I am jazzed up. Yukon fans are riding high after the Huskies crushed the fighting Illinois 77 to 52 in the East Regional Final on Saturday at TD Garden. The top seeded team was neck and neck with Illinois by the end of the first half, but a stunning run in the second propelled the Huskies to victory. Yeah the 30-0 run to start the second half. Unbelievable. It was it was the best. It was the best basketball I've seen all year. That run was the Huskies greatest since Daniel Hurley became their coach back in 2018. Yukon alum Julie Frenness credits Hurley for the team's persistence in this year's March Madness tournament. Even if they're winning by a large margin they're still playing hard and I hope they continue to do that through every game toward the championship. As for the fighting Illinois the sting of the second half remains fresh. The last 15 minutes weren't really even emotional. Illinois got down so big that it was just deflating honestly. The Huskies will head to Glendale, Arizona's State Farm Stadium next week to compete in the final four where they will face off against the winner of tonight's Clemson Alabama game. For BUTV I'm Sydney Roth.


All right, a little bit different of a breakdown today because there's no game footage dissect, but it's still wildly interesting and bizarre and big news in the sports world. Seattle Mariners president, and I think co-owner, part owner, partial owner, he did a appearance with a Rotary Club, and he just was as honest as honest gets, which is bizarre because he said a lot of things that you shouldn't say. In his opening remarks, these were not questions that people asked him, just his opening statements. He said that they survived COVID better than most because of their low payroll and because their TV deal is so good for them, bad for the other side. Our payroll was as low as it was going to get, thank goodness, and we also have a television deal with Root Sports, and we punch well above our weight on the television deal. We got a lot more than we probably deserved as compared to other similar-sized markets. All right, so clearly the Seattle payroll is low. It's not a secret. That's not a surprise. Even him saying it isn't that big of a deal. Everyone knows that they reset or tanked or whatever you wanna say, but openly saying that you get more money than you deserve on the TV deal. I'm sure future negotiations are gonna be pretty fun when the TV guys can be just be like, uh, we're gonna do less than last time because that guy said we should. So, easy negotiations for Root Sports. Let's move on. There was no chance you were gonna see these young players at T-Mobile Park. We weren't gonna put them on the 40-man roster. We weren't gonna start the service time clock. You might have seen my big tummy out there in left field. You would not have seen our young players, our prospects playing at T-Mobile Park. So, if you don't know anything about what he's talking about here, the way baseball works is there's a service time timer. As soon as a young guy gets called up, there's like three years of controlled cost. They make the minimum, and then there's three years of arbitration, which means they go to an arbiter and they figure out a salary based on how that person has performed and how the people close to them form.  Once that service time clock starts, that starts winding down. So a lot of the owners and GMs manipulate that by refusing to call up players until they want to start paying them, I guess. Even if they're crushing the minor leagues, we've seen it a lot. Chris Bryant, Glebert Torres, a lot of teams do this, and a lot of people have tried the file grievance, and usually the GMs are like, no, he needed to work on his defense. No, he needed to work on off-speed pitches. He needed to see more, and they win the grievance. Tough for him to win the grievance now because he's saying no matter what, there's no way we were gonna start that service time clock. He used the exact honest words. It's bizarre. And he does this multiple times throughout the 45-minute session. I have a couple more queued up. Down in April, you won't see him on April 1st, but by mid-April, you will see a young man. So that's a picture he's talking about saying you won't see him on April 1st, but by mid-April, because once the service time clock gets to the right place, they'll call him up. So, I mean... On the mound in April, you won't see him on April 1st, but by mid-April, you will see a young man named Logan Gilbert. So Logan Gilbert, file grievance. He's the real deal. He's atop of the rotation pitcher, and I can't wait to see him at T-Mobile Park. And there's a certain pitcher that I won't mention who was in the bullpen at T-Mobile Park during our summer camp. And this is... All right, so this is what I found super interesting. The dude did have a bit of a conscience. Like, he's so open and honest.  I was like, what? You're mentioning everything you shouldn't mention. How is this line drawn when all the other lines haven't? Cause it gets crazier as we go. He gives enough clues to figure out he's talking about Sam Delaplane. He's telling a story about how Evan White got this huge contract, and the union said he shouldn't have signed it, and then he says this pitcher that I won't mention, but we invited him to camp, and he's gonna come up in 2022, so basically they have his clock figured out. Doesn't matter how Sam Delaplane pitches this year. There's no way he's gonna crack the team, what he's saying right now. And he says that Sam Delaplane, AKA the kid he won't mention, said this. And this was reported by one of the coaches. The players were sitting around talking about Evan White, and he made a mistake signing this long-term deal, and this particular pitcher, who is going to be here in 2022, he said if somebody offers me $23 million guaranteed, find me a pen as fast as you can, I'm signing. So we're gonna do that. Our ownership is committed. We're eager to sign these players up. We're willing to take that risk. So there you go. I mean, Sam, congrats. You might have a contract coming your way. And that's their strategy. It's kind of interesting he's openly talking about it. Everyone knows it exists, but just openly talking about it. Just like service time manipulation. Everyone knows it exists and they do that. That's not the shocking part. The shocking part that is on video and audio that he knows is being recorded. He just doesn't dance around at all. He just straight up says it. The union has hearts in their eyes right now about all the grievances and all the things they can bring up at negotiations. Let's keep going. Jared Kalanick, we've been talking about him for a year and a half now. He will be in left field in April. He's a 21 year old player who is quite confident. We offered him a long-term deal, six year deal for substantial money with options to go farther. And after pondering it for several days and talking to the union, he has turned us down. And in his words, he's going to bet on himself. He thinks after six years, he's gonna be such a star player that the seventh, eighth, ninth year options will be undervalued. He might be right. He might be right. We offered and he turned us down. I mean, the insight that this Rotary Club is getting is awesome. If you're in Seattle, I mean, our Rotary Club membership is just gonna boost up because you get all the inside goods. I mean, that's just him talking about contracts that none of that was public. I don't believe. Kyle Seeger, this is problem. This stuff's good. He mentions Kyle Seeger a couple of times. Kyle Seeger has an option next year. They're not picking it up. Kyle Seeger, this is probably his last season as a mariner. Okay, I don't think they knew that. Kyle Seeger's wife tweeted out, I guess we should put our house on the market because we're not coming back. Really motivating Kyle Seeger to keep playing. He brings up Kyle Seeger later in the Q and A and he brings him up to talk about how good of a leader he is, but he opens with this. And I have to compliment, Kyle Seeger is a veteran player. He's probably overpaid. Why even say that? Why even say that?  We lost $2.9 billion last year and we have taken the position that there are 180 free agents still out there on February 5th unsigned. And sooner or later, these players are going to turn their hat over and come with hat in hand looking for a contract. So just actually gets the hat out to use it as a prop. I don't know who the we is because he says our industry lost 2.9 billion and we is we the mariners or is we all the owners because if it's the latter, that's crazy collusion. If it's the former, it's just like, dude, you're the loosening, losingest franchise. You haven't seen the playoffs in forever. Why are you bragging about low balling players? Doesn't seem that just bizarre to put that on record. Just bizarre. Yeah, we're going to get the scraps at the end when they come groveling because we refuse to pay them what they're worth. Rotary Club just claps.  It frustrates me. For instance, we... Oh, here we go. This is the good stuff. This is what's getting everyone mad. He was asked about players learning English and what are they doing to help players learn English? And here's just a delight of an answer. We just rehired Iwakuma. Iwakuma was a picture for us for a number of years. Wonderful human being. His English is terrible. He wanted to get back into the game. He wanted to, and he came to us and we quite frankly want him as our Asian scout interpreter. What's going on in the Japanese league? He's coming to spring training and I made the same... I'm tired of paying his interpreter because when he was a player, we pay Iwakuma X but we also had to pay $75,000 a year to have an interpreter with him. His English suddenly got better. His English got better when we told him that. Ugh. So... All right.  They could pay millions of dollars for players with $75,000 for an interpreter to make that player perform better and feel as comfortable as he can. Terrible. They're bragging about undervaluing, getting more money, getting less money. The whole thing is about business and not baseball and getting cheaper dollars which it is a business and I understand that but like to be this upfront about it it's just kind of just bizarrely honest.  Like the foreign players, they may be able to speak English in conversations but they don't want to use broken English in their second language to be put on record when people are recording them so they'd rather have an interpreter say, reword things. Uh-uh, don't say that. We should say this instead. Help them out to make sure they don't make a fool of themselves.  Imagine if this rotary club spoke Japanese and he had an interpreter there helping him. That interpreter would be nudging him and being like, hey, probably let's not say this. I'll change it and make it much better in Japanese.   Tell us about Julio Rodriguez. Julio Rodriguez has got a personality bigger than all of you combined. He is loud. He is, his English is not tremendous. Why? Why is that a point of emphasis at all? They literally just said, can you tell us about this young stud you got in the minors? Yeah, his personality's a lot.  No need. They didn't ask how his English was. Him and Kelleneck are very good friends. He's a year behind Kelleneck. He will probably be here in, everybody says 2021. He won't be here till 2022 or 2023. No, we're not gonna start that service time on him early. Everyone says he's ready for 2021. Hey, Julio, no matter what you do in the minors this year and maybe even next year, we ain't bringing you up. It's, no, it's not, you don't get to earn it. It's just kind of how we feel about it. There's not enough parking.  So I don't let my employees park there. I have them park down on the other side of a century, I guess. So this question, they asked like, what's your biggest concern right now? What's a pain point for you, Kevin Mather? And he said that the neighborhood surrounding the field isn't great. And because there's limited parking, he gets to charge a lot of money for parking, which you can see makes him smile. And because he can charge a lot of money for parking, he makes his employees park on the other side of town in an area that he doesn't think is safe. So he, so that's his biggest concern. You can let him park closer. You can let him park closer. Marco Gonzalez. Oh, here's a good little drama beef story that he tells us about Mike Leek and Marco Gonzalez. Is, has really taken a leadership role in 20, good story. In 2019, we had a veteran pitcher that we have since traded to the Arizona Diamondbacks. We wanna figure out who it is. Just say it, man. You just say it.  Like just say Mike Leek. We know who you're talking about. Who had, you know, attitude. He, he'd been around. He'd been there, done that. And our bullpen coach was talking to the starting pitchers about, this was in spring training.  Let's make sure it's quality. And he was giving this speech and the pitcher who's no longer with us kind of rolled his eyes and said, don't tell me how to throw my bullpens yet.  And, you know, for a young kid to do that, good for him, good for him. It's a good story. Again, Rotary Club memberships gotta be booming. Baseball fans joining left and right. This is the type of insight they get. This is like a podcast episode that should have been released in the year 2040. And then it would make sense. Statue of limitations kind of up. Right now, not great. I got another bull, Ted Bowen, even know what this one is. Let's see. Kellanuck is not happy that he's the fifth highest prospect on baseball America and Rodriguez is the fourth highest prospect.  Wow, earlier they said they were best friends. Even though Rodriguez supposedly doesn't speak or English. What a mess, man. What a mess. His mug says something like, his mug says women's lives, our passion.  So there's your Seattle Mariners.  Just so honest, it's crazy. Valuing being cheap more than anything. Like this dude went to the Rotary Club and he was like, what can I do to impress these people and let them know the Seattle Mariners are doing good things? Are we winning games? No, but we're saving money. That'll impress them. Honestly, every point he had, he thought the most impressive thing was how they save money. So he apologized, I take that back. Someone wrote an apology on his behalf and he probably said, yeah, send that. And I don't know, that's where we're at. So it's great insight. The union is probably salivating. It's great insight.  Now you guys know, Kevin Mather, president of the Seattle Mariners and pressing the hell out of the Rotary Club, giving them all the secrets. Dumb.


All right, so I work for the Public Knowledge Project, or I have an affiliation with the Public Knowledge Project. I've been working here for 10 years, and most people know the Public Knowledge Project because of OJS, but I want to just give you just a very quick of what PKP is. The Public Knowledge Project is a project, just like the name suggests. It's actually a project at a university. It is not an organization that actually exists with any, as an actual legal entity in any way. It is really just a project primarily based out of Santa Fe University Library. The mission of the project and the goal of the project that's now been going on for 20 years is to increase the quantity and the quality of the knowledge that's available to the public and to increase the quantity and the quality of the global participation in the creation of that knowledge. And we do that in a bunch of different ways. For like I say, for most people, this is the way that we do this is just by thinking about open journal systems, the open source software that we do for managing and publishing academic journals. And the reason that I think people just sort of associate PKP with OJS primarily is because there's over 10,000 journals using open journal systems. They are distributed around the world with participation that's a lot in Latin America in North America, basically everywhere in the world where there's just a lot of journal publishing going on. But PKP is actually, we do a lot more than just the software. So we do have software that's open journal systems. We have a conference software that's similar, although that one we sort of shelved a little bit, but it's still out there and being used by a very dedicated community. We have software for managing monographs, so academic monographs and edited volumes and so on. And we're working on a type setting stack as well to be able to do conversions and manuscripts to XML. And we do a lot of work around, we do a lot of research to inform of these activities and to help inform and have us engage with the community. So we do research around open access, research around metrics to understand audiences, around intellectual property issues, around economic models, I have a project around incentives. And we do a lot of this participating in meetings and doing advocacy work and trying to sort of shape the conversation around what global scholarship should look like and a lot of doing advocacy work around making sure that the perspectives of the kinds of journals that tend to use our software journal based out of places that are not just the US and Europe, that their perspectives and their needs are also being considered and taken into account when we're doing any of this work that we do. And we're also providing services, including hosting services that we're doing now to try to also sustain ourselves. So we do publishing services, but we also provide free services as well primarily for journals around preservation and indexing. A lot of people think of OJS, the old version of OJS, which was ugly. OJS 3 is new and now it looks modern, so I just wanna flash through some nicer looking OJS instances to try to dispel that notion that this 10 year old, 15 year old software was ugly. Now these journals look like actual professional journals published in 2018. Not like journals that were being published in the web of 1995, right?  You may have noticed that some of these examples, you can't read them because they're not in English because we are a project that really takes, are really a global project with participation from journals from everywhere around the world. Okay, thank you. That inside of OJS also looks nicer. This is in the, you know, and one of the nice things about new versions of OJS is that all of the OJS 3, the front ends can be skin separate from back end, which makes so much sense now, but that when we made OJS 2, maybe it was not one of their considerations. So the inside of OJS is also much nicer and it has sort of a, and I could go in and start discussing what are some of the changes around what that workflow and so a lot of the pain points around OJS, a lot of the things that you might have heard around why people didn't, were not sort of satisfied with OJS, we were getting a really positive and great reception from OJS 3 addressing a large number of those issues, if not all of them. And I sort of was asked to say, you know, what is sort of on our roadmap? Sort of interoperate with all of the things. Basically OJS already out of the box, they sort of, we've already have been thinking about how we integrate with all of the pieces of the workflow, and so it already plays nicely with a lot of the tools and services that are out there. And if it doesn't, it can. So there's a lot of things that sometimes we just don't have the developer resources to build, but that we're always happy if someone from those organizations or some of the other projects wants to say we like an OJS integration and is interested in developing, devoting some resources towards it. It's something that we're always happy to do. One of the things that we're doing, which is also just opening up, we have an API that was also built into OJS 3 to be able to interact with the content. And we are, in every subsequent release, adding more and more endpoints to that API to be able to do more things. So at the beginning it was just to be able to pull out content from OJS, and now we're trying to also build in that API so people can sort of actually modify files and do different sort of steps in the workflow also through the API, so that it's easier for integration with more of the things. So I like to say that we are the very model of modern open source for open science tool. We do all of the open source, all of the multi-lingual open source for scholar-led, and we're interoperable. And so we can just put a hashtag around that and I'll end it there. Thank you.


Aloha, and welcome to Hawaii Together on the Think Tech Hawaii broadcast network. I'm Kaley Akinna, and I'm delighted to be able to live in a state where there is beauty and all kinds of resources people don't often get to know about. And today we've got some of the finest of these resources, a couple examples of our young people. Hawaii's young people are keeping up with students across the world in their skills and their abilities, whether it's in robotics or sports. Today I'm pleased to have two of Hawaii's top debaters with us, the winners of the state tournament in public forum debate. They've just come back from the national tournament representing Hawaii. And I'm a bit prejudiced. I think they're outstanding young people, but that has nothing to do with the fact that one of them is my son, and another is a good friend. I hope you'll welcome to the show today, and we can pick the brains of Michelle Murata and Maoloa Akinna. Welcome to the program. Thanks for having us on the show. Great to have you, Michelle. Thanks for having us. This is Maoloa. Well, first of all, congratulations. You've just come back from Florida where you competed on behalf of Hawaii representing our state in the national tournament. Michelle, how was that? That was really fun. It was a super unique experience, and it was our first time competing at nationals in debates. So it was really fun. Yeah. It was really interesting to see the different styles of debate, but probably the most outstanding thing that we saw was that debaters on the national circuit, they go really in depth when it comes to their arguments or their style. Well, that's something. You know, from observing the debate tournament, I came away realizing that we have these young people here, including yourselves who are smart, who are polished, who are speakers, a lot of excellence, and who can argue like lawyers. What's it like to be a debater? I think people know what it's like sometimes to be on a sports team or to be in the band and so forth. Is there a culture of its own in high school, in debate? I think there definitely is a culture, especially because we have this community where we're getting together like on a regular basis to research and write cases. So it's definitely influenced our friend group a lot, I think, and just, yeah, in general. What are some of the things you talk about with each other? I'm sure you talk about boyfriends and girlfriends and movies and so forth. But beyond that, what are some unique conversations that debaters have when they're out having fun? When it comes to having fun, you know, we'll talk about things, whether it's trade policy or health care or like building a wall. Anything that's a hot topic in the news, yeah, that pretty much sparks our interest. And you've spent your four years in high school working very hard academically. You're both students of Kamehameha or graduates of Kamehameha schools. You've had advanced placement courses. You've been involved in sports. But you've also been spending hours upon hours every week studying debate. But what's it like to have that intensity for four years? It's definitely difficult because it's something massive that's added to our plate and to our schedule in general. But I think it's really helped us vote because it really forces you to practice time management regularly and triage and all of those skills I think are really applicable in general. So I'm really grateful for it. Malo, what are some of the skills you developed being a debater? Just public speaking, essentially. Learning how to persuade, learning how to connect with an audience. Those are things that you wouldn't get in a normal club, normal sport. And so that's one of the things that makes debate, speech and debate so profound that you get to use these skills not just while you're in the round, in the competition, while you're in the suit, but you can take those skills and apply it to anything else, any other subject. Now, Michelle, when you do debate, you have to learn how to be on both sides, right? Yeah. What does that do to you when you have to round after round change sides on a given position? I think that would freak a lot of people out. It's really difficult and I think a lot of people don't understand that about debate because a lot of people ask me, like, okay, what side are you on? But what they don't understand is we have to prep both sides. And so it's hard because sometimes we go in between rounds and we debate pro the first round and we're calm the second round. And you go up and sometimes you get confused with which argument you're stating. So it can be difficult, but it definitely helps in terms of being mentally organized, I think. So how do you think that helps you in forming your opinions as a citizen? It definitely helps a lot in that I make sure I'm informed on both sides because I think a lot, especially with our media nowadays, it can be really partisan or biased. So it's important to contrast every source you have on one side of the spectrum with another source. And I think that that's something Mo and I both do because we're in the practice of doing it thanks to debate. Now, Malo, you have debated on a broad variety of issues ranging from the capital gains tax to immigration policy and so forth. I'm going to put you on the spot here. Try to explain to non-debaters what some of these things are about. For example, what is the capital gains tax? OK, so capital gains tax is actually really easy to grasp. So if you have a capital asset that can be things whether it can be a broad range of things, whether it's like you're buying an office space for your own business, basically if that office space appreciates in value over a set amount of years, you'll be taxed upon that appreciation. And that tax is called the capital gains tax. Michelle, well, what's the debate here over the capital gains tax on whether to abolish it or whether to increase it? So the issue with the capital gains tax is some people see it as a hindrance to the economy and some people see it as actually something that's really helpful. So one of our arguments was that by removing the capital gains tax, which is what the resolution was calling for, we would exacerbate market volatility, which would cause these really rapid exchanges of assets. And that would be something that would destabilize the economy. But on the other end of the spectrum, what happens when you get rid of the taxes, you free up businesses from this lock-in effect to exchange their assets, which can be a positive thing as well, because it stimulates the economy. What did you find was the most persuasive argument for repealing the capital gains tax? For repealing the capital gains tax, what was that? I feel like the primary argument, yeah, the argument that we ran, I know it's so long ago. But I think that the argument we ran for the capital gains tax was to say that even though there would be some destabilization occurring, overall, businesses would be investing more. And that would just help the economy so much that the positives would outweigh the negatives. That was essentially our argument. How do you defend the capital gains tax? You see, use it as a market checker, essentially. Something to help stabilize the economy, stabilize volatility, because it incentivizes investors, businesses, to actually create these and invest in well-thought-out assets, rather than just these short-term one-year assets. And so when you have a lot of more thoughtful investments, the market tends to be a little less volatile. It sounds like debate involves a lot of economics. It can, at times, yeah. And so having that we were both in the same economics class is really helpful this year, because we did have more economics resolutions than I've ever seen. That seems to be an important part of public policy. Now there are political issues that you deal with as well. I remember shortly after 9-1-1, we authorized in the United States a policy called Authorized Use of Military Force. And that's become hotly debated in terms of whether there's too much or too little. That was one of the topics you debated, isn't it? What exactly is authorized use of military force? So the authorized use of military force was essentially it was in response to 9-11. And what it did was it authorized the president to send out troops to deploy military forces in a time of emergency when we were being directly threatened by forces related to the forces responsible for 9-11. I can see the purpose of that. Malo, what was the debate resolution? What did you debate about it? If the AUMF, or the Authorized Use of Military Force, grants the president too much power. Whether it grants the president too much power. Now that's a hot topic, given the administration's that. Definitely. Yeah. Our opponents love to. Particularly President Obama's. What are your thoughts, either of you, on whether the AUMF authorizes the president too much power? Does it grant too much power? I don't think so, because if we're looking at the scope of the presidential duties, he's the commander-in-chief. He's the one, or he or she's the one that's supposed to be protecting our country. And so when you're in this position of power, you need to make those decisions real fast. And the AUMF allows the president to make these decisions. Michelle, what would be the counter-argument? The counter-argument is, especially given our current commander-in-chief seems rash at times.  I think that a lot of arguments were, you're giving this man the ability to essentially deploy weapons of mass destruction. And given that that's a decision that can be made within a few seconds, it's kind of crazy to fathom that someone can have that much power. But at the same time, we need to realize that it's not the president making these decisions alone. He does have checks and balances. Well, talking about the current president, immigration has certainly been in the news in terms of issues that he's weighed in on significantly. And one of your topics was debating the H1B visa. What exactly is the H1B visa program? Either of you. So the H1B visa program is a worker visa program. And so what companies will do is they'll file for these, they'll file for H1B application spots. And so what will happen is that there's a system that will match everyone that's applying for it that's not in the country that wants to work. And it'll just match up the companies to the other people that want to work. Essentially, yeah. So Michelle, what was the debate resolution on this? What were you debating? So we were debating whether or not we should increase our current quota of H1B visas. And what's the major argument for increasing the quota? The major argument for increasing the quota is, well, you kind of have to look to the purpose of the program, which is to bring in specialized foreign workers that fill some kind of need. So the argument was we need to bring in these workers because we don't have Americans who can fulfill these tasks themselves. And that was the primary argument on pro. And what was the con argument? Why we should not increase the quota of H1B visas? Yes, you can get this specialized labor from abroad, but we have to recognize that it comes at a cost. And that cost is putting our own American citizens out of jobs. And what we saw is that a lot of companies have to offshore their processes to places that aren't even in their own state. And so we would see, in some industries, there would be a nine to one onset off-site ratio, where there would be nine Americans displaced for every one H1B applicant that was brought in. Having researched both sides and having debated both sides, did you come to a conclusion yourself personally? I think we both came to the same conclusion, which was that the H1B visa system right now is really corrupt, where we give out 85,000 worker visas. But as we found, there are double or triple the amount of visas that are filed for. So there's this really large demand. And that has caused us to shift toward this lottery system. So now we're not necessarily pulling the best and brightest from other countries. We're just pulling randomly from this pool that meets this baseline requirement. No, I can imagine you getting into a conversation about immigration and visas with the other teenagers who are not here and so forth. There are other members of your generation, especially here in Hawaii.  America should be open with open arms to all people. Don't you have compassion? And why do you want to restrict people from having the freedom that your parents had as they came here as immigrants and so forth? Is that a typical reaction on this issue? Oh, yeah. It's pretty typical. Not just within people we see at school, but also on the media. We'll see a lot of these pathos emotionally appealing arguments where they'll show some compassion or why are you so heartless. But we have to recognize that there's a pragmatic side to that and that there's a cost for all of this. And if that cost is greater than the benefits, then it's not something that's worth it. Well, that's very interesting, because people generally decide their position on these issues based upon some feeling that they have or some ideology. What I hear you're saying is you try to base it upon the research involved. We're going to come back in just a moment. I'll ask you about some other issues, but I hope you've been having fun. I've enjoyed listening to you. Definitely. And I'm going to come back and ask you why you are not millennials and don't like to be called millennials. My two guests today, Michelle Murata and Mauloa Akina are Hawaii's two top debaters, having one the public forum debate contest here and having represented us nationally. In just a moment, we'll be back with them to talk more about some of the topics they debate, as well as their perceptions of their generation and why it's different from other generations. I'm Kili Akina on Think Tech Hawaii's Hawaii Together. Don't Go Away. Hi, everyone. I'm Andrea Gabriele. The host for Young Talent's Making Way here on Think Tech Hawaii. We talk every Tuesday at 11 AM about things that matters to tech, matter to science, to the people of Hawaii with some extraordinary guests, the students of our schools who are participating in science fair. So Young Talent's Making Way every Tuesday at 11 AM only on Think Tech Hawaii. Mahalo. Hey, Stan Energyman here on Think Tech Hawaii. And they won't let me do political commentary. So I'm stuck doing energy stuff. But I really like energy stuff. So I'm going to keep on doing it. So join me every Friday on Stan Energyman at lunchtime, at noon on my lunch hour. We're going to talk about everything energy, especially if it begins with the word hydrogen. We're going to definitely be talking about it. We'll talk about how we can make Hawaii cleaner, how we can make the world a better place, just basically save the planet. Even Miss America can't even talk about stuff like that anymore. We got it nailed down here. So we'll see you on Friday at noon with Stan Energyman. Aloha. Welcome back to Think Tech Hawaii's Hawaii Together. I'm Kili Akina. And again, you're watching this on the Think Tech Hawaii Broadcast Network, where we produce about 30 hours of content every week that goes across the world on every issue from politics and government to the economy, to the arts, and to culture, society, and religion. Today, we're talking with two of Hawaii's brightest young people, if I say so myself, two debaters who have won their championship here in the state and represented us nationally. And they're going to share a little more about their insights into topics and their generation. Maloa Akina and Michelle Morata. Well, Maloa, I take it that I've committed a full par when I referred to both of you as millennials a little bit earlier. Well, what is the exception taken to that? Yeah, people mistake us for millennials all the time, but they don't realize that. We're actually generation Z. So I believe the cutoff is 1995 to 2012. OK, so Michelle, what's the demographic of millennials and what's the demographic of generation Z? You mean in terms of culture? Who they are. Oh, who they are. Well, generation, we have some teachers actually that refer to us as millennials, which is ironic, because our teachers themselves, a lot of them are millennials. And so a lot of the younger folk are generation Z, whereas kids in high school still, people still up and coming, whereas those who are sort of settled in their careers early on in their careers, those are considered millennials. Now, there's been a lot of focus in the last decade on what millennials are and educating people about them and making movies about them and so forth. And what would you describe your generation, generation Z as being? What distinguishes you from millennials? I think that because our generation, we were pretty much thrown into this technologically advanced society. It's something that the millennial generation didn't have growing up.  We were watching TV. We were on laptops at such a young age. I'm in, I think, third or fourth grade. I was using I. And so what we see is that there's a lot more seeking or like, yeah, there's a lot more craving for knowledge and seeking out this knowledge, because we realize that it's at our fingertips. And so that's a really big distinguisher between generation Z and millennials. Michelle, are there any cultural differences? I think there definitely are some cultural differences. There are a lot of people who like to say, I guess actually this applies to millennials and generation Z. There are a lot of people who like to refer to us as snowflakes or people who are kind of hypersensitive to issues, which is true if you think about, as Malola was saying, you have to consider the context and the fact that we as generation Z grew up with everything at our fingertips, this world of information at our fingertips. And so I think there is a lot of sensitivity that's been stirred up because of that. Well, you have information at your fingertips. What do you think about the information that is fed to us through network television, news media, social media, and so forth? What are your thoughts? Is it all believable? Is that where you get your understanding of the world, or do you have some misgivings? I think that especially in the past, I'd say four or five years, we've seen a rise of biased media from very, very well-established of news sources. We'll see that they'll only be publishing articles in a certain type of way. They'll be having to, they're creating the same narrative that's only representative of one side and casting the other side as intolerant, or evil, or very unheartfelt. And so what we see is that there is this hypersensitive culture. It's really complicated to get into, but it's interesting, but also something. Michelle, what is the ideology that you see in the media coming through in terms of a kind of bias that I think Malo is talking about? So I think that we can all agree that liberal ideology tends to be sort of the agenda of the Democratic Party, tends to be more on the forefront of the media nowadays. And that's not something that would be necessarily bad if the other side got more coverage, but we see that oftentimes the narrative is skewed one way. And that can be detrimental, because especially considering the fact that Generation Z we're always on social media. We're always seeing what the mainstream is feeding us, and what the mainstream is feeding us is usually very tailored to one party. And yeah, that can be misleading. Well, give us, for example, how that may apply to some of our current issues. Like we were talking about President Trump earlier, and he's taken quite a rap with respect to immigration with regard to ICE and child separation. Is this an issue where the media has got it wrong? I don't think they got it wrong. It's more that they're portraying it in a way that made it seem like, oh, this is a new thing. This is something that only President Trump and his administration is doing. This is never seen before. But we have to recognize that we've seen these separation policies in terms of illegal immigration from the 1970s. It was used widely by the Obama administration, but it didn't get the same coverage as it's getting today. Your thoughts? Yeah, I mean, going off of that, these policies, this idea of family separation, it's not something that's specific to the Trump administration. There was a case that came up from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, I believe it was. And this was in the late 1990s. And essentially what they ruled was that accompanied illegal immigrant children couldn't be detained for more than 20 days. And so after those 20 days elapsed, what either happened was the family was released together or just the child was released. And so that's what we see is still happening. So as you said earlier, it's not so much that the media got it wrong on a factual basis, but there's a portrayal, a slant that introduces a political perspective on it. And what you're pointing out here is that we're really observing nothing that is new or unique to the Trump administration. So why do so many people and so many people of the younger generation believe that the media's portrayal is what's taking place? Is there just a lack of critical capacity? I feel like to say that would be to undercut the intellectual capacity of our generation. But I do think that it's easier sometimes to simply accept what the mainstream media is feeding us rather than to do some deeper digging. And I think that, especially given the New York Times and I mean these news sources are very credible and have very big reputations that precede them. So it's easy to just take that information and assume it's correct rather than doing more research. Said by a true debater who debates both sides. Well, let's shift to another issue in which there has been strong opining on the part of young people of your generation and your older brothers and sisters, the young millennials. And that has to do with school shootings and the call then for gun control. Is that necessary? I mean, is that something that makes sense to you? That these school shootings are massive evidence for the need for widespread tightening of gun control laws? I think we're seeing a lot of correlation. We're not seeing causation. Because if you look at the facts, you look at the FBI, I mean the FBI's stat book, a lot of these sources agree that you can't really link homicide rates with, or you can't link a decrease in homicide rates with an increase in gun control. Rather, you kind of see the opposite, which is why there's a statistic where 98% of mass shootings occur in gun-free zones because you take away the people's ability to defend themselves and that's really, really important and really terrifying especially in a country that was built upon and has a second amendment based off of protecting yourselves through bearing arms. Do you agree that that's what the research shows, Michelle? I do agree, yeah, and in debate that's something that we evaluate a lot too. We say correlation doesn't imply causation and even sometimes when there's not correlation we need to really examine the evidence. And by that correlation and not causality, you mean guns, school shooting, guns cause school shooting. Right, exactly. That's not necessarily the case. What we're observing is merely guns and school shootings. And there may not be a causal relationship between the two. Yeah, well, it's also, I think, looking to one statistic in terms of international comparisons, what we see is Japan has the lowest rate of shootings and homicide rates, but second lowest is Switzerland. What we don't realize is Switzerland also has the second highest arms possession rate. So it doesn't necessarily mean if you have more guns that you're going to be seeing more homicides. It's not the case. Counterfactual there, Switzerland. And so how do you handle the fact that you're surrounded by a generation of people who don't agree with you, who march on mass and I don't have any disrespect for showing, for memorializing the tragedy that took place on many campuses, but there was a lot of political pining there about gun control and so forth. How do you handle being somebody who has a different opinion than the majority of your peers? I think what's important to recognize is that, yes, we have seen a lot of vocalization, but that's not, and we're not saying it's a completely bad thing, because that's what makes America America. We can protest about things that we don't like, but we also have to recognize that for people like us, we tend to be, Michelle and I tend to be the minority of viewpoints, especially in the state like Hawaii, but that's why we really go back to our friend group, we go back to a speech in a bait where we can have this discourse with each other and actually get to the bottom of these issues. So your political views aren't yours necessarily because you belong to a party or a club or because of your parents and so forth. I hear underneath what you're saying is you rely upon your critical thinking skills, your research ability and so forth to form opinions. Yeah, I'd say that's fair. Well, at least that's what we try to do to the best of our ability. And at times we're wrong, which is totally okay, but it's about going back to the evidence, to the facts, I think, rather than simply siding with a political figure you agree with, it's about doing deeper research. How free is our speech and how assured are our rights here in the United States? It's a massive question. That's a really deep question. I think systematically it's free, but what we've seen in the past few years is that free speech is under attack. We've seen the rise in, what is it, safe spaces, a lot of this hypersensitive community has really restricted a people's ability to have this discourse, to have this exchange of ideas, this marketplace of ideas, because it might be politically incorrect to say things. And so that's really important and really detrimental to our free speech and our first amendment as a whole. Yeah, I totally agree with that. And I think one of the major issues with this generation is because of this hypersensitive culture, we've forgotten how to disagree productively. And now it's all about disagreements become personal and you're being attacked by ad hominem suddenly when you're just trying to have a conversation with someone. So it needs to be about, sure we have these differences, these disagreements, but how do we reconcile these and how do we move forward together? Rather than taking everything to a fence, it needs to be about moving forward together. Well, wonderful. I think we were in good hands both of you are part of the discourse in the years to get shaping the quality of life in our nation. Maloa, thank you for being with us. Michelle, thank you. Quickly before we go, take 10 seconds each to tell our audience what you plan to do this coming year. I'm going to be pursuing a degree in, hopefully I want to major in human biology with an emphasis in bioethics at Stanford University. So that's where I'm going to be this next year. I'll be attending Marist College in the fall. I'll be majoring in New York. Yeah, in New York. I will be majoring in business administration with a concentration in finance and then probably minoring in economics as well. Well, I wish you both the best and thank you so much for being with us today. Thank you for having us. You did a great job, you really did. And congratulations on your victory. Thank you. Well, thank you for watching today.  And I think that's very important as we look ahead. Our future really is going to be driven by the millennials and their little brothers and sisters known as Generation Z. I got that right finally. I'm a post-baby boomer. Thank you again for being with us today. I'm Kili Iakena. I'm Think Tech of Hawaii's Hawaii Together. Until next time, aloha.


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Hi, everyone. Welcome. We're here for the Drupal Association's Global Training Days webinar. I'm Lauren Shea with the Drupal Association. I'm our community outreach coordinator and I work on Global Training Days as one of my projects. And I have with us today Kenny from Anexus IT and Amy from Blink Reaction. And we're going to talk to you a little bit about Global Training Days and what that looks like, how you can incorporate that into something that you are doing as a trainer and how to get back to the community. Just a little bit of housekeeping. If you're listening from your computer, please select the mic and speaker audio option. You're going to be remained muted on the call. And if you have any questions, please put them into the Q&A window or not using the chat option on this webinar. And also look for our post-webinar survey that we'll send out after the webinar as well as a recorded video as this is going on. A little bit about the Drupal Association. Our mission is to foster and support the Drupal community so they can collaborate together as they innovate the project. There's so much and so many ways to get back to the community just as Global Training Days is. We host our Drupal.org and are building a tech team to improve the site and just hire Josh, our CTO. And we're also hiring for more positions. We provide grants for the community members to fund ways that grow the community and further the project. Like starting new camps in areas such as China or running multi-city road shows evangelizing Drupal. And we host Drupalcons which bring together thousands of people to work on the project and bond as a community. We even provide scholarships and help amazing community members from around the globe to attend the event. All of this is funded through our memberships, our Drupalcons and our partners. We also have some upcoming events, Drupalcon Austin. Again, this is our big event where a lot of different businesses and trainers as well as Drupal users and colleagues come together and meet and discuss some trainings as well as other sessions. It's really an exciting opportunity to see all things Drupal. We have our next Global Training Days which we'll be talking about that's coming up in May. And our next webinar is with Achieve Internet and they're talking about how Drupal integration can grow your business. A little bit about the Drupal Association membership. Like I said earlier, we're here to support the Drupal community and support Drupal.org infrastructure. We have some membership fees that help fund these programs and also provide you and your company with a way to grow and support Drupal. There's information here on individual memberships or organization memberships. And if you have more questions about that, you can see the link at the bottom of the page. And we also recognize our members in our Drupal Association annual report. Okay. So what is Global Training Days? Our Global Training Days is an initiative that we started to introduce new and beginning Drupal users to the code. The Drupal Association is partnering with training companies to make this happen. So once a quarter, we send out a call to action to our trainers around the globe to participate. We have two of our training companies and trainers that are doing this currently. And basically it's just an introduction for new people to get into Drupal and see how everything works. We have two different types of curriculum, introduction to Drupal, which is a full day of training on the basics of Drupal. The curriculum is built so that a newbie can build a Drupal site by the end. And it's ideal for people who are really exploring Drupal as a career option. Our second training, which a trainer can provide, what is Drupal is a half-day workshop. And this addresses just the basics of Drupal and gives an overview of those interested in evaluating and implementing Drupal. Each training company makes their own event and provides more detail on their website. And we'll talk about that a little bit later as far as where to sign up. Where is Global Training Days? So this February, we hosted and we had 20 countries represented from 34 different training companies with over 200 participants. So it's huge. One of our biggest events, we had countries in almost every continent. And it was a really, really successful show of how the global effort and global initiative being Drupal is really being adopted worldwide. And one of the best parts about this is that people are so excited about Drupal and building our core group of developers that it's a great way to give back and learn about Drupal worldwide. So now I'm going to introduce you to Kenny. He's a CEO at an XSIT and he'll talk to you about his Drupal Global Training Days and himself. Kenny, whenever you're ready. Perfect. Thank you, Stephanie. My name is Kenny. As you can see, I'm the CEO of an XSIT. We started working with Drupal. Well, I actually started working with Drupal back in 2007 as a front-end developer. And my role right now in the company is mostly on the administrative side. So management, client management, and recruitment training and all those sort of things. Our training involves basically Drupal basics, CMS comparisons, terminology, and some hands-on training as well. So if you can go to the next slide. Perfect. Thank you. A little bit about our company. XSIT is a Drupal consulting firm. We are based in San Jose, Costa Rica. Our company is five years old and we have around 25 people in our company. Around 20 of them are Drupal developers. Our clients are mainly large Drupal agencies within the U.S. and in Europe. And XSIT is our way of providing documentation code snippets and video training for Drupal. As you can see down below, XSIT is low. And then we have a typical, which translates into a typical dish. That's a dish that we have. It's actually hosted in Drupal.org and also in Pantheon. So you can download it and it has a bunch of models already installed as well as translation and those kind of things. Okay. Okay. Thank you. And now I want to talk about marketing and marketing a GTD event. Costa Rica has a very strong Drupal community and Facebook plays a very important role in bringing the community together. We advertise events both in Costa Rica group, Drupal.org as well as on Facebook. From this point on, different groups like Open Source, Initiative, PHP, Java and other seco events, time and money investment. We roughly invest around $100 basically for snacks and drinks. In time wise, we invest a small number of hours posting ads, getting things organized, answering questions from participants. And during the event, we have basically two resources. One person presenting the topics and the other be helping out during the breaks. Help Day versus full day training. We often work on their both concepts. The structure and topics for each actually vary widely. For help of the events, we have mainly two goals. The first one is to help others see how Drupal can be a good career path. We do this mostly for students and developers. And for the teaching makers, we try to teach them the basics so they can determine whether Drupal is a good fit for their projects. The thing is that we have found that a lot of people come to the training because they want to use Drupal, but they don't know whether to use the right tool for their projects. And number two is theory. We focus on Drupal history, Drupal basics, and terminology. Things like notes, CCKs, views, taxonomy, Drupal core, what else? Daming as well. And for full day trainings, one of the most significant differences, I would say, is that we focus on a computer. We work on a computer lab so people can spend half a day installing Drupal and its modules, learning about folder structure, then creating like CCKs, views, blocks, and such. And we usually have more people helping out during full day trainings in case someone gets stuck during installation or something. So we can move on while the other guy gives a hand. And I want to give a quick testimonial here. Back in 2011, I just held a training session in a coastal town, college, close to the beach. And we went back to the campus two years later to try and find prospect interns. And to our surprise, a few of the people we trained were actively building websites in Drupal for small business in the region. So we even ended up hiring two of them and they are actually part of our company. So for example, with them, we got to avoid the learning curve and they jumped right into a client's project. And just to wrap up, I would like to talk about giving back to the community. As a developer that started working with Drupal at an early stage, I was able to witness the whole software state for the community spread behind Drupal. And as a company, Anexus continues to make efforts towards keeping it that way. We feel that giving back to the community is our duty and it has proven to benefit our company in others in many ways. So that's it from Anexus. Thank you, Kenny. That's a really great story. I didn't know about your interns that you trained. That's exactly what Global Training Days is about, building our core group of new developers so that training companies obviously can have new talent but also to spread the information about the project. So thank you for sharing that. So we have some upcoming dates. Thank you again. We have some upcoming dates. We have Friday, May 30th, Friday, August 29th and Friday, November 14th. We also heard from several community members that Fridays were difficult to arrange for full day training. So now you can utilize the Saturday after. So for instance, Friday, May 30th or Friday, May 31st, if that's better for your community to utilize a Saturday, totally fine. And now we're going to hear from Aimee. She works with Blink Reaction and she's also been really active in Global Training Days and spreading the word about that in North America. So Aimee, whenever you're ready. Hi. My name is Aimee Cham and I'm the program manager for the Blink Institute of Blink Reaction. I have been around Drupal since late 2007. I've had kind of some mixed involvement. I've been on both the site building side and also on the business side of things, mostly marketing. I am now focused on training. In general, my focus is on end users and new site builders. The Blink Institute as a whole goes beyond that. We do a lot of customized private trainings. We get into not only site builder, but also the theming and the development side of things. So, you know, some sympathy training and things like that. I can be found pretty much everywhere online as Aimee Cham, Drupal.org, Twitter, Skype, wherever you're looking. I'm probably Aimee Cham. Blink Reaction is a full-service Drupal-centric agency along with the training division, which is the Blink Institute. We do a full delivery of Drupal-related services from the strategic consulting through implementation and support. You can see some of our client lists here. We tend to emphasize long-term relationships with our clients. And along with the consulting and delivery, adoption and training services are a big part of what we offer our clients. For our global trading days, we go with a half-day program, but we do it twice. So, we'll offer, we usually use the Hello Drupal curriculum, and we offer that at, say, 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. We do this in New York. We have a trading facility in Soho that we use, and sometimes we offer it remotely as well over the meeting. We use the curriculum, but the emphasis is very heavily on discussion. We try to make sure that people are getting the understanding that they need an engaging person to person. We think that's really important for, you know, we want to get more people using Drupal. We want to make it less mysterious, make it friendly. And, you know, definitely when we have new Drupal services, we want them to feel like this is something they want to continue being involved in. As far as promoting our global trading days, I think we use probably the usual channels. We use our own site. We post to the Aquia training site. We are one of Aquia's training partners.  But we found that most of our sign-ups tend to come in through the Drupal.org listing for global trading days.  As far as the cost, I think we run about $500 per instance. That's mostly in our venue fees. And as far as what comes out of it, it does lead to some paid trainings. I know I'm working with a private client right now who was in not the most recent global trading day, but the one back in November. And we definitely get a lot of new Drupal is continuing on. You know, we just had a nice camp over this past weekend and I saw a couple people that I had met before in global trading days and they continued to engage with Drupal and the New York City community. So that was really great to see. And obviously, it's great brand awareness for the organization. That's pretty much what I have. Great. Thanks, Amy. It's nice that you got to see some of your former students at Nice Camp. That's really great. Yeah, it's nice to see people continue on with the technology and engaging with the community. Great. So moving on, the big question, how do you sign up? We have a form on associationdrupal.org listed here. Also, you can type in webinars or global training days and you can see where that's located and ask some basic questions about your company, you know, what the site you want it to link to so that people can register on your site and just some information that we can use to have some metrics to measure our global training days and our successes. So it looks like there's no questions listed here. I just want to talk really quickly about some of our curriculum that Amy had mentioned earlier. We have some curriculum available. Though we are forming a committee of trainers in spring 2014 to combine some efforts and make a comprehensive and easy to use curriculum. The curriculum that's available is really in depth and it's very well made. It just could be a little overwhelming for something like a half day or a full day of training. So if there's anyone in the community that's interested in participating in that in particular, you can email me later about that. And again, a reminder of our upcoming events. We have DrupalCon Austin coming up. Like I said, Drupal Global Training Days in May. You're more than welcome to sign up for the future dates in August and November at the same time so you're already set. And that way we can host you live on our site to make sure that people are seeing your website and going there to register for Global Training Days. And a reminder, our next webinar is Achieve Internet and they're talking about how Drupal Integration can help grow your business. And then just some more information about becoming a member. Check out our membership page for an organization or for an individual membership. I know those badges are really great to have on your sites and it also helps fund more scholarship grants and servers for the community. Thank you everyone for participating. Thank you Kenny and Amy for being our presenters. You guys have been doing this longer than most people and your expertise is really valued and we appreciate you being on the webinar today. And we hope to see you at DrupalCon Austin but also participating in Global Training Days in May. So thank you very much. Thank you guys for the opportunity. Thank you. Thank you.


Which shoe do you like more? The Grinch or the Reverse Grinch? In today's video, I'm gonna be giving you guys an in-depth review of the Kobe 6 Reverse Grinches. I'll be unboxing the shoes and giving you guys a side-by-side comparison just so you guys can see the differences because there are definitely differences in this Reverse Grinch. Oh yeah, and if you didn't know by now, my name is DJ and this is the DNA show. So before we get started breaking down all the styles, cuts, and materials of this shoe, we gotta talk about the history first. Back in 2010, we originally saw Kobe wearing the Grinch Kobe 6s for the classic Christmas game and the hype train around Christmas themed sneakers with Nike basketball, even Adidas, was starting to run wild and over time, the Grinch Kobe 6 became one of the most iconic colorways when it comes to Nike basketball during its era. 10 years after that, following Kobe's passing, RIP, a legend, we then saw the Kobe 6 Grinch released to the public. And just like back in the day, there was a lot of hype around this shoe and a lot of new heads coming into the game that were loving the shoe as well was caused what? Surprises to go crazy. Next thing you know, the shoe's worth $1,000. So with the high demand behind that sneaker and multiple PEs given to different players on the basketball court in the NBA, we then saw the Reverse Grinch colorway and multiple other colorways that looked similar to this, hit the basketball court previously in the last season. And when Nike announced they were officially released in the Reverse Grinch colorway, everybody went crazy. So these are set to drop next month in December. And as you guys know, the demand is going to be insane. Luckily I was over at Untied LA and my homies had got some pairs in early and you know I had to get my hands on a pair to give you guys a review. So shout out to them. Let's go ahead and take it to the studio so you guys can really see the ins and outs of this sneaker. So looking at the box right here, you can see you have your black Mamba print all throughout the box with the texture. You can feel it on the lid and throughout the sides. That's going to be in the matte black. And then the metallic black on the center of the lid, you have the Kobe logo with the Kobe signature on the side of the box, nothing right there and just a Nike swoosh on the back end. And then going to the size tag, it reads Nike Kobe 6 Protro bright crimson black. And retail on these is said to be 180 bucks. Now, lift and open the lid of the box right here. You got your standard all white paper and then you got the shoe. Oh, you got the shoe. So initial impressions of this sneaker. Honestly, it is a little bit of a switch up when it comes to the pattern on the top, but I'm not mad at it and I still like these a lot. I don't know if they're good as the grinches. We'll find out a little bit later in the video on the poll results, what everybody else thinks. And after we get done with this comparison, I'll give you guys my final results on what I think as well. So looking at the outsole right here, you have your standard Kobe Protro bottom. You got your translucent outsole on the front end right here in that crimson colorway. And then in the center of the foot right here, you have your black carbon fiber plate. Going to the back end right here, you have a mixture of rubber material colors, I guess you would say, instead of just having it be all red, it's more speckled throughout that area. And then on the center of the foot right there on the back end of the heel, you have the Kobe logo and the lime green. Now, wrapping up to the side of the foot where the outsole is still attached here, there's a little Braille code right here. And some people may or may not have seen it before. And most of my OG wizards know, but this actually spells out black mamba. So if you Google search Kobe code, you'll see that there's a bunch of different codes that align with different letters. And if you put those codes together, you'll see that it spells out black mamba on the side of this shoe. And on his different Kobe models, whether it's the fives, the sixes, sevens, eights, you name it, some of them have different codes on them that mean different things. So that's always a fun little Easter egg when it comes to the Kobe sixes. Now going to the back end of the foot right here around the heel, you have your Nike Zoom branding. And then you have a two-tone midsole. So you have more of a crimson and then more of a red right here in the center of the foot and then crimson on the back end around the heel. Instead of it all just being one color, it helps give the shoe a little bit more depth as well. And when you compare these to the Grinch Kobe sixes, you can definitely see there's a huge difference when it comes to the color blocking because there's actually more of a lighter and a similar color right here on the midsole. And on the back end around the heel, it's definitely a drastically different color. But if you look at these two right here, you can see the heel and the front end are the same exact color. So that's just a little switch up that some people may or may not have seen. Now going up to the upper again, there are a couple of different switch ups that we see on this pair compared to the previous Grinch colorway. I'll get into it in a second. But just besides that, you have your Kobe scales all throughout the upper. This is kind of raised up, kind of like a rubbery like material and it's real bumpy all throughout. And then you have that little thin mesh right behind it. And then on there you have a Nike swoosh and all black on the side of the foot on the outside and on the inside of the foot. Now going to the back end of the shoe around the heel, you have more of an iridescent patent leather right here wrapping around. But it's a lot more dull. It's not like a vibrant red, but it definitely has a metallic feel to it as well. And just above that, you have a plastic piece that goes all around the heel, capping that off. And then that's gonna be more of a translucent crimson colorway. And then you have your Kobe signature right here in the center of the heel. Now these come standard with a pair of lime green laces. And like we have seen on the previous release, those have the same exact type of laces. But if you actually put them side by side, you can see the colors are way different. The actual laces are a lot more yellow and then the shoe, this green right here on the side of the foot is a lot more similar to the laces on the reverse Grinch. Hey, sorry to interrupt. Just wanted to let you guys know, we got some new merch that just dropped for Black Friday. We got some other items on the website and they should be linked down below underneath the video as well. ShopDNAshow.com. If you catch this video on time, you should be able to get a discount on the website because we have a bunch of different sales going on throughout the holidays. If you're catching this video later again, still check out the website. We probably got some promotion going on. But either way, let's continue on with the video. Now the original release and the previous retro of the Grinch also came with an additional pair of red laces, but these didn't come with an additional pair of red laces. Now just behind that, you have a see-through mesh right here at all red and then you have a red tongue match in the sock liner with a green Kobe logo in the center of that and a rubber piece. Now taking out the insoles of these shoes, you can see that this is gonna be very similar to the previous retro as well. So when you put them shoes together, you can see this is the inspiration behind the design of how they even innovated to get the shoe that's something like this. And then it's dope because it has the KB24 branding right there as well when it comes to the insoles. Now another thing that I didn't get a chance to mention yet, if you look at the color of the red and the pattern on the area right here in the center of the foot, you can see that it has kind of a gradient to it. So it's a lot lighter on the sides of the foot on the in and outside. And if you look down the center, there's a darker strip right there. So similar to a snake's pattern, it might have different colors and different shades on different areas of the snake. This is gonna be similar to that as well. But if you compare these to the grinches that recently came out, you can see the pattern on these is a lot different. It's more bright in the middle of the foot. And then it kind of gets darker and fades into a darker color on the back in and around the sides of the foot right here. So it's kind of reversed, yes, but the pattern is a lot more prominent on the reverse grinch compared to the previous retro of the regular grinch. And I'm not sure if you guys remember, but I do have a couple of different sample versions of this as well. And that was one thing that I had talked about in this pair. As you can see, it's a lot lighter right here just around the top of the toe. And then it gets really dark right here and then it goes dark throughout the side of the foot. And this is a lot more similar to how it's kind of the light, dark, really, really visible type thing. But again, the pattern is different on this sample from back in the day. And then obviously the back end, the leather is a lot more metallic-y, it's a lot shinier. And there's a lot of other elements. I got a few different samples. We've done that review in the past. If you wanna see that, I'll link that down below in the description as well. That's a better in-depth look at the shoe. Let me know what you guys think of these down below. Now, I'm interested to see what everybody thinks. You guys know on my channel, I love to post the poll and see what the results say. So I posted a simple question. Is this shoe fire or trash? And I also compare these against the grinches to see which one people like because I don't know, there's a lot of hype around these. This might just be the best shoe of the two. So if you haven't already, make sure you follow me on IG so you can participate in the polls and see all the results here on the channel. This is what the people said. 84% of the people said fire and 16% of the people said trash. So when I see poll results like that, as you guys know, if it's past 85%, that typically means this is one of the top 10 sneakers of the year. We don't get really good ratings and if it's above 90, we know. That's like top three, top five material. But these are really, really close. So I'm sure a lot of people are hyped up about these and I know the prices are a little high right now and they're probably not gonna go down because obviously there's so many different factors as to why the shoes were so much. But either way, I'm interested to see are these better than the grinches? 33% of the people said the reverse grinch and 67% of the people said the grinches. Now honestly, that's exactly what I was expecting to see. The grinch has so much more impact on the culture and I get that this is a dope colorway, but we see a lot of red shoes all the time and I know it's clean, I get it. But the grinches are the grinches, bro. Like these wouldn't be anything if it wasn't for the grinch, you know what I'm saying? 10 plus years with that colorway, like being, it's just hard to beat, you know what I'm saying? But at the end of the day, I hope this video was helpful to give you guys an in-depth look at the shoe to let you decide if you wanna get it or not. And again, shout out to the homies over at Untied. Appreciate you guys for the review. Make sure you guys go check them out, link down below in the description.  They got a lot of steals and deals on there as well, so make sure you guys keep your eyes peeled on that. All right you guys, we got a lot more reviews to shoot. I'll see y'all in another one. I will never let you down. If you made it to the end of this video, I just wanted to let you guys know we have a full eight-week program. The link is down below in the description. Teach you guys all the ins and outs of the shoe game. We have monthly live meetups. I do shoe giveaways every single month as well. 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Hey, GovCon Giant's family, Eric Covey here, you're a host and today we are looking at the sources sought, notices and RFIs for this past week. If you are new to my channel and you don't know what a sources sought is, on BetaSAM you will find under the category, if we take a look at contract opportunities, you're going to find a category under notice types here. Select notice and it says sources sought. This is a great way to market your business to federal agencies and because of that, we each week we try and look at all the sources sought notices, scour through them in an effort to help you do better business with the government, advertise your business, market yourself and let them know that you're out here. So today we're going to discuss this past week's opportunities. So let's take a look, I'm here on BetaSAM and I've already pulled it down but just to walk everyone through it, I click publish, past week, I hit filter and then it gives me a result of 525 results and then from there I click the download button, the screen comes up, I click CSV so that I can pull it into Excel and then I click the button download and begins the download process. Now I've already kind of done this, so this is what it looks like on the screen here and this week we're going to take a look and we've already pulled it into Excel so that we can easily scroll and browse the opportunities quickly, fast and be able to go through and see exactly what we're looking for because on Beta.SAM if you noticed you can only look at 20 opportunities, you have to click the page, wait for the load, click the page, wait for the load, so this way I can actually scroll and then a couple minutes look at everything. So let's take a look and see if we see anything interesting today. Let's go ahead and look, HVAC, where is that at? There's an HVAC project here, there is a building renovation project at the VA hospital, Medical Center in Bay Pines, Florida that's in Tampa, let's see, lease of some office base, remotely piloted aircraft squadron operation center, they're looking for some commodities and I actually had the privilege, I was teaching someone earlier today, so I had the privilege of looking at this, waste removal services, I know someone that does that, waste removal services, more leasing of office space and what we do, again, you can look at this and you can actually search it and once you have it in Excel, you can do a lot of things with this information, technical editing services for all my writers out there, I know a lot of people that actually do writing, technical editing services is very similar to people who create content for social media because you're going to be looking at doing writing services on behalf of the government, security system installation, repair and upholstery of furniture, more leasing of office space, West Palm Beach laundry procurement, I don't know what that means, we'll take a look at that one, let's go over here and take a look and see what they're talking about, back to the screen, copy, paste, put it in here, alright, West Palm Beach laundry procurement, let's take a look at what they're talking about here, that's the VA hospital and they're looking for interestate contractors, okay, you're going to furnish and install two floor scales, weight of 3,000 pounds, one scale installed on the soil side, one scale installed on the clean side, okay, then you're installing dryers, so again it looks like this is for people who provide commercial laundry equipment, so that wouldn't be, that wouldn't cover most of us, alright, keep browsing, Direct TV subscription amendment, I think a lot of us can do that, right, figure how to get them Direct TV, preventive maintenance repair services for Japanese fire apparatus, a lot of folks ask me if I could do business internationally, this is a clear example that you could do business internationally, special mission support, IT services, that's something interesting, bolt machines, cable assemblies, a nursery, RNA sequencing services, architect and engineering services, I've got architect and engineering people, they say they don't see anything because they're looking in the wrong places, if you don't, if you're looking at beta SAM at only jobs that are out for bid, you're looking at the wrong places, IDIQ for A&E services, we're going to have that post on our blog, long range aerial delivery of maritime mines, that sounds like drone people, all my drone is out there, actually I'm going to save this one on a side sheet, and then that way I have it available for you later on, okay, save that one, there's a Saber contract in Charleston, so that Saber is a good one, I'm going to save that Saber, I know a lot of folks out here, that are interested, that are in construction, we're going to save that Saber, dental items, landscaping related services, all right, unmanned aircraft systems challenge program, oh this is cool, let's go and take a look at this, let's take a look at this on beta.SAM and see what they're talking about, let's go back, this unmanned aircraft challenge program, let's see what they're doing, Department of Commerce, R&D, sources of thought, notice for quotation, national institute of standards and technology, seeks information for vendors, this is something very, oh they're looking for qualified universities or academic institutions that can do this, but again if you are a college student and you're affiliated with, this would be a great submission for your college or on behalf of your college, if you did drone testing, servicing, I know, I would love for someone at my university, University of Florida to look at this opportunity, all right, we're going to keep going, carrot HVAC system services, let's see, knitted fit sheets, come on, Fort Devens telecom repair modernization, oh I might look at that one for myself, as we are working in the Fort Devens area, let's take a look, okay, yeah I'm going to definitely respond to this one, this looks like something that we can go after, I'm saving this one for me, let's go back, over to the screen, grounds maintenance services, where's all my grounds maintenance people, let me see where this is at real quick for my grounds maintenance folks out there, this is all my security Coast Guard, oh Miami Beach, Florida, interesting, Maria, my beach has a sources up for grounds maintenance, that's interesting, right, so Maria you're out there and listening to this, reservoir work boat, lease, stay with me, stay with me, I'm telling you there's 500 plus opportunities, there's going to be something you're going to find out here that's pretty good, I had no other RFIDs out here earlier, I saw behavior, psychiatrist, all of my men, there's a multiple ward construction contract, there's a MAC, that should be pretty good, let's find out where that MAC is at, where's that MAC, see the place of performance, we're not going to go through it, just look at the place of performance, conflict and address, it doesn't say ESP, I don't know what ESP is, it must be in Spain because it says all times and dates are Madrid Spain, but again it goes back to the fact of that's something that's over and out of the continental United States for people who are looking outside of continental United States at opportunities, five ton units, hoist, charter bus in Japan, oh Python for all my IT folks out there, they have Python, okay we're going to save that for Python, we're not going to look at it, hill Air Force Base has a MAC coming up at hill Air Force Base, 10 laptops needed, come on we could do some laptops for everyone that wants to get started, excavator, truck, truck, harbour, tug services, I've got somebody for that, lake refuge collection, more A&E services, retail space, and again if you're looking at the screen and you see anything on here that makes sense, jot down the numbers, write it and then put it over in beta SAM, office base in Austin, Texas, mobile whiteboards in Maxwell Air Force Base, if you hear your name called just engineering technical services, 4k monitors, office desk chairs, my man who does furniture installation and they're buying chairs, cyberspace support services, IT collaboration tools, 5 year IDIQ for MK7 and MK8 life rafts, someone out there listening to this has to know someone that does life rafts, I'm saving this one, someone knows someone that does life rafts, I'm saving this, in fact we're going to go in, I'm putting life rafts on the screen for my people, so someone can actually refer their buddy who does life rafts, I want to hear a success story from winning an opportunity on this ITIQ to provide life rafts, here it is, there's a technical specification, inflatable life rafts, boom, all right, so if you're in that business or if you know someone in that business, please share and I'm going to browse through because we're 13 minutes into the video and we're only at like 250 opportunities, so let's go through really quickly, more A&E services, region 9 architect services, boom liferentals, oh HUD inspections nationwide, that sounds interesting, let's see what that's about, I know there's people out here that are in the real estate business that can do inspections, okay, so this is coming out of Denver servicing center, Denver program support branch, all right, let's take a look, I know there's people out here that can do this stuff, I know it, I know it, so again look, they're looking for small development businesses, hub zones, women on aid aid, service disabled veterans, businesses who can perform these objectives nationwide, fulfillment, service requirement to do inspections for HUD, definitely take a look at this, I think, let me grab the objectives, I just want to pull it down, do a quality control plan, international code council, residential inspectors, companies inspectors, so it looks like inspection services, inspector training professional development program includes training curriculum that results in inspectors producing HUD acceptable inspire inspections, maintain certificates, mentoring coaching, track their learning curves, update training requirements, so this looks like actually you're developing a training curriculum, and again I'm browsing through it quickly to be up to you to take a look at it, but I think we have people here that do, okay, here you go, number of inspectors per year, 10 and 20,000 inspectors per year, wow, that's that's huge, I did want to share that with folks, just in case someone out there was interested or knew someone that could do something similar, it's funny because every time that I share something like this, it's always someone hits me up and go wow, Eric, I have a buddy that does that, so believe it or not, there are people here that do office kind of services, fence sensors, that's very interesting, more, more leasing of office space, come on, give me two more things that's exciting so we can close this up, we're at 16 minutes, tents, okay, they're doing work in Romania, if you're in Romania, aircraft doors, truck bed, refrigeration unit, oh, it sounds like something for my trucking people, let me see, want to make sure that would take off one of my last two that was interesting for today, okay, it's just an eight foot truck bed, slip refrigeration unit, okay, nothing, nothing too crazy, all right, all right, give me something good so I can close out with these great people that have stayed all the way, more laundry services for you out there, it's a five year IDIQ, I don't know what that is, parachute decelerator system, undersea warfare service support, all right, those roofing IDIQs are still out, if you have not submitted those roofing IDIQs, they're still out, you still have time, oh, Miami Job Corps centers, design build services for interior renovations, that is perfect, we do stuff like that, Lunacorp, where you at Lunacorp? Patricia, this looks like her specialty, if someone out here knows them, I hope they're responding to this one, subscription management services, let's take a look at that and see what that is, don't worry about that noise in the background, all right, this is interesting, the purpose of the procurement is obtaining contractor that acquires and manages the research library's journal collection and print electronic format, and they're going to manage that, you're going to set up access, maintenance, registration, activation, license, agreement issues, and reports to enable effective management of this library's collection, including reports, this is very interesting, I think this is something that we have people watching that can actually do effectively, treadmills, trailers, air fueling, small business hotels in San Antonio, if you have lodging, if you know someone has lodging, ambulance services, tank cleaning, more or less office spaces, airport sources for office hanger and apron space, watercraft training services, propulsion procurement, supply chain management, X-ray machines, all right, so that looks like everything this past week, take a look at, so definitely anything that makes sense for you, share it with people, send it out, share this information, again we want to help democratize all the information because it is free and publicly available, so if you know of anyone that can use this information, send them to our page, direct them to us, if you have any questions about any of these things, leave a comment below, thanks for watching.