We're back, we're live at 10 a.m. on a given Monday morning here on Think Tech talking about bike share. Bike share Hawaii delivers environmental benefits with Todd Boulanger who was the executive director of bike share. Welcome to the show Todd. Aloha and Aloha to your listeners out there around the world I believe. Around the world indeed. Actually we have a video out naming all the countries that we get contributions from and we stream too and it's really you're right all around the world. So Todd you know it's not only bike share that makes for environmental benefits it's biking in general and one big question I have for you is how is biking done in the time of COVID? Well it sits other than some I guess the question is overall I mean people still jump on their bicycles during COVID and actually more people did as you may have read a lot of them pressed from the continent and from other countries a lot of people transition from transit use especially enclosed transit like subways and such to bicycles and other open air options and even such as ride hailing you know ride hailing just definitely saw a drop off there because people were looking for socially distant and kind of open air transportation options are also affordable and convenient and you know bicycling ticked all those boxes.  Am I right about that and do people understand that? I believe so I mean I'm not an aerosol or an air quality scientist but that's though you know as long as you're kept socially distant and you're you know you're healthy is a great choice and I assume you mean small p peloton not the big p peloton now regarding regarding that very regarding that very question we reached out to our members we do a bi-annual excuse me a twice every two-year survey of our membership and back in June 2020 in the depths of COVID we asked our members some COVID related questions and the feedback we got those members that were still riding biki about 79% of them stayed with biki because they felt it was the safest shared option out there you know safer than transit safer than uber lift you know sharing car with their auntie you know they just wanted to get on a bike and we also saw our our average ride time and length go up by about 25 to 30% and a lot of that was they were skipping intermediate trips like a lot of people used to use biki to get transit well when transit cut back and or the choice of being you know outside a lot of people just rode biki for those trips and additionally a lot of people because there weren't a lot of legal recreation options back last summer you know you couldn't go to parks and such people were riding bikis for their mental health and now we got a lot of feedback that people were just very happy to have that option to get out of the house you know if you're if you're if you're working and living among the same bubble for so long for months or weeks getting out on a bike and just seeing the town especially why could keep when it was less crowded was was great mental medicine isn't that true you know biking is always mental medicine the good times the bad times and certainly these times to ride around get a little air get a little exercise get a little space you know the thing about it is a lot of people just stay home these days and you know you can get claustrophobic after a while there was an article about that in Lee Cataluna's column the civil beat a couple of days ago so I thought what's interesting is you know that personal worlds are changing and one of the reasons personal worlds are changing is that our you know we were limited we're contained we don't get out we stay at home and we have you know after a while you have a different view of the world and biking can help you in your you know your whole perspective but you mentioned you know that a lot of people riding riding more these days especially on beaky where you have you have the the stats you have the electronic data so tell me what kind of you know system you have that you could tell us that it's 20% more rides or rather more distance and tell us how you can determine these stats from your existing system which I've always felt was was pretty high tech where you know where every bike is and so forth how does that work Todd so you know so the beaky system the equipment is provided by the international bikeshare company pbsc and they're out of montreal canada and so our stations are our smart stations and so we know when the bikes are at the station we know what station they start at what station they end at and so from those minute by minute stats we can you know drill down and look at you know what type of rider are you a are you a member a comma I'm a member are you a visitor are you new to the system so we we can kind of drill down and we and report on those stats and and that's how we developed the ride times and the ride distances and how those changed over the years and that was part of our I guess impetus to releasing this recent news release on the environmental benefits of beaky now that we have four years under our belt and we're now in our fifth but we haven't reported on the most recent stats and so we wanted to share that with the community showing that in addition to being an essential mobility service during the pandemic beaky has also been delivering year by year environmental benefits you know everyone always thinks that beaky is a you know is a just a transportation or dts kind of benefit but we also want to show that other city departments and agencies and even state agencies have draw benefits from bike share out in the field so that's why we reached out to our friends at the climate office to get their you know input and reflection on some of our environmental stats very interesting and important because you know you are or in years to come you will be an important factor in getting around the city which is you know we'll go back to more congestion I'm sure and bikes will become that much more important I'm sure and not only as getting getting to you know where you need to go but also for recreation as you say go ahead you were going to say something to yeah you know a lot of I mean when we were when we were planning beaky back almost almost eight years ago way before the launch you know it was it was going to dovetail in in with the opening of the city's light rail or heart's light rail system but as you know it's that's been postponed and so beaky has been delivering benefits even while the rest of the system is still growing and and developing one of the the major positive outcomes the city has just completed are the war and Pensacola protected bikeways you know myself as a commuter when I used to commute the same route between Malili Ili and Kaka Ako I would have you know zero bike lanes you know if you went back five years there was nothing between those two points other than you know very busy traffic lanes sharing with cars you know maybe you had young street yeah I used to ride to work on young street this is before anybody had any bike lanes right so you would have to stop and stop and start at every major intersection now between those two points between um um Pakua market and Kaka Ako where I work I have 95 percent protected bikeway all the way in it's it's fabulous and um ward is just you know the city is just getting better and better at design as time goes on um I think the one the one important thing that beaky really has changed in the city is that you know Honolulu the citizens of Honolulu never had a shortage of bicycles you know there's there's about two bikes excuse me there's about two one bike for every two cars in Oahu but as you as you I know you know Honolulu is not like Amsterdam you know there's not people riding bikes everywhere and primarily those reasons where you know people don't know people had flat tires and bikes or they didn't have fenders or they didn't have lights so a lot of those bikes just stayed in the garages in dust whereas beaky has brought people you know reduce the barrier to the entry to ride a bike every day or every week or by choice you know when you have a bike that's available next to your office or next to your home and it's there 24-7 you're going to jump on it um well you know you may you raised an interesting point in my mind and that is that you know before beaky that's called um bb bb before beaky you've been you've been operating what four five years now but before beaky you know everybody had that bike in the garage what have you and you're right a lot of people you know had at the garage you didn't take it out much there were you know some racers and some you know dedicated people that rode bike all the time I was for a while before the traffic got too threatening and you know I just wonder about the ultimate result of all this the competition if you will you know you have bike stores still they sell a lot of bikes because the weather is good and people buy bikes and you know those people who really like to have the top of the line bikes and they're going to buy those bikes for thousands and thousands of dollars but at the end of the day Todd looking forward into the development of this this community are we going to see a tilt a tipping point toward beaky type bikes away from privately owned bikes or are privately owned bikes going to always continue in the mix what do you think well if you look at other cities I mean DC's had I used to operate a big parking garage in DC as part of the bike station system it was a coast to coast smart mobility hub system and bike sharing entered DC about 2010 one of the first systems in the nation and in the eight years I was working with that system the sale of private bikes never never dropped off and even rent rental bikes I mean the market for renting bikes is kind of split between bike share which is by the minute and daily rentals you know if you want to go on a full tour of the island long distance many hours you're generally going to rent a bike from one of the fine shops like here in kakaako and or in town the city's plan for bike sharing you know the department of planning permitting back in 2014 did an organizational plan for bike sharing and the city does have future plans for bike share hubs you know sort throughout the island of wahu in the major populated centers now that's going to take time but even with that bike sharing generally doesn't doesn't cannibalize bike sales in as much as it leads more people to adopt cycling it's a low barrier entry you know you pay your four or five or six dollars for that initial trip depending on its length and then once you realize the streets aren't as threatening as they were maybe 10 or 20 years ago then you kind of integrate cycling into your daily life and at some point you'll realize well maybe i want to go faster or maybe i want an electric bike or i want more carrying capacity for my child or my cargo or whatever or i want to bring my child along you know beaky bikes if you're under the age of 16 without you know you're not allowed to ride our bicycles if they're youth so a lot of parents rides you know they'll they'll throw their child's bike into the back of their car and then they'll take that to the park and then the parents will ride a beaky with their child and so in many ways it's kind of a a gateway vehicle to people including bicycling more in their life yeah mix and match now one very interesting thing here is that beaky is connected with the city i don't know if that gives you a lot of clout with the city on the condition of roads for example and potholes and shadows and bike lanes and what have you but i'm sure you speak to them about it what's the connection and and how can how are you helping safety how are you helping the condition of the streets on which not only beaky rides but we all ride so bike share hawaii and beaky is really just one partner in a larger scope of promoting cycling in the city and and traffic safety i would say we bring a lot of citizens and residents and also visitors to the table you know beaky has kind of increased the the mass of consumers of that product you know imagine if you know if this if the city's electrical system you know if he goes electrical system with only 10 of the houses used electricity where beaky you know we probably quadrupled the number of the user base that we're frequently using our streets of cyclists and so that you know when questions about you know should there be a bikeway here or should you know certain traffic laws be adjusted for sharing the road or complete streets you know there's more more people in in the dialogue so as you pointed out yes beaky beaky is a partner with the city and it's a unique public private partnership so there's a three-legged kind of partnership beaky is in the middle we hold a contract with the city to provide the public bike share and then we also have a contract with our our operator secure bike share Hawaii and and they're the ones that do a lot of the hard work a and date out moving bikes cleaning bikes repairing bikes and they also own a majority of the fleet they provided the initial five million dollars to get Honolulu a world-class system when the planners at DPP when they came up with the plan the city if it had been a hundred percent community owned or city owned it would have been 10 to 12 million dollars so the public private partnership came in and and built on the initial one million dollar grant the city gave us and the one million dollar grant that the state gave us to organize and pick the pick the the operator and pick the equipment and pick the layout you know should be docked should be dockless smart bikes dumb bikes our kiosks you know we went through all that public process you know Laurie McCartney and Ben Trevino and our board did a lot of hard work between the years of 2015 and 2017 even before the first bike went out into the into the revenue system you mentioned before that you know you have stats and to me that's very very sexy you know back when you know baseball nobody even knew the batting averages now you know everything about everybody and and the announcers are telling you ad infinitum exactly what the stats are and and that makes it sexy and it makes it sexy with bikes too but not only sexy it also helps the city plan for example if you know that you know you're using this new bike lane on Ward Avenue then that's that's an encouragement to the city politically if people are taking certain routes you know then maybe that helps you understand the way traffic in general flows in the city or at least bike traffic so the stats are really important and it also makes you know you know or helps you know what the dynamic is you know we know that 4.3 million bike share rides have happened since you started this um so you know what's the dynamic is it growing is it is it diminishing certain times of the year did COVID affect it up and down or down um you know what do we need to do for planning you have the stats and so I just I wonder what stats you have and where they go in terms of planning a better city a better metropolitan area a better you know what you would call a transportation community um and you could have the best stats of all because you control the bikes you can you know and I know that uh the what is it uh Montreal outfit is the one who developed the software but is it going further than that uh can we assume that in the future there'll be more stats uh what do we got now and where are we going Todd well the the road ahead is very very exciting in the sense that you know if you look you know if you look uh as a playbook other cities you know other cities on the continent and in Europe and in Asia they've integrated bike share with you know public bus systems and you know the new holo card uh opens that possibility so you could have a seamless one ticket ride between um cycling and transit and even car sharing you know other other cities have integrated car sharing and through that you know that that shared mobility fleet um and so that's you know that's one one way of of kind of making the the data even smarter um knowing where you know how people can be portable in their mobility um as you mentioned yes we do have stats and and part of our reporting um through the press this last the month has been you know what does cycling do for the environment and and the great thing about that is it's not a mitigation we're not we're not undoing a damage like you know if if you drive a car and you buy fuel then you know you're a lot of people purchase you know clean air credits by planting trees well cycling generally avoids those emissions and so avoidance is much better than mitigation and and cycling you know think about think tech I mean what bicycling as a technology is very old but what what's made it relevant now is data and that's the key point you bring out data and also electrification you know our next phase with the help of the city and state and our other business partners would be to start electrifying the fleet the stations would recharge the bikes the bikes would be powered so that you know we could have a much broader population area service area you know back up below the valley parts of kai moki parts of new wanu and even kalihi I mean kalihi is just a great untapped market we would want to work with the city on spreading our system towards where more people live and work versus the core where we are now and you know that's the exciting part of this of this job is you anticipated my next question which was okay I've seen the solar cells on the beaky stations right so your essential electronics are being run by solar which means that at least as far as that's concerned if we had extreme weather bikes would be a beaky bikes would be a great way to get out and you know get transportation because it wouldn't lock up in other words I hope this is true that you can still use the beaky bike even if the power went down but you point out that you need the power to charge the bikes and so step two is to use the same solar approach at each station and charge the bikes is that where you're going I think that's that that end points a little further down the road the next phase for recharging the bikes at the stations the stations would have to be tied into the the electricity grid and so we've been talking to our friends at HECO the fleet electrification folks about how best to integrate beaky in that next phase into the power grid what we're what we're thinking about is you know a lot of renters you know Honolulu is filled with a lot of people living in 1960s 70s 50s apartments there's no bike room there's no secure place to park a bike recharge a bike or even recharge electric car you know if we're electrifying our car fleet we have to start thinking about where will people recharge them and so as part of that you know there'll be more and more public EV car chargers and so we're talking to folks about integrating electric bike share charging with those EV charging stations so you know we can share in the utility grid and and other things just to give you an idea but you can recharge about 50 a station of 50 beaky bikes for what the power draw of one EV car charging and again regarding resiliency a lot of a lot of cities plan for more bike use during post hurricane events and earthquake events because you're right our stations are you know our solar power is for the communications and so we can keep running even if the the current electricity grid is down our stations have a memory of members and so if you have a beaky card you could conceivably use this the beaky stations that you've been using if you're on that white list to rent bikes even say if the local cell phone tower went down and such and so I carry a beaky card because you know I can go I can go swimming at the beach and if I drop my card in the sand or the water it still keeps working but my smartphone you know may not work as well so it's my backup you know I think we will have extreme weather and ultimately the question is what happens when you know the grid goes down because of extreme weather and I'm not sure how we're going to handle that because the electric cars won't be able to charge and I guess the bikes won't be able to charge and at that point you better go back to your garage and get your old-fashioned bike and drive it and ride it well it it depends I mean there are you know there are systems where if you have an electric car plugged into the network you could you could draw power from some electric cars so that is kind of the future and and and so there is some resiliency benefit there you know people with power walls and other localized battery yeah that's true yeah yeah so let's go ahead oh but I think additionally getting back to the environmental question you know a lot of us are really kind of are on an island and we can't we can't choose not to fly jets to get around you know if we go to Maui County if we go to visit our friends and family on the west coast we have to use fossil fuels and I think the key thing about bicycling you know and beaky is that you know you can you can kind of maybe bank those fuel hours by cycling more on a walk or your short trips you know to get that quart of milk to go see your friends you know to go to work because you know you have a choice here and you know you can kind of help have fun and and do the do the the climate friendly thing in your daily life because you know you have to dip into that bank when you fly elsewhere and that's and that's I think our point in our in our current news news release well I think it helps reshape the city that the experience the scenario you describe about the quart of milk is I don't I don't want to ride five miles to get that if there's a neighborhood store I'll go to the neighborhood store with my beaky and I may make three trips it's okay because it's a neighborhood store so this this actually I mean we'll see what happens but this actually has the you know the the possibility of redesigning our neighborhoods the city has to follow and allow it from a zoning point of view but you know back in the old day right we had a lot of little neighborhoods and beaky may help re return to that well that builds into what they call is the 15 minute neighborhood and you know beaky helps when I tell my my friends and contacts on the north shore and why and I coasts and other places you know you may not have a beaky station near your home or office currently but your your aunts and uncles and your your nephews going to u.h. and other schools in town are using beaky and beaky has helped get those kakaako and those moe li li and drivers you know off the streets onto a beaky for those short convenience trips so that you know for those that have to drive in for the north shore you know it frees up lane miles and also parking spaces in town when they they have to come into town my car you know that's until rail is finished and until other options exist people in the outer areas of what we have to drive into town if the bus doesn't work for them or they can't carpool and you know with covid it becomes even more important that more people beaky in town to help the folks in the outer areas come into town sure absolutely so we've been touching on the environmental you know benefits of biking and beaky and you you had a study about that and you had an article in the paper recently but i i wonder if i could give you the opportunity to list them for us what are the environmental benefits we should focus on when we consider using beaky well the the avoidance of driving trips you know have allowed with the 10.2 million miles that beaky riders have ridden between 2017 and 2020 that has allowed an avoidance of about over 12 million pounds of carbon dioxide to be released in the air furthermore if you look at those numbers um that's kind of an equivalent to over 1200 passenger vehicles um being driven you know per those emission calculations or um over 1300 homes uh the you know the emissions from electrifying those homes for you know lights and air conditioning and many things that we need now um and so that's that's you know those are the climate climate friendly outcomes of those of those of those activities that are over four million trips on a while would have helped the other thing you know beaky allows you know beaky this data has shown that beaky is both effective but it's also fun i mean there are not a lot of environmentally friendly choices in our life that are actually often more fun than the behavior they're replacing yeah so i think that's i think that's a critical component and you know we're not suggesting that people beaky every day but you know try it once a week and then see how it fits in your life you know we have stations in the kakaako parks um those are really kind of laid back and chill places to rediscover cycling um and then you can go to salt or some other places afterwards for a great meal at highway in and and and such um traditionally we've done some um some outreach in the past with the aarp and we found that the the senior set the solar seniors they jump right back on the bikes i mean after an initial wobble they're they're like they're 20 they're like they're 15 or 10 year old again um just enjoying life and and beaky's are really designed for that to lighter they're a low step through um the seats very adjustable and so the they're in many ways it's easier for seniors to adopt cycling than it is for our youth sadly you know a lot of children currently did not grow up cycling throughout their communities you know as you and i did when we were younger um during the last bike boom um and so it's going to take a little bit more work and i think hbl's um bike education course is a great first step and they're great partners with with us and cycling in general and the other benefit that the city seeing is is what's called safety numbers you know when when drivers see more and more cyclists out on the roadway they know to kind of react and what to expect when when traveling around cyclists because you know when cyclists use a roadway they often have to behave differently than a driver does because the roadways still aren't often uh cyclists friendly there may be a pothold or may be um the traffic signal that doesn't work for cyclists you know all these little things that cyclists understand but drivers are beginning to know because more drivers are cycling as beaky customers but also there seem more um riders out there yeah we want we want Honolulu to look like Amsterdam with a million cyclists in every direction and all loving it well i'll i'll take a little bit more sunshine than Amsterdam i love Amsterdam and i've done a lot of my professional studies there um you know Honolulu could be better than Amsterdam in that sense because i agree so you know with the the environmental benefits the personal benefits the community benefits um it's all it's all good and um you mentioned that you you received the grant of five million dollars to buy your existing fleet so um my question is actually to clarify that that was an investment from the operator of the five million okay investment so yeah but the the city of St. Perth go ahead the question is um what's the next tranche uh what's the next uh you know step in terms of buying more bikes or having investors help you buy more bikes in terms of expanding the number of bike stands you know um where is this going you know if if as you as you have said this is attractive to the city to the public even to the moms and pops um where are we going in terms of increases in the future well there's there's multiple levels so right now we're in our fifth year of operation and our operators is starting to set aside funds for some very important upgrades you know the the fleet during COVID because of the lack of rental cars our bikes were being used twice as often so we have to replace parts twice as often this this next year because of the the higher use during COVID um additionally as everyone knows the cell networks are being changed you know we're 3g is going away and so all of our modems and all our stations need upgrading so that's an important upgrade tasks that our operators doing additionally um you know we're in tropical environment and so you know rust is starting to catch up on us so we have to start planning in the next year or two for some uh some painting of stations and you know long long-term maintenance um impacts plus also we have to start looking at the next five to ten years you know as we as we should um with the city's health and the state's health double or triple down on bike share you know we need to add more bikes back into the system and new bikes as we previously mentioned about electric bikes you know that's if that's a path we wish to take you know we'll have definitely more probably 300 more rides because electric bikes are more um accessible to many more riders but it also takes you know an investment of you know two x compared to the conventional or the analog bike that we have now so that's that's what we're currently involved with the city on planning the next five years of the system and the investments it'll take and and additionally as you your listeners may not know um bike share Hawaii the nonprofit you know we don't see any revenue from the system um all of our funds for planning and permitting and you know communicating like this come from our business sponsors and that's you know we're unusual in that we don't have a single city bank or a single system-wide sponsor we've traditionally had a hui of local businesses from um the electric company to hawaii specific health hmsa and such american savings bank they all shipped in to keep to keep our role going as kind of the intermediary between the city and the operator to look at the public benefit side and also to keep the system sustainable so it's called it's called bike share hawaii does that mean it's in every island uh no but good point so the name the name was developed because we do provide outreach to other systems so right now there is not a system on Maui though Maui and kawaii are interested there's only a sister system on the big island so hilo and kona uh through the nonprofit path uh the county there has funded bike share the hawaii county has funded bike share as a transit link and so that's something we would definitely love to talk to the city and county of haulu about similar initiatives here to to better link neighborhoods to transit to in town with bike share we're out of time Todd I am really sorry um but I I like to say I learned a lot about bike share biki today and I'm I'm looking forward to more and more of it because I believe it will transform our city and in some ways uh the whole state um if I can throw out one last point we're always looking for new donations and new business sponsorships so please contact me through our website go biki.org and we'd love to talk to how your business can help uh cycling and and safety and public health on waku thank you Todd Todd Boulin Boulin say the executive director of biki hawaii bike share hawaii thank you so much thank you 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Hi there, my name is Jayden, which is the thing that you could actually Google for. These are my things. I'm going to talk about real-time GEO APIs. And I'm definitely coming from the JavaScript side more than the GEO side. I'm a Civic Hacker at Code for America this year, so I work with a lot of government data and a lot of open data, and a lot of that has a geographic component to it. I had to kind of develop any of my GIS sensibilities in a just-in-time fashion, so apologies in advance if I don't know your favorite projection. Webmer, Cater, all the things. So when you're dealing with things, it sometimes happens that they are related to real objects in the real world. And they're located places, oftentimes geographic places, places that you can plot on a map. And they also happen at a certain point in time. When you combine these, we have this sense of the immediate things that are happening in our surrounding environment. In 2014, we had a certain expectation that we're going to be able to have these remote senses by looking at our pocket supercomputers that are going to be able to tell us things like when the space station is passing overhead, or if the bus coming down the street is going to be late, and if you have time to run in and get an extra coffee. So how do you express these in an API? There's a couple of things that I look at as a developer when I'm both creating APIs and consuming APIs are things that I find highly desirable. One is I want them to use common formats. I want them to use simple protocols. I don't want them to be very surprising. In other words, that's me being lazy as a developer and saying it should just work. This should match my intuitive model of everything that I've been using previously on the platform. And the APIs should also understand how people are going to be using the data or functionality exposed by these APIs. So in our case for Geo APIs, a common format, let's use Geo JSON. It's a thing. It's fairly well understood. It's supported by a broad number of tools at this point. In terms of protocols, let's keep things simple. Let's use HTTP. Everyone who develops on the web has at least some understanding of it. And then for real-time components, let's just use the simplest thing possible in a plain text stream. There's a neat protocol for that called server-sent events, which we'll look at in a second. In terms of the principle of least surprise, Wikipedia says that you should exploit users' pre-existing knowledge. And in the case of updating points on a map, there's this pattern called the general update pattern, which you may have seen if you're familiar with D3. I know Mark Oxtalk is talking at Phosphor G, and that'll be a lot of fun. It also applies well towards moving Geo points around. So let's unpack the general update pattern, and maybe you'll recognize it. And if not, then maybe it'll be some cool new learning. But you have some things that you're modeling in your program, and maybe they come into the world. And then maybe some of them leave. And then the ones that remain, maybe something happens to them over time. Maybe they change color, they change position, some of the properties about these objects change. And so you want to be able to update and capture that information in your data model. So with that, we have those three events. We have things entering, things exiting, and things changing. And we could apply those to other things in the world. Now when we're building interactive applications, say in a web browser, we have a couple of well-known ways that we interact with users. It might be a zoom, or a drag, or a click event, and you just register event handlers. So when any of these things happen, and you're wanting to update the map, maybe it's taking care of for you by something like leaflet, or maybe you're adding custom handlers to react to that event. In terms of the other objects that you might want to interact with your program that aren't your user, we could also think in terms of their behaviors as actions that occur, as events. So for a bus driving around the city, it might be something like a bus starting a route and entering service. Then the bus is going to drive around the city for a little bit, go around the block.  Maybe the bus is going to stop at a red light. Someone puts their bike on the bike-craft. Then the driver goes home at the end of the day and the bus leaves service. There are some cases where we might not have the data available in our model. Maybe there aren't sensors capturing this, and so we can't use it in our application. Maybe some things are just too noisy, and we don't really need to care about it. So what we're left with is a couple of events that actually follow very well with the general update pattern. Things entering, things changing, and things exiting. The domain that our application cares about. So how can we get events like this into the browser so that we can do things with them? We want some way to work with them just as easily as we do with click or touch events. We want some kind of event source. So there's a really cool DOM API that is in almost every browser, but very few people use, I know this, and that's a shame. There are polyfills that exist going back to IE8, so you could even use it in the government. But this is how... We had a request by somebody who works for the government to token down our spark. So I promise that person we've made a good faith effort. So speakers this afternoon, please, please be respectful. So you can even use it in your large enterprise GIS shops. This is how easy event source is to use, which is why I love it versus some other technologies that you may think of in terms of real time on the web. Web sockets are great and they have their uses or things like Socket.io. But in a case like this where we literally just want a one way continuous stream of events and we want to treat them in our application as events, I find something like Socket.io to be more complex than is necessary. You do this, you knew up an event source object and you just pointed at the endpoint for your event source API. It's just going to be a regular HTTP service. And then you could use regular DOM, add event listeners and give it whatever handler function you want. So now we have a way to get events into the browser. Cool. Where do they come from? On the API side of things, what is event source doing? Is it making some restful HTTP requests for us? Is it polling? What's going on here? So on the server side, it uses a serialization of framing protocol called server sent events. This is an excerpt from a valid server sent event stream. It's served with a mime type of application event stream. It's just plain text encoded. Please use UTF-8. But the way it works is you have events and then a colon and an event name, data, a colon and then this could be any string. In our case we're going to be using JSON and in particular GEO JSON. Then you just have a blank line in between and then you could keep sending as many of these events as you want. It ends up being a persistent HTTP request. In the event source spec, if for whatever reason the connection is interrupted, it will automatically handle your reconnection and retry logic for you. What's really cool about this is that because it's so simple you can implement it in any language on any platform really easily. You could do it in PHP and just to your output buffer. Whatever you want. You could actually just set up an HTTP server that's listening and tailing a Unix file descriptor if you want and just write to it in C or whatever. In my case, in the example, I'm using Node to spit this out and I think there's like 100 event source libraries on NPM. The way that you make this is not necessarily relevant for the rest of the demo. We're going to just take that you have some API that's going to be treating you nicely and giving you events of GeoJSON features. The rest of my talk is demo, so let's do this. Let's build a bus map. Here are some of my friends from Cascadia.js here in Portland recently. I'm going to be using NPM and just kind of showing my workflow for how I build maps, but it's not... Oh, and I'm also going to duplicate my screen. I build maps because I like to get to code as quickly as possible, but you could do this in a variety of ways. Much like a cooking show, you'd probably rather see the useful bits than watch me type or chop onions, so this is kind of our starting point. This is actually just one screen. There's no vertical scrolling, and this is how the level of code involved when I make maps. Can everyone see the text size? Okay, cool. I'm going to hide this real quick. You're using Linux, it's never going to happen. How? How to computer? All right, all right. So here's a text buffer. We're using leaflet on NPM, which means that we could just use CommaJS require. If you're familiar with Ruby, it's like require. If you're familiar with Python, it's like import. Other things have similar concepts. So we're getting leaflet, which is the library itself, and then a wrapper module called leaflet map, which takes care of some of the boilerplate, and we'll put it into an HTML page for you and just draw a full-screen web map. Here's the documentation for it, which is always great to look at. So what do we do? We get the map, we add just a generic OSM base map tile layer. This is just copy and pasted from the Getting Started with OSM page. We have attribution to make OSM people happy. And then we're just going to set the initial starting view to Chattanooga and add a marker. That doesn't sound too terribly difficult. Oh, no, let's skip that. All right, here we go. So the workflow is using Browserify to compile everything together into one package, and then this is just throwing it up in a web server. So now we can see that we have the beautiful default OpenStreetMap styling of Chattanooga, Tennessee, which is where I currently live. And we have our marker, and we can click on it, and it has the overlay. Chattanooga, wonderful. All right, so that's step one. Step two, this is where we start to add a couple of things. So we have all that stuff at the top still. And now we're going to add our event source. This URL is Chabus, which is the buses in Chattanooga. This is an API that uses kind of everything that we've just been talking about. It uses event source. It's going to return GeoJSON features, one per event. And it calls the events from the general update pattern add, change, and remove. So at any given time, the buses that are driving around the streets have, there's a certain set of vehicles that are driving the different routes. So it's just treating that as a set. Now, the way that this API works, we could debug it just using curl in our shell. So I'm just going to grab this URL. Curl is a Unix utility that will let you make an HTTP request and just watch the results in your console. So when we first connected to it, it replayed the current state of the set using add events so that we could handle everything in a uniform fashion. And at this point, there have been so many other events happening. But as we watch this scroll by initially, you'll see that the event type is add events for the initial buses. And then subsequently, there will be change events as the locations are changing. This could potentially be a little bit more efficient, but for the number of buses in our set, it's not really a problem that we're repeating all of the properties like color and route number. Even though the only thing that we really care about is the coordinates, the geometry of it, we also get some other information which might be useful. For example, we have the heading. So we could say what direction it's pointing in. And so this is it. This is a server-sent event stream. We could log this to a file if we want. We could proxy this anywhere. And it's a lot easier to debug in this case than WebSockets would be, for example. All right, so we've got that. And then we just add a couple of event listeners. And we're just going to log it to the console and see what happens in our web browser. So we have the same map. Nothing's happening because we haven't done anything with the stream yet. But in the console, you notice that we have all of these message events that are being logged. And so this is what the events look like on the DOM side of things that correspond to that server-sent event stream. If you're familiar with looking at raw DOM objects, it looks very similar. You have things like a target, but it's not really meaningful because it's usually just the window. So the important bits are you have the event type, which in this case, the dispatch of that is already being handled for us because we've added up to our on-change event handler. And then we have this data property. And you'll notice that it's still just a string because in server-sent events, it doesn't require it to be JSON or YAML or any other particular serialization. You get to deserialize the JSON yourself. So that's all we're going to do when we're handling this. First, we're just going to do JSON.parse. And then we'll have our objects that we can look at. So in step three, we start to do something interesting with it. All of the setup stuff at the top is still the same. We have our event listeners wired up. And now let's do something in on-add. So the first thing we're doing is parsing, just JSON parsing the data. And then there's this weird kind of, like, quirk going between geo-json and leaflet in the, is it longitude and latitude? Is it latitude and longitude?  So we're just going to convert that and ignore that. All right, so in our on-add handler, we're just parsing the incoming JSON string into a JavaScript object. Then we're creating a bus object in our application. So we're going to grab the ID just off of the geo-json feature ID, just because having identifiers is helpful in programming. Data is just the raw geo-json feature. And then we're also going to create a leaflet marker based on the geometry of the point from the feature. One of the properties that we're getting back is the route, which is just a domain property of what bus line that dot is on. And then we're going to add it to our map. So let's run that. So here's our real-time API. It draws static points in real-time. And it's beautiful. And unfortunately, in 2014, we don't yet have the technology to animate things. So I've been thinking hard in advance of Steve's question, and I hope that in the future, we'll be able to do that and show things moving. Of course, I'm being facetious. So that's the obvious next step. And let's look at what that looks like in our on-change handler. So all of those were plotted from the initial connection when we get the add event. So when it's replaying back the current state of the set of all the buses that are driving around Chattanooga, Tennessee, right now. So the next thing that we want to do is listen to on-change events. So from the top here, we've got all the same setup. We're drawing our map. I'm going to add a collection just called buses. And I'm going to use the JavaScript object here just as a collection indexed by the feature IDs. And I'm going to throw it on the window global objects just so we can debug it in the console and kind of see what we have, what we're hanging onto. On-add is the same, except we're also adding the bus object that we created to our collection. In on-change, all we're doing here is we're parsing the incoming event. We are looking up the existing bus object in our buses collection, because remember that also has the markers that we created on the map. And then we're just updating the position of the marker where it's drawn on the leaflet map with set lat long. And GeoJSON geometry is still the same. So now we have all the markers and every couple of seconds when the underlying data source is updated, we'll see these markers start to move. And it's subtle, so let me zoom in. Actually, that's as much as that'll let me zoom in on this layer. Can anyone see that, maybe? Yeah. All right. So when you're zoomed at, like, zoom level nine or whatever this is, driving at bus speed is pretty slow and you have experienced this. You've experienced this if you've been waiting for a bus to arrive. So this is the simulated version. But now we have dogs moving around on a map. And there are maybe a couple of more things that you could do. How do I...computer? A couple of other things you could do if you have a feed of bus locations or really any other kind of location. This is the unscripted bit. But here's an example of something that I made using this same data feed. This is the bus driver simulator 2000. And so this is where we're using that heading information. It's where we're using the Google Maps API to show street view image corresponding to the current location of the bus. And so that'll update. And so we could switch around to all the different buses that are currently driving around in Chattanooga. Oh, I'm glad you noticed because we built that in. We have this realism slider here. Ladies and gentlemen, not a plant. All right. So that's an example of what we've got and just to jump back to the slides really quick. G-I-S-G-L-V-O. Yeah, but it's PowerPoint version like Windows 8. How to computer? How to scroll on a list? Oh, yeah. That's all we have. Attribution. It's important. It matters. There were...even when your images don't load, in theory there were images from the Noun Project. Squares were designed by like our committees or Pythagoras or someone like that. And then all the material and demos and code and stuff that I did in this talk under the terms of Creative Commons Zero stuff. So I'll take one question exactly. Question for the audience. Our committees and Pythagoras are given a presentation later in the week. First time. Sir. So in source... Yeah. Yeah. So when I first started using it sorry, let me do this, was looking for why that is, right? And so the first thing I thought of was, well, maybe it's not really widely supported in web browsers. Oh, here's my animated GIF. This is the browser support matrix from CanIuse.com. And so we could see that except for in old Android browsers and then this other column on the left-hand side. It's supported everywhere. And in Internet Explorer, like I said, there's actually a really good polyfill going back to IE 8. And I think in theory it would support earlier things. And again, it's just because it's such a simple text stream to parse. And the cool thing is that IE actually has, because they have a different implementation of XML HTTP requests, they have better streaming support. And so someone basically just wrote a JavaScript parser for service and events. So we can use it actually with polyfills. I think this whole thing turns green. I'm not positive about Opera Mini. So it's supported everywhere that we would need it to use. Why don't people use it? I think so much mindshare, as like the word real-time started picking up steam, went to WebSockets that just kind of took the spotlight. WebSockets are hard to implement if you're writing a server. Like no one implements their own WebSocket server. Everyone just uses one that exists, which is fine. But it means that there's less tooling available and if you're adding it to maybe an existing project, that might be more difficult. Or if there's existing hosting infrastructure, for example, because WebSockets use an upgrade from regular HTTP, they use some clever tricks in the protocol. But some corporate firewalls, for example, don't actually play nicely and you have connection issues. And then you end up with libraries like Socket.io that try to do WebSockets and have all these horrible fallbacks. At the end of the day, think about what it is that you actually need streaming for. Sockets are great if you actually need bi-directional communication. If you're writing a game, you want persistent, kind of stateful sockets so that both the server and the client are kind of aware of what's going on on the other end. In this case, and in a lot of cases, where you're just pushing information one way, all you really need is a way to kind of continue sending updates instead of in a request response model. So for that, I would say event stores and service events are great and why don't more people use them? Well, now you all know about them and you all should use them because they're well specified and they're well supported and they're really simple. I like that. Let's give it a hand.


I think they have to give Anduha a long look. He is such a terrific hitter. He might become a tremendous hitter every year for years. Left field, first base, DH. They want to look at him in spring training. You would think, yeah, he'd get some reps in a lot of different spots. Yeah, and that transition from third to first may be not the easiest, but John, I'm curious about him maybe playing left field and getting some reps during spring training, but it also reminds me, John Carlos Stanton. This is a guy who missed so much time last year and you feel like with the Yankee fans, he's got to resurrect himself this year, be healthy and be productive because it feels like he's on the clock. So we talk about Anduha and Jack and all these opportunities. That outfield is getting very crowded as we speak. It's a crowded outfield and here's the fun part of this discussion. We get to talk about it. Aaron Boone, the manager and his coaching staff, they have to figure it out. And I'm confident that they will figure it out. No one plays 162 games anymore. So I think as the Yankees navigate where they want to put particular players, that's their projected outfield right there. I absolutely believe Anduha has to make himself more versatile, but he's a guy who can play third a couple of days a week. Maybe he D.H. is a couple of days a week. You're already up to playing four out of seven games in that week. You find him one or two other days and there are those at bats that we're talking about. Final thought, Meredith, we're sitting here on January 9th talking about really good problems to have for the Yankees, right? There's no doubt about it. There's so many people like, how do you make the Yankees better this season? How do you make 103-win team better? Well, you go out, you get the best starting pitcher on the market in Garrett Cole. And now, while the roster pretty much is set, there are a couple areas where there will be some competition. Third base is one of them. First base, maybe a little bit of a competition there. Outfield, who is going to be the guy? Mike Tachman looks as though he's going to be the extra outfielder out there. But really, Aaron Boone is going to have his work cut out for him, trying to keep John Carlos standing. And Aaron Judge, both healthy in that outfield. Can you imagine that both of those guys are going to get some DH days as well? And then there's always a surprise in the bullpen. Maybe somebody that opens up your eyes in spring training that they decide to go with in that capacity.


And the Sultan of Sokoto, Mohammed Sa'ad Abu Bakr III, on Tuesday urged the federal government to explain to Nigerians how much loot it had recovered and what they were being used for. He spoke in Sokoto at the Zonal Dialogue with stakeholders on the National Ethics and Integrity Policy organised by the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation in collaboration with the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission for the Northwest Zone. The Sultan, represented by the Wazir in Sokoto, Professor Sambo Wali Junaidu, said keeping mute on the recovered loots would spell doom for the fight against corruption in the country. Is that the government owned old, rather Nigerians, an explanation considering the state of the nation's education and other infrastructure, like roads, which need serious government attention?


Hello everyone, my name is Huainan Xu, I'm a Ph.D. student, my advisor professor is Dr. Duyang Xu. What we are doing in my poster is we preload some lithium for lithium-M battery. Why we do that? Because the preloaded lithium will compensate the lithium loss so that we can increase the efficiency and the capacity of the battery. To be specified, a fresh made lithium-M battery is pretty much like you grab an empty bottle and a bowl full of water. You can consider the water inside is the lithium or the capacity of the battery. When charging the battery, it's like you pull the water from the bowl into the bottle. During this process, it is unavailable that you spill some water. Then, when you're using the battery, it's like you pull the water back into the bowl. You can see, due to the spillage, you have less water to pull back. That means the battery will lose some capacity during charging. Well, in our technique, we preloaded some lithium. That it is like we fill the empty bottle with some water in advance. Now, you can see, when you spill some water, the pre-filled water in the bottle will compensate that loss. Then, you have more water to pull back. That means you have more capacity when using the battery. We call this technique, preletiation. With preletiation, the lithium-M battery will have more capacity and more efficiency. Thank you very much.


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Wow, this is a great room. I remember a couple of years ago with Ashkahn, we were in San Francisco and there was about 25 of us sitting in a room together and now we have almost 500 people here. So this is really, really just heartwarming to see and it's so cool. I'm going to play a little video and it kind of gives what we're doing in True Rest. It talks about our new float podcast. It talks about us franchising and then it gives a little breakdown about our pods and so I slept about 20 minutes, two days ago there's a little guy inside of my head that was so excited. He was just jumping up and down. I couldn't even sleep so it's so so awesome to be here and just love this industry. So enjoy the video. Thank you very much. Welcome to the float podcast, an entrepreneurial journey. My name, my name is Nick Janicki. Once a wide-eyed hippie with purple dreadlocks and now the founder of the True Rest Float spot, the fastest growing floating franchisor in the world and CEO of float pod technologies, the industry leader in float pods. Follow me along in my entrepreneurial journey with what will become the next billion dollar industry to enter the health and wellness sector. Let's connect with world-class athletes, actors, musicians, doctors, industry experts and explore the mindsets of powerful entrepreneurs. Let's get this floating party started. Hey guys, welcome. This one is a money, what did we name this one? A briefcase of money or lots of money is in a briefcase? I forget what we named the episode but anyway this is a great episode. This is episode one of the float podcast. Go to floatpodcast.com for more information and this is basically me paying my dad back who was an investor on my original store five or six years ago and so this was a huge moment for me. It's super awesome, super fun. We got a briefcase full of money.  I interviewed Pops, my dad, a little bit about the flotation industry and then basically dump a hundred thousand dollars in his lap. So enjoy and we'll see you in the next episode. When I started this my big thing was like pay back the people that helped you first was my biggest thing and so you know we talked earlier this afternoon and one of the things we wanted to do is I just wanted to show you this just to open this up real quick. Just click this button okay so one of the things I wanted to do is we still owe you a money. So this is actually a hundred thousand dollars in cash. Oh wow that's hilarious. So these are ten thousand dollars we owe you this and so we wanted to just you know. I'm not sure we want to get this on people. Thanks for the money. It really comes down to communication and knowing that everything that is outside of us we cannot control but everything inside of our hearts we can control and so you know if you're having a hard day and something's happening with you I can come and say you know what it's okay we're gonna get through this together and we're gonna help each other and I'll bring you up if you're down. Right. If vice versa if I'm down and having a hard time there's many nights where I'm just being tears. Right. You know our bank account is nothing or negative and we were eating ramen noodles and I would just be in tears and you would come to me and say you know it doesn't matter we have each other and we're gonna make this work and we're gonna get through it and it's tough but you know you gotta lean on one another. So if I need to go subcon- you know super conscious or sub conscious or we're really just present and just watch because I've had some floats where I'm just watching and what and then I'm watching myself watch. Okay. And then and then there's not there's no difference between the observer and the experience and and those have been profound times as well and I geek out on that ability we have to watch our own watching. Right. Right. And to have the distinct ability of consciousness reflecting on itself. Right. In like a mile it's a time to mile that you go through. Okay. The bike started kind of acting up started shaking I don't know if you know what a head wobble is. I know what it is. Like tank slap. It's like when the handlebars go left to right. And you're going 195. You're going 195 miles an hour you don't want that to happen. Not much. Sounds like you want. Okay. So you know I reacted very quickly it was like a more stabilizing very grounded and focused reaction. Yeah it was it was incredible the way I handled it I didn't actually even know I was capable of doing that. I found that as a kid super grounded I float before every single race because of this. Wow the podcast has been tons of fun and we have tons more great episodes coming with all kinds of people. And now on to the true rest franchising side of things. We're the fastest growing floating franchise or in the world. We have four stores open. All of them are exceeding expectations. Two more will be open within the next 30 days and dozens more on the way. Super excited have tons of great testimonials from franchisees enjoy. I am absolutely without doubt in the right place doing the right thing. I questioned it before the university only because trying to weigh you know what I should do is it right. This is new. This is something that's emerging. I have the intuition in that the nudge is telling me do it but there's always that little thing in your mind that makes you ponder and question things and after this week it's there's no doubt in my mind this needs to be out there. This is a missing element that people need in the in the world of healing natural healing. I think having a huge amazing team of great people that already know what is going on in every aspect is invaluable. And for me it's not just have about having a team it's about the specific team that's involved with true rest because they're just the best people on the planet and I know that we have our backs covered and they'll do anything to help us to be successful. To be honest originally I was not interested in being involved in franchising. I had called to purchase pods and they offered franchising to me and I said oh I'll just let somebody call me and I'll hear their pitch because I've been a private business owner for many many years and after hearing what they were doing and seeing that we were getting in at the ground floor level and meeting everyone involved I was absolutely sold on franchising with true rest. You know when I when I first talked with Lori about opening up a float pod center I said you know we can do this we this will be a piece of cake it's no big deal we've been in business for years and we can build it out we can do this and then I'd actually called Nick and said hey Nick I think I'd like your business plan and he said well we don't we don't do the business plan anymore we do a franchise and I said yes I was so excited to hear that because I didn't want to have to recreate all of the software I didn't want to have to recreate the pricing I didn't want to have to recreate what the look of the of the spa would be I didn't want to have to practice and say well this didn't work on this one but the next one we build will be this so the value of franchising and having the systems in place how can you go wrong you we all have a passion and it's not this machine that we're a fluid system you know and it's a beautiful thing it's not like any other franchise that you would hear of it's just a beautiful thing to be a part of why would you want to invest in something with the unknown now we're invested in knowing Nick and Holly's mistakes that they and then they're teaching us you know paving the way and it's like like why would you not want to be part of success so it's like they've paid the road and now we just need to get in the car and go all right guys now on to the float pod technology side of things we're basically making custom filter packages for people that need to get through their individual cities and municipalities we're super excited about that we've gotten through the state of Florida which was a big one for us we're going into Washington state which is also another big one for us and we're just super excited about everything that's going on here we do have a new model coming out soon though we're not going to release any single piece of information my lips are totally sealed until next year when we're actually going to be releasing it so we have lots of exciting things going on here a float pod we are on version four of our pod we've made drastic improvements every version come talk to a sales rep about float pod technologies we have a booth right outside we also have reps for true rest if you're interested in true rest franchising the true rest numbers are mind boggling they're way beyond our projections so reach out to us talk to us here at the conference we're here for you we love this industry and we're gonna we're gonna push it forward so let's do this together and we'll talk to you soon thank you so much so I think Ashkahn's gonna introduce lunch but yeah come find us we're gonna be hanging out in our booth in the corner there but just so excited I'm actually gonna jump up and down and we have so many people here and just just come talk to us it's so awesome like yes let's do this thing thank you


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Welcome to the channel.  There's a draft. Now before we get started, I just wanted to let you know that I've started a second channel. The link is in the description. Some Among Us is going up in an hour if you're interested. But if anyone asks, you didn't hear it from me. Now enjoy the video. Hey there friends, how's it going? My name is Kevin. Sorry, I don't really have any like bowler hat or like a fedora, surprisingly. So that was the most dramatic hat I had at my disposal. But today we're playing more Among Us and today we'll be playing it in black and white. Not much in life is black and white, but one thing that is, is my addiction to Among Us. Today I'm going to be clueless because well, I'm literally going to be clueless. I won't have a clue. Who is who? Oh great, just to confuse even more, I've got green, blue and green again. Well I'm a crewmate at least. Oh dear, how am I going to do this? It's already overwhelming and I've just started pink. Oh that helps. Great. I don't know who to vote for.  I'm going to go with this one. If I vote on red, yeah we'll do no problem. I'll be sure to do that. Okay it looks like I guessed right anyway. Oh wait actually no it was not right. Oops. But look I followed the instructions at least somehow.  The lights are off. Someone was found dead. Okay green and blue are dead. Oh wait there is another green though. How is there two greens? Vote red. I don't know who red is. I'm just going to keep saying vote red so then hopefully someone will defend themselves and then I'll know who is red. This person said maybe it's them. Red what have you got to say for yourself? Please talk. Okay it's got to be that. Okay red guilty. That's close enough. Okay we got him. Now let's see if it's actually them. Nope. The last person who voted off wasn't an imposter and they said vote red and the red didn't even defend themselves. Oh maybe it wasn't even red. Maybe I'm being taken for a fool here. Oh god which is on. The light one's on right. Oh how am I supposed to do tasks?  I deserve it.  I think this guy's speaking parcel mouth or something. He's like kill. Even the other guy's like but who are we just killing for the fun of it? Well he got voted off for speaking parcel tongue. I'm not really surprised. It is a true sign of evil. See I'm getting people in like carrot. Like I'm kind of assuming you're orange and banana.  I think that banana might be spoiled. Oh great I'm a clueless imposter. At least I don't have to do tasks I suppose. Emergency meeting immediately. Okay I see why they called an emergency meeting because they all had to go. They just called emergency meeting and immediately all started leaving. One imposter remains. Oh great. Come on guys come to the reactor. Come to me. Come to clueless. Come on come to clueless. The poor guys. Even the mask is just standing in the hallway waiting. What even color am I now? That is a big issue as well. Like I don't even know what color I am myself so they could be starting to say like oh it's brown and I'm just sitting there idle not defending myself. I got a fixed wiring and storage. Okay all right I got it. I got it. I don't got it. I didn't know what actually happened when you connected them to the wrong ones. I'd never done that before. Wait that guy just came from vent. I was. His name is I was. His name is I was. Oh dear. Oh dear. He came from vent didn't he? Is that my imagination? I don't know. I was not paying attention frankly. Both the guy called I was. This is really confusing. His name is confusing like even I said I was vented. It just sounds like I've poor English and I said I vented. Okay red. Wait is that me? Am I red? Or is he saying okay vote red? I don't know. I was was an imposter. Now the game is poor English. All right Kevin don't admit you don't have a clue what you're doing. This is definitely a health hazard as an electrician who cannot see which one is the red wire. Let's just hope there's not a bomb trash. Kevin cut the red wire. I vote Jerry. I even said it was Jerry last time but they didn't believe me. Yes good job the devil. Me and the devil have always had a bond. I don't know why you didn't kill me because I was the only one who kind of had proof I was innocent. I'm a way better detective in black and white. I guess it's just more of a noir kind of feeling. It just inspires me. Is it like your name man? I just took it. I don't know who he's complimenting when I'm just like yeah thanks. Okay have I just gone fully blind now? I was just color blind. I can't see anything. Wait oh son is that you? Come to me. Come to me boy. Okay good I disconnected. Okay I'm clearly going to have to just find a friend and stick to them because I am really struggling alone to be honest. All right who looks the friendliest? I think Ollie because he's got a plunger on his head. Speaking of looking friendly I don't look very friendly. I should probably fix that. Yes this is what I need. Thank you. Ollie. Love the plunger by the way. Ollie please come out. Where are you? There's Duel. Oh oh no is this Ollie? Oh it is Ollie. You killed Duel. Him and his beautiful plunger. That sounds like a euphemism or something. That sounds bad. It was noimey or two people voted for me. That's suspicious. I wish I could know the colors that voted for me but I can't. I went back and did an emergency meeting and just who voted for me along with Duel who wasn't in posture?   I'm going to take off my mask and get something a bit more friendly. Yeah there we go. My little tourist hat. I love my little tourist hat. He said love the hat. Thank you. This person just joined said I want a partner so I was like join me and Ollie. We're going to have a trio running around with Ollie leading us. It's like one of those tour guides who holds up a flag or whatever to lead the group. You just look for the plunger sticking above the crowd. Come on Ollie lead the way. Oh god I think everyone is in a pack. Oh god move carefully but quickly to electric. Come on.  Who is dead? Don't let it be our people please. No Ollie. Oh my god.  Oh my god. I think why yellow as she's saying yellow is safe. Am I yellow? Wait only one person voted and it was for Mr Beast. Does that mean Mr Beast gets yeeted into space?  K-Dog?  Everyone called me that. Like everyone. Alright just me. Just me. I call myself that. I said Ollie. Rosa. I am so sorry. I lost you in the darkness. And then she said go dance which for some reason sounds a bit aggressive.  Oh yeah wise guy. Go dance. Oh no I'm the imposter. Alright let's see where your loyalties lie Rosa and Ollie. I can't see who I'm highlighted over. They're not reporting me at least. Come on how does this keep happening to me? How do I make friends who are loyal to the point of not reporting me? Oh god this is the other imposter.  No no no. Run run with me please. We don't have much time. Okay now the next trick. I need to murder someone on front of somebody else and then blame them. Yellow safe. Okay I must be yellow. Yellow is safe so I leave it. Forget about the third imposter meme. We have like four imposters. Okay perfect. It was Ben.  He must be so confused for Ben. He's like yellow guys please. Ollie's like it was Ben. He's getting passionate now. Everyone voted for him and it's not even him. The other imposter must be like what the hell is going on?  I might just to see what happens.  I just called an emergency meeting. Oh no the killer's there. Oh god get away from him. He's bad.  What do we do now? Okay we just win. I was like I'm not killing Ollie so what are we gonna do? How will we resolve the situation?   Stupid.  Die alone please. Oh wait no he must be German. Die alone please. He wants to be alone. I understand. Act more.  I'm the imposter again.  There we go. Ben, Ollie and Rosa. Innocent.  I did the exact same thing last time. Oh my god. This is for a guy.  The thing is it must look from the outside that we're playing with each other and I was going to say Skype but that would be a boob or anything to say. I think this guy legitimately wants to kill me. Alright I'm going to stop there because I don't want to completely ruin the game. I had to. It was a social experiment. The way Karma works he's going to get imposter and murder me straight up anyway. I was just going to follow him at this stand. I'm guaranteeing you I could call the emergency meeting and say that Ben is following me and get him voted off but I just I can't at this point. I think I would actually break him. Okay an emergency meeting. He's blaming me. I was with Ollie, Rosa and Ben. Ben defend me. Who is purple? He's land. They think I'm actually playing with these people. I'm just going to guess it's Ben. I don't know who's purple. He's getting pretty aggressive now so I can understand why they want to vote him off. Oh it's Ollie. Trying to signal to Ollie to kill this dude. No you don't want to kill? Ollie is a pacifist and I why is this guy staying? Why is Ben? They're just here to get upset at this point. They're probably just waiting to get impostered just to get rid of me. I think once they get me voted out they'll be happy. They just call emergency meeting at the start every time and I'm like it must be Ben. I don't know why they keep doing it. He got voted off. Like why is he doing this? He's not calling the meetings and he's the one that keeps getting voted off. I don't understand. My name is not Ben. I mean I'm just shorting it. I don't know what I said.  Wait what? I think I died immediately. He died too. Oh god the game is hacked I'm afraid. Oh it was Ollie and it also were the imposters. Alright with that portrayal I'm done. Oh my god that was hilarious. I don't think I've seen anyone that angry in there and among us. But I hope you enjoyed the video. I sure as hell enjoyed that. I hope you did too. Oh my god it turned out in the end the most fun had nothing to do with the gimmick I was doing which was doing in black and white. I appreciate you watching as always folks. If you want to watch more of my stuff I post every day. I also stream over on Twitch four times a week so you can catch me there. Link in the description. But other than that I'll just thank you for watching and I hope to see you next time. Bye for now.


reality TV show The Apprentice boosted the careers of Donald Trump and Alan Sugar. Also, unforgivably, they introduced the world to the attention-seeking crypto-fascist Katie Hopkins.  We'll go into some details about her career in a moment. First of all, Aaron, your instant take. Is this something we should be celebrating or are you into that crowd where we shouldn't celebrate when big American unaccountable private firms are censoring what goes out on their platforms? It's a tough one. I mean, we have a mind on this, I think, Michael, which, generally speaking, we don't think it should be a sort of ad hoc thing by private businesses because then these are such critical parts of freedom of speech and so on. Rights of publication, freedom of association, so on Facebook and Twitter. If you're not on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, you're not participating in the 21st century conversation. And so it shouldn't be taken lightly.  I mean, I don't say that lightly. She's quite open about it.  She'll say that. And she's often, I think, incited hatred. Again, I don't say that. I think she's literally incited specific issues. Tommy Robinson did something similar to that young Syrian boy, I believe, when he shared a video and he genuinely put that young man in danger. So I think it's a pretty good case, even if you are something of a free speech fundamentalist, not fundamentalist, I think, incitement clearly shouldn't be given a platform. But even if you really are on the side of caution with taking people's rights published and freedom of speech away from them on these platforms, even then, I think this is pretty much an open and shut case. I basically agree with that. I mean, also, it's not just a debate about free speech because Katie Hopkins is also a, I mean, she was promoted, given a huge platform for a very long time by many of Britain's most prominent media outlets. Let's look at a few of the grimmest examples of this. So between 2013 and 2015, Hopkins had a regular column in The Sun. She ended up being condemned by the UN's Human Rights Chief after arguing that migrant boats carrying Syrian refugees should be stopped by gunships. Let's look at how she defended this position in that particular column. So she said, no, I don't care. Show me pictures of coffins, show me bodies floating in water, play violins and show me skinny people looking sad. I don't care. Make no mistake, these migrants are like cockroaches. They might look a bit Bob Geldof's Ethiopia Circa 1984, but they are built to survive a nuclear bomb. They are survivors. Now that was published in Britain's highest selling newspaper in 2015, not 1975, not 1980, in 2015, calling migrants cockroaches. And also the context there is, you know, almost 4,000 people died trying to cross the Mediterranean that year, escaping a civil war. I also want to just get up before getting your comment on this, the tweet from the Sun to promote this piece because it just looks so fascist. Sun columnist Katie Hopkins says, you may as well set up a Libya to Italy P&O ferry. Show me bodies floating in the water, play violins and show me skinny people looking sad. I still don't care. And then she is looking at you in her blonde hair and her blue eyes smiling. It just gives me the absolute creeps. She left the Sun that year, but to go straight to the mail online, which at that point in time was Britain's most widely read online newspaper and went on to work for LBC. So we spoke last week about them finally firing, firing forage after platforming his hate for a really long time or way too long than they should have done. And she had the opportunity to do that every Sunday morning for over a year on LBC. She ended up losing that gig when after the Manchester Arena bombing, she tweeted and get this up, 22 dead, number rising, Schofield, don't you even dare? Do not be part of the problem. We need a final solution, Manchester. She was presumably tweeting, but it's Schofield.  Aaron, do you think that Katie Hopkins could say those things that she said in the Sun on LBC now? Do you think we've kind of moved on a little bit as a society over those past five years, or or could you do we see similar language to that in the Sun still? Really great question. Really great question. Her editor at the time at the Sun was a gentleman called Stig Abel, or the executive editor. They kind of they had to have a very strange system after after 2011 and Liberson. Stig Abel was basically the top guy. Stig Abel now is fronting the Times Radio, which is going to be a competitor to Radio 4. He has a program on BBC Radio. He's increasingly prominent BBC radio. He'll do paper reviews, and I believe he's editor or he was editor. I don't know if that's carrying on now. The Times literary supplement, very respectable, respectable voice. You know, Modra, Bain, Metropolitan voice went to a lovely once were lovely expensive private school, and he was the person who okayed those words. So I think, you know, she might be out of the picture, but many people who enabled her, platformed her, pushed her forward, made her possible, okayed her, said it was fine, said this was a perfectly legitimate point of view in in a democratic society. Those people are all still with us. The person that commissioned the LBC show, Stig Abel, the person that got her into mail online, questionable, really questionable. She has gone. Tommy Robinson increasingly isn't playing a significant sort of role in the public conversation, but the people that elevated them, the people that said those points of view were legitimate. They're still around. And they're still very much shaping the nature of the political conversation and media and policy and politics to this day. Could she have said that now? No, I don't think she could have. I do think we've moved on, but the fact those people behind the scenes are still there. I mean, that really, I think, provides food for thought.