Mike on Mike test Okay, I'm waiting for pub G to load up guys Rafa from Margaret sugar here today. We're just kind of place some pub G If you can actually see the video right now I have my Herman Miller air on chair onto my right and I am sitting on the Ergo-dynamic EHC-80 and so this is actually a very important my speakers This is actually a very important chair the Ergo-dynamic EHC-80 because Our YouTube video of its previous Version blew up. Well, at least for me. I think it blew up at a hundred sixty two thousand views Everyone wanted the chair which lasted eight years for me now going nine years And so the company actually reached out to us And they want us to review the latest iteration, which by the way is actually like as I say in the review I classify it as like a stealth tank it's really hardcore and I'm really happy with this chair actually I mean, this is completely unrelated to the stream, but just so you know, I mean like That's why I'm not using my air on chair right now because I'm really enjoying the Ergo-dynamic So yeah, just type in Ergo-dynamic hardware sugar and you'll see our video All right, if Revan John is in the chat. Oh, there he is there is Revan John I'm gonna do like an hour and a half of first person for you and then After I get off the air that a G Nataya G But this FPP because I haven't played I have this is my first time playing first person This one is a warm-up for us later So I'm gonna do actually, you know, you know, I really I agree with Revan John that pub G now is very playable I I have been playing pub G since the beta testing days, which was 2017 and I've really loved the game ever since and I'm playing the classic the classic version which is the classic level which is Erangel But finally call that I know this is the past two days. It's been taking a while to get into a server. Oh And of course our stream today is sponsored by CD key offers of you guys need Windows 10 keys or Microsoft Office keys. It's discounted and legit We use it all the time at the store So check it out. It's in the video link in the video description. Also, we have a new video up Anton released a I Wouldn't say it's a political video. It's more of like a politically suggestive Video, which apparently is doing quite well. We weren't we were surprised Right now it seems to be doing well. We're surprised that it's doing well to begin with Just a shot in the dark. Okay, it's a gay copy revenge on I'm bugger month or even joining FPP. Let me see if I can refresh So power to give a map say have you watched watch the water highs and no stack? No, I haven't yet actually any good Don't pick a specific map. All right. Fine. All right, fine But I'm just gonna say that they're like these two maps that we don't like. Oh, I hope my camera doesn't die I'm using on you and I'm using my S21 ultra right now, which by the way if I remember I see revenge on God the S22 ultra Good for you. You actually have a better phone than me So I am considered you can do at least that in the stylus there is built-in That's actually Hi Marco Actually, it's very smart on the part of Samsung to actually To merge the galaxy note and just the galaxy Smartphone Modal line together into just the ultra line So before I said they had a galaxy note, which is where you got the stylus and then after that you had the What you just had the galaxy? Wait, no, I think it didn't use to call the galaxy note today. I forget Anyway, what's that? There were always these two flagship phones that were competing within each other Hi, Lea. I'm a guy. What's up? Is pubg free now? Yes, it is Reven John I found it out because you were making yabang in the chat and Of course when I hear like S22 ultra and someone else has it.  Like I mean just look at the camera Emmer I emerald pair loss. Hello, attorney. Just want to say thank you again for assisting me So well last week have a good game Hi emerald How did I help you last last time? Can you win a game of pubg for us Lea Magnae? Oh, yeah, definitely. I'm gonna chicken dinner so far I have chicken dinner twice already in the past Five weeks, which is not bad because the last time I played pubg was ages ago. Okay. I don't know this map The hell is this? What is this guys? All right, okay, where are we going? All right number one and I won those games by the way Lea Magnae Using third-person, but I'm doing FPP because it's a mini revenge on gosh This is usually my technique. I land. I Edge it Here we go We're going here. We're going here guys a palace. This is a Korean map. So what's in it? What's in what's this? What's this space here? Why is it? Akwesh Testing microphone. Okay. All right All right, here we go. I like to edge it that way I know that I'm the only one behind myself.  It's probably a third person Shit guys. Hold on my onion. Just trying to go. I gotta switch my TP Okay, scary no one thought I don't know the map and I'm in FPP. I don't know where that came from. Let's get our bearings. I also want some form of sight lagging stream No, wait, oh Sorry, thanks for pointing that out guys. Okay. Let me in let me die and then after that. I'll see if I can fix the stream Clean kill guys clean kill. Why is it lagging up? Can you do a 360 at the end like that? Yeah, all right kind of lagging it. Hold on a second. Maybe I should loot that guy JV. Thanks for pointing that out. He's doesn't got anything guys. I don't know why it's lagging getting that was fine Now we're in circle guys. We're in circle. No one's been looting Usually I didn't I'm already switching to m4 by now time six. You know what fun? Let's go. Let's go. Oh, I see him head shot. Let's go for him. I'm art Hi hands. No, I don't play. I don't play Valorant. I right All right, all right, let's go. Let's do it Come on. Come on. Come on. Oh, come on. Good kill. Good kill body armor new okay Time six. Oh my god. Are these guys like bots man the hell's up I have a lot of stuff. Hold on guys. How am I doing revenge on ask my prep. This is my first time FPP first person on pubg Yeah, I can assume stream So I'm you know, like I'd fix it right now, but Dropped frames this has zero percent amount drop frames it but yeah, I can definitely see That this could be better improved You know, I really like this MK 12 gun Careful Okay, I think everyone's dead here Okay, we're pretty set. I already fell for the old F4 trick When I was in high school You got a comp with something new Okay, level three backpack. Oh, yeah Okay, 40 alive. Actually, this is a good map.  There's just so much stuff here Yeah, I'm so well centered here. I was expecting to die right away. Look at all my loot Actually, I could use like More ammo I think Okay, I guess let's go up to this mountain and be a sniper. Oh, yeah, let's show my air on chair there Oh, wait, I like red dot looking before you cross Okay, I could get used to first person mode of PUBG. I know I improved the frame rate now of The street. Last time I played it wasn't like this Okay, so we're at the top. I guess I should snipe people from the bridge Oh, oh I'll lie you look at it. Look how far You think I can reach this guy? Come on Is he just mocking me? What's up?  Copy the bullet drop. Okay, so what's he gonna do? Knock it out. We're just gonna get sniped by someone else This is a big map, huh? Yeah, this is a really actually this is a pretty good map. I think it's fast-paced a lot of loot drop and then it has a lot of Cover greenery is anyone crossing? How is that guy coming across? What happened to him? We're in circle. Yep This is already Time six scope, but I guess I need an eight times. Oh, there he is. There's the guy How is he gonna get across?  No, I improve problem is If I'm gonna quit my stream to improve the frame rate I have no idea how to do that right now I'm the only way to do it would be to alter the settings like how I need the research. Okay, what is this? Hey, man, I haven't shot anything in a while. Oh There we go.  Oh, that's cool. Oh, man. I should play this more often What is this? Oh Shit.  I got an a geely suit. Oh Wow, I like this map. Oh Shit, I don't know how good of idea This is going to be 14 bullets. No, you know what? I take it back.  Oh Shit, where's it coming from? It's pretty far.  Okay See in front of me or behind me, I guess he's behind me in which case he has to come to me almost there almost there Okay, rock, you won't see anything Where is he shooting me from?  If Liam Magnaev, you're still in the chat I Have a fighting chance of waiting this for you. Where is he at? Huh? You see that? Well, if he's not behind me, he must be he must have been in front of me or he died somewhere I don't know. I don't know. Okay, I have an a geely suit. This makes me a lot more difficult to see And I think I have level three armor. I have level three everything. Oh Shit, I'm Mark Lewis in case I haven't said hi to you yet. Hello Ten alive Mission to Forexcope for close combat.  Yeah, I'm good cover me. I Don't want to expose myself That's just that bird is so unrealistic For sure my towel Dito Well, one thing about third person is you can't cheat.  Look at this. Look at this. I can just get to my rock. I think they'll come from here Eight people alive and we're about to reach the final circle. I have level three armor I have an a geely suit. I have a level three helmet and I have enough ammo Thank you. You're up eight alive Okay, let them kill each other first This one's for Lee Magnia and for revenge on for telling me to play for the first person Co and a galaga as a first person seven alive Circle is good. Okay. We are primed. I Don't have a silencer dinner. I had a silencer at snipe and seven people still allowed for final circle Smoke grenade. Yes. Hi, S. Y. S Good evening and thank you. I Hopefully this is going to be a good game Like I expecting to just die right out of the bat because I've never played this map before But I have a fighting chance seven people now Okay, blue is in. Oh Shit even closer. Okay, hold on. Okay. We're in circle Kinda in circle. Hold on It's a little bit more battle when I expose myself. I just want to make sure it only comes from behind Okay, six people Damn lucky that guy didn't shoot. Well Who? No, I'm in circle By the way, I'm using the wireless deep cool mouse right now. It's pretty cool. Actually. Oh, look just the rain You trying to shoot me? five alive I'm in a ghillie suit. So I'm pretty well covered here five alive Come on. I want to win this This is the deep cool, you know, I forget which one they call this besides the wireless one I'm doing a review of this actually.    I killed five people and then two out of 100. I hope my camera survives Okay, let's see if there's a way to improve. How do I improve my PUBG?  No, no, sorry, this is not the honeycomb mouse the honeycomb mouse. I reviewed already before Let's go again. Yeah, 3000 ace. I feel you Oh, well quick game quick match. Yeah, I mean I see revenge on Or how would you call that the pub G was my last time I pop I played pub G. It was more bearable It's a third person. Oh, I don't right. I don't like this map so much, but it's fast-paced.  Oh Right now I am watching newsroom actually already watched the newsroom before when it came out back in 2010 2009 I forget but it's a it's a good watch a good rewatch Like it if you watch if you rewatch a series that you really like which you've watched before like maybe like ten years ago Finally watching it feels like it's better like it looks better and you don't remember everything.  Okay shot gun. Let's get oh Scratch the shotgun. Let's get this instead. Is he coming for me? Okay, let's go. Let's do this now. He landed here.  Tell a guy. Hi. Thanks a thousand for ruining my night It's okay. Thanks. I'd rather know the truth Okay, but tense now guys because I don't know where he went. I saw someone land here whoo Okay, was that a bot? I knew it. He was hunting for me, too. Oh He has a silencer and four and four. Where's the m4? Come on. Come on M4 Oh, he had a level three. Okay, we're good Okay Switching to single fire. Okay, you just need a new body armor. Oh, here we go. It's an obu It looks like Yes, it looks like a machine gun thingy. Are we in circle? Oh, well, we're in we're in a good circle. We're in a good spot Times two scope long made a sniper scope Actually, I really like I like sniping with the m16 Except yeah, yeah, exactly you can use a 4x But that's the problem is that's as high as it can go. That's it. Okay. Fine. Let's go.  There's some shots fired there in that zone in that area There where is he at?  Do you think he's a bot? Like who would just stand there? I screwed up his helmet pretty good What is he? What gun was he? Oh man, he only had an ak and a tommy gun at this time in the game He need a bot shot At the same time, I think what pleasure do you derive by putting bots in the game?  So I don't see the purpose All right, we're all the bad guys 22 alive I know we head back to paradise now. I think we should head back to paradise Oh, that is so sad to fill the lobby But the thing is if it's free to play shouldn't there be more players or that's maybe why They made it free to play north because they lack players Sighing that means like my kills don't feel so good anymore. You don't feel rewarding Can I climb this? Nope any nice snipers dense here? I guess here on the second floor It's this pan pick up in killer. No, that's drops in ammo. Did you hear that? I heard something Pans were checked 18 alive Any bots here? Any bots? I'm trying to engage guys. I'm trying to engage Okay, that's not a bot See man I got one but I think there's another person And I think there's another bot. These were in the same outfit. Yeah, that was a bot. You're right 3000 And that takes the glory out of the kills Here I was thinking I'm owning people Yikes Okay, I have to go here Hi, can sit pontoon. This is my room. I actually have a video about my room. It's called It's a it's a video called man cave. So just go to our youtube channel And then type in man cave I always thought that video could have done better in terms of views I worked really hard on that.  Enjoy the vid That wasn't it when I was still shooting it was just my cell phone camera. I was pretty impressed with the That's a s 21 ultra footage. That was before when we that was before when you're just using Phone cameras now we have a We have a Mirrorless camera.  Okay, this is a weed. All right, you got two x I know I see him another bot Can't see him.   That's it damning hackers Man, I actually just wanted a quick game now.  I'm a lying shot there Then after I questioned people who have like a level 3000 rating He's like, how can you get level 3000 in pubg unless you like really really ground You know, you grind it really really hard like even me even though I have I have a shitload of an in time in this game. Like I think Feels like csgo lobby hackers be fast Oh, hey, at least onion. Okay, this is gonna be a quick game guys because I also need to cook dinner for myself I'm gonna have spaghetti marinara That you for that you just need tomato paste the can of tomatoes Italian seasoning garlic olive oil Where am I landing?  Nah, definitely he might be here. So let's just go to where the people are at You know, I've always wanted to go to this island when the game starts Okay, let's go. Let's go. I don't want to kill no bots I feel I also want to see the stats on the new video that I'm done posted All right, let's go Hey 3000 this and in this apex legends have the same amount of hackers There's no one landing here How can that be? It would have been an obvious choice I think all those guys who jumped jumped out so early. Oh my god. There's so many That's so many bots dude like no one no one parachutes like that Like look at that. No one parachutes like that. That's a dummy All right, let's go to military base and I'll have to get the guns here.  Where's the circle? Phase one? No circle yet. There you are Oh, we're in circle? Hmm. Yeah, I like the oh, I like this gun better. I like the mk12 as a sniper Okay Oh Okay, switch to m4 Like this is my go-to This is my go-to um setup m4 and then that specific sniper rifle Oh, yeah, my my silencer. No, that's pretty good. Ah, and the plus answer. Okay. Are we good to go? Are we gonna fight? Think red dot two times. Oh, by the name. Let's go Okay, we're gonna we're gonna go to military How do you stow guns? What's the default like? How do you get rid of the guns so that you can walk faster?  No way Or we can do is I I got idea I have idea. I have a fun idea. Let's camp at the bridge and then snipe people who come across Yeah, that's a good thing to do Because they're gonna have to come across a sometime Santa is a better scope here though. Actually, my favorite go-to is ak actually if we can Okay, I think we're setting up. Yeah, okay Like ak is the is the shit And I think we're good Except means to need a sniper I feel Oh, there we go. I mean Not a sniper. We needed a scope which we now have I wonder I have an idea. I have an idea guys. Let's get this gas canister If you didn't go, those are just bots shooting at each other not worth our time guys not worth our time Unless someone else beat us to the bridge already Oi, where's my gas canister? I thought I could bring that I think anyone's gonna cross. Is anyone in front of me? Come on, no one's gonna cross. Someone's gotta cross sometime Oh Someone's gonna try and get it. Okay, let's snipe that guy trying to go get it Oh, that's another guy's gonna get it.  Hey, I feel pretty exposed here Actually, I just want to fight. Where is everybody? Oh, there's no one gonna cross man Everyone's high. Uh, well, there's no incentive to cross it.  No Yeah, okay the guy with the ghillie suit still there. Oh, you think so Oh Still nothing guys still nothing I kind of like those other maps now because it's so much faster I don't know where everyone is I have a lot of bullets I think the guy I shot at no no got the ghillie suit. Yeah, he was he's legit I don't know what's over here. Can you know? I don't know there was a dude over there in that building. I don't want to come down yet I'm getting hungry How's that? Oh, it's the ferry Okay circle.  They don't need to cross after all.  I think it's gonna end here In which case it's just, you know, fine. This is drive. They're not part of us now Okay, let's just go like that.  I see a bad guy I forgot how to I am I should have I should have an in controlled one Controlled two I could have shot him. Oh man. He wasn't that hot.  I just totally drove into him Ah gg man. I was lame All right. Thanks guys for watching I've been John. I don't know. I might turn in early tonight. Why tomorrow? I gave you the chance. I was game right now Okay, everyone stay safe and I hope you guys enjoy Anton's latest video. It's not tech related However, it gives you a chance to see more of our human personal sides So I hope you enjoy it. I think I mean see on tons been thinking about Saying those words for a long time now since law school. I think Yeah, everyone peace out


What's shaking? My name's Cam. Welcome back to another video. Last year my goal was to simply finish a book. Now I don't want to brag but I did drag myself across that finish line. Albeit broken and bloody but I did it. In about a week that book actually comes out. But this video isn't about plugging that book. It was a big year for me as far as writing goes and if I can be so bold I really am proud of myself for hitching up my short and getting something finished. Especially a story that emotionally draining. 2020 is over and I know we're all super bummed about that. But it's a new year and I'm confident that this year I will not only finish another book but I'm confident that I will finish multiple. Famous last words I know. I'm going to tell you a bit about what I have planned, how I plan on going about it and also what my goals for this YouTube channel are in future. In fact let's get into that first. I've been on YouTube for over four years now. Four years. I have no idea how that much time has passed so quickly especially when every year has felt longer than a Meatloaf music video. Four years. 13,000 subscribers. 830,000 video views in total. About 250 videos and more Hawaiian shirts than a cruise ship filled with guys in their 60s. A lot of numbers is what I'm saying and to be honest I try my best not to think about those numbers. I'm not going to say that I don't care about my views and subscribers etc because I do. Of course I do. It might not seem like it but a lot a lot of time and effort goes into making these videos and I wouldn't do that so consistently if after four years I was only getting like you know like 10 views or something like that.  The truth is that I get a pretty small amount of views for the amount of subscribers I have and my subscriber growth is actually pretty slow compared to others. I know that might seem like an odd thing to say as someone who has over 10,000 subscribers but I was gaining a lot of subscribers like a couple years ago that's kind of when I blew up so to speak and since then it has trickled down quite a bit. At the very least my growth seems pretty slow compared to a lot of others. There's just no way to see that and not wonder if I'm doing something wrong. That's just a bit of an insecurity I have and I actively avoid talking about it because I know it seems ungrateful to bring attention to this stuff. To be clear I don't care about the numbers that much I'm just trying to be honest in saying that of course I do care about them at least a bit. At the end of the day there are hundreds of people who tune in just to see what I have to say and at some point or another at least 13,000 people have enjoyed my content enough to hit a button so that means something. It means something to me it means quite a lot actually and when I consider that fact all of the other numbers just seem arbitrary. So basically what I'm trying to say is that as far as channel goals go I don't have any number goals like a subscriber goal or anything like that. I don't want to think about hitting a number my goal is simply this I want to make more exciting content. I'll still make videos where I'm sitting here chatting to like a talking head but I also want to make more videos where I get out of this dungeon maybe even go outside who knows if I'm feeling adventurous just get out and do more fun stuff you know. I also really really want to do more collaborations it's harder than you'd think but I'll give it a try I've talked about it a bit before but it's just a bit of a tricky thing to navigate because when you ask youtubers with higher subscriber counts or whatever for a collaboration a lot of the time they will immediately assume that you're just trying to like leech views or something like that which is completely understandable because that does happen a lot and of course getting a whole new audience is a benefit of collaborating and a part of it but there also just happens to be other creators that I just I like their content I think their content mixes well with mine and I would like to do stuff with them you know not just bigger channels but also smaller channels because I don't have an issue with that I've done a ton of collaborating with channels that have smaller subscriber counts but I I'm getting sick of even mentioning subscriber counts because it's just silly it's just not that important when talking about collaborating I have a lot of what I think are really interesting and unique ideas for collabs that have to do with reading and writing I just have to reach out to some people and see what I can get sorted another goal for me as far as my channel goes is to do at least one live stream every week or two it could be just us chatting about books and writing it could be us doing writing sprints or it could be a collaboration like what I was just talking about I really love doing live streams I started doing a whole ton of them towards the end of last year and talking to you guys in real time rather than just in the comments of my videos has been a blast we already have a ton of inside jokes and you guys are already gotten very comfortable uh giving me crap on the live streams which you know it's fine those are pretty much all of my channel goals right now in a nutshell I just want to do some new stuff I want to mix it up I want to collaborate now as for my writing I have a lot of plans as you might know my book welcome descent comes out in like a week but did you know that there is a second horror tube anthology coming out uh remember this one called local haunts it's an anthology of horror short stories made up entirely of like youtubers and creators and bloggers well there's another one coming out very soon actually I think in the next month or two it's going to be called served cold the theme is obviously wintery and cold and I have a short story in it called red albums I'm really really proud of this story I think it's quite emotional and haunting I'll keep you guys updated on the release of that anthology I'm really excited the last one went really well our local haunts so I have high hopes for the next one as well oh and by the way all of the profits for these anthologies go directly to charity so that's pretty cool aside from that the next book that I'm working on myself is actually it's another anthology of horror short stories but all of the short stories in this one are mine mine there's going to be about 10 short stories and nine of them have already been finished the first drafts I'm hoping for a release in early May at the moment I'm pretty optimistic I can hit that I got to tell you I am so keen for you guys to read these stories I think they are just I think they're great I kind of went wild with these stories and just said like fuck it what if this happened they were a lot of fun the right the stories are all pretty wacky some of them have a bit of a weird weird spin but they're still pretty spooky there's not really a central theme for all of them but I guess you could say that a theme of the stories is that it's a character finding themselves in a very unfamiliar and bizarre place so that's my next scheduled release beyond that one I also plan on getting started on a very ambitious fantasy series this is going to be like my biggest project maybe ever it's a bit of a weird one I have spoken about it before but I'll give you a bit of a refresher I've done a bit of drafting but I still have a lot of planning left to go they will be somewhat shorter books anywhere from like 30 000 to 50 000 words so somewhere between like a novella and a novel and they will be episodic meaning that while there will be a greater plot line tying all of them together each book will be somewhat self-contained as well think of it kind of like how the show supernatural was structured there were big plot lines but also every episode was like self-contained and while there will be our major plot lines optimistically there isn't really an end date for this series in sight it's something I could just keep writing and writing and writing and writing until I feel like it needs to end the idea is that it's an entirely fictional world built from the ground up and it has a bit of a wild west spin the stories will follow two best friends as they travel from place to fantasy place as hired guns kind of like mercenaries for hire not just killing people or things by carrying out odd jobs for money they could be hunting monsters in one moment or they could be helping with a heist in the next I have a ton of ideas for these books and to be honest I'm just really excited to get back to writing fantasy writing horror is a blast don't get me wrong but there is a freedom in writing fantasy that I really miss the story can like go anywhere you like it's a real playground for imagination I'm just very keen to get back to that maybe I'm just being optimistic but I feel like this is going to be a really important or notable year for my writing things rarely go to plan but for the first time in a long time I have a real roadmap for where I want to go this year and what I want to achieve and the great thing is that making YouTube videos about it is going to keep me on track so yeah what are your goals for 2021 let me know I have plenty more videos to come and I think my videos are going to get a bit more interesting this year hopefully thanks for watching the video especially if you watched it this far I really really do appreciate you thank you I really do hope you have a nice day catch you


So if you could interview a caterpillar and it could speak and you said to it, do you have a song that describes your destiny, it would be, I believe I can fly. When it has no wings and it clearly cannot fly and it's an earthbound creature. Because though it's a caterpillar, it somehow is aware that within its DNA, there is the next version of itself as there is of all of you.


The floor may not be a robot. First of all, I just want to tell you not to be thrown off by the title of this creepypasta. It sounds stupid, I know, but it was a genuine error sign that I received that I will explain in this story. Also, this is not about some haunted demon-infested game, a rum-heck, or a lost beta disc. This is simply about a coder that took too much pride in his work to handle someone tampering with his masterpiece. At least, that's my assumption. That said, let me tell about this story. It was mid-August a few years back, and I was at my grandparents. They said that they would give me their bad windows just a laptop. I already had a decent PC, but going into the 8th grade, I thought I might need a laptop for school. At this point I should say that I'm a massive fan of video games. You named it, I've played it. Although there was one crown jewel that topped off my massive Steam collection. Team Fortress 2. I'll admit it, I'm a massive fanboy. I still am. At that time, I was about 300 hours into the game, and just started to tamper with the developer console. I was considering a career in programming, so I thought this was a decent start. I was so bummed out that I couldn't play TF2 on my grandparents' laptop. All I wanted to do was mess with the console some more. However, I learned that I was staying for a few nights, and that my older cousin was coming tomorrow, so I might be able to play TF2 on his computer if he was bringing it.  I fell asleep still looking at Facebook friend requests from people I despised. I woke up to a loud knocking at the front door. My cousin was at the door, grinning. He had an expensive looking laptop clutched under one arm and had a Timmy's bag in his other hand. I knew that we would be playing some video games. I asked him if he still played TF2. I hadn't played it with him in a while, and assumed he just went over to something like CSGO. He said that he still played it and that he apparently went to my house to pick up my PC. A bit strange, but I didn't care. His mom walked in with my computer tower and monitor. Then she went back to her car to get the speakers. We spent no time dicking around and set up the PC as fast as we could. I didn't care that I hadn't eaten. I was going to show him my new favorite toy. We set up a LAN network and screwed around for a few hours. We were having so much fun with the game, we didn't even notice that another player had joined. After a few minutes, we realized that there was another person on the server. It wasn't a bot. He had a real ping. We freaked out. We checked the status and found out that it was no longer a LAN network. It was a real server. How did this by bypass our LAN? I was certain there was just ourselves and my grandparents in the house, right? Shocked, I checked the connections and found that there was a new connection in the internet. It was a new PC. The name was, it was my game, all capital letters and no spaces. That was it. We ran straight downstairs and remembering that my grandfather was a gun buff, went to the gun cabinet. Grandpa was looking at his handguns. We shouted a quick, there is someone in the house, making him promptly take a look at us as he unlocked the gun cabinet and pulled out a compaction shotgun. He ran upstairs and commanded us to stay here. We obeyed of course. We stayed there for about 10 minutes before he came back down, explaining there was no one there. We sighed with relief. We went back to the computers and noticed that there were plethora of people who had joined the game. They all had sadistic names like Throat Ripper and I killed them all. We went back to using the console commands, trolling everyone who had joined so that they could leave and we could have our phone. It was about two hours later that my game had started glitching. Bad lag, textures not loading, that kind of thing. As the game went on, these effects got more severe. The frames per second had dropped to about 15, and suddenly my game crashed. The error message read, you guessed it, hl2.exe has seen your mistakes. That freaked me out to an insane level. The paragraph under it simply read, you will play my game as I wish.  And, boy, did I lose it. Thankfully my cousin was there to help me keep my composure. I decided to find out why the computer was lagging, so I booted up the task manager. I couldn't control what would happen next. Every single file I ever downloaded was being opened at once.  Every byte. I couldn't stop. I drove my fist straight through the screen. I kicked my tower until it broke open. I took my breath as I smashed the hard drive against the floor.  Someone else already has it. It's useless to me. That was about three years ago if I'm correct, and I've since gotten a new computer. I got back into TF2, and even a get of the console. He thinks he can ruin me. I am prepared this time. If he tries to ruin me, I'll ruin him first. I found a person on my server with the same username as the person who tried to hack me. I went into town, bought a barrette and here I am, writing this now. I am waiting for him. I see him on my connections list now. I might update tomorrow. If I don't, then this is the last thing I will ever write. I can hear footsteps now. Goodbye, and wish me luck.


This is Think Tech Hawaii, Community Matters here. Other addition of Hawaii in uniform, I'm your host, Calvin Griffin. For those of you who may not have seen the program, here we talk about a lot of things that deal with the veterans and military community, and also the interaction between the military and the civilian community. We have a lot of veterans over here, once they get out, they try to give back. That seems to be the spirit of most of our men and women who are serving. Today, it's my pleasure to have a very distinguished member of our community, Mr. Glenn Martinez, who is a former Marine and also currently with the Coast Guard. Glenn, welcome.  Yeah, certainly. Go ahead. Tell us a little bit about yourself, your military background under your Marine, serving in Vietnam. I'm from the Vietnam, about 68 to 70, and I volunteered for the draft, and at the Induction Center in Florida, I volunteered for the Marine Corps. I went to Parris Island, did that, and got up to Quantico, Virginia, and requested to go to Vietnam as a combat photographer, because I'd been going to a two-year vocational college to become a photographer, and I wanted to be a life magazine, National Geographic-y kind of guy, and I noticed that in all these big magazines, most of the successful photographers were actually World War II correspondents, who were a lot of the famous guys, and they went on to Life Magazine, National Geographic, and they had a kind of a club of old timers, and so I went to Vietnam, I had a great time, I was doing exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a combat photographer, I wanted to be in the Marine Corps, and I went from unit to unit, photographing them, and got to do a lot of neat programs in the Fleet Hometown Release where you go up to a young marine and you say, what's your name, what's your rank, what do you do, and what is your hometown newspaper, and I would roll that up, put it in a bag, and 72 hours later, that would be published in that young marine's hometown newspaper. Nobody else knows this kid, right, he's an 18, 19-year-old kid, but in his hometown, there he was, and the result was he would get mail from the hometown cookies, etc. And so it was a really good, feel-good campaign for it, in between mortars waking you up at night or going out on patrol, but if you're doing a job that you really want to do, I mean, sometimes not politically correct, I had a great time at war, but I'm sure General Patton did, I mean, sometimes you're born to do it, and I felt like that was it, and I came back from that and went into wedding photography, and I found that more hazardous than Vietnam, but then I became an electrician here in Hawaii, 23 years with Glenn's Electric, and did that, then I bought a fishing charter boat and became a merchant marine captain, and along the way of it, I got, with the Coast Guard Auxiliaries, started back in 1976 with them, and good fun. Are you the Auxiliary Commander? I'm the Fotella Commander for Coney O'e Bay, and so we have about 53 members in our Fotella. We used to be one of the most active Fotellas teaching more people than anybody else on boating safety and that, and it's really had good results. 20 years of doing three times a year of public education class, when we're community college or Kalahau High School, the number of incidents has shrunk. As people become more educated, they carry the proper equipment on their boat, they learn what the little red and black markers are coming in and out of the ocean, we're having less calls on them, such that we used to do rescues every week, and now we're hard put to do one a year. The good news is the public education work, so it's a great organization. I want to just to backtrack a little bit. As far as what your experiences in Vietnam want to ask you about, is there anything, any particular story or incident that happened with an individual or a group that stands out most in your memory? To me, it was the corpsmen that had done second tours. You learned to hang around guys that were on their second tour, and the kind of unique thing in Vietnam is we all knew we would only do 13 months and you would go home, and you only had to go once. Nobody would, to my knowledge, was made to go twice, okay? So if you did your 13 months and you got out, I was coming up to, I did less than 13 months because I was coming up to my discharge date. They could have extended me, you know, I was there and doing fine and everything, but they didn't. They didn't force people to do that. Now, come over here to Iraq and Afghanistan and that, I've got young Marines visiting my farm on their third and fourth tour, so they know they're going back. I mean this war has been going on 16 years, you know, and so in my generation, we never had to go back again. If you survived one trip, you were done. Yeah, that's one of the problems that we see, you know, of course with the multiple deployments and everything else, some of the other things that develop, the PTSD of course, which is going to happen if you've been out there long enough, of course the suicide rates, things of that nature that are not really, they address it when it's in the press, but when it falls by the wayside, you know, there's still a lot of things that, you know, fall through the cracks. You know, we do talk here on the program, I do talk about what's going on with the VA and there are some issues systemically that need to be corrected, but there's something you brought up that we were talking about offline as far as the choice program and I know you wanted to relate that to the audience. Yeah, we've done, Tulsi Gabbard has done great things for us with the VA. She's been a great champion for us and one of the programs that she championed others did was the first choice program and that was so that veterans of any service that are qualified to go to Trippler to get medical care, if they live on Mollangai, Maui or Big Island, there's a plane ticket involved, right?  Well, I live over in Waimanalo here on Oahu. That mountain in between the co-allows qualifies as a geographical barrier to me getting to Trippler and it allows me to go over to Castle Hospital or Waimanalo Health Center. Again, for the more routine things or I had troubles with my knees back from jumping out of a helicopter that wasn't as close to the ground as I thought it was, you know, and I impacted my knees and a lifelong problem with it. They referred me to a local civilian physical therapist and in two weeks he had me backing up and gainful again. And I teased him. I thought there were some of the silliest exercises I've ever done in my life, lean up against a ball on the wall and do squats and kind of silly. And it was amazing. He got the dexterity and it has now been two years and not reoccurred. So so many times in medical you get something that just gets you through the night or gets you through the week, but you still have the underlying problem. I was able to get referred out to some real first class civilian doctors that are dealing with this. So it's been great. Right. Like I say, systemically, a lot of things, of course, need to be addressed. But again, we have to recognize and one thing I do say about here on the program is that even with the systemic problems, you do have a lot of people in place who do the best they can with what they have to work with. Right. And one of the things as far as with the people who are not related to the military is to make sure that our elected officials, you know, uphold the promises that were made to our military active veterans to make sure, you know, so the active duty people need to know, like say that the public is behind them. You may not always agree with the policies, but it's the soldiers, you know, and sailors and marines that's out there, you know. And like when we have a local representative, Tulsi Gabbard, who goes to the federal, who served in National Guard, who went to Iraq, who had boots on the ground, that's a totally different level of compassion and energy as opposed to other people that have never served in the military.  Yeah. Well, some of the policies that seem like when we have certain cuts within the government, it seems where they want to go ahead and gravitate towards the veterans or, you know, the military to make certain cuts, you know, that we, you know, we know are essential, but for some reason it doesn't translate, you know, in the halls of Congress and, you know, some other places. But you mentioned, let's go ahead and transgress. I'll make it transgress, I mean, segue. I'm trying to find the right word. I always wanted to get a segue. I can't spell it, but anyhow. You mentioned that with the operation that you've run at their Olamana Farms. Okay. I know with that, you've been doing that for quite some time.  There's a lot of things that you have in place that have been implemented around the world. But tell us a little bit about just about that. And also, you know, to want to hit the good points, and also I know some of the obstacles that you run into, you know, in trying to get certain things in place. Right. But one of the programs is a national program. And I used to be president of the Hawaii National United Farmers Union, and did that for about two and a half, three years. And we championed a program called Vets to Farms. And that was for returning vets to come back and get to go out to a farm. And some of the programs are, I've done Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force people. And when they're down to only six months left in their enlistment, and let's say they're back here, they're allowed their programs in the military that let them go out and cross train to a civilian world. And so they would come out to my farm from eight in the morning till noon and train with us so that the day they got discharged, they had something to go and do. Right.  And so what we try to do is if a guy was a tank operator or a motor pull guy is get them on equipment, backhoes and bull dozers and sort of thing. One thing I like very much about when you're working with the ex-military people or former military is they tend to be mission orientated. They need to focus on something. Yeah. And so when you get them on to a farm where they can live and work and get off the daily pressures of commuting to work, having to have transportation to get to work, worrying about the meals and the whole juggling laundry, all of that, when they get to come to a farm and live there and get room and board and train four hours a day, then they're free till eight o'clock the next morning. They can do a special project or that. And it's good. And so we segued from that into working with the returning veterans that I've got different emotional problems and medical problems and they need a calm down period, you might say. And so they will come out to the farm normally for three months. And it's kind of funny, if somebody can have three months of less stress doing something that's entertaining and educational learning about the farming, learning about growing organic food. It's a different conversation in their life. And we don't allow sea stories. It's kind of like if we're dealing with an inmate that's got out of prison, we don't tell prison stories. If you came back from Iraq, we do not talk about Iraq. We talk about fishing or anything else, but not that area. You don't dwell on it. Yeah, I know that I visited your farm. It's got a great operation out there. And of course we talked offline. We know each other for a while anyhow. But I know that there are some things that you tried to put into place that you tried to introduce to certain of our representatives or elected officials. And the response has not been as all that enthusiastic as it possibly should. I believe it should be, you know, is there any changes or anything coming up when their attitudes or something that the public can do to, you know, help, you know, promote the programs that you're doing? It's kind of most of solutions. And I consider myself a solutionist. That is a person that if you started telling me a problem you have, my mind would start right away thinking about solutions, right? And I'd almost stop and say, Well, did you try this? Do you try that? And what you find out sometimes when somebody's telling you their troubles, they're not actually looking for a solution. They just want you to listen. And what we're finding out so much is the government really doesn't want a solution. They just want us to listen and then look the other way while they throw money, money, money at it. We have the right house, I think it's the housing complex out here in Kalihi, the headlines in the paper, they're going to spend a billion dollars to remodel this high rise building. And you're reading the article and it says there's 342 apartments, 342 affordable housing apartment. That's pretty nice. But go and divide that divide 1 billion by 342. It comes down to $2.7 million. And you got to ask yourself, what are you going to do?  Yeah, I tell you, while we contemplate that, we're going to go ahead and take a short break, let the audience, you know, work on some kind of formulation for what you just mentioned. We'll take it from there. But we'll be back in just a moment here on Hawaiian Uniform. Aloha, my name is Mark Shklav. I'm the host of Think Tech Hawaii's Law Across the Sea. Law Across the Sea comes on every other Monday at 11 a.m. Please join us. I like to bring in guests that talk about all types of things that come across the sea to Hawaii, not just law, love, people, ideas, history. Please join us for Law Across the Sea. Aloha. Hi, I'm Pete McGinnis-Mark, and every Monday at one o'clock, I present Think Tech Hawaii's Research in Manoa, where we bring together researchers from across the campus to describe a whole series of scientifically interesting topics of interest both to Hawaii and around the world. So hopefully you can join me one o'clock Monday afternoon for Think Tech Hawaii's Research in Manoa. Okay, welcome back to military and uniform. I mean, Hawaiian Uniform, I keep getting the name of my own program screwed up here. Anyhow, before we took the break, you mentioned about, you know, certain solutions, you know, and that's the one thing that I think a lot of people confuse about, where people within the community, I mean, I've interviewed individuals who are more than willing to go ahead and donate their time, money, and everything else, will a very cost-effective solution to some of the programs or problems we have, like homeless and all these different things. And again, it's just like, where's the common sense, you know, it's costing us all types of money. You mentioned before we took the break about these housing, the money that they want. The mayor right housing. Yeah, so two and a half million per unit or? Yeah, I mean, every time you look at, say, like in Sand Island, they built a homeless shelter over there using math and containers, right? And you built 11 little containers for people to live in and, you know, set it up. And then you see the dollar figure and let's say it says they spent a million and a half dollars. In me, I have to take that million and a half dollars and divide it by 11 and go, really, you spent $150,000 for a math and container for somebody to live in? I mean, we can do better in that. Now, on the other hand, I was out in Waini and I saw some of the small houses they're providing for some of the homeless families out there. Very nice little units and they have a long term. They're not just going to be rotated out from them. It's a new way of life. We have a young member of our family, my extended family, Hawaiian family, they just got housing and a plantation housing, brand new housing out in, by out there and it's fantastic program and they pay like $400 a month rent and their own utilities but they get a three-bedroom, two-bath house, a new house as long as they're an agricultural worker and that's where you come down to, if you're going to be an agricultural worker, you're going to go into farming like that to be able to have housing, to have a real home, you know, modern construction home for $400 a month. You can see where that will be a shot in the arm. Yeah, it seems to be, again, when you look at the news it seems like we're raising our taxes all the time for all these boondog ol' operations and stuff like that and when, you know, it just doesn't make any sense what's going on like saying, you know, people get very frustrated, you know, when they say break it down to what it's going to cost or, you know, like the bottom line is who's making the money? That's one of the dirty little secrets that they don't discuss in public over here. Exactly. And even in the tourist, we do I champion ag tourism and all the Montagardens was a flagship place. Basically, we get thrown under the bus every now and then for promoting ag tourism and the Big Island used my farm as their model of how to do ag tourism in that we have school groups come out and tour, you know, for $10 a student, they come out from nine in the morning to one in the afternoon, they eat lunch at our farm, they bring their own and but they tour a five-acre organic farm.  Well, it's educational. Well, then we had, we've had 28 different countries come to my farm and stay three months or longer. We had like five men come from Rota, USDA paid for them. They came, stayed at our farm for three months, learned all about aquaponics. Now, when you live and work right on site and you do something six to eight hours a day and you don't have all the distractions of driving to and from work or going back to a hotel and going out and drinking or whatever else, but you still contained onto a farm and you concentrate on something, it's amazing what people absorb in three months and so it's been a really good program.  I know that also that you travel around, you and your partner Natalie, she travels with, I mean you guys go around the world, I know that you've mentioned before you're an inventor, there's a lot of things I know that you invented that you just turned over to the public and let them, you know, benefit from that, you know, there's not that many people that I'm aware of who are so selfless where they're willing to go ahead and share what they're doing, but I know the, you know, where you're coming from, you've set a great example, you know, for community spirit. Well, a lot of what we've done is for the public at large, okay, in that we traveled to the Philippines, Korea, China, we went to Jamaica last year, we're going back here in about two weeks, we're going back to Jamaica, we've gotten calls to go back to San Juan, Puerto Rico, we put in aquaponics system there, they got totally wiped out with the hurricane and so you go back and help people put it back together, you know, rapidly and so we're troubleshooters kind of thing, so we come in and it can be very heartwarming. I love with the Coast Guard Auxiliary, I became a certified instructor with the Coast Guard, so I tried to learn how to teach public courses and I end up being a lecturer for University of Hawaii. They sent Natalie and I down to American Samoa and West Samoa, they sent us to the Philippines and it's nice to be an ambassador of your country and of the educational system and I don't have my PhD, I have my NCW and I worked for about four and a half years before somebody asked me what the NCW was and I said it's no credentials whatsoever, I just simply do it and so what Olamante Gardens became is we do less and less of the PowerPoint presentation and more and more get a shovel or a hoe or pick and I think the one of the attributes we have with Olamante Gardens is and we specialized in doing aquaponics where you raise fish in a tank and you pump the water through the vegetable, a lot of people when they think farming they think a hoe or pick or a shovel and out in the sun and a hard, tough life but aquaponics is a bit different. You're inside of a greenhouse most of the time, you're in a protected environment and so they call it CEA, controlled environment agriculture and for kids that show up dressed nicely and in clean clothes and white tennis shoes, they can do aquaponics because it's a very clean environment, all the beds are raised up waist level high and that you don't have the stoop labor mentality but one of the really cool things is it brings in technology because they're doing their aduinos they're doing computer control systems, they don't want to walk around and do the clipboard right down the temperature of the pH, the oxygen pretty soon they learn to do a raspberry pie and bring it back out to you know the computer and monitor it on a computer such that I can pull up my phone, hit my phone and I can show you my fish tanks from anywhere in the world as long as I have cell service, I can look at my fish tank and see that everything's okay and I tell you what, seeing a video of them swimming around is more important to me than all the scientific instruments saying pH, water temperature, your oxygenation, you know pictures a thousand words, so it's good fun. Okay, one of the things that urban survival, we see what happened in Puerto Rico, you know, and around lately with the weather systems and everything else, we know that well they tell us what we have a seven-day period for food or whatever it is, I don't I don't quite understand why there's not more emphasis placed on programs because with the aquaponics and some of the other technologies is available you don't need a large operation, you know, to grow food or whatever, you know, you can do your own thing, you know, on a smaller scale, you know, and then when the time comes if there is an emergency for those who don't have or can't, you know, are not in the position to help themselves, it makes it easier when you're more self-sustainable for a period of time, you know, to help with the situation. It's kind of funny, when we have a disaster situation like what you have in San Juan, Puerto Rico and that going on, and normal life is disrupted, well we fly in MREs, we fly in bottled water and all of that, and what we're promoting is fly in seeds, send them seeds, and three weeks they'll have their own food, you know, you've got to get back to it. I think one of my favorite stories is Havana, when they went through the missile crisis, and America embargoed them, and no ship that went to Cuba was allowed to come to America for the next six months, so that pretty much just starved Cuba out, and they call it their special time, the average person lost 25 pounds in Cuba, okay, and they were not known for being large people to begin with, right? Well, what happened is the Australians went over, they're a neutral country, and they went over and they promoted permaculture and organic farming, and now Cuba raises 85% of what Cuba eats, and they export. Here in Hawaii, we import 85% of what we eat, all right, and what we do export, it might look like food, like coffee, sounds like a food, but you know, coffee has no calories, it's not even a food, you know, and in macadamias, yeah, it's edible certainly, but it's not a meal, sugar cane, certainly it's a basis of food thing, but you don't live on sugar, you know, except my teenage kids that seem to do okay on sugar, but the point being is that so much of our crop that we do grow in Hawaii, the coffee, the macadamia, even the fish down in Kona, we grow in the offshore nets, 95% of all those things are shipped out of state. You know, how much coffee can you drink, how much pineapple, but here's the absurdity of the situation, that a child in our Hawaii school system, the public school system, will virtually never eat a pineapple at lunch that was grown in Hawaii, can't afford it, they will be served imported pineapple from foreign countries, because it's cheaper, it's all about the money, you know, I mean, and you talk to the people that run the school problem, they say we got $1.47, we got $1.87, you don't serve organic food on $1.87, you serve pizzas, okay, and then we get into the absurdity of our life, we know we have a problem with obese kids in school, you know, we have a problem with obesity in America period, but definitely our children, I remember back in my generation, President Kennedy with his physical fitness, and he started touting, every kid would do, you know, two days or three days a week, a P.E. in school, they get physical exercise was deemed to be important, right, now you fast forward up to now, I have our federal government comes out to the schools and tells them, because they're getting federal subsidies, that they have must serve 1,500 calories at lunch. Right, okay, this is very interesting, we need to continue the conversation, I'm hoping that, you know, sometime in the future, that people will be able to view you on your program anyhow, but yeah, I mean, I'm sorry, we don't have much more time anyhow, but I want to thank you for, you know, joining us, and for your community service, and I think we're about 30 seconds do you need any information you want to put out, contact information. One thing I want to throw out is the, we have the convention coming up for the Hawaii Farmers United, it's coming up here October the 7th, real close, it's going to be one day at the college, in Leeward Community College, and then they're going to be on farms for two days, just go up and check that information out, and I think you'll find that interesting. Good, well thanks for coming on the program, I'm looking forward to seeing you more in the public eye anyhow, but I want to thank everybody for viewing the program, check us out on YouTube, and a few other avenues out there, but thanks again, and God bless and until that time.


Благодаря, че дои дофта след кафе паузата. Знам, че е дълъг ден и всички сте изморени. Иваме исключително интересен електр, което е пропътува много дълъг път, това е като идва от Македония. Не е спауза за да бъде тут сред нас. Президацията ще е на английски. Бо, че съм сигурен, че и иначе ще се разбираме. За това ще направя и кратко представяне на английски и след това сцената е нелъг. Вякуваме за 7 часа, за да бъде сега, и да се разправяе експериенто, в която е супер интересен, всеки за този, които е интересен в e-commerce. Така, дълъг да го даме пауза за нашите интернационите. Благодаря. Благодаря. Благодаря. Благодаря. Благодаря. Благодаря. Благодаря. Благодаря за да бъде здесь. Благодаря за да го даме пауза за мен. Мене е Зилия Серафимов. Я е бътсуалер на компьютерсиен, аплитет на компьютерсиен. В момента, я е на постградуатът. В школа на IT менеджмент. Я начинава в своя по-диликна компания, в 2008, сега подкинаш върху на моя егурда. И я зато се дълъг да бъде върху, да бъде креативна, и да работя в IT, в IT са. Мои первые проекти, които First Ideas We were developing ERP software and with my best friend Igor who is here today in the audience supporting me, we vaccine to develop some software. And we started to selling to companies. One time, a friend of mine, that I really appreciate, is a very successful, very experienced businessman, entrepreneur. He asked me what I do. And I told him that I opened a small company, IT company. And he said, that's great, what are you developing. And I said, ERP Software. I was very proud. And he said, why? There are so many ERP Softwares around you. Not only in your city, but in Macedonia and even in the region. World-class ERP Softwares are getting localized. Or Europe-class Softwares are getting localized in every regional language. And they are selling it. They have more resources than you. They have more options than you. They make combinations with their software packages. When are you going to catch up with that? And also, like I said, there are so many ERP Softwares. Why are you trying to, like we say, in the Balkans invent another hot water? That got me thinking. He was right. It wasn't very creative, for me, for us, thing to do. In the next couple of, that was 2008. In the next couple of years, started the tornado of websites. Every company in Macedonia was wanting a website. They were building, they were getting their first websites. It was the era of HTML without CSS. So you can imagine the options that we had to be creative. We had the Microsoft front page, 2003, like an environment for developing websites. And we were very happy when Macromedia was launching their solution, the Dreamweaver. Also, I remember the Flash. The Flash was a very popular tool for developing animations, for developing websites. Every company in Macedonia was wanting the upgrade from HTML or PHP to Flash. We were working very much on the websites. The software development even came third at one time. Because on the very first place were the websites, the web development, the web design. The second place, because we saw an opportunity, we started working with domains and hosting. We started making packages. We saw an opportunity here because we were selling a lot of websites. And why to pay some other provider, etc. And the software came third. Our biggest love, our reason to start an IT business. Over the years, we started to acknowledge that e-commerce is starting to take a great part on the market. Now the regular websites, the clients were calling us to transform them into web shops. Maybe not at first totally functional web shops, but at least catalog web shops. Not to buy the product, but to have all the products divided by categories, subcategories. And so the people can click it, read the specifications, the description, so the price. And then if they wanted to buy it, to call the office. In 2012, we started to deal with that. We started to develop customized solutions. We started to develop our own CMS. And in 2012, we met the WordPress. I always like to joke about it. It was a love at first sight. When I saw what the WordPress can do, it was amazing. I had heard about it before, but I didn't pay attention. I had a couple of projects that were done in Jomla. And that was it. I was always reading about WordPress. I was reading about Drupal. I was reading about all the others who were trying to get their fair share on the market. We started to look at the WordPress. That was a time when our colleague, Blackway, joined us at the company. He came very fresh with the ideas and the love for WordPress. And we started to developing web shops, teams. And of course, we started to combine them with the plugin, WooCommerce. The WordPress site cannot be a web shop without the WooCommerce plugin. We started to offer this new idea on the market. And we started to see that there were some not solved problems at the companies. They were afraid of the double tasks that will come up for them. They were afraid that the person who is entering every day the data in the ERP software, it will need to enter the data in the web shop. And backwards, all the sales and orders from the web shop, it will need to be put in the ERP software so the stock match. And I'm clicking this. I think the presentation is going. We got that part, we got that part. These are the numbers that impressed us. Development, the growth of e-commerce in Europe. We were following it very closely through the years. This is exactly right. It was from 2012 until today. And these are the numbers in Macedonia. So they were also getting very, very big, very impressive from one year to another. This is, in 2018, Macedonia as a country, their citizens, had a growth of nearly 70% in just one year. Because the people were not feeling safe with the payment cards, with their debit cards or credit cards or whatever. They were not feeling safe with the delivery. And that is an issue that is smaller and smaller with the time. So this is one proof that in 2008 the numbers are by 70% better than in 2017. I was talking about the problem that we noticed. The problem was two tasks for one person or hiring another person just for taking care of the webshop. The companies were not very happy about that. We even had cases like one very big company in Macedonia, in Skopje, a bookstore, a network or franchise of bookstores all over Macedonia, with thousands of thousands of products. And when we came by one day and we asked them, how are you satisfied with your webshop, they say, God damn you. We are very busy, our colleagues are killed every day with putting products, they are making mistakes, our stocks are not synchronized and such. And we acknowledge that there is a problem, that nobody is solving it at the moment. So we made a research at first. We already love the WordPress, the WordPress was getting bigger and bigger, I'll come back to this slide, was taking care of his market share, was expanding, was conquering the world. And we had no doubt that the solution, it must be connected, it must be very closely related with the WordPress and with the WooCommerce. That was our first conclusion and it was no doubt about it. The other part was how to solve the ERP software, the ERP software part. We cannot make a solution, a model or a plugin that is working with every ERP ever. So with our research, we saw that there is a Slovenian company called Datalab, that is also conquering the market in 11 countries in Europe, including Macedonia, including Bulgaria. And we took the ERP software, we started to use it for our personal use for our company. And then we started to developing the model, the ESHOP model for the Pantheon software. It's available in 11 countries, Bulgaria, Bosnia Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Romania, Slovenia, Serbia, Ukraine and Slovakia. It also has an international interface on UK English and US English, that can be used by any other country. They are developing an opening office in many other countries at the moment. It has 57,631 licensed users at the moment. This is fresh number, this is 15 minutes. I changed the number 15 minutes before I entered here. And it was no doubt about for us that we must figure it out, how to connect, how to synchronize the Pantheon ERP software with the WordPress Vukomerts webshop. So we developed this model, which is not only a plugin, it has another part. It has a desktop part that launch the data into the plugin, that is installed and configured with the Vukomerts. And all that is working perfectly, all the data, all the necessary fields, the image, the feature image, the attributes, everything is working perfectly. And from now on the Pantheon users can very easy migrate to WordPress, if they aren't already. Or also the WordPress users can migrate to Pantheon. So we made a couple of solutions, not only the plugin. Now we are offering the plugin on the market. We are offering the WordPress with Vukomerts on the market. And we are offering the Pantheon on the market. So it's a win-win-win for us. Thank you very much. This was shortly as I can do. So if you have any questions for me, I will be more than happy to answer them for you. Anybody? Don't be shy. OK, maybe I can ask a question that comes to my mind to break the eyes. OK, please. Because it was a great presentation. So you shared a lot of insights about Macedonian, how the penetration of those tools in Macedonia. Do you have any statistics about Bulgaria, number of shops and so on? Yes, but you will forgive me because those are unofficial. We are from Strumica. Strumica is a town literally on the border with Bulgaria. The municipality that we border to is Petrič. So we often came, we are often coming to Bulgaria for many reasons, for shopping, for everything. And sometimes for no reasons at all. Petrič, Sandansky, Burglijevgrat and Sofia are very familiar to us. And the first thing that I, as an IT student, I saw in Bulgaria, it was I think 2006-2007, Macedonia was not having a single webshop. The Macedonians banks were not offering, they didn't have the service. Like CPAY or CASIS or whatever. They were not offering the service of e-commerce. So you can connect with them, you can open a bank account or sub account and stuff like this. The only company that had a webshop in Macedonia was Deutsche Telekom. And their webshop was hosted in Germany. So it was the only one. So they start making commercials, they start making marketing. If you buy the mobile phone from the webshop, it will be free delivery, 10% less. And nobody was doing that. Nobody was knowing how to do it. Nobody was trusting it and stuff. In Bulgaria, I joke about this until today. I joke about this for 30 years. I was saying in Bulgaria that is near us, how do you call it? Kiosk traffic, they have webshops. How is it possible? Everything is online. Everything is... They do everything, even piracy. Zamunda is very popular in Macedonia. And I didn't know how we are not tracking this. When we were crossing the border, we were going into another planet of IT. And I was very nervous about it. So this process in Macedonia took a lot of years. Even 2012, when we met WordPress and WooCommerce and we started building webpages. The banks were horrible to work with. They were offering us on every client that want to... I think two banks started to have e-commerce. And if you want to have an e-commerce or if you want to have a webshop, you should pay the bank about 25 euros a month provision.  And they were taking from 5% to 7% from transactions. They didn't care. They said... We had clients that were very big companies. Clients with... I remember Nikop when we were trying to put it on webshop, on an e-commerce system. They were having... It's a security agency. They were having 5,400 customers. And they were very interesting in e-commerce. And they even came with us in the bank, in a high level negotiation. And they say 4.5% is all we can do. And friends from Bulgaria tell me that here there is no monthly provision. The transaction provision are like 1.5% and we were like, wow. So we had a couple of clients that we... That we... That we... Migrate them into Bulgaria, into Aliens Bank. And not only for e-commerce and for the PayPal. Macedonia is not having PayPal also. We don't know why is that. And so this is my unofficial comparison, Macedonia Bulgaria in the field of e-commerce. You guys are great. Yeah, I mean it. Yeah, in that field. Thank you very much for this answer. It was amazing. Keep in mind you haven't tried the e-governments in Bulgaria. It's not so great. That's everywhere. So we had a new tax system this year and the system collapsed. No one could use it. The companies we needed to generate this number that we must put the value in total. So the Ministry of Finance will transfer the money like it should. So there are no mistakes or there are no tax fraud and everything went down the hill. So we were missing paychecks. So we were making our monthly payments for us in the company. The money are gone. Nobody knows where it is. The software is collapsing. People are getting fired. Actually nobody gets fired. I don't know why. Nobody is blamed. That's bad. Nobody is taking consequences. Yes. Yes, please. For any part that you fail or struggle to fully automate and optimize to work between the shop and let's say production or any other part. A thing that is hard to optimize or to automate through your software. Any kind of example or something like a bit more specific for the process of automation. You mean problems? Yes, some kind of problem that you found. Difficult. In this exact case, with the shop? Yes, exactly. The image, the future image. We couldn't solve that. In the patent database they are encrypted in some way that only they know. So until we crack it we had a problem for synchronizing for transferring the image. All the data, no problem. All the fields, even the custom fields, no problem. The future image. We killed ourselves. Thank you. I think we have time for one or two more questions over there. Please. Thanks for the presentation. It's my pleasure. I was also getting super excited over ERP last year and I was looking into UDU or formerly Open ERP. As we know there is a lot of software already out there that solves the thing. I am glad I talked to somebody who is actually doing implementations for them. He said don't do it because the problem is not software. It is actually the adoption of the users to use the software in the end. Implementing ERP is really big. So it is your process now to leverage the customer base from Pantheon. And you can focus on making the WooCommerce solution for them. Is this like, did this make your life a lot easier? Would you recommend this as a learning also? From saying you don't need to create everything yourself because it's very hard. Not creating everything by yourself.  My almost 11 years of experience in the, not only in the IT field, in the business field at all. I think you all will agree with me when the CMSs were coming out. Everybody was talking bad about them. That they are not perfect, that they are not protected enough. That the clients were saying, what is this? This is a wordpress. You took this from the internet. It's all already done. And you want to pay me for something that you only took from the internet and put it into my service. And they were not understanding. But it was like a two or three years process. Where the wordpress started to be acknowledged like something very normal. Like something default. Because everyone that is smart enough so that the website that we are building or the web shop is like they told us to. So it cannot be taken from internet and just put it on, just launch it. And when they were giving, you know, let's put this here. Let's put it like this. I don't like it like this. I want more options, these options I don't want. And when they saw that we are developing for them, they were fine. Also they saw that there is one price for wordpress and vukomats and everything that is content management based. And that is definitely a very, very different price when someone wants a fully customizable solution for their problems or ideas. And I was very happy with that because I think by the end of the day the most important thing is solving the problem. Finding the solution. It doesn't matter if you find it through something that someone already found it. Or you will be trying to find it yourself. So that's a very long time, longer time for you, for the client, more money for the client or less for you. If the client does not accept your time billing and such. So it's very, very important for me. Like I said, it's one of the most valuable, maybe the most valuable lesson that I've learned. But also I'm not 100% sure how it works in Bulgaria. But in Macedonia there is a lack of creativity. Every IT engineer that is coming out from the faculty is looking for a job. They say, OK, now I'm a bachelor and I need someone to hire me. And when you hire them they say, OK, now give me something to work or I will sit like this all day. And with just a little bit of creativity, we are finding solutions that are not that hard. We are fixing a hole in the market. And maybe we fixed a hole in 11 countries with this. It was not hard. Because you go on anything in a company, you say, hi, we are from Serafimov Group. We are here to offer you a webshop. They say a webshop is a great idea. It's a great tool, no doubt about it. But who's going to take care of it? Who's going to support it? Who's going to do the data entry? That's another job for me, another open job for me. So, from the staff I should put them more hours to do this. And it's not a good idea at the moment for me. And now with this I think we are solving problems for another colleagues even for the competition. Thanks. I'd like to ask, is it hard to keep up with who commerce updates? No, in your company. I mean, your product is mainly a plugin that you install in the WordPress platform, right? So, is it hard to keep up with the constant who commerce updates? Or is it not that challenging? It's not, because the documents updates lately are not that general. They are not that main, so they can take us from the tracks. They are getting better, they are putting something minor. And our interest is the big picture. So the big picture is okay at the moment. It's right on track, right where we want to be. But of course in the future if who commerce or WordPress decide to make some general change, some major improvements or changes of any kind, of course that we will must sit down and take care of it. All right, thanks. And just one more short question about the business model of your solution. Is it like on a subscription basis or one time fee? How do you charge people for it? It is a subscription thing. Because anytime when the client, when the company, when the partners, one they can just cancel it. All right, thank you. Thank you. I think it's just about time to close this session, so please let us applause.


For more than three and a half years, sailors and service members from other branches stationed at regional support command east in Afghanistan have trained and equipped local Afghan national security forces to take a leading role in securing their nation. RSC East was recently inactivated during a ceremony at Bagram Airfield. Inactivation is an emotional time, of course we case the unit colors, the command does not exist anymore. I had a great team here, had about 800 when I first arrived and now I'm sitting about 150. All four services, all three components to include international partners, nine to be total and a great year together. Emotional time, we did lose silver soldiers in the process and their sacrifice themselves with their families is much appreciated and will always be remembered as part of my time here. The inactivation comes as Afghan forces begin taking over the securing of the country from American and coalition forces. They are in the lead, but as you know it's taken a lot of effort, a lot of effort for them to get to this point. One of those critical elements has been the RSCs across Afghanistan and in particular this one led by Colonel Knapp and his team. Since 2011, RSC East advised and developed 10 police training centers, a national police training center, a military training center, four logistic centers and a regional military hospital. It also oversaw the training efforts of more than 200 coalition training advisors from around the world. From the Defense Media Activity, I'm Petty Officer Alex Snyder.