As you can see, Yankee Stadium is a fully functioning facility operating all year round. Conversion from baseball to football to soccer happens as needed. I think the surprising part is just how much work goes into it. I think a lot of what we do in operations is behind the scenes. So people may look at it when they come in. We just needed to put some grass over the infield, but it's a lot more strategy goes into it to make sure that it's a safe field and it looks like it belonged all along. When people show up for a soccer match, Yankee Stadium is supposed to look like a soccer field. And that takes a lot of effort to do that by the guys. As Yankee Senior VP of Stadium Operations, Doug Bihar explained, a lot goes into converting the Yankee Stadium playing surface to a soccer field. Last Saturday, NYCFC had their first game at Yankee Stadium and will play again the following weekend. After that, the field will be set up for baseball. What exactly goes into creating the soccer pitch at the stadium? Well, it is quite a process. What we do though, we still obviously have to put sod over our infield, our skin material. So we're bringing in about 20,000 square feet of sod to get in laid over the top appropriately. We do it in a way that transitions very, very cleanly. So there's no big undulation in the middle of the field. But that's about three days worth of work going in and three days worth of work going out. So our grounds crew works very hard getting this stuff in and out and to make it look like a soccer field that was here all along. It's not just getting the sod in right. It's getting the lines, getting all the logos, getting all that stuff in, making sure that we're measured right and strung out right and the whole thing. And it takes a lot of effort and like any good carpenter would do, we measure twice just to make sure we didn't mess up along the way. But that's all these guys and it's a lot of effort. Safety is always the number one priority. We want to make sure that the sod is level, that there are no surprises with people's footing or how the ball may bounce. So they're constantly strategizing on the field and walking through it, rolling it, constantly making sure it's a clean, safe field. Then it's the aesthetics, then making sure it looks good to match how well it plays. Putting new sod in over a sand mix to make it feel like it's a level playing field takes a lot of effort. It's actually more surgical what we say when you're working around the skin and some of the nuances that it takes for the guys. Now that the Yankee Stadium ground crew has gotten used to converting the baseball field to soccer over the last few years, they have developed a system that works and have gotten more efficient with the process as time has gone on. The conversion process changed in a way that I think the guys have gotten a little bit quicker at it, if you will. They know what has to get done. There's a little less thought about it, but you're still weather and other factors still determine how quick you can do it. But for the most part, the strategy has been the same and it's worked. The next soccer match at Yankee Stadium will not be until mid-April and in the coming weeks, we will highlight the conversion back to baseball for opening day at Yankee Stadium and the season's first home stand beginning April 7th.


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Good morning. Bonjour. Guten Morgen. Thank you, Amber, for your introduction and your hard work all day in this business forum. And thank you, Yvonne, and the Canadian-German Chamber of Industry and Commerce for organizing today's event. Parent, it's good to have you with us, and so many Canadian business leaders alongside you. Of course, Olaf, Chancellor Schultz, thank you for your remarks and for gathering so many German business leaders here as well. It really is a testament to how seriously not just your government but the German economy is taking this potential for deepening already strong trade ties and partnership ties with Canada. Of course, on my side, I'm joined today by Deputy Prime Minister Freeland and Ministers François-Philippe Champagne, Mélanie Jolie, and Jonathan Wilkinson, who are helping lead investments across our economy that are generating clean innovation, new technologies, and of course, good, well-paying jobs. Germany is one of Canada's most significant trading partners with almost $26 billion in merchandise trade last year. Our strong business-to-business ties are also evident in the almost $32 billion worth of direct investment from Germany into our economy. And this is a growing trade relationship. Last year, trade between our countries was up 14 percent compared to what it was before CETA. Le Canada et l'Allemagne partagent la vision d'un avenir où nos économies sont résilientes et carboneutres. Et pour partir cet avenir, on doit s'assurer d'augmenter notre capacité de production d'énergie propre. In the face of the current geopolitical situation with Russia weaponizing fossil fuel exports, we are standing shoulder to shoulder with our European friends and allies. Canada is doing our part to add to the global energy supply right now. But it has never been clearer why we need to accelerate the green transition. And you should have no doubts that Canada has what it takes to be a supplier of clean energy in a net-zero world. On a les travailleurs, les entreprises, le savoir-faire et la volonté nécessaire pour fournir au monde l'énergie dont il a besoin, dont il aura encore plus besoin dans les décennies à venir. Ici, on parle évidemment en partie du gaz naturel, mais on parle aussi de possibilités comme la biomasse, les minéraux critiques et l'hydrogène, bien sûr. L'investissement commercial et cruciale ne se sont pas les opportunités qui manquent. Chaque région du Canada a le potentiel de participer à cet effort. When it comes to clean energy, Canada means business. You'll see proof of this later today when Olaf and I visit Stephenville in Newfoundland and Labrador. L'électrification, incluant l'électrification des véhicules, est aussi un élément important de notre plan pour faire quattre une économie propre et prospère. Le Canada a ce qu'il faut pour répondre à une demande en véhicule électrique qui continue d'augmenter. Global investors know that Canada is a reliable strategic partner when it comes to our EV future. Recently, we've made investments alongside car manufacturers like Ford and Stellantis and battery manufacturers like Humacore and Germany's own BASF. And shortly, we'll have some really great announcements from Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz. And this isn't just good for industry and the climate. This is good for workers. The investments across Canada, this year alone, in everything from building hybrids to EVs to EV batteries, have secured almost 17,000 great jobs. Because that's what it's all about at the end of the day, real opportunities that benefit people. C'est important, comme chef de gouvernement et d'entreprise, de ne jamais oublier qu'on est redevable, non seulement aux actionnaires et aux intervenants, mais aussi aux gens, aux travailleurs, aux communautés. When we support the middle class, when we put people at the center, we create the conditions for growth. Our government has made a point to invest in the critical social infrastructure that supports workers and families. I'm talking about programs like the $10 a day child care, which alone is projected to grow our economy by 1.2 percent, or increases we've made to the federal minimum wage and income benefits for low-income workers. Programs like these are helping Canada achieve historic reductions in income inequality and ensuring a strong and resilient workforce. The economy is for people. That's why we're putting employment at the heart of our economic recovery plan following COVID-19. The results speak for themselves. Canada has recovered all the jobs we lost during the pandemic nine months before the United States made it. The unemployment rate is now the lowest ever, and we're continuing our work. We've got ambitious plans, and we want to work with German partners to create good, family-sustaining jobs on both sides of the Atlantic today, and more importantly, well into the future. There's huge potential in the innovative and research-heavy sectors that provide highly-paid, skilled jobs. Talking about areas, as Olaf mentioned, like artificial intelligence and quantum technologies. Both Canada and Germany are committed to the responsible development and use of these technologies. We also have sectors in strong growth, such as bio-making and life science, which, in addition to creating opportunities, protect people's health. Canada is the most educated country in the OECD, and our open immigration policies are attracting talent in competitive industries. Germany is a true friend and partner of Canadian business, creating opportunities to celebrate and showcase the exceptional talent and expertise of Canadians across industries, including in the cultural centre where, just last fall, Canada was the guest of honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair. But as Olaf mentioned, perhaps more interest to this room. We should all be really pleased that Canada has accepted Germany's gracious invitation for 2025 to be a featured partner at Hanover Messe, the world's leading industry and technology trade fair. The competitiveness of Canadian businesses is evident for everyone here to see. We have tremendous opportunities ahead of us, and I look forward to the work that we're all going to do together. I would like to thank my friend Olaf once again for his visit to Canada and for your presence all together. Thank you for being here today, but thank you especially for all the work we're going to do together in the coming years. Thank you.


I'm sitting in a Segway S-Pod right now, and I am flanked by Julie Tang and Fu Chen Wu, and they're going to tell you about this device I'm sitting in. It is some sort of transportation device. Tell me about it. Yeah, so this is actually the concept part that we're bringing to CES for the very first time. And it's a first class personal transporting pod, takes you from places to places with comfort. So I'm sitting down basically in a very lovely reclining, you know, a nice little chair here, and I've got on a lovely helmet, so I'm looking, I'm safe of course, but how do I actually move around in this? Yeah, so there's a knob right there, so unlike the other Segway traditional self-balancing product, you have to lean forward and go forward, lean back, go backward. For this one, you simply just, you know, push the little knob forward and, you know, you'll go forward, and push it back, you'll go backward, and you just let it go, it'll break. And also you can, you know, control the direction. The reason that it does, you know, actually shifting the center of gravity of you and the asphalt. Oh, interesting. You're not going to let me push that button, are you? No, tomorrow. No, tomorrow. And a boost. And a boost, yeah. There isn't enough room to drive it around here. So is this, actually I was asking Fu Chen earlier, is this a device for the mobility impaired or for unimpaired people, what's the story about it? So we believe that S-Pod is something that we created for everybody, you know. We think this is a great, you know, vehicles for people to get around from A to B. Of course, for people with, you know, physical challenges, it will be perfect and ideal for them to travel from A to B. But also, you know, it can perfectly be for everybody to just, you know, get around places through a very comfortable, premium experience. And then even when you are sitting in, you can also see how like the texture is like suede. It just makes you feel, you know, very premium, you know, the way that you are traveling.   I'm sitting here elegantly with my leg crossed and everything here. So what kind of speeds are we talking about? So the speed for this one goes up to 24 miles per hour.  And for the top, in one single charge, it can goes up to 43 miles range. Wow. I'm going to step out for a moment because I want you to point at how does it go? What kind of mechanism do we have back here maybe? Oh yeah. You can take definitely like, you know, some of the shots of the wheels. You can see how like rigid, big of the tire is. It leverages the segue self-balancing technology that, you know, unfortunately we cannot do demo today. But essentially, you know, once you start it off, this whole kind of egg shape or the pod will kind of lift you up, kind of levitating in a way that you are basically self-melting. You're tilted back? Tilted back a little bit. And a lot of people get a little nervous.  And then here is how you control through the knob. You can make directional changes. And then it spins and rotates, you know, by the center. It's through, you know, a gravity kind of center mechanism of front-side waist technology. So it's definitely very comfortable. It's also very, very big. I mean, I'm, you know, I'm not a small person, but I think I could almost get another one of me inside this. So this would be problematic, I would think, on a sidewalk.  A little more space. Not like on a sidewalk. We have this animation showing, you know, Segway's vision in the future of smart cities. We think this could be, you know, some sort of like, you know, right pick-up services where people might be able to, you know, order a ride from a Segway S-Pod, and it will become up to you and pick you up when you need it. Well, very good. This looks... So again, this is a concept car, so I'm not gonna ask you when I can buy one or how much it costs, but it looks like you're really doing some innovative work here. Absolutely. You know what I mean? From Segway, we really, really try to focus on, you know, technological innovations to really, you know, to see where, you know, the future. We want to bring the future now, and we also want to make sure the future of smart cities is, you know, something green, you know, eco-friendly and energy-efficient. Very good. Very good. If people want to learn more, where would they go? They can definitely visit Segway.com to learn more. And tomorrow, we will have an unveiling event at our Segway Nightbot booth at LVCC South Hall. Very good. Thank you very much. This is really cool. Thank you so much.