A wave of dengue cases have been reported in many countries in Latin America leaving experts worried. Brazil and Argentina are among the countries facing such spikes, but even smaller countries are seeing an uptick in the number of cases. The key question of course is what governments are doing to combat this rise. The official response has been quite mixed and in fact is dependent on the ideologies of these governments as well as their approach to public health. We go to Ana for more details. Ana, thank you so much for joining us. Cases of dengue from Ring reported especially in many parts of Latin America record numbers in many cases. So maybe could you first give us some kind of a survey of what is the kind of incident so to speak of these cases? Well, as you said, Latin America, many countries in Latin America are reporting record numbers of dengue. Among those of course Brazil which has said that this is the highest number that they have ever seen since they have been tracking outbreaks of dengue in the early 2000s, but also other countries like Argentina, like Peru, they've all been seeing multiple increases in the number of cases compared to what they're usually seeing. Many of the experts who have actually reacted to this have put this in relation with climate change and with the changing pattern on rainfall. So of course, the spread is essentially supported or actually promoted through these kind of changes that makes it possible for mosquitoes to circulate more easily and then reach more people. So this is kind of the situation right now. What is interesting to observe in these circumstances is the different approach that countries have taken. Of course, the news have been very rich in the announcements that governments, ministries of health have recognized that the problem is here, but the response has been different depending on the position of the government if we can put it that way. Right, Anna. So let's take that point you talked about and there are maybe two cases you can look at Brazil and Argentina. So starting with Brazil, what has the kind of response been? We know that the Lula government has been quite proactive on issues of health and so has it sort of carried over to this issue as well? Well, yes. So essentially we have seen a very significant shift in how health is approached in Brazil since Lula took office. And if we look only a couple of years back, we had Bolsonaro with his big drive against vaccination for COVID-19. And one of the things that has influenced how the response to the dengue fever is going right now in Brazil is essentially this. So in Brazil, we did have the government, a government, we do have a government which is willing to undertake vaccination. But the drive is still lagging and that's because of a number of reasons. One of which is this essentially the doubt that people are still feeling and against vaccination which has been promoted by the past government. So this is also something that the local media have reported, including Brazil, the FATO, which of course means that the vaccine is not reaching all of those people who it should reach and especially the groups that have been targeted as most important. This includes children up to 14 years of age. So it is a problem, but if we compare this to Argentina on which we can talk later, of course the recognition and the approach to the problem has been much more constructive. Right Anna, so of course the next question then is about Argentina because we know Javier Mele has come to power with an agenda that is very anti-state, it is very focused on cutting down services as much as possible. I think we already talked about some of the health impact of that new government. So how is this crisis being addressed by the government? Well that again depends on which government we are talking about. Of course the national government of Mele has been, to put it very nicely, has been lagging in the response that should be taken. But interestingly some of the provincial governments, including that of Buenos Aires, they have had a better approach to the thing. So now if we look at the numbers, some of the reports say that the incidence, the number of infections of dengue that people in Argentina have seen is about 200 times higher than to previous seasons. It's of course a lot. So what the provincial governments have asked the national government to do is to essentially pick up this vaccination campaign and ensure that the vaccine is made available to everyone in all the places. But of course the response has been very different so it has fallen on deaf ears if we can put it again that way. There hasn't been much of an update on the national level and that's essentially not so surprising giving the amount of attention that the importance of public health and including the health system has been, you know, the amount of importance this has been given by the new government in Argentina. Thank you so much Anna for the updates. Since the UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza protests have broken out across the Arab region. Jordan, Morocco and Egypt are among the countries where people have gathered in the thousands. Their demand is pretty simple, an immediate end to Israel's genocidal war on Gaza. Since these countries also have diplomatic relations with Israel, the severing of these ties has also been a prominent demand. What is driving these protests we go to Abdul to find out. Abdul, thank you so much for joining us. So protests have continuing in Jordan. It's been three or four days right now and Jordan has become one of the hubs of the protests in the region also taking place in Egypt, of course we'll go to that. But tell us a bit about the situation in Jordan itself. Well Prashant, as we all know that in Jordan, ever since the war began on October 7th, there have been massive protests going on. During the initial days of war, the protests were very large, which basically shaped the overall politics, Jordanian response, particularly because Jordan has a diplomatic relationship with Israel. It signed a peace treaty in 1994. So unlike several other countries, it has much more active diplomatic relationship with Israel. And that basically was at the center of the protests and that continues to be the case because the treaty, that relationship with Israel is not accepted by majority of the Jordanians, given the fact that there is a historical route between Palestine and Jordan, apart from Jordanians having a strong feeling of insupport of Palestinian nationalism, insupport of Palestinian cause. So protestors have primarily gathered both on the Jordanian border with the West Bank, occupied West Bank, as well as in Amman in the capital city where the Israeli embassy is located. And they basically, at least in the recent protests, the protest which is ongoing, for the last four days, they have been consistently demanding complete kind of breaking down of relationship between Jordan and Israel and complete implementation of the ceasefire resolution which was adopted by the UN Security Council earlier this week. Of course, the protestors have tried to storm the Israeli embassy as well. There is a US embassy nearby, there were protests there also. And they have been basically trying to kind of pressurize the Jordanian government to kind of take much more proactive role in kind of finding peace in Palestine and also kind of enacting some kind of backward to Israel for its occupation and its genocide of the Palestinian people. Right. Of course, Abdul, the other country where this is taking place is Egypt also. And it's interesting, like you said, that the two countries where protests are really building up are the two which have diplomatic ties with what you call with Israel. So could we maybe talk a bit about the protests in Egypt as well as how you see this trend of the question of normalization itself. We know that after Jordan, some countries also recently normalized, there's been a pushback against that from the streets as well. Well Prashant, there are protests in Egypt also. And Egypt, by the way, was the first country which had signed peace treaty with, first Arab country which has signed peace treaty with Israel way back in 1979. So despite the fact that there is an active ban on any kind of public political protests in Egypt, people have defied government norms and come out and protested demanding ceasefire, demanding seawaring of breaking the relationship with Israel and so on and so forth. But the protests are not limited to Egypt also, by the way. There are very large scale protests going on in different cities in Morocco, which was the latest country which basically normalized its relationship with Israel under the so-called Abraham Accords. Basically, a US diplomatic push in support of its ally in the region Israel. And Morocco, the protests are quite vibrant and they have primarily been mobilized by the group which basically came up against the government normalizing relationship with Israel. So there are protests in Morocco, there are reports of protests in Tunisia as well. And of course, in the past, there have been protests in Iraq and in several other countries. And as far as the normalization process is concerned, of course, there is a complete public, you can say, dislike for such kind of measure, which was taken by the governments in this region, some of the governments in this region, under the US, you can say US pressure. But since the war breakout has broken out, sorry, and since the people have mobilized on the streets, they have been quite vocal and quite articulate about all such normalization process. And that has led to a fact, you can say, a large number of countries which are considered to be on the verge of signing some kind of normalization deal with Israel have backed out of such moves. And there is hardly any possibility of any such normalization until there is a concrete step taken, not only to end the current war in Gaza, but also to basically find a solution for the Palestinian issue, which would mean creating an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as a capsule that has been the demand of most of the people. And also because of the popular pressure in lately, most of the governments have also been forced to take such demands with Israel and with the on the international forums. Well, Abul, thank you so much for that update. And that's all we have in today's episode. We'll be back with a fresh daily debrief tomorrow. In the meantime, do visit our website, peoplesdispatch.org. Follow us on all the social media platforms. And if you're watching this on YouTube, please hit the subscribe button.


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Mmm. Oh, what's the use?  Ooh, that's a hot mug, guys. Hey guys, this is my review for Witcher Season 3. Now, I know I had the funny start, um, but I actually went and rewatched the review, and I thought about it. I just kind of meandered on and talked. I think I'm going to kind of sound a little bit repetitive of what other people have said. And that was something that I kind of was worried about with how I was going to talk about it, because Witcher Season 3 already had an uphill battle with a lot of things. The first two seasons, while okay, had a lot of issues. I feel that the second one made a lot of improvements over the first one, but in terms of rewatchability, the first one had a lot more better episodes, in my opinion. And then on top of that, obviously Henry leaving. And now I will admit, when I saw his post about it, I was like, well, there goes the only reason I've been enjoying this show. And that's not me being any form of hater on the other rest of the cast. I think that some of them do really well. If anything, Yennefer was my favorite character in the first season because of her story. I really enjoyed her introduction and a few episodes that followed afterwards, but since then, she just becomes more and more, and I think that they try to recapture that in the second season. It didn't really work, and in this one, they do even less with her. Another thing that I complained about in the first season was that Ciri meant nothing. Second season did a lot better, making her more important. And in the third season, they full on dive into that, but they don't have the gravity or the understanding of why she should be as important as she is, other than just, that's because it's in the books. You know, you have to understand that she's important. Something that a lot of people were making their criticism about is how, obviously, the first two, particularly the second season, was a very large departure from the books. There are sometimes writers who can take said source material, alter it, make it different, but still respectful. Obviously, The Lord of the Rings series is a very good example. Um, Mike Flanagan, who made The Haunting of Hill House.  And that's a very rare talent. You can't see that most often. Even Game of Thrones, while those two dum-dums would go on to show that they have absolutely no means of making their own good content, they knew how to adapt a novel series, a very well-written novel series, and put that into a television show while also changing a few things, but then, obviously, once those changes became more and more apparent than, obviously, this show's quality fell off. The Witcher writers, which if you look at all of them on IMDb, almost all of them are not the same ones that started as writers. They are all writing assistants for different shows, including The Witcher, but almost no one is the same writer that they were from the first season. And same with the directors. There are maybe one or two directors who come back from the first season and come back to the third, but you really could tell the quality difference. I made compliments about the first season while looking like it was shot in a Hallmark budget and having sets from Kidding King Arthur's court. It still tried its best. Second season definitely disparaged the budget a bit here and there, but I felt it better. Season three, I feel that they went back to that Hallmark kind of cinematography.  The biggest issue that this show has suffered ever since it started and it suffers even more so in the third season is that you do not care about the world. You don't care about the continent. You don't care about anything that's going on. You don't even care about what's going on with Geralt. And when you don't have a vested interest in anything, it's hard to watch a show. There's all of this political drama that's going on, but they have done such a poor job at establishing it because they think that they need to dumb it down for audiences, which I, in a very, very small vacuum, understand where that producer was coming from. And I also kind of wonder if maybe there was a little bit of translation issue maybe. He is from Poland, but Game of Thrones was one of the biggest shows of all time and they certainly didn't dumb it down. So why on earth do you think that that was going to be an excuse? I felt that that was a very, very poor excuse for how simplistic that they've taken with the storytelling and with simplistic ideals that they've done in terms of the political strife. You don't care about any of the political upheaval happening in this show. You don't care about the elves and their want to help Nilfgaard. You don't care about what's his name from Outlander, who's here doing a kind of in between a really bad performance and an old Kay-ish performance. You don't care about the wizards.  I didn't even care who you were. It is a major issue when you have this supposed large and grandiose story that's going on. But the only sole point of interest you have is one character, not all of the other characters that you have. Game of Thrones did establish this by, even if you didn't like the characters, they were really well written for the most part. Sansa took a long time to get decent, I feel. But everything that happened around her was well, was very well written and very interesting and very thought-provoking. The Witcher 3 doesn't have that at all. Not even close. I can't tell you where I got a pulse, but I can tell you that I actually did get interested once things started to happen in the sixth episode because I didn't watch this as part one, part two.  They did the exact same thing that they did with Stranger Things, except Stranger Things, it made sense to do it. Whereas the fifth episode, it's not even that big of a cliffhanger. I just remember going, oh, that was it? Oh, I'd been pissed because it's so boring. And then when they had the audacity to have those posters, those light-up posters in certain areas where it said, yes, Henry is still part of the show, and they basically had to do so much PR beforehand to just beg people to keep watching the show after Henry had announced that he was leaving. I don't like Liam Hensworth. I think he's a bit of a prude. I don't think he's that great of an actor, but I even feel a little bit bad for him walking into this because he's basically walking up to a firing squad, and that's even if. The numbers, while they are not talking about them because Netflix never does, they haven't boasted whatsoever about The Witcher. If you were watching it, you know, top 10 shows in the world, top 10 shows in your country, whatever, I think The Witcher was number one for one day and then it immediately got circumvented. I almost want to bet money that season four isn't happening. I almost want to bet money. If they canceled Altered Carbon, and Altered Carbon is a very good kind of comparison, like the first season, wow, very disjointed and the main story didn't care about. The world building was so cool, and you also did care about the main character's story. Season two got way more of definitive story, but the world building went down the tubes and also sort of the budget. They didn't make a season three from that. They've canceled so many shows in the last of the while, and I think they have to admit that now that they don't have Henry, they have to drop it. They can't possibly think that Liam's going to get this show when they are being literally lambasted all over the internet.  I don't care about the characters. I don't care about the strife. The world building is boring. The entire political upheaval element of the story is terrible. The writing is so dumbed down, so pretentious, yet so ill-conceived that it warrants no rewatching. This is almost, almost on Netflix's Resident Evil show scale, and as I didn't bring that one back for a season two, I didn't think that the other two seasons warranted positive scales because I didn't. They had too many flaws to warrant it, but I still gave each one a three. This one for season three of The Witcher gets a one out of seven for me. I really, really hope they don't make another one. And I know that there's some people who are going to be upset. I don't know who. I haven't found any yet. Aside from Think Story, which, by the way, shout out to him for helping explain to me what actually happened in these two seasons with, or sorry, these two videos about season three because the show didn't do its job at all in telling me what was happening. He is also referencing the books quite a bit in terms of like correlating events. But yeah, he sounded the most hopeful that season four was happening, so for his sake, maybe, but I really don't think this is going to get another season. Anyways, guys, that's all from me. Those are my thoughts about Witcher season three. What did you guys think of it? Did you guys watch it yet? Let me know in the comments below. I'm interested to see what you guys have to say. Otherwise, guys, that's all from me. I hope you enjoyed this video. If you did, leave a like, and if you're interested in more, subscribe. Until then, see you guys next time.


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welcome back guys so let's complete this process of multiplication of two numbers near thousand so in the previous sessions we have seen two numbers lesser than thousand then two numbers more than thousand and we tried finding out our easier technique of multiplying those two numbers now in this case what we are going to do is we have two numbers again we have to perform this multiplication but it's given that a is less than thousand and B is greater than thousand so two numbers are there they are closer to thousand closer to the number thousand but one is less than thousand another one is greater than thousand so let's see how to work with those kind of numbers so again as we have been doing we will be taking up lots of examples to illustrate and then you will be doing a lot of practice on our LMS and you will you know make yourself perfect in this okay so let's take example number one so the numbers are 997 and I want to multiply this with 1 0 0 3 so again we have to find out the deviations from thousand so this 997 is minus 3 from thousand and this thousand three is plus 3 from thousand so now the next step is to multiply these two to get the hundred stents and units place so minus three times three is minus nine but like what we did in hundred we can't have a negative number in the product of two positive numbers so in this case we simply add one thousand to it one thousand okay and write the number one here because of only one thousand you are adding hints just for your understanding right now just write that one separately now perform this so it is much easier to perform and this is 991 very easily so you don't need to write into it but because I'm illustrating it to you all the steps so hence it is necessary for me to write everything but when you are doing the calculations you don't need to write anything you can do it mentally now the only thing which is remaining is just do this perform you know operation so thousand three plus minus three is thousand but you have to now take care of this one as well like we did in the case of hundred so what you need to simply do is whatever is the sum here you just reduce it by one so the sum here is thousand reduce it by one you will get 999 write it here this is the product okay so product of 997 and thousand three is triple nine double nine one okay let's take another example and once again so I'm writing it very very slowly and you follow all the steps okay so let me say instead of 991 I will now take 996 and 1004 1004 okay so clearly this is minus four this is plus four the deviations from thousand the product is minus 16 add thousand write my right plus one here just to you know just one no plus or minus just write one so that you have to you know you can accommodate this one later on how we have already shown we'll show it once again so minus 16 plus thousand is nothing but 884 isn't it and then you do this operation thousand four minus four is thousand and subtract this one so 999 this is the product the only difference here is you have to subtract one while you are performing the diagonal of diagonal operation so this is let's say diagonal operation so while you are doing the diagonal operation either of them you can do the result is same you have to just reduce one from that let's take another example okay we'll do a little faster in this case let's say 991 and let's say 1019 okay so what is the difference 9 here and 19 here is it now the numbers are a little bigger but not to worry 19 times 9 I know it is once minus 171 because there is minus n plus so minus 171 I will add thousand though I'm writing here while I will be doing it I will be not writing that in the paper I will be just doing it mentally so if you do thousand minus 171 you will get 829 right and now what keep this one aside and then do this operation so 1019 minus 9 is 1010 and subtract this one you'll get 1009 so what all steps did I do so I first wrote minus 171 plus thousand I'll get 1829 now I have to do this sum which gives you 1010 and you reduce this by this one here you'll get 1009 829 okay let's take another example to illustrate it much you know and once again once again so 984 and 1012 okay now this is let's say minus 16 this is plus 12 correct now 12 times 16 if you do the calculation comes out to be minus 192 yep minus 192 correct so minus 192 you have to add thousand to it because it's a negative number so adding thousand you'll get 808 so I hope you have seen the video on how to add negative and positive number quickly especially when it is multiple of tens correct so 808 and now 808 is my htu so what do we need to do I need to perform this so 102 1012 or rather this one will be easier for you to do so 984 plus 12 is 996 but this one will be subtracted so 995 is the product so 995 808 is the product okay one more one more 978 times 1009 okay so 978 how far from thousand minus 22 now this looks little bigger but very easy to calculate let's see how plus nine so 22 times nine is minus 198 in this case negative and positive add thousand you will get 802 quickly 802 so you got the three digits of htu 100 stands in units place now what 109 or you do this is better so 978 plus nine is 987 then you have to subtract one from it so 986 so the product is 986 802 so the difference between the same or both greater than thousand and both lesser than thousand numbers is simply this that you have to first of all you'll get a negative number you have to compensate that by adding thousand the moment you add thousand in the next step when you are doing this operation you have to just keep in mind that you have to reduce one from the result so 109 minus 22 was 986 sorry 987 and then you have to reduce this one from that so 986 is the other three digits so the total product is 986 802 this is how you can multiply numbers near thousand so so after this I would recommend that you take the you know practice sessions multiple practice sessions so that will make your understanding clear as well as faster so hope you understood this process


Now, let's look at key quotations relating to Mrs. Berling's character. Now, bear in mind that Mrs. Berling's character is used to represent the hypocrisy of upper class society. She is supposed to be the head of a woman's charity organisation, however she uses that influence to refuse any aid or help to Eva Smith slash Daisy Renton, showing just how immoral, wealthy upper class elite women can be. And also what she illustrates is that a lot of upper class women and even middle class women at the time, during the Edwardian era, were more loyal to the class and their gender. Okay? So Mrs. Berling understood the limitations that women face in society. She understood how much life was even more harder for women who were working class. However, she did not empathise and even think about this when she was rejecting help to Eva Smith slash Daisy Renton, especially because she realised that she was calling herself Mrs. Smith. Now, the first thing to show just how hypocritical and judgmental she is and also how loyal Mrs. Berling is to her class, more so than her gender, is when she states and talking about Eva Smith, girls of that class, dot, dot, dot, so I've left the lipses here. And the abstract noun class when it comes to word level analysis shows just how Mrs. Berling is so hypocritical and she looks down upon people from the lower social order and the lower social classes. Again, always remember women at this time didn't have very many rights. In fact, women were still classified as the property of the husband. So Mrs. Berling was very well aware of the challenges, the unique challenges that someone like Eva Smith would face. However, in spite of that, she is pretentious, she is hypocritical and she looks down upon Eva Smith. The other key quotation to bear in mind with her character is when she states and how she uses her influence to refuse help to Eva Smith, okay? She said, she seemed to me to be not a good case, dot, dot, dot, I used my influence to have it refused. Again, what this shows is the hypocrisy of Mrs. Berling being the chairwoman of a women's organization which is supposed to help women in need. She sees this woman who's in dire need of help. She's even pregnant and she uses her influence to have it refused, showing just who is really immoral. This upper class lady, Mrs. Berling is far more immoral than even Daisy Renton who's an honest prostitute, okay? Now, the key word level analysis you want to do here is a sibilance. She seemed and also the pronouns that Mrs. Berling uses to refer to herself, me, I and my. What this shows is that she's very pompous, she understands the influence that she had in order to help this lady but she didn't care. The final quotation to focus on is when she states, I think she only had herself to blame. What this shows is that Mrs. Berling, much like her husband, takes no social responsibility whatsoever. She does not see it as her duty as an upper class woman to use the influence and the power that she has to benefit poorer and weaker women like Eva Smith and the Daisy Rentons of the world.  She doesn't care about all the influences that affect Eva Smith's life and of course she, Mrs. Berling, typifies a lot of Victorian views at the time and of course Edwardian views that poverty was the mistake and it was down to the poor people themselves. They were the reasons why they were poor. There was a prevailing belief which of course was mistaken that poor people, it was somehow their mistake and their fault that they were poor. They were maybe lazy, not hardworking and of course this mistake is shown through what she says here. She only had herself to blame. In other words, Eva Smith only had her misfortunes brought about by herself. So that's it when it comes to word level analysis and the key quotations to remember for Mrs. Berling's character.


With rides, food and fun, Prestonsburg's Star City Day is prepping to take the streets this July 4th. This July, the city of Prestonsburg will be celebrating July 4th with events and activities under the banner of Star City Day. In preparation, Mountain Top spoke with executive director of Prestonsburg Tourism, Samantha Johnson, about their plans. It was started several years ago by Sunday Best and the McGuire's. They came together and said, we just want to create a day where artistry and community and just connectivity happens in Prestonsburg. So even beyond holiday and all that fun stuff, it was just all about bringing our community together and that's really stayed true. So we just have a great time from 5 to 10 p.m. downtown. There's one, there's so much stuff happening in Prestonsburg for the 4th, but Star City Day will be 5 to 10 p.m. We have hand-to-eye artists, we have live musicians the entire time, we have food trucks, breweries, wineries, lots of great artisans and vendors as well. So it's a great time. We are Pikeville Medical Center and we are an amazing place to work. Healthcare heroes of all types work here, all who deserve great rewards. So while our heroes are working hard to take care of our patients and visitors, we are taking care of them with top-tier benefits, higher pay rates and great sign-on bonuses. So join our team today. So what are you waiting for? Apply today! Incredible opportunities await at PMCjobs.org. Throughout Star City Day, visitors can catch a variety of bands such as Southern Connection, Troy Birchit, Bedford Band and more. What really makes Star City Day so different because everybody does such amazing 4th of July celebrations and we love seeing it all throughout the community, but Star City Day really is just a relaxed day and it's a day where artistry is celebrated. So you have kids and adults painting side by side, we have community murals going on, we have art installations that the community gets to be a part of, plus you get to shop great artisans and handcrafted goods all the way throughout. So it really is about celebrating Appalachian artistry, all while celebrating our peace of America in the process too. Star City Day will be held July 4th from 5 to 10 p.m. in downtown Prestonsburg. Reporting from Prestonsburg, Kentucky, for Mountain Top News, I'm Joel Forgell.


The line is, let my people go so that they may serve me in the wilderness. So it's interesting that, you know, the Judeo-Christian tradition is basically goes back to the biblical story of the Exodus, of Exodus. Of course, he was talking to Dennis Pagan, they talked about this quite a bit. And freedom means freedom from slavery, but wait a minute, wait a minute. Is there anything in the Old Testament against slavery? When Moses says, let my people go, it's his people. And by extension, it's God's people. It's not all people. It's let the Jews go. He's not, you know, asking the Egyptians to let all slaves go. And he later on, in a further book in the Bible, in the Old Testament, God actually tells the Jews how to treat their slaves.


I am the Whistler and I know many things for I walk by night. I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak. And now for the Whistler's strange story, the secret of Chalk Point. Chalk Point is a tiny strip of land that extends into the Pacific and at land's end stands Yeager House, a large and gloomy old structure built at the turn of the century, barely visible now in the swirling mist, the heavy fog that clings to the coast of Northern California. And in that fog, strolling casually along the beach, Kay Fallon, young and attractive, a polo coat wrapped tightly around her, shutting out the chill of the evening, and suddenly she stops, appears ahead into the gray shadows. A man. Yes, the figure of a man walking in from the sea, moving through the fog towards you, Kay, staggering now and falling on the beach. What's wrong? Are you hurt? The ship... ship went down. A shipwreck? Yes. Yes. All... all hands lost. When did it happen? Where? Up... up the coast. Fog. We... hit the rocks. Out there. Here. Let me help you. No. Tired. Tired. Been in the water for hours. Seemed like years. Years. What ship were you on? Schooner. Star of Shanghai. My ship. She's gone. All hands gone. Easy now. Easy. My fault. All my fault. Dear, can you walk? I think so. Take me to the house, please. The house? My house. Up there in the point. Your house? I've got to get back. Get back. Home. Your puzzle for a moment, aren't you, Kay? By the strange young man who calls Yeager House his home. You've been employed by the owner, Mrs. Yeager, as her secretary companion for over a year now. And you've never seen him there before, nor has Mrs. Yeager ever mentioned him. He's confused, isn't he, Kay? Yes, that's it. The shock of the wreck, the terrible experience he's been through. And so you help him along the beach into the house.  And then hurry down the path to the caretaker's cottage. Miss Kay, what's wrong? There's been a shipwreck. I found one of the survivors down on the beach a few minutes ago. I need your help. Of course, Miss Kay. Some clothes. And then you'd better get a doctor. Notify the authorities. Sure thing. You'll find some clothes in the closet. I'll get the car out. Fetch Doc Henderson. And please, hurry. When did this happen? Well, I don't know for certain. The man seemed dazed. He did say it was his ship, a schooner, the Star of Shanghai. The Star of... What? What's the matter? You sure he said Star of Shanghai? Yes, yes, of course. But, Miss Kay... What is it, Dave? What's the matter? That... That was the name of Captain Yeager's ship, Miss Kay. The Star of Shanghai, a schooner. She went down 25 years ago. All hands lost. All... hands... lost? Hit the rocks. There was a low fog. But, Dave, I... Yes, Miss? Nothing. You'd better hurry for the doctor. Back inside the house a few moments later, you stop in the entry hall. Stare at the oil painting on the wall. A painting of a three-masted schooner, Captain Yeager's ship, the Star of Shanghai. An uneasy feeling begins to creep over you, doesn't it, Kay? Yes. And then suddenly you're aware of a buzzer ringing close by. Mrs. Yeager, she wants you, Kay. You hurry upstairs to her room. Find her as usual, propped up in bed, the manuscript resting in her lap. I've been ringing for you for quite some time, my dear. I'm sorry, Mrs. Yeager. Oh, of course you've been out for your walk. Yes. Yes, I was. I forgot. I wanted to tell you I've just finished reading your manuscript, my dear. Oh, I like it very much. Very much. Thank you. Have you heard from the publishers about it? No. I've written to them, but they haven't answered yet. Oh, I'm certainly accepted, Kay. It's quite good, really. Quite good. However, I do have a few suggestions. That is, if you don't mind a meddling old woman's advice. No, no, of course not, Mrs. Yeager. Well, we... We can talk about it in the morning. I feel rather tired now. Very tired. In the morning, then. If you'll be kind enough to bring me my hot milk now. Right away, Mrs. Yeager. Kay. Yes? Is something wrong? Why, why, no. You seem disturbed. No, it's nothing, really. There is something on your mind. Well, in a way. Oh, it's the novel, dear. You're anxious about it, aren't you? Yes, the novel. It'll work out, my dear. I know it will. Mrs. Yeager, your husband. His ship was lost at sea some twenty-five years ago. That's right. On a night very much like this one, Kay. Strange that you should ask about it now. Oh, for some reason he's been in my thoughts all evening. It's the fog, I suppose, the horns and all. Where was the ship lost? Not far from here, up the coast. My life ended that night, my dear. I was very much in love with my husband. Yes, I know. He was such a handsome man. Tall, broad shoulder, bronzed by the sun. Have you never seen a photograph of him, my dear? No, I never have. The album there, hand it to me, will you? Here you are, Mrs. Yeager. Thank you, dear. Let's see. Over here. Here, the captain. This photograph was taken shortly after we were married. I insisted he sit for it. He hated to have his photograph taken, but I won out. Look, Kay, wasn't he handsome? You take the album and your hand begins to tremble as you stare at the faded photograph. You can't believe what you see, can you, Kay? The man in the photograph is the image of the man you found on the beach just a few minutes ago. Why? What's the matter, my dear? Nothing. Nothing at all, Mrs. Yeager. It was a shock, wasn't it, Kay, discovering the photograph in the album? A photograph of Captain Yeager lost at sea some 25 years ago. And yet you're certain it's the same man you found on the beach off Chalk Point just a few minutes ago, very much alive. A man who seemed dazed, spoke of the wreck of a ship named Star of Shanghai, the same as Captain Yeager's old ship. He also said Yeager House was his home. You leave Mrs. Yeager in the upstairs room, hurry down to the study, and then you stop just outside the door. You're afraid to go in, aren't you, Kay? Yes, because he's in there, the man you found on the beach. Oh, the doorbell. Here's the doc, Miss Kay. He brought the sheriff with him. Oh yes, come in, Dr. Henderson. Come in, Sheriff. Thank you, my dear. You and Miss Fallon? Now, where is this young man? In there, the study. Well, I'll take a look at him.  Yes, that's right. That was the name of Captain Yeager's ship that went down 25 years ago. So I understand. A schooner it was. So, what's this one? I see. You mentioned when this wreck happened? He said something about being in the water for hours and hours. Funny, we usually get a call from the Coast Guard when there's a ship wreck. And you didn't? No. Oh, Miss Kay. Yes, Doctor. The young man, you sure you left him in here? Oh, of course, isn't he? He was sitting right there, and... He's gone. You'll notice a quick exchange of glances between Dr. Henderson and Dave, don't you, Kay? And then the Sheriff joins you and the others in a search of the house. All the rooms except Mrs. Yeager's. You search the grounds too, but there's no sign of the young man. I can't understand it. Where could he have gone? Well, he's not around here, that's a sure thing, Miss. You might have wandered down to the beach again. Maybe. I'll have my deputy organize a search party as soon as I get to a phone. You were right around you. In my spare time. Old Dave tells me you finished a novel, some sort of a sea story, right? Yes. That's right. Why do you ask? Oh, I was just wondering that's all. What is it, Sheriff? Like I said, Miss Fallon, I'll have my boys organize a search party to look for this man. You said you found on the beach, but you see. But what? For your sake, I hope this isn't just a publicity stunt, Miss Fallon. A publicity stunt? Well, sometimes a writer thinks a little sensational publicity. Well, you know what I mean. Now see here, Sheriff. If Captain Yeager was still alive, he'd have made himself known years ago. But the photograph and Mrs. Yeager's album, it's the same man. I know it. Sure, sure, sure. The album is in her room. You can see for yourself. Mrs. Yeager isn't well, as you know, and I don't think it would be advisable to intrude on her at this time. With a story like this, Miss Fallon. But I tell you, the man, I... Good night. You stand there for a moment, staring after him. Then you turn angrily, walk into the house. Then you remember the cup of milk Mrs. Yeager had asked for.  And as you approach Mrs. Yeager's room... Mrs. Yeager, what is it? What's wrong? Oh, my dear. I did a lamp on the floor. What happened? I must have knocked it over when I woke up. I had dozed off. I had the strangest dream. Dream? That the Captain had come back. What? Oh, it was so, so real. He was standing here by my bed, looking down on me. No, Miss Fallon, we couldn't find any trace of the man.  No sign of him at all. I see, Sheriff. Check with the Coast Guard, too. They don't know anything about a shipwreck. The only schooner called a star or shanghai ever heard of went down 25 years ago. The Sheriff still thinks it's a publicity stunt on your part, doesn't he, Kay? And so does everyone else.   Tell her of the wet footprints beside her bed the night she dreamed her husband had returned. And see if she has any possible explanation. You hurry to the parking lot behind the telegraph office where you parked your car. You get in, step on the starter. As you maneuver out of the narrow parking strip, your back bumper strikes something at the side of the building. Annoyed to get out and discover that you've damaged a bicycle. You leave a note with your address offering to pay for any repairs. And then drive swiftly back to the house at chalk point. As you start inside, you glance toward the sea and your heart seems to jump up in your throat. A low fog still clings to the shore. And in it, the figure of a man walking slowly along the beach. You're certain it's the same man you saw stagger from the sea. You hurry down the path, your heart pounding now. It's vanished, hasn't it, Kay? Nowhere in sight. Suddenly you hear a familiar voice behind you. Hello, Kay. Oh, Jess. Sorry, I didn't mean to start with you. Oh, that's all right, Jess. I'm glad you're here. I just thought I'd come down and take a look around on my own. I'm only the deputy sheriff. You mean you believe my story of what happened last night, Jess? Well, that you found a man on the beach? Why shouldn't I, Kay? I know you're too well to think you'd make up a story like that for publicity purposes. Oh, thank heavens. Someone believes me. Well, as for it being Captain Yeager... Of course there wasn't Captain Yeager. But the photograph and the album, it's the same man. Yes, sir. I wonder if you could get that photograph for me. You could quietly, that is. We don't want to alarm Mrs. Yeager. Yes. Yes, I think so. I'll have to wait until she goes to sleep. It'll be some time after nine. I'll be waiting here. Nine o'clock. Well, she might decide to read, however. It might be later. I'd better drive into the village in the morning and meet you there. I could be here at nine tonight, just in case. No. No, I think we'd better wait until morning. Okay. You got a few minutes now? Yes, of course. Let's walk down the beach. I'd like you to tell me what happened last night. Exactly the way it happened. Every little detail you remember. At last, Kay, you've found someone who believes in you. Jess Williams, the undepeated sheriff. The man you know you can trust. That night you wait in your room for Mrs. Yeager to go to sleep. You glance casually through the San Francisco paper you bought at the village. And then suddenly something you see on one of the inside pages startles you. A photograph of a man. Carl Tassen. Deported gangster shot in gun battle with San Francisco police. The one-time underworld czar who had re-entered the United States illegally was slain. Yes, come in. Evening, Miss Kay. Oh, Dave, what is it? I just saw Mrs. Yeager. She won't be wanting her hot milk tonight. All right, Dave, thank you. I guess I'll go straight to bed. Good idea. Oh, Dave. Nothing, never mind. It suddenly occurred to you, didn't it, Kay? Where you met the man whose picture you saw on the San Francisco paper. Yes, he's Carl Tassen, the gangster. And you saw him with old Dave two weeks ago. Bumped into them accidentally one night as they were leaving his cottage. You remember how they hurried away when they saw you. You recall Dave's pointed questions the next day. At the time you gave little thought to the matter. But now you realize Dave was pumping you to see whether or not you got a close look at Tassen. You wonder about the whole chalk point setup. And then suddenly things begin to fall into place. Then you sit there thinking it out. Then you tiptoe down the hall to Mrs. Yeager's room and listen. You hear a voice, a man's voice. But you can't make out what he's saying. And then... Dave! Too bad she was listening, Miss Kay. Now you better go on in. Now look, Mrs. Yeager if... Dave, what's the idea? She was outside the door, ma'am, getting an air full. Oh, I see. Come on in, Miss Fallon. Well, well... We... We've met before, haven't we? That's right. On the beach last night. You rescued me from the surf. Captain Yeager, that's me. I find that a little hard to believe. So did the police, huh? You planned the whole act. To discredit me. Mrs. Yeager planned it. I preferred more violent action. Mrs. Yeager! Yes Kay, I... I didn't want you to get hurt. And all this because I happened to see a man outside of Dave's cottage two weeks ago. A gangster you had smuggled into the States. Carl Tassen! That's right. After Tassen got himself knocked off, we figured you'd probably see his picture in the paper. Go to the police. But after what happened last night, nobody would believe the story about Tassen either. Right. In your case, the little girl who cried wolf once too often. Very clever, Mr. Norton. Captain Norton. Master of the freighter Western Star. So that's how you get your clients to the States. Carl Tassen was a special case. The kind of man we could have used. Actually, our main business is smuggling. We've got a great setup here, Miss Fallon. And you're not going to spoil it. Well, what are you going to do, Captain? What I should have done a long time ago, Mrs. Yeager, instead of going through that crazy routine of yours. No, I won't allow it. Oh, you won't allow it? No. As long as I'm a partner and you're using my house as a rendezvous, what I say goes. Not anymore. I'm running this and you'll do as I say. You're in pretty deep, Mrs. Yeager. Don't forget that. Now listen to me. Save your breath. It's the only way. It's this girl or us. All right, Miss Fallon. Suppose the two of us take a nice little stroll along the beach.  Because you know too much. As you walk through the downstairs hall, you glance at the clock a few minutes after nine. And then you realize if you'd listened to the deputy, agreed to let him wait for you at the beach. He'd be there now close by to save you. You move out of the house, Captain Norton, right behind you, the gun in his hand. And the two of you go down the path to the beach. All right, Miss Fallon, this is as far as we go. Listen to me, Captain Norton. Like I told the old lady, save it.  I sort of hate to do this, but I've got to think of that easy dough I'm making, those suckers who'll pay five grand to have me ease them into the state. I wouldn't tell anyone! Oh, sure, I bet you wouldn't. Sorry, baby. Sorry. It all seems like a nightmare, doesn't it, Kay? The strange man staggering out of the sea is complete disappearance. The realization that chalked point is the headquarters of a criminal smuggling ring, but even your employer, Mrs. Yeager, is a part of it. And then the walk to the beach with Captain Norton, the head of the organization, his decision to kill you. Yes, your mind is spinning when suddenly you realize you're lying on the couch in the study of Yeager House, and your friend, Jess Williams, the deputy sheriff is standing close by, looking down on you, smiling. Hi, Kay. Feeling all right? I think so, Jess. How did I get here? You fainted. But Captain Norton... Easy now. He's in the other room, handcuffed to old Dave. Dave gave me the whole story of the racket, including Mrs. Yeager's part in it. But Captain Norton had a gun. He was going to shoot you. I know. I spotted the two of you when you left the house. When I saw you had you cover the gun, I followed.  You saved my life, Jess. Yeah. Funny the way it happened, too. I wasn't intending to see you until the morning. I was cruising around the village in the squad car a little while ago. Ran into Frankie Holden. The youngster at the telegraph office? Yeah. He had a telegram to deliver out this way. His bicycle was broken. So I gave him a lift. You mean... I mean a certain hit-and-run artist named Kay Fallon smashed Frankie's bicycle and left a very thoughtful note on it. Lucky you did, too. Otherwise, I wouldn't have picked Frankie up. Been out here tonight. featured in tonight's story were Bill Foreman as the Whistler, Virginia Gregg, Larry Thor, Isabelle Randolph, Raymond Burr, Leo Cleary, and Britt Wood. The Whistler was produced and directed by George W. Allen, with story by Adrian Jondo, music by Wilbur Hatch. and was transmitted overseas by the Armed Forces Radio Service. The Whistler was entirely fictional and all characters portrayed on the Whistler are also fictional. Any similarity of names or resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.


How about a national basketball championship? I'd love to hear that. We're going to be good. I'm looking forward to seeing and I hope discovering that Purdue, at record size, is still maintaining its quality, its rigor, a good personal individual experience for students, even though we're going to have more by far than we've ever had. Most of your viewers, I hope, will know that for the fourth year out of the last five, it's record attendance, first 10,000 person class it appears in Purdue history and that's probably anything I've seen, the biggest in the Big Ten. Now that's wonderful that this university is attracting students from everywhere, great students, but it imposes a great responsibility on us.


Dorenaka Fuji, who is with Strategy and Innovations Program for Kamehameha School. Now let's back up, if we could, to World War I. World War I, England and France were the premier powers. Russia was very, very powerful. Then came World War I. Other countries were destroyed. America emerged much stronger. And the Europeans and the Russians hadn't learned their lesson yet. So 20 years later, they started another war and included Japan. Those nations were left in rubble. America emerged as number one in the nation and continued prevailing through the 40s, 50s, 60s. And then stuff started to happen and those of us who have been on the planet long enough to remember the 1980s remember that Japan rose from the ashes and was threatening us as the world's number one economy. They managed to burst their bubble. So we were number one again but just for a while because here came China and here comes China. And suddenly our complacency has been severely shaken including in the educational field Enter Dora Nakafuji, Strategy and Innovation for Kamehameha School. I know that educators nationwide are struggling, struggling saying, how can America be the premier nation if we're not doing an excellent job of educating our kids and bringing them thoroughly and completely into the 21st century. So Kamehameha School is trying a new type of program. So welcome Dora to the program. Thank you for having me. So you want to give us a little bit of background and then we can bring up the first slide. Sure. I guess a lot of the motivation behind that story, I was actually lost in your story of history here. Kind of reminiscent of history class but I think that the bottom line is that we, every generation we have new technology that evolves and materials that come up and our current times we have some amazing technologies now. And even though in the past we've had great observations, great lessons learned and ways of doing things, the new technology and the new materials afford us some new efficiency. Well now let me interrupt and let you expound on Moore's Law. Moore's Law. It's doubling everything and tripling everything. Well now it's actually exponentially increasing. Exponentially. It was Professor Moore who then became founder of Intel who in the early days of computers said every 18 months the capacity of computers is going to double while the cost slices in half. And by George he was pretty well on target. He's still around and he's astounded at how accurate he was. So just as you said change because of that is happening exponentially and maybe too fast for you and me but certainly we've got to have the kids keep up. Yeah and I think that's really the challenge is how do we bring these types of skill sets into our learning environments not only allow the kids to experience it but also operationally how do we gain efficiencies and how do we develop our next practices rather than just best practices because best practices are based on learnings of others and going forward. So let me predict as we go forward we're going to combine real-world three-dimensional stuff with learning very rapidly. It's really hands-on right and if you put these tools into practice it becomes second nature. It's that going to that old adage of flying by the seat of your pants which has a sense of adventure but it's also what kids gravitate to because there's a sense of exploration and creativity. Kids do not like to sit in classrooms and stare at a teacher who's talking. They want a sense of adventure and if we can give them three-dimensional stuff to play with I think that really enhances the learning experience. Maybe we can bring the first slide up to kind of illustrate what we're doing here. So what is a PowerScope project? So really this project is and I entitled it Making the Invisible Visible partly is because when we talk about energy it's very hard to visualize electric use and other things but when you turn on the light you're actually using a lot of energy and many times we don't even really appreciate how much energy we use throughout the day and as we introduce renewables and other types of generation onto our islands as part of our 100% renewable goals we actually need to start asking that question of how are we using it and how are we more sustainably integrating that into our environments. And then let me that word sustainable in the worlds that you and I inhabit we use all the time but I would define sustainable as sort of self-feeding you're not going to just throw a bunch of dollars at something and it's nice and it poofs it's going to build it's going to serve as a platform for more and more and more and more building. Is that a decent definition of sustainable? Yeah I think that's definitely a good definition because it shows that there's learning on knowledge I mean things that you've experienced that you kind of build on that knowledge because I think at the end of the day being sustainable is about including certain practices into whatever you do as part of the process, processing, part of what you do as part of habit and so our project really is just the small sliver of the entire portfolio of all the things that are happening and this was really designed to address kind of our understanding of our various campuses and our places and how much energy we were using and how to more effectively manage the energy use because we want to be conscientious we also want to be good citizens and in doing that we need to actually understand some of these things that relate to energy whether it be water and other underlying infrastructures for operation but energy being a key component how are we using it and where can we get economies of scales or efficiencies these technologies allow us to be more insightful and build on that kind of seat of the pants feel of hey I think we're using a little bit too much well why because these things are happening or we get a signal a visual signal now whereas in the past we weren't quite sure except for the bill but now we have a visual signal of what we're doing and using you know maybe minute by minute or you know at least somehow you can graph it often real time and you use the word visible somehow you had the phrase making the invisible visible so again dealing with the kids you're getting them to see stuff and they were born with a mini computer in their hands so they understand this stuff intimately and instinctively the platform itself lends itself well too because it has a visual display that immediately not only informs the operations side but there's also an immediate platform that kids can learn to read it's not so difficult because it's a graph it's a simple color graph and those are all tools and elements of STEM education that we want to try to be able to connect and then it's dual value, dual purpose so you're not creating a whole set of these tools are practical in other words it's relevant to the place that they are at and then they can learn about the place and apply their learnings to help the place it's all connected maybe that brings up the next slide so this is kind of how you the sequence that you lead the children through well this kind of sequence question really came about early on where you know we were looking at it's an awareness it's all about awareness so if you have an interest in an awareness you start asking questions and given the set of information you have can lead you to one set of solutions but that inquiry leads to some action and that's really kind of our ability to get more insightful so the first level is you got your monthly bills but then the natural question is what's going on why is it so high so we may end up attaching our actions to doing some things which could impact our bills but do we really understand how it impacts so these tools now give us more of the sub hourly real time information that gives us kind of a heartbeat of our campus and that heartbeat tells us whether we're using a lot racing that hard or we're like resting right now and so those kinds of signals allow us to make other informed decisions and drive other actions so can you walk us through the graph with the green mountains and bellies in there so that's just an illustration of our ability now to see how we're using our energy in this kind of a profile to call it an energy profile is this all of the Kamehameha campus so all three campuses now have the same visual ability to monitor in real time we worked with Hawaii Electric and STEM which is the provider of that tool set to integrate this as part of Hawaii Electric launched it as part of their smart power for schools and we're one of the first I think we're the first private school to actually adopt this and utilize it in our places so operationally we can now identify where our peaks are our low times and our high times are how we're using energy where our bulk is the uses which is in the green and then solar which is in the yellow is this a 24 hour period or is this started midnight and midnight yeah this is two days worth of data and you can kind of tell on the bottom where we do have solar you can see one day it's sunny the other day actually the first day was not as sunny the second day it was sunny so you can see how the solar impacts our usage so we do have solar self-generation on our roofs and one of the question is how much more should we get or how can we better effectively utilize solar and there are challenges with integrating solar partly because of the variability as you can see here some days you got it and some days you don't but there are also now emerging tools where we could be you know looking at our own usage on campus what equipment do we have on and maybe begin to manage that demand as well so there's a combination of solutions that we can now take having this information so like that little yellow blip under there that means that there is more solar energy provided than the campus is able to absorb well because there's still green that means that our campus energy use is still positive meaning we're still using energy we haven't sent it back but the yellow shows how productive our solar panels are during that time and during that day which then helps understand where you see the dotted line right above the green that shows what we would have used if we didn't have solar so that gives us an indication of how effective our solar program is which is a great metric to have in terms of decision making and driving future investments question is are there other technologies out there that we need to better our load because our load isn't only in the middle of the day so we have different peaks and different usage profiles this really helps us kind of do that analysis and have that conversation have that conversation with our facilities where this is at they're at our campuses they're also at our office buildings and we're going to be trying one of our commercial properties so they all have different shapes the commercial property would be way we shall see that's my uneducated guess and are the students looking at these graphs too and getting an explanation of what's going on so this is just starting so as part of the effort again the target was really to help our campus facilities operations folks begin to better identify strategies that could help because they're so busy with everything just keeping the campus running and so we wanted to make it quick and simple but at the same time the way that the program was rolled out and there's a partnership with Department of Education under the smart power for schools there was a natural link to actual connect with students so the tools and the viewers are dual purpose we don't have to change it because it's simple enough for the kids to learn and use and on that very cheery note to take a break cold green Howard Wigg Durinaka Fuji back in one minute I'm Jay Fidel of Think Tech our flagship energy show among the six energy shows we have is Hawaii the state of clean energy it plays every Wednesday at 4 p.m. come around and see us learn about energy keep current on energy on ThinkTechHawaii.com Aloha and welcome to at the crossroads Keisha King you can catch me every Wednesday alive at 5 I'll see you there welcome back to cold green with Durinaka Fuji strategy and innovation can't call you chief but one of the strategists and innovators with Kamehameha school they are launching it's still in the preliminary stages the solar or clean energy program which they aim to eventually really really integrate into the kids curriculum and of course for the little kids it'll be simple when you get up to high school it's going to be a lot more sophisticated so why don't we bring up the next slide and see where in the world this innovative program is going for Kamehameha school so what's all this about now so this graphic shows a little bit of some of the visuals that come from this tool now that we have it prior to that we definitely did have our energy bill as every organization has and residential customer has but as a commercial customer we also need to understand how much energy we're using and with the solar how effective it is so it's that same green hilly profile that you have and that gives us some metrics like demand and how our energy use consumption is the other one is really kind of a color one that you can see the red yellow and green and different ways of rendering it's kind of a an area chart of hot spots I call it where the red indicates high uses and it's an average across multiple weeks of how you're trending how long would this time frame be with that multicolored the stem tool actually provides you the ability to look across an average of seven weeks which gives you a nice historical profile how you use energy this is nice to begin troubleshooting in this view is every day of the week but you can actually will it down to each day of the week across seven weeks and that gives you a sense of trends and it's just a very flexible tool which I think can give not only operations folks but kids who are curious about how energy is used and they can easily find a weekend or they can find when they're on holiday like the slide the blue and the green on the left would that be a weekend or a holiday period or well no this is a 24 hour period so it shows from 12 midnight to 12 like 12 to 12 right so early morning hours are shown in green because not so much energy is being used so that's the low that's when your heart is at rest right and then it starts waking up the campus starts waking up and so it gets into the yellow and then it's red because we're running a marathon now for until school is out and then it starts tapering off and you can see it going from orange to yellow and then it's going to quiet down again to be rusty so these are things that we can begin to connect with students and then there's actually the other ones like the speedometer of how quickly we rev up so it's like a race car and that one is in real time and that tool is effective in communicating how quickly we ramp up when things are turned on and turned off so how we use it I think this is still kind of an exploratory but we're using it to inform our energy management strategies again on all the campuses they have a lot going on they're already doing a lot but this just gives you a little bit more information so like the speedometer with the little green slice on the left say that 6 in the morning could you actually be watching this as 6 becomes 7 in the morning becomes 8 in the morning and then it's ramping up more and more and more you'll see it in real time and sometimes just like a speedometer will flick up really fast and it'll come coming down and it could be for various reasons like chillers turning on but it's a great tool for troubleshooting but at the same time it adds to that you know awareness leads to inquiry and inquiry leads to action because now you can make the connection as to what's causing it where can we be more effective and target what's going to help manage and save and getting back to the children seeing that green thing go up up up hey how come it's going up because all the classrooms are turning on the lights and the AC is coming on the computers are coming on and that's a connection to their place so here's a connection that says hey we live or we go to school and this is how we're affecting the school so this is how the school you know how do we then inform our own actions do we turn off the lights in the classroom so we really need that AC when it's a nice beautiful we've been having all these cool days so then I'm just envisioning around 10.30 in the morning they might see the green thing having hit a kind of high and then that green if that reflects consumption kind of starts going down and they say what's going on here well the sun's beginning to be strong and the photovoltaics are kicking in does it show that also say 10.30 to 2.33 yep that's the photovoltaics up there right and they can easily pick out based on the trend data so the other things we have now historical data that they can go and pick out we can as people watching the energy use we could actually pick out days and get a better sense of the productivity but at the same time students could easily pick that out too we have to get there we just haven't got these things installed and brought some photos to share it took quite a bit of coordination and teamwork to actually make it happen so I think we just are trying to build and these are the stepping stones to get there absolutely so we've got a very short time believe it or not why don't we zip through the final slides so you can zip us through the explanation here I think they're not very complicated from that one yeah these are just images we worked with Hawaii Energy and the installers of this unit and they were able to this is them working on one of our solar to make the solar visible we had to install some equipment absolutely and then the next slide is oh that's a fascinating slide yeah that slide actually shows the actual box that's the box with all the magic and STEM is the organization that provided the platform that's a national organization they're based out of California and they've been working with Hawaii Electric over the last several years they actually came out of what was called Energy Accelerator at that time as part of so there's a nice story here that connects investments several years ago as an incubator we tried it here in Hawaii and they're now we now have it in our place it's making that connection a dream come true because Hawaii has a very strong STEM or innovators program yeah and incubation program for a lot of these new technologies and one of the things that's really I love about it is that there's so many jobs and opportunities created it creates that appetite for kids to want to try something and the wages are not going to be dishwashing wages they're apprenticeship level electrician level certified so you see here just a couple of folks working in that you know in that space and he looks young enough where the students can identify oh that could be me in a few years yeah they were a great group to work with we were very very fortunate to have a good team that was responsive because we had multiple deployments and they had to work within our schedules with our students so we had to wait for the holidays and the weekends so everybody honestly it was amazing how everyone came together if I know you that was largely your coordination and logistics that brings us to the end of our show we were just getting warmed up my goodness this is exciting stuff I wish I were a child at the Kamehameha school right about now so that brings us unfortunately to the end how would we code green with the Oranaka Fuji strategy and innovation person for Kamehameha school they're just launching this exciting program see you next time


Fair warning This is a livable house. This is no shade to anyone else who has done a house tour out there in these YouTube streets Sometimes when I see these house tours, I think to myself. Do people live there? Is there you will see my purse you will see humans actually talking in the background? Like honestly y'all not Good example, my house is not what you call quote-unquote staged. Does that make sense? So we're gonna go ahead and get started. We're gonna get started in the back area because it's quiet right now Okay, now we are in my she-room. Let me close these blinds. See told you not stage not stage girl This is my woman case she room that I created this year actually a few weeks ago This is a queen-sized bed. We've always had in here these pictures. I got from Michaels I have a separate video on this room and everything I did I refurbished his furniture and it matches perfectly My planning stuff is here now. I have a gray rug that I added And now this is the real part This is where I store a lot of stuff it and my camera stuff is in the back all my supplies for supplies all my hair products Oh over here on this four-shelf Bookcase that I purchased from the Goodwill bookcase right here. I got this from the Goodwill about four years ago It was originally a wood oak then I painted it brown and then I wanted to be this weathered gray To go with the desk and chair. So yeah, y'all now. This is JB's room and oh JB wants to do his own tour of his room.  I see you've been jumping on your bed Okay, so a word Yeah, cuz you were a washing machine for Halloween word of advice, baby You're just supposed to tell them about your room not the actual little bitty stuff I like the decoration the theme Thanks a lot JB That should have done the whole tour come on here Peppa and George okay, sweetheart. Now we got over here. We have now y'all I painted this dresser He's gonna show his toys. I painted this dresser. I got from the Goodwill to match the room theme Yes, okay, what are we what do we have over here? Oh, I think that would be a bit much sweetheart And again some more photos over here and a colorful beanbag that I purchased one way for I did this for his birthday this year Okay, we're not sure is that it is that all you want to tell us about your room. Well, I think that's This is the guest bathroom also JB's bathroom, this is me Um Very very simple some of these pictures I got from the Goodwill just to match up decorations Goodwill. We had our Cabinets Countertops, excuse me redone gonna have the cabinets done here soon. Mm-hmm. This is the den Very simple if you can't tell by now, I like neutral colors with a pop Pop of a color you have that orange there Here's the office slash workout room This is why I get a lot of my work done earnings try to the plumbers over here I got some homeschooling stuff for JB here in the corner Here's a treadmill that we have. Yeah, just very simple. Here is our bedroom I changed some things around if you can't tell from the previous tour I moved this right here the mirror and the plaques on this wall I think it looks better and the three paintings. I'll show you in a minute or behind me Yeah, very simple. We don't have a lot of furniture. We have two Side tables here and then a tall chest or dresser on this side We have a huge closet, which I'll kind of show you here in a minute I got this put away for a couple of months ago in this quilted these quilted pillowcases I thought they go went Willy-Rail with the bedding that I already have and so yeah It's very very simple over here. Just ask some pictures have my wedding bouquet It's kind of funny because this is my wedding bouquet that I had Made from someone on Pinterest because I wanted it very simple. My wedding theme was shabby chic Isn't this beautiful? And then now those of you who've been following me for a while know that my best friend Also had her white wedding, which if you don't know anything about white wedding some traditional wedding She had her white wedding the same year as I got married and this is the bouquet she made for me Very pretty. So I just leave these here And then we just have a little bench over here storage bench with extra decorative pillows and these three paintings that I got from And now this takes us into the master bathroom now y'all we had our bathroom redone earlier this year Y'all those you've been following me for a while like I say, you know by Jerry girl So we literally started the bathroom project in February didn't get finished for a good three months later So I wanted to do redo everything We painted of course a couple of weeks ago And I got new pictures here that I purchased from wafer and from Walmart new rugs from Wayfair New accessories bathroom accessories again, this is livable. So you go. Yeah, you're gonna see my wash up there This is the jacuzzi tub we have put in and This is a shower Then when that's my husband got my aunt Jackie Okay, simple gray this is the Jack and Joe closet that is not organized So we really not gonna go into here, but I love all the shelving You can hear my child acting crazy. Yeah, and I left this open because I have stuff here that I need to put here Okay, it's our great living room. Look, I told you it is not stage.  It's extremely big But I love it. I love it. I love it y'all. I have to keep these floors done I try to do my floors at least once a week. I back you almost every other day I know at least in here. So we have just pictures from Ross Yeah, we have JB look I told you y'all not stage livable we have you know blankets everywhere JB has his fort back here He has etched. Okay, baby.  So this bench I purchased from Wayfair I put this wall collage here. So we have bolted ceilings you guys I don't know how high this is but it gets really warm here in the summertime Which is again why my husband while we had these windows tenant So this is the front entrance way. I Changed things around all the time before JB was born. I had a lot of stuff that could be broken Around the house. I had to get rid of all that stuff child. So Yeah, this is my favorite room of the house the kitchen Now in my opinion, we definitely need to update the wood So I will probably gel stain the wood cabinets in our bathroom or kitchen so everything could be updated So yes, I love the countertops one of the reasons why let me come over this way one of the reasons why I Definitely wanted this house is this huge island here, which actually has additional storage Look at all the storage. I have you enough storage for everything. I have storage here up underneath the island and You know the cabinets and everything. So yeah, so here's the dining area. We I'm gonna be honest We rarely eat here It's sometimes clutter with some a bunch of different stuff I clinked it off yesterday just to get ready for the school year got JB stuff back here boxes Sorry y'all You can't tell we have these huge wooden blinds and they are a they're beautiful, but they are a pain to clean I like to dust them every two weeks or so Just so we don't get any buildup or anything like that. What? the dining room and kitchen look like from here and Over here. Can y'all tell how nice it looks now that everything's been painted. This is boo Over here. This is again the den again. Like I said, it's livable. So there's stuff everywhere I like this room. This is where JB comes and play the Wii. Yeah, we still have an old Wii Have pictures up. Just a little bitty stuff. All right. So here is the backyard This is some patio furniture we have a bunch of floaties because we're gonna get ready to get into the pool Right now if you live out here in the desert, you have to keep stuff covered So we have a fairly size, you know, good size backyard What I would hope to do my plan one day Is to grow some at least some herbs, but you see how hot and how sunny it is here I would definitely have to get I guess they have special coverings for anything you want to grow outside Especially here in the Phoenix, but if you you probably can't see but you see the shadow towards the back here I can definitely grow tomatoes or something on the back of the brick wall because at least there's shadow there and over here too Where this tree is that front area? We have one tree that my husband made sure they knocked it all the way down We had these windows tenant because Yeah, but we had that outside of the house painted back. I think it's been about About four years ago. Yeah, so we try to keep stuff up y'all because the house is about 12 years old I hope you enjoy this video. You want to tell them bye boo boo? Bye you guys


Namaskaram Sadhguru! Glad to catch you at the ashram. Would like to know, what time did you wake up today? The thing is, you must always ask, what time did I go to bed? Okay, so what time did you go to bed? Yesterday was in a reasonable time, I think around 1.15 I went to bed and woke up around 5.45 I think. Okay. Describe life in one word. Life! One thing you would never give up. Maybe my laughter. It's contagious, I have to say. We've seen you biking around the world, which place has the best scenic views? That's not fair to the world. Identifying anything as the best. There are some spectacular places right here. The Western Gods is spectacular. Zion Hills in the United States, that region of Wyoming, Montana. Riding in Himalayas is incomparable. I wouldn't do the injustice of saying, this is the best place. Thank you so much, Adhgaru. That's 59 seconds.


Hello and welcome to the Breathing and Meditating for Self-Healing. I'd like you to get into a very comfortable position and make sure that you're not going to be disturbed. Close your eyes and just gently breathe and follow my words and allow yourself just to relax. It's easy to heal or we must do is relax and then our body do the work. Give yourself now the time to breathe your very best. Just focusing on your breath breathing in and breathing out. And many people go entire days without even thinking about their breath. Yet it is the very thing keeping us alive. Your breath has been there for you since the very beginning, fitting to each moment exactly as it needs. The breath never asks questions and it certainly never judges you. It simply signals the body to calm, allowing for great healing of all kinds to take place. And let's honor our breath now and all that it gives us by taking five significant and purposeful breaths. One, fully inhale in, expanding your belly and your chest as much as you can. Holding it in for a moment and exhale. Just feel the wave of relaxation sweep over you. Two, inhale again, feeling your entire breathing system with fresh oxygen. Hold it and then exhale. Noticing again the wave of relaxation gently, just caressing and sweeping all over you. Three, inhale again very deeply so that you're brimming with this air. Take a moment at the top to soak in the life force that we call oxygen and then exhale. Noticing how your body relaxes in so many different areas without any effort from you. Four, fully inhale beginning to feel these breaths purifying your entire body. Exhaling not having to do anything at all, just noticing how you're feeling. And five, the last one, a full and beautiful breath coming in. Hold it, feeling invigorated by this task and then let it go. Allow the wave of relaxation to again sweep all over you. And just take a note of how you're feeling in this very moment. Now you have an abundance of oxygen. And this is how we were truly created to feel. Breathing deeply and in full expression of self-compassion. But just for now, let your breath be natural and notice how abundance feels. Begin noticing how the very top of your head feels. Let your focus move down to your eyes. Just notice how your eyes feel and just ask them to relax. And if there's any small eye movements then just notice allow for the calm. Notice how much calmer you feel. Notice how the back of your head feels against the surface that it's touching. How heavy does your head feel right now? And let your focus move to your nose feeling the slight sensations of the air moving in and moving out with every breath.  And when you breathe out, imagine your body feels light and deeply relaxed. Now we need to focus on your ears. Notice how they feel and what they hear around you.  Just notice the sound of my voice and how it is soothing. From here, you can just hear my voice guiding you. And all other sounds passing through only take you into a deeper state of healing. And I want you now to focus on your mouth. How does it feel and what do you notice? Perhaps you can imagine yourself biting into a fresh piece of fruit.  And then move your focus down to your neck, your shoulders. Is there any tension along the way? And then if it is, just ask it to release. Move your attention slowly down each arm down all the way to each fingertip. What are your fingertips touching right now? And just feel the sensations. And allow your focus to go to your chest. Relax in this area as well as your upper back. And if you notice any tension, just ask it to nicely release. And now imagine that you're focusing on your heart. Can you feel it beating, supporting you? Just relax your heart and notice how good it feels to do so. Focus on your lungs, feel them gently expanding and contracting with your breath, delivering oxygen to your whole body. Focus, move it through your vital organs and your digestive system. Just notice your belly and observe it digesting effortlessly for you. Notice your lower back and how it presses against the surface that you're on. If you feel any tension, just say, please relax. Focus on your pelvis, your hips. Notice any sensations are having there. And all of this awareness takes you into a deeper sense, a deeper state of relaxation which just heals you, allowing your focus to move down each leg. Slowly relax in those as well.  This wonderful wave of relaxation moves over your knees and down your legs, all the way to your feet and to the tip of each toe. We're going to take the focus back up the other way now, the same way as we came. But this time, imagine that you're slowly pulling in your favorite color. And this color is a deeply healing substance. So I want you to imagine this wonderful, divine favorite color. Coming up through your toes and into your feet.   It fills your vital organs and continues into your lungs. This beneficial color is profoundly healing you. It glows as it fills your heart and you notice how happy you become while you're doing this. This color travels across your shoulders and down each arm, all the way to your fingertips. This invigorating color is moving up your neck now, mending things as it goes.  And it instantly fills every tiny space in your brain, encompassing your mind, healing it as well. It moves all the way to the very top of your head where we began. Enveloping you in a beautiful experience. Now just notice how completely relaxed and lighter and brighter the entire body feels right now. Feel the wonderful healing energy that the color has just done for you. You can practice this meditation every day and experience the amazing benefits of self-healing. Say to yourself now, I am happy, I am healthy and I'm humbled and I'm grateful for everything that I have and the life and the opportunity to be myself today. So much lighter and brighter and more rounded and grounded. And when you're ready you can take a deep breath in, you can hold it for a second, breathe out with your fingers and come back into the room. Thank you for listening. Have a great day. Be love and give love. Goodbye.