Aloha o Inala. Welcome to Hawaii is My Main Land, exploring the Hawaiian archipelago every Friday at 3pm. I'm Kaui Lucas. It was in the unlikely venue of an attorney's office in downtown Honolulu that I met Waimanalo native Matt Love. Mahalo Kea Kua and Mark Squav for putting this beautifully unpretentious man where I could hear him. Yesterday, watching the mean-spirited boycott Hawaii posts appearing after federal Judge Doug Chin successfully blocked President Trump's revised travel ban, I realized Matt Love's story was the perfect response. The Department of Business Economics and Tourism forecasts 9,079,709 tourists for Hawaii in 2017. A 1.5% increase over last year. While such growth is heavily subsidized by the government and generally applauded, we rarely pay attention to the collateral damages of tourism. Our inability to control who or how many US citizens come to Hawaii, where and how long they stay, if they buy land or find jobs, displacing locals. This underlies most of Hawaii's problems. It is the elephant on the lanai. 25% of real estate sales in 2015 were to non-resident US citizens. The Hawaii of Matt Love is what people flock to Hawaii to experience and perhaps with innocent ignorance is what the traveling hordes are systematically extinguishing. But today, we celebrate that Hawaiians yet survive and Matt's music gives voice to the invisible ties to our ancestors through us and into the future. I'm going to die, never coming back again. Far on the low mountain soil, far on the country. Birds on the wings were getting their way, so I'm headed for the wicked side. Where all of your dreams, sometimes is there, since I'm just a log for the life.  Time and one, I woke up this far, found that I was confused. I spun right around, found I have lost. I say that I couldn't lose. The beaches they said to build a hotel, but far to as high was new. Birds on the long side like a dog, say get by the dollar. That song got all the meanings of it. So your buddy Liko Martin wrote that song? Yeah, a good friend of mine. We had our hot ties and we hated changes as time went by. I say why we sit down and talk about it. It's sad that we say no and they say yes, what can you do about it? Not very much. It really doesn't make sense at all. Liko has been doing whatever he could, certainly, very actively. And you have to do because you are keeping alive that precious thing, the culture, the music. And being true to your music, whether or not it's a wine, because you do all kinds of things. Liko Martin is a very active person in the Hawaiian culture. He just gets changes that come in about. Build all kinds of things that just spoil our island, the beauty of the island. There's no beauty as a keep on going. I agree with him. So you keep adding beauty to the world every day with your music. I was very surprised to hear about the first instrument you learned. The accordion. Who would have thought an accordion for a women all over? I always wanted to play an accordion. But I had no choice but to go back to my second band. The guitar and the ukulele. Back there, that's what I was brought up with. Nothing else, just guitar and ukulele. Because there was, I think, I would say, that's the most cheapest instrument you can come across compared to the every other instrument that I know. How did you learn music? How? How did you learn music? Well, it's a man of his that teaches me in dreams. My wife and me, she used to go crazy with me. Because I'm jumping out of bed about like two o'clock, one o'clock in the morning. Because I hear a melody, so I just have to give the guitar a try. She shows me the hand position. How to turn the guitar to hold such a position. I tell people, some of them don't believe in that, but it's okay. You believe what you're going to do. Because when there's nothing you're going to do, you just let it go. Just continue what God gave you. Make your world happy. Make it beautiful with your songs. You dance. One of my gifts I always give it to me to do that. Fine. So I will just continue on doing it. One of your original songs for us? My original? Well, you don't have to. But if you have one you would like to play. Okay, let me just do this number. Like I was telling you yesterday I played the conch and the head with the ukulele. My high nice sister. And I learned the song from her. I didn't care much for the song, but after a while I started to like it. Because at that age I always played the rock and roll stuff that they have. After I got older, it came along. I said you probably love this song. And I always remember her body. My name is John Wahee. And I used to be a part of all the things that you might be angry at. I served in government here and may have made decisions that affects you. So I want to invite you in. I want to invite you in to Talk Story with me and some very special guests. Every other Monday here at Talk Story with John Wahee. Come on in, join us, express your opinion, learn more about your state, and then do something about it. Aloha. Hi, I'm Cheryl Crozier Garcia, the host of Working Together on Think Tech Hawaii. Join us every other Tuesday from 4 p.m. to 4.30, when we discuss the impact of change on employees, employers, and the economy. Welcome back to Hawaii is my mail-on. I'm Kaui Lucas here Fridays on Think Tech at 3, from 3 to 3.30. Today we're doing something a little different. Thanks to Serendipity Akua, I don't know. Matt Love, who is an, I think of him as an endemic Hawaiian. He is a native of Waimanalo. And he's the kind of Hawaiian that really only exists in Hawaii, and only survives in Hawaii. Obviously he's a musician. His life has been guided by his music. He has no recordings, amazingly enough. I couldn't even find a still picture of you on the internet, although there are some videos. So Matt has a regular gig at Namea Hawaii, which is the wonderful shop that sells things made by Hawaiians, or in Hawaii anyway, at Wardware House. So Matt can be found at Namea Hawaii at Wardware House on Fridays and Saturdays, sometime usually noon to four. He does have a few other gigs in town, and you just have to be on your toes and check in with him, because he doesn't have a Facebook page or a Twitter account. But he has a beautiful heart and amazing music. It was extraordinary as we were sitting in this office building in downtown Hululu. I'd never met this man, and there's an attorney I don't know, sitting at the table saying, look, you should listen to him. I'm like, okay. Well, and then of course he was right, because after playing for about five minutes, I was ready to cry. This is the music that I know from my brothers who play music, who, even though they're my brothers, they're 20 years older than me, so they're maybe around your age. It is what accompanies us in our life, in our dreams, as you mentioned. I hope someday, somehow, Matt will have the ability to record some of this music, because none of us lives forever. And besides, he's hard to find. So I know you'd rather play music than talk, but let's talk for just a little bit. Okay, Matt? Play another song if you'd rather. I don't mind. There's a different song. You are there. Stuck on the Queen's Jubilee. But I'm flexible. Hello, Nicole. Why are you running here? So that was written by Lili Uokalani to celebrate the jubilee of Queen Victoria. And so she made it very royal, and complicated, and beautiful. It's not really complicated. If you love music as much as I do, nothing is complicated. You just bounce right through it. It's like how you have your talent. You just write it. So it's the same thing. Or it's a different fashion, yeah. So being a Waimanalo native and resident, have you always lived in Waimanalo your whole life? Yes, all my life. Wow, okay.  And I will be crazy to live that place.  But the Waimanalo changes are so slow. I'm just waiting for the days when it stops. It changes a lot. And I think it would be the greatest day of all of us.  Well, let's think of changes we'd like to see, and then work towards those. Instead of, you know, sometimes there can be good changes. We haven't seen a lot of those in Waimanalo too recently. I'm trying to think of one. Well, the roads are better than they were a few years ago. But is that a good thing or not? Oh, the farmers, the co-op, that's nice. That's pretty good, right? Oh, yes, farmers, yeah. It's more farmers in Waimanalo growing food than there were 10 years ago or so. That's just quite a bit of a Monday, Waimanalo are doing the same thing. You know, they're looking forward to the future, as far as food consumption and so forth. They said if they don't do it, we'll be in bad shape. Do you grow food too? How? You grow too? No, my icebox is out in the ocean. So you fish? Yeah, it's in the ocean. So it's in the mountains too, you know? We have refrigerators both sides. It's okay. Well, believe it or not, we're almost to the end, but I would like another song. So it's up to you. I don't know. Bye. More times again. Next time in Waimanalo. I just had a little chat with Jay and he gave me the thumbs up on a little project, so we'll be talking about that after the show. Okay. You're welcome.


Hey everyone, welcome back to another Exo's Heroes episode. So today, we are updating our ranking for the Blue Fate course. But before that, if you want an updated Exo's Heroes content, please hit the subscribe button down below. Alright, so we are here to start off the ranking at 8th. So we have here 2 Paki. Unfortunately, this guy hasn't gone up the standings. He's still at number 8. And more or less because of his nation. Because again, Northwood Frosty is among the top 5 in the 5th. That is why he's still here. They haven't really gotten their traction back in terms of PvP. And let's take a look at his kit. So in terms of 2 Paki, you can't really use him that much. Apart from his, what do you call this? His heart strike and his passive. Which is actually pretty much impressive. Will go to his S1. It's usually a basic 150 damage to one enemy skill. One mana. Although it's a one mana, if the Flicks target the freeze for 3 turns, which is kind of good. But 3 turns is just a short amount of time in a battle. Then for his S2, we have here Axe Bombing. 4 mana, which is 750 damage to one enemy, not even a burst skill. Unfortunately, he hasn't really been valuable in terms of all the blue fate cores. That is why this little guy is at number 8th. Okay, so we have here on our 7th, which is a new entry to the blue fate cores, which is actually Garf. Unfortunately for Garf, again, Brun is kind of incomplete yet without FC Dorca, which most of you are actually clamoring for. Including Miesel in our disappointment, she hasn't arrived yet. Including in the Summoner teaser, she isn't there. So again, that is why Brun, the buffs to Brun that she gives, doesn't really play a big part right now. But again, when you get Garf for the moment, it's not even for her new passive, so Flag of Providence. It's not even for that, but more or less for the aesthetic and the new skin that she has. So again, blue FC Garf is actually at 7th because the nation doesn't have their leader yet in their fate core. And more or less, if you take a look at Brun heroes, it's only the three of them that can be buffs. So you have Dorca, you have Naomi, and you have Kyla. So those are the only three heroes that are worth her buff. So for now, she is at 7th, but before that, let's check out her skills, her passive. Again, Flag of Providence was the big change from her gold fate core. And also, her S1 deals 375 damage, it's more or less the same as her fated form. But there's an additional damage on own defense if Anish Potential is out. And also here for additional damage for Anish Potential, and also a 420% damage to all back row enemies. So again, not even a big change, very small change, a small consideration in terms of buff to Brun heroes. Which again, I think she will see a rise once they have released more Brun heroes, particularly for FC Dorca. Okay, at number 6 or 6, it's actually Blue Fate Core Yao. So Yao actually pretty much occupied the 7th spot, or sorry, it's not the 7th spot, but the spot after Tupaki. She actually had a bump up, because again, Astoria's heroes are more viable right now. Like you for example, you have FC Jinai, FC Jin was recently buffed, FC Adams actually had a great buff. You have FC Shell, and the other one would be, I forgot again, who's the other one. But more or less, those are the Astoria's heroes that you can really bring. Again, in terms of buff, they can be used as a secondary team in your tag PvP. But let's go and take a look at her skills. So she has actually Summer's Blessing, which grants her frost damage immunity, and more or less she has Flop Flop as well. It's a buff that turns your enemies into fish or rubber duckies. So let's take a look at her S1, increased attack of all allies with 31%, Avone Attack for 8 turns, which actually she can be used for Restorers Republic in their lineup. And also she has here Refreshing Blooming Red Lotus, again it's a 4 mana spell, and deals damage, 40% damage to one enemy and resets turn if the target dies. So again, she is at number 6 because of her semi-kinda important buff to Restorers Republic. Okay, for our fifth, we have here Eden. Eden, let's go to his kit first. So again, not really one of the best kits apart from he has Superstar, so increased damage over time on target hero with a tension by 100%, and Anti-Fan Mark for Fan Club. So his S1 and his S2 are basically very basic, so 5-25 piercing damage to one enemy. Then you have here for his S2 is a 51% damage to all enemies, but it has poison dealing 31% damage every turn for 2 turns. Again, he's not really used that much in PvP, probably some are using him in your PvE, but what actually makes him shine is actually his buffs for Greenland. Because Greenland right now, in terms of nation ranking, they're kind of second behind Enombe, and they have one of the craziest heroes in terms of grouping. You have FC Bathory, FC Rera, you have their FC Talia, and the last would be FC Tantalo, in which was actually exiled by Schmidt. So more or less, again, Greenland has become very viable because of FC Eden or Blue FC Eden. So let's go to the next. For our fourth, we have here Blue FC Rera. Again, she has given Chaos-type heroes a lot to celebrate about because of her buff. So she has combat power increase and attack power increase. So again, before we go to the heroes that she buffs, let's move to her passive skills first. So she has Focus Fire and Dimension Leap as well. But for her S1, it's actually she has Bite, more or less the same as her Fated Kit to poison. And I think this is a damage over time for 82% damage. And deals 50% additional damage for which mana the target has when you are tranquil. So obviously with Bathory and for her S2 it's going to be Moonlight Arrow. Deals to 49% perusing damage to enemies and this actually hits like a truck. Deals 50% additional damage for each mana the target has when you are tranquil as well. But again, let's move on first to the heroes that she buffs as Chaos heroes. Okay, as you can see here, here are the most important Chaos heroes that are actually top in our game. You have here FC Rero, of course, you have FC Jinai and you have Dorca. So Dorca just requires her Gold FC, not her Black FC. And also you have here FC Jin, which is actually very good as well for Wasted Red. And you have a new rework kit for FC Jin, which is actually going to benefit from the Chaos buff. We also have here Valentina and we also have here Blue FC Baraka as well. Again, a very good buff coming from Blue Fate Correra. Okay, so third on our list is Blue FC Rachel. So Blue FC Rachel for his kit, not that bad compared to the Gold Fate Corr Rachel. Let's go through his kit. So Counter 3, Blow Mana and this Heart End, the usual for even for his Gold Fate Corr. S1 is going to be Dance of the Red Roses. It deals 100% damage, a little bit lower damage. But again, it has more to the skill in terms of effects, so Afflict Silence for 5 turns. After 5 turns, Afflicts the target with Dance of the Red Roses and Afflicts damage equal to 100% of own current health, which is actually good. And deals 525 damage to one enemy. This is a burst skill. Increases attack hit of all allies by 50% and attacks speed by 20 for 10 turns if the target dies. Again, very impressive kit similar to his Gold Fate Corr. But again, his buffs are with Linnombi heroes of course, so he can actually buff himself, he can buff FC Xeon, he can buff Wells. I think you have there, what do you call this, Morris. More or less, those are the heroes for Linnombi that he can buff, FC April as well. And more or less, if you can see most of the teams that don't bring Schmidt, bring all Linnombi heroes. So that is why those 5 will really benefit from his buff. Number 2 on our list is actually FC Sabrina. So FC Sabrina, one of my favorites.  So attack increase default is at 1% increases when you do a fusion. Same also, I forgot to mention, same also with FC Blue FC Rera. So again, let's take a look at her kit first before we take a look at a bunch of heroes that she can buff. So in terms of her passive, she has counter 3, she has super star and she is good with the dragon as well. So with dragon knight blessing, she is actually, in terms of her S1 deals 200% damage to one enemy, not that bad. But her S2 is very, very good. It's a 4 minus scale, deals 127% damage to all enemies. A flick target with burn dealing 55% damage every turn for 3 turns. And also this skill is a burst spell. Let's take a look at the attack type heroes that she can buff. Okay, so for the attack type heroes that she can buff, there are a lot. Most of them are usually are your core heroes like FC Rudley, FC Schmid, you have Adams here, you have Bathory here, you have Rachel here. You have Xeon here and the list goes on. You have Brooke here, you have Maggi, you have Annie. And that is why she is actually very, very useful. You have FC Morris here as well. Again, her buff is really, it really gives a lot of benefits to a lot of attack type players, attack type heroes. So more or less, she is going to be at our number two as of the moment. And for number one on our list, it is still blue FC Baraka. Because number one, his kit is actually fantastic. You can actually use him to replace Black Fate Core Baraka if you don't have Black Fate Core in your number of teams. But if you take a look at his passive, of course he has your first dragon skills. The great one, Dragon Blood, Wrath, and Dragon Scale. So again, that is why he is still top in terms of kit. A lot of players are still using him in teams, Linnombe or otherwise in other teams. So if you can take a look at his S1, which deals 225 damage to one enemy, resets own turn when the target dies. And again, steals one mana and grants two mana back if that ally is disheartened. And also, if you take a look at his S2, Heavenly Thunder, it's a 525 damage to one enemy. Again, it steals and it grants mana back to back row allies if the target is disheartened. So again, even if without Rachel, blue FC Baraka is actually very good, even as a blue Fate Core. When you take a look at his buffs, he actually buffs Wasted Red. So again, Wasted Red being one of the top three nations actually is really benefiting from this. So you have recipients such as Garth, you have Redly, you have Annie, you have Maggy, you have Jean, and a lot more Wasted Heroes which are usually being used either in PvP or in PvE. So there goes our rankings for the blue Fate Cores updated. And more or less guys, for those of you who have stuck this far in this video, please consider subscribing. Hit that bell icon so that you don't miss any Exo's Heroes videos. Also guys, if you have any comments on this video, please put them down in the comment section below. I would love to hear your comments and suggestions if you have. Guys take care, stay safe, this is The Warden, and I'm out here.


Welcome to Vince Carter's greatest NBA stories. If you are new to this series welcome This is the complete collection series where we take a deep dive into some of the NBA's greatest players If you have missed any of the episodes in the series There is a playlist link in the description box down below and on the top right of your screen If you appreciate the time and the effort it takes to edit these videos All I ask is that you hit that like button hitting the like button really helps the channel and these videos Get recognized if you're new be sure to hit that subscribe button for a new episode in this series And hit that notification button to stay notified for whenever I upload a new episode in this series And if you would like to be featured in the next episode comment down below Which player you would like to see next without further ado welcome to Vince Carter's complete collection of greatest story What was the most memorable part about that series with him? Hell if I had the ball running the first break Vince Carter was on one end and Jesus on the other one I had to throw it to Vince Carter When you really look at him you think he's flying How did he just do that and Vince was that guy the passion that stood out to me when I watched him After he dunked after he made a big shot. You say Vince Carter brought out the best in you. How so? Well, I was always really competitive with it. You know Vince is a special dunk Special don't he's a special special dog. I didn't want to do it Because I knew I mean, this is my teaming like I see him every day and what he's capable of And then got in the post spin move in cocked it all Boom, right, right. We were celebrating two totally different things Crazy What was the most memorable part about that series with him? him Amazing people.  I love to watch you down and I saw him do some things this summer that people haven't seen in a game To trust me that guy right there. He had the left leg now was a the most exciting He took the world by storm man in his style.   I got a flagrant him.  I get a file I go to the bench couple plays later Jason has a ball and tries to steal it from Vince Vince wrapped around his back He comes down a lane and the lines are morning jumps Vince caught that thing back and threw it down. I'm on the bench like this. Look at that D way I'm like You remember that D way That was that's top 10 right there and in the whole history of the NBA In the history of the NBA Yeah, that might be better than the Ronald Damon last year, but that was top 10 amazing Watch me underneath I was here like I did it. I was like, that's what you get messing with me Look at that. That's when you have a big bro that could just go up to another level that nobody else could I stand by this He was my favorite dunker when I was in college and I got the opportunity to play with him And even when I got to play with him He was far greater far more athletic than anything I could imagine The funny thing I remember about us is when we play in the dunk on zoe and us running down the court together Having a little laugh But he paused in the midair Like that was the crazy thing about the dunk shotguns. He paused in midair and let zoe fall to the ground and then booth them Was crazy We had got a little weak dunk on them both of us.  So when he hit me, right? I went higher And it kind of having nerves. I was scared. I was jump I jumped higher than I So while I'm up there, I'm like man, don't miss this dunk and and that's what I said Like when I dumped it, that's why I was running down when I had to be mugged But I heard you say Right Oh He didn't talk to me like that for as he shouldn't six seven years.  It was like six or seven years You say Vince Carter brought out the best in you how so well I was always really competitive with Vince Vince was a year ahead of me and he's still playing by the way, which is which is um, I mean I saw him windmill the other day just goes to his insane athletic ability Dominique Wilkins Michael Jordan Dr. J Vince Carter and yourself now that is a powerhouse you guys have all won dunk contests in the past So I'm curious in the prime of all those players career who wins a dunk contest Vince Couple of tricks on my sleeve I'm coming up this stuff tonight and it's working. It's over for people. Ain't no point total. He's off the charge I mean really off the charge the arm in the river instance. I didn't want to hear. I wanted to hear nothing. I Wanted the crowd to be in awe and not say a word. What? Yeah, I would say Vince I got you know, you know Vince is a Vince. No You know Vince is a special dunker man, and you see what he can do He's a special dunker. I mean, he's a special special dunker and I think MJ you know did some stuff that was revolutionary for his time as did dr. J and You know the way Vince dunks the ball You know the way that he's dunked the ball when he was in a dunk contest was just was unbelievable What if Vince Carter mean to you as a basketball player because I know like for me, you know, Vince Sanity Half-man half-man as we can keep going all day, but like What was it about Vince Carter that kind of you know inspired you as a basketball? I mean, I've been watching Vince Since he was in high school, you know, even as a young kid and you know, watch them in a McDonald's game Obviously, I followed him. I mean I was a huge. No, I wanted to go to North Carolina at the time So him going to Carolina. It was like, okay, you know watching Ed Coda Throwing the lobs to him with him and Antoine Jameson and all those guys on that team So I'm watching when you watch him Vince.  Yeah, he's out here This is just straight up.  So You know for me and for all of us it's something about It's something about Basketball when a guy can literally When you really look at him you think he's flying You like how did he just do that and Vince was that guy Vince was that guy where you like if you get one dribble inside that three-point line, you better move even in college Even in college, you better move or you're gonna be on the poster and every for a kid like myself Who started to find his way with some athleticism you look that Vince like? Hey, I ain't gonna be able to get to that point But if I can get half or three-fourths of it, you know, then I'm doing something, right? Vince had kids actually believing That they can jump if they put on a pair of Nike shocks very true You had a pair absolutely the white No, I had everybody didn't have a pair I didn't have a pair till I got dressed. I had a pair listen if you Vince noble Vince really had you believing that the shock technology In those shoes Like that You really had you believing that Mine was the the black Silver to the raptor coat. Yeah, raptors. The shock. I ain't get them to the tooth the shock Locker when you got drafted Well, Adam, it's hard to pick one Vince Carter story, but I would go back to the beginning Vince So 2000 2001, I'm in Marquette University and I'm red-shirting. I'm sitting out and My team went on the road And the Milwaukee Bucks was playing the Toronto Raptors No changes for the Bucks tonight up front Glen Robinson Joel Presbilla and Mark Hope the backcourt Sam Cassell and Ray Allen For the Toronto Raptors, it's Corlys Williamson Antonio Davis and Charles Oakley Vince Carter in the backcourt With Mark Jackson coming over from the Indiana Pacers So I didn't have a ticket to the game, but I decided to Go to the arena and with hopes that the security who worked our games because we played at the Braliston as well Well, let me in they did they let me in and I was sitting up there with the retired jerseys real high up But I got there early Because Vince Carter was was famous for his his pregame workouts, right? So before the games started Vince Carter will put on a dunk show man And like I'm talking about all the dunk contest dunks Vince Carter would do and one Of my favorite things that you did at the end before the game started You always grab the net and you always lift yourself up and did chin-ups on the net And if you know or anybody who know me once I got to the NBA I will grab the rim before every game and I would do chin-ups on the rim And it all started from being that little kid that young kid that got a chance to get into the arena to see One of his favorite players do some amazing amazing things. So thank you for inspiring me Vince Thank you for inspiring a whole generation of players not only in Canada, but around the world man you are one of our goats and Just thank you No, thank you, man. Godly.  I jumped out the seat. Oh my god I'm on the court. Yo, y'all see that and then I had to realize I was in the NBA.  I don't like it was the best thing I've ever seen but what ended up happening was Reality kicked in because I'm like he just did that the Jason Richardson and Jason Richardson Athleticism is huh and then it's like I just seen somebody who go, huh, and I'm here and I'm like, oh Man, I can't even play in this league, but I got so depressed just from the dunk realized like yo I'm not I don't have this type of athleticism. So I spent I ain't go I spent probably the first part of the season just Like I can't do this. Just I can't do none of that. Kobe. I can't I can't even guard him Ray Allen I can't even guard like these these people I can't even and I was doing that to myself You know the mean you you know We we tend to look at what we can't do because someone else can do it instead of looking at what we can't do The passion that stood out to me when I watched him after he dunked after he made a big shot and how much he loved to play You know you tell he was excited I just made me go out there be more free as a player when I was a kid because I'm just like he expressing the stuff like that I think I can too, you know, so I think I took that from Vince, you know Obviously his highlights and his athleticism stood out but like his passion for the game is something that I really appreciate it Cali, I mean, it's an honor. Like I say I've Watched Kevin obviously going against him and everything and just just think back into back to his career Well, first of all say I once heard the whispers. Yeah, he got me right there on the crossover Caught me right there caught me slipping But no, I mean and he hit the game winner after I hit that shot.  Okay, cool. Yeah, you know But people say that and then to actually hear from the horse's mouth This is I mean, it's unbelievable and getting the opportunity to play play against him watching him as a rookie And remember hearing how they said could he survive in the league because he wasn't strong enough And so on and so forth to watch him grow into The best score In the game's history. I mean offensively, what can he not do?  He can go whatever he wants He'll pull up he can shoot he can do it all so it's just been great to see him mature grow And and become a champion and do it his way Absolutely. Well, it's an honor in both directions All right, so talk talk about teaming up, uh with k with kg ray allen Peyton jason kid and uh gold medal team Here's a dream come true for me, man It was talked about obviously that you know, you told my 92 and the dream team And then you had dream team to then comes us in 2000 and the funny thing about it guys I wasn't on the initial team. Uh, I didn't make it. So shack was supposed to be on that team Grant hill was supposed to be on that team and I missed it another name because I think great was hurt or shack. I know shack was was hurt as well Tim Duncan, Tim Duncan was supposed to be on the team and then tango go yada got hurt. So ray allen Ray allen actually made the team over me And we played each other that night In toronto What kind of work It was one of those things I wanted to show more so it had nothing to do with it I wanted to show the Olympic folks that you know, I'm worried made the wrong choice right that to be on that squad I hit like my first eight shots. I ain't I was eight for eight from the beginning I was just in another zone, bro. I was in another zone and then Weeks later tango yada gets hurt. I get that call. Would you like to be what I like to be? Hell, yeah, so I missed the original team the original photo. I was photoshopped in So when you see that picture like on me on there, I had to take a picture and then to get photoshopped in Right, so from there I had I had to go earn my way, but it was it was all worth it man. It was fun. It was great You know, I was going through some ups and downs in my life really That's why I had the fro and all that me and gp rocking the fro out there Some different something different. Hey, that was my favorite outside. I mean the dunk that the gold medal My favorite part was seeing vince with the fro He's a young fella, you know gp They can't jump with you young fella. So anytime you halfway open i'm throwing all right The rest was history and just making history and just doing some crazy stuff and then the dunk happened Let me ask you a question. Right does he have one of the best dunks in basketball history? vc has jumped over the seven footer in the olympic listen Best in-game dunk that you will ever see in nba history line them up with any of them 2000 2000 that was a memorable moment. I don't know if everybody Got the opportunity to see that dunk his name was frederick weiss from france. So The the funny thing about the olympic dunk um is That it was more so more so instinct and I was just trying it was uh, it was uh Uh pass he threw he threw the ball behind his back I get the steal I want to get back and attack the rim before the rest of their defense kind of gets back into the place The opportunity is there to take advantage of it now one two one dribble two dribble go And it's kind of like a read one dribble. We don't move two dribble. He's still there Attack the rim and I all I all I could see was the rim And when bench went up We was like, oh, he ain't gonna make this maybe just gonna do flips up because I was standing there like this Darnett was coming behind and there Darnett was like he's gonna gift it off to But then all of a sudden I was right over on the side. I said, oh Yeah, I said he going up some more. I said, whoa, and I see I see the rim. I don't see here. I see the rim I didn't pay attention to where I was jumping from so, you know, the the paint is is is different than the NBA Yeah, it's wider. So yeah, uh-huh in in my mind So when I jump I see him and all I remember God's my witness All I remember is touching his shoulder with my left arm I'm focused on the rim because I thought I jumped too far They were going in transition. So my team is running back on defense. So I just attacked the rim So when I jump I hit him. I ain't thinking about hitting him more I thought he moved out of the way Or he tried to take a charge and fell down. So if you go back and look at it, I stretch out Because I'm reaching for the rim because I thought I was too far But I end up dunking the ball with my wrist because I was I actually had enough, you know flight time My left hand touching the shoulder and my focus now is the rim because in my mind I felt like I jumped too far And I wasn't going to make it The celebration that everybody saw where I almost knocked Kevin Garnett out was because We're celebrating two totally different things. First of all, my celebration when I almost punched KG I was celebrating that I wasn't celebrating that I jumped over because I didn't know That's crazy. That was my favorite. That was my favorite part of the dunk seeing you in KG That was KG because KG went nuts Right. We were celebrating two totally different things That was just crazy He was celebrating because he watched me jump over seven for god I was celebrating because I did not think that I was going to make it and I thought I was going to fall shorter the rim And bust my face open and embarrass myself In front of the rest of the world So I never actually knew I jumped over him until later on Like you said, that's all instinct. That's nothing that you planned. That's nothing that you think about I didn't even think I could do something. Yeah. First of all, you just think about tacking them You see a big guy. You say, oh, I'm gonna get it. I'm going. I'm going right at him Those things happen kind of organically. You don't you can't plan that if I had the ball Run the frat break Vince Carter was on one end and jesus was on the other one. I had to do with the Vince Carter I don't know the michael, you know, met the lots for the mv8 And I think right now Vince is that same type of commodity The comparison view is deja vu for Carter who has been there Heard this Before it was more pressure coming out of high school into college into North Carolina That's when you know, you started to hear it and that's when I think a lot of pressure now It's like I was just like here we go again No matter how breathless his play how fair is it to mention Vince in the same breath? That is unfortunate because as you know, no two players are alike and The similarity may be exciting dunks, but there are different type of players I can see it, but let's not get ridiculous. You're talking about michael joy. The difference in him is that Vince does not have a ballhandle ability that mj had or understand What his shot selections are that mj had a better feel for mj is often imitated never duplicated But he you have to say that He's the next thing close to mj. They can hang in the air Make other opponents just fear feel Like scared or just don't want to be around them because they don't want to be on their poster And it's tough. It's tough to be out there and try to come up with something that fans haven't seen Michael move over somebody's coming to get your best up ever How would you do in a dunk contest with Vince Carter today? Oh, I'm 37 years old. I think you have that advantage But if you talk about when I was younger, I think we can have a really good competition I'm referring to when you were younger. I think it would be fun. I think the fans would certainly get entertained, you know, it doesn't matter who win because you're gonna see Creativity at its best, you know, I think it really shows us A part of your personality to some degree And there it is the complete collection of Vince Carter's greatest stories If you would like to help me out by hitting that like button, that would be greatly appreciated If you're new around here and you enjoyed the episode be sure to subscribe hit that notification button So you never miss another episode in the series and I'll catch you in the next one. I'm out. Peace


Acra vs. Kampala, which is more developed. Acra is Ghana's capital and largest city, situated on the country's southern coast on the Atlantic Ocean's Gulf of Guinea. Acra has a land area of 225.67 kilometers, square and a population of 4.2 million people in 2020. It is divided into 12 local government districts, 11 municipal districts, and the Acra Metropolitan District, which is the capital's only district with city status. The term Acra normally refers to the Acra Metropolitan Area, which serves as Ghana's capital, with the city of Acra distinguishing the district under the jurisdiction of the Acra Metropolitan, assembly from the remainder of the city. However, in everyday speech, the phrases Acra and City of Acra are interchangeable. Acra is the economic and administrative center of the Greater Acra Region, as well as the anchor of the Greater Acra Metropolitan Area, G and M.A., which has a population of roughly 4 million people, making it Africa's 13th largest metropolitan area. Acra was certified as a gamma-level global metropolis by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network Think Tank in 2020, suggesting a growing level of worldwide impact and connectedness. Kampala, on the other hand, is Uganda's capital and largest city. Kampala Central Division, Komp Division, Makindai Division, Nakawa Division, and Rubaga Division are the five political divisions that make up the city proper, which has a population of 1,680,000 people. The city of Kampala, as well as the surrounding districts of Huakaiso, Yukono, Npigi, Buuikui, make up Kampala's metropolitan region. It has a rapidly rising population, with the Uganda Bureau of Statistics estimating 6,709,900 inhabitants in 2019, in an area of 3,263.3 square miles. According to Chuintang Wanga Al, this metropolitan region generated an estimated nominal GDP of 13.80221 billion US dollars in 2011, which was more than half of Uganda's GDP for that year, demonstrating Kampala's economic importance. According to city mayors, Kampala is one of Africa's fastest growing cities, with an annual population growth rate of 4.03%. Kampala has consistently scored as East Africa's greatest city to live in, ahead of Nairobi and Kigali, according to Mercer, a New York-based consulting business. Welcome to another day on our channel. In this video, we will be comparing two capital cities of different countries based on factors like their economies, infrastructure, manufacturing, tourism, sectors, and also standard of living in order to ascertain which is more developed. Join us as we make this startling difference. Economy of Acra Between 2015 and 2020, Acra was estimated to account for 34 to 39% of Ghana's economy. Acra's economic production per person was three times that of Ghana's national average, in terms of GDP per capita. The services sector contributes the most to Acra's GDP, accounting for 63% on average, while the manufacturing industry contributed 20.5%. Acra has a diverse and wealthy resource base, which includes digital technology goods production and exportation, automotive and shipbuilding and exportation, and the exportation of various and rich resources, like hydrocarbons and industrial minerals. Ghana now has one of the highest GDP per capita in West Africa as a result of these factors. Ghana became the world's fastest growing economy in 2011 as a result of a GDP rebasement. Economy of Kampala Kampala City is Uganda's cash cow, with the central division alone accounting for about 80% of the entire money collected from the city. Amos Inguamoya investigates how each division contributes to income and how people in those divisions respond to paying taxes. Kampala accounts for over 60% of Uganda's gross domestic product, indicating that it is the country's economic hub. It also employs 80% of Uganda's industrial workforce. Kampala's control was returned to the central government in 2011, and the Kampala Capital City Authority, KCCA, was established as a result of the KCCA Act, which was passed by parliament in 2010. The main goal was to turn the city into a better economy by implementing new governance structures and making it more administrative than political. Unlike during the Kampala City Council, KCC, ERA, when many questions were made about revenue management and inadequate service delivery in the city, this has enhanced revenue collection and thus supply of services to city people. Infrastructural Development ACRA Ghana's economy has been growing steadily over the last two decades, with gains in practically every industry. Poverty levels have fallen to 24.3%, a 4.2 percentage point decrease from the prior figure. Despite these gains, the economy continues to be plagued by gaps in both economic and social infrastructure, which has slowed the rate of acceleration in the economy. Kampala The economic expansion and administration of Uganda's capital city Kampala were critical to the country's prosperity. Since the 1980s, the World Bank has been involved in Uganda's urban sector, awarding Kampala a $33 million loan in 2007 for institutional changes and infrastructural development. Despite this, just 30% of the project was finished before the deadline in 2010. The World Bank threatened to withhold funding due to the delays and its distrust of a new, inexperienced administration. Judith Tenuzion Working first as a technical consultant and subsequently as deputy executive director of the newly formed Kampala Capital City Authority, KCCA, managed to turn the project around in just two years a near-miracle turnaround, thereby making Kampala one of the biggest cities with high rates of infrastructural development. Manufacturing Acra Ghana's industry contributes roughly 24.5% of the country's overall GDP. However, thanks to government industrialization programs, Ghana's industrial output is developing at a 7.8% annual rate, ranking it as the world's 38th fastest growing industrial production. Electronics manufacturer, vehicle manufacturing, electric car manufacturing, automotive manufacturing, light manufacturing, aluminum smelting, food processing, cement, and small commercial shipbuilding are among Ghana's most prominent industrial industries. Because of the high-quality sand available from the Tarqua mining area, a modest glass-making sector has emerged. In recent years, foreign money has surged. The majority of the products are intended to produce and export. Food and beverage production, textiles, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, and metal and wood processing are among the other sectors. Kampala Agro-processing, food and drinks, household items, building materials, and fast-moving consumer goods dominate Uganda's manufacturing industry. The majority of businesses are small and medium-sized businesses based in Kampala and the central region. Tourism in Acre Acre is a bustling modern metropolis where the streets smell great foods and the ocean beckons you bechill yourself. From a bustling local cultural scene with everything from traditional song and dance to sophisticated clubs with the newest live music, you'll find all you need. Traditional crafts, as well as cutting-edge contemporary fashions can be found. The city's Dutch, British, and Danish influences mingle with its West African heritage to create an unforgettable experience. Visit the Ghana National Museum, the Acre Art Center for Artisan Crafts, and the Kwame and Krumah Memorial Park and Mausoleum. Bojo Beach and Lombatti Beach are just two of the several beaches around Acre that provide clear seas and sports such as horseback riding and surfing. Tourism in Kampala, with a population of over 1.2 million people, Kampala is Uganda's largest metropolis and capital. Since its 2002, Kampala was built on seven hills, Kasubai Hill, which houses the Kasubai tombs, Mingo Hill, which houses the current Liberi, Kabaka's Palace, and the headquarters of the Buganda Court of Justice and the Lukyiko, Buganda's Parliament, Büleng, Kibili Hill, which houses the Kibili Mosque, Nemiarm Hill, which houses the Nemiarm Anglican Cathedral, Lubaga Hill, which houses the Rubaga Catholic Cathedral, and was the headquarter of the Mill Hill Mission. It now houses Insambia Hospital and the ruins of Lugard's Fort. Kampala Hill, also known as Old Kampala, means Hill of the Impala and is where Kampala got its name. The city expanded to include other hills such as Nakasaro Hill and Embuia Hill, resulting in a stunning city. The city hosts a lot of tourist destinations. Cost of living Acra As in most countries, the cost of living varies greatly depending on location and lifestyle. Acra has the most expensive lodging. Some development organizations provide a $3,000 monthly rent allowance for a house or apartment, but this is insufficient. You can live for less money if you are young, healthy, and adaptable and do not require the western way of life. If you don't mind living without air conditioning, without electricity for long periods of the day, in a neighborhood with some noise and dust, without official security, and so on, you can live fairly cheaply. Another option is to live with others. Splitting the rent of a three-bedroom apartment for three equals about $1,200 per month for each of you. Unfortunately, landlords now require a one-year deposit. Furthermore, certain living expenses are exorbitant, for example. Energy recently increased by 75%, and you may have to pay to have water trucked to your house during the dry season. Kampala Uganda is a country that draws foreign visitors because of its low living costs, and the best city to visit on questionably Kampala, the capital city where most of the activities take place. Kampala is a city that must provide convenient and quick commute alternatives, as going from work to home can be exhausting, as well as affordable food and utility rates for those earning income abroad and less than ideal living conditions for those earning less than the average. Restaurants in Kampala serve both international and local cuisine, but expect to pay more for international meals. A nice supper for two at one of Kampala's cheapest restaurants costs around $7. The most important piece of advice is to cook your own food if you know what you're doing. Cooking is less expensive than eating out, and it will significantly improve your budget. There are many grocery stores to choose from, but keep in mind that imported goods can be quite expensive. Comparing two countries is always a difficult situation because what works for one person may not work for the other, so we always make it so that you have to decide which city or country is best for you. Accra, I'd say, works its magic on me. How about you? Thank you for your time. We hope you enjoyed watching this video. If you did, please share your experience in the comments section and subscribe for more updates.


So, I found a parking spot. This car is going to be here all week in the Expo hall upstairs. So I hope you will all take an opportunity to go back and take a look at it, get some pictures. It's a pretty sweet vehicle, I have to say. Even though I didn't really get to, you know, see how fast it goes here on the stage. So we heard from BBVA. We heard from BMW. Those are both European users. Next up we're going to hear from a user from the United States. And this is a case study that I'm really excited about because this is from Time Warner Cable. And this is a team that has done some amazing things in a very short period of time. And so I hope that you will find this really interesting. Please help me welcome from Time Warner Cable Matt Haines. Thank you, Jonathan. I am happy to be here today to share our stand-up story and how that fits into some of the exciting changes we have happening at Time Warner Cable. So Time Warner Cable is the second largest cable provider in the United States, providing television, broadband phone, and business services to 15 million customers in major market centers including Los Angeles and New York City. And for the past several years, Time Warner Cable has been on a mission to change the nature of television. Moving from a world in which we serve our content at very specific times to a few TVs in your home, we're embarking on a journey that serves any content, to any device, any time, and anywhere. We think it's pretty exciting. Let's take a look. Welcome to a new way to experience TV. Watch what you love anywhere you want on your devices with TV from Time Warner Cable. It's more than just your favorite shows and movies. It's TV the way you want it with the TWC TV app, the number one rated pay TV distributor app that makes it possible to transform every screen in your home into a TV. Watch more of what you love on your devices, only with Time Warner Cable. So that's an exciting future that we're in the middle of, and bringing that to place requires a significant number of changes in technology, culture, and organization within the company. From a technology perspective, we have a whole new set of set top boxes and software that powers them, new architectures for transcoding and delivering content, and software platforms for a wide range of consumer devices. From a cultural standpoint, we're evolving from slow and methodical, and to rapid and fail fast delivery, matching the rapid evolution of our device platforms. And from an organizational standpoint, we are starting to evolve into DevOps organizations that can deliver on this culture. For a cable company, these are pretty exciting times. A year ago, I came to Time Warner Cable to transform our infrastructure into a self-service platform that would be able to support this new vision for television, and one that would help in the transformation for technology, culture, and organization within the company. Having worked with OpenStack at scale since the Diablo days, I knew it had the potential to deliver what we needed. So after grabbing a couple of folks from inside of the company and a couple of folks from outside, we sat down late last year to do a little stand-up planning. And as anybody who's stood up OpenStack at scale knows, there are a number of decisions that need to be made before getting started. Which set of services are you going to deploy? How many data centers or regions will be involved? What are the provider and tenant networks going to look like? And networking at the end of the day is everything. And what are the system workloads, and importantly, what kind of operational stability do you need for the environment? Complicating our designs were my desires to have a certain set of operational requirements in place. Because we were going to run in multiple data centers, I wanted global identity to make a seamless for our customers to get into. I wanted to be close to trunk to take advantage of fast-moving projects like Neutron, and also to be able to provide a certain level of agnostic approach to vendors. I wanted automated deployments to make it easy to stay close to trunk. And I wanted an HA and DR control plane to give us enterprise stability. Geo redundant object storage is very important, so we give our customers a very safe place to put their data. And in short, I really wanted operational maturity for enterprise applications at service provider scale. So with the holidays fast approaching, I needed a little advice. Our little four-person rock band was being stretched a bit thin. I reached out to Lou Tucker and Joe Arnold, asked them for some help on early design to components for object storage and networking. And with just before the holidays, we ordered some hardware so that when January came around, we'd be ready to rack and stack and get this going. We started the new year and I added one final requirement. I wanted to be open for business in six months, meeting all the requirements and at the scale that would drive this business. So needless to say, we were off and running. Well, not surprisingly, we tripped a few times. Our tenant networking designs changed several times, moving from a flat network architecture that's similar to Nova Networking to one that uses the latest SDN support in Neutron, Ice House, with an ML2 plug-in and VXLAN overlay. And these changes rippled through our provider network, causing us to go touch and all of our servers. Another bump in the road for us was the desire to have live migration with attached volumes. This was an extremely important operational requirement that I thought was important. And the initial design for our block storage was a sand fiber channel platform. And that was a little too far out in front of where the community was early this year. So once again, we adjusted. We racked a new set of SEF block storage nodes, and we retouched all of our servers again, and we were off and running. By the end of Q1, we were well on our way. The team had Havana up in two regions, and we were iterating towards Ice House. The team started to grow, and importantly, experienced hands joined the team to iterate on those initial designs and improve them. And by the end of Q2, just six months after we started, we were open for business at time more cable. With an initial capacity for thousands of VMs, hundreds of terabytes of usable object and block storage operating out of two data centers, we were starting to onboard applications, the same kind of applications that are changing the way we view TV. Since then, we've continued to grow and mature. The team is now about 15 folks located in three geographic regions. We've invested in hardening and maturing the platform. We've invested in the community by contributing upstream in a number of projects. And we've more than doubled our initial rollout capacity in Q1 with a production mirror staging environment as well that helps us stay close to trunk. Today, in fact, our automated tooling keeps us as close to trunk as we would like to be. Going forward, we're looking at adding a number of new services to make it easier to build and manage applications, DNS, load balancing, messaging, and the like. And whatever else our customers say they need to build the kind of applications that deliver their value. Underlying it all, however, are three important objectives that I was given when I came to the company. Build a scalable infrastructure, make it extremely stable, and make it cost-effective. We're also spending a lot of time helping other teams at Time Warner Cable use OpenStack as a vehicle for changing the way they develop, deploy, and support their fast-changing applications. So for anyone out there who's thinking of standing up a mature, private cloud capable of supporting enterprise applications, rest assured, today OpenStack is mature and up to the task, and partners are capable and out there to help as these partners have helped us. I want to thank the OpenStack team at Time Warner Cable who have worked tirelessly over the past several months to deliver on these lofty requirements and kind of a crazy, aggressive timeline. A few of the stackers are here. They'll be presenting the details and the nitty gritty of the stand-up in a session Thursday morning at 9 a.m. hosted by Swift Stack over at the Meridian. I encourage you to take a look at that if you want to know the real details, and you'll sign up at the Swift Stack booth. And finally, I want to thank all of you who continue to deliver great community developed software. As I said in the beginning, delivering on this ambitious plan of any content, anywhere, any device requires significant change. OpenStack and the DevOps team at Time Warner Cable that designs, deploys, and supports this are examples of changes for our technology, culture, and organization. And we continue to use those and OpenStack to drive changes throughout all of Time Warner Cable. Thank you.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's CaseBreaks.com doing a quick little retail pack break, number 11, and giving away two more last dance, or last last dance mixer spot, last couple spots there at the very end of the break, we'll re-randomize at the end of the break, but let's do the break first. Big thanks all of these folks for getting into break number 11, appreciate it. Forgot it on my schedule, but I had this tab open in the spot that was supposed to happen, so I guess we're doing this. One, two, so this is just for the break, three, four, crank down to Frank after four. Come on, Grant Dayton, four times, Washington Wizards down to the Pistons, all right, Quinton with the Mavs and Frank with the Pelicans in this one, nice. Just a pack break, let's see if we get a surprise though, Anfrey Hardaway, D'Ang, Steph Curry, and Chris Middleton, all right, not much there, but we can get into a really nice mixer out of here, ladies and gents.  Good luck, one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven, then final time. After seven, top two, and thanks everyone else for giving this a go. Darren McKenzie, Quinton Carter, congrats to both of you, you're in our last last-dance mixer breaking tomorrow. We'll see you next time, jasmizcasebreaks.com.


Welcome to Effector from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. This is the audio edition of EFF's email newsletter geared towards keeping you on the bleeding edge of your digital rights. Check the show notes for links to all of our stories. This is Effector, Volume 33, Issue 5, titled, Apple's plan to think different about encryption opens a backdoor to your private life. This issue was published on Wednesday, August 18th, 2021, and I'm your host, member outreach assistant Christian Romero. Let's start with some top features. First up, Apple's plan to think different about encryption opens a backdoor to your private life. Apple is planning to build a backdoor into its data storage system and its messaging system. Apple has historically been a champion of end-to-end encryption for all the same reasons that EFF has articulated time and time again. But the company has announced that changes to its operating systems would include new protections for children features in iCloud and iMessage. When Apple releases these client-side-scanning functionalities, users of iCloud photos, child users of iMessage, and anyone who talks to a minor through iMessage will have to carefully consider their privacy and security priorities in light of the changes, and possibly be unable to safely use what until this development was one of the preeminent encrypted messengers. Apple's compromise on end-to-end encryption may appease government agencies in the U.S. and abroad, but it is a shocking aboutface for users who have relied on the company's leadership and privacy and security. All it would take to widen the narrow backdoor that Apple is building is an expansion of the machine learning parameters to look for additional types of content or tweak the configuration flags to scan not just children's but everyone's accounts. That's not a slippery slope. That's a fully built system just waiting for external pressure to make the slightest change. Next up, if you build it, they will come. Apple has opened the backdoor to increased surveillance and censorship around the world. Apple is a global company with phones and computers in use all over the world, and governmental pressure comes with that. For years, countries around the world have asked for access to and control over encrypted messages, asking technology companies to, quote, nerd harder when faced with the pushback that access to messages in the clear was incompatible with strong encryption. Now that Apple has built it, they will come. With good intentions, Apple has paved the road to mandate its security weakness around the world, enabling and reinforcing the arguments that, should the intentions be good enough, scanning through your personal life and private communications is acceptable. We urge Apple to reconsider and return to the mantra the company so memorably emblazoned on a billboard at 2019 CES conference in Las Vegas. What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone. And for our last feature, speak out against Apple's mass surveillance plans. Mass surveillance is not an acceptable crime fighting strategy, no matter how well-intentioned the spying. If you're upset about Apple's recent announcement that the next version of iOS will install surveillance software in every iPhone, we need you to speak up about it. Sign our petition telling Apple, don't scan our phones. Moving along, let's go through some EFF updates. First up, the cryptocurrency surveillance provision buried in the infrastructure bill is a disaster for digital privacy. Biden's infrastructure bill, a 2000 plus page bill designed to update the United States roads, highways and digital infrastructure, contains a poorly crafted provision that could create new surveillance requirements for many within the blockchain ecosystem. This could include developers and others who do not control digital assets on behalf of users. Next up, it's time for a police to stop using ShotSpotter. Court documents recently reviewed by Vice have revealed that ShotSpotter, a company that makes and sells audio gunshot detection to cities and police departments, may not be as accurate or reliable as the company claims. Next, Facebook's attack on research is everyone's problem. Facebook recently banned the accounts of several New York University researchers who run Ad Observer, an accountability project that tracks paid disinformation. This has major implications, not just for transparency, but for user autonomy and the fight for interoperable software. And last, this CAPTCHA patent is an all-american nightmare. Defenders of the American Dream LLC is sending out demand letters to websites that use Google's re-CAPTCHA system, accusing them of infringing on US patent number 8621578. Looking at the history of this patent, which shares no code at all, makes it clear why the patent system is such a bad fit for software. Time for some announcements. Psyper Session, back to school. Schools in, however you feel about it, join Psyper, a local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance, on August 21st at 11 a.m. Pacific Time, as they talk about ways students can help keep their privacy in mind on their devices while navigating the academically and socially rigorous new school year. Next up, EFF is going to be at DragonCon 2021. From September 2nd to September 6th, EFF will be at this year's DragonCon, a multimedia pop culture convention focusing on science fiction and fantasy, gaming, comics, literature, art, music, and film. Various EFF staff members will be featured in talks on the Electronic Frontier's forums track during the event, in person and online, so be sure to check them out. Hey look, EFF has a job opening. Associate Director of Institutional Support. EFF seeks an Associate Director of Institutional Support who is an outstanding and experienced writer to assist with the institutional funding strategy and the development and prospecting of institutional funders, organizational members, and donors. Apply today. And last up, we've got some mini-links. Online Violence Response Hub launches. To protect women journalists online, the Coalition Against Online Violence has just launched the Online Violence Response Hub, a project of the IWMF with the ICFJ, a robust resource center where women journalists can find updated research, emergency assistance, and easy to follow recommendations on their specific situation. This next one is from Politico. We need more protection from government surveillance, not less. Regulated encryption is just a euphemism for government back doors into our communications. This next one's from Wired. Citizens' new service helps paying users some in the cops. Citizen plans to offer a $20 monthly service that lets users contact the company's team of virtual agents for help whenever they feel threatened. Essentially, the Karen of Apps. And our last mini-link comes from Unicorn Riot. Line 3 Fusion Center data declared secret. The Minnesota Fusion Center, a federal state law enforcement partnership, has been surveilling water protectors who are trying to protect their land and water sources from tar sand pipelines. And that's it. We made it. Thanks for listening. If you like what you're hearing, be sure to sign up for the email version of Effector, which includes links to in-depth coverage of these stories and more. See past issues and subscribe at eff.org slash effector. Before we end this issue of the newsletter, I want to let you know that EFF is a member-supported non-profit organization and you can help us fight for digital privacy, security, and free expression for everyone. Donate to EFF today and even grab a bit of gear by heading over to EFF.org slash effect. That's EFF.org slash EFF ECT. You can become a member for as little as $25 or even sign up as a monthly or annual donor. Thanks for your support. And I hope you'll join us for the next issue of Effector.


Welcome to theCUBE's continuous coverage of AWS re-invent 2021. We're here live, running one of the most important and largest technology events of the year. It's all about AWS and AWS's ecosystem partners. We are joined by Jay Mozo, Director of Transformation Services, Tech Systems Global Services. Alumni of AWS, I got that right. And Ted Swin, your Director of Solutions, one strategy. Who's going to tell me what the relationship is between one strategy and tech systems? Like I don't already know what it is, since you came and essentially announced the magic here on our stage in 2019. Ted, you want to start off with a little background? Since you were acquired, how'd that go? So one strategy is a tech systems global services company and we're an AWS premier partner. We've got competencies in DevOps, migration, data and analytics, machine learning, and we're really excited this year to be focusing also on the security competency as well. So you've been laser focused on AWS forever? Day one, that's been our core focus. And together with Tech Systems Global Services, we're able to bring that dedicated and specialized focus on cloud transformation now at scale. And that's really exciting. So Tech Systems, you do it all? Yep. AWS laser focused. Sounds like a great combination. And our focus is how we bring that deep AWS specialized expertise together with proven methodologies, the deployment, proprietary deployment strategies to take the customer to the next step on their cloud journey, whether they're just getting started, whether they're in a migration or whether they're already a veteran at AWS looking to take the next step. So Jay, talk about the last two years. You've been in this two years, obviously very interesting times we've been living through. How has the combination gone? Oh, it's been great. Again, that expertise, that deep AWS expertise, that's what our customers on AWS platform want from us, right? And we truly are passionate about accelerating business transformation for our customers, right? And our goal is really simple. We bring in real world expertise, just like the AWS expertise that one strategy brought. And we solve complex problems, whether they're business, technology, or even just people talent, right? The whole talent around this whole ecosystem. We heard Adam talk about it even earlier today, right? Talent is the challenge. So we're very obsessed with technology, right? But we're even more in that we're obsessed with our customers, right? We're at 80% of the Fortune 500, more than 6,000 customers. And that obviously grew with our one strategy partners here. And we really consider ourselves with one strategy as all in one kind of full stack integration partner, right? Where we meet our customers where they are and we work side by side with them to transform their business. Again, very passionate about that. So what do these engagements look like? Are you approaching the customer from an AWS perspective in partnership with AWS? So AWS services, AWS technology, bridging that divide specifically? Are you coming in from sort of a tech systems overall perspective and then identifying the areas where AWS is a fit and bringing in one strategy? Or is it a mixture of both? How does that look like? It's a mixture of both for sure. We do a lot of partnering with AWS, right? Especially with one strategy. And we come to the table a lot with AWS together and we have that kind of joint feeling with AWS. And when AWS isn't at the table in the beginning, if it makes sense to go on AWS platform, we bring them to the table. But it's really around focusing on what you're bringing up. It's focusing on the customer and what they need. And again, we have our kind of business modernization framework that we lean on that really drives that conversation so we can figure out very quickly how to help them and which platform is going to help them. And obviously, AWS more and more, right? They're coming out with all these services, even a higher level of services. And the conversation with our customers are really along those lines, right? How do we kind of help them leverage these services, right? So they can really achieve the agility that they need. So in the last two years, aside from the pandemic, global economy, what are some of the things in cloud that maybe you didn't anticipate? Now you're coming in from a specialist perspective, laser focused on AWS. More the generalist, let's take care of anything the customer might need. Are there areas where you are surprised by the pace or lack of pace in terms of movement to cloud? What have the last two years looked like from that perspective? Well, let's say one of the big things has been the change in data. The data is a lifeblood of every organization and what looks like normal data today would be alien for some businesses going back two years ago. And as the entire world has gone through a business transformation, there's been just more and more data coming at customers faster and faster. The acceleration there has been just tremendous. And one of the things we see customers are just drowning in data. How they're able to leverage AWS from a technology standpoint to build a data strategy has to be married with that data driven culture. We're seeing more and more customers really getting that. I thought Adam made an incredible point this morning. He called out 85% of the workers surveyed in the past couple of years are saying, I need to understand technology more. And that's absolutely something we're seeing in the marketplace. That investment in your team, enablement training, as well as having the solid foundation and an ability to move toward an agile approach is becoming more and more critical for our customers. So you mentioned Adam's keynote. One of the things that was called out was the idea that there are 475 different kinds of instances available from AWS. So let's get tactical for a minute. Pretend like I'm a CEO at a customer site. I know that I want to be in the cloud. I know I want to leverage what the cloud has to offer. How do you guys figure out which ones of these 475 instances I'm going to be, I'm going to be leveraging? Yeah. Do you have like multi-sided dungeons and dragons dice that you throw? Or is there some, or is there some science behind it? Oh man, that and the dart board. Definitely the way to go. No, there's the idea for every engagement is always focused on what the outcome for the customer is at the end of the day and work backwards from that. So depending on whether they're focused on an ML workload or whether they're focused on a more business line application, working backwards to understand what is the outcome they're trying to drive and then building the right technology stack, working backwards to support that. Whether it's taking advantage of any number of the instance types, taking advantage of serverless or any of the really incredible container options that are available in the marketplace today. So we're obviously here at AWS re-invent. One strategy is an AWS specialist. Tech systems, multi-cloud? Yep. Fair to say? Yep. The world is a multi-cloud place. I think it's okay to acknowledge that. So if I'm looking to engage with tech systems, I can count on AWS bringing in being brought in and AWS expertise being brought in when it's appropriate because it's not the only thing you do. Right, that's right. How do you manage that? Who decides whether a workload is better suited for AWS and the one strategy folks versus say, GCP or Azure? Yeah, yeah, definitely, and Ted, right on it, right? We start with what the customer needs and their outcomes, right? We take an approach around really helping them understand their value stream, right? So if we get our customers to understand their value stream, that really serves as a context, as I mentioned before, for business and delivery agility, right? And when we focus there and work backwards from there, we can really figure out all the different pieces. And like you said, it's a multi-cloud world now, right? For many of our customers and many of their value streams and some of their value stream components, their systems, their processes, they might live on different things, but we don't jump to those right out of the gate, right? We jump to understanding where they are in their journey, where they're at with their value stream. We do a lot of dive deep in a line to really understand where they're at. And then we craft those things actually in partnership with our customer, right? Because they might have things going on in their organization that might lean towards, you know, GCP for some things and AWS for some other things. So we take all of that in as we start to figure out, you know, which platform really is best for them. But again, like Ted mentioned, we start with that working backwards mentality. So how do you see the change that's happened over time in, I would call it the AWS posture or attitude towards the concept of hybrid cloud technology. I think there was a time when AWS would have said, you know what, everything that matters, everything that's born now will be born in the cloud, all net new things will be in the cloud, all the legacy stuff, we'll just sort of let it wither on the vine. It was mentioned in the keynote today that maybe five to 15% of IT spend is in the cloud today. That's 85% or so left over. Do you find yourself working in more of an increasingly hybrid environment these days? What's your perspective on hybridity? I think I may have just made that word up. Yeah, it's absolutely the reality. And it reflects where every customer is in their cloud journey.  One of our customers just celebrated recently their 100th birthday. Obviously they have a significant legacy domain. And we always need to focus on meeting a customer is where they're at. There's no exact, you know, match between customer and customer. It's all about understanding where they are, how we can help them get to the next step, whether that's taking advantage of something like Outposts, you know, the really cool 5G, the private 5G that was announced this morning. Really excited. Very interesting. Yeah, we were talking about that beforehand, you know, how that might support industry 4.0 and some of the really interesting opportunities in that regard.  It's even gone into space with things like ground stations.  You mentioned 5G from a tech systems perspective. What do you do? Do you spin up a 5G practice? Oh yeah, we do. Do you scour universities for 5G graduates? Right. How do you, you know, how do you keep up with the pace of developments that are coming from AWS, let alone the rest of the tech sector? Yeah, yeah. You know, and again, and that 5G is a good example, right? And we're going to kind of follow again where our customers are and where the trend is going. But we instantly see with these higher level services where some of these use case, some of these solutions are going to go, right? We were even talking again, that conversation about, you know, the things we can do from an industry perspective, right? And really align all of these technologies to again, be very innovative, right? Adam talked about Pathfinders. And again, we're going to seek out those Pathfinders. And now with all of these services coming out of AWS, we're going to be able to do some incredible things in the future with them. Yeah, it's amazing to see the things that have been unlocked and, you know, unshackled by advances in technology. Were there any things that surprised you, Ted, coming out of the keynote today, announcements? You know, some of these things are sort of telegraphed in advance. But hardware advances, you know, we talked about 5G, anything that kind of took you off guard a bit or?  You know, again, coming back to the Pathfinders theme, going all the way back to the very beginning, how we can bring that data forward and lowering those bars, whether you're focused on ML with the SageMaker announcements, you know, in SageMaker Canvas, being able to bring all these people together and empower them with data.  Well, when you're an AWS services partner, it's a bit like being at a buffet, an endless buffet, where new treats are piled on the table each year. I thought it was amazing that one of the important points had to do with the development of silicon. There are a lot of folks who would say that the underlying hardware no longer matters, nobody cares. AWS realizes that as a foundation, it is really important. It's up to folks like you to translate that technical value into business value, obviously. So, if this whole tech thing doesn't work out for us, what if we opened a nightclub here in Vegas and we called it hybridity? I like it. I love it. I like it. I like the sound of it. I'm going to look it up and see if it's actually a word. I'm not sure that it is. Let's patent it. I just heard the domain right now. We got it. We got all three of us. So, anytime organizations come together, there are cultural issues. So, you've got AWS specialist, more of a generalist organization, and you're going out and you're engaging customers that are having their own cultural issues. What are some of the bigger obstacles that are in the way of leveraging technology? Because you mentioned, it's all about the customer perspective. It's not just the technology. What are the things that are still getting in the way now that might surprise people who think that everyone's already in cloud? Yeah, I can go first, Ted. You can jump in, but yeah, culture is again, it's a big thing. That's why it's built into our business modernization program. Culture, continuous learning, and Adam mentioned that too. We see challenges obviously from a learning perspective. We really, really need to key in on not just the technologies they have to learn, but also modern practices, right? And that's going to be a big part of all these things. And definitely these higher level services are going to abstract a lot of those issues for our customers, which is great. But it's still not going to displace just the content you brought up, the constant change and all these services that come out. So I think we focus on culture and really understanding how to move an organization to the right mindsets and the right practices. And that's really the key in terms of their overall business transformation. So I think the headline for this segment is going to be awesome two years for tech systems in one strategy. Jay and Ted, thank you so much for being here on theCUBE with us. I hope you have a great rest of the week here in Las Vegas. It's amazing to be here in person, fantastic. They've done a really good job of keeping us all safe with the protocols in place. Hope to see you again. I guess we'll be shooting for a 2022 update to see how you guys are doing. With that, I'd like to thank all of you for joining us on theCUBE here at AWS Reinvent 2021. I'm Dave Nicholson. And again, thanks for joining us on theCUBE. We are the leader in hybrid technology event coverage.