Our economy is tracking absolutely matters. Look, in New Zealand, we're roughly projecting 3% growth, our unemployment's at 3.9% on traditional measures, budget surpluses, people would look at us and go, you're doing okay. But we have homelessness at staggering rates. One of the highest rates of youth suicide in the OECD. Our mental health and wellbeing is not what it should be.  We are hoping to embed in actually what the public is asking us for, to address the societal wellbeing of our nation, not just our economic wellbeing. And did you have the same problem as the US? I mean, GDP went up and up and up, but the disposable household income went down. We've been caught during the post-GFC environment, we were caught a rock star economy. People look to us as an example, I think of an economy that recovered quickly, and yet during that period, some of those statistics were exactly that staggering, and not a measure of success, I think, that we would hold ourselves to. The trick for us is not just using wellbeing and some of the OECD work around different measures of wellbeing as a scorecard, because it would be very easy, I think, to just say, well, here's some new things that we're going to create data sets around. Instead of just scoring ourselves, how do we embed it in our decision-making? And I think that's what New Zealand is doing differently. This year, our wellbeing budget is one example. We're also changing our Public Finance Act to say you must include wellbeing priorities. We've even said, for instance, we now have to report on child poverty numbers every time we deliver a budget. We're fundamentally changing the way that we do policy-making to make sure that we deliver on wellbeing, not just economic success. And do you do surveys, your own surveys? We do, we do. For instance, we do our own household income surveys to look at material deprivation for children and households. We want to know whether or not you can afford healthy meals, whether or not you're sharing rooms in your home, whether you can afford multiple pairs of shoes, indicators of quality of life. So we do do that work. But what differentiates us probably from others is what we're doing around our budget. So usually, as you all know, budgets in the past perhaps looked at simply inputs. Yeah, how much are we spending on health? Now over the years, many economies have changed that to be able to communicate that better to the public. So instead of just saying we spend the X, you know, millions or billions of dollars, that then translated into how many operations are we purchasing and delivering. Now we're actually starting to say, well, actually, does that necessarily, is that a good indicator of the health of our people? So now we are looking at outcomes, not just how much we're spending on health and how many operations, but actually how well are our people? What's their life expectancy likely to be? And when you start looking at things in that context... So you put more money into education? Well, actually, no, it's not just... You stop looking just at health. So if I'm saying how healthy are the New Zealand people and what's contributing to their health, we might then start looking at some things like the work we have out of our longitudinal studies. We, in the 1970s, started studying the well-being of our kids from birth right up until their adulthood. And what we learnt from that was a child that grows up in poverty is more likely, even when they come out of poverty, to have the health impacts later in life. So if we're looking at how healthy our people are, we're not just then looking at how many surgeries will form of them. Actually, we then go right back to the beginning and saying, are they a child living in poverty? Because if we don't fix that, our health system picks it up later down the track. So in practical terms, what does it mean? Well, this budget, any minister who wants to deliver a bid and say, I want to spend some money here, has to show how it will benefit us at an intergenerational level. They also have to work with other ministers. So the Minister of Health might want to work with the Minister of Child Poverty and start delivering interventions that make a difference 30 years down the track, whereas politicians aren't going to benefit from some of that intervention. And so some of the work we're doing now will probably, will spread the benefits 20 years time. But if you start looking at a lens of politics through what we like to use, kindness, empathy, well-being, then actually it doesn't matter what happens just in a political cycle, it matters what happens over decades. But I think the reason we need to start taking this work seriously, and you're right, in the early days, I think it was... Yeah, because a lot of people do this fluffy thing here. What are you talking about? It was treated as woolly, nice to have, experimental. I think the OECDs really added some heft. But there's another reason I think it needs to be taken seriously. Right here at the World Economic Forum, we've heard discussion around what's happening to global growth rates, discussion around what's happening to trade. Now, those might be conversations we're having separately, but actually if you distill down what's happening to trade and some of our tit-for-tat trade wars, it's become a proxy for dissatisfaction, domestically. Some might argue that's what Brexit is. Some might argue some of the other populist rises that we've seen within Europe, that they are proxies for dissatisfaction.  And so this is not woolly, it is critical. This is how we bring meaning and results for the people who vote for us. And it's not ideological either. It doesn't have to be something just progressive governments do. I think it is about finally saying this is how we match expectations and try and build trust back into our institutions again, no matter where we are in the world.


SEGA DRUNK! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Hyperstone Heist, the first Ninja Turtles game for any Sega console, naturally always gets compared to its Super Nintendo contemporary, Turtles in Time. When in fact the game is more like if you took Turtles in Time, Ninja Turtles the arcade game, and I mean the actual arcade game, not the NES port, and Turtles 3, the Manhattan Project, and stuff them all into a blender. The result is Hyperstone Heist, which has the look and feel of Turtles in Time but adds elements of level design from both Turtles arcade beat-em-ups that came before it, as well as the story and structure in a roundabout way of Turtles 3, the Manhattan Project. And yeah, there's some original elements here too, sort of, like the C button being dash, otherwise it's as you'd expect. Some technical limitations with the Genesis means that there are a few things left out though, like you can't hurl foot soldiers at the camera. Also the hit detection here is a bit flaky, the mover you whip enemies around is still here, but it's harder to pull off for some reason. That's really not that big of a deal though, there's still two-player co-op, there's still as many as four enemies on screen at the same time, and the game still has that great chaotic beat-em-up energy to it that the Turtles franchise did so well back then. Also the stages here are very long, for better or for worse. There's only about five of them, but they take a long time to complete, so you still get your money's worth. Hyperstone Heist looks great too, the color palette is noticeably different, but the sprites all look good. All the usual characters are here, except for Bebop for some reason. And also in a weird twist, Tatsu, one of Shredder's henchmen from the Ninja Turtles movies, is also here. I don't remember him ever being in the cartoon, so that's interesting. Really, this is a fantastic looking Genesis game, all the levels and backgrounds look great, and all stand out as unique. The classic animations are all here, plus this is an example of a game that just takes one split second glance, and you immediately know it's a Ninja Turtles game. The sound? Well, it does the best it can, the music is fine, but the sound design behind the beat-em-up mechanics just falls flat. I could really use some more oomph, or some more of that trademark Genesis crunch sound behind it, like in Streets of Rage. Now there's a game where it sounds like you're kicking some mass. Also the voice samples here? Oof. So yeah, Turtles Hyperstone Heist is kind of weird to talk about today, because it was pretty much cobbled together for the purpose of satisfying Sega Genesis owners that were missing out on all the great Ninja Turtles beat-em-ups. So it's like, yeah, it's served its purpose well, and now? Well, I have to admit, if you've played Turtles the Arcade game and Turtles in Time, and you haven't played Hyperstone Heist, you're not exactly missing out on a whole lot. In fact, I'd recommend Turtles in Time over Hyperstone Heist like 10 times out of 10. But if you simply want more Ninja Turtles beat-em-up goodness, then you can't go wrong. Just about everything you're looking for is here.


I'm gonna do one more poem and it is a short one and there's a reason for this this I think if people are entrepreneurs and in local business here This is just a this is direct a promotional piece more or less about a business that I found to be to be superb The change in my wallet seem to be under constant attack on all fronts five bucks to get on a bus 10 for some bite-sized sandwich claiming to be a lunch Booking fees and membership fees and transfer fees and holding fees and teas and season student fees and joining fees Jesus, please these people are robbing me constantly I log in to see my bank account and it's rarely a feeling of victory So I feel it's worth paying tribute to a shop that used to do a well-priced box of sushi You may be able to get by on a student loan or the benefit But there's a financial advisor somewhere out there who needs to rewrite the small print and cut the word live Because there's not much life in bread and mints We were students up at Vic and still privileged in the sense we could go back to mums and dad's fridge Most don't have that luxury and a budget at 50 a week is unlikely to be a subsidy for the finer things in life We trekked down at quarter to five half price started at four But they'd make more than enough to last till six and we are talking chunky bits massive lumps of fish avocado wasabi Mayo and shrimps 50 cents a piece $4 bought you a feast the small side street of the CBD was packed out routinely at 4 o'clock For sushi be and while it never excluded the after work suits It seemed a different sort of person could pull on their boots and come out for the discount food And I tell you when every businessman in his dog seems to want to rob you the weight of that four o'clock $4 box felt like a small victory each day. My mind doesn't really work in business and digits But in those last two hours They simply couldn't have been making a profit and the cynic might say it's offsetting losses on leftover product instead of Been bagging it while building customer loyalty with discount marketing tactics and maybe so maybe so But it doesn't change the fact that the less money could still fill up a bag with proper food And I refuse to believe they did those last two hours of the money rather some good person somewhere stood up and asked the question Why shouldn't poorer people occasionally have prawns and it dawned on me It dawned on me when sushi be expanded into three places around the city Maybe compassion is the key ingredient to capitalism going right for once and thousands of people getting a reasonably priced lunch is something that matters to me I have never seen hospitality treat the small change patron with any sort of dignity with the exception of sushi be and that's something They can be proud of perhaps more than their broadsheets and GDP It would be all poetry to say you can't put a price on the small victory, but you can and it's four dollars In a world of typically shit food with prices hiked up through the roof I wanted to show my appreciation and I think I speak for that winding line stationed down the street Who at four o'clock you pulled out all the stops to feed good people meet good people halfway And that there's good people out there was all I felt the need to say. Thank you


On October 31st, it is going down. We've got one of the biggest e-commerce holiday events, Halloween coming up, and if you want to cash in on this great opportunity, here are the top 10 items that you need to sell in your stores this coming Halloween. Number one, men's costume for both men and women. Think about which characters really stood out this year, like Johnny Depp and the movie Top Gun Pilot. Number two, scary bat wall stickers. Number three, inflatable outdoor ghosts. Number four, spider webs and fake spiders. Number five, LED pumpkin string lights. Number six, trick or treat tote bags. Number seven, yard scarecrows. Number eight, hanging Halloween animatronics. Number nine, animated Halloween skull bowls. Number 10, foam graveyard tombstones. 11, men and women's costume wigs. 12, Halloween headbands. 13, witch hats. 14, Halloween backdrops. And finally, number 15, orange and black garlands. If you want to learn more about what products to sell on your store, follow us on TikTok and check out our blog page and our YouTube channel, Links in the Bio.


Hello, I'm Vanessa Tien-va-Yang, for the Frank Sonata I really love to use the handler edition because here you have really interesting bowings and figurines from Yehudi Menuhin. I think the first time I heard Frank Sonata I was maybe 10 or 9 years old and it was the recording of Jack-in-du-Prix and Baron Bohem and it was so beautiful. It touched me so much in the heart and especially the third movement. They really played so moving, so beautiful. Of course it's a valet sonata but also cellists love to play the Frank Sonata and I have to say Jack-in-du-Prix played really beautiful. Well this Frank Sonata means quite a lot to me. Of course it's such a romantic and lovely music to play and also this is I think one of the first sonatas I played when I first came to Germany to study when I was 17-18. So I have a really nice memory with Frank Sonata and combined with Germany somehow. Well actually I have two favorite recordings of this sonata. One is of course just as I said Jack-in-du-Prix and Danny Baron Bohem but also I actually quite love the recording of Heifetz and Rubinstein. It's quite a fast tempo in the sonata, how they played but it's so beautiful. It's such a great collaboration between these great musicians. So I really hope you'll enjoy very much listening and practicing the Frank Sonata with the Hella Edition.


Hi everyone, Sean with JaspysCaseBreaks.com doing 2020 Tops Luminaries Baseball 3 box break, random box number 8. Three customers, three boxes, everyone's guaranteed a hit. We're going to open up the three boxes, put the three hits in the randomizer with their names, do a dice roll, randomize both lists and see how it all pairs up. This is the last part of the case, so you can see number 8 on all three of the boxes here. So we're going to break them and see what we've got. We haven't hit, we've hit some really nice stuff out of here today. Still haven't seen one of those booklets. This is now the time. The first one, saw the name on the bottom of the team, it is a New York Yankee and it's Hall of Famer Andy Pettit that's numbered 8 out of 15 and that's honoring his Masters of the Mound 219 and it's a career win. Number 3 Yankee's career win. We're going to see who number 2 is. First up is Washington National, nice patch and auto Max Scherzer, World Series Champion and it's 2500 and that's numbered 8 out of 15 and that is 2500 strikeout on April 26, 2019. Really nice patch there. Three colors. We've got two pitchers. Does that trend continue or does it change? It doesn't look like a booklet. Third hit, it's an angel. Patch and auto Shohei Otani, the pitcher somewhat continued, the compiture trend. That is 1, 2, 3, 4 colors and it's 9 out of 15. Shohei Otani and that's 2, 0, 3 and it's career hits total. So designated hitter slash pitcher, not bad. So those are the three hits. We're going to come over here to the randomizer, we're going to type in all the hits in order. Here's the list of the customers, Sam, David and Tyler, all on pins and needles. I guess that's how we spell Andy Pettit. All three of them out of 15. One retired, one veteran, one younger. Yeah, I mean, as an angels fan, it would be hard for me not to say that I love the Otani card the most out of the three, but that's obviously my bias. So dice roll here to see how many times we're going to randomize both lists. Four and a six, ten times. We'll start with the customers, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10th and final time. Sam down to Tyler. So just like the orders came in, could have just gone scratch right from the beginning. And now 10 times on the hits. Good luck everyone. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10th and final time. Good luck. Shohei Otani down to Andy Pettit. Congratulations all involved. Sam roll with the Shohei Otani patch and auto to 15. David Larson with the Max Scherzer patch and auto to 15 and Tyler Perdue with the Andy Pettit auto to 15. Very nice stuff guys. Congrats Tyler. Very nice on-card Andy Pettit auto there out of 15. Congrats David Larson. Max Scherzer patch and auto out of 15 and Sam Roll who's all of a sudden thanking us saying I made his night with the Shohei Otani four color patch and auto out of 15. Congratulations everybody. That was 2020 Tops Luminaries, baseball three box break, random box number eight. I'm Sean with jaspyscasebreaks.com. We can do this again. We'll see you next time.


Test your body fat percentage weekly gauge your process on a weekly basis Then you know what levers to pull right then you know if the calories are too high Oh, I gained muscle, but I also gained body fat. So let me drop the calories a little bit This is a touchy process every single week because if you are building muscle and burning body fat metabolism is changing I mean your diet has to change as well So this was the rule that I came up for myself. It was I tested every week I took pictures every week same time same day at Friday's first thing in the morning always But I would not adjust anything in my programming until two weeks because I think the biggest mistake that people make When you're trying to do something in that like the Goldilocks zone is to make a decision too soon if you're if you're kind of stalled and you're not seeing the progress you'd like to see what I found more often than not Was trusting that process and staying right there for another two weeks the next two weeks. I made big leaps


Dear students, in this module we are going to discuss social intelligence. Social intelligence refers to the capacity to understand and navigate social environments effectively. It involves the ability to perceive, interpret and respond appropriately to the social cues, understanding social dynamics and emphasize with others and build and maintain the positive social relationships. It often considered as part of emotional intelligence, which includes understanding one's own emotions and those of the others. However, social intelligence specifically focuses on interpersonal dynamics and social interaction. Social intelligence includes the elements like social awareness, which refers to the ability to pick up on the social cues and understand different social situations. So by social intelligence we actually mean that we should not act merely on our personal impulses or motivations, rather we need to understand the situation and we need to contextualize our responses based on that particular situation. High social intelligence can facilitate better communication, teamwork, leadership, conflict resolution and overall success in various social environments from personal relations to the workplace settings. An example could be a diplomat who needs to understand different cultures, navigate complex political environments and build positive relationships with the various stakeholders. So if you can see that a diplomat's job is to contextualize the responses based on the social situations. So their success greatly relies on their social intelligence. The concept of social intelligence challenges the traditional view of intelligence, which is solely about the cognitive abilities made by mere IQ level. So IQ does not necessarily reflect that a person can also be socially intelligent. So it recognizes that the success in life is also influenced by our ability to interact effectively with other people. Social intelligence can be nurtured and developed through the experiences and learning. Activities that foster empathy, perspective taking, active listening, emotional regulation and effective communication can enhance the social intelligence. In today's globalized interconnected word for example, where cross-cultural interactions are common, social intelligence is increasingly becoming very important. It facilitates mutual understanding, cooperation and respect among diverse groups. From a sociological point of view, we can see that the social intelligence is crucial aspect of the process of socialization influencing our interactions and relationships within the social structure. So understanding this concept can help us better comprehend the social behaviors and social dynamics.


This is Stink Tech Hawaii, Community Matters Here. One, ah, there he is, Lou Pudirisi. This is Energy in America, and it's actually energy right here in Hawaii because I have to reveal to you that Lou is here in Hawaii. And he's on a trip, but we're still talking to him remotely because we like to talk to Lou remotely. Lou Pudirisi, welcome back to the show. I'm great, it's great to be here, Jay. I'm very happy to be here because my son is graduating on Saturday from UH Manoa, so. What is he studying? I hope we can find a job soon. Oh, well, send him our way. We can offer him, you know, some contract work on a part-time basis. If you need a Chinese speaker, he'll be good for you. Oh, I see. Oh, it's that kind of degree. So you're in a hotel or you're in the airport? Where are you? I'm out in the beautiful western province of Oahu called Koalina, where thankfully the Chinese money has flowed slow enough that there's no construction. And the prices are still manageable. Prices are still manageable. And the condominium is quite nice. So, OK, I hope to see you while you're here. But today, let's follow our discussion of last week where we, or two weeks ago, where we talked about the climate change assessment report. It was issued by the government, actually, through the White House, where your view of it was that we should not be alarmed. And we should look at it in a sort of moderated way and not take the worst case analysis, but look at other options as well. And this is a kind of continuation of that discussion. Sure, I think one of the things I'd like to get into, I mean, if you think about the discussion last time, really it wasn't that... I don't know if alarm is the word, but that even in the worst case scenario, there was plenty of data to suggest it was a manageable... It might not be an outcome everyone likes, but it's an issue that we do have the resources to manage. I think that was the bottom line of that. What I'd like to do today is sort of, perhaps at the end of the year, it's good to look back and think about not just all the bad news we get every day, but what kind of achievements have been taking place on the environmental side, particularly the U.S., which has done a remarkable job in cleaning up the air. And I think that it's kind of laid the foundation for that we can look to technology to do a lot of things going forward. It has done a very good job to us today. But I think once again, we need to look at the data. Yeah, and as you said before the show began, it's probably better not to run around like your hair was on fire. Right. I mean, as we say, whenever we have a meeting in God we trust, but everyone else has to bring data. That's very good. Well, okay. Now you take a look. Yeah, now there's data and there's data, of course, so you have to tell us where you're getting it from. Absolutely. We publish our data and most of the data comes from the EPA. Okay. All right. And we do have slides, don't we? We do, of course. We always have slides. All right. So the first slide shows a comparison of economic growth and emissions, air emissions, and we'll get into this in a little more detail later, but between 1970 and 2017. And I think what you want to look at this is quite a very interesting picture of U.S. industrial activity and our air quality. So our GDP from 1970 has grown 267 percent. So it's growing. Our national economy has expanded quite a bit. Not everyone has benefited from that expansion, but our vehicle miles traveled, you know, VMT, very popular number. It has increased about 189 percent since 1970. You can see the green line. And our population is up 59 percent. And even our energy consumption since 1970 is up. You can notice a lot of these things are flattening population energy consumption. But aggregate emissions of six common pollutants, these are the so-called criteria. We'll get into them a little bit more in the show. But these are things like sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, lead, the kinds of things that EPA controls, not only the emissions of them, but they go around and measure the ambient standard in the atmosphere around your home and in your neighborhood. And so in industrial activities, automobiles, tailpipe emissions, everyone has to meet sort of two things. Communities have to have the ambient standards, which are just measurements of what's in the air. And in addition, new facilities and old facilities as well must also control the amount of emissions which go into the atmosphere. These are the two basic building blocks of how we control and improve the air quality. Can you help me with this figure? It says economic growth and declining emissions from 1970 to 2017. But if I look at the graphics on the right-hand side, I see a line of, as you said, gross domestic product and a line of vehicle miles traveled. Where's the declining emissions? It's the very bottom on aggregate emissions of six common pollutants. And you see here, it's declined by 73%. And we'll get into this in a little more detail. Okay, go ahead. I don't think a lot of people understand that. And actually, there are kind of, this is kind of, you know, if you go back a couple of years ago, I think that there was an interesting statement by Lisa Jackson, the head of EPA. And she said, we're actually at the point in many areas of the country that on a hot day, the only thing I can say is you shouldn't go outside because the air could kill you. And meanwhile, we have a separate study done by Stephen Hayward at the American Enterprise Institute said that one of the largest public policy success stories is the dramatic improvement of our nation's air quality. Now, everyone has an active arm. And I think that a big issue at EPA is they have a hard time accepting their success often because I think they're concerned people. And so, well, if we succeed in this, we don't need to give you any more money to do more. But I mean, I'm not sure what, why, you know, I think a lot of the treatment around the public, you know, public perception and government officials on environment is that we really can't tell the public that we're making a lot of progress because they might lose their enthusiasm for doing some of the things we wanted to. So let's get a little more detail in this. Let's look at the next slide, which is, I think this is more about just a picture, right? And I think this is something people forget. Right. If you go to Pittsburgh, California, which actually, I mean, in 19, well, this is Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Yeah. You can see the difference in, you know, particulates in the atmosphere, as we say, in 1940, as compared to 2017. Now, we're going to show some data that supports this, but anyone who says the air hasn't gotten clean is just crazy. This is where we have unbridled emissions of particulates from coal-fired plants, steel mills, cement manufacturing facilities. Well, what I get is that Pittsburgh is in the middle of the steel belt.  It was the center of steel production in the country. And on the right-hand side picture, that's really beautiful, clean air. On the other hand, there's not so much steel production in Pittsburgh anymore. The Chinese are making the steel. So I would agree. Right. Part of this is, of course, the change of the industrial structure of the United States. There's no doubt about that. But we also have widespread implementation of emission control technologies. I mean, I'm going to show you some data at the end of this along the Gulf Coast, right? Where we have massive tetrachemical facilities. And I think you'll be quite surprised what it shows about the nature of air quality, even in that region. So it would be, it's a legitimate point, but we can't discount the huge role of emission control technology. And emission control technology, which has been possible because of our prosperity, but also because of advancing technology. Well, we're pretty good at this stuff. We forget that we're pretty good at it. All right, let's go to, we talked before, it's called Figure 3A. There's a 3B, but I'm not showing it to you because we don't have enough time. But in Figure 3A, these are ambient concentrations of pollutants from 1970, 1990 to 2017. Same period of time. It's the same period of time as the other chart you showed us. Right. And what I want to point out, there's a couple of things about this chart. And you can go to the EPA website and dig this data up yourself. It's quite easy. And they have pretty good measure. Now, if you look at the legend at the bottom, one thing a lot of people don't understand about pollution is that it depends how you measure it. And some standards require that you meet a certain ambient concentration over a period of time. And that period of time could be one hour, eight hours, one year. So the standards are not, they're not just one year standard. You have to meet these standards in even shorter periods of time. And if you think about it, you can violate, you can meet the standard all year, but still violate several times during the year for just an hour. And EPA measures all that. And that's why this very kind of spaghetti-looking chart has so many lines in it. So if you go to the bottom, you see PB, three months. So that's a concentration of lead on average over a three-month period. But carbon monoxide is over an eight-hour period. Nitrogen oxide is an annual number, but there's also data here on nitrogen oxide over a one-hour period, right? O3, which is ozone, which is a precursor to smog. They do that in an eight-hour period. And then the infamous PM 2.5. Now, a particulate matter of 2.5 microns or less. Now, PM 2.5 is the basic criteria pollutant, which is affiliated most with breathing problems with bad air quality. Over 75% of the measured health benefits of air quality control is reductions in PM 2.5. The most expensive regulation in the federal government. Most people don't understand this. There's lots of other things. There's PM 10 and, of course, the 10 microns and then sulfur dioxide. And what I want you to see from this table is you can see that, yes, the lead, you can see lead, the red line. They don't measure all the time, but it came just, you know, lead concentrations are practically zero. We got rid of lead and gasoline, right? But also our PM 2.5 is way down. The only thing that seems to have flattened out a bit is ozone. You know, the green line there, you can see it's sort of flat. But most of these are moving nitrogen oxides are, they have come down, they've sort of flattened out. But they are at substantial below the level, below the national ambient air quality standards, right? So we have this lower reduction. And we're going to get into show what that means for the country as a whole in a second. Basically, we have very good technology out there. K-O pipe emissions and in so-called industrial facilities to control these emissions to capture them and dispose of them in different ways. Well, that certainly sounds like what you said it was going to sound like. Good news for Christmas in this season. Good news for Christmas. Yeah, good news for Christmas. On the other hand, when we come back from this break, Lou, let's see what the implications are. And let's see if that really affects, you know, by the scientific analysis climate change. Clearly, these charts show there's been either a reduction or a flatlining of, you know, of new emissions into the atmosphere. On the other hand, what does that mean? And how does that affect our lives together on this planet going forward? Ooh, exciting questions. We'll have this short break. We'll come right back. That's Lou Pulirisi. He's the CEO of E-Princk. And he's in Honolulu right now, which is a real treat. We'll be right back. We believe freedom is all of these and more regardless of your ability. DiveHeart wants to help you escape the bonds of this world and defy gravity. Since 2001, DiveHeart has helped children, adults, and veterans of all abilities go where they have never gone before. DiveHeart has helped them transition to their new normal. Search DiveHeart.org and share our mission with others. And in the process, help people of all abilities imagine the possibilities in their lives. Hi, I'm Ethan Allen, host on Think Tech Hawaii of Pacific Partnerships in Education. Every other Tuesday afternoon at 3 p.m., I hope you'll join us as we explore the value, the accomplishments, and the challenges of education here in the Pacific Island. We're back. We're live. We're Lou Pulirisi, CEO of E-Princk. He's here in Honolulu. We're on Energy in America and we're talking about good news in the environment for Christmas. So Lou, you had some more charts. You wanted to show us. Yes, let's go to figure four. And these show you the concentrations. This is weighted by population, which we won't spend a lot of time explaining, but concentrations of p.m. 2.5.  It's something they pay a lot of attention to. Environmental awareness. This is not a climate issue. This is an issue of particulates in the atmosphere. And I think that was enough. 22 just flew over. Okay, so if you look here, and there's been some very interesting writing in the Atlantic about India, like the worst polluted country in the world. And you can see this concentration of p.m. 2.5, which is for India, which is the top line, right? It's just off the charts. It's even worse than China. Globally, it's quite bad. Where is the U.S. on this trend? Our levels are down at 10 or below. Okay, 10 or below is the level the World Health Organization skates as the most healthier. And we have it. We have it in the U.S.  We still have a lot of industrial activity. But we have very good air control. Very good air quality, mission control technology in this country. And our prosperity is one of the reasons we have that. Now, there are other countries below us, isn't it? It's just that they're not shown on this chart. Okay, yeah. Maybe Sweden and some Iceland and some other northern European country where they're just a bunch of reindeer running around. It's possible that they're better than us. I think they are. But once you get down to 10, that's pretty low. That's pretty low. And I'll show you a heat map of that in a second. Okay, now if you go to Figure 5. Figure 5 shows what's called on-site air releases of pollutants. Now, notice this is broken up into two categories. Fugitive air emissions, right? And this is really inside baseball stuff for air pollution people. And stack air emissions. So stack air emissions are emissions that come out of a power plant like a utility or a cement plant or a steel facility. Any industrial facility has a stack. And up that stack goes all these criteria pollutants. And then there's so-called fugitive air emissions where we're not exactly sure where they're coming from. Automobiles, re-entrained road dust, could just be naturally formed ozone. And as you can see the U.S. at the site, we have done a very good job of continuing to reduce through 2015 our on-site releases. So there's a million pounds of criteria pollutants. So it includes CO2. And then let's move to our final slide. Okay, before we go there, can you explain the difference between the dark blue and the light blue? Right, the dark blue is stuff that goes up a smoke step. But the light blue is everything else like maybe a dry cleaner or automobile or what they call fugitive air emissions. Even some naturally occurring ozone occurs in the desert, right? They're called fugitive because you can't control them at the source. Another thing is non-source emissions, right? We sort of know that most of that's automobiles, but there's other stuff out there. Well, that seems to be pretty steady on this chart, but the, what is it, the stack? 2015, yeah, but you're coming down to a low level for the country. You've gotten down to a low level. There are levels in which you can't drive it any lower, unless you want to just live in a cave. Okay, okay. Go ahead. Now we go to the last one. Figure six shows the average populated weighted exposure to PM 2.5 in 2015. And this is measured in micrograms per cubic meter, right? And one of the things I think is very interesting about this table is this is the data from the World Health Organization, 2018. You can see the green is 10 or less, right? This is the most healthy, the World Health Organization takes up, this is healthy air. This is very good air, right? And you can see the Europe and Canada are pretty good. I think what's interesting about this are well-meaning and often lecturing us, European partners on how bad we are with the environment. If you will notice, PM 2.5 numbers don't even come close to the US. I mean, they're better than China and parts of Africa and the Middle East, but we're our whole country at an annual rate, sitting under 2.0, under 10 micrograms. This is really interesting. Yes, even along the Gulf Coast of the United States, there's a little bit of pocket there in California, but if you look how green it is on the southern Gulf Coast of the United States, and we have massive facilities there, a petrochemical plant and refineries, and we're able to control that with our technology. Very important. You need to spend money on technology. I think that the term population weighted has to be explained to understand this chart. So this just means you need to also adjust it for the density of the population, and what percentage of the population is in the highly polluted air. So if you're going to do a big average number for the year, and so the US has a big land map, so we're not as densely populated as some other countries, so the number of people who are subjected to bad air is much smaller than in Delhi, where not only do they have bad air, they have a lot of people. So I think it's a kind of adjusted per capita basis, but I'm happy to send you the thousand-page WHO report. Just take me through the analysis by which Africa, which has very few people relative to, I guess, Europe, why Africa is all on the darker side. So Africa is burning lots of biomass, like wood, dung, and if you want to generate a lot of particulates in the atmosphere, you cook on an open fire or on using cow dung, or very primitive forms of power generation, or even cooking. So this is adding to your P and 2.5. They also have a lot of very small dust in those areas having to do with the natural phenomenon in parts of the world. And why is Siberia up at, what is it, 11 to 15? Siberia looks healthy, but why is it not completely green? Because there are big nickel plants, and Russia is an industrial country. Many people forget, even in Siberia, there's a lot of petroleum development, and there are no emission controls in Russia, really, to speak. Very, very interesting. You can see China, Asia is suffering a lot from this, and also the U.S. is benefiting not just from our technology, but the growth in natural gas, and natural gas combustion has no particular to speak of. It's very limited. Okay, look at a world map like that, it's very interesting. Right, right. And I don't think you can crosswalk from this to CO2 control, necessarily, but it is important to recognize that when we put our best people on something, and we put our technology to work, it can deliver. I do think the CO2 problem is a little tougher. It's more expensive, it may take a lot longer, but I don't see any real obstacle for us eventually bringing CO2 emissions and addressing the consequences of CO2. CO2 does not lend itself as easily to emission control. It requires, in some cases, very costly alternatives, but as shown in France, people are not really yet willing to pay for it. That's a whole other phenomenon worth talking about. What? Okay, so we have emissions through technology, emissions can be held or reduced, and we have demonstrated that, you have demonstrated that on these charts from the EPA, but how does that affect the temperature rise we have had over the extraordinary rise over the past year or two, how is it going to affect that rise in the years to come? First, I would not be... If you're talking about the climate record of the U.S., I'm very reluctant to draw any big conclusions from two years worth of data, even a hundred years worth of data. Yes, climate is a real problem. I agree that it's a real problem, but I also believe that you need prosperity and economic growth to deal with climate, because it's an expensive problem. And that we need to get a little less hysterical about it and a little more practical about how we're going to proceed. And the first thing we need to do is agree where's the low-hanging truth and go after that. But I have a feeling that the political debate over climate is either if you're either with me to get rid of all fossil fuels and to move into a cave, or you're not. And that's the fight we need to have. Actually, I don't think that's the fight we need to have. And part of the problem is the debate is kind of concentrated in the public's mind by these extremists, right? You can't be a luke warmer and get very tall. But you know what I'm getting, Lou? I'm getting the fact that we had a show yesterday on the carbon tax. It might considerably be adopted in Hawaii, but it hasn't been adopted anywhere else in the U.S. and it hasn't been adopted in Europe. Well, it has been adopted in one or two places in Europe, but not much. And so what I get, I mean, forget about sea level rise for a moment. Just about climate change in general. Not that much has happened, because we haven't, we meaning the people who are concerned about it, whether they were alarmist or not so alarmist, we haven't been able to convince government to do anything much. So it's not like government is pouring money on this. It's not anywhere in the world, it's not. And so what you have is whatever the situation is, whatever these numbers are, whatever the emissions are, whatever the temperature is, whatever the report says, whether it's alarmist or not, we haven't really done anything. So I can understand when the scientists come around and say, oh, you guys, this is so scary.  That's the problem. But there is a problem, right? So if you go around, I mean, one of the interesting things on this air pollution story is that if you fix air pollution in Beijing, Nanjing, and Delhi, and Hanoi, and in Myanmar, if you fix air pollution there, you're going to do something for carbon. It may not be, you're going to do something for carbon because they're related, in a sense. Because they're driven by coal. They're driven by huge amounts of coal use. But there's other issues, water, air quality, water. And so the discussion nobody wants to have, which is, okay, what is the most cost-effective thing society should do in order to improve its environment? Where should it spend its money? Is that something that we're going to do? It's a hard question. Yeah, so someone needs to say, you know, we should stop all this other stuff and just go for climate 100%. Well, people like clean water too. People like that they want control and people like low electricity price. Yeah. I mean, you put a carbon tax, you put a carbon tax, and I mean, if you think about petroleum, and we've talked about this before, most of the petroleum barrel, 80% is going into transportation fuels and transportation fuels worldwide, except in a few isolated places in the Middle East. Are taxed at anywhere from 50 to $250 a ton, right? They just call them excise taxes. But they're doing that now. So the real question is, what are you going to do about coal? That's my view. What are you going to do about coal? Are you going to have a program that's slowly reduced? Because that's where the real return is. All this nonsense people are doing in Hawaii that get rid of a little bit of fuel oil.  It's ridiculous. It's not yielding anything to the global environment, right? It's too small.  It'd be better to donate that money to get rid of a coal-fired power plant in China. Well, this raises a huge question, which we've skirted you and me in our discussions. And we will not have enough time to talk about it now. Maybe the next time we can get together. And that is, how do you develop governance on this? If you leave it to a voluntary federation of some states, but not others, some countries, but not others, to take action, and you have no way of coordinating it, no way of saying you should do this, that, and the other thing in these priorities. You know, I hesitate to say, we have lots of trouble taking any action if we're not coordinated. And right now, there's no global way to coordinate it. COP 24, completely voluntary. And it's vulnerable, you know, to political and geopolitical whims and other issues. So I say, if you want to take action, we have to have a better structure, call it a governmental structure, a global governmental structure to fix this stuff. We're all government. I don't think that world government's going to go over well in Washington, but it's not going to happen. I'm raising the point. But we do need it. You're absolutely right. You have a quote-quote free-rider problem. Yeah. Right?  You'd go 100% renewable, and all you'll have done is spend a ton of money and done nothing. If nobody else comes along. Everybody's got to work on this. It's got to be a global solution to a global problem. It's got to be a global problem. I agree. I agree. Anyway, so, you know, I think we should discuss this soon. I'm one of our next programs. In the meantime, while you're here, Lou, I want to direct your attention to the clean air. It's pretty much all around you. I'm enjoying it. I hope you enjoy it. I'll see you in my window. And for that matter, the clean water. And we still have the right thing here. Thank you. And when you look up and look at the lights on the ceiling, they're on. We do have electricity. And if you look around to the rooms, you'll see a lot of the whole tank. They'll just give you a light. Do you want to see the view out my window? I'll show you. Sure, OK. Oh, beautiful. Beautiful. Yeah, life in Kapolei. Thank you for sharing, Lou. That's Lou Puliarisi having a wonderful time here in Hawaii, enjoying himself in the days before Christmas. Thank you for bringing these Christmas treats to us. This data that suggests our environment is OK through technology. Thank you so much, Lou. Hope to talk to you soon. Thank you. Bye.


Hi my friend, I hope that you're doing well. Today I wanted to share with you books that go a little bit deeper into our relationship with our plans and how this relationship can help us feel a little bit better and understand a little bit more about our personal journey. So this is a great introduction for the first book which is this one right here. This is called The Well-Guarded Mind and it is by Sue Stewart Smith. I can tell you I just started reading this book and I had to include it in this list because I feel that this book is written for our times. The book is really about how gardening can help you heal and she goes over different stories for example she talks about her grandfather who was in world war one and how gardening really helped him deal with some of the things that he felt after the war. I think it is a beautiful book and I can tell you in these times it's really helping me just navigate what I'm feeling and really understand how the relationship with my plants can really help me also understand the relationship with myself. So for these times I would really recommend this book. The second book is one of my favorite plant books and this one is Root Nurture Girl. So I had to include this book. I've included it in my last video as well and this is because this book is really inspiring and what I love about it is that it's not the typical plant care book. They actually focus on a specific topic which is propagation and now that we're more at home I think it's the perfect time to propagate our plants and experiment with them especially now when spring is around the corner. This book is one of my favorites and it is because of many different reasons. First of all it's a beautiful book. I can tell you the pictures in this book really inspire me to try out different propagation methods just to see how they look around and it is not beautiful only aesthetically but also beautifully inspiring. Every chapter or section with each method for propagation begins with a quote that really puts more meaning into what we're doing. For example I love the first quote in the chapter called Beginning that says one of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure is going to live forever and ever and ever from the secret garden and that is all true because as we propagate our plants our mother plant is living forever and ever and ever and another thing that I find so beautiful about this quote is that it can be true in so many levels for example the love that we put in our mother plant and then in the following propagations can continue to live forever and ever and ever. This is especially true when we give the new plants to our friends or family and then they continue to live and spread the love. Another thing that I love about this book is that it explains each propagation method step by step so it is very easy to follow and for each one of them it gives you the materials that you need. It also includes pictures so it's easier to follow along and it gives you the best plans for this specific method which takes me to the third thing that I love about this book and this is that it includes a plant table with many common house plans and it tells us which method is best for each of these plants so if you're planning to learn a little bit more about propagation or you want to try it a little bit more this year I would strongly recommend this book so if you have followed me for a long time you know that there is one book that I always recommend for plant beginners and this one is called how not to kill your house plant this is one of the first books that I bought as a plant beginner this one I actually bought two years ago and I always recommend it because it's not so intimidating to start it includes more than 100 plants and these plants are really common house plants and what I love about this book is that it has pictures of each plant sometimes we buy plants and we don't know the names of the plant so you can just look at the pictures and see which one is your plant and then it gives you important tips about this specific plant and how to take care of this plant which is pretty useful now if you want to go a little bit deeper and learn a little bit more about your house plants you can get this one right here this one is called the house plant expert so this book is very similar to this one but this one goes a little bit deeper and it has way many more plants this is basically the encyclopedia of house plants one thing about this book is that it was published in 1991 so it has many common house plants but it's not going to have the newer trends for example the stephania erecta or the pylia perperomiotis is not included in this book but still it has many of the common house plants and a lot of information on each one of them the last book that I'm reading I find so interesting because as you may know I studied history and this actually combines botany and history and this one is the secrets of great botanist by the royal horticultural society this book goes over the lives of 35 botanists that really revolutionize this study of plants so it's really inspiring another very cool thing about this book is that for each botanist it includes a section that is called inspiration for gardeners and this section includes observation opportunities or ideas that we can apply today and these ideas are related to what they discovered or what they observed in the past which I find so amazing because then we can understand a little bit more why we call a plant the way that we call them or just how we got here to our relationship with plants I think it's a very inspiring book and very interesting so if you want to explore a little bit more and you like history and botany this book would be great for you okay my friends if you're reading any other plan books make sure to comment below I would love to see what you're reading and of course I can tell you that the whole community will appreciate it I hope at least one of these books helps you get through these difficult times as it has helped me I'm sending all of my positive energy to you and as always I will see you in the next one okay ciao


The wives of Russian soldiers staged the first public street protest in Moscow. On November 7th, the wives of Russian soldiers staged the first public street protest in Moscow since the invasion of Ukraine. Protesters gathered at the Central Theatre Square, displaying banners demanding the withdrawal of their husbands from the front lines as reported by the Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom on X. According to the information, examples of Russian wives and mothers protesting the conditions of their relatives' service have been appearing on social media daily since February 2022. However, Russia's draconian legislation has so far prevented troops' relatives from coalescing into an influential lobbying force as soldiers' mothers did during the Afghan-Soviet War of the 1980s, says the announcement. Police broke up the Tetralnya Square protest within minutes. However, the protesters' immediate demand is notable. The apparently indefinitely extended combat deployments of personnel without rotation is increasingly seen as unsustainable by both the troops themselves and by their relatives, noted the Ministry of Defence of Britain. According to the independent Levada Centre, support among Russians for the war against Ukraine has remained consistently high since February of the previous year. In September, 73% approved of the invasion of Ukraine over the past six months. The number of people fearing a general mobilization has not changed significantly. 59% are afraid of mobilization, while 37% are not. Residents of Moscow are less afraid of mobilization than those in other regions. According to British intelligence, the morale of Russian troops has remained particularly low in recent weeks. Cases of entire Russian units refusing to follow orders and armed clashes between officers and their soldiers continue to occur. Meanwhile, the Russian government finds it difficult to exert legal pressure on dissenting military personnel hindered by the official classification of the invasion as a special military operation rather than a war.


Hey, this is Brett and this 2022 Ram 2500 Crew Cab Short Box Laramie Level B Night Edition with the Tow Technology Group is stock number 14300Z. I am at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used heavy-duty truck and Ram headquarters. This 2022 Ram 2500 has a 6.7 liter Cummins diesel engine. It's paired up with the 6-speed 68 RFE automatic transmission. This truck has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop. Has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off and this truck is 100% ready to go. It has a max tow capacity of 19,870 pounds and a max payload of 2,035 pounds. Found those on Ram's Tow Guide website. I will link that in the description below. I'm going to go all the way around in this video inside underneath. Shared up, take a look under the hood and show you all the options and give you the most accurate representation that I can of the truck. Pearl White is the color. I shoot all my videos in 4K. If you like the video, consider subscribing to the YouTube channel. Click the bell notifications, get updates on the videos I do each and every day as well as having access to one of the largest catalogs of vehicle walk-arounds and heavy-duty truck walk-arounds on YouTube. 9,000 videos and counting this one comes with the 20-inch painted black alloy wheels part of that night edition. It has Firestone Transforce AT Terras. These are LT285-60R20s and I would say they have probably about 60-70% of the tread left on them, maybe even a little bit more. Frame and underbody is exceptionally clean on this truck. This is a one-owner clean title history, clean car fax out of Florida. You get the LED headlamps, LED running lights, and LED fog lamps.  The front bumper is absolutely perfect, no dents or dings on there, and you do get the gloss black grille with that night edition. Toe Technology Group gives you the 360 camera and there is the camera for the front. The hood is absolutely perfect, no dents or dings on there, and the passenger side front fender, very nice as well. You do get the blacked out Ram Cummins and 2500 logos on there, and the passenger side front wheel, no scuffs, no scrapes on there, looks really good. Now I don't know if we'll get any of the pearl, but it's a very, very small amount of pearl. You can kind of see it shimmer there in that pearl white paint. Hints in really nice shape. As you go down this side of this 2022, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. I take these HD videos so if you're far away, or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down, but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. Now if this video helps you make that buying decision, let your salesmen know that you saw the video, that it was helpful, and that bread sent you. Back wheels are in excellent shape and the back tires have just as much tread as the front tires. Actually, probably a little bit more on the back here. I would say maybe 60 to 75% of the tread left back here. Frame and underbody, everything you'd expect from a truck from Florida has all the remaining factory exhaust as well. And the underbody is very, very clean. It does have the power running boards, the lower rockers, and cab corners look great. And those running boards are working very nicely. I always like showing those so that you know that they're working. Passenger side box, no major dents or dings in there. You do get the LED bed lights. The rear bumper is in really nice shape as well. Does have the backup parking sensors, the full towing package with the receiver hitch, seven pin wiring, and then this is for any trailer guidance system, or that's for the trailer guidance system that this one has. The tailgate is in really nice condition. I didn't see any dents or dings in there. And it does have the 4x4 and RAM logos all blacked out. Has the power drop down tailgate, the shock down assist, spray and bed liner, fifth wheel gooseneck prep package. You get 115 volt, 400 watt plug-in back here. Another seven pin wiring and another trailer tow assist hookup. Side box tie downs and the bed's in really nice shape. That goes on to the tailgate, that bed liner. Tailgate shuts nice and solidly. And as you go down the driver's side, just as clean as that passenger side, no major dents or dings on the box. And for full disclosure, this back wheel just as nice as the rest. Get the fender flares on there with the Laramie package. Cab and doors on the driver's side all look really good. This one does have the heated fold-up tomiers, built in directional signals. They fold up like so. Have LED side lights in the 360 cameras right there. They also fold in like that. Take a quick look at the back seats. You can see the power running boards on the driver's side work really well. Back seats are leather and suede. These are heated on the outboard side. No rips, no tears, smells extremely clean inside this truck. You get the power sliding rear window with the built-in rear defrost. These seats fold up for extra storage. You get a load floor here, which is nice. You got muddy boots or tools. Put them on there. You're not going to wreck your nice leather seats. Or if you got pets, put both sides down and they'll have a nice flat place to lay and not wreck your leather seats. Receiver hitch reducer. And you get the nice Berber floor mats. They're your heated seat buttons. Two USBs. Two USB-C's and a 115-volt 400-watt plug-in. These floor mats go up and you get an in-floor storage here with removable bins for easy cleaning. You can put ice and drinks in there.  Or if you're non-Wisconsin, just extra storage space. Side-corner bags on the front seats. Child safety locks on the back doors and the inside and bottoms of the doors all look fantastic. Very nice and clean. Take a quick look at the VIN sticker. No previously owned in Canada trucks here. And then here is your VIN sticker. Inside, the Laramie Level B package gives you the black leather and suede bucket seats in the front. No rips, no tears. You get the Laramie embossed in the backrest. Or I'm sorry, stitched into the backrest. And then you get the gray piping on there. Looks really good. You get lumbar on the driver's side. Both these seats are heated, cooled and power. Berber floor mats up here. Auto headlamps, power pedals, power windows, locks and mirrors. You get the suede insert on the door. Kind of this diamond-plated looking trim on the door there as well. And power windows, locks and mirrors. You get the power folding mirrors. I always like showing both sides. So you know that both sides are working properly.  So check out that mirror on the outside. You can control that from the inside of the truck right there. And you get memory driver's seat. It's really handy, especially for that passenger side mirror, to be able to control that while sitting in the driver's seat. Here is the 7-inch LCD display. You get the digital speedometer, compass, PSI for the turbo, time, water temp. You can change all those corners to read whatever you want. And you can see this truck has 28,052 miles. You get the heated leather wrap steering wheel. Very nice condition. Cruise controls, gear selector on the right. Bluetooth and information center controls on the left. And you get audio controls on the back of the steering wheel. There's your shifter for that 6-speed, 68 RFE automatic transmission. This one has the UConnect 12-inch UConnect 5 radio. You can see it has the factory navigation system on here. It's supposed to be five times faster than the previous version of this radio. There is Highway 41, so that is working nicely. You get AM, FM, and Serious XM radio capabilities, as well as Bluetooth, AUGS, and USB hookups and Alexa.  You have more tactile volume tuning climate controls on the outside. This one does have the Harman Kardon premium sound system in it. Stability control, and then you get all your different apps. And what I really want to go to are these cameras. So there is your cargo cam. You can see what's going on inside the bed. You can see the backup cam. They've made those HD so you can get hooked up to your boat camper trailer the first time every time. And you can zoom in on that receiver hitch for even better results. This is my favorite camera of the whole thing. You can see what's going on down the back of your truck. So if you're backing up a camper boat or trailer, can you imagine how great that would be? You can zoom in on the different sides. I wish my truck had that camera. This one also has the 360 camera on it, which we'll check out in just a second. I'll show you all the different apps on here. It does have off road pages and there's that surround view camera. So you can see what's going on around the vehicle. And you can check out the front, wide view, narrow view, wide view of the back and all that good stuff. And then here are the rest of the apps on there. If you want me to go through more of that, I've done a million videos on that, but that's all your options. Push button, four-wheel drive, factory brake controller, factory exhaust brake, toll hall mode, front and rear parking sensors right there. Down here is our two USBs, two USB C's in an aux jack, your wireless cell phone charge pad, 115 volt, 400 watt plug-in keyless entry with remote start and power drops on tailgate. You also have your sliding coin holder and cup holders right there. Dual glove boxes, passenger side format and seat are in fantastic conditional rips. It tears on there and that headliner is in really nice clean condition. Smells very clean inside this truck. I don't think it's ever been smoked in and you get assist and SOS buttons, power sign, rear window controls, map lights and power drop down tailgate controls as well. Auto dimming mirror and your home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems. Let's start this baby up and take a look on the hood and check out all those LED lights in the front. Starts right up, no check engine lights or anything like that. 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The 2022 edition of the National Construction Code comes with important changes to its structure and format. Because the NCC has evolved over many years, its current structure varies between volumes and even within volumes. This is especially noticeable in volume 2. This was purposefully designed very differently to volumes 1 and 3, to operate as a standalone housing code. However, for the ABCB to continue delivering an NCC that is user-friendly and modern, all volumes must have an identical structure. There are many benefits to this, including ensuring the NCC can be easily understood and referenced by a broad range of practitioners, and so it can be expanded into many different formats in the online world. To do this, the ABCB conducted research into the content and intent of the NCC, and has developed a new, consistent volume structure. So, what's changing? The NCC's new structure will have very little impact on volumes 1 and 3. The big change will be in volume 2. Importantly, the new volume structure retains the ACM and ACP content of volume 2, which has proven both successful and popular with the housing industry. The ACP content of volume 2 will be moved into a separate ABCB publication, which will be known as the Housing Provisions. This will be divided up into chapters which reflect the 12 parts that currently make up section 3 of volume 2 in their existing order. The ACM content will be unchanged, and where there was previously a choice of ACM or ACP, this will continue but with a change in terminology. Instead of ACM and ACP, the deemed to satisfy provisions in most cases will simply refer to the Housing Provisions, or relevant Australian standards. And of course, the Housing Provisions will be part of the NCC suite, available free and online. So, while your new NCC may look a little different at first, the benefits will go a long way in supporting you and your industry and professional development. And while this change doesn't come into effect until NCC 2022, you will see this new volume structure in the public comment draft in May 2021. Want to know more? The ABCB has developed a range of resources to support you through the changes to the NCC structure and format.


I'm Davide, I'm from UNESCO, and I've been lucky enough to participate in the First Asia for several years, even back in 2011 I think, first time, and so I'm going to basically continue a little bit of this story that I was presenting last time, last one year ago, when I was here, and it is also about the programs that we run on a free and open source software, and in particular the U2 Mobile Initiative. So UNESCO has been promoting FOS for several years now. Originally UNESCO was developing software, but then we went through some kind of, you know, stages very complicated with the beginning of the year 2000, a lot of pressure from the industry, and then we went back again to the, let's say, the promotion of the idea beyond FOS. So UNESCO is a guided as the United Nations Agency, is guided by the sustainable development goals. I'm trying to go very fast because I know this, and which is, which are basically covering basically the entire thing that we should supposed to do to basically save the planet and humanity all together. So how UNESCO is supporting FOS? We've been working with the communities, first of all, so communities mainly in Africa, in Asia as well with the FOS Asia community, and we are very proud to be here, and we also been working together in several other projects beyond the summit that we are doing now. But so first of all, FOS for us is collaboration. It's collaboration among people, so this is what is the most important. So we try to promote the value behind the FOS. So it's collaboration, it is the philosophy, the philosophy of being able to use, reuse, adapt, for example, to local knowledge, local needs, and of course the ability to be inclusive, because by being participative approach, no one can be left behind. So there is a huge accent on the inclusivity, particularly on the gender gap, as Maria was mentioning this morning, that we're trying to do our best, but it's not easy. And unfortunately for the various reasons, the gap is not diminishing actually, it's increasing in many, many, many places. So we try to apply the FOS principles to different things, not only to software, but also to other objects, like the open educational resources, which are basically maybe a textbook that you may use in your classroom that are also open and that you can reuse and adapt to your local context. UNESCO was the first UN agency to be approving open access policies so that UNESCO publications are released with the open access by default. And we've also been on the gender part, we've been also fostering the STEM, which was mentioned by a previous speaker, or STEAM, as was also said, with the arts in it. And there are some reports that you may find in UNESCO's website, like the one which is not very good, it's called Crud Cruck in Decode, which is analyzing the gap in skills for girls in the digital society. And for this work also we participate in the equals global partnership, in the particular coalition, the skills coalition of the equals for trying to find a measure, a way to measure the skill gap. But then, of course, one, as was mentioned before, one of the main ideas, the main initiative that we are running is the youth mobile initiative, which is basically trying to teach or approach more young people to the, basically, building by doing software, so that the technology is not a black box or a TV that you want to turn off, as we saw.  So this mobile initiative is running in many, many countries, and we reached thousands of beneficiaries in different ways, but also we participate in some larger activities, which are addressing much more in a number of people, like the Africa Code Week, which is a one-year process, which ends up in one or two weeks of coding workshops for kids, and last year we reached 2.3 million people in 37 countries across Africa. It's an SAP initiative that UNESCO is backing up for the last three, four years, and with the participation of many other partners, including Google. But software source code, is it two minutes left? Really? Software source code is also about creativity, after all. So this is the basic line also of youth mobile, why you should learn how to code, because it's a form of expression. But, and we are in point of history where there have never been so many programmers of today, despite of the old agafs, and there are so many languages, international year. It's a sort of indigenous languages, in a sense. So why, if it is about creativity, why then we don't really care about the preservation of a source code? So source code is something that you put somewhere, maybe in GitHub, in some repository, in some working tool, but basically you don't really care about what is going to happen to it. You remember Google also had the repository, which was closed in a matter of weeks, a couple of years ago, and so with 1.5 million software projects were just deleted, if you didn't backup it before. So preserving source code is about the preservation, yes, but it's also about the recognition of the effort which went into the making of the code, about reproducibility of the use that you make of the code, to think about scientific experiences, the persistency, because you may want to refer to a piece of code which is not moving all over the web or disappearing one day, and also how to make a reference to this code, and maybe one day how to make a citation of the code. So last year I was presenting this as an idea, it's something that we collaborated with INRIA, but it's called software.org. It's now open, because last year in June the archive was open, so this is really an archive, an archive of software source code, not an archive of binaries, but source code only, and with maybe, I'll risk my life, I know it, but I think it's very important to, well, this is, no, how can I see this page? Like this, I think, well, yeah, it's Windows. So here it is. So this is one of the pages of the software.edited.org, and actually this is what it contains, basically the content of the archive comes from all these repositories, and as of today, in live update, it contains 88 million software projects for an amount of 5 billion something source files, et cetera, and all the commits, so it's not only the latest version of the code that it's there, it's really the entire history of the commits of the project, so that if you want to come back to how was the software before, you may have a timeline, and what is now possible to do is, of course, to search with some time, so search, which is being, of course, improved little by little, but you can actually do a search, and let's make this as a research. So I don't remember which one is the good one, but anyway, you may find here, if the software was properly put in, you can find here the readme and all the information, et cetera, and you can actually go to the code. In this case, it's not an open code, for example, so this is really the software of the Apollo 11, which was put back in the archive, but probably if you use GitHub, you can search for yourself, you find your own code in the archive, so this is the computer is blocked, but that's really the archive demo, of course, it's not a demo, it's live, actually, so I don't know, maybe I have too many things open. I am, actually, but I am, actually, but anyway, so what you can do, let's cut it short, what you can do, you can actually copy a part of the code there, and using a permalink here, this red thing there, you can actually get a permanent reference to that piece of code, so that you can, if you copy this key here, you can just open another, this is me, sorry, and retrieve exactly this piece of code in the archive, so for the first time ever, actually, you have the possibility to make a reference to a persistent piece of code into an archive, which is not going to be moved, if we heard about, you know, about GitHub being built by Microsoft, with very good intentions for sure, but maybe tomorrow, maybe tomorrow, the demo will change, and here you have an archive, so that's one important part, but just to conclude, what is also important to know, it is, if I manage, go very fast, so building on the top of the archive, UNESCO's role is to bring this to the attention of the decision makers, of the people that should be caring about these things, so we issued, just a couple of weeks ago, the Paris Code for Software Source Code as a heritage for sustainable development, and basically it's making, it's made by a group of experts, international experts, that define this call, and it's making also some principles for source code, and it's also identifying some threats to source code, among which the awareness, the challenges, lack of recognition, because after all, computer science is not recognized as a noble science in many parts of the world, so the risk is just to become the, let's say, the workers of the 21st century, nobody cares, because machines will probably do something like that, which is not true, we've been hearing about the machine software for a long time, still it's not there, so with the last point, with artificial intelligence, this is also maybe worsening in a sense, and it's really highlighting the need of doing something about this recognition about source code, because there are many issues, ethical issues, that are raised by the artificial intelligence, and this is part one's tool, that could give some answers, and we saw in the press already some articles that are actually injecting some fears, because artificial intelligence as an open tool is seen by those who don't understand openness as something which is wrong, oh my god, if anybody can actually modify an artificial intelligence machine, so the results will be unpredictable, so these are kind of fears that are, so this is a very quick overview, I'm sorry, it was very long, thank you very much, yes.


one action probably missed it so you guys we get a lot of questions about what we do during our days that's not painting so we thought we'll give you a little bit of what it is that we do when we're not resonating and painting and all that stuff this is where I live half the time and other half the time Amanda occupies this seat this is where I answer all of the orders and emails and YouTube and Facebook and Instagram and Twitter and everything else questions all things from right here these are fire sale things that are about to go out and this is our basket since we send out so many packages we have to have our own USPS tub because we fill up the one that's just for the building by ourselves anyways so this is our shop it has all the paints from color obsession artists who resin art stone coat they say just resin I'm missing somebody anyways so this is our paste section from color obsession we have two sizes 10 grand and 50 grams respectfully and everything's all in alphabetical order because Amanda and Jeff or OCD whereas I'm just hot mess all the time and these are our color obsession powders they have three sizes four grams 20 grams and 50 grams and then down here we have resin art they are no paste they're just powders but they only come in one size and it's this size and it doesn't have numbers on it but it looks like this it looks like it'd be like 20 grams but I don't know I don't speak grams very well and then artist you artist you not an alphabetical order yet and not even marked right yet and these are resin art bling it and this is Kujo's little cubby when we say he's hanging out in the window that would be this and then we have our rounds out of the way you want to make sure all your MDF boards are always out of the way so you don't nick the sides damage them or get paint on them because then it's wasted we're gonna have to find room for our new these when we get back from Vegas what is that they are clear cast cast acrylic canvases basically it's like a really big version of our coasters and we're gonna be working on finding a way to make it hangable before we even send it to y'all but working on that later over here we have the hoodies and some aprons show them the new aprons I don't know if I have the new ones I think we packed up all the new ones we did but what are those these are porters like it here you go and then what's the section over here so this is our stonecoat base tents we mainly sell the black and the white so we have the most of those but we also carry the purple and the teal and a couple of miscellaneous ones like bronze and silver and then over here is the color of Sessions metal powders this one is 007 a favesy of everybody these come in seven grams only and then up here's a color of Sessions tents these are like inks but amazing way more pigmented they never go opaque they'll be transparent no matter how much you put in there there goes lunch right I guess I'll continue this this is all of the just resin oh yeah just resin what am I thinking all the paste and powder we're kind of just mixed all in one we have quite a few colors and then we come over here we got all the glitters all the glitters you can imagine yeah just resin and there's some more pastes kind of hard to see with the light in the back that is all and if you guys have a store keep everything people send you packing wise because it definitely comes in handy it adds up that's why everything comes in handy walls of boxes boxes boxes boxes all shipping material that people send stuff in and you can get free boxes from USPS all you have to do is order them they will send them to you just a little FYI but sometimes it doesn't always fit right so we have these boxes yeah we have to buy those but they're not too expensive it's worth it so then we have over here our shirts that latest shirts take out one of those shirts this is our newest shirt we have this available in black and white yes hopefully and then this is like where we keep all the future orders that need to be filled or can be picked up if you didn't know that you can pick up your orders from our studio just set up a time and we will be oh and you get a little glimpse into what she did last night this is our desk free zone look at that Laura Taylor's gonna like this one she loves all the color this is our desk free zone to where we put our pieces in there so that dust doesn't get on them and also we're cast like standing out all right so there you go that's uh that's how we have it and if you guys are always in your your office buy a comfortable chair it's worth it I got that from office max yeah get it it's amazing so there you have it short little tour everything's kind of right where you need it we're out of room already we're coming out into the living room slash bar so yeah well thanks for joining thanks for watching you guys are awesome if you have any questions comment below send us an email Thornton at artists till death comm in any of these 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Hey, it's Anfa you're watching a little quick live-streamed video. I would like to talk about Liber music challenge or LMC for short. It's a monthly friendly challenge that's being run in my community It's about discovering new software open source software and making music with some Guidelines in place to make it more interesting and help people explore new ideas Yeah, so this is the ninth Liber music challenge. It's taking place every month and right before my monthly live streams for example tomorrow is another monthly live stream Everyone involved is voting and the best tracks are being picked and I believe they didn't finish their voting yet. So I think if you follow You might just vote and Yeah, get yourself heard and pick your favorite tracks among the six submitted this month so Let me oh Let me do this and let's play the music So the first track is titled Phone Jam by a very Oh, I like the chords gonna rise the volume. I'm thoroughly enjoying this Oh, I love that scatting that's that's being retuned for a new different melody. Oh really cool I Really cool harmonies. I really like the rhythm on the on the chords tabs Nice melodies. My beatboxing was great pretty like a little bit off time and some In some parts, I mean rhythm a rhythm aspects could be could be corrected more in the recordings But overall, this is this is really really fun. I did not explain What the real deal with this challenge was I said that every liberal music challenge has a theme and this month's theme was Taking a 20-minute Live beatbox improvisation I've made on this YouTube channel sometime ago Sampling it and making a track out of that. So if you take a look here Mmm Yeah, they mentioned a free sound a sound a B-boxing session. I have uploaded to free sound sometime ago. Oh, what is that? What? Okay, that that link is weird I can copy the text of the link and paste it so this is the improvisation and I have actually made this live streamed that Yeah, streamed live on 4th of June 2020 Yeah, and they took that recording Which I published under creative commons zero license So anyone can grab it and do whatever they want with it They can you can take that recording sample some beats and sell that and I don't really have anything against that That's the license Yeah, so all the pieces in this challenge have been made using that beatboxing session and Since I don't just make drum sounds with my mouth There's also some scatting and A little bit of vocal samples as well because I've been talking a bit. So Yeah, that's the theme. Let's go ahead with another track This track is titled hangover makeover By lamb or L.A.M. Dark. Oh my goodness. This is sublime. I love it. I'll let me send them on base. Oh, it's cool Reliking the conditions nice risers and that's the track Hank over makeover by lamb or L.A.M. I Forgot to mention that the the theme for this challenge is not just to take The recording I made and sample it but it's also to use some specific open source software So let me read this this month one was asked to make a track using liberal softwares and as sound source The ninjas to and or drops sampling plugins from a clearly broken software Processing one of unfuzz beatbox audio file shared on free sound So there are two plugins called drops and the ninjas to oh No, this is also this gate SC. Why is it gate SC? so a member of our community Our GH VDB Berg or Rob Vandenberg is making some samplers and he's made drops which is a sampler and this is his most recent thing and Yeah, it recently he like published 1.0 beta of this plug-in and I think it's pretty nice and I yet have to test it thoroughly with this new version because I used an old version But didn't use this one this new one and I should make up for that. So, yeah, another plug-in. He made is called Ninjas to and this one I use quite a lot So I have some gripes with it. It's a slicer. So you can cut up samples Into little pieces and then each piece is assigned to a different MIDI note. It's a very cool to very great very nice for rearranging drum beats if you have loops recorded drum loops and then you can Chop them up very easily. It's also great for doing vocal chops And I use this on I believe on one of my live streams or maybe multiple even Yeah, loading the files is a little bit tricky The guy the people in my community know I'm not very happy about how you load files that the file dialogue is pretty It's clearly broken Yeah, but the plug-in itself is really nice and these two plugins are quite powerful when it comes to Processing plugins, of course, this is not some super advanced stuff, but still you can do a lot with a little if you just Get some creativity going The creator of the plug-ins Rob Wunderberg is in the chat and he says do not mention the pile dialogue Okay, I won't again so, yep Now let's listen to another track titled drop with drops Hence the like because of the plug-in she used I guess they used and the artist is named my lo-fi which is who is also a A fellow musician in in this little community Mmm, and I always enjoy his stuff. Let's hear it That's amazing These vocal samples are processed in such a way that all creates such an amazing mood And from a voice decimation Very wet the bass is there This snare is a little bit too bright.  Oh, we have a relentando on the end Slowing down that was awesome Drops with drops by my lo-fi. Oh I Would really like to see the project file for this one and see how he made those bases in the middle That's pretty crazy As I said, like the snare has a little bit too much highs in the drop Which are painful to me, but otherwise I really like this and like the drop had Proper punch. It had very deep bass sub bass. It had like very nice Very danceable rhythm slowing down a little bit and like it's so cool because it's like blending between the raga or dub Stuff from the start and at the end and here we go to full on dubstep More modern dubstep maybe and it's like building a bridge between these musical genres that Evolved one from another and the vocal processing and How he picked the the chops from my recording where I say stuff or sing stuff and how he processed that and I don't know It's it's a really Really amazing. Oh my lo-fi is in the chat and he says that the project files are on Linux musicians forum Well, I need to check that out. I need to find that. I'm gonna ask you later in the in the community chat By the way, if you'd like to take part in the liver music challenge Meet the people who are making these tracks hang out Figure out how to do music on Linux have people help you solve your problems Please go to ANFA Dot XYZ actually chat dot on the father XYZ and there's a self-hosted rocket chat Server which you can join Anonymously and read or you can make an account and talk or you can also find a link to discord Also, all the links are in every video description. I publish so you can just go down and check this out Alrighty, let's move on To the next track which is titled did rip off Penguin's success by Sahat Eva Let's hear it That's a classic I Love this bass it really reminds me of art of noise like the album daft It's quite intense It's like The beat is slightly it's it's kind of swinging it's like samples are not cut Super correctly like the transfer a little bit like double transients or something Creates a pretty weird laid-back slightly drunk Maybe appropriate One word says it's a cover of his own song. Is it really a cover? You are right. That's why I said it's a classic. It's a cover So that was did rip off of Penguin success by Sahat Eva and now we know why Because it's indeed a cover It's a cover of penguins polka penguin polka by Rob van den Berg Who is the author of the plug-in and the truck was made for a one-sent of challenge number at 118? Yeah, so maybe you want to listen to that as well, but it's not today. It's today. We're going a liver music challenge So, yep, let's hear another one by Nick's Elise Elise alas And it's titled serious robot business Oh That face Drop the bee I really make all these sounds. I don't remember that. This was a serious robot business. By Nix Aless or Nix Elise. My lo-fi says in the chat, drop the beat and going slow. Hilarious. I am having fun. I must say I have heard or listened to some of these before. Namely Drop with Drops and serious robot business. It's still catch me off guard. I was like listen to it like a week ago or something but I haven't heard this last one so I'm really curious what's gonna be. Okay let's sunset this live stream with Cutten Drops by SG-75. Let's go. I like the melody a lot. And this sound. I wonder how much of these drums are in my Beatles samples. Oh nice. That's a very complex groove right there. I love this. It's almost broken. But somehow it works. I like this vibrato on these keys. Wow. So that was Cutten Drops by SG-75. I love that. I wonder. Yeah something I think I would really enjoy also in this track would be some maybe more pronounced chord progression. It felt like it's all on the same chord all the time and I like the melodies and the sounds and the rhythms. So it felt like if there was some chord changes in the track, some chord change here, a chord change here, it would maybe build a little bit more tension and keep it a little bit more engaging. So I still enjoyed this thoroughly. That's it for this short live stream. Thank you all for coming. This was Libra Music Challenge number nine. If you would like to join this, wrong window, then go to chat.anfa.xyz. Oh I'm not typing where I should be. chat.anfa.xyz. Not this one. This one. And in here you will find newcomer info, which is the thing you should visit first. And here you will find information what's going on. You can find link to Discord if you prefer to use Discord. So I do encourage you to try Rocket Chat because it's free and open source. It's self-hostable. I'm running this on a virtual private server. So no companies have like confirmed the data and sell our chats. Like this is in our own hands. So yeah, kind of unlike Discord, which is proprietary centralized and all that stuff. Yeah.  And you can join in and make some music, discover some free and open source tools, get some motivation, get some inspiration, have a great time and overall become a better musician. And also be more free because you're not using software that's locking you in. Alrighty. So that's all for this live stream. It was planned to be short. I don't know how long we're going. Oh my goodness. Yeah, I have no idea how long we're going. Oh, 35 minutes. Not bad. Okay. So yeah, thanks to everyone who's taking part in the Libra Music Challenge. Thank you so much to people who are running the challenge. And I believe Sahadeva is one of these people who are organizing this, who are gathering the submissions, organizing voting, putting it up on our internet archive, posting results on the Linux Musicians Forum, I believe. Yes, yes, the Linux Musicians Forum. This is also another place where you can find this. And I'm going to also post all these links in the live streams description so you can visit these, visit these places, join the chat, join the community, have some fun, discover new software and be happy. Yep. So that's it. Thank you for watching. I hope this was interesting. And I don't know if you've enjoyed this as much as I did. I guess that would be a bit difficult. I tomorrow I'm doing another monthly live stream. So if you're watching this live, then don't forget to tune in tomorrow. And also huge thanks to all the people who are supporting me on Patreon and Libra Pay, because their financial support is helping me take out time from work and other things to do live streams like this one, to make tutorials, etc. If you, the reviewer, find my stuff valuable, maybe you would like to join them and drop in a buck or two every month. Yep. Rob van den Berg says, yes! Throw money at ANFA, please! Okay, I love you, bye-bye. I don't know where I should end. Did it end already? I think it's going to be awkward and weird. I'm waiting to-