Hey everyone, Shaber1000 here. Today, we got a couple parts for this thing. We're gonna clean it up, make it look nice for the gentlemen, and we'll ship it back up to his house. But, we got something we gotta do first, on this thing. Ha ha. I'll tell you about that here in just a second. Cue the intro. Hey guys, here's the old cable, as you can see what happens when you try to free him up sometimes. Now this, see the end of this? This has got this end, which came around, and hooked on to there, where this bolt is. Now the new one, they sent me, is pretty much like the one I have, but it's got this little donkidoo in there. Now what this, it'll fit, and this'll go into this hole right here, and it just snaps on, but that's where the choke cable goes. That's okay, because when you put the choke, you can put your choke cable anywhere you want. So I'm just gonna put the choke cable back where it was, right about there, maybe, or up here, probably right about there, right below that. So I'm gonna put you in the stand. Again, sorry about the lighting, but I'm trying to stay out of the sun. And, monkey noticed it was made in Canada. It's got the maple leaf down there. You know, for those of you who don't know, she's originally from Canada. All right, so. Yeah, you can put a choke cable anywhere you want. Like I said, the choke cable's a little iffy, but it's freed up, and I got it lubed down real good, so I don't foresee him having another problem with that for, you know, at least another year. So, all right, let's get you in the stand, and figure out where we're gonna put our hole. First thing we're gonna do is we're gonna hook this up, make sure this is gonna work. Then, then we'll drill a hole if we have to, put our choke cable. All right, guys? Okay, so here we go. Let's see, I'm gonna run this. I don't know if I wanna go over and under with that, but anyway, we're just gonna put this down in here. We're gonna bring this out. I'm just gonna put that in there just like that. There we go. All right, now let's go up here and I'll show you what we're gonna do up here. Okay, guys, so now what we're gonna do is we're gonna bring this up here, and this is gonna go inside that hole. It's gotta go into this handle. Hopefully, this is not, it's too long, I have to move this down here. I may just do that, but first, let's check. Okay, so this is gonna go in this handle like that. Now, I'm just gonna hold this here and pull that. I don't think that's enough. So what we'll do is we'll drill a hole for this and put this down here.  So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go ahead and wire that open again, or wire the break off. That way, I'll know exactly where it's gotta be from there. So, pretty cool. All right, that way, I still only gotta drill one hole, but this can go back in its original position. It was like that. You can tell by the way the cable is, but I don't like running cables over top like that, so we're gonna probably put this right in here somewhere, run this through that, something like that. Okay, so let me get this break released. That way, I know where we gotta go. All right, so I got my mark where I need to be. It's gonna be right there. Now, so this is probably gonna have to go on the outside. So if it goes on the inside, it's gonna interfere with that. So I'm gonna, if I have to, I can move this too.  Okay guys, so I had to drill a hole and put this one in here.  There we go. I'm gonna tighten her down. I don't see, I wanna run this cable underneath that bar. There we go. Just like this. Now we're gonna tighten her down. This bolt's coming out here it's not gonna be in use anymore. Then we'll start it up, make sure everything's still good on that end. Okay, so, all right. Now, let's back you up here and make sure that everything's up to par. Pull the handle, choke it, let's start it. I'll probably put a wire tie right here just to, so you know, it kinda tighties it up. Put it like that. Let me grab a zip tie. Cleans everything up a little nicer. Put that down like that so you don't catch your leg on it. There, that's done. Now, let's move back up here to the front. Okay guys, again, sorry for the lighting but I did bring out my stand light over there and it just made no difference absolutely at all. Do you guys remember, I can't see them on the wrong side of the camera. I'm sure you guys remember this. This is what we took out. You probably remember what it looked like inside. Okay, see that's, okay, here we go. One of them big palmetto bugs. See that? You know what was in there? Those are lizards that have hatched. Yeah, it had eggs in there. So, let's go ahead and take this off of here. We're gonna put our filter in, okay? There's our filter. See the difference? Yeah, big difference. Now, if that people ask me how you know which side this pre-filter goes on, you know? Well, remember that, it's a pre-filter so that means it filters before this filter. So that means as air is coming in, this should be the first thing it hits and this will be the last thing. So this is gonna go in here like this, right? But since air is coming in there, your pre-filter is gonna go here. This is gonna go here. Yes, kind of a pain. But then, this is gonna just clip in here. You can put it inside of here if it's easier for you, which apparently it's gonna be for this, okay? Got our pre-filter, we got our filter and then that's just gonna screw on. It's gonna be really snug and tight. That's why this bolt's so long. But you want it that way so no dirty air gets into it. There we go. And that's that. Always so many cigarettes like that. Sweat hits it, puts it out. All right, there. Now what we're gonna do is I'm gonna clean it up. Just gonna use some of this old stuff, just any kind of lubricant. Like WD-40 works really great on this stuff. You wipe it down. Automatic transmission fluid works really well too. Then you just wipe it down. I'll see if I have any. And as you can see, really does a nice job cleaning it up. Let me see if I got some automatic transmission fluid because we're done with this.  He pays me a little extra so I wanna do a little extra for him.  We'll wipe the deck down. Not gonna worry about the tires, but yeah. And then I'll bring you back and we'll show you what it looks like as we're cleaning it. Okay guys, just real quick, I'll show you this. I found some transmission fluid. Put some transmission fluid on a rag. Take that, put it on there and wipe it off. Look at the difference. And once that dries, it looks amazing. Then up here on top, show you a little bit right here. Oops, get some of the transmission fluid on. There we go. There you go. It'll stay like that for a long time. And you gotta see that for a long time. Yep. So I'm gonna do that this whole thing. I'm gonna brush this dirt out.   Your customers do. Whether you own a business or whether you work for someone, your customer pays your bills. So when your customer treats you good, you treat them good. Give them a little extra. It doesn't hurt.  You know what I mean? Just stuff I got sitting around and, you know, and they'll come back to you. All right, so that's what I'm gonna do. And I'll bring you back when this thing's looking all pretty. We'll see the difference. We'll give you a little before shot. And there's after. Missed a spot right in there in that line. It's not perfect, but the motor's not perfect. And it'll look like that until you get it dirty. But next time you don't have to do all that, this took about five minutes. Next time you just wipe it off and all that dirt will come off and it'll look just like that again. Remember, this used to have a cover on it. Well, it was fancy looking covers. So there you go. This thing's ready to go. And I'm gonna start it up again because I don't want it to get dirty again. Ha ha. I'm gonna take it up to it and drop it off here after a bit. There we go. It looks like brand spanking. I'll be right back, guys. Okay, guys, so there you go. Just a little bit of this net. The motor's gone. Monkey, push it up there for me. Oh, she's pulling it. Cause if you guys remember the way that guy walks, he sure didn't need to be, he don't need to be pushing that thing up down the street. He's got a pickup truck like I said, but I figure he just gonna lift it up in the truck. So he pushed it down here. So like I said, he pays a little extra. He gets a little extra, you know? So this week, I'm not gonna have a whole lot of videos. I may get one up here and there. I'm gonna spend all week, all this week, trying to get my garage cleaned out. But the eighth, we gotta go to Tampa. So that's cool. Well, she's gotta see a doctor, but so maybe I'll try to find some, place where I can get you some drone footage or something. We'll film that. Yeah, and then, but yeah, this week, I'm gonna try to get this garage all cleaned out and that way, cause there's a lot of little projects I wanna get into that I can't because my work bench is so full.   The sea bring or convertible would fit in there just barely and you could barely get out the doors. The Toyota would fit in there same way. You barely close the garage door. In fact, sometimes you would have to come outside, close the garage door, come outside and open the garage door because that's how close it was in there. So it's not, that's really all it is is one car. It's not one and a half car.  So I got to get that cleaned out, man. It's been bothering me. And then after I do that, then I can get my, then I can get my blast cabinet set up and we can do some blasting and stuff. So I got a lot of projects. I'm not going to take on any more projects until I get these done. You know, like I got my tractor. Here comes monkey. I got my tractor, you know, I got some stuff to work on. I got a, you know, I still got a lot of little things to do on the Corvette. I got the truck needs to be done. And you know, all my other little projects, there's monkey there. You can hear her flip flopping from a block away. Hi. Let's walk past. Don't say nothing. Thank you. I was like, well, we'll just put it in there. She's like, no, that way we don't have to lift it. I think walking up there and back was more than just lifting it up and taking it down. Yeah, it is, it is guys, trust me. Listen to the mechanic that's lifted a lot of things. One, two, done. One, one, two, done. Yeah. Yeah, same with that. One, two, done. You would have had to lift it, not go for your heart. You would have had to lift it back up, not go for your heart. No, done. No, I was just going to leave it open and then have you back up real fast and stop real fast. And it would have rolled out into a garden and there it would have been for him. He'll be happy because that grass is long. Yeah, I know. It's a little too long for that lawnmower. I don't know. It's a good little lawnmower, but I know why. Why? Because it's from Canada. That's Canadian sticker on it. I told you, I mentioned that earlier in the beginning of my video, it's like she noticed that sticker. Yep. Well, I'll get ahold of him in time. It's up there enough. I put it right by the door. If he needs me to, I can run the John Deere up and give him my first cut. I don't know if we can because it's really a small lot and it's stuff on the grass. So I'd be afraid of running over something. There's stuff everywhere. It's not a big deal. You just walk it first. He's got a little path and it goes right to the vehicle to the doorway. That's it. Yeah, everything's long. But he's got a beautiful yard though. Yeah, it's nice and green. Yeah, he's got, well, yeah. And he's got flowers and plants around him. He used to have it really pretty when I first moved here. But I think he's getting older and it's harder for him. Oh, he's all the way walks. Yeah, yeah.  Yeah, why not? He's our neighbor. Yeah, yeah. He gave you some work. He didn't have to. He could have took it down to the lawn people that charge boo-koo. Yeah.  Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's like over here, I'm mowing more and more of their grass for them. But now we're gonna have two empty houses. But, but, you know, that's okay. Cause when I first moved in here with her, he was out there mowing, cause it used to be whenever he'd hear my mower start up or her mower or whatever. He heard me start the mower up. He'd come out and mow too. And one day we stopped here. We met and we stopped and we was talking. I says, how far over do I mow? Because I said, I don't know. That's the first time I ever mowed this. He said, as far as you want. He says, yeah. He says, I don't care. He says, it doesn't matter. He said, we're neighbors. Yeah. Yeah, they've always been good. They said, I can use their little piece of property there if I need to take my truck back there or something. They're fine with it. Yeah, they say if we ever need to drive the truck around back or whatever, it's fine. And I try not to overstep that, you know? Yeah. But once in a while we have to. Well, they said if we ever wanted to set a table up in the shade or something back there that we're welcome to. Yeah. Because they got a lot of shade trees there. All right, guys, so I'm going to go for now. Like I said this week, I'll have a couple videos, but I'm going to concentrate on that garage all week. So it's hot again today. I can only work like five minutes. I got to take a 10 minute break. Yeah. Not like it used to be. Man, at work I would do this 100 degrees all day long out in the sun. I had no shade there. Did I? No, it was horrible. Well, we had that car. We had that awning, that car awning, that I could put some stuff under. But a lot of them trailers were too tall to fit under there. Yeah. We had to flatten the tires or take the tires off and set it down on a jack and roll it in. And it wasn't worth it, you notice? I just worked out in it and then in them hot trailers. And had one big fan. One big fan. It was a misting fan. And that was all right for a while. But then I started rusting my tools up. I don't get the misting fans that are up in the ceiling. You could have put them up there. Yeah, but it would have been nicer for you all. Yeah, it was nice. But it rusted the tools up. So you can't have it all. Well, yeah, but you can't work with rusty tools.  And that's how you got them on. Yeah, because the parts room was inside. Because I had really no shop, much to work of. So all the parts stuff was inside. And they kept it cool in there, of course. And so I would go in and out, in and out 100 degrees and then go into 68 degrees and then back out. It's not good for you. Yeah. You can't do that in Florida. You'll get pneumonia real quick. Yeah, yeah. All right, guys. So she bears them at the main ledge. I'm gone for now, Monk. I can see she's out for now, y'all. Thanks again, Monk. I appreciate it. Bye. Bye, guys. We'll see you in the next one. I want some soup. Maybe I will make another video. Is that the soup you're talking about? Yeah. All right, stay tuned for a soup video. Bye, guys.


Hi friends, happy Mother's Day. This is Anna Moose and today I'm going to be walking you through how to take an awesome photo from home. Okay, first thing that we're going to talk about is lighting. Lighting is one of the most important things, one of the most important tools to make a beautiful picture at home. Or just in general, it is a great tool for manipulating what you want things to look like, the mood of your picture. So first I want to say that if you're at home taking a picture, one of the best things to do is plan the time well. So the two best times I think for taking pictures are the two golden hours that happen every day, which is basically the time right after sunrise for an hour and then right before sunset for an hour. And that is the time where the light outside is that beautiful, glowy, like golden hue that everybody loves.  And inside, sometimes at my house, when the light comes in in the morning, it is just so beautiful and it does this like golden thing on the walls. And I love utilizing that time of the day. Second thing about lighting at home, if you are inside taking a picture, notice where I'm standing right here. I'm going to move into the light that is right in front of the window and how it completely changed the way that I look. And it accentuates the color more, it accentuates the color in my face more. It's just a lot more attractive when you stand in front of a window. And it can be great for portraits especially. Right, buddy? Yeah, better in the light. Then I'm going to move this way a little bit. And if you can see over here on the wall, there's this fun effect happening from the window. The light is casted onto the wall and it can be actually really fun and a creative way to play with your photos a little bit. So if I stand in front of it, you can do different things, you know, go up or down. Okay, so one thing about the iPhone is that there is this awesome feature that if you tap on the screen, something that is looking overexposed or underexposed can be adjusted. So my friend is going to tap on the overexposed area of this shot right now to show you how the difference that it makes when you do that. So as you can see, now we are looking a lot better and my skin tones back to normal, the darkness in my hair is back to normal, and he's not this big old white blob, which no one wants. Another awesome feature that the iPhone has in the more recent iPhones is that you have the ability to shoot or take pictures in portrait mode, which basically allows you to focus in by holding down your finger to the focal point or the object that you're taking a picture of, whether that be a percent, a little baby or a plant or whatever it is you're eating, and it will blur out the background, which is a desired effect in photos. It makes it just a little bit more beautiful, so that is a great tool to use if you're doing pictures of your kids or something at home to make it look a little bit more professional. So next what we're going to talk about is composition. One of the important things to think about is the rule of thirds, which is basically in photography, it is a concept of breaking up your photo into thirds horizontally and vertically and putting the object of whatever you're taking a picture of into the intersection of those lines. So we are up against this wall and I'm going to show you a couple pictures of what it looks like to put your object or your people into those intersecting lines. The last part of composition that I want to talk about is being intentional and paying attention to details. So I feel like what what we usually do, because we just want to take the picture, is we just take the picture of the person or the object and we don't necessarily think about what is happening around it. Part of taking a great photo is just being aware of the surroundings of your photo. Sometimes all it takes is just cleaning up a tiny bit of clutter and your picture already looks 10 times better than it did before because you are being intentional.  Not everybody is an artist, but everyone is creative. If we were made in the image of God and God was the ultimate creator and we all have that ability within us to be creative and to think with that kind of eye. So don't be afraid and have fun playing around with the things that we talked about today. Use lighting intentionally. Be careful of your surroundings and pay attention to detail and use golden hour because you will never regret it. Happy Mother's Day from me and Jack.


We are at the track covering the sport of Kings coming up this week a Smashing Philip Fianna Gold Cup win for the Phyllis. She's my destiny for champion trainer Jason the Costa at Jamaica's K. Manis Park We're lost years double classic winner blue vinyl had no challengers in the mark my word trophy Stakes wins for Caribbean jocks up north Barbados and Rashawn Lachman at Charleston in West Virginia, USA TNT's brand boot ramp sing at Hastings race course in Vancouver, Canada Plus the weekly stats on Caribbean success on the North American continent or first stop came out of spark into makeup A long weekend with a triple of race days culminating in Monday's National Heroes Day holiday card featuring the renamed gold cup now The Philip Fianna Gold Cup honoring the 14-time champion trainer and Hall of Famer not a big field But big names in here including the defending champion number three Mahogany with Robert Halladine fresh from Thistledown in the USA Abort number two the brilliant Phyllis She's my destiny on a three-race winning streak and number five the surprise Dabu winner in August ability coming off a near Two-and-a-half month layoff Fairly competitive betting number one perfect brew winner last time out at nine to two She's my destiny the six to five favorite Mahogany the marginal two-to-one second favorite the four horse I've got magic and ability both at ten to one number six I am Fred with four wins already this year at two to one. Here's brand Rickman's race called Down the back stretch they go in the gold cup They make the way now toward the half mile reshorne the pilot will get there first a shadowed by Mahogany I've got magic racing out three wide. She's my destiny now asked to go by the rider I am Fred is still in the chance leading to fine four-and-a-half lengths ability now make some progress and the late running Perfect brew at the back of the field there blasted past the three in the gold cup They're coming toward the final five sixteenth and Mahogany the big horse now picks up that lead and is asked to sprint away from them It is Mahogany coming into the lane Mahogany pushed out a quarter of a mile to run in the gold cup and Mahogany is in charge With three sixteen to run can they catch Mahogany you'll have to fault a badly as Mahogany comes to the furlong pole with a clear Lead she's my destiny running on from behind Mahogany driven to the back She's my destiny the Philly beginning to close up Mahogany on the pressure. She's my destiny charging forward under Ramon the pier They'll meet us from the wire. She's my destiny beats Mahogany What a finish by she's my destiny 106 pounds on her back including apprentice Ramon the pier colors the defending champion in big weight Mahogany who allowed the Philly 17 pounds Four consecutive wins now for she's my destiny Uncharacteristically coming from behind on an appears smart ride an emotional Everton rose of owners SNA stables having lost his mother just days before the race and Celebrating his birthday on Saturday gave the story of visiting She's my destiny at her stable asking the Philly to deliver a win in memory of his mom and the Philly He says nodded at his request She's my destiny by a length and a half over Mahogany whose rider Robert Halladine is denied a third gold cup win Having scored with perfect neighbor in 2015 and will in charge three years later Dabu winner ability closed well for third after a bad start and being lost down the back stretch The winning time for the seven furlong run one minute 25 seconds Even no gold cup wins since willing charges 123 and 1 5th in 2018 has been faster A first gold cup pram this for champion trainer Jason the Costa who concedes He was worried that his speed Philly was not leading and in control down the back stretch Definitely Definitely as it's something completely out of character for her and she's never come from off the pace from behind I say so I was definitely worried. I tap a lane. I was pretty much riding for second She's on top of her game right now and she overcame a lot. She had traffic problems and For her to really run on the house of Mahogany's caliber, you know about six lengths at the top of the lane, and that's really Really impressive really solid work by Dacosta the leading trainer who had two starters in Saturday's mark My word trophy feature run in memory of Jamaica's 2010 triple crown winner and horse of the year Dacosta's entries though outbidder and miniature man no match for last year's 2000 Guinness and Sendeja winner blue vinyl as they're coming into the top of the lane And it is blue vinyl in complete control under a hand ride the rider having a peep in his mirrors And blue vinyl has a clear lead the head cornerstone best of the rest miniature man has made some progress after the poor beginning Outbidder races up next but it is all up in front blue vinyl leaves the furlong pole and leaves the entire field for dead It is blue vinyl opening up double digits with every stride and blue vinyl who win the mark my word trophy in complete control Javaniel Paterson just a passenger aboard the Eminem racing stables blue vinyl the four-year-old cold Splendid again in his third outing for new trainer Alfred Brown coming from the Patrick Lynch stables eight wins now in 21 lifetime Starts for blue vinyl the winning margin a crazy 21 and a half lengths as the one-to-five favorite clocking 154 and two-fifths for the ninth for a long and 25-yard run For the second weekend in a row Ian Prasad is breeder of a trophy race winner Blue vinyl here and perfect brew in the previous weekends. I'm satisfied trophy a Stapler on our weekly at the track show is the tracking of Caribbean horsemen making a mark at overseas race tracks one of those West Virginia based Rashaun Lachman the Barbadian rider now with close to 400 wins in the USA Lachman's latest steaks tramp coming in Saturday's breeders classic for two-year-old Phyllis at Charles Downer board the impressive front running One-to-five favorite direct the cat who took control early in the $75,000 six-and-a-half furlong sprint direct the cat spurts away 46 and two and direct the cat is pouring it on into the far turn She's in front here by eight lengths with less than three sixteenths to go as ran out of trainer has now rallied up into second Navy band is third but up top It's all direct the cat and she simply breathes Different air than the rest of this crop. It is all direct the cat and she truly is a West Virginia bread superstar She robs home Lachman had partner direct the cat to win last month's Rachel's turnstakes and is unchallenged here in another added money success the 32-year-old a consistent top-ten rider annually at Charles Down Said post-race the Philly has so much natural speed and talent direct the cat by 12 and a quarter lengths for owner trainer Cynthia Mackey the winning time for six-and-a-half furlong 119.28 on a wet track for Lachman who won three races in the past week and is currently third in the Charles Down 2023 jock is championship standings with 69 wins and a lifetime Talia victors in the USA at 379 Now Canada is where cabin jocks have been most prolific in recent decades among the latest riders fruitful in the land of the Maple Leaf is multiple Trinidad a Tobago champion brand boot ramp sing his first season this in Canada based mostly at Hastings race course in Vancouver here is boot ramp sing in Saturday's $75,000 Glenn Todd fantasy stakes running the rail in third spot aboard the two horse Brooke magic not among the best fans in the field at 6 to 1 but best in the home stretch as a turn for home Viva la diva trying to go all the way and down the lane they come Viva la diva now moving up on the inside Brooke magic Lizzie's rain and acoustic melody Here's Brooke magic and Brian boot ramp saying Brooke magic will win it a champion jocky eight times at TNT Santa Rosa Park including four years in a row from 2019 to 2022 and Boodram Singh with this win boosts his Talia victories in Canada to 21 including three in stakes races Brooke magic at six to one odds lands the Glenn Todd fantasy stakes for trainer Mel snow by two and three quarter lengths on the Boodram Singh topping the two-to-one favorite Lizzie's rain and clocking a winning time for eight hour furlongs of 145.76 Finally, let's wrap the Ford era season in Ontario Canada where the Barbadian Chris husbands Completed a hat trick of jocky's titles this week adding to Ford era crowns He won in 2021 and 22 husbands finished the 2023 campaign as a winner with a double on Tuesday's final day of the racing year He are steering the three-year-old gelding beyond talented to a comfortable Three-length win in the maiden special weight seventh race for the second of his two wins The fifth jocky's title this in Canadian racing for husbands at his three consecutive Ford era titles to two a city boy Downs championship wins. He had secured in 2014 and 2016 This the eighth time in the last ten years a Caribbean rider is Ford era champion Barbadian Juan Croft for the 2020 jocky's leader and Jamaican Kirk Johnson with four titles in the past decade With 40 wins in the five-month season chin's husbands is the clear champion by nine over Melanie Pinto Also topping the Ford era jocky's money table with horses earnings of just under $470,000 Canadian dollars another Caribbean jock in the top five Johnson with 25 wins in third Or usual weekly tally of wins for Caribbean racing men in the USA and Canada before we go I've counted in the past week since our last show 49 victories among them the former TNT jocky Rodney Sudeen with his First win as a trainer at Florida's Gulf cream park where the Barbadian trainer sappie Joseph jr Had three weekend victories three wins two for the Jamaican jocky Javorre Simpson at Fanduel at Fairmont in Illinois And there were two wins for the Barbadian jocky and Rico Prescott at century downs Where the Jamaican jocky Dean Nelson also won and remains the leading rider? We've been at the track covering top stories and exciting races in the sport of Kings Check us out again next week


Welcome back to Think Tech. I'm Jay Fiedel. Today we're going to do Hawaii State of Clean Energy. This is a very long running show. I think that we're talking about energy issues for 2024. What's happening? And what decisions can we expect on Hawaii from GWS, from the executive branch, from the legislative branch, from the PUC, from the utility and so forth. And without a special guest, Henry Curtis of Life of the Land. Welcome to the show, Henry. Thank you. And Aloha, Jay. Aloha to you. So just to follow up on our last discussion, what is going on with Huro Nua? Last time I heard they were going to appeal again. How's that doing? What they've done is they're suing Hawaiian Electric for a billion dollars in federal court. I think it's kind of funny because even if they received approval from the Public Utilities Commission, which they did not, but even if they did, they don't have a valid water permit to discharge their industrial waste into the ocean. And therefore, HIKO is not standing in their way. A lot of different things are blocking a very bad project. Is that suit going to go anywhere, you think? Are you involved? We're not involved in the suit. And I hope Huro Nua falls on their face because they have a really bad project. Yeah. Okay, so I guess the question is, how's Hawaiian Electric doing? I mean, nobody likes to have a billion dollar suit filed against them, even if it has no merit. It's still a problem. Especially if you're a public corporation, you have to report that to directors and stockholders and what have you. And how are they doing these days in view of the fire and who on Lua's suit? You know, give us a praise and see how this has all affected them. Right now, the Hawaiian Electric appears to have enough funds in the immediate short term to survive, but they must be hiring lots of lawyers and international experts to handle the more than six dozen lawsuits that have been filed. The lawsuits are now either in federal court or Maui court, but there are a lot of suits coming. And so the legislature is trying to grapple with the idea of how the utility should be funded in the short term, whether it's securitization, whether it's special purpose revenue bonds, or what mechanism can get money to the utility that's low cost. Because if the utility tried to borrow money right now, it would have junk bond status. And that would be a major problem. It would be a much higher interest rate. Yeah, they must be sweating it out. I mean, how at risk are they financially? It's not clear because they've, I think, really closed in among themselves in figuring out how much vulnerability they face and what the risks are. Life Land continues to believe that there's really a set, there's really free separate Maui liabilities if you want to look at it that way is what happened upcountry where there were two fires that were really serious. But in Lahaina, you could probably separate the property damage from the deaths of people because the property damage was caused by the fire. But the deaths might be attributed to how the county and state reacted to the fact that there was a fire there.  And I'm sure they feel that way. So that there's a bill, isn't there? There's an attempt in the legislature to somehow curtail their liability to all these suits. Have you followed that at all? Yeah, the legislature is not going to give them a blanket shield for liability, but they are trying to figure out first how they can be funded during this interim period. And second, that the utility really needs to develop a fire management plan. And at the hearing this week, Hawaiian Electric, the consumer advocate, Life of the Land, all favored a very public process before the Public Utilities Commission. We need to get all the stakeholders at the table, and we need collectively to figure out which areas should be protected, who goes first. I know Maui County is looking at egress routes about communities that have like one way in and one way out. One option instead of having cars be able to shoot through communities is you have an escape route, but it's an escape route that's open for bicycles and pedestrians rather than cars. And that way you still have a dead end community, but you have an alternative way out. Well, yeah, that's a great idea. You know, having alternative routes on so many places in Hawaii don't have alternative routes. And so we're learning, we're learning about that and certainly learning about energy too. So I guess the larger question I would put to you, given the Maui experience, is how is all of this going to affect energy and our attempt to reach our goals and clean energy, and you know, the status of Hawaiian Electric legally and operationally. There's all kinds of issues, but I have a feeling that, you know, this fire and the energy aspect, the energy consequences of this fire are going to affect our energy system, going to affect our ability to get energy, the price of energy, the legal organization of the entities that provided to us, the structure, you know, of all the instruments and make that instrumentalities, the status of mentalities that deal with it. Because ultimately, we have to deal, you have to deal with it. Your thoughts about how it will affect the fire, the fires will affect energy in Hawaii. I think I'm going to step back for a moment because it affects water delivery. It affects what water you use for fires. Obviously, if you can reuse wastewater for agricultural and firefighting, that's important. It affects telecom, because the telecommunication system went down. It affects housing, because right now there's discussions about how you not only meet the needs of the renters there, but the fact that we have a lot, not enough affordable housing statewide. So it's going to affect a lot of things beyond just fire and just the electricity. But in terms of moving towards 100% renewables, I think we're on path to that. There are a lot of things in the pipeline, but we're right now not meeting our 2030 greenhouse gas requirement. So it seems to me that there are all kinds of things that are going to have to be looked at, and the legislature for the first time really is going to have to look at them holistically, because we have a limited budget, but there are many, many different parts of it that need to be fixed. Yeah, well, you know, as one aspect of the fire, it makes us look at ourselves. It makes us look at issues maybe we were not looking at before. And you know, I mean, I firmly believe it, I'm sure you've addressed the same thing, is that a lot of our problems are systemic problems, but we don't want to face them. We don't have faced the problems, there's too much work. And so we just do cosmetic things. This fire is so traumatic, so tragic, that it forces us to look at the systems, the underlying problems. Don't you agree? Absolutely. And it forces us to recognize, while Lahaina was the original capital of Hawaii, it also had a major Filipino population. And so it's affecting many different types of communities. And so yeah, it forces a real re-examination, and the legislature in their three to four month session is going to be grappling with this. Well, they should focus. You know, I think it's one of the problems. We have all these bills, you know, thousands of bills in there, and it makes it very difficult for them to focus on the priorities. So if you've been dealing with this for years and years, what are the priorities you think they should be focusing on this year? I think one of the important issues is equity. And that is a can of worms in itself, how you define equity and how you involve marginalized communities. A second one is identifying which areas of the state are at risk from burning and figuring out how through replantings, through mowing, through fire breaks, how you protect those areas, because Maui had a fire a few years ago that jumped the five lane highway due to high winds. So you can't just say that the fire break is five feet wide and everything is fine. So we really have to begin rethinking things holistically. And I don't know if the legislature can do it that quickly, but it might be a multi-year effort. Well, all these things affect quality of life and quality of life affects the next generation coming up. And if those kids look around and say, gee, this isn't working for me, and my home in Maui was destroyed, I don't have any job, I don't see any prospects, I'm out of here. And I would add that to your priority list. It's a very hard problem, but we have to find a way to keep them here. We have to find a way to build an environment, and that means a total environment that will attract them, maintain their connection with the state. Do you agree? Yes, it is. And one thing we asked Hawaiian Electric is how much would it cost to bury the distribution system on Maui? Because distribution lines are the most likely to fail in windstorms. They're most likely to spark. There's a lot of them. Heiko gave us an estimate of $7 billion to bury the distribution lines, and $2 billion to bury those are distribution, $2 billion to bury transmission lines in certain parts of Maui. So that would be $9 billion. And that is a heck of a lot of money for the counting people to pay. And when you look at all the other islands that also have to be addressed, there are ways of insulating lines to make them less likely to spark. But insulating lines removes part of the risk, but not all of the risk. So microgrids might help, but if we had had a microgrid in Lahaina, Lahaina still would have burned. And the EPA said this was the first major urban fire they dealt with where they had to worry about battery systems blowing up while they were cleaning out the area. So yeah, it forces us to really reevaluate everything and to try to really think long term, but it's a mess. There are two levels. One is figuring it out, doing the engineering and the critical thinking to deal with what's coming around the corner. And the other is the secondary, but it's equally critical, is to find the money to pay for the projects, like burying the lines. That's expensive. And when you think about it, you mentioned other islands. Take Oahu. There's an awful lot of overhead lines in Oahu. I'm sure that the estimate for Maui is only a fraction of what it would be here in Oahu. And when is that going to happen? Yes. And then you have to take into a fact that like the windward side, the coastal area, the highway is eroding into the ocean. And if we move the highway inland, of course, it will split communities. But you also have to move the water lines, the wastewater lines, the telecom lines and everything else. And yeah, it's going to be very expensive. Well, I asked you before the program to examine with me how life of the land has changed or will change because of what we know to be dramatic changes because of these things and because the passage of time is always changed. There's nothing so constant as change. So how is life of the land, how is the mission doing, the activities, the operations, the scope of your work? Since the fire, we have put in an enormous amount of time trying to understand how utility lines can or cannot start fires, how fires start, how you can prevent fires and wildfires and how you can save lives. And that involves not only the technology of the lines, involves the financing, involves the regulation. And we've been reviewing the fire management plans from PG&E, from Southern California Edison and other large utilities to see how they've handled it. One of the ideas is that you can de-energize lines when high winds and dry humidity exists. But there have been seven red flag days since the Maui fire. And I'm sure since people reacted to the rolling blackouts that they did not like, if we had turned all power to large sections of the state for seven days, there would have been a huge outcry. So de-energizing is sort of what the California Public Utilities Commission calls a last resort. And you must figure out a lot of different things to do first. Well, you're saying that life of the land is looking at issues that perhaps we didn't think about before. Issues that have been raised by the fire and of course by the passage of time.  Yes. In fact, we served on HECO's resilience working group that was active a few years ago. And while fire was mentioned, we and many other groups focused more on hurricanes. It's what HECO focused on. And in hindsight, life of land should have been focusing more on fires. But like many groups, we didn't think that this was going to be the catastrophic event that it is. And so that's one way we changed realizing that the unknown disasters coming, you really have to begin preparing for. And climate change will bring them more and more to Hawaii until we stop putting so much greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Yeah, but you know what? Of course, it's certainly an important issue given what happened. But the possibility of extreme weather is still there.  And I wake up in the morning, Henry, I walk outside and say, what a beautiful day, one day closer to the next extreme storm. That's what I say, because I know it's coming. We all know it's coming. What can we do? What is the government doing? What is life of the land doing to deal with these other existential threats to our society? We're trying right now to wrap our mind around what can happen and what ways there are to minimize what happens. I like to refer to resilience as you have two boxers in a ring and one boxer knocks the other one out. And resilience is, one, how fast the person on the mat gets back up, and two, what can you do to his equipment so the next time he gets the same punch, he doesn't fall. So it's a two-part resilience. And resilience has to be applied to all of the infrastructure. So it's not just the electrical infrastructure, it's the gas infrastructure, it's the telecom. How do you actually safeguard what we have so if a disaster happens, we're not all left in the dark or dead? Somehow this falls between fire and the energy problems and the fire and the risk of some kind of catastrophe over extreme weather, and it is nuclear. Henry, you know there are two bills in the ledge this year too, and we hope to examine them, at least by the people who introduced them, for nuclear energy in Hawaii. There's a constitutional provision that makes it hard to do that, but it's not impossible, and some people think that it is a solution going forward. Your thoughts? It's a funny constitutional provision because it was put in at a time that there were certain types of nuclear plants and it covered all of them. But the newer type is you have a self-contained container made somewhere that has its own fuel inside. You ship it in, you plug it into the grid, and when it's done you ship it out. So you're not constructing anything here and you're not disposing of the waste here, and those two criteria means that the constitutional provision does not kick in. The provision says we can't construct a plant and we can't dispose of waste, but if it's self-contained in and out, it gets around it. Now, I'm not sure that people would support nuclear, and I'm not sure what the regulations would be, just that the constitutional provisions might not kick in for that kind of a system. That's a very interesting prospect. We did a show with Fred Hemings maybe five years ago, and he had actually been in touch with Dan Inouye about the possibility of this device that was being designed by Toshiba in Japan, which is kind of ironic. And it was the size of a VW bus, and it was buried underground, and as you say, it was self-contained and for a small city, not on a little of course, but for a small community, it would last decades and you didn't have to do anything. It would just generate power, and when you were done, you would dig it up or maybe just cover it over, I don't know, and get another one in there. It was like a battery in a sense, and it never went anywhere. I'm intrigued yet to see that there are people who would introduce bills, but with you, I doubt that it has any legs because anti-nuclear is built into our state DNA. Just not going to happen. What about all these other possible technologies that we considered? You and I were witness to all of these possibilities. It was just, it was a glorious time back 20 years ago, the geothermal and wind and offshore wind and hydrogen and algae and biodiesel and ocean energy. Otec, remember Otec? Yes. What happened? What's going on? Otec was one of those ocean thermal energy conversion that I was actually thinking might solve our problems. I've come to realize it wouldn't, but at that time I thought it would, but we're actually coming up with a proposal for something that isn't in Hawaii yet. We're not suggesting it, but we want to put an idea out on the table for discussion. It should be out in a month or two about another type of technology, and who knows. But we need to put more ideas on the table because the more you can actually put on the table and the more different views you can bring to the table, the more options we will have for going forward. Well, wait now. We had these options and we kind of declined on a lot or forgot them, I think, or decided that solar was king and queen. Yeah. Now solar is everything. We've been building with hotcakes with solar. Are you saying that we need a more diversified portfolio than we have? I think solar is good, but I do think we need diversity. I do think we need some firm renewables, not 50%, but like when Kauai has reached 100% renewables on some days, there are about a third firm and two thirds intermittent. So we do need some type of firm renewables. I don't think lithium batteries are yet there. So we need some diversity. Obviously with the Kohoku wind farm going the way it did, wind would be a really tough sell, especially on Oahu. There are hydroelectric possibilities, but we do need to have more ideas floating out there. Yeah, okay. I'll buy that. But it's like deja vu. No, what about cars, electric vehicles? This is also what deja vu kind of thing. You know, back when everybody was pretty high on electric cars and in fact the technology has really come through. However, the number of electric cars or even hybrid cars in the state of Hawaii is not really what we expected to have. And the number of hybrid cars is really pitiful. And so, you know, where is that going here? Does that really matter to us? Should we be focusing on that? You know, we dropped the state tax credit. Maybe that would change things if we, you know, re-initiated the state tax credit. Your thoughts about electric and hydrogen vehicles? I think we need to impose a limit, a date certain, where we will sell new fossil fuel powered vehicles. So we might say in the year 2035, you can sell your fossil fuel vehicle to somebody else in the state, but you can't buy a new one after that date. We have to have a date certain that we're saying the transition is occurring. We did that in electricity. We said 2045 is the magic date. We did that in greenhouse gases. We claim we're going to be net zero at some point. We need a deadline in ground transportation. You know, I have heard the argument, maybe not so much lately, but in view of climate change, Hawaii is a speck in the firmament, a tiny, tiny, tiny speck. And if we all follow all the rules on climate change, on production of greenhouse gases, on using clean energy in every aspect of our civil society everywhere, it still doesn't mean anything to the world in general. Your thoughts on that? If you look at the percent of greenhouse gases emitted by Hawaii compared to the US, you find it's a little bit higher than the percentage of voters in Hawaii versus the voters in the US. So if you think that it's important to vote for president, then you should also think it's important to deal with greenhouse gases because the greenhouse gases is a higher percent of the total US market. Well, yeah. And we used to be seen as a, you know, a model. Hawaii is a model of clean energy. Is it still being seen that way? I think it is, but I think how we address the fire may change public perception greatly across the country and the world. Yeah. We're being tested for sure. There's many, many, many, many ways. So let me ask you, and this seems like a de minimis question after the larger conversation we've been having, but what are the projects these days? What projects are you following? What projects are you supporting or opposing? What projects are likely to change the energy landscape that are in the pipeline right now? I should not use the dirt pipeline that are in the timeline now. We're looking at all the energy bills at the legislature and all of the proceedings at the public utilities commission. But our primary emphasis is on reducing greenhouse gases in an equitable manner and addressing the Maui fires so that we minimize the chance of a future fire like that from occurring. How about big solar projects? How about, you know, projects that involve earth moving or the construction of infrastructure that will add to our clean energy model? We are involved in an energy equity proceeding at the public utilities commission. I'm not sure if that's going to go anywhere. I know that PUC has great hopes on it. I'm just not sure yet whether it's going to lead to anything. How you involve communities and how you allow them to decide what is appropriate for their communities is a major equity and justice issue that we're wrestling with as a state. And I'm not sure how it's going to work itself out. You know, years ago when you and I first met the early part of the century, there was a tension about whether the state should, as a matter of policy, care about clean energy. And there were people out there who didn't think we should care about clean energy and certainly, you know, you were advocating for it and for better environment. We read how has that changed? And I guess what I mean to say is who these days would oppose clean energy, if anyone, and who these days are the strongest advocates for moving as quickly as possible with clean energy? Can you give us the, you know, the people landscape, if you will? Well, eight law firms are defending the fossil fuel industry from the Maui, from the Harululu and Board of Water Supply lawsuits dealing with climate change. And the governor has $2 million in his budget to fight the youth who are challenging the Department of Transportation in court. So there are a whole bunch of people in the state who certainly profit from business as usual. I'm sorry to hear that. I thought we all agreed clean energy was the way to go and that it was in everybody's interest. And I guess what I hear is from you now is that, you know, it's not quite resolved yet. Yeah, there are a lot of forces out there that would be happy to have a very fossil fuel intensive and high greenhouse gas emission future, because as you say, we have such a small amount of the total glow emissions. So why don't we just run with fossil fuels? Now that's really depressing. So who are the champions now?  But who else? So who else in government? Who else in industry? Who else in the non-profit sector? Sorry, it's a political question, isn't it? Yeah, it's a political question that I'm going to shy away from answering. Okay, well, we'll have to find them one by one and get them on the show here what they have to say. Okay. So where are we, Henry? Where is it all going? Because we certainly had a bend in the road here over Maui and we have to look at these things again. And it's not just a straight question of how this affects energy in the state. It's how it affects everything. Where is the state now? Should we be optimistic? Because what do they say about so as General Motors goes, so goes the country? Well, I say so as energy goes, so goes the state. That's what I say. And the question is where are we on the continuum? Are we where we want to be? Do we have challenges that will give us more crimps as we go forward? How should we feel optimistic, pessimistic, somewhere in the middle? If we felt really good about it, say 10, 15 years ago, how should we feel now? As lifeline is always optimistic because it's a lot easier to work on these issues being an optimist than being a pessimist. But we are missing, we're currently slated to miss our 2030 greenhouse gas emission goal in this state. And we are certainly not installing renewables quickly enough and we're certainly not addressing transportation. We haven't really addressed it in any large system for 20 years. So we have an enormous amount still on the plate and hopefully we'll have a bunch of young people come along and say, as we did when we were young, you messed up the world, we need to fix it. Your work is not yet done and in fact in many ways it's only beginning. And I am so glad that you are part of the community, the ferument of advocates for energy. Thank you so much, Henry. Thank you, Jay. Aloha.


So I wanted to, we're approaching Thanksgiving right now, and I wanted to share a little bit about the importance of this holiday, this event, because there's a story in the Bible where Jesus, he multiplied bread, he was facing a large crowd of people, and he did not have what it takes to feed them. And they brought him to five loaves and to fish. He took them up, and the Bible says that he blessed them. He gave thanks for the little that he had. You know, it really inspires me that Jesus didn't complain, Jesus did not say why did you God not provide enough, and Jesus did not even ask for more bread or fish. He just thanked God for what he had, and I believe it's such a powerful principle not to compare yourself with what other people have, and not to complain about what you don't have, but find that little that you do have, and give thanks. Yeah, giving thanks is very important.  But if you want to see multiplication, we see that Jesus, before the bread and the fish multiplied, he gave it away, and then he multiplied. So if we give away, if we're thankful for what we have, but if we want to see stuff multiply, finances, joy, peace, whatever you are in need of, we have to share that and give it away, serve with your talents so financially, and you will see how God will come through and multiply even the little what you have. We know that there's this thing that people usually think that, oh, if I don't have enough to share with others, but before stuff multiplies, we have to learn how to share with the little that we have. That's good, that's good. So thanksgiving, it protects our heart. But after thanksgiving, it redirects our focus and our perspective, but if we don't learn to be generous and to give the little that we are thankful for and learn to work with it by serving with the time that we have, by loving with what we have, with the skills, with the talents, then we're only going to be thankful and happy and content, but we're not going to multiply. So the secret to multiplication is that don't complain or compare, but compliment God for what He has given you. And then the little that you have begin to give. Yeah, it's because it's easy to think and say that, well, when I'm going to have a lot, a lot of money or a lot of whatever, then I'm going to be giving, but it's actually a deception because if we are not able to give and share with the little stuff that we have, there's no way we can give when we have more. We have a lot of stories in our church of people who gave their clothes, who gave their time, who gave, I know one time the Lord led you to give all of your birthday gifts away. That was funny, but yeah. For the growth of your home group. But yeah, that was just my personal thing. Giving changes us, and it sets us up for multiplication. And so thanksgiving is giving God thanks, but it has to lead to you living a generous life.  Otherwise, if you're just thankful, that's 50% of breakthrough right there. But if you're not generous and if you're not giving, then that breakthrough is going to be held back, is limited. It's not fullness of what God wants for every one of us. Let's just pray for those people right now who are maybe discouraged right now, who are maybe begging God for more, but they're not thankful for what they have, and they're not working that little that they have. You know, one prophet told a woman who had a lot of debt, he told her, he said that, what is in your house? She says, I have a little bit of oil, a little bit. That's just, that's not enough, a prophet. And he says, that that you have in your house is going to be enough after God touches it, because he, one touch of God's favor, will do more than years of labor. And then she started to work that oil, and that oil, what it did, is it filled the jars, but her problem wasn't solved, until she gave it away, until she sold it on the market and stuff. So, thanksgiving, appreciating what you have is such a key, but to really see the turnaround, you've got to give it away, you've got to serve, you've got to love, you've got to let it go. Could we just pray for those people right now who may be facing, doing these things, giving, they're struggling financially, maybe they're struggling in their health, maybe they're struggling in their ministry, for the Lord to help to refocus their perspective, and give them the heart of generosity. Could you start the prayer, and then I will... Father God, we just pray for every single person who's watching this, or will be rewatching. We ask that you will just open up their eyes, and enlarge their hearts for giving God. First of all, to be thankful for what they have, to receive the joy and satisfaction from being thankful, and then to just let it go, and help others, and just share with what they have. In Jesus' name, Lord, I pray for your grace, in Jesus' name. Lord, we just pray for those people who are going through a very difficult time right now. I pray, Lord, for those who are struggling in their finances, who can't make ends meet. I pray for those who are right now, maybe their ministry, is holding on by a thread, their business, maybe struggling in their marriage. Lord, give them the grace to only focus on what you are doing, and not to obsess with things that are not happening right now. Help them to take those five laws into fish, and to give thanks. Not to complain, not to even ask for more, but first to give thanks. And I pray, teach them to be servants, teach them to be generous, teach them to be giving, and as they do that, let your grace bring multiplication.  In Jesus' name, amen.


For ICT in 2010 we had a very successful year. We were able to improve the internet connectivity on our main campuses and also in several of our regional sites, especially in Ethiopia. Now we have increased the bandwidth tenfold. We now have fiber optic to the campus. One of the first institutes within the Addis environment that has fiber optic. We have a 10 MB link and now the web teams, the communications, the scientists can do so much more on the internet which was not possible before. That's going to lead into plans for 2011 where we can now host more things outside. We're looking at maybe putting applications up on Amazon's infrastructure, Amazon's storage which we couldn't do before because of the bandwidth restrictions. We're even looking at hosting our emails somewhere outside and then we get much better, 24 hour service. We get the technical ability of having many people who have the skills to work on the support of the service for us. Also in 2010 we put a lot of effort into communication and collaboration tools. So we're looking at ways that people can collaborate together, both people from within the institute, within the CGIR and also from outside working with partners. So we're looking for areas where they can share the work in progress, work on documents together and hopefully with a single sign on so they don't have to keep remembering many passwords. It just makes life easier. On the communication side as well we started using many different tools. Obviously lots of people like to use Skype but we also make available virtual meeting software such as WebEx. There's been used in a lot of different cases for interviews. We had our annual program meeting, the APM, where we had people giving a keynote speech from somewhere in Europe. That was so successful, people even asked me where was the person. I didn't see them and the reason was they were somewhere in London. We've held town hall meetings where we've had five different regional offices connecting back and participating in meetings, town hall meetings with the director general. So that's been very, very, very useful. What I'm hearing is a lot of people still don't know what they can do with these tools. So we're going to look at how we can publicise this more, how we can do some training, just help people to understand what tool is best in what situation and then help them to set up and once they know how to do it then they can run themselves and take off and do what they want to do without having to rely on us to help them all the time.


This talk is about introducing how we run EuroPython 2021. Hopefully, at least. The presentation is about running the in-person conference. It is not about the online conference. Of course, we now know how to run online conferences, and we would be able to do that as well. Let's hope for the best, and then let's see that we can actually run this in-person again in Dublin. A bit about the EPS, the EuroPython Society. This is the organisation behind the EuroPython conference. It was founded in 2002 in Goetheburg in Sweden, when we had the conference there. Since it has been providing the legal framework for everything, it protects the trademarks, to make sure that we can enter contracts and so on. Initially, it was just basically deciding or helping with the decision process for the EuroPython location, and local teams essentially ran the whole conference. This changed since 2014. Since then, we basically took a more active role, and since 2015, we started working with on-site teams, and then in 2017 we basically switched to a completely remote setup, meaning that the whole conference is more or less organised by people around Europe, or even worldwide. We do have people from like Camilla, for example, from Brazil. We have lots of people joining. We have Nova Chen, for example, coming all the way from Taiwan to help us at the conference. It's really fun, and we've built a good team around all of this. We found that we don't really need the on-site team anymore. We do appreciate having help on-site, but we don't rely on that anymore. This is mostly for financial reasons, and for organisational risk reasons, because of course the EPS takes a lot of risk in running the conference. The typical in-person conference has a budget of around €600,000, so we move €600,000 around every single year. If something fails, then this would cost us a lot and probably have the EPS go bankrupt, so we have to be a bit careful about these things. I already talked about what the purpose is of the EPS, so I'm going to skip this slide. The model that we've decided to use is a decentralized workgroup model, so we have different tasks that we have at the conference. We have different workgroups. These workgroups basically stay in place for every single year, so we don't switch them in and out like we did before when we had the on-site teams take care of these things and the local teams. The major advantage of that is that we don't have this much loss of institutional knowledge. If you run a conference, of course, you gain a lot of experience when doing that, and you can reuse that knowledge of next year. With the constant switching that we had of groups organising the conference, we always lost all that knowledge. Every single year, basically the group had to relearn everything or at least adjust again to the size of the European Conference compared to the local event. The EPS takes the financial risk, it enters the contracts, it's liable for everything, and we also deal with the taxes. The structure that we have is that we have a board. It's currently six members. It was eight members when we started this year's term. We usually have around eight or maybe ten members. Six members is not really big enough. Then we have the workgroups, and of course we have the EPS members. The EPS members get to vote on the setup of the board. The board members get voted in by the members. The members also have to release the liability of the board members at the General Assembly. The General Assembly is usually run at the European Event, but this year, because we have it online, we decided to not have it at the conference because it was simply too much work to prepare everything. We're going to have the General Assembly after the conference, probably a few weeks afterwards. We're going to send the invites out for that. If you want to become a member, that's easily possible. It doesn't cost anything. You just go to our website and apply for membership. You just have to write why you would like to be a member. The board has to vote you in, and once the board has voted you in, you have voting rights, and then you can vote at the General Assembly. We also consider the European attendees members of the EPS, even though they are not officially, so of course we listen to the European attendees. We always try to get feedback from them, try to improve things from year to year. We organize everything in Google Docs and basically maintain all this knowledge in there and take the feedback into account for managing the next years. This is a short overview of the conference development. We've been doing this, Europe-Python has been organized, not the EPS has organized everything, but Europe-Python itself has been organized for many, many years. Now it's the 19th edition. We have a meeting with Charles Le Wa in Belgium, which is interesting. I was one of the Executive Committee members as well in that year. We start with 250 people. It doesn't sound like a lot, but we had Guido there, we had a lot of core developers there. It was really nice. We had sandwiches for lunch, so we started small. That was fun. Every single year, or every second year or every third year, we switched to a different city. Now that we have this remote setup, we switch every single year because we can move around in Europe. That's the point of switching. You can see the development here. It's always around 1,100, 1,200. It was 1,400 in Berlin. This is a good size. We don't really want to grow much beyond that. This is a short overview of the timeline. The reason I'm presenting this is because the talk is about finding people who would like to participate in the organization so that you get to know when we will need a lot of help. I'm presenting this timeline. The way it works is that we always run an RFP. RFP means the request for proposal. This is a commercial process that is usually run by larger companies when they have to buy something. They ask a lot of vendors to send out the specifics of what they're looking for and then the vendors have to provide an offer back to them. It's a standardized process. Everyone knows how it works in the commercial industry. Especially the venues know how this works. They are very used to this kind of approach. That makes things a lot easier for us. What we do is we send out a large questionnaire which has all the details or asks for all the details that we need. We provide all the information about the size of the conference, how many days we need, what kinds of tooling we need, the size of the rooms and all these things. Then we get answers back from them. It's a two-phase process, two rounds. The reason why we do two rounds is because we want to have the venues compete against each other so that we get better prices from the venues. This has worked out really well. The first round is always open for everyone. The second round is just three candidates and then they have to submit a second bid, usually lower than the first one. After we have then decided the location based on which venue we choose, we then go into contact with potential local teams that might be there. Something that we have to do as a European conference is we have to be very attentive to national conferences that already exist in the countries. We don't want to step on anyone's toes, so we always try to have the conference not as a competitor to the national conference. We try to play well because there is no point in having Europe compete with the national conference. This whole process kicks off in August and September, ideally of course. In reality it's always a bit later, but this is just the ideal timeline. Then in October we finish it. We can then set up everything. We have to find accountants for doing things. We have to register for VAT taxes. Usually the accountants help us with that. We have to figure out how to tax for the tickets, how to tax for the sponsor invoices, all these things. All of this is essentially done by the board members and the accountants. This is not something where volunteers help. Once we have decided, then we can start with ramping up the initial work. For example, what typically happens is that the web workgroup already starts working towards improving the website. Every single year we find something that doesn't really work as we would like it to work. We have some requests there. These requests are then implemented in a timeframe or in sprints. In December we typically have the pre-launch website started. This is essentially a marketing website. It just has basic information, like the location, the time, and so on. We launched that before actually signing the contract with the venue, usually, because the venue contract negotiations start after we have made the decision. This contract negotiation typically lasts for two months. What we usually do is in January we then sign the contract with the venue. We then launch the website, the main one usually end of January. In February we start the CFP, which is managed by the program workgroup. Then we have the start of the ticket sales by the web workgroup. In March we start the sponsor signups by the sponsors workgroup and the sponsor brochures created by the marketing design workgroup. Actually, the marketing design workgroup doesn't really do much in this. It just manages the whole process and does reviews. The actual brochure itself is created by our designer, Jessica. In April, after the CFP, we can then hopefully publish the schedule or at least what we typically do is we first publish the session list and then take the session list as basis for creating the schedule. This is done by the program workgroup. As you can see, from February to April to May, that's very intense for the program workgroup. The sponsor workgroup starts working here and this usually becomes... it's a slow start usually and then closer to the conference it gets very intense for the sponsors workgroup because sponsors typically need a lot of help. There are hundreds of emails going back and forth to get everything signed up. We have to then register with their vendor systems and so on, get the invoices sorted and all that stuff. All that is being done by the sponsors workgroup and then after the schedule is published we can then also tell the designer how the schedule will look so that we can get a conference booklet. It usually takes a bit to finish and then in June we order all the material, the branding and stuff so lots of orders going out to t-shirt vendors, to Amazon a lot, to local vendors that we have. We need to figure out where to get the badges. All these things are done by the marketing design workgroup and then in July it's typically the conference. If you have any questions, by the way, then please put them into the Q&A session there. Otherwise we can also chat in the talk chat later on. This is how a typical workgroup structure looks like. We usually have one or more chair persons in the workgroups. The chair persons are essentially accountable for what the workgroup needs to do. Accountable in that case means that if your workgroup doesn't deliver, then essentially you have to deliver. Like I said, in the timeline we need certain things done in certain timeframes and we cannot really wait a lot. This is why we have these chair persons in place and then we have the workgroup members. Of course, all work towards those goals, but sometimes this happens that we have signed up workgroup members who become inactive or who don't really start to be active and so then we have to remove those. It's always a risk and this is something that needs to be managed by the chair persons. The workgroups that we have are these on two pages. Administration, this is not really a workgroup. It's actually handled by the EPS Board, the finance is also going to be done by the EPS Treasurer mostly as the chair of course, but we can also have helpers in here. This is mostly about collecting invoices, making sure that everything is properly put into the budget, into the ledger and so on so that we have control over what we're spending and where we're spending it, what the risk is and where we have to monitor ticket sales and all these things. That's done in the finance workgroup. Sponsors, like I mentioned, has to do all the contact with the in communication with the sponsors, so that's a lot of emails, a lot of back and forth. It's also doing a conference call sometimes to get sponsors on board and explain things to them. The communications workgroup could actually need a few more people. This is the workgroup that's responsible for all the outside communications, post, managing Twitter, posting things on Telegram, making sure that everything is well under... that the information that we generate, all the things that we need to communicate are properly communicated to the community. Support is the workgroup that is managing the helpdesk, so if you write to helpdesk.eu, this is the support workgroup that's working on that one. They, in general, for the in-person conference, also take care of the helpdesk, the registration desk part of the conference to organize everything there and also take care of managing the on-site volunteers. For the in-person conference, unlike for the online conference, where it's not really possible to have on-site volunteers, we usually have quite a few on-site volunteers who just sign up at the conference for doing things. They get t-shirts as a small perk or recognition. They get on stage afterwards so that they get in the closing session. It's usually a lot of fun for the in-person event, so this is usually something that people really enjoy doing, even though it takes away some of their conference experience and time in terms of watching talks, but it's very fulfilling, I guess, for them, just as it is for us running the conference and they get a bit of a feeling of what we are doing on a smaller scale there. So we have those, and the support workgroup also manages those. Then we have financial aid. This is for the financial aid program that we're running for the in-person conference. For the online conference, we didn't have enough resources to do this. So not enough people to actually manage it, so we decided not to do it. Marketing design, as I said, is responsible for the booklets, the logo, the pre-launch website, and so on. Program workgroup does the CFP selection of talks, managing the schedule, managing all the interactions with speakers. So let's say a speaker wants to do the talk at a different time, then that kind of discussion needs to be done by the program workgroup. The web workgroup manages the development of the website and things like setup of the VMs and stuff, that kind of thing. So it's a standard web development, essentially. The media team doesn't really have to do a lot for the in-person conference because we usually hire a recording company, and so the media workgroup doesn't really have to do a lot. It just manages the relationships with the media company that we hire. This is, of course, a lot different for the online event, where we have to basically run everything ourselves. And so this year, the media workgroup is actually the largest workgroup that we have. And then finally, we have the Code of Conduct workgroup, which is for people. It's managed in a different way. We always have two females in there. It's a small team of people, and getting in and out of that group is, well, getting out is easy, but getting in is not so easy because, of course, those people have to deal with sometimes with difficult to handle issues, and we need to work well as a team together. So this is where we are looking for more help, just to give you an idea of how we work. Most of the work nowadays is done on Telegram. We also have a mailing list, of course. We manage everything, all the content, all the documentation on Google Docs and management worksheets that we have there. Like I said, the chairs are responsible. So that's all I wanted to say. I do see a couple of questions here. I don't really know how much time I have, so let me see. Okay, 45, so 10 minutes I have. Right, so I have the first question here. Which workgroup are most in need of help? So most in need of help, let me go back here. The program workgroup would need some more help. The web workgroup needs more help because we lost a couple of people who were very active in that group. Then we would need people in communications. I'm managing Twitter, for example, I'm managing all the other communication outlets that we have, writing blog posts, that kind of thing. We need more people in support, but for that support is mostly needed closer to the conference. So just in a few months before the conference and at the conference, especially, we need people there. Financial aid, we could use more people. So maybe sponsors as well. Yeah, but not many really people. Maybe like one, two more people would be nice. The second question is, are you going to share the slides? Yes, of course. We always put the slides up online. On the website, I can show you where we put them, just a second. So if you go here to our website, this is the blog, this is not what I wanted to show.  This is the Society website, this is also a blog. And then if you go here and you go to the EuroPython Conferences, then you get all the listing of all the information that's available for the different conferences going back to the first year. And we always put links in here to everything, all the resources specifically to this talk. We put that into the records, I think, right here. So you go to the records and then we have the EuroPython Society presentations here. And you can see all the different slide decks here. We're going to put the 2021 presentation here as well and also the video once it's cut.


Hello and welcome to this session. Let us understand the following problem today. Without exhaling the determinant, prove that the determinant a a square b c b b square c a c c square a b is equal to 1 a square a q 1 b square b q 1 c square c q. Now let us write the solution. Let us consider the elitist. We have the determinant a a square b c b b square c a c c square a b. Now from here, applying row operations, so applying r 1 tends to a r 1, r 2 tends to b r 2 and r 3 tends to c r 3. So we get 1 by a b c common and determinant a square a q a b c b square b q a b c c square c q and a b c. Now now taking a b c common we get a square a q 1 b square b q 1 c square c q 1 because we took a b c common from this column. So now this a b c gets cancelled with this a b c so it becomes 1 and we are left with this a square a q 1 b square b q 1 c square c q 1. Now now applying c 1 interchanges with c 3 so we get minus sign outside and determinant as 1 1 1 a q b q c q a square b square c square. Now again applying c 2 interchanges with c 3 so now we again interchanges the column c 2 and c 3 so we get again 1 more minus sign outside and we are left with determinant 1 1 1 a square b square c square a q b q c q. Now which is equal to 1 a square a q 1 b square b q 1 c square c q which is equal to RHS therefore LHS is equal to RHS hence proved. I hope you understood the problem bye and have a nice day.