The First Item is Time for Reflection. Our Time for Reflection leader today is the Reverend Robert Calvert of the Steeple Church in Dunby. Thank you very much. I appreciate the opportunity to come here and wish you all a happy new year if it is not too late to do that to the Mills of the Scottish Parliament. If there's one thing that we've learnt over the last month, it's that just a moderate increase in storm activity creates complete havoc over our land. So Storm Frank made Scotland's towns and glens into disaster sites. The other big issue that faces our continent as well as country is refugees and migrants. It's not a new issue and it's not likely to end. In this era of the highest human migration in history, people travel from lands wasted by war and climate change. Before returning to Scotland in 2014, my wife and I lived in Rotterdam for 19 years. Our home was on an island in Europe's largest port city. We were situated between Manhattan-style apartment blocks and office buildings along the river mass. In the Netherlands, they build dikes and barriers to protect the land from rising sea levels. The Dutch are used to water problems and that is why they have some of the world's best marine engineers. My simple point today is that even if you can't control water flows—sorry, if you can control water flows—you can't do the same with migrants. You cannot control travellers and make them a commodity. Some social commentators today speak of migration flows and highways, but when we use that language, we disrespect those most affected by this humanitarian crisis. They must not be treated like excess water or bad weather. Being likened to traffic subtly changes migrants from humans into commodities. When that happens, we are letter at little better ourselves than traffickers who see themselves who are less than human. We think then in terms of us and them. You can turn your tap on and off, but you can't turn off the coming and going of people who seek a better life. There is a little story in the middle of the Old Testament book of Genesis. It's about Abraham giving hospitality to strangers. Three men arrived without warning in the heat of the day. It was siesta time, but the elderly couple provided water for tired feet, rest in the cool of the shade and a sumptuous feast. The narrative ends with news of a baby that would lead to the birth of a child refugee, which we call Jesus. This story, shared by the Abrahamic faiths, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, tells how home is not necessarily where you were born or brought up. Home is where you are received and welcomed. Home is where you get recognition and respect. May God give us Abraham's grace so that migrants will be proud to call Scotland home.


Hello there, it's Mr. P. On today's lesson we're going to take a look at these literary devices, tone, illusion, analogy, and juxtaposition. So, let's get started. Let's first define literary devices. Literary devices are the typical structures used by writers in their works to convey their message or messages in a simple manner to their readers. When employed properly, the different literary devices help readers to appreciate, interpret, and analyze a literary work. In this lesson we're going to talk about tone, analogy, illusion, and juxtaposition. I suggest watching my other lessons on literary devices too. Two kinds of literary devices. Literary elements and literary techniques. Literary elements have an inherent insistence in literary piece and are extensively employed by writers to develop a literary piece. Example, plot, setting, characters, mood, theme, etc. Instead, literary techniques are specific, deliberate constructions of language which an author uses to convey meaning. Another's use of a literary technique usually occurs with a single word or phrase, or a particular group of words or phrases, at one single point in a text. Unlike literary elements, literary techniques are not necessarily present in every text. Now let's take a look at the first literary device, that is, tone. In written composition it is an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience. Tone is generally conveyed through the choice of words or the viewpoint of a writer on a particular subject. Every written piece comprises a central theme or subject matter. The matter in which a writer approaches this theme and subject is the tone. The tone can be formal, informal, serious, comic, sarcastic, sad, or cheerful, or it may be any other existing attitude. Examples, I want to ask the authorities what is the big deal? Why do they not control the epidemic? Is it enough lives like a monster? I want to draw the attention of the appropriate authorities to work damage caused by the epidemic. If steps are not taken to curb it, it would further injure our community. The theme of both tone examples is the same. The only way we can differentiate between them is the separate tone. The tone in the first example is casual or informal, while it is more formal in the second. Examples in Shakespeare's 12th Night The tone of 12th Night is irrelevant and bemused, mocking the self-seriousness and pretensions of the most self-deluded characters in the play. The tone of the play becomes more serious to punctuate specific scenes and provide contrast to the apparently boundless, good cheer and mischief of the plot. The songs performed by Fest are romantic and mournful, representing a departure from the lighthearted tone found throughout most of the play. Now let's take a look at Analogy. An analogy is a comparison in which an idea or a theme is compared to another thing that is quite different from it. It aims at explaining that idea or theme by comparing it to something that is familiar. We commonly use analogy in our everyday conversation.  Let's take a look at the types of analogy. Metaphor A metaphor compares two subjects without any connecting words such as like or as. Metaphors are considered a strong form of analogy as they assert that one thing is another. Simile A simile is a comparison between two things using the connecting words like or as. Simile still requires the reader to understand the similarities between two things and make new cognitive links. Allegory An allegory is a story in which the characters, images and or events function as symbols. These symbols can be interpreted to have deeper significance and may illustrate moral truths or a political or historical situation. Parable Similar to allegory, though more condensed, a parable is a simple story used to illustrate an instructive lesson or principle. Exemplification It is the relation between a sample and what it refers to. For example, if a sign at an arboretum said oak in front of an oak tree, that tree would be an exemplification of the label. Function Writers use analogy to link an unfamiliar or a new idea with common and familiar objects. This makes it easier for readers to comprehend a new idea, which may have been difficult for them to understand otherwise. In addition, by employing this literary device, writers catch the attention of their readers. Analogies help increase reader's interest as analogies help them relate what they read to their life. Let's look at an example of analogy in Romeo and Juliet. Act II, Scene II What's in a name that which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet? So Romeo would where he not Romeo called. Juliet is indirectly saying that just like a rose that will always smell sweet, by whichever name it is called, she will love Romeo even if he changes his name. Now let's take a look at allusion. It is a literary device used to reference another object outside the work of literature. The object can be a real or a fictional person, event, quote, or other work of artistic expression. Allusions can be shorthand for adding emotion or significance to a passage by drawing on the reader's prior associations with the object. Function By and large, the use of allusions enables writers and poets to simplify complex ideas and emotions. The readers comprehend the complex ideas by comparing the emotions of the writer or poet to the references given by them. Furthermore, references to Greek mythology give the magical touch to the works of art. However, it is much more difficult for modern readers to understand all the allusions in all their works of literature or literature from other cultures. This is one of the primary reasons that works such as Dante's Inferno and Homer's Odyssey require so many footnotes. Let's look at an example in Twelfth Night. The English Renaissance brought about a renewed interest in classical works, namely Greco-Roman mythology and history. In Twelfth Night, Shakespeare uses allusions to mythological figures in order to characterize Orsino's declaration of love as hyperbolic and inauthentic. In Act I, Scene I, Orsino hopes that Olivia will someday be struck by love's golden shaft, an allusion to Cupid, the Greek god of love. Cupid's golden arrows inspired insatiable love and desire immortals. Orsino's allusion to Cupid suggests that his love for Olivia is externally motivated and forced upon him, rather than founded on true affection. Cupid's arrows were also often considered a source of misery, especially in cases of one-sided love. Let's look at Jack's deposition. It is a literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts. In literature, Jack's deposition is a useful device for writers to portray their characters in great detail, to create suspense and to achieve a rhetorical effect. Function Writers employ the literary technique of Jack's deposition in order to surprise their readers and evoke their interest by means of developing a comparison between two dissimilar things, by placing them side by side. The comparison drawn adds bitterness to the given image, controls the pacing of the poem or a narrative and provides a logical connection between two vague concepts. Let's look at an example in Romeo and Juliet. Jack's deposition is a literary device that William Shakespeare uses most commonly in his play Romeo and Juliet. We notice that Jack's deposition of light and darkness repeatedly consider an example from Act I, Scene 5. Oh, she does teach the Dorges to burn bright. It seems she hunts upon the cheek of night, like a rich jewel in an theopsia. Here, the radiant face of Juliet is juxtaposed with the black African's dark skin. Romeo admires Juliet by saying that her face seems brighter than brightly lit Dorges in the hall. He says that at night, her face glows like a bright jewel that shines against the dark skin of an African. Now, let's recap. We talked about tone and we said that it is a perspective or attitude that the author adopts with regards to a specific character, place or development. Allusion. It is a figure speech whereby the author refers to a subject matter, such as a place, event or literary work by way of a passing reference. Analogy. It helps to establish a relationship based on similarities between two concepts or ideas. And finally, we have Jack's deposition. It is when the author places a person, concept, place, idea or theme parallel to another. That's it for today. If you have any questions about literary devices, type your question below this video. Well, don't forget to subscribe to my channel if you haven't. If you enjoyed the lesson, hit on the like button please and you may share the lesson if you liked it. Until next time, take care, bye-bye.


hey guys what is up welcome to my channel for today's video i'm going to be ranking all of the eyeshadow palettes that i tried in the month of august from worst best so if you want to see what they are then just keep watching hi guys if you're new here my name is morgan i am a product knowledge enthusiast i just love knowing anything and everything about all the new makeup on the market and sharing my thoughts with you guys in particular eyeshadow palettes those are definitely my favorite makeup items to review for you guys and in the month of august i tried nine eyeshadow palettes before you ask natasha denona retro is not in this rankings it will be in next months because i actually tried that at the beginning of september but anyways i like to take a few extra days into the next month to really play with the eyeshadow palettes and make sure i give every palette a fair chance to really rank it where i feel like it belongs so this past month i tried nine eyeshadow palettes it was a little bit smaller than normal but i must say you guys i tried some really great palettes so we are gonna start off at number nine unfortunately this one was not my favorite clearly uh but this is the dior eyeshadow quint in early bird now one of the very first days of august i reviewed their birds of a feather collection and some hits and some misses i was really excited for the collection it looked beautiful and unfortunately i just cannot recommend this eyeshadow palette i'm not saying i can't get pretty looks with this because i absolutely can actually on jose and i's anniversary dinner i wore these three shades and the look was absolutely beautiful but i just can't get behind the price on this for the type of quality that you're getting this shade right here really does not have any pigment it just takes a while to get these eyeshadows to work and again you can get a pretty look it's nice i don't regret picking it up however i can't recommend it to you guys it's not as good as the regular line that dior has with their eyeshadow palettes i don't know why they just keep playing around with the formulas and their limited launches because this just isn't good it's not worth it i don't recommend it the look is pretty sure but not worth the price they're very expensive wasn't as big a fan as this one moving on to number eight i don't have a problem with this palette i actually think it's nice and i do recommend it however it's just boring in the lineup of eyeshadows that i have and that is the charlottori super nudes easy eye palette this was a re-release for her nude gasm collection and really you can see why it's ranking on the lower side it's just very boring i have all these colors nothing bad to say about the quality i think they're beautiful and in my review i highly recommended this for mature eyelids because it's not super matte so it's not going to look drying on mature eyelids it has a slight sheen that's not really going to emphasize too many fine lines and wrinkles and all that stuff it's just a great formula for mature eyes but i mean i have all of these shades a thousand times over so while i did enjoy this i think it's a very easy to use formula great for beginners i i mean i i didn't want to use it because i have this all over and over and over again so if you feel like this is something that you really like that you're gonna use or the formulation sounds interesting to you i do absolutely recommend it however it's boring for me in my personal opinion moving on to number seven it is actually the eyeshadow palette that i'm wearing now and i really really really like it at this point i mean i have a hard time ranking this low but i have two which just where it fell this is also from the dior birds of a feather collection this is night bird and i like this one a lot more than the early bird palette it's really gorgeous colors kind of out of the box for dior but it still sticks with an elegant color story so this is what i'm wearing on my eyelids right now the look is absolutely stunning these colors aren't the easiest to work with it took a little bit of playing around fussing and blending to get it to where i want it to be and the reason that i ranked it lower is just because it is so expensive however i absolutely love the colors in here and i just feel like you're gonna get such a pretty watercolor elegant look while still playing with these fun tones it's just different for luxury makeup you have the luxury finish on the eyelids but you still have these fun evening style of colors so this one is definitely an up to you if you feel like this is worth it you're not going to get a palette packed with pigment it doesn't give you that you can see kind of the subtlety of it all on my eyelid but that's what i like about it very elegant very sophisticated it's from dior i really like it i think it's beautiful however i don't think it's for everybody i'm not going to recommend it to everybody the color here the pigmentation the finish it's not going to be everybody's cup of tea i personally really enjoyed it i just it's a bit expensive again it's not dior's best but i love the looks i get from this that's i can't deny i have a charlotte tobury navy eyeliner along my upper lash lines to make it even more fun really like this one number seven now we're getting into the good stuff no jk number six but still this is the good stuff this is an awesome palette awesome price earlier in the month i did a full face of kim chi chic beauty it's a brand that i've always been very curious about i think the packaging is super cute the colors from the brand are very very vibrant sorry i know better than to have my volume up but anyways this is the kim chi chic version mejito palette that's the name the packaging on the outside is very cute it looks a little bit more simple but where the magic is is going to be on the inside of the palette you of course have kim chi right here and then you have the actual packaging itself and you guys can see in the photos how detailed they are and how well thought out the color story is and this is a very affordable palette and the quality is really really nice i highly recommend that you check out my review to see the look that i pulled out of this this is more so in the middle just because i mean this isn't a color story that i'm inclined to reach for every day i tend to stick towards more neutral or subdued tones these are quite bright but the fact that you can get bright tones like this at this price is amazing love love love the packaging the marketing and the brand has a lot of other really cool items that i do recommend so this one is such a cute palette if you feel like these are colors that you would like they're a great formula and there's a lot of other great palettes with different color stories in the brand so i highly recommend this one this one was really good moving on to number five hooda beauty it came out with her wild obsessions collection and so you're gonna see the palette sprinkled in a lot within these last few palettes that i'm mentioning but coming in at the bottom of the trio that was released is the wild jack wire palette which i am thoroughly surprised by because i was pretty sure this one was going to be my favorite of the three but i just think for some reason the quality in this isn't as good however it's still a gorgeous palette which is why it's ranking so high but i just find that this palette works best is like a one in done kind of look there's so many shimmers in here that it's just too much to layer them all together but as far as me getting ready for every day especially when i'm doing weddings on the weekend i do my makeup as quick as possible but i still want it to look nice and presentable so that the client trusts me so i'll just use one of these crease colors just like one or two and then i'll pick one of the shimmer shades and put it all over my lid absolutely beautiful but like i said it's not my favorite it's just not as creamy as i feel like the other two palettes are but absolutely beautiful if you like the glimmery kind of cool why is this ipad turn the volume down on my ipad but it's still going anyways you don't care if you like the glimmery kind of neutral colors one in done look i think you would really like this i am recommending it i'm just letting you know for some reason it's a little bit different than the other two but it's still super good it's just i don't like the way the colors were laid out quite as much i wish there was a little bit more mats in here i don't know i'm reaching though it's a good palette on to at number four i don't even know if i want to rank this this high but standalone as a palette it's wonderful and that is the natasha denona mini xenon palette gorgeous i mean you guys know i like a cool tone palette i'm not afraid of a cool tone palette i like a silver eye i like a gray eye great quality the only thing is this black it's easy to work with to blend out however it's not easy to pack on so if you're looking to put this all over the eyelid it gets a little sketch it's not the best black in that regard but as a deepening black it's nice but anyways this shade is incredible the mats blend super easy the only thing that i'm kind of like about is because i found literally like a ten dollar dupe and it's the exact same colors from color pop check out my review if you want more details on that dupe but as a palette itself it's really nice i love the color story of this i love the quality of this i don't necessarily recommend this i think you should get the dupe instead however it's a really nice palette and i really like it so it's ranking here i really love the looks that i did with it natasha denona beauty actually posted the photo that i did because i mean it was a cute look it was a cute photo so i do like this i like this color story i think it's super pretty super deep super smoky but take it with a grain of salt you know by the counterpart that i recommended number three we have another obsessions palette from hooda that is the python palette oh my gosh this one is awesome look at the color story here i feel like the options truly are endless with what you can do with this in my original review i did quite a colorful eye and then in a recent video i believe it was my monthly favorites i did a semi wearable look playing with these three colors right here to kind of tone it down really beautiful great color story a great quality i know these obsessions can be a little hit or miss mostly misses there's not too many hits but i promise you in this launch these are hits these are very good quality phenomenal for the price and the color story in here really does it for me i think it's very well thought out i think there's so much variety in here you can create so many looks i don't have anything bad to say about this so yeah i mean this one's really nice i recommend it if you feel as though this is a color story that you will wear number two is the last palette in the trio of the wild obsessions this is the hooda beauty wild chameleon did not expect for this to be my most favorite of the three thought this was going to be my least favorite but something about the quality in this is so good you guys i mean oh the mats are buttery creamy smooth and they are in the other palettes i'm not but this one just has a lot more mats in the other palettes and the shimmers especially this one right here just seems more foiled and rich and creamier than the shimmers in the other like there is not a formula like this in the jaguar palette for reference so i've been enjoying this more so for the formula and because the formula is so good to me i've been reaching for this palette more than the other so i've been rocking some warm eye looks with this i love the purple and red combo that they give with this one as well i think it's very flattering very complimentary so super nice i like this one highly recommend but i do think with these wild obsessions that you should go for whatever color story you think you're going to like and wear the most they're all great in their own ways but that's kind of how they ranked out now that i've played with them a lot more number one i mean not too much to hype up because i feel like you guys already know we had a new pat mcgrath mothership palette launched this month i mean she hasn't launched a mothership in a year and she really can't go wrong i mean so good this of course is the utopian dream palette and i know people were disappointed with it but at the end of the day as a palette itself is a beautiful palette i love it i love the looks that i've done i did a whole review on it i did a three looks one palette and that three looks one palette video created some gorgeous looks i mean let me show you the palette now yeah you know repetitive more roses whatever i wear roses a lot the glitter shades are just fantastic i've had to not use this like i've had to push myself to not use it because i needed to use all the other palettes that i'm talking about with you today to really use them multiple times to tell you my thoughts because i've used this probably like six times and i got to chill you know there's only so many days in a month to test out these palettes but i do recommend this palette from pat mcgrath i mean i don't know if like you need it i don't know what you own and what you don't own if you have like diviners to you you probably don't need that but y'all know i'm a collector and even as a collector i'm still very happy with this i love the palette itself i love the looks that i can create with that all being said those are all of the palettes that i tried in the month of september one month no in the month of august ranked for you guys i hope you enjoyed it did you try any good palettes this month let me know if you guys aren't subscribed to my channel already i would appreciate it if you would and of course thank you to those of you who are already subscribed to me and to those of you who liked this video yeah okay that's all i have bye guys have a good one


Across our planet we're becoming increasingly more aware of the importance of coastal marine and ocean resources. At the same time we're becoming more aware of the complexity. Oceans cover 71% of the Earth's surface, are home to 2.2 million species that regulate the global climate and they are the basis of more than 3 billion people's livelihood over the world. And let's not forget, there are also the cornerstone of the global economy contributing about $1.5 trillion annually. The ocean and marine resources are especially important to the Pacific Island, being the heart of the culture and the livelihood there. Water is everywhere in the Pacific. This means achieving SDG-14 under the 2030 Agenda, but also much beyond that time frame, is essential for the development. It also makes Pacific Islands the best proponents and innovators in terms of progressing SDG-14 and challenging the status quo. This is why there is such an urge to better track, report, communicate and cooperate in SDG-14. This handbook is the product of over a year of consultation and collaboration with international multi-stakeholder community of practice. It was co-produced specifically for government authorities and individuals, along with supporting organizations who are responsible for reporting, building evidence but also managing and making decisions in the areas of SDG-14. It is built to get people up to speed with what monitoring, evaluation and learning is and what a good mail system is for them. In that sense, it helps people think through the current marine system to identify and develop mail systems that can capture what works, how, why and for whom. The handbook gives a background and a step-by-step guidance to the often seemingly complicated world of evaluation and the SDGs. It gives tools, tips, examples and references that are accessible to all and can be taken through at one space. It works on the basis of the formal reporting processes for the SDGs through the established custodian agencies. But within that framework, the handbook also encourages countries to take ownership of their own goals and shape how they see the future for the marine world. This process does force us to think and to look at the tough choices that we have to make when designing and implementing policies across different domains that affect the environment and people's lives. But it also sheds light on the opportunities where combined effects between domains can be catalyzed through positive development outcomes. Now, this handbook is only the first edition and the first steps towards hopefully a long collaboration between different stakeholders and a growing community of practice that will work towards using mail for sustainable development. If the world is to make significant progress towards achieving sustainable development goals, high-level actors really need to push for new ways to learn and think about the synergies and trade-offs of all the 17 SDGs. In that sense, we cannot consider SDG-14 on its own or any other SDGs. These have to be taken into account together and evaluation plays a key role in addressing this complexity. In fact, it is the basis upon which learning and cooperation are built to accelerate progress and to bring the transformation needed for success in conserving and using oceans, seas, marine and coastal resources in a sustainable way. We very much hope that this handbook is only but a first step in understanding the complexity of issues at play and driving changes for a better marine world.


How can we truly please God? How can I be real with myself when it comes to wanting to do what the world does and looking for ways to justify my actions? Well, if I were counseling you, I would have to know, I would say give me an example. So I would need to know some specific examples, but if you know enough to know what you're doing is wrong, then the issue is, are you going to repent and give God glory? And I used to, when I was especially a younger Christian and struggling maybe with anger or whatever, I would go to the Bible and just do a study. And I would look up every word in the Bible that had the word anger, the word worry or the word whatever, bitter, just name something. And I would take notes and I would think about it and I would think about what I was doing. I would pray, I would ask God to convict me, to help me. But we still have to discipline ourselves for the purpose of godliness. And often, if you would just tell on yourself and have somebody hold you accountable, then that would help. But a lot of times we keep things a secret just within ourselves and then we get upset with God because he doesn't just take that away. This is not God's fault. So I would, we need to take our sin very seriously and we need to repent.


I'm Rusty Komori and this is Beyond the Lines on Think Tech Hawaii. I was the head coach of the Punahou Boys varsity tennis team for 22 years and we were fortunate to win 22 consecutive state championships. This show is based on my books Beyond the Lines and Beyond the Game and it's about leadership, character and creating a superior culture of excellence. My special guest today is the owner and managing partner of Cahuillo Avenue Food Hall at the International Marketplace in Waikiki. He is Mike Palmer and today we are going beyond dining. Hey, Mike, welcome to Beyond the Lines. Hello, Han Rusty, thank you for having me.  I absolutely love it. But before we get into all of that, can you tell me a bit about your background? Yeah, sure. So I grew up in California, Santa Barbara to be exact and spent a lot of my life growing up there in a beautiful place and it's similar to Hawaii in California. And then I'm the youngest of eight kids. I went to college at Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, California where I got my business degree with the concentration in management marketing. And after that, right out of college, I got a job with Jamba Juice and worked with Jamba Juice in California. They were just a fairly young company at the time starting to open locations throughout California. And for a couple of years, I traveled all over California opening new locations from San Diego to San Francisco. And then I heard through the grapevine that there was a franchise partner looking to open in Hawaii. And I said, okay, I don't wanna put my name in the hat. I wanna go talk to these guys directly. So I came to Hawaii on a vacation and I heard it was the guys that brought Starbucks to Hawaii. And I reached out to them, left them a message at their office. Unfortunately, they didn't call me back until I was already back in California for my vacation. But they called me and said, we'd love to meet you. And I basically said, hey, I have a lot of knowledge about Jamba. I'd love to help you guys launch the brand in Hawaii. And to make a long story short, they brought me on board but it was supposed to be a one year contract and agreement with corporate. And after a few months, they asked if I'd stay permanently in Hawaii. And it was probably one of the best decisions I ever made to work with those guys. It was Dean and Scott McPhail and Greg Meyer and the McNaughton group. And I learned so much from those guys. I mean, we had a great run in Hawaii. We ended up opening 36 Jambas. I think they opened over 70 Starbucks here in Hawaii but amazing group of individuals that I learned. I developed a lot of my leadership skills working with those guys as well. So Mike, tell me about how you got involved in the restaurant industry. And then when did you take ownership over Cuyahia Avenue food hall? So I pretty much my, well, it wasn't my first job but my second job was in a fast food Wendy's in the mainland when I was 16 years old. I got a job flipping burgers and doing everything at a Wendy's. And then I worked at a pizza place and ever since in college I waited tables at a very busy restaurant and that's how I paid for my college working in a restaurant for four years. And I learned a lot. I love hospitality business restaurants, love food of course. And so it's just, I guess it's been in my blood so to speak ever since a very young age and working with a lot of entrepreneurs and people in the same food and beverage industry. And then what happened with Cuyahia food hall is after John by I worked at worked a stint with Wingstop another franchise. And then Ruth Chris Steakhouse worked with Randy Shock and his team, operating the Ruth Chris restaurants here in Hawaii on three different islands. But then the Mina group reached out to me and Michael Mina had the Cuyahia, well it was called the street food hall back then. And that was in 2018. And they were looking for a local leadership because they had already been through, I think it was, I was the fifth manager in less than a year and a half at that location. And so yeah, it wasn't, I was used to doing multi-unit management but this was one location with multiple units in it. So I thought I'd take a stab at it. And it was a wild ride. Wow.  Can you tell me more about that? Yeah, so it shut down during the pandemic and then my business partner, John Fried and I had an opportunity to reopen it under our own ownership. And so that happened in January, 2021. And we gradually opened one concept at a time and now we're up to eight. And so yeah, we've got Ponsai burger, Aloha pizzeria. We've got Greek grotto, a Greek concept. We've got our La Pina Cantina Mexican concept. We've got Chihu barbeque and we also have a taqueria. We have a tiki bar, a beer bar. And coming soon we have a sub sandwich place and a health bar as well, opening up. And it's absolutely amazing how you've improved that whole space. I mean, it's so great. There's so much positive energy. The music, it's so lively. Now you mentioned, I mean, I would say that running any restaurant like one restaurant is gonna be challenging. What are the challenges in running 10 concepts within a dining area? Yeah, I mean, one restaurant is challenging. You're absolutely right.   That's my nickname for it. We call it the beast because it is really, it does present a lot of different unique challenges having multiple concepts, multiple menus to manage. And a lot of people think like a typical food court that we have, you know, we suddenly see spaces out. But in reality, we own every concept in there with the exception of our friend, Derrick at Il Gelato. We thought we'd invite him in because he has the best gelato on the island.  But here we've got these individual places with specialized menus and it's a lot harder to slide people around if you're shorthand. So every concept needs to have its own staff even though we do cross train people. Well, you have incredible food dishes there. I mean, you literally have something for everybody, right? I like to think so. We do, I mean, I tell people if you can't find something you like there then you must be a really picky person. But, you know, probably the only cuisines we don't have are Chinese food and Indian food. But I mean, we've got the Mediterranean, the Greek, we just opened our Hashi and Spoon, our ramen concept. I think it's the best Mexican food on the island. I grew up with Mexican food in California. So, and our executive chef Mario Lopez is from Mexico City, went to culinary school there and he does amazing Mexican food. Our burgers, not to brag, but I'll put them up against any burger in the state. And there's, yeah, it's a, you've tried it yourself. So, I don't know if you've eaten everything but there's a lot to try.  And I also love La Peña as well. I mean, it's tough choices, but your location is fantastic and the parking is really convenient too. Yeah, I tell everybody, you know, a lot of locals don't like coming to Waikiki because whether it's the crowds or just the challenges of finding parking because, you know, I can relate, you know, parking was challenging, but when they opened international marketplace, when after the remodel, they really had the foresight to make a huge parking garage that's got high ceilings for SUVs and trucks and surfboards on top. And it's great. I mean, you get validated parking first hours free and it's $2 an hour for the next three hours. So you can park for four hours or six bucks in the heart of Waikiki, which I think is a bargain. So parking is not an issue.  And when I come there now, I mean, it's such a big difference. Like you have the music is going, I mean, it just feels like there's just positive energy. I mean, it just feels great. I mean, is that something that you really pay really close attention to when you're watching the type of customers that you have? Yes, absolutely. I think, and I love the fact that you notice that when you come in, because we want it to be a fun, a vibe, right? And again, I learned this with working with so many great companies in the past and, you know, visionary leaders that people are looking for a place not just to eat, but they want an environment that they enjoy. And yes, it's hard to find music that everybody enjoys. Sometimes people have, you know, polar tastes on that. Some people want a quiet place. I do tell people it's not necessarily a place to come on Valentine's Day with a date for a romantic night out. It's lively, it's energetic, it's noisy. You know, we've got a lot of TVs. Football is huge now. I don't consider us a sports bar, but it is an amazing place to watch the games.  I just signed up for the NFL Sunday ticket. So now we've got, you know, nine games on Sunday morning and Sunday afternoon. So, and again, the beauty of it is people can come with their entire family. They don't have to fight over what to eat. They come there, they can all branch out, order whatever they want, then sit at the same table and enjoy it. And that's really what it's about. People coming together to eat and converse and enjoy entertainment. And yeah, I think it's not for everybody, but I think we've got a lot of locals that come enjoy it and they tell tourists about it, which is great.  Well, I'm one of those locals that come there too. And Mike, let's talk about Bratahood Grimes. You were among the first restaurants to step up to support Bratahood Grimes. Why did you feel compelled to help Hawaii football and coach Timmy Chang? So my business partner and I, when we had this vision of our company, which is Ho'okipa Partners, we said we want it to be of Hawaii for Hawaii. I mean, Ho'okipa, the Hawaiian name is hospitality. And everything we do, we wanted to have Hawaii be part of that. And then when you're thinking of ways to get involved in the community, there's so many different great organizations, nonprofits, ways to give back. And we hadn't really dialed in and nailed down exactly what groups we would support. But when Ryan Tanaka from the Hawaii Restaurant Association brought it up at a board meeting, that coach Timmy Chang reached out to him and said, we need to feed our players in the off season because the NCAA doesn't allow for that or the university doesn't have that budget. And first of all, I was like, what? And then of course it's like, how can we help? And Ryan Giovanni Pestrami was on board. I told him right then and there I said, count us in, count Ho'okipa and the food haul in. Not really knowing what it was gonna entail, but we thought, hey, UH sports is like, it's not just UH, it's the entire state, right? If there's a way to support Hawaii UH Athletics is a great way to do it. And it's so neat, and you know this because you were right there all along as well. And that's where I met you was at our first event at the food haul with the UH men's football team.  And the great thing to hear from coach Timmy was that it is a recruiting tool for them to have all these restaurants. And initially I think there was just four of us and now it's growing. Every day there's more restaurants jumping on board, which is great because it's become this huge effort of Ohana community getting behind the support UH men's football who just won their first game in the homecoming this weekend. That's awesome. Congrats coach Timmy and the rest of you. But it's just snowballed into this huge thing. So now as you know, it's not just UH men's football, it's men's basketball, it's men's volleyball, it's women's volleyball, women's basketball, the golf team soccer, they all got involved. And of course now we're like, okay, we need more restaurants to help with this. And as so many restaurants that are part of the Hawaii Restaurant Association have stepped up, which is it's just neat because it's really the community coming together to support our men and women in athletics. And there was a real need there. So I can't tell you how exciting it has been to be part of that. And it wasn't anything like, oh, what's in it for us? You know, if that comes great, it's just one of those things that, hey, this is a great cause, let's get behind it. Well, I want everybody to come and support you because you support our community. And Brotherhood Grimes also evolved into Sisterhood Grimes which is absolutely amazing too. And Mike, you have both of my books and you're such a great leader that I wanna ask, what are some things that stood out to you in the books? Well, I mean, there's so much, Rusty, like your books, I mean, it's short and sweet, which I love, but the knowledge and your experience of 22 years of champions, right? And then it translates, right? We always know sports and business and home life. There's so many things that translate, but it's hard to pick one thing that stood out in your books, but a lot of it just resonated. It's my own personal philosophies and what I've learned as a leader and working with people. But first of all, people, right? So I tell everybody when I went to Cal Poly, which is a great college, and I would guess this is a case of any university where people are studying business. They don't talk so much about people. Yet 80% of my conversations, my meetings, the day-to-day interactions I have are about my team or vendors. It's all people, you know? And I think any business leader you talk to, you don't achieve success alone, right? There's a lot of people. And that to me, and I love because that's what your book speaks to and with your players. And developing these other leaders is really what it is because if you've got a vision and big goals, you need a big team to do that or a lot of people that share in that vision, right?  I didn't count how many times people's mentioned in the book, but it's a lot. And that's the advice I give to anybody. You better learn about people and what motivates them and how to interact with them. And if not, you need to find yourself with somebody that you work with that has those skills. And I've noticed that too, a lot of business partnerships, there's the people person and then maybe the visionary or the technical person, right? And I think there's a lot of successful partnerships and teams and organizations that have that chemistry. You know, it's not necessarily one person. It's a, you know, group of them. I love what you talk about character. I try to find people that have that because you can't teach it.  Now, if you're a rocket scientist at NASA, that might not work, but in the hospitality, food and beverage industry, that is something that has really worked well.  But I used to think I could teach people how to smile and be hospitable, but it really is actually something that is just people are born with, I think. And then all you can do is try to enhance that and give them a culture and environment that they can feel free to be themselves.  Maybe I can bring it out of them and I've been proven wrong. So I think that character is key. You talk about culture and I'm huge on that. I've been very blessed to work with companies that had amazing cultures, including the Starbucks, Jamba guys, I talked about amazing. We're like a family. We still have get-togethers every year because we love working with each other so much, even though they sold the companies and we still have reunions because we're like this huge family. And so that creating that culture is something I was tasked with doing when I came in to the street, the food hall. And, you know, I noticed that I had to make some changes and, you know, just improve the culture because that's the other thing. It's a retention tool. If you have people that love coming to work every day and enjoy who they work with and enjoy their bosses, that's an amazing culture that helps you not only retain people, it helps you recruit new people which as we know is very challenging these days for a lot of industries, not just food and beverage. So, yeah, in your book, I mean, there's so many great things and I love it because it just, your book is great. I recommend it to anybody because there's so much great knowledge in there and your personal experiences and then you share other experiences and your individual players. I love everybody's story is different, right? So a lot of good stuff. Well, Mike, what's amazing is you've created this culture of excellence at Cuyahua Avenue Food Hall now and how would you describe your leadership style? That's a good question. I always try to lead by example which again, you talk about in your book. I don't ask anybody to do anything. I want to do myself. And I've always considered myself a coach, you know? I say, I'm a coach, I'm here to support. Not necessarily point my finger and tell you what to do although that delegation is a huge part of leadership but I believe that one of the most important things I tell my other managers is the team needs to know you're there for them at all times.  That way they know if they really need you, you're there, you're available. You know, or if you're at the restaurant, check in with everybody, it's a big place. So when I hire managers, if they're external, I make sure they come down and spend a few hours and they know what they're getting into.  And the team loves that.  So that level of support is very important. And as a leader, that's what I try to do is be supportive of my team.  People we already talked about the purpose, the process. I think we're in the process stage, you know, with such a big operation, the restaurant being a year and a half old, we're still working on those processes to get to the end result, which is that top notch winning championship performance.  And that's a daily struggle to do that. But again, you trace that back to the people, right? Having the right people that share the vision and want to be a winning team, because that's important.  They got to have that passion as well. No, I'm glad you brought up the four P's and yeah, I can see how you guys are in the process stage. And Mike, during the pandemic, what did you do to help the nurses at Kaiser Permanente? Well, the Honolulu Magazine reached out to me, Christy Davis, a dear friend of mine, works there and they said they had a program that partnered with restaurants to feed the nurses or the heroes, right? On the front lines during the pandemic. So she asked, you know, were you be willing to provide some meals? And I said, absolutely. So, you know, we packed up a bunch of meals and brought them down to Kaiser Permanente delivered them and they were super happy and gave them.  So again, it was a great thing to be part of and so easy to say yes to. And then I think three weeks later, we donated a bunch of meals to Queens Hospital and the nurses as well. So it was, it was just again, such an easy thing to say yes to.  And, you know, I can't even imagine like when I think I have a hard day, I think of somebody in the medical profession's hard days. Yeah, it's incredible how long their hours are, the nurses and the doctors and how little sleep they get before they got to work again. And that's so great of you. And you mentioned earlier your business partner, John Fareed.  Why do you guys make such a terrific team together? I mean, we really compliment each other. I think, you know, when I first met John, it was interesting, you know, he was doing consulting for the mall owners. And my first day on the job when I was with the Mina group, he basically told me, we got to turn this restaurant around and we're shutting it down in a few months. Like that was as blunt as it could be. And I was like, wow, my first day on the job, okay. But what I learned from that is he's transparent, he's gonna tell me exactly how it is. No BS, right? And that's good to work with somebody like that. Sometimes it stings, but you know what you have to do, right? There's nothing secretive or hidden agendas or anything like that. So over the time as him, the consultant, we got to know each other and really liked each other. I was same. I was very transparent with him. He liked what I was doing with the place and then throughout the pandemic, next thing you know, we shake hands, say let's become partners and open a food hall in the middle of the pandemic. And the mall owners that the Tom and company are partners and they're absolutely amazing. I can't say enough great things. I mean, a lot of people have challenging relationships with landlords and they're all about a win-win for their tenants, which is something that is rare, I feel like, in the industry. And so it's great, but yeah, going back to John, we have a lot in common. There's a lot of things we both enjoy food, of course, people, he has an amazing, you should put him on your show. He's got an amazing background, 30 plus years and working with five-star hotels and restaurants. And I love learning from him, his knowledge and experience. And we also know we couldn't have done this without each other, right? So it's very symbiotic. I wouldn't be sitting here if it wasn't for him and vice versa. So we acknowledge that and appreciate it and let each other do their thing, you know? But yeah, he'll be here next week. So I enjoy when he's in town and we can catch up and have him at the restaurant and helping the team loves him too. That's the thing, the culture, like I said, we're a big family. And that's a big part of our success too, I think, is having that. Ohana, it's not just a place of work, but we've got 80 employees now and it's growing. Probably have another 30 more in the next couple of months because things have really ramped up. Mike, that's amazing. I wanna ask you one more question before we wrap up.  Oh man, there's so many. And I think that is, you know, what's important. I always tell myself, you know, school's always in session. If you think you know everything, you might as well pack up and go home. But every day you're learning. I read your book and learned new things that I never thought of or even things that you're reminded of. And I always wanna be better every day. And I think that's, you know, a lot of leaders and successful and champions have that same spirit.  They all have that where they're always trying to do better. You know, I can do better next time or in the next business or whatever it may be. So I think continual improvement. I love the Japanese word kaizen, which is the same concept and, you know, my wife's Japanese, so when we go to Japan, you see that in practice with everybody in every business, they are passionate about being the best at whatever it is they do. If they're manufacturing something, they wanna be the best, if they're making food, even if it's not their own food, if it's French or Italian, they're making it the best it can be. And that's just ingrained in the culture. So I try to have that, you know, as well.  And I think that is, you know, something we all hear, but it is so true. I look at successful people on their circle, and that is something that is paramount as well, that, you know, they're surrounding themselves with other successful people or people that bring things to the table, maybe that they lack, you know? So I think that's really important as well. I love it, Mike. I thank you so much. I love hearing your insights and thank you for helping our community. And I wanna thank you for taking time to be on the show today. Thank you so much for having me, Rusty. I'm absolutely honored that you have me on your amazing show here. And I look forward to your third book. Thanks, Mike. And thank you for watching Beyond the Lines on Think Tech Hawaii. For more information, please visit rusticamory.com and my books are available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. I hope that Mike and I will inspire you to create your own superior culture of excellence and to find your greatness and help others find theirs. Aloha. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. If you like what we do, please like us and click the subscribe button on YouTube and the follow button on Vimeo. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn and donate to us at thinktechawaii.com. Mahalo.


In the small jail at Fort Anderson, Lightning Jim's deputy, Whitey Lawson, is opening the door to one of the cells. Hey, Ben, wake up! Aren't you hungry? Well, what have you got there? Bean, bread and coffee. Ain't sure where it's fancy, but that's good enough to fill you up. Yeah. Bean, bread and coffee. And for breakfast it'll be coffee, bread and beans. And for lunch, it's bread, coffee and beans. Oh, well, that's plenty good, you know. You're the only prisoner we got in here right now. Yeah. But I got an idea.  Well, you only got five more months to go, I think. No. No, I'm getting... No! Fong, law-pat. Yes. What happened? Well, I brought in his food. And he hit me on the chin. And when I woke up, I was locked up in here. So you let Ben Barlow get away? No, I didn't let him get away. He just went. Get to order tea and let me out there. Yeah, fine, Deputy, you are. We only had one prisoner in jail, and he got the best. You are, but you just wait till I get my hands on him. Get on, Lightning. Get to order tea and unlock the door. No, you're in no condition to go out now, what is it? It's that sort. Yeah, I'm gonna let you stay here. Well, I go out and get the prisoner. Hey, Lightning, you can't do that. Oh, yes, I can do that. You've got to get your strength back. So start eating that food you brought for Ben. Beans, bread, and cough is good for a week, Deputy. So long, Lightning. Hey, Lightning, you can't do this.  It looks as though Whitey has a few troubles of his own, doesn't it? In the days of the Old West, the United States Marshals and their deputies helped the troopers and local peace officers to establish and maintain law and order on the frontier. Those thrilling and exciting days on the Western Plains have come back to us now in the adventures of United States Marshals, Lightning Jim Whipple, and his deputy Whitey Larson. And now, let's return to Lightning Jim and Whitey in the jail at Fort Anderson. Well, yeah, Lightning, I thought you were really going to let me stay locked up in the jail. Well, it should have. I reckon I'm getting soft-hearted. Why do you ought to be ashamed of yourself, letting a jazz boy like Ben Barlow get the best out of you?  He got to get after that gig and bring him back. Yeah, but you said you didn't know where he went. Well, how do I know where he went? Sure, that's right. You were sleeping when he walked out. Hey, Lightning, I think you're looking for a good conscience and oath or something. No, why do you say that for Ben? No, I'll take care of him all right. Yeah, see that you do, but right now we've got to get down to some serious thinking. Now, let's get the facts straight. Ben Barlow handled the brand on Irons on a bar B-ran, Don Banks. Now, as I got the story, Ben was kind of sweet on Mr. Banks' daughter, Ellie. Yes, that's right. And that didn't set right with Curly Fair, the top hand on the Barbie. Curly's had his eye on Ellie, too. Yes, it was bought after the same girl and they had to fight. Right. Curly was getting the best of the argument when Ben drew his gun. He fired Miss Curly and hit Mr. Banks in the arm. The rest of the boys on the ranch jumped in and Ben was brought in here, tried and sent them to Six Months in jail. Is that right? Yes, and I thought he was a nice fellow, but I changed my mind. Yeah, you mean he changed your mind? Yes, but he ain't going to get the way of hitting a dipper in Marshall and breaking in jail, I tell you that. Well, we're never going to catch him sitting around, just talking about it.  Yeah, where are we going? Well, first off, we've got an idea. We ought to drop in at the Barbie ranch.  Well, maybe. At least, wise, we can warn Mr. Banks to be on a lookout for him. You see, why didn't Mr. Banks is also a banker at the Rosedale, at two miles south of the Barbie ranch. Yeah, y'all, y'all. We'll drop off at the bank first and then go on up to the ranch. Y'all, and the quicker we get there, the sooner. Come on. How are you feeling, Pa? Oh, all right again, Kelly. You didn't have to carry it around in this confounded sling. Well, the doctor said you could take it off in a few days. A few days, nothing. I'm taking it off right now. Now, Pa, I wouldn't do that. Oh, never mind. I know what I'm doing. Arm feels all right. You were sure lucky that Ben got you in the arm, Pa. Yeah, and six months in jail was letting that crater off easy. We oughta strung him up. But Ben wasn't cutein' at you. That'll make no difference. He was aiming to drill Curly, and that's just as bad. Yeah, I know. Pa, do you really believe that Ben was branding and stealing our calves? Of course he was. But nobody proved he did. That ain't the point. We was losing calves, and Curly said he caught Ben out on the range with a fire and Brandon iron. It's again the law to brand calves or mavericks outside a roundup mine or in the corral. Yes, I know that too, but I still say nobody proved that Ben branded and stole our calves. Because Curly said so ain't enough. Well, Curly's words good enough for me. And besides, Ben wasn't put in jail for stealing calves just for shooting at Curly and hitting me. Hey, are you trying to stand up for that cool cat? Of course I ain't. But Ben worked for us a long time, and it seems funny that this had to come up all of a sudden, like. The horse is ready, boy. No, all right, Curly. Where you going, Pa? I'm riding to Rosedale. Got some business to look after at the bank. Two things going down there every night this week. Can't help it. The man tries to run a ranch in a bank at the same time. He can't worry about ours. Well, please be careful, Pa. Careful? I reckon I know how to look out for myself. Don't wait up for me. I might be late. What do you want, Curly? Anything you want done before I turn in? No, I reckon not. It's mighty pretty out tonight. The full moon and lots of skies. That's all? I reckon I've been too busy to notice. I thought you might like to take a little ride down to the waterfall. No thanks. I'm too tired. But you've been in the house all day, and I thought a little ride might make you feel better. Not tonight. It sure is nice and cool and spring-like down by the waterfall. Curly, I told you I don't want to go out tonight. What's the matter, Miss Ellie? Are you mad at me?  But I ain't so sure that Ben Barlow was guilty of branding and stealing our cabs. Oh, sure he was guilty. And a little touched in the head if you ask me. Curly, you never liked Ben from the start. You ain't got no right to say that. Well, he sure acted mighty funny. Seems kind of strange you sticking up for him like this. Lesson perhaps you was sweet on him. Oh, so that's it. You were jealous of him, too. Now listen, Miss Ellie. If a kettle's even vomit like Ben Barlow is your idea of a man, you can have him. What about Curly? Ben Barlow? Yeah.   What are you doing here, Ben? Just a minute, Miss Ellie. Now, Curly, you stay right where you are and don't make a move or I might forget myself and pull the trigger. I'm taking your gun first, Curly. Now turn around and keep your hands in the air. Listen, you've got no right to come in here like this. Maybe not, but who's going to stop me? Nobody's going to stop you now, Ben, but if you broke jail, the law's going to catch up with you. You know, that's a mighty pretty speech, Miss Ellie. The law said I was guilty of shooting your father. Well, I did hit him. As you know, he wasn't the one I was after.  Yeah, but my aim wasn't so good. And next time, it'll be better. Curly said I was branding and stealing Bobby cabs. Ain't that what you said, Curly? You had your trial, Ben. Ain't nothing more for me to say. Well, this time, I'm putting you on trial, mister. Do you still think I branded and stole them cabs? I ain't talking. Sure you don't. And maybe you is right. Yeah, maybe you didn't notice, Miss Ellie. But Curly here accused me of being sweet on you. Well, how about it, Curly? That's a lie. I didn't say no such thing. Yes, you did. You said it's how you thought I ought to clear out before things got too hot for me.  But the boss hadn't stepped in on a got you straight.  I reckon you can answer that one. Yeah. And Curly, maybe you was right again. And I figured we ought to let the lady decide that.  So I'm giving you a chance to decide which one of us you want to get hitched to. That's so funny about that. Why, I wouldn't have either one of you galutes if he was the last man on earth. Ben, I wasn't so sure you was guilty of branding and sealing our calves, but after what you just said, I reckon Paul's right.  That's your answer? Sure. And what you're going to do about it? Plenty. I reckon this trials over. And the verdict is guilty. Yes, this is one time when Ben Barlow is the judge's jury and law. Wait, wait, wait. You can't shoot me down like this. Now, now I ain't shooting you down yet, Curly. I may want to fix you with a punishment you won't never forget. What's the trouble I think? The rider's coming off the trail, Yonder. No, but see, that don't look like the Yigiviria. Oh, that ain't Ben. There's the appendage. Howdy, Dave. Howdy, boy. What you doing out this time of night? No, just going up to the set, that's all. Well, you found any more gold, Dave? Not lately, eh? Well, I'm working a spot up in here. It sure looks mighty good. Yeah, sure. You never see the spot. They look better. How do you fellas like to buy an interesting McLean? Well, I don't know about that, Dave. What do you think? Why, Dave? Well, eh, if I'm not sure, there must be gold there. Oh, there's plenty of gold there. I've been prospecting these hills for 50 years. I know every spot. But you ain't found the gold mine yet, have you, Dave? Not yet, but I will, one of these days. And when I do, I'll be a millionaire. Yes, sure. I'll have enough money to buy up the whole country and live like a king. Hey, what you say, boys? $50 a piece and I'll put you in for half all again. $50 for half? That sounds like a bargain. What, eh? Oh, yes. I'd pay $50 in the day to get that million dollar. Well, it's up to us. Sure as you're living. Uh, taking a laugh to pass us up this time, partner. We'll see if we're out on official business. Oh, that's old. Well, who you asking? Chapter the name of Ben Barlow. Ben Barlow? Yeah. Uh, me and your fella used to work for John Banks at the Barbie range? Oh, that's him. Ah, yes, he got put in jail for suiting up the old man. That's right, but it broke jail today. It broke jail? Uh, how come? Reckon Whitey can answer that. Yeah, but never mind how he got to me. Ha, ha, ha. All right, Whitey, you don't have to tell the gruesome story. You see, Dave, Ben hit Whitey and the John made a clean getaway. Oh, nice. Jumping, she horsesack. You know Ben Barlow besides Dave? Yeah, but he ain't been up where I've been. But I'll keep a sharp eye out while you're heading. Well, aim to stop off at the Barbie range. Oh, yeah. Well, good luck to you boys. And if you change your mind about buying in on McLean, let me know. All right, Dave. Another thing, Whitey, if that fella hit you like Jim said, a wreck in your chin ought to be pretty sure. Oh, yeah. Well, you drop by my shack and I'll give you some special liniments. I'll use it on the horses and you'll... Sure works. Well, sure on, boys. Ha, ha, ha. Poor son of a man. Yes, when I get through with Ben Barlow, I think I got to fix Big Ben Dave too, right, Stanley? Come on, brother. Yeah, what's up? I know he's got it in for you in your top hand, so I... Ben Barlow. Half local sidewinder. Well, I suggest we go back to your ranch, Mr. Banks, and lay low in case Ben decides to show up. Good idea. I was just going down to Rosedale to do some work at the bank, but that can wait.  No, they're out on roundup. Oh, except for my top hand. Well, Lightning Jim, Whitey and Mr. Banks get to the Barbie ranch in time to catch Ben Barlow. You'll hear the exciting climax of this Lightning Jim adventure in part two, which follows immediately. Lightning Jim adventure, Lightning Jim's brand. We join the Marshall, Whitey and John Banks, owner of the Barbie ranch, as they approach the ranch house. Whoa, Thunder Woo, boys. Right with you, John. Yo. Light the lamp. See, Lightning, what if Daddy don't show up here? Well, we'll have to pick up a new trail. Here we are, boys. Lightning Light now. You'll be here in a minute. Look over there on the floor. It's like good Lord is telling. Yeah, I'm tired. I'll take off the game. Yeah, give me your knife, Whitey. Yo, here you are. Oh, that thing was choking me. Well, what happened, Ellie? Who done this? Wait. Wait till I get this rope, please. Easy, though. There you are.  Ben Barlow. You'll be here in a minute. How are we? Well, let me get my breath. About an hour ago, I was talking to Curly and all of a sudden the door opened, and then walked Ben with a gun in his hand. Yeah? Then what? Well, he made Curly face the wall and then took his gun. Said he was going to get even with Curly for accusing him of stealing our calves and starting a fight that you got shot in, Pa. Did he shoot Curly? No, made me top Curly's hands, and then he tied me up and poked the gun in Curly's back and marked him outside. I heard the horses start up and head north, and that's all that you come in.  Just let it down. Besides what you told us, Miss Banks, did Ben want money? No. Did he ask about your father? Yes, and before I could stop him, Curly blurted out that Pa had gone down to the bank at Rose Day. I see.  Yeah. Well, you've got to do something, Lightning. Her Curly's up on the shore. Well, it's dark and won't be to pick up the trail. We'll head north a ways and see what we can find. Well, I'm going with you.  We can't pick up the trail now. We'll round up the party from the ranches. Come on, Whitey. How much money do you want? I'm letting you off too easy. Well, if you're aiming to drill it, me and him has got a little business to do. What do you want me to do?  Right where you are, Curly. In the saddlebag that'll interest you. Is it before, Curly? A branding iron. Yeah. This is a branding iron. The Barbie branding iron. And it's for you. What do you mean? Just what I said. You know, a Maverick calf is a stray calf that don't belong to nobody. And a Kalman's got to write the branding. I figured that you're alone. I'm aiming to put this brand on you so you won't forget to keep your nose out of other folks' business. No, no, no. No, you can't do that. Oh, yes, I can. I get in that shack before I lose my company. Pick up the trail and the door. Canyon, don't seem to be no sign of Ben and Curly. We go back to the ranch, pick up a party and start out a day break. You opinion me? There's somebody in those bushes. Hey, don't shoot.  It's me. Don't shoot. Sure, I'm glad to see you, boys. What you doing prowling around in the bush, Dave? It's Ben Barrow. He's up at the shack. He's got Curly with him. Break down and let's go after him. Hold on, buddy. Where's the shack, Dave? It's about three miles up the canyon. Want to come up to the shack? Dirty words. Curly was tied up, and Ben was holding a gun on him. Ben told me to rustle up some wood for a fire. I told him the wood was in the back of the shack, but instead of getting the wood, I made a break for it. I couldn't get the horse, so I had to come on foot. I was ahead and for the barbie raid. Good work, Dave. Give me your hand.  Yeah, sure. There you are. Now hang on. We're heading for your shack, pronto. Let's go. Don't tear. Not thin. Careful, boys. Careful. Hands up or we'll blast ya. Kill for lightning. Maybe that's a trap. The light from the fire. See through the window. Yep. There's a harsh Curly lying on the floor. Ben's gone, sure enough. Yeah. There you are. There you are, Curly. You're right. You can get up now. We'll be on Thunder, Curly. Why do you take Dave on your horse? You're sure? Come on.  I'd be coming back. Hey. I thought you wasn't interested in Curly. Said you wouldn't have me and him if we was the last men on Earth. You won't get away with this, Ben. No. Now you hand over that cash you just took out of your safe, boss. Oh, go on, Pa. I'll give it to him. That's right, Miss Ellie. I kind of figure that we'll be needing it. What do you mean, we'll be needing it? Just what I said. I'm taking you with me. Oh, no, you don't. Easy, boss. Point this gun at your heart. Curly was right. I was branding and taking your calves. I took care of Curly. And now I'm taking your daughter.  Maybe so. But I got sense enough to know what I want.  Oh, Ben, Ben, listen to me. The last time I was aiming for Curly and got your pie on the arm. This time, I don't aim to miss. Are you coming? Reach for the sky. Reach! Oh, no, you don't. That's the right name. Oh, thank the Lord for that. He sure got what was coming to him. Don't worry about me. I'm all right. Ben put a brand on iron on him, Miss. Oh, oh, that's terrible. Oh, it'll heal up, I reckon. Ben put his brand on me, but Ben didn't figure he'd be getting like in a Jim's brand. A bullet plumbed between the eyes. Your enlightening Jim's brand don't heal up so quick. That's right, Whitey. It's a brand that every killer and outlaw deserves. Ellie, you'd better help Curly fix up them burns. Sure, Pa. Just a minute, Miss Ellie. Mm-hmm. I'm powerful, sorry, for saying what I did about you and Ben. Oh, that was my fault, Curly. You and Pa was right and I was wrong.  Any cattle or man that's got a Barbie brand belongs to me. Come on, Curly. We'll go get something for that burn.  Yeah, well, John, you was right about Ben. Went local trying to get revenge. Yeah, you did. Craziest man to ever see. Hey, what are you doing here, Dave? Oh, just trying to help him out like in Jim and Whitey, that's all. Tell me some about this, Dave. You see, John, Dave escaped from Ben. Let us on the trail. Let us back to his shack where Ben was holding Curly. So I say most of the credit for catching Ben goes to Dave. Oh, sure. She's pushing nothing to cause. Well, then I think he ought to get the reward. Yeah. Reward? What you talking about? Well, Ben was aiming to rob me of $5,000 in cash. I figured the reward for catching this critter ought to be about $1,000. Here you are, Dave. $1,000? Now, you ain't had much luck. What's trouble, Whitey? Well, you know, Dave offered me one half interest in any gold if on. Yeah? Well, I got $50 here, and I want to buy one half interest in Dave's $1,000. Drilling chapter in the lives of United States Marshal Lightning Jim Whipple and his deputy Whitey Larson.


Well, I'm not a big believer in man-made climate change. Australia is the world's largest exporter of coal. Climate change is no longer the same. Climate change is no longer the same. Climate change is no longer the same. Scientific evidence remains inconclusive as to whether human activities affect the global climate. Climate change is no longer the same as global climate.


I've done a lot of interviews with people who have devices for magnifying things on screen back from the early days when my mother had a device that did that. But Low Vision International has some tools that work on the device you already own that I thought would be really interesting to talk to Kimberly Klein about at Low Vision International. Thank you very much. We're glad to be here at CSUN. As you mentioned, we do have devices that work for people that have existing devices. So you always feel like you've already invested money in something, let's just add to that. So our latest product is our iPad product. So if you have an iPad already, that's what you need because we actually don't sell iPads. We're just now connecting a distance camera that can do distance, document and self viewing to that. And with iPad you cannot plug in a camera. So you have to connect via a router so wirelessly. So we've made a box. It's kind of like, it's a long rectangular box. Like maybe a one shoe box. Yeah, very good. One shoe box. And you'd have to have a pretty small foot. And inside that box is the router system and it's also the battery to power our distance camera. So the camera is up on an articulated arm and looking down at a document in front of us here. That is exactly right. And you could take the camera and rotate it out forward and open the actual lens to be able to get distance as well. The unique thing about this is a lot of times we have... It's upside down by the way we're doing it. All of our products can be used, well, let me just put it back on the stand. The iPad keeps being too smart for us. So she's now pointing the camera down at the document and then what do we see on screen here? We see a document that has several of our products on it and then within that, just like a regular iPad, you can pinch and zoom, you can change the color, you can change the contrast. If it was like a column and you wanted to do a line marking, you could divide the columns, you also could do OCR. So you could take a picture of it, have it read it to you and then if you want to own that text, you can then save it to a USB. You could save it as a PDF, you could save it as a wave file, you could save it as RTF so you could bring it up on almost anything. So again, you're using your existing iPad that you have. You're just connecting to our distance camera. The beauty of it is we sell a lot into schools, not just schools, but into schools. Kittles don't want to look different than anybody else. So this device could set off on the teacher's desk. Other kids wouldn't even need to know they'd have it. Everybody has an iPad in the classroom, just like them, then they can control everything through the software. Oh, hang on, since it's Wi-Fi, that's why the device can sit on the teacher's desk. That's right. The kid is just sitting there with an iPad like everybody else next to them, but they're seeing it in a different way. They're seeing it how they need to see it, whatever color, whatever size. If they want to plug in a headset, they could even do OCR with permission from the teacher. They also can take pictures of the board. If someone's doing a presentation with permission of everyone, they can video it, so maybe they can come back and gain the information later, because they can't take notes fast enough, or they just are trying to focus on taking notes so they didn't really hear the presentation. So everything that somebody might need, not just school, but work or even home, a home environment, because iPads are so popular, and that's why this is our brand new product that works with the iPad. I'm really glad to see this, because a lot of stuff I've seen at CSUN has been towards the Android environment, because Android lets you do so much more to mutate the environment that Apple doesn't allow, but this is a way around it, but for the device that's the most popular. But we don't want to leave our Android brethren out, correct? No, absolutely not. We have a company of their humanware, and they do Android quite well. But you do Android with this as well, no? No, with this is just the iPad. We do have a Windows solution. That's what it was. It was Windows, yes. So if somebody has a Windows, they don't have to use it. We do sell the actual device with this one, but if they have their own, there's no reason for them to buy another one. So describe what we're looking at here. We are looking at a Surface Pro 8 tablet, which is 13-inch screen, and all we've done is take this tablet. We've added our software to it, and we built a stand. It's totally portable. It's under nine pounds, and you have the ability to add anything. So if you're a ZoomText user or any type of screen reader user, you know, JAWS, Supernova, any of those things, you have that ability to put this on here, because this is Windows. So if I go out of our software, I'm now at the desktop. So you can add anything to it. Part of this stand is this articulated camera. Where's the lens? Because it looked like it was looking at me, but... Right here, and then right there, you can open it and go across the room as well. So let me... Okay, so she's just opened the lens on it so that it's... But it's looking at me. I'm very confused. I'm using this camera. There's three cameras. Oh, okay. So unlike Apple, Windows lets you attach a camera. So it was using the internal camera on the tablet, and now it's looking at your camera. Yeah, and then you also can use the camera underneath. So we have three cameras. We have a downward-facing camera, an upward-facing camera, and our camera that's on the articulating arm that can do distance document self-viewing. You have the ability with all of them to do video, take pictures, and to do OCR. So our cameras are 10x optical zoom, our distance cameras. So that means you could be sitting in a classroom, point it aboard, 15, 20 feet away, zoom in on it. If there's type written, you can do OCR from that far away. Oh, that is really, really cool. There's so much I love about this, using the device that you already own, number one. But also the cost of the overhead projector sort of things, I don't know what you call that kind of device, but the cost of that big part of that is the screen, and maybe over time that technology gets dated. So maybe you want a higher resolution camera or whatever. Now you can replace the tablet, and you're not re-buying everything. Exactly, in fact, we've had this product out for about three years, and when we first started, we were using Surface Pro 5s. Now we're up to eight. So when we got up to eight, the stand's a little bigger because it's 13 inch versus 12.3. We had people that said, oh, we want to pull our tablet out and move it, but Kimberly, it's not going to fit. So we built the stand so you can extend it out so you don't have to spend all the money to get everything new again. You just get the little kit to extend it. We can do it, or you can do it. We can walk you through it. Oh, that's fantastic. This is really cool. So where would people find more about the, oh wait, you had one more to show us. So yes, so there's, this is, you're using our existing camera. So again, we believe if someone invested in one of our cameras, again, they should be able to utilize that. This particular camera is called the MagnaLink S. It's similar to the other camera, but instead of it being like a very bendable arm that goes up and down, it's a little bit. It's sort of like two hinges. Exactly. So this product can fold all the way down. I've closed one part of it. I'm now closing the other part. It's 4.2 pounds. Very, very lightweight. It's really cool. Okay, so I'm holding this up on my arm. That's, what is that? Like a foot and a half long and maybe eight inches wide when it folds up. I'm holding it with one finger. So this is the portable unit. And does it still hook up to one of the mini shoeboxes? Yeah, no, you use it. Well, you can if you're using it with the iPad because you have to connect wirelessly. But if you're using it for PC or Mac, we give you the cable and you just plug right in and power from that. So PC, Mac, Chrome. If you're using it with the iPad, yes, you do need to use the actual power in the router. But PC, Mac and Chrome, you just cable it in or you can plug this just into a monitor. So if you have a situation where you're all the sense of it is doing a presentation or you wanna watch TV and you don't wanna sit in front of the TV because then your family can't see, you could point this camera. We support screen on screen. Our cameras are that good. And then you could just plug a little monitor in on your little side table and sit in your lazy boy and everybody can see what they can see but you can see the TV right up where you can see it. These are really innovative solutions and that feels like really good hardware design. It's pretty, it's clean, simple yet elegant is what I would describe it as. So if people wanna find out more about these devices, where would they go? Well, you can contact me directly. So the design, everything is hand built in Sweden. We've been making products over in Sweden for 46 years. We weren't always in America for the last seven years. We now have LVI America. I'm Kimberly Klein, I'm the director of sales I oversee North America. So they can contact me directly at<PHONE_NUMBER> or you can go to our website, www.LVILimaVictorIndiaLVIAmerica.com. Perfect, this is fantastic. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you so much, I appreciate you coming by.


The research question deals with one of the most fascinating objects, which we have in astrophysics, which are black holes. Black holes are strange objects because they are a place where space and time begin to mix up and mess up, and a combination of gravity and quantum mechanics becomes important. And they are very fascinating because every galaxy seems to have a very massive black hole in the very center, and the black hole seems to know about the properties of the galaxies, which nobody can understand. So the black holes give us insight into a very strange world which seems to be important in order to understand the rest of the universe and where we know nothing about it.  That's why it is black. But there's a last stable orbit, which we call the event horizon, outside of which gas can still radiate away. We see the light, and then inside this event horizon radiation can't make it out. It's called event horizon because it's also the horizon where space and time change their properties. So events change in their sequence of what happens. And this is something very, very funny and unexpected from general relativity. So this event horizon is the holy grail in order to understand black holes. And we want to resolve the event horizon and see what happens there, which means we have to wait for an event at that horizon. We use the same method as meteorologists use on Earth to calculate how the weather is evolving. We simulate the physics of a gas cloud or a gas using hydrodynamic equations, which are known on Earth, Navier-Stokes equations, which is solved iteratively on a computer. So we go step by step, and so the weather pattern and the density distribution and the velocity distribution is changing with time. We have a problem. The galactic center is a very complex place. And so we do not really know all the environment, which is very important if you want to understand how the weather evolves. And so we do a simulation of a cloud moving around a black hole, and then we go to our observer friends, which sit fortunately next door because at the Max Planck's Institute we have this fortunate situation. They have the theorists and the observers together. And only if you work together, always interact with the observers and tell you whether you are right or wrong, can you work the complexity of the universe out. So it should be there, it should be something like that, it should exist everywhere. Unfortunately, it's not everywhere like this, but here we are engaging in the fortunate situation that observers and theorists are strongly interacting. And so we are always kind of being corrected by the observations and by the observers, and that helps us to tune our models so that we get the conditions right. And then we calculate iteratively what happens if this gas cloud moves around a black hole in the hope that we will predict when gas creates onto the black hole, when an observer has to look carefully to see what happens close to this last stable orbit, close to the event horizon. So our key findings was evolving as function of time. In 2012 this gas cloud was discovered and was still very compact and spheroidal. And then we immediately started calculating that and we predicted the cloud will become a spaghetti. It by the gravity of the black hole will be torn apart into a very long object. It will not fall directly to the black hole, it will move around the black hole, but the strong gravity of the black hole will tear the part. And that should happen around 2014-15. And indeed observers were looking and they found something like that. They found the spaghettification of this gas cloud. So we were quite happy because we saw that indeed meteorology works in the universe, which we were not sure before. Then we predicted, now comes an exciting moment, the gas will fall back and accrete onto the black hole and if you look carefully you see the event horizon, which has never been seen before. And the observers then told us, no, the cloud after becoming a spaghetti is now actually compactifying again. So we were rather, rather puzzled about this silly gas cloud, considering what our meteorological equations would predict to do. And we found a reason for this, which is connected to that the cloud has a magnetic field and also that it is considering of lots of little droplets, so it does not only behave like a gas cloud, it has also some substructure. And including the substructure, we are right now recalculating everything and we predict that this infall will still happen, but it will happen at a later phase in a couple of years and that is what the observers now can use to really understand what happens when gas falls in. The black hole is special because it has an event horizon. The event horizon is the place where light can still disappear from the black hole and a little farther in, light is stuck. And the event horizon is a fascinating place, it's a prediction of general relativity, but at the same time it's a quantum object. Its size is so small that quantum mechanics matters. Now general relativity and quantum mechanics cannot be unified because general relativity is not part of quantum mechanics and quantum mechanics predict that everything is extended and general relativity says the event horizon is infinitely thin. So we expect when gas enters this last table orbit and the event horizon, we'll see new phenomena which combine general relativity and quantum mechanics in a new theory of quantum gravity and we might learn something about this new and yet unknown theory just when this event happens. The journey is very fascinating because on the observational side and I told you we are always connected to the observers, we now have the event horizon telescope which is a combination of lots of radio telescopes. You combine them to get a radio telescope as big as the Earth and with this telescope once you resolve the event horizon that's what you can do. You will see all kinds of phenomena that will arise at this event horizon. You might get gigantic jets of material being blown out of the scent of the galaxy close to the event horizon. That's something we can predict when we simulate the gas falling towards the black hole, maybe including new theory which we have learned about from this first event. These jets are enormously important because they are bigger than the whole galaxy and they might affect the dynamics of the whole galaxy and that brings us to this fascinating connection between the mass of the black hole and the mass of the galaxy which is strongly correlated. The kinematics of the galaxy is correlated to the black hole in the center and at the moment we don't understand how these tiny objects can mess up the whole galaxy. We've learned a lot about how galaxies evolve, maybe even how stars evolve in the galaxies and we might learn something about these supermassive black holes in the first place. They are so massive that they cannot have formed out of a collapsing star. We have no idea where these black holes come from, how they got all this material they seem to have and that is a very, very bright future in the next 10 years.