Hello and welcome to the session. Let us understand the following question today. Solve the following pair of linear question by substitution and cross-multiplication method. Given to us is 8x plus piy is equal to 9, 3x plus 2y is equal to 4. Now that is why this equation. Given equations are 8x plus piy is equal to 9 and 3x plus 2y is equal to 4. Now first solving it by substitution method. Let us learn this equation as 1 and this as 2. Now from equation 2 we get we have 3x plus 2y is equal to 4. This implies 3x is equal to 4 minus 2y. This implies x is equal to 4 minus 2y by 3. Let us name it as equation 3. Now substituting the value of x from 3 into 1. Now we will put this value of x in our equation 1. So we have our equation 1 as 8x plus piy is equal to 9. Now which implies 8 multiplied by 4 minus 2y by 3 plus piy is equal to 9. Now solving this for y which implies 32 minus 16y by 3 plus piy is equal to 9. Now multiplying both sides by 3 so we get 3 multiplied by 32 minus 16y by 3 plus 3 multiplied by 5y is equal to 9 multiplied by 3. This 3 and 3 gets cancelled which implies 32 minus 16y plus 15y is equal to 27. Which implies minus 5 is equal to 27 minus 32 which implies minus y is equal to minus 5. Now this minus and minus gets cancelled so we get y is equal to 5. Now substituting y is equal to 5 in equation 3. So we get we have x is equal to 4 minus 2y by 3 as our equation 3. So putting the value of y which is equal to 4 minus 2 into 5 by 3 which is equal to 4 minus 10 by 3 which is equal to minus 6 by 3. Now this gets cancelled y minus 2 so it implies x is equal to minus 2. Hence x is equal to minus 2 and y is equal to 5. I hope you understood the question for substitution so now solving it for by cross multiplication. Now comparing the given equations with a1x plus b1y plus c1 is equal to 0 and a2x plus b2y plus c2 is equal to 0. So we get a1 is equal to 8, a2 is equal to 3, b1 is equal to 5, b2 is equal to 2, c1 is equal to minus 9 and c2 is equal to minus 4. Then using the formula for cross multiplication that is x upon b1 c2 minus b2 c1 which is equal to y upon c1 a2 minus c2 a1 which is equal to 1 upon a1 b2 minus a2 b1. Now substituting the values for a1 b1 c1 and a2 b2 and c2 so we get it implies x upon 5 into minus 4 minus 2 into minus 9 which is equal to y upon minus 9 into 3 minus minus 4 into 8 which is equal to 1 upon 8 into 2 minus 3 into 5. Which implies x upon minus 20 plus 18 is equal to y upon minus 27 plus 32 which is equal to 1 upon 16 minus 15 which implies xy minus 2 is equal to y by 5 is equal to 1 by 1. Therefore xy minus 2 equal to 1 and y by 5 is equal to 1 which implies x is equal to minus 2 and this implies y is equal to 5. Hence x is equal to minus 2 and y is equal to 5. Therefore x is equal to minus 2 and y is equal to 5 is a solution of a given equation by both the method the substitution and cross multiplication. So this is our required answer. I hope you understood the question. Bye and have a nice day.


All right everyone, it is my honor to introduce Sammy who is a longtime friend of Torcon who will be speaking about Bypassing that without further ado, Sammy I hope I hope I'll start I hope you'll forgive me. I'm a little under the weather But I am excited to be here and a lot of great stuff to share with you guys We're gonna talk about Nat painting and I realize I have a lot of information here So we'll zoom through a little happy to do Q&A after but first let's talk about what is net network address translation Most of us have routers at home. I mean most of our networks at home probably looks kind of like this where you basically have The idea of that is that we're essentially running out of IPv4 space and IPv6 is coming. So that's what they tell us Any time now any day now and the idea of that is that because we're running out of IPv4 space or public IPs What we can do is we can essentially have our router here and that can give us internal address space So a 10-dot network or one-on-two network that is not actually routable on the public internet However, we can have multiple devices all sharing a public IP address that then reaches the internet and the idea of Nat pinning actually one of the benefits of routers is that they essentially act as a firewall so They will essentially if you have a bunch of services running on your machine and someone tries to say connect to your Machine from outside from the public internet They can't because your router is blocking it because your router needs to know who is this supposed to go to unless you have port forwarding or DMZ Or some some sort of feature enabled now. Why is this a big deal? I ran LSOF on my machine a couple days ago, and this is what came up All these services are listening on essentially public on my public network device So that means I don't know I have node servers running. I don't know why node is running. I don't know why node is running Crash plan is my backup service Sonos I don't even have a sonos yet. Sonos is listening on my computer and is listening to like has an open service Why is that pot? Why is that happening? So many of these many of these tools are gonna have vulnerabilities in them So it's always interesting to see if we can attack those Those services so the idea of Nat pinning is something I demonstrated maybe nine or ten years ago And that was a very basic proof of concept or essentially a Victim would go and visit a website on the internet malicious website And that website would send some data through back to the back to the user The user would execute some code on their web browser and then open up Essentially port on their router Now the way that essentially happened is through something called connection tracking now connection tracking is something We may have seen with ftp ftp is a good example Many of you have used ftp. Hopefully no one uses it anymore ftp allows you to transfer files so you can ftp to ftp server and you'll say hey I want to receive this file But the way that happens is that actually uses a second port what your ftp client does is it opens a secondary port and Your f and the ftp server will connect to that port the problem is when routers came out that broke Because now your router says I don't know what this port one two three four is so why would I connect to this? So routers then introduce something called connection tracking or an application level gateway an absolute ALG will say Oh, I'm a router I see someone internally on my internal network wants to do an ftp and they said oh connect back on port one two three So I will open port one two three for them So initially and when I'm looking into how a protocol works The first thing I do is read the RFC now RFCs are essentially how protocols are built But it doesn't necessarily mean protocols are built this way But it's a good foundation to base things off of In 2010 when I was initially demonstrating how this how this technique worked Essentially, I tried ftp. I was trying I found that the browsers had various restricted ports so I actually couldn't connect to ftp and IRC was another tool that I wanted to use Let's see here. Excuse me Oh, so What I wanted to do was essentially act as an IRC client But the nice thing about IRC is that it's similar to HTTP and that it's a new line-based protocol When you're on HTTP and you reach a web server, you say I want to get slash HP 1.0 You know carriage return new line all of these are new line-based and IRC is also another new line-based protocol Just like ftp and IRC has something similar to al to ftp where you can say hey, I'm going to DCC chat You I'm going to DCC send you a file and you're going to connect back to me on this port and your router again Has an ALG for IRC DCC So your router sees that message and is going to open up the port and then port forward back to you if you're using an IRC client To send this DCC message So I was thinking couldn't I just create a web form that connects to an IRC server But it's really a is just a random server on the internet on the IRC port 6667 And then we say I want to send a DCC because you can force someone's web browser to submit a form And you can make him do that to any port except for the fact that browsers restrict ports an interesting way around that is In 2010 what you could do is you can essentially have TCP ports and UDP ports are 16 bits wide 65,535 possibility 36 possibilities However, the browser itself is dealing with strings. So if you added one bit Let's say you created a 17-bit port and essentially the highest bit was a one You have a port that's much larger than six that's much that's larger than six 16 bits However What would happen is your browser would say is this a restricted port? No I don't know this port whatever port number. It is in this case. It is I Don't think I have it written down here, but 65 Let's say I want to connect to port 6667 if you had 65536 plus 6667 you have some much bigger number And your browser will then see that and say oh that's not in my restricted port list Then it will send it on to the TCP IP stack Which only is going to take a 16 bit did 16 bit number and you just bypass the restriction the port restriction So you can now connect out to any restricted port on the user's browser and this is essentially what the what an IRC Connection would typically look like so what your browser is actually sending is we take all of this data and this message And like a DCC message and put it in the post body and it will post something and your and ultimately Your router will see that and then open a port back And I'll be happy to share the slides This is the example code that actually performs this full attack and would actually do this and would open up essentially any arbitrary TCP port Now one thing is when I tried this it actually didn't work and part of the reason is that the way for this to work is that DCC and FTP they both require you to know the internal IP address so when you're saying hey connect back to me you're also including that your IP address your local IP address and Typically a browser doesn't know your local IP address Now in 2010 there was a technology called live connect has anyone used live connect. I'm glad to hear that I'm glad to see this was Java Embedded into the browser Accessible via JavaScript and you could do some really wacky things It was really useful for me because it allowed me to access your internal IP. It went away very quickly So this was the live connect code that would essentially allow you to access your local IP address So it was built into a couple of browsers briefly as a beta and then quickly went away Here's the actual full code of Performing this attack back in 2010 now they fixed the rest port restriction. They've removed live connect so none of the stuff works today and This has always been kind of interesting to me. So I've tried to just play with this over over time Our overflow technique also no longer works. So recently I've been looking at what are other services that? that are Multi-protocol right something that an ALG would actually look at and I made a spreadsheet here I went through the Linux Linux TC of TCP IP stack and just Collected all the different ports and services and what protocol they need to be on and I wanted to find and then I took a List of chrome restricted ports We see what chrome blocks and the ones that they don't block are saying which is a backup protocol that nobody uses SIP Pptp h3 2 3 which is voice over IP and sip was pretty interesting So I started taking a look at sip if you're not familiar with sip. It's like It's like FTP but for noise. It's a voice over IP protocol So it says you can make a connection on UDP or TCP port 5060 to some server and you say hey I want to make a call on a invite and then you can and then on a secondary channel You'll then send audio and you can create additional channels for a video So I was thinking okay, couldn't I reproduce that same technique the snap pending technique with sip because this also supports TCP 5060 is not blocked based off the the chrome restriction list. So that's pretty cool Maybe we can do that. So I attempted to do this via the HB post I made a website it has a hidden form it auto submits via JavaScript to a server that I'm running on port 5060 with the sip with the sip packet in the TCP in the port post section Unfortunately this failed because again, I don't know the IP address. So we actually need to know what the IP is So I found a pretty cool thing that would allow me to grab your local IP address and that was stun essentially now new browsers have web RTC which allow you to perform voice over IP with other people on the internet and partially You need to actually know the local IP address So I was very excited when I found that you can actually use stun and ice to get the users local IP address This was really cool Unfortunately a couple weeks ago when I was working on this presentation for you guys It stopped working and that's because people realize it's bad idea to actually show the local IP address So all the browsers stopped doing this and then instead they replace it instead It's no longer a local IP address, but rather it's a bonjour or mdns Hostname that doesn't resolve except internally on your network. So this all broke Thank you Just kidding So this is an example of what it would actually look like. This was what it ended up being so I Furiously had to find a alternate solution Since this no longer work because you can't use that dot local IP address because when your ALG sees that your router sees it It's not it's gonna say I don't know what that is And then here's here's a video where we'll see We're gonna do TCP up from my laptop and then we're gonna go from a server I'm behind a router in there, and then we'll just see. Oh, we'll do net cat. That's what we're doing Okay, and we'll see something interesting here when you connect to a service that isn't running We see an immediately connection refused and that's because TCP is sending an RST back to us because there's an IP stack That's living and when there's when we connect to a service that is there like port 80 Then we get a snack back saying hey, I'm here and I want to connect with you Now if you connect to an IP address that does not exist we get nothing back So can we use this information to help us gain an IP address? so What we can actually do is a tcp timing attack within the web browser What if you create an image and your image connects to? Random IP let's say a router IP like <IP_ADDRESS> now You don't know the victim's router IP, but we do know there's probably a handful maybe 20 IPs that are pretty common within routers as their gateway IP and what if we do We create an image and then we have an odd mode and an on error event Now if there is a machine there It's either going to be listening on say port 80 or it's not gonna be listening if it's listening and it's on port 80 And the image exists We're that's gonna fire an on success event if it's not listening, but that's gonna fire an rst Which will fire an on error event if there's nothing there an on error will happen, but it'll happen after a few seconds So what if we just time that amount of time from when we drop this image to when we get an on success or on error? And we don't care if there's something listening or not We just want to know is there a machine there and we do this for say the top 50 possible routers And now we know what the gateway IP address of your land is so now we've just discovered By trying one and two one six eight zero dot one dot one dot one dot two dot one so so on and so forth We tried all the ten ten dots and then we figure out what your gateway IP address is now We still don't know your IP we need to know that so then we perform the same attack But for your subnet and we're doing this now for every IP within your subnet and timing all of them Well, which machine is going to respond the fastest it's your own machine, right? Because your bones your own machine doesn't need to respond doesn't need to go through the router So it's going to immediately respond and you can now determine a local IP address So this is an example. This is entirely automated where you visit a site. It detects what subnet you are by testing It's actually I probably test 300 different 300 different routers and Then whichever one is fastest then we try all the IPs in that subnet and then ultimately we we see that we do get the Local IP address so that is pretty cool. We now know the local IP address of The user Unfortunately, I then tried that I took the local IP address. I put it in the zip packet and then Still in work. So why does it fail? So I think we need to really understand how does a router ALG work? So the first thing we want to do is we want to dump firmware if we want to really understand right you take your router You open it up and you potentially dump firmware Just some of the tools that I like to use That's strange This is the wrong image Sorry about that That's better. That's better. Okay So I like to actually use my phone whenever I'm investigating hardware, right? If I'm looking at hardware a I like to take pictures with it Right, I can take big pictures. You can zoom in You can use the flashlight to often look through a PCB to follow traces It's very useful if you put it on the bottom of a circuit board That will help you find things You should be looking at the names of all the chips on here So if you open up your router, you can look at all the chips look at the names find the data sheets Many almost all of these will have well many of these will have public data sheets If I'm trying to dump firmware or attack a chip some other way micro probes are super useful Logic analyzers super useful if you're glitching tools like chip whisper from Colin O'Flynn super useful And then also going online looking for binaries If you can find binaries or you can extract from or you extract it from the device itself Then using a tool like binwalk, which will actually find different It will look for different binaries and file types within a larger image So it'll say oh you have an LZMA or you have a squash FS file system here And then once you know that you can use binwalk dash E or you can use a separate tool like I'm squash FS to extract That and then access the files inside Once you have access to the files inside then you want to kind of look around so Excuse me So I was looking around to see all right. I know my router is fdp and sip So let me just look around the file system and see what does it do with fdp? And what does it do with sip because my sip the technique that I think should work I know voice over IP calls works So my router clearly has ALG enabled yet when I attempt my attack from the browser it no longer works So what's going on here? So I did a unsquash FS pulled out the file system went through look for different fdp files I have a bunch of different tools. I'm using I've also linked to all of them in the bottom right here So I can make this this tool of this spread this presentation available. Excuse me And I also wanted to start using this tool cut jidra. Geedra. Let me know how it's pronounced Geedra Geedra, how do you know? Do you work? No, are you with the NSA somebody else I'm ready told you Hmm, and I love that when jidra This tool when this tool came out the NSA release this reverse engineering tool And it was around the same week that Microsoft saw this was like oh, we're gonna open source calculator in response So calculator came out as open source as well, which is pretty cool So with jidra jidra, am I pronouncing it right? I apologize Geedra, okay, my head is like it's not great right now. I Apologize so in Geedra We're taking a look at one of the files that match fdp just the word fdp That was a it was a kernel object to dock KO So I was like oh, there's gonna be some cool stuff in there and we start taking a look and then I'm like, okay We what other decodes are there? What other ALG is does this router support and of course we found sip decode? So now we're looking around for a sip decode to see how does sip decode work under what conditions will my router say? Oh, this is a sip packet verse. This is someone just doing whatever random other traffic and Interestingly, we see something here where it's doing an invite in my sip example I was doing an invite or a register And here it's actually doing a string string and Kate and case compare And what's interesting about this is that the invite or the register must be at the beginning of the data portion of the packet So now in a TCP packet if you're sending if you're doing this weird thing through HTTP post Your packet is actually going to begin with a post slash HB 1.0 host whatever host user agent whatever and then the post data So unfortunately, I can't control the beginning of the packet That's the browser the browser has full control of the beginning of the packet I only have control of the middle of the packet, which is the post data So I'm thinking okay, what else can we do? How can I look how can I maybe perform some sort of raw socket within the web browser? So I started taking look at Chrome flags and experiments It's always interesting to see what are the new protocols that are supported going through that stuff What features does it have? and Looking at sockets here's the Chrome source code going through here I was going through the W3 website and then I found this page We're not trying to like understand a protocol and it's like what is topic explanation? What is topic used for explanation? There's not much explanation there But most of their documentation actually is really good after going through I found some protocols that my browser supports Which is HP, HPS, FTP, WebSocket, DNS Spidey, STUN, ICE, a couple others nothing that really allowed me to control the very beginning of the packet Which is what I need to potentially perform this attack But then I was looking at UDP STUN and I was playing around with that because the STUN, TURN, and ICE Those are all used to Understand what kind of NAT you're using so that WebRTC can then properly perform voice or IP and video video communication And I started playing with the with STUN and I found that I can actually set a username For a packet For to authorize that STUN connection and that username can actually be as long as I want So you can kind of do you can just send really really really long packets in UDP Now what's interesting about this is that ultimately you have a limit of how long a packet is but the browser itself didn't limit it So that means it's your IP stack now limiting it when your IP stack limits it in this scenario for UDP Then does IP fragmentation so once you're over the boundary of the first packet It then creates a secondary packet where you now control the beginning of that packet So you actually as long as you know what the size of that packet is which you can do in a test case You can now do essentially arbitrary UDP packet injection on the second packet That's pretty cool The only problem with ALG is that for ALG when it sees a SIP UDP packet It will only allow you to then open a UDP port and UDP ports are fun, but I'm really more interested in TCP ports That's where all the juicy services are running So we now actually have the ability to do UDP packet injection and this This technique work for UDP, but the problem is I need to do this for TCP So what if we just sent a really really really long form? This is an actual post from my from my Chrome web browser So I just sent a post I bolded the parts that I control right so I control this The the flash whatever the URL I control the cookie and then I control the form The form data itself, so I just sent a ton of data and I somehow photoshopped a weird thing there I don't know why and then I sent my SIP packet in this case. It's a register packet and what's really interesting is that You can do perform the same exact attack So what you do is you create a really really long packet and you are listening on the other side on port 5060 on TCP now And on TCP you get this packet and then you see where does it break up? And you can actually kind of control where it breaks up because TCP has a feature called MTU sizes We I'm sorry. That's ethernet ethernet has MTU sizes. You want to you want a smaller MTU, but TCP has a Man what MSS? Yeah, was it message segment size segmentation? Maximum segment size. Thank you So you get when you're actually receiving a TCP sin from someone you can then respond with an MSS in the options and say I will only accept packets of this size and then you already know the size of the packets that the Browser is going to send I did find that some browsers specifically Firefox and one other one would Alter the width of this webkit form boundary, which is the boundary of the post data for for this specific form It would only do it by a few bytes So I found that Intermittently this would not work you would not know the proper size and what you can do is all you do is you listen on the other Size on the other side and you say oh that was off by one bite Send that data back to the browser over a web socket tell them hey You were one bite off try again, and you do this feedback loop and within five tries you then have Use then send this post this extra data and you create a new TCP packet essentially with full arbitrary TCP control of the data portion Ultimately, this allowed me to Reperform the same exact attack and you now have entire arbitrary TCP and you need to be packet injection control within your Browser which real of the attack which also means you can then open up any TCP or UDP port on that victim Just by them visiting a website you can then connect back to any service that they're running Which is pretty cool, and I think that's it I think it's an example of like connecting to a mySQL server. That's on my computer. So it's an entirely automated I'd be happy to share any details or answer any other any questions Yeah, cool we have minute and 50 seconds any questions Yes, oh That's really interesting. I don't think it would work on a VPN provider because Hey, I don't think I'm even gonna get their IP address. I don't know me I'm not sure That's a good question anyone know Yeah, I Don't know if they're doing ALG. I wonder if they are I'm not sure. Yeah, that'd be interesting to see Yes I Think that's what's interesting to me is that I don't think it's about right This is just right in all you're doing is you're abusing multiple protocols, right?  Everything looks correct. So I don't I don't consider this a bug, right? I consider this just an abuse of multiple protocols So No one's at fault Yes You can do it multiple ways. I mean on the ALG like Browsers are probably just gonna keep on closing ports. I don't think that's a that's the correct It's the real solution. I don't necessarily think it's the browser's issue either I don't know. You could have a more strict ALG on your router that says, oh, I shouldn't like I Don't know man That's tough because you don't you don't want to drop an ALG just because someone sent an invalid packet because if if there's an update to a protocol and Your router didn't get that didn't get that update and now you see an incorrect Packet like I don't think you should drop all ALG support. So I honestly don't know the answer. I haven't really thought about it Yeah, okay. Thank you so much everyone If anyone has any further questions, Sammy will be outside in the patio and Last reminder if you are doing skydiving tomorrow to go to registration basically right now and sign up for that


Mindfulness is turning off, dialing down the internal chatter that is governing what you think about anything at all. It is silence in that and creating space for what you really think and feel to emerge. Without someone else telling you, and not someone else by the way, could be an ancient belief system voice, an old narrative that's telling you what to think. Mindfulness creates a space, a gap for you to decide, I think this, I feel this right now. In other words, mindfulness creates you back to your authentic self.


Mentally strong people are very reliable people. They seldom break down and seem to weather the storm just fine no matter what they are passing through. A mentally strong person is likely to keep it together when confronted with tragedy and take rational steps than people who are not so strong. A lot of people are not mentally strong. Being mentally strong really doesn't mean you don't cry or feel hot. You are not Superman, you are still human. The only difference is that you have a higher tolerance for pain and have an attitude that allows you to stifle what you feel in order to do what needs to be done. Successful people usually have to develop this trait along the line. Success comes with a trailer load of failures. If you are not mentally strong, you cannot push through and succeed with any of them. You need to develop a tic skin against all the things the world will throw at you. The higher you climb, the more intense the criticism, hatred, discouragement and even failure. 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People who desire to become this way need to commit to getting enough rest. You need at least 8 hours of sleep to avoid all the diseases associated with sleep deprivation. Number 8. They move on from bad experiences. If you have helped them in the past, people like this are likely to move past it. They can even forgive you before you ask them. They understand that malice is a burden. They relieve the pain whenever they think of you. They forgive you to set themselves free to accomplish their goals. If you want to be this way, you have to get rid of your enemies.   There should be no room for negative thoughts. Number 9. They do not do things they know will hot others. People who are like this go out of their ways to make others feel better. They do not go out of their ways to hot people. They are not vengeful people. They look out for their friends and genuinely care about others. They also look out for things they may be doing that is haunting the people around them without their knowing. These type of people perform excellently as leaders. They look out for their people and don't implement policies they know will make them uncomfortable. Mentally strong people have a lot of wonderful traits. If you desire to be like them, adopt some of their traits and you may well become one.


E-commerce flash sale guide. How to use flash sales to increase your overall sales. I think there comes a time when every business, no matter what it is, whether it's a physical product, whether it's a digital product, should consider flash sales. In this video, I'm gonna show you how to do them so you know in the very end what works, what doesn't work. And I'm also gonna point out the pitfalls that could cost you a tremendous amount of money. So make sure you watch to the very end. If you haven't subscribed so far, make sure you hit that subscribe button down there. Don't forget to ring the bell. Turn on all bell notifications so you're notified each and every time I go live or I upload a video. Thank you so much for watching. Let's get going. Now, according to data from e-commerce stores from 2020, flash sales, you're just gonna blow your mind, flash sales, websites that use flash sales increase their gross monthly sales by 64,000%. Yeah, that's what I said, 64,000%. But there's a problem with this and it could cost you a lot of money even though you increase your sales and I wanna get into it in this video so you knew what those problems are because they're some big ones. So let's define what a flash sale is. Basically, it's a sale, okay? Maybe it's a discounted product, maybe it's free shipping, maybe it's lower prices, whatever it is, but it's for a very, very short period of time and I wanna go through the basics of what you need to have in your flash sale. So let me go over to my screen now and I wanna put it up on the screen so you can see it. First off, flash sales are different from regular online sales in three specific ways. Promotions are more significant than other deals usually offered by your business, okay? So it's gotta be a great deal. The timeframe is much shorter than your online store's normal sale windows. Number three, the selection and stock availability of these products is very limited. In other words, if you run a flash sale and they don't buy right now, they don't take advantage of it, they may not ever see it again, they may not get that product, they'll never get that price again, so it's gotta be something that's really good for this to work. If you've done a flash sale in the past and it was the same sales that you normally do, that's probably why it didn't work. Okay, let's talk about some of the pros and cons of flash sales. First thing, what a flash sale can do is it can help you move out some old inventory. Maybe you've got inventory that's been sitting around, you couldn't move, it wasn't selling.  I think a lot of people worry, well, I'm not making my normal 20 or 30%. Well, if you're not selling that product, that's perfect product for a flash sale. If it's not going out the door right now, you might as well get your money out of it and buy some inventory that is selling, so it's really good for that purpose. The next thing you can do is we've got people on our list and we haven't sold them, but they've been on our list, it can attract new customers. If they're on your list, it doesn't mean they're a customer, that just means they're on your list. So having one of these flash sales could turn somebody on your list into an actual buyer, so it's really good for attracting new customers. The next thing you can do is it can boost revenue really fast. I've run some sales and I've done like 10 times what I normally do on a normal day because I've ran one of these flash sales. It can do the same thing for you, it can really boost your revenue if you need to get some cash coming in. It can also improve your brand loyalty. If people see that you do something like this every now and then they see it as you being loyal to a customer, you taking care of the customer, you doing something special and out of the way that you normally don't do and it lets them feel like they're more appreciated. Now, let's look at some of the cons. There are cons to this, okay? It can, number one, erode your profits, okay? A poorly executed flash sale can actually cost you money and actually hurt your bottom line, so you do want to keep that in mind. And when you attract customers, the next part is you could attract disloyal customers. In other words, customers that only want to buy something when it's so cheap that it looks like you're losing money. That's the kind of customer you can attract, unfortunately, with some of these flash sales. The next thing you can do is it can lead to disengaged customers. If you start running flash sales too often, people get add fatigue and they're like, oh yeah, they're always doing a flash sale and they may actually unsubscribe from your list if you're doing it too often. So it's gotta be a kind of a specialized thing. And of course, lastly, it can hurt your reputation. It can hurt your reputation and it can actually make customers expect these flash sales and if you do that, they don't buy during the normal periods so actually you hurt your overall income. So you have to do these with temperance. Now that you know the pros and cons of these and how they work, let's talk about the three reasons that flash sales fail because they do fail. But if you're willing to take the risk for the benefits, then let's move forward and look at why a flash sale would fail. First off, if you have a very large list and your website, let's say, is getting 1,000 visitors a day or 2,000 visitors a day and you run a flash sale and all of a sudden you have 50,000 people come to your website, that could crash your site, okay? So flash sales you have to be careful with. What I like to do with a flash sale is send it out to part of my audience first to figure out what works best and then send it out to the rest of the audience. You can also, with Cartra, the software that I will list below, there's a link for Cartra, you gotta check it out, it'll do all your digital marketing for you. There's a video there you can watch and if you like it, you can get it for a dollar. But what it can do is it can send out your flash sale to increments of people over a period of days so you don't crash your site and it can actually set the timer on your page if you're doing like a timer type thing to where when the person gets there, that's when the timer starts. So each time a person gets there, the timer restarts over, it's not one set timer for everybody. It gets complicated, I know. Cartra will do it for you, watch the video below for Cartra at the end of this video. The next thing you can do, if you don't have inventory controls on your website, which on some of our sites we do not and we've run into this, is you have inventory oversell. Inventory oversell, what does this mean? Well, you sold more than you got, okay? With us, it's not so much a problem. It can create a delay because we actually manufacture food. And the other products we have are digital products so you can't run out of inventory there. But if you have a product where you have set number of items there, you've got to watch your sale closely so that you don't oversell. In our case, if we oversell some of our canned meats, we can say, hey, it's gonna be another two, three weeks. We got inundated with orders or whatever. You can cancel your order or you can switch over to this other product. We have a very, very loyal customer base that in most cases just wants to wait but a lot of them will switch over to another product. So you got to take that into consideration. That's another thing that can cause your flash sale to actually fail. And the last one, shipping delays, shipping delays. Now, we experienced this in 2020. We sell survival food and there was a food shortage. So you can expect that we were pretty busy. And we had a lot of problems with shipping and we had problems with shipping because we ran out of some products. We didn't have them for weeks or even months. And then shipping times got really long because all these carriers, UPS, FedEx, Mail Service and all that got really slow for a period of time. So there were big shipping delays. This is another problem that can arise from flash sales.  But you need to know these things, okay?  You didn't tell me about these other things that can go wrong. So just make sure you're prepared for them, know about them, understand them, try to prepare for them.  Let the customers know that you oversold and that there's gonna be a delay or they can have a refund or whatever the case may be. But be on top of it. I think too many people run into a problem in business and they think the thing to do is ignore it and it'll go away. Well, that's not how it works in business. If you ignore it, it grows and grows and grows and becomes a bigger problem than it was in the beginning. Just handle it in the beginning. Now, a couple other things I would tell you to look out for. And you need a software like Cartra to do this, but once you have Cartra, it will give you when emails are getting open the best days to send them. So you wanna make sure you time this on the best days to send them. And it's not always the best days, it's also the best times of year. So prior to some holiday is a good time to have a flash sale. After some holidays is a good time to have a flash sale. You probably have noticed this over the years that you're getting pre-Christmas or pre-Black Friday emails or post-Black Friday or post-Christmas emails to buy particular products. So keep that in mind. Those are really good time to do these things. And I want you to think about what your goal is when you're doing this. If your goal is to turn more people on your list into buyers and avoid the people who are already buyers, you can do this in Cartra, this digital software I'm talking about. I know I've talked about it a lot, but it works so well. You could just send your emails out to people who are non-buyers so far. If you do it that way, what you've done essentially is you've targeted people and tried to turn them into buyers. So that may be the goal of your flash sale. If your goal is to sell to everybody, then of course send it to everybody. The other thing I want you to think about is using influencers. Influencers work well nowadays. I think a lot of people aren't taking advantage of it. They're scared, they don't know what to do. I have another video on influencers. If you just search my channel for influencers, you're gonna find that video and you're gonna find out how to select those people, how to approach those people and how to make money with those people. And they can be very profitable. So you may wanna check that out too. You want to also be cautious. Let's say you're selling a product for $200 and a lot of people have just bought it at $200 and then you decide to do a flash sale at $125. You may not wanna send it to the people who just bought it for $200. You may wanna exclude those people so that you don't upset them. The other thing a flash sale works really well on is abandoned carts. I've done videos on abandoned cart emails and they work really well, but you gotta keep in mind upwards of 75 to 85%. The numbers are all over the place. Of people who actually put something in their cart, actually abandon the cart they leave. So you may wanna target your flash sale towards the people who have abandoned their cart. You can do all this through Cartra, the software I've been telling you about. Check it out, it'll make you a lot of money. Also make sure you select the right products. The goal of your flash sale will be determined by the kind of product. So if you've got a product that's super popular that never goes on sale, that would be a great product for a flash sale. You gotta have a sale on. If you've got a lot of inventory in the warehouse and you just wanna move stuff out and you just wanna get some money back, that's great product to have a flash sale for. If you've got a popular product that people like a lot, that's a great product to have a flash sale for. So depending on what your goal is, you wanna target your flash sale towards those goals. And lastly, I hope I don't have to say this, but you gotta give them a good deal. You gotta give them a good deal. It's gotta be a really good deal. It's gotta be like an unbelievable deal. We do a lot of sales for my digital products and sometimes it'll be 80 or 90% off. That makes people wanna buy if it's 80 or 90% off. Now a digital product is much easier to do that with because it's not physical, right? I can say a course is worth 997 and I can sell it for $197. That's a flash sale right there. But if you don't have a product like that, if you have a physical product, it's a little bit different. So you gotta also consider what kind of product you're selling. Lastly, I'm gonna tell you to be prepared. If you have physical products, you need to ship them out and you expect a lot of sales, make sure you have the staff to ship them out, okay? Make sure you have the boxes you need to ship them out. I've run into that before where we ran out of boxes. We had boxes to put products in. So make sure you're prepared for the sale so that it goes smoothly. You don't wanna have a great big sale and then have a whole bunch of refunds or charge backs because you didn't deliver the product. So make sure you're prepared for that. I hope this explains flash sales. I hope this lets you know ways you can make money on flash sales. You can and you will. 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This study found that there is a significant gender disparity among rheumatologists in Germany, with fewer women present at higher hierarchical levels. Additionally, traditional roles such as part-time work are still predominantly held by women, which may contribute to unequal career opportunities. To address these issues, the authors suggest implementing policies that promote part-time work for both genders, providing flexible childcare options at work, and increasing the acceptance of part-time work in leadership positions. This article was authored by Sarah Orndorf, Martin Krusch, Xenophon Berlyakos, and others.


Many people have asked me what my position is on abortion and abortion rights, especially since I was proudly the person responsible for the ending of something that all legal scholars, both sides, wanted and, in fact, demanded, be ended. Roe v. Wade. They wanted it, ended. It must be remembered that the Democrats are the radical ones on this position because they support abortion up to and even beyond the ninth month. The concept of having an abortion in the later months and even execution after birth, and that's exactly what it is. The baby is born, the baby is executed after birth, is unacceptable, and almost everyone agrees with that. You just watched Donald Trump boast about the Supreme Court's deeply unpopular Dobbs decision while simultaneously accusing Democrats of executing babies, literally. See what happens is if a woman has a baby and she's like, I just gave birth, it was a lot of work, but this baby's kind of a go. I don't really want it. The doctor then throws it in the trash can. That's what Democrats support according to Donald Trump. Now, obviously, that's not true. He made that up. But the reason why he is strawmaning Democrats and pretending as if they support baby executions is because he wants to make them seem radical when in actuality he knows that most of the public views Republicans as radical because they are. Now, in this video, he also went on to assure the public that his party strongly supports IVF as well as exceptions for abortion when it comes to rape and incest. So he's trying to portray Democrats as the extreme ones and Republicans as the moderate ones, but that's obviously bullshit. Now, he also came out against a national abortion ban in this video. He didn't say that explicitly, but it was pretty clear that he thinks this should be a states' rights issue. Let's watch. My view is now that we have abortion where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint. The states will determine by vote or legislation or perhaps both. And whatever they decide must be the law of the land. In this case, the law of the state. Many states will be different. Many will have a different number of weeks or some will have more conservative than others. And that's what they will be. At the end of the day, this is all about the will of the people. I want to thank the six justices, Chief Justice John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, and Neil Gorsuch, incredible people for having the courage to allow this long-term hard-fought battle to finally end. This 50-year battle over Roe v. Wade took it out of the federal hands and brought it into the hearts, minds, and vote of the people in each state was really something. Now it's up to the states to do the right thing. So you can tell that he's really trying to straddle the fence here because on one hand, he wants to force brother supporters to know that he takes full responsibility for the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, and he unequivocally supports that decision.  So this is his way of compromising and communicating to more moderate voters that he's not willing to go that far.  Remember, this document has a goal of enacting a nationwide abortion ban. A lot of the people who wrote that document are part of Trump's inner circle and would likely be part of his second administration. So nobody believes him. Now, when it comes to forced birthers who is also trying to appease, they're not going to accept this position either because if you actually believe that abortion is literally tantamount to murder, you're not just going to accept that some states have the right to murder babies, right? They're not going to be okay with that. And it also doesn't help that Trump's own rhetoric feeds into this because on one hand, he'll concoct the most outrageous lies about Democrats killing babies after they're born, but then say, you know what? I respect states' rights to be able to do this. So if you say that these things that Democrats are doing are really bad, then it logically follows that you wouldn't want to give states the ability to do this, right? So you understand how his forced brother constituents aren't going to be okay with this either. And they're not. And they made that abundantly clear. As Politico reports, anti-abortion rights groups are dismayed with Donald Trump for failing to endorse a national ban, but they are not abandoning him. Susan B. Anthony, pro-life America, one of the most politically powerful and well-funded anti-abortion groups, said it was deeply disappointed in the former president's decision not to embrace a 15-week federal limit. But the organization isn't following through on plans it announced last year to oppose any presidential candidate who refuses to embrace such a policy. Catholic vote president Brian Birch said leaving the issue to the states was not sufficient but slammed Biden and added that the organization is confident a Trump administration will be staffed with pro-life personnel committed to pro-life policies. Anti-abortion rights groups view federal restrictions as key to counteracting the broad abortion protections that blue states, such as California, Illinois, and New York, have leaned on since the fall of Rome as they sought to become havens for abortion access. But they appear to be acquiescing to Trump's pitch that winning elections is more important than moving the needle on abortion policy. Now, the reason why they're acquiescing is because they don't really have a choice. Trump is going to be the only anti-abortion candidate on the ballot in November and there's a reason why he waited until after the GOP primary was over to clarify his position. And now he's trying to let them all down easy, but it's not really going to work and prominent forced brothers are now pissed, including Trump's own former Vice President Mike Pence, who took to Twitter to say President Trump's retweet on the right to life is a slap in the face to the millions of pro-life Americans who voted for him in 2016 and 2020. And even Trump bootlicker Lindsey Graham publicly voiced displeasure with Trump's position, albeit respectfully, of course, because you don't want to upset daddy too much, although Trump was apparently upset because he took the truth social to bash Lindsey Graham after Lindsey Graham said that he disagreed with Trump's position. So, I mean, Republicans are kind of at a crossroads, right? Because their opposition to bodily autonomy has put them at odds with the majority of the American population. So they're faced with the choice, sacrifice their principles for the sake of winning elections or double down, even if it means losing. Now, it was an easy question for Trump since he never really had any principles in the first place. And I don't think he actually cares about this issue. But actual conservatives like Sean Hannity is perfectly fine with Trump selling out the forced brother movement, if it means they can win elections. So, here's what he had to say about this. Now, if you ask me where I stand personally, I'm pretty pro-life. If you ask me where I think the country is politically, I would argue probably the first trimester or Dobs 15 weeks. Any Republican that would ever take a position, and the president was clear in his statement on this, too, any Republican that would take a position, no exceptions for rape, incest, or the mother of his life, that is political suicide. Any Republican that calls for a flat-out ban politically, I'm talking politically now, that would be outright suicide. But I'll tell you one thing, this would be an admonition for any conservative or any Republican running, is that is, if you're going to take that extreme position, you are going to lose votes. If you want to change the country, and if you want to close the borders, and you want to turn this disastrous economy around, and you don't like what's happening with war in Europe, war in the Middle East, America ostensibly has abandoned our ally Israel under the Biden administration. If you are sick and tired of defund, dismantle, no bail laws, etc., this election means everything. Now, any ad that any Republican in any district is running on abortion needs to be answered forcefully immediately by any Republican candidate.  My opinion is the red wave that many expected in 22 didn't happen because of this issue. It's ironic that he considers himself pro-life yet supports Israel's genocide in Gaza. How very pro-life of him. But no Republican who agrees with Kennedy actually thinks abortion is murder. And I say this because if they did, they wouldn't just casually allow murder to continue for the sake of winning elections or under the pretense of state's rights. How voters actually respond when they see real mass murder is they do what Democrats and states like Michigan and Wisconsin did in Democratic party primaries. They voted uncommitted against Biden to pressure him to stop supporting Israel's genocide in Gaza.  They know that abortion is not murder, they just want to control people's bodies. Period. Now another problem with Trump's unequivocal endorsement of state's rights on this issue is that people are much more nuanced than that. Moderate voters, they don't like this idea of supporting state's rights no matter what because some states are pretty extreme. For example, there are states like Florida and Texas that have six-week abortion ban. So if you support state's rights, then you support even that as well. Now there's an example of this that I want to show you. So here's how abortion supporting centrists on Morning Joe interpreted his comments. Really surprised. I thought I'd try to weasel that up a little bit more than he did. What he just said was he supports like Florida's six-week ban. Six-week ban, ban before women, before women know whether they're they're pregnant or not. Dangerous.  I'm not sure if it's still in effect now, but there are, again, crazy extreme laws that have been passed that Donald Trump just said he supports and he salutes and said, I'm responsible for that. Yeah, he's proud of it. And Democrats should drive that message home because for women this is a matter of life and death and the men who love them. Listen, I don't necessarily think that Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski have their finger on the pulse when it comes to what average Normie voters are thinking. Having said that though, with respect to this issue, I do think that it's fair to say that a lot of pro-choice voters, the Normies, the average moderate voters in America, they're going to view Trump's position in that same way. And they're going to continue to be as galvanized by this issue, if not more, after Trump made that comment. So he kind of backed himself into a corner here with this video because in trying to appease everyone, he ended up appeasing no one. And what's hilarious is that the day before he released that video, he boasted about how his position on abortion would bring the entire country together and said he would negotiate something that would make both sides happy and bring peace on the issue for the first time in 52 years.  So good job, Trump, I guess. Now, having said that though, I don't necessarily think that his comments are going to have that big of an impact on the election.    That's not going to change.  And the reason why I say it could hurt him is because ads like this, Biden cut up an ad about this issue that I think is genuinely devastating for Donald Trump. This is one of our Willow boxes. This is just filled with some of the things that we had started gathering for her while I was pregnant. Yep. Here's her little baby book. This is the outfit that she was going to maybe wear home from the hospital. All of these. This is the blanket that she was in. Little footprints. I'm Joe Biden and I approve this message. That ad is utterly gut-wrenching. So when Trump says that he takes credit for Roe v. Wade being overturned, he's owning the consequences of that decision. He is owning that pain and suffering. He's the cause. And that's why him saying that it's going to alienate moderate voters who are galvanized specifically by this issue. And it's specifically why Trump is trying to get voters to think that Democrats are actually the extremists on this issue. It's because everybody knows that Republicans are. That's why he wants moderates to think, you know, we're the more reasonable ones. Democrats, they're the ones who are unreasonable. They're executing babies. Everybody knows that that's not true, especially if you're motivated to get out and vote because of this issue. So he is the bad guy that Democrats are making him out to be. And that ad is 100% spot on. So, you know, he's made quite the mess for himself here, but good. Anything that hurts Trump in the election is something that I fully support. So keep talking Trump because odds are you're not going to help yourself.


And we're broadcasting live in this volume three of Happenings for Reason with only the two of us, because our third one, the Bishop Museum historian and archivist DeSoto Brown is unfortunately down with allergies, so get better DeSoto. Hope you're getting over it soon. So we will having with us our leader, legacy legend, Ron Lindgren from Long Beach, California. Hi, Ron. Hello. Hello, everyone. Good to have you back and myself. Wouldn't you wish I would be back near Munich or I am on the Haltry Terrace on the Hall of Kalani, which is our project we continue to talk about, Ron, right? Yes. So let's switch to the first slide. And again, this is all in the content of us having gotten closer to October 1, which was the reopening of the Hall of Kalani.  And few days before the opening, I saw them, which made me very, very optimistic about according to quoting again, Darryl Hall singing to John Alts, nothing has changed, man, that they were power washing these perforated screens here, Ron, and tell us a little bit more about them. So when we realized that the existing orchids restaurant in the Lewis House really wasn't quite large enough to handle how busy we had all hoped the restaurant would be and that became that case, but also on Sunday brunch, the existing building just wasn't large enough. So we thought of extending out into the lawns, which is a glorious feature to have right at the beach front and see what. And we created some history there because I think anyone who looks at that steel lights frame steel structure, and the partly translucent canvas material that was stretched over it, or actually rolls down from from an open position to a closed position when the weather's bad. It's obviously in addition to an older building so there's some history to provide to the historic Lewis House. So we lucked out in that, in choosing that particular canvas fabric, which was treated with some sort of material that helped to keep it, keep it, keep it look rather fresh and clean for a number of years. It allowed just enough light in so that you were sitting in a glow while you had your seat at the edge of the Lewis House, and right with this gorgeous lawn, and it's few precious pantries, swaying away right next to your, your bill. Absolutely. And with the show quotes up there on the very top left, it's very much like what's our pying mobile and vehicle for thought in several ways for this show here in our vintage. Also 80s from the same era Mercedes SL that has a convertible top and that one you need to replace every so often it's the same thing. What right is the second community grocery store we did which is wrapped with a similar material that had the provocative name brand Ferrari so that my very frugal clients were saying oh that must be really inexpensive. And my son Lenny who used to live close to this grocery store at some point last year said oh it's they took it away it's all naked, but we're happy and relieved equally relieved to see them, bringing it back in your case they didn't replace it at this point they might at some point in the future, but it's it's a little bit the louis lounge is a mason rebuilding its solid and stereotypic. But this addition is very airy and sort of temporary right and sort of more ethereal in its nature so very good choice of material wrong just doing the right job for it. Let's go to the next slide and there is actually two restaurants side by side, and this is getting us by the other restaurant that you tell us its name and its history Ron. Yeah, we're we're looking down at through a sort of covered passage by by building code requirements that passage because it did have and still has a very handsome jewelry store on one side. And that that corridor was so long that we actually had to put glass doors at each end. Of course management has just kept them open. And that's that's worked out fine.  When you make a hard right, you find yourself talking to a lovely lady and getting a seat at the house without a key. The house without a key was based on a terrific detective story. In fact, it was the very first Charlie Chan, which was written by Earl Durr biggers back in the 1930s, when he stayed at the holocloni. And the house without a key I'd recommend everyone to get a copy it's available in paperback, and it's still very compelling, surprising twisty murder mystery in Hawaii starting Charlie Chan. Yeah. And quoting from your previous shows, showing and sharing the holocloni with us show quotes in the very top right is the very original condition from back in the days and then to the left is the one from about two years ago how you had created it. And now we're curious to see how after the remodeling it will look like and that gets us to the next slide because by now, it might be completed we probably think it is, but this is a suggestive illustration a rendering from the holocloni's website. It shows us how it's intended to be and let's contemplate a little about that wrong. The, it looks again as if things haven't particularly changed. But I think there's a rather nice addition in the sense that there never was a sit down bar out of the house about a key. And as one who often travels are often traveled as a single ton on business mostly but sometimes on pleasure trips to Hawaii. When I went when I came to the holocloni to join in on the sunset festivities and the dancing and the music. I sometimes had to just horn in on a four seat table. That's an uncomfortable situation there are those days when you don't want to sit with strangers and make new friends. And you or you got things just a mall over, or you're just feeling a little more anti social. I think it's a fine addition on management's part to have a place to sit a sort of back away from the action, because the real action is from the roofed area out to the ocean, where at sunset tables and chairs are inevitably at least before the pandemic. And it feels solid with happy people ready to applause when the sun sets off to the West. Yeah. And there's one thing that sticks out literally and figuratively speaking what there's actually two things but one thing is the bar you've been talking about. And we've in a little eye winking way put the show quotes up there from our recent visiting Madera and Oscar and Emeyer is swooping sexy curves. They had left the sexiness to the people using your space here the interior architects of the remodeling seem to wanting to do that to to that sort of sticking out bar there. And I, the frequent observer while jogging by before they boarded it up to continue to work while they had reopened the hotel. The structure going together and I have to say, you know, it is light gauge steel clad with something so we will talk about see what it'll ever rise in a little bit. So when the water is coming in there, you know, they might just wash it away. And so, you know, it's not permanent. That's all we try to say, right, this is an interior element that is as easy to be replaced again in the future as it was to be put in there, right. So let's go to the next slide because that's the pool area that's right next to it. And there is that little bit of a which seems a private Holly Kalani Beach but in fact there is no such thing in Hawaii everything has to be public. There's that little alcove from that pretty narrow boardwalk there on the beach. That seems to be a naturally integral part to that sort of landscaping of the Holly Kalani. And again we talked about the pool run before back then show quote up there we talked about that it has been just technically been updated. I should have been waiting for that sort of pinkish water, air mattress getting out of the pool, and have a equally scenic thing as you told us back then that they put this little girl in the pool that made the pool look twice as large, right. So, so that's, that's the water. And we said there is a there's a hidden message or a blue thread through the shows about water happenings for a reason and that gets us to the next slide, and see how what the water is doing outside of your hotel and this is the in the back there this is the the most ever wing of your project. And next to it is which we see in the in the following picture is the outrigger reef and the former shore bird. And here we see that see what a lever rise is not a myth anymore it's actually happening right couldn't be more obvious. So the total provided us this quote from the start the tizer so now it's even out there in the media this was a double page article in the story that ties it from some couple days ago. Let's go to the next slide and look at how that looks like when you walk along your, well this is shore bird again. And, you know this, the palm trees there reminded us of of of gum retraction. I witnessed when they cut down one of these and in the article that the soda provided us they're talking it's eating up the foundation of the outrigger. And I guess that part anyways which we reported about in a show way back then. And also there's this little ironic historic rumor, I guess it's more than that. And then your Holly Pilani run once told me about that sort of interesting neighbor, I guess, relationship that your clients had with Roy Kelly who is the founder of the outrigger hotels, and that this particular guy in front of his property had no beach to begin with and then they were sitting at a table with Dillingham and Dillingham said I might want to give you a beach, and he did. And, respectively, Kelly never paid him for that so we were saying maybe this is a Dillingham slate revenge here of the beach being taken away again. But how is this impacting your project Ron and go to the next slide and you tell us about what you think. When the hotel originally opened and we're talking about 37 years ago. One of the glorious of the hotel is that in some respects that there isn't a beach right in front, and instead in a very almost more interesting way there's a seawall that's been there for forever. And in the first few years, some very high winter storm surges did just sort of just crash right over and right through this walkway and literally 1010s of thousands of people on a busy day walk on that seawall in front of the hotel. It also provides wonderful people watching for people in the house without a key and the orchards restaurant within the Lewis House, just to watch humanity passing forth in all its glorious forms, up and down that seawall. But that amount of salt water that came in early on when the hotel was first open was sort of unexpected on on our part certainly on my part, and it killed a lot of the of the grass that had grown right up to the seawall itself. The only separation between people and the holoclonic property property originally were some sort of low bushes that you could look over. In time. Thank God the bushes grew even higher because people would just walk right through the bushes.  Now, we've got, you know, the real effects of climate change showing up the slide before shows how just how endangered and how endangered structurally that portion of the adjoining hotel is by the rising seawater and the winter storms that will drive water in and on to that property. Yeah, I remember the bushes that you were talking about and I've only been in Hawaii for a decade nearing a decade next year. And I remember when they put this plywood, you know, this thing up there and and what's behind that let's diagnose that more and go to the next slide and see what that actually is. And it's actually bags of dirt that are covered with this black membrane and we can go to the next slide and remember what we saw in the previous slide. What they cover it up is something that we don't get particularly excited about right what is that. What's the final layer of the berm. It's it's actually an artificial grass. And of course, artificial grass can be made to look extremely real, you'd actually have to go down and chew on some of the blades of grass to realize sometimes that it isn't real, but it's it's sort of obviously not real. So now we have this berm rising up from the pool terrace and from the lawns that run between the house without a key and the orchid's restaurant. And yet there's some soil on there. There's some bags, sand, perhaps. Then there's some fabric material that I suppose they's meant to help protect and keep the bags of sand together, and then all topped by this unfortunate artificial grass, which is a little too green, a little too vivid to be real. I do not think that when the next really big storm comes in in the winter, all along the house of the coast of white key that those that kind of a berm will even stand up to the force of the waves, given that the water levels are higher from 37 years ago. And even though that being higher is a matter of an inch or maybe two, that turns out, when you consider the whole worldwide situation, a huge increase in the danger in what can happen when winter storms pour water over that temporary barrier. And of course it can't be a temporary barrier. That problem is with us now, and with the Halaklani and all of their neighboring hotels forever is going to have to be some very clever engineering with aesthetics in mind to create something that, first of all, won't separate the hotels from the ocean experience and being able to see the horizon.  The grand old tree which which was a wonderful feature and always always in magazines and advertisements and travel posters and so forth. At that age it finally gave up the ghost, but it isn't dead it's growing it's growing, you know, new growth out of the tree, but somehow, I don't find it all that attractive as a vestige of what this glorious tree that used to spread out over the house without a key terrace, and over the nighttime stage, where the music, where the musicians played, and where the Hawaiian dancer held court nightly. Maybe has to go as well, when someone can. Yeah, maybe a positive twist would be and I think that's the way they try to justify this said you know it got up to that age that it just needs to lay down all the time but that's a little bit of an ironic right so the two together really is are kind of a set scenario there that needs to be worked on absolutely wrong I agree. So, but let's go back in and look at the hotel in a way that we actually have never looked at it before.   And that has to do certainly allow myself to say has to do with the era you were designing this project which was the 80s and the show quote number five shows the guy who was running America at that time that was Reagan and run at Reagan itself was the impersonation of that decadence of just, you know, you know, doing it, no matter what, the more the better, we are America we can do it. Don't worry about anything. And it reflected in what you could see on TV and what me as a young German guy was was, you know, how America was depicted, starting at the top left with the TV series Dallas from the late 70s until the early 90s and this is JR Ewing who had a Mercedes SL and then to the right of it which we see her number two is Jonathan and Jennifer Hart as hard and hard, who had one or actually a couple that was from 79 till 80 mid 80s when you were building it. And even more shocking at the very top right. This is a gift of my dear friend Stefan our ticky basement expert who gave me for my last years birthday this book about our Mercedes SL and the image number three to the left of it we might even like less because this book cynically says even Donald the young Donald Trump who we hope is not coming back in a couple of years, at least not in the position he was some years ago now. So this role, basically is is about is about decadence but the bottom ones show us a different twist as Alex foley alias Eddie Murphy and the original Beverly Hills one in front of one. And then the two gentlemen at the very bottom left is Magnum PI alias Tom Selleck and Rick all right to the right of him. And they both share something with you Ron, because they, at least in the screenplay and you and real are Vietnam veterans. And there are certainly not the people of the same wealth and power of the one at the top, and of the same decadence, but you guys give it a different twist and let's look at that different twist because we've been talking about the interior, not just the common areas but of the core of the hotel and of hotels which is guest rooms. And now the first time ever on stage, thanks to you Ron. Next slide is the original interiors also of the hotel rooms, starting with the sweets and tell us about. I want to say that this era was was the time when greed is good. We decide, and I decided and my talented interior designers decided that decadence could be good and could actually be seen as a luxury. But it isn't too over the top. And I think the pictures that we're looking at these happen to be special sweets that were commissioned to Vera Wang of the fashion designer, who fact is hardly anything but she hasn't got put her design hands on now. Her design at the Hale Klani was, I think, a fine example of her taste of sort of a luxe, but tropical look, and you're looking at a master bedroom and a suite on the left. And at the right, you're looking at an adjacent dressing room, which is not afraid to be a bit decadent, and it certainly is luxurious. And I appreciated their appearance very much when I saw them in place for the first time. Although I never quite had the cash to stay overnight in the Hale Klani suite at $4,000 a night. Yeah, we came up with two also good terms that were glamour and glitter, right? These are terms that fit well in what we're seeing versus maybe gaudy. And these days we would say gaudy and the 80s were very gaudy, but glitter and glamour is really, you know, describes it pretty well. And let's go to the next slide and see how the bathrooms have been accentuated. And you told me that at the very bottom left in this sink area, there is Leslie Wielbeck, right, with these wonderful lighting fixtures left and right of the mirror. Yes, the interior designer was really interested in glamour. And again, if it's held in some check, that glamour would read through and would be a part of the hotel's identity as a luxury resort hotel. And so we see mirrors and glitter and sparkle and for women to work on their makeup before hitting out for an evening elsewhere in Waikiki, this was an ideal situation. Next to it Vera Wang kept a little bit more moody in terms of her color schemes, but she was creating a large bathroom large enough for four, frankly, I'm not sure why four would be in the tub at the same time. But as you're there, you're looking out through the open, open lanai doors, and you can see nighttime Waikiki and the wonderful glitter of the city beyond and the looming darkness and the mass that you that you can experience of diamond head crater. Yeah, and let's get to the next and last slide for today, which shows us once again, the more normal so not the sweets but the normal guest rooms but they're anything but normal but they're very tropical exotic and not as heavy, right and oversaturated as the ones that we are afraid are the current ones. Right one. The original interior design was done by an architect from Seattle, who has done a lot of interior work result design, many fine buildings in the Pacific Northwest. The picture on the lower right shows diamond head sort of fitting in with what the room appears to be the character of the room. The furniture is very light. The pieces don't really match each other it's like maybe the room has grown and you they've taken some furniture out and replace it with others very light residential scale and notice the touches of live orchids and they brought in the tropics. I mean they were lucky to have the famous crater off in the distance, but even those rooms that didn't have a crater had the tropicality within the room. And we'll be looking at what, what, at least I think and perhaps Martin and DeSoto and I have found that the new new renovated rooms have have lost that character for reasons we're not sure to the lower right is another part of the suite, but the one reason we wanted to show it was when we will be looking next week at the typical newly renovated room. In contrast, what Vera Wang did was she use furniture that is overtly has overt Asian touches as you can see, and that there are strong color contrasts. And there's a large living plant shown on the right, which relates to the happy situation of having a living palm tree from swaying back and forth out over the line I will be seeing will be seeing a different sort of room that's been proposed, not proposed, but built and paid for next week. And we have our questions about that. Absolutely. And with that, stay tuned for that. We're at the end of another exciting show. And until next week, where we start exactly there Ron, stay as a gloriously glittery and glamorous as you Ron. Bye bye guys.


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What's up y'all? So I wanted to talk to you guys today about the GRE. I know you've seen some of my videos, like everything you need to know about the GRE in eight minutes, and if you have not already seen that, go ahead, take a look at that video. And then you can come back to this video because I had a question posed about when is the best time to take the GRE? So that is what I'm gonna be answering in today's video. Let's get into it right now. What's up y'all? Listen down and welcome back to my channel. So like I said, I had the question posed, when is the best time to take your GRE? Now, obviously this is gonna be relative to you all, but since you're asking me, I'm gonna give you my opinion on when I believe the best time it is to kind of take the GRE. Now the GRE is used for grad school in general, so it's not just for PA school. So if you're taking the GRE to get into grad school to do, you know, I don't know, like an MBA or something like that, or to get your doctorate for whatever it is that you're studying, this may not necessarily hold true to you, but I still think it's pretty on par, like across the board with anything because it gives you time, like for contingencies, right? It's time to kind of assess when you expect something to happen a certain way, and it doesn't quite happen the way that you expected it to. It gives you the opportunity to now like kind of rectify that situation. Now, as I stated in my like pre-pre-thing, the GRE is still the major like go-to test for PA school. We do have the PA cat and Casper, the PA cat is more just science-based, the GRE has a lot of math in it. So that's why some schools are kind of moving away from it because it's not really an assessment of all of your science-based knowledge, which is what you really need when getting into PA school and going through PA school, and then obviously becoming a provider. You're gonna need to know all of like the building blocks, the basics of life, and then how we build on that. And so that is why people are moving more towards the PA cat, but there are still lots of schools requiring or highly recommending the GRE. So for those of you who are applying to schools like that, I think it's important for you to first and foremost assess when you're going to apply to that program. So if you're applying to the program as soon as Casper opens up in April, then I feel like the benchmark time, like just across the board, when you should apply and take your GRE is six months before your application. Now six months, I don't know why do you say six months? I say six months because I think that it's important for you to have enough time to not only study for the exam, but like I said, if the exam does not quite go like how you expected it to go, it gives you the opportunity to now retake the exam, like re-study again, study and look at things that you may not have felt comfortable on before, and then take the exam over. The GRE is good for five years. That's it, five years, right? And hopefully in that time you would have gotten better, you would have gotten into PA school, and be well on your way to becoming or you're already a PA. However, that's not always the case. So six months is the benchmark.  But this way, this allows you enough time to send your scores to Casper. It takes about two weeks, sometimes even longer, sometimes up to four weeks for Casper to verify all of your application information. And because of that, that's why that little other three month buffer is important, okay? So for me, if you're asking me, Adana, when the best time to take your GRE is, I would say within like a six month period before you actually need the exam. Because you need to be able to have those contingencies in place, just in case things don't go exactly as planned, okay? So if you guys have any other questions for me, go ahead and leave them in the comment section below. Don't forget to like this video and subscribe to my channel. Follow me on Instagram and on PA, I don't Instagram, I get that's the university. And join me throughout the week as I continue to put more shorts out. Check out my most recent short, especially if you're a female from the age group of 21 to 65, because we're talking about your cervix and cervical health, all right? Thank you guys so much for watching. I will talk to you guys next time. Bye.