You just, what is the, like the ingredients to your consistency? You just keep going.  She won and done. Yeah. Then you come again.  Like what is, what is the ingredients to your consistency? How do you stay focused?  Because like I know it's people depending on me one.  Like sometimes I get super tired.   Like I was praying for this to be like this. So like you just gotta keep it in their face. Now, coming out of the new tape. What was the inspiration into the tape? What was your mindset going into your tape? You know, I just gotta show them what's up.   And I am show y'all that then, you know?   You're like, I'm coming out. I ain't playing no games with these motherfuckers. Yeah, I'm here to stay.      And I did that unintentionally. Like I do not, I did not like, like when I stopped doing about TikTok, I didn't know I was. People telling me, you know you going out on TikTok. I ain't know it. Shit crazy. I ain't know it. Shit crazy. Crazy. And it's just like, but I love, you talk about like real topics that is so relatable.   Like this ain't, this ain't no, you know what I mean?   You ain't gotta be successful. You ain't gotta be big.   Try to try to finesse you like, cause you know, we live in the world where everybody's a finesser now.  So it was like to hear that stuff is just like, man, that song is just like, and you know, the production is just crazy. Do you pick your beats when you're going at this? You be like, y'all want that one? Yeah. And you go right in. Like I gotta hear myself rapping on it, know what to do with like, then there's nothing how I record. Like if I don't think he's bumping, if I don't think, oh, I ain't gonna record. Like I'll write it. And if I'm rapping it on a beat, I'll be like, nah, I ain't gonna go record that. That ain't gonna be no hit. Who inspired you to rap? Chief Keith. Chief Keith. Oh. He said, I'm going in. So you should just be in here in the mirror when you wasn't singing gospel music.  I got on Chief Keith in high school. You just was going in. Yeah, yeah.  Like I never heard nobody turn and hear that sound like him. So I heard him like, damn, like, I used to be walking from school or walk from basketball practice. I used to have him in my earphones. And it's like he made me feel like, yeah.


Hey what's up you guys, welcome back to my channel. If you're new here, hi, hello, I'm Lydia and if you are new here, make sure you hit the subscribe button during the growing family, my goal is to hit 10k by the end of the year, let's do this, let's work as a team. If anyone who doesn't know, I make mental health videos here on YouTube through my experience. I take you along to appointments, document my physical health, I'm a type 1 diabetic and basically I just share every aspect of my life. So today I thought we could talk about the hallucinations that I got when I was taking zopiculomone. Now let's do a bit of a pretext, I took zopiculomone for 7 years, yes I'm aware that it's a very long time to be on a x-ray, but I literally couldn't sleep without it. Go to May last year, late 2020, I was in hospital but I started having really vivid hallucinations every time I took a zopiculomone, and it was only ever after I took a zopiculomone. Now I never had a problem with zopiculone until that point. The first night I thought it was just my medication because I hadn't had my medication for a period of time while I was waiting for a bed. But it got more and more intense. It felt like bugs were crawling under my skin, I then tried to scratch it out, but yeah I started hallucinating and it wasn't pleasant. So I felt like I had bugs crawling under my skin, every time I lay down close to my eyes I'd just start seeing these little creatures and I don't know if my eyes needed to still be there and it just, it was horrendous. So I couldn't sleep because I was hallucinating. I just continued until I got put on Trasadone for sleep, because I needed something to help me sleep. I've tried not taking anything to sleep and I genuinely just can't sleep, which is why I took Trasadone, I mean if you didn't see my last video on Trasadone I'll link it up there on the i-card, because it goes over the use of Trasadone for sleep. But hallucinations are something that should be taken seriously, no matter what causes them. They're scary, you just don't know if it's real or not. The only reason I'm able to differentiate between hallucinations and reality is because when I'm on my medication I don't hallucinate. If anyone doesn't know I'm on Haloperidone, Lithium, Volteoxidine, Clemasal Pan and Trasadone. But when I'm on my medication I don't hallucinate, and I was on my medication for some of the nights to follow the first night. I need to get to the works and pick up a pen, because my favourite pen ran out of ink, so I'm going to leave it up to place it. A video that I want to make, and I don't know if you guys want to see it, is about anxiety ticks. Because I've been having a lot of them recently and I did film some, so I want to make a video on that. If you want to see it let me know in the comments below and let me know by kicking this video a thumbs up. So, the hallucinations were very intense. I strolled with them, quite badly, because I wasn't sleeping. When I don't sleep it affects how my other medication works. But the important thing is that it did get resolved, and now I'm on... I'm on Trasadone. Like I said, the video will be linked in the card. Sleep is important, and if you don't have a sleep schedule your mental health will decline. I take my nightmares at 8 o'clock in the evening, I'm normally asleep by 9. And I sleep right through until the next day. So, Trasadone works. Well, yeah, Zopiqon is annoying for me now. So, if Trasadone stops working, I don't know what I'm going to do. I tried Zopi down, Sun Zambian. It didn't work for me. It did nothing. It didn't help me sleep. And I was on 10 mil rooms with that, I think. It's quite a while ago now. But it did nothing for me. But yeah, that's all I've got for this video. If you want to hear more stories from the cycle order, yes. Let me know in the comments down below. Let me know what you want to see. If you've got any video requests, let me know. I'm always open to requests. This was a request video. So, hit me up. Don't forget, if you want to support the channel, I have a Patreon. If it's linked in the description down below, I posted a video on there yesterday because YouTube took down the video. So, bonus video is over on Patreon. Which I will link up there. Peace.


So one of the things we absolutely know for sure then is that this clarity about what's important to you in more than the superficial generates opportunities that are hidden in the long grass with this effort required in working that out. What can I simplify here before I get going doing things? I think we make a mistake of trying to becoming efficient and getting things done. Another approach is to stop and say what's absolutely necessary here that's going to produce the biggest impact and what can I simplify? There's three things, clarity, priority and execution and they need to come together. So these circles then interact and you want an equal measure of all three and here is an interesting thing. What happens if you don't have an equal measure and here's what I think happens. You can be stuck, you can be aimless or you can be busy. The most successful people no matter how we define it have less going on. Success is a skill and you can learn that. You can learn a skill. Senior leadership will benefit from coming to an event like this because then they can understand better what people are all about, what they want to do and then you are able to unlock benefits. Not only at work so I role as a sister, as a mother, as a partner so in every sense of it I think if you really want to be successful in all areas of your life it's applicable in anything, students, professionals, families, everyone really would benefit from this.


So what we're going to do is convince ourselves that the ratios of the sides of a triangle don't change as long as The value of the ratio anyway as long as the The angles stay the same as long as they're similar triangles Okay, so let's take this down and just convince ourselves really quickly what it is What I need to do is take pictures before we take this down So let's take Pictures of this thing That way we can use it too bad. I mucked up this 45. Otherwise, it would look really pretty well pretty ish Considering my handwriting and this special So let's take this guy down Great papers that we took down and put it on the side So it can be as accurate as possible So let's do a little calculation. Let's take a look at the similar triangles and Convince ourselves that the ratios the trigger the trigger ratio cycle sign attention Don't change no matter what the sides how big or small the triangle is as long as the angles stay the same And this is something we did in Series one we took a look at similar triangles, right? So what we're gonna do we're gonna generate a triangle Or a couple of triangles anyway, so let's take this and So I'm gonna go from here see how far we're going One two three four five six seven eight nine nineteen. Let's take it to twenty one two three four five six seven eight Have a triangle here. Now what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna measure these distances. This is one two three four five six seven eight nine Ten so this is ten here Right. I actually don't care what these angles are so that's the distance of ten and For us to prove that the ratios don't change no matter how big or small we go with this thing We don't care what the angles are because if it works for one Triangle with the ratios right it's gonna work for the other ones. So if this is ten Let's take what was this one fifth twenty. I believe one two three four five six seven eight nine ten Sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty so the distance here is twenty Right this angle is whatever angle it is Angle a this angle is whatever angle it is and that's 90 degrees Now what I'm going to do I'm gonna create a couple of more triangles Actually, let's just do yeah, let's create a couple of more one couple other ones So I'm going to go to here And draw a line here because it's out across errors this distance here is one two three four five six seven And this distance here is one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve fourteen So this distance here is fourteen The next level up And this guy goes here To here I could create another one here if I want Okay, and this distance is from here if I create another triangle Let's make it here. I guess One two three four sure So this is four and this distance is one two three four five six seven eight So this guy becomes eight Now what I'm going to do is we're gonna Take a look at this convince ourselves just using ten of This angle because that way we've got exact Grids on here. We're not going to go diagonally because that complicates things. I don't have a ruler to measure it So if it works for 10 theta, it's going to work for cos theta. It's going to work for sine theta, right? It has to be consistent so 10 of this angle let's call this angle a Okay, and this is angle b So 10 of this angle for the big triangle is 10 over 20 10 of a is 10 divided by 20 okay Well 10 of this angle also happens to be seven divided by 14 so Is seven divided by 14 10 of this angle also happens to be four divided by eight four divided by eight Now 10 divided by 20 is a half Seven divided by 14 is one over two same deal Four divided by eight is one over two same deal, right? One over two So 10 of this angle Is one over two the ratio Of the opposite side relative to the adjacent side is one over two For this triangle This triangle and this triangle because All three of these triangles Are similar triangles. They've kept the same angles one. It just happens to be A bigger version of the other and a bigger version of the other, right? So when we're studying our special triangles Right, we had our distance for a special triangle for 45 45 Right, we had one one root one one the square root of two Right, that doesn't fit on a unit circle because the radius for unit circle is one But we don't care because we're not looking at The exact values Right for the size when we're Doing the trig ratios when we're looking at sine cosine and tangent because sine cosine and tangent are ratios of one side versus another side, right? So Irrelevant of how small the circle is or how big the circle is right The ratios the sine theta cos theta and tan theta of the size of the triangles of the right angle triangles Or the coordinate systems They don't change the ratios are the same which is should be obvious by this right if this The seven unit one was our Circle right Unit circle then if we go bigger the ratio doesn't change We could figure out what the distance here is if we do Pythagorean theorem should we do? I don't know a lot of work, but let's do let's take a picture of this Before we do the Pythagorean theorem so if we want to Convince herself that this also works for sine cosine and tangent What we could do is just use the Pythagorean theorem to figure out what the distances are From there to there from there to there and from there to there and You can do that as an exercise if you like and if you want we'll do it for what we have to do is do it for Two of them to convince ourselves, right? So let's do it for the big triangle and the little triangle So if we do it for the big triangle Pythagorean theorem is a squared plus b squared equals c squared for the big triangle is going to be 10 squared plus 20 squared is equal to c squared So 100 plus 400 is equal to c squared. So c is going to be the square root of 500 that's the length of The big triangle right of this guy squared of 500 If we're going to do it for the little guy, it's going to be 4 squared plus 8 squared And we're going to take the square root of it, right? So this guy is going to be 4 squared is 16 8 squared is 64 so 16 plus 64 64 plus 16 0 1 7 80 so square root of 80 Is this distance here? And if we're going to look at let's say sine of a For the big triangle is going to be 10 divided by the square root of 500 So sine of a Is going to be 10 divided by the square root of 500 And sine of a also happens to be 4 divided by the square root of 80 4 divided by the square root of 80 Let's bring out our calculator and this is calculation. Make sure this is The same value right which it should be it's a solar calculator old school. So I need a little light to get this thing back on So let's go 10 oops 10 divided by 500 Where's my square square root? Is equal to 0.447 right so 10 divided by the square root of 500 is 0.447 That better be what 4 divided by the square root of 80 is right? So 4 divided by 80 second function square root Is equal to 4 0.447 dot dot dot So same number the ratio didn't change right So if one of these circles one of these Triangles Happened to be our unit circle then The other Triangle would have been a bigger circle representing a bigger circle It could have been Our special triangle 45 45 90 or 30 60 90 So the ratios the sine and cosine Didn't change. Okay. I hope that's clear. It's something that Some students sometimes ask me and I do go through and explaining them taking them back to great 8 in great 9 and as soon as I draw this They're like wow That's the reason well one of the reasons we studied this and My answer is yes, but it took You know if you studied in grade 8 it took four years three or four years until You appreciated how powerful this thing is when you start talking about the trigonometry trig ratio sine cosine attention. Okay, so That's the two special triangles that we have to know. Okay 45 45 90 and The side links are one one root two Okay, from there you can generate your trig ratios And the other special triangles 30 60 90 And the side links are one Squared of three and two and from that you can generate your trig ratios And we're going to dive a lot deeper into this in the next video because what we're going to do We're going to take our unit circle again And we're going to look at all our stops For these special triangles. So what we're going to do Is move around the circle and our first stop is going to be 30 degrees next stop is going to be 45 Next stop is going to be 60 90 120 and so on and so forth And we're going to generate the table for what the trig ratios are For those angles I'll see you guys in the next video. Bye for now


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Hello, this is Hans van der Kwas senior lecturer at IHC Daft Institute for Water Education. In this video, I'm going to show you how to visualize point cloud data in QGIS. There are web viewers like Potry, where we can already view the data easily. And it's this kind of data that we can also visualize in QGIS. This is an online viewer that already comes with an example of the AHN data of the Netherlands and has some settings to visualize the data. The QGIS 2.3.js plugin now supports this kind of Potry data sets. And there's this entwine.io website, which has a quick start guide, which we are going to follow in this tutorial. And we're going to apply it to the AHN data, which will be stored locally. So we'll start with opening the Anaconda prompt and we'll install entwine in a specific environment, which we'll also call entwine, because I already did it before to test this. I will make a new environment, which I will call entwine2. So this command will just install the software and create the environment. It will take some time here, I've speeded it up a bit. Then we need to download our data and I'm going to download here the AHN3 data set, which is the elevation model of the Netherlands based on LIDAR, the last point cloud. I select the tile and I download the file to my hard disk. So I have to change to the new environment that we created, entwine2, and then we proceed to build the data in the format of pottery. And that's an important one. So I put there the path of the file and that takes a lot of time here. I've just did some cutting in the video. And the next step is to install the node js. This was just needed to visualize it using the pottery viewer and the plazio viewer. This is not necessary for QGIS. For QGIS we just needed that conversion to the pottery compatible file. We're now going to install the server, which is also needed for the visualization outside of QGIS. And then we run the server. And then we can use the pottery viewer and the plazio viewer. So let's have a look at the pottery view. So this is the same viewer as we used in the start of this video, but now it points to our local server with the local point cloud data, which is also a newer version of AHM than the online example. And we can change all kinds of settings here in the viewer to visualize our data. It's important to put the attribute to elevation. And then we see the elevation and there we see Rotterdam. You can easily navigate through the point cloud. We can change the color schemes. So that's one way of visualizing your local point cloud data. Another nice tool to visualize our local point cloud data is this plazio viewer. If you click the link in the quick start, you get to this page. And there you can also set it to elevation and different color ramps that's used. You can also use different background imagery. And another nice tool is to do inundation, where you can simply increase the water level and some nice visualization options too. But of course we want to visualize this in QGIS, which is the next step of this tutorial. Here in a new QGIS project, I've added a digital surface model of Rotterdam and I'm going to add an actual aerial photograph from the PDOK plugin, which gives access to open data from the Netherlands. Then I'm going to show you where to download the QGIS to 3JS plugin. There is a native 3D viewer, but with this viewer you can load these point clouds to get this icon and there it is. And we select now first for the elevation the DSM void field to have some orientation. There it is. And we need to change the settings a bit to have some higher resolution of the elevation. That of course makes it quite slow, but gives a better impression of the elevation in the area. There it is. And now we can add our point cloud. And we can add a potry supported file that we have created. And you can see here the different file formats. We go to that folder where we have converted it to the right format. And then we add it and it will add all these points. If we click right on the point cloud layer and we go on the properties, we can also change there the color type. And if we choose hide, it will color the points according to the elevation, which makes it easier to interpret. There are some other options you can explore. While it's loading you can already navigate to load more points. And you can see it's quite smooth. See the Erasmus bridge and the EuroMust and even trees and the boats in the river, the Mose River. You can switch off the background elevation to only see the point clouds, which already gives a good impression of buildings, trees and other structures that we have on the surface. You can see the church and the marked hall and the famous cube buildings. And all these shapes come out really well.


Hey Doug Padgett here in Enneagram 8. One of the temptations for an Enneagram 8 is to try to live in the future, to try to get outside of your current experience. One of the things I've learned in ultramarathon running is the necessity of being present in this very moment. I'll say to myself, in the midst of a long tired run, every time my foot hits the ground, I'm not in front of me, I'm not behind me, I'm right here, grounded on the ground.


Hello and good evening, everybody. Welcome to the Adafruit Show and Tell. I'm Liz. I'm gonna be your host this evening. If you would like to join the live stream to show off your projects, especially during this sleepy week between Christmas and New Year's, you can come by the Adafruit Discord at adafruit.it slash discord. And in the live broadcast chat, you'll find the link. First, we're gonna kick things off with our friend, Kevin from Digikey. Hey, Kevin, how's it going? Hey, Liz, how you doing? You're right. It is a sleepy week between Christmas and New Year's. That's why I have the lights off and I'm just trying to stay in the dark. Nice. So everything's good. I hope all's well with you and the rest of the Adafruit team. Yeah, thanks real well, thanks. So over this sleepy week and last week, I was kind of playing around in my house, in my bar and adding some lights to it to make it look really cool and really fancy. So one of my coworkers introduced me to WLED using the ESP devices. Oh, nice. I'm using a Feather ESP32 and it's really able to install it. It is literally installed over Chrome. There's nothing else needed. It just puts all the files right on the device and you change everything on the GUI. And the GUI also works on your phone or a mobile device or web browser. And the beautiful thing is I think I have about 600 LEDs here. And all the wires are hidden. And it's just simple. I mean, just changing colors. You know, you just literally push the button and change it to all these different options that they have. And I also took it one step further and added a microphone to it. So I have a microphone back. It's too dark. You can't see it's back there. Oh yeah, in the corner there. So right now it's not working. You can see as I talk, the lights come on or if I hit the counter. That's great.  Yeah. Playing some music. It looks really cool in here. And I see I have a little helper right there. I guess, yeah. I guess coming in. So I apologize about that. But yeah, this is just a fun project that I worked on at home. And, you know, the simplicity of the indifferent featherboards and some of the tutorials out there is just incredible. And it's a lot of fun. So that's what I hope for showing to this week. I love how it looks too under the like recessed bar and with the glass and everything too. So it looks really nice. Yeah, it really adds a good look. There's usually a bunch of bottles on the top shelf, but for this I took them down. Okay. All right. Well, thank you so much, Kevin. I hope you have a good rest of the sleepy week. And you do the same. Thanks, everybody. Take care. All right, have a good night. Next we're gonna hear from some Adafruit folks. We're gonna kick things off with Nate. Hey, good. Good to see you, Liz. Good to see you too. Today I bought my 3D printed owl. So this is kind of an art project that I did over the break. It's a 3D printed, no support design and it has a rotating head. So this is kind of my attempt of making another owl but more artistic with a little bit of print in place mechanism. So the bottom of the owl has this kind of handle that allows you to rotate the head. And it started off as kind of like a, kind of wanted to do like an ornament with like the sort of circular pattern of these kind of tubes that are kind of curving. So I started with that. And then I saw something on Amazon that was like an owl piggy bank sort of. And it had this similar kind of meshing. I was like, ah, it's gotta be an owl. So I worked on the owl head and then from there I figured, okay, instead of just like doing the whole snap fit bit where I kind of print two things and snap fit them together. How about I just print it all in one go with the head printed separately. So the internal structures, what keeps the head elevated and that's what's connected to the head really. And then there's some geometry on the bottom here that kind of caps. It captures the edge of the handle of the bottom of this so that it can't come out. So it can't fall apart, can't be disassembled. And there's some little details like the wing that has these kind of triangular patterns. And it did pretty good for the print. It came out a little bit stringy because our method for doing time lapses are, they tend to leave prints like this kind of stringy but this wood filament cleaned up fairly good. There's some burnish stuff on the eyes, but it's fine. So there's no post processing here just kind of cleaning it up with our fingers, right? And yeah, you got this kind of free spinning kind of. It's fun to kind of just do that with. So it's a free design if folks want to print it out maybe they get theirselves a new 3D printer and they're looking to print something kind of fun. Give this a shot. It's on printables.com. I'll throw it up on some of the other sites but it's there for now and there'll be a blog post going out but we also did the time lapses Tuesday video that came out on Tuesday. So if folks want to see that, where's the stamp? Put it, now it should be on your shoulder so. Yeah, I like that you can kind of almost like kind of puppeteer it with the way that the. Yeah, you can kind of hide it and you can't tell like, hey, you're doing, yeah, it's fun. Yeah, so a little something a little bit different. Yeah, it's kind of like a stress test but it's also like artsy. So you can really fine tune your printer but also get something nice for your home at the same time. Hoot, hoot, cool. Well, yeah, check it out. It's up there. Folks want to try their. Excellent, yeah, I'll drop the link in the Discord chat too, folks. Oh yeah, I'll do that. Yeah, I'm on there. Cool, good idea. Thank you so much. A good one. Next we're gonna go to Jeff. I was gonna come on show and tell but I need to go start printing that owl like now because it is so cute and I have a little thing for owls so I don't need to see. But I have my screen share up and I'll show you what I've been working on today. So this is a keyboard for the Atari XEGS which was a very late kind of game console. Wow, okay. Like late 80s, way too late to be good in the market but anyway, it has this interesting keyboard with the help button. So that's why we got it and decided to do it. And so I put a cutie pie inside and it is scanning the keyboard and translating all the key presses and so I can type. Well, if I was in the right window. And every time you press the help button, you can get help. You know, sometime in January, I'll be doing a guide around this with Circuit Python and I'll probably actually do it with the ESP32S3 cutie pie because we want to use it to show this ultra low power processor that is in it and is really nicely suited to the task. And yeah, it's not a great keyboard the keys are kind of mushy and it doesn't have roll over. So just one key at a time plus shift or control is about all you can do. But you know, if you were feeling nostalgic or if you wanted this particular keyboard layout to use in an emulator, it would be a lot of fun. And so we were discussing this in our internal meeting and information from Phil B is that there was the Atari XE home computer and then the game station version XEGS on the home computer had these four keys populated and this doesn't and they're not usable. So I couldn't, you know, in Circuit Python make these do anything because they're not connected out. Got you. Just in case you were wondering about that. So yeah, that's what I've got. Although at the end, if we've got time I've got another really old, it's a 1979 little newsletter to look at for fun. So. Excellent. And I mean, the help button is just wonderful, especially the tape of it. I mean, it should maybe send F1, but for the purposes of demoing it, I thought this would be. I like that. Yeah. Awesome. Thank you, Jeff. I'll be pressing this button a lot. Anyway. I would too. We're gonna hear some from some folks in the community and then we'll come back to the Diabolco computer. All right. Thanks. All right. Next we're gonna hear from Paul, Paul Cutler. How's it going? Happy holidays. Happy holidays. You know, almost all the projects I've worked on have been for fun and I finally made a practical project. So here in Minnesota, we've got really hard water. So I've got a water softener and I have to pour tons of salt in it. Well, and it's four or five feet tall and I never remembered to check it until it's gone. So I got a feather ESP with a time of flight sensor. I gotta figure out how I'm gonna mount this underneath the lid. And it's hooked up to Adafruit IO and every day it just tells me, you know, it measures how much salt there's left and tells me the distance. It's perfect. So yeah, just something small. It was easy to do something quick over the holidays and pretty proud of it. It's awesome. And you are also the host of the Circuit Python podcast. I am. We just wrapped up season two. Tech Trick was the last guest and we'll be back in probably a month or two. Excellent. Yeah. I really love what you've done with that. It's made 2022 a really special year for Circuit Python. Looking forward to seeing what you do in the 2023 of it. Thank you. All right. Thank you so much, Paul, and happy holidays. All right. Now we're gonna end our last show until 2022 with Jeff. All right. That's a volco computer. That was quick. So yeah, this was, you know, in a cache of stuff that I was given by a friend and I don't know the full history. But what I've gathered is it's for TRS 80 which was kind of the computer of Radio Shack. And yeah, so like anything, and 79 is super early for home computers. Let me get this out of the way. You don't need that. Yeah, so, and there's no like mailing information on it. So probably my friend picked it up, you know, at a bookstore. Yeah. But yeah, a couple of the articles here, the Diabolical Computer talks about, I think level one is a particular model of computer. And so yeah, it talks about they had one and they would type in a program and then the program would just go and all your day's work was lost. But they say, you know, just take it back to the Rehabilitation Center, which I think was your local Radio Shack and that they would fix it for you. Okay. Yeah. Okay, and this says in 1977, I organized Walmart distributes information mostly by mail, which is how they did it in those days. It was the custom. And it wouldn't be early home computing without basic programs. Yes. So they have a program to clear the screen to white and version one here is five lines long and basic. And it takes about 47 seconds to fill the screen with white, which I thought was pretty crazy. Why would you want a faster? That's perfect. Which you needed faster. But you know, they optimize it. Program two gets it down to where is it? Eight seconds. Okay. And then, yeah. And then they kind of explain, and look at this guy. The art in this is excellent. Yeah, I mean, I think you always, is he pressing the help key? That's my question. Is he pressing the help key there? Yeah. But he's worried about what's going to happen clearly. But then they have a whole larger program listing in here. Oh wow. It's going to run you, I don't know, what is that 20 odd lines? Yeah. Like 18, well, some of them are more than one line, at 18 numbered locations, that could do a graph right on your home TV. Okay. So, I mean, that's pretty cool. It doesn't say anywhere that I saw how long it takes to produce the graph, but I'm guessing probably the greater part of a minute you'd be sitting there waiting for your computer to finish showing this on the TV. But this of course is not the TV. This is somebody has worked out on graph paper, what is shown at each location somehow manually. And let me see if I can zoom in here a little bit. So this here is showing, like starting at memory location 512, which is sub rows 24, 25 and 26, because you can divide your characters up into three pixels by two pixels. Okay. And then counting across, you're going to put these products here and then you'd work out in your program how to do this stuff. So down here is the numbering of the character positions. Character four is sub dots eight and nine. And then your line goes over to position 1023 for the last line of the screen. And you'd have to manage all that with your little basic commands. And boy, it was a lot of fun in those days, I guess, but it's just, it's always fun to say we've come a long way. And I never had the opportunity to play with those kinds of machines, but it's interesting to see how it used to be. And then look at where we are now and think about it. Yeah. It was a good five or six years later before I had my first home computer, but in a lot of ways, I think it was just about as rudimentary as this, it had just become more affordable. And yeah, now we are grumpy if my PyPortal display takes two seconds to reflect doing graphics and it's pulling from the internet and all these amazing things. So yeah. And by the way, keep an eye on the blog because we will be asking people soon to tell us where they want CircuitPython to go in 2023. And we're gonna invite you to post on blogs or send us emails or just talk about it in whatever way works for you. And then we'll kind of amplify that and through the blog and through other mediums, I don't know exactly. And yeah, cause we like to know what y'all want. And normally Scott would be here saying that but he's taking quality time off. And thank you Liz for coming in to show and tell tonight. Oh, no problem.  No, all good. All right. Thanks so much, Jeff. And looking forward to seeing everyone's CircuitPython 2023. Yes, as well. Yeah, so start thinking now. Start thinking now and let us know. All right, good night. Thank you so much. Thank you. Have a good night. All right, thank you everyone for coming by show and tell last show and tell of 2022. It's been a lovely year in about 15 minutes. John Park is gonna have his John Park's workshop live right here, stay tuned. And until then happy holidays folks and we'll see you in 2023.


From around the globe, it's theCUBE presenting, Cube on Cloud, brought to you by SiliconANGLE. Hi, and this is theCUBE on Cloud. I'm Stu Miniman and really excited to welcome to a special fireside chat. Cube alumni has been on the program so many times. We always love talking to founders. We like talking to deep thinkers. And that's why he was one of the early ones that I reached out to when we were on this event. When we first started conversations, we were looking at how hyperscalers really were taking adoption of brand new technologies, things like flash, things like software to find networking and how that would invade the enterprise. That of course has had a huge impact. Help create a category called hyperconverged infrastructure. And I'm talking about Dheeraj Pandey. He is the founder, chairman and CEO of Nutanix taking HCI from hyperconverged infrastructure to hybrid cloud infrastructure. So, Dheeraj, welcome to the fireside chat. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you, Stu. And thank you for the last 10 years. And we've grown together, both theCUBE and Nutanix and myself as a leader in the last 10 years. So bringing HCI from hyperconverged to hybrid cloud is just reminds me of how the more things change, the more they remain the same. So looking forward to a great discussion here. So talk about that early discussion, what the hyperscalers were doing and how can the enterprise take advantage of that? Over time, enterprises matured and looked a little bit more like the hyperscalers. Hybrid cloud of course is on everyone's lip as well as we've seen the hyperscalers themselves look more and more like the enterprise. So hybrid and multi-cloud is where we are today. We think it'll be in the future, but give us a little bit as to how you've seen that progression today and where are we going down the road here? Yeah, I think I talked about this during my .next keynote. And the whole idea of we, in every recession, we make things smaller. In 91, we said we're gonna go away from mainframes into Unix servers and we made the unit of compute smaller. Then in the year 2000, when there was the next bubble burst and the recession afterwards, we moved from Unix servers to Windows and Intel, X86 and eventually Linux as well. Again, we made things smaller, going from million dollar servers to $5,000 servers, shorter lip servers. And that's what we did in 2008, 2009. I said, look, we don't even need to buy servers. We can do things with virtual machines, which are servers that are an incarnation in the digital world. There's nothing in the physical world that actually even lives. But we made it even smaller. And now with cloud in the last three, four years and what will happen in this coming decade, we're gonna make it even smaller, not just in space, which is size, with functions and containers and virtual machines, but also in time, so space and time. We're talking about hourly billing and monthly billing and one year terms as opposed to really going and committing to five or seven years of hardware and CAPEX. So I think as we make things smaller, I mean, and this is true for us as consumers, we have shorter attention spans, things are going fast. The cycle of creative destruction of virtual machines is shrinking as well. So I think in many cases, we've gone and created this autonomy, massive sprawl. Like we created a massive sprawl of Intel servers back between 95 and 2005. Then we have to use virtualization to go and consolidate all of it, created beautiful data centers of Intel servers with VMware software. And then we created a massive sprawl of data centers that we consolidated data centers with one click private cloud in the last five years and hopefully in the next five too. But I think we're also now creating a proliferation of clouds, there's a sprawl, massive sprawl of cost centers and such. So we need yet another layer of software for governance to reign in on that chaos, hence the need for a new HCI hybrid cloud infrastructure. Yeah, it's fascinating to kind of watch that progression and over time, there was a phenomenal Atlantic article, I think it was from like the 1940s or 1950s where somebody took what was happening post World War II and projected things out. And we're talking really pre the internet, but just the miniaturization and the acceleration, kind of the Moore's Law discussion, if you take things out, where would go? When I talked to Amazon, they said, the one thing that we know for sure, I'm talking amazon.com is that people will want it faster and cheaper in the future. I don't know which robot or drone are things that they have, but absolutely, there are those certain characteristics. So from a leadership standpoint, dearage, you talk about these changes. We had the wave of virtualization, the wave of containerization, you talked about functions and serverless, those are tools, but at the end of the day, it's about the outcomes and how do we take advantage of things? So how is a leader, do you make sure that you know where to take the company as these technology waves and changes impact what you're doing? Yeah, so it's a great point. I mean, we celebrate things in IT a lot, but we don't talk about, what does it take? What's the underlying fabric to really use these things successfully and better than others and not just use buzzwords? Because new buzzwords will come in the next three years. For example, AI and ML has been a great buzzword for the last three, four years, but there's very few companies, probably less than even half a percent who know how to leverage machine learning. Even understand the difference in machine learning and AI. And a lot of it comes down to a few principles. There's some culture principles, not the least of which is how you celebrate failure, because now you're doing shorter, smaller things, you've got to be more agile, you'll have more velocity, gone are the days of waterfall, where you're doing yearly planning and pre-releases and such. So as we get into this new world, not everything will be perfect. And you've got to really learn to pick yourself up and recover quickly, heal quickly and such. So that is the fundamental tenet of Silicon Valley. And we got to really go and use this more outside the valley as well in every company out there. Whether it's East Coast company, the Midwest company, they're outside the US. I think this idea that you will be vulnerable, more vulnerable as you go and learn to do things faster and shorter. I think product management is a term that we don't fully understand. And this is about the why before the how and the what to be quickly jumped to the what, containers and functions and databases of service and AI and ML, they're the what. But how do you really start with the why? You know my fascination for one of my distant mentors in Simon Sinek and how he thinks about most companies just focus on the what while very few actually start with the why, then the how, then the what itself. And product management has to play a key role in this, which also subsumes design, thinking about simplification and elegance and reducing friction. I think again, very few companies, probably no more than 1% of the companies really understand what it means to start with design and APIs, user experience, APIs for developers before you even get to writing any single line of code. So I think to me that's leadership, when you can stay away from instant gratification of the end result would start with the why, then the how, then the what. Yeah, as we know in the technology space, oftentimes the technology is the easy part. It's helping to drive that change. I think back to the early days when we were talking, it was hyperconverge, it was a threat to storage. We're going to put you out of a job and we'd always go and say, look, no, no, no, we're not putting you out of a job. We're going to free you up to do the things that you want to do. That security project that's been sitting on the shelf for six months, you can go do that, helping build new parts of the business. There's things that you can do. It's that shifting a mindset can be so difficult. And dearest, I mean, you look at 2020, everyone has had to shift their mindset for everything.  I don't miss the hotels. I do miss seeing lots of people in person. So what's your advice for people is how they can stay malleable, be open to some change? What are you seeing out there? What advice do you give there? Yeah, I think, as you said, inertia is at the core of most things in our lives, including what we saw in healthcare for the last 20, 30 years. I mean, there was so much regulation. The doctors community had to move forward, nurses had to move forward. I mean, not just providers, but insurance companies. And finally, all of a sudden, we are talking about telehealth because of the pandemic. We are talking about online learning. I mean, the things that higher ed refused to do. I mean, if you think about the last 20 years of what has happened with the cost of higher ed. I mean, it's 200% growth in when the cost of television has gone down by probably 100, 200% with more features. Healthcare, higher ed, education in general, all of a sudden has come in for this deep shock because of the pandemic. And I think it's these kinds of black swan moments that really change the world. And I know it's a cliche to say this, but I feel like we are gonna be in a new normal, and we have been forced to this new change of digital. I mean, you and I are sitting and talking over the internet, it's a little awkward right now because it's a little bit of a delay in the way I'm looking at things, but I know it's gonna directionally be right. I mean, we will go in a way where this becomes seamless over time. So change is the only constant. And I believe that I think what we've seen in the pandemic is just the beginning of what digital will mean going forward. And I think the more people embrace it, the faster we do it, the speed is gonna be the name of the game when it comes to survival and thriving in this new age. It's interesting. We do hope, I'm a technologist. I know you're an optimist when it comes to things. So we always look at those silver linings, like I hope healthcare and education will be able to move forward fast, higher education costs, inequity out there for access to medicine. It would be wonderful if we could help solve some of that despite this global pandemic. One of the other results, we talked about some very, shifts in the marketplace, the large tech players really have emerged in winners so far in 2020. I can't help but watch the stock market. And Apple is bigger than ever. Amazon, Google all ended up in front of Congress to talk about how that if they've gotten too big, that you've partnered with Amazon, Microsoft and Google. They are potentially a threat, but also a partner. From your standpoint, have they gotten too much power? Do we have an inequity in the tech world that they are creating the universes that they will just kind of block off and limit innovation? What's your take on Big Mac?   I mean, there's always been big companies because of the consumer effect that they've had as well. And I think what we're seeing right now is no different. I mean, at the end of the day, the good thing about, the great thing about this country is that there's always disruption happening. And sometimes small is way better and way more competitive than big. Now, at the same time, I do look up to the way some of them have organized themselves. Like the way Amazon has organized itself is really unique and creative with general managers and very independent, highly autonomous groups. So some of these organizations will definitely survive and thrive in scale. And yet for others, I think decision-making and staying competitive and staying scrappy will come a lot harder. So to me, when I look at these big names and what Congress is talking about and such, I feel like there's no different than 20, 30, 40 years ago, we've always talked. I mean, we talked about Rockefeller and the oil giants back from 100 years ago. And so in many ways, I mean, the more things change, the more they remain the same. What we have to do is we have to walk over to where the customer is. And that's what we've done with our partnerships, like in Amazon and Azure, we're saying, look, we can even use your commits and credits. I mean, that is a very elegant way to go to where the customer is. Rather than force them to where we are. And the public cloud is facing this too. They've come to realize in the last two years that they cannot force all of enterprise computing to come to hyperscalers data centers. They'll have to take in these bite-sized, smaller clouds where the customer is, the customer's machines are, where the customer's people are, where the customer's data is. That's where we also take to disperse the cloud itself. But I think there's going to be a yin yang where we'll try to walk with the customer to where we want them to be, whether it's hyperscaler data center or the notion of hybrid cloud infrastructure. But many a time we've got to walk over to where they are.  I mean, we're talking about sovereignty, we're talking about data gravity, we're talking about economics of owning versus renting. This trifecta, the laws of the land, the laws of physics and the laws of economics will dictate many of these things as well. So I think the big folks are also humble and vulnerable to realize that there's nothing more powerful than market forces. And I think the rest we take care of itself. Yeah, my quick commentary on that, dearage, I think most of us look back at AT&T and felt that government got it wrong. The way they broke it up and ended up consolidating back together, it didn't necessarily help consumers. Microsoft, on the other hand, might have had a little bit too much power and was leveraging that against competition and really squashing innovation. So in general, it's good to see that the politics are looking at back and it sure felt the last time I watched things, they were a little bit more educated than some previous times there, where it was almost embarrassing to watch our representatives fumbling around with technology. So it's always good to question authority, question what they have. And one of the things you've brought up many times is you're open to listening and you're bringing in new ideas. I remember one conversation I had with you is, there's that direction that you hold on to, but you will assess and do new data. You've made adjustments in the product portfolio and direction based on your customers, based on the ecosystem. And you've mentioned some of the bring thoughts that you've brought into the company and you share. So you mentioned Black Swan, Naseem Taleb, you brought to one of the European.next shows. It was great to be able to see that author and read through advisors like Condoleezza Rice who you've had at the conferences a couple of times. Where are you getting some of your latest inspirations from any new authors or podcasts that you'd be recommending for the audience? Yeah, I mean, I look at Jason Caesar, obviously Simon has been great. You know, he was at her.next, talked about the infinite game and we'll talk about the infinite game with Nutanix too, with respect to also my decision. But, you know, Brené Brown who has been very close to Nutanix. I was just looking at her latest podcast, you know, and she was sitting with the author of Stretch Scott Son and Shine. And it's a fascinating read and a great listen, by the way, I think for what's an hour, talking about scrappiness and talking about resourcefulness, you know, what does it mean to really be resourceful? And we need that even more so as we go through this recession as we are sheltered in place. I think it's an adjacency to everything that Brené does. And I was just blown away by just listening to it. So I'd love for others to even, you know, have a listen and learn to understand what we can do within our families, with our budgets, with our companies, with our startups.  More so than, hey, I always need more. I think it's a, I just found it fascinating in the last week itself, listening through it. John Furrier talked many times that founder startup, that being able to pull themselves up, be able to drive forward, overcome obstacles. So, dear, dear, you did tee it up. It sounds like it is the next step for you, that there's a transition under discussion. Bain has made an investment. There's a search for new CEO. Are you saying there's a book club in your future to be able to get things ready? Why don't you explain a little bit? You know, 11 years took the company public, you know, over 6,500 employees, you know, public company. So, tell us a little bit about that decision-making process and, you know, what you expect to see in the future. Yeah, it's probably, one of the hardest things as an entrepreneur is to let go. Because, you know, it's a creation that you followed from scratch, from nothing. And it was a process for me to really think about what's next for the company and then what's next for me. And, you know, me and the company were so tightly coupled that I was like, wow, at some point, this has to be a little bit more like the way Bill Gates did it with Microsoft, you know, and there's going to be a baton zone and you'll then start to realize that your identity is different from the company's identity. And maybe the company's built for bigger, better things and maybe you built for bigger, better things and how do you really start to first do this decoupling of the identity? And it's really hard. I mean, I'm sure that parents go through this. I mean, our children are still very young, you know, our eldest is nine going on 10 and our twin girls are six. I know at some point in the next 10 years, eight to 10 years, we'll have to figure out what it means to let go. And I'm already doing this with my son.   I see this them, it's about independence. And I think that the company is also born free to really think about a life outside of me as well outside of founder. And that was a very important process for me as I was talking to the board for the last six, seven, eight months. And when the Bain deal came in, I thought it was a great time. You know, we ended the fiscal really well. All things considered, we had a good quarter. The transition has been a journey of a lifetime. The business model transition I speak of really three years.  But I think I would not, you know, replace this for anything. Just the experience of learning what it means to change as a public company when you have short-term goals and long-term goals, we need the conviction, knowing what's right. Because otherwise we would not have survived this cloud movement at all. This idea of actually becoming a subscription company, changing the core of the business in the on-prem world itself, you know, it's akin to changing the wings of a plane at 40,000 feet where none of the passengers blink. It's been phenomenal, right, last 11 years. But it's also been nonstop, monomaniacal.  And I figured it's a good time to say, figure out a way to let go of this and think of what's bigger, better for new panics. And, you know, going from zero to a billion six in annual billings and looking at billion six to three billion, to four to five, I think it'd be great to look at this from afar. And at the same time, I think there's vulnerability. I mean, I've made the company vulnerable. I've made myself vulnerable. We don't know who the next leader will be. And I think the next three to six months is one of the most important baton zones that I have ever experienced or been a part of. So looking forward to make sure the baton doesn't fall, we define what good to great looks like, both for the company and for myself. And at the same time, you know, go read more. I mean, I've been passionate about developers, you know, in the last 10 years, 11 years. I was a developer myself. You know, this company, Nutanix, was really built by developers for IT. And I'm learning more about the developer as a consumer. How do you think about their experience? Not just the things that we throw at them from open source point of view and from cloud and technologies and AI and ML point of view. But really their lives, you know, having them think about revenue and business and really blurring the lines between architects and product managers and developers. I think it's just an unfathomable problem we've created in IT that I'd love to go and read and write more about. Yeah, so many important things you said there. I absolutely think there's certain things. Everybody, of course, will think of you for a long time with Nutanix, but there is that separation between the role in the company and the person itself. And it really appreciated how much you've always shared along those lines. So last question I have you, and you heated up a little bit when you talked about developers. What do you take off your Nutanix hat for a second here? What do we need to do to make sure that the next decade is successful in this space, cloud as a general guideline? Because we know we have skill gap, we know we need more people, we need more diversity, but there's so much that we need and there's so much opportunity. But what do you see and any advice or areas that you think are critical for success in the future? Yeah, I mean, you hit upon something that I have had a passion for, probably more latent as well, more so than conspicuous. And you hit upon it right now, diversity and inclusion. It's an unresolved problem in the developer community, the black developer, the woman developer. The idea of, I mean, we have two girls, they're twins, I'd love for them to embrace computer science. And even probably do a PhD. I mean, I was a dropout, I'd love for them to do better than I did. Get embrace things that are adjacent to biology and computer science. Go solve really hard problems and we've not done those things. We've not looked at the community of developers and said, they are the maker and they work with managers and the maker manager world is two different worlds. How do you make this less friction? And how do you make this more delightful? And how do you think of developers as business as if they are the folks who run the business? I think there's a lot that's missing there. And again, we throw a lot of jargons at them and we talk a lot about automation and tools and such, but those are just things. I think the last 10, 11 years of me really just thinking about product and product portfolio and design and the fact that we have so many developers at Nutanix, I think it's been a mind boggling experience thinking about the why and the how and the what of the day in the life of, the month in the life of, even thinking about simple things like OKRs. I mean, we are throwing these jargons of OKRs at them, productivity, offshoring, remote work, over the Zoom design sessions. It's just full of conflict and friction. So I think there is an amazing opportunity for Nutanix. There's an amazing opportunity for the industry to elevate this where the woman developer can speak up, in this world that's full of so many men, the black developer can speak up. And all of us can really think of this as something that's more structured, more productive, more revenue-driven, more customer-in rather than developer-out. That's really been some of the things that I've been in my head, things that are still unresolved at Nutanix but I'm pretty sure at many of the places out there that's worth thinking and reading and writing about. Well, dearage, first of all, thank you so much again for participating here. It's been great having you in the CUBE community, almost since the inception of us doing it back in 2010. Wish you the best of luck in the current transition and absolutely look forward to talking more in the future. Thank you. And again, a big fan of the triumvirate John, Dave, and you always learned so much from you folks, looking forward to be a constant student. Thank you. Thank you for joining us at the CUBE on Cloud. Lots more coverage here. Be sure to look throughout the site, engage in the chats and give us your feedback. 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I am John Macklin and I must be mistaking me for someone else doesn't he know I'm an aviation officer candidate yeah he knows it sir this candidate's name is you are not not enough now you're not not enough you will speak in a loud and distinct voice you got that yes sir I just told you what difference does it make how I talk Foxfire this is 201 have BLC failure request emergency landing over on the flight deck we have a Tomcat in trouble rigged the barricade rigged the barricade my name is Gunnery Sergeant Holt I'm your drill instructor for the next 14 weeks here at aviation officer candidate school you will obey orders quickly into the best of your ability and you will not question those orders at any time you will not question my orders at any time candidates they tell me I got to have a college education to fly then this neanderthal tells me I'm not supposed to ask questions what kind of crap is that turn in the wrong direction okay don't want eject eject eject hey lieutenant what happened listen when the air boss haulers punch out you don't ask questions turn around turn around and said turn around your eyeballs on me you pay attention candidates because I just spent 45 minutes explaining to you the proper way to do an office entry and all we're doing is screwing it up now I'm gonna show you one more time and you better get it right now when you approach my office here candidates you will approach it so that your right shoulder remains four inches from this bulkhead at all times you will march up here and you will halt so that your toes are online with the entrance way to my hatch get your eyeballs down there on my feet seated my toes are online with the entrance way to this hatch at this time what your uniform is squared away you have been sure that it is you will take one step forward you will halt and you will execute a right face get your eyeballs up here on me you better engage your little brain housing group and start thinking now what kind of Mickey Mouse precision is this what's all this nonsense got to do with flying at this time candidates flight quarters flight quarters man all flight quarters stations no see us lefty right left lefty right left you get three sets of whites and a share with it and four sets of cockies four sets of khakis for you working loose three sets of blues and your shoes get over here candidates get over here quickly hurry up hurry up if you don't have all date get your eyeballs down here now candidates when you're preparing for inspection you're going to be folding your skivvies and at all times candidates you will fold these skivvies exactly six inches by six inches is that understood yes I'm talking to change in detail here candidates they will be exact six inches oh wow this is ridiculous so it's a little off who cares six inches horizontally is that understood okay number two close it up a bit let's get it in a little time I tell you what you can is probably think you're ready for inspection but so far you have been and neither are you macklin neither are you look at this thing look at it macklin look at it and you probably think you did a good job huh but you did damn it this is degrading I came here to fly not to detail the soles of my shoes the top and the bottom sooner later it's going to come to you macklin sooner later it's going to come to you we're talking about attention to detail here macklin we're talking about the difference between life and death macklin attention to detail attention to detail petty officer Johnson did you notice the loose screw in the landing gear that's it how about taking care of it let's go sharp let's go human push it it wasn't that I was particularly dumb but it did take a while to catch on to what it's all about I mean there's no one is going to explain it to you like PT you wonder why the heavy emphasis on physical training well I guess you won't really understand it until you're strapped into a high performance aircraft only a guy in top shape can take this kind of punishment and you wonder why there's so much stress on teamwork sure we're all individuals we've been taught that from the cradle but here if one guy's in trouble hell we're all in trouble that's a tough point to get across but it's the backbone of aviation until we learn about teamwork well how about George macklin how about George macklin have you got any attention to detail no no your rack is screwed up I told you over and over again macklin when what's going up we're all screwed up we've got to learn to function as a team to help each other even if all we're allowed to offer at times is encouragement now don't get the idea that it's all sweat and marching we actually spend about half our time in class but you keep asking yourself if it's worth it I mean you gotta put up with an awful lot of crap sure if a guy wants to fly he can stay a civilian in three years he'd get maybe a few hundred hours in a Cessna if he could afford it but in the Navy you'll probably log up to a thousand hours in the same length of time and get paid for all of them plus getting the finest flight training and most advanced aircraft in the entire world and go ahead and lean back we'll hook your cokes for you tighten them down two hands each strap pat down your D-ring on the count of eject I want you to bring the face curtain down and bury it eject eject eject but you gotta hang in there because it's weeks of pure pressure before you even touch an aircraft now candidates at this time I've taught you inspection arms you are now standing at the position of port arms and it is at this what are you doing macklin what are you doing macklin why are you right ballin area macklin why are you right ballin area I guess you don't need to learn what I'm teaching you here I'll tell you what macklin you ain't got no concentration whatsoever no after a few weeks a strange thing happens without being aware of it tell you begin to get with the program it usually starts small like one of your roommates polishing everyone's shoes because he's good at it this one looks pretty squared away let's go work on your rack apple maybe a couple of other guys are making up all the racks because they do have a better job and you you're shining everyone's brass you don't even realize it but you're a team and in a weird perverse sort of way it starts being fun you've made up your mind that you're not going to let these guys grind you down here it comes lock it up and you begin to wonder what happened to the caveman you met the first day well I'll tell you what there macklin ten weeks ago this way and then finally you're ready for flight training the guys that chose to fly as navigators radar or electronics officers begin a basic course of naval flight officer training coming up coming up and on glide path on course the rest of us the guys that are going to be pilots we start primary flight training now whether you fly props jets or helicopters depends on your preference your individual performance and the needs of the service is it worth it well every man's got to decide for himself good morning sir congratulations as for me the answer is yes no not yes but hell yes


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Everyone, this is Steve Zurker. I'm your host of the ThinkTech program, Looking to the East. This is a show I do twice a month. We look at various political, economic, social issues focusing primarily on Japan and greater Asia. Today's show, we're going to be looking at the repercussions from the assassination that occurred in Japan, the shocking assassination of the former prime minister of Japan. His name is Shinzo Abe. That was back in February. I have with us a very special guest, the president of Shinketsu News in Japan, Michael Penn. And Michael was actually the journalist who broke the story after the assassination occurred as to which religious organization was affiliated with the assassin. The story came out after the Abe assassination that the motivation for the assassination had to do with the religion. And in Japan, as the media is want to do, they didn't actually disclose which church it was. But Michael did that, broke the story. And then after that, the other mainstream media and international press as well began to acknowledge that it was the unification church that was involved. So we're going to talk about that over the course of the show. Michael, thank you so much for rejoining me on the show. I really appreciate it. You acknowledge experts in this area. I think for our viewers, maybe they probably remember when Abe was assassinated because it was an international news story. I mean, whenever my mother contacts me about news in Japan, I know it's getting international coverage. That's my sign that something from Japan that she's reading about it. Her reaction was one of shock and kind of sympathy too. Because in her mind, Abe was a positive government official for Japan. But anyway, can you describe what happened back in February a bit just for our viewers who may not remember that? Well, first of all, we're talking about July, not February. Oh, I'm sorry. You're doing a little bit earlier in the year. So yeah, well, I think most people know this part of the story, which is that former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was giving a speech at the side of a road. And a man in his early 40s who had put together a homemade shotgun came up behind him. And shot him twice. And as a result of those wounds, Abe died. And it was, of course, as you know, a very shocking event because, well, first of all, gun crimes of that sort just don't happen in Japan. And also because a political assassination of that scale hasn't happened in the country in about half a century. So it was a big event. It was a shocking event. And it had the real political impact. As you recall, at that time, what was the expectations in terms of how the country would respond to this assassination? You know, it was a huge story. I think the initial response was shock. But then, I mean, I remember that this could cause greater strength of the Jemento Party, a sense of sympathy for Abe. Some of my friends have said this could be a JFK moment. Those of you that are old enough, I certainly remember when Kennedy was assassinated in the United States and what the repercussions of that were, which were immense. But was that what I'm describing is was that a accurate depiction of what the expectations were from your perspective? Because you're much, much closer to it than I am. Certainly, I think that both within the country and outside of Japan, people who are observers of Japan, let's say for the first week or week and a half, sort of the common sense or the general view was that this was going to strengthen the political right in the country, because people would be worried about violence. And he was a major figure. And the assassination of such a figure, as you mentioned, engender sympathy even from those who might not otherwise have been terribly attracted to his point of view. So from those points of view, everybody was more or less expecting that this was something that was going to strengthen the right. And it has to be said there was a full court press, both within the conservative elements of the Japanese government, as well as in Washington, D.C., to really promote this idea that, okay, well, Abe has been killed, but now we have a chance to really implement the Abe agenda. And there was really the strong, strong push that Abe might be gone, but the Abe politics and the things that Abe wanted to do for Japan or due to Japan were now going to happen. And so that was the initial expectation, which obviously we're going to talk about next, didn't quite work out that way. This is just the amazing thing and why politics is so interesting. The repercussions from this assassination are completely different from what we described. For example, you mentioned the Abe agenda. Abe was always focusing on changing the constitution of Japan to make it the military able to be offensive, because when the constitution was written by the Americans back after World War II, that was explicitly banned. The Japanese military supposedly is for defensive purposes only. So I remember that, Michael, that now this is going to happen. So tell us what really happened in the subsequent months since July. The first thing that really kind of drew that off track was the assassin himself. Most people I think kind of assumed or feared or believed that most likely this assassin was probably somebody on the left, somebody who hated Abe's politics. And so as it became clear that somehow this assassination was somewhere out of left field, it kind of threw the narrative off track. And it was not somebody who was a leftist. It was not somebody who could be easily dismissed as just some sort of insane, crazy person. It was somebody who had a motive, a motive that nobody expected and nobody even really knew about. And someone who as the story of the assassin became more better and better reported, the reaction from the Japanese public was, wait a second, we kind of understand where this guy was coming from. And there was a lot more sympathy for the assassin and his background and what he had gone through and why he came to the conclusion that he did, that he needed to assassinate the former prime minister. And of course, this is where the Unification Church story came in, which was on nobody's radar.  So basically it was the assassin and his life story, which threw everything off track from what one might have expected to have happened. And then the fact that the Japanese public, the more and more they learned about the assassin, the more and more they sympathized with him and liked him actually. And that was not the reaction that you normally expect in a situation where a private assassin kills the leader, the longest serving leader of a country, right? That's not the way things to go. Yeah, that was remarkable. So I think you're absolutely right that the narrative was set by the conservative elements, how we're going to take this assassination in, like Rahm Emanuel says, you never waste a crisis, right? So this was a crisis and they had their strategy and then it turned out, I don't think anybody thinks that the murder is forgivable. He's a murder. He's a criminal and he'll end up in jail for the rest of his life. But I do believe, I agree with you, Michael, that his story resonated and specifically he explained that his mother was captured by the Unification Church and gave $800,000, basically the family's life savings to the church, making their family go bankrupt, taking away the chances for this young man to go to college. And he apparently is a fairly bright guy and could have gotten into a pretty decent school. So yeah, I guess the Japanese medium, thinking of the immunity and other conservative elements, I guess they couldn't really contextualize that into the story that they started with. That's it, isn't it? That's the problem. Well, that's it. But then once the initial wave, obviously, thinking there's going to be sort of a right wing crackdown, the Abe agenda was going to be in place, then the second stage was, hey, wait a second, this assassin is not what we expected. The public actually has sympathy for him. And then there was the third stage which came up, which is that the assassin and his research and his motives for killing Abe were not based on some fantasy as was first sort of intimated by the media, but actually he was onto something real, which even the deepest, many of the deepest experts about Shinza Abe didn't know about. And then once the media started to get on that story, and like, wait a second, there is actually a connection between Shinza Abe and the Unification Church and it's real. And it goes back to his grandfather and his father. And this is basically what we've seen play out in the month since, is that the Japanese media and other parts of the Japanese media has really gotten on the story to explore how Tetsuya Yamagami, the assassin, was right in his research, was correct in his research about Abe's connection with the church and how it actually was much deeper and bigger than was understood. And that in fact, almost half of all ruling party lawmakers had some, at least tenuous connection with the Unification Church. So step by step, this is what has sort of developed. And of course, the Japanese public, which first went from shock over, they went from shock over Abe's assassination and sympathy for, let's say, Akiyama Abe, the former first lady, to sympathy to the assassin. And then in that third stage, the public starts getting outraged to learn that some sort of what many Japanese would think is kind of like a crazy South Korean cult has enormous, or at least a degree of political influence in the ruling party and links that were totally unknown. And so then what Yamagami himself had wanted, which was to throw attention on the church and to basically get his revenge against the church actually happened. Because basically the majority of the Japanese public came to share Yamagami's view that these people are a problem and that they need to be basically expelled from influence in the Japanese political system, which they have had. So it's really been a remarkable process. And of course, the overall effect is that from where we started, that this would be something which would help conservatives and help the right wing in Japan, it's actually turned into the very opposite, which is that it's put the Japanese right wing on the back feet. They're in big trouble. The whole Abe faction within the Liberal Democratic Party has been defending itself and in trouble. And the influence has been cut down rather than boosted. Yeah, I was mentioning to Michael before we started the show. I don't watch TV other than baseball. I do watch baseball and have hanchin tigers in particular. But at my gym in the sauna, they have a TV. So I'm usually there in the afternoon when they have these news quasi news programs, I guess you call them Michael. And at least two or three times, there's this solemn looking, Jiminto ruling party, diet representative, lowly describing in detail his connections to the unification church. You know, on July 17, 2020, I went to their party or I did a video. It's confessional. And all of these guys are being forced to do this. It's just remarkable. I was telling Michael, I have a Catholic, I'm a lapsed Catholic. So it reminds me of going into the confessional box and talking to the priest and explaining about the sins that you've done over the last month or so. I just am amazed that these guys are being forced to do this. And this has now been going on for months and months and months, and doesn't seem to be going away. Well, to pick up on that last point, why it's not going away so easily. This is where the ruling party messed up its response. And part of this goes to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, because the things actually Kishida's own instincts were correct. He himself, by the way, had no connection whatsoever with the unification church. Oh, really? Okay. And he's from the more moderate faction. He's not the abbey faction. He's basically the opposite of the abbey faction in many ways. But his instinct was, okay, let's just be completely transparent about this. Let's have an investigation within the party, and everybody who had some connection with the unification church published that, get it out there and go through it and it'll be done. But he has not gotten cooperation from the party on this. In particular, the secretary general of the party, who's the number two person in the party, his name is Toshimitsu Motegi, who the prime minister depends on very much to stay in power, had the opposite opinion. He's like, no, no, no, let's just put out a couple dozen names. We'll do our own survey. We're not going to actually investigate anybody. We'll just send a survey to all of the lawmakers and let them self-report. This is standard operating procedure for any kind of crisis at the LDP or political parties in general. That's plan A. Well, this is, yeah, in particular, I think the Liberal Democratic Party, it's sort of like the honor system in a sense with people whose honor can sometimes be a little shaky. So basically, there was within the party, there was this sense of let's cover things up a little bit. And the thing is, some of the people who were the most guilty of the Unification Church ties included people like the policy chief of the ruling party, his name is Koichi Hagiuda. He basically came to power as an aide to Shienzo Abe. And basically, it is that Abe faction, the hard right wing of the ruling party, which had the strongest connections with the Unification Church, which they're completely unable to defend because how do they defend basically a Korean church coming to Japan, getting all this money from ordinary citizens, bankrupting Japanese families, and using that to fund their organization. I mean, from the point of view of Japanese conservatives who tend to be very anti-Korean and even racist, how do they justify that? They can't even justify it to their own supporters. And so from the point of view of the ruling party, many of them don't want to be completely honest about what happened, especially the Abe wing. So the prime minister whose position depends on support from within the ruling party, obviously, is not in a position to demand completely that they obey and that they submit to a serious investigation. So this is where they've had the problem. The political impact has mostly been on Kishida himself, who's not the most guilty person. He's just simply not able to control the ruling party as effectively as he might like. Yeah. To that point, Michael, his popularity has been going down since this assassination occurred. And this morning, it was reported that there are more Japanese people now who disapprove of him than approve of him. 46% disapprove, 45% approve. Yeah, there are two causes for that I should mention, both related to Shinzo Abe. One is the Unification Church link, and the other is his decision to hold a state funeral for Shinzo Abe, which by a nearly two to one margin, the Japanese public came to oppose. That occurred just last week, right? And you're recovering that. Can you briefly describe why that occurred and the tremendous pushback? I read that there were protests on the day of the state funeral itself, which for Japan, usually Japanese people are somewhat compliant when it comes to this kind of stuff. They do go up and protest like, for example, the Iraq invasion, there were protests almost every day for that. But usually, these types of outward shows of displeasure with the government, especially on a day of funeral was shocking. So can you cover that briefly? We unfortunately, we only have about seven or eight more minutes in the show. Well, again, that was also something which certainly took me by surprise as well, that the protest movement would really take issue state funeral issue and protest, as you say, marching in the streets hundreds of people against a funeral for a leader who would assassinated the longest serving prime minister in many ways is kind of bizarre. But it turned out to be a big issue, a couple of reasons. Now, why was the state funeral held? Well, that's obvious. So the prime minister thought he could curry favor with the obey wing of the party by doing the state funeral. It was smart politics. It seemed like smart politics at the time. Internal politics. Exactly. But that's who he really depended on to stay in power, to kind of keep them happy with a symbolic measure, whereas instead of a substantial policy measure. But the reaction from the public was, first of all, we only had one state funeral under the current constitution since World War Two. And that was for Prime Minister Yoshida, who was very, very much important in putting Japan on its current path. And so this was not the way that prime ministers were usually buried. There was not state funerals. There was a lot of people who were like, well, wait a second, Abe is a very divisive figure. He basically represents the hard right. And yet to have a state funeral for somebody like that, who's not a consensus figure, who was not even particularly popular at the time of his death. Again, this was sort of like the government trying to push its own political agenda with, I mean, again, don't underestimate how big support from Washington and the Pentagon is in all of this. They wheeled enormous influence in Tokyo and Abe was their man. And so there was also that side of it. And then there was lots of things about, okay, we have to pay for the funeral. That was the cost work. Really? I saw seven million? Is that correct or? I couldn't remember off the top of my head. But basically, most of the costs were because if you have all these world leaders coming in at the beginning, then Japan goes overboard on security costs and things like this. So most of that money went to police and various kinds of security. And then also the fact that people are saying, well, wait a second, now are we basically forced to be, to mourn for this guy who not everybody wants to mourn for and with the unification church story coming out at the same time and Abe's links with that. And everybody was kind of like saying, Abe had all these scandals. He did a lot and a lot of the negative side of the Abe legacy was coming. In fact, I've been calling it de-Aubefication of Japanese politics. We have seen in the past few months, since his assassination really, that sort of like a veil of fear is lifting from Japanese politics. Abe basically was sort of a scary figure, I think, for a lot of people. And now he's not there. And now people are not afraid of him anymore. Now people are coming out and more openly criticizing. And it's both within and outside of the government. So it is kind of like, like I said, kind of a de-Aubefication process where suddenly, like after a repressive regime has gone, suddenly things come out. And that's sort of where we've been for the past couple of months. So you mentioned that Kishita is bearing the brunt of the story about the unification church connection to 50 percent of the ruling party. And also not just the ruling party, but other party as well. Although the numbers, as you pointed out, Michael, are much smaller in that regard. And the state funeral has not helped him at all. So there's repercussions there. Then we also have inflation. My coffee prices just went up a couple of days ago, Michael. I came up with Family Mart, 150 to 180 yen. So Japanese consumers now are seeing the prices are being raised and there's a sense of frustration that the government's really not focusing on that either. Do you think that Kishita is going to survive? I mean, he's clearly wounded. And Japan has a long history of turning prime ministers over. Abe, of course, was an exception. But there are long stretches of time when there'd be a prime minister once a year. And Kishita, I think, celebrating his one year in power just this week. Well, if I can get you to look into the crystal ball, is he going to survive? My strong feeling is that yes, he'll survive and he will actually return to popularity before too long. For a couple of reasons. First of all, all of the problems which are hitting him and which has depressed his public opinion rating have nothing to do with him. They're all about Abe and the right wing of the party. He is not Abe. He is not a right wing of the party. He's actually from the other wing of the party and which is kind of the irony. All the things which have been sinking him have nothing to do with him. And his own particular political agenda, which he calls new capitalism, is to try to raise the living standards of ordinary people and to try to reduce inequality between rich and poor. Basically, all that Kishita has to do to recover is to begin to act like Kishita, to really assert his own policies and his own agenda and he'll be back. And he has a really good one other thing, which is majorly in his favor. There's no elections anywhere in sight. There's unified local elections next spring, but national elections are years away. This was supposed to be his so-called three golden years because there's just nothing on the schedule for him. So I think he has plenty of time to get things back in order. The state funerals done, that issue is now off the plate. He does still have to deal with the unification church mess, but that all is going to lose steam and it's probably already losing steam. So if Kishita can just be Kishita and be a little more assertive, then I think he will begin to recover his popularity. Yeah, we just have one more minute. The engineers are telling me, but your last thought, Michael, this man who planned this assassination, what's happening? Would he even imagine that what he did would cause this response in the country? I mean, again, it's no justification for murder, but he accomplished what he wanted to accomplish, apparently. I mean, I think beyond, I would imagine, his wildest dreams. I mean, nobody could have predicted this. I don't think even he would have predicted it. He probably felt it was kind of a desperate effort to try to do it, but whether he actually thought it could have happened the way that it happened, I doubt it. I mean, it was, this honestly has to be said to be one of the most successful assassinations in modern history, because not only did he kill the person that he wanted, he also helped destroy his real target and essentially politically things worked out exactly the way that the assassin would have dreamed it worked out. It's an amazing story. Yeah. Michael, are you going to write that story? Probably. Somebody needs to do that. This is just so huge. Yeah, I have lots of things on my plate, but it is a fascinating story. I think it's going to make a brilliant book for somebody. Okay. All right, Michael. Well, it's been a pleasure. Thank you so much for your insights, spending time with us and helping to describe what's going on in Japan and the best to you. For my viewers, we'll be on again with looking to the east in a couple of weeks or so. We'll address another topic having to do with Japan or more broadly in Asia. I haven't decided what that is at this point, but do tune in at that time. Thank you again, Michael. Thank you everyone for watching. That's a wrap for today.