Good morning, Hank. It's Tuesday. So, almost exactly one year ago, we announced a new project to support partners in health and the government of Sierra Leone in their efforts to radically reduce maternal mortality. This initiative, which seeks to raise $25 million over five years, will strengthen the health care system in Sierra Leone's Kono district at every level, from hiring and training community health workers to building, staffing, and supplying a new maternal center of excellence at Koydu Government Hospital, which will have all the clinical spaces and services that mothers and their children need to stay healthy. That's everything from a child health clinic to a neonatal intensive care unit to family planning clinics to labor and delivery to operating rooms. This maternal center of excellence will dramatically change the quality of health care available to women and children in Kono, and we hope it can provide a blueprint to reducing maternal and child mortality elsewhere in the world. Or, at least that's what I said a year ago, it has been a very long year, and today I would like to give you an update on where we are. First though, I want to recommend the documentary Bending the Ark, which is currently available on Netflix and which explores how, when the global health community believed that treating multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in impoverished countries was impossible, partners in health helped prove otherwise. Because I think it's helpful background and understanding why partners in health is now working to show that maternal and child mortality can be radically reduced, starting in a place with one of the world's highest rates of these unnecessary deaths. One out of every 20 women in Sierra Leone can expect to die in pregnancy or childbirth, and almost all of those deaths would be preventable with a strong health care system. Every day women die for want of a safe emergency c-section, or for want of a blood transfusion, or for want of blood pressure medication, basic services and medicines that most of us living in rich countries take for granted. And we know this is not like inevitable or natural, in part because as the Sierra Leonean health care system has begun to strengthen over the last few years, there have been big reductions in child and maternal mortality. Like at the hugely successful well body clinic that PIH runs, there hasn't been a single maternal death in years. The change is happening, we just believe it needs to be accelerated by a high quality teaching hospital that makes pregnancy and childbirth safer for both mother and child. So where are we? Well, the original plan was to break ground on the maternal center of excellence in April of 2021, but with COVID and everything, the plan is still to break ground in April of 2021, which is a wonderful credit to both partners in health and the government of Sierra Leone. And some system strengthening is already happening, more community outreach, more training for nurses and midwives, social support programs for pregnant women and new moms, and other maternal health initiatives. But recently when I spoke to Issa Tadambaya, the nurse who leads Koydu government hospital's maternal and child health teams, she said the next big step for the community is the maternal center of excellence. A special care baby unit, we have a new unit, a new space that we've just moved the babies to. The results already in three months are phenomenal. But yesterday I went in there and it was full, which is why the maternal center of excellence cannot come soon enough. This is a space and place where women in Sierra Leone would know for the first time that they are worthy of having the same level of care, the same treatment, the same access to equipment as anybody else in any part of the world. The design for the maternal center of excellence created in partnership and consultation with the staff at the hospital and the community it serves is really wonderful. It features lots of locally sourced materials, like the community is especially enthusiastic about the use of stones cast off from the nearby diamond mine to help build the hospital. That mine has become a symbol of destruction and despair for many in Kono, but now stones from that mine can become a symbol of hope. And of course it'll have all the stuff a hospital needs, 24 hour electricity, safe and sanitary operating rooms, an extensive blood bank, incubators for the NICU, and so on. All resources the Koydu government hospital never had, even just a few years ago. It's hard to overstate how big the change will be, like the MCOE will almost triple the number of maternal hospital beds in the region. They expect to see over 4,000 deliveries a year, a five-fold increase in the number of family planning visits, and critically the MCOE will dramatically increase the number of medically necessary C-sections that can be performed. And because it's a teaching hospital, the MCOE will help train the next generation of Sierra Leonean healthcare workers, from doctors to nurses to community health workers. Right, so the overall five-year cost of this project is $25 million, but in order to break ground, we need to raise $20 million. This is because both PIH and the government of Sierra Leone want to prevent a building getting like halfway built and then abandoned, or fully built, but never adequately staffed or supplied, which is a huge problem in impoverished countries. Too often, people or institutions make big promises that they fail to keep, or make short-term investments that are quickly abandoned, and none of that strengthens the system in the long run, and so that's why we have to raise $20 million before breaking ground. Because thousands of you have become monthly donors to this project at pih.org slash Hank and John, and because incredibly generous matching donors from within Nerdfighteria have banded together to match every monthly donation, at the current rates of donation, over five years we will have raised over $15 million. Another $3.5 million has come from large donors to PIH. Thank you. If you want a fuller, more detailed breakdown of the fundraising so far there is a link to a video in the doobly-doo and the comments below, but yeah, all together we have raised over $18.5 million. In the last 13 years, Nerdfighteria has accomplished some amazing things, but that has to be the most amazing. And I know how grateful all of our PIH friends in Sierra Leone are to you all, but there is still a funding gap. Like one way of looking at this is that we have raised 93% of the money we need to break ground, and another way of looking at it is that we still have a million and a half dollars left to raise, which is a lot of money. I expected that because of the pandemic and the tremendous stresses it has caused that donations might go down, but in fact they have gone up every month, and I find that so encouraging. And of course we understand that many of you are not in a position to donate right now, and that is okay, but if you are able to become a monthly donor at pih.org slash Hank and John, it can make a huge difference. I have seen how critical the need is for a better child in maternal health care in Kono. It is an emergency. It's just one that doesn't make headlines. Also, in order to get to the $20 million mark, we are going to need some larger donations, so if you happen to be in a position to donate, say, $5,000 or more to this project, there is a separate link in the doobly-doo below, or you can email me at sparksflyupatgmail.com to learn more. I want to emphasize one thing, though. The MCOE will be, like all of Koidu Government Hospital, owned by the people of Sierra Leone through their government, and it will be staffed almost entirely by Sierra Leonean health care workers and supported and funded to a large degree by the government of Sierra Leone. The heroes of this story are the people like Iceta who sacrifice so much to help vulnerable women deliver safely. Hank, I said earlier that one in 20 women in Sierra Leone can expect to die in pregnancy or childbirth. Not long ago, that statistic was one in 17 women, and so maternal death is declining and the progress is real. It's just not fast enough. Every health care worker I've spoken to in Sierra Leone has gut-wrenching stories about the pain of knowing what needs to be done to save the life of a mother or a child, but being unable to do so because there is no working ambulance or there is no blood bank or there is no safe operating room. As one PIHR told me, we know how to save women's lives, we just need the tools, and that is our challenge and our opportunity to help provide the tools to this community so that they can radically reduce maternal and child mortality. So again, if you can join us in donating, the link is pih.org slash Hank and John to the thousands of you who are already monthly donors. Thank you, we are 93% of the way there. And if you can't donate, thank you for your attention. It matters if the world was paying attention to this crisis, more would be done to stop it. So thank you, and Hank, I will see you on Friday.


is a scale really useful. In this video I go over why a scale does not matter when it comes to seeing results. So let's go ahead and get to it. What's up guys? It's your boy, the Millennial Health Coach, where I help you conquer your mindset, master your health, and grow to your highest potential. So if you haven't already, go ahead and subscribe. So topic of the day does the scale really matter? Like, does this guy really matter? No, it doesn't. Alright? Oh, I might need to get that replaced. So there's a couple reasons why it does not matter. First off, the scale does not account for anything regarding your body composition, so like your body fat. That's what really matters when it comes to like seeing results, because you could lose 10 or 15 pounds, and then you look at your body in the mirror, and you're like, the heck? I still look like the same. I just look like a little bit skinnier in the face.   So you got to keep that in mind that that weight is just a number. That's what leads to number two. The second reason why the scale doesn't matter is because your weight fluctuates literally day after day after day. And that's because your body is consuming different foods, consuming different liquids, like water. You weigh different at different times of the day. Think about at night, you're going to be probably a little bit heavier because you've eaten throughout the day. And then in the morning, you're probably going to be a little bit lighter because of the fact that your food has been digested all night. So your weight fluctuates, and it's not a reliable factor when it comes to looking and seeing results. And the last reason, and honestly, this is the most important to me, it's just depressing.  What I usually tell people to do is to take a picture of themselves and put it on the next to the bathroom mirror. Now, you don't have to do this. Just take a picture of yourself in general and try to have something tangible, right? Try to fit in that bathing suit that you've always wanted to fit into. Maybe it's fitting into a dress that you bought a year ago or a suit that you've been trying to fit in. That's what it really matters. The scale is not reliable, but how you feel and fit into something that's tangible, that's something that you can track. And on top of that, you get that external benefit. You're like, man, I look good. That's what really matters when it comes to weight. That scale does not matter. It's okay to track it once in a while just to see your progress, but at the end of the day, you want to check out your body composition. If you're fitting into the clothes and if you're feeling great, that's what matters. At the end of the day, are you feeling good? Are you feeling like you're making progress? If you are, then you're really getting results. So I hope this video was super helpful for you. If it was, feel free to put helpful in the comment box. And remember, if you have any questions, put those down there too. If it's about health, your mindset, your growth, let me know and I'll be able to help you out. I'll catch you all next week. You already know, embrace the high. Did you check out this video? How about this video? And I already know, if you haven't already, you need to make sure you subscribe. All right? I'll catch you all next time. See you later.


Maybe we'll come down here. Do you see Dave Davis? Do you see your little pong game? Let's go George. I have to work I love your name is George. Hey, would you like a beanie? Yes, I like this one or the which one you like? I'm gonna give you both one for you and Claire. There you go. Claire, we love you. We do love you. All right come down here Hey, Dave. All right, I'm gonna let George be the benefit of watching you go first. You have 30 seconds Let me just take you through this. Here's the leaderboard. I saw McCaffrey did it Okay, McCaffrey didn't got a Cam Jordan did it after three shots of tequila and he just did this with his massive hands This and threw them and so did Nate Burleson and that's how he did so well today. So it's up to you All right, let's do it and then you're gonna go George I don't know. I'm trying to figure out what the winner wins. My boyfriend is really trying to get in a lot Can you let me cook He said you're a little thirsty over there so I can I'm kidding get on over here. All right. We ready Whoa, oh Bucket bucket Yeah, that's probably the not that's not it. That's probably why I got zero Oh my god, you got this you got this you got 10 seconds All right, George, you gotta go. Yeah, so what was the best way to do that game? Okay, what from all once All right, let's do this Swaggy baby come over here Didn't I tell you that I was gonna work on morning, what are you doing? Gosh my boyfriend will leave me alone. We like instant official now. Was it a soft launch or a hard launch? I don't even know. All right. All right. We can start. Let's go. I'll start it on you, George All right, let's go let's go maybe bounce it George George George George George George George Come on kiddo come on kiddo come on kiddo. Oh, oh Wow athlete Yeah, that's the other best. Thank you. All right, Dave Davis is up next guys Next up in Adam's My coming up here, but you can yeah I just I can't be We know each other like that even though we don't know each other like that. This is Gabe Davis game How are you enjoying Super Bowl week? Okay? Good. You know have fun had a fun night. Yeah I didn't you know glad to be here on the show.   Yes, mom. I love you I'm glad that you get to see me on the show with your favorite person ever K K's been Amazing from the job ever since I came into the NFL. She's showing me nothing but love support, you know ups and downs She's always been by my side. So got another beloved Mr. Gabe Davis and the whole Davis family. Okay, let's talk about this season They feels like you took a leap Josh Allen every year it takes a leap you really did that you got on the map with him And it's sort of a different way. What was behind that? You know again just me being being on the team for now for the past three years and being able to be on the offense for three Years and be around the guys more and get to know him and you know, obviously get the reps in so I you know It's a whole process of development process.  How would you describe your connection with your quarterback? I feel like I'm like Josh is like Top five like best people in his life ever. I feel like me and him have a connection Wait, what?  Okay, I feel like you know, that's why you know me and him I do you know again, but take me into that. What makes you one of the best people in his life? I Would say like I was like our sense of humor the way we look at life the way we Approach life. I feel like it's all the same and again. I'll part hang out with Josh by once or twice a week And what do you guys do when you hang out? Like you see some images of like Joe Burrow taking his guys for Taco Tuesday. What's the thing that you guys do?  No, no, no, you guys go on walks.  Just take each other's house. Yeah, we just kick it. Yeah, probably kick it at you know Josh house is way bigger than my house. So, you know, we go kick it at his house And you know, there's everything at his house that we can do Okay, whatever your mom tells you before these big playoff games works because you show out in The more the most in the biggest spots. Okay wild card on against the Dolphins. I'm gonna look at your 2022 Gabe Davis script. Let's tee it up This is a script that was handed to you before the season and here it is I mean you drove the dagger gave Davis through Miami's upset bid So talk to me about this. This is some tow drag swag Nick Wilson would say. Oh, yeah, yeah I don't know. I feel like The playoffs add extra juice to you know guys try to say each game is the same I think once you get in the playoffs, there's always some extra juice going on. Oh, it's some extra motivation And I just know I want to be able to you know in the in the toughest situations, you know Put my put the team on my back and I was able to execute every time the ball came out wait I get that day. Well, it was amazing tow drag swag It shows how good of a player you are. What are we supposed to call you in these playoff games? Is it playoff game? What do you want us to call you? Big game game. I have that here a big game game or playoff game. Okay, mama. That's what we're calling him Lights, you know, that's what we do. Um, what do you make sitting now?  You're at school It's great, but that loss doesn't sting still or you passed it. How do you deal with that kind of thing? I mean when I when I pulled up And I walked in the airport and I saw the chiefs and the Eagles stuff going on I mean it just then I hung out with my guy Kenny Kenny game with me and him a real close But it just hurts my stomach real bad every time I you know see some stuff going on or again I even saw Kenny last night. I was and I was you know feeling it just because you know The guys that I play with and what we do and what we sacrifice, you know Obviously, I would love to be in this position be able to play in the Super Bowl and you know all this It's nothing compared to being those guys on Sunday. So it's it's a It definitely it definitely hurts, but you know, it is what it is What kind of things are you thinking about when you see that what's the upsetting for do you think of a play? Do you think of a moment you think of the Bengals game? What do you think about? Yeah, I mean I just yeah, I mean you you always think of what what you could have done better To put your team in a better situation Yourself and then what we could have done better as a team and but you know again You just got to learn from these experiences and be able to roll over and what's the positive game? What's the positive you can take from that to build and go forward the positive is that you know You're capable of doing it, you know, you just got to you just got to find those pieces and put them together and be able to You know again, this is the this is the best game in the world and this is the number one game to watch in the world and It's it's hard to get here. We all know that but at the end of the day we got to know that All we have to do is sacrifice To be able to get in this position because this is the best position to be it's so true now I know you love me, but you probably love Rihanna a little bit more So talk to me at this halftime show. Are you excited? What should she sing? She bring out of course Rihanna's the og. Yes Got a lot of love for axi met her two years ago It was pretty pretty cool at the rock nation branch. I was able to meet her and meet a lot of other people, but very humble Sweet woman from what I remember. I told them that they that she should bring me out there Well, would you would you you would sing you and her would look good for sure? Yeah, me and her look good if she needs me to hit a couple notes. I will Can we hit that's do I mean she could still change you and get you and let's hit a couple notes here What do you want to sing? Take a sip. Oh What do you want a little rude boy work work work? Say my name what Any song give me anything you want to sing Cam Jordan and Mark Ingram are wild and sing it on this set.  I thought that my last seconds of my Super Bowl week We're going to be playoff game. No, sorry big game Gabe singing Bruno flowers to me. Yes Bruno flowers Bruno Mars and cheers. Thank you to Gabe Davis. Thank you to everybody


Events like the Asia Pacific Rainforest Summit are important to the region because these issues around deforestation, forest degradation and emissions reductions are really political issues and economic issues. And events like this bring together people from a lot of different countries to explore the problems, to seek challenge solutions and to try to find a way that they can learn from each other. This event where there's probably a thousand people registered from maybe 20 or 30 different countries is a really good opportunity to do just that. Well, if you think about a lot of the countries in the Asia Pacific region have traditionally been forested countries. Their initial economic growth started with the harvesting of timber and the selling of timber for local markets and for global markets. Economy has always been part of a broader economic development program for many of the countries. The challenge that is existing right now is the fact that the economic development plan of many countries has favored agricultural expansion, mining expansion and associated infrastructure at the expense of forests. By explicitly recognizing the role of people in economic development in this year's conference it means we're really trying to put forest at the heart of rural economic development and make sure it's part of the rural economic development strategy rather than it's something that suffers from a rural economic development strategy. And that repositioning I think is really important as we think about forest in the future. So I think the Asia Pacific region has a couple of big challenges that it's trying to confront. And if you step back and look at the Asia Pacific region there's about 60 percent of the world's population. It's the fastest growing part of the world economically over the last 40 years. This combination of a lot of people and a lot of economic activity is creating a big demand for goods and services. And a lot of those goods and services are imported and they come from different countries. So what that means is that there's a big pressure placed on the resource base. For example with forests a lot of people are demanding more furniture, more building materials, more paper products, things that are directly derived from forests. A lot of people are also seeking to change their eating habits. So there's a preference for greater amounts of protein. That means more land for agriculture and more lands for animals or more lands for fisheries. So this demand for protein increases the need to supply animal products for the global and the local market. So the problem with that is you end up with overfishing or the problem with that is you end up with over harvesting of timber. I think a third thing that's an issue for the Asia Pacific region is air quality. Whether you're in a rural area where there's burning of forest land as part of the deforestation process or you're living in an urban area where there's a lot of smog and pollution caused from industrial action or transportation emissions or from the heating and cooling factories that exist around. So I think these three big issues around land use change, things that are going on with fisheries in the region and the air quality issues are big challenges for people in Asia Pacific. Well, when we think about what Red Plus is and what it's not, it's not just about what does forest look like and how do we generate carbon emission reductions from that. To me it's about a different way to think about rural economic growth. So for example, for us to maintain forest cover at the appropriate level, there's a number of different things that need to happen. For example, we need to have good, solid and inclusive land use planning that brings communities and other stakeholders into the discussions and the decision making processes. We also need to have site based management of land that takes into account the impact on forests. So for example, if we're seeking to manage forest for natural forest for products for local and global markets, can we do that in a way that reduces the emissions compared to the business as usual? When we're trying to build out the oil palm sector or the fast growing tree plantation sector or we're trying to expand mining, can we do that in a way that's cognizant of where existing high value forests are so that the forest don't suffer disproportionately from that sort of economic development? And another thing we need to figure out is what are the policies that need to be in place that support good rural development planning and good site based management? We need to reward good policy or good planning and good practice through policy interventions and we need to penalize bad planning and bad practice through policy interventions. And I think the last bit is we need to put in a really solid and accurate way to measure performance from an emission reduction standpoint. There are great tools that are out there and most countries have developed a way to measure emission reductions from forest management in a way that is consistent with the UNFCCC protocols and procedures. And in a way that is driving down the costs of doing so at massive scales. So I think this is in my mind, this is what Red Plus is all about. A different approach to rural economic development that takes these very aspects of planning, management, policy and emission reduction monitoring. And incorporates that into a new strategy going forward. I think what we have found generally as an organization working on this for the last 15 years is that it's difficult to finance those different pieces all at once, but I'm feeling pretty optimistic about the future. People are talking more and more about blended finance where you take financing from say development banks or bilateral agencies. And you pool that with philanthropic donations from individuals or foundations. You use that combination to attract corporate financing and investment from financial institutions. And each of those sources of funding will be focused on a specific type of an outcome as I mentioned earlier. Whether it's policy, planning, on the ground engagement, community enhancement, etc. So I think this is the thing we need to think about with Red Plus, is that it's not just a one off type of project, which is similar to how we've been thinking about things in the past. This is a new way of rural development that requires more sophisticated approaches to management. And a more inclusive way of engaging different stakeholders in the process. And I think organizations like the Nature Conservancy and other NGOs have a unique role to play in that space by trying to help advance ideas about multi-objective planning or multi-stakeholder processes. These sort of softer skills that complement the really solid technical capabilities and organization capabilities of the private sector and the government.


so the error is expected and ended the block after something. So this error happens every time you have after a colon and in the next line you don't have the required amount of tabs or spaces. In this case, as we can see here, every time that there's like a big gap between the code that is a step. So everything inside this first level is going to be inside of this colon. In other programming languages you use things like brackets. So you have a bracket at the beginning and you have one at the end. So you know that all this is inside there and it doesn't matter how many spaces you do. But in GD script or in Python, this is really important because this is telling the program what is inside the line that contains the colon. In this case, this function or in this case, this conditional. So to fix this problem, make sure that the spaces are the same as the block plus one. Another issue that you might encounter is that sometimes people use spaces even though it is not recommended and sometimes people use tabs. So here if you do four spaces you will think that the else is inside this block that we have here because it is in the same vertical line. But in reality, this is not because spaces are not equal to tabs. So you need to replace this until you see this symbol which is the indicator that there is a tab in there. Sometimes when you copy and paste code from a website the code is not intended as you might expect it. In this case, we copied and pasted some function and a few variables from the code documentation and the output that we have here are only spaces instead of tabs which is the ones that we want. So if you're mixing code with things that you have you notice that maybe if you want to add this here and you paste it the code will fail because this is not exactly as this. And we get this error here mixed tab and spaces in indentation. You can fix this very easy by going to edit convert indent to spaces or convert indent to tabs. In this case, since we want tabs, we press here and everything now is working and we are not mixing those two. So remember, it's very important that you check that this is set up properly and whenever you copy and paste code from here and there make sure that you check this first. And if you see that your code is giving you a weird error and you don't exactly know why this might be one of the reasons for your code to fail. I know this might be very simple to you if you're used to using brackets in other programming languages but I recently found that a lot of people that came with questions to my Discord channel were having this issue in particular and I noticed that it's really hard to find a proper tutorial on basic indentation. So I hope that this helps you learning how to make games we got out. See you.


Hey, Aloha, and welcome to the Think Tech Hawaii Studio, back for another episode of Security Matters. And we've got Chuck Anders in the house with us today, Chuck. Thanks for coming. Really appreciate you taking time out of your vacation to spend some time with us today. It was rough to come to Hawaii, Andrew. I know it's tough. Someone had to do it. It's tough. Hey, so I always ask my security practitioners, what keeps you up at night these days? Got a lot going on in security. Yeah, a lot going on in security, right? Well, look, this is a dynamic industry. It is evergreen. It's forever changing. And just trying to keep up with the latest and the greatest security technology that's cost-effective, preventative, and actually works out there, right? There's so much information and data. So my mind never stops, which in turn keeps me up at night. Wow. You're like me. I turn over those same things. And you're going to be out here talking about some of that. I know with our local as-is chapter, as-is international chapter tomorrow. Absolutely. Forward to updating the YN chapter of as-is international here in Honolulu, bringing them up to speed, of course, on the big GSX conference coming up in Vegas here in a couple of weeks. Yeah, we have, I typically see a handful of folks from the islands that get to that show. Unfortunately, it's typically the same guy. So there's not a lot of funding for a lot of our security directors and our folks here. And part of this channel is to do a lot of that outreach and try to share. I usually do like a best of the show, the things you missed, and try to bring back that type of information that a lot of our folks out here just don't get to avail themselves of. Absolutely. What do you think? We'll see a GSX this year. Well, we're going to see actually quite a lot. It's going to be quite different to GSX. First, let's start with the name, right? Yeah. Global Security Exchange. Yeah. Complete rebranding of this reinvented, this innovative new conference, if you were. It's still the seminar exhibits, right? Generally, ASIS International Seminar Exhibits, now GSX branded that way. And the X is very important because right where all the exhibits are is going to be Stage X. Okay. What does X mean? X equals learning. So we're talking about innovation from Bitcoin to AI to wearables across the board. It's going to be really exciting. Cutting edge security, what is the latest and greatest out there? And the only way to do that is to show up and participate at GSX this year. Sure. So we're going to have like a stage platform there and it'll be just like ongoing. Right in the middle of everything going on, on the exhibit floor, it's going to be really exciting and this is really what people are looking for, right? This opportunity. Of course, we have InfraGuard and ISSA as partners. So the cyber component, right, has to be part of that physical component. We talk about guns, gates and guards, right? Yes, we do. Got to have the cyber piece as part of that. The IS, the information security, the IT and the forensic piece part of it, right? Because everything you touch now from your watch to your computer to your phone has a central processing unit. It can't be dismissed as part of the risk. Yeah. That's a thing I spent most of my show last year at InfraGuard and I'm going to do it this year. Fortunately, Christine and I can kind of divide and conquer. So she hits up the main education and I hit up InfraGuard, we compare notes and we try to bring all that back to our team. I've got a couple other team members going as well that take some of our clients and take them around to some of the booths. It's really one of the largest shows in North America. I mean, it's popular. It's usually heavily attended. Well, look, ASIS International, the world's first oldest and largest security professional society, been around since 1955. Wow. 1955, 63 years. Think about all the people and the learning, the processes, the knowledge, the competency, right? All culminating in the GSX event. You want to be there and be a part of that if you're in the security business. Yeah. And I think we get 20, 30,000. I don't even know. It's huge. Yeah. Around 25,000 people at the conference that we have, of course, we have a conference in the Middle East and in Asia and I just got back from attending the one in Europe. It was very, very successful. Yeah. It's interesting how security is this industry of global partnership. And I like when I travel and you get around some international folks. They have some of them quite a different slant on how to do things and what works. And it's really eye-opening. I was in with the Zenitel group in Italy, end of last year, and it was a group focused on kind of the oil and gas segment and platforms and all the stuff that I don't really get to touch on. Totally different perspective on what we need to be doing, what type of innovation they were looking for compared to what we hear about here. So that international component is super relevant to our industry. It absolutely is. So that's why I experience it, that experience of going over there is just, it's huge because old to us is 200 years. There's people who ran out of apartments and Bavarian Germany, it's 800 years old. So it's all relative and to the thank you. Back in 1985, I had a great opportunity, my undergrad career at Sam Houston State University to go over to Europe and study at the Max Blanc Institute for Criminal Justice. So we went into the penal institutions, the courts and patrol operations of multiple countries. I brought that perspective back and you're absolutely right. That perspective is better because when you get over here, the way you respond to the risk and respond to whatever project that you're working off in that security vertical, you take a completely different attitude and angle on how to fix it, work the problem. So there's a huge benefit to networking and learning overseas, bringing that knowledge back.  I think there's a good training component there.  There's some of that stuff you can work on while you, if you go to the show as well. Absolutely. On the weekend before the show starts, in this case on the 23rd, you can go through different reviews for the CPP certified protection professionals. Now, did you know there is a new certification out by the professional certification board by ASIS International? Have you heard about it? No. The APP? No. The Associate Protection Professional. Ah. You just started in 2018. If you've got one to four years experience, it's kind of like that introduction certification so you can begin your career. Show up at the conference. You can learn more about it. Yeah. So we've got some of those on our staff that we're encouraging, Christine's encouraging the PSP, but they don't have the years yet. So that's a nice nod. I did not know about that. Yep. Lots of new things going on at ASIS. Great start. So what else? I know there's Connect. Yeah. ASIS Connect. Talk about that a little bit. Absolutely. So as a member, you get an opportunity to be in the community, right? The security professional community, right? 35,000 members, 7,600 are board certified, right, CPP, PSPs and PCIs. So when you log in and become a member, log in, you get to be part of the ASIS Connects community. And what that means is that opportunity to network with people. You have to set up your profile to do that, put your information in it. More importantly, set your privacy setting such that other people who are members can see and share your information. You want to start a new topic about maybe a project you're working on or some knowledge that you need to gain in a particular area of security, you can actually start and create that and have thousands of people respond to it to help you out. Research information, it's just a great community to be in and it's the premier community in security to be able to communicate with that information. That's got to be centuries of experience. Absolutely. And that many, I guess professionals, you know, from the ranks. Absolutely. Maybe you just want to, you just started out and you need a mentor. You could actually pose, looking for mentor, put that information out and it all could be shared with everybody. It is endless as the amount of information that you can gain, but you've got to show up, be a member, log in, set up your profile, put your privacy settings, and of course ASIS international headquarters staff will help people do that and get more information. Awesome. So it seems like ASIS is kind of modernizing itself, but after being around quite a while, these are fairly, what would you call them, digital digitized sort of ideas, you know, the way things are getting done these days, that collaborative digital experience and sharing all of our knowledge is critical because when you have a problem and you're trying to help someone, you know, maybe on your own or even if there's five people in the room, if you can get 50 people in the room, you're probably going to get the best solution for the person with the problem. Very much so. So you can reach out to those people individually, understanding what their role is. Maybe they're the chief security officer of a particular company, right? And that's the kind of company or vertical that you want to work in, right? Could be maybe chemical operations, could be fraud, could be investigation, could be physical security, your world, right, on the technology side. You can find those people, reach out to them directly or as a group by posting that information in ASIS Connect. That's amazing. Well, what else has happened at ASIS? Now, you've been on the board for several years. A couple years.  Give us a little bit of your, you know. Sure. Well, actually it goes back a long time. I started as a law enforcement police explorer in 1976. Wow. What is that? Boy Scouts of America. Actually, it has two verticals, Scouting, which we all know. Come scout, we below Boy Scout. This is a career awareness vertical, started in the late 50s, 60s, called Exploring. Well, one of the most successful and largest components of that division is Law Enforcement Exploring. So basically, I donned a uniform, everything but a gun, and went out on patrol and from the age of 13 to 19, logged 4,000 hours on patrol. Wow. And became a commissioned officer at the age of 19, 20 in Texas. And that's how I began my career up to chief of police and then went to the private industry. Wow. And then did you, you obviously had heard of as is earlier, did you, were you working on certifications as a law enforcement or was it after when you were in private? So uniquely enough, I started at the Denver Mile High Chapter back in the 80s. Got my CPP certification. Back then it was, I think 600 questions, 600 scantrons, if you will. And if you've ever taken a scantron test, it's like, with pencil, right? You can hear it in the machine if you passed or failed by the number of clicks. Right? Wow. As part of it. Flew to Dallas, got my CPP and have had it ever since as a law enforcement officer. Keep in mind, I was in crime prevention. And crime prevention and security are almost synonymous. So as a result, it just made sense. What's important to the business person in my community as a crime prevention officer? I'm an interesting preventing crime. There's no better way to do that than the competencies, training, skill and networking of ASIS International. So uniquely, I started as a law enforcement officer and then went to the private industry as a chief security officer and so on and so forth. And so that process for working for and with ASIS, because they have a lot of committees, you know, there's a lot of different focus areas within our industry that I think ASIS is active in. What can the folks out there do to help that? Should they start with Connect or what do you advise them to do? So first join. Yes, join. You've got to be a member of ASIS International. Go to your local chapter meetings. That's exactly right. Share your information. ASISonline.org. Start there and make sure you got all the information that you need to actually join and become a member and then start taking advantage of everything that you can by attending your local chapters. We have 241 chapters and 140 plus countries. Wow. There's a pound of E1 near you. Yeah. An ASIS chapter near you. Come join today. That's right. And so how many members do we have these days? About 35,000 members. Wow. Globally. 51 regional areas for Africa, Middle East, Asia, Europe and of course the United States and that's where the biggest conference is. And are those structured similarly technology providers as well as education at all of those? Yeah. We have 300 plus educational sessions actually at GSX. Wow. So every topic under the sun will pretty much be covered and that would take another two hour show just to cover the topics. Yeah. It is a thick. It is. They're going online. GSX. Go to ASISonline.org. Get all the information and make a decision to attend. I think you will. And are the other international shows, are they like that several days of education, kind of similar format? So yes. They were in a week at a time for us. It's the 23rd to the 27th this year in Las Vegas. Las Vegas Convention Center. Sure. Exhibits Tuesday through Thursday this year. We kick off on Sunday at the Brooklyn Bowl with opening night celebration. Now, there's a rumor that somebody may be on stage singing a song. I don't know. ASIS Foundation has got a little fundraiser going, so you want to be there. Yeah. Last year we had some more Hawaii contingent. We were on the bull ride. Yeah. Raising bull ride. Right. And my wife got an awful easy ride compared to me. That's all I'm going to say about that. We paid the same. Are we sure? We donated the same. Did you check your credit cards? Yeah. Okay. And so when I was, you know, she's like, it's not that hard. I'm like, really? I got dumped. Like, but anyway. And then all the Hawaii guys ran off. I was trying to issue a challenge to raise more funds. And I was like, where'd those guys go? But anyway, not a lot of bull riders. It was very successful when we thank you for your contribution. Well, you were MCing. That was great. Like, you couldn't get past Chuck MCing.  There was a line, like, it was long. So it's about time to pay some bills. We stopped. Take about a minute break. And we'll be right back with Chuck Andrews. Aloha. I want to invite all of you to talk story with John Wahee every other Monday here at Think Tech Hawaii. And we have special guests like Professor Colin Moore from the University of Hawaii who joins us from time to time to talk about the political happenings in this state. Please join us every other Monday. Aloha. Hi. I'm Bill Sharp, host of Asian Review here on Think Tech Hawaii. Join me every Monday afternoon from 5 to 5.30 Hawaii Standard Time for an insightful discussion of contemporary Asian affairs. There's so much to discuss. And the guests that we have are very, very well informed. Just think we have the upcoming negotiation between President Trump and Kim Jong-un. The possibility of Xi Jinping, the leader of China, remaining in power forever. We'll see you then. Hey, welcome back to the Think Tech Hawaii Studios. This is Security Matters. And we're with Chuck Andrews today. We've been talking about GSX. It's going to be an amazing show. Get on out there to Vegas.  It's obviously one of those places that you need to be this year. And you need to be there in a few weeks, for sure. And there won't be a hurricane there, I promise. Although there's one here, there's going to be one on the East Coast. There won't be one in Las Vegas. So come on out. Exactly. So you have some other work that you do that's, I think, really important. And you built a community of friendship. And it's called The Friends of Chuck. And I wanted to give you a shout out for that sharing work that you do. So let's kind of talk about, I don't know where it came from. I just know when you have one of those pins on, you're a lot more popular. So I always wear my Friends of Chuck pin when I'm at the show. So talk about where that came from and what you're doing with it. So one of the things I realized working in law enforcement at such a young age, when I said I started at the age of 13 in law enforcement, right, was that relationships are key. And you learn a lot about human psychology, human behavior, human beings, the way they act and do things and their culture, family. And you realize some things in life as a result. And there's no replacement for friendships. And for me, it's friendships over finances. And as a result, a friend of mine basically, it started this way. And it's an interesting story. So I teach as an adjunct graduate professor at my alma mater, Sham Houston State University. Actually, because of its evolution and security in the computer science department. So as a result, I had sent a friend of mine, Frank, up there to teach in my stead. And he got up there and he just got his MBA from the University of Houston. Just really excited about this. He's given the presentations.  He goes, hey, hey, this is a friends of Frank event, right? And some students said, no, this is a friends of Chuck. Where's Professor Andrews? Yeah, we're all friends of Chuck. And he comes back with this story and we sit around and gather. Another friend of mine in Houston, who's a former law enforcement officer, chief security officer, retired, has this great promotions company. Son came up and said, look, this is a concept. We talked about it. I said, look, there's nothing more powerful and helpful in life than relationships. So by forming this group, that's exactly what it does. Networking, business development, cutting edge security technology, helping someone find a job. And let me key in on that. I've probably been fortunate enough to help maybe a hundred people find key positions in security through relationships. I know their personality. I know the culture they came from. I know their education. And then when someone calls me, Chuck, who's the right guy for this job? And pairing those together, I've had a hundred percent successful placement, if you will. It's not a compensated role at all. And I try to help people from the person getting that job. What does that mean? What does that really mean to have a job? You can feed your family, right? You can feel productive, right? And contribute to society, right? Have meaning in your life, right? Your own self-worth and respect. It cannot be underestimated to help somebody find a job. Security and investigations vertical just happens to be my niche. I help people in other respects as well. So this half OC thing has grown to like 80,000 people in a hundred countries. Isn't that something? And it's just about friendships and relationships, right? And it's been very successful. We're going to see here coming up the launch of the FOC app. Okay, wow, nice. Literally you'll be able to press a button and say, FOC now, what do you need? And then we're going to develop into some actual services that people keep asking. Chuck, can you help with media development or marketing or branding? I don't understand. So it's going to evolve and it's been a lot of fun. And you should do in life what's fun. In FOC we have a mantra, right? Three things, stream big, know how to have fun and get stuff done. It's just that simple. That's awesome. And it's great to share that with everybody. Now, Brian Tusken from Microsoft is going to be in town tomorrow. He's speaking at the Fusion Center. Love, Brian. And he does that. He's very big at getting, especially law enforcement, which is where he came from. And even some, his Hawaiian brothers, he came from here before he was at Redmond Police. I know, and also Paul from Matterhorn, Paul Boucherelle is also big on getting, he gets Marines into our industry. So it's interesting, you know, because no one grows up thinking, I want to be in the security industry. No one really knows about our industry, right? And once you get in it, I think that helping thing that we do, you know, and it, there's a lot of ways to do that. But I think that that's what keeps people in our industry. Very much so. And we all sort of share that brotherhood. That's 80,000 basically people to help other people so that people are working and productive. Very much so. I love it. Amazing, amazing. So that was going by some students. Very much so. Credit goes to my students. To your students. They must have money. Do they all get a pin for that? They all got a pin for that. They love it. It's, look, you got to have some humor in this life because it's a different world, right? And there's some humor in all this as part of it. But I spend all day just managing inbound requests now from via LinkedIn or Facebook. And we have, for instance, Chuck has those pages out there. If you want to go, be a part of that. That's awesome. Well, hopefully tomorrow you'll get to talk about that at the as-is chapter meeting here and get some more Hawaii friends. And I'm not sure how many you've got.  So let's talk a little bit about what you've been doing since you've been here. Have you gotten to see the North Shore? Shore on the west side of the island enjoying what trade winds we can. Look, this is your hottest month, right, as part of September. So we kind of knew that. We've been here a few times before over our life. Maui and Kauai are usual stops. But you've got to come here to understand the history. Right, Pearl Harbor, which I'm going to opportunity to take my wife to and see a little bit of that history. She's not seen that. So we're just really having some great downtime and enjoying everything Hawaii has to offer. Wow.  And we want to, we do want to, while we're talking here, just remember today is September 11. So 17 years ago, a lot of folks made that ultimate sacrifice. And interestingly, some of our InfraGuard and FBI friends here were there at that time and Ground Zero. So I've seen some pictures and heard some of their stories. They lost a lot of folks that day as well. So it's been, it's always something important to remember the work that we do. And then, but it's good to have fun too doing it because you can get down in the dirty parts of it and the hardness and, you know, security. It's interesting. We talk a lot about how folks don't, it's like kind of like insurance. Like they don't like to talk about security or security problems, maybe. And where we kind of live in them day in and day out. What do you think, what do you think that comes from? I don't know if the general public has a avoidance, but they just don't keep security top of mind to my way of thinking. You know, what's your experience with that idea?  It's not as proactive as we would like it to be. There's a good way, right? So crime prevention. You had to kind of go back to that definition. Crime prevention is the anticipation, recognition and appraisal of a crime risk or risk and the initiation of some type of action to remove or reduce head risk. So as a company, the bottom line, right, is revenue, right? There's P&L responsibilities. They got a return on investor. If you're publicly traded, then your TK10K is going to reflect, right, where that money is going, how it's spent. So bottom line, those board of directors have to make some hard decisions. Insurance is usually one of the biggest ways that they like to defray, but the problem is, is damage done. There's brands that have to be protected, people and assets that have to be protected. So let's take cyber as a good example. So really right now it's like, the world by web wasn't designed for security in mind, right? So from that respect, you've got to really operate in a zone of resilience. In other words, you need to be 60, 70% operational on a worst case scenario, right?  Security is key.  That's right. And certain assets cannot be replaced. It costs them time and money and all that has to be evaluated. There's never enough attention. I know when I was a crime prevention officer, how did I sell for budgeting? Crime prevention, right? How do you quantify that metric, right? There's actually a way to do it. And back in the day, I used the example of a DUI. What is the cost? So the average cost on a DUI is like $860,000 between attorneys and legal fees and medical fees, shutting down the highway, repair the highway. All these costs, you could actually quantify that. So if you could stop one DUI fatality, what's the value? $864,000. Okay. So I actually use those numbers to justify what's the value of a burglary. And then there's soft dollars, the whole imagery. How well does a police department, how well did you do? As a security group, how well did you do? Right? Because you want zero incidents. Right? And it's, well, there's nothing going on in security. Well, we're preventing it. We're going to show that metric somehow, some way, right?  That means dinner and golf with the board of directors, too. I have definitely gotten that flat face before. And I've used the analogy that, you know, if we go forward with this system and we get this implemented, the very best thing that can happen is nothing. Absolutely. And they all go, Well, now you have to paint the value of that. Exactly. And that preventative value. And unfortunately, there's not a, there hasn't been a big focus tomorrow. I have a guest tomorrow coming on that's big in risk analysis and threat assessment. So there's not a lot of that in Hawaii. He's actually ex-HPD as well, or former HPD. So it'd be interesting to hear, you know, if you want to see what he's doing in the community. Because often, you know, as you know, a lot of security folks like us get called upon as a reactive sort of thing. Something's happened. 100% of the time. And now we've got to fix that, right? And I would really like Hawaii's thought process to get to a much more of a preventative sort of mindset. Absolutely. You see these ideas projected into the budgets and some fair analysis, whatever folks, you know, are kind of using out here. But there's just no one really doing that kind of stuff in Hawaii. It's a tough truth that an incident occurs. Take 9-11. What have we spent? A trillion dollars on the Department of Homeland Security in response. Ex-Post-Facto. So just about every scenario I've ever seen in a corporation where a major incident has occurred, a major breach, there's budget. But it's after the fact, damage done.  We need to be able to communicate. And being a member of ASIS International allows you, as a security director, security manager, chief security officer, to have knowledge of what's working with your colleagues. Right. Right through networking. Literally, you could go to ASIS Connects, put the information up there. What's working for you? And you'll have 500 people sharing with you what worked to convince that board of directors, that group, that city council, if you will be for law enforcement, who are also members, right? Sure. Of ASIS International. How can you be... Don't reinvent the world. Go out to ASIS and get this information as part of your membership. It's already there. It's already there. Awesome. Thank you, Chuck. Sure. Folks, as ASIS International, as ASIS Connects, go out there and get this information if you need help. It's there. Because security matters. Thank you.


I just found out some pretty exciting information y'all. I said, how can I not hop on a video and share it with everybody? If y'all new to the channel, be sure to subscribe. If you watched 2K18 videos and you haven't subscribed, what are you up to? It's a real question right now. I do a lot of jump shot tests. Every jump shot I test, I have it on a notepad document. I literally have the exact release. I rate it on the park and the program and my final thoughts. You know, even write like crazy from limitless or amazing moving shot, like some key points with the shot. And then a few weeks later, I love to go back and just revisit jump shots. So I'm testing new stuff all the time. So when I come across information like I did today, I get really excited. Now, my guys at NBA 2K lab are the plug for real. They have a modded controller so they can time stuff to perfection every single time. And it makes tests super simple, although probably time consuming, but they put on a tweet and this tweet is a game changer for jump shot creations. The tweet says the upper portion of your custom jump shot doesn't mean anything unless you watch from visual cues. It doesn't affect timing or window at all. So basically they're saying the base of your jump shot determines everything when it comes to the green windows, et cetera, et cetera. And your upper release one and your upper release two only serve as visual cues. So you know I'm talking about cues all the time I release on cue. They're saying that's its only function, which explains why if you remember last year, I told you how to put magic Johnson as your release two, because it made for a super easy cue and it just simplified the whole process. Previously, I thought the combination of the entire jump shot determined the green window, but they're saying it's literally just the base. If you take a look at their websites from all the jump shots they've tested so far, they say amateur one and Clay Thompson has the biggest green window. This is where I'll take time in the video to say I told you so. I saw some people tweet at me like, yo agent your park jump shot you uploaded a couple weeks ago. I can't really roll with it. And I'm like, what do you mean, bro? It's a wavy jump shot and that jump shot had an amateur one base and we're finding out that has at least so far from the ones tested the biggest green window. I hit them up in the DMs. I was like, yo, 2k live. I'm gonna need y'all to test out D'Angelo Russell real quick. Cause if I find out D'Angelo Russell has a bigger green window than all the other tested ones so far, I'm about to make a whole video dedicated till I told you so. The consensus on my A1 jump shot is, yo agent, I love it, but it's too slow. If you're 6'4 and under, there's no excuse. You can put it on very quick and then it's fast. But if you're 6'5 and up, it is kind of slow. So in this video, I'm here to help y'all out because I have a catalog of bases that are lit. So without strenuous testing to find the exact green window, just based off my user experience, I'm gonna label some of the... Can't show y'all this jump shot yet. I almost exposed the wavy jump shot. I was testing this jump shot. Now the green window is wildly dependent on latency. There's a jump shot I was using previously that when the latency was good, the cue was so hard to hit, it was almost impossible to hit a green. But the second latency started to pick up, even a little bit, yo, the entire green window, it's like you couldn't miss greens. So the tests they're doing are on my career. So I also wanna keep that in mind when I'm looking for jump shot. So I'm gonna name some bases that I love to use. And then if it's your style, because everybody has a different style, you need to pick it up and then find a cue that works for you on the release one or release two. Carmelo Anthony is a strictly mid-range release. Do not try to shoot threes with that. Aldridge is a super popular release and base. I know y'all hate slow releases, but I really like Shancie's base. Galanari along with Rudy Gay probably have the most simple bases of all time. Kevin Durant has a clean base. It's not fast, it's not slow. But in my experience, it leans way too much. James Harden has a wavy base. Tony Parker has a wavy base. Clay Thompson is usually for a big man. I don't know too many guards that can pull it off, but his base is wavy. John Stockton's release took a huge turn this year. Last year it was a disaster. Y'all might wanna check out John Stockton. Of course, my A1 base, D'Angelo Russell. Jump shot nine is probably the most popular, if not one of the most popular in the game. I don't like it, but it's really popular. I'm sure y'all remember base 49 from last year. This is an A2 base. It's not A1 just yet. I have some more testing to do, but it's really solid. Of course, like last year, jump shot 65 is an alternate to high school one or what they call now amateur one.  I haven't tested this one yet, but I'm excited to. And then of course, as usual, amateur one. I heard some set shots might be wavy this year. I'm gonna have to look into set shots though for fact. So use any base you're most comfortable with. All right, mine for me, base one. And then I tag it with releases I'm comfortable with. Now, so far this year, Paul George is by far my favorite release. It came out of nowhere cause last year it was booty cheeks.  And I haven't done all that yet. That's game. I'm hopping on tonight. I'm playing 2K and all I'm gonna be doing is testing jump shots. I gotta do some more investigating. I'm excited, man. I know I'm gonna come up with some wavy combos. Now, if you enjoyed the video, make sure to drop a like. I'm gonna leave 2K Labs link in the description. I'm gonna leave it on that, man. Again, if you enjoyed, drop a like. If you're new, subscribe to the channel. I'm a catch y'all later. I'm out. Peace.


What's up, everyone? It's your girl, Kenzie here from Layton Sports Cards. I am ripping a personal here for Matthew G. We've got a one box of 2021 Top Scrone Platinum Anniversary Baseball Lights. All right, best of luck, Matthew. Here we go. Um, I think I might rich if I have what's in queue now plus that. I'll probably be full for personals today. Can't tell if you're joking or not. I would probably have time for that. And that would be whatever's in queue and that empty box here. Not joking. Yeah, yeah, I should have room for that. I would just be full for the day. What's up, Dean? Here we go. Looking for the black and white mini diamonds. Are I'm on desi on the refractor? These are cutie. So cute. We've seen all the pictures so far. Joey Bart rookie. Scooball. We've got black and white mini diamond rookie. Joey Gerber. Rookie on the Aqua Wave. Will Craig, Pirates. Jeffers rookie. David Wright refractor. Out of 199. Blue mini diamond. Justin Dunn, Mariners. Black and white mini diamond. Christian Poshay. Nice one there for the Braves. Wings rookie Olson and Anderson. Oh no, we've got Hank Aaron on the refractor. Cool one there. I'm going to be senior. Mom, let's see a pink. Let's see a pink out at a 15. Those are the case hits here in the light boxes. Black and white mini diamond of slaughter. I feel like that's your last name. Mr. Slaughter. X-Fractor for the Mets of Edwin Diaz. They say super close. Okay. Yeah, for sure. For sure. Quintana on the refractor. Sapphire Star Wars.  All right. Two packs left here for you. Black and white mini diamond of Howie Kendrick. Washington.  Garrett Rookie and Bernie Williams. All right, Matthew. That will do it for your box. Congrats on your hits. Thanks for your patience. And we'll get these right onto you.