Welcome everyone to our community conversation on industrial aquaculture in Maine. I'm Matt Cannon. I'm the campaign and policy associate director here at the Maine chapter of the Sierra Club. And in addition to a lot of our advocacy work and organizing work in Maine, we started these community conversations at the beginning of COVID by Zoom. So we're a little over a year here and they've been great ways to engage on important issues here in Maine to learn more to talk about them. So we're really lucky to have two folks here who have spent some time thinking about aquaculture in Maine. And we will we were interested to hear what they have to say. And then there'll be plenty of time for questions, as I mentioned. So after they're done, we'll we'll take questions from the chat and then we'll hopefully have a nice discussion here. So I'd like to introduce Jim Merkel and Jonathan Pohlford. Jim, do you want to start? Yeah, sure. Thanks everybody for showing up and for being here with us for this time. And you know, if you're in, I didn't notice there's a lot of people on this call that I haven't met before. So I'm really glad you're here. And around Belfast, this whole topic of industrial aquaculture is really a hot, a hot nerve to a lot of people. And because we've had just tons of hearings, full packed with people. And and so it's been a very divisive issue. And I'm hoping that Sierra Club can play a role in really just helping inform people like why we have our position that we have and also listening to others who may disagree and respectfully having a conversation. And you know, so today we really want to you know, go into a little more depth of what our position is and Sierra Club National does have a policy that we have a marine team plus also food and ag team. And they have had policies in place long standing and more recently than updating them. But you know, one of their biggest issues, why they oppose Nordic is that they, they support systems that are completely enclosed without any connection to the sea, and that are completely recycling water and also polycultures where you have multiple species, not just a monoculture.   And that's to the ecosystem. So it's using the commons, our clean air, clean water, electricity grids, all those things. And it's using it also as a sink to throw pollution out. And, you know, a lot of people have understood for a lot of years that dilution is not the solution. Even if you were to put this pipeline of Nordics way out into the deep ocean, there's still not, Sierra Clause is not buying that. You know, just diluting pollution is not a solution. So, you know, there's some real clear reasons why the thinking has been as it is, especially when we get into shallow waters and estuaries where we are, those are the most fragile ecosystems. In Belfast, you couldn't get close deeper into the estuary system than Nordic's proposal is. So it's in 35 feet of water. And we have all these fish that are recovering. And so it's probably one of the biggest threats. And Maine would like to be a hub of aquaculture. And they're promoting it with proposals in Bucksport, Goolsboro, Frenchman's Bay, Jonesport, Millinocket. And so I'll leave it at that. And, you know, I can expand a little more as we go. But maybe Jonathan will say a few words also, because he's been on the calls with me with the national activists, grassroots campaigners from across the country who've been working on these issues as well. Do you want to go there, Jonathan, and share a few things? Sure. Yeah, welcome, everybody. And I'm excited to have a good conversation about about this issue. Yeah, I think that one of the other things that I think is really important in understanding what make what in certainly in my mind is one of the biggest negative aspects of this proposed project in Belfast, as well as aquaculture in general, this type of aquaculture is the climate impact. And so we relate when I say we really Jim and a couple other people, George Aguera, predictor or particularly did a lot of analysis of this proposal here as a case to look at with all the available information that we could get and did an analysis of carbon impact or climate impact per pound of protein produced is what we kind of boiled it down to. And when you look at the embodied energy of creating it and the operational carbon impact of growing the fish, it is a really unsustainable a very unsustainable way to grow food for human consumption. And I think that for me personally, that is really the the most damning analysis is is this actually part of a human food system versus for human society that can move forward and still have a viable planet with our climate crisis that we're in. And I think the answer is very clearly no. So, and I think even in the net pen ones also suffer from though not as much embodied carbon with building out this massive plant, the largest operational costs for the climate are the feedstock and the fish that meal that is used and that that in itself is reason enough reason enough not to buy from farm raised salmon at this point with the food that they currently use as feedstock. And if we can talk more about that later, you know, any other food sources wishful thinking if you aren't actually producing it on a commercial scale, and there isn't isn't another source that we're aware of. Yeah, I'm back to you. Yeah. And, you know, I got in deeply involved in this issue in 1999 out on the West Coast, a professor who from the University of British Columbia had just bought a fishing boat. And him and I were actually going to kayak the entire coast were really good friends he teach. He was teaching sedimentology at UBC, but he's really into the ocean ecosystem. And we ended up three months on a fishing boat. And we visited some of the whale and ocean campaigners out there by sea and Alexandria Morton, for example, we had dinner with her and spent some good time with her. And at the time she was fighting aquaculture pens, the net pens, because she was befriending the fishermen and so that she entrusted them. And then they went to the aquaculture industry and said, Look, these here's all our places, we really don't want the pens, these are really our great, our best fishing spaces. And that's where they ended up putting all the pens. And so she lost the trust of these of all the fishermen that she been building relationships with. And if you look her up, and you'll find that it's been a pretty brutal battle over the years. I mean, she's basically been taking salmon off of the supermarket shelf and testing them and finding disease in the fish that are going to market and putting known disease fish into the pens out there. But people think that the pen solves the land base will solve the problem. But the big pipe that goes out into the sea is putting all that stuff that would be out coming out of the pen is just putting it out even though, you know, some operations filter better than others. It's still like 13 times the Belfast city sewer in nitrogen, 13 times the nitrogen and that bay is already closed for shellfish because of algae blooms. So wherever we have a situation, and we have a closures, because of these toxic algae bloom, which are driven by high phosphorus nitrogen, we shouldn't be adding insult to injury. And so they find this 11 year study up in Canada, Port Moten Bay, on lobster harvest, they find 50% or greater decrease in lobster near the pen. But the but the reasons they found was the smell of the salmon basically disrupt the ability of a buried lobster who's on a lobster on hags to actually smell their food, they have to smell to find food.  So they're talking 50, this 11 year study, this is not this 11 year scientific peer reviewed study showing decrease in lobster, lobster catch. So there's a lot of unintended consequences. And they find is the lice are attracted to certain pheromones and pheromones from from the smell. So the big pipe that's coming at that would be coming out into the base from these recirculating systems are going to be attract a magnet for life.  So this pipe is going to be a magnet for life. Any recovering salmon are going to come around. And they could get any diseases coming out of pipeline. And this will be any monoculture is a basically a breeding ground for some of the most resistant strains of any kind of virus or disease. And, you know, Nordic has several pages of chemicals in their proposal that they would use, they say only in a very bad disaster, but it's all there like 12,000 gallons of bleach is there in their proposal.  It's been a big facility 100 million built out in the Midwest. And that went on bankrupt just in 19 vero blue. And so they had it up and running and had massive die off and close the facility. So it's not hypothetical that there could be really deep problems. So I do want people to throw any questions on the chat. I see, can you share your carbon impact analysis? And that's what I'll do now. So yeah, thanks. I'll share my screen now. And hopefully this is going to work fine. And desktop. And while I'm sharing while I'm doing this presentation, you know, if anyone does have questions about it, please do, you know, ask and I'll I can always give it more detail or I don't want to go too slow here. But basically, on the first, the findings, this was done by myself, I'm a recovering engineer, and George Aguiar is a friend from town who is quite technical savvy. And he basically helped me put this that the numbers together for evaluating in depth Nordic Aquifarms as one proposal. And so we have these findings that it would be equivalent to 4.6 to 6.4% of the entire mains 2030 greenhouse gas greenhouse gas target. And so doing something like this would when you know, the Belfast, it would make it possible for Belfast to meet their climate commitments. And you'll see why the carbon footprint is so massive, it's like adding, you know, up to 165,000 cars to the road, adding like five to seven Belfast to our area. You know, and here we have the per capita carbon footprint of any one of us, you or I, on average across the United States 16 metric ton of CO2 equivalents, the little e means you're adding in the other gases such as methane and other gases that are sometimes much more potent of a greenhouse gas to the equation. So you see it, it's adding a massive footprint.  And we had no idea when we were doing this analysis Nordic would not give us data. And we asked multiple times for their electricity. And so we were assuming it was their generator capacity, which is eight two megawatt generators. So we had 16 megawatts. And now in Nordic is telling us it's more like 28 megawatts that they'll burn. And a whole new corridors needed. You know, Mainers don't Mainers don't have much of an appetite for corridors. And this would actually require this plant to have a 28 megawatt line section 80 reopened and all that $60 million with the work would be essentially a subsidy to this corporation. You know, and Belfast as a community assigned two agreements. And these agreements are to be in alignment with the Paris Accord, the Paris Agreement. And so that means, you know, achieving a balance between, you know, humans generated and and and what the actual ecosystem can sequester by the second half of the century. So that's meaning carbon neutral achieve a balance. That means carbon neutral, zero carbon. You know, our governor actually signed even a more aggressive commitments here. And front of the United Nations, Janet Mills, I watched her speech. It was quite beautiful. She says that the state is committing to be carbon neutral by 2045. So that means 45, you know, that means zero 100 percent below 1990 levels by 25 by 2045. And so just a few other, you know, this other like unintended consequences when you to the climate, just if you're going to take a site like Nordic out in the West Coast, they chose an industrial site, Samoa point that had been a pulp mill like Bucksport did that, you know, an industrial nightmare, but they are recovering it in their pipeline. If they do build out in Eureka, California, Nordic's pipeline would be open sea water all the way to Japan, not in an estuary, deep, deep ocean water there. But here they're clearing, they would like to clear 34 acres. Now, if you study what the storage of carbon is actually in the roots, so when you and the trunk, so it's about half above the earth and half below in the soil. So they are planning to remove between 15 and 48 feet of soil to build those tanks. Those tanks when we started doing the running all this data, you know, I'm a recovering engineer, but you put the weight of a tank into your farm, it's kind of a massive. And so Nordic's already had a lawsuit out in Europe, where in Denmark, where their tanks were sinking, and they sued Nordic did, but they lost their suit and suing the contractor. So Nordic lost that and had to pay on not anticipating the weight of the tanks and the soil's ability. So that site, I've walked it tons of times, we go out there all the time, that it's a beautiful forest along the Little River, but it's got 17 wetlands in it. If you wanted to build a house and find a perking site there, you couldn't find one.  It's all wetland. It's not percable, but it's beautiful and habitat and storing carbon. And so we did the calculations of 42.9 metric tons of carbon per year. That's just what it sequesters.  So the assessment we did on Nordic was I'm quite used to doing these, what we call life cycle assessments, as an engineer, I did many of these. But when you get into ecology or system, you would do a similar thing. So all the embodied carbon on the left here in this diagram are all the things it takes to build a facility or an item, like if you're going to buy a can of Coke or anything, the can has got embodied energy in it, you know, and the liquid inside you drink and it's, you know, gone through you. But this big facility has all this carbon from all the manufacturing to building of the steel, the tanks, the glass, all the pumps, all the filters, all that. So that's added up along with removing tons and tons of soil and replacing with gravel and paving areas and then building huge buildings. And and then operating, you have all the fish feed and the electricity to run all those pumps. And it's massive. The electricity is just massive. And so if you think of two megawatt generators and eight of them, that's like a small power plant that could run the central coast, you know, you could run a huge part of the central mid coast with that. And they in plan to run them, you know, on a daily basis. But as early as 2015, recirculating RAS recirculating systems have been identified as the most carbon intensive of all these different types of aquaculture. So like Sierra Club is not opposed to systems of aquaculture that are small footprint. But this is the most carbon intensive of all the types. And Nordic quotes in their literature, this analysis done, and we've been through this in detail. So they're combined, they're looking at this big red item would be to ship Nordic salmon all the way to Seattle by plane, putting the fish on a nice cozy seat, you know, and flying it across and having you eat it. Of course, it, you know, I'm being exaggerating, but it's a large bit of carbon as if that's our choice. Like in Maine, I can get a lot of seafood that's from Maine or the East Coast. So I don't have to. If you have a study and all you're doing is comparing their project to flying salmon from a Nordic pen. It's not really a good study. And so I don't want to go into labor that. But our analysis was more detailed. That was a good analysis in that it did do embodied carbon. But we did three different life cycle assessment tests. Actually, we use two calculators and then we actually branched out to even a third just to make sure we're getting good data and that we weren't skewed. So we included things such as soil removal, import of aggregate row, building pipelines, loss of forests, building tanks, pumps, motors, filters, backup generators, and also the operational is electricity, diesel, glycerin, fish food. And our results are a little different. So if you look at the first bar, this is a study done in on an operating facility in China. So we said, let's get that study. And it was peer reviewed. And that is, you know, a whole team of researchers did it and came up with the life cycle assessment of a car of a facility in China. And so that's his top bar. The second bar is the bar that we actually calculated using putting in actual data off of the drawings that Nordic has made available to the public. And so you see the light blue, which is the feed production is pretty similar in all these examples. It's a big footprint to grind up all this small food fish from other places like Central America or Africa and ship them here for fish food.  That's what the fish feed is. The blue, the darker blue you see is the embodied. So you see the China study accounted for a little bit more than what Nordic. The third line here is the, I mean the fourth line is the Nordic's assessment that they've been touting for this, this their land base, which would be the fourth line down. Our analysis came out to more than double what they had had predicted. That was in 2016 and it was not built based on any built facility. So the China one is based on a built facility. Our analysis is based on their drawings. And the third is just a different calculator that didn't quite have all the input places to put in all the embodied carbon. So when we were able to put all the embodied carbon in, you can see the dark blue got much bigger. And, you know, it's of course always an underestimate because you can't anticipate all the things that go into any kind of industrial facility. If you just go and look to buy like one system there and you go to go online and try to find all the parts to build one piping system and see how expensive all those parts are. And it's incredibly impactful.  They're 100 times smaller, 108 times smaller than eating caged salmon. And if you want it to get like a haddock burger at a local pub, you're still dealing with a very small footprint. So we have a lot of beautiful seafood choices on the east coast of Maine that are low impact. And there is a bit of a misnomer being propagated that the sea can't supply for this growing human population. Well, it can if we manage it well and use less and use it as a treat, use it less and always totally responsibly harvesting from nature. So our recommendations really would be to demonstrate carbon neutrality. And Norway, this project was three quarters of the entire Norway's industrial sector. For 2020, one project would be three quarters of Norway's industrial sector of electricity of carbon. Now, the whole country has gone to a huge commitment for each sector to become carbon neutral. And you look at their progress been amazing. So this couldn't be built over there. And so and then the applique, Kent, we are saying they should use a brown field, like say the people in Bucksport, and it should be on stable soil, and it should be a completely closed system, then we wouldn't have this opposition. So I'll end there and stop the share. And then I really do invite, you know, Jonathan wants to say anything. And if anyone wants to ask questions, you can type them in the chat. And I'm really open to any question or challenging my data. As an engineer, I love people that challenge my data and find out because if you find mistakes in it, I'm happy because I want to never put probably get a bad piece of information out there. So yeah, Jonathan, any thoughts or does anyone else want to let me look at the questions here? I saw one question that was asked about the money in aquaculture and in our marine in, you know, industries right now in Maine. And I think that's not sure if I'm answering quite the question. But right now, we have a very strong lobster fisheries still. I've heard a different different getting a phone call. I have to be on my phone here. Sorry about that. I'm here. I have heard differing numbers about the value of the lobster fishery in Maine, but somewhere around five billion dollars or something like that, as far as economic activity in the state of Maine each year. I think that the that that is a very strong part of our economy and doing things which jeopardize that doesn't make sense. And so this because of the impacts of Penn stock, as well as this, the potential impact of the land based ones also with the outflow, you know, they seem like we need to be supporting the existing fisheries. The other one also is that the restoring, if we want to restore really the fisheries in the Gulf of Maine and around the world to the health to support wild caught fish, we need to be looking at our river systems and and some of the dam removals we've had that have allowed much stronger herring runs and a wife and things like that. Those kind of practices really strengthen the entire ecosystem so that we have a sustainable fishery. And I haven't because I'm having to work off my phone, I'll have to Yeah, I can check it out. And Jim, I don't know if you can read those two, but I think the other part of that question was you're getting to it. The alternatives, the state has to make money and kind of what are the other sustainable aquaculture farms, kelp mussels, what can you speak to any of those? Right. And you know, what I'm around the world, there's so much aquaculture is happening and I happen to be filming over in India and also in Cuba and people there are doing great small scale like growing tilapia, for example, in polycultures, where they have multiple species eating from one system. And a lot of these smaller systems are they can operate and have people can be profitable without scaling up to this massive, massive plant. I mean, Nordic, from the first presentations they were giving us, they said they can only be profitable at this massive, massive scale. But when you get to that scale, I mean, Steve Byers had asked a question here, you know, about what happens, you know, when we have these big proposals, they take up all the oxygen in the room, for example, if Nordic was allowed, it ends up being allowed to build in in Belfast. If someone else wanted to do anything that's going to pump more pollution, and they just put in nitrogen equal to 13 times their sewer system. They took up all that capacity and more, the capacity doesn't exist even now to for that water to be uptake. So when you don't have the capacity to even uptake what we what we're putting in already and then you add more, you're basically like the water's rising, you know. So, you know, and Nordic has been playing a heavy in our whole state, because we understand that they don't have title and rights. So I know the, you know, they don't have a right to the land yet they're proceeding as if they have it. And they're manipulating the public process all the way through. And it's it becomes tough for citizens, because we have several lawsuits ongoing. And we've had to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to stop them. And to get them to do what's legally required, like you can't just put a pipeline under someone's land who owns it. So, but you know, they are proceeding and they know that as if they can just get the political will at the state level to make this happen. And Maine as a state is putting out, we want to be a hub for this industrial agriculture. It's a return really to the chicken farm days. You know, someone recently did a paper that looked at, you know, if you had equivalent number of chicken farms, they'd be spread around 800 square miles of Waldo County. But here it's all in 34 acres, that same amount of effluent. And it's going to be going and the sludge now. So you got the pipeline of 7.7 million gallons a day going out of bay. But what about all the sludge? It's the concentrated. So oh, yeah, we're filtering it. Yeah, well you filter it turns into a sludge. Where does this sludge? It's a pond. They won't tell us really, they don't know where they're going to dump it. They say it's valuable. Well, who wants to put salty sewage on their crops?  I don't salty. You can't just easily get away and get rid of it. So and in the winter, you have to truck it below the snowline as my understanding because you can't spread this on sacrifice lands. You can find sacrifice lands to dump sludge that you want to get rid of somewhere. Someone will buy it and take it or let you dump it there for a fee. But Nordic hasn't solved that. And some municipalities are saying like Bucksport has been like, well, maybe we'll put it in the sewer. And once you see what it takes for a sewage system to absorb that kind of nutrient load, it'll shut it down. It will not be able to sustain it. And it's going to cost the citizens a whack of money to try to make it do it. So, you know, I have a few other questions here coming in about dissolved nitrogen. And I don't have the numbers off hand, but the other thing beyond dissolved nitrogen is also the phosphorus. So they notice claiming the phosphorus is being filtered. But it usually is reliant on filtering the solids because then the phosphorus attaches to the solids, but certain fish foods that fish eat will does the phosphorus will be dissolved and it won't be filterable. And so it could go as high as four times higher phosphorus based on the diets of what the fish are eating. And that's why the people in Belfast have been insistent on knowing what the fish food is. Let's see. The other questions. How did Nordic farms pass all its permits and get past the Clean Water Act is I don't know if Jonathan or Matt could help with that. That's that's a challenging question. We've been upstream watch has been working pretty hard to try to make sure that the permitting process meets all of the requirements as they are listed. And it's been surprising to see from my perspective a lot of clear requirements in the permitting not having to be met sometimes with apparently Maine has an exclusion from some of the Clean Water Act from years ago, I guess politically because of the supposedly because of the influence of the paper mills back the time and the influence of our legislative delegation in writing a Clean Water Act in Congress that sometimes permits that would not be able to be issued in most other states can be issued because there is an allowance for basically meeting those the environmental requirements after it's already built where and so that my understanding is that that is one of the ways in which some of these permits have been gotten through on a federal level. I'm not a lawyer. I can't speak authoritatively there, but and as far as on the other permitting, I it's been a mystery to me sometimes why some of the requirements don't seem to be fully met and yet we're able to continue on the one that they seem to have stopped has been held up most completely with to this date is a title right in interest having to have actual legal access to the water for their pipes and that is being fought in court. Anybody's been following this Nordic would know this and that is going to be resolved. I think relatively soon is my understanding. So you my reading was you can't actually file a permit, you know, get a permit going if you don't have already established clear title right in interest, but somehow they will step over that and so now that has been resolved in the courts as we speak. Now, I see a question from Crystal Cainey about Protect Main's Fishing Heritage Foundation and it's one point six billion a year. And, you know, I would say that this is probably at the core of of this bigger issue of, you know, do we really want in Maine a legitimate working water front with lots of people at actually able to go out and independently make a living from the sea in a responsible sustainable way and provide long term wild caught fish in a responsible way to. I would hope not the world. I would hope to see. But let's not go back to volumes of fishing that destroy fisheries. But we see whenever we take out dams, even if you we go with our family every year to see the L wives coming up like these tiny streams like the bag of deuce will be a half a million fish. And in Belfast, all our rivers are plugged. Every single river has a dam blocking the L wise from from migrating. And if we were to get them, get some of these dams out, we get a million fish possibly returning. And that's the base of the food chain. Most of these small fish are eating plankton. And then they are the base of the food chain. When you take that out. All bets are off for having all these other fish cod, salmon, you know, sturgeon, all these fish, we need the base of the food chain. So I think the position at this point in history when every time we had a chance to regulate Maine, we didn't. And then all of a sudden the pen, we kept having these ideas like then we'll destroy that fishery, then the next fishery we destroy then the next one and the next one. And then that pens were going to fix that. And then they destroy more than they ever saw. And now they think that putting it on the land is going to solve it and it won't because it has too many unintended consequences. So we're looking to put another nail in the coffin of a dead fishery when, in my opinion, Sierra Club, it's not in my opinion, Sierra Club position is that we need to restore a system and have a fishery that's going to be long standing and healthy and out into the way out in the future. And the only way we could do it is by basically stopping you're doing everything we can to a very climate change, which means not heading places like Nordic and also protecting the fishery from disease, from these all the unintended consequences of attracting diseases to these pipelines and things like that. So I just want to say that Sierra Club position is very firm and supporting a working waterfront. Matt, are you seeing any other questions that we? Yeah, there's there's plenty. Thanks for everyone for participating. Keep them coming. We'll get to as many as we can before the hour. There was one for you, Jam, about RAS being a viable technology. Are there running facilities that are working properly and financially solvent? And there was a mention of a recent article by Mr. Heim. Right. Well, you know, I what I've looked into is large, you know, our assistance have been functioning for maybe 30 years and supplying hatchery size fish. And, you know, if you just want to grow the small fish, they grow them pretty well. And the people familiar with those who've worked there didn't seem any problems with diseases. Still would have problems. But as soon as you try to grow fish there for multiple to grow it out to a full size fish, then almost all of them have problems.  So there have been multiple mass die offs and really having a trouble understanding why and the technology ends up by the end costing so much. It's a very expensive fish. It's not a fish to feed the world. You know, it's a very, very, very high end expensive product. So to be financially solvent, you know, they can't compete with even net pens, which we shouldn't be doing, but they can't compete even with this with low fish lower on the food chain.  And we should also, if we want to farm fish, farm down the food chain, not a higher up the food chain fish.  Polycultures are working. That just means poly means more. You know, you put species together and oftentimes even plants and fish will eat wastes even in certain systems. So it's a quite a cyclical system.  There are small scale completely enclosed systems that are viable. But in general, the Sierra Club is not supporting monocultures as a as a principle of the problems they introduced to any any human system.  But those viruses that jump from wild to human are from us basically confining wild creatures in these wet markets of things. And things happen that you can anticipate. So as an engineer, you know, my former training, you always ask, well, what's the unintended consequence of anything you do? And with a big monoculture that's massive, you have a lot of unintended consequences. Can I mention there's one of the chat questions that's there that we did look into some around dissolved nitrogen? And my my understanding is that as we were trying to do carbon analysis, one of the inputs is a large amount of glycerin that is used and the wastewater treatment process. I am not a wastewater treatment engineer. But our understanding was this was a technology to actually reduce the amount of dissolved nitrogen. So even with the best available technology, there the calculations for the amount of dissolved nitrogen that was still going to be released into the bay where as high as our study shows and is kind of based on Nordic's information, trusting that to be accurate. But it is using best available technology with the dissolved nitrogen with this adding glycerin in the wastewater treatment process to really so larger or to tie up and actually turn a lot of the dissolved nitrogen into N2. So in spite of that, still the nitrogen load into the bay is going to be extremely high. That's that was my understanding of how we read the analysis. I'm seeing I'm looking through. Yeah, I can guide a few. There's there's a lot. There were a couple comments on specific amounts of nitrogen per day that I saw ammonia. So feel free to talk to those. But the next. Well, yeah. And, you know, the idea, the problem with the nitrogen and a lot of it has to do with the circulation. Like if Nordic was out, it's a I don't want to push them somewhere else, really. But their plant and Eureka or even if they went out to Owl's head where you have two hundred feet of water. I'm a sailor, so I'm sailing these waters all the time and where their pipe would be. I would say I sail home from most quite frequently in the summer with the tailing wind wind behind me coming into Belfast Harbor. And if you think of the tide coming in and the wind blowing fourteen knots behind you, that water from that area is going to make it all the way up under the bridge. There's just absolutely no way it's not going to make it straight into Belfast Bay because the pipe is really in Belfast Bay. When Nordic runs their model, say, calculate the volume of Penobscot Bay and they say, we're dissolving into this. And you look at their their very crude study they did. Well, the circulation is very complex. Yeah, the studies done on the three levels like the top level of water, the middle and the lower level. They do different things throughout the season based on the salinity and the amount of fresh water coming down from the Penobscot River and also the wind can change the direction of the water out in that bay off of Ellsboro. So the direction is going to flow is contingent on many things throughout the season. Salinity, the winds and temperatures and it's complex. And it's more or less going to go back and forth, back and forth a lot is what's going to happen. So it's it's not going to just flush out to sea. And so that nitrogen could really be a problem. It could go right by the beaches of Bayview and be something very unattractive to swimmers and unhealthy for them. And it is going to come straight into the Belfast Bay. And if you say nitrogen isn't a problem, some people say, well, possibly dissolved nitrogen isn't a problem. Well, we do have a current shellfish closures over much of Maine's coast. Much of it is. If you look at the maps, you'd be surprised how many areas are closed to toxic algae bloom. And it is someone else so common. And it is also the ammonia. So there's a lot of compounds that come out with fish growing that are below the pens when you have the pens. And also when you have the pipe, it's the same thing as a pen. It's just the pipe is just it concentrated instead of it dispersing into the ecosystem. It's coming out in one big three foot pipe. All right, those are. Thank you for those. There's one. I think it's a quick answer, Jonathan, maybe, you know, influenced Sierra Club has on legislation. I know there's one piece of legislation to add climate impact to the public utility utilities commission. There's also another bill to add climate impacts to department decision making. So those are the two I'm aware of that we're following and working on, Jonathan, or others, do you know? Yeah, those are the ones I'm aware of, too, in this legislative session that would have direct impact. One of the things to know is that with the work that was done on creating a climate impact assessment that George and Jim worked so hard on and we tried to submit that that was to the Department of Environmental Protection and the Bureau of Environmental Protection in the licensing permitting process. And it was stricken from the record and considered not part of the environmental review of Nordic is what is its climate impact? And so they never had to publicly defend or even state what their climate impact truly would be and have a nor could we submit ours and say, this is our analysis. This is what it's based on. I would love to have seen construction drawings and actual detail of all instead of having to interpret the relatively simplified drawings which we had the basis on and the analysis that was done with the Chinese study as well. So we were working with the best available information we had. But, you know, if there is legislation that required the DEP to have to use climate impact as part of the basis of any permitting, we would have actually been able to make Nordic disclose or at least we could have sued them to make Nordic disclose the climate impact instead of them just say, oh, this is how low it is and have no real hard data to base up those claims. And I think the silence which they never actually challenged any of the details of the carbon analysis we did, I think speaks volumes if somebody actually had good data that would have given better outcomes than the one that George and Jim was able to create. I think they would have been happy to do so. But I think we actually did significantly underestimate the climate impact and therefore the carbon impact per pound of fish grown, but we were wanted to be conservative, not and very defendable in our in our calculations. So that would that legislation would have great value. It's possible that that legislation won't pass. It's also possible that it'll be only used to regulate the DP and not the DP, excuse me, Public Utilities Commission instead of actually DP and all their agencies. So if you would like to make sure that every agency in Maine when they are making considerations of how they spend their money and what projects they approve has to include an analysis of the climate impact, then that legislation is something to support. And that's a pretty I think a pretty exciting change to the main regulatory environment if that was to pass. And I don't remember the bill number. I would guess, Matt, you're pretty on top of that. Do you remember the bill number for that? I just put one of them in the chat that's been printed about all agency rulemaking and there's the other one for the Public Utilities Commission that has not been printed yet. Yeah. And I would like to invite James Hascom to say a few words. I know he's I saw him in the chat wanting to speak to the issue a little bit. So James, if you want to unmute yourself, I'd love to hear what your thoughts are. OK, can you hear me? Yeah. OK, good. So my name is Jim Hanscom. I'm a law officer and fisherman, scholar, pursuant for all of it, top drawer, everything from Bar Harbor. I'm also the zone B vice chair on that council. I also am the vice president of the lobster 207 Lobstering Union here. So we are getting ready to deal with this in Frenchman's Bay. I just sat in on a town council meeting two weeks ago with the three guys and their attorney that is proposing this stuff. And there they are proposing a massive facility up here. And so for me, I know that 207 lobster 207, the MLA, you know, Maine Lobstering Union, they're heavily invested right now in, you know, opposing what's going on in your bay in Penobscot Bay. I feel like our Bar Harbor Town Council is not understanding what's going on at all. And you guys seem to have a good grasp, you know, of what's happening. Of course, I'm a lobster and so I got problems with salmon pens, windmills and whales, things that we might agree might disagree on, but we can agree on some stuff. My main question was, and I'm just not very good at typing stuff, was the earlier in the meeting, the data that you you are posting up on your page, Jim, the just the carbon footprint stuff and all that. Is there a way for me to could you get that to me? Can you email that to me? I would love to have that. I have a very close friend Valerie Peacock is her name. She is a town council member for the town of Bar Harbor and she her thought process is like one hundred and fifty percent in line with all of you folks here for certain. And I'd love to be able to get that information to her and then go on to the Bar Harbor Town Council. We're obviously in a unique situation because the site, the proposed site is actually in the town of Gulesboro, but it's really truthfully in our wonderful, beautiful, pristine Frenchman's Bay that none of us want to look at it. But this group is coming at the town of Gulesboro, which is a little more challenged, you know what I mean? Economically, promising jobs. They're making big promises about the old Stinson scanning factory than prospects Harbor and promising to acquire that facility if these lease agreements are granted. And then they're saying they're going to, you know, promote a couple hundred jobs, you know, and everybody's buying it. You know, I personally am not buying it. So pretty much that's all I really want to say is that there is a group of us that are here in another bay, you know, that are staring down what you're staring and any information that I could, you know, get from you guys just to maybe pass on to our town councils and people involved. That's a really nice display of information, what you had said. And I think that information that you posted, I have a town council that would respond to that. They would see the whole green footprint, so to speak, you know, it would I feel would would weigh heavily with them. Can I can I speak to that? Just a touch. Oh, when you look at that analysis, you'll see that the embodied carbon of building a land-based one is pretty severe, but the largest carbon footprint is actually the operational carbon and the largest operational carbon is the feed. And that is the same, whether it's penstock or land-based. And, you know, I think from from a water quality and ocean health standpoint, penstock is worse from a climate impact land-based is worse. Neither is sustainable, neither is good. So it's an interesting and they both have negative impacts on climate. And they both have negative impacts. These are semi open systems to the bay as well with both water temperature and, you know, the discharge and the nitrogen and phosphorus and viruses coming out of the discharge as well, the semi open systems. So I don't I can't. That's why I think Sierra Club is pretty clear that, you know, the analysis so far is there is no current commercial proposals in the coast of Maine that I've seen that would come anywhere near meeting the environmental standards necessary to support from an environmental perspective, support any of these developments. The other one also is to take in on a kind of a global scale, not just the climate impact, but when you are these fish feeds that these penstock and closed and semi closed systems are using are primarily based on fish that are being caught off of West Africa and off of Peru, some of the last really strong viable fisheries. And my understanding is they're being hammered by these this this industry.  And we need to instead be focusing on ways in which we have sustainable fisheries. We support that in all the ways necessary on a global scale.  It's it was all one ocean, really. And we need to take care of all of it in order to make all of it work well. So and we just got about two or three minutes left. And so, James, I definitely put maybe put your email in the chat and I'll get to you that stuff. And I want to say if you need me to come over there at any time to meet with people, I am happy to. And, you know, Sierra Club is going to take a position against the French and Spanish nation being quite sure. So, I mean, we're looking at it right now. We have a committee and we've been talking about it. But the more we talk to you guys, the better, because you're on the ground. And just I know people want to know what to do. And right now there's the thing because Nordic seems like they're flying through. But what they need to hear from his people, I think Janet Mills Office and the Economic Development Office of Maine needs to hear and the newspapers, you know, when they've been printed, whenever you can send a letter to the newspapers of any of our papers, that's helpful. And I know there's some legislation right now to regulate agriculture is a little better coming up. So pay attention to that. But I would say right to Mills and and Jonathan, anything else that you can think of that people can do right now to support?  There's lots of ways which we as citizens can have a much larger influence and voice in the outcomes of things, both in Augusta and nationally, but also particularly our local town. So local elections matter who and so does having your voice heard respectfully, putting your understanding of the issues out there and making sure that, you know, you stay engaged. We can make sure that we shape the future in a way that's sustainable if we all participate. So thank you for all of your you wouldn't be on this call if you weren't interested and engaged. So thank you for the work you already are doing. And I just want to give a shout out like I'm reading through the chat and I'm seeing Ellie and Kate and a lot of other people have put a lot of great comments in the in the chat. So I think Matt's going to save that chat. And if any of you can want to save the chat just on your bottom right corner, the very bottom, you have a little three dots and you can save the chat. And so you can see what others were contributing to this conversation. There's been a lot of people in our community working tirelessly for like three years trying to stop this multiple lawsuits, five, six organizations founded just to stop this main turning into this industrial hub of industrial of agriculture. And we really feel certain that this is a time to restore our fishery, as Jonathan said. And so I want to thank everyone for coming on the call. I mean, it was great to meet all of you, too. Yeah, thank you all. And I'm not sure if you can save the chat, but we'll follow up with some of the materials and some of the comments. And it seems like we need a part two because there were a lot of great questions and so we couldn't get to all of them. But clearly, there's some momentum here. And stay tuned. We'll keep you updated and we may reach out to many of you for organizing support. So thank you again. Stay tuned for our Earth Day events coming up in a couple of weeks. You can get there on our websites, seraclub.org slash main. And thank you all again. Really appreciate.


Welcome to Toffy TV's The Everton News Daily. Everton today have announced a three-year deal with kit maker Hummel, where thought to be around £10 million a year over three years for the Blues. Hummel will replace Umbro, who is the current kit manufacturer for Everton. It's going to be the most lucrative deal, kit deal in the club's history and will start from the 2021 season. Everton will finish this season if the games do take place as part of project restarts in the Umbro kit, as well as carrying the sponsor Sport Payser for the remaining nine fixtures of the league games. Everton still chasing a front-of-share sponsor as well, no updates on that at the moment. But good news for Everton in terms of the monetary value of the deal with Hummel. Hummel are pleased to have Everton, their only Premier League club, and therefore Everton will be the biggest brand that they've got. Hummel have said that they will put all their efforts into building a good relationship with Everton in the Premier League. So really good to see the monetary value of these deals going up. There's rumours today that it's double what Umbro were paying, so that's good as the club tries to expand on its commercial deals, because we know that that's an area that has massively under-performed for years, so it's good to see an increase in that. Everton today have apparently bid again for Lill Defender Gabrielle. We know that there was a deal in place for Gabrielle before the outbreak of Covid-19, thought to be around 30 million euros, obviously with what's gone on. The landscape changed, that deal was no longer on the table. This deal is thought to be, or this bid is thought to be closer to the 20 million euro market. It hasn't been accepted by Lill according to the report in the football insider. Personal terms have been agreed with Gabrielle a while ago, and apparently that's still the case. He's happy with the deal that was agreed. And now it's a case of whether Everton can agree a price for the player and also the payment structures that's according to football insider. Obviously FFP needs to be taken into consideration as well when regarding the deal. So we'll have to wait and see the 22-year-old defender. There will be an excellent addition for Carlo Montiolotti should Everton be able to get that over the line. John Joe Kenney is 99% certain to return to Everton once his loan deal inspires at Gelsenkirchen. He started 27 games for Schalke this season, but he simply can't afford them according to the GM and press. And Everton have apparently won them back, whether or not that is to sell them on or whether it's to give him his opportunity. There's still no decision we understand at the moment on Giebel Sidderby whether Everton are going to take his loan option up better than £12.5 million. If Everton do then you would expect Kenny to be sold. There was some interest last summer from Premier League clubs, Crystal Palace thought to be one of them, whether that interest remains could be a way for Everton to get some money or whether Carlo Montiolotti simply decided to give Kenny his opportunity and then send Sidderby back. Therefore negating the need to buy another right back and have Kenny and Coleman completing for the place next season all will be revealed, but it seems that staying at Schalke longer than this season looks to be a non-starter, so we'll have to see over that one. And today Everton did return to training at Finch Farm, albeit in different circumstances than their last training session there on March 12. The players were back today and trained in small groups, the object of social distance and measures at all times and four training pitches were used at the club's training facility. Players had their temperature taken on arrival to travel in their own kit, no food on the premises, they had their own water bottles with them and they had to leave the training complex after around 75-80 minutes of being there and straight back home. So phase one of project restart is underway and Everton have done it today. That is it, make sure you check out the interview with Paul Ryder today, 25 years since he scored the winning goal in an FA Cup final for Everton. It's on YouTube, check that out. Subscribe if you haven't and if you want more videos, join us over on Patreon, give the video a thumbs up as well. See you later.


I think the commanders out are out on bill no reporting on my end, but also you just look at the structure like I don't know if bill would want to step in with a guy who just I did over the bleep show that was a 76ers the last 10 years in addition is saying this analytics guy is staying I don't care who comes in as a head coach that's not something bill is going to suffer as for the falcons I like this more by the day if bill is of course let go the falcons on two levels and a serious one Arthur blank needs a win like this I mean he needs a head coach the relevance everything the roster though is so perfectly built for a guy who can't scout receivers tight hens or get offensive weapons they need basically everything else in Atlanta he goes in does the coaches version of tom brady and the nfc south they still need a quarterback but yeah here's all the power here's everything come in and ready to roll


Hey everyone I'm Bianca Renee and you're watching Bianca Renee Today and today I'm coming at you bare face because we're going to be talking about skin. Now if you are new to my channel I am someone with very acne prone and oily skin. Today I must admit is one of my better days, my skin is finally clearing up but I do have a couple little blemishes that are just going to be there to annoy me. So today I want to talk about one of my favorite face masks that I use all the time which is by Glam Glow. Now this is Glam Glow Super Mud Clearing Treatment and it's specifically for problem skin, skin imperfections, pore refining, mattifying and clarifying. Those are all things that my skin definitely needs. Now first of all Glam Glow has the most amazing packaging like when you buy that high end mask this is what you're paying for, the presentation and I am a sucker for presentation.   It's like your mask is sitting on its own little throne. On the back of the box it says it has an activated X charcoal and extreme absorption carbon. It extracts toxins and dirt from the deepest and toughest areas. I do think it is very important to take care of your skin and do a mask once a week. If you guys follow me on my hair series you know that I tell you to do a deep conditioning treatment once a week so now you're probably like I got a deep condition in my hair and I got to do a mask but this is what you need to do you should do like a mask Monday that's what I do pick whatever day you want and whatever you're doing a deep conditioning treatment in your hair you should also be doing a face mask.  This mask is really intense so I personally just do it once a week and I just recently realized that I shouldn't even be doing my whole face if I don't need to so now I'm trying to cut back and just only use it on any of my acne prone areas more like a spot treatment but without further ado let me actually put on the mask so I could show you how well it works. Once you take it out the box it is in this cute little container and it has a little twist top. Now to prove to you that I use this all the time my little bottle is like basically empty it is important to apply this to a very clean face you don't want to do it over makeup or anything like that make sure your skin is clean and refreshed and you can apply it with your fingers because I have nails I don't want all the product to get stuck in my nails I will be using a foundation brush and this is like my dedicated mask foundation brush just to apply my masks so let's go ahead and start up nice thick kind of clay sensation my skin has been through so much you can handle anything so I actually don't mind the tinglyness that kind of lets me know that it's working but if you are starting off it might be a little too intense for you but anytime you try a new mask it is good to just try one certain spot of your face to make sure you don't get any type of allergic reaction to it then if it's fine you could then move on to doing your entire face it says you can let this sit for five to 20 minutes but I always figure if I'm gonna sit down and do a mask I'm gonna do a mask I'm gonna let this sit for the full 20 minutes 20 minutes and my face is very very stiff so as you can see it's all a solid gray color right now and I am gonna try to zoom in and show you how deep this gets into your pores okay we are super uncomfortably awkwardly close up now but do you see these little like dots those are my pores and it really gets in there to the point where you could actually see the depths of your pores and these little chunks that you see right here that's actually the teoxy you flip this leaf it's another natural ingredient that really helps clean out your skin now do you believe me that the stuff really gets in your pores I'm not gonna rinse this off using cool water I'm just gonna splash it on my face and then kind of rub it all away until the entire mask is washed off and now I'm back with my freshly washed face you will notice that your skin will feel so soft and so smooth it's really removed all the dirt that was on your face so now that you know how amazing this mask is let me tell you the only downside I was fortunate enough to go to a glam glow party and I was able to get a bunch of these masks and when I say I stocked up I stocked up it wasn't until I went to Sephora and saw this on the shelves retailed at $69 I was like oh it just made me even more fortunate to have these because I know my cheap side would struggle but I am here to say that if I'm gonna be spending a lot of money it better be amazing and luckily as I just showed you this mask is amazing and according to the Sephora website the bottle I have is actually 34 grams and the glam glow just made a new bigger size with 50 grams at the same price so at least I'm giving you more product making a little bit more bang for your book even though I have multiple boxes of these masks you see why I'm scraping every last drop out of here and because my skin is a million times better than it used to be when I had severe acne I think it's only right for me to help someone else watching out there so I'm actually going to do a giveaway and I'm going to give away one of these brand new boxes of the glam glow super mud clearing treatments so if you have acne prone skin and you really want to try this mask but you really don't think you can afford it I want you to enter my giveaway on Instagram all you have to do is follow me on Instagram at Ms. Bianca Renee find the picture with me with this mask on comment on that photo and I want you to tag three friends that you think would enjoy my YouTube channel or my Instagram page I really want to get to 20,000 followers on Instagram so as soon as I hit 20k I will be announcing the winner of this mask my only rules that you do have to have a US address because it is really expensive for me to send anything out of the country I know I'm sorry I'm not rich yet I'm working on it but but not yet all the information about this glam glow mask where to buy it the link to Sephora will all be in the description box below as well as all the giveaway rules I actually just did a snapchat giveaway this week for those that follow me on snapchat know about that this is my Instagram giveaway coming up and I will have a YouTube giveaway coming up as well if you don't have Instagram don't trip it's coming soon but in order for you to know that you're gonna have to subscribe to my channel push that little bell so you're always notified when I post a new video I post foundation reviews every Friday and other fun videos like skincare haircare on Sunday so I hope to see you all next week thanks for watching Bianca Renee today


The best lessons I think we've ever learned throughout our time is not our wins, but our failures. Yesterday, there was a tweet that was put out from Bitcoin Magazine. I talked about, hey, not so great news. Just in judge rules that BlockFi users gave up legal rights to their Bitcoin by using the platform and all the 300 million of crypto deposits are now property of BlockFi. And I was taking a look at this and I thought to myself, well, you know, that's a bummer. I think we've seen a lot of different problems that have come about the Voyager, the Celsius, the FTX and everything else in between. And I just made a comment. I said, you know, sorry, sorry BlockFi users. He said, well, it was probably BlockFi's plan the entire time. The new class that comes in the next bull run must be made aware.


Okay, guys. I don't think that there's anybody watching right this second, but hopefully there will be in a minute. There's one viewer, but I think that's just me watching for myself. Oh, there's two of us. Woo! All right, so we are here this morning to draw some giveaway winners for a couple of different giveaways going on on my YouTube channel. I just thought it might be easier and more fun to do it live and then bonus for me. I don't have to video edit. Because, you know, I don't care for that. All right, so we're here looking at my computer screen and the first giveaway that we're going to do is for the JP Graphics coloring books. I have two of these. This is the printer who has printed my book and they have these coloring books, which includes some colored pencils in the back that they print for their customers and for promotion materials. And so they gave me two copies of the book to give away. So let's go to that first. Here is the JP Graphics one. And let's pick first one random winner. And I better have a pencil out because I'm going to need it. Heidi Lilly. Heidi. Woohoo! You won a coloring book. Do I need to write it down? No, it's going to stay in my rafflecopter. Okay, so we're good. So Heidi, if you're watching when you have a chance, go ahead and mail me your mailing address, your snail mail mailing address, and I will get that book out to you as soon as I can. Hello, Jana and the Gaming Legend. Hello. So we have one more coloring book to give away. So let's pick a second random winner. Nancy Woolever. Nancy, you won a coloring book. So again, like Heidi, Nancy, if you could get me your mailing address, that would be fabulous. I would appreciate it. And then I will get the coloring books out to you as soon as possible. All right. So now we have another giveaway to do. And this time, I am giving away a copy of the book I wrote. So those of you who don't know, I wrote a book. It was released this month. And it is a journaling workbook that is sort of a deep thinking book about different things you can do or try or think about to live a more creative and expressive life.  And there's quite a few of them. A lot of watercolor feathers and one skull. It is October, so So the person who wins this drawing gets the full set of stickers and a book. Hi, Natalia. Amanda, hello. So let's go ahead and pick a winner for the book. Now, for those of you who don't win and would like a copy of the book and or some some or all of the stickers. Again, they're, they're full color. They're a vinyl label. So they would be good to put on not only your journals and notebooks, but you could actually put it on the back of your laptop or your tablet or something like that because they are a vinyl material. They're nice and big. All right, so you can get them in my Etsy shop. The link for that should be in it. Yep, it's in the description below. So you can go over to Etsy and you can look at that. There's also an ebook or I should say PDF copy of my book available that you can get. And I instead of the printed version if you don't want to pay for shipping. Alrighty. Let's pick the winner of the book and stickers. Brandy Rust. Brandy, you won. Woohoo. So Brandy, Heidi and Nancy, you need to get me all of your mailing addresses as soon as possible and I will get the winnings out to you as soon as I can. Probably no later than Monday. And that's it. Congratulations everybody.  If you are interested in more information about JP graphics, they do have a website, JP Graphics.  They are a local company here in California, a really fabulous customer service. So that's it for today. Don't forget the most important thing. Yes. Go out and have a great day and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. Alright, that's it for today. Just a quick broadcast to announce the winners. I will see you all later. Bye guys.


You need a financial advisor with the freedom to focus on your specific needs. Whatever your goals, Reed Potter can create a game plan tailored to you. Call Reed at 432-0777 at Pikeville, Kentucky to learn more. The Santa Train made its 81st annual run through Eastern Kentucky on Saturday, November 18th. So this is the Santa Train, this is its 81st run. They go to different stops from Kentucky to Tennessee, which is where we're from, and Elkhorn City is always our first stop on the follow-behind truck. This is our second year coming to Elkhorn City, and we just love it. The people are so awesome. Many people, both young and old, turned out to receive gifts from the train despite the cold weather. On its journey, the Santa Train would give out nearly 15 tons of toys and treats to children throughout Appalachia. I know there's a lot of people that are older that come and say that they've been coming to it as a kid, and then they're bringing their grandkids and their grandkids, so it's very special for a lot of families. And the age groups, I mean you have babies, you have special needs, older kids, you have a variety of everybody. It's amazing to see all the different people that come, and this is only my second year, but it's awesome. The Santa Train is a long-standing tradition that many generations of Appalachians look forward to every year. For Mountain Top News, I'm Kelsea Fidell.


Dylan Tubi and you are here today because you want to learn how to become an elite level soccer player so you can achieve your goals of becoming a match winner on the pitch, making a higher level team, earning a college scholarship or playing professional football. I'm aware that you've probably tried to train yourself to become a top player or work with a coach in the past and not gotten the results that you actually wanted. This is not your fault. There's a lot of information out there for a lot of different types of people. So if you've ever been afraid or wondered if it's even possible for you to become a standout player who your teammates respect, earn a college scholarship or one day get paid to play football and that's why I'm here today. I want to show you that it's possible to make noticeable improvements in your game in a short period of time to get more playing time to earn a starting position to become the go-to player for your team and I want to show you how you can do it without training five hours a day using my 12 week total player transformation system. It's like to underperform and take that quiet car ride home. You're sitting with your parents, everyone's quiet. You know they're disappointed but you're disappointed in yourself. I know what it's like to be cut from a team overlooked by a coach.  Football can be extremely frustrating especially when you're not playing well but I want you to know that I've been through all that and I've come out on the other side and I say that not to boast and not to brag but to let you know that it's a possibility and you can do exactly the same. So whatever you're struggling with right now I want you to know there's a solution to your problem and it all starts with you seeking that information. Today I'm going to show you why I know it's possible for you to get better skills, fitness and confidence if you're an ambitious player who's hungry and ready to improve you can do all of that using this 12 week development program. Week number one is all about goal setting and if you do not know where you need to go you're never going to get there. More importantly if you do not know who you need to become in order to achieve what you desire then you will never obtain it. So week number one we're focusing on setting specific goals that are going to motivate you and move you closer to the player you need to be.  You need to have a strong mental foundation the ability to overcome problems, confidence in tough situations so many players play well in training or play well with their friends but they crumble under pressure we need to sort that out immediately. Week number three training principles what you do is very important but how you do it is even more important. So in this section we are going to talk about what you should be focusing your time on but more importantly how to get more out of the time you invest. I want you to be the type of player who gets more out of one hour than most players get out of ten hours and that is totally possible if you start following the advice of these training principles and techniques. Week number four nutrition sadly an area overlooked by most players and if you've managed to get decent results without taking nutrition into consideration imagine what you could do if you started fueling your body properly we're going to talk about hydration nutrition supplementation and how to have a better understanding of controlling your muscle gain and weight loss. Take number five technical skill development if you want better ball control better shooting dribbling turning passing first touch all of these areas will be improved when you take this information into consideration combine this with the technical training that you'll be doing on a daily basis and you will start to see a big change in your skills very quickly. Week six athleticism this is something I struggled with growing up and I see many players doing the same things we only focus on our technical development and we neglect the physical side of the game but this sport is becoming more and more physical and if you cannot keep up you will be left out so week six we're focusing on fitness taking care of your body becoming faster stronger breathing efficiently and how to play with more aggression and intensity week seven decision making your skills your fitness will all be wasted if you do not develop the ability to make the right decision at the right time this is what separates average players from elite players you need to become smarter you need to play quicker this section will help you do all of that and more week eight defending one of the quickest ways to transform your game overnight is to put as much effort energy and passion into your defending as you do your attacking everyone wants to score goals very few players want to stop 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Okay, so post-Asia Summit is still an old picture, but we want to know your feedback. So Roland already mentioned, you have some feedback, you have some improvements that you want to see, you have something that you think is great, and we're here at the Lifelong Learning Institute. So there are a lot of Singaporeans who, of course, participate, and we want to know, yeah, how can we improve in regards to Lifelong Learning as well. So there are a lot of ideas. Well, Roland, where did you get that? Okay, awesome. So always have a spare one, good. So please check this QR code, I will show it at the end again. And see if you want to leave some feedback online. I think there was this idea that people are entering a lucky draw, and right afterwards, if they fill in the feedback form, they can possibly get a t-shirt, right? Is that correct? Yes? Okay, that's cool. Ah, okay. I think that's important information for some people. So if you fill in the feedback form, and then at the end of the closing, you receive the email, you can go to the team, and which team member will distribute the t-shirts, huh? Roland? And they're downstairs? Yeah, okay. So you can go to them and check with them. If you have one, there's a high chance to win. Okay, so, yeah, who are the organizers? Is this here automatic, is this the slideshow, or how is it? What's going forward? Okay, so, organizers, of course, the First Asia Community First Asia Organization, but also the Lifelong Learning Institute. It's the whole building, they support the event, and they helped us to run it, and it's a long-term partnership. So thank you to them. We also had, okay, yeah, sure, applause. Thank you. Then it was the first year that we had the cooperation with Open Euler and the Open Atom Foundation. Yeah, I would say also, big round of applause. Yeah. And good. And yeah, we had our sponsors here, Gold Sponsors, Elite Sponsors, Silver Sponsors, from Oracle to Rundig, only of Google Express VPN, YDB, Grafana Labs, AngelHack, Mercury. Thank you very much to you guys. So it's really great, and we had all of them also at the exhibition. Here are the numbers, yeah. And I hope these numbers are more or less correct, because I understand we are on different platforms, yeah. We have ticketing on different platforms. You know, we're in Singapore. So what happened is that the Lifelong Learning Institute also distributed some tickets, for example, through their platform. We have some numbers there from yesterday and so on. So these numbers are about the numbers that we saw here with the on-site participation. From what we gathered, it's like 1,345 people who have signed up for on-site. And actually, a lot of them came by 101. Of course, like some of them will say, well, we have the thousands of people like that we had in the past. But actually, I also got the feedback that people say post-corona is quite good, yeah. So they saw a lot of activities, other events like still trying to catch up, or they're not happening. So I would say, first Asia is back. And yeah, so what we see as well is the participation online. But the streams are still going. We don't know what are the numbers yet. But we have partnerships also already in the last few years with Kai Yuenshe, for example, in China and also with SegmentFort. So that actually increased our outreach a lot. Like last year, we saw around 5,000 to 6,000 people. It's always the question how you count, right? You at ExpressVPN, you also know, is like, always a unique viewer or they change the IP address and so on. But you get an indication. And what we also saw this year is that we had a lot of people from different countries coming from Korea. Of course, we always have our community from Vietnam, but we also had the Chinese and so on. I mean, everyone who came said, wow, this is really international, yeah. And so that was cool. And actually, like Kai Yuenshe, the Chinese people still here, yeah. I see, ah, OK, some arms going up, yeah, cool. Yeah, but you're also in base in Shenzhen, right? Takasu, so yeah, of course, Japanese, everyone. I'm sorry, I will not, like, mention everyone, but like feel all really hugged and thank you very much that you were here. I think a big round of applause for everyone who participated. International, OK, international, OK, exactly right. Chinese is also an international language, of course. So, yeah. Yes, yeah, OK. I also understand a few words, not so many like you. Cool, and yeah, we have a slide here actually off-segment that is the stream from China that Leslie sent us. And yeah, Takasu, you can read in Chinese. We can have afterwards, you can read for us what's going on there. OK, thank you. And yeah, team members. So we don't have the photos of all the team members, but thank you very much. So I thought that it would be more interesting to have the team members sitting here so you can at least see who we are. I understand that you are already very tired after a very long day, but our team members, they are too shy to sit over here. We still have one seat empty. So one seat empty, symbolizing the shine people and also the people who can't be here because they're actually supporting the event elsewhere. Yeah, so for instance, as we can see, I got this question a lot. This is in the name for Asia doesn't mean that only Asian people can participate. Yeah, exactly. So I got it every time when I go to the other international conference and you can see here. We are not only Asian. We have a lot of people from Europe and of course, Europe everywhere. We have one team member that Mario said he couldn't make it Leslie Wong from China. He doing the streaming for us over there. Yeah, and of course we have many more team members. And I'm sure I'm very sorry. We wanted to put the pictures of everyone, but we did this like last minute, you know, there's so many things going on at the moment. So yeah, so Kiwi, Mr. Ge is here. This is the chair for you. Mr. Ki, where are you? Yeah, somebody switched off the light so we can't see anymore. Mr. Ki, please switch on the light again. I know you are shy. Yeah, but yes. Thank you very much also to Mr. Ki who built a brilliant for example, the building blocks community. Also, they did the workshops in the evening. So that was great too. Yes, and our volunteers, of course, some of them are sitting here in the audience. Thank you very much for your support. So I would just want to mention here. We have quite a number of local people. We have also someone traveling all the way from New Zealand, William, to come here to volunteer for the post-Asia Summit. Thank you very much for that. And we also have like our speaker. I didn't mention here because they are on speaker side. The good thing about being in the post-community, everyone can just like contribute, right? So I remember in the past, so like people come to the conference, even though they are speaker, they willing to walk around and just hang on those wall there and have us with many small tasks to make the event happen. So I really appreciate it. Thank you very much. And what should I say? We want to take a moment to think about our friend and team member. I could not attend one of the talks today, but I heard that someone, one of the speaker dedicated to talk for ARIP, ARIP actually never got a chance to travel abroad in his whole life. So he passed away at the age of 26. I don't know what to say, but the whole event, yeah, system would mostly contributed by ARIP. And I don't know many people here also know him. Yeah, Mario. Yes. So I know not only us. I also saw many polls in the public channel from other communities. They, they also lost members in their community over the past two years. We are very sorry for that. And yeah, so we just want to take a moment to think of these people that contribute to the community. Their work will be always remember. Feel more statistic. Yes. So without you, like we will not have the false Asia Summit. We have altogether 157 speakers from 22 countries. So this number a little bit lower than previous year before COVID. I think we always got a statistic of over 40 different countries. So this year we have 22 and surprisingly the top country is Singapore, not really surprisingly, because people cannot travel anymore. Surprisingly, because compared to the previous fourth Asia, it's a little bit different. And then the next, the next country is India, China, Germany, Japan, Vietnam, USA, South Korea, Sri Lanka and Malaysia. So this is the top five countries of our speakers. Top 10. Sorry. Our participants come from 54 countries. This is the map showing where they're coming from. Please move, move, move next to the flag. So I have to say this is an approximation, because like, for example, some people they say, I live in Japan. So then in the form, what did they fill in? I live 14 years in Japan and then like, am I from Austria? Am I from Japan? Or like, you know, I lived in another country. So yeah, it's never hard to say. I think I need to ask Norbert, our mathematician, to explain this, Simon up to us. So I did it with a software. I did not do, I did not hand it manually. No. So I use a software to put in the number. And this is what they show me.  So actually if you put into any like spreadsheet or something and you say like you only have the scale of zero to one and like anyone, if it's hundred or one or we'll just show up in one color. Yeah. So, yeah, so software. So we are in an international world, right? Whatever make in the tech community, make from people from around the world. So not really even project like open Eula, they have contributors everywhere. So not just Chinese people. We cannot say that, oh, is it a software made for a particular country or anything like that? Any software made from people everywhere. Yeah. Yeah, that's it. Ron, do you want to gather some feedback? And it seems like somebody wants you to talk. My microphone has been handed to me. Okay. So where were we? We have gotten as far as the diversity of talks. Could we please have some more longer ones in the future? Yes, perhaps we could do that. What else? What else would people like to see improved? That's it. All of the stats maybe. So we have quite a number of Indians because he actually and also I just said, were you not here yesterday and the day before? The crack was about the slide that showed we had zero Indian participants. No, actually not true because the lie is so from one to one thousand. So it means that the lighter color, the more people streaming in form. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Better visualization next time. Next. Anyone else? So lunar New Year's are a problem for scheduling, right? But it just happened to be this is Thai New Year. This is Songkran this weekend. Which is impossible not to get with all the conflicts, right? But I had six staff that I would have been able to bring if not for that. So hopefully next year it'll not correspond but yes, I mean, that's a hard problem, right? It's going to be a tough problem. No way of the problem. No matter what we pick, there's a conflict. So actually we were thinking about it but the venue wasn't available on another weekend. So close by. Hi. I'd like to see a better application to view the schedule. I was very confused with what's happening where maybe if we could have a better application given that we have so many beautiful, you know, I don't know, we have the intelligence to be able to harness something collectively where we could add it to our schedule. I just felt like the schedule was a bit clunky for me through the website to access the different aspects. Yeah, so that would have been a better experience and I would have been able to keep schedule. Yeah, that's fair enough. I think the performance of the schedule is a bit slow and there's also a couple of bugs with the sessions appearing repeatedly and so on. So not to make anyone's problem but we very much welcome the assistance on that and we just volunteer to help. So regarding the application, it's actually been a challenge without Arif to maintain EventJ. Norbert knows that we've been actually fighting to keep it up. So just so you guys know it's open source and we welcome few developers to help us maintain it. Can we suppose you'd like that? Actually, thank you for the suggestion but like the backend has that API and in the past people did that. Yeah, so for example, there's some open source Android apps also on they can do it. It's just like somebody has to do it before the conference when everyone's super busy. But honestly, we had a meeting with some people here from India and Sri Lanka and they are very much interested to take it up and like we started, yeah. So that's cool. Yeah. Excellent. Anybody else? Ha, who's coming next year? Oh, that's pretty good. Yes. Any other highlights for anyone? Anything else that anyone that things that people particularly enjoyed? Hardware track was amazing. You guys don't realize that you have like like three or four of the top people on planet Earth are doing the hardware track. That's just, you can't get that anywhere. I need to relay that message to Bunny Hong because yesterday he, yeah. So yesterday, you see him? No, no, no. Yeah, so yesterday he told me that it seemed that he's out of place. Nobody really cared about his topic. He's not sure if he should come here and talk about what he's doing. Can we please put him in the hardware track next time? Yeah, so thank you very much for the feedback. Yeah, I let him know. So I think the highlight in terms of social events is China Street Food because Chinatown Street Food because you have so many different things to taste. We should do it at a place where the restaurants are opening when we get there and not closing. Sorry about that. A place and a time more importantly. I think we need to check that one more carefully next time. I think it sounds so positive. Yeah, so even, it sounds like, but it sounds so positive, you know? It's fair enough. I mean, the times that have been a bit, have changed a little since COVID and we just happened to turn up after half the place has already closed. And that's given Singapore's biggest, we were in Asia's biggest hawker centers, the fact that half of it was closed when we turned up was probably not optimal. But yeah, I think that's a good one. Thank you. Anything else? I really loved the opportunity to, you know, my company sent here to attend talks relevant to my role. And I really love that you guys don't take attendance because what I actually did was go to all the talks I wanted to go to, stuff that's completely unrelated. Like I don't do anything with robotics, but I love the robotics talks and nobody here will tell my company. We'll just make sure your company doesn't watch the wrap-up session. Yeah, the taking of attendance is interesting. I'm glad we don't do it. I don't think we have any plans to do it. Anything else? Things behind you?  Yeah, I just want to thank you that you brought me to one of the beautiful place of the Earth.  We talked a lot about inclusive, inclusiveness of Singapore. You explained me some background from the history of Singapore and so I enjoyed it very much. Thank you. Glad you knew it. Thank you. No, I really like the better students. Are there any students here right now? Can you put up your hand? Okay. Any more Singapore students? Okay. There's one here. Thank you for showing up. Thank you. I saw the students still like doing stuff in the exhibition hall while everyone's wrapping up. So yesterday evening when they gave the workshop and I told them that Harish is in the audience. He gave me a particularly listen to your presentation and they won't slow down. I thought, why Harish is? Okay. How about this? Thanks God. So it's my first time to attend this conference and actually for me it inspired me to be a volunteer for next year. The camaraderie of the team is really great then. You know guys, they are just volunteers. They're not actually paid. They're not making anything. But you know it's very nice to see people just contribute anything and they welcome anything as well. And it's very heartwarming to see that this goes a long way and hopefully next year we can get more participants. Congrats to all of us. Thank you so much. We very much offer it consciously as a sort of community group. So yeah, that's great. Glad you saw it. Others? Only one person's talked about the video. That's excellent. Obviously I'm the only person who's really made about it. Other things we can improve. Other things people particularly enjoyed. This might be last call. Going once. Going twice. Do it twice a year. Where goes no when you are? That's not. I think we might remain at once a year. What we are doing or trying to do a little bit of please, please travel to others in the region. There are others happening. But there's also moving to do slightly more. This is just a random comment. Who went to the social event last night? Cool, cool. Did you guys hear the mix? The DJ mix, right? That was good. I think next year maybe we need smoke machines. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right, we have DJ Dan over there. Smoke machines. Late. Say again. We're going to have to explain maybe some lasers. Sharks. Just take the lid off Kiwi's machine. We have lasers also holes in the building. But you know, all good. And intention to do some meetups in Singapore during the year. It's possible that together with the post Singapore group, we try to do one every quarter a minute up here. So not quite the full summit. Much, much smaller than the summit. But we are trying to do a few times a year. All right. I think that's pretty much canvassed at the throwing. Thank you everyone. And for those who'd like to, please join us at Hackerspace later on for chat, drinks and at some point also street hooting. That's it. We're done. Thank you.