 Welcome to Think Tech on Spectrum OC16, Hawaii's weekly newscast on things that matter to tech and to Hawaii. I'm Nicole Horie. And I'm Elise Anderson. In our show this time, we'll review the most recent Top 5 Think Tech Talk Shows and the staff pick. We'll check out the elements of the best of the best and get a handle on the public issues and guests involved. Think Tech produces some 30 talk shows every week in our downtown studio. Here's a list of all our incredible Think Tech Shows and hosts. Every week, Think Tech chooses its Top 5 Think Tech Talk Shows from the week before, based on the number of views each of them has had on the internet. For this past week, the winning shows were as follows. Number one. From the series Hawaii Together, it's called The Future of Waianae, hosted by Kelea Keena with guest Jermaine Myers, Native Hawaiian community leader. It's on our Hawaii Together playlist. I think that a lot of people when they think of the Waianae Coast, especially parts that are densely populated with Native Hawaiians. And by the way, the Waianae Coast is the most concentrated and densely populated Native Hawaiian population in the world. A lot of times, people have a great many misconceptions. And part of the reason is they've just not been out there. And part of the reason is that as Waianae has changed with some of the challenges it faces, it gets a bad rap often. What are some of those misconceptions that you come across? And what's the truth? Well, there's a lot of misconceptions. Some of them are true that there were some types of crime, but crime was everywhere. Of course, there's drug issues and drug issues are everywhere, even on the other kawaii kai and kane ohe. I feel the most safest when I'm at home in Nanakuni. And along the West Coast, I have never felt unsafe. So there's a misconception that every person that you meet, there's a lot of general statements that everyone or people that you meet at the beach or in the stores, you know, they'll do something to you negatively. And that's not true. You know, one of the things I found germane in the many years I lived on the coast, and I used to live in Makaha and in Waianae proper. It really doesn't matter what the color of your skin is. It really doesn't matter what your ethnic background is. It's a place where people respond to you based on your heart. So regardless, even if you're a native Hawaiian and you're out there in a Hawaiian community, you act a certain way, you're going to get treated a certain way. But if you're not a native Hawaiian and you act from the heart, I think people pick up on that a lot. Well, three of my grandparents are native Hawaiian, 100%. But you know, one of my tutus are actually 100% German. And so I'm German Hawaiian descent. And my grandfather, who is German, was actually an engineer for the railroad. And he was the engineer for the railroad going around the island. Well, you know, the Waianae Coast is such a remarkable place. While we said earlier, it is the most native Hawaiian population and most densely populated place on the planet. It's also tremendously integrated with other racial backgrounds. And it's almost as if most of us Hawaiians out there are mostly something else, too. Yes. So you're proud of your German heritage. I am. I'm not going to separate myself, defragment myself because of my German heritage. I love my tutu. His garden was filled. It was like a garden of Eden. Every fruit that I could think of things like even star fruit, you know, he had bai vi and olives. And of course, lots of different varieties of mango trees. He had, he said, if they could not provide food for your body or for your healing, like medicinal, they didn't belong in his garden. So he had all kinds of stuff when I was growing up. And that's what all memories that I have of my teacher. Sure. You know, one of the misconceptions about the Waianae Coast and about the Hawaiian people in general is that we all have the same political leaning that we're all fighting for our independence and separation from the United States of America. Number two from the series, Finding Respect in the Chaos. It's called changing our approach to gender based violence hosted by Cynthia Lee Sinclair with guest Chelsea Stewart of the Domestic Violence Action Center at UH Manoa. It's on our finding respect in the chaos playlist. Domestic violence or DV for short, it's it's a very broad definition because there's different types of abuse there. Most people assume domestic violence to be just physical one person beating their partner, intimate partner. But there's actually a lot more to that. And a lot of people aren't aware about their domestic violence can be emotional, psychological, sexual, and even financial abuse as well. Domestic Violence Action Center, the agency I worked for actually began in 1990. Our original name was the Clearing House. But we started out as an organization with two people and now we have a staff of over 50. Wow. And it was Nancy Kregman, right? Is that who started it? Yes. Surrounder, right? Nancy Kregman. Yes. Nice. Do you have any statistics for us of what kind of statistics we're looking at here? So it's very difficult to get statistics mainly because a lot of times domestic violence is under reported. What I can say, I can only get statistics off of the national database. The general statistics that we always use is in person's lifetime, one out of three women and one out of every four men will experience domestic violence on some level. In Hawaii, what we do know is that the rates are a lot higher for the Asian and Pacific island communities. Wow. Those are some staggering statistics. They are. Okay. So tell us what kind of stuff you guys do at DVAC. Is that what you call it DVAC? Instead of Domestic Violence Actions Center? Yeah, it's a head-on mouthful. So DVAC for short is okay. Okay. Yeah. What kind of stuff do you guys do? What kind of programs do you have? What do you guys do with that? We have a lot of advocacy programs and our main goal is to educate and intervene. We have a legal team where we have a group of attorneys that specialize in what we call a DV law, so family law, family court, for example. So we have attorneys that represent clients in their TRO cases, paternity, divorce, and post-degree cases. We also have various types of advocacy divisions. We have actually an advocacy group that specializes in parenting. So they help deal with domestic violence, victims, and survivors that bridge the gap between them and with their kids. Right. Because it's so important that we get these kids taught at an early age to be respectful instead of waiting until after the fact and then trying to retrain them. Let's teach them right the first time, right? Exactly. And that's our goal is to help the families in general, especially the survivors who connect with their children. We also have a support group called Hawaii Kaika. It's a nine-month three-phase program. Number three. From the series Out of the Comfort Zone, it's called Texting to Save Lives, hosted by RB Kelly with Katie Kopeski, volunteer crisis counselor. It's on the Out of the Comfort Zone playlist. The crisis text line is collecting data. What kind of data are they collecting and why? Yeah, so basically think about every conversation that we're having. It's about 40 messages interchange. That's all usable, interesting data that we can give back to the public. So I can tell you things like 75% of our textures are under the age of 25. I can tell you that only 58% of them identify as straight. I can tell you that our top issues are depression, anxiety, self-harm. So that's nationwide. That's interesting information for us to know kind of as a big snapshot. But for Hawaii, we over-index in issues surrounding the military, issues like physical abuse. So that's really interesting for local policymakers, for administrators. We can look specifically at Hawaii data and let's say I was a principal and I was concerned about eating disorders in my school. So I can look specifically at that topic and I can see that Sundays is the day that people text in most about eating disorders and I can say, huh, well, I'm going to have a school assembly on Fridays about eating disorders and let's see if that changes or drops off. So this is meant to be actionable data for people to try to curb these icky things that are happening state and nationwide. And it's not like you're compiling data to say, oh, Mary from third period has an eating disorder. No, it's just from this age group, this percent of people seem to be struggling with eating disorders. So here's a way you can use the data and actually help people. Absolutely. Yes. So we don't, you're absolutely right. So we're looking, if you want to get technical, we're looking at aggregate data, right? So it's stripped down of any of that personally identifiable information and just to further clarify that. So when I get a text message, it's like anonymous 235, so I never see anybody's name or where they're from or anything like that. And so all the data is just really percentages that people can look at at crisis trends.org. So that's separate from crisis text line, which is where we're talking about our service, but crisis trends.org is where people can get access to that data. Interesting. Can you tell me anything else about the trends here in Hawaii? We've had 5,000 textures since we've launched. And like I said, we have 33 active crisis counselors. That's about all I really know to be honest with you, RV. Number four from the series research in Manoa. It's called finding ancient meteorites with host Pete McGinnis-Mark and guest Carolyn Kaplan, graduate student at the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology at UH Manoa. It's on our research in Manoa playlist. The exciting thing about looking at ancient meteorites is that it's a time that no one's been able to look at before. Like right now, all the meteorites that we're studying are from a couple hundred years ago, but being able to look at these meteorites in limestone gives us a whole new view about what's going on out there. So if we're able to open up these windows, we might be able to understand what collisions might have been going on, how like impacts might have affected evolution over time. So I think what we should tell the viewers in part is that not all meteorites are the same, are they? No. And while they come from the asteroid belt, they might be from completely different places in the solar system, right? And so am I correct in thinking what you're trying to do is almost a detective story? Yes. Do we get meteorites from the same part of the asteroid belt today as the time periods you're studying? Yeah. So that's something I'll talk about with comparing different work from other people with their own time periods. But we're finding that things are a little different depending on what time period you're looking at. Okay. Well, let's get more into the science and then take a look at the next image. And before we start talking about some of the results, this gives me a hint. This looks really impressive. This is one of the machines you use for your research. Yes, it is. This is a... What is this? It's a kameka instrument that we actually use to understand and figure out the oxygen isotopes that are in our samples. So the oxygen isotopes can help tell us if the sample is from Earth or not and what type of meteorite it came from. Okay. And that is all one piece of equipment of the entire slide. Yeah. So it makes a little upside down U-shape or like an N-shape with the user in the front. And it uses magnets to help differentiate the different types of isotopes. And it's really fascinating. You can get... You can look at really big samples relatively about an inch in size or you can look at really, really small grains like what I look at. Right. And the isotopic composition at the first order will tell you a little bit about whether the sample comes from Earth or it comes from the moon or elsewhere in the solar system. But it must be great to be able to work on some piece of equipment like that. Offline, you told me also with Hopi-shi on this transmission electron microscope, cutting edge kinds of equipment for our graduate students. That must be really exciting stuff. Yeah, it's really exciting because you, as a graduate student when you first start out, you don't really know what's going to happen or what you're going to work on. Number five. From the series Seymour's World, it's called Physical Therapy, the elixir for joint pain hosted by Seymour Kazomirski with guests Reina Hawkins and Chris Kodowski, physical therapists. It's on our Seymour's World playlist. So first, Reina, we're going to start with you. Okay. Tell us a little bit about your practice. Well, we've got four physical therapists and we're all licensed PT's so we don't use aids or assistance and two massage therapists. And all of us are pretty much trained in Pilates, mild fascial decompression, which is the cupping, kinesiotae, a number of manual therapy techniques. And I've had most of that. Yes, probably all of that. Including, I remember when I was, when I was recovering from my double knee surgery, you had me in the hallway with bands around my feet running up and down the hallway and doing all that stuff sweating. And you had that smile on your face. You loved it, you loved it. I knew you were going to get out there sooner than you're supposed to. And I did, thanks to you. So tell me a little bit about your theory. Your theory is that if a patient comes in to see you, do you do what the orthopedic surgeon says or do you have your own protocol? Well, of course, we follow the general protocol of their surgery because, you know, they have pretty general guidelines. I get one month, you're supposed to be doing this two months. But of course, I pushed you because I knew you could handle it, but within safe guidelines. So first you need to get full range of motion, right? So some people just have you stretch. But of course, I do a lot of manual because if I don't do that, it's going to take a lot longer. So we do a lot of massage, fascial stretching, fascial release, stuff like that. Push a lot of the swelling out because a lot of times you don't have full range of motion because there's so much swelling in the joint. So that's your biggest factor. And once that's all gone, then strengthen you within your protocol. So can people come to East Oahu, East Oahu physical therapy by themselves or must they be referred? If they come by themselves, they have to pay cash. If they come with a referral, then their insurance covers pretty much 90% of it. We're showing the back of my leg where I tore my hamstring, which was completely full of swelling and edema. Chris, how did you treat this? Well, one of the biggest ideologies that I've kind of uncovered while I've been helping people with muscular injuries is that human beings are machines, but we are a little bit more like a web. We also have a staff pick. This time it's from the series Hispanic Hawaii, and it's called Staff Domestic Violence Awareness, hosted by Richard Concepcion with guest Charito Rivera. It's on our Hispanic Hawaii playlist. The long-term effect, whether there's a child or not, I mean for us as an adult, you get into a relationship at 20 years old and that's the only type of relationship you know. You're going to carry it on to your 30s and 40s and 50s if you don't lose something about it. And the worst part is it could turn deadly. And we're going to talk about that, the cycle of abuse. Okay. As I mentioned, it could turn deadly. If it doesn't get, you don't get help right away, it could just escalate. And if we could look at that picture there, so you can see in the beginning of the relationship, we all go through that honeymoon period. Everything is good, you know, and then we learn more about the person, things we don't like about the person. In a healthy relationship, we're able to communicate and say, you know, I noticed you did this and you know, can we talk about it? And compromise on something. And then there's apologies and promises going to happen again, and it won't happen again in a healthy relationship. In an unhealthy relationship, abusive relationship, however, there's a promise that maybe there's no more alcohol in the house or there's no more drugs. But that promise gets broken. And then tensions build up. And then it explodes because the other person is just saying, hey, you, you promise you're not going to do this anymore. And other person's like, well, who are you to tell me I'm an adult? And then the explosion happens. And then there's apologies again, like I'm not going to do it anymore. Or sometimes the perpetrator even says, well, you made me drink or you made me do it. Statistically, it takes about seven times for the victim to actually leave the abusive relationship. Seven times. Seven times going through the cycle. Yes. And I'm talking about also leaving the relationship, not just getting out of that cycle, because they may think that they're getting out of the cycle by, you know what, I'm going to speak up for myself, but for the sake of the kids, they stay. So how can you prevent this? Good question. I would say it starts with us, ourselves. So if you are in an abusive relationship, how do you prevent it? You can always find the links to these shows and our daily email advisories. If you don't get our daily email advisories, you can sign up to get them on our homepage on ThinkTechHawaii.com. These are only samplings from the top five in the staff pick from across our 30 weekly talk shows. 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After a lengthy negotiation, the state has granted Uber and Lyft permission to pick up passengers from two designated areas at Inouye International Airport. Now for travelers frustrated by long lines and lack of options, the absence of the two popular ride-sharing companies was very confusing. Why limit a transportation option at a major vacation destination when other airports are doing it all the time? Well, the answer comes down to regulation. Because taxi companies in Hawaii are heavily regulated, they protested, and probably rightly so, the fact that Uber and Lyft were not forced to compete on the same playing field. The best solution from a free market perspective would be to reexamine and ease the regulatory burden on cab companies as well. But the state went a different route, often spread red tape around a bit more. So like taxi drivers, Uber and Lyft drivers will have to pay for the privilege of picking up airport passengers. The pilot program requires the ride-shared drivers to pay 7% of each fare to the Department of Transportation at the airport's division. But ride-shared drivers are still not allowed to solicit customers, and they cannot wait at the airport. They're limited to prearranged pickups only. Uber estimates that a ride from the airport to downtown will cost about $17 to Waikiki about $24, and to Kapolei it'll run about $36. Well, more competition does mean that customers should benefit from shorter waits at the airport. And while this is a trial program for now, if things go well, the temporary three-month permit could become permanent. It's at least an important first step toward increasing consumer choice, along with creating new jobs and opportunities in Hawaii. However, we shouldn't forget the fact that the state regulations load availability of ride-sharing in the first place. And the reality is this, if Hawaii wants to remain economically competitive, we should be looking for ways to decrease state involvement in the market, both for cabs and for ride-sharer vehicles, and not weigh everyone down equally. But that's probably good enough for now. I'm Kaley Akina, wishing you aloha. We'll be right back to wrap up this week's edition of ThinkTech. But first, we want to thank our underwriters. The Atherton Family Foundation. Castle and Cook, Hawaii. The Center for Microbial Oceanography Research and Education. Collateral Analytics. The Cook Foundation. The Hawaii Council of Associations of Apartment Owners. Hawaii Energy. The Hawaii Energy Policy Forum. The Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology. Hawaiian Electric Companies. The High-Tech Development Corporation. Galen Ho of BAE Systems. Integrated Security Technologies. Kameha Meha Schools. Dwayne Kurisu. Calamon Lee and the Friends of ThinkTech. MW Group Limited. The Schuyler Family Foundation. The Sydney Stern Memorial Trust. The Volo Foundation. Yuriko J. Sugimura. Okay, Elise. That wraps up this week's edition of ThinkTech. Remember, you can watch ThinkTech on Spectrum OC16 several times every week. Can't get enough of it just like Elise does. For additional times, check out oc16.tv. For lots more ThinkTech videos and for underwriting and sponsorship opportunities on ThinkTech, visit ThinkTechHawaii.com. Be a guest or a host, a producer or an intern, and help us reach and have an impact on Hawaii. Thanks so much for being part of our ThinkTech family and for supporting our open discussion of tech, energy, diversification, and global awareness in Hawaii. And of course, the ongoing search for innovation, wherever we can find it. You can watch the show throughout the week and tune in next Sunday evening for our next important weekly episode. I'm Nicole Horie. And I'm Elise Anderson. Aloha everyone.