 Think Tech Hawaii on Spectrum OC16 TV, I'm Ian Davidson. We've got a really great episode for you today, but before we get into it, I'd like to say mahalo to everybody out there that corresponded with us to let us know how they felt about last week's episode. With that said, we've got a whole lot to share with you, so let's get right into it. This week, Marcia Joyner and I went over to Sea Life Park and spoke with Christina about the conservation and education efforts going on at the park. How do people come to work here? Yeah, I love that question. I've worked many years here in our education department, and we have an incredible volunteer and internship program. The park is offered for years for, I would say, probably 20 plus years. The park has had this program in place. And so there's obviously different levels. You can volunteer, which is maybe once a week. You can come and you can learn about our Seabird Rehab Program and you can help with the intake of sick or injured Seabirds and help actually rehabilitate and release them back into the wild. That's one component of our volunteer program. And then we have a little bit more of a fixed scheduled internship program. And that allows someone that is really interested in this type of career field to come spend 40 hours a week here with our trainers. And you can see some of those interns right now right behind you. Our interns actually either graduated from college or are currently in college. They do go to school for some sort of maybe psychology or animal behavior and possibly biology. And then they are able to apply that to the training field because training is so much psychology, is so much anticipating behaviors, right? Just like human psychology, it's very relevant to the animals here. So the interns, they get a very hands-on experience and you would just supply on our website, basically, if you were interested in doing an internship. They can last anywhere from three to five months. So it depends on what time period you're applying for. But like I said, they're very hands-on. You get to even work with our vet staff and learn about more of the anatomy. What is this bird? That is a great frigate bird. It's a great, a great frigate, frigate, frigate. Or in Hawaiian, it's known as Eva, the Eva bird, yeah. They have a very distinguished kind of wingspan shape when they're flying up above head. You can tell that's an Eva bird. And that's a great frigate as well. That's a male. And the way you can tell is you see that reddish kind of colored neck there? The male Eva birds have that. How many sea lions are in here? This is actually not a sea lion. Oh, what is this? This is a Hawaiian monk seal. Hawaiian monk seal. Do you have another one here at the park somewhere? We don't. We just have the one here. It's a female named Lambchop. That's a nice name. I know. She came to us when she was actually about two years old and she was very emaciated or very, very thin. And at that time, the park was able to rehabilitate her back to health. And she's lived here ever since. She's like, I think she's in her late 20s now. And the park is working to become a facility that can actually take in any kind of problematic monk seals that NOAA has to go and remove from the wild. The park has signed on as a partner to be one of those facilities to take care of those animals if they have to be taken from the wild. So for us to monitor their diet, track their health, we do have individual names for them. Now the letters are just short for their actual name. Like W would stand for something, maybe like a Walter. A is Al, I know. I know C is Charlie. E is Emily. I know some of the names. I don't know all of them. But it's really about tracking their health and their diet. We'll measure that shell on the back there, that big shell, which is called the carapace, we'll measure shell length. We'll look at their weight and make sure they're growing properly. We can graph their weights over time. And again, just kind of monitor their health. And that's just one way we can look at their health. So it's very important. Now I see blue and pink. Does that mean male and female? Hey, good guess. Yes, you are correct. Yeah, that's kind of the generic way that we tell here. But if you actually look at their tails, that's what you would tell out in the wild. So if you check out one with the blue, it has a very large tail in the back. Males have a very large tail. Females just kind of have a shorter, average-looking tail. And they do use that tail to mate. So they do have an anatomical structure on the tail that they use to mate with. Really the purpose of this whole program is for awareness and education. We're not necessarily thinking we're gonna repopulate the Green Sea Turtle population in Hawaii because, as you probably know, chances of survival are very slim. In a hatchling, it's like one in a thousand. So it's really a drop in the bucket from what we've been able to do. But it's more so we try to focus on awareness, education, and conservation. We're able to allow, like I said, maybe up to a thousand people that see these Green Sea Turtles a day can imagine the amount of education that a visitor might get, the amount of people that we're able to reach. Visitors see turtles out in the wild. They'll go to the beaches and they may see a turtle, they may have the chance to interact with the turtle. We wanna make sure that it's appropriate, that it's respectful. We have a program that has many fast visits to it. So you can be a school group that does take a field trip to the park and you can visit the park through our education program and you can have a guided tour that's full of knowledge and full of learning. You can have a classroom, actual presentation component to your visit. You can even come as a school and spend the night at Sea Life Park and do our doze with the dolphin programs which are like sleepover overnight programs just right here amongst the animals. And those are full of a lot of different learning opportunities. The overnight programs that we host here allow kids to dissect squid and look at the anatomy of squid even. That's how kind of in-depth and scientific they can be. So we do have an amazing program here that does suit to the schools and allows them to come out on field trips that are really, really discounted cheap rates. Because we know it's hard for them on their school buses to get out here and afford field trips. So we really try to make that take advantage so they can take advantage of that opportunity. This week, I'm gonna show you how to make an Instagram with Premiere Pro. Ben, I threw some images or some video I put in and some little logos. Take a look how that looks. Work. And there it goes. Before we get into trying to make one of these for you or teach you how to do it and we should talk about Instagram a little bit. It is, they are not high definitions so get that out of your mind. We're not trying to make the most high definition file possible. You can start with something high definition but we're going to be exporting that something smaller. So you don't really have to worry about that right off the bat. Also the aspect ratios of things and the fact that they compress everything. Let's just get into it. So like I said, I have this file here going and like I said, with the aspect ratios, what you're gonna wanna do is set up presets. Presets so that when you do this again cause you're gonna want to, you'll be ready to do it. So the first thing that you're gonna do is go to file, to new, to new sequence. I like to go to digital SLR. I go to 1080p and I start with the 1080p 30 frames per second, go to settings here. I'm gonna change this to make the vertical one and the vertical one will be 864 in the frame size, 864 by 1080. Then everything else looks good. You save this preset like that. We'll name this IG vertical and save. And that's gonna save its preset. Now that we've got the vertical set up, we're gonna wanna set up the square one. There's vertical, square and landscape and remember that kind of stuff. Okay, so this one is good to go and we'll hit okay. Start another, make another sequence. This is for the square one. And this, we're gonna start right back with the digital SLR, 1080p by 30. And we're going to change this too because it's a square is 1080 by 1080, 1080 by 1080. Save this and we're gonna call this IG square final. Let that save. Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. Yeah, so we're saving this. We've got one more with the landscape mode. And the landscape, same thing, digital SLR, 1080p. 1080p by 30 frames per second. And we're gonna change this to 1080 by 945 for the landscape 45. And we're going to save this preset as IG landscape final. Let that save. All right, so let's go ahead and make the square one. So I'm gonna pull up square final, that sequence. Here we are into that one. I'll get rid of this one. Here's our original thing. And I'm just gonna drag this sequence down here so I can get into both. Let's see if that'll work for me. It won't. So we'll just do this. Copy those files from that. And we're gonna put it into this square one. And what you'll see right off the bat is nothing is working anymore. It doesn't fit. That's because it's a square now, right? All right, so let's fix all of those types of things. Let's make this bigger so we can fool with things. Let's see here, I wanna fool with this. Go to edit, maybe make this, bring down the scale of that a bit. Move this over to here. Where's, how's this working? Oh, that's not cool. Scale that down a bit. So that we can make this fit well. Ooh, maybe that's not gonna work. But you get the point. And the website won, boom. And your website. So now the next part is to export this thing. You've got it off tuned in more than this, of course. You get it all tuned in and we're gonna export it. So you're gonna go to file. Now you gotta remember that we're sending this to a program that is on your phone. So the file has to be small. So let's get to export media. We're gonna wanna go with H264. We're gonna name our sequence or our file now. We're gonna call it add final. Save that. We're gonna go into the settings here. And as you can see, it's 23 megabytes. It's a short one. So we're not gonna have to really make any changes. If the file is big, say anything more than 50 megabytes, I'd say that you wanna sort of slim it down a bit. And then you just export. And like it, there it is, voila. Well, I hope that helps you up your Instagram game. I know what you're thinking though. How do I get it on my phone to share it on Instagram? Well, you're gonna have to tune into next week's Think Tech tutorial and find out how. This week we got a video response from Cosmo from Pro City to let us know what she thought about last week's show. Take a listen. I thought the show was really informative and the topics that were covered were really interesting. I particularly liked the segment on Molokai and yeah, it was just a really interesting show. I'm looking forward to the next one. Thank you so much Cosmo for your video response. We really appreciate you watching. If you've got a question, comment or suggestion, feel free to email me directly. Find us on all the social media networks or head over to thinktechkawaii.com. While you're at our website, be sure to sign up for our daily advisory. You'll get an email every day with the full list of all the shows that are occurring on Think Tech Kauaii that day. Don't forget the shows with the most views each week are added to our top five shows of the week list. Now let's take a look at this week's winners. I'm Madre Chocolate in Chinatown in Kailua and you're watching Think Tech Kauaii on Spectrum OC 16. In effort to bring you what you're asking for, we decided to go down to Honolulu Hale and speak with officials that we've elected to represent us. This week, Marcia Joyner and I went down and spoke with Ann Kobayashi in this week's political discourse. It goes from ninth avenue to, from Ward Avenue to ninth avenue, but all of Palolo, all of Manoa and all in between. Manoa, Palolo, Kaimaki, Kapa Hulu, Makali, Mo'ili-ili, the Sheridan area and part of Kakaako and Makiki. And you know, my district is very urban. It's a very urban area. We don't have a lot of land to set up, you know, like safe zones or stuff like that. It's not like, and we try to promote, you know, having more development in the urban area and protecting the rural areas for agriculture and green, et cetera. I'm Chair of Parks of Zoo is, yeah, it's an interesting, it's a, I used to go there all the time as a child and I think being on an island far away from where there are other kinds of animals, it's good to have a zoo. I don't know if that's the right place for it. Yes, they looked at in Kakaako actually and also out toward, was it Dillingham or I can't remember, but it, you know, I guess Waikiki is such a, then we can attract the tourists also. Well, some others, there's a zoo, a Kapilani Park Preservation Society or I can't remember the correct name, but they feel that they think that these park lands, this trust land should not have anything commercial on it. So there is a small concession in the zoo for people to have a quick bite or drink, but no restaurant. And I don't know, you know, we have to raise money for the zoo. There is a zoo gift shop, maybe having a nice restaurant there that's open in early evening might be good, but you know, we always get opposition when we mention that. I also thought maybe we can, you know, there's a one level parking lot there and it's always full. So I thought maybe we can have either two level or three level parking lot then more people will come to the zoo because then they'll have a place to park. But these same people are opposed to that. They say it'll be ugly and you know, other people may park there like surfers or beach cores and you know, that's fine too, but maybe we can make it free for those who go to the zoo. Well, we've been going out to the different parks when there are problems. There are problems, different problems in different parks like the urban areas. We have a lot of problems with homeless people. In fact, we were just at Crane Park, which is at Kapahulu and Kamaki. There used to be like 200 youth participating in the police activities league and because of the homeless that have kind of taken over the park, you know, those teams are gone. It's so sad that, and these teams would keep our youth occupied after school and teach them all kinds of values and keep them out of trouble. And now if we don't have that league, what happens to those kids? Where do they go after school? So yeah, we have to start taking back our parks. Stadium Park on King Street and Eisenberg. There used to be a lot of, you know, there are a lot of apartments around there. And so this park is their backyard. And now, you know, the people are afraid to go in that park because of the homeless. And there used to be birthday parties there because if you live in an apartment, you know, it's hard to have a nice big birthday party. So they used to have it in the park. And I hardly see anybody there having a birthday party anymore. It's very sad. And across the way is a ball field and there are less people playing ball there because parents are afraid to have their children go there. They're afraid to have their children go into the restroom unless they're accompanied by someone. And, you know, that's not a good thing. So there are different problems across the island. In the Wainae area, there are problems with vandalism in the restrooms. And sometimes we have to close the restrooms. It's really, parks are very important for people's lives. It brings people, you know, everyone together. And as I say, in apartment areas, that's where, you know, our children can go and release their energy and play and have fun. And I hope we'll have really good news the next time we talk about how our parks are in good shape and all the restrooms are fixed and everyone's enjoying the playground equipment and we're gonna be putting in adult playground equipment. Well, just send me an email. Call me whatever, because we, and if you want to, we, our parks committee will go out to the park. We've gone to Haleiva and different parks to see how we can make it better for the community. We go out there and we listen to the community and see how we can help, how we can make things better. Special thanks to Ann Kobayashi for sitting down with us this week. It was great hearing about our district and hoping for a better future. We look forward to speaking with more lawmakers in future episodes to come. And now let's take a look at an issue that we've been following very closely here at Think Tech, the Pauahi bulb out crisis. Not helping our business, making more difficult for business people, making more difficult for the residents. I live right there. So now I have to walk around the homeless people. I don't want this to happen. We already have a bad enough business by homeless and now we get beat by state. They're gonna put it in sidewalk block. So where we gotta go park? How are we gonna bring our small customer into our shop? And I wish next time they'd be more concerned about this before they make decision wasting taxpayers' money. In case you missed it, they put these bulb outs out on Pauahi Street. They were put there to make it safer for pedestrians and change traffic patterns. The merchants down there aren't so happy about it and we went back to check to see how they're feeling since some changes have been made. Not quite, I know because my business in here over 30 years. And of course I know the flower shop down there, they have more corner they can parking and they're watching some restaurant. Yeah, same like they like it better, but can be better or can be like the original. So not affect anybody. Somewhere else I didn't watching the buy, it do help some people need them, but not the whole lot, everybody. It does not help me. It does not help us in Chinatown. It make more worse for us. We couldn't park to deliver our merchandise. We cannot accept the right merchandise and bringing the homeless shower over there, feeding next to my shop. It's just like they don't need to go anywhere else to get free food and shower. And here I am, my landlord, do not care or flip about this. And we are suffering because this, how did they stay lay out? How did the homeless people come here? How did they behave? How did they speak? How did they eat? What did they do? What the after they eat? They shisha all over the place. They use a doodle all over the place. We have to wash it in the morning, every morning, to say I walk. Well, unfortunately it looks as if nothing's really changed and that maybe the problem has compounded with other issues. A lot of things are happening around here in Hawaii and we're trying to stay on top of these issues and we'll keep following them. This is a story that means a lot to us here at Think Tech Hawaii. If you have a story you want us to talk about, contact us at ThinkTechHawaii.com. It looks like we're coming up on our break. Before we do that though, we would like to acknowledge our underwriters. Grateful thanks to our underwriters. The Annie Sinclair-Newton Memorial Fund. The Atherton Family Foundation. The Bernice and Conrad Von Ham Fund. Castle and Cook Hawaii. The Center for Microbial Oceanography Research and Education. Collateral Analytics. The Cook Foundation. The Hawaii Community Foundation. The Hawaii Council of Associations of Apartment Owners. Hawaii Energy. The Hawaii Energy Policy Forum. The Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology. 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To continue to do this, we need to raise money to keep our studio and studio staff going and to go to the neighbor islands and cover people and stories there. So this November is Give Thanks for ThinkTech Month. We've only got a few more minutes before we gotta go but I'd like to take this opportunity to talk about some things that I saw while filming this week's episode. During this episode, I went out and got a lot of B-roll and especially the parks section of the show and I saw some of the things that Ann Kobayashi was talking about and that many of you have probably seen. Homelessness, parks and disarray, et cetera. What is the solution? I don't know, but what have we learned today? We've learned that we don't have money as a state to take care of these parks. We don't have money for new parks. We need parks. Homelessness is crazy right now. What is the solution? What are we gonna do? There's probably a million out there. If you have a solution, please let us know. We'd like to hear about them. If you have a story you'd like to cover that you think is important to Hawaii, we'd like to hear about them. Please contact us at thinktechhawaii.com. There's a lot going out there that we want to share with you and we wanna give you stuff that you wanna hear about. With that said, we gotta go. Tune in every Sunday for a new episode of Think Tech Hawaii and look forward to the next one. We've got a lot of good stuff.