Hello everybody, E here. Welcome to the best books of the decade. I only have one hard rule for this and that is these books had to have been published between 2010 and 2019. How I compiled this list was I stood in my office and I looked around and I picked out I think a total of 21 books right off the bat and then I started to weed, not weed, well yeah I started to you know whittle down the stack to the books that meant the most to me for specific reasons and finally I ended up with five of them. If I were to, if I had more time I would do best books of the decade and I wouldn't do just five but my time is short I don't have much time right now it being the holidays and certain things happening in my life and my career all good things all positive I'm very very happy right now but I decided to cut it down to five and these are the books that either came along right when I needed them this past decade or books that just defined the decade for me at number five. So at number five we have Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith. This is a book that came came along I will always remember the point in time that I read it I was quitting smoking and I read this book maybe over the course of I don't know just a couple of days maybe three or four days but it was there for me when the withdrawals and everything were the worst when my attitude was the absolute worst the author's description of the place that he was in when he was writing the book meant a lot to me also Andrew Smith felt like he was in a rut he was writing the same thing over and over again he's a young adult author he felt like he wasn't pushing the genre anywhere new so he decided to stop writing for publication and start writing for fun again so he started writing and this is the book that came out this book is also beautiful it's got a neon green binding not binding but dust jacket it's got a black inside but the the actual it's what are they called sprayed edges is the same color as the dust jacket it's a beautiful book and if I'm honest it's the reason why I grabbed it this book is wild it is crazy it is also a our voices if you want to go into hashtags and trending the book is about a young man who is struggling with his sexuality he has a best friend and a girlfriend and he's trying to decide between these two people while basically the end of the world is happening but it's not like a dystopian or anything like that this is a book unlike anything else I have ever read period and I feel it's because Andrew Smith Andrew Smith just threw it all out the window and decided he was just going to start writing and I think the best books are written that way being an author myself when I'm reading someone else's material I can tell if it's plotted I can tell that okay these are story notes these are stepping stones to get to a bigger purpose books like this you just don't know where they're going to go and that's the magic of fiction for me at number four okay so at number four we have Elinor by Jason Gurley I'm shocked that this is on the list considering I don't talk about it nearly enough the only time I've really given it a video I need to do a review of it here on the channel but the only time I've really done a video of it is I think top five books that nobody ever talks about fantastic novels that nobody ever talks about and I think that's one of the reasons why I'm putting it on this list to give it a little more visibility from what I understand the book was self published and it was much longer or shorter I can't remember which one it is but then a crown came in and bought the rights to it and completely re-edited it uh I don't know if stuff stuff was added or taken away I'm not sure but it is a very very clean experience um I there are so there's so much in here about depression uh postpartum depression about the loss of a child so much in here regarding those things uh things that I went through myself of course I didn't go through postpartum depression but there's I have some history with losing a child and that there's so much in here that I that I felt I felt close to and Jason really hit the mark uh for I'm talking about the Jason Gurley really hit the mark as far as those things were concerned the the land the fantasy world that he creates and it's not really a fantasy novel it's more of a fantasy novel that you might see a Neil Gaiman right but it's he creates this world that is so dark and dour and depressing I keep using dour I'm not sure if it means that or not but it's very dark um sinister and there's one land in particular with dinosaurs and watching that land what happens to that land over time has stuck with me and it's one of those it's one of those stories that is embedded in my nature now anytime I think about not feeling good or anytime I think about you know how depressed I am how bad things are when it usually isn't really that bad I think of this book I think of the imagery that Gurley you know projected into my mind and it's absolutely amazing I love this book it is easily one of my favorite books of all time though it might not be on my top 20 actually I can't remember for this or not but it's one of those books where the author completely stole me away from reality and put me in another place and then made me reconsider how I looked at my own emotions at number three right at number three we have a book that nobody will be surprised to see on my best of the decade list and that is you by Caroline Kepnes this book changed the game it changed the thriller game it changed the way people looked at stalker fiction it changed everything after this book came out it spawned loads of I don't want to say mimicry there there was but there were plenty of books that came out in response to this book which is interesting enough because I believe this book was in response to gone girl but era meant to hulls our kind of cruelty I feel the doll factory by Elizabeth McNeil I feel that kind of it was kind of on the same vein is it any wonder that McNeil's book and Kepnes's book are from the same publisher I think not two completely different stories but they all seem like they seem like responses to these books and I don't know if McNeil's was or not I don't know that for sure but I believe that you was a response to gone girl and it did so much for the bad guy as the protagonist or the the main character being a bad guy I feel it's done an even better job for that than Patricia Heismas the talent Mr Ripley I never liked Ripley in those books I loved Joe in this book and anytime an author can make me love a character that I shouldn't love that I shouldn't have feelings about and make me despise a character that we should be rooting for I think that is a sleight of hand that cannot go unappreciated unappreciated unappreciated that's a word so but Caroline Kepnes she's also a fantastic person she's very open and accessible she will I don't know if she responds to everybody but she's she's responding to me she's talked to me on Twitter she she's very open very nice person and I love all the success that she is seeing because in my opinion she deserves every single minute of it at number two okay at number two is probably another book that people will not be shocked that's on this list it is easily my favorite Stephen King book of the decade and that is revival by Stephen King and in case you're wondering know the institute even though it's in my top five now is nowhere close to this book um this this book I cheered I was crying I was upset but I cheered at the end of this book because it was a return to form for my favorite author of all time it was one of those it was the feeling like you you saw a long lost friend walk through the door again and they were in good health and they were doing really well for themselves and you see them and you're like I knew it I knew you were capable of this um the the book was polarizing in that a lot of people a lot of people when I wrote my review they were upset because they went out and bought the book based on my reaction to it um and in fact after that I changed my whole way that I talk about books to other people and whenever anybody asked me hey do you think that such and such book is worth it I am now answering everybody I don't know I don't know what you are going to think is worth it I have no idea what is going on in your head or your life at that moment but this book to me was important this book felt like I said like a return to form for Stephen King and no I'm not talking about a return to horror this book isn't a a scary it is terrifying to me um even as an atheist it is terrifying to me um the the book touches on things it's just the the will to live where does our will to live come from also it dealt with something that I was feeling at that point in time when I read it which was the fleeting nature of life how quickly life goes by when we're children we all think oh you know well we're gonna live forever that's what coming of age means you know other than the sexual aspect it also means realizing that the world is maybe not as innocent as you believe um in this book he he tackles everything that is relevant to that theme it is a perfect thematic experience in that he it comes completely full circle uh the all the questions that the Charlie Charlie Jacobs I believe his name is uh the pastor asks or all the stuff that he says in in his speech to his congregation just before he quits all of that stuff mirrored all the questions and feelings I had when I left Christianity when I realized that and if you're a Christian that's fine I don't mind spirituality I have more against a religion than I have against spirituality but um it mirrored everything that I had that no questions that no definitive answers to the questions that I had and on top of that I saw if there is a god this is not someone that I want to worship this it's an evil uh manipulative egotistical creature if there is a god and that's just not something that uh that draws my my wants to worship it it it tackles a lot of those things but above and beyond everything else this book is terrifically written amazingly written and I still get excited to this day thinking about this book while Stephen King's it is still my favorite Stephen King book this book year after year means something more to me it it it's probably it will never take the place of it because it has so much more than this one just just in size alone this books like three four hundred pages I can't remember I can never remember how long this one's four hundred pages it is eleven hundred pages um there's just so much more to it but as far as the shortest succinct experience for Stephen King's writing revival is where it's at for me at number one okay so at number one we have Landon this one's for you since you brought it up on the last stream Donna Tarts the goldfinch yes the rumors are true I have stopped reading Stephen King's it over and over and over again I think I stopped the 18th read through I didn't feel it was starting to be diminishing returns I wasn't getting anything really new out of it on top of that this book came along this is the book um I have a paperback and and my audio book alongside my bed this is the book that I have started reading over and over again I have read it one more time since my first time and I found a bunch of new stuff especially in the audio book I don't know why but it it really highlighted certain things the the production quality of the audio book really highlighted certain aspects that I missed beforehand I think a lot of it was the inflection of certain uh dialogue I'm not sure if I'll get the same thing when I go back and read I'm reading the paperback along with the uh the audiobook so it's like I'm being read to as I'm reading along um I've read it once and I've started my third one already I read just several pages a night sometimes 10 sometimes upwards of 20 because this book is really hard to put down I know that's cliched but it's for me it's an almost impossible to put down because when I do stop I don't want to stop and I'm always saddened when I have to put it down but uh Donna Tartt this is easily the best coming of age novel for boys ever written um that it's written by a woman I don't think it matters um but there's the themes of loving your your your best friend and wanting to do anything uh for them and even if you are a straight straight boy the feelings of of love and the feeling of you know sometimes wanting to touch your friend it I know I know there's gonna be a lot of dudes out there going hey I never felt that way but that she covered this in the book where sometimes you know well not sometimes the basis of any sexual relationship should always be a friendship um or any type of relationship period should be a friendship first and foremost whether whether it be you know two young boys or whether it be adults and there is no sexual relationship between these boys um but there is a friendship that could have possibly led to more that even though neither of the boys considered themselves gay I hope that comes off right um I know there's going to be a lot of people disagreeing with me I even the director of the movie seemingly disagreed uh because he said he wanted to tone down that aspect of in the movie I haven't seen the movie yet um I was hyped for it but I haven't seen it yet uh in in Tarte's book there there's a lot of stuff in there about the the emotional aspect of growing up with a friend very close by when you have no one else to turn to and I found a lot of myself in the main character uh especially the drug addiction uh I fought with addiction uh several times in my life whether it be cigarettes heroin alcohol several different things I'm an addictive personality if I do anything too often I end up becoming addicted to it that's just how just how I am and I suffer withdrawals you know even with stuff with like food um but the the purpose of this book the themes of this book really really hit home for me and I feel that's the reason why it is probably going to end up replacing Stephen King's it as my favorite book of all time I don't know yet I'm going to continue researching and studying this book and finding out how in the hell Donna Tarte did what she did I feel like I know how Stephen King did what he did with it I feel like I have you know mind those depths to completion with this one I am really enjoying going back and finding the structure uh really nitpicking figuring out where you know that just simple things like when she ends a chapter when she ends uh when she starts a page break when she does this that or the other to keep you wanting to read even though the text is very verbose extremely verbose uh it is very that her descriptions are astoundingly immersive I don't know that's one of the main reason I don't know how she does it and keeps people entertained because when I read fantasy I get bored very quickly because there's a lot of world building well there's a lot of world building in this one even though it's set in reality there's a lot of stuff in there having to do with showing you places that maybe aren't all that popular that not everybody has been like certain museums certain areas of the desert uh track even track houses you know those things if you don't have any experience with those things let's say you live in trailer park or you've lived in mansions all your life you don't know what the suburbs are actually like and track houses can be an oddity to you I find that stuff interesting and I find how she made that stuff interesting I find that interesting you know I'm repeating myself now but those are the things that I really latched on to with this book along with the themes and along with the story of a boy who does not know where he is going to end up a boy who is scared and terrified who ends up jumping into a jumping into bad things to try and make good things making bad decisions to try and help you know better his life or if we're just going to be completely honest escapism a boy who is running away from himself who is running away from the world and that above all is why the goldfinch by Donna Tartt is my favorite book of the decade so that's it those are my top five books of the decade I know there's going to be some discussion about hey why isn't this on here why isn't this person on there why isn't this book on there that kind of thing and that's completely fine leave all your comments down in the doobly-doo I would love to hear from you guys it doesn't have to be a top five it can be any list of your best or worst book of books of the decade I don't care which it can be the worst I'm completely fine with that if you have any issues with sorry my phone just went off if you have any issues with any of the books that I posted here or if you like the books let me know why you have issues let me know why you love them as much as I do that kind of thing let's have a discussion down there in the doobly-doo but until next time I have been E you have been you this has been the best books of the decade I'll talk to you guys later bye bye


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Now, we are going to look at the control components, which are there in Evolved Packet Core, which help us to determine if a certain call is admissible. And if that call is admitted into the network, then depending upon the profile, it is built. So we have two important elements, specifically we see here, we have the Home Subscriber Server and the Policy and Charging Rule Function. Now these two control network elements in the Evolved Packet Core are working together with the Gateway nodes in the Evolved Packet Core. So we see that essentially there is a signalling path which is established between the HSS-PCRF with other network elements in the APC because as such they are not responsible for providing circuit for bearer path. So the Home Subscriber Server is like a database. It is a database which is centralized in the Evolved Packet Core to provide useful user-related information depending upon the context, so it means once a certain connection is admitted, then Home Subscriber Server is invoked to carry out the activities step by step. For instance, the Authentication Center is now integrated. Remember in 2G Networks, Authentication Center was part of the HLR, VLR and OSS Server Center. Here it is integrated into the HSS. So the Authentication Center provides the necessary hash function, the SIM-related information which is validated and the user is now allowed to enter into the network and avail services. The location is also provided by the HSS, which is essentially nothing but the current mobility management entity to which the user is at the moment connected to. The subscriber profile determines the level of mobility and the data rate and other service-related information that a user is entitled to. That means certain services. At the same time, the packet data networks to which a certain user is allowed to be connected to are also listed. The Home Subscriber Server actually has a very important relationship with the mobility management entity because it is going to provide functionality in the wake of roaming if roaming is permissible for this particular user. Another important entity which is used for providing the triple A kind of service for the LTE, LTEA networks in release 8 onwards is the Policy and Charging Rules functions. Now the Policy and Charging Rules functions is a server that provides a variety of billing, identification, subscription, notification service. So it is more of a software-based network node that provides policy repository that is a number of policies can be hosted and a user can be treated depending upon the activation and enforcement of a certain policy and then certain charging and billing model like a prepaid customer or a postpaid customer. The PCRF now also has an important role because if you remember the original 3GPP architecture for the next generation networks, we had the transport stratum and above it we had the services stratum. So the Policy and Charging Rules functions is also important because it integrates and combines these. PCRF now detects if a certain call is admitted. So it depending upon the flow ID, the service flow, it invokes relevant and associated rules for it in real time. It means that whatever is taking place is taking place in a matter of 2 milliseconds because you know that for audio, visual and multimedia content delivery in next generation networks, the overall delay should not preferably exceed 150 milliseconds otherwise we'd have a jittery and unpleasant kind of experience. So real time actually means that PCRF works very fast. So it enforces the charging policy. It means that if a user has an account or a wallet that we already have known by now, deduction would start to be made from the user wallet in real time. Now there's another important role of this charging policy and charging rule function that it implements the deduction or the transaction deduction model through the policy and charging enforcement function. Now we should not be going too much into the details but expectedly PCRF is a large server with a lot of functionality. PCEF is a service which is available on that server once a user is admitted into the network. Now this enforcement function is required whenever and wherever a certain data path or the better path is established. In EPC, since we are talking about IP multimedia subsystem that is SIP based services, if a certain application entity bypasses the direct, the intermediate nodes and connects to the serving gateway directly, then the application function or the user API uses again the services available within this PCRF server to apply the policy and charging control rules and functions.


Hey, what's up folks? What is this? This is the 8 of Fruit show until this is the awesomest place to show off your Pretty cool DIY in the three printing electronics arts crafts projects So it's about a half an hour here I'm gonna call on some people from the 8 of Fruit community and then the larger community show off your awesome projects Let's go ahead and start off with Jeff. Jeff.  Hello, Jeff. Hello. I don't think I've ever been first before So, thanks. I've kind of switched gears and I've been working on a 3d printed lamp I saw this in a well, I saw something like this in the window of a shop and It is made up of a number of different pieces of This is 3d printed natural PETG and it's done with the fuzzy skin setting on some slicers in my case crucis slicer and With the 12 volt LED strips, which I don't have any sitting loose You kind of shove it up the channel. It's it's Empty inside. This is really not gonna show but you see there There's a little channel that you just kind of force the LED down and you wire it at the bottom in and Eventually, I'm gonna have 12 different segments. This is hard 12 different segments, so it'll be a lot more. It'll be a total of three meters of LED strips And I'm using the To regulate it. I can't get this up to the camera. There's the three to 12 volt adjustable power supply So I had it, you know turned way down that you turn it way up And if some of the segments look weird, it's because there's only actually lights in two of them right now Okay, so anyway Soon as just get this finished up Sweet so you notice the difference in the having like the fuzzy skin and one without the fuzzy skin like the diffusion Did it affect me? Yeah in person? You can see a real difference. I have the the fuzzy and the non fuzzy Here and it's just It's just a little more interesting look and those imperfections of a 3d print turn into something else Yeah, and so I made a real nice difference Very cool. It's a nice texture. Definitely should try more diffused fuzzy things. That's a really good tip not thought of that Yeah, very cool. Yeah. Thanks a lot. Yeah. Well, thanks, Jeff. All right. See you around. Yeah, thanks. Hey Let's check on with John JP Hey, how you doing guys? Can you hear me? Yeah, you're good man. Super great This this computer started echoing on Streamyard only if I don't wear your butt So I have to go and grab your butts for this this one event in my life. This is what I mean So I've got a couple of projects that have been coming together over the last few weeks And they're both in a pretty good state. One of them is my little miniature pip boy So this is a microcontroller version of a pip boy And I can put it if you can share my screen there. You can see a little poster of version So this is using a feather Rp2040 it's on a tripler and I've got the joy feather wing over here as well as this little rounded corner ISP display tft isp display. I'm not sure how well focused that is And For this I've got some controls here using the joystick cursor around and it's really just a glorified prop because it Doesn't do much of anything other than show different screens when I hit the buttons on it right now The case I printed as three parts and then I've put together with gigantic oversized M4 bolts and I have Heat set inserts in the plastic. So I screw them in from the bottom But since the screws I had happened to be long I just screwed another set of the heat set inserts on top of that because it just looks cool and unnecessarily fall out The steampunk look yeah, it's sort of it's sort of definitely a wild sort of Oversized look so that's one project and I'm just about done with a guide on that one and then I also had started Working with these new neo sliders the other week and I put together a little more polished controller using four of the neo sliders and I have mostly just dealing with brightness instead of a lot of color stuff going on on these sliders right now But each of those you can see them in there have their own Set of neopixels for neopixels on those I'm going to get a little closer there And then I have our neo key one by four next to it that has a set of four Mechanical key switches, which also have underlit neopixels and then here on the side You can see I have a little feather rp 2040 there my little favorite And you could use this for a host of different things you could also use it in sort of a Different orientations vertical or horizontal mode I am going to work on using this for some color correction stuff inside of light room Maybe that's my my plan for right now the easiest way to get it going and and test it is using midi stuff So I have these keys playing a software synthesizer And then I have these sliders adjusting settings on the synth so So you can also loads and loads of fun playing around Whatever you want that needs sliders And I did set these to to show a little different color When they're set and I realized Really happy accident here. I'm sure this was planned actually on the morris part These align the the neopixels look really nicely so you could do Maybe some color effects horizontally off of these buttons, which would be which would be kind of cool as well So maybe brightness is what the sliders control, but color is what each of these control It's a good idea All right, and that's what I got so uh, I'll show a little more in-depth about these tomorrow on my show If you want to stop by the workshop show, it'll be a one specific port block eastern tomorrow come by I'll take this apart in front of your very eyes and we'll look a little deeper into it and uh, maybe I'll get that uh, Lightroom code uh going Very cool. Can we for that? Thanks so much john. All right, john. Thanks tomorrow. Cool. All right Bye. Bye Okay, next up we're going to check in with foamy guy.  Oh Who's pt? We don't know. Hey foamy guy. How you doing? Hello? Uh, all right, so I have uh a little bit of show and in a little bit of telling in uh, in telling I have some exciting news, which is that I have uh joined aterfruit team to uh, Congrats work on circuit python. So uh, I'm really excited about that. Yep. Thank you Yeah, we just started the meeting and we will definitely be bugging you for some code. Yeah, awesome. Uh anytime Um in as far as a project I have set up it is uh dealing with nvm storage, which for folks that don't know This is non volatile memory. This is memory that persists. Um across the device like powering off and powering back on Um, and normally when you want to write to nvm storage, you treat it like a byte array So you have to know Exactly how many bytes you're writing into it and you have to format whatever data you want into these byte strings Um, and I have created a library that makes this easier We have just a save function and a load function Uh, and you can pass the save function any python object like this one is a dictionary But you can do a list or a regular variable as well. Uh, you just give it your object It will save it for you It will worry about converting the bytes and counting how many there are and all of that stuff So you don't have to and when you want it back you can just read data and it will give you uh your object back And I set up a little demo of this which is basically just a little chooser between four LED animations and you can select which one you want using Up and down buttons on the thing here and uh each time you make a new selection It does save it in the nvm storage. So if we reset or power off and power back on it will remember The one we chose and it will just automatically start that one up Dude, that's so awesome. That's really exciting. I have a few video projects. I really love you For all the settings. Yes Dude, that's so cool It's really great for that settings or configurations or anything like that Because you can read it when you load the code and then uh, you know, just do whatever you need to To start it up. So awesome, dude. So happy you're joining so freaking awesome. Yeah, thank you Is there a learn guide in the works? I've started from this that Um, I don't know if there is one on this. I mean, I'm definitely open to that So, yeah, if there's um, if there's folks that are interested in it, I'd definitely be willing to write it up Cool. You can awesome. All right. Well, well, thanks for me guy, Tim. Yeah, for sure. Thank you Yeah, we'll we'll check in with you next week the emails and probably probably join the team or the meetings and Awesome. Sounds good. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks. Yeah, right All right, uh, I think next up we have a special guest Pt who's this guy? That's right, Amy T It's interesting to see what they're saying So today, uh, we're not doing show and tell we're doing show uh, one more and I are, uh You're doing it. Thank you. Uh, basket engineer is not happening tonight. It's happening tomorrow night At 8 p.m. So please join us then and the reason why is today I don't have a post about this. We were um at the new york city Gov Um, this is Gracie Manchin. This is where I guess the mayor lives Uh, Bellazio current mayor eric adams new mayor coming in and here's some lady aida there This is deputy mayor another fill um, and uh, well, what the heck I'll I'll show this you can clear my, uh Screen share if you want Okay, I was gonna do it because I'm admin. I'm I am god here, you know, because it kind of looks like one more I was gonna say also a little max headroom. Um, so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna Use my camera to do the overhead stuff and you can you can maximize me here so we can Zoom in a little bit So, um, this is why we were there Uh, okay. Yay. I had to race real fast. So while in our last, uh, Meeting that our internal team does. Um, I'm like, hey, I have my home setup. I'm trying to do this It's been 18 months. It's been terrible. I'm I'm getting there and last week I updated my firmware on my camera That was only black and white which is kind of my thing kind of cool But I won color eventually so I got that and then I had an overhead And uh, then it stopped working because that's what happens when you do live streaming This is why we're the only live streaming show. I think anyways, uh, at least like consistently over the last 10 years So this is the little this is the the the ward thing. Um, this is uh from new york city Solute small business community. Uh, I'll hold it up here The size it is But uh, all of the the businesses that helped out in new york city, uh, aita fruit got turned into an essential business And, uh, we made face shields. We did things for medical devices One of the things we did too is we decided let's pay our team to stay home We didn't do lamps or furloughs And we wanted to really take care of everyone and now we're almost through the other side I know it's still going on and they're still a fight ahead But we're also in this book growth and recovery. It's from nycgov and We're in the back here And I'm gonna have a blog post soon. So if in case you're wondering what I do what I'm not doing asking and jaren writing And and helping out one more running aita fruit But um, I wanted to use this show until and I'll get out of here in a second So you can get to the rest of folks to say thank you to everyone on the aita fruit team. Um, this little Thing here is because all of us people who write the code people who Do the learning guides people who are on the shows people who ship the packages people who receives the things people ship to things Every single person involved allowed us to survive The worst it was and hearing other business people at this event it was a lot of Women and minority on businesses those were the hardest hit including us We're a minority women on business And so, um, I wanted to say thank you to the entire team And then of course, thank you to all of you out there who bought stuff we couldn't ship stuff immediately because Weren't allowed to there was shutdown and then eventually we're able to and a lot of people were very kind and very generous and They they rewarded us with their orders, but also they rewarded us with a lot of kindness during some really tough time I know a lot of people lost folks including me Uh, I am like kintsugi, uh, which is a really cool form of japanese pottery that you put back together with beautiful Glue or you could use gold and everything and so, um, I I'm noticing a lot of people are healing now and and more And so I want to tell everyone out there It's okay to embrace the damage. Um, hopefully this thing won't break. Um, but uh It's okay, and uh, we're all doing better and it was really energizing to talk to other Business owners. Um, one of the people we met today She runs she's a woman owned door manufacturer in new york city and boarded. Where did she have stories? So anyways, uh, I just wanted to say thanks and then we do hug reports They were age for it hug report no Pedro for doing the show until tonight. Right back at you. So yeah, right back at you All I'm shellin and that's all I'm telling The only thing that you don't think it's missing is probably some neopixels, right because it's like acrylic. Yeah So this is just this unboxing just happened right now. Um, I mean like You're gonna probably have to do some type of thing and spin it around on the All right, okay, and then maybe people can print out their owner since All right. Well, thanks so much and uh, I'll be watching on the other side. Yeah, awesome. Thanks disappear me We'll catch you tomorrow. Bye bow. Bye bow All right. That was that was very special Okay, and check in with uh, Liz Hey, Liz. Hey, Liz. Oh Good evening. Um, so I Got um, a little thing that's I'm working on. Uh, it's like a stomping pad thing Um, so it's got two 3d printed like pads and then there's copper Like the sticker stuff in between Um, and then it's hooked up to a circuit playground Uh, eventually there's going to be four of these and it'll be soldered up right now It's just in like prototype mode. Um, and basically the idea is so you'd be able like Stomp on these to send midi notes. Um, you could like use your feet or you could Use your fist if you need to get like some aggression out And it might be I think it'd be cool too for like drum sounds right now It's just hooked up to the robot's iPhone through a raspberry pi But yeah, it was uh this past weekend spent some time like trying to figure out what the ideal distance would be for the The travel and also figuring out how it was going to work to um, so I'd side on springs Yes, it's really good. Yeah I don't know why the first thought that came in my head was like a cat detector or a dog detector of like they step on somewhere where they're not supposed to Yeah, it's kind of got that like mario Like It's really good idea the springs are on the corners It looks like they have like little cavities so they don't fall out of place. That's really good Yeah, and I I use a little bit hot glue to just That works. Yeah, nice All right, good progress. It's gonna be a fun one. Yeah, that's a really good idea. I want to make one now Okay, cool. Thanks so much. All right, Liz. Hey, get you next time. Hey All right next up we're gonna check in with paul Hello paul cutler. Hello Hi paul. It's my first time on show until thanks for having me. Of course So I need to switch cameras. I got two little projects. I'm really big into music and um In my office, I can now control my receiver in the other room So I have a raspberry pi with a 3d printed case on the left that baby yoda's sitting on top of And I can change the volume. I can change the inputs. Of course my hand's blocking it And then on the right I have made a Speaker stand I custom printed a speaker stand and it kind of looks like this on the inside So it's hollow And I put a feather rp 2040 with a neopixels and I mean actually using ketney's Audio reactive code from the led glasses and you can't tell, you know on the camera Um, but as I listen to music the neopixels are going up and down. So those are pretty fun projects That's awesome. I love the audio reactive projects. I always like just adds that little little extraness to the music Cool, I agree Great work song. Hope we see uh, it's some future. Yeah. Yeah, please come back. Yes, we'll do All right. Have a good evening Okay I think last step we have mark our gambler. Hey mark, good. I saw these Thanks So I've shown off my work on these led glasses for A couple weeks now going back and I thought I'd show off what my final project that I was aiming for was is I'm a really big canadian football fan from winnipeg. So winnipeg blue bombers who are now playing in the gray cup the equivalent of the super bowl um And we had the playoff game last weekend to get there. So I wanted something special to wear in the stand. So I worked on these glasses enough. I have the ring lights now working through native code as well displaying messages, um And most importantly if I can find the button I probably can't now you can do it feel The feelers you have this is a lot This wasn't There we go When it was minus 10 Celsius out, this was just as much fun But I needed the special touchdown mode for when they were scoring Including the led animation library is now working with the ring lights, which made it super quick and easy to add in extra effect to all of this I can't say how many compliments I got just walking around the concourse in the stands From so many people. So a really big thank you to everyone at aida fruit and lady aida especially for designing these Tons of people like them And the batteries held For almost four hours below zero below freezing. How cool. Um, I'm not sure if I held out but Oh, they look fantastic. They come out really well. Yeah, they look super smooth. Yeah Yeah, they they work great. Um, yeah Now I just uh, now I've got something to wear all the time And you can watch a football game for three and some hours wearing these Good visibility. Yeah. Yeah, it I didn't take them off all game and it didn't bother me Nice Probably help with the cold too like because it gets a little warm, right a little bit more coverage From my face during the wind, but yeah Now also leds will keep you warm. Yeah Yeah All right, we'll also in progress mark. We'll catch you the next time Thank you so much. All right. Bye. Thanks everybody. Um, I guess I would say, you know The show is coming up, but I guess you wait till tomorrow. That's good. So everybody can go to the thing Thanks everybody for coming. Um, I think we'll be here next week. Yeah It's john john's next week. Yeah jp will be hosting next week. So shout shout to you jp. There you are Ha ha you're still there You'll be there next week Okay, I'll be there. I guess I think that's it. So, oh, yeah, I'm just hanging out back up We're still there All right, what was that we're gonna end it. Bye everybody and good luck with everything. Have a great week all Goodbye guys.


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Tom O'Brien welcome folks this is Tom O'Brien of TFNN. We got five days a week we got seven hours a day we go 24 hours a day in the internet at TFNN.com always remember folks whatever you think about you bring about whatever you focus on grows hope everyone's having a great day safe day it's making a great night folks don't make assumptions communicate with clarity communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstanding sadness and drama if all humans would communicate with impeccability of the word all our relationships would change there be no laws no violence and no misunderstandings make it wise let's take a look at it out here we have the down industry is down six Nasdaq off 147 S&P's down 32 gold contract down $2 trading at 1673 announced we had silver down 49 cents 19 dollars 12 cents announced late sweet crude off $2 69 cents $88 42 cents a barrel notes and bonds a ten year note trading up six ticks right now at a price point of 1106 the 30 up 16 at 124 21 and King dollar King dolls up 179 ticks trading 113 329 the year is at 97 the yen is that out here at a price point of 145 and the British pound is at 109 to 1 US dollar iPhone numbers 877 9276 648 give us a call folks or know what's going on in your world so the 10 year note right now folks is yielding 3.944 no 3.933 and the high is 3.945 so we're gonna go over and look at this bond first because this is all about bonds well it's not all about but bonds and currencies are moving the market made a monster way so we take a look at this yep I can see it okay so last low well that was the high 110 19 you got the 120 1021 out here real question is is it going to be able to get off this baby well here's how it shakes out man this is gonna be interesting so 110 19 is the low that had 2.9 million contract so one we're at 1.4 yesterday hey we'll see I mean this is saying that there's a lot less sellers down this area and you know of course this one straight down from 122 you know down to 118 I mean one of 110 that 110 19 so bottom line is that you know you could get a bounce going there's no doubt about that so now let's go look at the broad market let's go take a look at the S&P first we'll take a look at the spy what you have with the spy is this so you're going into the swing point which is 357 04 we broke it and that's 153 million shares now we're only at 64 million shares so this is a big number man meaning that if this can close above the 357 04 today you're gonna get action I mean this is acting I can tell you this this is acting like it wants to make a bottom that's gonna last for a while now my take is that we're gonna go a lot lower in the S&P meaning about another 500 points but when you have a the way this is coming into lows it looks to me that we'll make it a bottom what I mean by that is this bottoms that last a long period of time actually do something like this like we've done today first you test yet yesterday was a test you know bottom line was Columbus Day but the bottom line the volume is a lot less today's a lot less and normally to try to get off something like this you know the nerves of there and I can see in this case here you went up you pulled all the way back and about two seconds flat and we know that we got the CPI coming out tomorrow we take a look at the cues the accuser in a different ball game there's they just I mean you know they they broke lower the real question I mean the cues in order to get to higher price have to get to 269 30 269 28 the volumes contracting there's no doubt about that volumes contracting but guess what that that's about it man because when you take a look at inside the cues you got a M gen up 5.3 percent microns up 2.8 Walgreens boots is up to taken away from it now this is the killer man lambs down 7.8 percent clack is down 7.5 you know we've talked about this so many times man the bottom line is that the chips take you up the chips take you down the chips have getting killed so and lamb research look at this isn't ABC down man this is a 453 this is a monster too you get what so that's what I say 53 so there's 53 plus what is that number plus 40 90 98 that gets a 308 well you're 324 you see it's a 308 it's down 25 bucks out here 304 is the ABC down yeah now look at this 309 is the high of the low I think of May 2020 these this folks that the COVID hot the COVID bar is what everything's going after man there it is right there look at that yep 309 man that's the highs and the lows and you can see I mean the bottom line is that we went up you come off the highs with volume yeah let's get over the oil market so the oil's taking a hit out here get the active contract it looks like you get some volume on this hit two men okay so you get 284,000 contracts that volumes not that high we may not yeah why was not that high you need another day like with heavier volume than today you know was stopping in his tracks though is the downdraft that was established out here on the 20th of August that's when the oil went from 96 to 90 dollars that stopped it in his tracks on the way up there's no doubt about that so we'll see where that whole baby's gonna shake out and we'll also see you know what kind of traction you're gonna get coming into this close because right now they're pressing they're just pressed out the lows meaning took out the lows and the real question is gonna be now this is what ends up happening because it's only quarter past three taking out the lows this would be the time you want to take out the lows if you think you're gonna get a turnaround you don't want to take those lows out a quarter or four you know 45 minutes left yeah you can see it's called a spike low folks you come into the low you test the low then you spike the low and then you get out of the low stay right there folks come right back


Aloha. This is Think Tech Hawaii and welcome to this show. It's The State of the State of Hawaii and I'm your host, Stephanie Stowe Dalton. Today's show is about education in Hawaii. We previously focused on the Hawaii Department of Education's newest school in Abba, a charter middle school named Dream House, which builds student success through an empowering leadership model. Now today we're going to look at an earlier landmark school model at Kanai Pono Elementary School. It was supported by the Kamehameha schools over several decades. And our guest today is Ron Dr. Ron Gallamore, emeritus from UCLA and UH Manoa professor who led a historic study of Hawaiian families on the leeward coast in the late 60s. Of that study's many findings, one in particular showed how much Hawaiian youngsters' success in public school classrooms greatly differed from their success with their daunting responsibilities in their homes and community. When the study concluded and the findings were published, officials at the Kamehameha schools took notice, particularly in the evident lack of Hawaiian student school achievement. They decided to support development of a program based on the leeward coast study findings in order to improve school success for lower achieving students and to export and finance such an effective program to Hawaii's public schools. In addition to improving student performance, this initiative would expand the Kamehameha schools reach to many more Hawaiian and part of Hawaiian students than were served on the campus at the time. So welcome back Dr. Gallamore. Thank you very much. Happy to be here. Thank you for participating today again to talk now about the progression from the study in the field and in the community on the leeward coast to how the Kamehameha schools went about supporting development of a research based program aimed to increase school success for the slow performing Hawaiian students. Now we know that after years of work with teachers and other experts, the program achieved significant student learning gains, especially in reading. So our talk story today is about how the Kamehameha schools got this program for how Hawaiian students can succeed in a school commensurate with their peers to a great degree. So I think that you know there's some big questions here that we can touch on simply because we don't have enough time. I know that that's going to be a constraint, but there's so much that happened that's appealing to our audience I believe and those of us interested in improving education for all students, especially here in Hawaii. Let's just talk about the experience of developing that program and as it is based on the study findings you had and how you started that. How did you get started on that? That would help us know the first step. Well this is now going back more than 50 years and I just thought about that while you were speaking that it was a half a century ago and it happened in a consequential conversation in the parking lot of Nana Ikopono Elementary School in Nana Kuli. I had attended a session out there of the community organization efforts by the State of Hawaii that was led by Pinky Thompson and one of the attendees was Jack Darville who was then the assistant to the president of command man and in the parking lot after the meeting he said, Ron I know you all have been out here doing this study and we're looking to find ways to reach out to more Hawaiian kids in the public schools and he said have you got any ideas? That's where it started Stephanie in that conversation and everything that followed really started with that. I find that very human of him as the leader of the K-12 institution that's been in operation for I'm almost a hundred years, I mean I'm much more than a hundred years and that his concern was great and yet he was thinking about it from a general education stance whereas you were a researcher and what went through your mind when he asked you that? How did you think to communicate to him? Well here's one little more piece of context. I was 31 years old. I was clearly wet behind the years. I had just been part of this incredible study of Hawaiian families and the community in Nanakuli. It was not quite winding up. We still had some time to go but I was young, green as grass and I must say I went home that night overwhelmed with excitement and fantasies about what could happen. Now as I said we had some ideas and we had been actually trying them out. I'll talk about that a little bit later. We'd already been trying out things in the Nanaikopono elementary school but I knew I was over my head. I mean I didn't, I wasn't up to responding to this opportunity that was being suggested so I didn't know at the time by the way that Darvel who was in the assistant was about to be elevated to the presidency of the Kamehameha schools on the retirement of his mentor who had recruited him from the east coast. Well what were you doing in the Nanaikopono elementary school there while you were still with the study group out there? Did you have with those the kinds of ideas you you sought to be clear on, clear on with talking to Jack Darvel? So what what kinds of things were you trying to do there? What was that initial really kind of experience? This was in the spring of 1969 and I had already been living and working in the Waianae-Nanakuli area for three years. We actually my family and I lived in Waianae just down the road from Nanakuli and in the first two years we were there education was not the focus. It was family, life, child development, more psychological, sociological, anthropological questions but the longer I was there the longer I was struck by this discontinuity between the struggles the kids had at school and what I saw in their their capacity, their abilities at home the things they were able to do and I think this did not make sense. So Scott McDonald who was a community psychologist working in the in Hawaii at that time he and I volunteered to become the school psychologist for Nanaikopono school and we were being supported by the research project and we were both clinical psychologists and we said look we'll take referrals from teachers for issues because this way maybe we can learn something and maybe we can help a little bit. Well we all we agreed to do this only on the proviso we would not take students out of the classroom we would go to the classroom and work with the teachers and try to help the teachers find better ways to handle the problems they were referring to us so we had done almost 200 referrals when Jack Darville asked me do you have any ideas and the idea that Scott and I had come up with is because most of the teachers did not come from the Nanakuli area or were not from the native Hawaiian community we thought one thing that would really help is if the teachers got a more thorough training or professional development in classroom management adapting to the ways these children behave taking advantages of the strengths. So that was the idea I had in my head the day Jack asked me do you have any ideas but like I said I was green and I I knew this was going to be much bigger than anything that I had ever tried before and that's how I went to the head of the clinical psych program at UH Roland Tharp and said hey Roland I just heard about this great opportunity I'd really like for you to team up with me and see what we could offer them and the way of us some ideas on how to go forward. Well I'm interested in that your your first hunch or your observation in the schools rendered this management suggestion to yourself and to work on that with the teachers in your conversation with the teachers. So did you see that as potentially a key feature one of the key features of an initiative that management and why why was the management quite so out of out of line what what was so out of line about the management in the Hawaiian classrooms. Well the simple way to look at this is you know the Department of Education had a fine curriculum you one couldn't really say they were up to date on the curriculum but what we observed Scott McDonald and I observed in those classrooms was the kids weren't finishing enough of the curriculum over the course of weeks months and a year to ever be a grade level they just weren't getting enough work done it seemed like a lot of time was spent moving from one activity to another which reduced the amount of actual instruction and learning time and Scott and I worked with teachers and we began to share with them some of the classroom management strategies that had Roland Tharp had written about in his book that had just been published the year before and these things really work suddenly the students were doing more academic work there was more learning and their performance began to improve and I realized or I thought wow maybe we've stumbled on to a way to improve things for Native Hawaiian children. And what was the name of the Roland Tharp book? It was called Behavior Modification in the Natural Environment in the Natural Environment which was a step ahead with the behavior the behavior modification. It moved behaviorism away from the old approach that many people have been critical of because Roland took it into community settings and worked with teachers and other service providers to show them how they could use the principles to engage clients students more effectively and Scott and I were trying those things out and they really seemed to make a difference. And that allowed them to have more time with on the curriculum that that you know was not being covered well can you give us an example of that like what would a teacher do? Well for example we discovered that in many classrooms when students were not paying attention or weren't doing their work the teachers focused in on the ones that were not doing the work and they you know tell them to get busy settle down and we got them to switch that over to pay almost all attention to the students who were doing what they were supposed to be doing praising them calling out and saying Kalani is really finishing up her writing now look oh my goodness how and look over here this group is really getting their work done in other words more positive atmosphere in the classroom and that made a huge difference these Native Hawaiian kids responded to that really well. Right that that is very interesting and did you congratulate yourselves for that application and and how did that also derive from the what you had seen in their home settings so was that picking was that reinforcing what they was happening to them at home? Well I wouldn't say Hawaiian parents did a lot of positive stuff what they did was you know give the student or the children assignments taking care of younger siblings doing laundry helping with meals cleaning up outside doing gardening and the siblings I think created a positive atmosphere among themselves and what about the the social connections of that was that a factor too in the in the in the home that they were all working together as that was kind of you know creating a working together harmony now that's the ideal not every family did it let's not you know no community you know nobody in every community does the best the highest ideals of the community or the culture yeah or that was some of the things we created in the school but I don't want to mislead here and say we were reproducing in the classroom what you would have seen in it you know in a Native Hawaiian home and in on the non-akuli homestead they're just such different situations you're asking the kids to do different things you have a large group of kids of the same age things are very very different and you know the that but but this positive atmosphere did seem to make a difference but we were very constrained because we were outsiders we didn't yeah any authority I think the people and the teachers the administration and the teachers appreciated our efforts but yeah we weren't in a position to say well let's start with a group of kindergartners or first graders and let's do a whole year and two and maybe we can teach them to read faster and better we couldn't do something we were just with one little problem at a time well that's that was also an important model is to take take a focus and move with it so you were also modeling the researchers approach which I'm sure was well taken to or not and if it wasn't I'm sure they invited you out but that that sounds like a nice step forward what about the organization of the classroom where as we are grappling with now a bit with virtual versus in-person teaching here during the COVID um were they working in the schools then on uh what we we call that kind of a cemetery model where it was much more structured rows and columns or what what what was that situation like it varied across classrooms remember this is the late 60s a few years later the Department of Education the Hawaii State Department of Education introduced learning centers as a statewide initiative I think early 70s but in in the late 60s you had a mix you had some teachers that were doing small group learning centers and others were doing the rows of desk so it varied there wasn't a consistent pattern well with all this success behind you with the the study of families and now these these activities in the public school what what came out of of your ruminations on this what did you actually go to Darville with to answer his question or did you what were the next steps in this area when I teamed up with Rowan and he he agreed that we become a you know a two-person team and we started talking and we came up with the following idea that we would propose uh to Darville and the trustees that Kamehameha become the preeminent knowledge center for the teaching of native Hawaiian children that they would become the experts and that they would do that through a research discovery and development model that is we would start out with the ideas that we had from the Leeward Project but we would make turn turn the portion of the Kamehameha schools into an R&D program that would develop knowledge and the third element would be that they would share this information freely with the public schools once the knowledge was developed and we were sure that something would work we would send out teams of people uh to work in the public schools on all the islands that was the dream that was proposed to the trustees in 1970 uh let's do research let's turn Kamehameha into a a a juggernaut a powerhouse of knowledge about how to teach Hawaiian children and and all children not just Hawaiian children but primarily dealing with the problems of the native Hawaiians and the public schools and that once that knowledge was gathered it would be shared with the public schools in an aggressive way supported by the bishop estate in the Kamehameha schools that was proposed in 1970 the trustees acted on it in early 71 and we started up in the summer of 1971 and our first classroom in the lab school was 1972 okay so in order to get that first class into the lab school in 1972 what kind of budget did you have how did the Kamehameha schools actually support this I mean this is one of the problems with charter schools here in the state and maybe elsewhere too is that you get the approval and you've written your your proposal and all that and then there's no place to go you have to find your own physical setting and that is quite an obstacle so how did how did all this get solved for you all get a class in that fast well of course we have to give a lot of credit here to the enlightened trustees of the time who bought into the idea of Kamehameha becoming a research and development knowledge base and also the administration of the of the camp schools completely bought into this and so they made a five-year commitment now the first year the first class was held in an old disused dormitory on the Kapalama campus and that was our first kindergarten class was in a commons room in a dormitory that was no longer in use and we began designing and constructing in early 71 the building of a four room classroom in at the bottom of the hill of the Kapalama hill just inside the property of the Kamehameha schools and that that building opened in 70 I think maybe 73 is when we opened up and moved in so they made a major commitment because the five-year commitment we told them you know there's no magic here we we only have an idea about what to try but if we're going to stick to the research and development model we have to try it out and learn from our mistakes and make gradual improvements so we see that sign slide and then quickly and then the first classroom picture Melissa can you yeah there you go so this is this is the front that signed for the building um the actual lab school building and notice Kamehameha school early education program Stephanie just want to make a note today early education usually means preschool but in 1970 it meant like early elementary school because preschools were not that common so we called early education because we meant you know three to twelve or something like that that's what we meant by it so it's a little bit of a misnomer in today's world well yeah well it was K K one two three yeah that's what you said three to twelve yeah but you could go on to twelve yeah we had ambitions of moving beyond third grade at the time okay all right and so that next slide shows us a classroom inside that the building that was built and you see the features of that classroom include those windows up above so Ron can you talk about what was on there with classroom in those windows well up up in the upper right hand corner hanging from the ceiling was a video camera if you look up there it's to the left of those red columns on the bulletin board there's a video camera and inside that glass that's reflecting the ceiling lights is a observation platform or deck that you can view the entire school every classroom every child and we had cameras to videotape what was going on in the classroom for subsequent study and I might add for the extensive professional development that was provided to the teachers because we did not assume that if we had some bright idea and said okay try this that that would be an instantly turned from an idea to action so we worked extensively with teachers to transform these ideas into classroom practice instruction better lessons that went on constantly and the next picture shows being on that observation deck which gives you a better view of how there were four classrooms that could be seen through them for distinct separated classrooms that could be viewed from that deck so in addition to the videotaping when when asked for or required or or done then they there was live observation of the teachers to are those the kinds of methods that were right so new teachers that were higher could sit up there and watch the experienced teachers and then discuss with them later what they had seen we also brought in people from the public schools and other okay situation students from the university so they could learn by watching so you could stand up above the classrooms and have dialogue over what was what's happening in the classrooms as well as make a permanent record to use later in teaching courses or in professional development so um but i don't know that was it referred to as much as a lab school that wasn't on the sign it was can i pono or the keep for the commandeer early education yeah that's just our informal reference to it we would say we would call it the lab school but it you know can i pono which i think means i'm probably going to get in trouble here but i think it means we'll look it up yeah and right yeah i'm a language person i know we that we're supposed to know the name what that means but it was 50 years ago yeah well i wanted to ask you to talk about the teachers who were going to come into that environment and uh teach and also learn more to teach so you were looking for experienced people not experienced people uh university grace people what were you doing for that to get people to come in and participate in such a daunting setting it's a challenge for first of all we couldn't offer permanent employment so people were only given a one year contract for a year so our first two hires were people who were one was a teacher returning to the classroom and one was a recent college graduate who turned out to stay with us many years right to the end and was a major contributor and the following year two uh public school veterans joined us and uh so by the time we moved into lab school we had four teachers and two grades k and one because we were adding a grade a year carrying over the kids who came in uh each year we carried them over through third grade so and by the way one of the we these children were randomly selected from the schools in the Kalihi Palama schools area so these were kids pulled from from the center there of Honolulu the Kalihi Palama area and the only criterion was that you know they they had to be children who would be eligible for free reduced lunch so we want to make sure that we were serving children who were from you know homes where you might expect that you'd want to you'd want to learn how to teach to these students rather than say do a random selection draw so this was quite different from the Kamehameha selection process for the main campus we were going for the poor families and kids who would normally not get to attend the Kamehameha well this was no small feat to get them there every day and uh in that regard having the support of Kamehameha was important and um I'm sure you are familiar with the big buses that went out at 5 a.m to go get these youngsters who were way far away like you said they were on the Waianae Coast and they were back to the Leeward Coast and they were way up in the North Shore and places like that to to make sure that the selection of children were okay needed now you talk about sobering up the researchers who suddenly are involved with operating a real school only things like you have to pick the kids up a bus system you have to have a bus schedule and you have to have people checking them in and off the bus because if you lose one of those kids that you're not going to be able to explain that to the parents very well and all of that any any researcher who thinks that when they walk into a public school it's all about the research has to understand all the effort and systems they have to be in place to get all the students in that building at a certain time with people to supervise them and that sobered me up immensely from the rest of my career working with public school teachers and so the whole effort you know to even put in place a single classroom as you say as you as was done the K group that came in at us at in in what 72 I think you said that you went to the new space and and so that what about 25 or so kids were in that group and that before that group ever could come in to to engage the education process there was all this other crap that you had to make sure actually at the time the average class size for first kindergarten first grade in the DOE was about 27 28 but we took in 32 we wanted to make sure we ended up the year because you're you might lose a kid or two right because we we were pulling kids from the local feeder schools elementary schools and the parent would always have a chance of pulling a student out to go back to the public school now that didn't happen very often but we actually had larger class size than the public schools well let me just say that we're kind of has to we're coming to hello hot time we're going to need to wrap up so if you could show the picture of the the last two pictures Melissa to show the people that were involved in them so that's the group that you're talking about Ron that came in and took this on or a little smaller group than that this is probably tiny bit later but then also the children that were being served by by this program are there in this next picture and I really am so intrigued at your story Ron and we're getting then to getting that program started and having some understandings about what that took in addition to the command mass school support and buildings and budgets and then you've got your teachers and so we'll have to continue on with with and see I have many more stories some are very terrifying to me but I'll be happy to share them great great and so you were out of time and have to wrap I'm Stephanie Stoll Dalton this is the state of the state of Hawaii on the ThinkTech live streaming network series we've been talking remotely with Dr. Ronald Balamore and this is about the Kamehameha early education program in the Kanai Pono school that was supported for so many years and and attained such success so we look forward to seeing you next time in on a Monday in two weeks I'm Stephanie Stoll Dalton thank you thank you very much


My name is Alexander Betko. I live in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, and I'm a realist painter, classically trained. My work mostly is figurative and it really revolves about life in New York City. It is somewhere between the intersection of isolation and intimacy. The topic matter that I choose are people that I know that we've shared personal stories. They've told me. We've identified with each other on many different levels. And they sat for me. So to come into the studio, there's preliminary drawings that I have done, there's photography that I do, and there's something magical that exists in that moment. There's something really special that happens. Something comes to life. I know what I'm after. The model becomes comfortable with me. There's this communication. It's a great amount of intimacy. When I came to this country, I came from Poland. Poland was in a very turbulent state at the time. Little did we know what we stumbled upon when we came to the United States. I saw New York City during the 80s. It was edgy. It was dangerous. It was wild. It was electric. It was incredibly creative. People lived out loud. So there was this juxtaposition that I saw very early on as a child. These are the things that were indelibly burned into my consciousness. And it was kind of a crossing of two worlds. That's a recurring theme in my work. There's an edge. There's something that is ugly. But out of it all also comes incredibly large amounts of beauty.


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We have a person on Facebook. If you have any comments, go comment below and we'll sample some of your comments at the end of the show. Now, we're going to start right here in the TFA4 with a very own OctopiWZZ. Yes? Now, Keybread's finest Octopiso, Nambanane, has allegedly turned down the offer to work with an artist ethic on the upcoming big-man Bardo Odinare dropping album, rather dropping this month. It took to Twitter to call out Octo for refusing to be part of the album after they approached him with the idea they wrote in a quote, we gave Octopiso the privilege to be part of our super-dub album but, Hakuna Vizion truth be, Nambar Ziko, but Aghe Kuja Tuna Zile Madogo Niozake, video for this song wasn't part of the plan. All in all, watch out watch out, rather June 13th album dropping big-man, Bardo Odinare Nye Boya Nye Moto Now, our question is, are they cloud-chasing and are two part of the album? I mean, they were really just like heart because Octo turned them down. Talk to us, the hashtag is the song is the song is the song is the song is the song is if you want to be part of the show, write the hashtag, why 254, why 254, comment below and, for example your opinion on this song or if you want to know what is it? We are not talking about the music because we are talking about So my friend, you see class here, after I'm done, you can go to school my friend. But, I told my friends that I'm a sailor, so I said, you know, I'm a sailor. And I'm a Juzy, okay, but I'm not a sailor. But I told my friends that I'm a sailor. But they sent a message. They sent a message. I told them that I'm not a sailor, so I said, I'm not a sailor. I'm a sailor. Whether they are chasing Kiki or not, I'm telling them that I'm a sailor. So I sent them a message. I told them that I'm not a sailor. Actually, what he wrote, I told them that I'm not a sailor, so I said, I'm not a sailor. I'm not a sailor. Who wrote that? I know. You need people. How do you invite somebody to do an album with you in such a language? I told them that I'm not a sailor. We're gonna be professional about it. I told them that I'm not a sailor. I'm not a sailor, so I said, I'm not a sailor. They sent me two feeling. Go ahead. This is a first in the world. Why are you all laughing? I'm the one who's leading the song. I'm just kidding. I'm the one doing the song. I was in trouble. I'm very concerned about who wrote or whatever what is going on on social media. Because it's official. That is just not official. But I don't feel it that they're sending me a message. I really understand if Okto does not want to come into this one because I also wouldn't Now, but, there's a little bit somewhere, I'm saying but, but this is Ruma Unconfirmed rumors say that Okto is actually part of the album And they're just doing this to push the album before it's okay So, I think we'll have to wait and see Anyway, after they wrote this, we gave Okto the privilege to be part of our Super Dops G album What do you think of the song? I think it's a good song And it's a good song The music is trash And it's not like Okto is the best Who even listens to you? I'm like, wow I think it's a good song I'm not sure if it's a good song I think it's a good song I think it's a good song This month I think it's a good song I think it's a good song I'm sure this is a better song I think it's a good song This is the time to be creative I think it's a good song I think it's a good song but I think I'll have to explain it to you But I won't So, we're not going to do the music I think it's a good song Ok, guys I have to tell you I don't want to This is what my days show up in two-fuck I think it's time for the first ten years to see if the certificate will work Okay Now, do this Why two-fuck? We're going to move on to the next story Now, unless you've been living under a rock I'm sure you have come across or heard People talk about a disturbing video that went viral There was a Minneapolis police officer who killed a black man by the name of George Floyd Floyd's death sparked an eruption of protests across the United States and several parts of the UK in support of the Black Lives Matter movement A Kenyan man in the US was among the demonstrators and decided to teach his men a famous Hakietu slogan that is used during demonstrations in Kenya I'm not making any statements But I do make some statements I'm not talking about t-shirts It's only on the now by Disney side I'm not making any statements But you know, I'm not I'm saying I'm making my statement I'm speaking my own language I'm not saying that's not a statement But it's not a scream I'm telling you this I don't know what they are doing, I don't know what they are singing Maybe they are doing something You see, they are doing something So you don't know maybe They actually got it At least I don't know what they are singing That's why they are doing something It's actually unconfirmed, but I think we are getting stories that that guy is actually a pastor from Kenya He's a pastor? Yeah, he's ideally a pastor He's a crowd mover At home, people don't know where I'm going to be They say I'm a soft PC guy I'm going to be there to say I'm not going to be there I'm going to be there, but when I'm gone and I return, I don't know where I'm going to be I don't know where I'm going to be I think you gonna get a little bit of a pain I love you John When I come back home, I'm going to see VUS If you need one of us, you can call us by the U.S.  We need to transport. You want to call me by the U.S. Why don't you call us by the U.S. You want to call me by the U.S. I'll send you a message. Please find a touch. You want to call us by the U.S. You want to call us by the U.S. I'll send you a message. Please find a touch. I'll send you a message. Please find a touch. Please find a touch. Maybe you're for discussion. No, no, no. What happened to George Floyd's words and calling for him to buy his binoculars. Why are you there? He's not there. No, no, no, no. I have a copy of it, and I have my own, and I will write it down. The same people accepted and the same people ... No, but here's the thing. You know, I read it ... I read it, it says I read it, and I'm going to write it down. On Monday, you know, they went on air for 8 minutes and 45 seconds. The exact minute that I was going to write was George Mugu. They went on air in the video, but nothing was airing apart from the voice. Or they can breathe? Yes, I can breathe for 8 minutes and 45 seconds. They post the whole programming just to air that. On Tuesday, it was Black Tuesday, everybody was posting black on their status. I even posted it on my Instagram. I also did. We have to stand together. Not just in the US, but in Kenya as well. When I first came to the US, I said to myself, Oh, how can you do that? Oh, police brutality. We stand with George Floyd and the family and everything. But you're not even allowed to marry from another tribe. So that is something we also have to take a look at.  We have to do that. So I'm going to take a final comment on this, and then go on to the next story. We have sent our CV there, we hope we're going to give us feedback. Yes, and we have also seen Mamito. So we're doing this Kenya to the world.  Alright, on to the next one. Controversial guys for artists, the size eight and her husband, have been training on social media platforms for talking about their intimacy on a low quality station. Now, Cezette accused her husband for neglecting her, matching on your needs, and in his defense, more said, he's been working hard to provide. And Cezette, staying in a buggy T-shirt doesn't help. Alright, I think we have a video on this. Take a look. He'll be at the service at three weeks. For three weeks? Yes, he's at the fault, so what? He's going to be taking the phone out of the show before he even opens the door to the boys. This is okay, Mamito will get a problem for you. But that girl and I went out, and she asked about her work. I said, why did she go out of work? She said she doesn't want me to get it. You said you were complaining about her at the service. He'll be at the service at three weeks. Three weeks? Yes, he's at the fault. I'm literally embarrassed on their behalf. Why? On their behalf. I don't think I would say that on TV.  I don't know. Tango Gava is a means to re-working from home. People are just working. For real, because soon they'll see it. They'll see it as a hard case. And me. He's partying towards. So I think, I think, if I get to record my own music, what do you think will happen? Working from home. That's usually a show. It's a show. But, it's a show. Like, it's the Raias or something. And it's theirs. It's their show. But, I don't know, I just find it, I'm taking it literally. Yes. You know, it's not like they say you're doing it, it's like they're doing it. See, you want to know. Okay. But Philin, I kind of, they're playing the Kiki Game. They did that to get the attention of people. Yes. So they can get more people to watch the show. But there's something, DJ Mo said, about Kuva T-Shirt. Yes. Yes. Ladies out there. Tafathali. Please. What? Please. Show us what we want to see. Directly. Yes. Okay. Okay. Anyway, let's see, very well said, I love him a little. As I gave him tour, I took a bite of it. I took a bite of it. Okay. I am going to drink this. No. I thought to myself, I'll just buy one. Okay. Nothing else. I thought to myself. Would it take me two days to drink this? What's the matter? Would it take me two days? No. Okay. As I came to her, I took her to a 5-4 cash shop Yes, I need to take her So, I asked her if she was going to come to my house And she might come to my house No, before what I said, I was going to get slow I don't want to go to the toilet I don't want to go to the toilet I have a lot to say by the way I don't want to go to the toilet I don't want to go to the toilet You said you were going to go to the toilet before the remote No, no, no I don't want to go I don't want to go to the toilet But we love to hear from you guys We love to hear from you guys Do you think you can submit issues on TV? I don't want to take it I want to know exactly what it is I don't want to take it because I am not good at it I want to know how to mix it I have to Why do you have to go up there? All right, so Football Next story One, two, one, two Thank you All right, now just What did you say? I don't know I don't know Now just weeks after the death of her sister Keroshe Brewery's Harris Annalisa Mugai Is rumored to have secretly gotten married To her Tanzanian fiancé Ben Paul Photos of her alleged wedding Was shared on social media By blogger Edgar Obare If indeed they are married Then wish them nothing but happiness If they are married or not We just want people to be happy Because there are so many bad things happening So that's been something nice And something beautiful So congratulations Right, Mangi What do you want to say to your sister? I don't know They are good I want to know what she is like I don't know I have never heard of her shoes She is coming I don't know I want to know what she is like I want to know what she is like I want to know what she is like Is it a picture or a picture? To me it's someone who likes it So apparently when you eat cake I will be forced to buy a steak You are not allowed to buy a steak So I feel that I think it is a good thing to be able to see through the social media I appreciate it Because you know I feel that it's a good thing to be able to see through the social media I think it's a good thing to be able to see through the social media I thank you So they did something else It was like an appreciation I don't want to talk about this before it was delayed So, Kiddogo and here are the four girls I don't want to talk about this before it was delayed So, the photos were out there But she hasn't confirmed, she hasn't confirmed they are married But one in the street is that they are married Would you hide your marriage from people? Yeah If you are married, I would take you to a new home I would do that I would seriously do that If they are really married, it's a good thing You think it's good to keep your wedding permit? Yes Okay, why? Because you are newly married It's them who have gotten married And the moment you start involving the public What you come back in a half-lu at the same time What they usually say What a chana too And I didn't say that No, but the thing is I say at least it's on the post-wedding photo No, there is no need It's official No, why? It's because I haven't seen a chana before But you see that's the problem Because the moment there's photos of a chana People will say it's a tulisema So you don't want me to bring it around? Yes, just keep it low You don't want people to know Things go good, things go south We never know But whatever happens It's your life See you are here too The moment you start showing Edgar these things I say to him, Edgar Hey, what? What? What? What are you doing? What do you have to say for yourself?  So she wanted to have a baby baby her husband. She wanted to have a kiss with her husband. She wanted to have a baby. You know what? I have a husband. What happened? I don't know what happened. I know she's going to be my wife. I don't know what happened. I don't know what happened. I said that she's going to be my wife. She's a man. She's a man. I know that she's going to be my wife. She's going to be my wife. Sure. I know that she's going to be my wife. I know that she's going to be my wife. I know that she's going to be my wife. We're going to go to the next story. The hashtag is white to the 400. The video for the single Buba buy Takashi 6.9 was separately removed from YouTube after a claim of copyright against rap star by Kenyan Magik's Enga. Now Magik's bloated by posting on his Instagram and a quote, don't talk about my bits. Biggest song deleted by Magik's Enga. Now 6ix9ine's team have worked first to have the video restored back after just a few hours. The video remains number four on the on YouTube as fastest video to reach a hundred million views. Alright, so Magik's Enga, I'm going to tell you, because I'm not going to speak Kenyan, I'm going to harmonize, I'm going to make sure that the harmonies are deleted. So I'm going to go international and I'm going to delete Goumazawasewa Maju. Actually, this song was like so so so so. It was like one of the fastest videos to get so many views in like 48 hours. Alright, now Gouba video back up after being removed earlier because of a producer claimed of a producer claimed he angered, paid and supposedly his song was sampled. Alright, so that's it. Take a chance to say that. So do you think Magik's, I kind of feel Magik's is trying to do, okay, his kick is working. Let's just your kick is working. Whatever you're doing is good. And if, if from my idea, because I'm thinking he talked to Tekashi himself, let's get your song banned. Let's talk about it. Because I don't understand how Tekashi would sample Magik's Enga's beats. See, Magik's Enga let's just be fair. This guy, Tekashi has his own production crew. You can tell me that they just went and looked for a song to sample in the whole of the internet or in the whole of the producer's world. How? You know, the video came back after the video came back on YouTube and then I saw Magik's post like I make sense. But according to Tekashi, his team saw the video back on YouTube. But you know YouTube takes copyright claims very seriously. Yes, and that is that is what Magik's is trying to write on. Yeah. Other side feeling, you produce a song and you put it on YouTube and I go out and say that's my beat. It will be taken down until you prove it's your beat. Exactly. She's writing on that. It's getting tired. Right? Magik, I'm not standing with the smidge. I'm not standing with the smidge. I'm not standing with the smidge. Yes. Tekashi is not a good person. Magik is worse. Are you the one of those two? That's the big question. He's creative. I dare you. Pick one of those big stars there and say that their beats are yours. What is happening here? I want to shout out to the guys at home, MCK. You can be sick. He's not been feeling well, but he's back on his feet. Shout out to you MCK. Shout out to you. Can I also play with the JC? Yes. I love another one. Raising young ones can be fun at times. We all know this, right? This can also prove to be a headache depending on how many young ones you have on their age. Imagine raising triplets who are pretty fast at what they do. A video of a woman who is trying to keep up with her young ones has since gone viral on social media, gaining over a million views and thousands of comments. The woman is trying to keep her three children away from the fridge so that she can close it, but the kids keep going back. The kids will not hide their excitement from the video.  The video was shared on Facebook by Maria Mackebrew. Of course we have it. We have a video right here on your screen, you know? The thing that really comes to my mind is they say, It will be fun. They say, It will be fun. They say, they have kids and then you have triplets. That's when it gets real. And they are the same age. I'm actually concerned about how she dresses them.  Exactly. I imagine the struggle that the mother goes through. What I'm worried about is that she is a girl. The girl who dresses in these clothes, she is so excited. I'm not worried about her.  She won't be able to stand it until the same time. It doesn't matter who she dresses in. You don't want to give me a girl. I want her to be a good match. It's all because she is so good. You don't want to give a girl a girl. I'm not fighting with other girls. I'm selling groceries for my family. Just in case someone asks you to get your bag. Don't tell them to come over. I'm not buying anything. You're just saying that I'm making money. I'm so glad that you asked. It was like a miracle. Even if I think of it as money, if it's not about having a tomato, What's wrong with me?   No one is paying for this. Did you hear what I said? The house is not your house. We've been inviting you to a housewarming party.  The picture is very beautiful I can see you wearing a mask a white shirt a white shirt I have this shirt I wear it I am wearing it I am working for a while I am working for a while I am working for a while What should I do with this one?  You really want to look at it? I will teach you You are going to meet the ladies You want to show your clothes You have to put on a suit You know what I mean Please look at it No, it was your off-date I know where you are I am here So Boss, for the past three months, you have been here. Last week, I was told that you were going to the Czechs' town. I was told that you were going to the Czech section. But I was told that you were going to the Czech section. You're not going to the Czech section. Leave me to the top.    I'm a parent. You're going to the quarantine. I'm in quarantine. I will be back in a minute. I will be back in a minute. I will be back in a minute. This is one of the guys who are watching the show. I am going to start with a chair, the assay and the matchat tune. They are the ones that I have been watching. I have always been watching. Thank you so much. Irongu, Gigi, San, I have been watching. Brother Camtopsha, Kiambu, Lohsara to Kiambu by the way, Collin Spico and I have been watching this tune. Thank you so much. You are awesome. Thank you so much. You are awesome for watching the show. I love you.  Call him again. I just want you to shout out the last tongue. Let's finish shout out. You have to shout out every one. This is my show. It is called Lanet Nakuru While Represented. Thank you so much for watching the show. Thank you so much for watching the show. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you. Please come find me. Do you have a character? Yes, I do. 설명 Thank you so much. Thank you. Please come find me. You are awesome. Thank you. You are awesome. You know what I mean? No, I don't. So I'm going to say thank you so much. Sami Karanja, watching at Kiambo. Thank you so, so much. And I heard somebody else, Brenda. Hi, Brenda. Brenda. She's our director while in the morning. Shout out to you. She's not here right now, but Pato. Hi, Nyadze. Roba. Shout out to you. And I have my cousin actually watching. Yeah, my cousin is watching. Hi, Kurianbe. Nyadze, thank you for watching. My cousin, Adito Willi, thank you so much for watching. Like, he is always tuned in. All right, let me see. Maybe you can shout out to more people.  Sami Karanja, shout out to you. Palma Kubuka, shout out to you. By the way, Davies Nespacito. Nespacito, shout out to you. All right, we've got to get out of here because of time. I wish shout out to everybody who met the show. First of all, Tim. And today on my news, Leo. Elevo, right here in studio. Shout out to you, too. All right. I just mentioned now, and then we come to you. Say your goodbyes. Shout out to Elevo. Shout out to Timor, our director. Shout out to you. Roz. Hi. What's the name of the student at Roz? But then, after show. All right. And then, your last comments and the social media. I love you. Then I'll take you to wind up. Hey, thank you so much. You know, I'm a twin. Twin win. Yeah, yeah. And I'm a baraco. Then you, please. I'm not going to be a baraco. I'm just going to be a baraco.     And a lot of people, I'm fair. But I don't think they are very good. Please? I'm bad at it. They're very good. Are you a baraco? Damn. Then no. Then no. So, I give up. I don't think that there is a school, a mine, or cross social media platforms. It's a good time. I have a good friend in Malaysia, she speaks at the bar, but Chinese Mingi, so don't go away.  And please remember, keep safe. All right. All right. Shout out to Almo. I'm almost Amo but his name is Amo Shout out to you, thank you so much This one This quarantine edition, he made you happy to me Eric, shout out to Eric by the way, Eric is also in the studio Shout out to you, bye guys, we will see you next week with another amazing show Enjoy your weekend Enjoy your quarantine edition Enjoy your weekend We will see you next week Don't forget to enjoy your weekend