The author starts by asking himself the question what about that rat who was turned into Cinderella's coachman? He was temporarily a fully functional human man.  This book focuses on the life of that poor rat after his unfortunate encounter with Cinderella's fairy godmother. Since I first read this book in the early 90s, I don't think a single day has gone by when I have not thought about this story and I predict that when you read it, you'll never forget it either.


Hello, this is Nick from Laptop Media and today we will show you how to open the 2023 AMD version of the HP Victus 16 S40s. To gain access to the internals, you have to undo 8 Phillips head screws. After that, you can begin popping the plate with a thin prying tool, starting from the back of the device. Please remember, it would be of great help to us if you just hit the like button and subscribe to our channel. That would motivate us to make even more and better videos for you. The battery in this device is the default 70 watt hour model, and you can also get the optional 83 watt hour variant. To remove the battery, detach the connector from the motherboard and undo the 6 Phillips head screws that are keeping the unit in place. The base capacity is enough for 10 hours of either web browsing or video playback. That's a good result for a gaming laptop. To achieve this, you have to disable the fan always on function in the BIOS and select the hybrid GPU mode in order to use the iGPU when the power adapter isn't plugged in. The two Sodims can handle up to 32 GB of DDR5, 5600 MHz RAM in dual channel mode. For storage, there is just one M.2 slot, compatible with Gen4 SSDs. The pre-installed NVMe is protected by a metal shroud that has a thin thermal pad on the inside. The cooling system looks good. It comprises two fans and two thick heat pipes shared between the processor and the video card. The third pipe is for cooling the GPU. We can spot three heat sinks and three heat spreaders.


Hi, I'm Alex from Blackstar and I'm here to show you the latest addition to the Ampter Range, the Department 10 Amp3. Amp3 is a 100-watt multi-channel high gain amplifier in a compact pedal format with integrated boost and reverb. The Amp3 features three individual channels. Each channel has two unique voicing options, giving you six preamps in total, ranging from shimmering cleans to modern, tight and aggressive high gain turns. The Amp3 is perfect for the pro player who needs uncompromised tone and maximum versatility, whether they're recording in the studio or playing live. The overdrive channel of the Amp3 is one of the highest gain preamps we've ever developed and is capable of delivering brutal tones, especially when coupled with the integrated boost that drives your sound even further. The Amp3 has been developed with six, seven and eight string guitars in mind, so you can expect crystal clear definition and razor sharp attack that cuts through any mix, even when you're using extreme drop tunings. The high headroom input stage is designed to work with high output guitars and pedal boards, meaning the Amp3 can be the hub of your rig with 9-volt outputs to power your pedals and series and parallel effects loop for maximum integration options. The clean channels are exactly that, crystal clear cleans that are perfect for layering up with effects to create other worldly soundscapes. The crunch channels will take you anywhere from low gain grit right through to mid gain turns, blending itself perfectly to rock, grunge, punk and alternative players who need razor sharp bite and massive sounding calls with clear note separation. The overdrive channels give you all the high gain sounds you need. 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EL84, EL34 and 6L6 power amp responses, based off our TVP technology, deliver the dynamics, sag and breakup of their analog counterparts. The Amp3 can cover a wide array of tones in any genre and more importantly, give you the sound and feel that you expect when playing live. The Amp3 is now all you need for an all-in-one solution for any circumstance, whether you're using a backline cab or simply handing the front-of-house engineer an XLR, with all of the same precisely tweaked amp and cab sounds used to record your album, the Amp3 has you covered. The pedal output is designed to be used in the front end or the effects return of any amp, giving you another option for playing live or using any backline amp that's presented to you. The USB-C connection can be used with the included architect software to control your cab rig tones and is also a high-quality audio interface, allowing you to use all the same sounds for your live and studio playing. Cabrig, our advanced DSP speaker simulator, is built-in, which overcomes the shortcomings of impulse response snapshots and reproduces the sound and feel of a mic'd up guitar cab in incredible detail. Over 250 cab and mic combinations can be selected and output via Balanced XLR, headphones quarter-inch line output, or multi-channel via USB. The built-in cabrig is ideal to be using with in-ear monitors for the ever more popular silent stage. The Amp3 has universal voltage input, meaning your rig can now travel the world with you, giving you zero compromises of tone wherever you are. Full MIDI control over every parameter of Amp3 gives any MIDI device, such as the LiveLogic MIDI Fill Controller, complete access. All of these features combined make Amp3 incredibly powerful. Let's hear the Amp3 in action.


Welcome to JSATV, where we're covering the latest stories, trends, and innovations from the leaders in global connectivity, digital infrastructure, and the networks within. And I am speaking to Herb Villa, the senior solution sales architect at Rital. And we are talking to you live from Times Square, DCD Connect 2024. Herb, welcome to JSATV. Thank you. It's nice and good to see you guys, and love to talk about what's going on out there. Obviously, they're happy. Something's going on out there. Yeah. But Herb, we're going to talk about something that, from the PR and marketing industries, we have heard a lot about, particularly over the last five, maybe 10 years. And that is modular and edge data centers. Why don't you tell our viewers a little bit about what Rital does, and specifically as it relates to modular and edge data centers? Well, Rital is a global manufacturer. We manufacture in multiple countries, privately held German-based company. We do just that. We do, and we use the marketing term, modular enclosure solutions, right? The enclosures, we are the infrastructure, so the cabinets, the enclosures, climate control, heat removal, power management, air flow management. We do it for everybody from Fortune 500s to the large internet companies to industrial consortiums to schools, CERN, Brookhaven Labs. All of these are our customers. We're all over the place for the infrastructure side. All right, Herb. I'm going off script. You said it would be okay. So here we go. I want to talk about edge data centers. Yes, you do. Specifically, we heard a lot about edge. Get it as close as we possibly can to the end user, because it's that latency that is ultimately going to, or negating that latency, is ultimately what's going to help bring the newer technologies to meaningful deployment. Correct. Is that still true today? Okay. So the question is, how did we get here? How did we get to the edge? So years ago, we invented the cloud, and it's a data center. But now we're at the cloud, pardon me, so we have to be at the edge. But we've always been at the edge. Anybody who manufactures, anybody who was building something, or running a warehouse, or assembling cars, they were at the edge, because they were doing something at a very, very local level. The term that I use is hyper-local. Every place that is not a data center, but you gave me the misnomer, edge data center. Sorry, guys. There is no such thing as an edge data center. You're either at the edge, or you're in a data center. When I hear data center, big building, medium-sized building, generators, security, cooling, all of that, that's a data center. Edge is below us, downstairs in the subways. We are in all of the subway stations in Manhattan. That is not a data center. That is a subway station. We are on the production floor. We are on the distribution center. That is where the edge is, that hyper-locality, put it as close to the data as you said is possible, but I will not call it an edge data center. I will call it an edge site, an edge installation. That is the most comprehensive, yet simple explanation of the edge. Excellent. Excellent. Okay. We're going to move on. How can the operators best, and this is a good one too, best navigate the complexities of deploying these solutions at speed and scale. Okay, so speed and scale is important because I'm going to need them. Scale is, I'm not building a 500-foot print data center. I'm putting one footprint in 500 spaces. Think of Amazon, right? Every fulfillment center has three or four cabinets doing stuff. Think of an airport, think of the subway system. There are 400-some-odd stations. Each of those is a location. We have to treat that edge deployment as if it was a data center. I need the climate control. I need the power. I need the security, but I'm doing it in one or two footprints. I am in any place that doesn't have a raised floor, that doesn't have climate control, that doesn't have generators out back. So we have to plan for that. The scale is to make it scalable, make it adaptable, but now we have a couple of new ill-ty words as I call them. My manageability, my scalability, my adaptability, now two more words. You already said one of them. Repeatability. That gives me seed to deployment. And finally, portability. I need to move it from point A to point B. I'm closing that warehouse, I'm going here. I'm closing that school, I'm going here. I'm moving that office, I'm going there. So those are the new ill-ty words that we use. Portability, flexibility, repeatability. I love it. That's it. I am an old school telecom guy and it reminds me of like 20, 25 years ago when we were talking about last mile connectivity. It is analogous to do you have last mile connectivity? It is analogous to do you have an edge? Correct. Data, like, data center like this. Do I have an edge installation, an edge deployment? Yeah. You know, we use the term, I will graciously let the industry say, I'll call it a micro data center. OK. All right. So find some compromise, are we her? I'll be good. But I don't want to hear a micro edge, a cloud edge, a big edge. Because there's an edge. This table has an edge. There is another edge behind this one. That's it. That's edge. That's where I'm at. That is that it's not that final mile, it's that final meter. Got it. That final meter. No, I love it. And it all makes a lot of sense to me. Go ahead. I was going to say we could also learn from the modularity that I do want to have that capability to grow and expand, to plan for some idea of future proofing, some idea of where I see my next generation. And also, the other thing we have to ask, because you talked about deployment, is ownership. So who is going to own it? A facility manager at a warehouse or a production site, an IT guy sitting 3,000 miles away. He doesn't know from air conditioners. A facility guy doesn't know from IP addressing. They have to both work together. So we look at the ownership and make sure it is a joint ownership for that end user. Herb, I'm buying everything that you're telling me right now. I'm buying everything that you're selling. And honestly, I don't understand how, why other, I mean, and you have some high profile clients, obviously. So it all makes a lot of sense to me. Right. What we do is because, as you said, I've been doing this way too long. That's why I'm the senior solution. This means I'm old. But we do have that data center almost prejudice. Yeah. All right. So I will stay in that comfort zone. But now I am out of my comfort installation. But I have to do it. The facility people, the industrial controls people, the manufacturing people, they do this for a living since Henry Ford perfected the assembly line. I would say 100 years ago, that was the first edge deployment just without computers. So we've been doing it all on. But after the cloud, the edge guy said, I got to give it a name. Yeah, we need something. I need a marketing term. I need to say the PR term. I'm happy to oblige. I'm out the edge. I got the edge. Where is it? Who is it? Who owns it? What's it do for me? But again, the data center is critical because, remember, it's on your network. It is part of your infrastructure. I can hack in. I can be at that warehouse or in that subway station, open a door, find the USB port, and stick my virus onto your, I'm inside your firewall. So we have to be aware of all of those requirements that we do see at the data center. But now it's under a cell tower in the middle of Nebraska. We're on cruise ships. I am 2,000 miles from land with 7,000 of my closest friends on the icon of the seas. It's a floating data center with my edge deployments. Herb, we're going to end right there. Thank you so much for being with us on JSATV. My pleasure. Guys, thank you for having us and enjoy DCD. You bet. You bet. Thank you very much. And thank you viewers for watching JSATV. Stay curious. Stay connected. And we'll see you soon.


Hi guys, this is Cameron from the Mighty Blues and I've just got back from Gooderson Park after watching an embarrassing, heartless, just an awful performance by ever and we lost three goals to one to West Ham United and I just think, I was just so shocked, there was no organisation, there was no confidence, every player looked uncomfortable on the ball, I think I'm not going to go into certain players and you know, we played poor and put it this way, I don't think there was a standout player, all game. I think Bernard, when he came on, was probably our best player and I think he solidified that he should start next week really, he's winning files as soon as he's come on and he's already doing more than the rest of the team have done all game. I think Calvert Lewin proved me point that he shouldn't play on the wing, I don't think he's good enough to play there, it's just wasting it, it's just wasting a player utilising him for the strength and playing him over there, he's absolutely phased out the game, I don't think he touched the ball more than ten times and again he stayed on the pitch for 90 minutes which shocks me, don't get me wrong, I think Trent tells him at the poor game as well but he's brought off before Calvert Lewin and Calvert Lewin is not touching the ball and he's being useless. Again, I just don't know what to say to be honest, it's worrying, it is, I'm not going to lie, I'm a little bit worried now, we started the season reasonably well and you could argue that we dropped points and whatever but you take what you take out of it, you say the others feel games are poor game and you move on and you're going to get the three points today but we got absolutely outclassed by again one of the worst teams in the Premier League and we made them look like Barcelona to be honest. I think Bernard needs to start against Arsenal next week, I think Rich Arleson needs to play through the middle, whether that means Trent plays with them and do a 4-4-2, I don't think that's the worst idea to be honest, I think it'd be good for us to do a 4-4-2 and change the formation because this clearly isn't working or whether it means that Trent comes out and Rich Arleson takes the place but I think he needs to play through the middle because we are seriously, seriously lacking goals and we have a real problem with lacking goals and conceding as well. So yeah, overall I think their goals were just, they weren't nothing special was they were like the second goal was a good eight but let's be honest the first goal just ripped the whole team to bits and the third goal again just solidifies a win for Westamain you're just thinking how, how, how, how. Yeah, I don't know what else to say to be honest, bitterly disappointed, really disappointed I think it was an awful performance and I just thought we can bounce back but you know Arsenal next week away I just, unless something changes in midweek I just can't see us getting anything out of that game I think me and the needs to come in and the sooner André Gomez has fit the better but I think Benard definitely needs to play against Arsenal next week so thank you guys so much for watching and I'll see you guys next week hopefully but I'll see you guys on my channel if you come over but I'll see you on ToffeeTV next week and hopefully we've got a little bit more to shout about than that embarrassment that we've just watched there. Thanks for watching.


This is Think Tech Hawaii, Community Matters here. Four o'clock, four o'clock rock, four o'clock block here on Think Tech. It's Think Tech Tech, but it's also Community Matters. It's Brian Dote, Dote again. Yeah, Dote, perfect. And he's the innovation officer at Mid-Pak, which is a very important job because Mid-Pak is a very high tech school and Brian has these incredible credentials. Can you talk about your credentials and don't be modest. Oh, OK, sure, sure. I'm a former Silicon Valley software engineer. I worked at some of the big tech companies in the Valley. I worked at Cisco. I worked at Apple. And I worked in the, I was fortunate to work in the first iPhone, so I was part of the iPhone launch team, worked on some software for the first iPhone, worked on the second iPhone, worked on what is now iPod. It's been that long. It's been up for a long time. I remember when there was no iPhone. But I worked on some of the sync services at the iPhone users as well. So people are familiar today with iCloud, for example. I worked in the precursor to the precursor to the precursor of iCloud. Wow. Back in the day. Tell me how to use it.  This is kind of remarkable because there's not many around like you. I was always impressed with the fact you came back. There must be something really Hawaii driving you, Brian. Well, I mean, one of the primary reasons is Hawaii and its family and its the community. Once you've grown up here, it's hard to leave. It's hard to stay away. And it's such a natural fit for us as a family to come back to. Yeah, perfect. Yeah. Is it meeting your expectations? You're back now. I want six or seven years. It's been 10 years. 10 years already. I'm giving myself a time flash. It's been 10 years now. And it's worked out really well. Yeah. Yeah, OK. It's a very innovative space, a very welcoming community in the tech industry and in all industries. But I've been able to sort of shoehorn myself right back in and get my feet running. Perfect, perfect. Well, I was waiting for you. It was a pleasure waiting for you. I made you wait too long. No, you needed to come back. But Hawaii needed to have you come back. That's the reality. We need 10,000 more like your friends in California. So mid-pack. Well, I mean, last check in the mid-pack, it was kind of remarkable. Harry Weinberg gave them a lot of money to buy iPads. And they did buy iPads for every student. And then the students began teaching the teachers. And the teachers got really, really excited about it. And you built this sort of extraordinary modular science room, tech room, where they could work in groups and do all this really high-tech collaboration. It was impressive. It was as much as anything I've seen in any high school here in Hawaii. And then you, you're right there. You make that happen. Yes. That's your environment. What's it like these days? It's sort of what you describe. It's an amazing environment. It's with students and iPads, you know, you're not tethered to a desk. So the learning can happen anywhere. And if learning can happen anywhere, then it can happen in the lab. It can happen outside in the field. It can happen on the football field or in classrooms.  And so the modular design of the space, as well as the fluidity of the classes, makes it a really interesting environment for learning. And I think it's the right environment because we don't want kids in rows and rows and rows with the teacher in the front, right? We want people to float around and experience other things in the area. And the space should be fluid and dynamic. It's wonderful. It's a wonderful thing. Well, don't you wish you were a student? I looked for back. Can I sign that every day?  And the world is their oyster.  They're a high priority for me, so I do look at them. And first of all, they don't talk about Trump, which is a good thing. They talk about science. And they titillate you every day with these fantastic discoveries happening in information technology, happening in medicine, happening in all kinds of research. I mean, we may be short on research funding, but we are not short on research.  They started doing heavy research. They started getting engaged with science before we got into political trouble over the, you know, funding of research. And they still do it, and they still publish about it. And we have a juggernaut of research in this country, in this planet, I think. So you're delivering this. So, yeah, so what I always envision is the gap between research, or R&D, and the MIT information that you're consuming, and education space. The gap is too big. You know, there's such a long divide between when something is discovered and something is taught, and then when something reaches consumer adoption. And so what I really strive to do is shorten that lead time. So as new technologies come out, and you hear about it or I hear about it, you know, why not bring that into the educational world now? Why wait 10 years? Why wait 10 years? Why wait for a mass consumer adoption? Exactly, they can handle it. And it may not succeed. The technology may sort of wither and die because it was just the wrong time in the wrong place, but we should be willing to take those chances. We should be willing to, that's innovation. Like you don't innovate on something that's a done deal or a guaranteed success, right? That's not innovation, it's the opposite.  And so that's what I try to do is find those technologies and bring them in early. And we have the teachers and the faculty that are willing to try that out and really run with it and they love that stuff. And so, you know, that combination is perfect. I'd love to see you, the Hawaii's kids get involved in science and technology. You know, every year we go to the science fair, we follow the Hawaii Academy of Science and all that, we go take a lot of video and whenever people are presenting there. We have a lot of research people from Manoa come over here and talk in this very chair that you're in, yeah? Every week, actually, we cover science. And the question I have is, are these kids as dedicated to science as you and I might be, were we in that modular room as students today? Are they telling you they want to spend their lives in science of one kind or another? I don't necessarily hear them saying that they want to spend their lives in science. I don't think that they are discipline oriented. It's not that I want to be in science, it's more I want to solve this type of problem or I want to learn this type of technology to do this kind of thing. And so, they're very, I don't want to say outcome oriented but they're very oriented in terms of like projects and sort of meaningful work. And so, it's not that I want to be a scientist, it's I want to solve this problem in the community using virtual reality. That's really the essence, man. That's really, yeah, exactly, exactly. We had, I shouldn't say a student, I was there when he was this tall. He was a very rolly-poly kid. And now he works for Google. Okay. And he's doing work on the Pixel. Okay. He couldn't tell me too much about it but he could tell me what he does for, and it runs right along the line of what you were talking about. What does he think about? What he thinks about the Pixel? He thinks about its effect on society. Oh, wow. Its effect on the quality of life. Its effect on how we work and think and walk around all day. Interesting. What an interesting job to have. Yeah, and it's an interesting take on technology that can impact society. I mean, you're talking about influencing the lives of hundreds of millions of people in ways that are so ubiquitous at this point. Yeah, yeah, that's pretty exciting. I want that job. That sounds cool. Yeah. You're too old. Oh, sorry. You've got to be less than 30. Anyway, so I'd like you to give me some examples of some of the projects they have and you have in these modular science kind of situations where they're exploring not only the science but their own problem-solving abilities. I'd love to tell you. So I have two that I'd love to mention. One we're doing right now and it's with eighth graders and it leverages our virtual reality work that we've been doing. And so we have two virtual reality spaces on campus and we have an immersive technology program. And what we're doing is we're trying to use virtual reality as a means to gain empathy for a real world problem. And so when you think of what virtual reality really means, it means immersing yourself into an experience that you may not otherwise have been able to experience. And so the one that we've been working with over the summer and just this past few days with eighth graders, every single eighth grader, is what's it like to be homeless? What does homelessness mean? Very interesting. And how slippery is that slope? How quickly can you go from a situation where you're not homeless to a situation where you are homeless and what is life like? And it's a short experience run from the Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab. And so it's a game engine based experience and you go through phases of homelessness and students go through that and they come out with a deeper understanding or if not deeper, a different understanding of what that really means to be homeless. And right now it's part of a module that every eighth grader is going through. And so it's amazing. It's amazing to be able to really show someone something in a very engaging way that they may not otherwise have thought possible. Because it's one thing to see a two-dimensional movie or to hear or read stories in a book, but it's different to experience it firsthand inside of a virtual reality environment. And it's a very engaging way to showcase something like that. And so we did that as a study in partnership with Stanford over the summer. And now we're using the same content as a means to teach a greater module for the whole eighth grade. And so we've been doing that. And we continue to sort of try and expand the virtual reality program at Mid-Pacific. So we've been doing a lot in that space. And what's it like though if I'm a student and I have the virtual reality and you don't want to learn about this, I want to integrate this experience into my thought process, how does it work? So what we've done is we've taken virtual reality, if you think of it like what you guys do here, part of it is sort of content creation and part of it is content consumption. And so the experience that they went through as eighth graders are consumption. They're consuming media. But at the high school level, we're teaching how to create that media. So we're teaching 3D game engine design. We're teaching 3D design. We're teaching storytelling through digital tools. We're teaching all of these things so that our high schoolers can create experiences like this for other people to experience. And so content creation versus content consumption is important for us. Because that's really where the magic happens. Yeah, well, I mean you talk about content creation, consumption, it's an awareness thing. You're in touch, you're not in a silo.  You're sympathetic, empathetic with people who you need to understand. Because you're trying to get the audience to be sympathetic with you or your viewpoint or to understand what you are trying to portray. As you tell your story, what are you really trying to gain with the audience? And so it's important to sort of be behind the camera in that sense. Okay, now I'm pushing it a little further. Okay, through the technologies and through the innovation encouragement that you provide, are you asking them to solve the homeless problem? And are they engaging to the point where they come up with solutions or at least proposed solutions? So this part that I'm not quite sure about. I'm not sure what the rest of this track is in terms of the homelessness part. It's not over. It's not over, it's actually, and again, it's an eighth grade wide project. So it's every single eighth grader through social studies I believe. And so I'm not super savvy on what the outcome of that will be, but that's perfect. Those are the types of things that we aim to do.  You wanna make them good citizens. Exactly, that's what it's all about. We need good citizens in this community and everywhere in the country really. So it seems to me, and I'm sure you feel the same way given your background, that science, especially computer technology, information technology, can address nearly any problem. It can do amazing things. You walk into the studio, which is fairly tech, I must say, I'll give you a tour later. I like it. But you could think of 27 things right away to improve what we do. Information technology kinds of things, life is just bristling with issues that can be resolved that way. Are these kids coming off with that idea? Are they incorporating that into their thinking? I think so. What we strive to do is we provide what I like to call a toolbox of technologies and skill sets that the students are using and combining in novel ways to solve problems. And at the older grade levels, they do independent study where they might be spending the whole year tackling a specific issue that's important to them, and they're doing it through the technologies that they've learned in the earlier years, and they're mixing and matching. They're learning virtual reality, 3D design, or they might be learning artificial intelligence or other things, and then combining those things into novel solutions that solve problems in the community. So they're doing that. They're exactly doing what you mentioned, because a lot of our classes are project-based, and so the projects are designed to solve problems like that. Instead of building the next Instagram, it's about solving things like homelessness or sustainability or food safety. Not just theoretical. No, it's not theoretical. It's relevant, and it's relevant to them and their community. Oh my goodness, I want to go back to school. I want to meet some of your kids. We should both go back to school. Can you? We're in the same class. It will be still on. The best thing is to be a lifelong learner. Lifelong learning lives here. And as an employee and being able to have the opportunity to bring the technologies in, I'm about as close to being in the classes that can be, right, so it's rewarding.  Right after this break, I also want to ask you about AI. Okay, perfect. I'll make sure where it fits, that mid-pack and where it fits in our world. Be right back after this very short break. You'll see. This is Think Tech Hawaii, Raising Public Awareness. Aloha, I'm Caroline Lee. Think Tech Hawaii is Volunteer Chief Operating Officer. And occasional host, and this is Minky. For the first time, Think Tech Hawaii is participating in an online web-based fundraising campaign to raise $40,000. Your thanks to Think Tech will run only during the month of November, and you can help. 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A lot of it is building partnerships, partnerships in the community, partnerships with folks like you in the tech industry. I spend a ton of time meeting with people, both on campus and off campus, either to see something new and understand how that could fit into the educational environment, or share what we're doing in the educational environment and see how that can fit into the technology industry or the different industries. A lot of networking, a lot of being in the community. And, you know, I think having a big footprint in the tech community here in Hawaii is what I strive to do, and I do that every day. That's great. That's a lot different than geeking out at Silicon Valley, huh? But I really enjoy that too, though. That's a lot of fun, too. I don't know what confused about which one is better, but hey, it's a personal thing. Life is about balance. So, AI. You know, I caught a little piece the other day about AI, and some company, if it doesn't matter which one, one of the big ones was hiring AI experts. Okay, okay. And they were looking for, you know, top expertise, and they were paying a million dollars a year to these guys. How do we apply for that? Oh, yeah. Yeah, not a bad job, yeah. But I mean, that's what's happening with AI. I mean, it's a big promise of the future, and it's all the most sophisticated possibilities, including autonomous vehicles and the like. And I wonder where these, I wonder if these kids realize, you know, that that could be a terrific career.  Is there a discussion about that? How do you feel about that? I, AI is the future, artificial intelligence, data science, machine learning, autonomous cars. I mean, those things are right around the corner. And kind of what I alluded to earlier, I want us to shorten that gap. So these things are right around the corner. We shouldn't wait 20 years from now to start teaching AI, or 10 years from now. We should start teaching it soon. We should start teaching it now. I mean, maybe we're too late already. And while I'm at a teacher personally, we have some amazing faculty that can teach AI, or that we're trying to build in the professional development so they can teach AI. We are starting with autonomous cars. So we have this Altino platform, which is brought in from South Korea through Oceanet and Ian Kitajima. And these Altino cars, our students are learning to program them. So eventually, they'll be able to do self-driving, self-driving tasks, parallel parking, starting and stopping at the right place. Right now, they're just kind of getting the bearings and learning a little bit about the platform. But these programmable cars are miniature Teslas. Self-driving is going to be a reality very soon. Self-driving is right on the corner. Autonomous vehicles picking us up and taking us everywhere we need to go. That's literally years away. It's happening. And so our students will be, many of our students are not going to even get their driver's license by the time this happens. And so we're preparing them today for those types of careers, those career paths through AI and data science. And while they may not be the million-dollar hires in terms of the AI expertise, they will have a fundamental understanding of how to combine these frameworks in AI to be able to solve problems. Like, how do you get a car from here to there? It's the same. It's the mental. It's the mental. It's the confidence. Exactly. And an understanding and a familiarity with what's possible at a smaller scale. So this little Altino car can do what that big car outdoors can do. And I can map the two because I understand fundamentally at the root level this. So when I see that, I'm like, I get it. I know how it's doing that. I know what sensors they're using, and I know how to determine distance. And so that's the skills that we're teaching today. And we have discussions with the academic technology teachers, and we really want to blow that up in the future and do even more. And so as the tools become more accessible, as the technology becomes more accessible, and something that we can have in the school environment, and then we'll definitely adopt those. Yeah, yeah. And what did I see also that there's a city, I think it's in Arizona right now. They've got the self-driving cars over there. Right now. Yeah, right now. It's the beginning of middle of October. Isn't that amazing? That's amazing. Right now, and you could get in and tell where it went. And it'll take you there. Yes. That's it. No safety driver or anything like that. Yeah. That's the future. I mean, the future's here. Right? The future's already here. And once legislation and cities and everyone else catches up, that'll be the reality our students will have in literally in a few years. And so it's important as an education institution to prepare our students for that future and not teach them things that are going to be left by the wayside and shelf life at that point. But skills and technologies that are going to be there when they get out into college, when they graduate from college. And so AI is hot for many reasons. And then that's a great one. Just recall, and I heard this within the last couple days, is there's a professor by the name An-O-N. OK. I don't know his first name. At UH, do you know about this? No. And Stanford has a program for development of AI. OK. And Stanford wants him. It brought him here. He's here now. It brought him here so he can develop a little lab for AI right here in Hawaii. In Hawaii through the Computer Science College of Engineering? I think so. But I'm not sure. We must visit this place. Exactly where he is in the middle. Wow. That is amazing. This is a big opening for us. Wow. We could be, I mean, we should be, innovators and leaders in that area. Well, that's what I wanted. So these kids, they're Renaissance kids. I've met them, a lot of them. And I'm just so impressed with them. They're fun. They've got great interests. In fact, now that I think about Craig Wagner, his son, Peter Parker Wagner, student at Mid-Pak, he spent the summer here. Oh. He was a great intern, of course. Oh, cool. Good to hear. He's in the eighth grade or the ninth grade, very high in technology.  Where are they going? Are they going to go to U of H? Are they going to leave town? What are they going to study when they get out of Mid-Pak? What are you shaping them for? Or better put, how is it working out for them? I mean, where are they heading? Where are they going taking themselves? So when you think of Renaissance men and women, when you think of the Renaissance person, they have this gamut of skills that crosses many different things, right? The fundamental understanding of what a Renaissance is. And so they can do many things well. They can do a lot of different things well. But what we try and do is we find the best fit for that student. So it's not about the top three big name colleges spread out across the United States, but it's how many students go to how many different places. That's an important metric, because that's the best fit for each student. So you don't necessarily want 60% of your students to go to three colleges. You want a student at 60 different colleges, right? Because you found the best fit for each student. And through the college application and the college counseling process, you found the schools that may not be the top three schools, but it's the right fit for the student that wants to put together a bioengineering degree with a minor in AI that is built on storytelling and empathy. I mean, these majors or these degrees or these programs that are so esoteric, but that are a big draw for students that have this breadth of understanding and knowledge. And so it is more about finding the right fit wherever that college may be, as opposed to finding these premier top colleges and getting as many students into their doors as possible. Well, this takes us back to you, because you had a successful career in the very headquarters of technology and came back. How are these kids dealing these days with the old conflict of staying versus going and going and then sort of ideating about how they're going to come back when they're at a certain point in their lives? How's that issue going? I mean, we've been talking about and thinking about that for years and years. How is it happening in mid-back? I think that the issue remains today. I think it's not so different than when it was my turn to go through that turnstile. I think that there's still a high concentration of tech opportunity elsewhere. And we are building up the community, as we've always done, and it's continuing to grow. I mean, the startup community is a lot hotter today. There's so much more opportunity in the startup world with these great accelerators, building out these great companies that are very agile and small and doing amazing things. So there's more. I see more opportunity back home now, but there's still not the opportunity to work on projects that impact 300 million people. Or there's still not that you can't work in the pixel here in Hawaii. You don't have that kind of opportunity. So I still see the migration to the mainland, to Silicon Valley, to other places to get that kind of experience and that kind of relevant real-world work experience and bringing that back home. And then finding opportunity here to bring it back. And it seems like we continually try and make it enticing to come back. But it's still the message of coming back. You're not staying. Let's make it good for people to come back. Let's provide the infrastructure for people to come back and start companies here. But I still see and experience the engineering, or at least the stem flow away from Hawaii in terms of chasing those types of jobs and then coming back. I don't think that's fundamentally changed, in my opinion, in the last 10 years. Well, ideally we can build a place for them to come back to.  They've got to have a decent living. They've got to be able to buy a house. They should be the ones that create the jobs here. They should be the ones that go through the accelerators and start an entrepreneurial endeavor in technology or something else and build that. That's key. And then as you get more and more success in that area, that starts to form gravity and critical mass. And then more starts to pile on. And when you have one or two knockout successes in that way, then a little ecosystem starts to grow up around that company or those few companies. And then the ecosystem grows and grows. And the next thing you know is you have a community. And so I think. And the community will bring it back. We need that. We've been talking about that. But you feel right now there's a number of accelerators and incubators and the like. And there's even mainland money coming and funding, elemental energy accelerator is now beyond that, down the block over here. It used to be just energy. Now it's entrepreneurship in general, innovation in general. I'm sure that kids would like to see that. And I wonder if they will take your kids and whether the kids can engage with some of these accelerators, incubators that are developing here in Honolulu. Not only information technology, but in anything. It's a perfect segue because what we've started this year is an entrepreneurs lab. And if you think of an accelerator, it's very much an accelerator. Students are going through the first half of the year learning the lean startup method and learning about doding companies and how those work. And then the second half of the year, they're going to pitch and go through a shark tank-like process and get real funding. Not Mickey Mouse funding, like real funding to start a real company. And so it is sort of a microcosm of an accelerator right on Mid-Pacific's campus. And so this is our first year in a two-year pilot. We're super excited. We've got people from Blue Start-Ups and other areas, China School of Business that are helping us get this program off and running. And our students have this crazy co-opportunity to do just that right now, as a 11th or 12th grader. You mentioned that. Yeah, yeah. Well, if they get excited about that and people around them in the community, the legislature, for example, and organizations that could fund and encourage development of these incubators and entrepreneurship, business plan competitions, what have you, we can build that community. And then they can go to the mainland and learn important expertise, but also there's a cloth mother for them here that they can go back to. Or if they can be successful here, then they can start that community, like I mentioned. You need one or two sort of beacons of these lighthouses that attract all that other talent. And as those grow and become successful, the community will just grow around it. Lighthouses would want a great, great word there. You start an entrepreneurship organization called Lighthouse. Exactly, that's what it is. So that's sort of how I view it. And I think at Mid-Pacific, I think we're right in the cusp of that with this entrepreneurs lab. And maybe in six months, we should come back on the show and see what they've done. Absolutely, and bring some of them around. I'm happy to have them here. We'll give them a dollar-half tour, the full tour. Okay, that sounds awesome. Well, thank you, Brian, and great to see you at the workshop from time to time. I really enjoyed these discussions. You know that it's European. You know what I'm gonna say that? Because in Europe, you go to Europe and you talk to somebody and they talk to you, and then you find you're both talking at the same time. And you're both listening at the same time. You're one of the few people I know who can do this. You must be European. Don't think it's European. You didn't know, right? Thank you, Brian. Thank you. Brian does the Mid-Pac. Wow, my hero. Thank you. Aloha. Thank you.


Hey friends, tonight we are hanging out at Mickey's very Merry Christmas Party 2022. I am so excited. I'm going to show you all the holiday treats. We're going to watch the Christmas parade and fireworks, see some super rare characters, and drink lots of hot cocoa. Anyhoo, let's go do this. Alright we are all checked in. I've got my wristband and my map and the party officially starts at 7pm. What you get in is early as 4pm and tonight's party cost $160. Each night they have different prices and as it gets closer to Christmas they get a little bit more expensive. So I'm excited. Let me know what you guys think. Is it worth $160? There's a lot to take in and I'm going to try to show you guys everything. I decided to get all festive and I have a Santa hat on and one of my favorite holiday Roosevelt shirts. Let me know if you know what movie that's from. I came on opening night but it was raining so bad and usually I wear my pajamas and I did that night and I couldn't make a video because it just not stopped pouring. So tonight's going to be the first night where it's just like clear weather and I'm excited. One of the things I'm most excited for tonight other than the all we care to enjoy hot cocoa and cookies is Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas Time Parade. I love that parade so much and also I can't wait to see snow on Main Street USA. I love this party so much and it always just makes me feel happy. They have special treat locations all around the park that have hot cocoa and egg nog and cookies and it's free. It's included with your price of admission and we're going to try to go to all of those so I can let you know which one's my favorite cookie and then also some special holiday like snacks that you can purchase only sold out during the party and I want to try a couple of them as well. It's time to get our free ornament. Hi! Hello! Here you go. Thank you. Look at this. Here comes Santa Claus. Here comes Santa Claus. I love this. This is such a nice ornament and it's metal. It's actually solid. I think in the past they give out paper ones so definitely an upgrade. Some of the rides have holiday overlays to them like Space Mountain. It is so incredible because it's all lit up like red and green and they play Christmas music. It's almost like riding with the lights on and it's definitely my favorite version of Space Mountain and then also the tea cups are the same way too and we have to do those. Those are a must. Here is a quick look at some of the special snacks you can buy and they've got a lot of good ones. I'm excited to try this Christmas tree cake but some of these you can actually get before the party starts. Some of them you have to wait until six o'clock to actually order it but some you can get now and that's what I did. I ended up getting the holiday dinner dog. Look at this. Holiday dinner dog. Hot dog with cranberry mustard, savory stuffing funnel and cheese curds and look at this bad boy. It looks so good doesn't it? I mean I'm not too sure about that cheese curds but that's a beefy hot dog. That's a beefy hot dog and they sell it in the small and then the foot long too. Depending on what you want to get done during the party there's a lot of things that you can do in between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. that like you can actually line up for the party early. So like if you wanted to go meet some of the characters I know that Jack Skellington and Sally, Sandy Claus, you can get in line as early as 4.30. If you're looking to get some of the snacks you can get some of the snacks and I would take advantage of that time because once the party starts it's like go mode. You're like go go go. And for me I definitely want to try some of the snacks. I also want to see some of the characters because they're really cute but let's dive on into the holiday dinner dog. The holiday dinner dog. Let's be honest I don't have the highest expectations on this hot dog right now. I mean it looks really good but I'm not too sure how I feel about the cranberry and the stuffing funnel pieces. But I'm going for it.  Very meaty. Wow. Alright my favorite thing about this holiday dinner dog is definitely the stuffing funnel cake pieces. They are so good. Like just think of a funnel cake made out of stuffing and that's exactly what it is. Like it tastes so good. I can just eat that. I wonder if I can get an order like a side of stuffing funnel cake pieces please. It's also incredibly messy. After you take that first bite it's all going to fall apart but I really love the stuffing on there. I wish they would actually make like a turkey dog version of that. That'd be really good actually. Can you imagine like a Casey's holiday turkey dinner dog? Like that would be I mean hey. Alright enough of the hot dog business. Now it's time to get down to the pie business. And over at Pecos Bills they have a Texas size sweet potato pie and just look at this beauty. It's a big sweet potato pie with marshmallow meringue and candied pecans and it just looks so amazing. I'm actually so excited to try. Look at the meringue on there. This is going to be so good and this is also available before the party starts. So if you want to come get this you can get it before it even starts and then get the stuff that's later. And I have to say for a Texas size sweet potato pie this was only $5 and I think like 79 cents and that is so cool and we're going to dive in. Look it's actually not even like there's not even like a little tin around the crust. I thought they were going to have something but it's like fresh baked. Look at that and I don't have a fork so I'm just going to bite into it. I'm going to bite into a pie here. Wow this is such an amazing dessert right here. I love it so much the sweet potato and then the marshmallow. What a combination. Wow and for under $6 this is such a great treat. You got to get as many nuts as you can in one bite though but I'm impressed. I'm definitely going to have to say this might be one of my favorite treats and I haven't even tried a lot tonight. It is now officially six o'clock so anyone that is not staying for the party has to leave and they're checking everyone's wristbands. The park is starting to close now and anyone that doesn't have a wristband has to leave and that happens at six o'clock. You can see all the people leaving right here and then this is all party guests over here. Lots of more open space. Well here it is another Christmas time and I must agree with my grandchildren it's just about the neatest time of the year. One of the nicest things about the holiday season is exchanging greetings with our many friends. For these messages from all over the world represent the true spirit of Christmas in many different ways. We are in Storybook Circus and here is the plan. We want to see Santa Goofy because he's always back here and because we're back in this far corner we're going to be able to come up, hit the tea cups up which have the holiday overlay. It's really cool. Then maybe scoot over to Space Mountain, do the holiday overlay there, get some hot cocoa and some cookies and then make it down for the 8.30 parade. We're going to see if it works out that way but that's what I'm aiming for. Santa Goofy always comes out over by the Barn Stormer and there's nobody in line.  Look at this, I'm very excited.  Santa Goof! All right, yeah, oh yes, excited. Hello there sir, how are you? I'm so excited to come and see you. You're my favorite. I'm a big fan. I'm a big fan. I've been waiting here like as your number one fan, just waiting in line. Yep, oh that is the best. I am so excited. Merry Christmas Goofy. Hugs from Santa Goof, that's the best. See ya, have a great Christmas, bye. Santa Goofy is amazing, I love him so much and look at that, the party just started exactly one minute ago and we already got our first character meeting greet done. Like that's amazing, that's what I love coming in like kind of having a little plan. Now we're going to head to the tea cups and ride the holiday overlay and that's going to be so much fun. Look at this, hardly nobody in line. We timed this perfectly and look how fun it looks in there. I cannot wait, the fog, the music, the lights. All right, here we go and don't worry, I don't like to spin fast, I just kind of like going for the ride but listen to the music. This is awesome, I love it so much. Okay, we'll give it a little spin, just a little bit. This is the ride, Syrian, always, I love it. So much fun and I don't know about you but I can go for a hot cocoa now. Also right outside the tea cups you can meet Tweedledee and Tweedledum and then right over here is our first little holiday treat stop. Hot cocoa in a cookie, thank you, thank you, Merry Christmas. I will, bye. Our first hot cocoa of the night and a snickerdoodle cookie and I am so excited. I've been looking forward to this all night. Not too hot and very chocolatey, love it so much. And then the first cookie of the night is a snickerdoodle and look at this, much too good. The combination, little cookie, little hot cocoa, that's how you do it. They're so soft and they're even more softer when you wash it down with the hot cocoa so take a bite of a cookie and then some hot cocoa. That is a way. We're gonna take our hot cocoa and snickerdoodle cookie and make our way over to Space Mountain, maybe stop at another treat stop up the way. I think there's one actually on the way but I'm so excited for Space Mountain.  I plan on trying all the free cookies and giving you guys a ranking on which one I like most to which one I didn't like as much and tons of hot cocos and I'm so excited to bring this in the line with us as we wait for Space Mountain. I don't know how long we're gonna be waiting because it's only a 30 minute wait so look at that and also that's the outside of Space Mountain. Look at how pretty that is. Oh look, it's changing colors. It's doing a little dance. Oh that is so awesome. That's what it's gonna be like on the inside when we go to ride. Also we're using the single rider hack. Look at this. I don't know if a lot of you guys know but if you're a single rider you skip most of the line after the touch point. I love that. All right here we go. Gonna have to take off the hats. The hats for this one. I'm all. Here we go. I'm so excited. Just look at the joy on my face right there. Look at the happiness. I was so happy. I'm gonna say it right now. That ride is my favorite ride of all time. Like out of any ride I've ever ridden, Holiday Space Mountain is my favorite. Not Space Mountain, Holiday Space Mountain. It's just so thrilling and the Christmas and the light and being able to see everything. It's just so good. I just wanna stay here and just keep riding it but there's a lot to do. Maybe we'll try to come back. I wanna get maybe one more ride in. Oh the Tomorrow Late Dance Party's happening. It's snowing too. Oh, we got fireworks and Buzz Lightyear. This is great. Can't wait for the stove on Main Street. And I think it's time for another treat. Look at this. I think, oh this is warm apple cider and another cookie. Look at this. It's double-fisting it on the ciders now. Well, this one's kind of like half-full, so. Thought it was hot cider but I think it's cold cider and then we've got ourselves a buttercream frosted red sprinkle cutout cookie. But it's just a circle. It's just a cookie so I don't know what the cutout is but I'm excited. Gonna try, we're gonna try the cider first. Cheers. Very good cider. Very good. And now for the cookie. I don't know about this one. But the cider. Now you can get as many cookies as you want. She actually just handed me two cookies and I was just like, oh thank you. Sad this isn't my favorite cookie. The Cicardoodle is definitely better. Maybe we'll go back and get some Cicardoodles later but we have a lot of cookie and cocoa spots left to go. Just to give you guys a heads up, Tomorrowland is probably the most festive land. Basically, all the rides over there have holiday overlays. We didn't get to do the Tomorrowland Speedway. That has a holiday overlay with Christmas lights. The Laugh Floor actually has their own overlay. They have the stage show. We caught a little bit of that. They have two treat locations. So that's a good place to start but we're gonna make our way over to Frontierland and see what else they have to offer and try to catch the parade. Looks like everybody is starting to line up for the 830 Parade. So we might actually just head over to Main Street so we can catch the parade there. I wanna see it snowpin'. I wanna see it snowin' on Main Street. So it's definitely a full house and they also have some area that is blocked off because they're doing a special holiday taping here tonight and tomorrow. So that actually takes up more room. Usually it's not this crowded. Oh yeah, it looks like it's a little bit crowded here on Main Street. Here is the parade pump up. It's a Christmas miracle. It's snowing in Florida. That little parade pump up was awesome. I love that with the little snowballs and then snow. I mean, I didn't expect it to actually start snowing this early. Usually they do it during the parade but it was a pleasant little surprise. All of their friends have been writing to celebrate the most wonderful time of the year. That's why I'm taking the proudly presents and making the most of all the Christmas time in the rain. The music really really gets me happy and a little emotional, too. So, it's literally making its way down Main Street right now and I'm so happy the snow is happening. I just love that parade so much. It was amazing and we had such a good spot seeing the snow and all the characters are coming up to the camera and I was getting all excited and giddy. And also, it's fun to mention, if you were waiting for any characters like doing any meet and greets, if they're in the parade, they're not gonna be meeting a greeting guest because like if Santa Claus is in the parade, he can't be in two places at once.  So if you wanna actually go wait by those spots, you might actually see them coming back to their spot. And I think that's what we're gonna do. We're gonna go see if we can get our eyes on Santa. Oh, and there he is. Santa's coming to town. Look at that. I'm so excited Santa's here. That's awesome. Look at that. We got to see Santa Claus. And now I think it's time for some more treats. Gonna go find more holiday treat locations. Gotta get more cookies and then we have the stage show, then we have the fireworks show. There's so much and then we can watch the parade again. We can ride more rides, meet more characters. The night is pretty young. It's only 9.30 and I think 10 o'clock is the fireworks. So we have to be back out in the hub area at 10 o'clock. Don't wanna miss the fireworks. Those are just phenomenal. Look at how empty it is over here in Frontierland. There's hardly anybody over here. I think our next treat location is on the other side of Pecos Bills. So we're just gonna make our way over there and just do a big loopy. Come around Adventureland and then back out to the hub. Sounds like a pretty solid plan. Here is our next little treat location. I don't know what they got over here. I think it's eggnog. Ooh, I don't like eggnog that much. I want more hot cocoa. There we go. How are we? Got cookies and eggnog? Just take them, grab and go. Thank you. Merry Christmas. Yeah. We got our eggnog and our cookie and I hear the reindeer roundup is happening. So we're gonna make our way over there. I love the reindeer roundup. Here comes Big Al. Wow, this is such a great time. Eggnog and all. This song, we are the reindeer rangers. We wanna do a song for the youngins to warn them not to get up out of bed on a Christmas Eve as a terrible idea. If you do that, you might find out that Santa Claus goes to the lawn. This is the best thing right here. The reindeer rangers are so much fun. I love them.  But we gotta get to our eggnog and cookie and I'm not the biggest fan of eggnog but I'm gonna drink it for science. Here we go. Actually, that's not bad. That's a very good eggnog. I would drink that. Very nice. Now we're gonna eat the cookie here. This is like the same thing as the last cookie. Buttercream Frosted Green Sprinkle Cutout Cookie. I mean, it's okay. It's a good cookie. Still nothing better than a Snicker Doodle. Now we gotta make our way over to the Columbian Harbor House. That's the next little treat stop there. Everything's marked with the candy cane and I think they've got the hot cocoa here. We need the goods. All right, what have we got here? I got hot chocolate and cookies. All right, I'm on hot cocoa and cookies. What kind of cookie is it? Oh, chocolate chip. Classic, I like it. Thank you. Can I have another hot cocoa? I think it's definitely on here. Double-fisting it. That's the way.  About a bang, about a bang. Thank you. Merry Christmas. All right, now we got the classic chocolate chip. Classic chocolate chip, you say? And I got hot chocolate, some hot cocos and I think we're gonna go see the fireworks after this. So I asked for two cups because I'm telling you, the fireworks are even better while you're holding a cup of hot cocoa. So cheers. So good. Wow. Definitely snickerdoodle still number one. Then chocolate chip, then the weird buttercream frosting ones. But this is a good one. Oh, I love the hot cocoa though. Now it's time for fireworks and I'm so excited. They give me chills every single time I watch them and now I hurried over to Storybook Circus because I really wanna meet Scrooge McDuck. This meet and greet over here is usually one of the longest lines and I figured after the fireworks they're probably gonna be a lower wait time only because you get to meet Donald and Scrooge and Minnie and Daisy. So you get to meet four characters in one line. So I think we're gonna go in for it. It looks a lot better than what I saw every time I was creeping over looking at it and plus we get to meet Scrooge McDuck. That's the best thing ever. I think we planned accordingly because there's almost nobody in line. Look at this. I've seen this line all the way out past Dumbo. After the fireworks I think we only waited probably about 20 minutes and we're about to see four characters. So that's not too bad because some of the lines are like 60 minutes just for one character and not to mention it's Scrooge McDuck. And look at this. We've got Donald and Scrooge. Very happy to see both of you today. Thank you so much especially you Scrooge and put me in the festive spirit. I like it, yeah. But you look great Donald. You look fantastic. Oh, kind of. Not so much. I mean, yeah, I do like your hat though. The hat is definitely a winner. And the earmuffs. Did Ducks have ears? I don't even know. Honestly, I gotta look. I mean, obviously I think they do have ears. But like now I'm trying to think. Yeah, well, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays and thank you. I guess I'll see you later. Thanks. Yeah, have a great one. Bye. I love meeting Scrooge. That was really awesome. I didn't know how to act though. I mean, if you guys don't know Scrooge is Donald's uncle but he is kind of a Scrooge. So it's kind of like Merry Christmas, you know what I mean? And now we can actually go meet Minnie and Daisy like right afterwards. So that whole time, the 20 minutes wait is for four characters, it's kind of worth it. Hi friends, hi Minnie, hi Daisy, Merry Christmas. Happy Holidays. You guys look fantastic as always. I like the outfits you got matching shoes on. Very cool. Did you plan that? Yeah, I would say so. It's the holidays, right? Very cool. And I like your bows. They're very nice. And it's just a great holiday season. Yeah, thank you. Oh, you guys are so sweet. Well, I hope you guys enjoy. Have fun. Bye. Meeting Minnie and Daisy, actually that whole entire experience was really fun. And I feel like we're getting a lot accomplished tonight. I think we have one more treat spot and that's over at Pinocchio's Village House. So we're gonna head over there next and then, I don't know, kind of figure out what we should do then. I mean, the night is creeping up on us. I don't know if this is a different cookie but I'm hoping for some hot cocoa at this stop. We'll see once we get in there. Oh, look at how pretty it is over here. I just like listening to the Christmas music. I'm really getting so happy. Ooh, what kind of cookie we got here? Gingerbread. Gingerbread, oh my Lord. And a hot cocoa? Thank you. All right, here we go. Last cookie, a buttercream frosted gingerbread cookie. Why couldn't they just keep the buttercream away? I'm just not the biggest fan. But this is gonna be good because I do like gingerbread and mixing it with hot cocoa, I feel like that's a perfect combination. So, cheers. I really like that gingerbread. Mmm, I have to say, it goes snickerdoodle number one, gingerbread number two, chocolate chip number three, and then the other buttercream sugar cookies last. But I did like this gingerbread a lot. Very good. I made my way back down to the front of the park and the 11 o'clock parade should be starting anytime soon. And I figured why not see what Jack and Sally's like. Like, you know, we lucked out with seeing all four of those characters right after the fireworks. Maybe we'd be better on a wait time during a parade. So we're gonna peek in there real quick and just see what it's like. Maybe we'll get to see them, maybe we won't. Well, it says 45 minutes, so we'll see what it's like. I'm not too sure how long the wait is. It says 45 minutes, but I don't think it is. And Mickey has no wait. You can just walk in and see Mickey right now, but I think we're gonna see Jack and Sally. Look at that. Nobody in line to meet Mickey Mouse and then this is the line for Jack and Sally. And may I say this has been up to 120 minute wait, I think. But there's like 10 people in front of me, I think. This was such a great idea. We really lucked out. This is my first time actually ever getting to meet Jack and Sally. I usually skip it because it's such a long wait, but this worked out perfectly and I'm very excited.  Wow, I have to say the production value in this meet and greet is like far better than anything I've ever seen. Like any other meet and greet, look at this.  They don't even have tape on the floor as they have the little snake from the movie. And then they've got all the characters up here. Little zero and oogie boogie. I love it and look at all the pumpkins too. This is really amazing. I really love it so much in here. Gracie actually dressed up at zero this year for Halloween. I don't know if you guys know that or not. How can we hold things out here now? Well, well, well, what have we here? Thank you. How wonderful, I see skulls. That'd be an electric. I see people running in terror. There's terror, there's definitely terror. I'm looking fast. Indeed. Indeed. Their wings could be a bit more tattered, but I'm sure Dr. Bicklestyne would be able to help us. So sweet, so sweet. I'm sure this one here is zero's main thing, but this one right here is my life. Would you like to know why? Even why? I've never seen it before in my life. Or in my death for that matter. I'm not quite sure what it is, but I'm hoping it's a sky. Could it be a kind of light trigger? Could this finder sign this night at a school? I guess. So many possibilities. We do have an entire casket board with a sense of your way. Oh yeah, I mean I would love so. Especially around the holidays. We have to make sure everyone gets equal about their findings here. We have to figure out what it is though, what's this? I mean. That's why I'm trying to find out what that's where. It's just not popping out. Yep. Let's find our eggsack at all. Well, this has been a really wonderful. Well, we could only hope then it would make a marvelous ingredient for some of your students. Ooh. Do you like to enjoy the treats around Halloween? I do. Yes. And I love all your stews too. It sounds like you have quite the power. Yeah. It's a job to die for. Frog's breath. Is that what it is? It is. A bit of a difference for my taste. To each their own. I would have waited an hour and a half for that. I was smiling ear to ear. That was literally the best mean grade I've ever been to.  I'm having the best time ever. I was planning on watching the last stage show, which I think was at like 11.55. But I was a little bit too long inside Jack and Sally. I think it already started. So we're gonna have to skip out on that one because it's time to start making our way home. But like I said, it was so worth it actually. Me and Jack and Sally. I've never like smiled so much before. And I guess with that, we are calling it a night here tonight. It was a wonderful night. Honestly, compared to my first night's experience and basically I broke my glasses, my camera, my umbrella in one night. This has been just a dream come true. Honestly, I feel like we got so much accomplished. We got to meet one, five, six, seven. We got to meet seven characters. We tried all the cookies, all the sweet stops, three different ones. We got to do two ride overlays. We got to see three shows, the full parade, the fireworks. We did a lot and I feel good about that. I really hope I'm gonna be able to get tickets to bring my mom and sister to this. They sold out already for November. There's only like three dates left, but they're coming down soon and I definitely wanna bring them. So if they open up some more, we're definitely coming. And I hope you guys enjoyed the video. Let me know what you guys think. I would pay $160 for this.  And yeah, let me know in the comments what do you guys think? Is it worth $160? I feel like it is. And I hope you enjoyed the video. I enjoyed making it. We'll see you next time. Bye.


Hey what's up folks, in this video we're taking a look at the Adafruit TFT feather with the ESP32S2. This dev board features a 1.14 inch display with a LiPo charging circuit and battery monitor. It's got the ESP32S2 mini module that works with both Arduino or circuit Python. We designed and 3D printed a snap fit case to make a little compact IoT project. We can easily add STEMIQT breakouts like these temperature and humidity sensors. The two buttons on the front are accessible so you can quickly reboot or get into the bootloader. You can get the parts to build this project, links are in the description. You can 3D print the parts without any support material using your favorite filament. The bottom features slots so you can use M25 hardware to secure the STEMIQT sensors. You can fit up to two boards and secure them using hex nuts. A small lipo battery is able to fit in between the standoffs with the cable routed through the side. The feather press fits into the case and these two covers just snap fit over the top. The STEMIQT connector is accessible so you can daisy change your sensors and make a portable IoT project. We hope this inspires you to check out the new TFT feather with the ESP32S2. Thanks for watching and be sure to subscribe for more project videos from Adafruit.


What's going on guys? It's Coach Jacob Hagerman back with the overcoming objections training and this one right here is on the phones. If you're an internet store who gets a lot of inbound calls, you're going to hear this all the time. If you're getting internet leads and you're calling them, you're going to hear this all the time. So what you need to do is learn this word track and make it so that your customers come to the dealerships. You're setting appointments from maybe a little bit further of the distances. So this is the word track and this is the objection. I don't want to drive that far. We're over the phone. They're calling in. You're trying to close the appointment. So to set it up, you're like, Hey, what time can you make it down to the dealership? We're down here on XYZ Road at ABC Motors. And I'm like, Oh, I didn't know you guys were that far. Yeah, I don't want to drive that far. And here's the word track. Hey, I totally understand. When I hear you say you don't want to drive that far, what I'm hearing is that your time is extremely valuable. Am I right or right? Look, if your time is valuable, then you need to deal with a professional that respects your time and understands how valuable time works. Look, I sell 90% of my customers 90% one to five hours away. You know what that means? That means have to be extremely good at respecting people's time as well as fast at my job. And we all know this. You can go to your local dealership five minutes away, but we all know that you can't find the perfect vehicle in your own neighborhood.  And it'd be the vehicle you want to purchase instead of having to end up spending more time looking for other vehicles. So hey, Mr. Customer, what time can you make it down to the dealership today or tomorrow? What day works best? What time set the appointment? But the reason why we want to use this word track is because you're letting them know that you're very fast at your job, you're professional, but that you do a lot of business of people that are driving in from far. Hey guys, what's going on? It's Andy. A lot of you leave comments telling me that you need help. Do me a favor and take the best way to get a hold of me. Shoot me a text message right now,<PHONE_NUMBER>.<PHONE_NUMBER>. I'll help you with whatever you need.  Let's get back to the video. You want to make sure that they know that you're the professional, that you know what you're doing. You're going to have the car cleaned up, gassed up, ready to rock and roll. It's going to be a super fast and streamlined process when they go to your dealership. So learn this word track. It's a little bit of a longer one, so spend more time memorizing it. Write it out the whole entire word track, sentence by sentence, and study it one sentence at a time. And here's the deal. When you get on the phones, the phones are the most relentless tool that you'll use at the dealership. If you have a bad phone call, maybe you don't overcome on the objection. The deal is next time you call them back, it might be a dial tone, or they're going to smoke the books instead of fake appointment. The deal is we truly want to make sure that we're lethal with our words on the phones to make sure that we have the highest probability of us getting the appointment, getting the clothes, getting the cardio instead of the competition. On to the next one guys. This word track and objection is I need to know what I'm getting from my trade-in before I do anything. Now you can hear this in two other areas. You can hear it on the phone or you can hear it on the lot. The first way that we're going to cover it is on the phone. You start talking about them. Next thing you know, you ask for the appointment and say, hey, before I come in, I need to know what I'm getting from my trade-in. What we're going to use for this one is called the independent car buyer. We're going to use a third party to go ahead and continue the deal forward to make them feel like they're going to get the greatest deal possible, which they are. But ultimately, we want them to stop asking the question because if we give them the information up front, the first thing that's going to happen is that they're going to shop the numbers that you gave them with another dealership, which we've all been through. We gave them all the numbers. They said they're going to come in at six, then you never hear from them again. So what we want to do is we want to put them inside of the dealership, then give them all the numbers to up our probability of closing that customer on the numbers and spot delivering the vehicle. Here's what the word track is. Hey, I totally understand. Let me ask you a question. Are you familiar with what an independent car buyer is? Great. No? Great. They're professionals that work with dealerships just like ours that often give more money for trade ins. We actually have one scheduled to be here this afternoon and tomorrow. What time could you make it in so we can get you the absolute most money for your vehicle than ever possible? What time would work best for you? Get them to set to an appointment. They've got an independent car buyer. But now let's say they go round number two, which is where becoming a closer comes into play. They're like, Hey, I really need to know what my trade is worth before I do anything. I'm going to use another third party situation. Miss Johnson, but hey, let's totally understand. Hey, I just had a customer miss Johnson. She came in last week. She was trading her 2016 Nissan Ultima. What we told her is that we give her $12,000. We gave her a number over the phone. We said $12,000. Well, she came into the dealership because she was happy with that number. Next thing you know, my independent buyer, he strolls into the dealership one late night, looks at the car and says, Hey, have we gotten a bit on this one yet? Next thing you know, we say no. So he comes in, grabs the keys, take it for a test drive. He gives her $16,000 for her Nissan Ultima. That's $4,000 more than what we were willing to give her. So this is what my independent buyer is capable of doing. We want to make sure that you can get down here as soon as possible when he's scheduled and I can put you on his schedule to look at your vehicle to make sure that we over deliver on your car. Sound fair? What time can you make it in? That's the way that you can overcome this objection. Not just one round, but two rounds. Use a third party scenario and use somebody instead of saying my manager, my sales manager, whatever it is. We just want to make sure that they feel confident in our answer. We don't give them any information over the phone so they can shop us at other dealerships, but they have to come see us to get the numbers and they feel like they're going to get an amazing deal. And then that way you can increase your appointment percentages. Hey guys, that's what I'm going to tell you. You're the true one percenters. You made it till the end of the video. Do me a favor, share it with the friend that wants to go to another level. Make sure you like the video, comment below so I know who you are. Set your notifications, and then subscribe to the channel. We've got daily sales training videos dropping. I'll see you soon.


Now we're going to cover electromagnetic radiation aka light and some of its properties. We're not going to cover all the details you need to understand this from a physics perspective but enough to understand most spectroscopy. First let's look at a light wave. So in a wave-based discussion of light we think of an electric field and a magnetic field oscillating from one direction to the other with the two fields held at right angles to each other. We'll return to the field at the beginning of the quantum course but right now we're going to look at how to think about waves. The properties of a wave include wavelength and frequency. The wavelength is the distance between two peaks in space if the wave is traveling along through space. The frequency is how often this oscillates per unit time as the wave evolves. Now wavelength and frequency may seem like very different ideas but they are in fact very closely related. So remember the discussion about units. Frequency is a measure of time, wavelength is a measure of distance and we can convert between them using speed, specifically the speed of light the constant c. Ways of other material will have the same relationship but will vary in speed but since the speed of light is constant we know that these are always going to be perfectly correlated values. Now if you look back to the shape of those waves you'll see that they are sine and cosine waves but why sine and cosine? It seems unreasonably convenient to have these simple trigonometric functions involved here. Well there are two underlying reasons. First if we look at the simplest oscillation which is just a circular rotation then the x and y directions are described by sine and cosine waves. These are functions about circles not right angle triangles after all. The second reason is that the light wave isn't really a simple sine and cosine wave it's usually much more complicated but any complicated pattern like that can be broken down into a basis of sine and cosine waves. So we stick with those functions for the basics knowing that they can be combined to describe something much more complicated later. Now this has an interesting consequence however so let's imagine we want a short pulse of light to move through space. This doesn't extend indefinitely like a sine or cosine wave does so it's much more realistic but to build that from a sine and cosine waves requires combining multiple waves of different frequencies together. They constructively interfere at the peak in the middle but eventually destructively interfere to nothing at the extremes. So this conversion between the space and frequency domains is known as a Fourier transform. Now you don't need to know the detail for this course but a Fourier transform saves us from having to think about adding multiple sine waves together as it simply plots the frequency of each wave versus the amount that they contribute to the wave packet. For some more nuts and bolts on this I would definitely recommend Gran Sanderson's videos on it with the links below. So we can localize a wave to a small location but at the expense of knowing the frequency very precisely. So if a sine or cosine wave extends indefinitely then we can know the frequency precisely but we can't localize the wave to any position. If we pin a wave packet like this to a much smaller location then well we don't really have a peak to peak to measure so we know nothing about the frequency. This trade-off between frequency and position is the basis of the uncertainty principle that appears in quantum mechanics but it also has some spectroscopic implications too. A short pulse of light has a much wider variety of frequencies associated with it while a much longer pulse of light has a narrower range of frequencies. So these would affect matter very differently and now this is actually the basis of a lot of modern spectroscopy, a particularly magnetic resonance which we'll get on to by the end of the quantum course. Anyway that brings us to the end of this introduction to physics and the next week we'll be going on to spectroscopy properly and how this links all together with frequency being related to a far more important property energy.