Good morning cyber traders. Happy Friday everybody. I am psyched you guys see this NLG.   All right in the trading room You just look good for you Chuck anybody else got it good to see you Chuck Good good good John. You got a little piece of it. Brian is still in it. You know, it's so cool. It's like It's just it remember what I was told you being a student at Cybertrain University It's all about being at the right place the right time You know what let me show you what's going on here because we know we're broadcasting live on on YouTube and Facebook and everyone else And you've probably never seen this It's all about following those orders look at these orders down here at the bottom I mean there's a lot of orders out here and they started bidding it up and then program trading kicked in right at 9 a.m We know program trading kicks at 8 8 30 and 9 and Sure enough, you know stock just popped. I mean you literally made a buck on that trade. Let's think about the a let's add that up thousand chairs dollar thousand dollars Quarter million dollar salary. That's why we do this job Remember cyber traders always remember it could it go higher damnedest thing go to 12 Who cares if you made your days pay just enjoy it because you know what whatever goes up can come down twice as fast But anyway, we'll see how that thing opens up, you know what that was a huge pop right there From 540 590 so just whatever we're gonna we're gonna come back to it and check it out But let's talk about like we always talk about what moved yesterday And then we'll go on because there were quite a few stocks that did move and I want to talk a little bit about them So we bring up my chart to a two-day chart So for some of you that missed out yesterday, we had a nice little dead cat bounce this stock SPR Y got crushed. It was at eight dollars. You could see it here Stock Lily came down got hammered and then obviously it came right back up right there So you could see it here from yesterday. It was a really nice move It started making a move around 10 15 What's it broke this resistance levels right around 290 the stock started going up and you know what it went up really nice and slow now I was talking to some New students yesterday that are gonna be joining cyber trading and you know here We all talk to all our new traders and everything else and you know One of the big things he always mentioned and I know some people here online feel the same thing You know when it when it comes to Trading you know some people want to be here all day and I and you don't want to be here all day And I always kind of preach this as a Jimmy Buffett You know what you could have made your days pay just like you know what happened with the MLG Oh, and you know what if the thing goes up big deal Someone else comes in as long as we're a team working together that all that matters and you could see here 11 o'clock was already at 309 at 12 o'clock It was already at 340 and if you got like something like this if you were here at 1 o'clock depending on where you are You got that big spike right there. You're the right place the right time 340 all the way up to about 380 Really really nice move and where I liked about it. It was such a nice comfortable You know tradeable stock. Anyway, that was pretty cool. That will move pretty nice UP UP TD Everyone knows this stock we trade at the end of September this stock learned from like $8 and 33 It was pretty volatile had this big pop early this morning So I was a little concerned about that. I'll be careful of that one I know somebody to trade it another big mover was a lot of we saw the market taking a big hit yesterday UBX why had a big rally all the ETFs move pretty well you QQQ What else? I mean they were all basically taking over the big percentage gainers list because the market was down And you know what everyone almost always wants trade, you know, they want to trade ETFs But they don't always move but you know what yesterday with the move and that's all that matters So I know a lot of you to trade it. It's kind of hard. Oh my god.  Never mind. I'm just looking back on that the LG the MLGO I saw a big spike. I had it set up for all. I was like, oh my god, this thing just take off again All right. So a couple of the stocks also we had a that decent moves this ATRA moved up pretty decently cart We all know about cart. This is Instacart I mean, they're really really really doing anything to everything they can to hold it at 30 So 30 is a major support levels. That's the IPO price on that one and Swim moved up pretty this one was pretty cool We traded this yesterday. It had a nice little move at 9 30 this morning. And you know what this is a classic 15-minute run up and a 15-minute close right here going into close around 3 30 This was just a great closing stock right here. Look at that ran from 370 all the way up This thing was just a rocket all the way to three set of 450. That's Basically why we trade going the first 15 minutes and the last 15 minutes but I know a lot of you here were trading it yesterday with us and That was really nice. I kind of like that stock a little bit The only issue it was an IPO and that was the only thing that concerned me when it came up to that Butterfly was also very very slow Very very slow, but it was cheap. You know what was nice about butterfly was that it's a for some of you beginner traders They're just starting out and maybe You know are like a deer in the headlights and jumping in this was basically right up your alley So, you know understand something there are advanced traders in here that we trade There are beginner traders that we trade so we try to appease everybody and that's the beauty about trading the market When there's 20,000 stocks out there now, let's go do some shopping. Let's see what's going on Let's see what's in the market now. Remember today is Friday. Okay. Now. I do want to make everybody aware The markets I believe the market's not closed on Monday, but it is a very very big holiday here in the New York area It's young Kapoor. It's on a Monday. The kids are all from school. Okay, so a lot of these traders You know, let me tell you something their wives book these vacations way way out the kids are up boy We're out. We're out for the weekend So I'm not expecting it to be a super crazy market today and then obviously on Monday So to be very very careful Let's focus on the nickels and dimes if we're in the right place in the right the right time That's all that matters, but we'll go through the list now. I was going through the list I didn't see that much out there Okay, but as of right now the ML Geo if you got a piece of that you did awesome. All right You did awesome. And I know a lot of you here got a piece of that right there What's cool, we're gonna we're gonna check out Somebody on YouTube is asking about Nikola, you know, Nikola is you know, we've been trading Nikola for a while That that ship has gone and sailed. I don't know where you've been hearing about it that much But we pretty much done with Nikola Nikola really We traded us a couple of days ago and it and even back here. It's the biggest percentage gainer You got to trade tens of thousands shares. It's all it's all algo. So forget it. Not interested. Okay Another stock that did show up on on the watch is with CCG the problem with CCG It's an IPO and we don't have that much data to work off on CCG She and she's also expensive and remember we always teach it here at cyber trading the three T's tradeable trend and trap Stock has got a very very big spread jumping into the stock on a thousand shares Oh, you're gonna be down already 20 30 buck to 300 bucks immediately So you got to be really careful and then when you're looking at level four here It is very difficult to see some orders. They're getting executed.  It's gonna be extremely Volatile now what was cool about this stock? Okay, some of you will remember it and it was on my birthday Unfortunately, I wasn't here But to some of you I didn't know you did trade it this thing ran from ten eleven dollars to two hundred It was like the most ridiculous. Actually, I'll show you really quick on the intraday chart. You probably it probably go Yeah, there we go.  So that was really What happened on that day?  It just didn't stop and got halted. But uh, that that is not even a category Five I give that like a like a maybe a I don't know Josh probably mean take it probably like a 50 I mean that is just like that's just plain old gambling when it comes to something like that. All right, so but Stay be careful fellow traders, you know, but if you are a Level five trader here at CTU you've been trading for us for several years You know, just don't trade too many shares on it I'm putting on the watch list because it's number two. All right, another couple of stocks out there This one's up about 13% but only 30,000 shares in pre-market Bpt we trade the stock before it's got you know, it's it's got decent volume I have it here on the watch list. Uh, I didn't see that much action Got a couple buyers here at 250 Not really pretty interested in that swim. We know that that one was from yesterday This is how stocks become day trades into swing trades. Okay, because remember we do both You want to find that good swing trade? I don't know how to day trade Co sm we trade this stock too Okay, it was interesting about co m there was a big iceberg where it did show up right here Everybody sees little red lot right right here. So that's 25,000 share buyer But then you got these big orders out here that just showed up um It's kind of slow I mean co sm You know, not a lot going on out there. So where are you desperate at 6% we're done with the new york We're done with the most active on the losers list This stocks down 42 $2 stock Wellness solutions. I don't know sounds like a pharmaceutical to me. We know they don't come back All right You see and time and time again. You got to stay away from these pharmaceuticals to get crushed.  What uh y in I don't know what's You see here on the long-term chart. This is what we have to stay away from see how it's spotting It's all gaps. That's all gaps in pre-market You know, I've been doing this for so long every you know, like my memento is always taught man. These are all ETFs all ETFs Listen, just like I said it's friday Going into a big holiday Big weekend It's beautiful here in new york in the fall. By the way, I look forward to seeing everybody next week, you know here for the onsite um Other than that, I don't know kind of kind of uh Kind of a little quiet here. Not really that excited about it I don't know that was basically at the mlgm was actually the big winner right now anybody else see anything else they like I don't see anything else as of right now in pre-market We're gonna have to wait until the market opens up But right now I kind of see kind of flat. Maybe some of the stocks on a big watch list I know we looked at mary yesterday. Uh, we had some good moves on that we had good moves on a lot of the crypto stocks, but Nothing pretty much moving on some of the Stocks were watching. I don't ai we traded it yesterday. Some of you did trade yesterday That moved pretty good man. Good thing. I got out of kava. Oh my god. I would have got crushed on that stock That let me tell you day trading obviously helps you a lot when it comes to stuff like that All right, so let's get ready for the market open up. So we'll be back in 15 minutes If you're watching on social media on the top left hand corner If you're interested in kind of joining us for we put a different qr code For one of our free workshops, just take your phone right there Just scan it like us and we'll get you in the trading room We've got a big event that we do every week We'll show you how we use level four and how to day trade and how to swing trade 30 years of experience And then if you're new here to cyber trading, I know we got a lot of new people that joined us yesterday Please make sure you talk to education advisor. Let them go through the workshops with you So you know what you're expecting and seeing what's going on Remember you're here to watch and learn don't buy anything Just see how we teach the other traders how they do it on their own. Good luck everyone happy trading if I don't see you Oh one last thing Uh one of the uh Judith wants me to bring up this that we've been trading that stock for a while the i o uh i o and q is that one going up You know that was good short yesterday, uh, but as of right now it's got good volume You know, but it's not really doing too much We'll put it on the watch list though because it's been a fun stock to trade if we're actually looking for some nickels and dimes We'll look at that i o and q good luck everyone happy trading everyone else in social media We'll see you back here at 230. Okay. Make sure you like us and friend us and get those alerts. Good luck everybody


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Okay, we're back. I'm Jay Fidel. This is Gene Fidel. My brother, Gene Fidel, and this is Life in the Law. And P.S. Gene is a lawyer who has been involved in military justice for most of his professional career. May I say welcome to our show, Gene. Thanks, Jay. It's great to be back. Yeah. And you have been on here before. We talked about Guantanamo. I hope you remember. It was a few years ago when you were here last. So let's talk about military justice. Before we get to military justice, let me say about Guantanamo. It's interesting. We're still at it. We still have people who are being detained at Guantanamo. We still have military commissions that drag on and on and on. It's like watching taffy dropping. And in a way, it's extreme. It's a different subject, I understand. But in a way, it's extremely unfair because nobody is getting closure at Guantanamo. Imagine if you lost a loved one on 9-11. And here, it's 2019 already. It's 18 years ago. Yeah. That's a different show. But I think it's important to flag that. It's kind of a first cousin to what we're really here to talk about. It really is, yeah. It's not good commentary. Anyway, okay, military justice, can you give me a... You are the leading expert in the country, in my humble opinion, in military justice. And you've been that for a long time, since roughly 1980 or so, if not sooner. And so that makes almost, what, 30 years, actually. 40. It's not a show in mathematics. Almost 40 years. So can you talk about why you got into that and what you've done in that in general? Well, I got into the field of military justice, basically, because like many people of my generation, I had to go into the service one way or another. It was my opportunity to go into the U.S. Coast Guard after law school. And any time you became a military lawyer, whichever branch you happened to be in, you had to learn how to prosecute and defend a court marshal. And so that was sort of the building blocks. And I found that after I left active duty, after three years, seven months and eight days, that it was an area that I thought I could... I had an intuition that I could make a contribution. And oddly enough, and greatly to my surprise, I've maintained that involvement in it ever since. So it's... I'm as surprised as the next person that after all these years, I'm still engaged by it. And I find it interesting, as important as ever, and engaging in many ways. Well, now you've done a lot of cases.  You've handled, I would say, thousands of cases, some very high profile cases, cases in which you succeeded, incredibly so sometimes. But you've also been active in developing the area of military justice, both nationally and globally. Can you talk about that? Yeah. The funny thing about military justice is most lawyers don't know anything about it. They have no occasion to know anything about it. The organized bar takes very little interest in it, even less so than in the last several decades. It's a specialized field and one that is largely overlooked except when something goes south. And then people will start to pay attention and occasionally Congress gets into the act, occasionally the federal courts get into the act. But by and large, it remains a rather secluded part of the forest. You've been up to the appellate courts on military justice issues. You've been at conferences all over the world in the global discussion around military justice. You've had an effect. And you've been able to observe how things have been going, how the area has been evolving, not only here but elsewhere. And it strikes me that back in the time when you were in the service, that was not a volunteer service. That was a service under the shadow of the draft. Correct. And that's a different world and it is to me anyway. But later, in the course of development of your career, it became, it was, it had become a voluntary service. How does that change the consciousness, the awareness that you spoke about, the concern, the involvement about military justice? I think it changes in two ways. Number one, you didn't have, you don't have in the volunteer force era that we're currently in and have been in since the mid-70s, you don't have the constant influx of lawyers who everyone knows are going to be coming in and leaving. Instead, people tend to come in, maybe it's only a matter of degree, but they tend to come in with more of a, at least potential expectation of remaining for a career. And there may be consequences to that. If a person knew that he or she was coming into the JAG Corps and would be leaving almost inevitably, is that person maybe a little more willing to break China in the courtroom, a little less concerned about promotion? That's at least a question. The other thing, of course, is that I think since the 70s, the federal courts, two things have happened involving the federal courts, and maybe they're related. The first is the federal bench has drifted to the right in general, including the Supreme Court, but also the intermediate courts. It's been going on for a long time now. It's been going on for a long time. And maybe as a result of that, there is much less willingness on the part of federal judges, Life Tenured, you know, Article III federal judges, to get concerned, get involved in the nitty gritty of the administration of military justice. So are those two or three things connected? Probably they are on some subliminal level, but I think that they're all noteworthy. Let me ask you about a third possibility that comes to my mind. You mentioned before about the global dimension. One of the other things that's changed is because of the internet, it's now possible to get a fairly good current sense of military justice issues in other countries, which was very difficult to do before the digital era. Today, you can go online, you can look at blogs, I run a blog called Global Military Justice Reform. Write that down, write that down, Global Military Justice Reform, just spot.com, Google that, and you'll get there. But the point is the final exam, the point is that you could go there or other websites and come away with just a few keystrokes with a sense of what kind of issues are emerging in other countries' military justice systems. And it's fascinating to me it's been enriching professionally to realize that the kinds of issues we have had to address often resonate, they may rhyme with issues that come up in other countries, particularly the countries that share the Anglo American legal tradition that we have. Like Starry Decisors. Like Starry Decisors, but just the basic arrangements between command and the administration of justice.  Could they be cited? Do you cite them in litigating military justice issues here in the United States? Well, I have in the past, but unfortunately, experience teaches that judges really don't care very much about what happens in other countries. I personally think that our judges should at least be aware of what's going on in other countries and judges in other countries ought to be aware of what's going on here. I think that the dialogue between legal systems and among legal systems is fruitful, it maybe makes us more perceptive about issues, maybe not the outcome, and they're not entitled to value as precedent, but their food for thought at the very least. What about the gift of knowing how it works here, and then traveling to far off places, including developing countries, and showing them how it works here, and maybe exposing them to arrangements that might help them develop their own system? We certainly do that. We have programs, there's a program run out of Newport, Rhode Island, that carries, shows the flag basically, and assists third and fourth world countries in bringing their military justice systems up to contemporary standards, or at least beginning to approach contemporary world standards. And we're talking about human rights standards, by the way, in this part of the forest. But I think there can also be a kind of arrogance in that effort to export US values. I mean, I don't think the world of military justice begins and ends with the Uniform Code of Military Justice, our basic statute. I don't think the world begins and ends with the Manual for Courts Marshall. Other countries are entitled on a certain level to a considerable extent to go their own way. The challenge is to try to figure out if there are neutral principles, sounding in human rights, that really, countries should struggle to honor. And I think that is probably the theme, if you were talking about from 2019, what happens next? I think that's the theme that people should have in mind as they monitor developments in other countries. And it's going to be, it's going to be very tricky, and it's going to be complicated. And, you know, what China does in the area of military justice is going to be quite different from what, let's say, India does. And so on across the country, the world as you look at different legal systems, different legal traditions. Well, human rights and also, you know, the rights that are afforded in the civilian courts. I know you've been on that issue from the beginning of your time in this, in this study. Namely, you know, the Uniform Code, the Manual for Courts Marshall, it's pretty tough sometimes. It's built, it was built for battlefield use. And then you have the civilian courts which have greater procedural rights, maybe substantive rights afforded to the accused. And I know you have made that comparison and you have tried to bring the rights that are available in the civil courts into the military. How successful have you been? What kind of evolution have we seen in the course of your 40-year career to bring those rights into the military? Well, it's not my effort. You know, this is the flaw of it. The flaw of legal history that I've been privileged to participate in, observe, and so forth, and chronicle on a certain level. Clearly, there's been a move towards civilianization, which a word that at times has seemed to be a dirty word in the world of military justice. That's not a good thing. But I think there's a growing recognition that basically the closer we can get to the classical model of American criminal justice in the uniform setting, the uniform services setting, the better. As a matter of principle, that's not to say there aren't going to be departures. The Constitution itself recognizes some differences. The question is, should those differences be expanded? Should they be strictly construed? How do you reconcile the competing trends? And of course, as your question points out, you're dealing with a moving target because it's not exactly as if American criminal justice in general has remained at a standstill. It's moved. It's moved at times in what let's say a progressive way, but at times there can be retrograde developments as the Supreme Court and other federal courts have drifted to the right, at times lurched to the right. Do we see that happening in the area of military justice? I certainly can think of one illustration where during the war in court era, we had a decision that restricted court martial jurisdiction to offenses that were service connected. The off base rape, for example, could not be prosecuted in a military court, a court martial. And after about 18 years or so, the Supreme Court had changes of membership and they revisited the question and they overturned their own precedent. And so now, for better or worse, worse in my judgment, but for better or worse, any offense committed by a member of the armed services is punishable by court martial, even though it has no other connection to the military service. Yeah, there's very interesting digression on that, is situations where civilians who are not necessarily subject to uniform code of military justice by its terms wind up being tried by courts martial, going back to the conspiracy against Lincoln. Well, that's exactly right. And there are two dimensions here. The first is that this is mostly a foreign human rights story. There are countries, thank goodness, ours is not one of them. Basically, there's some footnotes, but I don't want to get into the inside, inside baseball on us. But basically, we don't try civilians by military courts. There are other countries that do and they do it regularly. And it's really appalling. It's a blatant violation of contemporary human rights standards. I'm talking about countries like Egypt. I'm talking about Cameroon. I'm talking about Uganda. I'm talking about Pakistan. These countries are repeat offenders. They are completely indifferent to the evolved contemporary standards for human rights.  So a current issue is, what about retired military personnel? Now, Congress has provided that certain categories of retired military personnel remain subject to trial by court martial. That is, I've been involved in some litigation. I'm involved in some litigation on that right now. I don't want to go into, you know, arguing it, but it is a fact that that is one of the battle lines that we're going to have to work through. That's an issue that the U.S. Supreme Court has never squarely addressed, even after all these decades of American independence. So that's really going to be a fascinating one. Another sidebar issue here is command influence. Command influence, we see this happening today, even though it should be settled law, that nobody should be trying to affect the judgments of a court martial or a court martial judge. But it's still an issue that's very, very much alive. What's the state of the law on this? What's the state of the practice? What's the state of the violation of the law and the practice? Right. So unlawful command influence is the concept. There's a lot of command influence that's perfectly lawful under U.S. law. But there is a matter of both statute and the judicial gloss on the Uniform Code of Military Justice. We have a doctrine of unlawful command influence. This is essentially a distortion of the judicial process in ways that either are specifically unfair to an accused or call into question public confidence in the administration of justice. There's two different concepts working. The first of these is called actual unlawful command influence. The second is apparent unlawful command influence. Together the common phrase is that unlawful command influence is the mortal enemy of military justice. It's an article of faith. It's probably the core principle that animates the administration of military justice today in our country. You cannot have a conversation about unlawful command influence without talking about two things. Number one, how does this relate to Congress? Because members of the Senate and House seem to be much freer with their advice and opinions about things concerning specific military cases than they would ever dare to be about cases pending in the federal district. And more than they were in the past. And more than they were in the past. This is something that Congress is going to have to fix as a matter of their internal ethic. And I think this is a challenge. I don't know really how that's going to unfold, but I would like to think that somebody will take a firm stand and tell members of the House and Senate, look, keep your hands off the administration of justice in specific cases. So that's one dimension. The other the other aspect is getting back to the military justice system. It is a fact that cases of unlawful command influence, both actual and apparent, arise with amazing regularity. And I don't want to talk about specific cases. You know, they're everywhere. They're not all equally valid. Not all claims of unlawful command influence are equally valid. Some of them. It's easy to make the claim. But it's not so easy sometimes to carry it over the goal line. Why do they come up so often? And that brings brings the conversation around to what I think is the core structural issue that Congress is attempting to get its hands around. And it's an issue that we have George III to thank. Oh, George III. Let me zoom back and see a picture of George III. There he is. That's George. He joins us. And let me say, George, if you want to say anything, this is your big opportunity. We're waiting. But here's the here's the problem. The problem is that the military justice system that the colonies inherited from the UK is still with us today. The core proposition is that the role of the commander remains central to the administration of justice. And we still have that today, even though Congress passed exceptionally broad comprehensive changes only recently in the Military Justice Act of 2016 that just went into effect, the heart of it, Congress left unaffected. And the heart is that the commander is responsible for deciding who gets prosecuted for what offenses at what level of severity. The commander also has certain other responsibilities that Congress left unaffected, such as picking the members of the military jury. And and reviewing the result. No, well, that's been that's been dialed back over time. But the but negotiating pretrial agreements, for example, remains a command function. So where this is manifesting itself right now is in the ongoing conversation, mostly in the Senate about the bill introduced by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York called the Military Justice Improvement Act that would basically take away from the commander, who is ordinarily a non lawyer, almost invariably a non lawyer, the power to make charging decisions and give it to legally trained attorney, a judge advocate, outside the chain of command, so that you would not have a merging of functions. You'd not have the risk of conflicts of interest, for example, where the charging decision was made by somebody who might have an interest in saying this accused is a terrifically lethal fighter pilot. I'm not going to send this case to a general court martial or allowing other considerations to come into play other than what are the demands of a criminal justice system. So that's the sort of looming issue right now. And maybe viewers have seen the recent hearing before the Senate on Services Committee, where Senator McSally, a former fighter pilot herself, talked about her own sexual assault. Senator Gillibrand was very vocal about this. I think one of the Hawaii senators was present at this hearing. This is an issue that senators have to grasp the nettle on and decide are we going to continue with basically an 18th century system, or are we, like other countries, ironically included Great Britain, including Great Britain, have abandoned in favor of having prosecution decisions made by trained lawyers outside the chain of command. So that's the biggest single institutional issue we're dealing with. Military lawyers. The special prosecuting person is a military lawyer. Yes. Under the code himself. Yes, right, right. Now, let me say if you were working on a clean slate and were really willing to think outside the shower here, you could well say that prosecution decisions should be made by, let's say, somebody in the criminal division of the Justice Department. You might have, for example, a chief military prosecutor in the criminal division at the deputy assistant attorney general level. That would be a very different system. There are countries that have civilianized the prosecution function. Other countries have not done that. So to be clear, then, this would not affect Article 15 masks, non-judicial punishment. It would only affect court marshals. Well, there is an issue where you would draw the line. Yeah. Minor disciplinary matters should, in my opinion, and I think most people, even people who support the reform would agree, should remain within the belly wick of commanders. The question is where you draw that line. And one year is the line that the manual for courts-martial actually draws. The punishment. In defining one year's punishment, confinement, is the line that courts-martial ordinarily draw between minor disciplinary matters and matters that are more like criminal offenses. Now, but your question, Jay, raises a very interesting issue, and it's the next big thing that has to be studied. There are some hundreds of courts-martial every year. There are tens of thousands of minor disciplinary proceedings called non-judicial punishment, Article 15, office hours in the Marine Corps, captains masked in the Navy and Coast Guard. This is sort of the low-level, low-visibility administration of justice that actually is much less well-known, but has much more impact where the rubber meets the road out in the fleet, out in the field, in the administration of justice as it affects most GIs. And what is, I think, beginning to take shape now, and I hope to be able to play a role in this, is a serious national and international conversation about how summary discipline should be administered. Are there some neutral principles that apply? Is it possible to reach common ground? Who should be prosecuted for what by these administrative non-judicial sanctions? It's very interesting. It's very understudied, under-theorized. These cases occasionally get into the federal courts, but it's unusual. So that's sort of the next big thing. But the baseline there is that the commander on the scene, on the ship in the battlefield, has to have the ability to meet out summary punishment in order to maintain good order and discipline. If he has to wait on a bureaucratic process that must wait on other personnel or the legal personnel, when he gets back to port or back to a larger command, he will not be able to meet it out summarily. And that would deteriorate the, what do you want to call it, the fighting force ability of that unit, no? Yes, that's the theory. And people don't really question that. Everybody, I think, who has paid any attention to military justice recognizes that. It's critical. An armed force is not simply a crowd with weapons. It has to be a disciplined armed force. Without that, you can't be effective as a military force. And good order and discipline and obedience and basically being squared away are key elements. The problem is, when there's an expansive view of what should be handled summarily by the commander, you can get distortions. For example, that means unfair results. Well, unfair results. They may be fairer, they may not be fair. But the point is that our expectation is that where there are severe punishments at stake that a person is entitled to greater due process, an independent decision maker, a lawyer attorney, a lawyer counsel to advise them the rules of evidence and all those things that come with a proper criminal trial. You could a murder, for example, or a rape. How can that ever be handled administratively? Setting fire to the barracks. That's not a minor disciplinary matter. That's a serious matter. Orson is one of the classic offenses known to the common law. It's a felony. So things like that, obviously in my view, should be removed from the commander's discretion. So one of the issues that you talk about it, is the notion of confidence in the administration of justice. Yes. And that certainly applies in the larger realm of civil law, civilian law. And I guess in criminal law, in the civilian side of things. But in the military, in a volunteer force, which is not necessarily connected so much as a conscripted force was connected with friends, family, you know, all that where they would talk to people outside, outside the military box more. How important is it that we have confidence in the administration of justice now that we have a volunteer force where the public doesn't really know what's going on anyway? Well, I think it's at least as important in an all volunteer force environment to have public confidence in the administration of justice. Why is that? You might think the exact opposite. The reason it's at least as important, and I would say more important, is because it relies on people to volunteer. It relies on families being willing to say, it's good that my son or daughter wants to go into the military. It relies on people who are already in the military and staying in the military. And if people and families and people of, you know, service age and that age bracket that we look to for new recruits don't have confidence in the administration of justice. They're going to vote with their feet. They're either not going to sign up or when the opportunity presents itself, they will leave rather than re-enlist. If they have a funny feeling that maybe the system of justice cannot be relied on with that conviction, no pun intended, but that conviction that we really need to have as participants in a democratic society. And I suppose that if we ever needed to return to a conscription, I'm not sure that will ever happen or could ever happen. It might happen. Then you want people in the civilian community not to be intimidated by notions of unfairness in the service.  Well, I think that's right. And interestingly, the history is the UCMJ was passed after World War Two when 10 or 20 million Americans were in uniform. There were a lot of unfair trials. Members of Congress were elected after they came back from World War Two who were veterans and they came en masse to Congress feeling that this is a system that needed to be reformed. That explains why the UCMJ was passed in the first place in 1950. It was because of concern about the administration of justice in World War Two. A concern, by the way, that was felt by other democratic countries. One last question, Gene. I wish we had more time. There's really so much more that flows out of this conversation. But going forward, you've been in the conversation about the reform of military justice since the late 70s, early 80s. And you've done a lot, spoken a lot, written a lot about all of that. But where we stand now, have your expectations for reform been met? And if not, what do you think is, and you mentioned this in part before, what do you think are the most important initiatives that we need to be concerned about to reform ourselves so that we have a more, a more equitable system, a system that conforms with the best human standards? Wow, that's a toll order. I think the bill that Senator Gillibrand or something like it really does need to be passed. The military has got to get away from the notion that the military justice system is owned and operated by commanders. I didn't invent that phrase, by the way, that's from the Army's Handbook for Commanders. The notion that a system of justice that would prosecute things like murder, arson, rape, sexual assault, and so on and so forth, you know, familiar serious crimes would be owned and operated by anyone other than a judge and a judge with, you know, all the trappings of the office is intolerable in the 21st century. So that's a major point. I think having lost any real basis for optimism in terms of the federal courts unless the Supreme Court changes dramatically in the next few years, I think we really have to look to Congress for reform here. The good old days of the Warren Court and, you know, people who bring lawsuits and it would be the sweetness of light and you would get the result that you hoped for, those days are largely over, not always, but largely over. So the answer is that we need a Congress that is knowledgeable and smart about this, one that is not going to be gullible, one that is going to conduct meaningful hearings, one that is going to ask tough questions, and one that is going to be willing to take the system into the 21st century. So far the jury is out on that. I hope that there'll be grounds for optimism, particularly with the new House of Representatives. We'll see what happens at the next elections in 2020 when the Senate may, you know, see some changes and when perhaps there'll be a change in the White House. Looking forward to that. Gene Fidel, my brother, thank you so much, Gene. A pleasure. Aloha.


Hi, I'm Rusty Komori, and this is Beyond the Lines on Think Tech, Hawaii. I was the head coach of the Putahoe Boys Varsity Tennis Team for 22 years, and we're fortunate to win 22 consecutive state championships. My book Beyond the Lines is about leadership, creating a superior culture of excellence, and finding greatness, which is what this show is all about. My special guest today is a friend of mine who I can assure you is a man of great character, and the president and CEO of Pro Service Hawaii. He is Ben Godsey, and today we are going beyond human resources. Hey, Ben, welcome to the show. Hey, thank you, Rusty. It is great to be here. I'm thrilled.  What do you think about that? Yeah, I'll take it. I grew up in Mississippi, and sometimes I get some jokes about that. I've always gotten questions about it. God see what I understand way, way back. There were some preachers in my past. I think it's clearly an advantage to have God in your name for sure. Now, Ben, I want to ask you, early in your life, what are some of the jobs that you had back then? Yeah, so I grew up in Mississippi, down in the Deep South. And, you know, so work for me was oftentimes manual labor during the summer. I started off mowing lawns around the neighborhood, and then moved into doing construction.  Then after school, I was a file clerk. You know, so from three to five in the afternoon or, you know, 430 to 630 or something like that, I would file papers in a law office and did collections.  And that was really fun and exciting. I did biology for a couple of summers, and then I figured out, hey, I wasn't destined to be a biologist, even though I'd studied biology and undergrad. It was time for me to go and start figuring out a career. Wow, very interesting, Ben. Now, I want to ask you about your family.  How are your sons doing? You know, I think they're doing as well as can be expected during these crazy days. You know, there are 10 days left of school. My wife is a schoolteacher, so she's both teaching and being a mom, and she's teaching remotely. And my boys, they are 10, 12 and 14, so they're in fourth grade, seventh grade and eighth grade. And they're adapting to school from home as well. Everybody's mastering the Zoom meetings. Yeah, I feel in many ways we've been blessed by this family time, you know, that, you know, we have a lot more family time because we're a lot less busy with activities. But it's also been hard for the kids. They're missing that social validation and social experience. They're missing the athletics. They're missing the chance to be around their friends. And so, you know, we're working on, you know, just, hey, how can we be there as parents for them while we also both have challenging full-time jobs? I think everyone's going to appreciate human interaction so much more once things get back to kind of slightly normal again. Now, Ben, I want to ask you about pro-service. What are all of the services that pro-service provides? So, pro-service, we help employers handle all of their HR and employee administration. And, you know, what that means is a client will come to us and, you know, we will set up a payroll and HR management system for them, the computer system that handles that, and then provide them with payroll processing, HR management and HR administration, benefits management and administration. We'll help them with their employee insurances, such as workers' compensation insurance, healthcare insurance, TDI insurance, things like that. And then we also provide them with a suite of tools and trainings that allow them to build the culture and do the hiring and development of their organization that they'd like. You know, so we've got lots of subject matter experts that help employers in all those different areas, you know, whether or not, again, you know, training on how to be a better manager, how to hire, how to handle disciplinary actions, or helping employers directly with those sorts of things. Our service is designed and our purpose is to make it easier to be an employer in Hawaii. And the way that we do that is by being the best we can at providing these HR services for Hawaii employers. Well, I know pro-service has been the number one company in doing that for many years now and reflecting back on some years, Ben, I wanna know why has pro-service become such a hugely successful company? Yeah, that's, yeah. I think when you look at pro-service from the outside, you know, you say, gosh, you know, pro-service has grown very consistently over a long period of time. But really what that comes from on the inside is consistent effort at improvement. You know, how can we get better, you know, each day, each week, each month, over a long period of time. And it's the concepts that you cover in your book, Rusty, with regards to discipline around the short list of most important things for the business. For us, it starts with, you know, always a focus on service and on our customers. How can we add value to them? You know, are we adding value? We focus far, far more on what our customers need than what are our competitors doing? And, you know, in doing so, you know, we look at ourselves and say, how can we get better ourselves? You know, we need to be better today than we were yesterday just because we thought we did it well yesterday. It doesn't mean it's gonna be good enough for tomorrow. And we're definitely learning that these days as we go through this COVID-19-driven economic situation that we're in today. Well, you know, and pro-service is definitely not a complacent company and you're not a complacent guy and you've taken risks through these years to improve and grow. What are your thoughts about taking risks? You know, I think that that's an interesting question. I think many people look at risk and only look at one side of the equation. I always look at things as, you know, kind of risk reward, there's a problem and an opportunity. And, you know, so I am oftentimes kind of quick to push us into doing challenging things that are perceived as risky and that we might fail or we might not do as well as we'd like. But what's really going to happen to us if we don't do that well? Rarely is it catastrophic. Rarely does it cause significant pain. Most often, we learn, you know, even if we fail, you know, we are always learning from it.    And that might feel safe, but it's not. You know, it's actually far worse to stay in one place and do what feels like the safe thing. Yeah, and it's great to focus on what you want to achieve and to do things that your competitors aren't doing. And that's what keeps you number one because you need to keep outdoing what you've done and never be complacent. So I love hearing what you just said there, Ben. I want to know about what you guys are doing to adapt and adjust in helping your clients in their businesses during this coronavirus situation. Yeah, it's been a fascinating time, Rusty.   So it's been, you know, just, you know, that's devastating for our economy and really for the people in our community. But for us, you know, we, when we saw this coming and I'd say we saw it coming, you know, a few weeks before it really crested in Hawaii. So early March, we started preparing vigorously for it. We threw our company, you know, into rapid change to prepare for and test all of our disaster preparedness for remote work, complete remote work, 100% digital delivery of services, changing our, you know, our, you know, how frequently we are consulting with our clients and what we were consulting with them on because the laws and regulations have changed just rapidly, you know, over the past couple of months have been a series of new laws that have been passed, you know, the CARES Act being the biggest of those. And we have to be experts on those and we have to take that information and put it in a consumable form for our clients. So like, for instance, our training and marketing teams went from doing onsite trainings to everything 100% digital and really started taking on a newsroom type of an approach to we've got to take this information, digest it and get it out so that it's in the best consumable form for employers. And then our teams have to know this and be able to teach and consult our clients on it within hours of it coming out. Because, you know, when employers' revenue got turned off so suddenly by the shutdown, employers had to make, you know, decisions in hours or days that usually they would make in weeks and months. And so every day was the potential for significant economic harm and harm to their staff. And, you know, and so we had to go incredibly quickly to be able to solve those issues and do it at high volume. So we reconstructed and brought together cross-functional teams in different ways, worked on the daily cadence versus weekly cadences for most of our work.  What else do you need? You know, help us understand what you're going through. Just lots of phone conversations and exchanges with clients at all, you know, all across the company so that we can evolve as quickly as we can in what was for at least, you know, I'd say the month of March and April and, you know, a situation that was changing exponentially. You know, it was changing so rapidly that we couldn't keep up. Nobody could keep up. You know, but I think we did the best we possibly could and overall did a good job for our clients.  So I already know that about you, but I want to ask you about culture because I know that you have a great culture of excellence. Tell me about Pro Services Company culture. Yeah, so you asked earlier about how we've stayed successful for as long as we have and how we continue to improve and it does, you know, it starts with culture and culture starts with character. Character really is who you hire and how you hire and so making sure that we hire people of high character is, you know, the first element of building a great culture, but it's not sufficient. You know, then you have to be very clear about what are the behaviors and activities that you want that reflect that culture, the culture that you want. For us, when we talk about our culture, we want a positive environment for high performers and so some of the things that we want to see in our culture are, we want to see transparency, people are willing and quick to bring forward bad news. We're willing to share kind of everything that's going on in the company. We want transparency. We want to be highly collaborative. We want to be solutions oriented and from quick to move to doing versus, you know, continuing to talk about things and perfect them. We want to go quickly with our solutions. We want to have a high amount of accountability or we want to have low blame. That's really, really important for high performers. High performers want accountability, but for it to be, you know, a positive collaborative environment has to be low blame. We get to that with a concept that we use called 100% accountability, which is really anybody who kind of touches or can influence, you know, an issue. If that issue doesn't go exactly as we'd like, you know, let's say that something goes wrong for a client and, you know, we need to fix it. We want to really understand it. We want to all have everybody who could have influenced to take 100% accountability for that. So if there were five of us, it would be 500% if you added it up.  You know, it's all of us. All of us could have changed the outcome. And so let's move on to how we fix, you know, let's really understand it and then move on to how we fix it. And that helps us get to a positive environment for high performers. It's something we're constantly working on.  You know, our situations are changing, but we have to get really clear about what are the activities and actions that represent that culture for us and then reinforce them. You know, when we see the positive, that's our primary way of celebrating the culture. You know, but then also, you know, having negative consequences when people aren't living the culture, when people don't fit. Yeah, no, I like what you said about accountability because everyone's a reflection of each other.  So it's all about teamwork. And earlier you mentioned about my book, you know, Beyond the Lines about discipline. What other principles stood out to you in the book?   And we also, you know, so even coming into the COVID-19 shutdown, we immediately made a plan and we said, this thing is, you know, it's going to change almost daily. But it is still a plan. It is still, you know, a prioritization of what's most important for our business.  And we have to be really clear in communicating that in our organization. We may not always be right, you know, we're often wrong. But, you know, it's what we're going to do and then we're going to get information and feedback and we're going to change it. You know, I also think one of the things I really took away from your book was how, you know, you as the leader, you know, really set the tone for the organization. And it's one of the things that I've tried to take away and continue to try to improve, you know, in my own leadership at Pro Service.  You know, be the one that gives them hope and inspiration. And also the one that sets the standards and sets the standards in, you know, in my behavior and through my actions, not just in my words. Ben, speaking of standards, I know you have high standards and I know that you are very smart and it was evident when I was there at the, when you got presented the award this past year from Hawaii Business Magazine. And I was so proud to be there to see you receive it. What drives your passion for helping businesses and people? You know, I, what drives the passion? I think I just, I've come to a place of comfort that this is the way I can do the most good that Pro Service is, you know, is a great platform for me to help our community. And, you know, what drives it really, you know, I actually was writing to some clients about this over the weekend. I send a weekend email right now on Sundays. You know, it came from really discovering the purpose of Pro Service, which is again, you know, how do we empower employers to succeed in Hawaii? You know, and it happened on a day when I was standing in our parking lot really, really early in the morning and just reflecting on how beautiful the Koala Mountains were as the sunlight was first sitting on. And Mauna Loa Bay was just glistening. And I was like, our parking lot is so beautiful. It's amazing. Later that same day, an employee that's a fantastic and I came into my office and he resigned. And he, you know, he said, Ben, I love Pro Service. I love Hawaii, but I can't stay. You know, I've got four kids or three and four on the way. And I need to go to someplace where I can buy a home.  And, you know, and so I'm going to move to the mainland.  I couldn't get in the stay.  I was helping people raise their families here. You know, and I also never know when I'm making an impact.  I can always help them, you know, and, you know, and should think about things that way.  So, you know, I don't know why I have it.  But it's that finding purpose. And then, you know, once you find it, you say, hey, how do I make the most of this? And that's what I've been trying to do. You know, how do I make the most of this opportunity I have, which is, you know, to lead this business that has this huge potential to help employers and through helping employers to help our community and the people that live here. That's what fuels me. Ben, what's one of the most challenging situations that you deal with as CEO?  But, you know, just to use the starkest example, it's, you know, it's firing somebody. You know, you hire them, you have the best of intentions, you put tremendous effort into, you know, hopefully making sure that they're the right person, bringing them on board.  And, you know, yes, there are always things that they could have done differently too, but when we get to that point and have to let somebody go, you know, it's important to do that. You know, I believe it's important for the culture and performance of the company. And yet it's also really hard. Yeah, right there.  And for me as a coach, you know, when my players would lose a tennis match in singles or doubles, I'm not blaming them. I'm blaming myself. I'm thinking, is there a way, should I have communicated better? Should I have communicated less? Did I say the wrong things? Did we have the wrong strategy? Did I tell them the wrong tactics? So I'm really looking inward at myself more.  But I want to get your thoughts about what do you feel is one thing that the best leaders do? Well, I think the best leaders always look in the mirror for responsibility when something goes wrong.  Like, that's the weight of leadership. It's a lonely place.  You know, we're going to, we're totally fine. But, you know, business is as strong, right?   And the same thing goes with client feedback. You know, I ask clients, hey, you know, if we're not getting you what you need, and you have, and you're frustrated, you know, please let me know. You know, I'm not doing that, you know, to kind of be over the top without my employees. But, you know, I, you know, I want to know, you know, if there's something that I haven't done, that I haven't understood, that that's really important for clients, that I need to help our company rectify. So, yeah, that's probably, we could talk about that subject alone, I think for a while. But I like hearing that, Ben.  I would definitely first say that, you know, this has been, you know, professionally about as big as they come. I thought the great recession was huge. And it just seems like a little molehill now by comparison. You know, but I'd say where I made a personal choice, one that was really challenging for me, was when I left Wall Street.  My parents said I was successful. My friends said I was successful. I had a wife and we wanted to start having a family. And I was making, you know, pretty good money on Wall Street, but I just wasn't happy and satisfied and content. I knew it wasn't my purpose. And, you know, it was very hard to walk away from that. It was an extremely difficult decision, you know, to, you know, and I would call it adversity because I had to make the choice to walk away from that. I've had lots of other adversity where just things have happened to me and then you just deal with bad stuff that's happening. But to me that's different. Bad stuff that's happening to you is, you know, how do you find what you can control and move forward versus, you know, staying flat on your back defeated when something hits you that maybe you could control or you couldn't, but it happened to you and now you have just kind of get up and keep moving forward. Yeah, I know right there.  And Ben, I want to ask you one more thing before we wrap up. What's the best advice you ever received in your life? Yeah, it's a great question. And what I would say is lean into generosity. I'm not naturally that way with some things in my life, you know, used to be kind of a straight tipper. Hey, if I'm supposed to tip 15% or 18%, that's what I tip. You know, but I really learned it was taught over time to lean into generosity. If I can give away more, give away more. If I can support more causes in the community that are important, do that. You know, if I can give advice, if I have 15 minutes and somebody wants to talk on the phone to do that. So leaning into being generous with time and money to support others that need help. That is probably the most important thing. And some people have it naturally. For me, it was more learned. You know, I was good at school and good at doing things that kind of got me ahead. But I feel like kind of expanding and having things become about more than me. And how can I do more for others and be more generous has been the most profound advice and change that I've had. I love hearing that about generosity and helping the community. And you're definitely doing that. And Ben, I want to thank you for taking time to be on our show today. And super awesome having you. Rusty, it's awesome. Yeah, it's great to see you. I appreciate the opportunity to come on and hopefully help some people right now.  Great. Thanks, Ben. Okay, thank you. And thank you for watching Beyond the Lines on Think Tech Hawaii. For more information, please visit RustyKamori.com. And my books are available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and BooksHawaii.net. I hope that Ben and I will inspire you to create your own superior culture of excellence and to find your greatness and help others find theirs. Aloha.


Hello everyone and welcome to Prophecy Files Briefing. We're glad that you've joined us today. Hope that you'll share this out on your social media. Get the word out about the greatest event, next event on the calendar of God. That is the imminent return of Jesus Christ in the rapture of the church. It is also one of the most assaulted, mocked, scorned and scoffed doctrine of the Word of God, especially in these last days. So in the past few days, the world has heard all about the solar eclipse and all that has taken place from people flying in planes to getting married to the Dallas zoo animals going a little bit crazy. All of these things were taking place yesterday as millions were watching the solar eclipse. This past weekend I dealt with the signs in the sun, the moon and the stars. And some people will discount whether or not God is speaking through the sun, moon and stars. I won't go into the details of it. You can watch that broadcast online on the archives, but this is the greatest concern of mine today. And that is that believers do not give up the hope of the promise of Jesus return with all of the rhetoric, with all of the scoffing, with all that is taking place today to try to undermine the hope of Jesus Christ return. We as believers, those of you who are Christians and believe in the second coming of Jesus Christ and the return, the pre-tribulation return of Jesus in the rapture of the church, which is verified over and over again in the Word of God. I just want to encourage you today to stay true and fast toward the promise. The Bible says in second Peter, chapter three, verses three through eight, it deals with this subject, but I want to zero in on this particular phrase. Where is the promise of his coming? In the last days, the Bible said that scoffers would come. Asking that question, saying where is the promise of his coming? For since our fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they are. And this is the important thing. All things are not continuing just as they are. The changes and the rapid increase of all of the things that Jesus spoke of in Matthew 24 are happening on a greater scale than they ever have been before. And certainly the technology and all that is happening brings more of it to our attention. There's no doubt. But we hear the wars and rumors of wars. We see the pestilence and the famine and all that Jesus spoke of. And with that pounding on people's faith today as believers and the outside darkness of this world, its encroachment of Satan and the very spirit of Antichrist that is rising, it can attack the hope of the return of Jesus Christ. So the question is, Pastor, what am I supposed to do? I'm asking where is the promise of his coming because I've heard people say that Jesus is coming again and these signs taking place and some that are completely discounting the signs altogether. Well, let me just say this to you. The promise of his coming can be found throughout the Old Testament. In fact, there's more than 500 prophecies concerning the second coming of Jesus Christ found in the Old Testament. One out of every 25 verses in the New Testament speaks of the second coming of Jesus Christ, the return of the Lord. One quarter of the entirety of the Bible deals with the prophetic signs that are coming and the prophecy concerning Jesus' return. So where's the promise of his coming? It's found in the Old Testament over and over again. It's also found in all four of the Gospels. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John record the promise of his coming. You find that in Matthew 16, Mark 13, Luke 19, John 14, all of these and many others it's found there in the Gospels. Whereas the promise of his coming, it's found in the Book of Acts, the very first chapter. You can find it being recorded there as the angels declared to those that were watching Jesus rise from the earth that this same Jesus shall come in like manner. The promise of his coming is found in the Book of Acts without a doubt. It's also found in the epistles that were written by Paul, James, Peter, John and Jude. All of them record the promise of Jesus coming. His return that would take place and it gives quite details even in all of this that I'm speaking of, the details of his coming, how he's going to come, where he's going to come, all of these things. The rapture lets us know beyond the shadow of any doubt that he's coming in the clouds. And then in the second coming he will literally put his foot down on Mount Olive in Jerusalem. These are recorded, these facts are recorded in the Word of God. Where's the promise of his coming? It's found in the Apocalypse, the Book of Revelation. Over and over again, describing Revelation one, Revelation 22, Revelation 12, Revelation 20, all of these can be found recording the prophecy of the promise of the Lord's return. Where's the promise of his return? Well, if you've been in church recently and you have received the sacrament communion, then you've been reminded right there in 1 Corinthians 11 how that Jesus Christ promised that he would return just like he said. And if that isn't enough, where's the promise of his coming? Well, through the power of the Holy Spirit living inside of the life of the believer, he is the daily witness to us for every true believer that Jesus Christ is coming again. I remind you on this briefing frequently and you hear it from the pulpit here at Pace Assembly. It's not a widely preached message about the return of Jesus Christ because some people have lost the hope. The Bible says to those that are looking, we will see the blessed hope of the Lord's return and it could take place even today. The only question is, are you ready? I wanna encourage you today, get yourself and your family prepared for the next great event on the calendar of God without a doubt, it is the rapture of the church. Thank you for joining us today. Share this out. And I wanna encourage you just this past weekend we recorded and preached two messages that I believe will be of interest to you concerning Bible prophecy. One, signs in the heavens. It was the Sunday morning message and you won't wanna miss it. And all of the details concerning how that the Lord uses the sun, moon, and stars. And then Sunday night, the prophecy files update that we bring to you on a frequent basis this past weekend on Sunday night. It will be available at the archives at pacesamely.org. I encourage you to go there and see what events are pointing toward the imminent return of Jesus Christ. Thank you for joining us today. We'll look forward to being back with you again. Till then, remember Jesus Christ is coming soon.


U.S. Marines with 3rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, 3rd Marine Expeditionary Force, took part in an alert contingency Marine Air Ground Task Force drill on Marine Corps Air Station Fatema, Okinawa, Japan, May 5, 2017. U.S. Marine Captain Chun Park, the 3rd Med G3 Deputy Current Operations Officer, explains the importance of the drill. The whole purpose of this drill is to increase our speed of response so that way we can effectively and quickly respond to any crisis here in the region. The ACM was alerted and a crisis action team formed to respond to the drill. They then created a Joint Humanitarian Assistance Survey Team that can deploy at a moment's notice. Reporting from Marine Corps Air Station Fatema, Okinawa, Japan, I'm Lance Corporal Desiree Cam.


y both sides and be sure Yeah, but it's it's crazy how long people hold on to that. So yeah, for sure I'm the basketball fan in general But I do have to say as predominantly a miami heat fan because this is that is my hometown I do have an inherent hatred for the boston Celtics Jake I was just in boston I think we uh can agree we share that hate Right Probably eliminated the box one. It doesn't matter I mean all three of us should have an inherent hate for each other because we've all beaten each other in the playoffs recently, but I like all of you. Don't worry about it. It's yeah now. It's hard for me to hate the heat when they just got lucky because of an injury You know, I don't Twice Nice I mean the only eight seed to ever go to the finals. I think that I think that means yeah Who did they beat before the Celtics? I forgot. No, man, you know, that's that's a that's a good question. I think it was the nicks Yeah, any other teams on the layer? Yeah, of course they did they beat the bucks, you know The prior reigning champions you use the injury excuse to lose them. I didn't the bucks lose yarmus And then we'll do like game one Anyways Eric, yeah, what's one of your hobbies outside of video games?  I mean, I did that clearly every week, but Um, no, I like hunting fishing Um swimming, so I don't do a lot of it, but I do like that stuff Okay, all right All right, jakey boy. What do you got? Is it because I swear you're doing it every damn stream What is it eaten donuts because I know I already ate my cookie. I was pretty sneaky about it I was nothing by me.  Um, what's it called? I actually I like playing music, uh, right on quite a little bit everything and I like to sing too Nice what got by jake randall pokemon rap on youtube wait, what no My goodness jake randall pokemon rap what is what is this right now? Holy What oh god, we may have to What Yeah, I feel like That's wild. That's actually wild. Oh man. It's thinking This is going to turn into an intro to my live shinsh or not Dude, that's sick.  All right. Anyways, I got everyone just watching it. Yeah, I know we're honestly raptured by this So hobbies for me, uh, look, I I don't have time for all this stuff Uh, I get to watch some sports and and do my youtube stuff and play video games And yeah one point youtube was a hobby, but now it's my job kind of feel like it's still hobbies I enjoy it, but um That's like obvious stuff. I I there's other things that I'm really interested in like I really love tech I'm I'm just a really big into technology and keeping up the data on all the latest happenings with the computer components and the different cell phones Stuff tech early. I really like that stuff and For those in the know if you know, you know, I love singing karaoke Really? You should have come to boss. I literally had a karaoke day.  I was like all Up in there come on man Hey, I was tearing up the karaoke too because I was invited by someone from the area who just didn't show up It happens. I got my friend No, I know I just I wouldn't have stood you up Really? Jake did say I invited him to everything and he didn't come but it's okay. I see well So the lucky strike night My friends spent like two grand to buy a table at the grand Yeah Yeah, with like bottle service and like everything I couldn't like oh my god Pass that up. What the heck? Yeah. No. Okay. Go do that. If you had told me that I would have been fine I would have been like I did tell the group chat that That we got a table at the grand. I just didn't explain it very well That's how my I'm not popping explain what that meant cool enough to be in the group chat. I just yeah I love group chats. I just never get put in them and you know Does anybody watch does anybody here watch curb? Is anybody caught up on curvy enthusiasm? The most recent I'm not caught up. I used to watch it because there's there's an episode about the group chat Very recently like one of the last most recent episodes and about how much he hates them And he feels like obligated to respond to things when he doesn't want to respond and they get upset at him for not even putting emojis Without you could just put a thumbs up and he'll he's like if I say one person I could just do a thumbs up right now Here you go That's very awesome. Yeah But that's that's just kind of the hobbies I have there there's other things I have interest in but I just have no time for so I like next to karaoke like I want to go out every Friday night. There's a there's a place Like 10 minutes from my house. It has karaoke. It's packed every night I got to go to two Fridays ago because one of my buddies was in town Inviting me out in yulia for some reason said Fine And I went and oh my god It was I just I tore up that mic, baby. I was on that thing all night. Hell.  Yeah See the bar and everyone's early. No, I'm just I want to see daddy prime music tour What's your go-to? What's your go-to karaoke? So with jake randall have lots of go-to karaoke. So barbie girl Okay, okay, okay. Okay. Okay. If we were if us seven we're in a care like in a like a like a carry Like a korean karaoke room that kind of style. I ideal. What would you what would your what would your go? What would you start us off with brick house?  That's a good one one of the two Yeah, that's fun.  Yeah, no, that's literally that's literally what it is or remember the the wedding band in old school Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah that version.  All right You know You could you could literally do karaoke on joy sound nintendo has the joy sound thing on uh on switch Oh, yeah, look it up. Have a japanese nintendo account and go to town man Do like a cruel angel thesis from even galleon do like we are from one piece all the all the japanese songs that are Awesome No, I'm I'm not karaoke shoes before because I I do play I play copyrighted music for on my normal streams Because we just kind of don't really delete them. We just unlist them after because youtube Hey, we're not gonna let strikes for music anymore. We're just gonna say no one can watch your video There is a way there's a way to I don't know if there's a way to do it on youtube But there's a way to do it on twitch where you can like while the live stream is up the music will play But if like when the vod goes up after the fact it will Be like why can't I watch this on the bed? I might do we were we were jamming out to some michael jackson and some other So don't you know what I need to be that's what I'm saying is like you could You want to see prime? You want to see prime lit up? You got to be at the lives. It is what you got to be there That's how that fair fair. What do you just got to be jake randall who We didn't meet up a different night and We got lit up. It is what it is She's a good night That was a very good man Mad at the bartender for not carrying any booze above 30% We all thought you were going to start a fight. We're all like lucky like I cannot imagine you starting a fight in a bar I could not imagine it definitely it definitely looked like you was The bartender for not knowing what two of the different I was the bartender was like everyone around you I was not I stayed in the backside You're not involved in the conversations conversations where I bought three shots at tequila I was I was involved in looking at the body language And then the guy looked at me and said are you are you gonna drink all of those? I'm like, would you like me to no one can drink all of those? I'm like Do do do do do she's like Who are you?  No, she was taking the fight with you She was going her friend the whole time was like, I'm so sorry. I'm so you're seeing so She gets like this when she drinks. I'm like, I'm just here to have a good time. Would you like a beer? What are we doing? I was not picking a fight at all, but she did she wanted to fight everyone. She probably did get to fight that night with someone physically I don't know. I've never experienced a woman where I'm just like hi. Nice to meet you.  I got the ring on we're good. Leave me alone, please That's why I had to move to the other side of the bar anyways, um I think uh, we got oh, let me see That was the the one question we had we had just this guy saying hey Even he just wanted to celebrate his one month Of being a member so they can Um, we have a suggestion from mackerel saying they should hire ember lab to do a zelda short And then check out ember lives were jorah's master of all fate. I've definitely seen that very good And roger every challenge there, buddy Yeah, I'm down for a shokugeki whenever. Yeah the difference is I gotta make content if I'm making a shokugeki And that takes time and so I don't know when I get time, but I'm always down for for food challenges Yeah I know macros of my discord server. I feel like maybe a discord shokugeki Didn't you say when you came in roger's that those food challenges get you bricked up sometimes? Those were your words Okay, because to be fair Breaked up. I assumed was constipated the way it was described to me So I'm like, yes, there are definitely food challenges in which I would feel If you eat the wrong thing All right Establishing right now. That's right. I've been bricked up before. All right That's gonna do it for ever son 64 season two By guys only four left before we hit season three with a slight reboot Pretty cool. We got some pretty big change the show is gonna be way different Uh, it's gonna be kind of wild a little bit upside down even I don't even know how i'm gonna control it because I got to be like, oh Oh, you guys are going. Hey everyone. I got to actually maybe use the mute button once in a while Captain dove your friend your friend was correct. So I don't know where the dispute was there That's exactly what it means. Yeah, I don't know get hype Yeah, dude getting excited it has a specific kind of excitement Um Kind of excitement.   Yeah, i'm here. Yep. Everybody most wednesdays most wednesdays authority Mr. Rivet Maybe we should have went with croakers and rub it No, uh, my is flam. I am live on twitch thursday fridays and saturdays Uh, we're doing princess peach game Um, i'm gonna do Mario party And i'm gonna start really hitting the youtube. So if you follow something of mine follow the youtube Please i'm trying to get that thing monetized. So we're so close. We're getting there. So All right Croaker son That's what i was saying earlier. I hardly know her son. Yeah. Yeah, you're a little late on that one Ruby's daddy. I don't want to interrupt austin I appreciate you. Thank you. You know what? I'll work and be fine. Yeah Yeah, well, I am I am I guess the father of my cat that is named ruby But i'm also known as uh, andres restart. I make nintendo news and theory videos and Mostly rumors lately because that's what's going on, but there's theory videos coming. Um, yep andres restart you can find me there All right chore boy Yes, yeah, you can find me at rogers based everywhere on youtube twitter twitch and on instagram I don't really use twitter as much anymore But I do use twitch and youtube a lot and I actually do have a specific Nintendo related thing to plug that is coming up prime that actually would be of interest to this audience Which is a little older I don't know how many of you remember the old VHS tapes that would release at funko land like hyping up new nintendo trailers But there was a videotape called hot news 64 that hyped up docky kong 64 and jet force gem and i when those games were first coming out Uh, I won't give all the details here But I actually got in contact with the guy who hosted the hot news 64 video is named steve sobel Really nice guy turns out he lives 10 minutes from my house And so we did an hour and a half long Interview about his experience doing that and sort of what it was being like on one of the early prototype kind of like nintendo rex before those became a thing and it turned out his kid watched my youtube videos So then we did a whole reaction video for my channel with him and his kid reacting to hot news 64 So it's gonna be a lot of fun. Definitely look forward to that and thank you again for having me greatly Appreciate it great meeting all of you too Yeah, wonderful meeting you in season three here. I know we've got to schedule like six months ahead of time, but we'll make it Right, right? We'll make it happen. Yeah All right back tree boy. What's up? Well, I don't know if I can follow that But That that video is if you might have a vhs copy Oh, no, I don't I'm like are you getting hot news 64? I don't I don't I don't I don't think I have hot news 64 but somewhere on the shelf I have one of those old vhs promo things that they put the trailers on I think that's like exactly. I think it's for banjo kazooie or something like that, but I I had one for majora's mask when I was a kid. I watched that one. Majora's mask went through. Yes.  He has one doesn't Give me like two seconds. I'll see if I can find it All right. All right. All right. That's fine I guess I'll go while he's doing that Um, obviously you guys can follow nintendo prime right here on youtube or anywhere You can find me pretty much type nintendo prime and it's probably me if it's not It's some kid who made a youtube channel like a long time ago that has like one follower and never made a video I don't know beats me What I can't say is the podcast is awesome and I'm getting a little emotional every episode get closer to the end because I don't even know if the core even knows besides andress who I went over with him a lot of the stuff A lot of the major changes coming because the show is going to feel a lot different a lot shorter a lot more concise And it's on me to make sure it stays that way so the reason for that there's multiple reasons for that but uh, the bottom line is uh, I'm getting a little bricked up thinking about the end.  All right What'd you find over there? Okay, so it's not uh banjo-kazooie, but it is yoshi's island. Oh yoshi's island. Wow This is what you get bricked up for Yeah, look at that Wow And now instead what we get is a random tweet about a game That's it No, see This is why like I know this is like 30 years old But this is why I'll always advocate for physical stuff because this is just like the neatest awesome. So awesome. Yeah. Yeah, that's truly is but uh What was that? Sorry, I said be rewind Oh Is it rewind? I should check I think it it yeah, it's pretty short, but it's Do you remember how the HSS worked? Which side it needs? I do man Yeah, you want it on the left to start right? Yeah, it is on the left. I checked it uh with that said though, um For once again those who don't know I'm hoops if you like pokemon stuff You can find me on youtube you can find me on twitter instagram I post lots of just like coverage videos of what's going on with the games obviously and I also do a lot of like Fakie mon like just like cool Just like I guess world building type videos just like making up making up my own stuff It's a lot of fun. So check that out if you're into that sort of thing All right, it looks like eric's hand is on austin's lap Oh Bricked up Whoa, what? Whoa. All right jake's got it. We gotta end this jake's gonna get out of hand We are at the end of the show first. Thank you so much, but um, I heard that I appreciate that that was very well Popped this outro


Hi, I'm Bruno Scaronne, presenting our work Understanding Search Behavior Bias in Wikipedia, which is joint work with my advisor Ricardo Vizai Yates from Nordistan University and Eric Bernhardsson from the Wikimedia Foundation. Let's start with our motivation. Extensive research over recent years has recognized the importance of studying the existence and impact of biases on the web and its search process. In particular in this work we focus on one of the most visited sites on the web, Wikipedia, which as you probably know is the world's largest open encyclopedia, providing content to millions of readers across the globe in more than 300 actively edited languages. Due to this we believe it is indeed relevant to understand how its users browse the content of the site, in particular in this case using its website search tool. The high level objective of the work was to identify elements affecting or biasing the search behavior of Wikipedia users. For this, based on Wikipedia's server logs, we generated datasets containing millions of search sessions to first characterize its website search and then compare it to generic web search. In this work we focus on the potential sources of bias shown here inside the blue rectangle on the slide, which are the type of device, namely whether it is a desktop or mobile device, the page lengths of the articles, as well as the ranking position of the pages. We guide the study by three research questions, namely whether the client type affects the observed search behavior, whether the page length affects the time a user spends reading a page, and finally whether the ranking of a page affects the time it takes a user to click on the link to it, which is also known as time to first click. Now I'll give you an overview of our results starting with the first research question. First I'd like to note that our analysis is based on clickstream data as a proxy for search behavior and the dwell times derived from it, which is common practice in the information retrieval literature. As a reminder, dwell times are computed as the time difference between two consecutive clicks within a search session, as you can see on the equation shown here on the screen. Related to dwell time computation, in our data sets we observe that many sessions are single clicked, and thus we cannot compute dwell times for those. The main observation here is that for the analyzed variables I introduced earlier, which are also shown inside the orange rectangle on the slide, we did not see any significant difference in the results when segmenting them by client type, which we know is not the case in web search, as we will see later in the talk. Now I'll continue with the dwell time distributions. Here for visualization purposes we see a sub range of the distribution of dwell times for desktop on the left and mobile devices on the right, both exhibiting the same general pattern. In particular, both have two modes, the first as you can see occurring around zero seconds and the second close to seven seconds. The first has been previously reported as accidental clicks in the context of mobile devices. And given that we also saw several consecutive clicks to a page were being made from the same referrer in our data sets, we filtered them and indeed observed the first mode vanishing in this filtered version. What is perhaps surprising here is to observe the same behavior for desktop too. Regarding the second research question, we analyzed the duration of dwell times and the size of the pages where these were measured. Again here the pattern is the same regardless of the access method, namely there is an initial peak, closely after zero seconds given by accidental clicks, as you can see here on the charts, followed by a steady increase until reaching roughly 60 seconds and after that the page length oscillates. This means that it is only the case for dwell times shorter than a minute that the longer the dwell time the bigger in size are the pages being accessed. This may be what one would intuitively expect, but as I mentioned before it is not true in general for either of the device types we have analyzed. To further confirm this we did two things. First we plot the data without being in dwell times and that's no averaging page length, as you can see in this scatter plot shown on the right section of the slide. And also computed the Pearson correlation coefficients, which as you can also see on the table, confirm the anchor relation between the variables. This behavior was known in the context of genetic web search for a small sample of 25 users. But in this work, as I previously mentioned, we use logs containing millions of sessions, greatly expanding this sample size. Regarding the relation between the ranking of a page and the time to first click, we analyze this both at the search level and also at the session level by averaging over the different searches within a session. And what you can see here on the charts is what happens for all cases, namely that the variables are uncorrelated and that the two aggregation levels show similar results, meaning that the search behavior tends to be uniform within a session. Here you can see all the correlation coefficients that confirm the anchor relation, which imply that in this context the ranking has no significant impact on the time it takes a user to click on a result. Given that we know users rarely view more than 20 results, and in particular not the entire list of results returned by a search engine, we hypothesize that users keep results without really reading them. Otherwise, we would observe a linear time increase in the collected times. To conclude, we envision this work as the first steps towards identifying ways to improve the search experience of Wikipedia users. And so future work includes, on the one hand, providing insights into what produces the observed behavior, as well as including additional elements into our analysis, like the semantics of the queries, to obtain further insights. The first point can be addressed by segmenting users, for example, by languages, and assessing if the average search behavior differs among them. Or tokenally, given the in general transit nature of the search behavior we have observed in this work, we would also like to explore measures that encourage longer page stays in the articles, or alternatively, ones that assure the essential information of them is located at the top of the pages, so that it is not missed by readers. We thank you for your attention. Our code is available on GitLab, and we are happy to receive any feedback you may have.