There is a desiring process in every human being. You desire for something today and if it happens by today evening, tomorrow morning you will come up with a new desire. If that happens by evening again, the next day you will come up with a new desire. If you really look at this process, human being is a constant desiring process. The question is only how constipated an expression it finds. See what spirituality means is, everybody is asking or desiring for a piece of this creation. When you become spiritual, you start desiring for the very source of creation. Isn't this greed? This is super greed. Anyway, you can't help desiring. At least desire big, not just your well-being, the well-being of every life on this planet.


We're good to go, I'm ending this game now, I told you I got this, 19 frames, you should have known that's when I'm at my best, reflect, get him off of me, the spirit bomb is ready. The arena match game modes update was one of my favorite updates that dragon ball fighters ever got, I mean these game modes can get really chaotic, and that was adding on to the chaos that I already had in arena matches anyway, I don't know why but I never lose harder in dragon ball fighters than in arena matches against you guys, so of course today I thought it would be a good idea to go over on Twitter and ask you guys to come through to a dragon ball fighters lobby and pick whatever game mode you thought would be the most fun, and then I would go through the list and play whatever game modes I saw pop up, this video is the result of that decision, alright let's see, I'm gonna scroll down until we get a fun game mode here, so standard, alright Kia draw, I see you like to keep it you know pretty milk toast, I can respect it, but me, myself and I, that one sounds like what I'm gonna start with, I see where a couple of big fanabiasists here, Masenko and Grand Charge, I'm gonna tackle him with three Jiren's round start, watch this, this about to be every running backs worst dream dude, running through three Jiren's just with a grade A form tackle here, oh I forgot there's gonna be three Jiren's danced up here, nah I would run bro, if I saw what we're about to see, nah I'm running the other way, I'm running the other way bro, alright here we go, three tackles, oh well two of them hit, oh my god that scaled horribly, oh no it didn't work, come on open up, the command grab is still a command grab, it might be a little slow, but we'll take it every day of the week, oh no come on please, you know what's good is our assist I think actually goes through his beam, so we should be A-okay there, one, two, oh where you trying to go, nah he's trying to run away from the form tackles bro, can't have that, one, two, third one coming in, three, but they never expect a fourth on wake up, go, alright good job, oh my goodness Jiren's standing key glasses built fast, and I think we all know what I'm gonna start with here, that's what I wanted to see dude, I wanted to see something exactly like that, oh my god, no, and now I'm not laughing, he really woke up and said I know you ain't laughing, and he was right, I wasn't, I was not laughing, he must have misheard me, one, oh no it dropped, oh nice vanish, nice vanish, I left too much space, I know you, I know you, I know, I missed, I messed up, I messed up, oh mercy, alright on the ground he's got one bar, can't really do much vanish, perfectly timed, no reflect from him, alright we don't need to see a reflect, I don't need to see a reflect to get the job done, you're up against me now, oh yeah, oh no, perfectly timed super death, come here, no, oh my goodness, how do I combo, why am I forgetting how to, 2s, oh that should have been a 2s, no I did standing us out of anger and fear, oh trugs got me, oh no my buttons they just weren't clicking like they used to, alright jump key last, jump key last, standing key last, oh my god what, why, nah nah nah nah nah, take your time, oh my god that was perfect, the perfect height, that's game, now we're gonna double uppercut this guy, actually we can only one uppercut him, but one uppercut is more than enough to take him out, trunks it father please, wait a second what's that noise it sounds like someone's trying to sponsor this video, why yes they are and those would be the fine people over at NordVPN, if you weren't already aware NordVPN can make browsing the internet both more safe and less of a hassle, if you've ever run into those annoyances online such as a video not being available in your country or even a show on a streaming service or even sometimes a game not being available in your country NordVPN will easily allow you to circumvent that and allow you to access the content you want and if that content does so happen to involve gaming and maybe geo restricted servers have no fear because gaming securely with NordVPN does not mean you're 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is Android 21's be assist all the barrier hey he's using my gojina bro if he would have given me Super Saiyan for gojina we could have dramatic finish whatever I'll take 21 it's not like you're not gonna hear me complain about getting to play 21 oh my extensions get in the corner I have a little bit of time I can extend this and you know what I'm taking your damage give me that all right so gojina is already out of the game oh wait a minute we might be in the corner but I'm still gonna take my time oh the stomp actually did enough that's insane the stomp did enough even though I did a bad combo 7 frame delay it's okay I can power through this I can power through this I was born in 19 frames oh my god the jump no no I still got this I was born in 19 frames promise 19 frame jeering you should have known about me oh my god oh my god no no I still got this I went in this weather I got this damn no no I still got this I still got this I told you I got this alright it might be 19 frames but I can try we're good to go I'm ending this game now I told you I got this 19 frames you should have known that's what I'm at my best reflect get him off of me oh my goodness that was sick the spear bomb is ready put that's gonna be game I told you I got this oh this guy wants to play a bit of luck of the draw so two of the characters we have are gonna be completely random again this means that I won't get to use my go G to blue team in its entirety but who knows maybe we'll actually just get lucky and get the characters I wanted to play anyway and that did not happen what oh my goodness bro he's playing my team damn wait why are all of his characters in the oh maybe the color carries over I was gonna say how did he color coordinate this it's so dramatic 16 her you're gonna lose him and Goku got away great 16 her you're gonna lose him and Goku got away great well now you're dealing with gojita oh my goodness he really started off strong I'm getting dunked into a Wolfgang fist he was ready for his random team he was ready oh but I was ready to attack who is this guy I woke up bright and early this morning ready to tech oh my god okay I'm taking it kind of slow huh no this guy's good he knows everything about my wake-up DPs he's got the scouting right no that was not supposed to be a DP I should have just done a full auto combo there to get the corner back but I panicked damn it no nice vanish beats that at least I'm I'm terrible I don't know why I thought that would work 16 don't dunk me and he didn't listen to reason oh no all right you know what I see a faith in getting you call me crazy but I have faith I'm gonna start with it actually I'm oh oh that would have been that would have been absolutely oh I'm disgusting is getting you oh my goodness if I double reflected nah oh same side other side that's the stupidest buff they've given get you but it's so funny to me I use it all the time the little hop you get to do during your 5h day I'm getting body this round hold on you to concentrate hold on bro I am oh let's go I'm terrible I've literally how many times have I used 21 I'm checking the stats after this 21 has to be one of my least played characters okay I'm going in no excuses except for that you know all the excuses I've done so far oh I should have just calm but but I didn't think that would hit I had no faith I am thinking a double charge milky cannon probably there's no way again you are how did it how do we not kill with the double charge level one that was two bars of meter no again you don't leave I'm gonna have to okay wait no please mercy mercy mercy mercy wait wait wait right oh my goodness all right here's the plan here's the plan here's the plan and you know let me know in the comments if you think this is all right all right all right so you don't want it to go the easy mmm he's really fighting me oh there it is oh come here oh you're also that was the wrong level three anyway damn it's the I wanted a body swap Yamcha all right I still win these believe it or not I also one frame delay what are we next door neighbors nice to meet you baby he's me he's cooking he's cooking but am I going to allow the cook to go any further I guess so dude what am I supposed to do I block low no wait oh I got good what was I supposed to do bro GGs hmm the lower your health the stronger you are all right all right I could I could think of a few things to do with that and the thing I'm going to do with that I think is I'm just going to let Goku blue get really injured so I can get a canonical really hard-hitting level five kaioken but real quick let me go ahead and all right there we go all right now inferno do you know my plan can you see through the deceit also I'm going to well actually I don't want Goku GT getting too low hold on I gotta get rid of Goku GT oh do I got these do I got loops loops everybody's favorite morning breakfast it's 8 a.m. and I'm out here to lose oh damn why he hitting so hard reflect oh my god swing Goku GT swing all right get him out of here all right all right Goku blue is getting lower and lower I am going to get that canonical level five kaioken oh my god I am doing damage right now he went for the dragon rose I'm out here oh it was same side but he saw coming all right just get me as low as possible you know what though now you're actually pretty low I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to get trunks out of here but but I can't actually use any of my bar I don't need it I don't need it but you know blue just doesn't okay now I tagged back in to go to blue immediately we forfeit our blue life and then we win the game with one all right hit me hit me who me who me who hit me heavy heavy heavy keep accidentally blocking I've never blocked as much in my entire life all right this is it I'm so please hit please put please hit no no no no no no no no no no no way wait but每 dobry每обыy Where's where's where's where's here? I just need I just need five bars if you would please Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It's enough. It's enough. It's enough.  Oh, I went way too is bardak gonna make a comeback bardak is hitting hard Oh my all right. I'm glad we got out of there dude bar bar. I was just kind of smacking me around Hold on. Let me get just my color there. I'm not like the way you could hear the Squeak, dude. Why was there an ego? Okay editor go back to when it vegeta was adjusting his armor And I just want you to just no music just play the gameplay sign of him adjusting that and then put the The two pickles uh spongebob jiff over that there you go now. That's editing right there Oh sharpen senses.  Oh, I dropped my combo No, no, no, no get back here Watch this. Oh, you got to see that command grab in full crisp 1080p hd Oh, I missed all right. Well, I had full health. I hadn't gotten hit until that point Don't jump. Don't move. Wow. He's not moving Wait, who are my other characters? I don't remember my other characters. I think it was bardock and super thing goku Please oh, I have to be close to death, dude. I'm practically dead. Oh each I definitely try to level one there. Did I lose a barf? I'm dead Oh, no, I died. I died. I died. I don't even know how much health Did I lose a bar for that? It's so hard to see young jinn Ha ha It's so hard to see Damn a little bit of mix All right. Got him. Got him. Got him. Dude. Gojira has to be like close to dead now, right? Please Please Please Please Da oh my god. What what how much health does this guy have? He's he's a immune to damage Is he like one tap away? Oh my goodness. I have to at least kill gojira.  How are you still alive? You have to be like one tap now one tap Oh, my sparky ran out at the worst, but he was one tap damn it Die gojira. All right. Everybody else is full health.   I don't I'm scared Oh, I was sick. I just barely dodged the sword get down there. Are you gonna reflect here? Oh, I was one tap All right bar doc's gonna have to clean up Reeds get off me. Damn. I got hit I got hit there Oh, I wasn't under if I tried to block Oh, nice. Got him. All right maximize the damage maximize it Probably could have level three there.  I'm getting level one. Maybe even level. I'm getting oh wait He messed up I'm dead. Yep. I knew it. I could feel that one coming. I could feel that one coming. Damn Damn, I should have level three once I got the knocked out on trunks G g that game mode is pretty fun though. It's stressful, but it's pretty fun All right, now we're gonna go ahead and end this video on a standard match the final one I've actually been getting cooked this video.  You guys early morning fighters players just hit different Uh, so kia drills in a match. I was gonna fight them. Are there any other standards vegeto's in a match Damn, everybody's playing standard standards. The most popular mode. What? Uh, you can't stop me as in standard All right, let's play a bit of standard Hey, never mind this connecting screen kind of hitting different, bro I don't I don't know if it's gonna work a few moments later I just looked up at my screen and I can see that I have not been in the lot I don't know how long have I not been in the lobby. Well, this is a reset Ah, I gotta stop looking away from my screen. Okay. I'm back. Oh my god. It's been forever in a day All right. All right standard standard. Oh, it's kia drill Hey things worked out and of course to ended I am using my week of 21 team Which uh, didn't end up being a week because man, I was going through it Ah, blue free.  Hey the blue and purple is a nice look though. Let me go ahead. What am I really looking at though? Yeah, that's blue frieza It's research time. I'm obviously I gotta start with the jump in jumping medium Whoa, it didn't work. It didn't work. See us this on dohan All right, we'll be back out of that. Oh, I tried super dashing rocks Damn, I did not expect the dip bro. I am I'm out of it right now Hold on. Let me get a sweet vanish vanish knock right to the corner jump. No reflect. No reflect get off me I messed up a pretty good opportunity there. No super dash don't Why he is jumping a lot This is the most fun part of this character just taking damage Why are you jumping so but no stay on the ground? I'm just trying to cycle through your team You could understand that surely you could forgive.  That was I just kicked that man to the moon Ah, bro. No, no, I just said no to that css. I said no, I don't really feel like blocking I don't really feel like blocking actually now that I think about it. All right, let me back up That was cheap. That was cheap.  Oh, oh Oh, what? They're not coming back for you. They're not coming back. Once you get hit those discs are gone I said that mostly for me. I had to remind myself Little false confidence there. Oh You got to hold that block the rock is there for a reason All right, that should be a good to go destructive This should take that one out and now if we can just land the damage debuff on gohan I feel like this is a rat We might be looking at it. Oh, no, it's not gonna be a rap. It's too far away No, even with even with yamsha's assistance It's it's over. It's over It's a rap rap coming in another grab. He's gonna try to spark. I didn't mean to level one And I missed Oh, the grabs don't work. Get into the bar. Get into the bar. No, I don't have any more bar Uh, he might drop this he did not He might drop the bombos he did take my time No, I'm bad at the game Oh, you gotta jump you gotta jump you gotta be ready I was trying to set that situation up and we get it That is going to wrap it up here. Thanks to everybody that came through the arena matches And thank you so much for watching Hopefully you enjoyed it If you did definitely let me know down below in the comment section while you're down there If you want to see something like this again, or just like the videos I want to support them make sure to like button and subscribe and check out some of the other videos That should be on your screen right now other than that. I have been data do it and I will see you in the next one


taking the leap, I love that title, taking the leap into solar, but what an exciting subject. This is ThinkTech, I'm Jay Fiedel, it's the 12 o'clock block and our guest today is Monica Beltrandel-Rio and she is the new managing partner, owner, person in charge of Provision Solar, which with which Marco Magdalena is still associated, but not so much anymore. And so we want to talk to Monica about what it's been like since she took over and made the company sing and dance in Hilo. Welcome to the show, Monica. Thank you, Jay. Nice to be on your show. I appreciate your time today. Sure, so now you were in Colorado and you woke up one morning and said, hmm, we've got to make a change here, we're going to do a pivot. We're going to go from one end of the 180 to the other end of the 180 from the mountains and the snow and the cold and all the good things like skiing in Colorado, we're going to go to Hawaii. We're going to go to what a lot of people consider the best place in Hawaii, namely Hilo. What was your thinking about that? Yeah, we woke up in the middle of the pandemic and we were like, you know what, we should just spend quarantine on an island in the middle of the ocean. What could go wrong? The city. So what was your, what was your thing about solar? Why solar? I mean, do you have 100 years of PhD in solar or what? I did. It was, it was secret and I kept it from everybody, but I thought, you know, maybe now is the time. No, but we had been traveling and visiting Hawaii for a long time. My partners and I and our families and we fell with the island and we just started kind of looking for different opportunities that might be available on the big island and ran into provision and thought, gosh, that would be such an incredible opportunity. It would be so great to be a part of that movement. And we decided to take that leap of faith and try it out. And it's been quite the, what they call in the solar industry, the solar coaster and been a magical experience is what all I can say. No, maybe it's Zoom, but you have a striking resemblance to Jenny Potter, one of the three PUC commissioners. Really? Yeah.  Oh my gosh. I feel flattered. Thank you so much. She's beautiful. I'm so intelligent. Yeah, I've watched her on your show a few times and she is really amazing. I would love to. She's a great person. We love having her on the show. Anyway, so, okay, so this is, were you in business in Colorado or, you know, is this, this is a deep dive kind of experience to get into a business that's a real entrepreneurial, you know, business? And in Hawaii, it's never easy. We can discuss that in greater detail. What was your business experience? So we do have several businesses in Colorado. I've been with that team for eight years now. And I love the team that I work with. I feel blessed. You know, the two of them have been mentors for me as well as great friends. And we work really, really well together. We, we know when we should step back and someone else should step forward. We know our weaknesses. We, and we know our strengths and we know how to work together. And it's, it's a remarkable trio that we have, along with, you know, the amazing support that we have of our comp of our families and our employees. Everything has turned out really great for us. But we do have some companies out in Colorado that we're running. And right now we're kind of, kind of managing things from out here, as well as having our friends, family and other employees and one of our great managers handling things. But we enjoy business. We enjoy the challenge of, you know, growing a company. We enjoy working and managing, you know, other individuals with, with good ideas. We enjoy, you know, working with other people. So we figured, you know, provision solar has, you know, all the greatest minds there, you know, we have architects, we have engineers, we have electricians, you know, all these people that are so well informed on the industry will, if we have them and we work together along with them, then we could definitely make something really big at provision solar.  So you played the role of the CEO, the chief executive? Yes. Along with my two partners, we kind of just take turns depending on what, what the task at hand is. There is my partner, Alan Harrington and Sohaid Fala. So they are my partners in crime. Yes, they are native. Oh, yeah. Well, one thing, one thing is I wanted to ask you is the secret sauce for managing any, you know, small, medium size business enterprise. It sounds like what you're going to tell me is it's managing the people and somehow incentivizing the people. So my question to you is, how do you do that? How do you, you know, they say this is the greatest challenge of any business these days, is managing the people, you know, picking good ones, holding on to them, giving them, you know, whatever they need, what do they need and how do you give it to them in order to maximize their contribution to the company? That's a great question. So when we were, you know, trying to decide whether purchasing the company would be a good business decision, we flew out here several times to meet the team and we interviewed them, you know, one by one and just asked them, you know, what do you like about working here and what do you don't like? What would you change? Tell me about yourself. Tell me about the solar industry here in Hawaii. We just asked them questions and really tried to listen. We, you know, just wanted to hear what they had to say and I think that when you make it more about your employees and what they need in order to be successful individuals and they're going to make a really strong effort to help you grow the company, grow the business and make it, you know, strong and continue on for many years to come. So why solar?  Are you a solar technical person? Are you a person who believes that solar will save us? I mean, where are you coming from on that? So living in Colorado, I have to admit I wasn't very active in the solar industry but I knew that it was the way of the future. It's going to, you know, it provides a lot of jobs for people and we want to learn more about it and we want to grow that industry and, you know, we don't want to stop at solar panels. So I wanted to be a part of that and learn and, you know, partner with the greatest minds. You know, how can we make this a safe, safer and better and more efficient world for everybody? You know, I think that if we can all make a small effort then we're going to move forward and make great strides together.  It's also helping the community. Am I right? Yes, you're entirely right. I think the reason why we love Hilo Hawaii so much is because the community is so tight-knit. I can't go anywhere without not seeing that person that I ran into maybe a week later. It's a very small town compared to what I'm used to but it's kind of the beauty of it as well. Anytime that I'm going to bring somebody in for an interview or, hey, I need some help. Do you have this contact? Someone always has somebody and they all know each other and it's so crazy but it's really great. It's really fun. It's a lot easier to make friends too because they're all friends with each other and so everyone's kind of introducing you to other people and it's a different community. And Hilo is a different community than other cities and towns in Hawaii for sure. Hilo retains that special quality from days gone by. You know, it's a remarkable place and certainly special. So I wanted to, you know, you said you made this decision so interesting. You made this decision in the throes of COVID. So you knew that you were going to have, what will I say, unknown challenges. You knew what you didn't know. That's taking a substantial risk, isn't it? Getting into a business in the middle of COVID. How has it been for you over the past year in a business like this? One would expect business in general to decline. Has it, I mean, how have you been affected that way? Well, I can happily say that we're doing great. Sales have doubled since we've been here and we don't want to slow down. Our team is on board. They see the vision that we kind of have and we want to expand the company and they're on board, which is remarkable. I think, you know, when we first decided that we were interested in provision, COVID hadn't really affected us the way it has. So we weren't really aware of it at the time. But we did make the decision and pull the trigger during COVID. So that was, you know, that took many meetings and many talks and a lot of talking story with each other just to try and make, you know, feel confident about what we were doing. And in the end, we felt that it was an industry that is going to survive even through the harder times. And that turned out to be true. Yeah. So what you brought your own entrepreneurial flavor to it, may I say a special sauce? What is the special sauce that you brought to, you know, invigorated during these difficult times? I feel like we're still in the midst of creating our special sauce recipe right now. And I only say that because we've been trying to tread lightly. When you purchased a company that's already established, that's been, you know, around for a long time with people that have been here for a long time as well, you really want to take your time to show them the respect that they deserve and don't go into it and just start making decisions when you don't know everything. You really want to take the time to just be a sponge and take it all in, kind of study it, I guess, in a way. And until you know, hey, I feel that this, you know, this decision that we're going to make is going to help my employees and my team out. And they're going to be happy about it. Obviously, there's going to be decisions that we make that not everyone is, you know, on board with. But I think if you take it slowly, you can, you can, I guess, I don't know, feel more confident about what you're doing and kind of have the support of your team as well. It makes a huge difference. I think that's really, really, really, really smart, actually. So I've been to Produce and Solar one time. It was probably five or six years ago. And I remember there was a office space. And then right next to that, there was a kind of warehouse work area space and then the parking lot. So can you give us the, you know, the general parameters of the company? How many people are involved? Where exactly is it located? What is its range of, you know, activity? How far do you go? And I know Marco has done a lot of work in Molokai, for example. So, you know, truth is, there's a lot of companies on the neighbor islands that do work on other neighbor islands, not necessarily in Oahu. Is this a neighbor island group and then the Oahu group and then neighbor islands talk to the neighbor island? But anyway, what is the dimension? What are the dimensions and the range of the company as we speak? Yeah. So right now, we, I mean, our ultimate goal is to spread out to some of the neighboring islands. We have done work in Molokai in the past, as well as Maui. There was a branch there that Marco was heading up for some time. You know, we would love the opportunity to do that again. We're just kind of focusing on, you know, changing some of our processes, making things a little bit more efficient and really establishing a good plan here so that we can expand easily. Right now, we're doing a lot of residential on the Kona side as well as on the Hilo side.  And we are actually right now trying to get into Molokai and Maui. Once again, we're bidding on a few projects there. And we're trying to also be a part of a few more of the commercial jobs that are here on the island as well. We are actually currently in the middle of getting things ready for a hotel that's here nearby. So that's been really exciting for us. So, you know, we don't want to set limitations. We want to see what options we have and, you know, take those steps to our goals. How about you, you know, as at least one of the leaders?  And I just wonder what the learning curve has been for you. You've had to learn a lot, not just in, you know, different kind of business or different technology. And Lord knows solar is about technology and about supply chains and whatnot. And solar was also about managing people as we discussed. But what about you as the CEO? What kind of, you know, learning curve have you had over the past year, personally, your personal experience? Personally, I would say I've had a pretty huge learning curve. It's been a gigantic change to, you know, the life I was living in Colorado and the responsibilities and duties I had in Colorado. So I would say that, you know, we, number one, we moved to an island. That was a huge change in kind of learning what goes into living on an island. It took some getting used to, as well as the change in the community and getting used to how things are done here, as well as purchasing a company with employees that are already there, a team that's already established. That was also a learning experience for us. In addition to obviously the technical side of solar, you know, I've been trying to sit down with each one of our departments and just ask them questions. What is this? What is that? How does this work? And their knowledge is so remarkable. Anytime that you sit down and talk to anybody in our office, you're just like, whoa, you know a lot about this, though. But it's fun. Like, I've never felt like someone was not willing to share their knowledge or talk to me about something. They've always been so open and willing to help and patient too. So that's been, you know, nice and really great. As well as, you know, being a business owner in Hawaii, that's also a huge change for us as well. So a lot of changes, but in the end, you can find a happy medium. A place to just feel at peace and feel comfortable with the effort that you're putting into it in the hard work that you're, you know. How hard are you working, Monica? Are you a 24 by 7 person? Not 24-7, thankfully. But trying to manage our companies in Colorado as well as managing things here has been very time consuming. But it's only because I want to learn about each department and each side of things. So I'm trying to be a part of the community more. I joined one of the local clubs here just to try and meet people and meet other business owners. I've tried to, you know, gain some knowledge from other business owners around the city just to see, you know, how did it happen for you? What did you go through and do you have any advice for me? You know, trying to understand the market here so that we can be successful in our marketing efforts. You know, learning sales, some of the sales strategies that you may use on the helo side may not be the same as some of the techniques that you may use on the Kona side where there's a little bit more, you know, mainland people that have moved here. And there are a lot of people moving here from the mainland, especially during COVID. So trying to find, oh, okay, so you're from here. So let me find that special connection with you so we can, you know, get along and, you know, make strides here together. So yeah, to answer your question, the learning curve has been really big. But, you know, little by little, you start learning a little bit about everything. And I feel a lot more confident about things now than I did when we first got here. When we first got here, I was so nervous.  And you'll get there. So good advice. That would have been my next question. What's your advice that you just gave it? So, you know, one of the big things, of course, in Hawaii is spread across all these islands. And if you take a look at the solar industry, or for that matter, the renewables industry is a lot of different elements, a lot of different people talk about, you know, the different styles between, you know, Hilo and Kona, a lot of different styles, you know, all over the state. And I wonder if you've had the opportunity to connect up with, you know, other solar companies and other members of the industry and so forth. Because not necessarily, it's not necessarily they're going to help you on a day-to-day basis, but they're going to help you by becoming, by being together as an industry and dealing with the government, with the regulators, with the legislature, with the governor, whatnot. So have you had the experience of meeting them? And what has it been like? Yes, I actually have been fortunate enough to meet other solar company owners and, you know, some of their staff. It has been a huge help to talk to them and get their take on things. You know, for example, there was a little bit of a shortage with Tesla Powerwalls. We kind of asked around, like, are you guys going through the same thing? So, you know, just having that support is really, really nice. And it's great that people are actually willing to talk to you. You know, yes, we may be competitors, but we're also trying to achieve something greater than just business. You know, ultimately we have the same goal. So I think, you know, we can all come together in that sense and help one another out. You know, we actually send some referrals to some of the other companies sometimes, if it's something that we think they, you know, might want to take over and have, you know, the experience to do it. But yeah, we have had the pleasure of speaking with even a lot of mainland companies, solar companies that are willing to give us the advice and talk to us. So. So I have some tougher questions for you now, Monica. We only have about five minutes to play. The first thing is, if the Monica today, the Monica Beltran del Rio today, could speak to the Monica Beltran del Rio of, say, a year ago, what would your advice be? Don't do it. Don't worry about this. What kind of advice would you give? I would tell Monica to just take it all in and enjoy every minute of it and know that just like all other things, it's going to be okay in the end. You have family, you have friends, you have, you know, people at work, you have, you know, you have people that support you and they want to see you succeed. So they're going to help you out. And, you know, if not, then you can be strong and you can make it through. You can do this. Don't give up and set a good example to, you know, you're, I have three younger sisters and they're the ones that motivate me every single day. So I have to set a good example to them and tell them, you know, don't be afraid to do anything in life and you can do it. So I would take it one step at a time and when you're really stressed out, you have the ocean to look at and there is nothing more relaxing than just staring out into the ocean. So here's another challenging question. So if I make you the queen for a day and I give you the power to command our state government, maybe I should include our county government too, the governor of legislature, PUC, and maybe the county council in the big island to do things for solar. I mean, things that are reasonable and that would be win, win, win. What would you advise them? What would you command them to do? What would be your eating as the queen? Well, if I'm going to be a queen, I feel like I should might as well just throw a ball and have a solar ball and get all of the greatest minds together and tell them, okay guys, have at it, let us great, let's have some, let's create the greatest plan that we can. Let's figure things out together and, you know, put our, put our differences aside and what can we do to make things better for the world or the future for, you know, our children. I think that when you put great minds in the same room, nothing but good things can happen. And if that is, you know, eliminating or making preventative decisions in order to avoid catastrophes from happening, then that would be even better. But, you know, how are you going to incentivize people to get solar? If that is what our goal is, then let's not stop incentivizing them. Let's continue to do that. And let's spread that around the rest of the United States and hopefully around the world at some point. And let's educate our youth at a younger age. Let's get them excited and interested in this. You know, I didn't get to learn a lot of these things when I was in school, elementary, middle school, high school. It's kind of something that you start learning in college and things like that. So let's start putting that bug in their ear at a younger age so that they get excited, they get motivated. And they don't have to watch all of these documentaries about sad stories. Like, let's have some happy endings, you know? So I would say... Yeah, let's do it. That's true. You can watch all the Attenborough movies that you want about climate change, but it doesn't hold a candle to actually doing something for climate change. Exactly. Like, yeah, you have the knowledge and it's great to watch them and not be naive about what's going on in the world. But, okay, how do I make a difference? And that's, you know, ultimately the greatest question. How do I make a difference? But solar is a great way to start. Well, you know, I think one of the challenges, of course, there was a challenge, of course, during COVID. It sounds like you weathered that really well. And it was a perfect storm, so to speak, for the solar industry. But what about going forward? How do you see the market evolving? Do you see people getting it, you know, people who didn't get it before? You know, we have all the low hanging fruit. But you know, there are those who feel, including our President Joe Biden, that we really ought to do solar renewables everywhere. Are people getting that? And what would be your argument to them about why they should get on board? I would say that I do believe that more people are going to be getting solar. I do think that more people are going to be involved in, you know, all kinds of sustainable energy. I think that the knowledge is spreading, and people are getting that education that they need in order to make those kinds of decisions. It's kind of been a great thing to start as someone who doesn't have all the knowledge base for solar, because I can ask those questions to my team, and I can tell them, you know what, I'm not the only person that's wondering that. It's other people as well. You know, they're afraid to even start asking, what is the price of solar? And, you know, if I want to have a solar hot water heater, like what, you know, how do I do that? How does that work? Nobody, you know, you have to do that research. But now that, I guess that that knowledge is more available to our community. And I do feel that Hawaii is a little bit ahead of the game than, you know, some of the other states on the mainland, because I guess the need isn't as high as it is here. So. What about the, you know, we talked about this before, what about the possibility, you know, the discussion, ongoing discussion for 20 years anyway, about sustainability and resilience, especially resilience, in the face of climate change, extreme weather, in the place, in the place, you know, in the face of catastrophe of one kind or another. What does solar mean to that? Is solar, solar important in the possibility, say, for example, that the utility of the grid would be hacked, such as colonial pipeline was hacked? Where does, where does, where does the idea of solar as a sort of independent statement or a statement of independence, where does it fit in those possibilities for the future? I think that we would be silly not to, you know, go for that. We would be crazy not to try and move towards being sustainable when there's going to be a hurricane or some kind of catastrophe. It's not about if it's going to happen, it's when, is that going to happen and are we prepared? And I don't, you know, just like, you know, just like COVID, we weren't prepared for something like that. But then there's all these people saying that they knew it was going to happen at some point, we just weren't ready. So I do think that we should be prepared and there's a lot that we can do to get there. We just kind of have to create an action plan and move forward with it. People have to recognize the value, tremendous value. We're out of time, Monica, but I just want to mention that Marco, Marco is a tremendous resource. He's on your board or at least he's assisting you in terms of, you know, your development of the business and your development of relationships in the community and with government, a very valuable player. And although he's not here, I want to shout it out to him, because I think it's important that that he helps you. And I'm sure, well, why don't you say how you feel about him? He has been a remarkable resource for us. He's a mentor for us. And we feel so blessed to have him on our team, to share his knowledge, share his experiences, and help guide us to, you know, how to be successful.  Are you okay? Are things falling apart? And, you know, it feels really good to be able to say, no, we're doing really, really great. And it's because we have a great team and people like Marco and some of the other team members on our staff that are helping us, you know, make good decisions and move forward. We're a unit and that has taken work and taken, you know, time. But Marco has always had our back throughout the entire process. And it would not have been as easy. And not to say that it's been easy, but it would have been a different story if it weren't for Marco. So we feel extremely blessed to have him on our team. Well, thank you, Monica. Let me join and say I wish you well. All the best luck in this venture. I'm a little late for that because you've been doing it for a year anyway, but I do wish you well. It's great to meet you today. I really appreciate that. And I hope we can, you know, have other shows together and that I can see you and help you connect with the community. That would be amazing. Thank you. Monica Beltran Del Rio, I guess the managing partner of Provision Solar and Hilo, all the best to you, Monica. Thank you, you as well, Jay. And thank you for the opportunity to talk to you and some of your viewers and be a part of this community as well. So thank you. Aloha, Monica. Aloha.


What's happening guys? Salah Mike back again back to my roots fast loose rapid-fire Q&A follow me Salah Mike with 2k's on Instagram If you want to get involved with the questions If you want to get involved with some live stream when I am on twitch link in the description We're doing it a couple of times a week when i'm in town come chat hang out We're building a dope community there and if you've been living under a rock mama's boys podcast me and Omar is off iTunes stitcher soon to be Spotify soundcloud mama's boys podcast comm check it out right now here we go Let's hop into the questions fam. How does one modify or Your program to compensate for sleep deprivation stress from work and school. I think that You know auto regulation and RPE and all these buzzwords do get thrown around But maybe the roots of why you're using them or how to use them does get lost Everyone kind of knows what RPE is now and people often use it Correctly or incorrectly RPE is basically rate of perceived exertion. That's what Mike Tashir and a lot of other very very smart wise experienced coaches are starting to use more commonly in their programming for their athletes because Like you stated there depending on how you eat stress sleep life all these things Play a role in how you'll perform in the gym that 70 percent in the gym doesn't always feel or move the same Depending on fatigue from training and fatigue from life Namely those factors that I just went over. So how do you Adjust to that well, hopefully one, you know, the best is obviously to have a coach where they can monitor you daily to Having some kind of auto regulation in your program and many programs go about this different ways as I mentioned one an RPE program goes about that because RPE eight Is how you feel that day that set and that will always Be the judge of the load on the bar, which takes into account how you feel that day Which already obviously covers these excess other factors two would be if you're using percent Just auto regulate yourself. So if you're supposed to hit 315 on the bench for three by three And 275 moved really really slow Maybe just use 305 that day as long as you hit a range or you're kind of in the ballpark of these numbers during your program You can still progress rather than 275 being so slow trying 315 for three by three and missing it Or just giving up and going home like oh i'm weak today Just hit 300 or 305 or 310 for the three by three and you'll be absolutely okay as you progress through the time So that's another way to auto regulate often when I write for people in a program I'll do one of two things I am a percentage guy I prefer a percentage because that's just how my mind works and that's how i'm connected to Programming and lifting weights. So what I do is a majority of our stuff is so submaximal that even on your worst day Although the weights might feel a little heavier or move a little bit slower You'll still be able to complete the reps that I program For example, you know the best five by five or the most optimal five by five is typically 80% And obviously this varies of a hundred different ways, but that's kind of what the standard is So I would never prescribe at 80% five by five unless I know the person's one remax has risen because That's if everything is optimal. That's the standard five by five. So if we do a five by five, excuse me La crue getting bubbly I'll just step it back and we'll do 70 percent or 72 and a half percent or 75 percent 77 percent So that I know even on your worst day if you didn't sleep you didn't need you'll still be able to complete those Um another way that I do it when I program or talk to a client Hopefully I have an educated client or I'm teaching that client along the way to learn how to autoregulate themselves So they can just take that step back as my second Example there, but if not Then what we could do is we give ranges So hey Tuesday, we're going to bench three sets of 10 At 55 to 60 and then that's on you to kind of choose as you're warming up what you could do Maybe even your first set since you have three sets of 10 is 55 and if you smoke it then you add You know five pounds smoke it then you add another two and a half percent By the boom by the beam by the boom by the beam by the boom. Hopefully that answers it That was a little long winded, but I'm just trying to I'm trying to help guys How do you deal with your anxiety or those I don't want to do it moments? Uh, good question, man. Uh, I do deal with some anxiety. Uh, and I think every human I think anxiety and I don't want to do it moments are different for a majority of people. They're different animals Um, I think many people do suffer with some type of anxiety And I think everybody deals with I don't want to do it moments And I think that's something that you know the good and the bad of the social media. This is a long Wounded answer again, but Everybody deals with I don't want to do it moments.  Uh, and so fuck those liars Everybody deals with that and I think My main answer to I don't want to do it moments is to Build routine to build superstition and to build good habits or build habits at all So that's why we start small and just slowly do things step by step Um, if I'm dealing with a brand new person that wants to get fit I'm not giving them a full program of six days a week full nutrition You know every single day every single macro cardio five days a week a sleep schedule all these things Because then that's 10 new habits they have to build rather than hey, let's see if we can get into the gym a couple times a week Hey, let's see if we can drink a little bit more water Hey, let's see if we can cut out some of these types of foods Hey, let's see if we can go to bed before 11 and we'll slowly layer in these habits because once you have a habit build Uh, although it's not always awesome Like they're not every day do I wake up just stoked to go to the gym excited Counting how many reps I get to do on the bench for some days. I don't want to go to the gym even today I just got back from the gym. I wasn't that excited. I got some of my work done And I came back home I go to the gym because it's a habit because I've done it for so long because it's part of who I am And I know that it's going to lead me to where I want to go It's leading towards the goals that I have so and that kind of goes with everything getting your haircut getting your work done Working on side projects hobbies working on family working on business working on side hustle whatever it might be You just slowly build those habits so that Slowly build the routine so that the habit forms and the times that you're not as motivated or not as inspired to Go do those things your body kind of turns on a cruise control and you just get them done Or sometimes you just have to sit down having an inside moment say hey, bitch. It's time to work I've had those as well even with the habits I built like there's times I don't want to travel to do the work that I have to do or get to where I want to go But I know ultimately where I want to go that this travel has to happen This content has to be made these business meetings have to happen And so I just do them and sometimes that's literally meditation or whatever you want to talk about I'm sitting on the couch by myself like Hey Mike you idiot We're going to sit here and do nothing and end up not where we want to be or we're going to get this done And we're going to end up where we want to be step after step rep after rep head down chin up talk to him talk to your boy Am I going to do more cooking videos for those subscribers that are the oh jeez We did some cooking videos back in the day. I might do some I'm in the process of moving Um, which hopefully we're going to start the vlog and talk about a little bit more I don't like to talk about things prematurely because then if they don't go down or don't go down when I say Or how I want then I feel like an idiot telling you or even in my personal life I don't like to tell people like hey, I'm doing this cool thing and then this cool thing doesn't happen Then I'm an idiot so but I'm in the process of moving so I'm trying to find the perfect spot for me to live And also for content so I'm hopefully going to get a cool kitchen where we can do some more cooking stuff More vlogs more lifting more sit down chats like this more twitch more all that Um So I say yes to the cooking it would just be a matter of time Nathan asks can I bench three plates only weighing 168 pounds or do you need to gain some weight? Uh impossible to say uh, this is where genetics plays a role Plenty of 170 pound guys have bench 315 Not every 170 pound human being on earth has the capability to bench 315. That's just a fact Um, how our tendons are built how they're structured how our muscles are built how they fire how our neural Uh, uh pathways are are fire connected to our muscles All this is genetically different how we can fire these things at the same time is different So not everybody can do it so I can't answer for you. I'd say potentially yes If you're making progress and you're close to there, uh, you might be able to do it Um, if not gaining a little bit of body weight. I bet you could do it in the long run, so Sorry that answer sucked Do you plan on coming to the uk anytime? I would love to go to the uk We've got a bunch of uk homies here on instagram and I'll twitch and stuff that have been chatting with me I just need a really good excuse to go It's a long long trip from california I'd love to but I need some homies. I want to roll with me. You know bark one of some of those guys I want to roll I'd be definitely down. Um, I will make you do. Okay. I promise and we'll do a meet-up And we'll do some cool shit, but I don't have a date set Favorite thing to do besides getting swole. Uh, I like playing sports. I like watching sports basketball first love growing up. Um, I like driving I love driving my car around you guys and check back on the car vlog that I put up a couple weeks ago I love just playing dicking around on the way back from barbara brigade a couple weeks ago We just played capture the flag. We just stopped out of soccer field.  I haven't done in a long time But growing up I played a lot of golf I suck, but I love it.  That's why we started twitch. I played video games my whole life and then now To have give me an excuse and another reason to connect with you guys and have cool little community and communication while I'm playing video games.  I love absolutely nothing. I like watching movies and kicking it Would you rather get a bikini wax or wear makeup for a day 100% wear makeup for a day I don't want to wax nothing Especially down there. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? Come on Because you were the peach king is it hard for you to buy jeans? Yeah, it is. I mean bleep. Yeah, it is YouTube's cutting down on the f-bomb. I just want to drop f-bomb here in there. YouTube's not that big a deal Yeah, it's really hard to buy jeans That's why we just wear joggers whether they're some of them are are kind of material You know khaki or something but majority of our sweats because they fit me better. They're more comfy It's roughly the peach king nowadays, bro, especially when skinny jeans are in style one day soon Baggy jeans will come back in style and I'll be able to rock I appreciate you. I'll see you on twitch. I'll see you in the next video We're dropping videos Tuesday thursday saturday sunday subscribe turn notifications. I appreciate you silent mic head down Shit up me do me. We out of here


Ben Hogan's pilgrimage to Scotland ended victoriously in 1953 on the 18th green at Carnousty. The iconic open championship venue that is often referred to as golf's greatest test. However, this incredible story began two miles further west. That journey had began two weeks previous and when Ben Hogan first set his feet on Scottish soil, it was here at Panmure Golf Club and he had one clear plan and that was to learn how to play Lynx golf having never done so before. He went on to qualify at the Burnside and later on to victory in that open championship at Carnousty and as golfers we've now been provided with the opportunity to follow in those footsteps. The monumental achievements of Ben Hogan cannot be fully appreciated without understanding that four years previous to these events he had suffered a career threatening car crash. So this is one of the courses in terms of Ben Hogan's journey and this was the practice ground and this is where like I said he learned that trade and for me Panmure is a special golf course. I've played here once before and immediately as I arrived in the clubhouse it's it's suddenly got a sense of history from the minute you arrive and it's a special place an extremely good golf course and a testier golf skills as well. I just love it here. Now Panmure Golf Club clearly left its mark on Ben Hogan and as it stands now Ben Hogan left his mark on Panmure because the sixth hole was a favourite of his but he made one recommendation and that was to introduce a potbunker to the front right of the green. It's now known as Hogan's Hole and I've got to tell you it is a fantastic golf hole albeit extremely tough. I took on the challenge back in July into what was a sort of two a club three headwind. I managed to get a birdie putt walked off with a par and I think it's about time we took on that challenge again. It's stroke index one and it is very much Panmure's signature hole now. It's weaving your way through from tee to green is is quite difficult and like I said finding some short stuff for your second shot is no mean feat. We're going to go with driver we're a bit downwind I think last time I played it I had something like a three iron into the wind and I'm hoping I've got a shorter clubbing hand this time round. I'll explain as we go that you'll see a big antenna on the left hand side and the flag in green is sort of 30 yards to the right of that but yeah we need to find some short stuff. So I'm going to be aiming you've got three trees in front yet I'm going to be aiming at the one on the left hand side of the three and see if we can leave something in and around there and like I said with a bit of a shorter ironing than I had last time. I've nailed it on that tree and it has not moved so I'm hoping that that's a decent tee shot we shall find out. Do you know what the driver it was so solid and the one thing you'll notice from the aerial footage is the fairway is tight to say the least and I've just kind of bound it over and run off but we've got kind of one ten in which is far different I played three iron last time I played I've got wedging hand today and we certainly are playing downwind the flag is directly over Hogan's bunker so it's it's not a bad light but it has got to land there we've got to carry the bunker and land it fairly soft big ask oh geez and be right be right sit sit I think it's held on the back end I don't know what it is about this hole but that is a really good shot I'm so pleased with the contact I've got and like I said it's uh it's chased on a bit coming out of the rough but I've got a birdie putt and that's all that matters right we've got to the green and uh well I'm pleased with that but and I think we've pitched in here I kind of see a pitch mark the greens are firm and clearly coming out of that rough no control whatsoever um but looking at the port it's a good two putt never mind it's certainly not birdie two from here you would certainly be happy with there's a slope just before the hole it's going to see it run away so if we can get two down from here I'll take it go go a bit disappointing I thought that would run down the slope although we had a bit of a chance well it's a four and I'd take the four it's very much different than what I got it first time round but what that means is that uh I'm going to have to come back to Pam Yor again and that elusive birdie still awaits great golf all though understanding the nuances of links golf don't even lie is the rolling fairways and firm and fast screens all to be played with a smaller ball than he'd ever previously used would all be achieved here at Pam Yor so with just two weeks of practice on links turf at Pam Yor under his belt it was just a small matter of qualification and it was over to Carnousty and the Burnside course so this was the third leg of a potential triple crown he'd already won the us open he'd won the masters but despite all of that in those days you still have to qualify before he even made his way to that open championship the Burnside is a par 68 and already sort of eight holes in I can already see it's sort of it's very tight uh not not necessarily long the weather again will play its part we've got it really easy this morning with no breeze whatsoever but the thing that strikes me about Hogan was kind of his meticulous planning and now we've plotted his way around courses and his ability to shoot a score that he required um he did that here and then as we know he went on to do that in every single round of the four rounds of the open as well it's right in the pot bunker middle of the fairway pot bunker I don't know if I agree with that sneaky bunker in the middle of the fairway but the irony is if I needed to hit the middle of the fairway I wouldn't have and the one time I do you put a bunker in the middle of it so this is day two of what would be a three day trip I think what Pam Yor and Carnousty have done here they've put a package together which like I've said allows you to follow in the footsteps of Ben Hogan you get to uh dine in the clubhouse at Pam Yor and at the Rookery and they're sort of very opposite you've got very much the traditions of Pam Yor and the new modern setup at the Rookery so it's it's a great great experience they've got to say only day two and I'm only halfway round in terms of the burn side but Pam Yor as I said fantastic and I love the burn side it's a tight little fiddly one and like I said you've got to plot your way round it's I've not used drive at a great deal at this stage I'm I'm channeling my inner Hogan and planning my way around this place not quite the same result I doubt it's the one I find is these sort of sister courses if you like to the what is the open championship venue of Carnousty these sometimes fall in the shadow of those courses and they're not so much overlooked but I can assure you this burn side course you know is top-stop quality right that's it we've had our practice sessions at Pam Yor we've now qualified at the burn side it's just a small matter of that open championship it's right across that fence I'm not sure how Mr Hogan warmed up for his final 18 at Carnousty but for me it is a bit of bacon haggis and fried egg at this new Rookery restaurant I'm overlooking the first seat on the 18th green and in an hour or so we'll be ready to go so this amazing story continues and it's on to the open championships at Carnousty right so as Hogan left his name on that six hole at Pam Yor he's done the same on the six at Carnousty I think this was only sort of changing name in the last sort of 20 years so when it's now known as Hogan's alley the sixth and you can see from the drone footage quite why it's extremely tight down that left hand side between the three bunkers that you see that first bunker on the right to screen to the outbound on the left I believe is 23 paces there is an option to bail out a little bit right and I think we're a little bit lucky today and that we're slightly forward on the T so I'm hoping we can certainly carry the first one but whether or not we'll catch the second two and that's providing I don't manage to pull anything down or left but it's a thing like this where you're playing holes where you've seen them on the TV before in open championships and you get the opportunity to come here and have a little go at it yourself and I think that's something that you can't do in any other sport and it's incredible let's see how I get on it's certainly one you don't want to go left we've had three drives on the bounce good let's see if we can add another well it's a decent enough drive but I've been too scared of the bunkers and that's splashed into bunker three and that'll be an interesting one because it looks incredibly steep they talk about clever course design and as I said left out of bounds and you're certainly fearful of that so I didn't want to turn anything over and to be honest it's a really solid drive and there's quite a gap between each of the three bunkers but I sort of went splashed straight into this one and I've got nothing I've got a 58 wedge and I ain't going nowhere in terms of distance yardage wise gains I'll just be lucky to get it up and out I think that's it shot lost do you know what when I walk these fairways the thing that I admire most about Hogan is yes he had those couple of weeks practice rounds at Pam Yor but you compare that to what the pros say nowadays where they want to play multiple open championship venues before they get accustomed to what is links golf it's so so different them elevations that I've just walked through then ask totally different questions of your game and like I said don't forget you've never experienced anything like this prior to coming here just two weeks earlier yes spectacles is again infamous as is pretty much all a carnousty and hello in terms of the the game I'm playing today I've had to sort of lay up to the right of here I've dropped the ball in because I've got to have a little goal these are absolutely monstrous and you wouldn't want to find yourself in either of them it's well I don't know I've put myself pretty much in amongst the face of it and that's probably a couple of feet taller than me at least so we'll give it a go I have brought another ball in me pocket by the way right so on 58 wedge it ain't going forward it just needs to go out well we got it out that was about as much loft as I could get on it and I got out of spectacles and I wouldn't want to be in it again not if it mattered anyway well 15 is an absolute stunning golf all we say these final four are really tough and to put that into perspective I've just hit driver and five or two of my Sunday best I'll be honest with you and well we haven't got there and I love avoided these two bunkers I will have avoided all the bunkers but I've got a horrendous chip left in but such a great design and what a great start to this back four yeah I'm afraid that's another bogey but and I've struggled a bit with the putting but what I will say is that some of the brakes are very obvious and some are very slight and coupled with that with the with the pace of these things and it's it's another challenge that is championship golf I'm afraid I think Hopeham's record was the most one of the most impressive things I've ever seen he entered only 11 majors incredibly he won nine of them and in the year 1953 he entered six tournaments and he won five three of them were majors a five wood into the barry burn meant it wasn't to be the euphoric end I had hoped for no ambition to emulate van der veld I chose a more cautious route to finish with a double but you know what it didn't matter because when I look back on the past three days I just played the fairways and followed in the footsteps of arguably the greatest golfer of all time


Thank you. Okay, Sunday afternoon, four o'clock. After this one, still one lighting talk to go. I never expected so many people to show up, so I'm glad you're all here. I hope we can show you something interesting. We're going to talk about UML Canvas. UML Canvas is a little open source project. Kuhn, myself, and some other people in the audience here started some time ago, and we're going to introduce you to it. There you go. The big question in introducing a project, of course, is showing you what it is. Behold, UML Canvas. Okay, there's a title up there, and it has a reason. There is the same UML Canvas on a little blog I'm writing about a little project about autonomous robots. This is the main reason why I started, we started UML Canvas. Okay. We can also use UML Canvas in something fancy like Google Wave. Yeah, sure, right. Or on a website of its own. Right.  We're in a developer conference here, so we're going to switch to the real thing. A real browser and the same UML Canvas. Okay, so what's so special about this? This is an image, right? An image taken from a case tool where I draw up a little UML diagram. I copied it and pasted it, and then just in the source, we're going to see that there is an image tag, right? Where's the image tag? There are some interesting things there. JavaScript, the Canvas tag, HTML5, and text. There is no image there. We have created step one JavaScript that looks into your code in your HTML for some textual representation of a UML diagram. It looks for the Canvas tag, and it will render this textual UML representation into what we just saw on the page, which is pretty nice because it eliminates the need to update the diagram in my case tool and copy, paste, upload it to the server. It's all gone. We just have one HTML file containing the textual representation of the UML diagram, and it will render it visually. What, in fact, is of course what you want with UML. Okay, can we go back for a second to the source again? How do we, where is the little magic? Well, we use the ID of the Canvas, which is what UML Canvas is looking for, and then if you add a text area or a predefined, pre-formatted text element, if you reuse that same ID and you add a suffix source, it will match it too. That is, in fact, a way that we actually try to do a lot of things. So, if we go back to the diagram itself, and we go to the next slide. Okay, so there is the same thing, that's the same text area, which now isn't disabled visually from the, that's pretty nice. And, okay, another advantage over static images, a Canvas element, a nice element, which allows us to draw not one image, but continuously updating it, so we can interact with the UML diagram that's in there. That's pretty neat, because UML is a little annoying aspect that the positioning of your classes, et cetera, is pretty meaningful if you want to be able to transfer the idea of the class diagram you're looking at. So, if we want to create this source, it's hard if you don't, if you can't interact with it like we just did. Now, we want to update the source, because now we have edited our UML diagram. How do we get it? Well, I said this was a source, we already had one. We have also created, on the next slide, well, there's no difference there. It's still the same source, or maybe, if you start moving things around, cool. UML Canvas will also re-export any change we visually make to the UML Canvas diagram, which is, if we look quickly at the source, now done using, where is it? Another text area, which is, by default, empty, with the suffix generated. Great. We can copy from there the new source and then paste it into our HTML diagram. Yeah, let's go next. So, here we are. Pretty nice. So, we're back where we started. We now know we have a source, we have a generated element we can use. We have added a few more others, and we're not going to introduce them all one by one. We're going to introduce them to you in one big go. Okay, what just happened? When Kuhn was moving over the diagram with his mouse, he pressed I, the I of our inspector. An inspector combines everything we had before. We had a source, we had a generated source element. Now, we combine those two in, what you see here, our editor. Editor is, in fact, source and generated element at the same time. So, if Kuhn starts dragging around classes, he can see the changes. That was the idea of the generated part, but he can also start editing the text area to change the diagram. And as you can see, the editor, if you're making mistakes, will give you preliminary some basic feedback on what you have done wrong. And there you go. You're textually editing the HTML diagram, and it's visually updated into a synchronization. There are some other tabs out in there. We also have some properties. So, this one was actually the diagram that was on my blog about the little autonomous robot. We also added a console. Console is just giving you feedback on what it is doing. It's pretty verbous right now. But if you look at the top, completely at the top of it, you will see that we also output some information. Rendering this diagram currently takes about 68 milliseconds. It's pretty nice. It's Firefox, of course. There are other browsers out there that perform very, very badly. Mostly because they don't even have the HTML5 element, and we need, or we can tank Google for providing some emulation. Okay. Moving on to the last tab of the inspector, the about tab. And here's some information more about how we deal with things. UML Canvas itself is not the entire project itself. We are also dealing here with an implementation on top of a layer we created before. It was a Canvas 2D implementation, which is a wrapper of the Canvas element, providing us a sort of a shape-oriented way and adds event-drivenness to the basic bitmap drawing device we have. As you can see, it's licensed under a BSD license. And UML Canvas, then, is in fact a library on top of the Canvas 2D implementation, just describing all the elements, all the graphical shapes that we need to display the UML diagrams. There's one more aspect that's of importance. We're our version numbering, so Canvas 2D is at 0.3-31 currently. UML Canvas, 0.3-1, we released the 0.3 release last week. As long as we haven't reached 1.0, we're not committing ourselves to any stability. But at the current pace, we're moving, we think we can reach this pretty much by summer. And from then on, the most APIs will be very solid. Okay. Let's see. What else? Let's go to the source. Wait a minute. There was a lot less than we had before. Now, there's only a Canvas element. Where's my source? Where's my generated? Where's my inspector? Where's everything? Well, we started off with a JavaScript library that allows you to render UML diagrams. We extended it with a server component. Because at a certain point, we were interested in being able to share UML diagrams also. So what did we do? Or what does the UML Canvas do? If it doesn't find the source element, it will take the idea you give to the Canvas element and go request information at our server side. So with this idea, it went to our hosted UML Canvas service and fetched the information. That's pretty neat. And it even gets better. Because if you look at it, we also have now the opportunity to save. We can save the changes Kuhn just made on our hosted UML Canvas site. So there we go. You can log in. I'm going to go into that in a second. It says that you are not logged in and we will generate a random URL for you. That means that because it's loaded already from those two UML Canvas site, we can't reuse the same. So here's a diagram. Below we saw that there was the original. So there are some changes. And if we now commit as an anonymous user, then you fail miserably live demoing. It would have saved us and given us the new URL containing there you go, with a little help from a co-presenter. You now have a public URL with the newly just created UML diagram, which offers you information about you can embed it in any HTML. You can even use it as a wave gadget. You can request it just as JSON information, which is what we do normally ourselves. And ADL is our abstract domain language, our little language that we use to describe UML diagrams. So that was a quick rundown of all features. So if you have an account, just to finalize that one, if you have an account, you can define your own ideas for the URL. The diagrams will remain longer on the site because anonymous diagrams are short lived. Oh, we have three minutes to go. Let's quickly try to add some more things to it. This is what it all started with. We are software architects helping Belgian companies create in-house software and we are faced a lot with UML and the difficulties to collaborate on UML. And we wanted to start the model factory, which we hope will become over time a reference site for UML diagrams, models, et cetera. And therefore, we needed a way to enable the rendering of UML diagrams without the need to constantly upload images and have different styles, et cetera. So this is where it started. Today, the model factory, all diagrams out there are all hosted on UML Canvas, which means you can reuse them in any way, just like we did a few seconds ago. We know that 99.99% of current UML diagrams are not UML Canvas diagrams. They are living in, for example, enterprise architect or any other UML case tool. We can't expect people to jump over to our site and say, okay, we're going to abandon these tools. So what we're also providing and which we'll be releasing for enterprise architect in the next two weeks is a plug-in that allows synchronization of diagrams with the hosted UML Canvas implementation. So it allows you to not only create and use UML diagrams from the web-based solutions, but also to use them in their day-to-day case tools. UML Canvas is a JavaScript implementation on top of a still not finalized HTML5 specification, and it's running in all kinds of browsers. We know this is the web development hell, and we've had a rough year also in bringing it to the web. We currently can use your help if you have some time to spare. Visit testUMLCanvas.org. It takes about 30 seconds to help us out so we can improve UML Canvas on all platforms and all browsers. Finally, UML Canvas is a technical implementation, but it's a reference implementation of an initiative we started, which tries to set UML free. UML currently is locked into the desktop case tools. We want to bring it to the web, and we want to do that. Thank you very much. Three URLs bring you to the things we have discussed, and if you have any questions, we can see you after the talk. Thank you.