Hi, I'm Elizabeth Addis reporting for CalTV Sports. I'm here at the Clarkhurst Standcourt with Beach volleyball players Caroline Schaefer and Mia Moreno. You guys just won your game against the University of Pacific. Congratulations. You guys have been undefeated as a pair this whole season. What do you attribute to your success? Um, I think that we have really good chemistry on and off the court. We're very similar players as we like really high intensity and that really really helps our game on the court. Yeah, I think playing just like pumped up all the time really helps us succeed. I think that playing the first team to play as a forest pair really sets the tone for the rest of the match with all of our other teams. So that really is an awesome thing. Mia, I know last season you had to set out of five games due to an injury. How has it been coming back this season? It's been really good this season. I worked really hard in the off season to get where I am now so that I'm able to compete. This past two weekends when we played four matches and I've been able to get through all of them. That's something I would not have been able to do last season. So I'm super excited for where I'm at. Caroline, it's hard to believe you've had so much success and it's only your freshman year. What's been your favorite memory about being on Beach volleyball so far? We had a team retreat earlier this year and I think it really helped build team chemistry and helped everyone get like closer as a team. It helped the freshman get to know the older girls so I had a really fun time. That's great and I know competing as a team requires a lot of chemistry so what do you guys do off the court to build that connection? Honestly, we just like to hang out and just have a good time. I mean it's fun to have a partner that is both like your friend off the court and on the court. You know it really helps the team dynamic. Um, I think that Mia and I really get along like personality-wise and like just laughing a lot and our team in general is just like super funny. So I think that like having that humor and having that like calm and like easy like not super intense aspect all the time it really like bonds us as a team. Thank you guys so much for your time. I'm Elizabeth Addis. Caroline Shaper. Mia Marino. Go Bears!


Sir, thank you for talking to us. How was your meeting with the Prime Minister? What gives you a gift to the Prime Minister, sir? I gifted, we gifted the Prime Minister. I was just an instrument of the Bhaktivedanta book trust of the editing house of Shilpa Prabhupada. We gifted him a Ramayana special edition. Prime Minister Modi loves books. In India, in Delhi, we had this unveiling of the astounding Bhagavad Gita. When I brought it to India, he came and he was amazed and lightened and ecstatic. And this Ramayana I think he liked very much. The security said he will not take it in his hand, don't put it in his hand, but immediately when he saw the Ramayana, he grabbed it and he put it in his own hand and he wanted a picture taken with it. I think he loved it. What do you have to speak about leadership of Prime Minister Modi and the future of India under his leadership? Okay, I'll answer this last question. Then my colleague here, Parabakti Prabhu will answer the rest of the questions. I think his leadership is wonderful.  I have no pious activities at my command. But I told him, I hope you'll never get growled and you never die and you remain as Prime Minister for a long, long, long time to come. That was my sort of wishes that I gave to him. He has a good heart and his heart is beating for India and for the Vaishnava culture. I think he is a great Vaishnava also. He is a Sadhu and we feel very good in his association. So thank you very much. Hare Krishna.


Hello, Columbia. Welcome to our edition of Telling Our Story, Exploring the Parks. I am your host, Wanda Austin Herndon. Join us as we explore our parks. Welcome to Lord Park. Meet my friends. Today, with Telling Our Story, we're exploring Lord Park. So come join us for a friendly game of kickball. Ready, guys? Let's go. Park with its beautiful treetop landscape is located in North Columbia at 1900 Lorrick Avenue right below Hyde Park Elementary School. The park features indoor and outdoor basketball courts, splash pad, ball field, a natural walking trail in which features a fitness outdoor equipment area, which was donated in 2018 by Richland County Eat Smart Move More Coalition. In the spring of 2021, Lord Park cut the ribbon on two new playground structures at the park. It's beneficial to have this park here being that we're right across from an area that houses a lot of youth trying to keep them engaged and everything and getting them make sure they stay out of trouble. Trying to be a positive role model. Lorrick is home to many of the city's major outreach programs, such as the afternoon feeding program, educational gardening, prime time in the parks, city mentoring programs, and many other athletic programs. We currently host a lot of programs. We have our arts and crafts, which we call Crafty Kids. We also have our girl circle, which caters to self-esteem and keeping the self-esteem up with young ladies. We have our mentoring program that is for girls and boys teaching them life skills. We also cater to our teenagers. We do teen court. We have game night and we also do fun Fridays, which is held on the 1st and 3rd Friday. The Lorrick Park and Big Homie Little Homie Connection started actually in 2018. We did several programs here and it was just surely amazing because we were in a safe environment. Our kids had a really wonderful time and the staff made us feel like home. So this is our new home and we have done countless events here and it's been really eye-opening just to have those one-on-one conversations, those old group conversations with the kids that attend here just to talk about life skills, healthy eating, healthy relationships, things that they're not getting taught at school, but they will definitely need it when they go back to their communities. League sports are also hosted at Lorrick Park. Team sports such as T-ball, baseball, basketball, soccer and city hoops. Operational hours for Lorrick Park are 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Fridays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays, and 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Sundays. Sunday hours of operation are slightly different, so please feel free to contact the park directly for this information. If you're looking for a safe, fun and friendly place, this is the place to come. We open. As with all our parks, our mission here at the City of Columbia Parks and Recreation is to change lives through a culture of transformational leadership, innovation, and phenomenal customer service. Thank you for joining us today, and please join us in the future for more episodes of Telling Our Story, Exploring the Park. And remember, we are Colombians.


Hi, I'm Max again from wiki tree. Great to see you again. Thank you for joining us at Roots Tech great conference We're having a lot of fun. We're tired and we are working ourselves to death today we want to talk to wiki tree or in chief Chris Whitten and DNA Master extraordinaire Peter Roberts who is also one of our great wiki tree leaders about DNA and wiki tree and Kind of what where we've been Where we are and where we're going in the future with DNA on wiki tree Chris Do you want to kind of address what that your vision is for wiki tree in the future of DNA at wiki tree? Well the exciting possibility of DNA is that we could someday Actually scientifically confirm our entire tree, you know, so we have this 13 million person tree but obviously a lot of it is is not correct and The exciting possibility is to correct those errors, which we're working on every day constantly work on that That's one of wiki trees main goals is to have a healthy tree and you can't have a healthy tree without sourced information Sorry, and DNA is the ultimate source So after the genealogy is done that doesn't replace doesn't replace traditional genealogy That's what the family relationships are based on but the DNA can validate or invalidate it Beater so Where did we start when you first started with wiki tree? Where were we with with our DNA was was there any DNA even around as I recall you would get a DNA icon saying that? Somebody had taken a DNA test, but the DNA was not being associated if you don't know why chromosome test it wasn't being directly associated with the direct male line the direct paternal line and And and also with the mitochondrial DNA it wasn't being associated automatically with the direct maternal line Right, and so I suggest suggested that that could be done And so what happens now is that the the mitochondrial DNA goes up the direct maternal line as far back as it can go Then it comes down through the daughters of the daughters of the daughters Similarly with the white chromosome gups up the male line down through the sons of the sons of the sons and this is on wiki Automatically if you say that you take a DNA test you take say what kind of DNA test you took Hopefully you're also in a public database like Y search or mitosearch with autosomal DNA You need to be in Jed match you can compare between the different labs and you can do that through the facilities at wiki tree And so if I go to my great great great grandmother's profile and I've tested I'm gonna appear on her profile You will you'll it'll show that you took a mitochondrial DNA test And if you have a direct maternal line cousin who's also done a Mitochondrial test it will show that on her profile and your profile and it will show on on her profile It will show you I do actually have a Fourth-grade grandmother that I've been able to prove that my grandmother is her Great great great grandmother which which was a huge thing because there was some funky stuff going on in the family Do you think people use wiki tree a lot to help identify those? triangulated groups and autosomal or to identify those people got 37,000 people that have said that they've taken a DNA test not all of them have Uploaded all the information that they could they haven't joined the public databases or they haven't put in their haplogroups So that in that sort, but we do have some really extensive lines that have been tested There's a woman who who did a mitochondrial test and she goes back 35 generations on her direct maternal line That's crazy cool. Wow. I had no idea I mean Peter was just telling me about a paternal line back to the McGregor clan, which is 58 Generations that's the longest right now, but you know the the line still needs to be confirmed by testing another McGregor Who's a very distant male line cousin and confirming that that shared ancestor is is Indeed a sufficient white chromosome match. Well, it is the opportunities to confirm that I mean so it's it's hard for people to visualize, but that isn't just one line then on wiki tree. It's then In infinite number of lines down all those other maternal line paternal lines in that case So there are so many opportunities for people that did not know they have that Relationship if that one distant cousin takes the Y test they can theoretically then Confirm both their lines all the way back up to that first-shared ancestor that it's fascinating to be able to do that Peter we were talking over the past couple days about how you have to have a portion of your tree Public or what exactly what exactly is the privacy issue with sharing your DNA on wiki tree? The only time that the Y chromosome or the mitochondrial DNA is automatically propagated up a direct ancestral line is if The privacy level is has a public family tree, right? A lot of people have joined wiki tree And they're set as red private meaning that that no one can see their ancestral tree And so there's really little point in saying that you've done a DNA test if you are red private And so one of the things that I hope we can do for the future is to get more people that are red private and have DNA results Just to show that their ancestral tree is public and in doing that you're not making your personal profile public, right? Anyone can say that their first name is anonymous or they use an initial for their first name So they can remain private in that regard and what's more your parents can be private Yeah, so you could actually have a public family tree But your parents could have private family trees and they will just appear as private mother private father Then your grandparents will appear unless you're like me and I got my dad wonderful man that he is he tested as well So he also has a public family tree So he doesn't show up as private but the rest of his information is private so it works out really well So for the future of wiki tree and DNA, what do you see? One of the things that I see is that a lot of people now are doing next generation white chromosome testing right and they are getting Snips within a genealogical time frame. What's a snip a snip is a single nuclear nucleotide polymorphism, and it's basically a mutation on the white chromosome that is Usually unique within human history, right? And so I had a particular location on the white chromosome You have a difference where like a C changes to a G and you take that information and go into this next generation It was so you can that would be that it might be let's say your fifth great-grandfather Has that that a particular mutation it was the first one to have that particular mutation in his direct male line And now all of his descendants will also have that same sniff So it'll show up on wiki tree if they have entered that information if you enter the the snip information It will enter it will be there the thing is is that these snips are within a genealogical time frame sometimes and We need to find a way to propagate that snip back to that That earliest known ancestor without going beyond that and a genealogical time frame is is basically back to when surnames began surnames were first Associated directly with male with male lines and also when church records and other records of civil nature were being recorded I'd tell you what it's so interesting We could go on for hours talking to Peter and Chris about what's going on with wiki tree and DNA But we don't have any more time right now. Maybe another time we'll do more. Thank you so much for joining us. Thanks Chris Thanks Peter. Thanks Max. Thanks, mate


Live from Boston, Massachusetts. Extracting the signal from the noise, it's theCUBE. Covering Red Hat Summit 2015. Brought to you by Red Hat. Now your hosts, Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman. Welcome back to Boston everybody. This is the Red Hat Summit. We're here live at the Heinz Convention Center in the back bay of Boston. Stu Miniman myself, we're happy to be home for a change. We're usually in Las Vegas or California or Orlando or somewhere else or Vancouver in your case or OpenStack Summit. Derek Collison is here, he's the CEO of AppSera. It's cloud week, past week. Derek, great to see you. Welcome back to theCUBE. Well thank you for having me, I appreciate it. So Red Hat Summit, we were just talking off camera about 5,000 or so people here. Passionate crowd, the open source dogma lives. Give us the update on AppSera. What's going on with you guys? Well, I mean, AppSera was founded about three years ago. We just had our three year anniversary and we were really trying to figure out where all this is going, right? And we have these massive disruptions around Paz and what Paz was kind of defined as early on and it's changing into. We obviously have Docker and the open container project which we were really happy to be a founding member of. And we have, you know, microservices and cloud and private clouds and OpenStack. And so there's just a tremendous amount of technology and direction and enterprises are, I think, you know, really hungry for information about what do we do with all this stuff? You know what I mean? Do we do vSphere or OpenStack or OpenShift or Cloud Foundry or is there a new thing called a data center operating system like Mesosphere or AppSera's hybrid cloud operating system? And I think what's fascinating about the technology curves that we're in is that they are shortening. And so if you looked at virtualization, it had a good 10 plus year run and now all of a sudden containers are kind of the hot thing. And I'm telling you, I think containers will probably live and be replaced within two to three years max. Everything's being compressed and by something better, faster, cheaper, right? Pick two. But it's interesting to see and it's a fun time to be part of, you know, the industry.  I'll refer to it sometimes as infrastructure service. Plus, SAS minus, and now all of a sudden everybody's sort of coming hard at it. What's your take on what's happening in that past world and what's different that you guys bring to the table? Yeah, I mean, I was fortunate enough when, you know, Heroku kind of pivoted from an editor to kind of one of the first passes and Google App Engine was being developed as when I was at Google and then kind of architecting and building at least the original version of Cloud Foundry. It was about taking developers and caring about what they care about which was their apps and services and say take that abstraction and leave them there. Don't make them, you know, force them into the weeds around machines and virtual machines and memory and CPUs. And so the original push on Paz was meet the developer where they are, have their application, hand it to a system and it figures out what to do with it to run it. And I think at the time that was exactly what was needed. But again, remember that compression thing. That quickly changed. And it changed for two reasons. One is the decomposition of systems, as you said, into microservices or SOA2O for the ones with enough gray hair like me to know about that. Means orchestration now is a really big deal and who can access what? Not just can I access you and find you and connect to you but am I allowed to actually do that? So orchestration and in governance of all of this across hybrid is where AppSera focuses and we've de-emphasized for our perspective even three years ago the notion of deployment. So we went from being very opinionated with at least the design I had put together with Cloud Foundry to being you do whatever the heck you want. If you want to deploy a VM, a Docker image, an app it doesn't matter. The value prop then is how do we actually orchestrate that? Govern it over a hybrid infrastructure. So Derek, it's interesting your description of really enabling the developers is something I heard real strong at DockerCon. Docker talked about how Linux containers really really deaf friendly and then they helped really focus on that.  There are some in the container ecosystem that said, well, if Docker really goes where we think it is maybe I don't need Paz anymore. So can you just lay out for us? You know, how do these things mesh together? As Paz is defined as it is and what Docker is thinking about doing I think they're right. So there is no need for Paz and actually depending on the technologies that some of it's here at the Red Hat Conference I would imagine, there may not be a need for a proper IAS. You're running lightweight containers on bare metal with a policy and orchestration engine on top of it. And Docker's popularity, again, my opinion but their popularity skyrocketed because they were the new tar ball format for complex workloads. But now they're starting to go up the chain which makes sense and they should into the ecosystem of orchestration, governance, security and so their aspirations from what I can tell is is they want to be the next VMware, right? They want to replace what VMware is about. And it's very interesting when you look at that and what's going on there and then you look at the lightweight OSes like Project Atomic here at Red Hat and then Ubuntu has one and Intel has one and everybody has one. And then of course you look at IAS and OpenStack and then the Paz, it is a distinct possibility that they could get left behind. So this notion of IAS, this is a bunch of bare metal you were telling me that a lot of your work is on-prem to on-prem, private to private. Maybe talk about what you're seeing in the so-called hybrid cloud world. Yeah, well we were talking off camera a little bit about the definition of hybrid, right? And I was saying most people think it's private to public, not cloud bursting but actually really private to public. But what we've seen actually more is public to public, which we talked about meaning, well I've got all my eggs in one basket and it's not at least that we talked about, it's not as much about cost anymore, it's about I really want that service for this one app. I want Watson to be able to power this one app but I have all the other stuff let's say in Amazon, right? And so how do I do that? I don't want to have to spin up a whole new crew or retrain them on how to manage another public cloud and how to deploy and port apps to it. And so there's an interesting thing of AppSeras technology and others as well being able to smooth that over. So it's trivial, no friction to move. What you and I were talking specifically about was the exact same thing but private to private, which was how do I move workloads from VMware to OpenStack? And obviously we helped with that but we talked about another company off camera about there is a market now for hey, can we make it easier for companies who are going to move anyway to make it an easier transition for the northbound interface, the applications and the developers themselves to say, hey I can deploy and yesterday deployed on VMware and now I'm deploying on OpenStack. And the big motivation there is cost. I mean, VMware is now hopped on the OpenStack bandwagon but VMware basically OpenStack came about because it was sort of a, well I guess in part a Hail Mary against Amazon but it's really VMware, but the VTACs is really. It was a definite reaction to VMware, right? I mean, and the founders of OpenStack and I'm nice enough to know some of them and I've talked to them and they just didn't have the CapEx budget at NASA to figure out how to do what they wanted to do. Now it's interesting though, we've talked to some customers and OpenStack is definitely getting there, right? I mean, the market is obviously there. I think there were 6,000 people at Vancouver, there was 5,000 people in Paris at the OpenStack conferences. But it's interesting if you actually talk to customers they're trading CapEx for OpEx but when you do the math it's not as much savings as people think, right? You get rid of the CapEx bill and you're like, oh, I just saved $20 million or whatever but then you're like, well, how many people you got on the OpenStack project? Well, we got 150, it's like, oh, okay. So it's interesting how much money's being spent to transition from one to the other, move from CapEx to OpEx. I think the real savings will come in future years as the technology keeps getting better, keeps getting more polished and you don't need so many headcount as kind of some of the big pioneers, the big companies that have been on OpenStack. And it's enabling real business and the ROI gets better but I mean, you see the same thing in public cloud. I mean, you're going to spend more on public cloud over a 10-year period than you will if you buy on prem. Probably at least a third more, I would think, but people do it anyway because it's driving speed, agility, business process. Yeah, the thinking there has always been that if you have spiky workloads that spin up and spin down, that the OpEx spend is better and it actually works better. But people have actually said, no, if it's a stable workload it might make more sense on premise. It all really depends on one thing which is the only thing in technology that's getting more expensive is people. And so if you want to bring it in house but you have to actually use a tremendous amount of people and back when Google started, I mean, the state of the art and data centers was here. It really was. Now if you look at the sophistication from Google to Amazon to Facebook, what they actually do from breaking ground all the way to firing the data center up, it's very hard at scale to reproduce those economies of scale. And so early on in cloud days, I would say, unless it's a spiky workload, yeah, it's always going to be more money. I think the math is a little bit fuzzier now. I think it's getting close to a break even and the agility gives you the trump card just because the sophistication of these data centers and it's so high, it's hard to imagine. And taking people out of the equation. You know, that's actually a really good point is that you're right. I mean, just do we talk about this all the time where the web scale guys initially would put engineering dollars and time in to save money and the enterprise would spend on a box to save on labor. Yeah, and actually point Dave, because what are those guys focused their time on? It's they're building new applications that help drive the requirements of scale, distributed architecture that they need, and then I just have to have the infrastructure to support that. So, Derek, I'm afraid my question is, where are we with the companies you're seeing into that migration to newer applications? I mean, we were talking in our intro this morning, the average enterprise applications, more than a decade old, it's probably 15 years old. And that's the big challenge, what Paz has been trying to help people to get. So, what are you seeing? What's the update? Are you encouraged by what you've seen in the last couple of years? Is the enterprise still too slow to adopt? I think the enterprises are actually getting a lot faster. Most people right now have their heads wrapped around, oh, we have to do all cloud native apps. And it's not because that's the best thing, although it is good for certain class of applications. It's more about these new style infrastructures haven't really figured out persistent storage, like the Docker right needs one and others. And Paz has a lot of times do that are built into the platform that aren't centralized based on centralized storage. Once that kind of becomes unlocked, I think you won't see everyone saying, we have to build cloud native or 12 factor apps. And so I think we're going there. What we've seen a lot of with the newer technologies is love it for dev test, don't want to use it for production. And there's lots of different reasons. One is they think the risk is too high, they don't trust it yet. Even cloud right now for, I was talking to you guys about the red eye flight and having three meetings already. And a lot I'm talking about, yeah, we have a strategy for cloud, but not yet, right? We're still not comfortable with the governance and the compliance and the security stance around RIP, our data to know and trust it. And Absera is trying to help that and actually get those customers into the cloud, but we've heard that fairly consistency. So your bet is multi-vendor, multi-hype advisor, multi-cloud world, diversity. That's probably a pretty good bet. So maybe talk about what some of your customers are doing and what's the ecosystem that you're participating in. And just tell us a little bit more detail about how you guys are going to market and making money. Sure, so our biggest value prop is, is that we put policy governance security first, which a lot of the newer technologies don't, right? They do it after, they bolt it on, you know, it sounds interesting when I talk about deploy, orchestrate, govern, right? And we kind of reversed it, but if you look at a lot of the techs out there, pick Docker, deploy first, right? The new tar ball format, now they're doing an orchestration and then they're going to, you know, they started actually this year as well with trust, right? Around registry trust and governance. Let's make an enterprise ready. And so Absera tried to flip that on its head and say, we're going to bake in policy, governance, compliance security and trust at the core and to make it transparent. I mean, you don't have to do anything different with your workloads and then apply that to a hybrid infrastructure, where you don't have to train more people, hire more people to say, well, if I run it on your platform, does that mean I can run it on Amazon? Yes, Google, yes, software, yes, Azure, later this year. OpenStack, yes, vSphere, yes, Bare Metal, later this year. So now all of a sudden it's interesting that you can take a format that has nothing to do with Absera, like Docker, deploy it onto our platform, which we believe is one of the most trustworthy and secure in the industry. And you immediately have access to deploy in less than a second to every region in Amazon, Google, software, you know, in Azure and hardware. And that's an architectural enablement, right? That's the decision you guys made early on to bake that stuff. I mean, a lot of people would say you can't have really security bolted on as an example. Right, well, you can, it just doesn't work very well. And it doesn't scale. Comes very complex, very brittle. And so what's interesting for our customers is they come to the conclusion, along with us, as we talk to them, that what they want is a system that can accept change on both sides of the fence. So what I mean by that is, everyone talks about agility on one side, meaning faster updates of apps and new features and rolling out new versions and XYZ. But they don't talk about the rate of change in the policy and compliance side, which is usually a bad and nasty word. But if you look at a lot of the verticals, the change rate on that side is actually faster than change rate on this side. Yet the systems are designed to kind of calcify and say, I call it the default answer of no. Can I deploy my new app? No, can I get a port open on the firewall? No, can I do this? No, no, no. And so we've tried to build a system where policy was a first class citizen, so both can say yes. Hey, right, if you look at financial services, healthcare, government. Regulations are changing way faster than they can deploy new apps. And that's why those industries tend to have, the first to have a chief data officer, which is the retail, and maybe not so much. But, so, given that the web scale guys are sort of harbingers for what's happening in the enterprise, you look back five, six, seven years, and all this stuff about software defined, and agility, and cloud, all that stuff was happening in the web scale guys. If we have to look forward five to seven years, what do you think this world is going to look like? I mean, we talked again about Hadoop, that came through the enterprise, Spark coming through, in memory coming through the enterprise. What do you think the world's going to look like in five to seven years in the enterprise? Well, I mean, caveat that it's my opinion, and I've been wrong before. We talked a little bit about the fact that everything that I saw when I spent time at Google was about eight years removed to hitting the enterprise. And we're talking mostly about big data, but now we're seeing, with Docker, the orchestration engines around Kubernetes, which is an API that fronts Borg and Omega, and Mesosphere coming out of Twitter. Netflix is also becoming someone that's kind of established a way of doing things that's bleeding its way into the enterprise through their open source efforts, which is amazing. So I think, to me, you're going to see a reduction on centralized storage, a reduction on complex network topologies, right? If you can actually secure a system, you don't need VLANs after VLANs to figure out how to protect username and passwords, right? There should be a better way to do it. So I think you're going to see those things decrease because what they're built to protect, a lot of the trends coming out of Google and coming out of Netflix and coming out of Twitter don't rely on that, right? So even virtualization, right? We had a gentleman from the Kubernetes team from Google at our offices last night talking about Google runs everything in containers. They've never run on hypervisors. And now all of a sudden, and that's from day one, and now all of a sudden we're looking at this wave of transitioning from certain workloads, from hypervisors to containers. And we're not going to stop there. We're going to keep going. We're looking at transitioning from, oh, we need a big centralized storage and a database to things like Cassandra, which can run on ephemeral disk.  Even Twitter, I think, released something where you can do it with MySQL. They don't need centralized storage. They'll spin up a whole cluster of them and you can lose a certain number of them and they keep repairing themselves. So as those trends keep hitting, you're going to have a very different stance on what are requirements of an ISR, especially around complex network topologies, complex storage requirements. They're going to go away. It'll be flat layer three IP and just ephemeral disk and it just kind of works. Then you're going to start seeing patterns change even more so beyond the cloud native apps to kind of address these types of storage, at least in my opinion. Well, it seems like it's sort of all started because of the data, right? Ship the code to the data, not the data to the code. And data has gravity and it keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger. And that's what a challenge that a lot of your customers must have. They don't want to move the data, but they want to switch environments or they want to do test dev here and then move it over here. How do you deal with that sort of data gravity problem? How are your customers dealing with that? Yeah, there's some interesting things there because data obviously does have gravity. I worked with Dave McCrory of VMware when he kind of coined the term. I think he likes to get credit for that. And code usually is a lighter way to move around. But what's interesting is, is that if you look at one of the largest data sets that you access on a regular basis, you access it on your phone, Google. So when you type in a search, one word flies by and maybe a couple kilobytes comes back and yet it's probably touching exabytes of data, maybe upwards of 100, 200,000 servers. And so it depends on what the service is doing and what the entropy of the communications is. So for example, if I wanted to run an app on AppSera's platform and connect it to S3 and Watson, our system would say, put it on Amazon.  Because Watson's very similar, I send in a little query and I get something back. Now if the thing that's running is actually pumping data into Watson, well then maybe we want to run it in soft layer. And so we save the transmission cost. So it's not as simple, but you're right. How do you actually rationalize this world? And with IoT, which is the new cloud buzzword I guess, we don't know what it means. There is going to be a tremendous amount of data that's going to need to be processed, but it's not a plumbing problem like we had back in the RFID days. It's a identity and trust problem. It's how do you trust, not only the data, but all of the services that are acting upon it on your behalf. And there's going to be some interesting challenges to unlock the IoT. I mean, it's on its own path, trust me it's going along. But there's going to be some really interesting next couple of years around the tech to establish that trust anchor. You put Linux on an ARM processor and interesting things going to happen. Yeah, I mean I think I saw a tech where a smaller piece of technology on a chip, smaller your fingertips running Linux and on ARM and all this other stuff and it's generating data and it wakes itself up and it can live for like a year on a battery and those type of things are going to continue to happen. And right now the IoT phase is very interesting because we're generating a ton of data which most of it doesn't go to any use, kind of like big data like 90 some percent of the data never gets used. The data that's getting used is usually on a read only. So meaning that we look at it and we draw some insights. What's really going to be interesting on the IoT phase is when they try to close the loop and make it a control loop. So when the jet engine has an application that has to be trusted running on the jet engine, sending back smaller signals that then Watson let's say or something that GE is doing says we need to change something and send the signal back saying change of parameter in the engine. We're probably a decade away from that. Without a human, you mean. Right, because there's so many trust anchors to allow you to change it. And so, fascinating stuff. So Derek, you've lived through this wave of paths that we've been seeing over the last few years. I wonder if you can give us your viewpoint on how the landscape looks today. I mean, you're positioning, we're here at Red Hat. They've got a big pusher on OpenShift. Of course, Cloud Foundry and all the different pieces from IBM HP and Pivotal. And Oracle made an announcement this week. So just give us your view of the state of where we are with Paz and some of those players. You know, I think it's been a validated technology. That being said, the notion that a Paz is all about deployment, build packs, cartridges and stuff, has gone by the wayside. I think, from my perspective, what Red Hat and OpenShift have done well is they've identified this and adapted faster than the rest of the market. They merely figured out Docker's a big thing. We got to figure out what we're going to do with Docker. And if containers are a big thing, we've got to really invest in a lightweight host OS, like with Atomic. Scheduling orchestration is a big deal, right? And now, suddenly, there's an ecosystem around an API called Kubernetes. Let's bring that in. And that doesn't really have a real implementation yet. So let's use Mesos' implementation. So they're adapting very quickly. So Paz is being disrupted. Some people are going to adapt and some people are kind of holding on to, oh no, orchestration is somebody else's problem, governance is somebody else's problem. And if it goes through a build pack, we're good. And that's just not the way the world is going. It's changing quickly. Now that being said, I will say that we've seen the dawn of the age of governance bodies around open source technologies and how they can be effective, which is good to see. I mean, you got to learn OpenStack was kind of one of the first big ones. Cloud Foundry has done very well with their foundation in terms of gaining a lot of industry support. But I think the technology landscape is changing very fast. And it's going to be who can catch up, transitioning from DOS to Windows 95 to NT to Linux type of a thing. We're not going to stand still. Do you think we're going to see some consolidation? Oracle comes to market. Red has been doing their thing. Cloud Foundry momentum, we're going to have a world of dozen passes out there, or will we see some stabilization over the next couple of years? I think the market has already stabilized. I think it's Cloud Foundry and OpenShift. I mean, Staccato is a Cloud Foundry offering that does very well. Apprentice still exists in New York and Boston a little bit, space around dot network loads. But I think it's a two horse race. The problem is that the race track has shifted. So I think, if people don't realize that the race just moved way over there, they're going to keep running down an aisle that's not going anywhere. And that's being defined by Docker. So when you look at all the new passes, which there is going to be a massive consolidation around, it's mostly around orchestration of containers, Docker containers, like days and rancher and all these other ones. Days already got pulled into Engine Yard. Ranchers come out and just got an $8 million round. I think I might be wrong on that. So I think you'll see most of the small passes either be homegrown, meaning I've got an IS and I've got the GUI that I care about. Somebody helped me glue in between the stuff that nobody wants to touch, orchestration, governance and hybrid capabilities. The past world was defined in 2011, 2012. I think it's essentially a two horse race, but they need to understand that the landscape is radically shifting and they might be winning a war that nobody cares about anymore.  I've said and I hate to say it, bite my tongue, but the rich keep getting richer in this business. Do you disagree with that? Do you see that changing? You know, I think it's fascinating if you look at the way people usually tend to react to Oracle, yet they're still customers and Oracle's still innovating and they really are. I mean that sometimes they're slow and sometimes they kind of push back, but then once they flip the bit, they have a huge customer base, they can sell into them, they do vertical stacks all the way through hardware. We talked about that a little off camera, which I think is going to be coming back into favor. I really, everyone keeps saying, oh, it's all about the software and I agree, but hardware matters too and if you can integrate those, I mean look at, I mean remember, a decade ago, well, more than a decade ago, we were all running IBM laptops with windows or some weird stuff and now everyone's got MacBooks. Why? And integrated iPhones. And integrated iPhones, right? It's hardware, software all coming together and so I think there's some interesting stuff with the big players. Most of those, I don't know if they're fully general purpose, Paz, although Heroku is, you know as a sidekick on Salesforce. Most of them what I call ecosystem expansion. I'm a SaaS provider and I have a web presence in some of your data and I have some services. You know, if you take Salesforce, now I also have a scripting language. Okay, that's not enough and eventually you get to the end where if there's enough value in that data and services, people want to write full fledged apps. But, you know, Stu could probably do it, but you don't want me trying to deploy my app on Amazon to consume my Salesforce data and everyone starts to realize that and then they say we have to curate this ecosystem and give them a safety net to land these apps. And that's Salesforce and that's, you know, several others in Oracle's doing the same thing, which is they're going to be purposely built to house apps that consume Oracle technologies on Oracle hardware and there's nothing wrong with that, right? It's going to be a good experience, hopefully for the existing Oracle customers. Where are they going to go with Docker and containers and a lot of the new tech that just six months ago, I heard people say, yeah, we're playing with it. Now, literally all three meetings this morning, yes, we have a strategy with it. We don't know when we can get it to production because there's a lot of things missing, but no, we're doubling down on that. Well, we're going to have to put it in their portfolio. That's no question, how aggressively they adopt it. We're out of time, Derek, but I wanted to give you a last word around Efsera. So business update, you know, where you're at, you're raising money, selling the company, buying companies. Yeah, no, we did a majority investment deal with Ericsson about eight months ago. We were 21 people at the time, we're now at 81. So we're hiring like crazy. Ericsson has funded us to a point where I don't have to be on Sandhill Road anymore. And that was kind of the opportunity that I thought we needed to take. As you see with Docker, you know, in terms of the investments they got, you're going to need $100 plus million of operating capital to take advantage of some of these trends. And I wasn't going to be able to do it with traditional VC methods. So we did that, it's been an amazing relationship. They've come out with HDS 8000, a partnership with Intel that we're a key part of, which is going back to marrying hardware and the software and the services altogether. That's great. We're onboarding the first 10 customers, right? Some of the things we have approached and done are very hard. It's taken us a long time to get them right, but they're rock solid now. And we're getting a lot of great feedback from early customers. And we're not a pass, right? We're a hybrid cloud, kind of an operating system type of a technology. And so we co-exist with the world and we co-exist with Docker and, you know, 2015 and then into 2016 is going to be a great year for us. Helping you simplify and manage all that diverse complexity. Derek Carlson from AppSara. Thanks very much for coming on theCUBE. Thank you. I appreciate it. I appreciate it. All right, keep it right there. Everybody, Stu and I will be back at Red Hat Summit from Boston. After this, this is theCUBE. We're live, right back.


This is ThinkTech Hawaii, Community Matters here. Aloha and welcome to another edition of Living Legend Lawyers. This is a program aired by ThinkTech in conjunction and in collaboration with the Hawaii State Bar Association. My name is Howard Luke. I am the current president of the Hawaii State Bar Association. And I am so honored this afternoon to have as my guest Mr. Lole Chun-Hoon. Mr. Chun-Hoon has been practicing law for over 40 years now. He has really distinguished himself in the areas in particular of labor and employment law and also in workers' compensation law. But that doesn't tell the whole story. His entire career and even before he became a lawyer has been devoted to helping the underserved and the underprivileged in our communities. He has devoted enormous amounts of time, all pro bono or for no compensation on behalf of so many people. Those have been suffering by an account of human trafficking, torture and several different forms of abuses of human dignity. So I am happy to have here Mr. Chun-Hoon this afternoon. I will also say that Lole, if I may call you that, you are one of the most popular and trusted attorneys in our state. I think everyone would agree with me on that. Briefly, I could go on the entire half an hour about your background, but I just want to say that congratulations. You are consistently rated as one of Hawaii's best lawyers, one of America's best lawyers, and have been lawyer of the year in these areas of employment law and labor law and workers' compensation. So welcome aboard. Thank you very much Howard. Now I would also like to add one more thing before we really get started in your background and so forth. You have been involved with Legal Aid Society, you're on the board of directors and the Hawaii Immigrant Justice Center. These are areas of your non-practice that I'm going to be asking you about. But first I'd like to ask you a little bit of your background, why don't you just take it away? Okay, well, I went to Paloma Preschool, which is probably my primary street credentials. Then I spent 13 years at Punahou after Punahou went to me. So you lost all your credentials there, right? Yeah, lost whatever credibility I had as a member of the proletariat. I graduated from Yale in 1971, went to the UCLA Asian American Study Center, or I edited a small publication called the Amerasia Journal that continues until this day. Margie, you were an undergraduate. No, no, well it started when I was an undergraduate at Yale, but UCLA gave the publication permanent funding, so it now exists and continues at the UCLA Asian American Study Center. Along the way I picked up a Master's in American History at UCLA in 1974, went to law school at UC Berkeley in 1977 and came back to Hawaii then. Okay, and even before you graduated from law school you were working for a law firm, a very famous law firm. I think you were externing or interning at Boslog and Simons, is that correct? Yes, I spent a summer there and then after I graduated from law school I worked for the same firm. Okay, you were an associate there. Right. Tell us about the two names, Harriet Boslog and of course Meyer Simons, about their backgrounds. I know this is supposed to be about you, you're the living legend lawyers, but they are true legends in the past. Well, that's absolutely correct, Howard. Psy and Harriet were founding members of the National Lawyers Guild, but in addition to that they came to Hawaii when none of the other 400 members of the Hawaii Bar would represent the ILW during McCarthyism. And so Psy and Harriet both had a great deal to do with resisting charges against the Union and its members of engaging in unlawful assembly and they were prosecuted under riot statutes. This coincided with the upswing of the ILW and the organizing of the sugar plantations at the end of World War II. And Psy and Harriet were also forced to defend witnesses who appeared before the House of Un-American Activities Committee when the committee came from Washington, D.C. to investigate allegations of communism amongst Hawaii's unions and in particular the ILW. So in the course of their representation they invoked the Fifth Amendment for the first time in a congressional hearing. For the first time nationally? The first time nationally that there was a judicial recognition that the Fifth Amendment extended its protection to people testifying in congressional hearings. Wow. And then you told me a little something about Meyer Simons and some of the other people you work with, but I believe that, was Meyer Simons, was he involved in the war effort at all? He was. Originally Psy was a bankruptcy lawyer from Vallejo, California, but he became an enforcement attorney for some branch of the government and the name escapes me right now. But with the war price administration, I think if businesses engaged in profiteering during the war, the federal government would bring actions against him and that's what Psy did. Yeah. And then Harriet Boslog, she is in some minds even more prominent than Mr. Simons. She had, I believe that she had a case that went all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court. That's correct. She essentially gave a speech I think on the Big Island in which she doubted whether communists could receive a fair trial in Hawaii and she was disbarred for that by the Bar Association at the time. And it wasn't until her case made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1954 that her disbarment was reversed by vote of five to four. At the U.S. Supreme Court. The U.S. Supreme Court. Interesting. And among the many interesting things about Harriet, she also dated Sam King for a little while. Oh. Judge. Judge Sam King. Judge Sam King. Okay. Before you graduated from law school, I'm reading a little bit about your background. You had, I believe it was an externship with Judge Robert Takasugi from the Middle District of California, United States District Court. That's correct. I was very fortunate to work for Judge Takasugi for a semester, my first semester of third year of law school in Los Angeles, California. And Judge Takasugi had been a distinguished criminal defense attorney in East Los Angeles and was eventually appointed to the federal bench. Yeah, he had, I heard of him before, probably even before I got to know you. I mean, he was appointed federal judge. And eventually, I think this is long after he had graduated from law school. He went on to do other things that gained national prominence. I think he presided over the Larry Flint trial or proceedings. Also, I think it was, he had presided over some of the prosecution of individuals who were involved in matters related to what happened on September 11, 2001. Is that correct? I believe that's correct. Yeah. So, and, but you had an inside, sort of a ringside seat to what was happening and there was really prominent cases. Well, I think one of the most notable things for me with Judge Takasugi is he would instruct the bailiff to announce his arrival by saying court is now in session. The Honorable Robert M. Takasugi presiding, will you all please remain seated? Oh, interesting. Because he didn't want to elevate himself among above everyone else. And I guess the most exciting case we had during my brief tenure there was ABC television tried to enjoy the showing of the movie Billy Jack. And the judge denied the injunction. Oh, is that right? Believing that they could recover monetary damages if they could prove a loss at a later date. Wow. That's amazing. And then he did the, I think the DeLorean trial at some point was good. Yes. But we won't go too far to that. I think we could talk about, you know, your, his tenure on the bench, but we have time and, you know, to wrap up this interview. So it seems like a lot of, like Judge Takasugi, other individuals were involved as their families were in turn doing World War II as Judge Takasugi's family. And then later on when you graduated from law school and worked for Boslog and Simons, eventually you went off to another firm with Nakamura and Nakamura. And I don't know if I have the right series, but in King Nakamura and Nakamura and Takahashi, is that correct? That's right. There was a point at which Harriet and Sy and the rest of us separated. Right. Yeah. And that's why you moved on to the other firm. Right. So what about James King? What up, he had a pretty interesting background himself, didn't he? Right. Well, you know, Jim was, was part of the Kamayana King family. He actually went to Georgetown and stayed with his uncle Samuel Wilder King in Georgetown, who was then the territorial representative for the territory of Hawaii. And then Jim eventually went on to serve in World War II, where he was captured by the Nazis and was a prisoner of war in the Vogess Mountains. So he lived, you know, through some extraordinary hardship, surviving on potato soup and the most minimal kind of nutrients. And he had a little bit of history after the war. I think he returned, I've read somewhere, returned to France where, in the area where he was incarcerated or... That's right. He went back to the village many years later with his regimen and he was embraced as a hero. The mayor of the small town kissed him on both cheeks and they had a little parade for the American servicemen who had fought to defend the village. So that was, that was certainly an impressive highlight of his life. And during his legal career, probably the two most notable cases that he ever did was he represented Mr. Mahler, the Polly Sniper. And he also did a case called Akamini versus Hawaiian Packing and Crating, which is perhaps the seminal case on the presumption of coverage in our workers' compensation statute. Okay. And that's the path you followed in your legal career during workers' come on behalf of the claimants, is that correct? That's right. There are two Nakamura's. One was Hideki, of course, you know, a very, very wonderful man. I did get to meet him personally and, you know, he didn't know who I was, but he was so cordial and I was so surprised what a gentleman he was. The other, of course, being Edward or Eddie Nakamura, who was probably the preeminent labor lawyer for many years and then eventually was appointed to the Hawaii State Supreme Court as an associate justice. Where? Now, this is my endorsement of, you know, reading his opinions mostly in criminal cases, but also in civil cases. I had the impression that he could sit in any court of the land. He's a great scholar and a beautiful writer. And I thought it'd be wonderful if he was sitting on the United States Supreme Court. He was just a wonderful man as well. He became slightly close with him. I know he hired so many local lawyers as his law clerks and you got to work with him as an associate and then a partner. Is that correct? Well, not technically as a partner. I was his associate, certainly would not ever claim to be in his league. But Ed had a fantastic career. His father was a waiter at the old Cantalus restaurant, so I understand that at family gatherings, they insisted on having starch tablecloths. Oh, okay. So we're going to go into a little break right now, but very quickly and wrapping it up on Justice Nakamura, he also was a World War II veteran. Yes, he served in the artillery. In the artillery in Europe. Yes. Okay. Thanks very much and we'll be right back as soon as the break is over. This is Think Tech Hawaii, raising public awareness. Mark Shklav. I am the host of Think Tech Hawaii's Law Across the Sea. Law Across the Sea is on Think Tech Hawaii every other Monday at 11 a.m. Please join me where my guests talk about law topics and ideas and music and Hawaii Ana all across the sea from Hawaii and back again. Aloha. Welcome back and we're here with Mr. Lowell Chunhoon. He is our guest on Hawaii's Living Legend Lawyers this afternoon. We did a quick flyover of Mr. Chunhoon's legal career. I wanted to talk to him in the remaining time about some of the other things he's involved with that pertain to his fight for civil rights and civil justice. So, Mr. Chunhoon, I would like to ask you, there are several things that you're involved with and I can only touch on a few of them. But first of all, I'd like to talk about, you discussed with me the immigration law clinic that you are hoping to get off the ground and running. Can you talk about that? Sure. This is something in which I'm very grateful for your support as the president of the Hawaii Bar Association. But I'm attempting to create a permanent tenure-track position for a professor who will specialize in immigration law. And this professor will also run an immigration law clinic and make it permanent. We currently have an immigration law clinic on a slightly sporadic basis that's run by Bowman Chin and John Egan. But we would like to make this permanent. And in order to do that, we need to attempt to secure permanent funding from the legislature. And, you know, for myself, one of the reasons why I'm interested in doing it is, well, I think obviously immigration policy is a matter of national and international concern. But on a personal level, I think for many of us, you know, immigration is our family history. And for myself, when the Alun Farms workers encountered their difficulties in Hawaii, I thought of this in terms of my own grandfather and the difficulties he must have faced immigrating from China. And so to me, you know, it's a matter of creating a resource that can help these different populations. And to continue to renew our society with the vigor and energy that immigrants bring. There's another organization called Justice for Our Neighbors. That's a national organization. And I believe there's a clinic called the Legal Clinic or the Methodist Legal Clinic. You're involved with that as well. That's right. You know, although I'm also involved with the Legal Aid Society of Hawaii in a group called Hawaii Immigrant Justice Center, the Legal Aid Charter prohibits legal aid from generally representing undocumented workers, although there are exceptions for people who are victims of crime. So the Methodist Legal Clinic is an attempt to create another organization that will serve largely the needs of undocumented individuals in our community. And this effort is being spearheaded by a number of people who for many years have been involved in seeking to develop more public interest resources for immigrants. Some of those who have contributed either currently or in the past are Pat McManaman, Amy Agbayani, Esther Arinaga, and we have a vigorous new president, Reverend Amy Waake, who is affiliated with the Methodist Church. So you're involved with the Legal Clinic as well as the Hawaii Immigrant Justice Center? Well, you know, we're just petitioning for our 501c3 status now with the Legal Clinic. We've attempted to raise money. We're renovating an office that's across the street from Thomas Square where the Methodist Church is. That church itself has a high population of Tongans in the congregation, and that was somewhat the impetus for starting the project. You know, the Hawaii Immigrant Justice Center at one time was Naloyo, no Nakanaka, then became Naloyo, right? So you were there from the beginning. You were one of the founders. Right. Well, this was actually, the founder actually was Bill Hosejo, who's now the executive director of the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission. But Bill led the organization for approximately 10 years, and there are a number of us who helped him create the organization. And then Pat McMahon ran the organization until about 2010 when she was appointed the director of the Department of Human Services and the Abercrombie Administration. All right. And still going strong. Of course, there seems to be something very timely and contemporary, the rates of immigrants who seem to be under a lot of stress at the current time. After 2010, the private nonprofit entity merged with Legal Aid Society of Hawaii, which is why it is now known as the Hawaii Immigrant Justice Center at Legal Aid Society of Hawaii, and is being very ably and energetically led by a young attorney named Todd Johnson. What about the proliferation of people coming in from Micronesia and trying to get settled here and assimilate within the population? Do you have any thoughts about how the Hawaii Immigrant Justice Center or any other program can facilitate their assimilation? Well, I think in actuality, the Hawaii Immigrant Justice Center is directly involved with helping another of Micronesian immigrants with their various problems. I know they hold community workshops to address these legal problems. And my impression is that the work is of a very substantial grassroots nature. It's very practically oriented, it's very effective, and I think a lot is being done with limited resources. That's always the case, limited resources, right? Getting funding. It's like you're away of the immigration law clinic. You're talking about the University of Hawaii Law School. Correct, yes. And I think the goal is to have the legal clinic educate young lawyers who will then go out and serve things like the Methodist Legal Clinic and like the Hawaii Immigrant Justice Center, as well as become members of the private immigration bar. The private immigration bar itself is very supportive of all these efforts. And so is the law school. At least some people are. I mean, Professor Calvin Pang, for example, he's always been with you shoulder to shoulder on this aspiration. Yes, and I think Professor Pang will be very instrumental as we attempt to make this clinic a reality. That'd be great. So we're hoping that we can get at least some seed money to get you going, and then I won't say that you're on your own from that point, but you're going to be mostly on your own, and hopefully we can find some innovative ways to raise the sufficient money to have a continuing tenured position at the law school. That'd be a wonderful thing and necessary. I mean, most law schools do have, well not most, but many law schools are enlightening enough to know that that is a significant area in the practice of law and newly minted lawyers can go out and do some very good work in the communities. And because the high proportion of immigrants in Hawaii as a whole, we are hoping that once our efforts become better known, that we will find those successful immigrants who recognize the value of a project like this and can help us make it a reality. Great. You know, Lowell, we've been talking about your past history and we had to do a very quick synopsis of that and your aspirations for the future, your involvement in current legal organizations that assist the members of the public. What about just general citizen involvement in democratic institutions? You have any thoughts about that? Well, I do. I think this is a time in which democratic institutions are challenged and perhaps even collapsing in the United States. I think the rule of law is in jeopardy and I think in general it'd be whose citizens to do whatever they can in their private lives and in their communities to resist this trend. I think also I might just add as a lawyer, as I've gotten older, more of my work has been in partnership with non-lawyers so that another organization that I work with extensively is called the Pacific Survivor Center. We do medical care for human trafficking victims. We took care of the Alloon Farms workers.  This animation is now starting to be shown in the schools and we're hoping to develop greater collaboration with the Department of Education and other schools that are interested in hearing about this program. We've been fortunate to be supported in creating the animation by the Junior League and our curriculum has been supported by the Ching Foundation. Most recently we also are attempting to create something called the Human Rights Provider Network which is an attempt to create a network of medical subspecialists who will assist our primary physician, Dr. Nicole Littenberg, in treating this population and developing a body of expertise on the treatment of trafficked and tortured people in Hawaii. And I'm happy to say that we've secured a $51,000 or $56,000 grant in aid from the legislature. This past session with the assistance of Speaker Psyche, representative of Lohenberg who super intends that program and the assistance of other senators such as Senator Ihara who is one of our supporters. Terrific. So if someone is watching in on this program and either is an attorney or a lay person, perhaps a student or someone who wants to become involved, how do they go about that? Well there's a contact number for the Pacific Survivor Center and we have a website and one could contact us through that number and people do. Or they could send us a brief email to our address and we'll try to pair them up with areas of need in our organization. So if they Google Pacific Survivor Center Hawaii or something like that they should come up. Yes.  I don't. Which is not surprising. Actually, Mr. Chun-Huen and I are, although he is considerably younger, we graduated from law school, different law schools at the same time. So I know how that goes. Identify with that. You know, any last words, anything you would like the viewers to hear about the current state of affairs in Hawaii primarily, but also nationally and your aspirations to have this be a better state, a better country and perhaps a better world. I know as we get older we tend to look back as well as look forward and we tend to realize that we're not going to be here in the saddle forever. Any thoughts about that? I'm putting you on the spot. Well, I do have one thought that I'll express about that. As I get older, you know, I do worry simply about the absence of hope in our society. There seems to be so much despair. I mean, it's almost give you a clinical depression to watch the news of parents being separated from their children at the border who are merely seeking asylum status. Although I do understand listening to the radio today that President Trump may have reversed that. But I think the antidote to all of that is for each of us in our individual lives to do what we can that is within our grasp. And that's the whole purpose of what I tried to do. I find it very rewarding. And I find that if you look for them, there are many people in Hawaii who are interested in doing this. And I think there is a joy to linking these people together to try to accomplish something to resist these negative trends. Well said. You know, as you were speaking, the words just for some reason into my mind popped a little phrase from a photographic exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. And it was, I hope I'm not misquoting, for mercy has a human heart and pity a human face.  We have limited time on Earth and hopefully, I don't know if it's going to happen within our lifetimes, but perhaps we can find something in common that will bring us all together and move forward for the common good of humankind. That's very true. We can't all be a great trial lawyer like Howard Luke, but I think each in our own way we have a contribution to make. But we all certainly can make the contribution as Mr. Chun Hoon has done his entire career. He has a lifetime of service to our community, both in Hawaii and to the nation. I want to thank you for being here today. I think our time is just about up. I could go on now just getting warmed up. I taxied along the runway. I'm now ready to take off, but our time is about up. I'd like to thank you very much, Mr. Chun Hoon, for being here this afternoon and for your very wise words and the obvious compassion you have for your fellow human being. Thank you.


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Good evening everybody my name is Vasani Chandra Sekhren and I am here to represent my team Living Biology. This project has been undertaken under the guidance of Professor D. B. Fatak and we would like to thank our mentors without whom this project would not have been completed. Mr. Avinash Avante and Mrs. Meena Misra for their guidance and help throughout the project. Let me introduce you to our team members Gaurav, Namita, Nivedhita, Shivram and Mamsi about our project. We had three major objectives. The first one was to convert the NCRT biology lessons into interactive HTML pages. The second one was to develop from the content of the NCRT book we had to develop interactive activities using the Pi framework and the third major objective was to develop a question bank through which whatever content had been converted into activities they had to be tested. The knowledge of the student had to be tested with the help of quizzes which was done through the question bank developed by us. More on the first objective it was living biology I am proud to say has been taken up for the first time this year in the summer internship program and we have converted around 18 chapters of the book into interactive HTML pages with JavaScript. Let me show you a demo of the page that was done, one of the pages. So, as you can see the whole chapter has been converted into a HTML page and the exercise part has been made interactive by allowing the student to enter answers even in the fill in the blanks. If the answer is right it shows the correct, I mean it shows it is right. If the answer is wrong it shows the correct answer and says his answer was wrong. There are the match the following has also been made interactive choose the correct answer has been implemented with radio buttons as you can see wrong answer try again. Now the second objective it was to develop Pi activities using the NCRT content why did we have to do that because even though there are teachers who teach well the students capability differs from person to person. So he may not be able to understand what was actually said to him. This activity allows him to visualize the concept and learn it thoroughly not just from the text from the book but by visualizing it so be developed by activities using the flash develop and nearly 120 activities have been made by our team members. Let me show you some demos of our activities that we have made. The first one is flow of water in plants through xylem. This activity mainly shows how water is absorbed by the plant and how it moves to various parts of the plant. Can I have the demo? Yes. As you can see the brown part below is the root tip from which water is absorbed and it moves through the cylindrical thing that is the xylem. It passes water through various parts of the plant and every part shows what the part is. Also there is a detailed view of what happens. The water particle enters through the root tip and moves to the xylem. The second one is the one that we do every day we all breathe so how respiration occurs in our body. The respiratory model is actually an experimental setup can I have the demo? As you can see this is the experimental setup of our respiratory system. The parts are labelled the yellow balloons are sorry the red balloons are the lungs and the whole jar is the lung cavity. Now you can see how we breathe by clicking on that. So when we inhale the lungs expand and air flows in and when we exhale the lung contracts again and air flows out. So this can be seen interactively through this activity. The next one is a very nice one I like it it teaches the student how to you know take food properly what makes him what is junk food what is healthy food and what is good for him. So the student can be able to choose his own diet and see what will be the consequences of him taking that particular diet. So there is a thin person and if he eats a lot of junk food he would become fat. So implicating that we have made an activity which shows the he can choose his own diet whatever he wants to eat. If he chose if he chooses a healthy one it says not correct. So all the junk ones are chosen and the thin boy keeps eating all that and he becomes fat. There is also the other version of this where the fat boy eats all the good stuff and becomes thin. He cannot take lollipops because it is junk. So yeah. So this is a good way of teaching the student how to take proper diet. The next one shows the type of pollination there are many kinds of pollination done by various agents. This one shows bees doing cross pollination and self pollination. The student can select whether he wants to see cross pollination or self pollination and view what happens. When the bees sit on the flower the pollen on the flower stick to its legs and it keeps hovering over the same flower so self pollination occurs that way. And cross pollination is between different flowers the same way you can see the bees moving around between different flowers. So the next one. This one is for phototropism in plants when the plant is in a very small stage it needs to grow towards the sun so that it can make food. So this activity shows how the plant moves towards the sun in order to make food. So the plant grows during the day towards the sun and it is done because of a hormone called oxen which is present in the plant. The next one is asexual reproduction in binary fission in amoeba. This shows how the amoeba undergoes fission. So the nucleus of the amoeba starts expanding and then the parent cell splits into two daughter cells. Further fission can also undergo from the daughter cells to produce even further children so that is shown in this activity. I would like to thank my mentors and Professor D. B. Fatak to have given us this opportunity to work on these kind of activities which change every student's life across India. So it was a very interesting module to work on and now moving on to the third objective Namita will be here to talk about it. Thank you. Good evening everyone. I am Namata Praval from NIT Jaipur and I will continue with the third module of a project that is the Ekshikshak question bank. So now you must have seen that what are the attempts are doing? Attempts are trying to make the education system interactive. So we have made the chapters interactive, we have explained the activities interactively. So what is left? The thing which is left is assessment like how the children will assess themselves and their progress. So for that we have the Ekshikshak question bank. What this question bank basically does is it allows the students to select a topic, select the number of questions and select the difficulty level that is easy, medium, tough and then it displays a set of relevant questions. The students can answer them and then just test themselves and view the answers. So it is basically a practice question set, not a test kind of thing. This is a quick overview of the question bank. We have two interfaces, one for the teachers and one for the students. The teachers will first retrieve the topic tree from the Ekshikshak question bank, select the particular topic and then submit their questions into the question bank. So in this way what we do is we are expanding our database to a wider range because teachers from all over the world can submit their questions. Okay, second interface is for the students. The students can submit the choice of questions. The choice of questions means the number of questions and the type of question that is easy, medium, tough and then in return they will get the set of relevant questions. The question bank submit the questions in the question database and retrieve the set of questions from the question database. So what are the features? First, we created the database for the question bank. Second is the topic tree display including the insert and update functions. Third is the insertion of questions into the database by the teachers all over the world. And the fourth one is question presentation and evaluation which is undertaken by the students. So before moving ahead, I would like to tell you that what we were supposed to develop is just the wrapper class that is the backend. The frontend which we developed is just a demonstration of the functions which we created. So this is the database schema which we created. It has got five tables, one that is the first one is the main table. This one is used to establish the topic tree hierarchy. That is parent ID and child ID. The parent ID is for the parent topic and the child ID is for the subtopic. Second is the topics table with child ID as the primary key and the topic name and the description. Similarly, we have the questions table containing the corresponding questions of the topic and with question ID as the primary key. It has got question type which specifies whether it is easy, medium or hard. Basically it is a float value. We haven't kept it as a string value to the float value and we have kept it as a float value so that it can be used by the adaptive testing module. Then next is the difficulty level and the statement and then the question format. The question format specifies whether the question is in the image format or the text format. Next is the options table. Options table is also similar to the questions table with question ID as the primary key and the answer table also with question ID as the primary key. This is similar like this is just a pictorial representation of what I just said of all the tables and stuff so I can skip it. So moving to the first module that is a topic tree display with the inflate and update function. In this teachers all over the world can pick up a particular topic from the list of all the topics displayed and can perform the required operation that is insert or update. So this is basically what we do. First is the submit topic that is the community. By community we mean the teachers. They can submit the questions but it won't be directly included in the database. First the topic experts or the subject experts have to approve it and here the subject by subject experts I mean the admins of the Akshiksha portal with which this database is going to be implemented or included. So after they approve the topic it is going to be inserted in the topic tree or the database. So let's move to the demo. We click on insert a new topic. This is just a demonstration of the functionality. It is not the actual website it is going to be uploaded. So we select the parent topic. It gives a list of all the topics there. Select any topic. The topic name, the new topic name which you want with the teacher wants to insert. Suppose in physics we insert motion and then any topic description describing what we are about to insert and in submitting we can see that the topic is there in the insert topic. It is inserted like we have motion at the end. So moving to the next module that is the topic update. The topic update is similar to topic insert. In this the community will be given the list of all the topics and then they will suggest the updates which will be approved by the subject expert and then will be edited or inserted in the database. Let's have a demo. Update a topic. We select the topic from the drop down whichever you want to update. We can update the name as well as the description. For example now we want to replace motion with kinematics. So we replace it with kinematics and we can edit the description as well in submit. So the topic is updated. We can see that motion is replaced by kinematics. Moving to the next module. The third module is the question insert module. In this the teachers can insert the questions in the corresponding topic. So this question insert module allows the teacher to specify the type of the question whether it is MCQ, true, false etc. What is the difficulty level of the question and what is the type like what is the question format like image takes etc. So these features we have provided in our database. So let's have a demo of this that before that we will see that in this case the community first accesses the database for the topic tree, selects a particular topic and then submits a question in the database. This is a temporary storage of the question in the database. Then the topic experts that is the admin of the portal they will approve the question and will permanently inserted in the database which can be used further. Now moving to the demo insert a question. So first we select a topic from the drop down any topic we can select and then question type that is multiple we have included only MCQs and true, false we can include any number of types like MCQ with multiple answers fill in the blanks etc. So this is the question form we need to enter a question then all the options like these four options because it's MCQ with four options and then the answer and the answer explanation. So we have provided the answer explanation feature so that I told you that it is just a practice test that the students are going to give. So once the answer is wrong they need to know why is it wrong. So for that purpose we have provided this answer explanation field and then after specifying the difficulty level we can submit. So the question is inserted in the database. So now we have another type question type we can just show you the form won't go into the detail select any question type true and false. If it is true and false the form will be like this. So similarly we can implement other forms for other types of questions. Moving to the next module next is the final module that is the student interface part that is the question presentation and evaluation. In this the student is supposed to enter the number of questions he wants and the difficulty level and the topic with which he wants to test himself. So in this let's straight away move to the demo there is a question wait wait wait the question database so like the software this is the pink one is our software. The software first accesses the question bank on the basis of two parameters the topic and the difficulty level and on the basis of these two parameters it gives us a set of questions next then from these set of questions the software again like it calls a function and it presents a question to the students the students and submit the answers the answers are again matched with the answers in the database and then the result is shown to the student. So let's have a demonstration of the final quiz like we need to select a topic now this is a dynamic tree like whenever we select science only the subtopics of science will come down in the next drop down like whenever select chemistry there is no topic till now in a database so we select biology there are three subtopics then biochemistry either we can submit it directly biochemistry if the student wants a broader topic or we can further narrow it to a subtopic of biochemistry so submitting it biochemistry is a topic then he has to enter the number of questions the difficulty level as I told you easy medium tough and then take quiz so this is the final quiz we can answer any answer anything then click on submit submit submit so this is the final score it also displays the score and then the thing that is wrong and the correct answers are then green and the result is then red whether wrong or correct or unanswered so this is the final module let's move back to the presentation so these are the challenges which we face in the development of a project first is that developing activities in an interactive manner in a completely new pie framework when we started developing the activities in pie framework many of the modules of pie framework were not yet developed like the drag and drop module etc so we had to implement it in our own way that was kind of a challenge for us then secondly we use hand-drawn images and then use frames sequential frames to create an animation effect then we maintain a dynamic hierarchy in the top three using that PID CID concept that is parent ID child ID concept then last one is the quiz question randomization so the quiz which we take it always produces random questions from the database so we had to implement the tandem function as well what did we learn through this project actually we learned a lot of things apart from this also so first moving to this working on a new platform as I told you we worked on the pie framework which is completely new to us moreover two of us are from electronics background so they had to go through or learn all the languages Java JSP JavaScript action script etc then secondly adapting to a professional work environment we went we attended the meetings all the Tuesday Friday meetings the Evan Astral then we had to complete the deadlines we had to start from the scratch once our activity was disregarded so it's like we learned a lot how to work in a professional environment then working as a unit despite of lingual barriers one thing I would like to point is all six of us are from different states so we had that barrier but still we worked as a unit and then we learned teamwork and time management now future enhancements which we can do to a project firstly that till now we have included only two type of questions the mcqs and the true and false but we can also include further types like I told you fill in the blanks match the following etc secondly images can be used till now we have not included it in the database as in questions but the database which we created supports this facility of images what we can do is in the attribute of question format we just need to change the value from one to two and that in the and then in the question statement we need to give the address of the image so the software will identify from the attribute of format to that the value to that this is an image address and will fetch the image from the database the third one is time constraint can be added to convert it from a practice exercise to a proper quiz and also this database which we created is going to be used by the adaptive testing software so now I would like sir to have a demo of all our flash activities on the cash tablet and checking that it works on the cash tablet as well apart from the desktop now this marks the end of a presentation for that I would like to thank all our mentors and first of all unfortunately we could not present in front of Patak sir but I would like to thank him for giving us this opportunity to present ourselves and to study and for having this a wonderful span of two months in this college in this prestigious college and I would also like to thank our mentors of in our Shavata sir and Mina ma'am without their support and guidance this project could not have been completed and I would also like to thank to thank Rajnikan sir and my answer for always being there with us whenever we needed them so thanks from already all our team members


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