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This is Think Tech Hawaii. Community Matters here. Aloha. I'm Marsha Joyner and this is Cannabis Chronicles. And you know we talk about the muse and all of the wonderful plants and things that come out of this very ancient plant of food and fiber and fuel just amazing. And it's a 10,000-year odyssey. And so we have learned or we are learning and discovering all sorts of things about this 10,000 years. About hemp and cannabis and hashes, cannabis and religion, cannabis and medicine, cannabis and Dural Uncle Sam. And so our odyssey today is not really far away, but it is the Big Island. And for those of you that don't know where the Big Island, it is the island of Hawaii. And it's called the Big Island because it is big. And Madame Pelley is creating new land so it will be even bigger. So our guest today is from the Big Island of Hawaii, Brent Norris from the Hawaii Cannabis Organization. Aloha Brent. And thank you for coming back. Aloha Marsha. Thank you so much for having me on. I really appreciate the opportunity. Well, the last time we talked, you told us about your spring equinox and about the consciousness or raising the consciousness about this plant. Tell me how did that go? Oh, the event was fantastic. We filled the room. We had a grower's panel. And so a lot of beginners learned how to start growing. And a lot of advanced growers that have been growing for many, many years had an opportunity to ask three different or four different expert growers on the panel all sorts of questions. Now, what did you mean by the consciousness? That intrigues me. Cannabis is really large, both as an industry, as a plant, as a medicine, as an idea for personal freedom as well. And depending on what level of consciousness you're at, you may have different beliefs or thoughts. Some folks aren't even really that aware of what patients go through to obtain cannabis medicine or what inmates are going through for minor charges of possession of cannabis. Some would like sentences. So depending on your level of awareness, you may or may not participate in certain parts of what's going on right now. Wonderful. So that's that. Okay. And now I understand. And you tell me you are having an event this week. And that's at the end of May. So again, before we get into that, you are on the Big Island and Madam Pelley is showing what Madam Pelley can be. Tell us, how far are you from Madam Pelley? Well, what I live is about the same distance from the current fissure eruptions in the Lower East Rib Zone and the Kilauea Summit that has the large ash cloud that so many videos have been showing. So this event Friday will not be affected by what's going on with the volcano? No, it will not be. It will be a helo in a safe, secure dobing. There's no problem with the lava. We could get some bad air. Everything right now depends on which way the wind blows. Well, tell me how far is helo from the volcano? That's a good question. I would say between 15 and 20 miles straight line as the crow flies. Okay. Because, you know, most people I've gotten calls from cousins I didn't know I had. And we're on Oahu and they say, How's the volcano? Are you all right? So people don't have a sense of Hawaii at all.  So now, now that we got the geography taken care of, tell us about this event that's coming up. Well, this event is going to be hosted by a couple of people. One of them is an incoming leader that will be able to event the event for the Hawaii Patients Union. And then also we have sort of a superstar author, Ethan Nebelkoff, who wrote the book, The Herbal Connection, to help people understand how herbs work to relax and detoxify the body. So, so that these natural, the mother nature's garden, which includes cannabis. So he's going to talk about all the different natural plants that we can or can use, have used, will use. That's, that's right. Mr. Nebelkoff was talking about herbs and helping people. He wrote his book, gosh, 10 years before Terence McKenna wrote his book, Food of the Gods. So he's got some very early insights. And he's also a really great leader of conversations in this area. So we'll talk about a lot of herbs, including cannabis. And how can we participate? Can, how do people reach you? How do people, how do you, can they register? Is there a cost? They can RSVP on our website. And then that's going to enter them into free drawing. We're going to give t-shirts away. We're going to give some herbs away. Not, we won't be giving cannabis away, but we'll be giving a special combination of herbs that's listed in Ethan's book to folks that are, at least until we run out of herbs. Wonderful. Well, we just posted the address so that people can participate. Is there a way to, for us that are not there, to participate by Skype or Facebook Live or any of those things? Well, if anyone's interested and unable to make the meeting, we'll certainly run a video camera and live stream it, if helpful. We do that sort of thing on Facebook. So absolutely, I would, I would say stay tuned to Facebook.com slash Hawaii dot patient. Hawaii dot patient. So that's different. The address is different from your Hawaii cannabis organization. So that's different. That's right. So they repeat that. The address, Facebook address. Facebook.com forward slash Hawaii dot patient. Hawaii dot patient. And so it's a live stream. And what time? We'll run out of it. Okay. What time is that on Friday? Friday, the, what's the date of Friday? Friday, the 25th at 5 p.m. Okay. 5 p.m. Hawaii standard time. And that is Friday the 25th at 5 p.m. Hawaii standard time. How long will the event be? We'll run about two hours. But we, we generally, we generally don't leave the event until every question has been answered. So anyone that comes that regardless of what level they're at with their skills or consciousness or whatever, we're going to make sure that their questions get answered. Well, I have some questions. You and I talked about the last time. And that is how have we moved? The legislature has closed. Did anything come out of the legislature that would move this industry forward? Well, yes. So when we're, when we're talking about the industry, you know, eight investment teams, they were able to move the industry forward to hopefully gain more market share for their businesses. And they're doing that by what's called reciprocity. So reciprocity means that patients that have a license in another state like California, for example, will be able to fly here, get a license and go and buy from the dispensary. In our case, we'll have a dispensary across the street from the airport for them. And what this does is in Hawaii, this will double the number of patients on any given island on any given day. So it's quite a, quite a windfall for those investment teams. What, now, when does that begin? The reciprocity, when does that begin? That's a really good question. Even though they're making law, it doesn't mean that it's going to work anytime soon. And like the dispensary program itself, you know, we've, we've had the law for years. And so I, that's a really good question. I don't think anyone really knows when it'll happen. Yeah. Okay. Now, now another issue we talked about was this one of not quite reciprocity, but moving people, residents of Hawaii from one island to the other. They have a cannabis card, they've gone through everything, but they live on Molokai, Kauai, the big island, and they're no dispensaries. Have we reached a point yet where we can fly from one island to the other? It was the only way you can get this fly. Have we reached that point yet? No. Unfortunately, we've created laws for most of the population to be able to access cannabis while we still have folks on, on some islands, Linai, Molokai, and in remote areas as well, that it won't really be able to access medicine. They may be able to get someone to grow cannabis for them. And, and certainly if they're in a remote part of our district, Pune here on the big island, we would make sure they had medicine. But there's no way to really fly with medicine. So they could take a vacation and try and heal themselves that way on an island that has a dispensary. But you know, even on Oahu, there are remote areas. All of the dispensaries are back to back, right close to each other. And that's all downtown Honolulu. But if you live on the North Shore, Waianae, Kahuku, there's nothing for you but to make that long trek into town. So have we reached, well, is there a reason for that? That they're all bunched up together, that they can't spread out? Is there a reason for that? I mean, is there something in the law that says they have to be together? I don't understand. That's a good question. What they're trying to do is maximize profits or, you know, to meet their fiduciary responsibility with their shareholders. By setting up corporations to run the dispensaries, essentially the responsibility of the investment team is to provide a return on that investment. So they've moved into population centers due to the limited number of dispensaries that the state allowed. So each one can have two retail locations and those locations are, we're going to find those in highly populated areas. But wouldn't it make, I mean, couldn't they reach the same amount of money given the numbers of people that live further out? Couldn't you get a return on your investment by moving further out? I think so. But, you know, the industry oversight committee, which is made up of representatives of the industry, mostly investment teams, and there's two patients on that oversight committee as well, you know, they saw reciprocity coming, right? They asked for it and that's what they got. And so the idea for them is to move to an airport because that's where half of their business will likely come from. Well, but I'm thinking of residents, people that live here and that live so far out and we have these two cannabis dispensaries and they're owned by separate, they're not owned by the same company. And yet the state says you have to be here, here, here. You can't be near a school and you can't be near a base and you can't be near this. But okay, but there are people that live out there with cards that want to do this legally, they don't want to grow it in somebody else's backyard. It just seems discriminatory, I guess is the right word, to just close out people. Right, right. Well, you know, these challenges come in when patients aren't really, you know, patients made a lot of recommendations. We had three medical so-called marijuana task forces and they all made recommendations that would allow for patients to access medicine in a lot of different ways and more easily and more cost effective. But those recommendations were largely ignored and the program was put into place that was, you know, setting things up a little more for tax and regulation, I think, than for medical purposes. This isn't really a medical program we're dealing with. Otherwise the type of medicine grown and the type of medicine available to patients would be based on the needs of the approved medical conditions that the state has allowed people to access medicine for. Well, okay, let's say we have a task force and all of these other things and you're saying the legislature doesn't listen. Has the legislature been, do they have a task, do they have a working group where the legislators are educated in what this is? The medical, we're not talking about adults and recreation, we're talking about medicine. Are the legislators educated in this, what this is and what it isn't? It's a really good question and I think there are different levels of consciousness going on. We've heard some legislators want to tax the medicine as much as possible. We've heard some legislators who are completely against making the medicine available. Everyone's at a different level, so it's really hard to stereotype or categorize our legislators because here in Pune we've got some amazing legislators that are trying their best. In fact, the legislators from the Big Island, I think, are more progressive, more advanced than any others in the state and that includes Honolulu. They really are. I'm absolutely delighted and rudiment with all of that land in Pune. I haven't talked to him, but I hope he's okay. Yes, us too. Education really is the key here. We need to raise this level of awareness, this level of consciousness continually because it's not that we're creating something new. There's a lot of talk about, oh, it's new, we'll get adjusted to it. That's just simply not true. Colorado has been legal for more than five years.  All of the issues, whether it's issues that are important to law enforcement, legislators, doctors, patients, all of these issues have really been worked through already in those states that legalized years ago. So what we really have to do is show them that this isn't new. In fact, as you mentioned in the intro, we're talking about a 10,000-year-old plant that's had a relationship with humans for at least that long. So none of this is new. The focus, however, is in what's called a vertical integration model, which makes 18s responsible and accountable for delivering, growing, processing, and selling medicine to 25,000 patients in our state across islands. So the focus on that vertical integration is really what the challenge is. The economic opportunity in our communities is literally being sucked out of the cannabis plant and put into the process of a field. But if it's vertical, and I think what you mean is that every, this dispensary grows, processes, and sells here, rather than saying, this or this company could grow and we can buy from you. And this company, we can test. So that you spread out the economic base. Could that be...? Right. We believe that licenses should be issued by the counties, as they are in the other legal states, in other, many other medical states, so that those growers in our communities that have 30 years of experience of growing or more are able to share strains that they've been using to heal their neighbors. And by sharing those strains with the dispensaries, the dispensaries aren't the single location for growth, which mitigates a lot of risks involved with growing cannabis itself, as we've seen with some of the dispensaries that have opened already. So... What I was thinking, okay, if we have a farm that is dedicated to growing so that the dispensary does not have that responsibility, that the dispensary can wholesale, or however you do it, from this farmer. We know it's certified. We know that it's pure. It's all tested and everything. Wouldn't you spread out the economic base if...? That's going to happen. I think maybe the challenge or some of the fear that seems to creep into this model is that if it's not centralized, then it's more difficult to control. And this plant has demonstrated it's impossible to control. Nobody's controlled it so far. It hasn't worked so far. It hasn't worked. And there is literally an ongoing drug war in our communities right now that is turning to a more cannabis-friendly posture, that it's doing so at the expense of privacy and homeowner rights and patients suffering in our hospitals where cannabis can't be administered. There's a lot of challenges. We believe that the economic opportunity should be spread amongst everyone in our community and take the emphasis and the control off of the plant and set an example for future generations so that it isn't this mystical thing that they need to try, that it is a medicine and it's something that patients need and rely on for their health. Now, you mentioned before about the Patients Right Bill that one of the other states has. Could you repeat that please? Sure. So one of the early states to legalize was the state of Washington. And they realized that they didn't have all of the information that they needed early on. And they realized that they were probably going to make mistakes creating legislation. Washington also has transparency laws. So a lot of light is being shown on this process as they were creating it. So rather than be heavy-handed and controlling of this plant and the patient medicine, what they decided to do was create a Patient Protection Act first. And basically what that said was in the event of a conflict between a patient or law enforcement that the patient had a legal right to that medicine on the onset. And so this was really great for patients that needed privacy protection. There's a large number of issues that come with these things for patients. So that's what they did. And we created our own version of the Patient Protection Act and we shared that with legislators. We shared that amongst our community. And we got a lot of feedback. And it turned out to be just about the same as the three previous medical marijuana attacks forces recommended with some extras that had been left out. But that's it in a nutshell. The Patient Protection Act really was designed to protect patients in Washington. And we'd like to see one of those here as well. Yes, especially so people can fly from one island to the other and not yet all hoot-hoot about our own little Jeff Sessions interfering, watching, looking over your shoulder. Right. And Congress did just agree, I'm not sure if they passed it, but they agreed to legislation that will take funding away from the Department of Justice for prosecuting medical cannabis patients. So that's a really favorable sign. And that's the and the TSA works under the Department of Justice and Homeland Security. So we believe that a couple of conversations could allow folks in Hawaii to fly under island with no problem. Okay. Now we are almost out of time. So tell us again about the event on Friday, May 25th. And so tell us about that and how we on the other islands can tune in. Great. Thank you. So this meeting will be a regular Hawaii patient union event. Hawaii Cannabis Organization is supporting the event. And we'll have herbs for everyone with our author of the herbal connection Ethan Nevillekopf. And it's a really great safe space with the University of Hawaii at Hilo, where conversations are okay about cannabis. And everyone is invited. We welcome patients with any type of ailments to come and have a discussion. There'll be doctors present, if they have questions, nurses that they can ask questions from and and a lot of growers, we're really focused on growing. Well, okay. Now give us the local address and we and the time and the place. Absolutely. It's 117 Kalei Bay Street. That's in Hilo, Hawaii. We'll start at 5 p.m. on Friday, May 25th. Everyone's invited. The meeting will last about two hours. And there'll be lots of questions and answer sessions. Okay. Repeat that address one more time, so we'll get it right. Thank you for asking. It's 117 Kalei Bay Street. That's K-E-A-W-E in Hilo. We're right downtown Hilo. And we're in the University of Hawaii at Hilo Innovation Center. Oh, okay. So people can recognize that. That's right. That's right. And of course, anyone can go to HawaiiCanibus.org forward slash subscribe and they can get regular event updates and we publish our, we publish events on all islands to everyone. So, yeah, we'll do our best. We hope as many of your viewers will come as possible. Thank you so much. It's always a pleasure talking to you and we will talk to you again after this event and before the next one. Thank you so much. Thank you for helping this. Thanks for helping to heal our islands. Aloha. Aloha.


Hi everyone, this is Jason here from Nathaniel, welcome back if you're a subscriber, if you're not one, do check out this video, if you like the video please consider subscribing. So let's just demystify it in this tutorial where I'm going to give you two perspectives of using a mode. So sometimes the perspective of modes which is given in the textbook is a perspective which is very either too complex or something you have to mug up before you can actually use and then by the time you actually use it it's very difficult to visualize because you haven't mugged it up well and most of the things which happen in music you have to use it only then you will understand it and get it into your fingers so to speak. You're not going to get it just by reading it out of a book or staring at a book. So the first perspective of modes which I'd like to convey is look at modes just like another scale. So you have a major scale, you have a minor scale so you have a mode which is just given a name like Dorian, Phrygian, Mixolydian, you have Mixolydian flat 6 which is a mode from the melodic minor, you have Lydian dominant and what not. So why not just look at these modes as scales. For instance if I take the key of F, now when I say the key of F, when I'm looking at it modally the word key just means key so it's F. So with respect to F I can form a bunch of scales using the intervals of those other notes with respect to the F. For example I could have a scale with a major second or I could have a scale with a minor second you see the difference in emotion. So a mode is just a combination of all these things. So you have a major second, it's a huge change. Similarly major third, minor third, very, very different, very contrasting. Perfect fourth, sharp four or you could even call it a diminished five. See we call it a sharp four or an augmented four when you have a perfect fifth but when you've kind of destroyed the fifth or where the fifth becomes a flattened version then we call it a diminished fifth which kind of gives you that chaos but in the case of some scales it could also have a very dreamy quality which is the Lydian sharp four versus it could also be a diminished five. When you have a perfect fifth you could have a sharp five which is an augmented five. You could have a major sixth or a minor sixth you could have a major seventh or a flat seventh so this is how you could actually look at a mode or a scale. So in this argument or this perspective of a mode I'm just saying let's just treat a mode as a scale and use it however which way we want. We are in the key of F that is way more important in our songwriting than to say I'm in a specific scale of F like F major or F minor. It's sometimes enough to say that I'm in the key of F and now I will say okay which scale do I want to play or which mode or which Raga if you are into Raga's should I play with respect to F so from that perspective you can form all your seven major modes as it's called you can have F major and then you could build forward so now what is a major scale with a flat seven we call that as Mixolydian which I quite like and you get the vibe of it as long as you have the root the perspective is the root so major mixo now I agree that we all reference everything with the major scale so the mixolydian you could just remember it as a major scale with a flat in seventh now you have the Lydian which is the major scale with a raised four or a sharpened four or an augmented fourth you want to highlight that that's another scale called the Lydian scale now you have some of the minor modes so I've talked about major mixolydian and Lydian major is also called as Ionian in the modal literature so if you look at the minor modes I guess the most common one is the minor scale or the natural minor which will be the Aeolian or the natural minor which is a major scale which is with a flat in third or a minor third this is not a flat this is a perfect fourth flat six flat seven very desolate very sad but if you now raise the sixth or if you make it major becomes very brave it's like you're overcoming all odds too that's your Dorian with the raise six and then what else you have the Phrygian which is a very exotic sound due to that flat two Phrygian and then you have your Locrian which is not so much used it's a diminished mode because it goes on the diminished chord and so you play everything's flat basically flat two flat three flat five or the tritone goes well with the minor seven flat five chord which is this one minor seventh flat five so we won't talk so much about this of each mode I just want to show you the perspective so you have seven major modes as they call them but see you can do other things if you know your modes of the melodic minor well the melodic minor is one once you know the melodic minor or even if you don't know the melodic minor and just know what modes came from there you'll realize that you may like a few for example the Mixolydian flat six which is that came from that very much came from the melodic minor and the question is do you even need to know which melodic minor it came from to start composing or to make sense out of the scale I I don't think so you you just have to use this forget the fact that there was major or melodic minor or anything it's the mix of flat six scale which if you see in my music I use this a lot I really like that you also have something called as Lydian dominant scale so Lydian dominant which is dominant seventh so now that you've figured out your options modes are just a bunch of scales what you could then do is figure out how you can harmonize them how you can kind of create certain chord movements which make it very specific or characteristic of that particular mode so if you're trying to look at Mixolydian a very common thing would be to do a seven flat four major and come down to the major if you're doing Dorian you can do that one minor four major or if you're doing a natural minor you could play the chords from the natural minor so in the charts which we have prepared in the booklet which you're going to get on our patreon you I have mapped out all the available chords for every possible mode or at least the most number of modes or scales which you will come across so when you're looking at modes as a scale you need to understand in conclusion just to summarize this perspective of looking at modes you need to look at a very strong root you need to look at the unique intervals Dorian flat three flat six Phrygian flat two you need to look at those important intervals which make it click then you have to look at cadences which make it very characteristic steady root and then develop your world remember your scale degrees and also map out the available chords which is there in the chart waiting for you on our patreon so moving on to the second perspective of using modes which is the standard textbook perspective let's get cracking with that so the second perspective of using modes will just take the traditional textbook approach and we just discuss that so if you take a key you take a key ff and keep all the modes with by retaining the key signature so there's a difference between the key signature and the key the key is just the key while the key signature is how many sharps of flats the scale has which is generally biased towards the major or the natural minor in terms of how we write it in sheet music so the key signature of f major or the key of f major or its relative minor d minor is one flat namely b flat at one flat there now how it works here is you have different modes formed automatically as you change your roots so if it's f or f major and i play the mode or the scale it has a certain vibe it has the f vibe f major vibe but now if i take my finger and play the very next scale degree in my base which is g i will get the same f major notes starting on g the vibe is very different isn't it and we know from theory that the second mode is the dorian mode so if you go the second degree you're going to get dorian which is the same way i told you earlier you flat the three you flat the six you're going to get dorian even if you never knew the parent scale now you're doing it with respect to the parent scale and i'm going to tell you why we need that so g dorian very different now you go to a third degree you're going to get aphrygian b flat lidion c mixolydian as you can see i'm still in the key of f major i'm just playing the everything with respect to c or every sound you're hearing melodically is influenced by this root c so the intervals change you have a minor seventh right there with respect to the lidion you have a sharp four which you feel because it's b flat in the base a you're feeling the flat two which you never had in the major scale which is why the major sounds so calming and normal and poppish while the phrygian sounds more exotic which you haven't really heard that often before so mixolydian then d would be the relative minor relative minor what we also say as aeolian then we have the locrian which is the seventh not so commonly used in mainstream music but definitely a beautiful mode of f major now that's one way to figure things out with the with a single root the other thing is you could form the characteristic triad of that mode which is formed from the key signature of f major so if you take f major what chord works the 135 now you could make it 1357 and it'll be even more modally accurate now if you do f major seventh that works for f ionion g minor seventh works for g dorian then a minor seventh again works for phrygian b flat major seventh works for lidian then c seventh works for c mixolydian oops i forgot that uh the b should have become b flat aeolian remember we are sticking with the key of f major which has that b flat then finally e phrygian where you need an e minor seventh flat five which is the seven chord of the f scale so for some scales especially things like locrian and lidian and even mixolydian the chord matters a lot so if you want to generate the flavor of a mode you really need to spice it with a you need to support it with a useful chord otherwise modes may not sound the way it does so the first way to build modes from a scale would be to just support it with a single root and digest the sound based on the new roots which keep coming based on the scale degrees then you could add chords which makes it makes it very obvious that that is those that is a mode of the f major scale now i keep coming to mode of the f major scale and i've always had this question why do people you know in the first phase of this lesson i said that g dorian is just a scale why do i need to care if it came from f major or not or if it is the second degree of f major or not so i never used it for a while i composed quite a lot of songs on dorian mixolydian i even told myself i'm composing on dorian but i never cared which major scale it came from you know or i always look at the the maths argument right if if c major's relative minor is a minor why can't a minor's relative major be c major which is kind of true but then you dive in even more and you look at major and relative minor to be very simplistic or a very arguably a very trivial way of looking at relative scales because a major scale has seven notes and you're telling me that the six is a natural minor but then you could also tell me that the two is a dorian the three is a phrygian the four is a lidian the five is a mixolydian the six is minor or aeolian the seven is locrian so we could also look at it in a more you can say that modes just take that whole major and relative minor concept to the next level by adding more and more options okay so coming back to now after a few years of using a dorian like a dorian and not caring which major it came from i realized that i had also written a few songs where in the verse section i ended up making it very minor like so in the verse i would play a minor now these are all chords of the d minor scale very aeolian even my melody is very minor now the question is what am i aiming at i want this to be a section of my song which has that minor or that sad quality let's say someone is just trapped in a jail or something waiting to escape so then where is the escape where is the light at the end of the tunnel possibly at the next part of your song which is the chorus so like a struggle very victorious what did i do nothing great i was staying in the key of f major but for the verse i played the minor chords the d minor the g minor and the a minor which are still part of the f major family while in the chorus i went to the major chords that's could be a one four five and go to the next part so i i really think this is another nice way of using modes where now you respect the fact that the aeolian or the major or the natural minor are all part of the same key signature it has the same notes so your audience is going to be like it's still one song because he's using the same scale the same notes or rather the same sets of notes so the audience will feel that the moods are changing sort of like a movie with different scenes but in each scene something different is happening so this is the other perspective which i find you you you'll enjoy when it comes to modes so just to summarize we have two ways of using modes the first way is treat a mode like a scale there will be no others relative this thing modes of the major scale ionian phrygian you don't even need to give it a name if you know the name of the scale from a raga perspective or if you just say okay it's dorian because it's a major scale with a flat three and a flat seven more than enough but with that concept your chords need to be known with respect to that scale like an f minor you'll have the one minor you'll have the two diminished three flat major four minor five minor six flat major seven flat major yeah that's the root so with the first modal perspective you would need to know the scale how to form it with respect to major or otherwise once you have the scale you need to know the available chords treat it like a scale go for it and have some fun but just call it f dorian i'm in the world of f dorian just like how a movie theme is built the they'll they'll not be changing stuff the theme will just be on dorian for the most part so the other perspective of using modes or the textbook perspective was to just write down the modes of the f major scale retain the key signature and there we have it for example f ionian also f major g dorian aphrygian which is the third degree b flat lydian which is the fourth see mixolydian is the fifth d aeolian or minor which is the sixth which is the low korean and yeah you could instead of playing the roots here you could look at chords seventh chords will always be better to really digest the mode so in a nutshell i think modes are just scales eventually they are scales but when you use them with respect to a parent scale like the major scale then they can be interchanged so then you can say you can expand on that whole major relative minor thing and say instead of going from the first to the sixth why can't i go from the first to the fourth or first to the fifth if you do first to the fifth you're then going ionian to c mixolydian and from a songwriting perspective or a production perspective you can look at this as sections of your song f major will be worse um c mixolydian will be the bridge d minor would be the chorus and aphrygian would be the some weird interlude which you want to have somewhere in the middle of the song right guys so hope you found the theory lesson useful there are some supporting notes which will definitely help you to write this down i will be writing it in the key of f so do go through that and i would always encourage you rather than c all the time c is maybe good for analysis try to push yourself a bit further than c which trust me is not easy it's just made out to be easy you can figure this stuff out on any of the 12 keys so modes are they scales are they modes well that's that that were the two perspectives today in the perspective one we've looked at them as just good old scales which have their own chords and their own structural harmony the second perspective we said yes they are all part of the same key signature one flat f major and then we form them accordingly and we stick with the key and you have chord progressions which are salient or characteristic of that particular scale or that particular mode okay more minor chords for the minor scale and more major chords for the major scale again thanks so much for watching the lesson this is 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Hi, my name is Georgie Ann. I will be one of the technical producers for Wikimania 2020, fully online on the RIMO platform. This short tutorial will be going over the features of the platform, what key things you need to know in order to be successful and have a great experience during Wikimania 2021. Once you've logged into the platform that we'll be using for the event, which is RIMO, you will come to the networking mode of the platform. In networking mode, we have a few functions on the map. If we start from left to right, you will first see the elevator, the transportation banners, the tables, the menu bar, and the informational banners, as well as the account settings. Now I will go into each feature one by one. The elevator is used to transport an attendee from floor to floor. You simply click on the floor that you would like to go to, and you will be prompted to go to that floor. And then you could go ahead and click yes, go to another floor. All floors during the event in a specific building are identical. So no matter what floor you go to, you will have the same setup, banners, as well as functionality. Next, in order to engage in the event, you'll be placed at a table upon joining the event. To move from table to table, you simply double tap on the table you would like to move to. If you're unsure where you are on the map, you can go ahead and click this where I am button at the lower left corner. Upon clicking that button, it'll let you know where exactly you are on the map. And from there, you can move around by double tapping table to table. While at your table, if you see another person on the map and you'd like to invite them to your table, you simply control click or right click on their name, and a drop down will come down. You'll have the option to send them a message or get that person. When you click get that person, they will be prompted with a notification to join your table. If they accept the notification, they will then be able to join your table. When attendees join your current table, you will hear a knocking sound to let you know that someone else is now at the table. Additionally, when you join other tables, you will also hear the knocking sound to be aware that you have joined another table. If your screen resolution does not allow you to see the entire map, you can simply click, hold, and then drag up and down or side to side the map in order to see more of the map functions. Periodically, during the event, there'll be announcements sent out to everyone in the audience. You will be notified that this announcement is happening by hearing a ding. Once you hear that ding and see the notification pop up, you know that there is something to read and an action to take. After reading the announcement and taking the action, you could go ahead and close the announcement. Now, we would like to move on to the menu bar. On the menu bar, you will see the camera, mic, chat, share, whiteboard, and quit event features. The cam and mic allow you to turn on your mic and camera by simply clicking those buttons. Then you could go ahead and turn off your mic and camera if you're not currently engaging. Once your camera is on, you will be able to toggle view from tile view to floor view where the attendees at your table become larger or smaller. Additionally, if someone is talking and you'd like their view to be larger, you click on their tile icon and that will become bigger. If you'd like to make it smaller to go back and engage with the map, you click back to floor. There are three different chat styles that happen during the event. If you click on the chat box, you will then be able to search a person's name in the chat, or if you need tech support, simply type in the word tech support and you will find multiple tech support representatives. The second way to communicate is through the public chat. We have the general chat that will go to everyone in the event, and we have the table chat, which is just a conversation amongst you and the other attendees at your table. Please be aware that if you leave a table, you will no longer get messages for that table until you return to the table. Lastly, we have the private chat where you could send private messages to other attendees during the event. Your private chats are not recorded for public usage or by the admins. Only you and the other attendee you are speaking to will have access to the private chat. Your entire table will have access to the table chat and everyone at the event will have access to the general chat. If you would like to share your screen, you go ahead and click share screen, select this window or screen you'd like to share, and then it will pop up for you to be sharing on the screen. When you are finished sharing, go ahead and either click stop sharing or the share button again for it to go away. The last feature we have on this bottom menu is the whiteboard. In order to access, you click on the whiteboard button, then click see the board, and then you can collaborate and co-create with other attendees at your table. Simply drag elements from the left banner button in order to bring it to the whiteboard. You can bring various things to the whiteboard, such as URLs, as well as iframe embedded videos from places like YouTube or Commons. When you are finished with the whiteboard, if you would like to take it with you, you have to hit the export button at the top of the screen near the Miro logo. In order to export, the whiteboard has to be logged in under a Miro profile. But in order to interact with the whiteboard, you can do that as an anonymous guest. When you are finished with the whiteboard, go ahead and click the X in the right corner in order to close the whiteboard. Now we would like to move on and discuss the transportation banners that are on the left side of the screen as previously mentioned. The transportation banners allow you to move from building to building during the event. As this event will be running across six different buildings, you will need to use the banners in order to transport. So for this example, we will click on building to, then it will pop up to say to join building to, we click enter, and our page will reload into building to. Now we are in building to, and we'll be able to identify that by the label that is in the top center of the screen. Now we would like to discuss the informational banners. These live on the right side of the screen. When you click on these banners, you will be able to access content, links, videos, or images. Each banner will contain a different piece of important information regarding the event. During the event, you may change your profile in order to create a mini business card. In order to edit your profile, you want to go up to the letter or photo icons in the type right corner of the screen, click on that, select my profile, edit profile, and you could complete your virtual business card with as much or as little information as you like. Additionally, you could upload a photo of max 512 kilobytes. After completing these changes, you may select save changes. Now we will go into presentation mode. When the presentation on the stage is about to begin, there will be a countdown for 30 seconds. During this countdown, you will still be able to see and talk to the other attendees at your table while wrapping up your conversations. When the countdown gets to zero and we go into presentation mode, you will lose access to your camera and your mic as well as being able to directly interact with attendees at your table. You will still have the chat functionality to continue conversations there. Now that we are in presentation mode, I will show you what it would look like the day of the event when you're watching the presentation. The presentation will begin to play on the screen and you can engage with the different buttons that are available. This is how the presentation mode will look. You can use different emoji reactions. You can chat in the general chat. You can see the list of participants through the right side of the screen as well as submit questions during the Q&A opportunities in the Q&A box. If you have any questions about any of this process, please reach out to us and we will be able to support while the presentation is happening by going to the chat, going back from the general chat and again searching tech support. Now we will revert back to networking mode. I hope this tutorial was very helpful for you to better understand how we will be using the Remo platform for Wikimania 2021. If you have any additional questions or concerns that you would like addressed, simply email wikimania at gsdsolutions.xyz for tech-related production questions. Thank you very much.


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Can you please tell us why you are here and where you're from? I'm from Lithuania, which is in Europe. And I'm here because I want to grow. I want to know my identity in Christ and I want to be useful for Jesus. Amen. So can you please just start from the beginning and go from there? Yeah, so I come from a difficult family. I was born in 90s in a very difficult time in Lithuania. We just got our freedom back from Russia so the country didn't really have any laws or any proper structure as a country should have. And my dad was a very wealthy businessman. We were one of the wealthiest families in Lithuania and he had a business in Russia and when he came back to Lithuania to all of this mess, he got terrorized by mafia and he started fighting against that. So I grew up in fear. I grew up in fear for my life. My mom grew up in fear for her life and yeah, there was a point that was reached where someone had to die, the head of the mafia or my dad. And my dad was murdered with his brother. I was seven years old and I remember this rage and this hate was just born in me and I was just feeling that there's no justice in this world and I was dealing with so much fear at the same time as well that things will go bad in my life. And my family was always facing all of these misfortunes, all of these tragedies. In my family line it was so common for the parents to bury their own children. We had suicides. When I was growing up I was hearing just how victorious the enemy is over my family. And you don't have hope in that kind of life. I didn't have hope, I didn't have faith. I started hurting myself when I was eight and I was put on antidepressants for 11 years. I didn't have an identity, I was so lost and confused about so many things in life and I really desired to know God. I really wanted to ask him so many questions about why these things happened to me and when you're so broken you want to know the future. You want to know what the future has for you. So I started turning to astrologers, to mediums, to fortune tellers. I wanted to be safe in my future. The root was hate, the root was just this brokenness. I started dabbling in that myself when I was a teenager. I got so interested in tarot cards and astrology. I started learning that myself. I wanted to have a business around new age practices, around crystals, around all of that. I thought I'm doing good. I thought there's something as white magic. I thought that you can actually help people prevent tragedies in life when you know into the future and stuff like that. I didn't grow up in a Christian family so I didn't know that there's a relationship with Jesus you can have and I never thought that he's available to me. I just had this group of friends later on that we were all interested into the same things, the same practices. We were called enlightened. We thought that we reached an enlightened state where we know about how karma works, how I found so much peace. I thought back then I found so much peace in reincarnation and knowing there's actually some meaning in everything that happened to me and stuff but it was just a counterfeit from the enemy. I was looking at my friends one day and I was thinking, we're so enlightened, we're so full of this wisdom, ancient wisdom but we're so broken, we're drinking, we're partying. None of our lives testify of peace, of joy, none of that stuff. I was just sitting one day in my chair and just looking, my friend is getting ready for a shamanic ceremony and I'm thinking we're so lost. This is not happening. I remember I started questioning my own practices, my own beliefs. I was constantly struggling with anxiety, drinking, partying. I didn't have a dad so I was looking for love in relationships. I was looking for fulfillment in relationships. Just a mess. I remember I saw this one testimony and there was this woman. For 30 years she was actually practicing the same things. I wanted to build my life on and in that testimony she was denying everything. She was saying, please burn my books. I'm refunding your business is the ones that I helped you influence. She just gave it all for Jesus. She was a millionaire in that. She was working with Hollywood.  I want to have this and she's denying this for Jesus. I was just thinking there must be some meaning in that. There must be some truth in that. She led me into salvation prayer. I repented. This unveiling happened to me. I know my creator and I was turning away from him. I was choosing not to follow him. All of this sin, just this heaviness, this weight of sin of this idolatry fell on my shoulders. I remember I was just repenting for everything just like crying and this peace. I received the baptism of the Holy Spirit. I didn't have any Christian friends around me. I didn't have anyone.  I didn't even know what hit me, but I just know that that's God. That was my creator. Every cell was worshiping him in me. I remember I was just screaming Jesus in my apartment to my roommates. I was saying, I finally found him. I finally found a God that cares for me. It was such a joyful moment. It was something I was looking for all my life. I received deliverance instantly. It was very, very powerful. I was telling all my friends about it. I didn't care. I was going to cafes. If they worked in a cafe, I would come in a cafe and I would tell so loud that so many people would hear. I was so excited and still I'm so excited to share that you don't have to be alone in your brokenness. That you don't have to be alone when you lose your loved one. He's so perfect. He's a perfect daddy for me now. The one that I was longing for all my life. He will take care of you. He will take care of you in ways you can't imagine. He knows the hairs on your head. He knows what you need in your times of distress, of depression, of anxiety. After I received the Holy Spirit, I was attacked at dreams. All of these innocent practices I thought I was practicing were revealed in a spiritual sense. I was having sleep paralysis. I was tormented by demons at night and sexual abuse. I didn't know my authority and they were using that against me. But I was praying to God, God lead me, lead me to people that would equip me in this battle. And hunger generation was revealed to me. Praise God. I learned about my authority. I learned how to take ground. We have authority over demons. That's right. And how to take back my territory. How to take back my home. Life is just so good with Jesus.  When did that transition? Can you tell us a little bit about that? It wasn't that first day. It was the next day that I was talking with Jesus. Nobody told me that you can have a relationship but I instantly knew that there's a relationship with Him. And He told me, if you want to be free from this hate you need to forgive your dad's murderer. You need to let me judge him. You cannot be the judge of his life. And when I gave him to God I gave the situation to God I felt this weight was lifted.  I could see nature. I was running in nature. I was looking at creation because everything was worshiping God. And I could finally see without the glasses of hate and judgment. Amen. That is so beautiful. So please tell us. We can see it all over you but tell us a little bit of how your life is now. Yeah, life is so free.    Your testimony is so rich and so full but can you please just leave us with what is your word of advice for those who are watching that may be dabbling in that white magic just tell us what your advice is.


Trace yourself back. That little one, that inner child that has been damaged through life, that's been broken, he or she's still there. They're still inside of us. And we owe it to our younger selves to find that person and go back to that.


my name is Denea and I'm from the Long Beach Public Library. Welcome to today's summer reading program SRP for short baby time. We're going to sing about the color of the day and have some fun but don't forget at the end of the story time there will be a code to add to your Beanstack SRP. Before we start I'll be using a shaker and bubbles today so keep those handy and I'll let you know when we'll be using those. We'll be doing the hello song and in the hello song we're going to wave and sing hello. We're going to bounce and sing hello and we're going to clap and sing hello and we're also going to blow a kiss and sing hello. Can everybody blow a kiss? Good job. Okay we're gonna start. We wave and sing hello. We wave and sing hello with our friends at story time. We wave and sing hello and now we're gonna bounce and sing hello okay. We bounce and sing hello. We bounce and sing hello with our friends at story time. We bounce and sing hello and now we're going to clap. Let's clap our hands for our Beats. Okay you can clap their hands. Use your hands too. Okay we clap and sing hello. We clap and sing hello with our friends at story time. We clap and sing hello. Good job and now we're gonna blow a kiss. Can everybody blow a kiss? We kiss and sing hello. We kiss and sing hello. With our friends at story time we kiss and sing hello. Good job everybody. It's time for us to do some stretching so let's get our babies ready and they can either be on their backs or in your lap. So we're gonna start with the arms. We're gonna stretch their arms up high and we're gonna stretch our arms out wide and bring it back up and give them a hug. Let's stretch your legs out too. Let's bring out the legs. Let's bring it on up and bring it out wide. Bring it back in and give them a hug. Oh that's great. So now we're going to do head, shoulders, knees and toes and let's point out the body parts for our babies. Let's say it all out loud.  Good job. Let's do this twice, okay? Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes. Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes. Eyes and ears and mouth and nose. Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes. Good job. Let's do it again. Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes. Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes. Eyes and ears and mouth and nose. Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes. Good job. Now we're going to do some rowing. Let's get our baby on her lap and we can just roll this gently, their arms. We're going to roll and we're going to roll, roll, roll the boat. Okay? So we're going to start. You can use two arms but I'll be using one. Okay, so we're going to roll, roll, roll your boat gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily life is but a dream. Good job. Let's do it again. Roll, roll, roll your boat gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily life is but a dream. Good job. Today we'll be singing about the color green. And I have my green hat and the word green is in the color green. In this song we'll be spelling out the word green and pointing out that caterpillars are green and grasshoppers too and we'll spell out the word green at the end again. So it's to the tune of roll, roll, roll your boat. So let's start. G-r-e-e-n, G-r-e-e-n. I know how to spell green. Caterpillars are green and grasshoppers too. G-r-e-e-n. Good job. So let's do this one more time. Okay, so tune a row, row, row your boat. So you could either do the rowing motions with it or you can sway. So let's start. G-r-e-e-n, G-r-e-e-n. I know how to spell green. Caterpillars are green and grasshoppers too. G-r-e-e-n. Good job. We'll be doing the itsy bitsy spider and we're going to take our finger and our thumb. We're going to put it together and we're going to climb it on up. We're going to do this twice, okay? So let's start. The itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout. Down came the rain and washed the spider out. Out came the sun and dried up all the rain and the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again. Can't see it again. Let's get our finger and our thumb, bring them together. We're going to climb it on up. Okay. The itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout. Down came the rain and washed the spider out. Out came the sun and dried up all the rain and the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again. We'll be doing a song where we're going to be bouncing our babies, clapping our hands and we're going to rock our babies from side to side. So the song title is bouncing, bouncing baby on my knee. We're going to do this song twice, okay?  Bouncing, bouncing one, two, three. And now we're going to clap our hands. Clapping, clapping baby on my knee. Clapping, clapping one, two, three. And now we're going to rock, rocking, rocking baby on my knee. Rocking, rocking one, two, three. Let's do that again. Okay. Let's get our baby bouncing. Bouncing, bouncing baby on my knee. Bouncing, bouncing one, two, three. And now we're going to clap, clapping, clapping baby on my knee. Clapping, clapping one, two, three. And now let's rock from side to side. Rocking, rocking baby on my knee. Rocking, rocking one, two, three. Good job. And now I'm going to put my baby away and we're going to do rollie-poly so I can show you the movements. And we're going to rollie-poly. We're going to go up, up, up. And we're going to go down, down, down. We're going to go out and in and fast and slow. Okay, ready? So let's get our baby's arms rolling or you could do this in front of them. Okay, we're going to go rollie-poly, rollie-poly, up, up, up. Rollie-poly, rollie-poly, down, down, down. Now we're going to go out and in, rollie-poly, rollie-poly, out, out, out. And we're going to bring back in rollie-poly and put our arms out and go back in, in, in. Rollie-poly, rollie-poly, in, in, in. We're going fast and slow now. Rollie-poly, rollie-poly, fast, fast, fast. Rollie-poly, rollie-poly, slow, slow, slow. Okay, let's do that again, okay? So let's get our arms, let's roll it. Okay, rollie-poly, rollie-poly, up, up, up. Rollie-poly, rollie-poly, down, down, down. Now we're going to go out and in, rollie-poly, rollie-poly, out, out, out. Rollie-poly, rollie-poly, in, in, in. And now we're going to go fast and slow. Rollie-poly, rollie-poly, fast, rollie-poly, rollie-poly, slow, slow, slow. Good job. Today we'll be reading the Itsy Bitsy Spider by Hazel Quintanilla. You can go ahead and repeat after me when I'm done reading a part. After when we're done reading, we're going to go ahead and sing the Itsy Bitsy Spider afterwards. Okay, so let's get started. The Itsy Bitsy Spider climbed up the water spout, down came the rain, and washed the spider out. Out came the sun, and dried up all the rain, and the Itsy Bitsy Spider climbed up the spout again. The end today. We read the Itsy Bitsy Spider by Hazel Quintanilla. So now let us sing the song. We'll be doing the Itsy Bitsy Spider, and we're going to take our finger and our thumb, and we're going to put it together, and we're going to climb it on up. We're going to do this twice, okay? So let's start. The Itsy Bitsy Spider went up the water spout, down came the rain, and washed the spider out. Out came the sun, and dried up all the rain, and the Itsy Bitsy Spider went up the spout again. We can't see it again. Let's get our finger and our thumb, bring them together, and we're going to climb it on up. Okay, the Itsy Bitsy Spider went up the water spout, down came the rain, and washed the spider out. Out came the sun, and dried up all the rain, and the Itsy Bitsy Spider went up the spout again. Okay, it's time for us to get our shakers out. If you don't have any shakers, hopefully you have something that'll make some noise while we sing the ABCs. We're going to shake our shakers, okay? So let's test out our shakers, or anything that makes noise. We're going to go all in the circle. We're going to shake it really fast. Shake it really slow. And we're going to shake it really quietly. Can you do that? And shake it really loud. Very good. And now we're going to do our ABCs. We're going to sing this song twice, okay? So let's get the rhythm going. A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, V, W, X, Y, and Z. Now I know my ABCs. Next time, won't you sing with me? Let's shake it all around. Shake it really fast. Shake it slow. And let's go do it one more time. A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, V, W, X, Y, and Z. Now I know my ABCs. Next time, won't you sing with me? Good job. And now we're going to shake our shakers. We're going to do this song choice, okay? We're going to go shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, your shakers. Good job. And now we're going to shake it high, high, high.  And now we're going to shake our shakers low. We're going to do it below our head, okay? So now we're going to start.  Good job. You want to do that again? Okay. Let's do it. Shake your shakers, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, your shakers. Now we're going to shake it high, high, high. We're going to shake it above our head, okay? All right.  So we're gonna shake it below our head, okay? So we're gonna start. Low, low, low. Shake your shakers. Low, low, low. Shake your shakers. Good job. Let's get our hands ready for if you're happy me know it. So let's rub our hands together really fast. And let's start. If you're happy and you know I clap your hands. If you're happy and you know I clap your hands. If you're happy and you know it, then your face will surely show it. If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands. If you're happy and you know it, stomp your feet. Stomp, stomp. If you're happy and you know it, stomp your feet. Stomp, stomp. If you're happy and you know it, then your face will surely show it. If you're happy and you know it, stomp your feet, stomp, stomp. If you're happy and you know it, shout hooray, hooray. If you're happy and you know it, shout hooray, hooray. If you're happy and you know it, then your face will surely show it. If you're happy and you know it, shout hooray, hooray. Good job. It's time for some bubbles. I hope you're ready and you have your bubbles ready to go. I have two songs for you. We counting our bubbles. We're gonna do one little, two little, three little bubbles. And then there we're gonna sing there are bubbles in the air. And there are bubbles in your hair. So we're gonna start. So let's get our fingers ready and our bubbles. So let's start blowing our bubbles and have them all floating around us. And then now we're gonna count. Okay, let's start. One little, two little, three little bubbles. Four little, five little, six little bubbles. Seven little, eight little, nine little bubbles. 10 little bubbles go. Pop, pop, pop. Good job, let's blow a little bit more. Ooh, those ones are big. And then we're gonna do there are bubbles in the air. There are bubbles in the air. There are bubbles in the air. There are bubbles in the air. There are bubbles in your hair. There are bubbles in the air. Good job, let's blow some more. And we're gonna sing this last song again. There are bubbles in the air. There are bubbles in the air. There are bubbles in the air. There are bubbles in your bubbles in the air. Good job, everybody. I hope you enjoyed today's story time, and I look forward to seeing you guys again soon. But don't forget, there's a code at the end of the story time to add to your Beanstack Summer Reading Program. Keep reading.


Hi everyone, welcome back to theCUBE's coverage here on location at AWS's re-invent cost in Las Vegas, our 11th year doing theCUBE, and it's going to be quite a journey. This year more than ever, it's about a major change in general AI driving new changes for the next gen cloud. Also Amazon, the leading cloud is laying out all the announcements. It's just getting kicked off and it's already buzzing with activity and we're excited to be part of two days of four days and our next guest is Julie Sosa, head of sports, global professional services with AWS. Thanks for coming on theCUBE. Thanks for having me. So first of all, I love all the sports stuff going on, Prime, all the stat cast, the nerd stuff and the football relationship and that's very nerdy, which is, and it's data and stats, so like props. So, but there's a lot more going on in sports and tech with data. What's your role? What's your job? Then we can get into some of the cool things because you got a lot of cool things going on at your time. Yeah, I do, I have a great job. So yeah, I mean we're looking, we're really analyzing all of the trends and areas of opportunity for innovation in sport, right? And data, as you aptly noted, is a huge part of that. We're collecting data in copious volumes that we never collected in sports before, right? When I was a kid growing up as a sports fan, the raw data of sports was a box score. And you could read it and understand it. Now the raw data of sports is degrees of latitude and longitude, right? And it's coming in, in the case of the NFL, which you mentioned 300 million points of data per season. F1, 1.1 million points of data per second on those cars. So nobody's sitting there with a calculator or a clipboard figuring that out. That's a job for machine learning and AI. And then it becomes interesting because you have all this data, what do you ask of it? You know, what do you do with that data? That's the interesting part that we're doing a lot of work in right now. And almost all sports are impacted. I was just, I was in a pro-am for the SAS championship and you guys are there. You got the NFL, PGA, NHL, and pretty much every sport, right? You guys, what sports aren't you in? I don't think there's a sport that we're not in, per se, because we're probably working with a broadcast partner or a team or a league. You know, in the use cases vary, but I will say that the theme that you've identified in terms of analytics is pervasive. I mean, if you're a league, you're looking at player health and safety and rule development and, you know, refereeing and all of that sort of thing. If you're a team, it's moneyball. John Wright, it's just game strategy, it's scouting and recruiting. And then ultimately, it's serving the fan. How do you tell new stories? How do you edify the fan? How do you engage them?  Because again, you just talk about three dimensions of the sports, running a team, the fan experience, facilities, all that stuff, the scoreboard's gotta be secure. I mean, all kinds of weird things you don't think about. Like, someone can hack the scoreboard during a game. Like, that's a security problem. So what does the sports team, what's your engagement with? How do you engage with your customers? Take us through a day in the life of a use case.  What does the engagement look like? It's a great question. And I think it goes back to sort of basic, fundamental AWS principles in terms of, we work backwards, right, from a customer need. And so, oftentimes it is a customer saying, we need to solve for X or we have all this data. How do we get insights out of it? How can you help us do that? As a matter of fact, tomorrow there's gonna be a session that we're doing with the NHL about, how do you even come up, you have data? How do you ask a question of it? What question do you ask? How do you build it? And then how do you tell the story, right? So the engagement model, once we understand what their needs are and help them solve that, sometimes we can see around corners too, and say, hey, if you thought about this, do you want to lean in a little bit more here? This would help. So it's a very collaborative process and that's what makes it so great, is that you're working together towards a common goal to elevate a sport. You know, it's interesting, the sports of all the years I've observed that it was always very much an owner thing and they were very, I won't say tight with money around tech, everything's on the field, as they say. But now that needs to be antiquated and outdated, how modern have they gotten on there, if it's like storage, because you have data, you get storage, you have other concession data. By the way, concession could be third party, so you need integration, right? So it's complicated. So where are they on the scale of modernization? Are some more, some more ahead of others, where, how does that factor in? Yeah, some sports are ahead of others, some teams are more progressive than others, but I think everybody sees that the future is somewhat inevitable and the future is actually now. So yeah, I mean, I think it's, you know, you're seeing increasing business insights and performance analytics staffs, right? So one measure of this is, where are they hiring? Right? More and more around data and technology. And it's a, you know, it's a being competitive thing too. Look at these venues, right? You look at the SoFi, you look at Allegiant here. These are really high-end, technically advanced venues, and I think fans are starting to expect that. So even those who are like, I don't want to necessarily spend the money, I think fans are going to push them to deliver that sort of high-end technical experience. You know, it's very interesting, the multifaceted aspect of the economics impact, stadium and so far, amazing stadium, watch a game, amenities, all of yous are great, but it's multi-purpose. Olympus will be there. I mean, so the economy and where you are in the city, the role of the stadium, Oakland Raiders went from lowest-ranking, money-making team to what, top 10. Right, right. Well, and what you're talking about, you're seeing this increasing trend towards districts, fan districts, right? So it's not an isolated venue out in the middle of nowhere, but, and, you know, there are restaurants, bars, mixed use. I mean, I remember Foxboro, I thought was used to be in the middle of nowhere. Now there's all these bars and hotels and restaurants, and you're starting to see some teams lean into those districts and say, you know what, let's share data with each other. So that a customer of one of us becomes a customer of four of us. Come to dinner before the game, go to the game, go to the bar afterwards, check into the hotel, let's make this a rising tide, lifting all boats. And so that's another data story too, is fans. How do we share data about fans to super serve them? The fan experience, the stadium, which now is not just a stadium, it's the economics, it's the region of the area. How does the changing expectation change? So with generative AI, I was seeing clearly that how I'm getting my sports, I have multiple devices, I'm non-digital. Fans are not in the stands, they're going to stream. I remember when the Levi Stadium came out deal, they were stuck to only broadcast within the IP address of the stadium. So they had restrictions, so broadcast rights, how do the fans, so what is the changing landscape on the consumption side? And what are some of the changes you see on producing the content, whether it's on the field and or captured on digital? Oh my gosh, there's so much there. So on the consumption side, I'll say probably the biggest thing we've seen, we've seen this broadly across media and entertainment is adoption of streaming platforms, right? So what that does when we're producing a game is you used to have, and you still do, this one to many, right? The broadcast, we're delivering one, the least offensive broadcast we possibly can, we have this sporting event to a very wide audience. In streaming, it lets people sort of choose their own adventure a little bit, right? So if you're watching Thursday Night Football and you want the prime vision stat laid in cast, you can opt into that. You want to watch the Manning cast, you can watch that. So I think some of the adoption of these platforms let us deliver sports in unique and more personalized ways, right? And I think that's really exciting. You see what the NFL did with the toy story, right? And that is both leveraging a platform, but also the technology, because you were using that tracking data to put, you know, it's not Dak Prescott, it's Buzz Lightyear, right? And you're getting kids involved in a sport, and you can do that on streaming. What do you see in terms of communities out developing? Because you start to see a lot of user-generated brands come out of nowhere.  Well, but that enters into this too. If you don't want to hear the broadcaster, you can have an influencer call that game. You can have a celebrity call that game. You could call that game, right? So, I mean, again, there's also a lot of rights in sports, or I think that sometimes gets underestimated. So the geogating on the IP, like that's a real thing for real reasons from a distribution standpoint and a rights perspective. But I think those doors open. And I think right now there's a lot of like, oh, we're going to try a lot of things. I look forward to the day that it's fan-driven. So I get to choose what my broadcast looks like, right? And I want to be prompted for prop bets, or I want to be reminded order pizza at halftime. Like all these things, I want explosions when there's a touchdown. I want my fantasy stats in real time. I want to chat with my friends or whatever, they place a real money bet, whatever. I think that sort of functionality and engagement and personalization will ultimately be built into the streaming environment. And personalization is absolutely a holy grail for genera of AI. That comes back down to our circling back the data. Where's the data equations? Because I was saying to Rothen who was on earlier and I just saw Swamy and I'm like, data management is going to flip its head on his head because old school data management won't work. So. Well then that's what we're seeing in sports too is a lot of these generative AI use cases and other things you're thinking about require sort of a foundation, right? So getting your data, getting a data strategy, a data warehouse, being able to have your data. And data means not just the numbers, but it's also all of your content, your video. Putting all of that in a place that it can be accessed and organized in a way, I think opens up a lot of opportunity. So it does open up generative AI use cases.   And like I want to see every goal scored in the third period with less than 30 seconds left that, you know, then was eclipsed by another goal, right? What's the most exciting sports you hit the stack, Frank? I know Formula One was just in Vegas. That's always the hot one. My son is addicted to it now. And we watch it on TV. We share screens. He's got all the stats. Obviously football's huge. Yeah. NHL could someone say is niche, but I'm a big Bruins fan. They just lost three in a row. Yes, they did. Yes, I know exactly who they were. They lost to Detroit, to New York, and then the blue jackets, what? Yeah. What's most exciting sport right now? It's their jersey, by the way. Those white ones are just not working. I just got to swap the jerseys. Yeah, I think so. I think you're right. The data's probably going to show the fans don't like it. It's just psychology. Players probably don't like it either. Right. All these data-driven decision-making. You know, you're asking me to choose between my favorite children. They're all exciting in their own way, of course.  I'm a huge Boston Bruins fan, and I love the NHL. And so, and it's exciting to see what these analytics are doing for them. And they're really leaning into cloud production, which is a really interesting and, you know, burgeoning space right now. So, they're a highly- You don't want to pick a favorite yet. What's your favorite? What sport do you like the best? I watch a lot of hockey. They do.  Well, and college football. I'm a Michigan Wolverine. They're a big win. Big win. Congratulations. Stressful. You know, Jim Harbaugh is Palo Alto native, so a lot of common good stuff. Well, take us through your job, because I'm a little curious, like what's the day in the life of your job? What do you work on every day? Well, first of all, I have a rock star team. I mean, people, and then we all come out of the industry, so we're all trying to solve the problems that we had when we were on the other side of the table, right? So, that's exciting. So, yeah, it ranges from working directly with customers and doing that. Okay, what are we trying to solve for here to try to think about what's the next big thing? And, I mean, AWS, you probably are seeing just the rapid fire of announcements coming in here. So, keeping on top of all the tech here and how it can apply to sports is a big part of my job too, and having conversations with our Gen AI leaders and saying, okay, help me understand this, could this happen? What are unintended consequences of some of this technology and how do we safeguard and make sure security and responsibility is core in everything we do? So, it's a lot of working with customers, working with and supporting a killer team and then staying abreast of it all and trying to figure out new ways to drive the industry forward. What's great is Andy Jassy is a big sports fan. He was just at the game with him on the 17th, on the 16th, the one who watched the Kraken game. He was in New York for the Rangers game last week. I ran into a little bit there, but it's good when you've got a company that sees the sports, but also it's business. I mean, it's its own thing. It's not like just barter deals. I mean, they probably do some barter, but I'm sure the economics will all work out, but they have business needs. Yeah, well, that's it. I mean, you can get really foundational, basic infrastructure needs, but then there's also that, okay, tip of the spear, what's next and how do we help you drive there and be a real innovation partner. But yes, it is business, but I also think the cool thing about sports is it lets us at AWS tell the story of technology and the cloud and that power in a really accessible, compelling way for the average person, right? Julie, when Dave Alonso and I started the Q 13 years ago, we had a term called tech athlete. We would look at the stars that were in the tech fields as like, like athletically, they go to events, they work hard, they deliver the goods, but now you actually got tech athletes. They're actually athletes who are into tech, they're into investing, they're much more leaning into tech and the new economics around it, especially with the whole college football shifting of the division. College football, to that point, a very interesting thing. You're even seeing Sam Schwartzstein, who's the on-air talent for Thursday Night Football, Prime Vision, tells us Arch Manning, you know, the darling of college football right now, he's majoring in data science, right? So just think about, think about the athletes of today, the nascent athletes of today and what they're studying and they're leaning into tech, they're leaning into data science. Think about how they approach the game and how they play and the longevity of those careers. It's going to be really exciting to see that shift. You know, the old expression, multi-tool player, you have to be data savvy if you want to be learning in the meetings and or your growth, personal growth mindset. I mean, it's from a performance perspective, as well as a health and safety perspective too, right? Optimizing your training and all of that. So I agree. You know, I could talk for hours on sports and tech. We should do it again, but since we don't have a lot of time, tell us what's on your agenda for the next couple of months. What are your goals? What are you guys trying to do for the next year? What's the roadmap look like for you? Yeah, I mean, I think the big themes we're seeing are really still around this data and because we're still early days, you know, I've been asked, you know, we hit the, you know, the pinnacle of this data explosion in sports and my answer is usually like, oh honey, we just getting started. So I think there's still a lot of use cases around data. Also, live cloud production, which I mentioned a little bit earlier, I think you're going to start to see the sports industry, realize that this is more economical. There's time savings. Your carbon footprint is far reduced and you can attract a diversity of talent if you start producing in the cloud. So that, I think that there's a lot of energy. How early is that? Is that, what's the progress bar in editing in the cloud in your mind? Oh, we do it now. You can, you can edit in the cloud. So we can pull our stuff in the cloud. 100%. We actually have a demo down on the floor showing it. So yeah. We'll do a fly by Julie. Thank you for coming on. Thank you. Great time. Great engaging conversation. We're sharing the data. We're sports up here doing tech. We love it. Most of the cubes have been covering this sport, AWS re-invent ecosystem for 13 years, 11th year at re-invent. And again, the game is just getting started. Genevieve AI is going to change the game. The data relationship to AI is going to be really symbionic data to AI to data, the role of the human as the creative source and all this will be the key to success. New economic models, new business models, all happening in sports. You got the coverage here on theCUBE. We'll be right back after the short break.


Arrival at the White House for the State Dinner of the President of the Ivory Coast, 7th of June, 1983. President and Misesoufouette Buanyet, distinguished ladies and gentlemen, it's a special pleasure for me to welcome our guest of honor this evening. During the 1980 campaign, I suggested that the United States should return to some of the basics of free enterprise, policies that would encourage individual responsibility, hard work, and investment. It's taken time, but we're at last overcoming the economic uncertainty that we inherited. Now, I have to admit I've always been confident that we would. I just kept telling myself it worked in Ivory Coast, didn't it?  Unlike many other countries, some of which are far richer in natural resources, you chose the high road of political and economic freedom. In doing so, you've made Ivory Coast a shining example to the rest of Africa and the world. Mr. President, your wisdom has been a guiding light for your people and a beacon of reason and modernization in the world arena. You are a leader who stresses dialogue as a means of solving even the most vexing problems. You advocate compromise over confrontation, conciliation over conflict. Your humane and democratic values reflect well on the people of Ivory Coast. During our discussions today, we touched on many mutual areas of concern, especially those dealing with the promotion of economic growth. The President has been forced to make tough decisions concerning government spending. Well, I can identify with that, and I deeply admire his far-sighted commitment to the long-range interest of his people. Today, we're confident that closeness and interaction between our two peoples can be nothing but a blessing for us all. So I ask you now to join me in a toast to President Popoye Wanyet and to the continued friendship between our two peoples that his visit attests to. Mr. President, Madam Rihanna, allow me to first thank you for the warmth of your welcome and for all the attention that we have been around since our arrival. I would also like to express our gratitude to you for your kind appreciation of the Ivory policy and for your willingness to develop our cooperation. One of your predecessors was able to say that history entrusted to the United States the role of being, or the witness of the failure of freedom, or the artisan of his triumph. I can only sign this beautiful formula. However, the scope of the commitment, the immense responsibility that was given to the nation, the most powerful in the world, could make me die during the crisis period, especially on your own land, on your own continent, as well as in Asia or the Middle East. Problems as worrying as delicate require all your vigilance and that of your team. Your tension should not be turned away from less recent African affairs. I therefore prove a great discomfort to be observed. Your determination to help Africa has found peace, to conquer a prosperity that seems increasingly distant. You say on February 13, 1980 that the United States have the obligation against their citizens and against the people of the world to never allow the destructor of freedom to rejuvenate the future course of human existence on this planet. There is no smaller opportunity for these enemies of freedom in the misery, in ignorance, the best food for their business and business. It is therefore important not to neglect any sector, political, economic, social, cultural, any country, any region, any society where it can be turned away, developed, destroyed, the conflicts that they face or that they maintain. And as it is better to prevent than to cure, it is also necessary to watch not to let this perpetuation of the situation of injustice favoring them. Certainly, you have Mr. President, constantly put the emphasis, the need for individuals as well as for nations to take their own problems, to assume their future and to leave the situation of assisted where some are sometimes completed. As you can see, we have always asked our constituents not to count above all on themselves. However, nothing can deny that there are individuals and nations handicapped who cannot leave without the help of a long-term help of their tragic situation. Nothing can deny that the world is in an absurd situation, to waste, in the arms of the most expensive, the sums to which the credits devoted to the development of its territory. This situation is aggravated by the permanent threat of insecurity that upsets the developing countries to very modest and insufficient resources to fight at once on two fronts. The development front and the security front, the first being too often sacrificed after the second. That is to say, that all developing countries are singularly in Africa. The most needed is peace in the stable of all harmonious development. You Americans of the North, you are better placed to appreciate the delays that the countries do not have of political stability and which become more and more serious threats for the peace of the world. The best factor of peace is the happiness of the people. Peace and happiness are inseparable. From the West, there is a way to help Africa efficiently. But this will be a shame if our production efforts are constantly ruined by the speculators. Africa represents only 2% in international exchanges. It is not enough for us but it is the Africa of today. It is not the one of tomorrow nor the one after tomorrow that we want to fight with the West from our own efforts. Our potentials are great. I would like to quote a work by Alexis de Coteville entitled of democracy in America. It is written in conclusion.  I see great words of competitiveness or restraint. I have been more and more in this belief that to be prosperous and honest is enough to the democratic nation to want it. It is by these words that I would like to end this brief discussion by affirming our determination, our trust to the democratic nation among which occupies the greatest place, the first. Ladies and gentlemen, I ask you to raise your glass in honor of Mr. President Ronald Reagan of Madame Reagan to whom I present the most different and the best for the happiness and prosperity of the American people and our friends. Mr. President, Mrs. Reagan allow me first of all to thank you for your warm welcome and for all the thoughtfulness that has been shown us since our arrival here. I should also like to express to you our sincere gratitude for your kind words describing Ivory Coast policies and for having affirmed and developed our cooperation. One of your predecessors remarked that history has given the United States the role of being either a witness to the failure of freedom or the architect of its triumph. I can only subscribe to that fine thought. Yet the extent of your commitments, the immense responsibility they imply even for the most powerful nation in the world might have led me to fear that in a time of crisis when especially in your own hemisphere as well as in Asia and the Middle East problems as worrisome as they are sensitive require all of your vigilance and that of the team around you I might have feared that your attention might have been diverted from the seemingly less pressing problems of Africa. It was therefore most reassuring for me to note your determination to regain its peace and to achieve a prosperity that seems discouragingly ever more remote.  There is no lack of opportunity for the enemies of freedom to find in poverty and ignorance the best fuel for their sinister designs. It is therefore important not to neglect any political, social, economic, educational or cultural sector any country, any region any society where there may develop and explode the kind of conflicts that the enemies of freedom provoke or sustain. And since prevention is better than cure one must also be certain not to allow the perpetuation of unjust situations that foster them. To be sure you Mr. President have consistently stressed the need for individuals like nations to take their problems into their own hands to assume responsibility for their own future and to cease to rely solely on assistance as some at times are all too pleased to do. In Ivory Coast we have always urged our fellow citizens to rely first and foremost on themselves. But no one can deny that there are individuals and there are nations that are handicapped and cannot emerge from their tragic situation without aid extended aid. Nor can anyone deny that the world today finds itself in the absurd situation of wasting money on ever more costly weapons sums of money compared to which the amounts of money that go for development assistance are pitifully small. And the situation is aggravated by the constant threat of insecurity which compels the developing nations that have modest indeed even inadequate resources to fight simultaneously on two fronts the development front and the security front with development too often having to be sacrificed for the sake of security. So what the developing countries and Africa in particular need most is peace in stability the precondition for any harmonious development. You, the American people are the best equipped to recognize the lack of progress of countries that do not enjoy political stability and which are becoming increasingly serious threats to world peace. The best factor for peace is the well-being, the happiness of peoples. Peace and well-being are inseparable. The West has the means to lend effective assistance to Africa but that aid will be for naught if our own production efforts are constantly ruined by speculators. To be sure Africa at present only accounts for two percent of world trade. That is not a great deal we recognize that but that is the Africa of today. It is not the Africa of tomorrow the Africa of the future the Africa we want to build with the West drawing on our own efforts. Our potential is great. I should like to quote here that masterpiece of Alexis de Tocqueville democracy in America in his conclusion he wrote I am filled with fears and filled with hopes I see great evils that can be avoided or contained and I am becoming ever more firm in my conviction than in order to be honest and prosperous the democratic nations have only to determine that they will be so. I could not conclude more fittingly Mr. President than by expressing our confidence in the democratic nations among which the United States Ladies and gentlemen I would ask you to please join with me in a toast to President Ronald Reagan and to Mrs. Reagan to whom I present my most respectful and heartfelt compliments and also to the happiness and to the prosperity of the great people of the United States and to the friendship between the United States and the Ivory Coast. Thank you. We've got to stop meeting like that Well I think I speak for everyone here in expressing our appreciation of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center these fine musicians have been making their mark since 1969 not alone in New York but national tour television and radio several successful albums Kennedy Center and since music stills the savage breast I could even suggest several other buildings in Washington that you might play in from time to time and also our thanks to Charles Wasworth for his direction his fine direction of these fine musicians and again thank all of you very much it's been an enchanted evening