Aloha and again welcome this week to condo insider Hawaii show about association living mostly about condominiums although we talk occasionally about homeowner associations and other type of common interest living anyway one of the big topics in the last seven ten days all over the news everywhere we go has been fire and life safety issues and condominiums certainly been a lot to report about that so I thought it might be interesting over the next two or three weeks to talk about life safety and fire suppression systems and things you can do what the law is and the requirements with regard to those items today I'm very blessed to have with this Amir Borochov from Ohana control systems whose company specializes in fire control systems in part so welcome to the show Amir thank you and I'd like to say have you introduced yourself to our watchers and tell them a little about yourself well I've been in the business since 2002 actually 2001 was when it all came to me right after 9-11 I wanted to get into security and we started Ohana control systems it was actually originally Ohana international enterprises which was started in 1991 and we got into it from the access control and then we got into the parking revenue control and sure enough it brought us into CCTV and the big one was fire alarm which we brought into the company in 2009 and that's when we renamed the company to Ohana control systems so you're a broad based company besides just fire alarm systems you have a lot of other types of products and services we are electrical contractors we're also general contractors we just were part of the big renovation work at Miley Skycourt we did everything from the ground all the way up to the 44th floor in the room renovations to the fire alarm system we did everything in the building over there basically well you know one of the things that has been brought to bear is you know there's been a major fire at a condominium here in Hawaii recently and issue comes up about the fire alarm system and and notifying people that there is an incident going on in the building correct tell us what the current code is for residential condominiums for a fire alarm system current code I know we may have some older buildings that don't meet the current code but kind of bring us up to date what the current code is current code the big the big one is requiring that people get notified and have at least a 75 decibel reading at pillow height with a speaker basically telling people to wake up or attention attention please there's been a fire reported please exit the building and the back in the days you just have a bell or a horn in the hallway in the common area hallway today it has to be inside your unit and it has to be able to talk to you so you can get out also the current code requires that there be smoke detectors in the common area hallways to get people to get out and usually it's within about 40 feet between each smoke detector in an enclosed area in an open area it might be a heat detector so the two bedroom apartment for example a condominium they would need to basically you would have to have at least 75 dBs at pillow in both bedrooms and 15 above ambient in the rest of the common areas of the department or the condo so if the unit is you close all your doors and we do a sound test and we don't get that 75 decibels at pillow it becomes a requirement that we put the speaker inside and it got even bigger this year where the requirement is the hundred five hundred twenty Hertz requirement which is low frequency so people who are inebriated or old or little children who can't hear the typical speaker with this 520 Hertz they'll be able to hear it so kind of summarized right here you're saying correct me if I'm wrong that you would have to have theoretically a two bedroom apartment two alarms and it would have a speaker as mandatory will be two speakers inside the unit and in the outside in the common area always you would have speaker strobes and smoke detectors now smoke alarms are requirement by law for at the condo owners we generally it's a battery operated or it's it's hardwired but it doesn't notify downstairs basically at the management office that your smoke detector went off because you burnt a toast but once the smoke blows out into the common area always it'll let everybody know and it'll trigger the alarm to go off and the speakers will sound and say attention please vacate the building now the attention please is that like a pre-recorded the system does it or yes it doesn't depend on someone being in the office there is a pre-recorded message and generally what would happen is the manager or the security guard will sound saying this may have been an accident a mistake disregard or they'll say please evacuate while the system is still ringing so you're still gonna have the whip and sound and you're gonna have the attention please and usually it's in threes and then it keeps on telling people to evacuate so if you were to retrofit an existing building an older building you're gonna need to put these speakers in each apartment correct maybe two if it's a two bedroom apartment correct and then in the hallway the common area you're gonna have a smoke alarm you're gonna have speaker and a strobe light you're gonna have a speaker strobe and smoke detectors along the hallway as well yes and the speaker kind of is the annunciator for the alarm like you know as we hear for civil defense or something else so it's kind of beep beep beep and attention time to leave the building whatever it says you know correct you know so that's what the current requirements are correct and even inside during with the current requirement even in your electrical rooms in your storage areas in your parking areas you still got to have the same items the speakers the smoke detectors inside any place where people might be inside you have to have some kind of notification so it's it's very critical that people understand that you know the code is the code but the code is the evaluation of what is one life worth is it better to do it now and get it out of the way and or not do it at all and and it's required we're gonna come back in a minute to like the older buildings what they have now but it seems to me when you have an alarm system like that there's a lot more moving parts yeah it's gotta be maintained I guess is what I'm trying to say absolutely how does that work when you sign contracts to maintain it or the requirements how often you check it or how does that all work so generally with the fire alarm systems the state requires that you inspect it at least once a year and then you get it certified that it passed now as far as the maintenance is concerned it's definitely recommended because the longer the better you maintain it the longer the system will live if you don't maintain it properly you're gonna have a failing system so that's big the biggest hurdle that we deal with as far as our service is concerned is we're dealing with a lot of old systems and we're dealing with the code based on when the system was there and everybody is assuming that it's grandfathered in so we have to keep on maintaining it until they're ready to upgrade and at that point we will help them with the upgrade well let's just say you're older building you wanted to retrofit your fire alarm system kind of one of the steps you go through yeah I guess it's a design building permit installation maybe inspection what are what are the steps you go through to put a new generally we when most times the buildings will come to us and say we're interested in upgrading our fire alarm or our old fire alarm system is failing it's going into alarm a lot which we have that happen a lot and then what we'll do is say okay fine we'll give you an estimate but what we normally do as far where Ohana is concerned we'll go and do a pretest of our own and figure out exactly how many speakers they need and what the building is going to need to pass the final acceptance with the fire department so at that point we'll submit them the proposal they'll come back and say okay we chose you there is five or six fire alarm companies in in Honolulu or more maybe and at that point that's it assigned the contract we will then go and submit and give it to our engineers and have them design the fire alarm system usually it's by an electrical engineer and then once that goes then we submit it for permitting now we can submit it either through third-party review or we'll go straight to the Department of Planning and Permitting and submit it at that point goes to plan review and then it goes to the fire department for them to stamp it now keep in mind that the majority of the time they'll stamp it but it still has to pass final acceptance so if the engineer missed something in the design and they do the final acceptance if something fails or something went missing your contractor still has to come in and make it right and it's happened to us a few times so in general at that point once you get the permit we will start the installation our recommendation for all their buildings is keep the old system running while we're putting in the new system so we're going to run all new wiring all no electrical everything goes from zero we don't like to use anything of the existing we try to stay away from that so that's just once you start installation they really have the old system functioning and the new system and then as a part of your contract you take out the old system in the old boxes and once once we get final approval from the fire marshal then he says everything went great we come back and demo the old system and do whatever needs to be done to give them exactly what they what we promised them so that's what I understand on the building code that if in fact you start to retrofit you know you have to commit the new building code correct and if we did a building code that means you're going to have these speakers in the apartment absolutely you get pushed back from owner saying I don't want to speak in my apartment every single time there hasn't been a time where we haven't had an owner after we did the installation rip the speaker off and because when we're doing testing it's loud and it has to be loud but they'll take it off they'll cut off the wire they'll do whatever and I say we didn't do anything but what they don't realize with the new systems we know exactly which unit number did what it did because we can trace the wire where it went to so a lot of people feel like why do we have to do this my building is grandfathered in or I don't need to hear this or I don't want that speaker right here because it's ugly to my unit and a lot of people don't realize that it's not us or even the the property management company or even your resident manager that's doing this it's code requirement and it's for your life and we try to keep on reiterating it what is one way for it you may not know the answer is what are the boards doing they have an owner who cuts off the wires and says I don't want but eventually I guess they turn it over to the lawyer write up letters or whatever basically I mean it I just went through a board meeting last week and I had people yelling well you're not running conduit in my unit and you're not doing this but part of our job as far as the contractor is concerned is to try to appease them and make them feel as comfortable as they can so we're not you know dealing with ugly aesthetics in their units I'm assuming if you're running some new wires it's not big wiring no you're using some kind of softener cover well generally we try to come in from the common area hallway and we try to just drill into the build into the unit and just mount a speaker right there if we can if we can't we'll put it in a wire mold we'll put it somewhere we can hide the wire either in the socket or inside the walls if it's possible one of the projects we just completed we you won't even see one conduit because everything was run inside the walls you know when we are able to do that we will you know in other installations from other kinds of manufacturers or other customers I mean other dealers in this town they just run this ugly silver pipe down their hallways and all they do is paint it and yeah it is a big eyesore yeah I think that's probably one of the issues of cost well you want to look nice or you don't want it to look yeah but it's a fair to say in summary you have speakers in the units yes they will maintain their own battery operated smoke alarm in the units yeah and the common areas will have the speaker the strobe light and the smoke detector and if it's in a not sprinkled building you gotta have a pole station by every staircase emergency pole station where you're pulling the pole station to activate the fire alarm if it's sprinkled you don't have that and if it's sprinkled the new law says that you can as long as it's 24-hour security and they can pull the pole station you only need one pole station I got it but if it's not 24-hour security you need pole station on every floor by every exit this is quite interesting but we're gonna take a one minute break and come back and talk a little bit about some of the older buildings so we'll be right back in a minute to sister power I'm your host Sharon Thomas Yarbrough where we motivate educate and power and inspire we are live here every other Thursday at 4 p.m. and we welcome you to join us here at sister power aloha and thank you welcome back to condo insider we're here with my friend Amir Borochov from ohana control systems talking about the fire code and fire alarm systems we'll talk about more about fire protection in a moment but I guess you know you talk about the fire code you gave us I'm gonna call it the short version of it very short version yeah how big is the fire code the fire code consists of maybe about 10,000 pages they relate to every from the building code one book refers to the building code which refers to the NFPA 72 which refers to the NFPA NFP 1 2012 right now up until last year where they were in the 2006 version so it keeps on growing there's about 10,000 pages to read through some pertaining to commercial buildings to low-rise to high-rise to hotels everybody has their own requirements but you know one of the things we were saying we kind of got into you go out and design and you got to get a bid and approval and then you go and a submit for a building permit it goes to the various departments including the fire department and comes back where you get approval for installation about how long does it take to go through the design the building permit and installation of let's say an average 150 unit building so my experience has gone from a three-week turnaround to a nine-month turnaround so that for the permit or the permit to receive the permit not from design just once we submit for permit it's taken as long as nine months and it all depends on the luck of the draw of who receives it now currently there's I think five guys at HFD plans at the planning department from the fire from Honolulu fire department there's five guys reviewing and they're reviewing hundreds of permits and keep in mind that's we're just talking about completely renovations but imagine a store in Alamoana Center they have to have their fire alarm system also inspect so these guys there's five guys reviewing hundreds of permits so it's the luck of the draw sometimes we push push push and we beg plead and do whatever we need to do to get them to give us the permit sometimes it takes longer today and nowadays the good news is there's third-party reviewers so you go to a company such as Pala Khanna permits and they'll run the whole permit for you and that might be a little bit quicker maybe two months you know if you go do it on your own it might take a lot longer I used to do it on ourselves but nowadays we use a third-party review because it cuts the amount of hours that we have to spend on getting it but the key is and I always recommend this to all the condos it's better to do a design build where the contractor will guarantee that it will be approved and passed by the fire marshal then going and hiring no disrespect to any of the great designers out there a what do you call it a consultant because if the consultant forgets something then you're looking at change orders and that's something nobody likes we know the paper has been talking about one and focus on sprinkler systems I don't want to talk about sprinkler systems today but they keep referring and I'm not saying this is accurate but they're saying the buildings built before 1975 did not have to have sprinkler systems but that change let's just say that's accurate I don't think it is accurate let's just say it is accurate the code with respect to fire alarm systems may on be on different dates so you may have an older building that's after 1975 that your fire alarm systems out of date doesn't meet the building code definitely almost all the buildings that have had a fire alarm system prior to 97 are not in today's code some of the newer buildings even buildings in 2006 are not that have been built in through 2006 are not in today's building code but again they're all grandfathered in a lot of the condos they never set money aside or enough money aside for brand new fire alarm system so you know most people they're older they're living on fixed income they're looking at a huge expense 300 400,000 and there's not enough money in reserves what do they do at that point so I know it's exactly it's not it's not possible for you to tell me what it would cost but I'm just going to give you a hypothetical that maybe our viewers can kind of relate if you take a building 150 units average issues you have to deal with the retrofit the fire sprinkler alarm system what kind of range of cost you think it would be so we've gone we've done buildings with 150 units that were as low as 130,000 because they're all studios and we've gone as as high as 256 depending if it's two bedrooms you're looking at roughly a 3,000 per unit for a two bedroom unit if it's a one bedroom it might only be 1700 depending on what obstacles we're dealing with when we're seeing the building so it's it ranges so from my way I hear you talk about it it's it's like a thousand to three thousand dollars unit depending on how many bedrooms correct recognizing the basic configuration of the building and where you have to run the wires can have an impact on it yes but it's not really huge amounts of money when you consider the value of one person's life absolutely I always say one thing sprinklers save buildings smoke detectors saves lives and and the reason behind it is if the small a smoke detector goes off you have enough time and you have a speaker you have enough time to escape the building and run away where you have a sprinkler system even though the fire went it's got to be hot enough to reach the sprinkler head which will generate the water to flow by that time the smoke is already billowing out into the hallways and what we want is we want people to get out we want people to be out of the building so speakers smoke detectors it's critical in my opinion it's the most important thing for any unit for any building whether it's an open air or enclosed type of situation well certainly everybody here and everybody out there believes in public safety we want to find ways to protect the people in the building and recognizing you take these older buildings with sprinkler systems the older ones the really old ones prior to 1975 and in Hawaii they say did not have to have a sprinkler system that's true are there solutions other than sprinklers to have fire yeah there is a product called extinguish which is an aerosol type of product it's a green product it's not it's human friendly meaning it's not going to kill you it's not usually they put it in data centers because they don't want the electronics to get all destroyed with water it's very inexpensive solution still needs to be run by you still got run power to it but it will be triggered the same exact way of sprinkler head would trigger it would still trigger the same way except it doesn't cost as much you don't have to run piping all over the into the units and so on and so forth but basically it's not something that's currently being used in lieu of sprinkler systems generally being used for data centers areas where people are not in there and hypothetically we all know what the cost of sprinklers are we've heard all sorts of numbers from different people in the press which frankly I think are extremely low I would remind everybody that our governor thought that we take ten thousand dollars a classroom the air conditioning the schools and I think the bills came in at fifty or sixty thousand and you start looking at other issues like asbestos and lead paint yeah no one really knows we can all hypothesize it but just taking hypothetically this other system about what was the cost compared to that if a sprinkler system cost a hundred this would cost about thirty dollars you know so it's about seventy percent less yeah but again it's not the solution and you know I mean it is there it's available I would personally more recommend going the right way and putting in a sprinkler system but I would tell all the buildings right now all put in the brand new fire alarm system I think that's more critical than anything else because a lot of the buildings out there today their their systems are antiquated they don't have parts to repair them and when they keep on sweeping it under the rug and thinking it's you know you're gonna have a situation like what happened a couple of weeks ago where people actually died and and that that was really sad and this other system which we know isn't as good as well I don't know if that's not as good as sprinklers but it's different than sprinklers as configuration does that meet the building it does I got a look into that I you know it's it's a new product it's been around but it's not been used in lieu of sprinkler systems they've used it yes it is allowed in buildings but they've mostly uses inside data centers and how does it work so it's it's a potassium based product and what it does is potassium likes likes fire and it kills the fire right away where oxygen makes fire blow out more potassium will kill it so it's it's it's an aerosol so it sprays out it's like a dark cloud and within seconds the fire is out but it's probably worth the investigation anyway because we have some videos I'll make sure you I'll send it to you that'd be wonderful because one of the things you know we talked about fire safety systems is in older buildings they're gonna have to look at it because I don't want anyone to be hurt but there are issues that relate to that on cost and you know I always was quoted as saying I said cost per se it's all the things you get to deal with to put it in create the cost absolutely you know and there's a whole lot of hidden condition type issues that they can really run this number up and then you get into affordability yeah and and where are you gonna get the money you know and I did a small calculation and because they say there's 360 buildings that have this problem and depending on how old and all these hidden condition issues it could be close to a billion dollars oh easy there is 360 buildings there is about 1100 buildings that need to retrofit or upgrade their systems they're saying 360 it's probably true but there's a lot more than that so we're talking about two to three billion maybe five billion you know from my calculations yeah that's to include the fire alarm system you're doing the fire alarm systems and a sprinkler system they just throw on the cast iron pipes to wastewater pipes for these old buildings and then you got to do the electrical systems too because some of them can't you know a lot of buildings the electrical is antiquated you can't get parts for that too so what's your recommendation to board members about fire alarm system I would definitely if your building is old I would definitely look into upgrading I would definitely do it right now because the labor costs are not coming any lower than where they're at right now and they keep on going up and the advantage of doing it now is if something new comes up or a new requirement code comes up you're buying yourself more time to put the money away for it and that's the advantage of doing it right now right now means going to design go into planning get the contractors out there and actually I mean hopefully it's a hana control systems but anybody else and put it out there so at least you guys are ready because the the intent is life safety and that's why I look at it it's always been life safety well your company and other companies have a great reputation this is not an experience and I know you would welcome people asking for more information absolutely I want to thank you for being on the show today you very very insightful the next couple of weeks when we're talking more in detail about sprinklers and insurance and all the things that are related to safety of the residents in a building and we thank you very much for watching condo insider we're on every Thursday from three to three thirty and we hope you'll come back and visit us next week aloha


The reason why the narcissist doesn't see a future with you. The narcissist will often pretend as though they see a future with you. They may even tell you that one day you're going to get married and have children together. But that's only because they know that's what you want. That's only because they know that will keep you around. It doesn't mean they're about that for real. They're just saying it because they know it's what you want to hear. If you pay close attention to the narcissist, you can tell that they're not really serious about being with you. Maybe they don't want to own a cat or dog with you. Maybe they don't want to move in with you because they're not sure if you'll still be together in a few months. When you do talk about developing a relationship, the narcissist will only talk about it hypothetically. Nothing ever actualizes.  Because they're not really serious about you, they avoid meeting your family.  They never invite you out with their friends. You rarely go out in public together. You don't spend birthdays or special occasions together. They avoid any serious conversations because they're just not serious about you. They don't really see a future with you. They will tell you whatever they think you want to hear just to keep you around. But they never take any action to make it a reality. Deep down, they already know it's inevitable that it's going to end. They already know that they cannot be committed to you. Narcissists need narcissistic supply. They cannot live without it. They need constant attention and aberration. When they first met you, you were a potent source of supply. Your supply had great power, influence and effect on them. Which is why they were willing to do whatever you want. They may have told you that they wanted to marry you and have children with you. Because at this time, your supply was very potent. It made them feel alive. It made them feel desirable and attractive. But the longer they spend with their source, the more that supply begins to lose its effect. It no longer feels the same way as it once did. Now the narcissist is no longer as interested in your attention.  It just doesn't do it for them anymore. Because they've learned you now. They're used to you. They're bored of that toy. And now they want something new. Many people confuse this as the narcissist being infatuated with someone else. But really, they can't even experience emotional attachment. Which is why it was so easy for them to leave you. The narcissist isn't really interested in another source. They're chasing that rush of adrenaline. That feeling of excitement. Which they can only get from seeking another source. But they never see any of us as real people. They only see us as objects. Which they can then use to generate the feelings that they want to feel. And that is why the narcissist couldn't see a future with you. Because in their minds you were just a toy. You were just something temporary. They knew that at some point they were going to get bored of you. And their false self needs supply. It needs constant attention and admiration. More than what one person is capable of giving. So you could never be enough for them. You would never have been able to satisfy the narcissist over a long period of time. It was inevitable that they were going to get bored and move on to someone else. They have these insatiable needs. They can never be satisfied. Nothing will ever be enough for them. They will always be lucky for something better. And there will always be something better. Because they're never happy with what they got. Because even when they find everything that they were looking for. It's only a matter of time until it loses its potency. Until it no longer has the same effect. Narcissists get bored very easily. When they get bored. They have to find a new toy. They have to find something else to make them feel good. They need constant entertainment. Because inside of them is a void that can never be filled. So they're always pursuing something. No matter what they currently have. It's never enough for them. And that is why they didn't see a future with you. They will try to morph into whatever they think you want to see. To try to keep you around. And they will try to assimilate into societies or cultures. By seemingly participating in whatever is deemed to be appropriate. Whatever is considered to be desired or expected. But they're not really about any of that. They may have no interest in marriage or having children. But they will pretend that they do. And some of them will even go that far. Just to portray an image to the world. But deep down they know that's not who they really are. Deep down they know they're never going to have a future with anyone. Because they get bored very easily. And they need constant attention. But whoever they're with. It's only a matter of time until their supply loses its potency. Every supply has an expiry date. When you're with a narcissist, the clock is constantly ticking. And once your time runs out. It's over. Something else catches their eye. And they're on to the next one. First they want to be admired by you. But then they want to be admired by anyone but you. Because your supply loses its potency. They no longer care what you think of them. You become dull. Boring. Because they're used to you. They've learned you now. It's inevitable that this will only repeat itself. With everyone the narcissist meets. Every supply has an expiry date. The narcissist gets bored very easily. No one person or thing can keep them entertained over a long period of time. It would be like eating pasta for lunch every day. It might taste delicious. But at some point you're going to get sick of it. At some point you're going to want to try something else. And it's the same thing with a narcissist. After they've tried you enough times. It's inevitable that they're going to want to try something else. Because they get bored easily. They have this insatiable need for constant attention and admiration. Which one person could never fulfill. And that is why they could never see a future with you. Narcissists also assume that people think in the same way that they do. They think that if they could get bored of you so easily. Then you could get bored of them. That's why they're so paranoid and hyper-vigilant. They assume that it's only a matter of time. Until you get bored and start looking for someone else. Because that's exactly how they feel. So even though they may not be bored of you just yet. They will still start seeking other sources or supply. They begin to see you as a lost cause. They begin to see it as though. Even if they were capable of giving you their devotion. Even if they were capable of giving you all their love, loyalty and enthusiasm. It would only be a matter of time. Until you go running off to someone else. And that's why they hold back. That's why they always had one foot in, one foot out. Because they never really know where to stand. They never really know what's going to happen. They just know that they don't want to be the one to get the short end of the stick. They don't want to be left in that humiliating position. Of you leaving them for someone else. So it's often just their idea of getting you before you get them. Because they believe that it's only a matter of time until you get bored. And start looking for someone else. They're anticipating this to happen. And their fragile egos cannot stand the thought of it. Connect this with the fact that narcissists get bored very easily. And it should be no surprise that the narcissist doesn't see a future with you. They don't even see a future with themselves. They don't even know who they are. They never took the time to get to know themselves. They were too busy getting to know what they thought everyone wanted them to be. Because all that really matters to them is their supply. Getting attention and admiration. Even at the expense of love and connection. Their main objective is to feed the false self. Even if they lose everyone around them in the process. And while it may look like they've moved on to someone else. No one ever had the narcissist. You never had the narcissist. It was just your turn. There's no future with the narcissist. Because they know that no one would want a future with them. But they will stick around as long as you're willing to play pretend. But as soon as your actions begin to reflect back to them. And they really feel about themselves. They will drop you like a hot potato. Because they don't want to deal with reality. They don't want to deal with anything serious. That would involve them looking at themselves. Making changes or improvements. Something that no narcissist is going to do. The only thing they'll work on is their false self. Because all they want is attention. All they want is to feel like they exist. And there is no existence in the future. We are only existing right now. Thank you for watching. I hope this video is a bit of a review. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. Click the bell icon to receive notifications for my future videos. Check out the new Narc Survivor website at www.narcsurvivor.co.uk Where you can read my blog posts, blog coaching sessions and join our support forum. If you're allowed to donate, my PayPal link is in the video description. Coaching in Quarries with Lee Millmeade at coaching.narcsurvivor.co.uk Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon.


We've already talked about modules and importing math earlier in the course. So what I want to start with in this video is the random module. In the shell, let's import random. And then if you use the random dot random function, it will return you a random number between 0 and 1, excluding 1. So let's run it a few times here. And each time we get a brand new number from 0 up to but not including 1. For things like card games, you'd like to be able to generate random numbers in the range 0 to 51, which gives you 52 total. And for that you have random range. If you give it a single number, it generates a number from 0 up to but not including that number. So if I say random dot random range of 52, I get 39, and this time I'm just going to use up arrow to make my life a little bit easier. And each time I run it, I get some different number, and there's no guarantee that I won't get duplicates, because as you can see, I am getting those. If I were programming a dice game, I'd like to have a random number in the range 1 to 6. So I can say random dot random range with a lower bound and an upper bound. This will generate a number from 1 up to but not including 7. So there's a 2, a 3, a 5, and so on. At this point, we can't write any dice or card games, because we're missing the concept of selection, which we're going to see in chapter 7. We can, however, use random numbers to generate random artwork. I'm going to go into a lot of detail about how I wrote and designed this program. And here's where the video may get a bit strange, as I'm going to be alternating between screen recording and a regular camera. Here's what I want the program to do. I want to draw randomly sized triangles, squares, pentagons, and hexagons all centered around the center of the screen. I'm going to take you through the steps I used to create this program, including a mistake or two, because it's important to see the design process in action. Here's the general outline of the program. In lines 4 through 6, I'm going to import all of the modules that I need. In lines 8 and 9, I'm going to set up the turtle. And then starting in line 11, I'm going to draw 10 shapes where I randomly choose the length of each side and the number of sides that I want. And then draw the appropriate polygon. I can fill in part of this right away. The length of the side is going to be some random integer in the range 50 to 200 in steps of 10. My random number of sides is going to be a random number, again an integer, in the range 3 up to but not including 7. Which will give me triangles, squares, pentagons, and hexagons. The problem now is how to draw a centered polygon. I'm starting with the square first. I need to know how far to move from the center of the screen. And then I also need to know how far I'm going to have to turn the turtle, which is facing this direction, so that I'm oriented properly to draw the square. Let's label some of this. Let's call this distance that I have to move x, and this will also be x. Here's my polygon angle, which happens to be 90 degrees, or 360 divided by 4. This means these other two angles, let's call them theta, are 45 degrees, which is half of 90 degrees. Now, how can I find x? One way to do it is to drop a perpendicular to this side, whose length is side, and now I have another right angle triangle. This right angle triangle has a base of length side over 2, and its hypotenuse is x. Some trigonometry will tell me that the cosine of theta is equal to the adjacent side with that length over the length of the hypotenuse, and some algebra tells me that x is going to be side over 2 divided by the cosine of theta. How far do I have to turn to get oriented properly to draw the square? Right now, the turtle is pointing straight north. If I were to turn 180 degrees, I would be facing straight south, and then if I back off by theta degrees, that's the direction I want to point. So the angle that I have to turn by in order to start drawing is 180 minus theta. Now that I have the math arranged, I'm going to temporarily set my program to draw only squares by putting a 4 in there, so I'll always draw a square, and then I'm going to put in the code for drawing the polygon. My polygon angle is going to be 360 divided by the number of sides. That's my interior angle, so to speak. And the theta is going to be my polygon angle divided by 2. The distance I have to move before drawing the polygon is going to be side over 2 divided by the cosine of theta. Theta is in degrees, but cosine wants radians, and that's why I have to do the conversion to radians here. For each shape, I want to return the turtle to its home position. I'll set the pen size to 3 to make it more visible. I'll go left 90 degrees and then forward by that distance that we calculated, and then to get the turtle oriented properly, right 180 minus theta. Drawing the polygon is something we've seen before. For count in the range in the sides, I'm going to go forward by the length of the side, and then right by my polygon angle. Let's run this and see how it works. You'll see that I should lift the pen up when I move away from the center, but this is a good help at least to see that I'm doing the right thing. That's looking good. Now, let's put back the random range so I get a random number of sides and see how that works. Also, by the way, I'm going to set the turtle's speed to zero so that it draws as fast as possible. Oh goodness, that's not what I wanted. I love the abstract look, but the triangles, the pentagons, and the hexagons are not centered as the squares were. So the question is, what's wrong here? This is what happened, by the way, when I was writing the program the first time. I got this result and it took me about 15 minutes to figure out what's going wrong. It's this line right here where I take theta as the polygon angle divided by 2. That's the correct angle for a square, but not for any other figure. Let's take a look at a pentagon. This interior angle here is 72 degrees. It's the polygon angle, 360 divided by 5. And my original formula was to say that theta is equal to the polygon angle divided by 2. So that would make this angle theta 36 degrees. That can't be right, because 72 plus 36 plus 36 doesn't add up to 180. It only adds up to 144. Since the sum has to be 180, the correct formula for theta is that it's 180 minus the polygon angle divided by 2. It was just an unlucky accident that this simplistic formula happens to work out to 45 degrees for the square, 90 divided by 2, and 180 minus 90 divided by 2 also works out to the correct answer of 45, and I mistakenly thought that this was the correct formula. It isn't. This is the one I have to work with. So instead of naively dividing by 2, what I really need to do is calculate the angle correctly, namely 180 minus my polygon angle divided by 2. And once I make that change, the code starts working very nicely, and then the only thing I need to add at the very end is to bring the pen up before I start drawing, and to put the pen down when it's in position. And there's the program that I was looking for. The most important thing to take away from this is that I planned this program out. I drew a picture of what I wanted, and I labeled it. That's not a guarantee that the program will be correct. I found that out when I had derived the wrong formula for theta, but that planning and the labeling and the drawing got me a lot closer to the solution than if I had just sat down and started hammering away at the keyboard.


I'll have one because I'm not really using slides very much. Let us start at the beginning. So that thing right there, which you might be able to see somewhere over here, is a hex here. And the hex here is a ridiculously simple object. I mean, it's a genuinely, stupidly simple thing that by rights should have been invented in the 1960s and should have become a standard part of human culture decades ago. Take six sheets of plywood, put them in a circle, or hexagon. Take six sheets of plywood, cut them in half on the diagonal, and turn them into roofs. And you can see the pictures here. There is nothing to it.  Why this wasn't figured out by Buckminster Fluror, one of his disciples, literally 50 years ago. I have no idea. It kind of start there slumbering until I stumbled on it in 2002, looked at it, and it went crap. There goes my future. So I've been lugging around this awful shed for at this point 12 years, trying to get the thing into mass use, largely for humanitarian purposes. We've got on the order of 60 million people living in tents. And I mean, you're living in tents. How is it? Sucks, right? And that's for a weekend in a relatively nice climate with tons of modern infrastructure around you. So imagine a tent city of 10,000 to 100,000 people where the expectation is you're going to be there for 10 or 15 years, which is a typical length of time for people to live under canvas in refugee camps. So it's a country the size of the UK scattered around the world, stuck under canvas in horrific climates. And we can fix it with plywood. And the entire set of instructions is take six boards, put them in a hexagon, take six more, cut them in half, put them around to form a shallow cone, and that's your roof. Done. If you want it to be nice and hot, staple up insulation on the inside, if you want to keep the sun off, wrap the outside in tinfoil and wallpaper paste. Did anybody not get that, right? If we want to be really technical about this and ask how you hold the pieces of plywood together, you could cut little blocks out of pieces of 2 by 4, or you can make little metal brackets in a sheet metal press. Now, if you would be good enough to tell the NGO people how to do this, and perhaps persuade them it was worth taking people out of tents and putting them into something better, we could solve the problem and I could go home, right? Because that's it. That's all there is to the hexagon, right? It takes a minute and a half to explain. You understand basically everything there is to know about the humanitarian uses. I could walk off stage now and we'd be done. Except for the hard part about why is it taking 12 years to get anybody to use the bloody things. And that's actually the hard problem. It's no longer a problem of technology. It's a problem of adoption. And the question is, why do we have this enormous blind spot about applying modern technology to housing systems? So it's taken me years and years and years and years thinking we should be using this hexagon. It's better than tents. It's pretty simple. This shouldn't be a hard thing. And really only in the last couple of years has it finally hit me. The reason it's hard to get people moving on the hex here is because we're all still living in houses which could have been built 200, 300, 400 years ago and in the UK in some cases were, right?  It's a cheap brick knock-off of what your overmasters lived under, that lived in in feudalism, right? An Englishman's home is his castle because we're all going to pretend that we're nobility even though we're enslaved by crap jobs and mortgages. And this psychological mindset that a real house is similar to the castles of the nobility has completely paralysed our ability to innovate in housing. So everything around us is becoming amazing, right? The cars run on electricity. They're becoming self-driving. The computers, I mean, my laptop would have been a top 500 supercomputer in the top half 20 years ago. Not even an expensive laptop. Solar panels dropping in price by 7% a year for the past 40 years. They're roughly the same price as coal. 10 years from now, there'll be roughly half the price of coal. The economy will decarbonize. We won't get an economic crash to bail us out of this terrible political problem we have and then we'll have to deal with the solar-powered American Reich. Did I say that out loud? So inside of this context, right, Gore-Tex, anything that you look at that involves technology is becoming amazing. Every time you turn away from it and you turn back to look at it, it's doubled in quality and halfton price. It's not just computers. It's material science, knife steel, you know, you name it, carbon fiber tubing. My God, it's so cheap, you know? Except housing. Housing, old building technologies, terrible building quality, plumbers. My God, have you seen the quality of plumbing as an industry?   The quality of the work they do is terrible. We joke about the industry all the time. Oh my God, they're so terrible. They're worse than plumbers. And if you think plumbers are bad, wait until you see roofers, right?   So the point that I'm making is that everything to do with building is fundamentally broken and we've made a special sphere of exception around building in which technological progress is zero. Quality is terrible. There are no review processes where you could figure out whether the thing you're buying is good or not. And it absolutely dominates our economic landscape, right? How many of you feel you're paying too much for housing? Why haven't you done anything about it yet? Right? Why is housing a special exception to the general rule that open source improves quality and reduces cost? Why have we not gotten started on this, right? I mean, do you see the question now, right? Can anybody come up with a compelling reason why we haven't started on working to free ourselves from enormously overpriced housing as a fundamental economic fact that chains us to systems that we generally speaking despise, right? Yeah, so vested interests from people that own the assets. Does anybody here feel like they're making a ton of money from owning a house? Anybody here in the vested interest class? Two or three people, right? The rest of you, why haven't you done something about this? Right? Why do we not have active ongoing research to take the worst engineering in our culture and fix it? Yes? Planning regulations. So planning regulations are an obstacle that we would need to overcome to get a real breakthrough in housing. Planning regulations are the equivalent of the copyright lobby when it came to file sharing, right? And I will come back to talk about the difference between napsterization and Spotifyization. It's a really fluid, easy word. Okay, I'll take one more. Join the vested interest, right? So we've got a defection problem that people who have to get up and go to solve this problem usually say, I know I'm gonna make a ton of money and buy a really nice house in a place where the values go up, right? So the defection problem is basically about being a scab in a labor union situation, right? We've got an entire population being oppressed by mortgages and obscene rent. This is particularly true living in London. And rather than doing something about the political problem which is resultant in our oppression, we go, you know what? I think they have it better over here, right? And this is how the British class structure has always worked. The upper classes continue to buy talent from the middle class and the working class, give them junior positions in the feudal bureaucracy. And the reason we live like this is because the Norman conquest never ended, right? When we ran out of England, the Normans ran out of England, by the way, the Normans are Vikings that settled in France for about 150 years, then came here. Once they dealt with Britain, they dealt with Wales. After Wales they did Scotland, then they did Ireland, they ran out with white people to oppress, then they went to Africa, South America, North America. Once they'd gotten rid of oppressing those and they couldn't really find anybody left to oppress, then they headed for India and China, right? The simple political history, if you ever need to explain it, to somebody as the Norman conquest never ended and today we call it capitalism. It's Vikings in suits. We call it lawyers, right? Yeah, how are we doing for time? I should really do talks on three hours of sleep more often, it's a lot more fun this way. Ah, great, I even have some time left. So, napsterization was the great thing that was meant to happen to music, right? The certain notion was that everybody would take the little bit of music that they had access to, share it in an enormous bucket with no taxation, no regulation, no rights framework, none of that crap and we would all have infinite music. The artists would get a little bit starved to death, but we maybe find some way of supporting them on an infinite Kickstarter or Patreon or something like that. And Napster worked with 15 year old technology better than anything that we've had since and that really shows the power of centralization to solve problems on no money and no budget. Centralization works except for the little problem that it makes a target, which you can then whack with a legal stick. Bam, but the fact of Napster is what eventually gave us Spotify and Spotify represents the complete capitulation of the copyright industry to the nerd Reich, which is us by the way. So, the complete capitulation of the copyright industry is, unless you give us an offer which is better than piracy, we will take piracy. We have a choice. We can buy your stuff at enormous prices and wait weeks for delivery of a physical plastic object or we can download it for free now. Make me an offer. Would you like some GRM in your CDs? We find that's really helpful. Download, download, download, download, download. Finally, in utter desperation that they're going to get completely annihilated, they say, right, here's an offer, it's better than piracy. How does 10 quid a month for all of music in the world sound? Just please stop stealing it. Stealing it, I hardly feel like we're even paying for it. And this begins to work. The only problem with Spotify, you hear the Spotify advertising where it says, blah, blah, blah, blah, we make lots of money for the rights holders and the artists. Wait, what do the rights holders do now? What do they do? You upload a file to Spotify. People listen to the file on Spotify. Spotify collects the money and gives it to you. What are the record companies for post-spotify? But because the record companies have Spotify over a barrel, which is give us a deal that we like or we'll take all our music back, Spotify is prevented from disintermediating the record companies and becoming the Amazon of music. So what you've got is an established, entrenched monopoly, which is the record companies, co-opting Spotify to block market access for small artists. And this is how monopolies figure out how to step forward in time in these very cunning ways that allow them to stay monopolies long after they should have been disintermediated. Do you ever really get this as a model? The record industry fought like hell for a bad model until it could find a model that would allow it to survive and take all of the real power out of the hands of the artists for another generation by wiring themselves into the deal using their pre-existing monopoly power, right? Building codes. So the pre-existing industries that provide housing spend an enormous amount of time and energy making it impossible to innovate in the housing market and the business end of that is building codes. The business end of building codes is called bulldozers that will come to your experimental building project and drive over it with a tank to make sure that you don't innovate in housing. Mmm, right? This is the oppression inherent in the system, oh peasant mind.  Do you know what they're gonna do to it? They're going to bulldoze it, right? They took the thing to the review, the review panel said no, the current ruling last time I checked on the situation was they were gonna spade that thing under. Why?  And the place where we are oppressed most particularly in the UK, particularly in the UK is housing. We've got 10 times the population density of America. Housing is just about the only product that we sell internationally other than finance, right? The fact that people are still willing to do business with us after what we did with the rest of their money is unbelievable, right? But we're really good at this, right? And we conned the Indians into thinking that the English arriving was a great liberation. You know, remember when we used to be basically the equivalent of the Mendolin cartel to the Chinese, right? You know, the British Empire continues. Norman Conquest never ended. But the place where we are taxed as peasantry is through our housing. So the case that I'm gonna make is extraordinarily simple. Stallman starts the fight for freedom with software, right? And we have a tragedy in Stallman in that his ability to write the same amount of code as 10 ordinary people is counterbalanced by his ability to offend at least 100 times as many people as any ordinary person, right? And this is the tragedy, right? If Stallman had been a little easier to get on with, I think that Stallman would be recognized as being the closest thing that we have right now to a Gandhi because he comes up with a concept which will actually liberate poor people because they get, as soon as they connect to the network, $5 billion worth of software for free. And that's an individual empowerment for every poor person with a Firefox phone, right? You know, vive la révolution, right? Kids, two years, three years, four years from now sitting with a Google cardboard box on their head and a Firefox OS virtual reality device sitting in the slot looking around in an imaginary universe at six and a half frames per second in a thatched hat, right? Virtual reality for peasant farmers is an actual reality within two or three years. William Gibson, thou art avenged. So, Stallman basically provides us with the first real political breakthrough since Marx. And the advantage of Stallman's approach is that it doesn't seem to devolve into mass murder when you try it in the real world. Yet. Although the mailing lists are a sad counter, that's a risk, we have to keep an eye on it. So, once you get it into your head that Stallman is responsible for Wikipedia, he's the first person to propose it, right? He's responsible for the free software movement which gives us open sources, this kind of bastard apoliticized stepchild. He's responsible for the very vision of software as speech in a human right. If Stallman was not so incredibly good at offending people, he would be enormously higher profile than he is, right? But nonetheless, Stallman is Stallman, we have to live with him, please be nice to him. Just keep passing him from nerd to nerd to nerd to nerd, read the handbook, it actually turns out to be important, don't laugh at it. You know, that 70 page writer, it really is what he needs to function. And he still gets all of this done, right? So, firstly, Stallman no joke, right? Not to say that the Torvalds and all the rest of these guys are not super important, but Stallman lays the groundwork. We're actually winning in software, and I think we all know that, open source 70% of the phone market, it's actually going pretty well, operating systems, Ubuntu and the rest of the modern Linux's are fine, Mac and Tosh, it's still BSD underneath, we won in software. We're now rapidly going on the crusade for gadgets, right? Phones, badges, little solar powered things, all the rest of this little bits and pieces, all of that stuff is getting built super quickly. We're beginning to operate on freeing the supply chain. You know, Fairphone, right? Fairphone, very nice idea. Next step, Fairwaptop, somebody will eventually get around to fair consumer goods. You know, all of this stuff is good progress. There is no reason that we can't win on gadgetry in the same way that we won on software, right? But we've got to take the next step, which is going after basic physical infrastructure, which is housing, water, solar panels, wind turbines, toilets, and all the rest of this kind of stuff, right? Because you can have perfect gadgets, perfect software, total intellectual freedom, and rent that is 65% of your income, and you will still be a slave.  You still have a collar around your neck and software will not fix it and neither will Bitcoin, right? And if we are in this for the free, right? Free as in freedom, not free as in software, right? You have to think of software as the thing that we could do because we had relevant skills. It was not the end of the process, it was the thing that we could reach first. Now, does this make sense or have we completely left contact with the ground? All right? Okay, because this is, you know, in a hacker context, this is a fairly bold perspective. It involves an awful lot of nail guns and hammers, right? Not our typical toolset. So once you take that step to saying that the goal of the free culture thing, the free culture movement was to produce freedom, given that we've done so well on round one and round two, we're now in round three. What we have to make sure of in round three is that if we are going to get this kind of spotifyization offer, we do not take it en masse. Let me explain why, right? I think it is pretty clear to just about anybody that if you had to build a house and you had 20,000 hackers on the internet helping you, you and your friends could do it. How complex can it really be, right? If you look at the people that make their livings in construction, they are very big, they are very strong and they are generally speaking not software engineers or PhDs, right? So if ordinary Joe's with 7.0 levels can manage to build houses without breaking their brains, I think we could figure out how to do this. And if we could do this for ourselves, we would have taken another industry and we would have opened it. Here's a plan for very nice set of three bedrooms. I've downloaded it from the internet. I've made some changes. This looks fantastic. I've run it through the structural engineering code. That looks great. Let's go out and build it. Great, what are we going to do? We're going to have a two week hackathon at my house called Build Me a House. And this is how housing used to be done. Barn raising.  Amazing, right? No, really, that's what we used to do. In England, before all of this building code stuff, we built our own houses and we lived in them and our friends helped us and there were no ludicrously expensive professions that would block us at every hand and turn using regulatory capture with things like building codes. No mortgages. Where are you being screwed? Mostly the mortgage, right? Yeah, yeah, oh, you got crazy. What do you mean, build our own houses, right? If you could save 60,000 pounds over the course of your lifetime for the sake of a few weeks of hard work with a collective of friends, you'd be making three grand a day. How does that compare to your consulting rates? Right? Oh, right. Housing is the world's last truly inefficient industry. The mortgage, it's 150,000, 200,000, 250,000 euros. At least half of that in most places is paying for people to use close imitations of 18th century building techniques.  That's what you're paying for in the housing industry, right? So let us consider the possibility that we could use a free hardware approach to housing. The hex here is basically an alternative to tents. It's by no means the be all and end all of the housing thing. There's a guy in the States whose name escapes me and where's my timer gone? Five minutes, great. So there's a guy in the States whose name escapes me who's working on a thing called house slits. And house slits is grid beam for housing. Very simple, potentially you could do multi-story. It's funny looking little cubes. Great idea, no problem with it at all. Go out, take a look at it. It might set your needs better than a hex here, right? But we've only got two or three credible teams that are working on housing as a thing. And this doesn't even begin to approach the other problem, which is land rights. So we talk very briefly about land rights and then I will try and tie this thing off on time. In the UK, we have 10 times the number of people that it is possible to house, say an American population density. We are jammed in here like sardines by American standards. That makes everything to do with land very difficult, particularly given that the inheritors of the Norman conquests still own most of the land. You know this guy called the Duke of Westminster, right? One of his ancestors was given most of Westminster, Mayfair, all that area of London, by the king or the queen of the time. And they've lived off it ever since. We just gave them the land, the crown said here, have a part of land. It's very unlikely that we're gonna be able to make a breakthrough on land in the UK because we've got a feudal society which walks land as a matter of taxing the population to concentrate wealth in the hands of the Normans. O peasant mine, right? But we have European Union passports. So imagine if you will, a radical proposal. Imagine that there was a nomadic hacker festival, right?   It's got a couple of big tents. It's got excellent Wi-Fi, off-grid composting toilets using an open source design, solar panels, wind turbines, water purifiers, the entire shebang, and it houses about 500 people, maybe 200. In the summer, it's in Norway or maybe Finland, Sweden, somewhere nice up north, see a bit of the world, maybe Estonia, as it gets a little colder late summer, you might move it somewhere nice like Devon.  Move the thing four or five, six times a year. How many people do you think in Europe might take that as an offer so they could work from home and basically live in a hacker festival year round? Yeah, we got one, I do, five, all right. So if there are 10 or 15 in this room, I think that the kind of European hacker culture footprint could have a nomadic year-round hacker village without even trying, right? And that nomadic year-round hacker village could be the development ground for an enormous amount of R&D in open source housing and open source infrastructure. And if people were to go and find little corners of, oh, I don't know, empty villages in Portugal or chunks of say Tunisia, where you could take one of these villages, clone the infrastructure and then set it up permanently, I am not sure that those places would mind. Because you've suddenly got a whole bunch of extremely advanced technological thinkers living in your society, helping your folks get oriented to the 21st century, helping them learn how to make real money, all right? Sounds kind of crazy, might be worth a try. Hex year, it's a very plausible technology as part of that, but it's not about the hex year. It's about simply taking the next step. We got freedom in software, we're getting it in gadgets, we get it in houses and infrastructure and we walk off the map. How does that sound as a proposal? Yeah, good, right, lovely, thank you. Wow.


You know everybody wants to talk about why to Kyrie choose the next we know it was really about getting to play on yes every night You know growing up watching the yes network, right? Like that was the number one reason And I would say that it's just been a long time affinity that I've had for yes network I mean, I mean it's just I it was in my household I was taking the three game packages that yes network was offering and you know, I could see the schedule I knew what games I was going to at being a Nets fan as a kid So it was incredible for that to come to fruition now and being a player And actually taking this and that's kind of dream that I've had since the kid and really making it a reality So yeah, I and Eagle and in Richard Jefferson are remiss. They can't be here with you You know Kyrie and Sarah and I were listening to you and you gave such beautiful long You know really detailed insightful answers talking about your process to get here listening to at the podium You know, I'm wondering since you've gotten here now, you know over these last couple weeks What what has been your early impressions of working with Kenny in this coaching staff, man? It's been incredible I just think that the receptivity also just the compassion in the culture of family, you know That was the most important thing. I know you heard me echo it on the stage But that was what they approached me as it's just a family environment. We want to protect you We want to protect your family. We want to make this feel like home for you I know it is home for you But we want to make it even feel like more home for you in eight years in the league You know, you see a bunch of things your expansion bunch of things and then you know You have this dream that starts as a fourth grader and now it's coming to your professional job And you're like how could I not take this opportunity to get to know the nets on a different level now? They're elevated. They've had the players. They have Kenny, you know, a very special leader in here And he's very honest, which I appreciate. He's just straightforward about everything he does He never minimizes what he does, but he's like, you know, this is just what it is I'm telling you the truth and I'm like I respect any coach that wants that type of relationship Keep it open and he trusts me So I'm like he wants my experience to really be the leading factor in all of this and really use my voice Yeah, you bring up leading and everyone we've talked to have talked about you as a leader in the last couple weeks We've talked to Sean and Kenny and they keep pointing to how you've elevated the level of play the compete level With these guys what approach do you take with that? And is that something that you're actively thinking about how you can lead these guys or more of it? Just the way in which you're approaching? Yeah, I think that the biggest thing is just having fun with competing at a very very high level Understanding that the years it takes to put in the amount of experience that myself K DJ Failing on national stages Failing in practice with teammates in terms of like how do you get the best out of your teammates? You want to come in you want to be the voice of reason for everyone you want to help integrate everyone It's a gather group and for me it was just figuring out I just gotta be myself I just got to come in have fun playing the game I love and the rest of the guys will follow me competing at a high level picking up I picked up Spencer You know about two weeks ago full court and it really raised the level to play in practice And everyone follows suit after that and you want to be that type of example where it's not always your voice But just your presence and those guys are just hungry. They're hungry. My teammates are hungry for What this? Opportunity presents so it was one of those things where I just had to learn more about myself And then now it's just being myself and these guys love it. So I love it, you know It's interesting too because you've talked about this Kyrie. This is a place you chose, right? I mean and it's the first time in your career. You've had a choice You know and for an NBA player you have to wait a while until you get to that place Yeah, what does that fact the fact that you chose this place Kevin chose this place the Andre chose this place What does that mean for kind of the way the chemistry will develop and grow? How significant is it that you guys all chose to be here? Well, that's our biggest connection is we've we've chosen a place that we all can grow together and We also have the experiences of the past that we connect with as well of watching each other from afar that hey Maybe the way we did some of the things that we did in our careers could have gone differently in the way we handled it and How do we protect each other going forward so it doesn't happen again? You know when we don't want to leave our brothers out there to dry We play USA together were best friends off the court. We talk every day like but we're not playing together So as kids we still have that same youthful exuberance like I want to play with my friends I want to I want to choose to play with my friends I you know and you feel you don't want to feel compartmentalizing your job So you want to have fun and getting K DJ on board was like first things first I got to get my big dogs with me They have a lot more experience in the league than I do Let me get them with me so they can understand what it's really like to be on a first-class Organizations such as Brooklyn where hey the first thing they said out of their minds my mouths We want to protect you guys We want to protect the players. We want to protect you guys. We want to make sure you're comfortable We want in the first time in our careers We're like, oh, this is this is very nice This is fair. We're not asking for too much. Yeah, like it just was it made sense And we were all very honest about what we wanted now and going forward and it made sense. Well, Kyrie We appreciate the time. We're so excited to have you here. I'm gonna be expecting more book recommendations throughout the year Good to be here man. Good to have you. Thank you, Kyrie


When does he get the extension? And what kind of money are we talking about? What would you offer him as a GM? So after his third year, he'll be extension eligible. So he has to play this year and one more. And look, you know, this is where the fun begins. Like, if he continues the way he is, he's 55 million or more. Now, if I'm John Lynch or Kyle Shanahan, what I'm saying is like, we got to win right now because he's going to go from 900,000 to 55 million. So Christian McCaffrey, the IUTS of the world, they do such a great job. So we got a 55 million dollar built in cushion right now. Let's go for it because at the end of the day, so in two years, a whole bunch of 49ers are going to have to graduate.


Mambo febe mpenzim teza maju HPM baz Nikona atwicha influencer big guru palae online Mambo febe bro Ashkuru sana Kwa lemawa na kutazama kumana ya kwanza Ni viema uji introduzwo mwenyewe O, kumazim na itwa brand mutinda Influenza, content creator Manabia Shara ma shuhuri Namamboka mahaio Ni content creator ni nifuka katiflani kakwe kakwanya shida Ukabidu ulipi faini Yosi entali true Shida, elinia kakwa shida yes But case ibadu e kukotini Na ina indaleya So ni wamuzu akut Wamuzu akut Alright brand, you're here for the amazing exclusive listening party Kali Graf John featuring Nikita Kareng Akok studio amazing setup Amazing music Tell us, what do you expect from here? These are two of the greatest artists we have in Kenya So obviously when two grids come together We're expecting a very big mashup Of course It's na juakali na mamboiakia lazuma akili tvas Nikita na sautini ororo Alazuma ni toe pangoni So yeah, we're expecting nothing less than good music Yes Now to ask you this question Bumagani akali is your favorite? Sorry, nimoab Bass maybe your favorite bass? No chance na mesong mazishi Mazishi does it for me Because everything that I do I kill it So it's very relatable Mazishi is your favorite Na labda ili wakuna bien Dwen netsima enimatu hasenali na kansima poshindaligi So you have us, ni atio otyongo hasenali Na konza sista yo vasu na make more sense new season on yet How are you sure 100%? 99.98 What makes you think this is our season? Right, you see to my built team going on potential Last year we came so close We have experience We are competing against small teams Like Manchester United Naise, naise naise naise naise Bryan, naise naise naise We've seen today, there is a proposed bill in the parliament To regulate or ban TikTok in Kenya Nini wa tu wa Twitter mecelebrates? Ya, ya, I've seen it, I've seen it I think There is a need to regulate everything Or just TikTok So it's fair that It gets regulated However, banning, that's I think that's too far fetched Because the people who are making money of it It's creating employment It's a source of information, entertainment So what they should do is Yes, we see some very ungodly things happening there after midnight Maybe they should try to regulate that How they do that We pay them a lot of money to figure it out Because we can't regulate these people go live at 2 am So we are banning for everyone Because for us, we are not fungia kazi So yes, I think Regulation is needed Not just for TikTok, but for everything But when it comes to banning, that's too far fetched So let them just look at What's causing the problems and try to regulate that You as a content creator Will this affect your brand, will it affect the content creation in the industry? We are very good at adapting As content creators There are so many other platforms That we can always move to TikTok is a fairly new platform in itself And before that we were still creating content Me personally I think if bad comes to us I'll just need to adapt See how I can use and utilize other platforms What else we can do But let's just hope it's not banned Thank you so much for speaking to us Have a lovely time Hope to see you later Come back, this is an exclusive interview With an amazing, most talented Hardworking media personality In 254 Yani Yuko kwenye radio Suburi And then yuko kwenye TV Anarudi afternoon kwenye radio Jyoni kwenye TV TikTok, yuko hele baka hele masaa Aziza mambo vipi Boys, Ina kido How are you? It's been a minute So ya kwenye in such a while But piyomona kwa fresh Yo ho e tuja mania Bajeti Where's your mania? You're looking lovely Thank you so much So how's the day going? My day is going well Just came from radio straight to here And I'm super excited to see What calligraph and Nikita have in store for us Because I'm a big calligraph Jones fan So what do you expect from calligraph and Nikita? I expect a lot of entertainment I expect something different I expect a great fusion of music Because their sounds are absolutely different But they're both very, very talented So this sound is definitely going to be international Of course it'll be international Some Kenyan vibes up people The callis here we come They better be ready Kenabana boy me ka sana Taini taini hieno Taini hieno Taini hieno Taini hieno Okay, let me ask you this What is your calligraph Jones favorite song? He knows it's in Komavitu nani rea Pafpa swashalai pigashot Maikifi kausiku sutani vea Tap tap back it up make it drop So villain taku veu sinu listen Buona Hai na kwen via na ni ma lisa Nikita favorit song? Nikita ex To be I'm a little be your ex Nihaputu Nihaputu Alright Aziza There's been a lot happening Today we've seen a bill in the parliament A proposed bill To lift or regulate Or ban TikTok in Kenya You being a content creator in the industry What does that affect content creators? I think in a country where we have a lot going on Like corruption The cost of living is quite high I think we're misplacing our priorities It's good that we regulate what's happening on TikTok Because we have young ins who are also using social media I have a baby brother And if we care point I don't want him to be logged into TikTok Because of the things that he's going to meet But I think we should focus more on regulation Rather than banning the application Because there are a lot of content creators Who are earning lots from TikTok I go on TikTok live And I earn crazy money So I wouldn't want my source of income Ikati hizwe The cost of living doiyo So to regulate, to see ban How much do you earn on TikTok? On a bad day Bad night Ya mani miss ya pike hizwe level I don't need to see nisana Akurum tromba ya ta akun pesim Basim ni pesim babasi At least that's the name of the parliament On a bad day On a bad day Let's say like 20,000 What normally happens on TikTok at night? To be honest to Kingia There's a lot of sexual content And in all honesty I don't know why we're normalizing such kind of content I let Shangwa Tekidogo So I believe we are a creative nation We can do more Without having it to be sexual or explicit So regulation is very, very important Izi vitru naam kasi atisa usiku na shutuka Ya mani As leti Shangwa As these have seen you grown from Big Ted Studios To other media stations Yes Now I know there's a future ahead for you A message to a promising upcoming young Media personality Who looks up to every single day Who determines one day He or she will be on that platform you are right now Because I know you're going big Listen to your inner gut feeling Because there's so many people That have told me that Amma you're not cut out for this You shouldn't do this I remember someone who told me I can't emcee concerts Or all other things Mistik to corporate Because it just looks off on me But then at the end of the day My gut feeling told me I can do it Na namini kwa mba Not giving up And actually believing in yourself Because you'll never know until you try So where amini Amini Kabisa And prove everybody wrong But most of all Prove the voice in your head That tells you can't do it wrong Alright Shukun sana Aziza At aziza underscore H That's A-Z-D-E-H underscore H Everywhere Bermezan Fata is the media messiah baby Alright that was an amazing person A good friend of mine Aziza I wish you all the best in each chapter Hope to see you again All the best Most definitely Kido Or burning of TikTok In Kenya What do you have say on that Because you are a content creator Mi niti Mi kwanza nili blow up on TikTok fast Before people knew me When you posted you That's where I blew up fast So when you tell me You want to burn TikTok It's not making sense You know I believe TikTok has regulations So as the parliamentarian Said majority leader Ali say ma we regulate the content And I so agree We need to reduce On the explicit content Actually just Get it over and done with Make sure that it's gone kabisa Coz it's not good Coz say zi watu akiongelela TikTok The first few things na kuya kwa kilia watu ni 3 am O tap tap the screen Share the live 100 bob I don't know what Just I mean say What happens at night Midnight I'm not want to speak about it But it's not something that We want people to see You get Coz it just happens Ita kuya tukapenji ya Kwa takamo je itafuta You know People like that Need to chill There are other ways I get they're trying to Bake money on TikTok But there are other ways To make money on TikTok So yeah Regulating it Na please Mkichu kwa TikTok Mna takatulipu na na Yo They say there are other platforms You guys can Share your comments What do you mean other platforms They're not monetizing Other platforms They haven't Okay let's say they haven't started Monetizing other platforms This is getting better Jujutsa kulipu Unless need endorsement But ati apenyewe na kulipu wombo Alright lastly We are here for the amazing experience Listening party Kali graf feature in Nikita Any expectation from you? Very good songs I'm really expecting For amazing songs From both in Nikita Coz I love both of them Mi koz na na penda wo G Oh my God so yeah I'm here for good music What's your favorite Oji song? Ha Wait wait wait let me see I will not say yes Banna ita komon song Minimal pressure Minimal pressure Minimal pressure Currently A message Nikita and Kali graf We are behind you We support you as part of The media industry And entertainment industry Please raise the Kenyan flag So high and put us out there Alright Kali Thank you so much for your time Thank you too You're looking amazing as well Who dressed you today? I'm just from an official meeting For the listening exclusive Listening party in Nikita Karim So tell us what do you expect More from today? Today I just expect A bomb collab Between Nikita Karim And Kali graf John Ofkoz Ukiskiya Kali graf John is the bars And ofkoz Nikita Karim The vocals I'm telling you I'm just expecting Something unique Something special Something amazing Something with a Kenyan Kenyan sound Yes the Kenyan touches Vibe Alright what's your favorite Maybe Kali graf Kali graf John's favorite song Una jwani mazushi I like that song because It's a sing along Nikita Karim You get As much as you know The bars and the rap It's something that The hook I can sing along What about Nikita's? Well Nikita Karim I love a lot of her songs DRX Is one of my favorite songs By the way A song that Piya Ilikwe nafanya mambo Some few weeks ago I was listening to it Repeat I mean No finally Kok studio is back In Africa In Nairobi What do Kenyans expect Now from Kok studio? Well Kenyan should expect The best Venya tumesema Kenyan Two Kenyan artists coming together Bringing a Kenyan touch In Kok studio And you know Going global That's what we'll expect Khabisa Alright lastly question now We've seen it There is a proposed bill At the parliament For For the Tikta To be suspended Amma to be banned In Kenya What is the tech What do you have to say about that? I think To be banned Is something else To be regulated Is something else Because Their tech is on After midnight What you are tapped up What you are tapped up After midnight What happens at midnight Well after You've not seen after midnight Never Well after midnight Crazy things happen I was listening to Mike Mondo The other day And he was like Ah Koinanga street Menda digital That is what He was explaining And asking the listeners What they actually think But what I think is I want to look at the positive side Of Tik Tok Kuna wa tu anapatado From that Kuna wa tu anashokes Talent from that There are people who have made brands From Tik Tok People like Asia Tok of people like Ajib That actually made brands And become great people Through Tik Tok So na takaku yangali na positive way Na positive way Yes To your funds say them something Sorry? To your funds I just want to say Continue following me on social media There are so many great things coming through I have a podcast coming through And I am doing a lot of great things That I am going to announce Very very soon So continue following me Alright thank you Kalundu Asante sana Kido Bye


Hello! I'm the forests of Korea. I'll be telling you my story for the first time today. I used to be severely scarred and damaged. For a lot of reasons, many trees in Korea were cut down in the past. As a result, I was in intense pain. Bear, without forest cover, I was shivering in the cold. FAO and the international community gave me strong support. And the people of Korea came together to heal my wounds and plant new seeds of hope. With the entire country taking part in greenification projects, households, schools, organizations and villages came together to plant trees. Support from the international community and the people of Korea made me great once more. And I was championed as a success story.  I feel I should give something back to the Korean people who have given me a new life. My greenification has led to a forest welfare cycle that improves the quality of life for everyone. As the pioneer of this green life cycle, I want to share it with the world. I've thought of ways that I can give benefits to each Korean to make their lives happier. With help from experts in many fields, I was able to develop age-specific forest welfare services by building detailed welfare plans based on one's life cycle. I'm able to ensure that everyone can enjoy forest welfare services.  The same as with a person, a forest follows its own life cycle, starting with birth. Indeed, mothers-to-be find comfort in forests, becoming one with nature. Just as a child is born and grows, so too does a sapling. When your mother is expecting, she can stroll through the forest and sense nature. I host forest prenatal care, including meditation, exercise and tree planting programs. These programs provide pregnant women tremendous emotional support by stabilizing heart rates, relieving stress and releasing positive hormones. You have taken your first powerful step into the world. Welcome! Let me be a place where you can grow and learn. At Forest Kindergarten, you can engage with nature through guided tours, observing nature and playing with woodblock or in sandpiles. These programs will foster creativity, concentration and curiosity, skills that you'll need throughout your life. You are not a baby anymore, and I am filled with things that you should know. You can take part in forest camps and after-school classes where you can go camping or make great memories with friends within nature.  You will be able to experience exciting forest recreation activities in the mountains, including rock climbing, mountain biking, marathons, downhill skiing, zip-lining and other rope activities. When you reach mid-life, I want to provide a place where you can rest and get some recreation. Create beautiful memories with your friends and family while taking a rest and enjoying healing services at recreational forests, place for forest bathing, forest education centers, forest welfare complexes and various other health-related forest facilities. I'll be able to comfort you more than ever in your later years. Various therapeutic activities in forests will enhance your immune system, provide peace of mind and make your life even healthier. We all return to nature someday, and to me, death does not mean goodbye, but going back to where we came from. Korea's traditional tree burials have helped create forests, the practice has received global attention as a way for funerals to help, not hurt the environment.  I'd like to see other countries take my story, one of bare mountains gaining mature forests and use it to generate new cycles that provide their people rehabilitation at each stage of their lives. Let's you and I, the forest of Korea, grow bigger and healthier together.


Here's something I've learned about the Holy Spirit. He loves when you choose him over other things. For example, when you're praying and your phone begins to ring and you decline that call, you put down that phone and you say, no, right now I'm with you. Do you know that that pleases him? I've literally sensed it when I'm praying, when I'm reading, when I'm devoting time to the Lord and distractions tried to make their way in. I've literally sensed his overflowing joy when I reject the distractions.


Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, and Mrs. Reagan. No, I can't. I better get to the microphone. Thank you very much. Okay. All right. Well, first of all, welcome to the White House. Nancy and I are most delighted that you're here. And we have a chance to say what a wonderful job you and I think it's wonderful. The initials for your title RSVP, what you are doing. Retired Senior Volunteer Program, but we also know that RSVP means kind of come again. But even though the R stands for retired, that's not quite the way to describe you. Someone said that the only true retirement is of the heart, and you certainly haven't retired in that regard. You've given not only your heart to volunteer activities, but your minds and hands as well. Some here today have been doing volunteer work for RSVP since its inception 10 years ago. All right. Well, and I know this anniversary is special, meaningful to those of you who have been in since the beginning. But it's also meaningful to this administration because it shows that volunteerism can work. There's some 300,000 senior volunteers right now are proving it in a number of ways. Counseling runaway youth, juvenile offenders, giving disadvantaged children extra reading help, providing legal assistance in public defender offices. I'm told that you even have volunteers who counsel on how to fill out Medicare forms, which puts some of you in the genius category. But wherever there's a need, you have the expertise to fill it. Now, I myself have some volunteer work for you. When you return to your hometowns, would you tell your fellow volunteers that we intend to keep our promise to restore Social Security's fiscal integrity? In addition to that, the system can only be as strong as the economy, and we're attempting to make the economy strong so that Social Security will also be strong. Thomas Carlisle said that the work of an unknown good man, or woman I might add, is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. Well, you are making so many things green and growing with your volunteer work.  Someone else once said that life begins when you begin to serve. And I found there's some truth in that also. But let me also just add this one thing that with all the hard things that we have to do to restore this economy, the cuts of many things that we wish didn't have to be cut, we at the same time are just embarking on a program where from the White House we are going to take action and form a task force throughout the country to mobilize volunteers and the force of the public sector, or the private sector, I should say, to contribute to take up the slack in many of the things that government perhaps shouldn't have been doing in the first place should have been left to that kind of work. And we're going to see if we can't mobilize that kind of a volunteerism back in our society again. So thank you for inviting Nancy and myself to share in the RSVP celebration. Thank you, Mr. President, for your kind words about such a productive program. We'd like to ask you, if you would, to please sign this very special birthday card, which is in honor of the 10th anniversary of retired senior volunteers and is now being held by some of our retired senior volunteers right behind you, sir. Thank you, Mr. President. The gentlemen taking the picture of us up here with the birthday card, and I remember it was when I was doing the General Electric Theater and I was standing with one of the GE plants in front of the product they manufactured in that particular plant and they wanted a picture and suddenly one of the executive general entrances said, you're standing in front of the trade park. Thursday night.


What's going on everyone? Sam here, late in sports, not a bad idea. Rippin' 22 Panini impeccable football hobby, three box, full case break, number 31, random division style. So look again at your random results. As always, you can find these on the website under the results tab, as well as the link in chat. Let's do it. What up, Mike? I posted them, right? Did I not? Hold on. Oh, I didn't get through all the renditions really quick. Oh, I did not actually. Hold on, let me post random results really quick. My bad, guys. There you go. And let's do it. Here we go. Box number one. Again, I'll call out the divisions now in the recap. I'm not going to call the divisions out though. I will call them out now. Apex, Najee Harris, 250, and Dawson Knox, the 75, followed by Keshon Johnson, one out of 25. I appreciate you, SG. Thank you, man. That's 25. Thank you, dude. Always 80 and sunny, baby. George Kittle. Nice one there. 19 out of 49. Going to the NFC West. Also, Keshon was NFC South, my bad on that one. I meant to say that. NFC West is, Drew R. Gratchdrew. It's called Dolphins. NFC South, we've got Jeff Saturday. That's Colt's coaching legend, Jeff Saturday. Yep. And Drake London, 31 out of 35. Going to the NFC South on the Landscape Auto. Right, exactly. The serious stuff here, SG. Serious stuff. And Hassan Haskins, six out of 35. Three-color patch and partial helmet. Dude, that's sick. That's like the flame coming off the tee on the Titans. Let's take a look at it when you get it.  Congrats on that there, Titans. AFC South. Yeah, I appreciate you, SG. Thank you, man. Thank you. Fair. Right, we've got Michael Thomas to 75. Deontay Johnson to 50. And Davis Mills to 75. SG is, man, dude. SG is. We have another printing plate, I believe we do. Jake Ferguson to 99. NFC East. Mike Alstotz, 38 out of 75. Yeah, out of 75. Three-color patch auto for the NFC South. Nice one here. It's going to be Kenneth Walker. That is 8 out of 99. NFC West. NFC West is eating right now. That is Drew R. Because then we've got one-of-one printing plate Matt Stafford. Boom, going to the NFC West. Congrats on that one. Matthew Stafford. Nasty plate. Congrats on that NFC West. Chris Olave, 14 out of 35. Three-color patch, two-colored helmet. Nice one there. Congrats. NFC South. The last box is impeccable. Yeah, really cool, really cool Stafford there. The plate autos in this are always fired because they're usually on card too, most of the time. I guess some of the rookies aren't, but I think the game's already over, dude. Well, we ran the ball like 30 times. Yeah, true. It just feels like we just got here and football just started, you know what I mean? Another plate. Holy cow. Amon Ross St. Brown. Kay, game one had the most refreshing art on the team, so. Nice. How about this? How about a one-of-one printing plate, Aaron Rodgers? There you go, NFC North. Matt M, one-of-one Rodgers. There you go. You can toss this in the recap. Got first hit. Cam Acres, 39 out of 75. Going to the NFC West by way of the Rams. Next up, we've got Arnold Ebukite, 15 out of 49. NFC South, followed by A. Derrick Stingley Jr., 7 out of 99. Going to the AFC South. You can do it on the website, Jay, layandsportscards.com. Trayvon Walker, 35 out of 99. Two-colored RPA for the AFC South and the Jags. Garrett Wilson, nice one there. That is going to be 31 out of 99. That's going to be number two. AFC East on that one. Nice. This will be number 210 right here. Going to the NFC West. That is Danny Gray. Nice one there. That is Elegance Rookie Helmet and Team Logo Autos. That is number 210, NFC West. And bar card. We've got Teddy Bruceke and Mike Vrable. Going to the AFC East. 16 out of 25. Nice one there. Congrats on that. AFC East, John R. All right. Let's do a quick recap here, everybody. We've got Aaron Rodgers, printing plate one-of-one. That's Danny Gray. Garrett Wilson, Trayvon Walker. There's the Jags one you were asking about PR. Got Derek Stingley Jr., Arnold Ebikite, Cam Akers, Chris Olave, Kenneth Walker, Mike Alstop, Jake Ferguson, Hassan Haskins, Drake London, Jeff Saturday, George Kittle, Kishon Johnson, Magged Cards. We had bar card of Teddy Bruceke and Mike Vrable for the Patriots. And Matt Stafford, one-of-one printing plate. Going to the NFC West. That's it for the break, guys. Thanks again for the fill. Next up, we have our dual casers.