In 2019, ThinkTech was focused on integrating Zoom with its VMIX broadcasting system that left us well prepared to deal with COVID. Our transition to remote appearances with Zoom in the time of COVID has been seamless and we have also been able to add Zoom webinars for larger programs. More than ever, ThinkTech is an important platform for civic engagement, not only on the issues and events that arise and revolve in the ordinary course of local, national, and global development, but also on the extraordinary issues and events that arise here in the time of COVID. We live in a world of chaos and dramatic, irreversible change. And as it works out, ThinkTech is able to cover and comment on those changes. We stream 30 live talk shows a week on the issues and events that are changing our world with a variety of hosts and guests in Hawaii and elsewhere. Our citizen journalists are connected with these seed changes and they connect our community with those changes. We have done that over the years and we will do it increasingly and increasingly well in the face of an uncertain future. We are gratified to be able to do it for the community and for you. Watch our videos on thinktechawaii.com, YouTube, Vimeo, and social media, sign up for our daily email advisories to see the shows we've done and the shows we're doing and contribute what you can to help support our efforts in these difficult and unpleasantly interesting times. I'm Jay Fiedel, Mahalo. Welcome to our 2020 ThinkTech Holiday Party and Awards Program. ThinkTech now in our 20th year of serving the community. In this time of COVID, we're joining you virtually by Zoom. I'm Jay Fiedel, CEO of ThinkTech, and we're delighted to have you all here. Our sponsor, as for so many years in the past, is the law firm of Clay, Chapman, Iwamuro, Police, and Nervell. And the joyful holiday music you just heard is courtesy of our friends, the Carolers. Mahalo to them. And I'm Carol Monly, Executive Vice President of ThinkTech. On behalf of our directors, underwriters, staff, and program hosts, thank you for joining us today. We can't go any further without an Oli, especially this year. Our Oli tonight, as for many years in the past, is by Kalee Akinah, one of our longest-running ThinkTech hosts. Aloha mai kākō e Māho aloha. Aloha. I'm Kalee Akinah, your trustee at large in the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and President of the Grassroot Institute. I want to wish to you and your ohana and everyone in the ThinkTech Hawai'i community a warm holiday season. Please receive this special blessing and Oli. O nāna ita hāla meta lehua, e hale lehua no yana tanoe, o ta'u no ria e ano i nei, e alia nei. Ho'i o ta'i tima, hikimai no tō, a hikipu no mete aloha, aloha. Great. Thank you so much, Kalee. Mahalo. What are we here for? Those challenging and stressful year, we do have reason to cheer and celebrate the good work of others and to give thanks to ThinkTech's viewers, supporters, and friends. A moment about the state of ThinkTech. As a Hawai'i non-profit digital media company, we have always strived to give special meaning to the public conversation. In this year, as no other, our unique voice has grown and is being heard above the chaos around us. This is because of our unique skills on virtual connection, our persevering staff, and the heightened inspiration and dedication of our dozens of citizen journalist hosts. The talent of our citizen journalist hosts has expanded our coverage to include fast-moving developments in the pandemic, the devastating effects on our economy, the re-examination of critical social issues, the consequences of our political divide, and the serious impact of these things on global issues and events. Every year we're honored to present a distinguished leader in our community to address you. This year, we're honored to hear from a man for all seasons in sports, business, media, and community leadership, Honolulu's new and very promising Mayor-Elect, Rick Langiardi. Good morning, and aloha. I'm going to ask to say a few words by Jay Fidel, and I'm really honored to be able to do this in privilege. Let me just start off by saying it's now December 3rd. I have my Christmas shirt on. We're less than a month from being sworn in, and I come at you today with a incredible sense of challenge and also appreciation and gratitude for the people who turned out to vote for us in this campaign, and actually vote for me, if you will, to be the person to step up and to lead us during these incredible times that we're feeling and honolulu. I will tell you, as I said throughout the campaign, I am up for the challenge, but I said repeatedly, this is too big a job for any one person, and I'm not going to do it alone. And a goal, one job, one was going to be to put together a team, and so I want to give a quick update on that. Very excited about what's happened. We created a portal in conjunction with the city so we could fulfill all the HR protocols. We closed that portal last night, midnight, and we've had over 600 applications come in with great cover letters, people vying for the Cabinet positions and the Deputy Director positions that we have available, and we've put together our transition team that's going to evaluate those resumes and cover letters, and then beginning on December 11th and 12th, and then the following week, the 18th and 19th, over the course of four days, we have two, five, three, five person teams that will be interviewing the candidates who were selected to be interviewed, and there will be quite a few interviews going on. Before then, they're going to be handing over to myself and Mike Formby, who is our managing director. So we've created a process now and an opportunity, if I could say it, being an old coach, you know, this is sort of like open tryouts. That's exactly what we want it to do. We want it to reach into the private sector and say, look, we are at a point in time that none of us could have imagined. This is an incredible leadership challenge. It's too big for any one person who is looking to join us, who are the people who want to embrace the accountability that we have on us right now to help lead them through these times. So I'm very excited about that. I'm also, again, very grateful. This is, you know, my whole life, I've been in leadership roles, much of which has happened in this community, not all. My decision to run for mayor a year ago was something I never really anticipated, but we did. We made the decision, now here we are. So I feel an incredible sense of responsibility. I just want to make that clear to everybody and everybody that we bring in, I want them to share in that sense of responsibility, that understanding that people are going to hold this far really high for us, and that we have to deliver. So it's going to be about making things happen. And I'm excited about that. The other thing I want to say is that, you know, I was quoted recently about saying we need to learn to live with this disease because I've heard repeatedly about people want to get back to norms. We've all talked about it. We all know about this fatigue that all of us have gone through as a result of COVID. Look, I would tell you that learning to live with the disease is the acceptance of the fact that this is not going to go away anytime soon. And we're encouraged just of late in the last week or so about the imminence, if you will, of vaccines, but even then we're not going to be in a situation to probably second quarter or whatever. We've just, we have to, living with this disease for me is about personal responsibility. We've been given the directives on the protocols. You don't need to hear them over and over again. They're really pretty simple about wearing masks. You're responsible to each other, socially distanced, avoiding the large gatherings, at least for now until we get clearance. And it's a real good reason to believe we're going to stop moving up in tears because the instances here in Hawaii, here in Honolulu, especially, we're showing some really good numbers now. So it's, you know, about the social distancing. It's about washing our hands. But really understanding that we owe it to each other to help us get through this period of time, which is unprecedented.  I've told people, I don't think I've ever felt a sense of responsibility like this in anything that I've ever done before, because there's so much at stake for so many people. And so in that regard, I promise you we're going to do our very best. We can't solve everything overnight. I ask for some patience, but know that we will attack everything that we possibly can on as many fronts as we can to stop moving us forward. We will get through this. I'm very confident we're going to select a great team and I also hold great hope in that team and their capabilities to serve you. So I want to take this opportunity to really just wish everybody festive holidays. I know it's been tough. It was just even weird going through Thanksgiving last week for all of us. Every year, we've always had big family gatherings. We did it. There were three of us eating that turkey together. And now we get into the Christmas and New Year and Hanukkah seasons and everything else. So find the joy in our heart. Let's keep working forward. This is, you know, I'm very much a realist, but I know that better times are ahead and we'll do everything we can to help make that happen. So on behalf of you, my family, my wife, my children, I wish everybody very happy holidays. We look forward to a great year together and a great new beginning for us. I promise to do the very best I can to serve you as the next mayor of the city and county of Honolulu. Thank you very much. We wish you all the best in your first term as our mayor. Now on to the ceremonies and celebrations. First, our community service awards. Think Tech regularly honors community organizations, but this year, recognition is more important than ever. Since these organizations have guided, comforted and supported our community during a very difficult and threatening chapter in our history. Our first community service award goes to Project Vision Hawaii for Outstanding Service to the Community. The citation reads as follows, for its creative and admirable innovations to improve access to health and health care for the people of Hawaii during the time of COVID by the expansion of its mobile health screening program from one statewide screening unit to four, serving all counties and screening more than 115,000 patients across the state. And by the expansion of its mobile hygiene program to include showers and hygiene supplies to maintain high level sanitation in communities experiencing homelessness or access to care challenges related to income, disability, lack of insurance, geographical location or cultural conflict. We recognize, acknowledge and offer our most heartfelt thanks to Project Vision Hawaii and its management staff and volunteers for the success of their efforts to help the homeless and the disadvantaged in our community stay healthy. Here to accept the award for Project Vision Hawaii is its executive director, Darra Kauhane. Hello, my name is Darra Kauhane. I'm the executive director of Project Vision Hawaii. We're so grateful for this honor today. And this recognition means the world to our team who has been working tirelessly to serve the community, especially during the pandemic. Project Vision strives to provide increased access to health equality locally and internationally now that we've merged with the Hawaiian Eye Foundation. And we're a humble but mighty group that forces collaborations and partnerships with other organizations here in Hawaii and abroad. We have the largest mobile health vision and hygiene fleet in the state. For our vision buses, hygiene trailers, mobile clinics, they provide services for remote communities throughout the state and for our houseless community. Our roots are obviously in vision care, hence the name. We continue to provide those vision screenings, exams, glasses, and eye surgeries to those in needs. But thanks to our founders, Annie Valentin and Ann Chip Chase, we've grown to address other needs that we've seen while out providing vision services. And those include hot showers, hygiene supplies, food stamp registrations, Medicaid registrations, housing placements, case working, document help, anything that we can find to remove the barriers for our brothers and sisters that are living on the streets or those who are suffering and especially during the pandemic. Those that have lost so much, we just try to help anywhere that we can. During COVID, we've been an integral part of the race against COVID for the houseless community and those in congregate setting. It's been a huge blessing to work with the Department of Health, with Partners in Care, with the Institute for Human Services, just to name a few, to serve our individuals in need, our clients in need. As many of you know, there was an outbreak within the shelters and we've been able to test, on a cadence, test our homeless individuals so that we can prevent a further spread of the coronavirus. So we've absolutely had to switch gears, as many other groups have had to during this time. But because of it, we actually just finished a strategic plan and we will be formally moving towards mobile health in general. And so we look forward to continuing our services. And we thank you for the recognition today for the work that we're striving to do and the growth that we've experienced in this past year. Thanks for your work and service to the community, Vera. And congratulations. Our next community service award goes to NAMI Hawaii, the Hawaii chapter of the National Lines on Mental Illness. The citation reasons follow. For its admirable and continuing efforts to help people and families whose lives have been affected by mental illness in our community. To every extent possible, those efforts have continued during and especially in these emotionally challenging times of COVID with a variety of free programs for community-based education, recovery, family support and advocacy provided with kindness and care in safe, confidential and non-threatening settings to share the struggles of mental illness and promote hope for those who have been affected. We recognize, acknowledge and offer our most heartfelt thanks to NAMI Hawaii and its management staff and volunteers for their relentless efforts to help people recover and deal with mental illness in our community. Here to accept the award is Executive Director Kumi Okutama. Aloha, thank you so much. I am so privileged to be a part of this wonderful award. And NAMI Hawaii is so honored to be selected, to be a winner. We have been through a tough year and we know that mental health has always been important but more so now with the pandemic and all of the riots that happened and the elections that happened, there was so much stress this year. More than ever, how important mental health is for our community. This past year, we were able to reach more people than ever before because of a new platform called Zoom. We're all using it now. And it's been able to connect the islands. It's been able to get services to people who otherwise would not be able to get services in the past because they were on another island or because they didn't have transportation. And now we're able to help everyone statewide who ever needs the help. And we were one of the first in the nation to start with online programming in the nation. We were one of the first to have support groups for people in stress, living in recovery from mental health. We also have family support groups that meet online. We were able to do workshops, conferences, trainings and so many different classes to educate our families on how to be better family members to people who are struggling with serious mental illnesses. And all of these programs are provided free of charge to our community. And we've noticed an uptake at least double in the request for services this past year. And we know through some of the more recent news coverages that mental health organizations are closing left and right. Of over 50% of them have closed since the pandemic because they're not able to stay afloat. But Nami, Hawaii with the support of our community we're still able to provide services and we're relevant more than ever. So I'm so honored to be a part of this community. Think Tech Hawaii has invited us from the very beginning since I've been here six and a half years ago and we have partnered with many other projects in the past. So we are so honored to receive this award and grateful for all of your support and your community efforts. Thank you very much for all that you do. And let's continue to move forward to help our community get better services, get more information and help those who are in need. Thank you very much. Thank you for your work and service to community and congratulations. Our third community service award goes to the Medical Intensive Care Unit, MICU at the Queens Medical Center. The citation reads as follows. For their dedication to treating, caring for and saving the lives of the COVID-19 patients who have been entrusted to their care at the Queens Medical Center. And doing so with courage and unfailing professionalism day and night, month after month, even in the face of personal stress and lethal danger to themselves and their loved ones. In so doing, they have provided and are providing the gift of life and of hope for those who are sick or worried sick. We are deeply grateful and profoundly indebted to the doctors and healthcare workers and staff of the MICU for their sacrifices and for their contributions to critical healthcare in Hawaii. We recognize, acknowledge and offer our most heartfelt thanks to them and each of them for their selfless heroism, kindness and dedication in protecting and saving us from the ravages of this pandemic. Here to accept the award is Dr. Scott Gallagher, Director of the MICU. Thank you, Think Tech Hawaii team. Jay, Carol, Melissa, Haley, for honoring our Medical ICU team with this Community Service Award. What an early Christmas present. We're humbled. Everyone in the ICU team tends to be pretty low-key and nobody does anything for recognition or reward except a good patient outcome.  Try very hard to treat every patient as a family member too. And their first reaction actually in hearing about the Community Service Award is to make sure that I say loudly we couldn't have done this alone. We have a super supportive leadership team from the Board of Trustees and CEO on down and they made sure everybody was as safe as possible. None of our MICU caregivers have become ill as a result of treating COVID patients, which is amazing. We also have tremendous, tremendous community support. We had donations of PPE, so protective equipment, food. All of these made a huge difference to the morale of the team and actually solidified that team's awareness of how much everybody in Hawaii is connected. Really are one big ohana. And I think we really are at our best when we do the right things for each other. Since this pandemic began for us sometime around March, we've had about 200 odd ICU encounters out of about a thousand patients with COVID that were admitted to the hospital. And I guess if I were to characterize the various challenges or phases that the team have gone through, early in the pandemic, the biggest obstacle was really fear. It was so much we didn't know and information that changed almost daily. And these caregivers all have families too and like the rest of the country, they wondered things like, how do you manage the kids not being in school anymore? Family finances, maybe the spouse gets laid off. And now you add to that the worry that they had to maybe bring home some deadly disease to people that you care about. But we all learned together and we kept each other safe. And really the next phase for us was kind of fatigue. We all started to realize that this is likely gonna be a marathon and not a sprint. And everyone was working longer and harder than ever before. We were very lucky. The surgeon general visited our ICU team along with Dr. Josh Green. And afterwards, we were able to secure some much needed relief staff, which gave a bit of respite for the team and it helped really immensely. People continue to step up. The dug in really had a grit determination that became probably more infectious than the virus. And we learned to celebrate our successes in big ones and small ones. I think everybody remembers the first patient or two that we managed to discharge or graduate from the ICU after this disease. I think we're in a time of adjustment now preparing for the next surge, so to speak. And from my heart, this award is gonna reenergize the ICU team. What they're doing matters. Their self-sacrifice and hard work is valued by the community. And I so appreciate you for this award recognition. I think though I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that maybe it would be nice if we didn't have to work so hard, that maybe it'd be good if there's less sick patients from this virus. And that's truly where the community can help us. It's so tough, particularly during what should be a holiday season, but please do the right things. Wear a mask, wash your hands. Don't gather in large groups. Try to stay physically distant. We greatly appreciate the award, but I really think all of us are hoping for a time that life can be a bit more normal and families aren't hurting quite so badly. I think the holidays will be a happier time than for all of us, but from us to you, thank you so much. Happy Christmas. I hope the holiday season brings you all of the health and happiness you all deserve, but thank you. Thanks for your work and service to the community. Scott and all of you, and congratulations. And to our Think Tech community, we say yes. Please support and continue to support these very worthy award-winning organizations. Will everyone give them a big hand? And now on to the Think Tech Hawaii Awards, honoring our show of the year and our outstanding hosts that provide such great content to our viewers all through the year. Our show of the year award goes to the series called Humane Architecture, hosted by Martin de Spang and Vistodo Brown. The citation reads as follows, for its remarkable, thorough and thoughtful coverage of architecture in the islands and around the world, by enlightening us about the values of distinctive planning and design and about those creative individuals who make our public and private spaces and thus our quality of life so much better. This weekly program is hosted by UH architecture professor Martin de Spang, broadcasting from Germany and Bishop Museum historian DeSoto Brown from Hawaii. Their devoted viewers value the significant critical contribution they have made and are making to public understanding of architecture and environment and the sense of place and culture. We recognize, acknowledge and offer our most heartfelt thanks to the hosts of Humane Architecture for their extraordinary work on this unique show. Here to accept the award are co-host Martin de Spang and DeSoto Brown. Hey DeSoto, you know what? I guess we won the show of the year 2020 award. How about that? That's pretty amazing. And I was gonna say, maybe it's because you've been on ThinkTech for such a long time and I've been on ThinkTech with you just for four years but you even predate me. So maybe it's just because we've been around for so long that they gave us the award. Let's do some more reflectiveness and walk through this picture here from the bottom to the top because the mission of the show is that we're observing a uniquely beautiful built environment in Hawaii. The middle picture, we also know a not so beautiful, more invasive hermetic built environment which we don't like. And we would like to convert that into what you see at the very top as an indication into a literally and figuratively equally green environment. That's in a nutshell, the mission of the show, right? But let's reflect a little on the method and let's go to the next slide and use the show we just did. What's our method? Well, we do a variety of things. We look to the past to see what the practices were then that were successful that we can continue to use and adapt and live with. And we also look at the present and see what's going on and we critique it. And we sometimes say that we don't like it and we wish things were being done differently.  You are instructing the emergent generation of people who will be working in the future.  Yeah, and along that, what makes, because as you said, we've been doing it for some years, what makes this year special and different from the other ones is that thanks to my bosses at UAH, us being in COVID, they allowed me to operate from here. So we're doing it from the opposite ends of the worlds and trying to get the best of both worlds. And that might be another that we can think of. And next slide, as you said before, we've been doing it for a while. The next slide shows that because these are all the shows that we've been doing ever since the beginning. And we're very lucky that Jay doesn't need to make this a popularity contest. And although we're nearing close to 9,000 views, which is a lot, and we have heard is the most of any of the shows, we hope that it's not just about quantity. And the next slide shows us, gives us an overview of all the slides and shows we've been doing this awarded year. And next and final slide also gives us a clue about that we mostly owe the award to, which is our wonderful guests, right? And let's remember some of them and let's walk through that disorder. Well, we've got our buddy, Ron Lindgren, who is a retired architect. He's now reaching 80 years old. He is the architect of the Kahala Hilton Hotel or one of the company that he worked for. He also designed the Holly Kulani Hotel. That's pretty amazing. And to get his insights and his experience like our other guests has been very important for us. Yeah, as well, we had Steve Owl who we missed dearly because he just passed and left us, but we have Richard Lowell who's with us. So these are the veterans, right? These are the masters, the modern masters from the past. Then we got our contemporary fine colleagues like Bundit Kanistakan and David Rockwood who do the best practice of these days. And then as you pointed out, the third row there from the top is our emerging generation that gonna reconnect to the great past of mostly mid-century, right? We also wanna thank our families who made us who we are. We just did the show with my father turning 80. And we also wanna last but not least because some said we're the main architectural critics on the island. So that being said, we wanna thank the many that we address in the shows and that might not initially wanna hear what they hear but what we believe we have to say and that they take it as it's meant to be very constructive criticism once again to make Hawaii the place that it deserves to be the most beautiful place in the world as well in the built environment. So thank you all and thank you to Soto for being my buddy and putting up with us every week for so many years now. And little did you know when you invited me to be a guest way back four years ago that I would end up being the sidekick for this entire series. Who knows? Who knows if I knew? So thank you all. Thank you all. This means a lot to us and it's motivates us to keep on going and as Jay likes to say getting better every time. That's right. So thank you all everybody who supported us and we're gonna keep going. Thank you both for your work and service to the community, Martin and Soto. And congratulations. This year we acknowledge two outstanding hosts. Our first outstanding host award goes to Tim Mappichella, host of Rediscovering America, formerly known before the election as Trump Week. The citation reads as follows. First professional and well-honed show host skills in monitoring our weekly Rediscovering America talk show formerly known as Trump Week with regular guests Cynthia Lee Sinclair, Winston Welch, Stephanie Dalton and Jay Fidel and in courageously covering controversial issues and events through a time of governmental chaos, COVID and confusion. When such a discussion has now been all the more important to our community and our democracy. We recognize, acknowledge and offer our most heartfelt thanks to Tim Mappichella for his diligence and determination in hosting this show and his abiding commitment to civic engagement and to raising public awareness in our community. Here to accept the award is Tim Mappichella. I wish to say thank you for this award. Given the excellent caliber of my fellow hosts, this is a true honor. I live in Hawaii Kai, the most Republican populated community in Hawaii. So hosting a show titled Trump Week isn't as easy as one might think. Without going into difficult detail, loss of valued relationships has left some scars. There's not enough time for me to tell you my motivation why I chose to participate with Trump Week. All I can say it is not something I planned, not something I wanted, but rather something I had to do. The show is one of commentary, not news. And in the two years of being on the show, two truths came bubbling up to the surface. Number one and the most important, to learn the difference of believing in freedom of speech versus the acting consequences to practice it. Number two, something all journalists harbor within their questions to their interviewees. Something Socrates is credited for saying and getting in trouble with. Something Timothy Leary made popular in the 1960s, which is question authority. And in a democracy, a free society, include the word always. Those guests who appear on the show each week, I believe they have these two points well within their philosophy. What began as two person show has grown into a guest panel of four courageous individuals that bring their research perspective and candid commentary to the show. Guest and original host, Jay Fidel, Stephanie Dalton, Cynthia Lee Sinclair and Winston Welch. These four special people spend hours watching news and reading articles on both sides of the political divide. I could tell you that watching that much news in a given week in this politically charged climate is more than stressful. And yet they do it. I thank them for their dedication and for making the show the show. The politics, the politics and by their courage, the controversy, the controversy. As proven by all the love letters we receive in the form of comments. 29 minutes of four dynamic personalities, not having the benefit of a face-to-face round table discussion, yet all bringing a clear and strong voice to the issues of the week. And after the show is over, after the Zoom platform is gone, I often take a deep breath and say to myself, what rollercoaster of conversations did I just come out of? And upon reflection, the answer is usually the same. I don't know, but let's do it again next week. Thank you. Thanks for your work and service to the community and congratulations. Our second Outstanding Host Award goes to Wendy Low, host of Taking Your Health Back. The citation reads as follows. For her uplifting and inspiring interviews and conversations, in moderating our Taking Your Health Back show and in covering a variety of topics dealing with physical and emotional health, as well as food, family, aging, community, and lifestyle, among other things. Which are all of significant interest and value to our viewership in Hawaii and elsewhere. And which are particularly relevant and helpful in the time of COVID. We recognize, acknowledge and offer our most heartfelt thanks to Wendy for her diligence and determination in hosting the show and for her abiding commitment to civic engagement and to raising public awareness in our community. Here to accept the award is Wendy Low. Lulee and I could hear Rick Sanjeevi, Jay, Carol, Melissa, Haley, Eric, and all the Think Tech Hawaii hosts. Aloha and Mahalo for this great honor. We are over 35 plus Think Tech Hawaii show hosts and I share this award with all of you.  I have been viewing your videos for content, yes, for updates, yes, but also to study what works and makes all of you so successful. So I Mahalo all of you, as well as been chosen for the Outstanding Host Award. Being a shy tit-a-chick from Miley, going to Merino High School, getting married and living in Hong Kong for five years, owning and operating a chocolate factory in Honolulu for 20 years, while sitting on 12 boards of directors, while raising two beautiful daughters and retiring at 50 years old. Traveling the world delivering Bibles and little chairs and now building homes in Uganda for the houses community there is ever so fulfilling. Now I'm teaching Hawaii to be more plant strong and to grow via tar gardens in aeroponic growing system. Hashtag grown, not flown. And now my life is beginning. Having the platform of getting simple information out to the public via Think Tech Hawaii is beyond a dream but a golden opportunity to help Hawaii take their health back. I Mahalo you, Jay and Think Tech Hawaii for the golden opportunity and most of all for believing in me, Mahalo. Thank you so much for your work and service to the community Wendy and congratulations. Will everybody please give them a big hand? Each host are only a few of the dozens of Think Tech hosts who reach out to connect with guests here and everywhere to raise awareness and to understand the issues and events at play in our world. Actually they all deserve awards. So thanks to them too. Collectively they've done more than 2,000 talk shows just in 2020. Our final award of the evening is to our underwriter of the year. As a non-profit Think Tech has always relied on the annual donations of underwriters who provide us the biggest portion of our financial support. This year we proudly acknowledge the Sydney Stern Memorial Trust. The citation reads as follows. Towards generous and continuing contributions to Think Tech and a myriad of other non-profit community organizations in Hawaii in both funding and in its concern caring and active participation in the activities of those organizations. And for its regular introductions of and appearances with those organizations in our Think Tech talk shows. We recognize, acknowledge and offer our most heartfelt thanks to the Sydney Stern Memorial Trust for its abiding commitment to the Hawaii community and to the disadvantaged members of that community. Here to accept the award is Sandra Schwartz. Aloha, my name is Sandra Schwartz and I'm a professor of history at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. On behalf of the Board of Advisors of the Sydney Stern Memorial Trust, I'm honored to accept the underwriter of the year for Think Tech Hawaii. I love to study the ancient world because it gives me perspective to understand the depth of our history and humanity. I imagine Think Tech as a virtual forum where ideas spread and discussions flourish, maybe not in TOGAs, but Aloha shirts will do the job just as well. As a board member of the Sydney Stern Memorial Trust, we give many grants to organizations that have a 501 C3 status in the US, but we have a special emphasis in Hawaii. Over the years, we've carved out a niche to help support small organizations in Hawaii who might need that extra helping hand to fulfill their projects. We are pleased to support Think Tech Hawaii to bring a wide array of programs in the public interest. So, keep up the good work, Jay, Carol, and everyone who brings their hearts and their minds to Think Tech Hawaii. Happy holidays. Thanks for your continuing support and encouragement, Sandy, and congratulations. And now for our door prizes. An appreciation for your interest, support, and attendance here tonight, and using our special randomizing software, we have selected three of you who have registered for this evening's virtual program. Each of you can appear as a guest on one of our talk shows and use our platform to share something of interest and value with our viewers and the community. Here are the three winners. And the winners are Lynn Flanagan, Avi Soyfer, and Elizabeth Siphol. Congratulations to you all. You'll be in touch to organize and schedule your forthcoming talk shows. And thank you all for your participation and support of our efforts at Think Tech.  To the Think Tech Enterprise and to the Think Tech platform for civic engagement, the crucible of our creativity, let's recommit to the vows that brought us together 20 years ago and through all the years since then. Yes, here in these challenging times, bless us, everyone. Yes, thanks so much for attending our 2020 holiday party and awards ceremony. May 2021 bring you and all of us good health, peace, prosperity, and a little rest from the COVID and the chaos. Okay, until next year, stay safe and healthy and well-informed on our own Think Tech Hawaii. Better every day, aloha.


rd. Thank you. Okay, Michael.  And I think it, you know, I think it would, you know, it was a powerful, for me, it was a powerful connection that you all made that, you know, if we can make the COVID pledge because it's a public health crisis, there's no reason a similar pledge can't be made because we have all recognized that racism is a public health crisis, or at least many of us have across the country. And the only, the other thing I wanted to add before Bill mentioned that was, you know, how a decade, a decade and a half now since I've been in high school or college, you know, I was fortunate to go to a high school that was very diverse in many different ways. And that's like, that's one of the only things I remember from my experience is how powerful and rich and enjoyable that was, you know, many things happen in high school, but that is the thing a decade plus later that has stood with me all this time. So I think it is a really important thing for us to, particularly for how, you know, how non-diverse generally our state is to try to put that as a point of emphasis that I think is really important. Thank you. Dylan, go ahead. Yeah, thank you all, really appreciate the input and hope that we will have more opportunities to continue the dialogue, but also do our role as listeners for the system, collecting information. And I hope that we can be partners in that. I do wanna ask, and I'm sorry if I missed this, all the speakers today, I think you said you were from NVU, VTC and Castleton. Is there anyone who is taking classes at a community college or Vermont campus? And this might be a question for Kathleen, but just curious. I don't think there's any, we weren't able to get a student to join us today. It had just been difficult scheduling that. So that was the intent to have someone today. And we had a faculty member who was trying to do that, but given the remote nature of things, that was more of a challenge. I know that VTC students often take CCV classes in the system as part of fulfilling their degree requirements. And I'm not sure about NVU and Castleton if they do the same. We do have a student on board who works 40 hours a week. And she was gonna try to submit written testimony, of which you got written testimony from other students, I believe, of alums. But yeah, we did wanna include CCV very much. Great. All right, well, thank you. And look forward to continuing the dialogue and hearing also from CCV students. I certainly think there's a lot of work this board needs to do and hope that we will all commit to taking the pledge and can work on that together. So thank you for spending time with us today. Thank you. I did have one student, Sabra, would like to say one more comment. If that's okay. I just wanted to offer this to the board. Now that I have seen your faces, if you really want to create actionable change, I don't know when we'll be able to actually sit at a table together with everything going on in our world. But since things will continue virtually, I'll just say this, that maybe think about the faces in which you're seeing and look at each other and recognize that maybe even your own board could use a little bit more diversity. And that will help you in achieving your goals together, having all those different perspectives coming together. So that will help everyone in the long run. Thank you, Sabra. Is there anyone else who has a question or is a comment? Well, I just want to say on behalf of the Coalition of Minority Student Athletes, thank you, guys for listening. Thank you, Ayo. I just want to say thank you. Again, I repeat what Bill said. Thank you for your patience. We have been having many, many meetings every month. We try to keep them to four hours and we're just a little bit over that. That was with some executive sessions thrown in. So I really want to thank you for your patience. I especially wanted to thank Pat Shine, who's been a leader in trying to put this together for us over the past couple of meetings, and Kathleen, it's been really helpful. And we will be continuing the discussion. So if he has made some arrangements for I believe our next meeting. So it's other people from other campuses that we will be talking to. So, you know, you were very articulate. It was very good to listen to you and I really appreciate your input. And we're going to see what we can do to continue this conversation. Thank you very much. Very impressive. Is there anything else anyone wants to say? We seem to be at the end of the meeting. I just wanted to add, we will be, you know, we will be discussing sort of action steps that we can do at the next meeting. That'll be something that we're addressing and we're going to have a guest speaker to talk to us about that as well. Someone that's got experience of working with students of color in Vermont and the challenges, you know, that you face and that the colleges and institutions face in trying to do a good job of retaining and supporting students. So again, thank you so much all for being here and for getting the conversation moving it along. And then hopefully we can continue to have conversations with you also. And as Saber says, it's kind of great to see everyone's faces. We don't get to see too many student faces these days being remote. So thank you all for taking the time to come. Yes, thank you. And good luck with the end of your semester. I hope you all stay healthy. Yes, stay safe.  Thank you. Thank you. We now have the approval of the additional board meetings in January, February and April. Sophie, do you want to go over those quick plan? We can... Yeah, it was just to add, we were just looking to add regular, additional regular meetings given the significance of all that we have in front of us. So we've already identified Friday, January 15th and Monday, February 22nd as potential dates. We don't yet have one in April, but I would appreciate if we got a vote to approve the January and February date so we can get those on our regular board calendar and post them on the website. Go move. We have a motion from David Silverman. Do we have any... I will say, Ryan. I think Ryan Cooney beat out Mary by a fraction. Any conversation or any discussion or questions? Can you repeat the dates again? And there's so many dates flying around for various commitments. You can't say them too often to make sure that we actually have them. Right. So it's Friday, January 15th. And Monday, February 22nd. And then we already have scheduled, previously scheduled Saturday, March 27th. So just so if you don't have that in your calendar yet, that's a date that we already have set. So I hate to ask, but could someone send an email with those? We will. Yes, please. Thank you. It's... Thank you. Okay. So any more discussion or questions? If not, we will vote on the approval of the board meetings in January, February. All those in favor, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Seeing none. We have additional business. Seeing none, we, what about comments from the public? We have always had public comments. We welcome any public comments from the public. Suzanne, I'm cooking. I thought it ended in five. I mean, there's an email from... Yeah. Yeah. Okay. There don't seem to be any more public comments or I'd like to thank the students once again. They were very, very educational to listen to you guys. You know, like I say, good luck with the end of your school days and school year and travel safely. And we'll be happy to talk with you again. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Is there any, if anyone wants to make a motion to adjourn? So moved. Mary and Bill. Okay. We've got a motion to adjourn on the table any discussion? Any, we'll just vote. Anyone who approves of adjourning, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Aye. And a post. I think thank you very much for your time and we'll be talking to you again. Thank you, Sophie. Thank you. Thank you.


All right, so today we're going to be talking about the 10 best digital products that you can make using AI. I'm going to be talking about which types of products they are and how much and how you can utilize AI to make them. And I'm going to be realistic with you. I'm going to give you examples. There are some products where you can heavily utilize AI and some where you can just use it a little bit. And hopefully by the end of the video, you will have a great idea on the type of product that you can make. So without further ado, go ahead, cheers the like button and let's jump into it right now. So the first one on the list is going to be Canva templates. So canva templates are basically pre-designed layouts for social media posts, marketing materials, social media graphics, blog graphics, workbooks, ebooks, presentations, etc. And you can make these on Canva and then you can sell them on platforms like Etsy or Creative Market. Or you can actually sell them on Canva itself, right? So when you sell on Canva itself, you get 35% royalties for every single design that's approved and then other people use it. But it's likely going to be even more lucrative if you sell them on something like Etsy. And there are lots of people on Etsy making hundreds of thousands of dollars a month. Now the way that you'd use AI in order to do this is for generating design ideas, you could use something like Dolly or deepart.io for inspiration. To enhance the images, you could use AI tools such as Let's Enhance to improve the image quality. To automate the design, you could explore platforms like Relay that for AI generated design templates. To generate color palettes, you could use tools like Adobe Color CC to create harmonious color schemes. And then to create custom illustrations, you could try AI illustration tools such as Art Breeder for unique graphics. So yeah, this is definitely a digital product that you can heavily utilize AI in order to create. Of course, AI is not going to do 100% of the job for you. You're still going to have to do a good amount of the work. Once you find something that works really well, you can basically streamline the process and make a bunch more of those types. And that would be a lot faster than when you had to brainstorm and come up with a lot of the ideas on your own at the beginning. So yeah, this one is pretty good. I'll go ahead and give it an 8 out of 10 opportunity score. Now by the way, did you know that you can earn thousands of dollars a month by working less than a one hour per day? And this is exactly what I do by making content on YouTube. And I'm going to be showing people how to do this with a live training where I reveal the five biggest secrets on how to grow and monetize your YouTube channel. And these are the same strategies that helped me to make thousands of dollars within my first few months of starting and taking YouTube seriously. And I also get checks like this almost on a daily basis. So I'll be hosting this at 9pm Eastern time on Tuesday. And I'll also be giving away a free mini course, but only for people who attend the live training. Plus, I'll be conducting a live Q&A where I answer any questions that you have on how to grow or make money from YouTube. Now I can only accommodate a limited amount of people because this is going to be a live Zoom training where you're talking directly to me. So make sure you sign up now while it's still available by clicking the link down in the description as well as the pinned comment below. Next is going to be unique printables. Now this could be anything from digital designs for wall art, greeting cards, stickers, coloring books, etc. Now if you don't think you can make money from this, there's so many different examples online. For instance, this mom makes six figures through her Etsy side hustle, right? So she brought in $160,000 in one year in passive income. And she sold anything from Christmas scavenger hunts to digital planners. Now, most of the people who have tried this side hustle typically make between $10 and $100 a week to start. Now that doesn't sound like a lot, but $100 a week over four weeks is about $400 a month. And that's not bad for something that a lot of different people are doing. Now for all these different types of products, you're going to want to follow a particular process for getting started. And the first thing you want to do is identify market needs. And you can actually use AI to analyze market needs. ChatGBT is actually relatively good at identifying different market needs. And at the very least, it can give you ideas. Then you want to create the printables or create whatever you're creating that is going to be on this list. And you can use AI power design tools such as Canva to assist in creating visually appealing principles quickly and easily. And Canva offers templates, graphics and editing features that streamline the design process. And a lot of these websites are integrating AI more and more directly into the website. Then you can design eye-catching listing images. And you can use different tools to enhance listing images to make them more appealing. For instance, deep art or enhance are two different tools you can use to improve the image quality of your product images. Then you can optimize your listings with smart keywords. So AI powered keyword research tools such as Ubersuggest can help you identify relevant and high ranking keywords for your Etsy listings. These tools can basically provide insights into search volume and related terms to optimize your listing for better visibility. Then you want to price your products competitively. So AI driven pricing algorithms can analyze market data and competitor pricing to suggest optimal pricing strategies. So tools like price to spy, for instance, or Compatera can help you determine the competitive pricing for your printables on Etsy. So yeah, overall, printables are really good. There's a lot of opportunities out there for printables. I'd say some of my favorite ones are anything that you can kind of like hang up on the wall. And you can use AI to create those images that people would then hang up on the wall. So for instance, if your favorite politician or favorite celebrity says something, you could create maybe an AI image that's somewhat related to them. Definitely be careful there because there could be some copyright issues. But you could maybe create an AI image that's somewhat related to a quote that went viral or something along those lines. And if you bring it to market quickly enough, it can make a ton of sales. So this one is really good as well. I'm going to go ahead and give it an 8.5 out of 10 opportunity score. Next is going to be very similar and that's going to be print on demand products. Now, print on demand is something that I'm extremely bullish on, especially when it comes to the applications of 3D printers. So I've talked about this before on the channel. I think that very soon 3D printing and print on demand are going to be merging together. And so for instance, if you want a particular Halloween costume, or maybe you want to create some sort of like anime costume, like a cosplay type of thing, pretty soon you're going to be able to measure your dimensions, submit those dimensions to a program, and then design a costume on the program that will then be 3D printed and delivered directly to you. So this is going to be something that's going to be coming down the line in my opinion in the next five years. And I'm extremely excited about the applications of this. But with that being said, print on demand still has a lot of awesome stuff going on right now. So an example of print on demand would be printing t-shirts. There are a lot of different websites that do this. For instance, Teespring, Spreadshirt, Redbubble, and Teapublic. And this is basically where you would make a certain design that you would put on a t-shirt, but you actually don't create it. It just looks like you created it. And then it doesn't actually make the t-shirt until somebody orders it. Once that person orders it, they then make the t-shirt, fulfill the order, and ship it to them. So that's the amazing thing about print on demand is you don't really have to risk anything because nothing gets shipped or made or stored until someone actually buys the product, which is actually amazing if you think about it. And there's a person on Reddit here that is talking about how they're making 20 to 80k per month revenue with print on demand and they are actually doing t-shirts. And if you did something like t-shirts, you would probably want to list them on like every website that you possibly can because a general rule when it comes to print on demand with t-shirts is you can make an average of $1 per active listing per month per website. Okay, so for instance, if you made a t-shirt design and you put it on Teespring, Merch by Amazon, and Redbubble, and then let's say you made 100 different designs, so 100 shirts on each site, that would be about $300 a month because there's three different sites, or $100 a month from each site, right? So as you can see, it's a lot of work because it would take a lot of time to make those 100 designs. But it's very realistic that once in a while, you're going to get a design that just pops off and sells thousands of shirts. So yeah, this one can be really good. You use a lot of the same AI tools to make this as you would to make printables. But yeah, this one is really good. I'm going to go ahead and give this one a 7.5 out of 10 opportunity score. Now, by the way, with a lot of these, it involves what's known as digital marketing. And if you learn how to do digital marketing, you can sell even more shirts or printables or print on demand products because you can actually drive people to your listing that are very likely to buy that product. So just as an example, maybe you have a cat related catalog of shirts and you do some advertisements to cat people that are very likely to like those types of shirts, then a bunch more of them would buy the product. Now, digital marketing is amazing. It's one of the best skills you can possibly learn because it's going to help you no matter what you end up doing in life. Whether you want to start your own business, whether you want to do freelancing, get a good job, get a part-time job or just learn a very valuable skill, digital marketing is going to be amazing for you. And I've actually helped a bunch of people get digital marketing jobs and I've interviewed them on this channel and they were all able to get digital marketing jobs through my business partner, Seth. Now, Seth does have a free digital marketing course where he goes over the different types of digital marketing as well as if it's a good fit for you and just basically how you can get into digital marketing in general. And he has that free masterclass down in the description as well as the pinned comment below. So definitely click down there and check it out. But yeah, knowing different types of digital marketing is going to help selling all of these different digital products much, much easier. Next, let's talk about AI-powered stock photos. So this is exactly what it sounds like. I think all of you guys have seen AI is now making super realistic looking photos. And there's lots of companies out there that will buy stock photos for all kinds of different things. Anything from advertising to being able to put photos in their videos, etc. And it used to be that people would have to go out there and manually take these photos. But with AI, you can just generate a ton of different photos of people doing all kinds of random things that companies could be asking for and then put them on websites. Now, some of the websites limit AI photos and other websites are actually embracing AI photography. Now, when it comes to actually being able to make money with this, they've actually surveyed different stock photographers and it showed that about 46% of them were making between zero and $500 per month. 16% of them were making $500 to $1,000 a month. 11% were making $1,000 to $1,500 a month. 7% were making $1,500 to $2,000 a month. And 18% were making $2,000 plus dollars a month. And that's actually pretty good considering the fact that a lot of people are just doing this as a side hustle or doing it part-time. So there is a significant amount of people, about 18% that are making over $2,000 a month doing this. Now, one of the websites that does allow you to upload AI-generated images is Adobe Stock and they have a commission rate of about 30% per download. So that means you can make anywhere from 33 cents to $26 per download. And after you've uploaded thousands or even tens of thousands of photos, that can really add up. So yeah, this one is pretty good. I could see it becoming relatively saturated as AI just creates more and more images. It also could become somewhat redundant as well, just because of the fact that there might be the ability for business owners to just very easily create whatever AI photo they want and they don't really have to put that much effort into it. And so it might become redundant to use the stock photography photo websites. But with that being said, this one's pretty good. I'm going to give it a 6 out of 10 opportunity score. Now, one that I'm even more excited about that's coming down the line is going to be AI-generated stock videos. Now, I think there's actually even more potential for AI-generated videos than there is for AI-generated stock photos. Because right now, it's actually quite difficult to get specific types of videos that companies would want for marketing purposes, for instance. And AI is getting better and better at generating these videos. So I think this is going to be a massive opportunity in the next year or so. So it's very similar to the AI stock photo thing.  I'm extremely bullish on AI stock videos. Next is going to be resume and cover letter templates. And this is specifically going to be for artistic related careers. Now, for a lot of careers out there, the resume that you use is going to be very basic. But for artistic related careers, typically you are going to have a resume that is decorated. And on top of that, even if you're doing basic resumes, there's different formats that are going to work really well for different types of careers. And this person, for instance, made $5,000 selling resume templates. And resume templates typically sell for about $3 to $60 each. And you can create resume templates based on the type of career that the person is applying for. And one website you could sell on would be creativemarket.com. Now, a few different resume related tools you could use is resi.ai, which basically is going to help you with creating the resume. And then it also can help you with modifying the resume for different types of careers. Then you would want to identify market gaps. So different types of careers that are getting a lot of searches for different types of resumes. And then creating those types of resumes that are tailored for that specific career or job. Then you want to learn from success. So you'd want to go on LinkedIn and you'd want to see other people that are already in the job. And sometimes they'll actually just include their resume on LinkedIn. And then notice what things you basically see over and over again. Notice what the patterns are. And then based on those patterns, you can create the ideal resume that's going to help people get into that career. And then you'd want the perfect presentation. So you want to create a visual appealing template, showcased in the best case scenario to capture attention to entice buyers. Now for more artistic related resumes, this could actually be like an artistic template. And for simpler resumes, this would be a very simple, like black and white template. So yeah, this is a really good opportunity. The resume market, I've seen people create seven figure businesses from this industry. I'm going to go ahead and give this one an 8.5 out of 10 opportunity score. By the way, several of my clients that I've actually taught how to grow and make money from YouTube started off simply by selling resumes, right? So they actually sold resume templates or they sold services or coaching for making the resumes themselves. One of my clients, for instance, Davis started off by teaching people how to make resumes for management consulting. And Davis started working with me on his YouTube channel and now he's doing 400% better than he was before. And he's making over $100,000 a month. So if you're interested in growing and monetizing your YouTube channel, I work with a few people per month. And if you want to apply for my coaching, you can click the link down in the description as well as the pinned comment below. And if not, maybe you just want to learn about YouTube. You can also click that link because I have basically an instructional video on there that will teach you a lot about how I grew on YouTube and how to grow on YouTube in general. Next is going to be creating seamless patterns. And these are basically patterns or designs that you can put on different types of fabrics, wallpaper, websites, etc. So you create the pattern. People buy it on platforms like Creative Market for their creative products. And then they'll probably end up using it in their product as well. And seamless patterns are almost like the Lego blocks or the building blocks of design.  What was that? And here are some examples of seamless patterns that have done really well. So I'll just put some up on the screen for you. And a lot of the time these seamless patterns sell for like $1.5 to $8 each on Etsy. And then you basically have the sort of design rights or creative rights to use them in your own products or your own marketing. And there's an example of this lady named Elizabeth who earned over $50,000 with her seamless patterns. And this is actually the example that I used at the beginning of the video for the person who earned over $53,000. So what you'd want to do here is you'd want to first start by studying successful seamless patterns. And you could do this on Etsy using like sweet shop design, old market, design lover studio, etc. And then you just basically analyze their offerings and presentations to gain inspiration for your own designs. Then you can conduct some niche research before launching your pattern store. You'd basically want to understand the market demand, the competition, the potential for profitability, etc. And then you could create patterns using mid-journey five. And you'd want to use specific prompts like flat, distinct feather pattern, comma, HD, dash, dash, tile. So there's certain ways of prompting mid-journey. And there's a lot of information out there on how to do this. You can basically just look it up on YouTube for free. But there's basically certain ways of prompting mid-journey to get the optimal outcome. And then you can refine your patterns using something like Photoshop. So yeah, this one's pretty good. I'd say it's one of the less attractive ones on the list. I'm going to go ahead and give it a five out of 10 opportunity score. Next is going to be social media calendars. So this is where you could actually sell social media calendars themselves that help people basically plot out their social media content strategy. And you could even take this a step further and you could sell them particular video ideas or content ideas on top of that. And believe it or not, chat GPT is pretty good at coming up with content ideas. I've actually tested this out before and I've used the content ideas that I came up with chat GPT and they've done pretty well. So this is something that I have seen people doing before and there is a huge demand out there for this. Now this is a little bit more of a service rather than a create it one time and then sell it type of thing. So it's a lot less passive, but there's also potential for really good profits here. So this would be a type of social media marketing agency because content is a type of social media marketing. But yeah, this one is pretty good. I see a lot of potential in it. I'll go ahead and give it a 6.5 out of 10 opportunity score. By the way, comment down below if you like some of these ideas or maybe you don't like the ideas or maybe there's an idea that I didn't mention in the video but you think that I should. And maybe I'll mention that in a future video or if you comment down which one of these ideas you like. Maybe I'll make a future video and go more in depth on it. Next is going to be a spreadsheet tracker or a template. Now there are kind of more well-known types of spreadsheets like Google Sheets or Excel. And these are incredibly useful. Don't get me wrong. But you can even go deeper than this and make spreadsheets on tools like Airtable. And Airtables has a bunch of automations, integrations and it's even integrating AI now. And that makes it to where a lot of things can just be automatically done and it really helps when it comes to running a business owner's business and just streamlining and automating a bunch of the processes. So a lot of people have agencies where they go in and they set up people's Airtables and they customize it to the specific business. And if you don't know what Airtables is, it's just an incredible tool that is just super useful. We are using it in our business currently. Absolutely love Airtables. But it is pretty complicated to use. So if you're the type of person who really loves spreadsheets and you really love automations and kind of operations and streamlining things, this could be a really good side hustle for you. But if you're the type of person who just likes to kind of design Google Sheets templates or something along those lines, you can definitely make money from that as well. So for instance, this person made over $200,000 just selling Google Sheets templates. And one of the top sellers in the Excel template category on Etsy has sold over 18,000 templates at a regular price of $8.90, which means they have made hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now, the cool thing is you can actually use tools like spreadsheet AI to expedite the spreadsheet creation process. And you definitely want to tailor this to different types of careers, for instance. Just as an example, there's a lot of different templates that you could use in the finance industry for keeping track of different numbers. And yeah, this is a really good one. You definitely see a lot of people making money from this. I'm going to go ahead and give it a 7.5 out of 10 opportunity score. Next is going to be AI-generated coloring pages. So this is a really weird one, but honestly extremely lucrative. So basically what you're going to be doing here is you're going to be making coloring books, right? Coloring books that kids and maybe even grown-ups use crayons to color in. And you can use AI to create those coloring books. So just as an example of a niche that I've seen do really well, now this niche probably doesn't work very well now, but a year ago this niche was absolutely popping off. People were making psychedelic AI coloring books. So they were basically making different psychedelic-looking coloring books that actually appealed to grown-ups. And then grown-ups would buy them and use crayons and stuff like that to fill them in. So if you can find a niche like that that isn't saturated or tapped yet, and then make a ton of coloring books that are related to that niche, you can make amazing money doing this.  So yeah, this one is pretty good. I'll go ahead and give it an 8 out of 10 opportunity score. By the way, I made another video that within the first 30 days got over 100,000 views, and it was the 10 easiest AI-related side hustles. And you can check that video out by clicking right here.


Greetings Laddingtons. I am no longer checking in from Jotunem. Spring is incoming and I have looked forward to it. I haven't really had the best winter to be perfectly honest, so it will be nice to to go into spring Waiting for the blessings of Helios as well. So before I begin to elaborate I would just like to encourage all humans who are watching this. I have a lot of NPCs watching as well and To all NPCs who are watching. You're very special. We love you, but an encouragement for all humans who are watching First link in the description box below. Do click it Then you will get to my page and then there is another link which you must click on again, so Two whole steps. I know it's a lot of masking, but it's for the greater good. You have to do it If you do appreciate my content and if you would like to see more videos Yeah, click it. So you don't suddenly wonder where I went. I Can't say more on YouTube. I can't give the link directly on YouTube because it goes against the Community guidelines. So for all you know individuals with some initiative at least First link in the description box below. I'll see you there. If you are already Well, if you are already Seeing this perhaps somewhere else. I salute you. You are the best possible Human. So yeah, good times. Good times Then of course also I have my standard links in the description box below If you haven't followed me on Telegram yet, you are missing out and I do not salute you You are the very worst Possible if you don't follow me on Telegram Just being honest here. Just being honest with everyone Now on to the advice at hand and this is actually as the title suggests It's actually great advice might sound a bit silly at first, but there is a psychological reason behind it and I'm talking of course about Making your bed or cleaning your room or whatever it might be So if you're dog mode making your bed what it does in your brain is that it creates an easy victory an Easy victory which will set a good momentum for the day.  So we can talk about porn for example my favorite example because it's so Such a potent drug when you watch porn You trick your brain into believing that you've done something very good. So therefore everything else becomes less in comparison now if you make your bed You aren't actually tricking your brain because you have actually achieved something, but the achievement in your brain is more than I Perhaps it actually is you know for anyone to make your bed It's not a big deal something you should do every morning, but in your brain It's an achievement that sets a good tone for the rest of your day So you might say oh how will this aid me in being productive or happy or healthy? yes, it's because you start off the day with a good momentum with a victory and Much in life is based on momentum. You know you have either an up watch going spiral or you have a Downwatch going spiral so you can talk about a downwards going spiral It's quite common for a lot of guys when they They stop training for whatever reason their diet is also going Yeah going down the drain so to speak Because they lose that forward momentum Whereas if someone starts training really hard the diet and sleep etc. It will also come along Same thing that momentum that upward spiral so on one hand you have easy losses to take an easy loss is to Drink coca-cola or something or watch porn or yeah, it's something bad that makes you feel a bit guilty You will feel bad with yourself and then it's just a downward spiral and you feed into your Bad self-esteem So it can go both ways and that's where you see a lot of people. They are negative unhappy unhealthy and they continuously In their routine in their habits, they do bad things because they are setting a negative momentum Whereas if you have a positive up-going momentum starting with such a simple thing as making your bed Yeah, it creates an easy victory. It creates an easy momentum So as I see it you're cleaning making your bed doing something small productive It's just to to start a fire each morning each day you do something and then you have that sense of wow now Let's go. Let's go champ. Let's go upwards and onwards Same thing of course if you're posting physique on gab and get 10% plus in thermos for me personally blessed If you don't if you don't post physique to gab I'm sorry. You won't make it No, I'm joking.  It's a good community However, you do absolutely need to follow the link in the description box below same thing here I ask you to do something you do it. It's a small achievement that you do you complete a little task You can even write it up in you can even write it in a notebook do this make your bed Follow the golden ones link in his description box when you've done it Check it off. You have achieved something small. You will create a good momentum to do other things So start small create a small momentum, and then you will be able to achieve much else surprise flicks So anyway, that's the wisdom for the day I mainly wanted to make the video to promote the yeah aforementioned link, but Keep in mind also making your bed cleaning. It has a good mental effect. It's creates a good Good start of the day. So anyway, I will see you Well, I will see where I will see you except so


Hello, in this lecture, we will define S-Corporation. According to fundamental accounting principles, while the 22nd edition, the definition of S-Corporation is, corporation that meets tax qualifications so as to be treated like a partnership for income tax purpose. Therefore, an S-Corporation is going to be a type of corporation, but we're trying to get the best of both worlds from something like a partnership and something like a corporation as we will explain as we go. What is the difference between an S-Corporation and a C-Corporation? An S-Corporation is a pass-through entity. Remember that a C-Corporation is a separate legal entity, so when we think about a corporation form of business, the idea of the corporation is that it's separate from the owners. What does that do? It provides liability protection to the shareholders of their personal assets, among other things. That's one of the great benefits of a C-Corporation. The drawback of the C-Corporation is that because the corporation is now a separate legal entity, it needs to pay separate taxes at the corporate level as well. The tax is going to be taxed at the corporate level and then it could be taxed again on the individual level as the money goes to the individual in the form of dividends, kind of like draws for a corporation. The partnership, on the other hand, is a flow-through entity and it does not, a general partnership does not have that same level of liability protection to the personal assets of the partners because it's not a separate legal entity. However, they do eliminate that double taxation by having the flow-through of the income go to the individual partners be taxed one time on their 1040. The S-Corporation is a concept to try to get the best of both worlds. Still being a corporation, still having that liability protection, however, the money or the income flowing through to the shareholders' 1040 rather than being taxed at the corporate level. So in an S-Corporation, we have the investors. We've got the investors being the shareholders, they're going to invest in the business and they are the owners of the business being shareholders similar to a C-Corporation. The S-Corporation taxable income will be reported on the 1120 S in a similar fashion as a corporation being reported on just an 1120. The 1120 S, however, will then have a K1 that will be the document that will flow that income to the form 1040. Although we have to file a tax return for the S-Corporation, no tax is paid at the point in time at the corporate level, but rather it's going to be flown through in the form 1040 kind of like a W-2 for an S-Corporation reporting the income that will then be reported on the form 1040 eliminating that double taxation. Why does it matter if the tax is at the corporate level or the individual level? And again, the main reason is that double taxation. If we tax it at the corporate level, then dividends are also taxed so that the individuals cannot draw out the money as they can in a partnership or a sole proprietorship. The dividends being the form of draws for a normal corporation are a taxable event. Therefore, the income is going to be taxed at the corporate level and when they distribute it to the owners, it's taxed at the individual level. The rates could differ as well, of course, between the corporate tax rates and the individual tax rates. That's something to consider between the entities as well. What other benefits might an S-Corporation structure produce? The main thing is going to be the liability protection from a normal partnership. That's one of the major reasons why someone would want to incorporate to try to increase that liability protection to the personal assets. It's going to be a separate legal entity. That being the thing that results mainly in the increase in that liability protection. It's also possible to get more capital investments in some ways because we can have more shareholders and therefore have equity investments by the purchasing of shares within an S-Corporation.


Welcome to JSA TV and JSA Podcast, the newsroom for tech, telecom, and data center professionals. Buffy Herakitas coming to you from Glamorous, Las Vegas for Channel Partners 2022. And joining me today is Hallie Sherlin, Channel Manager for American Tower. Hallie, welcome to JSA TV. Thank you for having me, I'm so excited to be here. Yeah, so how's the show going for American Tower so far here in Vegas? It's going really great. This is actually only my second show, but one of the main takeaways from the first time we came is that you have to plan. As far as when it comes to what vendors and partners you wanna meet with, the speaking sessions you wanna attend, as well as even the breakout sessions, you have to plan ahead. So needless to say, we've been pretty busy. But if I were to give any advice to anyone new attending Channel Partners, it would be plan ahead for sure. Definitely plan ahead because this is the biggest show each and every year. And you mentioned about some of the sessions and speaking engagements that you've been attending. Yesterday you had one of your executives from American Tower speaking on one of those panels around 5G edge in the channel. Can you give us a little bit more? Yeah, we had a great turnout with that session. We had our Vice President of Product Innovation, Eric Watko, and he was speaking with the CEO of GTS, Mark Stackpool. And it was moderated by Meredith Karam. It was a great session. We had a great turnout and it just further demonstrates our commitment to having the best solution for our data center services. Yeah, and American Tower just recently launched its channel program not too long ago, back in 2021 last year. Wanna give us a little bit more details about American Tower's channel program? Sure. Well, we're the first in the industry to launch an edge compute centric program. What we've heard from partners in the past is that they're struggling to find reputable data center space. So we solved that problem by giving our partners exclusive access to sell our data center services. Our edge data centers are mostly in tier two and tier three markets. And that's different because most of the larger data centers, the traditional providers, they put up data centers in the large metro areas. And so the tier two and tier three markets are generally underserved. So that's where American, that's what makes our program so different is we're in those smaller markets and we offer our partners data center space for a broader customer base. And since the launch of American Tower's channel program in 2021, you guys have built some seriously great partnerships with some of the leaders in this space, like KoloTrack, our friends there and some of the other leading players. Why don't you give us a little bit more details about some of these partnerships that you're building and how it will help further American channel's presence in the channel? Sure. Well, one of the things that a lot of our new channel partners have in common is they all have a passion for technology and for building strong customer relationships. So with American Tower's channel sales program, they can take two different routes. They can take the reseller model or they can take the agency model. It really just depends on their business model and what their customers are looking for. Yeah, sure. So so exciting to have American Tower here with us at Channel Partners 2022. I'm so excited for your channel program and all the partnerships that you guys are building within the channel. And it's so great to have you here, a female representing American Tower, one of the biggest brands in our industry, such an honor to have you joining us today in American Tower. Where can viewers go to learn more about American Tower's channel program? Well, you can always check out our website, americantower.com slash data centers. You can also check out our LinkedIn pages, American Tower data center solutions or just our American Tower data center page on LinkedIn as well. LinkedIn is the best place to keep up with current events and what's going on in the events that we're gonna be attending and new solutions that we have. So yeah, definitely connect with us on LinkedIn. So connect with American Tower on LinkedIn and Hailey, thank you so much for joining us today. Thank you for having me. I'm JSA TV, another fabulous channel partners edition of JSA TV here at Channel Partners 2022. Thank you viewers for tuning in and happy channel networking.


All right, one, two, three, let's go. Colorado Avalanche, the police activities league, and Denver police department. Keep pushing it. Set up this great rink here, this really cool inflatable rink. The kids come out, they get a stick, and a street hockey ball, and they get to keep it. I think to a lot of these kids, hockey's kind of foreign. You know, it's not necessarily a sport that they have access to playing. And so they have these guys that are NHL stars showing them how to do a slap shot, or how to, you know, and they don't know who these guys are, and the guys just love it. Oh, my foot. Really accomplishes our mission at PAL, which is to get cops out in the community in a non-enforcement role. You try to save me. You all okay? It's a fun thing to do on a Friday afternoon. The police love coming down and playing with the kid, and the kids are just awesome. The kids are great. It came out. We want to make sure that we give them a lot of positive activities to do.


Hey everyone, welcome back to Artery Gear Fusion. So we have here the Artery Gear Best 4-Star and 3-Stars of the game as early as now. I'm gonna put a link of this file in the description so that you could quick reference this anytime you want. Okay, so let's start off with the most obvious which is Alice. So Alice has been everyone's wish list since the game started for global, even for the other servers before. So she is PvPSS, P-V-E-S-S as well. Notable skills are extra turn plus attack buff for one ally, slow for two rounds for all enemies, and other notes she is really an extra turn wizard. The second on our list for, actually she is the most notable for the 4-star is going to be Morris. Morris is PvPSS, P-V-E-S. Notable skills are cleanse and health restore for all, blind for two rounds for one enemy, best healer with no downtime, healing with S2 and her S3. So they are the top two for the 4-stars and here are the rest. Ruri here is PvPSS, P-V-E-S. Notable is going to be a block buff for one. Okay, one enemy that is critical strike for two targets and extra turn, critical strike two targets, extra turn plus attack buff as well. So Cleave with extra turn and S2 ignores elemental damage. So you have to take note she's good in PvP guys. So you can build her as early as now if you don't, you know if you have her in your roster. Next is going to be Chihaya. We actually got her in the free event or she's available now so please get her free event for the first event with all copies free as well. So she is PvP, A-P-V-E-S, target debuffs are extended by one round and cooldown reduction of all skills are reduced by one round. One crit strike is triggered so this is for her S2, defense down for two rounds, extra turn when crit strike is triggered, this is for her S3. Really a very good, very good free unit to start off for global. She is used very much in center teams and you won't go wrong with her if you build her up. So next is going to be Verbana. So she's PvP, A-P-V-E-A as well. Notable skills are 50% chance of defense down for two rounds. This is for your enemies in multiple AoE damage. She can also, she can actually be a good Cleave alternative. Very on is Corax, so I'm sure some of you have gotten her so PvP, she's A-B-P-V-E, she's an A. Speed buff for two turns, action bar manipulation. This is actually very useful especially for PvP, grants herself stealth and barrier for two rounds stealth and speed specialist.  Next is Nemophilia, PvP, she's A-B-P-V-E, she's an A. 30% chance to per book for one round and all allies receive barriers for three rounds with small health restore. Defense buff for two rounds and 85% chance to cost blind for two rounds and her specialty is a team barrier. Just in case if you don't want to bring an AG barrier, she is going to be your team barrier built into herself. Sen, Senhaar here is a 4 star as well, PvP, B-P-V-E is going to be A, speed buffs for herself, action bar manipulation, Harpistage killer so you can build her for the Harpistage, free revive and self sustain. Next is going to be Akasha with PvP A, PvE B, defense buff and invincible for herself for one round chance of causing stun and blind. She is definitely called a bodyguard because she is a very good tank for her team. You might need her in PvP just for tanky teams. The moving on is Delia, PvP she is an S for 4 star, PvE she is a B, counter attack is her specialty, massive damage to all enemy targets and she is good for anti PvP cleave teams. Next is going to be Micah, Micah is PvP A, PvE B, action bar manipulation as well, attack buffs for all allies for two rounds and she is a PvP specialist. Moving on to the last two we have first is going to be Rosemary at PvP C, PvE B dispels all buffs on target against attack buff and speed buff for two rounds for herself and her specialty is a buff remover. And the last one for the 4 star is going to be 04, PvP is B, PvE is also B, her notable skills are S3 cleave school da reduction if enemy was killed, self attack buff and she is another good alternative for cleave if you need a cleave unit for your team. So below is our 3 stars which I think most of you guys are most interested in. So for the 3 stars here are one of the best actually that you can level up in the beginning and up to the mid game. You have here first Grace of course so if you guys haven't seen my video on Grace on her farming abilities I'm going to put a link up there so that you could click on it. She is definitely a monster in farming. Not only in farming she is actually good also in story mode and PvP in early stages. So please do check that video out so that you could see how she does when she is maxed. By the way she in PvP she's an A, PvE she's an S, critical strike for S1 triggers round cooldown reduction of all skills and the next is S3 skill set when target is killed and also gives massive damage. She is a solo farming wizard so you need her in the early game definitely level her up she's the best 3 star in the game as of the moment. Next up is close on her heels is going to be Rocco. Rocco is PvP but she shines so much in PvE because she is an early game boss layer so another alternative to Centaur as well you can bring her there and other bosses in the game. Cooldown of all skills and damage increases when target has corrosion so she deals corrosion to the enemy, extends debuff duration and extra turn for herself when target has corrosion. Okay I'm gonna just correct this one when target is killed and massive damage okay so that I'm gonna go back to Rocco. So Rocco again a very good early game boss layer. Next up is going to be Kana, PvP she's going to be a C, PvE she's going to be an A, increase cooldown for one enemy target meaning she's going to delay the skill of the cooldown for a certain enemy. When evading gets dealt for one round and reduces cooldown of own skills.  Okay Caroline here is I think one of the most interesting in terms of the 3 star that I'd like to level up so in PvP she is a B, PvE she is a B as well. Critical strike triggers one round reduce cooldown on all skills so she has to have a critical strike reduces the cooldown of all skills for 3 rounds for all allies except her but grants herself an extra turn. I'm calling her a time traveler aka Doctor Strange because she does well in manipulation of cooldown for herself and for her team. Next up is going to be Winnie, Winnie is PvPC, PvEB she's I think one of a few who has immunity for all allies for 3 turns which makes her great as well and she has a defense buff to allies and buyer to herself so she's a defense guru and very very reliable in terms of protecting her team. Next 2 on the 3 stars we have first is Foxy, Foxy is PvP C, PvE is B, 75% chance of defense down for 2 rounds and 50% chance stun for 1 round this is for 1 enemy. Grants all allies fit up to 2 rounds she is a buffer and the last one I'm recommending is Kumachi, PvP C, PvEB heal over time and heal all and speedy buffer for 2 rounds for all as well. She is actually a good Morris alternative if you don't have Morris on your team. So now that you know the alternatives or which of the 4 star and 3 star that you can build you can actually focus on these if you have less of 5 star and build them up most of them are good up until the mid game so from now up until the mid game you can really use them and maximize them whoever you have from this 4 star and 3 star best list of artillery gear. So that is it guys so I'll reference this again in the description so that you could have a quick access of this file any time you need and if you haven't subscribed to my channel please do because this really helps me a lot especially now when we have a lot of artillery gear content. Thank you guys take care stay safe this is The Warden and I'm out here.


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At Audiology Associates of Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing. With 40 years of being in the hearing care industry, you'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met. Audiology Associates at 1428 Northlake Drive in Prestonsburg. Saturday, May 13th, officers and deputies from Kentucky State Police, Prestonsburg Police, and the Foley County Sheriff's Department joined in Washington, D.C. to receive the Top Cops of the Year Award. The purpose of the Top Cops Awards is to educate the public about our nation's heroes and pay tribute to law enforcement agencies from across the country for actions above and beyond the call of duty. We left on Thursday. We went to Washington, D.C. with all the guys. For the first event was the Top Cops celebrations for pretty much the nation, the United States. That was very interesting and humbling. So that is huge. It's big for a little town here in Floyd County, a little town of Allen. Some incident that happened and the police officers who all came together that day who did all kinds of heroic actions that day to save the life of each other pretty much as what they did, to save Darren's life, to give him out, to save Chris Hall's life, to give him out. Just a number of incidents, but that these guys were involved in that showcased their skills and their bravery. And for that, they were obviously honored for it. State Trooper Billy Ball, Prestonsburg Police Patrolman Dennis Hutchinson, and Sheriff's deputies Dusty Newsom, Chris Hall, and Darren Lawson were awarded the nation's Top Cops Award as a result of their heroic actions during the Allen shooting. Obviously, there's a, even for this Top Cops, it was to memorialize William Petrie, Ralph Frazier, and Jacob Chapins of Drago. So they were also mentioned in the so then the next day we started the candlelight vigil for all the people who police that were killed in 2022 in the line of duty. So we had Oliver Little in that and then William Petrie, Drago, and then Prestonsburg PD Frazier and Chapins. And so that was a real nice candlelight vigil. Today, I came back yesterday. So today, they will be doing the actual induction into the law enforcement memorial wall. They will be doing that. Captain Ralph Frazier, Patrolman Jacob Chapins, and Deputy William Petrie were engraved on the Fallen Officers Memorial, and K9 Drago had their name and end of watch inscribed in stone at the National Law Enforcement Memorial in Washington DC. It's hard to say it's a good feeling. It's a sad occasion. Don't get me wrong. But to see that these guys are getting what they deserve, for their names to be forever etched in stone, literally, in the marble, for their kids to see, their grandkids to always see and have on that wall that their family member, their dad, whoever, although made the ultimate sacrifice, they will never be forgotten.  Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.