18th commencement ceremony. I'm Joyce Judy, President of the Community College, and I have the distinct honor of greeting you today to celebrate our 2018 graduates. It's a pleasure to be joined by Vermont's Governor Phil Scott, today's keynote speaker Jen Kimmich, Vermont State College's Chancellor Jeb Spalding, and Vermont State College's Board of Trustee member Mike Pichek. Also joining me on the platform are the class of 2018 student speaker Trevor Farr, Coordinator of Academic Services Jennifer Stefani, Academic Dean Debbie Stewart, Faculty Service Award recipient Greg Stefanski, and Student Service Award recipients Justin Burdot, and Erin Christian. I'd like to acknowledge the state senators and representatives from districts throughout Vermont who are joining us in the audience. Thank you for being here to celebrate our class of 2018. As you entered the field house this afternoon, you were greeted by members of our faculty. Your instructors, who were such an essential part of your CCB experience, joined the faculty line at graduation to recognize your achievements. In the audience to my left are the many advisors and other staff members who have encouraged and guided you through your time at CCB. Will all faculty and staff members please stand, and I ask graduates to join me in recognizing them. Some of you may have heard the bell concert performed from the Norwich University bell tower by George Matthew Jr. We thank him for generously sharing his time today. I would also like to extend special thanks to all the CCB staff as well as the staff here at Norwich University who organized this event. Today is the culmination of many many months of hard work, and I appreciate your efforts. Thank you. Some of my favorite days at CCB are those when I have the pleasure of attending classes and interacting with all of you. A few weeks ago I visited a political science class at the Montpelier Academic Center, and I was reminded of the power of community at CCB. One of our instructors, Bruce Baskin, led 15 students in an impassioned discussion about the U.S. Constitution. The class included high school students, a senior citizen, and everyone in between. Students brought different backgrounds and perspectives to the conversation, but had one important desire in common, and that was to learn and to create a better life for themselves and their families through education. Students were also united by challenge, and Bruce later shared that like a lot of CCB students, many in his class had come through the door full of trepidation. They were unsure of their ability to succeed. When they were tasked with conducting mock Supreme Court trials, some were apprehensive at first, but they rolled up their sleeves and they engaged with their ideas and with each other. As they pushed the boundaries of their comfort zone, they also discovered their potential, and many left the class with confidence that they had never felt, and a sense of belonging to a community that they had never imagined. Coming to CCB and staying the course to complete your degree takes a tremendous amount of courage, and joining a community full of differing opinions and experiences often requires that you stretch the boundaries of your comfort zone, but the result can be life-changing. I've heard from many of you how much you value the different perspectives that animate your classes. You have said that actively engaging with new ideas and new people fosters empowerment and a greater sense of community. What's more, you have formed a bond with the learning community you helped create at CCB, and it has been instrumental in your success. The class of 2018 represents the same wealth of perspectives that is the hallmark of the Community College of Vermont. You are here from all 13 of our academic centers and from all 14 counties of Vermont. You represent 11 other states across the country and 15 countries of the world. You also span generations. Our youngest graduate today is 17 and our oldest is 73. Some of you are the first in your family to graduate from college. For one of our first generation students, Andrea Amanda Van Dean, CCB has been an important step on her path to a better future. In her early 20s, she was a young mom in a difficult marriage and her self-confidence had crumbled, but she was inspired by her daughter to create a better life. Today, Amanda is a valued professional at the Rutland Regional Medical Center and has enjoyed success at CCB beyond her expectations. When she was invited to join CCB's chapter of the International Honor Society, Phi Theta Kappa, she expressed that she had never envisioned herself achieving that kind of academic recognition. She told her advisor that she came to CCB to heal. She said, when I started at CCB, my mantra was courage does not mean having the strength to go on. It means going on when you don't have the strength. Amanda is not alone in experiencing the transformative power of a CCB education and now I would like to ask all of you who are the first in your family to earn a college degree to stand and be recognized. Came to Vermont and to CCB from other parts of the world and we take great pride in the fact that our student body represents more than 120 birth countries. One of our newest, one of our new American graduates, Aviziel Balaton, came to the U.S. in 2004. She had already begun college in her home country, the Philippines, but when she came to Vermont, the language barrier made it difficult to find a job, let alone continue her education. Eventually, she became employed in the medical field and decided to pursue classes at CCB where she has excelled. She wrote, the learning experience and the encouragement and support from my advisors and faculty members were absolutely remarkable. My experience at CCB prepared me for my next step in my educational journey, which is to pursue my bachelor's degree in business. I would like to ask all new Americans who are graduating today to stand and be recognized, who are military veterans or are still actively serving your country. One of today's graduates, Sean Tonnelly, joined the military after being inspired to protect others following the tragic events of 9-11. He served as part of an anti-terrorism response team and since retiring from the military has remained committed to protecting his country by working with Homeland Security. As the first in his family to graduate and earn a college degree, Sean has demonstrated academic excellence. He has been recognized as a leader by staff and peers alike. His advisor noted that he befriended fellow students and that he was a role model in his classes, who led through humble, compassionate service. He met his wife in the military and she today is working on her degree as well at CCB. Those of you who are veterans or active service members, we are proud of what you have accomplished today and we thank you for your service to this country. We are humbled by your courage, by your integrity and by your commitment. I would like to ask all of you to stand at this time and be recognized. Graduates, each and every one of you brought a unique perspective to CCB. The degree you earned today represents the hard work you put into your exams and your assignments. It also represents the hard work you put into stepping outside of your comfort zone, supporting one another and creating a community.  We pause today to recognize your accomplishments and to celebrate this special moment. As you go forward it is my hope that we will continue to work hard together to build a better future. Congratulations class of 2018. At this time I would like to invite the governor of the state of Vermont, Bill Scott to the podium to greet and congratulate the class of 2018. Good afternoon. Thank you very much for having me here today and congratulations to the class of 2018. It's a privilege for me to be here with you and your families to celebrate this important milestone. First, I want to note that I cannot for the life of me remember who spoke when I graduated or what any of them said or what their message was. So I'm hoping that even if you don't remember I was here or any of us were here that you remember one thing. Remember how good you're feeling today. Remember the sense of pride that you have right now today and remember that the best is still yet to come. So congratulations to you on that. Now I'm sure many of you already know what you want to do. You'll follow that path and it will lead to great things but to those of you who aren't quite sure what you're going to be doing here's a little secret. I wasn't always sure either and there are days when I'm still not sure what I'm going to do and that's okay because my advice to you is this don't let the fear of failure hold you back. Don't be afraid of pursuing opportunities when they come along. Try new things.  All the graduations I attend and I go to my share of them over the last number of years this is the one of the most meaningful to me because I know how hard each and every one of you work to get here. I can see the sense of pride in not only your eyes but on the faces of your parents, your grandparents, your children and in some cases your grandchildren. Juggling work and class being a parent first and a student second, finding time to fit education into a life already full of responsibility, this is the type of effort, the type of opportunity that makes me so proud of the community college of Vermont. We know higher education and training isn't nearly as accessible or affordable as it needs to be but we're working on it and CCB is Vermont's shiny example of what's possible when you make higher education more available. Expanding that access to college and career training is something my administration is committed to a future where all Vermonters get an education and the training they need to find a good job whether that's a PhD and LNA or CDL all Vermonters deserve a path to meaningful employment. I also hope that each and every one of you knows that Vermont needs you now more than ever.  The number of working Vermonters is still yet to rebound from the losses we incurred in the Great Recession. Because of that employers are finding it harder and harder to fill positions across our state so I would advocate please reach out to the Vermont Department of Labor in your area and see what businesses are looking to what they're looking for who they're looking to hire because there are so many opportunities waiting for you right here in Vermont and we're ready to help connect you with them and finally as you celebrate the achievement of this day wherever tomorrow leads you don't stand on the sidelines become involved whatever that may mean to you run for the school board of the city council volunteer for your community shelter get involved with a church group or coach Little League knowing it won't always be easy but also knowing you'll do great things because every day in this great state normal citizens like you and me do extraordinary things and again I offer you my best wishes on your graduation thank you so much for inviting me again this year and I look forward to in your future thank you very much thank you Governor Scott it is truly a pleasure to have you with us today at CCV we take great pride in our commitment to community service encouraging students faculty and staff to become involved in the wider community at commencement we honor individuals who have given their time and energy in service to others community service award is presented each year in recognition of sustained and profound service to our state this year it is my distinct privilege to present this award to Martha O'Connor Martha was born in Putney Vermont and graduated from the University of Vermont she then taught school in Connecticut briefly before marrying and moving back to the Green Mountains she has lived and worked in Brattleboro ever since her lifelong career as an educator and an advocate has had an impact in the Brattleboro area and throughout the state of Vermont this year Martha retired after serving on the Vermont State College's Board of Trustees since 1999 and is the chair since 2014 she has served on numerous committees and boards throughout the state including as chair of the state lottery commission chair of the state board of education and a trustee at the University of Vermont Martha is a longtime friend and supporter of CCV her modest no-nonsense approach to leadership has been an inspiration to the higher education community as well as to me personally unfortunately Martha could not be with us today because of a health issue but I'm asking her longtime friend Mike Pichek to accept this award in her honor Mike CCV faculty members are dedicated to their communities embedding service learning opportunities in their classes and often inspiring a desire for community engagement in their students this year we present the faculty community service award to Greg Stefanski Greg will you join me at the podium Greg serves as the executive director of Laraway youth and family services which provides specialized educational behavioral and therapeutic programs for children and families in Lamoille County under his leadership and vision Laraway has been able to expand their influence in northern Vermont Greg incorporates service learning into every class he teaches at CCV his students have engaged in projects such as preparing meals for guests at a Hyde Park shelter sponsoring a food drive for the Lamoille County food share and collecting items for the North Country Animal League he is a volunteer at the Lamoille Restorative Center and his co-founder of Vermont Fartherhood congratulations to Greg on receiving this award many CCV students are active leaders in their centers and in their communities and dedicate a great deal of their time and effort to encouraging and supporting people around them this year we are very pleased to present student service awards to Justin Burdot and Aaron Christian Justin and Aaron will you join me at the podium Justin Burdot says it as a high school student he was quiet and shy today you could say the opposite at CCV Justin has discovered a love of connecting with others he served on the community of student service representatives and has been an integral part of middle school access days new student orientations and outreach events Justin has been a peer academic mentor for Morrisville's man-up program which supports young men in Lamoille County as they embark on their college careers in 2016 he joined me at the state house as a representative of the man-up program at Governor Shumlin's state of the state address Justin is the recipient of the 2018 leadership scholarship at CCV and recently traveled to France with the spring study abroad course at CCV he graduates today with a degree in business and plans to transfer to northern Vermont University at Johnson Justin Aaron Christian began her career at CCV Montpelier in 2015 she was apprehensive about starting college but has demonstrated that she is a leader who is determined to succeed and set a positive example for others she was active in the community of student representatives served as a student orientation leader and tutor in the learning center and she was to the 2018 representative on CCV's academic council in addition she was a job hunt helper at the berry city library and Aaron received one of CCV's 2017 leadership scholarships she graduates today with a degree in STEM studies and plans to continue this path at Vermont technical college congratulations Aaron graduates today you become CCV alumni in that role you will always be members of the CCV community with generous support from past graduates every year we award alumni scholarships to graduates who plan to continue their education at a four-year college this year we are proud to award the alumni scholarship to Paige Madsen Brooke Mecca and Jessica Vest will they please join me on the platform page Madsen studied at our Rutland center and earns a degree in liberal studies she will transfer to Castleton University in the fall where she will be enrolled in the nursing program Brooke Mecca is from our Winooski Center she is earning her degree in liberal studies and will transfer to the University of Vermont to study business for the concentration and accounting Jessica Vest graduates from our Montpelier Center and is earning her degree in early childhood education she will continue at Northern Vermont University at Johnson where she plans to study psychology congratulations to Paige Brooke and Jessica now graduates you will hear from one of your own the student speaker for the class of 2018 is Trevor Farr from CCV's Middlebury Academic Center here to introduce Trevor is coordinator of academic services Jennifer Stefani Jennifer I'm Jennifer Stefani academic advisor in Middlebury I met Trevor when he started at CCV in the fall of 2014 he became a regular wisecracking presence in our student computer room doing homework before or after work steadily taking two classes a semester he maintained excellent grades in his course work while working full-time maintaining his five-acre property taking care of his son Braden in in partnership with his wife Melissa and participating in the community of student representatives he was one of the students consulted in the design of the current CCV strategic plan fortunately for me he often found time to stop by my office to talk about nutrition a topic of great interest to me and of highest importance to him during those times he would usually tell me to stop eating sugar thanks for the advice Trevor Trevor contacted me when he found out he was nominated to be the graduation speaker he was excited honored and also dumbfounded he said he thought it was ridiculous that he had been singled out for nomination because he is an ordinary regular person Trevor was surprised because he recognizes there are a thousand stories out there and he knows how hard every single student has worked to get to graduation day I appreciate that humility and I just want to say thank goodness he is ordinary there's an art to ordinary living that goes unappreciated most of the time being humble curious active intelligent driven and friendly are wonderful everyday qualities that I dare say every one of us possesses and that is something to celebrate Trevor like most of us is fabulously human and as I think you'll see when he speaks if he were the standard for ordinary this would be an extraordinarily decent world it's my pleasure to introduce your graduation speaker Trevor Farr greetings class of 2018 and good afternoon I was a C student at best throughout high school my efforts were mediocre and I never had any intention to go to college then one day when I was 27 years old working out in the gym I had asked a good friend of mine who happens to author over 20 New York Times bestselling books if you were to recommend a non-fiction book for me to read what would it be and so I ended up purchasing into thin air just days later at Barnes and Noble it was an absolute page turn written by John Krekauer I absorbed it in just two sittings the story is about an expedition of Mount Everest in 1996 that leads to the deaths of eight people but John Krekauer lives to tell about it I suddenly developed a passion to read and then I developed other passions expanding my knowledge and widening my horizons so I decided to apply to CCV my journey here is no more remarkable or more important than any one of your stories or journeys I believe we are all a crack hour again I believe we are all a crack hour if not yet it's in the making we are all climbing mountains it may not be as high as Mount Everest but it's just as surmountable we have graduates here today with learning disabilities we have wives and moms raising kids we have husbands and fathers attending college more than likely we have people here in their 60s and 70s not one person is more remarkable than the other each and every one of you deserves to be where you are today CCV graduates also harbor an impetuous spontaneity I thought I understood the meaning of spontaneous until I took general chemistry one and two thankfully my instructor Dr. Giampa was able to put up with me long enough to teach me that spontaneous spontaneity is much more complex in chemistry a spontaneous reaction is not a controlled experiment in a laboratory even though my professor would agree that none of my laboratory experiments were ever under my control anyways a spontaneous reaction is a reaction that gives off free energy to the universe without any outside intervention take for instance the oxidization of iron also known as rusting with a very long chain of carbon molecules that eventually turn into diamonds I have indulged in spontaneity at CCV I overcame all the stereotypes that people in my past had painted me as I'd been written off by many I never excelled at anything growing up schools sports or even friendships as CS Lewis once said the true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remote or end CCV has been an incredible journey for us all not only do we gain credits courses degrees grades and knowledge but we all gain confidence self-respect and something I like to call our own personal brand CCV has helped me build my personal brand upon finishing my degree my workplace agrimark incorporated owners of the Cabot brand world's best cheddar promoted me to a management role in the quality department what I love most about CCV and this experience and what it's done for me is not just the money but the ability to say that my job impacts the health of millions of people around the world life is full of statistics and probabilities according to motivational speaker and author Melanie Robbins the chance that either one of us is born is estimated at one in four hundred trillion that makes each and every one of us special and precious we are all diamonds we are spontaneous individuals that had to take a leap of faith we had to jump outside that box that we call comfort and we reached for our goals and went after our hopes and our dreams we faced our fears throughout all the exams the tests and the quizzes now now is not the time to stop being spontaneous we must continue to be the influence the voice the reason and the change that we want to see in the world the great Greek philosopher Socrates was once quoted the secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new I would like to thank many of the people who supported me on this journey I have all my friends and family who supported me there were co-workers especially management who are flexible and very encouraging I can't forget the many peers of mine and mentors that I listened to because it motivated me I want to thank all of CCD the alumni and all of my professors I have the utmost gratitude for the Middlebury faculty and staff for their resourcefulness their support and their recognition most of all I want to thank my wife and son Braden whose resiliency and patience was monumental I sacrificed so much time spent with them over these last three years I couldn't have done it without them always choose quality over quantity congratulations to this year's ccv graduates it's been an exciting ride thank you and best of luck in your endeavors Trevor I'd like to ask you to come back up and receive this award for speaking on behalf of the class of 2018 Trevor at this time I am pleased to introduce our keynote speaker Jen Kimmich Jen grew up in Barrie and is a graduate of the University of Vermont today she is the CEO and co-founder of the alchemist brewery and co-founder and board chair of the alchemist foundation which aims to expand educational and economic opportunity for local youth she is actively involved with organizations like main street alliance the workforce development board and the Vermont public interest group she is an advocate for working for monitors for the environment and for the well-being of the state most impressively she and her husband are dedicated to modeling these values in their business practices before I asked Jen to be our speaker I found out that she has a deeper connection to ccv she told me that her mother was one of the earliest graduates of ccv and went on to earn her bachelor's and master's degree and have a distinguished career teaching emotionally handicap youth Jen we are so pleased to have you here to address the class of 2018 good afternoon it is truly an honor to be here with you today congratulations to the more than 500 members of the 2018 community college of Vermont graduating class I have I have to tell you thank you I have to tell you when I was first asked to speak today I was hesitant I felt inadequate to address such a fine group of men and women many of whom had to tackle many more obstacles than I did to earn my college diploma I was very fortunate to have two parents who supported me financially and emotionally through college I didn't have a child or a full-time job in college I didn't have to overcome physical or cultural barriers I haven't been a victim of racism and I've had family and mentors who've had my back and even with all that luck it still wasn't easy to earn my college degree or find professional success in life because there simply is no easy path to success every one of you has overcome challenges in your lives to be here today the road each of us took to get here to be here at this moment shapes us but it does not define us you worked hard to get here and you'll work hard after you move on from here no matter what you do after today you have earned a degree that will open doors for you throughout your life and you will go on to open doors for others so that they too can realize their dreams I want to share the story of an exceptional woman who opened a whole lot of doors this is the story of my mother Linda Malley it begins in Jersey City New Jersey Linda had always dreamed of going to college and high school she was in the college prep program but in her words family life was not terrific they lived in poverty her father struggled with alcohol and in 1962 he left the family her mother had her own mental health issues so at the age of 15 my mother left school to support her mother her sister and herself thankfully she had learned how to type in high school so she was able to work but her dream of going to college drifted away as she says life happened by the time Linda was 20 she had nursed her mother watched her die of cancer raised her younger sister been married and divorced and had two boys ages three and one fast forward to 1972 Linda was 24 she'd met a great guy named Tim and they moved with those two little boys to Guilford Vermont during the first week of January Linda was in the small home they rented awaiting the birth of her next child when a young man came to the door talking about a new college that was being established he asked Linda if she had ever thought about attending college she told him that she had always had a dream to go to college but she only had a GED and she didn't think that was enough and of course there was certainly no way she could afford it this man was John Turner coordinator of the Brattleboro CCB office he was doing some serious grassroots outreach John told my mother that this new college was going to be offering two courses in the Brattleboro area in February intro to psychology and Kundalini yoga it was the seven it was the 70s courses were free there was no campus and the teachers were professionals in their field Linda signed up for intro to psych and began her academic journey just three weeks after I was born she spent the next three years attending ccv classes and had the privilege of being taught and enlightened by people who really cared about her growth and supported her throughout her tenure at ccv during that time ccv was formally accepted into the Vermont state college's system and began to offer an associate's degree in human services administrative services and general studies this was the degree Linda worked on and it was competency-based Linda loved her education at ccv as she says I knew from the first moment of the first class I was where I needed to be from that associate's degree Linda kept going ccv connected her to windham college where she received her ba in counseling psychology and education in 1975 she was awarded her master of education in 1981 and she spent the rest of her career in education as a teacher as a high-risk youth counselor an assistant high school principal a school improvement facilitator and as the juvenile justice education specialist for florida state university none of this would have happened without ccv or the dream of phil hoff and peter smith and all the other radical leaders who believed in access to quality education for all but most important it never would have happened without the determination perseverance and hard work of linda malley my mother made a rich and rewarding career out of something that before john turner and ccv knocked on her door was just a dream that had drifted away because life happened but the opportunity came back and she seized it linda was able to start a new chapter to her story and then another and another through her hard work in the high quality education that community college of Vermont provided her she has been able to impact so many lives around her including my own all because my mother made the decision in january of 1972 to open that door our journeys are not easy every one of us here today had to work hard and start new chapters to get here but like my mother when she first enrolled in her first class and just like my husband john and i when we started our small business 16 years ago each and every one of you made the decision to bet on yourselves and although your paths are all different you chose to work hard to keep working and to open every door so today i feel incredibly honored to be here to celebrate your accomplishments with you whether you're going straight to a job or continuing your education or both you all have the tools you need to improve your own lives and to impact the lives of others around you as we continue our journey through life together let's always remember to support others so that they too can realize their dreams remember that only you can define a successful future for yourself we don't all want to be ceo's we don't all need to invent something or manage hedge funds or since we're in vermont we don't all need to craft cheese or make beer for many of us success is the ability to have a good job that gives us the ability to support our families success can be defined by finding our place and finding happiness in this world remember that we can't change the world alone we make the world a better place by opening doors and having a positive impact on the people around us just like linda all of you are already changing the future most of you don't know how yet just like my mother didn't know that her choices were going to help me but she opened the door when someone knocked and that's what put me at this podium today i proudly recognize the grit and determination of every graduate here today you have all opened the door to a life of learning personal success and impact for others now for all of the single and working parents out there let's put our hands together who has survived assault for everyone who has been victim to prejudice or hate for everyone who has struggled with addiction everyone everyone who has had to look at a bill pile that's bigger than their bank balance felt like giving up but didn't ccv graduates i congratulate you i wish you success on your path knock on doors and open them always start new chapters and please enjoy the journey congratulations thank you jen 2018 marks the third year of the ccv chapter of five theta kappa an international honor society for community college students who demonstrate academic integrity and excellence you likely noticed when these students entered the field house that they were wearing yellow stoles which symbolize their membership in five theta kappa will all the graduating members of five theta kappa stand so we can recognize you it is now time to turn our attention to the awarding of degrees i congratulate each and every one of you on the recognition you earn today as do many of the others who have helped you along the way to this very special moment i'd like to ask family friends and supporters of our graduates to rise and then ask graduates to please join me in thanking them ccv has a long-standing tradition that you graduates will share in today as you leave the platform after receiving your diplomas ccv staff members will present you with a red carnation this flower is a symbol of the many people in your lives who have helped you reach this day and now academic dean debbie stort will present the class of 2018 debbie it is my pleasure to present to you the graduating class of 2018 all of whom have met the requirements for the associate and associate in applied science degree vested in the community college of vermont by the board of trustees of the vermont state colleges i confer upon you the class of 2018 the associate degree i'd like to ask the graduates from bennington to please stand and come to this end of the stage and i'd like to ask all other graduates from other centers to stay seated and they'll be invited to come forward by the ushers who are working in the in the audience so bennington will you please rise and come to that end of the stage thank you stephanie bryan Zacharias clay savon crozier laura davis molly frazier morgan hustley jessica lennard terrence marr david malinowski shannon morten emily nesbitt ashley raleigh maureen kelly stadnick graduates from brattleboro rachel adams tachiana bowman shaylin burk penny burkholder taylor cascia athena crossbeak matthew delgado usmachan diallo dray given van luan ashley kane shanika nickles demir radoff alaina spear angeline trend home graduates from middlebury grace bart marci de gray tanya dorosha trevor far synthia groundy hillary night graduates from montpelier adrian berry amy churchill mary beth descartone kate and do so jade edwards katelyn fryer maranda green abigail hooper michelle kellerer meghan maxim britney mccallister dakota matthair theodore nicoe erica olby mikaela pierce tilly quattrone erin christian p michael ruel megan sergeant kourtney schia kevin thayer joseph petford brandy tracy jessica vest kimberley watson benjamin wilkins nicholas wilson clloe right graduates from morrisfield chelsea bishop justin bordeaux mckisha brooks pilar budjag emily gagner stacey hubbell kasey percy graduates from newport heather borneville christie quarry asley fennoff renae fortun allison hall nicholas helms zachary forton samuel manchester hidey massie kansas mandala amandoff suric jennifer peters tiffani prevos decaan speaks vanessa ray white from the center for online learning erin bethers kathleen francis samuel gravelly millison later cobalt christine rattanam graduates from ruttland joseph alford shantel alger allison brooks kimberley senate victoria draper chad erickson stacey estes jared goodrich rachel out jessica hurley page madson lydia may mackentire asa metcalfe hike platt vicki shepherd katharine spaulding amanda van dean emily mary withington graduates from springfield sonia hodgston patricia mcquamon rihanna right graduates from saint alvin's hilda castello kimberley clitignola warren r hafer craig johnson lapland christie parting madigan jenny lin mcdonald philip vacay on muller olivia halatier david ccard max slone amanda sorrell michelle tiffani alie teppra jessica vitton graduates from st johnsbury marie patrick britney fair graduates from upper valley sarah albert jenny amaranthe dekota arbuckle heather burtrant melissa prairie zachery husband kali joseph yak jenny melia quinn miller heath moses timothy packard katrina pechke rocks and spray inga swida swing for yelsey polosa graduates from winewski chase armstrong alexa beach orie benoite and lee bisonette emily bryant aida cardie aleson castile kaila shabot anachini elena clark damian curtis perman dies whitney ealy lisa evans john folgery katelyn foie aleson fredett nickolas lee gratton harris jadella hillburt almena codridge timi de kirney michael kirupolsky brandy lecler spencer lingo stew lee elizabeth ling shayan longwalker samantha liens scott martel brooke mecca oana jennifer nev evisell nebul palitan judith nolyn christina paquette debra felte peter roy aleson saraga nina mary sinchore angie small danis pravery cecilia vestran elizabeth wakas christina wallace torso muchan crop alexis williams lydia zipper now graduates if you'd please direct your attention to the front trevor please lead your class in moving your tassels from right to left trusting that you will continue to work together to strengthen every community you belong to the group on the platform will lead the graduates out i ask that the audience remain seated until all the graduates have completed the recessional thank you and thank you for being here for this wonderful celebration


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Everybody wants to play around. Okay. It's about 90 degrees. Nancy, will we follow you? You. Somebody will pick you up out here. I think the shelter will go here a lot. The shelter will go here. What's all about those horses? Are you ready? We better hold here just a second because we're a couple minutes ahead of schedule. There's still some people coming in. So can you give me 30 seconds? I'm going to get started. Well, that'll be all right. You may have 30 seconds. This is pure Washington weather. This is awful standing right here. It's going to be worse out here. You're right. I left my brains on the desk. Do you remember? Yes, so much. I've been better in better states of the world. Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States picked up some creep-bottom land. It's all covered with rocks and overgrown with brush, but he set to work and he hauled the rocks away and he cleaned the brush and he cultivated and he fertilized and he planted. He was good to this place here. He went on that way and the old boy was getting a little fidgety and finally he says, Reverend, I wish you could have seen it when the Lord was doing it by himself. Well, today we are honoring praiseworthy citizens who are giving God a hand in preserving our precious gifts. Unlike the farmer in the story, more often than not, those we honor today are protecting our land from some of mankind's active ways. Some of them have been set aside for the benefit and enjoyment of our people and for future generations.  And all this is the legacy of caring individuals, perhaps like the ones we honor today who acted to see that these treasures were preserved and passed on. Protecting our endangered species to pursue plans to recover them. We've moved to stem the serious loss of vital wetlands. We've set a certain effort we've made to mobilize the American people to get them involved in helping each other and in community building projects instead of just waiting for government. We call it our private sector initiatives program. Big pride in America campaign. I thought it was terrific. If we really rely or totally rely on government, whether in conserving our public lands or in any other way seriously that I'm certain they will verify that there can be no greater boom to the conservation and preservation of America's national treasures than the active involvement of the American people. That's as important to us. Our message to anyone who will trash or vandalize our public lands has been forcefully stated. That may be putting it mildly by some of the distinguished celebrities today, those who would reduce the natural beauty. I know the Ed council has given time to send the word over the airwaves and across the country, and they deserve a special thanks. So too do secretaries then will tell and blame you. Well, they too have given us inspiring and energetic leadership. Today we've selected 38 percent of all those who contribute their time and effort are winners and clearly our country is the greatest winner of all. It's the first time this award ceremony or part of it has been held here at the White House. I think it underscores. Thank you all. God bless you. There are no questions, there are no answers. Mr. President, good to see you. Good to see you. May I introduce the White House Science Council. This is Dr. Muck's model. It is an American with AT&T. I'm from MIT. Dr. Teller. This is Dr. David, an excellent science advisor, at the IMF. Dr. David, the head of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. We have already. Look forward reading you. Look at the work. The field of the sword. Let's talk some more. Thank you very much. Well, listen, I'm grateful to all of you for taking the time to come in here. And as you know, this is an important and exciting subject. Certainly it is to me because I have difficulty with the pocket calculator. But from the news accounts I've read, the breakthroughs are being made every day that could have affect almost anything that takes electricity. The government does basic research. The industry does commercial applications. And I think a strong and complementary relationship between the industry and academia and government is vital to maintaining our nation's technology base and the relationship between our scientists in the private sector and the public sector. I recognize the important role that science plays in our economy, not just through immediate breakthroughs, but in our long-range needs, education, manufacturing, and basic research. And that is all the talk that I think I should indulge you because I'm here to find out the answers to what seem to be some very exciting prospects. Thank you, Mr. President. I might say just a word about the White House Science Council. It was formed in Germann Eston in 1982, when J. Keyworth was the president's science advisor this child that I have now. They've been a very hard-working group and have done a large number of some role in federal laboratories and research and reports on the overall educational basis and structure of our science and technology training. They meet every other month with me in the past two days. I find their advice invaluable and some of the good ideas that I pass along to you, I have to admit, comes from each of them before you. I'm good and someone else is good. Dr. Huxbaum, who's the chairman of the White House Science Council, is going to start the discussion and introduce a few other numbers. But at any time, don't hesitate to rather pursue your interests. Mr. President, we appreciate you and the very important topics that you did. And I would like you to introduce... Oh, I'm Mr. President. Yeah, thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. President. Well, somebody else is going to have to give you the shots when I'm Mr. President. Yes, darn it. I know that I ought to be more charitable toward the military than I should have been, but I'm complaining. Oh, OK. Well, five years, five years. We wish you well. OK. Smile. Smile, I know. Thank you. Thank you. And two, if you can. One minute. I run out of those white anti-histamine pills. Oh, OK. I'll send them over. I'll send them over. OK. Just two reminders for both of you. Just a little souvenir. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you very much. And thank you. It's been an honor working with you. Yeah, listen. I'd like to thank you for all of the people in the military for my career in service and all the things that you've done to help us. Thank you. I've seen the good times and the bad times in the best way with your administration. Well, listen, I'll be out of our country. Thank you for all that you've done in the service that you've performed. Thank you. Thank you. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Thank you. Thank you. I took the last pill this morning. I'm particularly pleased with the total effort that each of you and each of your departments has put into more today. If I can emphasize one point for you today, and that is not charged to each of you, the person that stays involved with the Senate and to continue to make it a top priority for the remainder of our administration. And I'd like each cabinet member to arrange to attend every meeting of the National Reserve. This board offers a unique opportunity to find which each department in effect sublimates their individual interests for that of the total federal drug efforts through cooperation coordination. For that reason, I hold each of you responsible to ensure that you work to eliminate the inevitable turf battles that detract from our goal of a drug-free America. Before I take too much time, I'm going to turn this meeting over to the chairman, Ed Meese. I'm eager to get the latest dope. Thank you, Mr. President. I'll show you some more office stuff. Forgive me for that. Stay focused. Thank you, Mr. President. Several things are taking place today at this meeting, which I think will show that we have made significant progress in our last report to you on the drug situation. One of the things is that we have now every cabinet department participating in the National Drug Policy Board because we found that every department of government literally has something that they can contribute in this battle that you and the First Lady have really provided leadership for. The second thing is that...


Hey, good morning. Good afternoon and good evening. I'm Yi Chui, I'm a Storage Ex-Director and on behalf of my Co-Director, Will Chu, I would like to welcome you to the Storage Ex-Imposium again for some of you, if you are new, welcome you the first time. We are not getting close to summer and in the past one years, we have been having very, very exciting speakers, panelists. Today, there's no exception. And we are having really a world expert in industry, Frank Blom, let me invite Frank to the stage to join us to discuss, of course, very exciting topic when the EV market is expanding. The battery challenge is there, it's huge. Frank will be telling us about that, but let me introduce him a little bit. Frank has a 25 years experience in the auto industry. He's currently the head of the Battery Center Excellence of Volkswagen. Before joining Volkswagen, he served as the CEO of Mercedes-Benz Energy. And before that, he also served as the CEO of LITAC batteries. So he has quite a bit of experience in the auto industry, particularly related to batteries. He's also a board member of a quantum scale as well as battery companies, I believe many of you know. With all this background and industry, let me welcome Frank to step up to the stage to tell us about what's exciting in the EV industry. Thank you, we, it's a great pleasure and a big honor for me to present as said and introduced a long time in electric mobility for cars and trucks. My diploma 25 years ago was an inverter and electric motor for an EV. These days with LITAC batteries long time ago. And I needed long to get here, but now the EVs are coming and dominating the markets. We are selling our EVs quite good. We see a lot of interest at the customers and this is good. And the breakthrough for the EVs really were the lithium-ion batteries. When these came into the game and all the technology steps, the vehicles got more and more attractive. And there's a lot still to do and a lot of possible in the next years. And I like to talk about that a bit here.  This is the first chart. We see the whole automotive industry is getting into a big, big transformation. The transformation from today's product portfolio what was optimized over more than a hundred years now is getting into CO2 neutral mobility.  So we are launching a lot of EV vehicles in the Volkswagen Group. And this is a cast, fantastic cast like the Audi e-tron GT, the Porsche Taycan, the ID bus, all IDs, like the ID3, the ID4. And we worked a lot on that. We worked a lot on technology and cost to make sure our customers will get what they want. And we see with the sales we have right now a quite good trend in the market. We were starting, especially in Europe with a share, a target of a share of EVs in 2030. Then the European unity decided to increase the shares by governmental regulations. So we have to get to 60% of EVs within the next 10 years. And this is a big deal. This is a big challenge for us. China is probably even more aggressive. And we will see how this will happen and how this will perform in the US. But all that is telling us that we are on the right track and that we are as one of the starters in the industry for mass production of electric vehicles are absolutely on the right track. The next chart shows us that we really take care of all aspects to close the loop of leads your mind batteries. We're doing battery cells ourselves soon. We have bought shares of QuantumScape eight years ago and we are strong believer in the technology. We supported a lot with money and also with competence. We have bought shares of NorseVolt. What is the European startup for battery cells? And we also invested a billion into Goshen, a Chinese battery cell company to make sure that the industry can move. And on top of that, we also invest into our own battery cell plant here in Germany next to Wolfsburg. And this cell plant will come into the game in the next four years. Battery systems we do long time in-house. We have different plants all over the world producing battery systems. The first use in our vehicles is happening. We are doing second use projects. We have different stationary storage projects with second use of batteries to perform the regenerative energy storage. And we also have a recycling plant ourselves for leads your mind batteries. It's also here in Germany under my responsibility and we developed recycling technology there. And we also use that. We almost recycle our test batteries. We are having in-house in our own recycling system to make sure that also here, the industry can move on and close the loop. The next chart shows us what we are doing for battery systems. Here you see the two Volkswagen vehicles just as an example. I'm using this and not the famous Porsche Taycan or Audi e-trons because here we have a quite modular platform for batteries in production. Here you see the scalable battery system. The skateboard we say for the electric drives, the axles and the battery in the middle as everybody almost does electric vehicle architecture. And we can scale the system up with more modules and put more energy into the battery. And with that we are at the spot for whatever the customers wanna have in range and cost. So we can make good offers. Right now we really see that the bigger batteries are selling very good. And the smaller batteries are selling also good but the customers really want to buy range. That's still an issue because of the charging infrastructure. But that will change because we also invest a lot of money into our own charging infrastructure together with our partners. For battery cells, just a few charts. And this is really the base technology and cost steps we wanna do. We wanna see in the next years. The current approach is different cells in different vehicles. The sizes are different. The electrochemistry is different. And all that is leading into a very inflexible situation. So if we sell a lot of IDs but no Taycans, we cannot put the ID batteries cells into the Taycan or the other way around. Good news is that we sell all these vehicles quite well but we wanna have more flexibility. And we also wanna have a clear technology roadmap. We are launching into the platforms. In the future, we will have one unified cell format and that will perform more than 80% of the batteries in our vehicle portfolio. And this is what you see over here. 20% will be specific like very high-end cars. The Bugatti or the Lamborghini in our portfolio also these brands are belonging to Volkswagen. We also have smaller cells into our motorcycle brand Ducati but the bigger cells and the big volume will happen. And with the big volumes, we can also use the economies of scale and get the costs down. What is important to make sure the vehicles are attractive to the customers. Getting to the cell chemistry and design roadmap, of course, you all know that the air note is mainly responsible for the charging time. The cassoed is responsible for cost and range. 50% of the battery material cost is a cassoed. So if we use the cost, the bill of the old cell, it's 40% just the cassoed, including production and everything. And the range impact is almost 100% of course with silicon in the air note, you can increase. Also the range, but the cassoed is mainly in charge of range and cost of the cell. That's why this is a very, very important topic for research and development. Cassoed typically is with nickel manganese and cobalt. We also have LFP in development. And both is a quite valid technology so far. We see that in the future, we can increase of course a range with high nickel. And the cost will also be on a high level. If we reduce nickel and go to high manganese and we are working on that with a big force, a big team right now, we can get the cost down and still have a quite good range. So for the volume segment, that is probably the most promising technology we are working on for the cassoed site right now. Of course, there's a lot to do and especially the lifetime of the product is a challenge still, but we are making good progress. And nickel is getting more and more expensive year by year. So manganese, even the advantage of manganese will be bigger in the future. This chart is showing the same effect. So getting cobalt down is very important. Cobalt is the most expensive metal in the cells. Still cobalt is not, we do not have a lot of cobalt into our batteries, but in the beginning it was one-third of each and cobalt dominated the bill of material. With more and more nickel, energy goes higher. Cells are getting more difficult in safety testing, but performance is very good with high nickel, but in the meanwhile, nickel is really expensive and getting more expensive every day. And manganese is quite a cheap alternative where we can get to good performance and probably this will have, as we believe, this will have the best cost to performance ratio for the cassoed technology in the future. Lithium iron phosphate is something we also will bring in production. It's a robust and inexpensive chemistry. It is heavy, so it has a disadvantage, but on the other side it's relatively cheap and the cycle life is much better than nickel, rich or even manganese chemistry. So especially for small cars, city cars, with a small battery where the cycle specification is high, Lithium iron phosphate is a good, good alternative. Now I'd like to get to the anode and the standard anode has graphite in it. So typically it's synthetic plus natural graphite mix and the charge impact is 100%. The range impact can be 10% because it was silicon in the anode, we can improve it. Charging is important because today our customers don't like to wait longer than like filling the car with gasoline, of course that's a big challenge, but we are trying to get as close as possible and make sure that the last big disadvantage of the EVs will go away. Talking about artificial graphite combined with silicon, we can increase the range by 10% as shown and the charging time will be on a quite good level. We already have materials in research where the charging time with silicon plus artificial graphite is down to between 12 and 15 minutes if we talk about 10 to 80% and this is quite good and this will come in production but still a lot to do to make sure that this can come with good cost and also the production processes will be stable and not too expensive. And of course it's important to not waste too much energy and production to make sure the CO2 emissions in the production chain are under control too. Getting to solid state and I really love solid state technology because it's a simpler design and this leads to higher performance and lower costs. Finally, of course in the beginning it's probably not right away the more performance and cheaper solution but the potential is absolutely there. We do have a chart we got from QuantumScape in here. We do have the cassoed as it is right now, more or less. We have a ceramic separator, what is the big secret for the technology, one of the big secrets and the lithium metal will plate directly on the copper film. That means the anode has no graphite any longer and no silicon. That is good because you don't have to process it. You don't have to pay for it. You don't waste CO2 by producing it and you don't have to invest into production equipment and this is a big, big advantage. In the ID3, the 80 kilowatt hour battery has 100 kilogram of graphite that goes away with solid state battery because there's no graphite any longer so it's a big impact for the industry whenever this is going into production. This is one chart I really love to show showing the charging time. The lower curve shows a standard battery cell today. So 80% is reached in 35 minutes in average today's vehicles like our IDs, the Teslas. If we get to the Porsche Taycan, it's already around 20 minutes, 10 to 80% and with solid state technology, with quantum scapes technology, we see already in the lab samples that 10 to 80% is possible around 12 minutes. So let's say 10 minutes is a possibility we will see and we are working together with our colleagues at Quantum Scape with a lot of pressure on that. This is on top of the cost advantages the technology advantages. One big advantage of the technology fast charging will be very beneficial for the customers and the superchargers are coming into the game. Right now we are going up to 900 volt. Our Porsche and Audi's are already in that range of technology and with that and with the current limits of 350 or 500 amps it depends on the charging station. 12 minutes is possible for 90 kilowatt hour battery. So what does that say? A simple chart for our board members.  Today it's a 25 minutes charging time. With a silicon anode you can go to 17 minutes and with solid state technology it's 12 minutes. And this is not a lot of time because the trip is a long trip but nobody wants to wait for charging really and if you can reduce that that means also that charging can happen if you don't have an own house and a garage living in one of the capitals in this world and the car is parking at the street you can just go to a charging station and then 10 minutes you are back on track. Now I'm moving to recycling just for a minute and I like to show the potential of the recycling. So let's talk about a battery 400 kilogram that's a 60 kilowatt hour battery. There's 126 kilogram of aluminum we have 71 kilogram graphite. A 41 nickel and we have 22 kilogram copper and further raw materials. These can be recycled. We are already above 80% with our equipment. It's complex, it's not for free but we will further develop also the recycling technologies to make sure that finally we can close the loop. So we see that under the circumstance that we have 100% of electric vehicles someday in the field that we do not need mines any longer to produce and dig the metals out of the earth. We strongly believe that this can close a loop and all the critical or most of the critical metals are getting back, we can get back out of recycling. So I like to come to the key takeaways of the presentation, sustainability. The closed loop process installed, this is what we within the Volkswagen Group achieved. Of course it's not on a big scale so far there's still a lot to do and we need a lot of research into that direction. Competitiveness is very important and is pushing all OEMs, all car manufacturers to make the vehicles more and more attractive to the market and to the customers. The combustion engine driven cars will get more and more complex with emissions regulations. So also here will be a lot of research but that will make the cars more expensive. Electric vehicle research will go into the other direction and sooner or later there will be the day where electric vehicles will have a better business case for the customer and the standard technology of today. Volume and timing is important whenever solid state is coming into the game. It's a game changer for a separator production. It's a game changer for a graphite in the batteries and all that has to fit together and has to follow a clear strategy. We are building with our suppliers, with our partners and also under our control we are building battery system and battery cell plants and all that has to follow a clear logic. It's very important that logistic chain is short. CO2 emissions are under control. We use as much regenerative energy as we can do to make sure that the CO2 footprint of the car is good as good as it can be. We guarantee a zero footprint for CO2 to the customer. Of course we have to buy certificates to get there but the clear goal is to really close a loop also here and last but not least, the cost is a very, very important topic. So far with electric vehicles, to earn money with electric vehicles was very different, very difficult, sorry. The difficulty is coming out of scales, economies of scales missing but also technology. There's a lot of work going on into that direction and I've talked about that. We have identified action fields like vertical integration of the material chain, 80% of the battery cell price is the material or the cost I should say not the price. And that means that if you wanna reduce the cost you have to work on castle material, on graphite, on electrolyte, on all these aspects. We did that and we still do. We have a lot of powerful partners and in the meanwhile we build up a team in my organization when I started three and a half years ago at Volkswagen. I had a team of 25 engineers and the meanwhile we have more than 700 worldwide working on battery cells and battery systems with a strong team in China with around 100 engineers. We have the biggest team in Germany with 450 engineers and chemists working on battery cells and around 150 working on battery systems and we right now are building up a team in the US with the first 10 to 15 engineers and this will grow too. And we have a lot of goals going into technology direction and I'm glad to say that most of the traditional technologies came out of Asia. There was all competence installed and also the first mass production products came out of Asia. But in the meanwhile we see a lot of competence growing in the US. The universities like Stanford are doing a very, very good job to push new technologies into research and also into startups and all that is supporting the strategy to make electric mobility better and more attractive to the customers. And this is it for the presentation. I thank you a lot for your attention and I'm glad to answer your questions. Well, thank you so much, Frank, for the very nice talk. Will and I will co-host the Q&A. Let me start from my first questions while the audience questions are flowing in. There's some already building up. Frank, the topic today is the EV, this massive market growth. I'm so glad to see Volkswagen grow from 30% to 60% of the car to be EV in 10 years, roughly. So if you estimate how much battery you will need, do you have an orders of many of how many, probably tell what is a tell what hour, must be tell what hour scale like the unit. And then how would you meet this challenge of this massive battery production needed? Yeah, so the automotive industry, if we calculate the figures, you know it's 100 million vehicles a year, new cars produced more or less of SDS. It was growing a bit, but very stable on a high level. If we say 70 to 80 kilowatt hours per vehicle, that is the figure we will see. And this is a massive growth. So what Tesla announced, three terawatt hours would be almost 40% of the market. So six, seven, eight terawatt hours would be 100. If we calculate with 70 to 80 kilowatt hours per vehicle, Tesla said that stationary storages will also be part of it. So Elon Musk said it's 50-50 share. I agreed to the figure. The stationary storage for regenerative energy will grow on the same scale. So in total, it's probably 15 to 20 terawatt hours capacity needed in the next, let's say 20 years. So would you expect this production will be shipping from the battery from Asia? What's the ratio generated in Europe versus Asia? Do you have a sense? Yeah. Yeah, I think it's already happening. So the biggest plants are growing right now in Europe. LG is building a plant in Poland already in production with almost 80 to 100 gigawatt hours. That's one big plant. The other one is in Ningde, China. That's CATL. It's also around 100 gigawatt hours. And we see other plants coming. North world will be 60. And we see that SK or SDI, Samsung are building plants in Europe to around 40 to 50 gigawatt hours. So this is the scale. Of course, you need a lot of these to get to the 15 or 20 terawatt hours. And that means, and on the battery day of Elon Musk, it was presented quite nicely. We need to change the production technology and also the design of the battery cells if we want to get there. We do it just traditionally like we do it today. It will probably be too slow and too expensive to get there. And now we have different approaches to reduce investment, make the production simpler. There's a lot of technology work going on in the world, but this industry will grow. There will be new players in the game. The traditional automotive suppliers, Bosch and Conti will not be any longer the biggest players in the market. There will be in-house production of batteries and cells at the OEMs. And yeah, the raw material suppliers will become more and more critical. Like also the castle material suppliers, the calcium nation, all that will be very, very critical for the rollout of the electric vehicles. In the U.S., we have a large plant built by SK and LG also has some capacities and is increasing these. But I really see the biggest volumes growing in China and in Europe right now. Well, thanks, Frank. Will, do you want to ask a question? Absolutely. Thank you, Ian. Thank you, Frank, for the wonderful presentation. A truly exciting times. I want to maybe piggyback off what Yi and you are discussing about this enormous capacity growth that is needed. And this, of course, comes together as the technology is also evolving very rapidly as you are noting. So inevitably, I think this means that the qualification cycle, it's going to be folded into R&D cycle very importantly. And it's my understanding that the qualification cycle in the automobile industry is what makes the product very robust. But at the same time, it is also lengthy. So how does VW navigate this need to be quick and agile in introducing new product but still have a robust qualification process? And all the while, the product is evolving on an year by year basis. It almost feel a bit more like the consumer electronics markets and more like the micro electronics market as opposed to the traditional auto market. So it'd be great for you to talk a little bit about how VW is changing in its mindset when it comes to qualification. Now, this is a good question. And I cannot tell you all the secrets. Well, I'm sorry for that. But the two things are happening right now, changing the automotive industry. One is software development is getting more and more in the focus. So sooner or later, we will have autonomous driving in the cars. And then the car will be your living room, will be your office or whatever. And we have to make the offer to the customer. We have to make sure the customer can then make a comfortable sleep, make whatever he wants to work or watch a movie or whatever. Go for shopping in the internet. This is one big, big thing. And we are working strongly on that. We increase the software forces by thousands of engineers as we speak. And we have a strong push into this technology right now. For AlizioMine technology, that needs of course, if we wanna go for a new technology like Solid State, that needs three to five years to bring it into production with all these testing, winter testing, summer testing, bench testing, homologation of the car to get the governmental regional releases and so on and so far. What we really push for is our unified cell is a standardized format. And this is already in discussion with different other OEMs. They wanna use that too and we can make a standard for the industry. That would mean that the production equipment for the battery cells can be reused, but as long as we don't touch the size of the cells, most of that can stay and can be the same and we just increase the performance by an update of the cathode of the electrochemistry or whatever else. These changes we can do much faster. If we do not have to requalify the complete production equipment, this can go into production within two years, one and a half years. We just do a winter summer testing or we do even a benchmark, a bench testing. Then we can be faster and we can roll it out into the fleet because we just qualified once and then bring it into different vehicles. And as long as the mechanical design is following the same logic and the size of the cell is the same, that is a much, much faster and easier way to bring new technology to the dealers. Thank you, Frank. Could you maybe also comment a bit on the qualification of new chemistry? Your talk was mostly about a chemistry roadmap across the board. Yeah, well, I can. A new chemistry, let's say we are changing from six to two, to eight, one, one. And we have a bit more energy in the battery. There are clear requirements for cycle testing. We have a clear requirement for Kellant and Derek lifetime testing. So this is high temperature over time with a high SOC. This is stressing the cell very much. Some of the cells are gassing and finally opening up under this test. Cycling shows us sometimes that the cells and they have to perform somewhere between 500 and 1500 cycles. It depends on the size of the battery. And that shows us that the cells are getting down to less than 80% too early. And of course, then we cannot release. But for an electrochemistry change, we do a lot of bench testing. We don't do a lot of vehicle testing. Vehicle testing is relatively easy. And we have a software, all software of the batteries has been made in-house. So if we have to adopt the data sheet of the cell to the software, we do it in a very short loop. Qualification of a new chemistry is around six to 12 months. Frank, very exciting. Thank you for sharing those details. Maybe one thing to add, well, of course we do a lot of safety testing. Safety testing is required by governments too. And these are standardized tests, but these do not need the long time. The long time is really calendaric and cycle life testing. Absolutely. Thank you. Yeah, Frank, this is very nice. So I want to get back to the compare solid state with traditional lithium ion, like with the liquid electrolyte. You have a comment of solid state. It's maybe the design is simpler. Can you maybe clarify or describe that a little bit? Certainly solid state now, the interface is solid, solid, all solid. And in the design simplification, for some of the, I think for many of us, certainly touching in the lab, my feeling it's interesting is the opposite. Solid state is actually quite complicated. So it would be great to pick your thought a little bit because you are really looking at this problem maybe more system level zooming in more and it would be great to share your thoughts a little bit more. Yeah, of course you're right. The devil is always in the details and you should ask Fritz Prinz or Jack Diebsing or Tim Holmes, they really know Stanford quite well and they know all the details. And of course I made a very simple explanation for the solid state battery. What I mean is you don't have to develop the graphite any longer, you don't have to develop the electrolyte any longer because it's not there. But of course you're right. The interfaces of the separator to the cathode and also to the anode film is a very, very tricky and complicated connection. And this is, you know, Quantum Scape is working since more than eight years on the technology and the breakthrough came, the proof of concept came this year, maybe last year. And it's not in production. Still a lot to do to develop production technology for separator. Make sure that all the other impacts the new technology makes is under control. So you are perfectly right. There's a lot to do and it is complicated. But if we assume we can bring it into production, we will have no anode coating any longer. We will have no electrolyte filling any longer. And that means the whole production equipment is simpler. The design of the cell is simpler, is less pieces in the bill of material and that all pays back into a more robust product and the product what has benefits in investment and also in the cost, the bill of material. But you are totally right. To get there is a painful long way, but it makes sense to do this and to get there. And it's not only Quantum Scape working on that. All other cell suppliers are also in the game and sooner or later we will see this in production. Thanks, Fang, Will. Frank, I know your time is limited and I apologize to the audience that we can't convey all of your questions. Maybe let me just ask one final question before we wrap up here. And Frank, this is about cathode. So I myself been working on cathode for about a decade. And one thing I have always been a bit puzzled by is the trend to go to Nickel Ridge. Yes, the energy density will be higher, especially if you define it by voltage cutoff. But inevitably there's always a trade-off in the stability of the material, especially with regards to oxygen evolution. This will report it. Nonetheless, this is the direction of the industry. I'm curious in the internal brainstorming and discussion at VWS, you choose the materials wrote for cathode. How do you weigh this energy density, this range consideration? And perhaps also the cost it would be necessary to make the battery safe. And could you speak a little bit about your thought process in the trade-off process? Yeah, thank you for the question Will. So today it doesn't matter really if you use Nickel Ridge or less Nickel because the cost of the cells are not dominated by the metal, but this will change. The metal cost will be significantly be in the bill of material of the cathode. And to go on the last whatever 2% of increase of energy will be expensive because all you explained is getting in the way. That's why we think it's probably a better solution to go to a lower energy density and try to figure out, like I explained, going into manganese-rich technologies because you will have a big impact in costs and a small impact in range. And this probably is a better business case. Today, of course, everybody wanna have as much range as possible, but this is also because the charging performance is not good. This will change and the charging infrastructure is not there, so everybody will buy range. But I don't think that's really an advantage in the future, fast charging and the developed infrastructure will change that. And then the cost of the battery the cost of the battery is probably more sensitive than ever before. And today we are also limited by a volume of the battery system in the car. We go to, and wait too, if we go to solid state, that will go away. Then the volume driven by the much better energy density talking about today's technology, we are around 650, 700 watt hours per liter. Solid state will be 900 or 1000. And then this, it's not limited any longer and you can buy a more energy probably for a good price in the same volume. And that will change the mindset and the sinking of the layout of an electric vehicle. So to summarize today, everybody likes to have as much range as possible into the car. And the battery energy is of course, a very big contributor to that, not the only one, but a very big one. And in the future, probably the cost of the battery is even more important than the last five kilowatt hours of energy. Frank, thank you. I really resonate with your cathode strategy. I think it makes a lot of sense and reflects a holistic and system level thinking as opposed to improving only one single metric. Frank, thank you. And on East behalf, thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us and our audience today. I know you have many important things such as rolling out a massive EV economy for the rest of us. So we really appreciate your hard work. And if I could have just in the closing slides, please. So we have heard from Frank today all of the difficult material science problems, especially related with the cathodes. So two weeks from now, we are very pleased to have Professor Yung Kuk Sung from Hanyang University and Professor Hubert Gasieger from the Technical University of Munich who will have a focused discussion on the next generation of chemistries for cathodes. Perhaps, Frank, you might be interested and your team might be interested to join this interesting presentation as well. Next slide, please. And just to remind everyone, if you're interested in learning more about story ejects, please come to our website, subscribe to our LinkedIn page. And then also we have a variety of professional courses for those interested in learning more broadly about energy. And again, Frank, thank you so much for spending the time with us. It was a very illuminating to learn your strategy, both in how you got here and where you're going. Thank you again and have a great afternoon, Frank. Thank you very much.  Thank you very much. Work hard on new technology and make sure we will all get there. We will, Frank. Thank you.


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Welcome to Drinks Made Easy. Today we're going to teach you how to make the Pineapple Upside Down Cake Shop. And best of all, you can batch these if you're going to a family function or whatever. However, a picture of this might not be the best for every family. To build your pineapple upside down cake, you'll start with three quarters of an ounce of vodka, next you'll add half an ounce of bourbon, a quarter of an ounce of peach schnapps, and half an ounce of fresh pineapple juice. Cap that off into a shaker tin full of ice and give it a good shake. And if you don't have fresh pineapple juice, you can always use canned pineapple juice. Pour it into your shot glass and you're going to want to leave a little bit of room to add just a bit of grenadine to your shot. And there you have the pineapple upside down cake shot. Nice. Nope. Hey Mike, you want to hear a joke? Well not now. Too bad. Why did the pineapple stop in the middle of the road? It ran out of juice. If you enjoyed our video, please be sure to like, subscribe, and click on the bell icon so you'll be notified any time we release a new video. If you have any shots that you'd like to see on our show, please leave a comment below. And remember to always drink responsibly because everybody likes to make friends, but nobody likes to make them in a prison shower.


QuickBooks Desktop 2023. Banking Reports. Let's do it within 2-8 QuickBooks Desktop 2023. Support Accounting Instruction by clicking the link below, giving you a free month membership to all of the content on our website, broken out by category, further broken out by course. Each course then organized in a logical, reasonable fashion, making it much more easy to find what you need than can be done on a YouTube page. We also include added resources such as Excel practice problems, PDF files and more like QuickBooks backup files when applicable. So once again, click the link below for a free month membership to our website and all the content on it. Here we are in QuickBooks Desktop Sample Raw Castle construction practice file provided by QuickBooks going through the setup process we do every time maximizing the home page. Going to the view drop-down noting we got the hide icon bar and open windows list checked off open windows open on the left. We're going to go to the reports drop-down company and financial the P&L the income statement the profit loss to the change into the ranging from<PHONE_NUMBER>24 and then customize it poor five or fonts and numbers change the font on up to 12 bring it on up yes okay and then reports drop-down again company and financial again balance sheet different this time balance sheet and then we're going to go to the drop-down we're looking for the fiscal year 123124 customized the fonts and the numbers to change it to 12 and then okay and then we'll say yes and then okay that's the set of process we do every time you did that really fast yeah because we do it every that's our setup process we do every time we got the major balance sheet and income statement those primary financial statement reports all other reports typically giving more information on one or multiple line items of these major two financial statement reports we're going to be looking at reports in the banking section of the report center this time them primarily giving more information about the balance sheet accounts of the cash accounts however just remember when we're looking at the cash accounts because cash is the lifeblood of the company we often might be looking at the cash accounts to look at other cycles and other account details as well for example if I go back to the home page over here you can see that we have the vendor cycle the customer cycle the employee cycle the vendor cycle represents us paying at the end of the day no matter what that cycle is at some point the money is typically going to be going out which of course will impact cash in order to buy goods and services that we're going to use for the company the customer cycle at the end of the cycle will represent hopefully money coming into the company deposits to the checking account for goods and services that we are providing to customers the employee cycle is kind of like a specialized vendor cycle money at the end of the process going out for services that we're buying for in essence the employees so if I go into the balance sheet here you can see that the cash account if I double click on it by the fact that all these different types of transactions are going through the cash account that it's critically important in us being able to understand all the other cycles because every transaction we have here has another side given the double entry accounting system to other some other component in the cycle all other accounts are much more restrictive they're not going to have as much activity in terms of the types of transactions so if we look at the detail in the checking account that's one of the major places we will go to check on not just the checking account but other areas within the cycle depending on how they relate to the checking account and it's also something that if we can reconcile if we can understand if we can be confident about the transactions in the checking account we can be confident not only about the ending balance in the checking account but in this in the other transactions as well that are taking place in the in this the other cycles so if I close this back out let's go into the reports we got the reports down here in the banking section we can do it this way deposit detail check detail missing checks reconciliation and previous reconciliation or we can go into the report center which will do now let's go into the report center maximize it and then we're going into the banking section let's just review these reports and then we'll go into them in more detail we got the deposit detail deposits as you recall are the forms typically used to increase the checking account we could get to a report similar to this by simply running a jail account or transaction detail report and filtering by deposits for example the check detail this represents the things that are decreasing the checking account clearly you can run a similar report possibly by making a general ledger account or transaction detail report and filtering by the decreases to the checking account the checks the missing checks represents an internal control type of report to see if we have check numbers that are duplicated or missing for example the reconciliation discrepancy report shows us problems or differences within our reconciliation when we tie out to the bank to understand that better we can think about the previous reconciliation report now the bank reconciliation is a critical internal control but it's a little bit different from a report standpoint to other reports this is really not like a financial reporting report it's an internal control reporting report and the general idea would be that we're going to enter transactions into the checking account on our side the bank is going to enter the transactions related to our checking account on their side increases and decreases of the checking account we will then reconcile our accounts to the bank account and in so doing we'll be able to have an outside third party check about the transactions that's a really huge internal control because if we go to the balance sheet you might say well yeah that's great it gives us a verification that my checking account ties out it does that but we can figure that out by just go into the bank and looking at the ending balance and getting an idea of it at least it also gives us information that all the information that we entered into the checking account is valid why does that matter if I know the ending balance is valid it matters because all of this detail is tied to all the other sides of the cycle because cash is related to everything else so if I go to the homepage if I can verify that all the transactions that went into the checking account are valid then that gives me a lot more validation about you know transactions that that are related to the checking account so the sales types of transactions that result in us depositing money into the checking account are going to be something more verified for us the payments that we made on the vendor side are going to be a more verified for us so it's a huge internal control to do the bank reconciliation but it's not the kind of report that's generated as we do the data input meaning when I enter a bill when I enter an invoice or receive payment these forms are usually the things that create the balance sheet the income statement and the subsidiary reports like the subsidiary ledger report for the accounts receivable aging report the accounts payable aging report these forms do not create the reconciliation the reconciliation is something we have to do separate to kind of check our numbers to the bank also just realize that if you're using the bank feeds to create the data input you're waiting until something clears the bank for the deposits for example before you enter them into the system then you do not have two separate systems meaning it's not like we enter the data into our system and then the bank entered it and we're reconciling the two in that case we're just taking the bank's data and building our financial statements from it the bank reconciliation still important in that sense because you can check to see if you missed transactions or if you double entered transactions but it's not as big an internal control as it would be if you entered the data yourself on your side with the sales receipts the invoices and then depositing separate from the bank and then reconciled to the bank and you could use the bank feeds in that process as well so there's kind of a difference we'll talk a lot more about that when we do the bank reconciliation section when we actually talk about how to put together a bank reconciliation for now just note the bank reconciliation really important but it's a little bit different of a kind of or type of report than the other reports let's look at the deposit detail report let's run that report and so there we have it let's run it from 010124 to 123124 now this is the activity that would generally be increasing the checking account so we're kind of filtering on those items that are increasing the checking account here you could run kind of a similar report you would think by going to the balance sheet for example you could say well what if I double click on say the checking account and then I try to filter by type over here by the increases by the deposit forms so you could say okay I'm going to customize the report up top you could try to filter by type on this side transaction type and then we're going to go down to simply the deposit forms and then okay so we got a similar kind of process we can kind of use that filtering field might give you a little bit different kind of data when you look at it this way but just to just to get a sense or a feel of what's happening here we're looking at the deposits of course the increases so these are the deposits they give you a little bit more detail on this okay so let's close that out and say now let's go to the report center and we've got the check detail opening that up the check is not only the form that you would use when you write a physical check but the check form is usually the form or is the form that QuickBooks sees as the thing that decreases the checking account let's customize this let's go to the fonts and numbers and increase the size to like 12 or let's make it 11 so notice it has normal checks here but it also has the types of forms which are the bill checks so that's a special check that decreases as we saw in prior presentations when we go into accounts payable and then pay off the accounts payable so they're putting all checks the decreases to the checking account here here's a liability check which might be the payroll liabilities that are being paid off so we're using a special widget in order to use that particular check form still simply a decrease of the checking account but giving us a bit more information about it here's a paycheck form so this was processed with the paycheck clearly again it's the decrease of the checking account but giving us more detail now you could run a similar report notice they're giving you a lot of detail in this report so but you can run a similar kind of report in general go into the balance sheet double click the checking account and try to sort for all the check type forms here that are that would be a decrease to the checking account for example customize we can go to the filters and we can go to the transaction detail or transaction type the check would be deep what we need multiple multiple transactions we got a check form sales receipt payment we've got the credit memo the bill the bill credit bill payment a bill payment there's one bill credit card sales tax payment purchase order inventory paycheck liability check so everything with a check here we're looking for generally sales order so something like that and we can run that report let's make it a little bit larger on the font bring it on up to 11 let's say and so now now you have you have kind of a similar report giving you the splits on the other side of the account here this split doesn't give you as much detail in this one line because if there's multiple accounts affected like a paycheck then it only shows you the other account that's why the check detail report gives you a bit more detail on something like a payroll check so that could be quite nice so you can see the difference between the two but in general you kind of see what what is happening here these are all the things that are decreasing the checking account and you could just simply filter the detail in the checking account to see a similar kind of format of report okay so let's go back on over let's close that back out and let's let's go back to the report center we've got the missing checks now I'll just give you the the little info here to read the missing checks for a specific account list all checks that have been written so you can check where to go so you so you missing so you can check for duplicate and missing numbers so remember that the checks if you actually you know write the physical checks then you're still going to need the checks that have a pre-number on it because that's an internal control and you could check to see if the numbers are duplicated or if you're missing numbers type of report and then we talked about the reconciliation report which will go into a lot more detail later but if we're comparing our books to the to the books for the bank we go through a bank reconciliation process and if we force the bank reconciliation to work meaning if there's a discrepancy from the bank to our books and and we just force it to work we say okay quick books reconcile anyways quick books will then make make an adjustment for us in order to reconcile if we do that it decreases the value of the reconciliation a lot as an internal control which we'll talk more about later but it's nice to be able to track you know the discrepancies that possibly have been entered in that way as well so again bank reconciliation special report very important internal control report however different therefore than the other normal financial statements supporting subsidiary ledger type of reports we'll get into that a lot more in the practice problem when we actually create a bank reconciliation


Think work is too far away to bicycle commute. Well think again, most cities have a public transport system that will take bikes, even LA. One of the best things about getting around your city on a bicycle is the freedom, the ability to interact with your environment and not being affected too much by traffic. The problem is, in cities the size of LA, you end up having to cycle a long way to get from one side of town to the other. But just because you don't have the time or energy to cycle to your favorite coffee shop doesn't mean you need to leave your bike at home. A lot of cities in the US and worldwide have at least sections of great bike paths that is worth taking advantage of. Now depending on the city you live in, you may or may not be able to take your bike with you on the Metro. Best check before you try it. It's also becoming increasingly common that buses are equipped with bike racks. I'm not taking advantage of public transportation. I've gone about 10 miles total, but I skipped some of the bad parts riding on the bus. Got to ride the nice parts and now I'm at my favorite coffee shop. But I'm not here for the coffee. I'm here for the cookies. You don't have to get caught up in cycling every mile just because you have your bike. Use whatever form of transport makes the most sense and a bicycle can make a great addition. For more bike tips and tricks from Pure Cycles TV, click the link to subscribe.


Hi, I'm Peter Burris and welcome to another Wikibon action item quick take. Dave Vellante, data protection, cloud orchestration, overall digital business protection, pretty critical issue. We got some interesting things going on. What's happening? As organizations go digital, I see the confluence of privacy, security, data protection, business continuity coming together. And I really would like to talk to our CXOs in our community how they look at protecting their business in a digital world. So at D. Vellante, love to do a crowd chat on this, love your opinions as to what you think is changing in digital business data protection. Great, so that's at D. Vellante. So reach out to Dave, let's get some folks together talking about this crucially important conversation. We'll be doing it in a couple of weeks. Thanks very much. This has been another Wikibon action item quick take.


Hello and welcome to the session the question says give three examples of sentences which are not statements give reason for the answers. Suppose let us learn the definition of mathematical acceptable statement which would be our key idea for solving the above question. A sentence is called a mathematically acceptable statement if it is either true or false but not both. So let us find some examples of sentences which are not statement. The first one is everyone in this room is bold. Now this sentence is not a statement because from the context it is not clear which room is referred here and the term bold is also not precisely defined. So this is the reason behind why this sentence is not a statement. Now let us take say an example she is an engineering student. Now here this sentence is not a statement because who she is is not precisely defined. Therefore the reason behind why the sentence is not a statement is that who is not defined here. Now let us find the third example. Causes square theta is always greater than half. Now understand what theta is we cannot say whether the sentence is true or false hence this is not a statement. Thus the reason is we do not know the value of theta and thus we cannot say whether the value of Causes square theta is always greater than half or not. So this is not a statement so this completes the solution. Hope you have understood it. Take care and have a good day.


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