Okay, we're back, we're live, I'm J-5W, everybody getting tired of looking at me already today. And back to back here, it's Wednesday, this is our flagship energy show. This is Hawaii, the state of clean energy supported as you must know by the Hawaii Energy Policy Forum, one of the most beautiful, constructive, and helpful energy organizations on the planet right here in Hawaii, Nei. Wow, we are so lucky in so many ways. My co-host for this show, Ramsey Brown of Hawaii Energy. Hi, Ramsey. Hi, Jay. Thanks for having me. I knew you'd say that. Brilliant. We have two special guests, and they are from WSP. That's William's. William's sales partnership, by the way. Which is actually sort of merged into WSP, which is a global organization. Charles Shaleiship to my double left, and Kevin Loma to my immediate left. Hi, guys. Hi, Jay. Nice to have you here. Thank you for having us. So I get the idea that you guys are in code, doesn't sound right, that you care a lot about building codes in order to achieve energy efficiency. Is that a good start? That'd be a good statement. Okay. And is that what WSP does? No, we design building systems. Our portion of the WSP design building system, but we utilize the code for the standard of how we design. Okay. And in energy efficiency, we use that as a guideline for our designs, more of a baseline of our design. Ramsey, can you give me some depth on these guys? What is it about them that we like?  That's it. No, they do quite a bit of design with many different organizations that you've heard of, all across Hawaii, all through downtown. They work with the DOE. They work with commemoration schools, different private schools. Again, many of the tenant improvements in downtown commercial buildings. So WSP has their hand in a lot of different projects, and they always look to exceed the standard, exceed expectations, and exceed code. Yeah. That's so you guys are the Cadillac then of energy efficiency and building and code, right? Am I right? I would say so. Okay. All right. Let's see what they do. I mean, we always look at what brings the most value to the client. We can design a Cadillac if the client needs a Cadillac. We could design a Prius if the client needs a Prius. And we love designing Teslas when the client wants a Tesla. But different strokes for different folks, and sometimes people are just going to get the car and sell it right away, and sometimes people are going to operate that car until the wheels fall off. And so we need to make sure that for whatever need the customer has, we can meet. Boy, that's pretty flexible. You've got to be able to pay the bills. Sure. Well, that's the way you get customers actually by offering flexibility. Absolutely. Because there are people out there who look for value engineering on everything. Value engineering, by the way, if you didn't know, means go cheap. You guys are both engineers? That's true. Yeah. What kind of engineers? The answer is usually good engineers. But what kind of engineer? Mechanical engineer. We're licensed mechanical engineers. Licensed. Okay, and where'd you go to school? University of Michigan. Okay, fair. I went to the University of California at Santa Barbara University of New South Wales. How did you meet? Did you meet in WSP? Yep. Yeah. We're not dating anyone. We met professionally at WSP. So I got some questions. It's been made clear to us in advance that you guys exceed the new code, the code that was just recently signed by David E. Gay that was in the process of was Howard Wigg for years or from D-bay to the energy office. And this code is supposed to be the cat's meow. It is supposed to be the Cadillac. It is supposed to raise our sights. Right, Ramsey? It was supposed to be, you know, the ship comes in. This is what we've been waiting for all these years. But you don't even go there. You go better. How do you, why do you say that? So, as Charles mentioned before, we designed what the owner desires and wants. So it really depends on the client that we're dealing with. If they want, if they just need something right away and they only have the finite amount of money to spend in it, then we'll design to the previous code, which is the IEC 2006. And that's still the code currently in all the counties because only the state is notified by the counties. Yeah, who knows when that's going to happen. We're trying to work with them to get that portion. I'm so sad about that. But for like the DOE, for UH, for federal projects, we are designing to what, a life cycle cost analysis. So what would be the best for over the long term? Like if you're operating the building, you're going to have to pay the bills for 10 years, 20 years. We're going to design what's best over that period of time and do a comparison, your first cost compared to life cycle cost and what comes out in the long run. So where do you start when you have these conversations, you know, these flexible conversations with the clients? You say, well, look, here's the new code. And we're going to do at least that. Or do you want to go back to the previous code sometimes? That would be below the new code. I mean, where do you start in order to achieve the standards that you want to offer? So, I mean, we'll set benchmarks, right? We'll lay it out for them and say, you know, here are the benefits of this system design or this approach or this car over the life of the car, right? Are you going to be operating this car for the long term? Are you also going to be maintaining this car for the long term? Or are you going to be selling it off? And each of these different strategies have a different benefit depending on on that viewpoint. So we always try and set energy goals to start benchmarks for design and minimum requirements, right? So the minimum requirements would be what the energy code is current. Yeah, we would never do that. At least comply with the law. And then we would go beyond that where we feel that there's some added value, especially in a place where we have 30 cents a kilowatt hour for energy. So if something can pay back in five to seven years, that's a great payback for a lot of people. You know, some people need a three year payback and some people are comfortable with a 15 year payback and we can lay those things out and we like to lay those things out early. So you're actually, I mean, it's different points, different results, but you're actually writing in another code, your code. And it's above the, so give me an example of a variable where you would say, well, you know, the code says this, but we want to go that. So, so when it comes to PVs, that's one thing code doesn't require photovoltaics on any building, but by doing analysis, you can see, even if you're not doing a PPA agreement, power purchase agreement, I'm familiar with that, it usually pays within five to seven years putting in a PV system. So if an owner occupy a building, usually they're, yeah, we're willing to spend that initial upfront to get that payback in five to seven years and then that system lasts for 20 years for that. So the extra 13 years, you're, you're just making money off of that. So it's, that's a very simple way, way that system that we would design a project that's way above what the code is, but it's easy for an owner to justify it. And something that is maybe unique to our office and something that me and Kevin are pretty passionate about and the new code is actually going to help us is energy storage, right? So batteries. So a lot of times on almost, you know, most of our buildings, the larger buildings at least, we need backup diesel generators, right? And these allow some time for people to escape during a fire, right? They give power to the building so that people can exit with lights, right? And so you drive down, you know, Queen Street and you'll see a big generator sitting outside of a parking lot or some exhaust stacks coming out of the side of the building. Architects hate that, right? So is there an opportunity to replace that with battery storage? Now that the battery technology is improving and costs are coming down, these batteries can be stored anywhere in the building. Well, with the new code, they're providing clearer guidelines for how battery storage can operate within a building and how it can be integrated into the life safety system. So that's something I mean, Kevin are really passionate about because we see a great benefit to the building of eliminating these ugly pieces of equipment from the, you know, perimeter space. We see a great savings on the maintenance of generators because those are, you know, something you have to maintain regularly every week or every two weeks. And then there's another benefit that a lot of people don't quite recognize is if some of those batteries maybe have a bit of spare capacity, we can then use it for demand response. We can then use it for renewable energy storage and that will help flatten the curve out, right? That will help HECO achieve their goal or achieve the state, achieve their goal of 100 percent clean energy. So that's one way that we're hoping to lean on the new code, to offset something that, you know, has been a design issue and provide benefit to not only our customers but to the community as a whole. And to bring Ramsey into the discussion. Why energy has this rebate between five and nine? That's when the higher usage is in Y and they're always trying to find methods to reduce that energy consumption between five and nine. Unfortunately at this point in time, they don't let you use battery storage to reduce the energy consumption there. They don't have a rebate for that between five and nine. But we're trying to work with them because that's a great opportunity to help out HECO to not have to expand their generator capacity by using battery storage. So you would just, you'd run it, you'd run power through the batteries during the day, start the energy and then between five and nine you can run your building off that battery, not use the HECO power and then switch it back after that. Ramsey, I noticed you've been writing furiously. Does this mean you agree, disagree, or you want to add something? I'd like to add something. What you heard there is that there are customers looking for rebates for battery storage and that's not under mandate as Hawaii Energy from the PUC. However, we do continue to work with them as far as reducing their load, reducing their customers load in the case of a design firm and their energy consumption and had a follow-up question wondering of our guests, can you highlight some of the potential benefits of the new code? Sure. You want to talk about generalities of new code? Sure. In general, we have mechanical equipment efficiencies are going to be required by code. Lighting efficiency standards are going to be required by code. But if you look around the U.S., that market has already been driven by U.S. Green Building Council and LEED certification, California, Washington, and some of the states with hot and stricter codes. So for me and Kevin to pull a high efficiency mechanical piece of equipment, there isn't really other some non-efficient option. Everybody out there is giving you something that's pretty good.  So the more interesting pieces of the new energy code are the requirements for commissioning in a building. So coming in and making sure things are operating per the design, some additional metering that may be required so that people can see how the building energy consumption is being used divided by different tenants rather than just one number for an entire building. And then the storage stuff that we have already talked about. In a couple other one, Doug leaked his testing. So a lot of times the contractor constructs it. But then if it's leaking before it actually gets to the place that they're trying to supply the air to, then that's just wasted energy right there. And then skylights and big box type retail stores by having those. A lot of times it's being done already because it just makes sense to do that. But that just encourages them because you don't have to run all throughout the day. You won't have to turn the lights on. And then another one is demand control ventilation. So ventilation is the outside air required to provide it to a space so the air quality stays good for human occupants. But then bringing in outside air to do that, it uses up a lot of energy to condition that to make it so it's not right now typical. It's like 85 degrees and like 70% relative humidity. But you have to cool that down to 55 degrees. So that's a lot of energy to do that. But you don't need to bring a lot of ventilation there when the building is not, or the space isn't occupied. So to have systems in there to shut off the outside air or to lower the outside air when it's not occupied. Now there isn't going to be a code to mandate that to save energy. I'm beginning to get it Ramsay. These guys are super engineers. They're mechanical energy dedicated to mechanical and energy issues and engineering analyses. And they come and they tell you how you should achieve the best energy, rather the best energy efficiency for the best price and where you can go on the continuum. And they have all the options in their pockets and so they can give you some pretty sophisticated advice. And I, you know the question I put to you guys is, are you alone in the field? Are you the only guys in Hawaii who does, is anybody else doing this? You don't have to name me. I think we should, I think the biggest trigger in how different firms operate is cost, right? And everybody asks, oh, what about these things having different cost impacts, right? Oh, this new energy code's coming out. How does it impact cost? Yes. And so, you know, we, we, we would like to think that we provide a high value service. And there are other players out there who maybe have, you know, or maybe more of the low price leader and you get, sometimes you get what you pay for, but, you know, our belief and maybe Kevin can chime in on more of this, but that the overall cost that we're offering for the majority of people in Hawaii. When you say that you mean the cost of construction, design and construction, the overall value of their property, not just the first cost, the energy code is likely to increase the first cost of construction. So who, who is going to be penalized for that is the first question you want to ask, right? And for the most part it's, it's developers who are likely going to sell off that car, right? Somebody's going to build that car and sell it off and never operate the hybrid, never operate the electric or even the fuel-efficient gas car. But for, for University of Hawaii, for the Department of Energy, for, for all the hotels, you know, those are big clients of ours. We believe that spending a little bit more upfront will pay back, you know, for the most part in less than five years from most of our designs. And, and the energy code is now requiring that. And so we're excited about that. So, Ken, how much of what Charles has said do you agree with? I agree with everything he said, but also to answer your question, as far as other engineers in the industry here, I'm the, the president of the local ASHRAE White Chapter. So I extend the acronym for our audience. It actually doesn't mean anything anymore. It used to mean American side of heating, refrigeration and air conditioning. At dinner my wife and I speak of little else. Well, you must have fascinating conversations. Because she doesn't even want to talk about it with my wife. But, but now since it's not just United States, it's the world. So they just say it's just ASHRAE, no more acronym. Okay. But yeah, throughout the, the, the state, most engineers are, have a desire to, to design an energy-efficient system. Some are a little more reluctant to go to newer technologies because lack of experience or just because the tried and true method has been, has worked so far. So why, why try something new? But as, as our, our office has, we sort of test the boundaries there. We, we've done the, at the UHIT building. I don't know if you're familiar with that. Sure. The new data center. We had an active chill beam system there. We, I think a good example was the, the Nelha visitor center right off the, right out the Kona airport. We have a passive down there. We're going there on Saturday to do some filming. So there's a small building with the, with a big PV array coming off the roof. Oh, sure. The energy building. That's it. Dan and always special expression of energy at Nelha. That's, that's it. So you know what I'm getting on this, Ramsey? It's really interesting. I'm getting that engineering as a profession has changed because now it's interlocking with energy and now it's interlocking with this kind of value analysis that you have to make. It's also more sensitive to what customers want. And that, you know, as professional matter, it requires you to listen to the customer and try to shape your recommendations around that. I think it's something I'm curious about. Yeah. As, as the profession changes, how does some of the engineering and energy code changes affect me as a, as a resident of the state and how houses might be built? Oh, what a great cliffhanger. Okay. We're going to, we're going to have a short break now. Okay. We come back. We're going to let them see if they can wrap their minds around that question. Okay. Stay tuned. We'll be right back. This is think tech Hawaii raising public awareness. Bingo. We're back with Ramsey Brown, my, my co-host Charles, shall I keep, shall I keep? Thank you, Charles and Kevin Aroma. And they're both from WSP, which is a super engineering firm here in Hawaii and elsewhere in the world dealing with energy and analysis for construction purposes. And they are ubiquitous in their own way. That's a nice thing. It's okay. In a global market, it's okay. So the cliffhanger question, Ramsey, let's go through that. Sure. We've been talking a lot about commercial buildings. And so I want to know, as a resident of Hawaii, how might the new energy code and your engineering expertise affect homes? So, so one good thing about the new energy code and that Howard Whig worked on, everyone's a lot of people are familiar with Howard Whig. He got an award for it, you know. I think it's out there. Well deserved. But the new code allows you to actually build homes cheaper than the previous code with the tropical homes amendments that they have there. One of the things there is they encourage you to have larger overhangs. With those overhangs, the sun doesn't hit the walls. And then there's less heat transfer through the walls because there's not direct sunlight on it. But since there's no direct sunlight, you know, you can build with single wall construction as opposed to a lot of the homes now being built with double wall construction because you have to fit R13 insulation in there. Whereas now you can just make a single wall. You don't need any insulation. So you're saving there. Plus if you have good reflectivity on the roof, then you can reduce your insulation down to an R19 as opposed to having R30 insulation that the old code had. And then with these large overhangs and good ventilation in there, it's less likely that you have to operate the air conditioning system or you don't need an air conditioning system at all. So there is opportunities to build a home cheaper with this new energy code. And it's not forcing you to do something that's not necessary. So are you working in this market? If I want to rebuild my home or build a new home, and I quote you guys up, you can help me with this kind of thing? Well, that typically would be just a contractor because for a small single-family home it wouldn't be necessary to hire someone like our company. But what we do do is we look at opportunities to reduce the need for air conditioning while maintaining comfort in the space so we can provide some guidance on size of overhangs, ceiling fan locations, window placement so that you get the proper, you can capture the trade winds and still maintain comfort in your house. Those types of things are right up our alley in terms of engineering. So are you cheap or an expensive or what? We normally don't do small single-family homes. We'll do larger single-family homes. Just give me a break. I would give you a break. I'd rather do it. Thanks, guys. Absolutely. Jay, let's give these guys a break. No, I mean, is it, you build by the hour? Like, you know, engineers normally, no, you build on what? How much money you save? How do you build? We do time and materials. We have been involved with energy contracts where, you know, somebody would offer to replace a piece of equipment for a set price each year and then get paid back on the energy savings. Oh, creative. Creative is good. This was not something that was done 10 years ago in the engineering field, was it? A lot of it's benefited by the newer technologies with regards to metering because before it'd be more difficult to actually evaluate. We wouldn't have a way to evaluate. And then finding out what it's actually doing would be more difficult. So with all, with newer technology, it's easier to evaluate what has actually happened or what's, or predict what's going to happen as well. So, you know, Ramsey, you might be interested in asking them where is this all going?  And where are we going? You might consider asking. Take it away. I could take it away. Maybe I have a question for you. I mean, we were looking, I've been doing energy efficiency, you know, engineering for a while, and one of my clients asked me one time, have I heard of a Jevons paradox? And it's, it's this idea is economic terminology that occurs. When do you spell, Jevon? Jevons, paradise. Paradox. Paradox. Paradox. So it's, it came from this guy, and he was studying the use of coal in steam engines. And as the, as the, as the price of coal dropped, or sorry, as the efficiency of the steam equipment increased, the demand for coal actually increased as well. Because the cost of coal dropped, because there wasn't as much demand for it, because things are more efficient. But people still wanted the energy that those steam engines were generating. So we're talking about, you know, dropping, making things more efficient, right? But we're also then talking about potentially dropping the cost of energy. And does that mean that as a finite, you know, island, that we're okay now? Our infrastructure doesn't, never has to expand because we're just going to keep dropping off and we're just going to go to zero through efficiency. No, right? We're growing economically. We're growing in population. And, you know, maybe our energy per person is decreasing. Overall, energy is still increasing. Yeah. So that really wraps into the 2045 100% clean energy target. And I like to think about it as we're looking at energy dieting. And we also need to talk about energy exercise, right? So one side is exercising the power generation and the other side is dieting efficiency efficiency. And you need both to be healthy, right? Like they always work for those six pack abs. I always see you at the gym. And it's like, we're just not going to get there unless the diet is there too, right? So we're looking at trying to extend the use of our existing infrastructure, prepare our infrastructure for the influx of new energy technologies, and then be able to watch how that works with all of our metering. So that's kind of, I think, where it all comes together is, you know, being able to understand that we're a finite island, we have a finite resource, and there's opportunities to create new energy. And, you know, one slide. Have you ever seen Elon Musk's blue square presentation? No. In the United States. Yeah. So I don't know if we have this slide. What is that one? Six, seven. Slide seven. So here we go. I think you had it up just a little while ago. So Elon Musk said that for PV to power all of the U.S., all we would need is an area equal to that blue square.  You had to put it in Texas? Yeah, that's, yeah. I guess they have good sunlight there as well. It's not near Houston. That's the conclusion. So, you know, we have a similar goal, right, clean energy for all of Hawaii. And so I looked at it for Oahu. What does the blue square look like for Oahu? So the next slide, there it is right there. So there's a tiny red square, that's the kahe, that's the generation, yeah, the power plant right there at the electric beach, right? See it there on the left? Yeah. And then there's a blue square right there, sort of north of Waipahu. And that's, you know, kind of engineering guesstimate at what we would need in terms of renewable power PVs to generate enough power for the entire island. Now, would it only work during the day? Yes, absolutely. So do we need some technology to help us get there? Absolutely. Do we need some storage to manage the influx of power? Absolutely. And so, you know, we're dieting right now. We're trying to get some things ready for our exercising. And it might be in one place or it might be distributed everywhere, but we're hoping that the energy codes can help us get ready for that. So the energy codes are not going to, we can't get to our, the 100% clean energy goal of 2045, just by energy codes and reducing our energy consumption, it's going to have to get there by another means. And we feel that the battery storage is going to be the main part and the big part of our way to achieve that 2045 goal that Governor Higue. Well, don't you think we have to wait for better batteries? That's a provocative question. Well, that's why he doesn't feel that way. That's true. Kawaii feels that the battery technology is fine right now. And most every day they have enough, they produce enough power to, with their PV system, at least in the middle of the day, they have enough PV capacity for the entire island. And they're almost there with regards to their battery storage. But let me reframe it to say that, don't you agree that battery storage is going to have some remarkable development in the next few years, disruptive development? And it's going to be way more efficient than it is now. And that's got to be feeding into your analysis going forward now. Well, I mean, that's a big part of why we believe in conservation. We want to give Hawaii enough time to adopt these technologies and absorb these technologies successfully, rather than hitting this, you know, 1800 megawatt, which is the peak capacity that we have here in Oahu right now, and having to rely on whatever technology is available now to get there. Right. And that's where our diet is going to help us with all of our exercise. And another thing with the cost of batteries, yeah, there are a lot, five years from now, they're going to be a lot cheaper. But right now, when we work with the owners, everything is, can you justify the cost of what you're putting in there. So we're not putting, we're not designing in batteries that we're not justifying the costs with regards to life cycle costs. So, you know, it strikes me that what you do, I program, you know, I don't tell everybody that, what you do can be reduced to an algorithm with variables here, the computer program, artificial intelligence make it even more powerful. And, you know, you don't even have to go down to the client's office just to have him answer some questions and it'll pop up with the solution, right? Isn't that where we're going on this? Are we all just a big algorithm? Speak for yourself. I'm a computer with a lot of errors, but you know, try my best. But isn't that where it's going? I mean, you guys have to be using computers a lot in what you do. Absolutely. And there's been more and more going forward now. It's just helping us make decisions faster. It's helping us crunch data and take in more variables into our equations and still have a beneficial solution, right? Engineering 30 years ago. There was only so many things you can consider. But now we can consider the entire year, right? The whole weather of 10 years and see how this equipment is operating most efficiently rather than just that one hot day. Can we keep it cool that one hot day? That's old school engineering, right? That's non-computer engineering. Now we can look at the whole year. Yeah, we can keep it cool that hot day. But how are we doing on these other 80% of the time days? Are we being energy efficient? Are people comfortable? You know, can we turn it off? One other thing is this. We're talking about some pretty advanced stuff that you're doing. You're up against, you know, the edge of the envelope. And in terms of applying the engineering principles and having an open mind, thinking out of the box, making, you know, these sophisticated analyses. But there's only a small percentage of the population really understands what you're doing and appreciates what you're doing. Isn't part of this whole initiative to try to educate people, to appreciate that through this kind of Hawaii energy kind of efficiency initiative that we can all do better than it is a big part of reaching 2045? Not a little part. You know, who's doing that? Ramsey. Ramsey's doing that. Well, that's your own question. What is it? One of my favorite quotes, I'll just say my grandfather told me this, there's two types of people or two types of smart people or two types of successful people in this world, people who can take complex ideas and keep the solutions to themselves to become successful. And others who can take these complex ideas and break it down and educate others to empower them. And you know, myself and Kevin, you know, we're both trying to be that latter type of person that, yeah, there's only one or two percent of people who understand what we're doing. Why? Why doesn't everybody understand this? It's not really, you know, it sounds like we're pushing the boundary, but it's physics, right? It's been around for eternity. So it's something that we hope to educate, you know, our clients and, you know, with Ramsey's help, the community so that we can all push. But at the end of the day, we want every project that we work on, everyone to be comfortable within their space and the client to have a system that they are happy with and operate well and they understand and can operate. Yeah. You're not looking for clients, you're looking for partners. Yes. Yes, absolutely. We want to create relationships with these partners for a lifetime. It's that time, Ramsey. It's time to summarize the pros that have come out of this discussion. I think it's wonderful. WSP employs super engineers to help advance Hawaii's building infrastructure. I'm excited because we've always talked about energy efficiency being the first step in making your home or building more energy neutral. And afterward, we're already seeing, you know, we're beginning to see waves of transformation in energy storage, in renewable energy and generation, in the grid infrastructure, in buildings getting smarter, perhaps using batteries and replacement of generators, a lot of cutting edge stuff. And we see open doors of information flowing from the engineers that are designing these things so that our people can be more educated and operate the buildings more efficiently. We've got a new energy code coming. We're going to keep advancing on the next iteration of energy code as it comes. So we're excited that all engineers are working together. We're working to communicate here with you, Jay. So thanks for having us. Yeah, thank you, Ramsey. That's Ramsey Brown, Hawaii Energy, Imua. And Charles Shalysheep and Kevin Loma, a both of WSP. Thank you so much for joining us on this important discussion. Thank you, Jay. Yeah, take care. Aloha.


Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States and Mrs. Reagan. As they enter, please welcome the official host band for the President's inaugural band's parade, the combined bands of Osceola and St. Cloud High Schools from the cities of Kissimmee and St. Cloud, Florida. The Osceola High School Band is under the direction of Laura Hirschman. Would you please rise and join over 2,500 of the nation's finest young musicians, along with the Walt Disney World Orchestra and the Voices of Liberty in the presentation of our National Anthem. Ladies and gentlemen, here to welcome the President and Mrs. Reagan, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Walt Disney Productions, Mr. Michael Eisner and his wife Jane. I'd like to welcome everybody here to Walt Disney World, Chief of Staff Donald Reagan, welcome you here, all the other dignitaries, including the young people that came here, a man that the oldest American decline the Mount Everest is here with us. We welcome Mrs. Reagan as well. I just want to say that I was in Washington 105 degrees ago, it was minus 20 degrees at the inauguration, it's 85 here today, even though this isn't the official, it's the unofficial inauguration parade, it's the first time since 1789 it has not been in Washington. I just want to say that Walt Disney, we're alive today, would be proud to be standing here in my place with the President of the United States and I welcome him, with Mrs. Lily in Disney, his widow, to our great, wonderful company here. Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, Ronald Reagan. Should I seat them all? Yes. Please all be seated and I want to thank all of you, Senator Paula Hawkins, Congressman Ireland, Congressman Connie Mack and McCollum, the distinguished people here and Mr. and Mrs. Eisner, all of you ladies and gentlemen of these wonderful young people, we have come here, our first stop this morning on this decoration day was at Arlington Cemetery and I just wonder if because of the special character of this day, Memorial Day, if we couldn't perhaps bow our heads for a few seconds and silent prayer for those who have given their lives that we might live in liberty. Amen. Well indeed it is an honor for me to be here today to receive a magnificent gift that I received and a second and very much warmer inauguration day. I understand that in preparing for this event, more than 2,500 young people worked with sponsors in the private sector who donated food, transportation and lodging and each of you who helped to make this private sector initiative possible as my heart felt thanks. Tomorrow evening I will address the nation about a dramatic proposal to reform our tax system. It's a proposal intended to launch a new American revolution and to give to you young people as you come of age a nation of ever great freedom and vitality and strength. You know today we're enjoying a standard of living that when I was your age could not even have been imagined. Boiled by medical breakthroughs and rising standards of living, the life expectancy of Americans has been increasing steadily for 50 years. I've already surpassed my own life expectancy at my birth by 20 years. Now there are a lot of people that find that a source of annoyance, but I appreciate it very much. Today we take for granted so many inventions that inspired wonder not long ago. The polio vaccines of Dr. Jonas Salk and Dr. Albert Sabin. Television first in black and white and now in vivid color. Drought resistant seeds and cold resistant grains. Computers in the workplace and the home. Spacecraft that can orbit the earth for days and then land gently on a desert runway. Despite the prediction so many made during the Great Depression when I was a young man, life in America today is not worse. It's far better. And let us ask then what made it so? Was it government directing our daily lives? During these past five decades the government has indeed provided vital services and helped improve life for many people. No one doubts the necessity of a strong national defense or the role our military has played in keeping us free. Likewise, no one doubts the importance of the government's safety net for those in genuine need. Yet our national experience shows that when government grows beyond these two limited duties, when government lays claim to more and more of our resources and begins through massive regulation and high taxation to impinge on our individual freedoms, then our economy grows not more prosperous but less so. Throughout the nineteen seventies for example, government's growth was unbridled, yet our economy stagnated. By 1980 the gross national product registered zero growth. If it was not the government that spurred our economic growth, was it perhaps our natural resources?  Yet in a sense, the primary reality of a resource exists not in the earth but in the minds of the men and women who give it usefulness and value. Consider oil.  It was the invention of the internal combustion engine that gave oil its function. Or think of sand. Sand that used to be nothing but the stuff the deserts are made of. The development of the silicon microchip has given sand a vital function. And today we use it to make chips that give home computers their intelligence, monitor functions on aircraft, and guide our satellites through the dark reaches of space. No, it's not been so much our resources or our government that have given us our enduring vibrancy and growth, but the initiative and enterprise of individual Americans. Air travel, for example, has become commonplace because test pilots like Lindbergh had daring and engineers like Boeing and Douglas had the wits and determination. The government might have wished it could simply decree a polio vaccine, but it took years of unremitting effort and dedication by Dr. Saul Konsebin to make the vaccines a reality. In this setting, one story of a private initiative is particularly appropriate. Back in Missouri, in the early nineteen hundreds, there lived a farm boy who discovered that he had a knack for drawing barnyard animals. As an adult, he began to put his animals into cartoons and he became convinced that he could entertain people by telling stories about a little creature with a high voice, red trousers and yellow shoes and white gloves. Professionals in the field made fun of the idea. And to produce his first cartoons, the young man had to sell or pawn virtually everything he owned. But today, fifty-seven years later, this man and his creation have become permanently fixed in the history of our popular culture. His name was Walt Disney. His little creature was Mickey Mouse. The determination that each of these heroes of progress demonstrated came from within. Yet in each case, it was crucial to the success of their efforts that they were operating in a climate of economic liberty in a free market where they could make use of pooled resources, experiment with new techniques and products and submit their plans and hypotheses to the test of practical experience. This aspect of freedom, economic freedom, is one of the distinctive characteristics of life in our nation as interwoven into the American legacy as freedom of speech and press. It has enabled our people to make our nation into a marvel of economic progress. And as with all the freedoms that we enjoy, it's our duty to cherish and protect it. Just as the American people rebelled against oppressive taxation some two centuries ago, the reform that I will announce tomorrow will represent a dramatic effort to make our tax code more simple, efficient and fair, and place more resources into the hands of your families and ultimately you yourselves. It'll expand our economic freedom and clear the way for even greater economic vitality than that which we enjoy today. Nor will the benefits be economic alone. With more resources at their disposal, the American people will be able to provide greater support to the institutions that they themselves value. Our schools, universities, the arts, our churches and synagogues. As our economy grows, they too will flourish. John Marshall said, the power to tax involves the power to destroy. If so, then the power to cut taxes must surely be the power to create. The power to force government to stand back and let the people themselves give expression to the spirit of enterprise, building an imagining, giving to you, our sons and daughters, a nation of ever greater prosperity and freedom. My friends, thank you again for the gift of this magnificent inaugural parade. And you enjoy all the blessings of a free and bountiful nation. And on this, the eve of the Second American Revolution, may you always remember the enduring truth that our tax plan seeks to embody and that Americans have cherished through the ages. God made man for liberty. Thank you all. God bless you. And now, let the parade begin. Ladies and gentlemen, Walt Disney World is proud to present from across the nation the finest bands in the land in the president's inaugural bands parade. Now atop the Walt Disney World Calliope, pulled by the world champion, eight horse Percheron team is our grand marshal making an historic first visit to Red Cross Center. Mickey Mouse with his own First Lady, Minnie Mouse. From Columbus, Georgia, we present the Hardaway High School Band, directed by William Ferris. From Carrollton, Georgia, the central high school band, directed by Steve Calhoun. In Massachusetts, the new Bedford High School Band, directed by the East Greenwich High School Band, the East Greenwich High School Band, directed by Vincent Matera.


Hi everybody happy Thursday. I'm Joe and that is 2022 Panini mosaic football choice edition So four box pick your team right pick your team number one and with some money being given away You need at least two teams. So they're the instructions right there if you get at least two teams You get one entry four teams gets you two entries six teams gets you three entries So on and so forth basically by an even number of teams and half that amount becomes entries We take the entries randomize them at the end top name wins five hundred dollars of break credit to jazzy's case breaks calm That's pretty nice in addition to The possibilities of I mean, you know, who knows what we can get out of here peacock parallels are different pretty cool There's from Brock Purdy's in there as well All right, big. Thanks to this group for making it happen Now if you have a rooftop next name that means you won that team in the filler that we just did not too long ago Ron got double-ass Bob Mojo. You got the Panthers and Patriots Before we pulled the remaining teams out It's also from a fresh case mosaic choice. All right, so We do this here. Oh as well have to make stacks of four here Second stack of four You can one of these are just slightly off-camera right here But we've got five stacks of four one two three four and five So we're gonna roll the die We'll go one two three four on the far right five five roll is six. We'll just roll again. All right. Good luck boxes It's one and it hit column one right there, too. Nice. All right These will set aside over here and the next four box break is in the store right now. Good luck All-card ship. Joe is guessing four almost Yeah, let's see if we can find some nice nice peacocks in here That's the kind of stuff we want to see and when they say one autograph a box Where's the auto spot the auto spot here? That's that's where the auto spot is All right. We got a Derek Stingley junior rookie Matt Corral And Oh, are these some some years these are numbered some are not all right So Anquan bold into 80 that'll be for Darren and the Cardinals Matt Corral rookie 62 out of 80 that'll be for Carolina. That'll be for Ron and the Derek Stingley Junior who go to the Texans that'll be for Daniel. It's also out of 80. Oh, yeah, oh and the ones with the green are Are Not numbered but that's one for the Steelers Ola Dukin for Tristan Pierre Strong Jr. for the Patriots that'll be for Ron and there's a silver Reggie Wayne now behind that Malik Willis rookie card, which is nice That'll be for Daniel the autograph is Kevin Harris rookie autograph for the Patriots That's going to be for Ron last spot mojo strikes again 70% of the time It's a hundred percent of time Five out of eight so they say So they say and Daniel. Here's the Malik Willis for you Next box. All right. We got my homies Patrick Mahomes 27 out of 80 We'll see him in the Super Bowl Chiefs that's going to go to Allen got Kirk Cousins Five out of 80 That'll be for Minnesota. That'll be for Daniel Got a Hassan Haskins rookie 22 out of 80 For the Titans, that's going to be for Daniel We've got Lewis sin for Minnesota And we got a tycon Thornton for the Patriots. There's a Matthew Stafford silver his teammate Cooper Cup and the autograph is Meekle Harmon Junior for the Kansas City Allen with the Chiefs Kind of started thinking about like Super Bowl MVP props like Cooper Cup winning last year was the first time a wide receiver and won it in How long it has to be forever, right? It's mostly a quarterback award Down south. What's going on? Was that a redemption? Any guesses on that redemption There's Devin Duvernay AJ Dillon 29 out of 80 Derek Henry 28 out of 80 Jaquan brisker 79 out of 80 I got a Jalen Tolbert and and a Arnold a BKTA Jaquan brisker goes to Kevin and the Bears Derek Henry is going to go to Daniel and AJ Dylan will go to Tristan and Green Bay And there's Jordan Davis All right, the redemption Is gonna be Is gonna be Rashad white rookie autographs mosaic choice fusion red and yellow Red and yellow red and yellow red and yellow Rashad white is a Falcon no a buccaneer That's gonna go to Joe cook and Tampa Bay So Brody G locati AJ Brown may be getting Getting some MVP consideration Maybe some Hassan Reddick. Yeah, a little defensive choice there Yeah, I think the quarterbacks Jalen Hurts and And Patrick Mahomes, I want to say like their odds are really Not too much value like they're heavily favored. I think they're both like plus 100 or something like that But if you if you start getting to here's Laramie Tunsel to 80 for Houston if you start getting to like the plus 600 range That's where it could get interesting You know, that's where you can start seeing some value 23 out of 80 Damarino For Miami, that'll be for Daniel. We got Kyle Hamilton 80 out of 80 for Baltimore Tristan fellas Jones jr. And We got Drake Jackson. Oh Julian Ellman was the last Joe saying was the last wide receiver to win it as a minute or two ago Doesn't happen very often Running backs are the next closest. So I think out of the last X amount of Super Bowl. I think the last 18 quarterbacks one at 18 times, but the second most is I think Running backs Miles Sanders Jason Jaspis thinking that could be interesting. Here's my Sanders right here speaking of All right behind Miles Sanders is quay Walker Green Bay Packers Tristan with the pack Maybe Kenneth Gainwell. I think it's pronounced a be Katie a be Katie a be Katie I Don't know if that if that if that guy ever gets to a Pro Bowl then I'll figure out how to pronounce his name All right, let's give away some money. Let's flip back to the list right here Let's gather all let's alphabetize all of your names by your first name So Alan bought two teams. That's an entry Daniel bought a ton of teams. He bought 14 teams. So that's seven half of those become entries There's seven right there. You can see the count on the bottom right hand corner So that's seven Darren bought two that's an entry Joe has three to account for the promo That's an entry Junior won a few To account for the promo, that's an entry Kevin got one Oliver got one Ron got two. That's a entry Steve got one Tristan Got two that's an entry. All right. So I got Alan Daniel Darren Joe Jr. Ron and Tristan. All right, so that's Thirteen spots. That's a one and 13 chance. It's a winner take all one and 13 chance to get $500 a break credit You dice roll a new list Good luck or one spot out of 13. We'll get it after 10 four and a six ten times name on top $500 a break credit to jazzy's case breaks calm One two three four five six seven Eight nine and good luck 10th and final time after 10 Daniel did have the odds on his side $500 a break credit going your way Daniel will send that to you And for everybody else Get an even number of teams in the next four box break of mosaic football choice edition You may stumble into some break credit too. I'm Joe. I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye. Bye


says your policies are a menace to mankind. Who's he to talk? What do you say to the Soviet leader, I guess? I think people are very friendly and likely American, I think, very much down the street. It's just wonderful. So, if you manifest in the streets, you can see the same street. That's what that's going to look like. I don't know how to talk to you, what you and your government stand for. The only ones who manifest in the streets are also those who have their government and represent their government. There's only one person in the background here, even in a position like this. I wish to express publicly the satisfaction that the Portuguese government receives President Ronald Reagan, representing the supreme of an ally with which Portugal has always maintained strict bonds of friendship and cooperation. There, there are daily forces by the laborious Portuguese community that lives and works in the great American nation and there transmits the image of the Portuguese people, working, peaceful, proud of their past and the desire to build in freedom a future of greater well-being, progress and social justice. The visit of President Ronald Reagan, Portugal, gave an opportunity to renew the contacts that have established in the past, as an urgent major part of the opposition, first of all the problems of international life. Our bilateral relations have been processed in a climate of mutual understanding and respect, but we would like to expand to new fields. We manifest the hope that the United States can collaborate in the task of modernizing the Portuguese economic and social structures that the next entry of Portugal in the CIA will become urgent and essential. We also talked about the problems of Africa-Australia and Latin America, areas of the world where Portugal is so connected by its history and whose problems accompany with sincere concern. The problems of Western relations have occupied an important part of our conversations. It is a great pleasure to highlight that the points of view of the two connections have always been close. Once both countries are encouraged by the desire to contribute to the creation of a climate of unemployment that leads to a stable and lasting peace, it would also allow the solution of the problems of development of the most affected areas in the world. Thank you. I wish to express publicly how pleased the Portuguese government is to welcome President Ronald Reagan, the supreme representative of an ally who has always had very close friendship and cooperation ties. These ties are strengthened more and more through the diligent Portuguese community living and working in the big American nation and shows there the image of the Portuguese people, hardworking, peaceful, proud of their past and willing to build in freedom a future of greater welfare of progress and social justice. President Ronald Reagan's visit to Portugal has given me the opportunity to renew the contacts which I have established in the past with him. Firstly, as the leader of the largest party in the opposition and then as Prime Minister and in establishing those contacts with the President of the United States and showing him once again the appreciation of the Portuguese people and government for his qualities in the leadership, for his determination and firmness shown in trying to defend the higher interests of the Western world. The Portuguese democratic process started in April 1974 and owes a lot to the support given by the American people and governments to the very difficult task undertaken by the forces fighting in Portugal for democracy, for freedom and for the defense of human rights. The meeting we have just had was a very important one where we were able to deepen our bilateral relations and to continue the regular exchange of information and points of view on the most pressing problems of international life. Our bilateral relations have developed under mutual understanding and respect, but we would like to see them spread to new fields. We showed the hope that the United States may indeed collaborate in the task of modernizing the Portuguese economic and social structures which Portugal's accession to the EEC make urgent and vital. We also discussed the problems of Southern Europe and Latin America, areas of the world which Portugal is so tied to through history and the problems of which are followed by us with a sincere concern. The East-West relations have also been a very important part of our discussions. I am particularly pleased to stress that the points of view of both delegations were also close, since both countries have a lively wish to contribute towards such a detente that will lead to a stable and lasting peace and will thus also enable us to solve the issues on the development of the most backward areas of the world. Thank you. It's a special pleasure to visit this green and beautiful country, and I'm particularly delighted to have had an opportunity to review important international questions with my good friend, Mario Suarez. I fondly recall my previous meetings with him and remember so well his central role in bringing democracy to Portugal and in promoting freedom throughout the world. This morning we had a friendly and very useful exchange of views with the Prime Minister, Vice Prime Minister Machete and other members of the Portuguese government. There was a feeling of sadness as well as we reflected on the sudden death of former Vice Prime Minister Professor Mota Pinto. We, he was a man dedicated to the ideals of individual freedom and political democracy, and he was a champion of the Atlantic Alliance. I agree with the Prime Minister that the state of Portuguese-American relations is excellent. I'm pleased by the degree of mutual respect and the spirit of cooperation which exists between our two nations and which characterized our talks today. Portugal is a steadfast and valued ally, and I came to Lisbon knowing that I would consult not only with partners but with friends. Our meetings gave us a valuable opportunity to review our bilateral relations both in the security field and in the economic area. We reviewed the significant steps recently taken toward expanding our economic cooperation and strengthening the ties between our economies. And as the Prime Minister noted, we addressed a number of international issues of mutual concern. Our discussions were characterized by a close similarity of viewpoints. I profited greatly from hearing the views and insights of the Portuguese government. Our talks ranged broadly both over East-West matters and third world questions. I would note in particular the attention given to Southern Africa which reflects Portugal's special knowledge and expertise in this region and our ongoing close consultations on the problems of the area. I also took the opportunity to applaud Portugal's pending entry into the European community. We have long supported Portuguese entry and as I told Prime Minister Suarez, we view the recent accord both as a major step forward for Portugal and as a contribution to European unity. And now, if you will permit me, following a little translation, we have an important date to keep just across the garden. Thank you. This country is green and beautiful. I am particularly delighted to see the opportunity to see it. One more time this way please. One more. One more. Your policy is a bellicose.


News Update. Welcome folks. We have the Dow Industrial's finished up 14, Nasdaq up 48, S&P's up 12. Gold, gold contract down $5.60, trading at $18.44 an ounce. We had silver up 19 cents, $22.10, platinum up another 10 bucks, $1,027, light sweet crude, flat, $118.22 a barrel, notes and bonds. That was a big move out here today in the note and bond market folks. Bottom line is that you had the 10-year, trading down 8.26. Remember, 32.6 is a full point. Well, the 10-year goes down 19.26. That is one month to move. So what the 10-year did is it blew right by the 3% again. We're at 3.04. Now 3.126 thus far has been the high of this year, meaning 2021. The way it's trading, however, it looks like it's me, number one is going down to the lows and if it breaks all those, that would be a large ABC structure down and the 10, no, I did the 10. That'd be a price projection of 108. 108 would stop bringing you up to about 4% inside of the 10-year. 30-year, 30-year also went down hard. That was down to 1.186, that's 136.18 in Kingdala. Kingdala went up 262 ticks, straight down to 102.403. Euro 106 yen, 131 British pound, 125 to one US dollar. We're going to have, over and take a look at the S&P, what you have folks is that you get a market that tried higher price once again, couldn't hold price. You know, the spy went to 4.16, closed out at 4.11, did 53 million shares, bottom line is to check it out. On Friday folks, okay, which is a, you know, bottom line Friday in the summer, right? You did 71 million shares. You had a high of $414. It couldn't even hold the high of Friday.  NDX100, we take a look at the NDX100, you're going to see the same type of setup. You, we did 50 million shares out here. The high of Friday was 310.47. We got to 312. We did 60 million shares on Friday, today did 50 million. That's a failure on price, failure on volume, and right at a 0.382. That's when this thing turned once again. So that's a very weak market. Well, let's put it this way. It's going sideways right now. But if that's all I can do is a 0.382, that's a very weak market. Have a great night folks. Have a safe night. Come back and visit Tommy tomorrow morning, kicks us off at nine o'clock in the morning. Don't forget about my workshop. It's this Friday folks. Look at them folks. Sharpening your


Okay, I'm working on a series that's manipulating and looking at binary data. And one main type of binary data is executables. So today, we're gonna be looking at hex editors because you can't really talk about working with binary files without talking about hex editing. And I'm by no means a professional or expert or anything with hex editors. But I know how to do some basic things that I'm gonna show you today that will hopefully help you get a basic grasp of them. We're gonna be doing all our editing in Linux, but we're gonna be manipulating both Linux and Windows binary files. Just show you this pretty much the same process either way. So go ahead and we'll list this out. And you can see we got some files. If you watched last week's tutorial, we compiled some stuff ourselves and we cross-copiled some stuff for Windows. We got main and main.exe, both of the same program. They're hello world, one is for Linux, the other one is for Windows. And we also have hello, winhello.exe, which is a, there's a very basic dialogue box for Windows that says hello world. So right now I'm gonna use, there's a bunch of hex editors out there. I'm just gonna use basic one called hex edit. So I'm gonna type hex edit and type main. But I guess before we do that, we should look at what main does. So I'm gonna do dot slash main and you can see it just says hello world. So now I'm gonna say hex edit main.  You got your positioning over here. And then you got your hex code in the middle. And then off to the right here, you have your column of your ASCII characters. So right now we're over here. Let's hit tab and that brings us over here. And at this point we can hit forward slash to do a search. And as we know it was hello world with a capital H. So we're just gonna type hello hit enter. And as you can see, it brought us down here and we have the string hello world. Now in this hex editor, we can modify this string, but we have to keep the length the same, at least doing it this way. So if we wanted to change the output of that program, we can easily do it here by modifying that. But again, it has to be that length or shorter, really the same length, but we'll fill in the extra with spaces. So we're gonna change hello world just to say middle X, one, two, three. And as you can see, we still have the D there. So I'm just gonna put a space to overwrite that D, but it's still the same length string. I'm gonna hit F2 to save it and control C to get out of that. So now running the same exact program, forward slash main, instead of hello world, we get hello, or metal X 1000. Again, I can go in there and same thing, tab to get over forward slash to search and I'll type in metal this time and I'll override it with Chris to affirm my name. And again, this is two characters, shorter so it's gonna hit space again to clear out that empty space and I'll hit F2, control C, forward slash main, and this time it says Christopher. So we're modifying the output. And this is a very, very basic program, but you can do this with any program that contains strings, anything that's like using a basic print F like that, which is what we use in that, you can go and modify it. And there's lots of other strings you can modify as you'll see here as we get further into this tutorial. Gonna show you what not to do going back into the same binary inside this hex editor, tab forward slash Chris. And same thing, let's say I just went, so we have two more spaces. I can go like that and we're good. It will print out Christopher 11, but if I go like that, we're one character too much now. So what's gonna happen is, it doesn't realize where the string ends. So it's gonna continue printing out until it hits another area. That's not a very good explanation, but you'll see as I hit F2 to save, control C to get out and I go dot slash main. And you can see we got Christopher 11 and then some binary garbally cook and that's the technical name, by the way. And then the colon or semi colon four. It's not good. Sometimes you'll completely corrupt a program and run it all. That's usually what will happen. Again, this is a very basic program. You could also end up combining, running into another string and that can be bad and running into other allocated areas can cause security issues if your program is that important. So keep the strings the same using this technique. So now let's flip over to Windows. So here we are on the Windows machine. We've got, I got my web browser open which is looking at the machine, my Linux machine. So I'm gonna go like this and download main.exe. So here I'm inside my terminal, CMD in that folder and I can say main.exe hello world, right? So we got hello world. Let's go back over to the Linux size. I'm gonna do, this time I'm going to edit main.exe with the hex editor. Again, the same thing you can tell it's not the same program. It's got different headers. You can see right away that this is a Windows program because they almost always say this program cannot be run in DOS mode. You know, so tab to hit over. Again, hello world, I'll just type hello. Same exact thing, metal X, one, two, three. There was space to get away from that D. F2, control C, come back over here and I am going to download that again. It is going to, if I dur out that directory now, you can see the download or the Chrome or Firefox that I'm using. It depended on one to that. So now I can say main one.exe and if I hit enter, still says hello world. This happened to me earlier. I think for some reason it's caching the file. So let me actually take the same main file. I'm gonna copy it to main two.exe. So not modifying the file. Let me do this properly, main.exe. You'll say maybe using a web server isn't always the best option for transferring files, but it's one of the easiest in this particular case. So same file, I just renamed it. And let's download it again. Main two.exe. So you can see metal X, 1,000 there. Just to show you again, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna just delete everything in this directory. Yes, so if I dur out, there's nothing in there. And we'll actually go back and again we'll do hex edit main.exe. And just to show you I'm not messing with you that this actually does work. I'm gonna try it again. I'll go chris, man, just show I'm doing something different here. F2 to save, control C to get out. And let's look, okay. Let's download this. Hopefully it will download it properly this time. Main.exe, chris, man, there we go. Maybe the name of the file with the parentheses is throwing it off. So you can see the same process, whether it's Linux or Windows. We're going to now download our GUI. We'll save that, go here. There we are, we gave it an icon last week so I'll double click that and click run. And you can see hello world. Okay, great. Let's delete both those files. Come back over here and I'm going to go hex edit. Win hello, same thing. Again, you can tell this is a Windows program right away just by looking at this. That says as cannot be run in DOS mode. We'll hit tab, we'll hit forward slash and search for hello. And there is our string hello world. And I will again say middle X, one, two, three. I'll just put a few exclamation marks there. F2, control C, come back over here. And download that file, save, come here and this time if we run it, you can see it says middle X 1000. So now we looked at some very, very basic programs. Let's look at something a little more advanced. Okay, so now we're going to look at something a little more advanced. Instead of just a little tiny basic hello world programs, we're going to be looking at some not huge programs but larger programs. I have copied over here two executables from the Windows system. At least on the Windows XP system, if you go into the Windows system 32 folder, you should be able to find sol.exe, which is a solitaire program and Dr. Watson 32, which is a little debugging troubleshooting program that's been around for a long time. So what we're going to do here is, well, let's go over to our Windows machine and download the Watson 32. Click save and click here and run it. And as you can see, it's a basic little gooey with some output here. Let's see if we can modify some of these labels like this one that says crash dump. It says crash dump here as well. Crash dump type, crash dump, browse. So we can modify pretty much all these strings, whether it's on a label here or a button label. So let's go ahead and hit cancel on that and delete that file and head back over to Linux here. And right away I'm going to go into hex edit and we'll edit our Dr. Watson executable tab over. As you can see right away, as I said, you can tell this is a Windows program because it says it cannot be run in DOS mode. It's usually a clear sign that in a list of DLLs here, you're not going to see that too often in a Linux program. But let's say it is Ford slash dump. Okay, we found something that says dump there but I ran it again, nothing. Okay, how about we do Ford slash and we say crash? Nothing, key not found, but we know it's in there, right? Well, let's go back in there and let's just start scrolling down here. Again, this is the sort of thing you need to, you learn these little things just playing around with this sort of stuff. So we're gonna go down and as we get further down, we're gonna start seeing some strings like those there but those aren't what we're looking for. Okay, right here, right away I can see crash dump. So you can just go through and look for it this way but you notice there's a little dot in between each one so you might think, oh, okay, I'll do Ford slash C dot R dot A and hit enter. Still says string not found. It's cause those aren't really periods. They're not dots there. It's just other information. They're actually zeros in the hex code here. So we could manually go through here and actually let's do that. Let's go ahead and modify this. As we can see here, it says crash dump type. If we head back over here and we download that program. So it said there was two spots that said crash dump and if we run it, we can see that one of them right here says crash dump type and it gives you a few little, it's a which call it a radio button there. So it's labeled for the radio button. So we know it's not this one and most likely it's this one. That's not saying that there might be some place in the code that we're seeing a string that says that but we can go ahead and modify that. And again, whenever you're doing stuff like this, work on a backup of the program because if you screw something up, you just ruin the executable. But let's go ahead and say M and we gotta leave those dots in there. E, T, so I'm hitting just over each time after each letter. L, X, one, zero, zero, zero. So it's gonna say Melix 1000 type. Now you might notice right here in the type there's the little ampersand symbol and if you've ever done any, I don't know if other program languages do it but back in the day I was a visual basic programmer and that's the character that underlines like if you ever see like a string in a program on a button or something one of the letters underlined that's the symbol that tells the program to underline that character. Hope that made sense. So anyway, our string right now, our label is gonna say Melix 1000 if that is the proper spot right there. I'm going to hit F2, control C. I guess I didn't have to control C to get out of that since I just had to save it. Let's go ahead and download it again and save that and go here. And if we run it again right there we got Metal X type. Okay, let's modify something else. Let's try to find the browse button here. So there's three browse buttons here and hit cancel on that and delete that just so I don't get confused with what version I'm working with. We'll go back into the hex editor here and again you can just scroll through here and a lot of the stuff's gonna be near each other so once you start seeing stuff that looks familiar. So here we are, I can right away here see a pen to existing log file. These are obviously strings. We got dump all thread contacts. We can see our Metal X 1000 right there. And there's a browse. Okay, so we got one browse. But we don't know which one that is. We got another browse here and a third one right here. Again with ampersands in different spots. We can assume that they're going in the order that they were in the other one. So let's go ahead and change this label button. This button's label. I'm gonna say win knocks and just leave that last characters empty. Again, doing it this way. It can't be any larger than the string that's right there because that's the space allocated for it in the program. I'll hit F2, which will save it. I'll come back over here, download it, save it, run it and as you can see we still have Metal X type for that label. And we have Linux for that button there. Still does the same thing. All we did was change the label. We haven't changed how it works at all. So again, I'm gonna delete that so I don't get confused on what version I'm working with. But real quick, that's another way we can search through there. Well, I'm gonna show you two techniques that I use. Both have their pluses and minuses. Thing is Vim and Vi both can be hex editors. So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to tell it to edit this file. And actually, I don't really know if it makes a difference and we're actually not gonna edit it in here. We're just gonna be looking at it in here. But really, if you're working with binary files, just say dash B there. But I really don't know if it makes a difference. Anyway, at this point I'm gonna hit colon and I'm going to type in, I hit up because I've already typed before, but colon, percent symbol, exclamation mark, XXD. And that brings us into hex editing mode. Okay, so at this point, just like before, if I try typing in dump, or actually let's do, since we know there's only one of them in there, Linux doesn't come up. But in this case, unlike in the hex editor, I can say L.I.N.U, that should be enough. And there we go, we found it. Theoretically, we should be able to edit in here and then go back into regular mode by typing the same command as before, but with a dash R, and save it. For some reason, whenever I do that, it doesn't take. It's like the file is not modified, even though I save it. If anyone knows the answer to what I'm doing wrong, I'll actually show you, since it's not gonna make a difference, but what we wanna look at here is this position here, 8450. Just remember 8450, because now we can use that number to go back into the hex editor and edit it, if for some reason this doesn't work. But see, I should be able to go, like, let's just say, oops, first off, instead of insert, shift R for replace, I'll say B-O-B, and then I'll just do space there. So what I should be able to do is run the same command dash R, should bring me back, because if I save it in here, it corrupts the file. That I know. Reverting back like this, I should be able to write that file, and come over here, theoretically, and download, save, and that button that said Linux should say Bob now, but it doesn't, and I really have no clue why. So if someone knows, please let me know. But what do we say, 8450? Now we can go into our hex editor, Dr. Watson, tab, and I can, let's get out of the string search here. Okay, so again, this first column tells us we're positioning, so all we have to do is look for 8450. And you'll have some letters in there, because it is hex, which goes from zero through nine, then A through H, yes. Anyway, we're going to go through here, and till we see 00008450-ish, again, the columns are different lengths, so it's not going to be exact, but we should be able to find that close. So right around here, right there, there it is. So 8458, again, just because the columns are spaced differently, but that's one way you can help find that line. So now I can come in here and say Bob, I'll say Bobby, just to show you that it's different than when I typed in the other editor, F2, come over here, download it again, run it, and you can see now it says Bobby on that button. So that's one way to search using Vim, and then coming back in here again, you should be able to edit in Vim. I'm not sure why that's not working. But another little trick you can do is you can use hex dump, which is a program that just dumps the hex code to the screen, but you can use the dash capital C, and it'll give you the ask key column as well, as well as the other column for the positioning. And what we can do here is we can use a little bit of set action. Again, there's a lot of things you can play around with. These are the sort of things I teach in tutorials all the time. If you've been wondering why I teach you this sort of stuff, this is why. So what I'm doing here is I'm piping all this information into set, and then I'm taking backslash dot, so take all the dots and replace them with empty spaces. So now that we do that, we removed all those dots. Now I can use grep and search for, what did we type last, bobby? I'm gonna type bob. So there we go. Now if your search doesn't find anything at first, it might be because things are split on different lines. So that says bob right there. I'm gonna assume that's our line. What we can do now is say dash capital A1, and dash capital B1, and that'll show us the line before and after the search as well. And right there we can see, yeah, that's our bobby. And we can look at the number right here, 4850 or 4860, get into general positioning. Now I was gonna go into looking at Solitaire, but it's the same exact process, and this story's getting kind of long. So I'm gonna cut it off here, because basically we're gonna go into the about and change the author of Solitaire. So this little thing is fun to play around. You learn a little bit doing this. You can take a program and change what it says, maybe mess with a friend. And lots of times, lots of strings, labels, buttons, and other strings in a program are edible in a hex editor this way. Hex editors can do a whole lot more, a lot of it beyond my skills, but this is really fun to do. The first experience I really had of this was back in Windows, back in the late 90s, I played Doom a lot, and I found that if I saved a game, I can go into the saved game file in an hex editor. And I actually, don't quote me on this, I believe in Windows you have your editor called Edit, which is a little command line editor, text editor. I think that that can be a hex editor for small programs. Don't quote me on that. I think that's what I used. And I can go in there and like, I changed the name of the same saved game, but that was my first experience doing this sort of thing. And you know, you learn a lot of little tricks. There's a lot of tools to help you out. And again, I said VIM can be used as a hex editor. Supposedly again, if someone knows what I'm doing wrong, why it's not saving my changes, let me know. So VIM, actually obviously, hex edit. And there's another one called HTE. I think the package is called HTE. And if you just do aptitude or apt-get, and you do search, hex edit, you'll find. There's another one, WX hex edit, which is for massive hex files. And if we were to just do another one like this, hex edit, there we go, HT. Once you install the programs called HTE, another one called hex box, which is for dot net developers. I don't really know why it would make a difference, but I guess so. So there's a lot of them out there. You can Google it, but hex edit is a very common one. Should be in repositories for most distributions. Hope this wasn't too long. Hope you found it interesting. And I hope you visit my website, filmsbychrist.com. That's Chris of the K. There should be a link in the description. And also, if you enjoy these type of tutorials, be sure to become one of my patrons on patreon.com. That's patreon.com. Ford slash middle X 1000. You can help support my videos and tutorials. And also gives you a little more say on what type of videos I do. So lots of different topics I go over. And I like to hear from my patrons what they wanna see. So as always, thanks for watching. And I hope that you have a great day. And also, what did you guys do for this back? I want to do that every second. I'm gonna do that in the summer. We'll do that in the summer. We'll do a little bit of detail on that. And as we were talking before we started this interview, he's gonna touch on this lightly in this interview, but in the future, he's probably gonna go into more detail and more technical aspect of it in future talks. Sure. So, you know, what we did at this company is we used a versioning software called Subversion. If you enjoy my tutorials and would like to see more, please think about contributing to my Patreon account at patreon.com forward slash metal X 1000.


Hey everyone, welcome to Archland and welcome to another edition of banner reruns I have nothing against banner reruns. It's just that It's more exciting if you have new characters to the game or new heroes, but again, we'll have to We have to have a week in between new characters, which is okay. Okay, but these two these two I'm going to be discussing more of them on this update. So let's go over the update details This is going to be a server maintenance on Wednesday, February 22, which is tomorrow and the maintenance period is Going to be 9 to 10 30. This is a short update checking all servers and Maintenance rewards is key of divine protection So for your equipment and advanced sandwich Okay, probably a Chicken or I don't know depends on you having cheese whatever so update content We have these two banners here. This is a rate-up banner. We had this before but for Those who just joined We had this rate up before this is actually the second time that they're going to be out. I Never I wasn't able to catch Richard Cash Richard, I'm gonna not gonna catch for sure but anyway, so this is the I think for me my first time If I'm gonna summon for this banner Going to get Richard. So Richard and Erica here They're going to be up until March 7th. So Richard is an SSS Yes, sorry, not SSS SSR hero He is a tank So far for me, I think he is the best Tank for PVP So we'll go through his kit in a while So this is your chance to get him with this banner if you're going if you want to remain competitive night now in PVP He is he is actually the best tank that we have for PVP only for PVP Okay, so take note of that, but he can't he might be useful in PvE not that much He's in tier s right now in PvE, but for PvP. He is going to be triple s Okay, and the next one is going to be Erica here We actually have Very few shooters or archers or what you call them. So Erica is an archer by the way Richard is going to be water and Erica is going to be light and before I forget guys So I want to say if you like the content that I put out Please do help the guy and subscribe to my channel because again, this really helps my channel grow and Let me gauge if More or less People are interested in this type of game for the channel So thank you very much for you know, if you're here if you're watching thank you very much for staying tuned and Again, um, please do subscribe. It really helps my channel. So back to regular programming Erica by the way again shooter light Erica is tier ss SS in What do you call this tier SS in PvE could be tier SS Or tier SSS in PvP. Okay, but again If you ask me All around for both you go with Erica. That's because all around you could use her in both PvP and PvE While Richard can only more or less help you more in PvP But I'm saying he's useless in PvE. He has his niches, but again, he's more, you know, he's more Sort after in PvP. Okay, so both of them I'll discuss their kits and why you should get them At this point, both of them have good kits if you don't have them They might you know, they might You if you get them, sorry if you get them, they might plug holes in your lineup So again going back to them later So again, both of their banners will be dropping on tomorrow up to March 7th So we have a new equipment gathering wishes this one is This is not going to be your this again You're going to be a banner but not for your exclusive weapon So these are the selections that you can check there if you want to have a rate up for these equipment This is simultaneous with The unique equipment banner the current one or the mainstay one that we have then we have a limited event Okay under the nightmare event period is going to be 222 to 314 this is So under the night, but this is a a Limited time event So devil's card game is a total of four difficulties each difficulty has a different number of stages that can be cleared The higher the difficulty the more stages can be cleared Okay, you can start adventure in a special space by selecting up to three heroes for the first time Under the nightmare challenge you will encounter various events on your journey and you must overcome various enemies By using artifacts that can enhance heroes ability. So similar to the previous events who'd be selecting artifacts or buffs for your team and this one The higher the difficulty level the more stages clear the greater number of stimulants that can be obtained a choir stimulants acquired stimulants can be exchanged For various items in the event shop. So it has a separate event shop I'll review this event once this drops to more in addition through event missions and weekly missions You can obtain various rewards such as keys to celestial world diamonds gold Event limited badges and more so don't miss on this So added Academy trial rewards courtesy for explorers So you will gain two additional rewards each day. So this is going to be for your Academy, which actually is Going is actually very important in Buffing certain classes if you want to focus on your warrior if you want to focus on your priest your mage This is going to help you with the two additional rewards each day. Okay, so limited packages We have we have a lot of limited packages to aid you in just in case if you want to purchase and updated packages are here and No, don't want to go through all the packages here. So Just check them out tomorrow and see I'll try to check them out Probably give you feedback on which ones are going to be good if you plan to get them Also, we have bug fixes and optimization So one time rune related activities are among obtained The one time rune related achievements added large amounts of gold can be obtained when achievements are achieved. I just recently have found out not I found it before but I actually have felt the pinch in terms of gold. It's really hard to find gold in this game and Whatever you upgrade, there's usually gold So this one is is a nice one to add bug fixes our ear improve this one is improved localization so typos and More or less. These are typos Okay, so that is it for the for the update. I'll go back to these two banners here Try to give you a more detailed understanding whether you should pull for them or not Okay, so we'll start off with Richard here So again, as I told you guys Richard is is going to be played more in PvP He's going to be who's soul in some stages for PvE Usually for PvE. I noticed that you need more DPS rather than defense, but for PvP you really need him He has a lot to offer you He has water which is a sorry he has lightning which is a very good Counter to water which is dominating PvP right now. So He has here reduced physical damage pushback This one is nice and stun for one turn So again, he has a lot to offer you debuffs which which hamper your enemies for one turn Pushback and stun are very annoying. I tell you so also he is a good leader passive one major one ranger increase physical attack Magic physical defense and magic defense of allies by 10 allies deal 10% damage when there's another ally within two tiles. So easy to use Ranger and not really easy to use because I think the best ranger here is going to be Erica Unless if you have, you know, if you're gonna decide to bring other rangers, it's okay But again, the best ranger to equip here is going to be Erica.  So increase physical attack reduce damage taken coordinated attacks Counter attack damage increased by 30 again, he's For me he is second to Gabriel Gabriel for me is still overall But for him if you're going to be serious about PVP right now, you really need him Counter attacks aren't very very good as for his weapon So when damage received is not critical shield of the lion and nimble for two turns So nimble is going to be plus one mobility, which is nice as well. So and shield of the lion is plus one percent defense and a physical and Magical defense effects tax up to three times and just removed when critically hit Okay, so again, very versatile can be a very very excellent tank If you're lacking a tank right now, I seriously tell you that you get a Richard if you're lacking a very good time if you if you lack Gabriel definitely go for him Here he'll he'll be your best if you don't have Gabriel Gabriel If you had if you do have Gabriel, it's really a toss-up whether if you want to invest more in another tank I'm actually thinking about it, but we'll see tomorrow on who I summon can increase the range of escort skills Make a great shield for the team So again, he has his downside as well. He is versatile building him in a hybrid way makes him average So you have to either you have to concentrate more on building him as really a tank and a defender Okay, so that is my take so if you scenario scenarios for him if you don't have a tank then go for him if you have Gabriel probably it's a 50-50 toss up if you're gonna get him me I'm 50-50 because I have Gabriel probably if I had Erica I would summon for him, but I don't have Erica as well So I'm leaning towards Erica in a while and I'll tell you why so again He's still good He's still second to the best tank that we have but again if you don't have him get him period because you'll need a tank in No in PVP in PvE So again guys, that is it. Please tell me down in the comment section if you're choosing him Over Erica and we move on to our next Okay, so we have here Erica. So Erica is a ranger Best ranger that we have so she is SS in PvE probably SS also in PvP or even SSS. I still have to make my tier list so I've seen the evolution of Erica in her use and how important she is to the game especially for PvP Especially for scenarios wherein You need to kill off only two opponents for PvP.  I tell you because of her range because of her damage So unique passive so increase attack So you get her as an assassin. Okay, so vulnerability minus 20 physical damage reduction She has precision. She has defense penetration She has increased physical attack She has what else? Reduce one random stat And this one is basically what what I'm saying guys Is she hits hard for single targets? She can be your far away assassin if you'd like to so when an ally Attacks an enemy with an increased damage done by that ally by 20% so she gives buffs as well So again, she is all around convert two buffs into random debuffs on target and deal 155 damage as well. So just she has buff conversion to debuff on your enemies And for her exclusive weapon So after using the active attack gain triple threat for two turns plus one range So active attack meaning your regular attack. So she gains Triple threat So she she lengthens her distance in terms of range And plus two physical attack and critical chance So very very nice kit She's the only shooter right now that is going to help you the rest Are not going to be a factor on your team So for her pros great single target damage converts buffs to Debuffs really high range light element makes her flexible She's of light. She so she doesn't have any weaknesses with with water fire and lighting Lacks a bit of aoe, but for me, I don't think this is really Relevant to unlock her full potential. You need to get her unique weapon, which is a must I may say so if she doesn't have too much of a con She has a lot of upside that is why I think I'm going with her instead of Richard I do have Gabriel. So I think I'm going with Erica at this point. I need Somebody to fill a shooter slot, which I don't have I didn't have brown before but again Brown is not really useful and Again, not really useful for you know towards the end game. So I'm going with Erica. Um We'll see tomorrow. We'll see if I am up to it. I still do lack A couple of summoning tokens And we'll see tomorrow On my poll for Erica if I do push through with that So I hope I was able to make your to help you make the decision whether to pull or not Whether who to choose Both of them are good are very good actually But it really depends on what your priorities are What roster slot do you need to fill? What role do you need to fill? Which content you prioritize with our pvp or pve Again, it's up to you. I already shared to you my you know my thoughts and Hopefully this video helped again guys, please to consider subscribing because this helps my channel a lot. So thank you Stay safe. Take care. This is the warden and I'm out of here