It's 11 a.m. It's Think Tech. It's a given Tuesday. And Peter Rosseg, a spokesman for Hawaiian Electric, and I were just discussing the meaning of the word kauna, which is an important word to understand, you know, the cultural inside of the Hawaiian culture. Can you define it, Peter? Well, kauna usually is described as the hidden meaning behind a word or a phrase or an idea. It's a sexual or, you know, relationship term, I think. But very often, I think it comes up in other meanings. The story you hear, you know, it's like a fairy tale has a surface meaning that children understand and another meaning that adults understand. And the kauna is the unspoken meaning of the fairy tale, I think. Should I always be listening? You have to always be listening because, you know, we all think in different ways. And you have to be sure that what you're hearing when you're listening is what the other side is saying. And sometimes, you know, especially I think I shouldn't be opining on this. But in an island culture, you know, you tend not to be very direct and blunt.  So I think, you know, in island cultures, Bob Krauss always used to talk about this at the advertiser. You know, people will not be so direct, they'll be circumspect, because if you insult somebody today, you're going to see them again tomorrow. And it might not go your way tomorrow. It's a small town. Yeah, very small town. It's a great thing about Hawaii, you know, that is a small town. It is. So Peter, thanks for coming down in Election Day. It's an important day. It's a stark day. We'll see you later. In the meantime, you know, I think it's very important to talk about the poll agreement and how the poll agreement has changed. You should tell them what the poll agreement is. You mean the one between the Czechoslovakians and the polls? No, no, no, that's that point. So Hawaiian Electric and Hawaiian Telecom have come to an agreement which has been approved by the Public Utilities Commission. There are about 120,000 polls across the islands, not counting Kauai, that are jointly owned. And they've been jointly owned or we've jointly owned polls for almost 100 years. But this was getting increasingly complicated and there's more and more things on polls. And so we started talking to them some time ago about us taking the ownership interest we call it or taking over the ownership of the joint polls. What does the poll agreement say? It said basically that in order not to have a telephone poll and an electric poll sitting side by side and then a third poll for whoever came along next, that we would have a joint poll and the top wires almost always are the electric company wires. The next wires down below are the phone wires and then over time cable wires and other things have been added there, street lights and so forth. So what was a fairly simple straightforward system got more and more complicated. And when somebody has, when there's an accident, the television calls up and says there's a poll out and we have to look in the book and say, oh no, that's not our poll, that's their poll and vice versa. There are a lot of complications that go with that, not least of which that in going into the future, there's going to be more things possibly on polls, new technology, 5G network connections and so forth. 5G nodes and go on the polls. On the polls, right. So it would be a lot simpler for everybody if there was one company that owned all the polls and was the one stop and you could always call them and it's not perfect. The White Tuck, I'm still owns about 20,000 polls on their own or whatever the situation on Kauai is. City and county also have some joint ownership through their street lights. We're going to work on that next. But by getting this all into one house, we're going to, we're solving a lot of things and for most people, I think the primary thing is when you drive around the islands, you see these big poll and then a stump called a double poll. And what's happened is that for some reason the electric wires were moved from the original poll over to the new poll. And then the top was cut off that stump because the other wires, whether it's cable wires or telecommunication wires or whatever, were not moved yet. And sometimes they stay there for unfortunately a long time. There are about 14,000 of them around the islands. And they're bound up. The two polls are bound together. Sometimes they're bound together. Sometimes not. Sometimes they've had to reinforce the older poll. They're not attractive and they're not useful and they just create two polls to hit with your car instead of one. So we're going to be able to, over the course of the 10 years coming, we're going to be able to get rid of those joint polls. It's going to clean up the environment. It's going to clean up the neighborhoods and make everything better looking. But more importantly, it will streamline things and it will make things less expensive, we believe, over the long run. And now you have to have two companies come and pull up a truck and do this and that. Maybe the first company has to come back and finish or whatever. Now we're eventually going to get to the point that one company will get out there and will manage everything. And Hawaii and Telcom and other providers will have agreements to put things on the polls, but we'll own them. We'll maintain them and so forth. You have to pay anything for this? Yeah. Nothing's free. No actual cash changed hands, but about $48 million in credit goes from Hawaii and Telcom that for past expenses and for future, they're sort of future rent on the polls. I don't know the details of how long that lasts or whatever, but basically nothing's going to move right away. So they're going to pay like any other provider will pay. And that lets them concentrate on their core business, which is the communications increasingly wireless, but there's still wires involved and phone and so forth. And for Hawaii Electric, it's going to save our customers money, we believe, and we see it as a way to, as these 5G things come in, that it's perhaps a source of income that we can use to reduce electric bills. Because at the end of the day, that's what we need to do. We need to reduce bills for our customers. So this is a very good deal. A PUC said, wow, this is great. Both of us, of course, are regulated utilities. So they had to approve and we've been in negotiations a long time. You'd think it would be simple, but nothing is simple. And we had to talk to the other telecommunications people that are on our polls and say, here's what our plan is and you will or won't be affected and so forth. But I think it's, it's going to be fairly invisible, but to most people, but in the long run, it's going to be a good deal for everybody. I imagine it's a good deal for Hawaiian Telecom, because A, they could use the money. Right. And B, their, what do you call it, their dial tone is less than it was, because people are relying more on their phones. Their business is changing and it just didn't make sense for both companies to have this fairly expensive vested interest in these polls. And now they have a new owner, of course, and we, you know, we hope that that's the end of their financial difficulties, but it has been a struggle because of different priorities, I guess, between the two companies.   So this removes all that. We're responsible and we're going to take that responsibility seriously. And as I said, over, you know, it's not going to happen tomorrow, God knows, but over the course of the next 10 years, we're in the process of an audit and of all these roughly 14,000, what we call double polls. This is on three islands. On three islands, right. And every place but Kauai actually. So five islands, not Kauai, there's a different utility there, you know. So we're doing this audit and we're going to figure out, you know, which polls are unsafe right now. We're going to do those first, which polls are older. We're going to get to those sooner rather than later. You know, where older polls also means that our customers have been staring, looking at them for a long time. And so we want to try to solve that for the people who's, you know, been looking out their window and seeing this, you know, not very sightly looking at them. Well, are we, does this put us closer to underground? Is there a plan there? Is this part of, you know, the deal? It's, no, not really. You know, undergrounding or overhead is still a basic question that has to be answered. I think we'll see increasingly undergrounding, especially in new construction and certainly in areas in Waikiki and the capital district and so forth. It's still a financial decision. Undergrounding is very expensive right at the beginning. And yeah, there's some sense that over the 50 or so years of the service life of the wires that there's less maintenance. But you know, we got flooding in Kakako and a lot of places these days. So even undergrounding is no, you know, long-term guarantee. Putting up a poll is not cheap, but it's not that expensive in the, you know, in the short term, cash flow and so forth. And over the course of the life, it probably is a little more susceptible to wind and rain and all of the kinds of damage. So the end result, we've studied this a number of times because people are always asking. And the conclusion is that they both cost about the same over the course of 50 years. But the question is, when do you want to pay the money? When does the 50 years begin? Yeah, when does it begin? And that's the other thing. You know, if we were to start to, first of all, it would take a, if we were going to try to underground everything, it would not be a Hawaiian electric decision. It would be, you know, a legislature governor. It would be a public policy decision. And then somebody would have to say, the first guy is to get their wires undergrounded is you. And the last guy to get their wires undergrounded is you. It's a problem. And I'm not happy about that because I could be paying a tax or, you know, whatever it's going to cost to do this. And it would be billions of dollars.  So you got to ask, you know, is that the best use of the money in a high expense area like Hawaii? Is that the way you want to spend the money? And how do you do it equitably? I think most people would agree that, you know, the beauty spots and Waikiki and things like that, the coast lines ought to be, you know, among the first places. But heck, you know, if I have a poll in front of my house, I'm going to want it to be undergrounded if everybody else is, and I don't want to wait 20 or 30 or 40 years. So it is not a simple problem. Couple of thoughts about that. I mean, I take your point about how this is not just a utility issue because there's so much money involved. It's very expensive to dig the trench, to put everything in there, to insulate it somehow, and then cover it up. And I guess, I don't know the answer, but I guess there are legal issues involved in that, you know, in terms of who owns the land and whether the utility easement covers that. It would be, you know, on all fronts, both on the technical front and on the physical front and on the legal front, it would be a huge undertaking. And don't forget, there's still going to be street lights. So there's still going to be poles that go up and have street lights on them. They're still going to be, you know, traffic lights and all that sort of thing. So you're not going to ever have a terrain totally free of poles.  It's an aesthetic question. Yeah, you don't quite notice it. If the pole is leaning and there's 12,000 things hanging off of it and a lot of junk, of course, you notice it. So I don't know, I know there are certainly people who are very interested in having poles underground or the wires underground and then the poles gone. But I think the majority of people, if you said, you know, is it that important to you? And some things could never, you know, we have massive 138 KV lines that go across the mountains and are held up by big, very strong now, you know, we strengthen these structures. You're never going to underground across the coal allowance. You're never going to, I've never meaning, you know, within the foreseeable future. Balance of equities is not worth it. Yeah. So, you know, it's always going to be a compromise. And I think the present situation where some districts are required, Capital District, as I said, and Waikiki and other places, new construction, it's usually built into the cost of the development that the developer says, we're going to put these underground. We're going to have to dig anyway. So we're going to dig for that. And if any neighborhood really, really wants to do this, they can come to us if they can find some funding or they can, you know, if it's worth it to them to underground in an area, we will talk to them and we'll tell them what's involved. And we, you know, we don't have any, we don't care in a general policy way. So if, and there have been a few small neighborhoods called the SACs and so forth, where the owners of the properties all got together and said, let's figure out what this would cost. We figured it out. We figured out where the money was going to come from a little bit from the utility, a little bit from them and so forth. And I don't know, I think there used to be some federal money that you could get for certain kinds of things. So, you know, we're not, we're never closing the door, but each decision is kind of, you know, has to be made on the basis of what makes the most sense to us, since the Public Utilities Commission, because they have to, if we're going to spend money, customers money on this, they have to say it's okay. And the consumer advocate has to say, this is fair to everybody, not just, you know, a good deal for these folks. You know, there was a, we're bound for extreme weather. Yeah. No question about that. And there was a piece in the paper this morning on inundation. It was very scary. You know, all the low-lying areas were going to be covered. Yeah.  So, you get two, you get two possibilities there. One is, if it's close to the inundation area or in the inundation area, I think I'd rather have the pole than the underground, because I want, I want power to be restored quickly. Right. The other is, well, if we're going to have a windstorm, I think I'd rather have the underground than the pole. Right. Any thoughts?   And, you know, depending on the location and how well it can be protected, if it's underground, how well it can be protected from flooding, you know, what kind of drainage. And, you know, those, it's also very difficult work. I mean, climbing up a pole in the rain to fix an electric wire is no picnic. But getting down in a, well, I guess we have to call them person holes in the dark, you know, water up to your knees and so forth to fix an electric connection is also very challenging. And, you know, so, as I said, we don't have a strong stake either way. We're trying to do what makes the most sense. Right. Certain areas, I think you're right. It would be unwise, I think, to do too much undergrounding right now in Kakako. It would be, you know, just kind of asking for trouble. But, you know, on the other hand, new developers go in, they want to do that. If they can create, you know, there are ways to make sure the drainage in these, in these underground areas is good. But it all adds to the cost of undertaking the job. I think your point is like everything else in energy, you know, the technology is changing. Maybe somebody will come up with some solution that's less expensive, more effective. And speaking of more effective, we're going to take a one minute break. We're going to get effective after this one minute. We're going to come back when we talk about the new solar initiative with seven utility-scale solar farms. We'll be right back. Great. Hey, loha. My name is Andrew Lanning. I'm the host of Security Matters Hawaii airing every Wednesday here on ThinkTech Hawaii, live from the studios. I'll bring you guests. I'll bring you information about the things in security that matter to keeping you safe, your co-workers safe, your family safe, to keep our community safe. We want to teach you about those things in our industry that, you know, may be a little outside of your experience. So please join me because Security Matters. Aloha. And Aloha. My name is Calvin Griffin, host of Hawaiian Uniform. And every Friday at 11 o'clock here on ThinkTech Hawaii, we bring you the latest on what's happening within the military community. And we also invite your response to things that's happening here. For those of you who haven't seen the program before, again, we invite your participation. We're here to give information, not disinformation. And we always enjoy response from the public. But join us here, Hawaiian Uniform, Fridays, 11 a.m. here on ThinkTech Hawaii. Aloha. We are delighted to be here with Peter Rasek, a spokesman for Hawaiian Electric. During the break, we talked about life, lifelong learning, okay? Giving me goosebumps. I mean every word. So we have a sign here, says lifelong learning lives here. We also say truth lives here. That's the way it is at ThinkTech. And, you know, I just want to say that when I finished 70 years of graduate school, I said to myself, that's it. I'm not going back to school. I did all my learning. I'm not doing it again. But I changed my mind. Yeah. Maybe we all have. I saw a quote that said, you know, in the future illiteracy will not be the inability to read. It will be the inability to learn new things. Everything, I mean, the world is incredibly changing and for good and bad. As we know today on election day, we are hoping for the best. But, you know, the new technologies, I had to go and look up what 5G is. So for our discussion about polls, I, you know, I've heard the term 100 times, but I never, I never knew what the G stood for.  So wireless connections. So, you know, if you're not learning, if you're not open to new thoughts, you're, you're, you must be dead. So. Especially now. Yeah. Now more than ever. I mean, how different our lives are from what they were 20 years ago, from what our parents lives were 50 years ago. Incredible. It's just, I mean, it's exciting. In most cases, it's very, very invigorating. Yeah. But you gave me an idea for a new sign we have to have now more than ever. Now more than ever. Okay. Well, let's talk about utility scale solar. You know, I just felt years ago, years ago, when you and I first met, I felt that the future was in utility scale solar. And that the most efficient way to do solar was in large blocks and do it well. And so what's happening with the seven utility scale solar farms you guys are working on? Well, about last February, we actually put out a request for proposal said we were looking for renewables, mostly solar for on all of the islands we serve. And more than 20 applications came in and we picked the seven best that were in the final stages of negotiation. So we're going to have seven new solar farms, we believe, assuming the Public Utilities Commission agrees and we believe they will. Three on Oahu, two on Maui, two on on Hawaii Island. And first of all, you know, the headline is biggest infusion of new solar in the history of Hawaiian electric companies. 265 megawatts. 265 megawatts. Right. But the really important thing is two things. First of all, the prices are very good. They are very attractive and especially on Hawaii Island and Maui, those are going to be very helpful in bringing down their high energy costs. Well, it would seem that the cost of doing this on Oahu or Maui or the big island, it's all the same. Am I right? It's basically a very similar land cost, shipment costs. You know, there's some small differences, but basically, you know, the cost of a panel from China is the cost of a panel, getting it here, getting it installed. Once it's installed, it's very low maintenance, very cheap moving parts and so forth. So yeah, it is a very, in that sense, it's very attractive. And the costs for homes, as we know, and for grid scale projects has been coming down. So the price is very attractive. And the final thing really is most important for all three islands. Each of these projects will have a battery, will have energy storage. So during the noon time, middle of the day, when solar is strongest, it will collect energy. And if it's not needed immediately in the grid, it will be stored. And it will be available at five o'clock in the evening when the sun has gone down, but most energy is needed. So from five to roughly nine o'clock, most of these things will have about four hours of storage. So they will be able to transfer. The holy grail of renewables is getting renewables from when they're plentiful to when they're needed. And this is going to make a huge step in that direction. Increasingly, every renewable project will have to have some kind of storage, but for solar especially, because it's so abundant in the middle of the day from 10 to two or so, and then it tapers up, tapers off. But that creates a lot of problems for our system, not just for customers and what they pay, but about three in the afternoon, all of a sudden as the solar goes down, the amount of energy we have to produce goes up, call it ramping. And it goes up in a radical way much more quickly than most of our generators are designed to move. Most of our generators are going to go inching up and then inching down. Then all of a sudden we have these incredible ramps that we have to deal with. Is the peaking plant play into this? Yeah, peaking, peaking plant is what you turn on to deal with the ramping in a traditional way. But if you have this energy in the batteries, you're going to be able to control that ramping and we're going to be able to avoid, you know, there are three kinds of plants, base load on all the time, cycling which you turn on, you know, which you increase and lower, and peaking which you turn on at the very height of your demand. That's the most quick response. Quick response, but also the most expensive. That is very expensive energy. It has to start up quickly. You have to have, you know, the fuel and so forth. So if we can avoid that, and we can avoid ramping our cycling plants in such a fast way, I mean, they're meant, you know, if you drive your car normally, you increase the speed and decrease the speed. If you start revving it up and going, you know, from one to 60 in 10 seconds, your engine's going to be gone before you know it, right? And these are big engines. And if we have to continually ramp them in this radical way, it takes the life out of there, out of the minute, you know, avoids the warranty and all those bad things. So this will be a terrific asset for all the three islands and the price is great. So on the big island, on Hawaii Island, where they have paid very high rates because their wind farms are still on contracts from avoided cost of oil. We don't do that anymore, but those contracts are still in force. All of a sudden, we're going to get a large infusion about 60 megawatts on Hawaii Island of solar at a very reasonable rate and we'll be able to move the fraction of what it was before. It's probably among the best prices we've seen for grid-scale renewables. So that's very exciting. It's exactly the fruition of what we have been trying to do and leading up to in the 10 years or so, since we really got serious about this. And one more thing, we originally put out the RFP in February, I believe, and then came May or so, the lava, the eruptions on the big island and Pune Geothermal Venture, a 38 megawatt firm renewable energy plant, had to close because the lava surrounded it. Also on avoided cost, aren't they? Partly, part of it. They're more expensive. Yeah, they're more expensive, but their more recent contracts have been, have avoided, avoided cost. But at any rate, they're a very reliable partner and they tell us they're going to reopen and they've kept their staff on salary and they're flying people by helicopter to do maintenance and so forth. But in the meanwhile, we're not getting that renewable energy into the system. And so this and other plants that are being built on the big island will help to alleviate whatever happens with Pune Geothermal Venture. We hope they'll come back and they said they will and that's what we're looking forward to. But we don't know when and they don't know. So this is going to be a big help on the big island and the Public Utilities Commission, we went back to them after the lava erupted and said, you know, can we modify our request for proposals? And it's a lot of legalese, but basically, we got to do more for the big island because of this situation. They said, yeah, let's do it and, you know, let's move it along and let's expedite this so that we can get these very attractive prices. And one of the reasons the prices are attractive is there is a federal tax credit. If the deal expires in a year or so. Yeah, it starts to decline actually at the end of this year. So that's why we want to get these contracts signed, sealed, and delivered so that they can take advantage of that. That's part of the secret for getting these good prices. And you know, I think what most people do not know and that is Hawaiian Electric doesn't take a markup or on electricity we buy from a solar farm from a third company. So whatever we can get in terms of a good deal is what the customers pay. Pass it through. And you know, that's what the Public Utilities Commission wants us to do. That's what the CA wants us to do. And that's what we want to do. I mean, we're all paying, we're all customers of Hawaiian Electric. Well, it addresses that old issue of democratization because if I have the money to put it on the top of my house, it doesn't help the guy next door. Right. A utility scale solar farm helps everyone. Every single person, including the people with solar on their roof. And we're, you know, we're very happy, you know, we're, the 80,000 some customers have solar on their roofs, more power to them. We have just, speaking of batteries as we were, we have just formulated a new program. So somebody that has in them, Net Energy Metering Agreement with our company, they want to add their own storage or they want to add some panels depending on the size and the shape and so forth. They can do that without voiding their original agreement. And that was, you know, the deal was if you come back, if you put on 10 panels and you want to put on two more, your old agreement gets thrown out. Well, that's not a very good deal. And now that storage is available in home, and so these customers, they're making their contribution to our available energy. So they're expanded by putting storage on. That's what they do. So they can do the same thing. They get the power in the middle of the day, and they can use it at 5 o'clock at night. Let me ask you this though, Peter. Going back to the whole scenario about extreme weather, whether that could tear power lines down, whether that could inundate, whatever, and cause blackouts, because it happens. Would I be better, wouldn't I be better off if I installed on my house with a battery than if I relied on a big solar farm? Well, you know, that's one of the advantages of having your own solar plant on your roof with energy storage. You, unless you have the energy storage, you can't use them. But if you do have energy storage in your home, these Tesla wall-mounted batteries or some other arrangement, you will be able to keep power going, maybe not every bit you need, but, you know, enough to keep much more comfortable. No question. If you can afford it, if you own a roof, if you can afford it, you know, lots and lots of people at Hawaiian Electric have solar on their roof, probably higher percentage of the general public, because, you know, that makes sense. If you can afford it, you have the home, you're in the right situation.  So I'm left out in the cold, and we are going to soon have community solar, which is going to help that a little bit. But that won't solve the problem you're talking about, you know, reliability in the case of really adverse weather. There's also a piece in the paper this morning about the Big Island, and there's been a reduction in permits, you know, building permits for solar installation on single-family homes. So I think a lot of people cannot afford it or are most interested in it, and it's not something that we can predict. We'll keep on climbing. No, I think you're right. And about a third of people who have single-family, own single-family homes, have solar now. And that's a huge chunk, you know, relative to a lot of things. So, you know, we don't expect, we had this incredible rapid growth for a few years. Energy prices were extraordinarily high because of the price of oil basically in the Asia-Pacific region, and panels were getting cheaper and cheaper. And there were a lot of companies here who were competing to install solar. And there was this kind of confluence of events that saw this very rapid rise. I think that's calmed down. And in any given month, you know, the permits may be up, the permits may be down. Over the, you know, over the course of time, we expect the long-range prognostication is for rooftop solar privately owned to continue to increase. Just not, you know, in a rocket ship, more, you know, more in a long haul. I'll tell you about a show we did. We were really out of time. But let me tell you about a show we did a month or two ago involving some agency that was watching this guy was in Washington. And he told us that they had made a study of Puerto Rico. And in Puerto Rico, there were utility-scale solar farms. Probably not the kind maybe that we would build, but they were there, at least two of them big ones. And what was really interesting is, is that they had one contractor build on this side, another contractor build on that side. And the fittings that were on this side were different than the fittings on that side. And when the winds came, this side was destroyed. The panels were ripped off the footings. They were completely inoperable. On that side, they still worked. And the lesson to me is you can build it this way or you can build it that way. Right, right, right. Now, you know, it is not a simple undertaking. And, you know, these companies that do it have to cost it out and so forth. But, you know, we're, our terms require, we don't pay a contractor a penny unless they deliver electricity. So, if they're going to build a system that's not going to withstand some wind, they're going to be out of luck. Not, you know, we're not holding the bag for that. So, that's part of the deal. We want the best possible system. But the crux is we're going to not pay more than a certain amount for the energy. And we're not going to pay anything if the energy doesn't come. So, it's the contractor's responsibility to do a good job. And I got to say, among the 20 or so who applied, we have chosen the most reliable, you know, some of the best companies to do this. Part of what you look at when you decide to do a contract is, have these guys done contracts before? What's their performance record?  Or are they, you know, working out of their garage? And so, I think the, I think we have a fairly good assurance that the companies we've chosen are going to do a very good job. It's in their interest and certainly in our interest, but ultimately the financial responsibility is with them. Thank you, Peter. Peter Russer, Spokesman for Hawaiian Electric. Oh, it's good to see you. Okay. Aloha.


Here is wintertime and so impact on spring European climate. Mostly these results are obtained in collaborations with my dear colleagues, one of them here. And many thanks goes to them as well to the Franco-Multeney, because I used speedy as my main tool to investigate and so impact on European climate. So my talk, out of my talk is like this. First in the introduction part, I will explain you some winter and so forcing and our results about wintertime and so impact on European climate. Then I will explain your motivation to study that time lag, the wintertime and so to springtime European climate study. I will explain you shortly experiment design and also results about delayed and so impact. And as conclusion, I will provide you some kind of physical mechanism of that delayed and so impact.  I'm particularly interested in SOT anomalies in tropical Pacific and in Aesophases, both La Nina and El Nino and their impact on European climate variability. On this picture, we may see El Nino precipitation impact over the globe. And you see that the impact over the sun region in the world is quite clear, particularly over the Pacific North American pattern over the Australia. But if you look at the European region, there is quite weak signal. It is not easy to extract and so signal from the other influences over that part of the world. We know that North Atlantic European region is associated with large internal variability of the atmosphere. And there is also some other phenomena that might even have stronger impact on European climate like we know that North Atlantic oscillation has strong impact on this area. Tropical Pacific, particularly the Nino 3.4 region, is quite away from the Europe. And interactions with regional seasonal cycle, aquatic properties, complexity of a lot of feedbacks, they may mask and so impact over the Europe. But what we did in our experiment, one of the first experiment was to create large ensemble of speedy simulations. It was quite long simulations, and we tried to easily answer signal over the northern hemisphere. Here you can see the composites for La Nina and El Nino events for 100 hectopascals go potential high. And you see that the response of the Pacific North American region is quite strong. What is also the truth for the model is that the signal is symmetric, which means that action centers over the P&A region for La Nina and El Nino oppose over the more or less over the similar places, which may not be the true for the observations. But that's what we got with speedy. Also what we obtained for P&A region that the strength of the response is proportional to the strength of the forcing. If you look over the Europe, you may see that there is quite weak signal over the mainly over the North Atlantic. But at least we obtained that for El Nino, there is decreased anomalies and for La Nina increased anomalies, which is in quite good correspondence with some other studies, both modeling and observational studies. And it is which is also in line with the results of Frederick and Miller, who obtained that for the European climate, El Nino events are related more to a cyclonic type of weather and opposite for La Nina. So our speedy gives more or less good results even over the Europe. So what was the motivation to analyze time delay and some impact over the Europe? First, we obtained that concurrent ENSO impact was obtained in many modeling and observational studies. But there are also some studies that were indicated some time delay than ENSO impact. And that spring precipitation anomalies sometimes is even stronger than wintertime spring precipitation anomaly associated with ENSO. Then there were some quite big progress in understanding of observed and modulate ENSO impact have been made. And also, dynamical ENSO predictions have been improved. So if we found some correlation between wintertime ENSO and springtime response over the Europe, that might have an impact on seasonal predictions, hopefully. So what we made. Experimental design, we used observational data for precipitation as climate research. You will need to prove data. And then sea level pressure from Hadley Center. And we need SSTs and CI's climatology as input forcing for speedy model. Modulated data, we performed several targeted experiments. One of them is control experiment, which is based on 20 member ensemble of speedy simulations forced with observed globally prescribed SST in global oceans. Then we have mixed experiment, which means that we have SST forcing in tropical Indian and tropical Pacific Ocean. But also, we prescribed a slab ocean layer in North Atlantic to allow air sea interaction over that part. After that, we have mixed winter ENSO, which is the similar experiment like this one. But we limited SST forcing to the winter season, which is more or less extended winter from October to March. And also, mixed summer ENSO experiment with SST forcing prescribed in only during the summer part of the year. And here, there are some of results over the North Atlantic European region. So first, we may see that during the GFM season, which is winter season, we have La Nina and El Nino response, which is quite similar to that what Frederick and Miller obtained based on their observational study. And for La Nina, there is increased density level pressure. And during El Nino, it decreased, which is more or less cyclonic type of weather. Precipitation anomalies are in quite good accordance with density level pressure as they should be. So we have increased precipitation during El Nino years over the southern part of the Europe, while the strongest signal is over the Atlantic. The signal is quite symmetrical. But what we obtained over the Europe is that the amplitude of the response doesn't depend on the amplitude of the forcing. Because when we try to do composites based on strong ENSO events and moderate ENSO events, we didn't get much difference in amplitude of the response. So obviously, at least in speedy and in observation, we have concurrent ENSO influence on northern Atlantic European region. So the question is, is it possible that wintertime ENSO has an impact on springtime climate over the Europe? Here you may see the first EOF of AMJ precipitation for crew and for control experiment with speedy. They're quite similar. And we see that there is increased variability of the AMJ precipitation over the southern parts of Europe. So our question is, how tropical Pacific SST influences AMJ precipitation over these parts of the world? It could be done by contemporaneous impact, which means that springtime SSTs in tropical Pacific forces somehow springtime precipitation. There is also the possibility of time delayed, which means that wintertime ENSO has an impact on springtime precipitation over the Europe. So what we did to try to investigate if that delayed impact is possible, we calculated the correlation between the PC1 of MAJ precipitation, which is actually the measure of springtime variability of precipitation over the Europe with SSTs all over the world. And in tropical Pacific, we obtained the signal which projects on ENSO pattern. So this is the true for the crew data, but also for the control experiment with speedy. There is the MAJ2-JFM correlation. This is the contemporaneous correlation. You see that springtime variability of precipitation over the Europe is strongly connected to wintertime state of SSTs in tropical Pacific, but is not the true for the springtime, which means that the tropical Pacific during the winter has stronger impact than the springtime conditions in tropical Pacific. Excuse me, the correlation's value is about, it is go by 1.1. So here is 1.4. But they're statistically significant because we have quite a long time period. It is up to 1.4. The contour lines is 0.1, yes, 0.1, and 6. Yes. Yes, it's a dish one. Do you think it could be OK? Could be. Could be. You just need to check. So obviously, we have contemporaneous and delayed ENSO impact on precipitation over the Europe. So to focus only to one of them, we performed the winter and summer experiments. So in winter experiment, we allowed only delayed ENSO impact. And in summer experiment, we allowed only contemporaneous spring to spring impact. And what we obtained is presented here for summer ENSO. There, you may see that precipitation is decreased over the central part of the Europe. While in winter ENSO experiment, we have the more or less continuous band of increased precipitation over the Europe. If you look at the cruel precipitation, there are more similarity between this one and this one. The same is true for the control experiment, which give us an indication that for more similar ENSO response, we need winter time and so forth in tropical Pacific. So what is about the physical mechanism of that time delayed? Obviously, we obtained quite similar results between cool and mixed winter ENSO experiment. If we compare mixed winter and mixed summer experiment, then we can conclude that seasonal persistence of ENSO is not the key factor for that delayed impact. Rosby wave propagation mechanism, we cannot explain that because we know Rosby waves are quite quickly come to the Europe. So we need some intermediate physical mechanism. So we need some slower component of the climate system to allow that connection. And what we focused on is the role of North Atlantic. So what we have in our experiments. So mixed winter experiments on the first data left panel, you may see SSDs obtained in slab ocean layer. Obviously, there are some SSD anomaly pattern, which is also obtained in the experiment when we have the SSD forcing during the fall year. And that SSD pattern is quite in accordance with pattern of temperature, surface temperature, and also with the patterns of the temperature on higher levels. So you can see here that at 850 hectopark styles, the temperature pattern is something like here. Minus sea level pressure response to that pattern is in that way that we have decreased sea level pressure over the North Atlantic and just a little part of Western Europe. But as the consequence of such a mean sea level pressure response, we have increased pressure gradient and also increased zonal wind in this area. Increased zonal wind in this area means that there will be also the increased direction from the ocean to the land. And as a result, we obtain increased precipitation over that part of the Europe. So there's a physical mechanism that explains what's going on in our experiments. But there is also the question, what's going on in the same time in the speedy stratosphere? We all know that stratosphere is an important part in extra-tropical teleconnections. So we look at the speedy stratosphere. Actually, speedy doesn't have a real stratosphere, but at least it has some upper parts of the stratosphere. And for zonal wind, there are some composites for El Niño minus La Niña event. And for the zonal winds, we obtained that response projects onto not an annual mode in January, February, March, and April. So that pattern persists quite long. The same we also looked for the temperature. So the temperature response is associated with stratospheric warming during El Niño events. So polar stratosphere warms during El Niño and cooling during La Niña events. Because the slow stuff is very warming, no sudden. No sudden, no, no. They're only monthly means, so. After that, we just defined some indexes that may measure the strength of this pattern and also the strength of this warming. And what we obtained for the experiment where there is no slab ocean layer, you may see that there is some signal in the stratosphere which is persistent. There is also the signal at the surface. The same is true for zonal wind. We see that the stratosphere responds, but also the response over the surface. But if we include slab ocean layer in North Atlantic, then this surface anomalies last longer than in the experiments where there is no slab ocean layer. Which means that really something comes from the North Atlantic ocean. We have signal persistence in stratosphere, but also something from the interaction between the North Atlantic and atmosphere. To check if that it's really true, we also made another idealized experiment with SST-4, with SST-4 put in tropical pacific from January to mid-February. And after that, it was decreased and in March was zero. There was no mixed layer. This experiment was supposed to just to check what is going on in the species stratosphere. And we obtained that we really may see some stratospheric warming associated with SST-4 in tropical pacific. This is also the true for the wind. And we calculated daily meridional heat flux anomaly and obtained that this increased incoming heat flux preceded to the strongest power warming. So the maximum is somewhere here in February. And then the warming, the maximum warming is somewhere in the middle of March or a little bit later. So even speedy has quite simple stratosphere. It also contributes to that time delayed connection between tropical pacific and North Atlantic European region.  First of all, what we have, we have tropical pacific forcing and through the interaction, we have tropical atmosphere response. And by Rosby wave train and with the contribution of stratosphere, we also have some response in mid-platid atmosphere. Due to air sea interaction, there is SST anomaly pattern in North Atlantic which can persist for some longer time. And due to that SST pattern, we also have increased zonal wind and atmospheric response, which is here found as increased precipitation over the ocean and over this part of the Europe during the spring. So thank you very much.


So after watching my video yesterday on how you play as Johnny Silverhand and run around Night City if you missed that video you'll find it on my channel and I'll link it down below. I had numerous questions thrown at me and because I want to do these kind of testing videos I decided to destroy it out and see what happens. I don't know the results as of right now I'm recording this live but I was asked by Sam or Sammy on my discord what happens in those instances where as you play it as V and you see Johnny. Well if I'm Johnny as I am now with other's rogue but if I'm Johnny as I am now what happens within those instances of the game where I actually see Johnny Silverhand as V so will I see Johnny Silverhand so there'll be two of me what's gonna happen and also Chris a palamon on discord also asked can you go and visit Joy Toys while playing as Johnny Silverhand well today people that's what we're gonna find out now I've got the perfect spot obviously for Joy Toys um the Johnny Silverhand part I think it just depends where I am on this character somewhere within the jig jig street markets I'm pretty sure you see Johnny Silverhand I'm pretty certain you do if we are it's like a guy playing a guitar and he pops up there or if you walk past these steps I'm pretty sure you're sitting on the steps now I don't know how this is going to work because obviously like I said I've glitched out there the mission after transmission where you go and speak to the voodoo people and then you go and play as Johnny Silverhand you go where your team are rogue and this dude's right here and you gotta go and rescue Oat the glitch is done there so I doubt this is anything like this is gonna happen but I'm making my way down to jig jig street I think it's down here I doubt any of this is gonna work but it's worth a try it's worth a test now like I said I made a post yesterday uh Cyberpunk is getting kind of dry and especially for someone like me who's played it for so long there's only so many videos I can make in terms of glitches and legendary loot locations so I thought I may as well do things where I'm just having fun and playing the game I'm kind of lost I did find a fast job oh this one there but yeah I like the game I want to play the game I want to have fun playing the game and doing things like this where I'm testing theories testing myths um so it's round here somewhere so I don't get round so if you have anything you want to see me test any myth you want to see me try and bust let me know down below I'm gonna bust a few myths today but I'm pretty certain these are both going to be fails if I'm honest let's just sit down here I'm just so confused people I really am and I apologize for that I should have really started a video when I got to jig jig street but you know jig jig street you know jig jig jig jig jig jig there we go jig jig jig jig so there's a joy toy I can speak to her I can't speak to him I knew that's gonna happen nope I'm spamming that button and ain't working there's another one around here can I speak to you oh you're looking for some company today oh I got the the first message but he won't let me click on anything paper so Johnny ain't getting jiggy with no nobody of jig jig tonight no it ain't happening it ain't well I'm sorry I'm sorry that's weird is it because is she scaring you is you're all scaring you get out of it you're all get out of it no you can't it don't work people that definitely don't work I have to be careful where pop my eyes um so I'm pretty sure here do you want to see what there is see see also there you have it people there we have it two Johnny Silverhands sick oh can I sit down next to him that'd be so bad as I'm doing this idol I gotta sit there I don't know if you can weird I've only got one action pose here that's bizarre it's not like that's weird is it because I want to step it could be I guess am I just pressing the wrong one here idol that is none here there's only one stop police so I can't sit down next to Johnny he ain't speaking to me actually let's see if I crouch why are you crouching with me for a long nope that don't work either it's pretty cool I see Johnny as Johnny I like that I do like that they don't speak to me you definitely don't speak to me all right all right there's rogues here he's not speaking to rogue who are you talking to that's what I thought can't shoot him can't kill him pretty cool but yeah it's unfortunate you can't do any I want to see I wanted to see next to him man but yeah guys there you go Mitch Busted you can actually see Johnny as a hologram as that glitch when you're playing as Johnny now uh I'm a bit tight so excuse me for do sound time I'm cream cracking people not gonna lie I'm not gonna lie I don't do what you're gonna do you ain't doing nothing man it's just it's weird I can't interact with the vendors with the other ones you can I'm sure this bird you can that's not a lot no way any food off you I don't know I can't that's weird oh okay then you don't like me no oh yeah guys there we have it no you cannot sleep or get any sex scenes with hookers while playing as Johnny but yes you can see Johnny while playing as Johnny which is bizarre but hey ho there we go myth has been yeah boy yeah boy but people I'm gonna end the video right there I mean I'm gonna stick around for a bit trying to make a decent video uh image or get a decent image for the thumbnail but other than that people myth has been busted now like I said there's only thing else you want to see me test try out any myths you want to see me try and bust don't matter what they are let me know down below even that comment section if there's something from any sort of mission you've seen any mission you've done a plate or you've played through and you want to see an alternative version off you want to see I don't know anything just let me know let me know down below guys but yes on that north the end of the video has arrived I think that'd be actually quite decent from now but guys I hope you enjoyed it and hopefully I'll see you on that next one


Powermatic Benchtop Mortiser 701, a quick review and how to use video. Hello, I'm Woodworkers Paul Croson here, a small workshop guy. Doing some feet for my samurai workbench that involves blind mortises in the feet. And for that, I'm using my Powermatic Benchtop Mortiser model number 701. So let's do a quick review of that machine and how it works. To get light on the subject, I highly recommend these electric magnetic sewing machine lights. For my half inch mortising bit, I move over one of the two spacer bars so that the bit will not go too far up into the collet. The bit and the mortising chisel are both very sharp, so you'll want to use a board or some gloves. While holding the bit up against the spacer bar, tighten your collet with your wrench. Next, you swing the spacer bar out of the way and then you push up the chisel itself and then tighten it with a provided thumb screw. When you're done with this process, the drill bit should be slightly below the chisel, maybe an eighth to a quarter of an inch. The Powermatic Benchtop Mortiser comes with a depth stop, so first I need to measure what the depth of my mortise needs to be and that's what I'm doing here. The Benchtop Mortiser comes with a hold down device that can be flipped over in either of two positions depending on the width of your workpiece.  About my only complaint with this machine is that the design of the hold down piece is such that it gets hung up on the threads of the device that allows it to go up and down and so that's kind of bothersome. The machine has an adjustable fence with a nice dial handle to move it forward and backwards, so here I am positioning it so that I can check my depth stop. So depth stop set, I plunge it all the way down and then compare that with my line on the side. This is also a good time to get the mortising square bit aligned with your workpiece. Here I'm still trying to fine tune the depth stop to where I need it to be so I'm making some adjustments and then testing again. I have started my mortise here by using my router with a guide bushing and give me a little bit of depth. That gives me something I can register my power-o-matic mortising bit against when I now want to get the proper depth. If I could have gotten the full depth with my router, I would have done it that way, but I couldn't. With things in place, I locked down the fence with some locked down bars in the back and then I locked the workpiece with some dials in the front. Okay, it's go time. Time to turn on all the power and to do the first plunge. I go part way down and then bring it up to let it release the chips because this is a fresh hole. And then I'm going to plunge it down all the way to where my depth stop says I can't go any further. Having done that, I will then move the workpiece over and it can be moved because of the little roller slide bars in the front. You may or may not want to stop at this point and vacuum out the chips so you can see what you're doing. I do a few plunges without cleaning out the chips and then I finally come back in with a vacuum and clean everything out so I can see where I am. I do find that bench top mortises are not as accurate as routers can be for cutting mortises and so they are great for blind mortises, but I wouldn't want to use them for any kind of a through mortise. Actually you could use it to hog out the great majority of the device in a fairly square manner and then come back in with your chisel and bring it up to exactly whatever your desired lines are for your through mortise or through tenon. Keep a vacuum cleaner close by so that you can get the dust out of the way and see what you're doing. Next it's time to check and see if I'm getting the proper depth that I want so I have a little L square that I can stick in there.   Otherwise you're just measuring the distance down to your chips and sawdust. Well that's it. I love this machine. Small workshop guy signing off.


The Ballot 2023 right here on Plus TV Africa. You can also make sure that you connect via every social media platform when Twitter is at Plus TV Africa. Now and it's all right to Twitter us, let's know what's going on, where you are. And wherever it is you are on Planet Earth, especially in Nigeria, we'd like to find out what's going on in your polling unit. So all you need to do is just tweet at Plus TV Africa, hashtag Ballot 2023. We'll be here to take your comments in no time. You can also engage on Instagram as well as at Plus TV Africa. But just before we get back to our guests in the studio and introduce them, my name is Messi Boko. Nyam Gole is also here for the Ballot. We have updated report reaching us now that Pitao B, one of the presidential candidates for this election, has arrived his polling unit. But we have to find out whether he has cast his vote fingers across and would bring you all of the update as soon as we get the information. But back here in the studio, we have two fine gentlemen who have joined us. Tunde Kola Wale is here with us this morning, the Ballot 2023. Tunde, it's good to have you join us.  And we also have Prince Francis Chilaca. Prince, it's good to have you join us. Thank you. Good morning. All right then. But let's get to it. Let's get to the conversation. Let me start off with Tunde Kola Wale. Tunde, first of all, how do you feel? Most anticipated elections. Now we have, we're getting reports, those who are on the field trying to cast your vote. There's a lot that's going on. The mood right now is people have turned out in some quarters. Now we also have reports that some people are still playing football on a day like this, even though that's been an injunction to shut down the entire economy. No movement freely as it should be. But that's the report that we're getting. What are your thoughts? Well, just like you said, personally, I feel delighted that this election is coming. It's long anticipated. If you know what we as Nigerians have gone through the last few years or they are about, you would be anticipated. You would be eager. You would want to see this transition run out smoothly. And why? It is because democracy will forever remain the best form of government. Rather than begin to take cutlery, guns, and explosives to begin to attack ourselves, it's better for us to go to the ballot box periodically.  What I have seen, I would want to say is a mixed bag of things. For example, when we were coming this morning, we saw the young people playing football, they cut off some of the roads, blockaded them, and then they were playing their football and all that. And I was discussing with Prince that I would not expect to see this kind of a thing, especially most of the people we saw were the young people who probably have won a legends to one political party or the other. I would have thought that this is, the money they wake up was a good time to begin to go and knock on people's doors and all that, to say, look, Madam, wake up, take out your PC via network to the nearby police station, and then go on. But that was not what they were doing. They were playing football. For the adult, I noted that those who are enthusiastic, they're ready to go and go to the different ballroom. I mean, polling booths to go and cast their votes and what have you. So we might be seeing a situation in which, as it has always been, that the voting demography of the country might not be too different from what we had experienced in the past. In fact, you find that some of these young people already didn't even register to vote in the elections that were about to pass through. And that would be tragic. Tragic in the sense that I keep repeating this example. If you recollect the election that took place in Uganda not too long ago, in which bobbin wine, which is almost like a own show right here and now that, was able to mobilize the young people behind themselves. And I think it got almost about 32 percent of the voting there. But thanks to that number, when young people contested in Nigeria here, you had to see them make an impact. You remember the last election before this, so there were two here and so many of those young people showed up and all of them came up, questions here, all of them and all that. But they hardly were able to scratch the ballot in the face. You begin to ask yourself, why is Nigeria different from other climes that, or why are the young people not able to mobilize, make their impact fair, and even be able to determine the pendulum in which the direction of the election results is likely to swing. So these are some of the worries that we bring to see all over the place. Could it be that resources is a very important determinant of who gets what with regard to some of this election? Could it be that some of these young people have really not mastered the tools of mobilization, of getting the electorate to line up behind it? Could it also be that we tend to do more, some of these things on social media, forgetting that the majority of the people are the grassroots who are not likely to be able to have access to the social media? And incidentally too, like some of the complaints we have gotten all over the place and all that, we've seen most of the candidates, especially the presidential candidates, they go only to the state capitals, and what have you, to campaign at the stadium, any of the open venues all over the place and all that. The rural people in the way are not being carried along, whereas the first time I met you for the first time in Maholo, for example, was in Nukeli, town in Kogi State and all that. I was doing my second school in there, and it came with chopper, landed in one of those public places at Nora, and everybody went, and little for that, they were all over the place, the remotest village that we could talk about, they were all over there, but maybe things have changed, a lot of media out in there now, which you can communicate with the people at Nora, but I see nothing wrong in the face-to-face of meeting the people, like we see in America, you see presidential candidates go to shop floors, go to factories, go to stadiums, and some of these other places to reach the people, but here is still not the way it should be. Just as, you know, I'll hand over to Yamgo in no time, let's look at data and statistics from INEC, you know, there are reports as of January, when February, and today is the 25th, that 40% of 93.4 million eligible voters are youths, the young people, so I'm just wondering, the people who are playing football now, young people, how do we put this, and political pundits, prior to today, have said that one of the game changers, one of the things that we're anticipating, is the involvement of youth in this election, it would be a huge factor for the outcome of this election, the involvement, I mean if you look at this number, the entire, that's a pass mark, you know if it was school, it would probably be an E, and maybe you have some test, probably an EB and then you have your test, then you probably be talking about the COEB, so I'm saying, how do we now juxtapose these statistics from INEC, and with the current reality that we're faced with, people are playing football, and that's still part of the 40%? Is that for me or for Prince? May Prince should come now. I would say it's too early to start throwing stones at the youths, I'll say that, yes we saw quite a number of youths on the streets playing football, but most of them too are small, I don't think they're of age, you know they're not of age, those who are meant to vote, if 40% of registered voters that have their PVCs are youths. Obviously they would not hold on to it without exercising their fundamental rights to vote. I believe that yes, the youths of this country have woken up, I believe that we will hear the voice of the youths, and it's going to happen very soon. In other things in Nigeria, especially the elderly, they're always too quick to castigate the younger ones, but you see that there is, we need to understand that this election, like I've told a lot of people, is different from the kind of, from every other election we've had in this country. In the sense that suddenly the elites have become politically conscious, suddenly the youths have become politically conscious. Before now, elections in Nigeria have been owned by car riders, mechanics, market women and all of that, but there's a parting shift, and that shift is that people who ordinarily stay out of politics, people who ordinarily are docile, are calling to the realization to say, look, it is time for us to take back our country. And that is what is going to happen. People are going to come out to vote, because even while we're still coming on the road, we saw INEA officials still trying to set up in some places. They're just arriving with their materials and all of that. So I believe that in the next one or two hours, there's going to be a game change where people would realize, oh, it's time for us to vote. And I have my own people on the field, so I know already that a lot of young people are already galvanizing and going to their polling units. Now, for those who are still playing football, if you have a voter's card and you're playing football, then you're not wishing this country well. We say the way it is. We expect that every Nigerian that has a voter's card that is of a voteable age should go out there and exercise their right. It is their right to decide who leads them. And when we are able to all go out and vote for who we want, we can actually hold that person accountable and responsible. But in times past, we found out that people most times don't even get elected. They get selected into office. And that is why it is difficult to hold them responsible and accountable. So it's a challenge on the youth. It's a challenge on the voting masses to go out there, exercise your rights. Okay, let me take it back to Tunde because of what he said. Let me use the phrase or the saying of St. Patrick's Missionaries. They say, you either go to the mission by giving or you give to the mission by going. Now, the youths, they either make a change in our polity by taking up responsibilities as leaders or by voting in the right leaders. So it's a two-way thing.  I'm not that a youth, so I'm not calling myself. Unless I'm in a political party, I cannot be a youth leader. So are the youths really ready for this change, this needed change, which is more or less in their hands? I take, for instance, when you were talking, you mentioned a shawarra. I know it was just an example, but there was a shawarra in 2019 contesting election. There was a top first who are in 2019 contesting. There were other youths that were contesting and we were expecting that, okay, if they will not gather the votes that individually they can, they could rally around someone. And we thought that it was going to happen when they tried to have an agreement between them. About four of them came together and said, okay, let's do a mock election. Anybody who wins, we are supporting that person. And that election came, we gathered that one of them won, but they could not agree. Does that speak to the discipline within the youth at all? Does it show a youth that really needs or wants to change our country? Are the youths really ready to take up this responsibility and do what is right for our country? Yes, Tunde. Okay. I want to make some categorization. When you look at the youth to find out that they belong into two categories. There are those who are being highly educated and very, very sophisticated. And just like he said, there are those who are street urchins who, if they are living by Tautine, by Togli, by following some of the established politicians from one place or the other to execute whatever agenda they may be given to them. For the educated elites, I mean youths are not allowed. The highly educated people are not allowed. As we saw down in the answers, they're beginning to feel the pains and they really know now where the youths are pinching them. And they are desirous of really making a change in this society. I give you one example. As one of those activists who is now living abroad, and one of the international media was interviewing the leaders and they said, look, I will come back to Nigeria only if Peter will be here. If Peter will be here, I don't see a dramatic change in the direction of leadership. You should just count me out of coming to Nigeria. For those people thinking like that lady here and now, who are based in Nigeria presently and now, I am sure they will do everything within their minds to make sure that the outcome of this next election becomes something that is going to be favorable to the use of the country and the generality of our people. But for the ones who are not educated, I haven't seen any paradigm change in the actions and the activities and the kind of people that they followed. If you have been watching the campaigns of all the different political parties and what have you found out, there is hardly any of the political parties, especially the establishment and the older ones that we talk about and all that. Who does not also have a sizable number of youths behind them, campaigning for them, writing for them and doing all manners of propaganda for them. Even including highly educated youths and what have you. The question to now ask yourself is that, is there a unanimity of purpose? Is there unity, kind of symmetric, as you got the direction in which the youths want to take the Nigeria to? For me, the answer is no, because the street options, those who are not educated, they tend to be more in number. They even tend to be more powerful in terms of the leverage that they can put on whatever elections that is held this time around. So in the preparation of those youths, youth dominate what happens at these elections and all that. Whatever the educated run, or the direction which educated one might be going and all that. They probably come to futility. So the truth of the matter is that the way and manner our electoral system is queued, the way and manner the materials and resources are dispensed with, the way and manner in which the elections are conducted and also the way and manner the security architecture of the country is configured and what have you. Makes it very, very difficult for the average Nigerian youth, especially the most educated one, to be able to have their way and get their decisions rammed through the entire system, such as we have seen in some other countries of the world. Look at the time, I mean, look at Europe today, you find out that 30 year old men are now prime ministers and now in places like Canada, in places like Spain, the average presenter is between 35 and then 50. But look at most of the African countries and whatever, except those who have stayed too cool, like I think every coast and volcano, I mean, volcano fossil and the water though, the youth are really not making impact. Even for a place like Liberia, where George, where I won the flu and fear elections and all that, we've been hearing a lot of rumblings from that place as regard for the performance of George. Most times we are told that he lives outside the country and it is only when there are official assignments of the dawn that he comes back in there. And the whole world is watching. If the average Nigerian youth is going to behave like a judge, we are now that. He's still playing professional football. Psychologically. I think the youth for me don't appear to be ready. Okay, let me ask this as your answering. I know you want to say something about it, but don't you think the political awareness, we are leaving it to chance that someone will have to grow into becoming aware of what the political climate is and all that. I remember that in the time of the UPNs and all that, even in primary school, you could recite what their cardinal points are that they're going to achieve in primary school. And even the people we are describing today as the street urchins, the people who make things happen, the foot men, most of them, if not 90% of them, at least attend primary school. Maybe they don't finish even this primary school, but they get to a stage where they see the four walls of the school, yet they come out knowing next to nothing about politics or election. Some of them don't know anything about that until they come of age and they think that the only way to be connected to the center politically is to do thuggery and other things, and they don't even know that they too can vie for positions. Are we not leaving this political awareness to chance too much so that our country is dying because of it? I don't think we are. Maybe in the past we've done that, but I would say that if you followed this particular election in the last eight months, I am very proud and I give the kudos to our outgoing president in the sense that for once we've seen a campaign based on issues.  We saw candidates who were telling us for once, this is what we want to do. We see candidates telling us, hold me responsible. So we've moved from that point where, you know, politicians were taking advantage of the Nigerian youths and the Nigerian people and that is where we are today.  I have been related, I relate to young people because I run a foundation and I will tell you most of these so-called thugs, most of them are not even registered voters. I cannot tell you for sure, out of every 20 I've spoken with, maybe two or three. Okay, back to you. Let me start with you now, Prince. I know you had the final word before we caught you, sure to go and join Wali. Earlier on, we were talking with some of our correspondents from all over the country and they were telling us about how materials arrived late and even now we just heard that 1045 or 945, that is so much behind time. They should have been there by seven, start the accreditation 730 or something like that or it. Now, another issue that came from being late is the fact that the Electoral Act provides that when the INEG officials get through the venue, the people are supposed to check and see whether the materials are complete, whether the BVAS is zero so that they don't inflate figures and so on and so forth. And then we were trying to interrogate the fact that maybe even the people at that polling unit do not even know that these are things that are provided for in the act. Do you think the orientation, the awareness by INEG in preparation for this election was enough or what could they have done better? If you're talking about awareness, I've always said INEG has not done enough, but I won't put the entire blame on INEG. You know, it's a country where you have a Ministry of Information and under the Ministry of Information, I have the National Orientation Agency. This is a body that is saddled with dissemination of information, especially, you know, during a process like we have an election process. I haven't seen the National Orientation Agency do anything. Online, really, there should be everywhere using the local language, using the English language, teaching people, educating men, juniors, creating awareness. Even as at this morning, the National Orientation Agency should be out there asking people to come out and exercise their rights. But you don't see this body doing any job. You don't see this body doing any job. And then INEG is also saddled more with there was so much time because even the voter's registration exercise, we saw how poorly it was conducted. 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I'd like to ask to the stage, Adjuna Mahaltala. Adjuna's from the ANU College of Asia in the Pacific, and the title of Adjuna's presentation tonight is, you and I, we're just pawns in the world's biggest gamble. What if I told you, currency traders gamble with exchange rates every year, to the value of several trillion dollars, and it impacts every single one of us? What if we had an opportunity to better understand this gambling so we could minimize its negative impact? I'm researching into this gambling, which is formerly called currency carry trade. It's a very simple concept. You borrow money at a low interest rate, say, Japanese yen at half a percent.   Extremely profitable if you get it right. Disastrous if you get it wrong. Both for the investor and the country. The first part of my research identifies is this gap in the interest rate that drives this gambling. Any reduction in this gap below a certain level, the investors think is a risky proposition and will start pulling money out of that investment. Let's follow this with an example. Two years ago, in August of 2013, the Reserve Bank of Australia cut interest rates. The gap between interest rates now narrowed, and investors pulled money out of the Australian economy. They pulled so much of money out that the dollar depreciated by over 7% in a matter of few days. The second part of my research takes this depreciation of the dollar and follows it through the economy to see how it impacts, when it impacts, and what magnitude it impacts. Let's come to present time. Aren't the policymakers in Parliament today debate that the Australian economy is going to go into a recession? Now, that's exactly what my research predicts. The Australian economy will slow down. But my research also sheds light into what happens to inflation, the prices we pay, unemployment, our jobs, and exports. Just imagine, had the policymakers known this six months ago, they could have implemented policies to safeguard our way of life, our jobs, not just Australia, with the findings from this research. Any country in the world can utilize appropriate policies to safeguard their economies from a trillion dollar gamble.


Today we see if the holiday mystery box is better than the chaos box. What's up guys? We're back with another epic video. Today we are doing another mystery box battle. This one includes one that we have never opened the chaos box. I don't think we've opened this one at least, not in a long time. And then we have the holiday mystery box. Everyone remembers this one. It's a classic. This is the gadgets. We're expecting that. But first we have a giveaway. I'll be giving away this first edition elemental hero darkneos. I pulled this. This thing is minty. Very good condition.  Let me know what you think is going to win. Chaos box. Pretty beat up, but still chaos and holiday mystery box. Let's jump into the action mystery holiday box. This has treated us pretty poorly for the most part. We have not had much luck with these mystery holiday boxes recently at least. We've done a lot of these battles. I don't know if the holiday box has ever won. I think one time it might have gotten close, but I still don't think it won. There are a couple of good packs in here though. Besides the fists of the gadgets, everything else is pretty okay. So let's see if we can pull something good today. Let's start off with a fist of the gadgets. Our favorite card or a pack I should say, but we can get these out of the way and then we can be happy after this. So the subterra final battle. We got the dynamite. We got the subterra power hold and the brotherhood of the fire fist ram. Okay. Secret rare ram. All right. We got that one out of the way. So hopefully there's only two of those in there. It could be three. Okay. There's our second one. Let's just knock these out right at the beginning guys. Let's get those right out of the way. And then we're going to be pulling out some amazing stuff. Yellow gadget, talk back lancer, the shooting code, talker, Yoko, the fire fortress, a top liang peak, a top liang peak. Okay. I've never seen that card. I've never opened a booster box of fists of the gadgets, but I've opened up enough packs to feel like it. Oh, we've double pulled. We do have a third fist of the gadgets. Unfortunately, there's our flames of destruction. So it seems like these are almost always the same. They're not very mysterious. I hope the chaos box is a little more mysterious. So if you haven't seen the other openings when we've done this, they are very similar to the other ones. Starving Venom Fusion Dragon. Wait, this is actually a decent card. I don't know that was in here. I don't think we've ever pulled that. Okay. And then the Archfiend Descent. That's maybe one of the best cards you can pull. Let's get the flames of destruction. You guys know, I've been asking every single time we get one of these, which is quite often because we open these quite a bit. I ask, can we get the ghost belt? Can we get the call called by the grave? Can we get the infinite impermanence? So far, the answer has been no. But we'll start now. Tristar Bloom, we've got the restoration of monarchs. Element Saver, Malo, the Agurgon's Inn, the Kaide Kendo Spirit. Degrade Buster. So the answer is no yet again. Next up, will we get something epic? Ooh, Dimension of Chaos. We have gotten this quite a bit, which is actually a pretty nice pack. Fairly old, 2015, seven years at this point. You guys believe 2015 was seven years ago? That is crazy. We got the Plush Fire. Nice. DDD Human Resources. Dark Contract with the Gate. A lot of DDD stuff, which is kind of popular right now. Magispector Storm, the DDD Contract Change, Great Okobra, Pendulum Area, and the Dark Contract with Errors. So there's, oh, there's a Fiendish Chain on that artwork. That's actually pretty cool. That's fine. Nothing to worry about. We got a lot to go. Lots of stuff to do. We have a deck. Well, here's our deck. Oh, and it's another Legendary Heroes deck. Shocking. We got the same deck as the last few times. Not the best one, that's for sure, but we still have a couple of packs left. What's, or maybe it's one pack, one mystery pack. It's literally a mystery pack. Literally a mystery pack inside of a mystery box. It doesn't get more mysterious than that. What will the pack be? It looks like Invasion of Chaos and Metal Raiders, I hope. Metal Raiders. Very nice. We will take that. All right. All right. What's our promo card or extra card? We got the Six Shinobi. Okay. Very cool. Here comes the MRD pack, the Picanio Moth. If you guys missed when I opened that entire Metal Raiders Fade, it said, go check that out. That was pretty cool. So maybe we can do something to bless us here. We got a Gigatech Wolf. Picanio Moth would be pretty amazing. Metal Battle Guard, Black and Fire Dragon. These are very warped. Block Attack, the Hunter Spider. So those were warped. The rest were not. That's kind of weird. The Unhappy Maiden. She ain't happy. Pale Beast. I made it in again. Very nice. Grande Moth and the Rabbit Horseman. Okay. So we got the Grande. We did not get the Picanio. But don't fret. We have another mystery box. Is this the day that the holiday box loses or doesn't lose for once because it's lost every time? Chaos box. This is your chance. So we have four booster packs. Four duelist hangers. One figure hanger. By the way, this was sent to me by Dr. Chicken. So make sure you guys go check out his YouTube channel. I appreciate him sending this in for a video. And inside you can get some pretty amazing stuff. Hanger stuff. We love to see those. It includes four booster packs, four duelist packs and one figure hanger. I feel like we opened a similar one. There was one that was like the Chaos box. But I think it was a little bit different. I think it was the one we opened. All right. I believe. I believe this will be different. I believe it'll be better. I would love a summon skull figure though. That would be pretty cool. We have duelist pack Kaiba. So a lot of these, a lot of time they just put four duelist pack Yu-Gi and they're like the worst one because you can't pull Ultimate Rearist. This one you can. So we did get the Kaiba. This is where I pulled Chaos and Bird Dragon. I was getting back into Yu-Gi-Oh 2018. Let's go. Why dragon head? The Jojima. He's judging. Interdimensional matter transporter. Malefic blue eyes, white dragon. That's an ultra rare. Okay. And these are not guaranteed foils. Like supers are not guaranteed. Ultras are definitely not. And then Ultimates are crazy. So that's a great pull. Okay. Good start for the Chaos box. All right. Duelist pack Kaiba. I see you. Oh, a destiny soldier. This is actually some pretty cool stuff in here. Thanks to Strayer Phoenix Enforcer needing some destiny heroes to actually like do some stuff with it. Okay. Can we pull some of those? Dark Lord, Superbia. Very cool. This actor extras. Allure of darkness. There's a good one. This did just get reprinted and Brothers of Legends are probably not that great anymore, but still pretty good. Dogma and what we're all secret be. I think you get Celestial in here. That'd be a big one. Diffusion. That's probably not a big one, but it is a secret rare. Very nice diffusion. I don't know. We'll bob up the price. So you'll know. All right. All right. What can we get next? Another Kaiba. Imagine if we get four Kaibus. That'd be pretty amazing. Okay. Let's see. Last time we got an ultra rare. So that's pretty amazing. Lord of D. He taught to me giant. Enraged Betalux. Ring of Defense. I think we got nothing. And the Kaiser Glider. Okay. Cause I was thinking it's the fourth guard and I kind of got carried away. Forgot there's only five packs. Three Kaibus. Oh, I've never seen this. I've never seen where you get more than two Kaibus out of these. I haven't opened a ton of these, but still that's pretty nice. Okay. Wait, let's do it like this. Just in case that's an ultimate rare, which would be pretty huge. We got a Z-Metal tank. Sagi, the dark clown. Polymerization. Kaiser Sears. And the familiar knight. A familiar sight. A comment. Okay. Next stop. Next stop. What's it going to be? It's another Kaiba. We could not complain about this. That's pretty amazing. Kaiba, please bless us with an ultimate rare. We have the Enraged Betalux. The Polymerization. X-Head Cannon. Cost down and... The Ring of Defense. No. Okay. Don't give up. We still have a chip. It's been pretty even so far. Not a lot being pulled. Raging Tempest. First edition. Okay. This is a little bit older. 2016 maybe even? 2016 or early 2017? It might be very early 2017. Let's see what we can pull. White Princess. Okay. Nice. Symphonic Warrior Synthesis. Performal Power. Hand Staticone. Hand Staticone. Hand Staticoon. Wow. Oh, that is crazy. All right. Mechanical Arcafiend. Okay. This is getting crazy. Massive Morph. We got the Symphonic Warrior Mix. We got... Or is that Mike's? That's Mike's. Not Mix. Okay. Wind Witch Crystal Bell. And Zodiac Whippetails. That's not a bad card. And Ritual Beast Return. So, decent super rare there even though I think they are guaranteed in those. A few packs left though. We're not giving up. That seems like a thick pack. We're gonna save that one. Ooh, an Extreme Force. Probably not that good. A lot of their good cards got reprinted and kind of really hurt the value of this set. Let's see what's inside of this one. Can we get Syruja? Can we get Electromite? Those are both still pretty good. Link Belt. Wall Dragon. Grappler Angler. The Dye Dance. Striping. Not stripping. That would be a little bit different. Okay. We got the Uni. We got the Tindangle Angel. The Magnite Indigo Eclipse. Oh, he popped up very early. Okay. Super rare. All right. This is gonna be a close battle for who can be worse because it's not looking too good for either candidate. There's one more pack. There's also the Hanger thing which is a Yugi. Dun dun dun dun dun dun. We literally got Yami Yugi. That's pretty insane. Okay. That's a good one. I think that's a good poll. If you can call that polling. And the final pack of the video. Will this save the Chaos Box? Another raging tempest. Okay. It's gonna be a little bit difficult out of this one. I don't know. There's not a ton of great cards in here or at least valuable cards. So let's see what they can do. This is gonna be a close one. I don't know what's gonna win this one. Zudiac Ramrim. The Pershadol Aeon. Aeon. The Horse Stilts. It's just such a weird card. Super Quantal Alphan Strike. Wait. Spike. Sorry. Shinobored Crane. These are just a long name. Miscellaneous War is very good card. Rank up Magic Cypher Ascension. Shurinui Susaga. Sunsaga. And Cyber Angel Natasha. Oh my goodness. Cyber Angel Black Widow. Okay. That was an interesting battle for sure. 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hey everyone welcome back to another counter side video so today's video we're going to discuss consortium co-op more on the boss itself and how to um take it down how to efficiently deal damage okay so we have here some reminders actually just before you start um tearing up the boss to shreds okay a lot of you guys i know are excited to finish off the boss and probably progress each berserker level but number one reminder is only act artifacts that reach 100% will be counted to your overall pool of artifacts okay guys just just to give you guys an example um in our arena nine we're at we're at 10 right so at 10 um this is going to give us ally counter skill haste plus 15 take note that this won't be included because we're actually at only 30 so the ones that will be included will be only um artifacts one to nine so make sure that you aim to finish off each artifact up to level 100 so that you don't miss its buffs okay the next on our reminder is going to be artifact conversion per member so as you can see there is an ideal number of artifacts that your consortium should have depending on the member size or the member number so here's the formula for you guys so number of members times three because you have three tries per arena then you multiply that by 30 so it it's here it's 0.3 so number of artifacts again that you can aim to collect as a team okay for example for us 23 times 3 which is roughly 69 times 0.30 so you'll be getting around 20% 20.7% or if you route it up you'll be getting um 21 so as a team we will be aiming around 21 because we have 23 members next would be um uh two attempts per boss per member okay so that's number three the boss must be hit to gain rewards um if a if a certain number of members were not able to attack let's say for example for for the boss at level one if a certain number of members don't get to attack it they won't be availing of the rewards for that certain boss so but if they do attack the level two boss they will be getting rewards from that so that's actually a big difference or not really a big difference but a difference of either getting some or getting none at all okay so ideally lower level members go first um because they could deal lesser attacks um sorry they could deal lesser damage and the last will be the closer who can deal the highest dps so i'm not sure who is the closer within your consortium or within your team but you must be able to um talk some talk amongst yourselves who is going to be the sequence in terms of who is going to the last probably the last three or the last two so you can just decide that amongst yourselves and also the last tip that i have a reminder is when a boss dies the next boss with a higher level will be next of course so if you've defeated level one the next will that would appear within that week if the week is still alive for example we already um defeated boss level one yesterday now we have level two so basically um level two appears and so on and so forth if we defeat the level um two boss within the week level three boss with uh will will appear within the week okay what if you happen to defeat level one to level seven within the week what happens next week you will be starting again at level one as long as you defeat the boss from level seven because the max level is going to be level seven for a single week okay what if for example we end up um defeating only up to level two what happens next week so um if you totally defeat level two you'll be getting level three next week um if you don't totally defeat level two you'll still be getting level two next week so that is more or less how it's going to be you have to defeat level seven for the cycle to repeat again so again those are just reminders that you can actually guys discuss in your consortium um who is who is gonna go first what are we gonna do which arena are you going to prioritize what artifacts are we going to prioritize what buffs do we need and also um i would like to emphasize this this is um basically not a this is not going to be a what do you call this a race in terms of who finishes or which consortium finishes first their their their arena or their boss you have to um really plan this out you have a week or five days to talk this out probably take the first and second day to talk then third fourth and fifth would be the days where in you attack the arena then you attack the boss okay so we're here now um as you can see you just want to remind you guys you can see here the the purification ops the boss kill assist points so again each boss has is going to get their assist points um also you will be getting season reward so as of total participation reward i have but kill points i don't have yet because i haven't bought the boss yet and let's take a look at the kill points and hp points of you know the bosses that we're going to encounter okay as you can see here boss hp and kill points so phase one boss you're going to be um he's going to have 45 million hp so that's around 20 000 kill points so at least um give um some skill point as some kill points to the other members so that they could avail of the rewards for the phase one because it's actually kind of small 20 000 and most of of the players can deal a lot of kill points already so try to manage the earlier smaller stages of the boss especially for phases one and two phase two boss would be 47 million plus 22 000 kill points phase three would be um hp would be 50 million plus 24 000 kill points phase four would be 55 million plus 28 kill points phase five would be 60 million at 32 kill points phase six would be 65 plus million at 36 kill points and at phase seven the last boss will be at 70 plus million at 40 000 kill points okay one phase is equals to one berserker level each berserker level also increases the attack in defense so don't forget about that as well so let's continue on to probably a match i'll put together a team so that i could finish off my what they call this my um demolition worm for my consortium okay so i'm gonna try this out this is just actually a sample um i don't know yet on how to really um build this team so i'm gonna try this out with this composition so i have a lot of damage dealers here only a few or probably one defender the rest are strictly for dealing damage actually have now you've been here so let's take a look at let's try this guys um i'm gonna have one what do you call this one one pass at this one okay let's not do this in auto so let's do this conventional way you can actually deploy deploy um a lot either at the back or at the front so let's do this here let's try to i'm going to this is actually just an experiment guys wanted to experiment on this see how this goes and how big of a damage i can deal so some are at the back side i'm not sure if you should be dealing more in the back side or you can deal on the front so hopefully i can i'm actually looking forward to taking down this this worm i'm just actually deploying left and right i'm actually i actually don't know what i'm doing at this point um probably best if um you deploy at the back probably having a bigger damage but we'll see we'll see so i'm at a minute and 28 let's deploy this let's see how big of a damage i'll be giving this worm so hopefully so damage reduction attack speed probably your squishy ones would be at the back side of the worm not necessarily on the front so that um actually he's switching again he's switching to the other side so at 46 we'll see we'll see if uh how i'm at 35 seconds ready guys so just deploy deploy um he's actually attacking you left and right so you basically at this point you you i'm not sure if you can choose probably gonna rearrange my order later in terms of having sigma um be present earlier so that i could take advantage of the deployment that she is giving so that's it so time over so almost actually it's half below half okay so let's have another go at this guys i'm at he's at 44 percent i'd like to be more efficient 44 there you go sigma kill day so let's deploy you at the back i'm going to try to deploy them at the back the uh again she found she found her at the back let's give her a healer give her a healer okay so at this point i'm just going nuts at deploying so let's put out rosaria for maximum pps next would be shinja for attack speed see if and the rifleman for more damage let's see let's see what is it's going to do hopefully we could take down level two this week and probably have level three next week start so i'm just deploying left and right at this point um the higher damages the better there you go so who else i'm going to deploy both of you and at least at least you mean i still there and the back part the the the back part is actually most of them are still alive hilde is still alive so we're at uh 20 let's deploy more guys need to more i have to have more dps at this point okay so that's 30 something 30 million only 34 left so that's more or less 10 reduction for that what around only i'm actually happy guys um hopefully um the rest can be can be uh what do you call this can be finished off by other team members and that is it guys so again um buffs really play a big part um especially if you guys have a specific build to bring uh and also um it actually plays more on the early stages um the boss is not that not that what do you call this not that uh tough yet so more on dps probably down the line you would go more with defense as the boss um continues to go higher so for season rewards for participation rewards how much did i get i already get this one consortium uh coalition token in participation i'm at 5000 that's it guys so hopefully um you find this informative for those who have stalked us for this video so please consider subscribing also put uh sorry uh check that bell icon and also put a like to this video thank you guys stay safe this is the warden and i'm out of here


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