So, Paul, I think we're live. I think those WordPress multi-site hippies, they're dream, they're talking about WordPress multi-site and their dream for the future is static HTML.  You're in the wrong session, people. Anyway, this is the session on DS106, Accused on Trial. And Paul, you and I had the pleasure to kind of sit in and work together on that session, although, to be fair, it was all you. And we either have a special guest judge, the great Martha Birdist, who was really good at putting everyone in their place really, really well. So anyway, I just wanted to get a sense from you. You had kind of dreamed up the session, you came to me with the idea of I want to do a session at Reclaim Open, and I would love to focus it around something with DS106. So I guess maybe we'll start with you talking a little bit about your thinking around the session, what you wanted out of it, and why you wanted to do it. Well, yeah, I thought it's time to do something on DS106, but what do we do? One of the things that I've been thinking about is that theme of the web that was the web is the web that will be. DS106 was set up quite a while ago, things were a little different online. There's a lot of social media wired into the course, and it's not as nice a place as it used to be. Part of the signup form for DS106 requires to have a Twitter handle, and we don't want to do that anymore. Yeah, to be clear DS106 is still nice, but the ecosystem it lived in got a little bit polluted. To be honest, that's never really been a problem, as I've seen it within DS106. We're kind of off in our own world, and the trolls don't care about us, which is cool. But we do run into some problems, especially on YouTube, where things get copyright claimed, but maybe they shouldn't be. So I want to talk about DS106 as something that sort of bridges the web that was, the web that is the web that will be. In some ways we had our feet in all three of those, depending on how you define them. And I'm not sure how it came to me, but I had the idea to run it as a trial. Was it at all influenced by our true crime? Oh, definitely. At UMW, we did a whole freshman seminar, which was Meredith Fero's first kind of class at UMW, about true crime, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, we had that true crime seminar, which was very cool. We got to do a lot of really interesting things with that class, this way of foregrounding the students. It was very DS106-y, right? There would do a video, someone did Charlie's Angels, and they would do crazy early American spin-ups. There was a lot of that storytelling element across media in it as well. Yeah, they dramatized some of the stories. Yeah. Was it that they ran Bridget over the car? Sarah was that one woman from Canada who was out of her mind. Yeah, it was a really fun class. And yeah, I said that ties into the idea of the trial, especially that let's hang them. But it also, I saw that as a way to involve the audience as well. We could bring them in as a jury. And so I guess this was a little weird as a trial to not convict, but ask the jury to save people. But that was kind of the point, let's get participants' ideas of what we can do, what else we can do with DS106, you know, how can we modernize it? So from that point, we framed the prosecution as like you've neglected this. I forget all the accusations I threw in there. Yeah, like coattail writing. It was very funny. You had coattail writing, you had breaking copyright, you had all these like list of offenses.  I just showed up. But one of the greatest things of the session was earlier that day, we had what is an art fair and it's something we've been doing at several of our conferences. And it's great people bring their projects.  And actually, I have found some video on the Reclaim EdTech Discord. So if you don't mind, I'm going to add that to the stream right now. And we're going to look at a little video of Paul and I doing a flash pop up promoting the session that would happen later that day, wherein we are essentially what Grant Potter, who I stole the video from, calls the passion of St. Paul. So let's take a look at this right here. Here it is. And let's see if we get a video. Can you hear it? I'm not hearing anything. Okay. So I'm basically reading off the offenses that you're doing. And I actually, if you give me, this is, this is when, you know, we lose the audience right here is I'm going to try and bring that in. And once I try that, things go totally wrong. But let me just see real quickly. So anyway, I am reading off the offenses that you're talking about here. And I think if we try this, I might be able to bring this in right here. Let me just see if my let's see how good my audio game is. So I am going to try with my speaker to bring in loop back. Let's see if this works. I'm going to try it again. Ready? Go. So that was super fun. So we just popped up. You had written that I was just, you could see in my terrible acting was just reading off of the post of the poster you had created all of your offenses. But it's worth it. I think you have a better copy of that poster. It's worth for you to, to share what you kind of came up with as part of the quote unquote art fair, where we would do this quick pop up and kind of promote the session. So do you have that poster handy? It's coming. There we go. Awesome. Let's do it. Man, we're good. It's like we're professionals, Paul. Hey, we fake it till you make it, right? Yeah. So I did a couple of two different versions of the poster. So we have this one and we have side by side, which is no, we didn't. We used the other one. We might have hung on both of them. Yeah, I think you're right. Yeah. Yeah, you know, the Dr. Oblivion Jim Groom and the karaoke Jim Groom. Yeah, you know, I love Dr. Oblivion Jim Groom. Yeah. And the list of the crimes put under there, inviting people. I really went for that. Obviously, the antique look. I was looking for early American trial rate ups, announcements, flyers or whatever. And that's, I think, where that banner at the top and the bottom comes from. And I just sort of stuck DS106 over it. They fit pretty nicely. Those public announcements of the crimes, right? Yeah. Public shaming, which I obviously fit right into on that video. Like I had no problem jumping into a character. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it was brilliant. It's a brilliant like visual display.  And then after we do this, we do get some people who attend our session surprisingly. And where you, myself and Martha Burtis are up there, all who had an integral part in running DS106 over the years. And it was just fun to talk about essentially accusing you. So you heard people who are listening now heard the accusations against Paul. And so Paul, what was your defense? Did you have a defense speak? I want to say my defense was kind of weak, actually. I really felt like I was little less prepared than I should have been for that. And I think both you and Martha really saved that presentation, you know, because Martha's pretty much in the whole thing. You dreamed up, wrote the poster for and bring us in. Oh, that one? We saved you on.  But in hindsight, and also because I was underprepared, really focusing on the performance was I think more important and focusing on the people in the audience getting their ideas. So basically, my defense is for, you know, what one of the accusations was usurping the course, you know, which, you know, it's not exactly the way it happened, but I like to frame it that way anyway.   You got a double dig in on me.   And he said, I thought that was transparent.   And people in the audience, because we had, we had left it for them. And for a good five, 10 minutes, they were chatting and just having fun.  But the fact that you bring up Michael Branson Smith is nice, because, you know, Michael Branson Smith had a couple of sessions that I thought were really great at the, at the conference. He did one on where it was basically a real experimental session where he did what is called AI Levine, where he, he created a AI model voice, video and text of Alan Levine talking about splots, which was genius and a very fun session. But then he talked about the legal illegal mind of the artist talking about the idea of copyright and the laws really recently that have kind of really blurred the idea of ownership. And a lot of the things that I thought when DS 106, and you mentioned it earlier with YouTube and takedowns, the remix culture and the kind of idea of reusing and riffing on not only each other's work, but the work and the kind of broader cultural milieu was what was most fun about DS 106. And one of the things that came up in the conversation that really got me excited was thinking about like, could we get the band back together quote unquote, and come up with a course where we would use AI as the model quote unquote for the class, you know, train a model of Dr. Oblivion have Dr. Oblivion teach the class purely as an AI based on what's been taught before so train them on these various sections and not not program the class like have AI do the syllabus and then have all the people who take the class do all their assignments using AI. Not because I'm a fan of AI, I have very mixed feelings on it. In fact, I've been trying to avoid it like the plague. But it would be a fun way like Michael's AI Levine to kind of intervene in a creative way to try and get your head around what are the tools? How are they working? What are the implications, right? Like, it's hard to talk about the implications of artificial intelligence as it's being framed right now. If you don't know how to use it, or if you don't understand it. And I know I can't speak to it very intelligently because I've intentionally avoided it, but that cannot last, right? I'm gonna have to come. I'm gonna have to come to some sort of relationship with it, whether I like it or not. So what better than train an entire DS106 course slash community on AI? So at least I can dive into it with people who I have fun with and who I can share with and who I feel safe to kind of explore my duplicity around this technology and what it means. So that's one of the things I took from this that I thought was super fun. Yeah, I mean, we had several conversations during the course of the conference about AI and DS106. Ben Harwood, I think, was talking about doing it and where he is. And I really like the idea because it raises a lot of the questions about, you know, what is art? What is creative? And let's you play with that technology. What can we do with this and how can we make it creative? And you had a recent, I'm sorry to interrupt, but you had a brilliant recent post on your blog about this talking about it's about the dance, right? And this idea of you took a quote, I believe, was from an old school. It was originally from T.S. Eliot, but it was reused in a sci-fi novel by a guy who wrote Neuromancer, am I right? William Gibson, yeah, it was in count zero, like Dick. I mean, I read that back in the 80s. And I remembered there was a thing in there about an AI that was producing art was like one of the plots of the story. But that line came up in there, you know, it's just the dance. But yeah, I didn't know at the time when I read it that that was T.S. Eliot, you know, when googling stuff after the fact, I saw this is where it came from. And it's sort of an illusion in there. The dance, you know, makes me think of the judge, so that'll be going as well. Yeah, from Blood Meridian. And it's actually an interesting frame, because we always do them with themes and AI obviously would be the theme of ideas 106 course that hopefully we'll do. And I think Martha was into it, too, in spring, maybe of 2024, and test it out before. But like the idea also of the idea of the dance being a broader kind of aesthetic frame for it, right? Like so you have AI, you know, you maybe have it happening at various schools. And then you have this idea of a dance, you know, not only with the tech, but also amongst the community. Yeah, I mean, it's that interaction between between the art and the viewer. Like that's the aesthetic experience between the art and the artist is sort of the creative experience. And I think these are things that we look at in TS 106 as we, you know, blog about our work, what we're doing, what we're trying to do. And I think that's a way of focusing on the dance is where I'm sort of like a foregrounding that part of it, you know, and I think that would let us think through how we can use AI creatively, maybe think through some of those issues about, you know, copyright and AI scraping things. I've always had this fantasy wish of having a text to speech reader that speaks in the voice of Bob Ross, you know, and you know, from what Michael Branson Smith showed you like this is something that could be done pretty easily. Stuff like that is what always makes that class so amazing as someone comes up with this bonkers idea and then executes and then you're like, Oh, wait, it's possible.  And I think the thing about it too is it's on a lot of people's mind. And there's obviously a hype factor around it. But there's also a real genuine curiosity and a genuine, I think, desire to communicate and work with a bunch of people to enter that dance to try and wrap your head around it and see what that means. And just, you know, even when I saw Michael stuff when you're talking about the Bob Ross text to speech, like, I know my inclinations to kind of discount it, you know, are limited. And I also know that there's there's some real potential problems with what's happening and how it's being done by companies to, you know, deal with things and erase ideas of like provenance and authorship, right? But these are not new issues, right?   But there is an ethical issue there, which, you know, it's probably why it hasn't been done. Exactly. And it's trademark copyright issues, right? Yeah, yeah. My kids have Bob Ross shirts.  The things that are going on, you know, in Hollywood right now with the strike, you know, as you mentioned, nothing's new about this. I remember reading a story about Jet Li, martial arts actor, that he like quit making movies because the studio wanted to basically scan all his moves and own it. You know, he just didn't want to be part of that, you know, and that's kind of the fight that's going on right now. That's super interesting, actually. Yeah. So I have another, because one of the things you brought up early on in this talk, and we have about six and a half minutes before the next one, so I'll be mindful of that, is you brought up the idea of, you know, social media changed. You know, we did a lot of our community building and a lot of our kind of, you know, cross sectionality with different groups coming together from different places or even students who had taken the class or people who contributed over time. It all collapsed into Twitter in a very elegant way with the hashtag DS106. And it was great. Also where the radio happened and there's no two ways about it. The universe of DS106 misses Twitter because of that because it was a great place to track time across, you know, various spaces in a very simple way using that hashtag. But, you know, at Reclaim Hosting, we've been doing a lot with open publishing stuff, right? Like WordPress has always been the engine that drove the blogs and that. We now have PeerTube and Taylor Jaden, who's been on a crazy roll, just got the DS106.tv site up and running cleanly again. It had been kind of, you know, in between. I had left it in a half working state. And now we have basically a YouTube clone that will never get copyright claims. It's kind of like a beautiful, you know, it's kind of niche. And we have the Mastodon for DS106 already, which could be a nice substitute potentially for Twitter. Like, I think a lot of the open source pieces to do this in a way that's a little bit more protected and community specific are in place now. And so part of me excited about doing another DS106 is also rolling out the new tools and creating kind of an upgraded version of it. I have some dreams of moving the site and then integrating all the pieces with Taylor before maybe this spring session. So we really roll out a new and improved DS106 kind of presence. So I'm always interested in the technical piece and how to make that, you know, buttress what's happening with the creative piece. And I think it might be a great time to do a kind of overhaul of the ecosystem, at least of the technology, and make it all open source and make sure that it's really serving the community. And people don't feel like once they get on, say, Mastodon, you know, they're locked in and then, you know, some jackasses making claims that they may not agree with ethically or beyond. So I'm excited about that piece. Yeah. And I mean, doesn't exactly qualify as open, but Discord is another tool that we've been using. And I think that helps like with when we used to live tweet stuff, we sort of moved that to Discord, that makes that conversation a little more flows a little better. It's a little more elegant because the other noise Twitter is filtered out. But you can also invite people in. So like when we the last couple of times that I live tweeted radio shows, you know, Joe Murphy joined us, just to hear what's going on, that Discord community for DS 106, it's technically still open to everyone who was in there before, you know, so, you know, that community is there, people want to stick with it. Yeah, their toes back in. And I'll tell you that Discord slash what we're using here, StreamYard, that's going into YouTube, but it can also StreamYard can go right into PeerTube. Like that's really nice for those live sessions. And like some of those highlighting pieces. So I do think that, you know, I don't have to be a purist about open source. And obviously with Reclaim AdTech, we're not we're using Discord because it works and it provides us what we need. So yeah, I really like the idea of exploring alongside exploring AI, exploring a kind of infrastructure that will support the class going forward, given one of the key elements of it, Twitter is not really viable in the same way it was in 2011, 2012. Yeah, but all tools go bad eventually, you know, so we just pick up a new one and figure out how to work with it. I mean, we just came from a WordPress multi-site session that ended with all static HTML sites all the time. So I mean, even WordPress is on the chopping block for these EdTech hippies, right? But we are green or something? What are we, Paul? We are for life. DS106 always gets a spot at a Reclaim Conference, right?  Oh, it's DS106 people again, they're going to get a spot, of course. And Beware Hacks is pilot noted. Beware. But I do think Federation makes a lot of sense for a new iteration of DS106, not to mention focusing around artificial intelligence and what that looks like. So that's actually, you know, I'm using this follow-up in the July Reclaim Open Virtual event to say I'm definitely still committed. I'll reach out to Martha. I'll start touching base with the folks back at Reclaim, like Pilot and Taylor and others, and try and kind of come up with a plan. And then I want to see if I can maybe get a course, like whether at UMW, you should reach out to your contacts there, maybe Georgetown. I was trying to kind of, you know, sow those seeds, like somewhere where we could also teach at other universities, because I always like that. You're like, I just love to teach, but I always like. So anyone out there who has ideas of universities that might want to do some version of this, don't be shy.  So I would love it to bring in students and kind of have some space. But with that, I think we're past our time. Paul, thank you for joining me on this session where we kind of reflected on the always evergreen greatness of the mighty, mighty DS106 for life. Yes, DS106 is always dancing and it will never die. Yeah! Thanks, everybody. All right.


I'm here at Telecom World 2012 in Dubai, and I'm very pleased to be joined by Eugene Kaspersky, who is CEO and founder of Kaspersky Lab. Eugene, thank you very much for being with us today. Yeah, welcome. And it's a pleasure to talk to you, and I'm really proud to be here at such a great event, and especially in times of the changing landscape of cyber threats. I was going to ask you about that. There's been a great deal of transformation in the ICT industry. I wanted to ask you about the changes in the landscape of cyber security, and also with regards to the level of threats that we might experience. Yeah, unfortunately, we see that the landscape of the threats, the ICT threats, has been changed, and unfortunately it's going on quite quickly. So it started just about 20 years ago with quite a primitive computer viruses, which were written mostly by kids, teenagers, which they were proving themselves in the ICT world with quite a primitive computer viruses. Kids don't write viruses anymore, they play computer games, so they were replaced with criminals, which were developing malware and cyber threats just because of their financial reasons, and still they do quite a lot. And then the cyber crime transformed to the organized crime. So I don't want to say mafia, no. It's a little bit different. Tradition crime and cyber crime, they have a distance in between. But cyber crime now is economy. It's different organizations, gangs, individuals, which are connected. So it's a very big economy. But it's not the end of the story. The hacktivists came to this area, and unfortunately the hacktivists are now one of the most serious problems in the ICT security. And now we see that there are more and more attacks, which we can call cyber sabotage. Attacks on industrial systems, attacks on critical IT infrastructure, attacks on the internet itself. You know the cases of Estonia, and that happened once with South Korea in 2003, and the whole country was disconnected from the internet. So unfortunately it came from the kid's toys to... Well, there's still no definition of cyber terrorism. But as I understand it, it's very, very, very close to cyber terrorism. And what about the worst-case scenarios? What could we be most afraid of, do you think? I'm very right man to ask this question, because I'm thinking about the worst-case scenarios all the time. And I'm afraid the situation is very, very serious, because we depend on IT. Computers are everywhere. Do you know how many computers you use in your daily life? It's like when you drive a car, when you go to the hotel, well, I'm staying in the hotel at the moment, so you go to the hotel, press there, they call the elevator, so which elevator comes first? It's computer system as well. Planes, transportation, power grid. So, this world is managed by computers. And it's getting more and more close to matrix. So, we depend on computer systems. They are everywhere. Unfortunately, the systems are vulnerable. And we had already, we had examples of critical attacks, like attack on Estonia, the whole country was disconnected. Stuxnet, attack on the SCADA system. Aramco, attack on the critical IT infrastructure. So, I think these three scenarios, the worst-case scenarios. Attack on industrial systems, including transportation, power plants, what else. Attacks on the critical IT infrastructure. And attacks on the networks. Internet, mobile networks, maybe some very specific networks, which we don't know about. These three scenarios are maybe the worst-case scenarios. And unfortunately, there could be their collateral damage. So, they're random victims because it's Internet. No borders, no distance, no time.  There are a thousand computers at that. IT systems, they are very similar. So, it's the same operating systems. It's the same industrial environment, the same networks. So, there could be random infections. The result of such an attack. I'm afraid the successful, professional, global IT attack could... I think it easily can get us back to the pre-electric time. I call it romantic scenario. Candles, horses, paper-printed emails, handwritten. Right. So, very briefly, how can economies achieve digital resilience in this hyper-connected world? Well, there are some ideas. There are ways how to make this world more safe, more secure. And there are good news and bad news at the same time. So, there are ways how to make it. There are technologies. There are products which are almost ready, which can protect industrial systems, for example. There are IT strategies how to make your network, if we're talking about critical IT infrastructure, to make the network more stable and to have a backup network, maybe in some cases, because if the main network is broken, so we have to switch to the second one. Talking about the network attacks on Internet or mobile system, there are some technologies, there are some ideas how to make it to be protected. But it's just one side of this issue. I think that the second part of the solution is international cooperation. It's an agreement between governments not to use cyber weapons. Also, agreement to investigate incidents. Because if there are states behind the attacks, it's possible to agree not to use it anymore. But if there are activists or traditional terrorists behind the attacks, I'm afraid it's very difficult to talk to them. So, there have to be a cooperation between different governments, between states and regions to investigate, to find who is behind it and better to find it before the attack. So, the good news is that we have ideas and we have partly solutions. Partly we have solutions. The bad news is that the IT systems, they're everywhere. There are cameras here. They're computers as well. Everyone has a computer in the pocket, maybe two computers in the pocket. How many computers in the cars? It's everywhere. So, the bad news is that to redesign the computer system in a secure way, it's done complicated and expensive. If we say that, okay, we have a plan that within five or ten years we have to rebuild, redesign all the computer stuff in a secure way, the IT security engineers, the software engineers will be paid as football stars. Because it's not enough, not enough people to redo all the work which was done within the last 20, 30, 50 years. Because computers are everywhere. So, I am paranoid and optimistic at the same time. I am paranoid because all the time I'm thinking about worst case scenarios. I'm optimistic because there are solutions, there are strategies you have to make this world more safe, more secure. And I'm double happy because I'm working in IT security industry. I'm kidding. I understand. And finally, we're here at ITU Telecom World 2012. Why do you think this event is important? Well, talking about the IT innovations about IT development from the corner of cybersecurity, because I'm sitting in the corner of cybersecurity. I'm watching the world from there. This event is extremely important because there are more and more people, governments, businesses, enterprises, they understand IT security issues on a very, very, very high level. No surprise that presidents, prime ministers, they're talking about cyber threats. That's why for me, for my company, for my business, and for me personally, this event is extremely important because this is one more opportunity to just share my ideas, to share my paranoia, to explain the worst case scenarios and to find the right partners, how to make this world more safe, more secure, and have to save the cyber world, which is a mission of my company, my personal mission. Eugene Kaspersky, thank you very much for being with us today.


All right, we have some revisions first. Yeah. This is like a two year old revision by fine. Got it done. The 096, 160 by 80 color TFT breakout. So much stuff, one out of stock was unavailable, got revised, and it was just like a bit of a chase. But we finally got all the parts to be able to revise it. So this board is very cute. It's basically our smallest TFT. It's less than one inch diagonal, 160 by 80 pixels. It's IPS. It's a beautiful display. And then like stop here because I'll show what can go back to that. Yeah. So let's explain what changed. So the TFT actually wasn't unavailable. We couldn't get the TFT anymore. And so we decided if we're going to redo it, we might as well update to a plugin TFT, which makes manufacturing so much easier because you don't have to solder the TFT anymore. So to do that one, you'll see on the back, there's this little plug that goes through the back and then plugs in the pin out and shape and size of the breakout is the same. The TFT is the same, you know, resolution, but the initialization code is slightly different. Basically, it's inverted or it's not inverted compared to the previous one. So we do have updates that we're going to have for the code so you can select which version of this display.  That's why. And then it should look like that. And then the other thing is the SD card we're using now in Molex. It's a very nice micro SD card slot, but it's push pull dot push push because there's no, there's not enough space for their standard push push, which means that you don't push in to pop the SD card out. You just pull it out. So otherwise, it's, you know, basically exactly pin compatible, almost exactly code compatible. I'm just glad that we finally got this back in stock. And when we have new product photos, we put some of these amazing new quarters, the American women's series from the US Mint. Yeah. Other revision. Okay, so that's the, that's the still the culture. Yeah. So the second revision is this color OLED, the 1.27 inch color OLED, which is one of our older products now got revised. First off, it's got the next new Penguin font. It's a black PCB and we've updated to have an iSpy connector on the back. So this is our plug and play way of getting connections going. Let me just get a demo. You're getting a demo. You get a demo. Yeah. So it's otherwise pin compatible, code compatible. Yes. So why don't we go to the overhead. So for example, I've got my little Q-Spy board and a little prototype iSpy connector. And then I just use this flex cable to connect. So it's much easier to connect displays. So as we're revising and updating many of our displays, we're adding when we can. These 18 pin FPC connectors, because it just makes for really easy connection. And yeah, like Philby, we did the graphics demo. So nice font colors, graphs, et cetera. So otherwise it's exactly the same, you know, if you were using this display before, you'll notice, you know, other than the PCB color and font. It's the, you know, identical, the SD cards in the same slot and everything. But we had, we just shoved everything over a little bit to make room for a flex connector. So this is the latest in the iSpyfication. Okay. Oh, and yeah. Yeah. So this is my entry. Yes. Okay. Next up. Next up. This is coming soon, but I figure I put it in the shop because I think people are excited about it.  So this is that same micro SD card slot we talked about earlier. Very handy. If you want to add more data storage, you want to do data logging to an SD card. I just love those. Yeah, those micro SD card slots are just so darn cute. And so they fit perfectly on the back. And in this case, we put sockets in and we just plug it in, but you don't have to. You can solder it directly to the back and then use the SPI pins. And one chip select pin.  You can, by default, use the TX pin because I don't want to use the analog pins because usually you're data logging from analog or you want to use those for something else.  That's the CS pin. So you can always jumper that to some other pin if necessary. All right. Next up. Okay.  And if you're going to use those RP2040 chips in a design, you probably want some flash memory. And so this is our favorite flash memory. And I like that they put it on top of her hand there. Yeah. This is the Wynbond W25Q64JVXGIQ, which is a QSPI enabled. It also can do regular SPI or dual SPI if necessary. 64 megabits, 8 megabyte chip. It comes in a, I think this is called a WSON or an Exon. I think it's Exon size. It's basically hand solderable. It's a little bit smaller than SOIC, but it's got the same kind of size and shape. And it's, you know, a great, it's a very inexpensive 8 megabyte, 64 megabit flash. We love 8 megabyte. I think it's like enough space that you can have a little storage for files, fonts, images, audio clips. You love it. And still have, what did you say? You can do a lot. You can do a lot. I think I said you love it. I'm like, yeah, you can have you law files. Yeah. And also. Yeah, that too. Yeah, I love these law files. And then it goes great with the Raspberry Pi RP2040. So we have it in sets of 10 and sets of 100 to match the 10 and 100 RP2040 chips. Next up. Okay. Next up, we're going to get some more products from other vendors. Just been out. I've been out for a couple of months, but we're back. And so I'm getting back to stocking some cool stuff. So we're doing some experimentations with HDMI DVI output on the RP2040. And I thought, well, let's carry this cool dev board from Pimeroni. This is the Pico DV. You don't have to be confused with HDMI because HDMI requires a licensing agreement. This is DVI, which is a free and well documented protocol that you can plug into displays that have HDMI written on them. Works great for that. The Pico RP2040, if you overclock it and you run some kind of like tweaky code that is a lot of PIOs, can output DVI signals. And we've done it. We have some demo code we're going to release as well that uses it. And we're prototyping on this board. This also has a micro SD slot. It has three buttons. It's got some GPIO. I think the SD card looks like you can do SDIO as well as SPI.  It's got a couple of things going on there. If you wanted to do some AV hacking with the RP2040, you just plug your Pico in. No song required to use this if you use a Pico with headers pre-attached. Next up. Next up, we've also got the same version of that, basically the same as that board. But this one's got a VGA connector. And look at how skinny that VGA connector is. That's like the skinniest VGA connector on the planet. That really, that's kind of scary. Same thing, you want to hack your displays, but it's an older display. Maybe it doesn't have DVI or HDMI written on it. It has VGA written on it. Congratulations. You can use this instead. Video graphics array. Yeah. I mean, it's still doing the same thing where you get, you don't get as many colors. I don't think because you, I think it does like averaging between two or three pixels. So you get like maybe eight bit color. Still beautiful. It feels too black and white. Good for hacking on AV projects. Next up. Next up. We sell in the shop, various Laura boards, breakouts, feathers, et cetera. But maybe you want to go to space and send Laura signals to and from your space balloon. Then in honor of the challenger, you can pick up one of our Laura radio boards, radio modules. This is just the module. It has inside of the SX 1276. It's tuned for about 900 megahertz. You know, basically in software, you can set it to 915 or 868. It's, it's good. You're going to get totally fine signal either way. And that's the ISN band. You would use, we have in circuit Python and I think micro Python also and Arduino all have libraries for the SX 1276 chip set inside. You connect an antenna to the antenna pin, connect power and all the signals to the other pins. And you basically have a Laura transceiver. Now it's a little tougher to use than our module that has level shifting power supply antenna connector. But you're designing your own board. These are hand solderable. So we put them in the shop so people can design their own boards. Next up. Next up. It's kind of seen but it's coming seen part two because last time it was coming soon. There was a chip shortage. We couldn't get to the chips necessary to build this board, but now we can. And so we're starting to revive this. We just want to kind of bubble this up in people's consciousness. The Metro M seven featuring the IMX RT 10 11. It's a 500 megahertz beast Cortex M seven. Yeah. It's a bit of a beast. Although I want to, it doesn't have a ton of pins. Like you'd think, oh, this should be so many GPIO. It's actually exactly this many just enough to do a metro because a lot of those pins are for power. Or for, you know, SWD debugging. But we also hooked up an ESP 32 on the left there as a wifi coprocessor. It's got stomach UT SWD debugging and nine volt the nine to 12 volt DC input reset button. There is a built-in ROM boot loader that you can get into by switching those jumpers on the switches on the boot select. Basically, we got these, we got, we updated the flash to be that eight megabytes of Q spy. Because again, we, we like eight megabytes. We're basically going to be, you know, getting this to our developers. We went to kind of resuscitate the efforts that we put in two years ago. We did have circuit Python running on this board quite well. And we just again couldn't get the chip anymore. And so we shelled it. But I think we're going to start getting into Cortex M seven now that you're available. They're very exciting chipset. After this, we can follow up with other IMX chips as well. But we're starting with the low cost IMX RT 10 11. Next up. Next up. It's now in stock is the OV 56 40 camera module with 120 degree wide angle lens. We chatted about this earlier. It's, you know, a nice upgrade to the standard OV 56 40 camera. Or 26 40 camera. This is a, you know, very nice quality camera with a wide angle lens. There's a couple updates that I did to the design to make it, in my opinion, a lot better than the standard camera breakouts. It has that two by nine header that every camera has. It's got a jumper for the V motor pin. If you have an autofocus camera module, this one doesn't autofocus, but you could swap in or we might release later version autofocus. We have pull-ups on the I squared C lines.  You've got optional internal clock generation for 24 megahertz clock. If you don't want to spare a GPIO pin to do it, it's got, you know, pull up and pull down on enable and power down as necessary. So it kind of boots up immediately. It's got a little heat sinking area up top. Some of the camera modules we've noticed can get a little toasty. So giving it that exposed gold area, you know, you can attach a tiny heat sink if you need even more heat sinking on, on that module. And I thought I'd show a little demo of this board. So the only thing I want to note is that this board is, this board, it does have, you know, this two by nine connector. And we added, you know, in this case, I soldered both pins on, but we added another row. So you could plug this, you know, if you didn't solder in the second row, like I did, like if you had it like this, you could plug it into a breadboard. And because, you know, it's very hard to plug in dual row, because you have to have like some sort of like divider thingy that brings the pins apart. But it's meant to go on boards like this Kaluga, which is an ESP32 dev kit. Here, let me bring this a little bit. This dev kit, which has a camera connector and a lot of dev boards, if they have one of these two by nine connectors, it's meant for camera. So I plug it in and then we see power. Let me see if this boots up and get my live demo going. You can do it live demo. Okay. So this is the circuit Python code, which grabs a camera frame.  Hello. This is us. This is the bassinet. So this, this camera module, you know, it's a nice wide angle. You can see it kind of distorts on the side just because it's doing that wide angle distortion to get the full frame. And it's a little rounded at the tops with the corners of the room. But this is the, you know, circuit Python code, just displaying it on 320 by 240. And then of course you can download. It auto-creates JPEGs, if desired. We have code to do that to capture a JPEG image. You could make your own digital camera. You could make your own digital camera. So we're going to start with the OB-5640, where people will also have versions with different lenses, autofocus, 2640. But this is the, you know, this is the camera lens. I kind of like the most. It's a great starter lens. And I wanted to get, you know, this, this breakout, which again is the standard breakout for cameras, well-established. Hi. I think, yeah. Okay. Start the show besides you, lady, our entire team and... Oh, I'm having a blank screen here. Hi. It's the void. It's the floppy feather wing. It's here. It's here finally. Yes. Again, we're getting to... What? That's the... Man, I keep, I keep... No, because you clicked it off the ground. Okay. So anyways, the starter show besides you, lady, our community, our customers, and everyone else. Yay. Yeah, this is... Yeah, this show is huge. There's a lot going on here.  You can't watch this show because it's so weird. Yeah. You can tell it's live. Okay. Floppy feather wing. So we're going to do more floppy stuff, but we want to start with the floppy feather wing just to get some, you know, basically the wiring of floppy drives is the toughest. So floppy drives, PC floppy drives are not Apple floppy drive through support. These are also not, you know, Commodore 64. This is for standard PC, classic PC 3.5, 5.25 inch floppy drives. They use this 34-pin IDC cable, two by 17 pins. One row is ground, but the other row is like all the GPIO that are used to communicate with the floppy drive. And floppy drives are very, very low level. So you do need to have... First up, they have to be 5 volts signal because the floppy disk is really expecting 5 volts signal. So on the floppy feather wing is level shifters to and from the data. So all of it is converted to and from 5 volts to 3.3 volts. And then... Oh, let's show the back because it has the pins. So there's a lot of GPIO used for floppy. So you see from the bottom, index, step, direction, enable, de-enable, I don't remember what de-enable is, select, motor select, and then above right data, right gate, protect, track zero, read, side, and channel. And I think I'm hoping I'm getting all those right. There's a lot of signals on the floppy drives. So they all go to individual pins on the floppy, is on the floppy feather wing, and then are level shifted into the feather. So the thing about the feather is data that comes from the floppy streams out very, very quickly, and you can't really just use any chip you want. You really want something with a lot of RAM and very fast GPIO, especially something that has like a DMA GPIO that you can stream that the data transitions that just like pour out of the floppy drive into RAM. And so for that, the best use case in our opinion is to use an RP2040. You can also use a feather M4, although right now it's hard to get to Sanbi 51 chips. So honestly, what kind of saying just go with the RP2040. You'll need to pair that with this and then run the software that we have written. So maybe if you go back to us because I have to explain a couple more things. Okay. So there's three use cases for the floppy feather wing. One, you want to archive floppy disks and save them for like later perusal.  You have the prints floppy. You want to get the data off. So you would use the floppy feather wing with the RP2040 and use our firmware and this desktop software called Grease Weasel or Flux Engine to read those raw fluxes off and then you could do data correction if necessary, like bit error correction and then convert that image into, you know, whatever format it is or the IBM PC or even Mac. You can do some Mac formats as well. The second option is we also have code for Arduino and CircuitPython where you can treat it as a file system. You can like read the files off. You can even do some writing, although the writing is kind of iffy. That's tougher to do. But the reading, you can read data off of the floppy and kind of treat it just like a normal file system as if it was an SD card. So that's good for like retro projects where you want to like use the floppy as, you know, an interface to actually store data on because it's like cool and retro. And then the third option is you want to make like weird music and you want to control the floppy disk and you want to like make the motor go back and forth and like click and there's a lot of videos which I linked to. So there's like the three main use cases for the floppy feather wing. But it's still, I gotta say you have to get a floppy disk and they're not new, right? They're no longer made. The floppy drives are no longer made and you have to power the floppy drive separately and those will require like five volts or five volts and 12 volts multiple amps. So you may need like an XC power supply. So this is not like a super beginner board. Like you have to get a couple of things going. Try to make it easier. But the fact that you can't buy off the shelf floppy drives anymore to make it a little bit more complicated than other products where, you know, everything is available in the store. Okay. That's new product.


The sun converts five million tons of matter into energy every second. This energy from nuclear reactions within the sun is sent out into the solar system as light and heat. The earth receives only a small part of this energy, which we see and feel in different ways. As the sun warms the earth, the air is also warmed. The warm air rises and cool air rushes in below, causing the conversion of sunlight into another form of solar energy, wind. Today this turbine harnesses wind to provide some of the energy for running an amusement park near Allentown, Pennsylvania. Another example of wind used today is this turbine which helps light Clayton, New Mexico. Use of wind energy will increase in the future and help the United States to become more energy independent. But wind energy is nothing new in America. The idea of windmills was brought here by early European settlers and used in many ways to power grinding mills and later to pump water for the steam locomotives that connected New York and San Francisco and to supply water for farming. These early windmills were mechanical, often using a series of gears to harness energy. This energy could be stored by using the wind to pump water into an elevated storage tank. Gravity delivered the water whether the wind was blowing or not. This system was used for irrigation and household water supplies. With the coming of electric lights and appliances, wind systems were designed to generate electricity. A series of batteries was used to store this energy. Wind energy reached its peak in the United States in the 1930s and 40s when at least two million windmills were in operation providing an important source of energy for rural America. Many households had their own windmill and generator. Most of those generators produced one or two kilowatts of electricity. A kilowatt is 1,000 watts and can light 10 100 watt light bulbs. During the early 1940s, large wind generators which could provide power to many users were introduced. This power was distributed through a utility grid, a network of transmission lines which sent electricity from a central source to individual users. Towering above Grandpa's Knob near Rutland, Vermont, the Smith Putnam turbine fed electricity to a Vermont utility company. This system was designed to produce up to one and a quarter megawatts of electricity. One megawatt equals one million watts or enough electricity to light 10,100 watt light bulbs. But a cheaper, more convenient source of energy was sweeping the country. One that didn't require batteries, water storage tanks, or maintenance. Electric power lines from centralized coal and gas-fired power plants brought cheaper electricity to outlying areas and wind energy was neglected. Today, increasing cost and other problems associated with conventional fuel make wind again a promising part of America's energy resources. In theory, it is possible to harness about 60% of the energy in the winds. This potentially usable power in the wind blowing across the United States in one year is more than the country's total power needs for that same period. Meet Marcellus Jacobs, whose work with wind spans the period from the peak of wind energy use in the 30s and 40s to the present revival of interest. We just started developing our wind plant on the ranch there in Montana. 40 miles from town, we had no electricity and there was no hope of high lines for good many years. So we started to devise a machine to make electricity from the wind with which there was plenty. And built several test plants using Ford Model T rear-ends. We built the Danica by the dozen and put them on ranches for 50 miles around there. And after three or four years, they proved so successful that we decided to make a business of it. Our past experience in developing and building wind energy systems proved that with the increase in energy costs a new and improved type of wind energy system would be very practical and competitive with the energy costs of fossil fuel systems now being used. There are problems with wind energy. It doesn't always blow when and where you want it and quality machines are expensive. But solutions are being sought. The Department of Energy is testing small systems for individual use and large machines for centralized utility needs. The number of commercially available wind turbine models has grown from fewer than 20 in 1976 to 72 in 1979. Several of today's small wind machines are undergoing tests at the Department of Energy's Rocky Flats facility in Colorado. These tests are meant to provide valuable information to consumers, wind turbine manufacturers and organizations affecting the use of wind machines such as banks, zoning commissions and insurance companies. There is also a Rocky Flats program to develop new advanced designs that increase the lifespan and reliability of wind machines and lower their manufacturing costs. The Department of Energy is working with NASA to develop large-scale wind machines. Four large experimental turbines are generating power for electric utility companies. They are operating in New Mexico, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island and North Carolina. Another Department of Energy NASA project is this giant machine. Because it will produce two and a half megawatts of power, even in areas having more moderate winds, it will be more widely usable than previous experimental models. Private industry is also designing and building large-scale machines. On Cutty Hunk Island, Massachusetts, the municipal utility has lowered its fossil fuel use by replacing some diesel-generated electricity with wind power. This 200 kilowatt machine was developed entirely with private punts. Public utilities, too, are interested in wind. This turbine served as a prototype for development of a megawatt-scale machine, part of Southern California Edison Company's $2 million wind energy development program. Much is being done to develop cost-effective, reliable equipment. But what about the need for storing excess power for low wind periods? Batteries work in some cases, but today another option exists. Martin Greenwald of Thompson Ridge, New York gets some of his electricity from a two kilowatt windmill on his farm. The Greenwalds use what energy they need, and any excess generated by the windmill is fed into the utility grid, building up a credit on their account. A similar situation exists in another part of New York, New York City. While the urban environment is generally not conducive to wind machines because of high and unpredictable turbulence caused by tall buildings, it was here that the legal precedent was established to tie in small systems with the utility grid. Ted Finch, wind energy engineer, explains the importance of this action. We established the right for people to produce power from decentralized wind systems and interconnect that wind energy conversion system with the utility company. Now that's an important precedent. It's much more expensive with small wind energy conversion systems to have battery storage. So, especially with small installations, it's important to interconnect with the utility company whereby they serve as a backup source of energy for you when your winds are low and also where they buy back your surplus wind-derived electricity. This will enhance the economics of wind machines, and it's an important wind energy policy area to pursue. The problems are being examined and solved, and wind is being used today. This turbine in Texas heats water. These ridgetop turbines light this cross above Denver, Colorado. And this egg beater turbine, a joint Department of Energy and U.S. Department of Agriculture research project, supplies energy for irrigation near Garden City, Kansas. And this one provides energy to refrigerate milk on a dairy farm near Fort Collins, Colorado. These three turbines convert sea breeze into power for a newspaper in St. Petersburg, Florida. Wind has great potential as an energy source in America, a potential that is in the process of being realized. As manufacturing costs decrease with mass production, as new technology and stronger and lighter materials are developed, and as the cost of conventional energy continues to rise, wind energy will find an even more important place under the sun.


The report's been released, and it leaves no doubt that there was no collusion. It's right there in the report on page 181, quote, the investigation did not establish that the Russian contacts amounted to an agreement to commit any violation of federal criminal law, including foreign influence and campaign finance laws. So, I guess that about wraps this up. Good night, folks. Predictably, this is nowhere near over, and in fact, it will never end as long as Trump is president. Even after his presidency, they'll likely go after him and anybody around him. The establishment is definitely sending a signal to anybody on the outside that has ideas about trying to come in and shake things up. In light of that, CNN is up to its usual dirty tricks and is attempting to muddy the waters by blasting Twitter with misinformation. One of their posts reads, after Trump publicly asks Russia to hack Hillary Clinton's emails at a July 2016 press conference repeatedly asked individuals affiliated with his campaign to find the deleted emails. First off, he never asked Russia to hack anyone. That's an outright lie. Trump was making a joke about the news at the time that Hillary Clinton had deleted 35,000 emails off her private server and that they were missing. Trump said that maybe Russia could find them and then give them to the media. Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. The left and the media have been trying to use this as a key part of their evidence that Trump is working with the Russians. CNN is apparently so confident in this evidence that they feel the need to lie and claim that Trump asked Russia to hack Hillary. You may have seen this story. It's all over CNN. But apparently when Trump found out that Mueller was going to be an investigator, he said that that's the end of my presidency. I'm fucked. But again, we're dealing with some deception here. If you read the entire document and it's only a page long, you'll see that he's talking about his agenda and his ability to get anything done. He's not saying that he personally is screwed, but that's not what CNN wants its viewers to think he said. For people that are so adamant about collusion, they sure do have to lie and deceive a lot. So I think that is the part that they get in trouble with. And you know, when the president tweets no collusion, no obstruction, once again, it's a lie. Oh, so there was collusion after all, according to these guys. They were right the whole time. Sure, the report flat out states that there was no collusion, but we tend to forget that CNN operates on its own alternate timeline. In their timeline, Trump was indicted and everybody at CNN gets passed on the back for being right the whole time. I wonder if maybe they're talking about the Russian collusion that happened in the Hillary campaign. Mueller lays it all out, the idea that there's nothing in here, or that it was a witch hunt, or that this is a hoax. I don't know how they make that case in good conscience anymore, Carl. Tell me how. Politically or ideologically, to process the information and make some sophisticated judgments about the behavior of everybody I've mentioned here. Sophisticated judgments is the operative phrase. Right, of course. We're just not smart enough to see the collusion. Thankfully, we don't need to be because the report spells it right out. There was no collusion and there's not going to be any indictments. Look, folks, there really isn't a whole lot to say on this that hasn't already been said. We've been put through two years of immediate manufacturer conspiracy theory and they are so utterly invested in this narrative that they will do anything to hang on to it. This is nothing more than political warfare and they're willing to tear this country apart to do it. These partisan hacks are basically just saying that Washington has fallen and Russian agents now reside in the White House. I'm concerned that there are more than just a few nutjobs out there who are going to feel completely justified in taking action against Trump or his supporters. Remember, these people can rationalize just about anything. Be safe out there. Hey everyone, thanks for watching. I know this video is shorter than usual, but that's because we spent about two hours last night talking about it on the live stream. If you haven't watched it yet, check it out. There will be a link at the end of the video. And as always, if you want to support this channel, please like, share and subscribe. You can also support us by subscribing on Patreon or donating on PayPal. Thanks again.


A body found in No-K Lake near Brainerd over the weekend has by now identified as a 54-year-old man from Brainerd whose boat was found empty on the lake on Friday morning. The Crowley County Sheriff's Office found the body of Raymond Ockman on Saturday morning using a side scan sonar. Early on Friday morning, the Sheriff's Office received a call to conduct a welfare check on a man who had not shown up for work for two days. Hours later reports of an abandoned boat came in. After running the registration on the boat, he came back as being owned by Ockman. The body was sent to the Ramsey County Medical Examiner's Office for an autopsy. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


Aloha and welcome to Rotary in Hawaii, people of action. Rotary came to Hawaii more than 100 years ago, but that doesn't mean that we're an old organization. We have Rotarians in 52 organizations or clubs in the state of Hawaii that are continually innovating service and events throughout the state. And we're here today with the president of the Rotary Club of Waikiki, Steven Morgan. Good morning, Steven. How are you today? Good morning, Wayne. Thank you for having me. My pleasure. I think I'd first like to hear a little bit about you and what you do in life, and how you came to be a Rotarian in the Rotary Club of Waikiki. Oh, well, let's see. It all started when I was a little kid. I'm just kidding. I was born and raised on Oahu. Went to school here. I graduated from McKinley High School, then moved to California for a little while, and did different jobs here and there. And then I started working for this interior designer in the mainland and doing fancy faux finishes and big houses everywhere. And then one year, I came back to a visit, and I noticed that there wasn't any of the houses that had any of this. So I came back and started my business as a faux finish painter. And then my mother started the Rotary Club of Kahala Sunrise. So I've been in and out of Rotary throughout my life. But I never really understood what Rotary was until I got involved with it. So I became the designated volunteer for the Rotary Club of Kahala Sunrise and helping out with all of their community service projects. And then eventually became a member of that club. And then throughout the years, became the community service director through that club and started directing all of the community service projects that they did. And then eventually moved to the Rotary Club of Waikiki. I've been with the Rotary Club of Waikiki now for, I think, six years. Wow. So you've had a lot of experience in Rotary from the time that you were a young man all the way until now. Tell me about some of your experiences in the Rotary Club of Waikiki or even Kahala Sunrise, for that matter, because we do have a lot of organizations within the state. It's just giving back to the community. I never really understood what Rotary was growing up. It's always thinking about yourself and then not thinking about others. But then once you get involved and you start doing the projects and you realize that you get much more by giving back than from taking from community. That's cool. Absolutely. So let's talk a little bit more about the Rotary Club of Waikiki. When was the Rotary Club of Waikiki founded? Rotary Club of Waikiki was founded in 1939. And this year, we're actually turning 80. In June, we will have our 80th anniversary party. And some of your signature projects, some of the signature things that you do. And maybe you can just go through a quick list of some of the items, and then we'll go back and talk about them individually. Let's see. To date, we've done 24 community service projects this year. We do a lot of literacy projects. We do a lot of annual projects that we do. Starting off the year, we do a annual school supply drive where we collect school supplies and money. And we use that money to purchase backpacks where we fill the backpacks with the school supplies that we collect. And those get donated to the homeless shelters and all their homeless outreach services to get to the kids the supplies that they need. And then also, we do a lot of other literacy projects. We do a Books for Kids project where we donate hardcover books to the entire schools. I think this year we've done six schools so far where we get in the entire school hardcover books. Also, we have a Rotary Readers program. Rotary Readers program. Yeah, every month, we have a group of our Rotarians that go to Waikiki Elementary School and read to the kindergartners. You know, it's a well-known fact that when you read to children, especially when they're very young in kindergarten and that kind of stuff, by the time they're in third or fourth grade, if you read to them on a regular basis, their vocabulary increases by 400%. So that's an amazing what you're doing with those. What else are you doing? Let's see. Also, we do a dictionary project. We've really stepped up our number of schools for the dictionary project. This year, we've done nine different schools that have given over 800 dictionaries to their graders. Well, what's the purpose of giving a dictionary to kids? Dictionaries, it increases their vocabulary. You know, it not only teaches them the words, but the dictionary itself is a wealth of knowledge. There's not only the definitions of words, they can look up many other different things that are in that particular book. And giving dictionaries to the third graders is such a perfect age because they're at the age to where they're just glued to everything that you say and they just want to learn, they want to engage you and they just get really excited about having their own personal book that they've never owned their own personal book before. That's a great point. Many children here in the state have never owned a book of their own and I think we've experienced that where children come up to you and say how exciting it is to have their very first book. Very cool. What else have you been doing? Let's see, actually, this month, next week, we have an annual garage sale that we do. I believe this is gonna be our ninth year doing this annual garage sale. It's going to be for the Waikiki Elementary School. So we collect all of the items, not only from our Rotary Club, but people that we know, people in the community. And then all of the proceeds go directly to the Waikiki Elementary School, which they use for their programs for kids that can't afford to go on field trips or kids that can't afford lunches, that sort of thing. Sounds like you've adopted Waikiki Elementary School. Do you have a special relationship with them? Yes, we have done a lot of things for the Waikiki Elementary School and I think we have kind of adopted that school and they love us there. I bet, I bet, absolutely. So what other items have you done with Waikiki Elementary? Are there any service projects that you've done there? I've heard some things about Waikiki Elementary and their work with aquaponics and gardening and that kind of stuff. Are you involved in that as well? Well, we did recently do a tree planting event there. We planted, I believe, one tree for every Rotarian that we had in our club. Wow. And also, at the same time, we did a painting project where we repainted all of the poles that get scuffed up. Yeah, yeah, right. There's a lot of maintenance work that needs to be done so. You've saved them an enormous amount of money as well. Anything else as far as youth service that you'd like to share with our viewers? Youth service, well, we do have a special relationship with one of our sister clubs in Japan where we send one of the students from Waipahu High School over to Japan for a month and then also in return, we get one of the students from their schools for a month. Sister clubs. I'm aware of the Sister Club program within Rotary and many of our clubs do have sister clubs. Talk about your sister clubs and Waikiki Rotary and how that benefits our community. Well, we actually have a lot of sister clubs. We have six sister clubs in Japan, two sister clubs in Taiwan and one in Thailand. And sister clubs, they're a really great relationship. We get to know other members of clubs that are outside of our district and we get to collaborate with them. So do you like have Rotarians from your sister clubs come and visit your club? And do you send Rotarians there in an effort to create greater understanding between Rotary clubs and between our communities? Yes. Is that kind of the idea? Yes, we do actually have actually a big delegation from our sister clubs coming to our annual fundraiser that we do. So with your sister clubs in Taiwan or in Japan, have you done other service projects with them or is it more of a friendship relationship? Right now, it is actually mostly a friendship relationship but we have actually done, two years ago, we did a global grant project through the District 5000 where we went to Taiwan and helped out the rural indigenous community in southern Taiwan and one of our sister clubs Kaohsiung Central came down and helped us out with that. So you went on that service project to Yengon. I did. Tell us a little about your experience, your travel. It's another great thing about Rotary is the opportunity to travel and provide service to other parts of the world in rural communities. It's a really great eye-opening experience.  So the Yengon project was a literacy project, water and sanitation. I mean, there's so many things that we do in Rotary in terms of our six areas of focus and the services that we provide. What was the specifics about the project that you went on? The project I went on was a two-part project. The first part was we went to Myanmar and helped out the monastery schools, the monastic schools, part of a teacher exchange program to send teachers to the monastery schools and to teach them English and to have them teach their children and how to retain knowledge and to go forward. And also while we were there, we did help them out with a sanitation project to redo their restrooms facility. It was in really dire conditions. And with the school that had over 700 kids, they only had six stalls and a failing septic system. So we put our money together and we hired local contractors, come in and demolish the whole thing and give them a bigger septic system and then increase the number of stalls. So now they have, I believe, five stalls for the girls and five stalls for the boys and a wash station. Wow, that's amazing, it's amazing. What partnerships do you have in the local community? Is there other specific groups that you choose to work with? I know that you worked with Kahawiki last year and with the homeless in the airport area. Is there, what other organizations do you work with? Or maybe you'd like to talk a little bit about homelessness and your work with Kahawiki? Well, our work with Kahawiki was mainly like a painting and construction project and me being a painter, I personally went down there and I painted a few of those units and there was also gardening that our members did for there and also another project that we're working on right now is part of our New York District project which is working at the Serenity Gardens in, on the North Shore for Ho'olana Pua. Great, well let's take a break for a couple of minutes and we'll come back and we'll talk a little bit about Ho'olana Pua and the issue of human trafficking and what we're doing on the North Shore. Okay. Thank you, Steven. Thank you. Aloha, this is Winston Welch. I am your host of Out and About where every other week, Mondays at three, we explore a variety of topics in our city, state, nation and world and events, organizations, the people that fuel them. It's a really interesting show. We welcome you to tune in and we welcome your suggestions for shows. You got a lot of them out there and we have an awesome studio here where we can get your ideas out as well. So I look forward to you tuning in every other week where we've got some great guests and great topics. You're gonna learn a lot. You're gonna come away inspired like I do. So I'll see you every other week here at three o'clock on Monday afternoon. Aloha. Aloha, I'm Yukari Kunisue, the host of Konnichiwa Hawaii, Japanese talk show on Think Tech, Hawaii. Konnichiwa, Hawaii is all Japanese broadcast show and is streamed live on Think Tech at two p.m. every other Monday. Thank you so much for watching our show. We look forward to seeing you then. I'm Yukari Kunisue. Mahalo. Aloha and welcome back to Rotary in Hawaii, people of action.  We've been talking with president of the Rotary Club of Waikiki, Steven Morgan, about some of the service that his club does in our local community. And he mentioned before we took a break the issue of human trafficking, which is near and dear to my heart and our focus for the district for the year. And we've been working with Ho'ola Napua on a service project on the North Shore to create a serenity garden for survivors of human trafficking within our community. So, Steven, Ho'ola Napua has been working on a property to provide facilities for survivors of human trafficking. And human trafficking is a significant issue in our community and I appreciate your efforts and your club's efforts to tackle the problem and provide some facilities. The serenity garden is intended for, used to provide an area where people who have been involved in human trafficking and are now out of it, especially young girls, have a place to meet with counselors, have a place to do yoga and that kind of stuff. And it involves clearing more than two acres of land that was overtaken with grasses and weeds and trees and all kinds of things. Tell me about your experience and your club's experience at the facility with the serenity garden. Well, as of right now, it's a work in progress and we were just there this past weekend clearing out a whole bunch of trees. I went around with the chainsaw, cutting down a whole bunch of trees and clearing brush and we found a mango tree that nobody even knew was there. Overtaken. I guess what I'd really like to ask you is what does that mean to you? How satisfying is it for you to be part of a project that will benefit people that you'll never meet, to benefit young children who have been involved in an activity that is stolen in their childhood and they've survived and now when we get done with this, they'll have a place where they can begin to be reintegrated into society. What does that mean to you personally, I guess? Well, it gives you a real sense of satisfaction inside. Seeing something that's overtaken with weeds and brushes to take it and you get the instant satisfaction seeing a tree come down and clearing an area and after the day is over, you look back and like, wow, this is something that can actually happen and to look into the future and to see kids in there and planting things and getting on with their lives and not thinking of the horrible things that's happened to them in the past. Yeah, that's an important aspect I think of what we do. So much of our service to humanity, to other people involves people that will never meet, they'll never be saying thank you to us but we do it because we can and because we love what we do. Let's talk a little bit about your club. How many members in your club and what's the diversity? What is it that in terms of, I guess, professions and that kind of stuff, let's talk about the business of rotary. Well, like you mentioned that, our club is really diversified as far as age and race and gender. Currently we have, I believe, 68 members. We started the year with a little bit more. We've lost some, it's with a lot of Rotary Clubs. We gain and lose some throughout the year but as far as the diversity, we've got a really good mix of professions to where we can look to other people in our club as far as realtors and financial advisors and we recently inducted a member who's a florist. So that's a good connection there and you make a lot of good business contacts. Okay, you guys have any fun? We do have a lot of fun. We are known as the Friendly Club. The Friendly Club, right? So we are also singing club. We sing every week to our guests and we try to have a lot of fun. I'm trying to have a lot of fun being president this year. Sometimes it gets a little nervous but I think everybody is liking it. Is having a good time. Yeah, we make a lot of friends also. You get a lot of visitors, right? I mean, you're in Waikiki in the center of the visitor action, if you will. You get a lot of visitors. Do you have any notable visitors that you just like, wow, they came from far, far away? We do actually, being in Waikiki, we get visitors from all over the world. Australia, Japan, Europe, South America, what have you. We do get a lot of international visitors that come to our club. I'd like you to take a minute, if you will, and talk about your International Food Fest. I know it's your primary fundraiser but what is it that you do with the International Food Fest? How does that look? If you were to describe it to somebody who might be interested in participating and coming to it, when do you do it, what's involved? As you said, our International Food Fest is our annual fundraiser that is the primary source of funding for our club. Not only does it keep our club running but it funds all of the service projects that we do throughout the year. If I were to paint a picture of what it's like, it's a pretty big party. We have this food stations from around the world and we have silent auction, we have DJ, we have band, we have dancing, but mainly it's a big get together, like a big fellowship of Rotarians from not only the district but as I said earlier we have a big delegation from our sister clubs from Japan and Taiwan that come every year and they look forward to this event every year. Great, great. So question for you. Let's move to our international convention. So Rotary has an international convention every year, 25 to 30,000 people and our convention this last year was in Toronto, Canada. Prior to that we had one in Atlanta, Georgia and Seoul, South Korea. So they're held around the world with exciting activities and you went to the one in Toronto. What was that like? I did and as I said earlier through Rotary I've gotten many opportunities to travel and going to Toronto was one of them and it was really great experience going to an international convention to see Rotarians from all over the world dressed in their native garb and just to be able to interact, we went on a field trip to Niagara Falls and we got to interact with Rotarians from Kenya and other clubs in Africa which was really great. Yeah, I wanna share a quick story with you because I share your enthusiasm for our international convention. I was at the international convention in Atlanta, Georgia and I sat at a table for lunch and on my left was a Rotarian from Pakistan and on my right was a Rotarian from India and if you know the history of that region of the world many thousands of years of no peace of really combative stance towards each other frequently. I thought that it was absolutely only in Rotary would you find two people from the regions of the world sitting down and having lunch together and having a dialogue and conversation without it being set up, just a natural gravitation. This year we're having our convention in Hamburg, Germany and then next year we're going to have our convention here in Honolulu. 25,000 people from or more from around the world will converge here to share peace and goodwill and conversation and dialogue. Are you, is your club involved in any of the planning and for that? We do have a member of our club which is, I believe a couple members of our club which are part of the planning process for the 2020 convention which is gonna be here in Honolulu. I am also a part of a Rotarian fellowship which is called the Surfer's Unite Rotarian Fellowship or S-U-R-F where we're trying to recruit members to joins where we can have an event for the 2020 convention that would be maybe held in Waikiki, like a paddle off or polio, maybe type of event. Wow, so surfers, a surfing fellowship. So I'll use surfers out there who want to engage in surfers from around the world. Rotary is the place for you to come together with them. Stephen, I would like to thank you very much for your participation and your insight this morning as we share about the Rotary Club of Waikiki. Real quick before we wrap up here, Rotary Club of Waikiki meets at, we meet at the Prince Waikiki Hotel Wednesdays at noon. Wednesdays at noon. So thank you for joining us once again and we're thankful to Think Tech Hawaii for hosting this program. We appreciate the opportunity to engage our community, find solutions to community problems and then take action.


Hey, welcome back to my YouTube channel guys. Today, I'm going to talk a little bit of a different topic. If you don't know me, I generally talk about what it's like living in New Zealand as an American. But I'm starting to create some new content around other areas that I know. And today, we're going to talk about marketing. We're going to talk about five social media strategies for small businesses in 2023 that I think will really help. Now, this is for beginners. This is for, well, you know, if you do a little bit of social media, this is relevant to you. But if you're heavily into it and you do it all the time, then this is going to be basic. I have taught at the university level for over 20 years and I have run multiple small businesses in all different industries and have recently over the last couple of years started doing some marketing coaching and heavily into social media management and all of that sort of things. And so today, I'm just going to talk about some five strategies that I really think are important. Now, you may have heard some of these strategies from other people and there's just a lot of information out there. And based on my experience and actually using it on my own channel and my own personal brand, but also all of my clients, seeing this is what I really think that you should focus on in 2023. If you're like, Oh, I got to deal with a social media issue.  And it's hard and it's overwhelming. And I understand that there's so much going on. And it's always changing like literally daily changing, but this video will help you kind of know, like these are the things I should focus on, even if you don't focus on all five, just one or two. Trust me that this is, this is what I think will really help if you are a small business in 2023. Okay, my first strategy if you are a small business is YouTube, YouTube, YouTube. Okay, I think you get the idea. Like you need to get on YouTube, whether that's long form video or short form video, they're now paying people for both of them. And YouTube is just the second biggest search engine past Google, right? And it's, it's just nothing better. I have used all of them for years. And so with, you know, the history and the knowledge and how they, how these platforms work and how user friendly they are, I think you need to, this is the year that you get on YouTube. Now you don't need to get overwhelmed that you need to have a whole channel and do long form video and I need this and I need the fancy cameras and I don't know, you don't need that. You just need your phone. I have a ring light and a phone. I had a microphone, but the microphone was like $10. Like that's it. Nothing fancy. And just do YouTube shorts. At least do the YouTube shorts because it'll be searchable. And I think in the long run, it'd be where you want to invest in right now. And it's going to take time. Okay, you can't just like put out a video and like, oh, I'm amazing. I'm going viral. Like that doesn't happen. Okay, so get that out of your head. Just be consistently posting and I highly recommend YouTube. And number two, speaking of YouTube shorts, you should definitely 100% take some time to learn short form video. Learn short form video, whether you do Instagram reels, Facebook reels, TikToks, YouTube shorts, or just do one video and put it on all of them, you know, even Pinterest pins, idea pins and like everywhere LinkedIn is actually really good. Like you're going to have to learn short form video.  Like you need to learn the short form video. Actually, I have a free short form video course. If you want to get started, I'll put it in the description. I actually forgot that I made that and it just helps you kind of get started and try to produce your first couple of videos and you should be good to go. But definitely whatever it takes that there's tons of you don't take that course. It's just free anyway. But like if you just go on YouTube and learn practice, do find your voice, talk about what, you know, is important to you and what you know about and yet you're passionate about and just learn how to do short form video. Don't get caught up in the details. Do not get caught up on getting all the right equipment. You just need your phone and a window. Just your phone and a window and start creating video and you might actually really like it. Now, number three is a strategy that I've started using this year and really works well. It's only February. If you have a video or a post that performs very well organically and organic, I mean free. So you just put out a post, right? It doesn't cost anybody to post on Facebook. Like you get that, right? That's called organic. If you do a post that does really well organically, those are the ones that you put money behind. Don't just create an ad over here. Okay. And there's a whole thing that we can talk about in terms of ads, but if you are going to do ad spend, definitely use the creative that people already like. Okay. And put it in ad format. Now that doesn't mean you just like copy and paste the exact same one. You have to put it for the context and be very clear. And yeah, there's a lot involved in that. But my only point here is that don't just put, just don't create Facebook ads, Google ads, whatever that is, but actually use the creative that has done well on your channel. Like if you do something and it just pops off, people are just engaged and they like it and they have questions and they're commenting positively anyway, because you may have videos or posts that don't do well or are positive. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about like, well, why does it do positive? Then put money behind it and that will, you've solved half of your problem that way, right? And so you already know that people respond to that and then put that into the same target market and you're good to go. Number four, you need to get comfortable with AI. Sorry, it's here to stay. It's arrived, it's amazing. It's not nearly what it could be, but it's here and it's pretty darn good. And there's a lot to learn about that, but don't get overwhelmed, okay? ChatGPT is the biggest one right now as I'm recording this video, but it's not everything. And there's some definite, some things to know about it, but just play with it, understand it, use it because it will make your marketing life a lot easier. As a small business, like you're not in the business of marketing, like you're in the business of whatever it is that you do, whatever product you sell, whatever service you sell, so you don't have time for marketing. So use AI to your advantage, okay? And use platforms that help you do things automatically, okay? Setting up really good systems really worked well, but just there's no avoiding it. If you're in your mind thinking like, ah, this whole AI thing is overwhelming, you're gonna need to learn it. So put that out of your head and just start playing with it. It's actually fun and amazing and it's hard to get used to all that it actually can do for you. So just any tasks that you do, type it into AI and just see if it's helpful and see if it's good quality for what you're doing, whatever that task is.  And number five, my last strategy for you in 2023 is repurpose. Repurpose. As a small business owner in the ideal world, you're gonna create content for each platform that fits that platform, okay?  Even though you're the same person. So like, ideally you're creating content that's contextual to each platform, but small business owners, they don't have time for that. So we're gonna repurpose. So you're gonna make one short form video and you're gonna put it on all the platforms and then you're going to write a post about that and then you're going to use that as a tweet and then you're gonna use that in your email to your email list and you're just gonna make your life easier, okay? That's what you're gonna do in 2023 for your marketing strategy. So I hope that this video was helpful. I hope that it will outline some things that you need to do. If you need some extra help, don't hesitate to reach out to me as I am a marketing coach and just kind of help small businesses get up and running with their social media and train them on how to do it because a lot of them don't jump into it because they just actually don't know how to do it. It feels overwhelming. I don't want to learn it. I don't have time to learn it. This is it what I'm interested in. This isn't the business that I run, but it is actually very important. It's not going away. And there's a great way to grow as a business that can be completely free. So reach out to me if that would be helpful to you, but otherwise I hope that these strategies are helpful to you. And if you have other ones, please share them in the comments below or any questions that you have about marketing in general. I'm here to help. Have a great week.