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Yeah, there's only one break left. It is a Mosaic choice football 10 box. It's got four to go Drop it in chat for you guys just about sold out We'll do a definitive now definitive case 2022 definitive baseball Jesus These There'll be a recap at the end of the break one of the C hits again Boom two foams to Well Nike swoosh one of one for the Mets. It's Pete Alonzo Well, then I did miss her being some definitive.  What's the start off the case? Jersey Auto Reds Barry Larkin 20 of 40. What do you mean the thin cards? Like You have to specify what you mean there bat relic auto Paul Goldschmidt 7 out of 25 Nice Goldie Smacked as I said earlier Jolt Schmidt or something like that already Shoshko Gavardi on The dual patch Phillies auto Rhys Hoskins JT Real Muto great patches on this one to eight of ten Taking two spots. Oh boy. Oh We're almost sold out that we're gonna just done that now it's a party put a fork in it toasted Nice hit for the Phillies there great dual patch auto Phillies framed auto Mike Schmidt to 30 Smack what's up? Hello, hello, sir illegal How dollar one spot for the how much was a spot for this? Triple K's was 750 725 725 26 spots triple K. Yeah, sold out for the night now Baseball breaks 10 a.m. Eastern with Matt tomorrow the baseball channel and personals resumed tomorrow night at 5 p.m. Eastern Ricky Auto Marlins Edward Cabrera numbered 43 of 50 Marlins and a Red Sox rookie auto is Jaren Durand 21 of 25 really good first box. They're really good first two cards there Yeah, wait, there's still a lot of most products still have the thinner stock Like base cards and it's just the product we're opening right now. They're just bigger This mixer is not a good indication of that. Yes. Yes Yeah, like Bowman tops chrome prison and select But the actual like paper stock cards are getting a little less popular Yeah, they just don't hold value as well or like they're the the integrity of the card gets compromised quite a bit Patch card one of five any Machado Padres game use a little bit of dirt on it You might not be able to see it but the from your guys view, but there is some dirt on the stitching there Manmach patch card Braves Austin Riley to 35 three color patch That is a white Sox Jersey. Yeah white Sox Jersey auto Carlton Fisk Three or 33 at 33 of 40 Jumbo patch auto Ronald Acuna junior Six of ten beauty for the Braves Hell yeah Braves who got them Great team to have this mixture Keith s Two color jumbo patch there Duel auto twins now Rod Karoo Joe Maurer six of ten Braves only with the multi-auto so far or sorry twins twins on with the multi-auto so far. Oh Oh Hello. Oh, hello. Oh Aaron Judge 14 of 15 Framed auto Yankees Michael P We need to get Sam on the soundboard the home run noise of the strikeout noise for the Yankees Press it every time pull Yankees hit. It's very obnoxious like high-pitched whistle almost Big Aaron judge literally big card large player rookie auto raise Shane boss 20 of 50 and Red Sox auto Jason Veratek the finding images the finding images Veratek should be glove in a Rod's face At least to Red Sox fans. That's his defining You know, I showed up to work today Viking's defense did not There's still time I guess if it often still scoring though Vikings defense, what do they even do? They've been like this though. Oh, I mean we're I think we're gonna finish this with a one-of-one. It's a nice color, right? Yeah Started the case of the one organ in the case of the one-on-one Jersey card not over the Cardinals of 35 Jersey card Yankee CC Sabathea. It's a 50 Captain crunch leg You have a crunch legend. Yes Two boxes a day Bat roll like Otto Bernie Williams one out of ten Yankees you couldn't tell though Your Yankees Yankees having a great break by the way It's hard not to with the Yankees in this and a mixer like this Let the smack talk begin. Well, I go to legal. So illegal. It's not a it's a it's a positive The auto Royals at Merrifield 45 of 50 everyone's ragging on Sam I don't care. I know they're gonna lose. I can I can take it And dual auto reds Barry Larkin Joey Vado to 35 Nine viewers on big time. Thanks for watching nine viewers. We appreciate you Angels Otto is Rod Karoo. Wow 10 of 10 Nope, no personal tonight. It'll go tomorrow 5 p.m. Eastern personal start time on the stream here 5 p.m. Eastern tomorrow We start personal it's already a few so won't go exactly at that time Personals on Sundays are during the day Bobby Whit jr. Rookie Otto two of ten Congrats to the Royals What an end to this case what a start and a finish Cal Ripken jr. 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This case is it as this case is cracked right now This case doesn't kids would say What's up, then I'll take talk once they're like what's your favorite team and I'm like the Ravens like the Ravens are good But I think the chiefs are more Just casually saying that in conversation How do you do fellow kids stat leaders and Hall of Famer's I would think every Hall of Famer is also a stat leader I'm trying to like tell what these are now this case. It's just actually why Silly, I don't know which one to do first here. Let's do this one first I this is gonna be a one-of-one. I'll tell you guys right now. I kind of saw what it was But you have a jumbo letter patch one-of-one of Vladimir Guerrero, Jr. For the blue jays they let me cook for once and I'm cooking hold on let them cook This is just this is just out. We only have 11 viewers on tiktok to less viewers bigger hits hmm That is the the algorithm I guess and a one-of-one By patch auto reds Joey Vado very good very good. Yes, I'm good the extinguisher These boxes I think are what 1200 yeah, they're like 11 or 1200 a box second half of this case Here comes the Steve Pierce Steve Pierce Missile Pierce rookie of the year award winners and silver slugger award winners That's what's up. That's what's up pigley. Yeah, men like that is pretty cool I mean he is in my like in my opinion, he's like the best Falcons franchise player, right? Probably yeah dual Batra like Otto Fernando Tatis, Jr. 9 of 15 Padres Yeah, like when I think of like the Falcons and like who would their guy be it's like him or Julio might be Like it would have been D on but he's only there for like five years Not like yeah, not best player that played for them. Just like the franchise guy, you know and a Pitalonzo dual Jersey Otto for the Mets 20 of 25 You know all we do is cool off and pull a Tati send Pitalonzo autos now Grats Mets and Padres there This has been a really good break man Yeah, we got giant spikings on. Oh, yeah, this one's World Series champs in 2010s all-stars 2010s all-stars Brock Holt World Series champ Rock Hall World Series champion got Cody Ballinger dual Jersey Otto 20 of 25 Dodgers Dodgers Star Wars talks from black. Yeah, Chrome Black can be fun. Yeah, it is good product. I Enjoy Chrome Black Star Wars and a Christian Yelts dual Jersey Otto Brewer is six at 25 There you go brew crew Yeah, that's a good questioning line. If you played baseball, would your walk-up song be? The hamster dance gets the people going Provocative 70s all-stars of World Series champions 70s all-stars. I could be interesting. I want to get one of these boxes has icons And you know, it's gonna be sick This was 70s all-stars, I don't know I just regard those soon as you red Sox Carlton Fisk dual back relic Otto 16 of 25 Red Sox Carlton Fisk had a white Sox Fisk earlier to in triple threads Oh boy Bronx is back Salute Salute Bronx At ease gents ladies and gents at ease a dual Jersey Otto or Red Sox Roger Clemens six of 25 Red Sox box there The rocket hexes in the building Just hit a mean salute over here Bronx. You couldn't see it, but I had a mean salute Giants for World Series. No If they had gotten Correa you I could entertain the idea, but They're just they're gonna Struggle to get a wild card spot if that like I don't know the NL Ease is so stacked for like wild card potential outside of the division winner It's crazy sequel with the one-handed snag. He's him. Hey, thanks, Byron I'm picked up some nice picked up the dolphins and Seahawks and impeccable PYT's a nice Byron. Thank you That's gonna be such a fun day to Wednesday is gonna be a movie as the kids say Friday the 13th part 7 Jason returns again Mariners Ken Griffey Jr. Triple Relic Otto 5 out of 10 the kid The kid This is a fantastic case of Sterling. Yeah, plus 15,000.  Okay, I've had one of every meal I got one on my way back from work one night at like 2 a.m. That was Yeah, I was gonna say you probably didn't sleep at all that night. Yep. Nope. No mistake Yeah, I eat fast food like too late at night Like I can't stop. Yeah, I've stopped doing it You have to get your body enough time to like sweat it out and get all that Okay, this is gonna be a no particular order recap As far as rocks and heads go good Lord we bagged a lot of cards. Oh my god. It was like over half the Sterling case was magged. Yeah That was fun. Thank you guys for joining. We are sold out for tonight personal resume tomorrow Give me let me get some water and we'll do this recap Watch on tiktok link is in the bio Everything flawless baseball impeccable football and iMac basketball release on Wednesday. It's gonna be It's gonna be bonkers relics here sebathea Nato Riley Machado Goldschmidt Bart BGO cabin BGO Votto Goldschmidt Carlson Flaherty O'Neill for the Cardinals Bueller Bregman Marsh for the Angels Freddie Freeman Carlos Correa Jonathan India Boba Shet That is a Glaver Torres Luis Severino Justin Ferrelander Joey Gallo as a Yankee and Xander Bogarts as a Red Sox I have that same reaction to Joey Just how he's gone. Yeah, you're sad that Joey Gallo was a Yeah, all right autos. So again, these are kind of me. I mixed them up Sam had more I mixed them up Autos Paul Goldschmidt Brady singer Alfonso Rivas Paul the young Tariq Scoobal Luis Garcia Sonny Gray as a twin Patrick Corbin triple twins was more no Maurer and Buxton a yellowish Ryan Mountcastle Matt Chapman as a blue J O'Neill Cruz Austin Riley redemption for the braves from triple threads Joe Ryan Griffin Jacks Rodolfo Castro God Mark McGuire Roger Clemens Carlton Fisk Christian Yelich Cody Bellinger Pia Lanzo Tatis Don Mattingly Pedro Martinez Rod Carew as an angel Vado and Larkin with Merrifield as a as a royal Bernie Williams Yankees Jason Veratag Shane Baz Karu and Maurer dual relic or dual auto excuse me Fisk for the white socks Jaren Durand Edward Cabrera Mike Schmidt Phillies dual patch Otto Hoskins and Real Muto and a Barry Larkin And then these are just gonna be kind of in no particular order as well in a vado one of one five patch auto reds One of one letter patch Vlad Jr. Byron Buxton with one of one letter patch This is not gonna be random that we will get in contact with both of the owners via the email on your account I would expect an email tomorrow Ichiro Otani quad relic game used autos two of five mariners angels What a card Huge quad back relic auto to five Nolan Ryan angels Jumbo patch auto braves a cunea to five One of one coward can junior auto Orioles from definitive With a griffy five of ten triple relic auto mariners Bobby went junior rookie auto two of ten Royals framed auto Aaron judge Yankees to 15 Jumbo patch auto again a cunea braves the 10 To 10 triple patch rookie auto O'Neill cruise pirates from triple threads rookie auto wander from triple threads to 50 a one of one letter patch Jander Bogarts red socks and a one of one Nike swoosh Peter Lonzo Mets. 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Hello everyone. This is financial author Amit Dan of Vedan Journal. Today, I'll talk about five no-nonsense travel hacks You must know No, I'm not going to insult your intelligence by giving tips like put a binder clip over a razor or Use the hotel iron to make a grilled cheese sandwich and so on Rather, I'll talk about five smart travel tips that work And will come in handy when you travel Taxi scam Most taxi drivers are hard-working and honest people But you need to be prepared for a very few who might scam you, especially in foreign land The most common scam is shuffling larger bills to smaller ones like you give them a $50 bill and He claims you gave a $5 bill another variation of the same scam is to Scam by shuffling your bill to a fake bill and demanding more money You can easily prevent this scam by taking pictures of the larger bill before handing them out or Use a smaller bills Which are hard to shuffle and scammers will be reluctant to scam for so many smaller bills Because it involves more work for them and more chances of getting caught travel under government It can be difficult or impossible to wash your undergarments every day while you travel To prevent this when I'm about to get rid of my old art undergarments Such as underwear or an undershirt I save them and use them when I travel and throw them out each day after use This way, I'm still using fresh washed undergarments every day, but don't need to worry about washing and drying them You can achieve the same result by using disposable undergarments and toss them out every day after use and Yes disposable undergarments exist and you can buy them online or from your travel stores Wi-Fi Many hotels charge for Wi-Fi. However, if you're a member of the Hotel Rewards or loyalty program You can get Wi-Fi for free Sign up for the hotel's loyalty program to get the free Wi-Fi. You don't need to have any points in your account to enjoy free Wi-Fi Hotel or resort upgrade Sometimes you may be able to score a room upgrade in hotels or resort just by tipping the receptionist You may need to be discreet When you tip the receptionist and ask for the upgrade for example, keep the note inside of The receptionist or the person in the lobby who takes care of you But not too obvious for other people to see it who are in the lobby and Say something like you'll take care of them if possibly he or she can arrange an upgrade However, you need to make a judgment call in which hotel or what country you can possibly apply this trick for example This is not going to work. If you are in a hotel in In Canada or Germany, let's say like Marriott or Hilton But this may probably work if you are in a hotel or in a resort in countries like Asia or in the Caribbean fake wallet To protect yourself from robbery or pickpockets when you travel Carry a fake wallet fake in this instance means the wallet is real But put expired credit cards bankers library cards and some small notes in it to look like a real wallet Hide your real credit card and money in a separate place on your body You can use a hidden money wallet Money-built or hidden neck or leg wallet to keep your real credit card and cash safe In case of a robbery hand over your fake wallet or distract pickpockets with your fake wallet in the future I'll put down more Travel hacks or point and hotel hacks but for today. That's all for now. Thank you for watching


Hi, everyone. My name is Monica Granados. And with my colleague, Brigitte Dizinha, we work on the open climate and open culture programs at Creative Commons. And I'm here to tell you a little story about why tackling climate change needs both open science and open culture. So I'm an improviser by training.  And in improv, you start on an empty stage like this, that's the cartoon me on stage. And it's completely empty. But from this empty environment, we can weave our long stories from a single suggestion. So, you know, we can call out into the audience and they will yell out, there are eight shoes on the floor, or your scene partner will come in on this empty stage and say there are eight shoes on the floor. And then all of a sudden with our imagination, we materialize that there are eight shoes on the floor. And the job of the improviser is then to contextualize why there are eight shoes on the floor.  But in that contextualization, it gives us a lot of meaning and insight and information about our world. It helps this world that we're making up make sense. So I want to take you to this idea of context and how important context is in many situations. And certainly, when we want to understand climate change, how important context is. So let's go to that stage. Climate change is affecting every aspect in every corner of the world. We're seeing global temperature increases, sea level rise, shifts in animal and plant ranges. So that means that animals that were in one latitude or one part of the world are moving in line with the temperature in the world is experiencing. We're also seeing a loss of sea ice and melting glaciers. And so these are some of this the really big impacts global scale changes that we're seeing in relation and as a result of climate change. But these are all really just facts. When I talk about them this way, they're just numbers and recordings of the amount of sea level or the latitude and longitude of a given species and how that changes over time. We need the human context to really make sense of how all of those changes to the planet are affecting humans. And I'm arguing here that culture is that human context. It helps us understand what these facts mean by understanding and bringing culture into this dialogue. We understand not only about the intrinsic value of the species, something that many humans have seen since the existence of our species, but it was eloquently put by Charles Darwin when he talked about these endless forms most beautiful. We are losing that intrinsic value of species. But also really what that means to humans from a species perspective. No, there are culturally important species where those range changes and loss of habitat are affecting populations that humans rely on both from a culturally important perspective, but also from a livelihood perspective. Rising global temperatures are also affecting the future and the younger generations and the way that they see themselves in this world and their place in this world. We're also seeing that rising sea levels, for examples, are threatening homes and livelihoods, that there are going to be places where humans that are currently living in cities that are going to be inhabitable due to climate change. So that culture and understanding the culture gives us that human context, gives that context to the facts, the knowledge that we collect around climate change. So how do we access knowledge and culture from a very high level? We'll start talking about knowledge. I think it's probably no surprise to most of the audience here that the open sharing of research outputs the way that we get a lot of the knowledge of how we understand the world, particularly from a natural science perspective, is not the default. Just two percentages here that I want to highlight as someone who is situated in Canada, only about 38% of publications with a Canadian author are open access. This is coming from data from the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative. Only about 41% of the papers within an author from the United States are open access. But something really interesting happened in 2020, of course, with the incidence of the COVID-19 pandemic. There was this realization that something was different about the crisis we were going through and the underpinning and the importance of science to helping us understand the crisis that we were going through. Just as it affected many of our lives, it also affected the way that researchers responded. This is just a snapshot from 2021 where we see that about 77% of COVID-19 papers are open access. That's stark contrast to the previous numbers that I quoted. Those numbers are actually increasing as we look at snapshots closer to present day 2023. We also saw an adoption of preprints. Versions of manuscripts before they had gone through the peer review process were uploaded in record numbers. About 80,000 preprints were uploaded to preprint servers from December 31st or up to December 31st. Again, looking at a snapshot, that's an incredible increase in the uptake of preprints, particularly by the COVID-19 community. I think there really is then a lot of evidence to show that when we recognize that there is a crisis, that we need knowledge in order to help us understand the problem and solve the problem, that the research community responds and there is a strong recognition of this. But what about climate change? What about the issue that we were just talking about, this issue that is affecting every corner of the planet? We looked at climate change outputs again through our work with the current open knowledge initiative and found that about only 47% of the outputs between 1980 and 2022 are open. Arguably, climate change is going to have a much larger impact on the world. We are in a climate crisis and we need to see the same response that we saw for COVID-19 as we do then for, as we should see for climate change. So how can we elicit that same response?  So the open climate campaign is this four-year project that started in August of 2022, where we're working to make the open sharing of research outputs the norm in climate science. They really fall under four broad categories. We've got 11 different goals, really around advocacy, so sharing information, reaching out to researchers and telling them you are working on the world's greatest problem. You need to make your work open and hear a lot of tools that are made available through the community, through many of the people that are probably sitting, listening, and participating at Wikipedia. We want to work hand in hand with funders of research because we understand that if we change the rules around funding, if we change open access policies, that researchers will respond and will catalyze changes in behavior and adoption of open practices. We also want to make sure that this is an international campaign. Much of the work that has happened around open access has really had a global north focus, and as a result has often marginalized many voices in the open access communities that don't come from the global north. So we're working to implement open access in international frameworks, but also to make sure that we center voices from traditionally excluded geographical regions in this space. And finally, we want to


Now Dale, I have a question for you. Could you speak briefly about the broad range of opportunities in fintech? Absolutely, and I think this is a really interesting one And you know, I think there's a there's a graphic that's gonna go up here in a second Which shows just the huge range of opportunities, you know from crowdfunding to e-commerce That we've already touched on briefly through to charitable giving and I just want to tell a very quick story because This this wasn't important and I know there's a lot of people who are entrepreneurs This thing this is really important lesson for me as an entrepreneur when I first started building my company I noticed that you know, there was a big opportunity for for new payments innovation for charitable giving and When I first started pitching my company, I was pitching it as a charitable giving platform and You know the market size here even here in the US was huge 372 billion dollar, you know a year that's donated to charity and But you know when I started pitching to investors and they were like that's not big enough I was like, are you kidding me? This is a huge market Then I very I realized with the jolt one day that I could reframe the positioning of my company to be a fintech company and For it not just to be payments to charity on social media for it to be payments The broader scope of things so you know and that you know, it could be payments for commerce It could be political donations It could be all sorts of things and so by redefining the scope of my company from a charitable giving platform to a Fintech platform and that really helped me attract the interest of investors So, you know, I really encourage you to look at how look at whether or not your company can fit into one of these Hot groups that the investors are running after right now And if you can perhaps redefine, you know, the opportunity and the scope of the opportunity the language that you're speaking about the opportunity And the scope of the opportunity in terms of fintech. Thank you


Thanks very much and a warm welcome from me from our company as well So I'm going to tell you something about the reactivation of the historical Siemens one. Is anyone Arriving by S1 this morning Okay Did anyone arrive with the Siemens one? probably not because the Siemens one looks like this right now and That's going to change. So what am I going to show you here? I'm going to tell you something about the the project partners involved within this project Why we did use ArcGSTU BIM as a software for managing Stuff within the project What we did for construction planning? What we did for surveying and how we managed to model the Environment and some use cases with ArcGSTU BIM in a summary of course So we were in a project for a Deutsche Bahn Netze and they have made a project company Siemens Bahn engineer mineshaft and This consists of Krebs and Kiefer and Zweco and we were the surveying partner within this project Something about us we are situated in Berlin near the River Spree and Founded in 1992 we have office locations in Berlin Hanover and Eisenhüttenstadt about 120 employees and our headquarters is Situated right next there so we can take a swim in our breaks Okay, which reasons did we have for choosing ArcGSTU BIM in this project? There is a connection between CID BIM and GS data cloud-based in one system, which was really handy It was easy to work within the linked data in the project We could improve the collaboration between the project Planning the construction surveying architecture engineering all the departments that are involved within there and efficient decisions can be made of Of course time and cost savings are important as well Something about the project context the Siemens Bahn is a former line of the Berlin S-Bahn light rail It was established by Siemens and Halske about 100 years ago and the plan is to go live again Within the next four or five years There are a couple of stations that are completely out of service for quite a long time garden field Wernerberg and Siemensstadt the track is about four and a half kilometers long and was taken out of service for different reasons in 1980 so the route leads over historic railroad viaducts as you can see there and This is a plan of the Routes that will take place. It's a branch from the ring S-Bahn and going to the northwest and Direction of Spannau This is what it looks like right now. So as you can tell there needs to be reconstruction work done and New bridges or new construction of the existing structure needs to take place There are about 30 main engineering instructors that we have been taken care of in the surveying business and there needs to be infrastructure for rail traffic the stations need to be refurbished and They need to be connected to the main S-Bahn lines in Berlin And we have the three stations that are out of service for quite a long time And they need to be taken back into service and to be refurbished completely So there is quite a demanding Planning situation due to the historical monuments that we are faced with here looks like bits of If anyone's interested in lost places photography is a good place to go there looks brilliant and the project goals are the usage of the existing viaduct structure and we have to Provide a base for the recalculation. What needs to be done in steel construction masses design features and To provide the planning data for the refurbishing process and our precise model surface a base for that planning process right now we are on the stage of Preliminary planning and the commissioning is planned in 2029 Estimated cost about 500 million euros. Let's talk about that in a couple of years if we are still talking about 500 millions We will see I can't tell you my guess is Might go up a bit Okay, we did the surveying of the old Wernerberg station and the connected Elevated railway infrastructure and we created BIM models with a great detail level LOD 400 which is Very fine grained of the viaducts and that's outstanding Level of detail if you compare it with other in inventory projects that have taken place before that And we integrated all the gained data in 3d models and ArcGIS Geo BIM and connected it with Autodex construction cloud So that's a colleague of mine song, okay, and What we see here is a laser scanner mounted on a post and We did 48 double-track railroad viaducts of the elevated line that you can see on top here on the picture We scanned the whole station So the reception building roofing if it was still intact and the stairs and the surrounding terrain and We used a Tehematical Cadastra for the shaft cadastra so cable sewage service water and the guide systems oops So personal support was involved in the project as you can tell on the left. That's me I'm I took a chance to do a bit of serving as well And tight project budget so involvement of child labor my son Took part in the project as well and managed to do some BIM modeling stuff and that's what we gained from the Modeling process you can see here the detail level on the left side You can see the latest scanning data that we gained and on the right side There are the model components of the historical viaducts. So it's Yeah, very detailed. You can see every part of it and if it's modeled correctly, you know how many Steel is built in there and which parts are Within the construction Within ArcGIS Geo BIM we were able to integrate some other geodata in the project so the land use plan the digital terrain model 3d models of environments and buildings and We used GIS analysis tools for getting profile serving profile visibility analysis Shadowcasts weather and stuff like that. So things that you can't really do an arc in an Autodesk and you're able to do within the GIS environment and We could use the the platform within the cloud to Involve all the stakeholders in the project. So We use an editor and you could command some parts of the project you could Provide location descriptions you could do a photo documentation in the project site documentation and you could also do Classical BIM issue management So collision detection within the model if there is anything that might cause problems in the future that you can already see within the Model structure you can use a time slider for Getting to know where did the Problems occur within the project and on a time scale And you could edit the features in ArcGIS Geo BIM or in the Autodesk construction cloud Right. So for the summary of the project It was very efficient technology for surveying that we use there for the special infrastructure the Planning for the Survey site is crucial, especially within historical buildings like that We managed to capture the details very precise It was fast field work that could be done with a laser scanning faster than we first approximate it so it was rather cost effective and the gain model is modeled in according to the BIM methodology and We derive detailed building informations So the model that we created is sufficient for the works and the Constructions that are ahead of the project for the reactivation of this track and we could Get all the characteristic features from the data that we needed Yeah, so time and cost servings we integrated 2d and 3d in the cloud for all the participants We use the analysis tools. We used the issue management for collision detection editing We could add commands and documents on the project we could exchange with all the stakeholders in the project and The model can be viewed in all necessary contexts. So yeah, it was I think Very good project that we had so far. It was interesting to see how you can manage to capture this old structures with it and very new and modern technology and To close I have some pictures that we've taken on the old Stations that I think Yeah, quite interesting to see so wo bleibt denn der Zug it takes a bit of time Before the trains rolling there and these are some impressions from the station building of Wernerberg So as you can tell there's quite a lot of things to do that Need to take place on the track okay, so that's So far from me and if there are any questions, I would be able to answer them for you or Thanks for your attention


I'd like to come back to some of that. Now Jean-Pierre. Well, thank you. As a Frenchman based in Asia for many years, my view may be a bit biased, because I'm more sensitive to the rise of China, to its growing assertiveness in the region, than if I were based in Paris or elsewhere in Europe, where of course the Ukraine war, the Middle East and Africa are much more pressing issues than what's going on in the Far East, what we used to call the Far East in Europe, which is the Indo-Pacific region. I have to say, the short answer to your question, Doug, is that I think the US has been and will remain more successful in the global north and global south, in aligning its allies and partners with it on China and the growing tensions in East Asia. John mentioned and I basically agree with him that NATO is a big factor of bringing together the Europeans and the Americans and the Canadians on an issue like China. I mean, the fact that China now is one of the issues discussed in NATO is an important move in the direction of more transatlantic coordination on East Asia and China. So that's the thing which I think we can't ignore. Another trend which has taken place even before this recent tension in Taiwan for some years is the fact that the European Union itself has moved away from the full kind of naive engagement with China to a much more balanced China policy. We know the three pillars of this policy now. One is economic cooperation. The other one is economic competition. And the third one, which is something which has shocked the Chinese when it appeared in 2019, was the idea of we are in a systemic rivalry with China. So China is a systemic rivalry, whatever it means. It means that we don't share the same political values, that we don't see the international order the same way. We don't abide by international law in the same manner, in particular, as far as the law of the sea is concerned, and many other aspects of international law. So I think here, in other words, China's growing power has brought together more than before the Europeans and the Americans on China. Now, it doesn't mean there are no differences. There are quite a number of friction, which we mentioned earlier today, like the trade war and how much shall we put sanctions on China, not only for human rights infringements like the question of Xinjiang, which on the Xinjiang issue, I mean, that was two years ago, for the first time, the Europeans with the Americans, the British and the Canadians decided to impose sanctions on some officials in Xinjiang, and that's what, for the European point of view and the European Union point of view, that was unprecedented. So those are changes which tend to bridge the gap between the Europeans and the Americans, on China. Now, if we look at East Asia, I think you mentioned Southeast Asia, which is, yes, of course, in a very difficult position, but just a word about Southeast Asia is that, of course, they can't publicly and openly criticize China, but they're very happy to have the U.S. around and to keep the U.S. around, all the way from the Vietnamese, of course, which are, you know, in a difficult version of the U.S. in a thousand years with the Chinese, but also with countries like Singapore, which are very happy to have the Americans in Tongi and in the Malacca Strait as well. So, but, and in addition to those countries, of course, you have countries in East Asia, like Japan, and we're going to talk about them in South Korea, which are also U.S. allies, and these U.S. alliances in the Indo-Pacific region have remained a factor of alignment in this position in regarding China. Now, of course, the burning issue, I mean, we may come back to that later, but it's a Taiwan issue, and I have to say what has triggered the growing tensions in the Taiwan Strait has been the, not only China's assertiveness, but also is more obvious haste to unify China, Taiwan with China, and that has been, to me, a major disabilizing factor in the region, because most of the countries in the region are attached to the status quo in the Taiwan Strait, and for the first time since, well, I mean, it started actually 10 years ago or less, more or less in 2013 when Xi Jinping decided that we can't leave this generation, this question unsolved and transmitted from one generation to another. So now we clearly, the China's policy towards Taiwan has been to mix much more carrots and stick and to use much more coercion against Taiwan in order to try to convince Taiwan to unify with China, but the problem with these policies is badly backfired, and actually rally a number of countries which are not that close to the US and to support the status quo in the Taiwan Strait. Now, we may come back later to the comparison between Ukraine and Taiwan. I would just say a word about the global south because, you know, the last 10 years I've worked quite a lot on China-Africa relations, I've done quite a number of field works in Africa, and clearly the Africans don't want to choose between the US and China, but one thing I will remind everyone, I mean, for the one coming from Africa they're very familiar with Afrobarometer, is that both China and the US are pretty popular in Africa in terms of, you know, favorable views that are more or less at the same level. 60% of the Africans are favorable of China, but also 58% of the Africans have favorable view of the US, much more than their view of, you know, much more positive view than their view of the former colonial powers. So, and they clearly don't want to choose. Even today, I think most countries in the South they think they can get away with this new so-called Cold War between the US and China and remain mutual and still benefit from cooperating with both sides. The problem with the, you know, talk about Africa is the fact that the US is much less present in Africa, and that the American diplomacy has deserted Africa, and that's been, I think, a big weak point of the Americans in that continent, and that's opened a boulevard, actually, to China, to becoming much more active from a diplomatic point of view, military point of view, but also with the BRI, the Belt and Road Initiative, economic point of view. So that's where we are now. Thank you very much. As a parent of diplomats who are self-professed Africanists, I recognize your last remark very clearly.


YouTube sometimes you run into stream snipers stream lurkers or people that join your chat While you're playing them it happens often. I don't have a problem with that I feel like if you have a problem with it, you shouldn't be a man and streamer You got to accept all challenges should be good enough to conquer them because at the end of the day I mean That's why they watch, you know, they want to see you conquer people They want to see you win they want to see you play the best and this was fun This was one of the most entertaining games of weekend league So if you guys like this video, please hit the like button Please comment below, but this was against my man death bat now I don't know what death bat is, but it sounded intimidating when I first saw it. I said, oh, what is it death bat? I don't know what she's gonna bring to the table. Let's find out what my man death bat brought to the table So this was death bat. He got the Browns jerseys Probably top 10 bodies with top three body of jerseys you can wear But the first play he takes me to the crib Walter Payton dive right up the middle I mean Walter Payton was his horse I mean he got a human joystick evasive everything you can on mr. Walter Payton scores a touchdown on the first play The one thing about giving up a touchdown on the first play There's still a lot of football to be played so you can make up that touchdown No big deal and the best way to make up that touchdown is to go up top to Randy Moss Moss right there huge game getting into touchdown territory now tell you this gameplay is high octane There are no little two-yard runs. There are no little plays that we're gonna show here This is just pedal to the metal both ways between me and death bat This was a legendary battle as I go ahead and tie the game up right there boom seven to seven Death bat didn't know what hit him in first drive. So we're right there. We both do punches. We both struck We're right there. He's one door this little slant right there. I think Ramsey should pick it off, but but you know I mean Sometimes I feel like my DBs can never jump next play he lasers another corner out Boom this guy might be the best player on week only that's what I'm feeling right now After Walter Payton takes me to the crib again, he might be the best player He might be the next MCS champion death bat. I'm beyond us. I'm still not worried. I'm chilling. I'm chilling with the chat I'm relaxing. I'm not sitting up yet. You don't sit up yet not 14-7. You don't sit up I want to take off with Michael Vick here get a couple yards got to keep them on It's you got to put a spy out there mr. Death bat You have to nice little run over here Walter Payton picking up a cool eight yards Got to keep a minus got to keep a minus We're gonna read option get outside But Isaiah Simmons is gonna hit me here comes night training on this happens to me a lot You know, it's been it then happened to me before but this is where you messed up. This is where the game turns You don't swag on a fumble to the crib You don't do that and you especially don't hop in my chat and hit me with this That's when the game changed. That's when I had to sit up That's when I had to focus and that's when I had to let death bat know who the boss was So from there, you just got to turn up the energy.    No big deal. We're feeling good We're gonna go take this lead right here first play We're gonna roll out and we're looking up top because that's the only place we look when we lock in up top Julio Jones Touchdown lead 28 21. We're right on death bats head. Here.  Clowney might talk to him one time boom That's Calvin picking up clowny picking up the ball going to the by-high just like that 35 21 We are all over death bat. He don't know what's good. What hit him here from the second quarter on He's not gonna be able to get a first down anymore And he no more first downs get him to a second and five one go over here Make a good tackle right here with Patrick Peterson or at least try to boom But there's that Walter Payne. He's trying to get Walter Payne the ball. That's his go-to You see him trying to pass not good. Mr. Lawrence Taylor with the sack second and 23 for death Sacked again that's my Patrick Peterson third down Sacked again that time Jalen Ramsey send in the corners. We get the ball back and if we're up 14 What are we gonna do with it roll out? You know where we're looking up top bombs over bag dad Randy moss touchdown? 42 21 absolutely dominating death bat right now. He doesn't know what to do We are up 21. This game is cooked. We just got to worry about Walter Payne That's all there's no way a runner comes back from this He's under water no where for the kid to go goes a little toss We are all over Walter Payne. He's doing his best job to break tackles We're not letting it happen next play again swarm all of them black jerseys eagle gang all over the kid Third down tries a quarterback draw. Nothing doing fourth down. He's gonna go for it Nothing doing he's gonna get the ball back eventually fourth down again. He's gonna go for it Nothing doing that's it man. He cannot get out of his own end zone And we're gonna go with Vic right here Take it close to the Baha inside the 10-yard line. We just want that 50 burger We want that 50 burger home corner out touchdown. We did not get the two-point conversion stuck with 48 That's how this game is gonna end 48 to 21 we were down 21 to 7 death back got a little too crazy in the chat man Little bit too crazy, but Jesus if you like this video if you like this type of video Let me know below make sure to catch these games live as well. Thank you


Welcome traders to another TickMail earnings report preview with me Patrick Munley for jump into today's report as always want to adhere to the risk disclaimer and Most pertinent to today's presentation is the fact that the views expressed by me are solely mine They're not indicative or representative of those held by TickMail UK or TickMail Europe limited Okay, let's jump into today's report and we are looking at block the Paranova Square We're looking for earnings, which are going to be released after the close of trade in New York today And it's for share of 17 cents on revenue of 4.38 billion would highlight There is a whisper number that the EPS could be as high as 19 cents Investors really need to watch consumer related metrics the sell side's consensus numbers and the company's management's comments The prior quarterly earnings call to do a preview of blocks upcoming results expectations for blocks Q2 2022 earnings are muted Implying a low probability of a negative surprise for Square when it reports results this evening Squares Q2 2022 results should still be poor as evidenced by the expectations of declines in both its top and bottom line for the coming quarter On the other hand block still boast significant potential growth in the long run as seen with its total addressable market or TAM Projections revealed at its invested day in May Wall Street analysts consensus Financial projections point to blocks revenue declining 7.4 percent year over year from 4.681 million in the second quarter of 2021 to 4.335 million in the second quarter of 2022 as per the S&P capital IQ data Assuming that the sell side analysts are right Q2 2022 will represent the second consecutive quarter of year over year top line contraction The expectation of lower sales on a year-over-year basis for Square in Q2 2022 Are reasonable taking into account metrics relating to consumer spending and consumer confidence in general a July 28 2022 Reuters article noted that the growth in the US consumer spending for the second quarter of 2022 It's likely at its slowest pace for two years US consumer confidence has declined for three straight months From May to July in this year Given that the users of blocks cash app in general tend to be younger and less well off the company's top line is more likely to be Adversely affected by weaker consumer confidence and a reduction in consumer spending Block is also expected to deliver weaker profitability for the upcoming quarter as per consensus estimates obtained from the S&P capital IQ Squares EBITDA is forecasted to fall by 62% year-of-year 237 million the second quarter of the current year similarly blocks non-gap adjusted earnings per share is estimated to drop by 75% year-of-the-year in the second quarter of 2022 The expected sharp decline in the operating profit and the bottom line for Square in the upcoming quarter is no surprise Costs relating to the integration of after-pay and continued investments to sustain long-term growth We're expected to dampen blocks profitability in the second quarter net net blocks second quarter 2022 financial results Unexpected to be pretty with both its revenue and earnings forecast to contract euro on a year-over-year basis in the upcoming quarter But on the positive side of things blocks poor near-term outlook has been priced into its valuation While its positive long-term prospects do remain intact Let's take a look at some of the statistical trading patterns that we can Identify around a block earning square shares and moved higher in the immediate aftermath of earnings 9 out of 12 Previous reports on average the stock has moved up 4.5% in the first day of trading after companies earnings report based on the previous 12 earnings releases Square is more likely to trade lower one day after earnings for an average loss of 2% on the Average the stock has moved her by 5.1% one week after earnings Volatility perspective options traders are pricing an 11.5% move on earnings and the stock has averaged an 8.8% move in recent quarters From a flow and sentiment perspective that has been notable buying 4747 contracts of the bullish $100 call expiring tomorrow Friday options order flow in general has actually been Bullish as well investor sentiment has 51% Expecting an earnings beat share price has drifted 17.8% to the downside post its last earnings announcement using the last 12 quarters of data the average drift between earnings Announcements is 4.7% Let's pull up the chart here and and take a look and see if we can identify any near-term trading opportunities Bear in mind we've got that bullish sentiment from both the options market and this near-term Corbine, let's take a look and see Where we could look to engage here. So from a technical perspective, we're Bring in the bottoming pattern here, and if we overlay the pitchfork, I'd like to see any move through the $92 level. I want to be engaged on the long side initially targeting the projected trend channel resistance of us 105 55 and then as this 92 area acts as support then I think we can extend up into the 121 area and that would represent a symmetry swing versus the last upside move we saw in the back end of February this year So we saw that advance before before we saw the next aid to the downside into that 55 swing low The alternative scenario is we hold this resistance at the 91 92 level any three-way corrective move back into test the 68 area as support again I'll be watching for bullish reversal patterns still like to think we can make a move through this 92 ultimately and get up to Make a test of the 121 notably we have broken out of the weekly descending trend channel and held the weekly high volume low there at 164 80 so looking for upside here unless we get a really miserable Outlook from from the earnings report, but for now structurally looking to test 121 on the upside as always traders plan the trade trade the plan and most importantly manage your risk until next time Thanks very much


This is Stink Tech Hawaii, Community Matters here. Bingo! It's our energy policy forum show, Hawaii, the state of clean energy. Guess what Sharon Moriwaki co-chair of the Hawaii Energy Policy Forum is here with us today. It's co-host. I'm so happy about that. And we have Hawaiian Electric too. Okay. We have Brennan Morioka. He is the general manager, I get this right, the general manager of the electrification of transportation at Hawaii. Yeah. Just a lot of words. He keeps me busy. Okay. Actually, you can put it to music. Do you want to have me try that? Sure. Sure. You right there knows me. Maybe I'll hum along. Jimmy Yao. He is the director of electrification of transportation. No words. No words. Okay. Yeah. All right. And they know each other. Yeah. So we're here to sort of examine the continuum of developing electric transportation in Hawaii. And it has become a priority or a visible priority where everybody knows and everybody talks about it. And the question is to have it settled down so that when you're out there buying your next $70,000 SUV, maybe you think twice and get something electric. Hopefully. Yeah. So what's the condition of the state initiative on electrifying transportation? Well, you know, there continues to be a lot of discussion, right? I mean, a lot of people talking both at the state level, all four counties have entered the discussion about clean transportation. And there's different forms of clean transportation and not all of it is just having to be electric because there's other types of alternative fuels that are considered clean. But you know, Hawaiian Electric's focus is on the customer side where we can provide a service and that's on the electric side. So electric vehicles. And whenever people talk about electric EOT or electrification of transportation, most people automatically go to, well, it's about electric vehicles or electric cars. But EOT is far more than that. It's also about electric buses, electrifying operations on our harbors and the ports, electrifying equipment at the airports, you know, the ground service equipment that moves your baggage and the tug and toes that push the planes. But it's really looking at just the transportation sector because, you know, we talked in the past about how we talk about increasing our reliance or decreasing our reliance on imported fossil fuels, increasing our energy security. And we do that by the reduction of the use of gasoline or oil. And when people look at Hawaiian Electric, it's primarily, well, how do you, you know, reduce the amount of oil that you use to make electricity? And in the big picture, that only amounts to about 28% of the total petroleum used in Hawaii, whereas 61% of the petroleum used here in Hawaii is for transportation purposes. So if we're serious about energy security, if we're serious about providing a cleaner environment by reducing carbon emissions, we really need to kind of take a step back and start talking about where we might have the most impact. And that's in the transportation sector. So Hawaiian Electric, about a year and a half ago, really took that step forward. Hawaiian Electric's been working on electric vehicles for almost a little over a decade, which is also why you have Jimmy Yao here. He's probably our most experienced person at Hawaiian Electric working in the electric vehicle field. But Hawaiian Electric made that commitment on focusing on bringing the resources within the company to focus on electrification or transportation. How do we reach out to the transportation sector, which historically hasn't been a partner with the, or the energy sector. So it's kind of been nice for me to kind of marry some of my background in transportation with the, the energy sector. So, yeah, no, it's been a great experience so far. Yeah. So Jimmy, what is this about since you've been studying, you've been studying electric cars since 1922, wasn't it? Sure, okay. Yeah. You see that growing after this, and what, what are some of the changes? Well, definitely. I mean, if you look at what's happening, it's, it's, it's been a real great growth. So the first electric vehicle that mass-produced electric vehicle hit Hawaii in 2011, right? You bought your car in 2011, right? Yeah. You look at now, the state is over 7,000 electric vehicles registered. 7,000, okay.  But this year, hopefully you've seen the press and, and the electric buses pilot running around town. So the sky's the limit here. There's going to be fits and starts though, because of the, you know, the, the money involved in the change. For example, I mean, it's just, it's just a, while you were talking, I was thinking that, you know, I first learned early on when I started getting involved with the Energy Policy Forum and Sharon, I realized, and this conversation with Peter Rasek who taught me a lot, that, that the nature of the utility has got to change around green energy in many ways. Many, many ways. It's a, it's a complete reorganization, a re, re, re-thinking, if you will.  And Right.  Is that really moving to green? It's not really. So, what, what that means is that in this transition, in this continuum we're talking about, you have to move the generating system to green also if you want to get where you want to go. And this, now this means that the utility more than you ever imagined has got to be green. And the utility has got to change to, you know, to wrap around these, these million cars. That's what we're talking about here. This is a major thing. Right. I hope you're a very young man because I think you have a, a long shore ahead of you, Brad. Well, I got, I got three kids in private school right now and then they got to go to college. So, I, I got to be working for a long time anyway, so I'll, I'll be around. Yeah. And no, but you're, you're absolutely right. And that's why electrification of transportation is just one aspect of a lot of the different things that the utility that Juan electric, Maui electric, Hoie electric light, we're all moving in the same direction to number one, achieve the 100% renewable portfolio that the state has set for 2045. Our goal is to hit that by 2040. And the utility has done what's called the grid modernization plan, which was approved by the PUC. We've submitted and got in the PUC approval for our power supply improvement plan also that has now been renamed into our integrated grid planning process. And all of that takes into account other types of initiatives and technology. So electrification of transportation is one, because everything is based on how do, how does the utility now, instead of burning oil to produce energy, how do we accept, either create on our own or accept from others clean renewable energy into the grid and service all of our customers. And so electrification of transportation is one, demand response is another initiative and technique or technology. And then also distributive energy, which is a lot of your solar and wind. Yeah. So it all plays into the transportation because if you're feeding electricity back to the grid, you know, the utility is essentially getting it from homeowners or wherever these utility scale affordable tech arrays that are growing up now. That is the source of power that would go to these cars. And it makes it possible. So you know, I can see the whole, I can visualize the whole thing is changing. And by 2040, that's a pretty ambitious goal. Yeah, we think so. But I think everything that the utility has been doing is really showing the kind of commitment and progress towards those goals. And so it's nice to be a part of that kind of initiative. I know a lot of people talk about, well, you know, we're trying to green up transportation, green up the kind of cars that we drive, but you're still burning fossil fuels and creating carbons, carbon particulates by the power that's generated in order to provide the electricity for those green cars, which is true today. But as we continue to see the utilities, the amount of renewable energies in the utilities portfolio, that is quickly ramping up pretty fast. So that scenario, that situation where it takes dirty energy to power these cars compared to clean energy not in the not so distant future, that argument is completely going to flip upside down. And so for us, we need to be ready for that. When we do have a system that is purely 100% renewable, we also want all the other things that are tied to it. You have to move on both sides of the equation. It can't be done in sequence. It needs to be done concurrently and together. And so that's how we're really attacking this situation. I see two things. One is the Moriwaki problem, which we mentioned earlier, which is getting a charging station in your condo, or your home, or in your neighborhood. And I think there's some obstacles to that. We should talk about it. I think really it's a critical piece in this puzzle, because you've got to encourage people. And one of the ways you encourage people is a lot of charging stations. And in Hawaii, we can do that. You know, Hawaii is really open to this. Not everybody, but a lot of people are open to it. And when you compare the number of people who are agreeable, amenable to green energy and paying for it here, as opposed to the mainland, hey, on the mainland, they're not nearly as excited about green energy as we are. We are really the leaders by attitude, anyway. And really that's why we talked about the road map that we submitted to the PUC in March. And the road map really tried to identify many of the obstacles towards electric vehicle adoption. And because our initial goal is, number one, increase the number of electric vehicles on our roads, so increase the adoption here in Hawaii, and also parlay that into greater benefits and savings to all of our customers, whether you own an EV or not. And so we've identified public outreach and education as one of the major things that we need to be tackling, because there's a lot of information out there that is either incorrect or just absent that people need to have in order to make more informed decisions when they're choosing to buy an EV or not. But also, how do we assist government and private sector entities that are looking to convert buses to the electric buses? Because there is a lot of momentum there. And then also, you know, where folks like Sharon who want to buy an EV or have an EV but live in a condominium unit who can't readily or easily have access to a charging unit. And so multi-unit dwellings, workplace charging are all things that we've identified as obstacles towards EV adoption where we want to work with our partners at the state level, the county level in the private sector on finding solutions for that. So that's kind of where we are right now in terms of trying to push these initiatives forward. But a lot of it is going to be establishing and creating those partnerships that, because we're not going to, it's a really a cock-hole thing, right? We're not going to be able to do it all by ourselves. There's many things that we can take the lead on, or we should take the lead on, but we need help. I see you guys as leaders on this. Absolutely. Who else, really? And we want to take the lead, but we also know that we need help. We're not going to be able to do it alone. We're going to need policy reforms. We're going to need people, statutes, organizations. It is legislation requiring that every new condo has charging stations for every owner who parks there. There's a lot of discussion right now on revising building codes, especially for new construction. There's talk about having to retrofit a lot of older stuff too. But I think we also need to approach it in a more balanced way also, because there are cost implications. We may have unintended consequences for various things that we think might be good. So a healthy discussion on a lot of this is very important. We can have it right here, friend. Absolutely. Hey, I've got a long time. We can do it. Jimmy, what do you think we need to get my wife to buy an electric vehicle? Because she's an old fashioned type, fossil fuel person. So it's actually really interesting. A lot of people in the EV industry say the no more way to get someone to believe electric vehicles get themselves in the driver's seat and try. Has your wife ever driven an electric vehicle before? No. Has she been in one? I don't know the answer. So I mean, it's amazingly when they get in, I think there's a misconception of what an electric vehicle is. But they're very quick. They're very quiet. They're very smooth. No oil in the garage. They're easy to maintain. So that's the number one thing to try to get. In fact, I think this weekend there's a ride and drive at Salt and Kakaako. You should bring her down. Yeah. Well, I've got to go to the charity road. The charity one. Visitor industry charity one, isn't it? I hope you're there, sure. Maybe you can always walk over to Salt and Kakaako. Salt and Kakaako. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure, sure, sure. Well, I think it's really interesting that the millennial generation, they believe in green energy, but they don't necessarily believe in cars. So you have an interesting kind of, you have different factors in play here. You have these what do you call it, car share arrangements, which some millennials and some other people too, not all of the whole world is millennials. I have trouble with that, but there it is, there you have it. But they like the car share thing because they don't need a car all the time. And parking is hard and traffic is hard. And you just get it when you want it and it's pretty appealing. Assuming you can get it when you want it. And I think that'll be more sophisticated, to be more software, allow you to do it. So all of a sudden, you have car ownership, maybe second in the backseat. And then you have Uber. I think Uber is a major force on this. I mean, some people swear by Uber, even though they're under attack in the city council. Watch Bill 35. Anyway, we'd like to put Uber out of town. But Uber is a factor. It's sort of like car share. You don't have to own a car. And some people just take Uber everywhere because it's half the price of a taxi. And it's available in one minute. It's amazing. It's like a magic wand. So that's another, and then of course, you have autonomous vehicles coming down the pike. Despite that accident with whoever, who did that? I think that was maybe Uber or Tesla, some accident. But I'm lying is that they're working hard to develop it now. And they're developing software that's going to be safe and reliable. And so when you put all that together, you get cars that you don't have to own and cars that you can snap your finger and it's there, like in the movies. And then it takes you wherever you tell it to take you. It's like miracles happening in our generation. I don't know how that's going to affect this, but it's going to have some effect. Sure. And all of that is really taking into consideration as a part of our electrification or transportation roadmap. We look at autonomous vehicles. We are looking at our partnerships with the TNC companies like Uber and Lyft. Car shares needs to be a part of that discussion and whether those cars can be electric cars as well. And how do we as a utility help service that by providing maybe public charging infrastructure? But we also need to look at the broad spectrum of the demographic of mobility. It's not just about the millennials, like you say. It's about all age groups and how they choose to go from one place to another. And just because you're older, maybe a senior citizen, that doesn't mean you can't participate in the electrification movement because that's where we have electric buses. Many seniors catch buses. Students catch buses. So if we can look at that kind of thing. And then when you talk about the millennials, their philosophy or their culture is a little different, right? It's a little bit more of the sharing environment or sharing culture where car share, ride share, have become more important to them, even bike share. So electric bicycles are also becoming very much more popular. Especially on the mainland, I think you're starting to see some of it trickled down here in Hawaii as well. So when we look at what we can electrify from a transportation perspective, we're looking at the whole gamut of things. So what is the road map? I like road maps. I'll give you a road map. A road map would take us to a place for rest once in a while, like a break. OK, so the road map so far has taken us to a place where we're going to have a break. So watch this. This is Think Tech Hawaii, raising public awareness. Living in this crazy world, so far up in the confusion, nothing is making sense for me. The host of Business in Hawaii. We broadcast every Thursday from 2 to 2.30, and we highlight successful businesses in Hawaii. Hawaii has some challenges. Most places do. But we have businesses here that have figured out how to make it work, and we learn their secrets, and we learn how they have made it successfully in Hawaii. Occasionally, we'll have organizations that come on and explain how they help these businesses to be successful, and we find that there's an awful lot of resources out there available to anybody in business to help them do better. So please tune in every Thursday from 2 to 2.30, here at the Think Tech Studios, and get educated. Oh, that was restful. That was a break. Now, we're back to Hawaii, the state of clean energy by the Energy Policy Forum with Brennan Morioka, Jimmy Yao, and also Sharon Moriwaki, co-chair, co-host. So you had some questions before the break. I did. And could you proceed with that, Ms. Co-Chair? I like roadmaps. I like planning ahead so that you know what you need to get to where you want to go. So I'd like to know, what is your road map, who was involved in it, and where is it supposed to go? What is the destination for your road map? Well, and the road map is really the result of a lot of collaboration by a number of stakeholders. Actually, when we do different presentations about electrification of transportation, one of the slides we like to show is one with all the different logos of all the different entities and businesses that were actually a part of our workshops, one-on-one meetings. And so we started late last year and started the process to really get feedback. We went in with almost a blank sheet of paper. I mean, we kind of had some ideas of what we thought we wanted in there, or our perception of what the challenges were. But we really wanted our partners to feel like they were the ones helping us develop it from scratch. And so we had a big workshop in November where we had almost 100 participants from a variety of sectors, energy sector, the utility sectors, car manufacturers, a lot of them in the transportation sectors. And so we had a really good dialogue. And we really asked the questions about what do you think needs to happen in order for greater adoption of electric vehicles to occur. And when we say vehicles, we're not just talking about just cars. We're talking about buses or larger vans and that kind of things. And so we worked through it through the end of the year. It's submitted in March. Came out with a number of really telling things was electrification and transportation, number one, helps in assisting the state achieve 100% RPS by helping with greater integration of renewable energy into our system. The second one is it helps to reduce or reduce our dependency on fossil fuels and provides a cleaner environment because the more electric vehicles we have on the road, the less carbon emissions, the less fuel we use. Therefore, you have greater energy security by less importation of fossil fuels. And it keeps it, lets us keep a lot of the money here as well, right? We talked a little bit about how much money actually goes or is exported out of the state just to purchase. Speaking of money, I don't think there are enough charging stations. And I think charging stations ought to be a profitable investment. In other words, if I have or buy a gas station, I should put a charging station on my gas station. There's a lot of points around the city, the state, where gas stations could serve the function of being both. And the question is, can I do that and make a return on my investment for the charging station, which is going to cost some money? Not only in the apparatus, the devices, but in wiring it, I suppose, and getting the power. So I've always felt that there should be some kind of thing in the legislature or in the business practice in the state, maybe something the utility could actually encourage somehow, where I could go with my buddies and form a hui or a tan emoji thing and buy a lot and either have an existing gas station on it or not. And then I go and I invest in charging stations on that location. Now, at first, I may not make any money at all. But if there are more than, what, 7,000 electric vehicles that need to charge as time goes by, if you get closer to 2040, I'll make more money. And there'll be competition, too, because the guy in the next block, I suppose, he could charge less than me and so forth. There's a whole range of possibilities here. But merely to have them every five miles is really not enough to encourage me and my wife to feel really comfortable in driving an electric car around town. Not only want to have no range anxiety, I want to be happy. I want to feel that I'm covered on every block, like with a gas station. So what can we do? Can we make a business model, a plan, an incentive, an encouragement for people to give them some return on their investment? I think it's kind of interesting the analogy of gas station to electric vehicles. So first, there's some analogies and there's some that aren't. So the interesting thing about electric vehicles is, as opposed to a gas car, you have to go to a gas station in public car. So with an electric vehicle, you can basically charge a car anywhere there's electricity. So there's a little bit of a paradigm shift there. So not every single person needs to go to some public destination to charge the car. There's a flexibility that they can charge at home. So most people right now charge at home. Is that right? Yeah. So the business case is a little bit different. But similar to us when we're putting in our DC fast charging stations for the public use, and similar to how the gas station models are. So gas stations now, they don't really make that much money off selling gasoline. It's really the synergy between the gasoline and the mini model that's paired with it. So some of the things that we try to look for are locations where there's a strip mall or something like that to give someone something to do. Because unlike gasoline, you're there for five minutes and then you're gone. Or the electric vehicle charging you're there for fast charging you're there typically maybe half an hour. So we would look for those opportunities. It is kind of interesting. So there are certain companies that have looked at electric vehicle charging and how it brings in customers. One of the big ones internationally is Target. So Target has. Yeah, Target stores. So they pair with a certain charging station manufacturer because they know for every minute a customer is in their store how much revenue it brings in. They also know typically how long a customer stays in that store. So what they do is they provide two hours of free charging if you want to charge because they'll bring in a certain amount of revenue. After two hours, they figure you're no longer there. If your car's still over there, then they charge you a certain amount of money because they figure you're at the other store. That's a good idea to control abuse. Right. So it's a little bit different, I think, when you look at the business case for electric vehicle charging. Yeah, this is a young group of guys that have, I forget the name of this operation, but they make a deal with the shopping centers. Volta, Volta. Wasn't it Volta? Volta, the one where you put ads on the show. We've had them on the show. Yeah, we have. And smart guys and they know how to make a deal with the shopping center and then put your shopping there, you put ads on there. And you can charge free.   They get advertising revenue and they pay for the electricity. But I mean, there's lots of different business models. And I think the more models, the more people, the more investing, the more charging stations, the better we'll all feel, even if we're oversupplied at least for a while. So why don't the service stations, the problem is space. So if you had a service station with gas lead on one side and they may in 2045 go out of business with gas, then why not start developing EVs somewhere on the station lot so that you can transition into electricity? And actually there is a big movement by many of the petroleum companies to look at renewable and clean energy as well. Many of them have their own actual clean energy arms. And so they have begun some conversations with us. And so we have some discussions with them on some of their specific locations. I think some of them are, they're seeing the change and the reduction in amount of oil or gasoline that people are gonna be purchasing in the future and they wanna start changing their business model today. But also like Jimmy said, they also understand the behavior of electric vehicle drivers and they are gonna be parked there for a certain period of time. I'm probably not gonna wanna park someplace that doesn't have anything for me to do. So I'm gonna go and find a public charger that maybe has a retail store like a Starbucks. It's called the Starbucks model. And so many of the gasoline stations who do have these mini-marts, they are looking at what they can do to enhance that experience and then put a charger there because if they're gonna start attracting people to charge at their gas station instead of gas, they want them much like Target thinks that once you get into my store, you're gonna be sending money. Same thing for the gas station, right there.  The funny thing is that technology will always change and move and get better, hopefully. So it's really interesting. You can get into that model and you can have the Starbucks kind of experience on the notion that it takes 20 minutes or something for a fast charger to fill up your tank. And then they could come out with a charger that would charge you in 30 seconds. And now you have the rug pulled out from under you on that model. But I don't think it's gonna happen anytime soon. It might actually happen a lot sooner than you think. I mean, our fast chargers, like Jimmy said, charges a Nissan Leaf in about 30 minutes. The Europe and some places on the mainland are having them down to 10 minutes. Maybe their goal is to get it down to five. So what that does to the utility, we kind of need to figure that out too. So for us, it's a matter of understanding what the market is, where it is, and then how can we better plan to service our customers. Well, that's the role of utility in a whole initiative that's going green is to follow the technology, because it's always changing. And the customer, the range anxiety. So even another business you could start is a roving EV station, right? Because when you're on the road, there's AAA doesn't come to help you, right? And when I call, I say, oh no, we don't do that. But if you had a truck that goes around and it plugs you in, you charge for that. But at least you're not stranded on the highway. There's nothing you can do. But didn't you install something called Moby? I don't know if it's experimental or what. Moby is a product of free wire and it's a mobile charging unit. Right now, we have one at the airport trade center. It's a slower charge right now. You used to have a faster charging unit there, but they took it back to modify it. But yeah, the technology for that exists, that kind of technology is actually really rapidly changing and growing as well. Because the one that's out there is a fairly big unit. I mean, it's almost a size of a gas dispensary thing. So it's pretty big. Hard to carry it, right? But there are ones that are more like a five gallon or a two gallon fuel canister that most people are used to carrying around.  So you can charge your car if it's run on or back. What's it in your truck? Yeah, so technology is changing and so that means business opportunities also change as well. Oh, exciting. It is. And the question is to keep people advised of this so that they can change their attitude and they can get on the road. So you were talking in the break, I guess, it was about dealing with the public and trying to take the temperature of the public. What is the temperature of the public and what do you think the pressure points are? You know, the arguments or the actions you can take. For example, if I gave you a bigger credit, a resumption of the state credit for buying electric cars, I'm sure you'd see the charts shoot right up. Even my wife even. But we'll get in there, Jeff. We'll get in there, yeah. Have her on the show. We are, sure we will, yeah. So what do you think, what do we have to do to, you know, what's the condition of the public and what are the pressure points? I think there's two, one is obviously price and the second one is this concept of range of anxiety, how far can you drive? So as far as prices going, prices are getting lower. You know, horn electric or rolling out programs through us to lower the price. There's rebates and such through the dealership, through the car manufacturer to lower that initial price. The prices are going down. So the industry is saying that in the year 2025 there should be price parity between an electric vehicle and a gas car. So at some point, that whole issue hopefully should go away. The second part now is then the range anxiety. And I think some of that is misconception. So some of the earlier cars, they have a little bit lower range. It's still probably adequate for most people in Hawaii. But now, so Brandon just recently bought a 2018 car and it has 150 miles of range. So for most people, let's get it. That's a leaf, that's a leaf. I love the car. It's hugely, much more range than before. 150 compared to the early Leafs, which was about what, 77 miles. So I really don't have to charge every day. I can charge once every three or four days and still have more than adequate charge to get wherever I need to go during the day. And I live Kaniyohi, so it's not just a simple drive around town. That's better than my cell phone. Better than my watch even. So they can't retrofit the old cars. You have to just buy a new car. Even the batteries that you put in. So Sharon, I hate to tell you this. I always hate to tell you this, but I do tell you this pretty much every week. It's time for us to go now. Oh, it was too fast. And it's your job as a co-host to summarize everything that Brandon and Jimmy have said and try to bring a message out of it. Go now. Oh, well I'm really excited because I was there in the first time, putting it in a condo. But with having a roadmap and doing the kinds of things you're doing and really bringing transportation into clean energy, you folks are in the leadership role. So I really think, Jimmy, thank you for staying the course and Brandon for joining as general manager to bring the businesses involved. Because unless the businesses from all the sectors, I was going to ask about tracking industry as well, is how do you bring that to everybody is comfortable driving an EV and having that. Speaking at the Hawaii Transportation Association's annual conference to talk to all the heavy truckers about those opportunities in the future. Because they're the heavy users. But thank you and you have to come back, give us updates as you go along. Any time, I'm absolutely happy to come back. Okay, great. Thank you, Brandon Morioka, Jimmy Yao. Thank you so much, you guys. And thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Bye. Yeah.


About 40 counties in Kentucky have declared themselves Second Amendment Sanctuaries and Floyd County joined that list last night. I attended the last night's fiscal court meeting where officials faced a massive crowd and voted in favor of becoming a sanctuary for the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It was standing room only in the Floyd fiscal courtroom as the county's magistrates voted unanimously in favor of declaring the county a Second Amendment Sanctuary. For Resolution Past, thank you all. Like in Pike County, Floyd County's resolution is a symbolic declaration stating the county will object to any proposed legislation that may run afoul of the Second Amendment. Well, it's encouraging that we got the votes we needed to do this. What's more encouraging, the fact that we had a couple hundred people to come out for our meetings tonight, it's inspiring to see as many folks in support of our fiscal court and our Second Amendment rights. This vote is more than just being symbolic. This is a call to action. Folks need to realize that 40 miles up the road, we're that close to the state of Virginia, gun owners' rights are being trampled on. And, you know, we need to take this serious. And when I mean a call to action, I just mean you need to get involved in your politics, in your local communities. You need to understand the folks that you elect to put in these positions and their platform and the potential outcome. Too often, we vote for folks because he's a good old guy, he's a local fellow.  As in other local counties, including Letcher and Pike, Floyd County's resolution was born out of concern over the controversial gun legislation being considered in Virginia. We do take our Second Amendment rights, you know, we take it personal. And we are lawful gun owners and we want to be treated as such. This particular resolution has no specific language in it that says they will do anything other than to announce their support for the Second Amendment and for the rights that it guarantees to them. It doesn't actually express any specific that the county will do or wrong them. What it does say is that the members of this fiscal court support the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, supports gun owners, those would-be gun owners, and we believe in the idea that the United States Constitution say that no law shall impringe upon the rights of people to keep and borrow arms should be carried out just as the original framers of the Constitution intended. County Attorney Keith Bartley said the county may consider further action if legislation contrary to the Second Amendment is proposed in Kentucky. He's confident, however, that won't happen. You know, am I concerned? Maybe? Do I think there's a snowballs chance in this world that there will be any anti-gun legislation passed in Kentucky? Absolutely not. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Chris Anderson.