Happy Halloween and Aloha everyone. Welcome to, I was going to say Lillian's Vegan World but I think I'm going to change it to Superwoman's Vegan World today. Welcome to the show, I'm Lillian Cumick, your host and I just realised that I have never actually introduced myself on my own show. I think people understand that I'm Lillian of Lillian's Vegan World but anyway, so welcome to the show. It's Halloween today here in gorgeous sunny Honolulu. We're coming to you live from the Think Tech Hawaii studios in downtown Honolulu. Today I'm so so happy to have two of my dear friends on the show as guests and I would love to introduce them both. Welcome to the show. Aloha, David and Iris Haji. Are you brother and sister or are you married? I didn't even know you had a job until today. David and Iris, thank you so much for coming on the show. I wanted to get you on for a fun one because you and I, you guys and I are always laughing through some fun times.  So we were walking down the street one day. That's a lie. So as most of the viewers know, I'm a vegan chef and cooking instructor and also vegan lifestyle coach from Sydney, Australia, but I did spend 30 years in Japan. Anyway, I just moved to the islands to Honolulu last Christmas. So coming up to a year very shortly and David and Iris have been so awesome and been coming to some of my events. Which events have you been coming to? I've been to your cheese demo, your Japanese dinner. Yes. Last night the seven course vegan and Italian. Italian, yes. Which and you've done also the vegan Serbian. Oh, that sounds very good. Kind of unique, I guess, dinners that you've come to all of which are vegan, meaning plant based. So no meat, no fish, no dairy, no poultry, no fowl. Also no honey and figs. So that's, yeah, that's what pretty much what plant based food is just no animal products whatsoever and no animal byproducts. Now, are you guys on a following a plant based diet? Yes, I am. Iris, yes. Okay. And how did you start your journey on this healthy lifestyle? I attended the Ekahi Ornish program for nine weeks. And the reason why I went to it was, you know, for health reasons. Yes. And I saw a lot of results. And I told David that because insurance paid and, you know, there was a time commitment and whatnot that I didn't want to, as much as possible, I wanted to stay on plant based. Yeah. And why is that? It's just makes me feel better. You know, I'm full, but I'm not overstuffed. Okay. It's a it's a different. So how long ago was it that you went through the program? It's been about a year and a half, almost two years. Okay. And that's fantastic to hear that you are still maintaining the plant based diet because it is difficult. I mean, it's not, it's not easy to suddenly, you know, go from eating a regular American diet or a diet that you're used to say, you know, living in a place like Hawaii to a completely vegan diet. I'm sure it's quite difficult. But as you just pointed out, there are so many reasons why you should really keep trying to stay on it because the results just keep coming to you. I mean, year after year after year, I think people just they change their whole body and their health. Also, their, their wellbeing, like the way that they think about food and become much more aware of food. So today's show is going to be interesting because we are going to talk a lot about food, plant based food and some fun, fun facts and trivia. So David, before we go on, are you also on a plant based diet? No, but I've sort of like turned it toward that. It's really, I can tell the benefit as far as energy level and just, you know, not being tired and, you know, always full. Yes. That's one thing that a lot of people notice. They become less sluggish, especially after they eat. You know, I noticed that a lot of people, especially coming up to the holidays when you're, you know, everyone's sort of stuffing their faces and getting all that holiday food in, which is great. I mean, I love to eat too, but you don't get that sort of down or after eating plant based food where you just get into a food coma and you need to lie down and breathe, which is what I see a lot, you know, with people who are just eating lots of animal products. So that, that is true. And it's good, good to know that you're being encouraged to, I guess, eat more plant based given that you're with, you know, living together. Who does the cooking at home? Me. I was okay. So then you would, you would be more cooking, more plant based or? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Because, you know, he goes to work and yeah, can eat whatever he wants. Yes. That's, that's the good thing about it. I mean, everybody, you can't make someone become vegan. And the point of my show and what I do is not to force people into veganism, not by any means, you know, everybody has to make their own choices. And if they decide that they want to do this on a more, you know, serious level and cut out the animal products, I, you know, I encourage it because at the end of the day, I never, I have never in my life met a vegan that said they don't feel good. So there's got to be some, yeah, some truth there. And lucky for you, David, today, I'm superwoman and I have special powers. So I'm going to turn you vegan today. There you go. That was quick. Okay. So how about some fun, vegan facts and trivia? All right. First of all, there was a new report from the personal finance website, Wallet Hulu, that actually just ranked Honolulu 35 or 35th out of 100 cities in the US that are the best city to live in if you are vegan or vegetarian. Number 35 out of 100. So that goes to show that Honolulu is kind of, and I see it as well. I'm starting to see more options on not on recipe restaurant menus that are not vegan restaurants. So, yeah, it's a sign that Hawaii's into it. And discovering that. Oh, look, they never had this before. There was vegan option. Yes. Yeah. Well, I can't remember the percentage and I don't want to quote something that's incorrect. But most of the folks, not most of, but a lot of the vegan meats out there, the impossible burgers and the beyond burgers that are selling out, they're not all consumed by vegans. Like it's something like around half or just under half, if I remember correctly, that are being consumed by people who are not on a plant based diet. So people are starting to enjoy these options. So that's a good sign. All right. Vegan in one year spares about the life of 30 animals each year by going vegan. This was a shocker for me, this one. And all of these facts are according to various websites, but I did choose a lot from, in particular three, choose veg, do something.org and the flaming vegan. So I've, and pretty much everything else I'm seeing is reflecting, you know, the same sort of information. Right. So about 150 billion animals are killed and slaughtered annually for meat consumption in the world. So that's, that was quite shocking for me to hear. Here's another interesting fact. Being vegan cuts your footprint by about half. And I have big feet. By about half. And again, whichever source you get the information from, pretty much is coming to about, about half, a lot of studies are showing. All right. Approximately, did you ever think about how many vegans or vegetarians there are in your country in the States? All right. So approximately 5% of the US population are either vegan or vegetarian and that comes to close to 16 million. And about half of that percentage are vegan. Again, this is a very, you know, sort of rough estimate. No one knows for sure, but they're saying about in the States alone, 7.5 million. That's a lot of burgers, impossible burgers. It sounds like a lot, but when you think that it's only about 2.5% of the population, still got a long, a long way to go. But it's, it's good news. Here's something that I think everybody kind of has heard before that vegans tend to have lower rates of cancer than most meat eaters and vegetarians. So vegan women, this is according to do something.org. Pardon me. Vegan women had 34% lower rates of female specific cancers like breast cervical and ovarian cancer. And the similar results were found in men with prostate cancer. 34% less, that's a lot. So there's a study done by a Nobel Prize winner, Elizabeth Blackburn, and she found that a vegan diet caused more than 500, 100 genes to change in three months, turning on genes that prevent disease and turning off genes that cause cancer, heart disease and other illnesses. I thought that was amazing. So she's interesting to Google Elizabeth Blackburn, a Nobel Prize winner. So she had a, she did a lot of studies and yeah, incredible.  That's a lot of animals. All right. Here's one that I thought, not interesting again, everything's kind of shocking for me. But anyway, another fact, Costco, how many chickens do you think they sell a year? I was listening to the radio and heard this million. A million, you think? What would you say, David? I'd million. I mean, I love it. Okay. Get this 60 million per year. And on that note, we're going to take a break and be back with more fun, vegan facts and trivia. See you after the break. Thanks to our think tech underwriters and grand tours, the Atherton Family Foundation, Carol Monli and the Friends of Think Tech, the Center for Microbial Oceanography Research and Education, Collateral Analytics, The Cook Foundation, Dwayne Kurisu, the Hawaii Community Foundation, the Hawaii Council of Associations of Apartment Owners, Hawaii Energy, the Hawaii Energy Policy Forum, Hawaiian Electric Company, Integrated Security Technologies, Galen Ho of BAE Systems, Kamehameha Schools, MW Group, the Shidler Family Foundation, the Sydney Stern Memorial Trust, Volo Foundation, Yuriko J. Sugimura. Thanks so much to you all. Welcome back again to Super Woman's Vegan World, where we talk about veganism and the plant-based diet. I'm here with my awesome guests and dear friends of mine, Iris and David Haji. David, did you notice your wife's title on the screen? Yes, I did. Okay, I just want you to keep that in mind when you go home today. Okay, so guys, we are talking about these are really not fun facts, are they? So we'll go into some fun ones. And while we're chatting about some more vegan trivia, I would like to show you a video of what I've been cooking up this month in October in my cooking classes and my dinner. So if we can show that video while we run through some more fun facts, that would be cool. So here are some things that you can buy on a, sorry, that you can eat on a vegan diet. While we're doing that, while we're doing that, let's talk about that you didn't know it's vegan. Alright, so here are some vegan foods that a lot of people actually don't know a vegan. And we refer to these sometimes as accidentally vegan. The biggest one that I think freaks or surprises a lot of people who aren't vegan is that Oreos are vegan. I really don't know anything about Oreos. I do have them in several flavors in my cupboard. I don't know why. And they disappear magically. But the thing is, it's the ones that are made in America that are vegan because the ones made in Japan, let's say, are not. They do still have to be careful. Alright, another food that's vegan accidentally vegan, Ritz crackers. I'm not sure about the ones with the fillings. So I have to I do have to say, we might have to check with that. But the plain Ritz cracker. I assume your eyes just lit up when I told you that. Are you like going to be dreaming of a little red box tonight? This is my vegan gyoza or dumplings made with king oyster mushrooms. So that's that's another thing that you can eat on a vegan diet. I actually have about 200 recipes on my Lillian Vegan YouTube channel. You can also find lots of vegan recipes and tips and stuff on my Facebook channel. Also Lillian Vegan and my webpage. Again, Lillian Vegan. Superwoman today. All day. My husband is going to have get it tonight. I'm going to use all my superpowers to do all the things that I want to do. Alright, so getting back to bed. She didn't know it's vegan. Yellow cook, cook and serve vanilla pudding and pie filling. I've never tried this, but I didn't know that was vegan stuff like that. Here's another one that I thought was interesting. Campbell's Mushroom Gravy. The canned gravy. Are you like going to go on a bit of a shopping spree after this? Here's something I use a lot for bases for my little party pies. Crescent rolls. I think we've done a recipe together in one of my classes. Vegan. Fritos corn chips. I love those little scoopy things. They just remember everything in moderation. Children. Duncan, Heinz, whipped frosting and classic cake mixes. Vegan. Again, I'm not telling anyone to go out and buy all these things because they're all processed. There's a lot of stuff in there you can't even pronounce and that's always a scary thing. But this is just for some trivia to let you know what things are. How about this one? Kettle Brands Potato Chips Maple Bacon Flavor.  Maple Bacon. I know. And even more interesting or surprising, Betty Crocker Baker's Bacon Flavor Bits Vegan. I've never tried, I mean, on this list I'm telling you about I've tried the Crescent Rolls Oreos, Ritz Crackers Hershey's Chocolate Syrup. I was very excited when I found that out a couple of years ago. Kellogg's Pop Tarts in Unprosted Strawberry, Blueberry and Brown Sugar. Pepperidge Farm Pastry Puff Pastry Sheets. This is another thing that I do use a lot. They are accidentally vegan too. Vegan puff pastry is very, very difficult to make. Very time consuming. I don't see myself making it anymore. Now that yeah, there's actually a few other supermarket brands that are also also accidentally vegan. Red Bull, The Drink. Because not all energy drinks are vegan by the way. Some of the coloring that they use for coloring is which I'm going to go into later. So another accidentally vegan product, Goya Flan Custard. It knows that popular here. Nesquik. Isn't custard like an egg? Yes. Yes, that's right. So that's why all of these things are quite surprising to find out that they are in fact plant based, made from plant based ingredients. The other one was Nesquik Chocolate Syrup. Smuckers Marshmallow toppings. I don't even know what that is, but it seems to be popular with a lot of vegans, maybe in the States. Yeah. Nutter Butters. The cookie. Oh, I like that. Permission to go ahead and pick out on the Nutter Butters. And here's another thing that I loved. I don't eat it anymore, really, but Sarah Lee cherry pies and the apple pies are vegan. Favorite cherry. Do you like cherry pie? Really? Really? I actually make really good cherry pie for special people. All right, so we're going to go over to the other side of this and talk about some gross ingredients in your food that you didn't know you were eating. I think one of the things that happens when people sort of transition from a regular American diet where they do consume animal products is once you do make that transition, you become more aware of what you're eating. This was definitely the case for me. I grew up as a vegetarian, so a little bit easier. My transition was. But yeah, one thing I noticed I was just reading labels. I learned how to read labels. People still don't do that.  So you have to be very careful. Here are some things in food that are quite scary. So car mean is a cockney or beetle beetle. This crushed up these crushed up beetles create the red dye effect that you see in a lot of candies that bright red color. So it's also found in meat, sausage, red marmalades, jams, gelatin, desserts, juices, soft drinks, sports drink, icings, toppings, confections, dairy products, Starbucks patrons in 2012 were quote unquote, enraged to hear that the chain was using the, the beetles, the calm car mean in this strawberry flavored drinks, which they have since stopped doing. So avoid the red stuff. Reds never going to be the same for you. What's your favorite jelly bean flavor? It's not definitely not ready. I don't know if it exists in the jelly beans, but yeah. All right, here's another one. This is actually an ingredient that you do see on labels quite a lot. They refer to it the companies that use this product often on the labels write cellulose instead of sawdust, which is what it actually is. And it's found in many prepackaged shredded cheeses, not vegan cheeses. Yeah, and it prevents the shreds from sticking together. And one thing I have I have had a lot of people say to me, why is the vegan cheese always so sticky like the pizza cheese that you buy in supermarkets? I don't really buy cheese. I make my own. But it kind of does have that sticky sometimes slimy feel to it. It's because it doesn't have all those additives and preservatives and stuff that makes it not sticky. But I don't want to be eating sawdust. So look out for cellulose. Good to know. The other thing is dried fish bladder. This is used as a finding agent. When you make wine to filter or Yeah, to filter the wine. It's also the other name they use is icing glass. It's fish bladder. And it's yeah, it creates the golden color of beer as well. But it's also used when making wine. So a lot of vegans are careful when they drink wine. Let's have a look at a couple of pictures while we're chatting. What have we got Eric? This is my next my next class. It's my next cooking demo. It's going to be vegan sushi. You can get all the dates for that on my web webpage or Facebook page, Lillian vegan. This is what we did last month or this month in October, the vegan party food. And I do want to show you this one again, because this is my newest, my latest recipe for the vegan egg, the yolk which is made from pumpkin. I use kabocha and then the egg white is made from rice flour. So I will be doing this in an upcoming event sometime in the near future. There are so many things to go through. I haven't even gone through half of what I was expecting to talk about. But if I can, if I can give you anything from today's show, it would be just to be aware of what you're eating, read labels and make sure you know what you're putting into your body because you do want to stay healthy and happy. Thank you so much for coming on the show. I hope you enjoyed it. Yes, thank you. Thank you. Happy Halloween and I look forward to seeing you both again. And to everyone else out there, I look forward to seeing you again next time on Lillian's Vegan World. Happy Halloween and be safe. Aloha


Hey there friends, thanks for checking in at the range now. We're looking at the Glock 36 45 ACP six-round magazine. I have one in the chamber. Let's take a few shots in then we'll talk more about it all right Glock's first Single-stack handguns right here. So when all those people were saying Glock needs to make a single-stack handgun You know, they need to make a nine millimeter single-stack. Well, that's true But this is actually Glock's first single-stack handgun. That's the Glock 36 a 3.75 inch barrel and a six-round magazine and now what is interesting is that this has been around a while The earlier editions did not have the accessory real. They now make the accessory real and A lot of people love this actually I have a friend who carries this you ask him what's the best carry gun He says Glock 36. What's the best home defense gun Glock 36? You know, what's what's the best gun at the range Glock 36? He just loves it and You know a lot of people a lot of people do Many people love the Glock 30 But the major difference between the two are the four rounds in the magazine that the Glock 30 offers Along with a slide width that is a little bit thinner with the Glock 36. This is a 1.1 inch width with the slide and The Glock 30 is like a 1.2 and a half inch. Okay, so if that matters That's one of the differences another difference. I already mentioned four rounds, but it's also four ounces Lighter the empty weight here is 22 ounces loaded just under 27 ounces But it's a fine little handgun.  I'm gonna clear that up right now Take a few more shots and see if I can do any better All right, here we have the Glock 36 loaded once again. What's kind of unique is that it's a single stack But it it shows some brass right there in the mag on both sides a little little different I haven't seen that before and it also offers an extended magazine base plate for three finger contact But let me go ahead and take a few shots. I'll try to zero this in a little bit There we go and that was the six rounds six rounds goes pretty quick, you know and This is no different because it is a low capacity, but you know The the rounds especially in 45 adds ounces and as we know ounces add to pounds So those who are weight sensitive those who want the thinner slide, this would be a pretty decent model What I don't care for are the finger grooves. They are Pretty deep finger grooves and my fingers are a little bit fatter and they don't fit those grooves Very well and Glock actually Changed that with many of their new releases not so much with this But for with other ones where they remove the finger grooves and I think that was a good move But the Glock 36 is pretty cool, you know, I for years. I've wanted this I've resisted getting one because you know the M&P shield came out the of course I love the car PM 45 now Springfield came out with the XDS in 45 and it was just a easier alternative for me But I do appreciate this I appreciate for what it is and you know if you love Glock handguns And you want a 45 and you want a single stack this right now is your only choice So the Glock 36 certainly has its place and a lot of people love it Let me go ahead and turn the camera around and I'll take a few more shots and we'll wrap this thing up Yeah, it feels Like any other Glock No, I shouldn't say no, but very little recoil if we take a look at The spring assembly you can see that it does use a dual recoil spring and as I mentioned three and three-quarter inch Barrel so a neat little gun. I'm glad to have it out here. I may do a comparison with this and the Ruger American Compact in 45. I think that would be a good comparison, but there it is Glock 36 nice little handgun Glock first single stack handgun, and of course 45 ACP is an incredible round And I love getting it out to the range if you like videos like this, please subscribe and share I always appreciate thumbs up button. Thanks for watching and you guys be safe


Arwi sabOGd de gosam sït fiquem in shogam, oki, le titolo e Goi ngrestful OK, pake goi ngrestful Goi ngre наг女 The restful is explained quite well if we take into account the title of the rest API. To move, to go in, because I want to explain how we should move from the old Ajax Endpoint to a more modern solution. This is so new, and when we went in the day of rest two years ago, there was a new one. Today no more, we have a very natural product, so we can go in the restful. Okay, now practically I have already recorded all the content of this slide, because my introduction is the only thing that I have added. Today I have made a longer slot, so there is a lot of possibility to make mistakes in every type of recording, so it is probably fun to do this part. Okay, the code that I use, I will show you some codes. I am in a repository, there are three branches. The first is Ajax Endpoint, which is practically our potential situation. Second, when we have done the step towards the rest API, we still use this Ajax Pula technique, and then in the end something that is presented a little more restful. And if you put it the following check out, and check out these people, a code that is simple and legible. And also if you know Martin Fowler, he is the most important person in the programming project, he said that good programmers write codes for humans. And different legible codes, according to me there is also someone who may not have a positive experience in programming. My approach. Okay, let's start with Ajax, I have already said Ajax many times. In the other slide I have the idea of using a Batzboard Bingo, because if you use a positive word, a positive word, a positive word, because you know what I really want to say, that in the end we make a game, we put all these words on a map, and then in the end someone says Bingo, because I have managed to do five things very well. So a couple of these things are also important, and maybe Ajax and the part, as in chrona di JavaScript, and XML, which is already quite important, which is a concept that explains a bit everything. XML in this context is a historical thing, but in the end, Ajax can still use it in this way. And in the end, dynamic content, and we are not interested in it at all, in all cases, because they are very important. Okay, we have this translation of Ajax as in chrona di JavaScript and XML. And let's go on. I have told a story, when I started writing the HTML and now I am old, the content was sent to a request server and returned to the page. And if you want something dynamic, you can click on a link and make a reload of the page. And so this user experience was quite bad. And let's talk about the final year of 1988, when Microsoft and this part was fun, maybe I started to do research for the project of Outlook. And then I went on, especially Google, put a lot of effort in this project. And so far, we managed to have in 2000, 2005, 2006 something like a little more concrete of a standard base. And there you have to say that finally we have something concrete in this sign here, it is written on the first article, on Ajax and I think it is written in 2005. Ok. Ok, there is no point. Ok, we always hear Ajax, but in the end we do not understand as much as the flow of this thing. I said that before, we made a request to the server and returned to the page. Now we have a presentation which is called it's an HTTP request in the page just downloaded, made a call to another business logic that for this work we made a content that we can use to create a more dynamic user experience. Let's go to our wordpress solution. I think when we want to use the JavaScript in our solution we use a hook that in the end does only one thing. We say also that take this file.js and put a queue and then when we need a page we want to find it inside it is right. In this case we put a couple of variables because maybe not everything is necessary but in the end we have this thing in the end just for the translation of dynamic contents we put the Ajax inside so we can give our page an endpoint then we have this JavaScript because I think at least we all know how to read we know how to do with JavaScript in this file that here in my demonstration each click in a page makes this code go away. In this case we find our object called lmc.ajaxol and we transmit data towards this Ajax of jQuery the interesting part in this case is this variable action which is very important because when we want to work as a request we want to transmit Ajax towards the BKP there are two actions vp.ajax anasco vp.ajax anasco note this part is important for users who are not logged so usually you always find two programs that make you understand that the concept is a bit wrong because in the end for example you see two times for a function that is used in this file because there is a layer that you can manage for the authorization for example because it is very hard I think then we have a function available as a request for jason success or error and there is nothing else to create a jason a sample out and then we have another for example ok let's talk about api because we have called the rest api in the end and api is especially important to talk about programs or code one to the other because it is important an api you might have an api and to read the user to make an action on the site without having to leave the site for this type of action because if you use ajax and if you use another api you might have in the first page inside all the necessary actions and then api today if you see api api there are parts around so you can buy if you are free you can integrate so this part is interesting to get pages or all the user experience in general and then this this microsoft that you feel very often and in the end you have the possibility that you don't have an overhead huge or you think maybe a page that is very very graphic inside a lot of action a lot of innovation with the web user and as this application in the interface api let's go with that jason api if we put inside after our site slash vp jason we have probably all this this call that we see a little the op of the rest api I have used a jason beautifier a plugin pergrosa that the op a little more because otherwise it is a test that it is difficult to read so it is already a little and there are already a series of WordPress core endpoints that are already available then inside I believe also a plugin just in this case also it is very very ok and so you can also translate the rest of the directory then and see what is inside all these endpoints it is always interesting to squeeze a little ok after to be code remembered of the first part of the of the of the of the of the of the of the of the of the of the of the that the the of the the the and at point the of the but fatonado un woopi rest-response-object-van-organic-success. 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Curry Gett, etc. But I wanted to underline that you use these types, and then finally talk to someone else, and then I have already written in this case, to show you what to do with the rest of the ETI, but it is not necessary that you already write, because it is such a program, we can also call the CURR, because we have used CURST, but we have other programs that can be spoken with our WEST server. Okay, because I have to use the rest of the ETI. So, you understand that it is not so honorable to use this ETI, it is not easy to make a move towards this solution. Then, in my opinion, also the centralization of this solution under a WPJ, where you see what your output is, also why. Then for this, also a replacement for this old ETI, a J. Curry Ajax PHP, which probably makes a lot of effort. There are, as we have seen before, a couple of interesting extensions that help us, and then, let's talk about mobile apps, these things, they are becoming more important, you can make a step back and give a little more freedom to all these applications that come to us with Vue.js, React, all these things, that are very interesting. And maybe let's talk about things like performance. I remember when I went with Christian at this conference, we talked a lot about performance, we went to the WPJ, and so on and so forth. This is no longer true. This is no longer true. We also have Cloudflare, like Cache, that we can use, for example, if we don't really need it. But in reality, we spread a series of things if we use the WPJ, not even Ajax. Because when we make a normal Ajax, we create a series of things that often do administrative things, like plug-in apps, stages, all these things. And for me, it turns out that if we don't have 15% of performance, we use only the reset, instead of the first Ajax. Okay. And then security. There are a number of people or a number of people who are also complaining about security. Everything is open, now they can see what they are spreading, etc. This, for me, I don't understand it so well, because you spread data in common in every case, even if you are then packaged in an HTML, so the difference is really little. And then, as I said before, if you are centralized, maybe you can also install a plugin that manages JVT or any authentication, for you, if you really start the vision you close it. And this, I remember that our devops, once, closed the API because they thought it would be a risk. Nothing has worked anymore, and there is also a surprise that JOSP, for example, who already uses a REST API, if you close this thing, in the scene, things can't work anymore, things are more normal. Obviously, you have the chance to ignore all this, but let's say that the REST API now is a bit out of the fire of once, once the topic of the day and everyone spoke about the REST API and so on. Nothing concrete, so I hope that I have added something a bit concrete. But now we talk about Gutenberg and Gutenberg without the REST API is not even so nice, so it is a thing that is something else, so the road is a bit smaller. And then we have done this shift of road press, block versus CMS. And now we have done this shift of CMS for an application server. And this gives us so much opportunity when you are a developer, you become a type of backend developer, so it is good if you are in form of a function of certain things, of certain concepts, as a front-end developer you are more free, you can use VJS, React and everything that you talk about for projects and a bit more love. And yes, I have arrived at the end of my speech. I am a bit faster than before, but thank you very much. Thank you, thank you Dennis.


with another video for my creative year for February 2020. So this month we are experimenting with using a limited color palette and the choices for colors were taken from some of my favorite colors and honestly this selection of colors and this particular brand of paint fun fact is the one I started with when I started Mixmedia. To be honest I didn't really know what I was doing I just knew these were pretty colors and I got these four colors and then I got black and white and yeah so we're gonna go back to my old days and we're gonna play with these colors and in this first video we are going to play with some color mixing and see what you can do with a limited color palette and try these colors if you have them or have something similar you don't have to. I'm gonna tell you what colors they are real quick here in just a minute. I would recommend limiting your color palette to three or four colors plus black and white you can use any colors that you have in your stash of stuff that you want to use but for the purpose of this video and my experiment we're gonna use my old color palette which is Amsterdam yellowish green also Amsterdam this one is ultra quinacridone rose I think that's what this has this one is turquoise green and this one is Naples yellow this is still my favorite Naples yellow color by the way the Amsterdam one it's just a little bit different than some of the other ones in in tone and it's yes still a favorite and then we also have just a titanium white and a Mars black use what you have that's close to these but give it a try so basically in this palette we have a green a blue a red and a yellow right they're just kind of pastely grayish tones but anyway I'm also going to use some watercolor postcards when I was cleaning out things and doing some purging I found three or four books of these postcards I forgot I had so we're going to use that for our paper and I've got a piece of parchment paper here up to my right I'm going to use my palette let me get a flat brush or a filbert or something filbert or work okay so what I'm going to do to start with an experimenting on how the colors will mix we're going to do a basic color mixing chart on that postcard so I'm going to put out some blobs of each color onto this piece of parchment including the black and white you hear any noise in the background it's either my computer or one of the kids everybody's working at home today and then we're going to put some white and then some black I remember when I bought some of my first acrylic paints I walked into a little stationary store in Santa Cruz California and they had a big selection of Amsterdam paints and I loved the color selection of what they had and yeah so I bought a few tubes it was great alright so I'm going to start with putting swatches of the original colors going down and across including the black and white yeah including the black and white and then we are going to mix the colors adjacent to each other together to see what kind of color range we can get I know you're like what so you'll see so I'm going to take start with the yellow and I'm going to leave the very corner empty but then I'm going to swatches like this we'll do the blue yeah dirty brush let's clean that a little bit shall we get some of that off okay white now I could have drawn out squares I would have not run kind of run out of room here at the end but you know if you want it to be more precise dress squares okay so now the idea is to start here with the yellow and obviously if you mix the yellow with the yellow you're going to just get yellow because it's the same color right we'll put that here then if you mix the yellow with the blue and you can see that kind of grade that down a little bit made it less bright then if you mix the yellow with the pink you can see the change the color difference you have there then the yellow with the green and then the yellow with the white and then the yellow with the black now that was unexpected look at that pretty gray color so I want you to go across and I want you to do that for all the colors on the card all the way down I'm going to do that I'm going to speed forward through the process and I'll be right back okay now you've made yourself sorry for shaky camera now you've made yourself a color mixing chart and you can use this as a guide to create artwork from just these limited colors which is what we're going to do next I want you to work on your color mixing chart maybe start out with these colors but maybe go forward using other colors and see experiment and play and see how far you get with that I would love to see what you all do so we are going to create a little piece of artwork on this watercolor postcard we did a sort of a color key seeing what would happen and what kind of color variation week we would get mixing these colors together which was interesting so I'm going to use that as a guide to create the painting I'm going to speed forward through my process and I'll be right back okay I know what some of you are saying that's all great now but I can't paint like that so it's not about the composition this is a still life inspired by something I saw on the internet and I am not going to do a talk through tutorial because it's not my the idea is inspired by somebody else but that being said you can do you can do anything you can do random backgrounds I'm going to insert here some pictures some digital of some old random backgrounds I did with the same colors and I did these years ago when I first got started there's still some of my favorite backgrounds so the point is I want you to play with color I want you to play with the combination of colors but I want you to limit your palette I want you to do some mixing and figure out what you can do and experiment with maybe trying some new things this month and let's share and don't forget to like share and support the free content here on YouTube and this video of course but also share your work over in the Facebook group I would love to see what you do and if you have any questions comments or concerns please leave them down below also though if you have any questions you can that's what the Facebook group is for so if it's if you have a question tag me or one of the other teachers in the post and we will get back to you promptly and yeah have fun with it play with your colors and have a good time I hope that this gives you some ideas of what you can do don't forget to check out the video description for relevant links including the link to the Facebook group for my creative year and ways to support the free content here on YouTube and over in the Facebook art groups and I'm not the only one who has ways to support all the teachers here on YouTube do and in the Facebook art groups so check out their video descriptions and or message them and ask them if you have an Amazon store Amazon affiliate link or an Etsy store or something anyway that's it for now don't forget to go out and have a great day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later bye guys


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Welcome back to my channel guys. It's your girl Coco Styles. And on this channel we talk about beauty, fashion, lifestyle and styling guys. So today I wasn't gonna do a video about my spark liners for guys. All right, so I know this is week six. And I'm not gonna do one every week because I do change them once a week and it just seems a bit frequent for you guys. So I'm just gonna chat with you guys about what I'm feeling today. So I change my liners every Monday night. That way when I do go to sleep, whatever pain that I may be feeling, I won't feel it until, well I won't feel it at all. And possibly make feel it in the morning.  I did see a video recently where a young lady kept saying she was in so much pain. She had to take pills and stuff. I have not gotten to that point yet guys. Someone told me because I don't have a lot of shifting to do and that could possibly be it or it could be that I'm changing them weekly. I don't know. But I know today I felt a little bit of pain. Now, what I did do today differently at work was talk a lot more. So I wonder if that could have been it that I was moving my mouth a little bit more because typically I'm home, I'm listening to music while I'm working. If I am on the phone, it's not really long, but I am finding that I'm talking a little different. This tray doesn't feel as big as the other ones, but I'm definitely feeling some discomfort today. And again, this is tray six. So is this tray six? Yeah, so this is week six. So that's a month and a week, right? I do go back in once I hit tray 10 so they can shave down the center because of that whole triangle thing, that black triangle, which is technically like a little space so they can fill that back up. I'm also noticing that I'm talking like a little tight mouth. I don't know, like, I don't know. It's very weird. I can't explain it, but I'm gonna show you guys how everything is going. I'm closer. I'm a little greasy today guys, I'm rapping on Vaseline. But here they are. I'm still waiting for this one to close in a little bit and it probably has something to do with this bottom tooth. And my buttons have stayed on. The top is good too. The top is good. I'm definitely paying attention to certain things, but my buttons are still on. I haven't had any issues with those falling off. Eating has been fine.  When I go out, I hate to use the bathroom with my toothbrush. I think it's gross as heck. So I rinsed really, really well guys and this is honest, this is the truth. And I just put them in because I know I'm on my way home and then I just floss, well I'll floss at the restaurant. But I won't brush there. And I'll just rinse really well, get any food out with just my plain water and just get it out. But to actually sit there and brush, I can't do it in the restaurant. So that's what I've been doing. And I haven't had any discomfort putting it back in. So I typically am like 40 minutes away from my home if I go out. So, but at least that they're in. But when I get home, I do do a thorough cleaning and I brush them and stuff like that. So as far as the color, I haven't had any issues where they're turning color on me. So I did hear someone say that theirs was turning. I like curry, I don't eat it. Since you guys know I'm an alkaline vegan, we're not supposed to have it. But occasionally I will eat it, but I haven't eaten any since I got on the Spark Aligners. And I probably won't, if I did, it would probably be the day that I am changing them out. But I haven't went there yet. Also, let's see what else. That's it, that's it for the Aligners. I think that was a pretty good, just like little update and let's see what else. Discomfort, there's no color changing. These trays feel a little bit better as far as the fit than the last couple of weeks.  And that's it and just going out to eat guys.  You may have food stuck in places that never used to get stuck before. So keep an eye out on that and keep an eye out on any attachments that they have on your teeth. Make sure that whenever you are changing your trays that you have the same amount of attachments that they put when you first got your Aligners done. That way you don't have to go back and have them put them on. But I know for a fact that I am gonna ask for extra trays after my six months because I did take a look at the last tray and they're straight, but I still see a little bit of crookedness in my opinion. So I'll probably go until December since I already started eating guys. I'm already slim, so I still eat. I don't care. I take them out, I'll eat my snacks. Sometimes what I was doing at first was eating my dinner, eating my snack right after. So I stopped that, I'll eat, give it a break, brush my teeth, put them back in, do some work, end up doing my, eating a snack right before bed and then brushing again. So it doesn't really bother me. Let's look freshy and sloshing again. So it doesn't bother me. So I know people say that they're losing weight on it because they're not snacking. I'm snacking guys. And what else? I think that's pretty much it. As far as whitening my teeth after, I would like to do it. I've seen this young lady get her teeth whitened. I'm not sure what they use, but her teeth were looking amazing, guys. I don't want them white like veneers. I want them to be natural. And I just want them to be straight like they used to. I am getting older, so they are shifting. So guys, that is a quick little update of my spark aligners week six in the pain that I'm feeling right now and me going out with my spark aligners, guys. So that is a, what else can I talk to you guys about? That's it. That's it. The only thing I did over the weekend was like, I went to this vegan spot. I should have done a separate video in Georgia called Bad Gal Vegan. I'm probably gonna put that in the description, guys, because I think people may want to know about it. It's a Jamaican spot. It's in a food hall. It's vegan Jamaican food, so she has vox tails instead of oxtail. I wasn't with it because you guys know I don't like vegans don't eat those type of things. I don't know what it was made of. She said it's not soy, but it did. I didn't really like the texture of it, but I did have the oxtail gravy. And I had some macaroni and cheese, which was actually really good. And some kale that tastes like collard greens. And I also had some shrimp rice and peas. So the shrimp, guys, it's called, it's called Jack Root or something like that. It's actually good. I don't know if I could eat it all the time, but it was actually really good to me. I would definitely eat it again. I wouldn't eat that vox tail, but I'll do the shrimp and the rice and all that stuff again, but.  So I just wanted to throw that little snippet in here. So if you are interested in going to that restaurant, it did take a little long for us to get our food, which I thought I was a little surprised because it is a food haul, but it did take quite some time. Oh, I did have, I had a lot of food. I also had a spinach patty, which was okay. I think she could probably do some shrimp or something and like some curry or something like that. That'll probably be better because I don't eat spinach. But that's it, guys. I just wanted to come over here and chat with you guys about my Invisalign and that quick little story about bagged y'all vegan restaurant in Marietta, Georgia, guys. So if you like videos like this of me just chatting, comment below, let me know. Like I said, I haven't been doing vlogs often, but I need to pick back on it. My website is finally up, so I have a lot more time to do other stuff for YouTube. And that's it, guys. So if you like videos like this, please comment below. And if you stay to the end of this video, please comment Coco, we see you. Guys, don't forget to follow me on Instagram at Coco Styles and why. And comment below anything you want me to talk about.  So this channel is for you and what you'd like to see and I am always all ears and open to it, guys. So I will catch you guys in the next one. Bye.


Yo, what is up guys and welcome back to the Johnny Q channel of Johnny Q here We're gonna make a 12 by 12 piece. Let's get into it. Here we go Of course, we're gonna go with a black base on this beautiful 12 by 12 And then I'm gonna hit it with a little bit of a neon blue Hit it with some of that dark blue All right, and then we're gonna hit it with some of this true blue and then for the last piece to resist Hot neon pink, baby. Oh, that's gonna. Oh, oh Baby, that's gonna look so good. All right a little bit more hot pink just because I wanted it All right, here we go check this out a little bit more hot pink. Let's do a little more hot pink So it's kind of getting lost in the translation of these colors. All right. Here we go. Let's get it Boom final result Look at that Let's call. I hope you like it. I like it. I'll catch in the next one. Peace


Live from the Hilton at Bonnet Creek, Orlando, Florida. Extracting the signal from the noise. It's theCUBE, covering Vision 2015. Brought to you by IBM. Welcome back to IBM Vision, everybody. This is Dave Vellante with my co-host, Sam Cahane. This is theCUBE. We're here live in Orlando. Ben Casanoca is here. Noted author, entrepreneur, thinker. Ben, welcome to theCUBE. Thanks so much for coming on. Thanks for having me. Coming off the keynote this morning. You challenged the audience to actually think about themselves as entrepreneurs. You laid out a bunch of adjectives, all the things that we want to be associated with agile, innovative, entrepreneurial. And it was very inspiring. So thanks for that. And what's your overall message? Appreciate it. Now, our message is simple. The world of work has changed. The modern career looks different today. What it takes to succeed and get ahead, we think requires a different set of skills and talents than maybe prior generations needed. It's a very competitive age, very dynamic age, technological change, all the things we hear about and read about in the newspapers. So we believe that the best way to adapt yourself, the best way to survive and thrive amidst all these challenges is to study what entrepreneurs do when creating amazing businesses. Because when you create a business, you do so in conditions of great uncertainty, lots of change, lots of competition. So study how entrepreneurs adapt their businesses, study how entrepreneurs build networks, study how entrepreneurs take risks and then apply those very same skills to your career and think of your own life, your own career as a business of one, as a startup of you. I got to ask you, so a lot of the theme of this conference is essentially machines doing cognitive work to help humans do better predictions. But when I think about entrepreneurialism, so much of it, you asked the question today, how many people here would consider themselves entrepreneurs on a scale of one to 10, 10 being better than Steve Jobs? So obviously no 10s, and this audience a couple of sevens. But gut feel, you know, it's gut feel a critical factor for an entrepreneur. You mean intuition? Yeah, intuition. Yeah, I think so. I think, you know, whether it's man or machine, whether it's intuition versus analysis, the answer is usually both. So it's man plus machine equals the greatest discoveries and revelations and creativity and new ideas and adaptation. It's your intuition combined with thoughtful, cost-benefit analysis or whatever the analysis might be. And so I think maybe to your larger point, Dave, on how kind of innate is an entrepreneurial disposition versus learned skills, I think it's both. I think personality tends to be something that you're born with and certain personality types and inclination certainly lead somebody to be more or less entrepreneurial. But I also think there's a set of real skills, real strategies, specific ways that entrepreneurs, for example, devise a plan knowing that they're going to have to adapt the plan, specific ways that entrepreneurs tap their network for intelligence in order to make better decisions. And I think anybody is capable of acquiring those skills. Yeah, so I think of like my old boss, the self-made billionaire, Pat McGovern, he did a lot of research, he had a huge network, but he was sampling. But he was doing a lot of data gathering. So what's changed today? Is it just more data? The sort of, you don't have to do these little bits of sampling or is that kind of sampling still critical and you're complimenting that with massive injections of data? Well, you know, one of the things we say in the book, the start of the view is that we live in a networked age and we talk about the concept of network literacy. So, you know, one of the ways we think about the word literacy is how that, how the meaning of that word has evolved. So it used to be that literacy meant, you know how to read and write, right? Are you fluid in a language to read and write? And then this guy, John Battelle, coined a phrase about 15 years ago called search literacy. He said, reading and writing is important, but in the Google era, we need to know how to search. We need to know how to acquire information on demand on the web, and that's its own sort of literacy that's necessary to succeed in the modern age. And we take that one step further and we say you actually have to also be network literate. You have to understand how networks work around you. You have to understand how to map your relationships. In the Facebook and LinkedIn era, network literacy is really important. So when it comes to what's different today, I think one of the key things that's different among other things is that it is a networked age. People are driving business, people drive change, and with social networks and social technology, we're able to keep track of who we know, we're able to stay in touch with those people and we're able to kind of leverage those relationships to make great change happen. Fantastic. So I want to ask you another question from your book. So in your book you mentioned, it's always great to have a couple questions in your back pocket. And one of those questions that I used that I took from your book was what's the most interesting thing you've learned over the past few months? Yeah. And while you're here I wanted to ask, what's the most interesting thing you've learned recently? Yeah, so in the context for our advice there is when it comes to building relationships which we think is the ultimate entrepreneurial skill I mentioned in my talk, we think of entrepreneurs as solo heroes and in fact they're amazing network builders. And one of the questions you can always ask somebody interesting is what's something you've learned in the last year. I think I kind of prompt a conversation and also maybe gather some great intelligence about something. I mean for me the thing that I've been thinking a lot about recently is one of the interesting puzzles of successful people is how much they sacrifice in their life in pursuit of yet one additional accomplishment. So you have people who are incredibly successful, incredibly wealthy and yet they continue to sacrifice all the things that we know contribute to happiness. So sleep, relationships, family and so on because they want yet one more accomplishment. And so kind of the basic question I ask myself is how ambitious should I be or should anybody be? What is worth sacrificing in pursuit of making a difference in the world and trying to serve others? And I'm just amazed when I see some of the most successful people in the world continue to push on the margins. And that's I think a pretty fundamental like life philosophy question that I think we all will grapple with all the time but I'm especially grappling with it as I think about what I want to be doing long term. I was speaking to an entrepreneur recently whose company got acquired. And I asked him are you sorry now now that you know that you got acquired because clearly you could have like run this thing up and he said no, no way. I'm an entrepreneur and all of us want to win. That's why we're in this game. And I think the best chance at winning was my company getting acquired and I'm winning now. Yeah. It's I reminded of pro athletes who have this innate desire to win. Is that, does your research show that that there's this, you're talking about sacrifices. I think the thing is is I think we all a lot of entrepreneurs, a lot of athletes are very competitive and they want to win and they put themselves in situations where they can win. The question I wonder about is once you win, how does it feel? It often doesn't feel as good as you think it would. I mean, there is an amazing amount of research plus anecdote would reinforce when you talk to people, how is your life different? How much happier are you? How much more meaning do you have after they've sold their company, after they've won a championship? And the answers coming right on the heels of the event tend to be pure euphoria. But six months, 12 months, 18 months later, it's kind of back to how it was before. And that's why this theme of never enough, it's like you need one more accomplishment, one more success, oh, I'll be happier if I just have one more million in the bank. But is that the case, right? And to me, seeing that it sometimes isn't often the case is what's giving me pause when I think about why am I, is it worth being so ambitious and willing to sacrifice to get that one incremental victory? So you're talking about John Battelle's search learning, search literacy concept. The most interesting thing I learned in the last month or so I didn't realize that the greatest chess player in the world was not a computer. It's actually a combination of computers and human teams. Gary Kasparov formed these teams, and so it dawns on me that the creativity of humans complimenting machines has quite potential for entrepreneurs. And then you talked about reading, writing, the three R's, reading, writing, arithmetic. Are we teaching our students the right things? Do we need to do math in our heads? Do we need to do formal writing? Do we need to focus more on creativity and combining ideas? I think certainly more on creativity. I think the broader question to ask is do we need to put our faith in the formal schooling system? Or can we simply teach either at home or perhaps at school or in church or whatever the institutions are? A kind of instinct for self-learning and permanent growth. Because a lot of time is when we think about how to make the world a better place or shape a population we go to. How do we reform the school system? To me it's like someone's in K-12 and maybe higher ed, and they're 21 or 22 years old, and then we've got 70 years ahead of them when they actually need to continue to learn. People that think that, oh, now I've, whatever I've done in school is all I need to know. They're setting up themselves up for failure. So to me, the really interesting question is not what do we have in the curriculum, but how do we inculcate an instinct for lifelong learning so that when the world changes, when it's no longer network literacy, it's the next thing they're ready to succeed. Are entrepreneurs inherently autodidactic? Can they teach themselves? Is that a tree? Yeah, I see. Well, I think there is an inclination. I also think it's an instinct that you can learn. In a sense, sometimes by necessity, kind of throwing yourself into the deep end, I think people that will take a risk and realize, oh my God, I'm dead unless I learn this new skill, unless I meet this person. That tends to be a pretty quick way to force yourself to do something. So I think entrepreneurial people recognize and need to always be learning and they find it within themselves or they partner with people who can help them learn whatever it is they need to know in order to get ahead. So when you talk about continued learning, how do you personally get, do you read books?  What is your personal source for new information? Well, everyone's different in this, so we all learn differently, process information differently. I tend to be a huge consumer of written content.  I'm not learning very much, I have no autonomy, and so even going to conferences, I hate listening to speakers speak for the most part because I just don't learn that way. To me, far more efficient and effective to read a book, take notes, and then write about it. It's like the process of reading, the process of writing, and so I'll read books and then I'll write reviews of the book or I'll read books and then write notes about the book, and that's how I learn and process. I think the interesting question is like, there's some knowledge that we can acquire that's kind of, like I'm reading the Robert Caro LBJ biography series right now and it's like kind of fascinating history of a time in American history and a portrait of someone who was incredibly ambitious and sacrificed an awful lot to reach the peak of power. That's like, to me, useful knowledge to have. The day-to-day knowledge that I need to make a great decision, everything from the utterly banal, like where should I grab lunch in Orlando, to what's the right event that I should participate in, for those questions I learned through talking to my network. I'm literally searching LinkedIn for people who have the key, who live, like I searched LinkedIn, I actually were coming here, for people who live in Orlando. Who do I know in Florida? Or who knows something about the consumer electronics industry if I'm evaluating an opportunity there. So that's what I mean when I say network literacy. It's for the day-to-day decisions that require or benefit from subjective judgment or insight, it's tapping the network and that's the way I learned to make those decisions. You know, it's interesting, so many people criticize social media because we're doing this at restaurants all day, but LinkedIn is quite interesting in that, in the way you're prescribing using LinkedIn, search who you know in Orlando and pick up the phone, talk to them, text them, I mean, get in touch with them, interact with them. It's, I mean, the social media is just the first step towards a real, rich interaction. Maybe it's in person, maybe it's not, nothing precludes those avenues. The thing is, it's just, it's hard to remember who do you know and what do they know, and so all we're doing is just kind of making that more accessible to every person in the world.   Or it's a person's one degree away. You're part of the genius, and this is a big difference between Facebook and LinkedIn. I mean, LinkedIn, the architecture is out to the second and third degree, because introductions are very powerful, and so, oh, I don't know anyone in Florida, but Dave knows somebody who lives in Florida. I'll ask Dave for an introduction, and the notion that with an introduction, you can access almost anybody in the world with any set of expertise is very, very powerful. Well, on theCUBE, I've interviewed 6,000 people in the last five years, so I can't remember everybody I've met on LinkedIn, but I want to ask you about positive attitude. Do you see that as a sort of thread throughout successful entrepreneurs, the power of positive thinking, the Norman Vincent Peel. Yeah, it is hard indeed to think of entrepreneurs who are pessimistic about their life. I mean, in a sense, the true entrepreneurs who are creating companies, we argue this is a broader philosophy, but the people who are creating companies are almost likely optimistic about their circumstances. If they were just thinking rationally, perhaps they wouldn't embark on an otherwise quixotic expedition. I think the thing, I'm always interested in holding two ideas in opposition in your head at once, so in this context, I think optimism is really powerful, really important, and there's lots of research on positive psychology, and that's a new movement in psychology historically. It was this kind of field of negativity, and just in the last 20 years, people like Martin Seligman and others have written about positive psychology very powerfully. At the same time, one also needs to stare reality in its face, and sometimes do grapple with unfortunate circumstances, and how to both be optimistic and believe you can, but also know when it's time to quit. I mean, I've never liked entrepreneurs or advice givers that never give up. That's the key to success. It's like, no, actually, you do want to give up sometimes. Sometimes you do want to restart, and part of what judgment and experience teaches you is when to give up and when to persist. That's a hard thing to know how to do. Well, you know, the whole fail fast thing, but now, of course, you live in California and Silicon Valley, and so you kind of live in a distorted reality field, and so is that, a lot of people say to me, a lot of young entrepreneurs would say, had I known what I know now, I would have given up. But now I'm incredibly successful. Does that naivete, is that an advantage? I think so.  And, you know, VCs are in the business of backing those underdogs, people who, everyone's against them. Everyone's rooting against them, and they try to take on the world and change society for the better. So yeah, I do think that's a challenge that people have experienced, and that's why the famous Dune, the line from Dune of Beginner's Mind, is really, is a powerful idea. How do you cultivate the beginner's mind? How do you recreate the mentality that you had when you were young? And I always love the Picasso quote of, you know, we're all born artists and it gets beaten out of us as we get older. And I feel like sometimes it gets beaten out of me.  So how do you recapture it?  And, you know, I don't have, I don't think there is a silver bullet, but to me, one of the ways I try to do that is by surrounding myself with people who think that way. We're social creatures, we absorb the influences of others. And if I ask you who are the five people you spend the most time around, I probably can tell you quite a lot about how you think and why you think because those people are influencing you.  So, let me ask you, Ben, to talk to our audience, talk to the young people out there, sort of summarize your premise, your thinking, your advice to these people in terms of many, many, many folks in our audience want to be entrepreneurs, they're aspiring, they're passionate, they take risks, they're willing to take those risks. As I say, they're not married and don't have four kids. So, good time to take risks. Yeah. What do you tell them? You know, I think there's rarely advice that applies universally to everyone in every circumstance. So, you know, perhaps the meta kind of cop out answer would be first know yourself and know your circumstances and understand what your own limitations are in realities. Not a cop out, that's great advice. Don't just dive in off the cliff, we don't understand what the water level is. Exactly, my co-author Reed has a line, which is, you know, when you start a company, you're just like jumping off a cliff and building an airplane on the way down.   So, yeah, I think there's this misconception of like, I want to be an entrepreneur but I can't because I have a job or I can't because I don't have a lot of savings and people think like, yeah, to be an entrepreneur means you max out your credit cards and just take massive amounts of wild risk. And it's like, no, it doesn't mean that. In fact, you want to take incremental risks, you want to take small steps, you want to be experimental, you want to start a side project, you want to be learned by doing, iterate. And you can take baby steps and inch your way towards whatever your dream company is. Most important, I think, through everything, you know, if you had to pick a universal force that transcends, it comes back to the theme we've been talking about, which is, you can't do it alone. You have to work with others. You have to have a team of people around you. Life's a team sport. And so, who are the people closest to you? Who's supporting you? What does your family think? What do your friends think? Who are your mentors?  I think everybody who's had successes or failures point to the people around them as the reasons they were able to be their best self. And a lot of young people say, well, I don't know anybody, right? And I don't know anybody who could help me. And the great thing about the internet today, and that was kind of my case, I didn't know anybody who'd started a company, but I was able to go online and connect with people. It used to be, if you were stuck in Timbuktu and didn't know anybody who could help you, you were kind of screwed. Today you can go online and connect with other people anywhere in the world. I mean, the first person I worked with lived in Bangladesh, of all places. And he was amazing. And so, there are communities out there, outside your physical geography, tap into those communities, build your relationships, have a support network. You'll really need them. The network is the computer and the network is the power of the entrepreneur, Ben Casanoca. Thanks so much for coming to theCUBE, really. We appreciate your time. Thank you. All right, keep right there. Everybody will be back with our next guest right after this. This is theCUBE, we're live from IBM Vision, Orlando. We'll be right back.


The Unknown Series was supposed to be the last season of Spongebob, before the series could finally end, however throughout the year 2011 writer made a bootleg copy of the Unknown Series and then gave it to someone else. I went to my computer to look for full episodes of Spongebob, when I came across an e-day auction that said, Spongebob Unknown Series, bootleg copy, 2001. I was so excited. Not only I can experience a lost episode, but I can actually live through it, since I've seen countless amounts of lost episodes that Joy soon faded, when I had to look at the price. It was only $2 but the seller also gave a note to send some change and for your purchase I grabbed my wallet and grabbed the copy. About two hours later, a knock was heard, it was my favorite UPS man Gert, he was a generous and unhumble man, I loved him, since I was two years old. I said hi Gert, got my package. He pulled out and B-E-P shaped package and then told me, You don't need to sign anything at all, you can go ahead and grab this. He said, giving off and smile, he knew I wanted that package, I tipped my UPS man and opened the package. I came across an odd Spongebob D-E-D called Spongebob, unknown I opened the D-E-D to find a blank CD jewel case in the box called Spongebob. I knew that it was for the PC, so I got out my laptop and inserted the disk, then a notification popped up saying please scan for viruses I scanned it, it was perfectly clean. I grabbed two cans of root beer, two slices of pizza and watched. The menu was normal, it showed unsmiling Spongebob which has face up clothes on the side of the logo and selection. I hover overseen selectively and clicked. The episodes were normal, these are the normal episodes. Wormy. SP 129. Valentine's Day. The Paper. The Great Snail Race. To Spongebob TV Movies, the Lost Episode and Spongebob's House Party. Then I came across the episode, unknown, I was confused, so I hover over the mouse and double clicked in the episode. It played a short video cutscene, before the intro played. It began with a normal intro, when suddenly the entire intro reversed over and over and over again. But then, in the last one, Spongebob frowned the screen and then the title screen showed. Unknown. Written by, Baltic. Then it began with Spongebob snoring as usual, then he woke up without his clock waking him. He turned around and said softly. Good morning, Gary. He mewed, waking up out of his newspaper pile. He got up and did his average normal things like every Spongebob episode would have. Then, when he got outside and looked left, there was a major issue with Bikini Bottom. There were organs, glass and screaming coming from there. He shrugged and said to the audience. Life is usually weird at Bikini Bottom. He said giving off an tired, slash annoyed look. He got inside and noticed that the TV was displaying something that made the Spongebob turn blue with fear. There, in the TV was this announcement. Bikini Bottom, we're going to pick an emergency lockdown. I repeat emergency lockdown.  Spongebob screamed and said, What do we do? He said holding his sponge sides. He raced around till suddenly, the cops locked up everyone inside the house then silence. Day one, Spongebob lost feeling sick and he couldn't walk right. He said he keeps hearing voices telling him to do twisted things. Day two, Spongebob lost going insane. He killed Gary and ate his flesh and mucus. Day three, the cops came back to Spongebob's house to check on him, they said. This is the police. Stand your guard. Spongebob only uttered three words. Shrapped and lost. One cop lost so afraid, he said. You okay, sir? He put an hand in his arm. Spongebob lost so insane he growled at them and ate their entire bodies. Then two FBI's entered the mayor's office and said, Sir, our mission's in success. The mayor smiled evil. Good. The episode ended. Go holy man, that episode lost so disturbing I destroyed the CDN box. I tried contacting everyone but to no one. Then I got an email from Paul saying these words. That wasn't me who made that episode.


All right welcome to the next installment of Junction City news if I'm keeping track correctly this is our third one so Getting into a little bit of a groove here And I am Regina Mahoney. I'm the city manager for the city of Essex Junction and On today's show. We've got two members of the tree advisory committee here with me Nick Meyer who is the chair of the tree advisory committee and then Warren spinner who is on the committee and also the city's tree warden So thanks to you both for joining me And so let's get started by giving our viewers an overview of the tree advisory committee What it does? What's the background? and Yeah Well, I think you know some background information of what how we got started probably is in order and It goes back to around 2012 where there were a group of interested citizens kind of looking at beautification in the downtown area of Berlin of excuse me of Essex and at that time It was looking pretty shabby a lot of it. So Some residents got together we built flower boxes for some of the Businesses in town Sandy Willie was very involved in working with the the Brown L library and Then developing some of the plantings around the railroad crossings So that was kind of a start and then we were brainstorming and thinking well, what's going on with the trees in the village and I Had a background as being I started in forestry And then I moved into horticulture and had an apple orchard for a long time and At that point we said well, you know, this is a really valuable resource and it really needs to be managed well and and it seemed that Public works was kind of in charge of of the the trees, but it was mostly triage of Damage trees cutting them down. There was no real advocate for them. So we Started to have some more meetings and then brought in some people Warren spinner was a perfect choice given that he was the Arborist for the city of Burlington and he was the tree warden in Essex so he was a wealth of information to get us going and We came up with sort of the plan to approach the trustees at that point of And pleaded our case. So it was really a resident led approach to try and get a committee form and Some people might say You know Vermont's got a lot of trees. What's the important? You know Vermont is 80% forested but the importance of trees in the urban landscape is extremely valuable and we When you look at things like pavement and the heat sink The value of trees are so great, you know, and I'll go through a few of them in terms of Oxygen they make oxygen they Clean the air Their stormwater value, which we can all relate to right now is very important in that they can Slow down the percolation of the water or at least stop it until it slowly drips on the ground They're beautiful They hold the soil in place they provide shade And they help keep high temperatures down to shade pavements and other things so We talked about that and why it's important to have trees and to really look at it from the in the village of Essex Junction village at that point and the Trustees agreed with us and they said yeah, I think we could do something and We started to work on a Policy a committee We were given a Number of tasks to do one was to Conduct a tree inventory and we had to know what we had in the in the in the village for public trees and we received a grant from the Vermont urban community forestry program to do a complete inventory of the city of Street trees There are other trees. What makes a public tree. It's not just street trees. It's park trees trees that belong to the To the city, but we focused just on street trees at that time Not only looking at the trees that we had we looked at the condition of it we Species and we looked at opportunities of where we might be able to plant more trees so that gave us a blueprint to work with and We next developed a home management plan for the trees in the city What our other tasks were to Have an Arbor Day event to work in educating the public about the value of trees and To expand the canopy the urban canopy and finally to work with the Planning department and The DRB board it wasn't a DRB board at that time was a planning commission To develop guidelines in the land development code and then to Assist them when they asked for us about Landscape plans that came in So that's sort of where we we started great and Yeah All right So that sounds great and it it's interesting. I've heard article recently about This the excessive heat wave that's happening in the south and the importance of that shading and how critical it is because it just Absorbs that heat and just keeps turning it around so Great so I understand that the tree advisory committee is a hands-on committee So what are some of the projects and activities you do throughout the year? Well, we are our committee is amazing. We've got a great talented group from Warren We've got a landscape architect on our and we've got just enthusiastic committee members who weren't afraid to get their hands dirty So we do a array of things that From Advice and we work very closely with the public works department. We have a wonderful relationship with them We can offer the expertise for questions that they have about hazardous trees Questions from homeowners will often be thrown to us and we will meet with homeowners to Try and help them out about questions that they have or concerns that they have about a street tree we public works we do the planning and To determine locations for new trees that are going to be going into the community and Work planning and ordering of the trees and then Executing the planting. We don't do all the planting ourselves as a committee. We do work with Some contractors to help us So that's a big big process and We have planted since 13 or 14. I think over 250 trees We and counting You know the public works helps us out in a great way because I handle the watering which is critical for a tree's first year and So we are grateful for them The can I interrupt just on the I've seen those green Thing tree Gators and they hold about 15 to 20 gallons of water And so we're able to put those out and it slowly trickles it down into the root zone So we'll fill those once a week However, we have not had two of the last three weeks given the amount of rain that we've had. Yep It can stop We'll get back to watering. That's okay We We knock on a lot of doors too, you know when we do our if we're deciding on locations because we do want to engage Village residents of what we're doing and if they have a real concern Now we will we address it. We also We can plant in the public right away We try to do that first, but if we find that we're on a street where There's more opportunity to plant on private property. We one of the first policies we developed Years ago was a policy to plant on private property Which would allow us come in plant the tree and then we'd maintain it for a year or two And then it becomes the responsibility of the homeowner, but it's allowed us to plant more trees So we do a combination of both in our planting process Yeah We we oversee sort of the maintenance of trees for the village pruning that's necessary and doing all this to create You know Something very sustainable of the urban canopy that's not going to have Big surprises of storm damage and other things to keep the trees healthy Well, we've heard from our public works director that our efforts are It's working. There has been not a lot of damage Yeah, the last thing I looked at was a lightning strike, but it didn't damage that it didn't hurt anybody or anything Which was nice. Yeah we do an Arbor Day event and again part of it is education and in that case we have been in every school In the in the city and we rotate around to the different schools this past year we were at Hiawatha and We go in and work them in it depends if it's going to be a just a classroom that wants to do it in this case at Hiawatha it was the The earth rangers it was a group that was trying to do things at the school and they were incredibly enthusiastic about And so we we planted a tree there. We've done You know in number of cases the whole school has been there and there have been so it's it's it's really an important part to Teach younger generation about the value and they can be taking the the banner from us Yeah And there was a this year the first Tree and history walk Yeah, we It's one of the programs that we do that we wanted to do was to have a tree walk Being the arborists for several years in burlington. I'd done a lot of this with branch out burlington and found that it's quite popular The folks in the community like it so we Have been planning this for over a year and and made it happen We were and I wanted to do history of the of the city of sx junction as well as trees And we were able to make that happen the only other time i've known in vermont to have a historical Tree walk was in stowe. It was done several years ago And I said ah that was a great idea. So let's see if we can do it and and we did we were able to get Tim german to help us Who came back in he knows sx junctions history really well and it was a treat to be able to do that It was yeah, so that was uh, uh, a great Event for us we had 25 people, you know for a first event like that. So that was a great showing They want more of it. Yep. Yeah Okay, so you uh, warren you mentioned branch out burlington. Can you tell us what that is about and Um, what our partnership with them is sure uh branch out burlington, um I think was formed in the mid 90s um, it was the result of the A program that was started nationally the vermont urban community for the urban community forestry movement from the federal government from the department of agriculture And part of that was part of that was to each Each state in the u.s. To have an urban community forester and then an urban community forestry council and then try to establish um tree groups within the communities within the given state So branch out burlington that was a push to form because burlington being the largest city in vermont We were working with the state urban community forester and we Talked to a couple of individuals and margaret skinner is the president and i've worked with her for several years and she's still uh president of branch out burlington and um Can't even begin to tell you all of the great things that that it's basically a citizen activist group for the trees And enhancing burlington's urban forest. So I worked directly with them for for years and then um upon my retirement a few years ago I was asked because I could not I was like an ex officio on the board. I couldn't be a part of it But after I retired they wrote me in And asked if I would be a member and uh ironically another member of our tree committee in sx junction Is a member of branch out burlington as well So the partnership that we have with them and working with their community tree nursery Which we established 13 14 years ago Has done tremendous things for burlington helping them get many trees Planted and the beauty of that is we could get Different cultivars and species of trees that we couldn't ordinarily go and get from the nursery because they could be out of stock So we get them in young grow them up then bring them back into the city and plant them So because of our partnership and then us being also helping this was the sx junction helping in the branch out nursery They asked us if we would like to have a row or two To plant our own trees for the city of sx junction and bring them back in so we we started that three or four years ago And we're we've been bringing trees back into the village and planting them for two years now So it's been a great Collaboration and partnership with them and much appreciated It's been um and it's really added value to Stretch our budget in the in the city Because we can grow a really great tree for far less than what we can purchase it for It also allows an opportunity for People who may not want to be sitting at meetings to uh be involved in the field We have a giant planting day in the first saturday in may where there'll be 50 or so people out there helping put all these trees in the ground and I think we Are offering volunteers to The organization Absolutely, we go back in and help them in the summer where we have Weeding bees they're called up there so Every time there's one we get at least most of our committee goes up and helps with the nurseries So that's the kind of collaboration They knew they could count on with us and that's why they like to partner with us And we partner with them on another educational thing. We do try and do a a tree training workshop Every spring and um So we can send residents of The junction to go in it it's geared towards the homeowner and it's it's worked out pretty well. Yeah How to plant maintain and take care of trees cool So great, okay So Nick I think you talked about this already that sx junction is um part of the Designated a tree city USA community Anything else to add about that? Sure A great program. I've been involved with the arbor day foundation for years in burlington and We once we got ourselves Established in the city of sx junction. We said well Let's put an application in Because to start where there's four criteria that you need you need a a tree board or A designated person like a tree warden or or a city arborist or urban forester Then you need a tree policy or ordinance.  Then you need a Budget of at least two dollars per capita um And then an arbor day Um event and an arbor day proclamation So those are the four criteria that you need so we Already had the tree board We had our management plan And we had the policy before the management plan So we were we had all of the things together and we'd been doing arbor day activities So I said let's go for it. Yeah, so this was year number eight and In the budget is made up of What what we get from the city to manage the trees plus they allow volunteer hours Okay, so We had we had we're doing great. Yeah, awesome Okay, so uh one hot topic in the tree world is the emerald ash borer Um, it's now been detected in nearby communities What has the tree advisory committee done to lessen this problem in s-extinction? Well, we started by First thing we needed to do is with the inventory. How many ash trees do we have? in the public right away Or parks or wherever in the public Means of the city city. So we have the inventory. We already knew what we had we knew where they were and Knew that emerald ash borer was coming and we had to deal with it so we got together and Did an urban not an urban forestry plan, but a uh emerald ash borer management plan to go where there are other plans and Got some great assistance with the vermont urban community forestry council again that program not the council but the program and Put that together Then went to the trustees at the time Showed them our plan told them what we were faced with And they gave us the okay and gave us some money the first year to start implementing the program so emerald ash borer has been in been in the state for six years now and it's in eight of our um Eight different areas or date basically counties in the state Surrounding so it's all around us And we're very vigilant about keeping our eyes open for it We're watching three trees now that i've got to give a closer look at And we started we're knocking on doors So the the people in the neighborhoods are well aware of what it is because nick and i typically go out and We let people know what's going on. We started inter planting between existing trees And then saying that then we started proactively removing trees so Folks are now used to what we're doing and we've had great success. We've had no one Refuse us and Now they know what emerald ash borer already is and they're ready So we've been proactively working with that now for at least Five years four or five years. Yeah, yeah, and visually in those neighborhoods they planted Solid ash on both sides of the street. So When the borer comes in and starts you they will be Decimated after three years. So it's going to be a dramatic change to the landscape there. So trying to You know make it a little bit easier to have stuff coming along We're able to get great help from the public works department and in the city to help us remove trees grind stumps And you know, it's great because the residents are now used to seeing this and Oh, it's nice. It's nice for them to see us. It's just the residents and the other side of the street that The trees belong to them that they have to be they're responsible for it, right? Yeah, we'll give them advice. Yeah, well our public education we we work with everyone And try to help them make decisions. Yep. Yeah Okay, um, great. So, um, You've got um, talked quite a bit about your events. Um, can you let me know what your next event coming up is? We are going to be doing a, um Um Not it's not the awesome tree contest. It is the greatest greatest tree contest So that'll be that'll be something new this fall that we're going to be You know putting out there it'll be on the website front porch forum and we're going to be looking for residents In the village to come up with their awesome tree and why Or okay, so you're not setting the criteria necessarily. You're sort of leaving. We're leaving it pretty open the first even it open And we hope to have some prizes for people too, right awesome. Yeah Or that that's going to be a fall project. Yeah, and that's another opportunity to have engagement with yeah It can be really fun. Yeah Looking forward to it. Okay. You got one in mind. I don't now, but now I'm going to keep my eyes Okay, so can you let me know when the committee meets and how people can volunteer to help Yeah, we meet the um the third tuesday of the month at five o'clock five to seven usually and uh, yeah Five thirties incorrect. Yeah. Oh, yes. Yep Okay, um you can go to the website and find the information. Yeah, and um, we'd love to have People to come in sit in our meetings see if they want to get Involved, you know in the various areas that they might like to And we're trying to be better about some of the work events that we have to let people know about those to come out Say working at the nursery Or uh the planting day that we have in may so Great. Mm-hmm. All right. Is there anything else you would like to add? I don't think so No, that about covers it. Yeah, awesome Pretty involved and excited to be Making the city of sx junction greener. Yeah, and with healthy trees. Yeah, awesome. Well, it's Such a great service. So really appreciate it Um, okay. I'm just gonna run through a couple Other things really quick depending on how much time I have. Okay. Um, so just so folks are aware Uh city clerk surfaces services are now back at two Lincoln street for the city So if you've gotten anything to do with the clerk's office come right to two Lincoln Um Our property tax bills will be mailed on august 15th Um, and if you've got any change of address or anything like that, please Let us know the We've a couple if you are in the city, you know, we've got a couple of construction projects going on Right now, uh, some of those are on delay as that As our contractors are helping Really appreciate that they're able to do this help some of the other communities that have been hit very Devastatingly over the last two weeks. So if you see a hold up, that's what's happening They will be circling back to sx junction and getting the work done as quickly as they can because they know how important it is For us to get those going And one thing to keep in mind is all of our businesses and sx junction in those areas are Open so please come out and support those folks And uh, that would be much appreciated Okay, anything else to add No, no, thanks for having us. Yes, absolutely Thank you so much everybody. We'll see you next uh month for the fourth installment of sx city news


Was that initially, was that play initially coming to you? And you shot and mentioned something for yourself? Listen, did you have a free opportunity for somebody else? Yeah, he drew up to play for me to get that same ISO. But I just felt like Kai had it going to hold for it. To start the fourth, he made big shots. He made tough shots all four. I came in there, I usually come in there about five, six minutes in the fourth, seven minutes sometimes. And he already cooking. So I don't want to get in his way. So we kept finding him late in the game. He made some big shots. And I was just like, Jog, I think Kai should take this one, especially since he had Van Fleet. And I say he's a bad defender, but they the same size. He didn't have a six-nine Barnes on him or a six-five guy on him. They had a guy that was a size. So I felt like he could get whatever he wanted there. And I also felt like they wasn't going to run and double him either at the top of the key, because he obviously could just beat that. So they let him play one-on-one. And man, it was a special, special shot. Why do you think he's so comfortable in that moment? Just playing free. I mean, that's just who he is. He's a free spirit. And he takes that approach on the court. He never rattled. He never feels like he's sped up. And we trust him, you know? Once he got into his move and pulled up for a shot, it was a wide-open look. And he's an all-time great shooter. So I had confidence that as soon as he rose up for the shot that it was going in. I'm sure everybody back in Brooklyn and all the team, everybody on the bench felt the same way. What changed?  Was it just a matter of playing harder? Yeah, we ramped up our pressure a little bit. We got into the ball a little bit more, and I think that sped them up, and we was able to get some stops. So yeah, I think we, I wouldn't say we played harder. I just think we made us a quick adjustment to up our pressure on the ball. Our point of attack defense, we were switching out a little bit. We were switching out closer to the ball. We wasn't playing off our man, so they can just drive around us or shoot. I just think we were aggressive in everything that we did on the defensive side, and it fed on to the offense. And we was able to get over that hump and get a lead going to the fourth. Defensively, how big was making that 34? I mean, he was huge, six blocks. Six blocks, I mean, he blocked their center twice at the rim, and that's tough to do. So that makes everybody else a little nervous coming into the paint. So he protected it for us tonight, and we're going to need that going forward. How would you describe the confidence level that you guys have now by the role? Yeah, I think we just figure out, we kind of understand the way we want to play. And I think that's always the good part about finding your identity in the league is that now you can start relaxing a bit, going into games for parents when you know your role. You know you understand exactly how we want to play the game. So everybody's coming in more relaxed, but also with a sense of urgency, knowing this is what we do, this is the type of team we are, and I think we're building that every day. We always talk about just stacking them up, just keep stacking them days. And I think everything matters. So we add another game into the probably watching tomorrow and see how we can get better.