CNO discussed the Asia-Pacific rebalance during an all-hands call at the U.S. Army Garrison in Yongsan, South Korea, May 30th. We'll put our most modern ships out here, most capable. The aircraft that we have, the new ones, they'll come out here first to deploy. So it's about forces, but it's also about capabilities, putting our most capable ships out here. It's about capabilities, but probably the most important part is about understanding, and that's relationship. That's re-engaging and ensuring our allies that, look, we're going to be there for you. CNO also expressed his appreciation to the Korea-based sailors, civilian employees, and their families for their work in strengthening the U.S.-Korea alliance. From the Defense Media Activity, I'm Petty Officer Andrew Johnson.


Hi, my name is Kempf, I'm working on VLC for a long time and I'm going to talk about what we did to put VLC on mobile OSes. This is not the usual talk I give, so I'm sorry if there are mistakes on it, it's one of the main focus of my development those days, so it's a lot of stuff I'm not completely set up. Don't hesitate to ask me and to ask questions and to re-interrupt me because that would mean that you're not sleeping and that would be lovely. So I'm just going to remind you stuff. So I'm a French engineer, I'm 31 years old, I've been working on VLC since 8 years now and I spend most of my time now on VLC and related projects on multimedia, everything I do is open source, mostly. I'm the president of the Videoland non-profit organization, which is a French non-profit that is mainly here to help develop multimedia projects including VLC, X264 and other libraries that I use a lot. I'm not going to speak about how VLC was created too much because this is probably the talk I give on Thursday. You have to know that the reason VLC exists is because the students who were on the campus of the École centrale Paris could not play Doom on a token ring network and so they want a new network and that's why you got VLC. VLC is a thing that no one knows but everyone uses. Many people don't know VLC, they know the cone player that plays everything. The story about the cone is also very funny but I can't explain now. I will be bright later if you want. VLC is known for two things.  We are very proud of our latest port to OS2 that was done last year and the three users are very happy too. We work on some weird OSs like BSD and the reason why VLC was very portable was that at the time where they started the project one of the main idea was to be cross-platform and when I mean cross-platform we meant BOS and Linux. Windows and OS10 were software that port that were added later. VLC is big, big means around 900,000 downloads per day on our servers so that's outside Linux distributions, that's outside download.com and all those scammy websites and outside source for and so on. This slide is a bit outdated, I'm sorry, but since we started counting we counted more than two billion downloads. What we do is open-source in the very bizarre way, I mean we don't have 400 millions, dollars per year are funded by donations and we don't employ anyone with this money. So I can speak a little bit but I'm going to focus now on the port on the mobile. So this talk is mostly about the technical questions. If you have questions on the usual questions you should refer to my first dem talk that I'm going to do in two weeks. So please come to Brussels, it's not far and here I'm just going to say a few stuff.  VLC does not exist, there is no spoon, VLC is a very small wrapper around libvlc so it's a 200 lines of code and libvlc is a stable API above the core named libvlc core. As you see we have like lots of great ideas how to name things but we are not the only ones. So libvlc core is basically the core of VLC, it's a very small piece of code around 80,000 lines of code, maybe 100,000 with the comments of POC that is basically doing network threads and a few abstraction between OSs but doesn't do anything. Everything that is a codec, a video output, a nodio output is done in a module. This is a very standard way when you see stuff like Gstreamer, quick time, direct show mid-air foundation, it is a bit different from what you have seen with mPlayer for example who is just a monolithic thing. So all the modules are done and loaded at runtime and the graph is created at runtime. The good thing about that is that you can take the best on each platform. So for when you do a cross-platform mid-air solution for example video you could say well okay I'm going to take to do output OpenGL because OpenGL works everywhere. Right? No it doesn't. Every time you try to do something or put GL on Windows this is going to be painful. Same for audio outputs or even codecs so it's always the same. The thing that was decided when I was not even around and I didn't know what a computer was was to have those modules and we have different types of modules like decoders, video outputs and they are loaded at runtime. So what do you need to port VR to a new platform? You need a compiler. It seems obvious but we are porting to a platform whose name is Windows Phone to not name it that doesn't have a compiler. I mean doesn't have a working compiler of course. You need a libc, I mean a basic one, malloc free, a few string functions, basically handle files and handling unicode strings would be enough. We need threads and also in VLC we use thread consolation points for issue we had with porting to mobile ports. We need network and when we mean network we need the usual BSD sockets. It seems obvious but it isn't on all platforms and we need a way to basically load modules at runtime which we can't do also on all platforms. So those are basically the core of VLC that needs to have all those and then we need a new output in order to output yes one is following and a video output to output thanks. We know usually a UI but the UI is boring so we don't care about and I won't cover UI stuff because we also need some on mobile ports codec APIs. So I'm going to start with the worst which is iOS. iOS is a very bad OS because it's a very close OS however technically it's the best mobile OS we have around. Why is basically it's exactly the same OS as macOS and when I mean exactly the same it means the exact same bugs. So the pthread and signal implementation on macOS is broken and it's broken in the same way on iOS but we've been working on OS 10 for 10 years and working around those bugs so we know that. The biggest limitation is that everything needs to be statically linked so you don't ship .so you ship .a on iOS through the app store but also in jail broken systems. So that's one of the issue we had to compile everything inside a big libvlc module which is a .a that has libvlc libvlc core and all the modules together and all the libraries also so that makes a .a that is 14 megabytes and we have to support multiple architectures on v6 on v7 on v7s on v8 which makes a big blob but that's the way you do it on iOS and it doesn't support multicast. I don't know we filed bugs it was broken it works fine on OS 10. There is just a few limitations you use audio unit on iOS and not a whole because it doesn't work and the audio unit on iOS is limited to stereo don't know why and the shaders of the open GL output are completely buggy on iOS except that it was quite easy it was the reason why it was done the first but it's not working because it works right so now we are going to vlc iOS is 100% open source we support Android from 2.1 which means Android 7 it's a full video player we play everything that we play on the desktop the biggest difference is that it has a multimedia library with SQLite and it's also a great audio player and we can't say that about vlc on the desktop oops oops sorry my slight of a small issue so Android is technically very bad so we went from iOS where everything was quite correct Android is bad and it's a mess so no one understand anything the NDK is completely limited everyone is all the manufacturers are hacking stuff everywhere so it's very difficult and when people complain about fragmentation on Android they're speaking about different size of screen this is like just joke for us because we need to every GPU every DSP has a different bug and every manufacturer is modifying the headers that are supposedly public so the structures are all the same of all difference which is API breakage API breakage all the time and a lot of Chinese manufacturers are solving the issue by adding extra craft on stage fright which is a middle-layer API saying well it works on the new so then they are the the first issue is that Android compared to iOS supports shared objects I say well great yes but it's limited to 20 shared objects why don't know on the Samsung device since 3.0 it works up to 40 shared objects per process but only all the HTC until 4.3 you're limited to 20 it's not documented anywhere you just need to see the issue so we went the exact same route as iOS we have statically linked everything into a big shared object libvlcgni.so that has everything so the resulting one is a shared object but it's completely ugly and so you load everything it was too simple to take a working libc so they had to rewrite one of course and of course it's completely broken so p thread was broken no read white locks p thread okay is it better yes I don't yes do you hear me yes okay so p thread was broken the read write lock were not implemented it was of course buggy so the solution was to take some part of the libc on Android open source version of the version 11 and to statically linked into the libvlc we load that every every printf with white car and unicode was also broken so we did the same took stuff and we linked them statically to every so we do they decided of course that the off tee was going to be 32 bits and that's an OS built in the 21st century yes so I mean wow even windows fix that in early 1998 so incredible the multicast is so broken that we disabled it and this is just the one that I like on the top of my head when I was flying here there are so many others I I don't understand why they didn't take a bsd libc but that was a simple part because then I mean we'll see we just care about like actually output in audio and video this is just a very early early diagram just to there are so many layers on Android it's insane there is just for audio audio track audio finger different version with a binder audio player there is the awesome player there is stage fright and you need to know what is and of course nothing is supposed to be public except the Java APIs and well you're basically a C player your multimedia framework you want to write and see so you tried many places and you hope that it's going to work examples for the audio the only official API is audio track Java API so the audio it's good it's working the problem is that it's quite slow and the delay computation function is broken what is a delay computation it's mostly to know how many buffers you've already sent to the audio output in order to have lip sync right so I mean after 40 milliseconds you see the lip sync issues so this one is the one that we know works but it's so basically you're you're setting audio from the sea you're memcoping it to the Java and then you're sending it back to layers back to the drivers so that's awesome design and already I don't know five or six mem copies and as beloved people say mem copies murder in multimedia so that's bad well so that's not problem let's go directly to audio track audio track is native we can do that so that's pulling a headers that is of course not open and that is well it's open but it's not public and it doesn't have any delay computing function at all so well you're on your own so we try to do stuff and probably what we're going to do is that we're going to keep this one but call in the Java side in order to get the computing delay options the funny also with this audio track native is that every deciding it starting in android 4.2 to inline most of the function in the headers right so that should be fine except that a lot of a lot of manufacturers started to add new stuff inside the structure in the same headers the result is that it's very difficult to know if you're going to be able to deal open and to find the right function starting on since 4.2 well then you complain to google that we do we do that a lot and though they said okay we have a solution we're going to implement you a new stuff android open sles wow it's open it's supposed to be great well of course it's open well android open sles is implemented above audio track right and of course it's not used by any google application do you imagine how buggy it is yes it is um it works fine if you don't be sample ever ever so if you output 48 000 hertz it's going to work and it's not going to work even on the nexus devices outputting 44.1 is going to be broken and well and even on the nexus 5 it works on 4.2 but not on 4.3 it works on 4.4 but not on 5.0 and this is the official um the official output we have in vlc um an android and this one is the only public apia you have in c great well that's not a problem we are going to go deeper we are going audio flinger yes but then we have the same issue as your finger is too low and many hardware people are fixing the bugs above it in audio track in order to have basically um youtube app works if the youtube app works that's great because it's used stage fright and the new media codec uh the old media player apia but starting from 4.2 and 3 um in video they added a new apia called media codec and they are starting to have new um application like the new youtube who are using this new stack and this is the reason why you see so many devices who are blocked at android 4.2 is that the the step from 4.2 for 2 4.3 then you get the new youtube apps and then it's broken um so audio flinger is working great but it's not portable video well video is the same um so before android uh 2.1 it's almost impossible except mem copying every frame so in rgb so it's not good for video right um on android 2.1 and 2.2 you don't have any way to output correctly in c um uh video so what you can do is dial open surface flinger um surface flinger is of course a private api um and you need some heads that are from android 2.3 you can only output rgb uh anything else is not working of course i mean we are on the 21st century we do video all the chips support yuv since mid 90s why have a way to output yuv so it's pure rgb so everyone and there is no way to access the the scaler so you do that in on the cpu and you kill your preference um starting from android 2.3 we have finally a standard api to get uh android native window uh it's great it works fine but you can have access only to one buffer um which is a bit slow so while you're filling your your buffer in order to display your blocking all the chain um if you want to have more than one surface uh you can use android native window private and once again those are private headers that change so in the way in order to do that we are doing um we are recompiling when we compile vlc lib and native window shared object version 11 14 18 and 21 and at runtime with the different headers at runtime we are going to load and see which one is going actually to load and then our video output is actually going to load this library that is going to works fine uh with that and that's for the main release of android 1 vlc for android 1.0 we have up to 16 or 32 buffers uh which is great because then you can do full uh uh direct rendering uh using libv correct uh you can even have yuv surfaces and you can even with a kind of hack know if your surface is going to support yuv or rgb um of course it's nv21 and not why uh yuv 420 but it's pretty cool uh you can also manage the opaque uh opaque buffers which is good when you do full hardware decoding so in the end now it sounds should be good but you need to do quite a few hacks um we tried the open gl es way we don't recommend it to anyone it's a mess egl is not working um it's also conflicting mostly with uh java side so if you have to uh for example display any widget above it you're going to have a lot of pain uh don't do that uh codex codex codex codex so some uh there is open max i'm i'm speaking of the il one of course but the you cannot access the open max you need to go through the binder like everything on android uh so we have this kind of iomx which is ipc omx ipc uh it works since 2.3 um of course you cannot do full gpu zero copy because you cannot it's very difficult to allocate the buffers and well technically you can allocate the buffers but you can't display them um because you need an extra set of private apis uh or you could do that only in rgb but most of the open max decoders don't output rgb um starting from android 3.0 um which if i remember correctly was not open source until 3.2 um you can use the same mechanism but you can access to graloc she allows you uh to um allocate correctly those buffers and to display them uh it's a hack because iomx and graloc is completely uh not public but it works mostly it works on the nvillia tablets which was the important ones uh the famous tegra 2 uh which were amazing chips with no neon yes um starting in 4.1 um we after complaining a lot um we receive media codec uh media codec is finally a new api uh from android that you can access to get access to hardware decoders great great great great they just said okay you need to output uh buffers in yuv 420 but they did not explain the layout and there was no test case in on the test suite of android to check the layout what happened of course all of them were broken um because everyone was using a different pixel format uh we um we spent a bit of time with martin uh from libevi uh to finally merge a test case so starting in 4.3 we are sure now that the buffer output are still 420 but are the same layout um so starting from 4.3 you can actually use media codec you can use software and hardware uh rendering and it works fine but it's still in java starting 5.0 you have a version you can do that but um you can do it directly from c except it's still broken in 5.0 the c version so you need still to use the java it's going to be fixed in uh android 5 um let's so we're starting vl port vlc on android two years ago that was the first ui um we released our own google play uh only for arm v7 at the beginning it is gpl v3 um well technically the code is gpl v2 or later but on android it's impossible mostly to have gpl v2 code because you need to link to code that are apache 2 which makes it gpl v3 sure uh we made a lot of iteration in order to make it less shitty and less horrible that was the first version that was actually usable um and but it was black and then we designed it to be a bit more hollow like and we finished the hollow uh design not too long ago when they started to give us the new uh design of course um and that's it for android um i'm just going to give you a few laughs and speaking about the port of winarty so uh port of winarty we don't have a compiler we don't have a lipsy because you can't access to file um you can't have utf8 um the you don't have a c99 compiler you don't have thread consolation um you don't have network you don't have sockets yes yes there is only there are new winarty sockets which are in asynchronous sockets for the thread counseling point we have a wake up of every thread every 50 milliseconds amazing we we are able to deal open any libraries that we ship so a contraria from ios an android we actually ship dlls but it doesn't work uh on windows 80 it's only works in 8.1 because it's buggy after 25 libraries that you load um audio output well um you can't use wasapi correctly because if you do that you don't have background audio so that's problematic for the um audio output uh on video output you can't have any yuv surface uh so we wrote uh a direct 2d um special filters that of course does not work on all the windows phones and of course you cannot um everything that you do for the ui must be in c sharp and in order to discuss from the c sharp to the c level you need a special language called c plus plus cx but we did it thanks if you have questions uh i'm available and i think uh i took a bit already too much time um so if you have more questions i can take questions after also i'll go do a talk on thursday and i'll do a talk on at the first day so we can take we've got quick ones any quick questions a lot of a lot of platforms to do programming for how do you solve the problem of testing for all these platforms and even devices or versions of of here whatever devices and and software so the good part is that most of the code is similar um because um most of the code is libvlc and then we reflect it to the different language to do the ui so most of the code is similar and we just have very limited parts for the video output the audio outputs and so on how do we test i'm sorry it says that most of our tests of course we do what we can but most of the test is what i call crowd sources testing we send a version we wait for the bugs we fix the bug we release um it's very bad but there is no other solution especially for android um for the testing of the lower level i advise you to ask Diego who is there how they actually do the testing for the codex because that's one of the most useful uh case for vlc with the number of android versions you're supporting what's your plans for deprecating and then supporting new versions none um so now um the version 1.0 was tagged and we're working a lot on 1.1 which is the first version that is almost released that is material design and we spend our time checking that it still works uh since android 2.1 um the reason is that we don't we try to do a software project that is cool and that is technically interesting and we don't deprecate stuff because uh we need to deprecate so most of the java compatibility libraries shipped by android for material design started v7 which is android 2.1 so we're doing our best to keep compatibility um i don't see us dropping um so we might drop at some point 2.1 and 2.2 because of the video output but i don't think that we will drop uh 2.3 ever excellent well thank you very much for that


Hi guys, you are watching OxyVloves and I have great news for you. I'm going to start free weekly webinars about how to move to Dubai and how to find a job here. So, if you're interested, there is a link in the description below. Don't forget to register, so I will send you the invitation link. How many of you texted me saying that you applied for a job, that you send your CV to the recruitment agency, but you didn't hear back? It means that it's only your fault and you are doing something wrong. I've mentioned million times that the job market in Dubai is highly competitive, so it's not enough just to send your CV, because there are many other factors that stop you from getting a call back. So today, let me go through the top 5 reasons. The reason number one you really are not qualified.  Don't apply for jobs for which you don't have enough of experience. Don't waste your time. All job descriptions are written with specific job requirements, so all companies are trying to find the candidate who can bring the best value to their companies. So it is quite fair that they are trying to find the most qualified person. The reason number two I recently found out that some employers post their job openings as a formality, despite having an internal candidate for the position, because those companies have internal policies that require them to post job openings to the public. But in reality, the position is not available. In addition, some companies don't take down their job postings after the position has been filled or their jobs get reposted by other job boards and the employers don't know where their job postings are. Today many recruiters search for potential candidates using ATS. ATS is the Applicant Tracking System. Let's say you apply online through such websites as bait.com, MonsterGolf, where recruiters receive hundreds or thousands CVs per day. Employers are not able to check all CVs manually, that's why they created this technology which is called ATS. So what happens now when you apply online? Your CV goes to that big bank with all other applicants and ATS system uses specific keywords to narrow the list of applicants down. You are not going through that system because you are not optimized for the ATS. Even if you are optimized 8 out of 10 times, your CV never gets seen by a human. So why it happens? There could be several reasons. For instance, you didn't fill out the right answer. You left something blank. You didn't have the right years of experience. Because that's what they do. They pick and choose those random keywords to get rid of the majority of the candidates. And as a result, they have only 10-15 candidates to look at instead of 1000 people. In order to get through the system, I advise you to read the job description thoroughly and pay attention to what is required from the candidate. And add those skills to your CV. Another reason why you cannot get a job today because you don't follow the instructions. Most job listings use the word must instead of it would be nice to. For instance, if it says you must have this experience, it means that you need to tailor your CV to show that. When you submit your CV, you should respond exactly the way the employer wants. If you are not applying for a specific job but rather sending hundreds of letters, most probably your CV will end up in the spam folder. Many people apply for jobs that are not appropriate for them. They can be overqualified, underqualified or just not a fit. If the company is trying to fill the specific job and you are not right for it, don't assume they are going to find the right fit for you. When you apply online, try to follow up with the hiring manager after one week. The best way to find the hiring manager is to use LinkedIn. And when you connect with an actual person, you can benefit in different ways. First of all, you feel confident when you know that your CV was received and it's been reviewed. Second, you make a positive impression on a decision maker. If you were rejected, you can learn and apply those mistakes to your future application. And it's always a great idea to network with hiring managers. So these were five reasons why you're not getting a call back. And I highly advise you to start applying my tips to your job search process. If you find this video useful, don't forget to hit the like button. And if you have any questions, leave them in the comments below. Thank you for watching and I will see you very soon. Bye-bye!


We know that all the other goals, especially climate change, the energy transition is very important because it's an energy production area and we need to convince the people and the governments to shift from traditional carbon-based energy sources to renewables.


Hey Aloha and welcome to Stand Energy Man here broadcasting live from the ThinkTech studios on the 8th floor of Pioneer Plaza in Honolulu, Hawaii, beautiful downtown Honolulu, Hawaii on a beautiful day and it's even more beautiful because I have one more week of work left and then I get to actually retire for the third time but I'll still keep coming back and bugging Jay here at ThinkTech to see if he'll let me stay on the TV once again. Anyway earlier this summer I had the honor of addressing attendees at the United States Department of Defense or Energy's annual Hydrogen Merit Review in Washington D.C. The Merit Review is a gathering of people from all over the world that have one thing in common. They are curious about hydrogen technology, you have PhDs, you have corporate technology officers, you have military scientists, you have legislators, you have sales representatives and you have folks here that just have a passion to learn more and there's about 1500 folks that attend this conference. One of my presentations, I usually have a few folks that come to me and ask a few questions, ask for a business card and you know that's how the presentation, this presentation was really no different. I had some folks come out and talk to me and one of the folks that came up was a great young lady that came up and had several questions and as I was answering them they came by and said hey you know we got you but you got to get out of here, there's next speakers are coming up. So I agreed to answer questions by email and I did so. I actually asked her, it occurred to me that there were a lot of folks out there with a passion about clean energy and sustainable technology with a lot of questions. I asked this young lady to be on my show but instead of me asking the questions of my guest I wanted her to ask me the questions so that she could ask the questions that I don't normally think of talking about. So my guest today is not Rachel James, my normal stunt double here on ThinkTech Mary Frost, someone I just just as passionate about as Rachel with a ton of hydrogen questions. So Mary, Mary Frost take it away, thanks for being the host here on Stand Energy Man today. Hello, Stan, thank you for letting me ask you questions today. I first became interested in hydrogen when I read about it long ago that anything could be stored as hydrogen. So my first question is about safety. My engineer friends tell me hydrogen is dangerous, it's flammable, even explosive. What's the rest of the story about hydrogen safety, Stan? Well, actually when we're talking energy, anytime you store energy, you have the potential for danger. That's the definition of energy. If you had a spring that was all compressed down really tight and what was holding it in place gave loose and all that energy let loose. You could really get hurt. If you were inflating a tire with air and the tire got passed its capacity to hold that pressure and let loose, it's actually killed people. So whenever you store energy, you always have a potential for, you know, fire, kinetic event, something where something runs into another thing, two cars colliding, it's energy, meaning energy. So you always have the potential for some kind of catastrophic event when you're dealing with energy. So why is hydrogen different than other energy storage mediums like gasoline or oil or propane, things like that? And that's where it's really interesting because I've been working specifically with hydrogen for over 10 years. And I've come to respect hydrogen as an energy storage medium, but I've also come to learn that there's so many myths about hydrogen. It's really hard to kind of dispel them because the first thing I hear when I mention hydrogen to somebody, I tell them I do hydrogen vehicles, they go, oh, like the Hindenburg and the H-bomb. And you know, and right there, it just kind of drags me into a dull place where I don't want to be. And I go, look, what do you really know about hydrogen as energy storage? Let's talk a couple of things about hydrogen energy storage. You know, when you have hydrogen, you have a source that's 14 times lighter than air. It goes straight up at 45 miles an hour. So in one second, that energy is six stories above you. And the only way you get hydrogen to burn, like most other lammables, is to mix it with an oxidizer, mix it with air. So when you have a gas that's moving at 45 miles an hour straight up, it's really hard to get it to mix with an oxidizer, air, oxygen, unless you contain it. If you put air and hydrogen together in a container, it has a pretty broad range of flammability and it will ignite. And if you contain it with the right mixture, it will actually explode. But so will an empty can of gasoline with a bunch of fumes in it. And so will a propane tank if it's leaking in the house. And not too many months ago, there was a story out of, I think it was Boston, where somebody connected a high pressure propane line to a low pressure distribution system in a neighborhood and like 20 houses detonated and blew up. Well, that doesn't sound really safe either. Gasoline, same thing.  Same thing. So there's, there's always an element of danger with hydrogen, but the Hindenburg one is always really gets to me, because if you really look at the images and understand what happened there in New Jersey on that night in the early 1900s, the zeppelins that had been flying for decades and moving passengers between Europe and America's Europe and South America have been doing so safely for many, many trips. And that night, this the Hindenburg pulls in during a thunderstorm and it's just getting ready to ground out on the ground that the lines are down and some kind of spark sets off the surface of the of the Hindenburg near the top. Maybe there was a slight hydrogen leak there as well. But the skin of the Hindenburg, just like other airplanes and airships at the time, was made of a very flammable substance coating material. And it was a town amount to thermite, which is an explosive. And it was coating that that material so it would be able to resist sunlight deterioration and be more more durable. They called it dope, airplane dope, is very flammable. So you have a flame that starts in the top of the Hindenburg. And once the flame starts going and the hydrogen starts leaking out, now the flame is spreading along with the thermite burning on top of the Hindenburg. And you have a pretty big fire. But remember, you said your engineer friends told you hydrogen is explosive. Then why didn't the Hindenburg immediately explode into a million pieces and cover half a New Jersey with with parts? It didn't. It burned. It burned along with the thermite and the coating on the air on the blimp. But what else happened? Hydrogen doesn't have any carbon in it, so it doesn't radiate any heat. The heat goes straight up at 45 miles an hour. The people that died in the Hindenburg jumped out of the gondola and and fell to their death. The people that stayed in the gondola till the Hindenburg got close to the ground basically jumped out and ran away. Most of them survived with just scratches or broken limbs or whatever. But they stayed close to the Hindenburg. I mean, close to the the state in the gondola till they're close to the ground. And so, wow, how can they do that? Well, the flame and the heat was all going up. It wasn't radiating down and down into the ground and into the cabin where the people were. So it's it's really kind of interesting. I have a really short video. I kind of knew you would lead in with this because people always hit me with the Hindenburg right off the bat. So let's show a short video on what Paul Ponteo and the big on Blue Planet Research demonstrates when he's talking hydrogen safety. Sounds good. The spell some of the myths about hydrogen because most people are afraid of hydrogen. Most people think it's the most explosive thing on the planet and that if you have a small leak in the hydrogen system, then it's just destined to explode and burn down building it. Well, the reality is, is that since it's the lightest element in the universe, it's 14 times lighter than air. It goes up at 45 miles an hour when it's let loose. That's 66 feet a second. So think about it going 1001 and it's six stories away. It's gone because of that. It's very difficult to get a concentration that's flammable at the source of a leak unless you're right at the leak source. And what we do in the classroom is we do it by showing this. So you got a really audible major leak of hydrogen. It's blowing up right now like crazy. And most people would think it's in the spark.  Well, it'll blow the flame up if I get close enough to it right now. It won't ignite until I get down closer to where it's concentrated enough. But as it's leaking out, it's hitting the ceiling of this building and it's going out there. So before I lit it, the hydrogen that had leaked out had already left the building. It's gone. It's moving really, really fast. So the other cool thing about hydrogen is that since there's no carbon in it, it's just purely hydrogen. It's a little windy in here. But there's no radiant heat. And because of that, you can put your finger about an eighth inch from the flame and there's no heat. It won't burn. But above right here, it's 500 degrees plus. It's very hot. And if you come here, you can actually put your hands over it and you can feel the humidity in the flame because it's making water vapor with the oxygen in the air. The other thing is the other big myth or misunderstanding, it's not a myth, is that hydrogen is invisible when it burns. Well, it is outside. So if we took this in the sunlight, you wouldn't see the flame. But indoors in subdued light, it burns orange. And nighttime, it burns bright orange. You can get really, really close. And this tubing will actually, it's actually colder than room temperature right here. It's hot by the jet, but it's pulling the heat out of the air and cooling down. So that one, I think that video is really cool. The other thing about the Hindenburg is, like Paul says, most people, if you read Wikipedia, say that the hydrogen flame is invisible. Well, if it's invisible and the Hindenburg was on fire, then what was all that fire that we saw if it wasn't hydrogen, it would be invisible. If it was hydrogen, most of that flame was actually parts of the Hindenburg that were burning other than the hydrogen. Hydrogen definitely was fueling that fire though.  I hope that kind of gives people a feel for the safety. I'll only add that we trained a lot of firefighters here in Hawaii because we did have hydrogen fuel cell vehicles on the military bases. When the federal firefighters finished training almost to a person, they said we'd much rather deal with hydrogen than gasoline or propane in vehicle fires. What else you got for me? All right then. So if it's safe, what exactly is a hydrogen fuel cell and how does it work? Okay, a fuel cell is really a cool piece of equipment. And it's a confusing name because when I first started talking to people about fuel cells, they said, is that where you store the hydrogen inside of a fuel cell?   And when you have a nickel cadmium battery, it's a metal battery. You have dry cell batteries, you have wet cell batteries, you have fuel cell batteries. So a fuel cell is really a self-charging battery. And last week on my show, I showed a video last week that had a really great animation of how a fuel cell works. But basically, a fuel cell is an anode and a cathode, just like a battery has. And on the anode side, you have hydrogen being pushed in. On the cathode side, you have air being pushed in with oxygen. And there's a membrane in between the two, the anode and the cathode. Now, the air atom is too big to go through the membrane. And the hydrogen atom is too big to go through the membrane. But they want to get together and make water. So what happens is the hydrogen atom actually sheds its electrons. And the proton on the hydrogen atom goes through the membrane and goes to the other side. And the electron from the hydrogen atom, the electrons, go around and create a circuit. When you have a circuit, you're making electricity. So what you're doing with a fuel cell is you're running a self-charging battery that takes hydrogen on one side, air into the other side to make water, heat, and electricity. And that's a fuel cell. It's really basic. It's really fundamental. It's really, really cool technology. And there's zero pollution. The water that comes out of a fuel cell, you can just drink it. The vehicles that they make nowadays that use fuel cells either put out evaporated, evaporation, a little bit of water in a mist or they actually collect the water into a little reservoir that you can drink or you can just dump it. Water your garden. So is there anything else about fuel cells that you had a question on? No. Shall we go on to the next question? What are the advantages of hydrogen compared to other fuels? Specifically for energy storage. Okay. I brought a book with me today. Again, this is one of my reference books. You can get it at most hardware stores. But what amazed me was one day I was looking through it looking for something else. And they have a chart in here called Battery Characteristics. It has a whole bunch of data on batteries. And in the list, I was surprised to see fuel cells. I wonder how they compare. I wonder how batteries compare side by side to each other and to fuel cells. So I looked in there and I go, I've never heard of an ammonia battery, but it can store 1,400 amps, amp hours per kilogram. So for every kilogram of storage you have, you can get 1,400 amp hours of energy out of it. Let me see. They've got nickel cadmium batteries. They're 165 amp hours per kilogram. That's pretty good. Lithium batteries. Lithium batteries are 865 amp hours per kilogram. That's really good. I always wondered why we used hydrazine in F-16s for energy storage. And under the fuel cells it has hydrazine is 2,100 amp hours per kilogram. That's pretty good compared to the two batteries I just talked about. Lead acid batteries are about 55 amp hours per kilogram. Would you like to hazard a guess what hydrogen is? In a hydrogen fuel cell system. Oh, did you have a guess? No, no, go ahead. 26,000 amp hours per kilogram. By weight, hydrogen is the most energy density storage medium you can get. So when you have a kilogram of hydrogen, you have about two and a half pounds of hydrogen. Think of that. Think of that compared to batteries where for every, in a lead acid battery, every kilogram has 55 amp hours of storage and you want to get to 26,000 amp hours. That's how much, by weight, how much more heavy it is. I try to encourage the Air Force to look at hydrogen because in aviation everything's about weight. We're going to take a quick break here for 60 seconds and we'll be back with Mary. She can hit me with a couple more questions. Thank you. Aloha. My name is Mark Shklav. I am the host of Think Tech Hawaii's Law Across the Sea program. My program airs every other Monday at one o'clock on Think Tech Hawaii. Most of my programs deal with my own life and law experience. Recently I interviewed Alex Jampel, who I have known for over 30 years, about his voyage across the sea as a lawyer from Tokyo to Hawaii. Those are the type of stories that I like to bring and like to talk about. Human stories about law and life. Aloha. Aloha everybody. My name is Walter Kauai. I'm your host for a monthly live streaming video entitled Ukulele Songs of Hawaii, where I bring on guests who we enjoy talking story about the music industry here in Hawaii, sometimes going back 50 decades if possible and always having some good fun talking with entertainers. We're here located at Think Tech Hawaii, downtown Honolulu at the Pioneer Plaza building and in their studios. So join me next month for Ukulele Songs of Hawaii. Welcome back to Stand the Energy Man, where I am getting grilled today on my knowledge of hydrogen by Mary Frost from Ohio. When I met at a department of energy conference who was really interested in hydrogen. So Mary, thanks for being with us and I thought of one thing while we're on break. Let's throw up that diagram that I have. Here's another really important fact on hydrogen. I do a lot of hydrogen and transportation, but we are using a lot more renewables on the grid now. And when you really get to large-scale storage, this graph here is really important. I actually made this graph, but I did it because I've seen graphs from the national labs, from reports the national lab has put out, and the commercial sector that have the same kind of information. And I didn't want to do a copyright violation, so I just basically redrew this. But it's really to give you the idea of where all these energy sources tie in. So across the bottom of the graph is your power from kilowatts to gigawatts. And then the vertical axis are seconds to weeks. So when you're trying to store energy, the two biggest factors of whether it's affordable and viable are how much energy you're going to need and for how long you're going to need to store it. So in the lower left side, you see supercapacitors and things like that, the red oval. That gives you kind of the range where supercapacitors work. They work great for a few seconds and even up into the megawatt range. Above that, you have your flywheels, which are really an amazing energy storage. It's kinetic energy storage. You just, when you have energy, you spin it up and it can react instantly to fairly high power outputs and it doesn't even have any kind of thing except a spinning flywheel made of steel that's really well balanced on zero friction bearings. My engineers go nuts when they see the flywheel piece. Then there's metal batteries. All your lead batteries, your lithium batteries and everything else, they can run really well, they react really quickly in up to a megawatt or so range, maybe even to tens of megawatts for a few minutes to a few hours. Above that are flow batteries. Now, I worked with four different flow battery technologies and I'll just be really frank with you. They're not ready for prime time. They have some great capabilities but they don't work well. We haven't had one that really stayed online for more than a year. So I kind of discount those. Then you kind of see a green arc in there and it goes long duration and high power. When you get into that regime of this graph where you're storing either high megawatts of energy or weeks and weeks of energy or days of energy you have a couple components there. You can either have compressed air like if you have a big salt cavern under your city and you can compress air in there and at night run it back through turbines to make electricity, pump hydro where you pump water uphill when you have extra energy and then you let it flow back through turbines to make up power when you need it. Methane and natural gas if you want to have solid oxide fuel cells and hydrogen fuel cells. They take that regime. When the grid starts to use energy, talk about energy storage. If they're not talking about hydrogen and methane they're not looking in the right regime. If they're looking to batteries for the solution they need to go look at some of the national lab studies to see that they're just not viable. Sounds reasonable. Now Stan, I drive an electric car so it has lithium ion batteries so I kind of understand what you're saying about the battery issue and has hydrogen been proven in the transportation industry? Actually hydrogen is actually, this is a surprise to most people on the planet because unless you live in California and visit California a lot, California actually has about 6,000 hydrogen fuel cell commercial production vehicles on the road and they do because they have the stations to fuel them. Almost no other state in the United States has hydrogen fueling stations for vehicles. We have one in Hawaii put together by the CERFCO, the local Toyota dealership so we do have one commercial hydrogen station that's made just for Toyotas but the big vehicle manufacturers are all focused on hydrogen or transportation and it goes back to that weight to energy thing. If you have batteries in vehicles and you really wanted to go 300 miles like a Tesla you literally have a ton of batteries in the car. Your leaf doesn't have a ton of batteries and it can probably get you 100 miles, 75 miles and as time goes on those batteries kind of weaken until they can't be used anymore and you have to go buy a new set of batteries. Hydrogen storage tanks are relatively cheap. They're storage tanks, I mean they're expensive because they're high pressure but compared to a life cycle cost they're totally recyclable, they're totally usable even if your fuel cell died your storage is going to be good for 100 years probably. So in your car it is proven and they're in production. In production they're not prototypes they're being bought at least by people in California and driven. I've got a couple slides here of vehicles that we've made. I just brought these as examples. The place that hydrogen really shines the most and this is really appealing to cities is in their bus system. These buses are hydrogen buses that were used in California and they have several hundred thousand miles on this fleet and the neat thing they found out about it was number one their maintenance time-between failure and the bus drivetrain was greatly reduced using electric drivetrains with hydrogen fuel cells. The weight of the bus was light enough that the tires didn't wear out as fast and they all have regenerative braking like other electric vehicles like your Leaf. So when you're going downhill and you take your foot off of the accelerator you're making energy and charging your batteries again. So they're very efficient, the brakes don't wear out very fast the tires last longer and they're great transportation. The next slide I have is another real heavy vehicle this is a super heavyweight vehicle this vehicle we think is the largest or highest capacity vehicle in terms of what it can move for a hydrogen fuel cell. Just last week we pulled a 200,000 pound military Boeing 707 a KC-135 we pulled it for almost a half a mile using this vehicle and it runs on a 30 kilowatt fuel cell it has a drivetrain that can move a 10 ton airplane or more. We actually we're going to be testing it up to about 30 tons of pull and that's what this vehicle can do it's proven, it's proven technology in vehicles, it's proven technology in passenger cars buses, trucks, the whole spectrum and it really shines in these heavy class 8 vehicles and bigger. Alright, Sam we've got just a couple of minutes left so I have a couple more important questions. Can you make hydrogen from solar and wind? That's actually really an important question. Right now in Hawaii we have a mandate to be to completely renewable energy by 2045. So we actually have per capita more solar than pretty much any other state in the US and we have quite a bit of wind as well. The problem is on a utility grid is the grid's responsible to provide stable reliable power and when you have solar and wind they're called intermittent renewables the wind doesn't always blow the sun doesn't always shine at night there's no sun you know so those things sometimes have a lot of power, sometimes they have nothing and on the grid the electric companies when they get to about 25% of intermittent renewable on their grid they start to come up with problems like stability where they'll come up with over production in solar and they don't have anything to do with that energy so they tell you you got to curtail it what you do is you take all that curtailed power from wind or solar and whenever it's not needed you put it into hydrogen and store it and then you turn around and use it on your grid or use it for your vehicles so all that energy that's being wasted and by the way as we get closer to that 100% we're going to be curtailing a lot of energy because we need to store it and use it for nighttime on a much larger scale and as transportation becomes more electrified which it will you're going to need even more energy storage and again that's where hydrogen shines very impressive thank you anything else how would hydrogen energy storage be well you already spoke about the grid and that it would be advantageous so that was my last question I think there's another great part about the grid that I forgot to mention so thanks for reminding me but when you have that stability issue on the grid when you make the hydrogen it can actually be a load so right now when a utility company is operating they have what's called a spinning reserve they'll actually run a generator all the time just in case they need the energy what I'm trying to do on our microgrid project is get our engineers to agree that a flywheel can do that more efficiently than a generator and hydrogen can do it as well by becoming a load where instead of trying to ramp up generation you can take that solar and you can turn it into a production of hydrogen and basically level your distribution of energy using the electrolyzer as a load instead of using it just to generate hydrogen it can actually be something to help the grid stabilize itself so there you go and you know what I know that you probably have some more questions somewhere and I'm going to give you some more time and we're going to have you back on another show sometime and we're going to keep doing this because I really had a good time and I appreciate your passion and I appreciate you taking the time to spend some time with me today and I'm going to leave you the last minute or so to say whatever you like and call it a wrap for today so thanks for being on the show thank you very much for letting me ask you my questions as a financial accountant though I think if I come back on again I may have to actually grill you next time okay I better bring my economic advisor I'll bring my economic advisor with me so I can do that because yeah that's also another question I get asked a lot how much does a hydrogen station cost to build how much is the infrastructure to return on investment those kind of things that's actually a fairly complex field and a lot of it has to do with the economy of scale and things but those are some great questions we'll hit next time so promise me you'll come on and grill me again oh I would enjoy that thank you very much for having me Mayor Frosch thanks for being on the show today and I really appreciate it for my last show as a state employee where I won't have to do this on my lunch hour anymore Aloha from Stan Energy Man we'll see you when I'm a civilian next Friday okay Mahalo, thank you Stan


We don't want to live in darkness, and one of the beautiful things about coming to Fudgery Prayer is that you can witness the daybreak. You have this darkness that covers everything. You have all these forms around us, right? Like if we were in this room, you have people, you have pillars, you have chairs. When you're in darkness, you can't see anything. If it's truly dark. And as soon as there's a little bit of illumination, then the forms begin to take shape. She's like, oh, I think there's something over there. I'm not really sure what it is, but something's over there. And then as there's a little bit more light, a little bit more light, then things become more and more clear. And the remembrance of Allah SWT is what brings clarity to our lives. Everything is dark actually, without the remembrance of Allah. When we begin to worship Allah SWT, the sun begins to rise on our minds, we're able to see things as they truly are. Oh, this thing I thought it mattered, it doesn't actually matter that much. So as we keep regular in the salah, the heart begins to be more and more clear.


Hey everybody and welcome to Psychic Medium Tony Green, who clearly needs a person to push buttons for her at the beginning of her show. Anyway, let's get right into it today. Hey Sal, hey Jay Francis, Genevieve and Heather. And let me see, Rebecca, hey everybody who's online in the chat joining us. It is going to be one of those shows because the goofy has got me this morning. That's all I can say. The goofy has got me. So just a real quick announcement that I say at the beginning of every show for those who are returning, for those who are new. Hey, welcome to the show. First and foremost, I never reach out to anyone on any social media or email or any of that stuff unless you've signed up for my group email on my website. I never reach out and tell you you need work, get work, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I don't do that. No, no. So the only way that people connect with me for sessions is getting questions answered here or connecting with loved ones here on this show. Or through my website for tonig.info or my business number<PHONE_NUMBER>. Please do not get scammed. I don't, even though, you know, I don't know how much it's scammers charged, but I don't care if it's only a dollar. Don't get scammed. Don't lose your money to a scammer. Okay. Second, if you would like to call in today with a question, the number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. Yep, that's the number. Okay, I'm going to go into a few names that I've been hearing from the other side. The first name I'm hearing is Jeff or Jeffrey. Jeff is on the other side wanting to say hey or hi to the people or persons left behind here. And there's also a Michael on the other side that is coming through for someone here and a Gina or Regina, Gina, Regina, either way, Gina. On the other side coming through for people here that they've left behind here. Basically, you know, all, if I were to give a message from each of them, and all of them collectively, it would kind of sound the same. I'm okay. Stop worrying about me. I love you. And let the, one of them is saying let the past be the past. Just let's just move forward now. Let's just move forward now. We need to just move on now. Okay. The next thing is a couple of songs that I've been coming through. And this song, I don't even, I can only say one word of this song. And everybody, if you know the song, you're going to know it, but it's that song, Gasolina. And the only reason I can say one word is because I think that's the only word in the song I understand if we are all being honest here. I barely understand English. Not really going to be able to understand that song. Yep. Okay. The next song that I am hearing is, again, I've heard this song a couple weeks ago. I'm hearing it again. The arrhythmic sweet dreams. Sweet dreams are made of this. Who am I to disagree? I think if you know that song, you just know that song. That's whoever that song is for. Again, this can be somebody, a song that answers a question. It could have been a song somebody on the other side loved or somebody here loves this and or you listen to the song with that person. And the other song is from Eric Clapton. That that song, would you know my name? Would you know my name if you saw me in heaven? I can't, you know what you guys? I can't listen to that song. It makes me cry. Every single time I listen to that song, I like can't get through the whole song. It's like in one of my books, the last poem book I wrote, there's a poem in there that's channeled. All the poems are channeled and there's a poem in there. I can't get past the first paragraph without crying. I think the name of that poem is ever, ever, but I can't get through it. Like I get to that first paragraph and I start the second paragraph and I'm done. I hope I never have to do a public reading of that poem because I won't make it. It won't happen. Okay, a couple more people have joined us in the chat. Hey Patrick, how are you and anointing prayers with destiny? Hey destiny, how are you? I hope you're doing well love. Yeah, that song by Eric Clapton, that one. Yeah. Okay, I'm going to start taking callers. When I say your area code, please let me know your name and where you're calling from. And one specific question or one connection if you want to connect to somebody on the other side. I just need their first name and their relationship to you like Judy, my mom. Hey Stevie, speaking of Judy, my mom. Hey Stevie, how are you doing? Mama says hi to you. And for those of you who are new, Stevie is my youngest brother who misses my mom dearly. Okay, Rebecca wants to know what is her song? Rebecca, your song today is, give me a second here. Oh, let it be. I think is that by the Beatles? I know Patrick's going to answer first. I think he is. Let it be. Let it be. Yeah, that song. Words of wisdom, something let it be. Yeah, that's your song for today. Yes, the Beatles and Patrick was the first one to answer that. Thank you so much Patrick. Yes. Oh, let it be.  Patrick, your song of the day is, oh my gosh, it's not, it's, it's, I can't believe this song. He's got high hopes. He's got high hopes. High in the sky, Apple Pie hopes Patrick, what's going on with you? That's your song of the day love. Oh my goodness, Patrick. I like that song though. I love that song. Caroline, I hope everything is going amazing for you today. Caroline, I just adore you. I adore you so much. Okay, I'm going to go into collars. There were some notes like tons and tons of notes of things I was going to tell everybody before I started the show. And the one thing I last week I said I was going to tell a story about a horse and me. There are so many horse stories with me. I will do this story. I will do one. So when I was younger, we used to go like up north and back to where I was born, the city I was born in in Wisconsin. And one of my relatives lived on a like this. It wasn't quite a farm, but they had horses and they watched the horses and took care of the horses. And I adored the horses. I had no fear. Silly girl.   So right there, right? And yeah, I was little and I wanted to ride the biggest horse. It was a big, huge, huge black horse. And I wanted to ride it and they wouldn't let me. So here's me. I mean, this horse was so big. I had to walk it and it was such a gentle, good horse. Thank goodness. But I had to walk it. I had to walk it to this ledge, the cement ledge where I was trying to jump on it, like trying to like use its little hair main and get my body propelled up on this horse. So I could ride it. No saddle. Why would I think like it was so much work just like getting the horse there and trying to sneak on this horse with, you know, I didn't really know how to put a saddle on a horse or the reins on the horse anyway. So I was trying to ride this really big horse bear back up north and while I'm trying to jump on it and holding its main and trying to grab the back which I couldn't even reach over the back of this horse. I just kept slipping and falling under the horse. And finally, thank goodness, one of my cousins came in to the barn and was like, No. And I just looked at him. I said, come on. He's like, there's, there's not even a saddle on this horse. And I'm like, the horse doesn't care. The logic of a child, right? I'm like, but the horse doesn't care. The horse doesn't care. There's no saddle on it.  And I was really sad. So that's one of the more mild horse stories. That's not the one where the horse threw me and it was a little horse that threw me. See, they should have given me the big horse. I would not have gotten thrown. Or if I would have gotten thrown, it would have been a lot further. So anyway, enough about the horse story. That's just one of them. It's a silly horse story. Okay. I am going to go to... Hi, Christine. Thanks for joining the show. I will get to your question in a moment, Christine. I'm going to go to the first caller if you would like to call in the numbers<PHONE_NUMBER>-951. You're the first caller. What's your name and where are you calling from? I'm from Sacramento, California. How are you doing? Hey, Nathaniel, I am doing well. How are you? I'm kind of a little strange, but I'm doing good. I may be able to kind of retire. Well, I'm going to hopefully be collecting Social Security soon, but I'm not sure. I was doing Uber and I heard of an Uber driver that got killed. But, you know, I'm just kind of kicking a race right now, but I moved out of my house. I was renting and I'm moving in a motel now. This is like the second month. So I'm looking for a room to rent, hopefully. Less cost, you know, people here. Then, you know, kind of rent a full apartment or something. But I don't know if mom or dad can come through or what do you want to do? So, Nathaniel, I think you had this conversation just a couple of weeks ago about... Well, there's a couple of things you brought up about your relocating and possibly relocating to a more effective cost of living area for you personally.  Don't listen to one negative story or one negative thing and try to make that... Don't focus on that. Yeah. You know, in Ubers, things happen sometimes to passengers and drivers, and those are the stories we hear about. But every day, a lot of people take Ubers and Lyft and all of those things, and they do okay with it. Just make sure you're protecting yourself and you're being in areas that are... Might be considered the safer areas, because I believe with Uber, you get to pick where you are, okay? So, that being said, the biggest message I have for you, Nathaniel, is keep moving forward with the disability and find a place that is affordable cost of living all the way around. Not just a room to rent, but possibly... And I know this is going to sound ridiculous, Nathaniel, but like if you would think about... And I know it's not easy. I'm not saying it's easy, but if even relocating to another state or further out in California where the cost of living might be a little bit better, but Utah or something like that, you might have just a better vibration all the way around for yourself, okay? It might be something a little bit more feasible for you all the way around, Nathaniel. Thank you so much for calling in, Nathaniel. I'm really grateful to get your call and to be able to hopefully help you with some guidance there. I'm going to take the first question that I'm seeing on the chat. Yes, if you'd like to join us live, I go live every Monday and Wednesday at noon central time. I go live on YouTube and then there's the call in number, so you can post questions in the chat. The first question is coming from Christine. Christine wants to know, hi, any insight for my son Gregory and the end of his RN program? Thank you. Okay, do you want to know, is he going to make it through the program? Yes. Is he going to make it through timely? It depends on what you think timely is. It might take him a little bit longer than he's thinking right now or a little bit longer than normal. That's okay. You know, don't worry about the time frame that everybody else puts out. Go with what's best for you. Don't put yourself or put himself in that box of it has to be done by this time. Okay. But yes, he will make it through the program. He has to buckle down a bit. He's not being as...  For whatever that's worth, I hope that helps Christine. I'm going to go to the very next caller who is 630, 630. What's your name and where are you calling from? Hi, Tony. It's Lisa from the Midwest. How are you today? I'm good, Lisa. How can I help you?  It's just okay. I just can't have it anymore. And so anyways, I went and got a new car and it was built on the day. It was supposed to be built March 15th. And, you know, he thought it would be a week or two at the mall. It's been about a week and three days. I talked to him last Thursday at the salesman and it hasn't been shipped out yet, which is not so far. I think it's like Mississippi and Illinois. So I just wonder what you see with it time-wise.  So here's what I'm going to say. Relax. I'm sorry that word came flying out of my mouth. I didn't think it would. I understand. I completely understand when we were getting something in its noon. We really want it and we're watching and we're anticipating. Not everything goes according to the schedule that they give. Sometimes there can be hiccups and I would rather have it take its time and get to me than possibly something go wrong in the meantime. I do feel like it is going to come in when it's perfect to come. I don't even really know how to say other than just be a little bit patient and you'll get your vehicle when it gets there. I'm going to go to 415. 415, what's your name and where are you calling from? Hey, Tony, back in New Mexico. Hey, Kate, how's life treating you? Good. I think I picked up a little stomach bug in Mexico, which happens. But other than that, it's well and I've wanted to think about my dad. So if my dad Bob has a message for me. Okay, yeah. Absolutely. So your father is the first thing that your father is saying is give me a second here as his energy comes through and thank you, Kate. Thank you for this coming through and bringing in a connection. Your father's energy is very strong. He's always been a force of like I hear the statement of force to be reckoned with or not to be reckoned with. I don't know how that statement goes. But the first thing that I'm hearing is that he is. The song by Michael Jackson is coming through. I always feel like somebody's watching me. So he's saying he's always watching you. That's where that's going. He's always. And then I hear that song jeepers creepers where to get those people. I don't even know if that's even a whole real song.  Oh my gosh. And definitely making sure that everything is like moving forward, pushing, moving, pushing forward for you. Asking you to pick a path to pick a way to pick a path to pick a way, pick a path just, you know, figure out one or two things like and then like just go with it and make it happen. You're kind of been at like a stalemate of but what if, but what if. So just ride the bike. If you don't like the bike, just get a different bike. Right. Yeah. Or try a different trail. If you, if you. Okay.  But at least get on the trail, at least get on the trail, just like he's showing me a shuttle and dirt and he's saying, just dig in and do it. Otherwise in a year, you're still going to be in the same place. Kind of just going, well, how should I do this? Should I that? Yada, yada, yada. So that's what I'm getting for that. And what I'm going to add to that from him and a grandmother that is on the other side is that you have like all these abilities and gifts and you don't want to go back into what you did. But. Okay. So bear with me while I try to say this. You don't want to go back into what you did before, but it won't be the same as it was before because this time you'll be directing it. This time you'll be in charge of it. This time you won't be like doing it for somebody else. You'll be doing it in your way, in your terms, on your terms, or however we're going to look at that and you're going to, like it's going to be your thing that you get to do your way, not, excuse me, not under the direction of someone else. So whatever it is that you choose to do, pick it and then have a vision and then flow with that vision. That is the message I'm getting for you. Okay, sweetie. And I really do hope that that is helpful for you. Yeah, that's wonderful. Yeah. Thank you. Those messages are exactly spot on. Thank you. Thank you. I'm so happy. I hope that that was helpful for you. And I look forward to talking with you again, my love. Yes, me too. I'll keep listening. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. I am going to go to 857. After 857 I'm going to take a call on the chat. 857, what's your name and where are you calling from? Hi, Tony. My name is Keita and I'm calling from Massachusetts. Hey, Keita. How can I help you today? I just wanted to know if there were any messages from loved ones in spirit. I don't have anyone in particular who I'd love to hear from. I'd love to hear from everybody. Okay. But I just wanted to see if there was like someone who came forth in general. I feel funny asking for one person. So it's kind of like whoever shows up. Okay, no. I don't do that. I don't do that on the show just because that can take a really long time. And then there are hundreds of people in my room. But what I will say is I typically ask, even though people don't want to just pick one person, people on the other side can't be offended. And I always want to make sure typically I can say this in a better way. But for the sake of the show and the timing, I don't like to fish through all the different energy trying to figure out who everybody is. Okay. So... It's okay. How about my grandad? You need his name? Sure, yeah. His name is Oscar. I'm going to tell you, I see a gentleman that is... And this is the other reason I always ask for a name in the person is because sometimes somebody will come through that you don't know and you don't recognize and then you're like, I don't know who that is. But, you know, we have great grandparents and uncles and everything over there. The first person that I see coming through is thinner with what I believe to be like tan or olive skin, grayish black hair.  This is the first person I'm seeing now. Whether this is your grandfather Oscar or somebody else, I know this person is stepping in. If you recognize him, I hope you do. If not, it's very normal. We don't always know by my very horrible descriptions of people that it's them. I am going to say that the message that's coming through for you is, it's going to sound weird, but the message that's coming, I'm hesitating to say it because I'm afraid it's not going to make sense. The message that's coming through for you is actually coming from you. Okay, so I'm just going to let them talk and then hopefully you will get this in the end. Love is just love and just use that on yourself and not others. That is quite, I know exactly what they're saying. I hope you know what they're saying. And then I hear the statement and I'm sorry, you may not say that this, that way. Love you, damn, say Elf. I'm kind of trying to make it a little bit funny, but all the messages I'm getting from everybody on the other side is probably something you would say to somebody else which would be in alignment with you have to love yourself first or just love yourself and everything will work out or however this is. But the message that they're really bringing through for you today for whatever reason is to love you, to just love yourself. Just don't worry so much about other people or other situations. I love you guys so much. I will see you all on Wednesday. I hope you have an amazing rest of the day and until we meet again. Many blessings.


I think it's probably the best job in the Army because the stuff that we're doing here has an impact, not just today, but has an impact for the next 40 or 50 years. It really sets the Army on a trajectory to maintain overmatch for really for all the way into the 22nd century. I would characterize myself as a walking soldier touch point. If you want to know what I think I'll let you know because I've been using a lot of Army equipment for a really long time, some in a training environment, but some downrange. There are times in my career I've been in the Army since 1989 from private through now Brigadier General, but there are times in the Army where I knew what I was going to receive and it worked exactly as I had planned, but there are times that I got something that was really really special and I knew that it was going to make a difference and our ability to use that in a combat environment provides us a winning advantage. When you have that there's a confidence that comes with that you know at the pointy end of the spear it's really special and so I want to continue to capture that and to push for that in the future.


Let's look at some example problems for electrical power in a resistor circuit. And the base equation we have for that is that the power is equal to the current times the voltage. Now, your professor and textbook might use just a V for voltage. In my class, they use the delta V to stand for voltage. As a simple example here, if you know the current and the voltage, maybe the current is 3 amps and the voltage is 5 volts, you just multiply those two numbers, which would give you 15 amp volts. But if you work through the units, and I do this in my introduction to this equation video, you'll see that that's really the same thing as 15 joules per second. And a joule per second is the same thing as a watt. So most of the time, the power is expressed in watts, although that's equivalent to a joule per second. And it is also equivalent to an amp times a volt. Now, you might have a situation, again, where you've got a metric prefix on one, or maybe even both of those. In this case, I've put in milliamps. Well, when you've got a milliamp times a volt, that's actually the same thing as a milliwatt. So you could just leave it in units of milliwatts. Or you could actually go through and put in the meaning of the metric prefix and multiply that out, in which case you would get the 0.015 watts. So just be careful with those metric prefixes and make sure you know what's going on with them so you can work through your equation. Now, we could also use this equation to solve for either the current or we could solve for the voltage. So these are just the algebraic rearrangements. And again, to solve for the current, we're just dividing through by the voltage. Or to solve for the voltage, we're dividing through by the current. So you could use either of those forms of the equations. Now, I'm going to go ahead and keep some of my same numbers here just as some example calculations so you can see how it works out. If I have 15 watts and 5 volts, that would give me my 3 amps. And if I was solving for the voltage, but I knew I had 15 watts and 3 amps, that would give me my 5 volts. So you can rearrange this equation to solve for the voltage or the current. Or you can use it in its original form to solve for the power. And again, this particular power is the electrical power being used in a resistor circuit.


Let's start the first Enzone about the unique ID. The purpose of this Enzone is to check the unique ID of STM32L476HG and the possibility to shrink it. The first step I would say is to open the reference manual and to search the location of the register. So if I open the reference manual. Ok. And if you search in this documentation you will find the chapter about the unique device ID registers. Here you've got the bad address of those registers and detailed about the contents. At this address we will find the X and Y coordinates on the wafer. Then if I scroll down out of state 4 we will have load number and we will have a wafer number. Then load number again. Ok. So I copy all those values here just to remind. So on haunt we got this. I propose we connect the board. Then I will launch Q programmer. And ok my steling is detected. Let's connect. First by default it should show you the flash memory.  The size I would say c should be enough but it doesn't matter. So here we've got our unique ID. Just for clarification let's limit the range. Ok. So here we've got at offset 0 X and Y coordinates. Then we will have a load number, wafer number and load number and load number again. So I just sum up for you those information here. As you can see I just copy them directly. So it's exactly the same value. On your side obviously it's a different value. But just to show you how it's organized and the fact that those load numbers are according in ASCII. And it was on those load numbers that we can shrink some bits in the unique ID. So let's see how. In fact I got the information that those load numbers are coded with a value between 0.19 and capital letter A to Z. And also space. So if you convert it in hexadecimal you will find value from 20 hexadecimal to 5A. And if you just check how many components is here it could be coded on 6 bits. So that means you can save 14 bits thanks to these tricks I would say. You can degrade 96 bits to 82 bits for the unique ID. So it could be interesting for you. I hope you like this end zone and now let's switch to the next part.


first time doing it. I guess I should watch the cut scenes. Hey, Bardom's Meadow, here we go. Do I have any more food? I think I do. I should have one more scrum. That's my last scrambled egg. Oh my gosh. Oh no. Let's go gentlemen. Scatter spam. Nine, nine. Oh, zero. Zero. Oh my gosh. What the heck? What's going on with my buttons? Eight, nine, zero. Have I lost my mind? Yeah, buddy, you've lost your mind.  What's up, cat? You're doing the dungeon, man. How are you doing? Dude, why can't I? I'm so used to hitting. I'm so used to hitting nine for my scatter. I keep hitting it, so there's zero. Hey, let's go. Wait, did I go off? I did. All right. Those are weird sounds. La da da da da. La da da da da. La da da da da. I had the music. It's very mellow. Okay, I'm glad to see scatter and was how you handle groups too.  God dang it. I did that completely wrong. That's okay. I'll just run in and do it manually. I had the wrong keyboard or the wrong key for the sword combo there. I'll get it though. I'll get back at it. Wait, what sheep? Wait, I'm okay. Okay, there's a thing. Just sheep start charts. All right. That's cool. That's cool. I'm good with that. Was it too? Okay. Okay, I'm remembering my PVP combos. That's why I'm messing up. I got stunned. All right. That's fine. That was a friendly effect. Okay. Too much white magic. I'm in trouble. Just doing normal ones now. Make sure I was out of the way. Okay, that's the thing. Oh man. Wow. I'm missing that initial stun. I'm definitely missing that initial stun. That was weird. Where'd they go? So they got an item. Scatter spam. Sometimes it's like going there and doing that. Doing the cleave. Good again. That's powerful. Wow. I never used that that much. I just did three of them and they just like melted. I think I got buffed or something on that too. I use a lot of my stuff with that, but man, you could do. You can use the magnification and just go in there and cleave like nuts. Let's try that. Let's try that real quick. Let's get it up to worse enhance. Get to like 40, I guess. And then I'll use a magnification and then go in there and cleave a couple of times. Let's do it now. Okay. That's decent. That's decent. I can dig it. I like it. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. I rather enjoyed that moment. Wait, what is this? Why am I? That's a lie. That's a lie in three quarters. That's a lie. Oh. Oh. It's Mario Party. Okay. What's the next game? Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it. Okay, I'll go. Okay. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Oh, what do I do? What do I do? Do I go in here? I don't know. Yeah, I did it. Okay. Uh, okay. Stay here. But this is open. All right. We're good. Okay. Go away from each other. I guess. Move. Move. Oh, move. Oh, no. Keep on moving. Keep on moving. Don't stop. No. No. Mommy. Wait. Okay. I don't know. I may have died. Wait, what's this? Okay. I'm glad my team carried me. Wait, what do we do? What do we kill him? What do we do? Okay. Okay. No. That's a lie in three quarters. You know that to be a false statement. My rock. Oh, lie to me. Wait, I won. How'd you just walk? That was a very cool boss. Absolutely no fighting. It was all mechanics. I have never seen that before in my life. Freaking Mario part in this game. That was very cool. But that last part, man, that was just wrong. They hit me on the opposite side of everything. All right, let's go in here and just please use all this.  Let's do a magnification and then it's okay. I wasted that magnification. You didn't see that. You didn't see that magnification. That was a, you didn't see that. You didn't see that. Indiana Jones. He got hit. Sprint. It doesn't cost TP. Use it. Man, I am definitely, this is my first everything of the day. I am just messing up stuff. Rotations have been messed up left and right. Yeah, this is a very cool track. Very, very cool track, man. I'm really impressed. It's very mellow. Very mellow. Don't skip it. I'm just having a skipping things. This is brand new stuff. Here we go. Who's this? It's a boy. Does it drop a boy? I got to check out these pants. I like them. They are stylish. I will greet them. All the lutes, all the lutes. Oh, this song. They're taking that theme and they're just rolling with it, man. Oh, no time to enjoy the music. Mechanics are happening. Okay, what a time to go in. Oh, my gosh. This music is so good. Like I'm chills. Grab. I messed that up. The music is too. They need to stop it. They did it with Gooball Library. Now I can't focus on this. So far, they're feeling like very story modes. Dungeons though. Like so far, there hasn't been anything super hard.   I mean, I don't have a lot of abilities that I can do on the run. Yep, I spoke too soon. He's coming with it now, boy. Oh, then you're going to knock me back. All right, fine. I'm coming with the coos, the coos, the coos, the coos. Coos goes well with the salad. Dude, I can't like stay still and cast. This castor class. That was rough. So I need to come inside, huh? That was the thing there. I got, I just started to relax.  Have all of my AOEs at once. How about that, sir?  Just have all of my AOEs at once. Here we go. This is like, I couldn't stay still. Oh, that was a fun dungeon. Wow. The voiceless moon. What is that? Oh, pass.


Generally, long-lived assets if required on a temporarily basis are acquired under a rental contract for a shorter period of time. But if these long-lived assets are required for permanent usage in the business, then these long-lived assets may be acquired under lease contracts. So we can say that lease is an alternative to buying a capital asset. Now what is lease? We can define lease as an agreement in which a person promises to make a series of periodic payments to another person in exchange of the rights of using a capital asset. In a lease contract, there are two different types of persons. The first person is the lesser. Lesser is a person who owns an asset and who gives the rights of using its assets to another person in exchange of a series of periodic payments. The second person is the lessy. Lessy is a person who agrees to make a series of periodic payments to the lesser in exchange of the rights received for using the asset owned by the lesser. We can classify lease contracts according to the nature of the usage of the asset. In this way we have operating lease and financial lease. The operating lease is relatively for a shorter period of time and it can be cancelled at any time by the lessy. So far as the financial or capital lease is concerned, according to financial accounting standard boards, certain parameters are there. If any lease contract holds any of the parameters, the lease will be termed as financial or capital lease. The parameters are transfer of ownership title to the lessy at the end of the lease contract. Existence of bargain purchase option in the contract given to the lessy. Lease term covering major part of the economic life of the asset and by major part is means at least 75% of the asset's economic life. The final is at the inception of the lease, the minimum lease payments of the lease contract should be equal to substantial part of the fair value of the asset. By substantial part means at least 90% of the fair value of the asset. This can also be classified some other ways like full service lease. In full service lease, the lesser promises to maintain and ensure the asset and to carry on any property taxes payable on that particular asset. Then we have financial at least in this type of lease, lessy agrees to maintain and operate the asset and he also agrees to pay any related taxes in this course of lease contract. Then we have leveraged leases. Under leveraged leases, these are a type of financial leases in such types of leases, lesser borrows certain part of a leased asset. As a purchase price using the leases contract as a collateral to the borrowing. We can classify a lease as a direct lease in where lessy identifies an asset in the particular market. Then the lessy approaches to the leasing company to have a lease contract, the leasing company buys the particular asset identified by the lessy and hands over the asset to the lessy under a lease contract. Sale and lease back. In sales and lease back contract, lessy at first sells its own asset to the leasing company and then gets it back under a lease contract for its own usage in the business. What is the difference between a lease and a borrowing contract? If we see financial lease, we can say that financial leases are the source of borrowing. These are a source of financing because in a lease contract lessy is relieved of paying full amount of cash to the lesser. So in this way, he can save a substantial amount of the purchase price of the asset, whereas under borrowing a user can borrow an amount equal to the or major part of the purchase price of the asset. He goes to a market, buys an asset and puts it under working in its business premises. Under both of the contracts, I mean a lease contract and a borrowing contract, the lesser and the borrower successfully save a certain portion of price in the form of cash savings. A question arises why leasing? There are certain benefits due to which a user finds it beneficial to go for an asset lease. First benefit is short-term leases are convenient. If the user of an asset finds it inconvenient or expensive to carry on a lease contract, it can cancel at any time during the lease term. Second option, generally a lease contract gives the buyer an option to cancel the lease contract. Under operating lease, the lesser agrees to provide maintenance of the asset throughout the lease term. Low administrative and transaction costs due to standardization. Generally a leasing company gets economies in designing lease contracts for a specific class of assets having similar attributes. In this way, the administrative cost of executing a lease contract becomes cheaper for the lesser. Take shields are offered to the lessy under the lease contract as the lease payments are subject to take shields. Then leasing and financial distress. In a lease contract, if a lessy feels difficult in repaying the lease installment and the matter goes to the court but if the court sees that the possession and working of the leased asset is essential to the business of the lessy, then the court may order to the execution of the lease contract in running. In this way, the lessy is bound to continue the lease payments to the lesser. Providing the alternative minimum taxes, it is a tax benefit that goes to the pocket of the lessy. In this way, the lessy can reduce its tax burden if he uses efficiently and carefully the benefit of tax shields. There are certain other reasons that make leasing an attractive choice for the lessy. First is the avoidance of capital expenditure control. Instead of buying a fully owned capital asset, the lessy can go for leasing an asset and operating it without much working and reporting problems. Leasing preserves capital. Whether we borrow funds for the purchase of a capital asset or we lease a capital asset under a lease contract, leasing say that it preserves the capital of the lessy in the form of savings in the cash outflows of balance sheet financing. If a lease contract allows to waive any of the conditions of financial lease set by a financial accounting standard board, then under those conditions, lessy uses the assets, updates the assets, make the lease payments, but the asset does not appear on the balance sheets of the lessy. It affects book income. Lease contract positively enhances the income of the lessy. It increases book return of the lessy because under off balance sheet items, the assets are understated and return of the firm when applied over the book value of the assets gives a higher value of return to the lessy.