It was a year of preparation, especially for the reusable space shuttle. Astronomers were able to point an orbiting telescope at stars while aiming and making corrections much like ground-based observatories. Pioneer spacecraft arrived at Venus and landed on that planet's shrouded surface. The voyagers continued their journey toward Jupiter and Saturn. With the Department of Energy, NASA built a wind generator for a small New Mexico town and in aeronautics, a wide range of research projects to improve both general and commercial aviation. If all goes according to schedule, scenes like this, a reusable space shuttle making its final approach to land will be a common sight beginning next fall. Many of the tests and much of the training to prepare for that historic first flight took place in 1978. 47-year-old John Young, veteran of two Gemini and two Apollo space flights, will be commander for the first manned shuttle mission. Here, he practices making landings in a space shuttle simulator at the Johnson Space Center with Robert Crippen, the 40-year-old astronaut who will fly with Young as pilot. Anticipating the space shuttle's flight schedule in the years ahead, NASA selected 35 new candidate astronauts in 1978 to begin training as shuttle mission specialists and pilots. The 35, including six women, were chosen from nearly 8,000 applicants and will be training until mid-1980. Enterprise was flown in its now-familiar plain-on-plain berth from California to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where the first time all the major components of the space shuttle transportation system came together for testing. When completely assembled, the shuttle orbiter will sit astride two recoverable solid rockets and atop a giant external fuel tank. The entire system was subjected to vibrations similar to those that will occur at launch. At the Thyacall Corporation Facility in Utah, a shuttle booster that will produce about 2.65 million pounds of thrust at launch was successfully test-fired again. Each of the space shuttle's three main engines that will provide the orbiter with its primary power from launch pad almost to Earth orbit were also successfully tested. Work is continuing on the second shuttle orbiter at the Rockwell Plant in California. This is the spacecraft that will actually make the first flight with astronauts Young and Crippen at the controls. Looking farther ahead, Marshall Space Flight Center engineers have been studying problems that astronauts may face during future shuttle missions and they are doing it underwater. This is one of the few ways that near-weightless maneuvers can be practiced here on Earth. 1978 was a very busy year for space science. One of the most ambitious missions involved two pioneer spacecraft that were launched toward a rendezvous and landing on this planet, Venus. Scientists believe that by studying the weather of Venus, they can learn about our weather here on Earth. The Pioneer Orbiter spacecraft is programmed to circle Venus every 24 hours, studying the upper fringes of the Venusian atmosphere as it travels along. The second spacecraft, the multi-probe, is made up of a space bus with four data-gathering spheres that plunge down simultaneously to different parts of Venus, returning valuable information about its 900-degree surface and carbon dioxide environment. This is a computer representation of the atmosphere of Jupiter. Two unmanned Voyager spacecraft are en route to Jupiter now. This Voyager will reach the planet in March 1979, followed by the second spacecraft four months later. Then on to Saturn. At the time of closest encounter on November 12, 1980, Voyager 1 will have traveled 1.4 billion miles through space. The Voyager missions make it possible for scientists to go back in time and sample the conditions from which the Sun and planets, including the Earth, are believed to have formed. IUE, International Ultraviolet Explorer, is a telescope in space, which is operated effectively in real time by astronomers on the ground. Visiting astronomers at the Goddard Space Flight Center can have the telescope pointed, decide what data to take, and modify their measurements as they observe. With craft like IUE, scientists can begin thinking in terms of observatories in space as facilities. Also launched in 1978, the second in a series of high-energy astronomy observatories, HEO-2. The 7,000-pound spacecraft carries a large X-ray telescope with four major experiments, which can be pointed at specific objects to study them in detail. The high-energy explorers are giving astronomers a different view of our universe and helping us to better understand it. The space telescope moved through another manufacturing phase this year at the Corning Glass Works in upstate New York and is scheduled for deployment by the Shuttle Orbiter in 1983. Looking from space with instruments in space, we can see the universe in ways that are impossible from the ground, bringing us closer to even greater discoveries in cosmic astronomy. There was continued and increased emphasis on applications in 1978. Landsat 3, a remote-sensing spacecraft, was orbited. Efforts like these over the next decade will try to develop a capability to watch and understand what's happening on the surface of the Earth, land and water, and to put all that data together in such a way that it can be used as management information for the global environment. Before its so-far unexplained short circuit, the first CSAT collected data for 99 days. What it returned during that time were images of sea ice, waves, coastal conditions, and various landforms. It also measured sea surface wind speeds and temperatures. Project scientists expect it will take more than a year and a half to process the data collected by CSAT. This is Beth, a perfectly healthy child of a NASA employee at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. She is shown here testing out the fit and mobility of an isolation suit that can be used by a youngster with a rare disorder known as severe combined immune deficiency disease. Because of his inability to fight off even the most common germs, 7-year-old David has had to be confined in sterile isolation since birth. The NASA-developed isolation suit now allows David to get out and at least do some of the things normal children enjoy. Ben Abruzzo and Maxi Anderson, two of the three men that crossed the Atlantic using a helium-filled balloon, stopped by the Goddard Space Flight Center to meet some of the people who monitored their flight with the help of the Nimbus-6 satellite. On their first attempt, the Nimbus-6 beacon made it possible to alert air-sea rescue when they became lost in a heavy storm. So for the second try, Ben Abruzzo said they decided to take along an extra beacon. On the second flight, because of the fact that we knew that the only link we had with the world on the first flight was the satellite transmitter, we had two. Again, the information came to us in flight telling us of our course and our position. It confirmed the weather data that our base station had and allowed us to change altitude properly so that we were able to complete the flight successfully. And in fact, on the tail end of it, we changed altitude and vectored ourselves onto a very close destination proximity of Paris. Last January, the first large operational wind generator to be used in the United States in several decades began producing electricity. The place Clayton, New Mexico, population about 2,900. The project is funded by the Department of Energy and managed by NASA's Lewis Research Center in Cleveland. The 100-foot-high wind generator is capable of producing 200 kilowatts that feed directly into Clayton's utility system, about enough to electrify 60 homes. The research is aimed at improving performance and helping determine the future cost of electric power generated by wind systems. In aeronautics, the emphasis is on basic research and basic technology, preparing the way for future advances in aviation. At the same time, NASA continues to develop technologies to the point where industry can take them up. One of the major research efforts involves using full-scale wind tunnels and other facilities to improve crop-dusting aircraft. Studies of house spraying is affected in the wake behind the airplane. Handling qualities, fuel efficiency, and overall airplane performance are the goals. See those vertical fins on the wingtips of this small business jet? Those are called winglets, and they were invented by Dr. Richard T. Whitcomb of NASA's Langley Research Center. What the winglets do is reduce the drag on the plane as it moves through the air, saving fuel in the process. Just about any plane can benefit from the largest jet cargo tankers to small cross-country planes like this one made for the home-built market. Again and again, engineering research pilot Jim Patton forces his single-engine plane into a stall spin. What he and the data-gathering engineers on the ground are trying to do is improve the design for wings and tail sections of airplanes to make them more resistant to stall spins. This type problem accounts for about 30% of crash fatalities in small private airplanes. Combinations of wind tunnels, simulators, radio-controlled model flights, and full-scale tests are used to gather the needed data. This is an experimental XV-15 tilt rotor aircraft being put through its paces in the 40-by-80-foot wind tunnel at NASA's Ames Research Center. The plane's engines are designed to tilt from vertical to horizontal in mid-flight, making it possible for the craft to take off, hover and land like a helicopter, and it can cruise at the speed of a fast subsonic airplane. This research is an attempt to develop more economical short-haul intercity transportation. At Ames, they are also flying this experimental jet called the QSRA, meaning Quiet Short-Hall Research Aircraft, a plane that can operate at lower noise levels than most of today's small aircraft, carry the same payload as a 727 jet and be able to land on a runway as short as 1500 feet. At the Lewis Research Center, engineers are working to reduce noise and air pollution on aircraft engines that will one day be used for short-haul commuter-type planes. Aircraft in the 300 to 500-mile range was customarily land at smaller airports. To move ahead in research and development and plan the aircraft of 15 to 20 years from now, NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in California has been test-flying the YF-12, an airplane that cruises at three times the speed of sound. Being studied are heating, flight stability and control, and structural dynamics, all factors that have great impact on the design and performance of future aircraft. There were two anniversaries in 1978 that need to be noted. 75 years ago, Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first successful powered flight in an airplane. It was also just 20 years ago that the space program officially began, an extension of the basic Wright Brothers flight. 1978, a year of progress in both aeronautics and space research. This special report brought to you by NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.


Sam Watkins of Bradford City, how does it feel to be here first and foremost? First it's an honour to be here, I think at a football club of this magnitude. It's a real privilege to be able to put on the shirt and I'm here to help the team and the club move back towards where the club belongs. How did the move come about? It's January, I imagine things happened quite quickly yesterday if you're medical and everything fell into place I imagine. Last few days obviously I know Colin Dall from my time at Kilmarnock, we worked together for a year up there. I really enjoyed working with him so he dropped us a line over the weekend just to see what my situation was. My deal with Charlton ran out on Monday and there was an offer from them to extend that but I was certainly obviously as a player interested in coming to a club like this. If the option was there and I think things would have been with Harry quite quickly and it came up yesterday and signed on the dotted line. How good is it having somebody like Doyle here as you go to the coach? Like you say, that relationship is already there, I've worked with him at Kilmarnock. Having players like Ash Taylor as well who you know already in the building coming in and making you settling easier I guess a little bit. Yeah it certainly helps, I think I'm at an age now where I've been a player for 13, 14, 15 years. You know people at most places in the game. I had a year with Doyle and then two years with Ash at Kilmarnock and enjoyed working with them both enormously. Looking forward to catching up with them and obviously meeting all the other guys from what I've been told it's a really good group up here so looking forward to getting going straight away. You mentioned you come with plenty of experience, relevant recent experience at Charlton as well. Have you played a couple of games for them this season but also around clubs like Colchester over 200 appearances? For them you've had quite the career so far haven't you? Yeah I think obviously the vast amount of my experiences is over league one and two. Obviously sandwich with a couple of years in Scotland which I really enjoyed. So yeah bring a lot of experience looking forward to helping the team with that experience and the way that I play. Quite a calm composed goalkeeper so try to exude that calmness into the back line and into the team and yeah like I said I'm here to help the team move up towards the player spots and hopefully beyond. Does it help coming into a club where the management team hasn't been in place for too long? It's sort of turned over a new leaf for the whole club in a sense when a new manager comes in fresh ideas and things like that. The team being on relative for good form recently. You coming in a fresh start for you, a fresh start for the club all on the same page if that makes sense. Yeah it can do and I think even in the short time I've been here you can feel there's a bit of a freshness around the place. I had a good conversation with the manager last night and yeah just can't wait to get going really. Like you said the lads have been on a good bit of form, picked up a really good result on Tuesday night in the cup as well which is always a good positive. Winning is a mentality and if you can win those sorts of games it just breeds a good positive atmosphere around the place. Yeah like I said, can't wait to get going and get out on the grass this morning. You will have played at Valley Parade before. What were your experiences when you played there and how much you are looking forward to now playing the representing brother city? Yeah I can't wait.  Obviously we've got an away game actually outcultures to this Saturday to deal with first but yeah I'm hugely excited and like I said honoured to be given the opportunity to play at Valley Parade for Bradford City, I've played there a few times against them and it's always a very tough place to play and if the city team are on top then it's usually a very difficult place to come out of with the results so yeah really looking forward to that. Having that support behind you're not just at home the average crowd is 15, 16, 17,000 plus but away you see Derby on Tuesday night as you mentioned over 730 there. That must help as well having that backing behind you when you're in the goal so close to the fans as well you feel that support from them. Yeah it's huge you quite often as a goalkeeper you're usually close to them for one of the halves and I've always loved that sort of thing and I'm very big on the fans being a big part of what teams do and I think obviously with the support that we have here harnessing that to get behind the team is only going to be a beneficial thing. So yeah I'm really looking forward to home and away meeting some of the fans as well I'm not on any of the socials I'm a bit old school like that but I'm always very happy to have a conversation in the street outside the stadium wherever it is and chat football or chat life whatever it is so yeah really looking forward to meeting the fans. You mentioned Colchester up first this weekend for you quite poignant really your former team it's going to be quite strange I guess visiting Colchester again but looking forward to going and making your debut there hopefully. Yeah very much so it's funny how football works in these little ways where things happen and they call it what you will but yeah to go back there I've not been back there since I left actually so it'll be a really exciting and special day for me and my family and family are hopefully going to come and watch the game. So yeah it'll be good to see some old faces after the game but certainly for me my full focus is on Braffa City getting three points at Colchester on Saturday. Have you got a final message for those supporters that will be looking forward to seeing you in action? Just that it's a genuine honour and a privilege to be here at a club like this and I can't wait to see you out there and looking forward to very much helping the team and getting us back to where we belong.


Aloha and welcome to Reg Baker Business in Hawaii. We broadcast live every Thursday from 2 to 2.30 from the downtown studios of Think Tech Hawaii and Pioneer Plaza. We are a show that highlights success in Hawaii of businesses and individuals and organizations that support businesses. Today we're going to talk a little bit with the Military Transition Council, it's called Master C. They've been guests here before. This is a returning event for them, so I just want to welcome both Craig and Chase back to the show. Good to have you here. Thanks for having us, Reg. Great to be back on the show again and we're excited to provide you with some updates. Alright, very good. Well, and there's been a lot going on. You guys have been awful busy for the last six months. Can you give us a little bit of an update on what you've been up to? Yeah, absolutely. So the biggest milestone that we achieved since the last time we spoke was actually we're now a registered 501C3 corporation, a non-profit organization here in the state of Hawaii. Our mission, I think we've finally sharpened our knife a little bit and we've come to a realization that our organization is now going to be focusing on employment services, on community engagement and enrichment and also crisis management. So those are the three products of our business. We've learned a lot of lessons, yeah. And this is related to military in Hawaii and how to make it more comfortable for them here and maybe even help with the transition into the community. That's right. So we're absolutely focused on military transition population, whether they're new on island and they've never been to Hawaii and they really want to engage and integrate or whether they're looking to end their military career here in their military family, looking to call Hawaii home. Very good. And we talked a little bit about this in the show a few months ago, but we've got here in Hawaii a very low retention rate for military transitioning out into the civilian employment. Can you kind of refresh us a little bit on what that rate is? Yeah, absolutely. The current transition rate in Hawaii or the retention rate of veterans that have made the determination of their service is at 3%. Comparatively, if we look at the mainland, we actually see about a 33% retention rate at other military locations. Big difference. Huge difference. Yeah. And the things we just touched on last time we were here, Reg, were the economic impacts. As you know, the GI bill was $112,000 over 36 months. The VA home loan is in the mid $500,000 range. We've, through some of our economic modeling, been able to share with the state that every veteran, not even including his family, is up to $144,000 total economic commerce created annually. So it's a compounded benefit with more veterans than in Hawaii. Of course.  I mean, it starts piling up pretty quick. Absolutely. The value. Our company is looking to actually increase that retention rate from 3% or we want to get it to about 10% annually. Part of our efforts in doing that is showing that Hawaii is a place that can provide a sustainable living for veterans after transition. Upfront, Reg, we understand not everyone's meant to stay in Hawaii. There are certain folks that probably can't make it or that aren't interested in it. But there's a lot of people and we've talked to classrooms and classrooms times 100 now of folks that say they wish they could, they just don't think it's possible. Well they don't know how to start, they don't know where to begin. In some cases have kind of an isolated living style while they're in the military and now all of a sudden they're going to start transitioning out. There are certain things that they need to be doing to kind of get comfortable with that process to integrate into the community. For sure and part of the process that is already federally mandated right now is the Transition Assistance Program or TAP as it's known. That program offers essentially a shotgun amount of resources. As soon as you approach the program they basically give you about a five day intensive workshop that by the time you get done it's usually meant to get you back to your home of record. So it's not really meant to retain you in state but you have enough resources where you can make do until the transition happens. The difference here with Master C is that we provide state specific resources so if someone were to come to our organization instead of being told that there's no opportunity in Hawaii we're telling them that the opportunity is here for them to grab. Right and the know-how really isn't there and some of the things that are really practical and necessary aren't being taught to these veterans. I talked to two different gentlemen yesterday. One's GI Bill H population young 20s wants to get out and go to UH but he's in a barracks he shops on post for his groceries and hasn't joined any civic organizations or volunteer organizations on the outside. Another gentleman 20 years his senior has a family again they live on post even though they own a house from a previous duty assignment here and the kids play sports on post and they haven't really integrated yet and we had a frank conversation that said if you really want to become a member of this community one you need to know how much a gallon of milk is at Foodland two you need to think about joining Rotary joining the Chamber of Commerce and really getting immersed in what the needs are here. Right you know what's very interesting to me is that you know these individuals are very talented they've been trained they've got a good work ethic they're trainable they can learn and yet we're not tapping into that here in Hawaii to take advantage of that even with our unemployment as low as it is. You know and the term has been used pretty collectively amongst the transition community is called the the brain drain you know the military is investing all these dollars into these you know highly trained individuals you know whether it be officer enlisted and we're just letting them walk away you know from Hawaii that is. And just to supplement that Craig you know we're in the gym whether it's on the Marine Corps base or on Schofield you can't look up at the TV but every five minutes and there's a I'm not even going to say the website but you know a state of what states like Florida and Texas are trying to recruit veterans because they understand that the value and all the corollaries. So they're aggressively going after them. That's right. Yeah and you know for us here in Hawaii with our unemployment so low and needing it's so hard to find good people and a lot of companies need those individuals. We seem to have a very large inventory of those available to us. We just need to learn how to reach up and get them. The populations don't talk. It's one of the things that we decided to do something about but it's almost a phenomena. There's the military spouses and then there are the service members that think there's some sort of chasm in between them and downtown in Honolulu. But then the same thing as the HR managers are talking about the ones we've spoken with. We're at 70% capacity. There's 3% unemployment. We need skills and we're here to really try to connect those bodies. So now with that being said what are you doing to help connect the employers with the potential employees? So over the past six months we've been running a pretty aggressive gorilla campaign. Going out speaking with different influencers in the community, employers, private industry and and in the government as well. And we've been connecting them with the resources that are available. Not only in the veteran population but also within other organizations that might provide similar resources. So we've had a three pronged approach, Reg. We had a lot of pie-in-the-sky ideas and still legitimate needs last time we spoke but we've had to pivot and focus down on some things. The first is our crisis coordination and like our red alert services. We can go into that if you'd like. The second is really capitalizing on the programs. The military is already trying to do for transitioning veterans and make it happen here in Hawaii. DoD skill bridge is one of those big ones that we're really helping with businesses. And the third is just straight-up veteran employment and spouse employment whether it's a teacher in the DOE that they need a substitute or whether it's a secretary or nurse in the health care industry. Well, let's talk for a second about the bridge that you mentioned. I was fascinated. It seems like it's a really great opportunity for some companies to actually try it out and see how the veteran works and if they like them they can keep them. If not then they can move on. Explain a little bit more about that. Yeah, absolutely. So we've got two companies right now that are in the process of this and have already started to take on two service members. The program is the military depending on your service. There are different levels of development, but we'll pay up to six months of your last paycheck really as you exit your term of service while you go in and work in industry. So Blue Startups and Man Mortgage, they've already taken in some folks that are still being paid by the military, but they are working full time as an intern unpaid. So for Hawaiian businesses, there's this huge opportunity that's not being tapped right now. You can have a highly skilled, highly trainable service member for up to six months before they enter the job market. And that's what we're really trying to use as that pathway. To me as a past employer, I would look at that as an opportunity to bring somebody on board and get six months of time to train them and orientate them to my business and the way I operate. And it won't cost me a penny. You know, and it's great for the veteran on the other side as well, you know, they get some experience in industry, which is something that I think is a hurdle for most veterans when they come out, you know, the employer general say that, you know, you only had experience in the military, you had no civilian experience. So one thing for them is that I give them an opportunity to get a six month, you know, familiarization with, you know, company that might be interested in or an industry they're interested in. Yeah, no, I've encountered that myself when I transitioned out many years ago. And that was a big obstacle. Is it okay? Great. Maybe you flourished and did well in the military, but you don't know how to transition into a civilian. Exactly. You know, and having that six months experience can pretty much address that. Absolutely. It gives the veteran confidence to and it gives some time for the family to really understand what it's like. Not shown up to work out formation in the morning, but to make sure that they have a whole different side of the expectations and responsibilities and really in a different culture. And so that gives them that adjustment period as well. Very good. If somebody wanted to find out more information on abridge program, how could they go about getting that? Yeah, absolutely. So we have a donation website that we'd love for anybody to come in and visit as well as outreach on our Facebook or LinkedIn. Yeah, Craig, I mean, that's he's our big outreach and guy there. So they would go to your website and then, you know, that bridge program where an employer can actually hire somebody and bring them on board. There would be more information on your website about that. Absolutely. When they want to, when it's an employer looking to take on an intern, they can go onto our website and they can just put in an application to say, Hey, I'm looking for, you know, potential veteran to, you know, augment our services or just come in and, you know, just get a feel for the market. You know, so they can do that through our website, she'll have posted at the end of the video. And what Chase was talking about with the donor site, you know, anything that anyone could provide to help us along with this program or make it more prolific than they can donate to our program as well. Well, if I was an employer and I was going to be getting six months of labor that I could help train somebody and get them ready to go full time with me, I wouldn't mind kicking in a few hundred dollars to cover some of the cost of that. Well, we'll hold you to that. And yeah, every service has different benefits and bonuses. The Air Force, I know, will contribute up to $5,000 for a service member to get certification in that last six months, even year period before transition. So if there are more technical jobs, I know there are in Hawaii, well, then the veterans have a fund for that. So it's it's able to be grabbed. Yeah. No, that's great. And I think it would be who I guess all employers, if they're having a hard time finding qualified individuals to work for them, they should at least explore this option and see if there's something there that might work. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, you know, if at the end of their term with the CSP program, when they're looking to transition out of the community into the community, it's an opportunity for them to potentially find employment right out the gate. So it's a good transitional program. That's very good. And we're going to have to take a short break. We're going to be back in about 60 seconds. And we're going to continue the conversation here about the military retention and what some of the value is by having a higher retainage rate in Hawaii for our veterans as they transition into civilian life. But this is business in Hawaii, and we'll be back in about 60 seconds. Of Hawaii is my mainland every Friday at 3pm on Think Tech Hawaii. We talk about things of interest to those of us who live here. And my past blogs can be found at kawelukas.com. Okay, I didn't listen. Aloha and welcome back to Business in Hawaii with Reg Baker. We're here today talking about the military transition and what we can do to increase retainage and take a value of some of the very valuable resources that are available through the military and the veterans that are coming out. We've got a very low unemployment rate here in Hawaii. I hear all the time from businesses having a difficult time trying to hire good quality trainable individuals. But we've got a huge untapped inventory of exactly those types of people available to us as they transition out of active duty into civilian life here in Hawaii. And so we're going to learn a little bit more about that. We talked a little bit about the red flag program that is there to help people in need. Can someone explain a little bit more about that? Yeah, it's actually we call it React. It's an acronym for Red Alert Crisis Team. And the purpose behind the program is to prevent people from falling into those precarious patterns where they either find themselves in underemployment, unemployment, financial crisis, housing crisis, the typical issues that face veterans upon transition. So what our program is centered around is mitigating those risks or finding ways to completely alleviate those risks for those veterans. Yeah, sorry to cut in there. But because there are so many different veteran organizations already on the island, there are a lot of people that get in these precarious situations. They get a eviction notice, right? And the organization they know of doesn't quite help them in that scenario can only help them part of the way. So in the last couple of weeks, we've received a handfuls of folks that have been recommended by other service organizations. And we go into that red alert mode where we're calling a host of our partners. And we're saying, Hey, can you help with utilities? Hey, can you help with the transportation or daycare? Yeah, our program isn't centered around creating any more red tape than there already is. What we want to do is serve as the hub where we recommend out to these other resources that already exist. That way, you know, they're not falling into a category where they don't understand what we're doing, but we're getting them to the right resources. Well, in a sense, and what I'm hearing is that, you know, I always heard these horror stories about how the vets are homeless and all this kind of stuff. But this type of program actually helps address some of that and keeps them, you know, from being on the street keeps them in a place and some shelter and security that allows them to continue to work and take care of their families. Yes, absolutely.  It's about, you know, the following with it as well.  We want to make sure that they're self-sustaining for the long run. I want to highlight one program is actually vocational rehab. It's something that the VA offers that is massively underutilized. You know, it provides a basic BAH and it also gets them trained into some sort of industry to rebrand themselves to get themselves back out there and working again. It's, you know, it's what what kind of training is this? Is it technical training? So actually the candidate for the program has to be at least 10% disabled. There's some other qualifying conditions, but predicated on that they meet all those conditions, then they can be trained in pretty much any career path they want, even educational as well. The real bottom line to this is, Reg, for all the people that have reached out to us saying, Hey, I need help. They haven't heard of the different federal organizations and pools of money that are already set up for them. So we've been finding a lot of sex success just really grasping arms with people that are already in service. Very good. And I guess you're right. There probably are many organizations out there that are all kind of trying to help everybody in their own way, all of which is maybe focused more or less to a specific branch of the military. But there's not anyone that kind of brings it all together and kind of helps people find which one's the best for them. I guess that's where the name master comes from. That's where we come in. Yeah, our master console is based on the fact that we bring in organizations as a hub of resources. We don't have to recreate the wheel for everything. But we can help people along and find the right path that they need. Right. And so it's maybe one day pre crisis coordination for a family. Then it's getting the GI bill into one of the universities downtown. And then maybe three years later, it's looking for some internship or employment opportunity. So it's not a one time thing. I mean, somebody comes to you for help. You just don't help them and say bye. You actually can help them for a whole period of time. Yeah, our console is thick with them and we do a lot of follow through as well.  And we're not recommending somebody, hey, go talk to this veteran organization. It's go talk to this person who deals with this issue at this and then get back to us to tell us how it went. Actually, you know, I've been working with you guys and known you guys, I guess, for about six or nine months now, maybe a little longer. But you've developed over that short period of time a very extensive network.  Yeah, part of how we initially got started was literally just through gorilla campaigning. We went out there, we hosted meetings, you know, we reached up to plenty of different organizations and every mover and shaker in the community, such as yourself. Or yeah, I read just from you and I won't be able to list all of our just deep mentors, but whether it's the Military Affairs Committee, whether it's the Chamber of Commerce, whether it's been Mr. Livingston through the Rotary and all his organizations, Dennis Kwok with the Veteran Business Outreach Center. There's a community here that really wants success and wants a great environment for its veterans. It just seems like there might be one piece missing and that's somebody to crown them all together. Right, and you know, I think there's a lot of on the civilian side of people that are former military or veterans that have formed this group of support. What we need to be able to do is try to get into the different commands and make these individuals, I guess, you know, connect the dots, you know, just to make sure that everybody in all the different commands around the state understand that there's these resources out there and have them engage and help with that transition. And that's our next phase, really. It's once we've got some consolidated support from the community where we can go to the military chain of commands and say, this is worth it. You have a body of consolidated support, whether it be from the state house, private organizations, to nonprofits, then that's when I think we're really ready for it. So it's going to be exciting. I'm going to ask kind of a peripheral question here that's related to employment. But, you know, Hawaii has always been looking for a way to quote unquote diversify their economy. And we've looked at different opportunities in that area. And one of them is technology and innovation, that sort of thing. And a lot of it's based out at the University of Hawaii and the Manoa Technology Center. What percentage do you think of the military have computer skills these days? Oh, that's a it's a difficult thing to say.  Yeah. And I'm talking about, you know, people that are considered experts, you know, they've had certifications, you know, above for those that have a tech background out there, above security plus. You know, we do see it. And there is actually there is a rising demand in information technology and management. And, you know, there is also a rising amount of people that have those skills that each year. Yeah. And there's a lot of folks that are in the military that have to be able to multitask and be generalists and teach yourself everything about, you know, not just Microsoft Suite, but project management tools to run an operation. And so registered to, you know, 30, 40% of folks who are very, very capable at, you know, everything. Right. I was just going to say that it's, you know, in today's world of technology, I mean, everybody's got some level of understanding of technology and utilizes it pretty much on a daily basis. You know, there's hundreds, if not thousands of computers. And I, you know, I'm a former Navy guy and I go on a ship. The whole ship is computerized. Everything is connected. Absolutely. Well, you know, we do have a rising generation of the digital natives, you know, those that are born and bred into the electronic devices that, you know, they've probably been playing with since they were three years old in some regard or another.  Well, and that's kind of where I was headed with this, is that, you know, if there's any company at all in Hawaii that's looking for somebody that's got some technical skills in the technical computer area, they should certainly, as one of their options, take a look at what the military has to offer, because there's some good skill set there. Absolutely, Reggie. Most major corporations on Hawaii need folks that are experts or semi-experts in information technology. I know Blue Startups does great work as a startup incubator, and I've been to a few of their outreach nights, and very frequently they're looking for programmers or people with computer skills for all these startups. And so another one is, and it's a startup here in Hawaii, is Patriotic Online Marketplace. And it sort of blends what we were talking about because it's an e-commerce space for veterans and military families to sell to America. And so that's really headquartered here in Hawaii, and we've got a remote team, and yeah, that's growing here at Pompeo USA.org. So that's a good example of the type of company that the individuals, the veterans, can set up and operate in Hawaii. Is this online service available to military personnel around the country? Right. And that's exactly the type of industry that Hawaii is looking for. You know, in kind of connecting the dots, you know, we talked a little bit about growing the economy here. We do see a enormous, you know, push to make Hawaii more service or technology driven. So, you know, these companies like Blue Startups are helping incubate and create potentially new spinoff industries through veterans that, you know, want to become an entrepreneur. And my state senator, Senator De La Cruz, out in Oahu, he's really pushing agricultural and technology integration. So whether it's, you know, an e-commerce marketplace or whether it's ag tech, it's definitely happening here and it's growing. And folks like Shinoah Blue Startups have really helped push that as well. Well, and that's good. Let me just ask you another question here that's kind of peripheral. But I mean, you guys have had some good success at creating this thing, getting up and running. You're both vets. You're both transitioning out and one's a little bit ahead of the other. And but what are some of the challenges that you guys have personally encountered? I mean, what is, I mean, just as advice to the people, the military that are going through it right now?  I would tell those that are planning on doing it or, you know, have an inkling that they might want to stay here in Hawaii is just fear not. It's actually completely sustainable. There are jobs here that are available for them. And you know, the Hawaiian culture, I mean, it's paradise here. I mean, it's a beautiful place to live and there's plenty of opportunity. You know, to side up along with that reg, there is a different culture and I'm still learning things, right? And I imagine I will continue to learn things for the next couple of decades. But it's really getting out and immersing yourself, right? Thankfully, my wife, Samantha, they started working at Meta Gold Dairy and they, you know, wrapped their arms around her and helped her and said, hey, listen, like this is, this is how we do things here and not in New York City. I'm frankly glad for some of the ways we do business here. It's like, it's friendship first. It's a lo-ha first. It's refreshing. It's refreshing. But that's not the same as where everyone else is from. And so whether it's, you know, joining these civic organizations, that's where we feel there's a lot of success to happen. And then joining sports teams. I decided I was going to stay in Hawaii after coaching middle school football. I just said this is where I want to be. Super. Very good. Well, I for one welcome you and glad that you guys decided to stick around. And I think it's a great project to have to try to figure out how we can tap into this very valuable resource that sometimes we forget is sitting there. But we got to wrap up the show. I want to thank you both very much for being on the show again. And maybe in a few months we'll have you come back and give us another update. And you can tell us about all the different people that you've been able to help over the three or four weeks. Thank you very much. This is business in Hawaii with Reg Baker. We broadcast live every Thursday from two to two 30. And we discuss success stories in Hawaii of businesses, individuals and organizations that help individuals and businesses to success. Until next Thursday. Aloha.


The accounts we've been learning about can be categorized in a number of different ways. We've categorized accounts by which financial statement they're reported on. We've categorized accounts by whether they are current or long term. And now we're going to learn to categorize accounts in a new way, temporary or permanent. Temporary accounts are closed at the end of the period. Closed means to zero the account balance. Current accounts are unaffected by closing journal entries, with the exception of owner's capital. The income summary account, which is a new account for us, is a transitional account into which all revenues and expense accounts are transferred at the end of the period. The net amount transferred equals our net income or net loss. This account is rarely used by companies, but some textbooks still show this method, so we want to cover it. So the closing journal entries is a formal process of moving revenues, expenses, and owner's withdrawals to owner's capital. You recall very early on that we learned that revenues increase equity, while expenses and owner's withdrawals decrease equity. Up until this point, that has all been conceptual. When we record the closing journal entries, this is when those impacts on equity actually happen. And finally, we close accounts to prepare our accounts to begin the next accounting period with zero balances. Here's some data from Coca-Cola's 2013 financial statements. The operating revenue is a temporary account. The amounts shown are the amounts earned in that year, not the total amount of revenue Coke has ever earned. Since each year revenues are closed, so that Coke can begin tracking revenues for the next year. Cash, on the other hand, is not closed. This is the amount of cash Coke had on hand at the end of last year. It wouldn't make sense to close this account and start the new year with a zero balance in our cash account. Coke would start the new year with a beginning balance that was last year's ending balance. So let's look at the adjusted trial balance and learn how to make closing journal entries. Here is an example of an adjusted trial balance. We could have also used the financial statements to make the closing journal entries. Let's start with service revenue, which has a credit balance of $4,000. The first journal entry is to close revenues to income summary. Since revenues have a $4,000 credit balance, we will debit service revenue to make the balance zero. Income summary will then be credited. After posting this entry, the balance and service revenue account is zero. Note that if we would have had more than one revenue account, like rent revenue and interest revenue, we would have included them in the journal entry like this. Next, we will close our expense accounts. The second journal entry is to close expenses to income summary. We record our expenses separately in the journal entry because each account needs to be zeroed out. You can see that in the example. Income summary will then be debited for the total of the expenses. After posting this journal entry, our expenses will all be zeroed out. The third closing journal entry is to close income summary to owner's capital. To do this, we need to figure out the ending balance in income summary. Once we've posted the first two journal entries, we can determine the balance in income summary. The balance should equal our net income. In this case, the balance is $700 credit. So to close income summary, we will debit the account $700. The balance is now zero, and it will remain zero until next period when we close our temporary accounts all over again. The credit is to owner's capital. The last temporary account to close is owner's withdrawals. So the final journal entry is to close owner's withdrawals to owner's capital. Since owner's withdrawal has a $1,000 debit balance, we will credit owner's withdrawals to make the balance zero. Owner's capital will then be debited. Note that owner's withdrawals is not an income statement account, so it is not closed to income summary first. Now let's look at the owner's capital account. We started with a balance of $9,600, a credit balance of $9,600, which came from the trial balance. We increased the account when we closed income summary. Recall that net income increases equity. This is the journal entry that made that happen. We decrease accounts when we closed owner's withdrawals. Recall that owner's withdrawals decrease equity. This is the journal entry that now made that happen. Finally, we have an ending balance of a $9,300 credit balance. Let's compare that to the statement of owner's equity. You can see now that our ledger balance for owner's capital matches what we reported on the statement of owner's equity. It's like magic, only real. And that concludes this important video on closing journal entries.


So Amazon made its own television. It's called the Fire TV Omni, and I have the 65-inch model right here. So let's take a look and see how well it games. Hey guys, Thundie here, and welcome to another video and review on a brand new TV set. This is the Amazon Fire TV Omni, and this is the 65-inch model. I want to give a shout out to our sponsor of this video, MediaTek, who will be part of it to showcase some of the cool features of this TV. Now MediaTek is the number one smart TV chip manufacturer, and they power over two billion smart TVs, including this one, and they do a really good job in gaming, you know, of course, connectivity with Wi-Fi, as well as also just smooth reliability for 4K video, as well as gaming features. So definitely check out the TVs that MediaTek actually supports, including the Amazon Fire TV Omni. So let's get down to the basics of this TV set. Now you're probably surprised I'm wondering Amazon has a TV of its own. You're going, yes, they do. Now they do have the TVs that ring from 43 inches all the way to 75. Now the pricing also starts from $299 and goes all the way to $1,029, which is pretty cool. Now, in terms of supporting coders and specs, all of them support Dolby Atmos, but in terms of Dolby Vision, that's only supported on the 65 and the 75 inch. Now the 43 to 55 all have HDR10 and HLG. So all those specs aside, what do we get with this TV? Now, this is a TV that takes the power of Alexa to the next level. Now, of course we know we can use Alexa to control certain aspects of our TV, but with this though, since it's built in, it really takes over the use of having a remote control. Now the remote itself is a standard Fire TV remote. Of course you do have quick access to things like Disney Plus, Netflix, Hulu, as well as also Amazon Prime Video. Now this remote works by using an IR capability, which is a bit of a bummer because it felt like 2012 was calling me back to say, hey, I want my IR Blaster. I'm wondering why Amazon even included it in there because most TV remotes do support Bluetooth functionality and this TV actually has Bluetooth built into it. So it's kind of stunning. Now the TV does come with four HDMI ports. They're all HDMI 2.0, so you don't have those high or next gen gaming features, but of course you do get 4K60 on this TV and it does come with a third HDMI port that supports EARC 2.1. So you do have that sound by a pass-through. Now, as I mentioned, control with Alexa. I can talk about how it actually works and how you can use it to control different aspects of the TV as well as your home, but let me just show you in this clip. So let's start using Alexa's voice for the TV. Alexa, switch to Xbox. Alexa, switch to PlayStation. Alexa, set volume to 10. Alexa, change picture to dynamic. Alexa, go to Netflix. Alexa, open up Luna. Okay, so honestly, Alexa is pretty good when it comes to controlling your TV set and also controlling the things around your home and I really like this implementation in the Fire TV Omni. It really works very, very well. So it's nice to know that I don't need my remote control. I can actually tell it to turn on and turn off my TV, which is great. Now, for those of you who are wondering, look, hey, can I switch it off? Is there a manual toggle? Yes, there is a manual switch to turn off Alexa, which is right below the Fire TV logo at the center of the TV so you can toggle on and off and you will have a visual prompt in front of you on the TV, telling you, letting you know the mic is on or the mic is off. So that actually is pretty cool. Your next question is, how good is this TV? We know the Alexa functionality is great. What about the visuals? Well, of course, as you know, we like the game and we put it to the test. And yes, it does not support 4K 120, but honestly, Halo Infinite looks pretty good. Playing multiplayer, dying a lot, dying a lot as you can see and dying so many times, it looks still pretty good. I like the way the TV function. I didn't notice any input lags or anything like that. So honestly, you can game well with this TV. You just won't get a lot of those, you know, high-end gaming features like VRR and so forth and all of this, but while playing Halo Infinite and playing Forza Horizon 5, TV looked good. Also, the viewing angles were great either offset from the center of the TV. I thought I still kept a lot of that color volume there, so that was actually interesting and good to see with this TV set. You also should note that the Amazon Lunar app is also built into the TV so you can use Alexa to switch to the app and go straight to start streaming games directly on there, which is a nice bonus and you can connect your controller in the Lunar controller or your Xbox controller if you want to and you jump right into a gaming experience. It's really nice though, using this TV, especially with voice. I think it allows for this ease, the easy use of jumping from show to show, app to app or just, you know, just your input ports. I really like that. Now, and finally, I would save the speakers while they are okay. You definitely would need a soundbar to just amp up your viewing experience and enjoy listening well. I would suggest the Sonos soundbar, honestly, because I think Sonos does a really good job with the Beam and I think it's also powered by MediaTek, I could be wrong. But anyway, those are my thoughts on the Amazon Fire TV Omni, the 65 inch. It's priced at around $892. I'll have the price on screen. I think it's a solid TV set, but it does have some things that I will make some points off. And hopefully we do get a price drop on Black Friday, which I think would be an awesome pickup if we do. So if you have any thoughts, any questions or you have the TV already, leave your thoughts down below. Don't forget to like, share, subscribe and always enjoy your entertainment.


The narcissist will always throw you under the bus. Part two. The narcissist will throw you under the bus. They will sacrifice you for their own personal gain. They will say harmful things about you when you are not there to defend yourself. They will allow you to be criticized severely or treated badly in order to protect themselves from criticism or harm. They will betray you to divert blame. They will disassociate themselves from an unfavourable position. Whatever it takes for them to get ahead. Whatever benefits them regardless of the pain and suffering that you might endure. As long as they don't have to go through it. As long as they don't have to experience it. The narcissist will throw you under the bus. Because they are out of harmony with themselves. They are unable to experience peace. They are unable to experience freedom from disturbance. They are unable to experience the state of not being interrupted by worries or problems. People who have the lowest levels of entitlement or the urge to want to take, want, steal or manipulate people. Are generally the ones who have the least. And they are the ones who are most at peace with themselves. They don't need anything to complete them. But narcissists feel empty inside. They have a void that can never be filled. They can never feel satisfied. And that is why they have such a strong sense of entitlement. That is why they have an impulsive need to throw you under the bus. They experience dissatisfaction. Of never feeling good enough. They believe that if they can just get more or control everyone and everything around them. Then they will feel better. But nothing is ever enough for them. It's an addiction. They are trying to find something outside of themselves. To take away their inner anxiety. Being entitled is not suing them. It never satisfies their cravings. It never fulfills their desires or needs. The more entitled they are. The more it generates their intense feelings of not being good enough. The narcissist became this way. Because they had very poor boundaries and childhood. Their parents were too busy and self-absorbed in their issues to care. Whenever the narcissist wanted something. Their parents just said yes to them. To get them off their back. To stop them from causing annoyance or inconvenience to them. Because of this. The narcissist never learned about limits. They never learned how to emotionally self soothe and feel whole. Despite the disappointments that they may experience in life. The narcissist parents may have had the mistaken belief. That if they gave their child everything they need. They would have a better life. Or the narcissist may have been a source of supply for their parents. They may have been groomed as being special unique or better than other people. Because this reflects back a feeling of superiority to the parents. It gives them narcissistic supply. But this is a recipe for narcissistic entitlement. It is a recipe for someone who is only going to throw people under the bus to get ahead. The narcissist never learned the effects of their actions. They may have grown up believing that they are the law. The narcissist will shout and scream that they want something. They win it right now. And they will expect you to cater to their demands. They use you as a form of self-medication rather than dealing with that emotional pain. Rather than processing that emotional pain. Which is why they never evolve. Which is why they never develop. They will never look at themselves to realize what they are doing to you. They will project their entitlement onto you. They will say that you're selfish. Or that you expect too much. Which can be very confusing. But it should lead you to identify that there is no real rational person inside the narcissist. You are dealing with their false self. This character who doesn't take accountability for their wrongdoings.  You have to be their scapegoat. You have to be blamed for their wrongdoings, mistakes or faults. The frightening part about it is these allegations are real to the narcissist. Once they've lied to other people and lied to themselves it becomes real to the narcissist. They can't tell the difference between fact or fiction. They can't tell the difference between what is real and what is imaginary. They're operating from their unconscious mind. They are not able to examine or observe their own mental and emotional processes. Which is why they remain stuck in this unconscious state. They continue throwing you under the bus. They continue displaying their disloyalty. And yet wondering why you are not fully invested in them. Thank you for watching. I hope this video resonated with you. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. If you would like to donate my PayPal link is in the video description. Coaching inquiries. You can email me at coaching.narksurvivor.co.uk Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon.


I'm here behind the scenes of the 21 Convention and I'm with Steve Maida who is about to take the stage and give us an awesome speech. Steve, if you're talking to our online viewers, our YouTube audience, what would you tell them your speech is about? Man, a bad experience. Well, I know, first off, my speeches, I never really liked that planned out or whatnot and I like to organically speak.  So I really feel that our culture has a warped view on that, especially when people hear terms like the sexual life. They don't think of it as being an enriching experience. It's something which has a lot of shame or all sorts of negative connotations about so it'll definitely be about that, about experience and about bettering yourself. Awesome. Looking forward to your speech. What do you like about the 21 Convention? Dude, I'm like, everybody, if you're watching this, you should know already what I like about the 21 Convention. First off, it is the only convention and I brought it up the other day when I was on stage where we were talking about the dinner. First off, if you come to the 21 Convention, it's way different than watching the videos online. However, the videos online, this is the only convention offering that. I mean, it is, first off, I used to say it was the TED Convention of men's conferences, but the TED talks I think have gone a little downhill. But these speakers are amazing. It's the most dynamic. It's not just about dating. It's about improvement on all levels.  But it's the only convention which has a well-roundedness. When it first started in 2007, it was a convention that was primarily focused on bettering yourself through dating skills. And it's the only thing in the entire dating seduction community which is heavily polluted, which has transformed and evolved into something which is an entire personal development. It keeps going there. We have the best. Man, I'm sorry, these are supposed to be 30-second answers, but we have the best guys on nutrition, the best guys on fitness, you know, the dating world as well. We started to incorporate all sorts of, you know, defense type stuff. Man, there was stuff on economy. And I think what people are going to walk away with this year on these speakers that I saw was some of the economy stuff was pretty awesome and even an evolution of the fitness stuff and hopefully my stuff. Man, that's what I'm living up to. That's right. That's right. And I know this is going to be a redundant question asking you, but we have to tell online viewers, do you endorse the 21 convention? Of course, man.  I do what I can offer to the 21 convention. I give and if that in some way can lead, you know, I don't have the biggest marketing force. I don't have any of those things, but I can offer my speaking. I can offer my teaching. I can offer my time. I can offer whatever it takes. And every person here hopefully gets a viewpoint of that because the theme of coming to the 21 convention and experience is not just bumping shoulders with people. It's actually a moment in time where you can take that step into a complete transformation of self and you're going to be blown away at things. I was blown away at things. I didn't expect it on the self-defense stuff. I mean, it was amazing. And to realize, you know, how that can be a part of my life and work towards my overall happiness. The economic views, views on business, views on, you know, bettering yourself in an entire way. All these things so that you can benefit and live a real life. Just watching the videos online is badass. If you're in these rooms, man, you're part of the transformation. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nothing like it. All right. Thank you, Steve. I know we're going to see you in the future.  See you later. Bye, guys. See you.


Good afternoon, everyone. And we see introduced our activities related to open source by four employees. At the end of this session, we do not set the time for Q&A. If you have a question, please catch the speaker and discuss your question later. And this session is provided omnibus mini sessions, not about the final discussion. At the first topic, I would like to talk to you about data science in technology management as an OSPO. My name is Shinon Yuami, and I work to analyze data about open source. She is preparing for various analysis in the company. These analysis are used for identifying open source to invent on development and incorporate into our business. Seeing the volume of open source from JITHAB, 20 million in the other words, 2,000 in Japanese or more repositories per year have increased during COVID-19. It includes non-IT repositories from peaceful graduation messages to political demonstrations. Therefore, our analysis are useful to filter enormous number of OSS. However, sorry. However, there is a common issue across analysis. That is, there are different ways of OSS categorization. Even in one company, we are confused about which one is the best. Especially, it is difficult to categorize a large number of OSS. Namely, we want to explainable categories and automated updates. As reference, CNCF, the Japanese OSS promotion forum and others are providing OSS categories and maps. Thus, I introduce our challenges about OSS classification and categorization. The first methodology is clustering for OSS classification. The methodology uses co-occurrent keywords networks. In the networks, a keyword switcher's GitHub tag is defined as a node and the keywords are connected. If they are in the same repository, after clustering the networks, it was expected that the clusters will indicate OSS categories. This is an example of the result. The top 12 clusters are colored and the top frequent keywords for each cluster are extracted. Although some well-known OSS categories, we identified some interesting categories. For example, the green-third cluster is about video and media. On the figure, the cluster is very dense and it means that keywords are deeply related. Observing each period, Linux is keeping almost the top. Currently, testing tool becomes important as shown in the first position. The conclusions of this methodology are, this methodology is beneficial to discover unconscious fields of OSS. However, for the purpose of OSS categorization, this is not enough because some clusters have mixed-term themes. Thus, at the next step, we are trying VERT multi-categorization. Although this is a work in progress, the techniques such as data augmentation have achieved 0.98 validation accuracy for approximately 400 well-known OSS. In the future, I desire that this methodology will be widely published as everyone can use it. That's all from me. And the next speaker is Akihiro Motoki. Hi, everyone. In this small talk, I will talk about why we contribute to upstream development and recent activities in OpenStack. This, the first half is not specific to OpenStack topics, but Kubernetes contribution will be covered by my next two speakers. So I will mainly talk about OpenStack topics in the second part. Yeah, I'm Akihiro Motoki from NSE. I work on OpenStack upstream development for almost 10 years. And I am serving as a co-reviewer in several OpenStack projects like Neutron, Horizon, and CLI. In addition, currently, I'm reading the OSS OpenSource upstream development team in NSE. My team is currently mainly target contribution to infrastructure-related OpenSource project like Kubernetes, OpenStack, and several CNSF projects. So I talk about the OpenStack and Kubernetes contributions. So this is our recent activities, contribution starts. We contribute to both these softwares actively and we are top 10 contributor in worldwide in recent releases. OpenStack is fourth, fifth, and Kubernetes is also the ninth in the latest releases. So the question is why we contribute to upstream development. So as you may know, branding is one of the reasons. Contribution ranking is easy to understand and customers check who are active in the community to know who is a key player in these softwares. So this is one motivation to contribute. But this is not the only reason. There are more important motivations. So the one is to implement required features in the community directories. So we also would like to fix important bugs and hopefully backport them to the released versions. So this kind of needs are usually based on the feedbacks from the project using OpenStack or Kubernetes and also from support team. So we can ask it to distribute us to implement the requirement. But it usually takes time because they have multiple customers as they need to prioritize various requests from various companies. So if you have a good connection in the community, it will be much faster and smooth because we can implement such things directly. Once changes are merged in the upstream, distributors usually tend to provide them easily. For example, our Red Hat distributions, for example, in the Red Hat distributions, their basic policy is a corresponding feature is included, implemented in the upstream. Another motivation to contribute is avoid local patches. We can implement features as local patches but if we have local patches, we need to update them for every upgrade. So if the community accept these patches, the maintenance cost would be reduced a lot. That's the motivation to contribute. So to make these changes effective efficiently so I think being a key member in the community is important, important. Position names are different depending on communities. So in case of OpenStack, these are called technical committee and project team lead and this kind of hierarchy exists in almost all open source projects. NEC serves as a various position in OpenStack now. We have technical committee seat and serve as a TC chair and we have project lead in Horizon currently and previously we serve the QA and Horizon details too. Also we have core reviewers in Nova Neutron, the core OpenStack project and the N-Tucker NFB project and I also serve as a qualifiers in CLI part. Also we have TC chair members recently was elected to individual board of directors as the main reason to serve as an individual board is to connect development side and the foundation board. So what we are working on now, so roughly speaking we have two areas, we are working on two areas. The one is the OpenStack wide improvements. We consider that OpenStack is considered as a nature so our focus is to improve OpenStack in general rather than specific features. So it is called this kind of effort is called as community goal and technical committee teams are based on feedback from users as leadership position like TC or project lead and we lead these efforts. Recent hot topics, there are two hot topics in this area. One is consistent, secure, role-based access control and the second another one is release cadence adjustment. I will cover them in later slide. The other area is NFB, different from other OpenStack project, TACA project is specific to NFB. NFB means networks function virtualizations. The main goal is to make TACA working reference implementation of NFB. So this effort is a joint effort with telecom carriers. The article has a URL captured recent activities with NTT and KDDIs. The article was published last year that we continue to improve TACA. As NEC, our focus is to improve stability and address feedbacks from production use including the POC's. In next two slides, I will cover the, I will talk about community-wide goals. The first thing is consistent, secure R-back. OpenStack APV provides the mechanism for role-based access control but the current default policy, very simple. We have only two roles, system-wide admin and tenant user. If you'd like to have more granular needs, we need to implement policies, configure policies almost from scratch. This is a pain point from operators. So in this effort, we'd like to define more well-defined default policies. In this effort, it consists of breakdown into several phase and now in the first step, we introduce project leader. Project means they cannot create or delete resources and they can just read the resources and the project member can create and delete resources. In the first step, these roles are revisited. In the second phase, we plan to split service to service API from admin roles and we introduce a service role and currently the service to service communication uses admin role, in most cases, but service should not have such powerful privileges. So that's the second step. The last phase, we are not sure we have more steps. We'd like to introduce a project level admin. They can create users for project or some. The next, the other topic is release cadence adjustment. Currently, the Opusk Update Pass is called the first for the upgrade. This means the upgrade should happen one by one even if we upgrade multiple release at a time. So this is a headache for a large scale crowd. Upgrade usually takes time, so they need to upgrade, upgrade, upgrade, continue to upgrade various nodes one by one. So this effort to mitigate, just mitigate this situation. This is what support upgrade from two release before. The community plans to test this style of upgrade from the next release as experimental. We, in the current plan, official support will start from three release next, 2024. This release will support direct upgrade from A to C. Yeah, that's the currently discussed, current community-wide activities. Then that's all from me. The next speaker is Ken. Ken will talk about testing in open source project. Hi, everyone. I am Ken Chomichi from NEC, and I have worked in some open source projects like Linux, kernel, OpenStack, and Kubernetes and to improve testing and debugging methods after those projects. Then today, I'm going to discuss continuous testing in open source project. In many open source projects, continuous testing are running for keeping good quality of software or product. For example, when a contributor submits a pull request, you need to test many tests like unit tests, integration tests, and E3 tests are operated. If all tests are passed successfully, and code review looks good for the pull request, this pull request is going to be merged into upstream like main branch or master branch. That is main working problem. For if some tests are failed, the contributor needs to investigate the root causes and solve the issue. Otherwise, the pull request never gets reviewed. And as my previous slide, we saw overview of continuous testing in open source projects. Here, we are going to see what kind of tests are running in Kubernetes as a example. As I said, basic tests are running like unit tests, integration tests, and E3 tests. In addition, we are operating coding style check, typo check, document style check, CLA, contributor license agreement check, package names, naming rule check, or something. So each pull request kicks 19 tests pattern, test type, and 45,000 tests kicked automatically. For so many tests and checks implemented and operated like this. As you know, so many contributors are working together in the world and in open source project. And we all have a different background and different culture and so on. And actually, the latest stable version of Kubernetes 1.25, which is computer, sorry, four months development cycle and 1,700 contributors join to the development. And it is in this session, it is so difficult to expect all contributors follow the development guideline. Instead of that, it is possible to make all contributors follow the development guideline and keep a good quality at the scale to improve automated tests and checks. That means we can keep the scalability for open source development. And unit tests and integration tests don't tend to depend on environment. It is enough or fine to run those tests in a single environment out of the CI system. On the other hand, each test depends on environment because we needed to deploy actual target, which is Kubernetes cluster in this case. And we needed to run the test against the deployed Kubernetes cluster. We needed to select operating system, IPv4 or IPv4 and IPv6 dual stack, or what is the container runtime, what is the CNI. We needed to select those things. And from the Kubernetes development, we needed to continue running E2S for many different pattern of Kubernetes clusters. When I joined to the Kubernetes open source project, I proposed test measuring tool, test coverage measuring tool. Kubernetes has an open API definition, specification which is API definition and generated from the implementation code. And I proposed a way to compare the open API specification and E2E test operation log to know which API is not tested during the E2E test. And I created some prototype based on this idea and many people agreed with it. Then today we have API smooth as a separate CNCF project. After this measuring tool, API coverage of E2E tests improved from 70% to 70% today. Sorry, this is so small. And open source software looks like common shared product in the world. We are improving the product for many people. If some tests are also good for many people, we can add those tests into the community. And we can run those tests with community asset. The community asset here means the credit for some sponsoring organization donate to open source foundation like Linux Foundation, CNCA, Open Infra Foundation and so on. By using those credit, open source community can operate those continuous testing on the some cloud provider like Google Cloud for Kubernetes community. Continuous test of open source project also should be good for many people. That should not for some specific people. If implementing continuous tests only for some few specific people, we are wasting not only the community asset but also wasting important developer time to investigating an issue when the issue happened at the test. So we needed to consider what kind of tests should be implemented in open source projects for many people. One good example is how about implementing test cases for hardening environments? I did, CIS Center for Internet Security provides CIS benchmark for Kubernetes. Those benchmarks explain how to make Kubernetes cluster more secure with actual Kubernetes configuration. It is nice to have some tests based on this benchmark for many people. I created a prerequisite, left side based on this idea. If we face some issue on your hardening environment, it would be nice hint to investigate such issues by comparing community test environment configuration and UI environment. And oh, sorry. Next, Muto-san will explain Kubernetes dashboard and Kubernetes upstream training in Japan. Hi, I'm Shu Muto. I'm contributing to Kubernetes dashboard and work as a one-node maintainer and CGUI chair. We are contributing to dashboard to optimize customers Kubernetes user experience. So now I'd like to show you introduction and plan for future next version of dashboard as a maintainer. Kubernetes dashboard is a general purpose web UI for Kubernetes clusters. It allows users to manage clusters and applications running in the clusters and troubleshoot them. The current version is 2.7 and it supported Kubernetes 1.25. Kubernetes dashboard has components for front-end UI and backend API. The front-end UI works as a single page application and backend API interacts with QB API server, hipster and the other third-party components. Now, Kubernetes dashboard is packaged in one binary until the latest release. We split that front-end UI and backend API into each container. And the splitting was done in master branch. We have plan for further improvements, setting up the API gateway that supports GraphQL, these migrating parts of the old APIs into separated microservices. These improvements will allow to optimize to scale each API and migrating current development by buying to support the new architecture. We also have plan to improve the authorization layer that will include supporting OpenID Connect, improving the authorization handling and setting up the microservices for the authorization. We presented this roadmap in KubeCon, Europe in May, and the current status is here. Not only to use, also to keep the Kubernetes and OSS supply chain sustainable, we have to also contribute to community growth. So we are running the Kubernetes upstream training in Japan for who want to get involved into Kubernetes community. Here, we have to mention the reason that prevent Japanese developers from joining community. First is language barrier compared with Western people. Eastern people, such as Japanese, are actually not used to speaking English. However, it seems like everyone in the community communicates in English, and mastering English is the only way to better integrate into the community. Second, cultural barrier. In community, everyone is expected to speak up actively, brainstorm together, and draw conclusions through this whole communication process. However, Japanese people tend to speak, tend to think a lot before they speak, and therefore miss the opportunity to state their opinion. And this makes them to think more and become more and more afraid to speak up. We are aiming to lower these barriers. These are what we tell the trainees in our training. We want to encourage more and more people to get involved in the community. For those who are interested, but don't know where to start, our training so far, an opportunity to work them throughout the whole processes of making contribution. And at the end of the day, most of them will go home with their very first group guest. We also want them to make friends and solve problems related to Kubernetes in Japan. So we added few channels for Japanese conversation. And the most important part is what we want to deliver the following message. Even if you are not fluent in English, you can say anything. Everyone in the community is very kind, so don't be afraid to start. We are running the upstream training eight times since 2019, and we got about 160 contributors. We held our training in these public events. I'd like to thank the organizers of this event for inviting us. Our training contents are based on the Kubernetes new contributor workshop that provided by Kubernetes community. We reorganized this original content for Japanese. These are improvements that we did. Two motivated trainees, we asked the trainees to express their enthusiasm in advance on the Kubernetes structure in Japanese. It would be the first step to join Kubernetes community. To address the guests of the survey for our training, we added introductions to the actual development environment like Cube Spray, website and dashboard, which is the activity area of our trainers. We took photos after the training and made it public so that they can aware of that they became a member of the community. For about a week after the training, our follow-up is carried out until the trainees' prerequisites are merged. Also, we made video and published it to YouTube, then created space for self-training and we reviewed their prerequisites too. Back in 2020, the situation is so bad that we can't leave home, so we had no choice but to hold our events online. So we improved everything we could think of. In that time, we could only prepare a Zoom meeting. Now, we can use webinar and breakout rooms too, but they are needed, taking a few extra steps to share discussions, questions and answers, so we continue to use the basic meeting style. And we make our training resources available for trainees' preparation. Since it was forced to be held online, so we considered pros and cons before running the online training. These pros have made our training easier to organize and the diversity of trainees are getting wider. Our training includes students with limited travel funds, people who doesn't have quiet room and participated from his car, and people rising children and people who are not strong in physical. On the other hand, there was a concern about that intimate support like one-on-one would be difficult. We can look at the trainees' computers and tell them what to do next we used to do. We thought that communication is not as convenient as before through the screen. But in fact, lots of the trainees were able to submit their progress in online training. Its percentage was significantly higher than in person, rather sharing with everyone on track or Zoom and running hard to solve problems remotely that matched the community manner. So concern about difficulty of one-on-one was unfounded fear. Many youths for online tools helped sharing everything with everyone, each other, instantly. And we found that online training is more practical for actual contribution. But sometimes we want to meet people in person. In a non-English native country, motivating, encouragement and support in the local language can be great help in getting started. Online training is more practical for contribution. So online training have already become a default. It is important to train in the environment like GitHub or Slack that actually used in the Kubernetes community and make them feel like they're already part of the community. It is effective to publish all training resources in the open source manner. Our next training will be held at Okinawa Open Days 2022 on December 14th. This training will be held as hybrid. It's a new challenge for us. These proud colleagues will run this training. And we shout out to ex-engineer Akita and very promising members here. Thank you for your great contribution to this training. Thank you everyone for coming to our session at last. Thank you to all of Open Source projects that are made by thanks, respect and collaboration. That's all from us. Thank you.


using the Windows Calculator app. This video will show you how to use the Calculator app on your computer. To find the Calculator app, click on the Start button. This will open a list of the apps on your computer. Scroll down the list and find Calculator in the list of apps. Open the Calculator by clicking on it. The Calculator will appear on your desktop. Now you can use the Calculator to solve math problems by entering numbers and symbols in it. Note, you can enter the numbers into the Calculator by clicking on them or typing them on your keyboard. For example, if I wanted to add two numbers like 27 and 6, I would enter 27 into the Calculator. Then I would click on the plus sign and enter 6. Then I would click on the equal sign and I would see the answer 33. Once you have your answer, you can solve another problem by clicking on C to clear the screen. Then you can solve another problem. For example, now I want to know what 1250 divided by 4 equals. So, first I click C to clear my addition problem. Then I enter 1250. Next, I click on the division symbol and enter 4. Finally, I click on the equal sign and see that 1250 divided by 4 is 312.5. Now it's your turn to practice solving math problems using the Calculator tool. If you have questions, watch this video again or ask your teacher.


Good morning cyber traders. Happy Monday everyone on the 16th of July. How's everybody doing good to see you? Good morning everybody. Happy Monday to you too, Fernando. Good to see you Grant, Jean, Lou, John, Rick. Good to see everybody. Donna looking great. It is going to be a scorcher here in New York. Extremely hot. Hopefully it's nice in the summer is in full stretch. Oh my God, look at this. Unbelievable. Good to see you all. By the way, I just have to let everybody know it was such a hot weekend here in New York that at the end of this presentation, I'm going to share something very personal with all of you. So it's going to be really funny, but everyone's going to have to stick around and listen. Obviously not going anywhere. You're going to be here in the meeting, but I got a little surprise to show you. I want to share it everyone. But in the meantime, everybody, regarding about before we get started and talk about what happened on Friday and what to trade this morning, we have a lot of new members that are starting this morning, which is great. First of all, just remember a couple of things. Phase one does start tomorrow. So a couple of things we're going to be changing around. So everyone just get ready. The new cycle, the courses do start for July. So hopefully everyone's getting excited for that. Remember, most of your time is spent in class. We only work about two hours in trading in the side group room, but most of the time is spent in your journals, classes, coaching, all that. And new cycle starts tomorrow. So hopefully everyone's going to be excited about that. And then we have a lot of new members, like I said, that do start today. So most important thing when you start, you watch the video, tell you a little bit about what we do here, what this is all about. And most important, look, listen, and learn. Remember, this is a trading room, not a teaching room. So just watch and see if people make money. Don't judge us on the winners, judge us on the losers to see how few we have, because that's what it's all about. All right. Now, regarding about what happened on Friday, a couple of good stocks made some big moves. Let's start off with the PIXY. For some of you that were not here, missed it. That one did a really nice move. Went from 340 to 520.  Not a lot of people killed it, but had a nice little days pay. Definitely could have pulled out 20 cents, 50 cents all over that one. BIOC, that one was probably the best one of Friday. Just came out of nowhere. I mean, we had it in the pre-market. I got a little nervous on it, because they really didn't make a good pop on it. And then you could see it right here, how it made a big move. And then all of a sudden when the market opened up, went from 6, all the way to 8, and then went from 8, boom, all the way to 11, less than, what, 30 minutes. And I think everyone took the rest of the day off, enjoyed their nice weekend. Made a good days pay. Want to share what happened to me because of this one little stock. And I'm going to come back to it and show you at the end of the presentation. But a nice little stock right there. Paid very nice. Everyone did great. Also, I was another nice little mover. Stock's been having a nice little push. Good little swing trade, actually. And remember, you know, there's a lot of people that want a swing trade. They want an options trade. But I always tell everyone, you've got to learn how to date trade first, because how do you know what to swing if you don't even know what's happening over the course of the day? And this one actually worked out pretty well. You could see it in April was $4 already. Stock's up almost 500%, you know? Nice little push, doing great. Cisco, which you know is not always a branding type of a trader, but what a great short that was, huh? Boom, right down to like 44, down to 41. Moved very, very quickly. Obviously, the news that came out was not very nice. It doesn't really matter to me. I'm not going to interpret the news. We don't want to interpret the news. We just want to make money. And it was a great short. And then also, our BJ's doing phenomenal. Oops, I spelt it wrong. BJ's doing great guys. We're killing on a swing trade right there. So, you know, that we're doing pretty well. 25 to 27.60. Man, we're killing it on that one. So just like we trade with IQ, I'm getting a little nervous. It's going up a little too fast, you know? And I don't like when stocks go up that fast.  You know, I don't want to be at 40 by the end of this week. And the rate it's going looks like it's getting there pretty quickly. We're just boarded at 22 at the IPO price. Remember, we opened up at 21 and we're already up about, you know, five bucks on that swing. So we're doing pretty good on that one, too. All right. So that's what we got going on on Friday. Now let's talk about what's going on this morning. Now, remember, today is Monday. Typical Monday is you know that, you know, long weekend, hot weekend, people want to enjoy the weekend. People even spend, go into today and today weekend. So you're not going to get a lot of news other than, you know, weekend buyouts or whatever. So remember, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays are the best days of the week to trade. But we have a couple of them. And that's right. Benito got that stock that I just, we talked about in the pre-market, the CNES trade. That one is moving up pretty nicely, starting to build a little bit of a Faustal flag right there. You can see it right there. It is testing resistance levels from yesterday. So we got to work off that. But yes, that one did make the watch list. So we're going to put that one up there. Another couple of them that came up. Here's one up 100% right now. 700,000 shares traded. Stock, you know, it had a good run and it's kind of like fiddling, you know, right or feathering right around here, around $8. That one's high. He's almost 10. Want to keep an eye on up a lot, which kind of gets me a little nervous. I don't like things up too much, but that one's holding pretty strong right there. Another one that was up huge this morning, 800,000 shares. Gene, G-E-N-E, that one just popped and just backed right off again. Once again, starting to build a little bit of a base right here at $1.50, which is this resistance levels back in April. So that one's pretty good. Let's see if she holds right here.  Spread, you know, it always gets me nervous, but you will remember this one. The only reason why I like this one, because we traded it not too long ago, a couple of days ago, it ran from 5 to 10.  You've got that one. A-R-N-C is another one that's moving in pre-market. Some of us already looked at it pretty early, did pretty well with it. The stock is starting to build a little bit of a higher high, a little faster flag growing on right now. Stock took a big hit from 30 down to 17, testing some resistance levels. It feels in the gap, just didn't shoot right to 21. So I like this one a lot. I know some of us already got into it a little bit earlier. Not, you know, not a great price, but 8 a.m. Early Bird gets the money, right? BJ's is going back on our watch list too, so we all know about that one's doing pretty well. And the, we got the Ferrari, that one did pretty well also for us on our swing trade. Amazon AMZN is just an animal, but for some of us can't afford it, but I know some people do. Amazon's looking great. Looks like it's going to come to 2,000 pretty soon. And WTI and ETF, that one's moving up pretty nicely too. Out of nowhere, almost 6%, 500,000 shares. You know, if you're not a level 2 trader or up, stay away from them. This stock will crush you. Alright guys, so anything I'm missing, I did not call out. So we got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 stocks. Just please keep in mind for all you new traders here, only about 2 of them will make a move. The rest are going to be garbage. And then when the market opens up, we always find a whole new list. But this is what we've been trading in the pre-market so far, and that one's looking pretty well. Grant says, the CNES moving towards 2. Yeah, I mean, listen, cheap stock, nice stock, everything's great. You know, beautiful. There we go. I told you, Falsal flag worked out pretty well. Let me change the timeframe here. Right there, you have nice little Falsal flag and boom. So everybody should be up about 10 cents right now in that trade. Actually, a lot of you should have it, $1.75. So if you didn't get it, don't worry. That's okay. Tomorrow's another day in pre-market. Alright guys, so anything else I'm missing? No? Alright, so the big news is, so what did Falsal do this weekend? Well, this weekend, I'm going to share a photo with you. As everybody see that, so I was at Serendipity. Everyone heard of Serendipity in Manhattan. It's a very famous ice cream place. Everybody heard of Serendipity? Yeah, okay, great. So I was at Serendipity and I kind of treated myself. When you do good in stock market, you know, in trades, why you will not spoil yourself. I went to Serendipity, I bought myself a $100 milkshake with donkey's milk. 23 karat gold ice cream, gold on it. There's a couple of these. Here's a close-up shot of one, a little bit closer. There we go. That's actually the ice cream right there. So by the way, this is what you do when you make money in trading. You know what?  What's wrong with that? I didn't spoil to the $1,000 ice cream. So they do sell a $1,000 ice cream. You know, it was a bad trade. I didn't want to spend $1,000. But I said, yeah, $100 bucks. What do you got? I did pretty good on Friday on trading. They go out there and they went out to do it. Grant says, we love the ice cream. Wow, nice fowl. So thanks a lot. You deserve it, Fernando. Hey, listen, we all deserve it. These are things that you spoil yourself. Laugh. Did you pick out the gold? No, Michael, actually they come out and do a whole presentation. The designer comes out and explains everything that's in there. I couldn't understand, you know, 99% of what he was talking about, where the chocolate came from, from Madagascar and all this. But you definitely got to go to Sillawa. If you haven't been to Serendipity, look it up. They may have wrote a lot of good movies. All the presence been there, all the famous actors. Actually when I was there, which was called John Travolta just left. So missed him. Yep, yep. And they also give you a metal straw. And if you get the $1,000 ice cream, they give you a solid gold straw. You get to drink out of it. It's pretty cool. All right, anyway, so that was my little gift for this weekend. To go spoil after making some money. And you know guys is what we always talk about. You do well in trading. Go out there and let us know how you guys did. Share it. We always share photos because that's what you work for. It's not about just surviving, paying bills. It's about enjoying life and that's what it's all about. Anyway, and yeah, congratulations to France for winning the World Cup. I know that was another great excitement. But we'll go out there and spiral and make money and hopefully go see the next World Cup, right? All right guys, good luck today. Happy trading, everybody.