Welcome back to Norris Cove. I am Yoshida. If you're new here, I like to plan my life minimally and functionally using a planner and I also like to get my life by planning my budget and planning my finances. But today we're going to be doing our monthly. I know I miss probably two weeks of weekly check-ins, but it's okay. It's okay. I have planned and I will show you all that later. I'm probably going to skip this week's weekly planning because it's the first. It's the normal bills, but we're going to plan our monthly because I do need that to continue planning for the rest of the month. These inserts, these monthly inserts are probably the only thing that is not from my shop and these are by Rosy Paper Tree. I just needed a monthly. So let's get into it. I'm going to try to set this up like I did last month. I know I'm going to be needing my ruler. Where's my highlighter? This highlighter. Oh, I have this one. I'll use, I'll use this one. This one I've been using and it came in a sub box. I'll try this pen. This is a pen that I got in my sub box from Claus and Paper. I'll lay out my sticky notes. I don't have any attention. I'm putting any decorations in, but I'll just do that. I'm going to go ahead with the pilot here, the three-way, but I'm going to take out mine because mine is around here somewhere. I'll find it just in case. Okay, let's get into it. As you can see, I've kind of already put some things in here. I'm going to kind of go through it, but it shouldn't take long because we've gotten rid of a lot of debt, but we have CMP and Amazon that's already came out. We have Payday Tomorrow on Wednesday and this is my busy Saturday. I'm just going to have like that. That's my busy Saturday. This was kind of my busy Monday, but it really wasn't. And yeah, so I highlighted those. Now, we know that Citibank is behind. I'll pay them someday. So I'm going to put Citibank in red and if you're new here, the red is just to kind of bring my eye to what needs to be paid and that is behind. PayPal, I paid them something, but I still owe more, so I'll probably give them a little bit more. We have Credit, not Credit 1, Capital 1, and Capital 1 is not behind, but it's over, so I need to get that down. And then I'm going to switch to the black because we have Ally, which is up to date. State Farm, something else is doing the 15th. I can't think of what it is. Got an American home field on Walmart. And just like my regular planning, if you follow me with my planning, I promise I have some more planning videos coming back. I just had to kind of get through that rough part of February when I was paying all that debt down, but I like to write the things down first, then I go back and decorate if I feel like it. And that's what we'll be doing. We have Chase. Chase is on time to my knowledge. I feel like I'm missing something. Oh, the 13th, we have Navy Federal Credit, that's on time. Let me look real quick. Let me look at last month just to make sure. See, Barclays. Barclays come out on the 22nd. Barclays is closed. They are over, so I'm going to put them in red. T-Mobile, I have some payment arrangements written down here, but they're really due on the 21st. I'll come back in and put those payment arrangements in. I want to say it's the 13th. And then it may be the first, which is there. Okay, Barclays. So what I've been doing on my other calendar, I've just been highlighting or either putting in a total sticker of each week's total. Then I'll keep up with it that away. Oh, HP Ink, y'all. HP Ink comes out on the 15th. I know it was something else. I'm like, it's three things that come out. Chase American Home Shield, credit one, Apple Music on the 8th. And then my Apple has moved, I believe, my Apple Storage. It used to be around the first. So it's somewhere around in here. I'm going to put it here, Apple Storage. The thing is I keep a little small buffer, so it always covers it. So that's fine. Ulta. We need to pay Ulta this month. We need to catch them up. They are like on the 17th, I believe. I want to pay them off, never to deal with them again either. Um, Chase Canva on the 11th. Canva. I don't know when Camp Canva, I have it on the 7th some months, some months I have it on the 10th, some months it come out then, some months it don't. We got Shopify down here. Shopify, that's another thing. They just keep moving and moving and actually Shopify is now, I like to mark off when boxes go out. So that's what my calendar is for. We're shooting, the date is the 17th through the 21st. So let's get this even. I'm going to whip out the number for this. And the 21st is a Sunday, so we know it's not going out then. So that's my little line for that. I have AppleCare on the 4th. I'm just going to put, that's AppleCare, but not AppleStorage. So I'll put that right here on the 4th. And then AppleStorage seemed like it came out on the 5th. Okay, y'all, this is all that I have right now. Let me look through my stickers that I hardly ever use. See if there's something I want to decorate. Oh, and what I did do last month was I took these ice melt total stickers and at the end of the month, I just put like hair total. And then I slowly did the regular total. All right, there's that. And I have some budget box stickers in here. Let's see which one. Okay, okay, let's see. I'm going to use this for when you do our monthly budget. I'm going to start doing that here. And for Payday, Payday is going to be on the 3rd. And I'm going to use some of these credit card ones, Walmart, just for a little, we need to budget on Sunday. Since that one just came up, I guess. Let me just use it. Okay, so that is it, y'all. I'm going to put these up. Let's pop this back in. And that is my monthly budget for April. Oh, you know what? Lord have mercy. It is my birthday month. I'm going to be running a sale on the entire shop, maybe even subs. Okay, maybe even subs. I forgot to put my birthday down and my sister has a birthday. So I need to put that in here. I have it in my other calendars. Y'all, how crazy is that? I forgot my own birthday. And my birthday is only Tuesday this year. I'll put some little decorative stuff here later. And then my nephew, his birthday is a week after mine. My whole, like half my family's birthdays in April. Matter of fact, I think we have the twin's birthday here on today. I got to double check with them all. But half my family, we take up the whole month of April. Like there's at least two to three birthdays each week in April, and some on the same day. So we take up the whole month of April. I don't know what was going on in July. Did everybody want to get pregnant? But that's it. Okay, you guys, thank you so much for watching today's video. 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In this video, we're going to go through the top 10 most important maintenance tips that you must do on your bamboo lab printers to keep them running in tip-top shape. My name's Jim and this is The Edge of Tech. Now before we get started, I want to let you know that most of these maintenance tips will work on all three bamboo lab printers as of the filming of this video. That's the X1, the X1 Carbon and the P1P. Now the P1P and the X1 may not have some of the parts like the camera or the LiDAR, but you can just overlook those and do the parts that the P1P does have. Let's begin by removing our AMS from the top of the machine. You can do that by unplugging the little plug in the back of it and taking out the Bowden coupler here. This little piece here I'll have linked in a description below, but it's super easy to get this coupler out with that piece. After we get the AMS off the top of the machine, we want to take the top glass off as well. The first two things we're going to do today is clean off our rods and check the belt tension on the printer. It's a good idea to do this once a month or if you get this air right here. We're going to start by turning your machine off. We're going to assume right now that the machine will be off for this whole video for any of the steps I do unless I tell you to turn it on specifically. After your machine's off, take a 2mm Allen wrench and loosen these four bolts right here. It's important that you do not remove them completely, just loosen them so they're loose. Now take some isopropyl alcohol in a spray bottle like this and spray down the rods so they're nice and wet. Then you want to move the head back and forth a few times just to make sure it kind of spreads through there. Then take a paper towel and wipe the rods down, moving the head back and forth to make sure everything is dry. If you don't have your IPA in a spray bottle, you can always just put the rubbing alcohol on a paper towel and wipe them down like that. You want to do these steps a couple times until the paper towel comes out clean. Now take the whole gantry and pull it all the way to the front and all the way to the back just a couple times, maybe two or three times and then push it all the way to the back. Then tighten the four screws that we loosened before and make sure you just go till they're tight and then maybe a quarter turn past that. But don't go too tight, you do not want to over tighten these screws. Now turn the printer on and when the screen boots up, press this button right here to go into your self-test. Run that self-test and when it's completely done, press the OK button to finish. Once you get that far, you're done. You successfully have done the first two very important steps on your bamboo lab printer to keep this thing printing great every day. Now we're going to move on to cleaning and lubricating our Z lead screws. This can be done on the X1, the X1 Carbon and the P1P. It's the same across the board and it should be done about every three months to make sure that they're clean and properly lubricated. For this maintenance, we want to make sure that the machine is turned on and that's why we do it right after we do the first two because the machine is already on from those steps. We're going to start with the bed all the way at the bottom of the printer. If your bed is not at the bottom of the printer, you can use the screen on the printer to move the bed all the way down now. Now take a paper towel and put a very thin coat of IPA on it. Then run it up and down the lead screws to make sure all of the loose debris is off and all of that gunk. You don't have to rub this too hard because you don't want the paper towel flaking off everywhere because it'll cause more of a mess than when you started. But just make sure you do it nice and lightly up and down on that lead screw and make sure all of the extra debris is off any filament, any extra dust, that kind of stuff. Now take a couple of drops of this multi-use synthetic oil with PTFE and put it along each of the lead screws. You only need a couple drops on each lead screw and a little goes a long way. You don't want to make a mess. You don't want to use too much of this. Once you do that, hit the home button on the screen of your printer and that will allow the bed to come up, travel through the lead screw and spread the oil nicely through that screw. Now that the bed is at the top, do the same thing for the bottom couple inches of the lead screws. Wipe them down, put a little bit of oil on them, and then run the bed all the way down to the bottom of the printer again. Once you do that, you're done. You've officially cleaned and lubricated the lead screws and they're good to go. There will be a link in the description to the PTFE lube that I like to use. I'll link a couple different ones, but I prefer this one because it's nice and thin and you don't have to use very much. Real quick, if you're getting value out of today's video, please smash that like button now. If you want to see more videos like this about 3D printing, lasers, and CNC, please consider hitting that subscribe button if you haven't done that already. It really helps spread this video farther out into the community and it really helps the channel on the way to 100,000 subscribers this year. Thank you so much for smashing that subscribe button now back to it. I just did that whole thing with the bottle there, dang it. Now we're just going to do a quick cleanup on the extruder. You should do this anytime you see any buildup on the gears that you can see and it's super simple to do. We're going to begin by pulling the front cover of the hot end off just like this. Now we're going to take a can of compressed air and just spray it in the extruder wherever you can get in there and just blow everything right out of there. If you want extra credit, you can actually take the extruder out of the machine and blow it off from all angles that way, but if you do it with the extruder in the machine enough and consistently, you shouldn't have to take that extruder out until it's finally time to replace it.  Another super fast maintenance to do on these is cleaning out the fans. If you have an X1 carbon, you have the big fan on the side and your hot end fans, if you have an X1 or a P1P, you have your hot end fans unless you added that big fan on the side. But it's super simple. Grab the canned air we used before and spray out the fans really well. You want to make sure your machine is not on for this like we talked about earlier because it could damage the fans if they're spinning and you hit them with that canned air.  You cleaned out the fans and you're good to go. And I would do this about once a month to keep them nice and clean. If you have the X1 carbon, you want to make sure you keep that LiDAR lens clean as well. You want to do this about once a month unless you're consistently running ABS. If you're doing that, you probably want to do this every three to five days because it can really fog up the lens and you don't want that to happen.  All you have to do is take a Q-tip, throw some isopropyl alcohol or IPA on it so it's nice and coated. Then what you want to do is just go in and gently clean the lens of the LiDAR, spinning your Q-tip round and round until it's nice and clean. Once it looks clean and there's nothing else coming off onto your Q-tip, then you're done. Your LiDAR is effectively cleaned and at this point, you can put the cover back on the hot end like this. Since we have the Q-tip and the isopropyl alcohol or IPA out, this is a perfect time to do the next step and that's clean the camera. This can be done on the X1, the X1 carbon and the P1P as long as you have the camera so you can do this across all three. It's super easy and we're going to do it the same way we did the LiDAR lens. We're going to flip the Q-tip around to the dry side, get some isopropyl alcohol on there and wipe that lens down so it's nice and clean. Again, I like to rotate that Q-tip around so it's kind of using different parts of the Q-tip to get it clean. Once you're done with that, it's done. That was super fast. It's simple. It takes like five seconds and this should actually be done about once a month. Next on the list is the filament cutter. This needs to be changed periodically but should be checked about once a month to make sure it's in good shape. If you're somebody that prints a ton of multicolor prints, you want to make sure you change this every three to five thousand filament changes because it will deform and get dull after time and that won't be good for your printer. Something that you probably don't think about is that blade actually gets used every single time you print or every single time that there's a filament change so it's actually used a lot more than you think. This step will be the same across all three printers X1, X1 carbon and P1P.  Then pull the arm down just like this and the cutter will slide out from that guide. Now carefully take the old cutter off just like this. Take a new one that came with the machine and push it into the guides. Slide the arm back up and push the cutter back into the cutter guide just like this.  You're done. You've successfully changed the cutter on the hot end and you're good to go for another three to five thousand cuts. A very important piece of these machines is the nozzle wiper. It keeps that nozzle clean and wipes it after it purges. It's that thing that you hear go every time you start a print or every time the filament changes. That means it gets banged around a lot and you want to make sure that's kept in good shape. It's super easy to replace and you want to make sure you check this about once a month. If you're looking from the top down into your machine, you just want to make sure that you pull the hot end away from that poop chute.  It's really that easy and now you have a brand new scraper and you're good to go for a while. And don't forget, most of the printers came with I think two of the cutters and three of the wipers. So you're set for a while on these parts because Bamboo Lab already gave them to you. Another thing you should do if you have the X1 carbon is check the carbon air filter. You should do this about every three months and it's almost the easiest thing you can do. But if your machine is in a production environment like on a farm, you want to make sure you check this once a month. All you have to do to change it is pop the little cover to the left and pull it open and off, pull that filter out, take the new one, push it in and then put that door on from the left to the right and snap it in place. It's that easy. It literally takes 30 seconds to do and you're good to go for like three months in a normal use or one month in production. And you have to get those filters from Bamboo Lab because they don't send one with the machine but that's okay. It's a consumable and it's super easy to order. Last but not least, we're going to replace the desiccant that came in our AMS if you have an AMS. You should be checking this about once a week and if you notice that desiccant has turned colors with the stock packages, I believe they turn yellow, then you want to change it. I like to use the little basket that I showed in this video right here because I can use a loose desiccant and just swap it out when I need to. To do this, all you have to do is take all of the filament rolls that you have in the AMS out, pop the little doors off of where the desiccant goes, take the desiccant out, put the new desiccant in, close those doors and you're done. For extra credit, grab a vacuum and vacuum out the inside of that AMS really good to make sure there's no dust or debris in there and then you're ready to put the rolls of filament back in and start printing. At this time, all you have to do is put your glass back on top of the printer if you have glass and the AMS back on top of that and don't forget to plug your AMS back in and that's it. That was the top 10 most important maintenance tips for your bamboo lab printers to keep them printing like they came out of the box on day one. 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So the last time we went over course outline and we went through some basic definitions of matrices, matrix multiplication, matrix addition, so on. Then we started discussing bigger spaces and in particular we discussed about, yeah, so we were discussing about linear combinations and in particular we discussed about linear independence. So linear independence is a very, very central concept to matrix theory and linear algebra. And so I'll just reiterate that a set of vectors are linearly independent if the only linear combination of this set of vectors that gives you the zero vector is the all zero combination that is all the coefficients must be equal to zero. That's the only way you can reach the all zero vector. Then we say that that set of vectors are linearly independent, otherwise they are linearly dependent. That means that there is a non-trivial linear combination of those vectors where some of the coefficients are non-zero but which when added together with that weighted combination gives you the zero vector. So today we'll discuss many related concepts, specifically basis, dimension and last time somebody asked me about linear transformations and I was telling you that linear transformations are actually equivalent to matrices and matrices are equivalent to linear transformations. So the question was how do we define what is a linear transformation which then is related to a matrix. I'm going to talk about that. Then I'll talk about some fundamental subspaces associated with linear transformations or matrices. And if time permits we will also discuss about the notion of the rank of a matrix. Now to recall we say that if you remember we just put down the last thing we discussed the last time on the previous class. So a set of vectors v1, v2 up to vn span a vector space v if n of v1 through vn is equal to v. That means that every vector in capital V can be written as a linear combination of v1 through vn. So basis. So a set of vectors v1 through vk is said to be a basis for a vector space v if it's both linearly independent and spans the set v. So in this case we call this a spanning set, vector space v if it is both linearly independent and spanning set. So some comments about the basis are in order. First of all the basis is not unique. You can define many different basis for a particular vector space. And every v in this set, spanning set v can be, sorry, every v in this vector space capital V can be uniquely written as a linear combination of the basis. Obviously this is not true if you add or delete vectors from the basis. If you add vectors to the basis there are more than one way in which you can represent a vector that belongs to the vector space. If you delete vectors from the basis there are points in v which cannot be represented as a linear combination of the remaining set. So also every vector space has a basis. And we say that another way to say what I just said is in fact it's the two popular phrases a basis is a maximal independent set, minimal spanning set. So maximal independent set meaning that this is the maximum number of linearly independent vectors that you can pull out from this vector space v. In other words if you take a basis and you take any other vector from v and add it to that basis that set of vectors now becomes linearly dependent. And it's a minimal spanning set in the sense that if you take away any vector from the basis then it can no longer span the vector space. There will be some points in the vector space which cannot be represented as a linear combination of the remaining set. So another way to say this is that an independent set of vectors in a vector space is a basis if and only if no proper superset of it is linearly independent. Also a set that spans v is a basis if and only if no proper subset of it still spans the vector space. These are things I have already said I am just saying it another way. Now very another concept which is related to the basis is that a vector space is said to be finite dimensional if there exists a finite set of vectors in v which is a basis for v. So in this course we will completely or exclusively look at finite dimensional vector spaces if the basis for a vector space does not have a finite number of vectors in it then we call the vector space infinite dimensional. So for example if you take the set of all polynomials in one variable say x then that is an infinite dimensional vector space because you can have x, x squared, x cube and so on going all the way up to infinity. So if you take the set of all polynomials that you can define in x then this span this forms a vector space which is infinite dimensional. But like I said in this course we will focus on the finite dimensional vector space most of the results for finite dimensional vector space actually do extend to infinite dimensional vector spaces but in some cases you will have to do you will have to make some extension arguments which is beyond the scope of this course. So here is one result related to basis it is called the basis theorem. So what do you think it says? Anybody want to guess or just anybody know what the basis theorem says? Sir number of the vectors present in the basis is actually the dimension of the vector space. Yeah exactly so that is the theorem. So what it says is that if some basis of a vector space has a finite number of elements then all basis of the vector space have the same number of elements and this is called the dimension of the vector space is denoted by time of. So essentially if you find a basis for a vector space and I find a basis for a vector space the basis that you found could be different from the basis that I found but the number of vectors that you that you have used to form the basis is going to be exactly the same as the number of vectors I have used to form the basis. So just to I mean illustrate this idea that there could be different basis but they will have the same number of vectors. So first of all you know if I take the space r to the n this has dimension how much n. So if I take for example the case where n equals 2 then 1 0 0 1 this is one basis and so is 1 minus 1 and minus 1 1 and so is 1 2 3 5. All these are basis they will span r2 and you see that they all have two vectors each. Sir. Yes. The second example is not a basis right they are linearly dependent. Yes. Okay now there now it is a basis thank you. Okay so if I take c to the n this also has dimension n in the field c okay and it has dimension 2n in the field of real numbers. Of course if you take this n dimensional real space this vectors e1 e2 up to en which are like this over here where basically ej has 1 in the jth position and 0 everywhere else this is called the standard basis okay. So now let us prove this result okay so how do we prove a result like this that if some basis has a finite number of elements then all basis of the vector space have the same number of elements and this is called the dimension of the vector space okay. So the proof is by contradiction so suppose there are two I found one basis and you found a different basis and they happen to have a different number of elements so suppose v1 through vn is one basis and w1 through wm is a different basis v and without loss of generality I can assume that n is less than or equal to n otherwise I can simply switch what I call v and what I call w so I can assume n is less than or equal to n without loss of generality so as a first step so basically this has fewer vectors than this what I am going to do is I am going to take this bigger set here and replace one of these vectors with say v1 and then I will replace one other of these vectors with v2 and so on that is what I am going to do so first we can replace one of the wi with v1 and still have a basis for v so why is that true that is because suppose v1 was equal to alpha 1 w1 plus alpha 2 w2 alpha m wm I can always do this because w1 through wm is a basis for this vector space v and v1 to vn are also vectors that sit in v so any if I take v1 it is a vector that is lying in v and so it can always be represented as a linear combination of w1 through wm and obviously not all these alphas are going to be equal to 0 because if I make all the alphas equal to 0 then the right hand side is 0 and the left hand side is 0 okay so this is this is true so not all alphas are 0 so if alpha k is one of the guys who is not 0 then wk can be then written as 1 over alpha k times v1 minus all the other vectors so in this series there is no wk okay I have skipped wk and all the other terms are here so I can just I am just rewriting this first equation here okay so basically what this gives us is that so notice that these are this is just a linear combination of all the other w so I can replace wk by v1 and still have a basis for this vector space v so there are two things here so we can replace wk by v1 and still span the vector space v and the second is that this set of vectors that we get w1 wk minus 1 v1 wk plus 1 all the way up to wm are still linearly independent okay why is that true simple if you take a linear combination of these and you get 0 and suppose that's a non-trivial linear combination then all you have to do is to substitute for v1 it's some linear combination of all these w's and what that will end up showing you is that there is a non-trivial linear combination of w1 through wm which gives you the zero vector and therefore this set of vectors w1 through wm are not linearly independent but that is no that is that was one of our starting points that this is a basis meaning that this is a linearly independent set that spans v so you can show by contradiction I would like you to try to show it but what I was saying is it's it's a simple argument what you do is you take a linear combination of these vectors w1 through wk minus 1 v1 wk plus 1 through wm and you set it equal to 0 suppose that there is a linear combination of these vectors which gives you the zero vector and if that linear combination is a non-trivial linear combination it means that these vectors are linearly dependent so you start by saying suppose it's true that I can take some beta 1 w1 plus etc to beta m wm where there is some beta k which is multiplying v1 and with not all beta i is equal to 0 which gives you the zero vector then it or what you do is you substitute for v1 from here v1 is some non-trivial linear combination of these w's and you substitute for v1 into that equation involving beta 1 w1 plus etc up to beta m wm equal to 0 and you manipulate that equation a little bit and you end up showing that there is a non-trivial linear combination of w1 through wm that is also giving you the zero vector which means that w1 through wm are not linearly independent but that's a contradiction because we started by assuming that v1 through vn and w1 through wm are basis of v so that's the argument so you can so now that you've replaced one of the vectors in this set by v1 think of this as your new basis and you do the same argument and replace one of one of these vectors with v2 okay now clearly v2 is linearly independent of v1 okay so you can use one of the other w i's to replace it you don't need to use v1 to replace it because clearly v2 when I write v2 as a linear combination of these vectors here the coefficient of v1 may or may not be 0 but one of the other coefficients will certainly be non-zero and it's that coefficient that you use to rewrite it like this and then say you can replace wk by some wk prime by v2 is linearly independent of v1 so we can use one of the w i's so then we can do then v3 v4 and so on okay but unless m equals n what we'll have then is we'll have a set which has v1 to vn and some of the w i's and since v1 to vn span this vector space v it means that these w i's can be written as a linear combination of these v1 to vn and which means that this new basis that we found is not linearly independent anymore so there will be some w's left over but any w i can be expressed as a linear combination of v1 through vn since v1 through vn spans v so that means that this this new set that we have is no longer a linearly independent set and this leads to a contradiction okay so that's the proof any questions yes sir while proceeding with replacing every v i by w i you said that if the coefficient of certain w i is zero to take another w i but while going from v3 to v4 to vn if we ran out of the non-zero coefficients I mean there is no particular w i left for which its coefficient is non-zero and I can replace it by a v yeah so that's not possible because so for example suppose you've replaced v1 v2 and v3 with some of the w i's and so now you have a set which has some w i's and it has v1 v2 v3 in it now you're looking at replacing v4 v4 is linearly independent of v1 v2 and v3 so you can't express v4 as a linear combination of this set which contains v1 v2 v3 and the rest of the w i's but with the non-zero coefficients being only in v1 v2 and v3 because this v4 is in linearly independent of v1 v2 and v3 so the coefficients of one of the other w i's has to be non-zero is that clear and that w i can be used to replace okay so the the next thing I must I want to talk about okay just maybe one remark I think I've already mentioned this but a property of a basis is that if you take any vector in the vector space v and express it as a linear combination of the vectors in the basis that linear combination is unique okay so the next thing I want to talk about this is also something you can show by the way what I'm doing right now is really just reviewing some basic concepts from matrix theory that you must have seen in your undergraduate so I'm not proving all of these results once we start discussing the new material or the once we get past all this background material I will generally try to prove every result that I put down


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What's up trade hackers today is Tuesday December 10th Welcome to the daily update big news today is Supposedly there's been an agreement. They've come to an agreement on the trade deal. So you'd think that would move the markets, right? wrong The S&P is Unchanged on the day. So what does that really mean? Well, I mean there's been so much talk about this trade deal over the last year And and what's gonna happen and you know, there's been so many headlines and it has moved the market in kind of sporadic Gyrations, but you know, I don't know if the market's just numb to headlines now. I mean the agreement is not final It's more of a handshake agreement. And so, you know, the market just doesn't really care We'll see what happens previously that the deadline for the tariffs to take effect was December 15th But now it looks like the agreement's in place and should be in place by the end of the year if everything goes as planned Which is not necessarily a guarantee by any stretch, but that's what's going on now one symbol EWW which is the Mexican ETF. It is up about a percent and a half Obviously Mexico involved in those trade negotiations. So Mexico is up a bit, but we will see what happens the other thing obviously that's been a major headline is the impeachment proceedings and sounds like the House Democrats are gonna vote this week and Figure out what's going on with this impeachment and actual vote will take place later in the house But again, it's like the market doesn't care either the market doesn't care The market doesn't think that Trump is going to be impeached or who knows But the market is just not moving at all. And so those are kind of the major two headlines. We're seeing today So what's the key takeaway from all this? my opinion is and Actually now just in talking the S&P's down six, but the major Takeaway from this is you can't trade news. You just can't trade news You don't know what's going to happen Everything you read Everything known all known information is already priced in and so you just you can't trade on news now Does that mean you can't have a directional bias? No, of course not We take directional trades all the time and it's okay to have a directional bias The way that we like to structure that is that we just like to have a range and as long as you do Whatever you want inside that range That's cool. And so for us we like to have a directional bias a range of Between one to one and five to one on our short Delta So a short bias versus the amount of theta right now We're at about a little over two to one on our ratio of short Delta Versus theta and so we're we're well within that range So anything we want to do if we want to take a long position if we want to take another short position Whatever we want to do for that bias whether it's news related or earnings related or whatever it is I don't care, but as long as you stay within that range. You can really do whatever you want So that's exactly the way that we manage our portfolio. I mean think about this the S&P Let's just look at SPX as an example and let's go to my Year-to-date percentage. Okay, so the S&P 500 is up almost 25 percent year-to-date Well, guess what? We've been short. We've had a short bias in the market all year and we've still made money Okay, so that that's what I'm saying is you can still you can take these biases You can take these these shots based on what you think the market's gonna do But as long as you stay within your range, you should be fine now has our short Delta hurt our performance Yeah, absolutely. I mean if we would have been long obviously we would did we would have done a lot better But you also can't trade in hindsight if the market would have tanked then our short bias would have really helped our performance So that's our preference whether you have a short bias preference or not That's up to you But that's just the way that we trade because the velocity of those downside moves can be very violent compared to the up moves As you've heard and seen the market takes the stairs up at the elevator down sometimes And so just be in position for that is the prudent thing to do All right moving on a couple other things. I mentioned in last night's video azeo auto zone We did an earnings trade and Exploded to the upside now what happened to us? Well, we did not lose money because the way we position this trade We actually took this off earlier today and for the width of the call spread five bucks and sold it originally for 596 so made 96 bucks per contract. Is that amazing? No, did we lose money? No, and we made some money So that's what happened in azeo. We're gonna do a similar trade a Lulu announces after the market closes tomorrow So we're gonna do a similar trade in Lulu Just use those front week options set up a trade So we have no risk to the upside in a nice buffer to the downside Hopefully it comes down stays within the expected move The expected range for Lulu is a little over 17 and a half bucks And so if you look at where price is currently now we we haven't entered this trade So we're gonna we're gonna enter this tomorrow But if you look at where it's at they call it 230 so get down to about right here would be the expected move So still in that max profit area. So that's kind of what we're looking at for Lulu Other than that still looking for points of entry to sell some more premium in bonds and Natty gas but have not added those to our portfolio yet But our pro members will get an alert once we do hope everyone has a great evening. We'll talk to you tomorrow


What's going on ladies and gentlemen?  So what that means is that one order will get Executed and it will make another order go live in the market and it will have Both elements there one to cut your losses and one to take your money. So for all intents and purposes I'm gonna do this in a paper account just to Make sure I didn't mess it up and I'm gonna show you Actually how to submit a trigger order here So I've chosen the montage option that says trigger order So when you right-click your montage in DOS and other platforms have this too and you choose the platform or the Setting trigger order it'll change it to what it looks like in the top right of my screen right now And you see the box that it says trigger order that box is checked So that means that when the order up top is executed the order at the bottom will go live in the market What we're watching here is ACHV so we're gonna build up the order right now Here we're slowing it down And you see how it changed to a limit and now we're getting executed and there you go


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Oh hey! Kia ora! My name is Soa and welcome to another episode of UOA Weekly here at the eSports Arena.  It's Comedy Week at City Campus and there's keeps on to help you de-stress and unwind. Check it out on the UOA website to find out more. We have a wonderful campus store designer tow challenge 2023. Congratulations to Grace for her stunning design. Stay tuned to see these totes available in our campus store. A big shout out to everyone who participated. Are you keen to go flatting on campus with your friends? Karlo Park Student Village is accepting group bookings for 2024. Apply today for a streamlined application process and skip the flat hunting lines. Are you keen for a night of elegance and all things glitz and glam? Sizer invites you to the Portland Hotel on Wednesday the 23rd of September from 6pm to midnight. For more information and tickets check out the Sizer Facebook page or their Instagram page. Are you keen to represent your faculty in net war? Register your interest today for the championships happening from Tuesday the 19th of September to Friday the 6th of October. Biological Sciences PhD candidate Cam Hofbeck and her engaging talk on the microbiome of the Tautara took out the top prize at the 3 minute thesis final from a high quality field. Read more on the UOA website. That's it for this week. For more information and to contribute to UOA weekly check out the what's on page at the University of Wilton website. Have a great week.


Ready, ready? And we are underway. All right, ready to go here round one here is the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Rockbell, Rafael Asansao. Big kick to the lover, he's done. All right, so the first round is underway. You know he leads the league in submission attempts, right? So the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practice, you're gonna try to go for the early takedown attempt. That is his comfort zone. And if he can get this fight to the canvas, you gotta think he could be getting a tap sooner, rather than late. Boy, he stepped in the round. The thing to use it, and he does it as well as anyone. Nice kick there by Asansao. Inside leg kick is there by Cody Colburn. Oh, big left hand there. And not move into that power shot. Let's see if he can adjust. Asansao gets absolutely no... Try some serious power in that kick, but misses. That one hurt. Defense there, huge block. Asansao gets caught by the inside leg kick a few more, and that'll leave him on. He's looking to score, but actually looking to end the fight and to make sure the judges stayed firmly out of this equation. Elbows, punches, hammer fists.  There it is again. Check it out again. Boom! Out cold. So there he is as the celebration continues.  That could hold up as one of the better knockouts of the year. We go right inside the octagon to Bruce Buffer. He has the official decision. Ladies and gentlemen, referee Dan Marguerita is called to stop for this contest. At three minutes, 20 seconds of the very first round. Going to win her. Congratulations to Cody Nolub-Graw-Brant, the former UFC Band-And-Way champion. I thought put it all together beautifully here tonight. He was favored to win...


What comes in nursing school explained in this video on the different types of IV tubing specifically primary secondary as well as IV extension tubing. Now the primary tubing is always used for the primary line, which in many cases is some sort of IV maintenance fluids such as normal saline, lactated ringers, D5 half normal saline, those kind of solutions and for that we will need our primary IV set and and on the packaging it'll always tell you what this is. So in this case this is a clear link system, continue flow set and it shows us the drops per ML and remember from your medication, math or dosage calculation quizzes when it comes to drips and drip rates you always need to know the drops per milliliter that the IV tubing is providing and the packaging will tell you exactly that. So in this case this is 10 drops per ML and for the most part it doesn't really matter what this says if you're using IV and IV pump because then the pump regulates the volume that it pulls and but if you're using free flowing so if you were in a power outage or you didn't have an IV pump available then you would use drops per mill to calculate how many drops per minute you would need to administer to the patient to give the exact dosage that they need and the rate that they need. So going back to the primary IV tubing it is longer and it has several ports and it here even tells you that it has two lower lock activated valves and we'll go over those in a moment. And then the secondary medication set looks like this it actually says secondary medication set again it tells you the drops per ML and then if you look at it, it's it's much shorter and we'll take a look at the other tubing here in comparison so you can see that there's a lot more tubing involved here on the primary set and the secondary set always comes with this little hook that allows you to piggyback it to the primary set and check out my separate video that goes into that and the other type of tubing I have pulled out here is this IV extension tubing and this is just a very short tubing and it depends on what kind of IV access or IV catheters the facility that you're working at is using. Many a times the IV catheter already has this IV tubing attached to it so you don't have to worry about it, but if it's just a needle as well as the cathalon then you need to hook it up to something and this IV extension tubing will work for that. So this part with the lower lock will go on to the patient's IV catheter and then this will be locked here and then we can hook up the primary tubing right to this port. So these are the most common types of IV tubing that you'll see. Please also check out my other videos where I actually go into priming secondary and primary IV bags and lines. Thanks for watching.


It's still the run-up and we're glad to know you're still there. And in this segment we're going to look at what we have seen as headlines today. And a very interesting one is the headlines we saw federal government develop sickle cell vaccine and others. We wanted to bring you the details of that because we talked about it a little bit earlier. Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation Adelike Marmora has announced that his ministry has developed sickle cell and venom vaccines. He spoke on Monday, December 12th at the 10th edition of the PMB Administration Scorecard Series 2015 to 2023. Marmora said the minister achieved the use of local herbs for the production of drugs for sickle cell as the country had a high number of people with sickle cell anemia. Also announcing some of the achievements of the ministry, Marmora said there is also the development of an anti-venom vaccine, an anti-penic that reduces fat in the body. And the ministry, through raw material research and development council program on development of the dairy sector, introduced the technology of increasing daily milk yield from cows from 1 to 1.5 liters of milk per cow to over 15 liters per cow in a day. The National Space Research and Development Agency is also working to establish a space museum and planetarium that is expected to realize about 30 billion era boost tourism activities, provide 5,000 direct jobs, 20,000 indirect jobs and improve the teaching of STI. The future is full of optimism, as he says, as long as we keep faith and leverage on the enormous power of STI coupled with demand-driven R&D programs and projects. The Ford Industrial Revolution will register Nigeria's presence and effective participation according to him if it is sustained and escalated. I'm talking about this current commitment and interest in research and innovation as principal push factors for technological advancement. Enough has been said. So much was said about that and I'm so happy. Now, there was a time, very, I think in the 80s or early 90s, there was a professor called Dr. Abalaka. He came up and said that he had, through herbs and some research, come up with a solution for HIV. He was practically shot down and nobody heard anything about that anymore. And recently, when we had this COVID, there were some people that came out and said that they had actually developed some drugs, some said some vaccines and all that, and nobody heard anything about them again. So my excitement is that we now believe that even in the Agbo, what will be understandable enough, even in the Agbo, there could be solutions to very, very serious problems that we have. Of course, I mean, it's not news. These are things that we have at our disposal that would have been very much developed by now. We've taken advantage of it on time, but it's always a good time to start. We're making progress. It's a beautiful read that we just had this morning. It's good to know that we're actually making progress. We're putting in effort and we're making progress in the development and technology climbs. Nice. Amazing. But you know one problem I know I think that we have, and we should work very hard to fight, especially as it concerns these vaccines and these new developments, is implementation. Implementation and then maintenance. He might start this. Amazing stuff. What happens when he leaves office? That's a problem that we, or continuity is the word that we should use, because for instance, I always am a farmer and I always use this, that we once had a minister of agriculture in the person of a national. I don't know how much better others could have been, but I'm talking about the one who affected people even in my rural area, because he had a system. So it was working, the things that he was doing, the policies that he was bringing to play. It was working and the farmers were feeling the impact even in the rural area. If there is a bag of fertilizer to get to a particular farmer, it got to that farmer. If there was a generator, a water pumping machine or something, it got to the people who registered for it. And once he left office, we didn't see all those things anymore, because continuity is not there. Yes. And like you expressed the fear, what if he leaves office and this thing has started in his time, will the next person continue? If it needs policy, if it needs legislation, they should work towards it right now, so that whenever the person who started it leaves office, then the people will continue. Someone said, was it today on the program or somewhere, that leaders think about the next generation, politicians think about the next election. So we should start to have leaders in this country that will be thinking about 50 years to come, the people that are not yet born, people that have not even dreamt of having the... I don't even know how to put it, but the future, very far into the future. Yes. All right. Moving on to the newspaper headlines, these are the top trending topics making rounds in the polity today. And we're starting off with the Vanguard newspaper, where this one says, federal government approves the boarding of Nigerians with expired passports. Okay. I don't even want to talk about it. How? I don't want to talk about it.  What about the reason they had for doing that? It's fine. They must have thought about it very well. In this day, Bassenjo says Nigeria at crossroads needs leader with right character. I think we've heard that a couple of over a lot of times. And moving on to premium times, where it says, kill any miscreant found with gun, a Bony government, other security agencies. And it's still here. It says, Stinebus campaign replies, arise TV and this day says, allegations baseless. Okay. Well, there's so many people are very bold in this election. Some people are timid. Some people, we can't even hear that they are contesting anymore. But there's some people that feel that, okay, I've been here and I know what it is. You can't intimidate me and all that. But be that as it may, I think the political class and those people contesting especially should respect the people. And the voice of the people like the call the press for a state of the realm should be respected because it's like, it's a representation of what the people on the streets are seeing. So apart from the fact that we have people in the National Assembly that should have come from the stock that we call the citizens of Nigeria, the press also, the media houses also go to the streets and fill the polls of the people. So whenever anybody is called upon, I think they should give us an answer to the questions that we ask no matter how stupid they might sound. But in that stupidity, you will find out the level, at least the level of education, the level of awareness of the people you intend to govern.  They are meant to give more education. They are meant to. Yeah. I am asking you a question. It's probably because I do understand that I'm trying to in order not to make wrong assumptions.  Yeah. Anyway, before we forget, remember that the PVC collection started yesterday. So not that it started yesterday, but it was decentralized from yesterday. So you can go to your polling unit now, get your PVC, because from the 15th of January or so, they will return them to the local government headquarters. So now that you have the opportunity, please go to your polling area and make sure you get your PVC. That's when you can make a statement, ask the question, tell someone what to do because you are the employer of labor without your PVC. So do well to get it now. And this is where we draw the curtain on today's edition of the run-up. Thank you so much for being a part of it. We will bring you even more interesting segments, but that will be tomorrow 11 a.m. My name is Uche Chuku Onoda. And I am Nyamgul Akgaji. Thanks for being there.


Aloha and welcome to Hawaii Reimagined on Think Tech Hawaii. We're living in a world of uncertainty and facing massive disruptions to our labor markets due to automation and now COVID. In Hawaii Reimagined, I will be featuring innovators and entrepreneurs, both locally and globally, who are creating innovative solutions to make a positive impact in our communities. And we'll be learning what these innovators are doing so we can have inspired conversations about what Hawaii's economy and the future of work might look like as we emerge from the effects of these disruptions. I'm Ruby Men and your host. And as we're trying to navigate our way in the world of work, I help people navigate their career transitions in my career, get it done mastermind community. And you can learn more at brainsmartdesign.com. So I'm super excited to introduce my guest today who is Alec Wagner. He's a director of the Purple Prize that started in 2016. And the Purple Prize is an innovative competition that brings together people across sectors to build technology solutions that create value for land and people. And to date, they've worked with over 40 teams and have awarded those with the highest potential to create real impact in Hawaii. So we're going to be talking about their unique approach of integrating technology with Hawaiian values and cultural practices, and what interesting projects they're doing with workforce innovation, and also any COVID pivots that they may have had to make. And just as an aside, I had the incredible blessing of being able to participate in the Purple Prize with the Social Lender Prize inmate art project that I was working on in 2019. And I can only tell you that it was a game changer for me. I learned so much not only about business, but Hawaiian practices and cultural values. And so I am just so excited to have Alec be here on this program and welcome Alec. I'm just thrilled that you're here and to tell us and so I want to hear so much more about some of the cool things that you've been doing in the Purple Prize. I want to find out more about you and your story and the story of the Purple Maya as well. So let's dive right in. Can you start by telling us a little bit about yourself and how you even got to the Purple Prize? Well, thanks so much for having me Ruby. You know, you talking about the CARE projects and your participation in the Purple Prize in 2019 brings back some awesome memories.  Actually as a co-facilitator in our Kamaki Nana Design Thinking Program and I had a chance to, I think, learn a lot from you about human behavior and the way that teams interact and really how we can make the program an effective collaborative experience. So I just want to echo your kind words back and share my appreciation for you. Of course. Anyways though, my career path and I guess how I got to my role. I guess it started in college as most of our careers do and I think that overall, I've had the privilege of being able to work in spaces that I'm passionate and interested in. In college I studied political science which I guess is unconventional for a person that works in the space that I work in now. But I was really interested in college about I think the intersection of power dynamics and economic development. And especially in so far as the way that that played out for big economic leaders like the United States and peripheral countries. The ones that were maybe dependent on the United States or vice versa that the United States was dependent on. And so that I guess international lens led me to some work in research on international economic affairs and a little bit of interning free interning it's not easy to find a paid job in that space without a master's degree or a PhD. And so I did some interning for sure and the immigration space and ended up landing I think I'm a really valuable opportunity that kick started my interest in the impact investment space is where I work next through an organization called the trilateral Commission, I became a big rock fellow fellow there and had an opportunity to study the role that governments played in investment for technological innovation and for artificial intelligence, especially in the Asia Pacific region. And so I worked on with a number of other really impressive people who far, if it would deliver far more value in that report than I did, I got a chance to learn a little bit about how countries were thinking about the future of work and, and how they were investing in the future of work and their innovative economies. And I also got a chance to peek into the impact investment space and that's what got me super inspired around these kind of fringe or not fringe but different kinds of investment that were being done in social and environmental impact projects, especially those that were driven by technology and so I was in the Bay Area I was based in Palo Alto at the time so I ended up landing a internship and ended up working as an impact investment analyst at an impact investment firm in Palo Alto called One World Training and Investments. We invested in early stage companies that were delivering a social environmental impact globally and consulted with companies on their corporate social responsibility strategies and things like that. And that is what put me in this space of working with entrepreneurs and being fascinated with entrepreneurship and innovation and being from Maui originally I wanted to move back home had the opportunity to do that a little bit earlier than I thought with the county of Maui as a legislative analyst in the county council and then from there I got picked up by the Purple Might Foundation which is where I work now and I was brought on to help turn an already kicking already incredible program called the Purple Prize which at the time was just an incentive challenge prize for for Indigenous innovators and I was I was tasked with growing that into a full-blown incubator program where we would work with local founders for values driven mostly Indigenous Native Hawaiian. We would help them to create technology companies that were not only rooted in the values of this place but created social and environmental impacts in this place. So that's I guess you know what I'm doing now and then how I got there. So one of the things that I found so fascinating about your well I guess we can consider it as an accelerator for startups specifically for tech startups and your approach is so different because you incorporate Hawaiian practices, Hawaiian values and you consider a lot of the Indigenous practices as a technology and there's a term that you use called Indigenous innovation. I really want to dive into that concept because I see that as being the heart of the Purple Prize and what makes it so different from all the other accelerators that are out there. So can we talk a little bit about that? Like what does that term mean and why is it important and how does that factor into the entire Purple Prize ecosystem? Yeah that's a really good and deep question. We've been trying to figure out the answer to that question for a pretty long time and people, cultural practitioners and incredible academics have been thinking about why Indigenous innovation as well as practitioners in other communities like Aotearoa or in other Indigenous communities and First Nations peoples in Canada have been really thinking about what innovation looks like when it's done from an Indigenous place or Indigenous context. And in Hawaii that even looks different and so we as an organization and as an initiative of the Purple Prize have been trying to figure out what this thing means and so we've been running just these incubator programs with these challenge prizes as experiments I think. In 2016 when the program started that was an experiment to see if there was even anyone in the ecosystem in Hawaii that was working on something innovative that was driven and founded in Indigenous values and ancestral technologies. In 2017 it was just a proof of that original inkling that we got from the 2016 Purple Prize and in 2019 we had enough conviction to really think about how do we prove out the business case for this technology ideology that actually exists. And so that's what this has all been. It's just been a repetition of experiments and really honing in on what this Indigenous innovation concept actually means. But where we're at right now is that Indigenous innovation is the creation of a new thing that is inspired by and rooted in the culture and values of the place that you're in. And so whether that place is in Hawaii or that place is in New Zealand or that place is in Canada it's about what is Indigenous in that place in that community. And generally Indigenous innovation is something that's done by Indigenous people. But we believe and we've been learning about this and so we're not you know we're not prescriptive about any of our definitions or any of our ideologies and a lot of these things are from my own experience as a non-Indigenous person so I acknowledge that. But we believe that people who are non-Indigenous can also innovate with an Indigenous mindset or from an Indigenous context as long as they assume authentically the position of an ally with an Indigenous community and establish a really deep authentic connection in that community. And the really important thing that I think is missed a lot of times by people who consider themselves allies from Indigenous community or to a BIPOC community is that reciprocity needs to be created with that community. And that reciprocity can look a lot of different ways. It can be monetary, it can be non-monetary and it can be other forms of capital, human capital, social capital. It could be your intellectual capital that you donate to an organization or just any kind of excellence that is given to that community is our forms of reciprocity. And I think as long as those things exist in a person who is non-Indigenous and is innovating with Indigenous in this ways in that place, I think it's possible. But we tend to just for safety or really just for surety. We call that place-based innovation. And so we kind of operate with both and we try to cultivate both. And I think that is definitely where we're headed in more of an inclusive market-driven direction with the Purple Prize. Yeah, actually I wanted to see if we could show picture number four because a big part of the experience, at least when I was in the Purple Prize, was being able to go into these incredible environments that I probably wouldn't have had access to any other way and have a foot in the door and just be able to go out there on the land and experience it and have the practitioners talk to us about what their practices are. And I think the part where the technology comes in and actually to have a different definition about technology, which I think is so important, is that I think normally our mental model about technology is that it's driven by a computer, right, that you have a human-computer interaction. But really when you're talking about Indigenous technology, it's talking about ecosystems that the Hawaiian practices have done just even in land management. And those are some of the wonderful things that we learned in our experience. I wanted to talk a little bit also about some of the things that the students do as part of the experience. And if we can show some of those photos, we did a lot of team building, classroom. If you can show, yeah, so this is one of the... If I can add to what you're sharing too. I mean, the reason that we were able or we're able to bring people into these communities is because of the relationships that we have with people who are leaders in those communities. And so we have a majority Indigenous board, our organization was founded by two Indigenous men. And we've developed relationships with the community that allow us to help other people to have access to those kinds of opportunities. And that picture that you showed in Waianae over at Kala Farms, we have to think. Our board member, Kamu Enos, who's also the director of Indigenous Innovation, the first office of Indigenous Innovation in the world. In a post-secondary education system and his father, Eric, you know, are really the reasons why we're able to provide access to this kind of knowledge and these kind of opportunities.  We're just connectors and facilitators of those networking opportunities, I guess, in some ways. But technology is something that can be laid on top of those existing practices where there's existing and special technologies like the aqua system or like, modern technologies can be laid on top of those and used to achieve astounding technological results and innovative results. And so that's kind of that's what really we're really interested in is we're interested in seeing how can we take an old technology, more how do we take an old value system or practice and how we bring that into contemporary spaces and have the right kind of people lead and speak about those technologies in a way that is catalytic to cultural resurgence. Yeah, and I think that was that was the part that was so inspiring to me. I love systems thinking and when we went out into the land, I just started to see this is, you know, well, first of all, the first question I asked myself is who how did these native Hawaiians 700 years ago even come up with this. I mean, they didn't have GPS. They didn't have all the technology that we have. And yet they were able to figure out a land management system that is complete. It's the most well designed system that I think I've, I know of. And, you know, from managing what happens with the water at the mountain all the way down to the fish pond was just a marvel to me.  I mean, how did that even happen. And I don't know if you guys have any insight into that but that's the first question that came to me is like who dreamt this up, you know, because it's it's really quite remarkable that that entire system so I would. Yeah, I'm super interested in how you're starting to see the evolution as you're working through the teams and you've had now some experience, are you starting to see the adoption of this model the systems thinking model, as it applies to Hawaiian practices. Are you starting to see some of that integrate into some of the teams and the problems that they're solving and the solutions are coming up with. Definitely. Well, all the teams that go through the purple prize that we try to embed those things into the way the design their company is the way to design the products, the way they form their teams would they bring into leadership positions on those teams. Those are all things that we consider as we go through, you know, what was an eight month process and now is a six month process. And so teams are definitely picking those things up. I mean you could learn about all those without me going into too much depth on our website which is purple prize.com. But a couple maybe a couple that I would highlight are one called exchange Avenue, which is a company that has created a product that is essentially a. It's the system and the economy that exists around the system, placed into a FinTech no code app. And so this, that's an incredible innovation, super, super creative, definitely was rooted in the relationships in the cultural practices and the knowledge that he was able to get passed down from from cultural practitioners and Kupuna that he talked about interacted interact with john john Garcia. And, you know, there's other examples I don't want to take up too much time on those because I know there's other questions you want to get to but definitely would encourage anybody who's interested in examples of this indigenous innovation to check up the website. Yeah. The other thing also I know is that you have been coming up with some interesting workforce innovation projects. I'd love for you to talk a little bit about that. And did I read. I think I saw on your Instagram posts that you folks just got awarded a fairly large federal grant for workforce development so I'd like to hear a little bit more about that too. But, yeah, you want to talk about that like what. Happy to really shortly now I am. I don't run those programs. I helped a little bit in the ideation but we have to really experience now three really experienced people who are running this program called the Yoppa program, they've really taken it from idea and implementation and they were the people, along with one of our other co founders Kelsey Amos who were able to raise a relatively significant grants that we put together in some ways in response to the coronavirus we need to figure out how do we bring people from different backgrounds that do not have technical technological experience into positions that are relatively economically lucrative and our branches off into more long term careers in the space. So the program focus on Salesforce trains people and believe it's 14 weeks to become Salesforce administrators and helps them to get certain certified and places them in Salesforce administrator jobs and local companies where there's a significant need. That's one of the way that's the workforce development program that we're working on, but of course purple prize and incubation of technology companies that we do there is maybe also workforce development stuff a longer tail and requires people to do a little bit more work and break out of their comfort zone. In a way that requires people to do things that have never been done before. So that I guess is the distinction between the two different workforce development initiatives that we have. So let's that I think that's a great segue for workforce innovation. Also, in terms of, you know, I think that you're working with a lot of different startups companies, and I was wondering if you've observed anything shifting as a result of COVID in terms of how companies are thinking about the future of work or, and especially of how it relates to Hawaii I mean we've been in a service economy for so many years, and we've been talking about trying to diversify for so many years and it almost looks like COVID has now accelerated that 100 X and just wondering if you're if you know if you've got your ear to the ground if you're hearing anything of how things might be shifting or what you're starting to see in that landscape. That's a, that's a really interesting question. And, you know, I don't know if this is necessarily just because of COVID, but I'll provide kind of my observations. Generally about locally, how workforce, or how the future of work is being dealt with, in my point of view, and, and maybe not globally but maybe just a little bit less specifically. You know, I think that generally locally there's been a lot of efforts that have gone into digitization and into the improvements of work processes with technology. There's been awesome initiatives that have come out of white technology development corporation under age under under d bed, which have been awesome the true initiative, you know is one of them, and some other things that come out of that organization, have been really a corporations local corporations adopting new technologies and getting into the future of work but I think more broadly, there's also been exciting improvements. I think generally there's been more attention given to diversity equity and inclusion, which is an important social aspect of the future of work that we don't really talk about. There has been more companies that are playing more active roles in community engagement and more active roles in corporate social responsibility. There have been companies that are paying more attention to their carbon footprints. And so I think these are all things that relate to the future of work is their conditions that allow people to continue to work, allow companies to continue to thrive. One example of that that I'd say that really actually pertains to us and pertains to the indigenous context that we work in is that there is a relatively large company that's been talking to us about how, how they might be able to work with more indigenous mindsets and the creation of their products and the way that they, in the way that they run their business operations and thinking through those, those different things through more of an indigenous mindset more of a community mindset and the places that they're actually based. And I can't share too much about it too much details about it but it's exciting that a company is of that size is interested in working through indigenous frameworks and thinking about how they can engage more with community in an authentic place based way. Wow, that is super exciting. Well, I know you can't talk, you know, specifics about that but when you're talking about the companies that are starting to dive in more into diversity and inclusion and community engagement. Do you have a sense of how, I mean, I think for me, when I hear companies talking about these, these types of things I often wonder how they're going to operationalize these, these concepts because right now they're full ideas is a lot of buzz terms being used and I think companies you know want to look like they're taking a stand about social issues and things like that. But the end of the day being an a an X HR person, I know that the devil's in the details right in terms of how do you operational how do you bring that into the culture of the company. How do you drive that throughout the entire company from CEO all the way down to, you know, the lowest level position. So, do you have a sense of that in terms of, you know, our HR people getting involved for example, or is it still kind of more at the ideation stage and they're still trying to figure out the mechanics of it. Well, I think there's two questions in there there's one that is, you know, what is kind of, I mean, what is maybe my perspective about about what companies should be doing. And there's a second question that's in that is, is, is how are these things actually being operationalized in a local context maybe. So I don't know if I'm going to be able to answer both but I'll take a stab at it. And I want to preface this to that. In addition, or to add on to my last answer. I don't think that companies are doing enough. I think there's still a lot more that needs to be done in order to achieve equity in order to achieve reduction in carbon footprint and regeneration of carbon and of our ecosystems and so we're way behind when we need when there's a lot more to do and so companies need to be more aggressive with those things and taking more of regenerate approach not even just a sustainable approach. But in terms of, you know, operationalizing practices, I mean I think it does come down to people and this is where you and I really agree is that when it comes down to people who is in positions of leadership and I think that more people of color, more people who are more indigenous people in our community need to be in the C suite. They need to be in positions of corporate power and not just corporate power workforce also applies to the public sector. And it applies to nonprofit sector and I know there's a lot more indigenous people in positions of power in the nonprofit sector, but I'd encourage us all, us being in the nonprofit sector as well, to check on our diversity across the board. We should be doing a better job generally every single person including the people that are that are run by diverse individuals. And, and I think that the second thing that I'd add to maybe the operationalization would be that we need to think about how we line up or how economic incentives incentives are lined up with the way that we manage people. Economic incentives shouldn't be necessarily driven toward the creation of more value necessarily or more financial value. Perhaps I think that economic incentives can be placed in the direction of creating more holistic values lined up with things that are more in the corporate social responsibility space that are more in the space of diverse equitable hiring that are more in the space of driving multiple bottom lines of growth. And I'd like to see those things happen too. I think once again this is where the indigenous practices can come in and because this is a systems thinking approach because it's not going to be bandaid you know we have to really think holistically about all the moving parts so there's so much more I want to talk to you about Alec but unfortunately we've got to close. So I want to thank everyone for checking out our show today we've been talking with Alec Wagner from the purple prize. Thank you all for being here and please check back for our next show on Wednesday November 4 at 3pm. I'll be talking to Vanessa Porter from a nonprofit program called Year Up in New York based in New York, and they're an innovative nonprofit also that brings talented young adults from underserved communities and top tech companies together to help them launch their careers. So until then please be safe and be kind to one another and I will see you next time. Aloha and thank you Alec for being here.