Okay, guys, today I'm very excited. I've just finished and published my latest lucid dreaming journal. Now, this is something that I've been working on for a very long time. As those of you who know me, obviously know I write my dreams down like I assume many of you do in the attempt to lucid dream. But what I found is that the dream journals out there just weren't good enough. Quite frankly, they just don't really inspire me to lucid dream and they certainly don't encourage you to build up the habits that you need to lucid dream. So what I've done is I've created a completely customized lucid dreaming journal that is exactly the sort of journal that I use and I do use it, I will be using it. So as you can see the cover, and by the way, ignore this not for resale strip. That's just because when I order a proof copy of this for my own records, they put this strip on. Obviously when you, if you do buy this, this strip is not on the book, so ignore that. And I wanted to create something that was really inspiring and made me want to lucid dream and I feel like this cover is inspiring and sort of magical almost. And it makes you feel like lucid dreaming is special. Which it is. So as you open it, obviously there's a lot of information at the front here, which I tried to give you guys which is just gonna help you learn how to keep a dream journal properly and it's gonna explain a few things about how to keep your dream journal properly. And then there's the explanation here which shows you like how to use each page. What I'll show you is this is essentially the double page spread. So this is what you'll be writing on. So you've got a space here which says draw your dreams and you can obviously draw and annotate your dreams there. And then here you've got specific sections to write the date, the title, the technique you used, whether you were lucid or not, and you'll wake up time. This is so important guys. Now the reason that's so important is because most journals completely miss that. They focus on things like dream signs and like the emotions that you felt during a dream. Which yeah, they are important but I don't feel they're essential and helpful for learning how to lucid dream. Now don't get me wrong, dream signs are important. It is important to write down and highlight your dream signs. But you can just do that. You can highlight your dream signs in the journal and then it's more natural. A lot of these dream journals out there, they have like instead of just a simple double-page spread like that. They have lots of like check boxes and things and like mess and clutter. And I feel like that's gonna put most of people off. Okay, that's just gonna make people think I don't wanna write all that stuff every single morning. I'm tired, I just wanna write my dreams down and then look back at them later. And that is why this has been built and designed specifically for you to lucid dream. That's why I encourage you to write the technique in your wake up time because it gets you in touch with your sleep cycles. You know roughly when you're waking up. So you can time techniques better like the wake back to bed. By writing the technique down that you used, it helps you to see which techniques worked for you and which ones didn't. And then there's obviously the lucid yes or no because it's easy to see when you look back at it whether you were lucid or not. And that is it guys. This is the simplest, most effective lucid dreaming journal I could think of. I've tried to make it as cheap as physically possible. I feel like this is a really good dreaming journal. It's certainly the one I'm going to be using now. Now that it's finally ready. Now that I've finally got the finishing touches put on it. Yeah, and I just, I think it's a really good dream journal for actually lucid dreaming. Now don't get me wrong. There are better dream journals out there for writing dreams down in general, okay? This is not for just writing a dreams down. This is specifically and only designed to help you lucid dream faster and more reliably. That's why I've messed, I've missed out on all of the sort of fancy stuff, the dream signs, the emotions, the little check boxes. I've missed out on all of that because I want this to be solely focused on the things that will get you to become lucid. And then those things are writing your dreams down for one. And I feel like you're more likely to do that if there's less clutter. Focusing on the technique you've used and you'll wake up time so that you can time your techniques better and drawing your dreams alongside writing your dreams. Those things I feel like are the most important things of all. I've also included a few nice little touches. So I've made sure that in, that every few pages there's a beautifully designed tip or piece of advice or lucid dreaming quote which will encourage you and inspire you to continue lucid dreaming. There is also a section at the end which includes various lucid dreaming acronyms and it's like a cheat sheet and it explains a few things that you might need to know about lucid dreaming. It's all in here guys, it is all in here. And so if you do want to get this lucid dreaming journal you can get it at howtolucid.com forward slash journal or you can just go to the link in the description. Don't try and search on Amazon because at the moment it's just, I've only just launched it, you probably won't be able to find it and it's just frustrating. Hopefully one day it'll come up on Amazon search when you type in lucid dreaming journal but at the moment, at the moment just click the link in the description. If you do pick one of these up it would mean a huge amount to me if you could leave a quick review on Amazon that would be really, really good. It's quite hard to get reviews on Amazon. Maybe post a picture of yourself holding it like this do some sort of funny face, post it on social media with the hashtag howtolucidjournal and I will post some of the funniest ones in my latest video as soon as you guys start actually posting the pictures I'll make a compilation of the funniest ones and I'll tag you and give you a shout out and that sort of stuff. I will also pick one of you if you do that. If you get this journal and then post a picture on social media with hashtag howtolucidjournal I will pick one of you to win every single one of my lucid dreaming products, all of them. The ebooks, the boot camp, the superpowers guide, everything. It's about $70, $80 worth of stuff and I will give it to you completely free. In a nutshell, I'm really excited about this journal. I think it's really cool. I've put a lot of thought into the design of this and how it's gonna work. And yeah, I know what you're gonna say it is fairly simple. Okay, it's a very condensed, concise journal but I feel like that's what it should be because that's what's gonna actually make you use it. Like I've tried dream journals where they have all those annoying sections like what was the color theme of this dream and how did it make you feel and what three things do you want to dream about tonight if you could, like I've tried that. I really have tried that for a few months and you just feel like giving up. You just don't feel excited to write your dreams down because it's just so much faff and hassle to think about all those things. And the truth is it doesn't help you lose your dream. Of course, writing your dreams down does help you lose your dream but those extra things those add-ons, you know, it's more just to make the dream journal look better and that's why I've completely missed out on all of those. The things that I have included in this journal are the most effective things that I know to help you lose your dream. Now, what I would say is to alongside this, meditate, obviously, do your reality checks every day. I have an app which can help with that called how to lose it if you type it into the app store. It's only on iPhone at the moment but it will be coming to Android very soon and hopefully that will help you remember to do your reality checks, write your dreams down. So yeah, that is it guys. For now that is the update. Go and check out the Loose Your Dreaming Journal. Links are in the description and I'll see you next time. Thanks for watching guys. This video and this channel were supported by my Patreon followers. 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Line Symbols Lines connect the symbols in a Piping and Instrumentation Diagram, or P&ID. Each line represents the physical connection between the instruments in a process control system. On the P&ID, different types of lines are used to indicate specifically what is passed along the connection from one instrument to the next. Let's examine the different types of lines used on a P&ID diagram and the types of connections they represent. Instrument Supply Pipe through which materials flow, steam, raw materials, and the final product. Connection to Process The instrument is connected directly to the process, a meter inserted into a pipe, material that passes through. The instrument measures the material and displays a flow reading. Pressured air ranging from 3 to 15 pounds per square inch is sent through a tube. The pressure quantity is a signal that indicates the value of a variable. Electronic signal Electronic signals indicate the value of a variable transmitted between two instruments. Hydraulic signal Hydraulic fluid, which represents a signal, is sent through a tube. Capillary tube This tube carries fluid that expands and contracts as the temperature to which it is exposed changes. The expansion and contraction varies pressure that is converted to a proportional electrical signal. Software Link These are signals sent between computers. Mechanical Connection A physical connection between two instruments. Congratulations! You have completed this activity, Lion Symbols.


Thank you, Mr. President. Why did you lie to the American people? And why should we trust what you have to say now? The President has a terrible question and the phraseology. I didn't lie. What I said is we have to be calm. We can't be panicked. I knew that the tapes were there. These were a series of phone calls that we had, mostly phone calls. And Bob Woodward is somebody that I respect just from hearing the name for many, many years. Not knowing too much about his work, not caring about his work, but I thought it would be interesting to talk to him for a period of, you know, calls. So we did that. I don't know if it's good or bad. I don't even know if the book is good or bad. But certainly, if he thought that was a bad statement, he would have reported it because he thinks that, you know, you don't want to have anybody that is going to suffer medically because of some fact. And he didn't report it because he didn't think it was bad. Nobody thought it was bad. Wait a minute, wait a minute.  It's a disgrace to ABC Television Network. It's a disgrace to your employer. And that's the answer. You ready? Because I love, of course I didn't, of course I didn't. No, no, no, no, no. And then you went out and told the American public that this was just like the flu.  And five times, right? Five times. You ever hear the expression five times? We've had flu years where we lost 100,000 people. The flu is a very serious problem for this country also. And we've been losing them. Scott, what kind of a number have we lost over the years with flu into the hundreds of thousands? Well, I mean, the last five years have been something like 35,000 per year, every year, even with anti-viral drugs and even with vaccines. Flu is a very serious problem also. But just so you know. This is worse than the most strenuous flu. Okay. And then you went out and said it's just like the flu. What I went out and said is very simple. Listen, what I went out and said is very simple. I want to show a level of confidence and I want to show strength as a leader. And I want to show that our country is going to be fine one way or the other. Whether we lose one person, we shouldn't lose any because this shouldn't have happened. This is China's fault. This is nobody's fault, but China. China should not have allowed it to happen. Whether you have a one person, 180,000 people or 2.5 or 3 million people, which it could have been very seriously if we didn't make the moves. And when you look at the opposition where they said, oh, why did he put the ban on? Dr. Fauci said, we saved hundreds of thousands of lives by putting the ban on China and then ultimately putting the ban on Europe. There was no lie here. What we're doing is we're leading and we're leading in a proper way. And if, frankly, somebody else was leading it, they wouldn't have closed it. If you look at Nancy Pelosi, you look at Cuomo, you look at DeBlasio, you look at Biden. Months later, they said, there's no problem. They're talking about me. Months later, and before any statement was made, you have to remember, I put the ban on China. So, obviously, outwardly, I said it's a very serious problem. And it's always a serious problem.  No, no, I'm not going to do that. We're going to get through this. And we're right now, I hope, really think we're going to, we're rounding the final turn. And a lot of good things are happening with vaccines and with therapeutics. But there's no lying. And the way you asked that question is very disgraceful. Bill, go ahead, please. Go ahead. I think we did a great job. I think we did a great job. And the people that did such are generals, our admirals, Mike Pence, all of the people that have worked so hard. And now Dr. Atlas, all of the Dr. Fauci, Dr. Berks, they should be respected for the job they've done. So you won't downplay it again? You won't downplay it again? Because you said you downplayed it, but you told me. All I'm doing is, no, I don't want to jump up and down and start screaming death, death, because that's not what it's about. We have to lead a country. We're leading a great country. And we're doing a great job. And the people that have done such a good job should be given the kind of credit that they deserve. We possibly have done the best jobs when you start looking at what we're doing with the vaccines and therapeutics and ventilators. We had no ventilators, John. We make thousands of ventilators now a month, and we're supplying them to the whole world. The job we've done is the best job. And don't give me any credit. Give the people that have done this the credit. They've done a great job.


nd they said Hi, thank you for your patience. We are very picky. We know this about ourselves. Thank you so much for sticking with this This was not what I had expected I was I was expecting to just be very thankful for them for being patient with me So this is actually a story of at least the humans Well, except for me But but most of the most of the players in this story are actually well meaning and friendly and I think I think that's really important Because I think next time Well, actually, this is not a thing the next time I open a poll request to this repository. It was I don't know a couple weeks Much better So I did all the final fixes Or so I thought If the if the words are too small it says this is looking great I just requested a few minor changes in another test case. I think this will be ready to merge after that It is now june It turned out this time it was correct and my poll request was finally merged I was really proud. I shared with all my co-workers I may have adhered our slack channel saying i'm really proud of this by the way um space cats our tradition on the kubernetes repositories I was in fact sent one of these on the poll request So takeaways I kind of touched on these already, right? Um There are multiple ways to find Uh an issue or to find code to work on in an open source Uh repository Try the one that works for you and your community If your community is very friendly It might actually be easier to go to a group of people and say hey I would like to help with x or I have these skills. Where can I help? And they might set you up with something you then have the advantage that they already have context for who you are And uh, and they also have an interest in you finishing this work um Other times You might just pick up one of those help wanted issues that I showed in the beginning Uh This kind of depends on your comfort level and your skill level as well um I shouldn't have said skill level. I should have said skill area because again different people know different things um, also Don't be afraid to mess up in public Everyone does if you mess up in public once It means you're going to be better at messing up in public the second time Wait and Then when you mess up the third time you will recover faster and so on and so forth You're not probably going to stop messing up in public, but that's okay because everyone does and Again, there are some communities that might be more or less critical of this and that's hard but I still think That even if people are very critical you can still learn from them It's still an invaluable experience to have you code out and be reviewed by people who are not your co-workers or your friends or something like that um another thing that is That I completely failed on don't be like me is stay on top of your work Please communicate. Please don't let things wait for weeks and weeks and weeks because you're just too terrified of making more mistakes Don't do that because We're trying to we're trying to build code as a community when we're in open source and If you just stop then there is nothing that anyone can do to change that or to improve it or to make anything happen Be aware that people have weekends people have cultural holidays if they work in other parts of the world Um, so be patient with people, but if you don't stay on top of your work for you know, if you If you don't get back to people within reasonable time, it can be really discouraging for everyone. Please don't do that um And the same goes for if you are a maintainer and a reviewer Please stay on top of these things. We all know it's hard So give and take but I would definitely say that sitting on something without communication for a month Is not okay. Don't do that um Oh, no, I ended on a negative note um So before I make everyone super sad. I wanted to say thanks To the kubernetes sick testing Group that's a group of people who were that's the group of people who were the maintainers for the repository. I made the changes on Uh, especially col wagner christoph blacker and eric feta who are my main reviewers and we're so helpful and so patient with me Also, thanks go to scale 17x for having me at this talk And to all of you for being here in the last session just kind of Hanging out until the end of the conference closing it out. So I think We have time If you all want uh for a couple questions And this is how to get in touch with me. Oh, I see a hand up in the back a question Ladies and gentlemen, this is an awesome community in action Thank you for asking the question was how can we help make these things more visible? um Some of the some of the things I tried I mentioned the pre-submit script. I mentioned What else did I mention? That that was kind of the big one Yeah, that one is that what did I try? Um I realize I don't I don't actually I think I talked to somebody and asked them saying like hey, I'm super embarrassed by tests failed Um, can I how do I run tests locally? Um, and They said they actually led me to this other document. Yeah, so um, sometimes open source communities have documentation That's not super easy to detect um having that Right on top of the repo read me the main read me Or having a how to contribute file and just kind of putting in those steps is Super important a lot of a lot of repositories can have just like a standard contributing Markdown file. These are the steps. Here are your build steps. Here are your test steps. Um Run these things before opening a pull request Yeah Yes, so this is what I meant in the beginning by know your community um, because So I was in the lucky position in that I already knew a lot of people in the community Um, in fact, some of them are here today. Um, oh the question was when you said ask a person Do you mean ask on slack? Um Originally I had gotten the issue from someone in person at a conference So I introduced myself at a conference and said hi, I would like to help. I would like to learn. What can I do? This is where I'm at And then for later follow-up questions. We have the open pull request to communicate So github was one of our channels of communication My community also runs its own slack instance kubernetes i o Slack dot kubernetes i o anyway the kubernetes slack Um, and that's where I got in touch with them. Yes Um, so having these knowing where these communication channels are is really really important um Look for them As a hopeful contributor and as a maintainer make sure that they are easily easy to find Don't be a click. Yeah Okay Any other questions is anyone a little bit more excited about going out there and opening their first pull request? Yay. All right. I hope to see you some of you. Maybe Uh kubernetes is always happy to have new contributors if that's your jam if not Bring it on into other communities Change your own Yeah, thank you


Hi everyone, welcome to the NFCore Hackathon. My name is Laurence and I'm in the Pipeline Development team. So if you're interested in working on pipelines, whether it be on your own pipeline or on other pipelines, make sure that you join the group discussion channel on Slack. On that Slack channel, you're going to find the two links in the book tab. You're going to find the link to the HackMD slides and also to the GitHub project board. On that GitHub project board, there is a specific column attributed to pipelines. You can add your own tasks and your own issues. Or if you don't have a current one, you can also browse through the different issues, click on them, read through them. And if you think it's a good fit and you'd be interested on working on that issue, make sure that you assign yourself so that the person who opened the issue also knows about it. The purpose of this team is to improve existing pipelines or maybe even create a pipeline, add new functionalities, write tests, perform reviews, so grab an issue and start working on it. If you're brand new and need a little bit more of a GitHub introduction, we also provided you with different links in the HackMD slides. If you're a complete beginner to pipeline development, you can contact the maintainer of a specific pipeline. And you can also look at issues that have a first timer only as a tag as we think that they might be good first issues.  Please make sure that you also review the different PRs that are going to be open during this hackathon. If you have any problems at any point or any questions, please always ask first in the Slack channel so that it can be really a community-driven effort to answer or find solutions. If you need maybe a little bit more redirection, you can always contact one of the team leaders, so Rike Rosé Maxime, myself, or Simon, and we'll see how we can help you out. Please also remember to add yourself as a team member on the HackMD slides with your GitHub handle to assign yourself to any issues on the project board. Also add issues to the project board, and we're going to be nagging you about this, but please post your daily progress in the next slide so that we can really have an overview of who's doing what and the common effort that we're doing. So yeah, on behalf of all the team leaders, really looking forward to this hackathon and see you around.


Welcome to Spotlight. I'm Liz Wade. And I'm Bruce Gulland. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Imagine a painting of two women. They have the same face. But one is wearing a white European style dress. The other wears a traditional Mexican skirt. You can see both of their hearts, and a single blood vein connects them. The woman in the white dress has cut a vein with scissors. Her dress is stained with blood. The women are holding hands. Behind them there are dark clouds, like a coming storm. This is a painting called The Two Freeders by the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. This is a painting of herself. She painted it after she and her husband divorced. It symbolizes the pain and longing of this lost relationship. Kahlo often painted herself, but she did not just paint what she could see. Her painting expressed what she felt with symbols. Using these symbols, she was able to paint about disability, love and the traditional Mexican life. She is still an important artist today. Today's spotlight is on Frida Kahlo. Frida Kahlo was born in Mexico in 1907. She began painting when she was very young. But she did not think of it as a job. Instead, she wanted to be a doctor. She even attended school to become a doctor. But when she was 18, she was in an accident. Kahlo was riding on a bus. The bus driver crashed into an electric train going full speed. The crash hurt Kahlo very badly. She broke her legs, foot, pelvis and collar bone. Worst of all, a metal rail speared her through the stomach. It shattered parts of her spine. And it made it so she could not have children. Because of the crash, she lived in pain for the rest of her life. Later, Kahlo would paint about her pain. One of the most famous of these paintings is called Broken Column. It is another self-portrait. In it, she is naked from the waist up. Small white tears fall from her eyes. All over her body, nails stick out from her skin, though there is no blood. But this is not the strangest part. From her neck to her waist, there is a huge gash. It looks as if it has been left by an earthquake. Inside the gash is a tall stone column. It is like those that hold up old houses. And the column is broken into pieces. A yellow desert stretches off behind her. The crash destroyed Kahlo's body. She would never be a doctor. But the crash also gave her time to paint. And in 1928, she met Diego Rivera. Rivera was a famous Mexican painter. He painted murals. In making a mural, a person paints directly onto a wall. Rivera's murals were very large public pieces. They showed the indigenous people of Mexico and industrial workers. Kahlo asked Rivera what he thought of her painting. He wrote later about that first meeting with Kahlo. He said her paintings had a deep honesty and an artistic personality of their own. He said it was clear that this girl was a true artist. Rivera encouraged Kahlo's painting. And soon they fell in love. They married in 1929. Together, Kahlo and Rivera travelled the world painting. But the marriage was not easy. Both of them had many affairs. They often lived apart. They divorced and remarried. But they also loved each other deeply. Once, Kahlo wrote to Rivera in a letter. Nothing compares to your hands. Nothing is like the green gold of your eyes. My body is filled with you for days and days. You are the mirror of the night, the flash of lightning, the dampness of the earth. The hollow of your armpits is my shelter. My fingers touch your blood. All my joy is to feel life spring from you. Many of Kahlo's paintings are about their troubled relationship. In 1943, she painted Diego on My Mind. It is another self-portrait. In this painting, she wears a traditional Tehuana costume.  Strange white threads stretch out from her body. It is like they are holding her in place. And on her forehead is a picture of Rivera. Kahlo painted this after their divorce. It shows that even though they were apart, she was still thinking of him. Kahlo did not find immediate success as a painter. Rivera helped her meet many people. And after a time, she began to show her paintings in galleries. But many people did not take her seriously. They did not believe her art was there because of her skill. They believed she found success because her husband was famous. In 1938, Kahlo went to New York. She had her first solo exhibition. The gallery only displayed her paintings. But the news media did not treat her with respect. A writer for Time magazine saw the exhibition. He said that Kahlo's paintings were weak. He did not like the bright colors. And he compared her paintings to ideas of a child. But soon people began to recognize Kahlo's work. The Louvre is a famous art museum in Paris, France. In 1939, the museum bought one of Kahlo's paintings. The painting was called The Frame. The Louvre had never purchased a painting by a Mexican artist before. It was a great achievement for her to be the first. Other artists also encouraged Kahlo. André Breton was a French writer. He called her art a ribbon around a bomb. He helped her find places to show her work. But Kahlo was most famous in her native country, Mexico. This is partly because she used images from Mexican culture. For example, one of her paintings is called The Love Embrace of the Universe, The Earth, Mexico, Myself, Diego, and Sr. Cholotl. The painting shows the universe as a mother. This woman holds Kahlo and Rivera in her arms. From those arms grow the plants of Mexico. The painting also shows Siwa Coatl holding her. Siwa Coatl is a goddess from Aztec stories. The Aztecs were one of the original peoples of Mexico. And Siwa Coatl was their mother goddess. By including Siwa Coatl, Kahlo shows a motherly love for her husband. But she also shows that her mother is Mexico.  Just as Kahlo was becoming more famous, she began to get sick. Her health was always bad. But it began to get much worse. The pain in her back made it so she could not stand or sit long. In 1953, doctors removed one of her legs after an infection. She lived either in a bed or a wheelchair. And she abused medicine to manage her pain. Later in the next year, she got sick from pneumonia. This made it hard for her to breathe. She had a terrible fever and was in a lot of pain. She died in 1954. She was only 47 years old. In the years since she has died, Frida Kahlo has become very famous. Her paintings are world famous. In 1984, the Mexican government even declared that her paintings were part of their national heritage. Women celebrate her for her fearless images of female life. But more than anything, people remember her for her talent and special vision. As Rivera once wrote to the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, I recommend her to you, not as a husband, but as an admirer of her work. It is acid and tender. It is hard as steel and fragile as a butterfly's wing. It is as lovable as a beautiful smile and as cruel as the bitterness of life. The writer of this program was Dan Christman. The producer was Mitchell Ozaki. The voices you heard were from the United States and the United Kingdom. All quotes were adapted for this program and voiced by Spotlight. This program is called Frida Kahlo, Artist of Mexico. Visit our website to download our free official app for Android and Apple devices. We hope you can join us again for the next Spotlight program. Goodbye.


Hi, everybody. I am Matthew Miller and this is a Fedora Council video meeting. We do these about once a month The Fedora Council tries to conduct our business and have an asynchronous online ways You know chat and mailing lists. We're moving actually now to the discourse forum Which is actually a thing I want to ask the magazine people here about in a little bit But we discovered that having regular meetings is important for having a cadence of getting things done And having these video meetings lets us do some kind of high bandwidth things kind of keeps people tied together And we dedicate them once a month to some part of the project where something interesting is going on that we would like to Know more about or that we would like to highlight And so this month we are looking at Fedora magazine Fedora magazine is not actually a magazine. It is a blog But it is kind of meant to have kind of high quality user-focused content about the About what's going on in the Fedora community. And so we have Gregory Bartholomew and Stephen Snow here Gregory is standing outside in the University campus and Stephen I think doesn't have any video But both here to talk about this so welcome tell us about yourselves and about the throw magazine Hi I'm here at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. I'm borrowing their Wi-Fi because well I wasn't real confident in my home Wi-Fi, especially uploading video. I'm new to this video in a conference thing So we'll see how it goes Yeah, I joined well Thank you. Hopefully there's not too much wind or other noises or the Signals decent You're doing All right, I'm glad to hear it. Thank you the I probably joined the magazine a couple years ago. I just saw a an ad on the sidebar said You know, we're looking for contributors writers and I've been working here at this University for over 20 years For the computer science department. I figured I have a little experience. I ought to be able to write a little little how-to on an odd subject or two from time to time and So I joined in yeah Any other questions, I don't know Let's hear from Steven introduction Steven Snow I I've been a fedora user for quite a number of years and I started writing actually for the magazine as a challenge by C Verna one of the editors of the magazine He had written an article about something that was sort of Microsoft oriented and I said well Why don't you do that in a fedora land thing and? That's how I started writing for the magazine Nice came an editor Guess well didn't seem to be a lot of people volunteering for that and I felt like I needed to contribute Yeah, that's that's a good way when you see a need step up. Thank you for doing that See the Fedora magazine when I started as project leader was Not going very well There was barely any content at all and I started doing a weekly thing called five things in fedora this week Which wasn't great, but it was some content every week and then just having that content every week Started other people paying attention to it a little bit more and it kind of got built and built from there And for a while a couple of Red Hatters were putting a lot of their actual work time into doing it when They weren't actually supposed to be paid for that and Then started putting in there out of work time as well But in order for it to be sustainable We really needed to build up something that was community led rather than you know Red Hat led because this is not something that red hats going to pay for they like to pay for engineering things So it's awesome that you are here helping with this. We really appreciate that Do you have can you tell us some about like the current state of the magazine? Does it feel? Does it feel like it's self-sustaining at this point? Does it need help? Does it? Go ahead I was going to say a lot of times we we hit our spells of dry Not enough content. There's a lot of good ideas Spec already a article column and Tanban is full of good ideas. We just don't have a lot of people in the effort into She knows those ideas for articles So yeah, let's talk about that a little bit. He said there's a can ban maybe not everybody knows what a can ban is but basically that's a Online board of like post-it notes of ideas that can be moved from column to Like starting on a left column of this is a crazy idea to the right column of this is a finished article across the process And so there is a can ban board on a team stuff at our project at org. Is that correct? And we'll put a link on YouTube about this Where story ideas can be how do how do story ideas get put on that board? What's what's the process? The source right now mostly is from discourse Okay, and that's discussion.fadoreproject.org on the magazine category. We also look at What's up and coming in the test cycles So who puts the ideas if you have an idea like that's discussed in the in the forum Who puts that onto the taiga board or the the can ban board? Usually the second editor who gives the idea plus one Okay, so that's basically two editors look at it We like to achieve two plus ones just Be of content I would guess Okay every article coming in Yeah, that's good a commitment to some quality is appreciated always in fedora And then so then once they're there on that ideas board Can anybody pick up an idea like if somebody's listening to this right now and has you know clicks clicks on the link that will provide and Once to wants to go see what's going on and they see something they're interested in Everybody is welcome to contribute to any of the spec articles Pick a spec article and contribute to it. You're you're more than welcome to do so Okay, and then what's the process for that? The magazine WordPress instance using your FAS account or account sign on Also sign on to the taiga Fedora's taken instance for the magazine project. So it's good. Go ahead No, I let's say I haven't used WordPress or done blogging before You know I've written some stuff, but I haven't done that. How hard is this like can the average person do this? Or do you need to add some technical skills? Beyond the ratings it's almost well I mean once once you have your FAS account and you sign up It's pretty easy to fall into doing any of these things You can write about use a text editor basically you should be able to Contribute an article if you have an idea that you want Okay cool You are saying something else you want to go on with I interrupted you about I Guess I was basically going to the process of trying to get your article started, but yeah, go ahead so once once you've signed up there you get invited by one of the editors and Then you can begin the process of working on your article and If you've taken it from a spec and you're actually Have some content sitting at WordPress now you want to move it into the in-progress column you do so When you're ready to do so and When you feel the article is complete enough you move it into the review column the the take a card that starts in the spec column Okay, maybe you basically just move it from one step to the next and then somebody the editor picks it up for review and publishing Yeah, on Wednesdays, we have a meeting at 0800 UTC to talk about the up-and-coming article potentials that are there and What state they're at and whether they go to editing or whether they need to go back to in progress and Get in touch with the authors and verify the situation for them. So they know what's happening Cool. How many people participate in that meeting regularly? usually we have a minimum of about three people and Sometimes we have upwards of eight or nine. Just nice. Okay. Yeah, that sounds pretty healthy. Yeah, cool We have occasionally had just one That's that's what's good Yeah, I from what I've seen it tends to tends to veer towards the lower end of that spectrum um, I kind of come and go myself Uh, and that's something if you do want to contribute, um, I would say You know, even if you just want to do an article once in a great while Anything's welcome and I didn't actually intend to become an editor either by the way Uh, I started out as a writer. I was just gonna write a few articles and see how it went And I jumped in on the IRC I wasn't uh, I wasn't clear that it was just for editors I really just wanted to chat a little bit about my article and make sure everything was clear You know, there weren't any problems and uh, I kind of got volunteered up into doing some editorial work So that's kind of the way it goes once you get started You'll get you'll get some nudges, you know, if if they like your writing style I guess it may depend on, you know, some of your skills a little bit, but But uh, yeah, you can easily get uh, drafted into more and more things It might be a good place to get started if you if you want to just contribute if you have the time If you have a little know-how Uh, it doesn't take much anything you can contribute. It's great. We're we're looking for writers. We're looking for editors That's one great thing about fedora is if you keep showing up people will find work for you to do Oh, yeah Anybody anybody with any computer skills. There's there's just you you can find work very easy It's uh, it's harder to find free time for most of us. I think true um What I I noticed that every magazine article has a nice graphic that goes with it. Where do those come from? um those uh There a lot of them are just uh photos. I'm not I'm still learning some of the rules Like I said, I kind of come and go and I I miss things sometimes and and they've been changing a lot of things Recently that that peiga or can band thing. That's all new of course discourse or was it called discussion dot fedora That's all new. So a whole lot of things are in flux. I guess that's the norm for fedora From what I can tell But uh, the system seems to be improving all the time and as for the photos, um They uh, there's some online sites where you can get, um, cc Uh, what do you call it creative creative commons license photos? Yeah creative commons licensed photos Which is what is what they prefer? And usually they require attribution I think cc zero didn't require attribution but some of the newer licenses do so we have to be a little careful with that That's something we're trying to do a little better. I think some of our photos in the past didn't have well They may have been cc zero. I'm not sure if there were any issues but but um But we're trying to attribute everything we can and if uh and sometimes we just make them up A lot of times we'll use some fedora background off of uh, a fedora You know, it might be an even an old edition of fedora. I've grabbed some of those backgrounds. Some of them are still They you know, they look as good as they did but hey, they were published, right? Uh, we like to use the fedora backgrounds because the licenses are good on those and um And sometimes they're just a plain background If you have some art skills, uh, we could probably use some artists like I I am not an artist I got into the computer business Because that was more my skill set but But if you can uh, fill a little with uh, inkscape inkscape create some layers, you know, just I don't think uh, I don't think the art you say you were impressed by it, but uh I think you I guess I thought every Every article has an image that goes with it. It makes it kind of visually appealing. It's not just a you know text blog I think that's nice. Is there a connection with the fedora design team or is it done mostly independently? Uh, it's what I've done is totally independent I think the idea was that There was supposed to be somebody with that skill set that would do the images But I don't think we really have a good artist In our team. Okay, at least not it not currently that i'm aware of and we've we've been just The editors have been getting have been doing some of the images as well Just doing the best we can I think um, paul field or field Harvey says name field is uh, yeah Yeah, he's he's tried to put together some sort of video just recently That's supposed to teach us how to do some basic like shadows or something as I understand it, but uh It's uh, I I think it's still in in the works. Uh I haven't seen it yet, but um, but yeah, they're they're we're trying to we're trying to do better with the the graphics And have a little fun with it. Um, you know, you can be a little creative I did one here just recently Uh for the encryption article it was getting started with stratus and I was kind of happy. I thought that was kind of creative A lot of people may not know what that was that was on the photo there But it's actually an ancient encryption tool It was a I can't remember the name of it. You'd have to look it up on Wikipedia or something But but it's like an old tool romans used to use to encrypt messages. They'd take a ribbon Nice, and they'd wrap they'd wrap it around a oh, yeah Right for doing a Caesar cipher. Yeah. Yeah, that's cool cipher. Right. Yeah So, yeah, you know, whatever you can think of whatever comes to mind and uh, yeah, if you can uh, fiddle with it a little bit and And I'm gonna look this up real quick There are no standards that I'm aware of for you know, how good the image is Like a third guy I've been making it up as I go A skytally I guess Yeah, anyways, uh, sorry. That was very distracting for me. Let me get back to focus One of the things I think we might be able to do I mean having you here is connect you more closely with the fedora design team Unfortunately, marie can't be here today But she's um our fedora community outreach and impact coordinator and she's you know Works on the mindshare team and with the fedora design team as well And maybe we can make more of a like a workflow connection so that People on the design team can look at the articles in progress and make sure that there's like that's it That's an easy task for new people to the design team as well that can kind of help that Connection go that would be awesome. Sounds great I think historically a lot of the reason we haven't done that is just because the lead time is pretty short between Time when the article comes in is sort of ready and then it gets published It's like ryan lurch is an editor technically still But so he was doing a lot of the image work early on because he's also a member of the design. Yeah but yes lately it's it's We don't have a long publish window generally and so like you know Having the editors or the authors do their own image Hence to allow us to publish, you know on time All right, so another question I had was about statistics Do you know do you have offhand ideas of how well the site does and what kind of numbers we see? I have that open right now matthew. Do you then? I anticipated your question so we average Roughly 280 to 300,000 page views a month over the last year plus We have a lot of articles where individual articles get You know up to up to a 5000 views is pretty common 10 for some of the the bigger ones obviously like the release announcements get a ton of views And then articles about Sometimes more controversial or very topical content It's like the we had a system d resolve d article fairly recently and that's one of the big fedora 33 features that You're still getting the clicks is what you're saying Yeah, amazing But you know, I would say most articles these days get at least a thousand views just because You know, this is sort of the place that people go for Fedora content, you know, it's on the the start dot fedora project dot org page And a lot of I think a lot of people who cover the linux space Pay close attention to what goes on in the magazine because that's how they find out what they need to be covering from a fedora standpoint Cool. Yeah, that that's quite a lot. So this is also a way for you as a writer to get your Writing out to a wider audience if that's something you're interested in well um So are there things that are not going so well in the magazine that that council could help with I mean, I'll let steven and gregory Disagree with me, but I think for the most part we're a finely tuned machine right now. Um, you know Like we were saying earlier, we sometimes get lull a lull in content Which usually then is averaged out by a whole bunch of content coming in all at once so, you know on average it works out but just You know, we we could always stand to have more more writers and more editors join in But I I wouldn't say there's any area where we're particularly flailing at the moment Okay, um, I guess that brings me to the side question, which is When you have that glut of content or some do you schedule those to go out over a period of weeks? Or do you tend to run it as it as it's ready? Is is there an editorial calendar? Really depends on the level of content of the each of the articles So if their quality is there we'd like to publish three articles a week We can plan out a couple weeks Have six articles That makes sense Yeah, so so we have one article then Yeah, right It's hard to stretch one article over for several weeks um a few months ago we we kind of came to the conclusion that If we don't have three articles for a week, we should just take a deep breath and that's okay Um, so we've had some weeks where we've only published two or one. I don't think we've had any We didn't any weeks. We didn't have anything to publish Um, but you know, it doesn't seem like it really hurts our overall engagement If we have a slow week here and there because you know At some point we'll have plenty of content and then we'll have you know, two or three weeks Basically scheduled out ready to go Yeah, I feel like as long as Go ahead I was just saying I think our audience really likes quality too Yeah, rather than just putting filler in there for the sake of filler There's some level where you've got to make sure there's content You know at least once a week to make sure people know that it's not dead, but Hopefully doesn't that isn't an issue very much. It sounds like it isn't um One of the other questions I wanted to say is fedora does have some budget for things and this year actually um Not that we're I have money to throw away, but because there's less travel than usual We do actually have some money to spend for the rest of the year Are there things in the magazine that money could help with? The answer can be no, but um anything from the wordpress side that we could pay for to have capabilities or writing capabilities on the site There are some issues with the interpretation of markdown it seems But I know that could just be who The author's choice of editor at Yeah Honestly, I can't think of anything that wouldn't be an ongoing cost like, you know, it would be great to You know pay pay the pay writers. For example, that would be awesome. Um, but That becomes very unsustainable very quickly Yeah, I I do believe writers deserve one-time things This is a labor of love kind of kind of situation which I really appreciate especially for the good writers who's, you know Writing does deserve it is worth something. Uh, and I think one of the things About that is everything in the magazine is Creative Commons license So by contributing to the magazine, you're not just contributing to fedora But you are contributing to the greater good of open source public documentation and you know People can take what's written and adapt it for a different linux distribution or a different use case Or it can be put into Into you know the doc site of arch linux wiki. Welcome. Welcome to take our documentation Add it add it to their beautiful site as well. It's all part of the big movement of sharing, which is awesome Neil you had a question in the chat a long time ago. Do you want to say it in real life? Sure. Um So we've been talking about this as a fedora magazine. That's not very magazine-ish What what would it What's stopping us from producing like an actual Digital formatted magazine formatted style thing with the content, you know, maybe not necessarily regularly, but like as some kind of fun Celebratory or one off whatever kind of thing to kind of show You know The best of the magazine or something like that in in in an actual magazine form to just you know As a bit of eye candy for for people who frequent The fedora magazine I mean nothing's stopping us. There's just nobody stepping up to do it um Yeah, I can I would I can take a little beat on that To to do a printable format requires several stuff not only the articles You need to do you need to do the what is called? Uh Schematic schematic of how the digital format is going to be Also, you need to Agree it in a format. I think uh A beautiful format could be pdf, but maybe ebook or or something and there is Also, if you are going to do for example, an special edition with what you think is the best You need to select the articles that that could be the the most easy part because uh, you can just take the statistics that was the most Viewed article and and pick from there but uh, also, I think uh, it requires some commitment and time and work to do that is not easy to do and Is I think it's a word that is beyond the writers, you know, because it's more dedicated to the format not only to the article because writers Thankfully, we have a lot of great people reading articles in the magazine Maybe that's something that would be Something we could Ask the design team to look at if they would be interested in not necessarily as you have to do this, but here's an idea Put that together Yeah, I think it'd be kind of nice if we could you know get a limited edition print run made and you know send that as like a thank you gift to the people who You know contributed articles to that or you know something like that because It's kind of fun. Um, you know, I've I've written for open source.com for many years and they do a yearbook every year where they take You know some content is directly for it and some's just reprinted from the site Uh, they have it available for sale But everyone who contributed to that yearbook gets a free print copy It's just kind of cool to have and like you know something have something tangible to hold in your hands And you know, it's kind of nice. Thank you An annual thing kind of like it's like the year and review kind of thing And depending on how expensive that is to make that might be something that would be fun to give out at conferences Or even you know to sell for five dollars at Fosdame or whatever And you could throw it up on the red hat cool stuff store randomly We could maybe I don't know if we can put bespoke merchandise on the cool stuff store And the cool stuff store is really just a you know It's secretly like zazzle or something in the back end, right? It's not Anyways, um That's red hats online swag store if anybody's paying attention. Um, okay Yeah, we actually had some stuff there for a while, but the logistics of it are kind of annoying so We'll work on that again sometime. Um, any other questions for the magazine folks Okay, well, thank you very much for being here answering questions Being subjected to interrogation Thank you ben for helping out with the stats And with that I will conclude.


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This is Think Tech Hawaiʻi. Community matters here. Aloha, aui, nālā. I'm Kaui Lucas. For the last couple of years, I've had the great pleasure of hosting Hawaiʻi as my mainland here on Think Tech Hawaiʻi. Life is calling me to paddle other canoes. So, to end this amazing chapter, I'm honoring the place where I began, and which formed my understanding and abiding love and devotion to Hawaiʻi. Ewa Sugar Plantation. My guest today, Reginald Perry, also grew up on Ewa Sugar Plantation, and now owns and runs Barbers Point Aviation Services and Barbers Point Flight School. At the recent Ewa Plain Battlefield Commemoration event, Reggie gave a speech about his childhood there. It wasn't just a chicken-skin-good speech. It was a fresh from the emu, pulled off the chicken wire, fat-dripping, rich, crispy chewy, locally-raised pork-skin-good speech. But unlike the prized bits of pork skin stuck on the wire, wrapped around the pig in the emu, I'm willing to share. Welcome, Reggie. Thank you. Thank you very much. So that was quite an event where I met you. Let's talk a little bit about that, to get that out of the way. It was a battlefield commemoration. People were going, what? There's a battlefield there. Ewa, what was that about? Yeah, that was bombing. When they were on their way to Pearl Harbor, they decided to make Ewa an opportunity target. So that's one thing we haven't had. Carmen, the house you grew up in had been hit, right? Yeah. Debris flew through the roof, left a big hole in the roof that they lived with for a few days until Ewa repairman came out and fixed the roof. The house I grew up in also had bullet holes in the dining room. And they were patched, of course, by the time I came along. But this goes to show that there were even fatalities at Ewa. Yeah, yeah. Six Marines, I think, and a few children or one child from injuries. Ewa's sugar plantation goes way back, way back. Yeah. And your family goes way back there. You got mind beat by a couple generations. So tell us a little about that. So on my mom's side, they came from Madera on the USS Ravenscrag in 1876. And we still have the ship's logs of my family that came from Portugal. And then my dad's side came from England and then to Indianapolis and then also to Honolulu. And they started working for the plantation in 1905. My great-great-grandfather. And they started at Ewa. Yeah, they started at Ewa. Well, my mom's side, they started on Maui, Poonene. Well, Kauai and Poonene. And then my dad's side started right there in Ewa. Yeah, old Ewa. So the way that you, so you came along a little later. Yeah, a lot later.  And after my dad, there was no more Ewa sugar mills. So that was it. How late did you get to live on the plantation? 1966. We moved from lower camp, which was right off of the old Fort Weaver Road. And then we moved into Tenney Village right in Ewa in 1966. And I was born there at the new house. And when I was born, they have a hospital and then we moved to the new house. You probably got your vaccination shot there. Yeah, I got mine on my thigh because my mom said, I don't want my daughters to have that ugly mark on their room. We always know what that was. Because it was a small hospital. You could tell the doctor, no, I don't want it on my arm. I want it on the leg. I don't remember being able to do that. But yeah, it was a small hospital, but it was a popular hospital too. A lot of people were born there, including me, my sister, my dad. The quality of life that you spoke about in your speech is the thing that really resonated so deeply with me. We moved away in 69 and far away. And so I didn't have that depth of relationships that lingered in the town as you did. Your dad was part of the Pahuana. Yeah, when they were redeveloping Ewa toward the end, he was the president of the Pahuana Association. That was before the associations came in and Ewa, what it is now with a lot more regulated. Nobody's getting away with what they used to get away with. Well, speaking of getting away with things, one of the things, I'm going to read a paragraph from your speech. Okay. Life in Ewa was isolated, but it was a good isolation. It was like having a secret place to live. Families worked hard. People respected one another's right to live the way they wanted to and with or without fighting chickens. No complaining about your neighbors. And if you had a problem, you worked it out. You worked it out. It was law and order without the necessity for law and order. It was a kind of like a marine base where everything was handled from within. Yeah, or army base or navy base. Everybody handled things among themselves. As you remember, the playing in the children's groups and who got to do what and talk a little bit about what that experience was being a kid and that I don't want to feed you the words. So you talk about your experience of it. Yeah, it was growing up, you mean growing up. It was playing with the devil's tail. It was heaven on earth. It was exploration. I like to explore.  I was one of only a few white dudes that grew up in Ewa. So it wasn't easy for me, especially without an older brother to get my back. So a lot of getting picked on a lot, but I wouldn't change anything. I mean, Ewa was the best place to grow up, especially if you're adventurous because when the meal shut down, we would go into the meal and explore, climb the tower and just do everything. Fruits was in abundance. You always had food. You always had cane. We used to catch birds and eat them on weekends and you were judged by the traps that you set and the birds that you caught by the end of the week. It was just a good time and the people were all nice, diverse. We had Japanese, Filipino, Portuguese all around our house. I think before that, they had separated everyone by nationality, I think. Kind of by camps, yeah. Yeah, by camp. There was Holly Camp, Korean Camp, Tantani Village, Verona Village, Hawaiian Camp was on the other end and then toward the end, everything was just merged together and everybody just got along. I struggle sometimes with talking to people who don't have that experience. It wasn't really until I heard your speech that you put it together so nicely, but there's that both independent, wild independence. I mean, when I think that at six years old, I had my own bike and I could ride for miles through cane fields and if you didn't know where you were going, you didn't know where you were going. Easy to get lost. We would increase our boundaries too. We would play cops and robbers and army and we'd say this road to this road and sometimes it was like at least a mile. I don't remember any pedestrian places, designated areas to walk. I don't remember any, I remember a few stop signs, but no traffic lights. I don't even remember seeing policemen in Eva when we were young. Not until maybe the cane police that would come by and they know your dad and they say, go home. So there was this kind of wild freedom on the one side and yet somehow we knew there were boundaries really clearly, really clearly. There was some kind of pressure, as you say. So we didn't need that external so much because I think it was just different time. Things were just slower. Everything is so fast today. I think the technology just changes everybody. We are all part of our environment and I think the way things were back then, technology wasn't, I guess in hindsight it wasn't what it was today. So in my opinion, as technology increased, things got simpler and as things get simpler, people get more difficult because back then they worked really hard and the people that worked hard, like our parents and everyone else, I think they became more simple people. I think there's an inverse relationship there. Well certainly I can remember going out and when the rains came through or you had to move the ditches, move the sluice gates and direct the water. Yeah, I remember that. The irrigation guys would go to the ice. So behind us is a picture of what it looked like from Malca looking across the Eva plain towards Waikiki. And because by the time I came along, my dad had worked himself up to be the manager. So we had a two-story house. Yeah, you had the big house. The big house. The big house. And so from the second floor we could actually see... Oh, the second floor. Right, the second floor. Yeah, we could see the, we could see all the way to Diamond Head, which I don't know that is possible now. But back to the quality of life, let's show some of the pictures for people to get a feel. It's almost like a magical town that, if you don't know about it, people go, what? Yeah, people that live their whole lives have never been through Eva. This is a particularly one of the really pretty buildings there along Renton Road. So you knew it. We knew it as the Eva shopping basket. Yeah. And so what are your memories of? Oh, man, stealing candy, going straight to the bag and eating the candy, turning in bottles of 7UP and Coke to Mr. Yasui for five and 10 cents. The fishing area, when you first walked in, the icy, the icy machine was right there to the left. And of course, all the fishing gear where we would go and catch tilapia at Tankei, the old reservoir. All the beautiful little lures and everything. Yeah, right there along the entry. I still remember what it smelled like. It was always air conditioned. And of course, they were always watching us kids when we walked in because they knew the deal. I remember that we used to buy beef by the side and leave it hanging.  I remember. I remember all the beef hanging in the back too. Yeah. Yeah. Why just open up to this wide open. Yeah. Mr. Yasui. And the egg man. Remember the egg man? The egg man, the milk man. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Little bit, I remember it, but I was really, really young. So by the time I recall, I don't remember him coming to the door, but I remember all the little chips, the milk chips.  Wow. Nice. Yeah. You have to, you have to trade the chip for the milk. Yeah. I think they had an allotment of chips per week or a month or however it was. So we put out the little, the little basket. Yeah. With the empty bottles and they would fill up. Yeah. Yeah. So it sounds like we're talking about a hundred years ago, but. Unbelievable. We talking, we talking. It's only 40. Yeah. It feels like, for me, it feels like yesterday. I remember it, it's clear as day. I remember every little crack and crevice of the, the meal after it shut down. I remember where to make all my hideouts and where, where, where to hide. So we have this, this beautiful little area. It's still there. It's really run down now, but if, if you, it's still possible to be seen. I don't, I don't know if you're not from Emma, if you can really get the feeling of it, but I went to a recent orchid show there. Okay. Yeah. Right there at the school on Renton Road. Oh yeah. And so have you driven through town recently? Yeah. I always go by. I even, every now and then I like to go run my same route that I used to run. I like to run my knees. I like to smell the banyans and just, even though I'm living in Makakilo now, I just, yeah, I always miss Elva. I always go back. So we are going to take a little break right now and then we'll come back and show some pictures of what it like used to be like. Okay. Sounds good. Welcome to Sister Power. I'm your host, Sharon Thomas Yarbrough, where we motivate, educate and power and inspire all women. We are live here every other Thursday at 4pm and we welcome you to join us here at Sister Power. Aloha and thank you. Aloha. My name is Mark Shklav. I'm the host of Think Tech Hawaii's Law Across the Sea. Law Across the Sea comes on every other Monday at 11am. Please join us. I like to bring in guests that talk about all types of things that come across the sea to Hawaii, not just law, love, people, ideas, history. Please join us for Law Across the Sea. Aloha. Welcome back to Hawaii is my mainland. I'm Kauai Lucas. And with me today here in my Aloha Oisho is Reggie Perry, who like me grew up on Eva Sugar Plantation, but his family roots there go way deeper than mine. And what do you remember your dad and your grandpa? What were there? What was really important to them? What do you remember of them in relationship to Eva? My grandpa was enjoying his retirement by the time I came along, and then my dad's dad had quit and moved on somewhere else, but my dad had started in the 40s, I think 1945, when he was 13. And I just remember him, he rode his motorcycle every day. You know, I remember listening to the whistle, knowing when he was leaving, when he was coming back, when to turn off the TV.  You know, he went to work, came home and did what he loved with, and that was being active with the church. Which church was that? Immaculate Conception Church. Right. Yeah, he was really active. So that brings up a lot of the cultural things. I mean, it was a small community, and yet there was a lot of cultural events that took place. Sports, can you talk about some of the sports? I mean, there was a lot of sports at Eva. The volleyball, baseball. Yeah, see, I don't remember. My time, I remember baseball only. You know, we played, I played nine years. It was the old Bombers, the old Eva Bombers before it came, before it became the Hurricanes, I think. Like I was saying in my speech, we had the chicken fight, the chickens on our sleeves. I think we were the only baseball team with that, with the fighting, with the, with the blade on the leg. And that was the byproduct of our, our longtime coach, Bay Area Special. Here we go. So this is a, this is an interesting picture. This is just what you were talking about. Yeah, yeah. That's my old, my dad's old house. I want to mention that these, this picture is part of an amazing collection that you can find online by Isamu Murakami. If you google my hometown Eva and Isamu Murakami, you'll come upon a treasure trove of old Eva plantation pictures. So what are we looking at? Oh, we are, that was my house. That house on the top left, that was my dad's house. That's where the debris after the bombing of the marine base had gotten through the roof and the roof became compromised. And I remember spending my youth there with my grandma and my grandpa, you know, when parents would go to work. And that right in front there, that right now it's wide open. But before that it was, we called it the sand pile. That was where the, that's where they made the concrete, I think, and made all the, the flumes, the U shaped. That's also where I got 48 stitches, you know, falling in one of them, falling on one of them. So did you get to ride in the flume? Oh yeah, all the time, yeah, that was my fear. What was that like? I mean, what did you do? Oh, that was crazy.  And how did you ride? What does that mean to ride in a flume? For those who want them? Oh, well, you can, you can doggy paddle depending if the flume was high. If it wasn't high, then you'd have to get on a rubber, old rubber tire and bang the spiders off the walls as you, as you ride. Yeah, some days were good, some days not so good depending on the, you know, the level of the water, but the reservoir was always there. So we always had some place to swim and always had tilapia to catch and little goldfish. Yeah, it was a good time and mango road, you know, all the mangoes, I mean, I asked me anything. It was just the greatest place for a child to grow up in my opinion. My kids still ask me about it all the time. They always like hearing the stories. Mango road was one of my favorite places to ride bikes also. And that, the park there was where we went to fly, fly the flights, fly kites, which we made from the bamboo ribs of the, of the umbrellas. Oh, that's, yeah, okay, that's, that's convenient. We used to launch our rockets there with the Cub Scouts and the Boy Scouts. That was where the grandstands were. I mean, that was such a different time. When I was coming up, it wasn't, it was old and derelict already, but I know at one time, you know, in the 40s and 50s, I know that that field was pretty prominent on the island. That's where the carnivals were. I'm not sure when the carnival started, but I knew it was the largest carnival on Oahu. Yeah, speaking of that carnival, which was the largest carnival at the time, there were some very interesting events at the carnival having to do with fish. Tilapia fishing. That's got to be the only place where the coordinators drain the pool to only the deep end and through tilapias in, and you would actually fish with real fishing poles, pull out the tilapia and win the prizes. Yeah, a lot of that going on. Checkers in Pogo, Bozo da Clown, who are those other guys, the big teddy bear looking guys? The Banana Splits. Yeah, Banana Splits. Yeah, and EK Fernandez always brought the good rides out there. It was a good time. I danced hula with a hala from Eva Beach, and I remember we performed at the carnival too. That was my first stage debut. Oh, my sister too. Yeah, she trained in Eva Beach with Anderson. Anderson, yeah. Oh, that was her teacher? Yeah, okay. Well, and that's where she made her debut too. Yeah, those were the good old days. Truly, truly. And there's this, I heard you talk about your dad who was also one of the union guys. Yeah, so what was his official? He was the secretary of the IOWU, but I was a little young, so I don't know too much about it. And then he became the editor for the Ever Hurricane. Yeah, so my dad was very active. I don't know that he was that simple. Oh yeah, no, probably not. Yeah, without a doubt. So the Ever Hurricane was a newsletter. Yeah, I think it was a monthly newsletter. Yeah, and they would say who was born and, you know, who passed away. I guess we had our own obituaries. And then the events like the Halloween costume contest. I don't remember that one. I remember every year, Christmas, the sled coming around, throwing candies. Remember the sled in the reindeer would bob up and down. And of course, the bond dance twice a year at the old Japanese club in the Hongwanji. So in 1966, you are too young to remember this, but the Santa's sleigh, when they were throwing out the candy, got stuck on our lawn. I think that's where they launched it from, right? Isn't that where they launched the sled from? I don't know if they launched it from there, but that year, I was recently looking at the pictures.  So that was a big year. So there was candy for months. It was a big deal. It was a really, really ornate sleigh. I remember Rudolph moving up and down, and it was a big area for Santa to sit and throw stuff out. And I never forget that. It was a great time. And you talked about the bond dances. I think this might be the only thing I have left from the actual, well, I mean, other than pictures and like the issues of the hurricane, but the bond dance was really one of the most fun, special events of the whole year. So this was the Eversoto, which was not, I mean, the taiko, the drumming, and the dancing was one thing, and then the foods. Yeah, the andagi. I love the andagi. I don't recall much else. That's pretty much all I ate. It was a good time. We could just jump right in and dance. And I know it was mainly for the Japanese, but everybody got involved. Everybody got involved. And that was that, I think that was, that's kind of the point. It was like, even if it was for one group or another group. Yeah, we just absorbed each other's cultures and just took it in and ran with it and, you know, it worked out. Kind of made it our own special way. Yeah, our own flavor. Our own flavor of it. But letting everybody, as you say, keep their respective commissions. And then, and then there was this, like an outer circle of acceptance overall. I'm not sure what you mean, what do you mean?  I remember as a kid, my first experience of watching a cockfight, and wasn't like my parents took me to one, but you ended up there. I ended up there because we were spending the night in one of the villages. And that's where the food was. That's where the good food was. Sometimes, I mean, it was shocking in a way, but it was also exciting. It's such an event, you know. And if you're able to maybe allow that filter of, okay, what is the greater context of this event? And not just say, oh my god, what are they doing to those poor chickens? I mean, I understand the cruelty to animals. But that's all in you. That was their culture. That's their exercise in their culture. So we've grown up, and now we don't do that anymore. Well, we do, but we don't know much about it. It's all clandestine. Right. Well, I'm not advocating cruelty to animals. I just want to say that. Oh, me neither, yeah. Yeah, with the acceptance, everybody just says, yeah, I know what you mean. Everybody lived and let live. Yeah.  And I thought, wow, we had the nicest fence in Elba. And then some guys that didn't want fences just put up aluminum corrugation and that's, and everybody just did their own thing and nobody cared. I think it was because nobody really had an interest in, I mean, they wasn't their homes. We paid 38 bucks a month for the house, $1 for water. You could call anybody at any time they come and fix your plumbing, fix the roof. So I think maybe I think, you know, that might have had something to do with it because it wasn't, you know, everybody was had free housing because they all worked for the plantation. So nobody was bogged down with that, you know, trying to make their area beautiful to increase property values like today and everybody does. I think that contributed to acceptance, you know, if people just, that's why it was so good. And you cannot get that anymore. You know, once your neighbor starts putting up corrugation or, you know, raising chickens, then it starts raising the flags and back then wasn't like that at all.  I remember my mother making me go and because I had taken some mulberries from the neighbor's bush, go back and knock on the door and ask. I remember the blackberries behind your guys's house. Yeah. Blackberries and strawberries. Did you know about the macadamia nut tree? Yeah. We had one right around the corner. Yeah. Yeah. Take the hammer and break them. Exactly. Peel off the green skin first. Right. And then if you got them too early, there wouldn't be a macadamia nut at all. It would just be white stuff. Right. Right. I can't even begin to list all the different kinds of fruit trees that were around. Oh my God. Five finger, five V, every mango you can think of, tangerine, orange, lychee. Yeah. Oh God. Those are the days. So, Reggie, we have one minute left. Can you believe it? And I just want to know if there's anything else about those days that you want to talk about? No.   But I think just try to, I hold on to what I remember and I try to pass that on to them as best I can, but I only have them for so many hours a day.  So I would say hold on to the past and preserve your memories as best you can like that guy does with the pictures. Yeah. There's an interesting way that you've put it together is that today we don't have those kind of entitlements, but back in the day, you know, there was housing and people weren't so hard up to make ends meet and that way the basics were taken care of in a way. And yet there was still a deep sense of personal responsibility and pride in what we had, even though we didn't own it. I mean, we certainly didn't own the house.  Yeah, we appreciated everything back then. I mean, from the time I was young, when I had my first bike, I mean, that was everything. Thank you so much, Reggie. And thank you so much, Think Tech, for making the last couple of years a very exciting place.