Hello, hon. Welcome to this week's edition of Business in Hawaii. I'm Daylen Yanagida, and we are broadcasting live from the ThinkTech studios in downtown Honolulu. If you want to tune in live, we are at www.thinktechhawaii.com, and while there, please subscribe to our programs and get on our mailing list. The theme of Business in Hawaii is to share with you stories of local businesses by local people, and our guests share with us their journey to building successful businesses right here at home. In the ThinkTech studio today is Nathan Whitaker. Nathan is the business development manager of Pacific Business and Accounting Services. Nathan, thank you so much for joining me today. I am so excited to have you here. Thank you for the opportunity. I'm looking forward to it. Well, it's funny because we go way back and I've known you in different roles, and so it's interesting for me to be able to ask you about the journey and where you've been. So of course, I'd like to ask you, where'd you grow up? Well, you know, it's one of those things where I'm a hapa katunk from Kansas. I'm hapa, I'm half Japanese, grew up in Kansas, met a local girl here 17 years ago, and the rest is history, and in Hawaii will forever be my home. I know. I've known you from your past life, and I've always viewed you as he's right here. He's homegrown, so it's so nice to be able to reconnect with you. But this time, I'm talking about PABS, your new adventure. So tell us a little bit about Pacific Business and Accounting Services. Yeah.  So many companies, not for profits, franchises, just, you know, all the small organizations out there have a hard time with their bookkeeping. They don't know how the business is doing, how to plan for the future. They don't, they really don't know where, how their finances are in order or not. But that's what we help them to do, is just to basically take that off their hands, let them focus on their businesses, and, you know, help them grow. So I know that Pacific, I'm just going to call you PABS. Make it easier on yourself. I know I say that, I do the same thing. I know that PABS, while you started here in Hawaii, has a parent company. And tell me a little bit about how your business was developed and then grew. Yes. So PABS was a part of another well known organization from Pro Service called Pro Accounting. Then we, PABS purchased the line of business more or less from Pro Service in 2012. So we've been, we've grown exponentially since then. So we were doing, working with about 40 clients now. We've got about 150 clients here in Hawaii, all throughout all of the islands. And then we've got a business in the mainland as well too. So I assume that quite a few of your clients have, have been accustomed to the services that PABS offers since they came from Pro Accounting and now just a fluid transition? Yeah, you know, I think that that's a part of the business here in Hawaii that we're seeing kind of the progression, right? Before any of these other kind of outsourcing, it was something foreign for local people, local organizations to basically, they held everything tight, you know, close to, close to the chest regarding their organizations, right? But now, as, as we all know, it's so difficult to run a business here in Hawaii. So you've got to do what you, what you can do to make yourself more profitable, be able to focus on your business and get all the help you can get. So the manager of a business here, tell me about what you find difficult about, about operating a business in Hawaii or what you, your clients tell you is difficult about running a business in Hawaii? Well, I think we all know, you know, about the taxes and the, the cost of health insurance, you know, all of those things that basically kind of put a, so many small businesses behind the eight ball, we try to kind of ease some of those, you know, address some of those concerns for them. The, the whole part of businesses here is just really, you've got to, you've got to help each other out, right? And knowing other businesses to help kind of grow your business, we, Hawaii is one of those places, right? You know, it's not what you know, it's who you know, right? And so, you know, what we do is we kind of use those relationships to work with all kinds of businesses. Fantastic. Tell me a little bit about the type of business that would seek tabs out. Are they small businesses, large businesses, maybe both? Yeah, we have, we have all, we have all sizes of organization. I have a soft spot for, for not-for-profits. I've done a lot of help for not-for-profits over the years. And that's where I like to really focus on not-for-profits and small, medium businesses, right? Because those small companies, they don't need, they don't need a full-time bookkeeper, right? And then by, let's say it's a restaurant. The people, they're working at the restaurant 12, 14 hours a day. Last thing that they want to do at the end of the, end of the night is to go and do all of, you know, do all of the bookkeeping. So that's where we can help them. Same thing with, with a not-for-profit. You know, they've, they've got that little bit of funding and they need to be mindful about that.  So we help them. We do all the bookkeeping for them and at a, at an affordable price. So what is the smallest client you have and what is the largest? How do you measure that? We've got one not-for-profit that has one gentleman, right? So we can, we can do that. He, he has a, a, a farm to table, not-for-profit in Waialua, and it's just him. And it's just him. So of course, he's been on the farm all day long. He doesn't want to be doing his accounting. And then we've got some large, some really large organizations for it in Hawaii as well that have, you know, a couple of hundred of people, you know, that, that sort of thing. So it really, it really, really depends. So for a business person who doesn't exactly know what they don't know, right? And I think that, that's probably my problem. I don't know what I don't know. And what types of services do people come to Pabs for specifically? So I'm a business owner. Say I put out a service and that's what I do. There's an exchange of money and what not. Where does Pabs come in? So where, where we can help you out? Let's, let's maybe if we could use a restaurant for an example, right? So then that way we can, so they have all the receipts where they're buying goods from, you know, the, from the grocery stores, from Costco, from all of these places, and they've got these receipts, right? Then they've got, then they, they are, are, you know, using all of their funds, right? So we take all of those receipts from all those organizations. We kind of upload those, those documents, put them into their accounting software of their choice, whatever that they're normally using, and just process all of their bookkeeping for the month. And then make sure that they have monthly financials on time every month, like clockwork on the 15th, on the 15th of the following month. If a small organization, if they don't have those numbers, it's hard for them to grow, it's hard for them to really realize, hey, how to plan for the, for the coming years, coming months. Do you educate the business owner as to what they need or what they should be looking at? I think a lot of business owners may not be familiar, say a little mom and pops may not be familiar with what they need to look at or what they should analyze. Does PAPS also do some of that consulting type? Yeah, most definitely, most definitely. And we kind of help them, let's say if they aren't very familiar with QuickBooks, a lot of our clients are on QuickBooks, we help to kind of train them to make sure that they're categorizing their expenses, making sure that everything's documented properly. We help them, part of our monthly program is to pay their GE taxes if that's something that they want. That's included for free in our program. So if for a lot of newer businesses, they don't always know how the GE taxes work. And so the next part of it that we kind of help guide them through the process, we take care of the 1099s for them, if that's something that they need help with as well. What about payroll? Yeah, we don't do anything with payroll. We do, the closest that we come with helping organizations with payroll is the data entry of more or less like taking that from their time sheets, putting data entry into QuickBooks as far as the expenditures in the hours. And then it's returned to the business owner in the form of reports so they can then process. Yes, yes, yes. And so it actually, it more or less kind of gets them all set up, right? So then that way they, I mentioned earlier about the internal controls, that way they can really realize, hey, where is my money going? All it war is my money going out to making sure that there's not going someplace that they don't want it to. And from the desktop function, they can just easily click and get the payments paid. What about an organization? My guess is that this is all done through some sort of technology platform. But what about the business owner that actually doesn't use technology? I will say that'd be kind of difficult for us, because, you know, the majority of our work is all done through the via the cloud. So, you know, we've got a large grocery store, third generation grocery store on the west side that we help with. And so they're getting in receipts and receipts and receipts invoices every day from all of their vendors that are bringing in the groceries into into the store. If they didn't have, you know, somebody that could help us to be able to scan that to put that into a Dropbox, then we wouldn't be able to receive those to receive all of that information. That's, they were able to take over another location in a Molokai. And if it wasn't because of our system and the way we've got it already organized for them, made it made it a smooth transition for them. In terms of the technology needed to get started, what do you, what would you say is the minimum? What if I'm just not tech savvy? Minimum that I would need in order to partake in your services? I would say just being able to kind of take a picture or scan documents.  But all she all she would have to do, all the client would have to do is more or less like take a picture or scan the invoices. Then we could kind of more less email it and take it to there. So as long as they've got email, I think we could probably help them out. Your mom and my mom must hang out together. Right. Exactly. When we come back, I want to talk more about the types of things that abs does and and how that can roll into something much larger. Because what I what I'm hearing from you is that this is almost an educational experience for a business owner and developing different ways to analyze their business. And I think that's really exciting for businesses and entrepreneurs. We're going to take that short break. This is business in Hawaii. We'll see you back here shortly. Aloha. I'm Keisha King, host of At the Crossroads, where we have conversations that are real and relevant. We have spoken with community leaders from right here locally in Hawaii and all around the world. Won't you join us on thinktechhawaii.com or on YouTube on the Think Tech Hawaii channel.  I'll see you at the Crossroads. Aloha. Aloha. My name is Mark Shklav. I am the host of Think Tech Hawaii's Law Across the Sea program. My program airs every other Monday at one o'clock on Think Tech Hawaii. Most of my programs deal with my own life and law experience. Recently, I interviewed Alex Gempel, who I have known for over 30 years, about his voyage across the sea as a lawyer from Tokyo to Hawaii. Those are the type of stories that I like to bring and like to talk about human stories about law and life. Aloha. Welcome back. This is business in Hawaii. And with us today is Nathan Whitaker of Pacific Business and Accounting Services. Hey, Nathan. Before we get back into what we were talking about, how you help businesses. Tell me about your passion, how you got here. I know you as Nathan Whitaker from Robert Half, but tell us a little bit about your passion and why you love this space. Yeah, I think this is a great opportunity. We talked about earlier about how difficult it is to make your business work. You see that, unfortunately, how many businesses close up shop. I felt that this was an opportunity to be able to help the community, help organizations grow, become more profitable, and just be able to help generations in the future. Being able to help those companies, taking a little bit off of their plate. We are all so busy as parents, as business people, we're maxed out. So if PABs can help organizations just taking away that little bit of that bookkeeping from them, take a little bit of that stress and pulling out their hair. Oh, did I file my GE taxes? How do I do this 1099s? Where are my financials?  That's what I feel passionate about it, but being able to help those companies. And now it makes complete sense to me because you've always, in any space that you've been in, you've always connected your passion with your work. And I've always seen whether it's giving back to the community, or of course helping others. Now I see how it aligns with your passion. So thanks for sharing that. When we left to break, we were talking about perhaps the business owner who's just starting out and need some help from step one. Can they come to you and say, Hey, Nathan, I got a GE license for 25 bucks. Now what? Right. Yeah, absolutely.  So oftentimes, I hear these come these companies that I meet, Nate, I didn't have anything set in place. It's been two years. My books are a mess. I don't know where I can find all this information. I am growing. I want to get a loan, a commercial loan. They said, Where's your books? I just kind of pointed at the box of receipts. I need help. So we can help both of those types of both of those types of clients, whether it is the starting out, just to kind of get you set up from from the get go correctly, right? Or one of those clients that needs some help doing some of those reconciliations, making sure that they get their books in order, we can help out both ways. I love that story of the business owner that opens up his box of receipts and says, Okay, now I need some some bookkeeping, right? Right. So you've actually had situations where Oh, my gosh, yes, all the time. All the time where I'm talking to companies. Oh, I, you know, I haven't found taxes. I haven't done this. I haven't done that. Okay, well, then let's let's kind of break it down step by step. Now, you know, we don't file taxes for we're not a CPA. But what we do is more or less kind of help the companies to get their book bookkeeping, the general ledgers in order. So then at the end of the year, when they hand off all of their monthly financials to their CPA, they're actually spending less money on their CPA, because everything's in order that CPA is not having to go out and dig in through that shoebox. Okay, very good. So it sounds like though with, of course, the clientele that you have the number of clients that you have, sounds like you need a lot of bodies to make that all happen. How many people at PAVs? Yeah, we've we've got quite a few, we've got quite a few. Yeah, so most definitely. And so that's one of the things that you know, with with a lot of CPA is a lot of bookkeepers that they kind of max, you know, they have a max capacity. You know, our team, we've got over 200 people on our on our team, so we can definitely help them to get their books in order and kind of help them out for the future. I think another great thing that you had said was that you you can work with whatever software that someone is using, I think most commonly in small businesses, QuickBooks. So tell me a little bit about the integration and how that all works. Oh, yeah. And that's one of the things is that some of the companies, let's say a construction company, for chance, they've got all of these different projects. Some software is they don't it doesn't have the capability to be able to match every single, every single project and making sure that everything is keeping separate. We use a product called Sage intact that really helps a lot of the not for profits that maybe they've gotten a grant to help help the homeless, maybe to help the blind. So then that way they can charge to each category or each project each grant. Same thing in in turn for a construction company, for each project, each building each house to make sure they're keeping everything separate. Then at the end of the month, give them an overall general ledger for everything as well too. I think if you talk to a lot of folks who are entrepreneurs, they may not know that there's an opportunity to outsource those functions. Yes, or you may not even know that they need right keeping. But they may not know that the outsourcing opportunity is is available. And since you're in that space, I want to ask you what your feelings or your thoughts are about the temperature in Hawaii for outsourcing business services. I know that there are companies out there that outsource recruiting or outsource payroll. And now we're talking about an outsource of business and accounting services. What are your thoughts about the Hawaii business climate and where where that's what I like to use it as an example of if you're getting married, right? Your your aunt has a camera, right? And she can take all the pictures that that that she wants or you may want, right? But wouldn't you rather have a professional hire professional to do that outsource a professional to take care of take care of your special day? That's more or less what an outsourcing organization can do for any company taking part of one aspect of that wedding or of that business, because that business is more or less like their baby. That's their special day. And you don't want somebody to that isn't a professional to go in and ruin it. So that's what that that's probably the easiest explanation that I could probably give regarding Do you think that businesses in Hawaii are open to that? I know that once upon a time, this is my business, I want to control it. You even said that, Hey, you know, I don't want anyone to look at under the hood. This is this is my business. Yeah. And I think with technology, we all know why maybe a little bit slow when it comes to making changes. But I think that as unemployment has has has dropped so significantly, you know, the unemployment for accounting people is less than 1% here on Oahu right now. So finding those good accounting people, those good bookkeepers is rather difficult and rather expensive. So then that's where we can come in, help a company get their books in order and actually save them money, because they don't have to buy that person the computer, we don't have to rent a bigger building space. You know, we don't have to pay benefits for another person, we can kind of outsource that one aspect of the company, and they can concentrate on their business. That sounds pretty fantastic. So tell me what that's going to cost. Yeah, and it's very simple. So what we do is we actually talk to the business owner and get two months of their general ledger, or if they have it, right, of the shoebox, right, right on the shoebox, right, or their bank statements, just to kind of see how much, how many transactions that they're having on a monthly basis. And so then that's how that's how we kind of figure out what the monthly cost would be. Yeah, I definitely think it's a lot more affordable than people, than what people might think. You know, if I'm a business owner, and you know, I don't know if I want someone to look in my shoebox, your industry must be built on a lot of choice. Right. Tell me about the relationships that you have with your clients. And then tell me about security. So once you open my shoebox and you put that all into your software system, how secure is my information? And what what what measures are you taking to protect my company? Yeah, and that's that's, you know, the the whole data thing, identity theft, that's a huge, that's a huge issue that everybody's kind of talking about. And we've never had any issues with that were actually are held held to a higher standard of that data security. You know, nobody can have their cell phones in the room when they're working. Nobody can have any kind of flash drives just to make sure there's no information that can be that can be reached by the other employees. So if I become a client, do I have a relationship with one one point of contact so that now I feel like, Hey, Nathan, remember that receipt that I put that somewhere else? Yeah, what we actually do is we actually sign you a team. Because you know, let's say that you have you have Jill's bookkeeping company, right? You know, for example, if Jill's out sick or Jill goes on vacation, everything, all of her clients get put on hold. She goes to that that that two week Alaska cruise, right? You know, everything's put on hold. So with us, because you're assigned a whole team, it just you don't even know. So you've got more or less you've got a couple of people that you talked to on a regular basis to make sure that everything keeps going. The other thing I love about HABS and the business that you do is that you also offer opportunities to educate people. And I know that you have an event coming up soon. And I'd love for you to share with your viewers about that event and what they can expect. Yeah, well, we definitely loved for everybody to come down to the Plaza Club next Thursday, the 14th from 830 to 1030. We have a networking event. It's a great opportunity for business owners and people to come down, talk about their their organization, meet new people. It's tremendous. We've had two events. We've also had such great feedback from people that have all come to the events, actually doing business with people that they met just at that event. So come on down. And also to meet HABS and learn more about the services that you all provide. Yeah. And so we do like a five minute presentation on regarding HABS.  And then that along with a great breakfast, you can't beat it. You said food. I'll be there. Bacon. That's all you need to hear. I'd also like for people to know how to find you. I mean, if most people know where to find you, but tell your viewers how to how to get in touch with you if they have any questions. Yeah. So it's a www.pacificabs.com. And you can definitely reach me at Nathan.wittaker at pacificabs.com. That's fantastic. Where your office is located? Over here on Richard Street. You are close by. Well, Nathan, I am so thankful that you spent time with me today and I'm glad that we got to catch up. Anything, any last parting words that you'd like to leave? No. Well, first off, I just want to say thank you. This is this is great. I thought it was going to be worse than it was being next to you, the pro. So I appreciate the opportunity. This is my little tagline that I like to say for Pabs. Leave your books to us. We'll take care of the fuss. Fantastic. Unfortunately, we are out of time, but I wanted to thank Nathan and the amazing production staff here in the studio. If you would like to be a guest on the on the show, please like us and subscribe and leave a comment at the bottom. Business in Hawaii airs every Thursday at 2 p.m. And we look forward to seeing you here next week.


And by that I mean the morphine and maybe down the road we'll even cover an article on set the hard stuff All right, so there's my tiny little thing What happens to be a mini me popping up in here? I'm going to do my best to ignore this thing, but counter control is an issue. So We've been dealing with this for a while. So I'm currently not going to attend to it in any way shape or form that I can possibly Tend to it. Is that working? Are you sure? You're looking out like it's not. I'm concerned All right, so All right, so anyway, let's try this again We're gonna switch gears a little bit today, we're gonna go over to some non-human stuff Which if you understand my background non-human stuff is kind of cool. I Love the AP. I love the AP with humans are you able without humans? I love our field because it allows us to look at other species and discover principles Discovered principles and all sorts of things that can then be generalized into other species And hopefully humans right if we get into the applied behavior analytic literature Which is mighty presumptuous applied behavior analysis doesn't have to be about humans. It's about solving problems using behavior analytic Techniques right and the science behind baby analysis. It's it's it's it doesn't have to be human Go look at this. There's an article over here somewhere Really cool stuff about non-humans, but applied work anyway So I'm getting off on a tangent because this is actually a really quick article to talk about So the article itself is the shepherd's seagull article From 1975 that would be evidence from rats that morphine tolerance is a learned response I'm sure he said it with that tongue as he wrote it Um No, wait a minute, that's cocaine that's a different article of morphine Sorry pizza. All right, so what do we got we got? Essentially seagull did something slightly different where he looked at What are the things that? conditioned during drug administration and What things lead to? Tolerance because the straight-up physiological interpretation of tolerance is that you take a drug It becomes you take a drug you take a drug each time you take a drug it becomes less and less effective He more and more the drug in order for it to be effective and get the high bubble bubble bubble and all these funny things But that completely ignores anything about the environment and anything about classical conditioning and shepherd's seagull was like oh hell No, we are going to listen to the environment We're gonna study this world and we're gonna find out if conditioning happens in the environment and the answer is yes It does so we are looking at rats Four groups. We're not gonna go through them all you have an article for that, but here's the thing So what the basic assumption was that the administration of the drug right while you're administering the drug in the immediate Impact that that drug has on your body is the unconditioned stimulus So if I put morphine if I inject some morphine, right? I don't know how to do that Maybe it's that way. I don't know never done it. So okay, so I'm gonna inject some morphine Have a syringe Interesting Such a kind response. So if I inject some morphine, all right It's not the injection the feeling here of the needle poke or whatever. That's the issue It's when the drug itself interacts with my physiology. That is an unconditioned stimulus so what seagull then says is that What about everything else that happened immediately prior to that for example? sticking the needle in or if I'm in the same location every single time The administration piece itself. That's an environmental stimulus. So I wonder what would happen if we Discover or I wouldn't he's wondering how much of that environment around the the US actually becomes a CS now We have to go into a completely sidestep literature here So bear with me for just a moment in order to understand what they're looking at We have to look at what the compensatory condition responses So a CR is just a condition response, right? But oftentimes with drugs and other types of stint and some other stimuli you get a Compensatory response and this article goes over a bunch of literature I'm not going to go over all of it But the point is is that it prepares the organism for what's about to come so compensatory response would be if I take A drug that increases my heart rate the compensatory response would be right before I administer the drug My heart rate would go down The you at or the you are the unconditioned response to the stimulus itself is the heart rate going up Okay, so that so that's normal, right? So the body prepares for that through the conditioning. Bye kid. See you Okay, thank you. Is that a warning? Okay, so now that she's bored her with CCR's and by that she actually likes CCR just not CCR's Credence clear water revival. By the way, that's the way I always remember these. I was like, these are really cool just like a band Even to this day every time I see CCR I immediately think of both the band and These effects and subsequently the seagull article and Then I think about the band and that the drug related themes and the music and it's all comes together They didn't choose these on accident. I don't think so anyway in 75 Get all those together man. It's where to go on.  There you go. Oh, it's all posted. All right. I'll fix that later I have to talk about this article, sweetie Unless you want to Okay, so The compensatory condition response, right? So we're back to this whole and does the environment elicit a response that helps control for the Administration or the effects of the drug itself the answer is it does so let's look at what seagull was talking about though was are there What is it in the environment that does that so he's got rats not a bunch of them And we're gonna teach these rats to self-administer morphine or no, sorry, not self-administer. That's the other article He's gonna administer morphine and you test the analgesic response. You need me to shut that it's bothering you Hold on folks.  Oh, I think we got around it. All right So we got four groups of rats. We don't really have to go through all the detail But here's what it is. So analgesic response, right? So if I take morphine All right, and I make this thing hot All right, so it's a hot plate and so I inject my morphine and then I wait some time And I wait a certain amount of time in order for their morphine to have an effect I put my paw on here and if this is hot then we would have the paw the The hot plate paw latency put the paw withdrawal latency response Whatever they call it. Here's the point. There's always the latent latency of the Pollock response So as my paw sits on this hot plate, it's gonna take me a little while ago. Oh, that's too much. I'm a pull Look my paw, right? I'm gonna do it again.  It's not just in rats other species to it, too It's really cool. So the the more effective the more effective that the drug is the longer they'll sit there Let's get a little warm man. So, you know that sort of thing, okay? Well what you find out is That if you continually get the rat to admit if you continually Continually administer the drug in the same environment under the same context and all these fun little things With all sorts of controls built in about whether or not they had experience with the hot plate whether not it was a cold plate And all these other things that you can read in the article you find out really quickly that the environment itself Helps Create tolerance so the environment predicts that this is gonna happen in the energy or it helps the organism learn that This is gonna happen and the analgesic response Decreases in other words the more I do these trials so do this and if I leave my hand on there for a while and before I lick it right to cool it off I put back on now to do this again in the next set of trials, right? I'm gonna pull off quicker even though it's the exact same amount of drug and They controlled for whether or not it was in the environment and the number of drug Administrations that they had and they did it they reversed this stuff in a sense They did it so they did it between subjects and they did it within subjects and the answer is really really straightforward that The answer the result of the study is really straightforward, but groundbreaking in that you Develop tolerance to a drug not just based on the drug itself You develop tolerance to drug based on environmental cues in this particular article We're literally talking about classical conditioning type cues CCRs CRs Whatever you want to look at depending on the stuff now. There's more detail obviously. This is a very short little thing but it was It's groundbreaking. It's really cool. It was 75 and it's led to some effects, right? Like you can actually design Interventions based on this type of information. Now, I am gonna put a little word of caution in here Caution, caution. We have developed interventions based on this stuff and they have not been highly effective So I don't want to send you off with this message. This is the way you solve drug tolerance You know, it's not the point. The point is is that when you look at Tolerance itself, there are lots of factors that are involved Segal identified one of those factors and we should probably be cognizant of that if we're trying to do applied work with regard to drug-seeking behavior in those things, okay, so it's not an end-all be all as the literature since has has Exposed and feel free to find some references. In fact, there's a couple references about in the Kerns at all study 2005 so currents at all 2005 take a look at that for some more information about why this Treatments based on this stuff don't completely work. So beside the point rats cool stuff Totally different effects with regard to drugs than what you might expect. 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from the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas. It's theCUBE, covering Hoshokon 2018. Brought to you by Hoshokon. Okay, welcome back everyone. We're live in Las Vegas for Hoshokon. I'm John Furrier, host of theCUBE. This is the first inaugural security conference around blockchain. Our next guest, John Kirsch, who's the chief evangelist for Sentinel Protocol. Great to see you, thanks for coming on. Hey, it's great to be here, John. Thank you very much for inviting me. I love the shirt. I got my CUBE shirt here. You got your shirt on. Cool crowd here. So before we get into some of the things you guys are working on, what's the scene here like? For people who aren't here, this is a first ever blockchain security conference around in the industry. What's, what are the type of people that are here and what's going on? Why is this important? Well, that's a really good question. I mean, I can think back, and I remember meeting the president of Hoshok for the first time back in New York at consensus. And he was giving a presentation. And I thought it was a fantastic presentation, but we broke ice, we shook hands, and then we bumped into each other again in Seoul. And then I was also talking to Tim Draper, not too long ago.  And he is one of our key investors. So we thought it would be a good idea for us to show up as well. And we believed that many times in trade shows and other types of seminar series, there's too much emphasis on fintech and not on security. And the reason why I say that is basically in the blockchain crypto world. Right now, one of the major challenges of holding back the growth and the success is the lack of security, not in the core blockchain technology, but in the DApps and in the other connected applications. People are getting hacked. And there's different types of hackings. Everything from Pishing to malware, to DNS, engine hacking, to smart contracts, web applications. I mean- The server series large. Many different vectors. And it's complex. Something needs to be done about it in order to unlock the potential of blockchain crypto. Yeah, and I also love this event because one, first of anything is always good because it's president creation. You don't know, there might be another one if it's around next year or not. But I think this one seems like it's got the right people at it that it will grow. Because remember, the security is the number one problem. It should be seamless. It's complicated, multiple keys to deal with, multiple chains. Never mind the surface area for hacking. So I think blockchain is going to be a sea change. We all know that all tech alpha entrepreneurs are getting that. The complexity around the software is the key. What do you guys, how do you guys look at this? Because your guys are in the business to solve this problem. Right. What's the answer here? Well, we look at it from an experienced point of view of cybersecurity. And what I mean by that is that we have a lot of people on the team that come from companies like Palo Alto Networks and F5 and Fortinet. I come from Darktrace and other cybersecurity companies as well. But we look at it from a point of view of what did we do in the past? What were the problems? How can we leverage those technologies? What's wrong with the stuff that we did before? And how can we correct those gaps and provide a better product that's more usable, easier to install and then has the multi vector analysis capabilities to do the, not just antivirus for instance, but how about AI, machine learning, for detecting new anomalies and behavior or new threats and attacks or sandboxing. But how do we solve the problem is really our main focus. So I got to ask you a question. A lot of people in the industry that are smarter to try and attack this problem, there's two schools of thoughts. We are going to get the software, going to get the AI, going to do all this stuff over here. And then the radical view is, hey, the old model isn't working for blockchain because it's a different architecture, it's decentralized. So you can't just take network protocol stacks and say, hey, this is your security stack in a old network model to decentralize. So it needs a redo. So we need a refresh or do over. So this just seems to be the tension that's productive, but still contentious. What's the answer? Because the old Juniper Cisco switches might not be the perimeter based firewall model. I love that question. We need to do over or not. So we are the world's first crowdsourced threat intelligence platform. I didn't say product, I said platform. And that means multiple, various different types of products on our platform. But in addition to that, one of the biggest problems today is the need to update. Let's say if you're looking at things from an antivirus point of view, if you haven't updated your database, your system, then you've got vulnerabilities that you haven't addressed. And so we don't need to be updated. Our system is running on a decentralized blockchain and therefore is connected through APIs to different types of endpoints. We are platform agnostic. So we could connect to IoT type devices or other types of mobile telephones or to PCs, servers and so on. And by having this collective cybersecurity intelligence, by definition, that means we have a richer, wider database of more information than if you license a product from, let's say, any one of the antivirus vendors, you get that company's intelligence and support services only. But we're doing it where we're taking company A, plus B, plus C, plus this white hacker, plus this individual here. And we're basically combining all that together and offering it to our clients.  How's the trust factor come in? Because if I'm a company, I want to know that everything I'm running is updated. I want to know what it is first and that it's updated. And you know, in this decentralized, trustless world, there is, from our point of view, a need for an organization that can be trusted by people who have been hacked or experienced suspicious activity. So we are addressing that. So we have a team of people called the Sentinels and they are tested and certified by our internal cybersecurity experts as having the capabilities and the knowledge, the experience to contribute. And when those people make contributions in terms of cybersecurity intelligence, we award them with points and those points can be converted to fiat or into other cryptos. So you're tokenizing the contribution relative to the crowd sourcing. Exactly. So is this like CrowdStrike or is it different? Oh, it's different, I think, from CrowdStrike because CrowdStrike, while it's a very good company and a very good product, what we're doing is that we're combining black list with white list and we're providing a reporting service. And so, and we're running it on the blockchain and the blockchain has certain elements that are very, very good in terms of immutability or a very high type of resilience factor or traceability. And so we're really taking our product and focusing on the blockchain crypto world but quite frankly, what we're building because we're utilizing the technology in an optimal manner, it is also applicable to the conventional cybersecurity world too. And I expect that it will be very commonly used there tomorrow. So it's portable in the sense of the function. You can actually bring this to the class of cybersecurity known detection type identification. I could be using it for Goldman Sachs or Bank of America or let's say this hotel. So how about the global cybersecurity landscape? How would, you know, if someone's putting their toe in the water for the first time, you're obviously in the trenches doing cutting edge work. Certainly the folks in Washington DC around the world have cyber conversations from General Keith Alexander's, new companies, got some interesting things going on there to kind of grokking it. What's so there's crowd sourcing? How would you break up the cybersecurity market? Because cyber intelligence is a big part of regional cloud deployments now. Amazon's going to have a region in the Middle East. I'm sure they got their DNS monitored well. But you have network points and you have software running on them. How is the market sliced up? Is there categories like that are cleanly defined? How do you view that? Well, you know, I look at things from a point of view of having started in the cybersecurity world, John, back in 1998. And that was when I introduced a company called WatchGuard to the Japanese market and also did that in Korea as well. But we pioneered the use of Linux appliances. Would you believe that? And we've also pioneered managed security services. And so one of the things that I learned over time as the cybersecurity world increased in complexity. I mean, back there, it was easy. All you needed was an anti-virus and you needed network firewall. And you had proprietary software too. Open source wasn't as prevalent. Exactly, but things keep on getting ratcheted up. The complexity factor is growing. And now we look at cybersecurity and there's so many different types of products and services. And so it really comes down to understanding the security policy of the end user, of the organization or the individual. What type of PC they're using? Is it an IBM? Is it Apple? And then putting together a security policy and then bringing in different types of products that basically help that individual or that organization to satisfy that policy. And then tuning that over time. Most people don't think about that part, but the tuning process is also very important. So, and then educating people too. So it's the number one industry problem that the industry needs to solve as an industry. And then what is the biggest concern that end users organizations will have? Well, I think the biggest problem out there right now that hasn't been solved is what's going on in front of our very eyes is the hacking of these exchanges and wallets. I mean, those organizations have lost now over $3 billion cumulative over the past few years and then over $1 billion this year. I mean, that's a lot of money. It's a lot of cash. And somebody needs to do something about it. And nobody knows where it goes. I mean. Well, actually we do know where it goes because actually that's the video I wanted to show today after my presentation but there just was enough time. We analyzed the safe hacking that happened just a few weeks ago. How much did they take? It was about $60 million. But we analyzed that and using crowdsourced information. We analyzed the transactions and so forth. And we found, believe it or not, that a large portion of those stolen bitcoins were washed and went through Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange. And so if they utilized our technology to understand that the coins that are going through them were stolen, we would do a lot to increase the cost factor for monetizing stolen bitcoins. We would help Binance to protect itself. So the laundering of the coins. Yes. You could basically put a penalty on that. Well, I don't look at it from a penalty point of view. I look at it from a point of view of helping people to make transactions that are kosher, that meet with their corporate policy, that comply with law, that enable them to ensure that what they are doing is correct. So you track the address. How do you know they're being washed from that? We basically track the addresses. We were able to track the addresses and I can show you a video later if you'd like to where we did just that and the information. This is on the blockchain. Showed that the coins went through Binance. So meeting the old classic IT operations, you always have the network management piece. This is again going to be a big part of the traceability and accountability piece of it. This is important. Yeah. In fact, you know, it's really important is that when you think about this world, for instance, if I were to give you $5 and you were to get ripped off and somebody took that $5 from you, how would, John, how would you trace that $5? I would track the guy around that stole it, find out where it is. But if I don't know who took it. If you went to the police, they'd ask them for help. Do you think they could help you analyze and trace it and audit? Well, San Francisco, they break in the cars. They just take whatever they want. The police don't even show up. Right, but that's relying on luck. You know, did he open the right car? I wouldn't know who had this. But you know, that's one of the great things is that with the blockchain technology, if you use it correctly, you can trace many times. Not all the time. But it does offer various types of- There's a digital footprint. Yeah. There's definitely a traceable aspect of it. And that's one of the nice advantages. So I'd rather give you Bitcoin than the $5. Yeah, I'll take the Bitcoin. And probably worth more than the five. Money's going away. Paper money I don't know how to need for it. Talk about the aspect of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency as it relates to the funding of security attacks because that's been a big concern. People are trying to figure that out. Have you guys made any progress on tracking the funding, the underground funding for security attacks? Well, when you think about it, and when you think about the funding of security attacks, it's now teams. And a lot of these teams are very well trained and educated. And they're making some good money too. Yeah. And so they're making good money. They've monetized this. And all it takes is one time that they break in. And so once they break in, you're compromised. So you have to defend every time. And do it well. But they only need to break in once. But in terms of that. One bad day. One bad day. One bad second. And maybe your company's gone. Yeah. But the funding of these endeavors is getting more and more sophisticated. The money involved is becoming much, much more bigger. And we need to ratchet up our defenses so that we can provide. So what is the answer for me? Let's just say hypothetically, I get 50 million in Bitcoin for the cube bank for our community. And we're going to use that Bitcoin to have people flourish with content. And I got to store it somewhere. Yeah. What do I do? Well. What's my answer? Do I call my answer? I said, hey, if you're going to wash the lawn down, I might as well put it with you because if you're the home for all the money. Well, I think that the optimal solution is to get it off the network, put it into a cold wallet and safeguard that private key in a way that is very, very secure. Don't do not leave it on your PC. Don't tape it to your screen. But basically safeguard that private key very well. Put it into a deposit box at a bank. That might be a good idea. Or multiple deposit box spread across with instructions. But don't leave it, don't leave it in your wallet and don't leave it on, write it on the chalkboard either above your desk.  Or don't write it down with the surveillance cameras watching you write it down. And you might want to use a multi-sig wallet as well. And that will also increase the security as well. All right.  Give us a quick update on Sentinel protocol, the company.  You mentioned Draper funded you guys. What's the status? Well, you know, we started earlier this year, back in January. And now we have 30 security professionals. Our headquarters are in Singapore. We have another big office up in Seoul, Korea. We have a third office in Tokyo. We have now over 42 partners. I'm very proud to say that we've got, amongst those partners, at least 10 exchanges and wallets signed on with us directly that are very interested in using our technology, integrating it into their applications. And so. And why they work with you? For a hedge, for security, for insurance, what's the rationale? Forensics for data, what's the value for them? Once they've been hacked, it's pretty hard to recover. A lot of these companies that are hacked, in fact, it ends up with the company closing or being sold. So basically what they're trying to do is leverage our security to detect the threats and the attacks in a proactive, online manner before they get damaged. And then by doing that, they can enhance their branding, the services they're providing to their clients, and they can also help to maximize the stability and growth of their organization. As well as- It's a heat shield. The future life. It's a shield for them. It's a shield, yes. So they're being proactive on the security front. Exactly. So minimize any damages that potentially could get through. You know, right now, John, unfortunately, if you get hacked, it's a wild, wild west. It's every man up to himself. Yeah, it's a total stagecoach. Nobody's going to help you. No one knows who it is. You got to do some sort of real forensic and get lucky. Yeah. Sounds like it's hit or miss, right?  Because most of the people out there are not getting lucky. Yeah. So we're working together with our partners to basically solve this problem. And how much money did you guys raise? We raised approximately $8 million, or it was 25,000 Ethereum. Great, congratulations. Not at all. Thank you very much. Well, thanks for coming on. Meet you last night at dinner. Security is at the top of the agenda. We are here. This is theCUBE coverage. It's part of our ongoing 2018 blockchain cryptocurrency, now digital money coverage. Of course, as you know, we've been covering Bitcoin and blockchain on our blog since 2011. And more coverage here at Hoseokon. The first security conference dedicated to discuss security around the blockchain and the new digital assets. That is now money. I'm John Furrier. Stay with us for more after this short break.


So, to recap from the last lecture, the consonances correspond to ratios of small whole numbers – 2 to 1, 3 to 2, 4 to 3. Western music also has octave equivalents. Two notes corresponding to the 2 to 1 ratio are regarded as the same note. This leads to the tuning problem. Construct a scale by starting at a note and ascending by consonances, then scale all notes back into a single octave. Let's see how that works out. So, let's construct a scale. Suppose we start with a string of length 16, and that's purely for convenience. In the following, we'll treat the length as the note. And so we can say the string of length 16 produces the note 16. So, if we use the interval of an octave and produce additional lengths in a ratio of 2 to 1, our notes are going to be 16, then 8, which will be in a 2 to 1 ratio. Then 4, then 2, and we could keep going, but let's stop here for now. Now, since we want all the notes to be within one octave, we'll scale all the lengths to be between 16 and 8. So, because of octave equivalents, multiplying by 2 gives us the same note. And if we do that, our notes become the following. The note 8, scaled down an octave, multiplied by 2 in other words, becomes the note 16. The note 4, scaled down an octave, becomes the note 8, but I already scaled 8 down an octave back to 16. So, this note 4 also becomes 16. The note 2, scaled down an octave to 4, scaled down another octave to 8, scaled down another octave to 16. And what this means is that if we scale these higher notes down into the same octave, they all turn out to be the same note, the one we started with. And our scale is literally monotonous. Well, let's try and produce another scale. Let's use the 3 to 2 ratio. So again, for convenience, we'll start with 81, because we're going to be taking 2 thirds of a number. So, if we start with 81, our notes will be 2 thirds of 81, that's 54, then 2 thirds of 54, or 36, then 2 thirds of 36, that's 24, 2 thirds of 24, that's 16, and we'll stop there for now. Now, this octave will run from 81 to 81 divided by 2, that's 40 and a half. So, we can scale the notes into this interval. So, some of the notes are already in the interval 81 and 54, 36 isn't, so we'll double it to lower than an octave. So, the note 36 can be lower than an octave to 72, 24 can be lower than an octave to 48, 16 can be lower than an octave to 32, but our interval runs from 81 to 40 and a half, so we'll scale it down another octave to 64. And that gives us five distinct notes. And this leads to an important problem. We can continue to produce additional notes, then scaling them back into the octave, but do we ever stop? And this is known as the problem of the circle of fifths. Start to get a note. Can you ascend by fifths to get a note that is the same up to octave equivalence as your starting note? Well, let's try it. Since we need to find 2 thirds of a value, let's start with the power of 3, say 3 to the eighth or 243, and we'll find our successor of notes. So, 2 thirds of 243 is 162, 2 thirds of 162 is 108, and we can find a few more notes. So, our octave is going to run from 243 to 122 and a half, so let's scale all of our notes into the octave. So that 108, I can scale that down into the octave by doubling its length to 216. I'll scale 72 into the octave, and so on. And remember, sometimes we may have to scale more than one octave down, and this gives us our set of five distinct notes, 243 to 16, 192, 144, 128. And it's worth noting that the first and last notes are almost in a 2 to 1 ratio. That ratio of 243 to 128 is almost 2 to 1. And so we almost span an octave. It's close, but not quite. So let's apply some mathematics to this problem. Suppose our strength has length k. If we go up by fifths, our notes will be k times sum power of 2 thirds. We want this to be m octaves above our starting note, so that's going to be k times sum power of one half. And so that means we want k times sum power of two thirds to be k times sum power of one half. And we can do a little bit of math. And what we find is that solving this problem requires that we just need to find a power of two that's equal to a power of three. But there's a problem. The powers of two are all even numbers, and the powers of three are all odd numbers. So we need to find an even number that's equal to an odd number, but that's impossible. And this leads to the following. All of the proceeding was well within the mathematical knowledge and musical inclinations of the Pythagoreans. Moreover, it would have been consistent with the Pythagorean interest in number. Knowledge or interest in geometry would not be required. And so if we want to consider how the Pythagoreans first discovered the existence of irrational quantities, it seems likely that this tuning problem may have played an important role.


Hey to everyone that usually watches us on the yes network We're so sorry that we can't bring you the usual content that we bring you with Yankees baseball and next basketball But we're gonna try to do our best to entertain you during these crazy times So my good friend Sarah Kustak in New York Sarah. How you doing everyone? I think that's it I'm doing very well and healthy and safe. I'm inside. I'm getting to talk to you So what can be better? What day of the quarantine is this for you now? Oh I just you're gonna ask me what day the week this was I was gonna go with that next because it looked like you were trying to figure it out It is I Started staying in and not leaving the house. I would say eight. It's much is it Monday? It's Monday. So Last so like eight. I'm on eight Have you officially lost your mind yet? Oh? No, I'm trying to make this a time where I'm connecting with myself Get a chance to FaceTime talk with friends talk with family as you know, we're always so Insanely busy running around with so much stuff and trying to take care of work obligations And so many other things that we enjoy and we love and I know that everyone this is But I try to use this as a good time to talk to everyone FaceTime with a bunch of people Read a lot. I love to read. I get made fun of for that quite a bit I got to my TV and will watch all the shows and movies that I angle has put on my list I'll get to that. I feel like we have plenty of time So it's been good. What about you? What is where are you at? What day of the quarantine you're down you're down at your home in Florida, correct? So I'm in Clearwater, Florida, and I'm just self quarantining. I did go out of the house yesterday I haven't been told that I needed to stay in but I've just been trying to do my part like the CDC recommends social distancing If you can stay home stay home not only for yourself, but really for the good of everyone else But yesterday I had been in about a week And then I decided yesterday I was gonna venture out to get some food for the week and Stock up a little bit so I wouldn't then have to go back out for a while If I didn't have to with the exception of going on my balcony or maybe going for a walk in the area So I went to Target, right? Animals animals Sarah. I've never seen anything like it Outside or in the target in the target and they actually had four security guards with stanchions in front of them and They're talking about Roaming wild animals you take no, I'm imagining people with their dogs and cats No, there are no actual animals the humans were acting like animals. That's what I'm saying I was like what I was like, what are these people doing? But they actually had and and give the Clearwater target credit because they they saw that there would be a problem with Everybody raiding the shelves trying to buy up everything so they had like the disinfectants here They had paper towels no toilet paper and then they had something else and you were allowed to go up and pick one and Then they would hand you the product so as to not hoard so everyone could potentially Get something that they really need so hopefully nobody is hoarding out there. Just get what you need What isn't a shortage? You know how many so they would hand it to you or they just try it's like when you put out the Halloween candy in The front of your house at home and please just take one type of thing or they were actually physically handing us out I'm Yeah, they were handing it out and people were getting upset that they couldn't get more than one and I'm like come on people It'll be okay. Like it will be fine So have you been speaking going shopping and getting even cooking a lot? What are you even eating? Do you have essentials that you feel like you need in your home in order to? feel comfortable So I actually ordered on Amazon Toilet paper and paper towels before all of this happened not that I was you know Thinking this is all going to happen It just happened to be that time where I needed those things and I always buy them Off of Amazon just because it's easier. So I had just purchased stuff on there So I'm good on the toilet paper and paper towel front. Thank goodness. And then as far as food is concerned I eat a lot of Like produce vegetables and whatnot to have been cooking a lot I don't really eat so I've been doing a lot of like vegan cuisine and I think tonight is going to be I'm looking over here Like somebody's gonna tell me what I'm gonna be making. There's nobody here Tonight, I think I'm gonna make Vegan Pad Thai with butternut squash noodles. Oh Have you been putting me will you are you someone who will put these recipes on your Instagram or on Twitter or share? Yeah, I haven't yet But I guess I could because I have all the time in the world now There's no reason why I couldn't but the problem is I never follow a recipe I kind of see what's in the fridge and have an idea of what I want to do and then hope for the best That's my recipe. I like that attitude. Yeah, so what about you? Do you have everything you need and you've been ordering delivery or how's it going? No, I've been cooking a lot again I'm trying to use this because it's through the course of the season or sometimes it's not as easy to make a More elaborate dish or meal or try different recipes. So I've been cooking quite a bit. I've been using Amazon product like the Whole Foods. There's a Whole Foods right down the street So they do the deliveries which has been great. So I've been trying to I've been we talked to so much of our Nets medical staff prior to this or just when everything was starting to pick up and we're still on the road trip and People were saying all the right things of course and all the messages put out about washing your hands and being safe and all those type of things But they said the other big thing make sure you're putting food things in your body to help your immune system So I took that to heart and say that I don't normally try any healthy But so no a lot of similar to you like produce fruits things like that trying to cook trying to make some different things Yeah, but I find when you're in your house and you're just in your house with all this food Making things I'm like who can I give this to who can I send this off to and that's not part of but But it's been good. I feel like I'm stocked up I'm just appreciative like that. You see what is happening all around the world. What people are going through Just appreciative that from your house have what to need Yeah They so yeah, it's been alright, but my cooking my I always tell my friends that I in a good cook And I don't think they always believe me now. I'm trying now. I'm starting to like send the pictures send the recipe I think I think it's kind of a little bit now Is there one cheap thing that you bought or one like thing that maybe you normally wouldn't eat But you're like meh. I'm stuck at home. I'm gonna get that No, you see if I get it and it's here at home, then it's gone and like to say I Zero self-employment things are in front of me So I tried not to get that stuff if anyone that's around, you know, I have a very big sweet tooth And I wouldn't even say there's like you start putting desserts or different things in front of me Fried all of it and I'm in on all of it and it never lasts long So I've taken the approach and it's not in the house then I Can't have it but I don't know girl. There's there There's a lot though. I feel like I told you I'm on the day eight what eight or nine. I think we may have some time Anything for you anything that Nothing too wild so I think I told you this last time we spoke Sweeney Mertie who works for WFAN His daughter DC sells Girl Scout cookies every year and I used to be a Girl Scout. Were you ever a Girl Scout? No, I was not but you know a lot of Girl Scout cookies. I could talk you through every one of them so I Was I was a big supporter of Girl Scouts who provide cookies still am So I blame Sweeney for this, but I used to be Girl Scout I like to support the organization Sweeney does a really nice job of bringing her around to see women in different positions and try To show her that you know girls can do whatever they want to do and I order a bunch of cookies every year and I ordered I think ten or eleven boxes not for me But I usually leave them in the press box at George M. Steinbrenner field give them to some of the workers Kind of just hand them out like it's Girl Scout Christmas, right? Well, they came and everything had already ended So now I just have ten boxes of Girl Scout cookies sitting on my dining room table First I want to know which are your favorite Girl Scout cookies you guys not at the Samoas The light short are you into the shortbreads the the peanut butter sandwich ones aren't there some lemon I They're all here. I guess I could theoretically tried them all, but I don't want to I think the thin mints because they're the classic But the Samoas I actually so of the ten boxes. I've been here When when did they the 12th they canceled everything? What day are we at now 12th 23rd? So 11 days I Opened the Samoa Sarah. I had A lot of Samoas here the we may not be talking anymore. They they wouldn't last past 30 minutes Not as good as I remembered though Whoa, yeah, I had like to enclose the box that was it Wait, what? Maybe because they've been sitting there for a while put them in the fridge try it out again So what else what else this week so it is Monday I'm thinking about it. What's not how of you have you been organizing your week a certain way Have you been approaching things in terms of any type of to-do lists on a day-to-day basis? How have you been trying to somewhat keep things normalize while saying it? I've been doing a lot on social media as you know So that's been taking up some time aside from that I have a list of things that I would like to do and need to do But I have done none of those things. One of them is cleaning out my closet, which Haven't even made an attempt yet. How about yourself? Uh, yeah, no, I I feel like those are the type of little bit cleaning out the closet and making sure the apartment's clean Um, I have I I'm in like three different book clubs right now. Um, one of those with our good friend Jeanette Coakley um And who is has got us in line of like the next five books. We're gonna read but in all of them That's that's been a big part of what I've been trying to do Um writing some like, you know a lot of big part of our job A lot of what we always have to do is about speaking. It's about writing It's about researching so just trying to I feel like there's got some Great games on or great things like that to still try and keep in touch with I will get to the tv shows At some point I've been trying to stay active and work out and um, that's been a big push With in in our world We're in the nba and the junior nba big push just about how do you still stay active or for young kids and their homes Different ways to do exercises or still work out. Uh, so I've been trying to be creative with that just The more you can move the more it helps keep you mentally balanced Um, I saw I saw you post a workout the other day that looks pretty intense. Where'd you get the workout? Uh, I was kind of that's funny. Uh, uh, angel gray who is the Portside recorder for the Cleveland Cavaliers had started. I feel like there's a lot of challenges going on around here I'll toss them your way whether it's push ups, whether it's workouts Um, so that was just kind of that's what I mean Like getting creative just making things up. Um, we all see different workouts on whether it's online You can find a bunch and so yeah, so that was something so it was through a challenge and then this was a challenge 10 other people and I How many of my friends which I've tried to kind of check off social media The timing have checked off because I think one person actually did it and then Passed along so it didn't work But no, that's not a big part. I think for as much as we Listen to what's being said and help experts out there. It's such an important thing this time Which first of all huge shout out to all the doctors and nurses. Thank you professionals and staff and everyone who actually is on the front lines Try and keep us healthy and safe and goodness. We are so appreciative for that So the least that the rest of us could do Um is to try and do our part and stay inside and so I think a lot of those things You know help help to keep your balance help us to remember of finding ways just to Steal stay creative stay active stay informed and educated. Um, and it's it's it's not as Do that's aren't people like are you going crazy? It's like, no This is the least if this is the hardest thing I have to do all the alright. You just I hope that That morning. Yeah Um, I saw a workout the other day. Actually, you've mentioned the push-up challenge I have about five of those to do I haven't done any of them yet because I was like bombarded with them I'm like, gee how many people are going to challenge me to this? Wait, will you do 50? Will you individually respond to everyone? Or just swipe it all through? Pass out the names would be done I could probably Not like 50 in a row. I don't think I'll probably do them individually. I'm not huge on posting That on instagram though. So I gotta I gotta figure that out I'm gonna figure out if I'm gonna post it or not But I like that people might just be receiving a video of text of me doing push-ups I like that. Oh, really? That's a good it's interesting. Is this a part of your instagram approach? No, I don't know. I just like I usually I don't know. Maybe I could start I also saw something on Well, I just feel like I get bombarded with stuff and then if I don't respond to everybody I don't want anybody to feel bad and then I don't want to make anybody else do stuff that they don't want to do So, I don't know Overthinking it a little bit overthinking 101 walk warranty Um, also I saw this I feel like this is something you could get down with I saw somebody doing a pretty sick workout with a book Like a hardcover book using it under your feet to essentially Yeah So like if you're how do I explain that sense? So like you can like use it on the carpet and You could use it like as an ab roller kind of deal sliding back and forth Or you can put it under your feet and use it like that Yes, I saw that there are so many creative things out there You can use a block because it slides a little easier on the book, but also paper plates someone Next time we do this it will actually have the handles or the post But you showed a whole set of workouts you do with the things inside your home. So whether it's paper plates using that Books you can use water bottles as weights I like it I like that though. I'm into that Other than that man just been Been hanging out hanging out reconnecting. I don't Really call people anymore strictly facetimes Because I have nothing to do Yeah, have you I don't know I'm um, I I'm not a huge phone person or I didn't used to be I should say and now I've found bless their hearts and I love I'm so thankful It makes you realize just how thankful for you are for the friends and family people in your life that are so good to you Um, but they're literally all hours any hour anytime. I feel like five a.m Two in the morning Ten at night people just face like now it's just so common like normally when you're in your own home Feel like you could do whatever look however be however And now it's just a constant barrage and since they know you're in your house And don't really have anything else to do I continue to get face on face on face time text Why aren't you picking up? I know you're just home and you gotta know it's huge Use you were in the shower for like 10 minutes I tried to say which I have been shutting my phone off quite a bit just to like Disconnect and do whatever you need to do However, I find that now bless their hearts people are getting really irritated with me if I don't pick up my phone right away Or that's yeah There there was a funny social media post Instagram, so I was talking to the kids Normally you'd be like, okay. I gotta go to get off the phone. I gotta run or I got something and really It I've done that a couple times. I've been like what what are you gonna do where you what do you have and I got no answer Yeah, well, that's that's a tough part. You then can't get off the phone because really there's at some point in time You're like, all right. I don't just don't want to do this anymore I don't really want to talk to you anymore Yeah, but it's good. It's fun. It makes it nice Like I said, it's nice to actually have plenty of time to connect people That I don't know so it's good On a yes network related note. Yeah Did you got your yes university mug? No, it's a very prestigious university wait Can I call flip now? Wait, how did I not get a morning actually called John's eagle probably has them The only yes type mug or cup I have is the eye eagle The 25 years the eye and eagle day mug, which I use all the time It's actually more of a um Like a to-go to-go mug. Is that what we call them? Um classic, but no Oh girl now. I'm wondering What the reason is that I didn't get it and am I not No, no, you've probably already graduated and don't even know it They had to push some people through I think there might have been some credit issues for some of the people I'm just kidding. Uh, but it's our baseball promo this year. Hopefully it sees the light of day when baseball comes back out But we shot it here in Tampa at one of the local universities and the whole baseball crew essentially graduated yes university That's amazing the yes, uh, Yankees crew the promos you guys do are hilarious and great Ours for nets on yes or a little more straightforward Uh, they try to get everyone pumped up Yours you guys It's all great. We're all in together, but I really enjoy it. It's fun. Um speaking of your now through I may need to get on like David Koehler Or to michael k or someone maybe I'll steal root goes if he you were able to get one Yeah, I think they'll probably some out there. So I'm pretty sure you can you can make a call and they'll hook you up Um speaking of your nets crew everybody doing okay Everyone's As everyone's doing great. I keep wanting to say fantastic. Yeah, this is a challenging time. Everyone's doing really well Um, we do group facetimes. Um quite a bit Uh, and yeah, everyone's everyone's healthy. They're safe. They're home. They're with their families. Um, so yeah, so everyone everyone um is is of course missing getting to do what we love most and call games and Have all of our wonderful viewers see us on the yes network. Uh, but given the circumstances everyone's doing really well


Good morning and welcome to the week ahead video with me, David Madden. Today's date is Friday the 13th of September 2019 and the time has just gone 11 of 55 British summertime and I'm looking ahead to next week Which is Monday the 16th of September through Friday the 20th of September, but before we have a look at What's going on next week? Let's just take a look at what's happened in the past couple of days Yesterday, we have we heard from the ECB We had a industry cut on the deposit rate and we had a QE program announced for early September The European Central Bank also lowered its growth guidance 2019 and 2020 and it lowered its Inflation outlook for the next for this this year and the next two years and Mario Draghi the head of the ECB also called For a diss additional stimulus in terms of fiscal stimulus It's a it's a is this is not the first time he's called on governments to bring in fiscal stimulus So it seems to me the Mario Draghi is knowing knows that Monetary policy alone can't solve all the euro's own problems He's also had an aggressive QE system scheme in place before another one is going to restart in early November It seems to me that Mr. Draghi goes right. We can't have a government bond by a scheme that will last forever So we just need we just we need additional assistance The fact that the ECB lowered their interest rate It's obviously going to be a bit of an issue could influence all the central banks around the world I'll be talking about the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England later on in this video So the so what we saw yesterday was initially a fairly sharp sell-off in both in the euro against major currencies The British pound and the US dollar, but we seem to have actually kind of found the floor and the market that bounce back And that is also and we're seeing euro dollar high on the day higher on the session It would appear that some of the some some of the kind of negative news or the double shop date from yesterday It was already factored in so we've seen a bit of a rebound in the euro against against the US dollar We've seen equity markets are higher after the announcement But when you consider if interest rates are further negative territory, that's a positive rate And we've had the announcement of a stimulus package in equity markets in the euro zone and that higher What's also going on in global financial markets the US and China their trading relationship. It's a bit better It's not a me. It's still far from fixed But it's a bit better and the latest we've heard late last night from President Trump He stated that he's opened the idea of having an interim deal with China There's obviously Mr. President Trump is known to change his mind quite quickly over the time being US and US and Chinese relations are on fairly good stead Work where we saw the US equity markets finish higher in the US last night. They're being called higher this morning Also, what's going on is Brexit It's a lot of volatility in the British pound this morning Starting as rallied considerably against the US dollar and the euro also So that's the palm is doing very well There's a belief that the possibility of a no deal of Brexit as it has diminished. There are some stories going around this doesn't appear to be a In the greed a fully agreed upon narrative One of the stories is John Birkel MP and speaker in the House of Commons said he will ensure to use Creativity to ensure that Prime Minister Boris Johnson doesn't Ignore a law that was recently brought in to vent a no deal Brexit There's also been conflicting in reports about the Democratic Unionist party There's a report to one of the newspapers saying that the DUP are about to soften some of their red lines There's also that I've also heard DUP MP saying that that rubbishing that report Things are going I said a bit kind of back and forth in relation in relation to that side of the brexit negotiations and talks But nonetheless the British pound is as well. Is that is pushing higher? Against the US dollar and the euro Taking a look having a chat now about what's going on next week On Wednesday, we have CPI numbers out of the UK These are gonna be fairly important in the context of how the UK economy is holding up We recently had fairly decent unemployment numbers and growth and earnings figures from the UK So some aspects of the British economy economy are doing quite well despite the fact is all these kind of Despite the fact construction is a negative growth Manufacturing isn't doing particularly well and services is just about getting by and not to mention a lot of headlines about doom and gloom But some pockets of the British economy are still holding up Inflation from the last reading is that was actually Higher than the Bank of England's target twice target So the demand is still reasonably strong in the UK Looking ahead on Wednesday. We also have an update from the Federal Reserve The Federal Reserve cut interest rates in in June There's a lot of talk about rate a rate cut or a large rate rate cut or a large rate cut in September President Trump has been screaming for a for lower interest rates from the Federal Reserve Keep mine. We saw the European Central Bank Keep their base rate the refining rate on change But the deposit rate has has been lowered and they're gonna have a QE scheme that could influence the vet could influence the Federal Reserve But that being said all employment's very low wages are solid in the US And the most in most recent core inflation figures from the US suggest demand is strong So there's an argument for the Fed to actually do nothing or just have a 25 basis points of rate cut Looking head to Thursday Bank of England industry decision given that Brexit is still up in the air It's it's it's highly unlikely the bank of England will change their monetary policy It seems to me that their monetary policy is very much bound bound up until that Brexit has been has been decided upon For whatever kind of brexit is delivered The Bank of England should they're in the event of a nobody of brexit and in the event things are looking quite economically bad for the UK The Bank of England would like to like to have the tools at a disposal to address caught interest rates or got on the route Or the stimulus package. So I suspect the Bank of England will just be sitting on the sidelines commenting on How commenting on the state of affairs of brexit and how the volatility in the British pound I'll quickly run through if some of the other other headlines are stories that are due out next week and then talk about And then talk about and then have a look at some of the major markets. So starting off on Monday, one of the 16th We have numbers in China Fix fixed asset investment industrial production and retail sales. This is going to give us a gauge of how How fast the Chinese economy is slowing down I Keep mind the most recent industrial production figures fell to the lowest reading since the credit crisis So that gives an indication of how things are going in that regard on Tuesday We have the kind of OPEC plus as it's called meet with the announcement from OPEC plus in relation to So traders will be listing out for any kind of commentary in relation to what kind of production If any kind of changes they're going to introduce on Tuesday, we have first quarter numbers from FedEx The U.S. Delivery personal delivery company. The group is often seen as a barometer for For for demand in the U.S. Through the parts of delivery business people are buying consuming a lot of goods They're using that they were using them. They will be using the services of All FedEx Looking at Wednesday CPI we have Eurozone CPI coming out final reading of August CPI reading from the Eurozone We are first the first half results from King Fisher. They're in the home improvements business They've also got a new CEO coming into the fold in the next number of months Fed Reserve meeting on Wednesday as a covered We have first half figures from next and Next I've actually Had a pretty good start to the year in terms of the Q1 results and the company apparently is quite well prepared for a No-deal Brexit as mentioned Bank of England meeting on Thursday And on Friday, we've Canadian retail sales and we also Canadian inflation figures coming out on Wednesday So as promised, I'll take a look at some of the major markets as a first-ever look at the The British pound versus the US dollar so wider trend very much of the downside, but we saw a sharp move higher last Last week this candle here this daily candle here as good looks looks to me like a hammer formation So the market is bouncing back very both but followed by a very bullish candle here The mark has been pressing higher Failing to be a few days in rope were to closed above the fifth day moving average this blue line here and today I pressed on higher to a level not seen since late July So if you could hold above the fifth day moving average this blue line here on the and the pound versus US dollar We could look to get a press up towards this zone here in around one spot 26 and Move to the downside Move back below the fifth of the moving average could take us back towards 122 and a slice of break below that I could take us back down sub 120. I take a look now. What's going on with the footsie? So the footsie like global stock markets has broadly moved higher in the last number of weeks Yesterday got to a level last seen in early August. So things are moving to the upside But they're moving quite slowly to be perfectly honest And you can have upward moving any solid move to the upside in the British pound tends to curtail or cap the footsie's game But nonetheless if you can hold above this region here in around 7,300 306 if you hold above that we could press on higher from here and should we take out the 7400 metric we could be looking at targeting this old year around 7,470 If you do have a slice of break below the 7,300 region we could be looking at any effect towards the turdy moving average this red line here and that comes into play around 7,210 So the footsie isn't please isn't it's an okay shape It's cut to be above its foot. It's dirty moving average But it's another good shape as the tax or the S&P 500 which you can want to in a second So you can see here stellar move to the upside in the tax where that level is not last seen in late July If you continue to press on higher from here, we could really get retesting this the old year 12,600 or 12,660 move the downside should we see a bit of support commit should we drift lower support to be found from the 12,300 region or perhaps from this yellow line here the water to moving average and that comes to play just north of 12,100 I'll take a look now finally at the S&P 500 And the S&P 500 even though cash trading in the US hasn't began yet. We're calling it around 3,021 22 so we're talking about not too far away from a record high in the S&P 500 So it really gives indication of a bullet sentiment days in the US If you continue to press on higher from here, we could be looking at heading heading up towards the 3,030 40 marks one and support heading into into a Create look we're looking like it. We're going to create continue to create further odd for further record highs If you do drift back 3,000 a big psychological number that area might provide some support And but if you do have a fairly sizable sell-off support could be found from this blue line here Which is the fifth of the moving average You can see it act as a resistance on a few occasions recently So might act to support in the near term But there's no guarantee about that and that comes to play at 2,947 Just before I finish up if you have any comments to make on this video or any of the other videos We've made here at CMC. Please feel free to leave review on Google views. Thank you very much


Hi everybody, this is Tossos with RF elements and today we'll be talking about what's an antenna. An antenna is a device that transmits and receives electromagnetic waves. It's an interface between a wave traveling in a cable and flying through the air. It's also important to understand that antennas work in both directions. You can't have an antenna that only receives or only transmits. Electromagnetic waves have an electrical and a magnetic component. Two basic properties of a wave are frequency and wavelength. This says how many times a wave repeats its shape per second. Wavelength is the distance over which the wave repeats its shape. For example at 10 gigahertz the wavelength is roughly 30 millimeters long. At 5 gigahertz it's roughly 60 millimeters long. And at 2.4 gigahertz it's roughly 120 millimeters long and so on. So how does an antenna work? In order to explain that we need to break it down into the two most common types of antenna categories. Resonant and Aperture antennas. Resonant antennas, as the name suggests, function on the principle of resonance. When an antenna resonates it radiates the signal that's fed to it. The simplest example of a resonant antenna is a wire or a dipole. The length of the dipole has to be equal to at least half of the signal wavelength in order for it to work. This means that the radiation properties and bandwidth which is usually quite narrow depend on the size of the antenna. Some examples of antennas based on resonant elements are patches, loops and yaggies. Aperture antennas radiate electromagnetic waves through an opening. An example of Aperture antennas would be a horn. The radiation diagram of an aperture antenna depends on the size and the shape of the aperture but their bandwidth of operation depends on the size and the shape of the feeding structure. This is why the radiation properties and performance of horn antennas are very stable over a very wide band. The main parameters of an antenna are the frequency range, the shape of its radiation pattern and its gain. So we'll talk about some of these topics in our next video.


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