Well, let's start. I'm Jordi, from Barcelona, and I will talk about Neo4j. Sorry for my English, I'm not used to talk a lot, but I will do my best. So, I started working in Neo4j about six months ago.  Excuse me, I'm a system administrator. All my work on computer is system administration, so I can give you a lot of answers about the topic. So, I will try to explain what I discovered about Neo4j and so on. Well, this is the manner you can save documents. It started with text documents in the 90s before. This is the evolution of how people started doing things. Well, it's an evolution that we had. After everything else, I discovered that everything was going to Neo4j, or GraphDV. GraphDV utilitza la teoria de la teoria de les gràfies. I, for storing the data. Instead of doing the typical relational database, using the tip scammers and columns and registers, it uses a graph to store all the information. And it works like this. Everything is with nodes instead of typical columns. Every node has its own relationships within them. And the nodes works as the registers. So, they are all relationships and you can have every node has its own registers. You can sync all the registers to the nodes and you can put relations between the registers. And for this, you have very speed and performance, everything. Well, this is a typical query working with Java. It's very simple to call and to make a node and to do a relationship between them. So, it works like this. I can't explain anything else because I'm not a developer. It's just a theory I see. So, this can be used for everything, almost. You can save social data for everybody and you can spend it to anything. You can put relationships between all the nodes and you can query everything. You can also add special data so you can have the geological information about all the nodes. In Neo4j, there is a function for doing special data. So, you can mix it with Google Maps or another technology it can do. And you can add social and special data in the same graph so you can mix everything and store everything in the same graph. Another example is financial data. You can also have all the stuff in a person and you can discover what he did with everything. What else? You can apply these two to computer numics, maybe, I don't know, to have a relation between a protein or whatever. Well, for creating Neo4j, there is a lot of options for doing it. You can use the framework or with Java directly. You have a lot of language bindings like Ruby, Python. I did myself an example with Ruby, the basic one. You have Gremlin, it's a very powerful tool for query Neo4j, like Perl. You can also have isomorphic, it's something that you can match a graph that you set and you can search on this graph, on existing graph. But it's on development currently. And you can use Snow to do a query like SQL for doing a search. Neo4j has these components, it's quite simple, it's just a half megabyte jar. You can download it in no matter of time, these are the components. You have the core of Neo4j, an indexing tool, a Neo4j shell, that is a command line shell, that you can run commands online, the Java API for interacting and doing more stuff. The component for backups, as always, and the set of algorithms and all the graph stuff. What else? This is the typical uses I found that are best for using the graph databases. That's the meaning for it. This is the projects I found out, customers for doing projects. In that meaning, you can have make algorithms for searching and patterns and that. High critical environments that already have RDVMS and they need to be more fast and agile. Biochemical for doing the research with proteins or whatever. Discret haven simulation, you can apply a pattern behavior for seeing everything in a graph database and doing a study or more simple. Social graph, the typical unit when you want to build a community, social community like Facebook or Twitter, they are using their own social graph and they are using a graph database. I found a tool with my work, as a sysadmin, that network architecture, like doing routing and Cisco and whatever, or switching. It's very useful tool to make the routes and everything about the network. What else? This is so much simple. This is a graph I made with a friend of mine. I analysed the jet eyes and seats. It's a simple example for showing what it's able to do. Or Neo4j, whatever. With the relationships and everything. This is made with Neo clips. It's a plugin for the clips and you can install it directly. And it represents the graph. Well, another example of routing. You have a set of routes and you can make a search and do the best way for going to a point to another point. This is another tool for visualisation graphs. I took this from one of the exemplars of the office. I think it's a GitHub example with all the followers and so on. What else? Another tool for visualisation graphs. No. Why Neo4j? It's one of the most used graphs in the world. It's persistent, embedded. You can install everywhere, almost. We have tests with Android mobile phones. Since it's a very small jar, you can install almost everywhere. In development since 2003, it's very scalable. There are lots of tools and buildings and frameworks. You can see further in the wiki or mailing lists. And it's a JPL version 3. And commercial. But for everything and all the uses are totally free. These are more of graph TV. The more typical, the more I meet more of the guys of this graph TV. They are the more options. You can watch a look at the wikipedia. There are lots of graph TVs and kinds of things. And it's all... This is all the... The mailing list is very active. There are lots of mails and questions. They are always answered directly from the developers. It's very fast to get help from there. You have the GitHub too. You can go there and clone Neo4j i use it at your laptop or whatever. You also have the wiki. The wiki for start with Neo4j is very fast. I use it that for learning a little about Neo4j. And you have two slides from two friends of mine, Pablo and Pera. I can explain anything else because I don't know. I have a partner of mine that will do more introduction to graph TVs. This is just a presentation of Neo4j and graph TV. If you have questions, I would like to... Will you be outside to take questions? Pera will be outside to take any questions. Because I'm just presenting this. I think it's all. Thank you very much.


I promised I'd read a comment about two or three months ago if a video went over 500 comments and it did, so Veronica was a woman with eyes that would draw you in. In fact, she had six of them and eight legs all the way down to the ground.  That's the comment I chose by The Rice and Cake, who I believe is somebody from my discord. Welcome to r slash dank memes from site 19, where I go over all of the best memes from r slash dank memes from site 19, as determined by me. Let's get started. I just, every time I see 2718, I get super irritated with it, and I don't know for sure if this is joking because it's saying it's scary or it's saying it's not scary. Because it really isn't too scary. It's the opp- what's the opposite of scary?  It's like, we must declare human death a Keter SCP, and contain it at any cost. A Keter SCP- what does that even mean? A difficult to contain SCP, I guess, but I don't know. Such an irritating article. It's one of those articles that would have been better if it was a tale, but it would have not have been as high rated, and rating beats quality in this particular case. Instead of making something that's good, or I'm sorry, instead of making something that's as good as it could possibly be, they made something that was more consumable. Which is, I mean, you can't fault it, but it still irritates me. The same six SCPs from series one r slash SCP, thousands of other well-written articles. I mean, yeah, I don't know if that's necessarily true. There's other SCPs besides series one. I would say that there's probably about like, maybe 12 to 20 SCPs spread out across the wiki that most people just think of when they think of the SCP Foundation, and when they make memes or they want to, you know, like, what SCP do you think you would, which was your favorite SCP? Like there's not a thousand possibilities you could come up with, depending on your attitude and mood for the day. No, no, no, there's only like 20, so let's pick from the list. It's a very short list.  That's what's happening right now.  SCP is slightly mechanical. Mechanites allow us to introduce ourselves. It is interesting how, like, any time anything's even slightly mechanical, somehow the mechanites are always involved. Isn't that weird? There's never, I mean, I'm sure there are, but there's like, it's almost like there are just a few SCPs that are somehow both mechanical and not involving the Church of the Broken God. That's super weird, which is just because authors like to add little, but that's probably when you have like a bunch of authors all trying to add in their own little Easter eggs. If everybody adds an Easter egg to the mechanites, whenever it's a mechanical SCP, then it's not really an Easter egg anymore. It's just a habit. SCP Foundation in most canons. Serious, ruthless, cold and logical. SCP Foundation in the Lowell Foundation. Hey, man, how dare you?  This is about one of mine. I don't remember the number of time I had. Is it three, six, one, three? It's one of them. It definitely ends in 13. Edward James Olmos exists, an entire denny's. I will initiate self-destruct. Ah, yes. An SCP that was written solely because I wanted to have an article that was called Edward James Olmos. Because that pun just kept popping into my head. The GOC handling normal anomalous items. The GOC handling in world ending anomalies. The GOC dealing with the cool. See, this is, I think it's supposed to be saying that they did a dumb when they dealt with the cool chair. But really, they just did what they do. And it happened in this particular case, the backfire. They didn't change their operating procedures at all. This is exactly how they operate. Although, you know, this is the problem with the GOC. So the GOC is originally like this idea of like a foiled the SCP Foundation. What if we had the SCP Foundation, but they were more exploity and destroy. So they exploit SCPs every once in a while for when they find them that particularly useful. And they also destroy SCPs if they find them particularly destructive or dangerous. But like anything, people like want to be a part of it. So they're like, ah, you know what? I like the GOC. The GOC is better than the SCP Foundation. I want to write about the GOC. And so then they write the GOC. And it's no longer a foil. It's its own thing. And it just develops and develops. And suddenly you've got the GOC as this hyper-competent, this hyper-competent extra governmental organization that's somehow also an intra-governmental organization. Nothing about the GOC really makes sense from its organizational perspective. But you know, suddenly it's a thing that seems much more competent and realistic.   We don't. Be more like us. Being featured in Dr. Sim. Being featured again. Being featured for a third time. My brain writes, being in the pay spin. Being in the pay spin two more times. Yeah. So Yossi sends me a pay spin every week with a set number of memes in it. And then I take that pay spin and I'll actually go through it and select down a number of memes. And then after a certain, after I get a count for that, I'll usually try to get it down to about 25. Then I'll put it in. I'll record the video. But then I'll also cut more memes out. But the original pay spin, the whole Yossi list, is what I use for credits. Because my process doesn't really allow me to select it down very well. Just to make sure that everybody is, I didn't miss anybody. I put the whole thing in there. So that's my process. Yossi has really been helpful in making sure that these videos get made. You, the guy who tells you not to worry about. Honestly, that's a better design than the original 682 image. And added bonus, it's not plagiarized.  And also, that image of 682 is stolen from essentially like a Russian cryptid thing. Like, ugh, I hate that it's plagiarized. I mean, the thing is people in the SAP Wiki, especially writers, they don't really think of it that way. They think of image. And this is the thing. I don't think it was an intentional thing. So let's say you see it. You say, hey, by the way, this is plagiarized because you didn't say that it wasn't yours in the first place. You didn't source it properly. And then someone goes, oh, I'm sorry, and takes it down. But that's not what's happening. It's still being left up because it's apparently key to the article or some bullshit. But it's not. This is one of the few images. You could take it down. It wouldn't matter. Ugh, plagiarized images, plagiarized images. See, but the original author doesn't think of it that way. They put it up and they think no one's going to think I created this image myself. Because I can't do art. I can't do Photoshop. I can't do this. I can't do that. And I never claimed that I made it. So no one's going to think that I did. But of course, people will think you did.  That's something that can be fixed, though.  That's all I'm saying. Any SCPF to the first series, mods, we do not grant you a spot on there.    It raises a number of, not all, but some subpar quality articles up to some level of godhood.  You are wrong. I never actually saw that. But I did afterwards see some people talking about how April Fool's stuff was supposed to be put on hold. And I'm like, why? Why would you put it on hold?    That's a, yeah, that's a thing. I'm just going to, I'm just going to, I'm just going to move on. Wait, hold on, hold on, hold on. Jesus Christ, man. This person has, who did, who created, I didn't even know who created this. They really, because that's, I'm guessing that must be 2913. What's the man with the Clint Eastwood reference? Welcome to Samothrace branch. We have cool maps, pointless shouting about our existence. A refugee crisis, an existential dread. Do I even exist if nobody acknowledges my existence? Did you hear about the thing going on in Samothrace? Sounds serious.  I don't know that that's true. I'm sure some of them do. I've never got that instinct or urge to be like, oh my God, they're fighting, it's so cool. But people are like that. Anyway, thank you very much for watching. If you enjoyed the video, please scroll down, hit the subscribe button, and then hit the notification bell next to that so you're notified when I upload new videos. Or else. I don't know where else what, but we'll find something. Then, if you'd really like to support the channel, head on over to patreon.com forward slash de-samarian and pledge at any level like everybody here on the screen already has. If you pledge like probably a wizard and definitely not a scientist and Manuel Noltorp at the 30 or $40 tier, you get your name read out in every episode. Nice to know that I'm not alone out here. And for the record, neither are you. I'll see you all again on Thursday.


Welcome to the channel. This is reliable Rudy and this video will be filling a viewer request for a visa But before we get into the video, I'm not always since financial advisor everything this video contains only my opinion And it's for entertainment purposes only I do not have an individual holding a visa But I probably own it in one of my index funds So keep that in mind, but at the end of the day, I'm going to get my unbiased opinion on the company So going into the video Market cap 370 billion revenue 29 billion net income almost 15 billion So just looking at that alone very good margins current P of almost 25 five-year average of 30 So kind of right in line right there Profit margins 51% Outstanding right in line with their five-year profit margins very very nice and gross margins of 80% price of sales 660 now this is Probably on the higher side, but with these margins you're it's reasonable to have a higher price of sales But still 1260 is probably a little bit high a year-to-date free cash flow 16 billion Kind of in line with their five-year average nice growth right there five-year average of 12 and a half roughly they have a point 8% Dividend dividends paid at 3.11 billion dividends paid so taking that out of their year-to-date free cash flow That's probably right around that 18 to 20 percent of their free cash flow goes to that dividend so plenty of room for growth right there Return on assets very good return on equity very good They invest their money really good right in line with their five-year average on their invested capital Yeah, pretty solid metrics of a visa when you when you're dealing with companies that have Solid profit margins and gross margins like this normally it everything else kind of falls in line It's especially if they can consistently put up numbers like that and for the most part pretty Right in range with their five-year numbers so pretty good stuff there. So let's click on the eight pillars and yeah The companies like this where you see these two red X's it's just a matter of valuation normally But the end of the day long-term liabilities Divided by their five-year average free cash flow now that's going off of their five-year numbers right here If you're going off of their year-to-date free cash flow This is probably even lower But this is insinuating that they can pay off all their long-term liabilities in about two years and Then a solid growth everywhere else. So yeah like what I'm seeing So let's jump into the income statement and go look at the revenue Now this is on four quarters. We'll keep it there for a second. You can see I mean just consistent growth Now the COVID year a little bit of just a down on revenue, but right back on track in these last two years let's go check in on the Actually, let's look at the cost of good soul So you can see this increase right here and cost a good soul a little bit less than a billion, but their actual revenue grew by About three point seven or three point three billion roughly So really good revenue growth in my opinion. You can see the gross profit right here I just consistent growth all the way through that's what you want to see very nice Going over to the quarterly you can see their third quarter revenue Actually had a nice little decrease right here. I'm not sure when they reported these numbers But might be worth looking at something because this is going back to those COVID lows I'm not sure if they're lows. Let's click back real quick So you can see leading up to COVID pretty solid growth and this COVID year if we switch back over to This second quarter of 2020. This was their decrease, but then back to really solid revenue growth right there or operating revenue and Yeah, now This is something that I would want to look into because what what what was it that made them fall off of this course right here of this consistent revenue growth and Nothing really changed with the cost of good sold as a lot of companies their cost of good solds are going up with the Current economic state that we're in So something to look into right there, but the end of the day they're operating income This is the business what the business model itself is bringing in taking out other expenses Pretty solid growth still on the operating income. So I'm sure they had specially income charges. No, they didn't they didn't have specially income charges. There's There's probably something that's tying into why this revenue is down a little bit Net income they were still had very solid net income growth right there So in going off this net income to this revenue, this is more than This is right around that 60% margin. So that's very very good Let's go down to the shares. Oh, that's interesting Interesting. So buying back a lot of shares. Oh It's a little bit all over the place. So bought back a little stayed bought back bought back issued some shares So I'm sure the share price with that COVID year This is where that return on equity comes in they issued a ton of share I'm sure their share price was up quite a bit and then they bought back a ton of shares right there stayed flat now They issued some more shares right there. I'm sure they did a very good job of issuing When at a more of an elevated price, it's tough to say and then they haven't paid this dividend in this quarter But it looks like this dividend growth is there. So if we're looking at this dividend growth 2020 they paid a dollar 20 2021 they paid a dollar 28 and then 2021 into 2022 that increase in six cents is I mean we can go calculate that real quick Uh, so 0.32 is what they paid the previous year multiply that by four. So 128 now, let's do 0.38 times four divided by 128 This is insinuating the growth. So dividend growth of 18.75 percent That easily covers the current inflation that we're sitting at So even though the dividend is only 0.8 percent that dividend growth that you're getting for holding the shares Is covering that inflation. So that is what you want to see in any type of dividend company And also tying in the payout ratio of the company, which is roughly around that 20 percent So pretty solid, uh, in terms of looking at the dividend aspect of visa Um, so that's kind of what I wanted to look at right there. Let's look at the four quarters and look at these shares a little bit So, yeah at the end of the day, they they They've been consistently around this two billion over this two billion Now they're still at at 1.9 billion shares. So they're still consistently buying back shares. That's what you want to see Now you can see the dividend growth here was the 20 increase. This is roughly a six percent increase right there And now they go from a six percent increase to increase and they're dividend by 18 percent I would imagine that this dividend growth, especially with the 20 payout ratio that this is going to continue to grow Year in and year out because it's not taking much of their free cash flow if they can consistently put up that free cash flow I would expect this dividend to continue increasing So the next thing we want to talk about is the Long-term my abilities. Let's go to the balance sheet Plenty of cash on hand fifth and growing cash on hand and this is on a quarterly state. So Just looking at these last three quarters 12 billion 14 billion 15.7 billion. They're growing their cash Same with their turn their current assets growing growing assets, which we want to see Total assets 85 billion To go look at their long total liability. So a current ratio of About 1.8. So yeah, visa is not going under especially with those margins uh very solid current ratio And long-term my abilities 29 29 billion if we go back to the metrics tab Of free cash for year to date 16 billion you take 29 billion divided by 16 billion if they're able to continue that Year to date free cash let's insinuate and they can pay off their long-term debt in 1.8 years So very very solid right there. I would say Uh, yeah pretty solid. I think uh, I am actually going to dip into the stock analyzer tool here. So let's go pull up Stock analysis.com. We'll type in visa Go to financials and let's Determine what type of revenue growth we're going to look for right here Uh, switch it to a quarterly. So You can see that this little decline right here. Now. This doesn't have that third quarter We know that third quarter is going to decrease a little bit. So I might uh dip Be a little bit more conservative on those revenue Numbers, but let's also go to macro trends and pull this up visa So here's this revenue. They do not have that. Oh, they do have that third quarter right here Hmm. Why is it saying that they had seven point? Seven seven Yeah, I might have to look into that a little bit because if we go on this quarterly for this third quarter Okay, so it's taking this revenue right here, but they're operating revenue with the decline So I don't know how I feel about that But at the end of the day, they're they're actual revenue that they posted still had pretty solid growth right there so back over to the Pretty consistent right around that I like the high gross margin. So I think I am going to play that in factor that into this model a little bit So let's go over to the stock analyzer tool and Let's just go on the low side. We'll go six 10 14 I like that revenue growth now looking at their five year and 10 year numbers I might even tweak this down a little bit We'll go nine and 12 just to bake in a little bit more margin of safety profit margins really consistent right around that range But let's go look at the margins real quick. And you can see the gross margins Very solid gross margins operating margins for the last Nice shelf right here in the 60s a little bit of a decrease in 2016 But right back into these 60s. I really like that operating margins now looking at the net margins 2016 was definitely a funky year I'm sure they had some sort of acquisitions in there We'll go look at that before I finish this off But a good shelf right here in the low to higher 40s And then a nice shelf right here really consistent around here So I I would say it's pretty fair to assume right around this 50 percent net margins unless something drastically changes with the business So we'll go to these profit margins. We'll go 46 48 50 I feel that's more than reasonable probably a little bit on the lower side But as I as I always state it's always good to bake in as much margin of safety as you possibly can And we'll use these these same numbers for the free cash flow Now for a pe for a six percent revenue growth, I'm probably going to pay that 16 of 14 18 So we'll go 16 18 and 20 16 18 20 we want a 15 percent return for a 10 year analysis We're going to hit analyze There you go. Um, so yeah As I stated probably a little bit on the high on the higher side now If I wanted to tweak these numbers and I wanted to stay more condensed And this double digit growth because they're growing pretty solid And I'm sure that kovat here is probably tweaking into some of these five year and 10 year numbers That kovat here was a down here. We'll go 10 the 14 percent and we'll just leave this at a flat 50 percent across the board Now insinuating a 10 growth Probably going to pay 18 20 and 22 18 20 22 for a 15 percent return Okay, we're we're right in there now if we're looking at the stock price of visa Did it get down into these 180s? It sure did. So if you believe those high numbers, uh, Recently we were down into this buy range now just looking at this I haven't looked at anything charting related with visa But you can see we have a nice descending channel going down You can see boom Boom, I'm sure this this rejection right here is setting another low So you got a high a lower high a lower high a lower high and a lower high And it's already seen action right there if this Support is able to give out that is where you're looking for it I'm sure there's gaps on the way up right here that you're looking for at the fill Now this is in the one now the low for this kovat drop was down to 135 if I go back to my stock and Analyzer tool would I be interested in this stock if it got down to 135? Yes I would I would be very interested in that But um, nonetheless before I wrap this video up Let's go over to the chart and do a little bit of charting analysis on visa And as you can see I have a pretty clean chart. I have not looked at this chart But oh, yeah, this is this is what this is what I was talking about off of that first glance you can see Direct correlation with that you have multiple points of contact one two three four five six seven eight nine 10 10 points of contact now had it been able to push this You know it did have earnings that came in place right here But on that earnings day, let's zoom into this a little bit. You can see that we left this gap right here Let's mark that gap Then you see on today's trading day.  Let's see what they did right in line with the numbers that analysts were expecting And Here we are. We're trying to get down to this gap Now do we have some sort of uptrend that we can go off of right here? We sure do Boom boom boom. This is actually the third point of contact that we're putting a wick into right here And they're getting ready to pay their dividend not a big dividend, but As I stated before that dividend is growing Uh, so let's switch this over to a month's chart and see if we have a long term uptrend that we can set You know, we have that downtrend And it looks like we do probably have an uptrend that we can place right in here But the interesting part about this Ah, yeah From the start of existence back in 08 You have this sell off right here And we are kind of passes down to our this uptrend Now I would want to look inside of this right here for any types of gap fills right here Now you can see on the month chart We do Gap up right here and when we are the lows that we almost set pretty much a double bottom It opens up the next month a little bit higher. We can see this wick goes to the same exact spot Let's mark that with a horizontal line right there and that comes down to 175 going back to my stock analyzer tool 175 in the middle of my middle and high assumptions right there It could have been a buying opportunity and maybe my numbers are a little bit conservative But at the end of the day, that is what I would have been looking for a little bit more. You can see That line that I had put we have a shaved green bottom right off of that line Holding that support and I had this support given out I probably would have expected a little bit of red engulfing to the downside But this is what I was more interested in right here. Let's go see some of the gaps that need to be filled We got a gap right there gap right there gap right there Now on the kovat drop Here was gap right there. This isn't the kovat drop. This was the kovat drop But a couple gaps that need to be filled but you can see this gap up right here Let's see if this ended up getting filled this got filled on the money So we gap up right here on an earnings day and then we came down one two Three just a simple abc structure down to this gap fill where we ended up staying bullish right there So yeah a couple gaps that need to be filled but look at where these gaps are at these gaps from 135 to 121 Let's go back over to my analysis right here That is right in the middle of my low and middle assumptions if a price is to get down there That is going to be very attractive to me um but in the in the short term I would expect You know can this uptrend hold And how is it going to act with this with this downtrend right here? You can see the one the 10 points of contact on this downtrend right here Now you can see when this this long term uptrend that I set right here You can see it holds twice and we gap down right below it now What happens when we extend back up we meet and start forming this downtrend right here And it actually taps the top or the bottom part of my long term uptrend How interesting is that guys? But nonetheless You know very solid company, but from a charting perspective I got to see it push this this downtrend before I'd be interested in it And I'm looking forward to if it does continue to get rejected. So let's take this short term uptrend out Now if this is able to get a pop from this uptrend And go and hit this downtrend again and set a double top that is going to be very bearish in terms of what I mean by double top is a lower high from this I'm expecting the price to continue going down now if you have a high lower high lower high lower high all the ways through this I'm going to expect lower lows all the ways through this now if it gives out this support right here The next thing I have marked on my chart Is 160 and I'm sure there's other gaps that need to be filled in there. I can see there is a gap right there And a gap right there. Let's go see if those were filled You can see the 170 never got filled the 167 never got filled 160 151 135 so where would I be interested? And potentially starting a position for visa You know my middle assumption is pretty pretty close to that 150 Going over to the chart. We got 150 one and a half. I'd say that's probably pretty justified right there 150 and a half And that's my take on visa now. I have my chart set up I'm looking for this support to eventually end up cracking and let's see it come down here and fill some of these gaps Where we're more interested in the stock price. I hope you enjoy the video And we'll see you on the next one


Wel, roeddwn i'n teimlo i'r TV. Mae'r tîm nhw'n gweithio ar y Cymru. Yn y ffilm yng Nghymru, ond mae'r ffyrdd yn y cyd-dweud. Rydyn ni'n bwysig o'r ffyrdd yn ymgyrch. Mae'n rhaid o'r rhaid o'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd. Rydyn ni'n gwynt o'r ffordd o'r ffordd. Mae'n bwysig o'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd. Mae'r edyn ni'n ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd. Fel allwch g deton imaginedeb â Gwyrdd. Ac rwyf i ddim yn ei ddaint. Cymru, mig i gyda'i hynny yr stududencych, aBB nearby, felly mae o'r fan hynny. Ond yna'r gymod turbine oherwydd neb sil ddim cos felly rwynt o'r ffordd, 10 oed wedi fensanad Those haswn Of this fifth year, it's being there now It's just to me I Just never know what you're getting from him In terms of Some of his decision-making It's just abysmal Like he's 29 years of age He's got the arm band on today He should be a commanding centre-back I'm watching Craig Dawson at the other end Who's about 49 He's been around everywhere Just getting on with his job Making it difficult for the strikers felly mae'n gynnwys, mae'n agresif, a mynd dweud yn y Ffellar, mae 644, 643, 644 yng Nghymru, mae'n cael eu ddeallu ar gyfer y gyneth. Mae'n dwi'n meddwl i chi'n ddiddordeb yn dwylo. A gyd yna, mae'n dweud yn arddangos yn ansonio, mae'n ddysgu'n ddod o'r ddwylo. I wneud yw'n gwybod, y gwrth gŵn nhw'n gweld y gwerth gweithio. Dobie haes unrhyw a'r hyffordd o'i'r gwerth gwrth gŵr, ac mae'n gwybod, lle mae'n gwybod yn ddiwedd ar y ffordd, ond Michael Gean ei bod yn y gwbl, a fydd yw'n ddych chi'n gweld o'u gwbl, ac mae'n gweld o'u gwbl o'u gwbl o'u gwbl, a'n ei wneud o'u gwbl o'u gwbl o'u gwbl, a'n ei wneud o'u gwbl o'u gwbl o'u gwbl o'u gwbl, yma o'r llwyddiad yn yllan gweithio. Mae'n ddysgu'n gwneud o'r paig o'r pobl. Ac oeddwn i wneud, oeddwn i'n ffordd i'n dweud ac oeddwn i wneud i'n ddysgu'n gweithio o'r ddweud o'r bobl o'r sgwrtio o'r gweithio yng nghylch yn ddiogel. O'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r bobl. O'r ddweud o'r bobl o'n ddweud o'n ddweud. Os ydych chi'n rhai gael y freikick yn y bach gyda'n gweithio? Fel yna ydych chi'n gweithio i ddim yn cael ymgyrchu ymddangos? Mae'n amser i weld. Mae'n gweld llaweru. Mae'n bwysig. Mae'n gwisio i'n bwysig. Mae ydych chi'n gweithio i ddim yn gweithio? Mae yna'n gweithio i ddim yn gweithio. Mae'n mynd i ddim yn ddigonio, mae'n gweithio i'w ddogfaint, mae'n gweithio i'ch ddweud yn cael y pennu a'r cyffredinol. a go ddis lad costus gold every game he plays virtually. And I know, listen I know we're down to bare bones and options in centre back positions. But I'd rather brand play play it because I honestly don't think he'd cost us as many golds as Michael Keen. So I just don't understand what's going on. He's missing now for probably the only game you're wanting for. Barely a tough move against the big donkey of a centre forward. And he's out. So evidently I've obviously got to try and cope with that making the whole game. It was limpin at the end. Yeri mi na we know he's not back. So God knows if they're going to end up having to play it, he's got to brand play it anyway. But it's just, it's frustrate me so much the amount of gold that go in and Michael Keen's part of it. It really is winding me up. Second thing I want to talk about is the manager. And I still fully back Frank Llanpa that I don't get. I've seen different people. You know, some people even saying evidence you'd sack him. That to me is a bit mad, but everyone's got their own view on how things are going. But I do think he's got to start making some decisions that are tough. He's just right now he's still doing the safe thing. And evidently, you know what? Today I can't sit here. I know I've seen a few people have messaged me and stuff. Discrace and this, that and the other. I might just be looking at it through my eyes today, but I just thought that was quite an even game. And we've basically gifted them two goals and we've lost the game because of it. I think in other games we've just not been in it. And we were lucky to get out with what we've got away from home. But I think today I think we're unlucky not to get a point today. But the manager does have to be brave there. I know Michael Keen getting sent off obviously changes a lot of what he's going to do.  Probably around the time Keen was sent off. He should have been off the pitch. He was terrible today. He's been one of our best players this season. You know, he's a player who can make something happen. But he was really poor today. And I'd have took him off, I'd have gotten on a lot earlier. I think I'd have got Delhi on at some stage to try and get on the end of something. You know, give us something else in the field. And just think sometimes with Frank just right now. And I know we're in a precarious position. So he might be trying to rely on sure things. But I don't think there's any sure things with this squad. I really don't. And so that, you know, that's something that I think he's got to improve on himself. The players absolutely, I blame the players fully. It's really with them. Why haven't they been in this mess? Not the manager. But the manager does have to be a bit braver in my opinion. And then the third and final thing is the two lads up front or our two main goal scorers. With neither of which looks sharp in any way shape or form. Neither of which are doing enough, anywhere near enough to get us results. Other frontmen are getting to their team's results. Antonio hasn't had a good game today, but he's battled away and he's worked. And, you know, while he's ended up running through and force and pick for them to receive which jar of bone gets the winner from. And yet ours both were given one-on-ones. Feth, you know, or certainly a clear strike a goal and neither of them hit the target. Dom's clipped the top of the bar. Instead of going right back across the goalkeeper, which you should always do. Am y ti allas yn flicked one over at the outside of his foot. But there's got to be more than that today again. You know, and I just think right now we need them to start scoring. We need goals to get us results.  Pardon my French, we are in trouble. And you need someone to stand up and drag you through that sometimes. And our two, our two lads up front, who there's a lot of talk about, you know, teams, big teams in Champions League wanting them. Prove it for us then. If you want those big moves, get us some goals and keep us in this division at least. You know, and for me, they've got to start delivering. They're not delivering neither of them. You know, Dominic Alvallu has been dragged off today and he didn't look happy and shaking his head. And I'm not sure that they took him off either to be honest. The goal down to one, you know, he's one who might get his head on something. But he's on the bench shaking his head and, you know, I was watching the game and if and the Cuckoo was commentating on it, if and the Cuckoo was commentating on it. And it was like, you know, we want to be embarrassed by his performance.  He's not done enough today and that's an independent fella commenting on that. You know, and Dom, his performance has haven't been very good of late.  But do your job and keep us in this league. Get us some important goals. Him and the Charleston, the pair of them have got to do it. Got to because there's no one else to score on goals in this side. So it's on those two. And like I said, lot to talk about them going to bigger clubs or clubs that are in Europe. What have you, you know, when you moved in by scoring big goals. Now, when we need you without that, we're in trouble. We're in reals, we're in trouble anyway. But it would help if we had those lads of putting the ball in the back of the net. That's for sure. Right. That's it for my three things. I've mwned enough. Let me know what you think in the comments section below. Give the video a thumbs up. Subscribe if you haven't. See you later.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's CaseBreaks.com coming at you with, we've done four of these. I've done zero of them. This is my first one out of a fresh case. So I'm pretty excited about this. 2020 Top Sterling Baseball, two box random hit break number five.  Two one-of-ones per case, only four hits in here. And it's a random hit break. So I know there's John Stallone is in the house. He's got two spots. Brad Davis is in. He's got last spot mojo, technically. And Jeremy Port just won a spot in that blaster break we just did a few minutes ago. So we're gonna open up the case first. Fire department's coming here, getting ready to put out the fire that we're about to pull out of here. We'll type in, we'll just select two boxes, type in the hits there, randomize your names. There they are. Randomize the names, randomize the hits, match you up with something and see what you get. But let's pop this open first. Good, good, good one. Brad saying any guesses on what the mini box, I don't, not familiar with all the categories. So hopefully one of the boxes will be like rookies and the other one will be some old school guys. It's sort of hard to see, but I mark this four. These two, three, two, and one. You saw that on the top screen right there.  We'll go one, two, three, four. If I roll it, and then that'll be the corresponding number for the two boxes. If I roll a five or a six, we'll just roll again. One, as simple as that. All right, let's pop these open and let's see what we got. All right, we got some guesses here. Mike Tanzio wants rookies and Yankees greats. Brad L is guessing 1970s All-Stars and Cy Young winners. Johnny Poole-Noodle says Yankee greats and 80s Hall of Fame or whatever that particular one is. All right, so for the first one, it's Icons and MVP Award winners. And the next one is gonna be Hall of Famers and 2000s MLB All-Stars MVP Award winners. And we'll type in the hits in the order I'm pulling these. These are all 180s, maybe a little blue painters tape to keep them secure. There's a little bit of red white there. Is that out of five or is that a one of one? That's a triple relic, triple on-card auto. Hank Aaron, Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Trout two out of five. These are all on-card. That means at one point, all three of these guys held this card. Think about that. Okay, so that's the first one on the list. This time, this one's Icons. This will be the second that I'm gonna type in. Someone's gonna get a train whistle for that, obviously. All right, this one. Is gonna be a cut autograph, John Glenn, top certified cut signatures. There gonna be 75s in there, you can snack for me. Astronaut and US Senator John Glenn. Yes, that John Glenn. Everyone knows John Glenn, right? Yeah. Here, let me just type these in really quick because I wanna keep them in order. Hank Aaron, Ken Griffey Jr. I can't believe I'm typing these words in. Plus Mike Trout triple auto, triple relic auto two out of five. That's, yeah. That's one of the crazier hits that I've ever pulled. The 50 auto book was nice. That quantity-wise, that was nice. But to see, these are all on-card, Nick. Like all three of these guys held this, these and four other cards in their hands at one point. That's John Glenn. You know, astronaut in US, was John Glenn the first to do space walks or orbit, Callistus' first US orbit? Definitely an American icon, that's for sure. Everyone can be on board with John Glenn. I think 2000s MLB All Stars will be the third hit that I'm gonna type in. Is it John Glenn number? Doesn't, yeah, right there. Kinda hidden. One of one. Good Buzz Aldrin joke, Brad. I was the second man on the moon, Neil, before me. He's here all week, folks. All right, next is a dual relic and autograph. 10 linsegum, nice. 22 out of 25. Wow, that's a great design right there, too. You see these relic windows right here, too? Yeah, they're cool. They're nice etched. That's, I mean, no knock on Dynasty, but like, I look at this and I go, okay, I feel like that's $450. I told people this is the most allocated product. Wow, all right. Tim linsegum, dual relic, autograph. Yeah, I mean, like the player itself may not be, but I'm saying in terms of design and quality, like if it was like Tatease Jr., Ohtani or Trout or something like that, like you can feel like the actual quality of that there, too, you know? Design, I meant. Hall of Famers, is that plural? Or are they just saying this is part of the Hall of Famer set? Tim linsegum is not a Hall of Famer. Stop. If he had the first three years of his, first, like, five years of his career, if he did that for 15 seasons, he's a three-time World Series champ, two-time Cy Young winner, two no-hitter. He had nothing to do with like the third World Series. Three-time World Series champ, two Cy Youngs and two no-hitters. Stop, stop, stop. He's a respectable pitcher, but come on. Hall of Fame. Oh, don't look, Rex. Five out of 25 dual relic and autograph. The Ryan Express, commemorating his 1981 Sterling season. Partial inspiration for the Big Hit Express. The Ryan Express. Five out of 25 on that one. So there are your four hits right there. There are the four people, right? There were three people in the four spots right there. All right, well, let's roll it. Let's randomize each one 11 times. It's a lot. Six out of five, 11 times. Good luck. Names first. Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, and 11 the final time. John Brad, Jeremy John. Six out of five, 11 times for the hits. And there's no hiding. There's only four items on the list. There's no hiding. Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, and 11th and final time. After 11 times, Tim, John, triple Nolan. And here's how it shakes out. Woo. All right, John Stallone. You got two nice hits right here. The Tim Lindsicum dual relic in autograph 25 and the Nolan Ryan dual relic in autograph.  And the big one here, Jeremy Port with the spot that he won in the blaster box, gets the Hank Aaron, Ken Griffey Jr., Mike Trout, triple relic and auto, all on card, two out of five. And of course, the Big Hit Express train whistle out of fives and under. All aboard the Big Hit Express. Woo-hoo. There you go. I'm Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com. I guess I'll see you next time for the next one of these. Bye-bye.


Mark Shklov, the host of Think Tech Hawaii's Law Across the Sea program. Today we're going to talk with Amanda Chang, a lawyer who traces her roots across the sea to Korea. Amanda is of counsel to the law firm of Clay Chapman, Iwamora Police, and Nerval here in Honolulu, Hawaii. I've asked Amanda to share her perspectives and insight as a Korean-American attorney in Hawaii. Aloha. Amanda, how are you? Aloha. Good to see you, Mark. Good to see you. And you identify as a Korean-American. And I want to ask you a little bit about that. And tell me a little bit about your personal heritage as Korean-American. What does that mean to you personally? I am, I guess, ancestry-wise, I'm 100% pure Korean, but nationality-wise, I'm an American citizen. So combining the two, my ancestry and my current citizenship makes me Korean-American. But I was born in Korea, Seoul, Korea, and came to Hawaii as an immigrant with my parents. When they immigrated, I came as their, you know, three children with them. You know, I came just a package deal. Your parents go, you go, right? So I moved because my parents moved, especially my father's side family lived in the US in Hawaii since the 60s. So my father was the last one to join. So I came here in 1983 as a high schooler at Pearl City High School. Okay. Wow. So, yeah, so you've combined both your Korean heritage and birth with Hawaii and America. And that's how you see yourself, that Korean-American. That's what brings that identity to you. Correct. I could almost say I'm Korean-Hawaiian, but nobody will believe me. So I'm Korean-American. Okay.  What kind of law do you practice? You know, I've been doing immigration law since day one. So I, when I was in law school, I wanted to do, I wanted to come up with a like law that is right for me. So I wanted to have two criteria. One, I wanted to use my language. I can speak three languages. So I wanted to use my language. And two, I wanted to have an equal gender representation among my clients. So if I were to go say, for example, corporate law, criminal law, more likely than not, I'll have more male clients. Whereas if I were to go family law, immigration law, half and half, you know, like kind of even. So I wanted to work with both gender, especially women, if I could. So I was more interested in family and immigration. And boom, all of a sudden, Mr. James Stanton, who was the founding attorney for this law firm. Now they changed from Stanton Clay and all that name. Now we are actually Clay, Eomora, Pulis and Nervau, Chapman retired. So I was recruited by Mr. Stanton, who founded this law firm that I'm of counsel at this point. He was an adjunct professor teaching immigration law at the university school of law. William S. Richardson School of Law. I took immigration law from him and he offered me a job. And as a law clerk, I thought, oh my God, this guy's perfect because I was interested in immigration and family. He did immigration and family. So I say, this is it. I got a, like the ticket. I won the lottery ticket. So that's how I got involved in immigration and family. But I don't do much family law anymore. But I mainly specialize in immigration law. Thanks to Mr. James Stanton. He's my forever teacher. You know, that's interesting. And you also trace your own background to immigration to Hawaii. And, you know, there was, there is Korean immigration in Hawaii. What is the background of a basic Korean immigration? When did Korean people start coming to Hawaii? Why did they come here? And what attracted them to Hawaii? What's the background? It's a sad and happy story to tell. It goes back 120 years ago. 1903, January 13th is when 120 Koreans came to Hawaii Harbor in Gaelic, you know, it's a ship called Gaelic. 102 people started the first immigration of any Korean coming to the US. In fact, any, you know, immigration to any foreign land from Korea, period. Back then, Korea was a dynasty. Some people call it Joseon dynasty. Some people call it Lee dynasty, E dynasty. But 1903 is a kind of sad, kind of historically in Korea where Japanese occupation colonizing Korea occurred officially 1910. 1910, which is like about 130 years ago about. But few years before, there was a process. It doesn't just happen one day, another country, you know, colonizing another country. So 1903, a lot of Koreans, a lot of Christians in fact left Incheon, which is a port city near Seoul, Korea. They left Korean soil for better life and to work and to also Christianity in Korea was really starting at that point and really rare. So a lot of church members of Incheon area and some other areas too, but mostly Incheon area came. That was our first generation of Korean immigration in 1903. In fact, we just celebrated 120th anniversary of Korean immigration in January this year. So that's how all started. And then a lot of people came until 1940s. And then there was a stop of immigration from Asia altogether. And then second wave of immigration started in late 1960s. So second wave of immigrants started to come in 1960s until now. I am part of the second wave. And the original, I mean, they're looking for a better life. I mean, and that seems to be a common theme of immigrants coming to Hawaii or coming to the United States is looking for a better life. And did they find it here in Hawaii? And are they still interested? Are Koreans still want to come to Hawaii? That's a good question and you asked few, so I'll answer one at a time. So those who first came in 1903, a lot of them thought, okay, I'm going to work hard and make money and I'm going to return back home to marry and to start a family. The majority of 102 people who came to Hawaii's shore in 1903, all male, single, a lot of them, not too many families. So they wanted to work hard and make some money and go home. But then, as I said to you a little earlier, in 1910, there was no Korea. Japanese took over, so there was no home to return. So Hawaii became the temporary, like what do you call it, independence movement space where Shanghai was one and Hawaii was another big city or country where independence movement of among Korean ancestries trying hard to raise money and to take back their country from Japan. So early immigration was like that. It was about no home to return, independence movement. And then now, I think 60s and on Korea also went through Korean war after the Japanese occupation ended in 1945. You know, South Korea was born in 1948, but then two years after there's a Korean war between the north and the south. So when war ended in 1953, Korea had nothing. It just became a new country, South Korea being a democratic country, North Korea being the communist country. But other than that, they had nothing. Everything was destroyed. It was right after the war. Korea had to build their country from scratch, literally from 1953. So in the 60s and 70s and 80s, a lot of people came for better life and better education and my parents being one, my family, my mom and dad joined my father's side family who was established by then in 80s when we came. And my father's delayed his immigration until he decided that, you know what, for better education for my children, I'm going to join my rest of my family. So that's how it came. So I think, as you asked, yes, better life. It came and then I think Koreans flourished ever since they came, I think in the US. So it's been beneficial and it's been a good positive step for immigration. Is it hard for Koreans to immigrate to Hawaii or to the United States now? Is there any restrictions or problems with that at all? You know, immigration law, since I'm doing immigration law, immigration to any country is not an easy matter. Changing your life from one country looting to another country is not an easy thing. But immigration law is ever changing federal law just like tax law. I mean, it changes every single time you have a chance. Immigration law the same. So the rule changes, policies change when the president changes, we have a whole set of new attitudes and policies and rules and such. So immigration in general, I would say it's not easy. However, we do have a lot of treaties between Korea and the US and of course, US with other countries. But a lot of them are remaining the same. I mean, I've been doing this since 2000. So it's been 23 years. There are laws that change so many times. I cannot even remember how many. There are some laws that stay put from the beginning until now. No changes. So there is a, you know, both. But overall, immigration law is a very ever changing. So I never get bored because I cannot be bored. I have to keep up every time I have a chance continuing legal education for immigration lawyer is the name of the game. Okay. Yeah. And, you know, you talked about the differences between North and South Korea. Also, as maybe being a motivating factor for immigration and. Okay.  Sorry. Sorry. I don't know how to turn this off. No, I'm going to do this. Sorry. I manually hung up the phone. Sorry. Go ahead. Ash, are you okay? Ash. Yeah. Okay. Okay, so you mentioned Amanda that, you know, the differences between North and South Korea motivated a lot of people to move to United States and to Hawaii, and that things have been beneficial. You know, what, what, what is the view of Korean Americans towards what's happening in Korea, North and South and major issues. And I have some follow up questions. I mean, I just don't understand that, you know, the difference. Why is what North Korea one way and South Korea another what, what's motivated is anything cultural. I mean, I know I've asked a bunch of questions but what are your thoughts. I think the biggest issue of Korea is the fact that we have two Koreas, South and North. So the biggest issue is unification. Both South and North Korea share the same culture, same language, same ancestry. There is no difference except for political system. North Korea being communist, South Korea being, you know, a democratic country, the ideology and two different regime, that's the only difference that's separating. What's so sad is, you know, Korea has been separated since 1953 at the end of the war until now. There are people who have families separated because of the two Koreas and you cannot freely go. There's some exchanges of relatives seeing each other with a prearranged setting and time and place between the two Koreas, but I think the biggest issue facing being faced by Korea is unification. And I hope this is my personal hope that the Korea will be unified. And as a one country sooner than later, I really hope that is going to happen before I die. And you know what, North Korea, they are very closed community, closed the country.  We have some news, but you know what, North Korea is such a closed country. I've been to North Korea one time as a South Korean government sponsored me and other Korean Americans to go as an effort to make a unification happen. So I visited North Korea one time as a like group, so just sponsored by South Koreans and North Korean together. But other than that, I don't have any experience or, you know, a knowledge about what's going on except for what you hear, what you read on the news. Whereas South Korea, I go to South Korea for at least once if not every once a year, if not every other year. In fact, I'll be there in September, because there was an international association of Korean lawyers where there are two common factors that you are Korean and your companies all over the world. They get together every two years in Seoul, and then we exchange network and we have a legal seminars, continuing education and etc. So because of COVID, it was closed down for a couple years, but now they're reopened. So I'm due to go back to South Korea. But you know what, South Korea is an amazing country, not to mention that they're top 10 world economic powerhouse, but at the same time, from 1953 after the war ended until now, we're only talking what, 70 years exactly? Last 70 years, they became a country which you used to get, they were used to getting international help because they had nothing. They were getting help from other countries, including US, but now South Korea is a country that gives and donates their resources and manpower to other countries. So I'm really proud that South Korea, my home country, my home country is in a position to help out. And another thing that I kind of recently learned is that South Korean government, they don't forget who they are indebted to, including Korean war veterans from Hawaii and from the US, from everywhere. Korean government makes an effort to bring these soldiers in their 80s and 90s and hundreds every year to visit Korea, fully pay for from room and board first class everywhere. And they treat these people and say thank you with heartfelt gratitude and they don't forget what they owe their country, Korean country for having the freedom and democracy. And the fact that people like Japanese, American in the US, in Hawaii or Chinese or Caucasian, they all went to fight. So we have a Korean War Memorial at the Capitol, I don't know whether you know. But there we have Hawaiian soldiers who fought in Korea and I just went to pay respect on the 6th of June because that's a Korean Memorial Day. So Korean government consulate here, they put together a nice ceremony and luncheon and we had like seven local, you know, ex Korean war veterans attending the event that was really memorable for me. You know, I can't help but think, you know, we talk about the difference between the two Koreas north and south and you know you say it's the political system. And boy, you know, if only if only North Korea could could move closer to what the system is in South Korea would seem like would just be such a better place. And I hear what you're saying about uniting. I wonder if that'll, that'll ever happen as long as the political system in North Korea is so divisive. So, I mean, I, I hear you, I hear you talk about that. And I've been to South Korea, many times, really like it. It's even with the threat of North Korea. The people are just so nice and friendly and, and, and maybe that's they learn that from being subject to those threats is that's a way of to live life. And so it goes beyond politics to me. Now, I wanted to move on a little bit you mentioned that there's, you know, Koreans who are attorneys, and you get together but there's I've noticed also that there seems to be a very strong Korean American legal community in Hawaii. And I wanted you to talk about that a little bit what's that about how did that come about. Yeah. You know, we do have sub chapters or sub sections within the HSBA, Hawaii State Bar Association, Korean American Bar Association Hawaii is one of the, you know, subsection of the Hawaii State Bar Association. Believe it or not, they're a Korean American Bar Association. We are Hawaii so it's a Kaba is with a H at the end, but there's so many Kaba throughout the whole country, believe it or not. And we sometimes communicate but I think Korean Americans, and then being an attorney combined, you know, I think there is a certain amount of connectivity association and closeness where we form this entity before I became an attorney, I think it started in 1970s sometime, and there are members, they don't have to be Korean by the way, I don't spell for for example, is half Japanese half Caucasian, but he loves Korean so much where he became one of the Korean American Bar Association, So it doesn't have to be Korean, literally ancestry wise but we do have, you know, meetings and board meetings and projects and things we do to help out how can we help out Korean American community in the state of Hawaii. So in terms of legal system, you know what can we do to assist and to be a bridge between the legal community and Korean American community. So our job is to connect the two.  So we did many different things like that and then when other bar sections from Korea, for example, come here, we are one of the frontline preparing and welcoming those people for example, Seoul Bar Association is coming at the end of the month. So we will be the one who's kind of preparing as a part of the HSBA but Korean American Bar Association Hawaii. So tell me about that. What is the relationship with the Seoul Bar Association? Why is it important? Why is it meaningful? You know Seoul Bar Association has a sister relationship. We have a friendship agreement between Seoul Bar Association and Hawaii State Bar Association as you may know and as you already well know. So every 10 years they have a friendship agreement being renewed and this is going to be the third time if I'm not mistaken. So Seoul Bar Association has been coming here for the last 30 years visiting and we're exchanging our members and gifts and ideas, knowledge. In fact, part of our visit, their visit of the State of Hawaii includes legal seminars, us talking about legal topics that may be of interest to us and Seoul Bar and Seoul Bar will be the same. What may be of interest to us and to them they're going to exchange at the UH Law School. So Seoul Bar Association is coming as a part of the legal community in global, you know, the whole world. We have this exchange program, getting to know each other, learning from each other, exchanging with each other. That's why it's so important. And I sense there's this cultural pride and feeling of closeness that maybe connects all of these groups and that you include everybody. It's inclusive. Yes. Right? And the Seoul Bar Association when they come here, it develops relationships. Is that kind of what the outcome is looked for? That's correct.  You know, what's new to them? What's of a concern to them?  We are like so next to each other. Not only we share the same Pacific Ocean, we share the same moon and the sun and the stars, right? So we're, we're seeing far away from each other, but in fact, we're really close together. So I think we're sharing each other. To me it's very meaningful. And, you know, it's interesting that they want to come here.  The Seoul Bar Association, they don't have to come to Hawaii. They don't have to leave Seoul, but they are seeking the opportunity to connect and network with Hawaii lawyers. Right? And be part of that group and make those strong connections, which to me is a great thing. It's a great experience and it makes for, like you were saying, you know, the world to be closer. That's right. I really think that just like what you said, they don't have to do anything. They're busy with their lives, their work and their community, but yet they go out of their way to reach out. And it takes about 10 hours to fly out here, you know, and out of their busy schedule, but they want to keep up the tradition of having friendship agreement. Sister relationship with the Hawaii State Bar Association and exchanging ideas and I mean, each other's company and networking and sharing what is, you know, important to them may be relevant to us and vice versa. So I think it's really a good thing. And it also, I mean, it speaks of our Hawaiian culture too. I mean, our Korean American Hawaiian culture where where we show Aloha back and forth. We get together. We maybe help break down some of barriers or we get to know each other better. So I think it's it's good all the way around and it's good that our bar association Hawaii bar association is involved in this. And so I like, I like what's happening that's it's a very good experience I think for everybody to be involved. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, how I step our association just like what you said is the Hawaiian culture is also very inclusive, and they're very inviting and welcoming. It shows through the body of, you know, HSBA, we are very inclusive, welcoming. And then we're doing same thing to how our soul bar association directors as well. And, and what you're saying that everybody is invited to participate today, you know, Korean American culture in Hawaii is inclusive for everybody. That's correct. And, you know, the legal topics that's going to be presented at the UH law school. That's also on Wednesday 28th at 12 o'clock at the UH mood court room is open to everybody. There's a one credit of an ethics CLE offered if you were to attend and not only meeting so of our association people but also you're getting a one hour credit free by the way price is right right so it's very inclusive, just like the way SBA and HSBA are. And so that is a good thing to join and participate in if you want to because everybody needs that credit. If you're a Hawaii practicing lawyer, you need to get that ethics credit. Now we're at the end of our time here but I wanted to ask you, you know, we talked a lot about culture and is there any words of wisdom, Korean words of wisdom, cultural words that would provide hope and inspiration during these times in the world, you know, the difficult times.  I can do it, you know, no matter where you are what you do what type of difficulties you may be facing at this point. I think you always have to remember has to eat that that means I can do it can do that to me is an attitude that needs to be spread out. I like the positive statement and that's nice Korean cultural input. Thank you very much Amanda Amanda Chang I appreciate you being my guest today and talking about being a Korean American attorney in Hawaii which is really broad. It's really a great, great theme. Thank you very much. Thank you so much for having us. If you like what we do, please click the like and subscribe button on YouTube. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. Check out our website thinktecawaii.com Mahalo


This is parachuting into Solomon's world where he reflects about his dad David the greatest king Israel ever had and Solomon says it says while the whole assembly of Israel was standing there the king Solomon turned around and blessed them then he said praise be to the lord god of Israel who with his own hand has fulfilled what he promised with his own mouth to my father David for he said since the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt I have not chosen a city or a tribe of Israel to build me a temple but I have chosen David to rule my people Israel my father David had it in his heart to build me a temple for the name of the Lord but the Lord said to my father David because it was in your heart not that phrase because it was in your heart to build me a temple you did well to have this in your heart nevertheless you are not the one to build it but your son will on the March the 3rd 1968 Martin Luther King a month before he was assassinated preached from this very passage at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta Georgia where three generations of his family prior to him had worshiped there his granddad and dad had pasted there and he took this very passage you're reading from tonight and took this thought and the thought he took from it was that that God loves it when we have things in our hearts to do for him that we know we will never see finished this is why it was important to God to commend David because David had made finances available David had made arrangements as best he could for a project called the temple that he knew he would never lift a worship in but he lived as if he would he made as much provision for it as if he would benefit from it like anyone else and it was important for Solomon to record that God said David you had this in your heart and it was good high five you had this in your heart now what's the point of that having it in your heart if you want the one that's going to get the credit for building it because God loves it when every generation especially of the church this should be society but certainly the church when we when we have things in our hearts that we want to do for God that we know we will never see completed in our generation but we commit to it we sacrifice for it we work towards it anyway society humanity thrives when men plant trees under whose shade they know they will never sit but this is not common in society it is not common certainly in the church and I'm calling this message the cathedral in your heart the cathedral in your heart because I'm using the word cathedral as a metaphor because on average I discovered it took two to five hundred years to build a cathedral the ancient cathedrals of Europe took hundreds of years to build and therefore the people that worked on the cathedral on any given generation more than likely would not be the ones most of them would never be the ones to worship in that cathedral neither would their kids or the kids kids ever see it completed and yet every generation that worked on the cathedral worked on it as if a generation to come would enjoy what they never could and it didn't diminish their commitment it didn't weaken their work ethic it didn't compromise their financial attachment to it even though they knew they would not live to see it fulfilled and I know how hard it is as a pastor to keep people interested financially in a project that takes a year your pastor Phil got up here and said here we're gonna we're gonna start a building program I want us all to get involved financially it's gonna take 150 years hope you're all on board people are you kidding me and and this cathedral in our hearts is is is my way of saying we have to have something in our hearts that that we are living for that's beyond ourselves that's bigger than us that's beyond our generation and I say this because I have been a christian for 42 years when I got saved as a teenager I came from a non-church going background my family were not church goers and I got saved at school through the witness of a school teacher when I was 15 years of age and I remember going into a local Pentecostal church and being raised in Pentecostal charismatic churches and what I realized early on lots of things one of which was that we were we were what I would call an an end-time generation mentality we believe that Jesus would return in our lifetime this is what I was raised to believe and this is what preachers preached and we had songs with lyrics in them about that some would specialize and explain it not to us with charts on the wall and the charts would go around the wall and when the charts ran out we had to get bigger buildings to put more charts up and the charts would track the book of revelation and explain to us and and I was raised on this some of some of you were too some of you young people in here don't know what I'm talking about that's good that's okay I'll come to you in a moment but I'm I'm saying upstream I'm trying to flag up a cause and effect and I was raised on this final generation Jesus is coming in our lifetime culture theology mindset looking back it didn't produce anything good in us it was supposed to but it didn't because what it produced was an odd relationship with unsafe people we saw them as people to be evangelized only because we may be going to heaven tomorrow so we'll snatch you as it were to take with us so we kind of did evangelistic assaults on people who shoot about awards for surviving evangelism from us because there was this sense of immediacy there was this sense of Jesus is coming tonight or tomorrow so we didn't build relationships with people we didn't build friendships with un-churched people we had no involvement socially in our communities because why would we invest in social issues that would take decades maybe to make a dent on if we might not be here tomorrow was why we didn't do that so what it produced in us was a detachment and what it produced in us was an uncoupling from a sense of responsibility to make a difference in our world because we believe that Jesus would be coming any moment we had this temporary passing through immediate kind of lift for now mentality and we were detached from problems and we had no long-term thinking no long-term conversations no long-term investments we were aloof from the world I can even remember we didn't we didn't insure our stuff because to insure your stuff meant you had stuff worth insuring which meant you were over attached to the world and to insure your stuff meant that you had given too much of your wealth to material things which meant you were over attached to a world we may be leaving tomorrow so we didn't insure our stuff so none of us had nice stuff or if we had nice stuff we didn't wear it to church or drive it to church we left it at home so we blended in we didn't have pensions because to have a pension plan a retirement plan was was to not believe that Christ was coming in your lifetime so to have a financial plan for your later life was an act of unbelief I suppose and so what I look back at these things I don't remember people saying to me if you're in the cinema when Jesus comes then he might leave you there or if you are doing whatever and wear this list of stuff that was all the things we shouldn't be doing on Sunday or on the Sabbath or you know we shouldn't be watching TV or a soap opera or we shouldn't be buying ice cream on Sunday or going to the shops or we shouldn't be in the disco tech as it used to be called I know I remember growing up and so what it did was it bred this fear in us uh because we didn't want to be in the wrong place doing the wrong thing if Jesus came and as I look back what it produced in us was the worst thing ever it could have produced in the church it produced stationary Christianity it produced people that were parked up because of a theology that produced that in us whilst we shouted to the unchurched to get saved to repent to turn or burn or some of the versions of that brutal approach to people all of this sprang from our belief that there would be no next generation so the young people in our churches we didn't see that they were someone to leave a legacy to someone through whom we would continue what we'd started we didn't see them as that we didn't teach them and train them that way we said to them Jesus is coming and they like me from 15 grew up through my teenage years believing that Jesus would come anytime and as I look back this was so unhelpful to the early days of my Christianity now fast forward 30 fast forward 30 plus years I have tracked this sucker it's still in the church it still is here in a form and a fashion that troubles me a little bit it's how to wash in a brush up it has a more respectable exciting name than you know Jesus coming in our lifetime and I'm talking about this word revival or end time outpouring or end time move of God or whatever language we all hear further and about it I am concerned that this belief system still does not produce anything good in us because if we believe that in our lifetime there's going to come some great end time move of God it's almost like we can relax a little bit we don't need to be too generationally minded because anyway Jesus is going to come in our lifetime it's a it's a rehashed version of what I grew up with and it may sound more exciting and more thrilling to call it these names but I just wonder whether or not it's producing inertia in the church around the world to me it's like some people's expression of that some people's response to that theology is that it's like spending what you don't have because you're convinced you're going to win the lottery so we we live in a way that it doesn't matter that right now I'm not reaching anybody right now I'm not thinking generationally right now I'm not investing in our community right now we're not involved in social improvement in the infrastructure of our communities it doesn't matter because one day revival is going to come and what revival will do is square it all the way there's going to be an unprecedented move of God millions and millions of unchurched people are going to flood into our buildings our buildings are what were big enough I've heard it all before and we're going to have this tsunami there's a word that'll get you going this tsunami of a visitation of the Holy Spirit to which I say says who because at best the theology for this is thin at worst it's a fantasy and I wish I wish this theology was much more to hand and much more obvious and it wasn't obscure and it didn't take experts to dig it out like the charts on the wall used to be and the rest of we that were uninitiated in theological things would just receive it as that's what we're supposed to believe but I want you to track with me and especially all you young people and that's why I mentioned that live full die empty because because I think we have to come back to this reality that when people have said to me over the years what do you believe the greatest strategy is because our church has grown unusually for Europe and for England and so people are interested in that and ask questions like so why is your church what's the best strategy what's the best church growth idea you've ever had and I know they expect me to say three or four things that and they can go and franchise but the best church growth strategy that that the world that the church has ever seen is what I'm looking at now to you all the growth of this church is here whatever God's gonna do in this city in the next 20 years is not I repeat not in heaven it's already here in your hearts there's nothing that there's so so if we accept that premise that the the next move of God is already here it's inside you if we accept that then for that to happen it isn't so much that we need an outpouring of God as an outpouring of you if we believe this if we and this is difficult because the big R the big R is not revival the big R is maybe responsibility which is far less popular and harder to speak about I wonder if that big R now for us and for you young people should mean something else because what it did mean didn't help me and didn't help my generation in the room and we parked up for years praying for God to move and I believe it became like a Mexican standoff between God and the church like a like a chess game where the church is at one side of the board and God's at the other and the church is looking to God saying it's your move Lord move Lord move Lord move Lord and I think God's at his side of the board going not my move it's not my move what do you mean Lord it's not your move move Lord whoa whoa whoa it's not my move I think God might say to us if he bothers to explain that to us I moved 2000 years ago and I think it's said to us what did you do with that and I think he'd also say to us the way some of you pray to me the way some of you get all carried away and all fired up and shabbat abadu at me and I'm a shabbat abadu I just think we exaggerate the whole point of it and use it like a rabbit's foot lucky charm I think God would say to us the way you pray to me and shout at me and call them from the north southeastern west and nobody's coming but you call them anyway I think the way you shouted me God would God might say to the church what do you think I've got up here that's better than Jesus I think you might say to us do you think do you think I'm holding out on you do you think I've got a second son hiding behind the throne that I forgot to tell you about do you think that if you are hard Navy seal enough in your Christianity if you pray more and fast more than those other lazy beggars before you that you may be the ones that will wrestle from a reluctant God this end time thing that we call something that we don't know where we got those language from but we call it something as if God's gonna okay you were the ones that were more sincere than the rest so I'm gonna do it for you I think I think what what a lot of this striving and a lot of this stressful Christianity comes from is this belief system that we're gonna be the ones that will wrestle it from God but I gotta tell you something churches that for 25 years have been doing this and they're not growing and they're losing relevance and turning inward are getting offered to a new idea and the new idea is more along the lines of maybe God is looking to us more than we should be looking to him maybe God has gone to the church tag you're it and he went tag you're it the moment you got saved it went tag you're it then we stood there for 10 years oh move Lord Lord Lord use me Lord use me send me hello tag you're it what part of you're it aren't you getting well Lord use me by your spirit and we get all this stuff and God's like hello another five years went by while you are parked up and what I've realized and what you must realize is that throughout history whatever there has been what we would call a move of God the only way you know there was a move of God is because of a person's name was that a move of God in Nehemiah's time yes how do we know Nehemiah and if I were God honestly out of a better idea than using people because we are so flaky we are so unreliable why would God condescend and why would God limit Himself to a species as unreliable as us but He does because when Genesis 8 says that God found Noah are you kidding me why why would an omnipotent omniscient God need to find anyone just send an angel power God would send an angel just send a bunch of angels who do as they're told and get it done but God has confined Himself He has let's call it what it is He has shrunk Himself down He has constrained Himself He has limited Himself to the caliber of the people on any given watch of the church generationally that according to the quality of us according to how much we pour us out determines what happens in that season of church history not according to how much He pours out because God's the same generation and generation out but we are not it would help if our Bible had blank pages because it goes straight from Noah to Abraham that's not what happened there's hundreds of years between Noah and Abraham and it would help if you turn the page into testamental period 400 years it would help if you had blank pages and on each page you said God's not doing anything can't find anybody God's not doing anything can't find anybody God's not doing anything can't find anybody and on that would go for generations because seriously that's the deal that God only moves God only pours out as we call it there's only a spike in history that we historically call what a move of God central to it was somebody a group of people a person that like Nehemiah that when he hears about Jerusalem he's in tears others heard about Jerusalem that weren't in tears so he's in tears so something's happening inside him that is not common and that internal movement in him became an outpouring of Nehemiah's heart who risked his life to do what he did and it says Sambalitan Tobiah were resistant in enemies but it says there in in Nehemiah that they were disturbed not that the church were praying for God to move not that they were disturbed there's a revival coming it says they were disturbed that someone had come to promote the welfare of the people history is only disturbed when someone comes to promote the welfare of the people not when it is our virtual reality desire or prayer you know over the years three plus decades in the same church and pastoring and helping people grow you all know this these moves of God around the earth you know Toronto Argentina Pensacola you know in my lifetime and there'll be others that will that will you know get on the radar of the church around the world but I used to get fed up when the church people said I mean have you been to the move of God and I'd say no are you going I don't think so um and it's not that I don't believe we can learn from what God's doing somewhere else here's what I kind of resented the implication is that the move of God is always where you're not what's up with that why do I always have to get on the plane and go to the move of God and I say to our church there is no such thing as the move of God anyway God's doing millions of things simultaneously in the earth most of which you'll never hear a thing about so there's no the move of God but I'm after I'm after the church understanding this and you guys and the young people here and I know you get this I know you understand this stuff because I know your leadership but it helps to under underline this at the start of 2016 so we don't get to July and we're saying move God and he's like I'm gonna miss your move that God would say to us that the clock's ticking and and you get in no younger and the move of God isn't on a plane somewhere around the world and if I said to you tonight is Joyce Meyer or Reinhard Banke or Joel Allstein or these known things in the world if I said to you are they a move of God you would say to me okay it's not a true question of course they're moves of God but what I'm after is to say to you is this is this in this room tonight is this church is this a move of God because this is what we got to get down to that the move of God isn't what happens two or three times in a lifetime and we go and visit it and we get blessed and we get touched and then we come back to to boring business as usual beige kind of move local church stuff I must say years ago at the Hillsong conference I remember saying years ago you know most Christians have two gods they have a conference God on a local church God and they think those gods don't know each other the the the conference God is like Father Christmas because the conference God treats me in a way that the local church God that's like a father doesn't treat me the conference God just zaps me in the prayer line and I get called out by a random preacher who doesn't know me from Adam who who says these things over me that I'm going to be the next Billy Graham and and then I fall in the prayer line and and then I go back to my local church and take that big blank check to my boring pastor and say I'm you know I went to this conference and this guy didn't know me had to be the Holy Spirit he called me out and said to me that was the next Billy Graham and what are you going to do about it pastor because I'm ready I'm stepping up make way that's the that's the Father Christmas you know the the visiting preacher that didn't know you from Adam has a one-night stand ain't gonna ain't gonna parent you ain't gonna raise you ain't gonna have anything anything to do with what he told you and then you go to the local church guy and say you know next Billy Graham you know thank you when you're ready and the local church pastor says well you know what one day you may be the next Billy Graham one day you may touch the world and millions of people come to Christ but right now you're an idiot and you're a you're a lovable one and we love you but right now it would be a great idea if you got a job and if you could maybe get on with people a bit more that would be good and if you can stop spending what you don't have if you can stop being non-team player and stop being moody you know let's work on that stuff in 2016 and maybe 2017 maybe 2017 we can get a bit near to Billy it's like my grandkids that asked their parents for a biscuit or cookie and they say no so they ask me not telling me that they'd asked their parents and I give them you know sweet things because I don't care they're not sleeping at my house sugar them up I think we treat the church and the conference God like that and what I'm after saying to you tonight is that this this is the greatest move of God the local church that the world will ever get close to because we hear long after that stuff's coming on and thank God for everything he does but we are a generational answer that local church is a generational initiative on behalf of God in to the earth and there's nothing to replace it and I'm looking at the greatest move of God the world will ever see I'm looking at you you should look in the mirror every morning and after you've said the joy of the Lord is my strength say I am a walking move of God I am there's no cavalry there's no plan B tag your it I've got to pull me out today it's an outpouring of me that we've got to have in 2016 I've got to get out my potential I've got to get my gift to my love and my grace and compassion I've got to empty me out I want to I want to be full today I'm glad I was in church but I've got to hit that ground running tomorrow morning and pour out something that I know and I've understood and I've learned I've got to live full and die empty because the world is waiting for a revelation of us for the outpouring of the church and I talk to leaders and pastors and listen to all kinds of stuff around the world and I get so tired of this it's okay for you you live in England it's okay for you in Australia and big churches are common and it's normal where you are and we live in this place and that place and the devil and the principalities and the powers and we have resistance and we have things in our you know we should just take to some churches and to some Christians come out of that demon and leave it alone because it's not so much a case of the church is possessed by the devil as the devil is possessed by the church I think the devil must go to God sometimes hey it was not me they did that all by themselves and I think devil must I think God must look at the devil and say yeah I know I wasn't here I'm gonna be blaming you they don't a great job they don't need you you are redundant in that church but the devil doesn't mind the publicity he likes to think he's responsible for all of that I should get Christians to come forward while we deliver them from the demon that they're possessing then the demon will be like can you get this Christian off my back this Christian will leave me alone let's get the band back up here gives people gives people hope we finish when you say that you know what all you under 30s in here you you are our future you are this communities or wherever you from future and I don't want us to be continuing this faulty belief system that I think I grow up with where we lead you to believe that really you can tread water you can mark time you can have a great church experience you can have a lovely time be blessed and filled and occasionally invite a friend to come to an event at Christmas it's not enough that we have to salt and light we have to involve and reach out and love and include and and get out what's in you and pour you out because you are an amazing piece of kit you are you were born all of you were born a flipping genius but birth is a last day of freedom you'll ever have it's the last day God had you to himself then he trusts you to parents or guardians and society and influential figures and voices in our lives and experiences that begin to dumb down that genius and begin to rearrange that potential and be tell you that it's not your turn yet and and ready yet and whilst we are believing that one day our time will come 10 years go by this is your time and your turn now tag you are it if you will run into 2016 if we will run into 2016 with that I'm it you know when Peter said this is that newsflush this is still that there's been no new this so there's no new that there's been no upgrade no improvement on it this is still that so let's stop looking for something new we want a new we want a new that oh my God says you you haven't even begun to put a dent on the first that this is it you're it and you that are saying to yourself tonight he doesn't mean me I don't think he means me I especially mean you I especially mean you we've got to pour you out this year you've got to get you poured out this year