So everyone, thank you for joining us this afternoon. I am so sorry, we're a little bit late at the moment, but everyone is now here and we are ready to go with this next session. I'm really happy to be joined by Narun Nahar and Thomas Storey for joining us on the University of Bolton. And this session is gonna be a treat for anyone who is interested in co-creation and game-based learning because that's what this is about. So without further ado, I'm gonna hand over to Narun and Thomas to talk about co-creating student engagement through EDL using a games-based learning approach. So please show your appreciation in the chat and add any questions that you may have for us to cover in the Q&A at the end. Thank you very much, Caroline. Hello, everyone. I hope you can see my slides there. Thank you very much for attending our session. So I'm Narun Nahar, an assistant professor with the University of Bolton and I'm joined by Thomas Storey, who is a research intern as well as an application developer. So we're going to talk about how we have worked on enhancing student engagement through co-creation and it was through EDL using a game-based learning approach. So our main intention was to provide an in-house learning platform with the intention to improve student engagement in the class as well as when we are delivering sessions online and also to see how students would benefit from it for their summative assessments and related coursework. So the primary objective of our project was to develop a web-based application to support students to reach their model-specific learning goals and track progress as well as to improve engagement at module level and to support them with knowledge retention, prepare them for their summative assessments because EDL uses pre-designed and planned formative assessment tasks in order to support which are aligned with summative assessments in order to support students prepare better for their summative coursework and it's also to ensure that they have got an overall positive learning experience in a blended learning context. We began this project last year in August 2021 and have only recently finished the first phase of the project and we are carrying on with the project in phase two but we'll be providing more information about this towards the end of the presentation. Tom? Yeah. So we're gonna introduce student engagement for starters. So Trowler here explains that time-effort resources invested by students and institutions intend to optimise experiences, enhance learning outcomes and performance including studies whereas the UKS are slightly different, I explained that they believe that time-effort invested in studies and engagement are heavily intertwined with academic achievement and that disengaged students have a disparity in performance. So if you adjoin both of those, you can see that positive engagement is likely to increase student success in academic achievement and we have some examples on the right from Trowler as well of positive and negative engagement. Next slide. Game-based learning, so it is a principle of extracting principles in actual game design and applying it to other mediums to engage people. The psychology involved allows students to engage with materials dynamically, more dynamically than standard classroom content and it's a big part to introduce activities incrementally as you would in a classroom. That same principle applies to online and gamifying learning and some aspects of game-based learning involve competition points, incentives and feedback loops. And our project is underpinned by the theory of game-based learning and the theory of connectivism which is explained by Arith there as nodes and connections to define learning through gamification. Next slide, please. So we have used staff-student partnership as an approach in this co-creation process and recently, Rachel is increasingly showing that staff-student partnership has got multiple benefits for students as well as for staff. It is used as a process rather than a measure to achieve predetermined outcomes and it can also be used as an enabler of student engagement. Some of the benefits of staff-student partnership include developmental benefits for both staff and students and it can lead to potential for enhanced skills to improve motivation, to support creativity and staff-student communication improvements as well as to develop self-efficacy. So in this project, we have implemented staff-student partnership in the design process of ADAL using Healey's four stages of engaging students in partnership framework which uses consultation, involvement, participation and engagement as a process to initiate staff-student partnership co-creation in any form of engagement. So the methodology that we have applied is a qualitative approach and we have used student focus groups to understand what the impact was of ADAL on students engagement as well as overall learning experience. We have conducted the focus group with some trainee teachers at postgraduate level and with some business management students who were studying at their final, who were studying at HE6 level a final year of their business degree. And we obtained ethical approval for the, before the data collection and for the purpose of participation, we did make sure that the participation was voluntary. The purpose of selecting student focus groups as well as a qualitative approach is to see if we could get in-depth overview of the student's overall learning experience using ADAL and how or if there is any opportunities for us to work on further improvement so that the user experience with ADAL can be improved or we could look into whether the games that we have designed within ADAL were actually benefiting students to retain learning as well as to understand various concepts within curriculum delivery. Some of the limitations we have had in this project is that it was over a strict deadline because it was funded. And so we needed to make sure that we stick to the deadline for designing or for developing ADAL as well as for piloting it. And we had limited respondents compared to what we anticipated when we invite the students to participate in the focus group. And the other limitation was the budget. So because we had limited budget so we could not invest in some of the additional features that we wanted to include within ADAL. However, we have received further funding now in order to work on these developments and features that Tom will talk to you about towards the end of the presentation. Over to you, Tom. Yeah, so, sorry, one sec. So we've used a paradigm for the programming and design aspects called agile programming. It focuses on revisioning software. Over time, I'm sure a lot of you are aware of it. It's also, as it's described there, creating a system that undergoes substantial change to follow requirements. And we have applied this in the form of feedback-driven development. So we change the system as the feedback from the users comes through over time. And we do this to ensure features and content and updates stay relevant to what students and tutors included perceive as useful within studying and how they use the platform. And next slide. So the functional design. Here we have an example of one of the designs of functional aspects of the platform acts. So this is the quiz, for example. How the staff student partnership applied in this was Noren discussed the desire for having a quiz. I laid out the logical requirements for it to work programmatically. And then I then developed the software based on this diagram and went and got feedback from Noren based on this design. As it says there, this was made with universal modeling language, which is pretty industry standard. And then it was used to create pseudo code and from pseudo code it was then turned into actual programming and what worked and what didn't work well. It's hard to sometimes get all of the requirements down on the design and some new stuff pops up as you're actually programming it. So that did needed to be accounted for. And what could have been improved to future foresight, I guess. And maybe a bit more time, as Noren said, we will restrict on time requirements. Next slide, please. So the UI and UX. Again, the staff student partnership aspects incorporated in Noren given me some requirements and me trying to find a seamless and functional user interface and user experience design which would be clear for users and not frustrating to use. Here on the left, you can see here's an example of the design process. So it was made a very base design at first, just a drone in paint because it was quicker doing it that way. And then the next iteration of the design it is all of the elements set up. However, the contents that are going to be in those elements are then a bit more refined but it's still done in paint. And then the next revision will hopefully have all of those aspects completed. So the aims, as I said earlier, the aims are to make it clear for users. That's the minimum standard. And then the next standard is accessibility which we are gonna tell you about later. And the challenges included in our, I'd say inexperience but I'm getting better at it as it goes along. And in reflection, this wasn't the original dashboard as shown, the other dashboard did work well. However, it wasn't very clear to new users. So that's something we're trying to improve on. Next slide please. Here is a video now demonstrating the version one of Edo and its features. However, we'll talk more about version two later. So I'll take you through the findings. When we have conducted the focus group with the students, mostly we have received very good positive feedback with regards to the engagement, with regards to the fun aspect of engaging with et al as well as the fact that it has helped them to understand concepts better. So a lot of students said that they have found the feedback feature quite useful because it helped them to understand where they have gone wrong, to reflect on their answers and also to find out where they can improve and how they can actually improve their understanding so that they can do better in their summative assessments. And it also helped them to brainstorm and concentrate. And some of them actually found it quite useful and efficient way to learn and remember concepts and with et al because they could play either individually or in a group while in a class. They were able to quickly learn financial terms and also the definition by using games such as math to definition. And the reason why we conducted the focus group was to find out what actually went well and what didn't. So amongst what didn't go well were some of the features within et al. So they thought that perhaps we could improve on the interface design as well as include more games. So they simply just didn't want to use the existing games over and over. They wanted to, they loved et al but at the same time they wanted to see if they could have more games and more activities designed as games in order to support game based learning within their curriculum. So the feedback has actually directed some changes and developments in et al. We immediately took the feedback on a positive note to work on our user interface design as well as to bring in some visual changes to the color and the display. And we have also been working on fixing some technical issues within the current version of the app. And Tom has been working on new games and additional game that we could include in version two of et al, which will be released later next year. And at the same time, we have also worked on some changes in the format of how feedback is provided in addition to giving opportunity to the students to see or for the tutors to see which activity went well with the students and which didn't. So they could actually after they have attempted an activity complete a small questionnaire in order for the tutors to understand if the activity they have attempted has supported them with their learning. And it also helped us to reflect on the whole co-creation process while we were working on designing et al and using it for improving student engagement. So it helped us to think about in what other ways perhaps we could improve our engagement in the co-creation process and how we could improve our communication and discussions while we are working on designing et al for enhancing student engagement and user experience. So Tom will talk to you about some of the prospects and upcoming features of et al in addition to updates with where we are with et al. Over to you Tom. Yeah, we've got lots of things coming over the next year. We are implementing modules. So modules weren't segmented in version one because it was a small pilot and didn't require it. However, it's gonna be a big change implementing that the way the app structures. But we're gonna try our best. There's going to be QR code integration for third party websites to link to any aspect of the application that isn't restricted. As you saw, there is the new dashboard and admin dashboard respectively for moderating content. We're implementing more badges and statistics as shown earlier on the user profile as well as graph integration for data modeling and a big point there is the overhauled feedback system. So we're giving students the opportunity to give different forms of feedback dynamically on whether it be anything specifically like the activity they've just completed or of the general feedback that the tutor wants from students. So I hope that goes well. And as for the updates, those were the key features, by the way. As for the updates, we are gonna have full ownership and hosting of content. So if people want to adopt the software, it's very easy to adopt and we're also overhauling the installation guide and deployment guide. So it's as easy as possible for people to adopt it, although some technical knowledge will still be required. And most importantly, it will be a open educational resource. So it's free for people to adopt in the future. And as you see there, the timeline is just under a year. So hopefully we get all of this done. Thank you very much. That was our presentation, Tom. Yeah, this is our LinkedIn profiles and our email addresses. If anybody wants to get in contact about this PowerPoint or potential adoption in future. Thank you. Thank you both very much for that. I'll leave your slides up on the screen for a moment so people can have a look at the references there. And we've got just about enough time to do a couple of questions. So I can see one that's come up in the chat from Lynn Danzig. Let me just pop that up on the screen for you. When you get beyond Sudo code, what are you programming in? So there is two languages that I am currently programming in. The first one on the back end is Java, which is using a Spring Boot as a server. And there's a lot of plugins in that also being used, but I won't go into that. And then on the front end, it is using React as a framework which uses HTML, CSS, JavaScript and then the React commands too. I hope that answers your question. Thank you, Thomas. That was a great answer there. The next one isn't a question, just a comment, which I think sums up how a lot of us are feeling about this great work, really encouraging that it will be an OER. That was really nice to hear. So I'll echo Vicki and our other watchers' comments to say thank you so much for sharing your work with us today, it's been really great to hear about it. And if anyone has any further questions or follow-ups, please do check out the Discord channel, the resources for this session will be shared there. So please enjoy the rest of your afternoon and thank you once again to Neroen and Thomas for that session. Thank you very much and thank you for the comments. Yeah, thank you as well. I hope you all have a nice day.


Hello and welcome! The following short video will show you several ways you can access and locate books in our children's collection. The first thing you need to do is to go to the library homepage at www.ohiou.edu.library. Once you're on the library homepage, you need to type a search term into Alice. Use the Alice tab on the library homepage and use the default keyword search. For this example, let's say you are trying to find children's books about Abraham Lincoln. Because we have a lot of books about Abraham Lincoln, you will have to limit your results to just the children's collection. You can limit to the children's collection by clicking on the Modify Search button at the top of the screen. The next screen will enable you to choose a location by clicking on Show, Hide, Advanced Options, then Change Location from Any to Alden's Children's Collection. You can see we went from over a thousand books dealing with Abraham Lincoln to just 67, but these titles displayed should all be in our children's collection. Instead of Abraham Lincoln, you could also search the collection for topics like mathematics. The example shown here will show results for any books in the children's collection that deal with topics related to math, or algebra, or calculus. The children's books that have won awards are also searchable by doing an Alice search, but instead of searching keyword, just change it to Subject and search, for example, Caldecott Metal or Newberry Metal. The children's collection is located on the seventh floor of Alden Library in the East Wing. Once you come off the elevator, take a left, then another left, and head towards the sign that says the East Wing. Once you enter the East Wing, you will see the collection on your left. If you are having trouble finding the book once you have the call number, just stop by the help desk, by the elevators, or pick up the phone on the wall next to the help desk. If you are having trouble finding books on a specific topic, or need more assistance than this short video was able to provide, contact one of the service desks in the building or email Chris Guter at guder.ohio.edu. Happy reading!


So it's been a couple months since I did my original office tour. So I figured I'd do another office tour. We had our grand opening, ribbon cutting, yay. And so we're officially here as far as like the city, the mayor, the Chamber of Commerce is concerned. And we have our window graphics that I did a video on to show that those are all installed and signed on the building. So we're much more official that we never stopped operating the company. But it was kind of, you know, unfinished for a little while. So here's an updated tour here at the, well, July 1st is tomorrow. So end of June 2017 tour of the office and its current status. We also have our hours on the door. In front of the store is much more finished, lots of product and everything, sets of drawers. I can't remember if those were there or not last time or IKEA drawers. Front counter's still there. But now we have some spiffy holders on here, business cards. The lighting projects you may have seen from the other video. Our first dollar presenter from the Chamber of Commerce, that was a part of yesterday's festivities. Members since 2005. So we've been a long time chamber, camera, smile. Now the studio is pretty much the same. We have added a shelf up here. We added a doctor who, which really cool gift from a friend, Nick. We got a gift from him as a server case we got too. We just had our party, so there's still some food out, which we right away took advantage of and made some more food. Microwave. You've seen that in a vlog. We got excited about having a microwave. Makes us feel more complete. People like warm food, you know? Yep. People like warm food. So more food, more food. Fridge. Got a fancy fridge. Water. And we ran all the water piping through the wall, up to the ceiling, over to here. Mario bathroom is still intact. Boop emoji. So we know it's the bathroom. That's good. I would say. Backroom is much the same. All the inventory back here, other door to the bathroom, we got another sign for it. Call of duty. Play on words. Steve's office is still Steve's office with things. We actually got something else we got to put up. We got this cool Pac-Man thing that's going around all the doors. So that's going to be cool. Steve loves his big gulps. Marvin's still Marvin. We haven't done anything here. So Marvin still has a big office. We simply organized all the clutter. It's cleaner. So I assume there'll be more stuff put in here. Any moment we will fill it with more things that are going to go over here. So yeah, that. I still technically have the largest office. Marvin still has the largest office. My office door has trim. Yay. So someone had asked, are tech areas still the same? It's actually, everything's the same about tech areas. We haven't really added anything to it. I think these shelves and everything were up in the last video, the shredder, but it's more stuff here because we're busier. A lot of things are in use. Someone asked me if how we're plugging things in and that goes here. So we have under here the power strip and then we hang down these so we can do this when we plug things in. You can just reach down and grab these from the other side and not have to fiddle with plugging things in this way. So oh yeah, Steve's about to demo it for you. You just reach around and pick it up. There you go. Yep, that easy. So those are just a few of the little changes we did. Other than that, I mean, this is what our store looks like when it's in use. You know, projects going, I'm starting on this project. People have been asking me about doing a video on Proxmox and some other stuff. So we started assembling a thing that's going to be for that. And then these are customer things, customer things. Someone who tried to build a computer themselves that it didn't work out so well. That's why it's here now. We don't mind when people try to build them themselves, but that sometimes causes an issue. And then we're back to the studio area and like I said, that's mostly the same. So that's a quick update on the store tour end of June 2017 beginning in July. So not too much has changed. A few things here and there and we got to have our ribbon cutting. We had to have a big party with everyone. Ribbon cuttings today, lots of people here. This is just this part, the other part of my office is filled with people. That was here, that was a lot of fun too. So that's just the quick overview of it. I'll do some more update when we make any major changes. I don't know what major changes we're going to make, but I just want to get this done real quick. Also, I'll be working on some more videos soon for all kinds of other things. Some more tool videos, some more maybe behind the scenes video talking about workflow and what we do. And I'm working on putting together because I try to be very comprehensive and take my time and do them. Some of the security ones videos that are going to have coming up here, where we do talk about how to get things locked down, how to get things secure, look for them on the channel, like and subscribe. Click the little bell if you want to be notified when new videos come out. And thanks for watching. Take care.


me on Think Tech Hawaii. I am Shayna Park, your host for Money Talks. My guest today is Amphi Champadon. Welcome to the show, Amphi. Hi, Shayna. Thank you for inviting me. Hi. Thank you for being on the show again. It's great to have you back. Please tell us more about yourself. So, I am actually a resident and lifer of Hawaii. I've been here all my life. grew up in Kaligi, went to Kalani High School, attended UH, and then been there for about 10 years. I'm currently an attorney with a state planning group here in Honolulu, where we help families secure their assets and properly protect their estate. That's awesome. So, you've been here all your life and you've moved into a career of finance. How do you like being an estate planning lawyer? I wouldn't say so much finance. I look at it as when we look at helping families secure their wealth, their financial foundation. Part of that is always going to be protection. And where I come in in my role as an estate attorney is to assure that families do properly protect the assets and the things that they've gathered through their work and their efforts and make sure that it goes to the people and their families. Yes. And I like what you said about protecting assets because people work so hard to purchase things or get assets to begin with and covering all realms of everything is to protect it. But it's December right now and we're moving into the holiday season. And I know we're here to discuss a very important cause. So, you're the vice president of Safe Ride Hawaii. Could you please share more about what Safe Ride Hawaii is? So, Safe Ride Hawaii is a non-profit that I was a co-founder of with Shonda Park. If that name sounds familiar, that is Shaina's mom. And so, our non-profit, our goal is to eliminate any and all fatalities due to intoxicated driving. So, we take a three-prong approach to addressing this issue of intoxicated driving. Our primary work is a direct service where we take individuals that have been drinking or is under the influence, them and their car home safely. And in addition to that, we also provide education and awareness to the communities as well as supporting families that have lost a loved one due to an intoxicated driver. That is a really great organization that you guys have that's going on. I wanted to ask you what sets you guys apart from all the other companies like Uber and Lyft, the cab, what is so different with Safe Ride Hawaii? I don't kind of see us as being separate or apart from. I really see us as another option. It's another opportunity for individuals to be responsible. I think it's important that people know that they have options, whether it's going to be a designated driver, rideshares with Uber and Lyft, or the taxi service. And now in the event that you even contemplate or have that conversation in your head, should you have driven somewhere and not intended on drinking and then end up drinking as you are weighing your options, that we now say there is another choice, a responsible choice, and that choice is Safe Ride. And what we do is, when you talk about bottom line in businesses, we don't have a bottom line. Our bottom line is really the safety of the community. And one less person taking that risk by driving intoxicated is one less person left to worry about for themselves, for the people around them, the community, their families, and the victims' families. So there's a rule for all of us. We just offer something that says that there cannot be any excuses now why you would ever take that risk of drinking and driving. Yes. And I wanted you to explain how did Safe Ride hold what you start? So, well, we lost our daughter three years ago to a drunk driver, and she was on her way to the Honolulu city lights at that time because of COVID, they weren't having it at Honolulu Halle. Instead, they were having it at the Aloha stadium. The way it was set up was that there was only one way, which is lot one, to go into the stadium to go to the city lights. And to do that, it required you to do a U-turn at one of the intersections, and Azalea had gone out to push the buttons to help make the lights change. She was in the crosswalk, and as she was going back to the car, she was hit and killed by a drunk driver. It's been tough. I don't think it will ever change. We've met many families that are going through this season, whether this is their first year that they've lost their loved ones, or this is their 30th year. We, alongside them, really struggle as a family. And it's just something I don't think any we wish would want to have happen to any more families. And so, when this tragedy happened for our family, we were thinking that it cannot be in vain, like, what can we do to really honor Azalea, and leave that legacy in her name, and we, you know, did our research and thought that this would be something that can directly impact the community. So, I don't know if you know, you know, SafeRide is not like a novel program, you know, something that we came up. This is something that has been used as a business as a service across the world, more specifically, when you look at the Asian countries, where they actually have similar, like, SafeRide, and they've been in operations for years and very successful. So, I think it's important for us to discuss, you know, why. Why SafeRide, Hawaii, and why SafeRide, Hawaii is so important to our community. So, you know, for me, at least, I know what it's like to go out and intend to not drink, and just go and enjoy, you know, my friend's company, but sometimes, you know, it could happen where you end up having a few, and I like how you had mentioned, too, to eliminate any reason to get behind the wheel after, you know, drinking any amount of alcohol. So, I like that there's options. And, you know, I like that for Hawaii, too, there's Uber and Lyft is so it's so known and popular, but I feel like SafeRide, Hawaii has yet to be spread, right? And it's a discussion that, you know, we need to talk about more often and why it's so important. Do you want to chime in on why you think SafeRide, Hawaii is important to our community? For what you just shared, I mean, this is, it's unacceptable, it's unexcusable, it's 100% preventable, and there should be no more families that lose a loved one, okay, or suffer the tragedies that come with someone being irresponsible and making that choice to drink and drive. I just want to share, you know, for us at SafeRide, Hawaii, we, we're not telling people not to go and celebrate. By all means, you know, please continue the great celebrations, you know, the graduation parties, the weddings, the luels, all those things are wonderful. We participate in those activities and events as well. It's just now being more cognizant and mindful that to be cool, to go behind the wheel is unacceptable. That's the culture we were wanting to change. You know, and statistically, the numbers have not changed in terms of what happens and how many people are affected. If I told you two in three people, it will be involved in a drunk driving crash in their lifetime, whether or not they are the recipients, meaning the victims of, whether a car got struck, or they're the ones that were intoxicated. I mean, think about that, Sheena, two out of every three person that is on the road is going to be affected by drunk driving. And then now, if I tell you every 40, it was 50 something minutes, every 51 minutes, I think the last statistic that I heard for this year, it was 47 or 48, which is not good. That somebody dies from a drunk driver. And it's not just that individual or the immediate family.  I mean, in every profession, you know, you're talking about a sister, a daughter, and it's just inexcusable.  If you had a DUI, it will cost you, minimally, at least $10,000 for your first offense, 10 to $25,000 for your first offense. And that's not even, we're just putting a hard number on just that. I would say the initial first year to do whatever needs to be done, your insurance premiums will go up 20 to 25% for the next 10 years. Imagine that. And then each and every single time you talk about, you're not able to quantify this is because as you now go and look for a job or career, further your education, whatever else, that will always be on your record.  Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And it's great that you mentioned to the cost of, you know, a DUI because, and I love how you mentioned earlier too about celebrating responsibly, especially with the holiday seasons coming up. A lot more accidents happened during this time, which is very unfortunate and very sad with Azalea, which is my sister, you know, she had passed away a few days before Christmas.  Now, I like how you brought up the monetary cost of a DUI because if you Uber or Lyft or even caught the bus, it would be significantly cheaper than getting behind a wheel trunk and, you know, getting a DUI and the cost of, you know, risking your life or someone else's life. I think that's a very important realization for people to have, especially here in Hawaii because or anywhere in the world, but everyone knows someone. And I'm almost certain, you know, before Azalea had passed, Amphi, did you know someone who had, you know, got involved with a drinking and driving incident? I'm sure you have. I know I have. Oh, definitely. Yeah. So it's actually really common and it's really sad. And I feel like it's our mission and it's a great cause to talk about why, you know, it's important to plan ahead. And you're right with we're not telling anyone drinking is bad, you know, please celebrate. Celebrate as much as you want. I know New York is such a big thing to Hawaii of celebrating big, but like we need to put a big emphasis on celebrating responsibly. And we don't want it to be where your family and I'm speaking to everyone that has not had, um, you know, personal story in this tragedy, you know, go through what our family has gone through and the families that we've met at our vigils, at our events that share about. I know I mentioned this earlier, some as raw as in the last couple months where they lost loved ones to those that are still grieving like 30, 40 years later. If that's not enough for you to think about this, because even though when you said, Shayna, you know about planning, what we do is in the event that you did not plan, that's where we come in and offer that the service that we're offering. And even if you plan to be the DD and you see all your friends having so much fun and then, oops, you join them, there is an option, there is an option and that option is safe ride. So could you go into the cost of how much it costs to order a safe ride or what is the price in order to get a ride with you folks? So safe ride, Hawaii, we currently charge $2 a minute to take the individual and their car home. And the proceeds from this goes to one, reimburse our drivers and second, you know, to support the community and the families that have lost loved ones. And none of this goals, well, again, our bottom line is the safety of the community. So and we want to be at a point financially to be able to offer this to, you know, the entire state. We are working with partners, two other safe ride programs in Frederick, Maryland and Atlanta, Georgia. The goal for us is to create an association where now every community, any grassroot community that wants to have a safe ride in there, running would be able to do it. We would be able to provide them with the blueprints, the manuals, everything that they would need to be successful. And the goal is to connect all the dots, all the cities from Honolulu, Hawaii, all the way to the east coast of Frederick's, Maryland and Atlanta, Georgia and in between have all these communities and cities with their own safe ride programs as nonprofits with a bottom line that just says safer communities. There's way too much tragedies. Even one more is not like that's just unfathomable about the cost. Yes.  I think that is our biggest reason why, you know, at least for myself, I try to stress this topic so much. It's 100% preventable. So, Amphi, I know that you have a lot of events that come up with Safe Ride Hawaii and I wanted you to share about this upcoming event that happens annually. Could you please share more about that? So, we do have a celebration for Azalea at her memorial where she was struck and killed by the drunk driver. That's our visual for her as well as bringing an awareness to the communities about not drinking and driving. And that's going to be Saturday, the last few that I just had. This is going to be this coming Saturday and from 4 o'clock to 5.30. So, you are all welcome to join us. You know, you talk about partnerships and collaboration. I just want to share, Shayna, part of our work is to bring awareness. We are looking for community partners. We've been connecting with many programs, many event coordinators, festivals throughout Oahu. You know, most recently, we were very fortunate to be able to partner with the University of Hawaii Athletics and participate at the UH Football home games. To me, that was a great start to engage with, to have an event where you have, you know, 10,000, whatever people and where alcohol is served and now being able to be available to provide that service. I think that's wonderful. I think that's a great partnership and it speaks volumes to these entities, these event coordinators, these festivals about their commitment to ensuring that they have an additional option to, and it also says that there is a commitment to keeping the community safer as well. Yeah. So, going back to the event that happens annually, I found the flyer. So, it is December 23rd. It's going to be a Saturday. Starts at 4 o'clock and ends at 5.30.  And going back to the UH game, I think this was such a great event to be at.  So, with the hundreds of fans that show up to the UH game and them, you know, passing by the Safe Ride Hawaii 10, you know, I really feel like Safe Ride Hawaii is getting out there and it will be known to everyone very soon. And what I want us to be known for is our mission and our vision. And our vision is that there will be no more families that lose a loved one because of an intoxicated driver. And that's what I want our Safe Ride logo and brand to be. And it's a reminder that, hey, I go back to celebrate, celebrate passionately, celebrate like how we do it here in Hawaii. And, you know, you have that responsibility as well. Yes. And I know, going back to events too, that you had educated our community driver, driver's ed class. Could you share about that as well, please? That's another space that we really want to be involved with or more involved with. We've had opportunities to share, you know, about intoxicated driving and its impact on families.  I mean, it's, we're passionate about this work that we do. But being able to go and share with young people, about teenagers that are learning how to drive or first-time drivers about the importance of this is just phenomenal. And what they take back to their families and their parents. And, you know, you can just kind of see how the circle of influence gets bigger and bigger and we had feedback actually from, they are actually one of my partners, business partners, and one of the owners came back and said, you know, my son was talking about and safe ride. And he so happened was in one of the driver's ed classes. And he was telling her about our story and his commitment to it, which is amazing, right? For a 17-year-old and that came back to us. And that was the point. The point was how can we educate more people? How can we be more awareness in doing so? I think this is where we will change that culture that says this is not acceptable. It's not cool.  No, and I what I see safe ride Hawaii as and what is is that we're really for the community. You know, we want to educate. We want to be there to provide our services. We want to eliminate any excuse for a person to get behind a wheel under the influence.  And we're going to say it for like the third time. But this season coming up is a season to celebrate and to be surrounded by the people you love and care about the most. And this is a time to celebrate responsibly, you know, with all the facilities that happen. It's just important to remember the cost of all the different options that there are out there, whether it's Uber, Lyft, Safe Ride Hawaii, the cab, getting a, you know, designated driver in advance and the cost of a DIY or the cost of your life or someone else's life. It's important to think about this in advance and especially during this time of celebration and love. Do you want to share anything last minute thoughts? That was perfect. Thank you. Thank you so much. Happy holidays. Happy holidays, everyone. I hope to see you all at the next episode of Money Talks. I'm Shayna Park, a Gen Z-inspired lives of liberties. Thank you.


Well, sometimes an encounter with police warns bad news. The Brainerd Police Department, though, is proving that's not always the case. Dairy Queen AAA and local police departments have teamed up for the I Got Caught program. If children are caught practicing good safety habits while riding their bike, scooter, or inline skates, they're rewarded with a free small ice cream from Dairy Queen. The children are ticketed by local police and then they simply turn in their ticket to get their free treat. Two really big goals come out of it. One, it's good community policing. It's positive interaction for our police department to do something fun and rewarding and positive with kids. But two, it is to help kids be safer by wearing helmets to help bring down the number of head trauma incidents that happen to kids from falling off of bikes and getting in crashes. The I Got Caught program runs throughout most of the state and tickets are valid at Dairy Queen until the end of the calendar year. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


If you have undiagnosed dyslexia today, this is going to affect your whole life. Not only is your reading skill poor, but it also affects your confidence and your motivation in school. Our vision is that every pupil should have the right kind of support in school as early as possible. Screening methods they do not measure reading performance at all. The optolexia screening tool is based on actual reading, so what we do is let the children read the short passage of texts. And we record the eye movements using an eye tracker. We have been using Wisha Studio to develop the client for recording eye movements. These eye movements recordings are sent to the cloud and are processed using machine learning models to look for patterns that differentiate a normal reader from a dyslexic reader. We started with fairly simple models built using Weka on our desktops. We were able to transfer our models in essentially a matter of hours to Azure, which helps us to immediately analyze the data, bring it up to data in the cloud, and we receive instantaneous feedback. Wisha Studio Online, the Azure cloud prompt, enables us to develop a solution that we scale in great numbers. By using Wisha Studio Online, we're able actually to work in a quite distributed way. One of the great things with Azure cloud was this of moving our existing code that is PHP and Java code. We do not have to rewrite so much of it. The customer needs to trust us that this is a secure solution, this is sensitive data. With Azure platform, we don't need to think about security, we don't need to think about capacity, we don't need to think about performance. We can go into new countries and everything is just in place, so we can focus on the things that we are good in, which is modeling on the eye movements and measurement of that. Microsoft has helped us to take our method from being a research product to something that we can actually do live in school, and here we have the possibility to help children become better readers and to improve their lives.


Hello friends. I'm Sanjay Gupta. I welcome you on Sanjay Gupta Tech Schools. In this video, I'm going to explain how you can get series of square and cubes of natural numbers in C programming. So here you can see for series is having one square, two square, three square, four square and so on. And the second is one cube, two cube, three cube and four cube and so on. So first I will be implementing this series and then I will tell you how easily you can convert this into this second one. And before starting, I want to share one information. If you go to detail or description of this video, you will find links of various pages. Those are related to various programs. So you can watch them too. So now coming on to this first time going to implement this series related program. So main function when I'm writing variable I, that variable N, so N is for reading how many terms you want to print for the scene and I will be controlling the loop. Then print as enter value of N, then scan as percent B, M percent N. So N will be having a digit that will tell how many times or how many number of visits we want to print for a particular scene. So for loop starting from one condition is I less than equals to N and I plus plus, right? So this loop will be N times. So let's say N is five. So it means we need to print five sequences of this series. So one square, two square, three square, four square, five square. One, two, three, four, five will be available with this side. So we will be using this side to print the digits. So here I am writing percent B. You can see after each digit and printing comma. So just after percent B, you can put a comma then close double quotes again put a comma. Now you can write I into I. You can write I into I. So I will be having first time one, so one into one will be printed. Then I will be implemented to two. So next time two into two will be printed. Then I will become three. So three into three will be printed. So this way we are multiplying natural number by itself so that we can have squares of each natural. And this loop will be N times. So N digits will be printed as. Then you can close this loop. So this way I hope you understood how we can print squares of each natural number with the help of this call. Now if you want to print cubes, so you can simply convert it like this. So here you can multiply I three times. So let's say if we calculate two cube, so we need to do this. We need to multiply two three times. So here we are doing same. So whatever the value of I, it will be multiplied by multiplied three times. And the calculated result will be printed in place of percent. So this way I converted the implementation of this piece into this one. One more thing you can use here. One more thing you can use here. We have a predefined function that is known as POW. So you can use that function like this. So you can write POW then I comma three. So here this first argument is known as base and the second argument is known as power. So it means we are calculating I raise three. We are calculating I raise three. So I will become base and three will become power. If you are calculating squares or in place of three, you can pass two. So remove this and you can play this here. So output will be same. And if you are using POW, so you need to include one header file that is map dot H because this POW is available in that header file. So do implement that header file for that this program. So I hope you understood how we can implement these two series with the help of C programming. So if you want to watch more programming related videos, you can open my channel go to playlist and you can watch various programming related videos. So I hope you understood whatever I explained in this video. Thank you for watching this.


Hello! Thanks for clicking on our little teaser video. I'm Katerina and this is Joint Work with Eril Gachon and Alice Poulémarie, both from Bordeaux. The title of our paper is some easy instances of the ideal shortest vector problem and applications on the Paje-Rondemonde knapsack problem. In the following I will try to highlight the contributions in form of pictures. I hope you enjoy it and hopefully we meet at Crypto. Okay, so let's get started with the first part of our contribution. Regarding the shortest vector problem on ideal lettuces. To cool down a little bit in this hot summer, let's imagine that the hardness of the shortest vector problem on ideal lettuces is represented by a big frozen lake. And in order to do cryptography, we need that the ice is very thick. It's a very hard problem. Whereas in general lettuces, we strongly believe that this is the case on the whole surface. In the case of ideal lettuces, the situation is a little bit different. So there have been previous works, the three holes here, that show that there are specific instances that are easy to solve. Whereas most of the holes, so the two holes that I have on the left and on the bottom, are very easy to verify in the sense that if you give me an ideal lettuces, I can easily tell you if it falls into the hole or not. The situation was a little bit more complex in the case of the right hole or puddle. So there have been two works by Pan and co-authors and Porter and co-authors, where they show that if the ideal lettuces has many symmetries, then the problem can be solved easier. So the first contribution of us is that we generalize their results and now it works for all number fields and any ideal lettuces whose prime factors are not ramified. So the puddle got a little bit bigger and I think that is even more important is that we give very simple conditions to verify whether an ideal lettuces falls into this hole or not. So we put this warning sign here. So now people can safely walk on the frozen lake of the ideal SVP problem. Okay, let's move on to the second part of our paper regarding the partial Vandermeer-Labsack problem. Without telling you what exactly this problem is, the only thing that you need to know for the picture is that it does define a problem on ideal lettuces and so we have to put it somewhere on this frozen lake. The second thing is there are different design choices of this problem and so there are actually different knapsacks on different places on this lake. And now comes the second big contribution of our paper is that we show that there are bad instances of the partial Vandermeer-Labsack problem that exactly fall into this hole that we made bigger in our first contribution. And here it's relevant to see that the fact that we made the hole bigger and we had this very clear and easy conditions to verify are necessary to see that instances of the partial Vandermeer-Labsack problem fall into it. And yeah, so these were the two contributions. Now I would like to finish with some disclaimers. The first thing is don't panic. There is still much surface on this frozen lake without any holes. And even if all the ice would be gone one day, most lattice-based cryptography, and particularly the one that is based on ring and module learning with ours, would not be impacted. So even if we would have an algorithm that solves the shortest vector problem on any ideal lattice, this does not give us an algorithm that solves ring or module learning with ours. Regarding partial Vandermeer-Labsack, a random instance has a good chance not to fall into the hole. And for more details, check out the long presentation on Tuesday or read our paper, which you can find on e-print.


Krishna was known for his ras, the ecstasy of life. Shiva, who was in the Himalayan region, heard about this. So Shiva decided to borrow the boatman's wife's clothes and went to ras. This is ultimate appreciation of the feminine. Today is special day, today is Krishna Janmasthami. When we say Krishna, there are too many misconceptions about Krishna. But we must understand that his butter business was all till he was six years of age or eight years of age. At the age of sixteen, when his guru Sandipani made him realize what is the purpose of his life, first of all he left Vrindavan, never again came back, never again came back to see any of his relatives or the girls or boys of its area, that was the end of it. At sixteen he left. When he was leaving, today if we say Krishna, we say Radhe Krishna. Radhe comes ahead of Krishna because their love, their intimacy, their romance caught the imagination of a whole culture in the entire subcontinent in such a way that we don't say Krishna, Radhe, we say Radhe Krishna. But at the age of sixteen, he saw her for the last time and never again saw her. And at the age of sixteen, when he was leaving, he said, I played this flute for you. Now I'm going and not coming back. So as an offering to you, for the love that you are, I'm going to give this flute to you and never again play the flute again and he never again played the flute. From then on it was Radha who played the flute. He never played flute after sixteen. From sixteen to twenty-one, he lived as a brahmachari. He took sannyas, lived as a brahmachari, went through severe sadhana. After that, his entire life was committed to marry political life, political process and the spiritual process. These things are never spoken of in the northern plains of India. He set up over one thousand ashrams because he wanted spiritual process not to be a separate thing. He wanted spiritual process to be a part of life. As we live, as we brush our teeth in the morning, we meditate. He wanted to bring spiritual process not as a fringe thing, but as a mainstream life, particularly to the rulers of the country, of those many countries that India was at that time. So he lived an absolutely dedicated and committed life.  No, that's not what his life was. But that was also an important aspect. There's a very beautiful story. Today being Krishna Janmasthami, I think I should tell you the story. Krishna was known for his ras. The word ras literally means juice. The biggest problem with most people in their life is they don't have juice. They have hormones. They don't have life juices in them. There's no life, there's no intensity of life. So ras means the juice of life, not of the body, but of life. Because body's juices will vary, it'll fluctuate from time to time. But he's talking about the juice of life. So the dance that happened in the full moon night was referred to as ras because this dripped of life, this is not a hormonal party in the night. This is not a party of drunkards. This is not a party of lustful people. This is a party of people who are dripping with life, the ecstasy of life. So this was referred to as the ras. The repetition of this ras spread, people who participated or who witnessed, they spoke about it and it started spreading. Shiva, who was in the Himalayan region, heard about this, that something fantastic is happening on the banks of Yamuna. So he wants to see, because he's not the ras kind, he's thundered. He closes his eyes, he doesn't know who is around him. Because when he dances nobody's around him, no man, no woman. They cannot be, that's how he dances. So when he heard about this new kind of dance which is dripping with ecstasy, he wanted to see. He came to the banks of Yamuna and he wanted to cross the river. The boatman who was there looked at him because Shiva is man-man.  Yes? In the Lord, in the yogic lore it says, he was nine feet tall. Why they're saying this is, when he came down south to southern India, they say he was twice the height of an average woman. So they were generally in southern India at that time, women were somewhere between four-and-a-half to five feet. So it is assumed he is somewhere between eight-and-a-half to nine feet tall. So he is a man, all-man, the man. So the boatman looked at him and said, you are too much of a man. You can't go to rasas like this. There, there is only one Purusha, one man. Krishna is the only man. This kind of man cannot go there. Shiva looked at him, what am I supposed to do? He said, at least dress up as a woman and go. He was, what? Me dressing up as a woman and going. He said, otherwise there's no rasas for you. Then he said, where do I get woman's clothes? Then he said, the boatman said, I will ask my wife to give her clothes to you. You wear and go. You must participate in the rasas appropriately, as a feminine, not as masculine. So Shiva decided to borrow the boatman's wife's clothes, which she was wearing. I mean it's a poor family. Then he looked, it is not even spare clothes. He's asking him to wear clothes that she's wearing right now. There's a beautiful painting in some places, which are the Madhavani kind of thing, where a woman's hand has come out of the door and Shiva is receiving like this and went to rasas. This story is in appreciation of Krishna, where if you want to experience this, you must know the feminine, otherwise you will not know rasas. This is ultimate appreciation of the feminine. Understand? This is a most fabulous appreciation of the feminine, not female feminine, because in this culture we always saw that unless masculine and feminine play an equal role, there will be no beauty to life. Today we're building a world where feminine is being massacred. Even if a woman wants to be successful, she has to be like a man. Otherwise there is no way she will succeed in today's world. Feminine is being massacred. See, it's already happening.  No more are people in normal conversations, are people even discussing whether as they used to do in the past.  Yes? Wherever you go, how is the economy doing? How is the stock market doing? Nobody is asking how is the monsoon doing? Everybody is only talking about how is the economy doing, how is the stock market doing? This means masculine has taken over. Survival has been raised to heaven. A simple process... Economics means what? Simple, survival. Yes? Survival complicated. Yes or no? Process of survival, how to procure food, how to do this, how to do that, how to build this. This is all survival, building a home, eating, wearing your clothes, doing a little bit of shopping. Is survival, isn't it? Now survival is the only thing we are talking about because feminine is largely banished. At least in your homes you must keep it. Out in the society is largely gone. Masculine is everything. So today is Krishna Janmasthami. Here he is making a point saying that if the feminine is not on in a society, there is no real life. We are not talking about men and women. We are not talking about male and female. We are talking about two fundamental qualities called masculine and feminine. So Krishna's life is about celebrating the feminine because masculine in any way manifests. That is the nature of the masculine, but feminine has to be nurtured, otherwise it will go away. Anyway the rocks will be there, but flowers won't be there. You have to nurture them, isn't it? Yes? In the land rocks will be anyway there, if nothing will happen, whatever kind of weather, whatever the temperature, rocks will be there. Flowers have to be nurtured. If you don't nurture them, there will be no flowers left. With rocks we can build. What can you do with flowers? Nothing. It is just that life doesn't happen just because of utility.


back to ThinkTech, I'm Jay Fidel. This is Energy 808, The Cutting Edge. Talk about Molokai Energy News. News about energy from Molokai. And my co-host in the matter is Marco Mangelstorf and our guest today is Ali Andrews. But we don't know Ali yet. So Marco, will you undertake to introduce Ali Andrews? Absolutely. First of all, greetings meet our mono from a different Madre, Jay Fidel. It's always a treat to be back sharing screen time with my dear friend, Jay. So yeah, I'm so pleased, so very pleased to be able to introduce and welcome Ali Andrews to our gathering today. Molokai is, of course, how we set a very near and dear place for my heart for G's five, six or so of my life. So to be able to talk to someone who has an equal affinity and love for the friendly aisle is really quite a treat. So thank you so much, Ali. So for Ali's intro, Ali Andrews is the CEO of Shake Energy Collaborative, a woman-owned public benefit corporation also known as the V-Corp, developing renewable energy projects that are designed and owned by the communities that host them. Shake was born out of research for her master's in design impact at Stanford University down the street from Isle Stomping Grounds in which Ali and her team explored designs for more meaningful bi-directional community engagement in the energy industry. Shake is currently partnering with historically disinvested communities in the San Joaquin Valley in California and in Hawaii, including the newly found Hohahu Energy Cooperative Molokai. Ali has a background in climate research and environmental storytelling. I like that environmental storytelling a lot. Working on projects for NOAA, the State of Hawaii and the Polynesian Voyaging Center and all Ninoas, Ninoa Thompson's gathering. She has an MS in engineering design impact and a BA in physics and environmental non-fiction writing also from Stanford, I assume. No. Okay. Where was your BA from? Little School in Vermont called Middlebury College. I know Middlebury. My beloved Auntie Charlotte went to Middlebury long, long ago. So great school. So with that, again, I'm so pleased to have you here with us, Ali. So that was kind of the official intro. I would really appreciate to lead off understanding. I'd really like to understand, how is it that your head and your heart drew you to the special island of Molokai? Mm-hmm. That's a great question. I think I was drawn first to the idea of community engagement in the energy industry, living and working in Hawaii and seeing various projects run up against communities and seeing their struggle against projects that didn't fit with their values and also that piece about environmental storytelling in my professional background was getting to interview communities about how they're adapting to climate change, how they're seeing sea level rise and really seeing the power in that. So I was doing research from my master's in Honolulu summer of 2018 around community engagement. That's when Marco, you and I first met over a cream puff at Lillian Hub. And I was lucky enough to meet Emilia Nordhoek who was also very involved in energy and creating energy literacy and providing opportunities for energy sovereignty, the beginnings of energy sovereignty as I see it on Molokai. Got to volunteer as a grad student with a project that she was working on in partnership with the developer Groundswell. I got to be sort of a behind the scenes volunteer with some of my classmates also from design at Stanford. Just really learned and loved a lot. So when I graduated and started this company and the opportunity arose to continue working with these guys on Molokai, I jumped at it. That's asking for a challenge, isn't it? You've lived here, you know Molokai is special on all the islands. They call it the friendly island. However, sometimes to developers, it's not friendly. Community engagement is important. What kind of welcome have you found there? So initial skepticism for sure about me and who I am, where did I come from? What am I doing here? I remember getting that question a lot. What are you doing here? What are you getting out of it? And I remember the first time I got that question, I answered, oh, I'm getting nothing. I'm just a student. I'm just here for nothing. And that answer was not sufficient. I think the true answer to that was I was getting a lot out of it even though I wasn't getting paid technically. I was learning a lot. I was bringing those learnings back to Stanford. I was gaining experience that then turned into this company that does make me money now. So I think I learned a lot through getting those hard questions and being able to answer them and then coming back as a company and being able to say the first workshop that I hosted as the CEO of this company. Somebody asked me that same question. I was able to say, this is my business model. If we're successful here in our partnership on developing a community energy project, then I will derive a developer's fee off of that and that will be transparent and we will negotiate that, which is sort of where we're at actually now in our development process, which is fun. So have you been universally accepted or are there holdouts? Oh, I think there's a lot of love and trust in our relationship right now, but I have certainly been told by some that they're monitoring the situation. It's a trust, but if the situation changes, I reserve the right to say, I don't support what we're doing here anymore. I don't support you doing that, which I think is fair. It keeps me on my toes. We're having fun, but I also need to make sure I don't have unconditional trust to run the ship how I want to run the ship. We're running it together. Yeah, so it's not just meet and greet. It's an ongoing engagement throughout the course of the project, am I right? Yes, yeah, on a weekly, if not more than that, since almost a year now over Zoom, which is wild. So from a business point of view, you have to have predictability, reliability. You have to be able to tell your investors, it's okay to put money into this because we have a fair shot. We can moderate the risk, we can make this work. But if you're involved in a constant engagement and people have the right to, I mean, and you grant them the right to say no at any point along the way, what do you tell your investors about the prospect of the risk? And because the return has to be moderated by the prospect of the risk, what do you tell them? I think that's a great question. And I think there's a lot of risk that comes in to energy development. There are a lot of things that could go wrong at any step in the way. Do we only have half an hour, Ellie? But I honestly think that the biggest risk that I'm seeing in energy development in Hawaii right now is the community opposition. And I think that my investment in time early on in this development process, I feel like I'm in a less risky situation than other energy developers are. I think it's time well spent, it's money well spent for me. And there are other, I'm honestly more worried about other risks of when is the RFP finally gonna drop and is it gonna have new terms in it that are still favorable to this project? And if we go for new market tax credits or opportunities on funding, are those policies still gonna be live by the time that we want to seek funding? Those risks feel riskier to me than the trust with the community that I feel like we have now. So of course it's clean energy, it's solar. And what's the status of solar on the whole economy? Marco, is that a hand in that? How much progress has been made? And is the progress that has been made appropriate to the need, appropriate to the opportunities? Well, given the smallness of the grid there, there's only one single MECO power plant outside of Kanaka Kai that has 10 or so generators that they always run at least two, at least as far as I recall, a minimum of two at once, because if one of them were to go down, it wouldn't take the whole island down. And to circle back to your question, Jay, so what's the status of solar on Molokai? Well, Molokai along with Lanai essentially got solar saturated several years ago in terms of rooftop solar, nothing in terms of a very little in terms of commercial, no utility scale on Molokai. So it's been a challenge for those of us in the trenches in the solar contracting business, because I've had a number of projects on Molokai over the past X number of years, but essentially the grid has been all but saturated up until recently. So you say saturated, but I remember seeing a substantial diesel facility there. I also saw the battery installation pretty close to that. And there is a container of batteries at the power plant there, but it is not per se for storing excess renewables, although they may be something of an ancillary benefit. It was for other reasons. And if I'm not mistaken, I think Miko essentially got it for free from Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, HNEI. Now, more specifically to what Allie's doing, a little bit of background. So 2015, my Senator friend, Mike Gabbard, was instrumental in getting a bill passed and signed into law, known as Community-Based Renewable Energy, or CBRE for short. And this is something that over the past, almost six years now, since the governor signed it into law, to my knowledge, there's not a single CBRE project that is across the Hawaiian Electric Territories, Service Territories, Three Utilities, Five Violence, that is actually producing power today. Now, it could be mistaken. One could have recently come back online. But CBRE, I think everybody would agree, has been a long gestation, a very long, too long gestation. And why? But why? My friend Jay, I think that question is probably better posed to our friends than to Hawaiian Electric Company, rather than me, O'Pine on that. I think I'll leave it to them to explain that the answer to that very, very good question. So specifically for Molokai, if I'm not mistaken, Allie, this is where your company comes in and is interested in pursuing a CBRE project on Molokai. Now, let's kind of take a step back for our viewers. And maybe you could first explain what CBRE is about in terms of how it actually works in the real world. And two, why it is a benefit to, in this case, the people of the friendly aisle. Absolutely, I would be happy to take a stab at that. So community-based renewable energy, a lot of other states call it community solar. I really appreciate actually the name and hoity for it because I think it really draws on the community-based aspect, the fact that it should be designed and owned and sort of localized, which a lot of community solar isn't necessarily. The idea behind it is that for folks who can't put rooftop solar on their own home because they rent or they live in an apartment or they have a very shady house, shady trees, not shady sketchy. And we build a shared solar facility that is maybe on the order of half a megawatt, a quarter of a megawatt, 2.75 megawatts, for example, lovely size. And then residential and commercial customers get to sign up. They pay a monthly fee or maybe an upfront fee to subscribe to a share of that output. And then they get credit on their utility bill, much like you would have a credit on your utility bill if you had rooftop solar, for whatever solar your rooftop panel's produced, you get the credit for what your share of the community solar or the CBE project benefit. So it's sort of like a three transaction process between the utility, a community solar project or what in Hawai'i is called a subscriber organization is what the developer of that project is called, and then rate payers. Just like a co-op. Yeah, yeah, I think it fits itself very well for a co-op, which is I think why the project that we are working on on Moloka'i that I'm working on in partnership with this community group who is now as of last Friday is officially incorporated as a consumer cooperative in the state of Hawai'i. The Ho'ahu Energy Cooperative Moloka'i is the full name or Hechem is the acronym. They have realized this opportunity and realized that CBE really fits what their goals are for community owned and locally decided energy. So it's a pretty natural partnership for us. Well, that's very modern frontier, pioneer kind of stuff. One of the things that I learned about what's her name, Amelia over there is that she had a desire working with some of your predecessor developers to have a piece of the action for the benefit of the community. So that the community, you referred to energy sovereignty a minute ago, I'm not sure what that covers, but I remember her talking about the notion of allowing a piece of the project and a piece of the profits to go to the community. And I wonder if that has come up as that party project and in any event, what is energy sovereignty and what's the relationship? I would say, okay, so backing up a little bit, energy sovereignty to me anyways is the idea of decision making over energy resources, decision making power over where energy infrastructure goes. What does it look like? Where did the financial benefits flow? There are all sorts of decisions that can be made about our renewable energy infrastructure that right now are held pretty closely by a small group of organizations. And to answer your question about, is that a piece of our project? I would say that is the entirety of our project. I think it's a pretty unconventional relationship that we have that I as the developer am really more of like the implementation arm. They are the brains behind the project. They make all the decisions. We make it together, but we hold Zoom meetings around site selection and screen share and Zoom over different parcels. And they, the community members know way more than I do about historical land use, current land ownership, what areas are going to be flooded, at what times of year versus other areas, where are we more likely to run into cultural sites that we wouldn't want to disturb versus other parcels. So it is very much an exported decision-making process down to who subscribes. We talked this past weekend over our Zoom workshop about where do we want to get our money from? I mean, where do we want to get our money from? We don't exactly get to pick, but we do get to pick who we ask. And they are a part of all of those conversations. This will be formalized in the sense that the community, the members of the community who are part of the what we call sovereignty management, let's call it that. Are they going to be baked in? Are they going to be directors? Are they going to have a say on an ongoing basis in the management of the property project? Absolutely. So the plan right now is to the extent possible, they will be a partial owner in the project in year one. If we can raise money for their co-op through grants and crowdfunding and particular loans that are aimed at community ownership of energy assets. So they will be a partial owner, if not in year one, then certainly in year seven, year 10, that is the whole reason why we are doing this is to enable community ownership, which comes with it the ability to decide certain things about, how does it get decommissioned? In particular, I would also say that the co-op will be a really important entity in the subscriber management part of the project. As you might imagine, if we build a 2.75 megawatt project, we need to recruit a whole boatload of residential and some commercial and maybe some government subscribers. And right now they're defining, what are our goals for that? Who do we want to recruit? How are we going to recruit them? Who gets to benefit? Does everyone benefit equally? Or do we benefit some more than others, depending on need or depending on certain other metrics? Well, you're not living in Hawaii now, but you probably have to come back plenty to monitor this through to a completion. You're going to need all the skills you've got at Middlebury and Stanford and everywhere. In order to make this happen, this is a very challenging operation you've described. I wonder if you could compare and contrast it to K-I-U-C in Hawaii, everybody seems to agree that K-I-U-C is very well-managed as a co-op and it demonstrates the benefits of co-op energy. So how is this like or how is it contrasted with K-I-U-C? I think I'll answer a little bit and then I might bop that to Marco who has a greater vision of the history of cooperatives in Hawaii. But I would say that from what I, the co-op and I have talked about, I think the co-op's larger vision is to grow into that role of a utility cooperative building capacity over time. And there have been movements on Moloka'i in the past towards cooperative ownership. And I think owning and managing a CBRE project is a perfect step in that direction. But there are certainly other differences. Marco, what do you think about how this effort compares to K-I-U-C? I think before I go there, I wanted to go back to CBRE because of the, you know, it's focused on Moloka'i. So, you know, just to be clear, as I understand CBRE in this case, it is not fractional ownership of the actual assets of the actual generating solar plant. It's essentially fractional receipt of the output of the plant, right? And the draw or the, what's the motivation for someone on Moloka'i to become a subscriber? And, you know, there are two that I see, at least two. Most people are motivated, or a lot of people are motivated by the notion it's going to reduce their overall electric bill, right? Because Moloka'i has got some of the highest, or if not the highest electric cost in the state, typically. So, I would assume that a subscriber would get a, be paying a lower rate for that fractional output from this two plus something megawatt CBRE project. So, they would see a reduction in their bill. Everybody likes to see that. And then second, this is the way that they are able to tangibly support the island becoming more green, more renewable in terms of burning less fossil fuel, producing more indigenous power there on the island. Am I leaving anything out there, Allie? I don't think so. Well, I would maybe add that particularly in the context of the Hohahu Energy Cooperative Moloka'i owning this project, they're supporting a step towards local ownership. This is one of the first projects that is even proposing that. And I think there's a lot of like social will around local ownership and the emotional experience of becoming part of a cooperative and growing towards something together. Well, I mean, as Marco has suggested, there are two levels of community contact here. One is the cooperative where members of the community can be members of the cooperative and sort of like KIUC. And the other is the community-based solar, which is a very refreshing and promising model where individuals can simply share in the product of the facility. They could buy it. Instead of buying it from utility, they buy it from the community-based solar. So there's two ways that the people in Moloka'i can participate. That's very interesting. So do you expect that the same individuals would be at two levels? What's the difference between the community that would be active in the cooperative and the community that would be active as consumers? I think that's a great question. And as I alluded to before, we're in the middle of that dialogue about what does it mean to be a subscriber? Who are we recruiting? Are subscribers the same as cooperative members? Are they different? I think when we incorporated through their discussions, there are potentially multiple levels of cooperative membership. And there are people on the island who are not eligible to become a subscriber of CBRE because they're off-grid or they have rooftop solar already, which excludes them from being a CBRE subscriber. But they still want to be part of the club because it's a cool club to be a part of and we have a lot of fun together. So cooperative membership and CBRE subscribership are not necessarily the same, but they're probably a large overlap, I would guess. And I will also note that when Hohahu Energy Cooperative Moloka'i structured their organization, they're a non-stock co-op. So you don't have to have $10,000 to buy into the co-op to be a member. It's, they're much more focused on equitable access to membership and so there might be a subscriber, a membership fee, but there are other ways to benefit from being a part of that. You don't have to be an investor. I guess that's the way it works at KIUC and I guess that's what you have in mind for the Hawaii Island co-op, Marko. But let me ask you, Marko, you mentioned before that part of this is premised on the notion that this community-based solar would actually be cheaper to subscribers than what they have now buying directly from the utility. Why do you say that? Has that been shown and proven? How does it pencil out? What is the magic sauce? The special sauce that could make it cheaper? Well, I mean, Ali's more into the weeds and depths of her particular project than I am, certainly. And I mean, I think it's just common sense, Jay, that you're gonna get that small sliver of people of first adopters who will be willing to pay, let's say, a small premium for green energy compared to more dirty energy from a combustion power plant. But the reality is, I mean, especially in Moloka where you have a substantially high level of poverty, people living on the edge, I won't call them hunter-gatherers but they're certainly big into hunting and fishing their subsistence. So in my view, in order to gain a substantial amount of subscribers, you absolutely positively have to provide these potential subscribers with the benefit or the promised benefit, they're going to save money. They're gonna save money. Yeah, one last question, Ali, that is this. What stands between you and the realization of the vision right now? What has to happen before you can achieve what you want? Ooh, I think the biggest obstacle ahead that we are working towards, and it's not an obstacle, but it's a challenge, it's a race. There's an RFP that we will bid a project into. Actually, we're gonna bid two small-ish project or two projects of differing sizes into the same RFP. We will have some stiff competition in there. What we know right now is that we will be bidding against the Utilities Self-Build Team, which means that just as we would have done if they were not in the competition, we will be working really hard to find lower cost of installation, lower cost of capital, raising grants, there are a couple of grants in particular that we've got our eye on. I think, yeah, I think I'm making the numbers pencil now. I think we've got a lot of momentum around community support among the group of people that we work with. We've also committed to know that we need to expand that. There are obviously as many more people on Moloka-i than are currently in our Zoom workshops, and then we will continue to get the word out before we get our bid. Emily, excuse me, Ali, to be clear, when you mentioned you're bidding against a utility company, I assume you're talking about Pacific Current or Miko? No, the HECO's Self-Build Team, it's a different entity within HECO itself that are HECO employees that are working on a bid to develop a 2.5 megawatt CPE project. Okay, that's interesting to note. And do you know where the Pacific Current, which is an unregulated subsidiary under Hawaiian Electric Industries is also bidding on it because they certainly have taken a substantial dive into this particular development space across the state. Do you know if they're in the game as well? I do not know. We were in early talks with them when we were interviewing different development companies to partner with my company on the bid since I'm a newbie, what I need another company to partner with me, and they brought a company to the table and we were initially talking to them. We went with a different developer, so I don't know where they're at right now. Okay. Marco, we're almost out of time and of course I want to ask you to summarize and point us forward on this, but I also want to ask you to react. What is your impression here? You've followed energy in Molokai, especially renewables in Molokai for a lifetime and you're very familiar with the dynamics of that island. So, query, what are the prospects here as you see them? Oh, Jay, you have a knack for posing juicy questions. Yeah, I feel like I'm threading a needle here, Jay. I'll tell you why. One is because, as you mentioned, I've been in the energy arena on Molokai now for the past, what, 14, 15 years, very tangibly doing projects over there. And I know the difficulty, as well as anybody who's done projects there, on multiple levels of doing work on that island and doing work in the utility or the energy sphere. Challenges, great challenges. And at times there's some cynicism that I must admit in my older years. I feel some cynicism in terms of how difficult it is. And at the same time, I want to be encouraging to, I want to be supportive of what Ali and her group are doing because I was young too, believe it or not, as were you, Jay, long ago, right? In a galaxy far, far away. I don't know about you, Marco, but I'm still 16, yeah. You know, for some reason, that's not a surprise to me, Jay, but I appreciate you mentioning that. So thank you. So I want to be very encouraging of Ali and her efforts. And at the same time, I'm also somewhat battle-scarred in working on that island. So, you know, I think my number one takeaway or guidance to you, Ali, if you were to ask me for it, is I think you're doing whatever the most that you can do. You should do the most that you can to get community involvement, community support. That's a very difficult island at times to be able to rally the troops and to get behind a project of any kind that they perceive as coming from the outside. So I really appreciate your heart and commitment to that and I will, of course, wish you the best. Yeah, and I want to join in that, Ali. You know, welcome to the fray, so to speak, but also we need you. We need you to bring your vision here. We need you to plant the flag anywhere in these islands so to demonstrate how important these possibilities are to our future. So thank you for making this contribution. I know it'll be a while before you see time one, but I wish you well. We all wish you well. Won't you? Thank you so much. I'm very excited about where we're at and feel very lucky that I have the partnerships that I have with the Molokai community. And yeah, hope to spread that across the state if can. All right. Thank you, Ali. Ali Andrews and Marco Manglestor. Great discussion. And it really opens my eyes into the possibilities on Molokai. Thank you so much.


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