This whole wall under light at once if we want it helps us to have two sets going at once So if you have a talk show and a performer you can do it at the same time Also, we we selected an area on the phone There's an X over there somewhere on the floor and that is for people who want to stand in front of a green screen And speak or in front of any of the curtains and speak and they're they're lit from both sides Have a backlight and everything so it's a real nice lighting situation So we've improved it just a little bit and we added a kinaflow light like that an extra one for the floor We had two and now we have a third one So that means we can light up the green screen behind somebody and then if we want to if they're if we need to light them from head To toe we can do that with that light So it just makes it makes keying a little better and they're just handy lights You can roll them all around thanks to someone who identified a rolling stand. That's the most amazing thing I was right I was an excellent tool And let's see. Do we do another thing? I guess that was it the key no flow. So I was thinking up. We're also We have learned from our co-working people that they feel that the co-working center is too clean It's too zen in there still elegant. There's nothing in it. They feel like they're adrift in a sea of white so I had a designer come in and and Try to develop some ideas that we had and he did come up with some good things We have moved some of the furniture around we are going to be removing the cubicles because no one really wants them They did at first. It's the weirdest thing. Everybody wanted them and then now nobody does So we found something else that we think will work better for there And we're making it a change there the idea is that it would sort of be like a walled garden in there we're going to try to put more greenery on the walls and Not a little more interesting with some fun fun photo realistic murals so it'll look like you're working inside a walled garden and we'll have some plants around and We're working right now to get the we remove the wooden columns that used to be in there that had the power in them And we have electricians working on getting that flat in the floor We do have the building has what's called Walker channels which are Kind of open areas under the floor that you can get to from a port and you can run wires through them So we utilize those to fire up a bunch of the old bank ones that we're sitting there And now we added a few they weren't recessed Like that so they're real hazards. So we're working to get them recessed and We should be doing that soon. Yes, if we're doing all this work have the people Was a little non-zen and they looked at it and thought this would be Zen No, but that Co-working designer expert thought okay, okay. Yeah. Yeah, we're and then we're also doing something to the kitchen The kitchen they described to me as solace Maybe I should bring some of my office. It is a lot of We're just all bring our things from home So that and we have some problems with getting like the dishwasher fills up and it's huge so no one wants to empty it They just want to get their cup and go so we're putting we're looking at putting in two small drawer type ones So one's empty and one's full and quickly put all the cups away That's not a big deal and and you know when you're in there in this the end of the day You're thinking oh my god, I'm going to unload this entire dishwasher so I can put my dirty cup in or shall I just leave So we get a lot of cups left So we're looking at ways to make it efficient and usable which is kind of a challenge because the first thing they told me was well Just put everything in the cupboards It's not gonna work people want to make toast They're not gonna like pull out a toaster plug it in make some toast put it back wipe off the counter That's not gonna happen. So they're working on possibly a u-shaped counter. So we can build in a place for appliances where they can be used and and not be you know Mucking up a whole tiny counter and a bigger refrigerator so we can share it maybe with Armada like a big double door Like restaurant kind so we don't have to refrigerators on opposite sides of the room And we'll probably do some that carpet is really old and and it was always on my list for a place So we're gonna do something on the flooring in there. So anyway, we'll make it fun It'll be a little more loungy and less kitschy and and maybe attract more people No one wants to work or eat in there So so then that's you know kind of cool space to use so we we're not getting enough use out of it So we're doing some we're doing some fun things. It'll be it'll be nice soon. Just wait till next month And I'm just a little more on our equipment grant. We are delivering our equipment to Aftos high school Thursday, so that'll be really fun So we'll launch them into a new a new level of production and we'll get some nice programming for our channel And we're expecting to see something from Watsonville pretty soon now They've had their cook for a couple of months there were holidays in there and stuff So they're still still working on it, but they should be providing us with some sports soon And that's that's my report for very nice or December Can I ask a question about the back to the captioning? Is the YouTube channel? Is that the idea is that is that a stopgap measure until we get to tell you in the live? No, it's part of the system Always intended to do both have to do both the law is you have to stream You have to have captions on live and anything you caption on television has to be captioned on the internet So we have to do three things We have to caption a live thing caption the stream and caption the the archive on line So we're doing we'll be able to do two things right away Now since we got things to we can get to the television channel will have the third, but we're just gonna go We're gonna we're not gonna wait to get the TV thing working We're going ahead and working on getting it at least people most many many people watch it on demand by the internet So we'll and it'll always it's you know that we might as well start with that and Continue to work on the other okay, and did I remember hearing that so the live the live Webstream that's that's tell you is that or the live Wait Victor is the guy to ask how all of this messes together, but well we when we put it live on television, that's where we're not getting captions and That would also be what we would direct to the internet So right now we're not captioning the live stream or the live broadcast Or telecast as this is but we are able to do the rebroadcast and the archive which is great. Yeah, okay, excellent. Thanks Okay, any other questions Rebecca on her report Let's move on last meeting Joe had asked that we put about Item on about progress with meeting with the county and what my thought was we you know We have a new board. We have new county administrators, and it would be good for us to reach out to them We're seeing you saw supervisor Leo polled on there And we actually had a chance to talk about this in the finance committee and I Agreed to contact the city officials although the mayor just got interviewed but some of the staff so they know what we're doing I think some do but they don't know the extent so I'll do that and Matreus was talking about reaching out to some of the county administrators We know some some are brand new and it's just kind of an opportunity to reach out kind of in between You know budgets and in between all the other hurry of what we do So that was really it if somebody brought it up at our finance committee meeting I asked to put it on here and if anybody else has any other ideas It's just kind of a touch base and we used to do this a lot more in past years Because there are more issues to talk about right now. We're actually moving forward So it's probably a good time to show progress to people and Tom Are you going to add anything because you've worked in this kind of no I think you pretty much covered it my thought was just you know It's it's nice to be talking to these to the people who have a vested interest in this When things are going well as opposed to when we have problem So I'll follow up at the city and then we'll just see if I see any of them I'll just mention it to you know my moving around and you can report if you could to the city of Capitola Absolutely as the assistant city manager you can report to yourself Well as my director Kevin gets to he gets to do drive-by as we call him You know normally we want everybody to go through our help desk support system But he gets to come to us directly he gets that that privileges our director So next time he does a drive-by. I'll say oh by the way Okay, we'd love to meet with you Show you what to meet with TV people. Yes. Yeah, great. Well, that was it great. Thank you Unless you had any insights you wanted to add to it Doing good So next up is the oral report from the voluntary advisory committee from the total all right Briefly, I'm going to focus on some of the things that are happening in the studio We have a couple more people that We're guiding through being or becoming or learning to become a producer and We also have some old-timers starting new programs veterans actually Well, I'm one of them so I can okay. Okay. I'll lay to myself on the old I'm doing a connect program. I have a lot of fun with that But we also have Brian doing a new program and his focus is on real estate, which is something, you know, that we've never explored so but our producer director I Would say Guru because she really teaches us a lot. She is put together for a February 18th green screen afternoon where all of us are just gonna Get our hands dirty or not dirty because the green screen, you know, virtually clean virtually virtually we're going to get our hands on the green screen and and Keith and others are playing a major role in Teaching us more about green screen. So that's on February 18th for producers and directors And I must let you know that in one of the programs that I Help produce the future we need and how to get it We use Skype at one time with the woman from the EPA and New York and She was very great. We had some technical issues But we can do Skype on our on our in our studio. So that was really instinct So any producers out there who want to use the studio you can use Skype So then the other thing what we're trying to do and we'll have another VAC meeting soon After all the holidays We'd like to probably incorporate something that has been mentioned by several of our Volunteer coordinators and it's having more field camera people trained And now that we also have the editing teacher doing regular Editing classes on on Saturdays and Sundays, you know, three hours on Sundays three hours on Sundays And he also does photoshop and after effects you know people get a whole packet Together so what we try to do is after our next field camera class on the 20th of April and Some of the editing classes that will get a crew of people together that will go out in the community and Will help not necessarily just do it because you know We try to train people to do it themselves To train and help people who do their own events and help them to record it and edit it so that we kind of get a Multiplier effect of all the effort the efforts that our volunteers are putting in so I would say look for our classes on on the community TV that Rg and the field camera class on the 20th and then let's get that You know crew together that goes out and Keith of course when he does Non-profit spotlight he goes out and he took a gene Kratzer last time You know this is a practice to go out and and have a little rolling clip for the program You know take here in the studio. So we'd like to You know our next best effort is to really because more people are comfortable going outside with cameras Because it takes a lot doing the programs in here Of course, you know PSA's are still happening for non-profit spotlights for non-profit organizations We have non-profit spotlights and we have the electives That you do every month. It's just a really nice program. So that's basically my report Great. Excellent. Thank you. Unless you of course want to add some things No, if you could help me yes names of volunteers, I forgot to write them all down before we started The only thing I wanted to mention and the next item the board chair report is that we are planning to have a Specific orientation for nonprofit organizations here in the county. We get contacted Most a lot of contacts we get from nonprofits are saying could you cover our event and CTB used to do that, but we don't have staff to do that anymore So we want to train nonprofits who want to get them together to help each other to cover field events Of course, we're happy to charge people to cover the events, but most nonprofits we understand don't have a large budget so we Intend to do that the the main thrust is going to be to Help nonprofits understand what they need to do to cover events in the field and that our studio is available They could take classes and learn just like anyone else to produce from programs that we have a PSA day every month We have nonprofits spotlight We have other we have a community calendar that they can all these things are on our website They can use the community calendar and then finally want to do something with the nonprofits to give them an example Of how they can use their phone to do a public service so we're thinking of ending the orientation with Something they could take away a skill that they could learn of how to do their own just a simple PSA Because our channels are available to anyone and those in this county to upload the material and our run our channels So if they could quickly do something to say hey, we're having an event on the 15th and everyone will have a great time Come on down and upload it. We'd love to see that from more nonprofits. What is the date for that? Well, it was supposed to be Wednesday, but we haven't made it so we're hoping to have it early for everywhere Okay, so let's see on the agenda the next item our Staff requests or board requests for specific items to appear on the next meeting agenda. Do we have any? See none and move on to announcements and an announcements I'd like to thank everyone that's helped on the program tonight and with Matilda's help here I've got most of the names or if I forget one, please Understand I'm trying to like to thank kinder Leon Linda Janakis Karen Scott Jim Russo Sherry Ross Richard to sell and Don Helping out on the audio and Annie Newman in here. Thank you for helping with the production tonight If there aren't any more issues that I will offer a motion to adjourn the meeting Call for the motion brand and fishes, okay All those in favor of adjournment say aye. Hi pose The meeting officially adjourned


From Hollywood it's time now for Johnny dollar Dr. Bigby, I'm asking you for the second time now to come out to the Cronin place I told you last night mr. The circumstances are different now a lot different. We don't need a doctor. We need a coroner a coroner The operator told me the phone out there was out of order It is I'm at a forestry station a mile down the road Jason Prell cut the wires last night before he was killed Shot to death during the storm Yes, Mrs. Cronin said the same thing an hour or so before she died in a way, maybe Dr. Bigby Mrs. Cronin was murdered tonight and every weekday night Bob Bailey in the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigators was truly Johnny dollar From special investigator Johnny dollar at the Cronin estate Wells Falls, New York to the home office shorty mutual and trust company Hartford, Connecticut Assignment the Cronin matter expense account final page Item 13 10 cents a half pack of cigarettes I left with a farmer who gave me a lift back from the forestry station The price of my own feelings at the moment would have been lower about 8 cents lower in fact I brewed another pot of coffee and sat down to wait for Bigby But this time I laced the coffee with brandy The Sun was up by then clear of the horizon bringing a bright new morning in a brand new day The storm was long over and the world sparkled and danced But too much of the night was still with me and the past still too much alive And yet maybe dolly Cronin was better off She was a part of that past now Where friends were always true every minute of life was even more wonderful than the last one And where she was still and forever the dancing darling. Oh hi, Sylvia I'm in the coffee business this morning. How about it having used with cream? I see bad night Shall I make yours the same way right?  Thanks Hmm you look real beat John couldn't be any beater something pretty terrible happened last night, didn't yes Jason Prow is dead and Dolly Cronin is dead. Oh No, I loved her Johnny.  I loved her. She was sweet Yeah, she was quite a girl She had something out of she had love she loved people and they loved her in return. Maybe so Anyway, I guess this belongs to you now The necklace the circle of fire What do you mean it belongs to me? She made a will last night. I witnessed it. She left the necklace to you I just can't believe it Johnny Can I? Can I put it on why not it's yours? She wanted you to have it? You look good in it. I just can't believe it Johnny Well before you get carried away too far, maybe it better brace yourself. Oh, it's not mine after all. Oh, it's yours. All right But it's not real What it's a good copy worth maybe four or five hundred dollars, but that's all I don't understand. It's so well known the circle of fire. It's been written up over and over Yeah from old records, but nobody's really examined it for years since before Barnaby Cronin died It's been locked up in a bank vault until I took it out. Was there ever a real one? Yes, originally But it was broken up and disposed of years ago Jason Pearl knew it was in on the substitution. I suppose That's why it was so desperate to steal it from me and get rid of it before I found out it was a copy He knew that if that deal came to light it would call attention to some of his other activities worse ones What do you mean? Pearl had complete charge of Mrs. Cronin's estate. He told me it was worth practically nothing But according to records I saw in New York had amounted to over a million dollars in the beginning He was stealing her blind all these years. Oh, it's easy. She was alone in the world knew nothing about business She trusted him thought he was her friend. She trusted everybody much too much Well, she sure trusted the wrong ones including her husband Barnaby What do you think disposed of the necklace and slipped her a copy after making such a big deal out of his fabulous wedding gift Phony and she worshiped the king in her book the man who could do no wrong Well on the business book. He didn't do much else but wrong According to the records most of his deals were pretty shady Especially after he and Prell teamed up Yes, Miss Atherton Dr. Bigby is here to see you All right showman Mr. Dollar, I wouldn't believe too much of what he says. He's a chronic drunk. Yes, I remember you telling me Show me man. Well, I was just thinking Johnny Mrs. Cronin didn't know any of this I assume no She was safe in her dream world and she thought she was giving me the real necklace. That's right It's crazy and kind of wonderful, isn't it just like that she gave me something she thought was worth a half a million dollars Just because I was nice to her and liked her, you know something Johnny what? I'm just as glad it is a copy It's beautiful and and I love wearing it. I'd have been scared of the real one And I'll always remember that Like that dream world of hers She thought it was real one more question left, but a big one the question of murder And I already had the answer I was sure of it and I knew there was nothing I could do about it Dr. Bigby was a man under 60, but he looked years older a harried man tired and worn He sat down for a moment. We talked I began to realize that here was another man who'd been under Dolly Cronin spell And it was shocked and hurt by her dying It was a remarkable thing and a difficult one to explain mr. Dollar Like many another I suppose I often wondered why I felt the way I did about it. It was a Sort of magic. She had yeah, I know Even as a girl here in the village. She had that same power and had it without knowing it everybody loved her No, not quite everybody at least one person didn't yes You mentioned on the phone the word murder. That's right. Dr.  I guess I wouldn't put it past him What do you base it on mr. Dollar a bottle of pills? Prell supposedly went to Tupper's Lake last night and got a prescription fill for mrs. Cronin She took some of it this morning an hour and a half before she died There it is. I'd seen the bottle on the train coming up with a few tablets left on the same prescription and these are different Well, you're right on one count mr. Dollar Those aren't what the prescription calls for what do you mean one count? I talked to the druggist at Tupper's Lake on the phone last night. He told me about Jason being in all right It still stands he had the prescription filled and then changed the tablets substituted these it's possible Would you happen to know what they are without having them analyzed? I've got a pretty good idea But I'll wait until I've examined her before I'll say positively Mr. Dollar I'd like to explain why I wouldn't come out when you called me last night Yeah, I wish you would know I'd been drinking so I gathered I'd been drinking that other time too, and I'd made a mistake I didn't want to make another one Just what do you mean when Barnaby Cronin died here? I signed the death certificate. Yes. I know I hadn't treated him He was dead when I came out. I Called it a heart attack I Was drunk and I was wrong Barnaby was poisoned go on I didn't suspect it until later and then I was afraid to do anything about it I'd signed that certificate, and I knew it would break me so I kept still and I consoled myself with drink and Finally it broke me so the same end result was achieved Look dr. Bigby if Barnaby Cronin was here alone, then how was he poisoned alone? He wasn't alone when he died. She was here with him. Mrs. Cronin Of course not. Why do you think he was always making trips up here always by himself? I didn't know he was for years every week or to the whole village knew about it She was here with him that night. She's the one who called me asked me to protect her a good name She's the one who poisoned him and now she's had another try with the same poison But why ask her why ring for her and ask her? That won't be necessary Well, I'll go on up and make my examination Well miss Atherton I'm asking Why he was planning to break off our relation.  You're confessing the murder. You know it doesn't matter now I've accomplished everything I meant to accomplish So it was you who changed the tablets in her prescription bottle and substituted the poison of course It was so easy For once in my life things were just as easy for me as they'd always been for her Will you have the sheriff come out mr. Dollar? I'd like to make my confession It's odd how things work out sometimes mr. Dollar. Yeah, Mrs. Cronin said something like that last night I was pretty certain when you showed me the tablets, but I wanted to make my examination first What do you mean after Barnaby died and I started to suspect miss Atherton? I managed to steal the poison from her in order to analyze it I substituted harmless tablets of the same general appearance and those are what she's kept all these years What she gave to Mrs. Cronin. That's right. They were perfectly harmless But in that case dolly Cronin died from a heart condition the tablets had nothing to do with it In a sense dolly died the same way she lived from natural causes Expense account item 14 83 dollars and 90 cents incidentals and transportation from Wales Falls back to Hartford Expense account total 263 dollars and 30 cents end of account end of report remarks The insurance angle here seems a little muddy premiums were paid for years on an item that didn't exist And yet no claim was filed and none will be So Well, I leave it to your legal eagles me. I'm beaten tired and maybe a little sad I've come out of this with a kind of nostalgia and for a time and place. I never even knew And I'm halfway in love with a girl back in that time and place a girl. I've never seen Oh sure, I know it's a dream world and a dream girl and none of it exists But it's too bad. I wish it did Because she must have been a honey a real sweetheart a Dancing darling Yes, truly Johnny dollar Remember, please. There'll be a new exciting story on Johnny dollar beginning next Monday next week the story of a man worth $50,000 who didn't have a cent to his name Join us. Won't you? Yes, truly Johnny dollar yours truly Johnny dollar starring Bob Bailey is transcribed In Hollywood written by Les Crutchfield. It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone Heard in this week's cast where Virginia Greg Shirley Mitchell Vivi Janice Barbara Fuller Benny Rubin John Daner and parley bear Musical supervision by Amarigo Marino. Be sure to join us on Monday night same time and station for another exciting story of Yours truly Johnny dollar Roy Rowan speaking


Hey, Bolo Buddies. Thanks for watching. Okay, guess what time it is? It is time for me to announce the winner of This is my Bolo. Okay, you guys Let's get started This challenge was awesome. If you did not get to see the video Definitely go watch it. It looks like this. That's what you need to go look for that thumbnail Oh my goodness, so many awesome Bolo's items. I didn't know about I definitely learned a ton and You guys thank you so much for voting. There were so many votes that came in. It was super close I am actually going to show you the top three People that got the most votes. I'm gonna clip their videos here. So you guys can watch it Please go over and subscribe to them They do all three have YouTube channels There were quite a few that didn't have YouTube channels that participated and they also got votes I mean everybody just really brought it for this challenge now What I would like to know from you guys in the comments. Did you like this style of video? Would you like me to do it again? I know some of you wanted It to not be a challenge and just to be able to share your Bolo so let me know your feedback down in the comments and Everybody that did not win is going to send a prize To the winner and they are gonna do an unboxing on their channel So that should be super fun to watch. I will keep you guys posted when this person gets that Onto their channel, but I guess I can just tell you who won and again. It was really really close It was down to the top three and I'm not gonna do them an order. No, I'll do them an order Third place was flipping it good and here is his channel second place coming in super close was Jesse shops. This is her channel and the winner Is chosen goods reseller. All right you guys and here is her channel I'm gonna show you the three videos all of them had amazing Bolo items But also many of the people that didn't win including myself had amazing Bolo So go check out the original video again. 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Now, a do-deputy governor, Philip Scheibo, has imagined that's the winner of a faction of people's Democratic Party governorship primary election in the state. Our correspondent, Aguilme Gérard Fryder, reports that the returning officer, Moses Bartholomeo, declared the deputy governor winner after pulling a total of 301 votes from the 594 accredited delegates drawn from the 18 local government areas of the state. Now, Philip Scheibo is the newly elected PDP candidate thanked party delegates for voting him. Good morning once again everybody. After doing the counting of this delegate election, of this primary election, Philip Scheibo has a score of 300 and 1. Therefore, we hereby declare Philip Scheibo as the authentic elected candidate for this election in PDP. The South-South Youth Electoral Reform Forum in its coalitions. The delegate is shown that no man is God and I want to thank them profusely because I know what we have gone through for the past seven to eight more when we started campaign and that they can stand firm and stand on their ground that will they vote for me is something that I want to assure them that will be PDP ambassador and by the grace of God we will take a do to the next level. The choice is hard to put food on the table of our people and nothing more. I'm going to deliver practical government. I'm bringing government to their doorstep. I will not want today is not a day of campaign. It's a day of appreciation to this delegate and to the People's Democratic Party for giving me the mandate to flag the party's flag in this next governorship election. you


how to cope with the narcissist this is a video request for one of my subscribers who asked because of financial circumstances we have to stay with the knock how do we manage our time with them so that we may stay safe and sane until if ever we can get out first i'd like to begin by describing what you are most likely dealing with in this narcissistic relationship understand that nothing a narcissist says does or thinks says anything about your value as a person a narcissist cannot recognize your value it's like giving a hundred dollar bill to a toddler they're just going to tear it up they're not going to recognize the value of the hundred dollar bill so don't believe anything the narcissist says about you their thoughts and ideas are not credible as they are operating from an abusive and manipulative mindset they are filled with hate anger and envy so naturally everything they say is going to be biased and against you the narcissist was either abused neglected or didn't live a life as fulfilling or satisfying as they would have wanted to they felt limited in their progress from a young age so now you must be abused neglected and live an unfulfilled dissatisfying life Dr. Ross Rosenberg's human magnet syndrome states that narcissists and co-dependents are attracted to each other co-dependents are also known as people with self-love deficit disorder so if you are in a relationship with a narcissist it is most likely that you are a co-dependent or SLD self-love deficit SLDs often appear to have no self-belief on the surface but deep down they might have some belief in themselves with narcissists it's the other way around on the surface they are arrogant and boastful portraying an illusion that they do have self-belief but this is only the tip of the iceberg because underneath that is a lot of self-hate anger and envy narcissists have lost the belief in themselves this is why their mission is now to sabotage anyone who does believe in themselves they will try to change your perception of yourself and the world around you when people do things like this it should tell you that they are miserable and not happy with their lives they are very envious people especially envious of empathic people who are highly sensitive to their experiences in the world the narcissist could have 100 times more than you and still not be as satisfied as you are narcissists all secretly hate each other they act like they're all together but that couldn't be further from the truth it's just an illusion they've created it to make it look like it's only you that they don't like they want to single you out but the truth is they all hate each other they're just pretending to be together to make you believe that there is something wrong with you if a person felt no hate anger or envy there would be no motive to abuse or manipulate another individual so anytime the narc tries to abuse you just remember that let it be a reminder to you that you are above them and they are obsessively trying to bring you down to their pathetic level they end up doing things even they thought they would never be doing because they're so impulsive and reckless they become more and more abusive their narcissism becomes biological the worst part is they can't even see it because they have no self-awareness and they never self-reflect narcissists will target your boundaries they want to be the exception to your rules the narcissist does not respect themselves so they do not recognize any self-respect that you may have as a child the narcissist had no boundaries or privacy as this narcissistic child grows up they will set extreme boundaries for themselves and pathologically try to eliminate your boundaries that is the only way that they can feel comfortable no boundaries is definitely psychologically damaging for both the narcissist and its victims narcissists hate boundaries more than anything they want to maintain their dysfunctional ways of thinking so they demolish your boundaries to regain their power and control over you in their minds they feel so powerless and out of control they can control themselves so they try to control you you are also an object or an extension of them they believe that they own your mind body and soul it is their property and not yours your life is their life and they should be in control of it they have tried so hard to keep your boundaries down now any tempt to rebuild them no matter how small deeply hurts them breaking your boundaries becomes an addiction to them where they get a dopamine hit in their brains every time they do it it becomes an endless obsession a loop which they cannot get out of no matter how hard they try but although they believe they have the power and control by breaking your boundaries they actually don't you have total control over them and everything they do they are dependent on you like a drug though they can never get that first high they are living in an endless nightmare chasing a feeling they will never find these individuals get themselves caught up in a lot of stuff where they cause self injuries and self destruction so you have two options to cope with a narcissist you could go no contact which means no contact in person on the phone text social media or email but in most situations the narcissist will make you financially dependent on them which is a common tactic they all use to prevent you from leaving the relationship the only other option is to use the gray rock method this method can be very effective and should allow you to keep your sanity and positivity while still remaining in the relationship it involves keeping the narcissist out of your head while they are still in your life the gray rock method is a method of interacting with a narcissist which creates disinterest it breaks the supply of energy which you would normally be transferring to the narcissist it helps to prevent them from sucking the lifer of you as they would normally do you become a dull gray rock born and disinterested narcissist feed off chaos drama and dysfunction they will do or say whatever it takes to provoke a negative reaction from you so the gray rock method involves removing or toning down your reactions to the narcissist you can either do this all at once or you can gradually tone down your emotional responses whether they are positive or negative do not tell the narcissist that you're practicing the gray rock method limit your conversation and do not re reveal your thoughts or motions to them let them do most of the talking and keep your responses as short as possible two or three words do not share anything positive or negative with the narcissist there is a risk to using this method the narcissist might ramp up their game to see if they can break through your gray rock method and get you to react if you still do not react they are going to give up as they are no longer receiving narcissistic supply from you they will move on to look for a more convenient source of supply another risk is that over long periods of time you could be teaching yourself to live in a disassociative state of mind you could be dimming your own light but this risk can be prevented by spending time with people who are not narcissists you need to have time to be yourself your true self another risk of using the gray rock method is that the narcissist might discard you the purpose of discarding is for when they see you as not being efficient enough for them anymore they believe that they have completed their mission i will do a video on the discard phase of a narcissistic relationship soon but if there is a possibility that this could happen to you i would recommend you ensure that you have the financial capability to leave or supportive family and friends or anyone else who can help you you might feel comfortable in your current situation but ask yourself is this really how you want to spend the rest of your life with someone who can never truly appreciate or love you someone who can never give you what you want there is so much more to live for than that but by now you should know that the narcissist isn't even about that you will never be genuinely happy with a narcissist you will never live a fulfilling life you will only settle for the bare minimum because that is all they are really capable of and they have no belief or motivation to achieve anything greater than what you already see


Ian Ferguson, this is a man we want to talk to because arm is hot, arm is sexy, arm is the future. Ian, have a seat inside the cube here. Hi. I'm John Furrier of Silicon Angle. Ian, nice to meet you. And Dave Vellante. Dave Vellante. Hey, nice to meet you. Pleasure. I'm maybe hot and sexy. I don't know whether I am, but. I was going to say something. Cool and sexy. Face built for radio. You look good. You look good. All right. I'm John Furrier with SiliconAngle.com with my host, Dave Vellante. We are here for special coverage of HP's announcement of Project Moonshot, a multi-year initiative around new servers, new low energy, multi-year, multi-program, great for LAMP stack, portable code, not bound to CPU, it's all about power, mobile architecture, moving to the servers at scale, arm is a big part of it. So Ian, tell us one, why is arm so hot? I mean, Steve Jobs chose it for the iPad over Intel. It was a shoe in for Intel. He said in his biography, now you got arm going to the servers. What's the big deal? I mean, why is everyone so into this arm stuff? Share it with the folks. I don't know how many people we've gotten on watching right now, but 2400 people watching. So they all want to know what arm architecture is. I'll see it's a deviation from x86. The old way is Intel. The new way is arm. If you got a mobile phone, you know what low power can do for your battery life. What does it do for servers? Were you two kind? And yeah, I think we've spent 21 years designing technology that is incredibly miserly when it comes to leaking power. So we look at what you can do on your phone inside a particular number of watts or even in joules. And I think what's changed is that that energy constrained systems is no longer just a battery. If you look at a data center and it's 10 megawatts instead of how much performance am I getting? How much can I get out of my 10 megawatts? So it's a slightly different energy constrained system compared to your iPad or your phone, but it's still an energy constrained system. And as Paul mentioned earlier in the announcement, these in these data centers, the server is the profit generator. So it's not really useful work you can get out. It's like how many dollars can I get out of my data center in a 10 megawatt power envelope? And we've been doing that for 21 years. So we're looking to apply that energy efficiency knowledge into a new space. So you're dealing with multiple variables now when you look at this new architecture. In a way, it's an operating system within the operating system. Can you share the new things that you guys have done, the things that you have done and the new things that are happening today that folks might not know about that's going on in this space? Okay. Well, I think, like we said, we're at the early stages. This has been worked on for a few years with pioneers and thought leaders like HP. We have this little legacy 20 years of x86 code in some spaces to go on. But in the cloud, there's a lot of open source. There are end users that own their own software stacks. And so there's lower software barriers to entry for another architecture. And what we've done is we've been working to get good Java. A lot of these new workloads take good advantage of Java or Pearl scripts and things like that. So less ties to x86. We need good commercial grade server Linux and we've been working with people like Ubuntu. You'll see in the Pathfinder program that Red Hat is also listed in HP's partners. So we're sort of trying to get those underpinnings of the basic operating system and tools. But really what is exciting about this announcement today is we need real hardware out in the cloud that people can go have at and see how do the current workloads run on arm? And then how do you take that technology, maybe optimize it for a new architecture?  Yes or no? And in some workloads, x86 is absolutely the right way in other ways. We hope that people will see a benefit from the arm architecture. Talk about the early adopters in terms of the developers that are out there. Obviously a new breed of developers are on the marketplace. You're seeing, like you said, people using non-compiled oriented software to do stuff and it's cloud and there's also the networking issues. So converge infrastructure makes a difference. We heard from HP talk about that. But what can you share with the folks out there that you've heard or seen or know about this new type of developer and what can they do with arm? What are some of the use cases and innovative things that a developer can think now about that they couldn't think about before? Yeah, good question. So certain and we keep hearing the word of offline analytics and Hadoop and that kind of workload, the sort of cloud areas of this world. People looking at unstructured databases, web serving, web hosting types of applications where instead of needing a lot of CPU performance, it's relatively modest CPU compute and then a lot of IO and memory. So we see those areas as the first place for arm. We announced the 64 bit instruction set last week and we certainly see over time that the arm architecture is moving in a place where it will become more broadly applicable to a broader set of server applications. We see it starting to fit into enterprise as you get to 64 bit and there's more performance and there's more address space for those sorts of applications. But near term it's certainly the cloud and like I say offline analytics, web serving, that kind of thing. How about in the mobile environment? Obviously it's been a big boon to the mobile environment having that kind of architecture for devices but now on a connected end to end basis. The proverbial end to end architecture. How does that look? Well, I think it's interesting and conceptually and intellectually it looks like we should be able to do something there and we've certainly been talking to some network operators and we hope there are some of the people that might try this hardware. Whether people are going to offload from the phone and put stuff back up into the cloud, run the binary in different places. It sounds good. I think it will come. I think they're similar hanging through. Sounds good as code for it's not there yet. I think that's a fair way of putting it. And I think until I'm not a fan of staying in the PowerPoint world and we've been in PowerPoint saying this stuff looks good, really if we come back to the announcement today there's hardware that people can start to play with in the coming future and say does this work in that workload that you're describing, intellectually it sounds like it should but let's go and see whether it gives a meaningful benefit. Big data and web based apps, key app for this, right of the box. So in terms of in your role here, in terms of delivering low power processors for server markets, for data centers, where do you leave off and where do others pick up? Can you describe that point a little bit? Yeah, I'll certainly try. So you know, arms business model is really different from your traditional supplier into the server market. We do not make chips. We license intellectual property which could be a processor core or a graphics core or the intelligence that a foundry uses to make that chip really fast or really low power or somewhere in the middle. So we really need an ecosystem to get our technology from where we are today into a market space, into any market. Whether that's Samsung into the Galaxy tablets, whether it's the Broadcoms or Marvels or TI's to take technology into phones or whether it's Calzada and we were an early investor in Calzada because we needed somebody that was a thought leader to go and take a silicon chip and take it into this space. So we're certainly involved with that. We believe in design once, license many. We believe the space needs multiple suppliers to keep everyone honest on pricing, to drive innovation in the space. You've seen the benefits of multiple people going into the smartphone area. People are putting other clever things around the CPU core. So that's the first thing. The second thing is software and clearly we're at the early stage and that's why we're excited about being in the Pathfinder program where we're going to help people with tools, with expertise on how to optimize their applications for the ARM architecture because it's a new world. Everyone knows x86 very well in the programming world of the servers. ARM is new. How do you take advantage of our SIMD instructions is kind of a new thing and we'll be looking to add that sort of value into the center when it opens next year. So I have a question on the big whale in the room, which is Intel, right? I mean they're a huge company. They all pay. They're about half a billion dollar company and revenue wise Intel's 44 billion, about 88 times your revenue. You've got 300 million in cash, they've got 22 billion, about 73 times more. Yet the market only values Intel about 10X, you guys. What does that tell you? And how do you guys think about competing with the big whale? Be faster, obviously. We love innovation. We love startups. But share with us a little insight there. Yeah. We're massively bigger than you said. We're actually 800 million dollars instead of half a billion. Run rate. There you go. We are. Good. Good. It's really, you know, the CPU for us and into these systems is an important piece of the system, but it's not the whole thing. And if you look at how servers will be reworked, what we're trying to do is empower innovation outside the CPU. And we're going to see heterogeneous environments where people like Nvidia come in and say we're doing interesting stuff with our GP GPUs. We can blend it with ARM. They were announced as one of the architecture license of 64-bit last week. You see what Calzade is doing and saying we're going to take the core mechanics of the ARM core and put interesting server management and things like that around the core. Diversity is key. And we're going to see a broad range of silicon chips coming out. And so it's not the little, just the little ARM fish or plankton or whatever we are in that well analogy. You know, it's us. It's Samsung. It's Nvidia. It's all of this broad ecosystem. Well, there's a lot of people. And really it's not a, you know, my process of pipeline is better than yours is that at an SOC level with the integration level that Calzade is doing and with other things that other partners that I can't disclose are doing around the core, you're going to see a diversity of devices. And is Intel the right thing for some server applications in the future? Absolutely. Are they right for everything? Absolutely not. And you'll see that diversity and choice, which I think the market will benefit from. Great. All right. Ian Ferguson, ARM. You guys are the darling right now. Great products, technology, HP's integrating you guys in via your partner. Thanks for coming inside the Cube. It's an honor to be in front of these gentlemen's offices. The last time I got this close to HP is when I got rejected on a job in 1988. So it's great to come and finally make it back to the headquarters and I appreciate your time and I appreciate your interest in ARM. Thank you very much. Thank you everyone.


Temple and Villanova are tied at 64 points a piece 45 seconds to go This one's brought to you by seat geek use code John boy for 20% off tickets of your choice now Nova's got the ball They're the 16 seed. They're supposed to win and they're going to he drives the lane posts up Dribble dribble dribble looks old-school basketball gets his shot. Oh, he misses it. That's not good Now temple's got the ball 25 seconds left that guy's wiping up the court The fans are getting excited make the shot win we storm the court. It's exciting. I got it. I got it I got it 15 seconds left 1413 He's waiting down waiting down he says I'm gonna end the game on this play Here we go one. Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba and Fowl misses the shot gets the foul call this dad and his son celebrate. They're super excited They got front row seats, a hugging moment. That fan, he's an older gentleman. He's celebrating like he's a younger man. This guy's going crazy. He's a, was it the radio announcer? He's excited. You got this. You got this. Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh. This guy's checking on his fly. It was down. It was a good check. It was a good check. Blows into his hands. Warms him up. Here we go. Just gotta make some shots. This guy's like, hey, hey. Uh, we winning? No? Oh, oh, okay. Probably asking who they're going to guard or whatever. But anyway, boom, makes the shot. Let's go, baby. Tempo, let's go. Up by one. 1.1 left. Up by two. With 1.1 seconds left, nobody's going to have to do something heroic here. A little flop on the baseline. Oh, intercepted. A foul is called. The fans do not care. They're storming the court. They're getting excited. Everyone's running. The cheerleader's getting mobbed. The dad in the center on the court. And the dad's being like, let's not get into the mix. But yes, we're so excited. And this kid's on the court. And he's like, oh, my chance. Finally, my chance to touch some net. Let me, bam, grabs the net. Okay, I'm back to celebrating. Back to celebrating. Yeah.  The double thumbs up. Too extended for me to be on. Mm, okay. See ya. But the officials are like, get off the court. We called a foul. And the coach says, how is that not a technical foul? They stormed the court. Ref says, well, it was a live ball. Foul on the ball. I called it. And then they stormed afterwards. And the coach is like, nah, they were running on the court before that. They were running on the court way before. So let's take a look. We got the foul here. Yup, with like 5.5. They call it 0.2. Then people storm the court. So Nova coach, he had his facts wrong. It's okay, it happens. Oh, shit's wild. Guy looks like the brother from, don't tell mom and babysitter's dad cheerleaders planning their escape route. Okay, if he makes this, I run this way. You run that way. Let's not get beat up again by the crowd. Syncs that one. Thumbs up, double thumbs up. Both hands makes the second one. Now it's a five point game. And instead of it just accepting the loss, Nova calls a timeout to drop this 0.2 second play, runs the baseline, throws it in.  This still would have just been a three point game. They storm the court again. This guy makes sure the band sounds great. Bands like, oh, we just want to storm. We don't care, man. Let's go. Mayhem, double-stort court. Double-stort courting. Double-stort. God, L, what happened? That kid might've got his seats from Seeky. I don't know. You can, though. You get 20% off when you use code Johnboy. And thanks to Seeky for sponsoring this video. Congrats to the temp balls.


First question, which songs did you choose for your ensemble and why? Scott Hines, my assistant director and I came up with these two songs. The first one was Imagine This Season. It's an arrangement by Nat Zagrie, who is related to Steve Zagrie, great jazz educator and arranger. The second song we chose is called See Amid The Winter Snow. It's a Dan Forest arrangement and it really kind of in a very broad sense speaks to the journey, the message of the Christmas journey. And for the location, it was a really perfect song for that. It has a very choral sound to it. It's a beautiful piece, beautiful arrangement. So you mentioned the location. Which locations did you pick for your selections? We chose to do ours at the Purdue Horticulture Park. Both of the songs kind of blended themselves there. The first one's a little more light and fun. The second location was more down into the wooded area and we specifically picked that location because of the time of day in which we were going to be performing. Kind of the somberness of the outdoor kind of forest setting really made for a beautiful look for that song. I am doing a song that I really love, The Man with the Bag. Everybody's waiting for The Man with the Bag. It's a classic song, but one of my favorite pop artists, Jesse Jay, came out with the Christmas album a few years ago. And it's all big band, jazz, great arrangements. And so I sort of took her version and made a choir version of that. And I did it for really two big reasons. One, I think the Christmas show needs some tap dancing. And this number has a great instrumental feature in the middle of it, which I just thought screamed tap dance. And that instrumental feature is another reason we have like the best orchestra ever for this. I hear a lot of audience members say, wow, it sounds like a professional Broadway orchestra. And that's because it is. And so I love choosing music that lets them just do what they do best.  PMO Express has traditionally had some pretty high-energy choreography. So obviously I want to showcase that and picking the song or songs that work with that. So this year, I found a really great old Mac Huff medley that had some up tempo tunes that lent itself well to the choreography that we were able to do. It doesn't get much better than Havne. So, you know, we've got the layers built in. So we've got risers already happening. Just a beautiful iconic backdrop for Purdue University. Going through the files, I found actually an old arrangement that Germaine Hill had done of Rock and Roll Christmas. I knew that in our shortened rehearsal times that it would be an easy learn and yet still be a lot of fun and kind of through the choreography show off a little bit of their athleticism as well. I was thinking, what's iconic? What is what's a what's just something that's going to be recognized immediately on film as, oh, they're there. And I don't think anything screams more. I know exactly where they're at than Rossaid Stadium, right? So luckily working with athletics, they were able to let us in and do a little do a little song and dance, which which is kind of funny. But yeah, so Rossaid was just kind of a blessing to get and we were able to to get in there and show that beautiful field and have a little Christmas in there. Well, for the pretty wets, I'm always trying to choose something where there's an opportunity to create beauty and then an opportunity to have fun. So I'll be home for Christmas is one of my favorite ballad tunes for Christmas, since no one else had claimed that I thought this is a perfect opportunity. The arranger, her name is Julie Galky and she's another Wisconsinite. So you've got Jake and Jeff, of course, Bill, and the arranger, Julie, all from Wisconsin. So it's Team Wisconsin for all your home for Christmas. And that's like, you know, me going home for Christmas. So in the other tune, we did several years back was called Go Tell It on the Mountain. And it's it's just a fun, jazzy tune. The band is featured in it. They sound great. You don't really need choreography to make it work. And it's really fun to learn and rehearse. And it certainly was fun to perform and record. So one of the hallmarks of University Choir is really refined sound, really good intonation, balance between voice parts. So I picked The Winter's Night. And there's just an opportunity to create some really flowing phrases, nice pulling sustained line. And it's just a beautiful, simple song about snow. With the University Choir, and you're dealing with close to 100 singers, you want to go anywhere on campus that you can put 100 people six feet apart. So we ended up doing the steps of Havdi, because you have the opportunity to stand in a nice straight rose with everybody visible, which is it's just a no-brainer. But then for that second song, and the other selection is just it's like a giant party. It's an arrangement done in the style of Pentatonix and it's Oh Come All You Faithful. It features soloist Hosley Warner.  We took all the staging charts that I had crafted using satellite photos. I spent days on these through them in the trash. And we created a new formation where the students and we did it on the spot. Jake and I had a rope. It had six feet marked off. And it ended up being a spot that worked well enough where you could see everybody. We've got some nice Purdue Hallmark iconic buildings. You know, you can see the Bell Tower and you can see Havdi and you've got them in that location as well. I chose Put A Little Love In Your Heart and your holiday song for heart and soul. Put A Little Love In Your Heart is in the Christmas movie Scrooge, which stars Bill Murray. And I really liked the message of that song and the lyrics, so I thought that would be a perfect fit for heart and soul. And then I chose your holiday song and that's a piece that was recorded by the Indigo Girls. I really liked the opening riff and I could just hear the bass player playing that in my mind as I was listening to the music. And I liked the lyrics except for a few of them and we changed those a little bit so that they would line up more with the beliefs of the singers so that it's more inclusive. For Purdue Bells, I chose a piece called Gavdate by Michael Glaskow and then the other piece is called Christmas Fantasia by Jason Crube. Both composers are pretty well known by the students in the ensemble, so that was one plus. And then the Christmas Fantasia piece is just beauty. It's just a really beautiful setting of several different Christmas carols woven together, very artfully by the composer. And I thought the audience would just love that piece, so that's why I chose it. So as you were coming up with your song choice, was there a message that you were hoping that the music would convey? Fun. Fun. Truly. Easy. Truly, yes. Because it's been such a strange year. It's been such a strange semester that I just really, I hope that they were able to just release some of the stress and sing and dance their way out of some of the confines that COVID-19 has brought to us. Now thinking about the entire process of this year's Christmas show, from choosing your songs all the way up to rapping, filming, or even, you know, this lovely interview today, what was your favorite part? My favorite thing about the whole process was the day that we did the video recording with each ensemble. And in the case of purduettes, some of our staff members had been working diligently for months to create new costumes for the purduettes. So not only am I seeing a lot of these women's faces for the first time, I'm seeing their outfits for the first time, I'm seeing them look similar, I'm seeing them be excited about their outfits, and this is all happening in like a two hour window. So that was my favorite thing. And similarly for University Choir, they didn't have new outfits. But again, this was the first time I'd seen some of these people. We have people from like 15, 18 states in that group, and I've never had a face-to-face conversation with them. They just, their performance level was just so fantastic. So yeah, my favorite thing about the whole process definitely the day we got to record the video. What some of the challenges were that your ensemble had to overcome from learning the music all the way through the recording process. Sure. So one big hurdle we had is that we rehearsed outside on the lawn in front of Bailey Hall. And if you're not familiar with where that is, it's on the corner of Northwestern and Grant Street. But just across the street from us was this massive engineering project going on that had begun late in the summer and it continued on throughout the semester. So we were always battling the possibility of there being this loud noise as we didn't know if it would be trucks backing up in the beeping or they'd be banging from jack cameras. And on the other side, there was an old house that was demolished with a large bulldozer. And now try singing, everybody's waiting for the men. So that was a really hard thing to do. Social distancing made it hard for the students to hear one another. And then when you compound that with a mask and a face shield on the top of that, it really was just kind of crazy. Some days I just felt like it was a total miracle that we all got together for 50 minutes and we were actually able to do something. But everything from horrible exhaust systems to airplanes flying overhead to the beautiful, I'm sure it's going to be beautiful, building right across the street. Just listening was a real challenge. Initially, before we even had our Bluetooth packs, we were just outside and I didn't even realize they were singing. And I thought this is going to be a nightmare. And then around the second week, of course, we got those devices that allow each student and each director to hear the piano, to hear the director voice, to hear the ambient sound under the tent. And at that point, we suddenly appreciated what we had. We could tell they were singing and we could tell if they were singing in tune or not. So I mean, it's incredible how our students were able to focus through all of those distractions, just to be able to practice themselves. And then moving through the rehearsal process to the video recording, this is the first time, of course, any of the students had to stand in any sort of formation with posture and look like anything other than a person wearing a mask. So, of course, as a staff member, you have both fingers double crossed behind your back, hoping it all works out. For the full choir with the glare from the sun, I mean, when we scoped out the place then the afternoon, it was later in the afternoon, so the sun wasn't shining where it needed to be, so we just didn't even consider that that would be an obstacle. So that was a problem. I just remembered another one, too. Remember the robots? Oh, yes! They kept coming through and the kids would have to like redirect them and pick them up and move them. Oh, my gosh. They have the food robot, you know. Yeah, the Starship. Yeah, Starship. We go by Scott's specialty show. Yeah. Cut right through the specialty show. Those robots were all about our filming this year. They were. They were everywhere. Probably nerve wracking, but it definitely paid off.  In a huge place like Ross Aid, you would think we'd have all the space in the world, but as you know, we didn't. So that, you know, when we have the bigger group and you have less space, it kind of creates a little bit of an issue. And for our specialty group, OTT, they filmed on the north side of Elliott Hall, but the morning of the shoot, it was nine o'clock in the morning and it was 20 degrees and it was really, really cold and the bells, even the pitch of the bell changed as they rang, but it was a real challenge that morning to film and a dumps truck or garbage truck was by doing its little beeping and it was just a very interesting shoot. Very good. And this, and you could even watch, like with the University Choir specifically, you could see from that first take through whatever the 27th take, they just kept getting better and better. They started to figure out what was going on and their energy level would go up and Gary would say, why don't we do another one? And Gary was getting excited, our videographer. And then just the specter of thinking, are we even going to make it to November? That was always in the back of our mind. We're practicing very hard, putting in lots of hours of rehearsals. We were just hoping and praying that we wouldn't have a surge in cases on campus and we'd have to shut down and revert to a virtual only option, but thankfully we were able to make it and everybody did a great job. As I always say, these students are just, they're just amazing and they rise to any challenge that gets thrown at them and I'm really proud of what they accomplished this year. Absolutely. Bill, you've mentioned that the PMO staff had to take some unique steps to make this possible, so here's maybe kind of a unique question. If you could pick any Purdue icon past or present to make a cameo appearance in the Christmas show, who would that be? That was a great question and it took me a while to kind of think through, I would pick Ralph Bailey. Sorry, Ralph is someone who was very special to me and he passed away a few years ago and if there was anyone that I would think would be incredibly proud of what we did this year, Ralph was one of them. When we were struggling to figure out how we were going to build that beautiful building, Bailey Hall, he always was encouraging, never ever wavered in his strength and thinking that this was going to happen. In fact, he told me failure is not an option, right? And I think this year he would say the same thing, no matter what has been thrown at you, no matter how trying and scary this whole process is, have faith, things will work out and the resiliency of your staff and your students is really going to shine through. So I really would love to have Ralph be here to see and be a part of this process. I think he'd be really proud of us. And modifications that you had to make for this virtual Christmas show, are there any modifications that you made this year that you think would actually be beneficial to carry through for future Christmas shows, either virtually or in person? 100%, one, every show needs tap dancing. It could be a warm or cold Wednesday evening and students could have had exams or virtual lecture after virtual lecture, but when it came to tap dance practice, people were just smiling for the entire 30 minutes that we would do it. It was some of the most fun. And I don't know a thing about it. I won't lie, I didn't choreograph it. I can't do it. We had two amazing students choreograph it, Rachel and Brian. But man, if I can incorporate some more of that energy into a show in the future, whether virtual or in person, I would absolutely love to. And our students are so talented. Additionally, we haven't really done this thing we did with the pruduettes, where we took that we have three different specialty groups, a group of three, a group of four, and a group of six. But for this show, we decided to combine them to a group of 13. So just having that weekly rehearsal with those 13 students was a really fun way to explore talent and creativity and innovation and new ideas and kind of stretching the voice to see what we can create. So I'm going to do that even in non-Christmas semesters, which surprisingly exist. Sometimes it doesn't feel like it, but they do. So even in the spring semester, we'll continue doing like a pruduit specialties number and a group rehearsal where we can get together and share our talents. Is there anything else you want to share with the audience? I just like to show what's possible with the instrument, with the bell instrument. A lot of people don't know. I mean, they think that we stand outside of Kmart or Kroger at Christmas time and ring the bell. And to them that is bell ringing. And so for them to actually see a choir and actually play music, it's just really, wow, a wow moment for them. So that's why I like to try and plan as far of a broad spectrum of music when I select. I do remember the day we filmed the bells on campus and there was a crowd of students that just gathered. Not the ones who were walking by on their phone, but just walking to watch. You know, it had been so long since they probably saw live music on campus and I think they applauded afterwards. It was kind of like a mini performance for them. Being someone that has not only a directorial responsibility with an ensemble, but overseeing the entire organization, I just want our audience to know that what it really did bring out for me is how truly that Boilermaker spirit that President Daniel speaks about of no matter what the challenge, we will figure it out. No matter what the setbacks, we will work around them, we will find ways to succeed. And this project to me was from the start, everyone's participation, everyone's selflessness in this process really shown through. And when things are all stripped away and the public performances and the really the glitz and the lights go away, what's left is truly the pride in what you're doing and how you connect with the individual. If watching the show gives you energy, if it makes you feel good, if you smile and want to watch it again, the biggest thing I can say is once we get over the COVID hump, join a choir, get in your own Christmas concert, sing carols with your family, teach new songs to your kids, just keep singing. I hear people that say singing is not for me and the secret is that's totally okay because we need people to show up too. So if singing isn't your thing, pay to go to a live show, pay to go see a show at your local community theater, make a donation to your local community choir, get involved in live art because we're going to need help when it comes time to put audience back in these beautiful houses that we have, we're going to need the help. And students, they need music in their lives to survive emotionally and mentally. These students that have been blessed with voices and have been blessed with these ears and just blessed with the gift of musicianship, they need to be able to do that for their health and we're giving them that opportunity. And to be able to put this into a production that we can then push out, they're taking those gifts and they're sharing them with others who need to hear them just as much as they need to sing. Just the fact that we were able to get together and sing and share music and share some laughs behind the face shields and the plexiglass, I think is just incredible. I think it's incredible. I think the fact that they showed up all the time, their attitudes were amazing, their stamina, their determination to learn a new way to sing, to learn a new way to listen, to learn a new way to celebrate was really just really fascinating to watch, but at the same time really just a beautiful experience. And I'm so incredibly proud of our staff. I mean you all have just been amazing and our students coming through and making this project one that I think everyone will be proud of.


And welcome to the heart of downtown Honolulu and the beautiful pioneer plaza here in the center of the Pacific. And we have a very interesting guest for our Art of Thinking Smart series this morning. And her name is Elizabeth Rieveli. And she works with a group that uses the word radical in its name. So as you know, Elizabeth, radical comes from the Latin word for root, right? You chose this word and this implication very deliberately. What do you mean by radical? I did, Michael, and there are several reasons. One is for the shock value, because it does get people to think. And a lot of this, of what we're talking about, both in business and our personal lives, is about thinking, about thinking for ourselves, and it's about being more aware. So there's that part, but there is also that root part. So at the very bottom of who we are and what we came here to do, you know, when we think clearly, when we think through our lives and how that applies to business and families and the planet, it does come back to that root of who we are. And that's like in here, it's in our dantien, it's in our hearts. Who are? Who? Let's get radical. Yeah, so who we are is ever-changing.  We are probably, that's enough right there, we're the essence of the divine. We have bodies to manifest the divine on the planet. And how does that express itself in our business lives? Because part of ourselves is earning, and creating, and building, and sustaining, and supporting, and how does that all come into who we are? I love that question because it allows me to say how important it is to bring all of those parts together. And if there's any one thing that we take away from this time together, it's all those pieces, even those shards, that have been split apart with trauma and upset over lifetimes, and even in this lifetime, maybe the real question is how do we bring those together so that we can become very present in every moment today, whether it's with our kids, after a really long day and maybe hassles at work, how do we go home and be present with our families?  So how do we do that? You know, a lot of people say, well, I have my business life, I have my personal life, I keep them separate. So you have couples, right, where the man is working all day and he comes home and his wife doesn't know what he's been doing. She's out all day. She's working. When they come home, there's little connection.   What's your take on that? Well, there's a keyword that you dropped in there, which is supposed to. And so I'm wondering, by the way you phrase the question, if that's like an image or a fantasy of what we think might happen because I don't honestly know anyone that that happens for. So I can't speak to them personally. Well, it's a classic American sort of, it's a father knows best kind of style, right? No, because the mother wasn't out though. See, that's not the father knows best, exactly. Mother knows best. We're updating it a little bit. Yeah, but it's really different. So that's part of it, is there was no one at home to gather that family energy. I mean, there is not now, but if you want to go back to Beaver and those guys, the mother was home and she was collecting, she was the fierce love that held the family together, which is if you go back for generations and generations, there was the mother energy and there is the mother of our earth. So this fierce love of the mother is essential in animals and in humans. I think we could say that maybe we've lost some of that in a way or it's been kind of dispersed and changed. Well, how is that for the professional woman today?  So it definitely is different. For the majority of American women in the 21st century, they have a significant life outside the home.  How does that work for the family with a professional woman at the heart of it? You know, I would actually like to do, to get a lot of professional women together on this question and see how it works because I'm thinking that it probably doesn't work very well. Now, I feel like I was really special case in a certain way that allowed me to develop this because I was able, as a single mother, able to bring my child into, and so my life and my business, because it is about self-care, it opened the doors for me to create this understanding or develop this understanding and be inclusive. So one thing I have noticed, though, with certainly myself and I think a lot of people, is when we go into overwhelm, we lose our capacities to, for a lot of things, but to think clearly to hold, so there is this way, we need to be able to hold energy. We need to be hold a lot of different thoughts without judging. We need to be hold many kinds of energies and allow others to come in. So we still are the mother, right? And we're holding the space for many people to come in and share and process. So I've always been a process-oriented person without having to be comparing and judging. Well, let's talk for a little bit about yourself, because you're invited here because you are you and because you have accomplished some significant things in your life business-wise. And the theme of the show is the art of thinking smart. So when you break that down, there is an art. This is not a science. This is not techniques that you can list. It's a practice, right? And thinking smart means thinking effectively. Instead of thinking a lot, thinking big, thinking many things at the same time, thinking smart so that you get to the objective in an effective way, right, in business terms. So maybe you can share with us what's the first thing that comes to your mind when you count what is the key to your success as a person? Well, one thing is being responsible for myself. So I think I really got that from my dad to not expect that someone else is going to fix it or do it or any of that. And there's this way of being responsible that allows us to be able to go out and be of service. So I was also raised a lot with community service. Again, my family. So the one thing, though, is that it has to all work together in my mind. So my work and my service and my family were always intertwined. There was no separation. So I feel really privileged, as I look around, that the idea of separation is not part of my consciousness. I mean, I can see it. But it's not how I was raised and it's not how I raised my daughter or how I live. So you use the word service. Now that's a really key concept in American business evolving today more and more towards a service economy. I work with a lot of companies helping them to develop their identity, develop their sense of purpose, and develop quality customer service for their people. So a big part of the success of a business like that is having centered people at the center of it, who know who they are, who are able to give that service, give that be responsive when a problem comes up to take responsibility to use your word for solving a problem and for actually to take a problem and turn it into an opportunity. Maybe you could talk a little bit about that, because I know you work with companies too as a mentor and a coach, and you help companies to develop that sense of central purpose. So I think there's also several ways to look at service. So one is when the school that I had, we actually, I think, very effectively use service as a marketing strategy. So rather than pay for ads, which I have not found to be very successful here, we did huge community service. And I embedded it into the curriculum so that every student who would go out into the world would see that as a part of their contribution to the planet. Do you mean an example of that service? So we did massage therapy. You name it, we've been there. The Forgiveness Project, you can remember. We developed a whole forgiveness massage. But at a lot of the balls that are fundraising, Chinatown for first Friday for any business who wanted us, we would do massage.  So that's service as marketing. Service as marketing. And it's low cost. It's low cost. But high impact. High impact, low cost. But it also trains the student or the employee in a business milieu that we're hoping to extend in the planet. Maybe something that viewers can take to heart from this is that look at the aspects of your business that allow you to express that spirit of service and find a time and a place where you can go and do it. And extend. Extend ourselves into the community. If you were Google, for example, and you want people to understand the power of search, then you would find, let's say, a graduating school of high schoolers. And go to a science fair and have a booth and have a Google expert showing all of the great tricks that are possible with Google and all of the things that you can discover. And that would be possibly a more effective way of marketing Google than a lot of social media or TV commercials. Or it could be a component of, a new component of that type of identity, that type of branding. And part of it is too being just curious and innovative. So I love going out into businesses and always making it different. Because everything is different depending on the person with whom you're speaking or the business with whom you're consulting. But so, for example, about thinking smart or working smart would go into a business that does deliveries and just put a little sign on their rear view mirror, work smart. And then the teaching was behind that. But then they would be in their van carrying boxes and remembering from that one little sticker that they need to bend their knees, keep their back straight, and really take care of themselves. So when we take care of our bodies and our minds and our spirits as one, then we are better human beings. So we're serving ourselves and that enables us to serve others and the planet. So when we think in this way, then we are going to act differently. We're going to value differently, value other people and value the planet and value our resources. So it all comes back to how we value ourselves. And would you say that a business that has those ethics and those purposes built into it is more likely to succeed than one that doesn't? Absolutely. And we've seen that. There's studies and studies and studies on that now. We're going to take a break for a moment. OK. Thank you. Great. OK, this is Think Tech Hawaii. And it's Wednesday. Every Wednesday is Energy Wednesday here in Hawaii, the state of clean energy. 4 to 5 PM every Wednesday. Come and listen to us. And just to show you what I mean, I'm going to ask Sharon to tell us more. Come and see us every Wednesday, as Jay said. And we have people like Jim Auerst from HECO here and co-host Ray Starley here every Wednesday. We not only go on O'lello and OC-16, but also stream live. So please, come visit us, hear about the latest in clean energy. OK, Jim, you've been here. You got any comment on all this? As important as energy is in all of our lives today, this is a great forum and a great format to vet those issues. So I encourage everybody to listen in and participate. OK, Ray, what do you think for a close? Well, I think this is the greatest show in the energy world here in Hawaii. You can come here every week, one hour, and catch the latest on what's happening. And hear from the people who really know what's going on, like Jim Elberts. We appreciate your coming today. Thank you. Ray Starley, Sharon Moriwaki, Jim Elberts, and Jay Fiedel here in Hawaii, the state of clean energy. Four to 5 PM Wednesday. Aloha. Aloha. Hello, and welcome back. I'm Michael North. We're on Think Tech Hawaii. And we're here today with Elizabeth Riebeli, talking about radical things. And Elizabeth, you shared with us a quotation before we started. And I want to break this down a little bit. I want to unpack it as one of my favorite terms. I know I like that, too. So let's just take it as a whole thing by itself first and listen to it as poetry. It's from Victor Frankel, who's a well-known psychologist philosopher. Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. What is he telling us? I think unpacking it, that that space, is that space is internal. It's who we are. It's the breath. And it's also offering us the opportunity to always choose how we want to show up. So we're choosing presence. And I like presence, as a word. So it offers the opportunity to breathe well. And that sort of part of my foundational thought is when we're breathing, we're taking in from the external. We're processing it through our physical body and our brain. And we're constantly in flow. So once we get stuck, then energy stops, disease forms. So as we want to be healthy and happy, taking radical care of ourselves, it's incumbent upon us to constantly find ways to be in flow. So breath is a really good one. We're always breathing. So we have a choice of how to breathe. We can breathe absentmindedly. We can barely breathe, so we're barely alive. Well, we breathe as part of our autonomic nervous system. Everybody breathes. And I would venture to say that most people rarely take a conscious breath. Unless it's a sigh or something.  Can you describe, or maybe even show us, what is a conscious breath that you're talking about? Sure, because that will allow everyone to start to work on this. Let's all take a conscious breath. So let's think about it as four to five seconds. Five would be best, because that will naturally put as good for those of us with ADD. Five seconds, all right. Right, so you have five seconds, right? So that will naturally take us into a parasympathetic response. Take us out of sympathetic, which is overdrive pretty much unconscious, and put us into a parasympathetic, more calm, more relaxed energy. So we have breath. So one thing a lot of people don't understand is our lungs actually come all the way up to here. So when we breathe, we want to fill the capacity of our lungs from down to our ribs to way up here. So first and first, we're going to breathe out. Because if you're still full, you can't take more. You think you're full. So just breathe out. Get all that old, stale air out. And then breathe in through your belly. And you can kind of feel a wave coming up. Hold a second, and then hold a second, and breathe in. And breathe out. So can you already feel a shift in energy? Sure. I feel a leveling. I actually feel, and I feel like a little kind of energy, like some little fluffy tingling. Tingling. Yeah, like energy's moving. Yeah. If I was John Stuart on the air, I'd probably pass out. Yeah, all right. Too deep of a breath. Yeah, and if you feel dizzy, that's because you're not used to having that much oxygen in your brain. Exactly. So that's sort of one way to create space. And it's our job to create that space for ourselves. I think that's partly what Victor Frankel is saying. We're responsible for creating the space that we need to be well, to show up as we would have ourselves show up to be healthy. No one out there is going to fix any health stuff and to be happy. And it's really hard to be happy when we're not feeling well, when we're in overdrive and we're just ADD or chaotic. And let's translate happy to successful for a business, because that's a group of people who are providing a service that's valuable together. That's what a business is, who choose. And here's another thing, that word choice comes back again and again. The successful businesses that I know are ones that make and enforce deliberate choices together. The ones who are less successful are controlled by outside forces. They're controlled by costs, by competition, by foreign trade, by all kinds of factors that they say they have no control over. So when you find a business that's having difficulty, usually they have a sense that they're kind of victim, that they're being controlled by. And they would like to fight back against those external forces. When you find a successful business, it's one where it doesn't matter what the external forces are. They're making internal choices deliberately, consciously. Maybe you can give us an example of maybe a company or a group that you know of that exemplifies that. Well, I will hold out my students, actually, as in they're all entrepreneurs. And some of them work at fancy hotels and spas around the world. But I think it is knowing who you are as an individual, as a group of individuals collaborating to create a business. And we're back down to being solid. And there's that foundation that we originally kind of brushed over. But that foundation is critical to the success, whether it's individual or collective, or our country. And now we're back to capacity. So within that ability to hold differences and still collaborate is also really important. So that's what we were training our students and our children to go out with knowing who we are, knowing clearly what my skills are, knowing what's beyond my skill level, and functioning clearly with joy. I think joy can still be a business word. To share that which we know we're good at. To share who we are, because I'm different than anyone else. And when I try to be like someone else, or when I try to make my business model as someone else's business model, it's not possible to be successful. Because who I am is the brilliance and who I create. And that's why my businesses have been successful, I think, because they've been built around the brilliance of our collective enterprise. We were talking earlier about how we have many personae. And there may be past personae. There may be future personae that we give energy to. There may be relationships. There may be business. There may be family, personae, relationships with children. And we tend, many of us, to have fractionalized our person so that it's difficult for us to bring all those pieces together in one entity, which is Elizabeth Rivoli. Can you talk about how those personae can be unified? They are all unified always. So there's no struggle. There's no change that's required. But how do we get there? I think that we get there in a variety of ways. And everyone has to find for themselves again. But one is to know that we're in training as marathoners. This is a long term, right? We're here for our lifetime. So however long that may be, it's still not short. We're not training for just this chat. The training that you've done and that I've done in business and in our lives and in our service to the community are coming together in this short chat. So all this training that we've done for years and lifetimes is coming together in this moment so we can be present together right now. So that's one thing. So think about it as training. So some people, everyone needs to notice whether they recover by going out and being with people or if they recover by going in to be by themselves. So a lot of times people think that I'm a big extrovert, but actually I'm an introvert. But I love being out and I love talking to people. I love this kind of thing and sharing. But I go home and I have time for myself. So my recovering is internal. It's going into nature. It's going to walk at the beach. It's going for a walk downtown even. But there's this knowing that I'm going in myself to build my foundation and to build by Dantian to go to Chinese medicine. Now other people who go out need to organize their lives so that they can go out and maybe lots of people go out after work together. So that's kind of a recovery. To round it all up, let's all in our business lives find ways to bring these values, these approaches, these ideas, these techniques that you've shared into our business world and share them with other people and organize our businesses around that kind of practice. Of course we all have to practice our daily discipline. We have our jobs to do. We have our deadlines. We have our clients. We have our standards we have to meet. But let's find a way to bring these living principles into that process. Because all those deadlines and things you mentioned that long list, they will all become part of that which we are. So rather than separate, it's like bring it all back to who I am, that's where to start.