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I checked back in at 1130 see what the situation is and Then kind of go from there or have us on on it in a different window Red Nick Bosa Niners to 299 color match a Andrew Booth not numbered That's Vikings Got Garrett Wilson 17 out of 100 for the Jets nice hit there Jets Congrats on that That's nasty for the ages is Marcus Allen look Pierce Not numbered chrome auto cults There you go one of Ritters target back in college targets back in college It's orange Drake London. That is 169 out of 199 Falcons got yellow That is 24 out of 150 at Breiner locker got Johan Dotson Commanders under the lights chrome not numbered Mini or under the lights Cooper cop to 50 brands Marcus Allen a freaking how they score Stupid red socks base is clearing double for Glaber on the top of ten. I'll do it non to box for mini is Micah Parsons not numbered Tom Brady on the back there Got Jermaine Johnson the second chrome auto. There you go Jets. Congrats on that one New York George kill orange Mac Jones to 199 that is under the lights Aiden Hutchinson Silver not numbered who to go on ten box Tuesday We've got Trent McDuffie That is bronze auto to 100 for the chiefs.  Sit this bum down go you are Nicoby Dean under the lights. I would be so you are done the scrub right here The most Yankee thing to happen right to give up to go up by three and then lose go you are in extras Every so Yankees right there orange Tiki barber. That is 120 out of 125 Come on One time here one time one day right here.  That is 92 out of 125 There you go Jags Chrome trailing Birks Chrome Isaiah likely Ravens Come on Wandy. Come on strike them out right here. Boom swing and a miss go yard Green to a hundred Brett Farf Do it for box four on the box five It is not in character for the Jags to start one. I know it's not in character for the Jags to have a winning record at any point in time That's not on brand. Yeah piece of that and barely George Pickens Chrome Steelers Orange Kyle Hamilton Ravens to 199 Blue Lawrence Taylor that is 27 out of 50 that's going way too long here Come on Yanks. Come on. Oh my god auto Jalen Tolbert. There you go cowboys Not numbered on the Jalen Tolbert Who to go on ten bucks today? Let's go sit down Yanks win Tyquan Thornton Patriots Under the lights Aaron Rogers. Oh, yeah, Mike, let's go, baby back to the yeah Blue Eli Manning nine out of 25 Giants Mini is Jonathan Taylor not numbered Colts Six and a half leading the division beautiful red Micah Parsons We just got a beat up on the bottom dwellers like the Red Sox of the AL East So to get our record set right here Jeremy Rocker for the Jets Chrome auto not numbered Sitting right here Hines Ward Mini is Elijah Moore bronze 60 out of 75 Nice one there Yeah, Jets are hitting big and this is true treasures Under the lights Cooper cup not numbered. There you go. Wams And on to box number six Sixth and final you mini came flying out mini is Carson strong that is 64 out of 125 Two to go break soon Sean is gonna tweet that out Green Trevor Lawrence 11 out of 100. There you go Jags second-year T law. I can see that being possible Vaughan Can't these do not blow Sean they do not blow Yankees are nice Sean. I will so back so back Trayvon Walker 45 out of 100 Jags There you go Jacksonville number one overall pick. I will tweet that with pleasure Yeah, make sure you tweet it from the bottom of the division Red Aiden Hutchinson 20 out of 299 Tyler Bainy got that right An Orioles fan Sean Danny Gray Hollow nine Earth. There you go. I'm with you Sean My power orange Kirk Cousins to 199. I remember when the Orioles were good Season for like three games and then that ended Sold at the deadline It's it. Oh, we're the Orioles. We don't win Reese Hall many not number Jets. Yeah, Jets hitting really well in this case Couple to go here Like you got another auto in here and it's gonna be Jerome Ford again chrome auto for the Browns There you go Cleveland Vaughan, I'm with you all the way how you root for the Yankees to lose I'm with you all the way Promise you that one brother. It's gonna be hard to carry you guys rooting for the Yankees to lose like 17 games away though Terrick Stingley Jr. And last pack of the break. Good luck here everyone And we've got Zabean Howard to 150 on the yellow It's football season now Gonna do a quick recap here guys or no, let me do the points random first. We had 250 points give me one second to get all of the names or the teams into a randomizer and we'll go ahead and Something going on in here. Did you guys know those foam Mac Rollers? Yeah Sarah left one at the house. I decided to try it's just like yay big, right? All right guys gonna do the random for the points right here really quick I'm gonna roll the dice see how many times we're gonna random Team on top will get it five times one two three four and five going to the Cardinals Points going to the Cardinals going to the Cardinals Congrats on that one Cardinals All right guys do a quick recap here. We had Jerome Ford number rounds Danny Gray Niners, okay, not number Jeremy Rucker Jets not numbered Jalen Tolbert for the Cowboys not numbered got a bronze Trent McDuffie to a hundred chiefs Jermaine Johnson not numbered Jets Alec Pierce not numbered Colts Garrett Wilson patch auto to a hundred Jets Bailey Zappy orange to 149 Patriots had Kishan Johnson to 50 Jets and Jerome Ford again to end it for the Browns That'll do it right there for the break. Thanks again everyone for the film next up. We got selects. What's up guys? You miss me. 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And welcome to Business in Hawaii with Reg Baker. We broadcast live every Thursday from 2 to 2.30 in the downtown studios of Think Tech Hawaii located in the Pioneer Plaza. We focus on successful stories for a business in Hawaii. We've heard of all the challenges. There was a lot of news in the last few years about how difficult it is to do business in Hawaii. There are some individuals and businesses that have made a go of it. And today we've got two of them on the show today. We're going to talk with Lorraine Mina Toyishi. I got, you know, I had to practice that a little bit. She's got her own firm. She's a PhD and she specializes in historical preservation of buildings and I'm sure she can do a better job at explaining what that means here shortly. But then she brought a guest with her that I'm sure all of you are going to recognize. Lorraine, would you like to introduce your guest? Yes. This is Paul Kosasa, CEO of ABC Stores. Very good.  So congratulations on your success. Thank you. It's great to have you both on the show. Now, can you explain how now you've been on the show before and you've talked a little bit about preservation and some of the work that you've been doing, which is very important in Hawaii. How did you and Paul get together and decide to work together? Well, I got a call from Paul because he has a couple of historic buildings that he wanted me to work on with him. So we're working on two buildings right now, one in Waikiki, which is a residential apartment complex and a historic store on Kaua'i called Sueoka Store. Very good. So you've been working with Paul, you've, Kaua'i is always an attraction to me. It's always, it's my favorite island. I love going there. Can you describe a little bit about what's going on on Kaua'i? Sure. Several years ago, the people that are familiar with the Sueoka Store, it's located in Kaloa Town. The generation that's running the store right now decided to move into retirement and I happened to have a common friend, a broker, if you will, that connected me with the Sueoka family. After a lot of plate lunches and discussions, we came to an agreement that we would preserve the Sueoka market and for me personally, I think that's a great idea that not only you preserve the market, but you try to preserve the character of the town. And so I asked Lorraine, who's the expert in preservation, to help us with that. Very good. And you are one of the few people in Hawaii that actually specialize in this area, right? Yes. That's true. So that's a pretty nice little niche for you. Yes, I like it a lot. We've been doing it for a long time and we really love to hear the stories. We went with Paul to visit the Sueokas and interview them and talk about the history and kind of their participation in Kaloa Town. And that was a really great story. And we actually are putting the store on the historic register right now. Wow. And is that an involved process? Yes, it is. We have to talk about the history and significance of the store as well as the architectural characteristics. And as we move forward with any kind of renovation, we want to make sure that we're retaining the character-defining features of the art. Which is one of the keys that you want to do for Kaloa Town. Correct. You know, for me, Kauai is still fairly pristine, unlike Honolulu, which is fairly urban and built up. And I think because Kauai, you want to try to maintain a certain branding of Kauai, because that's what visitors look for too. They want to go to a place that is charming and has a lot of character. And you can do certain kinds of renovations and developments that are in alignment with the character of the area. So my challenge is to be able to create or recreate the Sawia market so that visitors and locals alike would shop there. That's very good. That's a big attraction. And that's basically why people come to Hawaii, is that they want to see that and feel that and experience that. That's great. You know, we need to make sure that we always have that, I think, throughout Hawaii.  It's kind of grown up a little bit. It's changed over the years. So and that's something that you helped the entire state with, right? Yes. Yeah. Try and do that. I really like the Sueoka store. It was built in 1923. And the Sueokas have been there since 1933, so they have been there for a long, long time. Now, Paul, you also have a lot of other stores around Hawaii that, you know, I don't know if you're involved with any of the work out there, but you've got some stores that you try to fit into the environment and the culture that they're located, right? I mean, that's important for ABC stores. Well, in Kapa'a, in Kauai, again, we developed the coconut marketplace. And we opened a store in December just recently. And we tried to maintain that character and the flavor of the community. I think it's a good thing. I think it promotes a certain walkability, if you will, even though we have a parking lot. But my goal is to see how we can have people drive less and walk to the corner store, because that's how we got started. My grandparents started in Kaimaki. And in those days, you know, it was horse and buggy, but everybody walked to the store. And then you had a lot of other businesses open up small storefronts. And, you know, that kind of flavor would be nice to have, especially in Kauai, which is sort of untouched yet. Yeah. That's why it's, again, one of the fair places that I like to go to. And it's becoming popular. I think more and more people are beginning to connect with Kauai. And I know that the visitor counts are starting to increase. That's all good, I guess. Preserving the historical nature of the buildings is a very lofty goal. And I guess a very good, positive one. How easy is it? I mean, some of these buildings are old. We've got compliance issues. I mean, how do you go through the process of taking a look at an old building, getting them designated as historical, and then doing the upgrades and the work on it to make sure that everything's in compliance with current rules and regulations, but you don't lose the nature of the building itself? I mean, that's got to be a challenge. Well, a lot of these buildings are older, but they've been upgraded through the years. If you take a 1923 building, it has gone through changes and even some structural modifications. So it's not like we're taking really a 1923 building and bringing it up to 2006 code. In many cases, we're really just upgrading it from a 1986 renovation to 2006. You know what I mean? A lot of times, our modifications, if they're under 50% of the value of the building, we don't always have to comply with every single code. We do always want to make sure that we are compliant with ADA codes because we want it to be universally accessible, but there's some leeway there. There's a lot of ways to hide structural upgrades, too. And that was kind of where I was going with this, is because you've got the appearance of the historical building that you want to preserve. And I guess, I remember watching a documentary on how they're renovating the White House, and they almost seem to have a building within a building, and they're rebuilding from the inside so you can't really see what's going on from the outside. And that sounds pretty complicated, but what I'm hearing is maybe you don't have to do that every time. Not every time. We're not the White House, right? So sometimes there's a certain amount of funding available, and we want to try and work within that. When it is a large project, like I said, and you said, you can hide structural, mechanical, and electrical upgrades pretty easily within the double-wall system. And that's what you specialize in. Right. Very good. Have you begun the process out in Kapa'a yet in renovating, or no, Koloa town? No, not yet. We're waiting for it to get on the National Historic Registry first. And then we'll come up with some plans. I haven't come up with any plans yet, but we're just kind of thinking about it. Very good. Is that a long process to get on the historical preservation list? It's about a year, I'd say. It's a process. It is a process. I think you have to pass the state first, right? The state board has to approve it. And then that makes you eligible to apply for the National, right? That's right. That's right. Do you have benefits to go through this?  What does that mean? Well, there's tax benefits. My purpose is not for the tax benefit, you know, for when you upgrade. My thing is that if it's on the... I want to try to be, not say the pioneer, but once you get the first building on the National Historic Registry, I'm hopeful that the other landowners around us would also think about it and try to think about how they can keep Kalua Town as Kalua Town. Nice... It's a nice, quaint place. Very good. One of the, I guess, challenges, is it from your experience, easy for the banks to finance some of this when you're going through this renovation? I mean, it's historical building. It's an older building, but it's got value, and then after the renovations, it's going to work be worth a lot more. So I guess the banks shouldn't necessarily have a problem with this from your experience. I can't speak for the banks. I think for us, we're fortunate that we're a credit-worthy company, so that wouldn't be an issue, I think. But for maybe small business owners, mom and pops, that's a challenge. That would be a challenge if they desire that, if they can get a loan based on what their net income is, it might be a little tough. That's when the historic tax credits become pretty valuable because it's a 20% tax credit. So if you're construction... They change the amount of renovation? Yes, the construction cost. And 20% is really what the banks want, is even a down payment for construction loans, so it balances it out. It really helps affordability. That's good. I think it's important for people to know these kind of things, because they may be in a building that they want to do something with, but they're not quite sure what it is that they can do, and having these tax credits and having people like yourself that's experienced through the process could be a big help. Because of the complexity of this, that's why a lot of mom and pops, when a larger developer comes in and offers them good value for their parcel, they don't want to go through the hassles, they don't want to go through the process, and so that's when it becomes a challenge. That's what happened in Honolulu, in a way. So it really changes the complexion of the city. Sometimes not always for the good. Sometimes, and sometimes it's very good, but you know, it's... Well we're going to have to take a short break. And when we come back, maybe we can talk a little bit more about the nature of your business and what you do in more detail on some, maybe some of the projects you've got, and maybe same thing for you, Paul. I can talk a little bit about ABC and it's certainly evolved quite a bit over the last 50, 60 years. But this is Business in Hawaii with Reg Baker. We're going to take a short 60-second break and we'll be right back. I'm Pete McGinnis-Mark, and every Monday at one o'clock, I'm the host of ThinkTech Hawaii's research in Munna. And at that program, we bring to you a whole range of new scientific results from the university, ranging from everything from exploring the solar system to looking at the Earth from space, going underwater, talking about earthquakes and volcanoes, and other things which have a direct relevance, not only to Hawaii, but also to our economy. So please try and join me one o'clock on a Monday afternoon for ThinkTech Hawaii's research in Munna. And see you then. Hi, my name is Bill Shaw, our host of Asian Review, coming to you from Honolulu, Hawaii, right here in the center of the Pacific Ocean. Asian Review is the oldest of the 35 or so shows broadcast by ThinkTech Hawaii. We've been in production since 2009. Our goal is to provide you, the viewer, with information, breaking information about events in Asia, Asia being anything from Hawaii west to Pakistan, from the Russian Far East south to Australia and New Zealand. We hope to see you every Monday afternoon at 5 p.m. Welcome back. This is Business in Hawaii with Reg Baker. We're here today talking with Lorena Paul, and we're talking a little bit about the preservation of Hawaii and some of the historical buildings. In during break, we just started touching base on a concept that was new to me about establishing actually a community or a downtown area that could get a district classification, and I found that fascinating. We've got some towns here in Hawaii that's got a community designation for historical location. That's right. There's Chinatown, which is a historic district, and Wailuku also is a historic district, and we were saying that in Koloa in the 1980s, they inventoried the town to be a historic district as well, and that helps preserve the characteristics of the town. It provides what we're talking about, tax incentives for redevelopment, and other federal grants for roads, sidewalks, lighting, et cetera. We don't know why it was never designated a historic district, but it would be great if it were. It would sound like it would be a very positive thing for that community to get some of this federal funding to come in and do some of these things. I'm assuming it doesn't play around too much with the ambience of the community. Oh, no, I think it really enhances the community in many cases. Very good. Well, now your firm has, tell us a little bit about your firm. You've been doing this for a while? Yes, we're established in 2003, so we've been doing this for 15 years. Congratulations. Thank you. And you've got a pipeline of business. I mean, is this a good place to be doing this? Yes, Hawaii has one of the strictest preservation laws, and we have our own state ordinance, 6E, which also is a layer on top of the federal laws of Section 106. Also, there are many tax incentives that are unique actually to Hawaii. So we are very culturally oriented, and our tax laws and our property laws are geared towards really keeping the cultural characteristics of Hawaii. Right, and so now we talked about the communities. I mean, is there an opportunity there for you to get involved in that too, or is that a different animal? The communities have to be responsive to it. They want, they have to want it. And people sometimes are hesitant to be part of historic districts because they think it limits what they can do as far as development. I guess there might be some truth to that, but it also preserves the nature of the community too, so that could be an offset, a positive offset. Yes. Very good. And so now you work mostly with small projects or big projects, or you kind of, it's scalable, and you can do both. Yes, we do all kinds of projects because it's historic in nature. So anything over 50 years old can be considered eligible for the historic register, and that's when we get into the projects. Very good. Now, Paul, you've got a lot of stores all around Hawaii, and I know you go outside of Hawaii, but just talking about Hawaii for a minute. You've got a pretty big presence here. And I guess would some of these other stores fit into this type of model for preservation? Probably not our Waikiki stores. Maybe the Lahaina stores would fall into that. But in Waikiki, because Waikiki is already a designated special design district, there are ordinances that regulate the codes, have our stricter in Waikiki, the signage, setbacks, parking requirements, all those kinds of things. Because the origin of that was back in the 70s, Waikiki was just growing too fast. So the community got together and the businesses, and they went to City Council, and City Council created the special design district. So that's another way of kind of controlling the development so that it lines up to the Hawaiian sense of place, the culture, the environment, all those kinds of things. Well, in the brand. I mean, Hawaii has got a brand out there that we need to preserve too, because that's part of what attracts people to come. Right. And so what we've been doing in Waikiki is we've dabbled in opening a restaurant. So we have a restaurant now with chefs and servers, and we have a burger bar, we have a poke bar, we have pizzas, and we have a bakery in Gelato, and all kinds of fun things for our visitors and locals. It's been a challenge, but it's a new direction for us. And where is this place located? This is in the Hyatt Centric Hotel, which was formerly the Waikiki trade center on Cujio and Seaside. Cujio and Seaside, all right. That's Duke's Lane. I don't know if you know Duke's Lane, which is between Kalakau and Cujio Avenue. And Duke's Lane was kind of just a delivery road. So we've kind of dressed it up and made an outside dining area. Very nice, very nice. And they're going to have some events here soon too, right? Yes, I think the Hawaii Lodging and Tourism is going to have a function over there too. That'd be nice to go over there and check it out. Are you going to be ready for it? Oh yeah, we'll be ready for it. Very good. But this is new for you. You haven't gotten into the restaurant business in the past, right? No, we haven't. But everybody likes to eat, including myself, and drink. It's one of those necessities, I guess. And so when you buy a t-shirt, a t-shirt lasts quite a long time, right? So we have a lot of repeat visitors now. So they want something new, they want something different. And food is a great way to show off our cuisine and our diversity. Very good. Well congratulations on that, and good luck. It's not an easy business to get into. I know, thank you. Very good. Any future plans for ABC? I mean, things seem to be going very, very well. It's any other, you know, you're opening up the restaurant. Anything else happening you want to share? Now we'll be opening more, I would say, the called Island Country Markets, where they have a full-service delicatessen. And on Kauai, we are still kind of in the infant stage of trying to redevelop another property similar to the soya oka property. But I haven't figured out what it would be yet. It's nice to be able to get those creative juices flowing and see what is going to be fun to do. Yeah, thank you. Very good. And you've got a lot of projects in the pipeline as well. And you said you're staying busy, but anything interesting you want to share? Oh, right. I know. You asked me that question. And I'm like, OK, now what are we working on right now?  We're working with the state, with the National Park Service on projects. We have a lot of individual private owners. And like some of the parks that you're doing, are you allowed to talk about that at all? I mean, is there some interesting parks that's going to be opening up, or trails or anything? Well, we're working with the Hono Uli Uli Park, so the Japanese internment camp, and just general maintenance of other parks. Very good. So you're definitely staying busy, then. Anything at the federal level? Is it all state, or are you doing federal work, too? No, federal, yes. So we're an AA company. So we partner with other architecture firms and provide support for historic, as a historic architect, on their projects. And we do have a lot of military facilities that are certainly historic. Yes. Over 2,000 historic buildings in our military facilities. So there's a lot of work. So that's a big pipeline. If you can tap into that, that's going to be good. It is good, yes. So we're going to be wrapping up here pretty soon. Any final words? I know this is going to catch you by surprise, but hiring is always a challenge for both, I guess, finding good talent, good people to come in and work. We have that challenge here in Hawaii, particularly with our unemployment as low as it is. Are you guys looking for good people? Is that something that you're always doing, or what's the status on looking for good people? I'm looking for an architect with 10 to 15 years experience in Hawaii. I've been having a hard time with that. So if anybody's watching. In Hawaii, though. Please. You don't want a remote worker? Yes, and I would like that person to have experience working in Hawaii as well. Yes, yes. All right, well, I'll blast that out to the social media. We'll see what we can get on that. Good luck. Paul, how about you? Oh, yeah. So yeah, it's been really tight with 2% unemployment. It's virtually full employment. But what our focus has been is to retain our people. So the cost of training and orienting them to our culture and our business is very expensive. And so, and we lose people, because we're a service industry, and it's not uncommon to lose people. But to an extent that we can keep them. And that's our focus right now. So yeah, so I'm trying to hire more at the same time as trying to keep the people out of it. And if there was people out there listening, maybe some college students or people about ready to graduate, could they go online somewhere? Oh, yeah, certainly. And abcstories.com, we have an HR link over there. Very good. You can apply online. All right. Well, they can go to my website, too. All right, and that is? MAHawai.com. Oh, that's easy. All right, MAHawai.com. All right, abc.com. Yeah, so if you're looking for a job, right, I mean. All right, well, I'll check that out this afternoon. Very good. Well, thank you both for taking the time for coming in today. Really appreciate that. And good luck with what you got going on on Kauai. Thank you. And especially with the restaurant. Hopefully that's going to just work out really good for you. And we'll have you back again, and we'll talk some more. Great. Thank you very much. My pleasure. This is Business in Hawaii with Reg Baker. We broadcast live every Thursday from 2 to 2.30, and we focus on successful stories in Hawaii and their owners. So hopefully we'll see you next week. Until then, aloha.


My name's David Wiley. And for some odd reason, I have the opportunity to welcome you to the meeting today. Just a few words very quickly to contextualize myself. I'm a Shelterworth fellow with the Shelterworth Foundation out of Cape Town, which some of you are familiar with. Currently on leave from Brigham Young University, where I'm a faculty member in the instructional psychology and technology department, leading an organization called Lumen, which helps colleges and universities adopt open educational resources. But the reason I'm standing here right now, I think, is because I'm also the senior fellow for strategy at the Sailor Foundation. And so it's my pleasure to welcome you to the conference and say a few words to set some context before introducing Michael, who will be here shortly. I hope I don't have to argue at this point with you. We've lived in pretty amazing times. I think that's true for a number of reasons. But the reason I think that's most relevant to our meeting this morning is that I think if we as a group put our collective minds to it, there's literally nothing that we can't do. Anybody want to argue that point? It's really just a matter of creativity and passion and commitment and political will now. There aren't technological barriers in our way for, say, there aren't many barriers that have been in our way in the past. So I think the state that we find ourselves in, where it's possible for us to do essentially anything, really creates a moral imperative for us to think about, if we can do anything, then what are the things that we should do? And I italicize this word should because it really is a pretty strong word. If we can do anything, then what is it that we ought to be doing? How should we be spending our time? If you've been to the Saylor Foundation's website recently, you've seen this kind of motto at the top of their page, harnessing technology to make education free. I think that's absolutely one of the things that we ought to be doing, that we should be doing. And that's what this meeting today is about. Now, I don't have a monitor in front of me, so forgive me as I turn occasionally to reference these slides behind me. I assume I don't have to spend a lot of time on this particular story either. Everybody knows what's happening with the cost, particularly of post-secondary education, up about 500% in the last 30 years compared to about 150% growth in median family income. And we all saw this happen last year as well. Student loan debt crossing the trillion dollar mark for the first time, surpassing both outstanding credit card debt and outstanding mortgage debt, at least in the United States. And everybody knows the important thing that's different between student loan debt and credit card or mortgage debt, right? What is it? It never goes away. You can't get rid of it. Bankruptcy won't get rid of it. There's literally no way to get rid of it. So it really is, I have 10 minutes, so I'm not doing it the justice it deserves, but it's really a significant problem that we're looking at. And education is more important to each of us than it ever has been before, not just to us individually, but to us as a society and to a planet as well. The kinds of problems that we're dealing with now, these naughty, thick, difficult problems don't have easy solutions, and they need people who are well educated to solve and to work on them. So this meeting is important for a handful of reasons, but the one that I want to focus on really has to do with getting people of a particular sort in all into the same room at one time. Academics are not famous for being particularly business savvy, can we all agree on that? Okay. Can we also all agree that business people are not particularly famous for having a deep understanding of education and the way that learning works? If you've ever seen somebody from a startup walk into a classroom and tell a teacher of 15 years that she's doing it wrong and let me show you how then you have a sense for this as well. So without both groups bringing a particular kind of expertise and both groups really need each other to make progress in the kinds of problems that we're facing and that's why it's important to have us all in the same room at one time. I think it is very much like, you remember those old commercials where the guys roller skating down the street, eating his chocolate bar? There's a girl with a jar of peanut butter inexplicably eating it with a spoon, walking down the sidewalk and then he trips and his chocolate lands in her peanut butter. Great commercials, they're available on YouTube if you go look for them, hard enough. I really think this is what we're trying to do over the next two days is to put the chocolate in the peanut butter and if you want education to be the chocolate and business to be the peanut butter, the other way around you can choose however you want that to work but that's what we're trying to accomplish here. There are a number of key innovations that are enabling the things that we're trying to do. Some of them are really obvious, some of them are less obvious, obviously internet, broadband and mobile on the technology side are enabling what we're doing. Innovations and licensing, particularly with the Creative Commons licenses around making it easier and more legal for us to share with each other in a way that can make education free in the way that we're thinking and hoping and also innovations in financing like this resurgence of the idea of royalty capital that can provide investment funds to companies that really want to be mission driven like education startups primarily want to be without getting in the way of dragging them off course with this push, push, push for an exit that you get with traditional capital. There's a lot of things coming together that I think are very interesting that enable the types of work that we want to do. My own particular work, I just want to say three minutes about it and go very quickly just to give some context for the kinds of things that are possible, not to say that my work is the best work and that you should all follow it but just to lay out some examples and I'm looking forward over the next two days to hearing examples of the work that you're all doing in this same area. So open educational resources by show of hand if you're familiar with the term. Okay, just about everybody, awesome. So there, if you're familiar with the four Rs, right? So open educational resources are materials you have free access to that come with licensed permissions to engage in the four R activities to reuse, revise, remix and redistribute them. So one of the things that I think particularly is interesting about the cost problem is that tuition and fees are highly political but textbook costs have been growing terrifically, that second line down there as well and textbook costs are actually a fairly straightforward problem to attack. So three specific examples from my own work. First, the Kaleidoscope Open Course Initiative which started a year ago and has gone into eight community colleges or open access four year schools. We've touched about 10,000 students so far but interestingly we've taken open educational resources work together with faculty to pull those together into textbook replacements and then made the required cost of textbooks on the syllabus $0 for each of these courses and these are things like intro psych, intro to biology, developmental math, driven the cost of textbooks to zero for these courses and seen on average across the 10 courses that we worked in last year better than a 10% increase in the percentage of students who were completing the course with a C or better. Saving money, improving outcomes. Another project I'm really excited about one we're launching this fall with Tidewater Community College not too far down the coast from where we are is an initiative to take an entire associate's degree and move it off of textbooks and onto OER. This is a two year degree program in business administration. It's about $3,000 a year in tuition. The cost of textbooks over the life of the program is $2,500, $3,000. So by literally taking all the textbook costs out of the degree program we knock 25 to 30% off the cost of the program. It launches in the fall so I don't have outcome data for you yet but it's gonna be very cool. And then the third one that I'll mention very quickly is our Utah Open Textbook Initiative which is a K-12 initiative where for the last four years starting in science we've been working with teachers to replace the typical textbooks that a school or a district would adopt and purchase with openly licensed textbooks. And you can see that these are free to use online. The print on demand service that we use this year, the middle school science textbooks were $3.99 a piece. The high school science textbooks were $4.99 a piece. Over 90% of the districts in the state of Utah are on either or open math or open science and we're moving into open language arts with the Common Core Transition this coming fall. And we've just released some data showing statistically significant gains in learning outcomes for students that use open textbooks compared to students that are using the publisher provided textbooks. And these growth, these changes in growth are on the state standardized test. So, three very quick ways that I'm attacking the problem. I know you're all attacking it interesting ways too, very excited to hear what you're working on and all these different ways that we're all kind of running up against Michael Saylor's vision of this idea that education should be free and should be available to everyone. And a final word, and I think this is where the chocolate really hits the peanut butter, is that these models can be financially self-sustainable. Everybody knows Red Hat, everybody knows that they work in a space around open source software but still manage to add a lot of value and be a very profitable business. So this is not an either or situation where we have to live on grant funding forever and ever. I think we can make this work very sustainable. We need more of these kinds of models, we need more experimentation. So it's my opportunity to introduce Michael Saylor to you now. Two things you probably did know about Michael are that of course that he's the founder and CEO of MicroStrategy, the very impressive looking building that we were all just standing in. And also that he has this double major from MIT. Something you probably didn't know was that he actually attended MIT on a ROTC scholarship. I didn't know that till I started putting these notes together, which I thought was very cool. And of course you all know that he's very committed and very passionate about this idea that education ought to be free. So with that brief introduction, please join me in welcoming Michael Saylor. Thank you.


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Hello! Within this part we will focus on software timers within freeRTOS using CMC's OS version 2. Software timer is one of the standard component of every real-time operating system. Within freeRTOS implementation software timers allows to execute a callback at a given time of the timer period. Timer callback function execute in a context of timer service task, which is created automatically once we enable software timers within our operating system configuration. It is therefore essential that the timer callback function never attempt to block. For example, a timer callback function must not call delay functions or specify non-zero block time when accessing the queue or semaphore to not be sent into the blocked state. What is important concerning software timers is that those are not precise, intended to handle periodic actions and delay generation can be conditionally used to extend number of hardware timers in STM32. Two types of software timers are available. Periodic, which executes its callback periodically without reload functionality. To stop this type of timer, it is need to call OS timer stop function. And the second type is OnePulse, which executes its callback only once with an option of manual retrigger. And this type of software timer will be stopped automatically after first callback call. To enable software timers, we need to enable config use timers within freeerties config.h file. When timers are enabled, the scheduler creates automatically the timer service task, calling x timer create timer task function. The timer service task is used to control and monitor internally all timers that are created by the user. The timers task parameters are set through the following defines configured within freeerties config.h file. The first one is config timer task priority. So this is the priority of the timers task. And the second one is config timer task stack depth, which is the timers task stack size in words. Important message here is to set proper value of the timer service task priority to be sure that it could be executed on regular intervals to control software timers. The scheduler also creates automatically a message queue, which is used to send comments to the timer task. Like timer start, timer stop, etc. The number of elements of this queue, so the number of the messages that can be hold there are configurable through the define config timer queue length. This is as well configurable through freeerties config.h file. Let's have a closer look at configuration parameters of the software timers. All of them are available within freeerties config.h file. Just to remind you, to enable the software timers it is necessary to set one at config use parameters within this configuration file. So the first parameter is a config timer task priority. This value needs to be chosen carefully to meet the requirements of the application. We have described it already a slide ago. Then the config timer queue length. So it is the size of the queue with the comments to the timer task. And it should be estimated on the knowledge about possible senders to this queue and priority of those versus timer service task priority. Just to be sure that this queue will be not overflowed by the commands sent by the other tasks. And the last one, so the timer task stack depth. This should be estimated on the timer callback function stack requirements. So again we can use the same technique like I have proposed already when we are discussing the tasks and the stack size of the task we should assign to. More information you can find on this link present on the slide which is coming from freeerties web page and it's about configuring a real-time operating system application to use software timers. Now we will focus on software timers implementation within CMC's OS version 2. Let's have a closer look at software timers parameters which are stored within the dedicated structure, so OS timer ATTR underscore T type during creation process. This structure is defined within CMC's underscore OS2.h file. So during the timer software creation using stm32cubemix or stm32cubide or manual coding we are specifying only the software timer name. The rest of the fields are filled after the software timers creation and those are attribute bits pointer to the timer control block memory area because it contains as well something like control block and then timer control block size. So those fields are filled automatically by the function during the timer creation. Now let's have a look at main CMC's OS version 2 API functions dedicated to software timers. First it is important to remember that we need to define config use timers within freeertiesconfig.h file to use software timers API functions. To create a software timer we need to call OS timer new function. It requires 4 arguments. The first one is a pointer to callback function. Then type of the timer it can be one-shot or periodic. The third one argument is argument to timer callback function like in case of task functions usually it is not defined or defined as null and the last argument it is a timer attributes specified within OS timer ATTR underscore T structure. Usually we are defining there only the name and in case we don't want to give any name to the timer we just specifying the null here. This function returns a handler to the newly created software timer or null in case there is was a problem, usually issues with memory allocation. To start that software timer we need to call a function OS timer start. It requires 2 arguments. The first one is a handler of the timer to be started and then the second one is a timer period given in ticks usually 1ms. It returns the OS status underscore T value so 0 means successful execution and any negative value means an error. You can refer to OS status underscore T description for more details. To stop the timer we need to call the function OS timer stop. It requires only one argument the software timer handler and it returns again OS status underscore T value so 0 means successful execution and any negative value means an error. So again in case you would like to go more in details into this returned value please refer to OS status underscore T description for more details. We have covered this topic within CMC's OS API description. Here we can compare different versions of API's concerning software timers. Please have a look that within CMC's OS API's there is no distinguish between interrupt and task code execution. It is done automatically within CMC's code. What is important is that we mustn't start, stop or delete timer from the interrupt. Thank you for watching this video.


Ladies and gentlemen, we often hear that young women and girls are losing interest in subjects like engineering and technology. In films and on TV, these fields are portrayed as an exciting and dull, leading to boring jobs that don't really make a positive impact on people's lives. As ITU Secretary General and a satellite engineer by training, I can assure you that the very opposite is true. Over the past 20 years, ICTs have evolved into a fascinating field, dynamic, fast changing, and most importantly, impacting almost every aspect of our lives. ICTs have become an essential part of a huge range of scientific disciplines, from biotech to medicine, forensics, chemistry and every kind of engineering, combining these and other disciplines with ICT studies will give today's and tomorrow's students the winning edge. The ICT industry is the fastest growing industry in the world today, and that's not just true in large economies like Europe, Japan or the United States, it's true in just every country worldwide. That means that girls with ICT skills will never be out of work. They will earn salaries that put them on a par with the highest paid professionals like lawyers, doctors or airline pilots. What's more, they will have much more flexibility in their work choices. ICT skills mean girls will be easily be able to work almost anywhere in the world and take up new opportunities in different countries whenever they wish. ICT professionals get to work on some of the most exciting projects imaginable on the cutting edge of all kinds of research. ICT is improving the lives of people everywhere through better healthcare, better environmental management, better communication and better educational systems that transform the way children and adults learn. It really is a glamorous life and the possibilities are limitless. We are truly at the very beginning of an information revolution that will transform the world. So my question to all of you on this year's Girls in ICT Day is simple. Don't you want to be part of that?


I think it's all coming together and I hope that it will be very successful. Everyone here has got a positive attitude, I think, and we really want to make sure that the next ITRs are useful, applicable and can be really of use to the world. Well, I think it's a great conference and I think after being away for 24 years from the last one, 1988, I think it's good gathering. I think a lot of change is really happening. I think that we are progressing too slowly. But I understand because we are dealing with very important issues that have a great impact on the telecommunications markets and even on people's lives. I think it's a very good opportunity for member states to come together and to rub minds on some of the issues which are very high, priority on the agenda of the conference. I think that we will have a new treaty, a revised ITRs, that will provide juridical security with the hosts within Compass. We are all hoping that we will find consensus on how to go forward. I think, as the Secretary General mentioned himself, that these should be high-level strategic principles that can be looked at over many years in the future and that will provide a framework for all the member states of the ITU to apply in the future. I think that what we are hoping for is consensus, agreements on the most relevant issues.  And for us as a private sector, it's an ideal forum to explain our proposals, to explain our position and to finally reflect on an instrument of this level. I've been through different sessions, the preliminary and others, and we see sometimes going through a difficult situation, trying to get some consensus. Personally, what I'm looking for, what I will expect, is a real appreciation of the need to have investment in broadband infrastructure, particularly in countries like mine. We need a lot of investment in broadband in order to meet all the growing demand for bandwidth. I suppose it depends on the perspective of the person looking in, but as you know, there's been an agreement to broadcast all the plenary sessions and to broadcast the main working group, or the main committee rather, not the working group. So I think that there's certainly been an effort to have more transparency and the ITU by its very nature is pretty transparent because it's unusual to come to an international conference and a treaty discussion between member states and find members of civil society, industry who participate in member state delegations. So I would say that it's quite transparent under the circumstances. I think there's still some transparency because there are debates, some are animated with different opinions that are expressed, but I think that all the countries that are here are free and equal to have an opinion, to have a point of view. I think that as an international organization, ITU has the right to have its own rules. The members, they built those rules, not the Secretary General. And I think that we are operating reasonably well and with the level of transparency appropriates to the circumstances. No, I don't think so. Mainly I'm sure and this is the overall the years that the role of the ITU is to protect the transparency.