I'm Priyanka Sharma, and I'm the executive director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Thank you. Before we begin, I would like us to take a moment to acknowledge those who can't be here today. Cloud Native is a global, diverse community, representing 190 countries. And today, our communities in the Middle East, particularly Israelis and Palestinians, are suffering. After the tragic terrorist attack on October 7th, we have lost cherished community members. And as the conflict goes on, so much suffering and loss of life continues. Let's take a moment of silence and recognition of the lives lost and for all those who need our love and support. Thank you for participating with me. And now welcome to KubeCon Cloud NativeCon North America happening in Chicago. What do OpenAI, NVIDIA, and Hugging Face have in common? That's right, I heard it in the audience. They all run on Kubernetes. Yes, that's this group right here. Six years ago, the platform engineering team at OpenAI were on the stage at KubeCon Berlin. Anyone here in the audience who remember that? Yes, there are some OGs, awesome. And they shared with us how they were using Kubernetes to train their AI models. These are the folks behind ChatGPT, by the way. Even though Kubernetes was originally built for web-scale workloads, OpenAI was able to use it to run huge and dynamic training jobs, sometimes lasting for weeks. While HPC-specific technologies such as Slurm have a very important place, Kubernetes's developer friendliness and APIs have made Cloud Native the scaffolding of the Cloud Native movement, of the AI movement. OpenAI was able to scale to 7,500 plus Kubernetes nodes to build ChatGPT, the AI-powered chatbot that took the world by a storm, one that my husband lovingly refers to as his best friend and workwife, and to think I'm the fool that introduced them. ChatGPT surfaced the generative AI movement for all of us to see, the revolution that is already changing our lives. At its simplest, generative AI utilizes AI models to learn the patterns and structure of input data and then generates new data with similar characteristics. In essence, creates content. Large language models or LLMs are a form of generative AI that have been broken the barriers between human and machine communication so that there can be outputs that humans ask for in natural language. The infrastructure that AI uses, especially generative AI, is different from the web-scaled workloads. And often, but not always, leverages graphical processing units, or GPUs. Around since the 70s for image and graphics processing, NVIDIA introduced GPUs for the personal computer in the 90s. And this new paradigm has unlocked a seismic shift in society. Speaking of seismic shifts, according to a McKinsey report, the impact of generative AI on the global economy could be as high as $4.4 trillion. For some context setting, the GDP of the United Kingdom in 2021 was $3.1 trillion. I recently judged the TED AI hackathon in San Francisco. Yeah, it was fun. And I met a lot of companies and individuals all so excited about the possibilities. And I asked about the emerging LLM stack. I asked these companies there what they were using for infrastructure. And I got some really confused looks and, obviously, Kubernetes as the response. Why was I even asking? And it made me wonder, could this be? Kubernetes's Linux moment? A ubiquitousness so pervasive that it does not need to be inquired about. The cloud-native ecosystem has a symbiotic relationship with the GenAI movement. Not only have we provided companies and organizations with the infrastructure layer to run LLMs and GenAI features, we've also leveraged the technology ourselves to make infrastructure more accessible and useful. For instance, I was talking to folks at New Relic the other day. And they told me that once they fully retooled on open telemetry, which, as you all know, is a CNCF project, using GenAI in their user interface, their traffic through open telemetry increased by 79%. So it turns out making it easy for folks to ask what went wrong to your infra makes it that much more useful and accessible. GenAI and cloud-native infra have much to do with each other. All this is to say, regardless of whether you work for an end user organization or a vendor, learning how to support an LLM infrastructure is important. Now, there are two elements of the LLM app stack to be aware of. The first part is around training, which, in the case of LLMs, is how a large language model is built and developed. And the next is inference, which is applying this capability from the large language model that we learned to answer questions, to create content, to give the response the input or needs. I started tinkering to see how easy would it be to deploy an inference LLM application on my computer with Kubernetes. Last time when we were in Amsterdam, I shared with you over video how to run Kubernetes on your computer easily with kind clusters. Today, we're going to build upon that. And I'm going to show you how to use kind for Kubernetes and run an LLM app on your computer. There were two things that really mattered to me. One was that I'd like to create a simple chat bot. And the second was everything had to be 100% open source. So because of those parameters, I had to pre-bake part of this demo. So as of now, on my computer, I already have kind and an LLM downloaded. I'm going to just check that that is the case. Sorry, do a kubectl. Let's check. OK, you see here, can folks see this? Yes. You see here, LLMA running. That's the registry from which I pulled the Mistral database, all open source. And at the same time, we also have the kind clusters on. So knowing that this is here, I'm just going to run my demo script. And this is running now. The database is loading. I'll use Neo4j. Now keep in mind, while this is happening, it's taking some time. This could be all very, very fast if I had used either a managed service or if this feature in Kubernetes called Dynamic Resource Allocation was enabled so that I could then use my M1 chip on this laptop to then run this demo. But as things stand, this is what we're doing for having 100% open source demo. And it is important to have that just because being 100% open source means any person in this audience and beyond, regardless of what industry they work with, however regulated, can test this out and get familiar with the LLMA infrastructure. Thank you. And I'm hoping this will run. We'll give it a few seconds. And I have faith that it's going to happen. As this will pull up, you will see one is you will see my chatbot. But second, you will also see an open source tool called WeaveScopeLoad, which is 100% open source offering that shows you what the infrastructure is set up as and what the traffic patterns are. So let's give it a hot second. Just so you know, I practiced this so many times. And every time, it was going real fast. And I was promised that this is going to run. And I have a backup video that I have prepared. But if it's OK with you all, let's let it happen. Database pod, man. Maybe this will not go the way I would like it to go. Maybe we can pull the video that we have of this. And by then, maybe it'll have run. And I can show it to you. I'm watching my computer closely. If it happens, I'll say something. That's what would have happened. That's WeaveScope that shows us. And Neo4j, of course. Nothing wrong with it, but given the constraints. There's the app running, getting started. And then we have our chat app over there. And you can see what's happening with the intro. Then we ask the question, what is the CNCF? Because maybe someone doesn't know. There you have the chat app, giving a response. All open source, built on the computer, just recorded a few hours ago. A big thanks to the folks at DockerCon who released a startup app for LLMs that was leveraged to build this application. If you'd like to try this out, use the QR code on your home computer and fast internet. I promise you it'll work a little bit better. So give it a shot. We know AI is changing the world, and CloudNative is powering AI. With this scale of innovation, CloudNative needs to keep evolving to be at the cutting edge. The stakes are high, because anyone innovating with JNAI applications is particularly sensitive about their data security and privacy. As a result, a lot of LLM stack vendors need to be able to deploy to customers or VPCs on their Kubernetes clusters, turns out, so that they feel more secure. Kubernetes is the new on-premise here. And so if the end user is our astronaut, we provide the scaffolding for the rocket ship of the JNAI apps to take off. What we need to do to make this happen is to connect the end users building JNAI technologies and CloudNative maintainers. To that end, I'm pleased to welcome on stage Joseph Sandoval of Adobe, who recently released a JNAI product called Firefly. He's also a member of our technical advisory board and user technical advisory board. More on that in Paris soon, I promise. And he will speak with key maintainers over here. Kevin Clues from NVIDIA, Marlo Weston from Intel, and last but not least, Tim Hawken from Google. Well, welcome to the stage panel. And personally, I'm very excited to be able to be a part of this. Since recently at Adobe, we have just shipped our first JNAI application called Firefly, which is based and built and running on CloudNative technologies. Just to give you a little bit of kind of overview of how we did this and how this was able to go to market quickly, is we have an underlying platform quality that is based on Kubernetes, using a lot of the familiar things within the CloudNative ecosystem, like Cilium and Envoy. As well as we have another part of our platform that is focused on that developer experience called Flex that is using Backstage, Argo, and a lot of the familiar other elements that help you create that dynamic experience. And so this was a great opportunity for us to really kind of see how the power of CloudNative can power these applications. But there was also one learning that there was much more that the community could do for this type of workload. So let's just get right into this conversation. I want to start with you, Tim. And what I really want to do, when I look from this recent learning, there is definitely some gaps when it comes to running ML workloads on Kubernetes. And maybe you can kind of help identify what some of these challenges are, as well as what the community is doing to address this. Sure. Yeah, AIML workloads are a little different than the things that Kubernetes has been built to support for the last 10 years. And so I think it's really changing our relationship with the hardware. And so we need to think hard about how we're going to manage that in scheduling and resource management and performance management. And workloads, in particular, are different than the classic sort of web apps. So as a community, as a project, we're thinking a lot about what new primitives we're missing, what new concepts, what sort of user experiences we want to assemble out of the pieces we've got. I think we've got a good platform for building that, but we don't have exactly the thing that we need yet. Interesting. Thank you. Marlo, I want to ask you something, because of your background and the things that you've been working on, is what are some of the key differences between AL ML systems and HPC systems? And what kind of community to learn from this? So HPC systems are very solid systems. Basically, you label it by RAC. Whereas some of the AIML, we're starting to look at amorphous blobs of compute, where they're not necessarily racked and stacked the way that old HPC is. And so we need to be designing for cases where it may not just be in a data center, but maybe also edge. Interesting. So, Kevin, I wanted to ask you something in regards to, and I think this would be for the panel as well. But there's definitely some key takeaways that I'm hearing here, that there's some actions that need to be taken. Maybe you can provide your perspective on this. Yeah, sure. So from NVIDIA's perspective, and using GPUs in general, we've heard a lot about LLMs, but it's not just LLMs that run on these GPUs. It's any kind of ML workload. And one of the biggest pain points that we see people facing right now with using GPUs in Kubernetes is being able to get the right size GPU for the workloads that they're trying to run, where the conventional thinking has always been training, you need big, beefy GPUs. Inference, you need smaller GPUs or even a fraction of a GPU. But even with the introduction of LLMs, that's not even true. If you want to do inference on LLMs, you need these big, beefy GPUs. And so just trying to find the right size GPU for your workload is a challenge in Kubernetes, amongst some of the other challenges of, once you do have access to it, how do you control the sharing that you have of those GPUs across different workloads that you run? And one of the things we're working on the community as Priyanka mentioned in her keynote is this new abstraction called dynamic resource allocation, which we've been working together with Intel on building out and becoming kind of the new way for doing resource allocation in Kubernetes. There's lots of challenges with that. It's not, it's still in alpha form, and there's some cost that comes with doing things this way that we as a community need to kind of rally around and figure out how to solve some of these before we can actually make this the standard way of doing resource allocation, but I'm hoping we can do that together over the coming months or years so that we can actually make this available for people to use GA before too long. That's great. Marla, I think you may add some more thoughts about this as well in regards to, from an environmental perspective. So when you start looking at the GPUs and their power use, you're talking Bitcoin mining, but bigger. So Bitcoin mining remembers, I think was at 1.1 to 2% of the world's power in total. So now we're talking bigger and bigger. So we need to find ways to optimize for power so that people running the data centers or people running locally are minimizing the amount of power user and maybe just powering up just when they're using them. That's great. I think one final takeaway that I may add is that as mentioned, we have the CNCF End User Technical Board, we're an advisory board where hopefully we can get a lot of inputs there. So, panel, I wanna thank you for all this great comments and feedback. It's really appreciated. Thank you. By the way, my demo loaded. If anyone wants to show the screen, AB, so it's real, I promise. All right. Awesome, back to slides, please. So, the panelists have given us clear action items. I'll recap them for you all so that we know exactly what we need to do. First step is please engage in Kubernetes issues with how you are using Kubernetes for AI workloads. In particular, we need to look at dynamic resource allocation, which was brought up here. And if that had been sorted, my demo would have run on time, so I'm just saying. We need all the folks to participate in that, especially all the cloud providers, big and small. Second, the end user research user group is a great place to go talk about HPC workloads. And work group batch is a place to influence for how to build AI workloads on cloud native. And last but not least, as Joseph said, the end user technical advisory board is the place to connect, is the set of people to connect with because they will be interacting with our maintainer community very, very frequently. And that's how, together, we can build for the AI revolution. So Team Cloud Native, your work is cut out for you. There's a lot to do, and I'm counting on each and everyone to step in and participate. If you don't know where to begin, no problem. Here at KubeCon Cloud NativeCon, tomorrow there is an event running called AI Hub. It's an unconference. It's in Ballroom CDE in the Hyatt, and it runs 11 to 1230, and then 230 to 520 p.m. Go there for conversations. I'll be stopping by, I know the panelists plan to stop by, and there'll be many folks interested in the intersection of AI and Cloud Native over there. With that said, thank you so much for your attention and enjoy the show.


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Hello everyone and welcome to Blackstar Potential. My name is Lee Fuge and I'm here today with MGRmusic.com and in this video we're going to talk about building a stereo rig and all the different combinations you can use when you're using multiple amps. So for the video today I'm going to be using two Blackstar amplifiers. I have got the Studio 10 6R6 on one side and the HT20 Mark II on the other side. To really hear the detail in this video it's best to listen to this on a good set of speakers or on headphones because I've got the Studio 10 6R6 panned fully to the left and the HT20 Mark II panned fully to the right. So you can hear the width that the stereo field adds when I put both amps on at the same time. So you're hearing both the amps mic'd up with exactly the same mic which is an Aston Origin condenser mic. I've got a couple of pedals in front of me as well that we'll talk about as we go through the video. So we're going to be looking at a bunch of different ways you can chain your amps together but first of all we need to understand the difference between mono and stereo. So mono is when you have one signal path so in this case that's guitar through the pedals straight into one amplifier. The benefits to a mono setup are that it's super simple and super easy to use. There's nothing really that you need to worry about with phase issues or balancing levels it's just one direct path. A mono setup also makes it easy to chop and change gear. So if you want to change amps for a gig it's very easy to just swap out the amp because it's the last thing in the chain. Even if you're using the FX looper ramp it's still mono because you've just got one continuous signal from guitar to the amp at the end. So I'm going to be using this switch pedal here to switch between the two amplifiers. When the A light here at the bottom is on you're hearing the Studio 10 6R6 and when the B light is on you're hearing the HT20 Mark II. When both lights are on together you will hear both amps at once. So you're going to hear the Studio 10 6R6 through the left speaker or the left headphone and the HT20 Mark II through the right side. Pandem this way so when we get to the stereo stuff and we talk about using stereo effects you can really hear the movement and the width but first of all let's talk about mono. So I've just got some simple mono signal chain setup here so here is the Studio 10 6R6 clean and now here is the HT20 Mark II completely clean. So you'll notice I've got the amps EQ'd very differently and this is one of the reasons why people would use a stereo setup. So I've got the Studio 10 6R6 quite bright very American voiced and I've got the HT20 Mark II with a bit more of a mid-push a lot warmer and the ISF is over to the British side so there's a very different contrast between the two amps. Now in a mono setup like I said you would just pick one or the other so if I was going to a gig and I wanted an American sound I would have this little mono signal chain I've got here straight into the Studio 10 6R6. So on the pedal board I've got a Blackstar LT dual overdrive, a stereo multi modulation pedal from Boss and a Walrus Mako D1 stereo delay. The switcher then like I said is just acting as the AB between the two amplifiers. So when we talk about stereo effects those are only coming into play when we have both amps on at the same time. In this state everything you hear is going to be mono so let's see some modulation in a mono setup. So I'm going to start off with the Studio 10 and then I will switch between the two and you'll see on the screen which one I'm switching between. I also want to point out that the reverb is coming from each amplifier so you will hear some slight differences in the reverb used. I've got the stock reverb from the amps both set at the same level but each amp has its own independent reverb circuit. So now that we know what mono is and what a mono modulated sound sounds like we can start talking about a common way of using two amps which is known as dual mono. This is probably the first way most people start to think about stereo guitars even though technically dual mono is not actually stereo. Actually two mono amps played at the same time. The reason this is called dual mono and not stereo is because of the definition of stereo. Stereo by default is a wide sound from multiple sources which see multiple input signals. So for instance your favorite hi-fi is probably stereo because it's sending different pieces of information to different speakers. So for instance if you've got one guitar panned one side one guitar panned the other that is typically stereo. So you're technically hearing this in stereo because you are hearing different pieces of information in each year or each speaker that you're hearing this from but it's technically not stereo at this end because I'm sending the same signal to both amps. So what I mean by that is my guitar is going directly through the overdrive through the modulation through the delay and then it is getting split by the selector here. So at this point the same content is coming out of everything and just getting split. There is nothing that changes the signal before each output. When you use a pedal with a stereo output that's where this changes. So for instance this delay pedal has a stereo out. I've only got this plugged out of the mono out at the moment but when I have the stereo output set up you'll actually hear some differences in both sides. That's because the pedal is actually sending different information left and right. So what you can hear now is dual mono so I'm going to go through the overdrive, the delay and the modulation tones again and the clean tones but you'll hear two different amp sounds but we're sending the same signal to both amps. So just as a refresher on the left side you've got the studio 10 on the right side you've got the HD 20 and then both together. So dual mono setup is great if you want to use two different amps that are EQ'd slightly different like I'm doing right now. You get two different flavors of tone and this is great for getting a big fat sound on stage. It works especially well with overdriven tones like this. All right so now we're going to look at some modulation in dual mono mode so I'm going to turn on a chorus effect. Typically in a stereo chorus we would have some movement and this actually applies to any stereo modulation effect. We would have some movement between the speakers. In this case because we're not splitting until after the effect we're going to hear the same signal on both sides so that means we're still going to get a big wide sound but we're not going to get that left and right movement that you would typically get in an actual stereo setup. So if I had that setup in full stereo you would hear some variation between the left and right speaker. In this case you didn't you hear the exact same thing going on in both speakers the only difference you did here was the EQ of the amps. This is very important when it comes to differentiating between dual mono and stereo. The reason for this is stereo actually allows for movement between the left and right side whereas dual mono does not. They both sound great but it's just picking which one is best for your rig. The same is also true for delay so this delay I'm using here is a stereo delay. I've got this set on dual mode right now which is a dual delay. It's got a long and a short repeat. In mono mode what this is doing is it's summing both of those delays down to one output and then sending it wherever it needs to go. Because of the way this is cabled the delay pedal is doing this because it thinks it's running in mono. It's only detecting one output so it's summing both of those down like I said and then the splitter is doing the rest. So what we're hearing here is both delays in both amps so again we're not going to hear any variation between the two other than those of the EQ. So you can hear we're getting the same delay repeats out of both sides. In a true stereo setup you would have the long delay on one side and the short delay on the other side. Dual mono is great for people who want a simple fake stereo setup so it definitely adds width to your sound because you've got those two different tonal textures depending on what amps you're using. You can dial the EQs differently to get a huge range of tones.  So demonstrate that I'm going to use the higher gain side of the LT dual so we're going to hear a higher gain sound through both of these amps. So you can really see the EQ gives it a big fat sound great for gigs because you can have two different amps like I said a lot of gain it really fends the sound up very nicely. You can also chop and change amps really easy because again you're not really too worried about your stereo field and a big advantage of that is if one of your amps goes down when you're on stage that's fine you don't lose your entire signal. All you lose is part of your EQ spectrum so the way I've got this kind of setup is the Studio 10 is a sort of more top end focused amp much more American sounding and the HD 20 is dealing with the lows a bit more a bit more of that British mid-range. If one of those to go down and I was playing with this setup I would just lose that part of it so if the Studio 10 went down for instance I could just bump the treble on the HD 20 and get back in the same sort of tonal ballpark that I was in before one of them went down so it's much more of a safe option for gigs I think. I personally love a dual mono setup you don't get that movement between left and right but again it does kind of safeguard you. If you're using a full stereo setup and one of the amps goes down that sweep you get between the left and right which we're going to talk about very soon will completely go so you'll just have the effect and then it will kind of vanish so it's not the best situation to be in when one goes down but you know that doesn't happen too often. So another cool thing you can do with a dual mono rig is a wet dry signal so if we look at the pedal board now we can see that I've slightly rewired this the delay is actually now at the end so I'm coming through mono here through the overdrive through the modulation into the selector this is now splitting my mono guitar signal one of which is going straight out so that is going to the HT20 Mark II the first output for the Studio 10 6R6 is now hitting the delay so you're not hearing the delay through the HT20 you're only now hearing it through the Studio 10 this is another great way to sort of thicken and widen guitar sounds you can also do this with modulation as well you could have like a chorus or a phaser on one side and a dry amp on the other side this works great because you can dial in like I've done here a very short delay what this does is it just further thickens up your tone if you think back to the video we did a few months ago where we talked about using delay to thicken your tone and kind of give that two guitar impression this does the same sort of job this sounds great with both clean and overdriven tones so let's take a look so you're going to hear the dry tone on the right side and the delay on the left side so that slapback is great for thickening widening and also creating some extra ambience also sounds great like I said with some overdriven tones so if I go over to the high gain side of the LT dual we're going to get a much fatter wider guitar sound with a slight delay on the left another thing I can do there which is quite cool if you really want to go down this road is on the delay I can turn the mix control all the way up if your delay has a wet dry setting what I can now do is I can make one amp completely wet and one amp completely dry so all the dry signal is coming from the HT 20 and all you're going to hear from the studio 10 if I just show you that on its own is just the delay signal so when you put those together so now we're going to talk about a fully stereo setup so a fully stereo setup involves different signals coming out of the inputs going to different sources so in this case I'm coming stereo now out of my boss MD 200 which is a multi modulation pedal the MD 200 in stereo mode is going to send a slightly different signal to both the left and the right sides so as you go between the left and right sides you're going to hear some variation in what's going on I've actually got a tremolo effect with some pan on it just to demonstrate this so what you're going to hear through both headphones is the dry guitar signal but you're also going to hear that panning sort of tremolo effect going from left to right this is a true stereo setup because we wouldn't get that effect in dual mono in dual mono we would just get the tremolo but it'd be the same in both sides so you can hear the left and right movement there of that tremolo pan I've also got a chorus effect set up just to show the additional width a stereo chorus can bring so think back to the dual mono chorus and how you had the same modulation signal both left and right here in the stereo mode you're going to hear a slight variation and finally one more bit of rewiring done I've now got the delay at the end with a stereo out so the only difference here is I'm actually coming stereo into this delay because this delay pedal needs to see a stereo in in order to give a stereo out not all delay pedals do this many delays will function with a mono in and a stereo out so everything I've done here to get that is I've just used the whirlwind selector switch here just to come A and B out and so I'm coming mono through mono through the drive through the modulation into the selector I've got both outputs of this going into both inputs of the delay and then we've got the left and right going to the respective amps so I've gone back now to that dual delay setting that I talked about earlier what you're going to hear is different delays in the left and right side it's going to send a shorter delay one side and a longer delay the other side just to demonstrate the difference between the delays I'm just going to hit a chord listen to the differences in the left and right speaker you can hear that left delay goes on for a lot longer than the right delay so here's how that sounds in context there we go now you guys know how to set up your rig in a bunch of different ways culminating with a full stereo image it's worth remembering when you're setting up a stereo rig that drive tones are always going to be dual mono so you're not going to get a drive that's going to move from speaker to speaker even if your drive pedal has two different outputs it's going to send the same thing to both sides the true stereo image comes from things like modulations delays or stereo reverbs anything that allows movement between the left and right sides so now that you've learned how to set your rig up in mono dual mono dual mono with a wet dry and full stereo try that out yourself and let us know down below in the comments which setup you guys prefer for your own tones thank you so much for watching hope you've enjoyed this video if you did let us know down below in the comments what you thought and how you run your own multi amp rigs we'd love to hear all about that as well don't forget to check out blackstar amplification on youtube for more videos just like this and if anyone out there is looking for a guitar teacher please head over to mgrmusic.com check out the music teacher database it's got a network of great teachers all around the country when to take you guys to that next level thanks so much for watching and i'll see you soon


Getting enough omega free is crucial for optimal brain performance, but is eating fish really the best way to get omega free? Or is there another way? Well, let's find out. Hey friends, welcome back to my channel. My name is Greg and I'm a brain hacker creating content that will help you upgrade your brain performance. And if this interests you, then subscribe below and join our amazing community. Oh, and don't forget to hit that little bell button below as well. Now today we got to talk about the best sources of omega free. Now we know that people who supplement omega free generally have a better brain performance. Omega free also helps people with depression. It is also good for eye health. It generally promotes brain health. It helps people with ADD or ADHD and it can even improve mental disorders. Now we talked about other benefits of omega free in the video about best brain foods. And if those interest you, then check out the video up here. Now many experts recommend eating two to three servings of fish every week, but is this really the best way or even a healthy way to get omega free? Well, let's look at the facts. Now the first fact I want to share with you is that fish does not synthesize omega free. Basically, it doesn't make omega free, but it gets it through eating algae or plankton. So if you want to get omega free by eating fish, you get it indirectly because fish only gets it from algae. It's similar to getting vitamin B12 through eating meats nowadays. Why is that so? Well, because most of the vitamin B12 in animals actually come from supplements and not in any other way. But let's go back to fish. Now, is that a problem? Is eating fish really unhealthy or is it healthy? Well, that's very debatable. Now back in the days where we had very low pollution of our oceans, eating fish was definitely healthier than today.  And all of those toxic compounds can cause severe damage and have a really big negative impact on your health, much bigger compared to the benefits you get from omega free. And whenever you eat fish, well, there's a high chance of getting some of those compounds with the fish that you eat. Now, if you still want to eat fish, the basic rule is try to eat smaller types of fish such as sardines, anchovies, because they usually contain less of those toxins compounds, but also try to go for wild caught fish and not farmed fish. But with so much pollution it's really hard to say the next time you're gonna eat fish it actually won't contain any of the toxic compounds, especially if you eat fish in restaurants. And since our waters are polluted more and more every single day, the chances of eating a fish high in those toxins is getting bigger and bigger from day to day. And the more toxic compounds you intake, your body intakes, the more harm you'll do to yourself, basically. And that's something you should really remember. By the way, guys, if you like this video, please press the like button below. Now the second problem is that as we have recently seen from documentaries and many articles written on that, overfishing is a big global problem. And the best way to stop or reduce overfishing is by eating less fish. The more fish we eat, the more damage we did our oceans and this can have a big impact on the environment, on the global warming and so on.  But I really don't want to talk about this topic in this video because this would require a whole other video for that. So based on those facts, is eating fish really the best way to get omega-free? Well, in my opinion, from a scientific standpoint, not really. The best way to get omega-free is by taking a supplement, but not a supplement that contains omega-free fish oil, but a supplement that contains omega-free from algae, because that's where fish gets omega-free in the first place. And such supplement from algae has the lowest toxicity and producing omega-free in such a way has the lowest impact on the environment and also on the fish itself. So in my opinion, the best way to get omega-free is from an algae supplement. Now, besides omega-free, are there any other supplements that you absolutely need for optimal brain performance? Well, of course they are. And if you want to learn more about them, check my video up here. Alright guys, that's it for this video. Thank you for watching. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me. Don't forget to follow your inception on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and so on. And I hope to see you soon again. Take care.


Good afternoon, or is it still good morning? This is Ray Tsuchiyama, your host for All About Leadership in Hawaii. And one of the areas for leadership is in government and politics, leading the state and at a national level. What to do in this climate, 2018, going forward with a state in a turbulent world economy and politics? And we have our guest today, Ed Case, who's no stranger to politics, but unexpectedly he's back in politics after a time in a private sector, and we're going to talk about various topics about what he's found out about Hawaii priorities, people, and their thinking about themselves, about their children, parents, and going forward. Welcome to the show. Aloha. Good to be back and good to be with you. And congratulations on your recent primary Democratic Party win. I really appreciate that. It was a very good, solid win, but it is a primary win, so, you know, although some people have already elected, that's not the way I'm thinking at all. We have a general election coming up, and we're working hard to earn the trust of voters all over again in that election. Now, looking at November, how many elections have you done coming to this? I think a couple of, I think I probably counted something like 16 or 17 election nights at the end of the day. I won more of them than I lost, but of course I won some really good ones, and I lost some really big ones, but those are all in the past, so I can't do anything about those. What I can do something about is the general election in actually eight weeks from today. And one of the things you did, which I felt was overlooked by the Hawaii media, was your walk. A walk across CD1, which is Congressional District 1, to all you viewers out there, that encompasses much of the island of Oahu, except for the northern strip there, which is connected to CD2. And where did you start, and where did you end? Well just by way of background, one of the things that I've always believed in my political career is complete and total immersion in your district, to know your district cold, to know the people in your district cold, to understand the geography, the society, the economics, the rhythms of your district. We've got 435 representative districts throughout the country. Each one of them has over 700,000 people in them, and so you need to understand. And so from that perspective, I've always done talk stories and town meetings. I've always personally canvassed, which I did this campaign as well. And I just came up with the idea that on this campaign I just wanted to walk right through the first. And I wanted to, you know, number one, absorb the first. When you're in Washington, D.C., you're 5,000 miles away from Hawaii. And you have to know your district. You're sitting there on the floor of the U.S. House trying to make a call on a particular bill and you're asking yourself, how does this bill impact not just my district, but parts of my district? So you've got to know your district. You don't have time to call up and figure it out. So you've got to absorb that, and it gives people a chance to check you out along the way. And not all of CD1 is the same. Well, and there of course is one of the, if not the largest observation I have, which is no surprise if you think about it from an intellectual academic perspective. But go out and walk it and really feel it. Because one thing that happens when you walk is everything just slows down. You're not driving through it. You're not like whipping by where you see one thing for one second. You see that for two, three minutes while you're passing. You also posted your photos on Facebook also. I did. I posted the entire thing.  And I did Instagram right along the way, took the pictures, went to Instagram, straight to Facebook, case for Congress, or my Facebook page, Ed Case. You'll see all of the pictures. I think I posted about 10 or 12 a day just to kind of show people a diary of the story. Anyway, CD1 is basically urban Honlulu. It starts at Makapu Point. And then it comes down the leeward side of the Koalao all the way through east Honlulu, all the way through central Honlulu, all the way through downtown, leeward down into Waipahu. And then it kind of covers up all of Mililani down from, and then from Waipahu down all the way through the entire Eva Plain out to Koalina. So Kahi Point really is the end of that district. So you really have an urban and suburban Honlulu. Kailua Kaneo, who are not in the district, the North Shore, is not Wahiawa on up in the Waianae Coast during the Second Congressional, which I represented in 2000. That's right. You flipped. I would actually be the first person to represent both districts. But when you're a member of Congress from Hawaii, you effectively represent the entire state anyway. I mean, I don't say to people, oh, you're from Hilo. I'm not going to help you. Well, of course I'm going to. Oh, yeah. Of course. Yeah. It's a small place. So anyway, I started in Makapu, and I was expecting it to take me about, it's about 60, 65 miles to walk that entire district, so all the way through and then up to the very top of Mililani, Maoka. That was a story in and of itself. And then back down across Eva Plain through Kapolei to the end, where I jumped in the water at the very end. It felt really, really good. So I was figuring it would take me about 10 days, maybe about six miles a day. But as I set out, I was really covering ground pretty well. So I just kept going, and it ended up taking about six days, 62 miles. Wow. That's quite short. Yeah. I had my watch on and my, what do you call it, distance watch, running watch. And so I was tracking distance and time, and I was really into distance time, pace, all that kind of stuff. So what's the memorable story that you can relate to us? I think what is so incredible when you get out and walk across the first congressional is the diversity of the first congressional. You have geographic diversity. Of course, you have parts of the district that are, you know, mountains and valleys. That's right. Honolulu is a series of valleys and mountains and valleys and very different from each other. Like, I'm from Kalihi originally. I still consider myself a person from Kalihi Palma. So then you go up in, you know, the central, central Oahu, which has its own personality. Mililani is a beautiful community. Then down through Waipahu and Ewa, which is flat, hot. And so you have the kind of geographic diversity. You obviously have cultural diversity all the way through. Incredible diversity. You know, one of the things that was one of my favorite parts about the walk-up.  But you take six miles of King Street, King Street starting at the top of Kapuhulu on the east side, all the way to the end when you're running into Mapuna Puna. That's six miles. Walk King Street one day or a couple of days and look at all the diversity. Oh, it's unbelievable. All the history.  And the west of Liliha King Street is Kalihi. And then you get into Kapalama and Kalihi. Of course, there are ethnic predominances in each one of those particular areas and that translates somewhat into, you know, cultural and religious. So are you saying that there's different priorities out there that they're thinking about? Or are there any overarching priorities that you saw and heard from people that kind of had a narrative or threads throughout your walk? Well, I would say that the biggest overarching priority of everybody, it doesn't matter where in CD1 or for that matter the state of what you are, or I believe for that matter the country, people just think that the government is broken. They just think Washington is not working. They just don't get why everybody is yelling and screaming at each other. And these are people that have very partisan strong or partisan philosophies. They could be very liberal. They could be very conservative. They could be very moderate. They could come from any number of different places, but they all think that their government ought to work better. So that's a clear prevailing priority. So there's a disconnect between their lives, our lives, and what's happening in DC. Complete disconnect, yes. And this is obviously something that's wrong. And how do you think you're going to remedy that and bring back a story that I'm trying to cure this problem to you in King Street or Kahala or on a couple of days? Well, first of all, I think people have to agree with you that that's a problem. And I think the results of the election indicate that people do agree with me on that and with other candidates. Number one, number two, they have to think that you actually have the experience and the ability and the know-how and the commitment to going up there and trying to break through some of that logjam.  And that's the basic problem in our country today is that there's no real attempt to find solutions that work for all. It's really an ongoing battle to impose the solutions of one side on the other side, and that's not going to work. So would you say that the things you were trying to do back when you spent your time in Kahala, 2002, 2007, that era are things that you can apply today? Oh, absolutely. What are they? Well, I mean, you know, some of it's so simple. Do you create relationships? Who do you create relationships with? You have 435 members. I'm one of 435 members. So it's not like I can walk up in there and say, hey, I'm Ed Case. I'm from Hawaii. I'm announcing my arrival, and I'm going to fix the entire country. There's a lot out there. A lot of people do feel that way. But I'm not one of them. I've been around too long to know. So you have to create a consensus. You have to create relationships. You have to create relationships. And you have to create them across the Congress. It's unlikely that you will have a deep working relationship with 434 of your colleagues. So can you create enough relationships of trust, of mutual assistance, of commitment, of people that feel the same way as you do with the country and are similarly trying to break this logjam? And can you create a critical mass then of those folks that can start to influence the broader picture? That's really the challenge. And that's what I've done my entire life anyway So you're saying the skills that you developed during those years in Congress can well benefit Hawaii today? Well, not only in Congress, but in my earlier eight years in the state legislature and four years in the neighborhood boards and 30-plus years in the private sector. I've used the same approach throughout 40 years now of working, and it doesn't change some how you implement it changes. But the basic approach does not change. Can you get in there, understand the issue, find the people that believe as you do, or find the people that are willing to be persuaded that that's a problem? And can you then create a critical mass with which to start to influence the broader process? It's not gonna happen. We're so deep in the hole in Washington, it's not gonna happen in one month, two months. It's gonna take years. So you have the perseverance. Do you have the resilience to carry that through over a number of years? And as you learn that we come back to the word resilience, it seems a good word for today to be resilient in a time when so many things are happening out there that you have to keep a focus on and to sustain yourself to really attack the problems and find solutions for the people of Hawaii and for the greater country, the greater good of the nation. Any other priorities that came to you aside from the broken government issue? Well, I mean, people are always gonna be focused on economic, of vitality and health. We've had a pretty good economy lately, so they're not as focused as perhaps five or 10 years ago, obviously, when it was number one. I think people have a disquiet to great concern about inequality in our country. I think that- Inequality in economics? Inequality of the distribution of wealth and opportunity in our country. I think that, and I think this is my observation from walking the first and campaigning throughout the first is that is not something that depends on whether you're from East Honolulu or Waipahu or from Evo or from Mililani. Everybody feels that way. That somehow there are that the fruits of our democracy, that the influence of the grassroots in our democracy, that the ability to actually influence where our country is going is not spread in an equal way. And I think that that is a predominant issue and a concern of mine for sure throughout the country. And especially for parents with children. Well, absolutely. What kind of life are they going to be going to? But we're gonna hold this thought after this break. This is all about leadership. Aloha, I'm Marsha Joiner, inviting you to come visit with us on cannabis chronicles, a 10,000 year Odyssey, where we explore and examine the plant that the muse has given us. And stay with us as we explore all the facets of this planet on Wednesdays at noon. Please join us, Aloha. Aloha, my name is Mark Shklav, I am the host of Think Tech Hawaii's Law Across the Sea. Law Across the Sea is on Think Tech Hawaii every other Monday at 11 a.m. Please join me, where my guests talk about law topics and ideas and music and Hawaii Anna all across the sea from Hawaii and back again, Aloha. Welcome back. This is Ray Tsuchiyama on All About Leadership, delving into the issues of what do people are thinking about in our communities, which are priorities for their selves, for their families, especially for their children. And we have in case to discuss how we can focus on Hawaii priorities and issues. Go ahead. Well, you know, we've been talking about kind of what I learned walking across the first congressional. By the way, I have to stop here and say that one of the things I learned, we already knew was there's a lot of good food out there. Okay, well, that's because you were sweating and walking and getting an appetite. I think that if you sit down all day.  But that doesn't mean you can't go back after the walk and go to the San Nicolas market and Kalihi and get all of that good food. So I've been talking about national issues. So our government is not working, growing inequality. I would add to that our relationship with the world, which is very important to us here. That's a complete concern of a lot of people. Immigration is a big issue that's on the minds of many. Those are national issues. Here in Hawaii, it's really basically just the cost of living across the board. I think that's a concern. And people are leaving. There's communities in Vegas and Oregon and Washington. There's, of course, there's a report in the paper today in which they surveyed folks throughout the country and determined that we're the happiest of anywhere in the country right now. And I think we are pretty happy here. But that's a... That's the people who have remained here.  I found most people throughout the district happy. But that doesn't mean they weren't stretched out. That doesn't mean they weren't concerned. That doesn't mean it wasn't hard to live. And so all of the issues that have to do with the cost of living, housing, clearly the top one. But more than that, cost of food, cost of energy, cost of basic, cost of education. Yeah, cost of private school education, $20,000, $22,000 a year. So those are key areas, of course, that our federal government has a major say and along with the state and the county. And I would want to work there. Traffic, a huge issue. And infrastructure, one of your key places, roads, airports, sewage, water, key areas. All of that, but to emphasize traffic. Because we do have the worst traffic in the country. And that's just inexcusable historically that we let ourselves get in that situation. But I challenge anybody who doesn't think that we have a traffic problem to go walk through the stretch from, say, Kalihi on West, through Leeward, and especially walk down Fort Weaver Road. Sineweave on Fort Weaver Road at 5.30 in the morning and watch how many park. They get up at four o'clock at 4.30 just to get on the road. So that's an obvious answer. And people think, oh well, Central Honolulu and East Honolulu is saved from that. Well, go Sineweave at Aina Koa at 5.30 or 6 in the morning and watch how many cars are going by you. So that's a key concern. But you talked about immigration and I think you've also discussed one of the key areas for any office in the house, constituent services. And I went through this with my own life. I had a senator that helped me out in a fiancee visa for my wife. And later when my father passed away, we received some help with the punch bowl and both my parents are in punch bowl. And I think there's a lot of attention, stress for a lot of immigrant families here in Hawaii trying to reunite their families together in Hawaii or bring a fiancee or benefits and so forth. Is that an area where your office can play a role? Absolutely, and I learned from a master of this, Spark Motsunaga, who I worked for from the age of 22 to 25. If I hadn't gone to work for Spark Motsunaga, I wouldn't be sitting here interviewing with you. That was a changing point or an incredible fork in the road for me, an unexpected fork in the road. But here I am and Spark always emphasized constituent. You know, sometimes people ask me, can you describe in 15 seconds the job description for a member of Congress, a U.S. congressman? And I say, oh, sure, I'll do that for you. Number one, contribute to national leadership for our country. A congressman, a member of Congress, is a national leader. Number two, assist your state and your county and your district with the federal government. What can the federal government do? So there's a national focus and a local focus. Well, there's a national focus, there's a local focus, and there's an individual constituent focus. So number three is constituent services. Now, a lot of people focus on number two. Frankly, a fair number of members of Congress, sometimes you would think that they would not be reluctant to contribute to national leadership, but they focus more on two. A fair number of members of Congress don't give enough attention to number three constituent services. And when I was in Congress, oh, two to oh, seven, that was a key priority for my office. How can we help you with your individual concerns? Immigration is a huge individual concern, especially for families who are split between the old country and our country. Right, the Philippines or China or... Some of these people have been waiting in line legally for 10 or 20 years now. Now, that's just not right. That's not right. Other areas that were key areas for constituent services were veteran services. And social security. And I'll give you a very quick example of constituent services that, to me, it's kind of heartwarming thinking back on it. If you're asking for veterans' benefits, disability benefits, you have to demonstrate a connection between the injury that you have suffered and your services a veteran. That's easy where you have a very tangible injury, but let's take PTSD. Post-traumatic stress syndrome. Sometimes PTSD doesn't kick in for... Number of years, right? Decades. And you have to demonstrate that there was some event in your service that contributed to the PTSD that manifested itself 10, 20, 30 years later. And we had one case on Maui where we had a veteran of, I recall it being the Korean War. So we're talking about a long time ago. And he said that he had suffered a very traumatic injury in a fox hole, I think it was, in Korea during the war. And here he was 40 years later at the time claiming benefits. And there was every evidence from his doctors that that was the case. The problem was that he could not find anybody to attest to the fact... As a witness kind of thing. So we went out there and helped him to find the people in his company. And we found some, and we got them to give buddy statements. They call them buddy statements. And those buddy statements entitled him to get benefits. I feel good about that. I feel just as good about that as when I get a significant federal grant to the state of Hawaii. Or for that matter, when there is a good result on a national leadership issue. You know, that was something where my office made a difference to somebody. In a local level, in our family's response, we could never pay back what we got out of that. It was an unbelievable experience. But Spark was not gone. His grave site is very near my parents, in fact, right at the edge there, by the Calabaria where my parents are. What did you learn from him? What kind of person was he? People forget about him. It's been so long. But to me, he's one of the most important leaders in the post-war era. But what was it that really resonated with you? So many lessons, rather, that I got from Spark Matsunaga. Of course, I joined him when he was still a United States congressman in the district that I now am aspiring to represent. So it is deeply meaningful and even emotional to me that I would be eligible to represent the same district as my mentor represented. I think, you know, Spark, he was a very accomplished person. He was very ambitious, but he was very humble about it. He was very open and personable. He tried to tell you what he thought. He tried to describe what the problems were. He believed very much in education of his constituents and he believed very much that one thing he said, and I've never forgotten this, he goes, you know, Ed, because he worked late, he worked very, very late, like one, two in the morning. And I learned early on that if I wanted time with him, what I needed to do was work late also. And so then I could like invent some excuse to go in at 10 o'clock at night and say, you know. Align your schedule. Yeah, align it well, we were both working late. And so I was talking about something and he goes, you know, Ed, I gotta just tell you my thinking on that. He goes, you know, I've got a lot of good people that I represent back in Hawaii. And most of them, they never have a contact with their federal government. They pay taxes to their federal government for decades. They support their federal government. They trust their federal government to do, but they have no interaction with their federal government. And for them, I am the federal government. That's right, yeah. And so when I interact with them, when they come to visit in our office, we are going to be the best federal government we can be. When they ask for my help, we are gonna be the best federal government because that may be the only contact they ever have. And so that's the only time that they ever needed something. And all those things come up, problem, their sufficiency, you know. Every single one. All kinds of helping out and trying to close the issue. And you're absolutely right. If, and they would believe that the entire federal government is like that. The other thing that Matsunaga and, you know, all of his era, Inoue and Hiram Fong, who was there when I first started, and Patsy Mink, of course, most of us know as a very strong partisan leader. They all believed in maintaining relationships, as I've already described, with people across the spectrum, across the aisle, and to not make it personal because it's the perfect example of Senator McCain and Inoue. They disagreed on a very good number of issues, but they kept it professional and they kept collegial. And that's something Matsunaga taught me. You know, Patsy Mink, she developed those consensus-building skills at Maui High School. In order to be elected, I think a class president, something. She had to get the football team on her side. And my father is, of course, at Maui High School, so I know the story. And her grandparents are from Kumamoto, very disciplined, focused. And her father was the first Japanese-American graduate at the University of Hawaii. Amazing, great focus there. But going by the spark of Matsunaga, I think his nickname came from his ability to run very fast at the football field. Am I correct? Yeah, well, it was more about, he was a spark plug. He was like, he had the energy. Maybe it had to do with his acceleration from a standing stop on the football. That's what I've heard. From spark plugs to now the state of the nation, I wish to thank you for your time today. And best wishes on another election coming up for you. But you've been through so many, and good luck on your general election in November. Well, thank you so much. EdCase.com has a lot more information on me. I appreciate the opportunity to speak to folks. Thank you very much. This is Ray Tuchiyama with another show on all about leadership. Thank you very much.