Hi, I'm Rusty Komori and this is Beyond the Lines. We broadcast live on Mondays from the beautiful Think Tech Hawaii TV studio in the Pioneer Plaza in downtown Honolulu. This show is based on my book which is also titled Beyond the Lines and it's about creating a superior culture of excellence, leadership, achieving greater success and sustaining that greater success and finding greatness. Today's special guest, Wes Reber Porter, is a great example of all of this. He is a former trial attorney, a law professor and president and CEO of Damien Memorial School. Wes is extremely successful and he is having a huge positive impact with all students and faculty at Damien Memorial School. And today, we are going beyond education. President Wes, great having you today. Great to see you. Great to be here. You know, I'm a graduate of Damien School as you know and very proud and very proud of everything that you've been doing for the last three years as president of Damien. I want to know your history. I want to know your youth. Can you share with me what happened in the early days of President Wes? Sure. We're proud to have you as our alumni. I can tell you that you make Damien proud. The show makes Damien proud, especially the lessons of this book make Damien proud. Thank you. Going back with me, I think I had a pretty typical childhood. I was very involved in anything that involved sports and getting out there and interacting with friends. I was lucky that I came before the draws of the cell phone in our pockets and the video games. I was an outdoor get outside and play with others type of person. I grew up in New England. I grew up in Rhode Island. I was blessed to, I went to public schools almost all the way through and then I went to a school that's actually in Damien's network. So I went to a Christian Brothers School, a faith based school in New England in Rhode Island. And I think it just opened up lots of things for me. It allowed me to interact with different coaches, different programs and really get out there and start to understand how the world works beyond my tiny pocket that I would be. So are you a big New England Patriots fan? I am. I am. Patriots, Red Sox. It's very busy this time of year for us and Celtics as well. But we've moved around quite a bit and now that I have young boys, wherever we seem to live and the teams that they're into, I have to get on that bandwagon as well. I try to have a little bit of my roots come through and the sports teams are root for. What kind of sports did you play when you were growing up? I like to answer this question first by sort of everything and anything that was going on in the neighborhood. I was one of those kids that was just outside in the middle of the street yelling car when they were coming through and we'd clear out and it was whatever was going on. I love playing with kids that were older. I love playing what they were good at more so than what I was into. It narrowed down eventually soccer, basketball, golf, tennis. It kind of narrowed down and then as we go on, went to high school and college, it became sort of basketball as a primary sport. So what college did you end up going to? I went to a small school in New Hampshire called St. Anselm College and for me, my background was I was recruited for basketball and it was really what are the schools and what's going to be the best educational choice for me to continue playing and get a good education at the same time. So did you major in communications? What did you major in? I majored in business but then I found my way to a minor in psychology and sociology, a human relations minor so I was always sort of interested in the business side of things, how it worked in the real world, some early indications there that I was trying to figure out. Yeah, communications was part of it, sociology was part of it, psychology was part of it so it was more than just a straight business econ degree. Okay, and then you became a trial attorney, how did that evolve? Yeah, I think of it now as those early sparks in education that we hope to provide for our own students all the time. I went to one class, a public speaking type class and I had some connections, I made sure to take it, just like playing sports with those older kids in the neighborhood. I took public speaking with a number of kids that were much older than me in college and I knew it was going to be additional nerves and additional pressures that were put on it because I didn't know the kids in my class, I didn't take it with my friends. And it just so happened that that teacher pulled me aside one day, these little comments that we don't think much of as adults and said have you ever thought about being an attorney, have you ever thought about actually presenting and communicating as something you do in life? And honestly I hadn't at that point thought of it but that comment stayed with me, that thought stayed with me and in addition to playing basketball I applied to law school, got into law school and I did it, aimed at someday being up in front of juries and presenting a case. Awesome, I had no idea about that. Now let's talk about your family, your wife Emily and your two sons, can you share with me about them? Sure, I trial attorney and my first job took me to the island so I was in the United States Navy, I took a job as a trial attorney with the Navy and got stationed out here in Pearl Harbor and not too long after I met my wife, I met Emily out here. She still had years left in school and she was actually in school in Massachusetts so like the foundation of any good relationship I was near her family and she was near mine and we were five thousand miles apart but we met and eventually even got to live in the same place together and start a family. I have two young boys, a 10-year-old and a 13-year-old Evan and Cameron. So it's been a path, we moved around a little bit, we lived in DC for a while, we lived in the Bay Area for a while and we eventually made our way back home where I know Emily always wanted to raise our two boys back here and have them go to school back here and really sort of enjoy that idyllic time growing up that she had back in the islands, back in Oahu. Yeah, I knew of Emily because I know her brother and sister, Brad and Cecily and Brad was on my put a whole boys varsity tennis team when I first started as head coach so they have just a great family, I mean they're her parents, amazing people. Yeah, I won the lottery with that one, I picked right that way, married into a wonderful family, I really did. For sure. Now you are also a law professor, can you tell me about where you are a law professor at? Sure, so I went from being a trial attorney full-time to essentially starting to help out on the side, a lot of us that teach, you end up teaching volunteering on the side, nights and weekends type of thing and connecting with your own students, that's what I started doing, I started doing it in DC and then when I went to the Bay Area I started helping out at a school there and eventually an opening came up, a full-time professorship and I had never thought about doing that much like I had never thought about becoming a lawyer or a trial attorney and I decided I really enjoyed on those long days especially when I was litigating and in court I looked forward to the time that I would get to be with my students, I would get to move them along and help them work on their project and help them connect up with what could be in their future for them so I applied and I became a law professor in San Francisco, I did that full-time for about seven years and I was a tenured professor, I got to work on something that really you know kind of it helped me out and thinking about athletics and how I grew up and all the great coaches I had, I was a skills professor, an advocacy professor which means I essentially took a coaching approach to being a law professor, I taught students how to communicate effectively, how to operate in a courtroom, how to get evidence in, how to present their case and it was something that those students were going to have as part of their near future, they wanted the same thing and the same career that I had so I was training my future colleagues in the legal profession and I still teach today, I teach at UH at the Richardson School of Law again back to the nights and weekends, things that are on the side so it's a great pleasure to in education to have your batch of students that you're handing something to them and you're making a piece of their future different because you interacted with them. And I loved the picture that we showed earlier about you know how you met, you and Emily met Justice Sotomayor, how was that experience? I did, I like to tell my students I did that just for you know I teach a number of different areas that Justice Sotomayor is now weighing in on like the confrontation clause under constitutional law and criminal procedure. She came out with a key decision so I like to flash that up on the screen just in case the students weren't with me and weren't listening to say by the way I might have gotten this lecture right here straight from the justice that decided it. Justice Sotomayor presided over a wedding of a friend of mine who his wife clerked for her when she was on the second circuit before the Supreme Court so pretty awesome to meet her and it does work well in class once in a while to put it up on the screen that I get a direct line to the Supreme Court. That's very cool. Now let's talk about Father Damian. Father Damian in recent years is now Saint Damian. Correct. Can you tell me about how his legacy is carrying through currently? Absolutely and this is a proud answer for us as a school community because Father Damian, now Saint Damian is an important figure in Hawaii history just because of who he was and why he came here and what he did when he came. That is he came here to serve and he came here to serve the most marginalized in our society literally those put in Kalapapa and exiled and put in a certain place because they had a condition that we didn't know what to do with at the time and really just left on the outsides of society while life moved on and his mission was to think of others first to serve others first and to be there on the ground with them as a daily activity. Like any great person like Saint Damian was I always think of this part of the story that applied to our kids today and our students at Damian like a lot of high school students and K-12 students in Hawaii they really do think of others first. They think about how they can serve their community. They think of how they contribute on a larger scale and for Saint Damian one thing that I always draw upon is that he was never supposed to come here. He was a studying in Belgium and his brother, his older brother was a priest and he was the one that was supposed to take this trip and engage in this mission and when his brother fell ill he had sort of an entrepreneurial thought. He had a seize the day thought. He wasn't yet trained as a father that could serve in this ministry but he said I'm gonna go. I think I'm supposed to go and I'm gonna go and I'm gonna help people and I'm gonna figure it out when I get there and if that's not a great lesson for today's students of they're going to go into careers and end the jobs that we don't even know about yet that haven't been created yet and they have to as they're sitting here as ninth graders and 11th graders say I'm gonna go I'm gonna figure it out there. I think that's what I'm supposed to be doing so I think Saint Damian has all kinds of practical applications for our students today. Yeah he's definitely super inspirational and so are you and you're a great leader of Damian School for the last three years now and you know when I was there it was just a high school and in recent times it starts from sixth grade now. How is that helping all of Damian right now to start at sixth grade? Oh I like to think that what we're doing with the school now is is creating a school community and a school culture where students whenever they start so we have students joining us essentially DOE makes a change and they have more of their DOE schools that are ending at fifth grade so we react to what our community's needs are and we add a sixth grade at that time we added middle school and we thought there might be an opportunity with with enrollment and a limited footprint of our campus. So for us it's important it's who we are as a community and we could flex again and iterate again to say maybe there'd be a bigger campus someday maybe there'd be a different batch of students someday. I like to think that that campus was put in Kalihi down the street from Bishop Museum right down the hill from Kamehameha Schools. It was put in that area for a reason because that's the families and the people we serve and and we doubled down and we're there today because most of our students come from the immediate area but we also have a broader application to a lot of windward families a lot of evaside families so we we have students from all over it's wonderful. I love that and when I was at Damian it was an all-boys school and and then you added girls six years ago and that's just been a great addition and you President West you've been doing incredible campus improvements. I absolutely love visiting the campus and seeing the welcome center and all of these improvements can you share what you've been doing? Sure I mean with the advent of young women and the changes to our our school community the other thing that always has to change and I think all of us that are in education in 2018 talk about iteration and innovation and how do we hand it over to kids how do we inspire kids to to find their own path and and some of that is how we make changes with curriculum and how we change what happens in a classroom and other learning environments on campus some of it is just flat out changing campus so I want our experience and I think my colleagues on the leadership team at the school want to want the experience of our students to be they're going to have more entrusted to them a little more a little less rules more freedom about where they can go if they're eating lunch it could be on a blanket outside in the grass everyone doesn't have to be at a certain place at a certain time we're taking advantage of some of our great partners in the community so we have students that are regularly as part of a class walking down to Bishop Museum or or gathering in different ad hoc areas that are not the classroom so we're trying to sort of break down the traditional classroom walls as a lot of schools are and really think what's the best way for kids today to learn problem solving and learn some of the things that are going to be tools for them to take on those jobs that we don't even know what they are yet I like that and you know when I was there we had to wear dress shirts you know dress pants dress shoes ties and that has changed it has and it's not without uh you know it's not without a lot of debate and discussion and and frankly some people aren't with it on some days we look at it from the perspective of equality we have young women on campus now and our boys were in their dress code with shirts and ties as I was when I went to high school and and our young women were had sort of a uniform and there were some inequities there and we looked at it we researched it we actually looked at the data of what what do what do students that are looking at a middle school at high school what do they want to wear what makes them comfortable to learn what optimizes their learning and we landed on like a lot of other schools have migrated to shorts and polo shirts and we're in Hawaii it's outdoor campus uh let's make students comfortable let's make our school environment inviting and let's get them in the best place where they can problem solve and they can learn for themselves that sounds good to me president west we're going to take a quick break and then when we come back we want to continue going beyond education very good you are watching beyond the lines on Think Tech Hawaii with my special guest west reber porter we'll be back in one minute i'm jay fidel think tech think tech loves energy i'm the host of mina marco and me which is mina marita former chair of the puc former legislator and uh energy dynamics a consulting organization in energy marco mangosdorf is the ceo of provision solar in hilo every two weeks we talk about energy everything about energy come around and watch us we're on at noon on mondays every two weeks on think tech aloha hello my name is deafney muck and i'm one of three hosts of think tech hawaii's hawaii food and farmer series our other hosts are matt johnson and pomay weigert and we talk to those who are in the fields and behind the scenes of our local food system we talk to farmers chefs restaurateurs and more to learn more about what goes into sustainable agriculture here in hawaii we are on at thursday's at four p.m and we hope we'll see you next time welcome back to beyond the lines on think tech hawaii my special guest today is west reiber porter he is a former trial attorney a law professor and president and ceo of damien memorial school and today we are going beyond education president west coaching and sports very very important tell me about why you think sports is important at damien school well one it's i think coaching is important i think if we look at what we want to do with students going forward it's going to look a lot more like coaching than it looks like when we think of traditional teaching unfortunately we we've passed out of that era a long past out of that era when the teacher was the most knowledgeable in the room and was the the sole source of information and i had to as a teacher stand in front of the room and deliver that information and all my students had to take notes and then regurgitate it back to me on an exam those days are gone every kid's walking around with a super computer on a phone in their pocket so how can we take on challenges how can we take on problems and how can we be on the side of our students like a coach would we should be offering them some strategies they should be going out taking a stab at it if it works great if it doesn't how can we assess and how can we improve for the next time so much like the same way a coach on the tennis court a coach on the basketball court that we try to approach it with our students for we're not talking to them during right we're taking little breaks and telling them and in their ear before and after uh you know how can how can teaching look like that how can education look like that that's that's what i'm excited about so i think there's a lot of analogies to be drawn because like us growing up our students are going to school today they are receptive to what happens on the field and on the courts they're receptive to what's happening in sports they know that model they that model works for them we see improvement all the time in that model how can we make education look like that how can we make our our subjects and our problem solving and a critical thinking and all the things that are important to what's going to be their future how can we make it look like coaching i love that vision and i like that philosophy and you know in terms of some specific sports now at Damien i mean there's cheerleading and we it's great that we can have our own cheerleaders now um but the the girls volleyball team the football can you share about some of the exciting sports that's happening with Damien we just have wonderful examples of exactly what i just described there's great examples of just passionate coaches who are on the floor or working with their pocket of kids their group of kids are working across an entire program that care first about character care first about their development care about the interaction that they're having with that young person and the difference it's going to make in their life uh when you operate that way and when you have that philosophy and especially when that philosophy holds true whether it's my my wonderful football program at Damien and the success that it's had whether it's our young women uh in volleyball that are on an undefeated season and having you know that type of year that they're having when you see those similarities and those leadership principles and those life lessons are showing up across across campus it can't help but make its way into those student conversations of course they're talking about of course they're thinking about it and how can we make education mimic it that's our challenge that's what the adults have to figure out that's why you're a great leader now let's talk football uh the head coach coach eddy klaneski super incredibly great guy he's so focused on really developing the character of his student athletes can you share more about how awesome coach eddy is yeah it's an easy conversation because he is awesome and it it's uh he's one of those shining examples on our campus of someone that's that's known and he of course had his own his own career and his own fame at uh and and the player he was but he's known for being someone that cares about young people on our campus he's known for someone that gets the best out of the young people that choose to play football at Damien there's a reason why if you're a football player at Damien the last batch of years and you're coming back to campus you're going to call upon coach eddy and go visit him right because that's that's the type of interaction and impact that he had on these young people and it's that philosophy first it doesn't have anything to do with the x's and o's doesn't even have to do with wins and losses even though that part's working itself out for coach uh it's more how do you how do you care about young people and care about their development and get them to you know the best version of themselves possible yeah i totally agree and coach eddy definitely goes beyond the lines and speaking of beyond the lines i you were at my book signing at Barnes & Noble i totally was excited to see you there um can you tell me what you like about the book beyond the lines there's a there's an analogy to draw up with education a lot of times like i'm like i'm talking about here today we can't stand in front of students and just say here's what i need you to learn please leave leave the room and learn it go read this in a book and it's it's smuggled for lack of a better word we have to tell stories we have to talk about situations we have to talk about problems that we're confronting now and they should start to glean and see leadership lessons and it doesn't have to come from someone that has a position or a rank of a of a leader it comes from everyone it can come from their classmates it can come from their siblings come from their parents come from anyone and i love that about the book because it tells stories and it will tell a story about you know a younger player on the team that's decidedly better but wants to you know step aside on the team to make sure that some senior has you know the senior year that they envision and has has the limelight there's a leadership lesson in there even though that student that tennis player never thought that they were acting as a leader or didn't do it to become a leader that day and certainly didn't have the title or or rank of a leader so the idea that you can read a book and you can hand a book to young people to say read these stories and then everyone comes away with something different that's that's a lot what we're trying to do in education and we need more leadership training in education we need we need a class a seminar an ad hoc group that's getting together that's doing the hard work of pulling apart all the lessons that are available in your book i totally agree i i love what you just said there and i i was very proud to be a part of my Damian tennis team my teammates to do a big bulk donation of books to you and Damian school um how how was the reactions to the kids when you presented them a book well it's twofold the first part of it it's awesome that a kid's getting a at school a gift in any respect right if you're walking up to a child during a day and you're saying i'm giving you this i'm giving you this gift today in your ordinary school day doesn't have anything to do with the class anything new grades anything to do with your extracurricular one you've already why me what did i do why do i deserve this the second part of it i think is so important especially for young people and especially for the young people that that i'm blessed to work with every day at Damian um it it's a symbol in and of itself that here's someone that walked the same hallway as you walked here's someone that had uh grew up on the same island and had the same path as you that's that's writing about leadership that's talking about his success um and there's a vision for you in there there's a way to think about you and the leader you're going to become there's a way to think about you and the role that you're going to serve in society it's awesome we we make sure they know every great story uh everyone that we know and we love to share more of the great people that have passed the halls in Damian and that they walk in those footsteps so i think it's twofold it's really awesome i love i love hearing that too and it's you know i hope that we can do more book donations of beyond the lines to Damian we've been doing that to some other schools as well but yeah if we can get more books to you that'd be awesome now i want to ask you some questions that directly relate to the book president west you're very inspirational you're very successful how do you define success i think success has to do with meaning has to do with fulfillment um why why are we waking up in the morning what are you off to do uh if you can't think about your contribution every day is having some meaning and some personal fulfillment to you and oftentimes when you put it in terms of meaning and fulfillment it's going to have to do with how you serve others and how you make the place you live and the place your kids go to school and the place you know your friends and their kids and their families grow up how do you make it a better place and how do you how do you contribute so i think success for me is that i've been able to get into some of these positions that hopefully maximize and multiply that impact that make it a better place that i find meaning and fulfillment in my job than i do great and you know every successful person they've dealt with obstacles along the way what do you think was your greatest obstacle in achieving your success and how did you overcome that we give too much thought to to the parts of our history or the parts of our resume or the parts that were just that were less proud of we give too much thought to other people's opinions and i don't think i was any different in that you know you can look at it and say i should have gone to this school or i should have done that internship or i i should have done this is my first job or i should have been this in life and if you spend too much time focusing on negative opinions if you focus too much time on the past and looking at what you could have done or should have done then you're going to miss out on a whole heck of a lot so i know some of that's just a mindset we take into every day but that everything that we did in the past contributes to who we are today so i just think about that there's a lot of stuff there's a lot of different twists and turns but all that makes who i am today and it and it and it at that too adds meaning and fulfillment and allows me to best serve our students and their families yeah the the choices that we made in the past got us to where we are right now and the the choices that we make now because knowledge is power can really help us get to where we want to go absolutely now what do you hope to aspire to achieve in your future the big ticket one is is education in general and particularly education back here in hawaii there's a lot of there's a lot of fixed mindsets that dictate education and the and the landscape and what we're what we can do and what we're capable of in the realm of education but if you're paying attention and if you see what's been going on particularly back here in hawaii over the last batch of years you understand that there's a lots of things that we have going for us in hawaii that actually allow us to move education further at a much greater pace than other places there's there's places on the mainland where private public and charter school leaders don't even talk to each other we meet regularly this place is where my kids go to a private school i'm the head of a private school i think only in a one dimension of a private school in hawaii we have a sense of aloha and how we care for our kiki and how we we all have families and neighbors and kids that we know go to so many different schools and the idea of how do we raise the bar for education locally that that's that's what i spend time thinking about and i really there's a lot of great thought leaders giving uh giving some important conversations important thought to that topic uh and i really think of hawaii being one of those places where because of our culture because of who we are and because how we take care of one another that we can be sort of a leader on the new wave of education not the standardized testing kids sitting in rows form of education that everyone's still holding on to i i love your insights president west and how you want teachers to become coaches i mean everyone should be a coach to really help everyone else in the best possible way so i like the vision i like where you want to take damien memorial school and you're succeeding and you've just been there three years so i know that i speak for a lot of the alumni that we're so proud so appreciative so fortunate to have someone like you as president and ceo so i really want to thank you for your time and being on the show today president west thank you for having me i appreciate it and thank you for watching beyond the lines on think tech hawaii for more information about my book and my tv shows visit my website rusty comory dot com and connect with me on facebook instagram linkedin and twitter i hope that my book and tv shows will inspire you to create your own superior culture of excellence and to find your greatness and help others find theirs aloha


First we had machine learning, then deep learning. What's the next step? Well, I mean, it's hard to question that you're asking. It's like predicting the future. Maybe, I mean, I can give it a try. So the thing is, the big quest of artificial intelligence, that being AGI is like artificial general intelligence, that has been a holy grail of artificial intelligence research since inception. It's about creating machines that can be as smart as humans, but also be much smarter than humans. And this has been an inspiration and holy grail for a long time.


Hello everyone welcome back to another Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 tutorial. I'm going to show you how to use clipping masks and I'm going to show you step by step and I'm going to go very very quickly so you guys get all the steps and not too much fluff. You'll see here I've got a rectangle and a circle and I have clipped images to these shapes and I'm going to show you how to do that right now. So the first step here open up Photoshop of course then go file new. Once you select new I'm going to go ahead and switch up here to the web and I'm going to create this one here web most common. This doesn't matter whatever size you want to work with is fine by me left click on create. All right cool we've got an art board we're in business guys and gals. The next step is you want to create the shapes that we're going to clip the images to. So I'm going to create a rectangle so I'm going to left click on that rectangle then I'm going to draw out the rectangle and you'll might notice here this silly stuff that's on the side there that's because this is a brand new version it just did an update and it's giving me the info the tool so I've created a nice cool shape here I've got a rectangle or a square it's almost a perfect square. The second thing I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to create an ellipse and I'm going to drag it out I'm going to hold down shift to make sure that it's a proper full circle and boom I've got two shapes now there's a possibility that you guys if you haven't used this tool in a while or if it's on default settings that it is set to fill with white it doesn't the fill color doesn't matter but you want to generally select a color so I'm just going to go ahead and double click on it and you're going to see here that I can select any color I want so let's make this one black just for the just to show you how to do it and also you'll notice one's called rectangle one's called ellipse okay so we've got our two shapes now we're going to start creating the clipping masks now I've got two pictures here to do so the first step I'm going to go into finder and if you're in a computer you'll be able to find it under your explorer windows explorer whatever it's called and now I'm going to go to my pictures drive so basically what you want to do is you want to select the picture this is a picture of my very handsome dog named Kingston and I am I've selected him going to drop it on top of the canvas here boom done now you'll notice that it is not placed it is just above it so the next step is I'm going to drag it into place I'm going to put this over the ellipse or over the the the rectangle part of me and I'm also going to go ahead and increase the size of it so something like this let's go a little bigger than the yeah let's go with something like that and now I'm going to adjust its positioning yeah let's go with something like that okay good I'm going to click off of it I'm going to hit enter that now places the image so the image is now placed onto the artboard however you're going to notice here in the stacking that it is above the ellipse and what I want to do is I want to clip this my doggy to the rectangle so you what I'm going to do is I'm going to click on Kingston here which is the image and I'm going to drag it below the ellipse stacking order matters so I'm going to now create the clipping mask this is the this is the big pic this is the big one guys so what you do is you'll hold down the alt or the option key if you're on a pc when you're above it and then you're going to want to kind of hover in between the two lines and when you do that you're going to see the square and the down arrow that indicates I'm creating a clipping mask I'm going to left click and boom the puppy dog Kingston is now clipped to that rectangle so anything outside of the rectangle is clipped off if I double click on his face here I'm just going to go up if I double click on him I can move him around too so if you don't get it right in terms of where you want the image like let's say I want more of his face unless of his ears you can move up and down just like that finally when you're on the picture if you hit command or control T it allows you to bring back the bounding box so if you want to adjust the size of the image let's say you wanted to have it nice and tight to the edges something like that go ahead and do that you can do that that is a perfect clipping mask now I'm going to do another one here for the for this circle just to show you again in case you didn't catch it the first time I'm going to go ahead and click on my finder I'm going to select my picture drag and drop it onto the photoshop document I'm going to hover boom drop it on top and it's going to load up I don't want to do that I don't care about that so camera raw doesn't matter I'm going to go ahead and move it you see the problem it's already you're going to notice where it's stacked underneath the ellipse so I'm just going to go ahead and make it a bit bigger under what I think the right size will be something like that I'm going to hit enter now obviously I'm glad that it did that because again this is going to show you the importance of stacking orders I'm going to move this stock image now above the ellipse and boom now she's above going to reposition her above it here so this is about where I think it'll be now again I'm going to hold down the alt or the option command over the ellipse I'm going to see you're going to see their square and the down arrow again left clicking on this bang it is now clipped right to the circle this is all you need to know guys thanks for watching tutorial I got a ton more stuff coming up stay tuned cheers


Okay, we're back live inside theCUBE. This is SiliconAngle.tv's extensive coverage of IBM Edge 2012, IBM's on the ground here in Orlando. They have IBM Innovate going right across the street here and also IBM Storage Technology Innovation Conference, the Edge 2012. I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconAngle.com. This is theCUBE, our flagship telecast. We go out to the events, extract the signal from the noise, share that with you and get all the smartest guys in the room to come on. Smartest guys and gals. We've had some great guests here from IBM and some of their customers. So again, I'm John Furrier, I'm joined by my co-host. I'm Dave Vellante of wikibon.org and yes John, we had the big data gal on before and he was very impressive. And now we're here with good friend Ed Walsh. Ed runs the storage portfolio strategy for IBM. Ed, welcome again inside theCUBE. Keep alumni, welcome back. So, alumni is going to be back. So Edge is a nice event, a very high quality, great attendance, better than expected attendance. Sold out, sold out. I think originally you guys were expecting 1,500, I think 1,900 or so registered. So I would expect you got north of 1,500 that showed up. I mean, I'm impressed by IBM in general as a company. Dave and I are talking about the performance of the company overall. They're actually in market places. Nothing to shake a stick at, they're doing very, very well. But as a technology company and services, they got everything end to end. However, it's kind of all over the place. You got this guy sell this and this from division, but you stack up IBM's assets, they got everything there. And everyone's racing to get solutions out in the market with big data in clouds, a lot of momentum. Converge infrastructure, we were talking earlier, it's half a trillion dollar business opportunity in the marketplace, converge infrastructure, two thirds of the enterprises are moving. So the question that I want to talk to you about is storage is strategic. We've talked about this on theCUBE before. It's an element that has a lot of enablement around it. And not everyone has all the picture, the pieces of the picture. You guys have that coming together. You've introduced this portfolio concepts, which is essentially packaging up, not just storage speeds and feeds and all the greatness of the performance you guys need to do, but other elements. So talk about this event, storage innovation, expanding your storage leadership and how that translates to the portfolio and what is the portfolio? So good questions. And I think you're right. It's almost, if you look at our portfolio, it's truly the most complete portfolio in storage, but also if you look wider as far as the solutions need, either big data or analytics or cloud, it's the most complete portfolio in the industry. But the challenge is, how do you bring that in form of a client in an organized way because the size and the scale to be honest of IBM. But if you're going to come to one person, come into IBM, you can get the whole solution set. So what Edge is all about is our premiere storage event. Yes, it's focused more on storage, but really how it interplays with both analytics, building out clouds, as well as also big data. And what you have to do is we're working on way to just communicate what is our portfolio, whether the key areas that we're investing on and what you can take out of that portfolio.  So talk about what's happening internally. I mean, how does this all work and all the groups, are they kind of working together? Who's Maestro in here? Is it the storage group? Is it the software all the above? How does that work internally? Well, so we have a very good coordination actually driven by Jenny, the CEO, to do cross IBM plays. And it's not to do bundling, but it's actually to have coordination. So imagine what we could do around analytics and big data with our investment software on so much analytics and big data. Imagine what we could do in cloud when you look at all of stuff we do for GTS, what we do internally, what we do intimately and bring that together. So we're doing these cross IBM plays, and that's driven directly from the top from Jenny. So if we talk about individual initiatives, I'll tell you where we're again, cross IBM bring it to there. And what you're seeing today is we're talking about smarter storage, which really plays upon our overall message of smarter planet, which you need smarter computing and how smarter storage plays into it. And really show people how they can use a portfolio to help out in situations like analytics, big data, cloud. So smarter storage, great tagline. Sort of what's the product example in the portfolio that supports that? So if you look at smarter storage, it has some key tenants if you would. So it was launched today. So it's a, you know, smarter storage is efficient by design, smarter storage is self-optimizing, and smarter storage is cloud agile. And what you mean by that, those are the key things we're investing across the portfolio. So a good example is like, okay, so cloud, you're going to build a private cloud. Where does that come together for clients? Well, it needs to have all those components. So a really good example would be our Pureflex offering, which is our consolidating infrastructure, both systems, network, management, and storage, and smarter storage is part of that overall offering. So it's a classic private cloud 2.0, and where it's differentiated compared to anyone else in the industry, it's really, to do that right, it's actually hard. And everyone else took a shortcut. So what the clients were asking for in private cloud is, hey, help me get, you know, control over my environment. Let me consolidate my environment and get control over it. So I get elasticity and, you know, some efficiency. And what the industry provided them was kind of like 1.0, which was, well, I'll give you, and it ended up being a VMware only type of consolidation play led by EMC with VBlock and Cisco, et cetera. Well, IBM did, which by the way, was a lot of hard work, but really answered the question. It's a smarter answer, which is, no, no, you want to consolidate your environment. And what we do with the PureFlex initiative is allow you to bring in your environment, which is not just VMware. In fact, you might want multiple virtualization engines, but one interface, but physical environments, also Intel, but also some risk architectures like P-Series, and bring that together. Now that's what people were looking for, and that was a big announcement we had in April. Another good example of cross IBM. So that is a system of storage, a network, and a management coming together to provide the industry something that you can't get anywhere else. So I infer from that, you've been working on this for a while. Sure. And you're right, it's hard. You have a lot more in the portfolio to bring together than just a single hypervisor, a single storage product. At the same time, though, you were late to market. So the question is, will those capabilities offset that time to market disadvantage? Okay, so one thing, I don't think we're late, but I think from a marking position, we got a little out of the market. You're saying you're not late because it's a still tiny market today, right? Oh, no, no, so if our BladeCenter foundation for cloud, which is what we put forward, is exactly, B-Block, it's integrated systems, VMware, network, management, and storage. Now, we probably didn't do the best getting the news out, but also that was kind of a me too. And IBM was working the background, the real solution, which came out. So I agree that- So you didn't want to make a lot of noise about- Well, I think we failed to make noise. Okay, you feel like maybe in retrospect, you had an opportunity there. But the key thing is we had it for our clients that needed it, but I'll tell you, Pureflex is a step above what you can get from the industry. You made a lot of noise about that. Yes. And I think clients are raving. I'll tell you, every time I talk about it, you ask a question running multiple hypervisors and how many people have VMware or everyone raised their hand and then you ask, well, how many people run only VMware?  And this allows you to bring your environment together, physical and virtual. And I'll tell you, that's a big play. So when you talk about cloud, that's a good example of IBM coming together to solve a big challenge that no one else can do. And we've heard from the customers that are coming in from different vectors now, to IBM from business line managers versus IT, we're storage sales guys who would go in, they've got storage speeds and feeds and so on. So that's good news. Yeah, I agree. The question I have for you now in the portfolio is much more of a roadmap question. Sure. You were around theCUBE a day talking about Flash, talking about moving and software being enabled and moving across tiers and having all those cool features. But with Flash and with Fusion IO, with Violin, there's different philosophies of where Flash sits. You know, depending upon who you talk to, it's, I want it to server card, I want it to network, I want it to the app. And data retention is the number one issue right now, latency, retention. So these new architectures are coming up. How does it affect your vision and view of the portfolio? So our vision is very clear. Flash is going to be everywhere. It's going to be simultaneously in every tier of the architectures. It's going to be in servers, PCI, Flash cards.   It's going to be in the network as a tier zero Flash only device sitting on the sand or on the IP network. And it's going to be in all the storage arrays that are in multiple doing caching. The key thing is a software to do the coordination optimization of that. So, give me an example. One is efficiency. If you have Flash up at the server, which bring in the IO close to the CPU, it's really fast, but if that server fails over, you need to have efficiency. You don't want to be caching in the server, the network in the storage, but also it's a data integrity issue. You need this coordination software across these different domains. So, for instance, if that VM is using that local cash card called Fusion IO, LSI, Intel, we use them all. If that VM fails over to another system, either by an outage or from vMotion, how do you make sure you don't have a data integrity issue on the other side, right? Stale, read, write. It's that coordination across the different levels across servers that IBM's actually very strong in. And that's what we're demoing today. So, other clients are talking about, in fact, I think EMC's have us from messaging, for sure, but when you look at our portfolio and flash optimization there in our direction, we see the same opportunity, but we're actually in better position. So, for instance, flash cards, EMC comes out with their own proprietary flash card. We'll let you use any vendors you already have. In fact, in our portfolio, Intel, LSI, Micron, Fusion IO, you use what you want. We're not going to build another one. That seems kind of strange, isn't it? In the storage, all of our product line are flash optimized. You put Saucy disk, industry standard Saucy disk, and we'll do the automatic optimization environment. And we announced today a tier zero array that sits in the network. It's called our sexy term, Ultra SSD Drawer. That, listen, you see EMC applying Extreme IO. This blows away Extreme IO and we developed it internally. It's a 1U, 12 terabyte SSD device. It goes 650 isos per second. That's compared to an Extreme IO that's not in production. Half that capacity, half the performance. And you're going to see us drive this. So when you look at what we have in the live demo we did as far as the coordination, again, for efficiency, across the domains, but also for failover. So you get all the benefits of having the different layers. And again, we're not going to pigeon you holding a one particular solution because I think the different solutions are there. The vendors are driving it. We're going to leverage that aggressiveness. And the key thing for us is we're going to help you coordinate. So I want to ask you, so Dave and I have been talking about this four horsemen of disruption in the IT world. Four horsemen. Four horsemen. Four horsemen, you know. Dave loves the horses on the track. Courses for horses, horses for horses, you know. His expression. But really, the four horsemen in cloud, which is the IT transformation, mobile, which is the consumerization of IT, social, which is real-time analytics, the need for speed, and then big data, the transformation aspect. Could you just go through there and see, does that hit your portfolio objectives, those four areas, and of those, cloud, mobile, social, and big data? Talk a little bit about those four things quickly. So it fits in all of them, but let's take cloud first. I mentioned the one example of private clouds, and that would be PureFlux. But also file clouds, which are more public clouds, which are very nascent business, actually, but we're getting traction. You see announcements today, and announcements in December of this year, that bring that full force. So if you want to build a private EC2 in your own data center, you're going to be able to do that on any of our file-based products. But again, in cloud, I think we're a very strong offering, especially with PureFlux in it. Analytics, big data. Because we're an investment on the software side, the actual applications, we're really tied together. Now, some of the solutions, we can do analytics, which is all about flash, getting performance quickly to the IOs. A lot of these are flash resident systems, but memory, resident databases, flash is a natural extension of that. And you're seeing us do that things with SAP HANA, et cetera. That's how we participate, but also in the big data like Hadoop. We don't have it as a storage offering, but IBM has one of the best Hadoop offerings in the industry, it's called Big Insights. It's actually sold and brought to clients by our analytic team. Now why is that? Because when people are looking to deploy big data in Hadoop, they need help finding out what software, how do you get those insights. It's not just dropping off hardware and having them, hey, listen, I'm a storage guy.  It's actually helping you do that. And IBM is fully equipped with that on applications and services, and we're able to deliver that. So the big data analytics, we're best positioned in the industry to do exactly that. And what you're seeing in products today in market. You mentioned the, well, I put analytics and big data together, so I put two horsemen together. The other one is mobile. That's all about performance, that's all about scale and also cost effectiveness. And if we build out the infrastructure further, so we enable people to do cost effective mobile application and consumerization. And we're driving that. We're at most our values now in software, less and less in proprietary hardware. Like for instance, the Flash I mentioned, we don't build a separate PCI card, it's already available in the market space, leverage that and leverage that innovation. So I actually think we're pretty well aligned across the four horsemen. I actually like that, I'm going to steal that. Ed, talk a little bit about the last question, actually, we're running out of time here. Some of the futures, IBM is pretty disciplined in what it tells people about the future, but what are you telling your customers about, what to look for down the road? And you show us a little leg here. Yes, I think we can. So we're actually making statements of directions currently, and I can share a little bit more past that, but statement of direction that we're making today of what we're going to do in the next nine to 18 months. It's a lot of enhancements around Flash, and we're doing live demos of what I just talked about, the coordination for both efficiency but also resiliency across the different Flash tiers. We're doing live demos of that today at Edge, and you're going to see that come out later this year, this calendar. So distributed sort of Flash coherent. Flash is everywhere, we'll help you do that, but we're not going to pigeonhole you some proprietary, but we're going to help you across the servers, the network and the storage, but have the coordination software, which is really the value for clients. So that's one, that same Flash conversation plays into analytics. You're also just going to see the big data the way we're approaching big data is to leverage our capabilities to help people, well, leverage big data. It's not just the hardware guys, it's how do you bring the whole idea together and walk clients through it, how to get insights, how to do things, and that's what we're doing. So actually our software team and our service team are the ones that bring in the hardware, it's called Big Insights, is our Hadoop cluster. So I think those are the things, so Big Data and Cloud are clearly there. Is the Big Insights at the analytics or just a Hadoop package? So that is just Hadoop. So imagine just Intel, internal storage, Hadoop cluster, fully integrated, come from IBM, and that is sold by a software team, regardless of what analytic application you're using. What's the key analytics package that you guys sell, platform? Well, it's actually the portfolio's pretty broad. So I'm probably. That's the software group, though. Correct. Okay, got it, okay. All right, Ed Walsh, thanks very much. Thank you. I appreciate you taking time out of your busy schedule. I know you're running around, giving keynotes, meeting with customers, so it's always great to see you. Always a pleasure. Thank you. Ed Walsh. We'll be right back with the next guest on theCUBE after this break. I want to thank IBM for allowing us to come to this as independent media. 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Narcissists have nothing to lose. Narcissists engage in extreme behaviour because they have nothing to lose. They feel that their situation will not be any worse if they engage in extreme behaviour. They feel that they cannot make things worse than they already are, which is very sad when you think about it. The reason why we don't do what they do is because we experience empathy for other people and also we experience fear. But that doesn't mean we're afraid of the narcissist. We're afraid of what further engagement with them would cause us to become. We're afraid of what we might lose because we have something to lose. While narcissists are not afraid to lose anything because they have nothing to lose, which is why they're not afraid to engage in hostile behaviour. But if you have a lot to lose, you understand that you're not supposed to live in the way that they do because it could cause you to lose favour or a position of power or honour. It could cause you to experience results and effects that are unwelcome and unpleasant. But narcissists do not have this fear. Even the ones who claim to believe in God, they're not afraid to behave badly. They're not afraid to abuse you because they have nothing to lose. So they don't really believe in God. They don't believe in anything. If they did, they would fear losing that which they believe in. The reality is that they're just lying about believing in something. They don't really believe in anything.  They're used to unstable relationships. They're not comfortable with stability. So they already expect it to end, which is why they have nothing to lose, which is why they engage in such extreme behaviour because they're already so miserable and dissatisfied with their lives. They can't get any worse for them. So they have no incentive to act right or to do good while you may be afraid of being mean or causing pain and suffering to other people because it would affect your reputation. It might affect the beliefs and opinions that people hold of you, which is another thing that you can lose, but narcissists don't have an identity. They will shape-shift into different identities to achieve the result that they want. Narcissists aren't really that worried about their reputation because when things get difficult, they will abandon the situation and find a new reputation somewhere else because they don't hold any beliefs or opinions of themselves so they could change their entire lives at any moment, which means that they don't have anything to lose. They're not committed to anything. There's no meaning or purpose to their lives.  They live sad and miserable lives with no meaning or purpose and that is what separates you from them. It's what stops you from doing what they do. So be grateful for everything you have. Be thankful that you have a lot to lose and then remember that you could lose it by engaging with narcissists because they have nothing to lose because they understand that their lives cannot get any worse. They're already at the bottom of the barrel. Thank you for watching. I hope this video resonates with you. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. If you would like to donate my PayPal link, it's in the video description. Coaching inquiries. You can email me at coaching.narcsurvivor.uk Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon.


Now it is my great pleasure and honor to introduce University of Michigan region and my good friend Paul Brown We've done everything together from building a fund for entrepreneurs to reeling in some big fish And he has a few words for the classes of 2022 welcome Regent Brown It's not easy to follow a road scholar or a dean for that matter. Thank you Graduates on behalf of my colleagues on the Board of Regents. I'm delighted to join you in this time of celebration Today we come together to celebrate all of you your dedication your determination and your dreams achieved as you graduate from the top ranked public University in the nation as Regents we are inspired by your many scholarly achievements And I am honored to share in this moment with you and with your family and friends Who also are justifiably proud of your accomplishments? Thank you parents and friends They deserve it But on this day when we conferred an honorary degree on Maria Shriver I think it's apropos that remember the words of her uncle President John F. Kennedy that he uttered on the steps of the Union No, not when he correctly referred to his alma mater as the Michigan of the East Or when he stated and this is word for word. I come here tonight to go to bed But I also come here tonight to ask you to join in that effort Not making that up No, the words I want you to think about Are this university is not maintained by its alumni by the state merely to help its graduates have an economic advantage in the struggle of life There is certainly a greater purpose, and I'm sure you recognize it I come here tonight asking your support for this country over the next decade. So I we Ask for you challenge you to support this school this state this country in some way that calls to your passion Today you join one of the largest and most influential alumni networks in the world We hope that you like thousands of Michigan grads before you Will return to campus often to visit Wherever you go remember That we are extremely proud of each and every one of you and wish you the very best so truly Congratulations class of 2022. Good luck and go blue


CHAPTER XII A LITTLE AFTER six o'clock one July morning on the campus of the University of Tennessee, I stood near the center of a semicircle of twenty-five school teachers whose expressions indicated a high state of excitement and whose fifty eyes were riveted on a scene of slaughter but a few feet from them. For five minutes we had scarcely moved. During this time the lives of thirty-two specimens of animal life had been blotted out. The perpetrator of this holocaust was a creature known to scientists as Spicella socialis called by ordinary people chipping sparrow. Its victims were small insects which but a moment before were desporting themselves on the grass. One teacher expressed surprise that a bird could find so many of these choice morsels in so short a time. She had never imagined that so many insects inhabited so small an area as that to which the bird had confined its operations. Very well said the instructor, suppose all of you get down and see how many insects you can find in five minutes. So while he held the watch all proceeded to take part in a bug-hunting contest. In this novel undertaking even the women of the class displayed great zeal. When time was called it was found that one student had a credit of fourteen, another sixteen, a third nineteen, and one tall young woman with glasses exhibited twenty-one insects in the folds of her handkerchief. A stranger watching the actions of this band of eager, early-rising teachers might have been puzzled to determine what induced them to assemble at this hour of the day for the evident purpose of watching the habits and activities of small birds that the ordinary person passes without notice. They were nevertheless occupied in one of the most valuable studies that could have claimed their attention. For many years the United States Department of Agriculture has been employing trained naturalists to give their time to the investigation of the damage done to growing crops by the insect host that infests fields and forests. These and other experts have come forward with astounding statements regarding the destructiveness of birds to insects. We are told, too, that each bird is virtually a living dynamo of energy, that its heart beats twice as fast as the human heart, and that the normal temperature of its blood registers over a hundred degrees. It is a simple fact of biology, therefore, that a tremendous amount of nourishing food is necessary for the bird's existence. Vast quantities of insects are needed for this purpose. Some time ago a New England gentleman became so impressed by the frequency with which a pair of robins visited their nests with food for the young that he determined to learn more about the food consuming possibilities of the four nestlings. The day the offspring left their cradle, he temporarily took possession of them. With the aid of some friends who kindly undertook to dig fishworms for him, he proceeded to give the baby robins all they cared to eat between daylight and dark. He found to his very great surprise that these small birds consumed in one day food to the amount of their own weight and 56% additional. If an average-sized man were to eat at this rate, he would require seventy pounds of beef and several gallons of water daily. Upon reaching maturity the robins probably do not eat so greedily, but the incident serves to illustrate their capacity in the days of youth. The schoolteachers at the Knoxville summer school who watched the chipping sparrow that morning were members of a group of earnest men and women whose lives were dedicated to the training of children. For nine months they had been in the classroom, meeting heroically the petty trials and annoyances incidents of their life work. Now instead of spending their brief vacation in idleness, they were seeking additional knowledge to prepare them for more valuable future service. They were learning that morning the important lesson that birds are placed on earth for a useful purpose. When they returned to the schoolroom they would teach the boys that the bird is a friend to the farmer and should not be killed nor its nest destroyed. They would teach girls that there is something far more exquisite about the living bird than is to be found in the faded luster of its feathers when sewed on a hat, and they would cultivate in the heart of the girls a feeling of sympathy for the home life of the birds about them. The greatest problem to be solved by those actively engaged in measures which make for civic righteousness is how to preserve the children of the country from evil influences and to direct their curiosity and restless energy into safe and productive channels. The teacher occupies a strategic position in this matter and one of her problems is how to engage the interests of the child in subjects that are both entertaining and beneficial. Simple lessons in nature study are an excellent method by which to accomplish this end, and a study of out-of-door life should begin with birds. Bird Study Class The systematic instruction of school children in bird study on a careful scientific basis in a large way really had its origin in May 1910 when Mrs. Russell Sage sent to the National Association of Audubon Society a check for $5,500, with which to inaugurate a plan of bird study in the southern schools that the writer had outlined to her. She desired that a special effort should be made to arouse interest in the protection of the robin, which in the southern states was at that time almost universally regarded as a game bird whose natural destiny was considered to be a pot pie. Bird study, it is true, was at that time taught in many city schools, but usually the subject was given slight space in the curriculum, and for the children and teachers there was available only a limited literature, and it was of an inadequate character. A working plan was at once developed whereby literature colored pictures of birds and the Audubon button should be supplied to all the pupils in a school who enrolled themselves as members of an Audubon class. Each member was required to pay a nominal fee, which, however, was much less than the cost of producing the material received in return. During the school year that followed the matter was brought to the attention of many of the southern teachers, and over 500 junior Audubon societies resulted with an enrollment of more than 10,000 children. Following the course of instruction outlined in the literature furnished to the teachers, these children were taught the correct names of many of the common birds, and on field walks they learned to know them by sight. The dates when certain birds were last seen in autumn and first arrived in spring were noted and carefully recorded. Food was given to the birds in winter, and bird boxes of various patterns were constructed and placed in parks, orchards, or woods where they would most likely be of service to birds looking for suitable nesting hollows. Bird study was correlated with reading, English composition, history, geography, and even arithmetic. A nationwide movement. So successful did this experiment prove that the Audubon workers agreed upon extending this same system into the schools of all the other states in the Union and the various provinces of Canada. The fall of 1911, therefore, saw plans well under way for a greatly enlarged scope of work. During the school year, which closed the last of June 1912, the association at a cost of $13,000 enrolled 29,369 schoolchildren under the standard bearing the inscription Protect the Birds. The movement has continued to grow, and up to June 1, 1916 there had been formed 27,873 classes with a total membership of 559,840 children. The association is annually expending on this work $25,000 more than the children's fees amount to. Of this amount, Mrs. Sage continues to contribute one fifth, the remaining four fifths being given by an anonymous friend of children and birds. In supplying these pupils and their teachers with the necessary pictures, leaflets, and outlined drawings of birds for coloring, over 31 million pages of printed information have been distributed. Pupils have taken hold of this bird study with great zest. Many a dull or inattentive boy who had been a despair to his teacher and parents responded to this real nature teaching which took him from his ordinarily uninteresting studies into the wide out of doors. Thousands of teachers have written letters filled with expressions of thankfulness for this opportunity which has come to them and reciting details of the variety of ways in which they have been able to make use of this plan and material for bird study. What one teacher did. Here, for example, is one from Ms. Beth Merritt, who teaches in a little school at Fountain City, Tennessee. I am very glad to write to you about the junior Audubon class we had at school this year. We all enjoyed it exceedingly, and I am sure it did good in the hearts and lives of the little people who were members and in the bird world too. A year ago I invited the children of some of the other grades to join our Audubon class, and we had over forty members. We had our meetings on Friday afternoons after school. The class was quite successful and we saw some direct results of its success. Several nest-robbing boys gave up that sport altogether. One boy was instrumental in bringing about the arrest of some men who had been shooting songbirds. This year I had the class only in my own grade, the second. Almost every child in the room joined, making twenty members. I had daily periods for nature study and language, and every other Friday we used these two periods for the Audubon class. The children were always anxious for the Audubon Fridays to come. They used often to ask, is tomorrow bird day Miss Beth? And if I answered in the affirmative, I heard, oh, goody, and I won't forget to wear my button, and I wonder what bird it will be from every side. Rarely ever did we have an absent mark on bird day. After we had used all ten of the leaflets you sent us, we had lessons on some of the other birds, or instead of a regular lesson, we went for a bird walk. I divided the class for these walks, taking ten children at a time. How excited they would get over the birds they saw. Nearly always they could identify the birds themselves. Sometimes I helped them. Sometimes my bird book helped me. And sometimes we had to write in the notebooks, unknown. I will not try to tell you about all the good results of our Audubon class that I have noticed. The most important thing, I think, is that a few more children have a keen interest and a true love for their little brothers of the air. Last year a favorite pastime of a neighbor was shooting birds for his cat, and I think he was no more particular than his cat as to the kind of birds he destroyed. His little daughter was a member of the Audubon class, and this spring I notice our neighbor's cat has to catch its own birds. Perhaps if the little girl can be an Audubon member another year there will be no more cat. A mother of another little member of the class used to delight in bird's plumes, breasts, or feathers of some kind on her hat. Her spring hat this year was trimmed in ribbon. I have heard several bird lovers say that they have noticed more of our common wild birds about this place than there were last year, and they believe the junior Audubon societies in the schools have brought about this happy state. When school closed many of the mothers came to me and said that they wished to thank me for what I had done for their children along the line of nature study especially of birds. They said that they thought the junior Audubon class a splendid thing for their children, and I think it is equally good for the teachers. Another junior club leader, Ms. Edna Stafford, a teacher in the public schools of Albany, Indiana writes, one day last summer a twelve-year-old boy was out on our street with an air gun shooting at every bird he could see.  Our study of birds in the junior Audubon class brought about this change in the boy. Junior Game Protectors Another leader reported from Nashville that the one thousand junior members in the class there had turned into voluntary bird wardens and spied upon every man or boy who went afield with a gun. In a number of places the juniors have built and sold bird boxes by hundreds and used the proceeds for advancing the work. In one town the juniors had a most successful tag day and collected funds that were used to buy grain with which to feed birds in winter. In Connecticut a most helpful and stimulating communication has been established between many of the classes. A junior class in the Logan School Minneapolis has even started the publication of a magazine called Oysa after the Indian name for bluebird as given in Longfellow's Hiawatha. Sending Birds Nest to City Children Mrs. Anthony W. Dimmock of Pika Mose, New York makes the following interesting report. The Robin Junior Audubon Circle is composed of the boys and girls of three district schools in the Catskill Mountain Valley. No one school has enough pupils of required age to form a circle and the distances between them are so great that frequent meetings cannot be held but good work is being done. The most interesting feature of our work the past year was the collection of abandoned birds nests in the autumn. One school of five pupils collected over one hundred nests. Among these collections two selections of ten nests each were made to be sent to New York City. One collection went to the Jacob Resettlement and one passed through the hands of three kindergartens, interesting one hundred children. To each nest was attached a colored picture of the bird which had made the nest and a description of its habits. Letters from the settlement children and the kindergartners brought to the circle expressions of delightful appreciation. The National Association of Audubon Societies with headquarters at 1974 Broadway New York City makes the following offer of assistance to those teachers and others who are interested in giving instruction to children on the subject of birds and their usefulness. To form a junior Audubon class for bird study a teacher should explain to the pupils of her grade and others if desired that their object will be to learn all they can about the wild birds and that everyone who becomes a member will be expected to be kind to the birds and protect them. Every member will be required to pay a fee of ten cents each year. When ten or more have paid their fees the teacher will send their money to the National Association and give the name of the Audubon class and her own name and address. The association will then forward to the teacher for each member whose fee has been paid the beautiful Audubon button and a set of ten colored pictures together with the outline drawings and the script of leaflets assigned to class study for that year. The teacher will also receive free of cost for one year the splendid magazine bird lure which contains many valuable suggestions for teachers. It is expected that the teacher shall give at least one lesson a month on the subject of birds for which purpose she will find the leaflets of great value as a basis for the lessons. Rules for a bird study class If the teacher wishes the Audubon class may have a regular organization and a pupil may preside upon the occasions when the class is discussing a lesson. For this purpose the following simple constitution is suggested. Article 1 The organization shall be known as give name junior Audubon class. Article 2 The object of its member shall be to learn all they can about wild birds and to try to save any from being wantonly killed. Article 3 The officer shall consist of a president, secretary and treasurer. Article 4 The annual fees of the class shall be 10 cents for each member and the money shall be sent to the National Association of Audubon Societies in exchange for educational leaflets and Audubon buttons. Article 5 The junior Audubon class shall have at least one meeting every month. Although most of these classes have been and will be formed among pupils in schools, anyone may form a class of children anywhere and receive the privileges offered. Subjects for study. Besides the study of the particular birds in the leaflets, the following subjects may be studied with profit. Birds nests. In the fall, after all the birds have left their nests, the nests may be collected and brought to the schoolroom. Study them and learn that the chipping sparrow's nest is made of fine rootlets and grasses and is lined with horsehair. Examine the mud cup of the robin's nest, the soft lining of the loggerhead strike's nest, etc. Feeding birds. In winter, arrange bird tables in the trees and by the windows and place crumbs and seeds on them. In summer, put out bathing and drinking pans. Note what birds come to them and how frequently and report what you observe to the class. Nesting boxes. In early spring, put up nesting boxes for bluebirds, wrens, chickadees, nut hatches, martins, and other birds. The leaflet scent will be found to contain many suggestions about bird feeding and nesting boxes and the proper way to make and place the ladder. Coloring outlines. The children using crayons or water color paint may place the natural colors of the birds upon the outline drawings provided using the colored plates for comparison. This is one of the best ways to fasten in the memory the appearance of the birds and thus quickly learn to recognize them in the field. Many teachers have utilized this as an exercise for the regular drawing hour. Teaching children approved by the government. Considering the importance of the subject and the success that the plan has met, it is little wonder that the honorable P. P. Claxton, United States Commissioner of Education, early gave it his unqualified endorsement. In one letter he wrote, I consider the work of the junior Audubon classes very important for both educational and economic results, and I congratulate you upon the opportunity of extending it. The bird claws and the mosaic law ends with the words, that it may be well with thee and that thou mayest prolong thy days. The principle still holds. I hope that through our efforts the American people may soon be better informed in regard to wild birds and their value. In America we have neglected the subject of protecting our bird life and as a result in many sections we are suffering today from scourges of insects. Too long the careless and thoughtless have been allowed to wander aimlessly afield and shoot the birds that cause the winds of prosperity to blow. We must teach the children to avoid the errors that we have made. It is our duty to the child to give him of our best and teach him with all his getting to get understanding. End of Chapter 12. End of the bird study book.