Hello, wonderful cloud community and welcome to theCUBE's continuing coverage of AWS re-invent. My name is Savannah Peterson and I am very excited to be joined by two brilliant gentlemen today. Please welcome Keith from Cockroach Labs and Jeff from AMD. Thank you both for tuning in coming in from the East Coast. How you doing? Not too bad, a little cold, but we're going. Doing great. Love that and I love the enthusiasm. Keith, you're definitely bringing the heat in the green room before we got on. So I'm going to open this up with you. Cockroach Labs puts out a pretty infamous and useful cloud report each year. Can you tell us a little bit about that, the approach and the data that you report on? Yeah, so Cockroach Labs builds a distributed SQL database that we are able to run across multiple cloud regions, multiple sites, multiple data centers, frequently is running hybrid kind of a use case. And it's important for our customers to be able to compare the performance of configurations when they don't have exactly the same hardware available to them in every single location. So since we were already doing this internally for ourselves and for our customers, we decided to turn it into something we shared with the greater community and it's been a great experience for us. A lot of people come and ask us every year, hey, when's the new cloud report coming out? Because they want to read it. It's been a great win for us. How many different things are you looking at? I mean, when you're comparing configurations, I imagine there's a lot of different complex variables there, just how much are you taking into consideration when you publish this report? Yeah, so we look at micro benchmarks around CPU network and storage. And then our flagship benchmark is we use the database itself where we have the most expertise to create a real world benchmark on across all of these instances. We, this year, I think we tested over 150 different discrete configurations. And it's a bit of a labor of love for us because we then not only do we consume it for best practices for our own as a service offering, but we share it with our customers. We use it internally to make all kinds of different decisions. Yeah, 150 different comparisons is not a small number. And Jeff, I know that AMD's position in this cloud report is really important. Where do you fit into all of this and what does it mean for you? Right, so what it means for us and for our customers is there's a good breadth and depth of testing that has gone on from the lab and you look at this cloud report and it helps them traverse this landscape of why to go on instance A, B or C on certain workloads. And it really is very meaningful because they now have the real data across all those dimensional kinds of tests. So this definitely helps not only the customers but also for ourselves. So we can now look at ourselves more independently for feedback loops and say, hey, here's where we're doing well. Here's where we're doing okay. Here's where we need to improve on. All those things are important for us. So love seeing the lab present out such a great report as I've seen, very comprehensive. So I very much appreciate it. And specifically, I love that you're both fans of each other obviously, specifically in there. What does it mean that AMD had the best performance ratio tested on AWS instances? Yeah, so when we're looking at instances we're not just looking at how fast something is. We're also looking at how much it costs to get that level of performance because CockroachDB has a distributed system has the opportunity to scale up and out. And so rather than necessarily wanting the fastest single instance performance which is an important metric for certain use cases for sure, the comparison of price for performance when you can add nodes to get more performance can be a much more economical thing for a lot of our customers. And so AMD has had a great showing on the price performance ratio for I think two years now. And it makes it hard to justify other instance types in a lot of circumstances, simply because you know it's cheaper to get for each transaction per second that you need, it's cheaper to use an AMD instance than it would be a competitive instance from another vendor. I mean, everyone I think no matter their sector wants to do things faster and cheaper when you're able to achieve both, it's easy to see why it's a choice that many folks would like to make. So what do these results mean for CIOs and CTOs? I can imagine there's a lot of value here in the fin-ups worlds. Yep, I'll start a few of them. So from the C-suite when they're really looking at the problem statement, think of it as less granular but higher level, right? So they're really looking at CapEx, OpEx, sustainability, security sort of ecosystem on there. And then as Keith pointed out, hey, there's this TCO conversation that has to happen. In other words, as they're moving from sort of this lift and shift from their on-prem into the cloud, what does that mean to them for spend? So now if you're looking at the consistency around sort of the performance and the total cost of running this to their insights, to the conclusions, less time, more money in their pocket and maybe a reduction for their own customers so they can provide better for the customer side. What you're actually seeing is that's the challenge that they're facing in that landscape that they're driving towards that they need guidance and help with towards that. And we find AMD lends itself well to that scale out architecture that connects so well with how cloud microservices are run today. I, that's not surprising to hear that. Keith, what other tips and tricks do you have for CIOs and CTOs trying to reduce FinOps and continue to excel as they're building out? Yeah, so there were a couple of other insights that we learned this year. One of those two insights that I'd like to mention is that it's not always obvious what size and shape infrastructure you need to acquire to maximize your cost productions. So we found that smaller instance types were by and large, had a better TCO than larger instances even across the exact same configurations. We kept everything else the same, smaller instances had a better price performance ratio than the larger instances. The other thing that we discovered this year that was really interesting we did a bit of a cost analysis on networking and largely because we're a distributed system we can span across availability zones, we can span across regions, right? And one of the things we discovered this year is the amount of cost for transferring data between availability zones and the amount of cost for transferring data across regions, at least in the United States was the same as in the United States. So you could potentially get more resiliency by spanning your infrastructure across regions than you would necessarily just spanning across availability zones. So you could be across multiple regions at the same cost as you were across availability zones which for something like Cockroach DB we were designed to support those workloads is a really big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, an important thing for us. Now you have to be very particular about where you're purchasing your infrastructure and where those regions are, right? Because those data transfer rates changed depending on what the source and the target is but at least within the United States we found that there was a strong correlation to being more survivable if you were in a multi-region deployment and the cost stayed pretty flat. That's interesting. So it's interesting to see what the correlation is between things and when you think there may be a relationship between variables and when there maybe isn't. So on that note, since it seems like you're both always learning, I can imagine what are you excited to test or learn about looking forward? Jeff, let's start with you actually. For sort of future testing, one of those things is certainly those more scale out sort of workloads with respect to showing scale, meaning as I'm creasing the working set, as I'm creasing the number of connections, variability is another big thing, right? Of showing that minimization from run to run because performance is interesting but consistency is better. And as the lower side is from the instance sizes as I was talking about earlier is these architecture lends itself so well to it because they have the local caching and the CCDs that you can now put a number of VCPUs that will benefit from that delivery of the local caching and drive better performance at the lower side for that scale out sort of architecture which is so consistent with the microservices. So I would be looking for more of those dimensional testing variability across a variety of workloads that you can go from memory intense workloads to database persistence store as well as a blend of the two, Kafka, et cetera. So there's a great breadth and depth of testing that I am looking for and to more connect with sort of the CTOs and CIOs the higher level that really show them that CAPEX-OPEX sustainability and provide a bit more around that side of it because those are the big things that they're focused on as well as security. The fact that based on working sets, et cetera, AMD has the ability with confidential compute around those kinds of offerings that can start to drive to those outcomes and help from what the CTOs and CIOs are looking for from compliance as well. So set them up. You're excited about a lot. No, that's great. That means you're very excited about the future. It's a journey that continues as Keith knows. There's always something new. Yeah, absolutely. What about you, Keith? What is the most excited on the journey? Yeah, so there are a couple of things I'd like to see us test next year. One of those is to test a multi-region cockroach DB config. We have a lot of customers running in that configuration and production but we haven't scaled that testing up to the same breadth that we do with our single-region testing, which is what we've based the cloud report on for the past four years. The other thing that I'd really love to see us do, I'm a Kubernetes, it's me, at least that's kind of my technical background. I would love to see us get to a spot where we're comparing the performance of raw EC2 instances to using that same infrastructure running cockroach DB via EKS. We're going to see what the differences are there. The vast majority of cockroach DB customers are running at least a portion of their infrastructure in Kubernetes. So I feel like that would be a real great value add to the report for the next time that we go around, but go about publishing it.  And also as I was saying about the scale out and how it leverages our AMD architecture so well with EKS specifically around the spin up, spin down. So you think of a whole development life cycle, right? As they grow and shrink the resources over time, time of those spin ups to spin downs are expensive. So that has to be as reduced as much as possible. And I think they'll see a lot of benefits in AMD's architecture with EKS running on it as well. The future is bright. There's a lot of hype about many of the technologies that you both just mentioned. So I'm very curious to see what the next cloud report looks like. Thank you, Keith and the team for the labor of love that you put into that every year. And Jeff, I hope that you continue to be as well positioned as everyone's innovation journey continues. Even Jeff, thank you so much for being on the show with us today. As you know, this is a continuation of our coverage of AWS re-invent here on theCUBE. My name is Savannah Peterson and we'll see you for our next fascinating segment.


What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overload here in this video? We're gonna be talking about The epic opening that I have in plan or that I would like to see in screen 5 as we all know the screen films that they each have their own opening kill I would say screen Screen 3 being the weakest out of the four Which the best the best opening kills word undoubtedly scream one and two Scream I would even argue that scream to had a better opening kill as far as like the setup and everything Like the environment I feel like the environment was a lot a lot more better than in the original screen as an overall opening Kill the first one with Drew Barrymore is undoubtedly the best In regards to what I would like to see in a screen fire as we all know In the opening kills we usually have something very unique done in scream and the original scream was it was just a simple Winner stranger calls type of vibe scream to was in a movie theater setting when when the events of the original film have not been turned into a motion picture Scream 3 was in regards to cotton weary leave Shriver had his own opening kill Scream 4 was like a bunch of a bunch of cop outs I hope they don't do that do that again I believe that that that stick it was it was good until they did it I believe they just did it a few too many times in screen 4 That's what kind of took me out of that opening kill in screen 5 though I would like to see a ghost face killing spree unleashed at a stab a thong As we all know in screen 4 They introduced this concept of stab a thong something that goes on in the area of Woodsboro in this modern day and age Or they rewatch all seven stab films back-to-back on a single night And then what I would like to see is I would like screen 5 to open up at a stab a thong and for everyone Who's worried about Cole Sprouse and his horrendous acting because I've just seen nothing But backlash about Cole Sprouse being in the film because everyone thinks he's not that good of an actor It's regardless if you feel he's a good actor or not It's all about the character the characterization in what role you put him in now If you put someone in a role that suits their acting abilities, then Cole Sprouse might end up doing a very good job But everyone that's worried about that Cole Sprouse Lily Reinhardt if they if they are actually going to be in screen 5 I would have them in the opening kill I would have them be to to attendance at this stab a thong going on in Woodsboro to Woodsboro residents at this stab a Thong that fall victim to a ghost ghost face killing spree I would just like the opening kill of screen 5 to take place at a stab a thong Ghost face we find out up up up from the very beginning of the film. We're gonna find out that they there are Multiple killers this time around. There's three killers. We have Our main killer, of course, and then we have the two to psychics So this would be the first screen film where we have three killers Originally, I believe screen 2 was gonna be that first film where we have multiple killers besides you just to but then the script leaked and everything changed from there But I I honestly feel that would be a very epic opening to have the stab a thong stab a thong that was introduced in screen for that concept revisit that concept and Have have the film start off in Woodsboro at a stab a thong event and ghost face and to the primary ghost face, of course, and then we have the two other Assistant ghost faces helping helping to unleash a massacre and that's how the Woodsboro killing spree Would start well, that's that's are actually what you could also do because if you have everybody who's been watching my theory about how Kirby Reed is gonna tie into everything.  That's what I would like to see For opening them screen five. I think that would be very very iconic. It would be a nice little Callback to the theater type opening that we got from screen two But then it would also just be a A new modern opening setting because because of the stab a thong taking that stab a thong event that was introduced in screen four and now turning it into Quite possibly if it's done, right? It could end up being one of the most epic screen openings that we've ever had to a film Not only that because you're gonna have that iconic opening with the stab a thong and then you'll also have a Another killing going on across the street or a few blocks down the road as I've stated. This would be the very first screen film to have Like a an opening kill where there's ghost face activity going on at two different locations One being the stab a thong and the other being at Kirby's house with Kirby's mom But let me know what you guys think about that down the comment section comment section below What do you think about the stab a thong being the oh being the setting for the opening kill to introduce us back into The town of Woodsboro and getting us back into the groove of things when it comes to all things scream related If you haven't already make sure you subscribe it's in our post notifications So you never miss a video in the description I'll have links on my social media accounts on my Facebook toward an Instagram You can message me there to let me know if there's any movies news or reviews You would like me to cover in the future with all that in mind guys I will see you in the next video and then down in the comment section below I will have a link to the Facebook group go ahead and join that Facebook group if you want to discuss anything Related and stay updated on anything and all things Jeepers creepers with all that in mind guys. 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Have you ever heard that women should not go to the grave? Have you ever... Have... Raise your hand if you have never been to the grave. To a graveyard, to a cemetery. Raise it really high. Let's look around. Women who've never been to a graveyard or cemetery. Okay.  Okay. Raise your hand if you have been told you shouldn't even pray the Genaza. Alright. In the beginning, in Mecca, the companions, رضي الله عنهم, were new in their belief. They were still following, or learning, still learning about Islam and about the cultural practices that they used to practice not being appropriate anymore. One of those practices was going to the graves and when they were at the grave, they would call out to the dead. One is they would praise them to the point of almost worship. Two, they would take them as intercessors between them and Allah. Three, they would hire people, custom was to hire people and specifically women to come to the grave and to basically build up the personality of the person who died. So they could pay someone, a person could pay someone before they died or pay women specifically because this was especially a part of the pre-Islamic women's culture.  So that the people still living could be like, wow, all the living come from that family? They would become arrogant about who had passed away. So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam forbid men and women from going to the grave to protect them from falling into these practices that could lead to calling out to the dead instead of Allah. Once their hearts were firm, once e-men had been strengthened in their hearts, then the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam changed that ruling and instead ordered and recommended that the believers, men and women, go to the grave, go to the cemetery because it's an opportunity to remember how short life is. It's an opportunity to think about our own lives and how we're going to live when we're here. And it's an opportunity for grief, to process grief, to realize that Allah is the only one who is really with us in these moments.  Why? Because this was a practice that was especially common amongst women that included ripping, their clothing and screaming. Asma'Allah had been in Abyssinia, so she had not been in Medina, she had not been in Mecca for many years in which the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was teaching filth. So in this moment, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, despite the fact that he has lost his own cousin whom he loved so much after being apart from him for 10 plus years, despite the fact that he has so much mercy for these new orphans, that he is crying and overwhelmed with emotion, despite the fact that he says to the people of Medina to cook food for Asma'Allah and her family so that she doesn't have to worry about that in this moment. She can focus on her family, her children and her grief. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam respectfully, kindly, lovingly teaches her filth. Have you ever been taught filth in such a way, in such a moment?  The immense pain that women experience sometimes in even the biggest spaces of pain is a testament to the strength of your faith. We ask Allah to make us sincere and give us the bat, but the point is that we have too raw, we have so much scholarship that has addressed this and why it is and the way it is in the context. Has any of that context been even ever mentioned to any of you when it's been told women shouldn't go to the grave? Where is the context? Context is so critical because if we only take one statement then we can say, oh the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam just send this to Asma'u Alayhi Allahu Anha in her pain. We don't know that he was in pain. We don't know that he went to love and support her family. Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam


Aloha and Mabuhay. Welcome to another edition of Pinoy Power Hawaii. I am your host, Amy Ortega Anderson. We want to first thank the wonderful staff of Think Tech Hawaii for giving us the opportunity to come to your homes every Tuesday at 12 noon. Today we have a special guest and she is within our mission to enrich, enlighten, educate, entertain, and empower. Without further ado, I'd like to introduce the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor, Marisa Dipasupil Kearns. Welcome to our show, Marisa. Thank you, Amy, for inviting me to be here and I would like to thank the people from Think Tech Hawaii for this opportunity for letting us, you know, put out our message to our people in Hawaii and, of course, our Filipino Kababayan as well. So our show is done in Itaglish, Tagalog and Sakai English. So it is about empowerment and I know you have a lot of empowerment in you. But before we go into our main topic for today, we would like to know a little bit more about Marisa Dipasupil Kearns. Thank you. I would like to start with my humble beginnings, you know, as what everybody know now, know now that I was born and raised in the Philippines. My parents are business owners from the beginning, like my mother came from a company that manufacture or produce or make ice cream in the Philippines and her parents, yeah, her parents supply Malacanyang from 1939. Sorbetes? Sorbetes. Until 1956, the brand name was Seleqpa. Ayinako. Yes. My mom, yeah, my mom's the eldest out of the family, 12, they were 12. So my mom remembered pretty much everything and she's still around. My mom's 93 years old now and 93, yeah, they used to also own a trucking company a transport company but they did, they refurbished some military buses and they used it for passenger transport. So they call it Kapalaran transit. Kapalaran. Kapalaran. Kapalaran. Like a jeepney or bus. No, it's their buses. Oh, like school buses. Like school buses. Yes, yes, yes. So that's my mother's side. My father's side, he was a farmer. When he was a young teenager, he joined the Bataan Death March, you know, those guerrillas. He's one of those guys that joined and helped the country, helped the citizen, the people, the Americans and his relatives and other people of course that went into the march, went into the camps. So my dad was one of the guerrillas and it was a hard work. He told us a lot of the stories about that, you know, and after that he became a sorbetas vendor. He was working with my mom's parents' company. So that's how they did it. To promote and select. So knowing my dad came from really like, you know, I would say farmer, you know, he was a farmer. Both of them combined. They're really work hard, you know, really working hard people. That's what I can offer to the public. I came from the people that really work hard from they were like really young people with the war, with I would say being the parents or business people. So I have very good upbringing, you know, got morals, got values, culture. We try to keep that as much as we can.  They never had to go through that. So I'm very proud of our generation. Of course now it's different, you know, technology, the way people social, right? It's completely different. But having that foundation I have in life, I was so grateful and so proud, you know, and flattered that I have parents like this. And even now my mom got to see all of this where I'm now, but I was very, very excited.  But knowing I'm, again, I'm a strong, I have a strong foundation as a Filipino, proud Filipino. I would rather put this strength, this foundation all the way, move forward to the next future, next generation and contribute and make a big difference. And I think that's the other things that other people in our community doesn't have. I have different stuff to offer. I have different culture values to offer into our community. And I'm always been a reformer, a fighter, you know, a person that understand the business because I'm always been in business since I got here. I'm in public sector for the last 31 years and I'm always been in transportation and logistics. And now I'm doing all kinds of stuff, you know, trying to bring more, I would say, business into my shoulders so I can show my kids, other people, how things can be like, you know, prosper through hard work, of course, great effort in everything you do. So knowing now, I'm, again, I'm very strong with military. I'm married to a retired Air Force. And of course, my dad is Bata Andet, March Gorilla, my mom's business owner. I love where I came from. It's something that a lot of people doesn't have. I'm very, very fortunate. I'm blessed all the way up to now. You know, I came from a poor family. My mom only had like seventh grade schooling. My dad's like barely like seven or six, you know, but they worked hard for us because we were 12 too. I'm, you know, 11 siblings. Wow. So it's very hard. And my dad passed away when I was 14 years old. So my mom cannot be there all the time with, you know, to oversee us. So I learned that I have that, you know, the perseverance. I'm always been very competitive in anything I do. I compete.  I'm always on the front. I'm always the person that never, never really feel like, you know, I'm timid or I'm shy. No, not me. I, you know, I'm just listening to your story. And I mean, oh, yeah, so much.  It's probably a manifesto of over 100 pages. Balitang America was surprised, oh, we should put you in. That's why I've always been in there, you know, Balitang America, I'm worldwide and became like, you know, even local kids, Kamehameha students are like going into my website.  So I'm very fortunate. I'm giving back to the community without even in the office. I don't have to be there because I'm not a politician. I'm a business owner.  Well, listening to your story and your trials, your experiences in life, the struggles and, of course, the success that comes along with that, no wonder you can't wait to be a public servant and your run for the Lieutenant Governor office will give you that chance to showcase or to let everyone know that you have the makings of a great Lieutenant Governor. So let me ask you also that along with these experiences, these life experiences that you have had to empower you to make you a better servant for the people. What is that one thing that would stand out when people hear of your name? Marisa Dipasupil Kearns. Okay, we're talking about, I would say, community service. I'm always being with the people that really want it. I'm supporting 100% people that would like to make change, challenge other people, discuss things, and be a part of the community to, to make a big difference. You know, I'm that person that I look at it. I'll study. I'll reach out and take all the people that, that really want to make a difference for everybody, not just one for themselves, not for one organization, because Hawaii grew so big. I've been here 31 years and we got a lot of, a lot of stuff to do because right now with the leadership, we have, I don't think they really understand the business, running a business. And that's what we're lacking in our state. You know, we have people been in office for 20-something years, have not touched any of the business, you know, information or business. They don't have any business argument and that's the problem. They don't understand where we're coming from as business owners. They don't understand where the rest of, of, of, I would say earnings that these people are going to pull out before they started taxing. So I have a different outlook in life. I'm not a politician. I'm a business owner. I'm always been a standalone business owner. And I acquired company, you know, I bought a trucking company. With my own money that I work for, I used to work for Emery Worldwide, UPS, 500 fortune companies. I was a product of a boardroom for, for a national companies. I sat with these big hunches, making decisions, making strategies. How can we compete in the marketplace? So I've done a lot of that, mostly private. So understanding the legislature, I don't think you're going to need a scientific study to do that.  Mostly reading, understanding.  So in other words, your business experience will give you an advantage, an edge. Way, way advantage. Way more, way more. Because you understand exactly how the numbers line up in order to be productive and successful. If it's a program, you know, yeah, you just gathered so much millions of dollars for one program, okay? Who's going to benefit for this program? Who's really going to need this thing? How long the program's going to last, right? Where's the money going to go? You know, we have to show our people that really pull up and earn to make that money to that program makes sense. You're always looking for the bottom line. If you're a business owner, is this really a bottom line that we're going to get? Is this really the thing that we really want to accomplish for a lot of the people? Not just one, you cannot cherry-pick that you as a government would like to subsidize. Government should not be subsidizing anybody. It should be open market, you know, from shipping to bottle water supply to, I would say, you know, all of this, like the refineries shutting down some of the areas of their refineries, you know, we got to open the market. What do you think McDonald's coming up with, like, value mill, right? Those value mills they have, because they have Burger King, they have Jack in the Box, they have Wendy's. The more we have people, you know, enterprise, businesses in the market, the better for the consumers. They got to afford those value mills, and that's what we're lacking in our state. Well, I believe in healthy competition too, rather than I agree with you when it comes to, you know, competition is better than having just one person rule and having a monopoly, you know, because it does a lot to stimulate the economy, and it spreads the money around more evenly so that it's fair competition, fair game for everyone. Yeah, I want Hawaii to be a business-friendly state. I don't want Hawaii to be like a sanctuary city. That's the Hawaii Act 172, 2016, they went ahead and passed that in 2015, 2016, it became a law. And that's the thing that really our legislators are missing, to let the people know and inform that, oh yeah, we're gonna bring all these 50,000 illegal aliens or undocumented immigrants into our state. You know, how are we gonna be taking care of these people? How are we gonna feed these people? How are we gonna house them? You know, that's what happened to us two, three years ago. You know, that's why all the housing is like, nobody could afford it. And what happened? About 150,000 people fled the state, they left. And of course, they said, oh, our population never really changed. It's because we have these micronitions coming in. And again, that's another, you know, millions of dollars that we're gonna have to take care of those people. Plus, the illegal immigrants, you know, the Latinos, the Mexicans, who knows. They're all over here because we have no borders. And I don't think our governor understand that, you know, we can't bring all these people. We cannot afford to be, you know, to be like a sanctuary city. There's no way. I understand where you're coming from, Marissa, but you know, especially Hawaii is known as the melting pot capital of the world, being that we welcome all ethnic group to come to our borders. But there is a big button that, and you can agree or disagree with me, that, you know, when it comes to immigration, we have to do it in a legal manner where my family, my grandfather, waited 15, almost 20 years before he could finally come and be reunited with his family. Yeah, and that's a long time to wait. And I know that you will agree with me that it should be a fair game. It should be a fair competition where everybody have to wait their turn, you know? Yeah, you cannot cut the line. No, that's not right. That's not fair because I have Filipino friends that, you know, I never even gonna even think about bringing all my siblings here, you know? Eventually, I'm probably gonna figure out how to bring them in because my dad served the Bataan Death March. And again, our federal government cannot be handpicked. Who can come here? Who can get paid 15,000? I don't need the money. I want my family, you know what I'm saying? Hold that thought for a moment because immigration is a very technical issue, technical matter. We will come back. We need to take a quick break. Our guest today, and Pinoy Power Hawaii, is the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor, Marissa Dipasupil Kearns. We'll be right back. Aloha, I'm Marcia Joyner, inviting you to come visit with us on Cannabis Chronicles, a 10,000 year odyssey where we explore and examine the plant that the muse has given us. And stay with us as we explore all the facets of this planet on Wednesdays at noon. Please join us, Aloha. Hello, my name is Stephanie Mock, and I'm one of three hosts of Think Tech Hawaii's Hawaii Food and Farmer series. Our other hosts are Matt Johnson and Pamai Weigert. And we talk to those who are in the fields and behind the scenes of our local food system. We talk to farmers, chefs, restaurateurs, and more to learn more about what goes into sustainable agriculture here in Hawaii. We are on a Thursdays at 4 p.m., and we hope we'll see you next time. Welcome back to Pinoy Power Hawaii. I am your host, Amy Ortega Anderson. And today we are having a very healthy debate on the economy, taxes, competition, and also immigration. So we are all over the place when it comes to topic, but there are some things that we wanna zero in because that's your platform. Yes. Talagangian platform, right?  Yes. Because I got here in 87, and I became citizen in 92. And then about six months after that, four months after that, I brought my mom here. So just me and my mother, my mom's still alive. She's 98. So I took the right path. I did not violate the law. I waited for my turn till I bring my mom here. So it's unfair for others that's been on the line for many, many years, especially our... Waiting. ...Kababayan. Yeah, they've been waiting. And all of a sudden, we got these Zoom thousands of people came into our state, and now we're where they at. They're all over the place. These illegal aliens are all over. They're using our hospitals. They're using our schools, our roads, our highways. We're all over the place. We're using our schools, our roads, our highways, our social services. Now we're gonna have to compete with these guys with jobs. It's a lot of things that these legislators and our state leadership don't understand. They do not understand.  Look at our DMB office lines. Five to six hours, because most of the people out on the line are illegal aliens. It's constant. So I wish I get elected. And that's one of the first thing I'm going to do. I'm gonna have to really... What would you do when you get elected? What's the first thing you do? Same thing in the mainland. We cannot afford to house these people, to care for them. We have no money. We couldn't even afford taking care of our own homeless. We couldn't afford those small, young families that try to survive here. And now others, they can just come here for free. It's wrong. It's completely wrong. So your solution to that situation is to send them back? To where they're from? We have to send them back, because we don't really have the capability or resources to care for them. And it's a big mistake. I want to repeal that law. That's Act 172. It's already a law to allow them, but you want to... Yeah, I want to put that into the public. Have the public... Let them decide. Yes, exactly. And not the legislators. That's why I'm against with Con Con. Because they have the control. They can do whatever they want, and they're going to eat us alive. Well, I hear you as a taxpayer, it isn't fair that we pay so much taxes, and these taxes are used to just support those that have not worked for it. I agree. So how could we afford to take care of additional dependents when we can't even take care of... Our homeless people have a real problem there, right, in our backyard. We can't take care of people. We can't care for them at all. We cannot. So... There's no problem. The legislators, they never really thought about it. That there's a big, big, I would say, debt that's going to come to us. That's the reason there have been... Well, we're already in debt. Oh, big time. You're right. State employees pension, they're unfunded, 25 billion, okay? Look at the city. Let's go like the $3 billion, what, you know? Unfunded, or what? It's just too many. Look at the rail, that's $10 billion. We're talking monumental debts, you know? And then they have all these new bills that they introduced, SB 2922. The state created their own property tax. That's illegal. Can't do that. We can only have one property tax. They say they need money for education. I think they're wrong. They're completely wrong. I tell you right now, this is one stats, one metrics that I got from my daughter. When my son graduated from Capola High School in 2014, their aptitude, I would say their aptitude in math was only 45%, it means the entire school, only 45% can do math. Their comprehensive is like really bad. Now my daughter graduated this past May 2018. She called me, mom, guess what? We have to stay one more hour because the principal was upset because he found out our math comprehensive aptitude down to 25%. And I don't think whoever requesting this legislator does want money for education. Where are they gonna put the money? Look at our kids. Our kids are failing. And by the way, look at Iggy. Iggy sent his kids, his three kids to Punahou. And now they're in college in the mainland. I think that's wrong. We cannot continue running our state like this. They're the one trying to make education number one. I don't think they have faith in our education system. Otherwise they would have sent his kids to a public school. Exactly. Pro City High School or whatever, A Elementary School.  Why do that? You're the leader of the state. You should be the model. It doesn't matter to have scholarship, just that like the moral value on who you are that running the state, making your kids going to the high end, you know? I might have said that's why you elect me. Everybody can go to Punahou. We'll go ahead and have the school choice. I'll take the $12,000 if the parents want their kids to Punahou, boom. They just pay for the difference. They can go to Punahou. You know, I want them to do the same thing. But that's not where the majority lies, yeah? That's what you think. Even the state employees, you know, some teachers, they take their kids to private school because they have no faith with our public school system. But what I'm saying is that we should concentrate and focus on what we can do for the majority, which is the public. Yeah, that's why it's good that we have charter schools. That's good that parents are doing their homeschooling. That's perfect. It's better because parents and the kids, they need to have a banding to avoid those homeless, those drugs. Do you know seven out of 10 kids or school students, seven out of 10, okay? They either try drugs, they're using drugs. That's why, you know what I'm saying? Are you gonna continue taking your kids to public school? It's dangerous.  And that's probably why a lot of people that can't afford to send their children to private school. Yeah, they try to avoid the public school, yeah. Exactly, and again, because no one's policing anymore. No one really looking at the whole picture. Where do we go from here?  Liberal city, I live in Capole, I live in Mililani. You know, I know Mililani's doing good. They're number one high school right now, which is the best ever happened to our state. There's somebody that taking the lead. There's smarter kids out there, because that's a diverse too. Because Mililani have like the military kids from the mainland, like same thing with Capole. Because some of them, they graduated only in their junior. It's because they came from Florida, their military families, because my son's telling me this, that's their classmates, right? From Florida, and my son was told, I guess what, our Capole school, our math is like two years behind compared to Florida. So it's just like it tells you right there. So we need to take a look and overhaul our public school system. You can't centralize and you can't have a nice standardized higher up programs for the students. And that can tell you, if Iggy cannot even get involved with the school, with the education, he need to get out.  I'm proud of the Capole High School. They made my kids, you know. So public schooling has worked for your children. Yeah, exactly. Okay.   But don't do that, don't just pick and choose, oh yeah, you got money, but. We can spend a lot of time talking about education, which is, I agree, it's very, very important to build a solid foundation for our future. Now, you have this thing about privatized rail now. Why do you think it should be privatized? From the start, it should have been privatized because there's no check and balance, there's no accountability. What's going on right now? All the money that they collected from our taxes, it goes directly to Hart, directly to the mayor, and now Governor getting involved with it, right? The legislators, so it's an entire state project now.  It's the state. So if it's privatized, you feel that there'll be a better way of tracking. Exactly. There's just a border right there. There's somebody gonna check. It's just like when Mayor Farsi was around, the city was losing money. People, employees are stealing the buses and stealing the equipment over there, right? They're taking the buses and then they're painting them. All of a sudden he ran out of like what assets? You know, the city's coming down, running out of money. So the best thing he did, our Mayor Farsi, to privatize the Oahu bus, right? That way people are more accountable. Yeah, exactly because OTS now, what they do is, they receive all the equipment from the city and they do the inventory. They manage how to run the bus. They hire and fire, make sure it makes sense that every time they get the new budget for the bus, they make sure they're taking care of how to run it, to operate it. What's the bottom line? All those stuff that they understand. So not just the city, the heart can just take the money and run away like rail, run away rail that the money going down, flashing the toilet. We don't know where the rest of the money. If they pay Q it like what, 550 million? But technically how much we spent? Almost like $3 billion, where's the rest of the money? That's why we need an audit. We need to audit the Mayor and the heart. Be accountable. Yes. All right, the next thing is, how do you feel about the US government continuing to support those nations that really want to destroy us or hate us? And yet we continue to send aid to those countries. I see our President Trump kind of like downsizing that side of the, you know, that he did something with Palestinians, I think. He got a little bit of it. I think he's completely caught it because right in Hawaii, okay, you know, politics is always local. Hawaii, we need all that money. We need all those federal funds. You know, like funding our airports. You know what I'm saying? Because we can't do anymore. Like infrastructure, if you want infrastructure, if you want to build a brand new highways and roads, the federal will give you 80% of the cost.  So I really like President Trump, what he's doing. He's cutting all those... Those sporn aids.  Because look at now, look at in Germany. The Port in the Barrow. We're helping Germany, yeah. Germany brought in all these illegal aliens, now what? Sweden, now what? They're all like having issues with their illegal aliens. They're suffering from that decision of allowing the borders to be open. Exactly, it's not good. It's not good, even though you know, even though we're friends, but hey, you cannot just completely subsidize them for many more years. Well, we've run out of time and thank you, Marisa Dipasupil-Kurns for taking the time to discuss some of these issues that are really affecting our economy and for better Hawaii. So thank you for sharing your ideas and your thoughts and hopefully we have done our job to enrich and lighten, educate, entertain, and we hope to empower you all, Mark of the Bions. Thank you again and please tune in for another edition of Pinoy Power Hawaii. I am your host, Amy Ortega Anderson. Thank you for joining us. Maraming salamat po, Aloha and Mabuhay.


ratios, ratios, ratios. Now before we get into unit conversions, we're gonna have to take a look at ratios and figure out how to deal with them, okay? And for us to be able to do that, we're gonna have to take a step back all the way to series one and take a look at the real number set and see how ratios fits into the real number set. As we talked about before, that's basically the basis of what we're started with and we're gonna continuously go back to the real number set. And the real number set, as you recall, it was talking about the natural numbers which was, you know, just the counting numbers going 1, 2, 3, all the way up to infinity counting forever and ever and ever. And then from there, we were able to define the number zero and by being able to do that, we created a whole new category called the whole number set, right? Which is basically took the natural numbers and included zero and called that it's sub, you know, another set which is the whole numbers, right? From there, we moved on to the integers which was basically using zero as a pivot and reflecting the natural numbers into the negative realm. From there, we went on to the rational numbers which was basically any numbers that we can express as a fraction of integers. And from there, we went into the irrational numbers which was basically any numbers that we couldn't express as a fraction of integers. And that whole group, the natural numbers, whole numbers, integers, rational numbers and irrational numbers, we put into one huge category called the real number set, okay? So we're going to have to take a step back to the real number set and see how ratios fit into the real number set, okay? So basically what we have is the real number set here. We have the natural numbers, the whole numbers, the integers, rational numbers and the irrational numbers, okay? Now, as you recall, this half of the real number set is the rational numbers, right? And rational numbers are any numbers that we can express as a fraction of integers. And that is where ratios kicks in. So rational numbers, we have it as a fraction of integers where we have one number on top of another number where the denominator cannot equal zero. So the first way we started talking about these numbers was, when we first started defining rational numbers, we call them a fraction of integers, right? And fraction has a specific meaning on its own, right? Let's say, for example, we had the number 2 divided by 7. The way we say this, the way we say this in English, the way we represent this in English is 2 out of 7. So what that means is there's a total number of 7 objects and we're taking 2 out of them, right? And that is what fractions means. When we're writing fractions, when we specifically in mathematics say, hey, we're writing a fraction out of something, we're talking about taking something out of a whole, okay? And that's what fractions is, 2 divided by 7. So what we're stating in here when we write this as a fraction, what we're doing is saying when we write 2 over 7, what we're saying is 2 out of 7, right? So if you had a total of 7 boxes, 2 of them would be green. So when we write 2 out of 7, what we're really doing is saying there's 2 green boxes out of a total of 7 boxes. Now, I colored these as orange, the remaining boxes as being orange, but we're not really defining the remaining boxes as being anything, right? The total, the 7 represents the total number of boxes. I just colored them green, but we don't know anything about those boxes other than that, that they're boxes, right? This 7 down here doesn't mean that they're 7 orange boxes, it means that they're 7 boxes total, right? So when we say fractions, what we're doing is we're saying there's 2 of something, if you write 2 over 7, 2 of something out of 7 total, right? We're talking about a certain number out of a whole. And this stuff kicks us really into one of the, it's one of the first steps we do when we take, when we go into percentages and when we go into probability and statistics. So when we start talking about fractions, when we start exposing ourselves to fractions and we start talking about parts of a whole, this kicks us into percentages, which is sort of the first step that we take to go into probability and statistics, okay? And that, all of that connects all the way back to rational numbers and the real number set, right? And it's basically our way of sort of using a fraction of integers in the real world, wherever we want to use it, right? And that's one definition of what a rational number is, right? It's one definition of what one integer above another integer means, which is 2 out of a whole, something out of a whole. And that's what fractions is and that's main, the main way we've been using what rational numbers are. Now there's another way which fine tunes it, gives it a sort of a distinct different meaning when we write one integer on top of another integer. And that is ratios, okay? And that is what we need to learn to get into to start doing unit conversions, because when we write one number on top of another number, then we have to sort of sit back and decide what that means, right? When we say it's a fraction, we're saying it's part of a whole, it's 2 out of 7, something out of a whole, right? But there's another meaning, there's different terms that we have in English, right? What if we wanted to say it's 2, 4, 7? What if we wanted to say it's 2, 2, 7, right? Something for something else. And that gives a totally different meaning and that's how we deal with ratios. So the way we define ratios is, is not 2 out of something, right? We define it as being 2 for something. It's something for something else, okay? It's comparing two numbers of the same type, of the same kind. And this is where we're going to go. This is what we need to learn to be able to do our unit conversions. So for ratios, when we write 2 over 7, so for ratios, when we write 2 over 7, the meaning has slightly changed. Over here, when we said 2 over 7 for fractions, we had a total of 7 objects. Over here, for ratios, when we write 2 over 7, or yeah, 2 over 7, the meaning changes and now we have a total of nine objects because there's nine things in play. We're putting two orange boxes in for seven orange boxes. So what happens here when we write 2 over 7, when we're talking about ratios, this becomes 2, 4, 7. 2, 2, 7. Two green boxes for seven orange boxes. And there's a little bit of more meaning behind this because now we know what the other boxes are. We know specifically that they're actually seven orange boxes. When we're talking about fractions, we didn't know what the other boxes, what the color of the other boxes were going to be, right? I just put them as orange because I had the color orange, right? Over here, when we write it down as ratios, when we write down seven orange boxes, it really means seven orange boxes. And the total of boxes in play here is actually nine. When we write it down as a fraction, 2 over 7, there's a total of seven boxes in play here. When we write it down as a ratio, when we say it's a ratio of 2 over 7, there's a total of nine boxes in play here. And this comes into play, the most basic place that it comes into play is when you're dealing with, you know, if you're gambling, if you're doing trade, right? I'm going to give you two dollars for seven apples, right? However way you want to think about it, right? If you're looking at a map, there's two centimeters equals seven kilometers, right? And that's where the unit conversion comes in. And that is the main difference between fractions and ratios. So over here, ratios, this is going to directly kick us into unit conversion, which we talked about, we did an introduction for in video number 45 or 46, okay? Now, the beauty of all this is the difference between fractions and ratios, when we write two integers like this, if we say it's a fraction, the meaning is this. If we say it's a ratio, the meaning is this, right? Now, the meaning changes slightly, but our rules and mathematics do not change. The axioms that we've developed that we've learned when it comes to addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, when it comes to the rules of dealing with the equal sign, when it comes to rules of dealing with exponents, right? The rules of mathematics, our axioms do not change. The meaning of the numbers changes. So when the rules of mathematics do not change, our definition of the numbers change, then we don't have to learn new rules to be able to deal with ratios. We don't have to learn new rules to be able to deal with fractions. The rules are the same. So everything that we've learned previously applies both to fractions and ratios. Nothing changes based on the rules of mathematics, based on the axioms we've learned. The only thing that has changed is the meaning between what we've written down. And that is the beauty of mathematics because it's a universal law. All it is, as I've stated before, math is a very personal language. It really depends on how you're expressing yourself, what your intentions are, what your meaning behind numbers are that you're writing down. If you write something down and say it's a fraction, then you're talking about a part of a whole. If you write something down and say it's a ratio, then you're talking about comparing two different numbers. One thing to keep in mind, we talked about rational numbers and we said rational numbers are any numbers that we can express as a fraction of integers. When it comes to ratios, the numbers do not necessarily have to be integers. We can write one number on top of another number and say it's a ratio and it still makes sense.  You can go pay 50 cents and buy half a watermelon if there's a place where you can pay 50 cents and buy half a watermelon. So keep in mind that ratios do not necessarily have to be integers. Ratios, all they are is one number on top of another number. What you're doing is you're comparing one number to another number of the same type during a transaction, of the same dimensions. It may be just currency. Whatever it is, you're comparing two numbers. May they be things, may they be ideas, may they be concepts, may they be powers and gains, may it be whatever it is. All you're doing when it comes to ratios, you're comparing one number to another number and what that means is there's something here and there's something there and it's going into a pool if you're talking about putting things into a pool or if you're talking about converting, you're converting one thing to another. And that's what ratios are and all of this probability statistics unit conversion, they all come back to here which kicks us back into rational numbers. And that's why we started off with the real number set because the real number set is the basis of us laying down the foundation of what we understand numbers to mean. And if you think this is brilliant, this is cool, wait until we get into the irrational numbers because the irrational numbers are infinitely larger than the rational numbers. And if you think this is interesting, then irrational numbers, once we get in there, that'll blow your mind. And that's basically what ratios are. What we're going to do from here is talk about a little bit more and take our two systems that we've talked about, the color squares and the color triangles and look at the connection, look at the link, look at the anchor between them and from there start doing conversions between one system to another system. So we become familiar how to do the conversions and there's a couple different conversion formats that we're going to talk about.


Remember, a hallmark card when you carry it up to send the very best. Hallmark Playhouse, its greatest stars in outstanding stories, and presents as your host, one of the most distinguished actors of the American Theater, Mr. Lionel Barrymore. Subject, not only because of the many stirring events which have gone into the making of our nation, but because of the men behind those events. The man who made them, the Crockett was one of those men, a romantic figure in an adventurous age, and the hero of D. Brown's fine book called Wave High the Banner. For our dramatization of that book, Fishing Davy Crockett, Hallmark Playhouse has invited one of Hollywood's favorite actors, McDonald Caring, and now here's Frank Goss from the makers of Hallmark Cards. When you're looking for a way to say something to someone you care for, look for a Hallmark card and you'll find the card you want to send.  That's why Hallmark on the back of a greeting card has come to mean you cared enough to send the very best. Lionel Barrymore appears by arrangement with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, producers of Above and Beyond starring Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker with James Whitmore. And now here's the first act of Wave High the Banner, starring McDonald Caring. It comes out with a clear cold down by the river, a whip will cross intently, then shrugs his shoulders and turns back into the church. Down there, among the shadows, he can make out the fitful flair of candles. Each candle rests upon a barrel head and at each barrel head a man sits writing. Colonel David Crockett pulls a sheet of paper from his pocket. He too has a letter to write. My dear son, I've been thinking a lot about you tonight and of some of the things I've wanted so long to tell you. Somehow there never seemed to be time for it. But now, now there is time. Not very much, but still enough. When you were little, you and the other children used to ask me what your mother was like. Well John, I can answer that now. Look at your sister Polly. She's just about the age my Polly was the night we first met. The same laugh in blue eyes, the same wild brown hair swirling about her face, the same slender waist and dancing feet. You've seen my Polly dance. Rifle. That doesn't matter. Your mom said something about me being just a hired man working one place and then another. That still doesn't matter. There's something else too, Polly. I cared much about myself. But now, all of a sudden, it's awful important. Maybe that's all that... I don't have enough fur pelts to paint as soon as I get the fur. Then it might be right tomorrow, Davy. You see, that's the one good thing even Pa says about you. That you're the best shot in the whole of Tennessee. And I said goodbye to the village and headed south. I wanted the frontier life and we found it in Lincoln County. I built a cabin and our first son was born. Timbers sowed the first seed and harvested the first crop, Gene 12. It's all for here. The Greeks will be sent and raided and parted up this way any day now. Now, now, Polly, every engine we've met around here has been all right. They all know me and I hope, trust me... You hope? That ain't gonna save our skins is to attack the engines first. That's what Andy Jackson says. Andrew Jackson? Sure, he's leading the militia. And wherever... He can start the engines before they get started. Polly. It's all right, Davy. Don't worry about us. The children and I will be here waiting for you. 500 settlers. It was many weary months before we avenged that day. Our enlistments in Jackson's army were long expired, but still we kept marching and fighting and marching again. And then I got word that Polly was sick. When I got home, I knew it was too late. Then I'd wait for you, Davy. Stayed here with you? No, no, Davy. You had to go.  You could never turn away from a fight and you never will. You could watch after my children. Whippy used to play hide-and-seek back in the green lawn.  Then one day I went to the village in... Taking and making speeches. The militia long enough to know a natural born leader. I say the man who's the best shot in Tennessee, the best bear hunter and the grittiest fighter, all to make the best Colonel. I'll fiddle for him and we'll show him. Now, Sam, you're just the kind of man we need in the state legislature. Oh, now, hold on. Hey, who aren't you, Colonel? I've been speaking in the legislature. Sam Houston came up to me. He was just back from Washington.  And you'll be elected, sir. Tennessee needs a big man for a big office. Those are the very words I was going to say to you, Colonel. Tennessee needs you in Congress at my place. Well, appreciate your confidence, sir. But I expect there'll be a mighty lot of others fighting for it, too. Granted, but if I know you, you're not the man to turn away from a fight. You know, somebody else told me that once.  You could never turn away from a fight, and you never will. You'll do what you must because you must. Someday. Someday. Mr. Houston, I reckon maybe that someday is here. Turn to the second act of Wave High of the Banner, starring MacDonald Kerry. Do you recall this saying by a famous country philosopher? He takes two great people to make a great friendship. When you think about it, those words ring as true as any you've ever heard. It has to be a good friend. You must have a capacity for sympathy and understanding and constant thoughtfulness. And that's why I want to suggest that you get a brand-new Hallmark date book soon. You see, the 1953 Hallmark date book is a page-by-page monthly calendar with space for notes beneath each day of the new year. In it, you can jot down the birthdays and wedding anniversaries of your friends and even the arrival dates of their new babies. Then all you need to do is refer to your Hallmark date book to find the exact time a special card is in order. You'll find the Hallmark date book as pretty and compact, just the right size to slip into your pocketbook. Best of all, it's a gift to you. From the fine store where you buy your Hallmark cards. Why not ask for yours? Tomorrow. Actual Lionel Barrymore on the second act of Wave High of the Banner, starring MacDonald Kerry. In such, Colonel David Crockett hurries to finish the letter to his son. A letter which he writes by the light of a candle fastened to a barrel head. They have much time, did we, John? To sit down and just talk about life. After I was elected to Congress, there was less time than ever. For a while it looked like everybody I knew was being elected to office. Andy Jackson was President and Sam Houston Governor of Tennessee. After I'd served my third term in Congress, I came back home and found that a lot had happened while I was in Washington. Sam Houston had gone out to Texas. And about the only friend I had left in town was Abram Henry. That was what decided me. Oh, not you too, David.  Well, I hear Texas is a fine country, Abram. Uh-huh, for us to keep out of. The way I look at it is this. Sam Houston's out in Texas, and Sam's a man that believes in the future and builds for it. What's his men to help him? You mean me and Handy with a rifle? Well, Abram, who've you been saying is the best shot in Tennessee? I don't know. Nothing could ever scare you out, David Crockett. All right. When do we get going? Well, John, there next day. We rode west to the Mississippi and took the steamboat down the river. Every night Abram would tune his fiddle and sanate the passenger. One of them was a gambler. He called himself Bimble Ray. Colonel, what's it matter who runs the country? What's the difference? All the difference between living in fear under unjust laws or in freedom as Americans ought to live. Now I'm just a river gambler, Colonel. Nothing matters much to me. Justice in justice, what's the difference? If I felt that way, sir, there wouldn't be any python living. Maybe there isn't.  What's the difference? Hey, David, I was just talking to a couple of boys. As soon as I heard you was Colonel Crockett, they wanted to know if they could join up with us. What do you say? You tell them we'll be glad to have them. The more men for Sam Houston, the better. Louisiana, there was 12 of us. And when we walked down the gang flag, play unlucky number, Colonel. Sam Houston, he's over on the Brazos, helping to set up a provisional government. Then the Mexican Army's been cleaned out of Texas? Yeah, we did it right here in San Antonio. We took over the garrison, pushed them south through Rio Grande. How soon do you think they'll try coming back? Do you think my boys and I'll hang around for a spell? I'd like you to meet Senora Canalaria. How do you do, ma'am? Benio. Crockett, would you just tell me, Senora? Si, comandante. My cousin Juan, he arrived in San Antonio tonight. Juan come from the Rio Grande. He watched General Santa Ana cross the river. When? Last week. Colonel Travis, what's the strength of your garrison? About 140. Not nearly enough. We're back over in San Antonio. Skins in town held a big fan dango. Reassured us, lost Texas with me. Watch out for the tire of that church across the plaza. If you see any enemy troops, start ringing the church bell. Colonel, me, Danny. Bill Barrick. Yes, Colonel. Johnson, Dickinson, all of it. The garrison's too hard to defend, so Travis wants some men to start moving guns and supplies over to the Alamo mission. There's a little church there. That'll be our headquarters. Come on, boys. I'll send him word at once. The rest will step forward and be counted off. With him came a message. General Fanon isn't coming, Crockett. This letter, John. And I hope somehow you will. Perhaps it'll help you to know me a little better. The best advice that a father can give to his son. What any man is this? Resolution-lessed nephews. And I must confess it was as ambitious in its way as any I've ever made out. For instance, he started with, uh, be a better speller. For him, that means plenty of hard work. And then there were things like, uh, Pinesche. And, uh, share toys with Anne. That's his little sister. And last but not least, not so easy to be a better friend if you make it easy for yourself. One of the simplest ways, as I mentioned earlier, is to carry your Hallmark date book with you wherever you go. In the front of the Hallmark date book, there are special pages for the names and addresses you like to keep with you. And then there's a list of birthstones and flowers for each month. And the type of wedding present for each anniversary, so that your remembrance can be an especially appropriate one. Yes, you'll find dozens of uses for your Hallmark date book in the new year. And remember, it's yours without cost. A gift from the store where Hallmark cards are sold. Here again is Lionel Barrymore. Thank you for coming to Hallmark Playhouse tonight, Mack. You gave us a memorable picture of a great American. Thank you, Mr. Barrymore. I'm glad to hear you say that, but I think sometimes we all tend to overlook the men and traditions that have made our country great. That's why I was interested last Sunday when you told about the Eisenhower Foundation now being started in Abilene, Kansas. It's something that's tangible evidence that Americans of this generation want to do something to see that American principles and ideals are understood and explained. Not only in history books for the school kids, but throughout the world, everybody. The Eisenhower Foundation in Abilene, while it will contain generals, complete collection of military trophies and decorations and mementos, it will actually be dedicated to all the gallant men and women who fought for democracy and freedom in World War II. But most important, it will be devoted to the teaching of Americanism throughout the world. Well, how can the average person who's certainly interested in this cause get behind it? By sending contributions to the Eisenhower Foundation in Abilene, Kansas. At first, General Eisenhower asked that there be no public solicitation of funds. But so many people have asked to take part that now, if you'd like, Mack, you can wire check to the Eisenhower Foundation. After all, Americanism is everyone's business. At least all Americans. So, all you folks listening, if you'd like to participate in this memorial, just mail your check to the Eisenhower Foundation, Abilene, Kansas. Eisenhower Foundation, Abilene, Kansas. I'll remember that. Good night, Mr. Barrymore. Good night, Mack. Good night. And we hope you'll be listening to the next Sunday night. Our story will be January 4th by Bellamy Partridge and William Roos. And our guest star will be Irene Dunn. Our producer-director is William Gay. Our music was composed and conducted by David Roos. And our script tonight was written by Leonard Sinclair. Until next Sunday, then, this is Lionel Barrymore saying good night. And our sole only in stores that have been carefully selected to give you expert and friendly service. Remember a hallmark card when you will carry enough to send the very best. May Donald Carey may soon be seen in The Dark of Night. The role of Polly was played by Barbara Eiler with Polly Bear as Abram, Gerald Moore as Thimble Rig, Betty Lugerson as Senora Condolaria, Ted DeCorsia as Sam Houston, and Tom Tully as Colonel Travis. Every Sunday, hallmark cards presents two great programs for the whole family's enjoyment. 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