What's up everyone take down here. Welcome back to the video. As you can see behind me today, I'm finally gonna be showing you guys my 2021 Dodge Ram Classic. This video is definitely overdue because I bought this back in October, 2021. I just have not had the chance to make this video yet showing you guys. So today we're gonna be doing a tour of the truck and showing you guys some of the highlights and my favorite parts of the truck basically. But also I'm doing this video because I'm gonna be doing some upgrades to the truck very soon. The fog lights, the headlights were already done last year but I might make a video because I might upgrade them again in different aspects of the truck. So let's get into this. So here we go. Here is my 2021 Dodge Ram Classic. I decided to go with the night edition because to me it absolutely looks the best. The Express is the one that has the front bumper that matches the paint color of the truck. I didn't wanna go with the Warlock because it's a plastic bumper and I didn't really like the look of that. And I didn't want any chrome so I didn't decide to go with anything other than the Express night edition. Now we're just gonna go around to the vehicle here. What you get with the night edition is the headlights are actually tinted a little bit darker than the regular ones. You have the black 20 inch alloy rims which I absolutely love. You have the badge on it that says Hemi 5.7 liter. It is a V8 engine, Ram 1500 Classic. You do have the black side steps which I obviously wanted side steps on this truck. Now this isn't included in the night edition but I'm really glad that we do have it here. That is these tow mirrors. Now I don't tow anything but if you don't tow anything it actually this little mirror here is your blind spot mirror. So virtually this truck has no blind spots which is awesome.  Now this here, if you were towing something that was kind of oversized you can flip them up like so which is awesome. Now the other thing about this here with the tow mirrors it's not automatic. There's no button inside that you can fold them in. You actually have to manually fold them in just like that. Really easy to do. I was actually annoyed at first but now I'm really used to it. Moving on to the back here we're gonna show you guys the tail gates. Now because it is a V8 engine it does have the dual tip exhaust which is awesome and because it is a 2021 it does have this for the night edition the Ram logo it's kind of hard to see with this angle of how I parked but the huge Ram logo on the back which at first I wasn't a fan of and now I absolutely love it. Moving on inside the tail gate here there is interior lights here. There is a button on the side you just press it and it lights up on both sides and there's a lot of room. I went with the one that was already covered in the back instead of the color of the truck. I like that it is the textured one. Now the tunnel cover here is an aluminum black folding tri-cover. Sorry, it's not a tri-cover. It folds three times and then it folds up to the window rather than only fold up to the last part and you miss about this much. Here you only miss that small amount and the rest folds up against the window. You strap it on and there is these little extensions for it so it does not move. It actually is really, really handy and I absolutely love it. Now moving on here the only thing that was chrome on this truck was the antenna. I did replace it with this black bullet stubby because it actually has a lot better reception than the stock one that came with it and it actually looks a lot better on the truck rather than the long one that was... I'm just not a fan of it. It was the only thing that was chrome on the truck. Why do they have anything chrome if it is the night edition and the only thing was the antenna. So now we're gonna go and take a look on the interior of the truck and I absolutely love this. So we're gonna start with the driver's side back seats. Now in here, there is the vents in the back, the two cup holders here and in behind the seats, there is an extra two. So there's a total of four cup holders in the back which is awesome. Now I am a big guy, decided to go with obviously the crew cab for this truck. Also this is gonna be a long term truck. One day we're gonna be starting a family so we wanted something that we could do that with and as a big guy, I have really long legs. So I like to stretch them out. So if I'm ever in the back seat of this truck, there is a ton of leg room, which I absolutely love. Now underneath the seats here, they do fold up like so and there actually is a lot of storage in the back here. We have all of our reusable bags back here. That's something a lot of people in these videos don't talk about. I decided to mention it because there is a lot of room back there. Now this here underneath it folds up for additional storage. Same as on the other side and I'll show you that later. Now it does clip back on like that and these parts here actually fold out and it folds like such and it is now flat. So you can get the other side as well to make it flat across the whole back of the truck and it does not cover the cup holders. So you still have stuff in your cup holders but you will have to remove them to obviously fold this one out. Now these have a, I think total weights that they can hold is 150 each. So 300 total but 150 each. So you will have to spread it out a little bit. So a lot of storage room, a lot of leg room in this truck underneath here. I decided to go with the WeatherTech floor mats just because I trust them with my last truck. They have a lifetime warranty actually. I didn't realize that. So I decided to get them for this truck but underneath the floor mats here there is additional storage in the seats or in the floor story. So we have our locking nuts and such. It actually is this bin here that you can actually take out to wash if you need to and put it back in. So now we're gonna move on to the other side for the back seats. Moving on to the passenger side rear. Again, a lot of leg room. This actually folds out with the center and now it is a longer piece here. So this one here will fold out all the way across. Obviously I have something there so I'm not gonna fold it out right now. Underneath there's even more storage so you get the center storage and right here. So this is from the old truck. This is not the one that is included the jack. So this is the jack and the kit for my old truck because I like the cylinder jack. This truck is actually equipped with a scissor jack which I'm not a huge fan of and I'll show you guys that in a seconds. And on this side there is the storage there as well. And also in the back here even more storage across the whole back so I do have my windshield cover in here which is a heavy duty one and there's a lot of storage back there as well. Moving on to the passenger seats, fronts. We do have, again, there is a lot of leg room on this truck. We're gonna start on the side here. There's no buttons for automatically adjusting the seat. It's all manual with the bar on the front like a traditional vehicle.  Really easy. And right under here is your scissor jack. So again, I'm not a huge fan of it but I do like the idea of having additional jacks for my vehicle in case one were to fail. Now up here you do have a decent sized glove box which is awesome. And you do have this shelf here which can store a lot of stuff. I do it temporary. I don't leave stuff in that shelf because I kind of want to get a rubber mat for it because if you leave anything on here and you take corners, sometimes it slides back and forth and bangs it up. So I definitely don't want that. Now up here there is a little storage spot, a really small one. Another one here, you have a small shelf underneath here that's kind of hidden out of the way. You do have the storage that's on top of here. I went with the one that is the folding console instead of the solid one because I need the extra leg room. It does have a plug in here, USB plug here and there's more inside this as well. So in here, this opens up for additional storage and you do have, I think it's an aux cable and two USB ones as well. So that's the ones I plug into if I need to use the navigation. So this truck does not come with navigation. I have to use my phone's navigation but if I plug it in and wire the phone up so I plug my phone in and it'll charge it, it'll actually come up on the screen with my navigation rather than have to look at the phone which is awesome. So we're gonna look at this more in the minutes. But underneath here there is more storage which is something that's usually missed. I don't know why people miss it all the time but there's storage underneath the seat here and a decent amount. So I have our first aid kit, jacks and other stuff underneath there but for some reason people always miss that spot whenever they're doing these review videos so I decided to include it in mine. So now for the driver's seat I'm gonna start up the truck in a second here. So up first, the seat here itself you have your lumbar support here and you have the automatic adjusters for adjusting the seats rather than the passenger side which is all manual. Underneath here there is a little bit of storage but nothing is gonna be secured. It will be bouncing around. So I'm now gonna get in it and show you guys the screen as it started and the big display here. All right, so we're gonna put the key in and we're gonna start it up here. So it comes up RAM 1500 and then right now I have it set showing my speed on here. I'm just gonna turn the fan down so you guys can actually hear me. So you can actually go through the menu here and you can have it showing the tire pressure all around. The current fuel level, your trip, if you're towing, your audio which since I use audio from Spotify it actually doesn't show up on there for some reason. Any stored messages which I don't even use. You can do your setup screen and that is about it. So I absolutely love the screen. It's very easy to read and understand when you're driving which is awesome. Now here is the display. It's a huge display. Now if you go, this is a classic. So if you go with the other models which are more expensive trucks this is sometimes bigger. It goes all the way down and these buttons are included in it. For me, I like the look of how it looks right now. So that's why I decided to go with this truck. So I do have the media since I do have Bluetooth set up but because I'm recording on my phone I can't play any music through it right now. You can select your source. So if I do have my phone plugged in to the center console here it will come up here and I put USB one or USB two. But we're gonna leave it on Bluetooth for now. If I do have it on there instead of phone I actually didn't expect music to play since I'm recording a video. So that was actually really cool for me. But if I do have it wired and I do choose USB one or two then instead of phone it'll actually have instead of my contacts up here it will actually have my navigation for the phone which is really cool. So this truck here doesn't come with any of its own navigation but it does have it included with if I wire in my phone to charge it and plug in my phone it was included in there. So you do have your climate control right here which is really, really cool and easy. You do have your heated seats and everything here as well including your mirror dimmer, backup camera and your settings. You do have other apps on here as well if you do need them. I already showed you guys the phone. The backup camera I didn't show you guys on the tailgate but there is a backup camera on this truck which is awesome. And there is more settings that you can change and alter as well. So there we go. That is the look at my 2021 Dodge Ram Classic Night Edition. I absolutely love this truck. Now if you guys remember before I did have the 2010 GMC Sierra the reason why I had to get rid of that, trade it in and get this brand new truck was because last year I already paid about $700 maybe in repairs for that truck. It did need brakes all around which was gonna be pretty expensive. It did need suspension all around which was gonna be pretty expensive. The tailgate did lock so the only way to get into the tailgates was going to be to cut into the $400 tunnel cover and then to replace the lock in the assembly on the tailgate was gonna cost money as well and that's all the stuff that I knew about. That truck was already 11 or 12 years old at the time I traded it in. So to me it was definitely time to upgrade and get a new vehicle because even if I did all those repairs which was gonna be in the ballpark of $3,000 to $4,000 that I don't know how much longer I was gonna have the truck for. I don't know if something else was gonna go on the truck or if I'd need to repair something else on the truck or if something were to just happen to the truck. So instead of me stressing and worrying about it I decided to get this 2021 Dodge Ram. I was looking at other vehicles, not specifically Dodge but I was wanting a Dodge for my next vehicle. I started to go into Dodge dealerships. I took a few for a test drive. I took a 2018 for a test drive. Didn't really care for it. 2019 for the test drive, didn't really care for it. I was looking at other used vehicles and that day I decided to go and look at brand new trucks and I looked at this one here. It had everything that I wanted, the side steps, the night edition, everything that I needed, the crew cab, the tunnel cover which was later installed but everything that I wanted in my next truck was included in this truck. So I decided to just bite the bullets and get this truck and the payments are really great. The insurance is a little bit high but that is gonna come down next year or so. So I'm told. So this truck here is again, my forever truck. I absolutely love it and now I finally had the chance to share it with you guys because I did make a video replacing the fog lights on this truck but I didn't wanna upload that video before I showed you guys the truck because I have yet to do that and I bought this truck back in October. So hope you guys enjoyed this video. Comment down below what you guys think of this truck and I'll see you guys in the next video. Please take care. Peace.


Sure you've had a very interesting and intensive session earlier today with the speech contestants Right now we have four very distinguished speakers On a special 21st anniversary panel discussion on UK-Japan business relations My name is Daisuke Tsuchiya. I work at Brunswick which is a communications consultancy firm and Personally, I do a lot of work advising Japanese companies and international communications and vice versa on issues from MNA and crisis We have here today full of probably the most distinguished representatives to speak about the Japan and UK business From from this side, we have mr. Jun Arima director general of Jatro London We have mr. Haruki Hayashi who is the president of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry in the UK chairman of Mitsubishi Corporation Europe Mr. Jason Daniel who is a partner in country head of Japan for Simmons and Simmons the law firm and Finally, but not least Martin mr. Martin Wemben Vice president of strategic nuclear programs at Amec Foster Wheeler In terms of format, we would like to ask each of these four participants to start off with five minutes of discussions focusing back on on the 25 years and how the UK and Japanese business relation has evolved of course This is a business speech contest and we think that is quite relevant to to the the great contest that we have just observed today And also we would like to hear from from our guest speakers about how they see the relationship going forward and the potential in the future ahead So without further ado Mr. Arima Thank you very much. Mr. Tsuchiya and 25 years 25 years of Japan UK communications In short, I feel we have come a long way and 30 years ago when I was young. I was deeply engaged in Back in my home ministry ministry will come each only needs industry many In import promotion activities of Japan From overseas at the time as you know, Japan was recording record high trade and Current surplus vis-à-vis the United States and European Union and not surprisingly This has been causing a lot of trade friction between Japan and those countries and UK was not our exception in 1990 UK was marking trade deficit with Japan at almost four billion Pounds and there was a trade friction Issues such as squatch whiskey tariffs and so on and at present You get still marking the third deficit of 2.8 billion pounds to Japan However, we are not already we are not any more talking about bilateral economic relation solely based on trade balances Back in 90 80s and 90 90s Probably we are talking about bilateral economic relations based on trade figures import export figures of trade balances But it is not the case today This is because globalization has substantially increased Japanese investment for indirect investment overseas and this has contributed to enormously to economy and employment in host countries Japan's FTI for indirect investment dates back to 1970s in UK in the field of household electronic appliances Partly in response to trade friction at that time and when Sir Peter Parker Started this competition back in 1990. He was the chairman of the Mitsubishi Electric Europe And in 1986 in response to strong invitation from modern thatcher Nissan started auto production in Sunderland and now over 50% of our automobiles produced in UK are coming from three Japanese companies namely Nissan Toyota and Honda and Minister cable Minister Livingstone and Prime Minister Camelon quite often say that Japanese auto companies have completely transformed UK's auto sectors. So we feel very much proud of that Japanese investment to UK has been widening its scope nowadays a Mitsubishi heavy industry is engaged in offshore wind and Hitachi and Toshiba are engaged in nuclear sector Hitachi Railway will participate in the IEP project. This is indeed not worthy Considering that Sir Peter Parker again was a legendary chairman of the British Railway Board So in addition many Japanese companies are participating and are setting up R&D facilities Focusing on you get strong basic science base So Japan's FTI to UK has more than tripled from 20 billion pounds to 68 billion pounds from 1996 to 2013 Now UK is the fourth largest destination of Japanese investment So over thousand Japanese companies operating in UK and creating 160 billion thousand jobs So why Japanese companies has chosen UK? There must be various factors such as in speaking country or financial center or information center and gateway to European common market But however, I think the biggest factor is UK's Consistent posture of welcoming foreign foreign direct investment UK's strong commitment to free and open trade is also Signified by strong support to early launch and early conclusion of the ongoing Japan EU economic partnership agreement EPA So in short UK Japan economic relation has evolved from trade Trade balance oriented one to more investment oriented one or in other words more Interrelated or integrated one. So that is my comment. Thank you Thank you very much. Mr. Arima for the very comprehensive Overview especially into Japanese companies and how they have Invested into the UK Like now like to ask Mr. Hayashi for his views especially from the perspective of our individual companies have evolved during that time First of all, I feel very privileged to be a part of this very distinguished and Precedious event marking quarter of a century I'm talking to talk about one of these one thousand companies Arima's and just mentioned to me twenty five years is certainly a big proof of Continuity and it's the real living standard After the tradition and which I believe is something common between UK and Japan Today I do represent the Chamber of Japanese Chamber of Commerce in interesting UK but I would like to share with you our own special journey in Same 25 years Time frame you just wonder why I put it out the English company and but this is quite interesting because We're celebrating our 25th anniversary since the start of our involvement in UK food and drink company called Princess and This company was founded back in 1880. It's an old company Our association is a real true pride for our company in working both successfully and harmoniously in UK Out of the city of Liverpool How many people come from Liverpool or born in Liverpool? So you're scoosa, right, right and This story started 25 years ago The company Princess was very small food business trader with only a hundred seventy eight people And with a turnover of just about hundred hundred million pounds There's only one factory nearby the Liverpool When we Mitsubishi corporation acquired a hundred percent interest of this company Today the same company is amongst the top Five food and drink companies in UK generating one point eight billion pounds Revenue revenue per annum employing at the peak over 8,000 people with 14 factories in UK and Continental Europe and Africa The numbers certainly do speak for its growth Over a quarter of the century, but what I want to share with you is not to promote the canned food here but our unique journey in UK, which is Sharing common value and vision Mitsubishi corporation share the vision with princess Some 25 years ago to grow the business in UK and beyond in continental Europe by fully respecting each other and Founders value At the same time sharing common view and vision to expand business via careful succession of merger and acquisition rather than relying on organic growth limited to UK In the past 25 years princess made 23 acquisitions By our joint team of UK and Japan Our vision to become a real insider in UK and European market Was made only possible by continuously having Tireless debate in English, of course in analyzing the fast changing market situation and carefully scrutinizing acquisition opportunities key to success was in the past and will be for the future is to Have continuous effort towards understanding philosophy and the culture of our two companies and countries To achieve this very difficult task one thing we did not do is To inject top management by way of parachuting CEO from Japan To the local management team, but rather we decided to have Mitsubishi people to work and climb The same carrier pass and the same ladder in the company Today we have still only eight Japanese working in the Liverpool headquarter of 400 staff or 8,000 on the global basis One of eight is now enjoying his 15th anniversary in Liverpool Another one is enjoying his eighth year working in the Liverpool There are certainly all becoming real schools are like the gentleman sitting on the top I didn't realize the schools is also a soup That you can have a eat in Liverpool, which I tasted in the Liverpool pub What I observe and learn from our 25 years in this particular journey is value of resilience and coherence and Continuity or tradition which are two nations sharing common language helps as you saw today with everybody's Amazing ability to communicate in the Japanese language It's so much narrows the communication gap that we do not ever want And I always recommend bad English or simple English to my fellow Japanese colleagues and And scrap that hesitation to speak out because We already have lots in common between our two countries in this sense Your speech or your ability to deliver a message today Not only impressed me But also gave me a great pleasure in encouraging Japanese colleagues to communicate in English I'm thrilled that your wonderful achievement will encourage a lot of people in Japan and Hope that you'll continue to be part of UK and Japan relationship Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Mr. Hershey. I was a very interesting example of how a company can expand and and be part of The the environment not be an external factor, but really be integrated in terms of mr. Hershey mentioned 23 acquisitions in the last 20 25 acquisitions in the last 23 acquisitions in the last 25 years I think that's a great lead to our talk from our next speaker mr. Jason Daniel Who will give us an overview on some of the macro trends of M&A between the two countries? Mr. Daniel, please. Thanks. That's good So my name is Jason Daniel. I was On this stage as a as a finalist in 1998 and I'm very It's brought back lots of very intense memories coming back I was very nervous when I was approached to to be one of the panelists because I thought Maybe the discussion would be in Japanese But my fellow panelists I'm afraid they they well, I'm very glad actually they have spared me the need to talk in in in Japanese today If I look back at my experience over During the the sort of the 80s when I first went to Japan and 90 in the 90s when I first started working there Really M&A so that the acquisition of a company or the acquisition of a business was very unusual It really didn't happen very much and there was the the concept of koksaka Which was very topical at the time Often though, I think that meant having having a foreigner having a few foreigners in the organization And investing in in some of your staff going abroad Since then clearly things have changed hugely the Japanese domestic market and the the declining population in Japan Means that many Japanese companies need to go abroad. They need to go out of Japan and Buy companies expand their markets And in the same way the M&A market in Japan has developed Back then there were very few cases of an owner of a business selling it that was felt to be a Bit of a failure perhaps and certainly if you did sell it You probably didn't want to sell it to a foreigner. There was a sort of gaishi Allergy you were worried about what the what the foreign acquirer might do I think all that has changed a tremendous amount What has been perhaps the most interesting thing that I have witnessed in the various transactions. I've been involved with is is trying to get the balance between The local business as it was so before you came along and bought it. This was a local business that was doing very well and now you want to Incorporate that into your global business How do you get the balance between being a global business and a local business? And sometimes this is referred to as the sort of global concept of being both both global and local at the same time And clearly there are some tremendous challenges here Language is is one if your headquarters For example, if your headquarters speaks in Japanese all its reports are in Japanese all the important decisions are taken in Japanese then the people in the overseas business can feel quite isolated and Perhaps they can't really participate in in the global business at all So you've got those language challenges. You have obviously cultural challenges Different customs different values, you know, what is the purpose of a company? What is what are you looking for as an employee of a company?  All these are very difficult issues, I think and from my perspective as a lawyer, obviously lots of different laws So Making this work getting the balance right Has always been a challenge. I think right now it's become even more of a challenge because there are some very Tough laws that have come in around the world around areas like competition, so antitrust law or bribery or or data protection looking after your data and These pose a risk for a global business You need to be observing those laws Every way you operate and if you fail to do that The consequences can be very significant very big fines billions of euros of fines perhaps Clearly therefore you need appropriate management and you need appropriate oversight of a business that you acquire But You shouldn't squash it when you buy it As Mr. Hashi was just describing if you buy a business and then you parachute in your people from head office I think that is there have been some examples of that Having a very negative effect on the local business. You need the local managers To stay there. It's the business that they have been running And presumably you thought that they had potential otherwise you wouldn't have bought it So leaving them is a good idea but somehow Enriching the management tying it tying the business tying the management of that business to the global business in some way Is one of the biggest challenges that I think appears here Certainly sending more Junior staff can really help But sometimes they risk being seen as a spy You know, they've been sent by head office and they're just there as a spy So you have to find a role for them. You have to find a meaningful role and I think You know what I'm building towards concluding is is that the role of Integration of of Bringing the local business and the global business together Investing the time investing the effort investing money in flying people around the world to actually meet each other Get to know each other or in video conference systems that really allow people to get to know one another is Is very important and the availability of that technology and the willingness of companies to invest in in this integration In recent years has I think been a big development and has made Companies work groups work Much more effectively than they did if I look back, you know, 20 years ago 15 years ago I think now when a Japanese company comes and buys something here it tends to run it Much more efficiently some good lessons have been learned And some good examples set by Mitsubishi cooperation and others Similarly when UK businesses go into the into Japan I think there is a greater willingness amongst Japanese employees to engage with head office. There's certainly many more international internationally minded Personnel I think and then previously there were and really at the heart of it all I think one thing has stayed the same which is it the individual can be terribly important the Attitude of the individual in making a global business work following an acquisition is It's one of the most critical things and I think all the participants in today's Contest show their willingness and determination to Perform that kind of role so many many congratulations to all of them for participating Thank you very much, Mr. Daniel our final speaker mr. Martin Wendman, I think again following from from mr. Daniel's discussion about about Japanese companies and their involvement and how they have evolved in their relationship with UK Businesses over here. I think gives a different perspective from a UK company and how how working with Japanese companies has changed Mr. Wendman, please Konnichiwa Good afternoon our two island nations each have a long and proud history With a rich and deep cultural tradition which to this day continues to colour and Flavor the style and the behaviors in our mutual business endeavors we're both generally conservative in our approach with a formality and a sense of fair play and Honor which can translate into long and trusting relationships But it may also take a long time to build the foundations upon which this trust and this mutual respect are established in My own area of nuclear power station construction maintenance and more recently nuclear decommissioning Our two countries also share a common and rich nuclear heritage and expertise the Japanese process of meticulous planning and execution Nimawashi is particularly well suited to the capital intensive and very complex program management required in the heavily regulated and Safety conscious world of nuclear power generation But in this respect at least Perhaps the Japanese are even more formal and more cautious than the British with a consensus decision-making and collectivist approach Which contrasts perhaps with a wider acceptance of uncertainty and risk in the British context? When it comes to nuclear decommissioning such as at Fukushima Daiichi These two approaches make very natural and mutually supportive partners The very nature of the challenge at this complex site means that managing Uncertainty and risk is an everyday part of the discovery and the problem-solving Not every eventuality can be anticipated or planned for it cannot be anticipated yet alone worked out in advance in every case My own company a mech foster wheeler is proud to be working with tepco and Their partners to share the lessons learned and the experience gained from facing our own challenges Here in the UK at complex sites such as cellar field We have leak detection fuel debris removal soil and land scanning Sorting and remediation techniques which we can and we are happily sharing with our Japanese colleagues It is then only natural perhaps that we transfer the underlying essence of this business relationship Back here to the United Kingdom Where Hitachi and Toshiba are planning to build nuclear power stations at Anglesey and in Cumbria We are a technology neutral company and as such we've been able to work with a variety of Reactive vendors and suppliers and we're currently working with Horizon and Hitachi GE and have been for over 12 months now Supporting them in an owner's engineer capability with their pre planning licensing and regulatory process That means that we have people deployed in the Hitachi offices both here in the United Kingdom and also in Japan We're also working with Hitachi's Japanese supply chain companies such as Takanaka to support the design development of nuclear power plant components to enable them to be deployed here in the United Kingdom, but within a British bespoke context and With support from JETRO and our own UKTI and the fabulous staff at our embassy in Tokyo under firstly Sir David Warren Who's with us today and now ambassador Tim Hitchens? We are slowly building the foundations of what I hope will be lasting partnerships for helping with the wider decommissioning programs across the older reactors in the Japanese nuclear fleet and We do so in a broader context of shared values in respect Where I understand that the British flag is second only in popularity to the Japanese flag itself in Tokyo And I'm reliably informed the famous cartoon character Miss Kitty was actually born here in London And of course we share an enthusiasm for malt whiskey both space-eyed and from Saka So long may that continue in the spirit of mutual cooperation Domo Arigato, Kasamisu Thank you very much. Mr. Wendman. I just like to ask one question for all the Panelists and then then open to the to the floor for discussion we've heard a lot about how how the Relationship has evolved over the years Could could each of the speakers give a sense of where you think the potential lies going forward into the future And what where is there more scope to do? Better business between the UK and Japan Okay, thank you very much and first of all, you know, we praise UK very much because as I said It's opening posture to foreign active investment. And by the way cumulative investment to the UK per GDP is almost 50% So that's amazing figure. The relevant figure for Japan is only 3.7% so therefore Jets from my organization have turned a lot from our equivalence, you know the counterpart UKTI How to induce more foreign active investment? So we very much expect more UK investment to Japan so that is possible scope of further collaboration and Then we very much expect the investment in such areas as energy environment like, you know, you said and also you know the Life science or ICT or finance or initial education and so on. There are plenty of areas Where Japan the UK could find our common value and also common benefit I think I probably like to not to be protocol because everybody here is very much interested in what's going to happen in May election and What I'm trying to give you a message is that the Japan values UK in a context of a broader continent of Europe because that's what The UK delivers so much value to everybody that the people in UK don't realize so all the new Regulations and policies coming up from in conjunction with UK and the rest of the Europe and That is setting a global scene and later becomes a global standard So the Japanese enterprises are very keen to understand where the trends coming out So I just hope you have a peace of mind that the UK is a very important part of European continent Yes, I certainly think a Lot of the investment that's come into the UK over You know the last couple of decades must be connected surely to the UK's position as a a gateway to Europe and Yes, it has a you know has a flexible work workforce. It has an educated workforce English is the is the language here, but surely the position is Europe as part of Europe must be a very important Aspect to the attractiveness of of the UK to to Japanese investment. So I would set me second what Mr. Hashi has just said Going the other way there is Perhaps as there never has been before Potential for investment from the UK into Japan the yen rate is You know three four years ago the yen rate was very very high and and made buying something in Japan extremely expensive So perhaps there's more potential there and perhaps there is more willingness amongst Japanese business to work in partnership with Foreign companies than there has been to date. I don't I don't say that really based on anything but I'm aware of the you know the number of people that have got MBAs from American universities or UK universities who have gone back to work in Japan who have a very international mindset and who I think will look to Use internationalization globalization as a way to strengthen their companies On the global stage through working closely with with UK companies. I would hope I think we're living In an increasingly or increasingly uncertain world and no more is that the case than in the energy sector Where with increasing uncertainty to keep the lights on in our homes in our industry We have a great opportunity. I think for UK and Japanese companies in the energy sector to work together to help plot a path through the often competing demands of environmental responsibility affordability for our consumers and also security of supply in this uncertain world and I think sometimes sharing Some of our lessons and knowing what not to do is just as important as knowing what to do and In that respect my I come back to my earlier comment about perhaps the the British style of having a greater appetite for risk and Working with our Japanese colleagues to differentiate very subtly between Anzin the technical requirements to be safe versus Anshin the assurance of Society and the comfort that our people get from knowing that we're doing the right things And we can do that by working together and sharing our best practices


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Hey everyone, this is Dan. Let's talk about BioNTech and Moderna. I'm very bullish about these two companies Let me explain why First of all, this is the review of the price forecast. I did in my March 15th video on Moderna and BioNTech at a time I projected Moderna to be at $180 to $200 a share and BioNTech at $130 to $150 a share before the end of July 2021 and on that day the closing price for Moderna was 143.66 and BioNTech was 107.88 quite its distance from my target price range Us of today Moderna has gone up $33 at 170.81 and BioNTech has reached the high point of my range at 151.54. I'm pretty happy that my predictions are coming true Today I'd like to tell you that I'm revising my targets for Moderna to 200 and BioNTech at 210 by the end of 2021 in the next few minutes I'll be talking about the most important news that happened recently related to the two companies We'll look at the number of new COVID cases in the US UK and Israel where they have many people vaccinated already with either one of the vaccines and We'll look at my own the evaluation of the companies Then we'll compare different vaccines available in the market and then we'll look at the charts technical analysis Us of April 15 yesterday. It was reported that The European Union is in the process of drafting a huge order for the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine To the tune of 1.8 billion doses for the year 2022 that's a very significant increase from the current order for 2021 and then on April 13 It was reported that Johnson and Johnson Vaccine had been stopped because of the blood clotting problems and then March 15 It was reported that the major European nations Suspended the use of AstraZeneca vaccine because of blood clotting issues That was about a month ago and most recently as of yesterday Denmark became the first country to permanently stop the use of AstraZeneca vaccine because of the blood clotting problem That's bad news for AstraZeneca, but the flip side of it is that it would mean more sales for Moderna and BioNTech Also on April 12th The Chinese officials admitted that the Chinese made vaccines are not very effective And they're trying to mix the different vaccines to boost the effectiveness All the news the Moderna and BioNTech vaccines are found to be effective for at least six months The fact that they are not a permanent fix is good news from a commercial standpoint That means it will probably be needing booster shots at least once a year That'll be a good steady stream of income for both Moderna and BioNTech From a health perspective, it's not so good from a commercial perspective It's great news for the two companies and then Moderna and BioNTech are both testing booster shots to counter new COVID variants Such as variants from UK, South Africa, Brazil, etc Those variants are supposed to be more contagious than the original virus In the meanwhile, BioNTech and Moderna have been conducting vaccine trials to include children as young as age 12 And they hope to have results by June 2021 If you like what you've seen so far, I appreciate it very much If you can click the like, subscribe and notification button So that you can be notified when I post another video in the future Also, this is for the sake of the YouTube algorithm Thank you very much, let's continue Let's compare the different vaccines available in the market First of all, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is 52% effective after the first dose and 95% effective after the second dose And it's selling for about $20 a dose Based on the most recent contracts, Moderna is 80.2% effective after the first dose and 95.6% effective After the second dose and it's being selling for about $32 to $37 per dose Johnson & Johnson is a one-dose vaccine, 68% effective It's being selling at about $10 a dose And the vaccine is supposed to be 85% effective overall against severe disease But it has the blood clot issues As we mentioned earlier, AstraZeneca, 76% effective after the first dose, 82% effective after the second dose It's been selling for $3 to $4 a dose But also it has blood clotting issues on the patients CenoVac, that's made by China It's a two-dose vaccine according to the target It's 91.25% effective Indonesia says it's 65.3% effective And Brazil says it's only 50.4% effective And Sinopharm, two-dose vaccine also The UAE said it's 86% effective As we mentioned, the Chinese officials said the Chinese vaccines are not as effective as they thought And that's why they're trying to mix the different vaccines to boost the effectiveness Gamalaya sputnet produced by Russia is supposed to be 91% effective Basically, Moderna and BioNTech have the best vaccines in the market That's why I'm very bullish about the two companies Let's look at the new COVID cases in the US, UK and Israel Where they have high percentages of people vaccinated with either the BioNTech or the Moderna vaccine In the US, so far 38.5% of the people have received the first shot And 24.3% of the people have received the second shot According to the chart, it's going down quickly here Although there's being a resurgence here That's because some of the newer variants have been spreading Such as the UK variant, which has been spreading very quickly in Midwestern states such as Michigan But I'm pretty sure as a percentage of people getting vaccinated go up That this line will come down quickly It'll follow the pattern of UK and Israel, which we will look at now In the UK, 48.6% of the people already received the first shot And 12.7% of the people received the second shot The chart looks really good It's dropping very quickly Israel, where 59% of the people received the first shot And 54.8% of the people have received the second shot The curve is even more impressive It's to the point where it's almost zero As they roll out the vaccines in the different countries I'm pretty sure that the pandemic will be under control in about six to nine months And more importantly, more and more countries would gravitate towards Either the BioNTech vaccine or the Moderna vaccine Because they are the best available in the market This is my own calculation for the stock price for Moderna I use the forward PE ratio of nine different pharmaceutical companies With the average of 12.4 average PE ratio And I assume a 33% net margin, which is a net margin of Regeneron And then I extrapolate from the assigned contracts for 2021 Factoring the increase Because of the problems related to Johnson and Johnson and AstraZeneca And that's why I assume that they will have 5.3% of the world market share in 2021 And it will go up to 615% for 2022 and 2023 And with these assumptions, I arrive at my price forecast of $200 a share by the end of 2021 Similarly, for BioNTech I use the same assumptions for the forward PE and net margin But for BioNTech, there's added advantage of this contract That will soon sign with the EU for 1.8 billion doses for 2022 And using these assumptions, I arrive at my price estimate of $210 a share by the end of 2021 Let's look at the other analyst's opinions I'm here comparing the analyst's projections from March 15 to today If there's any number that's been changed during this past month I highlighted the changes with the yellow background For example, with Moderna, Yahoo increased the target slightly from 174.25 to 175.58 Louis-Nevolier maintained his rating of overall an A strong buy rating TipRanks.com revised the high target from 208 to 234 And the medium target to 165, the low target remained the same at 80 CNN Money also revised the high target outward to 234 For BioNTech, Yahoo increased the target to 126.5 from 120.28 Louis-Nevolier increased its rating from overall B to overall A It is now a strong buy And TipRanks.com increased the high target from 126 to 130 And average target from 116 to 117 I believe the analysts are really lagging behind what's happening with BioNTech That's why my target is fairly aggressive at $210 a share By the end of 2021 I'm pretty sure within the next 2-3 weeks the analysts will revise their price targets for BioNTech Outwards Let's look at the chart This is a chart comparing the price movement of BioNTech with the movement of Moderna and the S&P index and the NASDAQ index The candlestick chart here is BioNTech And then we have this yellow line which is Moderna The purple line here is the SPY ETF which is pegged with the S&P 500 index And then the blue line here is QQQ the ETF that's pegged to the NASDAQ 100 And then I plotted also TQQQ Which is the triple ETF pegged to the QQQQ The TQQQQ has three times volatility of QQQQ As we can see that the movement of BioNTech more or less Follow the TQQQ movement with about the same volatility Except it's got its own also ups and downs depending on the situations with the pandemic And then Moderna is even more volatile than TQQQ or BioNTech And in the last six months BioNTech went up by 61% and Moderna went up by 131% Both are very impressive stocks This is a daily chart for BioNTech We can see that it broke out of this ascending triangle in the last five, six days and started to shoot up We have this overboard warning sign from RSI And then of course preceding that we have the buy signal from DMI and the buy signal from MACD So definitely BioNTech has been very bullish in the last few days But it's getting to the point where it's probably overboard So it might ease up a little bit either go down a little bit or maybe just go sideways Let the RSI indicator cool down a little bit before it resumes It's March upwards This is the hourly chart Of course it's been going up and up in the last couple weeks We can see that the RSI has been flashing this overboard signal almost every day Yet the next day the price continued to go up because of the very positive news About this imminent European contract from 2022, the 1.8 billion doses Certainly in the last few hours we still have this bullish buy signal from DMI and the bullish buy signal from MACD Let's look at the support and resistance levels for BioNTech Because the price has gone quite a lot above the previous peak of $129 a year Achieve in December of last year I have to use the Fibonacci extension to look at the support and resistance points For support, I see 147 Which is the Fibonacci extension of 38.2 percent The next level down will be 140, which is the 23.6 percent on the Fibonacci extension And the next level down will be 129 Which is the previous peak for resistance. I see 153 Which is at a 50 percent Fibonacci extension and the next level up is 159 and the next level up is 178 This is a daily chart from Moderna. We also see that it broke out of this Triangular pattern and started to go upward in the last couple weeks In the meanwhile, we do have the bullish buy signal from DMI and bullish buy signal from MACD This is the hourly chart We have the bullish buy signals from both DMI and MACD From the last few hours and again, we have this warning sign of overboard situation With the RSI indicator and of course when it hit that point the price started to go down a little bit I don't think the price would drop a lot the next few days It'll most likely just go sideways horizontally for a few days until the RSI indicator cools down a little bit And then it will continue to march up again Similar to what happened to BioNTech Let's look at the support and resistance levels. Again, I plotted the Fibonacci extension lines here First of all, for support, I see this historical support point at 155 And then 143, the next level down will be 124 So these are the support levels for resistance levels Then we will have to look at the Fibonacci extension I see the next level up for resistance will be at 189 And incidentally today's closing price is 169.98 And the next level up beyond 189 with 201 for resistance and then 219 To recap my forecasts, I believe Moderna will hit $200 a share and BioNTech Will be at $210 a share by the end of 2021 Thank you for watching all the way to here If you're watching this video a few days after April 16, 2021 You might want to check the update section below this video In case I've entered some update notes And if you like what you've seen, please click the like, subscribe and notification button So they will be notified when I post the next video This is also for the sake of the YouTube algorithm As usual, I welcome your comments, questions and suggestions I'd like to remind you that I'm not a financial advisor You should make your own decision regarding buying or selling stocks And you should probably consult with your advisors before you do so This concludes my presentation for now I will chat with you again in the next few days In the meanwhile, I'd like to wish you the very best of luck with your financial investments


Excellent. Okay, thank you. Okay, so I'm going to talk about how we use transcribes at the National Library of Norway. And this by describing the workflow from scanned images to full text search. Next please. As many of you know, the National Library of Norway has a vast digitized digital collection. So in 2005, we started the digitization program with the ambition to digitize all our collections. And as of 2021, actually now, and in terms of text material, which I will focus on here, this goal is within reach. So all books, about 600,000 have been digitized, and that is a text corpus of about 33 billion words, which is quite a lot. And if you look at the newspapers, even more, it's about 110 billion words, making it one of the biggest text corpora in the world actually available for usage online. But when looking at our manuscripts, as of until now, we haven't been able to give such numbers because we have only, well, fairly recently at least started to do HDR. So next slide please. This is what our landing page of our digital library looks like nb.no slash search, and it provides full text search and full text view. Provided that you have access to the material. So many very many of our books can be accessed and browsing this page from a Norwegian IP address. And many of the older manuscripts are most of them are in the public domain so there could be browsed worldwide. So the DH lab at the National Library of Norway, which I represent together, for example with my colleagues, Ingrid Bayer and Andre Kvossen who are in present at the conference. We offer services, corporate services based on our digital collection so we do, we have a REST API for which provides concordances, collocations and frequency lists. Next please. So we have, we have 15 years of experience in OCR for printed material, books and newspapers, but not so much or until recently not so much experience with HDR. So, until now, up until now we had this, we have had many manuscripts available in the service, but without a text layer. Transcrevus comes to the rescue, we have experienced with it since 2016 and became a member of the read cope in 2020. Next please. So, the National Library of Norway is a founding member of the IIF consortium, and we make heavy use of that in our digital library so IIF was the best starting point for feeding images to transcribers. Next please. And so the workflow when working with our digital manuscripts is that we upload images of digitized manuscripts using the transcrevus API. The images themselves are stored and on service at National Library made available through our IIF API. And we use simply the IIF manifest in that for that purpose for each document. And then we do document analysis, layout analysis and HDR in transcrevus. And we download, we then download the page, the page XML format and convert it to alt XML using the access of T and feed it back to elastic which is our full text search engine and the NBA National Library reply. Next please. So this is what a sample page from a, from a letter, a 19th century letter could look like. And so the sample page itself the digitized scan page, and an optional view of the text layer. And the last slide please. Here, we show you how we, we implemented. So this is the way we implemented highlighting for example and sleep a few in within one single document so here we I search for the personal pronoun. I, and you see here, we highlight the, the occurrences of that word, and you get some context, and our readers are actually able to, to work with this text layer, in addition to the images themselves. Okay. So now we hope that to apply this to we have applied this to 3,500 documents. And we hope to expand this in the future we have about I think 250,000 men's manuscript collections. So more to come. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any questions from the audience. Yes, please. The question was whether you curate the text in some form. Whether you do any corrections on it. Did I get that correctly. And so we do. I'm not really the person to answer this question unfortunately because I'm not part of this process. And, but we have trained a model for handwritten Norwegian 19th century, early 20th century Norwegian. And I'm not sure how then results. There might be some curation yes but I'm actually not quite sure about that. So, someone else in the audience. Excellent. I could hear it, but yeah. Okay. So any other questions or comments. If there aren't any, I think we can move on to the next presentation and Magnus, we will send you your mug, because it shouldn't be your disadvantage that you couldn't come here. And please just try to Miriam at info at recall.eu and demand your mug. Thank you. Thank you for joining us. And next up is Stefan von der Heide from content conversion specialists a German company. He will be talking about the new transcribers rest API and provide an experience reports about project with Cyrillic Ukrainian handwriting.


In this video, we're going to take a closer look at how a learning module is organized by examining the module study skills. We will discuss subtopics and activities in a Canvas module, as well as the relationship between online work and campus, and the face-to-face work that students do in the classroom. Now, let's begin with taking a closer look at how a content learning module is organized. We're going to begin with going to a list of modules by clicking on the Start here button, or alternatively, clicking on the modules in the list of navigation links. All right, click on Modules, and then we have a list that opens. To be patient, sometimes it takes a minute to load. Here we go. And in my course, my study skills module was already open, but I'm going to contract it for a second so you can see where it is in the list of modules. Here we had instructor resources on the top. Technology skills for assessment, introduction to idea, and finally, study skills. So I'm going to go ahead and open that again by clicking. There it has expanded. All right, so we are now in the study skills module. And we can see a number of headers here as we look at this module. First, we have a link at the top. That is for the study skills Google Drive folder. And that would take you to a link that has all the instruction resources for teachers. Let's look at the headers here. We have instruction, introduction, successful students, reading strategies, note-taking and time management, test-taking in graphic organizers, more graphic organizers, and extra practice study skills. In most modules, there are five subtopics, and those correspond to the five days of the week. So there would be a subtopic for each instructional day if you meet on a five-day schedule. All right, and when we count those five, obviously, we are not counting the introduction as a subtopic. Within each subtopic, there are a maximum of five activities. So let's take a look at successful students, which is a little bit of an anomaly because the successful students actually has six, but usually there's only five. So you can see here, when there is a sixth activity, let's see, one is to learn, two is to discuss, three is to read and listen, four is to do your study habits, five is to read and watch, and six is to do my study habits. You can see that this sixth item is marked for do and class. So what this means is that if you had students meeting on a five-day schedule, the students would complete one whole subtopic of a learn, a discuss, a read and listen, and watch, do your study habits, read and watch, and this optional one, which is done in this sixth one, which is done in class, and they would complete this whole subtopic before they came to class the next day. So for example, on Sunday night, if your class met Monday to Friday, on Sunday night, a student might complete the whole section of successful students, and then they would come to class and do the in-class activities with you on Monday. Then Monday night, the students would complete this whole section on reading strategies before coming to class and meeting again with you for Tuesday. Then after class on Tuesday, the students would complete this whole section on note-taking and time management before coming to class to discuss note-taking and time management in class with you on Wednesday. Continuing on Wednesday evening, or any time before class on Thursday, the students would complete this whole section of test-taking strategies and graphic organizers, and then come to class and do in-class activities on test-taking strategies and graphic organizers. Again, the students would come to class again and do the more graphic organizers as the final portion of their week. And if students finished early, they could work on extra practice study skills, or even if they just needed any reinforcement for their particular content. So as far as instructional design, each of these subtopics takes about two hours for a student to complete. That's an average, depending on the student, depending on our technology skills. And really what is important from the instructional point is that the student tries it. They can always come back at any point during their course and complete an activity again, either for a better score or just complete it if they didn't understand it, or had difficulty with it the first time. And it is important to understand that when we talk about activities that are done in class, which we'll be looking at in greater depth a little later on, these are different from the activities the students do in Canvas. These activities in Canvas are their pre-work. So this is the work they do online here, and this is their preparatory work for class. There is a whole other set of activities that the students do when they come to class to work with you as the instructor. This is the end of our video tour. Now return to your IDEA 101 course to practice what you've learned.