 Welcome to Think Tech on Spectrum OC16, Hawaii's weekly newscast on things that matter to tech and to Hawaii. I'm Arby Kelly. And I'm Elisa Anderson. In our show this time, we'll take the time to review the most recent 2018 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 the guests involved. Think Tech produces more than 30 talk shows every week in our downtown studio. Here's a list of all our remarkable Think Tech shows and hosts. As you can see, they're very diverse and their coverage is also very diverse, showing you things you might never otherwise know. Every week, Think Tech chooses its top 5 Think Tech talk shows from the week before, based on the number of views each one of them has had on the internet. For this past week, the winning shows were as follows. Number 1. From the series Asia in Review, hosted by Bill Sharp, it's called A View from Southern Taiwan with guests Ching Ching and Yu Jing Chen. It's on our Asia in Review playlist. Taiwan may have a close economic relationship with many China can be an advantage or disadvantage. It's still a contending issue in the security community in Taiwan. The Southbound policy is basically a government's new idea to try to transfer the investment from China to Southeast Asia country. And where the government can take advantage from this, I think it's up to the business person. From my point of view, business person, they can smell. They know where is the business opportunity. So Asia country is developing this economy, they can help them to make money. I think the business person will go, of course. And if there's not a business opportunity there, I don't think business will follow government policy. So I think it's actually a business person. But I have to mention that if Taiwan, the economic interaction with China, if we stop the interaction with China, I think we will die. To some extent, if we interact fully or woesily, then I think we also die. We need to interact economically with China smartly. I think this is a way to survive. And the way to develop this phenomenon. That's a very interesting answer. Thank you. Well, you know, I often hear it said that when it comes to signing a trade deal, for example, when Taiwan entered the WTO, that Northern Taiwan industries benefited, but Southern Taiwan farmers lost out. They were at a disadvantage. And is that true? Is there this big difference between Southern Taiwan and Northern Taiwan? Actually, Taiwan is not big. And of course, according to the place where the wastewater is, of course, is on the middle part of Taiwan and also southern part of Taiwan. Number two, from the series Young Talents Making Way, hosted by Andrea Gabrieli, it's called Enhancing Algal Bioremediation and Wastewater Treatments with guest Cindy Su. It's on our Young Talents Making Way playlist. If I were to synthesize these silver nanoparticles, which can filter, kind of filter the light at a specific wavelength, would it improve algae's rate of growth? What are these silver nanoparticles for those who are not into the water business? So silver nanoparticles, they have this optical property, localized surface plasmid resonance. And one is able to tune the shape and the size of these silver nanoparticles so that it only oscillates at a specific wavelength light. So it only allows a certain wavelength light to pass through. So basically, we want to select the range of wavelength, the range of light, so that the growth of the algae is optimal. Yeah, so algae's chlorophyll A likes the spectrum between 400, 300 to 500 around that range. I'm chlorophyll A. So what I aim to do is that I synthesize these silver nanoparticles so that it only allows light to absorb, only allows light to pass through at 400 nanometers. How did you find out about these specific wavelengths? And we're looking at some of your experiments here. So there has been many research that tests the optimal wavelength of absorption for chlorophyll A, and that was why I decided to focus on synthesizing my nanoparticles around 400 nanometers. And if you can see in that picture, inside... We're looking at... There are basically containers, if you want, glass containers filled with the different solutions, I guess. Yeah, so we have a flask, and inside the flask is my growing algae solutions. And around the flask, we have beakers. And outside the flask, inside the beakers, we have these silver nanoparticles. And what that does is that when light passes through, it has to go through these silver metal nanoparticles, and it has to... By doing that, it can filter the aqueous nanopilter to filter the light at the wavelength that the algae want. That you need for allowing them to grow. Yeah. And to carry out these experiments, you were describing here for purifying water, did you have to build your own set of experiments, or you bought these flasks, or how did you actually... If I were to repeat the same kind of experiments, which you carried out, how would I do it? So the first thing I did in my experiment, to build a photo bioreactor, because I need a place... What is that? A fuel? A photo bioreactor. Photo bioreactor. What is it? I have a picture. Oh, OK. Yes, that one. Oh, this one. That's what it is. Wow. Yeah, this was in the beginning stages of my experiment. I had an air pump in the back that delivers air to each of the algae samples. Oh, yeah, because the algae needs the air to thrive as well. I also have the light on the top. Oh, the two black... These are the lights which are enlightening the samples. OK, yeah. So on the top, I have these. So it's important to control the air to make sure that you're not giving too much onto one bottle or to another. So I have these knobs on the top, the acutair. Right. That can control the amount of air the algae... The amount of air that they get, yeah. So yeah, it's important. The first step of the experiment is important to test out your photo bioreactor system because you wanted to have an optimal environment for the algae to grow. For the algae to grow. Yeah. Number three, from the series Hawaii Together, hosted by Kalea Akina. It's called Kalea Akina interviews Rowena Akana on the OHA audit. With guest Rowena Akana, it's on our Hawaii Together playlist. We have nine members. So five votes can do anything. So we need five trustees to say, oh no, administrator, you will not do this. Each division will come before the board and present their budget. And we will tell you if this is OK or not. And this has not happened by the trustees. And that's why you have only three committees where three people control the board. So these internal problems, political problems, are the real cause of what's going on. So this allows the administrator to continue, whether it's a he or she or whatever, to continue doing what they do. And it does have to fall on the feet of trustees. It does. And if the trustees lack the political will to do something about that, each one who refuses to do something about that should be held responsible, equally responsible, as the administrator. So you're saying not only that the trustees are responsible, ultimately, for all that is spent in OHA, but they're the ones who can't sit back and simply let it continue. They cannot. How can you be a responsible trustee and allow that to go on? Especially in the case of grants, the past four audits now, that goes 12 years. Every four years, we're audited by the state. Four audits, three audits in a row that I can remember, all criticize the grant. Well, Rowena, we've come to the end of our program. And what I really want to ask you is where OHA is going now. Are you hopeful or are you deeply troubled? Do you think there's something we can say to the people at this point that can be encouraging? Well, I'd like to say this. I'm an optimist. Otherwise, I wouldn't be there this long because it certainly isn't the money. And when I was first elected, we didn't get paid. So everything, and that's why it hurts me personally, that everything we have at OHA now, we worked hard. You know, I'm the only one left on the board that came there without pay. We used to get $50 a meeting. We didn't have secretaries. We didn't have aides. We didn't have anything. We didn't even have money. And so to see people just squander the money the way they have is a personal affront to me and to all the people that came before me who worked so hard to build this agency. It's personally hurtful. We have many constituents and benefactors, stakeholders of OHA. Any citizen of the state of Hawaii in some way or another is affected by and affects OHA. In the last 30 seconds or so, what would you say to the people and engage the public? I would say, let's give OHA another chance. And in this next election, choose wisely the candidates since everybody in the state can vote. Vote for the candidates that you know something about. Number four from the series All About Leadership hosted by Ray Tsuchiyama. It's called Global Corporations Top C-Level Executives with guest Eric Heenan. It's on our All About Leadership playlist. Meet Mr. CEO of Hawaii Business 250. What would you tell me what you're bringing to search and leadership in Hawaii? Yeah, sure. Well, I mean, the first thing, which is obvious because I've been in Asia for 20 years, so I have a network of talent and a candidate pool, which I think is much different than the other recruiters in town. So I think a lot of recruiters, they have a great network here. They probably have a very strong network on the mainland. I'm hoping to get there one day. But what I have today is a large network in Asia. And a lot of these, there's two types of candidates. One, there's many Hawaii locals working in Asia like myself. And there's the other, it might be a British person. It might be someone from China. But I think there are cultural symmetry between say people who can survive in Hong Kong or Tokyo and then coming to Hawaii versus that candidate who maybe comes from Chicago or Wisconsin. And so I'm advising some of these CEOs, hey, take a look at senior level candidates or mid-level candidates from Asia because they can probably, you know, I think their stick rate in Hawaii would be a little bit higher. When you say stick rate, you know, we're all familiar with people from the mainland that come here and they think they're on vacation and return to the mainland two years later or even less. Right. And you're referring to people who have survived in ethnically diverse communities. Exactly. In Tokyo or Shanghai or Hong Kong. Yeah. Or Singapore. And they're used to many languages. Exactly. Religions, cultures, food and so forth. And how people think are quite different than in Chicago and New York. Is that, are those the points that you want to kind of present to people, CEOs here? That's correct. I mean, these are the outliers, right? These are the people that they were probably brought up halfway around the world but for some reason they decided to hang out in Tokyo or Hong Kong for 15 years and they got married there. They had kids there. Because of the geographic proximity to Hawaii, a lot of these candidates have been to Hawaii many times. A lot of them own property here. So I had a candidate from Singapore who came in for some interviews and he has property here. I have numerous other candidates that are in the same situation. So I think their willingness to actually to thrive here and stay here is pretty good. And would you say that if you place these people in these organizations, in Hawaii, local organizations, what effect do you think will change business in Hawaii? That you're becoming like a change agent in a kind of secretive way, bringing people from the outside but still people who can fit in to your organizations and to culture in Hawaii. How do you see business changing you think because of what you do? Well, I just think, you know, Hawaii has always been a great place, very open to outside talent. You know, my father's an example and I think it doesn't, we don't care where the person's from as long as they're willing to contribute to the team and hopefully stay, right? That's been the big issue, I think, for a lot of people is they come, they might make a contribution but then they take off. Number five, from the series Hibachi Talk, hosted by Gordon Bruce, it's called Honolulu Police Department and Beyond, life at its fullest, with guest Deborah Tandall. It's on our Hibachi Talk playlist. Because of technology, there's so many more possibilities. You can have Facebook parties, you can have online demos, you can, it's just endless possibilities. Or you can just sit at your home and type in a computer and buy all the stuff where you want. And just, and do it that way. Yeah, do it on my website though. Yeah, yeah, yours is better. Do it on my website. And then do you deliver it or does it mail it to you? If you order it from your house and you want it mailed to your house, they'll mail it. Or you can go online and order stuff and ship it to your friend as a present. We do that. Oh, wow. Or you can do a combination, so. It's funny, it's like you said, it's not your grandmother's Tupperware. I still remember the Tupperware parties. Right, well we still have Tupperware parties. And actually that's where you get the majority of your sales from is at a Tupperware party. Because I can come to your house, I can make you beef stew in 30 minutes in a pressure cooker. That's a pressure cooker? This is the pressure cooker right here. So we can make beef stew in 30 minutes. We eat a lot of dinner. Oh, we're seeing a talking story. Sorry, sorry. You can have a libation while you're doing that too. Yeah, I should have looked that up, what a libation is. We should have started one at the beginning of the show. We should have done it already. Actually this one we can make potato salad at 18 minutes. We could be done before the show is over. Wow. So does this go in the microwave? They all go in the microwave. Oh, so that's a pressure. That's new. That's pretty cool. Yeah, at least. There's a cookery that you put in the microwave. Yeah. That's pretty high-tech. I think so. I think the grill is even more high-tech. Grill. I can grill it. I can grill it. You don't have to go outside, set up. Although I heard that's a guy thing. Oh, Jesus, it weighs a ton. Sorry, can I see Jesus? This weighs a ton. Yeah. It looks like it's metal. You're not supposed to put metal in the microwave. I know it looks like it. Everybody asked me, how does it work? Am I high-tech person? It's magic. It's magic. You just stick it in, and it grills it. But they have receptors in there that are insulated. OK. I hope I'm saying it right. Then it comes with a book that explains all of that. Heats it up to 425 degrees and grills it. So you can put- You can grill a nice steak in that. Yeah, I have. You don't have to turn your whole grill on and have all that smoke and flames and all. You can just throw the steak in here and grill it. My wife put a sweet potato on fire in the microwave a few weeks ago, so that was not a good thing. Oh, yeah, that's not good. So this is really good. Grilled chicken breasts, I was amazed. Three minutes on each side, it's cooked. Really? This is now, OK, we're going to take away all the restaurant business. There's no reason to go to the restaurant. I mean, I wish people could feel the weight of this thing. Yeah, this is a weapon. It's really, it's really well. You can also- This is heavy. You make casseroles. There's two settings. So you can make a casserole, you can grill food. So you can make lasagna in about 15 minutes. This is definitely your mom's Tupperware. Yeah, I need to go to your website and get a couple of these for Christmas. You couldn't put my mom's Tupperware in the microwave. You're back in your day, you didn't have microwaves. There was no such thing in microwaves back in your day. You couldn't even put it in the oven. We also have a staff pick. This time it's from the series Where the Drone Leads, hosted by Ted Ralston. It's called to new levels of national awareness with guest Ross Bell. It's on our Where the Drone Leads playlist. We've got a resolution out there, a joint resolution 143 that we hope to get past this year, which actually requires the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism and the University and an unnamed law enforcement agency to put together a permanent task force that does kind of like what ASA does and acts as a channel to bring information in and actually take requirements that occur in the fringe and push them forward as well. So it's a two way street in terms of information exchange and looking forward big time to having this ASA up and running. This is like a missing ingredient in our thought process here. And in fact, we're all struggling. How do we reach into that pot and get information and you've provided that functionality. So that's what we're hoping it helps. So the goal isn't to have it where it competes with anything that's going on, it's to assist at all the levels and we're finding it's been very successful in the other states and helping to bring attention to issues and resolve some conflicts that may have been out there. Misunderstandings, I should better say is worse. It's probably, it's just different understandings. Probably not misunderstandings, it's probably the person approach. But he thought was right. Exactly. There's so many different shades and filters on this information. It's such a, it is frankly a very confusing situation. The other interest we have is in developing the local business functionality, not just the users, like agriculture, using it for agricultural optimization and theft production. But development of software, development of cluster and swarm operations and communication relays in times of disaster when delivery of subjects, ocean safety and rescue. We have so many cases of that here where the functionality. So there's a development of the systems to do the work and there's the application of them. And then companies that sit there and code software. We don't have Boeing Everett facility here, which is a very inspirational thing to see and gets kids going, but we sure could do the software. So that's, and drones are all about a lot of software. Yes. Especially the analysis that comes from their imagery collected. So that's what we might have built up. Anything you can do to help us see that picture would be welcome as well. Then that's something that, again, we'd provide you with the groups that are doing that and say, hey, there's a beautiful state out here that's looking to get into that industry. I know that we've helped on, one thing that's good about drones is that you have the imagination factor that creates a whole bunch of different ideas that come and play, especially in places where drones can have so many life changing possibilities because of the remoteness and how they can be used. You can always find the links to these shows in our daily email advisories. If you don't already get our daily email advisories, you can sign up to get them on our thinktecawaii.com homepage. These are only samplings from the top five and the staff pick from across our 30 plus weekly talk shows. There are, of course, many more. To see these shows in their entirety, go to thinktecawaii.com or youtube.com slash thinktecawaii. Great diversity, great community, great content at Think Tech. And now let's check out our Think Tech schedule of events going forward. 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