All right, let's hope this works. I'm in the demon. It's over bringing the demon run. Oh, yes It's over next round. We're playing so clean. Wow. Oh, that's so sick How's it going everybody dodge it away here? And I'm very excited to be bringing you our first bit of the grand blue fantasy versus beta I've already played a couple matches just to get familiar with the characters and we're going to be playing gron today So hopefully you guys are as excited for this beta as I am. I've been looking forward to it for quite some time now And I just want to jump in right away. All right, so we actually got a match here super fast We're going up against the Catalina who so far seems really good has some nice armor attacks And just her range overall is a really great benefit. I do I like grand a little more Just because this super looks cooler. Oh these animations Whoo. Oh Man this game looks clean Cool Damn the animation is just so smooth in this game guys, it's hard to put it into words I know the arcs of style has always looked very clean Obviously, I'm a big fan of their games, but something about this one just looks a little smoother. Oh Bizarre 100 taking a weird approach to offense No, all right, we're going we're going I jumped that Oh Starts going in. All right. Now. We now we got a game over it overhead. Nope. All right cancel that All right, let's the stuff back play some fireball game go for the overhead. No, he goes for the buttons right away All right, now that he's backed off. Let's start charging up our Throw it a fireball so he knows we're not playing around and then charge up To two rounds. That's not too bad. Oh, that's bad No, okay, we're doing it. We're doing it next fire by the throws out We're dashing through it and it's supering. All right. Let's hope this works. I'm in the demon. It's over Bring in the demon run. Oh, yes It's over next round. We're playing so clean. Wow. Oh, that's so sick destructive finish Yes, so that was the empowered super version that you only get 30% or lower Now you guys already know it's time to start. It's time to start really going Jump in I don't think so DP. Oh, that's a little shorter than I thought All right, it's coming in with the heater. Just going with some basic normals here. All right back throw them into the corner Miss the media on that one. That's hard to swallow We got block strings Dash through it. Another thing I like about this game is the dash mechanic. It just makes defense very um, I Know this sounds weird, but it makes defense feel a lot more aggressive in a way If you're not about the if you're not about the dash, you also have the dodge though, which works pretty much the same way All right fireball game going out. Oh All right, we got the fight. We got the five slash. That means invincible startup boom Sliced them in half. All right for a first game that was a little rusty but we accomplished a lot We showed off the level five slash boom boom and we got a we got a disconnect Probably skip past the cutscene. I'm not too sure how that works in this game All right, so we got another catalina. I don't think it's the same guy though. I don't know if it would match this up right away Let's see foot to face. I don't know. Is that the same guy? No, it's not. It's definitely not. This is different Much faster on offense hasn't gone for an overhead yet. Oh nice. Let me let me back through you. Oh, I missed it by a mile All right get those losing Finally hit the meaty Overhead works. Let's go for another one and then a throw that's gonna cap us off. Let's go boys That was aggressive All right, so we know she likes to go for that start. How about we just go for a dp Never mind. I tried it got caught. Oh, there's the armor move. I was talking about dude All right, let's see. Let's see if she wants to come in Back through it. You know, the buttons are coming out like crazy. Ah, it's not true another grab Now we can play the fireball game. Let's just keep this fireball game going Low but the armor attack goes through it. Nice Oh, let's go Cancel into a super off any hit. Boom. We got us a kill Geez not the empowered version though. That was a quick set And then he right back to the main menu game too. We take another win This time around we found a charlotte. So, uh, this is actually a character during my play testing This character seems really good. Dude the demon flip ability that I uh the the pseudo demon flip She has a lot of ways like uh, she jumps up into the air and she can go behind for a low A grab or just an instant overhead.  Oh, just rolling out Oh, that's bad for us Nice Anti oh, don't even try that.  I haven't found too many uses for it though Yikes nice combo All right So we just got to play like we got to get closer. I was trying to grab from too far away Still getting used to that grab range Yikes Dp always works, baby. No matter the game. Oh man. I just wish it didn't bounce her back.  That's a kill and we are heading straight into game three Oh, I wish there were sets in this beta. I understand they want us to keep us going but Oh Hey, yeah, that dude is a fan Fan of the move Oh, there it is the low Okay, back it up back it up. Don't want to get caught by that Dp on reaction. We're good to go Please tell me I can block that or dodge. No, that's a full confirm. No, no, no, no, no Are we dead? Anime We're not dead though. In fact, we still got the demon slash, baby.  All right, so I know this was a weird jump cut here But all that we were doing there was because the servers were down So they were still allowing us to match up with each other But when the servers are up, this is what you can expect from grand blue more of an arcade style Much like guilty gear you get your little avatar and then you go find a seat with somebody So let's just intercept this lance a lot player here. Why not lance lots got a lot of mix-ups Let's just sit down at the table Uh and see what we can get. Oh, I got the table stolen from me. All right, that's it We're cutting. So yeah, hopefully now that the machines are back up and running that means we'll have a longer sets with people I like this lance a lot player here. Hopefully he sticks around Uh after the games It will still kick us out, but it'll it'll let us launch it back up right away Lance a lot by the way in this game very mix-up heavy a lot like charlotta Um, but more aggressive dude has a wall bounce that that is super sick Uh gotta gotta do a lot of dashing against this guy like that Oh the confirms All right, if he jumps with anti air right like that Oh, somebody doesn't want to block. Okay. That's a weakness Never mind. I got the same weakness actually Oh get back.  I love how if you charge it up all the way it does have invincible startup Uh, so you definitely want to get to that level And you can cancel out any time with any button. Oh block that Yep That was his powered up super. So we probably would have died danger time Haha, oh yet again another mechanic. I haven't had time to explain Come on. I know he was clicking buttons Uh We're in trouble. We're getting mixed up Look at the mix-ups, dude. We win. Oh, yes. Do we even have any health left?  I don't know if he can go behind me there But he did not for whatever reason. Uh, so I'm thinking maybe he didn't have the option to Oh hit me with the low. I didn't have time DP keep him in the corner He's slippery, dude. I keep trying to back throw him Bad fireball. That's gonna get me punished Bad DP too. He's just kind of throwing out normals though I'm dead. I threw it a fireball. No, I'm just kidding.  Let's see if he gets brave boys I'm playing the neutral got the fireball back up now. He's gonna want to jump in DP. Let's go Get the family picture and everything. I know we already saw it, but I love this animation Nice Oh, what a portrait, dude What a portrait Okay, and for our last game of day one, like I said, he did stay at the arcade machine So we get another rematch with this lance a lot looking forward to it. It was a lot of fun, dude I'm talking about it like it was a long time for you guys It was just a long time for me. The beta does have Pretty long loading times when you're going back and forth between the menus Oh, the bite of the white dragons.  Come on. Let me know which characters you want to see I might try to do all of them, but let me know which ones you want to see the most. Oh, let's go Overhead not pretty much just doing that to an empty audience there. He's not even there All right, let's try getting some space. Oh, he's not going to let us have it I want to try to get some space to charge up the steaming blade cancel Uh, so you want to build it up, but you don't want to get punished for it Try to back throw, but it's not going my way All right, that's a back throw. All right, so he's going to get in that corner Now this is where we punish him for oh by getting right back in the corner ourselves A little bit of extra range on that down one. Uh the pressure, dude The xdp goes our way I'm trying to grab him in the air, but he's just too slippery. Oh, that's it. You're dead, dude Grab that's the game So you see there we dashed through his attack, uh, and that allowed us to get in close for a grab So I don't think that's going to work like in late into the beta people will probably figure out that at the cheese But you definitely want to be looking to do that early on This dude's trying to grab now too It's okay. We can tech Ah, I didn't grab him Anti air just anti airing nobody Oh, I love the fireball game Super low here and it's going to combo directly and that's death That is 100% death for us. Cool cutscene though Very cool cutscene. Unfortunately, just not a cool cutscene for us Damn, okay game three. What are we gonna do here? I think we can play aggressive I spent too long trying to charge up my blade. Oh bad fireball. He's right in Trip him up. Nice, dude. He's blocking and punishing That is exactly what you need to be doing But you're telling me that wasn't sick. He tried the wall jump not not really doing much No, I couldn't get the punish No, no, no, no. We might be dead. We might be dead. This is gonna do so much We're living No, no, no, it's over. It's over. It's over Oh, I shouldn't have done it. I shouldn't have woken up with it But I just had to dude for the the cutscene if it hit Lance a lot is gonna take game two. That's gonna wrap us up for today Hopefully you guys enjoyed it though. This game has a lot of potential Hopefully if you guys have a beta code, you're trying it out right now If you're not then hopefully you still enjoyed the video and let me know what you're thinking about this game so far Does it appeal to you? Do you like the visuals? Do you like the flow of the gameplay? All of that stuff down below and make sure to hit the like button and subscribe while you're down there Because we got a whole lot more of this coming your way as well as some other fighting game stuff Including dragon ball fighters and genema news whenever that drops looking forward to that incredibly so if you want some more videos Right away, there should be some up on your screen So feel free to give those a watch if you missed any of them other than that guys I'm dr. Doer. Thanks for all the support on this video and I will see you in the next one


During that one month of pausing and not trading, I had a dream where I was walking down this dark city and this Asian dude came up to me and he said, Hey, I have have all the answers for you. Just follow my way and I'll show you what to do. So then eventually I heard the podcast and the Asian dude was saying, Hey man, just lines to light and you know, just it's very simple, very easy. So then after that, I, I just joined MSE right away. When was that? When was that? That was back in April. So you just basically started trading recently and so you went from really not knowing much and being inconsistent and all that. And so now you've been with MSE for a year and a half, right? You have to like just kind of immerse yourself in it, like all in, right?


Hi everyone, welcome back. I'm Melissa and this is my Marquette project. Today we are going to be looking at another residence hall. So Humphrey Hall is one of our residence halls on campus that freshmen or sophomores can live in. Really nice community, also really great space in those rooms. There's doubles which hold two people and there's also quads. So four people live in those rooms. They used to be university owned apartments and then were renovated to be a residence hall about a year or two ago. Really nice space. We're going to go check it out with one of my friends Reese who is an RA or resident assistant within that building. Let's go. Smells so good doesn't it? Smells so good, yeah. Humphrey actually has the bakery located inside of it so there's always fresh cookies and bread smelling throughout the hall. Yeah so when you walk in the lobby it smells ridiculously good. Humphrey has a fire pit outside so that's really nice when it's a fall day. You just want to sit outside with your friends.  Here we have this wonderful, wonderful lounge and game space. Hi Reese. Hello. So you have vending machines and TVs. You can come down here with your friends and watch a movie. Really really nice mural with Al McGuire and on some pool tables and ping-pong as well. So you can also come down here and practice piano or just kind of mess around or do whatever you're kind of looking to do musically as well. This is just kind of walking down the hall. You see more posters. You want to link them. Artwork. And here's the elevators. So my favorite thing about living in Humphrey is definitely the space and the community is great. But definitely the biggest thing is having a trash room and a laundry room right down the hall. That's always a plus. You know other dorms you'll have to like walk downstairs into a basement or something like that. So it's really nice to have that. Okay well that concludes our tour of Humphrey. I hope you really enjoyed looking at another one of the residence halls today. And hopefully it gives you a better taste of what the living space is like on campus. And also really touched on what the community is like. All of our residence halls. The RAs and the students are great about creating a sense of community. So you'll get to know the people on your floor. Do different things with them. This is a really great space to live in. Have a good one. Bye Marquette.


Genetic Drift, also known as Allelic Drift or the Sewel Right Effect is the change in the frequency of an existing gene variant oleal in a population due to random sampling of organisms. The oleals in the offspring are a sample of those in the parents, and chance has a role in determining whether a given individual survives and reproduces. The populations oleal frequency is the fraction of the copies of one gene that share a particular form. Genetic drift may cause gene variants to disappear completely and thereby reduce genetic variation. It can also cause initially rare yields to become much more frequent and even fixed. When there are few copies of an oleal, the effect of genetic drift is larger, and when there are many copies the effect is smaller. In the early 20th century, vigorous debates occurred over the relative importance of natural selection versus neutral processes, including genetic drift. Ronald Fisher, who explained natural selection using Mendelian genetics, helped the view that genetic drift plays at the most a minor role in evolution, and this remained the dominant view for several decades. In 1968, population geneticist Mattukimura rekindled the debate with his neutral theory of molecular evolution, which claims that most instances where a genetic change spreads across the population although not necessarily changes in phenotypes are caused by genetic drift acting on neutral mutations.


So we're just going to go in, we've set up the payroll, the payroll set up. We've added our employees. We've got our two employees. We set up to be paying payroll on a monthly basis as opposed to weekly, semi-monthly and so on. And so now we'll just go up here and process the payroll. So I'm just going to run the payroll and hope that they'll allow me to run it, even though I'm not in the real time here. So I'm going to hit the drop down. This period by period has been set up when we set up the payroll. So that the next period that we would run would be 2023. So February, February 2023, there's the pay range, the period, because we have a monthly period. So it's the full month. The pay date happens to be the same day as the end of the period, which may not always be the case. You might have a pay date that's a little bit after the end of the period. So you have a little bit of time to process the payroll after the pay period, but we're going to keep the same date here to keep it in that second month that we're working on. And then if everything was laid out properly, you might be able to just process from here, but we need to go in and make some adjustments because of the practice problem. And so I'm going to go into Hamilton and actually that's going into his information stuff. I'm going to close that. I'm going to go into the pencil on the right hand side so I can see the calculation this way. So we've got the summary of the information. We've got the pay. He's a salaried employee. So this is the salaried amount.  Where's the calculator? It's not in the recent area. I've been using it all the time. So we're going to say this is going to be, I think it was 55,000 divided by 12. That's where the 458,355,000 a year. And then if I go into the employees, this federal income tax is one of the most confusing ones. We would populate it from tables and whatnot and the information that was populated in the W four. But that's one of the things you're paying for, for QuickBooks, because it's not a flat tax. So that's one of the confusing ones to calculate. So I'm going to make a number up that matches our practice problem that's not coming from the W four. I just wanted to match the numbers in our practice problems. So it'll tie out to our bank reconciliations. Now the Social Security and Medicare should be easier because that's just going to be the 458,333 times 0.062. I think is currently the calculation. So that's a nice, easy one to do because it basically is a flat tax, although there is a cap. So if they get above the wage cap, this number will change. It'll be lower and that's what I mean about the payroll possibly being different from period to period as you go through the year. And then we've got the Medicare. We've got the 458,333 times 0.0145. That gives us the 6646 about I'm not going to do any California tax because I want to make it kind of like a generic problem on the payroll side. And then you've got the employer taxes, which are matching Social Security and Medicare. So and there would also be the federal unemployment tax, which I didn't add because that's a much smaller tax. And again, I want to keep it kind of generic for our practice problem. So up top then, if we think about this, we've got this would be what they earned. This is what we're taking out of their earnings. These are in essence, the mandatory withholdings for federal taxes. You could also have mandatory withholdings for your state and local taxes, as for example, California might be, but that would be changing from place to place. You can also have voluntary withholdings, which might include things like health insurance 401k and that kind of stuff. We have a whole course that goes into at least setting that up and more detail if you want to if you want to dive into that and more detail. It's a whole thing in and of itself. And then down here, we've got the employer taxes, which are matching the Social Security. So what's going to be the transaction for this one employee? As I go through it, remember that you can think about the financial transactions, what's going to happen to the financial statements on an employee by employee basis? Or as though all employees were kind of like one employee. So if I was doing my payroll from a third party provider and entering them into my system, I might think of all the transactions as one one big employee, right? And into a journal entry or something like that into the system, although I still need to reconcile the bank's accounts. But that's the way that that's the way that you can think of it. If you're doing this stuff internally, you can't it's useful to think of it as one big employee. What's the impact on the financials? But you also need all this added detail so that you can provide what you need to the employees on the pay stubs and on the reports, the 941s, the 940 and W2s and W3s. That's why it gets gets messy. So that means this is going to be a debit or an increase to the payroll expense. And then all of this stuff is going to be decreasing or increasing a liability for the liability account and the difference between the two four five eight three point three three point three three minus the one oh five oh point six two. That's what's going to be decreasing the cash account. And then down here, this is going to be increasing the the expense account for payroll expense payroll tax expense and the other side is going to be increasing a liability account and then we'll have to pay off the liabilities in the future. OK, let's save that. Let's just does that make sense? I think everything is proper. OK, so let's close that up and let's do this for Erica. Let's check out Erica.  I don't sick the HR department on me. I am the HR department. We're payroll over here. I'm just looking at Erica's wages. So we're going to say Erica. Let's say that Erica had hours of three hundred and sixty. And so update the timesheet hours. I'm going to say so it's trying to link to the timesheet because I put the timesheet on the payroll, but I was basically using the timesheet to populate the information for the invoices more than pull it in for the purposes of the payroll. So I'm going to kind of discard the timesheet here. So that's going to give us 15. That's going to be that's going to be then we'll hold on a second. I'm going to put in here, not three sixty, I'm going to put one sixty. And so that'll be two thousand four hundred. OK, and then what we're going to withhold, I'm going to change this again. I know it's really high, but I'm going to change it to three sixty to tie up to our numbers in our practice problem and remove the California tax. So that means that the two thousand four hundred times point oh six two, that's where they came out with that one four eight eighty. And the two four oh oh times the point one oh four five is where they come up with that thirty four eighty and then we've got our match down here. So for this employee, the transaction would be when we record this. We're going to have you can think of it first as a payroll check. So you might say, well, the payroll check is going to go cash is going to go down by two four oh oh two four oh minus the five four three point six. It's going to go down by that by that one eight five six forty. And then the other side is going to be payroll expense, but it's going to go on there for the full amount of the two thousand four hundred, the difference, the liability. This kind of sounds like sales tax, maybe to you. The liability that which is which is their taxes. The employee's taxes kind of like the sales tax is supposed to be the customer's taxes is going to go into the the liability account for the liabilities. And then we're going to pay taxes over and above. These are our taxes. So we have payroll expense payroll tax expense for the one eighty three sixty and liabilities going up for that amount as well. So again, you can see that check by check and you can also see it in total. So if I was to think of both employees as one large employee, you could think of the transaction that way as well. Let me just double check these numbers. So that looks that looks good. And that looks that looks that looks that looks good, I think so. And remember, pay your payroll is one of those things you want to measure twice and cut once. You don't want to have to reprocess payroll generally because it's a pain to do that. You have to like delete the paychecks generally to do that and run it again. So you could save it for later if you needed to go to coffee before processing.


This video will show you how to find a SWAT analysis using two key business resources, Lexis-Nexis Academic and Market Line Advantage. A SWAT analysis is a basic framework for assessing a company's competitive position and informs many business decisions. A SWAT analysis examines the favorable and unfavorable conditions that exist in a company's external and internal environment. Specifically, SWAT refers to strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Let's look at Lexis-Nexis Academic first. To access Lexis-Nexis Academic, start at the library homepage at library.wlu.ca. Type Lexis-Nexis Academic into the search box in the purple menu bar at the top, just above the library's hours. Then click Go. Click on the correct match in the results list. On the next page, click on Connect to Resource. Once in Lexis-Nexis Academic, click the down-pointing arrow next to search by content type to display more options. In the Company section, select Company Profiles. Then click the down-pointing arrow next to Advanced Options just below the Company Profile search box. We are going to use the Build Your Own Segment search box to construct our search. Using the Select a Segment drop-down menu, select Company and then enter the name of the company in the parentheses. In this example, I will use Blackberry as the company. Next, click the And button at the top. Now we are going to specify that we want a SWAT analysis. Using the Select a Segment drop-down menu again, select Publication. Then type SWAT in the parentheses. This specifies that we only want SWAT analyses for Blackberry and not all content on the company. Only the most recent reports are retrieved, so there is no need to apply a date restriction. Click Apply to add your search criteria to the Company Profiles search box. Then click Search. Notice that we get three results, each from a different source, possibly offering you different perspectives. Let's have a look at one of the SWAT reports. Click on the title to view it. We can see the report includes all the elements of a SWAT analysis. Strengths, the weaknesses, the opportunities, and the threats. If you decide you want the report, you have the option to email it, print it, or download it. MarketLine Advantage is another good source for SWAT analyses. You can access MarketLine in the same way as LexusNexus Academic. By simply typing MarketLine into the search box at the top right of the library homepage and clicking Go. Then select the correct match from the results that appear. Then click Connect to resource. Once in MarketLine, type the name of the company in the search box. I'm going to use Blackberry again. Then select Companies from the drop-down menu. Click the search icon to run the search. On the search results page, click the title of the correct match to open the company profile. Use the table of contents on the right to navigate directly to the SWAT analysis. Here you will have the option to open it as a Word document or a PDF. You can also download the full company profile. If you want more information, visit the Business Subject Guide at library.wlu.ca.subject.business. And of course, if you still have questions, just ask us.


We're now going to make a few comments about pressures and specifically we're going to take a look at absolute gauge and vacuum pressures beginning with absolute and sometimes you'll see this with a little a to denote the fact that it is an absolute pressure don't confuse that with Pascal's that's meaning pressure absolute but what this is so this is a pressure measurement with respect to a zero pressure reference so a zero pressure reference would be zero Pascal's or zero pressure an example of this atmospheric pressure is one oh one three two five Pascal's and that is an absolute pressure measurement with respect to zero Pascal's so P atmospheric is an example of that being an absolute pressure measurement the next form that we're going to look at is a gauge pressure and gauge pressure is referenced to the atmospheric pressure and it is often given the symbol P little G so PG is always higher than atmospheric pressure and it's referenced to atmospheric pressure and then finally we can have pressures that are below atmospheric and reference to the atmospheric pressure and those are referred to as being vacuum pressures and typically if you see it it might have a little V there denoting that it's a vacuum pressure and just like gauge it as well as reference to atmospheric pressure so let's take a look at a plot of these or a diagram showing the different pressures so what I'm going to plot on the vertical is going to be the pressure itself and first of all let's assume that our atmospheric pressure is here and we'll call that absolute so down here would be zero Pascal's and typically atmospheric is 14.7 psi or one oh one three two five Pascal's and we'll denote that as being P A T M so that's atmospheric pressure if we have a gauge pressure that would be above the atmospheric pressure so let's say we have a gauge pressure someplace up here and let's say the magnitude of that is PG equals 400 Pascal's so that would be a pressure then in terms of absolute pressures we'll continue this line over if we were to draw an absolute pressure for that we would have one oh one three two five plus four hundred which is one oh one seven hundred and twenty five Pascal's so that would be an absolute what that gauge pressure would be and let's say we have a pressure that is lower than atmospheric that would be our vacuum pressure and let's say we have a vacuum pressure that is minus 51,325 Pascal's and I'll call that P little V that would be vacuum and the pressure there would be one oh one three two five minus 51,325 that would take you to a pressure absolute pressure of 50,000 Pascal's so those are different pressures don't get confused with them whenever you see gauge it's reference to atmosphere and whenever you see PV that will be referenced to atmosphere as well but it'll be below it and if you see P atmosphere that usually is one oh one three two five or it could be fourteen point seven PSIA sometimes you'll see the a there and that denotes an absolute pressure as well so those are some things with pressure that we you'll need to remember as we work through problems and you'll see that constantly gauge or absolute vacuum we don't use as much but typically we quite often use gauge and absolute pressure


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Hey guys, how's it going? So if you're happy with your network, the way it is today, can you clap your hands for me? The silence is deafening. That's the problem that we're trying to solve at Big Switch, to transform networks in much the same way that Compute has been transformed over the last really decade. They should be. There's a transition going on in a network. It's a transition that all of us here are very familiar with, because we've already seen it happen in Compute. The move to horizontal systems, the move to open architectures, be it the x86 architecture that got us out of the mainframe era, or Linux that got us to an open operating system for the data center. Those open systems fundamentally change Compute. This is preaching to the choir, is where it opens stack. The same thing occurred in the mobile world, where we got out of the Nokia 6600 series era and did that through really an open platform for computing, meaning the APIs were open, not claiming that iOS is open. But the openness of systems in the data center in Compute and the open API that was an API that folks could gather around and get things to market, it just hasn't happened in networking. And the question is, why is networking stuck in the mainframe era? I think the answer to that is that it's been controlled by vendors who had interests in keeping the system vertically integrated, so they could sell one big mainframe for the network. OpenFlow is trying to change that on the network and enable these horizontal systems to be rolled out. It does that by being a remote API into switches. A remote API that enables folks to instrument the switch, program the switch, really set up the flows in the flow table within a switch. And the key thing is that it's an open standard driven by network operators and customers rather than another quasi-API from a company. So Big Switch has focused on taking OpenFlow and providing a platform on top of OpenFlow. So if OpenFlow is the instruction set for the network, the x86 for the network, it needs an OS and sort of a metaphorical OS, our controller is that platform. Our big network controller product is based on Project Floodlight, the Floodlight controller, the open source controller. There's been some recent developments in open source recently in SDN with the open daylight project emerging as well. Our controller has been proposed to the open daylight project as a controller as well. So I expect to see the floodlight project and the open daylight project working sort of in concert. So we have an open API into the switches. We have an open controller platform that's open source and on top of that we have an open API that enables folks to write applications on top of a controller. So it's like that commercial for Mervins, open, open, open. So these are some folks who are using Big Network Controller in production. There's a lot of folks who are building products around it, folks who are running networks on it. We've seen it emerge from kind of the universities and research really then in collaboration with universities and companies building products. We've seen open flow really emerge from research and move to commercial deployments really in the last year. So if we look at the way compute has evolved, we can think of, we're not maybe here yet because we're all working on getting this to be closer, but we can think of the network as really being, sorry, compute really being clean and automated. If you can roll out open stack, you can automate compute, automate storage. The network isn't the case. As much as we're working on quantum, there's a lot left to do on the network. And today in the network, if you've automated the way you roll out workloads and the way you spin up machines, the network still has a lot of manual tasks. A lot of typing at a command line and a lot of setting up VLANs or verfs or changing ACLs or setting up a firewall policy by hand. So all the work that's been done to automate computing is lost in terms of manual in the network. And what happens in many cases is that folks have to fix a subnet to a rack or to a set in the data center. And when they do that, they lose the flexibility that they were seeking to achieve with compute. So we're going about trying to change this piece of the system and automate all the things that are manual tasks that take about, it really takes 10 to 14 days to do all the work on the network to roll out a new application. That's too long. And these are the kind of tasks folks have to engage in and do manually. There's a lot of things that need to be written down and documented and then chased down at a CLI. Sometimes you just got to wait for a maintenance window on the network and first at the rack, and first at the rack level, then at the row level. These manual tasks are what need to go away and that's what big virtual switches is trying to do. Virtualizing the network and making it as agile as the compute infrastructure that's already made a lot of progress here. So the big network controller is the platform that provides the foundation to program the switches and big virtual switch is the application that virtualizes the network and enables network automation. Won't spend too much time on the pieces of big network controller. The key here is that big network controller is based on the floodlight controller and we've open sourced increasing pieces of it. So there's a floodlight core and other modules that have been recently open sourced. Show you a quick before and after of a big virtual switch. I talked about how a subnet is often fixed to a rack or a row and you lose the flexibility that you're trying to achieve. After you roll out virtual, big virtual switch, you can mix and match virtual machines inside of a physical compute and have IP ranges that might even conflict, have those things on a physical network where you can have tenants coming together in compute and on a single physical network but each of these tenants has their own virtual network that they can manage. We integrate with OpenStack with our big switch plugin that we released last fall. We use the quantum APIs to instrument the network on the basis of tasks that folks complete within Horizon. Big virtual switch is the only network virtualization application that can work in a pure overlay mode or in a pure open flow mode and combine virtual switches with physical switches. And this is critical because if you wanna pull in your 20 gig firewall or if you wanna use those application delivery controller appliances that you've invested in, you can't do that in a system that is only pure overlay. In a pure open flow model, you can get access to those physical resources and in a hybrid model that lets you do the sort of the best of both, you can combine virtual switches and tunneling with instrumenting an open flow physical network, putting those together, enabling folks to use their F5 application delivery controllers or their Palo Alto firewalls inside of the virtual network. So I think it's critical that in any environment you need to be able to combine an open flow network, a new build out in the network with a tunneled kind of overlay network. So I talked about Big Network Controller, the application platform. I talked about Big Virtual Switch. We have another product, Big Tap, that just won't spend the time to cover today. They're all available now and if you wanna see the most exciting thing, we've got a demo in the booth right over here where we can actually demonstrate service chaining today. So the thing that folks have been talking about in networking for years, that we've heard from other folks in the space that they'll do it someday, they might ship it next year. We can demo today. We have a solution that works with Palo Alto and F5 that's available today and demoable right over there. Thanks much, guys.


Okay, we're back. We're live. This is Stink Tech, Hawaii. I'm Jay Fiedel. Today we're going to talk about tax, talking tax with Tom. That's Tom Yamachika. He's the president of the Hawaii Tax Foundation. And let me say this before I actually introduce him, Tom. Tax is really important. Tax is going to affect your life one way or the other. Tax represents the biggest part of your relationship with government. The tax is also an indicator on how government is doing. Tom Yamachika, welcome to the show. Great to be here, Jay. You've got a member. The power to tax is the power to destroy. You bet. So it was true, is true, and will be true. And it's part of democracy, but we have to be attentive to it. So the legislature is in full tilt boogie right now, and there are all kinds of bills, probably thousands of bills, and some of them have to do with changing our tax. Can we talk about some of them? Sure. As with a number of other years, there are bills to increase the income tax yet again. This one's House Bill 2385. It would make the top tax rates 12% and 13%, which would let us beat California for the highest tax rate in the nation. So wouldn't that be fun? Well, why? Why is this coming up at all? Why can't they just leave it alone? Because they need more money to do what they want to do. So is this a matter of what? Inflation? Is it a matter of new projects that some smart guy thought up and cost more money than we have? Is it a matter of the council on revenues trying to figure out how much we got coming in so we can determine how much more we need to do our thing? Well, if you want to figure out what the other thing is, we have lots and lots of programs going on in the state government. Some of them are justified, some of them are less justifiable. In some we have waste and overuse, in some less so. Tom, I know that if they let you and me loose in the legislature, we could cut those programs out in about 20 minutes. And you know what? Then we wouldn't have to raise taxes, would we? Yeah, well those programs are buried real good. I don't know if you and I would be able to find them in 20 minutes. Right, hidden, right. Yeah, I mean one of the problems is that a lot of money that the state government has is squirreled away in these things called special funds. And nobody knows where they are. Nobody knows how much is in them. And if you ask people, not one person can tell you how much money there is in the entirety because these funds are everywhere. And some people know about some of them, some people know about others. But I don't think there's anybody who knows about the whole thing. Now the individual departments who have special funds are supposed to report that to the legislature? They don't always. We've seen reports come out from the state auditor, time and again that say, hey, you guys, you have these special funds, you didn't report them. And then the department goes, oh, let's take corrective action. We'll deal with that later. What do they actually do or not is, you know, under question. You'd think somebody would be watching him on that. You know, I remember years ago, not that many years ago, there was this big issue about how many employees the state government have. And round and round for months came out that we don't know. We don't know how many employees the state has. And therefore, we don't know what we're spending on them either. Yeah, that's a part of the problem because employees are coded general funds, special fund, federal funded with, you know, different kinds of what they call means of financing. So if you don't know how much money you're spending on them, you don't know how much, you don't know what you're paying your employees with either. So it's a bit difficult. Okay, so when you say 11 and 13, you're saying, is that a difference between corporate and individual rate? But why do you give two numbers? That's the top individual rates. Right now, we have it going up to 11. Oh, I see. So it changes to 13. Yeah, so the two new brackets would be created 12% and 13%.  Yeah, but you know what, it seems like a small amount when you're just going from 11 to 13. But in fact, that's an amount that's 20% more in terms of the increase, right? Yeah. So that's going to have an effect on everybody because we're one of the highest, right? You mentioned one of the highest rates in the country right here in Hawaii. Yeah, but that's not the real problem. The real problem isn't the income tax. I mean, it produces some of our state government revenue, but the big problem is the GET.  Now, I heard that this year, I mean, maybe it doesn't go anywhere. But this year, at least some people were considering making exemptions for what? Medicines or medical services? Is that in play? That is still in play. Yeah. There are various forms of it still floating around the legislature. Medical devices, medical services, feminine hygiene products. You know, there are bills to exempt to some or all of those. And the states on the mainland that don't call it a GET, they rather call it a sales tax, you know, most of them do exempt those kinds of things from the sales tax, don't they? Yeah, there are a lot of states that have exemptions of that kind. I mean, number one, sales tax usually doesn't reach services at all or just a very few selected services. So medical services wouldn't be picked up. And then they would have some exemptions for drugs or medical supplies. And ours has some exemptions too. You know, I mean, I would support or reduction, I would support appropriate exemptions here because I think the sales tax is too, it's too overarching. It's too plenary. It covers too many things. I mean, the rest is so- That's not what you wanted! It's argued for this for its whole life. Let's make the sales tax, you know, complete. Every little thing. But you know what? Maybe it's not a good idea, especially when you have a regressive effect. I mean, it's a double whammy regressive effect when you do it on medicines because these people can't afford medicines. It's the little guy that gets killed on medicines and the medical services. Yeah, and everything else is true. Right, right. Well, everything else is true. Yeah, so one thing you got to watch for is this bill called the State Improvement Surcharge, which is going to be lifting our GET by another half percent. You know, this is on top of what the counties have put on already for five years. It's supposed to be temporary. You know, that's in theory. Whether it comes to pass, we don't know. Because, you know, stuff has been temporary before and has changed the permanent status. Like, you know, the 9, 10, 11 percent income tax rates that were brought into effect, I think, in 2009. So we had a temporary 9, 10, and 11 percent top tier brackets for 2010 to 2015. We lost them in 2016 and we thought, oh, we're rid of them. But in 2017, they came back with the bill that says, hey, let's reinstate these and we'll pay for the earned income tax credit that way. You know, and that's what passed. You go to New York State. I don't know exact rate, but New York State has a sales tax, well, a sales tax of like 8 percent. So people think, oh, wow, that's more than Hawaii, but not really. No, not at all. It only applies to some things, not other things. There's not plenary over everything. And so I think, you know, people, there's a confusion in that.  And I think we'd be very careful about treating the G.E.T. lightly. It's very, as you said, a very powerful tax. It's the one that has more effect than anything else, any other tax. Well, a half percent tax rate hike can be expected to generate between quarter a million and $300 million annually. That's a lot of money. Yeah, yeah. So, you know, so when they think of these new projects, some of which are cockamamie to start with, they really want to think about the effect on the small guy with a regressive tax like this. I hope somebody's thinking those thoughts. And speaking of regressive taxes, we can also go on to carbon taxes. You've heard of carbon taxes, right? I've heard of them and I haven't seen much of them. In fact, I don't think the country has seen much of them. Yeah, I think there's like maybe one or two states or one or two cities that have them. I don't think a state does yet. But the idea is for a tax to be imposed on any kind of fuel that basically when you burn it, it throws carbon into the atmosphere. And the tax, you know, the tax amount is based on the amount of metric tons of carbon dioxide released by the burning of this gas. So what this bill, Senate Bill 3150 does is, you know, when we talk about gasoline, for example, we already have taxes on gasoline. We have a state fuel tax of 16 cents a gallon. We have a economy fuel tax that's between 16 and a half and 23 cents a gallon depending on which economy it is. And then this will be on top of that. Okay. And the amount of carbon tax they're talking about is, you know, between 40 and 80 dollars per metric ton, which would be when you work out to, you know, per gallon, it's 17 cents per gallon when it starts. 53 cents a gallon when it's fully phased in. And that's an 80 dollars per metric ton. It sounds, you know, it sounds regressive to me. Let me give you an answer to drive the car. Anybody who wants to drive to work is going to be hit with this. But most of us do drive to work. I can understand the motivation behind it. I mean, of course, you know, you want to reduce the amount of carbon in the air. You want to reduce the amount of carbon in the world. You want to do your part to millerate climate change and all that. But, you know, we have not been successful in taking cars off the road. And I would doubt actually that there's a significant effort in the legislature now to do that.  The traffic jams are so unproductive. They're damaging and detrimental state economy to the quality of life to the highways. This is not going to actually do that. This is not going to help where it needs to help. That's my reaction to it. What is your reaction? Well, there's all kinds of ways to raise revenue. This is being talked about by the environmentalists all the time. It's got the state climate change commission behind it, so there's some considerable weight behind it. But really, I don't think it adequately considers the plight of the, you know, the ordinary person.  Don't you know what's going to happen to the planet? And I said, look, it's fine to worry about the end of the world, but a lot of your constituents worry about the end of next week. Right. Can't eat. Wind up homeless, and I'm sure that's increasing. But the other aspect of this, which I find interesting, is that remember the barrel tax? It still exists. Right. And every year is a scramble on who gets it. And the original concept was you collected off a barrel of oil, then you put it into renewable efforts and climate change efforts and all the environmental efforts.  It goes hither and yon, hither and yon, not a whole lot of control about where it goes. And so I would ask you, is there anything in this bill, Tom? That would control the carbon tax to go to the right place, to go to the environment, to go to climate change? Or is it just going to go into the general fund and pay other bills? Well, the carbon tax as proposed by this bill would replace the barrel tax. And I kind of beg to differ in a way that I support all of it going to the general fund because there you know where the money is. You have legislative oversight over it, and you can actually have people watching it. Whereas in special funds, they say that the money is so-called earmarked for certain noble purposes, but whether it actually goes there, you don't know. And the amount of oversight that's applied in practice, I don't know what that is. Okay, well too shay on that one. I can't say I disagree with you, but let me ask you, has this got a chance of passing because it's been raised before? Well, it's passed crossover, so it's still alive. Who knows what's going to ultimately make it to the end? I think if people kind of wake up and see the prospect of this kind of major hurt happening to their pocketbook, they may kind of jump up and say, hey, we've got to do something about this. But they haven't yet. Yeah, it's the old notion that taxes don't go down. They never go down. So you have the barrel tax, whatever that is, it takes money out of your pocketbook and you have this replacement carbon tax, but it's not cheaper. It's more. Oh, it's much more expensive. Yeah, the barrel tax currently is $1.05 per barrel, which works up to maybe two and a half cents a gallon. Well, let's see what happens. I mean, if the environmentalists say they want to have this, even though they're not getting a direct benefit, they're getting an indirect benefit, but not a direct benefit. I guess the state wants to have it as they have more money to spend on these projects. Again, it's a question of what's the moral imperative. If the moral imperative is we need to protect the environment at all costs, then that's what you do. You basically start treating hydrocarbon fuel as a sin like you treat liquor and tobacco as sins and you tax them higher or you ban them outright. Well, I know one journalist and professor at the UHS School of Communications who says the most important story of our time, and you probably say that today, even today, with the coronavirus and all, is climate change because it's wrecking the planet. And so if you were king or if I were king, the two of us were co-kings. Okay, let's make ourselves co-kings. And we were determined to deal with climate change as an existential threat to the survival of the species. We would take much more dramatic steps. We would make sure that there was a way to stop these fossil fuels in their tracks. We would say from now on, it's all electric cars and electricity has to be generated by renewable sources. That's what we would say. We would get there, not by 2040 or 2045, but get there right away. But government, you know, in a democracy, it doesn't work quite that way. Even if climate change is inexorable, government may not be able to get there fast enough. So let's talk about, since you're on the greening topic there, let's talk about green fees. Now, by green fees, I don't mean what you pay to get on the golf course. But there are what they call green fees in other places, like the Maldives, Galapagos Islands, and so forth. Basically, it's either an entry tax or a departure tax. So you want to go there, you pay this fee. Or you pay this fee once you leave. It's an airport fee. It's a fee on people coming and going. It's a fee on people coming and going. Does that include local residents as well as tourists? I think it depends on the locality, but the ones I've seen do have exemptions for local residents. Why has the Commerce Clause come to mind? Can you impede commerce that way? Is that constitutional? You can impede commerce, but there's something more fundamental afoot. It's called the constitutional right to travel. Because we are citizens of the United States. We have the constitutional right, and the Supreme Court decided a case in the 1800s that say we do have the right to go as we please between states, unimpeded by such things as a departure tax. Because Nevada tried to put one in in the 1850s. It was $1 per person leaving the state by train or stagecoach. They didn't have buses yet. And the Supreme Court said, well, that's unconstitutional. You can't do this. Because that impedes the constitutional right to travel. What's the difference? We don't have stage twitches anymore. You heard it here on Think Tech. But that's what I told the legislature. We still have this case called Krava v. Nevada. It's still good law. It established the constitutional right to travel. And if you do this, you'll find yourself in federal court and you'll be shot down. That's embarrassing. It means we don't fully understand the right to travel. And then if you just start discriminating against foreign people that are not protected by the constitutional right to travel, then you have the problem that you discriminate against foreign commerce. You also have the notion that Hawaii is killing the goose. I mean, tourism is our middle name. We can't afford to start squeezing the goose on that. We need to protect it, especially in a few of the difficulties of coronavirus. We're already squeezing the goose. You know how much our transient accommodations tax is? It's twice as much as it was when the law started off. So you have the transient accommodations tax plus you have the green tax. What do we think of next? What's the vehicle tax? Okay, so forth. Tell me more good news. That's not going to pass, is it? I sure hope not. Right now it's a bill to convene a study group and do a study. And the Office of Planning says it's going to be like $450,000 to do. And I'm saying in my testimony, send me your money. This is unconstitutional. But do something else. We could use that money elsewhere, you know? $450,000, yeah.  See, I'll tell you, Tom, you and me, we could be the study group. We could do it for much cheaper than that. And we could give them an answer in about 20 minutes. Exactly. And what about empty homes? You want to talk about the empty homes tax? Totally, yes. There is a proposal, Senate Bill 2216, and by the way, the green fees bill was Senate Bill 2696. But the empty homes tax is basically how it works is you get sent a monthly return every month that you have no property that you don't qualify for a homeless exemption for. Okay, so you could be renting it out. You could be using it as a vacation home, whatever it is. But as long as you don't qualify for a homeless exemption, you'd be paying this tax every month. And what would the tax be? It would work out to annually 5% of the value of the property. 5%. Now, just to give you a comparison, in Honolulu here, our residential rate for property are the property tax we pay now. It is $3,050 per thousand. That's a lot less than 5%. Yeah, 5% is $50 per thousand. Just so you can compare apples and apples. Well, this sounds punitive to me. It is punitive, but there's a more fundamental problem with it. And the fundamental problem is its property tax because it's imposed on the inner property and it's imposed because the owner uses it or doesn't use it in a certain way. And the only people in this state who can impose property tax are the counties. We, the people, wrote that into the Constitution in 1978. Doesn't the state have power over the counties? Doesn't it preempt on things? Well, no. The state constitution preempts the state. And it gives the counties the power. So this is unconstitutional under the state constitution? Right. Something is there to control our state government and that's our state constitution. And then there's the federal government and the federal constitution that we have to abide by. Have you mentioned this to them? It's in my testimony. Well, see what happens. Maybe they should have another study and you and I can do the study cheap. I hope they don't have to spend $450,000 finding out what's in the state constitution. Really? Yeah. We only have three minutes left, Tom. And I want to get to... I know you have more on your list, but I just want to get to one big question. We have, right now, coronavirus has not made a substantial impact on air travel and tourism into our tourist industry here. But it may. In fact, I would venture to say it will. If just hypothetically, we had a big scare, a lot of cases come down. When the testing starts, they're really going along. And people far and wide say, gee, that's a dangerous place. I'm not going to go there.  And that's a big source of revenue for the state. I mean, the Council on Revenues would certainly include that in its expectations for the amount of revenue the state would receive in a given fiscal period. So if that happens, we're not going to get so much revenue. And I just want to know what happens if that happens and it's fairly likely something like that will happen. Yeah, but we know our state. Yeah. We have a rainy defund that we've established a deal with emergencies like this. It's been fed over the years by the legislature. We actually put some money in it last year, I think it was $5 million more. So we have some money in there to help cope with the situation. It won't last forever, but at least it's something. That's what we have. That's it? That's your answer? You know, this could be a major economic crisis for the state. Let's assume, let's assume, I'm taking a step further, let's assume there's not enough money in there to do much at all. What happens? I think we come back to furlough Fridays and government issuing IOUs instead of cash for things it buys. Up to the merchants whether they want to take them or not. People get paid less. And then we've had experiences with that before. Yeah, well, it'd be hard to collect taxes, especially increased taxes, wouldn't it? Because nobody would have a lot of... Nobody would have my period, yeah. Well, remains to be seen what happens, but I think you and I have to keep on talking. Because I think this will emerge not necessarily as a fact, but as an increased threat over the next couple of months during the legislative session. And they really need to think about it. Yeah, those people in that square building behind you are going to have very important roles to play. Yeah. And so is the press, and so are you. Thank you so much for doing what you do, for checking up on us. It's not like the average citizen goes to these hearings, but you go. It's not like the average citizen follows all these increases in tax, all these increases in tax. But you do, and we should appreciate that. And we should appreciate other members of the press and the professional groups that do follow these things. So it doesn't happen in a vacuum. Thank you so much, Tom. Thank you, Jane. Aloha.


I have to re-record this, and I don't feel like changing into regular clothes, and I'm about to go work out so, you know, you're gonna be seeing me dressed like this, but don't mistake my annoyance for me thinking Timeline was bad, because it's actually pretty good. This is the introduction song. It's not very good, but it's not too long. So Timeline is a Michael Crichton book, and his works usually fall into one of two categories. There's the books that are pretty much just all about science and all about people doing science and trying to figure out problems and solve puzzles. The Andromeda Strain and Spear are both pretty good examples of this. And then there's his books where the science is kind of just a setup for more of an action-adventure-type story, and Jurassic Park is the best example of this, but Timeline also falls into this. And don't mistake me saying that for me thinking that his science-based books are bad. They're not. They're actually still pretty good. I love Spear, and I think Andromeda Strain is pretty good. That said, Jurassic Park and Timeline and stuff like that are more cinematic, I think, and they blend themselves to being movies better, and they're just a little bit more accessible. So Timeline is just about time travel. You know, it's a pretty simple idea. Like, there's some archaeologists working on an old castle in France, and then they find some evidence there that people were time traveling. Of course they don't realize that's what it is at first. They're just confused, and then one of them goes off to this company, which has invented time travel, and he goes back, but he winds up getting stuck there, so they bring all his friends over, and they're like, hey, we need you guys to go back to 1357 in France and get your friend back, or he'll probably die. And then, obviously, once they go there, some stuff goes wrong, and then they're stuck for a while, so we have two parallel stories, one with the people trying to fix the time machine and trying to get them back, and then one with the people back in France that are in trouble and just trying to survive. Now, like, pretty much all Michael Crichton books, this one has a pretty great plot. There's always crazy stuff going on.  We gotta fight them off, or run away, or escape from prison, or whatever. And in that sense, yeah, it's great. The problem is with the characters. Now, in this, I will say most of the characters are fine. They're, you know, they're perfectly okay.  Like, I remember Dr. Grant from Jurassic Park being okay, and the main character from Sphere also being okay, but other than that, pretty much every character in every Crichton book I've read has been just a major dick, which, you know, that, that can work sometimes, but it just makes it impossible to care about them when they get in trouble or anything. Whereas in this, they're all fine, except for two dudes. Now, there's Merrick, who I actually really liked, because he is a historian who doesn't just learn about history, but he, quote, tries to live it. So he actually learns, like, horseback riding, and he learns how to fight the way knights did, and he actually learns to speak certain languages like Middle French and Occitan, which wind up being useful for them when they go back in time. And so, yeah, he's not a particularly deep or complex character, but I liked him, and he does go through some development as the story goes on. And then there's one character that I strongly disliked.  You know, he's supposed to be bossy. He's supposed to be... He's supposed to look down on other people. He's supposed to be someone who's smart, but really knows he's smart. He's supposed to be greedy. You know, you're supposed to not like him very much, so I can't fault the book for that, really. And he's... I don't really want to call him a villain, but, you know, he's... I don't know. He's a minor antagonist, we'll say. That's the best way of putting it. And as for the regular antagonists, they... They all have potential, but the problem is that there's like three or four characters that are all working to hinder the heroes, and none of them really get enough time to shine as a result of that. Like, there's one who has a pretty interesting backstory that I won't go into, because it's a major spoiler, and it's actually one of the best parts of the book when you find out what's going on, but he just doesn't get enough time to really be in the story and to really shine, so I kind of wish that he had been the main villain, or if they had just picked one of the others and focused on them, because splitting attention this much is kind of... It's not a good thing. Now, just like other Michael Crichton books, you can tell he really researched the hell out of the science in this. Like, with everything from Andromeda Strain to Sphere to Jurassic Park, you can tell that Michael Crichton really poured himself into researching, you know, biology or genetics or physics in this case, or whatever else that book happens to be focused on, and I would be lying if I didn't say that some of it went over my head, but it is still fascinating to hear his take on time travel, where it's like, oh, well, you see time doesn't actually move, time stands still and we move, and then they're talking about, like, quantum fluctuation and how things can be in two different distinct states at the same time, and, you know, it doesn't make a lot of sense, but it's also not supposed to make a lot of sense, I don't think, and, you know, he clearly did his research, so if you're into that sort of thing, then you'll probably be happy about that. But what made me happy was that he also very clearly did his research into medieval France and what that was like, because he knows a lot of things and some people are annoyed by his writing style where he occasionally, like, almost breaks the fourth wall and tells the audience, hey, here's explaining this concept or whatever, but, you know, I was happy with that. He very clearly understood medieval France, what life was like there. You know, they weren't speaking modern French at all. They spoke either middle French or Occitan in the area where they were, but even in the areas that spoke middle French or Occitan, it was a whole muddled mess of dialects where you go from one town to another, and it's basically a different language. They're almost impossible to understand each other, and that's very accurate. It's a real history. He understands how warfare worked. He understands how society was structured. He understands that people just had a different way of looking at the world and different belief system back then than they do today. So, yeah, I was really impressed with Michael Crichton there, and I'm happy that he spent some time in my wheelhouse. The only thing about this book that really, really got under my skin was that, okay, I just don't like time travel stories very much in general, because no matter what, there's almost always going to be some sort of plot hole in there, and this book is no exception, unfortunately. Basically, they say that you can't change the past somewhere near the beginning, and when you hear that, you think, okay, it's going to be something kind of like 12 Monkeys or the first Terminator movie where no matter what you do, that's just going to wind up helping the future to become what it is. But then we also get very clear evidence near the beginning that you can change the past, and then when they ask somebody about the grandfather paradox, we're like, what if you went back and killed your grandfather so that you could never be born and therefore you could never go kill your grandfather? How would that work out? And he basically just tells them, well, if you're an actual human being, then you're just going to not want to kill your grandpa, so you're not going to actually be able to pull the trigger, and they're trying to say, well, theoretically, how would it work? And he just kind of dismisses it. He's like, theory doesn't matter when we're talking about people. And yeah, he's kind of right, but considering how much time this book spends on just talking physics and talking how time travel works, you could try to give a little bit of a better explanation there. Like, hell, this talks about different parallel dimensions and stuff.  We just send you to a different dimension where it's this current point in time, and that dimension is pretty much exactly like ours. And if you change something, then that one will change, but then we'll just send you to a different dimension because there's an infinite number of them, and this other dimension is exactly the same as the last one. You know, something like that. That would be fine, but as it stands, it's just a major plot hole, which I really would not have expected from Michael Crichton. All in all, though, a solid action adventure book.  There's swashbuckling. There's horseback chases. There's people escaping from prison. There's all kinds of fun stuff, and you know the entire time that the timer is counting down, and if they don't get out of here in time, then something bad, they're going to be stuck here. So overall, yeah, timeline, if you're looking for something good, then check it out. 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Family Theatre presents John Ford and Fibber McGee and Molly. In cooperation with Family Theatre presents Fibber McGee and Molly in the Win Bag. To introduce the drama, your host, John Ford. Thank you, Tony LaFranco. Family Theatre's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives. If we are to win peace for ourselves, peace for our families and peace for the world, Family Theatre urges you to pray and pray together as a family. A story tonight takes place in the little town of Clay Centre, Kansas, where DJ Latimer and his good wife Martha are solid, substantial citizens. DJ owns a not-too-prosperous real estate and insurance business, is a former president of the local Roto-Wonners Club and finds his principal release from the humdrum of small-town life in the thrice weekly changeability Ritz Theatre. Martha has long been content to be a housewife and a good man. Their only child, a daughter named Valeska, is married to Jimmy Meredith, a young continuity writer on the staff of the nationwide broadcasting company in Chicago. Jimmy and Val have spent the Thanksgiving holidays with Mom and Dad and are soon to return to the windy city.  What kind of a favor, my boy? Well, it's rather a complicated story. You've heard the nationwide theater of the year, haven't you? Tuesday night at nine? Frequently. In my opinion, an excellent program. We almost never miss it. You don't write that, do you, Jimmy? Well, not yet, but the boss wants me to. It's a freelance show. That means the network buys scripts from anybody who sends them in. I mean, if they're good scripts. I see. And you want me to write this nationwide theater?  You couldn't even write a note to the milkman when we went to Denver last summer and wanted him to stop leaving milk for two weeks. That was his fault completely. He read my note carelessly and simply misinterpreted what I'd written. Let's not argue about it, DJ.  Well, it's a little like this, Mom. Mr. Roberts, the head of our continuity department, wants me to write some scripts for the nationwide theater. But he can't pay me because I'm on the regular staff. And the network has a ruling that a staff writer can't be paid extra for anything he writes that's sustaining. Their theory is that that's what my salary's for.  And Mr. Roberts tells Jimmy he's sure the network's eventually going to change it. I should think so. Meanwhile, though, there's only one way I can make any money out of the nationwide theater. Whatever script I write, I mail to Dad, and he sends them in under his name. Oh, I don't know, Jimmy. The network pays $300 a script. What? And when the check comes to you, Dad, you cash it and keep 50 of it for your trouble. DJ wouldn't take a penny, Jimmy. My dear. And it's no soap. No, either Dad takes the 50 or Jimmy gets somebody else to do it.  Of course I'll do it, my boy. Anything to help you out in any way I can. Uh-oh, that's Fred Jackson. I almost forgot I promised to help him fix his car radio tonight. You kids will excuse me, won't you? I'll be back in half an hour or so. Sure, Dad. We'll still be here. Well, that's a load off my mind. I wonder. Well, what do you mean, Mom? You know your father, Val. He's the sweetest man in the world, but he does have his weakness. Mom means that Dad's an incurable romanticist. That's how I got the name Valeska. I wanted to call her Priscilla after my grandmother. Well, at about the time I was born, Dad was carrying a very large torch for a movie starlet named Valeska LaRue. Hollywood's a great influence in Dad's life.  And it's been goodness knows how many years since we saw Algiers, but every once in a while he still asks me to come with me to the Cos bar. With a French accent or what he thinks is why. Yeah, Dad lives every movie he sees. Poor dear. Outside of going to a couple of American Legion conventions, he's never done any of the things he's dreamed of doing. And it's a lucky thing, too, from what I heard of the way he cut up and carried on in Chicago, dropping paper bags full of water out of hotel windows onto people's heads down below on the sidewalk. I don't think you need to worry, Mom. Nobody ever listens to the writer's name at the end of a radio show. Well, just the same, Jimmy. I'm worried about it. Why, Mom? Well, because it's your father. I haven't been married to that man 25 years come next February 10th for nothing. I love him, but I know if there's any way for something to slip or come unraveled, he'll find it. The Flower of Tahiti was written by Digby Latimer and was directed... The Flower of Tahiti was written by Digby Latimer. Did you hear that, Martha? I'm not deep. Well, sometimes I wonder why I'm not. Why did you send in Jimmy's story under the name of Digby Latimer instead of DJ? Martha, my dear, you don't understand. DJ Latimer is all right for a businessman, but Digby Latimer is much more dignified and appropriate for an author. Mr. Bloodgood, I'd like to cash a little check, if you don't mind. That's what the bank's here for, DJ. Five ones be okay. Same as usual. Oh, this check is a trifle larger than that, Mr. Bloodgood. $300, to be exact. Well, that's to turn to nice deal, DJ. Pay to the order of Digby Latimer? Digby Latimer is my nom de plume. My pen name, Mr. Bloodgood. Oh, and it's signed nationwide broadcasting? Yeah, it's payment for a little thing I dashed off in my spare time. You may have heard it two weeks ago last Tuesday on the nationwide theater of the air. A little thing I called the Flower of Tahiti. I did hear that, DJ. Maybe you noticed right at the end the announcer said the Flower of Tahiti was written by Digby Latimer. No, no, I can't say I did, DJ. Well, he said that. That's what's known as name credit. All we top radio writers insist on that. And don't be too surprised, Mr. Bloodgood, if I cash several checks like this one every month. And be sure to listen every Tuesday night at nine. I'll most assuredly do that, DJ. Remember, when you hear the announcer say written by Digby Latimer, you'll know it's old DJ himself and not a reasonable facsimile thereof. No, sir, I never would have thought it. I'd say that still waters run deep, except the DJ's hardly ever still. Oh, good morning, Emma. Morning, Esa. Any news today that's fit for the Clay Center, Clarion the Prince? Maybe. What did you say if I told you that Colonel Townsman had a play he wrote on the nationwide theatre of the year? Yeah, coast to coast. Well, I'll tell him to get a padded cell ready for you, Esa. Who's the budding genius in our midst? DJ Latimer. DJ Latimer's a radio writer? Not three minutes ago. I cashed the check. The broadcasting company sent him for his play. $300. Esa, Bloodgood, you're not fun and with me, are you? No, what I'm telling is the gospel truth. Emma, DJ called his play the flower of Tahiti. Well, I heard that. Oh, it was just beautiful and so sad. I cried up a couple of handkerchiefs. That play was the handiwork of DJ Latimer. Oh, my. And here we stand talking when I ought to be interviewing him. Just heard the news, DJ, and I think it's the most thrilling thing that ever happened to Clay Center. No, it was nothing, Emma. Really nothing.  You're too modest, DJ. Now tell me, where did you ever find out what the native girl said right at the end of the play that E-R-O-R. E-R-O-R-A-N-E-T-A-T-U-A. Yes. What does it mean? That's Tahitian for God be with you till we meet again. How touching. But how did you ever know that? Well, once many years ago, a beautiful Tahitian princess uttered those very words to... to, oh, but perhaps I'd better not say. What, DJ? I never knew you'd been in Tahiti. In days gone by, Emma, the foreign legion went everywhere. And you were in the foreign legion? Oh, may I print that, DJ? Well, I'd rather you wouldn't, Emma. You see, Martha is acquainted with my somewhat, shall I say, adventurous youth, and she's made me promise never to reveal its details. But there are some things I could tell you, Emma. Oh, I'm sure there are, DJ. Have you any more plays coming up on the nationwide theater? Yes, week after next. It's a story of unrequited love on the African belt. I call it Sahara Safari. And is it by any chance based on the personal experiences of this author? You promise not to print this, Emma? Well, if you insist. I do, I must. All right, then. Is it based on your personal experiences? I'm sorry, Emma. I can't say. You know how people in a small town gossip, and if Martha were to see or hear that I was once a big game hunter in Africa, she'd deny it. Oh, not for her sake, you understand, but to protect me from the limelight. Did you read the clarion today, my dear? Yes, I read it. Did you by any chance see Emma Singletary's interview with Clay Center's famous radio writer, a man who happens to be your husband? I saw it. Of all the plain old hogwash I ever read, that was the worst. Martha. Let me have that paper. Oh, certainly, my dear.  Maybe I still ought to. Listen to this. Mr. Latimer's next play on the nationwide theater of the air is titled, Sahari Safari. And is a story of unrequited love on the African belt. A little bird has whispered in your reporter's ear that possibly, just possibly, Sahari Safari may be based upon experiences in the author's own life. For the same little bird whispers that possibly, just possibly, he was once a big game hunter in Africa. You know, I've been expecting something like this ever since you saw Trader Horne.  You probably hinted it. DJ, can't you stop telling those big windies all the time? It's, well, it's dishonest. And now you're taking credit for something that belongs to your son-in-law. But the lad wants me to, and it's bound to help in my business. People like to deal with the celebrity, you know. Ah, celebrity fiddle sticks. Huh, somebody just drove up in a big car. Heavenly days, it's Mrs. T. Canterbury Millsap. Uh-oh. What can she be wanting, calling on the peasants? I'll go to the door. You sit right where you are, I'll go. Okay. Good evening, Mrs. Millsap. Good evening, Mrs. Latimer. Is Mr. Latimer at home? Yes, he's here. Won't you come in? Thank you. He's right in here in our sitting room. It's Mrs. Millsap, DJ. Oh, well, this is a pleasure, Mrs. Millsap. Sit down, won't you? Here's a comfortable chair right here. Thank you, Mrs. Latimer. Can I get you a slug of tea, Mrs. Millsap? Thank you, my dear, no. I can stay only a moment. Uh, Mr. Latimer, you are doubtless aware that I am the president of the Ladies' Sanatopsis and Weekly Study League of Clay Center? Yes, of course. A very praiseworthy organization, Mrs. Millsap. Oh, thank you. We think so. Our aims are the profound study and hence the deeper appreciation of literature and the finer things of life. That's something I've always believed in myself. Oh, yes, I can understand that, Mr. Latimer. But, oh, why have you hidden your light under a bushel? Huh? Mr. Latimer, I want to ask you a great favor. Will you address our next meeting and give us a preview, may I phrase it so, of Sahara Safari? Well, I'll be happy to, Mrs. Millsap. Anything for culture is what I always say. Oh, thank you. Thank you so much. It's Friday at two o'clock and the ladies are meeting at my house. I'll be there, Millie. Well, now I must go. Oh, by the way, may we not also have the pleasure of your company, Mrs. Latimer? Oh, I'm afraid I'm not very literary. Oh, well, come anyway. That's a dear. Oh, Friday. It will be the day for the ladies' Stanotopsis Weekly Study League, and they'll never forget it. No, no, no, no. Don't bother to escort me to my car. Good night, Mr. Latimer. Good night, Mrs. Latimer. Good night, Mrs. Millsap. Good night. The ladies' Stanotopsis and Flat Doodle League aren't the only ones who'll never forget Friday. Now, this time, DJ, you've gone too far. Not at all, my dear. Not at all. After I reread Sahara Safari, I dare say I'll be able to make a very creditable talk. Maybe you could if you had a script. Well, by George, I did mail it in, didn't I? You did? Oh, well, so what? I recall a great deal of the story. Besides, if I've never been in Africa, neither have the ladies who'll be listening to me when I'm in Africa. Special intellectual treat. In the past, we have been privileged to hear some very famous authors, but never before one from our own fair city. He has kindly consented to give us a preview of his next-brained child, which is entitled Sahara Safari, and is the story of unrequited love on the African belt. Girls, may I present our celebrated fellow citizen of Clay's Center, Mr. Dick B. Latimer. Thank you very much. Ladies is a Thanatopsis and Weekly Sturdy League. You're a charming chairman, or should I say chairlady, has asked me to tell you the story of my next radio drama on the nationwide theater. I call it Sahara Safari, because it concerns the adventures of Lord Manfred Chatsworth, a peer of the British Empire, who meets a beautiful Arab girl named Khalil Patra in the vast and trackless desert of the Belgian Congo. Lord Chatsworth has gone to Africa to hunt tigers. As he sails down the Nile in his falooka... That's a kind of a native schooner. He hears the heartbeat of the dark continent, the wild and savage rhythm of the top towns. It was worse than I thought it would be. I was prepared for almost anything, but not for hunting tigers in Africa. And what was wrong with that, may I ask? Nothing much, except that there aren't any tigers in Africa. They applauded me when I was through. Certainly they did, because Mrs. T. Canterbury Millsap did, and she's the bellcow of that herd. The rest of them do whatever she does. Now, you've got to stop it, DJ. Oh. Next week, Val and Jimmy will be here for Christmas, and I'm going to tell Jimmy he's got to put a stop to this nonsense he's started. Oh, Martha, you can't do that. DJ, I know you don't mean any harm.  Look in Mom's diary, Jimmy. Oh, I don't know, Val. Diaries are a pretty sacred sort of a thing. It'd have to be mighty serious. Well, this is serious. Now, I know Mom too well not to see when she's really worried about something. Well, okay, go ahead. Yeah, start of December. Whatever it is, it probably happened this month. Hey, listen to this. December 20th. DJ spoke to the ladies' Thanatopsis and Weekly Study League this afternoon on the subject of his latest radio play, Sahara Safari. Why, they all fraud. When Mrs. Millsap introduced him, it was disgusting.  Oh, Val, this is priceless. Before I could stop myself, I said the old nanny. And Mrs. Pogus, who is... I beg your pardon, sir. I'm looking for Mrs. Martha Latimer. She's not home right now. I'm her husband, Digby Latimer. Perhaps you've heard me.  Martha? Famous? That's right. My name is Swappold, John T. Swappolds. I represent Templeton and Savage of New York. The book publishers, you know. Oh. Yes, we've accepted Mrs. Latimer's book, The Windbag, and we're bringing it out in the spring. What an imagination your wife has of that scene where this DJ talks to the local ladies club about his new show. It's one of the funniest things I've ever read. Hunting tigers in Africa. And then there's another scene when his wife in the audience says under her breath the old nanny. Well, it's just as though he'd actually been there. Don't you think that's funny? Yes, yes, oh yes. That's very funny. Well, the American public will gobble it up. This character that she's dreamed of, this DJ, he will become the symbol of every braggart and every blowhard who ever lived. You should be very proud of her, Mr. Latimer. Yes, I am, of course. Yeah, Mrs. Latimer is a remarkable woman. A very remarkable woman. Oh, she's all of that, sir. And as soon as she comes in, will you ask her to get in touch with me at the Sunflower Hotel? And don't breathe a word of this to her, but I have an advanced royalty check with me. $5,000. I'm here, Martha, in the bedroom. I just got home. I met Mrs. Lumpkin, and you're packing your suitcase. You going away somewhere? Yes. How long will you be gone? A long time. Oh, well then you'd better let me get you some more collars. There's a dozen clean ones came back from the laundry this morning. Martha, how can you? Isn't it enough to drive the knife deep into my heart without twisting it in the wound? I tell you I'm going away, maybe forever. And all you can think about is clean collars. What in the wide world are you talking about? She asked me what I'm talking about. Martha, you've made a laughing stock out of me. You've bared my shame to the world. And for what? For money. For dirty, filthy money. That's for what? DJ Latimer, have you been drinking? Ah, don't pretend ignorance, Martha. The publisher's representative was here a few minutes ago. His name's Wapples, John T. Wapples. And he's at the Sunflower Hotel. He should make you very happy. He has an advanced royalty check for you. $5,000. $5,000 fiddle sticks. I won't stand in your way. That's why I'm leaving. Someday when you're old and lonely, I hope you'll give one fleeting thought to the husband who loved you and who sacrificed himself so that fame might be yours. Say, you stay right here, DJ, and don't move. I'll go phone Dr. Honeycutt. You're raving. I am not raving. I'm talking about your book. The book you wrote about me. The book you call The Windbag. I never wrote any book. Martha, the man practically quoted from it. All about how I spoke to the lady's Thanatopsis and Weekly Study League. And you said the old ninny. And to think, tomorrow's our silver wedding anniversary. Say, wait a minute, DJ. I noticed the other day my diary for last year is missing. Sure as death and taxes, those two kids of ours took it and gave it to those publishers. I certainly didn't. It makes no difference how they got it. They have it and they're going to publish it. They most certainly decided there are not going to publish it. DJ, darling, you didn't think for a minute that I would... What could I think? Why, you old ninny. Come here and put your arms around me and hug me tight. Come here. That's better. Don't you know that our love and our home mean more to me than all the money in the world? I've always hoped so. But you did call me an old ninny, didn't you? I certainly didn't. That's exactly what you are. You're right, Martha. I am an old ninny. But I won't be anymore. I'm going to reform. You promise? I'll take my paralyzed oath on a sister and full of seed catalogs. If ever again in my whole life I tell another stretcher I hope I trip and break my eyeglasses. Good morning, DJ. Good morning, Mr. Bloodgood. I'd like to cash a little check if you don't mind. That's what the bank's here for, DJ. Five ones be okay? Same as usual? That'll be fine. Notice you haven't had any of those checks from the nationwide broadcasting company lately, did you? No, I've given up radio writing, Mr. Bloodgood. It was taking up so much of my time I felt I was neglecting Martha. And when a man's lucky to have a wife like mine, well, you know. Martha's a wonderful... Watch that broken tile, DJ!  Look and see if they're broken. One of the lenses is. Oh, my, my. Oh, that's bad. No. No, that's good. Oh, you wouldn't understand, Mr. Bloodgood. But this shows I'm improving. Yes, sir. It's a hard fight with a short stick, but I'm improving. This is John Ford again, your host. Did you ever walk through the streets of a big city and notice how many people hurry along, wrapped up in their own thoughts? It leaves you with a feeling that a big city with millions of people around can sometimes be the loneliest place in the world. And in the reverse of that picture, the most cheerful place in the world is a happy home. There's no word that means so much, so many things to each of us as a simple word, home. To have peaceful, prayerful, happy homes is a purpose to which Family Theatre is dedicated. Dedicated with the hope that your home, your family, will enjoy all of God's wonderful blessings dedicated to our slogan, the family that prays together stays together.  Family Theatre has brought you Fibromigui and Molly in the Windbag, with John Ford as your host. Others in our cast were Verna Felton, Ruth Perot, Howard Culver, Howard McNeer, Michael Hayes, and Virginia Eiler. The script was written by Jack Mitchell, with music composed and conducted by Harry Zimmerman, and was directed for Family Theatre by J. F. Mansfield. This series of Family Theatre broadcasts is made possible by the thousands of you who felt in need for this type of program, by the Mutual Network which has responded to this need, and by the hundreds of stars of stage, screen, and radio who have so unselfishly given of their time and talent to appear on our Family Theatre stage.  This is Tony LaFranco expressing the wish of Family Theatre, that the blessing of God may be upon you and your home, and inviting you to be with us next week at this time, when Family Theatre will present Donna Reed and Vincent Price in Jane Eyre. Join us, won't you?


Staff Sergeant Ty Carter's gallant actions during combat earned him the Medal of Honor. However, sometimes even heroes need help. I was at Fort Carson. I wasn't doing too well. I was showing up to work not on time. I smelled like alcohol and I was starting to lose weight. And then I was told that if I didn't seek the proper help or get help that it would affect my career. The treatment only works if you agree with it and if you believe in it. I listened to the counselors. Their job is to recognize your symptoms with a type of treatment. Once you've learned how to deal with a severe trauma, you now know what to do. Life is supposed to be a challenge. Part of that challenge is to absorb bad times and then react to them the best way you can. In the end, we're always learning and we always need help. We just have to be humble enough to ask for it. Visit us online for more information about the Army's resources to build and sustain resilience.


Well, it is that time that we wish we'll always be delayed when we're having fun when we end this broadcast. A holy weekend, read the blessings for many athletes who competed on and those who watched them. Triumphs were plentiful, personal for team and for country. Athletes learning what they need to improve on, even if they say goodbye to this competition, all burning with desire to fly their flags at the highest level. These career games again proven to Austin City's vision for sports and youth in the region. Grenada, you have been a tremendous host in a stadium bearing the name of one of your dearest sons. We certainly felt your warmth, a grand way to celebrate your golden jubilee. It has been a pleasure taking you through this event. Year 51 is over and on behalf of lead producer Phil Riley and his team, directors Michael Edwards and Kerry Gibbons, our team of ace commentator Ricardo Chambers and analyst Terry Finister, along with the entire production team, I'm Gerard Amorisili, saying goodbye from the Spice Isle. Trinidad and Tobago, it's over to you.