Do narcissists use you for money? Narcissists are not good with money They don't live within their means Which is why they often don't have enough money to cover all expenses Even while they're spending lavishly Because they're very careless They don't show enough care or attention to things that should be more important They use spending as a way to regulate their emotions It makes them feel better about themselves when they're experiencing stress or sadness It's a coping mechanism to avoid addressing these difficult emotions And it's why they will often end up neglecting their finances They will spend money carelessly extravagantly and to no purpose Because in their minds it doesn't matter They can spend it all They don't need it But it's just magical thinking It's not their reality Because they often end up in very bad financial situations And they will end up using your money Maybe there's a certain type of body wash you like And they will use it recklessly and rapidly like it belongs to them But they won't feel inclined to replace it or to fill it up again You may have thought you could trust them with certain bills or expenses You may have thought that they could be financially responsible But at some point you discovered that they never paid it Maybe you even gave them the money yourself But they went and spent the money on something else Because if you are the closest person to the narcissist They will see you as their personal ATM They will use you for money They see you as someone Who provides them with reassurance support and security Especially if you have demonstrated to them a state of consistent behavior and treatment If they can rely on you for money and comfort If you are very likely to do what they expect They will see it as though they can mess up They can mishandle the situation They can cause you emotional and psychological problems And you will somehow find a way to fix it If they do something really bad You will figure it out Narcissists are very reckless They're heedless of danger and the consequences of their own actions And they always expect you to rescue them from difficulty But after a while It will end up causing a lot of damage It will end up causing a lot of problems You will end up losing a lot of money from dealing with them Because as soon as you think you've solved one issue or problem There's going to be something else that is growing and causing difficulty From something else that they've done It's just never going to stop There's always going to be something else that you have to deal with And most of the time You will be unprepared for it Because they're not letting you know that they're doing it They're not letting you know that they're not paying certain bills They're not letting you know that they're spending the money on other things And because they're so reckless and careless Sometimes they may even forget Which is why they have a problem with sustaining anything They have a problem with security and stability Because they cannot remain consistent in anything long enough To achieve a significant outcome or result They spend carelessly and extravagantly In a way that is not associated with a mature adult Because they're emotionally stunted at the development of a child They're still living in a childlike state And it ends up having an effect on their lives But if you question or confront them on this It will only cause more arguments They may have just gotten paid from their job Or they were given money from somewhere And they've already spent it on things they don't even need Things that have no meaning or purpose But they know how to prevent further disagreement By giving you what you want They know how to please you And make you less angry by giving or saying something desired So they might buy you something They might give you a little bit of money But most of what they have is for them It's never in correct proportions There's never an equal exchange But just to reduce the amount of criticism that they're receiving They will pretend to show some concern But just think about it If they're neglecting themselves financially You should expect them to neglect you as well Because they haven't got what they need for themselves So by default all they can do is use you Because they have nothing to give back to you in return If you try to correct them They're not going to cure it They're not going to listen to you Because they want to remain in this childlike state So that they can remain unaccountable Because in their minds They don't have to be accountable if they're not acting like an adult They can always choose someone who is going to assist them But they still want the rights and advantages of being an adult Even while they're not functioning like an adult And that is why there's always a disagreement with them Because you're dealing with a child who wants adult privileges A child who wants to be treated as an adult But without the responsibility of an adult Which is why there's always going to be a problem with money And no matter how many times you tell them They're not going to listen They will pretend to understand But they don't When you're out of sight They will behave carelessly and recklessly They will repeat the same actions that you disapproved of They don't agree with you because they understand what you're saying They just do it to relieve the pressure and stress So if they're not good with money They will make you think that they've figured it out But they're just manipulating you They're giving you a false impression So that you won't continue to observe and examine their actions As you would if you knew that they weren't good with money If you knew that they couldn't handle money like an adult So they will imitate your actions They will lie to you They will play the role as though they know what they're doing As though they understand But they're just hiding their harmful behaviour so that you don't judge them So that you don't figure out who you're dealing with So that you don't prevent it from continuing But it's never going to change They're always going to be bad with money Especially if they're in a relationship Because then in their minds they think they can afford anything Everything seems inexpensive They feel like they can have whatever they want Without having to worry about the consequences of their excess spending Money just feeds their narcissism It makes them even more reckless and careless It makes them even more self-absorbed And you just become this person who supports their fantasy You become their enabler And all they have to do is play their role and keep you calm and satisfied So that you still want to keep them around So that you don't want to get rid of them And they're very good at doing that They're very good at operating in an undetected and secretive manner Where their faults and failures to meet certain standards are unnoticed A lot of people will ignore it And they will not think of them as a narcissist Because they're very good at massaging your ego They know how to praise and compliment you They know how to make you feel special and important So a lot of people overlook these warnings of danger They enable them to continue behaving in this way Which will eventually bring them down as well Which is why you should never trust a narcissist with money You should never expect them to be responsible It's a waste of time Thank you for watching I hope this video resonate with you Please like, comment, share and subscribe If you would like to donate My PayPal link is in the description Coach the inquiries You can email me at coach.net.caviver.uk Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon


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Good evening, everyone. Thank you for making it to this very last session of the day. You probably all had a very long and exciting day. I did as well. So you all made it. In this last session of the day, I will be talking about the data pipelines behind carbon credits and why we, as Pachama, chose Flight as a workflow orchestration system to power these carbon credits. Maybe through a show of hands, who here uses a workflow orchestrator so that I have a bit of an idea? OK. OK, there's some. My name is Bernard. In my day job, I'm a staff engineer at Pachama. And in my free time, I'm developing and contributing to the open source project flight. I sit on the technical steering committee there. I'm generally fairly involved. If you want to get in touch, I'm available after this talk. I will be around here. There will be a question and answer session. But feel free to also go to my website where you find links to most of my socials, my GitHub, my LinkedIn, and all of that. Today, I will be talking about a short intro to Pachama, what we generally do, and intro to flight, what it is, and roughly how it works. Why we as Pachama chose to use flight in Airflow or Argo or Kubeflow or any of the other orchestrators out there. And this should be interesting because you might see features that you don't have in your workflow orchestration system. And you can use this to evaluate when you want to choose a workflow orchestration system and you don't have one yet, you can use these questions to evaluate whether that's useful to you. And in the end, I'm going to talk about a few common pitfalls that I'm seeing when people start out using flight. There's one or two tricky bits that you need to remember at first and just showing these because those are typical things I see our developers using. So what is Pachama? Pachama tries to find the best carbon forest restoration and conservation projects. And these projects typically sell carbon credits as a mean of their income. They need to rent land, they need to plant trees. And usually carbon credits are a mean for them to restore land or to conserve land for the future. One ton or one carbon credit is usually one ton of CO2 that's either restored or conserved. So for you as a buyer, it is important that the carbon accounting is right. So for you as a buyer, it is important that when you offset a ton of carbon after you've reduced everything that you could, sometimes you just need to offset. And when you offset, you want to make sure that the project is trustworthy, that the carbon is stored a long time and that it will not be deforested after a while, for example. At the moment, the evolution of these projects is mostly happening manually.  And they will do that every five years or so. So there is a lot of subjectiveness and there's a lot of places for error, just inherent in this process. And sadly, this has led to a lot of scrutiny and probably a lot of you here think carbon credits are not really worth buying. And to an extent, that's true, right? There are a lot of bad actors, there are a lot of not so great projects for different reasons, and Potama tries to change that. We're trying to use modern technologies such as satellite imagery, other remote sensing data, LiDAR sources, and machine learning to make the whole forest carbon project process more transparent. That's inherently kind of what we do. And in a nutshell, this looks like we're gathering data. This is satellite imagery, LiDAR data, anything that can let us estimate carbon on the ground, as well as auxiliary data, such as does the project developer have experience in developing these projects? Or what's the political situation in the country the project is located in? Because all of these have an effect on the projects. Based on these, we have transparent evaluation criteria that we use to determine whether a project is good or not, and we then approve or decline these projects. Generally, to give you a sense at the moment, around 30% of conservation projects get accepted through our platform, which means around 70% of the projects don't meet our standards. So transparency and integrity are the core values why POTROM exists, right? We want to make this market more transparent. We think that restoration is generally a good thing to do. Saving our forest is generally a good thing to do, but we want to be transparent about it and we want to get to reproducible results. So we try to bring this to our engineering practices and the key tool that we use to do that is Flight, our workflow orchestration system. And Flight is truly open source. It was originally developed at Lyft and then open sourced a few years ago. It is now part of the Linux Foundation and a graduate project there. So you shouldn't expect that to ever go back to be closed source and a lot of companies are already using it. So these are probably the biggest logos that are using Flight internally. Most of them are also active in our community. Most of them contribute back. So it's great to see we do have a lot of adoption there. And now I would like to give you just a brief overview of what Flight looks like. And afterwards we'd like to talk about what are the core features that we think are important for our day-to-day workflows. You can see three little Python functions here. The first one returns a string, the second one adds an exclamation mark and then the third one orchestrates these two together. You can run this locally, should work hopefully. And this is great, right? This could be arbitrarily complex tasks. And now if you want to convert them to be runnable on Flight, the only thing that you'd have to do is add three decorators. So this is probably familiar if you already have an orchestration system. Most of them do a similar thing. You decorate the two task functions with task and then workflow creates the static graph of how the tasks interact with each other. Flight is statically typed. So already at registration time, we will check whether all the types fit together. And it is inherently immutable, which is a core feature for us, which means whenever you run an execution, you create a new version. All of them are undelatable. You can archive them, but they are undelatable. So you always have full data lineage of all the workflows that you run. Once you run them remotely, you do, of course, have an ICU and ICUX that lets you trigger workflows, that lets you see the state of execution, see logs, and all the things that you would expect from a typical workflow orchestrator. You also see a graph of what the execution looks like. And this can be arbitrarily complex, right? This is the simplest of all examples. Under the hood, flight is, Kubernetes native. So you would have, this is a simplified representation, but under the hood what's happening is we fly admin, a control plane. The control plane creates a workflow custom resource and then flight itself runs as an operator called flight propeller. It picks up on the flight workflow resource and will then schedule the tasks in the according order. So each task is a pod. And in this particular case, the hello world pod would be scheduled first. The outputs would be taken, put into the ed exclamation mark task, and then they would run in this order. So the important thing to remember here, each task represents a pod, and this will become important later on in the slides. At Pachama, we're using flight for all kinds of things because people started liking it, and it is a bit of a platform internally. And so they started adding new features. Most of it, I would say, is traditional data engineering. So we are processing heaps and lots of satellite imagery. So a lot of nodes, a lot of compute power all managed through flight. We are doing some machine learning because one of the key problems that we are facing is we need to know how many tons of CO2 are on one pixel or one hectare. And this is still a slightly open resource question, and we have a lot of very good machine learners working on that problem because it is the underlying core of carbon accounting for most projects. And the last part is simply running tasks in order, right? If a project comes in, you might need as many as 40, 50 checks, and all of them we manage through flight to get this complete data lineage, and that's how we run them. So these were the first two sections, a slight intro to Pachama, a slight intro to flight, and now I would like to walk you through what our decision process looked like and what were the main features that we found are really helpful in flight. And I tried to do a comparison to all the orchestrators out there, but quite frankly, there are too many, and all of them are slightly different. So please use this as a resource of features that exist, and then you can compare it to your orchestrators or you can compare it against new orchestrators. So by no means flight is not for everyone, but these are features that we like and we find really useful. That's why we picked it. When I'm to walk you through this, I created a little demograph of what it might look like to evaluate a project, highly simplified, but what it might look like is we ingest satellite imagery, we pre-process it, we might combine bands, we might do some analysis on it, then machine learning might infer how much carbon is on that satellite imagery, and together with some other results, we then decide whether the project is approved or declined, or we at least give a human evaluated a lot of information to make that decision. So one of the first features we really needed, and you can already see this here, some of these tasks might be really beefy. Imagine all the machine learning tasks, they will need a GPU, they need a big machine, whereas others will probably be tiny and just Python functions that need to quickly run somewhere. So resource allocation or defining resources per task was one of the core requirements that we have, already possible in a lot of orchestrators, in flight it looks like this. So in the task decorator that you saw before, you add requests limits, you can select which GPUs you wanna use for training or inference, and under the hood, Kubernetes will use obtained tolerations, no selectors that's configurable to schedule your task on the correct nodes, and it will use Kubernetes requests and limits, of course. The second feature that we find incredibly helpful and that our finance team finds incredibly helpful in our sustainability team is you introduce an orchestrator and at some point people don't just run it on one project, but they run it on plenty and find new use cases, and suddenly you don't just run one project, work for every once in a while, but trust a lot of them. And the easiest way to cut down cost, at least that's what we found, is to switch from on-demand instances to spot instances, using compute power that's available in the cloud, but not used currently, and usually you'll get these for I think 25% or 10% of the cost, depending on the clock provider, so you can immediately cut your cost by 75% or 90%. And not every workflow, not every workload is suitable to run on a spot instance, but if yours is, and most of them are, I would say, the only thing it takes is one line in a decorator and your workflows will be scheduled onto interruptible nodes. Flight, of course, when your interruptible node gets, or when your node gets preempted, flight will, of course, reschedule on a new node, and it's transparent for the user, so there's no downtime or no error there, unless it fails 10 times. The next feature that we were looking for involves the inner development cycle. So imagine you're developing this workflow, and maybe the part that you're focused on is inferring how much carbon is on a pixel. So you always rely on the first two tasks to run before you can work on your task.  And of course, you could save the intermediate results, develop against the intermediate results, and then make this work, but flight offers a nicer way to do this. And again, it's two lines in a decorator. You set cache to true, and you set cache version. Again, cache version, caching is tricky. You wanna set something better than 1.0 here, but that means flight, once a task completed successfully once, it will reuse that execution, it will reuse the output, and it will never be running again. Again, saving resources, and making your development experience a bit quicker. We use this a lot. Most of our stuff is cached. The third part revolves around working with a lot of data. So we work in a two-spatial engineering. Satellite imagery is a huge, and you also get a lot of them, usually. So it's usually not enough to boot up one beefy machine and then run everything on one of these beefy machines. Usually you need some form of distributed compute framework, similar to Spark from the last task, last talk, or you can use Dask, or Ray, or you name any. And wouldn't it be great, for example, in this case, if the pre-processed data task here could run on any of these distributed compute frameworks? And for the example here, we'll use Dask, but this works for, you know, name any, really. And again, it's as simple as putting on a decorator.  Any features that you'd usually expect also work here. And again, I said this works for most distributed frameworks. If your distributed framework is not on there, we're happy to implement it. It's usually fairly easy, and we've added a bunch lately. And this works the same for developers when they're developing locally. So you can still run this locally. Locally, we will use a local Dask cluster, in this case, or a local Spark executor. And remotely, in Kubernetes, what will happen is, and remember, this is the sketch from before. Each task will be started as a pod. And this is now switched to each task will create its own Dask drop resource. And if you have the Dask operator installed, it will bring up a cluster. You get an on-demand cluster that only boots up when you need it. It will run the workload. It will have the same dependencies, especially if you're working with Dask, that's really important. It will have the same set of dependencies as your client, so you will never get serialization issues. The work runs, and then the operator turns off your cluster again. Again, saving resources and giving you an on-demand cluster with very little effort. And if you have flight deployed already, it's usually a half an hour change to set this up. For completeness, we also integrate with other frameworks that don't have a Kubernetes operator. And there's a system called Flight Agents. It lets you write a small web server that basically you need to implement three or four functions. And then you can also add your own sources. So maybe you have an internal API that you would like to hook up, or maybe you'd like to use any of the agents that we already provide, for example, Snowflake, Databricks, or so. That's supported as well. The last big feature is one that I'm personally really excited about because I've been working in the intersection of two spatial NML for a very long time. And if you've worked with Python a bunch, you probably have been in dependency hell at some point or another. And I find particularly with the intersection of two spatial NML, you get all the crazy dependencies usually. So one of the things that really helps us there is imagine in the pipeline above, this might be three completely different teams. It's simplified here, but maybe you have a team specialized on getting geospatial data. They know GDAL, they know Earth Engine, all the geospatial craziness. You might have a data engineering team that is really good at using Spark or Dask or any other compute framework because that's quite a specialized knowledge. And team C might be your typical machine learning team. So this could be people working with TensorFlow, Torch, using CUDA, any of that. So wouldn't it be great if all of them could have their own set of dependencies? So they at least only need to manage their stuff. They need to make sure their stuff works. And other teams can just depend on that without adding transitive dependencies to basically pip-installing a library or so. Again, flight does have a system here that makes it very easy for that. Imagine here, the first team creates this ingest data task. Again, it could be really complex. This doesn't have to be just one line. And then the second team, all they would need to do is reference a task. I'm sorry. I don't know what's going on here. There we go. So the second team, the only thing they need to do is reference a task that already exists in the platform. And they can use it as if it was theirs. But at runtime, flight will start the correct Docker image, the correct set of dependencies. So it does need to have very, very nice workflow there. I have one more tiny thing, because this was recently contributed by or donated to the project by LinkedIn, which is interactive debugging. So if you're running really large machine learning workloads, and these run in Kubernetes somewhere, they're running on beefy machines, what you can do is you can add another decorator. And once this task starts up, it will start up a full VS Code server that you can connect to. You need to either set up ingress through Kubernetes or to a QtTL port forward. And machine learners can actually debug the workloads in the cloud using all the resources available there, because sometimes it might not just not be possible to develop on your local machine. This wraps up all the features that we think make flight unique and that really help us develop machine learning pipelines and data engineering pipelines quickly and also transparently. So for all the projects that went through a platform, we have a complete lineage of what data went in, which version of which algorithm was used, and how we got to an outcome, which we think is important to show that we are not just guessing. We want to know what went in. Also, we make errors. As everybody, we want to know if a bug, what impact did it have, and just have that full lineage. To finish off, to common pitfalls, if you do end up trying this out, two of the most common beginner issues are when you add a flight workflow decorator, the Python code inside is not really Python code anymore. It's a domain-specific language, so DSL, for creating a graph, a static graph. So in line three here, you see if hello and greeting, that's really hard to represent in a static graph, so it doesn't work really. So this is not possible. And flight will tell you so, but just for a mental model, code in a workflow is not really Python code. It's a language to describe a graph. Flight, of course, has mechanisms to do this dynamism. They are called dynamic workflow and conditionals. I won't go into those, but we have to discover because that is a typical use case. But just be aware that's not possible. And the second pitfall that I'm often seeing is while flight is really good at making sure your types match, it's also a slight downside because all the types will be serialized to protobuf in between tasks, so it's actually language agnostic. You can write a flight task in Python, and one in Java, and one in C++. But on the downside, some of the things that you might expect to work won't. So in this case, the task is returning a custom type. It will serialize to, I think, a protobuf struct. And then if the workflow would only like to return a part of this struct, this is not possible because flight can't introspect what's in the struct in the tag here.  Again, the link in the docs down here is how you would circumvent the situation. So the takeaways of this session is, should you ever evaluate whether you want to use an orchestrator, or you already have an orchestrator, and you want to evaluate whether you should switch? These are some of the questions that you could ask yourself. Does it support resources per task? That's really powerful. That really helps bring down your cloud bill. Our spot instance is supported. Again, one line that cuts a lot of your cloud spend. Can you support caching? Because that usually helps with the speed of developing because you don't need to wait on your dependencies. Your dependencies are already cached. How well can you integrate with other tools, such as Spark, or Snowflake, or Dask, or name any? And how easy is it to add a new integration in case it doesn't exist yet? And again, for me, particularly the most important, how well can you isolate dependencies so that teams can move quickly and are not stuck in dependency health for a very long time? I hope you also, or you might have gotten a sense that carbon offsets are a hard problem. Not just hard social problem associated with a lot of tricky bits, but also a hard engineering problem. Bringing transparency to the space is still an open resource question to some extent, and also an open engineering question. Because there is no platform that allows you to trace all the steps that went into the carbon accounting of a project. Related to that, I would also like to make a small call out to the CNCF Tech Sustainability. I've recently learned about what they do, and I think it's a great work. It's on the engineering side, what can we do as engineers, all of us, to make sure we are not using or we only using the resources that we really need to? And as far as I know, they are in the Project Pavilion. I think some of them also sitting here. So go check them out. I think they are there tomorrow and Friday, as well, if I'm not mistaken. I can, I don't think I have time for demo, so I would encourage you to don't trust me and try the whole thing yourself. This is all you should need. The slides are up in schedule, so you don't need to take a picture. But we have Flight CTL, which is a small Go Binary, similar to Cube CTL, that can start up a demo cluster on your machine. So Flight CTL demo start will bring up a K3S cluster with all the dependencies installed. Then you install Flight Kit in your Python environment, code ahead your workflow, and the last line, the PyFlight Run Remote, will bring that to Kubernetes. A few shout outs for Pajama, the company that I work at, because it's one thing to use open source. I think it's another one to also contribute back and give back and also giving media opportunity to talk about what we and what Flight does here. I think that's not usual. That's nice. Union, these are the folks that originally developed Flight at Lyft. They are now offering a managed solution. If that's something you're interested in, and they're super active in our community, so still contributing back a lot. And the whole Flight community, because this is probably what makes Flight really enjoyable. We have a very active Slack. Everybody's really nice. And you get really quick responses to your problems. So in case you try it out, log into our Slack if you have an issue post there. And usually within a few minutes, you should have a resolution. That is it from my end. There are links to our docs, links to my website. Again, in case you want to connect, happy to chat about anything around carbon credits, Flight, open source. Also tricky questions, no problem. The middle one brings you to the session feedback in SCAD. So if you do have any feedback, I'm very open. And with that, I would open it to questions if there are any. Yeah, and I think there are two mics here. And maybe there's also one. Yeah, yes, please. Hello, thank you. How do you manage unmotability in the carbon offsetting problem? I guess that it is important to ensure that the data is not changed in the entire process. Do you manage that with some tool or how is the process? Yes, I think there is a lot to this. We generally try to either, so our input data, we try to keep on our own buckets, full copies of the full input data so that we can be sure that we still have the input data. With Flight, generally, because we do save the whole workflow graph, we do a full lineage so we could rerun all the intermediate results if we wanted to. And generally, we also save them. So I want to say we try to preserve as much as possible. But generally, because we are using Flight, if we have the input data around, we can reproduce the output data fully if that answers your question. OK, yes, I think this mic. OK, first of all, thank you very much for your talk. It's been great. My question circles around you as a company, and Pajama as a company, is mostly focused on carbon credits. Do you measure your consumption of what you've just shown? And do you offset that, or how do you deal with your own footprint? I think that's a great question. And of course, we do think about that because we are working in this space. We generally try to use cloud providers that use regenerative energies. I think we're using TCP at the moment, trying to use the regions where they are offering basically net zero offerings. I'm not sure whether we're tracking all the compute yet. This is also something I've learned in the talk that you've given yesterday. And I would need to investigate. I personally don't think we track how many resources we are actually using, and also what of that is already offset it through our cloud provider and what isn't. So I don't think we have that. That's all right. Thank you very much for your answer. And we from the tag are of course there for you to help you. Happy to. I will definitely come back. We've already chatted. Hi. So are you self hosting the flight in your Kubernetes? Yeah, of course. Because, I mean, I work there, so I usually, yeah. How easy was the process? So given I also develop a lot in flight for me personally, I want to say fairly easy. We try to make it as easy as possible for our users as well. It should be one Helm install that sets up the whole infrastructure. You will need a Postgres database and a storage account, or cloud storage somewhere. We support all three major cloud providers, or AWS, GCP, and Azure. You can self host it on-premise as well. Again, you would need a database and a cloud storage. The only thing that usually, or the two things that I can usually tricky are Ingress. Because everybody sets up their own Ingress. Usually we are personally using Istio. You can use any Ingress really. So you need to be comfortable setting up Ingress. And if you're using secret injection, you also need to be comfortable setting up that. So we're using Vault internally. You can use any secret provider or any major one. So be sure to be supported, yeah. Cool. And second question. Are you using Ray to basically distribute the workload? I know that it's possible to use Ray. So Ray serve really, et cetera. Are you using that for it right now? To distribute the workload? Yeah. Like to share the GPUs and all of that stuff. We are personally not using Ray. So I don't want to speak to that too much. I would need to get back to you on that. Because there is someone else in maintaining the Ray integration. I'm not sure what's possible there. Thanks. Any other questions? OK. Thank you very much. If you have difficult carbon questions, I'm around.


Kwa kwa bati meyambi wa vizori. Sfhti kwa bati miwisleksu sa nikuwe hoka. And we were just talking about Sufuriya's. Na ushais ke oke luza, Daria me to be as Furiya. Jai! Outside forces are talking from outside. That's what I've found on Facebook. What's my future? And on Twitter. Hashtag is white inter mone. Please surround yourself with people who make you happy. Thank you. Ya, Karibunisame Doval or at Kallamee Vans. That time for our conversation. Have you even gone to our social media pages? Aki nani su mende tu wa 25 on Facebook, wa 25 on Twitter. We have a question. And we are trying to figure out what is happening in this here. 2, 5, 4. Hashtag is white inter mone. But let the panelists entwadoos themselves first. Good morning. Good morning. How are you guys? Kana machi machi. Did you have a conversation? I think that matching is more to this direction. Really? Which direction? Okay, maybe. Look at him. Look at him. We have not even just introduced himself. Okay. Yes. I'm Daniel Ogiambo. AKA Otis. I had to put that somewhere. My social media handles. Dan Othis on Instagram. And Daniel Otis Othis on Facebook.  Yes. All right. Karibusana. Tukwitenani. Danama Othis. Otis, Otis. Ah, Otis. Otaki Otis. Yani kina mama Otis. Any relation to Flaco? No. No. Not at all. Anyway. Tumenda is wrong side. I am Berlin. Welcome back. Please introduce yourself. Thank you. My name is Milena Blede. I think she will not master them for life. Yeah. And you're getting younger every time I see you. And we're about to finish 20. What is the secret, please? It is a weakness. I don't really know how to take care of it. It is not transferable. I like that she's claimed that blessing. It is what it is. Amen. It is what it is. So guys, we're talking about what's been going on in a nutshell. Let me rephrase this. Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic took over, a lot has gone south. A lot has gone upside down. I'm sure there have been some silver linings for some people, I guess selling sanitizer, whatever, or something. But generally it's been a bit of a mess. We've had so many people lose their jobs. We've had, that means breadwinners are not taking food home or any other resources. That means schools were also closed so no one is going to school until the recent past. I want to put all these things into factor before we start trying to internalize why we have underage children drinking random places or drinking with people who are a lot older than they are and engaging in things that are considered I don't even have a proper diplomatic word for it but not so good. What do you think is going on? What can I start with you? One thing that I think we must agree on that there is a problem. Where the problem is coming from maybe that's what we should be discussing and the factors contributing towards it. Since the period of this COVID-19 a lot of things are happening and most of the time there are no good news, especially to our children. One thing that we must accept that there is a problem. Once we accept there is a problem then we may be able to solve it. Yes and while talking about the problem I would like us to put COVID-19 out of the picture first. Why? Because this is not something that started in February this year. The teenagers or whichever age bracket we are looking at here being arrested and all that. It's something that has been there for quite a long time and being that COVID-19 came around and messed up a lot of things doesn't have to make it be the main reason why these things are happening. Remember COVID-19 has been there yes and other people have been still responsible even amidst all that. So I would like, yes it's a factor but not the main factor. So in my opinion yes there is a problem but the problem could go deeper than we think.  So as much as it's also killing people and also causing some things but to some extent it has also made us to understand ourselves better. These are things that have been happening. Ya I think so because if there is a time during those first times when COVID-19 was the thing and everyone was afraid of everything even in fact making a step out of your house was such a big deal because you would be like the next time Kavo is speaking he's announcing 30 more people and you're like what it's just outside the door. You know those times there's someone who came when the schools were close and all there's someone who came out and spoke about what had two kids very young like I think one was 12 and the other one was around 15 who were doing a boy and a girl in the house. So I was like in as much as this thing is kind of not a good thing it's exposing what the loopholes in the society in as much as values and cultural differences are concerned because now you see if someone failed somewhere during their parenting period or rather when you are smiling and you are saying mumunye hali adibiki wukubuani kama hali kutangezwa li kuwa li kuwa ndogo badu valo acha kucheka no I like the depth okay sorry I'm sorry continue yes like when if it's cultured while still at its initial growing stages it will definitely not go bad when it grows so this thing came and it kind of squeezed the the vices out of us because someone else said you never know you have something until it's squeezed out of you like when you have a cloth kama tebo klubivi na inakai me kauka okini ni even oki squeeze it tatua tumaji now your maji utadyo ebi kuwa when you do that sometimes you can even do this and don't see anything but now when you do this like na ingubu kama yangu toha na maji na toka neza jata besheni that's how you know there's another why as you can see okay you can't see it but our question is squeezy all we hear is teenagers arrested in house parties smoking and drinking ni ni ni na sumbawa to toa squeezy alright and I have a question and since since it still falls under the same age package the teenagers there under age I have just seen a video of a couple of girls from I don't know I think it's a high school but they look so young so I don't know I think it's class eight or something now on any form and it's very recent and they're about to go and strike because their teachers are forcing them to have sex in their bathrooms so if that is going on in school so what am I supposed to expect is going to happen outside okay I think a lot of exposure I remember I know my rights you know nowadays you cannot even can you own a child if you do you'll tell that she or he knows their rights and will attack pelika speedi sana so sometimes I think it is also poor parenting on whose part you're hearing they are being forcefully you know in school yeah if you got it right from the beginning it's very hard to come to raise your hand again as your teacher you need to talk bad about it but because you find your mother talking about the same teacher taking about your leaders so it is it's from home so in this case I actually think the problem is not even the kids the problem is the teachers if I am getting your analogy right I'd like to believe someone who is an adult who is over eighteen should not be soliciting sexual favors from someone who is underage and I actually think that is actually the big deal here because if that if I am constantly being harassed by Mualimu Atinimpe alafuni toke nje what do you think I am going to do go for a church camp no really I might as well just do this thing if that happens in school the message it sends is like actually this is the right thing I just don't want to do to this guy or this person so when they go outside what do they do they make it they now make it a life's mission like it's been already justified from wherever they came from so that's in some part because the teachers who are doing this we will say they also have a problem in their background or something it's either while they grow evil or rather they grew and then at some point they got exposed to some wrong things or some funny weird things or the same way people say like there are times when someone wants something and they are not thinking using their brains the only thing that is thinking is what they want so what happens what happens is that at that particular moment there is no much they can reason there is no much reason they can do so for the girls that are in school they are already being sent a message that actually this is just fine I'm your teacher I'm asking you for this so where you are you are out of kusashule and that then after that when we talk when we talk to our sponsors because now it's for them to decide if they want to do it with whatever but back in those days when such a thing happens our kids would run back to their parents and say you know mommy teacher so-and-so is doing this to me so who told them that there is also this protest where they walk along they will say akie to akie to where did they get this yeah I think we are also exposing our kids into some round teachings that's not helping them how much of this technology watching things from our internet is also opposed to this because those they would go and tell my father you know teacher so-and-so touched my and my father would go back to school and I think they would get disciplined but this is a case whereby it is the same teacher protecting their their colleagues so who told these kids that they should go on the streets it is things they are learning from our leaders from our parents when something goes wrong you don't really need to reason out what you do is yell out go and start protesting and this I think I blame our political leaders the political class I have had a couple of guests come and a lot of them have been I want to say philanthropists of some sort so they have either a charity organization or they have random drives to provide simple things like sanitary towels and all these things so we have we have had cases rise up or this was very new to me because I did not know a young girl ane za kosa pesa za sanitary towel or anything you know pro hygiene related and since maybe kwao haoana kwao haizi uleza atenda kum tumengine alafu sasa um tumu nyanenda kum uleza na mambia fanyi vi 20 bash alafu unipe alafu ndok baya vitu and that's how we have attributed to the very arasna jina the first very first rising cases of teenage pregnancy so it's I don't want to point fingers I want to see are these things in society the reason why our teenagers are going out to have fun in appropriate way yeah first of all we have to admit as time is going and as technology is coming and taking the place of other things and things are changing you know the height of moral decadence is also going taking a different is it something we can fix is there somebody as a society because it takes a village at that time I think I blame the government because instead of providing free condom why don't they provide this free whatever some territories yeah you know you have to you have to use it but condom is a choice Senja mefkiri ako so after I think we are pointing towards it's time I think the government you can't let them go this way yeah he mampu ya condom say something okay you know the government has they haven't punched to pledge you and you right from me when you come don't go I used to see these things everywhere so you just go ahead do your stuff just make sure there's this thing in the picture so they also did their part but I was looking at this from this angle you know yes times are changing and things are are taking different chances we go by so and it's sometimes it's almost next to unpredictable like who knew Gengetun would come in like a very short time and become a very very strong genre in Kenya as far as music is concerned and now when these things stepped into the mix my friend I'm telling you in as much as many people might agree with me or not it has also really it has also propagated this to a very bad extent because you know the picture you are sending the picture you are sending through the music videos and the picture you are sending through the words you are singing and saying it's all about sex and objectifying ladies and all kinds sorts of things because if you look at whatever they are singing about it's now they are receiving what they are being thrown at by the guys who are doing that who allows them to do this yes so you see the regulations the regulations are there but now the problem is the regulations may be there but at the end of the day the government does not have the muscle to come picking artists one by one and telling them if you do this we are getting new right now they have tried that they have done it Mutua has been has been victimized a lot for trying to to cut that a little bit you see but my way I'm coming at with all this is you see in as much as times are changing and all where you are brought up and how you are brought up really determines how you will badge when the time when the test for you for your time comes because for instance if your parents were moderately strict like they allowed you to access information but in a good way you see and also allow to make to do things that are beneficial to you and point you towards the right direction in a very very very sober way trust me even if these things come to you in a in a 3D or 7D form you will be able to say no army apa infatunt even be struggling to be like ah I can't I can't or whatever like it's just not part of you because what you have seen what you have learnt is totally different so that even when the government is coming in they are not coming in with new information like ah don't do this and then you are like me I grew up seeing these things happen so what is the problem with it and that's now when the government is saying we will arrest those people who are doing videos that look a certain way it's a shock to most of the young people because to them it's not kwanini maybe big deal apa like what's the problem what's the big deal because now when you grow up it's like this is just normal but for someone who's brought up in a properly cultured environment and they understand the values that are very society trust me they may not really budge so is that the problem is most of our parents nowadays especially I think I blame the male parents our fathers they share away from their responsibility and that forces our mothers also to follow them now they come up with something like what a man can do a woman can do it better so when these people live the house early in the morning as in five to beat the Nairobi jam mother is out father is out watotoa mihachua pona maid who will tell them all these things because the baba na kwanbiya I'll pay the rent you'll pay the school fees the mother has to struggle but in the beginning it was not so so the best thing to a woman how much you'd stay back at home and manage businesses family business so that she has time with the kids to tell them now what you're talking about what you're talking about is something that might have happened in let's say 30, 40 years ago excuse me hi he's actually live on air stop stressing the gentleman we have caught fun sorry total for that at white for four people white for four channel Twitter hashtag this way in the morning it's live yes and I was saying you see whatever Belin is talking about is something that could have happened very easily maybe 30, 40 years ago or 20 years ago you know I am saying this because with all this empowerment that has been coming specifically to the ladies with all this empowerment and what this kind of sort of competition quote unquote because it's not more of competition but with that kind of a thing coming showing up all through it's next impossible for any for like it's next impossible for like whatever you're saying a lady, a wife nowadays you don't have housewives actually because most of if you stay at home it's looked as it's being seen as being infiliated you say you're not allowed to work you're not allowed to do this you're not allowed to do this you're just a housewife so the translation thereof is not you're being there so that you can help the kids the translation is you are there because you are inferior to the guy so you need to to like just be there and do whatever you are meant to do whatever you are meant to do whatever you are meant to do whatever you are meant to do so if if in a household there is let's say husband and wife and child and child significantly older like 15 years old so that means when they are busy doing their dance of who has more powers in the house umungine anapata that's what you're saying yes do you agree? yeah okay alright and you did also state that it is important to understand the biology of it's nature adolescent disease nature there's a lot going your mind is forming through the hormones surging everywhere and I think I remember it's been a minute but I think I remember how it felt and being reasoned with was not easy you know because I knew what I knew and I wanted to not really fight authority but I wanted to be respected I wanted to have a voice specially when it came to deciding things about me I want to go out no why I don't want you to go out it's late and you don't know what's going to happen but I'm the one who wants to go out so why won't you let me have that and usually it ended with no yes I did not have conversations with my mom at EO sit in the corner no no no it was just no it was just yes so with that still in mind are we still going to say something about these teenagers so you already know things are going on they are not going to call their board and now they are trying to kuna kufutana flani with their caregivers so now what do we do okay I think well what I would say you know when in the process of your growth yes there are those things you get from your environment cognitive skills and there are those things that you bring you learn by yourself you see and in the process of growth there is maturity that comes in you see so to me a kid who is between 14 to 18 years that is someone that they have the ability that one is actually not a kid because at that time this is someone who knows whether through the parents or through the media or social media or wherever or the streets or the streets this is someone that knows this done causes this this not done causes this and if they still go ahead to do it whether they were told or not you see because the age at this time is the age that allows you to have an open mind but I don't think the consequences for them as tangible I feel like the desire to do outweighs the thought of ayakuna consequence like unayone 18 like in Zafanika but it's not really considered it's not if I go to this house party and I only know like 3 people and we're going to hang out in someone's house who's over 40 years old atumjuwi my parents don't know who this person is they have never been around my neighborhood by the time you give I have confidence enough to do something like that I don't think the consequences is real we're up on of Kira maybe kulewa at most I don't know what you're thinking about but you could disappear nani before we go there we have to accept that whatever you feed your mind with whether in the house through media it really prays a very big role here because even if I decide


You're doing good vlogging. Oh, yeah. It sounds good. Do you need me to be on there? If you want to be everything's good Everything's good Thanks, man. Take care What is up guys and welcome back to the Johnny Q channel. Thanks so much for watching in today's video I'm gonna make it pretty brief because I'm parked on the side of the road And I shouldn't be What's new right? I'm gonna quickly go over how to shoot B-roll to get your camera Well, you want to do set it to 60 frames a second or 120 whatever your camera goes up to you The more frames in your shot the more frames per second the better It's gonna be for slowing down for slow motion B-roll a shot of me coming out and kind of getting the door of my car Get really close And we're gonna do is this because it's supposed to be slow motion You got to do a quick movement what I want to do is actually like getting position So what I'm doing is I'm up to the door and I'm already in position to get you know to back up like this So I can so I can eventually slide if you saw that Position slide Because the worst thing you can do is try to get B-roll that's not really smooth and that whole push and slide thing Makes me so that when I when I come back my transition is from here to here Like it's really smooth and that's what we want to do. So you're up to your subject You want to make sure you're in position You want to hold the camera steady another thing here What you want to do is keep your elbows close to you so you have enough stability So you're not shaking your camera you want as much stability with your camera and your body as you move backward to make it smooth So here we go. This is what it looks like Recording position I was locked in here we go and you see how that just you know I fell back. I held it as long as possible without falling on my face Here's another one to get slow motion B-roll again You're gonna want to be in 60 frames a second or 120 depending on your camera and it's the pan That's literally it's a pan. You just pan from left to right right to left top to bottom bottom to top I mean whatever you want to do. It's a pan pan how you want to but here's the kicker you don't want to Slow down and then pan some more you want to make again one easy Transition one easy movement from a to B. Here we go You see what it looks like Again, I'm using my left foot or my other foot to guide me as I Transitioning you want to lean on that one foot? So here we go, and then I just put music behind it and boom solo motion B-roll So there it is guys there you have it a quick tutorial on how to shoot B-roll You don't have to be a master before you start using B-roll I would highly encourage you to start filming everyday objects in your house outside wherever you are just start filming Start using 24 frames a second start using 60 frames a second and slow that down in post work on those pan transitions We suggest you work on that pan with your legs make it as smooth as possible work on your walks on What's really gonna help is also the ninja walk which everybody speaks of and it's pretty much this Basically the ninja walk is you walk on your heels. You try to make it as smooth as possible. That's pretty much it So that's pretty much it that is B-roll and it is super easy to do You got to just start doing it and so with that being said I will catch you next time on the Johnny Q channel. Peace Love the snow. I love the snow. I'm gonna head home though. It's it's cold


I'm Rusty Komori, and this is Beyond the Lines on Think Tech, Hawaii. I was the head coach of the Punahou School Boys Varsity Tennis Team for 22 years, and we were fortunate to win 22 consecutive state championships. This show is based on my books Beyond the Lines and Beyond the Game, and it's about inspiration, leadership, and creating a superior culture of excellence. My special guest today is one of the star players on our University of Hawaii women's volleyball team. She is Kate Lang, and today we are going Beyond Volleyball. Hey, Kate, welcome to Beyond the Lines. Hi, thank you so much for having me. Kate, you guys have been doing so great.  But can I first start by asking you where you grew up at, and when did you start playing volleyball? Yeah, I actually grew up in North Texas. I played volleyball starting at the age of seven. So I was super young, but I was mixing in with basketball and soccer and all the sports, dipping my toes in every pond. And I decided to pursue volleyball when it came to middle school because I loved it and wanted to keep doing what I loved. So I started playing club, and that's when I started playing at clubs that are based in Dallas, Texas. Wow, that's great. And Kate, how did it come about that you ended up choosing the University of Hawaii? I would say that I began my recruitment process at 15 years old. But Coach Rob, she reached out to me when I was just right at the beginning of the recruitment process. And I was super excited because I had actually reached out to Dave Soji before, and I didn't realize that he was actually in the middle of his retirement. So I didn't hear back, but it wasn't because he wasn't interested. It was because he literally wasn't on staff anymore. So I was being a little 15-year-old and confused. And when I got to meet Coach Rob in person, it was just a really cool experience. And I was super psyched. There was a lot of rules about recruitment and things like that whenever we were at tournaments. And she couldn't talk to me personally, but there was a lot of ways that I could tell that she was interested just by sitting at my core. And she's a setter. I'm a setter. So we have minds that think alike in that way. But it was really cool getting on the phone with her. And I was just so honored to have phone calls with someone that has been awarded so many accolades throughout the years and earned so many things. So it was just really cool getting to know her during my recruitment process. And I just ended up loving it and went for it. Well, she is our Olympian. Yeah. And Kate, what are some things now that you know Coach Robin? What are some things that you admire about her? I admire so many things about Coach Rob. But one thing that I do admire is her legacy that she's left throughout the program and throughout Hawaii as a whole, just being constantly being herself and just being a strong female athlete, I think is such an important factor when it comes to being a coach and knowing that you're a female coach and wanting to not knock people down for being female, but strengthening people through that and telling us that we can do the same thing that men do and we can do all of that. So she talks about it all the time about how men's volleyball players play a different game than we do, but that doesn't make us weaker. It just makes us a different type of volleyball. So I just really, I love that about her. And I think that it's a great mindset that she's in and it's just saying like, you know what? We're tough too. Like we're tough in our own way. Yeah, I completely agree. And Kate, when you're in practices or in matches, what are some things that coach Robin does that makes her an effective coach? I think that her standard overall is something that makes her such an effective coach. She really, she does not care who our opponent is. She doesn't care what's going on on the other side of the net. She always has this standard for us as a team to play to and the goal is always to exceed that. Last week before our game, she actually was talking in the locker room. And I actually believe it was coach Kaleo, our associate head coach. And he said that, you know, when you work in the real world you want to exceed the expectations of whatever boss is giving you instruction. And you know, coach Rob expects that as well. And we're just all on top of that. We're all eager to exceed her expectation and that standard that she gives us. So just her motivation and inspiration that she gives us just makes her such an effective coach. Now, Kate, I want to ask you this because when I was coaching, I would always make my practices harder so that when we would play matches, it would be easier. And I would also try to simulate pressure situations in practice that we would experience in the matches. What are your thoughts about that? Yeah, I think that that's so important. And we do that as well. When we're playing teams like UC Santa Barbara who have really fast tempos and people who are doing things that are those pressure situations that you were referring to, coach Rob actually goes into the practice gym and she sets the B side. So we play against coach Rob, which is, it seems impossible sometimes but A side has, we've had our backbone. So I'm excited. And I think that she definitely understands that that's a big part of it too is making practice harder than the actual game. So when we have hard practices. Yeah, I'm sure you guys do. And I know that coach Robin, she still has it as well. And Kate, I want to ask you about setting.  What do you write in a game just before you're going to do that set? What are you focused on? There's so many things that come with setting other than just having a clean touch on the ball. And in the game, there's so many other factors that honestly have nothing to do with the product with me just setting a ball. I'm always constantly thinking about which hitters hot. I'm thinking about where my blockers are, which blockers are up. Like I study the blockers throughout the week and I look at which one are their weakest blockers. If this middle doesn't like to move to her left or if she doesn't like to move to her right. I try to pick at stuff like that and always just having an offensive strategy with that. So I'm constantly thinking about that during the game and it's really helpful during timeouts when I can talk to my coaches and they can remind me of the game plan and always trying to get our middles involved as much as possible. And being aggressive with my tempo and any type of strategy that I'm having during that game too and staying confident in my team. So that's just a few things that go through my mind. That's a lot of things. And Kate, you, Yacob Tella on the men's team graduated last year. I mean, he was our legendary setter. What was your guys relationship like? I knew Yacob pretty well. And I didn't know him like super well, but I mean, the volleyball teams at UH were all friends. We all mesh all the time. We definitely have a lot in common. So the most that I ever talked to him about setting, he was just constantly talking about kind of just what I just said. I'm knowing who's hot and wanting to feed your hitters who are gonna get the job done fastest, get in and out of the game as fast as you can. And middles are a huge part of the men's game as well. At the time, I believe that Pat Gassman was still at UH when I was talking to him about this. So that was an era of its own. So yeah, I mean, it's, as long as you have the pieces to the puzzle, all the setters have the same mindset when it comes to offensive strategy. So it was really cool getting to know Yacob in that way. Oh, totally. And Kate, I wanna ask you about serving.   And everyone, it's really important to have your own routine when you go back there. So I try to give myself some confidence and I try to walk back there. I'm usually dribbling the ball, dribbling the ball like a basketball player, thinking like, okay, and I'm like looking at the floor. I always look at the Hawaii sign whenever we're at home, which is always nice to have something specifically to look at. And I'm just thinking like, I'm gonna ace this next person. Like this girl's not, she's not gonna get passed on this. Like I'm gonna ace this ball and we're gonna go home basically. Like I, let's do it. So I turn around, I dribble the ball a few more times with two hands. And then I look over to coach Nick and he gives me my serving call and I take a deep breath. And I just look at the ball. I actually on the molten sign, you can see in the picture on the molten, the O, there's actually a little fire sign. So I look at the fire sign right before, like whenever I'm holding the ball with two hands, I always look at the fire sign. And then I'm like, okay, I'm gonna ace this girl. And then I just go for it. I love hearing the details like that. Yeah, it's funny. You're right, because even in tennis, the serve in tennis is something that you have 100% total control of, just like you said about volleyball serving. But I like hearing your insights like that because I know all of the fans when they're at the Stan Sheriff's Center, I mean, they're thinking, what is she thinking of? You know what I mean? I just like some of these details, these insights would be really good. And I wanna ask you, Kate, about blocking.  Yes, it absolutely hurts. I actually, I have a funny story for that. So my first year, whenever we were in COVID, we were doing blocking drills during practice on like one of the days that we were actually able to practice. And Coach Anne was still here. And she was like this legendary middle blocker. So she was always on the blocking court and I remember it was my first drill ever in my entire life doing a blocking drill during practice because in club, I ran a six two and I never touched the front row. So I had never blocked. I had never even like tried to block, honestly. Like I didn't want any part of it because I didn't wanna break my nails. Texas girl came out, she did not wanna break her nails. So I went into the drill and I'm like, I'm trying to block, I'm learning how to block. I don't know if Coach Anne was super aware that I had never done a blocking drill before but my hands were bright red. Like they were bright red and they were throbbing. And I'm looking at them and I'm like, oh my gosh, what is going on? What is this? And Coach Anne is like slamming the ball into my wrist and I'm like, ow. And she goes, what did you just say? And I was like, I didn't say anything, I didn't say anything at all. And I'm like, oh my God, that hurts so bad. But I'm going over there and I just had to get through it. And that was, I could not wait for that blocking drill to be over with. I was in so much pain. So I love hearing that because I mean, for me, when I'm growing up, I'm playing baseball and soccer and sometimes we practice volleyball on our own and man, it hurts.  Yeah, it hurts. I'm glad that you shared that story and Kate, I wanna ask you when you're in the match and when the point's done and you girls get into the huddle and you're with each other like that, what are you talking about? Most of the time we're just talking about like, well, sorry, could you repeat if it was for after the game or between points? Yeah, like between points. Okay. Most of the time, if we won the point, then we're celebrating, but we're also doing minor fixes like there's always something that you could fix. Sometimes I'm apologizing for my set and I'm saying, hitter, thank you so much for saving my butt. That was a great swing. Or we're loving on our passers. We love loving on our passers and our diggers because they really, they do the most selfless acts. They're just always getting hit, just getting hit and getting the ball up for us. So we love loving on our teammates that don't get the most spotlight all the time. That's a really big part of this team, which I think is really important for the culture of the program. So that's a lot of the stuff that we're saying. Yeah, and Kate, how would you describe your team's identity? I think on the court, we are strategic and energetic and we go all out like full set and every single time. And you can tell that in the games that we have not performed as well is when we're playing tentative. So we know that our identity is that we have to go 100% or we're not gonna perform the way that we know we can perform. Just always being as aggressive as possible. But I think off the court, my team is full of comedians. We're full of just some of us who are not on the court but I'm definitely included in this. I have total blonde moments all the time. Like I'm such a jock sometimes. I can't think outside of volleyball courts. Like I'm, my mind is blown.  So we're just, we're full of all this stuff but we are so funny. This team is hilarious. I never leave a day thinking there's nothing that funny that happened today. Like there's always an event. No matter where we are, there's always an event. It seems like you girls are super close.  You're all like best friends. Is that true? Yeah, it is. And I'm so appreciative of that on this team because it's not like that every year. So having honestly the past two years, this year and last year, we've been so close. I hang out with all of them outside of volleyball. Like I can't, I see literally every single one of them outside of volleyball, which is, you know, it's not, I wouldn't say it's like something that has to go on for volleyball teams, like for any teams, you don't have to be best friends with your teammates, but it sure does help when you have some type of chemistry and relationship off the court, I think. I completely agree. And Kate, I, you know, this is something that Coach Robin and her coaching staff, they've implemented, you know, they've built this culture of excellence. And that's why you girls feel like how you do. And Kate, I want to ask you about my books. Ryan Tanaka was so generous to do a big book donation of both of my books to your entire team, the players and the coaches. What are some things that stood out to you in the books? I think that just having, I mean, I talked about it earlier actually, just having that standard of excellence and like always going for that and not being okay with like anything else, but you're 100% all the time. One thing that I learned from your book that I think it was in Beyond the Lines, it was talking about how you're in control of your own thoughts and how you're in control of all of your own actions and anything that you say into the world is completely on you. So I think that ever since coming to college and learning about that, I've become a completely different teammate, volleyball player, person, everything. And yeah, that was like, that was my number one takeaway from Beyond the Lines was just being in control of your own thoughts. I'm glad you brought that up because it's all about mindset. And you know that the brain controls the body and you know, if you have the right mindset that allows you to have self-discipline which leads to habits, which lead to success which gives you a chance for greatness. Do you agree? I totally agree, I totally agree. I think that if you don't have that quality about yourself then you're not gonna be as successful as you could have been. And who's not gonna set themselves up to be as successful as possible, you know? Yeah, totally. And I totally get that. And you know, that's why, you know, I'm trying to, I wanna build high achievers and once they become a high achiever I wanna help them become superior achievers. And Kate, I wanna ask you about Bratahood Grimes, Sisterhood Grimes at Giovanni Pastrami restaurant. Ryan Tanaka is the founder of Bratahood and Sisterhood Grimes and there you are with your whole team. And how was that event at Giovanni Pastrami? It's so fun. I love going to Giovanni Pastrami's. Anytime that we get the chance, Ryan, we're always like, yes, please let us come. Like we, let us bother your restaurant. It's so fun. We, I love being able to meet people that are truly, like they're truly there to help us and they want to learn about us and they want to be a part of the community just as much as we wanna be a part of the community. So it's really nice hearing about professional development and being able to learn things that, you know, athletes sometimes aren't given as much credit as they should be given in my opinion in the real world because yeah, we can't have as many, like we kind of have like a job that we work during season. Like I can't work my job during my entire season. So that's six months out of the year where I'm unemployed. But Ryan had a great way of putting it. He said, no, you're not unemployed. You're a student athlete who's putting in probably 40 hours a week alone thinking about volleyball, doing volleyball, like anything that you can think of that goes towards your job during that time.  And that's not true. We work really hard, but sometimes there's a balance you have to give to get, you know? So some people can totally have a 4.0, don't get me wrong and like be it stellar athletes. That's, there's some people that are born like that. But then there's other people who, you know, they have to put some eggs in this basket and some eggs in that basket. So I think that it's a great experience being able to develop as like a professional and not an athlete, but still be given credit as an athlete in that environment at Giovanni Pistromis.   And do you remember that's at Giovanni's, that's where I met you for the first time? Do you remember that? That's where I got the courage. That's where I got the courage to come up to you. Why were you nervous? I was nervous because I've read all of your books and I'm, I work with Chris McLaughlin, shout out, Chris McLaughlin and I just think about like everything that you've written for so long and it's something that's really helped shape me as an athlete.  It's so nice to meet you. I've read every single word of all of your books and I'm obsessed with them. And yeah, so I was just obviously so nervous. Thank you, Kate. It was so great meeting you and, you know, for you to come up and share what you did and Chris McLaughlin, love Chris McLaughlin. I mean, he was our athletic director at Puno School who hired me actually for the boys varsity team and he's such a great man. And Kate, I wanna ask you in regards to the Sisterhood Grimes program that Ryan created, you know, I was a speaker at one of the classroom events and, you know, he brought in other community leaders to try to talk to the women's volleyball team about life after volleyball. How valuable are those talks when I did the speaking or when some of my other colleagues did the speaking to really share insights with your team? Oh, they're so valuable. They just help us so much with understanding that some of the qualities that we're gonna be able to pull from our athletic careers, they will be able to be applied in our professional careers. And, you know, they also point out though, you have to work at these other characteristics as well and start buckling down in your last couple of years in college so that you can be a professional and be good at your job. And they also help with internships because a lot of us, we work as much as we can, but, you know, having volleyball and constantly going from volleyball in the morning to school in the afternoon to more school in the evening because of how much we have to study, we usually don't really get the chance to apply for jobs or apply for internships because they want us to work for 30 hours a week and we just don't have that time on our hands. So being able to meet people that they understand and they want to help. And a lot of the people that Ryan knows, he knows so many people that are very high up and really cool companies. So being able to meet them and be like, oh my gosh, this is accessible to me now. And they understand that I can't give them 40 hours a week, 30 hours a week, because I have this, this and this throughout the rest of my day. So it's just, it's a great, it's really wonderful. I'm very appreciative towards Ryan. Yeah, it's such a great program, this brotherhood grind, sisterhood grinds because it's beyond providing food. It's really showing the student athletes that we care, Ryan cares about what happens to you after graduating University of Hawaii and to really set you up in the professions that you might want. And Kate, what's the major that you're studying right now? I'm currently double majoring through the honors program at UH. So I'm, my primary is political science and I picked up a second major that is basically like a cousin to political science so that I still see the same professors from the political science department, but they're just teaching different classes that are in the women's gender and sex studies major. And then I also have to take classes through my honors program that helps with just, it's usually writing intensive and I write about all kinds of stuff. So yeah. Oh, that's great to hear. And Kate, I want to ask you personally, what's a big adversity that you dealt with in your life? When I was 16, my father actually passed away right before club season was supposed to start. So he passed away in the first week of December.  So that was really tough and I had already committed to UH. So that made it a little bit more interesting as well. So that was something that I really struggled with. Yeah, yeah. No, and Kate, so I want to ask you, when you're in Hawaii, what are some things that you like to do in Hawaii for fun? I love eating. I love eating. I constantly am trying to find new restaurants. I'm a food critic. If anyone wants to look at my Instagram, it's being flooded with food pictures currently at Kate.lang on Instagram. It's flooded with food Instagrams, but I am constantly going from Chinatown to Waikiki to Kaimuki to Eastside and even like North Shore food. I just, I love trying every food that I can get my hands on. So that's my favorite thing to do here. Now, what about going to the beach and hiking? Oh yeah, I'll do that too. I'll do that too. I'll go to the beach. I don't really hike that much. I used to hike like my freshman year, but now I'm getting a little older and my knees don't feel like it. So I have to keep those healthy for volleyball and I'll just go like relax on the beach sometimes. Yeah, that sounds good. And Kate, I want to ask you, what's something about you that not too many people know about? Something about me? Oh, I'm obsessed with little kids and taking care of them. I'm currently a nanny and I am just obsessed with the little boy that I take care of. So not a lot of people know that. Wow, that's great to hear. I love hearing that actually. So that's actually good practice for later on in life, right? Totally, yeah, totally. Okay, you know, who do you guys have upcoming and how's the rest of the season looking? You know, I'm going to go hard with what Coach Rob always says. It doesn't matter who we have coming up, it just matters what we do on our side of the court. So I'm excited to see, we've been working really hard into practice gym recently. So I'm excited for people to apply what we've been learning and working on and put it out on the court when it comes game day. I love it because I would share with my teams, you know, we need to take care of business on our side of the net. And that's really what you're saying there and Kate, I wanna thank you for taking time to join me on the show today.  Oh, thank you so much for having me. This was so cool and I was so nervous because you're Coach Rusty, but thank you so much for having me. Thanks Kate. And thank you for watching Beyond the Lines on Think Tech Hawaii. For more information, please visit rustycomory.com and my books are available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. I hope that Kate and I will inspire you to create your own superior culture of excellence and to find your greatness and help others find theirs. Aloha.


You want to dunk three best tips the only tips you ever need to dunk if you want to dunk This is the tips you need to listen to these tips There's only three of them if you can't listen to that.  What's that penultimate? We've heard it four million times long steps big step right here Long right, but you don't want to be hopping into it. You don't want to be good Right, that's just gonna Energy's gone Lunge, I'm gonna call it the leopard lunge from now on get under it right whole time last step Simultaneous fast as you possibly can but you don't want to be looking down that whole time you're working on your technique I know you want to hammer home that technique. That's the lesson one's about but we don't want to be staring at the floor Because then what we're gonna do is we're just gonna focus jump like that.   Stop going for the rim stop trying to dunk Huh? What I'm saying is go higher than it go wave higher than it go above it go to the freaking moon jump to the moon Touch that top of the back. What are you gonna do?  You got to reach for something out there.  You got to plant hard. You got to take all fast and you got a friggin Okay, you need that.  It's energy What does that mean?  No, you need a full battery to jump your highest to explode your hardest. So what does that mean number one sleep? You got to get to bed on time so you can have a full night sleep for two reasons one You need a full tank to explode and number two after you're jumping if you don't get a full night sleep You're not gonna even recover. You're gonna be jumping on sore broken down body How's that even gonna work? That doesn't even make sense. Think about it after you get good night sleep You need good nutrition not just to look good and try to do what you need is the right nutrients to repair If you're filling a car with water, is it gonna go anywhere? No, that's what you're doing with bad nutrition You're not letting it repair and you're not fueling it up So you can have the energy you want and you need max energy not only to jump your highest But to have the best workouts you could possibly have and keep Focus because the best thing you can do is the best workout for that day You can't just jump your highest every single day and you can't just increase every day Just like weightlifting as an example, you can't just lift more weights every time you do alternate exercises to help What's the word? Supplement you're jumping you don't just jump jumping is the number one thing But it's not the only thing so you have to know what workouts you need and then if you have imbalances and you have weaknesses You have to work on those so you have this foundation You can't just make progress you have to make progress in every area of your body Which is why energy is so important and get your mind right think that way think that every workout Is towards that dream of dunking, but you have to do the best workout you can do today. That's it What's out? What else nothing leave a comment if you have any but you probably don't because I just leave a comment If you think of anything else because it's gotta be something else, but you don't even know it. I know it Let me know I mean we got we do this all day If you're filling a car with water is it gonna go anywhere


So guys, another week, another delay, something we're kind of getting used to without riders, but in reality it isn't the end of the world. How's it going guys, my name's DPJ and if you enjoyed the video leaving a like really helps out and if you like what you see and want to see more be sure to subscribe. So this week PCF said that there may be a new patch coming, while PCF tweeted out yesterday, I should have covered this yesterday to be honest, it just had so many things going down yesterday, I decided to just post it today. As I know not a lot of people are still following this game, so it isn't like it's information I need to get out ASAP. But either way PCF said last week that we may get a patch this week, while that has now changed as they tweeted out saying the following, work continues on our upcoming patch, but we are unfortunately not ready to release it today, with a link to Reddit where they go into more information on it, which will get into people. Okay so patch news, unfortunately while we are hard at work on the latest patch, we have run into a couple of issues that cannot be overlooked and must be resolved before we can release this update. Some of the upcoming changes we have planned mean we cannot release the latest patch until we are satisfied, it is in the absolute best possible place. We hope to share more on information on this latest patch with you very soon, to give some insight to one of these issues is the player privilege rights features is currently failing to correctly block players on some platforms. We understand that this feature is important to the player experience, so we are investigating why this is currently not operational. We are currently targeting the release next week for the patch, however this is dependent on when we are confident these issues are resolved, meaning there is potential it could be released at a later date. As a reminder two weeks ago we released a patch that featured buffs for all classes, crash fixes, improved multiplayer performance and various other bug fixes, which to be honest guys was a decent patch. Now they do talk about upcoming fixes and changes which you'll see on screen now, which I won't include them all, but if you do want to pause the video and check them out yourself you can. I'll go through these when the patch is ready because things may change, but these are what they say will be coming in the latest patch. Now me personally, I don't mind them taking a break, I don't mind them sitting back if they have dropped a patch which has obviously buffed and changed many classes for the better. I mean if they really want to just take a week off to chill that's completely fine by me, I'm not saying that's what they're doing, but it does seem as though when we get one good patch it's always the next week, we always get a delay on the next patch, which in hindsight to me kind of points in the direction of them thinking yes well the game's in a good state right now we can take a week's break, which fair dude doesn't bother me whatsoever, we're not rushed now. The games in terms of player base is at an all-time low, I don't think it can get any worse for the game, it can only get better from this point forward and it will get better when new content is announced and it is as simple as that. I mean in my opinion they can apply all the buffs to all the legendaries, all the classes, all the armours whatever, I don't think we'll see this game on the rise again until we get that new content and it needs to be significant content at that, but yes as per usual guys keep you guys up to date on the latest surrounding outriders and on that note the end of the video has arrived, if you enjoyed it leaving a like really helps out, if you're new around here want to see more be sure to subscribe and if you never want to miss a video I upload you can turn notifications on by hitting that bell button guys thanks as always for stopping by and hopefully I will see you on that next one