where they should expand their CAPEX. They ended up saving over $300 million in CAPEX, and they increased the service levels for their customers. That was all based on sensor data, log data of how their end users with the set top boxes are turning on their TVs, watching different shows, when they watch them. If you can harness that information, you can really use it to drive substantial either revenue opportunity by cross-selling somewhere or cost savings, as was the case in that example. I think we are just at the tip of the iceberg on the Internet of Things. Everything is going to have an IP address. Everything is going to be able to collect data and send it back. The question is, where are you storing it? How are you securing it? How are you actually helping people understand the meaning of this data? Because oftentimes, you know, Robert Young Johns was joking yesterday, if you try to open up that log data, first of all, you're not going to open it up in Microsoft Word.  So how do you really understand what it means? How do you parse out the key aspects of those logs? And every log might be different. There's no standard for a log. So I think it's just all the issues that folks have been dealing with on the traditional enterprise at Orha's side magnify them out by volume and variety, and that's what the Internet of Things is. Certainly, if you look at all the growth cycles and every emerging great innovation boom, you see manual processes. You see people brute-forcing things. And at some point, there's a tipping point. With big data, we're seeing it with rolling up through analytics, whether it's using SQL, that's been the gateway drug for the enterprise users. Certainly, the tsunami of unstructured data doesn't have transactional elements to its storage. So what's the next thing from your standpoint for you guys to take that next level to bring big data to the modern era, that next level of modern capability? Is it development friendly? All the above, what's your take on that? I think it's all the above. I think from a developer standpoint you've got to make it developer friendly. You've got to make it so developers can build their applications and have a service to the information to do anything they want with it. They might want to do deep data science work. They might want to do simple reporting. They might want to do simple storage and aggregations. They might want to do the live aggregates that I talked about with Maverick. But you've got to make that layer a given. And then I also think for the lines of business, you have to create solutions. You have to package up some of the math and some of the IP so that you don't have to hire a bunch of PhDs in your organization. You can just look at what the data is telling you. And the analogy I always give is GPS systems. There's a lot of data going on in those systems, but ultimately you care about it getting you to the right place and knowing what your estimated time of arrival is. And I think with everything data related, these organizations are trying to figure out. But we're doing our job and making it easy to explore, discover insights, and then once you discover it, operationalizes so the organization can actually monitor and measure against that information. Cal Mahoney, great to have you on the Cube. I'll give you the final word. Share it to folks out there why this HP Discover is so important. What's the big important thread here for this event? Well, from my perspective, it is about mobility. It is about the cloud. It is about big data. It's about security. What I love about HP Discover, especially here in Las Vegas is there are very few companies where you can go from, say, a printer. And by the way, printers are massively important in big data. But there are very few places where you can go from the printer to the PC to the servers, to the storage, to the software, and see how it all fits together. You can walk around here and so many of the demos that you're seeing tie all those things together. And I think what's great this year about Discover is last year we were talking about a lot of these things. We announced Haven. This year you can walk around and you can see how they're stitched together. You can see how that information is collected from servers on a phone home, operationalized in the dashboard so that you can act on it. And more so than ever, I think you can really see that one HP come together with a full stack of services hardware and software. You can see it. Big data is at the heart of the value proposition connecting with the infrastructure, making sense of instrumenting the business. This is the cube extracting that signal, sharing that big data with you. We'll be right back after this short break. Thank you.


I'm welcome to Sister Power. I'm Sharon Thomas Yarbrough. Ms. Frances Wilson of Kapolei is our 2019-2020 Miss Black Hawaii of the Miss Black and Natural Pageant. Originally from Fresno, California, Frances has made her way across the country as well as to several other countries taking on various opportunities, such as the Disney College Program, all the way to the White House where she worked as part of the White House Internship Program for the Obama Administration in the spring of 2015. She is currently involved with various community organizations and is focused on her master's program in criminal justice. Frances Wilson, welcome to Sister Power. Thank you so much for having me. So glad to have you here. And don't you look beautiful with your beautiful crown and your sash. Thank you. It says Miss Black. Miss Black and Natural of the State of Hawaii. Of the State of Hawaii. I didn't even know we had that type of pageantry here. Yeah, so what happens with these larger pageants is a lot of the times they are off-island but they will have representatives who live on the island or who live somewhere else and then we compete on a national scale, usually on the mainland. So tell us about your journey.  Tell us a little about your accolades and tell us about that journey becoming Miss Black of Hawaii. Of course. So stories don't always start out as, you know, you start in a pageant and then you win and everything's great. My first few pageants, I was just making friends and learning how to walk in pageants and just gaining experience. So I didn't always win every single pageant, even though I have multiple titles. So that's really important for girls and other women who are aspiring to model or do pageants is that, yeah, you may not win that first one, but that may open the door to something else. So that was kind of my journey doing one pageant in 2008, which was Miss Black Sacramento when I lived there at the time. And then it just sprouted into signing up for any other pageant that I could be in or auditioned for and it opened up a world of opportunities. You know, you spoke about winning and losing. And I always carry this with me. It says, I never lose. I either win or I learn by Nelson Mandela. Exactly. And that's exactly it. You reframe your setbacks into opportunities. Exactly. And now you have experience. Go to the next thing. And now it propels you forward because you have more experience, more power, more connections. Go to the next level. Wow. So, you know, what I'm loving when we had this conversation is that you worked at the White House. Yes. During the Obama administration. We need some feel good about this impeachment going on right now. Tell us some, okay. Tell us some good stories. And we have a picture here with you and President Barack Obama. And you are the lady behind President Barack Obama in the red. Yes. So that was a picture of about 140 interns. I think we had over 5,000 applicants or something like that. It's a big pool every year. But I would encourage anyone to apply. It's very competitive. But just believe in yourself. Put your best foot forward. But yeah, I was an intern spring 2015 application process goes back about a year. So I applied summer 2014. And I got the call. I think I was in Israel. I was on my way back from Israel. And they were like, you start on Monday. So I had to do an Israel. I was flying back from Israel. And I was in Fresno, my hometown for like a day. And I got the email and it said, basically, I had to be in DC on Sunday. So I had friends and stuff who like help me get a plane ticket and a place to stay for the first week. And it was a ball. But it was a life changing experience. I've done so many things that you could only do once. I mean, the White House has a bowling alley that you can go to. They have all these team sports that you can partake in. Of course, there's volunteer opportunities. White House lawn and get to be with the Easter egg hunt and doing all that and meeting all these people. So and then there's there's just all kinds of stuff to do. So I would encourage anyone to apply for any administration. Oh, oh, any administration. All right. Okay. The support of your administration. Absolutely. That's a good way of looking at it. The support of your administration. All right. All right. So now the process, did you have a chance to meet the first lady? Yes. She's amazing. I love you. Yes, I've taken pictures with her. You get opportunities to meet everyone. I mean, from the president to vice president to the caterers and the photographers. You meet everyone in these opportunities. So she's amazing and is authentic. As you see her on TV. She's that way in real life. Just feels like I'm talking to you. Feels like I'm talking to her. Yeah, I like that. Just keep it real. She's very authentic.  That's it. I can just talk about this all day long. Oh, yeah. Let's move forward. We'll talk about her book becoming later. And you know, we had a book signing here. We meaning sisters in power in Hawaii with the book. She personally Michelle Obama personally autographed becoming for a tea that they hosted. And we auctioned it off for scholarship. That's wonderful. She does stuff like that all the time. Isn't she great? She's so wonderful. Well, she wasn't there. You know, she wasn't there but she did personally. She always makes sure that she's there in spirit. Yeah, she does things like that. So wonderful.  This could be the Michelle Obama show. I'm telling you, my next question to you. Who are your heroes in real life? My heroes, I would say the biggest one that pops into my mind is probably my sister. Oh, tell me about your sister. Yeah, my real sister. Yeah. She works really hard. And she supports everybody and all their visions and everything. And yeah, she's in California right now. So we're not too close in terms of proximity, but we always talk like that. So he's really supportive. Yeah, well, California is only five hour flight. Yeah, that's like it's not really the mainland. It's like the second island because it's so close. It's like a five hour flight. But you mentioned Israel and you converted to Judaism. Yes, tell me about that. I've only read about Sammy Davis, Julia. Yeah, there's a lot of African American Jews sprinkled out the diaspora, but that was a long process. Now, officially, mine maybe only took about a year and some change, but there is a lot that goes on in between that. So I think it took about three years, but I was really interested in Judaism and the culture and the way of life and the freedom that it brought me at the time. And so I studied under a rabbi, Rabbi Ellie Shabba, for a long time, who's my personal rabbi, and I still talk with her on occasion. She is in Los Angeles, which is where I did my mikvah, which is kind of like a baptism. It's a spiritual bath that you do. It was a turning point. It's a closure to your conversion process. She did that with me. She brought me to that process in Los Angeles. Wow. Yeah, but I've been to Israel three times. I've gone on Taglet Birthright, which is a birthright trip for Jews 18 to generally 26 years old. And it's their free immersion trip. It's a gift trip to experience Israel. And you go up and down the country for 10 days. It's wild. You meet everyone. Some people meet the love of their lives. Some people meet best friends. And they end up going back like I did. Like I went back to teach in Israel a few times. So that's wonderful. And you've lived a full life already at such a young age. I just sign up for a lot of stuff. That's what you got to do. Be adventurous. Be adventurous and go for it. Right. You have to make yourself available to different opportunities, because it's not just going to be where you live.  Live your best life now. Exactly. That's what I say. What is the quality you most like in a person? Authenticity. I know it may sound cliché, but it's really important when you're looking to, especially here on Island, we're all about family and networking and stuff like that. And so you want to be around authentic people. And I have the pleasure of having really good friends who are very authentic. And it's not just always the positive side of, oh, girl, you got it. This will be fine. And you know, it's those times where they'll tell you, I don't think you should have done that. Now, that's really important. Interquerty and honesty. I like the truth. I prefer to have the truth. And I know you're really in my corner. Right. Because then I know I'm surrounded by level-headed people. And it's not just people that are encouraging me for another agenda. They really want to make sure that my best self and that I'm going to be okay in the long run. And so you've got to have best friends who are authentic and can see past what you're trying to do in the moment.  It's so important to have girlfriends. I think from the moment we set foot in this country, sisterhood has been really important for Black women. Absolutely. Right. That's generally how we've moved to the next point in our lives. And I think it's still relevant today. With the onset of social media and like other things, being able to be in touch with other communities is very important. But it's still very important to be in touch with those who are similar to you. You know, I was just reading yesterday. I saw this article and it said FOMO. And I said, well, what does that mean? And someone says, fear of missing out. Social media has come up with this. Oh, yeah.  But there's so much out there now.  Right. Because what's happening on social media is people are posting all kinds of things when they're at their best and they're at their worst, but a lot of time people are posting when they're at their best and you're comparing it to your worst. Right. And so you feel like you're always missing out or you could be doing better when it's not always the case. And so I just think with me, I don't have any social media accounts. Oh, you're the first. I don't have any social media accounts. Okay.  I really don't want to scroll past all the ads and all the drama and stuff. You know, that's what I admired about you. My, our mutual friend, Jean. Yeah, Jeanie with First Financial Credit Union. Yes. And I said, I want to meet this lady. She sent me a picture of you. What did you do? You picked up the phone and called me. Exactly. And people don't understand that personal touch of reaching out gets you far ahead of the game than just emailing and texting. Yeah, exactly. Like I heard the frilliness in your voice, the passion about Miss Hawaii. Thank you. Thank you. And I think it's important too, especially with small children, to keep them off of social media. It looks really cute. And I love seeing pictures and videos of cute kids on the internet. But I grew up in a time where I could go through my awkward phases and not be live on something and kids don't really have that option to consent to that nowadays. And I think it's also really important for their social development that they do this, right? And they talk to each other because we're getting away from that and people are becoming less and less connected even though we're more connected. So it just makes things more difficult, especially for children. I don't recommend social media. Well, we're going to talk more about Miss Black Hawaii will become back. All right. Hi, I'm Rusty Kamori, host of Beyond the Lines. I was the head coach for the Punejo Boys varsity tennis team for 22 years. And we're fortunate to win 22 consecutive state championship. This show is based on my book, which is also titled Beyond the Lines. And it's about leadership, creating a superior culture of excellence, achieving and sustaining success, and finding greatness. If you're a student, parent, sports or business person, and want to improve your life and the lives of people around you, tune in and join me on Mondays at 11 a.m. as we go Beyond the Lines on Think Tech Hawaii. Aloha. Hi, I am Yukari Kunisue, host of Konnichiwa, Hawaii, Think Tech Hawaii's Japanese program, broadcasting every Monday from 2 p.m. I usually invite a guest in Japanese language community who does interesting things, and I'd like to share stories with you guys. Please tune in and listen to Konnichiwa, Hawaii. Welcome back to Sister Power. I'm Sharon Thomas Yarbrough, and we are speaking with Miss Black Hawaii, Francis Wilson. Hello. Hello, hello. Back again. Yes. And I want the audience, I want our viewers to see some of your beautiful pictures when you were, oh, look at that. Tell us about that picture, Francis. Yes, so that was from the Miss Buntu pageant a few years ago, which is an African diaspora pageant. And I was the representative for the United States. The United States? Yes. So I got the big crown. That's beautiful. Was it heavy? Yes. Oh my god, let's look at another one.  That says Slay, Slay, Slay. Yeah, I had a friend who was a great photographer, and she took some of those very nice pictures in Florida. Okay, that was in Florida. Oh, that's beautiful. Tell us about that one. Yeah, so the previous picture was from Tel Aviv. I was actually teaching in Israel, so that was from Tel Aviv Visit, but this is from Miss Central Valley in 2016 when I competed. Wow, so how long have you been competing? Since 2008. 2008 was my first pageant, Miss Black Sacramento. Is that where you're from? You're from Fresno? I'm originally from Fresno, California, but I bounced around, as you can see, a few times. And so when I go somewhere new and I'm learning about the city, I think one of the best ways, once you learn, is to compete in a pageant. Oh, I like that. Because then you can network. Pageants teach you so many things about how to conduct yourself, how to do onstage questions, how to speak in front of people. They offer you so many things if you plug it, if you plug yourself in to the pageant world. What would you tell your younger self? Have fun with it. I think that there were so many times, you know, doing the Disney internship, working at the White House and just competing. I was very competitive, very type A. I just wanted to get to the next level, but I never stopped to smell the roses, right? And so that's one of the things I wish I had done more of, was to make more friends in those times, to take more pictures, just be more involved, I think would have really helped me a lot. Just to be able to look back on those pictures and things like that. So even in the White House, are you friends with any of your... One. One? One person. Okay, that's all you to it. You gotta imagine, these are wonderful people from all over the country, very competitive people. They're the cream of the crop wherever they came from. And so you get all those people in an environment such as the White House, and you know, you can imagine. I can only imagine. So I made a very good friend who I still keep in touch with, and she's wonderful, and I'm glad I met her, and you know, that was it. Okay, all right. What is your dream job? So I have my dream job. I actually just finished my Montessori certification. My credential is in preschool Montessori Education. I'm not currently working at a Montessori preschool right now, but that being my dream job and that being said, I know that there are a lot of other teachers, whether it be preschool, elementary, or high school, who that is their dream job. That's the career they want. It just can't support their life, whether it be in the region here on Island or in California, Texas, wherever. We all have the same issues as teachers, is that we just don't have backing, and it can turn your dream job into a not-so-happy dream. Yeah, my mother was a teacher and then later on a principal. So I come from a family of teachers, and our daughter, Kimberly Ann, is a teacher in California, Northern California. So good luck with that. I mean, we need more teachers. We really do. Also, it's important to diversify your experience with your degree program, because you need something else that might supplement your dream, right? That's important. Go after your dream, but also have something concrete to support you in the midst of all that. Oh, it was so important. What's next in the horizon for you? I don't know. Maybe some real estate investments. I like that. We'll see. I got to pass my exams first. Okay, well, we have plenty of sisters in part in Kavaya's sister power. We have a network of various people in various fields. So you just let me know what you need and what you want, who you need to mentor you. Thank you. Just pick up the phone like you did before. Of course. Okay, great. What is the most important issue your generation is facing? Climate change. Definitely. It's unlike anything we've ever faced. I mean, each generation from the greatest generation onwards has their challenges, whether it be wars or natural disasters, things like that. But it's getting more and more apparent that we need to do something serious. I know that we can't reverse a lot of the damage that's been done, but we can try to stop it from getting much, much worse. And I know, speaking to other millennials, this is one of the most important things that we're facing besides the economy, because it really dictates, do we want to have a family? Do I want to bring kids into a world where they may not have clean water or air or something like that? It seems a little dark, but these are real things that we have to think about now that we didn't have to think about 100, 200 years ago. Isn't that something? Each generation, we have different challenges. What do you consider to be your greatest accomplishment? My greatest accomplishment was being where I am right now. Oh, in the moment. It took a lot of getting here, and it took a lot of getting here to be here and be present, because I used to not be present. Like I said, when I was interning at the White House and doing all these other things, it's very hard for me to be present instead of looking towards the next thing. And so I think moving to Hawaii and being in such a beautiful place like this and having everything come together finally is probably my best accomplishment, just being balanced now. I like that. Balance is the accomplishment. And you can get that at any time. You can get that right now. You can get it later. You don't need to wait until your degree or until your kids are in school or until they're out of school or this or that. You can find it right now. You're very wise. A wise woman, a phenomenal woman, I must say. Thank you. Who do you consider your greatest mentor and why? It's going to be a little strange, but just take a journey with me. So I would say it's my future self. I had a dream that I met the best version of myself, and I was just like, you're a mate. And I didn't know how to get there. And she was like, just keep doing what you're doing. And that was my dream. And I was like, all right, because if you're already yourself, all you got to do is be your better self. So I kind of think about that dream at times when I'm inching towards a goal or something that I'm trying to do is you have a lot of other mentors around you if you're plugged in, and that's very important. But the most information that's most accurate is going to come from here. Each life we touch is a part of us. And that's what's important. That's why I said it's so important to be kind to one another. Right. And you're the professional at being you. I can't be a Sharon as you were Sharon. Okay. You can't be Francis like I'm Francis. Hello. Will you please let the people know, do you? I don't want to be anyone else. And I think it comes to liking yourself. Right. And taking a break from social media. Please take a break. Yeah. If it's a week or start off with two days and then try to work up to a week or something, but yeah, listen to yourself. Wow. I like that. Because I always say I want to be where I am appreciated, not tolerated. You took my quote. I was going to say that. Okay. But yeah, I agree. I agree. And I've learned that despite a lot of the internships and opportunities that I've had will put you in positions where you won't compromise you, but you'll do stuff that you don't want to do or you got to do some of the grunt work. And that's part of paying dues, but there's a difference when you're around people who are just using you, you know, and we got to get past the point to where we're being used. And you got to notice when you're being used. Are you doing this just to be a part or are you doing this because someone is trying to gain something from you?  And I always tell people the gut feeling will tell you just listen to that feeling. Because we have a saying, but, you know, a long time ago, I heard you when you drove up.  Because you don't want to live in the past tense and say, I had that feeling, but I didn't listen to it. And then this happened, just listen. Just listen. What do you most value in your friends? Being there with me. Even, you know, I'm sure you have those friends where you have a conversation and then you got to go and continue that conversation like six months later. And it's like you guys never left each other. I love that because life happens and you can't just meet with each other every day or talk every day. I have a lot of friends who are in the military. My best friend is in the military. And we just can't get to each other that often. But when we do, it's important that we connect. Pick up where you left off. Yeah, I just value trust. That's like a foundation thing. That's important. There's some stuff that I don't mention, because it's like we got to have this baseline, right? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, there's got to be a baseline of a few things. Trust is definitely one of them. Do you have family here? No, I don't. I have a lot of friends here, but all my family is in California, Texas, those areas. I travel a lot. I've traveled to maybe over 40 places since I graduated high school. Just traveling every couple months. So this is the first time I've actually made a place my home. This is a record that I've been here for two years. This is a big deal. And I'm staying, so. Oh, good. I'm staying. I'm a resident. All right, you're going to be a Kama'aina.  I call Honolulu Hawaii the bus stop to heaven. It's just so beautiful. Yeah, when I got off my first flight here, I said, oh my gosh, this is amazing. It's so beautiful. And when I was taking the shuttle to my new apartment, I was living in Waikiki and I just see all these people like skateboarding and shopping and stuff. And it just blew my mind because this was at night. And I said, this is so alive. I still love Waikiki. Even though I don't live there, I love to go there. Well, friends, before we close, tell us something about yourself that we have not discussed. There's something that you want to let the world know your next step, your next goal, your vision, your mission. Oh, wow. I would say keep in perspective the past. That's really important to give you engage where you are and where you're going to go because if you don't really appreciate the past where we as African Americans have come from, then it almost puts like a spoiled filter on you because you're like, oh, things are great. They have always been this way. We have our things that we deal with in this modern day sense, in this contemporary context. But I think thinking back to the reconstruction era and onward is really important to keep that in mind of the accomplishments that we've had here. Well, Francis Wilson, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I just have a feeling that we're going to hear and see you more in higher places. You're a phenomenal woman and thank you so much. Thank you for having me. You're welcome. On behalf of ThinkTech Hawaii and Sister Power, thank you for spending part of your day with us. Aloha.