It's an honor and a pleasure to introduce our next speaker, Naritzee Sanchez, who is a senior open source program manager here on the Community Relations Team at GitLab. Naritzee has a great breadth of experience in open source, and her talk today is titled Communication Hacks, Strategies for Fostering Collaboration and Dealing with Conflict in Open Source Communities. Naritzee is going to share some great strategies for providing feedback, dealing with conflict, and some overall ways to have more charisma and improve your online communications. I hope you enjoy her presentation. Hi, everybody, and welcome to Communication Hacks, Strategies for Fostering Collaboration and Dealing with Conflict in Open Source. My name is Naritzee Sanchez, and I am a senior open source program manager at GitLab. While I've worn many hacks throughout my tech journey, communication has always been at the center of that, and I'd like to share some of my learnings with you today. We're going to cover some of my favorite hacks, which I think are things that everybody should know about, and we're going to cover navigating cultural differences. I'd like to mention that this is part of a larger talk that I gave earlier this month, and my full-length slides are available at the link below. Those slides include topics like giving and receiving feedback and active listening. So if you're curious about those topics, check that out. And we'll dive right into my favorite hacks, which I hope you'll be able to start using today. The first is that it is the writer's job to be understood, and that formatting really, really helps. When you're writing something, it's important to do a skim test. Look over what you've just written, and make sure that people can easily read through it and understand it. If you have a call to action, make sure it's clear and that you can easily see who needs to do it and by when. You can see that I've tried to do this even in my slide here, where instead of just including bullet points, I've also included a bold section in each so that people can, within a few seconds, understand what each bullet is about and be able to refer back to it as well. Sometimes even with bullets, it can look like a wall of text. So this tip really works. And when you're writing, try to avoid long sentences and don't assume previous knowledge. Make it easy for anyone to jump right into the conversation. This is an example of an issue template that our social media team created at GitLab. Here you see that they've used formatting, like different header sizes and bold. They've created checkboxes and even use their motocons to make it easy for people to understand what to do. And similar to this, I'd like to encourage you to use the issues description to do something similar. Oftentimes with feature requests, especially, these can be open for years at a time. And there are hundreds of comments that has gone on over the course of that time. So when you see something like this, really try to edit the description to make sure that you summarize what the conversation is about. That way, anybody can take a look at that issue and understand the basic idea of what it is and the current status what's happening. And then they can dive into the comments to have a fuller understanding of what's going on. The next tip is yes and. And this is that instead of saying no or yes but, you just switch out the but for an and, you say yes and. And this is incredibly powerful when you're having discussions or have a difference of opinion with somebody. When you use yes and, it acknowledges what people are saying and it still gives you room to disagree with them. So I think that most of us have heard that anything before the but doesn't really matter, that really what we're trying to say is after the but. And what this makes us feel like, if somebody says yes but, it's like, yeah, I sort of listened to you, maybe not, I don't really care what I really care about is this other thing. And it makes you feel unheard or just shut down in some way. When you use yes and, you can say, yes, I've heard what you've said and I still disagree. I think it should be this way. And that one little word has made a psychological difference where now we're more ready to hear what they have to say because we've felt heard. And along those lines, collaborative language really helps. And while I don't have the time to go through this full list, I wanna highlight the first, which is how might we? This is a phrase that I've really tried to incorporate in my own daily usage where instead of saying something like, let's solve this challenge, which yes, it's motivating, yes, we wanna do it. You might wanna say instead, how might we solve this challenge? And just by changing those words, you're inviting people to participate in solving that challenge to give you their ideas and take ownership in solving that challenge. Next up, we have navigating cultural differences because as we continue to expand our communities and work with more contributors from all over the world, we need to understand how to best work together. And I love this book by Erin Meyer. It's called The Culture Map. She's done a lot of research on different cultures and she plots them out along seven indicators. These indicators are communicating, evaluating, leading, trusting, disagreeing, scheduling, and persuading. Again, I don't have time to go into all of them, but I'll highlight a few. The first is communicating. And with this indicator, there are low context cultures and there are high context cultures. Low context culture is value communication that is precise, simple, and clear. Repetition is often used to avoid misunderstandings. On the other hand, high context cultures, value communication that is sophisticated and nuanced and layered. And oftentimes you have to read between the lines. And another indicator is evaluating and this is about how we give and receive negative feedback. Direct negative feedback cultures deliver feedback frankly, bluntly, and honestly. They don't use positive messages to wrap negative ones. Absolutes are used like you always do this or you completely did that. And it's okay to give it in front of groups. On the other hand, indirect negative feedback cultures deliver the feedback softly and subtly and diplomatically. They oftentimes use positive messages to wrap the negative ones. So this might be like the sandwich effects that we have sometimes heard about where you say something positive, then you say the negative feedback and then you end with a positive, a sandwiching the negative with the positive. And in these cultures, feedback must be given privately. And unlike the negative feedback cultures, they oftentimes use qualifying descriptors like you sometimes do this, maybe a little bit. Persuading is another indicator and there are some cultures that are principled first, that really value hearing the why or really explaining the why first. They've been trained to develop the theory or the concept before presenting the facts, statements, or opinions. On the other hand, applications first cultures value the how or the what first and they're trained to begin with a fact, a statement, or opinion, and then back it up as necessary. So these can be like executive summaries or here are our findings and here's how. And Erin Meyer mentions in her book that for example, somebody from France who has a manager from the United States and is constantly asked to do something without really knowing the why can be really frustrated by this dynamic. And so I think it's a really interesting one to think about and for us to use as we evaluate how to interact with people from different cultures. I'd also like to give you a practical example of how this all works. And since I belong to the GNOME community, I thought I'd map out the board of directors for this year. We have a board from the UK, United States, Brazil, Mexico and Nigeria. And here you can see how those different cultures map out using Erin Meyer's indicator. And I'd like to focus on trusting which is the third indicator from the bottom. There are some cultures that value task-based trust building and there are some cultures that value relationship-based trusting. And so what this means is, US and the UK to a lesser degree follow on this task-based trust building. That means that as you work together, as you complete tasks together, that's how you build the trust versus these other ones where you really need to form a relationship. That's going out to get drinks or go to lunch together, really understand their family background, where they're coming from. In a board of directors setting, it's really important to know these so that you can collaborate best. You'll need to find ways of both having the relationship and the trust building equally and in order to then work better together. I have a few more tips for navigating these cultural differences and that's investing time and understanding the people you work with especially those that you work closely with and do not make assumptions even though someone may look like they're from a certain culture or may have been born in a certain country, it doesn't mean that they identify with that culture. For example, somebody may have been born in India but may have grown up part of the time in Japan and really values the Japanese culture has been immersed in that. And so actually identifies more closely with Japanese culture than with Indian culture. Even though cultural differences do exist on a wide scale overall, it's just remember that people are individuals and that you really do need to get to know them before knowing how to best work with them. I also think that it's okay to set expectations around how communities or companies tend to work. So we need to understand the trade-offs and we need to let empathy be our guiding light. And so for example, there could be companies that value low-context communication where everything is precise and concise. And when interviewing people that come from high-context communication cultures, that could automatically count against those people. And when we're trying to build diverse teams and organizations, we need to make sure that we understand that and that we're keeping that in mind as we adapt and move closely together to work. So I think that there needs to be more research in this area and just more knowledge share so that we develop that empathy and can better work together. Let's end with this quote that I love by John Powell that says, communication works for those who work at it. And this is so true. Communication is a skill that you build. And so even if you think that you need work in this or you're not great, don't worry, this is something that you can keep improving. And I hope that today you've learned something and I look forward to hearing about your journey eventually. Keep sharing the knowledge. That's it. Thank you very much. And I hope you enjoy the rest of GitLab Commit.


Hello friends welcome back to the channel hope you're all doing great in today's video We've got a very quick update in regards to the next mystery gift that has gone live for the ash ketchum giveaway in Pokemon Sword and Shield so we'll be going over all the details of that as well as a competition for the mythical Pokemon that are currently been a kind of code Distribution around certain stores around Europe and other places around the world at the minute got five sets of these Codes to give away so stay tuned at the end of the video I'll tell you the details of how you can get involved in that how you can potentially win a set of these codes So like I mentioned, we've got the next mystery gift going live for this ash ketchum event It is going to be for the Lucario and it will be running until September the 29th What you want to do in your copy of Pokemon Sword or Shield is just come to your mystery gifts Like you've done for the other ones get mystery gift get with calling password This will connect you to the internet and then you are gonna want to input this code And as always the code will be on the screen for you So you can follow along a bit easier pause the video if you need to to put this code in and Once you've done it, you're gonna be good to go So this is the code here and like I say once you've input it You're gonna just connect it'll say search for gift and then this message will pop up And you will be able to obtain the Lucario gift it will send through nicely in your game Let's get a nice screenshot of this for the thumbnail and that will do so like I said That is going to be running until the 29th of September So you've got a little while for this one to run And you're gonna have a little while to pick up the Lucario Before it expires like I said on other videos You've got this nice little bit of information about it seems to come from the Pokemon animator show Which is really nice for a mystery gift and worth definitely picking up for your collection Okay, so that is the mystery gift here for the Lucario It is running until the 29th of September So you do have a little while to pick this up while it is running as of recording this video So don't miss a chance to get that while you can now moving on to the other part of this video very quick one here We also have a mythical mystery gift event running at the minute But it is tied to specific stores and regions around the globe where they'll give you distribution codes for these three Pokemon There is the genocide the Volcanian and the Marshadow now on a previous video where we talked about this mystery gift event I did say that I would try and pick up additional codes if I could and then I would do a giveaway on the channel Well, this is the time we're gonna hold the giveaway right now and to get involved in this giveaway All you need to do is tell me down below in the comments section Which one of the Pokemon Marshadow Volcanian or Genesect is your favorite from the trio? That will enter you into the competition and in our next update video I will announce the five winners who will get a complete set of these mythical Pokemon mystery gifts So get down there in the comments below Let me know which one of these three mythical Pokemon are your favorites and you will be entered into it If I can get any more codes in the meantime, I'll add them to the draw So we'll try and get some more and try and get a few more winners in I'm trying to get these codes It has been extremely hard to get any additional ones, but I am trying my best So make sure you get down there get entered and make sure you do not miss that next video and we'll announce the winners there So friends, thank you so much for tuning in have a great rest of your day And I will catch you all for another video on the channel very soon. So until then take care. Bye. Bye


Hi, welcome to Think Tech. We are raising public awareness about technology, energy, diversity, and globalism. This show is Center Stage. I am your host, Donna Blanchard, proud managing director of Kumu Kuhua Theater. And we are coming to you live from Pioneer Plaza in the heart of downtown Honolulu, very near Kumu Kuhua Theater. I am very pleased to introduce my guest to you today. You know, here on Center Stage, we talk about the process of theater. And this guy has some very interesting processes. We're going to talk about very unique. His name is Kevin C.K. Berg. And you are a student director at University of Hawaii at Manoa with a show coming up. That's true, that's true. I am a third year MFA candidate, so almost done. Almost, yeah. Is this your final project then? Yes, this is. This will be my thesis production, and afterwards I will write a paper, but this is the final actual production that I'll probably do. Awesome. You have a good theater voice. Thank you, thank you very much. Did you start as an actor? I actually started as a singer. Oh, there you go. I started as a singer and then transitioned to actor and then transitioned to director. So it was a long process, but I'm here now. Okay, I'm laughing because I did the same. Yeah. And I started off singing in the church choir and with my sisters and then found my way into musicals and musical comedy. Yes. Yes, okay. And so you're still with me. Musical comedy and then, ooh, there's comedy, and then all of a sudden one day it was like drama. What is this? It can be a whole new person and I don't have to sing and dance. This is amazing. And you mean my life won't progress through song? Exactly. So we have similar arcs, I guess. Okay, okay. So I totally understand that, but you have, I've gotten into directing myself, but even though I still love that directing and teaching, but now I'm in administration and you are going full throttle directing. Yes. And devising? Yeah, directing, devising, improv. My passion is education. So as long as I can steer whatever I'm doing towards that, that's kind of, that makes me happy. Oh, so it's theater with a goal other than entertainment, happy, happy or detachment or whatever. Yeah, I think theater has its place as kind of an opiate of it. Theater has its place to relieve us of our daily lives, but it also has a place to educate. And me myself, you know, my goal is eventually to work at the college level. I want to be a professor. So everything right now is kind of trying to steer towards that. How can I use these new and innovative ways, forms of theater to still focus on education? Awesome. I agree with you that it has its place as an opiate. Picasso said something like art exists to help you shake the dust of reality. I'm misquoting him, but that's what he meant. I got you. And I agree with that, but I also felt like even in my early years in college, I felt like there's something more. There's something more. I enjoy what I'm doing. This is cool, but there's something more. And I love going to, you know, they do marvelous work here at the Shakespeare Festival is an example of it just erases reality for you for a good hour and a half or two hours, and then, you know, you get to land softly in real life. But there's something different when you actually learn something or become something more as a result of the theater. So the piece that you are working on now, let's hear about that. So the piece is called A House Divided. It's an immersive piece, which means that there is no fourth wall. It's non-traditional, I guess, in the sense of what people think of theater now. So the action is not being watched by the audience and the audience is in the dark. The audience is actually going to be surrounded by the action. They actually become a part of it to a certain extent. The premise for A House Divided is that we are ten years in the future and there is a major divide in the native Hawaiian community. There are essentially two factions. One is the provisional Hawaiian government and they have grown out of Na'i'opuni and the AHA that happened earlier this year, this kind of federally backed path towards self-determination and sovereignty. And then there is the united and sovereign nation of Hawaii which has formed in opposition to that. So it's important to know that those two factions are the big players ten years from now in this fictional world that we created. The actual production takes place at a gala hosted by the Ph.G. that gets crashed by the U.S.N.H. And we are guests at the gala? And you are guests at the gala. And so things get heated, people start arguing and eventually one young Kanaka Maui, one young native Hawaiian having enough of it actually draws a gun from the security guard and holds everyone at the gala hostage. Okay, and that's just the beginning. Yeah, that's really the starting point for the action. So the audience is participating in that, are they making decisions? The audience will not be making decisions. Okay. What will happen is when the audience comes in, we make it very clear, first of all, that this is going to be a simulated hostage situation. We're not going to trick anyone, we're not going to be like, hey, come see this show, bam, there's a gun. That's not what we're trying to do. Everything is going to be very clear, very laid out, and they're going to get a type of role when they come in. So you could be Donna Blanchard, vice president of marketing for some technological firm. Okay, could be. And so what happens with that is you, as an audience member, would come into the gala, so the gala space is there, the actors are kind of roaming around it in their characters, and they will interact with you as your character to various extents before the actual gala begins. So that's really the immersive aspect, that helps draw the audience into the world, and then everyone takes their seats when the gala begins proper, and from there on, they are... it's more of a traditional kind of play from then on out. Oh, okay. Do the actors have a way of knowing what characters the audience members are playing, or is it up to the audience member to... It'll actually be on your name tag. Oh, okay. You'll be given a name tag with your title. Good. And good, I've done interactive pieces before. I used to do murder mysteries. Oh, I love those. In Chicago. And sometimes audience members will really go for it and have a good time playing along. Yes. Other times they're, you know, enjoying the attention they're getting for whatever reason. And I always felt like if it is... if the event is set up well, you lessen the possibility of that happening, but it always still exists. It always still exists. The big framework that we're taking this piece from and basing it on is there was a late-night theater piece at UH, I think it was two years ago now, called One Night Stand. And it was kind of... it was in an art gallery. So it wasn't a gala, but we set up this art gallery with installations and audience members were given celebrity names. And so that's kind of where the name tag idea came from. But some of those audience members did take it. They really took those characters and ran with it. So that's why we were having a mix this time. So it's enough of a buffer by giving the title that the audience is comfortable, but it's also they're anchored by having their real name. Okay. That's cool. And your actors get to be nimble and what an amazing exercise for them. It's really great. It's fun to watch them just as we rehearse. We have guests come in every night who watch either students or people who have heard about it and they're like, I don't know about it. It's like, no, come and watch. It's not as scary as you think. And we kind of give them either ambassador kind of positions or we just tell them that they represent some company. And it's really, really fun watching the actors see what the actors come up with and the choices that they make. How do I feel about this audience member? Like, are they allied to the country that I represent? Or have I bought stuff from the people that they work for? So it's really interesting watching all that. Oh, yeah. So what is the goal of the piece? So the goal of the piece, while we use a simulated hostage situation as a frame, it really touches on the topics of Hawaiian sovereignty, self-determination, which is so prevalent and poignant. Not just with the native Hawaiian community, like with the Department of Interior's recent announcement that they were going to, that they have finalized a pathway towards Hawaiian self-determination, but also just with indigenous cultures. You know, it's what we are dealing with as a whole. The Standing Rock protests for the Dakota Pipeline, it's so prevalent now. And so you have that layer to it that the issues that we're talking about are about native Hawaiians and what they're dealing with. And then underneath that, at the absolute core of the piece, is asking the question, what are we doing for those who will follow us? How are we preparing our children so that when they grow up, growing up in this post-9-11 world where all they have is the media constantly barraging them with news of terror attacks and school shootings, what happens when these kids, they grow up, they have an ideal, they have something they're excited about that they want to go with, they want to fight for, and because they've been insinuated with so much of this, they think maybe violence is a proper route to take to accomplish it. So that's really at the core. What are we doing for those who are going to follow in our footsteps? That's very cool. And I take it that you are not... you are opening people's eyes, but you are not interested in giving someone a political slant, pushing them down one road or another. I'm really not all sides, as much as humanly possible, all sides are being represented. So you have the different kind of sides currently with the Native Hawaiian community, but you also have people who are not of the community but still on the island. One of our characters is a representative for the U.S. government, the senator that represents Hawaii. So we ask these questions not just of the Native population, but everyone that's involved. Okay, cool. I've seen productions that try to present a situation and all of the opposition are all bad people. They have no redeeming qualities whatsoever, and that, I feel, I don't feel that's entertainment and I don't feel it's going to teach anyone anything because they become caricatures and a person to whom we cannot relate. And we all have... We're all human. We all make mistakes. We all make bad decisions sometimes, but the importance is in redeeming that and understanding why. They say that people who are literate grow up without learning problem-solving and understanding why something bad happened because they aren't able to get inside the head of characters like we do through books and through theater as well. Okay, well, there you're seeing some information about the show. We're going to take our first break and we hope you'll come back and join us. I am talking with Kevin C.K. Burke of Manoa Valley University of Hawaii at Manoa. We'll see you in a moment. Aloha, how are you doing? Welcome to Ibaachitak. I'm here at Gordo the Texar on Think Tech Hawaii. I'm here with my good old buddy, Andrew the security guy. Hey, everybody, how are you doing? Aloha. Good to have Andrew here in the house. Please join us every Friday from 1 to 130 and follow us up on YouTube. And remember, as we say at the end of every show, how are you doing? Aloha, I'm Kaui Lucas, host of Hawaii is My Mainland every Friday here on Think Tech Hawaii. I also have a blog of the same name at kauilukas.com where you can see all of my past shows. Join me this Friday and every Friday at 3 p.m. Aloha. This is Steve Katz. I'm a marriage and family therapist and I do shrink wrap, which is now going to every other week, all during the summer and maybe forever after.  Have a good time. Do what's fun and take good care of yourself. Bye-bye. During the show, I forgot to tell you during the first segment, I apologize for that, but you can ask us a question live at Think Tech HI. Okay, we're talking with Kevin C.K. Berg. On the break, we're talking about playing a bad character, playing someone who is the antagonist. And I think one of the most beautiful opportunities we get to experience on theater is playing that antagonist with heart and soul and recognizing that they're not doing what they're doing or saying what they're saying to be evil. If you're playing a character based in any reality whatsoever, nobody is trying to be evil, everybody. Nobody wants to be evil, no. So the most heinous things that they're doing, they're doing it for a very good reason and that's the exercises to figure out what it is and then embody that. Yes, exactly. Good.  And that's not what we're trying to do. What I'm hoping is that it starts a conversation, exactly what I said before the break. What are we doing for those who will follow? What are we doing for the children? What are we doing for the Kiki? What's happening and what steps are we taking? Because the world is changing. It's changing and it's changing faster and faster every single day. We have the presidential elections coming up in November along with all the other elections and that's what's our world going to be like after that. So all we can do is not cocoon but to take care of what we have responsibility for. I think our responsibilities are larger than ever before. I really do because we have so much more opportunity for efficacy. We have to grab it by the horns or align with someone that we have good reason to believe is going to do a good job of grabbing those horns. So you were also involved in Laia Kauai. I was, yes, I was one of the assistant directors. And you are Kanaka Mali yourself. I was one of those people in the audience who understands a tiny portion of the Hawaiian language. It was so beautifully done. I was really glad to see that for those who are watching and aren't familiar with the show. It was written by Haileopua Baker and was entirely done in the Hawaiian language and it was on the main stage at Kennedy Theater. Kudos to them for doing that. I hope we see much more of that sort of work there. And it was packed for every single performance. It was packed. And not just, oh, it's a full house. There's a lot of people sold out, packed. It was one of the most successful shows that year and probably one of the most successful shows in recent memory. Oh, yeah. Yes, I agree. And the energy in the room was amazing. And I'm going to say probably half of us didn't speak the language at least, really. There were programs that explained some of the information, but was it considered experimental theater? I don't think so. Kumu Haile has been working in Hanakeaka for a very long time and she and the other Kumus working with her. I don't think that it was experimental. They knew what they wanted going into it. They knew exactly what they wanted the audience to get going into it. So there was a very clear vision. I think my production is far more experimental. But no, I think that she and the entire creative staff was very grounded and forward moving in what they wanted. Okay. That was an awesome opportunity for you to be able to work with all of the Kumus involved in that show. It was. It was a blessing because I am Kanaka Mali. I am native Hawaiian, but I'm diaspora, right?  Yeah, how did that happen? My mom visited a family and she had me there and we never came back. Oh, okay. Well, Minnesota is beautiful. Minnesota is beautiful. It has a lovely three seasons and winter.  Wonderful fishing. And loons. I miss that. I bet you do. There are some things that I miss. I miss a little bit of frost on the ground. I miss overcast skies for weeks on end. And I do miss loons. It's the most amazing sound at night to hear it floating over the water. I had a ringtone on my phone that was a loon for a long time. I've been up there fishing. Sure. So, okay, that's how you got there. I'm sorry I got a little sidetracked, but I had to know. So you're diaspora working with Kumuhai Lee on the show. Yes, and she really took me under her wing and I'm so thankful for that because when I was looking to get a graduate degree because like I said, I wanted to teach at the college level. And so I was like, I need to get my masters. Where am I going to go? And I think my grandma on my mom's side, she said, why don't you apply to UH? And I was like, I didn't really think about it. And she said, I think you should. And that just kind of set in motion. And then Kumuhai Lee, as soon as I met her, she would just like, yep. Awesome. It was supposed to happen. So even though, so I was in the same boat as you, I don't speak Olala Hawaii. I know some words now having been in that production and part of that production, but I'm by no means fluent. But being able to see how she crafted that story so that people would understand it, even if they didn't understand the language, how clear and precise that was. And then if you did understand the language, the poetry, and just the poetry of the words, even if you didn't understand it, it just all synergized together. It was really amazing to be a part of. It was really beautiful. And it was very gently told. You also brought a piece from Chicago here. Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. Yes. The Neo-Futurist work. Tell us a little bit about that. And I'm asking you about this. We have a few minutes left, but I think it sort of fills in the story around your upcoming show. Sure. So when I was, not a freshman, when I was a first year here at UH, I really wanted to do something. I wanted to direct a show, and I'm here for directing, but I wanted to stretch myself. I wanted to see what other kind of shows are there. And I did my undergrad in Chicago, where the Neo-Futurists call home. And I remember going to see their shows, and I thought, man, if we could do that here, like if we could do some Neo-Futurist plays here. And so I got in touch with them, and they said, well, we have this option, where you can actually do 30 of the published plays that we've written. And so we did that, and we brought that over here, and we did 30 plays from Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, 30 plays in 60 minutes, and it went like gangbusters. It was so successful, and everyone's like, what is this? 30 plays in 60 minutes? How is this possible? Because it's true, they're not just skits, they're actual plays. They have a beginning, a middle, and an end. And then the year after that, I did The Cows Outside the Fence, which is based on my own premise and philosophy, but we still used, with their permission, the techniques of the plays. So there was a closed line with 30 plays, it was 30 plays in 60 minutes. So with their permission, we did that, but we actually wrote our own plays the second time around. Oh, awesome. Are you getting involved in writing because the story's not out there that you want to tell? Or, yeah, okay. Pretty much. I'm a firm believer that if you're going to try to do immersive theater or you're going to try to do something, you know, an open frame form where there is no fourth wall and you're expanding things, there needs to be one person that has a clear vision of it. And it just so happened that the story I wanted to tell, like you said, it just wasn't there, so I had to write it and then direct the show that I had written so that that vision was clear, so the actors could feel safe, so the audience will be able to feel safe, because that's really the important thing about immersive theater to me.  I don't know. We'll go where the winds take us. You've been to Minnesota, so... I have been to Minnesota. Hopefully, you know, positions are starting to open up for the next academic year and we'll be applying to those positions and get some bites. Maybe I'll go back to the continent or maybe I'll be here. Who knows? And what is your overreaching goal for the work that you're doing? What do you want? I want to do two things. I want people who are not normally in theater to not get hooked but to be interested. I want to do things that challenges people and not in such a way where they're automatically shutting down, like some people have a tendency to do. I want to do work that makes you question. I want to do work that if someone sees my show, they don't think about it for another two weeks and then they're at Starbucks and all of a sudden, wait a minute. So for non-theater people, for non-artistic people, that's what I want. And for the theater people involved in my stuff, I said before the break that we are coming on a big change in the country and I'm a firm believer that we as artists and not just theater practitioners but musicians and visual artists, we have a responsibility to make sure that the soul of humanity remains intact through whatever transition comes. It's our responsibility, it's our culliana to kind of safeguard this. And so that's the other thing that I try to impart to my actors and those involved. Yeah, that's kind of heavy. Kind of heavy a little bit. You've come a long way from Rodgers and Hammerstein. Yeah, I guess I have. There's still room for that though. Okay, so let's talk about, let's talk to some logistics about your show. We have about a minute left. So the show opens October 19th. It will run through October 23rd. October 19th through 22nd is a 730. October 23rd is a Sunday, so that's a matinee. Ticket prices, can every, all the information can be found at manoa.hawaii.edu slash live on stage forward slash a-house-divided. It's all there, but it's a wonderful thing.  I promise you you'll be safe doing it. Awesome, that's great. Thank you so much for being here. I hope you, let's collaborate on something sometime because we are doing also everything that we can to bring people into theater who don't normally go there and recognize this is not your grandmother's theater. No, it's not. I also say it's not your grandfather's Chinatown, but I'm in Chinatown. And I have to say, thank you so much for being here. Thank you for having me. Thank you for being here, for watching us on center stage. Thank a few people here in the studio. Rich Prepis, our floor manager who's right over there. Thank you, Rich. Zuri Bender, our studio overlord who is in my ear. And Jay Fidel, who somehow manages to put all of this together. Thank you very much and we will see you next week here on center stage Wednesday at 2. Bye.


So ever since middle school, I was always a kid. I didn't like talking to people. I didn't like giving the presentations. I always just did the work that was given to me and never went above and beyond. And ever since I've came to Purdue Polytechnic High School, all of that has changed. It's actually a funny story. My mom heard the ad on my birthday and then she just thought to herself, well, this is great. It's all about self-directed learning, about learning at your own pace, about independence. And she thought that is so Audrey. You know, I wanted to always go to Purdue University, so that was the main reason. But then also I wanted to go to a smaller school. I really didn't want to attend a township school because those schools are bigger. So coming into high school, I would more kind of like follow like what's happening and just attempt to go with the flow about trying to like put my voice out there. Going through high school and especially going through the structure that this high school was structured in, I've gotten far more confident talking with people, leading teams, communicating my ideas to both other colleagues and also people inside and outside of the school. I had a lot of growth from between freshman and senior year. Coming in as a freshman, I was pretty shy. I was like really reserved, you know? And now as a senior, I've kind of come out of my shell a bit. You know, I'm less nervous to talk to people I don't know being exposed to so many people through this high school. I've just learned how to, you know, roll with the punches and talk to people and network myself. Purdue Polytechnic High School has definitely made me fulfill my potential. I was very bored in middle school. It didn't feel like we were going fast enough with work. So getting the school being self-paced is very good for me. There's been so much independent opportunities for growth, I'd say, like here they don't hold your hand. They're gonna give you what you need to grow and then they're going to let you grow. For me, when we were able to make our own schedules, freshman year, to me that stood out just because the school was giving us the responsibility, allowing us to make our own decisions and allowing us to manage ourselves versus having the school manage us. At PVHS, we're really able to pursue our interests, especially through passion projects. So the coaches here will introduce what they're passionate about and any students that are also interested in that can take six weeks to learn about it. And some coaches have even started passion projects where the students can make what they want out of it as long as they can back up how it applies to the different competencies we have, they're good to do whatever they want. The reason that we call them coaches is just because they're here to coach us. They're not just here to teach us. It offers a more inclusive environment. So going through the school, we don't use Mr., Mrs., Ms. with our teachers, we use coaches because we're trying to create a team environment. The coaches here are on another level in terms of qualifications and just like how much they care. So since the student to staff ratio is pretty small, you get as much help and support that you need over at the traditional school. The Purdue Polytechnic coaches have really always been there for me in my learning because this school is so unique. They've been able to adapt the curriculum to my needs so that I can be challenged at my own level. And if you're falling behind, they'll reach out to you and try to help and offer sessions to kind of help catch you up on work you may be missing. I would definitely recommend Purdue Polytechnic to other students looking into going into high school. I would say that if you're looking for a way to take your learning into your own hands and to kind of discover yourself that Purdue Polytechnic is right for you.  It's gonna be different.  I'm constantly thinking about who I would have been if I never came to Purdue Polytechnic high school and that person would be significantly different. What's next for me is Purdue University. I'm going to be majoring in mechanical engineering technology. So I'm going to go to Purdue University. I'm going for my robotics engineering technology degree. I will be attending Purdue University this fall. It's a major in CIT computer information technology. So I'm attending Purdue and I am studying robotics engineering technology. I'm planning to go to Purdue University and study mechanical engineering technology. Right now I'm looking at computer and information technology. Next for me will be Purdue University and getting my degree and opening up businesses and eventually coming back to Purdue Polytechnic high school and saying I did it.


Welcome back to the AI for good global summit here in Geneva on day two, of course And one of the speakers is with me now. It's Maurizio Viccione who's executive vice president of the global good fund So you just come from giving a speech. How did it get? Well, I think it went well, you know, it was in a controversial topic, which is the sort of the role of data including all of the implication around privacy and data curation In machine learning and artificial intelligence and I think that may be the next frontier now that the algorithms are shaping up The real next innovation is going to come from data. So So that was an interesting topic. I think our audience needs to know what the global good fund is. Sure it's a sister organization to the Gates Foundation and So we're using philanthropic funding from Mr. Gates and his charitable trust to really drive science and technology in areas that Are too high risk for traditional players to do But hopefully have high potential for impact and return and of course we're doing this for philanthropic purposes So it's for greater good public good I think what solutions in particular for the emerging markets is about a pink world I guess is the politically correct word. Yeah, yeah, correct. Our focus is low and middle-income countries Basically, it's the bottom billion people And when you actually do the math is more like the bottom four billion people and if you think about it that's the majority of the people on the planet and Most of them have been passed by by all the innovation in science and technology that we take for granted in the first world So part of global goods goal is to use the power of invention To really sort of rectify that and to try to find catalytic innovations that can change health care Can change agricultural productivity for the better and in machine learning and artificial intelligence takes a particular Strong role there. Give me a case study Sure. Well, for example We were behind the breakthrough in cervical cancer a care, which is a second leading cause of mortality in women Primarily 85% of that burden in low resources because women in the first world get screened In the developing world they very rarely get screened So there are millions of women that will die because of lack of screening and the breakthrough we had was in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute in the US of essentially having a piece of software using machine learning on a camera phone that Allows you to screen for cervical cancer better than the most advanced laboratory techniques that exist today So it's actually better than the pap smear or other psychology-based tests that would be the standard of care in Switzerland or in in the States and Simple camera phone with artificial intelligence Outperforms that and that's a case study of a piece of innovation, which is now scaling globally in partnership with the WHO and Unitate and Chai As a new sort of standard of care. That's an example of a catalytic invention But that's positive. So what's your negative concerns that you raised? I don't actually have a lot of negative concerns, but anytime you're talking about privacy and data and essentially Collecting and aggregating large data sets. There are those that would worry about how it's data collected the ethics The privacy issues should governments own this data or is it really the patient's data? And of course, you don't get a lot of this conversation in low and middle-income countries So it tends to be a concern primarily in the first world, but there are clearly ethical considerations to the idea that as data sets become more powerful and The discovery in areas like medicine including the companies of tomorrow are Predicated on the availability of that data then should the people who want the data Benefit somehow and that's an interesting exploration here at EITU today So I know you can't stay for the whole event, but what would you like its conclusions to be at the end from what? Well, I think there's some obvious conclusions that the early successes in in AI for good are starting to show in medicine specifically and those Clearly are indicating the power of collaborative Ecosystems it is not possible for one company one organization to essentially own Both the data the data curation the clinical information and the clinical solutions So I think the the spirit of the meeting as well as the direction that I think we're all driving is one of Collaboration and the role of the UN system to be sort of a broker of those collaboration I think there is some really encouraging early signs whether it be at ITU at WHO at UN, you know within the SDG complex to really sort of drive consortia and collaboration abilities that can federate companies can federate academic researchers can if it can federate clinical researchers For the sort of greater good, and I think the conference is particularly Timely and well positioned to act as catalysts for that Okay. Well, that was Maritsevich Choney who's from the global good fund. Thank you very much for your time. My pleasure


know who interrupt me.  Let me let the camera just see another reason why this camera, we ain't gonna talk about that girl. I get a lot of, not a lot, but I would say newly every other video or every other video I have a comment, there we go, of someone who is saying you know they look forward to my videos or that my videos are you know put them in a better mood and that's what I want to do but I want to say this because I feel like it needs to be said. Whatever you are going through right now sis or brother, whatever you are going through just know that you are loved and know that you're not alone. Whatever you're going through even though right now it seems like when you are awake it is a nightmare. You look forward to going to bed because you can forget about everything and as soon as you wake up you know that there's issues that you may or may not have to deal with that day later on. Whatever it is that you're going through it will get better. I know that it's so cliche to say and especially when you're in the midst of the storm quote-unquote you know what I mean but it will get better if you are praying whoever you pray to pray, meditate, eat better, drink some water, stay hydrated, take a walk. Trust the process. Trust the process. It is hard. I know girl. I need to delete some stuff on this camera y'all. Hey y'all y'all like my workout show?  I like snacks. I like to snack on food. I like to eat a lot of different food y'all. Hold on let me drink some water. I've been feeling a little dizzy. This morning I was feeling a little dizzy while working out so I had to cut my workout short. I got this huge mason jar from the Goodwill. Anyway y'all it is Thursday July 5th ain't a dangle thing going on around here. It's quiet because my husband just left for work. JB's at school. I've caught up on work. The only thing other thing I need to do today which I need to do here in like 20 more minutes is wash my hair.  I have been on an emotional roller coaster. I like to watch movies when I am working so when I was at the gym I was watching the Handmaid's Tale which is a whole other thing. And then what movie did I watch? I can't remember. But the last movie I watched was Still Alice. When I told you that movie was so emotional it stars Alex Baldwin and Julianne Moore. And it basically has to do with onset early Alzheimer's which is becoming a lot more frequent. Have y'all been I've been seeing a lot more stories of that. A couple of people especially in the UK a couple of women have been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's in their 30s. Now I didn't know they were such thing called Familia Alzheimer's. It's just horrible. I mean I used to work for hospice. I know what Alzheimer's looks like at an older age. But to see someone who's working with fairly young kids to get it in their 50s and like I said some people even been diagnosed in their 30s. I don't think people realize that Alzheimer's is basically a long death. I hate to put it like that but that's that's what it is. It's an extremely long death. So y'all anyway that was the movie I was watching and then just I'm cooking some food right now. I got knocked the bandwagon. I was eating a lot of carbs. I've been eating a lot of carbs girl the last two or three days. Which why I know I could not do keto. You can get that. That could get out of my dictionary right now.  I can eat tacos every week. And I do. I just about do. I do eat them every week. So yeah that's it y'all. I was gonna say I found another church. You know the good thing about being in this 21st century era with technology. You can look at reviews. Most churches have Facebook pages which is so weird to me. But it is what it is. Even my home church has a Facebook page. And you could just go on the church to look up if you can go on the church's website to look up information on the pastor. Look at reviews. Google reviews. Because I told you the church that I go to that these holes ain't loyal. And for those of you who don't know the reason why the reason why I call it that these holes ain't loyal church is because during church announcements about two years ago they played the instrumental to these holes ain't loyal with Chris Brown. It was a Chris Brown. That messed me up for a whole year. I didn't go to that church for a whole year because that really messed me up that y'all playing these holes ain't loyal doing the church announcements. So last the one thing I wanted to talk about when I say you know church was good but I would say it anyway. I don't know what it is but we had a guest guest preacher. And towards Santa Mary I knew it was coming. Towards the end he asked for an offering. But why did he ask for a thousand dollars? Let me say this. If God puts it on your heart to give this man a thousand dollars praise be. But this man set up here and I'm gonna say he basically begged for a thousand dollars and don't you know nearly 20 people went up there. Nearly 20 people went up there and donated. I don't even want to say donation. Their offering was a thousand dollars. Then he said girl this is a guest preacher. Then he said guaranteed you gonna get this money back within seven days. That is bold as hell. You better you better have a direct line into God for that. But to say that. Now let me say this. I do believe in what we call sow and seed. I do believe in tithing but what I don't believe is begging at the end. Can I get a can extra fifty dollars? I need ten more people to give twenty dollars. I ended up finding a church. I forgot the name already but there Baptist. And the pastor has been at this church for 50 years. And it's a small church looking at our guest that it has no more than 200 members. Probably less than that. 200 or less members. I'm just eyeballing y'all. It's because it's a small congregation. He was with the board of education here in Phoenix for 23 years that piqued my interest. Then when reading his background girl when I when I read this I just I read it. He was born and raised in East Texas. So I'm like all right we got us at East Texas. Y'all it's something about us fellow Southerners especially if you're from Texas or the sister state Louisiana. We tend to stick together. So when we hear that someone else is from Texas that makes us a little bit more trustworthy. Now yeah there are some ratchet churches in Texas and in the south in general. Hello. I'm not going to name any names but that made me feel a little bit more comfortable knowing he was coming from East Texas and the longevity. He started preaching there in 1965. So good guy. I'm doing really good. JP's really good at these. And I built this crocodile right here. All he's doing is looking at the pictures. It's taking it's taking me a while but his little brain is is pretty good at this. All right baby. So I'm not gonna I'm not even helping him. He's just doing it so you can you can continue. As soon as I got in because we have a pool where you have to walk in off the ladder right. So walked in a few steps. My breast was submerged.  He's like well yeah I put a lot of chemicals in here. This is a lot of chlorine. This is what the tomatoes, tomatillos look like and I have jalapenos here. You're supposed to use two things. You know those dried peppers red peppers sometimes you see in the produce section. They're very dry. They're backed up. Supposed to use that or the long skinny I think they're called serrano peppers. He's supposed to use that and all I'm gonna do is place this in my blender here. Pulse it a few times and then stare in my onions my cilantro and I think I'm gonna stare in some tomatoes too. You normally don't add tomatoes but I am. Okay this is what the salsa looks like. Okay before adding anything else. Now one thing I'm going to do is I'm going to allow this to cool down because it's a little yeah it's a little warm. I have my chopped onions some tomatoes some cilantro okay and I'll add a little bit of lemon I think. All right I'm gonna go ahead and add my onions. Normally you just you do white onion but it is what it is. Here's my cilantro and I'm not gonna add a lot of tomatoes. Mix it up like this. I'm gonna add some cumin here and some salt. Yeah you know what I'm gonna take those tomatoes out y'all. I know crazy huh. I don't like the tomatoes in it. I'm gonna take the tomatoes out. It's hot y'all. Right now it's the high of a hundred and a hundred and I don't know it's a hundred hell. It's like a seriously though it's like a hundred and seven a hundred and eight degrees and it'll be this way until they ain't going there November. We're gonna go check the mail because I got a message y'all. I'm very OCD when it comes to my packages. Y'all heard me talk about this before. I signed up for you UPS VIP status so I know exactly when my stuff is delivered. Oh it's hot. It's so hot like and it's dry out here so it's windy but it's dry hot wind. No cool breeze girl. I am full. Today is Saturday by the way. I didn't really vlog earlier today because I wasn't looking to talk about. No we did a lot. We went to keep going sweetheart. Keep going. You want me to carry it and vlog? What do we go boo boo? Went grocery shopping of course and we went to Mocha Chucky Jesus right and y'all I am notorious for if JB wants to play somewhere like JB wants to play at McDonald's. We don't eat McDonald's though. So I bought me some nachos from Rubio's and walked up into McDonald's but I did like I bought like a ice tea at McDonald's and sit down and he played. What else that set? You don't know. No because clearly I've done three vlogs now in a row and typically they're spaced out you know every four or five days or so. Yeah until I get my camera which I haven't even had time to mill off yet I'm milling off Monday morning until I receive my new camera there will be no more hair related videos until then even though I got some new stuff coming in yo we're gonna hold off vlogging I'm okay on this old camera but I know y'all tired of me hearing about talking about it but I just want to explain if those are you who are wondering where the hair related videos are at. Can you dresses? Oh you know what it was part of a bundle because I'm like I would never in all honesty I wouldn't do avocado. I'm gonna try it but this was part of her bundle so we have a leave in we have hair oil and then we have a coconut mango hair butter also for those of you who don't follow me on Instagram which I understand everybody's on you know everything like I have Twitter sorry I have Twitter but I don't tweet at all I just don't but I am on Instagram quite a lot. What's the point? I did a length check a couple of days ago and I hadn't done one in about seven or eight months I'm at the longest it is in the front 18.5 inches girl that's that's a bundle this part of my hair is in the front right here in the front right here longest part is between 18.5 some areas were like almost 19 inches right here on the side I'm 15 there was some 13 then the back in between he gonna get he gonna get body slammed in the back it's between 12 13 inches y'all mind the shape of my hair is so and I get comments every now and then how do you get that shape is it cut girl it's called having multiple textures so I have a natural graduated bob I mean I just said the back is 13 inches the front is dang on your 19 so yeah that's a bit extreme. Hey y'all it is Sunday evening no we didn't go to church this morning I've been feeling a little dizzy I was a little dizzy yesterday morning a little dizzy this morning I notice when I don't drink as much water I'm a little dizzy I also have what's called BP PV I mean I get business from different things but the main reason is as the positional basically is a positional vertical it's a type of vertical where you have particles in your air now it's gotten so bad once that I had to go to my ENT I do see your nose throat specialist for it and they had to do the specifically a maneuver where they put your head all the way back and she basically had you to jerk your head around real quick and it breaks up the particles in your inner in your inner air and she could tell I mean the specialist was able to tell because my eyes go back and forth like this when she does it crazy but right now I can feel a little bit it's okay now I'm okay that's why I'm driving we're gonna go to the Dollar Tree and go to Walmart I got to run some errands I gotta get some more organizational stuff for supplemental homeschool yeah I can't do homeschooling full-time I just can't tied but yeah I had to send an email to the voluntary coordinator I'm like look how far I was supposed to be on the schedule anyway but this ain't gonna work out I am gonna be trying the new church next Sunday I'm gonna go by myself and if I like it then the family's gonna go with me this Sunday afterwards I just want to you know get a feel from it forward you know um see how I mean yeah but I need the folders I don't need a binder I need I do need a notebook stay still baby let's get this school stuff fell sack lunches ziploc bags I have tons of this stuff at home I used to get my elf I want to sell any right oh you're so sweet Luba cuz I wouldn't have no I wouldn't pick it up I really don't get anything over here unless it's condiments sometimes but sometimes it'd be cheaper at Walmart Applebytes yeah I'm sitting up here my skin looks horrible lately I mean there's a pimple right there I've been breaking out I've been noticing it for the past week or so and the first thing that I do is when I notice my skin and this is abnormal for me this many pimples and outbreak like this I don't get outbreaks like this one or two yeah but all over know my diet I look at my diet so I'm gonna try to clean up my diet as much as possible I'm trying to think I haven't had been a little bit more sweets normally as far as sweets go I'll probably have something sweet to eat once a week but I've been having something sweet to eat almost every day so yeah I try to cut off the sweets I know y'all can't really see me I'm putting on my sneakers cuz I'm gonna go to the gym actually I'm gonna go to the UPS not UPS the postal office which is in another city because we live on an outside of Phoenix I gotta go up to Anthem and then come back down hit gym and then go pick up boo boo um I know this vlog is getting long and we're spilling into the next week but y'all I was gonna tell y'all I spent the last two days you know I need to do that I was thinking about something else this is July of course we're in July and one more month technically less than a month before JG starts kindergarten officially let me let me calm down too um so I've been spending a great deal of time just looking at my calendar making things everything's okay we haven't meet the teacher in two more weeks I gotta purchase uniforms next week I just need to purchase his tops I've already got him some shoes I've already purchased him pants for this for the winter time which is gonna be like damn they're three months from now he has plenty of sharks but I have to purchase his tops for the school colors I mean just a lot going on just making sure he's prepared I'm going to spend I was supposed to do it this week I yesterday I just remembered but we have time I'm gonna spend the time to go back on the school's website and read and read over their policies I don't want any type of surprises their policies on everything vacations or excuse me sick days sick days quote unquote school lunches and stuff like that I know that they you have to order it he won't be doing school lunches I know that but breakfast every now and then he does like to eat breakfast food so you know just making sure I'm prepared so I need to make sure that I'm aware of all their policies or at least go over most of them I also even though this is a great school it's a charter school and I know people who kids go there I am not discontinuing my supplemental learning no I think that's a mistake that a lot of parents make and the funny thing is that I was speaking to another parent who he was saying how you know his child is also going to the same school that JV is going to but they're also going to do supplemental learning he's he's an educator actually so I'm gonna mostly focus on social skills African studies gonna be more African centric oriented I ordered a slew of books this morning from books.com I ordered another book case to really get myself organized and I have my notebook here I've been taking notes for like two days straight y'all I spent a good amount of time doing this but I have all month to get prepared I just want to start now and I'm gonna create a curriculum for him again mostly African centric base African American and focus on social skills like I said we're gonna do reading we would prefer that he gets introduced to a lot of these subject matters in the house before some outside influences get to him all right so anyway let me go mill off this camera I'm a choke and if anyone even says cannon I'm I want to choke them Lord all right y'all that's it for this vlog there how do you oh how do you feel now you feel yeah you feel better huh you feel better than I took your horrible hat off hmm yeah you know you stop crying little lad a little giggle there's something in between his legs blocking see that blocking him from going over my hair is in a scarf and oh okay all right then you want me you want to kiss are you gonna stop give me a kiss


In this video we are going to look at the functional groups I introduced in the last one and learn how to name molecules when they have these functional groups in them. So remember the basic rules for naming a molecule. You find a name, the longest continuous carbon chain. You identify and name any groups or substituents that are attached to this chain. And you number the chain so as to give the lowest possible numbers in the name. But what about if we have a functional group in the molecule? How do we indicate that in the name? Well this table shows the functional groups we met in the last lecture. Each of these groups has a different suffix that is added to the molecule's name to indicate that it's there. Alkanes, alkenes and alkynes you already know. For instance you use the ene suffix to indicate that there is a double bond in the molecule. And you use the iron suffix to indicate that there's a triple bond. Halo alkanes don't actually have a suffix. They're always treated as a substituent. So they get added as a prefix to the front of the name. A bit like hydrocarbon substituents like methyl and ethyl. We'll look at examples in a later video. The other groups each have their own suffix. If a molecule has an OH group in it, it's an alcohol. And so the end of the name will be ol. For instance a three carbon chain by itself is propane but with an OH group attached it's called propanol.