This is stock number 9246, a 2011 GMC Yukon XL. We are here at Summit Automotive checking it out and we are in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. This vehicle has the 6 liter V8 motor. This is a 2500 Yukon XL. So it has the bigger motor and a little bit heavier duty suspension. The front bumper is very, very clean. It has the factory alloy rims and it has Bridgestone Dervis 26570R17 tires. These tires look like they have roughly about half the tread left, maybe just a little bit more. The rims are in excellent condition. Carbon black is the color so it's got a little bit of metal flake in it. You can see that the hood is in excellent condition. No denser dings on that. The grille and front bumper is in really nice shape as well. Passenger side rim, very nice and clean as well. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p so if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, or smartphone device, turn them on now because it's like you're standing right here next to the vehicle with me. As we go down this side of the vehicle you can see just how clean the body is, how reflective and glass like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can still see the vehicle, hear the vehicle, and of confidence in what you're looking at before you even get here. Down this side very, very clean. I didn't see any denser dings on the doors or rear quarter here. This back rim is in excellent condition as well. You can see that the back tires have just as much tread as the front tires. Has the wheel well guards in it, frame and under bodies in really nice condition here. You can see any denser dings down this side of the vehicle. As we go on to the back here, rear bumper is in pretty nice condition. Does have the backup sensors, full towing package which includes the receiver hitch and wiring. The rear gate is in excellent condition as well. I didn't see any denser dings. In fact, really the only imperfection I saw, just a little bit of a scratch right there. Nothing too major. This does have a power lift gate. Back storage area is very clean. It has an all-weather floor mat back here. You can see the carpeting is really nice and clean. This is the rear cover for the receiver hitch and then you have a sunshade back here which is a pretty nice feature. You can see all your groceries nice and cool. Or if you've got valuables back here, keep them out of sight, out of mind. Has the side window antenna and it's very nice and clean. Those back seats do. You can take those out so they are removable. Close this gate. Just press that button. It'll come on down. This does have a backup camera and you can really see that metal flake in the paint on the trunk here. Very nice and clean. On this side of the vehicle is just as clean as the passenger side. Once again I didn't see any dents or dings and that's really why we take the videos. We want to make sure that you get the most accurate representation possible because you can see the light reflecting off the vehicle. Make a smart buying decision from the comfort of your own home. Very clean on this side. For good measures here, this back room is in excellent shape as well. No scuffs or scrapes and the back tires have just as much tread as the fronts.  Both of these seats are heated. Both of them are cooled. Memory driver seat, factory all-weather floor mats throughout. The carpeting is very clean underneath. Has auto headlamps, a factory brake controller and turned dial four-wheel drive. Power windows, power locks and power mirrors. They also power fold in and have built in directional signals. Inside you can see that this vehicle does have 59,555 miles. Instrument cluster is very clean. Does have the factory navigation system, dual climate control, power pedals, backup sensors and stability track. This is also where your backup camera shows up. Up here we have the power sunroof. We also have home link, on-star and then your rear gate and sunroof controls. Factory all-weather floor mat on that side and the passenger seat is very clean as well. This does have side coronary bags. This vehicle has never been smoked in, is very, very clean inside. Has Bluetooth audio controls, cruise controls on the leather wrap steering wheel that is in excellent shape. Now we'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll check out under the hood. Second row quad seating, both of these seats are heated. You have the latch child safety system. Carpeting is very clean throughout. You have another all-weather floor mat back here. There are your heated seat buttons, rear air and audio controls. This one does have the factory DVD player. The passenger seat on that side is in excellent condition as well, no rips or tears. And finally, the third row seats, just as nice and clean as the rest. Absolutely perfect interior. Never guessed that it had 60,000 miles on it almost. And we'll take a quick look under the hood. Since this is a 2500 package, this one has the 6.0 liter V8 motor, K&N cold air intake, and it does have a Gibson exhaust on it. But the engine bay is very clean, runs very smooth. This Yukon has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop. It has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. And it is 100% ready to go. And to see more pictures of this GMC or one of our other 400 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, wranglers, you name it, we got to go to our website, www.summitauto.com. Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle on our lot. Videos of every single used vehicle that we have, all at summitauto.com. Thanks for checking out my video. 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Good morning everybody. So we present this study case together with Yann. So our study case deals with a wealth that was built this year. You will see that we have the experience of monitoring of several wealth in France. So just issues about wealth. So 80% of the world overseas trade and 99% in the USA passes through ports. That's a carol in Europe on defense. 3 million people are employed by this sector in Europe. And the state for maintenance is for instance in France that we have 100 km of wealth. That's probably 1,000 km of bills. And among which 64 km are built in reinforced concrete platforms. So what is a platform that's about 300 meters of length structure and about 20 to 30 meters wide and with 1.6 km of beam if you consider a structure like that. In France 10 million euros are given for curative maintenance of this structure. So there are some repos in the USA where you can find other figures. And so that's typical the building of the structure we have insurmounted this year. So there is an existing video on YouTube. So we have a little less views than Riela, but it's promising. And so what we will present today is for sub-study cases. Two topics mainly. The first one is maintenance of course. So I say the benefit of chloride for concrete. And the second is retrofitting. So based on the mechanical understanding of the structure. Why? Because boundary conditions of this type of structure are very difficult to model. So there are a lot of assumptions when you design it. And so the real behavior is very far from the design behavior. So any sensors you put in the structure give information about that. So that could be the sub-study case. But that's too separate problem for us in our presentation. So the cost of... If we deal with the first one, that will be our main purpose today. So the maintenance of structure due to chloride ingress. The cost of NDT, typically a core and you measure the chloride inside, is 1,000 euro per point. The cost of the sensors is 1,000 euro and more or less between 1,000 and 2,000 euros. But you have 3 to 4 points. So the cost analysis is finished now. But it's not so simple. So we have two key questions. The first one is that the uncertainties for NDT and sensors are not the same. And the second one is that the lifetime of the sensor is not the lifetime of the structure. For at least 10 years, not more. For this type of structure, we lose about 30% of the sensors after the first year. So we have to keep that in mind. So that's not magic. That's reality. So that's the plan of the structure. When you can see the tidal holes here in the soil, the river is here and the platform is here. So you can see how it works. So there are tidal holes to support the horizontal loading. And piles to support the vertical loading. So that's a very simple scheme analysis. And you can see that there are a lot of interaction with soil. And of course that's the problem of the boundary condition I have explained before. And so we have five monitoring structures in now. So that's the fifth one. And for this one, we monitored the tidal holes mainly. So we have quite a lot of papers dealing with the understanding of the monitoring of tidal holes. So Jan, if you can speak about what we did this year. So we focus on a particular area of the structure. In fact, two structural elements that we call beam. The work is built with a precasted element with a shape of shell. And between two shells, we have some reinforcement elements. And so the structural elements that we call beam. We have 40 sensors in this area. And just here, we collect all the data. You can see here. And we have started to collect the data when we cast concrete. So we have all the history of the construction. And we also performed some material tests on the same concrete. So six months after the beginning of the construction, we are able to assess the performance of the whole measuring device. So we have some broken sensors now. We have broken some wire during construction. And we have some minor problem with water in electric connection. So for the rest, we are still recording the data. And so we considered the decision context. As I said before, we wanted to discuss with non-authorities and see what could be interesting for them. So the first one, the first question, is the usual quantification of the value based on preventive maintenance due to the monitoring of chlorhagin res. So that's the main focus of our subsidy. The second one, I don't know if we will work on it because I think we need a collaborative work in this action if you want to do that. It has good behavior of the structure. I mean the mechanical behavior. And to see how it could be interesting to have this behavior, this work behavior in case of retrofitting of the structure. So retrofitting is needed because the lifetime of this type of structure is about 100 years. And during 100 years, the use will change. So there will be more oil, more coal, or containers, but it will change. Now it is used for waste turbines, provided by General Electric. But we know that in 10 years, these wind turbines will not be the same. That changes a lot. Or there will be no wind turbine in nonce. So that could arrive too. So the third one is the change of paradigm. So to go from the means-based contract towards the performance-based contract during works about the concrete performance. So for the moment, we put some concrete beside. We make a test. Really the concrete that is inside the structure. And the last one is the detection of initial cracking in view to have a better understanding of the probable development of cracking in the concrete. But we will not deal with that in the cross-section. It's not realistic to work on this. So I will not tell more about the flow chart because that will be presented in the slides after. So first, we will discuss how we want to deal with that, and if it's convenient for you. So the sensor first. So we just speak about the measurement of chloride unrest. So we design a measurement device with a different sensor because we are not sure of the performance and of the life duration of the sensor. So we propose some new sensor, some resistivity sensor on one meter long, some chloride sensor. But we are not sure about the life-different duration of this sensor and some armature potential sensor that you can see here and here. So the instrumentation is redundant and we complete it with some temperature sensor because all the data are also sensible to temperature and we have to correct it. So the resistivity sensor or new sensor provides a map of resistivity under the sensor. So we have one meter of measurement with 200 points and so we are able to make some statistics. So we are not dependent of the material heterogeneity of the concrete. And we have assessed the performance of the sensor by casting different concrete with different content of chloride inside. So we have the probability of detection and the probability of false alarm for different levels of chloride. So what we want to do here is a service limit state so durability due to chloride ingress, induced corrosion. But we will stop at the corrosion initiation. So there is two main reasons for that. It's to simplify the whole analysis because there is quite a lot of parameters that we act. First, the first reason. The second one is that it's not reasonable to change the river on this type of structure because the access is very difficult. So to remove rivers and to install a new river, it's very, very costly. So we tested in another project the efficiency of several river and we consider that we just change the concrete cover in this project so we can change the concrete cover signals and the type of river. So usually practice consider some administrative testing so course whereas we have demonstrated with Manuela Salta from NEG that there are large uncertainties that it was published very recently. This would be testing so I mean autopsy that could help to make the link between the chloride and detection twist and so corrosion initiation because there is not a direct link and so for a session, so the action are here for this and the action for a session could be the distributed sensors that we promote, the standard problem and the corrosion initiation, so the potential measurement and you can add of course, you can consider these two actions by adding these two SSM systems. We have, we can add something else is to make accelerated tests in lab and to compute the factor of acceleration of the testing lab so we do that with Bayesian network and we have already tested with non-destructive testing but not with SSM but it will be made. So the cost function is the usual cost function so that the cost is linked with the risk of corrosion initiation and considering the inspection, the structural monitoring and the repair. Okay, repair is that. And the variable as the chloride content at the level of the rebar and the critical pressure for corrosion. Okay, so we will have a component approach so we use only one component but we want probably to, we don't know if we will do that in the cost section but what could be interesting is we have a structural approach for that we need spatial variability so spatial variability can differ from the structure to another one so what we do now is to compare the data we have in several structures in Nantes the data that Bernthal in intrandheim and the data that Alan Han has in Trinity so and from that we will see if we can find bond to the interval or variation of the length of correlation or if it's too random. Okay, for the moment I think we will be able soon to say something about that but I think it's probably not realistic to have the whole analysis including spatial variability. So probably we have not more time so I just go very quickly not just this aspect about the retrofitting but on the last question that we had with Vim yesterday how we will model the things so we don't have any information about the reality because it's just to monitor the structure and so we have to model a virtual reality that could happen in the future so for that we have to use models and so the first way could be to use simplified models so there are about between 7 and 8 I don't remember usual models in the literature and we have benchmarked this model in a project in France and there are two main drawbacks the first one is there is correlation between parameters not because that's physically correlated but it comes from the correlation itself from the calibration itself if you use a fixed function you correlated the random parameters due to the fixed function not due to the correlation of the parameters and the second one if you use that in a probabilistic framework the capacity of these models to predict is very bad due to the form of the model and the role of the parameters in the model so we have shown that we have a report about that if you are interested that was made in a PhD in a national project in France and so what we will use is for the simulations is a finite element and finite difference model that we have in lab and so that's good for simulation to simulate the reality but the problem is very difficult to update because there are a lot of factors inside temperature outside all our stochastic processes so what we will do is to use gamma processes for the updating so that could be by-gen network or gamma processes so this process we have already presented that in the cost action I think it was two years ago in Copenhagen so we were quite a bit with the prediction and the use of these gamma processes so that's why we will use it with the uncertainty of measurements of course and the behavior the change of behavior of the sensor depending of the client content so that's what we plan to do and that's why the the discussion is open I think now thank you very much this is extremely complex it's a lot of work a lot of efforts a lot of models are already there yeah I hope it was not too complex can we go to the slide where we have actions there was this one there's actions described can you go through this again yeah the actions that will be used for the optimization of the inspection and repair without structural estimate are the semi-destructive testing the destructive testing and the repair actions the repair actions we have three actions and these repair actions the cost of the repair is not the same and the efficiency is not the same so we have the information for this project the actions if you have SHM they look a little different than the ones if we add the SHM so that's the decision on the measurement devices the A SHM is the decision on what to measure and A is the action what we can do with the system so that was different that's the first decision what do we measure yeah but I'm after this but okay so that's so if I'm after the point that's in the value of we call it the value of information analysis we quantify the value of the information and then maybe this is the case and I don't really see it but only if the actions and the prior decision analysis and the pre-posterior decision analysis are the same then we are quantifying the value of information if the actions are different it could be because you have more options if you have more precise data then we don't quantify necessarily only the value of information but also the value of information and actions yeah because here we mixed in this presentation we mixed the actions due to the collection of information so the difference can be considered no accession with accession so the repairer actions are the same yeah okay so it's two actions right first action what do we measure what brings us new information but I have a question about the RPO we want to start the RPO so we have an RPO model about this yeah that's a simulation and then the uncertainty is increasing over time in your time horizon so it's also you find also different values of information of different times that's also interesting to look at so you can more find optimal timing of your yeah that's that was made for NDT already so the optimum time was computed in this mixture so we have to to compare that the cost is cost with the cost with accession very good thank you your probabilities of detection are for different levels of proportion yeah and these come from other data previous data if you didn't have this data sorry if you didn't have this data all this would not be possible yes but it would be it would be probably no no because yes I agree I was just trying to shift from corrosion to another type of damage if you have a damage on which you don't have this probability of detection would it be possible to apply an analysis like this accordingly yes so the probability of detection is very very important for concrete that's a very important input for instance we just discover that for resistivity so on the point of bridge that we probably know the deco-free project that we have with with Bruno Bada so we discover that the coefficient of variation of the measure of resistivity in a bridge concrete is not constant, is not linear and is exponential depending on the resistivity so that means that the uncertainty of measurement will be complex to model and so that if you don't have that you will assume that the coefficient of variation is constant or the standard deviation is constant dependent of the resistivity but that's not the case and that changes completely the result okay


Throughout history, land forces have attempted to turn, fix, lock, disrupt and deter others through ever-evolving scientific and technological solutions. Ancient ditches, spikes and flames progressed to medieval walls and ramparts. The advent of explosive options produced the energetic obstacles of the Civil War with a direct line to Cold War era landmines. Today, terrain shaping is a recognized combat multiplier and a critical component of the current and future fight in each phase of multi-domain operations. Compete, penetrate, disintegrate, exploit and recompete. Current capabilities provide limited options to quickly shape the close terrain and an even more limited ability to shape the terrain deeper into the operational environment using the family of scatterable mines delivered by aerial and artillery assets. While these current obstacle capabilities support protection of friendly forces and defensive operations, they do not facilitate the rapid transition to offensive operations, which will pose significant challenges in the multi-domain environment. China and Russia have invested heavily in closing the technological gap in their militaries and reduce the U.S. advantage on the battlefield. At the same time, evolving national policies have reduced the U.S. Army's capacity to shape terrain through the use of traditional row minefields. The standard row minefields of the past relied on mines that lacked the self-destruct and self-deactivating capability required by national policy and global norms. The Army requires new, smarter terrain shaping options to meet this capability gap. Terrain shaping obstacles of 2021 are fixed and limited to the land domain. Ground methods by a near-peer and peer adversaries are detrimental to operational effectiveness. By 2035, TSO will need to become mobile, adaptive, and intelligent. Semi-autonomous and autonomous distributed obstacles must be remotely operated and capable of near, mid, and far-term delivery in partnership with all service, air, space, land, and sea assets. Integrated sea-sense technologies will be imperative for synchronizing terrain shaping effects with offensive and defensive operations. Associated advances in target recognition will eliminate lethal effects on non-combatants and can greatly increase the effectiveness of obstacle munitions. Integrating the scientific concepts developed today into combat-ready systems by 2050 will require investments into solutions that are all domain-applicable and compliant with treaty and policy. In the future, terrain-shaping options will instead become methods to shape the operational environment, embracing emergent scientific discoveries to controllably and reversibly manipulate the very nature of the multi-domain battlefield.


Rapid urbanization has caused global warming and resource depletion, leading to increased interest in zero-energy building, ZEB, and zero-emissions building, ZEB, technologies. Several countries have released ZEB enhanced strategies and set national standards and policies to promote ZEBs, but construction projects remain limited to demonstration projects. This paper evaluates global ZEB activities and state-of-the-art technologies for energy efficient residential building technologies based on an assessment of 40 residential buildings. The results showed that 62.5% of the buildings met or exceeded the ZEB standard, 25% were net zero-energy buildings, and only 12.5% were near zero-energy buildings. Solar PV was the most widely used renewable energy source in the studied cases, while in warmer climates, advanced cooling technologies and heat pumps were the preferred technologies. Thermal performance of the building envelope and solar energy were found to be the most effective mechanisms for achieving energy efficiency and shaping sustainable cities. This article was authored by Gamal Ali Muhammad, Mahmood Mabruk, Guachenghi, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


Coming up on DTNS hot new laptops from Acer and ASUS new soundbars for smart TVs from Amazon and Roku and a way to pay for things With just your hand This is the Daily Tech news for Wednesday September 4th 2019 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt and from studio feline I'm Sarah Lane in Salt Lake City. I'm Scott Johnson and I'm the shows producer Roger Chang We were just talking about kindness and sand and it's amazing the breadth of topics that we talk about The the follies of using ways we have a tip for how to make ways work better for you That's all on good day internet, which you can get at patreon.com slash DTNS. Let's start with a few tech things you should know Razer announced three 13.3 inch blade stealth laptops with core i7 isolate processors two models have the invite video GTX 1650 discrete GPU by default the third model is an ultra book with a 25 watt TDP processor and integrated graphics All three models have 16 gigabytes of LPDDR for 3733 megahertz dual-channel RAM and PCIe M.2 solid-state drives the least expensive of the new blade stealth laptops starts at $1,500 not bad European competition commissioner Marguerite Vestiger Look at that announced examination of the Libra career cryptocurrency to see if it would harm competition Vestiger Sent questions last month to all 28 members of the Libra Association asking about conditions for membership How consumer data would be handled and how Libra backed products would be integrated into Facebook's platforms Yes, you pronounced Marguerite Vestiger's name very good. Thank you Roku announced the smart soundbar with the 4k Roku Ultra built to inside of it meaning they can do all the things Roku Ultra can do But also be a lovely soundbar I connect to any TV using the HDMI arc port or can connect by optical audio and you can connect to a device over Bluetooth Sports Dolby audio advanced signal processes to maintain sync and also has new volume modes Like for instance, there's a night mode that will raise the dialogue volume without raising the volume of the explosion So you don't wake everybody in the house up Roku also announced the wireless Subwoofer that connects to the Roku smart soundbar by Wi-Fi and maintain sync that way both devices are available for pre-order for 179 bucks and speaking of smart TVs and soundbars Tell me a little bit about what Amazon announced Sarah Yeah, I was all excited about Roku's announcements and then Amazon can store me in with their own the company announced a revamped fire TV Cube streaming device which now has an IR blaster a faster processor than the predecessor and Local voice control for some commands that the device can handle without having to send queries to Amazon servers in the cloud So you're all you're doing it all in one place the new fire TV cube is now in pre-order United States for 120 bucks Also pre-orders for Canadians folks in the UK and Germany Japan availability starts in November It was on also announced the nebula soundbar fire TV edition made by anchor which can stream video can play music Consync with other echo speakers for multi-room audio and includes remote control with a microphone in in within Pre-orders are open in the same regions. I just mentioned price is 22999 Amazon will also begin selling a variety of TVs with some partners grundek made OLED TVs with built-in fire TV software and far-field voice control in Austria and Germany starting in November JVC made TV with fire TV software is coming to curries It's in the UK and Germany's media market and Saturn will both begin selling a house brand fire TV sets next year Finally in the good old us of a Amazon also announced a new 65 inch Toshiba fire TV set So yeah, pretty significant to see grundek making a television with fire TV's far-field voice control built into it That's that's significant interesting to see the fire TV cube get a What is kind of a minor upgrade except for that ability to do some of those processes on the chip That's basic stuff like saying, you know navigate around the screen select the the YouTube icon or something like that But the big one here is the the soundbar because now you've you've you're seeing the trend here Roku and Amazon both saying We're gonna sell you a soundbar that has our Television service built in and that to me is the most significant of all these announcements because it's the next generation of these devices Not everybody wants to buy a little box that they attached their TV some people want to built into the TV, but if they don't want it built into the TV kind of a Value proposition is hey, you wanted to improve the sound of your TV any but anyway with a soundbar You're not into 7.1. You just want the soundbar We'll add some cool TV software to make your television smart. Yeah, I really like of all of these announcements I funny enough the one that jumps out to me the most is the anchor device the nebula That's now bar. Yeah. Yeah, that's three things. I need and I've been putting off The need for I should say three things. I really don't care too much about I don't know having another echo control device But or another Amazon services device But this is gonna solve that problem by being integrated with an ecosystem I already use I need a good soundbar and I need it to be smarter than the dumb one I have now So of all these devices. Oh, and I love anchors the other thing I totally trust them. They make great stuff everything from cables to Chargers to other kinds of devices. They are I think one of the most amazing brands there is for those kinds of accessories So I'm very happy to see them doing this and we'll probably pick that thing up Side unseen just because I really like and trust those guys I I wonder why they don't have the far field mic in The nebula soundbar unless it's a cost issue or amazon just didn't want to license them the patent for that part of it Because because they put it in the grundig tv, right? Like why couldn't put it in the nebula soundbar? Right and for 230 bucks. It's not the most expensive soundbar But you know, you're paying for something that has a lot of bells and whistles Yeah, that's the other thing is anchor products tend to be less expensive than you know, bigger branded competing products But they don't skimp on quality and warranty and everything I've ever gotten from them just works as as designed So for whatever reason I'm just having a lot of brand loyalty on that announcement and I and I feel pretty good about it But I also I also just feel good about the idea that this is not me Diving into a single branded product that is completely controlled by one sort of you know closed garden This is amazon voice services. This is anchor hardware This is you know a sound device that's you know, pretty much universal to whatever i'm going to need whether it's bluetooth or whatever It just feels like a nice Middle ground choice where i'm not having to you know, pledge myself for the next 10 years to some new brand What about roku though 179 bucks? It's cheaper still an open platform although they're making the hardware in this case That will bother you um Part of it would be this I need to hear the sound quality side to side because that would be the big differentiator between these two devices So hearing the roku versus the the anchor anchor speakers have been really good from my experience for what they're meant to be Roku would have to You know impress me in that regard, but I don't know why it is I I just hold you love anchor That's what it sounds like. Yeah, it's weird in my head. I see steel and I see plastic You say roku. I see plastic your anchor. I hear steel I don't know why but there's just like that that's not the actual look of the devices That's just your your sort of imaginatory It also sounds to me like the nebula is going to be much better if you're like, okay Well, what if I bought a couple, you know cheap end echo speakers and I can kind of recreate surround sound I know that roku's new sound bar does connect to other devices via bluetooth But that's a little bit more limited depending on what you have I'm always trying to figure out how to create surround sound with like cheap parts in a smaller room Yeah, well, I mean the sound bars do a pretty good job of of surround sound But it's never going to be the same as an actual 5.1 or 7.1 or something Yeah, I mean if you have the bluetooth is just a added feature the bluetooth isn't how it connects most of the time That's just like oh, I mean with your phone Yeah, but I think one of the selling points with the nebula is oh and if you have other echo speakers Then you can do multi audio in a room The u.s federal trade commission announced wednesday that it has fined google over allegations that youtube violated the children's online privacy protection act or copa Google will pay 170 million dollars total in fines 136 million of that goes to the fdc That's the fdc's largest yet copa violation fine 34 million is going to go to settle a complaint with the new york attorney general's office for similar violations Copa requires data collection of users that are age 12 or younger to be done with parents consent Has to have a privacy policy has to disclose what's being collected a few other restrictions and youtube Didn't age gate videos you could go to youtube.com and watch videos all day long with no need to even log in right well YouTube was using data on viewers age 2 to 12 in sales pitches to toy companies At the same time claiming it did not have users younger than 13 Because it didn't allow you to sign up for an account if you said you were younger than 13 And so google claimed it didn't need to comply with copa Catching them doing both those things is what led to the fine and youtube must now also let owners of channels identify child directed content Which will then face different data management policies and youtube of course has agreed to follow all copa guidelines going forward I love that youtube's like well, we we can't have users under 13 because those are our rules However, here's a lot of data on children to do that is definitely You know a company that it has a few hundred people and one of them not knowing what the other is doing I'm sure the person who wrote that email said okay legally defensively we can say we don't target kids We don't sign up kids our videos aren't meant for kids. So we don't have to follow copa But in the data they found like hey, but well it looks like we have some kids Let's let's pitch matel and hasbro with that right sure. Yeah, not only do you have some kids you have Millions of kids I guarantee there are millions of kids under 13 with accounts that say they're over for They made youtube kids because they knew that right? That's why they made it and that and that was a good thing I think I think youtube kids is a really smart move. Although it's still a little weird, but but this is just another step in the maturation process of youtube where they have to sort of grapple with these larger Issues that usually only tv people had to worry about but now they're the tv people and they're having to worry about it in ways that Hopefully doesn't mean more regulation. They can just sort of adhere to the current regulation And everyone will be okay The light company began shipping light phone 2 to crowdfunding backers light phone 2 was designed to be fully functional As a simple phone adding to the limited feature of the first light phone while trying to maintain the promise Of limiting distraction. We're all looking for that. I guess the phone originally was Supposed to be or supposed to ship in april But was delayed to improve the design the light phone tool retail for $350 with a 2.84 inch e-ink touch display Bluetooth tethering and more So my old man reaction to this story is just turn off your notifications people just turn them all off You know and then when you miss one then you could turn that one back on but why do you need a whole separate device? But apparently some people are like, you know what that just doesn't work for me and I get that You know the willpower argument is never a really good argument for somebody who's like Yeah, but that doesn't stop me from eating the chocolate bars or whatever it is, right? So having a device where you're like, I will take this one and I won't be able To be notified because it's limited is good problem with the light phone one was Nobody was using it because it was too limited. So we're trying to strike the balance here. Yeah Well, especially since I think I think a lot of it with the with the original light phone and I had a couple friends Who were like, oh, this is great for a limited time And then they abandoned their phones because it was just too restrictive It's like, okay, all it really does is make phone calls. Well I've gotten really used to making a phone call as a last resort because I have so many other ways to get a hold of people Making a phone call is rude, right? It's just it's just there are just even if I some people are better on the phone than others But it's like we just have so many more options I have been trained to use a variety of ways to get a hold of people depending on the person You know, I'm probably not going to connect with scott over whatsapp But another friend I would because I'm like that's how they hang out. You just get used to it So it's restrictive in a weird way. So I think opening it up a little bit more But still saying hey, we're trying to cut down on what could be Unhealthy usage of stuff that is not enriching your life. It's kind of taking away from it or it's wasting time That's a good thing But yeah, I mean, there's still a lot of self control that needs to be had in any situation like this I'm I'm with you tom. I think if there was really an issue It's like our phones have gotten better and better at bundling in tools that help us at least know our usage Even if our behaviors don't change at least we kind of know like hey I'm spending a lot of time in this app and that's that's almost better than taking away options for me Tom was right about the whole chocolate thing. I mean what they're trying to say as well If we limit all that then there's nothing you can do about it the other way is like buying twinkies and having them in the In the cupboard and knowing they're there but just Stalwartly avoiding them. Yeah, right and and I get that But the phones are so versatile in terms of giving you more choice That if you're really serious about limiting your stuff Just go in there and do that because your phone does it already Yeah, but now you have a more somewhat more viable option I think this is one of the better versions of this if you're looking for something like that It's a little pricey though That's a chunk of change The new york post reports amazon is testing scanners that identify people by their hands to let them pay for purchases in stores Sources told the post the technology is called the orville not the orville just orville Excuse people who watch tv and is being tested at vending machines at amazon offices in new york the machines Use computer vision and depth sensors to identify handshape and size. So this is not fingerprints. This is not vain layout Uh, this is your hand the shape of your hand Probably more similar to something like face id or you know, simple face recognition Yeah, anything else. Yeah. Yeah, I mean we were so we talked about us on tms with tom's morning And the conversation rolled into well, what if your hands you get mutilated or you get older your hands You get arthritis like your hands are going to start looking different So maybe there's recalibration or those those kind of issues that you'd have to deal with any other kind of disfigurement or loss or change depending on what kind of bio Um, you know security you're using but this seemed like as good as any other I'd love to raise my hand at a at a Whole Foods and have it just go bloop. All right. See you mr. Johnson. You're good Yeah, I imagine it being more like a gum jabar The pain box from dune where you stick your hand in a box and it scans it. It's probably not like either one of those But but yeah, it's not it's not palm print It's scanning your your full hand and yeah, I mean your hand might change shape over time But probably less than your face and they've been able to make face id work. So, um, this is interesting And of course they're testing it. That's that's why you test things to see if you can make it work I want I want the first error So I can find the person who has an identical hand to me somewhere in the world who might also be shopping at Whole Foods Right. I mean, it's going to be pretty unlikely. Yeah, but that's going to happen But that would make a good documentary, wouldn't it? Well, Roger had said earlier He was convinced that it was going to be no time before somebody walked in with a rubber hand and got through Roger was going to create the rubber hand It's like it's like a new carpool scam. Yeah, I've got this hand. No, really There will be one case. I guarantee it might not be rubber. It might be wood might be something It might be just, you know, I get it Sir, can you please extend your whole arm out of the coat? Oh, it turns out it's not just a rubber hand It's also three children And an overcoat. They're on top of each other. It's two. All right. If they're if they're middle-aged kids This is not too different than the fact that I'm still almost always carrying my wallet with me Even though I can use my phone to pay for things because I'm like failsafe, right? So, yes, your hand might be the way it goes if for some reason the machine is down or it's being weird It's like you will most likely have a backup form of payment until the stuff gets really really good Facebook announced on tuesday that us the us department of homeland security It would be violating rules if the agents created fake profiles to monitor people seeking to enter the country Facebook requires all users to use real names even if they're secret agents Facebook says it'll shut down accounts of anyone found to violate that policy Including those under cover DHS told the associated press that fake accounts make it easier to review visa and green card and citizenship applications DHS also does not allow agents to interact on Facebook only passively reviewing information Yeah, according to this ap story, they can't friend people. They can't like posts. They can't interact in any way Uh, and let's for the for the sake of discussion here. Let's set aside The controversy over whether DHS should be doing this. There's a whole conversation to be had about should Uh, someone who is applying for a visa have to subject their social media to scrutiny or not, right? We could we could have that conversation in a separate arena But just for this The thing that struck me and we talked about it quite a bit in our our production meeting today Why would you need a fake account? For for DHS to do this if they're not interacting if they're not Friending anybody they're not liking anything all they're doing is viewing and on facebook You I don't think you can even tell who has viewed your profile No, yeah Yeah, it wouldn't need to be a fake account If you're involved in a clandestine operation having your real name anywhere in print is probably something you don't want Sure, but we're not talking about espionage here. We're talking about DHS reviewing visa applications, right? Like it's probably public record who are the people in the visa application review staff anyway Yeah, I I'm kind of I'm with Tom on this in that I'm confused why they think they need them to be fake given all the Factors that we know but the only thing I can think of is It's probably just well If facebook changes their policy and suddenly they do report visits We're not caught unaware. So if we have fake accounts and we're covered either way That's what I bet is going through their heads. I think it has to do with what sarah said Which is secretly they are friending people and liking people and conducting espionage But they can't say that so they need they need to that could be that could be but either way It's it's like they're covered right like With a fake account they can do whatever they need to do and if something changes on the facebook side Which is now happening which is kind of going to mess them up But if something happens well, then they are forced to You know, they'd be forced to reveal themselves. So I don't I don't know what their motivations are It's very weird. Well the whole the whole thing about well We're just monitoring something someone might say that might lead us to believe that they were planning to enter the u.s Okay, some people are going to be doing that in public. Oh, no, no, no, no This is I have applied to enter the u.s And this person reviewing the application is now looking at social media to find out Are they on there saying things that would cause concern? Yeah, no, that's what i'm saying. Yeah. Yeah, but if they're but okay So yes, they might be on there saying things that cause concern They also might be doing that much more privately in which case the agent would want to be Being a little bit more sleuthy in terms of but they're not allowed to friend people They're not allowed to like they're not allowed to interact. So they couldn't be sleuthy That's my point But if they're fake, then maybe they're doing it without that's well That's the only that's the only explanation I could think of is that they're all of these policies aren't maybe facebook Knows this and is like well, let's just say for the record. You can't do this Well, I think facebook can can just easily say like look you can't make a fake account. I don't care who you are That allows them to just get out of the conspiracy theory business Yes, yeah, like they need it. They don't need any help in that arena They could probably get out of some of that. So yes, facebook's like we told the secret agents to just follow our rules Now There are people in the chat room suggesting there might be a regulation against certain employees Registering themselves on social networks. I don't we don't see a citation for that because I so I can't say that for sure But but maybe there is a policy that says, you know, if you're in this position, you're not allowed to have a facebook account I don't know that that seems odd. Maybe your facebook account. It can't be used for official purposes that that could make sense, too I don't know So sure Well, folks, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes Keep up to date quickly subscribe to daily tech headlines dot com We're going to finish up with some of the announcements at etha going on in berlin One of the biggest tech conferences of the year acer Announced the following four new chromebooks with screens from 11.6 inches up to 15 inches all with google assistant starting at 249 dollars Up to the most expensive the convertible spin 311 chromebook at 329 dollars acer also expanded its concept d pro grade laptops Adding a budget 15 inch concept d3 model and then offering even though they're all pro grade They now offer the concept d pro line, which is basically the the previously existing concept d laptops But with nvidia's quadro rtx graphics cards in there Uh, they're available in november with the concept d3 starting at a thousand dollars and the new upgraded pro concept d's From $1,700 acer also announced the $14,000 predator thronos air gaming chair Which you may not realize is a cheap version of the $20,000 Thronos chair announced at last year's etha this new cheaper one Does not have a motorized arm. That's the big savings But it does have a built-in massage button available in q4 in europe In north america. Yeah, that chair is something. Have you guys seen that thing? It's like a throne for the king of gaming or onos. That's why they named it that I guess. Yeah, literally it is really Ale's named it predator. Yeah That's a gaming laptop and probably an increasingly hard to justify choice in these days, but you know Sure. Yeah, I mean they they they are They make great stuff though, and i'm excited mostly about those nvidia the the integrated video and those Laptops is super super good those quadra or not quadra. What do they call the crap? I just had it my head. Oh, it's right there. There you go. The rpx 5000s are very fast For mobile, you know for mobile use So it's nice to see those things inching closer and closer to desktop power Of course, then they turn right around and make desktop the king again, and it won't matter But for now it looks real good Asus showed off prototypes of laptop gaming displays with a 300 hertz refresh rate. Yeah I Promised to ship a 1080p 300 hertz display in the zephyrus s gx 701 in october Asus also announced an upgraded ROG Phone 2 ultimate addition The difference between the ultimate and the regular ROG Phone 2 is it has a terabyte of storage in a matte black finish And also supports faster cat 24g lte the new ROG Phone 2 ultimate will cost you 1199 euros when it arrives in october if you didn't know the ROG Phone 2 Not ultimate With its 120 hertz OLED display ships this month for 899 euros and finally asus announced its pro art line Including the 17 inch studio book pro 10 with asus screenpad 2.0 That's a touchscreen trackpad or it's basically a touchscreen where the trackpad is That can be used as a mini display if you want It also has nvidia quadro rtx 5000 and up to intel zeon or ninth gen core i7 processor inside No price on that but it should be available by the end of the year. They say that one is interesting to me I'm not sure I want it I I'd have to see the touchscreen trackpad in use in a way where i'm like. Oh, yeah, this is really nice as a mini display 17 inches is huge But but if it's light and thin then you know a lot of screen real estate Yeah, I want it. I don't I don't think I think it's safe to say I don't need it. Um, also, I have I have questions about that 300 The the the screen Yeah, hertz is insane. That's insane like 120 hertz you can tell a difference You can absolutely tell a difference someone say 144 hertz is is the maximum. I'm not sure the human eye I'd have to do the science. I don't know enough about it, but I don't think the human eye can tell So that 300 hertz is going to be monster overkill and they're going to sell at all So you can tell your friends that you have a 300 hertz refresh rate. That's what they said about ak Well, that's off anybody making tv's that that's true. But this thing is obviously aimed at Gamers twitch gamers and by twitch gamers. I mean fast paced Shooter gamers people that maybe you want to be pros because limiting that thing to 1080p Is always a sign Well that the gamers not looking for the ultimate in 4k fidelity in the games they play They are looking for the fastest possible display which only helps you when you're playing Yeah, yeah No, I mean even if it's overdoing it even if there isn't any Reason to have a 300 hertz display, which hey if you know of a reason that you can justify feedback at daily technician.com We'd love to hear it You it's going to be the the one where you're like well There's not going to be a problem with the refresh rate if I've got 300 hertz, right? So that's true That's uh, that's a good one. We've got some got some good stuff They're coming from aces and that's green bed by the way is a new we saw that at ces So it'll be interesting to see if it really gets any kind of uptake And what kind of use is that gets put to? Hey, thanks to everybody who participates in our sub reddit You can submit stories You can also vote on stories that other people submitted at daily tech news show reddit.com We love your contributions. We also love our facebook group facebook.com Slash groups slash daily tech news show. I'd say check out the mailbag, but it's not an email It's comments on patreon. It's feedback. So I guess it's the feedback It's the feedback. Yum. Yum. Yum. Yeah, so uh, this is actually great timing because my live with it The second live with it three month period with smart light bulbs is coming to a close I've taken lots of notes. In fact, we're going to go through a lot of those notes on the show And uh, that'll all be available to you. We're going to do that after the show tomorrow However, live with it goes on the third era is going to be What smart watch should sarah live with and we decided, okay Well, what's the category because it's worked up pretty well that I we choose a category where I'm like I don't really have any of that. I don't have an opinion yet What I don't have smart watch So we narrowed it down to four the apple watch series four and yes We know that there may be something that's announced next week. If so, we will take that into consideration Yeah, it might become a series five. We'll see exactly fit bit versus two. That's new. Um, you know Seems like a that's a that's an easy one the samsung galaxy watch active two and the fossil gen five And so far voting's open to anybody so patrons and anybody who would like to Contribute, please do vote the more the merrier and yeah, we have we have a lot of good responses so far in the comment section People saying vivid versus two seems like the logical choice. Um, this is probably the smartphone that's going to work As well with ios as android and vice versa, you know, obviously the apple watch is an obvious choice for an iphone user such as myself But it's not the only choice That was from tyler tyler said that um, michael also said I I'd rather see your view on Uh, the yet to be announced apple watch five again, michael, we will we will cross that bridge if we come to it scott said I voted for the fossil gen five wondering how well a traditional android Based smartwatch would work with an iphone And the comments keep coming in so it's it's good to know what what what you all uh What you all think and how you will influence our buying decision making genuinely excited for the possibility of the voting Getting the versa in your hands because I'm I am really and I've been and I or excuse me an apple watch user for a couple years I love this thing. It's been great, but I think it's priced out of a lot of people's pockets and I think that they Given, you know, how quickly apple updates them. You always feel sort of this weird pressure to get the latest one I would very much like to see fit that have some really cool competition in this base going oled Making that uh software even better. I still get my notifications and all the things I really use this for So my vote not that it counts, but I would vote I'd vote for the fit that that's what I do Well, as of this recording the versa and the apple watch are neck and neck, uh for for uh as as in the lead So, yeah, we'll see we'll see how this all shakes out in the next Well, a couple weeks and when I say a couple weeks some of this stuff There's some pre-orders to keep in mind and yes There are some announcements that are coming next week and the following week that we want to take into consideration Just in case the landscape changes more drastically than uh, then we expect so yeah got a couple weeks to vote Thank you in advance.  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Hi, welcome to Seymour's World on Think Tech Hawaii. Last week's show with Dana and the week before with Randy had rave reviews. And I just want to give you an update with Randy. We are going to do the NBA basketball camp in August. So for those of you who have asked me about this basketball camp, it's going to happen. I don't have a definitive date yet. I will announce it probably by the next show. But Randy is working very hard with the NBA players. And we will tell you who's coming, when they're coming, and what school we will be at. So let's talk about today. If you want to meet somebody who is the most charming individual, somebody who has more energy than I have, and believe me, a lot more energy than I have, this young lady is amazing. Her name is Cynthia Yamasaki. And I told her, you know what? Let's open up our own firm called Yamasaki and Kazimersky. I thought that would be sort of cute, you know, to have us doing that together. But it's amazing. I met Cynthia about a month ago. We were at a conference, actually, in finance. And she sat next to me. And this bubbly young woman told me about her business. And her business is called E-Path. That's a double E-Path. And she called herself Chief Energizing Officer. You ask yourself, what? It's not Chief Executive Officer. It's Chief Energizing Officer. So without further ado, I want to introduce you to this young woman who makes me smile. And I just feel you will understand how forward-thinking she is in her business after you listen to what she has to say. Welcome. Thank you, Seymour. It is so nice. It's that smile, that smile I saw when we were at that meeting. And it's just, it's something that's obviously your aura about you as one of happiness. It is very much joy and living life to the fullest. You got it. And tell us about E-Path. What is E-Path? So E-Path, it stands for Empowered and Energized Path to Lead in the Well. And it's something that I've created through experiences throughout the year. And I've learned from many good people, starting with my parents and values and hard work and just different mentors. And now it's time to give back. So that's what I love doing. So are you doing it as a profit-making venture or a non-profit? So people pay to come to talk to you and to your seminars, right? And what do they get? So they get empowered and energized. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Okay, I get it. Well, this is what I really believe in. I believe that everyone has the potential to be their greatest self. And sometimes over the years, we just get lost in that. We get so busy. And so if we can take a moment to take a pause and reflect and get back to our roots, our values, and what we really, who we are, each individual, unique being, that we can bring forth that inner peace and joy and share it with others. That's a wow factor for me because I preach that also, you know, when I work with my clients and when I mentor young business people and it's something that I really believe is important, that it's not simply how much money you make because happiness can't be measured by the amount of money you make. So for me, what you're doing is exactly what a lot of people forget about because they're chasing money. Chasing money. Chasing happiness. Fame. Right. Or something outside to define themselves and what is happiness. How did you start this? Well, you know, it's a journey. Life is a journey. And it's ups and downs. And truthfully, there was a time in my life that I was chasing after those titles and fame because we've been conditioned to do that. And there was just a point in my life that I said, you know, there's got to be something more. So it's been a quest for over 20 years of exploring and learning from the greatest teachers and getting degrees and certifications and traveling the world. But Cynthia. I've just been blessed. 20 years.  You're so kind. How do you do that?  Right? Yeah. Humidity. Whatever works. Right? Whatever works. So what is it? Is your background here in Hawaii? So I actually, yes, I pretty much grew up here in Hawaii. My parents, I'm like fourth generation. My parents are third generation. They lived in LA and I was born and then they realized in their life that they want to come home to raise their family. So I was very fortunate at the age five to move back here and pretty much went to public school, the University of Hawaii and really, I think what I was very blessed with is our parents, my parents who are forward thinking as well. They were entrepreneurs. They had their own business. They worked really hard to give my brother and I a solid life. And it was simple things. So just growing up and I started dancing at the age of three and I just love dancing. And so my mother just always encouraged us to do what we love to do. And I was able to travel the world based on the dancing, sharing the spirit of aloha as a dancer. Wow. So you were a dancer, a classical dancer? A hula dancer. A hula dancer. Yeah. With the hula troops promoting the wine? Yeah. So it started off, I think I was around age 10 dancing in Waikiki with hula halau or hula studio. They used to call it in those days. If I would have known that, if I would have known that, I would have had you dance here. Why not? Maybe next time. Now you also do retreats. I'm very interested in that. Tell me about the business of retreats here. So the business of retreats is first getting in touch and just kind of reflecting and rejuvenating. And then thinking about the big picture, envisioning what we would like. So as a leader, as a group of leaders of an organization, going through the usual, you know, strategic planning, but really keeping everyone focused from all, so like leadership retreats might be with board of directors or the executive leaders of an organization. Are these all Hawaii based? Can be Hawaii based or wherever they want to be. Wow. Where do you do them? There are two places now that I've kind of gotten into a partnership with that we can help facilitate, but it's really, oh yes, so there's still a moving center, so whole Halei retreats. And there's also this unique place out in Mountain View on the Big Island that we can really kind of check out and unplug. Wow. So it's about getting to a place, and I've done it on Moloka'i with the teachers, finding the safe space where people can just breathe and unwind. And you do yoga and all that. Well, what I do is I design it according to the organization's needs. But yes, a typical day could be starting off with yoga, getting to know each other, and then expressing in a safe zone really what they're thinking. So many times, especially in Hawaii, we tend to try to, you know, with that kind of Pacific Asian influence. So we're very cordial with each other. People will not really say what they mean initially until you can build an establishment of trust. So we'll do things in the beginning to build that trust. And then take a look at what does it mean to be a really good leader. And then do some, you know, mind mapping and brainstorming. So you don't just do it for corporations. What about individuals? For individuals, yes. Good. So if a group of women, is it only women or you do it for everybody? It can be mixed. But sometimes in some of my earlier retreats, we're just focused on women. You know, I think that's so important. Now, I just feel that women have become such an important part of our business world, but yet they're not recognized enough. And they need to be able to stand up on their own and not feel that there's a glass ceiling there. They have to be willing to talk about the opportunities that are out there and be equal to the other individual, the male obviously, that is basically in competition with them for the job. And I've seen so many of the young people that I mentor where the women actually feel that because they're women, they are not up to the task of what the job is. And I totally disagree with that. And I have many, many friends in business who I know and who I work with and talk with all the time. And I see them blossoming once they get what you are doing. Once they achieve that confidence in themselves, the self-esteem goes up, everything that you do is so important. And I'm encouraging you to help more and more women. I think it's absolutely an important part. I would love to because we have to help each other and we also have to give different perspectives. Like what you said, what think tech means is lifelong learning. And it starts from your inside, your inner confidence, your competence, and then connections helping each other. How do you market your product? Just pretty much by meeting people, getting to know them, really listening, spreading joy. It's like every day I meditate. I get up in the morning and I set my intention and I meditate. And my intention is always if I could just make a difference in one person's life and it doesn't have to be a big thing. It could just be can they smile? Can they feel happy? And then can they think from another perspective? You know, everything you're doing is absolutely correct. First of all, I also meditate. Now, I do it in the hot tub. Three days a week, I get in the hot tub at 6.30 in the morning. I start at 4 a.m. I work till 6.30 and then I get in the hot tub and I think about everything that I have to do and try to feel the joy that I get from the stuff that I do. Because most of my work is not work to make money. It's mostly my foundations and the other things that I do. And I just feel that that's an important part of giving back. I call it self-actualization. I don't know if you've ever heard the term. Yes, absolutely. But it's the term that I use where giving back is more important than receiving. And that's exactly what you're talking about. Yes. And I think that's... See, I knew we would get together. Now, are we going to open up the company? Yes, we are. Yamasaki and Kazemursky. Yes, absolutely. We have to take a short break. And then we're going to be back with Cynthia. And we're going to talk about more of the detail of how you as an individual and perhaps you're a board member, how you can get to the place where Cynthia is talking about. We'll be back in a minute. 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Hi, welcome back to Seymour's World on Think Tech Hawaii.  And that is, of course, Cynthia Yamasaki. And the company we're opening is Yamasaki and Kazemursky. Just kidding. But I just love the name. I don't know why. It just flows beautifully. It has a ring to it, right? Yeah. And of course you do very similar stuff to what I do. Yes. But you do it in a much more professional way than I do. Oh, no. We all have gifts. It is absolutely phenomenal. I want to continue a little bit where we left off. Sure. So go ahead. Tell us more about what you are doing. So you know how you have your way of self-actualization. Mm-hmm. Everyone has their own way. But one thing that I kind of do with my coaching clients and organizations is what I've learned through Glen Furuya. In fact, I have to give them credit for this. B. B. Do. Have. And give. So you know, C is having that vision. Mm-hmm. And B is having your values and living them and being an example of it. Mm-hmm. And doing it. You have to take action. Mm-hmm. And then receiving graciously. Mm-hmm. And sharing back, giving back. And whenever I meditate, I always think about the core values. So the core values of individual, what it means to you, core values of the organization. Because that's the benchmark. That's when times get tough. You just take a step back, take a breath, and go, OK, how do I react? You can choose. But if you remember to reflect back on your core values, you'll make the right choice. Wow. I feel about this high right now. That is fabulous. I mean, in just a few words, you're able to describe what we should all be doing with our lives. And it makes life so much better than worrying about chasing the dollar all the time. Yeah. There's much more to life than that. Now, I want to talk about some of the other things that you do for businesses and for individuals. Yes. So you're talking about your HR business consulting. How does that affect what you're doing when it comes to helping people understand what their value is? So I guess I would say if it were like a, if we were to have an avatar client, it would be a top leader who has influence and decision-making authority in an organization. That's my ideal customer who says, you know what? There's something amiss here. And all the logic side of it and the data and the numbers might be telling something, but there's something else. So we will talk through it and see how is that person effective as a leader? And some of them are really great. And really, a lot of them want to get it to the next level. And if they find that it's something in their organization that they want to raise everyone around them, for example, perhaps in five years they want to retire. And they want to pass on that knowledge. And how do you do that to pick your next successor or your team? Get them ready for it. So that's when the HR consulting comes into play because it's the human side of the business and it's a process. So looking at all the components. So I have over 15 years of human resource leadership experience. Is that on top of the 20 years? There's no way. So it's all integrated, interrelated. And we're all people.  You're the same person. So it's just making sure that you're congruent with that. So is your client base just here? I feel like you should expand this program. Is it just in Hawaii? I have contact throughout the world. And I have worked with people abroad and through the internet, which is a blessing. But have you actually done some of your work on the internet with people or is it always face-to-face? So Skype and Zoom, all that kind of stuff. And I also teach. I'm an adjunct faculty with Argosy University. And I just did a class on human resources to a group of wonderful people in American Samoa. So it's wonderful. How can you smile so much every day? Because I'm just happy. Are you basically a happy person? Basically. And sometimes, well, truthfully, sometimes I just need to check out. People go, well, let's go dancing. I go, I just need to recharge my batteries. And I just enjoy. And I feel guilty about it. Be at home, be a little crab, recharge, and then get back out there. Well, let's look at some of the photos that you sent us. All right? Here, go ahead. Tell us what this is. The balance in harmony. So one of the things that I really want to emphasize and is for everyone to feel like you're your best self, from the inside out and for the greater good, not for the money, not for all those accolades and fame, and balance and harmony in your personal life, your professional life, and in the spirit of how we work together as a community. Cynthia, can I steal that? Oh, yeah. Can I use that as part of what I do? You can beg power and just, you know, spread it. Because it's like a good cookie recipe, right? We need to share. Of course, of course. Oh, this one. Go ahead. Go ahead. Tell us. Well, this essence of success, Cynthia sent this to me, and I honestly believe that everything that's in here, in its condensed form, is actually what all of us should be looking towards. And even my corporate clients, I have sent this to, to all of them. And I said, why don't you look at this? And at the next board meeting, let's talk about this.  Oh, yes. And if it's all right with you, may I use this on my commentary? Oh, yes, absolutely. Because it is so true. As you're reading it, I'm not going to read it out loud to you. You folks in our audience can look at it. And it's really the empowerment and the energizing how to lead and live well. It's beautiful. Thank you. The next one? And that one, you know, if anyone wants to download it, they can go to my website and my blog, and it's a photo. And yes. We're going to put that up online for you, too. All right. Great. Let's see the next photo. Oh. I feel so honored. This is just a nomination for the Board of Better Business Bureau Torture Awards for Ethics. Wow. So, you know, I really believe in the Better Business Bureau in terms of it has a standard of values that we as business in Hawaii can rely on. And so I feel so lucky that I was able to be recognized last year. Cynthia, I have to say one of the biggest issues that I have in our business world today is the effect of the media on everything that we're doing and the negativity that the media has brought into play. And that's something that both of us, because we're in similar businesses, both of us have to make sure that people realize that the positive attitude is the way to go, not looking at all the negativity that's out there, not reading all the newspapers, watching all the television. As a matter of fact, the more you turn that off and focus on yourself and your self-determination, you'll do a much better job in your business or whatever you have to do. Yeah, it's positivity, but may I just add a little, maybe another perspective? Of course. That's why we're going to be on the stocking of Kezmer. Sometimes when there's something negative, it's not so much that you want to, like, put rose-colored glasses and ignore it, but perhaps look at it as, what can I learn from this? Or if it's something that it irks you or you feel, you know, what can we do to solve it instead of just putting our heads in the sand and ignoring it? So, I mean, that's just another perspective. 100% right. But a positive attitude is so much the mindset. It's very important. Yeah, I mean, there's two things that I like about a lot of the clients that I work with, and some of them have very large businesses. They smile a lot. Yes. They realize that, you know, the ups and downs of business, the learning experiences, failure is a learning experience. Yes. It is not something bad unless you keep doing it over and over again. But it really is a learning experience, and I try to teach that a lot, but it's okay to fail. As a matter of fact, my favorite thing is, you know, Dyson the vacuum cleaner? Oh, yes. He had 117 prototypes. Wow. 117 prototypes before he actually made his first marketable vacuum cleaner. Wow. So, imagine how many times he failed and had to start over and over again. But look at where he is now. Yes. So, for all of us out there, for all of us who are worried about, are we making the right decision to do this or not, go for it. Absolutely. Try it, because you never know. You just never know. We have one more photograph, I think. Oh, okay. Oh. This is the Patsy Mink Center for Business and Leadership. So, we opened it up in 2013. So, after I got, so I had this plan, I had my own life plan. And after getting out of working for corporate, I went and assisted in being the director to open up the Patsy Mink Center for Business and Leadership, which is a women's business center with the SBA. And basically, we set it up, did the room, my sons, my friends. We're doing flooring and painting, building the foundation, because that's always important, right? Your workflow, your measurements, and the programs and initiatives, and finding out what is needed out there. So, yes, there is a soft spot for how do we empower more women. I just love that you do that. And that's a great center, and they're continuing on. And we opened up in 2013, and they're five years now. That is amazing. I'm not involved anymore. Really? But are you involved in other philanthropic efforts? Yes. So, Chinese Chamber of Commerce. I was just elected to the executive committee. You said Chinese? I'm Chinese, actually. Wait a second. Yamasaki, am I crazy here? You know, I have two sons. And so, you know, I respect their father, and I respect their family name, and my sons wanted to be attached to me. Now I don't know if I want to call it Yamasaki in terms of mercy. I'll be Qing. Qing is a lovely guy. Make my Qing family proud. My father is the line of heritage. So, what was I saying? Oh, you're talking about some of your philanthropic efforts. Oh, yes. So, Chinese Chamber of Commerce, and we have in the Chinatown Training and Visioning Center. So, I kind of help to organize and we have free workshops every month for the community, for the members. Wonderful. And it's all different. That and add up Hawaii. So, I volunteer for the organizations for things that I believe in and love the people who are, you know, involved with it. That's terrific. And it's all about giving back. It's all about giving back. Yes. I mean, too, a lot of you out there, you probably wonder when we say, give me, I don't have time to give back or all that stuff. You do. You just don't realize it. It's the smallest things that really begin.  In my programs, the Make Him Smile program, we see the kids and the parents and everything that goes on in the hospitals just give back a little bit. And once you start to give back a little bit, amazing. Amazing. Really amazing. Yes. So, Cynthia, unfortunately, we're at the end. And we didn't even, I have like about 10 more questions for you that we didn't get through. But what a pleasure to have you here.  I really believe that. I believe that if people want to learn how to lead a better life, they should call you. Please. They really should call you and they could find you at EE Path, right? Yes. Why is it EE Path? Well, energize and empower. Well, of course, EE, right? And the logo, my logo, the two E's, my son designed it, but the colors green is for growing and blue is for trust and the hands and the pathway. It just has all those back story meanings. But really, yes, I would enjoy meeting people just having a conversation. Well, I have to tell you, our audience is going to watch this show and you are going to get a lot of calls because it's just a pleasure to see somebody so positive, so smiling, so happy. I don't know how many more so's I have, but you are so kind and positive as well. It's my pleasure. It's awesome. Thank you so much. Thank you very much for coming to our show. Thank you for having me on your show. Aloha and to all of you out there, we will see you in a couple of weeks. I'm on my way back to Canada again and let's see the end of this month, I will be back. So we will see you at the end of April. Aloha from Seymour's World. What was that? For the commentary or can she just...


government. So, so let's talk about government. Let's talk about government. What is government? What is government? What is this central characteristic of government? Well, the central characteristic of government as our founders understood really well, the central characteristic of government is force. The central characteristic of government is a gun. The central characteristic of government is compulsion. You don't do what they say, they put you in jail. It's really simple. That's what government is. And so the question, of course, is, well, if government is for us, why do we need it? What do we need government for? Shouldn't we just be left alone? Should we just all be carrying a weapon by our side to defend ourselves? And the answer is no. A civilized society needs a monopoly over the use of force, but only that force should only be used to protect us, to protect us in self-defense. So the job of government is to defend our rights. It's to defend our freedom. That's its job. And for that, government only needs a military, a police, and a judiciary. There's no issue of balance here. The government needs to be 100% dedicated, fully, fully, to defending my freedom, not violating my freedom, not interfering with my freedom, defending my freedom, not telling me how to live, where to live, how much to earn, how much to pay my employees, what kind of business I can and cannot open. No, the role of government is to protect my ability to do all those things. That's what government is for, protection, self-defense. That's it. Other than that, it's supposed to leave us alone. And if you add up the numbers, if you go to government spending and you add up the numbers, right, how much of government spending actually goes to that, right, really to protect us from criminals and crooks and fosters and all of those kind of things, then maybe, maybe, if I'm being generous, it's 20%, 20% of government spending goes to that. Maybe, right? But that's still less than healthcare. And you know, it's probably less than that. And of course, you could argue that our defense spending is not very efficient and not very productive. But let's even say it's 20%. It means you can cut state, federal, local, all of those government budgets by 80%. 80%. And all you'd be cutting is stuff that the government shouldn't be doing anyway, shouldn't be doing anyway. And you should take that money and return it to the private sector where it belongs, where it can be applied effectively and efficiently to make money. And how do you make money? By producing values, right? And what is producing values going to do to our standard of living? It's going to increase it. We could have economic growth of five, six, seven percent. I believe that. But to do that, we would have to shrink government spending by 80%. Now that won't happen in a day. It won't happen in a decade, maybe. But you know what? It would be nice to get started on the road. It would be nice if we took total government spending, local, state and federal and said, you know what? We're going to cut 5% every year. We're just going to cut 5% every year until we get down to where the government is only doing what it's supposed to be doing. And that is protecting individual rights. Ha, that would be amazing. That would be truly, truly amazing if we could do that. But no, now the one political party that claims, that claims that they are for free markets, that they are for limited government, that they believe in the Constitution, that they admire the founding fathers. That one political party called the Republican Party is too busy spending your hard-owned money, my hard-owned money on the pressure group that influences them the most and tries to, makes me so angry. So this is the point. The point is, we've got to refocus the debate to spending and away from taxes. Republicans obsessed with taxes. They believe that reducing taxes solves all problems. It does not. What solves problems is getting government out of the way. What solves problems is actually cutting government spending. I'll tell you about two countries that did this. Two countries it's hard to believe actually did this. It's actually pretty amazing, right? Canada in the mid 90s was in real financial trouble, was like Greece today, by the way, same thing true of Sweden, both Sweden and Canada since the mid 1990s have been cutting government spending. Just to give you an indication that it is possible. America, the United States, had never cut spending. Sweden, the so-called socialist Sweden, is far more, you know, real when it comes to these things than we are in America. We think we're capitalists. That's a joke. Given how much our government spends, how much our government regulates, how involved our government is in everything that we do in every aspect of our lives. All right. So, you know, I would cut, should the government, so let's take this idea that government is there to protect our individual rights. And let's take all the different government programs. So government spends about $1 trillion, $1.2 trillion on welfare. Is welfare, the redistribution of wealth, is that necessary to protection of freedom? No. No, quite the contrary. The only way to do welfare is to violate some people's freedom by taking their money away from them by force. You know, if you need help, then ask for help. You don't have a right to take my stuff. You don't have a right to steal my money just because you need help. Welfare is not about protecting freedom. Welfare is about redistribution of wealth. It's about stealing from someone, giving to others. Welfare is socialism. On a maybe smaller scale, but it's socialism. It's the state deciding which charities we should engage in. It's the state using its guns to take money from some to give to others. It's the state deciding who's worthy to get the money and who isn't worthy to get the money. It's the state creating hundreds, hundreds of inefficient, inefficient programs so-called to help the poor and the old. All these programs do is institutionalize people into poverty, eliminate the incentives to actually improve your lot in life, establish a victimhood and entitlement mentality. That's what welfare does. Welfare has nothing to do with the protection of rights. There should be no government welfare, zero in my world. Regulation. Regulation is not about protecting my rights. Now, if a regulation is there because there's a known risk and we know what happens when you engage in particular activity, I don't know, you build a certain plant and these plants explode once in a while, then yeah, the government can come in and say, no, you can't build those plants anymore in the name of protecting rights because the plant is a threat to people. But that's not what regulations today do, telling us what we can and cannot do, all the licensing laws that tell us what businesses we can have and what we can't have and what we profession we can go into and how much you pay and how much are you going to get paid. All of that government today is involved in. You want to drain the swamp? I'm all for draining the swamp. To drain the swamp, you have to cut government spending and slowly phase out welfare, slowly eliminate regulations. That's what draining the swamp would entail. Unfortunately, that's not what Donald Trump is about. It's not what Donald Trump is going to do. All right, we're coming up to a hard break here, which I have to take.


While it may come as a surprise to some, Paris Hilton is a girl who absolutely loves her cars. She owns a handful, with some of her faves being supercars like the Lexus LFA, as well as luxury vehicles like the Bentley. Her pink continental GT may be the nicest one I've seen. She's also been seen driving plenty of other whips like a Range Rover, McLaren, and much more. Paris is glamorous in every sense of the word, and once you see her garage, you'll see that it's just the same. Recently, Miss Paris Hilton has been trending again thanks to her YouTube documentary being released. And even there, we can see her driving in style in her Range Rover. Anyways, Paris is a woman of many hats and hobbies, whether she's being an influencer, running her successful businesses, starring in reality TV, or even DJing. Aside from all that, there also lies a girl who cares about what she's driving and only wants the best of the best when it comes to her wheels. In usual Paris fashion, she doesn't like her cars looking like everyone else on the road, so some of them are bright pink in color, a rainbow, and she even recently wrapped one of her BMWs to be holographic. So excited, my dream car has finally arrived. This is like, beat all my expectations. I had no idea it would look this lit, but you can't be all that surprised with her car collection. At the time of this recording, Paris has an estimated net worth of over $300 million, so she can afford to splurge on custom cars whenever she wants. Hey guys and girls, it's Kara here for you with a brand new car tour, and today we're taking a look at the glamorous collection of one of my favorite celebs, Paris Hilton. She probably has 10 or more top of the line vehicles, some of which are so customized that if you ever see the car out on the road, you would just know as Miss Hilton. I mean she was probably the first and one of the only ones to rock a pink Bentley. So whether or not you consider yourself a car enthusiast, sit back and enjoy this in-depth look at one of the fanciest looking garages in LA. We may never get to sit in one of Paris' beautiful cars, but at the very least we can admire from afar. We've done similar videos on this channel on Gucci main and Rick Ross' car collections and we'll link to some at the end. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and follow me over on Instagram. Now let's get into this video. Let's start with a car that Paris recently put up for sale, her Lexus LFA. This is one of the most unconventional supercars ever built, branded with an L and molded with the styling of a souped up silica, but that didn't stop the thing from boasting an outrageous price tag. Earlier this year, one of Paris' old Lexus LFA's was up for sale at a small luxury car dealer in Ohio. Although this one is from 2012, it'll still cost you about 350 to 450k. The LFA goes from 0 to 60 mph in 3.5 seconds, does a quarter mile in 11.8 seconds, and has a top speed of 202 miles per hour. And just to rub it in, I might as well mention that this was Paris' second LFA. Her first was painted in a gorgeous shade of pearl yellow, and gifted to her in 2011 by her then boyfriend as a birthday present. She later traded it in for this white one, holding onto that for another few years. Paris owns a few McLarens by the looks of it, one of which is her McLaren 650S. This baby is powered by a twin turbo-charging intercooled V8 engine that cranks out 641 horsepower and 500 pound-feet of torque. I like some of her flashier cars, Paris' 650S is a basic black color, but the car itself is far from basic. This McLaren model can go from 0 to 60 in just 2.8 seconds, and even one of these cars that's a few years old would set you back about 300k. The famous heiress also owns one of these classy roadsters, a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren. Mercedes has a deep-rooted technical partnership with McLaren Technologies, which races in Formula 1 with Mercedes-Benz engines, and from that relationship, the Mercedes-Benz McLaren SLR coupe was born. Paris' version of this whip appears to be a dark grey color, and looks as sleek as you might expect. The Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren can go from a rest to 60mph in 3.7 seconds, and manages 10 miles per gallon in the city and 20 miles per gallon on the highway. Again, these cars are far from cheap, they usually cost around 400 to 500k. Perhaps my favorite out of Paris' McLarens may just be this one, her McLaren 12C Spider. This posh white car is super sleek, going from 0 to 60 in just 3 seconds with a top speed of 204 miles per hour. The 12C Spider that Paris has is a convertible version by the looks of it, and apparently she bought hers back in 2014. If you're interested in buying one of these, the 2019 model starts at 315k, and extra options can push that price well over 400k. My guess is Paris got some customization and spent in the higher price range. Another gorgeous car Ms. Hilton has often been photographed in is her Ferrari California. Hers is a traditional cherry red color, which most Ferrari buyers seem to opt for when getting their hands on one, and this V8 engine cranks out 552 horsepower and 557 pound-feet of torque. Paris has owned her Ferrari for a few years now, and from the amount of time she's been seen driving in it, it's definitely one of her classic favorites. The California is a grand touring convertible sports car with two doors, and can reach a speed of 0 to 60 in just 3.3 seconds. For a newer Ferrari California from 2018 and onwards, they'll set you back up to $324,000, and of course, you can customize them even further. Like I mentioned, Paris also loves luxury cars. She's been spotted driving a Rolls-Royce Ghost, which I feel is a necessity in most any celebrity's garage. These babies are the definition of lavish, and can go from 0 to 60 mph in 4.8 seconds, with a top speed of 151 mph. So despite being a full-size car, they aren't lacking in the speed department. Another thing many love about these Rolls-Royces is how fancy they are on the inside. With so much space and comfort, riding in one of them looks like it will be a dream. The Rolls-Royce is a classic black in color, and although it may not be the most recent model, I do know that the 2020 Ghost can cost over $500,000. Now let's take a look at two cars Paris has that are custom designed, and definitely unique to say the least. The first BMW you will talk about in Paris's collection is her BMW i8 Roadster. While these may be somewhat common cars, once Paris was done wrapping hers, it was far from any i8 you would ever see driving out on the road. The BMW i8 is a plug-in hybrid sports car, and by 2020 this became the world's top selling plug-in electric sports car, with global sales reaching more than 20,000 units. Since it's a hybrid, it's more about looking fast and going fast, but it's still fast. And these cars can cost around 150K on average. Anyways, Paris posted a video about this car in December 2019 on her YouTube channel, where she unveiled its extreme makeover. She called her BMW i8 lit, but said it needed to be parasized, explaining, That means we need to change this color and make it one of a kind, unique limited edition and PH style. And that she did. If I were a car, this would be me. So excited to drive my car for the first time. Let's do this. After she customized her i8, it was girly and holographic, and suited the heiress perfectly. She has since been spotted out and about coordinating her outfits to match the whip in typical Paris fashion. Not to mention Paris has another BMW in her collection, and while it may be less fancy than the i8, it too has a crazy rap job. In honor of Pride Month, this BMW got decked up in a gorgeous rainbow pattern, and once again, matched Paris' outfit. Finally, what would a look at Paris Hilton's car collection be without seeing her beautiful pink Bentley Continental GT? This has got to be the most famous car in her collection, and she's had it for some years now. I swear whoever else has a pink Bentley must have got the idea from Paris. She was an innovator. She's a long, loveless luxury car, and it can go from 0 to 60 miles per hour in 3.3 seconds, and can do a quarter mile in 11.7 seconds. The Continental GT will make you feel like a celebrity on every outing for a price. Like pretty much all of the cars on this list so far, it too comes with a six-figure price range costing over 200k. This Bentley model shines on the road where it can flex its ample power and show off its perfect balance of comfort and sport, not to mention any car from Bentley Bossa Luxurious Cabin. Not only do these cars have leather and fine wood veneers inside, nearly everything is customizable if you have the money. But of course, my favourite part of Paris' Bentley is the fact that it's pink. Are you surprised? Paris also has another super expensive Bentley in her collection, her Bentley Continental GT Cabriolet, which usually costs around 250k, and hers is a blue-coloured drop-top. But it's not nearly as famous as the pink one. Alright guys, I think that pink Bentley was the grand finale of this car tour.  Out of all the cars in Paris Hilton's collection that we looked at, which was your favourite? You already know the answer to mine, and it's the pink Bentley Continental. But I want to hear from you guys, so sound off in the comments. Also let me know which other celebrity car collections you'd like me to feature next. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and follow me on Instagram, and I'll see you all in the next one. Bye!


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