weeks to add an extra wee element in but as far as nutrition goes go and do a food shop plan the meals for the week so that you're not rushing to the to the bread shop and picking up the convenience bits and pieces on on the way exercise wise then it depends where you're starting if you're completely sedentary and i've done nothing in years and years then start off with a simple walk a few ailments and things a walk in the pool it'll help swim is fantastic but you could be that person that has maybe some balance issues and it could be simply because you're not walking enough the muscles not reacting as it shows because a lot of that stuff is involuntary isn't it yeah and things like um like arthritis and osteoporosis that people are terrified of exercise but you couldn't do better and one thing that i couldn't recommend enough for those people is strength training and people women in particularly are terrified of it and women in particularly should really really strength train not working out like a bodybuilder but you can strength train with light um you can do with your own body weight at home you can go to a trainer with light dumbbells kettlebells you can even use resistance bands but the strength training again paired with your protein can do wonders for for a body at the table person can't walk what can they do to exercise waving their arms around is boring as hell and you can get that but you know that person might benefit from a greater upper body strength so strength training exactly so we're talking about it could be two bean cans or yeah i would even go to the but maybe an assessment with with the trainer maybe initially um like done and gals got a broad range of facilities um even close to here we've got like no barriers and then we've got like our own facilities at the nation or county where there's loads but for that person to save within a chair i'm assuming it's from the lower body doing maybe that's the impression i'm getting no no that's what this interview indicated but definitely upper body strength training dumbbells kettlebells resistance bands loads you know yeah okay um what about eggs just wondering is too many eggs bad for you i i get it bad for your partner but anyway go ahead and moderation i would go there go the eggs as well but eggs is a great source in the morning to kick start your protein for the day but i appreciate to not everybody's got the time so you i would maybe alternate yours that your eggs and bacon one morning to your porridge or you can boil the eggs the night before well it's right you know you know i didn't but i can whip scrambled egg in no time at all um so eggs they're good for you but i mean you don't have an egg some morning do you know another thing there you get um and your supermarket's now you like egg white so it's got the lesser calorie that's my rank isn't it so you can rank the breakfast you know if you're conscious too many eggs you could balance it out let's say an egg to two egg whites or something like that it's the most versatile food eggs you can have them in so many different ways and they taste different almost whichever way you you go to cook them so say for instance right um i don't want chips with my things they'll say i'm having chicken or whatever it might be so i don't want what's a good substitute for that he's rice good for you yeah you're right and i like back to the i could eat rice all the time yeah and you know i assume if you're eating out it was everything you're not your house could usually suppose in the deep fried fire but from home like the air fryer's got so popular you know so the chips you really are cutting up your fresh potato that's fine you know you can spray it with a bit of but the your oils or your fry light sprays and things like that you know it doesn't people don't restrict yourself if you if you like your chips have them this is not good advice you're giving me here totally if you don't restrict myself no no because it's not sustainable then long term lesser what you like that's why i'm not a lover of food plans you know if people come through the door i would say tell me what you like i've got nothing off you maybe cut back and i have suggestions of other but this kind of comes back doesn't it to the calorie deficit exactly really if you you can eat you can eat the food that you like it's the amount the quantity and the regularity with which you're eating isn't it because if you are consuming less calories than you would ordinarily burn in a day you're never going to gain weight and hopefully if you start to cut back as you say you know over a period of time you you will burn fat because and that is actually it's like a car use in petrol it just is a fact isn't it you might get this issue where you get your maintenance weight and you're and you're happy and then you can maintain your your a certain calorie content or deficit but the one thing i'd really really own in and on and and such as the calorie deficit is over seven days it's absolutely pointless to be really perfect with it Monday to Thursday and forget about a Friday Saturday Sunday because come towards it the seven days 48 a month there may have been no deficit at all yeah i get you all right now we as you mentioned we've got many many professionals around including yourself but even McGill personal training and and all across the county and they're really quite accessible in different places as well they're there for a reason they're professionals they will give you advice they'll give you some some guidance wouldn't you you know and we we go to professionals in many areas of our life you know say for instance if you want to stop smoking you you do the hsc system you're far more likely to succeed support network i think exactly so in terms of our health why wouldn't we sort of at least in the first instance go in and get some support and some help maybe take a membership depends on the individual so we should we should try and find the money or the time to do that i think you would endorse that wouldn't you yeah you know and as i said not everybody needs the likes of um our services but if you feel like you're stuck and you've tried everything and you want that bit of advice and help then surely calling us as you say across the county there's loads of professionals willing to help that you might not need long term you know sometimes you just need the knowledge to get going and you can keep at it yourself and maybe a public leisure centre at home you know but it's just say in relations of strength training and things that's learning the correct techniques um not so much download and apps off phones and you know it's not necessarily um getting it correct so you don't want to end up with injury and well that's it but but you can also help prevent entry with exercise and don't can't you because you know if you suffer with back problems uh you know support your core strengthening will help in that regard you know if you if you suffer with you know tension in your back and neck stretching exercising stretching we don't do enough of stretching as a nation we don't stretch we don't do any stretching for well between me and you i think one of us does right but and other things you also mentioned you know asper process and support the bones and what have you stronger muscles do you know what i mean so it's not when we talk about exercising and being fit the instant from first maybe someone in this like so you're thinking about body shape and weight exactly but the benefits far go beyond that don't they and the mental health if we haven't even touched on this is a thing like there is an element sort of modern day which is a bit sad to be honest that things have gone a bit aesthetic but it's not what it is all about but health and fitness is somebody who struggles somebody who's our osteoporotus or arthritis or whatever it is diabetes there's loads and loads of those benefits for us all um health benefits mental health as you say sure i always say and i know it's maybe such a cliche but if you could genuinely bottle the effects of exercise you'd have a miracle cure for a lot of things listen so many people say it and it's not just people who help people it's those that have started to exercise themselves and feel better about it um it's not surprising i suppose this time of year that the tv shows are coming out you know i don't know what the called again don't watch them uh i hope they don't still weigh people on those shows show do you know they do a lot of them to do it's kind of counterintuitive to the message people like yourself to try to get out there to boil it down to i do have a hang of it yourself on telly and getting up on wainscales and stuff yeah yeah i do i as you know like i do you always have a bit of issue what's that because because it is just it's a it's a tool surely there's no denying that but we do call it the sad step i mean it's not a true reflection of your hard work month long um you know there's so many factors that influence the weighing scale and i would genuinely take progress pictures of yourself nobody else needs to see them but say it four weeks eight weeks and twelve weeks and you'll see your shape changing it's all about the body fat loss you know not the weight you gain muscle that weighs on a weighing scale and and i would just drive you crazy believe me because it's the disappointment people have then you know so say oh again two pounds this week yeah go and have a poo i don't want to be i don't want no i don't mean it i don't i know it really sounds like a thing i was saying was true i don't mean but that is when you are looking at the scales it comes down to stuff like that you know so many so many factors yeah okay but anyway um so if uh it is a good time now i think this is a new year yes we all want to be strolling up the beach but if people want sort of have a chat with you and it's and i think people from from speaking to you will realize it's a realistic chat now i've spoken to some we as i said before you know there's a brilliant community of personal trainers out there and and they really want people through the door to make positive changes and impacts in their lives and that's one of the key motivators for someone like there's no better feeling you know when you feel like you've helped somebody along along the way um and as a broad range of people so it's not just your as you say this time of year there seems to be a thing where people assume it's your athlete who's looking to go and run an adventure race by Easter it's not it's looking for somebody who's or to help somebody who has just doesn't do not know where to start they're absolutely blind to it terrified of it come and let us help you and we're there for anybody who needs it okay listen and if you listen to us today and it has kick started you remember us and come back to us in a month or two or three months or four months and tell us how you're feeling now if it's always a pleasure having you in thank you very much if a hunter if Eva McGill personal training you can check if right on facebook if you McGill personal training uh and as i say we've got loads of friends working in this industry as well who will be more than happy uh to help quickly before i let you go what's the best thing to eat for putting weight on in a healthy way not crisps because there are people too actually looking to to increase their weight yeah like that like we touch on calorie deficit for body fat loss body fat gain uh now you could talk to professional as well but it's like up in the calories up in the protein like say for example your protein recommendation for your say your average um moderately active man or woman is about a gram of protein per kg of body weight now for more active would be pushing closer to two grams or whatnot so that person could pop i'm assuming now they're they're health's well and everything and they would need to get their go ahead from the gp but they're up their protein up their calories and that'll come down to their bmr and bmi but like that if they need help um we're always there to get some more details is bmi important yeah bmr more you see bmi you have to measure your tank you know what i mean it can look good on paper but you really have to put your tank in there as well if you're a fella don't you all right a for thanks for your time we'll be back with more after the break the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on highland radio why leave all the magic moments or great scenes you've captured on your phone sitting there or in the cloud when you can have them printed at big east chemist using the mcgee's app or one of the in-store kiosks you can upload your photos from your phone google photos facebook or instagram and have them printed instantly within an hour or in by 10 and ready by five see mcgee's dot i e for more details hold your memories 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in fact if nothing else has come out of that uh interview uh lots of people have been able to praise the catering staff at letter kenny university hospital in terms of hospital food nutrition the key is in resourcing the right ingredients uh or sourcing them local organic produce free of chemicals and gmo's of course this will be a bit more expensive however what could aid a patient more in their recovery another hospital food was always excellent family and friends would agree that it was always good i don't know what kitchen she was going to she's condemning everything about hospital food which i think is totally wrong but listen it's her experience uh she's a cystic fibrosis patient in and out of three uh doblin based hospitals um and that was her experience and as i say it's given us an opportunity to praise the staff at letter kenny university hospital which people are doing in their dozens which is good isn't it okay um right what time is it it is time for business matters business matters in association with atlantic technological university donnie gall study for a doctorate of business administration and obtain the highest level management qualification available visit atu.ie forward slash dba and you're very welcome back to the program after that 15 second break uh it was just to welcome our friend chris ashmore good morning chris happy new year to you and to you any new year's resolutions no good because you're perfect how well could you change do i didn't give it much thought at all this year yeah just so i think a lot of traditional stuff like that uh is not pushed as much anymore yeah i think you should always be asked and now it's very only bold idiots ask that question now it's good to be back into a routine though it is yes indeed uh but um it was also good to have a break absolutely life balance lovely christmas actually i must say um right okay uh local enterprise office they're always uh in a routine they're always busy uh and plenty coming up from them yeah number of events coming up this month as we sort of get back into normality uh on friday week that's january the 12th there's a virtual business support clinic lots of useful advice there uh you can go online for that and the first of this year's always popular start your own business programs well that's on tuesday the february the sixth for the next one of those and you can get more details on the local enterprise office website so uh something to look out for and some advance notice as well that the uh local enterprise office and enterprise europe network are hosting a webinar on the 30th january it's called going green reduce costs and carbon footprint uh basically focusing on the energy efficiency grant which is available to businesses and local man uh ronad makintar from max deli and letter kenny he'll be on the webinar to share his experience and look we all know about the need to improve energy efficiency in businesses and there is support there so why not find out more about that easiest way to get people to change is to show people the advances advantages of it rather than maybe punitive tax uh on to uh your eye across planning yeah there's been a flurry of planning applications in just before the end of the year and uh the last few weeks seems every week there seems to be a new housing development which is good to see given the housing shortage and increase in population so just looking at some of the things that are in the pipeline at the moment uh turning to remelton first of all glen mack developments limited have been given a green light by the county council for the completion of a previously approved housing development uh now quite a lot of developments had been uh planning permission had been sought a number of years back they hadn't gone through there's uh there is a time limit on planning permissions and then you can get that extended so bottom line uh plans for 45 new properties at balibo in remelton in carndona amp co builders company limited well they've been given planning permission to proceed with the construction of 23 houses at church land quarters in the town meanwhile the apex housing association they're planning to build 32 houses at convoy town parks in convoy initial stages of the planning application underway there and in balba fe long march development limited seeking planning approval to build 36 new houses at the beaches in the navani area of the town so plenty in the pipeline yeah indeed and uh business matters the pod is available uh for you to stream or download from our website now and we'll tell you when it's broadcast a little later on uh but you guessed this week chris i guess this week 24 stir chief executive officer of letter kenny chamber and uh founded in 1965 the chamber will celebrate its 60th anniversary next year plays a significant role in fostering business development and promoting opportunities to create a thriving business environment and it's uh members pays that off their website i think and i added in the word thriving thriving like that word um so it's grown considerably now is more than 300 members and appropriate to speak with tony farster as she reflected on 2023 looking ahead to this coming year and she's very upbeat about the future for denigol's largest town and she is basically explaining to me about how the chambers members are made up of a great diversity of businesses but it covers such a range of businesses you know all the really large employers right down to micro one person businesses and and that gives gives us a really i suppose important breadth of knowledge um so we can kind of gather you know what what what are people feeling at the very small end and the very at the large end of the market or of the of the business community and that's it's a very interesting place to be so the chamber tries to have all those as much as they can and different businesses need us at different times but as you said the collective um helping each other is really important um and sometimes it's hard to get that across but we we watch now particularly when we have a business development executive marie shales we kind of try and connect people as much as we possibly can so somebody has a need for something we'll try and connect them somebody else who can help yeah and i'm looking forward to 2024 the the chamber have a very useful tool in their armler in their sentiment survey which they sort of can get a sense from the various businesses and letter canyons surrounds us to you know how they view things going so uh good to see recent to be optimistic because we're likely to see chris um in the first quarter a reduction in interest rates to as the EU tries to get a its grasp and it would say it has on um inflation so you know those little things yeah you know do help with sentiment and people spending money they have absolutely and likewise uh the reduction of interest rates there should be a knock-on effect for the mortgage rates so that's going to help a lot of people out there as well a bit of competition in the supermarkets at the moment big price drops yeah little with a first I think and uh also um one of the newer entrants into the electricity market again has cut its cost which will put pressure on the others as well so hopefully hopefully uh people will see a little bit more value in their income now in 2024 and that obviously then leads to a greater spend and also from the retail point of view you know the fact we've the new tax year coming in people are going to see a little increase in their wages because most people are going to be better off as a result of the changes in the budget and also at the end of the month there is still another bonus payment for social welfare recipients so this is all going to be a little bit of money circulating locally so that's good yeah all right okay uh cause to be cautiously optimistic for some out there of course uh fully conscious that for others the changes won't make a significant an impact all right chris ashmore thank you so very much indeed uh the podcast before you go chris the podcast available right now it's broadcast on sunday evening just after the six o'clock news and if anyone wants to get in touch with you chris yes they can uh drop me an email at businessmattersathighlandradio.com back after the break business matters in association with atlantic technological university donnie gall study for a doctorate of business administration and obtain the highest level management qualification available visit atu.ie forward slash dba watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highlandradio.com slancy care healthy communities program in dunneagle county council in collaboration with dunneagle sports partnership and the irish farmers association are running a health and well-being main on the move program in rosnickill community hub fanat starting on january 8th the program will run on mondays and wednesdays at 7 45 p.m for six 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person's experience there a lot of you actually get in touch with us about posting stuff to australia so i'll get to those in a moment just as we get them all in the one pile greg i sent a gift to a grandchild excuse me please in our mar it never arrived we're not supposed to send cash in the post even if registered it was the post office told me that the only thing is registered mail is traceable greg going back to the comment about people being asked to wear masks in the hospital people simply don't care anymore about anyone other than themselves we live in a selfish society as long as i'm right or i'm all right stuff everyone else it's a sad society we are living in i do see elements of that as well and listen of course the the mask mandate was incredibly controversial we know all of that but listen to hospital or a nursing home i would be very reluctant personally to go in there if i wasn't feeling well because i wouldn't want to harm someone else and if i was asked to wear a mask so as not to spread germs to someone else who could be much more vulnerable than i am just going in to visit uh well i also would be inclined to um i've been inclined to take that advice on board and to to heed it out of respect good morning greg is it true that these new hate laws concern thought crimes as in you may have not posted hateful content but may have digital content that could be posted on our so-called thought crimes punishable by prison how will this even be enforced listen if you take it to the absolute extreme the idea being that you could have an offensive item on your phone that you could potentially send on whatsapp or something it's not going to be enforced um really i the hate laws haven't been adequately explained to me but i have sought clarification on a few things such as what you've just outlined and what have you um no you can and you can still actually offend and upset people on the internet as well under the new hate crime laws if that's what you want to do uh but obviously there are those that use social media and they're afraid that it will be used as a way to uh stymie what they have to say or to censor what they have to say well shall we shall see i don't know i don't know enough about it just as of yet uh to say whether that's the case or not right let's get back to uh donagall town uh towards the end of last year uh we were talking about new one-way systems new road layout for donagall town initially um people could see the advances uh the advantages maybe even outweighing the inconvenience uh up until now but it's become clear uh that for some it's simply it's not going to be workable it's going to be done in general uh damaging to business it's going to drive traffic into parts of the town too that don't have hadn't ordinarily seen so much traffic well we had christmas to suck it in sea i suppose to some extent port kennedy's the mayor of donagall tanny joins us on the program now good morning park good morning greg and good morning how been your year right so what is the what is the the sense being uh over christmas a busy time of the year not just for shopping or socializing um what what's the feedback you've been getting i've been the well what the people are saying is it's not working uh and it's affecting their business and chatting to business owners and chatting to people that coming into the town it's just the total inconvenience and some of them weren't wouldn't even come into the town that's ah gee i'm not going to be going on the airship and then traffic and as you said a way back it was creating a problem that there was never a problem and and i know initially you know we we said we would give it a chance and maybe it would be a good job but like there are certain parts of the town that may be merit a one-way system but then there's other areas of the town that definitely don't merit a one-way system and they're strangling the rest of the town and it's portion cars in on the diamond and forcing trucks to there's that there's a junction up at super value and if you were coming down from the businesses up in the glee you would not be able to turn left there you would have to turn right and come down and go around the diamond and go back out because that is obstructed there now and i know in slaggle that there's uh the finished junctions about a month ago and they're they're taking them out of it because the obstruction that's causing to buses and and trucks and stuff and you know i mean i initially said yeah maybe it will be a good job but i was wrong and and i would like any girl county council to say you know maybe maybe we got some of this wrong and before it goes any further when they're going to resurface the roads and i know that some footpaths down but like what what it's really strangling the town and coming into the summer season and all the positive about denigol and tourism and all that there it's drawn more people to denigol and denigol town and i just think why are they going to sit in traffic trying to get into denigol town i don't think the world just by going to bypass and the lack of me the time at all well that's it bypasses bypasses can be 50 50 they can enhance the town or they can be negative for a town now i think denigol town up until now has benefited from being bypassed um but you're suggesting that these changes may actually undo that that people will just go you know there's loads of options bundawren's there you know killy begs is there letter kenny's there are you afraid that it will have a negative impact on the economy and the throughput well it already is having i could take you to four or five businesses um and i could take you to one business that even was thinking a lot of opening on the new year like because of the effect that it was having on this business and you know it's just people are are there and they're just not even coming in the killy begs road they're sitting in traffic there where there was never traffic jams and like according to the plans as well up now at the tech and up there they're going to widen the footpath there and you're going to be forced to drive on into the school and turn up at the gymnasium and come back down like there's no way there's enough room to take the cars off the roads to allow parents to drop off their kids at the school so that's going to give more tail back as well there i think they need to take a look at the whole thing i think they need to stop like water street you see what i don't understand we'll get to that part of this what i don't understand they see when we for i wasn't really aware what was going on in donald town believe it or not when i spoke to you first and this is not to have a go at you uh this is not about you because you you you know you've you've you've seen the lay of land and you've changed your opinion somewhat but i actually at the time um i was chatting to you and um raymond rooney i think at that time i couldn't i couldn't figure out the problem that was being fixed if you know what i mean uh like i couldn't work out well what is the problem that this is going to aid what is going to improve uh and and i'm not the wiser now so is it still the case if i'm coming then say down by john boscoe center and i want to go to go to uh urwins or littlemags that i would i would have to go out onto the diamond and come around the way or if they change that yeah no and if you were if you were coming down and if you wanted to use the mark lane which kind of there's a two-way system there that goes up the gavel of erwin's hardware you can't you can't come down there now you you would have to go around the town to come down to use that mark lane and you can't you couldn't come down past the boscoe center to go to erwin's or the vets or any of that kind of thing and that's for forcing you back and round the diamond to come round like if if they left if if you come up to main street in dinningall town and you were only allowed to turn left down water street and if you were coming up from water street and you're only allowed to turn left like that keeping that a two-way along water street new roll you know but people don't know it's over by magies factory over that way keeping that whole system two-way there i mean i initially i was in favor of it because i suppose it was given more access uh and accessibility on the footpath and who were resurfacing and and you know overall appearance was going to be enhanced but i suppose i mean you look at main street in letter kenny uh even in slaggle i mean would would the businesses say that that was a great job and really helped their business i would say no all i know is that as a consumer if i wanted to go down and get something in that area i never had an issue with being stuck there uh the road was wide enough for two cars and parking in in much of it access to the business generally get a parking space never had an issue what it sounds like now is this has been made incredibly complicated i don't want to go on to the diamond there i might come over the bypass cut in by the hotel there uh michael mackintosh or mickey max yeah you know what i mean now i will have to go on to the diamond if i want to go and get a spice bag out of little max for an example yeah okay yeah no you're right you know what i mean like how does that make sense no and as you said it created a problem where there never was a problem and i mean even dinningall town when there was never even a bypass like it always moved i mean killie bags was flat out trucks used to come through the town everyone through the town and it still kept moving and now you know with the bypass and it the bypass did make a great job of dinningall town it was a big success and dinningall tried because of it uh but this here is definitely going to strangle it and and i know there's counselors on and they're saying i don't know what i'm talking about i'm talking to the people and they're saying this is not a good job it's not helping them it's not enhancing their business in any way and i would i would definitely appeal to the council to reconsider before they go any further they're all in now they'll park they're all in the roads have been narrowed at this point some of them i mean this is uh this is we're too late now the tide can't be turned no no it's never too late greg because you know and i'm sure you covered it was the polly air junction as it was called there it was never going to be changed then or i said no this this would slow down traffic it would impact and it would cause serious accidents if you put a roundabout there the junction caused more accidents than the roundabout ever caused in a way and and they were wrong and they had to sort it out and this and there's certain roads in the town that merit a one-way system but overall the water straight new road that does not merit uh to be one way i can't see i can't see with respect again i can't see off the top my head what roads merit one way especially if it drives more traffic up past residential properties i don't you know either side of the river well well water street yeah yeah they they you know our castle street sorry castle street along the river bank you know it's probably wide enough for one one-way traffic and i know it operated forever two way but you know coming up there probably it merits one way there okay so i think the proof of the body here is this and apologies to listeners from outside that area but you'll have been down donagol town you know what we're talking about is you know if you're coming into donagol town say for instance from the toly all roundabout that you referenced there you can be sitting awful long time to get in the question is is will this do it or actually coming down past the church in from from uh the uh the other end will this make it easy to get yeah exactly will this make it easy to get in and around donagol town personally i can't see how it does especially considering i'm sorry to repeat myself but the problems are caused by a bus station in donagol town on the diamond effectively and people double parking right around the diamond now whilst those things persist traffic will never move freely around donagol town that is a simple fact and you're right and it's amazing that one car or i'm only just stopping for two minutes like amazing how much one car will slow the whole traffic down and as you said it created a problem where there were never a problem and i mean if they wanted to trial it out and set out the cones and set out the system like i was coming over to connell speak the last day and i met a car coming at me and i'm like gee you're not supposed to be here but there again they didn't know there is no signs anywhere at the minute temporary signs even saying one-way system and operation there's nothing there's there's nothing i mean why didn't they just set it out in cones and and properly sign it and say right we're going to try this for a month and see how it works out and if it's a success and businesses are happy then we'll go with it we'll set it and store it but now they've set it and store it but listen concrete can be cut and can't cut can be lifted it wouldn't be the first time footpaths were moved or lifted or adjusted and roads were set out like we'll see part i don't know i i i don't know but you see what will happen is is that the cars there'll be an enforcement of double parking and the buses will be moved off the diamond and then it will be celebrated as a success um where maybe we should have tried to do the traffic management and bus issue first and then see if this money would be best spent as it is but anyway who do i don't know anything i'm just a crappy radio presenter the powers that they know everything as someone commented that i know nothing either i don't know what i'm talking about neither but you know what i talk to the people around and they go i'll talk to the businesses and i know overall the general feeling is one of upset and and and discontent or dissatisfaction with what's going on at the minute and i think in this instance the money could be better spent in a leisure center library uh facilities for the youth and you know rather than spend it on this year because i do think it's wrong and i don't think it's the right way to go thanks for a candidate mayor of donagall town john good morning to you what's your observation um i think it's more to do with uh lorries and what have you around the town and parking yeah so there's great uh no i was in uh supermax area this morning for 45 minutes was in the car park at supermax and directly opposite supermax which is behind the fire station there is a parking space there with uh bottle bins in it now arty drivers and that was able to come in there park for their break and go out and get someone to eat well i observed this morning the council has put a footpath down across anthans and put the bottle bins out to zero and block the car park off now and the week while i was there there were six arty's come in how do you go around the roundabout and go out again because they couldn't get parked anywhere and i think it's bloody ridiculous that car parks line empty now and have a footpath down through it and the bottle bins are put out across anthans wow that and i presume amongst the arctic driving community the word had got around that that was a handy place to park get something to eat if you have a a bathroom break yes you're able to come in there go to the toilet get someone to eat and take your 15 minute break or whatever it was and there were bottle bins there but they're for the bottle bins right now they put a footpath down through the anthans put bottle bins now and behind the petition there and that the whole thing blocked off and the lorries have nowhere to park this morning they just had to turn go out again wherever they went in for their break and they're probably some of them was probably could have been run out of time you don't know yeah i think it's ridiculous yeah and i just wonder though if there are bigger plans for that bit of land there um john that maybe that's what it was being useful temporarily well it didn't seem to be much notification of ending being done to it just said it's been closed right so the sign ups and it's closed so the footpath continues from the fire station towards the um where the gp government boulders the hhc is there now the footpath has continued on down through it no park no longer exists no longer exists now there's a bottle bank in front of it there you go okay so i think it's ridiculous right we'll see what the drivers think john thanks for your time this morning all right no take care all right okay that's new and if you're watching the show you'll get to see where we're talking about as well there as we uh show the images back after these we'll take a weather forecast after this break is 2024 the year 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and never ever had an issue with traffic movement not sure i think it's all part of an agenda to put people off traveling in cars and to use public transport okay there's a slight problem there what public transport uh that is the issue um greg my boot camp done time for you to start should head to efa after the show you're passing the place well maybe i will i could just you know new year new me 2024 could be could happen uh i want it to happen i probably can make the time flashing signs are too close to the school coming from dairy should be before the corner indeed that seems to be a sentiment that's out there give the drivers a fair crack of the whip and get them slowed down in time for the school uh back to our conversation with ethna uh who has been um off drink for over third or almost 30 years ethna is correct in what a lot of things she said but as a member of the aa since 1996 i've seen people who've only drunk once a year at a christmas party in aa because every year when 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You tube Team keep it clean What's going on is engraving here with another video and we've been having so many conversations about Justin Houston I don't already told you I didn't feel like it was gonna happen. I didn't think it was gonna happen Because I just I thought that maybe the Ravens might be interested in again and him again because they were a couple years ago But I was like if it ain't happened by now not that it couldn't happen But I just anything was gonna happen anything was gonna go down and it obviously hasn't gone down yet, but Now with this This makes the possib this makes it a possibility. This makes it like something that could be real Because I told y'all like if the Ravens did not do not get Justin Houston. Okay, cool I feel like they could be fine But if they did get Justin Houston I feel like that could make them even better because that could give you even more options at the pass rush position because I know when whenever we talk about what what are the Ravens weakness right now? Well, what do they really need right now? And a lot of people point at pass rush they point at edge But I think in my opinion When it comes to the pass rush, I can't say we have a bad pass rush I would say we have an unknown pass rush Because we don't know what tires bouts it looks like as a full-time starter We don't know what a doubt fairway looks like in the NFL We don't know what Daylan Hayes looks like in the NFL. We don't know Penelope McPhee with him getting an increased roll. We'll see with Jaylen Ferguson. We don't know what he'll look like with an increased roll So it's just if there are a lot of unknown the the the shortest thing that we know about I would say would be Penelope McPhee and tires Bowser But again, their roles are gonna be different this year, especially tires Bowser. So him in a full-time role We got to see how it goes down. I think he'll do well But we still got to see for ourselves. So again when it comes to the pass rush I wouldn't necessarily say it's a need But we just it's a need to see more than a need. But if you add Justin Houston to the mix I Wouldn't be mad anyway Let's see what the NFL chick had to say now quick background on the NFL chick From what I've seen legit Straight up legit reputable whenever she says something whenever she dropped something it is legitimate She is on point. She does not say stuff just to say it She does not spit out just a bunch of random stuff and hope it that it sticks. No She is on point with her stuff So yeah, this it's real anyway, let's see what she had to say. She said okay Ravens flock Street say that Justin Houston has told folks that his ideal destination is Baltimore.  It almost seems like sometimes Like in the regular season now sometimes almost seems like they may even overachieve Which is not a complaint at all. I love it. I'm with it all day so shout out to that but He if he actually wants to play for it for the Ravens That should make the deal that much sweet him that could make it that much easier Because if Justin Houston who is up there in age who um, he's he got he got he got some years left now But he's obviously on the back end of his career if he feels like a the Ravens That's that's why I would want to go then he obviously sees something in them and has seen something in them to where he said, okay That's why I want to ride out the end of my career. Yeah, I want to do it with them I want to do it with them because they got something over there but anyway, um She said again, okay Ravens flocks three say that Justin Houston has told folks that his ideal destination is Baltimore Hence the weight and that's something else that's been going on recently too Justin Houston he obviously hasn't signed anywhere and a lot of people been wondering like man Why hasn't he signed? Where is he gonna sign? Is he gonna sign? Is he still gonna play and then we saw the report that came out yesterday That said he still wants to play but just he's waiting for the right fit So if he's waiting for the right fit and he feels like he fits in with the Ravens ADC, what's up, baby? What's up? What's up? Let me know. I come through tomorrow. I get them on the phone. We could do a three-way call or something We'll talk but anyway She also said from my understanding the Ravens are aware So she's saying that the Ravens know that Justin Houston is interested in them But that could sort of make the Ravens be like that that that that boy who? One of the one of the girls who is a single It's a lot of guys that's interested in her but she's interested in this one guy She like oh man, if we got together, we'll be a perfect fit He'd be a good fit and the guy is aware of that. So now he holds the cards. He's like, oh, okay Oh, she interested in me. Okay. Yeah, that's cool. So then anyway from my understanding the Ravens are aware It's just a matter of figuring out a fair deal. So keep your fingers crossed and she said don't DM me That's all I got. It's a deal if it's a deal made y'all will be the first to know So shout out to the NFL chick because again, she again, she she just don't say stuff for no reason Her stuff is certified anyway so The Ravens know and she said it's just a matter of figuring out a fair deal So a deal that could make both sides happy a deal that could accommodate Both the Ravens and Justin Houston and that could be a beautiful thing a beautiful thing Because you think about it. I know when we had my guy Jermaine on him He made some really good points and shout out to my guy Jermaine He made some really good points about why the Ravens should not sign a Justin Houston because he could take away reps from the younger guys and they would get even less Playtime with Justin Houston being there and that is true and especially again with the young guys that we don't know a lot about But then at the same time you think okay these Ravens like in my opinion EDC always what he talked about it when he first stepped on the scene as GM He said he wanted to build a bully If you're building a bully that means you want to have players at as many positions as you can You want to have the highest quality depth at as many positions as you possibly can Adding a Justin Houston would help do just that adding a Justin Houston helps keep that rotation even fresher It helps keep the rotation even fresher And it allows you to do more things. It allows you to bring in a vet that knows the game again has been productive because We've had like again last year Or thing QB hits QB hits QB hits QB hits QB hits QB hits and that's cool Pressure is cool. That's cool. But again, I know wink said it like last week or the week before last But I would disagree where he said that he feels like sex are overrated. I don't think so I Don't think sex are overrated and the reason I say that and I said this before in previous videos That sex show that you close the deal Pressure is nice and pressure is a pressure is real deal and again pressure can bust pipes But sex that finishes the play pressure does not pressure can lead to an interception Pressure can lead to quarterback throwing and completion pressure can lead to a bad throw He may throw that a bounce whatever but pressure doesn't necessarily mean that a bad play is gonna happen You could pressure a quarterback and they could still get the touchdown they can still throw a completion So pressure is not the end all be all but a sack. That's it The quarterback is done. It's over play is finished finito That's it So let's just again just to do a quick recap of his production recently last year.  He had five and a half So we see throughout the entirety of his career. We see the same thing consistent production consistent production Why wouldn't you want to add him? It only makes sense. So hopefully Hopefully the next time we talk about Justin Houston Hopefully because the Ravens they then they already bring him in for a visit like a couple months ago I believe so I believe they did but obviously nothing happened But if we talking about consistent production and we talking about building a bully We talking about you'd like really trying to take this team to another level We talking about the only Again, can't even call it a hole on the team Can't even call it a weakness on the team But really the biggest unknown on the team if we talking about being able to add to that and make the team that much stronger that much better Then why not?


Bingo four o'clock rock here. We are with our flagship energy show Hawaii the state of clean energy every Wednesday be here or be square It's far and he's my co-host. He has this amazing capability of sort of synergizing everything Summarizing making sense out of things. So kind and here's the guy with you know the guys with the raw data Okay at my immediate left Louis Vega Louis Vega specialist and manager of the Hawaii National Marine Renewable Energy Center, which is part of hnei Hawaii natural energy He's doing my right about that. Okay, right here straight. Okay, and to his left Patrick gross cross Program manager Ocean energy also at Hawaii natural energy Institute and he directs the Military efforts, I guess at building wave energy I don't direct the military, but I direct The university support to the military hnei is where you both are yes You're both specialists there and hnei if you didn't know is part of the University of Hawaii in Manoa They're all good things happen all the time almost Okay, so we have a question for you What are we talking about today? Oh? Well, we're I think we're going to be talking about the energy that is trapped in the ocean right now and That we can get it out of the ocean that would help us with our renewable energy efforts And I understand I was reading a blog Dr. Jeff math Masters who is part of the weather underground? wrote an article yesterday that Basically talked about June being the hottest month yet, and oh why it were wide and He had a blog that really summarized what's been happening in the ocean So the ocean is very very hot now and that's energy and energy can either come at us In the form of a hurricane or perhaps if we can learn how to tap it as these gentlemen have been working on We can we can actually suck some of that energy out and use it as clean energy for our electric supply Well, there's a lot of energy out there. We've been thinking about this a long time Louie's been working on it since 1922 I don't know about Patrick. Maybe the same yeah 28 28, okay, and it's out there And we are not really capturing it right now. We have not really captured it So we ordered this talk about today, you know, how much is a really unlimited if I if I put paddle wheels Across every ocean would I slow the ocean process down? Could I take too much energy from the ocean? Would it would it affect our environment if I did that and what kinds of ways can we use to get it out of there? And use it and how expensive is it or cheap you go first Louie's well for the purposes of today I will talk about ocean thermal and My partner and friend Pat will talk about Wave energy so regarding motion thermal what is really important to understand is that? unlike Intermittent resources like solar wind and waves after all they all come from the Sun indirectly The beauty of a motion thermos is always there So is what we can call as engineers base load and it's also dispatchable and that's really important So to me that should be one of the ingredients that will lead us towards Our ambitious goal of having by 2045 a hundred percent. Is it unlimited? We could do the humanity could live on this forever and ever the only way we can answer that but tell you that Because when I really do any any more advances right now due to funding what we have been able to do at the university with Professor Nehouse So I should be free school news, but he goes by Nehouse because that's the way we pronounce it in English I guess is that we set up with a he set up with our funding with computer models such that We took the area that is considered to be the area with it with the most appropriate ocean thermal resource for ocean thermal energy conversion basically between roughly speaking between 20 degrees Southern 23 North latitude around the equator and We directly put one hundred megawatt plant each and we divided that area into 23 by 23 kilometers So that the plant would not interfere with one another and in doing that you're able to generate Close to 90% of the energy all the energy consumed the world. Oh, so you have that's what I meant Yeah, you ask yourself the next question though. And of course that would change the Distribution of temperature in the oceans So you begin to ask yourself how much of that can you take some areas would get cold as I mean I get warmer But when we do that with a computer we can snap our finger and instantaneously have 250,000 plants, but we have zero plants right now So that's that's just saying how far could we get and perhaps without worrying about exact numbers I can tell you for everybody knows what that is, but basically close to 90% of what we consume right now Yeah It appears that we will not really affect the oceans in a really low-tech mental way No, no ocean thermal. I mean it's fascinating ocean thermal was a big thing in Kona back in the 70s There's a ship out there big red ship at Otec written on the side and it was this deep pipe that Originally Nelha built that the National Energy Laboratory of Hawaii and Kona there in order to get that cold water from way down deep And as I understand it's a difference between the temperature of the cold water and the surface warm water So you if you have a shelf that goes straight down, you know And as close to shore you can take advantage of that and get a better result However, the other thing is It's expensive Because the metals involved in oceans ocean thermal ordinary metals corrode the old problem of ocean energy corrosion of metals And if the metals corrode you got to replace them all the time So the one that was most likely candidate my recollection and this is ten years ago. Anyway, it's titanium right titanium is very expensive Yeah, so right is this the problem? No, no really the problem is is that? We did all the work that we could do with experimental plants the biggest plant ever Operator and constructed and operated was at Nelha By the way, that national is natural national they're not part of the national system. That's a much any LHA Was 250 kilowatts or 0.25 megawatt and we're talking about plants that will be a hundred megawatt That's 400 times bigger. So to jump from that experimental plant. There are the issues No, there's you have to take steps in between. Yeah, but those steps require Government funding and that's where the challenge begin for us because out of the 50 states as a state We're the only one that can use Otec directly so we try to tell people from all the states you could manufacture the equipment and Benefit in that way for example our friends in Japan and in Korea are Trying to develop Otec to provide the equipment because they don't have the resource like we do So that's that's really important to understand but going back to materials. I mean that wasn't the need We have problems with corrosion But but it's a matter of maintenance and and to know what is the life cycle and for example that our friends from a car Ocean engineering are now with some of our they had the facility at Nelha, right right now big tower Yeah, 100 kilowatt, but the tower ultimately has to go in the water Yeah, this is just to experiment with heat exchangers. That's why you were a friend to the the most effective one and The titanium but you said they're expensive But what has been done and it's currently being done there's to identify aluminum alloys I can give you the 30 year life expectancy and they have identified alloys that could do that But part of the issues trying to get manufacturing companies to manufacture these devices They need to know what is the market how many are you going to buy? That's one of the problem with Otec is Relatively speaking large components and how do you get manufacturers what has to happen to make this? You know react reality in a ways I take in a time machine if you couldn't and go back to the 70s and ask yourself How was it that wind energy was developed to the point that is now commercial and in many areas is really competitive and The answer to me is thank these citizens of Germany and the citizens of Denmark because they pay for it Their government's expanse through all the research all the trials and errors But that's changed that economic model doesn't exist in the world anymore No garland would ever find things that way anymore. It's just really hard to do what has happened people who lost the thrill of No, I think what happened is that we're also in a lot with the idea of a quick payback that for something like Otec For example, you need to build a demonstration plan or pre-commercial Would take you three or four years before you begin to operate it and then with that information Operator for a couple years you begin to build the first commercial plan So right investor that you wouldn't to wait seven to ten years and the other is no last question before we take a break and that is If we are able to build this if the government steps up And people the energy industry the utilities everybody steps up and say, you know, we'll we'll cooperate will give permits You know, we'll fund it We'll buy the resulting energy or develop storage facilities to keep it and transport it as necessary If we do all of that is do you think I mean, what's what's the idea about? Profitability I mean about cost rather the price is this going to be cheaper than geothermal more expensive cheaper than I don't know cheaper than wind cheaper than solar more expensive. What well the answer is that When when if you want to know about solar or wind I can go and get three or four close on three or four different ventals right now But you talk about in thermal energy being converted to electricity We're not there yet So I can tell you what we have done with economic analysis and what is type of analysis and And when I do that, I like you to also understand the following when you look at the petroleum resources that we have for example For liquid fuels, we have maybe 50 years left in the world Call we have a hundred years petroleum. Yes call. We have a hundred years A natural gas we have maybe 120 years and when you think about how long it will know this do you know this? This is serious. This is like we're in a time bomb To me that that's perhaps this point for today's discussion is more important than climate change and I will they're related because yeah What is going to happen to Hawaii 34 years from now? How are we going to get to a hundred percent? Renew energy to produce electricity. I have a hard time believing we can do that without Ocean thermal because all your thermo is based low and is dispatchable. I am I have solar panels in my house I have working for many years. I did real electrification with those components But you need to store the energy so I can use it in the evening when I get home, right? Right now in my house and also Patrick's house. We have this beauty called a battery called the Hiko I mean Hiko is my battery. I am making electricity right now when I'm talking to you when I go home tonight I want to turn on my Okay, my cold beer and turn on my television. Hiko is working for me Beautiful battery people forget that when people get an hour saying we're gonna get to a hundred percent renewable for electricity production with wind and solar I'm asking how you're going to store the energy People don't want to talk about that and also when we talk about things being cost effective It's because we have subsidies cold have subsidies Petroleum fuel have subsidies everybody has that oh tech. No, no What a shame Okay, and that note. I feel sad you great. You feel sad to you feel sad enough. Take a break. Let's take a break Feeling sad. It was about where you ever come back and talk about wave energy be on the spot Patrick. Okay. That's Patrick He's gonna be on the spot. 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I hope you'll join in with us every Tuesday from 12 noon to 1 p.m. To see the interesting people we have to share with you their information Aloha Okay, I've been waiting all this time to you from Patrick. We're gonna hear from him now Okay wave action energy is your bag. Tell us how it's doing Well, actually, uh, Luis and I are both intimately involved in our efforts and wave energy And specifically what we're doing in Hawaii and that the University and at HNE I is Is supporting the Navy's test site? So it's the only wave energy test site in the country. It's one of only a few in the whole world So that kind of obey that guy.  It's three births. There are two of them that are occupied with wave energy devices produced by commercial entities They're pre-commercial we would call them experimental devices Wave energy unlike Otec has a long way to go in terms of engineering There are many that mean metals It means metals it means survivability at sea corrosion. Yes, just mechanical failure serviceability when things break Hydraulics or or direct drive systems it's just Having something out in the ocean that's designed to move around and and do so for a long Periods of time and not break and if it does break being able to efficiently service it and that so wave energy devices at this point in time have many many different looks Radically different approaches to how to extract the energy from the sea So it's while Otec is a is largely a solved problem engineering wise and faces budgetary and permitting challenges Wave energy faces those too, but it's also got a long way to go in terms of solving the engineering Challenges which is why it's fun to be involved in the in the test site from our perspective We get to see these technologies come in and and hope for the best in terms of how well they work and collect the data and observe the environmental impacts and Hopefully move the industry alone So I guess the one thing you didn't mention is the transmission of the energy through a power cable of some kind Is that also a challenge because you know, it's moving the thing is moving I mean even if it doesn't move much it still moves and that cable is going to have to deal with that movement, right? Oh, that's part. I mean the whole system the the mooring systems. Yeah, the the connection points to the cables Yes, I the the ocean is a dynamic environment and things move around. So There are I think some pretty reliable approaches these days to addressing that particular problem and and so far so good with the cabling at our test site and And and at other test sites that hasn't been as big an issue as as some others you remember I mean, I remember you know these to have the thing called the snake Palamis Palamis. Yes. What was it called Palamis? It's a great name for great name for snake. Yeah No, that's my I knew that So and they had all kinds of you know weird rude Goldberg kinds of contraptions that somehow You know held together even in the face of all that all that energy at sea the movement at sea But you really wondered whether they could do this in a way that would be sustainable That where the machine would continue. So what is the favorite technique right now? What is out there as the leading possibility that well, that's an that's an excellent question And I don't think we're ready to answer it yet you know Yes, the Palamis was a was a great example. They were one of the pioneers really in the field and theoretically in terms of how energy is extracted from different Movements of the ocean It's a great device, but it's challenge problem was that it just couldn't survive it just kept breaking So in fact that company is now they've made a lot of advances, but they don't exist anymore And same is true of a couple other pioneers in the field such as aquamarine also a Scottish Company that had a different approach near shore with a just a big flop device in the near shore And that company has has gone away So those are too radically different Australian company. Yes had this big affair north of Maui Was it where it was going to be there was going to be whatever happened to that? Oh, she'll leave the ocean legs I'm no longer Existence so I'm a pattern here. Yeah, I Get their their model that they were going to bring up here They had a storm that Australian Australia that tore it up and They just didn't have the funding to come back with it. Yeah, that was an awesome oscillating water column So I get a I mean I get a bleak picture from this Is this really going to go anywhere? I mean we have a lot of fish to fry here. We have other renewables That have you know actually going into production. I mean solar for example So why why should we spend time on this one? It doesn't look like it's going to go anywhere Maybe in a generation or two when material science gets more sophisticated Who knows maybe nanotech will develop a material that will you know that will survive but right now? Why should we do it? Why yeah, Louise may have a different twist But I guess I was shifting from the negatives of some of these company failures and technologies that have been good ideas But haven't worked There's some new the there's some new ideas coming down the pike. There's a there's an oscillating water column That's not unlike the ocean links approach that will be tested starting next year at Wetz from an Irish company called ocean energy There's great optimism for that particular device. It's it's of a significantly larger scale in terms of power production and size From these first two experimental devices. So there's still there's still a lot of good ideas coming down the pipeline and Why yeah, it's a difficult problem Obviously a very difficult problem. And so that's the obvious question. Why bother in the face of solar and PV or PV and wind when the which are much more mature and much more commercially viable today And I think the answer is we need we need the mix we need though the whole mix to get to the to the end and the The theoretical and even the practical resource in wave is is vast It's it really well in an ideal way. I mean suppose you solve the material science questions and the stability and connection and You know all the all the technical questions suppose you solve them all what role could wave energy play in lighting Oh, wow, where would they be? How far out to see would they be? How would you protect them against the shipping lanes and protect the shipping lanes against collision with them? But what role would they play would they be and again my question that I put through Louise earlier Are they more expensive less expensive to see them as being cheaper and therefore more attractive? I Would at this point again, that's hard to answer It's hard to answer some of your questions about that because it we're just so early in the in the game with wave energy And right now wave energy is about as expensive as anything out there But the potential is there to gain the efficiencies and and produce things in in quantity and and Become somewhat competitive What I get out of this is that if you have a device and you put it out such as that one from Australia That it would assuming it was not going to rust and corrode and all that and break It's just out there and it's generating power for a long long time And assuming there's not a lot of maintenance at very cheap You know cost is just out there functioning sending power back. That's a pretty good deal. That's the dream That's what we're working to sorry that in a way they have been a bit unfair because You want us to to answer your questions? Imagine we're in the wind energy and by this is 1978 1980 That's what we are with waves and you want us to be in 2016 already And remember what's more that win energy was developed because the Danes and the Germans and when those companies were trying to develop and they had a lot of trial and errors They keep getting funding from the government because they were making advancements and as we speak They're making this place with a diameter of 180 meters That's almost two city blocks in diameter and those things are being deployed in the ocean and they've been connected to land by submarine Power cables so but and they all look the same pretty much on the outside It's like sometimes you look at a car and I cannot tell that between a Toyota or Honda or whatever To me they all look the same basically because I'm not into cars I guess but but but it is the same with the wind they all look the same from far out in the business So you see the big logo. Yeah, they all have three blades. They're all forward-looking and so on and so forth. They're horizontal and So but took a while to get there. I can show you some films even some old films of Early pioneers with wind devices. I remember they broke. Yeah, there were many wind farms in this state Yes, that fell apart Abandoned that was the problem. So when the guys that I'm talking about already retired from Hiko But when I moved to Hawaii 30 years ago Some of the Hiko engineers wouldn't talk about renewable energy because they were the ones that fresh out of college Have to work with the wind then and they lost a lot of nice to sleep And now when it's completely commercial and completely available. It's still not accepted We has to do a lot with just people don't want to in the backyard. I guess is what about acceptance I mean if I if I put wind out there, let's say off the Leeward coast of a while who I know I'll get some protest. It's already happening. Yeah You know, I mean it's a great idea and it's all over Europe. It's a you know It's all over the North Sea. I mean wind lots of wind and it's very effective But we would have protest query would we have protest you think in the case of wave energy devices out there? Or for that matter in the case of Otec devices out there, I would say for Hawaii. We do have a good wave resource here So there's there's reasons economically to consider wave for Hawaii But we would not be immune from the same sorts of objections with wave energy For the most part they would be low-profile devices. So they'd be a little bit less visually Troublesome But no doubt, you know fishermen would would argue and we we think I tend to think it's a it's a low impact approach to energy extraction as compared to the big wind turbines offshore, but It would be challenging. Yeah, that's what we have to go back to to the the fact because it is a fact that we have Limited resources from fossil fuels and that will be dependent on Hawaii for example a lot of countries even the Chinese are using a lot of coal right now They want to run out in 50 to 120 years Depending what what is the source and now and what are we going to do? We have to the it took 30 years to implement wind It's going to take that long to implement ways for example. Yeah Well, hmm, what do you make of this Ray? Where is this fit in the many of possibilities? I think we don't have a choice. I think we have to move forward and Hopefully the government will continue to fund this and perhaps even put more money into it Because it's very expensive to get something like this going, but we need it. There's lots of energy in the ocean We need to extract it and we need to do something to dampen down the the climate Change that we're suffering because of the fossil fuel. So I think even if we Even if we don't Have to worry about that if we're going to visually run out of fossil fuels So we need to do something to get off of the extreme Connection with with fossil fuel and the need to to have that so I don't think we have a choice And these guys are doing a good job with what they've got, but I think we need to do more in the Help with the finances from the government on this and I and I think that will probably happen because I think the climate Change will drive it more now than anything else Yeah, that's what I'll have I agree Ray. That's what will happen. We'll have a bad storm We'll see more clearly how we're on a one-way street here And we will agree with you Louise that you kind of have everything Patrick you got to have everything. It's the diversity that we need because most of the renewable energy is is not consistent except for the the OTAC But most of the other energy you're gonna have to have a diversity So when the wind's not blowing maybe the waves are going and yeah, or the sun shining or whatever, right? So that's where we can't we got to continue we got to move forward and we can't be cheap about it We got to spend the money because the alternative is not to have these sort of resources in that way That's not acceptable at all Well, thank you gentlemen. I hope the delegation is listening and I hope they do some funding for you This is think tech. This is Hawaii the state of clean energy where Ray and I Ray Starling and I have talked with the specialists at the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute Louise Vega and Patrick Cross cross Looking at you know what's going on in the ocean. Thank you very much


The stores put the security cameras in the laundry aisle. There's a forceful narrative that exists in America. Its message is sent to you through the government's businesses, churches, your family. The message is that the worst thing you can be is poor. Even those who believe you've transcended those problematic toxic thoughts surrounding money and personal value are terrified of any event that poses the risk of plunging you into financial ruin. Enumerable industries thrive on knowing that most of us will do whatever it takes to prevent being or appearing poor. Capitalism-induced competition infiltrates every level of our formal systems and drives you to pursue money first and purpose second. The idea that making or having less money means that we contribute or are worthless is not only integrated into our systems but also into the physical spaces that surround us. Many of the private and public spaces in our community are designed to exclude and demonize the poor. One way this is accomplished is through laws which dictate space. Take zoning regulations. In communities across the country, including Progressive Ann Arbor until this past September, zoning laws prohibit home-based businesses. A survey of city planners reported that less than half of cities in the US permit home-based businesses. So, sure, anyone can start a business but if you don't already have the means and ability to open up your own storefront, recording studio, salon or daycare in a designated commercial space, then it's often made illegal for you to operate. This barrier to entrepreneurship targets lower income individuals, curating a community where the poor are excluded from business enterprise. But local laws aren't just created to shame and exclude the poor from business but from leisure too. Spaces like this landscaped plaza pictured here are created on both public and private land for folks to gather or simply relax. These central spaces contribute to a lively community. They play host to concerts, farmers markets and other wholesome fun. Adjacent businesses benefit even though no purchase is required to use these. But look closer at this sign. Loitering is prohibited. Loitering means to occupy a space without purpose. This space was constructed for loitering. So who do you imagine the sign is targeted at? Loitering laws are deliberately vague and create a way to restrict access to public space in order to justify discrimination. The National Coalition for the Homeless assessed almost 250 cities in the US. 47% ban loitering in all public spaces. Fewer places ban you from driving a fully functional tank down a major roadway or from leaving a baby alone in a car. Loitering does not include panhandling, disturbing the peace, lying down or begging. Essentially in practice, loitering is to exist in public while poor. I was in a public library recently and a man who had fallen asleep at one of the tables while reading was politely asked to leave by a librarian. I was confused. He wasn't snoring, which I thought would have been the only rationale for asking a sleeping person to leave the library since the central library tenant is shh. The man left without kicking up a fuss. This wasn't the first time he was asked to leave a public space for loitering. But sometimes loitering laws are too vague to enforce in facilities that have the word public directly embedded, such as the public library. Earlier this month, Redondo Beach, California began enforcing rules specifically created to prevent homeless people from patronizing libraries, while simultaneously taking steps to close homeless shelters. Cities across the US have local laws limiting the rights and dignity of the poor and the homeless. But when laws can't be justified, conscious design fills in. People often remark on a neighborhood safety by indicating how many and how often if ever there are homeless people around. Have you ever wondered why homeless people don't really spend much of their time in rich neighborhoods with nicer parks, more trees, less traffic? Maybe you live in one of these neighborhoods. Being homeless is not only more likely to be criminalized in elite neighborhoods, but the spaces are less physically comfortable. For a number of bizarre reasons, I found myself living on a construction site in one of the richest towns in the US for a couple of years in my mid-20s. Every home was of course individually gated, but there was also no sidewalks, not a single sidewalk in the whole town. And there was only one public park. This town even went so far as to restrict the whole municipality zoning to only residential, single family residential. There are no businesses or facilities to patronize, no paths to stroll along so that anyone who doesn't live there is vulnerable to questioning and demonization. This model of elite exclusion is replicated across the globe. The man napping in the library obviously wasn't welcome to sleep in that indoor public space. So where do you imagine is a welcoming outdoor space for him to sleep? Hostile architecture in public spaces has substantially ramped up in the past 15 years with most cities placing virtually no restrictions on the hostility. Cities across the US invest hundreds of thousands of dollars to add spikes, studs, and other barriers to relaxing in public. But in 2007, the city of New York banned hostile architecture features that prohibited sitting. Many municipalities followed suit, but what is not included in this policy? Arm rests. Here are some public benches that I passed in the last couple of months. At first glance, the middle of the bench armrests might appear to simply be extra support for our tired arms. But the real message is that this bench is for sitting, not lying down and certainly not for sleeping. These are conscious design decisions made to discriminate against the poor. So let's say you decide to stop by a local restaurant to take a seat and relax. Many fast food restaurants keep the drive-through open at night after the dining room is closed. Hey, if it lets folks get their Crunchwrap Supreme at 3 a.m., then that's capitalism actually working. But many fast food restaurants, including McDonald's, explicitly disallow walking through the drive-through. This used to only really be a problem. It used to really only infringe on the accessibility of late night munchies. But since the pandemic began, many restaurants have kept the dining room closed all the time, including this KFC around the corner from my house. People impacted by this drive-through only model include anyone who doesn't drive a car, truck drivers, bicycle riders, walkers, but KFC wants you to know that they still value the customer. The signs on the window are clear. The dining room may be closed, but we can still serve you. You just need a car to go through the drive-through. No car, no problem. You can order online with your smartphone. No smartphone, you better get off our property. Speaking of smartphones, does anyone else hate the new need to use a QR code for everything? Taking out my phone access basic information that could just be on a sign in museums and restaurants is so frustrating. I recently passed this middle post in a large public park. Clearly a larger, presumably more informative sign was previously posted, but it seems to have been replaced by this smaller sign below, encouraging you to just use your smartphone. Since March 2020, QR code downloads have stored by almost a thousand percent, despite most of us spending most of that time at home. To folks like me who have a smartphone but aren't keen on using it for every little thing, this is merely annoying. QR codes are definitely convenient, but limiting options to access information also communicates a clear message that this space wasn't created for people who can't afford smartphones. So let's now say that you go to the grocery store. Surely the grocery store is made for everyone in the community. Kroger's trademark ethos is literally fresh for everyone. Well, the stores put the security cameras by the baby formula. Now Kroger may justify that the security cameras are in the aisles where the frequent shoplifting occurs or that hosts the more expensive products. Sure, but the cameras aren't in the candy aisle or by the $30 olive oil or in the healthy snack sections or by the beer, laundry detergent and baby formula aren't luxury products. And as far as I know, there isn't a lucrative black market for Pampers. No, these are essentials. If you're stealing laundry detergent or diapers or baby formula, you are likely desperate. But in that moment, the dire need to nourish an infant or to wash clothing is not met with the acknowledgement that, wow, this is a problem. They are in crisis. These desperate folks are instead met with the threat of criminal action. As if a parent not being able to afford formula means that a baby deserves to go hungry. I get that Kroger is a business, but if the issue of people shoplifting diapers is pervasive enough to justify expensive security equipment, perhaps capitalism isn't really working here. So yes, of course capitalism impacts business, but also each and every aspect of our society. Capitalism and wealth building are not nine to five jobs. Capitalism thrives on constant, ubiquitous, brutal exclusion. For lower income, lower resource, or simply down on your luck folks, you can have all the hustle in the world, but the physical spaces around you will still challenge your right to live and work as easily as the rich. I've truly barely scratched the surface here, so I implore you, observe your community, your local businesses, your local planning department, and consider the messaging behind the physical spaces, the lights that illuminate the road, but not the pedestrians, the differing speed limits and high and low income residential communities. Find a location in your city and figure out who it was designed for and who it was designed to exclude. Physical spaces communicate a message of who is welcome here, who is safe here, who this space is really made for. Physical spaces criminalize and demonize the poor.


terrestrial mammals are facing a global crisis due to overhunting for food and medicine. This hunting is occurring primarily in developing countries where it is exacerbated by other factors like deforestation, agriculture, and human encroachment. If left unchecked, this hunting could lead to the extinction of up to 301 species of mammals, which would have devastating effects on both ecology and economics. To prevent this catastrophic outcome, we must take action now to reduce the demand for bush meat, protect habitats, and develop sustainable alternatives to traditional hunting practices. This article was authored by William J. Ripple, Catherine Abernethy, Matthew G. Betts, and others.


Top 10 Places To Take Your TEFL Coursin Win Winter is upon us, which doesn't have to mean that you can't travel and explore the world. These are the top 10 places to take your TEFL Coursin Winter. 1. Moscow, Russia Visiting Moscow during winter is an absolute visual wonder. Your Russian fairytale will come true when you explore the city's beautiful parks, squares and churches covered in powdery snow.  2. Alexandria, Egypt If you'd rather like to escape the cold temperatures while still exploring some fascinating history and culture, Egypt is a great alternative. The bustling port city of Alexandria offers amazing historic artifacts, such as the lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Alexandria also boasts a multitude of Greco-Roman landmarks, such as the 15th-century sea front Cape Bay Citadel. 3. Leipzig, Germany What better place to spend your winter than in Germany with its fairytale-like Christmas markets? The local Christmas market in Leipzig dates back to the year 1458 and has been held every year since. With more than 250 different stalls, you can eat your way through traditional German market snacks, drink authentic Malt wine or purchase some of the most unique handmade Christmas trinkets in the world. 4. Natal, Brazil When the temperatures go down in the northern hemisphere, Brazil is instead celebrating summer. Escape the cold and head to Natal, known for its extensive coastal sand dunes and exquisite beaches. celebrating Christmas in New Year's Eve with hot temperatures at the beach is something you'll surely never forget. 5. New York City, USA If there's a city with the magic of Christmas unlike any other, it has to be New York City. Follow in the footsteps of little Kevin from home alone and experience the glory of the most beautiful season of the year in this bustling metropolis. Go to Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, go ice skating in Central Park or get discounted tickets to the hottest shows on Broadway. Winter in New York City never gets boring. 6. Singapore With hot temperatures year round, Singapore is another great choice to head to if you are looking to get away from the cold. The city also goes all out when it comes to reviving the Christmas spirit and you can even visit Christmas markets and bazaars all over the city. Plus, the Marina Bay Sands in the entire area around the Super Tree Grove boasts the most intricate festive decorations in the area. 7. Brittany, France The largest cities in Brittany, Rennes and Brest also hosts some of the most beautiful Christmas markets in Europe. These Marché de Noël offer tasty traditional treats and handmade crafts that will really get you into the spirit. 8. Cebu, Philippines The most wonderful time of the year, locals in Cebu go all out. They set up a giant Christmas tree in Fuente Circle, go ice skating at the third largest shopping mall in the country and go see the Symphony of Lights at Ayala Terraces. With tropical temperatures, you'll have no problem walking around the city for long hours even in the wintertime. 9. Granada, Spain Just like many other European cities, Granada also joins in on the fun and transforms into a beautiful Christmas wonderland in winter. The city centre is filled with beautiful light decorations, there are Christmas concerts people can attend for free and a large Christmas market, but the most important type of Christmas decor is the nativity scene found in most shop windows and offices. 10. Calcutta, India If you are looking for something a little different, Calcutta in India might just be your best choice. The best time to visit this part of India are the winter months when the weather is comfortable and not too hot. Besides the great weather, this time of the year also sees a lot of exciting festivals. For example, the whole city comes alive for Durga Puja, one of the many religious festivals featuring pandals all over town with statues of the beautiful goddess Durga and lots of street food stalls. Are you ready to teach English as a foreign language? Apply now for your TEFL TESOL certification course and start teaching in a matter of months. Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad. Send us an email or call us toll free at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today.