Having good questioning skills as a manager gives you a massive advantage in doing your job. Reasons why you should improve your questioning skills as a manager include. Firstly, it gives you a better understanding of the problems and the challenges you are facing, making it easier to solve or overcome them. Secondly, it enables better, more robust solutions to be created. Thirdly, it helps you find out a lot more about what's really happening in your team and company. Fourth, it increases the depth of your knowledge of the strengths and weaker areas of your team, which then in turn helps you manage the team better. Fifth, it helps you build better relationships by showing more interest in others. Sixth, better questions get you better answers. And then seventh, knowing how to ask better questions gets you better decision making. And the list goes on. Learning how to use the right questions in different situations improves your effectiveness as a manager many times over. You'll be learning these six ways to improve your questioning skills. And at the end of the video, I'll take you through seven types of questions to use and in what situations to use each. My name is Jess Coles and I've had a 25 year management career in corporates and household names through to SMEs. Developing questioning skills allowed me to find the real problems we faced to understand other people's perspectives better and to drive actions useful to all. Learning the art of asking the right questions definitely made me a much more effective manager. And if you're new to this channel, enhance.training shares business and people management expertise to help you improve your performance and that of your team and business. And if you like this video, please give it a thumbs up and subscribe. Asking questions are powerful. Questions get other people thinking. Questions guide and control the conversation. Questions can define problems. Questions help teach and correct. You can use questions in many situations to get a much better result than simply telling the individual. So with that in mind, the first way to improve your questioning skills is to know your purpose before asking questions. You know, think about what you're trying to get from the situation before you start asking questions. Knowing your purpose will help you structure your questions better and improve questioning techniques. If some examples of purposes of using questions include firstly, obviously to find out information. Secondly, to discover and understand the underlying problem. Third, to drive actions and solutions. Fourth, to solve a specific problem by using other people's knowledge and skills. Fifth, to challenge others' way of thinking or their solutions. Sixth, to teach by getting the other person to question their assumptions or thinking. Changing the purpose will change the questions that you're asking. You know, for example, if you're finding out information the question might be tell me more about what ABC Limited does and what problems are we solving for them. You know, an open question expecting quite a broad answer. You compare this to if you are challenging a solution while using it as an opportunity to teach. That is one solution for ABC Limited. What issues can you see with implementing that solution before the end of the month? This is an open question expecting an answer focused on identifying problems. And compare this to getting agreement on a particular solution. Does solution C for ABC Limited meet all the criteria we set out at the beginning of this workshop? i.e. a closed question aimed at getting agreement or a yes. Working out the purpose before asking questions will definitely improve your questioning skills. The second way to improve your questioning skills is to tailor your questions to your audience. You're asking questions in a conversation with the CEO is likely to be very different from asking questions to a junior worker. Your audiences are very different. You might ask the CEO who is time poor and knowledgeable what exactly do you want delivered from finance to increase our gross margin by 5%. You might ask the junior who has more time and less business knowledge the following question sequence. Firstly, what did you do over the weekend with your family? Secondly, what is your key focus over the next week? Third, how do you think you could help the finance team reduce costs or time spent in the areas you look after? Fourth, what help would you need to implement your best suggestion? Before asking questions, think about your audience and consider. Firstly, how much time they have? Secondly, what they might expect in terms of pleasantries or relationship building at the start? Third, what knowledge they have? Fourth, what their motivations and interests are? Fifth, what they can or do influence and control? Sixth, what language style they understand and are used to? And seventh, what their mood might be? And any other areas that help you understand and tailor your questions to your audience? Do your best to tailor your questions to your audience and you will get better answers. The third way to improve your questioning skills is to learn how to manage tone and body language when asking questions. The spoken words account for around 7% of the message. The non-verbal components massively impact how the words spoken are interpreted. Tone and pace of voice make up around 38% of the communication with the remaining 55% being communicated through body language. How you use your body language and tone of voice can easily change the question being asked from. A friendly inquiry to increase and manage understanding to something like An accusatory question implying poor performance, likely to get a defensive or aggressive response. When asking questions, be conscious of, firstly, the tone and pace of your voice. For example, using a neutral tone expressing curiosity and excitement for learning. Secondly, the pauses and the words we emphasise. Third, our mood. If we're annoyed or upset or have negative emotions, how do we keep these out of our tone of voice and body language? Fourth, our facial expressions and the use of eyes. Our show interest and openness and willingness to take in the reply to our question. Fifth, how we hold our bodies. Our attentive, engaged and respectful. The more interest we show in the answer and the more we think about the answer and consider it, the more likely our question will be answered with effort and thought. The fourth way to improve your questioning skills is to suspend judgement for as long as possible to gain insight from the other person. We all judge. We all have our opinions, our beliefs and our reference points. It takes effort to really take in what the other person tells us, to consider it, to reflect on it. That effort shows on our faces and in our reactions when we listen to the reply to our question. This is gold dust to those replying and they put in more effort into their questions as a result. Even more importantly, if we take in the reply to our question, if we consider it, we are in a better place to understand their point of view. Better understanding reduces conflict and increases the ability for both parties to learn. This process helps us adapt our thinking which helps us be more successful as managers. The fifth way to improve your questioning skills is to learn how to use silence. Silence is an incredibly useful tool when asking questions. We all find the silence that follows a really good question uncomfortable. Yet if you want to get a good answer, staying silent and giving the other person the time to think without being interrupted is a must. Don't be tempted to repeat the question or reframe the question until you've given the other person plenty of time to think and respond. Being silent also increases the pressure on the other person to respond to your question. Practice using silence when asking questions and get comfortable with the silence yourself. The sixth way to improve your questioning skills is to actively listen and aim for action. Using active listening skills is a must to get good at asking questions. You should pay attention to their tone and pace of voice, their facial expressions and their body language when they are answering. If they answer quickly, if they appear to have spent very little thought before answering, then they are probably answering with what they know or think you want to hear. For information gathering questions, this is usually fine. But what about problem solving questions? What about questions where you are asking them to challenge the status quo? What about questions that ask them to step into their unknown? Would this reaction be okay? The best questions usually get the other person thinking. Thinking and considering takes effort and you will see this in their face and body language. Keep asking different questions until you see that they are thinking. And remember the wording that got them there for asking questions in the future. Good questions often initiate action. Good questions could highlight an issue or a gap within the other person's area of responsibility. If you've asked a question with curiosity, they are likely to consider the question, realise there's a gap they haven't spotted and then resolve to take action to fix it. Always pay attention to the non-verbal messages the other person is giving off and try to ask questions that generate action. Are you get the other person thinking or taking literal action? So I've gone through six actions to take to improve your questioning skills. I'm going to run through seven types of questions for you to practice using. The first one is closed questions. Closed questions generally only allow a short response such as a yes or a no. Or to choose from a very short list of possible answers. An example could be choosing sweet flavours. Closed questions are good for narrowing down topics and getting to decisions. Secondly, open questions. Open questions allow for a wide response such as giving opinions, options, views, solutions and more. Open questions are great for learning about the other person or a particular subject or area. Open questions often start with or include what, why, when, how, tell me, please expand on. Examples include, what do your views on customer ABC limited? How would you go about increasing the profitability of customer ABC? Third, leading questions. Leading questions encourage the other person to give you an answer you want. Leading questions limit the answers or put the pressure on the other person to give a certain answer. Examples include, firstly, James, I really like option two, what do you think? Secondly, how satisfied are you with our product? Fourth, probing or clarification questions. Probing questions get the other person to think more deeply before giving an answer. Probing questions are often used to expand on an answer previously given. Here for example, thanks for showing that customer ABC is unhappy. Please expand on what is making customer ABC unhappy. The questioning technique of asking why five times is a good use of probing questions. You keep asking why until you really understand the situation or have gotten to the bottom of it. Fifth, funneling questions. Fuddling questions is about asking a series of questions that become more restrictive with each step or vice versa. You usually start with open questions, move into probing questions and then use closed questions. Fuddling questions are good to focus in on and find out more details on a particular area. Here are some examples. Firstly, what are you looking for? You're an open question. Secondly, what has this happened before? A probing question. Third, do you agree? A closed question. Sixth, justification questions. Justification questions ask the other person to provide evidence or examples to support their ideas or views. An example could be, what evidence do you have to support your view that we should stop supporting ABC Limited? Seventh, reframing questions. Reframing questions aim to shift the perspective of the other person. These are good if a person is stuck or would benefit from a different way of looking at things. If for instance, if a person has been complaining about their day, a simple reframing question might be. That sounds pretty tough. It would be great if you could tell me what has gone well today. So there you have seven types of questions to practice using in different situations. There are many ways to improve your questioning skills as a manager and we have gone through six today being. Getting good at asking questions and listening and taking in the other person's response is great to help both parties learn. Questions can be used for all sorts of purposes. Start experimenting with how you use questions when managing your team. And if you have any questions about the six ways to improve your questioning skills for managers, please leave them in the comments section below and I'll get back to you. Thanks very much for watching and I look forward to speaking to you again soon.


Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the Everton News Daily. Carlo Ancelotti's revealed that Everton will have a big fight ahead of them in the next 10 games to get European football. He said it will be a big fight for that position because a lot of teams are involved. The break can help us recover some players who are out, Hamers and Jean-Philippe Gabbaman. We will have a more complete squad and can fight by maintaining the same spirit and attitude as against Manchester City. Hamers can put more quality in the squad for sure and with a good condition can help us try and reach our target. We are not going to lose a lot of players on international duty and have to be focused on those who are here. The physical condition of the players is good to have a rest because some players are a little bit tired then prepare well for the next game. So, Everton's next game is a week on Monday against Crystal Palace and hopefully Hamers Rodríguez will be fit. He is confirmed he will be fit, the manager is confirmed he will be fit for that game and also Jean-Philippe Gabbaman will start training this week according to the manager. But also, like Jeremina and Michalis and won't be travelling over to South America, those games have all been cancelled because of the travel restrictions around Covid. No Michael Keane in the England squad so that's good. Ben Goffy and of course Tom Davis will be playing for the England under 23s. But yeah, it's not too bad and if a lot of players can get rest in the next week or so depending on how much rest they are given by the club it will be just that last chance for the players. So, the idea is to re-energise ahead of the last 10 games and as the manager said that push those big games for the Europeans as well which obviously we are outside at the moment being an egg place. Of course it means Manchester City will have to or Spares will have to win the league cup and won them a winner anyway and finish in the top five positions and obviously the FA Cup then if it's won by someone in the top six will then go to seventh. Which of course this year means the Europe Conference League, the new competition so if ever can get seventh and those other things happen that will be European football for next season. Robin Olson has been linked with a move to Valencia of course he's on loan from Roma who apparently are asking 2.5 million for the goalkeeper. Now we obviously not sure what's going to happen with Robin Olson even if the club want to keep him obviously he is him and his family were involved in a beggar last week in it. There's a lot of speculation that he might decide to move away and go and play in another country which you can understand with a young family and Valencia have to be linked to him for a day and be a real shame because 2.5 million would be an absolute steal for him. The Sweden's number one goalkeeper being an absolute steal and have ever been to lose out because obviously of such a terrible thing like a bear it does leave a real sour taste in the mouth but we'll have to wait and see what happens not sure whether he is going to be relocated between now and the end of the season or whether he's going to stay in the house in the Cheshire area but we'll have to wait and see on that one. Evan I've been once again linked with Caledar Cwylor Barley again today this story broke yesterday just seems a mad one doesn't it seems a mad one one of the hottest properties in the world in the last couple of years obviously has been for a while but 29 now on the price Napoli still won from this huge and Evan stock quite well at centre back as well so but that story seems to well as being pushed again today. Mark Hughes was his favourite player spoken about Dominic Arvaluin and said even when he played against Evan at right wing back against Mark Hughes' stock that he knew he was going to be a top player he said you could see back then that the young man was able to get round the pitch he said he had a youthful energy that is one thing you want to see as a given when you introduce a young player they have to show up that enthusiasm and that willingness to run. Harry opposition when they get the chance he certainly did on that day it was an even enough game but it was always going to pan out that way and ruin he would score it was in the stars but Dominic Arvaluin played really well and you sense that he was a young player he was going to have a career. He just needs to continue developing and that know how to understand how to work the space in the box and he is the perfect manager alongside Duncan Fagus and to do that so I praise from Mark Hughes and everyone I think everyone remembers Dominic Arvaluin playing right wing back in that game and it's great to see how he's made stars obviously in the England squad this week the only Everton player in the England squad because obviously Jordan Pickford without injured as well. And if you are interested in the game or if you're not even bothered toffy picks this week are a game that is a 2000 prize pot for this game if you get over to toffy picks if you've already signed up for 2000 pounds all you've got to do is answer 12 questions on the game and you could win yourself a share of 12 of 2000 pounds. Price is a 1000 pound but as we've seen on our first game of the weekend that can easily be shared out so a great chance for a lot of people to win a nice bit of money just a nice nice little bit of money something extra to spend on yourself or your family or whatever so if you want more details on toffy picks the link is in the description to sign up. Please do honestly free money we're giving away free money 2000 pound will be one on the game on Thursday so check that out I'm sure to be a Dominic Arvaluin related question in there. There you go this has been the Everton news daily make sure to give this video a like subscribe and if you want more great videos join us over on Patreon where tomorrow we'll have a exclusive interview with Jamie Carragher about Everton season so far and whether they will qualify for Europe. Make sure to check that out link is in the description and on the screen I'll see you later.


For 153 years, we have been driven by a persistent pursuit that ignites big moves and fuels a brighter future. Over the last decade, we've invested in critical areas that have changed Purdue and the world. And our next big moment is now, at the intersection of so much of what we do best, engineering, science, technology, all grounded in a solid foundation of liberal arts, lies our next opportunity, our next big move, to build the business school of the future, the one that we, our state, and our world needs. This is our moment to leverage our position of strength, to redefine the preparation of business leaders for today's technology-driven world who will need to be bold, innovative, and unafraid, ready to embrace opportunities not yet conceptualized, shape industries not yet invented, who will need to believe in a tomorrow better than today. And who better to believe in them? A top 10 public university, best value university, most trusted university, most innovative university, a top school for engineering, computer science, data analytics, and agriculture. And the only university recognized by Fast Company Magazine as a brand that matters, with Nike, 3M, and McDonald's. This is our moment to once again summon the best of Purdue. This is our moment to leverage our preeminence in business analytics, to blend business with STEM disciplines, to develop a new kind of curriculum that is well-rounded in the history, philosophy, and the economic theory of free market systems. One that puts an intense focus on students' ability to think critically and communicate effectively. That teaches our future leaders not only to understand the data in front of them, but where the next breakthrough will come from, and how they hold the power to change the world. We must not accept good enough. That is not in our DNA. Making bold moves is. This is our moment to rise again as one of the best business schools in America. A business school for decision makers, risk takers, instigators, integrators, ceiling breakers, boiler makers. This is our moment to show the world that the greatest risk of all is that we stop taking risks. This is our moment, our next giant leap. Now is the time, the moment for a new, reimagined, and re-engineered Purdue School of Business.


Hi everyone. Welcome to Oxmer Toyota. I'm Gabrielle and I wanted to do a video on a brand new 2024. This is the Toyota Grand Highlander CXLE. You guys, the exterior color is gorgeous. It's called Coastal Cream. Very, very pretty. Now the front, we have our black painted front grille really stands out against this color. Beautiful chrome right here. And then we're going to have LED headlights. We're also going to have LED tail lights going on the side. Looking at our wheels, we have 18 inch alloys. We are going to have roof rack rails if we look up. We're going to have our turn indicators in our mirrors. And then moving to the back, we are going to have our black out emblem package. So we are going to see our all wheel drive, XLE, and then this beautiful Toyota symbol. You're also going to see that Grand Highlander that is going to be the same color as the vehicle. All right guys, let's go ahead and take a look and be back to see how much space we have. Automatic tailgate. This is a third row vehicle. Third row is currently sitting up. Honestly, we have a ton of space back here. We are going to have a all weather floor liner. I can go ahead and show you how to put these seats down. You pull up right up on here, and we kind of can just push it down. If you want to bring it back up, there is this little leash right here. I'll go ahead and grab it and demonstrate that. Just pull this. And these actually adjust as well. So you can sit it up like that, or you can kind of lean it back so your passengers can really have a lot of space. All right guys, so since we just looked at the trunk, why don't we go ahead and look at our second row. So we do have a ton of space back here. We are going to have all of our temperature controls right there. We're going to have some cup holders. And then to get into your third row, you pull on this, and this is going to come up just like that. Really easy to get back there. All right, and your third passengers are not going to be missing out on anything. We have cup holders and we have our USB C's up here, so they can still charge all of their devices. All right guys, lastly in the second row, we are going to have these sunshades that we can go ahead and pop up. So kids, adults that are back here, they are not going to be blinded by that sun. All right, let's go ahead and check out our driver's seat and our passenger. So the driver's seat is going to have a 10-way position and you are going to have your lumbar support as well. We're going to have a panoramic sunroof, which is going to be great for the second row too. We're going to have heated seats up here. There is different driving modes. We're going to have our wireless charger. There is a 12.3-inch touchscreen. We are going to have Apple CarPlay Android Auto. Of course, a back-up camera. There's going to be six speakers throughout and the interior color that we're looking at is me light gray soft tax. Absolutely gorgeous. All right, you all. So if you have any questions on the beautiful Grand Highlander, the XLE, feel free to let us know. All of our contact info is listed right here. Thanks for watching, guys, and we will see you all soon. Bye.


So, we just saw Revolution by Jack O'Connell featuring Louise Malone who is here with us from New Mexico. Is that where you live now? All right. Well, so 20 year old from Scottsdale and as it turns out you were cast into this film It wasn't as if Jack went around to Haydash very looking around hippie Hill trying to find the person to focus on How did it come about that you were cast? I was coming up the stairs. Can you hear me? I was coming up the stairs in the Avalon and a girl handed me a piece of paper that said Girl needed for lead part in movie no experience necessary And For some reason I knew that I was gonna do this I just knew and I went and talked to him sat down with Jack O'Connell in the and they had me talk into a microphone to see if my voice was okay and And took some photographs and called me back the next day and said you're a girl. Wow, so And it was awesome. I mean it was I Didn't always get to say what I wanted to say quite often. I had to say things that was the director's agenda more than mine, but I Did have a blast it was chosen to go to three European film festivals that year and I got to go and And so it was a wonderful opportunity. I met fabulous people and a lot of people. I love her here right now And so it's awesome. It's I love this. This is great So even at the Avalon ballroom, you knew it was gonna be a film about the Haydash Berry and about the hippies Not at first. No, so when I called the phone number They then they explained to me what they were doing. All right Looking back on it now. Do you feel you were or even back then when you first saw it? Were you fairly portrayed? Everyone had their point of view, you know, everyone had their own experience and It was a bit of my experience and a bit of a lot of other people's point of view and There were parts of it. I would have loved to have taken out or shortened And there were things that I really wished I could say that wound up on the cutting room floor, but oh But there are outtakes, you know, yeah somewhere. I understand. Yeah Gene a dr. Hip dr. Schoenfeld since you were not in the film as far as I know, you might have been in the crowd Maybe you were in the nude scene there with it And helping dancers Joe How did you feel about this movie having now seen it? Well, it's the first time I've seen this movie But I was here during that time. I thought it was a you know an excellent portrayal Of the times and the way people felt and what they were doing Were there revelations for you? You were there, but for me for example seeing exactly how that communal flat or apartment or house looked and with a dozen people jammed in there Had you seen those scenes during the 60s? Oh, yes. Yes. I've been you know within many Homes and communes, you know is that the Morning Star Ranch? Uh-huh and spent some time there And yes, it was an accurate depiction of what was going on during that time I wish they'd put captions told the names of the people that were in the film, right? Yeah, the real shortcoming there in terms of the authorities as well as the known people we all of us San Franciscans know her cane and Willie Brown But the police chief the health officer dr. Ellis D socks Wonderful name for those times before his job the health director of San Francisco. It would have been nice to have known Who they were exactly what their authority was? Diane You're in the film. Yes You're in the concert scene a park and How did that happen? Well Ambrose Red Moon Hollingsworth was our Manager and he got us the gig up there on that was Mount Tam and the amphitheater and It was it was great. It was just great Because just the vibe of the whole scene and for us to be the the only woman band in the area at that time was just a perfect opportunity for us to just express ourselves and what we wanted to do and You know, we followed quick silver around a lot too because Ambrose also managed him at first before Ron Pulte and During that time we opened for the quick silver all the time. Oh Yeah, and we were kind of we're there But we're almost invisible during that time like a lot of people never heard of us but we were there and And you're still here and I'm still here in case you're also in case you're on showed on time You just had a recent honor from the board of supervisors and you are at work have been now for a couple of years I know on a new CD. Correct. That's correct. Great after all these years. It's been 50 years 1967 I'm from Mount Tamm and we finally got a record deal We're finally acknowledged for the time that we did during that era and an overnight success When you're talking about time, you know, it doesn't matter.  Yeah, and we were trying to make it for this year But you can't push creativity and you have to let it just develop and grow and it's it's an amazing It's gonna be amazing. Just looking forward to it. Did the women in ace of cups get speaking parts? Was there every any plan on you're doing more than playing at Mount Tamm? Not speaking parts. No, okay I just wonder how Jack handled the various people he ran into whether it was band members people on the streets people at the med clinic Hired cast members whether he created scenes now. I want you to try to climb a tree You know, yeah, he actually would happen.  Yeah Yeah, well done. Well Marlene and Rebecca and I all lived in Petaluma. There were seven of us And we've been friends that was 68, but we all met on hate street at the corner of hate and coal So you're hired from a flyer and you're plopped into the scene although you've been part of the scene anyway Right because you visited you had friends there So was there a lot of manufacturing of those scenes that you skipping around me a running into the arms of friends or whatever? Hanging out with them. I think if I remember correctly, but you know what they say about memory in the 60s But if I remember Correctly that was one where you know, it was his guidance as director run up But you know, I was happy to see them Dr. Jean I should learn a title for you, but Dr. Schoenfeld, what was your own interaction in the hate Ashbury 50 years ago? Well, I had just returned from doing research in Gabon in West Africa I was I was there to do a research project on hypertension in Gabon But I became more interested in the use there of a drug called Igbo game Which comes from the Evoga root and I was very Interested I had taken LSD once before going there. So naturally interested in psychedelics and after I left Gabon I Went to France because the French were using small quantities of Igbo game combined with Vitamins as a pickup stomach because you know small quantities of psychedelics act as a stimulant We see this currently today with micro dosing of LSD Well, I had a I got a quantity from the laboratory in in Paris and I brought that back to the United States and I found that there was a young doctor named David Smith who was doing experiments at the University of California With laboratory animals with psychoactive drugs So I joined him and we were doing experiments on on rats with Amphetamines and mescaline and then there was some human experimentation that happened with Igbo game and during that time David Formed the idea of having the hey, that's very free clinic of combining There are little clinics that had been set up by the diggers and he had the idea of combining it into one Clinic founded it in June 50 years ago. Yes. Yes. All right. It was 50 years ago in this past June Yes, and I had the idea of writing about the effects of drugs and This was because as I say there was some human experimentation that went on and And that is how the hate Ashbury free clinic began and that's how the Dr. Hip columns began originally in the Berkeley barb Yes, it started my column started in the Berkeley barb. Yes, and then after a couple of years It was picked up by the San Francisco Chronicle and then Syndicated by United Press Syndicate Mm-hmm, right now the Berkeley barb was being hawked by one young woman. Yes movie. Yes, I noticed I noticed that So now Louise was that for real or that was for real. Yeah, well They set it up. They wanted me to sell them, but I did that anyhow. That was a good way to make some money So you were paid for your work in the movie, but you still needed to earn more money to be able to afford oatmeal and You know bars Diane how real uh, you know, you hear the branding of the music of that time as Well, firstly San Francisco sound and then psychedelic music and acid rock and as I've gone through the years writing about the scene More and more the band members say yeah, we were always on acid when we were on stage You know, you couldn't go up there sometimes without being High how was that for the ace of cups and yourself? I think only one time I think it was high on acid and it was strange Could you tell how it impacted your drumming and your your rhythm and your timing? I Don't know exactly what happened or how it went, but everybody said it was great I Remember looking at my snare drum and that you know on the bottom head it was clear in the top But you can kind of see through it and as I was looking through it. I think I had x-ray vision It was like whoa, you know, but uh, but at least there were no monsters crawling out of it Experience that but that was the only time You know, I just wanted to be playing and be you know, what's going on a little bit and that Taking acid would be I loved it when you were in the woods or in the nature Yes, then everything then is really mellow and you're in excuse me when you're on the street and you see a car coming It was like a monster of these big lights and this whole face on it everything that wasn't organic Really, you noticed that it was out of place And wires and you know, yeah, and we have and we have Louise the acid head here At one point didn't you say something about having had 23 trips? Oh, yeah, probably yeah At that time if that was early on and that was real Just getting going well, yeah where we met There We were producing they were producing pure LSD on vitamin C tabs Did you keep track of your trips? How did you know you had 23 under your belt? I? guessed Hollywood in San Francisco. Well But I did get to say what I wanted said that when I sold the newspapers that was me Acting up, you know being silly It made it more fun and more real, you know, right speaking of real. I don't remember saying that many new to people Yeah, that was that was Jack's thing Now Jack Laughs right in the jack many there a jack was 20 years older than you and I'm sure on most of the people in The film did that impact the way the film was made was he to a degree? Yes, and he came out of New York, and he had worked with Fellini and Antonioni and He had that vision at that time and there was a lot of that, you know sexual Revolution and in all of that and he felt it was a part of art Mm-hmm, and and that a beautiful form was a beautiful form that was his vision. So let's spend 15 minutes on it Yeah, not an hour and a half But that's okay and mostly focusing on the women, of course. Yes There was an update of this film in 1986 In which you appeared Looking at yourself 20 years before and talking about what you had gone through and one of the things I heard Clarice was your kind of a re-evaluation of drug usage and What drugs did for you and also probably to you? Can you restate some of that how you feel now? As a mother especially yeah Well, I think the drugs are much more dangerous now, and I was I was really protected in a lot of ways in my life and I kind of have a picture of myself as This girl standing on the edge of a cliff Leaning out as far as she can go with all these angels or fairies hanging on to her skirts And that's kind of like how my life was then and I I met wonderful people and we took care of each other but after years of meditation and And doing yoga and things like that. I I felt like It would have been better to have Had the discipline beforehand to So that the vision was not Out of the blue in other words, I think it's very valuable and I think it's I Think it's a real experience but I also think that preparation and and discipline can Will take you to that place anyway and I Also feel like it made us very very open to the energies around us And I think that if you were around negative energy, you could have a negative trip and I was fortunate to be around amazing positive people and And so I never had a bad trip But I also feel like that weren't a warrant wasn't LSD a precursor to some of the the psychiatric drugs they're using now Well, like Prozac and no, no, okay, no not related at that But now finally after we've lost more than 50 years finally There are being studies allowed using LSD and psilocybin and We can expect that they will be used in a psychiatry More in the next few years finally there was losing After losing all yes before Before the band there was a lot of research that found LSD could be useful in treating alcoholism and drug addiction in Canada Yes, that's right. Yeah Dr. Schoenfeld did you feel the film was pretty accurate in portraying? What the scene was like overall in terms of the good and they're not so good and even the evil you were part of a circle that provided support services to a lot of the People rather there were runaways or residents through the Huckleberry house invaluable resource the free medical clinic the good work of the diggers and other organizations in the community Did you feel the film reflect to all of that and also said? Besides talking to the politicians and the police that there was more to it than just peace and love and good vibes There was more there was a downside Most of which occurred after the film was made After that period. Yes, it was a downside. I mean after all there was a it was a time when One could walk down the street and you could recognize people who were like you for a time that long hair perhaps with a dress then after a time it became a fad and a person with long hair May not at all have been like you abided in Charles Manson Actually happened So, you know there was that that period of time, but then it it degenerated and a lot of it was associated with more harmful drugs Like heroin and the abuse of amphetamines sure I mean because almost all drugs Can be useful Proper circumstances But it's taken a long time for us to learn that and we're still learning about it Diane you probably saw the film shortly after it was released because you were partly because you were in it Have you seen it many times over the years and now watching it again? Do you have feelings about the impact on you? Yeah, it's been it was just two other times and they were it was a long time ago. So I Get some of them mixed up there. There's been a few films about the 60s and and which ones and this one. Yeah, this one this one is my favorite actually and during that time This film portrayed pretty much what was happening during that time and What was the question? But the point you make you over the years We've seen so many documentaries on TV networks as well as feature releases and they tend to be a pastiche of found Footage and he grabs a CBS documentary here and an interview here in a whole movie of the BN Or the trips festival. It's not the same as having a crew consistently following a group of people at that time With those bands playing for this film So it's much more intact. I was just Wondering if looking at it again today. You felt you learn anything new about the impact of that summer on yourself as a person Anything new I would say Just how it actually impacted the generation at that time and how you could reinvent yourself during that time and And and how that we're in this place now. I see we're still there Yes, you know, we're still there and we can still reinvent ourselves and and change things and The revolution within is where it starts and that's what I've learned from there to hear and looking back And that that's where it comes from Yes, the revolution within yourself and making your change for the better good for all people. Yes so Louise you are a most a Lovely presence on the screen the cameras absolutely embraced you and It being a time of Free love. I'm wondering Were there a lot of guys and perhaps gals coming after you while during this time of the shooting Well, no, well, I was very busy.  I was very young and and Half the time if someone was coming on to me. I had no idea I know that sounds weird, but it was really the truth. Well, you're on acid probably. Yeah, well, that's a good point. Yeah, I Think by the magic of Timing we have a few minutes if you have a question or two. Are you open for questions? Oh, sure. All right. Anybody want to ask a question? Let's take the gentleman there. Oh Yeah That's what makes me a good grandmother Yes Well, I Somehow came into this life being a spiritual being and I it wasn't formed by By church or the things, you know, my parents, but I always had an interest in it and as I As I grew when I went through the 60s and when I went through the Haydash Berry I was fortunate that I was around a lot of people I would go to The Krishna temple for breakfast and and I would I would sit in meditations go to Steven's classes It was just it it was something that was important to me that in healing, you know, I became a nurse and so From there, you know, I I love the roots of every religion. I I I believe in disorganized religion. I really do and I And I see the root I can worship with anyone, you know, I can jump over the belting fire I can you know meditate I can pray You had your hand up. Yes. Go ahead, sir Yes, yes to me at what To me the important thing that was happening there was that We were looking around and seeing that there were people who are being treated differently and there were people who were being overlooked and so I Think we went to embrace everyone just to learn we went to learn we went to school and I think that The part of it was the war You know, we marched I marched for everything because it was important gay rights came out of it women's liberation came out of it and of course You know the integration Continued I Get a little worried about seeing it come back around again today And that and and that very much concerns me Louise. Why did you revert back to your name Louise? I mean that is how long did today last oh? Well, some people tease me, but I call myself yesterday Malone now Yes, I was gonna call you that Oh, I don't love But I know you became a mom within a year or two after the film really I I used the name today purposely partly because I loved it and and one of the people in the film gave me the name dawn did and I really loved the idea that it meant be here now and and I also went with that because if it turned out to be a terrible film and I hated it I Could be Louise still But Louie, you know people call me Louie Any other one last question? Yes, ma'am look the one that's all right you Ben me Only once So you were there I Should have taken much more actually give them the jobs I had yes Yes Yes, be careful. What? Yes, right now he is in the house. All right one more right here, sir. Go ahead What grant? No, I was dancing with you I Took only 50 years to learn that Well, thank you so much to Diane the gene and to Louise Thanks to you and the library welcomes you now to partake of snacks and also check out the brand-new exhibit all about The summer of love. Thank you. Thank you


Iduial那 hwn o momenten gweldiaeth Llanrefiyntol algor ac wirais eu cy yer, Mae gr metres o gweithredu gyllsaethsaeth Gill, Paterson a Stewart Stevenson. Felly, cyfrifogol i'r gymhyού yng Nghymysgysgl, I want to remind everyone present ddy wallshw Xbox phones erig ganna llunio cyffrediniedd, sy'n amliad y credwch fel yבiarwch y sydd. Yng Nghymysgysgl efo gyntaf oedd y Comytig doncfau 외ffyr credu 2017-18. I referred members to the draft report and I invite any comments. Richard Lyle. That's one small point and the second page under EU scrutiny. In December 2017, the committee travelled to Brussels and London. Was it not just Brussels and the convener and the deputy convener went to London? That's correct. So just to amend to keep it correct. Okay. Anyone else? John Scott. I want to say I welcome this report and I think it's very important that we continue to produce reports such as this and I welcome its content and I'm surprised at the amount of work we appear to have got through but thank you for the authors of it. Yes of course that's a rare question of some of the work that we've carried out that's recorded there. Claudia Beamish. Thanks, convener. I'm certainly welcome it as well. I just wonder have we highlighted the subgroups on deposit return and air pollution that were formed? I'm not sure whether we've... I'm sorry if I missed it but I don't think I've seen that. We haven't referenced the subgroups that were formed. The deposit return and air pollution. I'm sorry if I missed it. We haven't. But we haven't noted everything. If members wish that to be noted we can add it. I think that would be helpful because it does show if nothing else that there's a wide range of work and a big body of work and that in order to work effectively subgroups are often useful.  Are we agreed on that point? We'll have to double check the timings as to how well that's sat in the context of this past year but subject to being in this past year we can incorporate that. I have one small query which is on the graphics. There are peers that face value to be a discrepancy between two numbers regarding the number of people who gave evidence. Could we double check those as well? Having said all that, is there anybody else got any observations? Subject to those checks being made and changes where appropriate made, are we content to sign off the report? That's weft to myself as convener to finalise. At its next meeting on 29 May, the committee will consider numerous statutory instruments and take evidence from the Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform on community empowerment and environmental authorisations instruments. The committee will also consider an approach paper on the climate change bill. As agreed earlier, the committee will now move into private session and I request that the public gallery be cleared as the public part of the meeting is now closed.


Come back to the Cyber Underground. I'm your guest host, Rochelle Mansilungan. It's great to be here again. Dave and Andrew are not here today, so they asked me to guest host. I have a great show for you today. I have Orlando Galindo. He's going to talk to us about pen testing. I also have Joy and Leanne from KCC. They're going to talk about the community tech fair that's coming up next month. Let me just introduce yourself a little bit. Talk about yourself. Orlando. Yeah, sure. My name is Orlando Galindo. I'm currently employed with KPMG and I'm here today to talk about penetration testing. Okay, and then Joy. Hey, I'm Jai Olas. I'm from Kapilani Community College and we are organizing a community event. It's a free event and we'll tell you a lot more about it later. Okay, great. Yeah, and hi my name is Leanne Del Vega. I'm the engineering coordinator at Kapilani Community College and I'm really excited to be here. Awesome. So I'm a graduate of Kapilani Community College. I graduated in May 2017 with an IT, but I'm now at UH West O'ahu. So I'm proud to help my school. And I'm also hoping Dave will do this once a month but I don't know. Nobody else in my club wants to do this so I always have to do it. Okay, so let's start off with Orlando. I know that you're going to be teaching our on the pen testing. Yes, correct. Maybe you should could you talk about like what pen testing is, penetration testing? Absolutely. Well, pen testing pretty much incorporates a lot of things and what it essentially is is looking for any potential vulnerability and exploiting that. So that can range from anything from social engineering where individuals will go into an organization and they'll actually through personal interaction meet an individual and try to detect vulnerabilities within their process and procedures. How do they greet people, you know, trying to bypass certain things, even things like lock doors, things of that. So there's physical penetration, there's actual like through conversation getting as much information gathering as possible and then it gets into the more renowned where everybody thinks of penetration testing being is the ethical hacking aspect where they actually involve technologies like computers, coding, scripting. Right, so in my club, well I still helped at KCC so we've been doing penetration testing. So when we first started out with Dave, we pretty much just did whatever we could like we didn't even have any like we took classes but we actually learned all of that. So we went it was kind of like finding our own way to do things like phishing emails, we made our own things so this is actually pretty good to have for students to just kind of learn because I know there's a lot of people that want to go into pen testing but would you recommend someone to do that like as a student like to do that right away or I know that you don't get a job right away to be a pen tester, right. So do you recommend them being like more around it because that's what I heard because when I interned at the state I interned for this CISO so he would tell me that you know you gotta look at the big picture. Right, not just oh I want to be a pen tester. Right. Which most people do right work with IT. Yeah there's a lot of ideas and stereotypes and like pretty much everybody has a certain image, painted image or perspective and that has to be quickly, you have to be able to change your perspectives instantly. Most people for example will think that penetration testing means that you'll be working alone, that you're isolated, you're just on a computer going at it. When in essence it really does incorporate a lot of business philosophies such as project management, planning things, being able to make a formal deliverable that is professional quality so that way you can present that to the client so that way you know they hired you to find their exploits and when you give it to them it's in a nice formable, formal deliverable. That way you have evidence, track records, histories, things for auditing purposes and there's a lot of group dynamics so you have to work with groups and penetration testing actually involves other individuals, a team including client interactions so there's a lot of things that goes into it for sure besides just you know the attack that's behind it and knowledge. Because you kind of talk about like how you got into your position right now like did you go to what schools you went to? Absolutely so I did start at Casey's University. I did have to look at the whole picture of where I wanted my career to be so I did start off with liberal arts, get a lay of the land and after that I essentially decided that IT was the field that I wanted to it started off with video game design, graphics, CGI's, art and then after I was fixing my computer for most of it I decided hey a lot of people have this common denominator they need computers fixed so I got into IT and that led to networking and server administration. Then as you see a lot more of these breaches occurred to big companies and started showing that the next niche, the next market was the security aspect besides that I also noticed that there's the business endeavor of it so even though you could be very intelligent in the computer science aspect of it there was really that liaison that in between business and technology that I felt there was a high demand for and that's why I started focusing on the business aspect of IT So do you think you need more soft skills? Because I know there's a lot of there's that stereotype that you know they're introverted and talk majority what I'm the opposite and what would you think? What do you think? I definitely say that is the primary thing to I highly encourage individuals to do that the thing I like about the colleges and the classes I took was the speech classes learning how to do presentations as well as working in groups that was a high dynamic that is really applicable to the real world scenarios for sure and I it was always explained to me from my mentors that that you know skills can be taught you can either learn it from your colleague other individuals in your practice as well as self taught self-study but when it comes to that soft skills you know how do you engage with clients the body language active listening how to present information that is something I think is more important to focus on as far as growing So after KCC did you go to another college? Yes I went to Minoa and that's where I went to MIS Management Information Systems So I had a way out where it was do I go into computer science then I become really focused in like computer programming things of that nature Like you said you like the business aspect right? I like the business aspect because it was a high emphasis on that soft personable skills and you do have a lot of individuals who are really intelligent but then when it comes to articulating or expressing that information or passing it knowledge transfer there's a lot of restrictions usually self inflicting and that most people don't know how to address and with business I felt it was a great avenue to to kind of work on that exercise that And so I know that it's important to take certifications so what kind of certifications do you have or would you recommend them taking? Oh absolutely I have a lot of certifications I have my MCSC I have my CISSP my PMP I also got my OSCP and there's some other ones that was industry specific depending on whatever engagement my current employer had me on I learned the technology so for example with ServiceNow and that was a lot of database and javascript things so it really depended on scenarios but did your company pay for these or did you pay it on your own majority of it they did they gave me great opportunities to do so because I know a couple of them cost over 600 or more right 600 plus in some cases a thousand my company has excellent benefits and they really did provide they have a high emphasis on training to continuing your knowledge and they promoted it and they allowed me to do that and I'm internally awesome so what do you want to talk about a little bit more about the pen testing like when it is yeah absolutely so penetration testing especially for the focus of what we're doing in class we're not really touching on the social engineering aspect of it where we have human interaction we're primarily focused on the actual technical penetration testing so using your computer so they have to have VMware correct the requirements for this course so you could have it directly installed on their computers but most individuals like their operating system to be windows and Mac so in that case to work around it you have a virtual machine a VM with the Kali Linux is what we're going to be using as a primary operating system a distribution version distro version of Linux to be installed in that VM instance from there they'll use that tool to pretty much scan work look for all the servers and find possible avenues of exploitation so this is a three day event right during spring break so I already signed up so as of last night from our point I don't know I think it's a 25 students 25 students so that's pretty good so I keep trying to encourage my club members from KCC and UH West Oahu HTC to join so I think we have a mix and I believe there was also some UH Manoa students right from the ITMA which is I'm also alumni right right so we're both coordinating that right with you that's awesome I can't wait for that so and then this event is actually at the ITM I lab innovation lab correct if you guys ever been to that lab oh my god they have like the 3D pretty although they have that at KCC I remember when I was in house class we had a field trip there and we could make our own little thing oh yeah I think I still kept that thing awesome yeah because that's when I think that's when they first had it and they were just like showing it off to students for I don't know I like that thing oh my god we have a more developed 3D lab they only had like one you can come back anytime great I can't see did you want to add anything else some Orlando like I'm like what are some advice you want to give to like students like as like for myself so cause like I know that we all take like our have to take like those certifications and all that but a lot of us don't have money so what would you recommend like us taking like definitely looking for grants any options there things like that to get additional funding companies that are willing to pay for training that's a great option too and it's a catch 22 because they're like hey gotta have this experience you gotta have these how do you get it right what I noticed too is if you develop and cultivate that experience for yourself you I mean certifications are great I mean it looks great on paper but if you're able to put that down in another like area on your resume for example and when it'll attract those buzzwords will attract the employer you'll land the interview once you are in that situation that's where yours is free reign for you to talk about your experience about it ideally it's great to have it in real world work situations and scenarios but if you for example let's say you want to be a pen tester set up a bunch of vulnerable labs set up a bunch of VMs virtual machines that are purposely exploitable or in some cases build your own exploitable servers and you'll start to learn through the action of doing and then discontinuously to hone in on those skills redundancy is mastery so if you just continue to do that you'll engrave the mind and when it comes to that interview process you have factual data you'll be more comfortable to talk about it and you'll be a knowledge matter subject matter expert cause you can actually say you kind of try to do it cause a lot of my friends say it's just a piece of paper actually that's a good point when I was studying for a lot of the certifications sometimes you're not directly involved in the field yet but through studying through the certifications you pick up on these buzzwords, these terminologies and you'll start to educate yourself just by studying so we're going to I know you're part of the ISC squared so we're going to talk about the NCL the scholarship they have for high school students so when we come back from break we will do that let's see what else and then we can talk about also the community tech fair which is in April 7th correct awesome you kind of know about that NCL high school right okay cause Ronald Yoki wanted me to talk about this he couldn't come on the show today so I don't want to butcher it I know he's watching so I'm sorry but I'll try my best okay is there any other take away that you want to bring up or anything absolutely anybody who is interested in getting to the industry especially dealing with big firms just a word of advice is even though you have a specific goal set in mind which is great do your due diligence of maybe expanding and going beyond that don't be afraid to try new things you don't know you like it until you try it cause there may be other avenues and expertise and careers that are out there that you just didn't know about and the big firms will give you that opportunity give it a try if it works out great if not you know why you don't like it anymore another thing too is don't be afraid try it even though these tech terminologies can be overwhelming there's always new technology just hang in there study, learn about it if you don't know it and always take notes not just mince one though so we'll be right back we gotta pay some bills and we'll be right back on the cyber underground okay that's you I want to know will you watch my show I hope you do it's on Tuesdays at one o'clock and it's out of the comfort zone and I'll be your host RB Kelly see you there hello everyone I'm DeSoto Brown the co-host of Human Humane Architecture which is seen on Think Tech Hawaii every other Tuesday at 4pm and with the show's host Martin Desbang we discuss architecture here in the Hawaiian Islands and how it not only affects the way we live but other aspects of our life not only here in Hawaii but internationally as well so join us for Human Humane Architecture every other Tuesday at 4pm on Think Tech Hawaii welcome back to the cyber underground I have my guest here we were just talking about pen testing now we're going to talk about the national cyber league I know when I'm on the show I always try to promote this because it's an ongoing registration right now so Sunday is actually the last day to register to pay for it's only going to cost $25 I think after that it might cost a little bit more but the new thing that they added for the NCL they included high school students now so for those of you that don't know the NCL the national cyber league is a defensive and offensive puzzle based capture the flag type competition so it's a good learning ground for not just college students but it's great that they also included the high school students because I know there's a lot of high school students that are interested in cyber security so this is a good way for them to just practice and like real world kind of things that could actually happen in like a company right so I know that so Orlando he's actually part of the ISE squared right and so I know they just recently revamped their whole organization so there's actually going to be I think it was just announced on Wednesday that they have a scholarship ready for high school students but they need to act on this fast because registration ends on Sunday March 25th and I believe the time is at 8.59pm local time so we have to make sure I'm trying to promote this as much as possible and I know it's the first the program provides 100 cars for each is it $35 I think grand total for $3,500 correct and so I think they're going to give so the last time I was here we talked about the girls go cyber star so they're going to give those girls heads I think first what do you call it like transfer applications like the windows for and everything no so they're giving them chance first to apply exactly application and so it's a limited basis kind of scholarship so we're trying to encourage it and do you want to talk about who else is part of this scholarship well actually you pretty much demise it really well the target is essentially the ISE squares doing a lot more one of the pillars is giving back to the community and to also strengthen the practice and what we're noticing there's a high demand but there's no supply when we mean by that there's a high demand cyber but there's not a lot of individuals who can staff it and a lot of organizations are actually hungry for that but what has been identified to address this issue is of course education and education is to start young so targeting individuals that are in a certain you know get them started early in the career and that way they can build up interest in it and then by the time they actually are of age for employment they're already hitting the ground running they already have a head start there's less learning curves for learning to try to get those skills and everything like that and then once they hit the workforce and I know for the girls cyber side that was pretty I know that that that event was pretty successful from what I heard from Hioki so that's actually good so for this event so like I told you it's March 25th and then oh I know so there's also going to be I think they're also going to provide training sessions for these students so I know they were asking if they could be mentors for this event I'm actually registered for the NCL along with my other members this is going to be like my third year doing it I'm not the best but I think I've got it better throughout the years but I love it and I go hard when I do it and it takes a lot of your time so I'm interested to see how these high school they're probably going to be better than me who knows but I mean it's okay for me it's a learning process and it's just it's for experience and it's fun so that's the whole thing it's fun and we do it as individually and then as a group afterwards so I think that's great have you done the national set really easy? No I haven't personally I believe you're professionals Yeah there's plans for that I will with me teaching giving back to UH and everything like that the whole UH system definitely we'll take up the next course of actions because I know that the great hats they're going to participate in this yeah the great hats as well exactly Tyler awesome okay so let me address you guys so I know you guys have a big event I remember when I was at KCC you were planning this for like and then when you finally emailed me like oh yes and I know I'm not the president there anymore I passed it on to James but then I didn't see them so when I saw your email I was like oh my god yes we got to do this so that's why I suggested that you know we all help out not just that club at KCC but everyone at the whole entire hats organization so we're very glad to help you and you guys are going to come and talk about yeah so we're going to have our own table we're going to talk about internet safety awareness and just some cyber security tips when you're online and then I know we're going to do some kind of something we're going to have our computer and they're going to test like issue pps that kind of stuff now because the whole idea is this is going to be a community event and so it has to be it's not a professional it's going to be kind of like basic but fun so hands on that's what we're working for yeah so I'll tell you a little bit more about this event it's going to be on April 7th this Saturday from one to four in the cafeteria okay and some of the fun things that we're going to do perhaps later I'll talk about it's our little animal oh okay I was wondering what this was my phone's not there there you go there you go might not stay there you go one of our engineering students actually 3D printed some designs Joy really wanted something that anyone could use since a lot of people have cell phones we wanted to make something that they could use from their desk very functional also they could get this yeah and this is free right it's free they can choose between three colors and maybe about four designs and they can watch it print and we'll have some pre-printed some kids just like to sit down and watch it print but that's okay but do you know how long it takes to print it's about 20 minutes and sometimes you can print a little bit faster too well you're going to have more than one yeah we'll have three printers if anyone is interested we have two taskbot sixes and one taskbot five printing at that day and this is the first time we have this event because I don't remember this from the other yeah this is the first time we are organizing it so we have a range of like school clubs so we've got the stamp people we're going to show some new media clips because they do a lot of websites and animated movies or the creative media we have guys are coming the IT clubs coming then so we have a student club to promote what's happening at KCC we also have community clubs so we have Hawaii, Mac Mac and Apple user club the eyes of Hawaii so these are people from the community coming to share their skills and their passion and they're going to come in at a level that can talk to our community because we don't want we don't scare people away this is not a professional conference or anything like that but we also have the big box vendors coming so Microsoft is going to come with their VR and virtual reality related activity for people to try so they're also going to bring like the Xbox, some microcoding and surface but they're not selling anything so there's no pressure it's just for our community to come together and just celebrate technology and have fun and it's all free I know that you asked us if we could help with wiping clean the hard drives so that's actually something special you're going to donate to people bringing their devices and we're going to donate it to Hawaii Hope and Hawaii Hope is an organization they reuse some of the parts as well as some of the computers it can be anything iPhone, laptops, anything they can reuse it I believe they also that organization helps people they need they need a computer they would also let them have a computer so they have reached out to schools that need or school clubs that need that's great so bring as many as you have to get rid of because I know I have a lot in my basement I'm not working you have some I just recycle them into my in-home data are there any food or anything we have a couple of vendors coming from the farmers market because the farmers market is on that Saturday right? but they are in the morning a couple of them are going to come in the afternoon so it would be mainly snacks and beverages not full meals so it's strictly just in the cafeteria the farmers market stores are going to be on the great lawn but our event where all the big box vendors and our school clubs and our user groups are going to be inside so it's going to be upstairs as well as downstairs and what else do we have we have of course door prizes so that's another freebie lots of door prizes and a lot of vendors have giveaways so if you start by their booth and ask a few questions and I think one of the most exciting things we're going to have another user group that's coming, it's called Eyes of Hawaii and they're going to take people around for a photo walk around campus and they're going to have different themes so you can sign up so this event is actually on April 7th from 1 to 4 so we have our, so this is what I sent up, they're no fly but they have a website as well to look up and then contact the bottom contact me 734-9352 are you still looking for volunteers oh we welcome volunteers we people to participate just come and join what is your expected because this is the first time we're doing we don't really know but we've reached out to a lot of schools awesome all our community centers and we're hoping for a good turnout okay great guys so thank you so much for having coming on the show so I do this like once a month I have to always think of topics so this is great that I always try to find something that's going to come up in the coming months so ours is next week would you want to talk about that again, this is the pen testing just really quick yeah absolutely so we're going to be doing the pen testing that's going to be from the 28th to the 30th that's the Wednesday through Friday next week that's what I'll be doing on my spring break no break for me actually on that day before that I actually have to present a pen testing project that I've been doing with my clubs so you're already your mind's already in the right state you love this stuff I know I do thank you so much for joining us on the cyber underground I'm your guest host Rachelle Mansiloy and we'll see you again next week Dave and Andrew should be back Aloha


This study compared the accuracy of eight precipitation estimates derived from four different satellite retrieval algorithms. The results showed that the satellite-only products had poor performance in detecting rainfall events, with low positive predictive value, PPV, and high false alarm ratio, far. The bias-corrected products improved the accuracy of the original satellite products, especially those from the TRMM Multisatellite Precipitation Analysis, TMPA, and Climate Prediction Center Morphing Technique, CMORPH. However, the Persian product still performed poorly in detecting rainfall events. This article was authored by Haogua, Xingqian, Amingbao, and others.


Moving right into our next session, which is a fireside chat with Mr. Georgie George, co-founder GoNuts, he's going to be talking about building a brand in the experience economy. Now, Georgie George is a seasoned business leader with over 20 years of experience in media, broadcasting, sports, brand management, entertainment, digital and live events globally. He has worked in leadership roles with leading companies like MTV Asia, Astro, Yahoo, Percept Sports and Entertainment, Sony Music and UBM. His last role was as vice president, general manager, country head at World Wrestling Entertainment, for the Indian subcontinent. Currently, he's the co-founder at GoNuts Asia. GoNuts Asia's largest and most influential platform for human connection, communication and commerce using celebrities to make lives richer. And having a conversation with him in this fireside chat is Mr. Rohail Amin, senior editor exchange for media group. I welcome you gentlemen on the room and Rohail, I'll leave this conversation forward. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, always great. Welcome, Mr. George. Once again, a second conversation. Thank you so much for joining us. And I'll state my get into the first question.  I was going through it in the day. I mean, I haven't seen kind of such platforms. Tell me the idea behind GoNuts. What do you do exactly so that our audience also benefits from it? Yeah. Thank you for having me here. So let me just quickly tell you what we are about and what we intend to do. We saw the biggest, with fandom that exists in our country, we saw the biggest divide was the ability of fans, especially in secondary and tertiary towns, to be able to connect with celebrities that are fundamentally very metro centric. And as you probably know, even the communication from celebrities to their fans is very one sided through their social media. We saw there was an incredible opportunity to disrupt the space and through disruption, what we meant was an opportunity for me this to become an immersive experiential opportunity as opposed to a one way communication. As you know, many agencies pay a lot of money to many celebrities to post a tweet or post is a Facebook on Facebook or Insta. Here was an opportunity for the larger Indian diaspora to connect with these celebrities to be able to use them in a way that is immersive and relatable. And last but not the least, go to a trusted pike or a trusted source that can actually deliver those experiences for them. You know, be it weddings, be it brand promotions, be it creation of content, be it shout outs. So we started with shout outs as a fundamental as a fundamentally as a platform to be able to actually create human connection between people. Imagine a person sitting in Varanasi or Harpur or any smaller town in India being able to gift his daughter on her wedding, an invitation from Kailash Kheer or Shankar Mahadevan, where he sings also a line or two of the song that she really, really loves. What an incredible memory and our business is that creating powerful memories in the minds of our customers and making their lives richer. Right. And when it comes to using celebrities for doing it, is it limited to only the film industry, the music industry or are you also looking beyond it? So we, you know, this is a very interesting question, Rohail, because initially we had, you know, people who are in the investment community and venture capitalists and all of them saying, and the names just centered around these people. As you can see today with adoption of video content, which is almost 50% more than the predecessors in the millennial generation, it's multi-screen, multi-channel, all of the above, we have thrown a plethora of people who until some time back were not even known. These are on our OTT platforms. These are across radio. These are chefs. These are sportsmen. I mean, earlier it was all about cricket, right? And it was all about Bollywood. Today, we're talking about an actor from Mirzapur, Vita Harshita Gaur. Or we are talking about Pankaj Sripati. Or we are talking about Udham Singh, who was a VJ on Channel V and an iconic one at that. And I'd love to show you a little promo. Our objective is to really connect with the heartland and for them to really resonate with people whom they relate to and not just the people that are up there in the stratosphere. I think we've got a lot more realistic in our life now, especially I hope with the pandemic, where we believe, where we know that a lot of things which we'll make believe and we lived in those immersive experiences in film today are about reality experiences. And that's what it is. So, you know, the breadth, the scale, the multilingual part that we bring to the table, the multi-price point, the multi-genre is what makes Go Nuts exciting for brands and makes Go Nuts exciting for customers. So, it's only the end customer, like somebody who is a fan, who can, you know, kind of go nuts. But are you looking at also because brands also use celebrities in a very big way and they have to shell out really big monies to do it. Are you looking at those brand problems as well as you move along? So, I was managing director at UBM, which is Informer Markets. And one of the things, when I inherited the business, I found that it was probably one of the most boring businesses in the whole world. As you know, exhibition businesses are cake, you know, it almost goes back to pre-historic dinosaur days and nothing's really changed.  Yes, it's a multi-billion dollar industry worldwide, but nothing's really changed or progressed. I saw the incredible opportunity of using my experience from media and entertainment to really bring together, bring a B2C face to a very boring B2B business. That was the first time I started, so we had jewelry shows and renewable energy and all these kind of verticals, which are fundamentally B2B verticals. And for the first time, I started using celebrities. I started using Miss India's in the jewelry show, inviting people to come to the show, all of that. Now unconsciously all of this worked at the back of my mind in order for us to be also now disrupting these old spaces, which were our cake and really needed newer ways to connect and engage with customers, newer ways to get their brand messaging strongly into the minds and hearts of customers and stakeholders. And I think the opportunity for brands, the opportunity for smaller MSMEs and SMEs, which are about 800 million in our country.  And therefore, we have already seen, you know, brands connect with us to do these brand promotions. And again, all done over the phone. So no big math fancy budgets, no 18 camera shoots, no, you know, couple of days in a studio. And it's working because it's used through on social media. People are loving it and people are consuming it. As someone said in a panel, just not a panel, Kavita said some time back on her thing.  How many do you really need for? And therefore, it's really important to have the frequency, the connection and the ability to come back with newer stories. Right, right. And I think when we saw this pandemic going on and the color tunes, they had to rope in Mr. Bachchan to make people register it. I think that's a very live example of the influence they exert. So my next question is, you know, you are in a category that is in a larger sense. So tell me, what does it take to build a brand in this category? What it takes to build a brand in this category, I would think is a lot of what I call as passion marketing. You know, Ken Roberts said something and he wrote a book which is all about called Love Bites, if you remember. And it was all about what brands are like Love Bites. They need to be visible. They have to have passion. And last but not the least, they need to be of high recall value. You know, and that's what it's about. Our objective with creating gonads has been exactly that in two different ways. One is what we do in terms of our brand messaging and what people consider the brand value identity of our brand. Second is how do we communicate our brand purpose? So contrary to what people may think, oh, wait a minute, this is a celebrity shout out platform. It's all about shout outs, a whole bunch of celebrities there, celebrity commerce, etc, etc. But we have a larger purpose. And our larger purpose is to make people's lives richer through the memories that they have through through the through these videos that we create. Therefore, the creation of those videos, the trans, you know, the ability to communicate the heart of that message. It's not about a birthday message. It's about how that content that we co create with that particular artist makes such a big difference. Let me show you one little video of an artist who had brought back to gonads. And you will understand how this resonates with the heart of what we try to do. Just give me a second and just tell me if this is kind of you're getting this on your screen. So what also has happened in the last few, I mean, months we've seen the rise of virtual, of course, but in the over the last few years, social media has taken up such a huge mind share that everything is for social media.  So you want, how do you tell me how has social media impacted this entire experience marketing space and creating experience over the last few years? I think people are a lot more vocal and a lot more expressive about their feelings now, simply because they have found a medium for expression and social media is nothing but a footprint for expression. It could be a dish that you like that you filmed and or taken a photograph and placed it on an Instagram. It could be a video you created and you upload it on Facebook. It is about expressing vanity. Let me put it this way. And vanity will never go out of fashion as long as we walk this earth. What our videos do and won't go nuts is trying to do is fundamentally connect with that vanity. When I gift something to somebody, say I give it to Ruhail, Ruhail is going to show that off to his community that he is a recipient of this. And guess what? Ex-person, be it an artist Javed Ali or Shankar Mahadevan or Kailash Kher has actually called his name out, sang him two lines of what he loved and expressed what somebody else was trying to tell Ruhail in a way that connected with him and will stay a memory in his life forever. That's what this is about. And as long as people want memories, as long as people want to thrive on vanity, this is going to be a business that's going to be fairly, fairly important for connecting people. So Mr. George, give me a sense of the drivers of the influencer content. What is the audience profile like? Is it the urban centers, the tier two? Give me a sense of that. It's early days yet Ruhail in that sense because the business has just been about six to eight months old. We're still kind of using data that we are getting from user behavior, people who come onto the site, people who are transacting, people who are recipients and really trying to understand what really works. So a lot of the data that we collect is actually for user data as opposed to having some research agency research this and give it to us secondhand. So in that sense of the word, we're almost like an OTT platform. We are therefore deep diving into what people like, what kind of age groups, who's actually buying. But just to give you and to answer your question, the demographics currently point out to predominantly male in the age group of 25 to 50 and fundamentally heterocentric at this point and understandably so. As this gains traction and you're slowly starting to use social media and communication and marketing to get into secondary towns and tier two and tier three cities, you will find the adoption and user pattern change very drastically. And in fact, we've had some incredible case studies from smaller towns, people who wanted a poem by one of our artists, people who wanted to have a wedding card done for his particular for his daughter from a small village. And these were in fact, these presented case studies to us without us and us moving into that direction. Yes, we knew that there was an opportunity in the wedding industry. But now we know that there is a big opportunity of actually disrupting the wedding cards business by using digital and these kinds of things are coming as insights from customers themselves. And it's really interesting. So the market will teach us just as it has taught radio, it has taught television, it has taught the OTB business, it will teach us in terms of what consumers really want if we keep our ears to the ground. Oh, you mean like Shah Rukh Khan would be inviting somebody for a wedding? He probably will invite him sometime. Amazing.  I mean, I saw there's a lot of demand for it. But tell me what have been some of the learnings of during this journey of building this brand? I think the learnings have been the, I mean, these are cliche words, but the fact is customer is king because the customer dictates how your product is defined. And if you can create that product with him, the user experience as what now everyone talks about beat the pathway to commerce on site or the experiences offline, there needs to be cohesiveness from a brand point of view.  And who's also on go nuts, by the way, is off site and on site presence and aura and communication should not be dissonant, where it actually affects his own personal brand. So these are things that we are very careful about. And a lot of it comes from my deeper understanding of talent and having worked with in the music, in the television and in the film side of the business and to be able to really not treat talent as commodities, but treat them as talent that is going to be creating unbelievable and memorable content for customers. Right. My final question is where do you see go nuts in two years from now? And second, what is the scope of influencer marketing and what kind of trends will define it? I've asked three questions in one, so yes. Yeah. So let me answer the influencer marketing first. We will always look, I mean, this is historic, right? Even in the era of offline businesses or brick and mortar stores, we've always gone and got a recommendation from the salesman who's selling us from saris to washing machines to anything. Somebody very recently, there was a panel I happened to listen to and they said that what would they prefer and how would people actually navigate to in retail? They said that almost 85% they would prefer that they would go to the store. Now that trend is slowly changing abroad and you have instances of Burberry that actually use their offline presence more in terms of people coming and feeling the product but buying online. They're actually moving their customers online. I see that influencer marketing in the way people understand it today, which is basically using people to manipulate, if I may use that word, or influence buying behavior is going to change very well because customers will expect brands to be more authentic. People to be more trustworthy, brand trust as we call it is essential. So therefore, even when we work with brands, we're careful not to have our talent pool work on brands that are actually misrepresenting themselves. It's very important and we make sure that we have all the legal documentation in place because you don't want a situation which comes back to haunt you. So, authenticity is important, trust is very, very important and at the end of the day, we've got to know for a fact that these artists also for them are brands in their own right and their own brand longevity is determined by the kind of products and services that they are going to influence. So, I'm always a very skeptical about somebody posting on Facebook or sending a tweet and getting a couple of lax because you have not really kind of, you've just got the money, you don't care and you've just put it out. But I think and in many cases we've seen that blow up in people's faces. I think now it's time where customers also understand that. Just as very recently we heard the story about one of the musicians actually buying Facebook likes and followers to be a commander higher price on influencer marketing. It doesn't that tell you something about how far this influence can be bought. Therefore, it's very important for brands to be authentic and create that level of trust because consumers are not stupid. But I think it's still in the growing phase and a lot of new things will come up. Of course, I mean there will be greater credibility in demand. I mean the more focus on that as we move along from the platforms as well as from the celebrity side. But thank you Mr George for sharing these thoughts. We have a lot of questions but we are out of time hopefully very soon in the next conversation. Thank you so much. It's always a pleasure being on the show. Sorry about the technical glitch. I've got to figure out this part. But thank you anyways. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you Mr Amin for doing this wonderful conversation here on the screen for all of us. We've all taken some notes here. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you. Thank you.


Hi there, my friend, 10 friends. Thank you so much for coming back for yet another video. And the other day I was working on a challenge on I code this, which is a new platform, or a little challenge site by floor and pop that he's put together. And the challenge was simple enough, I don't want to dive into that. But I want to look at a problem I ran into and that you might run into that you can solve dealing with box shadow animations. And part of the challenge was to create this. And they just give you a static image. But one fun thing with this is that you can sort of take your own twist on it, especially if you look at it. And if you look at the other solutions that people post, there's always cool animations and other stuff that people are playing with. And I wanted to do my own twist. So I put the subtle animation, you can see it's very slowly moving up and down, but I wanted to make it look like it's more like coming closer to the user. So what I did is I had my box shadow there. And I came down and I said, I want to animate the scale, or I'm going to increase the scale. And what we're going to do is we're going to comment this out here. You got to do your comments right for that to happen. And the idea is as it floats up, it's also getting a little bit bigger. And it looked okay. And it's very subtle right now. It's not like a really big change. You can see my scale isn't huge. But as something's moving away from something, if that's the illusion that we're going for, the shadow should also change with it. So then we can animate the shadow itself. But if you look at the animation now, you can actually see like the frames of it going because animating the box shadow and it made the box shadow really dark now just to exaggerate it so we can see it on the dark background. Because ideally you'd be lowering the opacity on that too. But even though it's a really subtle animation, all of a sudden you can see the frame by frame by frame and it looks terrible. And so, and it's just it's too much work for the browser to animate a box shadow like that. So what's the solution is to not animate a box. So what can you do instead. And this is just a quick tip. So what we're going to do is I'm going to take that off. And I'm actually going to find my main here where I had it. I'm going to take the box shadow off of that too. So we don't actually have a box shadow now. And somebody going, well, how can we do it? And this is what I ended up coming up with, which was a completely separate set of things. I'm going to turn everything on here and we'll sort of explain what I did. Oh, no, you know what? Yeah, we'll turn it all on so we can see what the find the finished result is actually where it's basically the same thing that I had before, though it's a lot later and more subtle now. But the animation is very smooth. And you can see that and you know, we'll come down here and we'll change this a little bit to just we'll make the opacity one. Just so we can see that the dark shadow and on here the background so we get red, just so we can see that it actually is animating so you can see the red part is animating as well as, you know, the scales changing all of that's happening. And just I'm sort of cheating here because the background is the same color as this background, which made it work a little bit better. You can play with Z indexes and everything to get around this problem. But what I'm doing is I'm creating a pseudo element and I'm blurring that pseudo element. So actually, if we go back to red here and I turn off that blur, you can see that there it is and then it slowly, I was changing the blur during the animation increase of this is kind of heavy for the browser to so you might not want to change the actual blur radius if you feel like you're testing it on devices and you see it is slowing down you could just stick with the same blur. But what you're able to do so even if we say we just put a single blur on there that isn't changing it's one set blur that doesn't actually get changed. But what we can do is change the opacity so the opacity goes from a point eight five to say a point five. So as it's getting bigger this blurry thing is getting bigger the opacity is lowering on it. Opacity is very easy for the browser to animate the other one I'm doing is a translate another one that the browser is very good and perform it at and scale. And you'll also notice I'm using scale and translate here instead of the transform properties I have heard from I'm a chain that not always the best idea to actually use these there's a few drawbacks to them, but for simple things like this. It's fine they're their own properties now check browser support if you do want to use it but all the major browsers do support this now. But then what I can do is go back to my inherit here so it's using the same background color. Or again play with your Z indexes if you do need to have something you might actually need to recreate the solid background with another suit element. But the advantage now is I can animate my element itself. I can animate the shadow, which isn't a real shadow. I'm just emulating that idea that there's a shadow there. And I get really nice smooth buttery performance. It's definitely more work to do. There's a lot more code involved in doing something like this. But the browser has a much better time at actually handling it. And things are going to look a lot nicer on your site. So just a really quick tip for today. I hope you did like it. And if you are interested in taking this on that challenge you might not be able to because it's a daily projects over I code this where it's a free to join and you get a daily challenge. It's usually UI components and smaller things that you can do in like 20 to 30 to 40 minutes, which is kind of nice. And it's a new challenge every day, though you can upgrade to a pro account. And if you're on the pro account, you get access to some bigger challenges as well that are like full pages with Figma files. And you also get access to all the previous daily challenges as well. So you can go through all of those and it's not a monthly fee. It's a one time purchase. And the link to it is just down below. It is an affiliate link. So if you do end up purchasing, it also does help support this channel too. And I'm having a lot of fun. It's great for just little quick things that I want to put together and I'm probably going to be back in here again because it gives me lots of little things that I could focus videos on. For me, it's really nice, but it's all built in. I can start a challenge, the code editors right here. I can work away HTML CSS JavaScript and just hack away and get something to work and submit it and see other people's things, see how they did it. Once I've submitted my challenge, it's a pretty cool site by Florence. So even if you're just signing up for a free account, it's definitely fun to plug around in that. Once again, link in the description. And that's it for this one. So until next time, don't forget to make your corner the internet just a little bit more awesome.