Good afternoon, everyone. Hey there. Hey, welcome to OpenJS and Finance. Thank you, Gabb and team at the Fintech Open Source Foundation. We are so excited to participate with you all. I'm Robin Ginn, executive director of OpenJS Foundation. My name is Daniel Cusano. I am a senior engineering manager over at GoDaddy, and I also sit on GoDaddy's board seat for the OpenJS Foundation. So I am a board director. I like saying that. Working board director, super active. Yes, you are, like many of them. I appreciate that. So today, we're going to talk about the survival guide, JavaScript survival guide for financial services. So we jump in? Yeah. Let's jump in. So as we jump in, I just want to set a little bit of a context setting, lay of the land. I don't think anybody here in this room is going to be surprised to learn that there are about 1.8 billion websites out there in the world, and 98% of them use JavaScript. JavaScript is everywhere, and most people are using JavaScript, whether they know it or not. But JavaScript is not confined to just the web. That is only one vector to which you might encounter JavaScript in your daily life. JavaScript shows up in IoT devices. It shows up in many different places, including space. It even shows up in space. And this is sort of one of my favorite case studies, in addition to now Capital One, of course, previously. But we did a case study a while back about how Node.js is used in a spacesuit monitoring solutions. And we were really lucky to have astronaut Christina Cook come to speak at one of our conferences. She spent a year on the space station. And she talked even more broadly about how JavaScript is being used at NASA, and some of the solutions they have for monitoring and how they're even having to build special gloves so they can do the touch on the screens with JavaScript. So really cool mission-critical work happening at NASA. Truly mission-critical work. So let's just take a step back and just talk more about the projects that we have. I think you all have heard more about Node.js and Electron today, but we are a collection of 40 projects. We have JQuery, ESLint, Webpack, Fastify. I saw a whole list in Noah and Steve's presentation earlier today, NBM, a lot of great projects. And the OpenJS Foundation was created about three years ago by the merger of the JS Foundation and the Node.js Foundation. And we knew that sort of working better together that we could really drive more advancements in the JavaScript space.  And even if maybe you might not be, your vendors are using these tools. These are, they may be small, but they're very important. And even the smallest part of our ecosystem is incredibly complex. These projects, they're core building blocks. They may not be fundamentally powering, but they enable and they provide a force multiplier. And they're very important. And just because they're not large doesn't mean they're not important. This particular XKCD comic makes the rounds a lot. And while we sit here and laugh at it, you know, it's like a little bit of a joke because it's true, you know, some of these small projects, they're incredibly important because they underpin a lot of the great infrastructure that we build upon. And this pattern is not just exists within JavaScript projects, it exists across the wider open source ecosystem. And this could keep you up at night, but don't panic. It presents a challenge rather than a fear. The challenge is how do we keep the JavaScript ecosystem trustworthy and modern for its astronomical user base? And this is a challenge that the foundation we look at and we kind of enjoy taking on. It's not flashy work. It's important work. It's work that has to be done. And if we look at, you know, we think about that previous comic of that little sliver holding the rest of it up, that Nebraska project, as we affectionately call it. If we can't make that project bigger, can we make it stronger? Can we make sure that it can live up to that task of holding up everything that we build and work upon? Companies are making big bets on open JS projects. NASA and Netflix, how can this distributed group of open source developers plan and prioritize their projects for stability? That mission statement is what the Open JS Foundation is here to work on. We hope to, and what we work on and what we want to do is we want to provide that backstop for these projects. We want to eliminate the noise and provide support so that the JavaScript ecosystem can focus on what it is that they do best. One way to think about it is we want to remove the friction. And we want to, by removing the friction, we hope by removing the friction, the projects can be stronger and the ecosystem can be stable. It's not usually the code that's broken. It's everything else. And that's where we can kind of step in and help. Great. One of my favorite stories about how a small open source project started and really grew was Fastify. Fastify helps with your web performance. And it was started a few years back by Mateo Kalina and Thomas Della. And they really did credit the backstop of the Open JS Foundation as helping them to build that. And I think in 2020 they had about, let me get this right, about 500,000 downloads a week or a month, and now they have about 800 downloads a week. And they've really just grown their ecosystem through the communities that they've met and worked with and engaged at the Open JS Foundation. Fastify is being used in a lot of major companies. I know Steve talked about it at Capital One. Netaporte is another one of my favorite case studies. We're sort of in a fashion capital here as well at this financial conference. And Netaporte, big Italian UK fashion house, holidays obviously really important to them. They were having problems, of course, during holiday peaks. And the work that Fastify provided for them really, they credit the Fastify project for really bringing them through that and helping them be faster and more responsive to their customers. So it's one of my favorite sort of success stories as we've seen. But Mateo and Thomas, they rely on us for a lot of other things we've registered. Their trademark, we help with some of the compliance and all of those wonderful things that I know that they're busy with their startups and node projects and everything else. So it's been a good story. And one way I like to think about it is could they have done it without us? Probably, but we don't need to know the answer to that question because they didn't have to. We were kind of here to support and provide that backstop. So digging in a little bit, when we talk about, I mentioned a little bit, there's a lot of noise, there's a lot of friction. Open source is not just about code. What am I meaning when I'm talking about this? We've got this kind of great slide here that I know that you've used in a couple of different places that really kind of illustrates everything that goes into an open source project. Everything an open source project needs to think about. And depending upon the size of the project, they may not need every single one of these bullet points, but every project needs something out of this wheel. Every project needs to be able to demonstrate its value. Otherwise, why would I need to use it? Why would there be adoption? Neutral management, as a project grows, this becomes a very important subject for trust and validity. Like is it going to be at a safe home in a safe place? Will it have continuity? Developer recruitment and relations, you can't have one person maintaining an open source project at Infinitum.  Training, people got to learn how to use the software. Content, you got to write technical documents, you got to write documentation, code samples, SDKs, FAQs, marketing. You know, I can't use a project if I don't even know it exists. And then there's IT beyond version control. Yeah, it's great that you can go on and create a GitHub repo, but you need the CICD, you know, GitHub helps with that, but like there's all sorts of where the environment's going in, how am I getting the builds running? How do I, you know, check in everything? How do I distribute? There's just so much that goes into an open source project and a good chunk of it can sometimes feel like noise. And these are things that something like OpenJS Foundation can help with. And so this is originally when Robin and I were kind of working on the slides. I was just like, we just need to put in an RTB slide at GoDaddy, we call it RTB, run the business. I think you said Microsoft calls it rhythm. Rhythm of the business. And so this is kind of, you know, what exactly does the OpenJS Foundation do? What are kind of the projects for it? Well, we got all sorts of these things that different projects need, different amounts from us, but there's IP management, trademark, there's dealing with certification and hackathons and licenses, public relations, marketing. You know, we have a Twitter account that goes out and we talk about our projects and we boost Zoom accounts, Slack, just all this stuff that we try to make sure that we're here to provide on an as-need basis to our projects. Yeah, I like to say we're like the product team around an engineering or developer group, so. These are kind of like the day-to-day stuff. There's obviously kind of, what are kind of some of the big things that we're working on? What are the things that we're adding in 2023? And so I think to kick that off, Robin. Yeah, and so for us, I mean, of course, security has always been important, but even more so today.  And we are taking ambitious security goals that cover all of the JavaScript ecosystem, not just OpenJS projects. And really, we're looking at a couple of areas. One is sort of creating some best practices that's really important in drawing on what we're learning from others, including the OpenSource Security Foundation. And then the second one is the package vulnerability and management reporting. I know our team thinks CVEs have become like car alarms, so that's something that we're trying to focus on in the next year. And so if that's something that you're interested in, sort of in the broader space, we'd really welcome your participation. You want to hit the next one, and I'll talk a little bit more detail. So we've heard a lot about Node, and we heard about how the OpenSource Security Foundation Project Alpha awarded the Node.js project its first grant. And that's because Node is critical. They have a criticality score, and you'll see Node had two billion downloads last year, so huge. They're growing all the time. You saw from all the releases, they're very stable, reliable, from the code to the community, so that's really good. And we believe sort of the foundation sort of helped kind of provide that nice, neutral base. So Project Alpha and Omega, Project Alpha is essentially, let's identify the most critical projects in the OpenSource ecosystem and provide direct support. Omega is like tooling for sort of the long tail and for everybody to participate in. So we're really falling under that Project Alpha program, where Node got that first grant that's providing support in the tune of two people who we are funding to do some security work, triage support, and then setting, and then I'll explain some more detail on that next slide. So I encourage you to take a look. We've been blogging monthly and Raphael, who's one of the security leads, has been really documenting this in the Project Alpha repo as well. And you'll see kind of the top four things that the team has been working on. They reactivated the security working group and more people are coming along because that's really important. We know funding won't be there forever, so we need to be sort of self-sustaining in that regard. So they're tackling more. Security vulnerabilities at a faster pace. We're working on, we, the engineers, or the developers on the Node project, are working on a dependency vulnerability workflow, which is pretty interesting and you can read more about that. Looking at a threat model, which is really important to really better the project and for the community and users to understand what is and is not considered a threat. Working on a best practices document, which is done, I encourage you to take a look and then a permission system to really sort of avoid third-party libraries from accessing the code without consent. So those are some really important things and then next year we're gonna take on a couple of more goals with this group and do more on ecosystem adoption and so what we're going to do is to reach out to all of you if you're interested and we'll have some Node security folks be willing to come meet with your companies and do workshops and things. All right, so we just got a second grant from the Open Source Security Foundation, again, Project Alpha, Critical Project. So jQuery, as I know Jory Verson likes to say, you may not know you need jQuery but everyone is using jQuery, 77% of the world's websites, still taught in coding boot camp, still use broadly everywhere. And you just sort of look at the CDN, just how enormous it is. It is actively maintained by a wonderful group of people, global folks and so we're really happy when we just got another grant and I'll give you a little more detail. So this was just at the end of October and this is kind of taking a different twist. This is more about sort of securing the consumer web. We know that jQuery is used by folks or by folks in other projects that maybe are not as technical as somebody who has a different type of app. So our first phase of the campaign is we're gonna be working with IDC and we're doing an ecosystem risk audit just to really understand sort of the levers on identifying folks who are using jQuery and their websites and maybe what would encourage them to either upgrade or to move off jQuery. So it's essentially use jQuery less kind of program. Also doing a lot of work with modernizing its infrastructure as you can imagine, it's 15 years old, it's a very small team, it's not sometimes our legacy projects don't get the love and support from the industry as the newer ones so this grant is really helping them sort of get over that hump. We've been working with them for a couple of years to modernize the infrastructure and this will really just make it really long-term sustainable in a much more efficient way. And then the campaign I mentioned, once we take our learnings from the risk audit, we'll be working with a number of folks to educate broadly end users about jQuery and trying to get them again to either move to newer, safer versions or to get them off and onto something else. And then another sort of important piece on sort of educating the broader community is the work that has been done with the Node.js training and certification. This was a program that was really, that the community asked for back in 2016 under the Node Foundation. They took a lot of feedback on GitHub and then we took it inside at the Linux Foundation training, programatized it, hired some great experts with Node.js in near form and David Clemets who you may know and so we have that program. The cool thing about that is it gets upgraded as the Node project does its updates so it is always current. Okay, I'm gonna hand it over to you. So we've talked a little bit today about what the Open.js Foundation is, how we view our support of the Open.js projects but to kind of tie it back to the reality of the situation is hey, you're still at your company, you're making, when you bring in an open source project into your projects, you are for better or for worse, you are making a long-term bet on that project and what should a company be looking for when they're making that long-term bet and I'll be honest with you, it's still gonna be the same things. You're gonna be looking at the activity of the project, you're gonna be looking at the people you trust, you're gonna be kind of looking at the behavior of the project. The foundations like us exist to not only, like I mentioned, eliminating the noise for the projects as they run themselves, our hope is, is that we eliminate some of the noise as you evaluate the projects that you choose to use knowing that some of those what abouts and the big ifs you can feel a little bit safer and secure that there's a foundation that is well funded that exists to, if we're helping eliminate the noise for maintainers so that they can maintain higher quality projects, you can have a greater basis of trust as you see these projects and hopefully not only just the OpenJS Foundation projects that you see maybe have an increased amount of trust in across the wider ecosystem knowing that a lot of the projects that we support are tools used to build yet other projects that may not be a part of our foundation and that just kind of, we're hoping rising tide lists all boats kind of waning up that trust. And trust is knowing that there's that support in the background and that OpenJS Foundation along with many others is there to provide that support. Our policies prioritize stability and openness. We are here, we seek to OpenJS, we seek to advance policies so that the industry can confidently enter the entire JavaScript ecosystem and that these policies to the greatest extent possible we encourage discussion in public. You can go find our public board meetings, a lot of the collab meetings on, I think all the videos are on YouTube, we've got notes, everything, the decision making processes that we make are as public as we can legally make them. And beyond that, there's the concept of open source and open standards and sometimes there has been a divide between the two but at the OpenJS Foundation we look at trying to bridge the two, like we, many of our members participate and we have strong relationships with open standards body, being just but one of them in terms of making sure that the open source and the open standards are supported and provided the resourcing and attention that they deserve as well. And then lastly, our governance model was specifically designed to give a strong voice to our projects. We're not, the OpenJS Foundation is not here to kind of take over and run the projects. We, when I was talking with Robin and we were putting this together, the idea of like we're not here for staffing, we're here for support and that goes the same way with the governance. We wanna make sure that there's, the individual project members have a voice in terms of how the OpenJS Foundation works and how we interact with the member projects. You should make sure if you did not attend Sarah's keynote earlier in the morning, I'm sure our recording will be up and you can listen to that and see her perspectives and her talk about governance and bureaucracy when around open source. Yeah. And really what's great is that we are supported by some wonderful members like GoDaddy, obviously. Netflix, Google, IBM, joint Microsoft and gosh, more and more members joining at the silver level. A lot of our new members in the last year did come from the financial services industry. We had Capital One, American Express, Bloomberg. So obviously, and I think there's been kind of a theme here too that you all have a large number of developers working in your companies and I think it's great sort of thought leadership to see you all contributing back. So that's been pretty great. Yeah, so what I would invite you to do is really, if you would like to participate more specifically in the JavaScript ecosystem, we're a great place to be, security, we need more help and I like to say that you can shape the future of JavaScript and this is kind of another Sarah Chipps reference right here. This is Ellie Galloway. She spoke at our conference in 2019. She was 11 years old. She really sort of is one of the future leaders in JavaScript. So as we sort of build, we can build up more programs and campaigns. Shout out to Ambika who were co-chaired with the Grace Hopper conference that the Node project was active in this year. So really would just invite you to join us. We have a page on our website. It's openjsf.org slash collaboration. You can get invited. There's an open invite to our Slack channel, our calendar. Again, they're open for you to join. All kinds of things are events. Yeah, so that's good. Thank you all. Five minutes. Anyone has any questions? Oh, I have stickers at that table if you're interested. Yeah, question. So are you, it's like an internship or an employee loan program. What are you? That is a great, that is a great idea. I think we found that a lot of the developers on projects are employed by big companies. Some are, like Electron's a great example where there's a lot of great enterprise support with developers, but then you look at Node.js and a lot of folks are doing that on their free time. Shout out to IBM and Red Hat, though, who provide people hours to do that. But yeah, absolutely, I'd love to brainstorm with you on how we could do that. Some companies encourage or give people time. Yeah, yes, absolutely. Beth Griggs, who was here earlier, I think half of her time at Red Hat is dedicated to that. Even Joe Seppi, who's our cross-project council chair at IBM, half of his job is just supporting and running that it's essentially our technical oversight committee. Yeah, Microsoft and Slack have employees working on the Electron project. Even at GoDaddy we have people part-time on different open source projects. We have a couple of full-timers on the WordPress project. GoDaddy has a lot of surface area with WordPress, so it just depends on the business, but yeah, that's not uncommon. I mean, technically, I take a couple of hours out of a week here and there to participate with the OpenJS board and just keep up to date and steering and participating and conference planning and whatnot. Yeah, very active. Even one of our lead jQuery maintainers gets a half a day a week to work on jQuery. The small company in Poland, yeah. All right, thank you, everyone. Thank you. Thank you.


Hello and how are you all today? The question says if the marginal revenue function for a commodity is MR is equal to 9 minus 6x square plus 2x, find the total revenue function and the corresponding demand function. So let's proceed with the solution. We have the marginal revenue function equal to 9 minus 6x square plus 2x. Now with the help of this marginal revenue function we can easily find out the revenue function. Revenue function is found out by integrating the marginal revenue function with respect to x and adding the constant of integration to it. That is equal to integral 9 minus 6x square plus 2x dx plus c which is further equal to 9x minus 6x cube upon 3 plus 2x square upon 2 plus c. On simplifying it we have the revenue function as 9x minus 2x cube plus x square plus. Now we need to find out this constant for integration. We know that when we are not reducing any units then we are not earning any revenue. So this means 0 is equal to 9 into 0 plus 2, sorry minus 2 in place of x we will substitute 0. 0 cube plus 0 square plus c. So this implies the value of c is also equal to 0. So we can write down the revenue function as 9x minus 2x cube plus x square. So here this is our total revenue function and we need to find out the demand function also. Demand function is found out by dividing the revenue function by x. That is 9x minus 2x cube plus x square upon x which is equal to 9 minus 2x square plus x. So the required answer to the session is firstly I am writing down the total revenue function that is 9x minus 2x cube plus x square and then the demand function that is 9 minus 2x square plus x. So these are the answer to the given question. So hope you understood it well and enjoyed it too. Have a very nice day ahead.


YouTube team keep it clean. What's going on? It's a engraving here with another video and before we get into this video Make sure you check out our new podcast that we just started today. It's a team keep it clean podcast It's on anchor. It's on Spotify. You can check it out down below in the description. But anyway chiefs fans. Congrats I don't think anybody is surprised by the outcome of this game But this this game it was uh, we got football back So that was a beautiful thing and chiefs had a lot of people there They had them all spread out. They even had some cardboard people there too, but they had a lot of people there That was I forgot that chiefs were gonna have fans in the stands. But anyway Patrick Mahomes it's crazy because Patrick Mahomes has set such a high bar for himself by his play that Three touchdown passing game is like, oh, okay. Yeah, that's that's a okay game for Patrick Mahomes It's like that's it's just so normal. It's so regular We just used to it that it's like it feels like it's no big deal But we still got to acknowledge that that is still pretty good Especially for again not having a preseason Especially for what this offseason has been now the good thing with the chiefs though an advantage that they had over a lot of teams They kept a lot of the same personnel Tyreek Hill obviously McCall Harman last he was his last year Travis Kelsey who just got his new money Sammy Watkins is looking like he was gonna be gone, but he's back to Marcus Robinson Then they draft they drafted Clyde it was a letter and That was eating tonight, man. He was eating man. That guy was going off straight up, man Straight up. He was going off From start to finish man That guy he looked good man. He looked good and a lot of people were so high on him This offseason, especially when it came out that that he was gonna be he was gonna be the next man up Everybody's like hey, you got to get him on your fantasy. You got to pick him up on fantasy He's gonna eat. He's in the right offense to do it and it showed and They kept feeding them. They kept feeding them over and over and over again But let's also talk about the defense cheese defense now again I think it was a combination of the chiefs defense playing really good tonight and just Poor offensive line from the Texans There were a couple of false thoughts even on a touchdown that that the Sean Watson threw to the tight end I Believe it's David Wales. Maybe I forgot what his first name is But the touchdown that the Sean Watson threw where it should have been called off because it was a false start But I guess the NFL was like a minute this thing looking bad enough. Let's at least get a little bit closer. Anyway That was a false start But the offensive line just the entire night man, you saw the chiefs Chris Jones, man still doing the same stuff that he been doing I wanted Chris Jones on my team, but it's just a repeat man That that pass rush was all over the Sean Watson and the thing about them too They had good closing the entire defense had good closing speed on the Sean Watson tonight Because whenever he would escape the pocket and try to scramble he would not ever get far. He wouldn't get far He would get like maybe five six yards of pop, but he would not get far Now David Johnson, he looked good tonight But you can you can easily forget how good he looked because of how bad the overall Texans looked as a unit with David Johnson. He looked good Now Texans in this game. It is only one game. So let's not overreact But it did look like they missed the Sean. I mean, yeah the Sean Hopkins Um but It's just one game So let's see how how everything else ends up turning out for these Texans it just felt like It almost felt like the Sean Watson was just oh, I think I just said the Sean Hopkins. I meant the Andre Hopkins Sorry, I'm sleepy. I'm not used to being up this late, especially since my son is in school now And I got to wake up extra early I knew that didn't sound right But the Andre Hopkins look like they mentioned the Andre Hopkins, but the Sean Watson It just seemed like he was out there by himself tonight Him and him and David Johnson. Oh Man Will Fuller came out with a drop early on in the game. Kenny steals later on he had a drop And with the Sean Watson and willful it just seemed like they went on the same page because there were a couple of over throws Even on the past there was a pass a few plays before the touchdown pass to the tight end that the Sean Watson through there was a play where Will Fuller he would have walked into the end zone He had the cornerback beat by far or no, I think it was a safety. He had the safety beat by far But the Sean what the Sean Watson he under through it. So Here's what it is. Anyway chiefs man. Now offense is fast. They said they saw everybody's fast Everybody's fast like everybody and Man, if you gonna beat them chiefs, you better wrap up You better wrap up because that is what the Texans weren't doing.  Every one of their receivers is fast man. Even a tight end is fast, too It's not fair. Anyway team keep it clean Welcome back to football season. I'm so happy to be back me. I'm so glad I love y'all and I miss doing this We're back though now So appreciate y'all. I love y'all and just like the Texans were for pretty much all of this game. I'm out


Rwy'n gwybod i gael i'r ffas ymddangos o'r meysydd ymddangos nyfodol a'r fawr hyn yn gallu gwirio'r gweithio ymddangos gyrfa yn ôl, ac rwy'n gwybod i'r cwmpas. Rwy'n gweithio'r ddweud ymddangos ymddangos yn ymddangos iawn i'r gweithio'r gweithio, ac rwy'n gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio'r lleidol mae Hazel Peters yma, gan gyllid yn ysgrifennu Gweinwch. Thank you for the opportunity to speak today. I owe my nomination to speak because of a letter I wrote to MSP Stuart McMillan about my experiences as a black much-faced person navigating Scottish schools. Speaking about that experience seems an obvious choice, but sometimes I get tired of saying controversial things. I am emotionally weary from recounting my past traumas. Fashion front issue does not prevent the take of that same issue. I get tired of telling people about the likes of Joseph Knight, a black man enslaved in living in Perth, who in 1778 won a court case against his enslavement, or that way back in 1488, when King James IV ruled Scotland, there were black moors from North Africa in his court, wanting to improve the skill experience for black and people of colour, and ensuring that teaching includes parts of the histories that I have just mentioned is something that I am deeply committed to. The opportunity to speak to the Scottish Parliament seems too good to pass up, but it is not a 17-year-old's job to carry the weight of changing the education system on her shoulders. I would rather talk to you about something that I expect to be a shared experience for many of you—youth groups. Chiefly, I thought that youth groups were irrelevant, reserved to church halls and pool tables and tuck shops. The spirit of the future of youth groups washed over my head. That was until I joined the youth group into cultural youth Scotland, IYS for short. IYS is an Edinburgh-based charity that supports young black and people of colour. IYS is a turning point in my life. I find something that I did not think existed in Scotland. For the first time, I could spend an evening surrounded by black joy. Young black people dancing to Afrobeats, long-brained swaying, dark-skinned shining, carefree and happy. I understand firsthand how youth groups bring young people together, help us grow in self-belief, and provide opportunities for personal development. I never dreamed that a youth group would lead to opportunities like performing at the Edinburgh Fringe or running a small music festival. I now know what is at stake when people talk about the important place that youth groups have in their communities. In closing, I urge the Scottish Parliament to reflect on the value of youth groups and the investment that they make in future young minds.


It's especially fitting that we honor this man so close to Memorial Day. Joseph J. Rotfurt's contribution to our nation's defense was for many years close to secrecy. In the early months of World War II, the United States was suffering shattering losses in both oceans. J. Rotfurt was laboring away in a basement room at Pearl Harbor. With a handpicked group of half a dozen experts and a small support force, he tackled the crucial problem of how to penetrate the secret communications of the enemy. Early in 1942, there were unmistakable signs that Japan's powerful combined fleet was readying a major offensive. And while others speculated that it might be aimed at Alaska or the Panama Canal, J. Rotfurt's now famous station hypo was able to prove that the target was Midway Island. Rotfurt was further able to pinpoint the timing of the attack and the launch point of the enemy carrier planes with incredible accuracy. Admiral Mimitz thus deployed his limited naval forces to engage with vastly superior enemy striking force, thwarted its invasion plans and sink four aircraft carriers. The American victory made Midway the crucial battle of World War II in the Pacific. And if ever there were a battle involving tens of thousands of men in which an incredible victory was attributable to one man, this one was attributable to Joseph J. Rotfurt. Paying homage to him today, we recognize publicly what his friends have known for 44 years. As naval historian captain, Edward L. Beech has put it, to Joe Rotfurt must forever go the acclaim for having made more difference at a more important time than any other naval officer in history. Such acclaim by his nature rare, but in celebrating the memory of Joseph J. Rotfurt, we also celebrate the achievements of the thousands of other men and women of our national intelligence community who will anonymously serve our country without expectation of recognition or reward. So I am honored to present this distinguished service medal to the family of Joseph J. Rotfurt. Now would you please read the citation. President of the United States takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Service Medal posthumously to Captain Joseph J. Rotfurt, United States Navy for service that set forth in the following citation. For exceptionally meritorious service to the government of the United States and the duty of great responsibility while serving the Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet as Officer-in-Charge of the Combat Intelligent Unit, Station Hypo, from March 1942 through June 1942. By virtue of his superb professional knowledge, astute guidance, and personal dedication, Captain and Commander Rotfurt provided technical expertise and inspiring leadership to discover, analyze, and provide to the Fleet Commander-in-Chief astoundingly timely and accurate intelligence on Japanese naval plans and intentions leading to the Battle of Midway in June 1942. The information provided by Captain Rotfurt's Radio Intelligence Unit serves as a singular basis for the Fleet Commander-in-Chief to plan his defenses, deploy his limited forces, and devise strategy to ensure U.S. Navy success in engaging the Japanese forces at Midway. His unrelenting efforts in this endeavor and the intelligence information he developed resulted in a naval engagement with the Japanese Fleet that is acknowledged as the turning point of the Pacific War. Captain Rotfurt's distinctive accomplishments, tenacious commitment to excellence, and steadfast devotion to duty reflected great credit upon himself, and we're in keeping with the highest traditions to the United States Navy service. Thank you. Roger, how are you? Thank you so much. Hey, I'm on my ticket. The President mentioned a base here. I was out here. Is that right? I understand that North America's wife is still new. Oh, really? I was out here. Oh, my God. Thank you so much. 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2012 I was diagnosed with sleep apnea. I how I got to that point was I caught myself snoring. It woke me up middle of the night or during the day when I was taking a nap and so I went to the family doctor and he said well let's go and have a sleep test and find out what's going on. I went to the sleep test for hours they hook you up with wires and put them on your head and you go to sleep at night and the four hours tests what's going on with your breathing and the results from that test was I was stopping breathing 27 times every hour during the night that's 27 times that I could die with in that same hour that's not a good thing so they set me up with a CPAP machine I went home with it for a couple years and I needed to have a new test done as I wasn't I was starting to snore again. The second test found that I was stopping breathing 45 times in one hour 45 times to die I've got grandkids and sleeping with a sleep apnea and a CPAP you put it on it's got hoses you can end up throwing that machine across the wall if you're not used to it but I was drug out it drains you when you have sleep apnea you don't you don't have you don't wake up very well you're exhausted every day at 45 times for that last test result there is something else that I needed to do. I got invited to my daughter invited me to her church and I really liked the church and you know I got to know the people the pastors and everybody there and then I decided I wanted to go through their prayer line and to just see what was going on because I just didn't feel things were right with me and going through the prayer line I noticed I didn't feel right just I wanted to leave but I myself I said no I'm staying here I'm gonna go through this and whatever's gonna happen is gonna happen it's for good reason and a demon manifested inside me and came out and he was tormenting me he'd been tormenting me for a long time and his name is the destroyer and I am so glad he's gone I'm so glad he's gone he really messed with me after after I got delivered from that I said I'm going to God is God has done wonders in the in delivering me from this demon I am going to prove my faith I am gonna try sleeping without my CPAP machine and I did and I woke up energized and ready for a new day a new start knew everything and so I went and saw the family doctor again and they did another test for my sleep apnea and no I had no sleeping problem was whatsoever that night on the tests and the machine showed on the little the little cards that are on my machine that I didn't stop breathing at all during that night after I got delivered the doctor after that after his test he said you don't need the machine anymore and released me completely from using the CPAP machine and since then for the last four months my energy level is tremendous I'm doing things with my family that I wasn't able to do before because I was just drug out I went on a cruise with my husband and I didn't snore him out of the room like I used to so we had an awesome time on the cruise and I'm energy level is just awesome and all I can say is for anybody out there any issues medical issues that you have have faith go back to God because he is the one he is our healer he is our one and only and I thank him for what he's done for me because he is he's healed me he's been healing me my name is Linda Lampton and this is my story


Well, hello hello and welcome back to my channel. I haven't like picked out a washi yet And I was like, oh, maybe I should probably do that, huh and zoom you guys in so you can see a little bit better We're gonna do a plan with me. Um, all right, so let's pick out Oops, sorry, I like hit the tripod there some sort of washi goodness All right Picked out a couple washes Let's go for it. All right So this week we are working on the week of Monday, December 4 through Sunday, December 10 Let's take a peek back at last week. I really didn't do too much like during the week Let's see the things I put in let's see here. Okay, so I went to Acapulco with Jody I went to at home. It's kind of like a home goods, but not really. It's a little bit different But I went there looking for some plates didn't get any plates, but whatever Called my grandma my grandma and I are gonna get together this afternoon. I am up here Fun little fact about what happened to me today I like I was in bed and I like rubbed my right eye and my contact must have popped out because I couldn't find it In the bed. I couldn't find it in my eyeballs. So I switched out my contacts Whatever, so anyway, um after that, I might wrap gifts. This was over here I don't know if I'm gonna get to hanging the star. I don't know I'll figure that out. But and then also my dad's eye surgery was canceled So he is gonna be doing that later not this week, but I believe it's next week. So let's get into the fun I pulled out a whole bunch of stickers this time you guys like look these are all the stickers I want to use this week. So let's see if I actually Get it together enough to actually use it. You know what I mean? I've got this I actually got a question. I think it was on Instagram yesterday of like what I used to cut my washi These are the like little bookmarks that clip in from Aaron Kondren. This is what I use. I don't know Makes my life easier, you know Let's see here and I have this pretty I don't know kind of Christmasy looking washi. It's a sample. I don't know where I get any of my samples from you guys a lot of them are from like swaps or planner meet-ups or I just To be honest, I've converted a lot of my washi over to sample form because the full rolls just like are not I'm like not feeling it anymore So that's what I've been doing with my time in my life But they're all pretty much Converted over to samples now for the most part. There's a couple that I don't have Samples of like this film strip washi. That's like one of my favorites. I think I talked about that last week actually That one I will keep as a full roll. So yeah, but like this kind of stuff where it's like Very specifically Holiday, I don't think I want full rolls of this stuff. You know what I mean? It's just not my thing And I think this was actually one that I Purchased and people ask all the time where I where you can purchase washi samples to be completely honest I don't have like a specific Shop that I love or anything like that. I just kind of go on Etsy and just search washi samples and browse Until I find some that I like and then I buy them. So That's what I do. It's Pretty pretty basic in my life also Vlogmas started. I see a lot of you've been enjoying the vlogmas. So Second year doing vlogmas, which is kind of crazy Which makes me excited though, too. So yeah, but that is going on here. I think Should I put this into is that too much? I don't know. I Don't know. Let's just hold on. Let's let's try it and see So I start work at eight. So Would it be weird to have it down there? Actually kind of that's all right. Okay, we're gonna put this into Because you know, I've got a whole roll of it. So why not, you know? So let's like indicate the vlogmas All right cool and Also to indicate the vlogmas. I need my Arrow sticker from Chrissy and Designs that I used last week. Did I still have it out? I don't think I do I Think I was a good girl and I put it back You never know guys, you never know with me. All right Da da Pull this one out I'll use a green one All right, let's say vlogmas It's still a little wet Put it back in the binder Emily put it back in the binder and There we go Put this little Skyway Put that right there cool. I like it. All right. So then for my work, I'm gonna put in I really liked Oh, I never showed you guys last week. I'm sorry. Oh, this is what I did last week Oh, no, I did show you guys this but the thing that I changed up was Hold on. I gotta think about it I like didn't have like washy where I worked because I like know when I work But I kind of like the way that that looks so I'm gonna do the same kind of concept this week It's still gonna be red because it's December, but um I'm gonna do like a skinnier washy. So We're gonna go for it.  I know that there is the Emily's home and office bundle right now through coffee break planner, which I'm so excited Catherine from coffee break planner told me that you guys are really really loving it So yay There is a coupon code down below for you guys if you are interested for 20% off of your order But I'm gonna switch it up a little bit and try something new with it. I'm gonna be using all of the elements I'm just gonna not be using the half boxes that come with it, but you know the half boxes are so You know plain which is like totally my jam, but I think Just for this week I want to switch it up and see what it looks like with some other half boxes that I have still from coffee break planner I still have These other half boxes that I think you guys might enjoy, but you can just buy them separately if you want so yeah But I'm kind of kind of pumped about this like Emily's bundle things I've hopped on to a couple of their Coffee break planner chats on Facebook. So you guys should really seek them out on Facebook. They've got lots of good information and they have these streams that they do typically typically it's Monday nights and They do like new releases or they talk about like upcoming like events and you know, what's going on and stuff like that So kind of nice to you know be in the know So that's fun And then actually it's this week. I work on Saturday as well So I've got to do that and I have an oil change on Saturday after work. So And then also they're supposed to be like a Minnesota planner meetup But I'm not sure like as a filming this I'm not sure like what specific time it is I'm sure they've probably announced it to be completely honest. I just like haven't Looked so I will see if that would fit into my schedule. I probably won't unfortunately But we'll see we'll see and then on Saturdays the office is only open from nine to one And I am not gonna be in the Adina office. I'll be in my regular office. So that'll be good and Alright, so let me grab all of my Work stuff because that's what I'm working on pun intended ha ha ha And all right, I need these in a second. So here's my little work stickers. Here are the stickers that come in the budget bundle They're just like a plain green and they actually Coordinate with the green that's in the plant which is like my favorite like these Stickers like these home decor stickers are like my favorite faves These I don't normally like put into the planner. I just kind of put them in when I like, you know need to So yeah, let's see here. Oh, let's just throw this down because we all we all know that Emily needs to take her trash out so that one's done and So these are the ones I wanted to use these are just these red Halfboxes and they have some like, you know variegated patterns in them. So I thought why not So let's use those and then where did I put my desks at they not pull out the desks I could have I'm pretty sure I didn't pull out the desks because I was too excited. Here we go. Here's some desks All right, so the desks are in the bundle as well. So Yeah, but I'm kind of excited for this So let's see here. Let's do I don't know. I just kind of put them wherever I don't really have a Specific rhyme or reason, but I do like that it looks the same across the board if that makes sense But this week I need six of them because I work six days I need to order more of these There we go So there we go. And then here are my desk stickers I mean, obviously you can use these any way that you would like, but I really enjoy putting Them in just like I'm showing you but really I really like this because I basically sit at a desk all day When I start to do sales, I mean if you guys have been watching the vlogs or whatever I started a new job a couple of months ago and It'll be three months coming up pretty soon, but I was actually I'm temporarily replacing One of the gals that's on maternity leave. So I am Sitting at a desk right now not doing sales. That's what I was hired to do is sales But I'm learning kind of how to do sales in the interim, you know, while I'm doing, you know, this other gal's job too But um, yeah, so that's what I'll end up doing I'll be basically still sitting at a desk But you know when there's people that come in and you don't need help with stuff, then I'll be there too So yeah, all right. So that is Done the work is done. All right So I have a meeting on the 4th at 4 30. So like right after work And it is with my new financial person And I know I'm gonna get a lot of questions. I did not find her on the Dave Ramsey Smart Vester, you know, I tried doing that but There's not a lot in my area to be completely honest so I found one and she is actually the representative that like works with my work Um on like the investment side of things So but she's a broker like what is it called? I don't know like She can sell any fund that she wants for the most part She knew about Dave Ramsey because her and I had like a nice long conversation about it. So yeah But um, I'm gonna meet her at 4 30 and I'm gonna transfer over my old retirement account from a previous employer and roll that over Not into my work fund but like into just my own fund So I have like more control and then I'm also gonna start a Roth as well coming up in January So I gotta just get all the accounts like set up and stuff with her and I just need to bring my Last statement.  What else do I have going on? Um, I need to Call in my refill I can do that Like while I'm at the office. I think I'll probably end up like just picking it up that day too I'll put my little Pill thingy right there. Well, that can go over here too. All right. I got my laundry I'll put this in down here To do Got a water the damn plant I'll just kind of throw these in wherever I just kind of Do it when I do it, you know Um, at some point I need to go grocery shopping, but I'm not sure when so I don't know I might just like forego that at the moment Oh Hold out a whole bunch of things and I got these new stickers from plan to plan stickerco And I'm like very excited about them.  So if I have this in there, then I'll like remember So yeah, and um, I'm gonna put in a little Clean fridge. This is from the same company plan to plan stickerco So I just I really enjoy cleaning out the fridge like on Trash takeout day because trash day is actually right there. And then what else am I doing? Oh oil change, right So I've got these and I know you guys are probably thinking like Emily you just had an oil change. Yes. Yes. I did. Um, however I drive like a lot So I need oil changes A lot so Yeah, all right, I'm gonna use this I know this is like really springy, but I'm gonna use the green one in here and this is from um Mrs. Sarah's shop. I think this was part of actually I think I'm gonna use this one Um, I think this was part of one of the Minnesota planner swag bags. So yeah, I'm gonna lay. Oops Come on Come on, there we go. All right, so My oil change is at three o'clock Put that in I got tires the last time I went in for an oil change, but Obviously don't need tires today or not today, but on saturday And then these little guys if you're interested, there's like it's like actually actually a really big sheet But um, these are from Adriana Piper. I Cut them down so it doesn't show her logo any longer. Unfortunately. So yeah Um, let's see here. I'll put this like this maybe I have a lot of time in between so I think I'm gonna grab some lunch probably And do that So I'll put this down here oil change Yeah And maybe I'll put a little like oil guy right there because you know The cuteness and all right And I'll just put in here 3 p.m Just so I know what's actually happening with my life All right and then hmm Sunday I don't have anything going on, but I know I'm gonna be obviously I'll be vlogging for you guys, but I need to like deep clean my kitchen like no tomorrow and when I mean clean I also kind of mean organize so Yeah, I just I think I just need to bite the bullet and just do it, you know But I have these cute little stickers from Where is it little shop of stickers and stickers is with a z and from etsy I think if I remember right this was a canadian shop Maybe Maybe not. I don't remember um But yeah, so I'm this says clean kitchen on there And I think I'm gonna just put this in on sunday as just a reminder to like hey Lady clean yo kitchen So maybe I'll use a gray one And just put this up at the top of the day So her reminds me to do it Also, I need to stick up with or stick up Jeez, Emily get it together Um stick with the gif wrapping situation So let's put in another half box or something Or something hold on well I pulled out something else that I may want to use Um Here we go This is from blue bonnet drive and this gal actually reached out to me and sent me these So thank you for sending them to me.  You know what I mean? So yeah, here we'll put a little pink One on here because you guys know I'm like afraid of everything colorful.  So Anyway, I think this is gonna be it for this week. I don't Think I missed anything, but then as soon as I like edit the video. I'm like, oh, I forgot about that But um, yeah, I got my retirement gal on monday And then my oil change and those are kind of the only like weird things that are going on But I really like the way that this looks up here. Um, I'm very very happy with that So yeah, but this is it. Um as I kind of go through the week I'll obviously be filling in more and yeah, so I hope you guys enjoyed the video If you did make sure to give it a thumbs up. Also, feel free to subscribe I am doing vlogmas right now those, uh, vlogmas videos kind of just go up whenever But I am vlogging every day So feel free if you want to see in the weird life of favorite dada larmily of what I've got going on And leave a comment if you have any questions and I will see you guys in the next video Thanks so much for watching. Bye


Rusty Komori, and this is Beyond the Lines on Think Tech, Hawaii. I was the head coach of the Punahou School Boys Varsity Tennis Team for 22 years, and we were fortunate to win 22 consecutive state championships. This show is based on my books Beyond the Lines and Beyond the Game, and it's about inspiration, leadership, and creating a superior culture of excellence. My special guest today is the general manager of Embassy Suites in Waikiki. He is Simeon Miranda, and today we are going Beyond Hotels. Hey, Simeon, welcome to Beyond the Lines. Hello, Rusty, good morning. Nice to be here. Simeon, you and I are both graduates of Damien High School, and I wanna know when you were at Damien, what stood out to you most about the school? Well, you know, Damien Memorial High School is Catholic.  What stood out the most for me were the Christian brothers, the discipline that they basically taught us about to be, you know, the motto was bravillitaire, aque manfully, and to be really good citizens of the community. And at the same time, you know, learn as much as you can so you can do the best for yourself and for your future. Yeah, Simeon, I agree. I mean, I was there when it was all boys as well, and it was definitely the most strict school in the state. I mean, the discipline, I mean, that kind of discipline really worked, but I wanna ask you, Simeon, after graduating from Damien, tell me more about your background. Yeah, you know, I'm very proud of my background. I guess you can say I'm the typical immigrant story. My parents worked very, very hard. They were from the Philippines, and my grandfather worked in the plantations here, and that's how he got to Hawaii. He was recruited from Northern Philippines, and he got here in the early 60s, and then my dad was petitioned to come here, and so forth. So he petitioned my mom and my sister and I. So I got here at a very early age, and again, working hard, even though they had college degrees because of their language barrier, they can only find jobs in hospitality. So my dad was a busboy for Ahringer Hotels, which is interesting because I work for Ahringer, and then my mom was a housekeeper for Hilton Hawaiian Village, and so now I am at a hotel that's branded by Hilton and a general manager, so they're very proud of me. But anyway, they really believed in education, and so even though they were not making a lot of money, my sister and I went to private schools. So we went to a private school in Kalihi, and then I went to Damien High School, and that worked really, really hard. And because of that, I did well in high school, and I got a scholarship to a 10 Seattle University in Washington State. So that kind of got me to where I'm at. Got a great, again, it was still a Christian education, it was a Jesuit college. I got a degree in business, more specifically in marketing, and then worked. I worked in a bank, and then from there, I thought that banking was a little boring for me. It was a sit-down desk job, and I thought, you know, maybe I can do something else. And I saw this beautiful hotel I applied, and I got in as a night auditor, and then three months later, they asked me into the management training program. That's how I started with the hotel industry. So Simeon, I wanna ask you, what do you enjoy about hotel management? You know, like in your book, it's all about the people. I mean, you know, your four Ps makes good sense to me. The people that I work with are great people. They have great potential. They have passion in what they do. And I'm very proud to say that, you know, we have a lot of managers that I worked with that has excelled, and they've been promoted. They're vice presidents. They're, you know, general managers. So when I see someone that has potential and can do the best, I think that makes it all so worth it of, you know, doing what I'm doing. And Simeon, I wanna ask you about embassy suites. I mean, your hotel is, you have such a great location right there on Waikiki Beachwalk. I love going to your hotel. And I want you to explain to everybody about why embassy suites is so attractive and popular. Yes. You know, for people that are from the mainland, I think embassy suites, they know embassy suites. On the mainland, it's basically a typical hotel that is in a central city and a lot of business people use it. They use it because it's a suite and it's centrally located. So, you know, with the suite, you have a separate bedroom and then you have a living area. So a lot of business people like to, you know, especially now that they can work remotely, they can do their work in the living room, but at night, you know, they can go to another room and sleep at all. Also with that, you get complimentary breakfast in the morning and it's, you know, cooked to order breakfast. There's a great buffet.  And then in the evening, you have two hours of evening reception. Well, here in Hawaii, it's a little different. All of our guests are mainly leisure guests, meaning they're not here for business, they're here for pleasure. And what makes it even more special is that we're in the center of Waikiki.  I mean, we have Giovanni Pustrami, we have, you know, Ruth Chris, we have Royce Restaurant and we have Yard House. And so those anchors really makes us a little different from a lot of Waikiki properties, but back to the concept. So if you're a typical family of, you know, two kids and you have the parents, it's just so comfortable where the kids can sleep in the living room because we have a sofa bed and then the parents will have their own bedroom. But we also have two bedroom suites. And so you can even, you know, invite grandma and grandpa to go with you and they can have their own room and, you know, and then the other room can be with the parents. And then again, the kids could be in the living room. So it's a great concept. We're the only all suite property in Waikiki. And again, Sentry located a block away from Waikiki Beach and then, you know, Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center and international marketplace are just steps away. Oh man, that's not, it's a great location, like I said. And Simeon, I want to ask you about your team members.  When I come to your hotel, they're so attentive.  Tell me about what you do with your team members and why they have those attention to details. Well, you know, I think I was very privileged to come here to this property seven years ago. This hotel was converted from being an outrigger hotel to an embassy suites. So a lot of them did work for outrigger.  So I think I just, you know, enforce that where, you know, if we take care of our people we call our employees hosts that they will take care of the guests. And then at the end of the day, they will take care of our ownership and invest in the capital and, you know, in all the things that they do to make this hotel special. I think we give a lot of empowerment to our hosts. I think we really treat them with kindness where we treat them like Ohana family. And with that, I think it goes beyond and, you know, it helps them really get to know the guests. And again, back to being humble and just asking, you know, what they need or if we don't do the right thing, we make it right. Whatever that is. But I think, you know, from the housekeeper all the way to the front desk, all the way to our director of sales or hotel manager, we all feel that, you know, we're here to help one another. And at the end of the day, help the guests do, I mean, you know, serve the guests and make sure that they have the best stay. And more importantly, come back and see us and tell all the other people that they know about MC Suite's Waikiki. Well, Simeon, when I was with you there on that upper level pool area at the bar area, I mean, it's so fun. I mean, everyone has such positive energy and everyone's so happy there. I mean, is that always the case? I, you know, I think so. I mean, they're wholeheartedly genuine. And I think that makes such a big difference. They like to come to work. And but sometimes, you know, we have these that, you know it's not all right. And I think what makes it special is that the managers acknowledge that and we try to find out why and also try to understand. And you know, if that means that they need a day off or, you know, they just need time for themselves or they need to go home early, then we have to adjust. And I think that what makes us, again, you know be one large family because we kind of understand where they're coming from and we don't, we need to communicate and really find out why because now things could be happening, you know on their side of the family or now things that we can't really control but at least we can be genuinely caring and again, just being kind to them and asking them, what can we do to make the day better? Yeah, no, I totally agree with you there. And Simeon, I want to ask you about my books. You have both of them. What are some concepts that stood out to you in both books?  And for me, it was to succeed and to, you know, stay as positive as possible and then find ways of getting there. You know, I come from a poor family. I knew that they could not, you know really send me to a private university. So I had to find ways of figuring out how I can grant scholarships and all that so I can succeed.  And with that, you have to really prove yourself and, you know, do everything that's needed in order to succeed and learn, you know I mean, you mentioned about listening and, you know, answering last but I think that's a big, you know a big item where you have to be listening you have to be, you know it's all about the people as well and knowing what, you know what they need and kind of figure out, you know what can we do again to help them and to help yourself. Well, Simeon, I like how you brought up character and I love how you brought up about listening first and speaking last because when you listen first it allows you to understand what your people are thinking and feeling. So you understand the vibe and the pulse of what's going on before you answer, right? Right, right. Yeah, I mean, it makes a lot of sense and I think when I was a young manager all you wanted to do was have people listen to you and I think once I got a little older it wasn't all about you, you know it was about them and listening makes you more humble and it really gets down to, you know what are they really saying to you? And again, back to how can we make it work for each other? Yeah, absolutely. Simeon, you know there's a part in the book where I talk about welcoming adversity and I wanna ask you, I mean you've been in the hotel management industry for many years, I mean you're so successful but you can be successful and if there's a change in ownership or top management what happens? I mean, what have you experienced that was did you experience a big adversity dealing with that kind of situation? I did and, you know I worked for Health & Corporation for very long time many years, almost over 25 years but there were like major changes and I think I learned that I couldn't take it personally there were just things that was beyond your control and it kind of relates to what you talk about like create your environment, right? And so I think you have to really think about what do you want and where can you go from this? And you have to change as well and I think the older you become you know, there's gonna be younger, brighter people and you have to adjust and so again, I kind of, you know bond creating your environment as well so I had to really figure it out like what do you wanna do? Is it time for change? And I did, so I left Health & Corporation and I worked for a great company, you know after that, so I worked for Aurea Resorts a little smaller, but they really are about taking care of our hosts, taking care of the managers and taking care of our guests and it made me realize that, you know there were other opportunities and I took them and took advantage of it. So Simeon, when that happened what was your mindset like? How were you able to keep a positive mindset? I think I go back to how I was raised and again, to be humble and to be positive enough and I couldn't think of, you know I mean like getting negative on yourself or saying that you can't do that just doesn't help. I mean, you're not being effective. I think I had to really go back to where was I good at? What characteristics is best for me? And I go back to my mentors as well. I think you do that, you know when you tell your stories in your chapters there's always like a person that you talk about and there could be a mentor you learn from them. I think I go back to that and I would always say like what would so and so say or what so and so do? So yeah, I just try to be as positive as possible. Yeah, and being positive that's a choice. I mean, we all have the choice to either be positive or negative and the amount of energy for either way I mean, it's the same amount of energy. So I want people to choose the better choices. Simeon, I wanna ask you about Giovanni Pastrami. I mean, Ryan Tanaka owns Giovanni Pastrami. He is the founder of Brutahood Grimes. Your Hotel Embassy Suites is a great sponsor of Brutahood and Sisterhood Grimes. What do you really love about those events and the program that Ryan had created? Yeah, I think Ryan and I are similar in the way that he's a very successful businessman but I think more than anything because of his successes he wants to give back to the community and I believe in the same way. I mean, I come from Kalihi and it was a rough neighborhood but at the same time, getting an education, becoming a general manager, I also needed to give back to the community and that's why I belong to certain organizations like Waikiki Community Center. That's all about the Kapuna, the Keiki and the community. I'm with Hawaii Lodging Tourism Association and through those association, I've learned and met some great people and one of them is Ryan. And it's great that he is the owner of Giovanni Pastrami but more than anything, he really does care about the community. And so when he told me about Brutahood Sisterhood and really caring for our athletes and feeding them and what this program was all about, I said, right on, how can I help? And he would have these luncheons and we'd be there at Giovanni Pastrami. The least I could do was provide the parking or give away a room night or two to one of those athletes and so that they can take time and have a staycation and all that. So it just worked out. And again, it was the same purpose was that, what can we do to make the community better? What can we do to make the program better with UH sports and having really everyone understand what they're going through and really supporting them as best as we can? Well, I completely agree with you there. You know, I see you at those events and it's just amazing. I mean, Brutahood and Sisterhood Grimes were in the second year right now. And Ryan is really creating a network of community leaders to meet with the student athletes so that the student athletes, they can pursue whatever their passion might be in life after sports, right? Now, I love that. I mean, Nina, he introduced them to someone who is, it's a professional in social media. He introduced them to business leaders. He makes them network and so that when they do graduate, they'll have this list of people that they've already met and hopefully it'll create opportunities for them. But yeah, it's not about the sports, but it's about them being a whole individual and what they can also, I mean, it comes back to giving back as well. So yeah, absolutely. Yeah, that's the beauty of that whole program. And Simeon, I wanna ask you about you building your superior culture of excellence. I mean, you have high standards. What are some of your top priorities as the GM, as the leader of embassy suites? You know, the people, I mean, we go back to the people, right? And we do go back to the managers that I have and really giving them the tools that they need, but more than anything, it's the mentoring part. I think as leaders and general managers, you basically have concepts over, you think of what's beyond today and what can we do in order to have a brighter future and for us, it's either growing occupancy or growing average daily rate and having the greatest rep farm. Sorry, I'm talking hospitality here, but at the end of the day, we want our owners to be happy. So what do we need to do? Does that mean we have to train better, have our managers go to some seminars so that they can understand how their management styles are so it can benefit the hotel? I think that's very, very important. I think communication as well, we have it, it's called inside out with Abregar hospitality where it talks about all the opportunities within the organization and just other events that's going on and also telling our hosts what's expected of them. So I think that's just very, very important. And at the end, it is about our Ohana and having this feeling of family within our organization so that they know that if they need anything, they can come to us and also seek our help in making their lives a little easier and happier. I mean, we want people to come to work, having a good attitude. In order to do that, we have to communicate and really tell them what's expected of them as well. No, I love that you keep bringing up the people that you're trying to create a second family because that's really what the greatest leaders do.  Now, I always, in terms of teamwork and you've built a great team of people, I always say that we can do 99 things right. If we do one wrong thing, then everyone's only gonna remember that one wrong thing. So we can never do that one wrong thing whether you're in management or whether you're on the front lines as a host or even cleaning rooms. What are your thoughts about that? No, absolutely. I mean, I have managers that are very competitive, but at the same time, it's not about them by themselves. It's us as a team. And I know they like to win. I know we're very competitive in being the best. I mean, we're one of the largest embassy suites, but we drive the highest revenue. We have the highest occupancy and highest revenue per available room. And in order to do that, it takes a team, not an individual in order to do that. And so, we learn from our mistakes.  We call them Aloha guests at times, but you learn from them. And at the same time, what else can we do so that this doesn't happen again or make it better? So I think you're right. I mean, that wrong sometimes is emphasized and especially with the guests, if they didn't get the service that they needed, but at the same time, I always have to step back and think why are we the best embassy in the world? And so, it comes back to that and making sure that again, back to being positive and really emphasizing what have we done and look at where we're at and we're doing very well. Simeon, you've been in the hotel industry for many years. How do you say, what are your thoughts in how the hotel industry has evolved through the years? Yeah, I'm proud that I'm part of that. I think we have a more diverse group of leaders, general managers. There's more local managers now in Hawaii than before. I think we need to work on making sure that we communicate to the next generation that Hawaii has opportunities and that they don't have to go to the mainland in order to get that experience. We have a lot of, there's new hotels coming up, there's always changes within leadership and they have that opportunity. I think we have to be competitive with the mainland with salaries and benefits, but I think we're getting there and it's so different than when I left for college. My thoughts were always go to the mainland, get the experience, get the salaries that you need and so forth and they come back. I think we need to prove to the next generation that are about to graduate from Tim's school that there are opportunities here and that we needed to make it even more diverse and more local people being in great leadership roles.   Do you see it in that way as well? I do and I think you need to, like I know I have a sales manager who is from Kalihi and who went to school at UH and all that. I think they look up to people like me and people that's similar that come from poor families but there are opportunities there. Again, back to what you're saying in your book about people performance process. It's very, very important that they understand that and it's very important for them to know that they can and there's a lot of resources out there. Yeah, for sure.  I think the valuable lesson is really, and I got this from my parents, is to be really humble. I deal with a lot of executives that are very top rank, but what they have in common is that they care for people, they are humble, they're very intelligent, they know what to do, but I think more than anything, they just appreciate the people that surround them and really try to mentor them and guide them as best as they can. I love that you said being humble. I mean, having humility is so important and you're a leader that has empathy and I always share that as a leader you might have empathy for your people, but the key is your people need to know that you have empathy for them. I think when they know that it's so authentic and genuine, I mean, that's when you really have that second family and Simian, you shared great insights and I'm so proud that we are both Damian high school graduates and I wanna thank you for taking time to be on the show today. No, Rusty, thank you, yeah, go Monarchs.  Yes, thanks, Simian. Thank you, Rusty, appreciate it. And thank you for watching Beyond the Lines on Think Tech Hawaii. For more information, please visit rusticomori.com and my books are available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. I hope that Simian and I will inspire you to create your own superior culture of excellence and to find your greatness and help others find theirs. Aloha.