Think Tech Hawaii. Civil engagement lives here. If I looked at my watch now, it would say 12 noon on a Monday morning. I'm Jay Fidel. This is Think Tech, and we're doing energy. Mina, Marita, Marco Mangosdorf and me on Monday, MMMMMMM. And here they are, the daring duo. Well, maybe trio if you include me. And we're going to talk about energy in Hawaii is so many things to discuss. Mina, good morning. Good Monday morning. Aloha from Kauai. Yeah, Marco. It is a beautiful day. One day closer to real sustainability. Marco, how about you? Where are you in Hilo today? I'm favorite M and Jay there from a beautiful Hilo town. It's always a pleasure to have the terrific trio, the terrific triad on the same show. So thanks again for having me on and both of us on, Jay. Thank you. Sure, sure, sure. Well, let's go. We have a lot of stuff to cover. Let's talk about the permit report first. When we spoke, Marco, you mentioned that Oahu PV permits for February were up from 2017. What happened? What does it mean? I'd like to believe, even though two months perhaps don't necessarily make for a trend quite yet, but I believe and I very much want to believe that the Hawaii solar coaster bottomed out last year and is now building up some upward momentum after years of slowdown. So last last month in February Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting issued 194 permits for solar electric systems compared to 154 in February 2017, which is an increase in 26%. And another notable data point from those numbers is that 60% of those 194 permits issued last month, 60% included battery storage. Nowhere else in the country is residential energy storage being deployed as part of new PV systems as vigorously as we're seeing here. It's also worth noting on the macro level, the energy storage arena has become, in my opinion, one of the hottest energy playing fields in the world. You've got the Tesla Gigafactory outside of Reno, which I was surprised to see has the largest building on the planet when you look at the total footprint of the Gigafactory over in Reno outside of Reno. And it's just one of a number of, of a growing number of battery, what I'll call battery mega factories, either under construction or on the drawing board in People's Republic of China and the Republic of Korea, also known as South Korea. So there's no doubt in my mind that the volume of energy storage hitting the global market is going up exponentially, and hopefully will be accompanied by declining prices. So it's coming in an opportune time, I think, and supports, like I said, the solar coaster, hopefully having bottomed out last year, and we're now beginning to in-shop in the positive direction. You know, you say that the photovoltaic permits are up and all that two months in a row, but just I wonder if you have metrics to indicate how the utility scale solar activity is doing. Is it also up two months in a row? Proposals, if I'm not mistaken, I believe that has been formally put out there for 200 plus megawatts, I believe, of renewable energy for Oahu, which can be wind or solar, amongst other things, 40 megawatts of utility scale renewable for Maui, 20 plus megawatts for the big island, involves a lot more effort, a lot more organizing, and a much longer, longer timeline because all of them, all such projects, if I'm not mistaken, have to be subject to Public Utilities Commission approval. So over the next 12, 24, 36 months, I have no doubt, are megawatts of utility scale renewables, but it's going to take considerably longer ground. I want to talk about Senate Bill 2100 pending in the legislature this session, but in ramping up to that, I'd like to talk about the governor's budget, which was 200 and change a million dollars short. What kind of environment do we have with a budget that's 200 million dollars short in a state where the constitution requires a balanced budget every year? Well, definitely one of the things that you can't identify without a balanced budget is the governor's priority. So I think we're in a sad state where he's going to rely on the legislature to make the cuts to his budget in order to balance the budget. So here you have an administration which hasn't identified its priority. Yeah, it's a problem. We need to have leadership on that. So how does this effect Senate Bill 2100? It's a very important bill having to do with energy. Bill that's active in the White Legislature right now, which would change the current renewable energy, state renewable energy tax credits values up until now. There is no sunset date to that. And as I've pointed out in the past, it has accounted for the largest sum of money not going to the general fund to the tune of from 2013, 14 and 15, the three most recent years that I have data for those three years amounted to almost half a billion dollars, somewhere close to 500 million dollars worth of tax credits claimed. So when you talk about a shortfall in the governor's proposed budget of 200 million, I mean, that's not chump change in any type of tax credit is going to be some hit on money going to the state general fund. So Senate Bill 2100 is again the third attempt in three years on the part of various legislators to do two things. In my opinion, one is to change the renewable energy tax credit law, also put a sunset date or ramp down good and perpetuity. And then the second point from 2100 would be establishing separate state tax credit to add energy storage after one, whether the one is a homeowner or state tax credit to add in a facility heard in Chris Lee's Energy and Environment Committee a couple of weeks ago, actually on the 15th was passed out of the Energy and Environment Committee on the 15th. And there's now been Sylvia Luke's Finance Committee, which they have to hold hearings no late on it either this week or next week. Last month, the ledge, which is in April, prior to the legislature closing down for the year, essentially by in the first few days of May. What I call the solar parties in terms of the way the Senate Bill 2100 HD1 House Draft 1 is written now that would bring the credit down to 25% from 35%. And the kind of the iron law is that once you have a subsidy or an incentive that particular industry that benefits from it is low to give it up. But if this is any small business owner, and I think it's more than offset, would be more than offset by a separate tax credit for energy storage, if in fact this bill were to get through the legislature and end up on the governor's desk. Yeah. Well, Mina, how do you feel about it? What parts do you like? Well, I hope, you know, I like the ramp down, of course. I don't like the idea of a special or separate tax credit for batteries. I don't believe people should double dip on the tax credit regarding a solar system, the entire system that, you know, batteries should be a part of it. And it is now my understanding the way to interpret it, you know, the tax credit can already be inclusive of a battery system when it's designed as part of the system. But for those who have taken the tax credit earlier, I feel like they're being overly subsidized by taking a second tax credit. And many of these systems already benefit from metering. So you have subsidization from the taxpayer as well as the rate payer that needs to be considered. Yeah. And, you know, given the state budget and the impact of the state budget, I mean, this is a huge issue that should be looked at carefully. Let me shift to other pieces of legislation that are in play. One is the barrel tax, as in every year there are various proposals about redistributing what comes in on the barrel tax, changing the rate of the barrel tax and all that. Where the barrel tax was originally intended to incentivize green energy now, it seems to go in a lot of different directions and it might go in even further directions this season. What's happening? I think it's really difficult at this point to go in and ask for an increased barrel tax. And mainly because, you know, if you're looking at an administration that is not showing any kind of leadership, how can you justify that these monies are going to be spent wisely? We've had a really critical auditor's report on the energy office. I'm not sure what the priorities are at Department of Agriculture. And I'm not sure what the overall strategy is on energy and food security. And, you know, sometimes you have to be careful what you ask for when you open up Pandora's box at the legislature. So you might go in for a redistribution or an increase of the barrel tax and come out left. The bill might be used as a vehicle for something else. Marco, where are you on the barrel tax? Where do you think about it? Much, but I mean, I kind of think to that other cash flow was that it was an attack on cigarettes that was supposed to go 100% towards trying to reduce pushback on people buying tobacco products and the legislature sees a pot of money like that and they start picking at it. And diverting it in other directions. I mean, it sounds similar to what the barrel tax has suffered is that you have something of an appropriation that's specifically targeted to achieve a certain goal. And once the money starts developing in a kitty, so to speak, then there are hungry eyes to look at and say, well, gee, I have a place I'd like to spend some of that money to. Well, this certainly raises the issue of gems, the Green Energy Infrastructure Fund started out at $150 million on bonds guaranteed by the ratepayers. And before you know it, the legislature is taking huge pieces out for issues that are not really, purposes that are not really related to the original intention. Mina, what do you think about what's happening to gems? Yeah, the thing, when gems was proposed by GBID, and this is under the Abercrombie administration, those funds were supposed to be deployed immediately. They're supposed to have all of these programs lined up and at the time I was at the PUC and we were very concerned because the saturation of PV panels already on the system. I mean, and so were you going to get many subscribers there for the gems program? And here we're at four years later, the money is sitting there, we're paying interest on these bonds. The energy office is in disarray. What can I say?  Let's talk. The best thing that they can do is find one big project and deploy the fund for that one big project. And people have to remember these bonds have to be repaid. And so you have to find an income-producing project that can pay off the bond. Yeah, amen to that. We're going to take a short break, you guys. Marco Mangelstorff, Mina Morita. Marco, Mina, and Marco and me on Energy on Mondays. We'll be right back after this short break. Good afternoon. My name is Howard Wigg. I am the proud host of Code Green, a program on Think Tech Hawaii. 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Hey, you're back on Think Tech. I'm Jay Fidel, our energy show on Monday. Me and Amarco and me on Monday, of course. And so we'd like to take the second half of the show today and talk about whole state of things that affect the PUC. The first thing is G. Wiz, David Igay's nomination for a six-year term of a new PUC commissioner. This would replace Lorena Kiba, I guess. Goodbye, Lorene. Thank you for your effort and your service over the past, what, six years. And hello, Jennifer. Jennifer Potter. So, Marko, what do you think about this appointment? Well, if at least partially a wonk, I applaud the governor's choice because I think Jay Griffin, who he appointed last year to take over for Mike Champley, that Jay was a winner. And I'm in favor of more wonks. I mean, he could have chosen a politician. He could have chosen a lawyer and choosing a person who brings quite the pedigree that she does, is Jenny Potts, as far as experience in politics to determine kind of the future, the present future of utilities in the 21st century. Experience with Sacramento Municipal Utility District, also known as SMUD. She seems very, very well qualified. So I think not knowing the woman personally, from what I can tell, she was a great choice. And I believe it's just one port of call to consider her nominations to making the rounds amongst the 25 senators and get a meet and greet. And the legislature ends. She will have been confirmed and take over after Lorene departs on June 30th and Ms. Potts will take over on July 1st. Yeah, so we don't have a Champley situation here. He appointed early enough in the session so there would be plenty of time for a consent. So we don't have to go with the same kind of scenario we had with Mike Champley. But let me ask you this, Marco. Jennifer Potter is from HNEI. So is Jay Griffin from HNEI, essentially, in terms of the way his energy career has developed. That means two significant, two of three, two of three of the commissioners are from HNEI. Don't we need more diversity? I think both of you and Mina are much more well-equipped to kind of know the inside baseball stuff on that particular organization. Well, what about you, Mina? What do you think? Well, I think, you know, definitely she has all the qualifications. I'm glad that they found a woman to replace Lorene for diversity's sake. And my understanding is she lives in Lahaina. So that you have a neighbor item perspective coming in. I think people have to, you know, there's a real careful balance between a real life scenario and an academic approach, you know, so careful balancing. You know, I worked a lot with HNEI and part of it is to understand that careful balance that you could have technical and economic support coming out of the institute that will address a real life situation. And so I'm hoping that they will continue on the track. And HNEI has been pretty conservative looking at all issues moving on to the current energy policies. They're definitely a leadership organization. So what about the PUC in general? They've had an audit recently. Here we are at a time when there's such great expectation from the PUC. What's the tone and tenor of the PUC and its position in the energy landscape right now? Well, I think you have a careful, I mean, how can I be diplomatic about this, you know? You have a chair in the past.  So how will he now take these two commissioners with really good background and collaborate with them into resolving issues and attacking these really, again, complex dockets? Yeah, Jenny appears to be highly capable, but she can only be as effective as the chair allows her to be. Yeah, okay. Marco, you have thoughts on this? I actually wanted to ask Mina from her very valuable and unique perspective as having been chair of the PUC under Neil Abercrombie, other than you noting more autocratic tendencies under your successor, Randy Awase, compared to your tenure there. Mina, what other tangible differences or changes can you identify and comment on from when you were chair of the PUC to under Randy's tenure? My staff at the PUC was small, and we were in the process of trying to hire to fill positions. But even though with a small staff, we had a lot of experience amongst the staff. Going in four years later, the turnover has been really high at the PUC. A lot of senior people have left the PUC, and so you don't have that bench of experience and institutional memory, and especially with all these rape cases going on. So I think that's a huge difference. What would you attribute to the high staff turnover, the high rate of turnover? What would you attribute that to? What's the cause? For a while, it was salary. The easiest thing that you could pinpoint to a salary that the salaries weren't competitive with similar positions in the private sector and in other agencies. Staff at D-Bed gets paid a whole lot more than staff at PUC. Interesting. And so just the ability to attract and retain. Well, presumably with every change in the composition of the PUC, that their thinking is only three of them will likewise change. And so the last point in our agenda today is HEI's purchase of Hamakua Energy Partners and a new docket to consider, quote, affiliate transactions, end quote. And I wonder, you know, does this new commissioner, you know, the current tone and tenor of the PUC, how is it going to react to this docket and other dockets like it? Are they more open about this kind of thing? What are your thoughts, Mina? Well, I haven't looked at this docket, but it appears that HIKO was sort of forced into this issue of going the route of an affiliate, you know, because there was no way that the utility could purchase Hamakua partners or renegotiate a new PPA under the circumstances. It didn't look like they were going to get approval. And what's really sad is, you have this asset on the big island that really could help, I think, with the integration of renewables because gas turbines and flexible units compared to other older units on the island, maybe a bit more efficient. And so I think, you know, just this hard, you know, position that the utilization of owning these kinds of assets may not have made sense given the circumstances of an existing facility and an asset that might be just disregarded. Marco, let me ask you, I mean, and you come at this at least in part from HIEC, you know, looking at the whole model of utilities in the state of Hawaii. How does the new composition of the, as far as you know, the PUC and these new type of deals that are being presented, is there a new world here happening? Does this signal a new direction in general of development of clean energy? No, I think it's too early to tell for one thing, Jay. I mean, the brief history of the past year or two is that Helco had a willing seller from a company called Arclight Capital that owned Hawaii Hamakua Energy Partners, which is the largest generating plant on the island. They had a deal to buy HEP from Arclight. That went before the commission. The commission turned it down middle of last year. HCI came up with an alternate strategy where they purchased, they closed the deal with Arclight to purchase HEP as a affiliated transaction. And that apparently got enough of the attention of the Public Utilities Commission that they said, you know, we need to open a docket to look at affiliated transaction requirements. So I don't see it necessarily as hostile to HCI's move to acquire HEP, but at the same time they wanted to revisit something that hasn't really been discussed in quite a number of decades, really, in great detail, going back to the so-called Thomas Report of the early 1990s, as far as wine electric industries being a non-regulated company. It owns, of course, publicly-regulated companies, in terms of HECOHECOMECO, but HCI is non-regulated. So they wanted to clearly generate some discussion on the boundaries of what a company like HCI can or maybe should not do in terms of affiliated transactions. So then I want to give a shout out to Henry Curtis for bringing this to my attention last week, as he, of course, is all over whatever the Commission does, and that's how I got one of it. So it's kind of a sleeper issue, but it's also very important, I think, in terms of discussion of what a company like HCI can or should do in terms of acquiring assets. And I think part of it is that there's been a general kind of poo-pooing of the notion that utility companies should be owning generation assets. There's kind of a bias against that, a growing bias against that. That might be changing, don't you think? Fundamentally, who the utility should be in the generation business, they should be in the T&D, Transmission Distribution Business, but, you know, that's all well and good on the mainland where you have interconnection from state to state to state to state. We got no such thing here on this island. So I think we're in a very tangibly, materially different position here in this state. So you wouldn't do it, this deal. I mean, would you approve it is my question. Marco has a really good point that, you know, we really have to delve into these issues more, you know, about these affiliate transactions and also related to that, whether the generation, I mean, whether generation should be owned by the utility. I mean, there's one round, because the other route was denied, but we haven't had that really deep discussion on our particular situation as an island state and how these kinds of assets should be handled. Wow, fabulous that we have new issues, new possibilities, new wrinkles. Marco, I'm so glad you raised it and good for Henry Curtis for raising it to you. Well, thank you, Marco Mangostorf. Thank you, Amina Morita. Great discussion as always. We'll see you two weeks hence. Don't leave town. But if you leave town, stay close to a stone anyway. Thank you very much, guys. Always a pleasure. Thank you both. Aloha.


Okay, so let's close down because we are going over time and we won't have much time for after party. We will have basically into after party anyway, but I have a few closing slides before we move there so please. So first of all, thanks to everyone who contributed and who stayed until the end. Yeah, it was almost six hours by now, and it was quite a packed agenda. So, but I think that it worked pretty well because there were a lot of discussions and we had a really active state of the union session and next time we should maybe make it even faster. And user panel, it was a great experiment and I believe that we should keep doing them. Thanks to Mark for leading newcomer track. Mark, could you share some expertise from this track. I was delighted with it. We had a relatively small group, three presenters, five, six and seven participants and we talked about topics that were interesting to them. Thanks very much to them for being involved. It was a great thing. I think we're going to get some plugins adopted as a result and I know we're getting more help from some people who are wanting to be more involved. Thanks. What was this session recorder for anyone that might need to go back to it. It was recorded. Yeah, I've got the recording in my Zoom feed and I will upload it along with the other recordings from these. I would love to be to that so I'll probably follow it. Thank you. Currently we have contributing to Jenkins playlist on Jenkins YouTube channel. So you can find it there I won't spend time right now to find it. But I believe that Mark will put the recordings there as well so that you can take a look and there are already a lot of recordings from previous sessions. So thanks a lot for driving to mark. I think that breakout sessions were pretty good. I jumped into almost every session. There were nice discussions. There were some action items. So for example, for terminology update it was really nice discussion the GitHub actions was awesome. I'm just looking to repeating this Jenkins online meetup maybe with hundreds of participants cloud events integration was pretty good as well. But not the operator was put open telemetry again they had a great discussion between basically Jenkins and Jenkins X communities here so we're in some hard time to share the experience with visualization to limit and others. The plugin end of life policy that we even have a plan. So, when I was living this session last time, they withdraw when kind of decision three how we actually decide whether plugin is inactive or not, which is a quite challenging question so I'm looking forward to it being adopted as a kind of challenge because it was a struggle for us for a long time we made at least three attempts to standardize it and was failed. And yeah, it is one of the ability to change the section that I believe all of them your good discussions for Java 11 maybe James or summarize it because I failed to visit the session or James left. Mike, could you please summarize. Well or like if you'd like I can give a brief summary. Oh, yeah, it's going ahead. So Java 11 was discussed in depth, looking at alternatives, including, hey, should we drop support for Java eight we were really grateful to have some, some users attending with us, Marcel, and, and Jonathan, and it worked very, very well for us to have those users there to assist and help us outlined a rough plan that we think is appropriately conservative and looks still forward to the future. It'll be coming as a Jenkins enhancement proposal and be discussed in the mailing list before that. Okay, so goals of the session will be achieved. Well, I would have liked I was certainly would have liked to have a final all sorts of things but we really had a great conversation and good notes captured from it as what next steps are. Okay, so thanks to all participants of the sessions and thanks to the host, because you have hopefully helped us to push the projects forward. So, you know, talks and demos here, which was just a well again fun time and I hope it was also learning expert friends. Thanks to hardship. Thanks to running as for great presentations. And as I'm looking forward to see the full presentation maybe even solutions page about Jenkins for data science and life science because yeah I know that you've written a lot of books so maybe it's time to aggregate them. So I'm looking forward to Jsoc demos and thanks a lot for working on your project. And yeah, currently we are closing down so we are going going slightly over time but yes, I believe that it's still using reasonable limits. So, for feedback. 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Publish materials because many sessions had slides many sessions recorded recorded. So we kindly ask you to publish this materials and let us know because we will be able to again promote them. So, we've seen a ui ux hug fist. So many of you expected there I believe. So there we just used to have repository or we dropped all the content today. So for example, here presentations. We had quite a lot of presentation and for example migrating plugin docs just first random one. Here you can find the guidance and the recording references etc so something like that and it's available as code. If you want to mark down. It's one of the ways another way just put them on discourse. Again, these are the links as you prefer but we will appreciate if you could post the sessions and for recordings, how to do that, you can post them. You can go to Google Drive make it public and then mark or maybe somebody else from YouTube managers, they will publish them process them and make them available to everyone. And then we will be able to use our social media sets with promote events, because we've had a lot of great demos, we definitely should promote. And especially the conversation was awesome. And you said it great demos, Angelic, but he's the for go up update, etc, etc. So there is a lot of great content to share and why not. And spread the word. So whatever. I think today in Community Jenkins IO it's much appreciated. Again, Jenkins Community needs more contributors and needs more users and doing promotion is one of the ways to get that. If it's related to particular decisions, you can use special interest book money please the developer money please. For example, for jobs etc. We still expected to happen in million please. So, for informed discussions community Jenkins IO is fine for formal decision making we can be asked to use million please at the moment. This is for example, the tone and the remedy cloud events open climate please use this external channels as well. Because again, working together with other communities is our opportunity. So why not Jenkins shouldn't be just a low down in its own community. That's why we start working with foundations, talking to end users, etc, because we should be more open. I hope that we will make Jenkins the great place to contribute for everyone, even if you don't try to code. And yeah, as an event officer, I invite everyone to think about doing combined meetup, especially for those who did user facing sessions or developer facing sessions because we do developer meetups. Well, because yeah, Jenks online meetup is another platform for us to promote events. And if you have a talk, why not presenting that. And yeah, also applied to one of the next conferences, but the DevOps world call for papers is over, or maybe we'll have contributor summit there. Maybe we'll have something for users, but it's to be determined. So at the moment, Jenkins online meetup is actually the best opportunity.


Well I was managing the farm for SUBB and we really wanted to strike out on our own and farm on our own and we ended up finding this place which is home for me. I grew up a mile from here and I knew the only way we was going to make it was to have broiler houses so I was looking for a broiler farm along with the cattle and we found this place right next to home and it just worked out perfect for us. My family has been farming their whole life. We started to register her for business in 1936 but farmed well before that so I've been in it my whole life. I did not grow up on a farm. Didn't really know much about farming, ranching, livestock until I went to college at SUBB and met a farm manager I fell in love with and fell in love with animal science and cattle. We have six 40 by 500 broiler houses. We raise 60 head of commercial momma cows and we also have 30 head of registered herford momma cows. Well as young and beginning farmers it's really tough to get a loan to just be a cattle farmer. It takes a lot of capital to start out and we had none and the thing with the chickens is it really helped the cash flow and give us a basis to work off of to do the cattle. Our first loves the cattle but the chickens have really helped make that possible. They go hand in hand they really do. I told him from the get go if he would do the daily chicken work that I would take care of the cows. I put out all the hay in the winter, I run the hay baler in the summer until he gets done with chickens and check them, rotate them, pastures and everything and I help him when he needs it in the chicken houses on set up, dump chickens, catch top things but I leave the daily work to him. We've got two boys, Brailin is seven and Willie Dan is four and I wouldn't want to raise them any other way than on the farm. They learn a lot from a young age whether it's hard work or tragic events that happen just everything in life and it really teaches them great lessons on the farm. Yeah there's so much that I did with my dad and grandpa so getting to do that with my sons and them doing it with my dad that means a lot. I would love to expand some more but I want to stay efficient not expand so big where I can't be efficient in it. Obviously I hope the boys will want to stay around and work on it if not that's fine I tell you I want them to go after what they're passionate about but I would love to really transition more into the registered business I'd love to build a cell 50 registered bulls a year and even have a production cell for our cattle and our farm.


All right, you are still watching Waze. Now every year, this day, Utya and I are in the studio, approximately on the 2nd of June in 1975. Sex workers occupied St. Neesier Church in Lyon, France, to express their anger about their criminalized and exploitative living conditions. The hunger banner from the stipple, which read, Our children do not want their mothers to go to jail and launched a media campaign to broadcast their grievance to the world. Their actions made national and international news headlines and also started a strike that involves sex workers from all over France and created a legacy of activism that is celebrated each year on International Sex Workers Day. So that day has birthed this day. This day is actually very, very important. The role of sex workers in the lives of human beings. They are helping marriages. They are helping... Well, what are you saying? What am I saying?  You cannot. So let's recognize that I acknowledge their work. Yes. Let's understand that they are actually feeling anything. Let me tell you something. Without sex workers, a lot of things would have gone wrong. But they are there, you know, so we cannot ignore the fact that they are there and their industry is actually a multi-billion dollar industry because now That's what has happened. Sex workers have moved from being on the red lights district on the street. Now, they are on your Instagram. They are doing BBL.  They are helping lives. Was that one side only fan? See, I never know that one side. I know there is an extra that exists like that. So I mean, it's true. It is legal in quite a few countries to a degree variation. I think somewhere around 42 million sex workers globally. I think they are more than that. No, they are more than that. But in the places where... It's legalized so that they have like... Yeah, yeah, they are about. But it's a thing, right? Because there are religions and faith and all of that that are against it. And then on the other side, you probably have feminists who are like a woman has the right to choose whatever she wants to do and it's fine.  I'm telling you. Because there are people who are not having sex but they're doing the acts or different fetishes and stuff online and people are paying them tons and tons of money. That lady that found Jesus and started taking out all her implants. Is it Black China? Yes, Black China. She was making tons of money, right? Not in the literal sense. So it's a profession. People are making...  The main place does, they are patronizing there.  Is it me or you? Eh, we're... Do you want me to say something? I mean, it's a thing. Like you said, it's an industry, a flourishing industry at that. And it's been...it's increased over time. We also have the online aspect of it. I mean, in Nigeria we have the hookups and all of that. So it's a thing. I can always say that as much as this day has been celebrated, let's also talk about health of sex workers and also how they should pay attention to more of this health stuff. I think that should also be the direction of attention on a day like this. I was just going to say to you that the funny thing about these sex workers, right? When you talk about STDs and all of those things, you know, hardly. Because those ones, they're a lot more...they don't attach emotion to...it's a job for them. So, well, I like the fact that you're calling attention to their health is very important, you know. But the truth is, if there is no market, there will not be any goods... Supply and demand, basically. I mean, the health part is very important. I mean, I know we're talking about it from the aspect of the legalized people, but then there are great many that are working in dangerous situations. There are women at risk, who that's their only option to feed themselves or survive and all of that. So, I mean, there are multiple sides to it. And this just shines a spotlight on all of it. So happy International Sex Workers Day. On that note, Lorie, let's quickly run through our news. What did you find for us in the news today? My words in the news, it's just to debunk the story that came up a few days ago about Myra being devalued. I remember on Thursday there about very early in the morning, one of my bosses called me saying, oh, she heard Myra has been devalued. And what are we going to do? Because things like that really affect our operation as a company very directly, almost immediately. So I'm happy that the story is not true. So it reads, the Naira closed at 461.76 per dollar at the investors and exporters window on Thursday, a 0.16 cobalt drop from the 461.60 traded in the previous session. This slide drop came amid a viral story claiming that the Central Bank of Nigeria had devalued the Naira currency to 630 per dollar. The Sibian has since denied the claim, labelling it fake news. In the statement signed by its acting director of corporate communication, Issa Abdul-Lamin, the Sibian said, we wish to state categorically that this news report, which is in the imagination of newspapers as exclusive, is replete with outright falsehood and destabilizing in windows, reflecting potentially willful ignorance of the set medium as the workings of the Nigerian foreign exchange market. So I'm happy it's not what it is because then again, when we have situations like this, most of the times it's always because we're looking at a positive impact in the economy as a whole, but usually we don't usually get the sort of results we are expecting. So I'm happy for now, Naira has not been devalued, it is what it is. So back to you Owa. Why are you happy though? Because this 461 to a dollar is for the 1% of the 1%. Why are you happy? The person that's buying the goods doesn't buy it for 61. When Naira is devalued, Nigeria was still heavily reliant on imports. No, you're not getting the question. You're taking on the side of the story that says that Naira is devalued, and I'm asking you, when have you bought Naira at $461? The 461 is for the 1% of the 1%. The goods that you buy that are imported, they're certainly not bought at $461. So why are you upset that the dollar is devaluing? That's a narrative that we need to ask ourselves about. We're in the open market, we still buy dollar at $750,000, $760,000. Did somebody offer you a dollar at $630, now you won't jump at it? I think I'll beg them. Go ahead. We're in a meeting following the increment of the pump prices. This story was reported much earlier in the day, and this is where the NLC was trying to come to a decision following their meeting with representatives of the federal government, which of course was reported that that ended in a deadlock. So I've also then, following on from this story, now gone on to see that a press release has been put out by the NLC that says notice on mobilization for nationwide withdrawal of services. So now following the meeting is decided that the Congress will embark on a nationwide action and withdrawal of services against the fraudulent increase in the price of fuel across the 36 states of the federal Republic of Nigeria and the FCT, which is scheduled to commence on Wednesday the 7th of June, and they're calling on all state chairpersons to mobilize workers for the action and ensure full compliance. So we watch and see. I mean, we've seen releases like this and eventually they come to some sort of agreement before that date. So this is very much a watch the space situation. Okay. So controller general of the Nigerian customs, Colonel Hamid Ali, had announced that they have inaugurated a $3.2 billion modernization project to end manual operations during this inauguration project management, sorry, of the project management office in Abuja. He has expressed his delight about the project and he said that this is aimed at full automation of the Nigerian customs system operations, right? And he explained this would improve the processes and eliminate corruption in the system. You know what? I have nothing to say. I honestly have nothing to say about this, but I thought to mention it. There's a lot going on in the country and as I said yesterday, I will still say it again. We are tired of vague, what's it called, promises, right? What exactly is the plan? What would these do down to the very core, but what are the details of this e-system? How would it, you know, like, I mean, back, whatever it is that you're doing, back it with data, let's see what it is that you're doing and say, okay, yes, we can also put our thumbs on it and say, okay, yes, this would go far, instead of just making very juicy promises that you think Nigerians want to hear. Controller General, we'll see you guys after the break. Stay with us.


Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and I'm on the WW or the Weight Watchers Blue Plan. Happy Wednesday. It's a Wednesday so it's another what I eat in a day. We have a pretty fun day today. We have a really good dinner recipe and then I'm going to be sharing with you all of my food throughout the day including points as well as calories.  It really means a lot to me and definitely helps out my channel and if you're new or you haven't yet subscribed I'd love to have you here. Hit that little subscribe button and click the bell right next to it so you never miss a single video. Down in that description box you will find nutrition coaching. I do offer personalized two U macros and calories. Highly recommend taking advantage of that service. Definitely whether on WW or not super super important and if you want to chat with me directly I offer one-on-one coaching as well. Links, discounts to all my favorite things and the items I share with you in today's video as well as my Facebook group are down in that description box. Head on over join us on Facebook. We'd love to have you there as well. So we have a busy fun day today so let's jump in. Well hey I thought I'd hop on really quick and let you guys know about today's what I eat in a day. It's a little bit different than my traditional what I eat in a day. So if you watch the ones that I upload literally every single Wednesday and you follow my channel and you know that my preferred caloric intake every day is between 1800 and 2000 calories. That still puts me in a deficit. I still lose weight as I have for the last six plus months that I started tracking calories and points together. So that's where I like to fall calorically wise. My whole mission is to eat as much as I possibly can and still lose weight and that seems to be a good caloric number for me. But in my last several what I eat in a day staying within my WW points I'm only eating between 1300 and about 1600 max calories every day and that's to stay within my 32 allowed points every day on WW. I do eat a lot of whole food. Yes I eat some processed food in those what I eat in a days as well but because it seems to put me pretty low calorie wise anywhere from like I said 1300 to 1600 which can be upwards of five or 600 calories less than I want to be eating in a day to be in a caloric deficit. Today I wanted to change it up a little bit so today I am eating my calories. My goal for today is 1900 calories. I'm going to focus on real whole food. I am going to have a couple of snacks throughout the day today and let's see where I fall WW point wise in order to reach my calorie intake for the day. I've done several videos on points versus calories I'll link that entire playlist down in the description box for you guys but I am really trying to focus on my calories really making sure I'm eating between that 1800 and 2000 so I may do this in my future videos eat my calories and then let you know how many points I ate to reach those calories so let me know down in the comments if you guys would be interested in that just to see just exactly how many points I I'm eating to reach my desired calories even at the 1800 mark what is the number of points that on average I'm eating and of course that's going to change depending on the foods that I choose but you guys know I eat a lot of the same thing I'm very protein focused my goal is 140 to 170 grams of protein every day I did go ahead and track all of my food today and today I'm at 153 grams of protein so that is fantastic and you'll see I'm even sprinkling in a couple little snacks here and there as well so let me know down in the comments if you like this format where I track calories first and then just let you know how many points I ate in order to hit my calories so here is my breakfast you guys know this is my new very favorite breakfast lunch dinner snack I'm obsessed the hash browns that I use I have gotten a couple questions are these ones from Trader Joe's you can really use any frozen hash brown patty I just pop it in my toaster you could throw it in your air fryer pan fry it throw it in the oven just get it nice and crispy and then I just add some smashed up avocado and a hot over hard egg and that makes this really delicious spin on avocado toast and then I have some watermelon which looks like a lot but I will be sharing it with my dog speaking of dogs you can hear Palmer in the background and then I have my second cup of water for the day so my breakfast is four points for the hash brown three for the avocado everything else is zero so it's seven points excuse me mr mr Palmer mommy's filming what you doing what you doing is it time for me to share my watermelon with you guys okay let's do it here go bud oh here go baby girl so here's my morning snack I'm keeping it pretty simple and I'm not super hungry I just want a little something something to keep me satisfied until lunch so I'm going to have the synergy watermelon wonder kombucha I love this one this one is so good it is all the summer vibes ww counts this is three points I count this as one point it is only 60 calories for the entire bottle and then I'm going to have these utopia snacks you guys know I love these they're 130 calories they have eight grams of protein and they are four points this espresso obsessa one is my very very favorite go espresso cookie puffs roasted almonds and then the star of the show is the chocolate covered espresso beans again this is four points the kombucha is one point so that is five points for my snack let me open these up and show these to you guys seriously such a great snack they have bananas for chocolate which is my second favorite and then if you like a more savory snack they have a honey mustard one that's really good as well I will make sure they are linked in the description box with the discount for you so here is what the snack mix looks like you get a lot in the package you can see the almonds the chocolate espresso beans and the little cookie puffs seriously so good definitely pick them up all the different flavors are four points per package so I wanted to show you guys this vacuum that I actually got off of amazon they did not send this to me I bought this with my own money actually saw this in a subscription unboxing video on someone else's youtube channel and I have been looking for a portable vacuum not only to vacuum my car because sometimes I like to just vacuum out my car because I always have dog hair on me food whatever else falls on the floor in the seats of your car and I really wanted this to vacuum off the couch in my formal living room because I have to haul in our shop back in order to really get the hair off of it and I heard that this vacuum is amazing the other thing about this vacuum is that it has an air purifying setting so you can actually put this in your car for example or in a room shut the door no pets no humans and it will completely detoxify and purify the air so I'm pretty excited about it it charges usb it's super quiet it has an attachment to really get that with a brush to get the hair out or a thinner vacuum attachment if you need to get into a smaller area like the crevice the seats of your car so I'm excited for this it was really affordable I'll link it down below for you guys I just picked it up off of amazon but we're gonna try it out in my car and then I also want to see if it picks up the dog hair on my couch and again it's just chargeable usb it's really pretty it's aesthetically pleasing you don't have to worry about a cord or battery so let's test it out really just sucking up all this dog hair all right I'm officially impressed my salad this looks so good I can't wait for this I have been craving craving salads the recipe for my dressing is on my website as well as a couple different variations of my favorite salad but for the one that I'm eating today it is four points for the kid fresh chicken nuggets one point for the avocado oil one point for the balsamic vinegar makes six and then one point for the tablespoon of sesame seeds makes seven so my salad is seven points I cannot wait to dig in so here's Palmer's pool here it comes pumpkin look look oh get it get your ball get your ball oh good boy can you get it it's so cute it's like he's bobbing for apples with that ball oh and then he drinks the water of course there's diesel see how he's still limping poor guy only a couple more weeks tell your surgery buddy this is his spot right here where the shade is of this tree he will literally lay out here all day long six seven hours get your ball Palmer get your ball get it get it give lola well get your brother get him hi honey hi oh oh shish yeah what's happening over here well are you gonna go in the pool you want to go in the pool so for my afternoon snack i'm having my very very favorite protein powder in the entire world and i'm going to make a protein shake so i'm going to use my live well plant-based protein powder i have talked about this in so many videos i truly truly love live well they do carry several flavors this is the vanilla what i love the most about this protein powder besides the fact that it has extremely clean ingredients it is also free from gmo's soy gluten and dairy each one scoop serving has 16 grams of amino acids 17 grams of complete protein and only 2 grams of all natural sugar is also usda certified organic the ingredients as you can see are extremely extremely clean it's 91 calories per scoop and again 17 grams of complete protein it doesn't taste like plant-based protein or that chalkiness you get from plant-based not at all it is smooth it's creamy it truly is in my opinion the best protein powder out there so today i'm using the vanilla the vanilla is one point per scoop the coconut cacao which is their chocolate and the unflavored are two points per scoop so if you're like me and you just want to clean delicious protein highly recommend live well i do have a discount for them i will link it at the very top of the description box for you head on over support them pick up the best protein powder out there hands down it blends like a dream and it's also my favorite to add to protein oatmeal or just to shake it up in a shaker bottle and drink it because it doesn't have any chalky aftertaste and then i'm going to do a cup of the silk almond coconut milk a small frozen banana and then today i'm going blueberry so i have these yummy organic wild blueberries from trader joe's i'm just going to make it here in my magic bullet it just makes it easy just a single serve protein shake so first i'm going to add my cup of almond milk i always add my liquid first just because i don't want the protein powder or anything to really stick to the side and then i'm going to add my scoop of my vanilla live well protein about a quarter of a cup or so maybe a third of a cup of frozen blueberries and my frozen banana now the frozen banana is going to just help make it nice and creamy look how pretty she is so we're just going to blend it so if you haven't picked up live well this is your chance to get it at a really good price again the vanilla is one point per scoop so it's one point for the protein powder one point for the almond milk i do not count points for blended fruit so two points and i'm getting almost 20 grams of complete protein for dinner tonight i'm making cheese steak quesadillas i am going to pop a bag of frozen vegetables in my microwave as well but let me show you what's in dinner first you're going to need some top sirloin steak my steak is from butcher box you guys know how obsessed we are with butcher box if you're in the market for grass fed grass finished high quality meat for an affordable price highly recommend butcher box i will have it linked down in the description box and you get 30 off of your first box so we're using the grass fed top sirloin steak 18 ounces of steak total a bell pepper and onion and then i'm actually going to use this seasoning in place of the seasonings in the in the original recipe i will link the original recipe on my recipe website but this is tuli's southern style all-purpose barbecue rub and seasoning so here's your ingredients salt pepper cayenne pepper garlic powder onion powder paprika and brown sugar tanny tuli is one of my lovely subscribers she's also in my facebook group she's a doll and a half this is her company she reached out and offered to send me the seasoning and of course i said yes so that i could try it out and share it with you guys i will link tuli's barbecue southern style rub down below for you can't wait to use this in tonight's recipe we're going to do a provolone cheese and then the law bandarita low carb one point tortillas so i went ahead and put my steak in a ziploc bag and then i'm going to put in some of the tuli's barbecue seasoning and just rub that around all over the steak i will tell you this seasoning smells delicious so i went ahead and added my steak to a pan that i sprayed with non-stick cooking spray make sure that you don't overcrowd the meat once your steak is done go ahead and remove it from the pan and then we're going to re-spray with some non-stick cooking spray and pop in our bell peppers and onions so you should pick up all that yummy steak seasoning which by the way is absolutely incredible it is so delicious so we're going to saute these down and then we'll be ready to start assembling the quesadillas the onions and bell peppers are done so i'm going to pull those out of the pan and put in the first tortilla for the first quesadilla so i'm going to spray my pan again with some non-stick cooking spray add in the tortilla and then add in your steak and your veggies cheese fold it over and let it cook the cheese a chance to melt i kind of like to push on it to make sure that it seals in everything we'll flip it over cut it into triangles i'm going to throw a bag of frozen green beans in the microwave and i'll be back to share points and calories so here is my dinner i have some of the microwaved green beans and then one cheese steak quesadilla which looks absolutely delicious with the steak veggies and melted cheese so just for the steak mixture it is three points on all plans the way that i have it it is eight points on the blue plan which is the plan that i'm on it it would actually be eight points on all plans 372 calories just the steak mixture with the veggies is 257 calories and that's when that entire batch makes only four quesadillas so my dinner is eight points here's dessert tonight i'm doing one of my gill cherry chilbani yogurts i need to finish up my protein goal for today and this will actually put me about 10 grams over this yogurt is so delicious i picked up the big case at cosco it is 120 calories and four points thank you for joining me on today's what i eat in a day on w w i hope you enjoyed coming along with me today seeing all my food the dogs just had a fun day with me and don't forget about tonight's dinner recipe that was delicious it is on my recipe website that is linked down in that description box along with nutrition coaching links and discounts to the items i shared with you today as well as all of my other favorite things and of course my facebook group if you haven't already come join us over there we'd love to have you if you enjoyed today's what i eat in a day give this video a thumbs up again it really helps out my channel and i really appreciate it and if you are new or you're not yet subscribed we'd love to have you here hit the subscribe button and click the bell next to it so you don't miss any videos thank you so much for watching happy wednesday friends and i'll see you in the next one bye