Welcome to the AI for Good Global Summit. I'm delighted now to be joined by Kiryakis Kuparis. I hope I got that right. Head of Hunger Monitoring Unit at the UN World Food Program. We all know the World Food Program, but we don't necessarily know the Hunger Program or Monitoring Unit. Tell me about that. Yes, thanks, Chris. So the Hunger Monitoring Unit utilizes real-time data and predictive analytics to monitor acute food insecurity globally. And so we utilize technologies such as computer-assisted telephone interviews as well as machine learning to ensure that we have our finger on the pulse in more than 80 countries worldwide. This information is important for us operationally. We need to know who is hungry, where do they live, how hungry are they, and how is their situation evolving in real-time. And so importantly, we are the world's largest source of real-time information on food insecurity that is used by governments, our own staff, as well as partners and NGOs on the ground to provide life-saving assistance to millions of people worldwide. So give me an example of how this AI can help you with this, which is so important. Absolutely. So at the moment, we have a real-time data collection in 36 countries in which we operate and using that data set along with data sets that describe the drivers of acute food insecurity, namely climate change conflict and economic shocks. We've developed a machine learning model that enables us to estimate the level of food insecurity in an additional 52 countries where we cannot collect data, mostly because of resource constraints and or connectivity issues. So using machine learning, we have been able to develop a model that enables us to understand what is happening in these 52 countries. Most recently, in partnership with the German Aerospace Center, we've also developed a forecasting model in a handful of countries currently, such as Yemen, Mali, Cameroon, and Nigeria, where we can forecast up to three months in advance how the trends of food insecurity will evolve. And again, this is super important for us and for our partner governments to react in anticipation of potentially deteriorating circumstances on the ground. So Kiryakus, you've been wandering around seeing what's been going on here at this summit.  I think it's important for multiple reasons. One, I was encouraged to hear the director of ITU mention last night that while we all celebrate the advances of AI, we need to remember that 2.7 billion people still remain unconnected from the internet, right? So they're not benefiting from all the amazing ingenuity that we have here. And so it's encouraging to see that there is an SDG stage that is trying to bring some of these advances to tackle and benefit those that are not in the room. I also think it's important to have a dialogue around how AI governance should be arrived to at a global level. There was a working group yesterday with the different UN agencies that are here today to discuss how exactly do we bring the global order together in order to talk about the appropriate level of regulation and governance for AI. As with any technology, there's always good and bad that can evolve from the advances that we're seeing. And so we're seeing a lot of governments trying to catch up and understand how do we ensure the benefits outweigh the harm that may come from this. So finally, what's the most exciting development you've been looking at or seeing in AI? I've seen a lot around climate change. I've seen a lot around using earth observation to understand what is happening in agriculture, in food security and other areas that directly have an impact on food security. So for me and for the World Food Program, the better we can understand these drivers in real time and their impacts in terms of productivity and market access, the better informed we can be and our partner government. So I'm really excited to see how this evolves. I just saw a presentation with Planet Labs and it's extraordinary the amount of information and data that is now being made available to many of the AI algorithms that are out there. Great. Kiryakus Kuparis from the World Food Program. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you, Chris, and thanks for having me. And we have much more coming up on the AI-figured global summit coming up here.


Hi, it's Kristin from Six Sister Stuff and today I am making a Halloween snack mix and this is so easy to make and it's very festive. So today we're going to take about two cups of chow mein noodles and I like the ones that are rice because they kind of look like dried up worms. As gross as that is, it's festive. Then you have two cups of peanuts and I like the honey roasted just because it makes it taste a little better. About a half a cup of white chocolate chips, a half a cup of raisins, two cups of honey nut Cheerios and you can use any kind of honey nut Cheerios. It just looks like little eyeballs to me so that's why I picked the Cheerios. And then some just milk chocolate chips just because it's the fun color and then about a half a cup of M&Ms. Now I did the peanut butter M&Ms because they're my favorite but I had to buy a big bag and take out all the orange and black ones because I really wanted peanut butter M&Ms in mind but you can just use normal M&Ms too. Okay then you just mix all together and there you have it. It's your Halloween snack mix and to display I put it in some sort of orange bowl with all kinds of spiders and snakes all around it. Anyways, thank you for joining me today and if you'd like to find out more Halloween recipes or any other recipes check out our website at SixSisterStuff.com.


Good afternoon. It's Tuesday at 4 p.m. Hawaii Standard Time, and this is Working Together. I'm your host, Cheryl Crozier-Garcia, and on this show we talk about the economy, the changing face of work, the changing face of occupation, and what's happening in the tech economy of Hawaii. Today, we're really lucky because we do have a special guest who, thanks to technology, is joining us from the Big Island. We have Mickey Laurie from Independent Phone Service in Camuela, and she's going to be talking about what's happening on the Big Island and with the telephone industry, communications, and high-tech issues there. If you call in and join us, our phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER>, and we will be able to hear you and then answer any questions that you have for us today. So you can also tweet us at ThinkTechHawaii, and again, we will be able to see your messages via the screen in front of us. So without further ado, let's go to the Big Island and talk to Mickey Laurie. Hi, Mickey. Can you hear me? Yes, I can hear you now. Very good. Very good. Good. So you are at Independent Phone Service in Camuela. Tell us about your business and about your client base and what you do for the local economy on the Big Island. Well, we are Independent Phone Services Incorporated. We have been on the Big Island. The business was started by George Laurie in 1990. We incorporated it in 1991. At that time, he had inherited a lot of his initial client base from the company that he was working for on Oahu. When he split up from them, the client base followed him and has since grown to well over 1,000 customers, both business and high-end residential here on the Big Island as well as the Otter Island. And we also have clients on the mainland using our VoiceOverIP's phone service. Wow. What kind of services do you provide? We provide and install telephone systems, again, for businesses and residential. We also provide VoiceOverIP phone service. Those also for primarily their individuals, a lot of whom are, they're teleworking. They're working for a company out of their home. And so you're able to provide the tech assistance that those telecommuting employees need right on Hawai'i Island? That's correct. That's correct. We house the phone system here in our office in Kamuella and deploy the phones. And like I said, we provide local phone numbers to people that are actually on the mainland working for firms that are here based in Hawai'i. So can you tell us how many people are you currently serving using telecommuting service? We have on our voice service about 500 customers. Wow. And what sorts of businesses do those telecommuters work for? Oh, they run the gamut from real estate to, gee, we have teleworkers that work in the hospital industry. There are some that have phones at home in case people call them during their off hours. I for one, for our company, have been teleworking since the early 2000s. Our company is here based in Kamuella and I was living on Oahu and working from there. And it was quite something back then to be able to tell people when I answered the phone, oh, I'm working on Oahu and they're like, well, I call your Kamuella number. Yes, and it rings on my phone on Oahu. And it just kind of boomed after that. So what kind of challenges do telecommuters face or that you experience that may be different from the kinds of challenges that employees who are more traditionally employed experience? For us personally, a lot of it had to do with hard paperwork. There, you know, faxes were always available so we could fax paperwork in between. But back in the early days when this was going on, if something needed an original signature, it needed an original signature. So I either had to fly the paperwork back or, you know, put in the mail and there was always that delay, the lag time in the mail. So that was one of the bigger challenges. Now a lot of offices, they say they're going paperless. I don't know if an office can truly be paperless. There's always going to be paper. There's definitely a paper trail that has to happen. Yeah, I see your paper trail right behind you. Oh, yeah. Yes. So you also mentioned that you have high-end residential clients. What sorts of services and products do these high-end residences require from you? The high-end residential mainly they have these, you know, these mansion type houses, not anything like what we see on the mainland, but on a smaller scale, but still in multiple millions of dollars. And so they want to be able to tie in their in-home security to their phone system. They want to make sure if someone pulls up to their gate, they can press the gate and call the house. Things like that. So it's mainly on-premise type solution for them. Yeah, their phone system, their communication system in their residence. So you have to then provide service, say, from the residence to the telephone pole, is that right? And then the phone company picks up the rest? Yeah, the phone company provides service to the DMARC outside of the house. It's usually not, it goes a little further than the pole. The service from the phone company will terminate in a box somewhere on the house, you know, in a knit, and we take it from the knit or the network interface device. We run the wiring inside the residence wherever it needs to go, and we connect the phone system to that. Have you found, one of the misconceptions or one of the stereotypes I should say about the neighbor islands is that they're technologically behind, say, what we're doing in Honolulu or what we're doing in the continental U.S. Have you found that to be true? Not at all. Not at all. We may be a little bit behind, but we're doing the same things and we're not as far behind as people think we are. There are places on the mainland that I even have talked to that we still live in grass huts, and we don't. Speak for yourself. I live in a grass hut. The coconut wireless is a little bit more than two coconut shells in a string. Yeah, drums, right? You communicate with drums? Exactly. So there's a lot of high-tech activity on Hawai'i Island thanks to the observatories and the Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park keeping track of volcanic activity. What sorts of things do you see in the future for that kind of infrastructure and industry? Can the Big Island position itself as a high-tech hub by perhaps joining with those existing high-tech firms? You know, I would think so. I would think we have, logistically speaking, we're in a good place to do that. Our link to Asia, linking the U.S. to Asia, we're right in the middle of all of that. It would be nice if we would pursue that, if there were monies available from the government, whether it's local government, state government, or federal government that would put money into Hawai'i. I think we would be able to support that. Apart from the money issue, I mean, because we always talk about how government funding would be the panacea to cure all ills, I think, within the economy. But what are some of the other ways that we need to come forward and support high-tech in the state? Think a little bit about, say, public education, what should we be teaching our kids? And what does the educational system look like in terms of providing knowledge with our STEM programs, science technology, engineering, and mathematics? And, well, what's happening on the Big Island with public education that is helping the tech industry grow? Well, they're giving, I think, they're giving the students a good foundation. But once they finish that four-year education and they get out into the world and start working in the tech field, it's a completely different world. What they learn in the classroom, the concepts that they learn in the classroom, a lot of times it's not that they don't apply in the real world, but real-world scenarios are, there's no substitution for real-world, real-world scenarios, is what I'm trying to say. I had this conversation with George when I told him about the interview coming up and he said that his advice that he would give someone who was interested in getting into IT especially is get the bare minimum education that you need and get out there and get a job. Start at an entry level and learn that way because things change so quickly that what they're learning in the classroom can't keep up with what's actually happening outside. It's funny you mentioned that because I teach at the university level and one of the trick questions that I ask my students is, okay, you guys, five years from the day you graduate, you're going to have a degree in history. No matter what you studied, no matter what your diploma says, you are going to have a degree in history. So you have got to be developing the skills that you need to teach yourself going forward into the future. I'd like to focus a little bit more on this talent issue because you mentioned that it's important to get the bare minimum of training and then work as soon as possible. How many employees do you have at IPS and how do you compete with say, oh, because you've got Helco on the continent or on the Big Island and you've also got other high tech firms that are compete with you for customers. I presume they also compete with you for talent. So how do you find talent? How do you keep it? Well, we, as a company, we're family owned. We've been very fortunate. The employees that we have right now, we have three or five. There are five of us. George is the owner of the company. There's myself. I do all the administration and we have three technicians. We have a service manager. We have a field installation manager and we have kind of a jack of all trades. Brandon does a bit of sales. He does servicing. He kind of rounds out the group. Hinano has been with us for 15 years now. Lynn's been with us 11 years and Brandon's the newest to the group and he's been with us probably four or five years since he got out of college. So we've been fortunate that we've been able to keep and develop the talent that we have. There have been times where we, you know, talked about it's getting busy. We need to hire. Who are we going to find? And immediately George and Hinano and Lynn kind of all agree.  Get somebody off the street who we can train and mold into what we want them to do. We always get resumes from people that are looking for part-time work. They're like on their way to retirement. They're either on their way to retirement or they've moved to Hawaii and they were lucky enough to have started work at an early age and they have years of service in their company and they're eligible for early retirement. So they're in their, you know, they're my age, 50s, and they're retired from their main job and so they're looking for something else. We kind of shy away from hiring people like that. Number one, they want money that a small company like us cannot afford to pay. Mickey, hold that thought. We need to do a little bit of housekeeping and let our viewers know what's happening on Think Tech Hawaii with our other programs. So stay tuned everybody. We will be back to working together on Think Tech Hawaii and our special guest, Mickey Laurie, from Independent Phone Service on the Big Island in just a few minutes. Aloha. My name is Danelia, D-A-N-E-L-I-A. And I'm the other half of the duo. John Newman, welcome. We are co-hosts of a show called Keys to Success which is live on the Think Tech Live Network series weekly on Thursdays at 11 a.m. We're looking forward to seeing you then. Aloha. I'm Ethan Allen, host of likeable science here on Think Tech Hawaii. Every Friday afternoon at 2 p.m. you'll have a chance to come and listen and learn from scientists around the world. Scientists who talk about their work in meaningful, easy to understand ways. They'll come to appreciate science as a wonderful way of thinking, way of knowing about the world. You'll learn interesting facts, interesting ideas. You'll be stimulated to think more. Please come join us every Friday afternoon at 2 p.m. here on Think Tech Hawaii for likeable science with me, your host Ethan Allen. Welcome back. This is Working Together on Think Tech Hawaii and I'm your host, Cheryl Crozier-Garcia. We're talking about the tech community on Hawaii Island and we are joined by a very special guest from Independent Phone Service in Camuela, Michelle Laurie. Mickey, are you there? Yes, I am. Fantastic. I need to talk with you a little bit about one of the stereotypes about talent on the neighbor islands. There seems to be kind of an attitude among tech professionals and other kinds of professionals in Honolulu that there just isn't enough talent or the right kind of talent on Hawaii Island. Can you tell us about that? You mentioned that you have had people working for you for quite some time, decades in fact for some of your employees. But what about those folks that aren't working for you? What's the talent market like sort of in a broader high-tech way? I'm not quite sure I'm understanding your question. You mean if we were to look outside for someone or you mean how tech differs on a wahoo versus the big island? No, no. What I'm talking about is the conception that Honolulu people have that people that work on Hawaii Island say are far less skilled and far less qualified than folks that work here. What's your observation of that? There is a myth out there that the outer islands that basically all of our tech people are shaved monkeys and that's so not true. We have capable, qualified, intelligent people that know what they're doing out here. And some of them, especially the ones that we work with directly far surpass the level of knowledge of some of the people that we work with in the same capacity on a wahoo. So what then can Hawaii Island businesses, Hawaii Island professionals do to overcome that stereotype? I mean we obviously, without say bragging, we've seen a lot of bragging in recent history and we probably don't want to go there. But how do the big island folks let the rest of us know that you all are just as qualified, just as capable, just as highly skilled as anyone we might work with here in Honolulu? I think the only way that message actually gets out there is by word of mouth. If people, like our client base here, they talk us up and down, we get referrals every day from just because of the amount of talent that we have and the longevity of our employees. I mean our clients all know our employees on a first name basis. They trust them. They ask for them by name. If I answer a service call, they ask for a particular tech that they've worked with over the last five years or 10 years. They want that continuity. They want to be able to work with that same person. They feel that level of trust. I can't really speak to how that differs on Oahu. I know the market on Oahu, the competition is so fierce. But even with our clients that we have on Oahu, we have a technician base there and he's only been there. He's been there on physical and Oahu and the regular service person of those clientele for the last three years. When they call our office, they ask for him specifically. So how we compete or get that word out there, I'm not sure. It's just by word of mouth and just keep doing what we're doing. Do it right and do it well. One more question about the skill set that your workers have. You mentioned earlier that there is some difficulty for small businesses competing for the top talent that you need because of issues like compensation benefits and things like that. And yet, you have a very long-term workforce. So what do you do that's different from other employers? If you can't match, say, the market wages that are being offered, what do you provide to your workforce that a competing employer simply doesn't have? We don't have the strict and stringent rules we did once upon a time. But we don't have the strict and stringent rules of if you want to take vacation, you need to put your vacation time in, X number of days in advance and all that kind of stuff. They could come in today, look at the schedule for the rest of the week and say, oh, it's kind of slow Thursday and Friday. Can I take off? It's like, sure. And with a staff that's as small as we are, we pick up for each other and we have each other's back and we just pick up the slack whenever somebody's not.  What do I do if one guy calls in sick most of the time?  With the same level of quality? With the same level of quality. How do you do that? How do you get two people to do the work of three, produce the same quality of product and not pay the competitive market wages? I want to bottle that and sell it. Let's go into business ourselves. You know, I think a lot of it has to do with the level of pride that they have in their job. I see people from the phone company out there all the time and they just don't care. They don't care. They punch a clock. They're seven to three or nine to five or whatever it is and when they're done, they're done. We all treat our business as a family business. They're all a part of it. They all have a stake in it. If one does good, we all do good. If one fails, we all fail. And it's never a pointing finger thing. It's we're a family and that's how we treat our employees and we found that they like that environment. They've had opportunities. They've had offers from competition. Hey, come work for us. We pay X amount more. What my guys think of and what they told me is that they look at the money, they look at the paycheck offer, they're sitting on the wall, but what if I want to take off? And they can't. That's one of their things. The flexibility that they have working for a small company. Yeah, that is often something that larger employers simply cannot offer because it would be chaos if they allowed everybody to kind of come and go as they please. So that's true. That is something that can create a product differentiation as you build your employment brand. Now you mentioned that yours is a family business, but I'd like to kind of talk a little bit about another aspect. Because you also did mention that the pay scale is not perhaps up to market level for what competing employers may provide. That is the gig economy. In case you don't know what it is, the gig economy is one in which people will cobble together a number of employment opportunities in order to create the livelihood that they need to support themselves and their families. And we're seeing a lot of that kind of entrepreneurship in things like folks becoming Uber drivers, turning their spare bedroom into an Airbnb, getting into various kinds of product sales, home-based businesses, MLMs, etc. What does the big island look like in terms of the gig economy in that regard? Where you might have a full-time employee who's also a part-time entrepreneur involved in some kind of gig-type business. Well, you just described me. Really? So what's your gig without naming names? I'm a full-time employee for independent phone services and I also have two direct sales businesses that I do. One, I sell a clothing line and I also sell a jewelry line. Oh, okay. That's interesting. When do you sleep? Well, I've learned to balance everything. In the beginning, it was a little bit difficult. It did take, and again, this was one of the advantages of working for a family-owned company. All I did was talk to my boss and say, hey, I've taken this on and, you know, I'm going to need some time here and there and if I let you know in advance that I'm going to have a sale or something like that, is that okay? And he thought about it and he said, sure. Good. Listen, Nikki, we are quickly running out of time, which is really too bad because I'd really like to delve into this more. Are you free to come back another time? Sure. You just let me know when I can come back. Great. Maybe the next time you're in town, we could broadcast live from the studio. Oh, that would be awesome. Okay. But meanwhile, you know, please extend our aloha to your crew on Hawaii Island, and we look forward to working with you soon. Well, thank you. Thanks for having me, Cheryl. All right. Take care.


Hits and I'm like about to get shot This was like a job for a suit change But up up But up up He slept out there. I'm telling mom grounded need to update Yuri. Yep. I need to see if I got any new suits I did throw her down with this for to go. I Also noticed a rooftop in Times Square. Oh, I want it happen to be related chat Nothing gets I wanted so bad look at it. It doesn't belong when it does the villains to pull apart It's the quintessentials classic spider-man. I mean we have classic up here, right? But then we got this Oh guys, I don't have any challenge tokens. I need for Cities already on the brink insult your enemy's pride with quips I'll update you when I make progress Sounds like a plan. Oh, you can insult your enemy I Love a wow. I got six points. What am I been doing?  I Want that suit Chad? I want that suit we do some challenges. I want that suit These things Yes Yes, master Tass master. Oh, I gotta change suits Let us go these Classic not classic, but it's on me a suit. I like this suit. It's growing on me Tass master is crazy. I want that suit so bad It just doesn't belong but it does it's like it's so out of place, but it's in place It's like the the perfect paradox of a suit Wait, what am I doing? Oh Take out all enemies without being cited. Well Geez game. Don't don't start a timer. Don't tell me what to do Until after the timer starts That's just mean. I mean How many are all right at this guy who's safe up two mocks at this guy here Safe that guy there. He's safe This guy here. We didn't see anything. You didn't see anything danger danger Stranger danger, okay So we got this guy here So we're gonna do this Come over here. Come over here. Hurry. The time is ticking sir And now he's safe. Come here smack. You're in time out over here.  Good Here this guy here. It's probably Not safe We did it slowest time ever retry Stop bearded wonder It's okay, man. The hostage is dead. Okay this guy here I think he's safe, right?   What the deuce? Why did you come over here?  Okay, I guess I didn't name Just shot the guy This is a song of learning I just need three tokens. So let me just finish this instead of trying to get the best time Let's just do it right if they see me the hostage is dead Can I go over there? camera No, I can't all right Good night. Good danger Danger stranger. He's safe Okay Now we got this guy Now he's safe. You're so cute when they're sleeping Okay, he's the last guy, right? Good. All right. I can do better. That gives me three.  I have so much more to learn So I got three from that. I think that's enough, right?  Oh my goodness. I messed it up Whatever we got it now. Just these last two At least I'll get one from it And then we got you Oh, we got two from it. Okay. Welcome everybody to the stream. Thanks for coming by guys I'm usually not up this late, but spider-man Enough said it is 6 a.m. Oh my I got the suit though. We're getting this I was not going to bed until I got this we're doing it. Oh What what happened to my challenge tokens that I just got from that You don't get tokens unless you beat the next level Oh Crap. Well, we're going to here for this one Next Try and get to the my soup. You were on my neighbor's porch for halloween The names task master And you're about to get used throwable or dodge encounter. All right. I can't read that Okay, let's see if I can go underneath I deserve that but that that was that was kind of uh That was kind of how you say When he fell through the floor and then like hit me with the With a zapper like that Kill me or recruit me I just need one challenge point task master, please It should pop up now. Let's go here. No, leave me alone That's what I was gonna ask you I'm They got the same voice He doesn't change his voice for spider-man. I don't understand how they just don't understand how they just don't understand how they just don't Recognizes his voice He doesn't change it. What am I doing? Me the hostage is dead. I'm so cute when they're sleeping It's said safe. Okay. I just won't believe you when you say safe next time. Sorry Jack The ditch is dead. Just not very observant What is this? Did I get one? He's not we're not done. Oh my gosh Many 47 left. All right. I thought that was it Okay, this is bad Giving my point. Oh my goodness What's up, Jake? How you doing? There's no sub-a-thon. No, I'm I'm I'm about to get out of here I'm going way over I did not plan on the 11 hour stream today. Give me The suit give it to me chat Look at it Just chat. Oh my gosh. It's even got this shading. Oh I love it It doesn't fit for this. Oh, gosh What was I saying? Oh, yeah That's what I was gonna ask you. I'm fine. But you and man. Oh, I love it I think it's my favorite suit. Jack. It's so wrong. But so right Just make sure you protect yourself And rest every now and then while that goes double for me Thanks, Miles Give me my love and be safe. I need to take a screenshot. This I have to If they'll let me Okay I gotta go guys What a game Thank you so much for coming by tonight. Thank you all for hanging out those who found me for the via the front page Hopefully you can follow the stream.  We always are like this. This is a nice chill stream laid back um Very welcoming Um, not like your typical channel on twitch. We're a little bit different. You may have noticed that but Now we're welcoming


Firstly, I have a car service which I'm late for. This thing's service sucks but needs to be done and I'm glad I've actually booked it in because every single time I have a day off, I always forget. So finally done that. Well actually while that's happening, I'm gonna go and my bank manager. Today is the day that the pest and building inspection gets done. I'm pretty sure it's already been done. My real estate agent's already given me a call and said that it all looks pretty good and that, well he actually said it looks excellent and that I should give him a call when I can so that's what I'm gonna do. But first of all, I'm gonna go to the bank and hand in a couple of pay slips, couple of my latest pay slips and redo my loan application. So it's probably about 30 days away from Settleman at the moment. Now it's not far at all. I think it is exactly 30 days away. It's the 22nd of March today and I settle on the 22nd of April. So it's gonna come around quick and I definitely need to get this application in so that's what I'm doing. So after that, what else have I got? After my car service, I'm gonna clean my car.  And then after that, I'm gonna get a haircut. Gotta get a haircut too. So that's important. Into a bit of a mop right now. As you guys may see, but I'm not cutting the top. I'm not cutting the top at all. I am officially growing it out. So I'll just be shaping up the sides and back. The quest to the man bun.  I guarantee it.  And I'll be like, fuck, that was a waste of time. But if I like it, who knows, might stick around for ages. But we gotta get there first. But anyways, no food today as of yet. I stuck to the diet yesterday. I'm feeling a little bit hungry this morning. My abs are showing, which is always a good sign. And all I've got is a drink here with some BCAAs in it. So I'll just be sipping on that for the first two or three hours.  Cause I don't wanna walk around in the sun, it's too hot. So that is what I'm doing, guys. Hope you guys are all traveling well. Hope you're all having a good day, wherever you are. And training hard and kicking goals and all that jazz. Cause I am. And I'm bringing you along. I used to work here, you know.  So glad I actually got out of this industry. But in saying that, there is some, there is some, you know, opportunity to earn some pretty decent money, but I just hated selling, to be fair. Anyways, I'm gonna go inside now. All right guys, the car is in. And we are walking just around the corners of the bank, but before I go there, I'd better give him a call to see if he's actually in the office. Hey mate. Good man, are you in the office? Ah, probably, I'll be in, I've just dropped my car for a service, so I'm just around town at the moment, but yeah, depending on how long you'll be. One o'clock? Yeah. That sounds fine, that sounds good. Yeah, all right then, two easy. All right, see ya. It didn't work out as planned. There's quarter past 11, and I'm going back there at one, and my car's not gonna be done until three. So let's just put my plane completely out of work. But as I said, if this happened, I'm going straight to the gym to get a session out of the way. So as per usual, a little inkling in the back of my head to smash some weights rather than do some cardio. It's very strong in this one. So we'll see what actually happens.  So what I'm gonna do is put those dumbbells back. I've got the 22kg ones out, so they're sitting there ready. And what I'm gonna do is pre-exhaust on the seated shoulder press machine, 10 reps at a heavy weight to failure, then go straight into the dumbbells, and then superset it, and I'll just get an amazing pump. High reps, still heavy weight, or heavy for me. So, you know, it's not like I'm going lightweight, still high reps, still high weight and high reps. So let's see how we go. Today it was just smashed front delts. I did a mixture of pressing exercises and front raise exercises. After that, I just went over and set up two attachments on the tricep cables. Use a V bar as a push down, then I went over to the other side, use a rope as an extension. I'm really liking that sort of superset, one push down movement with one extension movement. I'm really liking that just the way it feels. You know, slightly different parts of the tricep, but I'm still going relatively heavy weight. It's nothing stupid, I'm not getting any more than 10 reps on each exercise. So, yeah, probably had about five or six of those. Triceps have done.  I've got about half an hour until I need to go to the bank. I'm gonna go out onto the floor, do a little bit of mobility.  After that, I'll be doing my cardio outside. So yeah, but I'm feeling good. Definitely tightening up, which is what we want. So yeah, just another workout in the box, guys. Get it done wherever you can.  It's a lot later than I expected. You know, the car service took like literally three hours. So after I went to the gym, went to go see the bank manager, that went relatively well. I put in an application and now I need to get, you know, six months history of bank statements as I had to do for the first loan, credit card statement, and I've got to get a copy of the contract. So once I do that, then they can basically give me an answer whether I can afford it or not. Affordability is not an issue. The only issue I've got at the moment is actually coming up with the $24,500 that I need to cover the deposit, the stamp duty, pest and building inspection, and conveyance and fees. So as long as I've got that amount of cash, which I'm pretty close to, everything's going to be fine. So that's the only thing I'm really stressed about. Got a haircut, finally. Got the mop, the mop shaved. Sides and back. What are you looking at? It's going to be all the way to the back soon, so. That should be good. Yeah, what else should I do? Didn't clean the car, but it is serviced. So that makes me feel good.  They said that it didn't need much coolant, they just topped it up. And after driving here in Alice Springs for like six months without ever having touched the coolant, no water, no coolant, nothing, I would have thought that it would be getting relatively low, but apparently not. So hey, maybe my car doesn't use any coolant to it, but which is awesome. So that was good. But anyways, I actually haven't run the real estate agent or run the Pest and Building Inspection Company. So I got a call from the real estate agent this morning telling me that he'd gone to the property and let the Pest and Building Inspection Company in. So they've obviously done it. The real estate agent said that, you know, it's looking really good. The building looks good, which I already knew, but as far as the report goes, I need to pay for it first, obviously, and then it will get sent to me. So before the long weekend, because it's Easter Friday, so I definitely don't want to wait too long. I want to get that back because on Friday, I'm pretty sure it's been 10 days since I signed the contract, 10 business days. So that means that the remainder of the $10,000 deposit needs to be paid, $10,000 truck, you know, it's put into a trust until settlement day, then I pay the remainder of the deposit plus all the conveyancing fees and the title gets handed over. So I've got those three things to do tomorrow. Back at work tomorrow, no rest for the wicked.  But I'll tell you what, once I get this house, man, and I know that what I'm working for is for a purpose to pay off these two places or at least keep them running, building my fortune, building wealth, it's not gonna be a problem for me to work, it keeps ours again. I've really slogged it out to get to this point, but I know that I can't stop now. I've got to keep working hard, keep working those hours, keep earning the money, otherwise, you know, I'm not gonna be able to afford these places. So it's not a problem. I guess my ultimate goal would be to earn the money that I need through health and fitness as an industry. That is my ultimate goal because health and fitness is my passion. I mean, there's no doubt about it. You know, nothing that I talk about, I can get more passionate about and more into and really feel positive about helping people than the health and fitness industry.   These are literally specific numbers.  And how cool is that? I think that's really cool. And that's what I wanna try and, you know, preach through flexible dieting, not through chicken breast, broccoli, and brown rice.  And that is gonna be the way I do my meal plans for my clients and I can't wait because I know, I know, I know I can help people lose weight. There's no doubt about it. 110%, I can do it, I can help you.  You've gotta be committed. And in saying that, I won't be taking any clients on board unless they are 110% committed because there's no point.  You know what I mean? I don't wanna put my name with people who aren't committed. I will, I probably will.  But I'm here to answer any questions and be your coach.  No car.


Hey guys, this is Nate, aka The Foot Account, and welcome back to the channel. We have a nice little Sunday upload for you guys talking about the stuff that happened or lack of content, aka stuff that happened in this game yesterday on FIFA Ultimate Team, because another day of the preseason promo and another day of kind of just let down and overall poor content. A lot of people turn to Twitter today to talk about how poor they feel like the content was for a Saturday. That's kind of two days in a row now where we feel like it just sucks and all kinds of bases around the same thing. And I'm tired of, honestly, after these first couple of days, I'm kind of tired of just talking about the issues, right? We just know what needs to happen in this game. We know what you need to do coming out of that summer heat promo that was really hyped, that a lot of stuff to grind. SBCs that we were able to craft and stuff like that. But I do have a couple of thoughts on why I think the content has just been OK.  And as of right now, these cards are still in packs for 40 more days. So I don't know if they're going to change any of that. But that's the fundamental thing that I do think they need to change. The content that we got yesterday on Saturday was a 90 plus, not not even the 90 plus, just the regular any tots SF guaranteed SBC, which when I first saw this, I actually got excited for a hot second because this is the same SBC that was out during week three of the summer heat promo and it was dope. It was a Gigi like we could grind this. We could we could keep recycling it because it was repeatable. Yes, the 70 chemistry is not cool and that does kind of suck. But it was repeatable and it was grindable, right? If we had this SBC right here, you could hammer through 81 double pluses and 82 to 88 and you would still be able to craft this SBC pretty easily with doing those SBCs. And I was really excited today because I thought at first that this SBC was repeatable and that we would have a chance to to do that, we see to just keep grinding, try to get new and higher rated and possibly get some new tots cards in the club with the remaining coins that we do have in foot. But of course, the typical way they made this an unnon repeatable SBC, not untradable, but non repeatable. And that just really killed the hype and the content today. We also got a 25 K pack preseason challenge SBC. They came out as well and that was literally it for Saturday on FIFA Ultimate Team. Now, I want to kind of talk about this a little bit, right? Because this is the very beginning of the preseason promo. Yes, at the very beginning of the summer heat promo, things were pretty hyped like we had the endombole right away. We had the Paris stitch within the first couple of days. But I almost wonder if they're taking their time with this preseason promo since it's out for at least another 40 days. All these cards are impacts for 40 days. If they don't change that at all, which I beg that they do take these cards and put new ones in the packs, I beg please do that ASAP. But if they're like taking this promo is like this is the first week. So we want to keep the content pretty chill and then ramp it up afterwards. That's my only hope and my only like, honestly, like that's almost my last string of hope that I have right now for the content of this game and the for the stuff that's going on, because on the menus right now, there is literally not much to do that is worth it, right? I know a lot of you guys are saying, hey, I can grind stuff right now. I was looking at my YouTube comments yesterday and a lot of you guys were pretty much in agreement with me. It's that there's nothing useful to grind. Yes, technically you could do these 81 pluses, the 82 to 88. So you could try to craft these icons, craft the Megatarian, craft the Valverde and even craft this Tots guaranteed, right?  And this really, really feels like to me the start of the the turn in the corner or turning the curve to FIFA 21. I really start with turning that curve to FIFA 21. I think we're headed in that direction because what happens at the end of the year is the content really slows down. EA stops putting out content for and stuff for us to do and they really want us to focus on FIFA 21. Now, again, it is August. So at some point during this month, they're going to start releasing content and start releasing, you know, like probably like live streams and videos. And they'll be tweeting out clips of information of deep dives or whatever into the updates for FIFA 21. So I think that's where they're going to start kind of putting their efforts and putting their drawing us as the FIFA, the FIFA community to those different things. So honestly, in the next coming weeks, I see things getting really, really slow on FIFA all the team. I really do. It's been a really strong ride.  There was a little bit of a low period between like headliners and the foot birthday. I know we had shapeshifters in there, which helped a little bit. But there was a little bit of a low period in like March. Like I think it was March where we had we had written refresh then at the very end of February, we had shapeshifters. March was very slow until the end when we had foot birthday at the beginning of May. And that's when since basically the beginning of May, we've had foot birthday. Then we went right into team in the season. It's been pretty high since then. And the content has gone like pretty strong. Like we've had a week off or two here or there. But the content is really gone on very strong since the beginning of of of May of April. Sorry, of April until now. So that's basically four months straight of solid content. A lot of stuff going out. SBCs, upgrade packs, insane, juiced out cards. Like look at all the cards that are in my club now. Some of the highest rated cards in my club have all entered the club in the past two months. You know, look at these team of the seasons. These are the lone team of the years, obviously. But a lot of these team of the season cards. And once you get back down a little bit lower, you start to see all the summer heat players that have been upgraded for their SBCs. So it's been a really, really solid last couple of months. But we are now in that period where it's going to really start to slow down. Things are going to get interesting. And a lot of people are going to start looking at FIFA 21 stuff as that does come out. Now, again, planes for me. I'm going to start looking at FIFA 21 stuff as it does come out a little bit. We'll kind of dabble here or there. But I'm not going to really get into like trading material or talking about FIFA 21 exclusively, you know, just yet. I think what we'll do is we'll probably do some like year end club review, kind of like wrapping up the year videos. We'll still I'll still cover the content that's coming out in FIFA. But if there's not content that's coming out every day, since it has been that consistent for the past like what, four months, it's probably going to start to slow down here on this channel just so you know that I'll still be live streaming on Twitch. I might upload some of those things here. I don't know if any of you guys would be interested in career mode. I am going to run a career mode. I do this every year. I try to take spurs and get them a trophy last year. I did. I think I did it in like I didn't get spurs of trophy, but I was very close and it took me like two years. I'm not the best at career mode, but it's a lot of fun. We do have a lot of fun streaming that on Twitch. I think, honestly, I'm going to start branching out to some of those different modes in FIFA pro clubs. You might be seeing me playing some pro clubs live on stream as well. And also interacting and being a part of some other collaboration videos. You'll see one of those later this week. So that's kind of the stuff you can look for. It's going to slow down really. It honestly is because the FIFA content is slowing down and that's just it's just the part of the game, the natural game cycle. So I just want to kind of give a few words about that as well, because that's kind of where we're headed, I guess, in a sense. I know some of you guys are still trading. I know some of you guys are still interested in some of that. And I will definitely cover the market when we have big time movements and SBCs and content that comes out that that corresponds with some of that. And that's the one thing I want to talk about right now. Actually, I've mentioned road to the finals right now. Today is Sunday. We can sell off day. I'm really kind of, you know, interested in some of these road to the final cards. And if I was somebody who wanted to make coins right now, I'd be kind of interested in these as well. Yesterday, we talked about DiBala and some of these road to the finals. Of course, you have to kind of monitor what situation they are in right now. Of course, Leon has a lead on Juventus in the Champions League. Since we have those games coming later this week, there is some situations where you might want to be careful with these cards because, again, there's a possibility that they do get upgraded if they win later this weekend, this coming weekend, basically a week from now or a week from yesterday. You might see some cards getting upgraded and updated that are road to the final live items that have games. So again, I mentioned maybe keep an eye out for a few of these as, of course, they could rise in price as an investment this week. Watch their drop offs on Saturday, late Saturday night into Sunday as you're watching this video because that is what I would expect to see. Some of that drop off start to happen. And of course, these cards are very rare. So I do think there's a possibility they could shoot up a decent amount. If it's a meta card, if the upgrade is good and if there's just enough hype in FIFA at that point as well. There's people that are always active on the market. So I do think you're going to see stuff that goes up and down in terms of in terms of prices because people are always on this game. There's always something to do in FIFA. Some people are still involved with the gameplay. They're still doing upgrade packs. They love the cards that have come out. The objective cards that have come out are cool. Yes, there's a GG. But yeah, watch those road to the finals of the sell off again today. Make sure that the ones that you are picking, though, make sure the ones that you are picking actually have games that are upcoming. So. Make sure you pick those. Let me show you guys really quick. You want to you want to choose through these four teams right here. You Ventus Leon, Bayern, Chelsea, Napoli, Barcelona, Man City and Real Madrid. You definitely want to look through those. And of course, take into account, right? Like like Bayern is up 3 0 on Chelsea. Chelsea just lost a couple of hours ago as I was recording this video. They just lost to Arsenal in the FA Cup. So and they lost Pulisic got hurt and Pedro was hurt as well in that game. So some injuries there that doesn't help them for this game against Bayern. So like I would not probably go by Conte, because Conte is probably going to get sold off because he is going to be there. They're not going to be progressing on to the next stage, most likely. You won't be live anymore. He'll stay at 94 rated and people will panic sell those cards. The teams that do not get in again, we're probably going to mention this a few times throughout the week. This next week, the teams that do not move on to the next round of Champions League or Europa League, those live cards are definitely going to drop off at price because that live upgrade is not built in anymore. It's a bit different right now with what is happening in the game because we don't it's it's different than what we're used to, right? Usually when Champions League is going on, it's still a decently hyped time of the year. You know, it's at least earlier in the year. Like a lot of these games would have been played in in March or in April. The continuing games of the Champions League, but instead they're being played now at the end of the year where we are after a team of the season and these cards are not like the most hyped cards in the game anymore. So I'm curious to see if there's less of a sell off and less of a drop off on some of these cards. Just because there's not as much hype around them. Now, of course, you have some guys in this game like Alan has an SBC version. Millie Tao has an SBC version. So the cards that are really going to do well out of these road to the finals are going to be ones that don't have a team of the seasons or they had an objective card that is no longer available on the market. It's just available. Basically, cards that don't have any other special version on the market. You're definitely going to see more movements. Those Jordi Alba, Marcial, maybe even Gretzgray has an SBC, but that card again is not on the market. You know, wherever the hype kind of goes, that's where you're going to want to see the movements. The pie could get very interesting. I know he has a team of the season, but this is still a live item. Gretzgray could get interesting again with Bayern Munich. Like this is a card that I would get very interested in. I mean, with one upgrade, which they are almost guaranteed to get that next upgrade. This card is going to be club 90 in the first the first three stats here, pace, shooting and passing. And he's going to be inching towards 90 defense and 90 physical. Bayern have a great chance to go through this year. And this is going to be the best version of Gretzgray after this upgrade. He's going to get another boost of 92 probably. This is a card that I would definitely keep my eye on. It looks like he was 100,000 coins earlier today. So watch the guys like this that you would think would continue moving on in Champions League. Maybe if you think Real Madrid are going to keep going, watch this bail. Again, with the Marcial and United watch some of these cards because they could have some big time market movements. Again, Bayern Munich, if they win the Champions League, that's going to be pretty hype. And that's going to be a lot of people that want to go out and use a card like Gretzgray. They're just keeping an eye on some of that stuff. If you're trying to, you know, watch some cards, watch some prices and see if you can make any coins. If you're worried about that right now on this game and just watch the week in the Excel off in general. If you want to buy some cards for your team with the way the content is looking right now, I would say that you don't have to be too worried about losing coins in the next week or so. Honestly, I don't expect the market to really drop that much unless EA put out some insane content, which honestly, I'm not expecting because so far things have been rough. Things have been very, very rough for the first three days of this promo with just yes, there's stuff to grind, but it doesn't make sense to grind it, which sucks.  But hopefully EA can make a better game for FIFA 21 that we can more enjoy the gameplay, fingers are crossed, but the hope is not that high to be completely honest with you. So if you guys enjoyed this video today, it's going to be short ones from here and out, most likely just because there's not as much stuff going on. But if you did enjoy it, smash the thumbs up on it. Comment down below if you have any questions. Comment down below as well. If you have any video suggestions that you want to see, I've got some stuff lined up for kind of like end of the year. You know, FIFA 20 year in review type stuff and all sorts of stuff like that. But if there's anything FIFA 20 that you want to see or if you're interested in career mode or maybe even trying a different game, let me know about that as well. And of course, subscribe to the channel if you are new. I appreciate you, dudes. Thanks for watching all these videos. The support has been absolutely mental throughout this whole year of FIFA and it continues to be awesome. Now I love all you guys and I appreciate all of you. It's been Nathan for the count. I will catch you guys later. Peace out.


What's up everybody John Hammond here another video Python challenge level 23, so here we are Level 23 of the Python challenge The URL is now just bonus that HTML that we got after the last video level 22 and There's nothing really here just a picture again, so let's check out the HTML source code I control you you can just right-click to be the source or whatever so I see there are a couple html comments here to do Do you owe someone an apology now? It is a good time to tell him that you are sorry. Please show good manners although It has nothing to do What does that even mean? Okay, I don't know Title is what is this module is it? Do I have to track down some kind of Python module based off of this picture? Just kind of a a cow a bowl. I think here whatever this is What is this module? It can't find it. This is an undocumented module. What is it looking for like it the cow is looking for it. Why is the cow looking? What is this Vaggers Biscuit, okay, that's clearly not English. That's probably not a real thing right here What is this? It's just a Some kind of cypher or something like this looks like this could very well just be like a Caesar cypher This could just be like a rot-13 thing So if you don't know what a Caesar cypher is I can totally Google that for you But it's just like a cypher quote-unquote that has shifted a letter of his letters position in the alphabet to become something else so super-duper common in Like easy kind of baby capital flag stuff Like the first notion of cryptography is a Caesar cypher So you can do it in Python really easily if you just have a string here and that you can do decode Dot decode for a function for a string and you can say rot-13 in the oh, okay It's uh It'll it'll decode it for us and in this case it says in the face of what that's actual English So I'll take that. I don't want to print in my bed dot decode Rot-13 and just gives it okay the u is in there, but Yeah, in the face of what I?  Gis. Hey, that's cool stuff. Oh, okay That's a big thing. I don't know what that is Python cow Oh, nope giant snake eats cow and all I want module Interrupting cow Cow pie. Oh, it's like how say That's a game. I think I don't know. Is this something to do with this to-do notes something about an apology What is this module? It can't find it. This is an undocumented module. Is there some kind of like plan words here that I'm missing This is kind of like Is it supposed to be like literal or something Python this module this module? No Import this in the Zen of Python. What? Oh, is this this the this module. What the heck? Is that literally a thing? Do I still have that? Oh, yeah So anyone import Import this whoa The Zen of Python by Tim Peters beautiful has been ugly Sorry, I'm just reading this In the face of I feel like that's the other hint. We got to keep in mind It's just other thing that was rotated in the hint of in the face of There's never passed soundly I'm less explicitly stated in the face. Oh, hey in the face of ambiguity Is that it in the face of ambiguity is ambiguity the word that we need? Seems pretty likely. Yes. Yes. Oh, okay. Sweet. That was not too difficult That was kind of hunting around do a little Solve a little riddle not really a whole lot of code in that other than a Interesting Python tidbit. So cool. Okay simple Didn't write a whole lot of code, but solve the small little Python challenge riddle like I guess Did this module is a hidden module and Looks like it's just the philosophy of Python But Sweet. All right, just jumped in a level 24. I mean that was pretty neat Thanks for watching guys. Hope you enjoyed that one kind of kind of simple and easy But I'm sure it'll get pretty crazy on this thing. I have no idea what to This is really scary. I don't know if we're gonna be writing like some a star module or a star algorithm But solve this maze good lord All right. Well, I'll see you in the next video guys. Thanks for watching Hey, if you Like this video, please leave a like a little press the button there Maybe leave a comment on what you think and if you're feeling in the mood for it subscribe I'd be super grateful super duper helps me and I would really appreciate it So thank you guys for watching and joining these. I'll see you in a later video


just a special night. You know.  You know I went back to my room last night and you know just you know watch the final inning watch different highlights of it and tried to and was able to really let it sink in and enjoy it and it was it was a fun night to just go back to the hotel and and watch all that certainly last night was definitely guys coming together. You know I think this is a close group as it is. But but to see these guys celebrate quarry and and just celebrate each other on on such a special night. You know you obviously never really plan for something like that. Just to see the the reactions from different people is is something that I really enjoy you know watching that final out I kind of just stood off to the side and tried to just drink in as much as I could of people's reactions all over the field and in the dugout and then coming back in the clubhouse the same thing and sitting around and talking with the coaches later in the night and just to see the joy that that people were experiencing that all played you know a small part in that night. No hitters still feels amazing to me and and actually getting to experience one for the first time in my life you know as being on the field for one. You know and I've I've I've been in a lot of games and part of a lot of games so to to finally be in one was was pretty thrilling and and you know the night before you know when I got back I and turnbull had thrown the no hitter you know I watched all the you know the kind of the hoopla around that and watch the highlights from that so I feel I still think it's it's very special. I have a coaches thread text so just a lot of let's go and a few of those guys are flying back to New York today and just excitement and then at the end of the night you know walking into the coach's room and just just to see the the joy on everyone's faces and their different emotional experience from the evening was one of the things that was a lot of fun to to soak in last night.