This is covering the spread part of the Fandall podcast network It is a new era for covering the spread beginning today because as of now We are a daily podcast every weekday podcast here up on the same fee trying to find you some good bets on the board based on the odds at Fandall sportsbook and I'm pretty pumped for this journey now Of course with the debut of a kind of new show my flight yesterday got cancelled So I have no microphone no camera stuff like that so it's gonna look a little janky for day number one But I think it's going to be a fun ride here We're gonna be coming at you every day Monday through Friday and that opens up a lot of stuff for us as Podcasts are just trying to get you what you want as better. My name is Jim Sonnis I am a senior writer and analyst for a number fire dot com I'll be your host here for all five days throughout this week and it's gonna be a fun ride And in case you missed our talk last week with with Ed Fang Going through the new format for the show our goal In going to being a daily show is to be able to cover more with weekly shows We can't cover, you know, the more in-depth stuff the more granular stuff We can't go through individual baseball games, which is what we're doing later on today We can't do a full Monday night football prop breakdown stuff like that Now we can and I think that's fantastic from a consumer perspective and also allows us to Cover the topics we think you would probably want to hear something. It would have been great to do earlier on We just didn't really have like the the resources to do so So I think this move was honestly a bit overdue now with that said we are gonna be doing more podcasts But the thesis of the podcast is going to remain the same We've always been a numbers driven podcast So I wanted add on with me initially was because I value Ed's Ed's Ed's brain And I've been able to benefit from that for a very long time We want to be a processed based discussion still here on the show I want to get the reasoning behind the bets we like and stuff like that So my goal is to lay out all of this so you can make informed decisions about whether or not you agree with what I'm saying And if you do cool awesome, let's try to win some money together But if you don't that's awesome, too I want you to know have the ability to decide for yourself. Do I like this bet? Do I not like this bet? I want you to have the tools to make that decision for yourself So the the overall theme of the show will remain the same even though we're gonna be here more often We're gonna get you quicker bites of podcasts just to get you on your way because you know shorter shelf life and stuff like that But I think we'll still be able to get our typical Process based discussion the reasoning for why we like a bet in here as well now the schedule for this week week Number one here of the daily shows on a covering the spread today and Thursday We're gonna talk daily MLB betting me by myself going through that days MLB slate also talk some racing on Thursday That's the other kind of like backdoor benefit of the show is that I get to talk racing if I want to because We have more time to do so. I know a lot of you don't care So I'll stick all the racing stuff at the end of the show So you can just listen to the net the the racing part dip off whenever you want to I get it It's okay. I'm not my feelings will not be heard if you turn the show off before it's done But hey, I got to talk some a cup series Excinity series formula one. I think that's gonna be fun So today and Thursday MLB plus a little bit of NASCAR at the end on Tuesday will a pitching ninja Rob Friedman That's pretty fun. He's gonna come on to talk strikeout props.  I'll ask him about strikeout props I like to see what his thoughts are on those that's gonna be a lot of fun That's every Tuesday also every Tuesday Brandon could do a you know him from here on covering the spread But also on the heat check fantasy podcast with me We'll have all him on tomorrow to preview the first leg of the FedEx Cup playoffs for golf break down his favorite bets of that on Wednesday Of course, your favorite Ed Fang will still be here every Wednesday this Wednesday specifically We're gonna Joe Astrosky on with us to To talk preseason NFL games because I personally don't bet them But I think there's a lot of value in betting them because I just don't have the time to do The research necessary in such a news-oriented market, and I know that's a deficiency of mine So we're gonna have Joe on to talk about that with Ed and Ed will like I said be here every Wednesday In season talking college football and then transitioning to World Cup college basketball a lot of stuff So you'll still get your ed fix in we would not take that away from you I don't want to take that away from me either on Friday JJ Zachary Jason you know him as well will come on to talk season-long NFL player props We're gonna have him on a couple of time to think before the year because there are a lot of Americans you can bet there So it's gonna be a fun week It's gonna be a fun new format, and I'm excited to go through all of that with you here on Covering the spread we'll dig into today's MLB numbers in just one second Of course all these shows will be posted up on the the covering the spread podcast feed find that wherever you get your Podcasts if you're already subscribed nothing will change there those will still go to you right when they're posted We'll also have these up on the Fandal YouTube page. Those will go up after the fact So if you want the numbers earlier, I'd recommend the podcast feed But if you just want if you prefer to watch stuff on YouTube, we'll go up on there later on So check out the Fandal YouTube page and the covering the spread podcast feed wherever you get your podcasts NFL week one odds are out and now's the time to try Fandal sports book if you haven't already Gettin on the action early this season to help get you started new Fandal customers can get a no sweat first bet up to $1,000 think your favorite team is making the playoffs Who is your dark horse to win the rushing title odds for that and much more are available at Fandal sports book app to sign up place your first bet and Fandal will give you up to $1,000 back in free bats if you don't win There is no better place to get ready for the football season man on Fandal America's number one sports book an official sports betting partner of the NFL Must be 21 plus and present in select states first online a real money wager only Refund issued is non-withdrawable free bets that expire 14 days after receipt Restricts as applies see terms at sportsbook.fandal.com gambling problem call 1-800-GAMBLER or if it's a Fandal comm slash RG in Arizona call 1-800 next step or text next up to 5334 2 in Connecticut 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org slash chef in Louisiana 1-777-770 stop in New York 1-877-8 hope and wire text hope and why in Tennessee call the red line at 1-889-789 in Wyoming 1-800-522-4700 or in West Virginia 1-800-GAMBLER dot net Let's take into today's MLB slate the way we'll do this for today is I have a model for money lines and strike out Props those are the primary things I'll be discussing on the show because again We want to keep this process based numbers based stuff like that That's only markets where I have actual numbers. I will break down some home run props later on My confidence level in those is lower and I want to be fully transparent about that I don't have numbers behind that Brandiga Dula does post numbers up on number fire based on number fires Projections you can find that there I will talk through some thoughts I'm looking at the prices. I've been winded by it on and much more as far as money lines go I am showing some value on the Mets, which is kind of odd because their money line is minus 320 Which puts their implied win-offs for tonight at 76% so it's a very big number But I do think that it's actually pretty fair based on what my numbers are saying So I've actually got options here with the money line being as large as it is My model is still showing value. I can just take the money line because value is value I don't mind stacking a couple bucks in that way or I could look towards the run line They're at minus 152 at minus one and a half on the run line And like I said, I have a money line model and a strikeout model. I do not have a run line model so I Personally is a better get uncomfortable betting markets where I don't have a model because I know that we can sometimes have some issues in terms of Paying too much, you know, people think okay. I want to I want to go to the money line It's a bit too steep. I'll turn to the run line instead automatically without investigating the actual number there I get uncomfortable in those situations and The hold in this market is actually a pretty decent amount higher than the run line market The hold in the the run line market is 4.57% the hold in the money line market is 3.97% so in general rule of thumb bet the lower hold market and I am as a result and going to stick with the money line here I have a model that backs up this number I'm paying into a lower hold market than I would be otherwise and I think long run It's about 0.6 percentage points and the difference in the hold there But that adds up really quickly over the long run. So I'm I want to pay into the lower hold market and take the money the money line here I do think the run line works if you prefer that this offense is in a great spot against Justin Dunne Who is struggling down in AAA coming up to make his 2022 debut for the Reds? The Chris Bassett is lights out right now. It's a pressing hard contact getting ground balls with a higher Focus on his curveball recently. So you can do it. You can go towards the run line here I think it's fully viable, but I'm gonna go my personal preferred route with the money line here And mine is 320 on the Mets One underdog woman my numbers are showing some values on the parades of plus 200 against the Diamondbacks That puts their implied win odds at 33 percent. I've got them closer to 40 percent So this is a significant gap and that should alleviate my concerns around my model's deficiencies here But I'm not quite willing to bite on this one personally yet I think the reason why I am hesitant despite showing value is I know where my numbers lag where they might be a little bit Deficient and one of those spots where they can struggle is Projecting guys who are stretching out from being relievers into being stars That's what Tyler Beatty is doing here for the pirates. I'm not sure how long they will let him go for tonight He struggled in his first start the longer they let him go the worse He'll probably pitch and the pirates bullpen is not good. So yes, my numbers are showing value here But I don't I don't trust my numbers ability to properly project a guy in Beatty's specific position So personally, I'm not gonna win on this one. I have seen some movements on their run line The run line was even money at plus at plus one and a half It's now plus one oh two So it does seem as though Maybe if you want to go towards the run line, you might get a better number there later on It was minus one away to 1.2 So it's been a lot of movement on that run line for the pirates personally I think I will stay away from this one But I do think that Arizona's being a bit overrated in this spot I will say if this number continues to move and we see the downbacks become even bigger favorites Maybe at that point I'm willing to pull the trigger, but that means I'm betting against People who are smart putting their money into this market and that's a bit concerning So for me probably to stay away But if you want another spot where there is some value the pirates are the one at plus 200 in the money line that do great Outwell, let's go now to strike out props and my favorite one for the today is going to be in Keegan Thompson And his number is also moving around a lot That's one of the downsides of a daily MLB show right now at Fandall Sportsbook His strikeout prop is four and a half with minus one oh two on the over I will say though you can still get a three and a half out there on Keegan Thompson It's a minus 180 pretty big number obviously I'm guessing they will get to four and a half of 1.2 I bet rivers He's plus 112 to go over four and a half and even at minus one or two where Fandall currently has him I still think there is value there now Full disclosure. I bet Thompson strikeout prop over twice and in those two games He has combined for two strikeouts seems bad But he has a 23.3 percent strikeout rate in eighth starts since he started throwing his His new slider that he has and it's not like a good pitch in general But it like makes his other pitches better He's had seven plus strikeouts seven plus and his numbers are four and a half in five of those eight starts I have Thompson projected for five point seven strikeouts today His over odds are around 60 percent. So You know, I think that you look at this number I mean technically I'd be showing value down to minus 150 over four and a half I'm not sure I go that far just because he is a bit volatile I think if you can get this down to minus 120 That's the park where I would probably be jumping off minus 130 questioning it a little bit Minus 1440. It's pretty much a fair market value at that point. So minus 102 I am still showing value what I would say though is shop around to try to identify if there are better numbers still hanging out there for Thompson because Other markets are lagging behind where Fandals move for him. So four and a half I think we're at minus 102 total okay with that again down to minus 120 I will show you good enough value to bet on that one But check around see if you can get plus money on over four and a half Thompson In a good matchup the wind it really feel blowing in that's not going to aid strikeouts directly But it will what it will do is keep the ball in the yard allow Thompson to go deeper in the game That should be a benefit for him too So Thompson check around see what you can get it plus four over four and a half But even at minus 102 my numbers do show value in him because of the impact that new slider has had on the rest of his pitches the other strikeout prop in My peripheral right now is Jordan Liles over four and a half at plus 134 I have not bet this one yet. I have Liles projected at 4.8 strikeouts. His over odds for me are 51.3% so that's a lot better than plus 134 the implied odds there And I would pull this trigger if Liles had better numbers against righties because the strikeouts rate against them is 19% Which is the exact same as it is versus lefties actually a bit lower against righties And that's a big concern against a very righty heavy line up, which is what the blue J's are So technically my numbers are showing a bit of value quite a bit But it does seem as though there has been some money on the under in this one Liles open it plus 118 Or at least he's plus wait 118 this morning when I first looked he's now plus 134 So there is a good shot you can get a better number on Liles later I also would not be shocked if this gets to three and a half at some point I have his over odds of three and a half at 67% it's 51% at four and a half so Use those numbers as your baseline to decide what you want to do with Jordan Liles If he gets the three and a half and he's and the implied odds are if it's like minus 150 or or better I might be willing to do that then but four and a half a bit hesitant again There is a lot of value here, but it's a really rough matchup for him He hasn't been perfect in this time my numbers don't like him in this span So he could these mission with earned runs, but I do think that he's being a bit undervalued So I am monitoring this market right now. It's a hold for me Potentially could wind up diving in just want to see where the market goes on this first to decide if I want to buy in So as of right now nothing on Liles for me But keeping close tabs and that strikeout number to see where it goes and see if I want to buy in should the market sour on Liles even more than it already has again the Numbers I have for Liles over three and a half is sixty seven percent or four and a half is fifty one percent Let's finish up here with some dingers for today the daily dingers and again I don't have a model around this So I want to be transparent from that because again This is not going to be my strongest market and it's not been my strongest market historically One team I am eyeing in this department is the Yankees They're going to T-Mobile Park and T-Mobile Park for home runs for righties is a very neutral spot Whereas Yankee Stadium is above average But it's not as big of a downgrade for a righty to go to T-Mobile Park as it is for a lefty from Yankee Stadium the reason that righties are interesting to me in this spot is because they're facing Logan Gilbert and Gilbert actually has some pretty serious reverse platoon splits as a right-handed pitcher and we saw this last week because Gilbert was at Yankee Stadium Days in the very same Yankees team and he really struggled and I think that when you dig into the platoon splits for Gilbert It does make a lot of sense looking at his numbers versus righties this year letting up more hard contact He's led up a 460 slugging percentage versus 308 against lefties now that's over relatively small samples and Slugging percentage takes longer to stabilize and number like ISO, but his eyes is 190 against righties. So He's struggling with fingers right now The strikeout rate has also been going down a bit recently for Gilbert across his past 11 starts His strikeout rate is around 19% So strikeout rates going down letting up a lot of hard contact at the moment Let's up fly balls to righties and facing a line up that has a lot of very powerful righties within it That all adds up to me to making the Yankees a team I want to check in on on their home run prop market now era judges plus 210. I Can't quite get there, you know, he's he's tremendous I just can't quite get to plus 210 on era judge Josh Donaldson plus 420 also righty I think the guy who stands up most of me those labor Torah is a plus 480 Torah is You know, we only have seven home runs versus righties so far this year But a 46% fly ball rate and it is seven home runs across 272 played appearances. So That's not going to get you to plus 480, but said a lot of doubles in there I think he's close to having more than that So to me I would say if you want to check out the Yankees as a result of the fact They just saw Gilbert and they're seeing him again the fact that the righties Tending better against him. They don't get a big downgrade or as big of a downgrade going to T Mobile Park from Yankee Stadium. It's lefties do I think that that process grades out Well labor Torah is plus 480 be in the key guys hands that to me there in the home run prop market I do have some interest in the Orioles for today They're facing you say kukuchi who's lighting up a lot of hard contact still even as he's come back and been tooling tinkering around this approach I just don't like any of the Orioles numbers at Fandle right now Ryan Mount Castle plus 350 Cedric Mullins plus 390 He can't hit lefties. So it's not a that's not a concern for me Just a pretty short number lower down Jorge Mateo has been shortening here at Fandle sports But he was six to one this morning. He's now plus 560 So it seems like there has been at least some interest in Mateo there So I can't quite get to that number, but I will say earlier on this morning There were some longer odds on Mateo to go deep and Mateo Five home runs versus lefty so far this year puts the ball in the air has a 200 ISO versus lefties I would check out what his number is and if you can get him Somewhere around 8 9 to 1 I think that might be the point where you eventually do buy in and Bite that bullet at plus 560. I can't do it at Fandle But I do think there have been some software numbers in the market so far today And I would check them out to see where they're out of Mateo specifically because he could be a longer shot to go Deep so labor tour is at Fandle or hey Mateo elsewhere the key guys I am looking out for dinger props for today That's all we got here for this first daily show of covering the spread like I said We're gonna have this show up on both the Fandle YouTube page and on the covering the spread podcast feed each and every weekday So search for covering the spread wherever you get your podcast and then also go to the Fandle YouTube page and subscribe there And if you like this new format if you have feedback on it feel free to leave us or review You can also tweet at me on Twitter at Jim Sonnis J. I am s a and and yes, it's a new show It's a new format. So more than open to taking your feedback there and adjusting to make this show However, you see it best. Good luck to you with your bets for today We are back once again tomorrow talk with pitching ninja about strikeout props and branding a dealer to break down some PGA as Well going to be a blast this upcoming week. We'll talk to you soon This has been covering the spread right here on the fan dual podcast network


ThinkTek-Awayi, Civil Engagement, lives here. ThinkTek-Awayi Code Green, do we have an excellent program for ourselves to do this afternoon, Les and Janice Tanayama, and they have more initials and back of their names than I can possibly shake a stick at. But what they do is keep buildings very, very efficient. Buildings, especially the complex ones, are much more complex than cars. And you and I know what happens if we just get into our car and drive and drive and drive and drive and drive and don't take it to the shop periodically. My shop insists that I come in every six months and it's no longer just oil change.  Buildings are much, much more complex. And one reason our buildings are working so well is because of Janice and Les Tanayama. So welcome to the program and thanks so much for being here. And if you hadn't gathered, they seem to be related in some way. Now, how do they keep buildings running very smoothly? And let me do a little side note. I'm the energy codes guy for the state. And we have a whole process that we go through in designing energy efficient buildings and maintaining them. And right at the end of our checklist is something called commissioning. That means when a building is built, there's usually a third party who goes in and checks everything. A lighting guy goes in, checks all the lights. The air conditioning guy goes in, checks all the AC. And you're not going to believe this. But since there were all of these trades, you know, the carpenters, the plumbers, the electricians, the IT guys, going in one after the other after the other, and things were always in a rush, not everything gets put in exactly as it should and not everything is operating exactly as it should. The result are glitches and my pet peeve energy inefficiency. So that's where Janice and Les come in. And what they've done to ensure that we have a cadre of young people coming up through the ranks who are able to maintain these extremely complex buildings is they have founded the Hawaii chapter of IFMA. IFMA is not on your consciousness list. It is the International Facilities Management Association. And Janice especially founded the BA program at UH West O'ahu. And they're just about to graduate their first crop of young, would you call them engineers or facility managers? So Janice, why don't you jump in and tell us how in the world you started this program and you got it through. I mean, this is state government also. I happen to know how slowly state government works. And you apparently got it through in two and a half years. Okay. I really didn't do it all by myself. There's a lady named Sherry Propri at West, she was at West O'ahu. And I brought the information to her from the IFMA Foundation, which is different from IFMA. IFMA is the organization for membership, but the foundation is what we do for education. So we went originally back in 2013 to World Workplace in Arizona. And we learned that they had an accreditation program. So the following year I was sent back by our chapter to San Antonio to bring back information for Sherry to start the program. And that's where it all began. And then somebody in West O'ahu had to look at this and say, yes, let's do it. Sherry did all of that. And so she put everything together and got the program going. And we accompanied Sherry and Hawai'i Energy to World at New Orleans just to get them familiar with the process. The following year we accompanied Sherry and Hawai'i Energy to World at San Diego. That same year Sherry hired Dr. Jeff Rogers from Rochester University to head up our program here. And 2017, we started the FM concentration at West O'ahu. And soon we will be having some graduates. I'm not sure how many. I think there's about 13 or 14 in the program. But as soon as we get our first graduate, we will be able to start our accreditation program. Let me jump in and say that you mentioned Hawai'i Energy twice. I think they helped to bankroll the educational sector. Yeah, they helped. They helped also the Office of Naval Research. Office of Naval Research also put in my name to help us start the program. Well, let me interject there. Hawai'i Energy, the purpose of Hawai'i Energy is to use its dollars to promote energy efficiency in giving the most bang for the buck. And I think the Navy is in there because at one military meeting I was in, I think it was a low level general, said as far as I'm concerned, energy waste is an act of treason. The military as a whole is very, very interested, especially in Hawai'i, since we're a good test bed for this in achieving complete energy self-sufficiency, which means ramping up the renewables and bringing our energy use down through efficiency. So I think that's the connection. So both of them see the absolute importance of really, really good building maintenance. So now you got the program started. Were either of you the teachers there or? Neither of us. Neither of us are teachers. Dr. Jeffrey Rogers is the head of the program. Yeah, he's the professor we brought in from Rochester Institute of Technology. He transferred from New York to come to Hawai'i. And Rochester University, I happen to know, is a great technical university. Absolutely. It was originally founded, I think, by the Kodak Corporation to train their engineers and then expanded, expanded. So let me expand a little bit about the program because this is really in our hearts to bring up these young facility managers to help us with the program because we were lacking as an engineer, as a design engineer. I was putting out some projects of energy efficiencies of 30% reduction, 40% reduction. Compared to the base energy code? No, not the base energy from the previous baseline. Because I believe in measurement. But what I found is I didn't know how to make it simple. And, you know, we got the guys with the rag in his back pocket and like I mentioned to you, flip phones in this iPhone X world trying to maintain it and operate it and they were having a difficult time. And 50% of those facility managers throughout the United States is within five years of retirement. I find within the a lot of aspects of building management maintenance you talk to the county guys who do the plan checking and the site inspections. I think a big chunk of them are also within five years of retirement. So we need this young crop of people coming up, yeah. David Bassigal. Yeah, David Bassigal is our poster child if you may, for his month. He graduated from a college with a degree in facility management. He came to Hawaii. He was the assistant chief engineer for Halikoa Hotel. Today, officially he is the director of engineering for Halikoa Hotel. He rose up through the ranks. No, at the ripe old age of 28 years old. So, you know, I'm proud. I almost feel like a dad watching that. The program growth to this, you know. We are bringing in people with knowledge and young energy. And he's in charge of our student chapter. Chapter, yeah. Yes, we got some motivated people here. So, student chapter, is that just the students at West Oahu? Right now, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, there's one other aspect because we also got Ingersoll RAN, which is a very large corporation to invest in this program because they see the value. And the other thing that we had, we started a advisory board and it's made up of people from throughout industry. And when I say industry, I'm talking about the director of engineering for Queens Hospital. We're talking the director of engineering for city, Pacific Health as well as city and county, hotels. Unbelievable people have come forward to support us. Because they see the value in this. They know that they're going to need this young blood coming in. And I think they're all about my age. So, you know, they have some interest for future legacy. Beautiful. That's exciting. So, you feel like proud parents here. Yeah. So, this organization along with Sharon Moriwaki and her University of Hawaii program thought enough of the program that they awarded us an award two years ago. So, we're glad that we're being recognized for our efforts. Yeah. Yeah. Well deserved. Well deserved, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, this is one of those classic plant the seeds type of instances. It's going to take a while for that plant to come sprouting through the soil, but it's just beginning to know. By the way, as of 2018, we were just informed not too long ago. It's a permanent curriculum at the campus. So, it's a permanent concentration of facility management. Two pathways in. Yeah, we also have two pathways. One through the Bachelor of Arts in business. And the other one is applied science. So, you have two pathways in and many pathways out because you know, between IT and facility management and security and landscaping. You know, there's many avenues you can project your way out of that degree program into different careers. Yeah, somehow. I'm trying to calculate the average salary if these people stop at the bachelors and go into the job market. I'm just, I'm thinking of all the high rises, you know, including the new high rises in Kakaako that there are in this town. And I'm thinking the average young person signing up for a job is easily going to start making in the 50s. And he may ratchet up to the 60s and 70s pretty darned quickly. Well, we have an international IFMA does have a posting for job markets. And we have seen some studies and the about 98% of those coming out of our colleges with an FM degree are actually performing in that duty. And their starting salaries have been around for the last two years, 60,000. Yeah, so 100%, nearly 100% of those graduate who get just many or many offerings. So that's exciting. That's exciting. And that's going to inspire other kids because the word's going to get around. Hey, this is, it's an interesting job too. Well, you know, it's amazing. I talked to kids and we asked them what is a facility. So they start to understand that every box on the ground is a facility. And I said, you understand that someone has to watch over it and take care of it. And it's not getting simpler to do. So these kids are smart. They're very bright. So IFMA rules the waves, that's a beautiful way to take a break. We will be back in one minute. Think Tech-A-Way code green. Crazy world, so caught up in the confusion, nothing is making sense. There's got to be solutions, how to make a brighter day. I'm Ethan Allen, host of Likeable Science on Think Tech Hawaii. Every Friday afternoon at 2pm, I hope you'll join me for Likeable Science where we'll dig into science, dig into the meat of science, dig into the joy and delight of science. We'll discover why science is indeed fun, why science is interesting, why people should care about science, and care about the research that's being done out there. It's all great, it's all entertaining, it's all educational. So I hope to join me for Likeable Science. Welcome back to Code Green, Think Tech Hawaii. I have as my distinguished guests, guests who are planting the seeds for the future since this little crowd here is, well, Dennis doesn't have any gray hair, but some of the rest of us still. I cheat. We realize at this stage of our life that we need to cultivate a whole new generation, in this case an energy efficiency, and that's exactly what you're doing. So congratulations on that. And let's get to some specific projects that you, Les, as an engineer, are doing. And UH Manoa happens to be near and dear to my heart since I'm a university lab school graduate from 1st grade to 12th grade. So there's an affiliation. And then I did a little bit of undergrad, and I have my master's degree from UH. Oh, and my almost PhD, so lots of connections there. So Moore Hall, tell us what in the world you were doing at Moore Hall? Well, I don't know if you know the gentleman, Blake Iraqi. He's a personal friend of mine. He runs the facilities on campus at that time. I've met him quite a few times. Yeah, he was trying to get me to do projects at the University of Hawaii. And I told him, I said, you know, Blake, your procurement laws prohibit me to be flexible enough to provide for a energy efficient project without going through that procurement. Because what you really are getting at the end of the day is really the least expensive project because that's how contractors are awarded by the lowest price. I know that only too well. Yes, so I kept denying him and denying him. And he said, I think I found a way. And I said, well, let's talk about it before I commit. So we talked and basically what came out of that long conversation or many conversations is this. He allowed me to, which I'm trying to coin, provide for what we call performance design as opposed to performance contracting. This is performance design. And basically what performance design is and he allowed me to develop this is to be able to create an energy efficient project both from the controls and automation portion as well as equipment but not have to deal with the procurement issues after a bit. So we did it before. So we would evaluate equipment based on how it was to be used and literally earmark was shortlist the equipment that can be qualified for this project. And so that took the wiggle worm out of the contractor's hand and we got taking a severely discounted price for the cheapest piece of equipment that doesn't meet the criteria for efficiency for the project. So we developed that design protocol and we followed it through now for like six or seven different projects and it's working fine. We're averaging about 30% reduction in baseline usage. No, this is for retrofit projects. Retrofit only, yes. And can you give some examples of that? Well, more hall, one of the first things that I do is number one measure. We measure energy use and cooling capacities that are being provided for the particular system. What I also do is do an energy audit and when I first went to the building, after visiting two or three rooms I went back down to my car and I came back with, I do lighting audits as well and we have those little clickers that counts and I literally, as I was walking around every single room of the entire building I noticed that there were a bunch of sweaters on the back of chairs and I was counting them, they were over 50. What I also found was two under the desk heaters. They were over cooling the space. So I felt if my design was just to control proper cooling and comfort, I would save energy because I'm providing less. And that was my first start. So we also use this data for our design so we're not designing based on ruler thumb or one for one replacement. We're designing for how the equipment is to be used on the building. And that has, at times, in fact we were able to reduce that particular chiller used for cooling by almost 30%. But because it was adapted to a loop Blake wanted me to keep the maximum capacities at 190 tons so that we could accommodate what ifs for redundancy. So there was a lot of thought process. It's a lot more effort. It probably costs more in the design fees but the payback of the design fees are well within a year. It's a lot less expensive to have you sitting at a computer or walking around observing than it is to have construction guys banging and clacking and installing things only to find that they don't work so good. Well I think the advantage that Blake saw is that I actually have installed automation systems so I'm very familiar with the design, the installation and the operation of automation. In fact I'm an electrical engineer in a very mechanical world. So it was natural for me to hug the energy side of design and operations. So that's what I targeted. See how I could efficiently provide for a system first based on function. I never forego function. And then we see what we can do to make it more efficient. So the last thing is he allowed me to include in my fees one whole year's worth of what we call commissioning. And what that commissioning effort does besides the initial after post installation is the actual years worth of tweaking of the system because it never is what it was designed for. So you have to adapt to changing conditions. And the other thing that we were doing where we were training the operators the facility workers at the University of Hawaii to maintain this equipment so that I want to come back a year later and find things overridden and disconnected and taken apart and abandoned. I've heard horror stories like that. Yes, yes. And a whole year of data collection. Oh yeah. I believe in a lot of that. You talk about big data. We were doing it back then and I think that was around 2010. So the net result is 34% reduction of original baseline use. And much of that was conservation because we're overcooling the space. None of the variable frequency drives for all the air handlers were connected to automation. So guess what? They were on 24-7. So now we got to schedule it and turn it off at night. Turn it off on weekends and even participate in what we call Green Days at the University of Hawaii where we go through a program where we get to shut down equipment all over campus. So I'm participating as part of that design group that, you know, taking care of those initiatives. Have you gotten as sophisticated as measuring CO2 levels? Yes. Absolutely. Because if we bring an outside air, especially with a strong corner wind, we've got to remove that moisture out of the air. So what we do is we call demand ventilation. Is we're measuring the CO2 outside and we're comparing it to what's in the recirculated space and we prevent it from exceeding a certain level. Yep. And we only provide extra outside air if the CO2 levels get too high. And just by way of explanation, CO2 carbon dioxide, that's what we exhale when we breathe. That's right. We expire it. And naturally, the more people you have in a given space, the more CO2 they're going to produce and you don't want those levels to get too high.  Well, and it's challenging at an institution like that of higher education because as you well know, being well educated and matriculating at the colleges, that you have conference rooms and classrooms that you would have 30 people in one hour and nothing the next minute. So we have to make these adjustments and it's sometimes challenging, but we need good automation to do that. We need smarts. Good automation, and then people well trained. This is complicated stuff you're talking about. Well trained in being able to spot, you know, people are leaving the building. Is the CO2 level going down? Is the VAB going down? Well, you know, the big problem is today's facility managers existing that have worked through the ranks over the last 30, 40 years, they go into this new chiller plant or this new system, they can't find a start button anymore. Yes, yes. You have to use a keyboard and some understanding and therefore IFMA, you know, we need to we need to raise that bar. Yeah, which is exactly what IFMA does. I just heard a story in another conference I participated in where a bunch of managers were assigned to a given project, an energy efficiency project and they were given instructions and oh, this was videotaped and this is locally and apparently they're looking around and where are they? A few cuss words and they were mainly guys our age but there was one young man around there. So the calling card or the cry became where's the kid? Where's the kid? He was the only one who could figure this out. So, you know, after we're done with More Hall and we've maintained it over the last three years, in fact we're saving more energy today than we did at the time we turned it over. So, you know, I think the biggest thing in sustainability is not cardboard and paper, it's really how to sustain your energy efficiency from year to year to year and if we can do that, I think that's the greatest goal that you can achieve in sustainability. We need to leave but I will point out that in any given year, even in a construction boom like we're having, there's only a 1% replacement of buildings in any given year that means we have 99% existing buildings so we really, really, really need to go after those existing buildings because they have this huge, huge, huge potential for energy savings and if we're going to achieve 100% clean electrical energy by the year 2045, these are exactly the buildings we need to go after and we need these young people from IFA coming up so they can understand systems and then the old guys can just say, where's the kid? Where's the kid? You're supplying the kids. So, on that cherry note, we have to bid fun adieu. Listen, Janice, thank you so much. It's been very, very entertaining, very educational and we will be back again with Code Green. Think, take away. Good afternoon.


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we will discuss a question which says that find the equation of the plane through the points 3, 2, minus 2 and minus 2, 4, 5 and is perpendicular to the plane 2x minus 3y plus 5z is equal to 10. Now before starting the solution of this question we should know some results. First is the equation of a plane passing through the points x1, y1, z1 is a into x minus x1 the whole plus b into y minus y1 the whole plus c into z minus z1 the whole is equal to 0. Let this be equation number 1 and if 1 passes through x2, y2, z2 then the equation will be a into x2 minus x1 the whole plus b into y2 minus y1 the whole plus c into z2 minus z1 the whole is equal to 0. And secondly the planes a1x plus b1y plus c1z plus d1 is equal to 0 and a2x plus d2y plus c2z plus d2 is equal to 0 are perpendicular a1 into a2 plus b1 into b2 plus c1 into c2 is equal to 0. Now these results will work out as a key idea for solving out this question and now we will start with the solution. Now we have to find the equation of the plane through these points and which is perpendicular to this plane. Now given the plane is passing through the point 3 2 minus 2 so using this result which is given in the key idea the equation of any plane through the point 3 2 minus 2 is given by a into x minus 3 the whole plus b into z minus of minus 2 which will be c into z plus 2 the whole is equal to 0. Now let this be equation number one since it passes through the point minus 2 4 5 therefore the equation of the plane now by using this result which is given in the key idea now this equation of the plane which is given by equation number one passes through this point that is minus 2 4 5 therefore the equation of the plane will be a into minus 2 minus 3 the whole plus b into 4 minus 2 the whole plus c into 5 plus 2 the whole is equal to 0 this implies minus 5 in plus 2 b plus 7 c is equal to 0. Now let this be equation number two. Now this is the equation number one which is the equation of the plane now it is given let the plane which is given by equation number one is perpendicular to the plane 2 x minus 3 y plus 5 z is equal to 10. Now using the condition of perpendicularity since the plane which is given by equation number one is perpendicular to this plane therefore a 1 a 2 that is a into 2 plus b 1 b 2 that is plus b into minus 3 plus c 1 c 2 that is plus c into 5 is equal to 0. Now this implies 2 a minus 3 b plus 5 c is equal to 0 that is the equation number three. So this is the equation number two and this is the equation number three from two and three we have minus 5 a plus 2 b plus 7 c is equal to 0 and 2 a minus 3 b plus 5 c is equal to 0. Now solving these two equations by the method of cross multiplication we get a over 5 into 2 is 10 minus 7 into minus 3 is minus 21 is equal to b over 7 into 2 is 14 minus minus 5 into minus 5 is minus 25 is equal to c over 15 minus 2 into 2 is 4. Now this implies a over 10 plus 21 is 31 is equal to b over 14 plus 25 is 39 is equal to c over minus 4 is equal to 11. Now let this be equal to a constant say lambda. So this implies a is equal to 31 lambda b is equal to 39 lambda and c is equal to 11 lambda. Now this is the equation number one. Now putting the values of a b and c in equation number one we get 31 lambda into x minus 3 the whole plus 39 lambda into y minus 2 the whole plus 11 lambda into z plus 2 the whole is equal to 0. Now dividing throughout by lambda this implies 31 into x minus 3 the whole plus 39 into y minus 2 the whole plus 11 into z plus 2 the whole is equal to 0 which further implies 31 x minus 93 plus 39 y minus 78 plus 11 z plus 22 is equal to 0 which implies 31 x plus 39 y plus 11 z is equal to 149. So this is the required equation of the plane and this is the solution of the given question and that's all for this so if you want have enjoyed the session.


warm welcome to the sixth lecture on the subject of digital signal processing and its applications. We take up today a further discussion on the properties of systems that we are embarked upon in the previous lecture, all right. So, let us once again put down a few thoughts that we had come up with in the previous lecture. So in the previous lecture, we had essentially looked at linearity and shift invariance and we had seen that linearity comprises of two properties, additivity and homogeneity. In fact, we had defined additivity and homogeneity by using special cases of linearity. So we had defined them as properties which were subsets of the properties of linearity. However, we had remarked and I had left it to you as an exercise to prove that the relationship is two-way. In other words, additivity and homogeneity together come to make linearity once again. That means together they are sufficient for linearity to hold. So it is both ways. We had also looked at shift invariance and I might remark that when we are very clear that the independent variable is time, then shift invariance is sometimes called time invariance. So in many texts or in many references, we encounter the term time invariance and the meaning is shift invariance with the independent variable being time. Now we also explained the context from which these properties arose. The context was that we were trying ultimately to insist or realize the property of behavior with respect to rotating complex numbers of phases and ultimately we were trying to insist on certain properties pertaining to the response to sinusoidal excitation and we explained why that was the case. That was because sinusoids are not only found in nature at least in an electrical context but they are also very smooth functions. Now what we intend to do today? First is to continue what we had just embarked upon in the previous lecture namely to look at a linear shift invariance system and to characterize it completely. We had remarked in the previous lecture that a linear shift invariant system and now we will use an abbreviation for this. So a linear shift invariant system is completely characterized by its response to a unit impulse delta n. You see we had agreed that we would use essentially three steps in this proof and we also agreed on what we mean by characterization. We had also cautioned ourselves that we should not bring in more than we have put in the definition right now. Right now in the definition we have not brought in any sine waves or we have not brought in any rotating complex numbers. We have brought in no system functions or transfer functions. We only have the knowledge that there is a relation between the input and the output and that relationship obeys the properties of linearity and shift invariance. With this we must now prove that if I know the response to one particular input namely the unit impulse I know everything about the system. In other words I know the output that would appear for any input and that is what we are now going to prove. Well the first step in the proof is to observe that one can express any input in terms of the unit impulse and that is very easy to see. So let us take an arbitrary example of an input. So at 0 let the input take the value 5, at 1 let it take the value minus 2, at 2 let it take the value 3 and for the moment let us not confuse matters we would not worry about what is present at 2, 3, 4 and so on beyond 2. At minus 1 let it take the value 4, at minus 2 let it take the value let us say minus 5 and then let it do whatever it wants to after that. And we will show that if we focus our attention on this part between minus 2 and plus 2 we can express this as a combination of appropriately shifted unit impulses shifted and scaled. So you see it is very easy to see that this sample at 0 can be obtained by putting a unit impulse here and multiplying it by 5. So this can be contributed by what is called 5 times delta n so let me write that down. In fact let me take any other specific point so let us take the point n equal to 2. The point at any 2 to 2 can be contributed by shifting the impulse to 2 in other words writing delta n minus 2 and multiplying it by 3. So this is contributed by 3 delta n minus 2 and similarly this is contributed by minus 2 delta n minus 1. Essentially the unit impulse shifted forward by 1 if the unit impulse is shifted backward by 1 you would put an impulse here and if you multiply it by 4 then you would get this sample and similarly for this and similarly for any other. So we make the remark that this xn can be written as well many other things together with minus 5 delta n plus 2 plus 4 delta n plus 1 plus 5 delta n minus 2 delta n minus 1 plus 3 delta n minus 2 and of course many other things. In fact we can now come up with a more general expression here. If we notice a typical term in this summation is really the sample value at a point k multiplied by an impulse the unit impulse shifted by that k. So for example this is the term for k equal to 0 this is the term for k equal to 1 this is the term for k equal to minus 1 and so on and so forth. So we have in general xn being a combination of delta n minus k for all integer k and the coefficient in the linear combination is x of k. Now although it is very easy to understand this particularly because we have just taken an example one must also appreciate some finer points in this discussion. The finer point is that x of k in this discussion is now a constant it is not a sequence for any particular k. Secondly delta of n minus k is a sequence not a constant although it has only one sample it is a sequence right. So what we are saying is that a given input any given input can be thought of as a combination of several sequences each of which have only one sample. These finer points must be understood because they are important in the proof. I must repeat that if there are any questions on the way you must ask them then and there do not wait until the discussion is done to ask questions. So if there are any questions at any point in time you must raise your hand right there and ask the questions. So what we are saying in effect is that x of n the whole sequence xn is a summation over all integer k xk delta n minus k. Note this is a constant this is a sequence and we assume that when we put h when we put delta n into this LSI system we get a sequence h n emerging as the output. So here there is a sequence that goes in and a sequence that comes out please note. Naturally this is the unit impulse response the response of the seek of the system to a unit impulse. Now we first invoke the property of shift invariance. So shifting variance tells us that if I were to give delta n minus k for a fixed k in place of delta n the only result on the output would be a shift of the same k and therefore if delta n produces let us denote the system by s now if delta n produces hn then delta n minus k is going to produce h of n minus k that does half our work. So here we invoke shift invariance. Now invoke homogeneity xk times delta n minus k remember xk is a constant xk times delta n minus k when apply to the same system is therefore expected to produce xk times hn minus k. Note again here h of n minus k is a sequence xk is a constant the interpretation must be very clear at every step. So here we have invoked homogeneity or scaling and finally we invoke additivity. Now additivity says summation over all k what we are saying is invoke additivity pair by pair notionally keep taking pairs and go on constructing the whole sum here right. So summation k over all integers xk delta n minus k would then be expected to produce summation xk hn minus k and in fact this is really the output yn because this is the input xn and what is significant is that here we have put no restriction on xn at all for any arbitrary xn that we gave we have an expression for the output in terms of the impulse response hn and the input xn. So in fact not only have we proved the theorem but we have also given what is called a constructive proof a constructive as against an existential proof. I must distinguish in some situations one can only give an existential proof that means one can prove that a certain solution exists but it is not easy to construct the solution or the proof itself provides not much of a queue on how one might construct the solution. But here we are fortunate to have a proof that is not just existential but constructive in that it actually gives you a process for construction of the output given the input and the impulse response. In fact what we have even now is the construction in a rather raw form in the sense that we have what seems like a fairly complicated expression. Let us spend a few minutes in interpreting what we have got. So let us first draw a couple of conclusions. So conclusion is that the theorem is proved and the proof is constructive in that you can actually explicitly write the output in terms of the input and the impulse response and when we write it like this the interpretation is very easy. What we are saying here is essentially the output is a linear combination of several shifted versions of the impulse response. The impulse response shifted by k samples weighted by the input sample at the point k and then added over all such k that is what the output is. So you can visualize this. You can visualize that if the system were to respond to unit impulse with a sequence h n and what you have is the output essentially this sequence h n shifted by all possible shifts and the particular shift by k is multiplied by the input sample at the point k and all such shifts are added together. This is one interpretation.


It's very common. They were actually making more than one measurement and so a very common one would be something like addition so there you might have Two quantities that you're measuring and you're just adding them together. So in that case we can follow exactly the same process We're now we've allowed our derived quantity to depend on more than one variable and that means that when we're estimating our uncertainty we would have both This variable going to an extreme value and that value going to an extreme value And so what we've done down here is we've said it's just addition So I'm going to have a going to a plus delta a and we're going to have b going to b plus delta b and We're just taking away our average there And if we expand out the brackets the a cancels with the minus a and the b cancels with the minus b And we just get these two things added together So for addition you add the uncertainties