This is stock number 21T4. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used RAM and light-duty truck headquarters. Today we are checking out this brand new 2021 RAM 1500 crew cab, 5 foot 7 inch short box, Rebel Level 2 This one has the technology group, which gives you the heads up display. It also gives you the high mount LED lights up there, and then it has the rear view camera that's actually a Rear view mirror that's actually a camera, which is really cool This particular one has the four-corner air suspension the 5.7 Hemi. It's going to get you 21 miles per gallon on the highway 15 city for an average of 17 395 horsepower and This one is in bright white. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p 60 frames per second So if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device Definitely turn them on right now because it's your best way to check out the looks and styling of this particular truck before seeing it in person This one also has the night edition on it, which gives you the black painted alloy rims This one comes with Goodyear Wrangler Dura Track LT 27570 R18 tires. Definitely a Off-road all-terrain tread pattern on there. This one has the four-corner air suspension as well That night edition gives you the black ram logo The blacked out headlamp bezels as well as the blacked out 1500 and Hemi logo on the hood This one has the LED light group front bumper parking parking sensors painted front bumper LED running lights LED headlamps LED fog lamps and Just a really good-looking truck. I can't wait to show you that mirror That rear view mirror. That's actually a camera. It's so cool We'll take a look at the original window sticker here. Feel free to pause this I'm not going to go through everything But just the main stuff like this is the five seven with the MDS eight speed automatic transmission Rebel crew cab this one has the tech group like I was saying that's a thousand ninety five dollar option to get that Special stuff the night edition is five hundred twenty five dollars the rebel 12 group Which gives you the 12 inch radio is twenty nine ninety five Gives you off-road information pages four-way lumbar Passengers seat eight-way power driver and passenger seat the you connect 12 inch display 4g LTE Wi-Fi hotspot serious XM with 360 19 speaker Harman Kardon sound system serious guardian for a year serious traffic and traveling for five years The rebel level two group gives you the media hub with two charge only USB ports 215 volt auxiliary rear power outlet gives you the AC dual zone auto temperature control Apple Carplay and Android Auto heated seats heated steering wheel park sense Power adjustment pedals power folding mirrors rain sense and wipers Rear under seat storage Proximity keyless entry remote start system and then the homelink system with your universal garage door opener It's a lot of stuff in that rebel level two group Gives you the electronic shift on-demand transfer case hundred ninety five dollars. The hemi is 1795 dual pane sunroof is 1495 rear wheelhouse liners four-conner air suspension is 1805 and the spraying bed liner is 595 dollars total MSRP on this truck is 64 210 Your three year 36 bumper to bumper and then five year 60 powertrain warranty If you want to get your summit price in the upper right hand part of your screen is a link to our website You can click that and check us out there to get all the rebates and incentives on this particular truck 21 highway 15 cities 17 Average your safety ratings rams are very safe vehicles five and four stars up and down the board So you definitely feel safe hauling your family around in this truck four-wheel disc brakes on the Rams I don't know we can take a look at that rear air suspension you can see they got the rear Full-size spare tire to those are your air shocks right there Yeah, that's way bar LED tail lamps dual rear exhaust full towing package which includes a receiver hitch four pin and seven pin wiring Get the RAM stamped Tailgate four by four and rebel logo are all in black part of that night edition Shocked on assist tailgate Spray in bed liner Looks really good. Those LED cargo lamps really light up The bed nicely that shuts nice and solidly These trucks all now have the capless fuel fill And if you want to know without looking underneath the truck of it as a air suspension they always put a sticker right there on the window You could remove that though Has the keyless entering go system So you just have to have the key in your pocket put your hand there to unlock the doors You do get the heated mirrors Directional signals blind spot mirror and these mirrors do power-fold in Actually how that works just press the button right here. They power-fold in like so so the rebel Level two group you get those really nice leather seats. Both of these seats are heated You get the rebel stitched into the bolster there And this is like real leather. This is real soft touch premium leather in this truck Lumbar all-weather floor mats throughout you get the power pedals auto headlamps tilt telescopic steering wheel The power windows power locks power mirrors you get this kind of like rubber ish Insert as well as the carbon or diamond plated finish on the doors really good-looking Turn the auxiliary Power on you get the seven inch LCD display You can see this truck has 34 miles that's custom for the rebel, of course And then you get your compass you can do a temperature you get your digital speedometer Battery life oil temperature all that good stuff on that seven inch LCD display Leather wrap steering wheel. This is heated as well cruise controls and gear selector on the right Bluetooth and information center controls on the left Audio controls in the back of the steering wheel push button start turned out four-wheel drive push button Or I'm sorry turned out eight speed automatic transmission push button four-wheel drive downhill assist control and that's your axle lock on this truck Now the 12 inch radio is Really cool. It's the 12 inch 4c radio gives you a MFM and serious XM radio capabilities Also has Android Auto and Apple CarPlay where you can project your cell phone to the screen We actually did a demo if you want to check that out on an 8 4 With Android Auto that's in the upper right hand per your screen that you can check that out But this radio is so cool You can do so much with it like I said the AM FM and of course it has the factory navigation system You have your heated seats heated steering wheel. You can do your backup cameras here You can check out your climate controls You can do all your apps including that projection manager which allows you to do the Apple CarPlay or Android Auto Then you can project your cell phone to the screen if you've got a different navigation system you want to use Ways or Google Maps you can do that down here are your controls This is for your four-corner air suspension. You can actually lower the truck or raise the truck Pretty cool system. We'll check that out. We'll turn the truck on here in just a second stability control toe-haul front To rear parking sensors turn those off and on there's a media hub with an Augs two USBs and two USB C's You'd a hundred fifteen volt four hundred watt plug-in down there And I'm gonna turn the truck on so you can check out this backup camera because this thing is so cool so It's actually a camera looking at the garage door. That's right behind me is so cool And I think you can Switch it so now it's just a normal mirror and then you can turn it on and now it's the camera so Very neat very cool You can actually I think you can do settings on here too can adjust the brightness with the buttons that are underneath here So really cool stuff and then you can do your climate controls on the radio which We weren't able to look at before and then the backup camera you can see is an HD backup camera Those are dynamic grid lines mean that they're gonna turn as you turn that steering wheel That's center line lines right up with your receiver hitch And then you can go right over the receiver hitch to get exactly right up to what you're hooking up to whether it's your boat Or your trailer or your camper or whatever you might be hauling. So really cool system there really Really an awesome radio and of course you get the Harman Kardon sound system in addition to having this radio Which makes it even better and get the rebel badge on the dash and This one also has the power vista roof So the second row fixed glass roof and then this front Glass is a sunroof that slides open Up here you get your assist in SOS buttons your power sunroof and shade controls Then your power sliding rear window you do get home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems I'm gonna leave those lights on here so that we can Check out Them in just a second show you how bright those LED lights are Back here you get that power sliding rear window with the built-in rear defrost latch child safety system all Weather floor mats back here you get this storage bin that you can put up so nothing's going to roll around And then you get in floor storage on each side with the rambins These come out for easy cleaning so you can put ice and drinks in there So you've got too many coolers wherever you go and last but not least you get two USBs two USB C's back here in another 115 Bowl 400 watt plug-in Child safety locks on those back doors And I'm gonna do one more final walk around here from the back of the vehicle notice You get the LED license plate lights the LED tail lamps and Just a really good-looking truck and I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today And hopefully from this HD video you will have been able to get a really good idea of the overall styling and looks of this particular ram and Learn a little bit about that really cool reverse camera mirror which is a Just insane when I saw that Anyways, thanks for checking out the video if you'd like to see more pictures of this trucker one of our other 450 new and used cars trucks SUVs mini vans wranglers half tons three quarter tons one tons you name it We got it go to our website www.summitauto.com full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at summit auto comm and if You'd like to check out more HD videos You can go to youtube.com slash summit auto remember to like subscribe and share on this video and all the videos That you see there fact in a second you'll see link to subscribe to our youtube channel on your left It linked more ram 1500 truck videos like this one on your right if you have not been to our website on the bottom link to this Vehicle on our website click those check us out and we're super excited to be offering 2021 ram 1500 crew cab Rebel in bright white. 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During his career at Duke, Dr. Kempner treated more than 18,000 patients with his rice diet, which was originally designed as a treatment for kidney failure and out-of-control high blood pressure at a time when those diagnoses were like a death sentence. Patients who at that time would have died in all other hospitals had a reasonable chance of survival if they came under Kempner's care. The results were so dramatic that many experienced physicians suspected him of falsifying data, because he was reversing terminal diseases with rice and fruit. Diseases understood to be incurable by the best of modern medicine at the time. Intensive investigations into his clinic vindicated his work, which other researchers were then able to replicate. Kempner was criticized for his lack of controls, meaning that when patients came to him, he didn't randomly allocate half to his rice treatment and put the other half on conventional therapy to see which group did better. Kempner argued that the patients each acted as their own controls. For example, here's a patient before the rice diet. The medical profession threw everything they had at him, and his blood pressures were still as high as 220 over 160, whereas normals considered more like around 120 over 80, which is where the rice diet took him. Had he not been given the rice diet, it's true his pressures might have been even lower, zero over zero, because he'd likely be dead. The quote-unquote control group in Kempner's day had a survival expectancy estimated at six months. To randomize patients to conventional care would be to randomize them to their deaths. One can compare those who stuck to the diet, though, to those who didn't. Here's a chart showing the survival of 70 of the sickest of the sick that showed up at their clinic. Of those that started the rice diet but then stopped it within a year, five lived, and 19 ended up dead. For those who made it a year but then gave up on the diet, instead of an 80% chance of dying, they had more like a 50-50, flip of the coin. But of those that stuck with the program, 90% lived to tell the tale. Beginning of the 1950s, drugs became available that effectively reduced blood pressure in hypertension, leading to a decreased demand for the rice diet. What conclusions can we draw from this all-but-forgotten therapy for hypertension? Not only was it the first effective therapy for high blood pressure, and may be equal to or more effective than our current multi-drug treatments. This causes one to speculate on the current practice of placing patients on one drug than another, perhaps a third, until the blood pressure is controlled with lip service advocacy of moderate reduction in dietary sodium, fat, and protein intake, while the impressive effectiveness of the rice fruit diet, which is able to quickly stop the leakage from arteries and lower increased intracranial pressure, reduce heart size, reverse the EKG changes, reverse heart failure, reduce weight, and markedly improve diabetes is ignored. So should we return to the Kempner protocol of starting with the most effective therapy, saving drugs for patients who fail to respond or who are unable or unwilling to restrict their diet? Look, today many people follow a vegetarian diet as a choice, which is similar to what Kempner was often able to transition people to. After their high blood pressure was cured by the rice diet, patients were often able to gradually transition to a less strenuous dietary regime without added medications and with no return of the elevated blood pressure. So if the Kempner sequence of a strict plant-based diet to a more sane plant-based type diet offers the quickest and best approach to effective therapy, why isn't it still in greater use? The powerful role of the pharmaceutical industry in steering medical care away from dietary treatment to medications should be noted. Who profits from dietary treatment? Who provides the support for investigation and the funds for clinical trials? There's more to overcome than just the patient's reluctance to change their diet. What Kempner wrote to a patient in 1954 was as true then as it is now, 60 years later. Disease can be very useful, properly employed, and used in conjunction with intensive dietary treatment. However, high blood pressure with all its possible complications— heart disease, kidney disease, stroke, blindness— is still treated very casually, a striking contrast to the attitude towards other diseases like cancer. Since patients, physicians, and the chemical industry prefer the taking, prescribing, and selling of drugs to dietary treatment inconvenient to patient and physician, and have no benefit to the pharmaceutical industry, the mortality figures for these diseases will still remain rather appalling. Despite hundreds of drugs on the market now, high blood pressure remains the number one cause of death and disability in the world, killing off 9 million people a year, and diet treats the underlying cause. As Dr. Kempner explained to a patient, look, if you should find a heap of manure on your living room floor, I do not recommend that you go buy some air freshener and perfume. I recommend you get a bucket and a shovel, and a strong scrubbing brush. Then, when your living room floor is clean again, then fine. Feel free to freshen things up, but once the underlying cause has been removed. As the great physician Maimonides said about 800 years ago, any illness that can be treated by diet alone should be treated by no other means.


Hi, I'm Stu Miniman and welcome to another Wikibon whiteboard, joining me for this segment, Brian Gracely. And we're going to drill in a little bit more on the private cloud. And what we talked about in one of our sessions was what is turning the kind of legacy environments into really our more strict or true definition of a private cloud environment. And we want to look a little bit at the layer cake underneath it. So the first piece I'll start at is something near and dear to my heart, the infrastructure. We say, what is really needed to be able to make my on-premises environment from an infrastructure standpoint something that really is cloud-like? And the first thing of that is, I don't want to have to think about it. There's a CIO I spoke with and he said, what we used to be good at with IT is spending two years and building that temple for my data. And what I need to be able to have with the infrastructure is something that I can spin up quick, something that is agile, and therefore the foundation for that is something that I should be able to get from a template. Really, that is a converged infrastructure or even the newer hyper-converged infrastructure that I start with. So Brian, you and I have worked on those solutions for many years. There's billions of dollars of converged infrastructure being sold every year. It was a good first step to really simplify, especially those days here or those standing up the environment. I can get it installed faster. I can operationalize it so much faster. And I think that's why so many people are using it today. Yeah, it's sort of a natural evolution. When you're trying to go faster, you're trying to take some of the variability out of what's going on. And the reality is people were spending a lot of time kind of building what we call snowflakes that in reality were probably 80, 90, 95% the same from business to business group to group, but somebody felt like it was theirs. And that thought process and the turning the nerd knobs was slowing things down. The more consistent you can make that on x86, converged network, converged infrastructure, the faster that they could move on to actual stuff that drove the business. Yeah, it's kind of sad when you heard the poor administrator where he was like, Scotty, I need more energy. I need a little bit more speed. I need a little bit more storage.  And if we look up the stack, some of the stacks went really up the stack. So Oracle would sell you all the way up through the application. We've written quite a lot about what you get the further up the stack you go and the deeper you can integrate that, there's great value that can be owned. But most of the converged infrastructure, really management is a key component here. So let's talk a little bit about some of the management pieces there. Sure, sure. So a lot of different pieces to the management. I need to be able to discover what's there in the infrastructure because I may have some applications more compute heavy, some that are more storage heavy. So I've got to be able to discover what's under the covers. I want to be able to keep SLAs. I want to be able to basically describe that hopefully a business level sort of that or translate between business and technical. What do I want it to do? How available do I need it to be? How fast do I want it to run? So it's got to have an ability to do service level management and service level monitoring. And then all the standards things you need. It's got to be able to do monitoring. It's got to be able to keep track of data. Hopefully that data we're going to put into more analytics engines to be able to optimize it and be proactive with it. So really trying to manage it such that we're managing it to the business application. Right, right. And that's critical, Brian, as you point out here. It's really here is where I need to have, you said SLA, the service levels, where the SLO, the service level objectives driven from the application because that's the whole reason the applications there is to deliver for that application. One of the things we've seen growing from the infrastructure is if I was a convergent infrastructure and it's a box and managing multiple ones of those box has been difficult. Something I think back in the networking world we've had years of that as to how do I manage not just a switch, but a lot of them together. How do I manage it more as a pool? And that's what we're starting to see being done a little bit better over some of these infrastructure. Hyper-converged by its very nature is creating a pool. So really, we need this pool and this management to really come together and allow me to manage all of the pieces together. One of the market leaders in the converged infrastructure, VCE, they take their vision software along with, it's really at the background, the networking is a key piece of it through the Cisco partnership to create what's called VScale and then they can take converged infrastructure, hyper-converged, or even just technology extensions they call them, which is the compute or the storage pieces and plug them in. We're seeing other companies that are doing that to say not only is it one or a family of boxes that can put in, but maybe I create an API and I'm allowing other devices to plug into it and to be able to treat a greater selection of devices from that single pool. Yeah, and the simplest way to think about this is when you're buying technology, when you're buying it in a CapEx-centric model, you tend to be paying for that, depreciating over three to five years and that's fine, it's very standard. But if you think about it from a business perspective, I'm making decisions every quarter, maybe every year and I don't want to have to think, well, where am I in my hardware cycle, my refresh cycle? I just want to treat it like a pool of resources. So new business opportunities come along, there's a pool of resources there, I want to throw it at that and I want this sort of software logic, management logic and the application logic to say, cool. So that's why it's so important that we have this sort of consistency and be able to say when that next system comes on board that it runs like the rest of them so that my business doesn't have to think about technology depreciation, it just says give me resources to go solve a problem or go make profits or whatever they're trying to do. Yeah, it really is to turn this private cloud environment into more, I think of the public cloud. So when I add more storage, it's not, oh, how many boxes do I need? I just need capacity and I'm going to pay for that. I need performance, I pay for that. I need compute, I pay for that as needed. The question is usually on the private cloud, I usually have good processes on how to scale up but scaling down to a little bit tougher as to how I pay for that. Well, and scaling out was tough for a lot of people because the next iteration that you got was different and that's one of the nice things that VC Vision does is it normalizes that, it rationalizes it, but it also gives you the flexibility to say, well, if I still have some things that aren't totally consistent, can I at least manage them to some extent, whether that's a bare metal machine because I have to run a database on there or maybe you're doing some modern stuff like containers and you want to do that in a sandbox for right now. So you want to have that flexibility as well. Yeah, absolutely, because while you mentioned the VCE example was really good at first, Vblock was really one model, now there's a broad spectrum of solutions that can plug into this environment and the more differentiation I have in my environment, the more heterogeneous environment, the tougher it is to manage that all together and that needs to be software-led as to how that pulls all together. Right, and all that is infrastructure operations, infrastructure costs, but the same thing, if you're talking to the development team and you can say, look, I can consistently give you things, whether that's performance or availability and you can give them a common language, again, you're getting to that point where you've got consistency between application people and office people and again, that's time is money and that's valuable to the company. Right, absolutely, bottom line is it's giving the business the agility to be able to move forward and deliver that business value, which driven by getting those apps out faster and making changes more, absolutely. Great, all right, so stay tuned to wikibon.com for lots more research on this space and check out the YouTube channel for lots of videos from theCUBE and the Wikibon whiteboards. Thanks for watching.


Another property of water that we will go through is cohesion and adhesion, which are the basis for phenomena such as surface tension and capillary action. We are going to first talk about what surface tension and capillary action are, and then we will talk about what cohesion and adhesion are. So surface tension can be easily observed by putting an object onto water, a water surface and watching it float, if the object is too heavy it shrinks. So you can say that surface tension is the property of the surface of a liquid that allows it to resist an external force. What about capillary action? Remember when you spilled water on your shirt? The water didn't just stay in one spot, it moves and spreads around through very narrow routes created by the fibers. Capillary action especially is one of the most foundational mechanisms of life, is how plants draw water up from the roots, is how our body delivers nutrients throughout each individual cell. It is also responsible for the rising dam and building materials. You can say that capillary action is the ability of a liquid to flow in narrow spaces without the assistance of or even in opposition to external forces like gravity. Otherwise, plants would not be able to draw water up from the roots, or our body would not be able to deliver nutrients from our intestines to our brain. Surface tension and capillary action is based on the same forces and attractive force. When two like molecules are attracted to each other, we call this cohesion. And on the other hand, when two like molecules are attracted to each other, we call this adhesion.


I really enjoyed reading these papers. I only did, by the way, five lions, okay? So I did the South Africa, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, and Ethiopia, not Nigeria. Nigeria is not being presented here either. So really what is coming out, you know, throughout these key messages that I was looking for is service, service, service.  So the question is, in the context of this dominance of service and informality, excuse mismatch, what is that we should be doing next? So I will not get into the analytics. I don't have time for this. So the idea here is that, you know, these lines have been growing. And so what are the linkages between growth and employment outcomes? And so there have been detailed analysis. I think one thing that I haven't noticed is, by the way, the channels, the channels for linkages between growth and employment outcome. So looking at the comparative review, I would have done is I would have a couple of slides where I mentioned drivers of growth. So everywhere you go, service shows up. And then what are the linkages to employment outcomes? And then of course, very interesting analysis in a number of papers on labor market structure. Now in the case of service again, looking at South Africa, so one of the challenges there is a highly priced labor month, right? And then you go to other countries and then get into service and informality is just the opposite. But then even in South Africa, so the informal sector is playing a role. And then the government fills in the gap with the growing share of employment in the public sector. So in terms of kind of being brief, so what are the gaps? My sense is that these African lions are inspired by Asian tigers, right? Whoever came up with African lions must be thinking about Asian tigers. I was actually surprised that there was nothing in terms of comparability and the lessons that could be drawn from the Asian tigers in any of these papers. I know that there's something implicit in the case of Ethiopia and I'll mention, I think that moving forward, I think we should really do that. The other is when you talk about service, it's not one size fits all. You have to disaggregate. So finance shows up, by the way, financial economists. I'm very attracted to the fact that finance is showing up. So finance shows up and then in the case of South Africa, very high priced. And then I think Ghana, you're saying that it's not producing employment. And I think one of the reasons is that a lot of these countries are very weak, shallow, financial sector development. So one of the things I'm going to push for, you'd be surprised, one of the things I was pushing for is the whole area of financial sector development as linked to what you guys are doing. The other is when I say Africa changing, now we have technology. We have this advancing technology. And we have problems which are kind of staggering. And we cannot just proceed with business as usual. And we have to innovate. In fact, Africa is actually innovating. So the impact of the rising technology is also important. And then the other is on political economy, the role of the state, Ethiopia being one here. And then things that seem to have actually worked and attractive. And then over time, they also started meeting the headwinds. And then lately, what I'm going to say then is, who is financing this transformation? Who is financing this growth? And now it turns out that, although we don't, there's no mention of China. China and Africa is big. And China is part of this credit base. And the region is facing highly diffused credit base. And now the ARC plenary, you know, it's a forced-down plenary, we're going to have what they call looming debt crisis. And this is actually linked, what I call, with some service sectors not being, well, developed finance being one of them. OK, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to give you the key messages. And you see the commonality. So think South Africa, service. And then, of course, labor market structure, highly skilled labor demand. And then, of course, when you have a sales mismatch, not to actually get into this, then combine what you create is inequality. And that's what we see in South Africa. And Ghana, again, low employment generating sectors, mining, oil, and finance, are drivers of growth. But the things that you'd expect would have more labor are not going as fast. Again, service is a big deal here. Kenya, yeah, it's the dominance of informal employment. So the thing about service is when you have formal service and informal service. And those informal service are actually low-wage, low-productivity sectors. So really, then, of course, Mozambique is different. But this is small-holder farming. Again, there's disconnect between high growth and poverty. Declining productivity. By the way, I like your decomposition structure and reform reaffirmed this notion that there are actually declining productivity. And again, service. So to me, the messages are kind of simple. How do we enhance service productivity? How do we transform service? So in the past, we have been arguing that we industrialize, move from agriculture to manufacturing, and then we get transformed, which is really, and then we say, we are being industrialized or whatever. But I think that is, to me, is a transformation that has to occur everywhere. And to me, the bottom line is value creation, value change in agriculture. So I think this is what came up today with Stigl's talk. Service really played a role. Moving forward, how are you going to now Ethiopia? Yeah, it is one country that seems to have paid attention to the Asian Tigers. And the state led, in fact, now they're saying democratic development of the state. But it also has headwinds. The issues of command mentality and command economy, you know what happened? We have this huge movement. And so we have actually a rise of now new government. So again, so if I have to kind of outline that first, heterogeneous service, OK? And there are those that require high skills and also productivity of service. And then transform the usual stuff, agriculture. Finance, since I have two minutes and has come up in a very strong way as part of service, what it means to me is that you have to get finance right. If we do not develop financial sector, you're going to be dependent on this credit coming from very diffuse sources. And then we have actually looming debt prices. Mozambique actually already went through a debt crisis.  And I'm going to stop here. Thank you very much.


Can you explain us what is happening now in the Netherlands with the experiment of the cities with growing legal cannabis? They are slowly moving in with the whole press, so now process, so now 10 cities have been chosen to where the experiment will take place. One of the requirements to participate was that all the coffee shops in a city should participate in the experiment. En they are now in the process of selecting the growers. So there will be 10 growers supplying the coffee shops. Dutch tomato growers are now applying for a license to grow cannabis as well. Er is one group also applying for a license who were growing illicitly in the past and have been brought to court and have been also been sentenced. So it would be interesting to see if they would allow this group also as one of the growers. They are called the idealistic cannabis growers so they are not tied to any criminal groups. They always paid their taxes, they always paid their electricity bill and they always said well we are doing it and we are supplying the coffee shops. So you could say that is a good example of what other countries also should do, that you try to incorporate those growers who used to grow illicitly in that industry. En it will be up to the next government to decide whether or not the experiment has been successful. In general what do you think about prospects of cannabis legalization in Europe? What model Europe will take? Should it follow the North American model or should it find its own way? Well, it should find its own way. We now see the dark sides of the North American model. It is very commercial. There is a risk of a corporate takeover of the cannabis industry. Leaving behind the small craft growers and the people who used to be in the illicit industry. En dat opent ook de manier om een grote alcohol type van regulatie te maken. En ik denk dat de Europes dat niet moeten gaan. We hebben een closer look at the Uruguayan model. With home growing cannabis clubs and also state controlled dispensary type of distribution and cultivation. My ideal model would be fair trade models so we also should allow for instance in the Netherlands which is now not possible. The import of Ashis from Morocco. You can try to reach an agreement with the Moroccan government that that would be possible. Grown by small growers. Social justice also very important. That's also different per country. A set of harm reduction principles that would allow avoid aggressive advertising or monopolizing of the industry.


Happy Eloha Friday! This is your host Beatrice Cantelmo. On today's episode of Prospectus and Global Justice, guest Gio Gio Pita will be sharing with our viewers his many memories from his autobiography, Coconut Rats and Kung Fu Cowboys, written with the retired Professor James Coach. Gio Gio is a Micronesian national who grew up in Italy, an atoll on the Aura Mordlock Islands of Turk State in the Faro states of Micronesia. Gio Gio is a UH Manoa alumni who earned his PhD in special education. In his autobiography, he shares exquisite memories of what life was like growing up on an atoll of 500 habitants in all of the enchanted experiences that have revealed many nuances of living an authentic life as a male Pacific Islander and as a Soviet leader. In high school, Gio Gio had an accident which caused him severe spinal cord injury, which resulted in quadriplegia. Gio Gio's stories features not only his functional ability, experiences, but also gives us a unique insight on Pacific Islander cultures which are filled with courage, resilience, self-determination, gratitude, hardships, love, and many lessons learned along the way. I hope that this show will leave our viewers, not only with rooting for Gio Gio to write a new book in the very near future, but also with valuable insights on how important storytelling is for the preservation, dissemination, understanding and value of Turkese language, Micronesian culture, identity and pride, and how much intergenerational wisdom and sharing of these memories play a crucial role in this process. On that note, welcome, Gio Gio. Thank you. Thank you very much, Bea. You're welcome. I can't imagine who I would love to have time with today and have this very important conversation. Okay. So, wow, you know, about a year ago, you were in a hospital, one of your many visits in the hospital. You were there for what? Three months? Yes. I had surgery and it took about three months to get everything squared away. That was towards the end of my PhD program, so it only pushed graduation date semester back, but, you know, it was kind of needed. And it gave me a sort of all the time to think about a lot of things. So I decided, well, maybe it's a good time to write a book now. So at that time, you know, we were just kind of like working on the dissertation and your book. I was in the middle of finishing up the dissertation while I was in the hospital. Also decided to start working on the book. And I had a lot of times in my hand. And so, yeah, it was a lot of, you know. So I wanted to bring you and our viewers back to 1964, the year where Giorgio was born. Yes. Now, because I think I butched the name of your island. Help me again. It's Ital. Okay. Ital. Ital. Ital. Ital. Ital. Ital. Ital. Ital. Ital. Ital. Ital. Ital. Ital. Ital. And it's in the Marlok Islands and the Marlok Islands, the other island region is about 160 miles southeast of the main Lagoon, the Chuk state. Federated states of Micronesia. So 500 habitants. At the time, yeah, on and off, yeah, yeah. I think before there was, you know, that that much I think there was that many people on the islands. And I think recently and now, because of our migration, the number has drastically reduced about a half or even more than more than less than that. Yeah, less than that. We'll touch base on that a little bit. So but at that time, I think you were one of few children that were born that year on the island. And you grew up with these kids as you were very close with friends. Like all small islands. There's only a few of us who are, and I know like the us boys, there are only three, three boys who were born in that, that year. And five girls from what I recall from the book. So usually what we call our, our group, our group of friends that we hang out together be like a year older or two and then two years younger. That's kind of age group that we kind of like hang out a little bit older than that. And they're too young. They're too old to hang out with us. We're kind of too young for them. And then the young ones, we're just the one. The reason I'm bringing this up, I mean, one is to give our viewers context of where you're born and also to help us anchor the life, you know, your life childhood, you know, before the accident and after the accident. And I'm sure that as you were in the hospital, you will leave the money of these memories. But for our viewers to get a little teaser of, you know, your autobiography, tell us what you remember the highlights of your childhood, you know, growing up in such a neat community and bring to us the importance of your grandparents in your upbringing and of storytelling and also of the church because these were very three strong pillars in your formative years. I think the book, the way we structured the book, and I'm really grateful to my friend Dr. Jim Scalghi, who's a retired professor and he was a good friend of mine, is that, you know, we were able to talk about these stories together.   But in order for me to present this to the audience, and people who, and we'll talk a little bit about that, but we'll talk about audiences, but in order for me to make sure that I'm comfortable with what I perceive as being useful for the audience, you know, Jim and I spent a lot of time, you know, drinking coffee, talk story at the ZBBs, I wouldn't go on all the time, and we just talk story, talk about these stories, and we, you know, talk about them so much, you know, we laugh, and we, you know, we feel bad, and we, you know, we just got, you know, shocked sometimes about the stories, but I think it's an important thing, especially for me, because it's my first book, that I was not really comfortable about writing the book, you know. I mean, we wrote the book together, you know, have a lot of head, but what's important is that we talk about it, you know, sort of a process. You process it at every four, you put it down and then feel comfortable about it. And still, I don't, there are many times when I still don't feel comfortable about the book, because I feel like it's, you know, I'm not really sure how people will take it. But anyways, going back to your point about those pillars of, you know, influences in my childhood, storytelling definitely is a main part of it. So every small islander growing up in that, in that's environment is surrounded by storytellers, whether it be your friend who sells you all kinds of nonsense, you know, or your grandparents who tell you these very important stories, or, or the, you know, the older men who tell you legends and who teach you about the legends and things like that. So there's a lot of storytelling going on around you as a young child. And also the church, what you learn from the church is also very important, because aside from the rituals and, you know, the worshiping, you encounter a lot of stories of the church and what the church is about.  So you have those storytelling and then your grandparents, you know, the role of your, the ones who are the closest to you. Like me, I was born, I was born, I mean, I was raised by my grandparents because I was the oldest son and then my grandfather was going blind at some point during my childhood. So my parents made the decision that I would go and live with them.  He doesn't like too many people around him too much. I have a really great fisherman and he tells a lot of, you know, stories. Um, I, as I was reading the first part of your book, I got transported to this very idyllic, you know, how was that to say like a narrative of, you know, clear water, a lot of abundance in terms of the land being able to provide and sustain people's basic needs. And so like your grandparents had a state where a lot of the food was produced and consumed that way. There is a clear distinction between, like before it had more of an American influence, you know, and, you know, and then after, and it seems like it was quite reflected in the day to day living. And so like, for example, I think for some people, the idea of growing up without electricity is horrifying, but the way that you described it, you know, it seems like it was not big deal. And, you know, the night it was resolved for very special things, those storytelling and looking at the stars.  And we, we didn't feel any, any less blessed or inferior to that we didn't have any other things because, like you said, when it's dark, it's dark, people go to sleep and the stars come out and you interact with a lot of friends and, you know, playing games and talking stories and, you know, telling stories and, you know, and, you know, you appreciate a lot about the skies and what you can learn from them, the environment and how it behaves differently at night.   He talked to a lot of things, fishing and taking care of the states. I took a little bit about that. Yeah. He was, there are two paramount chiefs on the island and he was one of them. You know, he's responsible for, you know, guardian, he's sort of the guardian of the land and the ocean and all that there is within our environment. So people come to him for, you know, advice and disputes and he has a, you know, a special role on the island. So I also, growing up next to him, I mean, by sight, you know, I have a lot of appreciation for the role that he played with the, in the island, in the island. And of course, I would lead him because he was blind. I was also his guide. I would take him to where he needs to go. He needed to go and whether it's a meeting with fellow chiefs or you have to go to island celebration and island meetings and you would give like the last speech or the long speech for everyone. And you just being with him, dog me, you know, mostly now in retrospect when I'm much older, a lot of, you know, patience and he doesn't talk, he never did talk much. He didn't go around, but he just stayed where, you know, where we live. And he went fishing a lot. We had to go fishing a lot because he was still a avid fisherman, even when he was completely blind, but he could still, he can use the movement of the canoe and the feel of the wind because along the island, along the lagoon, there are smaller islands. So when we go by different islands and you can feel the, you know, the wind and he would tell me where to battle. And, you know, I was very intrigued and, you know, very amazed at how well he was able to use the, you know, the skills of hearing and wayfinding. We need to take one minute break. We'll be right back, okay? Okay. Aloha, I'm Yukari Kunisue, the host of Konnichiwa Hawaii, Japanese talk show on Think Tech, Hawaii. Konnichiwa Hawaii is all Japanese broadcast show and is streamed live on Think Tech at 2 p.m. every other Monday. Thank you so much for watching our show. We look forward to seeing you then. I'm Yukari Kunisue. Mahalo. Hello, hi, Mabuhay. My name is Amy Ortega Anderson, inviting you to join us every Tuesday here on Pinoy Power, Hawaii. With Think Tech, Hawaii, we come to your home at 12 noon every Tuesday. We invite you to listen, watch for our mission of empowerment. We aim to enrich, enlighten, educate, entertain, and we hope to empower. Again, Maraming, Salamat Po, Mabuhay, and Aloha. Welcome back to Perspectives on Global Justice, Think Tech, Hawaii. This is your host, Piaz Riscontelo, and we're back with Jojo Pida. So Jojo, and who did you write this book? When you had this conception, was that... Well, yeah, it would appear that I'm writing it for myself, which I did. In that time when I was in the hospital and I had to do something with, you know, kind of like thinking back about a lot of where I have been in my life. But more importantly, I think I wrote the book for my nieces and my nephews, and the generation of our people that is born and raised outside of our island, and many other islanders who have similar experience to reflect on childhood, you know, and back home in the island to get a sense of connecting, reconnecting back to to the islands and get an idea of what it was like, maybe growing up as a small, as a young boy around their age now. So I've given copies of the book to my nieces and my nephews, and I hope that it doesn't make any sense to them. A lot of people have also, you know, read the book and said that it does touch a little bit about what they remember about, you know, at home. I really feel a sense of, you know, my generation that has sort of taken on this odd migration were the first generation that left the island. And I feel a sense of responsibility here that I have to educate and kind of inform the generation that we have brought, you know, we have brought, you know, them into this world. Right. Well, in many way, I think that the, would you call it like you were the first generation of the Micronesian diaspora, but not necessarily because you all wanted to leave the islands, but you really didn't have a choice, but no access to education and health.  And I, you know, one part of your book that really struck me, and I will call it that like the, what we call it in America, the grass always looks greener on the other side of the fence, where when you were a child they described people who came to Hawaii and spoke about the aloha, you know, the image of sport cars, girls and skyscrapers, you know, and Navy ships and a complete different picture from, you know, what you were dealing with at home, but then there's also the reality of when the recently arrived Kofa resident encounters, which you called the urban poverty. So do you want to talk a little bit about that? Actually, yeah, this is the first of three books that we wanted to work on, and we brought this book up to the point where I graduated from high school, because another thing that is also inherent in this story is of course the story of disability, as I am faced and have is significant with the set of disabilities. But I didn't want to just talk about disability right off the bat. You wanted to show that there is a lot of, there's life before and after and during the onset of disability and that disability is not all of one person's experience and encounter with life. You know, it's a story and it's part of your story. So I wanted to do that. I want to make sure that we, because it has a lot of bearing on, the way I live my life and of course obviously, but I wanted to talk, the second and the third we're probably getting more into this diaspora thing, our experience abroad. But I wanted to just kind of set it up with this, with these stories, which if other people read the book, they'll get that foundation. They'll get the sense of a, you know, a foundation that, yeah, there's life before and after Hawaii or before and after disability for in the storyteller that I am.  Do you want them to read the book? I broke my neck as I fell off a rock and that was after my freshman year at high school, Savior High School. So I was, I spent a year here in Hawaii and that's my own, as my introduction to Hawaii as an individual with a disability. When I came back again, you know, I was 15 years old. Did you have any family here? No, at that time, I had an uncle, but he was almost like, yeah, he was some other relatives here.  It was very formative, say the least, yes. So a lot of new things to the individual, like, you know, the idea of going to the beach and, you know, as all this crowd on the beach. And I remember because I was hurt already at that time. So they brought me and the rest of the individuals from the rehab center, somewhere in wheelchairs and I and a couple of others were on flat, laying flat on a kerney.  And I was very aware of that being there in a very negative way and in a very repulsive way, because I just didn't understand why I was there, you know.  And I was like, this is not for me, you know. So I totally. We drew probably that little thing. And so did you feel supported and embraced and welcomed in those past months or year here as a Micronesian man on as an adolescent and as someone with a newly acquired functionality? I think it was different because I was here at the hospital. Yeah, I was not here in the community. So I was here as a patient and sort of tucked away in that hospital. So later on, you know, when I came back as an, you know, to go to school and to live and work, this story was different. You know, I was pretty much out in, you know, out and about with and interacting with the community. But at that time, there weren't that many. Also, there weren't that many Micronesians here. So let's bring you to 40 years journey.  And remember, one part of your book, you mentioned that you were in such excruciating pain that you hope that if there was going to be life that I would take you then and there. But well, yes, he had different plans for you. And here you are. And then another part of your book, it was, it doesn't get any better than that. So which is it in that, you know, bridge between I am really having a rough time, but it doesn't get better than that. So where, how do you negotiate those both extremes part of life? Because I think you anyone who goes through that, whether it's through, you know, disability, or it's through some emotional challenge, or it's through social challenge. I mean, you do the best that you can negotiate. But you also have to understand that, you know, you're dealing with a lot of forces beyond your control, and a way and above your limits as a person. And you try your best to deal with, you know, but at the same time, you also have the sense that you're in that in being in that situation. You're also giving yourself into for other people to to hold to have something from it. You know, so I've always been very grateful before I used to, you know, very be very negative about it. But at some point, I think along the way, I feel that I am grateful being for being here. And so are you and so are other individuals like we tend to focus more on the pain part of it. But after the pain, then you have, you know, these moments of, you know, being alive.  You have a PhD. You have three degrees before you have your PhD.  You have done and continue just so much to be this bridge culturally and also as an advocate. You are one of the most resilient and gorgeous human beings that I know of and have a pleasure of calling my friend. And, you know, I just, you know, I am in awe of you and I hope that, you know, you'll come back many times and that for our viewers to get a teaser about reading the book, I will not ask you the question about where the coconut rats come from. But the story of the Kung Fu cowboys, you know, I thought it was so beautiful not having electricity to be able to be exposed to American and Japanese culture through these movies that were played through a generator in a church. It's fabulous.  Every day and every night you go. I think everybody does that too. There is always a sense of an extension of a fantasy or a fantastic world that's beyond the hustle and bustle of, you know, what's in front of you and what you're dealing with.  And that's the reason why movies, you know, make a lot of money because we, we throw ourselves into those kind of things. And not just movies recently, movies like The Black Panthers and Captain America and all of that stuff because, you know, it's that, you know. I hope your book and your older books will become serious with movies. I can't believe we're out of time. My life is much full and beautiful and more enchanted because of you being a part of it. Oh, thank you very much. And, well, this concludes our episode of Perspectives on Global Justice for today. Thank you so much for watching us and we hope.


Definitions are some of the most important parts of mathematics. In fact, we might go so far to say that definitions are the whole of mathematics. All else is commentary. Now, this doesn't mean you just have to know the definitions. The commentary is actually very important, and it is the useful part of mathematics, but it is vitally important to keep in mind if you don't know the definitions, you can't do mathematics. The most important thing to remember about a definition is it's an equivalence. It says that two things are completely and totally interchangeable. And one of the things that this means is that if I've defined an object or a relationship by saying an object relationship is this thing with all of these properties, then all of the properties listed in the definition are possessed by the object or the relationship. We can also go the other way. Because definitions are equivalences, because they say things are completely and totally interchangeable, this also means that if I have all of the properties listed in the definition, I have to be the object or the relationship that's defined. And what this means is we can use definitions in two ways. First of all, an object will have all of the properties in its definitions, but also any object with all of the properties will be an example of the defined object. This is not true for many of the things we call definitions in the so-called real world. For example, suppose I throw down the following definition for a dog. A dog is an animal with four legs. Well, okay, if we accept this as our definition of a dog, then we can use it in two ways. First of all, I have a dog. Because the definition is supposed to be an equivalence, then if I have a dog, then I know that what I have is an animal and it has four legs. Okay, so far so good. But I have a cat. Well, let's see, what do I know about a cat? Well, it's an animal and it has four legs, which means that because it has all of the listed properties, it is an animal, it has four legs, because it has all of the listed properties, it has to be a dog. So I have a cat, it must be a dog. Well, that's what happens if I accept this as a definition of a dog. If we accept this as a definition of a dog, then cats are dogs. Well, we don't want that to happen, so we have to reject this as a definition of what a dog is. So let's think about that a little bit further. If we use a definition, there's two primary ways we can use it. First of all, we can use a definition as a checklist. If you have all of the listed properties, then you are the object defined or you have the relationship that's defined. For example, here is a relationship definition that we have. A is a subset of B, if every element of A is an element of B. And so there's a definition of a subset. Well, let's suppose A is the set A, B, C, and B is the set C, B, A. And let's see if A is a subset of B. And so we're going to check those requirements. Every element of A is an element of B. So let's check those requirements. So A has element A. And let's see. So does B. A has element B. And so does B. A has element C. So does B. And so every element of A is an element of B. And so we've met all of the requirements of being a subset. So we can say that A is a subset of B. And there's our use of a definition as a checklist. The other thing we can use definitions for is called instantiation. And this is just a fancy way of saying we're going to make a substitution. Once we've defined an object, then we know that we have all of the listed properties of that object. So for example, here is one of the ways we can define whole numbers. If N is a whole number, N plus 1 is the whole number after N. And so, for example, we might try to find 5 plus 1 from the definition. And that means we have to use this actual definition that we have of whole numbers. So in order to do that, we need to instantiate our definition. Now remember paper is cheap, so let's write stuff down and maybe the first thing we'll write down is the actual definition. So if N is a whole number, N plus 1 is the whole number after N. Now instantiation means we're going to make some substitutions here so that we can actually prove the thing we're trying to find. So here we want to find 5 plus 1. So we're going to look for the part of the definition that's most similar to 5 plus 1.  Okay, so here, this part here, this N plus 1 looks an awful lot like the 5 plus 1 we're supposed to be working with. So that means that I want to make my N plus 1 the same as 5 plus 1. And if I compare these two, it seems that all I've done is I've replaced N with 5. And so if we are going to replace N with 5, our instantiation, we're going to replace N with 5 every place I see N. Well, every place I see N as a variable. I'm not going to replace this N with the 5. That would be a little bit silly. But every place I see N, this part of my definition, I'm going to replace it with 5. So here it goes. If, well, here's N, so I'm going to replace it with a 5, is a whole number. Well, that stays the same. However, it's a good idea to check our statement as we go. If 5 is a whole number, well, is that true? If this isn't true, there's no point in writing the rest of the definition because we can't use it. Oh, yeah, yeah, 5 is a whole number. I buy that. 5 is a whole number. So it's worth proceeding at this point. So 5 is a whole number. I'm replacing N with 5. So my next statement, N plus 1, is going to become 5 plus 1. And is the whole number after? Well, again, that doesn't change. And N, I'm replacing N with 5. So there's my definition so far instantiated. If 5 is a whole number, this one is a whole number after 5. And that puts us about 90% of the way through the proof. But we really ought to complete the thought. And so the whole number after 5, it would be kind of nice to make an observation of what that actually is. So I might say that's going to be 6. Now, here, it's very important to understand that the answer to this question find 5 plus 1 from the definition. If you want to answer this question, what you need to be sure to do is to include all of the parts in green. The complete answer is if 5 is a whole number, 5 plus 1 is a whole number after 5, which is 6. This is the only acceptable complete answer to the question. Find 5 plus 1 from the definition. So this is the question. There's the answer.


This is the Sheboygan's coronavirus report for May 5th. First of all, let's review some of the numbers. This, today we just reported that we had 56 active cases. That's over eight over last week's number of 48. We have 10 cases that are still sick. And that's up four from the six last week. And we have two patients that are hospitalized. There were no patients that were hospitalized last week. And overall, we have 41 individuals that have recovered that were previously tested positively and two deaths. And then we had 1125 negative results from the tests and 56 that were confirmed in Sheboygan County. And that means that 95% of the results were negative. The city is currently implementing some additional changes that Governor Evers allowed us to last week. The Mead Library is now offering curbside pickup of materials in order to do this. You should, first of all, either go online or call Mead Public Library to request the materials that you would like. And then the next thing is to wait for them to confirm that your order is filled. And then after you get that confirmation, please call them up and set up a pickup time for them to put in their schedule for you to stop by. And then the last is to pick up your materials from the main entrance of the Mead Public Library. Last week we opened up the Valrath Park Frisbee disc golf course. The JC golf course was already open. We never closed that. And so now both of those disc courses are open. As part of the CARES Act, the city received community development block grant funds and council approved spending $400,000 in a job retention forgivable micro loan fund. This funds loans will be focused on small businesses between one and five employees that have not been able to access any other federal assistance during the COVID period. These loans will be between $3,000 and $15,000. And we expect that we can probably award loans to between 28 and 30 businesses to assist them during this period. For shopping, it's been recommended that people should wear a mask. Now, when I've gone to the grocery store, I've masked up but many of the other people have not worn a mask. Please take up this recommended action to wear a mask when you're out in public, when you're shopping, or when you're going to be around others. If not for your own protection, really do it to protect others. We really appreciate you paying attention to this and masking up when you're in public or in a grocery store situation. We had a great spring weekend. I hope that all of you had a chance to get out and do some exercise, either go for a walk, a bike ride, or maybe work in your garden. It was a great weekend for that. On Friday, May 8th, there's going to be a live stream of the Sheboygan County Strong Facebook Live Concert. This features a local band called the BBMC, and it will be streamed from the Limelight Pub. This Facebook Live Concert is a partnership between the Sheboygan County Chamber of Commerce and United Way. It will take place at 7 o'clock on Friday, May 8th. Due to coronavirus concerns, Sheboygan has canceled the 4th of July parade, the Freedom Fast-Inner Entertainment that usually takes place at the Land Park and the Venetian Boat Parade. A decision will be made on the Festival Foods fireworks on June 1st. There's still maybe an opportunity to save the fireworks. We'll have to wait and see. So until next week, remember to stay safe at home. Wear a mask when you're in public. Try to keep a six-foot distance from other people and keep your gatherings to 10 or less people.


Hello, I am Adam Iskin. I'm the key account manager with JL Audio, and I am here on the Sportsman Masters 267-OE. Sportsman uses JL Audio exclusively, and we are here today on this Masters 267-OE to tune the amplifiers. JL Audio has a line of amplifiers called MVI, and those amplifiers are equipped with DSP, which means digital signal processing. We'll explain further about that as we move around the boat. I have brought my tools here to consist of laptop. We've got test signals, microphones, and we will create a custom optimized tune for this model, which we will also create for every single one of the models in the Sportsman line that uses the MVI amplifiers. As a standard option, Sportsman offers our MediaMaster MN50 source unit with M3 speakers. For that customer that wants to take it up a notch, Sportsman offers the JL Audio M6 Ultra Premium Package Upgrade, which is what we're going to be walking through on this model today. Alright, so what is DSP? DSP stands for Digital Signal Processing, and what that means is we take the analog audio signal that comes out of the source unit and convert it to a series of ones and zeros, your digital signal. We manipulate that mathematically, convert it back into analog audio, and that's what gets pushed out to the speakers. Now, why do we go through this process of DSPing? We're trying to make the best possible listening environment in an otherwise imperfect situation, and probably most importantly is the repeatability. Our partners are able to take that tune and every bow that rolls out there is going to have the most consistent experience for the end user. Now, what are the tools that we use? I brought my kit with me here, and I've got my laptop here, my microphone, I have a thumb drive plugged into the helm there with our test signals, and the process goes like this. I will feed a test signal to every speaker individually. I will place this microphone where I can read what is coming out of that speaker, and I will make adjustments in our software here to balance out what is coming out of that speaker in that area. I do that for every single speaker as we go around the boat to make sure the entire listening environment is as good and crisp as it can be. Once this tune is finalized, we will transfer it to the amplifiers, and that file will become the master file. We will repeat that process for every single model in the entire line-ups to ensure that each model has its own custom optimized sound system. Next, we're going to walk over to the helm and have a look at the MediaMaster 100. As I said before, the standard offering for sportsmen boats is the MediaMaster MM50 Source Unit, but this upgraded system features the MediaMaster MM100 Source Unit, and a couple of its key features will be a larger LCD display and four-zone output. These source units are designed to be the top of a premium amplified system. Next, I want to talk a little bit more about our new M6 speakers. Our M6 speaker is the culmination of knowledge that we have acquired over a dozen plus years. It's not jail audio style just to revamp something visually and call it something new. That's not what we do. The M6 speaker is a completely new design from the ground up from the motor assembly and the spider assembly. The material, the tweeter is a new design. Visually, it is different also, but where it counts is all new design. These speakers are designed to be the heads of amplified systems and jail audio is taken marine audio to a place it's never been before. We're very proud of the speakers. We're proud of the amplifiers we're using. And we appreciate the relationship we have with sportsmen to go on this journey with us. We believe we put together the best sounding possible systems you can get in a boat. And we're hopeful and sure that you'll agree. So having said that, this is a system you've got to get out there and experience for yourself. So once again, my name is Adam Iskett with JL Audio and thanks for watching.


Na saluditia kwa wafiunu mwa maikudu na uza ko nilatu. Mka uza miin nii hain nii maikudu na muka kwa kuloutu kuntumiyu. Yudu hii kwa kùipi tmiki hebarımu nii, hari o we know in some kind of forces that baby push in otherwise not even following what is supposed to what is included in the contract look at the date of commencement of work when are you starting work and when that work would be or when are you going to end that 10 year when you are going to end that contract then you look at the duration of the contract for how long it's going to be like that 2 years or 3 years definitely that should also be taken into account the agreed salary at benefit and benefits like accommodation transportation in case they definitely agree to you then you definitely need they need to be split later or clearly and you should have that in mind and know this is what I'm going to work for then look at what you call the probation period for how long this going to be the probation period for my contract 9 months 6 months or 3 months depending on what kind of nature


I'm Meryk Dikay. I'm what we call Deputy Director for Innovation and Digital Transformation, that's a big title. And what I'm going to say here is just my view doesn't apply completely to the ministry I'm representing today. So what I'm going to talk is not too much technical today, it's just a journey we are going through. And what's going to happen is I'm going to share what's happening and I'm really happy to get some feedback and suggestions from you guys. You are the one making the technology. I am part of the people who are transforming administration. So we need to mix. So basically, what's the ministry anterior in France? We have two main purpose, it's secure people and goods and making democracy a reality and make it work. So we are running the elections and stuff like that. So I mean, feel free in France, this is the ministry taking care for you and you should not see us when everything is fine. That's the point. We are not very digital. We are many people on the street behind desk and so on and so on. So what's going to happen in France? Why does a little bit of view is we in France decided a couple of years ago as many countries in Europe and the world to go to digital transformation pass. And our approach is what we call a doctrine. A doctrine will be rules. It's we want to go and we have to go cloud first. So regulation says everything in France, new digital project must go to the cloud. Plenty of sort of clouds. And what is a little bit special is we as ministry of interior, we are a cloud provider. So we run on-prem, not only on-prem and we can see and that's what we do. But we like things, we maintain things. So we have very old stuff just close to cloud. So everything which is put and has to run all the time. So we maintain a lot of very vintage technology, nearly all the main frame if you see what I mean. So this is what we have to do is how to address those different ages. People in ministry may have seen in their career about three to four breaking through generation of technology. So we have to think ahead and sometimes we are moving very slow. But our purpose is just to sustain it over the time. So what we do is we invest in the clouds. Currently we have what's on the left, which is legacy IT that everybody knows. And we had the YAS platform for about five to six years, which is only open stack. And it's not CPU, it's core. Sorry, I make a mistake. And we are building a new platform with Red Hat, which is we renew the open stack. So we have a big move currently about thousands of tenants. And we are building something based on Kubernetes. I'm going to show you that later. So we are moving from a philosophy which is we're running for you. Everything is going to be fine. To something which is more close to you run it. If you build it, you're running and you support it. We want to share with the developer the responsibility of the way of making teamwork. We believe it's the target. So how do we do that? How do we think about that? Let's say for people who has worked in very, let's say, ages organizations. Things are very compartmented. Process are difficult to move, I mean to change and so on. And if we just want to make an incremental innovation, maybe in the next century it might be done. So we decide to go to disruptive approach and to offer something what's called for the people who are doing marketing, blue ocean strategy. That means you offer something new. You don't discuss about the detail. You say what you do currently in a month, you can do it in days or even minutes. Would you like it? Generally the answer is I'm going to think maybe. So just to give you the idea. The second thing is there was too much thing to change. Process, technology and so on. So we decided to go to Greenfield. The second thing is we decided because there's part of the ministry which is very linked to open source. We even have a Debian developer in-house. So we decided to go open source. So the first thing is community. But with some vendor support like Red Hat for OCP. So we choose OCP. And then the rest is we also outsource our code. So here is the link. It's a GitHub. So it's in French. But you will find a few, you will find the design documents and you will file also incrementally the code we are doing. So you will see. So that's the way we do it. So what is the product? So the product is, as you understand at the beginning, is we transform the ministry but not only the others. And what we had to offer, what was a real big problem to solve is the pipeline. It's not the running part. It's just the pipeline. How do we do code? How do we maintain the quality of the code? Most of the developer are now from the lockout and the COVID or whatever are working outside. So before our paradigm was you have to be on our house to work and now the paradigm is you may need the people outside of us. So we had to make a bridge between those two, between our secured server and the developer which are outside. So what we did is we just look at the problem and we said, OK, should we do it with one thing as generally proposed? We say, yeah, OK. But then that's when you have to mix between agility, ergonomy, and security. And the developer wants freedom and we want security. So it doesn't match. So everyone wins. But it's always going to be security that wins. So we decided to separate the problem. The developer on his side has his own CI, CD, his own pipeline, everywhere he wants, as soon as we agree on. What we just required is that the developer give us, the developer is the team. Just not only one. The team is just delivering good code without bugs and without CV. And we just don't buy a contract. And then we have in the middle, our pipeline, which is taking from the point of truth the code and the infrastructure of code. We don't trust the developer too much. So we copy the code, check it, rebuild the stuff, do our test and test checking, and so on and so on.  And then the deal is the interface is GitOps. So the cluster pooled the code and make it once. And this approach makes everybody comfortable because the developer is on, let's say, an area of liberty, freedom, three. And we manage and we can do audit as much as we want. It can take hours to run. We don't mind. That's not the point. And the other thing is another benefit of this approach. So it's going to be open source, just in case you're interested. The other approach, we don't want everyone to come on our cloud because it's very costly to manage a cloud and to build a cloud. So we want other people to use the benefits of public clouds. So we said trusted clouds because of foreign laws and someone in the morning have talked about that. So that means this approach with GitOps, we already make some tests, which are very, let's say, enjoying, is you can run it everywhere. That's the point. So everywhere on the cloud, we trust. So that's what we are building. So the way we're also building is more on doing it open. So, I mean, to confront something new, to make, let's say, make sure people are there and mainly the developer community, we need to listen to them or to make them on board. So what we've done is we decided to go on Agilatscare. So we're using the safe framework. And what you see here is just a cartoon about one of the PI planning. Or you can see we use the pirate metaphor. So we have a lot of pirates doing things. And this is what we do. So the most of all, this is really the human element, which is key for us. And I see we have to progress here, regarding gender equality. And but this is many a team. And I would like to thank all these teams and every people. They are really highly motivated by the product. They are the one doing the job. So at the end, you can applause them because they are doing very hard work. Where are we today? Am I good in the timing? Yeah, it's okay. So we might take some questions. So we are not yet on production. But we've learned some lessons so far. It's about one year we are doing the journey. The thing is open source was the good idea. Because we never had so much feedback and so much suggestion if we did not use open source. The promise which is ongoing, and you know guys this is happening, is to deploy software in an event like ours. It's about six months to 10 months journey. It's very complicated with security check and whatever. And now, okay, you have to prepare a little bit. But we know we can bring down it to a couple of days. Even hours. And the reality for small application, it's done in minutes. I mean the Argo CIGI when you see the stuff running, it's like okay, it's done. The other thing is it's Kubernetes is really robust. This is our feedback. When it's run, it runs. Okay, it's slow to start. But when it runs, it runs. It's really appreciable when you do that. Okay, let's kiloport. There's no problem if we start. You know it's magical when other people doesn't believe us. And more of all, what we've done in parallel of building the platform, we are transforming some applications. And we are training the people. Because if you don't do the same, I mean everything at the same time you can wait another, it's going to take you some edges. So we train people not to Kubernetes, not to agility. We train them to DevOps. So we took one of what we found was really interesting, training on safe, which is the DevOps, which is not technical. And we put on those sessions, we mix the people between the business people, the tech people. For them to envisage what could be the new experience working with us. In fact, working with the platform. Okay, I'm fine. And then what also, so we were very surprised because at the beginning we thought like, okay, it's going to take some time. Well, nobody's going to follow us and so on and so on. No, no, no, no. It's not happening this way. You get really, really, really fast. People say, I cannot solve this problem anymore. Can you help us? It's really happening. And that's an issue because we were not planning going so fast.  And what we found, we're going to see that on the inside is you need to have a learning path. Really, you need to make sure the people are getting on board at the right speed, but not too fast. Because this is really new paradigm. They don't even imagine that it is possible. I can remember some discussion with people from security. The guy says, what? You can scale everything in your enrolment registry and make a report about what's going on. Yes, we can. So it's simple thing like that. We change their mind. They said, wow, okay. Can you do it regularly? Yes, of course we can. Can we have it before? Yes. Okay, because we know what we have on the premise. The other thing is, this is a new discovery. Every vendor doesn't... Most of the vendor we've worked with doesn't run natively on OpenShift without effort. Just a simple thing about Woodless. Most of the developers just pick something or get whatever and just make it run. Okay, it's running, but it comes to OpenShift. Things are different, which is a good thing. But however, you need to prepare the people and you need to talk to them before. Okay, you can do it fast, but you have to think about those stuff. And then the rest is organic architects. You have to transform your architect people just to make sure that they split the model. And also the main thing is not fully about going to microservices. It's more the organization coupling, which is a nightmare. So if you don't think about your coupling, the organization coupling, I mean, nothing will go at the speed you want. And then that's the main thing I wanted to share with you. So if we're on time, three minutes, we can maybe take a couple of questions. So maybe you can upload the team if you want. Just maybe they can hear or know. They are listening. Guys, this is for you. A couple of questions, maybe. Ladies first. Are all your open stack CPUs moving to OpenShift or is that a separate cluster? It's a separate thing. In fact, we have an OpenStack and an OpenShift. We mix both on OpenShift, on Yes, or OpenShift of BarMetal. We mix. That depends of the application. Hello, my name is Lavent Axel and I'm from Turkey. My question is about your data, your sensitive data. Is there any regulation in your country in order to give you permission to put your sensitive data to the hyperscader or public cloud? Because the main problem is in our country, in the police department or minister of interior, they want to make this... Okay, but they're ready to put their application to the cloud, but they're not ready to put their data to the cloud. So data and the application should be separate within their perspective. And it's also something related about the regulations. So is there any specific security concern that you consider about this transformation? Yeah, good question. Thank you very much. Yes, we do. Let's look at that. On this cloud, I just put the slide you see here, two classifications. In fact, what we call standard or non-protected can go whatever they want as soon as they know how to secure the data, meaning having backups, make sure the data is, I'm sure to say, integrated. Someone can help me? Okay. But for something which is what we call sensible data or sensible use case, it's only on-prem. It's only on-prem and we have separate zones. We don't owe to confidential zones. We don't need them. But what we call restricted, that's main police data and stuff like that. We run the election on those kind of things, so we don't want to put that on the cloud. Is it on show? Maybe one question. We had a light, some suns light a few minutes ago. Thank you so much for that. Thank you.


From Orlando, Florida, it's theCUBE. Covering Cisco Live 2018. Brought to you by Cisco, NetApp, and theCUBE's ecosystem partners. Hello everyone, welcome back. This is theCUBE live in Orlando for Cisco Live 2018. Exclusive coverage, I'm John Furrier, co-host of theCUBE. It's two minimum all week for three days and we have Dave Vellante flying in as well co-host for a kickoff of day two of our three days of coverage. Great Dave, great to see you Stu. Good morning. So I think the big news, obviously day one in the books, Cisco Live pumping on all cylinders. The parties, we saw a great concert last night at the Cohesity party celebrating their 250 million in funding, but the real big news here is Cisco's moving up the stack and the business performance. Dave, you had a chance to scour the landscape last night and yesterday, what did you find out? What's going on with Cisco's business? Well, the business-wise, I mean, this company is actually doing quite well. It's a large company, $50 billion. They're growing at 4%. You don't usually see growth. We've seen how many quarters in a row as IBM revenues declined. Cisco's reversed that trend and is growing. The other thing about Cisco is it brought about $60 billion from overseas on the tax holiday, which is just amazing. The company's trying to shift its model more toward a cloud-like model. Stu, you've made the point many times. Cisco, like Dell, doesn't have a cloud. So they've got to create a cloud-like model. They've got to go multi-cloud. They've got to be an arms dealer for the cloud. So it's a company that's $50 billion, a $200 billion plus market value, which is down from where they were in the Halcyon days. But still, it's a 4x revenue multiple, and they throw off over $10 billion in free cash flow a year. So this company's very, very strong. And John, we were talking last night about the angle in security and basically a programmable network infrastructure. To me, the big trend is it's all about the data. As the data explodes, the network gets a lot of pressure on it. You know, Stu, I want to get your thoughts on this because we talked in security last night. You talk about companies that have to pivot. Cisco's not pivoting in any capacity. They're dealing with networks that are running the internet, right? So Chuck Robbins just said, look it, we have done a lot of great things, but they're dealing with so much security threats. It's encrypted traffic. They are dealing with a ton of activity. So the relevance of Cisco is on an all-time high. The opportunity is to take that relevance and build on top of it. And so we're looking for some signals, Stu. What do you, when you squint through the noise and look at Cisco's relevance, obviously you see they run networks. You're moving up the stack with Kubernetes and containers and DevNet's been a great indicator of the rise of the new normal. But they got to actually put it together. They got a community. Where's the change happening, Stu, in your opinion? Yeah, so John, first of all, I look at, we've been tracking Cisco's moves in open source for many years. Dave Wright, Lou Tucker, folks we've had on theCUBE. They're very involved in OpenStack. They're deeply involved, Kubernetes, Istio, that Diane Greene on stage. So there was that seed of growth and change, but it didn't really push far enough. Where the critique I've had for Cisco and many of the other big legacy companies is they haven't really embraced cloud as fast as they could. It's good to see where Cisco is and where they're trying to bring their ecosystem. The exciting stuff has been right here in the DevNet zone. How many events do we go to in companies we talk to? Oh, we need to be relevant to all these developers out there. Well, Susie and her team here, they've got a platform, they've got 500,000 developers on it. John, you and I interviewed one of the little startups, NetNology. Buddy of mine actually, Jason Edelman, worked for this other company called Network to Code. They've got this whole little incubator section here in the DevNet zone. These are hardcore networking people helping to bridge that gap between the network and the developer world. It's open APIs, it's all the things we've been talking about and that really does set the stage for Cisco to help not only itself, but it's very large channel and partner ecosystem move further into this new cloud-native world. I want to get your thoughts real quick. I know we've got to get in day two, but if you look at Cisco, they've done a lot of things early. The human network, they've had telepresence. So they've hit megatrends, but they've misfired on timing. The timing- IoT is another example. IoT, they misfire on timing. Again, they have the network to fall back on, which is a core asset and core competency. But if you look at the timing of what they're doing right now, as Pat Gelsinger would say, you get on the right wave. And what DevNet, to me, proves to your point is that Cisco's on the cloud-native wave and they have a clear visibility for their network engineers not to feel like they're not relevant and they have to retrain to learn how to code. What's important, and we talked about it yesterday, is that the network engineers are instrumental, powering, and they're the tier one people. Now with cloud-native, there's a path where they can extend their career, not pivot or reset. It's just becoming more powerful. So if you can be a network engineer and then code with cloud-native, you got the best of both worlds. The power base extends. It's not like, I need to be retrained, my job's going away. No, no, your job is expanding. This is what DevNet has tapped into. Would DevNet create your reaction? Well, when cloud exploded, everybody wanted infrastructure as code and to your point, Stu, I mean, you remember when IBM launched Bluemix, like, we need developers, Dell, HPE, Lenovo. These companies don't have a strong developer community. I mean, even Oracle kind of lost its way with developers. Here comes Cisco, allowing Cisco engineers to do infrastructure as code. It's a huge leverage. I mean, it's an amazing turn. Yeah, Oracle should take a playbook out of what Cisco's doing. Stu, your thoughts? Yeah, absolutely. It's, you know, there's a lot of training. And one of the strengths, actually, if you look at this community, it's about training. We talked about it in our open yesterday, John. When you walk in, there's this giant bookstore. People are excited. It's their career. And they've been here for the last five years up.   They're jumping in and, you know, most of them, at least, are understanding that they need to adjust what they're doing, learn, move forward, and embrace some of these options out here. Well, and it's not just, you know, as we were talking earlier, it's not just learning Python as a generalist. It's applying it specifically to Cisco infrastructure and actually getting stuff done, moving from command line interfaces to, you know, a much more facile development environment, driving value through developer productivity and increasing value up the stack. Yeah, and then as Diane Greene said yesterday in the keynote from Google Next, from Google Cloud, is mind-blowing experiences. I think Cisco's in a great position. They got a lot of core things going on, position of strength. You know, can they execute? Can they secure that network security? Can they have that extensibility in the programmability of the network? I think it's core. I think DevNet's an indicator. And everything else will fall into place, in my opinion. So, you know, day two, Dave, thanks for joining us. Today we're going to have Dave on the day in theCUBE.  Day two begins. This is theCUBE. Thanks for watching. We'll be right back with more for this short break.