Great. All right, I think I'm going to get started. I'd like to thank you all for coming. Some of you may have heard rumors about a new Intel Atom-based embedded board that's being marketed towards the hobbyist and maker communities. I'm here to tell you that that rumor is true, and that's actually what this talk is going to be about today. So all of you who are here are going to be the very first to hear the public knowledge about this board. So a little bit about myself. My name is Scott Garmin. I work at Intel's Open Source Technology Center. I've been a software engineer working on the Yachto project for about two and a half, going on three years now. And so in addition to kind of working on the actual build system itself, I also have a prior background previous to working at Intel, developing embedded Linux-based products. So I worked for a company that makes multi-room home audio systems. These are systems that allow you to play music in different rooms of your home or your business, and which you would control via keypads or touchscreens you would have installed in your walls. Also, I've worked kind of, again in the audio kind of sphere, making sound level monitoring devices that would go into very loud venues. So think of things like concert stadiums or racetracks, where the venue owner has to prove that they're complying with local limits on sound regulations. So these devices would inform the venue owner of what the current sound level pressure levels are at and I'll give them an audit trail that they can use to demonstrate that they're in compliance. But you know what, in the context of this talk, I don't know that any of that is really all that important. I could probably sum up what really matters in a single sentence. Hi, I'm Scott, and I like to make things. I'm sure this is something I have in common with most all of you in this room. We all like to make things, whether it's for commercial purposes or for our own personal projects. And it's a great feeling when you can take a concept and turn it into reality. We refer to this as engineering, but it's really a creative process when you can take something that didn't exist before and bring it into existence. And I think it's safe to say that we all get some kind of rush or buzz when we're able to make this happen. And now, at this point in time, I think it's a great time to be a hacker, whether in software or hardware or some combination of the two. The thing is technology is changing and evolving so fast. I know it's kind of a ridiculously cliche thing to say, but it's true. Every day it becomes possible to create and deploy projects with increased levels of complexity and capabilities that people weren't even thinking of 10 or 15 years ago. The possibilities of what can be done keep unfolding before us and the limits that we previously ran up against keep falling away. There are so many possibilities out there that it's impossible to pursue them all. Hence the problem of so many toys so little time. So speaking of toys, how many of you have played around with quadcopters before? There are a lot of fun, although it would be nice to get some that have a battery life of longer than 15 minute fly times. But that's a problem that technology is going to solve. 3D printers. Another example of a game-changing technology that's coming down in price and yet increasing in capabilities. And then there's the fun and creative stuff. So I found this thing on Hackaday. This is a device that someone created and actually machined himself that dispenses treats to his dog remotely. And the way he set this up was so fun. He actually set his dog up with an email address and when you send his dog an email, this device will measure out and dispense some treats onto the floor for his dog. Presumably he'll make some noise so the dog knows that the treats are coming. And that's not the end of it because if you look closely, you can kind of see a webcam there at the top there. And so as the dog is enjoying the treats, the device takes a photo of the dog and then emails that photo back to the center so you get this whole kind of interaction. I'm sure that dog is very grateful for all the emails he gets. Yeah. He probably wouldn't want one, right? Now another really neat concept that I saw from kind of like a user experience point of view was somebody who created this thing, it's like a commuting barometer. So if, I don't know if you can see the symbols there, on one side there's a bicycle symbol and on the other side there's a symbol for the London tube. And this is something that basically tells this guy in the morning whether it's going to be most expedient for him to bike to work or to take the subway. And so what it does behind the scenes is it's gathering some information and for example if the weather forecast for that day involves some precipitation, that needle is going to trend toward the subway side. And then if there's known delays in the subway, you know, transit times, that needle is going to move back towards the bike side. So, you know, as somebody I'm pretty passionate about bicycling and bike commuting myself, I thought this was just such a really neat idea. And then of course you can combine some of these technologies. You know, this is a 3D printed quadcopter, which is really handy because if a part breaks you can just print out a new one. And then also if you're taking a design and you want to improve upon it, you can start iterating, see how your changes take effect. You know, this is that whole process of engineering new products. And the cost of doing this keeps coming down. The possibilities of iterating and failing quickly with low investment keep happening. This is the future of how things are being done. So the fact that so many possibilities exist and that the cost of exploring and making something from all this potential that's out there also means that the playing field is being leveled. So between individuals and companies, you can think of all the Kickstarter campaigns you've seen that have been done by an individual or maybe a small independent group of people who are raising money to create a really interesting kick-ass product. And the playing field is also being leveled between smaller companies and larger companies because this whole scaling down of the costs and scaling up of the benefits, benefits, you know, the smaller companies even more so than large companies which are able to make those big investments. So I think that the next big thing in embedded, the next killer application that runs on an embedded Linux device is very likely to come out of the kind of hacking and experimentation that people do with affordable embedded platforms. You know, it's the kind of experimentation that you do, whether that's for fun or for profit. So I'm here to talk about a new embedded board that has a lot of exciting potential. But before I dive into the tech specs for the thing, there's an important question we need to answer. What are we going to name it? And some of you may know or have seen the pattern in affordable embedded boards that they get named after an animal. And in fact, there are so many animal-based boards on the market that someone created a website just listing them all. So you can see, if you go to AnimalBoard.org, you see a list of all these different boards. You can see that the font choice is also something that everyone seems to agree on as well. And if you take a closer look at the bottom of the page is a footer where the author of this site asked what I think is a very insightful question. Why are there no fish? Well, there is now. So I'd like to introduce you to the Minnow Board. We don't have a name for this little guy yet, but I'm thinking Splashy the Minnow is the one I'm in favor of. That may not be his final name, but that's the one I'm going to vote for. The Minnow Board is an affordable and powerful, small-form factor embedded board with an atom processor. It's a true hackable and standards-based board that is designed for hobbyists, students, researchers, and other experimenters. At the same time, it's also very well suited for heavy-duty embedded applications that require significant amounts of computing resources. Now there are four areas that we wanted to make the Minnow Board exceptional at. These categories are in performance, flexibility, openness, and standards. So let me dive in a bit more and tell you about how the Minnow's design reflects these values as I kind of expose some of the details of what this board is actually made of. So performance-wise, we're using an Intel atom processor. Like I said, no surprise from the title of this talk. It's running at a gigahertz, and it includes some features in the silicon, so we have hyperthreading capability and virtualization technology. IO-wise, I think the Minnow is really going to shine on a lot of IO-intensive applications because we're using PCI Express to power all the major peripherals. So your video, your SATA disk access, and gigabit Ethernet. There's none of this connecting an Ethernet adapter to a USB port. You know, the Ethernet is kind of a first-class citizen on the PCI bus, and you're going to get a lot of exceptional performance in terms of IO. So you can see this board going into a lot of appliance-like devices I like to refer to them as, so things like network-detached storage. With the gigabit Ethernet, you have things like network appliances, security appliances, things like that. Performance-wise, we also have UEFI firmware, so it's a modern, standards-based firmware that has fast-boot capability so the firmware can get out of the way and get your OS and application booting as quickly as possible. And then in terms of flexibility, the Minnow board is one of the most affordable Intel Atom boards you can buy, and it will be available for $199. And I'll go into details of what you're going to get with that $199 in just a little bit. The Minnow, again, with its higher computational power, can scale up to higher workloads. You can do very simple things such as have a little embedded web server that responds to a request and changes the GPIO line. And you can also do more serious applications, like I said before, some of these appliance devices and other things that, you know, I'm sure I can't think of right now that people are going to take this thing and make use of it for. Flexibility, again, comes into play with the small form factor. We're looking at a four-inch by four-inch board. The board, again, with UEFI has very extensive capabilities you can do in terms of firmware, pre-boot capability, firmware applications. And then we take the expandability of the board very seriously, too. So we have what we're calling Minnow board lures, and these lures will allow you to create add-on boards that would add things like, you know, display support, wireless capability, additional IO options, and so on. Now, one of the things I'm most excited about with this board is the fact that the Minnow is the first atom-based board on the market which is fully open-source hardware. So you don't need to sign any NDAs to obtain the complete schematics of the board. That means for any of the entrepreneurs in the audience you're free to spin your own Minnow board and customize it any way you want. And CircaCo is happy to do this for you, too, being the designers and manufacturers of this board. They're the experts in it, and they're available to help you out if you need it. Which license, what? Well, the schematics are just going to be available. It's going to be more public demand, I guess. Okay, sorry. Creative Commons. Thank you. Also, in terms of openness, you know, we want this to be an open platform, so we're starting with some open-source software. We're using the Anxtrum Linux distribution, which I'm sure many of you are familiar with. Anxtrum is a binary distribution which is very well suited for embedded applications. It has a good breadth of packages you can install that are suitable for embedded applications, and it's also, you know, very well optimized for embedded use. And Anxtrum is Yachto project-compatible, something that's really important for me as somebody who's been a Yachto project developer. I'd like to see this board be a great way to introduce people to the Yachto project and get them working with it at an affordable cost. And then the Minnow board lures are also, you know, some of the initial lures we're going to be releasing are going to be open-source as well. Now, in terms of standards, I think we all recognize that X86 is a pretty important standard until it's been involved in a lot of standards that we make use of every day, so things like SATA and USB. And then at the same time, you're going to get all the embedded bus goodies that you expect from a good embedded board, so SPI, I2C, GPIO, and also some other stuff like CAN, Control Area Network Support. Standards-wise too, I include Anxtrum and Yachto, the Yachto project as well, because, you know, I think somebody pointed out to me that we have over 10 talks here at ELC that are about the Yachto project in some way, or related to the Yachto project, and I think Yachto project is really kind of living up to this promise of being a really great standardized way of creating embedded Linux images, so I include that here too. And then UEFI firmware, you know, we're not dealing with legacy BIOS anymore, so we have an open platform for firmware development. Now, this is the block diagram for the board. I don't know if you can see many details. It's probably not too important to go through each and every option here, but the fundamentals here, this board is based on Intel's Queens Bay platform, which combines Tunnel Creek, Adam's CPU, with the Top Cliff chipset, which is a PCH, the Platform Controller Hub, and you have, you know, all of your I.O., for the most part, tied to that, the PCH. So here's a list of the highlights of the Minnow Board's hardware, kind of like in a more list form. Most of the things here, one thing I didn't mention was the board will be shipping with a full gigabyte of RAM, so again, scaling up to all sorts of applications that might be a little bit more memory intensive. I.O. wise, that PCI Express is really going to make a big difference in the Minnow Board and its performance. And then I don't think I mentioned SDIO is also one of our I.O. capabilities for the board. Now, for that $199 price, you get a board that you can actually kind of get started with. You can boot it up immediately and start making use of it. So we include a microSD card with some software, the USB cable, and power adapter. So nothing to get in your way of actually being able to immediately make use of this board once you get it in your hands. Software-wise, that microSD card that I just previously mentioned is going to include the angstrom distribution, which is Yachto Project-compatible. This is, to my knowledge, one of the first embedded boards, two that was done in close development with some folks from the Yachto Project team at Intel. So we've got a really solid board support package, which will be immediately available as soon as that board is shipping. And it will be well-optimized for the hardware features of this board. And also software, well, software-firmware-wise, we have UEFI as a development platform so you can develop and debug your own firmware and make use of that fast-boot capability. So performance, flexibility, openness, and standards. This is basically the laundry list of why we think this board is really compelling as an option. One of the many options that you have available using with low-power, low-cost embedded boards today. Now, I think at this point in time, I haven't checked, but our website minnowboard.org should be up. At this time, it should just be a splash page. Get it? Splash page. So you're just going to find the most basic information. So we do have things like the block diagram and specifications and so on of the board up there. There's also a link so that you can join a mailing list if you want to get announcements of the board's availability. So when is this thing going to be available? We're looking at later this spring. And once we do finally launch as time goes on, we're going to be adding more and more to the site. So you'll have all the stuff you need. We realize that the community aspect of the site of the minnowboard is going to be really fundamental to its success. So we'll have documentation, video tutorials, a wiki, a mailing list. You can start joining minnowboard on FreeNode IRC. And then the site will also be the central place where you can download the schematics of the board, which will be updated with any revisions of the board as they become available. And you'll be able to buy the minnowboard and its lures from various distributors. So definitely check out our website. You can also follow us on Twitter at minnowboard. And we'll also be using the Twitter feed to post updates of the board's production status. And if you either follow that or join that mailing list, you'll be among the first to know when that board is available to purchase from our distributors. The board itself, like I said, it's about four inches by four inches. This is not the final version of the board. So it's just a tiny bit bigger than that. But you can see it right here and you can actually see it running code later this evening at the demo reception. So definitely come by our table and check us out. Be happy to talk to you about the board and answer any questions there. And also, this is the end of the talk, so I'm happy to answer any questions.


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We are about one month away until the premiere of American Horror Story 1984 and since my last 1984 video American Horror Story has had an attraction at Comic Con, some set photos have surfaced, a poster has been released and a few more teasers have been released. So today I'll break down all of the new developments regarding the production of the season as well as get into some popular fan theories and speculation regarding what will actually go down once 1984 premieres on September 18th. I'm gonna start with discussing what went down at 1984's installment at Comic Con and basically the biggest thing to come out of this was the reveal of the location for the season as the attraction took place at a summer camp called Camp Redwood. So get ready to see all of those awful ads for those t-shirts that just keep getting longer and longer. The rest of the Comic Con experience was just basically an interactive almost haunted house type tour of a camp bunk house, nothing too revealing, but it did feature a few nods to past seasons. Moving on, so just this week the first official poster for the season was released. It features a woman screaming as a knife smashes through a wooden door much like the first teaser we got back in April. As for my opinion on this being the poster for the season, I will say I do like it. It's obviously paying homage to the classic slasher posters with a knife being the focal point of the poster and I think it does a good job at staying true to the ad campaign that they have built for the season so far. However, when compared to previous seasons, the imagery is not nearly as strong, shocking or scary as the other season's posters. It is very reminiscent of the Scream Queens ad campaigns and to a lot of people the season does seem like if Scream Queens got a third anthological season, which as you know, I'd be down for but so far this ad campaign is shifting in a different direction than the ad campaigns for previous seasons. So along the same lines as the poster, we've gotten a new slew of teasers taking place at Camp Redwood. The new teasers are all a part of the American Horror Story survivor sweepstakes, which is now closed to enter, but basically they released a bunch of teasers introducing us to these slasher stereotype characters and you had to choose which one you think would survive and now they're starting to release the teasers of all these characters' deaths. My prediction for these teasers is that they're just gonna end up killing them all. These teasers, of course, feature no actual cast members or characters, but it does seem that they may have been filmed at the actual set for the season, but we won't know for sure until we get some actual episode footage. So far, I'm a fan of these teasers, but once again, they are very on the nose and not at all like previous American Horror Story teasers in terms of shocking imagery and being unpredictable. These are very predictable teasers so far, but this makes me think that maybe they're exhausting all of these slasher norms and tropes just so that we're shocked when the actual season is a completely different tone than the promotional material is painting it out to be. As usual, there are some set leaks that may or may not have come from the set of 1984, but unlike previous seasons, the photos don't really reveal anything new. These set photos really just give us a look at the set for the show and it's really nothing we haven't seen from the teasers. In previous seasons at this point, we would usually have some actual photos of the cast. I know it happened for Colt and Apocalypse and for Roanoke, we had basically the whole Roanoke Village set leak to us. So yeah, in comparison, 1984 is doing a great job at keeping it under wraps and it does appear that they haven't really filmed on any other locations than the summer camp location and possibly 20th Century Fox sound stages. Because for Apocalypse, most of our leaks came from the scenes they filmed in downtown Los Angeles for the first episode. So before I move on to theories, I just want to bring attention to the large amount of false information that is being spread online about this season. Largely, this information is being spread by Twitter and Instagram news accounts run by fans, so I say news in quotations. It really gets under my skin because these accounts are spreading rumors and disguising them as official news and people are actually believing them. I made a whole thread on Twitter debunking a bunch of false information and I'll be sure to update it with more bullshit as I see it, but just be aware, if you see a fact or update about 1984 that is not posted by an official source like FX themselves or genuine news outlets like Deadline or Variety, make sure there is a genuine source behind the fact before you believe it because a lot of these accounts are not siding sources or even having sources. Also, if you haven't been to run one of these accounts, you should probably look into the idea of journalistic principles and you should be siding your sources if you want to be seen as reliable. All right, just had to get that off of my chest because it is driving me insane, but anyway, moving on to the theories.  Theory number one, the theme is not really a teen summer camp slasher. Now I've seen this general sentiment online, but I don't really necessarily believe this one, but knowing American Horror Story, it doesn't seem completely impossible. So as you know, the ad campaign is going all in when it comes to being very clear on the theme and setting of this season, but all of the promotional material feels like we've seen it before. And that is because every teaser and poster we've got is packed full with homages to other slashers, which American Horror Story loves an homage, so it's not necessarily out of the blue, but these teasers are purely homage and very little is new. And specifically, the sweepstakes teasers seem like they're advertising a remake of Friday the 13th. It's all been cut dry and simple. Nothing particularly unique has been suggested yet, so either they'll keep this up up until the premiere or the trailer for the season will give away the twist. So the theory is that maybe the entire theme is wrong and they're doing what they did with season six again and keeping the real theme a surprise. Or the general setup is a cliche summer camp slasher, but then there's some other element that makes it fresh and unique. I do believe there has to be another element to this, but I think that we all know that there is a lot about the season's premise that we do not know yet. Theory number two, the twist is that the location is actually a movie set for a teen slasher. This one has been going on for a while and it's hard to see who said it first, but the first person to put it on Reddit was use slash oh Steven. So basically going along with the first theory, the idea is that our main cast are playing actors that are filming a movie. And then maybe things start going wrong and people actually start getting killed. Think screen three mixed with American horror story Roanoke. The thing that gives this theory some credence is that the cast teaser was released under the pretense of it being a camera test, which of course can be interpreted as actual Emma Roberts and actual Angel Caraz and so on doing camera tests for their actual 1984 roles, or it could be interpreted that it is their characters doing camera tests for a fictional movie that they are about to make. I do think this concept is a little too similar to Roanoke, but I can see them straying away from the ground they've already treaded if they do end up going for this concept. Similar concepts have been done in movies like screen three, Halloween Resurrection, but of course this concept has not nearly been done as much as the premise they're currently setting up, so in a way it's less cliche. To me this would make sense for them and I actually do think it could turn out really cool if they do go this direction. I've always loved the second half of Roanoke for toying with this concept and I think the season would have been better if it had this type of concept for more than just the last five episodes. To me Roanoke was strong in its concept and its horror and it was strong visually in my opinion and I think it was more weak in pacing story and characters. So if 1984 can rework this concept into the show and execute it with characters that the audience can connect to and care about then I think this concept is a home run. Half of me wants this to turn out to be true and half of me is a little reluctant, but moving on to theory number three. This one comes from u slash blxray on reddit who says that 1984 may be going for a similar premise as the 2012 film cabin in the woods. He says think about it 1984 is a book by George Orwell about big brother watching over people and the slasher aspect of it would come from an organized scenario where the people in charge terrorized the victims. All right so I do think this theory is plausible and if you remember in my first video about 1984 after the title was announced one of the first things I thought of was the Orwell novel. I think that the book titled 1984 will definitely have some influence on the show as the year was definitely chosen for a reason. If the year wasn't important I would imagine Ryan and fx would change the year in order to avoid confusion with the countless other things with the year 1984 in them including the next Wonder Woman movie. I know the Wonder Woman poster came out around the same news cycle as the 1984 teasers so they're already kind of being promoted at the same time. But anyway I do think that if not the book then the year 1984 definitely has some meaning. All right so those are the three main theories I wanted to talk about but now let's do a speed round of what you guys think will happen in the season. I asked you guys on my instagram which you should all go follow by the way it's at Skyler.Gaitano but first Vera Bennett 2018 says that they think Lana Winters will be involved in some way. Christian Strode thinks that there's going to be something more than a slasher. It's Tom Pozo thinks it's more than a movie set. American horror fan thinks that Sarah Paulson will end up being the unmasked killer similar to Mrs. Voorhees in the first Friday the 13th. All right so let me know your theories about the season. Let me know what you think about the ones I presented in this video and just let me know any thought you've ever had in the comments below. Subscribe for more 1984 content and give this video a like. Follow me on Twitter and Instagram at SkylerGaitano on Twitter and at Skyler.Gaitano on Instagram. See you next time.


There are a number of Speculations that you can go into is how might yogurt help either reduce weight or Keep people from becoming overweight, and I think both of those are possible based on the data that we have However, they haven't been proven But things that potentially that yogurt might do is it might make a person feel more full So they eat less at the next meal It might alter the gut bacteria and we know that the gut bacteria has a role and apparently and and affecting weight and also it affecting the Just a talk we heard today the short chain fatty acids Alan Blake was talking about that this morning If it results in increased short chain fatty acids because of the bacterial action on Nondigestible carbohydrates That could either Reduce appetite or more interestingly to me at least it could alter the amount of Energy expenditure. So if eating yogurt increases energy expenditure, there are some again See suggestive data when they're looking at people who are eating More yogurt versus less yogurt and they weigh less They're eating the same number of calories. So there's a suggestion that that yogurt might do that One other possibility of how yogurt may make people healthier Came from my 14 year old granddaughter when I was talking to her About the difference between correlation and causation for this talk actually I was telling her that okay, there are a number of these cross-sectional studies, but that doesn't prove And so we began to talk about it. How could yogurt perhaps Make people healthier and make them weigh less and she just said well If you're doing one thing that's healthy That may help you do other things that are healthy and I went wow, that's exactly right because people Have a picture of yogurt in their head yogurt is known as a health food People who are health nuts eat a lot of yogurt And so if you can you can be convinced to change your behavior to start eating a healthy food Just because you're periodically eating that makes you think oh well, I should go take a walk Or I should have some more fruit or I should have some more vegetables So the it there's a an association of healthier behavior And that's an interesting possibility of how yogurt might be associated with the with a healthier Status the big conclusion that I come to is we need more research particularly mechanistic research Randomize control trials, but the data there suggesting that this would be helpful And yogurt is is an easy Thing to get people to do


Hi, I'm Robin Ginn, executive director of the OpenJS Foundation here for another cool story about OpenJS and action I'm delighted to have Robin Glenn here from YNAP, which is like for me one of my favorite brands and retailers, so Super cool to have Robin here to talk more with us. So Robin tell us a little bit about yourself First thanks for having me on it's really exciting and it's always exciting to see a fan of our website I've been there a while so, you know, we were quite small and Maybe a bit niche and so when everyone when anyone says that they've heard of us. It's super exciting for me Oh, yeah, I think I changed clothes three times like what do I wear? Yes, I'm a principal developer at YNAP. I'm also a member of the Chrome advisory board I work within a team called the luxury division and we look after mr. Porter and net porting And yeah, I've been there for ten years, which is you know an ice age and technology, but I started My career as a designer and a flash developer And then I moved to net porting. I've worked in different departments different teams Wherever my curiosity takes me. I just end up going and that ranges from web standards performance engineering test automation observability scalability And the last six months I've been working in SRE and mainly with Kubernetes So in fact just before this call I was running a workshop with we've works around Kubernetes Very cool So I know technology is pretty important to net or port a can you explain why a big retailer and Why that is so important to the company and that in your team. Yes, so I mean I Wine up as a whole it is technology. So Interestingly enough, it was our 20th anniversary of ukes and net port a this year So if you think about the landscape, you know in 2000 people were just getting comfortable buying books online We just had the comm burst You know boo who had blown like 130 million in six months And we were trying to convince people to spend thousands and thousands on dresses So technology was about making them feel safe secure But but also exciting and now 20 years on, you know, people are much more demanding with what they want So we have to up our game to offer more to them to retain them So, you know technologies there is the backbone of the entire brand. That's cool I read a blog series that you did over the course of a couple years and it talked about sort of this Defining moment when you decided to shift your architecture. Do you want to just So, yeah, you know like talking to you and me being like, oh, I'm excited that you know the brand, you know When I when the company was young it was kind of niche underground I mean undergrounds available where but it wasn't like no, you know, if you knew you knew but Maybe it wasn't that mainstream because the You know the entry to barrier with expensive luxury clothing is quite high So we're quite niche. So what we started getting famous for is sales and when we do our clearance So what would happen is a sale will come around and we couldn't hold the traffic, right? So that there was the decision of do we You know, we were still on physical tin back then Do we get this extra hardware and then we have this point of redundancy for the rest of the year Or do we look at something else? So we looked at, you know cloud offerings And and we just made once more simple microservice of the sale listing page put on AWS to horizontally scale just to Distribute some of that load And then we managed to keep the site up Which is obviously really exciting But also we'd seen this kind of change in our mindset, you know with microservices of teams have an autonomy to release faster We've changed the way we do an automation testing and all of these things just freed us up a bit and that's started us on this microservice architecture And and that's taken us to where we are today Great So talk about a little bit where you are today in that sort of you've been there 10 years. How are you sort of? defining your architecture what? You know what solutions are you building? We'll talk a little bit more about some of those challenges so we As we were saying so the sale app was successful Then different teams that I get an autonomy and they were like, okay, we're gonna cut up the the website into into different domains So like okay Shopping parts or listing parts and you know separating things out and we followed In that journey would have separate domain specific teams to do different jobs And they would have complete autonomy of our applications and get deployed So we had a first pass of that And that was pretty successful. We learned a lot. There was also problems and and then we got an opportunity to To start again from scratch So they wanted to change the way that our logistics worked new factory new distribution centers new robotics So that included having like new API structure. So we took the opportunities a front-end team to say all right this Let's take what we learned in the first few attempts and and do it again So we did that for mr. Porte and that went live globally. So we did it in segments the countries That went global this year the outnet Who I don't work exactly inside But they are also using that infrastructure and architecture and code that we built us all brand diagnostic So they're already on it and now we're just in the process of migrating Netaporte onto it as well So then we'll have three, you know Large brands with over I think it's half a billion page views a month or losing this new infrastructure So at the moment, yeah, we're we are Implementing that portal to that and but we've got some technical things that we that we really want to look at going forward as well Which mainly wraps around Google's push towards the things called core web vitals Got it. So, you know So what were some of the factors that sort of drove your decisions on the technologies that you chose when you, you know Move to the new, you know, I know you moved from microservices and now you're you're evolving that further. So so what what we had Previously in the past which is you know, I think it's quite common and it works many businesses, but it weird hit this breaking point So we had a large Java spring MVC application You know what some people might call a monolith and that was separated into like two teams There was like the back-end team right in the Java and then there was the front-end team who were just around JavaScript client side and CSS HTML And and when we made these microservices we adopted node.js really because we wanted this kind of Fast iteration. So we had a bunch of client-side JavaScript developers who were learning more server-side JavaScript and Yeah, that's so that was You know really successful for us and we wanted to break that apart and follow what we wanted more than anything is Rapidness. So we wanted people to not do context switching. So if you're doing a front-end feature, you could also do it on the server So the main thing for us was around context switching and we had a huge pool of resource of JavaScript devs Yeah, so we wanted to keep that and we've looked at other projects in the blog post you reference we built a POC in go and we also built one in node.js and Although we got them similar in comparable throughput the the ultimate deciding factor was We didn't have that many go developers But we had a huge pool of of JavaScript developers We wanted to keep that that lack of context switching. So when you work in our ecosystem, we we use things like jest for our unit tests We use Cypress and Pappeteer for our functional tests our servers written in node.js we use JavaScript frameworks and We have things like autocannon, which is a benchmark in low testing written in JavaScript We use node clinic, which is a JavaScript tool for them. So we have like this closed ecosystem where Not closed, but we have this like if you need to switch between projects It's really straightforward and that's not to say that we haven't got other things. We have plenty things written in go And we've got some things in .net And C sharp sorry and but the idea was it was more important for us to be fast and iterating And if there was maybe a throughput loss The the expenditure and horizontally Expanding the service to take that load was the cost is lower than the engineering cost of hiring people in these different languages So we get switching is what we wanted to avoid We still evaluate technologies to see, you know What what works, but that's a big factor for us was iterating fast. Oh great It sounds like your team was pretty adaptable and moving to those Yeah Do you know like we as a small group of front-end devs work with some SRE and infrastructure and we Got Kubernetes deployed running and we're really happy with it But we've got these opportunity to give front-end devs the opportunity to learn how to do this infrastructure work So, you know, we have a pool of talent if you want to move around this Yeah, we we try and encourage that to just move around And see what you can adopt and what you're interested in. Yeah, that's very cool. I'm very rewarding for them. So that's cool I'm talk a little bit about your decision to use fastify and You're you know, and how that impacts your web performance So this is was for a specific project, which is called loco There's a blog on our medium called Solving a problem like routing. It's a series where we talk about the adoption of fastify and The main thing for us was So we have a bunch of presentation servers In Node.js and most of them use express and that that worked well for us there's there's a few now that are using next.js and we've been working with Versailles and Google about how to tune that With POC and with cynical supper, which is a svelte equivalent of Next yes, but this application loco is is like a proxy of how to orchestrate our microservices So if a certain route comes in it looks like this pattern You need to call this microservice and then it did a bunch of like business logic as well So the the main point was and my fear when when I started looking at it was this is a single point of failure It's a bottleneck that all the requests have to come through to decide what what HTML a customer gets back So performance was was absolutely key so we built a POC in Go and it had like super high throughput and concurrency We built one in Just know JS it was lower We built one in express and it was still lower than we were happier with so then we tried out fastify And you know we started using multiple cores and we felt like we could we can't compete with With go but we could we could get to a level of parity that we were happy with so Yeah, performance was was key I've also worked with Mateo from near-form multiple times and you know, he's a he's a performance genius and they're so Obsessed with performance We knew that that was the kind of right framework for us because we needed that that enthusiasm to keep it going and Yeah, those and you know working relationship with Mateo near-form They've come into our company a few times and some training When you were on to a winner as soon as we started looking through that That's great And it's it is good to see that project grow and and get better every day and probably with your implementation We're all everybody's learning as they go as well. Yes, we were you know We were adopters of like it uses the log of Pino, which is in there. We were already using that in all our applications anyway You know It's a great project. We don't have a Huge need to move some of the other applications. They don't have that level of throughput requirement So express works, you know fine for them, but with this The amount of throughput that we wanted this to do it was super important and important for us and As it's been an Approxies basically network bound. So that's where like all the latency is is calling these services, but when we were Doing our performance tests Check-in for bottlenecks, you know, the compute time of a request when you take out the network is like Under two milliseconds usually so it's super fast churning it through. So yeah, we're really happy That's great. Great to see those results. Cool. Very cool Sounds like you're working with a few other open JS foundation projects probably amp. Maybe did I hear that? so about my role on the Chrome advisory board is that I've been involved with amp and some of the other things since since the get-go and also I was traveling with some other Conferences we we haven't got a huge adoption of of amp yet We've looked at it in different senses. I think we there's some web open standards questions that we have as a development team around around amp I but I know that the editorial parts of the company are really interested in it But yeah, we're not huge adopter yet, but we have looked at it Oh good And I know they're building out an advisory team as well. So lots of opportunities to give input there. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, and definitely part of working different Google working groups. We we have daily dialogue with the the Google team and their dev rail team So I think there's been a couple of POCs. It's just hasn't been massively prioritized for us yet.  What's your so? I think like the big thing for us is performance as you know, most people say I think I Performance is traditionally been quite a hard sell. I don't think that the tool chain was good enough to begin with like Collecting performance data was a bit hit and miss the browsers weren't offering enough But yeah, the now the browsers have good implementations of performance metrics You can you can quite easily start to correlate. Okay You can bucket people off for good performance bad performance or whatever and then look at, you know On your KPIs for business conversion bounce rate these kind of things. So that's that's a huge thing for us as I'm sure it is for everyone but The a really interesting thing is if you know the core web vitals, which are first input to lay largest contentful paint Cumulative layout shift. So those now a measure not just performance, but good customer experience So is the website nice to use? And if you look at Google's search tools now They are starting to add the core web vitals does your website have core vitals and based off your users crux report so it doesn't Take a genius to start thinking well Google and now we're going to start Either badging good UX or they're going to start ranking based on good user experience So it's not just a case anymore of okay. These can affect your your business KPIs These could affect your business rankings or these could affect your natural search so for us that is a big that's a big question and Many people have been down the journey already, but you know Stopping to use rest As your API endpoints, you know, maybe building something a bit more flexible That's something that we're looking at another big thing that we're looking at is zero runtime frameworks I think it's an industry problem of JavaScript bloat in the browser like we've just shipped more and more JavaScript and in the luxury department we we don't have the problem that other companies do so much because About our barrier of entry is already high, right? We sell watches that are 200 000 pounds. So the adoption rate of New phones is high. So we have the luxury of having high compute phones good memory And generally I think it's 95 percent of our traffic is is 4g So we're lucky, but we still want to take our website on a bit of a You know, so cut some JavaScript loads. So we're looking at different zero runtime frameworks like Svelte To to to see in the future what what that might look like At the moment, you know, it's just pocs. We're still migrating and we've just got some ideas But we're also working on next.js with the versel team and with google Uh to help, you know, improve performance there, but that That I think for the next year is is probably what we will look at As well as more experimentation We've been writing some interesting stuff for kubernetes to to roll out applications at different experiments So your server side rendered a b testing through kubernetes. That's quite interesting Yeah, those are the big things I think for us, but a focus on Web vitals, I think is going to be big for everyone in the industry For the next year, I think Got it Okay, and I have one question. I always love to ask devs So when you go to work What's a good day at work for you? Um Not back to back meetings. That's the dream You're gonna if you get a day without meetings. That's uh, you know, that's the highlight um I like to I bounce off people's energy So I really like to see what other people are doing and just geek out, you know talk about it But I mean People in work get a bit distressed by this by me, but what I really like Because I've been working in sre they're like the last six months Is I I like when things go wrong, you know, uh when things break It's like the closest I feel like I come to a detective like you're looking for clues Trying to find the smoking gun of what what caused the issue so I think that Like that's where like the adrenaline and the excitement if something goes wrong. I I really enjoy that. I not too often, you know, I want the customers to have a good time, but When something goes wrong, it's quite exciting. That's very cool inspector robin, right? Yeah, that's all I like Well, we're just delighted to have you part of our community and like getting super excited To hear about all the cool things that you're building at netta portet and wine app and all those cool brands that you have so Really, thanks for joining us and we hope that you pop back in and share Everything that you know when they're learning along the way Of course and it absolute pleasure to be asked. It was really nice to be here and chat to you guys


Do you want to feel Qi energy right now? Put your phone down for a second because you're going to need both hands for this technique. Are you ready? Now for all these instructions, I'm going to show you how you can feel Qi energy right there in your own home. Some might say there's some kind of hypnosis or a magic trick and that what I'm about to show you is scientifically impossible. But if you have an open mind and you're willing to learn new ideas and you'll be able to test and verify for yourself right there at home whether Qi energy is real. I'm going to give you a live demonstration. Just follow these instructions very carefully right now. Okay, are you ready? Let's start.  Now link the okay signs together like this. Okay, try to keep the link together but also pull it apart with your arms and see how much strength it takes to pull apart that link. So you have a feeling of how much energy and strength it takes to pull apart the link. But keep that in your mind. Now if you look below this video, there should be a link that says Qi energy broadcast demo. Click that and then it opened a new tab on your browser. Now make sure that tab opens and come back to this video screen after you've done that. Now what I want to do is while you still have that tab open in the background, I want you to do the same thing. So link your hands together. Now try to open up that link. It's harder, isn't it? Your fingers have become stronger. It's not opening up as hard and try to pull as hard as you can to open up the link. You see now it takes a lot more force to open up that link. What's happening you may be asking, well, what you've done right now is activate the Qi energy in your body just from opening that web page tab. Because what we did was quantum entangle that web page with an energy signature.


Aloha and welcome to Ehana Kako. We're here every week on the Think Tech Hawai'i Broadcast Network. I'm Kili Akeena, president of the Grassroot Institute. Here in the state of Hawai'i, we are impacted by the federal government, perhaps more than any other state of the union. And so the people that we send to Washington, D.C., to represent us play an extremely important role. But sometimes we wonder, how well are they representing us? We have a rare opportunity now to fill a vacant seat in Congress. And I'd like to say at the outset how sad I am personally and how much I send my condolences to the family of the late K. Mark Takai, who served Hawai'i well. I had the privilege of knowing him since his youth at the University of Hawai'i and saw his career. He has truly been a great servant for the people of Hawai'i and we extend our aloha to his family and to all who are close to him. What that means, however, for the rest of the state is that there is a vacant congressional seat and there's the opportunity also to fill that seat into a full term. Right now running for that seat is Shirlene Ostrov, a former colonel in the United States Army, a woman who has started her own business and now somebody who is going to throw her hat into the rink as the Republican challenger for the seat. Let's welcome her to the program. Shirlene aloha and welcome to the program. Thank you very much. Thanks for having me on the show. I'm delighted. I just want to tell you how proud we are that somebody is rising to the mantle and taking on really a monumental task to run as the opposition party in a state that is largely one party. It is. I'm proud to do it and I'm excited to represent the alternative voice here in Hawai'i. Well, that's something very important and really your run, as I understand you, is not about partisanship. It's not that Republicans are better than Democrats or better than Libertarians. It's about the importance of having another voice. That's right. I think it's key for us and any state to have a vibrant two party system. You know, as I say, iron sharpens iron and in order for us to have the best ideas, we've got to keep each other on our toes and the Republican voice is a very important voice that has to be represented in the national conversation. That's right. And you talk about national conversation. We have this interesting nexus of local and national issues here in Hawai'i. Yes. Probably more interesting than almost anywhere else in the country. Absolutely. Absolutely. And that's what I hope to do. The national, the majority up in Washington, D.C., is a Republican party. That's right. And so Hawai'i currently is not represented in that majority. And that's why I think it's important for Hawai'i to have a second voice. So you're suggesting as well that should you be elected, you'd be able to work with the Republicans that are in power, giving Hawai'i more options than we currently have. Absolutely. Absolutely. I think it's very important actually to have that voice and to be able to have influence on both, in both parties. Now here in Hawai'i, there's something that we're very sensitive about and that's the importance of the military presence. Yes. Whether we go back to World War II and the bombing of Pearl Harbor or look at the complexity of the world today, especially in the theater of the Indian Ocean and Pacific Rim and so forth, Hawai'i is a critical place for the nation security and the military presence here is very important for Hawai'i. Yes. You actually come from a strong military background. Absolutely. In fact, in your background, you've had not only military experience as a colonel in the Army, you've also been Air Force. Air Force. Yes. Sorry for the wrong coup out there. Oh no. But you also have had some diplomatic experience in working with Congress. Yes. What are your views on national security? So I think you're exactly right. The main reason why I wanted to run is not because I wanted to be part of the majority party in Washington, D.C., although that is critical. The reason is because I understand the challenges that we have ahead in the national security arena. And Hawai'i plays a very, very important role in the national security strategy of the country. If you look at the region of the Pacific, the main threats of the future, that's where they are. And Hawai'i can and will play a major role. And so I believe Hawai'i should have somebody who is very experienced and knowledgeable in the national security arena to read the way. What are some of the major threats, or at least one of the major threats that we're facing today in the world, especially from our point of view here in Hawai'i? Well, I would be remiss if I didn't say that for our national security we must remain focused on destroying ISIS, first and foremost destroying ISIS. But the threats of the future are not so much far into the future. If you look at China, for instance, China has been aggressive in building their military. That's right. And also building islands in the South China Sea with no challenge. And that very aggressive move should worry the United States. In fact, as you mentioned, China shift our attention slightly from ISIS. Yes. It reminds me that we've had so much attention on the Middle East over the last decade that we haven't really observed on a national level the extent to which Hawai'i and the Pacific Command have been absolutely important in keeping peace in this vast region of the Pacific Rim. Absolutely. What are some of the other areas in the Pacific Rim that we need to be concerned about? Well, you know, if you look at the North Korea continues to be menacing. And even Russia, if you read the paper just this weekend, Russia has launched a new aircraft carrier in the region. And so these threats are alive and well, and we have to be able to address them. And many of them are not neatly compartmentalized. That's right. Distant military threats. Take, for example, what goes on in the Philippines and its relationship to drug trafficking. Yes, exactly. Exactly. When you look at all of these challenges together, I think that the national security agenda is going to be prime in the Pacific. How would you advise the President, that's one of the roles that Congress and the Senate play, how would you speak to the national role or the United States role in the world in terms of security? That's a great question. I think that the United States has a leadership role in this world and should be the leader in the Pacific. And they are. And so if I were to talk to the President, I would make sure that the strategy includes a mix of diplomatic and military strategies to engage our allies and to make sure that those that are threats out there understand that there are a lot of different relationships in the Pacific that could prove to be problematic if someone chooses to get a little out of hand. Very often we hear from our members of Congress, particularly our delegation, commentary on how the President is doing. Yes. What would you have to say by way of advice to the next President of the United States? I won't put you on the spot and ask you who it is. Yeah, please don't. But what would you have to say to that President in terms of the kind of leadership that needs to be shown from the Oval Office? That's a great question. I actually firmly believe that in order for the United States to have its place in the national leadership spectrum, we have to make sure that our military is properly resourced to meet the challenges. You'd be a strong advocate for maintaining a strong military? I am. Now, understand that doesn't mean a blank check for the military. Having been in the military for a long time, I understand how the industrial military complex can just get awry. But I do believe that the President has to put his importance on a strong military presence. You look across the world and you see the United States as it is regarded by our enemies and friends alike. What has happened to the reputation of the United States? And what do you think you can contribute to the building of our reputation as a member of Congress? Well, I'm always going to say, and I believe it with all my heart, that the United States is the world's best military. It has a world's best military and has that reputation around the world. But that being said, our capability has been degraded over the last eight years or so. And we have a lot to catch up on. We don't have the technological edge we once had because of lack of investments in those things. And we've just wasted years making sure that we kept that edge. Our troops are tired. Our equipment is tired and needs to be refreshed. And so there's a lot that I would make sure that a lot needs to be done. Absolutely. One of the essential ingredients to having a strong military is a strong economy. Yes. Nationally and within our states as well. You have some views about the Hawaii economy and I don't think you are a stranger to something that all of us know. Our cost of living is continually rising. Yes. Our ability to make a living and keep our children at home suffers from the brain drain. Yes. Because the opportunities aren't here and so forth. Yes. What are some of the causes that you think you could address from Washington D.C. in terms of finding solutions for Hawaii's economy? You know, that's a great question. The cost of living is something that matters to us every day. I'm raising children that are teenagers and we sit around the dinner table and talk about the cost of living in terms of whether we're going to spend our next dollar on and how we're going to get the things we want to get. So it's something that's near and dear to my heart as a mom and as a citizen of Hawaii. Now, being out here in the middle of the Pacific, the most isolated archipelago in the world, we're dependent pretty heavily upon importing our food and our supplies for buildings and steel and everything else involved in that, which makes us very dependent upon the shipping industry. That's right. You have some strong ideas about some reforms in Washington. I do. I'm very, very familiar with the shipping industry. I've done transportation my entire life in the military globally. And the Jones Act is something that adds on unnecessary burden to Hawaii families as well as Alaska and Puerto Rico. But I'm looking at Hawaii families and it's an unnecessary burden for the shipping to support the national security of our country. And it just increases our cost of living exponentially. I think over $3,000 a household. And I know I can do a lot more with $3,000 in paying extra for it. What kind of solution do you think you could suggest for this? And I want to preface that by saying that politically we haven't gone very far with bringing any kind of reforming or updating to the Jones Act because oftentimes voices stand at extreme positions opposed to each other, shouting for keeping it absolutely the same as it's been 100 years or repealing it completely. You have a different view, don't you? I do. I've been involved with the Jones Act my entire career as a transportation officer. And I believe that there is room to amend the Jones Act for the 21st century. I do believe that there's some things that we can do so that Hawaii and Alaska and Puerto Rico citizens do not have to play these extreme prices for the price of our national security. Alaska, in fact, has many particular exemptions for certain industries and so forth. Do you think Hawaii could possibly make use of that kind of legislation? I think Hawaii with the right leadership at the helm can make use of that legislation. Absolutely. It's no secret that our current congressional delegation stands lockstep opposed to any changes whatsoever or updating of the Jones Act. Yes, and that is one thing that differentiates myself from the other voices out there. I believe that there should be an amendment to this and I do believe that it's time for change and that Hawaii family's voices should be heard and their concerns should be prime on how we represent our folks in Washington, D.C. Before we go to a short break, I'll ask you a quick question. Yes. If you're elected, you'll be working with three colleagues probably who are Democrats. Yes. How do you anticipate your teamwork? You know, I've spent decades working with people from different walks of life, different political views, different countries. I have no problem. I have no doubt that I can do a great job as my past has, as my past can show you on how to get the mission done. And for me, this is a mission. We'll be right back after a short break and I want to ask you a little bit more about the kind of impact that Washington, D.C. has on Hawaii in terms of the ability to run a business or to make a livelihood. I'm talking with Charlene Ostrov, retired colonel from the United States Air Force, a business leader here in the state of Hawaii who's thrown her hat into the rink to be the Republican contender for the congressional district number one seat. We'll be back with her in just a moment. Don't go away. 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They produce about 35 hours of original content from downtown Honolulu that goes across the world, is broadcast multiple times on broadcast stations here, and seen on the internet forever, really. And you can find that content on all kinds of issues such as the economy, government, society, culture and the arts at thinktechhawaii.com. By the way, as you may know if you watch regularly, we call ourselves Ehana Kako, because at the Grassroots Institute we like to mimic, if you will, a venerable old Hawaiian saying, a pule kako. If you're in Hawaii, you'll hear a pule kako all the time. That means let's pray together. Ehana Kako means let's work together, because think of the terrible alternative. If we don't work together, we'll get nothing done. But if we work together, nothing can stop us, and that's what we need. That's part of the spirit that Shirlene Ostrov would take to Washington, D.C. in terms of bringing people from disparate backgrounds together to work, whether they're Republican or Democrat, or from any other kinds of backgrounds. And so I'm going to dive right back into our conversation. Shirlene, people don't like Washington, D.C. very much. No, they don't. But it's kind of a love-hate relationship, because here in Hawaii we seem to always turn to Washington, D.C. to get more funding for things. And at the same time, we're not fully aware of the extent to which Washington, D.C. interferes with our freedoms and our lives and our businesses here. But you've been looking at that for quite a while. I actually have had three assignments in Washington, D.C. So I consider that a way as my second home. Oh, I don't know if you want to let that out. Yeah, exactly. But I do understand that the power in Washington, D.C. when wielded properly can really be a help to the folks back home. And so that's why I put my hat on the race. I understand what Washington, D.C. can bring to the people of Hawaii with the right leadership. Well, that's so very important. But unfortunately, Hawaii is strapped in many ways by policies that Washington, D.C. initiates, affecting our taxes, affecting small business. You and I were talking a little bit about that. Yes. Yeah, I think the taxes can definitely be something to address, you know, simplifying the taxes. The tax code would be great in order for people to stimulate the economy, to open their businesses or provide jobs, expand their businesses, those kinds of things. I think that there's opportunities there to really make a difference for the folks back home. That's right. I appreciate some of your comments you gave me last week regarding a grassroots institute newsletter that we sent out in which we pointed out how complex the tax situation is and how hard it is for us here in Hawaii. It is. I lament when we just went through the past tax season. I remember when I was just coming out and working, I could fill out a 10-40 EZ and comply with the federal law and now it's a complicated process that only the experts can understand, even for someone as simple as myself. That's right. Here in Hawaii, how are small businesses faring under laws relating to medical insurance or minimum wage or other federal regulations? I think that the small businesses here are challenged, quite frankly, by the weight of the regulations from Washington, D.C. and that's the voice that needs to be brought to Washington, D.C. that people in Hawaii and everywhere would like to see simpler taxes and simpler regulations that would allow them to make some decisions and start their own businesses and be great parts of their society, wherever they're from, but especially here in Hawaii. I know you have a special heart for the individuals who are working in the fishing industry here in Hawaii. Absolutely. And recently you stood with some of our well-known political leaders, Governor Arayoshi, Senator Akaka. You want to tell us a little bit about that? I just believe that those leaders in particular have served Hawaii well for many years and they understand the needs of Hawaii. Well, they came out recently with a letter in which they opposed an action of President Obama to expand the National Marine Monument known as Papahanaumokoakea. It's a complex issue, though. It is complex. It's mixed with good and bad. I care about the fishing rights of the native Hawaiians, but I care about the fishing rights of the industry here. It's a very important industry here in Hawaii. And the science, you know, there's a lot of things that go in it. Like you said, it's complex. We could talk about the science behind it for a long time, but I do stand behind Senator Akaka, Governor's Kaitan on Arayoshi because they understand the issue. They understand the complexity of the issue, and it's not just a simple yes or no. Sure. And what are your thoughts about the expansion of federal power? That's a massive expansion of federal power into our backyard. That's exactly right. I don't know that there's a place for that here in Hawaii, especially in this particular issue. It's something that I believe in smaller government, the smaller government reach, definitely the federal government reach into things like the Hawaiian fishing rights is, I think, a stretch too far. Well, this is a highly politicized issue, so it's a good kicking off point for me to ask you this next question. Yes. As you work with people from different political backgrounds and points of view, what do you bring to the table? You're working in a state, Hawaii, that is largely Democrat, empowered by the unions. The other members of your congressional delegation, should you win, will be Democrats, and yet you have alluded to earlier that you have the ability to work with the Republicans. How do you envision your role being able to span these two different points of view? That's a good question. I think one thing that works for me in this situation is that I spent several decades working in different environments and with different political parties and with different people with different interests. I understand that in order to make something work that you have to be able to negotiate different points of views. Quite frankly, I think that experience will come to bear very well in this situation. I think in the military, you've learned quite a few lessons about leadership. Yes. What lessons do you bring to bear upon becoming a congresswoman? Well, I believe in the core values that I've been brought up with, integrity first, service before self. Service before self, that's clearly, and then excellence in all we do. Those three core values is what I bring to the table and I'm excited to bring that to the table of a congressional position if I win. One of the things we've observed in the presidential primaries and in a few other races here in Hawaii is that people are no longer necessarily voting a long party line. It seems that particular candidates, the issues that they stand for are taking a more prominent place in the minds and actions of the voting public. So people are going to make choices. So what I've respected is you've spoken with respect about the competition about Colleen Honabusa. Yes. And yet you differentiate yourself from her. Very much so. What are some of those markers of this differentiation? You know, one of the major markers is that I'm not a career politician and so my agenda is pretty clear. I want to represent the people of Hawaii as you know, as you can imagine, running in a federal race is not an easy task and it's not for the faint of heart. And I'm doing this because I really believe that Hawaii does deserve someone who's bringing a whole different experience to the table, different points of views. I've worked in many different administrations there in Washington, D.C. So I understand how that can be done and how to navigate the system pretty well. Well, one of the things that is often asked of politicians and unfairly so, I think, who are female is the quote-unquote woman's question. What do you bring to the table? Yes, exactly. What would you do for women? And while I think that the premise of that question is questionable itself, it's something that you probably have to address all the time. It is. You know, as you can imagine, I came in the military 25-plus years ago. So you've had tremendous experience in climbing the ladder and doing it within the system and doing it earnestly and sincerely, and I'd stand on the shoulders of many women who came before me and I think that... I don't even think it's a question anymore. I think that there's a place for us and I feel and I know that I can bring that leadership skill to bear. You've already spoken of your belief in a strong military. Yes. And at the same time, the military is probably one of the most egalitarian societies that exists, giving opportunity to everyone based upon their character and based upon their competence. How would you bring that kind of model to society itself? You know, I believe, not only in the government structure, but I believe in civil society and those kinds of things are important in civil society. In civil society organizations, we don't necessarily rely on a formal rank structure for value. And so I've been involved in many things like a halau in Washington, D.C., some other organizations here in Hawaii, crime stoppers and things like that to be part of the civil society that helps and it doesn't matter what rank you are. Those kinds of egalitarian ideas are key in just making it work. Well, you've let our viewership know a little bit about your positions, your stance and so forth.  I wanted to save to the end this question a bit about your ties to Hawaii. You mentioned that you are in a halau, a halau in Washington, D.C. So I was born and raised here, so when I went to the University of Florida, I knew I was going to come back. 25 plus years later, I'm back. Married my husband 26 years ago and we've traveled all around the world and Hawaii has always been home. That's been our roots. When I was in Washington, D.C., I was fortunate enough to help co-found with four others, a hula halau that's not the largest there in that area and we teach culture of Hawaii who we are. You've been a long-term ambassador for Hawaii. Absolutely, absolutely. As we look to the future, in some ways it's dim for our children here in Hawaii when it comes to whether they can own a home, whether they can find a meaningful living here in this economy, whether they will have the freedoms that generations before have fought and died for and yet I think you may be a little more optimistic. What is your vision that we can craft together? I am very optimistic. When I first started in adulthood we had just finished Desert Storm so the world was tumultuous and I remember being in college when the wall came down. So I've only known this change, this constant change in the world and I think I thrive on it and that optimism coupled with hard work, hard work and the belief that you can do it and really putting yourself out there to be part of the solution. Well, Cherlene Ostrov, thank you for putting yourself out there. Thank you so much for having me on the show. A lot of people are going to be watching. Thank you. Cherlene Ostrov running for United States Congress from Hawaii. You can look her up if I turn back to her for a moment here at her website. Yes. It's www.chirlienostrov.com. Very good. Thank you for watching again. I'm Kelea Atina, president of the Grassroot Institute saying, let's work together from the ThinkTekawaii Broadcast Network until next week.


best rider on show really over the course of his six rides. So it's final time here in Tetharo. Great to be back, first time since 2019 of course. It's all been on pause for two years because of the pandemic, but we're back, huge crowds, people enjoying themselves, great to see that man. What an opportunity now, he'll know it. The whole team will of course, they'll very much appreciate the circumstances they find themselves in. And a championship on the line, of course. Been there and done it twice. Just got out battled last year by Artem Lagoutou who sadly is not with us this season. But nonetheless, we've enjoyed a great Grand Prix. It's been exciting. As I say, I think a lot of riders will be a touch relieved to leave here this evening. It's been a challenge. It has indeed. But Durek has risen to that challenge. There's no doubt about that.  The bike's been working. And when those ingredients come together, we see the class of the man. And the reason why he was a world number two in the past. There you go, Paul Kelvin. Well, I'm gonna stick with Smarslik. I'm not totally confident, but I picked him earlier on. But I do feel he's vulnerable coming from gate three. And I don't think he's really enjoying it. Last couple of rides, he hasn't quite looked comfortable. So on the inside, we've got Patrick Durek in red. Gate number two in blue is Robert Lambert. But Smarslik will come out of gate number three in white. And off the outside is Freddie Linggren in yellow. Who do you fancy? Well, I'm gonna go with the underdog. It's his first final. I'd love to see him, wouldn't it? I'll go for Robert Levin. Yeah, I think a lot of people are thinking the same. And it would be a fabulous way to finish off your evening's work and your debut in the final. So here we go then. Final race of the night. Green lights on now. Things are up, Jarvis on the way they go. Durek's made the good start from the inside. Huck's that first turn. There's Smarslik coming through in the second place. And Freddie Linggren also getting the better of Robert Lambert down the back straight on the opening leg. Durek once again in that position. We've become accustomed to seeing him. He's got a lead. He's looking good, Chris. He's set for a final win now. He deserves this. He's been the best rider all night long. I don't think Smarslik's overly comfortable. I don't think he wants to throw these points away. These nearest challenges have not put themselves in the final. So this will do for Bartos Smarslik. But Patrick Durek, if you take nothing away from him, he absolutely deserves this victory on the night. Looking good out in front. Just got to keep it all together. He's bouncing around. Little bit uncomfortable there that time. Into the last lap. Smarslik hanging on the second place. It's strung out, understandably so. Difficult conditions. But just one big effort around this last corner. Keep it all together. Patrick Durek, the rider of the night. No question about it. Winds in style. Fully deserved win for Patrick Durek. Smarslik back in second place as his world championship. No harm at all. We gorge you up coming up in three weeks' time. Been a tough night. But for Patrick Durek, that is an outstanding victory here tonight in Tesserong. Yeah, 4GPs, four different winners.  It's going to be fantastic. Yeah, it's been terrific. It's been tough out there, but Patrick Durek delights the Polish fans. And considering the form he was in coming into tonight, he probably can't believe it. It's a relief. A relief. And overwhelmed with emotion. The team delighted, of course they are. They've probably been working harder than they've ever done. With the fact that he's been finding form hard to come by. But for Patrick Durek, that is an outstanding result. And the 20 world championship points that he has earned tonight are very welcome indeed. 14th place he was coming into tonight. He won't be there now. Patrick Durek the winner.


I don't know the answer you won't understand even if I do tell you Try me and see After all I'm married to an architect the least you can do it. Tell me why blueprints are blue. Well because blueprints are negatives You mean negatives like photographs that aren't photographed yet exactly But they aren't photographed are they and never will be darling They have to be able to be photographed because they're negative except photographs are usually positive and positive as a photograph printed Why are they blue? Claudia isn't there something that you have to do.  Oh And a blueprint is a negative exactly But uh printed I see But David you said that a photograph is a print of a negative And the blueprint is a negative printed Then why isn't it a photograph because it's a print of a negative a photograph is a print of a positive Oh Why don't they print it positive you could have a positive made out of it Which would be a photograph and it would be in black and white A blueprint is a positive negative in blue Printed you've even got me mixed up Claudia go back to your knitting. Goodbye. I'm not mixed up. It really is so simple Goodbye David Do they have to be blue of course they would have to be or they wouldn't be called blueprints Well, if it's just for the name then there could be red prints or pink prints or purple there could not be Why because they are blueprints, but they are only blueprints because Honestly, you need one little thing like this up to men and they make it so complicated Have to be blue Why did you make your blueprints red darling? Why don't you I love red? All right, I'll make them red. Well, you don't have to make them all red just make the ones for our house red Wouldn't be any trouble would it? Oh, no, no, no, not at all all we would have to do is Revolutionize the printing industry. Well, that's silly. There's plenty of red paper around I've got lots left from christmas.  I'm just trying to make a few sketches of some of the things I want to do to the house Like for instance, well, it's nothing definite, but I want to get things going so I can go up to eastbrook the beginning of the week with a Blueprint red print so we can Get the contractor working on remodeling the house. How long will it take? Well, I'd like to have it ready to move in by spring Yeah, please darling, please let me go on sketching in some of my suggestions. Oh, I want to help Certainly you can help You can keep perfectly still for 25 minutes or so and then I'll show you what I've sketched and Then you suggest to me all your suggestions and then we'll combine the two of them And then I'll make a final sketch which I will then make into a Blueprint red print. Well, I don't want to wait till then David. Why can't we combine our suggestions in the first place? I knew this was going to happen now David. I want you to be sure there are enough closets Closets may not mean anything to you, but they mean everything to a woman. They do I never realized that Everything well Practically everything how many closets would you like at least 10 in each room?  Why I don't need walls and closets too. Sorry. I brought it up And David Yes, I like a bay window in each room Darling bay windows in every room it will look absurd on an old american salt box We're having plumbing aren't we? What's that got to do with it when the house was built? It didn't have any plumbing So if we're gonna have plumbing why can't we have bay windows too because plumbing doesn't show and bay windows do I'll let you have one in the dining room What a plumbing? I refused to answer. I'd rather have it in the living room. David the window. I mean Why because I'm in the living room more than I am in the dining room. That's why Oh, I don't see why it's more difficult to have it in one room than in the other darling Give me a chance will you let me try and make out this plan and then I'll let you make all right darling I don't mind if you'd rather we'll do it your way David I like high ceilings That's nice Can I have high ceilings? No Why not because the ceilings in these old american houses are low Well, can't you push them up a little?  Of course. I'm serious push them up a little and you've been out a few inches on the walls to hold the ceilings up It's very simple. I'll take it into consideration And then of course I want a store room and lots of extra shells in the kitchen and a playroom in the cellar I thought we'd put the heater and the boiler in the cellar. Do you mind? Do we have to I'd rather have a playroom Where would you like the heater and the boiler in the living room with the bay window? Well, are they very big? We'll get a small one there so that they won't be in your way Oh, that's very sweet of you, david Now let me see There are a lot of other things I want to tell you while we're at it I think it would be very important to have it Who's that? I don't know. Why don't you open it and see? All right, I will I'm coming. You don't have to repeat yourself Why mama thought you might want your glove Who is it? Who do you think it is? Just who I thought it was come on in. I will not. I'm going home Come on in mama. We were just discussing what we're going to do to the house. You are Oh, that's wonderful. I'm just in time. Are you coming or are you going to coax me? I'm coming. Hello, mother. Hello, david Uh, mother You can do me a big favor anything david you keep claudia busy while I try and sketch out a rough idea of the work We've got to do on this new house of ours. I I hope you're going to change the stairs david. They seem awfully steep to me mama's right david steep stairs are dangerous So Go home mother why I just came you asked me in oh and david I've been thinking of what mama Well, I don't think you ought to make the attic into spare rooms Much too warm in the summer too damp in the winter Of course, I don't want to butt in oh, of course David I think mama's right You suggested that we make the attic into a spare room Well, that was before you told me about the extension. Oh, you're building an extension Well while you're at it, I suggest you put in a theater closet You know right off where you go down into that too many cooks mama. What do you think about bay windows? They're lovely claudia, but a room needs more heat and you have that's right david if you put the bay window in the living room Is that where I said I wanted it?  Which way does it say face what mama east south west or north? I don't know. I I haven't decided yet Of course, I I wouldn't want to butt in david and I know you're an architect But when I was a girl we lived in a house and my mother's room faced the south. This is a plot plot Who's he? I don't know anybody called clock I'm coming. I am insulted Roger. Hello. Hello claudia. Are you and david home busy? We're home. We're not busy And mama's here too. Come on. I love you I'm just going by and I had an idea for david about reconstructing the entry without spoiling any of the rogers that you Indeed it is. Uh, sure. You don't mind my dropping in can't tell you how glad I am to see you Maybe you can protect me from these Would be female architects david. I was thinking about that front entry. Oh, no, you too Say it isn't so. Oh, hello, mrs. Brown glad glad to see you And mr. Killian, this is very nice. Well, as I was saying david you don't want to spoil the simplicity of that entry But at the same time we will need more space david, what do you think me? You mean you want my opinion? Why not? Well I think perfectly right david now. Let me see claudia. I wanted to ask you about something I thought of here's a little sketch I made while I was having dinner Oh sit down on the sofa roger and mommy you sit on one side of him and i'll sit on the other david you can come and look too. Thank you very much Well now here we are Here are the stares is that where they are Well, I thought they were over here these go up. Is that right right to the second floor Oh, I think I'd rather have him going down to the cellar. That's not a bad idea make sort of a little pantry Oh, I love pantries. I keep cookies and oh and roger What do you think of having a window in this room here? I think a southern exposure is just marvelous to have. Yes very nice by all means mama. Yes Where do you think the bay window ought to be? Well, I'd put it on the wall opposite the fireplace in the living room That's a marvelous idea But don't you think we ought to have one in the dining room too? That's where david wants it Why not um here? Oh, no in there facing this way then you'll get cross ventilation Oh, I love cross ventilation too. I don't think any of this will be terribly difficult to do and not very expensive either Claudia you want to be sure you have enough closet space Oh, particularly on the down floor so that you don't have to run up downstairs all the time. How about a closet? Here then it'll work for the kitchen in the living room in the dining room too. Excellent david said that David darling, why aren't you over here? What's the matter so humble there's no Nothing nothing's a matter just didn't want to interrupt you. Are you interested david? We'd love to have your advice Well, yes david. We're in this together. Well To tell you the truth. I've been taking notes on your suggestion You have I figured you wouldn't remember very well or all of your ideas So I've been sitting over here jotting them down. Oh, that's an excellent idea So glad you thought of it. Would you like me to go over them for you? Yes, that'll be very nice Then we'll know just where we're at go on david. Well, now. Let me see here. We are There's a pair of stairs here and a pair of stairs there Two pairs that's what you said darling one to go up and one to come down Did I say that you did and you roger you wanted one bay window facing down the cellar stairs Did I say that you did and oh claudia You planned on the closet opening into the downstairs bath and mrs. Brown You suggested a window southern exposure opening out with a beautiful view Into the pantry did I say that if I may call in a phrase You have all said a household This broadcast of claudia was supervised and directed by william brown meloni What if marketing does take a little more time and effort than it used to You can ease the strain by stopping for an ice cold coca-cola When you shop refreshed you shop more wisely and you feel better at the day's end You'll see that familiar red cooler in food stores now as well as at poutons lunchrooms and service stations It's there to remind you of the pause that refreshes Every day monday through friday claudia comes to you transcribed with the best wishes of your friendly neighbor Who bottles coca-cola? 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