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For more videos on people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. For the past several days, tens of thousands of Chileans have taken to the streets across the country protesting against the economic policies of the right-wing government of President Sebastian Pinera. The government has chosen to respond to these mobilizations with violent repression and by declaring a state of emergency. Protesters are calling for an end to all forms of repression and demanding the immediate withdrawal of the state of emergencies and curfews declared in various regions of the country. On Monday, for instance, thousands of Chileans mobilized in different parts of the country as part of a national strike. This two-day general strike was called for by the Coalition of Social Unity and demanded the immediate resignation of the president. The Coalition of Social Unity is a platform that brings together more than 50 national social movements, students' organizations and trade unions, including the Workers' United Centre, the National Association of Physical Employees, etc. The platform denounced the deployment of the military, a measure which is part of the state of emergency. The social movements and organizations pointed out that the military has not patrolled the streets of Chile since the last civic military dictatorship under Augusto Pinochet. According to Chilean human rights organizations, in the last six days of the anti-government protests, more than 5,000 have been arrested, hundreds have been tortured, and many have been sexually assaulted by national security forces during the police repression. Let us take a closer look at why Chileans are protesting. On October 6, the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunication announced an increase in the fare of the metropolitan public transport network. This affects citizens travelling by buses, metro and central train in 32 communes in the province of Santiago. According to the new traffic structure during peak hours, the metro ticket will cost 830 Chilean pesos, which is around 1.16 US dollars, and a bus ticket would cost 710 Chilean pesos, which is one dollar. This makes Chilean transport services one of the most expensive in Latin America. Following this, on October 11th, high school students began refusing to buy metro tickets en masse and jumped the turnstiles to protest the hike. Soon, videos started circulating on social media depicting episodes of violent repression of the students. On Friday, October 18th, the broader public in Santiago joined in the protests in solidarity with the thousands taken to the streets. After Friday's mobilization, Pinera declared a state of emergency in Santiago in order to suppress the popular indignation. Under the emergency, Pinera designated a Major General of the Army as Chief of National Security and as the responsible authority in Santiago for 15 days. The state of emergency also prohibits people from holding public meetings, mobilizations and allows the military to fulfill the functions of the police. However, the protests are no longer just about the fare hikes. They are tapping into the broader social discontent in the country caused by neoliberal austerity measures that have been promoted in the country since the arrival of the Chicago Boys after the installation of the military dictatorship. Chile has long served as the region's laboratory of neoliberalism and while this has been intensified under Pinera, the current crisis is 30 years in the making. Today, Chile is one of the most expensive countries in the region and one of the most unequal. Despite historic struggles by Chile students, higher education in the country is still one of the most expensive and difficult to access in the region. Chile's public health system is deteriorating, pensions are privatized and severely inadequate and salaries are insufficient to keep up with the high cost of living. Chile is one of the only countries in the world where water is privatized. It also has the highest number of free trade agreements in the world. Under Pinera, neoliberal measures have been intensified with the acceleration of the repeal of workers rights, anti-union measures, privatization of public education and the advancement of extractive industry. The protesting sectors are demanding that the senators and members of parliament support them, carry out a legislative strike and not pass any bill or ratify international treaties. They are also demanding the establishment of a national constituent assembly in order to develop in a participatory way a new structural base for the Chilean society and thereby open the way to a national development model. This model would end the current unfair and abusive neoliberal model. To all these legitimate demands, the government has responded with heavy police repression and militarization of cities. The national police force, the Carabineros, have been brutally repressing the popular uprising using tear gas, pepper spray, water cannons, rubber pellets and even live bullets. However, despite a violent repression by the national police and military forces, Chileans continue to resist, defying the state of emergency and curfews. They are not ready to surrender to any attempts by the government or to pluck it or curb the indignation. Across Latin America and the Caribbean, protests have been held in solidarity with the people of Chile and to denounce the brutal response of the state to the protests. Many have also pointed out the silence of the far-right governments in the region who are quick to speak out about the much smaller opposition protests in Venezuela and Bolivia, but have done nothing to condemn the actions of Pinera's government, which is already responsible for the death of over 20 protesters. In Buenos Aires, Argentina, Chilean activists, as well as Argentinian social movements and organizations mobilized outside the Chilean embassy to stand in solidarity with the dignified struggle of the people. Their mobilization too was met with heavy repression by the Argentinian police and several people were arrested. The social movements of ALBA also expressed its solidarity, saying, we denounce the authoritarianism of Pinera's government and demand an end to the state of emergency. 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Welcome to the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference 2018 here in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates where I'm very pleased to be joining the studio today. I'm Mr Majid Sultan Al Mesma who is chairman of the Plenipotentiary Conference 2018. Welcome to the studio. Thank you. Thank you for having me here. Now, I'd like to start off by asking you Mr Awezma. This ITU Plenipotentiary Conference is providing an opportunity to address current and future ICT trends. Which topics have been at the forefront of discussions here? First, let me say how proud we are here in the UAE to host the PP18 in the United Arab Emirates and especially in Dubai. As you know Dubai has held several major ITU events in the past and I would like also to welcome all the participants who come from all over the world to a place where it is built on inclusivity, on coexistence, tolerance. That's how my country is built in and we've got over 200 nationalities living here. So I'm sure the participants will have a good time. They will not feel homesick, I hope so. Coming to your question, what makes PP different than the past ones? It's the integration of the sustainable development goals and its strategic plan. In the sustainable development goals, those 17 goals, if they are implemented, they will make a big difference. When it comes to bridging the digital divide, gender balance, inclusivity, to do that, you need to look at the main enabler and the main enabler is ICT. It's the best driver for achieving and accelerating, not only achieving, accelerating even the achievement of the sustainable development. If that happens, it will positively impact all the sectors, agriculture, education, health. Me as a chairman, I would urge all the ITU members or ITU family members, member state, sector members, academia, to offer their support to ITU to achieve that goals. If that happens, then we will leave nobody behind. They are about, unfortunately, half of the world unconnected and ICT can be the bridge for those to be part of the digital world that we are living in. As I said, this is what we need to focus on with the support of all the member states or the ITU family members. There's currently considerable attention being placed on harnessing the power of technology as an enabler for good. What's your perspective on this? We're living in a world that is rapidly changing. Things getting disruptive and the future, the way how we see it, there's uncertainty where we're heading. Take, for example, the AI, what's going to bring? We lose our jobs, for example, but on the other hand of what we've been experiencing technology is bringing ideas, innovation, ease of life and that's what we really need to focus on. The equation is you need to bring ICT and we are responsible for the ICT. ICT could play a big role in building the capacity of ourselves to prepare us for the future. And honestly what we are doing here in the plane of potentially is being watched all over the world. They're waiting. What's going to be the output? Will it really help preparing the world for what's coming? And we have to live up to those expectations and I'm sure ICT will always be the right tool or enabler for success. How do you think that key stakeholders, governments, industry and civil society can engage and make strides in advancing from standards and policies to implementations, for example, smart cities? The technology is there. Who made those services? Is it the government? Is it the people? It's the private sector. This is something called PPP, public-private partnership. It's been there for a while but with the new technologies, with the social media, now we have a new player that we cannot ignore. Those are the people and they have to be included, the e-participation. Their input, their voice cannot be ignored and their input can really enhance the product, the services being offered and complete the circle of public, private, people, partnership. If that happened, then everyone is pleased. The product gets enhanced and people will be happy because they are part of the decision, part of the solution. And again, who are the delegates who are coming to this conference? They represent governments and what are the government? It's made of people. So they represent the voice of the people and this would close the circle in our platform. With this, we are leaving no one behind and that's all about inclusiveness. I'd like to thank you very much for joining us in this studio today and for these valuable insights and hopefully we will catch up with you again at some stage in the future. Thank you very much. Sharma, thank you. Thank you.


The division of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, ICANN, is advocating for better transparency and accountability as it will result in improved governance in Nigeria. The presence of ICANN in the centre of Kursa will stay on the sidelines of a presidential dinner organised in Izana by the Legers and District Society. Since 2017, the Institute has developed a framework to check the level of accountability in the management of public finance as justice Akandoye brings details in this report. Signatories from within the Legers and District Society of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, ICANN, gathered to host their 59th president. It is also time to inaugurate their new excursion of the FBN chapter. This is clearly demonstrated in the vast and constantly growing community of Chartered Accountants on a staff list of at least 250 active financial members of the ECU throughout Nigeria. The feather-first chairman of the Legers and District Society, Tsoib Yolasa-Lamin, welcomes all present. She reflects on the journey so far, while restating the district's staffer's commitment to inspire the next generation of accountants. We have remained steadfast in our commitment to excellence. Noted that initiatives such as the Catch Them Young program was also held in November, which hosted over 200 students. While Chartered members of the noble profession, wine and dine, issues affecting accountancy globally take centre stage at the interactive session. In the chat with the ICANN president, he is quick to share insight on transparency and accountability in the public finance space. And what we have discovered is that the level of accountability and transparency is low for some states. Some states are taking the bottom five lowest-performing states and we have been advocating for this better transparency. Because we believe that when there is better transparency and accountability, then there is an improved governance because the various arms of government will be able to state what these funds are used for and how the funds impact on the life of the citizens. The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and the Institute of Management Accountants Global Economic Confidence Survey shows declining confidence among accountants globally for the Fed Conjective Quarter and the Fourth Quarter of 2023, consistent with a further moderation in global growth. What has been done to drive confidence in young people to the profession and what does the future hold for the industry? As a district, every year we have all these programmes that we carry out during the year. One of them is the Catch Them Young programme where we go to schools within our catchment area. We visit them, we give books, we give presents, we do quizzes. We try to encourage them to become accountants. This year alone, we had one in November and we intend to have another one on the 28th of February and all this is all done with sponsors and people who come together just to encourage our young ones to become accountants. So what has happened in the profession is that globally, especially in the western world, the profession is no longer attracting the young ones and of course you know where you don't have young ones, the tendency is that the profession is going to get into extinction. But in ICANN, instead of telling accountants of Nigeria, we have a programme targeted at the young ones. We call it Catch Them Young programme and because of that, our programme, we have been able to attract young ones to the profession. Awards are presented to outstanding members of the district for exceptional service and dedication. Justin Alcadone, Plasticity Use Legos. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


Yubachi Talk. Gordo the Tex are here. Not alone. How's that for amazing? And Andrew, the security guy. Where have you been? Palau brother. Oh man. It's a long way. Long, way way. Long way. And then you're flying off somewhere else again. Well anyway, welcome back. Nice to have you here. Please grab yourself a live. Pull up a towel and a chair, sit down and join us for another exciting, thematic, thrilling episode of Yubachi Talk. We have a great guest today. Tom Wolfers. I can't want to say Woolworth, but I'm not, Tom, nice to see you, not the founder of Woolworth, Tom Woolforth, and Tom is a proprietor of this company called Anana Corporation, but you've got some really cool projects you've worked on. You and I met at a watering hole, it was in my man's standard, sitting at the live ation, having a live ation, I met Tom and said, when you're in Oahu, come on in, he lives in Alaska. So he flew all the way down from Alaska just to do this show today. How's that? Appreciate your time. Appreciate your time. Appreciate your time. Our arms sore. Our feet. Our guests spare no expense. Anyway, let's jump right into this. So tell me a little bit of a background on yourself and then we'll get into this really intriguing project that you've been working on. So a little background. Thanks a lot, Gordon. I was born in Flint, Michigan. Okay. That's been in the news a lot lately. Yeah. Fast forward to my days in archeology in the Midwest and then one day I had a job offer in 1995 in Hawaii. They said, come on down to Hilo. I did. I jumped in the plane and some more flying to Hilo with the family. I spent 14 years in Hilo doing archeology, a lot of stuff mostly on the big island, sometimes in caves. That was a lot of fun. That must be awesome. Oh my goodness. I got some stories. Yeah. We're going to get something. Let's squeeze a few out of you. Okay. And then in 2009 I moved to Alaska and I am currently the Tribal Liaison for the Alaska Army National Guard. Tribal Liaison. 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And you can go all over the place on this website learning about warriors, learning about different battles, different places. It's pretty fun in itself. There's a lot. I keep adding to it. So it's always growing. Yeah. Wow. So how did you get the project? Where are you at? University of Michigan? So I missed, there was a little gap there. Quite a gap. You studied archeology at Michigan? At Indiana University. I was a big fan of Bobby Knight. And Hoosiers there. Yeah, I know. Kentucky boy. And when I ended up in Hawaii, I just got immersed into this situation here. And in fact, I'm glad you asked that question because, you know, I had to read the archeology literature to be any good here. But what I found out was that my colleagues in archeology weren't identifying the battlefields. You know, we could do hay-ow and burials and trails and all those other things you think about. But we weren't seeing the battlefields. And I thought, well, why is that? They're hard to see. You can imagine. It's just like Gettysburg or whatever. It's just a plowed field or a hay field. And here in Alaska, it's just, or, where am I? I mean, here in Hawaii, it's just a lava field. So I started, instead of reading the archeological literature, I started reading the oral histories and the histories and whammo. That's where they are. That's where the battles are talked about. Sometimes only in one sentence. Sometimes in whole pages and chapters. So I started spending more and more time accumulating that information. And then it turned into this website and turned into the map. And was it in Hawaiian? Did you have to have it translated or? No. These are books that are available to everybody. And almost any bookstore, you'll be familiar with Kamakau and Kalakaua and Malo, EE. Those are the Alaska, these are the Hawaiian folks written in English. But then there's also the Hollies that showed up like Fornander and O'Galley, Westervelt and Throm and those folks. So Forest knows all this stuff because there was no written Hawaiian word, right? Correct. So it was oral history. That's kind of when it was in oral history, it was translated, so there was oral history that got, beginning to get recorded on Western contact. Correct. It's a funny phrase when you say oral histories because it's oral histories written down. Sure. Gotcha. Okay. Well, that's kind of cool. Now, so you said, so Nolan was doing the battles and you said, oh wait, why don't I look at that? Yeah. You had to plug that game. You had an inquisitive. And then because you were on the big island, you were in Hilo, then that's what said, okay, let's look at the big island versus Kauai, Oahu and A'ai and all the other places. Well, that's kind of nifty.  And then what do you do? You take out your GPS. Okay. There's a lot of that.  That's what I was thinking. Rarely, I should say rarely, do they actually tell you. So you get general ideas. And I haven't found them. I haven't been able to walk out and say, this is exactly where it is. But I've taken that information and put it out there for everybody else to think about too. And between everybody going to the website and thinking about it, maybe we can actually find the locations. So yeah, so on your website and then on the paper map, you've got all the locations marked out and so on. And general location. General location. So what you're hoping to do is have people come in and contribute to it and add more that they may know about. There's a lot of folks out there with a lot more knowledge than I have. And I'm hoping that this stimulates dialogue. Okay. And we can share that and grow from there. So have there been any excavations so far at any of the sites? Not at the battlefields. Or are they gathering or okay? No, in fact. Oh, I see. So there's still some work to be done. A lot of work to be done. In fact, ask yourself the question, what kind of artifacts might you find at a battlefield? Sure. You know, you think of the weapons, of course. There'd be weapons. Yes. And maybe the bodies, but those get processed.  So there's not a lot of things at that location of that violent battle. So it's a tricky thing. There's other things you have to think about. The camps around the battlefield, the trails leading up to it and maybe, you know, where they ate before they, you know, had the big battle and then what they did when they were trying to leave. So it gets a little tricky. Yeah. And you've had to deal with the Hawaiian culture and make sure you're not trapping on lands that you shouldn't be. Absolutely. And all of those kinds of things. This is very important. In fact, there's a lot more people out there that know stuff that hasn't been written down as well. So if you're lucky, you know, you can make some nice relationships and learn about that. And I've been very lucky in that regard. Yeah. And there's a group out there called Lua Practitioners. So a lot of folks that are doing this now, and it's like your taekwondo, you know, it's your martial art. Okay. And folks are doing that and having a great time, you know, keeping this vibrant and alive and learning that ancient art of warfare. That is pretty incredible. I mean, this is kind of a very intriguing story. Sure. And I didn't think about stuff not being left behind, right?  So it's, they're intact, right? It's not like, you know, the Civil War and all those kinds of things, right? So now, are you trying to document the purpose of each of those battles? Why was this battle fought or significant? You know, the significance of that, with 108 battles that you know of today on the Big Island, I mean, they're all, 108 can't be related to the overthrow or the bringing together of all the islands, they all have to be related to different things. Absolutely. And in fact, the story over a thousand years or so tells of the growth of the groups here and the social maneuverings and the kings and queens and intermarriages and all that kind of stuff, so it's a long story of development for the societies in Hawaii. It really leads up to Kamehameha, and of course, he studied that stuff. He didn't get his book out to study it like somebody might today, but I mean, he knew the oral histories and he knew about that battle from 500 years ago, and that would help inform him on how to do a better job in his work, too. So it's really fascinating the whole story and how one story leads to another. Yeah, I'm just sitting here getting more and more intrigued on it, because I noticed that on your website and again on the map that you've got write-ups on a number of the different battles and how they were put together and who was what, and you got that from the oral histories and the books that you were able to research. So I wonder how, out of all of them, I bet you've only got, what, 10% of what is probably known? You know, that's a really good point, because there's a debate about that out there in my profession, in the historians, and you could say that everyone that was written down is everyone that there was, but other people say, no, there was a lot of other ones that never made it into the oral histories, because what do they say? The victor writes the history, right, and what about, you know, the folks that lost, they might not have got to tell their version or their tale, or it was lost to the ancient, you know, centuries, all along.  Well, I don't think they did a lot of rehabilitation back.   Well, I'm the howliest of howlies, so I got to ask, is there any of the battles where they, did they battle over, like over lands, over the areas? That's a really good question, and I don't quite know the answer so much as trying to expand their own territory as to really win the island, you know. I mean, there's six major districts in Hawaii, and they all had their major chiefs, and they all knew each other really, really well, so they weren't trying to get the next-door neighbors' territory so much as they were all vying for that one big spot over the entire island. They would make alliances with their neighbors sometimes to do that, and sometimes not. There'd be civil wars between groups of chiefs, you know, across the island, that kind of thing. So it's very similar to, like, I'll think of Britain, too, because they had the serfs, and that's the one at least I can relate to, and they had those kinds of battles that went on within the families, because there were intermarriages and the relationships that went on there. There's a lot of similarities there. Wow, that's pretty incredible. Interesting. So... Always about the land grids. It's funny how people, oh, it's a human thing for some reason. Sorry, you can't make more land.  That's right, the big island there. Well, we're making land, yeah, but they just didn't want to wait for that. Yeah, the big island is making more land. China's making more land. They're putting land up. Apparently, yeah. Now, I digress again. We're trying to keep me focused and thematic here. Anyway, we're getting ready close to coming up on a break, you know. So what we do, if we take a break, we go get this guy Angus from the beach. He's from another set of islands, and he's got a new thing he wants to talk about. He wants another set of islands, and I don't know where he's from. He's from another planet, maybe. Yeah, maybe. So this is Tom Wolfer, not the founder of Woolworths from Anana, your sole proprietor. Archeologists got some really cool stuff about happening on the big island, and we can talk about Linae as well when we come back. All right, we'll go pay some bills. We'll be back in about a minute. Aloha, I'm Kaui Lucas, host of Hawaii is My Mainland every Friday here on Think Tech Hawaii. I also have a blog of the same name at kauilukas.com, where you can see all of my past shows. Join me this Friday and every Friday at 3 p.m. Aloha. Aloha, my name is John Wahee. Am I actually have a small part to do with what's happening today? Served actually in public office. But if you don't already know that, here's a chance to learn more about what's happening in our state by joining me for a talk story with John Wahee every other Monday. Thank you, Ara. I'm Jay Fidel, host of Life After Statehood, and I do this with a regular contributor, Ray Tsuchiyama, and we try to make sense of all that has happened in Hawaii, all that is happening, and all that should happen. Ray, what do you think of that show? I feel delighted to be part of Life After Statehood since after 59, so many things happen to the state of Hawaii, yet things could have gone in other directions. And that's what I'm fascinated about, that Hawaii has had a great history, but could have an even greater future. There you go, I believe that. I'm with you all the way. Ray Tsuchiyama and me, Jay Fidel, we do it as much as we can on Life After Statehood. Come around and see what we have to say, thanks. You're watching Think Tech Hawaii, 25 talk shows by 25 dedicated hosts every week, helping us to explore and understand the issues and events in and affecting our state. Great content for Hawaii from Think Tech. Hey, Aloha, and welcome back to Hibachi Talk. Andrew's security guy here, and I got a real quick security minute because I got a call today that bothered me. You know all these devices, you own these electronic devices that you plug into your network at home or at your office? They all have firmware on them. You need to check for firmware updates often for your devices, okay? There may be vulnerabilities out there that have been fixed on newer versions of that firmware. And if you haven't installed it, you're sitting there with the device that has a problem or a potential problem or a potential vulnerability to cyber attack. So update the firmware on all of your devices frequently. Thank you. Angus is here. Angus, what's going on, buddy? Hey, man, Andrew, welcome back. Welcome back. You know, I'm always updating my firmware. Every year I update my firmware. Yeah, every year, I bet. Every year, oh, not every week. Every week. It's good to see you, man. It's good to see you. Oh, it's good to see you. Tom, it looks like it got a wee bit of a Scottish last name there. Oh, won't we bet on the fourth? I'm on the fifth of the fourth. Oh, I've been on that wee bridge. So I didn't have a gadget this week because I did a new segment. We're gonna call it, how are you kidding me? Okay. So you know what? Remember a few weeks back that Gordo had a picture of us just look very similar to this with a light pole down on the ground. Guess what? This is another one on the same street. Oh, so that's our maintenance tactic? That's our maintenance, new maintenance tactic. It's a poll committee. I know it's the poll committee, trying to decide who's problem it is. Anyway, are you kidding me? Can we get this stuff fixed? What are we paying for this? Where do you find this stuff, man?  We're not walking around. I find them all over the place. You are always finding stuff. Good job. Anyway, it's like, I'm like an archeologist, but I'm like, I'm hunting for all the things that we really screw up. Excellent. Anyway, oh, he's got an accent. Whoa, my goodness. Anyway, thank you, Tom. Nice talking to you. And nice talking to you.  Where are you being? Hello? Nice. Good work, Angus.  I like that somebody's keeping an eye on the bureaucracy and some of the issues out there. And it's funny that it's Angus. He's a busy cat. He's one busy, busy dude. One busy dude. Anyway, we're here with Tom Wilson. And we're talking about your background in archaeology. I was always intrigued at archaeology. That was the coolest kind of project. I'm a cultural anthropologist by trade. Oh, yeah. That's right. You are. Studied it out here at the ranch. Now, what is now for our viewing audience? All two of them. What is a cultural anthropologist? No, not archaeology. So archaeologists, these guys do the artifact work. And they document all this stuff that we try to say people were doing all the reasons why their song and dance and the things, the components of culture that they have. So the archaeologists give us that data that sort of helps tell those stories. So it's a two-pronged sort of attack on figuring out history or figuring out a culture or figuring out what was happening at a place and time, how things got transmitted around the world, and all those kind of things. So did you work with people like? No, we haven't worked together. No, we haven't worked together. I mean, I wasn't any good anthropologist. So I had to go back to technology. Obviously. So what were some of the challenges that you had when you started putting all these things together? 108 battle sites, how do you even start?  Well, it was all about the books. It was all about the oral histories and the books we were talking about. But there's not a lot of information out there. So first of all, there's a lot of reading, which I love to do anyway. I mean, I talked about all those books I've read, and I had to read them two times or three times to really make sense of it and see how they networked together and linked together because they did reference each other without knowing it, they reference each other. So there's a lot of that. There's a lot of work in the library. But there's some misspelling sometimes, and there's also disagreements. I mean, you read one person that heard it from one capuna from way back when and wrote it down one way, and then another who heard it another way. So there's not just one story about the one battle. Sometimes there's two or even three versions of that. And so what I do, that's a big challenge, but I don't try to solve that riddle. I bring all those stories to the website so you as the reader can discern that and see how those are different now. And this is the website right here, www.hawaii. I just lost it. Anyway, it's there. There you go. There you go. www.hawaiiwarfare.com And it's a really cool website. So it's really intrigued because you keep going back and looking for more. I'm hoping to keep it going. And there's different links to the within it. So if you're reading along one battle and you want to read about this warrior, you can go read about that warrior. So Tom, is this a self-funded project where you're here working on doing other work or did you come out here to work on this project? That's a great, cool, thank you for asking that. So I do have a day job. When I moved to Alaska, I started working with the National Guard, but I just didn't want to leave Hawaii behind. Awesome. I invested so much and I'd learned so much and I'd been so lucky to be in Hawaii. So I kept this going as a way to stay in touch, you know, at least through the literature and the culture that way. And I did, it's a self-funded thing. It took me years and years to get here. Wow. So have you, did you get any assistance from the University of Hawaii? Or from anywhere? Not at all. Nope, it's all been through my own library and that way. My colleagues are aware of this and I had a lot of discussions with colleagues. That's been very helpful. Thank you for bringing that up because there's a lot of people involved, but not institutionally. You know, I'm happy, I'm really lucky and happy to know a lot of folks in the Hawaii culture and around Hilo and such and they were always happy to point me in a direction. Yeah, actually you mentioned this aside bar kind of like that one of the locations of a potential location of a battle is again another watering hole in Hilo. Oh yeah. That I frequent. Oh, right on the bay. Right on the bay. It's literally there. So you would think that these places that we gathered today possibly were gathering places previously for some reason that maybe someone wanted to gain. Wow, Aver. There's a lot of, there's different kinds of battles. Some at areas of population where you're trying to overcome that person in power. Others on the frontiers, you know, in between the chief fleet groups and that's very interesting and kind of meet on neutral ground sort of and others just in places that are easily accessible like in Hilo Bay, you know, you can roll in with your canoes from Maui and that's the other thing. There was a lot of island to island battles as well. So if you were going to come and try to take over an island and that's a really bold thing to do, you know, you'd have to land at a big beach with a lot of canoes. Do you think they planned these, they had to plan these battles out and how they thought each component would work to take over an island. They'd have to sit and plan all of this out. Now they'd have to know the island. Yes. Did they know what they sneak over here? They did. Had a bad night, quite bad day. There are stories about that too, about reconnoitering. But also during these times, there was a lot of, they were friends, you know, they were not all related but there's a lot of relationships through marriage and kinship and so you would go party with these folks or trade or have, you know, do surf or whatever it was. Many, many years and all of a sudden something might go south and that's when you already knew about the great beach to land on. Oh, and the things that happened. Now did you find that the people were very open to talk about, you know, the history and back in their families and so on? Yes, and I think that, excuse me, it's really amazing to me that there are so much more stories that are not written down.  And that doesn't really show up on my websites. I don't like recite those folks but I'm hoping that this is a project that I do for the next how many years I'm around and maybe you can go in that direction. So have you published any books or is there a book in the works or how's this looking? No, I thought about doing that but as you know, the product is like a map and I wanted to make it easy to digest. So the poster's on one side and it shows the location, the general location of 108 Battles and on the back it's like about 18 pages for each little panel as you unfold as a page and it's like a short book that tells this chronological version of that. Unfortunately, I don't think it'll show up all that well. We'll give it a shot but I don't think it'll show up all that well. It's not too bad. This is the... Battles on the Big Island? Battles on the Big Island and you know, the writing is on the back and there's a great big map in the inside. So, and they can order this from the website? Absolutely. Okay, they can order this on the website. I have two but I'm keeping them for myself. I had two. I gave one away to Forrest. I just saw Forrest. Yeah, and he'll love it. Oh yeah. And so I gave one to Forrest and then I'm keeping the other one but Tom gave me another one. I'll give one to you. See, there you go. There's like, it's all there. So, you've got this one but then there's another project that you've learned to me too about Lenai. Yes. So, why don't you give me a heads up on this one or give her a heads up? Right, oh, well, this is being tech. How about you talk? It's all about tech. All my techs are right here. So, the one from Lenai was just launched this fall and it's really high tech. Mine's got a little bit of paper and I got a website but this one is an app and it's very interactive so you can learn about, you go to this app LenaiGuideApp.org and I think I might have put that on a slide too. And the next thing you do, you're looking at the map of Lenai and it's got some dots you can hit and all of a sudden you're on this part, you're on this beach, you're at this halo and they really have done a great job of getting you on Lenai virtually and so you can really get a sense of the history there in the current culture because that history is very current right now. So did Larry fund that? Who funded it? That was part of the Lenai Heritage Center. I don't know all the details on that but I'm sure it's on the app. I looked at it yesterday and I thought, wow, this is really kind of a cool, neat app. I said the only thing I see missing on it is like the battles. Yes, the battles are missing anywhere. You could do the battles on Lenai and add that to it but it's another cool, quiet app that's out there. What I like about yours and I like about this one is not the Y Visitors and Convention Bureau, it's not everybody trying to sell you a luau, it's not everybody trying to sell you all those things where you can sit and get into the actual history, archeology of what's going on and this has gone on in the state. Thank you for that. And it's not government funded, so there's no dependence on the government. It's self-funded, just like Hibachi talk. So we're not obligated. I keep thinking that the geocachers would be good. As if you could get a geocache on each battlefield, you'd get people out there interested in finding out about that particular battle maybe. You know how their little cache has stuff in it so maybe they would, I don't know, but that's a group of people that kind of, they go wherever, right? For what, for what, the reason of finding the cache but they tend to carry information and then usually there's information about those sites if it's of some sort of significance so that's maybe a way to also help spread this around. I keep thinking of them. You're giving me ideas too, like do you have a, I mean I know you have the website, do you have a Facebook site? I haven't done that yet. So you got, there's Facebook and then there's Twitter opportunities as well. So I'm gonna put a plug out for you. So if there's some volunteers out there that are in this space that want to help Tom with this, it'd be a great classroom project. Yeah, a new geocache, there's 108 new geocaches you can go plant, because they'll go put one there, you know, just to claim to make a first. And then the guy who gets it first gets some notarizers, all kinds of stuff with that folks. It's like, my wife used to do that quite a bit so I'd end up driving to obscure places whenever we traveled to get a geocache. So we're throwing some ideas and hopefully when this gets viewed a number of times you'll get someone to give you calls because they got your website. So another thing we're gonna add to the show a little bit different. We're gonna talk about some things that are happening in the future on this show. We have, I have a couple of announcements and a couple of things that are coming up. One is the April Foolish Party. This is our 31st April Foolish Party. So on April 7th, this is the one where the boys bunch, we raised money for Make-A-Wish. Last year was a- That's a great event. And we raised over $50,000 for Make-A-Wish last year. So it's coming up, I have tickets. If people wanted to call me, mine are discounted. If you want to call me, and he buys you. Call me and Angus will be there, I'm sure. And he'll bring his lohenies with him. So- And we gotta get the remote camera. Get the remote camera. But they had to look at that. So that's April 7th. I think it's a Friday. Usually it's a Friday. Oh, it might have to broadcast. It will do a late show broadcast. And then Angus has got, he's now going out on the road and he's got a performance coming up on- Oh, you don't wanna miss that. It's the February 22nd. February 22nd, he's gonna be resetting Scottish poetry and drinking Scotch whiskey with many of the friends. And that's open to the public. Oh, that's awesome. So go check that one out. So you gotta go. We gotta go. Anyway, Tom, thanks again. This has been really wonderful. My pleasure. Thanks for having me on the show. You've moved the show up way up the ladder now. And none of our guests go unrewarded. So you got our autograph solo cup, number 101 in the series. Oh, thank you, sir. It's all yours. You just saw this, I have something for you guys. She's wanted for you. Oh, nice. Thank you. This is to you, Angus. Whoa. These are like the real, you can't tip a muller.  I love it. Awesome. It's signed, all right, guys. Appreciate it. Thanks a lot. Okay. And like we do at the end of every show. And thank you, Zuri and Robert, for helping us get this going. One, two, three. How you doing?


news update. Good afternoon, folks. Steve Rhodes coming to you live from the shores of very sunny Delray Beach, Florida. This year, 1 p.m. Update and currently have all the U.S. Indices trading to the upside. The Dow's up nearly 600 points, nearly 2%. 2.25% for the S&P. That's 90 points. A little over 3% for the Nasdaq 100, 368 points, 2.5% for the Russell, 45 there. 4% for the Summizer up 116 points. We got a rally that is underway. Most likely that rally is going to extend itself, so this is not the end of the rally. You've got spot volatility trading out at 27.39. I believe that is below the 50-day exponents moving average. Of course, we'll check in on that here shortly. Gold is flat, trading out at 18.45. Silver's up 8 pennies, so let's recruit up a buck. Trading out at 1.13.23 and 30-year treasury off 24 ticks. 1.4103 is the print there. So let's go see what all this means by taking a look at that 9-panel market update chart. If we look at the ESMini in the upper left-hand side, price is above its descending trend line. It's above the center of its bull structured profile. That says price is going to go target at least 4168. My thinking is it probably gets above that. Now, spot volatility at the moment is trading below its 50-day exponents moving average. The 50-day is priced at 27.55. Price right now for the VIX is at 27.39. The close below 27.55 today is going to suggest a further move lower. That further move lower likely to go target 21.25. If it does that, the S&P 500 or the ESMini is going to go much higher. How much higher? Well, I'd say that the target of 43.54 cannot be ruled out. If we take a look at the NQ, the NQ likely targeting the 12.622. Level out there, the US dollar index has found some support at the bottom of a daily profile. If it does move lower for the course of the next couple of days, it could form a TD-9 count bottom. But right now, the level of support is 101.91 and price is holding that level. Gold is pulled back a bit. Traded slightly below yesterday's low, so certainly nothing bullish out here with regard to Goldilocks. Silvered inside day here. An inside day suggests that the trend that is in place will continue, but there's resistance for silver and that's at 22.26. Light tree crude above trend line resistance now heading to its prior swing point high at 116.43. Natural gas will complete a TD-9 count today. That suggests one of two things. Either we see a retracement or if we see price trade above, close above today's high, that's going to tell you about a very strong moment to move to the upside. The third of your treasury trading right into a descending trend line, but also traded into a rising trend line out there. Folks, stay tuned for the Trader Zed Show, but if you're off to start your Thursday, have a terrific one. And join me tomorrow morning at 8.06 sharp. I'm going to be reporting tomorrow's Trader Zed Show between 8.00 and certainly at the U.S. partners at that out. Have a terrific Thursday, folks, and we'll see you again soon.


Shopping for new ideas? For maintenance? Engineering? Communication? Equipment? Administration? Training? Safety? If you are, then welcome to the Idea Store. A store whose stock and trade is imagination. If there is one required key to successful roadway maintenance, it is proper drainage. And proper drainage begins with proper roadway profile, the Road Crown. Ken Griffin, Associate Director of Local Roads Program at Cornell University, has modified a standard 4-foot aluminum level to include a retractable 1-inch foot. You can check the Road Crown during paving for planned asphalt overlays and un-nually placed overlays. With the 1-inch foot down and the level reading zero-degree slope, the Road Crown is 1-48, or 1-quarter inch per foot, approximately 2%. The level can be placed on the slope arm of the paver, on the screen of the paver, and directly on the roadway after or before overlay. The 1-inch foot consists of a 1-1-8-inch piece of aluminum angle iron to which a 1-inch circle of aluminum has been welded. The cube was ground for shape and drilled for attachment with a 532nd by 3-quarter inch bolt and wing nut. Detailed plans can be obtained by contacting Cornell University. While we are on the subject of levels, Bob Faulkner of Frederick Town, Missouri, has developed a special hand level. It easily fits into the trunk of a car, is very lightweight, easy to set up, easy to use, and best of all, it's a no-hands item. The pointed end of the rod allows it to be firmly planted and the operator can move around and discuss the activity with other crew members. Bob also built this collapsible measuring rod. Detailed plans for construction are available. Many technical transfer centers communicate through newsletters. Informative, timely, and professionally done, newsletters like these keep the T-square customers informed, not only about new ideas, but about meetings, new personnel appointments, legislative actions, and available publications. Safety is always an overriding concern. Plough blades get a workout in the winter, but where do you put them come spring? Toby Ginder, Middleton, Wisconsin Department of Public Works sent us some information on plough blade mounting. 12-inch to 15-inch sections of I-beam laid on edge and pinned to the floor. A small notch is cut to cradle the blade. The rear pin acts as a push stop for engagement. The shorter front pin as a pull stop for disengagement. Contact Toby at Assistant Director of Public Works, 7426 Hubbard Avenue, Middleton, Wisconsin, 53562. On local highways, almost 40% of traffic accidents occur at night. While many reasons contribute to that figure, motorist inability to identify and read signs is one. Perry Morgan, traffic engineer in Huntington, West Virginia, is addressing the problem. Upgrading 1,400 stop signs so that they are 300% brighter. Replacing street signs with larger, more legible ones. While Huntington's efforts are larger in scope than for many municipalities, the message is the same. Huntington affects serialized tape to the signs as a preparation for computerizing the signed locations by type. Durham, New Hampshire uses zip coding. Either way, it's a way to identify who owns the sign. Mike Lawson, city engineer in Beckley, West Virginia, wanted to improve the appearance of the community and at little cost. His staff constructed park benches, tables and a gazebo at 25% of manufacturers cost. They also installed decorative brickwork and drains around the ornamental trees. Mike has all the plans, so write to him. Mike Lawson, city engineer, Beckley, West Virginia. Obviously, an idea store needs ideas. Here's how to get your idea on the program. Tell us who you are. Better yet, send us a picture. Give us a good description of what your idea is. Show us the where at the locale of the idea is important. Why was the idea done? For reasons of safety, cost benefits, etc. How do you do it? Show us step by step. Provide plans, pictures, whatever you think we might need to understand what it is you want us to understand. Send your idea to your technology transfer center for evaluation. Thanks for shopping at the idea store. Until next time, remember an idea never shared is an idea never appreciated.


Religion and World Politics, part one. We're looking at religion as an organized and above all institutionalized system of beliefs. The organization particularly of textual or other recorded teachings that form the basic faith framework of the religion. And the institutionalization which pleases those teachings, pleases the extent, the limits and above all the interpretation of what those texts might mean. The internal politics of a religion in this process of policing become very important. But the whole question of belief is one that we wish to start with. If you go to Christian theology school almost on the first day, the first question that the professor will ask is, can God believe in himself? This sparks a lot of debate. And of course the answer is very straightforward. God cannot believe in himself. God knows himself. God knows. No one else knows. Everyone else only believes. Perhaps they believe they know. But basically the province of humanity is the province of belief. The appropriation of some kind of closer effort to the knowledge of God always starts with the basis of God as the necessary first principle. And all other forms of belief deriving from that first principle are forms of logic, forms of rationality, forms of argument which are essentially second principle. This can be organized according to different ways of approaching thought. You can take the whole idea of belief as based on command. But what kind of command is this? Is it a vision? Is it the uncovering, the dictation of holy books, an entire text that is sent from heaven? What is the difference between a vision that occurs in one lightning moment like St. Paul's conversion on the road to Damascus and the coming down from heaven of a whole set of scripture as was meant to have happened with Muhammad, as what was meant to have happened with Joseph Smith when he founded the Mormon Church. And in the delivery of the text, what are the conditions of the receipt of that text? So you have different schools of thought that try to investigate this. You have theology which is a philosophical reasoning with a first principle. And what you're looking at in theology is the organization of all contingent and second principles that derive from that first principle. The first principle is the receipt of a certain form of belief which acknowledges the centrality of God. There is a spiritual universe. There is a creator at the head of that spiritual universe. When theology is allied to texts, the whole question of a genealogy of texts comes into play. If there are texts that comment on the original text, for instance, if you have Hadith, if you have Sharia, that commentates on the original Koran. If you have the Talmud that commentates on the original Judaic scriptures, what is the standing of those secondary bodies of literature that often assume the priority of first generations of scripture and text? And the politics of policing that relationship are things which interest us in theological knowledge or, more rightly, the organization of belief according to theological precepts. And of course, very, very vexatious, emotional issues like eschatology, the end of the world, which might be predicted in scripture. Soteriology, the salvation of the faithful. And the vexatious nature of all of this is that necessarily a soteriology depends on a selectivity. Who are the people God has chosen to save in the final catastrophe? And this kind of selectivity becomes in itself a political exercise which extends beyond the organization of the church and extends to the relationship of the church and the faith to all other peoples in the region, perhaps in the wider world. An ideology is different again from a theology. There you have, in particular, the organization of belief in a system of thought and predictiveness, which all the same allows not only the so-called laws of history, which function in an almost theological fashion, but allow the role of the agent, the class, the rebellious individual, the rebellious group to play a role in changing and directing history. Modern theology almost always contains a marriage with ideology. The warriors of the faithful are not only servants, they are agential. They have some kind of sense of individual direction for the future of the faith and its place in the world among the different peoples in the world. All this again is different from a theory, which tries to look objectively at society, social movements in society, different again from a philosophy, which tries objectively to ponder upon, to speculate often about the nature of things and the nature of thought. We'll be looking at all of these things as applied to the world religions and in particular at world religions how they developed and how they intersected with the secular politics of their day and how those secular politics tried to appropriate belief for their own political purposes. The kingdom of God was appropriated so there could be kingdom of men and women directed by kings, by princes, by regents, latter-day directed by organized and democratically elected states to try to beneficiate their claims to priority and to sovereignty. We'll be looking at the oldest organized religions and you're looking there at the Hindu and Vedic religion starting about 2000 BC. A prototype of Judaic beliefs also began around about that time. Buddhist beliefs starting about 600 BC will also be looking at the not often commentated upon Zoroastrian beliefs starting about 1000 BC which had a major impact upon Christianity which came much later. We'll be looking at the scriptures and the books of these religions and so far as there had any, almost in every single case, written long after the foundation of the religion. So text was conceived, created, distilled and then appropriated for purposes that were not necessarily the same purposes at the time that the religion was said to have begun. You can see that in Christianity, you're looking at the construction of the New Testament about 100 years after Christ. You're looking at various Christian councils as doctrine was distilled, as doctrine became official and the elimination or the expulsion of those who had different views of doctrine. And of course you have the appropriation of Christianity as a form of state religion by Constantine, heavily influenced by Zoroastrianism, the birth of Christ by a virgin, the flight into the wilderness. All of these things are appropriated from Persian Zoroastrian belief. And of course the latter day, coming of Islam, Muhammad lived about 570 to 632. He was at the very very start also a political figure. He was a prince. He ruled over cities. He conquered other cities. He used religion as well as probably believing in religion as a political tool to unite Arab tribes. And in the wake of their unity, they swept all over Arabia and their successors swept into the outer world. The extent of the Islamic Empire at one point in time was so vast that became a primary political force in the international relations of its day. We'll be looking in the first lecture at how all of these things began and how all of these early movements and early uses of text and systems of belief imprinted themselves on a genealogy which leads us to our present day. This course will concern mostly the 20th and 21st century, but without historical pre-descriptions, without the historical preconditions of today's belief, world religion and politics today would be impossible.