Welcome to NewsClick. As part of Dr. Ambedkar's 126th Birth Anniversary series, we have with us Dr. Shailaja Paik, Faculty of History, University of Cincinnati, with us to talk to us about Dr. Ambedkar's ideas for the human society and the Indian society at large. Welcome to NewsClick, Dr. Shailaja. Thank you. Dr. Ambedkar's educational journey has been phenomenal and his thrust on education for the liberation of the Indian masses. Could you throw some light on his journey to the U.S. and abroad for his education, pursuing his education and as education as an instrument for the liberation of the Indian masses? Yes. So as we all know, Ambedkar was an absolutely eminent leader who came from a Dalit background and that is the reason he had to face certain social obstructions and this happened when he was schooling in the Bombay Presidency in the colonial times and still he was pursuing his education. He wanted to learn, for example, the Sanskrit language. He was also facing a lot of social discrimination when he tried to do this. So for example, he had to bring his own mat to the classroom or he had to sit at the end of the classroom. So while facing all these difficulties, we see what this man is trying to achieve and pursue his aims and objectives. When he's doing this, we have a regional prince, Maharaja Gayakwar of Baroda, who finances Ambedkar's studies and he is financing other non-Brahman and Dalit students also and he helps Ambedkar to attend Columbia University from where Ambedkar attained his PhD. He went to LSE in England and that is how he tried to achieve to attain the highest levels as a person coming from a particularly depressed class and to seek the highest level of education. So while doing this, we see that he is actually challenging and breaking the law codes of, for example, Manu, the most widely quoted figure. So if, for example, they happen to listen to the so-called religious scriptures like the Vedas or others, molten lead was to be poured into the years and so on. So this is why we need to understand what Ambedkar was trying to do. So his educational philosophy is very much grounded in his social background, in his political, cultural, ideological and intellectual aims and ambitions. So what Ambedkar is saying is that there are two levels. He wants Dalits to first just enter schools and that is the first stage because historically speaking, we have certain marginalized communities not allowed to access education. So that access initial was very, very important. And the second stage that Ambedkar points out is that Dalit students should also get education at par with upper cost students. He wants Dalits to be respected and he wants them to enjoy egalitarian citizenship in modern India. In that endeavor, Dr. Ambedkar had established the People's Education Society and in fact urged the then government to send Dalit students abroad for their education so that they would return and work for the community and the society. But he was disappointed in one of his speeches. He says that he was disappointed with the educated Dalits. Do you have to say something on this? Yes, absolutely. So we see that Ambedkar strived for his entire life to fight for different rights, educational and civic rights of the Dalits. And he was very instrumental in sending some Dalits abroad so that they could seek higher education and then return to the community and help the community in its advancement and improvement and so on. However, he mentions that he was not very happy with these so-called educated Dalits because they were trying to move away from the community. So he does express that. However, it is difficult to generalize because there were many committed Dalit activists, educated activists who were engaging with the community and who were working with Ambedkar. Dr. Ambedkar also was a firm believer in the constitutional methods for the emancipation of the depressed classes. And for that matter, he worked tirelessly for the emancipation of the Dalits, women in general and the working class. Could you share your views on this? Absolutely. I think both Ambedkar and when we look at the non-Brahman leader from Western India, Jyothira Phule, both of them worked from within the state. So they used constitutional measures to work for the emancipation and the uplift of the lower castes and Dalits in specific. And here I just want to very quickly point out, even when Ambedkar is talking about education, he, yes, he is spending a lot of time on Dalit education but his idea and goal of education is for all Indians that would include Dalits as well as non-Dalits. So we need to pay attention to that. And so when he is talking about constitutional means, here also we see that he is trying to work within the framework of the state, trying to seek as much as benefits that he can from both the colonial government and the post-colonial Indian government. And he is doing this on a number of levels. So for example, he enters the Bombay Legislative Council where he is able to pass or just propose certain bills and get them enacted. For example, the bill for compulsory primary education. Or when he is elected as the law minister, when he is in the parliament, he is fighting for women's rights, which is not just Dalit women's rights to, for example, maternity leave or divorce or so on, but for all women. Similarly, also his contribution for the workers, 8 hours workers rights. I would like to speak more about what he did, for example, with the Hindu Code bill. I mean, there were some measures that, you know, there were some leaders who were proposing these reforms. However, it was Ambedkar who was instrumental in debating and discussing about these ideas.  So he was very keen on working for the rights of the lower class. Dr. Ambedkar said that if you educate a woman, you are educating the whole family. And he said that the measurement that according to him, he measures the progress of a society based on the progress made by women in the society. So could you throw some lights on Dalit women that you have been studying, Dalit women? How have Dalit women taken Dr. Ambedkar's expectations and how did they achieve those goals?  So this is the British official and, you know, he is the writer of many, many books who initiates this conversation as looking to the status of women as the measure of civilization. This is James Mill, who starts this conversation actually. And many leaders, including Ambedkar, are drawing upon it. And that is where we see that Ambedkar is also, you know, looking at women and saying that, and this is a larger conversation. Ambedkar is a part of it, where he says that, you know, it is women who are, you know, who are going to be more responsible for the emancipation of the Dalits and women who would actually be more instrumental in the removal of untouchability.  He is giving them that agency. However, I really want to stress here that, you know, if people are trying to say that this is exactly what upper caste reformers, leaders were trying to do, this is, the Dalit struggle is different. It departs from this upper caste notion of women being framed in a particular way.  So the role of women is very, very important because it is the Dalit woman who is facing double oppression as belonging to a particular caste and belonging to a particular gender. So what Ambedkar is trying to do is basically trying to really empower this Dalit woman to not only challenge oblique patriarchy but private patriarchy that this woman faces inside the home. So for example, private patriarchy, let's begin with that. He talks about as to how Dalit women should not cooperate with Dalit men if the men, for example, are drinking alcohol or if they are not going to follow the dictates of the community, whatever the community has decided at a particular political and historical moment. So that is how he is making them very powerful inside the home. Both Dalit and non Dalit men should pay attention to this. And in the public, by bringing out women outside for conferences, by involving them in both direct and indirect action for the community, we clearly see that Ambedkar is trying to work upon these capacities of women. It's not just him, I mean of course women are choosing to do this. So it's not that they are blindly following. Ambedkar has some scholars are trying to portray. We clearly see that for example, Dalit women prefer to choose critically Ambedkar and their involvement in Dalit movement rather than go with Gandhi. Over the years, there have been critiques from the Dalit feminists that enough attention had been not paid for grooming the Dalit women leaders. So in this contemporary times, do you want to say something? And how it differed? Did Dr. Ambedkar consciously groom the Dalit women leaders or it was just by default that they happen to be there? I wouldn't say that it was by default. He was making a conscious effort to involve Dalit women in the conferences, in the different parishes that he organized. And we see that there was, like for example, this is Shanta Bai Dhani. I can speak to examples from Maharashtra. In Maharashtra, we see that there are some women leaders coming from Dalit backgrounds that emerge both in colonial as well as in post-colonial India. And he is very attentive to these. He wants these women to give speeches. He wants them to engage in different activities. So Shanta Bai Dhani was very active in the Nasik temple Satyagraha, for example. And she was also the leader of the Shadyur Kast Federation. So these were very important political moments and she was the woman president at some point of time. So we clearly see that this was happening. There are also some limitations, there are contradictions, but yes, we do see these leaders emerging. So Dr. Ambedkar thoroughly, because of his politics and the situation then, he believed in the constitutional measures, but he also was very critical that his hands were tied when he was drafting the constitution. I want to quote Dr. Ambedkar in his last speech to the Constituent Assembly. He says, I feel, however, a good constitution may be. It is sure to turn out to be bad because those who call to work, it happened to be a bad lot. And the current regime, which is in the business of appropriating Ambedkar, is trying to play havoc with the constitution and the secular fabric and the democratic nature of our constitution and its polity. Could you share your thoughts on that? Yes, certainly because we see as to how the current regime and its various agents are appropriating Ambedkar. But the problem is, they are doing this very selectively using only some speeches or just some fragments of sentences here and there to show as to how they are sympathetic to causes of certain people. However, I would suggest that if they actually read, as you quoted what Ambedkar has written about constitution making and constitution execution, they would do a better job. That's it for the series. Thank you, Dr. Shailaja. We'll get back to you on some other issues. Thank you for watching NewsClick.


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Hi, my name is Leon Rowe, currency trader and trading coach at Trading180.com and welcome to this week's supply and demand, forests and gold, fundamental and technical analysis. Getting into the week ahead, starting the 10th of July and so next week the US central stage will be taken by the June inflation report, the CPI report followed by speeches from several Fed officials. Additionally, investors will closely watch the Michigan consumer confidence index, producer prices, exports and import prices. Furthermore, the Bank of Canada and Reserve Bank of New Zealand will provide updates on the course of monetary policy, which is going to be very important. June inflation figures are set to be released by China, and other important releases include China's trade data, the German ZEW Economic Sentiment Index, UK's May GDP growth and labor data, as well as Australia's business and consumer sentiment, and you can see more and read more about the week ahead on the Trading Economics website. So let's go, actually matter of fact, before we go to the charts and the fundamentals, if you are a member of the Trading180 Mentoring Group, I have uploaded the members weekly fundamental and sentiment analysis, as well as the technical analysis videos, which goes into obviously a lot more depth as well as the previous week's videos, 5th of July with a group call webinar. So in case you missed that, you can catch up on the webinar we had on Wednesday. So let's get into the charts and looking at the dollar index and dollar index, just a measure of dollar strength against various currencies like the euro, the pound and the yen. And what we see here really is just a pullback. So fundamentally, we had the, from a data perspective, the US jobs growth calls, but wages signal labor market is still strong. So payrolls growth revised down by 110,000 in prior two months, wages increased at their faster than expected pace in June, which is a data point that the Federal Reserve is looking at to determine rate hikes. And so US jobs job gains moderating June, while wage growth remained firm showing a strong enough labor market to keep the Federal Reserve on track to raise rates this month. And so that should keep the dollar supported. Yes, the headline figures weren't great, but I said wage growth was actually still sticky as well as unemployment data as well. So the Fed is still looking like they're going to hike at least two more times. So if you are looking to get long, then this is a decent buying opportunity. Also as well, we've got CPI figures this week. So you know, depending on how that comes out, although it should, the expectation is that it probably is going to remain sticky, the dollar should be supported and probably looking like a buy. But all bets are off if inflation comes in lower than expected, because then the expectation for rate hikes diminishes. And then the market has to reevaluate what the reevaluate, what the dollar exchange rate is actually worth. And so CPI comes in sticky or higher, then you're looking at that for the dollar index and so it's jumped across the board when it comes to the dollar. And if CPI comes out this week, you're looking and comes out lower, then you're probably looking at at least a fall back to the 100s least on the DXY. Looking at the dollar yen and the Bank of Japan are potentially looking to adjust their yield curve control and monetary policy. So going to Bloomberg, yen rallies most since March as traders unwind their short positions. And so the market has been heavily short on the end because of monetary policy. The Bank of Japan have been one of the banks that have been quite dovish. And so Japanese currency rallies amid broad dollar weakness and shorting yen popular trade on Bank of Japan's policy divergence. And the yen surged the most since March against a broadly weaker dollar after softened and expected US payroll data prompting traders to unwind short positions. Now the rally comes as traders reassess a strategy in which the yen has acted as a key funding currency in carry trade. So you're pretty much borrowing the yen at a lower rate and investing it in a higher interest rate currency, which would be, for example, the dollar, even the pound or the euro. So investors have also boosted short positions on the yen as the currency moves steadily lower this year amid widening divergence between the Bank of Japan's easy policy and aggressive hiking cycles for other central banks, notably the US and Europe. And this is a quote which says, I don't think we'll see a complete unwind of the yen carry trade just yet, but it had gone a long way in Q2. So this is profit taking position adjustments, said Brad Beechell, a foreign exchange strategist at Jeffries. If volatility stays high, then it will continue to unwind. But if volatility stabilizes, then carry junkies will jump back in. And so again, looking at the yen, you know, that demand zone obviously didn't work. It wasn't seen as a bargain price. So there's 143s, but I do think coming down to the 142s, 141 area is going to be interesting. We do have not only a demand zone there, which made higher highs, but we also have a level that has been traded and bought and sold in the past. And so this is going to be the first area to look for potential buy trades. If that doesn't work out, then a move I think probably back down to maybe the 139s could be actually a really nice level, as you do have some support and resistance in that area as confluence as well. So decent areas to look for some long trades. If you are looking at buying the dollar, if you're looking at buying the yen, then really a pullback up into the 145 areas in that zone there in anticipation of your curve control to potentially occur in July.  The price may push past the 144, 151, 145 areas because the expectation of yield curve control will then be pushed back into the future. It may come maybe September, October time. So again, you have to kind of be a bit cautious in terms of taking major, you know, increasing position sizes, very uncertain time. But I do think that there may be some disappointment as Ueda is quite dovish Ueda being the Bank of Japan governor. He's quite dovish. So this could be actually a quite a nice area to look for buy trades if the data supports the narrative. The dollar data does support the buying this week with CPI. Dollar Swiss and dollar Swiss has come down to a really nice zone. Again, with the dollars could be a potential dollar buy again this week. But you also have another central bank, which looks like they are still hawkish Swiss national bank can still can handle more rate hikes. SMB Schlegel says that SMB sees no risk to financial stability due to capital buffers and central bank vice president comments in newspaper interview. So they are very hawkish, even though they've reached and achieved their 2% target inflation target. But I think the reason why they're still hawkish is because they expect price or inflation to still remain quite sticky in the future. So rising inflation. So I think they want to really kind of get a handle on inflation. I mean, they've got a handle on inflation, but they really want to stamp out any kind of inflation threat by continuing to be hawkish. And so that obviously is playing into things. But I do think that if there is positive, and I say positive, but if there are if the Fed hike at least and continue to hike or seen as hiking as two more times, then I think actually this is actually a really nice area to look for potential buy trades. And so any pullbacks into that deeper area, 88, two areas decent buy, if you want to be a buyer of the Swiss franc, then you're looking at that area there as the first zone to look for short trades. And again, just for some confluence, you do have a level of resistance in that zone right there that has been traded. If you drag that back right here, it looks like it's been traded in the past. Got support resistance, resistance there, resistance all here. So that's just a bit of confluence with the trade looking at the dollar CAD and the Canadian dollar this week. Again, it's going to be in the spotlight. And so rate hike seen by all Canada's big six banks on strong job status, a 60,000 gain triples forecast, even as unemployment rate rises, CIBC joins peers in predicting McClellan will move again in on the 12th of July. So all six of Canada's main commercial lenders now expect Bank of Canada to raise interest rates next week after the country's labour market tripled expectations in June. So you're seeing some Canadian dollar strength, some dollar weakness, but I think the Canadian dollar is a potential buy not necessarily against the US dollar, more trade against something like the New Zealand dollar or the Japanese yen. But yeah, you've got some decent levels to look for trades if you are looking to buy the Canadian dollar or buy the US dollar against the Canadian dollar. So pullback into that zone would be quite nice and really a pullback into we've got a level of demand actually right here. And that is going to be decent for a buy trade on the US dollar. But with both central banks looking to hike rates, it's not really a pair that I'm really interested in. But I think these areas are going to be especially this lower area, this one free one area is going to be technically I like it. But just from a fundamental perspective, I don't really like the EVRA trading this pair. Unless for example, the Bank of Canada come out after their their rate hike and say that they're not looking to hike rates anymore and looking to hold, then and the Fed are looking to continue to hike. Then in fact, this demand zone could be all these demand zones could be quite nice buying opportunities for the dollar New Zealand dollar this week. The New Zealand dollar again seen as actually looking to I think they're looking to hold rates one second. Where did I put that? New Zealand economy. Here we go. Right. So the New Zealand economy firms are downbeat on the economy sales and growth slows. The New Zealand companies are pessimistic about the outlook for the economy and their own trading prospects as slowing growth dams demand for their goods and services. And so central banks typically don't want to hike during an economic downturn. And from what I've read, pretty much the RBNZ, the New Zealand central bank are looking to hold rates. The consensus is that they will hold rates. And so as they're still looking to hold rates, the economy isn't really picking up yet. In fact, the economy is in a recession. I think the path of least resistance should be to the downside. So any moves probably from now or any of these zones I think are going to be really nice shorts. And again, you'd need the combination of a hawkish Fed and the data to support buying the US dollar as well as data supporting the fact that the New Zealand dollar and RBNZ are not looking to hike rates. If they do surprise the market by hiking rates, pretty much all bets are off the table. I think the New Zealand dollar will fly to the upside. There's no resistance or supply zone that's going to stand in the way of the market repricing exchange rates. And so you're going to definitely see the New Zealand dollar appreciate as the market has to revalue the New Zealand exchange rate on rate hikes because I think they're priced in pretty much rate holds. Looking at the pound and the pound is just ready from strength to strength. Clearing that off the table and looking at these areas of demand. Now, the pound is in the short term should be a buy, but there are cracks starting to show markets turn against UK as inflation and growth outlook darkens. So Bank of England is struggling to rein in soaring prices and pivotal wage in inflation data due out next in the next two weeks. So markets have turned against the UK for the second time in under a year as the outlook for inflation and growth darkens for an economy that's already lagging behind the other group of seven nations. And basically what this is saying is that the more you hike is the central bank's hike is the more the economy contracts or contracts. So if central banks are seen as being too aggressive, then in fact a recession is probably due. So if you do have problems where the inflation is too high, the central bank is hiking, but the economy is going into a recession. It makes it very, very tricky. And what's known is I guess stagflation where inflation is rising and the economy is falling or contracting. And so they are behind the curve. But because the rate hikes haven't really had an effect on the economy just yet any economy is holding up. It means that the pound is a buy for now. But as soon as the economy does start to show a contraction, then you may start to see in fact the the pound become weaker. And so I think this is a really nice technical area to look for short trades. But that would depend on you thinking that the pound is going to be a sell and the dollar a buy. At the moment, it doesn't seem like that way. It seems in the short term, we are at the you know, the pound is the one to buy. So if you are looking for a buy trade, then maybe just wait for a pullback. You could trade both sides, obviously, you could look to trade it down or then higher. But then there's no guarantee that prices will actually, you know, pull back here, right? So it's best to just wait for prices to do what they do, have a plan when prices get into that area, then look for your your bias. But if you're looking to buy the dollar or against the British pound, I think this is a really, really nice area to look for some short, if you think that the CPI data is going to come in, you know, hide and expected in the Fed are going to be hawkish. Looking at the Euro dollar and Euro dollar has made some new, I say new high, but it's broken past this, you know, lower high, lower low made a new high past that. But from a fundamental perspective, it looks like Lagarde and the ECB are still quite hawkish. Lagarde says ECB won't stand by idly if margins and wages rise. So they won't hesitate to act if officials see simultaneous uptick in both company margins and wages, President Christine Lagarde said. And so they still have more work to do to bring inflation under control. So that sounds hawkish to me and the hawkish central bank typically supports the currency and wants to appreciate the currency. And so I do think that any pullbacks into that zone could be a buying opportunity. If the data supports, in fact, the dollar hiking rates too, then the upside is going to be capped. So I think any move up into the highs, maybe the one 10s or even like the one 11s is going to be a bit limited, because if you have two central banks that are looking to hike or two that are looking to hold, then you tend to have what's known as a ranging market, what's really known as an auction. Whereas if you have one central bank that is hiking rates and another that is not, then you tend to get trending markets, because the market is buying the currency that is looking to where the central bank is hiking rates, right? So you could have a situation where this is the high right here, and that is, and this would be the low right here. And that's an agreed range or agreed auction between buyers and sellers about the exchange rate that's seen as expensive and expensive exchange rate. And that's seen as a cheap exchange rate in the middle of that is fair value. So again, not really a pair. I was in this trade to kind of took some profit. It was long, but then took some profits on I think it was Friday after the data came out. I thought the dollar was going to actually strengthen based off of inflation, but prices went to the upside. But I do think that if you are looking to buy the dollar, this is a better price to actually go short. But let's see what happens with that pair euro yen, again pulling back based off of yen, potential yen, strength and profit taking. But you've got a nice area right where we are to look for some buying opportunities. If not, then further down, a bit further down, one five fours is going to be decent. And beyond that, you have to wait for really a deeper pullback down here, unless you get in fact somewhere between this zone where you get proven demand. And then you get a pullback into that demand zone before looking at getting long. But in anticipation of your curve control, I think this could be a potential for a sell. In the past, the Bank of Japan has disappointed. So I don't know whether they will, but let's see. But that would be a decent short to get in on and start to buy the yen if it pulls back towards the end of the month in anticipation of that monetary policy change on the yen, looking at the euro pound. And again, as I was saying, when you've got two central banks looking to high crates, you tend to have what is known as an auction, right? As a, as a ranging market. And so this is basically what we're seeing right now. And between this high and this low, we can actually move this up. In fact, let me just get rid of that. We can move this up to here and we can move that actually down to here. It's made lower highs, lower lows. So I think the new ranges from this high, or this low, sorry, up to this high, if you want to be long or short on the euro or British pound, technically, you do have a decent area as well. Support in that. We have support and resistance within that, that the highs there. But again, with both central banks being quite hawkish, it's difficult to kind of determine the direction of travel. And but there is obviously an opportunity if you think that the ECB is going to be the one to buy. In fact, down here, I think that's a decent buying opportunity. But again, how far will it go does depend upon how hawkish or the ECB are or how dovish, I won't say dovish, but you know, any changes in the Bank of England and their hawkishness with rate hikes. So yeah, those are really your options this week. And then if you're trading that pair, then you've got the Australian dollar, US dollar and the Australian dollar this week. They opted for a hawkish hold. So that but keeps the door ajar for more hikes. A decision will allow RBA time to assess economic outlook risks. And reiterates will do what needs, what's needed to return inflation to targets. And inflation is still high. They surprised the market by actually holding rates. I think the market was expecting a hike, but they decided to take do another hold. So they held earlier in the year, then hiked again, then they're holding again to see the effect of rate hikes in the economy. And so but they it was seen as a hawkish hold as they were still quite hawkish in their narrative. So if you do want to be a buyer of the Australian dollar, then you're really going to have to wait for prices to even pull back down to this 66 cent area around here. There's not really a demand zone there to be fair, but there is demand there.  Don't like that because it hasn't really made a new high. So it's not it's not the strongest area of demand. But the best area would probably be to look for any kind of pullbacks down here. If you think that the Australian dollar is a bargain against the US dollar, again, not really a pair that I'm looking to trade at all. As you've got two central banks who are still quite hawkish. So not a great pair to look for trading opportunities fundamentally. But yeah, I think those are really just your options. And then looking at gold and gold with a stronger dollar is making lower highs, lower lows. Again, all bets are off the table. If CPI comes out this week and is below consensus, then you've got yourself a trade right here. In fact, decent to the upside. One of the things fundamentally that is happening with gold is that China central bank boosts gold reserves for the eighth month. So people bank of China holdings rise 23 tons to in June taking total to 2330 tons economic and geopolitical risks, driving purchases of bullion. So yeah, you've got China added this to its gold reserve for an eight consecutive month of economic and geopolitical risks, as well as the desire to move away from the US dollar driving purchases. And so you do have that supporting you, whether it's enough to keep the dollar supported is, and that wouldn't be just China, of course, that the other central banks probably doing the same thing. And if they're looking at gold for a longer term play, then down to these 1900 prices are going to be seen as a bargain. And so what you do have is this was seen as an absolute bargain down it back in March this year. This was seen as expensive. 50% of that retracement is fair value. We've come down to discount prices. So anyone and big entities who really wanted to look to buy gold on risk sentiment dollar depreciation are getting in and buying gold for quite a decent discount at the moment. But will that continue in terms of, you know, gold depreciation, or once the dollar does start to depreciate and devalue, you should see gold, you know, move up to the upside. But where we are now, I think it was really nice, technically, support and resistance within that demand zone as well as some some confluence, one of the one of the confluences we look at. But overall, I think, I think for now the dollars, I mean, the gold may be under pressure, especially this week with CPI. But if you do want to be a buyer of gold, really kind of look for a pullback into maybe the eight just below the 1890s for a potential buy. Or if you're looking to short gold, then pull back into the underside of this supply zone to look for a short trade right there. So that brings us to the end of the analysis for this week. Hope you enjoyed it. Don't forget to like, subscribe and share the video with your fellow colleagues. Really help support the channel to get the quality information out to traders who need it. And I wish you all a fantastic trading week and a great weekend.


I mean, it's a facade, it's still the college, the degree, the diploma, the hat. It all symbolizes this achievement idea. Let me read to you what this professor wrote in an op-ed. He said, even after receiving the normal grade inflation, so he said, the kids were still getting grade inflation, like everybody, including his own in his class. He said, students demanded yet higher grades and revolted when I wouldn't go along. To my astonishment, the students went above me to Spellman's administration, which capitulated without ever telling me. So the administrators actually said, yeah, we'll give you higher grades. They didn't even tell this professor. Because I refused, he goes on, to look the other way, I lost my job.


Good morning, John. This video is going to be purely instructional because your YouTube experience could be better if you knew some YouTube secrets. For example, I just flashed some text on the screen, but you couldn't read it because it was only there for one frame. But what are you going to do? You're going to go back and then try to pause at the exact right second? No, you're not. Instead, you're going to watch this video, which has 18 tips for how to use YouTube better, including how to find that text. First though, let's talk about subscriptions. If you're logged into YouTube and you go to youtube.com, you will find a page of content that YouTube has decided that you probably will want to watch and will probably keep you on the site. But it will not be a feat of videos that you control. The only way to get to that is to click on this little weird icon at the top and go to subscriptions. Also under that icon is your history, so you can see videos you recently watched, and your Watch Later playlist, which is a wonderful thing because often you see a video that you want to watch, but you don't have time to watch at that exact moment. Every YouTube video has a little clock. If you hover over it, you can click that. It adds to your Watch Later playlist. Then you can click on that either on your desktop or on your phone whenever you want and watch those videos. The majority of nerdfighters who answered the Nerdfighteria census get their YouTube videos from the subscriptions feed. And that is wonderful for us because it's the only page on YouTube where you can go and actually make sure you're seeing all the content your favorite creators are making. But the subscription page, if you got a lot of subscriptions like I do, can be a bit of a fire hose. It makes it easier to miss content from the people I never want to miss stuff from, which is why for certain channels I have notifications turned on. It's a little bell thing. You click on it and decide how you want to get the notification. You can also do this from your subscription manager page. You can see all the people you're subscribed to maybe take out the ones that you're not watching so much anymore. And for the ones you never want to miss a video from, you can turn on notifications. You can also set up notifications on your phone, the little bell on a channel page. You can get push notifications every time a new video gets uploaded. And you can join that coveted group, the Notification Squad, if you've ever seen that comment. Your subscription feed is actually easier to find on mobile. It's one of the big buttons at the top. Some YouTubers, including us, have the ability to post community posts that aren't videos but will show up in your mobile subscription feed. You can decide whether or not you want to see those community posts. For now, I'd suggest turning that on, trying it out, because we're going to be messing around with it some in the coming weeks. So this is all fine and good when you're on your phone or on your computer. But what about if you want to be on the big screen?  And if you're on your phone while you're watching the video, you can queue up the next video and the next video. And then it's great, it's fricking, it works like a dream. YouTube has its problems. This is not one of them. I use it all the time. Now finally, back to desktop to talk about hotkeys. Now because of a weird confluence of things, it's not really worth talking about. Sometimes if you press the spacebar, it will pause the video. Sometimes it will jump down to the comment box, which will be extremely frustrating because then you have to scroll up and then press pause and you're like, why didn't the spacebar just work? But if you push the K key, it will always pause the video. L will advance 10 seconds and J will go back 10 seconds. These keys being used for this purpose is actually a holdover from old video editing software and a lot of people think that it's annoying and weird and like it doesn't make any sense that it's those particular keys but I actually kind of love it.  M will mute the video. The up and down arrows will make the volume go up and down. The left and right areas will advance and reverse the video 5 seconds. The numbers on your keyboard will advance the video to that point in the video so if you like hit 6, it will go to 60% of the way through the video. If you hit 0, it will go back to the beginning. The greater than or less than keys will speed up or slow it out of the video and finally, the period and comma will advance and reverse one frame at a time allowing you finally to catch that weird one frame of text that the creator decided to put on the screen just to mess with you. If you're on your TV or phone though, I got nothing for you. You just gotta pause and unpause real quick. If anybody else has any tips or tricks for how they use YouTube most efficiently, I really wanna see those in the comments. John, I'll see you on Tuesday.


All right, let's click record and we're live Hi, my name is Kwame. I'm a documentary filmmaker and a voice of our artist based in Akragana and Before I even get into today's video, please please Forgive me for the noise that you might be hearing in the background Unfortunately for me my studio is situated in the part of the house where the window is right across the main street first of all and Across from that is also a welding shop a metal Stingy shop, so I can't stop them from working and I need to record this video I need to share this information so that we can all learn much more about voiceovers So in today's video, we're going to talk about how to improve your reading of any voice Overscript and I'm not going to say I'm an expert And this video is not going to be very technical like I said in the previous video. I did about voiceovers However, I've done this for about eight years or a bit more than that And so I have come to learn or I've come to pick up a few Elements about scripts and how to read them and that is what I want to share with you today On this video. So let's get to it. But before we get into that one I also get asked a lot of times this particular question. How do I get to sound like you? And most often they mean the voice tone and they ask if I did something to my voice or I practice or I did some kind of voice training to get To sound like this and the answer is no My voice sounds like this Because that's what Puberty brought. I don't know so in terms of sounding like a certain way you don't have to make it your prime focus when you want to start Voiceovers, it's it's an advantage that you might sound a certain way Sometimes it also is a disadvantage because it's not all voiceover scripts that you can do but In reading a voiceover script, what you should be concentrating on is the technique Knowing the principles knowing a few things that like i'm going to share today that help Make you much more engaging. It helps you Get into character when you don't have a lot of direction from your client And all these things that you need to note about scripts in general and how to read them And make it easier because it's a skill. It's like learning how to drive It's like learning how to play the piano. It's like learning how to play or Practice a certain talent. You may have something small there, but you need to polish it and Polishing it means there are few rules that you need to remember and follow A few tips here and there that make it easier to understand or grasp the concept Of recording voiceovers like this. So yes, let's get to it I'm going to in the course of the video or when I finish explaining these key elements to you I'm going to demonstrate how they work as well for you to see What I mean by knowing these key elements of a script and how to tackle them So if you're familiar with the concept of writing Which voiceover scripts usually are you're going to be presented with a lot or a variety of voiceover scripts Unless you're known specifically for some kind of voiceovers or a particular genre of voiceovers You do maybe only audiobooks. Maybe you do only movie trailers. Maybe you do only commercial voiceovers You don't do any explainer videos. No documentary narrations. If that's your thing, that's fine However, even that All these principles apply to some extent. So that is what you need to know Before you commit to reading any voiceover script. So if you are if you're familiar with writing You know a script has a beginning. It has a middle and an end It's basic a beginning a middle and an end and usually with voiceover script Usually with voiceover scripts. Your beginning is where You either capture the attention of your listening audience Or not So it's a very very important part of a voiceover script And you find in maybe commercial voiceovers that it might start with an exclamation or an excitement or something that Will grab your attention or a statement or a phrase that will grab your attention before The rest follows. So if it's an exclamation, you can have something like it's amazing You know or it can be a question. Are you having Trouble doing this if it's something that you can relate to Then it piques your interest to want to listen further because it's something that might solve your problem or My bring you some kind of entertainment or my past information that you need to hear So that's the beginning That is a beginning usually of a voiceover script. That is where you need to capture the attention of your listener now the middle part of voiceover script usually Contain all the emotions the things that get you to relate to what the person is saying And how it makes you feel That's where the bulk of let's say the concept of the the voiceover script is Where the emotions are Where you can easily relate where it gets you also thinking And then finally the last part of the voiceover script is usually where there's a call to action It can be a literal call to action or sometimes it piques your interest or makes you curious enough To want to do that call to action by yourself. So there's not one formula and this video is not How to script or how to break down or it is how to break down a script, but it's not how to mark a script So there's no formula or Way that a script might be written It can be done. Anyway, it's a creative writing or creative copywriting. So if you know what your client wants Then you know what to do or how to communicate that with the listening audience So the beginning like I said Capture the attention in the first five seconds or three seconds It depends on what phrase it is that they use to punch Just capture the attention in the middle is where the emotions are And then in the end is where they get you to act upon whatever they want you to act upon And script contains words and these words have been carefully chosen To make or they've been strung together to make this script what it is That is one thing you need to also remember They have been carefully chosen and words Inside the script are most likely going to be very descriptive Apologies again for the noise outside Let's go on so most of the words they are also going to be descriptive Which means that you need to give life to those words Per their meanings. So they are adjectives. So if it's something that is cool It's something that is soft. It's something that is Um hot or scorching you need to give The emotion in the tone of your voice to that particular word it helps to Carry that emotion to the person who is listening to it because most voiceovers Depending on how they're used might end up in audio format might Even if it doesn't end up in audio format and they are accompanying pictures They still need to carry those emotions And those emotions cannot be flat. You cannot have a neutral tone Of how you are mentioning every single word you're seeing on the script and those things really matter So carry those emotions pair the words that you're seeing in there So if you're seeing an exciting thing in there something that brings a smile to your face As a person If that's what you want your audience to feel or that's what your clients want the audience to feel You should smile when you get there. You should Laugh or chuckle when you get to a certain place that requires that emotion to be Evoked or communicated you should be angry if that's what the thing is supposed to communicate it should be curious it should Sound intrigued if all those things are necessary to carry the script where it needs to go and you need to note them Well, yeah, you need to consciously note them and it will happen over time. It doesn't happen immediately. You start Your voice over career or whatever you learn over time to see these words for what they are and Commit that okay, if I see Freeze in cold, I know how to make people feel like it's cold if I see scouting hot I know how to make them feel like that should could that thing could I can't believe I said that that thing could burn. So that's what I'm trying to say and It also requires you to get into character Because you're professional you're being hired to bring this particular script to life It's not the same as talking although Some scripts require you to be as natural as when you will be talking. However, there's still some tips and tricks some Principles like, you know having the right inflections for these words to make sure that they sound different than the average person would speak Which makes it much more Engaging that is some of the though these are some of the things that you need to remember When you pick up a voice over script and it's most likely going to apply to almost all voice over scripts which we're going to see in The demonstration that I'm going to do right after this particular intro So getting into character is also very very essential.  It's very laid back. It's very natural. It's It's emotive it evokes certain emotions as and when they should But it's also very calming as well Like somebody who's telling you a story and it makes you want to see how His narration affects the characters. So these are some of the examples or some of the ways that voiceovers can be brought to life if you know these key principles that for example or not for example That it starts with something that captures your attention in the middle is where you keep the emotions you sustain Your audience's attention and in the end is how you land it So it's an arc But you still need to sustain all these things by knowing some of these principles So it's I think it's better to actually Demonstrate how this goes so that you can see how it works in different voice over scripts and I'm going to be taking my voice over script from edge studio dot com I'm going to copy a few samples from there and I'm going to try as much as possible to highlight some of these things that I'm talking about so that you can get a better understanding of these techniques when you pick up a voice over script or when you're presented a voice over script So let's get to it. So yes, my first script is a commercial script which Starts with It's amazing I'm first going to read it through and I'm going to show you which elements or why the elements work and things that you should note So it's amazing. I never thought one cereal would make my whole family stay for breakfast And in a brand is mentioned honey bunches of oats There's never been a cereal like it With big corn flakes and crunchy bunches of oats. Finally The cereal my whole family loves so you can see that it has a beginning of course a middle part and finally an end It has a beginning a middle part and an end Now this one doesn't necessarily say you should buy Honey bunches of oats, but it's talks at the emotions of having Your whole family present for breakfast being the selling point if that's something that's Important to you You might want for I mean you might want to go and buy honey bunches of oats because it's that good That your whole family is going to love it and want to stay for breakfast So that is the emotion it communicates and that is the selling point of this particular Script it's a short one. It's amazing That is much more like, you know, how You are you capture the attention of The people who might be listening and there are several ways that can be done. It can be it's it's amazing Or it's amazing But however you choose to do it you have to make sure that your first phrase Captures the attention of the people listening to you. So what is amazing? How do you just start like it's amazing It makes them curious. What's amazing? Tell us more so That is essential and amazing is supposed to sound amazing First of all, it has an exclamation mark on it. And so you need to have that At the back of your mind that it's amazing Or it's amazing Know that so depending on the direction that you're going to get from Your client or the read that they need it might either be a soft It's amazing. You can still have it's an amazing which is still soft and still sound amazing. It's amazing I never thought one cereal would make my whole family stay for breakfast Or it's amazing I never thought once like you can have that as well because it's a commercial and depending on what your clients want to communicate You need to find out but knowing that it's amazing needs to sound amazing is important And here you're communicating the emotions in the middle part your communication that communicating the emotions They need to make that decision to want to buy honey bunches of oats I never thought one cereal one Cereal or cereal brand would make my whole family stay for breakfast It means there's something that they don't often do And what cereal is that honey bunches of oats? In my previous video, I talked about how you should mention the brand name properly Because it's what the people need to remember at the end of the day Is what it's being sold honey bunches of oats And now there's never been a cereal like it This is a never situation So you have to make it sound like one of a kind there's never been a cereal like it ever So they need to feel that in your tone of voice and how you deliver as well You can't say there's never been a cereal like it Yeah, you don't even believe in it when you say it like that. So there's never been a cereal like it ever. This is this is amazing It's surreal That is what you need to communicate to the people In my opinion So with big conflicts and crunchy bunches of oats are giving you variety With big conflicts and crunchy bunches of oats Finally a cereal my whole family loves. So you do that soft landing For them to know that I need to get me some of that honey bunches of oats for my family as well So that is the first example of breaking down a voiceover script But you could have a different direction and they could be different takes That's the beauty of voiceovers that the direction can change you can have the same thing Said in so many different ways that can change how It will evoke certain emotions in different people listening. So yeah That is the first one and the second one is starting with a question This is more of You know a need. Is this something that is bothering you? So it's a problem solver The first one is also a problem solver, but this one is a different approach for the problem solving So are you having muscle aches? So they're actually the first question muscle aches Does it click that you have muscle aches? So you can't shout at this one It's not an amazing thing. It's not a beautiful feeling to be having muscle aches So remember that it's not the same emotion that is being communicated. This one is muscle aches Nothing is proven more effective or long longer lasting than Advil For long lasting relief of muscle aches count on Advil. So Some of these words might not necessarily be adjectives, but they need to be resounded Count on Advil. It's a call to action inside The script or in the middle of the script count is it's you need to count on Advil Why so the question is why then I answered the reason why you should count on Advil In a recent clinical study Advil was found to work better than any other or better than Tylenol Or yeah, it's better than Tylenol or any other Better than Tylenol in relieving the pain of sore muscles the day after exercise So this is a very specific thing for people experiencing muscle ache And if you're somebody who works out a lot and you're going through all that pain They're trying to tell you that Advil Has been proven clinically To work better than Tylenol in relieving pain right after or the day after exercise So it's no wonder that doctors. So this is much more, you know reaffirming why you need Advil Because it is finally advanced medicine for pain. So by the time you finish listening to this particular Ad you know your problem will be solved with Advil So muscle aches nothing is proven more effective or longer lasting than Advil because you need that to also sustain you and relief your pain For long lasting relief of muscle aches count on Advil It's what you need to do count on Advil In a recent clinical study Advil was found to work better than Tylenol in relieving the pain of sore Muscles the day after exercise no wonder No wonder doctors recommend Advil for muscle aches more than any other non-prescription brand Advil advanced medicine for pain So this are some of the things you need to realize that Is uh, there's a call to action over here as in count on Advil Why should you count on Advil? This is why you should count on Advil and reaffirming that even doctors say you should count on Advil So Advil is your advanced medicine for pain because it's long lasting and if you have a muscle aches you need Advil So this is a good script and it's a good script that can be brought to Even better life if you know how to read your voice over a script Now this is an explainer video speaking of getting into character This is an explainer video. This sounds more like this is in character more like somebody who um Can relate to your pain Or it's a professional or it's even somebody who does this same exercise as well And it's trying to convince you that bro Advil is what I take so getting into character is also very essential when you are reading a voice over script getting into character here is more centered around trying to Be the convincing person or voice To something that a lot of people make mistakes with So You must be calm. You must be engaging. You must be approachable in your tone You know, you must not be condescending unless There's a part of the script that you know Requires you to be which Also would trigger those emotions in the person who may have made that mistake That is trying to be Corrected in that so the question is would you like to buy a house? Is it something for you? Is it is it something you want to do? Would you like to buy a house? That's a question If the person doesn't sound as enthusiastic in that question, you might lose interest in what the person has to say next Would you like would you like to buy a house? Would you like to buy a house? No Would you like to buy a house? If it's something you've thought about you're gonna be like, yeah, it sounds like the person is actually talking to you Maybe it's your first house. This is where the emotions are being picked up Maybe it's your first house or even your second and you just think that maybe That is why it's been stressed here maybe You didn't think hard enough about the last one Is that you does it ring a bell? Maybe it's your first house or even your second and you just think that maybe You didn't think hard enough about the last one Listen, I love real estate So this is my this turns from Being curious and trying to pique your interest to now conversation Listen, let me tell you something or let me talk to you. I love real estate Me the person recording this ad or talking to you right now And in most cases even a bad deal can work to your advantage in a very long run. So Knowing that first of all your voice over Recording doesn't always have to be a certain way because it's not one size. So not one style fits all It's essential in reading. So What is it that they want from you and if you put yourself in a listener's position, how would you Be convinced to act on what is being Read to you or what you're hearing? So these are some of the things that you should note and the final one was One which is different. I used it in my previous video as my Example for reading voiceovers and I'm bringing it here again to also reinforce some of these Principles for reading voiceovers that you should note So this one was the introduction of a documentary Which means that by the time you're done with this It should make you curious enough to want to finish the rest of the film Or continue the narration from there So it's an introduction you're a presenter Welcome to planet earth Is I whoa Is I oh, thank you like it's it's the voice you hear when you open the door welcome to planet earth It opens you up to oh my god. Okay. What's gonna happen? So you need to make the people feel the warmth of that welcome as well That's something you should note. So the first statement either grabs your attention Or not and this one should make the people want to listen to what is coming next welcome to planet earth A place of blue nitrogen skies Oceans of liquid water cool forest now. This one has a lot of descriptive words So cool forest and soft meadows A world positively positively has to have you know, some kind of Positivity to it even in your face and how you sound a world positively rippling with life Let the people know it's positive And then you come to the Scientific or the technical aspects of the thing. So from the cosmic perspective It is for the moment unique unique has to be unique sound like oh, it's not it stands alone It is for the moment unique so again These words will come to you over time When you practice more and more you listen to more voiceovers that You know tend to use these inflections and stress on these words With the emotion that you're supposed to communicate and it will come to you. I I often say that voiceovers are 80% Listening or learning voiceovers is 80% listening to other voice artists and picking these things and When you add some of these techniques or when you have the knowledge of some of these techniques, you're going to realize that Oh, that's why he said it this way or that's why he was said that way and For you as a listener, this is what it did for you and also made you want to listen further. So yes I'm going to end today's video here. I hope you picked up something if you have any questions And like I was saying, I don't consider myself an expert I'm somebody who's done this for eight years and I'd love If somebody has a different approach to some of these things that I'm communicating and also learn from you out there if you have Um, much more experience or if you had something you want to add to this To make it better for people who might be watching this video to learn more So if you like this video, don't forget to give to give it a thumbs up. It really helps and If you haven't subscribed to my channel, please do I'm going to try as much as possible to record more of these videos to help Beginner voiceover artists by sharing what I've picked up over the last few years So that we can all learn and better our craft So like this video subscribe to the channel and don't forget to hit the bell icon Hit the bell icon so that you get notified when I post A new video and yes, it's it's only 10 percent of the people who have subscribed to this channel who have clicked the bell icon. So It's very important and uh, thank you for watching. I'll catch you in the next one Peace


Okay, we're back. We're live. We're here at 4 p.m. 4 o'clock rock here on think tech think tech now think tech live think tech forever Think tech community. Yeah, okay, and this is Hawaii the state of clean energy off flagship energy show Every Wednesday at 4 p.m. And today on the show. We have George St. John raise your hand if you're George St. John Okay, okay, and he is an engineer a licensed engineer. We like that and he's gonna talk about She biomass and hydro power is very important and sitting next to him Is Lisa Harman of Hawaii energy? I'm gonna actually start with her Because she has something to tell us about the clean energy program that Hawaii energy is doing on July 27th Lisa all yours. Okay. Thank you so much Well, we are having a kickoff breakfast for our clean energy allies to tell them all about the new program year That's just started on July 1st for us at Hawaii energy It's going to be at the Alamo on a hotel on Wednesday, July 27th at 7 30 in the morning They can sign up via our website Just go to Hawaii energy comm and we do have a front page slider that says click here to register and they can follow that link Oh, great. What am I going to find when I go? Well at the breakfast We're going to be giving a presentation on our business and residential programs What's happening this year and update on all our new incentive amounts and technologies that we incentivize And we're also going to be talking about the clean energy ally program Which is how we engage with those market players that bring us these energy efficiency projects We're very grateful to them for Involving us in the projects to being able to help their customers So we'll be doing an update on that program as well and asking for some feedback about what they'd like to see How we can support them better in the marketplace. Yeah, great So is it cost anything to get in? You have to be registered as a clean energy ally So again, you can find that on our home page as well Clean Hawaii energy comm and says registered to become a clean energy ally And once they're officially registered as an ally they can register and come to the breakfast at no charge great And there'll be other breakfasts too, of course lunches breakfast We have a lot of good information to share with them. Okay, George cross examination George St. John. What do you got? You mean with regard to this yeah, well, it sounds interesting What are some of the examples of the things you guys are pushing well are one of our biggest categories is lighting, of course That's one of the easiest simplest retrofits. Yes, that Electricity customers can do so we incentivize LED lighting Absolutely, are they doing anything with the street lights? I think that's out under the city and county. They're putting an RFP out for that But that isn't a big opportunity in the state to retrofit this. Yeah, absolutely So we have we have incentive funding for that greatly said thank you for coming down Hey, you're welcome to just to reiterate that's July 27th a Wednesday Yes At 7 30 in the morning at the Alamo on a hotel And if you want to sign up go to Hawaii energy dot dot com and then on our front page There's a link to register so all of the trade allies the engineers the architects the contractors the lighting distributors We invite all of those folks to please sign up for our program and come to the breakfast and find out more Okay, we'll see you there. Okay. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks a lot to appreciate it. Thanks for having me on the show Thank you for coming down. We take a short break and we come back Ray Starling will join us as my co-host and we will find out what's going on with George St. John. 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Aloha The back and Ray Starling has joined us and it's Ray and George st John licensed engineer and me and I'm going to give Ray the the Distinction of being able to introduce George. What do you think Ray? All right? Well, George? George actually is a friend of mine that a colleague that I've worked with over many years here in Hawaii In fact, I think when we first came in contact with each other We were on opposite ends of a contract negotiation with actually h-power the h-power contract So I was working for Hawaiian Electric and he was working for the city and County I think and When I got to know George, I realized that he was more knowledgeable about Renewable energy and this was what 25 years ago Then anybody it was at least we didn't talk about renewable energy We just talked about biomass and and hydroelectric and that's that's why Suggested that we have George in today to talk to us about What's what's been going on in Hawaii for a long time? Everybody else thinks it's renewable and it's new But it's it's renewable and it's not so new here in the world. It's been here for a while Well, George you were on the plantations you were working in a plantation an engineer I take it in the plantation. We're right. Well, I started on a plantation and then I worked right down the street at Amphact We had five plantations, but Ray is right. It's it's kind of funny to hear some of this Green energy called renewable and new We didn't know it was worth so much and as you're aware Most of the neighbor island utilities didn't exist Pioneer mill was lying the light and power and of course they burned the gas residue from the sugarcane to fire their boilers and that ran the mill and In the case of place like pioneer That was irrigated when run all the irrigation pumps Places that didn't need to be irrigated like Puna. It was supplied to the grid and That's where the wars began With guys like Ray on that company he was working for and sugar mills and eventually Act 102 was passed which mandated that the power company buy power it didn't met certain criteria, so if you and I built the power plant and We could then go to the utility and say all right. We want to sell you power and They really didn't have a choice as long as it wasn't Displacing something you know times have changed Rather drastically They also almost all of the sugar mills had a small hydroelectric plants Some in excess of a megawatt most smaller than that And in fact Ray and I worked restored one on Maui 500 kilowatt half a megawatt way up Mountains above Lahaina It was hard to get ready to stop taking photographs of the beautiful scenery And machinery to ensure. Yeah, we had this very old old machine and we completely rebuilt it put it back online and As far as I know as it's still running and that's the case. There's about Every island except the Wahoo probably has half a dozen and just how old was this particular facility? We know it's at least a hundred years old early 1900s and it was abandoned and and actually George found it and we went up and kicked the tires a little bit and Figured that we might be able to put it back together and Talked to the landowner and any eventually hooked it back up, but that's the case. There's hydro. They were they used to be hydros here on a walk in fact there's Lake Wilson all all associated with with the sugar mills sugar plantations I don't know if they all were but all the ones I was familiar with were the one that's below Lake Wilson Was why Lua? But I think the border water supply had a couple I think they had some operated off the new one of reservoir and the beauty of them is that they just last forever there's no There's no high-tech involved and doesn't require a lot of maintenance either No, they can run for days and days and days the interesting though the thing that can be done is If you have two reservoirs at different elevations Then the hydro can be a hydro when the water is running down But at night if you have surplus energy like from a windmill because pump it back up again pump it back up and Since you would be using wind or wave or solar No machine is perfect most of them about 80% so when you pump it up 80% going up 80% come down you only get 60% back But you didn't pay for the fuel and the beauty of that is that when you have surplus energy now at Night almost well most of solar plants shut down at night as you're well But the wind and wave gets shut down at night Because the grid can't absorb it at night. They have to keep their large So at night you can absorb all that power and then give it back to the grid during the day So it's the perfect storage system and it starts and stops fast It has no thermal requirements a steam plant a Shutdown steam plant a cold at night Can take hours to get back online Hydros it's almost fast here is yeah Well, you know a point about the plantations is they were they were independent communities Yep, and by by the requirement of independent communities. They had to have their own water systems They had to have a lot of things that communities need to have and when we lost them we lost all those things We lost that the ditches, you know the water irrigation systems Well, no, no, no, we didn't lose them a lot of them are in disrepair right now They're not only ditches still supplying water. That's how they have a plane is able to stay holla ditches not always not Anyway, one of the things is you know these these pumps hydro or hydro facilities And they're I agree we talked before they're all around the place We made that we made a movie of one in Wailuku River In the big island, which is northwest of Hilo pump. I know not pump hydro, but a hydro facility generator And we we made a trip also into kawai in near-amount Ali Ali there Which is really something at the top of the hill and wow It's very impressive and they run easily all the time no sweat and they look good Yeah, I guess you can paint them up. So they last a thousand years Actually, Elko has three Maybe four they used to have four one of them got one of them wrecked But just outside of Hilo the river there and then there's two more Privately on a little further upstream. So there's a lots of hydros in Hawaii and there could be more We have melon that's that's the question that I'm going to pose to you directly And rail back me up on this right after the break. Okay, we're going to ask you George Why there aren't more when it's so good. How come we don't have it everywhere right now, okay? Fair enough think of that question, you know tick tick tick tick would be right back after this short break You Hi, my name is Kim Lau and I'm the host of Hawaii rising you can watch me live every other Monday at 4 p.m. Aloha Aloha, this is Reg Baker with business in Hawaii. We're a show that broadcasts every Thursday at 2 o'clock We would love to hear from you and you can reach us in several different ways We have a hotline that you can call in at<PHONE_NUMBER> or you can email us at think tech Hawaii calm or you can tweet us at think tech Hi Looking forward to hearing from you and seeing you on our next show. Aloha We're back George made us come back That's That's George St. John. He's a licensed engineer my co-host is Ray Starling and we left We left George with this pregnant question. Why aren't there more, you know Clean energy hydro power plants around the state. What happened?  Yeah, and a pit me. Yeah, I know I know what a colloquial dam is too Okay. Well now that's that's a good lady question That's a dam where there was a notch in it and somebody filled it up with dirt That was the safety device You would throw the book at a guy that disconnected the brakes on your car And we should have thrown the book at the guy that put the dirt in the notch. That is an absolutely Full proof. It's harder to think of something that's simpler than a notch in a dam That's why that failed and Unfortunately, that story's got repeated repeated over and over without explaining what went wrong But it gave hydro power a black eye. It did. Well, it gave dams a backup black guy Yeah, now we have many many many reservoirs still in the state in use and a lot of them Were built high up in the mountains So they could store some water overnight and irrigate at the high levels and then other times they could irrigate low levels We can use those now from one to the other as a hydro and Like you say, they're very easy to maintain. They're very cheap Regulations are difficult whose regulations mostly mostly things like Land ownership One time Ray and I were working on not closely related, but we were working on wave energy so we went to the Corp of engineers to talk about it and it was going to be offshore Well offshore owned somebody belong one come one outfit the dam the breakwater belong to another outfit Inside the harbor was another you reach a certain level in the bureaucracy and it's better to go have a beer You heard it here the multi-level And then it it has in the past been difficult to negotiate a power contract You need one where you can rely No, once it's done once the power contract is done in operation.  You close this engage. No you close the valve So there's no water coming in on it. Oh That seems like too bad doesn't it because it's so it's what do you call it dispatchable? It's dispatchable Well, it's even it's even it's even if you'd go to the pump pump storage a 10 megawatt Hydro Can have a 20 megawatt impact on the grid if you've got too much power It can absorb 10 if you're short it can produce 20 10 giving you a total swing For that one facility. That's a big swing On almost all the neighborhoods, so I you know I'm only have trouble about colloquial because people are nervous about you know retaining water behind the dam But but what about the yield EIS problem? What about the effect on the environment in that area if you want to build one of these things from scratch one thing We have six or eight of them from you know years gone by a hundred years plus and they're beautiful I know I can tell you the one at Wailuku is like it's beautiful.  I don't think so We wouldn't build a new one you'd use the existing reservoirs that are there. Are you doing is adding a pipe? And a generator. Yeah, what a generator. Yeah at the bottom. Oh, Lake Wilson would work fine In fact, there used to be one that ran off like Wilson. In fact, the little building is still there We could do this all around the state. Yes, we can do a lot more. You know Hawaii has is rich Hopefully I mean we had a show on Monday this week about how we're running out of water But let's assume we you know at least for the next few years. We have adequate water to run all these hydro plants We could do a lot of energy with these hydro do you realize that we're not even close to running out of course I expected you with you with a licensed engineer And and if you're doing pumped hydro you pump the same water up and down I mean you're gonna lose a little bit in the process, but it's no consumption It's not like this water is gone forever Yeah, just turn it around and use the energy that you generate with it and then run it up to the top again, right? You know, there's so many brilliant solutions out there just along the same lines We had a show where earlier this week by a guy named Lynn Muller and he's in Vancouver and He's invented a system where you take the heat off sewage and wastewater in a given condominium building and you save that and you use it to Heat up the fresh water that's coming in and so you save an enormous amount of energy that way We're the completely inside system and it runs on its own power. I mean, oh, wow We're very little external Electric and apparently this heat exchanger idea And heat pump idea, you know can be extremely and it's the same idea here It sort of works by itself it feeds itself And so this would be a very efficient way of producing energy if we could do this Well, I'd put the same questions here George Why don't we do pump tight row using these reservoirs or maybe building one on top the other are you resident ready to invest I? Go the way Wall Street goes I'd say and you know how Wall Street is going this past week. I love it Wait for next week No, I mean I think the thing is that people are not going to invest big bucks in this kind of thing And it's very expensive and you got to have the land and the construction to build reservoirs and that she well But we don't really have to build reservoirs. They exist All of the kind of tool them from time to time and you know what usually there's two available. Ah They have a reservoir here. They store the high-level water when it comes in We have another one down here and it was used to distribute for irrigation so frequently There was two on Maui near this one little one that we were working on So you don't have to build a whole bunch and they don't have to be on top of each other either They can be at some distance. No, well closer. They are the better Yeah, and if you want a lot of distance between the top and out the bottom Yeah, yeah, and as we call it feet different, but actually there's one where you've only got to build one To have a pumped storage system. How do you do that? The other one is readily available. It's a huge one It's called the Pacific Ocean So right above on the cliff you have a totally vertical system and Then above it just in land a little bit you build one reservoir salt water It's a salt water reservoir. Yes, you don't mind using salt water that works well works fine I mean there are places in Japan. I believe that are doing exactly that So what is not bad every ship on the face of the earth deals with a lot of salt water So it's very easy to deal with. Yeah, in fact the M-fact building is cooled with salt water Directly direct an exchanger. You know, it's an exchanger So they take water out of the well that's in where you go into the parking lot. It goes through a titanium heat exchanger That's better than a cooling tower and cheaper. Well much cheaper and not only that they don't use Portable water and they don't dispose of the blowdown. So it relieves the aquifer and the Honolulu aquifer It's you know, that's one that stress the system that does not use local water supply, right? And then the disposal goes straight back into the harbor Ray you wanted to say something Thank you. I think George has said it all let me let me put it this way though if I made you king or Maybe chief engineer of the state. I don't think we have one chief engineer of the state Maybe we should have one. What would you do to enjoy? You know these technologies that you found years ago on the plantations. Just build them just like we did H-Power Just like we did the fake new power plant at Lee Hui Like restored the thing with little hydro ray and I did there's a lot of things and You've got enough small ones it adds up Just ones that are going Water is going down now To the lower elevations where a lot of farming is going on on the North Shore a whole other story, too Well on the North Shore, there's a lot of farms that are only former Sugarlands, but the water comes from above and on the way down just enclose it Don't put it in a ditch or put the pipe in the old ditch Well, I think I it's got to be a future for it But you know you mentioned earlier this what you call a seniority now of other renewable sources so if you start building and You know activating these hydro plants you're going to run into that problem, right? And then you have to turn the valve off once in a while Then you're reducing the benefit of having gone through the well now I've got a solution to that, but you need an hour and a half program for that Maybe one minute change the way that we qualify these plants Don't go through what we're doing now How exactly just like we did when the first law was passed Act 102 red was called avoided cost That was what you got paid no negotiations now that if you didn't like it don't build a plan if you do like it utility buys Act 102 think that would work worked fine And it wouldn't matter what what your source was and you didn't everybody reviewed by anybody else if it was efficient fine If it was not if you got you got it. Well, it's not efficient. It's your fault Yeah, if I build a plan and it's not efficient. That's not the government's problem That's not the county's capitalism at work free enterprise shock a baby shock a baby So Ray, I mean can you kind of synergize this for us? What is George really saying? He's really saying that there's a lot of opportunity out here And we sit around and scratch your heads and wonder why we're not getting to a hundred percent clean energy sooner And and I think we can and it's just a matter of going back and taking a look at what's out there and and maybe Trying to think of different ways to get there from the way we've been Getting there in the past it took so long it cost so much if you could expedite things and particular where you've got existing Reservoirs where all you're doing is putting a pipe in between with a pumping station and a generator and it seems to me that that could be done fairly easily without a whole lot of environmental impact and You know if if you really want to get there and I think climate change is dictating that we need to get there sooner rather than later Then I think we need to put our heads together and find out how we can best do it Yeah, it's actually a very elegant solution isn't it? Even they say the best solutions are the ones right there in front of you Yeah, that you hadn't been thinking of and this would be one of them Well the way to get it. What's the shoe company? It says just do it. Yeah Well, yeah, we say that all the time just do it but then there are reasons why people can't just do it We're with you George Okay, we're gonna call it a wrap on this Thank you very much for coming down. Thank you, sir. I hope something happens on this I hope somebody watches this and gets the idea. It's out there. It's for the taking. It's something we know how to do Good night, George. Good night. Thank you so much for coming. My pleasure and Jake. Thank you for having us on


Good day. My name is Dr. Thomas Kishan and I am a spine and scoliosis surgeon at Manipal Hospital, Bangalore. June is scoliosis awareness month and I think it is important that we are able to identify and recognize scoliosis early so that these children can have treatment early. So normally when you look at the spine from the front it is straight but in some children the spine can start turning towards the side and this sideward bend of the spine is called scoliosis. Sometimes the spine can even bend forward so when you look at it from the side they have what is referred to as a hunchback and that condition is called kyphosis because of some birth defects in the spine itself and that is called congenital scoliosis. The second most common reason for scoliosis is something called idiopathic wherein we do not know why it happens and these are predominantly seen in teenage children and more common in girls and the third common reason why people develop scoliosis is when it is in connection with some other pre-existing disease like Maffan syndrome or neurofibromatosis they can present with scoliosis too. So the problem with having scoliosis in children is that if they occur very early it can affect the development of the lungs and occasionally the kids the teenagers with scoliosis in teenagers with scoliosis because of the growth spur that they undergo at that time the scoliosis or the curve can progress very rapidly resulting in very grotesque looking deformities. So it is important firstly to be aware of this condition called scoliosis where there is a lateral curvature of the spine. So if a child has scoliosis it can be recognized quite easily. Some of them may have a difference in the height of the shoulder. Sometimes one of the one side of the shoulder blades or the ribs can stick out and they may be asymmetry in the waist creases. So if you get these children to bend forward then you see that the ribs are not at the same level on both sides. One side may be higher than the other side and if somebody has scoliosis it is important to see a scoliosis specialist for it because they can be treated and if treatment is delayed they can develop very grotesque deformities that sometimes may not be amenable to surgical treatment completely. So very mild curves can be treated with just braces more severe curves may require surgery and this can be safely done and these children can get back to their normal activities by around 6 weeks time.