But look at the left breast after I finished the lipo. You would think there's a lot more fat to be lipoed out. But with my experience, I knew it wasn't fat. So look, look at what I've dissected out. Look at this gland. Look, this is a monster of a gland. Look, it keeps coming. Look at that. Look at that, that was all packed up here. You see, look at that. All of it is almost out. And I'm gonna just disconnect it laterally and take, you see, look at, look at how it's connected all this. Look at that. Okay, we're gonna take it out. So here it is, the last connections of the gland as I'm taking it out, watch.  This is just straight fibrous tissue. I lipoed all the fat. When I tell you guys you can't exercise it off, this is why, because all of this is fibrous gland tissue, not a speck of fat. So he had a huge gland that went laterally, it's all taken out.


باركاوت السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته وبركاته بكم لأحكام SOS متبجر بشكل بسيارة ومن فعله بيشعار لأموره الشخص يتصادق الشراثي حفظ الله ون تتحدي هذا العام نتوقع أخر مراجا وعلى إلى نهائك المثال أنا your hostMosinShahi المساعة في بجد بني الشيخ عليم has السلام عليكم الشيخ ورحمة الله الشيخ، دعني اتطاق و السؤال I want to ask is We know that a muslim man It is Haram for him to wear gold What about jewelry which is gold plated or watches which are gold plated Is that ok for him to wear Or is that also considered Haram بالنسبة أن هاتع وجوبي أحتياط وجوبي يجب أن يكون بعيدة use such gold-plated. وأدخل مطالق. الأطبع و الأجهزة. لقد نبتعه مع هاتع وجوبي أحتياط وجوبي. والدخول هو if somebody is following somebody saying he can refer back to another مرجع who says that yes you can work, work them because the said is making a haityat here which is precaution, a haityat وجوبي so the one can refer back to Marjah who allows it What about if I have glasses and our spectacles and have a gold frame, is that acceptable? No, that's not acceptable to wear gold in any means so your gold is not allowed Okay so gold is not allowed, even if it's for medical purposes like glasses, not allowed What about platinum? Is platinum allowed for males to wear? Platinum is a type of metal, it's not gold In this situation yes it is allowed to be used, it's permissible So does white gold have the same verdict the same prohibition as normal gold? You have to ask the experts to see what do they mean by the white gold Is it platinum for example they call it white gold for example type of metal they change it to let's say white and they call it white gold or is it actual gold itself and they somehow changed the color and made it to look like white if the second case is what is meant to be which originally was a gold then they made it white then it's haram and you cannot use it as a male so when it comes to gold and platinum this is for males to beautify themselves another way a man beautifies himself is with tattoos now according to Grandeur Sistani what is his opinion on tattoos? He would mention that he is mentioned in Fatawa that يجيوس في نفسه in principle it is allowed however سمعت سيد المرجح وضع الله would say that it is Makruh to apply tattoo and use tattoo on your body it's Makruh undesirable overall it's not haram but the one should think twice before especially the ones which are permanent are unremovable let's say if you are a youth or a young man and you want to get married it's important that you think twice because you might have the next forthcoming wife or a spouse if she didn't like it then you might be in trouble so things might happen in the future when you grow up you don't know what to do with this tattoo because it's a permanent so we have to think about it twice before we actually apply the tattoo on our body شكرا unfortunately our community no different from other communities we suffer from rumors rumors spread around the community sometimes it's about an individual sometimes it's about a family sometimes it's about a scholar sometimes it's even about a marja as Muslims what is our responsibility in regards to rumors in general people talking bad about other people the Holy Qur'an states بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم إن السمعة والبصرة والفؤادة كل أولئك كان عنه مسؤولة surely the hearing the sight and the heart all of those shall be questioned about that we have to be careful not to spread something that causes let's say defame destroys the one's reputation Imam أمير المونع عليه السلام he mentions with this regard he says not everything that is known may be said you can't just say whatever comes on your mouth and tongue just say it it encourages for keeping silence just keep quiet don't talk that's the best thing unless if it's something useful for dunya and akhara don't talk otherwise just keep silence keep quiet most of the now the punishment or many of them are from the the statements of the tongue and mouth imagine one leader can issue a statement and millions might be killed after a few days or weeks wow so it's a severe and destructive means for the one who uses his tongue in the wrong way so it's better to avoid it and to keep silence unless we need to speak and to talk I think the tongue is arguably the most tool when I remember my friend used to say there's 32 guards two gates and it still escapes and I think one of the biggest battles of the nafs is actually to control your tongue speaking of which it leads me to my next question of slandering and swearing is it okay to use such language when joking with friends and stuff to slander and swear again if it consists to be defaming and destructing other's reputations and personalities and it's haram of course otherwise it is not praised it is undesirable and discouraged for the one to use such foul language against his friends especially their مؤمنين I mean you're not talking to somebody who's outside the area so the best things to avoid is to try to learn ourselves and teach ourselves to say wise words beneficial words beautiful words to attract even the non-muslims to Islam when they see us we talk in this way and in this pattern masha'Allah you know we can all be a good example to the whole of society masha'Allah in regards to you know doing good deeds how can one control like his nia and his intention how can one be on the path of Allah perform his Islamic duties and his Islamic acts for the sake of Allah and not for the sake of his own reputation to look good in the Muslim community or to gain more favors or to gain more praises within his community and his friends but rather than actually obeying Allah سبحانه وتعالى we have in some narrations that one of the types of the عبادة of عبد الرحمة الله was to reflect and ponder in the creation of Allah سبحانه وتعالى in the matters of Allah if the individual wants to reach that level in which whatever he does would be for the cause and the intention of Allah سبحانه وتعالى then the one should reflect always have this reflection towards the creation of Allah reflection and think about that the fate and the future of of myself and the rest of the humanity is the hereafter it's life after death so when we have this image of the hereafter of Almighty Allah that we have to stand before Him on the day of judgment the one will automatically move towards offering the good intention in all aspects of life when he is let's say helping others when he is offering a service to the community when he is let's lecturing or giving a speech or even by himself reading the dua and so forth the Quran the citations when you have that image in front of you the life of death and Allah's Almighty سبحانه وتعالى حساب on the day of judgment then the one can easily correct his intention and use the right path towards acting according to Allah's pleasure and satisfaction سبحانه وتعالى سبحانه وتعالى I have a question from someone it says I used to be adherent to the right path and I used to perform the five daily prayers until I came to the USA and I was misled by the shaitan I began to neglect I began to be neglectful of my daily prayers and I could feel that I could not continue on this path and I had an inner remorse since that day an inner remorse since the day I stopped the salah in other words I have stopped the salah but I have not forgotten it and in my heart I am tormented by pain and I know it is the conscience and remorse it has been six months and I want to start again but with Allah Almighty except my repentance after what I have done to myself so we have an individual here who due to migrating to another place has become very neglectful weak we could say in his salah has missed out on six months' worth of salah will Allah SWT forgive this man and what should this individual do as well to compensate for his deeds initially this individual should always keep in mind that Allah SWT is merciful as I've mentioned in the previous episodes that the door of mercy is always and repentance is always open whenever the individual to go back to the good deeds and apply them and repent to Allah SWT the doors are open always and avoid the losing hope towards Allah SWT because one of the greatest sins are to lose hope and to despair from the mercy of Allah SWT one of the greatest sins so the doors are open there are opportunities and he is still this individual he is young the main thing he should do for example he should repeat his Salah as Qada whatever he missed of the prayers and fasting and you know start from scratch from fresh a new page of life and the main thing is to avoid the shaitan because every individual every human being has three enemies is the shaitan the shaitan and the نفس الأمارة the evil self and the corrupt society or the bad friends if the one can control these three main powers and desires and enemies and evils then the one can easily gain that calmness and faithfulness and Eman in which feel and taste the sweetness in his heart so the best thing is to go back to Allah avoid these evil means in his life then he will insha' Allah succeed by the will of Allah in regards to missed prayers I think it's fair to say that sometimes Fajr is the most difficult prayer to wake up for and a lot of brothers and sisters miss that prayer one excuse or not an excuse one reason for this is that people go to sleep late now in the opinion of Ayatollah Shaykh Waheed Khurasani is it okay for someone to stay awake until Fajr and to pray the Fajr prayer and then go to sleep or should one actually go to sleep and then wake up for the Fajr prayer Ayatollah Khurasani would mention that if the one who stays awake would lead to missing the Fajr prayer then he is sinful if this act of staying overnight awake all night and he knows that if he stays awake till let's say half past two and he knows if he sleeps he can't wake up because 3.30 in the next one hour time it's start of Fajr how could he wake up again so he knows that he will miss or she knows that she will miss the Fajr then he becomes as the as the says which means sinful so they say this clear about the fact that if somebody remained awake till the midnight and that caused for the individual to miss the prayer then he committed the sin and they say it and they say it also mentions other facts that in staying awake all night or part of the night has consequences on the body of the individual and to the self the human self and the body so mentally bodily would also harm the individual who stays awake till midnight or most of the night so it's better to avoid it to basically avoid the missing of the bounties that you might get by sleeping early that you wake up early you do صلاة الليل before the صلاة الفجر you do the نافلة and then fajr and then you stay awake till the sunrise and then you sleep after the sunrise great bounties and great ثواب you will gain from such act so it's better for the Dunya and the Akhir for your well-being for the health-wise to sleep early as recommended by the medics and to also gain the Akhira by waking up early at least to pray صلاة الفجر on time and still I mean be awake till the sunrise and you gain the ثواب in both cases and of course if you make the intention that I sleep early in order to wake up with صلاة الفجر with صلاة الفجر on time and do the دعاء and Quran and so forth you would get even the rewards for sleeping early أحسنت it's amazing how Islam has given us all the answers I mean I was looking at the habits of some of the most successful people in the world and they wake up at 4 or 5 in the morning you know the most successful people in the world wake up you know at dawn or you know just before the sunrise is they wake up hour or 2 hours before the sunrise you know to start their day and Islam is already telling us to wake up to praise Allah سبحانه وتعالى to begin your day with إبادة and then go out and then go do what we need to do in your bread or you know go back to sleep if you're tired thank you very much شكرا and thank you to all our viewers for joining us on this episode of أحكام SOS if you have a question that you would like to send in you could do it on the email should be there at the bottom if not you can join us on the next episode of أحكام SOS إن شاء الله we'll be discussing more on youth and also more ethical issues from the from the opinion of Sayed Sadik شعرزي and also other مراجع إن شاء الله until the next episode السلام عليكم رحمة الله


Jazz IQ takes legal action against Podcaster Arié Gopin. Jazz IQ has broken his silence on the allegations made about him by Podcaster Arié Gopin in a recent podcast. The MA Piano star says he's taking legal action against the Podcaster for the alleged defamatory remarks. Jazz IQ posted an official statement from his legal team on Thursday slamming claims made by Arié alleging that the MA Piano DJ had a hand in the death of Mbra and killer cow who died in an accident in August this year. The allegations are void of any form of truth and are harmful, read the statement. The facts around Mr. Mignoni's conduct and whereabouts as explained by Mr. Rihital Gilgopin are worrisomely inaccurate. The statement adds that they sent a letter of demand to Arié and the podcast to issue an apology and after no resort were escalating the matter through other legal remedies available to Jazz IQ. This comes after Arié made derogatory claims about him in a recent episode on his podcast Everything South African Music. The whole entire entertainment industry looked past the fact that Jazz IQ sacrificed Mbra and killer cow, or the betterment of his career. When I saw him I felt like that was a music video came out after everything happened. Why were Mbra and killer cow in the music video when they are not featured in the song? And then I'm like the day after they died, he left, and went to Ghana. I'm just saying that we're not reading between the lines, he claimed. F5 News attempted to reach Arié Gopin for comment with no resort and the podcast Social media platforms have been mum on the matter.


I work in. All right, I should be going right now, right? Okay, someone asked about these old lithium batteries, although someone also told me that, Jamie, if you're doing a talking video, you shouldn't put it on Jamie Builds, you should do it on Jamie Talks. But what if I'm talking about building? Well, somebody just has to make the call. Who's gonna decide that? Oh, wait, me, because it's my channel, obviously. So save your breath. Anyway, okay, so a little while ago, someone asked me about these old lithium batteries that I bought several years ago. And they were used when I bought them. I just got them off eBay. There were like tons of them being sold at the time. So I bought a few. And hello, Mr. Landville, what are you doing? I'm just answering a quick question here because it's easier than typing it, especially when several people have asked about this. Okay, so, you know what? I'm gonna turn this over so the camera's a little higher. Okay, so basically he was asking, what happened with those batteries? You used them for a while and then they just kind of disappeared and we don't know what happened.  So all these batteries down here were inside this with a BMS and it was all set up fancy and nice and it has a little voltage readout on it and everything. However, like a chunk right here is dead. So the BMS was faulted and it wouldn't work at all. So I rooted around and found out that there's like a whole chunk here that's totally dead and a chunk over here that's like mostly dead and I think I've gotten to the point where I've squeezed all the life I can out of these things and so I'm gonna take them to the battery recycling place. But when I got them, how many years ago? I don't know, it was like four years ago or something, five years ago, it was a while ago. So I got them and they've been, I've used them in all three of my boats. So I had a bunch of them in the green boat that I was driving that was like my main boat for a while. For about six months, I was driving all over the place like crazy on those batteries until the motor I had in that boat which was a 48 volt motor died. And I didn't wanna set up a 48 volt system in that boat in the first place but I got this motor donated and I was like, well, it's pretty cool motor, let me use it. I'll set up one 48 volt system. So when that motor died after six months, which was so annoying, I switched the power system back to 24 volts to match everything else I have.  And usually that dead cell would take a whole block of cells with it, all the ones that are in parallel. So I replaced those and get it all working again. But at that point I was like, well, let me just take them out. But then I also had them in the little white boat and in the big cargo boat. And the cargo boat, I was powering all kinds of things off it. I didn't get video of all this but I was driving around on it but then also just powering just all kinds of stuff like tools and stuff when I was out doing things. So I did get a lot of use out of those batteries. However, it eventually got to the point where cells were dying kind of faster than it was worth replacing them. So, and this was, why is there a hair on my face? Get out of here. So this block of batteries here that came out of my battery suitcase that was kind of the last ones that I was still using. And I was gonna put that on my kid car that's up on the top of the hill, which I can drive around kind of medium speed if the sun is out, but it doesn't have any batteries. I was gonna put that on, it'd be a perfect battery for that. It'd even be oversized for that. But when I pulled out the suitcase, the BMS wouldn't give me an electricity so I disconnected it and rooted around, found there's like two different sections of cells that are dead and I was just like, all right, this is, I need to just send these to heaven. I think they're done. I did get a lot of use out of them before they're done though, but at this point they're done. And I gotta say, after dealing with used lithium batteries and trouble shooting them constantly and all this stuff, it is so nice having some brand new batteries like the ones I have on the boat right now. So nice. So I think for the kid car, I should just get a battery for it. Anyway, so that's what happened to those batteries. Let me just see what's going on here in comments. I'm not gonna turn this into like a three hour talking thing. I was just gonna answer a quick question, but oh, hello Scott and Tacoma and Mr. Landfill. You the man. I'm the man cell because that's my last name. Anyway, Mike, how's it going? Hit the thumbs up everyone. Mr. Landfill has always thumbs up in everyone. The ladies must love you. Then the ladies love the thumbs up, right? I forgot about your channel years ago. So cool to be back role model. Well, thanks man. I can't even read your name because it has fancy letters. Name, bore, name bear something. Anyway, Blackwater Boys. How's it going? Hey man, I wish I had an alarm that tells me when you go live. Well, I mean, sometimes, I mean, I try to do one every Sunday, but this I was just going through these batteries, you know, getting to the point where I decided they're done. And I remembered someone asked me, I mean, a lot of people have asked me about these batteries. So I just wanted to give the answer there. This paste you is a yo-yo, what's up? Yeah, old lithium batteries, pain in my ascii. Yeah, man. So it is kind of cool to have the experience of using some used lithium batteries. So I know what it's like toward their end of their life.  And kind of the accelerating death they experience. Like once they start having problems, it just compounds and gets worse and worse. Yeah, they're an example of a technology that works amazingly as long as everything's perfect. So yeah, it is really nice having the new batteries now. So those old ones are done. So nanosaur, the other name's already confusing. I bet the font doesn't help. Yes, the font doesn't help, the font is cool though. Font, that's the word I was looking for, not letters. New batteries are the jam, yeah. It's like one bad apple ruins the bunch. Yeah, man, when you have a lithium battery pack, one bad cell, oh, it just takes them all with it. And what happens when you have a bad cell?  If you're not using a battery management system, a BMS, which I'm kind of glad I wasn't, because what I'm about to explain. So if you have a dead cell, generally what happens is the cell shorts, which means it's basically the cell turns into a wire. Like it just lets the electricity go right through and doesn't do anything. So when I was running a 24 volt battery thing on my boat, at some point, like one entire section died. And to get the 24 volts, there are eight different sections because they're more or less three volts each-ish. You know, the voltage always goes up and down. But say they're roughly, let me find a spot. This is a terrible spot. This bad lighting, hold on. I'll just stand where I was, fine. Okay, so it's basically a whole bunch of three volt sections that add up to 24 volts. So if you have one section that dies and one cell can take down that whole section, you have one section that dies, it ends up shorting itself. So it just kind of removes itself from the equation. So you can still use the battery just at a lower voltage. So as long as you don't have a BMS, and I would not recommend using these batteries without a battery management system. But if you're in a situation, you know, where you're like, well, you know, maybe I can get another couple months of use out of these batteries, you know, after a chunk has died, you can kind of do it. I wouldn't recommend it. It's a little risky, but you know. So you can keep using them, but not recommended. I didn't let anyone else get in the boat once the battery started getting really sketchy, but I used them for like another six months after that before I was like, all right, this is getting a little too much. And, you know, decommissioned them. I didn't make a video about decommissioning the batteries because I didn't think it was that interesting. All right, let's see. Sorrows travel not in single spies, but in battalions. What's the timber cross in the yard? Do you mean the concrete cross? I don't know. The guy who used to own this island was very superstitious. So I'm wondering if it was to ward off spirits because he's always doing stuff to ward off evil spirits. G'day from Australia. Oops, I just spit on myself. G'day, mate. Oh, just know what you're doing without BMS. Yeah, if you're not using a BMS, you just gotta pay attention and be aware of what's going on. Where do you dispose of batteries in Panama? Well, I take them to town and there's a battery recycling place by the airport in town and they'll take them. And then as far as I know, when they collect enough, they put them all on a big truck and then take them, I don't remember, the guy told me, but they take them to some huge battery recycling place because you get paid for it. Sort of like taking scrap metal to a place.  All right, I'm gonna get out of here because I really just wanted to answer a quick question. Nothing is quite as exciting as a catastrophic lithium battery failure. I did at one point have some lithium, the lithium iron phosphates. So they're not the ones that explode and go crazy, but I did have a few melt and it was smoky and I was like, whoa, okay, that's it for those ones. But anyway, it wasn't that bad. It wasn't like anything was catching on fire or anything. And as soon as I noticed the smoke, I was like, ah, yank them out, disconnect everything. And I doused them with water, put them out and, you know. But yeah, the other lithium batteries, from what I understand, they have a problem. They like, it's like explosive fireballs and stuff. I suggest a Renegi battery monitor for your boat. It has shunt and shows actual state of charge usage. Thanks for all you do, I see. Well, I don't know, I feel like I have a pretty good idea of the battery level now. Now that I've run the boat basically from full to as low as I'd want it to be, I have a good idea of what the percentage actually means on my charge controller. Like when it gets down to 50%, when it says 50%, that's when I want to be done. I don't want to go below, it's what it's telling me is 50%. When are you getting chickens? I don't know, man. I have so much to do. The list of stuff I have to do is like, I can't even keep track of it. Okay, so I'm going to go start doing stuff. I'm going to get out of here. Everyone have an excellent day. And if I have another question, wait, why won't this work? Oh, if I have another question that comes up that a bunch of people want to know about, I'll probably just do it in another live like this, because then I can just tell everybody instead of typing it at one person. All right, catch you later guys.


What's good Josh Boar Ross back again with another video. So we're gonna check out the WWE news is getting worse That's not good at all man. It's this is just it's so crazy We went from an incredible high this WrestleMania weekend to Arguably one of the worst news we could possibly get and here's the here's the crazy thing Vince I'm pretty sure has had his hand in in Creative ever since he came back snuck his way back into the to the fold But now he's pretty much put it out there Especially with the selling of the company or pretty much merging of the company with UFC and Endeavor He's kind of put it out there and then just the reports of what happened on Monday Night Raw. It's just it's it's sad To come from this much of a high To end up at this much of a low in just a couple of days It's like these past eight months It literally was just all a dream and now we're about to get back to the reality of the situation that Vince is still Running the show. So we're going to check out what other horrible news has happened from this. Appreciate all the love and support Let's do this thing about Vince McMahon returning to his position is getting worse The drama continues as the new report states that some wrestlers could be looking to leave WWE stays Not good full reported this there are at least two talents including one near the top of the card That said they'll likely request their releases if this is a trend moving forward and another said they'll just ride out their deal We don't know who said this but this is not good news for WWE Especially if others continue to follow just imagine if this turns into a boycott I doubt that will be the case, but you never know It's crazy to think about how Vince McMahon essentially destroyed the backstage morale in the matter of just 24 hours According to Sean Rossap a wrestler even called Vince McMahon an 80 year old Tasmanian devil Talent is clearly not happy with Vince McMahon in charge and it might not just be WWE wrestlers. It could also be the new owners and executives from endeavor This next tweet comes from zero news This is what a source of his said about how the new owners felt about Vince McMahon running raw after WrestleMania I spoke to the source this morning who stated the following I want to say this isn't a report new owners were backstage and Vince was showing his creative process They weren't impressed with it all the rewrites and revisions were concerning Friday nights They will also be on hand and they want to see triple H in action running the show But he said in a tweet this isn't an official report However, it seems like something that could be aligned with what happened on raw because the rewrites and revisions during the show itself Would concern any owner. That's and I I know This has been speculation that maybe Vince will be more hands-on with raw And triple H will be more hands-on with uh smackdown Which I don't have a problem with smackdown is much of a it's it's a show that's easier to digest Because it's only two hours, so they got to get in and get out So i'm okay with that But at the same time I would prefer triple H just kind of handling the creative side of things On both brands honestly if that if this rumor is true, it's not a healthy way to operate a business It's essentially pure chaos without any order to see how triple H runs things would be a good idea if this is true I'm sure that things could run a lot more smoothly in the talent backstage would be generally a lot happier Like I said, though, this hasn't been confirmed by any other journalists, but I do hope it is true We'll find out friday when reports come out on if fit stickman was their backstage or not at that show You could probably even tell by the tv product Honestly, we don't even need to know the reports if smackdown is good If there's not a lot of rewrites if producers not going to the wrestlers in the middle of an entrance telling them that they're Going to be cut and their segment is scrapped then we will know Yeah We'll know this Friday a few weeks ago. I made a video sharing some good news about ellie night. Unfortunately I'm afraid I've got some bad news to share about him now He was reportedly set to appear at wrestlemania 39 in a segment with bobby lashley However, ww scrapped those plans and he did not make any appearance This was a very odd decision, especially considering how over he's been with the audience for the last few weeks Leading up to wrestlemania even a story on smack. He should have been there I Shane is cool But imagine if la night would have came out there to confront me is la in la la night in la like The crowd would have went he probably would have got a huge pop. All you would have heard is yeah I hope this is the year they push him. He needs to get pushed. He needs to get pushed That has been him talking about how it couldn't be la wrestlemania without la night Surely that was leading to the payoff of some sort of segment or match But nope, it was cuts and that was a bad idea Some reports have said that triple h is the one to cut the la night appearance However, fiefel wasn't able to confirm if vinsic man was the one to make the call to scrap him from wrestlemania Or if it was triple h But if you think about it logically then you can make a decent assumption vinsic man turned him into max depri last year vinsic man removed max depri from his own faction without any plans for him because he felt like he was rubbing people the wrong way And then triple h reverts him back to la night triple h gives him the spotlight and lets him shine LA night gets over triple h reportedly has big plans for him post wrestlemania And then he misses wrestlemania while reports come out saying that McMahon is back in charge If you ask me that is a little suspicious I just hope that he can maintain those big plans moving forward because I think he's a true star I think la night could do so much for the wwe He could be a world champion if you really wanted him to be and it would be a shame to not take advantage Of his popularity right now because he's red hot But if he does lose that push, I might just punch a wall As we learn that she may mainly was supposed to join her faction on raw She was going to be ringside for her match But McMahon reportedly scrapped that plan dakota kai and ilo sky would enter the ring Without bailey there wasn't even a mention of bailey in commentary That is just a bizarre thing especially because they lost a big time match at wrestlemania from a couple nights before On that night bailey tweeted something pretty cryptic She said and sometimes the most romantic love story comes to an end That was a very strange and bizarre tweet It was almost like a goodbye to the wwe universe It only got stranger when dakota kai tweeted that she loved bailey The weirdest part about the entire situation is that bailey did relatively well under the vince mcban era She won the smackdown and raw women's championship a number of times I can't understand why she would be unhappy about the news of vince mcban being back in charge When she found so much success with them running things But could there be more to it are there new details that ruined the professional relationship between bailey and vince mcman Is wwe going to release her to save money? We don't know it yet But bailey's future with wwe isn't looking too good right now. That's definitely not good And charlotte's uh supposed to be taking the first two To lose the smackdown women's championship to rhea rippley at wrestlemania charlotte flair is taking some time away from wwe To travel with her husband on dride. It's unknown how long she will be away from wwe 4 flair missed the majority of 2022 after taking some time off in may to get married and then had some dental issues later She returned on the december 30th edition of smackdown I find it very odd that wrestlers seem to take so much time off nowadays Like if you look at roman reigns as a part-timer sasha when she was in wwe she was making 70 returns a year charlotte's always in and out of the roster I don't even know where shinsuke nakamura is like the man is just missing in action It's very strange, but I guess these wrestlers nowadays aren't needed on a weekly basis If you think about it weekly television isn't what it used to be It's just very weird because I remember watching johnson to show up every single week the same thing with seam punk And batista or the undertaker I suppose times have changed, but anyways charlotte is going to be gone for a bit That's crazy, man A new photo has emerged of aw's jeff hardy revealing that he's recovering from a recent eye procedure The last time we saw jeff hardy wrestle was at may 2022 at double or nothing When he teamed up with his brother to defeat the young bucks A twitter user has now shared a photo of himself with hardy noting that he met hardy while he was on vacation He also said that jeff recently had eye surgery This is what the tweet said met jeff hardy while vacationing today could not have been more generous and likable He just had eye surgery get well soon hashtag hardy boys. Hashtag brother narrow at aew I'm glad to see an update on him. I'm always rooting for jeff hardy I see jeff with the sixes long with no shoes strings It's a weird combo, but I respected jeff And matt even revealed a few weeks ago that he's been doing much better in rehab And I hope that continues because like I said jeff hardy is the man and I hope everything goes well for him That's good. That is very very good And the last piece of news we have is bad news for j white fans according to pw insider He is no longer wwe bound and I just seen a clip on twitter. I'm filming this on wednesday Just seen a clip on twitter of him I guess uh debuting in aew That's the case that he he was in aew tonight. I'm filming this on wednesday night. So that's crazy The company does not have any interest in signing him anymore And that is just another l for wwe The promotion has been taking a bunch of ls in the last few days And this is just another one j white could have been a great addition I'm not sure how he would have fit in the world title scene But I know he would have made for a great us or ic champion It would have been a nice roll for him, especially since those belts are very prestigious now But that's not the case. Look guys, this has been a tough week for wwe fans. It's been very rough I'll tell you that much, but let me know your thoughts in the comments below. Thank you so much for watching Yeah, man, this has been a tough one, bro. Like I said, incredible high this weekend all the way down to uh An incredible low What can you do? What can you do, man? This is this is this is a crazy one, but comment down below Let me know what's your what's your thoughts and opinions on all this wwe related news, man Let me know how y'all feel about some of the things you've heard about That's been going on this week for wwe But I appreciate all love and support you guys shown on channel road to 150k Now I am still you know, just be the youtube wrestling champion of the world. Appreciate y'all kicking with me. See you next peace


So next is my very great pleasure to introduce our last speaker for the day. After Judy, we've got a bit of a variety show to wrap up, but first, Judy Chang is the Executive Director of the International Network of People Who Use Drugs, Input. Judy has worked in the HIV and community-based health and development field for 15 years. She brings over 20 years of lived experience as a woman who uses drugs as a client of harm reduction services. During the course of her work, she's worked in India, China and Thailand. I think this list needs to be updated, Judy. I've seen you work beyond that. She holds a Master's Degree in International Development and a Bachelor of Arts in Writing and Contemporary Cultures. Above and beyond all of this, you know, Judy took on the role of Executive Director of Input about a year before I took on the role at HRI. And I have watched her with absolute awe, like break open doors, take seats of power and really bring the community of wasted places it's never been before. So I am so excited to have Judy here to close our closing ceremony. Thank you for that lovely introduction, Amy. OK, so I'd like to begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land, the Wurundjeri Wurrung people of the Kuling Nation. Sovereignty has never been ceded. It always was and always will be Aboriginal land. So it was actually in 2019 I was asked to do the closing ceremony in Porto. And I was not, unfortunately, I was not able to attend, but it does feel very serendipitous because it meant I could do the closing ceremony this time and I find myself in Australia, which is the country that I grew up in. So thank you, High Reduction International, for inviting me. So the brief that we got as panellists was to be forward looking, but I do feel compelled being in Australia to do some looking back and also some digging into or some of my personal, some of my personal experiences. So as Naomi mentioned, I've been in the position of Executive Director of Input for six years, but I don't really, I don't often or speak to often about my personal experiences or really dig deep. You know, partly that could be to do with entrenched internalised stigma. But also, you know, one of the reasons is because I think that our role as drug user advocates is should not only be limited to telling our personal stories.  So without doubt, there is undeniable power in sharing our personal stories and there are lessons to be learnt, but we are also analytical, tactical and strategic advocates and also brilliant service providers. So Australia is where I began my career as a woman who uses drugs from the age of 14. I was definitely privileged because of the strong user rights advocacy that has gone on for decades, that has gone on for decades. I was able to easily access needles and syringes, whether from fixed sites, pharmacies, vending machines or delivered to my door in mobile vans at 3 a.m. in the morning. You don't really get that anywhere else. It was in Sydney that I started on opiate agonist treatment, which I've been able to continue in India, Hong Kong and now Italy.  It was definitely a safety net. But it was also the place where I learnt the universal shaming and stigma that comes along with coming out as a person who uses drugs or not being able to hide drug use. Without doubt, I've also been privileged enough to not be systematically hunted down and targeted by police in the ways that indigenous and First Nation people have been in Australia. But it is almost impossible under the war on drugs to not experience violence as a drug user, and this violence happens with impunity. It was always it was also the place where it was constantly drilled into me that I should be ashamed of what I am. So I just want to break. So why then? As drug user advocates, do we stand up in the face of stigma, shame and criminalization? It is sometimes said that all activists bear a wound that activism is grounded in the belief that all is not right with the world. And we are thus driven by compulsion to work to right the wrongs. Many of us may have grown up on the sidelines, but this this means learning to reject other people's interpretation of the world.  And this means we've had to develop basic survival tactics early on in life. I grew up as a ward of the state and from the age of 12, spent my adolescence and refuges and care homes attending a selective school in Sydney. So spending spending my days with a group of young women and that we're told that we could achieve anything in life. But in the evenings, you know, then I was back in care homes and refuges and living with, you know, a group of youth who had experienced abandonment, abuse and, you know, there's rarely this talk about, you know, futures. So the reason I speak about this is because, you know, some of the lessons that I learned from this and I had to learn at early on that there definitely is no equal playing field, that our whole lives are arbitrarily shaped by laws and policies and application of those laws and policies. And these expand and contract our horizon of possibilities and affect how we feel about ourselves.  It's because of criminalisation that good people are spending time in cages for simply using or holding a substance. Many of us have lost people, people we love to the drug war. And it's because of the war on drugs that children are growing up without parents, that people lose their jobs, are expelled from schools, cut off from social protection and disconnected from freedom, family and friends. As drug user advocates, we all know that feeling of being chipped away at. We are constantly up against the stereotypes that we are, if not immoral and criminal, then passive and capacitated and unable to make sound opinions, let alone affect political and social change. In looking forwards and envisioning a future, we must not be satisfied with superficial tinkering, but expose the script of the war on drugs and change the way people use drugs are perceived and how we see and talk about drug use itself. Changing narratives around drug use is recognising that drug use is an inherent part of human existence and always has been and always will be. We're criminalising substances that have been and will be around longer than any of us. There are political motivations for portraying us as weak, immoral and helpless. And it's not only prohibitionists who are into the world of drug use, interested in pushing this view. More often than not, we are merely tolerated, patronised or coddled up to to use as tools in other people's agendas. But from my experience, people who use drugs are the best people I have known. The thinkers, the thinkers, the misfits, the pleasure seeking, the funny and fun loving, the adventurous risk takers. And what does it say about our society that we punish the risk takers? When it has always been the risk takers who drive the engines of social progress, who experiment, who refuse societal norms and break new ground, whether in music, art, science, economics, politics and literature. It should come as no surprise that it is the most authoritarian governments that are held bent on punishing difference. In denying services and basic treatment and taking away people's freedoms. So when fighting back, we must not be content with piecemeal reforms or trade-offs that substitute one oppressive system for another, but fight for a complete overhaul. Framing drug use and dependency as a disease rather than a criminal offence or defining people who use drugs as a patient rather than a criminal does not automatically do away with social control nor stigma. We're simply swapping one type of oppression, moralizing with another, pathologizing. And these are not binary opposites. Prohibitionist imperatives bleed into health systems and responses all the time. Across jurisdictions, we see compulsory drug detention or compulsory treatment being forced on people. Where conditions are often measurably worse than prisons. It's a perverse situation made more perverse because it's happening under the guise of help and support. As advocates, we push for the scale up of harm reduction. But in many cases, the roots of harm reduction have been sold out to moral agendas of abstinence. So most of the time in harm reduction programs, we see the primary indicator of success being whether people continue to use drugs or not. And within harm reduction programs, many of us or within OAT programs and those familiar with them, many times we're also punished if we are defined as bad. And this involves cutting doses or expelling from programs. You know, in these programs where characterized as good patients, that is docile and compliant or bad patients, combative and non-compliant. This dichotomy is a manifestation of drug-related stigma, forcing us into respectability politics that does harm. Decent care should not be subject to whether we use drugs or not. In looking forwards, people and equity must be at the centre. And these two elements were reflected in the global aid strategy and the global fund strategy. So then it is drug user groups that offer the best way to give people positive connections to identity and experiences, to our identity and experiences so that we can lift all boats. Drug user-led networks collectivise demands for more and better services, for decriminalisation, for full decriminalisation, and they are the best antidote to stigma and discrimination. The movement is about refusing to quietly bear the stigma and shame and letting drug use rot in the closet of shame. It's about action and taking control. To refuse feeling cowed and constrained and refuse being rendered invisible, because invisibility forces us into second-class existence. But criminalisation decimates and is decimating our movements with hundreds of thousands of lives lost to the war on drugs each year through overdose and neglect. Coming out as an active drug user is a risk in and of itself, and stress and burnout is heartbreakingly all too common. And yet we continue and find new ways and adopt new strategies to survive, especially as we're up against a growing chorus of anti-rights and anti-gender movements that are well-funded. In looking forwards, and I know it's been mentioned a few times throughout the conference, but I just want to emphasise the importance of rooting ourselves in broader social justice movements. Like these movements, such as anti-colonialist, anti-imperialist, racial equity, Indigenous rights movements, the drug user rights movement is about resilience and fighting back. It's about refusing to buy the live respectability politics of what is normal and what is not. It's about changing the narrative. It's about rights. It's about what I as a human being can do with my body. And just paraphrasing Cassandra Frederick from the opening ceremony, she mentioned that we must demand more of partnerships. We want more than lip service. We want to change the status quo. And we want to make sure that we don't use the mask. We put down the master's tools. If we really need to affect change, we also need to be redistributing power and resources. We need donors to step up and stop stigma from affecting funding decisions. If the drug policy movement is serious about social justice, then there needs to be a tipping point where having non-drug users leading on representing the needs and perspectives as people who use drugs is considered as egregious as having, say, men leading the women's movement. And white people speaking for Black, Indigenous and people of colour. We can't be committed to decolonisation without decentering. And that means for people, organisations and governments. Surviving prohibition and still fighting should not be taken for granted. Still fighting and surviving should not be taken for granted. It does damage to shout and have no one listen. So I just want to end on an excerpt of an Audre Lorde poem, a litany for survival. And when the sun rises we are afraid it may not remain. When the sun sets we are afraid it may not rise in the morning. When we are loved we are afraid love will vanish. When we are alone we are afraid love will never return. And when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed. But when we are silent we are still afraid. So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive.


This is the cutting edge energy 808 the cutting edge, and I'm here going solo without my dear friend J. Fidel and I'm just so pleased so very pleased to be with Henry Curtis life of the land who comes right out of the cauldron or the sauna whatever metaphor you're good with Henry choose your own after Accounting four days and a scotch of evidentiary hearings before the Public Utilities Commission Considering the power purchase agreement which has been gosh talk about a long saga has been Before the state before the Commission and one former another for a very long time So that wrapped up today. I watched a fair amount of it I wasn't starting to finish of course like you were being an intervener in the docket And for number one congratulations for you and your team making it through I watched your closing Cats closing earlier today. I watched all the closings because I that's kind of interesting to see where Hours and hours and hours of summary or hours of testimony hours of cross hours of irs Gets boiled down to ten minutes each had ten minutes to do a closing. So Thank you so much Henry for being with me today being with us. So my how you feeling man? I guess that's that's my first question How you feeling? I'm feeling a breath of relief release that it's over Although It was really important to be in and it was really important to prepare for But just thankfully It's over now and we can move on to the next exciting phase of spending three weeks combing through the record to make our final breeze So why don't you just take us through? First the PUC will look over the video and make sure that The video that we're all working off of is sort of the final approved video that would be Separate from the YouTube version. So this will be the official one that we can actually cite The date it was taped the time the witness Etc for using for building our final argument. It's important to recognize that the brief Just is based on all the facts throughout the case and whether one cites the Video recording or some other document. It's all part of the record. So first the PUC will Make an official version of the tape approved it and that will probably be in a couple days and then the five sides will each have three weeks to write a final brief and Submit it to the Commission and then the Commission will have as much time as it's needed to to write their final decision Sorry decision With Jay Griffin being up at the end of June. It's likely the decision will come out in May possibly early June and Then that's that So what what if anything surprised you in the course of these four days then in a scotch as far as I mean There was of course tremendous preparation on the part of all parties. I have to believe and I mean again, I didn't watch for sort of this, but I cut a lot of pretty big chunks of it So I'm really curious to hear what if anything kind of surprised you after all the preparation all the anticipation that you had What surprised me the most is that the who who knew a team of lawyers in Looking at the Supreme Court decision Could not understand the word And D We appealed on three issues One greenhouse gases to clean and healthful environment and three making us in a full party instead of a participant The Supreme Court very carefully in the first two pages of their decision said we were upholding life a land on issue one and List issue two but not issue three. So it's one and two But who who knew it has insisted. It's only one They have said they have given lip service to our right to a clean and helpful environment But assumed that was the same thing as greenhouse gases They have assumed that all other environmental issues are off the table, which is absurd So when correct me if I'm wrong here, and I don't have the language right in front of me when there was the decision in 2020 Which effectively stopped the decision on the part of the Commission to reverse the 2017 decision under Randy Randy Awase that was that approved the PPA, right? And they're subsequently several years later under Jay Griffin The previous approval to move forward under that PPA power purchase agreement was reversed by under the Commission under Jay and his team And that was appealed by the by who know on the parties And the Supreme Court ruled in fact that There should be an evidentiary hearing and that who know was denied that ability or that opportunity that right to an evidentiary hearing and They they used if I'm not mistaken correct me if I'm wrong I think they had five directives in the course of that very short decision That essentially said to the Commission thou shall take these things into account during the course from here on out and I was surprised a little bit Or maybe I shouldn't have been that earlier today in the summaries that there was an explicit mention of those and again Am I correct here? There were five five directives of the Please I I will take your word on it. It's it's bubbling through my mind now, but Yes, and and helco too Which was the result of who know his appeal said go back to the conditions that the court decided in helco one Which was that we that we have a right to look at greenhouse gas emissions And a clean and helpful environment helco two said there shall be an evidentiary hearing So there are at least three components that have to occur And and who know is still denies that a clean and helpful environment is anything more than greenhouse gas It's okay. I understand. I understand now So, I mean predictably It was predictable. I should say what your position was going to be over the course of the hearing So you made that very explicit. It was predictable. What to hear a Steve pastes and sandy wong's position was going to be It was pretty predictable what the consumer advocates position was going to be because they've been fairly consistent from from my perspective, right Uh, and it was fairly predictable where who know is going to be and fairly predictable where helco is going to be now that said How much daylight did you see or did you perceive between the uh ostensible partners on the The the on one side being who know and hawaii electric a hawaii electric light company Did you see any daylight in the course of those evidentiary Days of hearings and intermers the questioning or the the cross examined the uh the objections. Do you see any daylight between those two parties? Do you mean daylight being um a separation in their views? Yes, yes differing opinions differing uh positions subtle or otherwise Who who knew uh tried to over and over and over again say that the conditions in 2017 and the conditions in 2022 are identical And therefore there should be the same price impact between the two five-year separation and the Who he co was saying conditions scenarios change from time to time with new facts coming in This is important because in 2017 He co said that who who knew would have a slight drop in rates But the current projection is that who who knew will raise everybody's rates for 30 years And so who who knew was trying to get he go to say but the conditions are identical over five years Therefore the rate impact should be identical And he co was like no the rates are going up and the consumer advocate said we did our own analysis We took he goes data. We put it into our models and the rates are going up So who who knew uh is trying to fight that because if we don't need new capacity If we don't need new generation If we've reached our rps goals Then why should we adopt something that will raise rates? And that's really I picked up on that as well. I mean it's really kind of Goes to the bone and I think that in the Mr. Mr. Knox is the attorney for the commission. He mentioned this as well that You know one of the consumer advocates top priorities is necessarily what what is the impact going to be of something like a possible new power plant on On the 85 000 plus big island ratepayers and beyond that of course You know the people and the families of the ratepayers right 200 000 or so people on this island and This notion or assertion That if you approve this ppa as is It's going to lead to people paying more on their helco bill, which we're already paying a record amount here You know, this is before We are seeing now price of oil in the world market in the hundred and twenty dollar a barrel range if you haven't seen in a long time And we I mean we're already seeing record record utility pricing here on this island That has topped the record of september 2009. I know something about this because I track it So this is all before possible substantial increases in In larger increases in oil So do you think this is a is it an argument over assumptions and methodology That I mean who who knew his position essentially is No, it's not it's not going to raise rates and we're that is that sure they were attacking hawaii electric lights company assertions that there would be a Effectively an increase of people paying more to the utility. Yes, absolutely and um and also who who knew it was trying to say that this Temporary rise in the rate of oil will be stretched over 30 years Now if the price of oil reaches 150 dollars a barrel and is maintained for 30 years, that's one thing But if there's a momentary Growth and it's a high rate That does not translate to a 30-year change in in the price of oil um and and so Who who knew I was trying to argue and and this was kind of funny I thought that one we should use the absolute latest data possible for oil And second we should use the 2017 data for everything else Um, and they were also upset that heco ran different scenarios using different sets of inputs and coming out with different results So they were saying for example If hamakua energy partners is retired in one scenario in 2031 and is not retired in 2031 in a different scenario Somehow that is wrong. The utility should not be running all these different scenarios Yet they should be running different scenarios in who who knew his favor Which was I think kind of bizarre Well, it sounds like maybe a textbook definition of cherry picking Yes, to at least some extent, you know another thing I've been trying to wrap my head around is this notion that Certain parties on this island who are in favor of a quantum leap forward as far as hydrogen production H2 production and some of these people I consider my friends and good folks and It kind of surprised me when this came out sometime last year When there was discussion of seemingly I think the phrase was preferential rates is somehow you would have an independent power producer such as who honua Which would be in under a contractual Agreement with the utility company here. It's what electric light company and yet somehow you would have there would be a one or more Consumers of electricity on the island Which would not be right next door to who honua, but would be somewhere else on the island Connected ostensibly via the wires that hawaii electric light company has transmission distribution and at that company Could somehow work out a deal with who honua to get preferential rates But let's call it what it is lower rates than the rest of us would pay Now towards these somehow the societal good or the good of this island to produce hydrogen because well Somehow they would deserve a lower rate because they're doing a good thing And they're they're meritorious. They they they merit getting a preferential rate and when I heard that and it still strikes me as is bizarre because Then you could conceivably have all kinds of Individuals and companies making a similar pitch raiser had saying oh, I have an idea If I had lower rates, I would be able to do abc would be good for the aina. It would be pono It would be abc through z right. What am I missing something here? No, you're exactly right Who who knew is proposing that the cost of the plant be passed on to the ratepayers And then for them to use excess energy to give a bargain rate to somebody else And the other point that is really important is there have been many years over many years There has been proposal to take Huno geothermal venture and create hydrogen and the question is why should Who Honeua have that right and PGV not have that right? And if they both have the right who gets to decide who gets it and according to helco You cannot sell power to a third party. It's not written in the ppa, but it's been an assumed practice for decades And here who who knew I was saying is if it's not technically in the document, we're going to find a loophole and I mean I think i'm correct in understanding that any such proposal for a preferential rate for One or more other parties somewhere else on the grid would have to pass PUC muster review and muster right scooters and less Unless the wire went directly From who Honeua to the facility But if the wire went directly it would go through the shoreline management area and would trigger all sorts of other regulatory review So, I mean, you know, Henry, we're both into politics and uh, you know, my my phd is in political science so I'd like to think that I have wherewithal to make the following observation when you have very committed Especially deep pocketed players It's in their interest to find allies where they need to find allies and in the case of hydrogen they found one and effectively We're able to get these particular individuals To come out in favor then of who Honeua after there was this kind of maybe it could be seen as a side deal Or or understanding that this is a priority for both parties. Therefore, if you do a A and b c I will support you moving forward with a b and c or your your plan in general so it's uh, it's just very interesting to see See how How the world works in the real world when you have very dedicated very deep pocketed in this case Beyond hawaii financing and interest That has been committed in a way that I've never seen before and I've been in the energy game here now for decades And I've never seen the type of Relentless dogged determination and commitment on the part of any any party, especially an outside party For so long a period. I mean, I could say that Next year I was certainly into it for several years. They gave it their all. They spent You know 100 million plus dollars when all is said done for a losing You know a battle that they lost they weren't in it for as long as who Honeua has been at and it's just It's striking to me how how much These these parties far from our shores So very much want this particular power plant to come online Yes, um, this is by far the longest fight over a non-existent plant so They proposed the plant in 2008. So we're in the 14th year um, and I can't It boggles the mind because losers have tended to walk away after a couple years Winners have tended to get contracts after a couple years The fact that a project would last five years to bring a new project on and be fighting is is Long in term of the PUC record, but 14 years definitely sets a record You have any insight behind the That determination and that longevity that resilience, you know, we talk about the the grid being resilient, right? Well, uh, the folks at who Honeua behind who Honeua been able to enlist the likes of Warren Lee Who I worked with at Provision. He was kind of the de facto manager Provision. I've known Warren For 22 going on 22 years have a lot of aloha gratitude towards him John Miata and a number of other local heavyweights, you know, they've really pushed all the buttons possible seems to me pulled all the levers possible to try to move this forward and And now like you said about 14 years later. It's still It's still ongoing and any idea why they've been at it for so long Well first first let me say that we are totally focused on whether the project makes sense or not And not the people in fact life of the land does not even rank candidates for administrative judicial Or legislative appointment. We don't attend fundraisers. We don't get involved in politics So our focus is entirely on the issue and yes, we have known some of the players a long time to We've been at the PUC for many decades And the only reason I can think of that they're going is as you say, they have extremely deep pockets They have billion dollars behind them And they can have the money to fight this out for as long as they want to um But it should sink or float Based on a true listing of all the relevant facts and a fair and balanced review of those facts You know and even though this this wasn't part of the proceedings There wasn't part of the ir so it wasn't part of the evidentiary hearings to me Kind of a supra supra super question and super as well as far as i'm concerned over this ongoing saga Whether it's today whether it's six months to go whether it's several years ago Yes, I post the question. Is this really the best that we can do? The best that we can do in terms of power generation specifically for the silent And of course that that is a It it brings up a response, which is it'd be either quantitative or qualitative And to me it just seems abundantly clear in answering my own question that this clear cutting trees For decades on this island Is far from the best that we can do it Now it kind of brings me to another point. I wanted to talk to you about So so much of what who knew his position has been and then I kept hammering away at this with witness after witness after witness after witness that their projections of net savings of greenhouse gases that When all of a sudden down after the decades It was going to make a positive contribution and the the the fulcrum point here If I understood correctly was that they were going to be planting trees planting trees planting trees planting trees planting trees and How how much confidence should we have in in a commitments like that for for any company To do something like that over not just a year or two, but over 30 years Their plan sounds marvelous Their plan sounds like it's a winner But walking the walk and talking the talk are very very different things um and for all of the fluff and and puff About their proposal for how many trees they're planting and what they're offsetting takes a lot of of Assumptions that they're doing the right thing and that they will do the right thing But you have to base it not on their Fluff but on the substance behind it Look clearing away the smoke and looking at the fire and seeing exactly what they're proposing And we feel the evidence shows that they Claim they'll plant at trees to offset, but if that's it just smoke and mirrors Let me flesh out a little of what you just so how is this smoke and mirrors? Is that essentially? Doubting their commitment to plant as many trees as they claim they would plant or is it they They would plant trees, but it wouldn't come anything close to The the the sink the carbon sink that they have been arguing strenuously month after month That I can't disclose at the moment because we don't want to give who honua any heads up on what's going to be In our final brief Understood. Okay All right, well I'm kind of segue to an interesting Quite a long piece today in the Honolulu star advertiser by one of the reporters Andre Gomes who has written a number of pieces on on energy and he noted Amongst other things 14 senators So he was talking both about the evidentiary hearings, but also about various bills that have are being considered were considered pastor President tense in the senate at least and I'm going to just read you a quote here 14 senators have weighed in at the PUC comma criticizing a 2020 commission decision to reject a competitive bidding waiver and ppa with hawaiian electric and the The point of me bringing this up is wow 14 senators and we have four senators four senators here on on the big island and up until Joyce and the Buena Ventura was elected Back in in 2020 there was Russell ruderman And so he was one of our senators and a friend of mine for for the you know two previous sessions So I don't think a Russell was on board with this group of 14 So I just find it interesting that You had a clear majority of all senators in the state who chimed in essentially Implicitly in favor of who honu his position and I wonder if you have any commentary or observations about that Yes, the um who honua has always thought that if they have enough money and enough political connections That should trump facts and it should trump the um Rates and it should trump the environment here. We're talking about Climate change getting worse and worse here We're talking about the senate saying that climate change is of the utmost importance And here they're saying we should be chopping down trees and burning them for electricity There is something Not connecting up there. You can't burn down the lungs of the planet and be concerned about climate change No, I think you put it about as simply and concisely as as it can be and uh I know we're we're wrapping things up here But I just want to I want to make clear in my own understanding that I get this right because this was repeated by a number of the parties Including your self-life of the land But I mean as far as what? Hawaii Electric Light Company has as far as existing generation and the fact that pgb Is on the way, you know week by week month by month to to Come back to where they were prior to the eruption and then if if the revised and amended and revised the restated ppa that's before the commission for pgb Were to go into effect, which I I support That would allow pgb to go up from its max right now 38 megawatts, which I don't believe they've been anywhere close Since they went down, but they're somewhere 20 somewhere the 20s if I understand correctly So they'd be going to 46 megawatts It would be under a fixed contract no longer avoided costs Which would be you know great for everybody here And then you've got two solar farms one You can see very clearly driving from Waikaloa village of going up melka That is well underway and another one that is underway as well now unfortunately the one at pua ko For 60 megawatts. They dropped out, but there was going to be another round of bidding So my point is is that from what I can tell We don't need another 20 plus megawatts of a power plant up at the ko burning trees So is that pretty much it is is that a consensus amongst amongst of the parties Without saying whether anybody supports going from 38 to 46 megawatts at in puna And and adding that we're repowering the hobby when farm And that in a few years we're going to probably be repowering the south point wind farm And as you say, there's this third round coming up Yes, the big island does not need Energy it does not need capacity What it needs is to to really reduce greenhouse gases and to really sharply lower rates Those are the two key issues who who knew it does neither of them. They raise the rates to every person on the big island And my take is that uh, I mean, uh, all commissions I'd like to think have had a very high priority on On rate control so to speak minimizing the hit the pain on the rate payer across the service territories that they regulate But i'm struck I can think particularly under this particular commission of uh, jay griffin jenny potter and leo ascension The day seemed to have taken it to another level as far as the sensitivity and a concern they've shown about the impacts of of any other decisions on What rate payers are going to be paying, you know that that monthly bill so Yeah, and again, especially uh during these difficult times as far as changing fuel suppliers now that par Mentioned or stated last week that they're going to move away from the russian pipeline And despite any kind of softening attempts pr attempts I mean, I have to believe that that's going to lead to an increase They're not going to be able to swap out Probably dollar for dollar what they would have been paying the russians that anyway, that's another conversation Well, my friend henry curtis, uh life of the land you and kat uh is doing fantastic work Uh regarding uh hu honua and other things that you guys have Taken on over the months uh and and years and decades so Much aloha and thank you to you henry for your time today. It's uh, it's been always always a pleasure Thank you marco. Always great talking with you. Thank you. Ahuy ho Ahuy ho


Hi and welcome to the session. Let us discuss the following question. Question is, consider function f from r plus to interval 4 infinity which is closed at 4 and open at infinity given by fx is equal to x square plus 4. Show that f is invertible with the inverse f inverse of f given by f inverse y is equal to under root of y minus 4 where r plus is the set of all non-negative real numbers. First of all let us understand that function f from x to y is said to be invertible if there exists a function g from y to x such that 0f is equal to identity function on x f o g is equal to identity function on y. Then g is called the inverse of f it is denoted by f inverse. This is the key idea to solve the given question. Let us now start the solution. We are given function f from r plus that is the set of all positive real numbers to interval 4 infinity which is closed at 4 and open at infinity it is given by fx is equal to x square plus 4. Now let y be any arbitrary element in range of function f then y must be equal to fx for some x in domain r plus. Now we know fx is equal to x square plus 4. So we will substitute for fx x square plus 4. So we get y is equal to x square plus 4. This implies x square is equal to y minus 4. This implies x is equal to under root of y minus 4. This gives function g from interval minus 4 infinity which is closed at 4 and open at infinity to r plus defined by g y equal to under root of y minus 4. Let us now find out g of fx. We know g of fx is equal to g fx fx is equal to x square plus 4. Now g of x square plus 4 is equal to under root of x square plus 4 minus 4. Plus 4 and minus 4 will get cancelled and we get g of fx equal to x. We will reflect the negative value as x belongs to set of positive real numbers.  Now we know g y is equal to under root of y minus 4. So we can write f of under root of y minus 4. Now this is further equal to under root of y minus 4 whole square. This is equal to y minus 4 plus 4. Since x is an element of set of positive real numbers. So we have neglected all the negative values here. Now y minus 4 plus 4 is equal to y as minus 4 and plus 4 will cancel each other. Now this is equal to identity function on the interval 4 infinity which is closed at 4 and open at infinity. And also g o fx is equal to x that is it is equal to identity function on r plus. g o fx is equal to identity function on r plus and f o g y is equal to identity function on the interval 4 infinity which is closed at 4 and open at infinity implies that g is the inverse of function f.  We know g y is equal to under root y minus 4. So this implies f inverse y is equal to under root of y minus 4. This completes the session. Hope you understood the session. Goodbye.