In this video we are going to start to talk about the contents of chapter 8. So in chapter 8 it is all about understanding the memory in detail. That is important for you if you want to become a data scientist because eventually you want to work with big data. And what is the definition of big data? Well, there are many. But one of them is the data is so big that they don't fit into your computer's working memory, RAM memory. So this chapter 8 will lay the foundation to understand how we deal with situations like that where we cannot put everything into our computer's memory. And before we do so, to start out the chapter, we will introduce the so-called map-filled or reduced paradigm. That's a paradigm of how you can think, of how you want to process heavy loads of numerical data. And in the first video in this video we are not going to optimize the memory, but we are going to see a couple of implications that our program will have. And then in the next video we are going to make that memory efficient. So in this video let's go ahead and create a new file and let's call it MFR for map-filled or reduced paradigm. So let's make an example. So first of all, I am going to give you a couple of numerical data. So we are going to use the same numbers list that we did already in chapter 1, which is the list with the numbers 7, 11, 8, 5, and 3. Then we have 12, 2 and 6, 9, 10 and 1, 4. So these are the 12 numbers between 1 and 12 in no particular order. So I am going to give you a task and the task is to first go ahead and transform the numbers, so transform all numbers. And we are going to transform them according to a mathematical rule, so to say, or a mapping. Sometimes that's what they call it, that's where the term map comes from, but bear with me. So we are going to transform any x into a y according to the rule x to the power of 2 plus 1. So I wrote that here in the latex language so that it looks a little bit fancy, messy. So we are going to transform all the numbers in the list according to this rule. And then the second step, so maybe let's change that here in the first step and the second step is going to be filter out the odd ones. Or in other words, keep the even ones, whatever you want. And then we will have one more task at the end. Once we have done that, the third one is going to be sum up the remaining numbers. So these are three steps that we want to implement. And now we are going to do that by using a list object and also by using several other list objects to hold intermediate results. And then we will discuss what this way of writing the program has or implies in terms of memory usage. So let's first go ahead and write a transformation. So what we are going to do is, we are going to do the following. I am going to introduce a new list, let's call it transformed numbers or transform for short. It is going to be an empty list to start with. And this list is going to hold all the transformed numbers. So why am I doing that? So we could probably go ahead and transform the numbers in place in the numbers list that exist, but then we would change the input to the problem, so to say. And sometimes we don't want to do that. Let's assume we are just loading in some raw data and we don't want to change the raw data. We want to do some analysis and some calculations with the raw data, but we don't want to change the raw data. So therefore I create a new list called transformed, which is going to hold the transformed numbers. So how can we get these numbers here into the transformed list? Well, we are going to write a for loop and we are going to say for number in numbers. And then we are going to go ahead and we are going to transform the numbers. So let's say we call the number transformed number, maybe, or maybe let's call it number two. And let's simply go ahead and say that that is number to the power of two plus one. And now what are we going to do with number two? Well, number two is going to be appended to the end of the transformed list. So we are going to say transformed dot append number two. And now what we could do to make this a little bit easier to read and skip the temporary variable, we could simply go ahead and replace number two in the append as the argument and write the for loop just like that. And then at the end of the for loop, I'm simply going to evaluate the variable transformed so that we see the transformed numbers. So let's run the cell and we see the numbers are transformed. Okay, so let's continue. Let's go ahead and do step two. Step two is going to be filter out the odd ones. So in other words, keep the even ones. So we're going to write events and we're going to set that to an empty list again. So we're going to fill this events list with all the even numbers in the transformed list. So let's go ahead and simply say for number in transformed. And then we're going to write an if statement just like in the very first Python example in this course. We are going to say if number modulo divided by two double equals zero. So if division by two has no rest, then we know it's an even number. Then we are going to say events dot append number. And then at the end of the cell, I will give you a brief view of the events list. Okay, only even numbers. And now comes the third step. We are simply going to sum up all the events. And we can use the build in some function and we will write it just like that. Some events 292. So first of all, let's introduce a couple of words. Whenever you are given a sequence of numbers and note, I use the generic term, the abstract term sequence. It can come as a list can come as a table. It doesn't matter any sequence of numbers. I would say if for every element in the sequence, you want to do some transformation, then we are going to call that step a mapping step. Okay, so maybe let's introduce a variable here, a header here. Let's simply call it mapping. Okay, we are going to map every element to some other element. That is why the term mapping comes from. I said I call it transformation. So transformation is probably also a good term to use. But the more formal word for that step is simply called a map or mapping. We are mapping every element in the original list to some other number according to some transformation rule, which happens to be x squared plus one. The next step takes the transformed numbers, the mapped numbers and filters out the numbers. And therefore we call this step a filtering step. Okay, and the last step takes many numbers, a sequence of many numbers, which is of course shorter than the original numbers list, but it doesn't matter. It's still a sequence of many numbers. And it goes ahead and it reduces them into a single statistic by simply taking the sum. We could also calculate the average, which we did in the very first video of this course. We could do whatever we want, but the idea here is that we take a bunch of numbers and we reduce them into a single one, into a single statistic. So we call this step the reduction step. Okay, or also sometimes reducing step, but we call it the reduction step. Okay, why is map filter reduce? Mapping, filtering and reduction here so important. Well, it has many ideas. So first of all, a lot of theory how to break down big computations into smaller ones that can be separated onto several servers that simultaneously solve a problem. Let's say you're working, let's say you are Google and you're working with real big loads of data that that's never ever fit on even one machine, no matter how big the machine is. This paradigm has many, many implications, many, many advantages. For example, we have a sheer load of academic papers and algorithms to solve various kinds of problems to calculate various kinds of statistics that follow all these paradigm. So whenever you have some task, you're given some task, you're given some numbers and you have some task to do with those numbers, it is always worthwhile to in your head at least break down the steps that you need to solve the problem into mapping, filtering and reduction steps. And if you can do so, if you can do all the mappings in one step and all the filtering in one step or maybe in several filtering steps and then a reduction at the end or something like that, then this has many advantages, theoretical advantages. Namely, if the problem grows inside, so let's say if your input data just quadruples or goes by a factor of 1000 and it does not work with one machine anymore, then a computer scientist that knows about these theoretical ideas behind that can most likely make or solve your problem in a parallel way using many simultaneous servers that together find a solution to your problem. So I don't want to go into too much theory here, but mapping, filtering and reducing is a really good idea to break your problem down in these steps. Okay, so before we end this video, we are going to use Python tutor to see the implication of the code we wrote. And we can already guess it without Python tutor, but Python tutor really helps us to visualize a lot of stuff. So let's simply go ahead. So let's go ahead and copy over the first for loop. And then let's also copy over the second for loop. We don't need to give out the variables here because that was only in Jupyter lab here. Just like that. And then in the last row, we're going to simply thumb them up. And maybe if you want, you could also put all the lists up front maybe just like that. So we have a little bit of more order here. And let's run the, let's run the code here. So at first, we are simply creating a numbers list in the global scope as we see. And then we take, we create two, two originally empty lists that we are going to fill in. So in terms of memory usage, we can regard the empty list as simply no memory usage, even though there's a little overhead. But for now, it's simply, we can treat them as if they are not there. So we have this list here, this one list with your original data. And now let's see what's going to happen as the, as the program runs and it does its job. So it's going to loop. So we are going to have a global variable code number. We can also disregard that in terms of size, because one variable is, you know, not worth it to talk about. But at some point, we're going to get a transform list filled in. And after the mapping step is done, we have a second list, which is of equal size than the first one. So what has happened to our memory usage? Our memory usage has doubled. Okay. So in other words, if the original list of data occupies, let's say 60% of your computer's working memory, then doing this mapping is not possible. It will crash your computer. Your computer will run out of memory.  You will have to hard reset it. Okay, so that is not a good thing. So let's go on. Now comes, okay, that was not even a mapping step yet. So now comes the filtering step. So the filtering step is going to filter out all the odd numbers and only keeping the even ones. And at some point, the filtering step is also done. So probably two more. So the two is going in, the 17 is not going in. Okay, before we now go ahead and calculate the resulting sum, what we see here is we have a third list, which happens to be half the other two lists. However, let's assume that the raw data contains only numbers that are mapped to, let's say, only even numbers. What would happen to our third list? Well, in the worst case scenario, the list would have the same size or the same length as the first and the second list. So in the worst case scenario, our memory consumption would actually triple. Okay, so on average, it wouldn't here, obviously, but in the worst case, it would. So in other words, if you wanted this program to run during these calculations, we would have to make sure that our original list that is given occupies at most one third of your computer's memory, probably a little less because there is some overhead in the memory, but no more than a third of your computer's memory. So that is already a limitation that we may not want. So in the last step, if I click next, the sum function is going to be executed and we don't see a result here, mainly because I forgot to put a variable here. Let's call it result and let's do it one more time and let's jump right to the end. And then we see a result variable here that we did not see previously, but the result actually doesn't really matter in terms of memory. It's only one number. Everything has been reduced into one number, so we don't really care about that. But what we do care about is the fact that we now have three lists and in the worst case scenario, all lists would be in full length as long as the very first list is. So there must be a better way to do that. And that is what chapter 8 is all about. Chapter 8 is all about avoiding temporary list objects. We want to do the calculation in a different way. So let's use this diagram here and think of an idea of how could we calculate the entire result. With the same result without having two intermediate lists. Well, what we could do is when we look at the first number in the raw data, this number seven, we could do the transformation, which gives me 50. But instead of saving the 50 in a list object, what we could do instead is we could just take the 50 and say because it's even, we have to keep it. We just add it to an initial running total. Remember the very first example of this course. Now maybe now you can guess why I made up this example in the very first Python example of this course because now we are building on top of that. So the number 50 will be added on top of an initial total of zero. Then we take the next number, the 11. 11 transformed will be 122. It will also be even number. So let's go ahead and add the 122 on top of the 50 on top of the running total and so on. The number eight will be mapped to 65. 65 is an odd number. Therefore it is not going to be added on top of the running total. So you can already guess that there is a smarter way to get to the same result without having any intermediate storage uses here. And now we could go back to chapter one and review what we programmed back then and we could come up with our own running total idea logic and so on. And we could actually solve this problem in a memory efficient way using only things that we have learned so far in this course. However, Python comes with several other data types that we have not yet seen concrete data types that can do that for us. And we want to learn about them. And this data type in abstract terms is called iterators. In more concrete terms it is often called channel raters. But no matter what the fancy word is, they are built in data types into Python that allow us to do these one by one calculations and not have intermediate lists here. So that is what we are going to see in the next video. So in the next video we are going to see the same example again and we are going to recalculate the same result. So remember the result is going to be 292. You can check in the next video if you get the same result. And we will do so in a different way using different syntax or different data types. And this will be highly memory efficient. So I will see you in the next video.


Hello, everybody, and thanks for joining us today where we're talking about all things small business and small business administration. There's a lot going on all around Hawaii and all across the country as we come into the last days of our federal fiscal year, there'll probably be some excitement as we look and see what's happening with our budgets going forward, but we're still keeping real busy with the small businesses here in Hawaii. What's happening, as I said, one thing that came up recently, we opened the nominations for the Small Business Awards, SBA Small Business Awards for 2017. So you can find those nomination forms. We have six different categories, the Small Business Person of the Year, the Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Exporter of the Year, Entrepreneurial Success, somebody who's had SBA's help before and now is a larger business, no longer eligible for Small Business Assistance. We also look to honor advocates out in our community who are helping support small businesses. So you can find those by going to our Small Business Development Center website, a quick four-page nomination form, a few quick questions to respond to that really measure the amount of success you've had, where you're taking your business, what your goals and missions are, and how you give back to the community. Great process, great awards, but we love to be able to recognize what small businesses are doing here in Hawaii. So please take a look at hisbdc.org, you'll find them right there on the first page. Just scroll down a little bit and you'll see all the different categories. You can look at the criteria for each award, a little bit different, and pick the one that might best fit somebody that you know that is really deserving of being honored for what they've accomplished, their achievements in our business community. So thanks for thinking about that. Today I'm going to be introducing you to a new resource here in Hawaii, one we're very proud to be involved with, our Veterans Business Outreach Center. These programs have been around for the last couple years and they started out as a partnership with SBA and DOD to make sure that we were getting the support and services to those who have served our country so well, who sacrificed so much, perhaps had a first career in the military and now are coming back into the civilian workforce or retiring and they just have so many talents and skills they want to do something else. So our Veterans Business Opportunity Center will be opening up, I said it wrong again, didn't I Dennis? That's right. It's Outreach Center. So that's, Dennis Kwok is leading the charge to get this center open so welcome today to our program. Thanks for having me, Jay. You know I appreciate that you could make some time. You know Dennis has a lot of skills and a lot of experience in helping small businesses get started, helping small businesses grow so we're happy to have him aboard and we really are pushing off this center and already out in the community working with our Boots to Business program but you'll be offering even more once Dennis. We hope so, yes. Like you said the program has just started. The University of Hawaii at Hilo in a cooperative agreement with the Small Business Administration and the Office of Veterans Development has been awarded the grant for this year and we're really excited that all the kind of programs we can offer our veterans. They came out with the VBOCs, Veteran Business Outreach Centers several years ago but we started out slowly in growing them. We were regional so this is the first time we actually will have a center that's based in Hawaii, on Island. Even though your host locally is University of Hawaii at Hilo, you're going to be located on Oahu, is that right? Yes, that's kind of a weird kind of situation but it's actually very practical because of the fact that we have three operating military bases on Island with a Skollfield joint-based Pearl Harbor as well as Cape Bay or kind of a Marine Corps base. And that doesn't mean that your services, your consulting, your training, anything like that will be just on Oahu because you're going to end up serving a pretty big territory. You've got my district. That's right. Well, yes, definitely. We have, we're in agreement with serving of course Hawaii and all the islands of Hawaii and Guam and American Samoa as well. Right. That's, there's a big veteran population in all these areas even if there may not be active bases. But we've always had strong participation from the territory of Guam, from the territory of American Samoa. And though our bases here are pretty active and we've been seeing a lot of activity with them over the last several years, but we do have a really strong community of veterans who are already in business as well. And a lot of the statistics show that veterans bring with them once they retire or leave the military, they bring a lot of skills that are very adaptive to being successful in business. Oh, I couldn't agree more. The actual veterans to entrepreneurship or entrepreneurs is actually a natural progression because veterans like entrepreneurs are focused, mission focused. They have critical, they're critical thinkers, problem solvers. They have strong leadership and team management as well as being ethical. These are all traits that veterans have a natural kind of, they're learned behaviors as well, but they have a natural progression to become better. For the, through their years in service, they've kind of been conditioned and those are expectations so the behavior follows and entrepreneurs or small business owners need those same skills to kind of stay on task, stay on mission, you know, work with employees, work as a team, work with others and delegate tasks as well. And I think that's one very, very important thing that oftentimes small business owners have a hard time doing is recognizing what needs to be done and being able to delegate or work with others to accomplish those goals. So I think there's a natural affinity. Even some of our, you know, some of the, the businesses that we think of, you know, as being successful in Hawaii, several that have been on Think Tech before or even interviewed on my, my program, Raymond Jardine of Native Hawaiian Veterans, Reg Baker himself is a veteran. So you find them, you know, sometimes where you least expect it, you know, statistics show that actually veterans are 45% more likely to own a small business. Wow. Yeah. So that's a pretty high percentage. It is. It is. And out of all the, although the veteran population across the United States is relatively small, they account for about nine to 10% of businesses out of the total population. Nine to 10%. Yes. Which is a tremendous population. Yeah.  But you got started working with veterans, kind of working with SBA over the last couple of years. Sure. Maybe you will first, I guess, tell us a little bit about yourself and your background in working with small businesses. Oh, okay. Well, my most recent, and before joining the VBAC program was actually as a business advisor with a small business development center. I was an advisor there for about six, seven years and I had the privilege of working with you too for this amount of times. And during that time we had, you know, access to lots of businesses and many of them veteran-owned businesses. So whether it was starting a small restaurant or starting a service-based business, I was fortunate enough to assist these small businesses, whether it being financing or business planning or strategic planning. So your experience already has connected you with small businesses. So when you help them with financing, what does that entail? The financing end is actually a little bit more complicated and it really depends on the business owner and what their needs are. So we first assess what their needs are, whether that's startup capital or working capital. I bet a lot of people come to you saying right off the bat, I just need money. Yeah. That is a common question. Capital, capital, capital. But it's not as easy as people think that is. So there is a kind of a process and usually that comes in the planning phases of starting your business or in many cases actually expanding your businesses too. So you've already helped a lot of business navigate through that maze of getting started and then that hard part, finding money if that's really, sometimes internally, sometimes from banks or other things, but how do you approach that decision? Well, I think it's really, like I said, up to the owners as well as up to the business because sometimes it's really out of my reach. Each owner has their own specific kind of needs in terms of capital and sometimes it's really going internally, like you said, and asking family and friends, but others is going through traditional channels like banks and credit unions and utilizing your famous SBA loan programs. You could do a little plug. Oh, that's the right thing to say. It really is a wonderful loan program. And just talking about SBA loan programs, I would really like it if people are listening to this that I really hope that the Patriot Express or other loan programs are readily available for our veterans. I know we have a veterans advantage program. It is really an important, I guess, program for our veterans in terms of getting their finance. I think one of the things that these programs will do and particularly some of the loans that Dennis is referring to, SBA helps with a guarantee to the bank. So a newer business, a younger business can get the capital they need. Our veterans programs follow kind of the model or the format of the guaranteed loans, but they usually have some changes in the interest rate or even a higher loan cap. So it makes it easier for growing businesses to get the capital they need. And in going with you, Dennis, or sitting down to talk with you, you'd go over their cash flow and their plans and also look at some of their regular expenses to kind of also see if they're kind of running lean in Maine, if they have money that they may not recognize inside the business, and when the right time to go and ask for a loan maybe. Yes, definitely. There's many stages of actually starting a business, but it all starts with planning and a very, very robust plan is what you need to go to the banks because they're going to break your business plan apart to see if you actually do need those funds and whether you're going to be a profitable business.  It's really a fine line of being truthful with yourself and your business, as well as having kind of a champion within the bank. So and I think I know of some of the small businesses that you've worked with and have been very successful in helping them get capital at the right time. Because sometimes, as you said, a lender doesn't necessarily want to entertain your proposal if you're really not ready for it or if you're asking for more and you can actually repay because nobody wants you to get into a bad situation. So sometimes your council has to redirect them, I would think. Oh, yeah, I believe so. And a lot of the success stories I have aren't really tied in with capital. It's actually, you know, I've had businesses where we worked on the business plan and then we realized that business didn't have legs and ultimately she decided it or the person didn't decide to start that business. And I think that in itself is a success story because I hope I kind of steered her away from failing a business. Yes, sometimes that's just as important for a business owner to realize that it seems like a great idea or that that entrepreneur. This seems like a great idea and I would love to execute on this, but there isn't a market, there isn't any money there. And ultimately, yes, that's got to be part of your goal is to at least make some money so you can pay your costs and hopefully take a little bit home to put in your own pocket. That's right. That's very important. So the banks are going to look at that, they're going to look at your repayment ability. They are going to look at your credit. So and that is something that we've even started with some soon to be veterans working with them on preparing. I think there's a big demand right now because our military numbers have gotten higher with some of the conflicts that we've seen in the needs for defense across the world or need for support. Some of them we're seeing a lot of them kind of cycling out of their years in service now. So our Boots to Business program has been going strong on all our bases here and you've been involved with some of those programs. So and I know some of those a lot of those veterans are staying here, but probably the majority of them are moving away and getting into the SBA or the VBAC network on the mainland. But I think those vehicles really help them because they they know I may have four months or I may have five months to go. And this is what I'm looking at. So how does how do you see the the Boots program working with them? Actually, the genesis of the Boots program is really tied in with Department of Defense transition assistance program. So the DOD TAP is really geared toward helping our veterans transition out of the military. They have three tracks. The first is educational, where veterans can get education through more schooling as well as certifications. And the second is hiring or employment, gainful employment through the private and public sectors. And obviously the third, but not least is actually entrepreneurship or starting their own business. And we found the Boots to Business program is a Syracuse University two day program where we really concentrate on giving kind of an expose to entrepreneurship, if you can say, and kind of a two day crash course on entrepreneurship for our veterans. And the it's proven to be very, very successful. People found the biggest complaint they have is actually that the two days is not enough. So actually, the two day event is actually the start. And you can actually sign off for an eight week free online course offered by Syracuse University, which a lot of people have taken. And they found it to be of tremendous value. I think we've heard a lot about that. We're going to take a quick break, but we'll be back to talk about Boots to Business reboot and hiring our heroes coming up here in Hawaii very soon. So thanks for joining us. We'll be right back. Aloha, this is Reg Baker with Business in Hawaii. We're a show that broadcasts every Thursday at two o'clock. We would love to hear from you and you can reach us in several different ways. We have a hotline that you can call in at<PHONE_NUMBER> or you can email us at thinktecawai.com or you can tweet us at thinktec-hi. Looking forward to hearing from you and seeing you on our next show. Aloha. Aloha, my name is Danelia D-A-N-E-L-I-A. And I'm the other half of the duo, John Newman. Welcome. We are co-hosts of a show called Keys to Success, which is live on the Think Tech Live Network series weekly on Thursdays at 11 a.m. We're looking forward to seeing you then. Aloha. And thank you all for joining us again. We're just talking about veterans as small business owners and the services and support they can get from SBA and our latest program here in Hawaii, our Veterans Business Outreach Center with Denny Kwok. So, Denny, thanks again. Oh, thanks for having me. We were just talking a little bit about the Boots to Business. A two-day program. And we've been doing about 20 sessions a year. I believe so, yeah. I think 20 to 22. But that just covers Hawaii. And obviously, we have our base in Guam. And we'll be doing a couple over there as well. So, we have it right now. We're at Joint Base Pearl Harbor. We go to Schofield. We get out over to the Marine Corps base, Semper Fi. Do you have a military background? Not myself. My father was a Marine. And one of my younger brothers was a Marine. Oh, very cool. The first song I ever learned to play on the piano was the House of Montezuma. But, you know, I didn't follow that path myself. OK.  Me too. So, and your family? Nope. No, we have no affiliation, unfortunately, with. Yeah, we're first generation immigrants. OK. So, there's... Well, you have a son? I do. I have two sons. So, yes, I have two sons. But they're way too young to join.  And, you know, obviously, you're taking on the patriotic mission and in helping the service to our veterans as well. Yeah. And I think it really is a great program, not just because, you know, I've been tasked with running it, but just because I think giving back to the military community is something that's greatly needed. And especially during these times. So, this role will also give you kind of the task of creating greater awareness of, you know, veterans' contributions, what veterans have done as small business owners as employers that's creating jobs, you know, for others as well. So, and I know you kind of got involved and became intrigued with supporting or conducting some of the modules in the Boots to Business programs on various basis. So, as we looked at the VBOT process, we kind of moved you around to a lot more bases than just, I think we were working with the Small Business Development Center primarily over at the Marine Corps base. That's right. And now you've been to all of them. And pretty soon you're going to be heading off for Guam to conduct a session with my branch manager, Ken Lujan, at Anderson, I believe. That's right, yeah. Anderson Air Force Base. That will be on the 26 and 27. Okay. And I'll be definitely working with our resource partners over there, the SBA, the Small Business Development Center as well. Very good. I mean, we've got a good network down there. Oh, yeah. And I think that one of the things that's probably important to say is even though these Boots to Businesses are on the base, you don't have to be affiliated with that branch of the service.  So if you miss one, all you need to do is go and look at our schedule because it should be up at sba.gov as well and seek to enroll when it's the right time or talk to your counselor before your transition counselor or your command. And they know all about these courses as well or have the contacts to get you in touch. So some of the classes fill up really quickly depending on the scheduling. But they're usually very enthusiastic and you hear some great stories from the veterans and what they're planning to do. Can you recall some of the interesting businesses they were talking about starting? Sure. I mean, you have a really kind of a huge plethora of types of businesses or industries that it spans. But the more interesting ones I've found were actually involving agriculture. I found that a lot of veterans find agriculture kind of a nice industry to go into and that could be aquaponics or that could be in terms of, you know, solar agriculture. I mean, involving solar energy and agriculture. Very, very new fields. A lot of changes happening in these fields. And I find it interesting that they find farming or agriculture such a kind of enjoyable industry to go into. Is it perhaps related to where some of them grew up or some of them farm? Yeah, that's what I thought, too. Yeah, I mean, it's really not. I think it's actually the work that they do. They find it therapeutic, especially for our service disabled veterans. And I found even just among my clientele, we have a couple or two or three service disabled veterans that are actually going into agriculture, see here in Hawaii. So that's an interesting field. And I find that kind of correlation unique. Yeah, that is kind of interesting. We've seen people coming out, wanting to start to like auto detailing or mobile garage. Restaurants. Restaurants. We've heard there's a great Takaria up in Wahiwa now. That's right.  It's actually a client of my former colleague, Ms. Lori Hiramatsu, if she's listening. But yeah, the Takaria business has grown exponentially and they're doing really well. And they did get an SP alone if I'm correct. I heard. And I hear the people drive from Pearl City in IAEA and the Pearl Harbor base to get up there to go and get some really good food. Yeah, very, very good food. Unfortunately, me and Lori actually went up there a couple of months ago and they were closed. So yeah, we just went on an off time. Did they start a website yet? I don't know. Get their schedule up there. Exactly. Get their schedule going. We've seen husband and wife starting fitness training teams. We've seen IT services. So it really covers the gamut of what skills or interests they're bringing out. And for many, they're like a second time around a second career where maybe in the military they didn't do something that really tapped their creativity and some of them are pursuing those areas as well. And a lot of veterans that are kind of transition out in Hawaii, they actually stay. I have a perfect client. His name is, he owns Ken-Naze Southern Barbecue out in IAEA. And I helped him start his business when I was with the SBDC. And I'm still helping him now under the direction of EBOC. And he's grown his business from just an idea to a very, very successful venture. And he's in the steps of actually hopefully expanding. Oh, that's great. That's great. So if you're in the area in IAEA, please check out Ken-Naze as well. I gotta give a little shout out to you. We're gonna have to do a listing of some of these businesses. Especially food related. Well, you're even looking at, are there more veteran success stories out there that you can collect? So it is easier to really show people upfront, personal what veterans have accomplished. Yeah, that's in the process. We're still working on that with our resource partners. Just off the top of my head, we have a few definitely veterans owned businesses that have shown tremendous growth and I have shown success. Well, I think that's a great thing to bring up since Danny is looking for those stories. If you're watching this and you're a veteran business owner, you may wanna give him a call or send him an email message and I'm sure he'd be happy to talk to you about your business or even consider you in his success story catalog. Where do they get in touch with you, Danny? You can email me at dquack at hawaii.edu. Hawaii.edu, that's a very, very simple one. And a lot of the veterans too are a lot of people who are exiting the military come out and they wanna come to our boots to business. They want them to be a little longer, they'd like it to be more in depth. I understand that Hawaii has one of the highest rates of enrollment in that eight week online class of anywhere across the country and it may be just we're used to being remote out here so we tapped into some of those resources but I heard it's a really good class and it's very, very productive. Even though they are online for most of the curriculum, there are some interactive sessions and that they really come out with a real product that your business plan, a good start on your financials so really goes the step beyond what we can do in a two-day boots to business or reboot that is for veterans who are outside or already exited the military and maybe have a business. So Syracuse eight week course is one thing but then our reboot is now we're gonna be starting to do some of those around the island, right? Yes, we hope so and the next one is scheduled for, let me get my dates here correct, January 5th and 6th on the big island. Because the whole purpose of the reboot is actually the same curricula as the Boots to Business but it's really geared toward already transitioning out veterans and it's not held on basis. So hopefully we'll be, we had one on Maui about a month and a half ago and we'll be doing one on big island and we would like to schedule a couple more on Oahu as well. So you are getting around to all the veteran communities across the state. Yes, and I can't forget American Samoa and Guam as well, I'm sorry. We definitely will, this program is unique or as you can just, very, very similar to you is that geographically it's very, very spread out across ocean, but... Well, we're gonna work with you, Den. I hope so. We'll be working to, we do expect that we're gonna get a great response to this program and bring in, I'm hoping some longer term consulting clients as well, that businesses are really kind of ready to kick it up and go to the next level. So maybe longer term consulting clients with you, maybe get into our emerging leaders course as well so that they are finding the support and the success that they deserve or we can help them get there a little bit faster because that's what the counseling and training programs are all about is avoiding those big hairy mistakes, keeping the money in the business and then also kind of accomplishing, fulfilling those dreams that you have, supporting the family, all those things that you wanna do. So any things that, what are you, are you mission focused with us now? Where do you wanna take the VBAC? I definitely want to fall within the parameters of what we can do in terms of participation in the Boosted Business Program as well as a reboot. My concentration is really finding out what the needs of the veterans business community here are and kind of localizing a lot of the programs to suit the veterans' needs really. Whether it's through one-on-one counseling or more events training, it's kind of a still a nascent program so we're still trying to kind of mold that program, this program to really service our veterans. So that's another reason to get in touch with you too is with ideas or opportunities with the veteran business outreach center as well. I can agree with you more, Jean. It's really about kind of a community-based, I don't know if I'm using this word right, but definitely utilizing our community to give ideas on how we can make the VBAC more applicable to our veterans. Okay, we're gonna have a really robust program. I can tell already. We're gonna be going out today with just a couple of other quick announcements that may be of interest to you. We have our Focus on the Future conference coming up next week, October 5th and 6th. It's being offered by the University of Hawaii and the Hawaii Business Roundtable. It is on cybersecurity. It will cover medical research, a cool program to check out. A lot of people will be there down at Hilton Hawaiian Village. And to get that information, this is a long, long URL, www.uh.hawaii.edu, conference, backslash, FF, Focus on Future, 2016.asp. I would say Google Focus Future Hawaii. And then we'll be talking about Shop Small Business Saturday. That's kind of the counterpart to Black Friday and Cyber Monday. We gotta take care of our small business and our restaurants here in Hawaii. That'll be coming up November 28th, and you'll be hearing more from SBA on how to prepare for the next year.  Thanks very much for joining us today.


Coming up on DTNS products from AT&T's home internet to Niantic's Pokemon Go have changed how they work to adapt to changes brought on by the coronavirus What are those changes? What effects will they have and what other things might change how they work? This is the Daily Tech News for Friday the 13th of March 2020 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt and from Studio Redwood. I'm Sarah Lane and from Ohio. I am Rob Dunwood And I'm the shows producer Roger Chang We were just talking about high school reunions. We were talking about Sarah's upside-down experience of getting Airbnb reservations instead of having them canceled on her That's all part of good day internet if you want the wider conversation become a member at patreon.com slash DTNS Let's start with a few tech things you should know Microsoft has decided to make its build developer conference a digital conference May 19th to the 21st The event had been scheduled to take place in Seattle and apple announced its worldwide developers conference or WWDC will be held online in June with the usual keynote and developer sessions Delivered over the internet apple didn't announce specific dates But cnet has a handy page keeping track of all the events being canceled because the list is growing or suspended or delayed All of them. We'll have a link to that in our show notes Discord is easing the limit on its go live streaming service from 10 people at a time to 50 So if you're a teacher you can conduct classes co-workers can collaborate and groups can meet remotely The latest windows 10 Insider preview build includes support for cross-platform copy and pasting to samsung galaxy z flip and to the s20 phones using your Excuse me using the your phone app Additionally, s20 users can send and receive rcs messages on windows 10 when using samsung messages as their default With notifications red on windows marked as red on the phone And microsoft released an emergency patch to fix a flaw in the server message block protocol We told you about that earlier this week That's the one that would let specially crafted packets execute code on client or server machines with a warmable attack Which of course could spread quickly The flaw was limited to smb version 3.1.1 And only affected 32 and 64 bit windows 10 versions 1903 and 1909 microsoft recommends windows 10 machines update as soon as possible If unable to patch right away microsoft recommends turning off smb compression and blocking port 445 as a mitigation So it's good that they got that fixed my windows rebooted on its own and patched that right away, which was good Let's talk a little bit about People taking a bad advantage of a bad situation Yeah, pretty unsurprisingly because you know humans security firms reported rising attacks using covet 19 as a way to trick victims Into running malware campaigns often impersonate the world health organization and the u.s centers for disease control and prevention Security company agari told tech crunch. It found a corona virus themed business email compromise attack designed to trick companies Into paying money to a different bank than usual due to the corona virus outbreak And we know most of the people in our audience Are are good at avoiding phishing schemes, but this is a time when your patterns are broken You're paying attention to things That that that are covet 19 With a little more attention and maybe a little more panic Then you might so it's just just a public service message to be extra aware of when you get that cdc email Is it really from the cdc don't click on a link type in a link all all the usual best practices apply But but you know this this is the time when they're going to try to take advantage of you Being out of your comfort zone in the way you do things All right, the cdc would probably never email you anyway unless you are already Corresponding with them and you know that it would be a legitimate email from them So just be careful and watch out for that kind of stuff I got a phone voicemail from la county yesterday and I immediately was suspicious I was like one is this about it turned out it was an actual all it said was like You know la county is recommending social distancing wash your hands all the all the normal stuff that we've been hearing But I was like wow, that's that is unusual and that's what starts to break your patterns when you're like Oh, that would usually not happen. So you it's kind of you know, raise that awareness a little bit extra Firefox 74 has announced its facebook container add on and will prompt users to install it upon updating Users can use the container to log into facebook without being tracked Installing the extension closes your facebook tabs to leach your facebook cookies and logs you out of facebook and after When you log back into facebook, it keeps all cookies isolated from the rest of your browsing That means you won't see like buttons and bed embedded comments or be logged in Automatically into facebook pages unless you choose to do so This is so handy if you hadn't added this on uh before you definitely want to take advantage of them prompting you to do it Because if yeah, honestly, and I'm not trying to kiss up rob The only reason I ever go to facebook anymore is to go to the smr podcast page and and see what's up there like I I I don't want to be logged into facebook all the time. So having the ability to say yeah, just lock that off Don't let it affect other pages is is good for me This when I read this actually made me say, huh, there's a reason to use firefox because i'm the same way I don't really use facebook my wife and my mother-in-law Asked me all the time Did you see this on facebook and literally I will have to go log into it to see it because unless I am on The smr facebook group or another group that I that I fancy. I'm just not in facebook um So to me this is almost like just making um like incognito incognito mode for facebook all the time except for when you don't want it to be Um, which is which is kind of nice because you know, I don't want to always be in um, you know Private browsing, but I don't want facebook tracking me everywhere. I go across the internet. So I like this It's a little bit of the best of both words, isn't it because incognito mode will just forget everything This will this will remember if you want it to if you're like, no, I do use facebook to log into this particular site So remember that and but keep it separate from everything else. Let's see. I like it. It's pretty nice Uh apple began gradually reopening apple stores across china over the last several weeks The company confirmed that all 42 stores are now reopened in the country Apple had begun closing stores in china in early february to help stop the spread of covet 19 So this is this is good news. This is good covet 19 news And it's poor it's it's easy to dismiss it as like well That's happening over there in china if you're not in china But it's helpful in a lot of ways it says things are starting to get back to normal in a place that was hit harder by it And it gives you a a bit of a timeline I mean, it's going to act differently in different parts of the world for so many different reasons But it's good to know that in the place where it originated where they didn't know it was coming They closed stores in february and were able to open them all by march 13th I I don't want to you know be overly optimistic about that But I think that's that's important to kind of calibrate your expectations. I guess Yeah, I mean as stores and restaurants and businesses and gatherings and events and you know, we're we're hearing About closures as if the world is shutting down, you know country by country and you know to have a little perspective like of as you said Tom, I mean this is where this all originated. It's where the you know, some some concerns started to grow And sure here it where I live where we all live in the u.s Totally different place But in many ways it was sort of like china was a few weeks ahead and we were starting to see ripple effects across the world So one can hope that those ripple effects will also go the other way Yeah, it's nice to see that there is another side there There is the other side of this and china clearly it was first there So they want to be the first to get out of it So we know that there are going to be better days to come for us Yeah, a little bit of a light at the end of the tunnel, huh? Yeah, that is good The verge notes that supply chain analytics company trend force expects a drop in laptop shipments in february of 48 percent Over last year due to labor and material shortages and restrictions on transportation Trend force also expects smartphone production to drop 12 percent this quarter Smartphone production is expected to be affected for one two three months Gartner supply chain expert kore cozy told the verge that even raw materials like steel copper and aluminum Have been disrupted as well And he doesn't think the effects will go away within one quarter Lot of this is as a result of just-in-time production Which doesn't build up inventories that can be used during an interruption Stortages of electronics across the board and automobiles should be expected as well Yeah, maybe we should have done this before the good news story. Yeah, right It's like now that we've now we've built you up. Let's let's get back to reality Because because this is the other side of it, which is the effects will go on even once everybody in the affected areas Are back to work and and getting back to normal It'll take some time for the supply chain to catch up For for materials to get back in the system and nobody really knows exactly how long that's going to take Yeah, this is this is especially Concerning is not really the word but it's like kind of sad because right now with everybody working from home With like, you know in ohio where you know schools are closed here This is probably something that's going to happen in other states here pretty shortly Um, you know people need computers laptops phones so they can do their remote teleworking tell the school Tell the learning all that kind of stuff. So um, yeah, there definitely is a disruption Um as uh corona virus spreads around the world Well, what's you know the thing to think about is that it isn't just oh these guys are back in the factory and they're making the parts and you know They're they're coming out. Uh, that's what tom was saying. It's shipping. It's getting the supply of raw materials But it's also getting someone to drive the stuff over to the docks and then having a ship available That you can put the container on and then someone on the other side Ready ready to pick that up and then distribute that. I mean they're all I was listening to this uh an npr story on from from a guy down in long beach who who runs one of the The poor uh receiving areas and he's going like it's a very long chain. It isn't just a simple Yeah, three steps. There's literally 12 different areas where things are Are being affected currently Yeah, I mean when you when you talk about supply chain, we all know what the what that means But you know, we have a fox gun story from yesterday, right? Like fox gun says hey things are going pretty well We are pleasantly surprised by uh our factories kind of being up and running again and you sort of go cool Okay, we're everything's fine Well getting all of those components to various places that they need to go somewhere else in the world by ship by air Yeah, once it gets to another country and a dock then who's touching it are there shortages of employees at those places? I mean it is it's a pretty complicated process Yeah, it's uh, you know, I think we're all old enough to remember when stores actually used to have store rooms in the back When if there's something wasn't on the shelf you could go to the back to get it And I remember this is a few years ago asking a question. Hey, can you go check in the back and it's like, sir? We don't have a back Everything that's how they tell how old you are when you're one of those people goes. Can you check in the back? They're like Yeah, yeah, that doesn't exist anymore Uh, yeah, I keep in mind like if uh, if there's not enough demand for a raw material Uh, the companies that make it don't keep making it because like you say they're used to just in time inventory They may not have anywhere to store it So they they ramp down and then once the demand comes back it takes time for those raw materials to ramp back up also Parts makers, you know Foxconn may be back to full capacity But if they can't get the parts from the parts makers in other parts of china or in korea Uh, then that does capacity won't be able to put out what it can So, I mean, I think we did a good job of talking about all these different Aspects of the supply chain from the materials to the parts to the assembly Uh, to the shipping, you know, it's it's it's going to take a while for this is a fairly finely tuned Unbalanced system and it's I'm not saying it's not going to come back It's just it's not going to all just snap back into place. It takes a little while for that engine to run back up Niantic announced it's making changes to the game mechanics of pokemon go to prioritize experiences That can be enjoyed in individual settings Habitats will be increased so that trainers can see more monsters nearby while playing closer to home Hatching eggs will require fewer steps and pokey stops will drop gifts more frequently Niantic already already announced the canceling of several real world events in the game And that the upcoming special research adventure will only include tasks that can be completed by individuals Yeah, so this is an interesting one He in a in a world where the recommendation In a lot of places is don't go out if you don't need to if you do go out stay a couple meters away from each other You know pokemon go is telling you the opposite So this this is actually responsible to say like, you know what? Let's give you some incentives to keep playing inside if you're really into the game Let's let's make it more enjoyable for you to comply With healthy behaviors. I think that's good Yeah, I mean, it's like what what would the alternative be for niantic to say well Everyone's gonna stop playing the game, right? They of course the company's not gonna do that So this is smart or get blamed because they didn't change anything and people are going outside to play pokemon go Because they had a big event that that was drawing them out, right? Oh, yeah There clearly was a lawyer who probably had their hand in this and said hey, we cannot have people gathering together over this game that would not be a wise financial Decision for us to continue having people get together like that Well, we got a few other companies changing their behaviors in the face of this unprecedented pandemic But before we get to that I want to remind you to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes Stay on top all this stuff subscribe to daily tech headlines dot com AT&T kind of stunned me yesterday announcing it would suspend all Broadband data caps in the united states AT&T already offers some unlimited plans, but others faced caps of 150 gigabytes terabytes a month This is the home use. Uh, this is this is for your home internet This doesn't affect the wireless plans at least not that I've seen but A pretty big change and and a pretty important one for people who are going to be working from home now Charter is offering free spectrum broadband and wi-fi access for 60 days to any household that has a student K through 12 or college That do not already have a spectrum broadband subscription at any service level if you already have it They're not going to give it to you, but if you don't have it and you need it They'll give it to you And if you're less than 100 megabits per second, they will give you a faster plan Comcast is now letting qualifying low-income customers sign up for 60 days of their internet essential service That's a low-income program at no cost So if you're new to that program you don't have to pay for it for 60 days And comcast is boosting broadband speeds for all internet essentials customers from 15 up to down to 25 up Three down megabits per second My guess is they were probably getting ready to do this anyway So this was a nudge to just go ahead and do it because they're going to maintain those speeds going forward Verizon announced thursday. It's spending an additional 500 million dollars on network infrastructure investment That's taking them from 17 to 18 billion dollars to 17.5 to 18.5 billion dollars So it's not a huge percentage But rise in also says it has not seen a measurable rise in usage yet So they want to get ahead of that and finally the usfc c chairman Ajit pye introduced the keep americans connected pledge Which asked telecommunications operators not to terminate service for the next 60 days To waive late fees and to open access to public wi-fi hotspots to anybody who needs them The pledge also encourages isps to suspend data caps and prioritize healthcare facility connectivity All major us isps have signed up to the pledge. That doesn't mean they've all dropped their data caps But they've all pledged to do all of these things. We'll see if they follow up on it Rob This is Interesting because a lot of the things that i should pie is calling for Were legal requirements over none of the previous internet guidelines that were repealed not too long ago Yeah, isn't it funny how But doing the right thing is doing the thing that you were already doing but uh Yeah, you know, I can say this I like all the news all the way from at&t all the way down For a big reason like so i'm in ohio schools are canceled here for the next three to four weeks um And one of the things that they found here in ohio is that there are a lot of lower income students who Don't have home internet. So if you have to do Home learning, but you don't have home internet. How do you do home learning? It was actually more of an issue than making sure that they had a phone or a Tablet or something that they could do the home learning on was it do you actually have connectivity at your house or you can connect? So this all goes towards that because you know, it would be disruptive to have students literally out of school for a month And they can't do their work because they can't get online to do it So this goes a long way to help with that and I think the other carriers absolutely need to you know You know take this same stance and catch up to this because you know We're in a crisis right now and these are things that definitely will help The charter one is a little curious to me now If you are already a charter subscriber And you have kids in the house charters like well, you just keep paying If you don't have any internet charters like we're going to help you out if you've got kids in the house But what if you have another provider who's also giving you a deal? Well, wait, what do you mean if you have another provider? This doesn't apply to you. You're not a spectrum customer then Right, but I mean anybody who doesn't already have a spectrum broadband subscription could be anybody That doesn't have a broadband spectrum subscription. Oh, I see what you're saying. Well So you have AT&T. Let's say or Verizon, right?  Yeah, I guess so And there there probably will be some people who would do that But my gut tells me that the overwhelming majority of people would see that as a hassle that they're just not interested in I'm going to I'm paying for internet that I have and I don't know if you're okay with it But you definitely have it and I'm going to cancel that and move over to this thing that I can get for free for Two months. That's probably just a hassle that's not even worth making the phone call to find out if you could do it Well, and then have to have somebody come out to your house potentially and all that, you know People are going to be less likely to want that to happen right now, too So I I looked at this and especially if more isps do follow the pledge and drop the data caps temporarily Uh, I can dream that they will all realize Wow, it really really doesn't make a difference I know they all know it doesn't make a difference and it's just a monetization thing But maybe they'll realize that there are better ways to monetize Artificial data caps ever the optimist. I'm just saying, you know, I'm just putting it out there in the universe, Sarah It's true. Well or I I don't know I I think it's a stretch for the companies to be like, you know what? Let's just be the good guys going forward, you know, now that the crisis is over But but it could be more of public pressure saying like, hey, listen This was all perfectly fine to do You know There's no reason to start gouging people for for very little reason as you were doing in the past Because we've all seen how that, you know, the transparency kind of fell apart. Maybe they're maybe that angle. There are some likes there I see it as once you get people used to something both customers and and the companies Uh, they may realize that it's more trouble and it's worth to get rid of it The billing department may say, you know, we're bringing in just as much money now the 60 days is over As we were before because people are sticking around, you know, let's let's not add the cap back You know, let's I don't know. I'm just saying I don't think they'll do it out of some Like newfound sense of of charitableness But the habit building that they would never have taken A chance on on even trying this You know could have an effect. That's all I'm hoping for Yeah, I think you're also seeing a lot of mbo mvno's are actually really starting to offer true uncapped unlimited bandwidth So, um, it's you know, it's probably in their better interest to start offering this as well to keep them on your more expensive plans That you know, um, literally, you know, who was it? Yeah, who mobile just came out And it's unlimited for 40 bucks a month. That's not bad So, um, you know, I think that you probably want to see this stick around Not because as you said that they think it's the best thing to do It's just because it's like the thing we need to do to keep people paying us I wonder what other kinds of services Could get on this bandwagon could could start. I mean, obviously dropping data caps Or or providing faster service, you know, we're seeing examples of both of those here Our examples of this providing free wi-fi Is listed here as on the pledge I I just wonder, you know, and and we are seeing Already, uh, microsoft teams offering higher capacity We're seeing a lot of the video conferencing folks giving people more features. We talked about discord upping the group live I mean, I'm trying to think if there's anything else left Where you might expect a company to say, you know what? We're gonna also do x y or z to help They could potentially for For streamers provide like, you know, for the next couple of months We'll give you access to the premium stuff that you normally would have had to upgrade to just for just temporarily When you say streamers, what do you mean? I mean like the hulu or yeah, okay? Yeah streaming services, right?  Yeah Like I'm totally addicted now. I'm gonna go pay right over the cost right Well, would we see hulu give their hulu with ads available for free for 30 days to help you out stuff like that Yeah, yeah, and that way it's it's doing a good thing But it's also like and if you're halfway through bingeing that show that you ended up really liking well Then once things turn around a little bit, maybe you know, maybe we'll keep you for a fee But without it being mandatory for anybody. I mean, that's all It's just that's just a good look for a lot of companies. I've noticed. I mean across so many industries There there's a lot of creativity that you're seeing. Uh, there was a a uh a restaurant in seattle I guess a upscale restaurant I I'm not familiar with it because I haven't been to the city in a while and they said we're shutting our restaurant down No one's coming. We don't need to find dining right now We're gonna open up like a pop-up bagel shop kind of like like a drive-thru type thing You know where you can get food and and have you know little to no contact with anybody else and and just just just really creative solutions for the everyday person that that really make a lot of sense instead of just shutting down or Or pretending that the problem doesn't exist or complaining that it's all been so disrupted that your business model isn't working Yeah, that actually is going to you know go a long way to help their workers too Because they still you can still pay them to do something. That's right You know, I know I know, you know, the the biggest industry is you know Any service business is going to take a hit while we're having this uh, you know this pandemic So um, if you can do things like that that are kind of smart and intelligent and keep your people working I'm all for it I got one more for you As as more and more movies are being delayed fast and furious nine delayed till next year moulin Delayed for you know a certain amount next. Yeah, no time to die already delayed And and just almost all the movies in the next month Have been put off have been delayed some of sometimes still like september october I wonder if the pressure will now be On the studios to find a way to bring in some money in the meantime theaters like amc theaters is cutting their capacity They're not going to allow any theater to have more than 250 people in it And the smaller theaters will only be sold at 50 capacity to allow for that social distancing But they don't want to close because Well, they need the money. Yeah, but there's not going to be any movies to show. So This is where I think what if they finally come to the table with the streamers Or with their own streaming service amc has their own streaming service Or maybe with fendango and fendango now and the movie theaters and say let's get some of these movies out there into homes Uh, and we'll have it'll be a limited time thing You sell it through the theaters so the theaters can still make some money out of it And and we maybe I don't know maybe we bring in Amazon prime or uber eats to deliver you some popcorn and stuff But but be able to make Some money because what people want right now if they're stuck in their house is entertainment And this is a perfect opportunity for the theaters to Broker that deal that says let's actually get these movies in front of people in some cases We definitely were wanting some entertainment. I was watching a spike ball tournament on esp and 11 last night What spike ball?  It is They're playing it all well not now because college campuses are closing But it is like intramural college campus thing. It is a big thing. I remember I was uh Uh driving past bouldering university and they literally had a field of people playing this spike ball game Wow If you're if you're stuck at home and you can't play spike ball You can join our discord conversation going on 24 7 you can join by linking to a patreon account at patreon.com Slash dtns. Let's check out the mail bag Let's do it. George in the uk wrote in and said wanted to give you some insight on my experience at the workplace given the current COVID-19 situation as of writing this email the uk government is still in containment mode and have not advised the public to restrict their Movement I work for a huge media agency. We have provisions already in place Should the situation change the company has already switched to a more flexible approach to working hours over a year ago to move with the times We've been issued laptops and access to vpn connections already set up Working at the ad operations department. All of our systems are web based files are already saved in the cloud So uh, George says I agree with sarah's comment about how the situation could well be the dawn of a more wider acceptance of remote working in helping productivity Here here george here here. Yeah, thanks for the insight george and keep these coming If you've got an interesting experience that's it's a little different And and you can give us some insight from where you are and how you're dealing with it send it to us feedback at dailytechnewshow.com Absolutely and shout out to patrons at our master and grand master levels including john johnston christmuth and jelph wilkes Len perlton could not be with us today. 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My name is Sam Dutton. I am the author of Malignant Self-Love, Narcissism Revisitor. You cannot change the narcissist, not in the real, profound, deep and irreversible sense that change usually means with other people. You can only adapt to the narcissist and adapt the narcissist to yourself, to some extent, by modifying his more abrasive and grating behaviors. If you do find your narcissist rewarding at times, you should consider doing the following. 1. Determine your limits and boundaries. How much and in which ways can you adapt to him? In other words, how much and in which ways can you accept him as he is? At which extent and in which ways would you like him to adapt to you? In other words, accept you as you are. And then act accordingly. Accept what you have decided to accept and reject the rest. Change in you what you are willing and able to change and ignore the rest. Conclude an unwritten contract or even a written contract of coexistence. Try to maximize the number of times that his walls are down, that you find him totally fascinating in everything you desire. What makes him be and behave this way? When does he captivate you? Is it something that you say, something that you do? Is it preceded by events of a specific nature? Is there anything you can do to make him behave this way more often? Positive reinforcements, negative reinforcements, praise, criticism, withholding of narcissistic supply, the provision of narcissistic supply. There are many ways to manipulate the narcissist and to condition him so that he repeats behaviors that you find not only acceptable but also pleasant. But remember, sometimes we mistake guilt and self-assumed blame for love. And committing suicide for someone else's sake is not love. Sacrificing yourself for someone else is not love. It is domination, it is co-dependence, it is counter-dependence, any number of things, but it is not love. You control your narcissist by giving as much as he controls you via his pathology. Your unconditional generosity sometimes prevents him from facing his true self and thus healing. Think about withholding. If you really care about him, if you really want him to change. It is impossible to have a relationship with a narcissist that is meaningful to the narcissist. It is, of course, possible to have a relationship with a narcissist that is meaningful to you. This is a very important distinction. You modify your behavior in order to secure the narcissist's continuing love, not in order to be abandoned, of course. This is the root of the perniciousness of this phenomenon. The narcissist is a meaningful, crucially significant figure in your life.  This is a major asymmetry in the relationship. This is the narcissist's leverage over you. Since you are usually very young, when you make the adaptation to the narcissist, it all boils down to fear of abandonment and of death. The absence of care, absence of sustenance. But you should realize that you are getting none of this from the narcissist. At best, you are obtaining simulations of these things from him. Your accommodation of the narcissist is as much a wish to gratify one's parent, or narcissistic parent, as it is the sheer terror of forever withholding gratification from one's self. It's a very complex dynamic, and understanding it is crucial not only to the longevity of the relationship, but to your own survival as an intact, psychologically functioning person.


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I'm Jack, I play guitar and sing in Psycho 16. The Blackstar amp that I use is and has always been a Series 1200. It was one of the first amps that I ever bought that was kind of a copper. Amp and for me was a big step up in terms of the band becoming a series and us becoming a kind of touring unit. I chose it because I found myself a Sonosphere Festival years ago and made friends with Joel, who's one of the guys at Blackstar. He let me go backstage with them and try out a bunch of their amps in the Series 1, I kind of plugged it in, dialed it in very, very quickly and then just went, yep, that's the one for me. I like Blackstar amps because of the tone, the power. I like the customer service and I like having a good working relationship with other people in the company. And I like their ethos growing from obviously a very small and non-existent company to begin with to something that's, you know, their world leaders now in terms of, you know, if you run up five amp companies against each other, Blackstar's always going to be high up on that list. Blackstar in a live situation. It's always been great for me. My two, obviously I've got a Series 1 200, which is, yeah, I've seen you powerful, sometimes too much actually, but it's always been rugged on the road, never had any problems with breakages. It's always something that people come up and talk to me about. It's, you know, it's a big stage presence and it cuts through live. We tune to drop ace. We have a very, very heavy, quite dense sound and the 200 cuts through a lot of the kind of low, low, murky bass that's often happening and just delivers kick-ass tone the whole time. We've used Blackstar in the studio numerous times. On the last, the last two EPs, the Metaphorical Apocalypse and the Determine EP, they, the Series 1 came out on both of those records. Not over the entire record, but it was used heavily throughout for lead, rhythm, clean, the clean on the Series 1 is killer. We were called with Dan Weller, some people might know him as sick and he, in the studio, he had an artisan, which we used a lot of clean stuff and some of the kind of crunchy settings and then the Series 1 followed in lead and rhythm stuff, the heavier, heavier side. I placed the ISF on about 60%, so I guess two o'clock in the afternoon. When I started playing, I always, I watched a Metallica instructional video where the guy said, turn your mid off pretty much and turn your gain up to 10 and turn your treble and bass up to 10. So very scooped sound and I'm gradually learning that scooped is not everything and I'm kind of gearing towards a less scooped sound and so bringing it a bit back towards the British side, but it's a slow process and I'm still leaning towards the American way of doing things at the moment. My relationship with Blackstar has also has always been awesome. As I say, when I first was introduced to the company, it was through Joel, the artist liaison guy who's been there from the beginning and still doing a great job. He's always treated us really, really well, even when we were probably too small a band to be endorsed by you guys, but he's always lent us whatever gear we wanted when we did the big Baths of Power Station shoot for Lonely Road video. I said, we're shooting at this huge power station we need. We can't be playing half stacks. We need a double stack rig on each side and came out with all these outrageous demands and ideas for what we wanted. He said, fine, it's got to look good. It's got to look like it's going to hold up against the magnitude of this power station we were in. So he sent us double stacks, huge rigs, which we did the video for and it looks fantastic. So whenever we need anything, Blackstar always there for us. We've done, in current touring plans, we've done a lot of Europe this year. Now it's festival season, so we've got a couple of festivals to do and then September, we are going to start tracking the big debut album. So that's going to take up a chunk of the end of the year, but we also have offers to go out and tour in, well, five or six other countries this year. So we're going to try and do as much as we can before the end of the year, but mainly concentrating on the album and getting it out first quarter 2015. Check out, for the plug-ins side of things, check out Cypher16.net, obviously our Facebook, which is Cypher16CYPHER16. We are playing The Underworld in London. It's a big headline show for us on September the 19th. And apart from that, you'll probably see us in a field somewhere. We'll be at Somersphere in a couple of weeks. So we'll catch you guys there.


Ryan and see if the peach countries are the West and the blue countries are neutral red are Eastern powers and yellow are Eastern aligned what that's it oh let me put on the here here's our legend by the way hold on hold on here's our legend I forgot to pop up our legend here here's a map legend boink okay blue is safe areas yellow is civil war and this needs to change orange is supporting war and red is in full war okay and these guys here these were pipelines we're talking about regarding Niger what happened to place in Niger and Mali and the pipeline going through there with Nigeria though multiple countries here on Biaz the United States are about to wage war on invade Niger and that was a bad idea and finally they said okay can't be that big of a puppet and then they stopped the pipelines and all that jazz we're gonna take these down and talk about this okay lonely piggy appreciate it brother thank you very much let's talk world map man let's talk world map let me close that off again quick intro let me do this speedy Gonzalez we're just popping all this up boing boing we're on sub stack as well subscribe star that that that that that that that that that the vk gap and sub stack notes as well thank you very much for joining our streams months appreciate it carry packages thank you gang on censor to my apologies however we will not be able to continue this live stream on censor to you want to be on twitch or rumble twitch or rumble here's the links okay there's a rumble link and here's a twitch link censor to his new king channels that are even talking politics it is what it is if you don't like please message censor to and let him know not to kill channels aside from that join us on rumble on twitch and we'll talk like human beings okay links in the description of this live stream bye for now


So we've read about a lot of yogis who travel across time. In a fraction of a second, they've travelled from India to China. That's where some of the books are based. But those times nobody was going to China, only now everybody is going to China. They can travel in a fraction of a second. Is that the travel, which is the travel through mind or body or if such a travel happens, is it possible? Time travel. There's no need to travel. Time and space is an illusion created by your mind. If you transcend that, there's no here and there. There is no now and then. So if you are like that, if there are willing recipients, see right now, suppose we have a transmitter here, see right now it's happening actually. I am speaking here, see no wires, these wires are not connected to me. See, no wires. I am speaking here, it's coming out all over the place. Yes, no wires, because it's transmitting. Because it's transmitting, what I speak here is all over the place. So your ability to transmit yourself to what extent you can simply depends on to what extent you are not. Is it physical, is it mental, is it this, is it that? These are all divisions made by your mind. Can you exactly divide where is your body and where is your mind? We can talk in that context only for the sake of understanding, not for the sake of perception, not for the sake of experience. You cannot experience your mind or your body or anything else separately, isn't it? If you did not have a mind, could you experience the body? No. So do you know where is your mind ranan now? Do you know? No.  Rest is all made up, you is good enough. Don't make up too many things, don't make up too many things, because you are only confusing the whole issue. Instead of simplifying the issue, you are confusing the issue, you are complicating the issue. So time, space, these are all made up in your head. Such things don't exist. If you simply sit here, not being a victim of your mind, what is here is there, what is there is here. You didn't go anywhere. Everything was here, that's all.