The festive season is usually a time where the general public purchase and consume more food than usual. History has also shown that it is a time generally where there is an increase in foodborne-related illnesses every year to coincide with the festive season, as recorded by the Department of Health and Wellness. Therefore, consumers are urged to be vigilant when purchasing, transporting, storing and preparing food products. Consequently, the Department of Health and Wellness hereby provide the public with the following safety tips to be considered during the festive season. Examine all foods carefully prior to purchase. Check for any damages or food items and expiration dates. Never purchase canned foods which are unlabeled, dented, rusted or blown and avoid purchasing large quantities of foods with short shelf life or close to expiration dates. Avoid storing foods such as meat, fish and chicken or food requiring refrigeration at the back of a car or vehicle for a prolonged period of time. Keep hot foods steaming hot over 60 degrees centigrade and keep cold foods refrigerated at or below 4 degrees centigrade. If you are going to defrost a large turkey or ham, remember they will take several days to defrost in the fridge. Always make sure that they are thoroughly defrosted in the center before cooking. Before preparing food for Christmas, make sure that there is enough room in the fridge to keep foods cold or at less than 4 degrees centigrade. If there is not enough room in the fridge, remember that soft drinks and alcohol, pickles, jams and other acidic condiments do not require refrigeration to remain safe. Drinks can be kept cold in a cooler. Prepare foods as close as possible to eat in time. Use separate cutting boards and utensils for raw meats and ready to eat foods. Cook foods properly. If you cook large amount of food in advance, divide it into small portions or shallow containers. Cover and place in the fridge or freezer. Make sure that there is good acetylation around the containers. Refrigerate leftovers immediately after the meal as soon as it stops steaming. Never store leftovers on the kitchen table and use refrigerated leftovers within 2 to 3 days. When reheating, foods ensure that it is steaming hot all the way through. At least 75 degrees centigrade, bring food to a rolling boil. Home will keep several weeks if handled and stored properly. Before preparing food and between handling raw meats or raw chicken, wash hands thoroughly with soap and water and dry thoroughly. When eating out, check whether the food handling establishment has a public health license that is conspicuously displayed, which indicates that it is an approved establishment and has met public health requirements. When purchasing local meat products from butchers, look for the inspected and passed stamp, which indicates that the meat has been inspected for wholesomeness by officers of the Division of Environmental Health and passed for foods. Avoid purchasing any meat that has not been inspected and passed. Further, in light of COVID-19 pandemic and the current community transmission, the general public is asked to adhere to all protocols established and to wear a mask, maintain social distancing, frequent hand washing and use of hand sanitizers while shopping and patronizing local butchers. Happy holidays, everyone.


here at Panther Island Pavilion in Trinity Uptown. We're kicking it off tonight with our first summer tuning and concert series on the Trinity River. It's gonna be an event that happens every second and fourth Thursday, June, July and August. We're gonna have a new band out here. Every, when everybody come out, it's a free event, free tubes for the first 600 attendees. Tubes start going out at four o'clock and the concert will start at 6 p.m. on the second and fourth Thursday, June, July and August. You can go to our website to check out more information trinityrivervision.org.


From around the globe, it's theCUBE with digital coverage of AWS re-invent 2020, sponsored by Intel, AWS, and our community partners. Welcome to the virtual cube and our coverage of AWS re-invent 2020. I'm Lisa Martin. I'm joined by Ali Siddiqui, the Chief Product Officer at BMC Software. We're going to be talking about what BMC and AWS are doing together. Ali, it's great to have you on theCUBE. Thank you, Lisa. Get great to be here and be part of AWS re-invent. Exciting times. They are exciting times. That is true. No, never a dull moment these days, right? So Ali, talk to me a little bit about what BMC is doing with AWS. Let's dig into what you're doing there on the technology front and unpack the benefits that you're delivering to customers. Great questions, Lisa. So at BMC, we really have a close partnership with AWS. It's really about BMC plus AWS, better together for our customers. That's what it's really about. We have a global presence, probably the largest of any vendor out there in our industry with 15 data centers, AWS data centers around the globe. We just announced five more in South Africa, Brazil, Latham, APJ, a couple of them, AMIA across the globe. Really the presence is very strong with these data centers because that lets us offer local presence, take care of GDPR and we have great certification with ISO, SOC2, FedRAM, IL-4, high FedRAM. We even got HIPAA certifications as well as dedicated Canada certifications for our customers thanks to our partnership close partnership with AWS and all these data centers across. In addition, for our customers, really visibility into AWS, seamless capability to do multi-cloud management is key. And with our recent partnership with AWS around specifically AWS SSM, which gives customers key multi-cloud capabilities around multi-cloud management, total visibility seamlessly in AWS and all their services, whether it's EC2, SES, S3, SageMaker, whatever services they have, we let them discover and seamlessly give them visibility into that. That 360 degree visibility is really key to understand the dependencies right between the software and the services and help customers to optimize their investments in AWS ASM, correct? Exactly, with AWS SSM and our AI service management integration, we really give deep visibility on the dependency, how they're being used, what services are being impacted and really AWS SSM is a key unique technology which we've integrated with them. Very, very happy with the results our customers are getting from it. Can you share some of those results, operational efficiencies, cost savings? Yeah, Lisa, another great question. So when I look at the general picture of AI service management and AI ops, which we run with AWS across all these global data sensors and specifically with AWS SSM, people are able to do customers and this is like the top two hyperscalers we are talking about, as well as large telcos like Ericsson and some of the leading industry retail or other customers we have, they're getting great value because they're able to do service modeling automatically use SSM to get true deep visibility seamlessly to do service discovery for all their assets that they run using AI service management and AI ops capabilities. It really is the next gen and it's disrupting the service ITSM traditional service management industry with what we're offering now with AI service management, AWS SSM and other AWS cloud-needed capabilities such as SageMaker and AWS Lex and connect that we leverage in us AI service management and AI ops solution. We recently announced that as a single unified platform which allows our customers to go on, BMC customers and joined with AWS customers to go on this autonomous digital enterprise journey. This announcement was done by our CEO of BMC, Aiman Syed in BMC exchange recently where we basically launched a single IDE foundation, a single platform for observability engagement with automation. For the autonomous digital enterprise I presume I'd like to understand too from your perspective this disruption that you're enabling how is it helping your customers not just survive this viral disruption that we're all living with but be able to get the visibility into their software and services really maximize and optimize their cloud investments so that their business can operate well during these unprecedented times meet their customer demands, exceed them and meet their customers where they are. How is this like an accelerator of that? Great question Lisa. So when we say autonomous digital enterprise this is the journey all our customers are taking and it's focused on three treats agility, customer centricity and action ability. So if you think about our solutions with AWS really it's AI service management AI ops enables these enterprises to go on this autonomous digital enterprise journey where they can offer great engagement to their employees all CEOs really care about employee engagement happy employees make for more revenue for those enterprises as well as offer great customer experience for their customers using our AI service management and AI ops combined ADE found in this single platform which we are calling ADE foundation. Yeah, I always, oh go ahead sorry. No, go ahead please. I was going to say I always look at the employee experience and the customer experience as absolutely inextricably linked but the employee experience is hampered that's pride default almost going to impact the customer experience and right now I don't know if it's even possible to say both the employee experience and the customer experience are even more essential to really get right because now we've got this big scatter that happened a few months ago with some companies that were completely 100% on site to remote being able needing to give their employees access to the tools to do their jobs properly so that they can deliver products and services and solutions that customers need. So I always see those two employee customer experience as just inextricably linked. Absolutely, that's correct. And especially in this time even if the new pandemic, these pandemic time the chief human resource offer the CEOs are really focused on keeping the employees engaged and retaining top talent. And that's where our AI service management and AI solution helps them really do use our digital assistance chat boards which are powered by AWX and Lex and AWS connect and our integration with Helix ControlM which is another service we launched on AWS Helix ControlM which is our SaaS version of a leading SaaS product automation product out there as well as RP integrations we bring to the table which really allows them to take employing engagement to the next level. And that's top of mind for all CEOs and being driven by line of business like chief human resource officers. So that's a great point. Are you finding that more of your conversations with customers are at that C level as they look to things like AI ops to help find you in their business that it's really that that C level not concerned but priority to ensure that we're doing everything we can within our infrastructure where our software and services are to really ensure that we're delivering and exceeding customer expectations that are very tumultuous time. Yes, what we are finding is really at the CEO level, CIO level, the C level is about machine learning AI adopting that more in the enterprise and specifically on our capabilities when I say AI ops. So those are around root cause predictive IT and even using AI NLP for self service. So self service is a big part and we offer key capabilities. We just did an acquisition come around which lets them do knowledge management and self service. So these are specific capabilities, predictive IT AI ops and knowledge management self service that we offer that really is resonating very well with CIOs who are looking to transform their IT systems and IT ops and align it with businesses much better and really do innovation in this area. So that's what's happening. And it's great to see that we will do the exact capabilities that come with our IDE foundation the unified platform for observability and let's customers go on this autonomous digital enterprise journey with our keeping capabilities. Do you see this facilitating the autonomous digital enterprise as a way to separate the winners and losers of tomorrow as so much of the world has changed and some amount of this is going to be permanent. Imagine that's got to be a competitive advantage to customers in any industry. We believe enterprises that have the growth mindset and want to go into the next generation and that's most of them to be honest are really looking at the IDE autonomous digital enterprise framework that we offer and work with our customers on and the way to grow revenue to get more customer centric increase employee engagement. That's what we see happening in the industry and that's where our capabilities with IDE foundation as well as Helix, whether it's Helix AI service management Helix AI or now recently launched Helix ControlM really enable them to keep their existing tools as well as keep their existing investments and move the IT ops towards the next generation of tooling and as well as increase employee engagement with our leading industry leading digital assistant chat port and AI service management solution. That's what we see and that's the journey we're taking with most of our customers and really the ones with the growth mindset really being distinguished as the front-runners. Talk to me about some validation from the customer's perspective, the industry's perspective what are you guys hearing about what you're doing as BMC and with AWS? So validation from customer that I've just talked about great validation as I said, talk to of the hyperscalers users for proactive problem management proactive incident management AI ops. At the same time, independent validation from Gartner we are seven years in a row. So seven years is the longest street in Gartner MQ for ITSM and we are a leader in that for seven years the longest run so far by any vendor. We are scoring the top in the top number one position in 12 of the 15 critical capabilities as you know Gartner ITSM is really about the critical capabilities is where most customers look. So that's a big independent validation where we scored 12 of the, we were number one in 12 of the 15 capabilities. So that was an awesome validation from Gartner in ITSM. We also recently EMA Enterprise Management Associates published a new report on AI ops and BMC scored the top spot on the charts with business impact and business alignment use cases categories for AI ops. So think about what that means it's really about your business, right? So we being the top of the chart for business impact and business alignment for AI ops radar report from Enterprise Management Associates is a great independent validation that we can point to of our solutions and what, and that's really because we partner very closely with our customers. We also got couple more awards and we won a lot more but just to mention two more AI breakthrough which is a industry leading third party source out there for chatbots and AI based chatbot solution named BMC Helix chatbot as the best chatbot solution out there. SAS awards, another industry analyst firm, independent firm which really shows that how we are getting third parties and independence to talk about our solutions named BMC SAS for ticket management management which is really a proactive problem and proactive incident resolution system as the best solution out there for ticketing and even to manage. So a lot of athletes, a lot of, yes it sounds like it. A lot of athletes, a lot of validation. How do customers get, how do you get started? So customers looking to come to BMC to really understand, get that 360 degree visibility. How do they get started? Well, they can start with our BMC discovery which integrates very tightly with AWS SSM to basically get the full visibility of assets from network to storage to AWS services, whether they are S3, EC2, doesn't matter what services they're using, Kafka service they're using, whatever the hundreds of services they're using we can seamlessly do that. So that's one way to do that. Just start with BMC Helix discovery. The other one is with BMC knowledge management and BMC self-service, that's a quick win for most of our customers. IAI service management tooling, that's the third way and AIOPS tooling. With BMC Helix monitor and AIOPS we offer pretty much the best in the industry in those that customers can start with. So the many areas and now with BMC ControlM if they want to start with automation that's a great way to start with BMC ControlM which is our SaaS solution of our industry leading automation product called ControlM. And so for just last question from a go to market perspective it sounds like direct through BMC channel partners what about through AWS? Yes, absolutely. I mean, again, it's all about BMC and AWS better together. We offer cloud native AWS services for our solutions use them heavily as I just mentioned whether that's SSM or chat boards or any of the above or SageMaker for machine learning AI and customers can contact the local AWS rep to start learning about BMC and AWS better together. Excellent. Well, Ollie, thank you for coming on the program, talking to us about what BMC is doing to help your customers become that autonomous digital enterprise that we think of tomorrow they're going to need to be to have that competitive edge. I've enjoyed talking to you. Same here. Thank you so much, Lisa. And really it's about our customers and partnering with AWS. So very proud of that. Thank you so much. Excellent. For Ollie Siddiqi, I'm Lisa Martin and you're watching theCUBE.


So, in this episode, we're going to discuss what we might probably get for the next few weeks in Discord's leaks. But before that, if you want an updated XO's Year's content, please hit the Subscribe button down below. Okay, so we're here now at the XO's Year's Datamining Community Discord server. So in this server, we will take a look at much Datamined Updates, look at much data mind updates so more or less um we'll check out the resources and if you can see what we have here is actually the heroes from pedas which we actually know and by the way thanks for rasberg for updating this every now and then so more or less um we have this already lang rithy of but actually we have you know new updates i don't know i think i think this also went out uh on march 26th so we have here dan matchy so they are actually teasing us again of another dan matchy collaboration which i hope this will push through because most almost or some of the people that have been waiting for this so more or less i'm i'm not really sure if this is going to happen but this has been teased in this exozears day na mining community in terms of what will be out so i'm not sure if it's going to be out this month or probably in may but let's find out so we have here ryu lion ace bell and hescha for dan matchy so more or less um i don't know what to expect so we'll see what happens if they put this out but most importantly what i have come here to discuss is actually fc sabrina so more or less for fc sabrina she has been teased here i'll go back to and as a blue uh blue fate core so more or less again she will be featuring buffs for a certain nation so let's go through um the nations already that have blue fate core so you have fc baraka for wasted red which i really like so much because i'm using wasted red so more or less i'm happy with that so next would be fc topaki which is for north von frosty then you have fcl for historic republic then you have fce then for green land then you have fc rachel for loombe so more or less for for fc sabrina i'm actually thinking that she might be the blue fate core for brun which is actually i'm happy because she's already with wasted red so i could build her up and um brun actually needs a lot of help right now because um dorca doesn't have her fc yet and they have not taken off as a nation yet so my speculation for this one would be um fc sabrina would go to brun okay as for the fc theme more or less we have a few fc themes okay so here we are now at the faith core themes so the first would be awakening again i will not say she's going to belong to awakening but let's count which theme doesn't have any blue fate core so you have awakening next you have past which you have here fc rachel then you have the astrophysm which doesn't have a blue fate core that is two uh banga family has topaki uh dragonites emperos has um baraka and the son of the south of the south land has yaw so next would be idle um so you have your eden but as a quick look on on on her design she actually sports a mic as well for her costume so i'm actually speculating that she would be added to idle because of her you know of our design of her costume but i don't know if if they meant it that this um theme would have two blue fate cores but we'll see so let's go back to to idols again eden is there um time worker doesn't have so blooming sunday doesn't have any blue but not most likely to be here uh black and white actually i i don't think she will be here as well so there are only three factions that don't have or three themes that don't have blue fate course you have awakening the astrophysm and time walker which is blooming someday uh someday yeah so anyway for her design she actually fits idle because of the mic because of the costume again if you can see here she actually fits the profile for idle so i will place my bet on idle so more or less for idle i think she will also get the abilities of idle which we'll see let's have eden as an example here um for for what do you call this for idle so more or less she also gets super star which afflicts target with attention mark for seven turns with the skill hits increases all damage over time to the target hero with attention by 100 percent so fan club uh fix afflicts target with anti-fan mark when the attack targets double team from all living allies if health of enemy with anti-fan is 30 percent or lower so once i return so i guess she will just have this copy pasted over her passive so i'm not sure yet if i think this is okay for her um it's not really significant in terms of passive for for idle um it's actually it's actually good it's average in terms of passives for the themes so more or less my guess again would be idle for for her for another blue fate core probably because of her design so again she will have the abilities of idle so going back to to what do you call this to sabrina so fc sabrina will probably drop um around april 8th or april 15th that's actually next week or next next week that's just my prediction don't quote me on that so she might drop because she's been teased already in terms of the next the next what do you call this the next designs that are coming out i'm not sure if dan matchy will go will come out as well this is actually i i'm not i'm not really i'm not really sure about this but her fc or her fate core has been teased a couple of times already and it has been long coming that she should already be placed in xo's heroes and i'm actually looking forward to her um in terms of building her kit okay so as you can see here i have here um sabrina so she's in fated form sabrina was one one of the one of the first heroes that i used actually and pretty much very useful as a beginner so she is dragon knight blessing and she has counter three as well which is very useful so for her s1 she deals 300 damage to an enemy so required mana is one very good as well and for her um s2 you have here phoenix march three three three um mana for a burst skill deals 178 damage to all enemies very good as well because it's a burst skill and more or less this kit of hers actually needs some love because more or less the the the fate course right now or the the heroes that have come out actually have eclipsed her in terms of abilities and she her her design is actually pretty much very good um very eye catching indeed and i do hope that her fate her lands as soon as possible anyway guys that is it for me so um again this is just speculation this is actually just my prediction on when she'll come out hopefully she comes out soon so more or less you guys um put your comments down below um comment on when this is going to drop when this is going to be out are you going to be are you excited already that she's coming out are you excited of dan machi if they're really putting it out and uh you know put your thoughts down below um again um hope that you guys subscribe to my channel mostly around 85 percent of the viewers of my channel haven't subscribed yet so please do because this helps my channel very much also guys take care stay safe this is the warden and i'm out of here


So Blizzard don't seem to like us farming dungeons in Diablo 4 for that XP and the loot. They seemingly nerf a lot of good spots, but today guys I bring you 5 amazing farms you can use for that XP and loot as a solo player, yeah for sure a group can also use these and make it more efficient, but solo players can also take advantage of these spots. How's it going guys my name's DPJ and if you do enjoy the video leaving a like really helps out and if you like what you see and want to see more be sure to subscribe. So while you've been back to the most popular dungeon farm solo players can use to see if Blizzard have done anything to them and although you can definitely feel and see some changes here and there there's still some great great dungeons out there they can take advantage of. So today guys we look at 5 dungeons you can still use after the latest patch for easy XP and loot. Now quick summary for players who don't know about how to reset dungeons so you can farm them over and over. As a solo player once you are done with said dungeon and farming simply leave the dungeon either by pressing up on your dpad if you play on console and leaving the dungeon this way or bring up your map and exit via the entrance. Once outside the said dungeon quit out of your game via the game menus then load it back up. Once you load it back up you'll be outside the dungeon re-enter and everything will respawned. Now if you're in a party the party host simply leaves the party via the in game menus he will then teleport outside the dungeon door he then invites you back into his party and then you re-enter the dungeon everything will respawned it's that simple. Ok so let's start with the first farm people and firstly guys we have the ruins of Erudu. This is a popular spot many people have already covered seemingly not noticed one important trait though and it's a dungeon actually thought they would have nerfed but seemingly they haven't yet. This dungeon is home to a hidden instance where you can spawn more elites in within here. Now this might only be possible if your build allows you to take out a whole group of enemies quick enough. Now under my testing and me and my pal did this multiple times this is how we had it happen to us. I can confirm if you take out a large group of enemies real quickly seemingly within the middle part of this dungeon you'll have a ton more elites drop down onto your heads for you to slay and you'll see this on screen now. So this dungeon is real easy to farm but to make it the most efficient you only really want to farm the first section first XP because this is first section which looks like a figure of 8 on your map where all the XP drops in the most efficient way. Again if you are quick enough in taking out the enemies it seemingly spawns more for you. Also events are great within here if you see one definitely do it. Ok so next up guys we have the haunted refuge. This dungeon can be located right here on the map. To farm this the most efficient way the first section of this dungeon will require you to collect two stone carvings and place them within that pedestal. Here I recommend you running past all enemies if you can only stop in if there's an event or enemies trapped you and then while quickly progressing onto the second part of this dungeon this is where all that goodness happens. So within the second part of the dungeon guys ask you to slay all enemies. Here guys there's a point where there's so many enemies grouped up is otter chaos. Now as you would you want to group up as many as you can so run past any stragglers into that pile and just do what you've got to do. So it doesn't end here either there's a 7 out of 10 times chance another large group of enemies you can face up against a little further on within this dungeon. It's probably because there's no boss within here and it's all about that quantity so have a quick look around guys if you see another group take them out before farming this one. But efficiency wise it's only these two that you want to be looking for and farming before resetting this dungeon for that maximum XP gains. See any events that appear guys you should definitely do too. Ok so next up people we have the dumbhane tunnels this is another great solo farming dungeon which can be found right here on the map. Now when you first enter this dungeon it requires you to 3-6 prisoners. Here I'd run past enemies if you can and get these out of the way so you can get onto the second part of this dungeon where all that good stuff happens. So within the second part of this dungeon guys you will come across two massive amounts of grouped up enemies. These are the ones you want to be farming now personally you can run the entire thing if you want to as this dungeon isn't the biggest and the whole run solo if you're quick enough can take you easily under 10 minutes. But the XP is mostly got from the larger groups of enemies you will come across so these are the ones I recommend you farm. Ok so next up guys we have another incredible dungeon called the iron hold another one I thought they may have patched I mean they may have patched it but if they did I can't imagine what it would like beforehand because it's hectic now so this dungeon can be found right here on the map guys ok so within the first section you need to slay a certain type of enemy to retrieve a key here guys run past all the enemies and make your way to the top right of this area once the enemies found and slayed you can then go ahead pick up that key and run and open the door to progress here now guys you want to run around this area looking for any events these are the jackpots within here and are seemingly just spawning a massive magnitude of extra enemies every time I've run this has always been an event within the second part to do but even still even if there isn't there's a few large groups of enemies down here which in turn will give you a great amount of XP as well as everything that comes with this okay so lastly guys we have the forsaken quote now this was actually one of the first spots I covered early on and for Blizzard had patches well after coming here to test it out guys if they did patch it it must have been nuts before because it's still crazy hectic down here the amount of groups of big enemies down here is pretty scary now with this one I actually recommend you run this up until at least the bus if you want to fight the bus that's fine but it adds keep coming all the way to him large groups of them giving you massive amounts of XP it might be a little longer than the others I've covered today but I feel it's probably worth it in the long run with the amount of goodness this one brings this is probably my favorite of this list too far at the moment when I'm playing solo and looking for quick and easy XP but there we have it guys five amazing solo farming spots you can take advantage of within the app below for guys if you enjoyed the video leaving a like really helps out if you like what you see want to see more be sure to subscribe and hopefully guys I will see you on that next one


Mahalo for joining me here on Restaurants of Hawaii on the ThinkTech platform. I'm your host, Cheryl Matsuoka, the Executive Director of the Hawaii Restaurant Association and the Hawaii Restaurant Association Educational Foundation. Today, we're going to be giving you a sneak peek of what will be featured at this year's Hawaii Hotel and Restaurant Show. That's right, March 20th and 21st. So, registration is already open and I'd like to have my guests please introduce themselves. First of all, the President of Cisco Hawaii, Jason, please introduce yourself. Hi, everybody. Jason, he's so shy. Jason Wong is amazing. He again this year is our title sponsor of the Hawaii Hotel and Restaurant Show. Jason, I was just saying it's four years that we've been doing this together. Can you believe it? Time just flies. I remember the first one we did and yeah we blink in here four years have gone by. And in between there was a pandemic, Jason, right? I forgot about that little that little thing. I'm really trying to forget about that like everybody else. Yes, yes. Thank you so much, Jason, for joining me here on Restaurants of Hawaii. I'd also like to have Denise please introduce yourself. Sure. My name is Denise Ching, the Operations and Advertising for the Star Advertiser and Star Events. And we're happy to be here. We partner up with HRA to put on this ratio once a year. That's correct, right? It's the Hawaii Restaurant Association, the HLTA, the Hawaii Lodging and Tourism Association, and the Star Events as the three partners that puts on this show. And it's a great combination and we're just really happy, Denise, to have you at the lead this year of this great event. In the past, to our members and our viewers, we've had 5,000 attendees and this year we're definitely going to surpass it. Denise and our team are doing a great job and we're here to hear all of the exciting exhibitors. Talking about exciting exhibitors, I'd like to have Tyler introduce himself because everybody loves technology. Thank you, Cheryl. Hi, my name is Tyler Corvalho, President of Chocobots. And we are delighted to be on the show and excited to participate in the upcoming event. Yes, robots. Tyler, we're so excited to see your robots. I have had the pleasure of seeing robots in person and it has really been a game changer for many of the restaurants that have them. So I'm going to go into a little bit about my story later about those robots and restaurants. So every year, the Hawaii Hotel and Restaurant show brings together the whole food service industry. Yes, this show is only open to our industry. And so if you are part of the food service industry, it's free admittance. And in previous years, as I mentioned earlier, we've had over 5,000 attendees and this year we're definitely going to surpass this. Just seeing what Denise and her team is doing has been a great, great job. So my first question is to Jason. Jason, it's fantastic to have Cisco on board again as our title sponsor for the fourth year of the Hawaii Hotel and Restaurant show. Could you please elaborate on what drives Cisco this commitment to this event each year? Yeah, thanks, Cheryl. So for the most of the food service people that are going to be listening, Cisco, we are Cisco with an S. If you ask some other people who's Cisco, they think of phones. That's not us. So Cisco, if you don't know, is the largest food service distribution company in the entire world. We're going to eclipse about $80 billion in sales with the largest in North America, largest in Europe. And we're looking to continue to expand in Central and South America. So what does that mean for everybody here? We just have a large assortment of products really built better than for anybody in the food service industry. And the show is just a way for Cisco to engage with this great community in Hawaii to come together.  You're probably stuck in the kitchen in the operation. It's really hard to get away. So when you think about you allocating your some time, when you think about 5,000 members of the community coming together to see the latest innovation in the industry, we really want to be a part of it. We like to try to lead that. We have great, we have great other vendors. We've got great competition. But this is a great place for operators to come by and see what's the latest and greatest because things are always changing.  You're looking for cost-saving opportunities. Those are things that we're focused on. We also have a line called cutting edge solutions. So Cisco, because of who we are, we do get first dibs on some of the latest innovations from many of the vendors around the world. So we get into these agreements that, hey, if you sign up with our cutting edge solution program, they'll give us a year or two years head start. So you're going to see kind of the latest and greatest from Cisco at the show. So hopefully it gives you a little bit inside of why Cisco is so happy to be the title sponsor and be continuing to engage with Cheryl all these years. Thank you, Jason. And it's always wonderful to go over to the Cisco section. I call it section because, right, Denise, it's just not a couple of boots. It's a whole section. They all have their own section, as usual. And we're grateful to have Cisco as our partner again as our title sponsor. And they always come to impress. And every year it's gotten bigger and better. We have so much stuff to show. I mean, we could use more space, but there's only so much space in the convention center and so much time. But we're so appreciative of the partnership. We love engaging with everybody. And we get to feed a lot of people, which kind of is a lot of fun for us. And for me, it's just like you said, it's the experience, you know, getting to see everyone, getting to taste all of your wonderful food offerings and just connect. Jason, I think everybody, I just miss everybody, right? And so once a year we all come together. It's just a wonderful, wonderful show. Now for Denise, right? This is our fourth show together. And I'm sure there's a lot of new things that even I don't know about. So please give our members and viewers a sneak peek of what they can look forward to at this year's show. Well, as we started off earlier, we're going to be looking at over 275 boots this year. And so we're really excited about the sellout boot this year. You know, like Jason was mentioning, it's like being a cumulative of many different things coming to the show to enhance people's businesses and showing them what they can do in current times. You know, after COVID, we learned that robots can help our service problems, our hiring problems. And so we all come together to help bring and engage ideas. And, you know, again, we'll have our security companies such as ADT, we'll have alert alarm there. They're going to be helping us in our seminars to educate our members on what to do and how to protect their businesses and themselves and their employees. We'll also be having, what is that, point of sale again. We'll have gravity payments there, spot on will be there again. I'm really excited about Pacific bio diesel. They're going to be at the show also. And as I learned, they helped to teach people how to recycle their unwanted, manageable waste, like the cooking. And, you know, for a lot of those restaurants, we got a lot of oil after the cooking. And so they're going to teach them about that. So really excited about this year. We have a lot of variety, you know, just different, different exhibitors there for different people's needs. And that's what's exciting about the show. Yes. I'm excited because the next person that it's going to speak is Tyler. And that last year, Tyler, you were, that robot was the head of the show. And so I'm going to have now Tyler, please provide our viewers with a glimpse of what they're going to expect from Shaka Bots. Thank you, Cheryl. Shaka Bots is the only Hawaii based robotics company that sells and services robots for different business sectors. We have robotic solutions to help food and beverage, the hospitality industry, even the medical field and general floor cleaning with trusted local sales and support for all islands. And the food industry, for example, our diner bots and help deliver dishes from the kitchen directly to an assigned table, where the server can then unload the plates with ease. In addition, the diner bot can be placed around different points of a restaurant to aid bussers with transporting heavy dishes and glasses and deliver them to the dish washing area. For the hospitality industry, our butler bots can help guide guests to locations in the building or help bring requested items up to guests room, essentially like a personal butler. And in the medical field, we have robots that will help keep medical staff as well as the patients healthier and safer. This is done by having our disinfection robot autonomously go into rooms or waiting areas and use a one to punch and knocking out viruses and bacteria quickly and safely. Lastly, our floor cleaning robots can be applied to any economic sector to help with vacuuming or hard floor cleaning. This has a wide array of applications and our robots have the capability of covering massive areas with little human intervention. Again, this is all to help take off or take away the mundane chore of the staff, which will allow them to focus on higher level tasks. This will then improve the overall business environment and employee satisfaction. Love it. Well, I'm going to tell my own personal story, Tyler, as I mentioned, and as Jason knows, I have lots of stories, right, Jason? So over at Ruby Tuesday Moana Law, you know, the server has been there for many years.  And when the robots were introduced, you know, I know there's always apprehension, but when I got to see her and I know everybody knows who she is because she's been there for the longest time, she said, Cheryl, it is amazing because they wear those little steppy watches where you can see how many steps you take every day. And so she said, I'm taking less steps and making more tips. Because as you said, Tyler, the food comes from the kitchen directly to the table. She meets the robot at the table, takes the food off the tray and puts it on the table in front of the person who ordered it. And then the robot gets sent directly back either to the kitchen or to another table. And she said, Cheryl, I've been able to provide a way better level of customer service. And my tips are higher with less steps. So she's a happy, happy wait server. She's been doing it for a long time. So I trust her. And I know in the beginning, there was a lot of, you know, concern when you see a robot coming in the door, but she said it's been the best thing for her. So Tyler, you've got a great product. We're all looking forward to seeing it at the show. Jason will tell you last year, the robots were going up and down the aisles, right, Jason? 100% up and down. Up and down the aisles and people were throwing lays on it, right, Jason? What else were they doing to that poor robot? I know people are putting their food samplings on it. I saw candies on it. People were taking candies off, putting other things on it. It was just going round and round the show. It was the highlight, Tyler, of the show.  Speaking about exhibitors, my next question is to Denise. Denise, do you still have exhibitor slots open if anybody's interested? Thank you for asking that question. Yeah, we, like I mentioned, we're looking at a sellout show of 275 booths. We have just a little under 50 more to go. So if you'd like to sign up, please be in contact with us. Check us out at our website, Hoy Hotel and Restaurant Show. Thank you, Denise. And again, to Jason, as our title sponsor, I'm sure that it's definitely a strategic move. If anybody knows Jason Wong, everything is strategic with him. So what are you going to be showcasing this year and to help the hospitality food service industry in your booth, in your section? Yeah, so, you know, I was thinking about this and I wanted to share a little bit from our business objectives is more about our business purpose. And I'm not sure, I don't think everybody goes to the Cisco website and checks out our purpose. But I do have it up here on my wall. And our purpose is really simple. It's connecting the world to share food and care for one another. That's the actual business for the whole company. And when I think about this show, what other time do we get to engage with 5,000 members from across the state of Hawaii that's been in our industry, that work so hard that we all know what this industry is like. It's a great, great industry. But it is a hard business. And what we get to do is come in and show things that help our customers and future customers' business. It's really that simple. There's cost-saving measures, labor-saving measures, new innovation. And you know what, to be honest, just getting them out of the operation and getting to talk story and seeing what's going on in their lives. It's always great to see our customers and industry members from across the state.  I always hear that always at the show. Always, every year, new technology, new products, new ways to help restaurants with their bottom line, Jason, because everybody's looking at the bottom line, as we talked about, all the increase and all the costs, right? If anyone can point out a way that they can save some money, that really helps the restaurants, as you know, restaurants work in really small margins. So for Star, I just wanted to ask the question because the app is a really great way to find out who the exhibitors are at the show and who else is attending. So I'll definitely activate my app, Denise, so that people know I'm at the show. And then we start the conversation. Denise, do you want to share a little bit about the app? Yeah, for sure. Jason, it was actually, we talked with Danny and Danny at Cisco. And he actually shared with us some of the things you guys used at the last past show and things that we didn't know about. So we investigated it more and worked with the Hula team. That's the app that we'll be using. And so right now, for attendees, they're welcome to go to our website. They can register there. But as for exhibitors, I have actually got two Star Event managers that are on board with us. And they're contacting the exhibitors individually and going through with them on some of the things that Cisco's already been using, being able to scan the visitors that are coming to their booth, use that website app to also engage with giveaways, engage with promotions that they have to offer. And so we are really going to try and enhance that app from what we've used it before, Cheryl. Nice. Nice. I'm excited. Yes, we all love apps. And I'm a big app user. So I'm looking forward to connecting with people. And it's a way using the app to find out who else is in the show. And then people will then ping me and let me know that they're in the building, right? It's like, yes. Jason Wong is in the building. So then we keep going for Jason Wong. So now, Tyler, can you elaborate on some of the benefits that you see as an exhibitor? Because you signed up early to be an exhibitor in this show and participate in a big way. So what do you see as some of the benefits of participating? If anybody's out there still thinking about getting a booth, Tyler, what can you say to them? Well, Cheryl, we definitely feel that this is one of the largest and best events for these industries in Hawaii every year. And so us participating was a no-brainer. We want to get our products out there in front of all these people, you know, great congregation of high-level people, like Jason was saying. And this way we can put this new technology in front of them. They can look at it, touch, feel it, see it, move around, see it's actually real in front of them instead of some maybe a video or just something they read about. It's actually mainstream. My wife, Amanda, and I travel around the world and we've seen this for years now in Asia and Europe and Australia. And so it's just kind of emerging in the US, especially the Hawaii market, kind of trailing behind a little bit. But we definitely want everyone to know that as native Hawaii people, we want to provide these kind of technologies to business owners so that they know that it exists out there. We can support them through it. We know it's going to be some little transition here and there, some relearning of tasks. But in the end, we can make sure that it works well, will support you well. We're not flying from the mainland. You know, you're not calling tech support somewhere else in the world. You're talking to Hawaii people and we'll make sure that our service and what you invest in works out well. Yes. And it does, because as I mentioned, it's definitely, you know, the worker shortage that we're going through right now, Tyler, this is the solution that you're providing. My message is to anybody out there that's thinking about getting a booth at our show, you know, please, you know, once you listen to all of this and you say, let me just investigate, right? Let me see what are available. Please reach out to Denise's team and sign up for a booth because it's, you know, right around the corner. I'm like, literally, we're a month away, right guys? We're a month away. Denise, I can't believe that. We've been talking about so many months and here we are a month away.  This is going to be a true story. When the Maui wildfires happened, I was getting calls, Jason, from two, three in the morning of business people, people that were saying, we need, we need things, we need water, we need refrigeration, we need, we need food. You know, we, can you please do something? I reached out to Jason and there are restaurants that lost their power and they knew that the food wasn't going to last. So I reached out to Jason and said, Jason, can you please help? Can you send someone over to that? It was in the burn zone, but yet they weren't affected because you know how some of the fires, for whatever reason, that it didn't affect some buildings, but it did affect a majority of part of Lahaina. Jason Wong did not hesitate. He said, Cheryl, tell me what you need. I said, I need a refrigerated truck and I needed to go into the burn zone and I needed you to go to this restaurant to see if there's anything that's salvageable because we're going to cook it. We're going to cook it at the Lahaina Gateway Center. Jason Wong, thank you so much without even blinking, without even saying, tell me what I, you know, without even talking about how I'm going to pay him for this. He said, no charge. I will do it. Just tell me where to go. Jason Wong, I just want to thank you. Thank you for being that 4 a.m. friend that you can call and say, Jason, I need your help. There's no thank you needed, Cheryl. I think that Maui, it was, it is just awful. And I think I know going through COVID in this industry and seeing how this industry came together to feed thousands and thousands of people. And unfortunately, we had the practice because of COVID when Maui happened. And we did have the exception to get through the barricades because we were on the ground feeding people right away because we hold some of the most food in the state. So before FEMA and everybody else can get out here, Cisco is deployed. My friends at Hawaii Food Service Alliance are deployed and we're feeding people. But that's just what we do as an industry. Just what we feed people. And sometimes it just doesn't have to be inside the restaurant. That's what we do. So just always happy to partner with you, Cheryl, anytime. Jason, thank you. And it was, it just goes to show that Jason and Cisco Hawaii's commitment to our Hawaii market is as many people don't know about stories like this. Jason, you have to know I've said it in board meetings and I've said it to the executive committee. It's those times when we call out to people that we know we can count on. And I said, I know who has refrigerated. I know who will deploy them and can go pick it up. So that's when we made an arrangement for you to swim by and pick up all that food so that it could be cooked and outdoor grills because obviously, right, there was no power. But I just want to share with our viewers and our members the commitment Cisco Hawaii and Jason Wong has to our islands. So thank you again, Jason. Okay, Jason, going back again, as you know, this show is all about enhancing our local food service industry and your involvement in this show and your involvement during the Maui wildfires demonstrates that. Do you have anything else you want to share with our members and viewers? Yeah, it's tough to follow the Maui wildfire story. I just think that I'd like to remind the viewers too that sometimes we are a local company. We were acquired by Cisco back in 17. I was part of that local company for the same 350 local people that live here and you see me at Costco when we do a church and all the other things. Sometimes I think people, restaurants or other operators think Cisco, well, they only deal with big companies. They're not for me. And actually, it's the opposite is true. We deal with independent mom and pop and I come from a family business, a very small business in Chinatown. So I'm a small business guy. And we love to find success for independent businesses. And I think, I would just say, don't be intimidated with all the size of booth that we have. We want you to come in, talk to us. We want to find solutions for you. We're there to partner with you. And it doesn't matter your size. We've worked with everybody from concept where they say, hey, I've got an idea for a restaurant to when they're rolling out, hey, I'm going to be statewide. So I would say, please come in. We'll have something for you. At the very least, I can feed you something. But I feel like we could add some value to your business. Thank you, Jason. And wrapping it up, I just want to give Tyler an opportunity. Tyler, do you have anything else to share to anyone about your Shaka robots? Sure. Thanks. Again, worker shortages have always been plaguing us since the pandemic. And so with our robots working alongside their human counterparts, it makes them more efficient and effective use of their time, alleviating these basic, strenuous and repetitive jobs so that the staff can focus on higher level jobs. Like you were saying, the server at Moanalua in the Ruby Tuesdays, she doesn't have to spend mile or two of her day walking back and forth to the kitchen. She can stay out in the dining room, talk with the guests, maybe upsell some items, create more buzz in the restaurant, and maybe even take on more tables because she has this robot helper. And that's really all it is. It's just a helper. It doesn't replace anybody. It doesn't have arms to grab plates or anything. All it does is just help deliver food or bus tables. I mean, bust the trays back to the dishwasher area. Once everybody understands that it's just a helpful tool to ultimately do their job better, then they really can tap into the benefits of what these robots can do. And so don't be afraid of it. Come out to the show, take a look at it. We'll answer any questions you have. We're very transparent. We're very able to adapt these robots to any environment. And therefore, we can find a solution that'll help all business owners, especially in the hospitality and the food industry. And I think, Tyler, they're going to be surprised. When I started digging down on these robots and finding out more about it, you have a lease program. So the cost of these robots, you'd be so surprised because right now, many of my restaurants that they call me and they tell me that they're the short of servers. And because of that, they have to reduce the hours that they're in operation or even close now Monday and Tuesday of the week because they don't have servers. You'd be surprised. You have a lease program, how affordable these robots are, and how much more efficient your staff will be. So thank you, Tyler, for being on the show. And now to my Denise. Denise, this is it. 30 days away, girlfriend. We're going to be together at the Blaisdell Center, March 20th and 21st. Actually, Denise, you and I be setting up on the 19th. And I'm looking forward to it this year. We really, really are looking forward to all of the ways that restaurants can, yes, reduce their bottom line and improve the efficiencies. What are your closing statements, Denise? I know we only have seconds away, but I just want to talk about the partnership with Cisco Hawaii, with Shakabot. It just shows the local community coming together in one place to help our local businesses. And that right here, it hits me. And our families in Maui, yeah, we're there for them too. Thank you. Thank you so much. And so in closing, I just want to thank all of my guests for joining me today on my show. And the Hawaii Restaurant Association is the organization unifying, representing and supporting Hawaii's restaurant and food service industry. Thank you so much for joining me. And we'll see you on our next show.


As part of Exercise Saber Strike 2017, Polish, Slovakian and Latvian soldiers conducted a hasty defense scenario as a situational training exercise designed by Norwegian soldiers. The scenario included a Polish tank company and Slovakian BMPs attempting to take an essential junction while Latvian infantry defended it. It was very exciting to see how they cooperated together and how the comradeship is between the company commanders so early in the exercise. It's important because NATO allies meet together, can see which equipment they have, can learn how the other nations doing their attack, doing their defensive positions, are able to talk together, take a look at their equipment and so on. From Adage Latvia, I'm Army Sergeant Josh Joyner.


Hello everybody! So today Amazon started the prime day on their side and they saw that a lot of dropshippers didn't really take an advantage of this day. In this video I want to show you exactly how to take an advantage of any discounts day that you have in your supplier's side and it doesn't matter if it's Amazon or any other supplier. Just in this case we have another more than 24 hours to take an advantage of this prime day and I really want to help you to take an advantage of this day to increase your sales and make much more profit on this day and on days like this one. So firstly let's understand why days like this one are so important for us as a dropshippers and how we can maximize our profits on these days. The first thing which I want to talk about is why it's so important for us to use these days and why it's very safe for us to do this. As a dropshippers it doesn't matter for us when the prices increase after the discounts. Why? Because we know that if the price increase our monitoring tool will increase the price after the discount finished and then we will be safe and we will continue make the regular profits which we made before. But on these specific days we can make much more profits because we don't only make the profit of the regular sale and the discounts and the gift cards and everything like this we also make the profits of the discount and the difference between the regular price of the product and the price on this day. So it's very important for us to take an advantage of these days to increase our profits and how to do it right. What I recommend you to do to not at least too much products but to still take an advantage of these days is to go to your last sales and take the products which sold the most for you and then go to the page of your supplier for example in this prime day it's actually Amazon and find the relevant category. So let's say that we found the category which says the best for us on our store. What I will do now is just to use the Chrome extension of Autodesk or any other Chrome extension which can extract assets or product IDs from the supplier's site to take all of the products from this specific page. Now I know that if I will post and list now all of these products I will be cheaper than my other competitors which not using the same supplier or doesn't use a monitoring tool. So that's the throw thing which I would do I would go for the next pages of the specific category which I choose for example if I know that the best products which sells well for me are school and college products I will go for this product and I will take all of the products from these specific pages. So I will go one by one and extract the products and assets from these specific pages and then I will list it to my store. Now this is something which is really great for us because we know that not all of the sellers on eBay are dropshippers so we can on this day actually sell on the prices like they are because we have a huge discounts for example if we take a look on this one you can see that this product has 58% of discount which is amazing for us. Now not only this we also have the category on Amazon of the lighting deals. I really recommend you to use this category because as you know not everyone uses a monitoring tool so you have a huge advantage over these people for example if I take a look on this product we have here a huge difference in prices between the deal now between the discount right now and the regular price so actually we make here another 45% discount so if we list on this day a lot of new products we know that we will that the products will be as newly listed on Amazon so on an eBay store so we also get more promotion from eBay more traffic to our products and we will make also more profits on them so I really recommend you to take an advantage of the next 24 28 hours actually right now during this video of the prime day because this is really the time to make money we will have more days like this very soon like the Black Friday and Cyber Monday which are really great days with also another deals so I really recommend you to prepare for these days also and use the prime day right now to list much more products and make much more profit on these specific days so I really wish you good luck and I'm waiting to see comments under this video with your results after this prime day and after any other holidays or discounts days which you will use using these tips and I really really really waiting to see these comments see you on the next videos bye bye


Hello everybody and welcome to another hobby cheating video and today we're going to talk about paint consistency or what the heck is the difference between a layer of glaze and a filter. We're going to stick to one color for that from one paint range, but these lessons apply to just about anything. So today I'm going to be using this Indian shadow from Scale 75. Scale 75 is one of the paint ranges out there that has a much higher pigment density allowing you to take it down and make it thinner without it, well I often call it euphemistically snapping, but if you've ever thinned a paint a whole bunch and then put it on a model and had a bunch of tide marks or what's commonly called coffee staining occur that's generally because the medium to pigment ratio was such that the pigment could no longer be evenly distributed amongst the thinned paint and the medium was no longer able to form the requisite bonds and distribute pigment evenly and so the pigment just clumped amongst where there were bonds that could be formed that's how you get coffee staining. So but to understand how we avoid that and how we think about types of paint thinness we need to start by actually thinning some paint. So here on my palette I have that aforementioned Indian shadow. Now right as it is I just squeeze that straight from the dropper bottle onto the palette and the first thing I want to say is we talk about these things as though they're three distinct categories we'll say this is a layer this is a glaze this is a filter or something like that but really these are a spectrum so the easier way to think about this is not as there is some magic golden recipe which is the next question that always comes up what how much do I thin what's the recipe how many drops of this or drops of that the answer is there is no answer I'm sorry to tell you that there's just no recipe for this okay this isn't baking it's cooking baking is science you need exact parts of everything to actually make a cake rise to make the appropriate chemical reactions happen that give you cake or muffins or whatever cooking is a lot different it's often you taste it needs a little more of this a little more of that and in the end it often comes down a lot to taste but there is a spectrum to this rather than a distinct ratio and different lines of paints different mediums might affect it differently so if you're using chimera pure pigment colors you're gonna find a much different ratio to get it down into a glaze same with something like scale or pro acryl compared to say games workshop paints or maybe like a pre-thinned air paint which is already got a bunch of thinner in it hence what's making it flow through the airbrush so let's get into the magic here I'm gonna scoot that to the side for just a moment we're gonna bring in a little piece of paper that explains my spectrum concept so we're gonna have to zoom out a little did not realize how how awful that was there we go so if you think about the full spectrum layer is in fact much bigger than a glaze or a filter these are both thin paints but layer actually covers quite a bit so I can just go straight into the paint which has no water in it other than what I what's it what it's absorbed from the wet palette or whatever we're taking straight out of the pot and that's a layer okay and we all recognize that consistency applied down it's gonna look pretty much you know will often be fairly opaque it will often apply the color in a fairly true fashion however I might take a little bit of water as we often see in our in our videos if we're fans of Duncan or somebody like that where we've heard two thin coats and I could do the same thing here now of course this is gonna be a little bit it'll dry out rather quickly because I'm just going over normal paper but there it's thin down but I still have much the same effect you can tell especially as it dries that the color is a little different and it's not going to be quite as true I could keep adding water to my mixture so all I'm doing is putting the tip of the paintbrush in the water and thinning it out and I'll still get something that's basically a layer okay all of those would probably be called layer paints should notice there's quite a difference in how much they're actually covering okay we in fact we could probably even go a little bit thinner but you can see now on my palette how they look this is the original this is the thinner stuff but you'll notice it's still pretty much looking like that paint right and so I can keep going stretching it just ever so slightly and still get something that's like a layer and realistically I could build from here to here to here to here just by establishing more thin layers of the paint when we're gonna go to a glaze and I have a whole video on how to glaze which I'll link down in the description when we're gonna go to a glaze there we're thinning it much more and it has to do with the purpose of the paint it's as much about purpose as it is about effect when I'm dealing with a layer paint okay what I'm ostensibly trying to do is paint this color on to my fingers weather paint this color on to the miniature I know that sounds weird you might be asking yourself well what else would you be doing with the paint and the answer is well lots of different things with a glaze I'm probably just trying to have a minor effect on the color to turn it lightly into this color for example I might be trying to create a shadow on something right and hence I want to still preserve the original color for example I have a nice blue cloak I want to give it a nice dark shadow so I'm so I grab like a deep purple or a deeper version of the blue or I mix in a little bit of black with it and I glaze it in my goal is not to turn the cape that color it's to have that color interact with the original and create a shadowed version of the blue so I'm not trying to turn it that color and this comes in a lot when you get to things like skin glazing is how we both create our final blends often because again we're not trying to obscure or repaint the color we're trying to bring maybe two distinct blends together or we're trying to add a little ruddiness to the cheeks or something like that but you can see how much more of the paper shows here when I'm going to a glaze the other thing you'll notice about the glaze is you'll notice when I put these layers on I hadn't wicked my brush at all and yet I didn't get any paint buildup at the bottom however when I'm dealing with a glaze and the extreme thinness of it if you want to avoid this drop at the bottom syndrome you really have to be wicking your brush off first so and if you watch my how to glaze video you'll see what I mean by this but we keep a little paper towel here I go into my glaze I wick off all that excess fluid it's just water waiting to cause a problem and then I go ahead and glaze and you notice I still deposit a little bit more down at the bottom which is why it's so important when you have a glaze to always make sure you're glazing in the direction and leaving the brush picking up the brush where you want to deposit the most paint but nonetheless that's a glaze and then finally and most rarely seen probably but one of the most useful things you can you can do is you can go to a filter now a filter is honestly not every paint is gonna do filters well they have to be quite pigment rich things like inks make great filters but this is enough we can do it here we're taking a very small amount of paint and we're gonna really water this down okay notice how even much thinner than the glaze that is I mean that is basically water with a hint of color in it right it almost acts like a watercolor paint if you've ever painted like that even more important than a glaze with a filter is wicking off all that excess liquid and you can see the difference there of just how much spills out of that right and then when we bring back up our sheet and we come to our filter section here you notice that there is barely any color there okay that's the consistency of a filter now if I go a couple layers strong on it I can build it up it can start having some actual effect but a filter is most often used for those very very subtle effects the light touch of maybe an OSL glow the slight rosiness of cheeks right or something like that where you want just the hint of that color in there okay that's where your filters work something like doing stubble very very light stubble on a chin is great as a filter so you can see that again with each of these I mix them from the same paint and just added more water the more water you're adding the more important that that wicking of the paint becomes but the important part I want you to recognize is this is all a spectrum I didn't do anything magical with the paint I didn't mix anything into it except the water out of a clean paint cup there was nothing else going on there okay this the first one the layer you notice how it's still basically holding its shape as paint right like when you look at it on the palette still just looks like thin paint the glaze has largely broken up because the mixture here it you'll see this effect happen on the wet palette where it'll start falling into these like little clumps because of the covalent bonds right being kind of dispersed in the water enough the filter is gonna get real real real thin because it's mostly water so what you'll see is it mostly hang together like water what we're effectively doing here is transitioning more and more solvent into the paint in acrylic paint your solvent is water okay so you have three basic components to acrylic paint pigment which is the pigment the color binder a binding agent which in this case is acrylic medium and solvent and all we're doing is adding more and more solvent you can also do this with the addition of mediums so if you have thinner medium or blaze medium or master medium or contrast medium or Lamia medium or any medium you like it doesn't matter if it has the word medium in it it's just fine it'll work for this purpose it doesn't matter any brand any kind it all works fine but you don't need to you can do this with water especially if you have a higher quality higher pigmented paint okay so now let's put this in action we saw it on a piece of paper now let's put in action on our friend Larry the ogre he's got a fresh new coat of paint look at him he's all ready to go and we're gonna we're gonna work some of this in so the first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna grab some of our layer paint and this is where we're again we've just added some water into it but it's still basically paint okay and so here in the deepest shadows say like this big thin crease on his back we're gonna put that in there bottom of these muscle structures right that's a layer you can see how it is basically turn to the skin that color okay easy enough we all know layering we've all done it a whole bunch it's basically just applying paint when we need to then smooth the transition between the two or add a little bit of that color that's where we can go to our glaze so our glaze and always test on the back of our hand a little more paint we over thinned that just a tad and that's just it that's why there's no ratio and that's why you'll see me test on the back of my hand all the time because every time you mix it it's gonna be different so with the glaze we wick off all the excess and then we're just gonna come in and bring that over and just glaze down maybe we'll get some of those upper muscle structures some of these deeper recesses but the goal here is to mostly still leave the skin color being dominant finally the filter the last one you're gonna see how that has the most minimal effect and in that case we're still gonna mostly leave the skin intact again all of this is a spectrum I could mix a slightly thicker glaze I could mix a slightly thinner layer right all of that would be fine these don't have some kind of like exact definition of once you cross this particular point of opacity you've left behind a glaze and you've entered into you know into a filter or something like that I wish there was some kind of scientific thing I could point you toward that said that but there just isn't and when you get down on to things like the face that's where you're really gonna want to focus on that glaze and filter consistency for example I want to add some ruddiness to his big fat cheeks this is where I'm working in a nice glaze consistency here maybe the bottoms of these little bumps he has on his head ogres have very expressive faces but you can see how we can just work that in real subtly ironically we're all much more familiar with this stuff than we think mainly because a say like a GW shade like an agrax or a sarah from sepia is basically thinned to a sort of thin glaze consistency right away that's what it's doing it's just meant to gather up into the recesses and and act a little thicker there than it would otherwise but of course if you apply it thinly if you take it and instead of you know sort of slopping on like we tend to do with the washes what you'll actually get is something that looks like a glaze or even a filter but you can see then how those different effects can mix together you see how he has that nice dark red under his cheekies now little puffy red cheeks little puffy red jowls as he's yelling there and you can see how those smooth out and we don't have the hard transition line once they're dry in between the diva red and the skin so to summarize okay again layers represent a larger spectrum of how you're going to use your paint glazes represent this thin area where where you can still see the color it's still going to be present it's going to interact a lot with the under shade filters are when you're just trying to add a tint to the under shade but still at the under shade win not so what I mean when I say it's more about the effect than it is about the exact ratios what paint is winning is what's underneath the paint you're applying right now winning or is the paint you're putting down winning if you're doing a layer then the paint you're putting down is winning if you're doing a glaze maybe it's a little bit tied if you're doing a filter it's the color underneath okay you're just trying to see it through a lens like as though you put on you know some maybe a little bit of colored sunglasses or something like that that's probably even too strong but you get the idea so again all of that can be mixed just with water all right the key is to always be testing your ratios first just like I did here first time I remixed a larger bat batch of that glaze I was a little too weak added a little more paint and I came up to here so always be testing a BT's and there's Larry he's back he's excited about his new red tones he'll continue to star in future videos don't worry Larry will always be with us but at any rate there you go that's paint consistency I do hope that helped explain the whole concept I know this is often very tricky stuff especially for newer people to the hobby so I hope this is absolutely helpful if it is give it a like subscribe for additional 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Surge 1.9 has been released. Surge is an open source virtual analog synthesizer. They say it's a hybrid synthesizer because it has a wavetable oscillator, but it also has classic sort of square wave triangle wave oscillator, and also it can do FM and a lot of other things. If you haven't ever heard of Surge and you are into music production, especially electronic music production, then I don't know what you've been doing. If you have heard about Surge and you are interested in what is new in the 1.9 release, then this is a video for you. Hey, I'm Anfa. I'm an electronic music producer and sound designer, but I only use open source software and Linux. Here is Surge 1.9. I have it set up so I can play on it. And also I have a little spectrograph, so we can see what's happening in the frequency domain as we do this. All righty, so what's... When you take a look at the new version of Surge, nothing jumps out as new. This effect section looks a little bit different, and I think it's just the visuals. But there is quite a few very interesting things added in that I've discovered just playing around with it for a while, and I just couldn't keep myself from experimenting with it. So I would like to do a little exploration, show you what I found, and also just have some fun. By the way, I'm running this on Linux in Karla, a non-linear plugin host. This is VST3, and hopefully LV2 version of Surge will also finally going to be an option once they switch to juice. But that's technical details. Let's check out the new things. There are two areas I have seen lots of changes in, and one of them is effects. So here is my default Saw Wave, and when I open this effect dropout down, we can see there's quite a lot of new stuff. We have EQ that was here. Exciter, I believe that's new. We have Graphic EQ, which is now a little fixed-band EQ. We have a Resonator. I'm not sure what that is. I think it's just a filter bank. I think it's just three filters put together. Chow. I think Chow is a tape emulation, maybe it's a compressor, let's see. I don't hear any difference right now. Let's try this with a sine wave oscillator. Okay, now I can hear it. Okay, we're having some saturation going on in here, I think. Next up, we've got Distortion. This is old stuff. Neuron, I have no idea what this is. Wow, that is loud.  Modulation. What is modulating? This is interesting. I like how chords respond to that. I believe this is some kind of distortion unit. There's also tape. Oh, interesting. Maybe I will change to something different, like... Yeah, that saturates nicely. We have a lot of saturation options right now. All right. Combulator. What is combulator? Oh my goodness, that's so really cool.  That's why it's called combulator. Whoa, what happened? Did they follow the note? Let's try white noise. I don't think they follow the note. Yeah. Yeah, they don't follow the note. But it's very interesting, and I think it could be used for creating, like, a resonator.  This is, of course, a bit... maybe a bit too metallic, but I think there's interesting uses for this. Frequency shifter is what we know. Nimbus. What is that? Okay. That's some non-harmonic stuff. Holy snap. Some kind of delay. Alright, some kind of pitch-shifting delay. Rentalizer. 16 kHz 8-bit mono. Okay, so this increases delay. Weird. Very weird. Ring mod is what we had already. Tree monster. What is that? Holy snap. What is going on? What if we give ourselves some voices? Without? With. Great for eerie 70s sci-fi stuff, I guess. Tree monster. Vocoder, we already know that. Chorus. Ensemble. What's an ensemble? Okay, we have one voice, and this is... doing something. Type. 20... 250... What is that? Bucket brigade delay. Alright. So that's an analog digital delay emulation. Too bad I can't have this in a musical time. It would be great. Weirdness and sews. So that's ensemble. Flanger, phaser, and rotary speaker. We know what these are. Delay reverb 1, reverb 2. Oh yes, and now, air windows. Chris is making lots of effects in his project Air Windows, and they are all open source. He's publishing the source code on github. And search has been adding a lot of his effects right into the synthesizer. So, for example, ambience is reverbs. Oh, I clicked on the wrong way. On the wrong thing. Galactic. This is just a sort of... That's this. No modulation. Modulation. It's nice how it starts to... alter the harmonics. Oh no, I think it's chorus. This is low pass filter, I think. I think we can freeze it if I move the really... replace knob all the way to right. To the left, I mean. It replaces all the sound and it just holds... That was something. So that's galactic. There is an absolute crazy amount of effects from Air Windows in here. Some of them are really cool. Very strange reverb. There's a bunch of them. There's also clipping. Dynamics. Compress saturator. All that audibly adds transients. Filters. Capacitor. That's a very, very smooth filter. And if you mix it, you can create some notches as filters do. Low-fi noise. Holy snap.  Okay, let's see 17. Sorry for the loudness. Okay, so that's Air Windows. There's also conditioner. Oh, that's a new preset. Sit tight. All right. Enough of the presets. Now let's move on to the oscillators because there's some new business in there. So, classic is what we had before. Now we also have modern. It's interesting how an upward saw sounds different from a downward saw. At least to me on these headphones.  Oh, pulse. Okay. But there's more. We have a wavetable window sign. FM2, FM3, of course. And there's also string and twist. And alias. What is string? This is string. It's a string and physical module. Burst sign. That's some really unique sounds in there. Audio N. Out in external sound and use it to constant noise. That's going to... I think if I did this it would sound like we're sweeping interesting stuff. Okay, let's move on to twist. What is twist? Engine. Waveform. LPG response. What is LPG? Decay. Low pass. What is that? What does LPG stand for? I don't know, but it creates these also plucky sounds. Formant PD. Disable. Interesting sounds. I would like to read up about all these because that's a lot of stuff to take in. I think this should be excited with an envelope. Change. Very weird things, Hubert. I'd like to know how does this work. What is twist, exactly? My goodness, chords? Is this? Oh, because I'm modulating I'm modulating type and shape. That's a really cool sound. Let me add one of these Airwindows reverbs. Maybe... Verbity. Slater. Played on organ. Holy snap. That's a speech synthesizer. Right in search. I think I'm going to disable this for a while. PCs? That's a formant shift. That's so cool. Granular cloud. I'm gonna make this... Oh, it's a stereo. Too bad this is not producing that would sound really nice. Oh, by the way. I think there's some random random seed changing every now and then. This is creating some really interesting textures. Wow. Filter noise. Particle noise. That's so cool. That's so cool. This synthesizes droplets of liquids. This could be like a vital noise resonant. I guess raw mix is just the impulses. But there's still some... You know, if we use like a comb effect filter. It's pretty much like like we're like randomly chaoticy plugging a string. Going to unset it. Disable that. Particle noise. Inharmonic string. This is cool. My goodness. Such amazing stuff. I just wish I could have a decay freely because right now when I release the key Oh, maybe if I do this. Wow. Model resonator. Okay, I'm not adding reverb to this. This is dry. There is no reverb. It just sounds like that. Material. Sounds like plastic pipe. Glass. Metal. Kick snare in the hi-hat. Okay. Crazy stuff.  What else do we have? Alias. Oh, it's a bit mask. I guess with a sub bass sine wave this could be a nice... What else do we have? I guess that's a saw. Alright. Interesting sounds. I think this is all. We have an SNH noise. Okay, so that's kind of a jam with all the new stuff that's in surge 1.9. I haven't seen any other features yet. So that was surge 1.9. Thank you for watching. I hope you found this video interesting and hopefully inspiring. If you have any questions or suggestions please leave them in the comment section below. Thank you for watching. And I would also like to thank all the fine people who are supporting my work on Patreon and Liberapay. If you, the reviewer, would like to join them please go there and you can give me a buck or two every month so I can keep making videos like this one. Now go and experiment with surge 1.9. Bye.


So I am back with another HowlDivers 2 video and today guys we check out some brand new leaks that have hit the internet over the past 24 hours we see gameplay footage of the Quaser Cannon versus a Bio Titan We see a brand new clip I don't actually think we've seen one of this so far of the incendiary grenade launcher looking pretty bad ass We see a rocket launcher backpack an Absolute massive automaton rail cannon and when I mean massive guys I mean absolutely massive a possible clan system coming to the game Brand new player cards and much more. Let's go guys now the winner of yesterday's 2100 super credit giveaway you can see on screen now if this issue hit me up on my discord link down below to claim your Winnings now if you guys want to win 2100 super credits or if you're watching this video and you're yet to own HowlDivers and either PC or PlayStation now is your chance to win liberate this video with a massive thumbs up Make sure you subscribe with us post notifications turned on and leave me a comment down below Leave me a blue heart that way. I know you want to win this giveaway winner will be announced on tomorrow's HowlDivers 2 video. Okay, so let's go people and first things first We have some new Stratagem leaks in regards to the set code needed to call these bad boys in So the six individual images here and are posted by no morning 1887 over on ready We can see the scrambler No idea what this is. It's actually the first time. I think I've seen this name too. So yep pretty cool My beautiful people we have this image here where we see the spire sterilizer and the recon vehicle now I'm pretty sure and we'll see this at the end of the video that people are creating memes out of this But if all guys we know the recon vehicle is legit We then see the commando and the stinger the commando looks an absolute monster of a weapon We've seen gameplay this already and we then guys see the displacer pack Which is the what's basically a teleportation device when you're about to take a hit That's probably gonna kill you it will I believe teleport your way from said area and we also see here guys the trench wool It's something we've seen gameplay of already We can see here the eagle air-to-air missile and the emancipator exo suits again We've seen these in game and gameplay of them too and then guys we see right here medical supplies Missile solo and again the eagle air-to-air missiles. You also see jammed pinata Again guys, I think people are children with ease because what the heck is that? What is that? I don't even know guys, but we're going to move on and next up. We see the quasar cannon being shot By the same actual leak a normal in 1887 versus a wild titan and you can see this thing absolutely annihilates it people what is one shot to the face and this thing is Dan and we then see a little bit of gameplay of the incendiary grenade launcher We should believe is the first we've seen so far so looking pretty cool Now I've read a few of the comments in regards to the quasar cannon people who have tested it in game, too Some say it's super super powerful But some say it's like bogged in a lot of instances It's sharp to just bounce off even a smaller enemies So yeah, it's definitely not up to scratch through the way the game performs It will need to be no doubt retweaking before it's actually introduced into the game if it is bugged out But we will see guys we will see okay, so next up we have this newly leaked image by Ironsize over on a reddit, which is which showcases a rocket launcher Back pack now the difference I'm reading between this one and the recoil is rocket launcher This is one deals way more damage now. Don't quote me on that This is what I've just read by the people who have seen this in game or read about it in game And it's actual fine details, but do not quote me on that Another user said it's like a mini nuke So instead of being targeted at armored targets, it's more to clear a massive grouping So yeah, we will see but if all guys it looks pretty cool So yeah, a new rocket launcher backpack is on its way into the game. Okay, so next up guys We have this massive Automaton Real cannon now this is obviously being textured by the one and only ironsize who drops many many great images They're mine from the game files as somebody's just basic models But he retextures them to make them look like a wood in game And what we're seeing here guys is a massive automaton rail cannon now in you guys to scale He says this is about as long as eight mile titans Yes, you heard that right you get eight by all titans you put them side by side That's how big this thing is now the image obviously makes it look a little smaller What is that gonna be used for? Why could the automatons needs such an utterly monstrosity of a weapon now I have seen leaks and images of massive ships Ships we haven't seen in game yet. This is basic models of them Who knows what is coming guys? I mean I like to theorize but I'm just gonna go way out there and it's just gonna go beyond what anyone's even thinking So I'm just gonna leave it for now until we hear or see more information on what this thing could be Well, this thing's pretty big eight by all titans side by side. I mean wow Why is this gonna be used for we will see you guys, but it's good to speculate so speculate down below Okay, so next up we have another datamined image or actual datamined files By Bissu probe. I believe that's how you pronounce your name. I apologize if it's drunk over on her reddit He drops this image which you're seeing unscrewing out which is very very interesting and it insinuates a possible Clan system coming to this game. Now you can see what this says unscrewing now I mean you can pause if you don't read through all but what I'm reading from these is What to me does look like some kind of clan System now if we do look close and I actually thought about this before so this image about having your own sort like clan ship or Clan home what we see here is clan station. I've seen mentioned a couple of times here So we're gonna get our own station for our very own clans for us to meet up and team up and go and kill Shes together. I mean, yeah, so obviously all new information right now We don't know exactly where this is gonna go We don't know if this is an old image that was scrapped or who knows all I know is a clan system would be pretty cool So yes speculate again down below people Okay, so next up guys We have a couple more leaked player cards coming now make of these what you want But they do seem a little interesting to me. I actually love these player cards I love their uniqueness of them I was just as many many more because obviously people are just gonna be using the same ones to a point Of everyone looking the same. I like customization. I like standing out from the crowd player cards I mean obviously there's plenty of armors in the game, but another uniqueness I would like are more player cards So I'm glad to see that are more being leaked and there's four here. Did I say three? There's actually four here So yeah, pretty cool people. So check them out. Okay, so finally we have what I believe is a meme I saw this on Twitter and I thought at first it got most thinking what the norm the only norm I remember the norm pump on plants versus zombies But the norm I mean check this out. Why is this? Why is this people love that trolling love that shit? But this is absolutely hilarious forward forward up then up left up left right left right right right down Right, I don't even know people. I'm lost. I'm confused Well, what I said earlier on in the video in regards to the pinata and things like these I believe you may be able to edit people are writing their own text It's a norm a real thing you tell me guys you tell me at the moment I've looked up this and it seems as though it's just a troll. It's just a meme But it could in fact be an in-game strategy. I'm coming. Who knows guys, but right now It's gonna be absolutely hilarious. I'll link the post down below in reddit It's a troll fest in those comments. So yeah, go check it out guys But there we have it for another how dive is to a video with the latest and greatest news and leaks Around in the game guys if you enjoyed the video leave no like really helps out if you like what you see I want to see more be sure to subscribe and hopefully guys I will see you on that next one