ThinkTek Hawaii, civil engagement lives here. Hey, hello, and welcome to Stanley Energy Man here on ThinkTek Hawaii. I'm Stan Osterman from the Hawaii Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies, and we're really glad to have you on today's show, and hope that you watch some of the other shows on ThinkTek. There's some really awesome stuff out there, and I do anyway. It's pretty cool. Lots going on in Hawaii and around the world, and as you know from last week, I had Ryan Woobins and Dave Malinero on the show covering for me because I was out and about, and I'm going to tell you a little bit about those travels. But to start off with, the big thing for HCAT, my organization, was we moved locations. We had been on the same location on Cook Street for about 25 years, and we just moved to a new location at 707 Richard Street. And so the first slide I got is making it official. We have our Hawaii Center for Advanced Transportation Technology 707 Richard Street 616. So if you've visited us before, that's the place you'll find us now. It's a really nice office space. We don't have our cool toys and stuff outside in the work bay like we did on the other location, but this is much more conducive to us doing our contracting work. The next slide I got is the bad news side. As most of you know, I ride my bike to ThinkTek here for the show, and what you're looking at is the crime scene of where my bike was parked before it was stolen. So I no longer have my bike, but the thieves were nice enough to leave me a couple feet of my chain and my lock after they took bolt cutters and cut my bike away.  If I catch you, it'll be bad news for you. I'll show you what that chain is used for otherwise. But right now I'm hooping it around Honolulu, so that's not so good. The next slide I got is what I'm really kind of proud of. You know, I'm a state employee. We have state decals on all of our stuff, so we can't throw it away or get rid of it unless it's absolutely totally falling apart or useless. So this is my remodeled desk. I re-skinned it, and I put hydrogen H2 on the side before we moved in. So my desk is now beautiful and will last another 20 years, so I'm doing my part to save the state money, and there's proof of it. So thanks for going through the swap of this.  We should have validated parking stickers next month. We don't have them this month, but we're slowly catching up and hopefully we can purchase those and come up to the 6-4 and visit us at our new digs. But anyway, next up, I was actually going to do on today's show just a review of all of the goings-on in the industry. The next slide is actually a website that I really think that anybody who's interested in hydrogen at all, any legislators, any business people who are interested in hydrogen equipment, or just investors who are looking at where to invest money. The Fuel Cell Energy Association puts out a great, great newsletter, and this is the first page of it. So you can go and look up the FCHEA connection online. And you can tell by that first headline, Port of a Los Angeles to receive $41 million for hydrogen fuel cell freight projects. There are projects like that going on all over the world, and we're going to talk about some of them today. But that website and one by the California Fuel Cell partnerships are just fantastic for really getting a feel for what's going on. So I'll capsulize what I saw in that latest newsletter from those folks. There were things going on in Norway, where they're going to take one of the remote islands that currently uses a coal-burning power production plant, and they're going to take down that coal plant, and they're going to start producing liquid hydrogen in mainland Norway off of the North Sea wind curtailed power when they have to curtail their wind power. They're going to make hydrogen. They're going to liquefy the hydrogen, and they're going to send it to this rather isolated island, much like Hawaii, which is, I think, a model that we might be able to pick up here in Hawaii. And they'll be providing fuel cells in place on that island, around the island, and doing distributed generation using gaseous hydrogen from the liquid hydrogen as they move it. And they've even designed a ship to move the hydrogen, and I have a photo of the ship coming up later on. There's new things happening in South Korea with big fuel cell plants being built. The Olympics coming up, both the Olympics that are going to be in Japan and South Korea, are going to feature hydrogen vehicles. There's projects going on in Hawaii and around the US that are including a lot more hydrogen buses now than we've ever had before in the systems. A lot of cities are testing them. And finding the real advantages, like the distances you can cover, and the extra power you get when you have hills and things like that, that are just a great, great advantage to hydrogen fuel cell power. Some of the other things were projects going on in California to do backup power for critical communications, cell phone towers in particular, and also large data centers that are switching to hydrogen fuel cell for backup power because it has a longer duration in case the outage goes longer than a couple minutes or an hour. The fuel cells can actually carry the load of these data centers until they have time to recover and store their data in permanent storage so that they don't get caught with basically losing all their data. There's just so much going on. And every day, I get a new email from an association or a company talking about what they're doing in hydrogen. Anyway, last week was a busy week for me, and that's why I had Dave and Ryan cover the show for me. And one of the things that I did was I went off to TARDEC, which is the Army's Tank and Vehicle Research Division for the United States Army. I went to a three-day conference in Detroit, Michigan. Actually, it was a two-day conference in Detroit, Michigan. It seemed long because it takes me a day to get there and a day to get home. But it's a two-day conference. The Department of Energy was there. All of the senior hydrogen folks at TARDEC were there. Some senior leaders from the Army Research Area were there. We had people from Nicola Motors. Nell, which is a big Norwegian electrolyzer company, and I'll talk a little bit about them, they had folks from private sector, small companies, large companies, and we were there to help the Army get their head around logistics related to hydrogen. The Army's made a commitment to at least really look hard at hydrogen energy storage right from the soldier level and how you power your radios and your night vision goggles and things all the way up to heavy equipment, like tanks and mechanized heavy equipment. And they're interested because they want to make sure that they are looking into the future and not stuck in the fossil fuel past. They want to make sure they're ready when the change comes because if you don't know anything about the DOD, I can tell you it's just like their aircraft carriers. You put in the controls to make it turn, and a couple days later, the thing will finally start moving. It takes a long time to get things through the Department of Defense. And the Army is smart enough, as we say in Hawaii, akamai enough, to lean forward and look to the future and say, we need to get started now if we want to really consider this technology in the future. They've assessed it. They like it. They know that in their remote controlled aerial vehicles or surveillance vehicles, whether they're hand launched by soldiers or whether they're a little bit bigger platforms, that the hydrogen is the way to go because of its high energy density. They get longer duration on their aviation vehicles. They get lighter storage when they give their soldiers and their infantrymen radios and things that run off of metal hydride storage. So we had great discussions with them on what are the differences or advantages and disadvantages of things like shipping liquid hydrogen and bulk to a central location, turning it into pressurized gaseous hydrogen for distribution, turning it into storage and metal hydride containers and shipping and putting it out there for distribution. Making the hydrogen on site, wherever you are with water and electricity, whether electricity comes from the grid, comes from portable PV units, whatever. The Army has even developed a steam reforming system that fits in a 20-foot ISO container, standard 20-foot shipping container, that takes the standard military fuel, which is called JP-8, and it can take the JP-8 steam reform it and give you hydrogen to run in your vehicles. And the Army's been testing a GM Colorado derivative as a tactical vehicle for the last year or so. And so far, all of the users that have driven it, seen it, and not heard it because it's silent, are just thrilled with it. And they interviewed some folks and put them on tape, and we got to see the interviews of the users after they had driven these vehicles. And most of them were scouts that are usually forward of the main contingent of military folks out there on their own, trying to sneak around and get intelligence and get ahead of the troops so they know what they're heading into. And those guys were just giddy when they saw how quiet and how well they could sneak around in a big vehicle.  And for those of you that don't use vehicles off-road, there's one really big drawback to internal combustion engines that probably very few people think about unless you live in a really dry climate. And that is if you take a vehicle, an internal combustion vehicle, out in the field and you park it in a field with tall grass and you leave the engine running while you're sitting in the air conditioning or talking on the telephone or something, you can actually start a pretty significant fire because internal combustion engine will get hot enough that it will actually ignite dry grass and things under your vehicle and you could actually start a forest fire or a field fire with the vehicle when it's stationary and you're running equipment off of that internal combustion engine. So these tactical vehicles that they're using with hydrogen, that's not a factor. They're silent as can be and the heat signature is very low, easy to conceal. So it's hard for anybody at night to pick up the vehicle even using thermal imagery because they can conceal the heat on a fuel cell vehicle much better than on a regular internal combustion vehicle. So great meetings with the Army. The industry folks were terrific. The folks from Nell and from Nicola Motors talked about large scale vehicles, trucks and large scale production of hydrogen using electrolysis and that was really exciting. If you haven't seen Nicola Motors, we've had Mr. Trevor Milton the CEO of Nicola Motors on this show twice and if you haven't looked them up online, I suggest you check them out. They've got some just beautiful trucks. They've already built prototypes. One of the announcements in the newsletters this week is in April they're gonna roll out their first production models or pre-production models with the tooling and everything they're gonna go into production with and distribute the first few vehicles to a handful of users to put into operations to really run them through their paces, make some last minute corrections before they go into full production and these folks at Nicola Motors are not only making the vehicles, they're making the infrastructure to fuel the vehicles and they're committed the infrastructure to be all clean. In other words, running off of footable tech and wind power or hydroelectric or geothermal as to the max extent possible. Now the company Nell that I mentioned, they're the ones that make the electrolyzers and they've actually purchased a company that was called Proton Onsite. Now Proton Onsite makes all the electrolyzers. We happen to be using here in Hawaii with the exception of our small millennium rain units but all the large scale electrolyzers are PEM electrolyzers built by Proton Onsite. Now it's Nell. Well Nell has been making electrolyzers since World War II. Basically they have an entire buildings that are making hydrogen and they've been running for 50 years now. I mean the equipment still works. It's old, it's not as efficient, it's not as good so they don't use it anymore but it could be working. But the new equipment that they make is fantastic and they've scaled up. It's just doing awesome, awesome stuff and they wanna bring it to America, that technology to America at large scale in conjunction with Nicola Motors. So look them up, look up Nell and start looking at what they've got. It's really great stuff. We're gonna take a quick break now and when we come back I'm gonna talk about the rest of my week last week where I visited the Big Island and talk about some of the neat things coming up in the maritime world. Hello and welcome to Out of the Comfort Zone. I am your villainous host, RB Kelly.  Truth number one, this is a real mustache. Truth number two, I want you to watch my show on Tuesdays at 1 p.m. So tune in and let me know which is the truth and which is the lie. I'm RB Kelly with Out of the Comfort Zone and show up next Tuesday to see my mustache live. Aloha, I'm Marsha Joyner, inviting you to come visit with us on Cannabis Chronicles, a 10,000 year artisty where we explore and examine the plant that the muse has given us and stay with us as we explore all of the facets of this planet on Wednesdays at noon. Please join us, Aloha. Hey, welcome back to Stand the Energy Man on my lunch hour. So it was a really, really, really busy week last week. I left on Sunday night around seven, got to Detroit on Monday, went through the two-day conference, left the conference straight to the airport, left the conference around noon, went straight to the airport, took two flights, one left me in Chicago and then into San Francisco then home. I was home by 10 o'clock that night. So it was a pretty big whirlwind tour for a short two-day conference. So I was at work one day and then the next day I flew to Kona, got up at 4.30 in the morning to fly to Kona. To participate in the, it was build, build and buy Green Hawaii Conference. I had to look at my notes to make sure I got that right. It was a great get together with local sustainable wise building council on the Big Island Sector Statewide Organization. And they were focusing the Big Island on this trip. So we went with them to the Big Island and we visited several locations. So the first slide I have is I was really, really happy to see this. This is at our first stop, which was the Visitor Center at Nelha, the Natural Energy Laboratory for Hawaii, just outside the Kona Airport property. And I didn't ever see this before and I've been there several times. So I took a picture of it, but they have a really terrific graphic and it's not just a poster, it's actually a lightboard with the backlit graphics that talks about the entire electrolysis process and the fuel cell process and vehicles and even using hydrogen and spacecraft. And it talks a lot about hydrogen. I was so happy to see that. But if you ever get to Nelha, go to their Visitor Center. It's open to the public, I believe, almost every day. And you can go in and see all the displays of all the renewable. They have solar cooking and everything in there. And it's a great way to start a renewable energy visit. The next place we went, and I don't think this is on a slide, so this is the third place we went. But the second place we went was right near the Nelha entrance. It was the West Hawaii Exploration Academy. Now that's a charter school and it's the only high school campus in the U.S. and probably the world that has a shark tank in the middle of it. They actually have a, it looked like about a maybe 20 by 40 foot shark tank, nice and round, not square, with two black tiff reef sharks in there. And the spillway that empties that water out goes into what they call a touch tank where the students from the school showed us some marine life that grows on the reefs, starfish, and things like that, sea urchins, and told us visitors all about those sea creatures. So the school is basically set up and their motto is no child left inside. So they took us around and showed us stuff that the kids were working on, projects they were working on. And the kids were amazing. They really, really understood the technology. They really understood the equipment they were working with and the goals and objectives of the projects they were working on. Overall, the facility, and the reason we went was to see the facility. It's a basically, I don't wanna say net zero, but very close to net zero setup where buildings are cooled naturally and Kona can get pretty darn hot. It's just set up to reuse water when possible to one of the cool things I saw was they were growing some strawberries in separate containers with different conditions. They were using the super chilled ocean water that they get at Nelha from the deep water and they were condensing water from the air to water the strawberries. So I'm scratching my head going, I think I salt water running through a black tube. When the black tube heats up, it condenses moisture on the outside from the air and the water from the moisture on the tubes drips down and waters the strawberries with fresh water. I'm like, that's amazing. And then they found out that plants that grow in different colder climates, the soil temperature tells them when to go into bloom, to fruit and things like that. And they found that colder climates and warmer climates as you change the soil temperature can drive the cycle of the plants to produce fruit or things like that. So one of the other things you use cold ocean water for was to put cold water through the soil in tubes as a heat exchanger thing in the soil. And sure enough, the plants that were chilled and warmed and chilled and warmed show the cycles. So it was an amazing, amazing place. The next place we went the next day was, we had some briefings and this next shot is one of the things that greeted us the next slide that we could get up. It was a whole little flock of nanny goose and those of you that don't live in Hawaii, the nanny is a state bird. And it looks like a Canadian goose but it's a little bit smaller. I'd say maybe 15 or 20% smaller. But they're really rare. They're making a comeback in the environment but it's really special to see these things out here. But this location was the Kanuokaena Leadership Center, or Learning Ohana Center. And it's a location that also, the buildings are all sustainable. And they had some really interesting concepts of how they did their sustainability. You know, those of you that are familiar with the LEED certification process for buildings, the LEED certification is a scoring system that tells you how efficient and ecologically friendly you were building your building. It takes into account recycling old materials, how efficient your air conditioning and heating is, things like that, your lighting, your insulation, your use of natural elements. So they did their first building under LEED certification. And what they found was it was a little costly to actually do the LEED certification. So the rest of their buildings, they didn't use LEEDs, they just used all the techniques they learned using LEEDs to build their buildings. And they had some really, really efficient, really great buildings. And again, the school was amazing. I just wonder why I had to go through the schools that I went through when I could have probably been at these kind of schools where I would, I guarantee I would have really, you know, flowered and bloomed differently in terms of creativity if I'd gone to the schools that I saw in the Big Island. The next place that the team visited was Monana Christian Church in Waimea. And it was actually at a community center, but the folks from the church hosted us there for lunch. And we had some guest speakers from HUD, and we talked about agriculture and sustainable agriculture and some of the funding available and some of the things that some of the struggles are having with farmers in terms of getting sustainable housing for the workers on the farm, getting past zoning issues with the county and the right size buildings because a lot of the folks on the Big Island live in Hilo or Kona, but the farms are up in Waimea or other places, and it's a long commute every day. But if the folks could live at the farm for the five days during the week and go home on weekends, that would be perfect. So we all kind of did a brainstorming session and try to help them come up with creative solutions for that. Next, the group went to Hawaii Pacific, Hawaii Preparatory Academy, and I've been there several times. So I didn't actually attend that part of the visit, but they have a wonderful campus up there in Waimea. It's one of the best private schools in the United States. And the things they teach up there is just amazing. They don't just do robotics. They do robotics with sensor controls on your head. So you just think about where you want the robot to go and it goes that way. That's the level that the school's at in terms of their science and technology programs. It's a great campus. Again, the folks went to visit the sustainable buildings up there. And then after that, we went to visit one of my favorite places and that was Blue Planet Research up in Poovava. And Paul Pontia did an outstanding job with a great video presentation. And then we took everybody down to his laboratory and he finished his tour at the laboratory. And he left me with the hydrogen, the folks that really wanted to know about hydrogen, he left me with them at the electrolyzer and I got to spend another 15 or 20 minutes dedicated to just talking hydrogen to those folks. So thanks to the folks who put on that great program. It was a good experience for me. I learned a lot. I learned a lot about things. Oh, we also went to the University of Hawaii, Paloma Nui campus. Again, looking at the buildings and got a great meal from the culinary folks over there. So thanks to everyone that hosted us on the Big Island and all the folks from the architect firms and the project managers that include us in on how to do great sustainable buildings. Now I want to get into some of the other stuff. On the title of the show, I talked about and I talked a little bit about the Army projects that are going on. But what's really amazing to me is we really feel like we've turned the corner in Hawaii when we start talking to Maritime. So the first slide I have on this section is a project we did with Sandia National Labs. That was actually their project, Sandia Labs Project and Young Brothers, they put together, excuse me, what we call a stationary fuel cell inside a container. And this fuel cell container was designed to power 10 refrigerated containers on a Young Brothers barge. So Sandia Labs designed it. Hydrogenics contributed some of the technical skills and they put it together. They brought it to Hawaii. It was kind of challenging trying to get hydrogen to it because they couldn't get the permits from the Department of Transportation for the fueling at the harbor. So we came up, HKAT came up and said, you can refuel at Hickam at our station. So what they did was they just put the whole unit, the whole 20 foot container on a trailer and they would drive the whole thing to Hickam and we would refuel it. And we learned a lot from this program. We learned because most of our vehicles are only maybe 10 kilograms or cars are only five kilograms is the most, four or five. This container needed 75 kilograms of hydrogen compressed at 5,000 PSI. We thought that might take up to an hour to fill those containers. It took 18 minutes. So we really got a chance to test our systems and learn what the capacity was of our equipment in a way that we never would have done if we hadn't had played in that program. The next slide we have coming up are some of the ships. I'm gonna run through these pretty quick. These are things that are actually in the works. This is a hydrogen fuel cell ferry that's been commissioned to be built in San Francisco and they're gonna run it, hydrogen fuel cell. Next slide is, I love this one. This is a liquid hydrogen tanker and that's the one that's tied to that Norwegian project I told you about where they're gonna make liquid hydrogen from the curtailed wind and then bring it over to that island and distribute it into their grid system to make electricity completely off of the stored energy and hydrogen. The last image that I have here is we were on a conference call, HKAT was on a conference call with a former professor at Sandia National Labs and a researcher. This is a research vessel that's been commissioned or being commissioned by the University of California. And you can tell by the two tanks in the back, it's a liquid hydrogen powered trimer and research vessel. And we were on a briefing with them. This is just a concept. They haven't actually let a contract to build this. They estimate that the vessel will cost about $80 million and that's mostly because it is a research vessel. It's got laboratories inside. It's got very special power equipment requirements but it's got room for a bunch of researchers, the crew and everything else. And like I say, it was a really, really, really busy week last week and that's how it is in my office all the time now. And I'm glad I could share some of it with you. So at any rate, until next week and I've got some great guests coming up in the month of October and believe it or not, we're three quarters of the way through the year. So we'll have some great guests for you in October and I look forward to seeing you next week on Stand Energy Man. Thanks to Robert and Cindy here in the studio and we'll see you next week. Aloha.


This is joint work with, like, Tile Lab South Africa, and they did it from Brooklyn. So, today we're going to be examining two different implementations of the Mumbuwa Wall, along the floor. And so, we called it a tail of two columns because the Mumbuwa Wall is like a tunnel to a certain inherent cloud of universe. So, the goal here is to describe why privacy matters, again, as you guys already know. How we should examine and explore privacy in blockchain. We'll do a high level intro to the Mumbuwa Wall, talk about how the blockchain's options work, the privacy guarantees, the privacy guarantees it doesn't provide, then we'll compare grid and beam, or two separate implementations of the Mumbuwa Wall that roughly came alive in January 2018, so they're going to go over a while, and then we'll talk about the importance of the implementation. Even though both the same protocol at its core makes a big difference in privacy guarantees and implementation. So, why does privacy matter? The number one reason for me is really fungible of your coins. Let's say we have, if you look at Bitcoin, new coins, virgin coins, are perceived as more valuable than coins that have traveled around. If you have coins from, let's say, a dark market, you're using that coin, let's say, in exchange of your wallet, difficult. So people are afraid of what you've done with the coin and passed it where you've got it from, through either those gains or conventional gains. Like, therefore, when coins are private, they're all fungible. Each coin is equal to each other, they're indistinguishable. So the longer you have coins either trading at a discount, which are negative, or trading at a premium, if you're positive. A really fun reference in US history, when we do an exploratory of coins during the Free Banking Era. So the Free Banking Era was roughly from the 1830s to the end of the Civil War. And this is when every single state could issue their own US dollars. So let's say we're in New York City and someone sends me a bill from Delaware. Okay, Delaware is kind of conspired. I've heard this bank before. What kind of discount should I apply to this bank? Should I pay it 90 cents a dollar? What if I had a bank in Utah and we're really far away, okay, I've never heard this bank before, but it looks sort of real? Should I give it 50 cents a dollar or 60 cents a dollar? I just don't know. So that's my period, it's really fun. You'd have something very similar to, I guess, like a chain analysis or whatever. You'd have to look at the bank report. This is a book you get every month that's saying, this bank, you should get like 90 cents or a dollar for this bank or 80 cents for the dollar for this bank. And this necessarily wasn't great for business because every single time you want to transact someone who is far away or okay, like how valuable is their credit that they're giving me? And there's all this like idioms and crack risks that you do not want to take on as a merchant. And this also creates a huge cottage industry of analysis campaigns which, on some perspective, like they'd be good. Like, if Bitcoin was private, I probably wouldn't have a chain analysis. So hard to say. Another reason why I'm practicing this a lot is because you can judge with it free. Like, if you can do whatever you want to do with your money, it allows for experimentation.  So let's say if you want to donate to some political cause, you do so. If people could track this, this may have ramifications in your, your life, your work life. And so it really prevents experimentation. And second, your wealth, or perhaps lack of wealth, is determined by everyone else. So they could just go to a wall chain, like, hey, you have this number amount of coins, your wallet, like maybe it's a target, or maybe this person should avoid. Like, being able to determine some of the wealth is like not great, and it creates a lot of personal safety issues for an individual. And then perhaps even better, and really well-adventured today, is that you no longer have, like, data mining and personal data. And with it, like, then, the, like, hey, we each have a ATM. Like, all these platforms log every single, like, transaction that you make in, like, the explicit business model is to understand, like, how you spend your money to give you better ads. And maybe if you want better ads using these platforms are ideal. But if you want to have privacy in what you're doing, we should, this is what we have, like, a lot of different types of coins. And somebody with more nuance is truly censorship-resistant transactions. So even people call Bitcoin censorship-resistant, and they call, like, any type of currency censorship-resistant, both all miners include against you. They're like, okay, you know, this transaction is coming from address A, so we're not going to cost any transaction. We know that, you know, this person is sending money to, like, a person B, and then this person B is on this watch list, and they're just going to ignore this transaction. And the process isn't really matters. It's really easy for people to be minors in the network, especially if the assets are really low, but given that, like, the responsibility of having assets, it's very conceivable from the average individual to become a miner to get to ensure that the transaction is included.  You cannot have the ball of miners being censorship-transactions. So actually, like, in EOS, you have this, like, black list that all the states just follow, and so, like, they will have accounts for a lot of people who always have money and lots of random, like, block producers are accidentally included, so, guess, like, which has happened, and then that block producer here, like, lost all their state because the assets included actually weren't supposed to be included. Like, this is something you can't have in the network. We can all consider a commission to have some nice nation-resistant. So this is kind of a rough, like, EOS to be, like, pulled together or something. It's like, how do we think about privacy, which is important for when we analyze a little level of different movement, a little bit of limitations, so you want to look at, like, transaction data. Like, is it changing, is that immutable? What about, like, provable, like, state? So if our adversary is spying and watching, and our history are always spying and watching, like, T, having a provable state is what we're fine. Is transaction construction private? What's supposed to be more immutable? Is it being very unique to transaction format? What are transaction accounts?  This is important for some kind of use cases. And then, like, transaction existence. Then something that's, like, you know, a great deal is privacy on the network level, such as, like, transaction propagation, but perhaps even more importantly, block propagation, can mine areas or stakers be private? Like, so does a network maintainer, like, what is your privacy? And then, what about the wallet? Like, just because your privacy is anonymous, if your wallet's anonymous, kind of takes a purpose. And then, like, what if one thing's immutable, like, is privacy optional, or is it default for every lock, or if it's off? And so here's the kind of, like, what is immutable, what is the unique, novel, drop-down IRC in the back of 2016? So unlike traditional blockchains, there's no concept of addresses, so we'll expose more detail. It's private and it's not the recipient, the standard amount of private, but not the fee, so we'll go to that a little later. And it's a compact blockchain. You use some called cut-through, which is very similar to conceptually coin joiner that occur over time, and helps reduce the blockchain state. Which is helpful for privacy-intercepting conditions. So here's the fun fact. So back in August 2016, there was, like, an anonymous French wall of work. His name was, like, Tom, just a donor. He dropped an original paper. It's a research IRC channel, and the papers were so important in services. Kind of just, like, put that out there. Normally, there's what it is. Kind of reminds us of, like, the Bitcoin data, the Bitcoin data, which is spying out on this person, which is kind of nice. That's not who your readers are. And October, and the cholesterol, is a blockchain, like, into the paper.  And then, like, in November, it's in the air. It's kind of called, I know it's ignocious. We've actually, like, in Harry Potter, the original owner of the visible cloak, he starts to grin. So the first location, and then we'll, you put this on and get it out. So let's explore, like, here we're going to, instead of talking about the cryptography or the cryptographic interactions, so if we think about a normal, like, Bitcoin or narrow, nearly every other cryptocurrency transaction out there, we know some of the address. We, like, sign a local message and submit it now. Like, we do not need to interact with, like, Bob, like, some other good part. However, an enumerable is very different. So Alice first constructs a transaction and sends it to Bob. So Bob receives this transaction, like counters it and sends it back. Then Alice has to finalize this transaction, so the third step before submitting it to him. So there are some issues here if you can try to get it to work slower. So the first one is, like, it's a free option for the senator. So Alice can issue a set of transactions of Bob, get him as a fact and be like, actually, maybe you don't need to send him this money and just, like, toss it out. Bob's just waiting there for the money to come out of the con. So the senator doesn't have to be counter-sanitary, but you get the free option. Something more fine, maybe you can consider, each or the senator can actually create some of the messages for all of the individuals and whoever, like, signs fast with the money. So there's some, like, recent issue, but I can see this to be very fine if you want to do, like, an airdrop. Here's a transaction. It's first for the panel, wins it. And it's something you can really be able to get the other part of all. So, like, that could be a really interesting feature. They're having an interoperative department. So here, for Alice and Bob to be online as some period of time and time to communicate, this actually gets worse with multi-party competitions. Sorry, multi-party transactions. We're doing, like, Alice, Alice, Bob, and Carol. Then, like, all three participants need to be online. The receiver also lets counter-sanitize the block height. So there's some, like, time involved. So, like, the counter is off-life a little bit of time, but the problem's on their lives. And even worse, there's, like, a man in the middle of time. So, Alice's quick investment says it's a block, but if someone intercepts it, they're able to counter-sanitize and insert the O, like, spend key and claim the money. And Alice has no idea whether Bob has received the money or not. All Alice knows, like, I sent in money and the transaction got, you know, approved by Alice. And Bob's, like, head-on time. So therefore, like, these messages must be encrypted. And this is very first message in the species of all. And then the Wimbledon as a protocol itself does not, like, provide any, like, suggestions or solutions on how to actually encrypt this message. And we'll explore how, like, granted the Wimbledon is granted a beam of cannabis issue or feature depending on how you look at it. Let's talk about some of the private constraints here. First, I have to deal with addresses that makes it hard to, like, transact. Actually, I don't know how to list. So let's have a cut through really quickly. A cut through to reduce outputs from the transaction pool that's already been spent. For example, let's say you have, like, input multiple gathers, like, with less outputs. So the benefit here is that if you have small blocks, it also improves privacy if your adversary is just looking at a blockchain from, like, a certain time. However, because you have, like, archival nodes, like, maybe, like, this is a really high price that much and the cut through is more beneficial so it's just thinking of the blockchain faster because it needs sort of a stake. The downside of a cut through is that the criminal access still exists. So you know how many transactions occur. Just not going to be able to link this together as well. And so let's talk about privacy limitations. You know, nothing is perfect and we try to be as high as possible. But the number of inputs and outputs are revealed on a purple basis. So this generally doesn't matter, so you have, like, 100 transactions because your apps have, like, hundreds or 200 or 300 inputs and outputs you can really link them together. However, let's say there's only one transaction, a block, you're like, okay, you have, like, three inputs and two outputs. Like, of course, you'll link it to one of those transactions which is potential. And so the grid right now has very, very much transaction throughput. So, like, linking, like, there's an output and this is trivial on the grid. Beam has a lot more transactions and also just because we're just, like, faking transactions, because you include that somewhere in the paper, you want to add decoys. But this linkage, like, is an issue. You can also do, like, take a coin, you can send someone a particular output and see what you're using down the line. Number of transactions are revealed via the kernel account. So if the number of transactions were revealed, then the linkage inputs and outputs would be more difficult. However, because, like, transactions cannot be revealed as problematic. The fees in individual transactions are also revealed on a per-transaction basis. So right now, it's not an issue because blocks are not full, people are just using default fee. But, you know, blocks are full, different clients may have different limitations for fee estimation. So you can kind of work out, okay, this person used wallet A or wallet B because they're all going to produce this type of fee. And then you can also tell, like, if transactions are being more urgent than others to someone with, like, a manual, really high fee, you're like, okay, I wonder who this is. So these are some limitations that you need to be aware of and transacted. So if you want a first city blocks are full, you're the first to aren't really too much of an issue, then just make sure you use a wallet that's very standard or that there's a standardizing fee selection process so you don't get isolated. So these are the two different types of movables. We have, like, grin, which is a beautiful face, and your being, which is just like a laser. So these both watch really closely to each other. Grin actually was developing first, then Beam came along and said they were there. Grin is like a anonymous team of roughly four individuals. Beam, sorry, Grin is roughly anonymous in four individuals, and then Beam is a whole team out of Israel. The block types are from the same, the proof of work. Slowly different algorithms, but they're open to be the basic resistance for now. And one could be Susan Ross on the C++, like Grin differences. So actually this is not a big difference. They both implement, we'll go to what they have in common more, like when they implement the DNA plus plus, there's like some slight differences with it, like Grin is transactional aggregation, you have the stem phase, you've got slowly more in it. And then there's dummy transactions, which is actually probably why if you go to Beam's Explorer, they have a lot more transaction counts or transactions because it's a lot of dummy ones. And yeah, it's interesting because Beam will have like a hundred transactions per block, so I wonder how much of that is actually the real transactions, compared to the real transactions. So I have some like the new features of Grin, and like some of my classic, new proof of work. They, actually they've been both part of those plans of the ASUS in two years. This is relatively unrelated to like privacy at all. So let's get this. Beam's new features, I find this a bit more interesting, they have concepts of like an audible wallet. So you imagine like an area of transactional view key, so audible wallet is effectively in view, you can see at a view key, for Beam. However, this must be enabled by the end user. So if you don't enable audible wallet, no one will be able to infer that because the transaction is not. Beam also needs a future to reduce the number of kernel transactions, which is a chance thing. And then Beam's approach for setting this securely is maybe called secure bulletin board system, which is exactly what sounds like a secure bulletin board that everyone is doing, which is kind of a lot. So there's like a shared message board, people just put encrypted messages on it, and people will try to decrypt these messages, which in my view seems really efficient, but if it's all over the place, they never can access some more than a message of copy. So it's sort of a work-stish. And then there's like some like, and this latest difference is that we probably should explore because it's a lot of fact, not necessarily privacy, and I think over time you realize that it's more than just the privacy parameters of protocol moments, then it really determines its success, like you need to understand like, what is like monitoring, what is like the governance, what is the community, like what is the mining environment like, what is the technical nuance, is like a little direction that keeps going. Like for example, Grin's really weird, where Grin not raised external funding, they just took the initiative, or it's like he raises like a capital or an internal investors. So Grin's like, okay, we have a middle mining, and investors are like, if you can really get exposure to Grin, we can take the money, so what can we do? We can't get money, we can't get anything from that. So instead of putting the vests in mining pools, specifically for Grin, take a bunch of investors who's like dump the money into SBB mining quick, such as private vehicles for mining, and which is how they got exposure to it, and it's like, okay, it's kind of a really roundabout way to get, you know, like a point of need to use more efficient from raising like a capital, and how does people get a proportion of the funds to a little like Zcash. So these are just like political differences in life. And then with the protocols kind of made, and when I think of Grin or SBB, my kind of getting the narrow to Zcash, raising the narrow, took down some money, it was like Zcash sold a portion of the funds that were, which could be called mine, who knows. And then the supply side, that Grin is a symbol of a narrow, we're like linear, infinitive, infinitive organization, but Grin actually has a very high acquisition at the beginning, so it goes off and approaches zero as time goes on. Being has a fixed supply, whether this matters to the truck and the log, or who knows. But there's just some like high-day washable differences. Like you also have an adding, and some people will leave having a very unstable for prices near a half a period of Grin as a minus, maybe Grin as more stable, like who knows, or who doesn't really know. They also use like different databases for the transactions. Grin actually used RocksDB, but then they realized that MDV was better, it was awesome, we get some binary uses. VV uses like SQLite, but probably doesn't really matter, because this database is very similar, and probably doesn't affect the protocol that much. Like the mempool representation of data, it's like okay, they're both different ways of doing it, but probably doesn't make much of a difference. That's just just a privacy. So question is like, which protocols to see, like the both, the same mempool protocol, they all have very, the baseline of the privacy guarantees, but because they have different volunteer policies, like in practice the mining pools are very different, and maybe it's like technical nuances, like okay, like which one will be more like successful, in which one will win in all terms. Like we don't really know if you can gas, prepare, or take cash in there, and work out what's in there, but who knows. And I like to put a sheet that's five. If you want to learn more about this protocol, that research you did, go to tl.com, this is Tarnel University, it's our research sheet that's all this up. So if you have any questions, like feel free to ask. Yes? One more time. Oh, oh, so how does Allison end up by ball? This is great. So in order to find your protocol part of your transaction, you actually need to add there. So in being, you'll be like okay, this is my private public key care, and you send it to, like okay, this is my public key, encrypt the message, encrypt it. So I can encrypt your message to my public key. Grin doesn't really have the same way of doing it. Maybe this is okay, if we're going to transact it to a real secure messenger, like okay, this is my public key, like just encrypt it to this, like send the information to this channel. Well, let's say how like, you know, all the issues where we can have leakage, or like cement, and we'll talk. So this is problematic, especially given that Grin doesn't have a standard way of doing it. That is not an area of expertise, but I can thank you for your support.


You completely submerge before you come over to the ledge. OK. All right, well, you're ready. There you go. Get some good exhales. Water immersion was definitely something different. I've never done something like that before, just like this course. I didn't really get the shock like some people had, but it was definitely something to be aware of and stuff like that can always happen, especially in some of these training environments. So it was a good experience. I would say I definitely came out of this course feeling a lot more prepared for future cold weather incidents and or conducting operations in cold weather. So we take students from all branches, all components. We have a reserve national guard, active component. We have Navy Marine Corps Air Force Army, of course. We get them out here and we hand them the tools that are valuable with them through the system and the military, also the tents, the heaters, the opiosled, the skis, the snowshoes. Get them out in the environment, get them in the cold weather, into the moisture, into the snow, and we teach them how to use this and sustain with this equipment over an extended period of time. They took away our tents and our heaters, and we went ahead and moved on to, all right, now we've got to figure out where we're gonna stop shelter, how we're gonna do it, how to insulate properly with cutting down trees, laying down pine needles, whatever we need to do, and then using our tarps to go ahead and create the insulation and then putting stuff on top of that along with snow to create a barrier, and it was actually very warm. Yeah. We get them from South Florida, South Texas, we've had Southern California students come up here. We get people from Northern Minnesota and Michigan like we have in this class. We have cadets, young kids that come through just starting out in the military, and they've grown up in this region their whole life, and some of them, yeah, they've grown up here, but did they ever go camping in the winter? Or anything outdoors extensively? So this is the first time for them as well. Got a wedge and then go back to normal. How deep you can get and how tight you can bring your knees together.  Make sure that we are prepared for the cold weather environment. So that's why a lot of us are moving towards that, hey, we need to go Norway, do more training out there, but this right here will be a great practice for that Norway expedition. We try to be as open and workable with the unit as possible, so with flight times, transportation, unit cost, supply issues, lodging, and all that. We are, Fort McCoy has given quite a bit as far as lodging and CIF and supply issues and mills and all that kind, so they take care of the units and the students. If it's still usable, you've got extra toilet paper. No, it's a great course. I would definitely recommend it. I hope more people get to come. It's been an experience and I love it.


So, let's summarize reaction orders. Note that we can talk about reaction order in two contexts. We can talk about it with respect to a single reactant. That's like saying if we hold all other concentrations and conditions constant, how will the rate vary with this reactant? And we can talk about the overall reaction order, which is the sum of the orders with respect to all the reactants. Reactions with overall orders of zero or first order are simple. There's only one possible type of rate law for each. If we have a reaction with overall second order, however, there are two principle ways that this could happen. One is that the rate could depend on the square of one reactant concentration, as with the bromine atoms becoming bromine molecules in the previous slide. In this case, the reaction is second order with respect to the reactant and its second order overall. However, our ammonium and nitrite reaction is also second order overall. It's first order with respect to ammonium, and first order with respect to nitrite. But when you sum those two orders together, you have an overall second order reaction, a reaction where the rate depends on two concentrations.


Hi everyone, Joe for jazby's case breaks.com with a coming at you with a 2023 tops holiday baseball mega box break. Random team break number two. This is the last filler. This make off season mixer is going to be in a different video if you're looking for that, but we're giving away eight spots here. Big thanks to this group for making it happen. Appreciate you. There are the teams right there and let's roll it and randomize it three and a one four times each for names and teams different dice roll for the giveaway part one two three and four three and a one four times for the teams one two three and four and there are there are hits in here. There's one hidden here autograph potential or a relic or an auto relic but it's most commonly a relic but autographs are possible. Here's the first half of the list. Here's the second half of the list and let's print and rip. All right, so here on a Monday, thanks everybody for making this part of your Monday. I like those ornaments. Happy holidays, everybody. Here is Peter Lonzo. Could be on your Christmas tree. No one wants that for the holidays, Terry. Not yet anyway. That'll be for the Mets. That's going to go to Matt Lieber. Our best hope is that all these cleared of all accusations and then you could hang wander from the tree maybe next year. All right, good luck everybody. There is a hidden here somewhere. Let's see if we could find it. So these are the commons that aren't going to ship. Obviously rookie cards will ship and the silver border cards will ship like that Bobby Miller. It's going to go to the Dodgers. That'll be for Matt L. Francisco Alvarez for Matt as well. Shumek. Gosh, young for the Rangers. That'll be for Matt G. One of one of what had a Santa hat. Is that a something different? And we've got a DJ La Mayhew. Nice. Definitely game use. A little bit of what infield dirt in there, something like that. That's pretty cool. Yankees. That's going to be for Edward. Wait, so do you remember who the player was? Had a Santa hat on, huh? On the small photo or the main photo? On the small photo. Oh, main photo? Oh, there it is. And you said a candy cane sleeve? Like that kind of sleeve right there? Holiday cheer. And this. Oh, there it is. What other fun stuff is in here? So this Bryce Harper will go to the Phillies. That's for Tim with the candy cane sleeve. The peppermint candy cane type sleeve. Right there. He's got some lights around his neck too. There's the Chris Bryant with the Santa hat. That's going to be for the Rockies. That'll be for Michael. And then there's the Riley Green rookie card right here. And I think that's it. Are you missing anything else? Which one is it? The lights is a super short print? Nice, even better. That's awesome. All right, so some fun stuff in these holiday boxes. All right, now even more fun. Who's going to win spots into the mixer? Let's gather everybody's names here. One through 30. New dice, new list. And it'll be the top eight after six. Good luck. One out of five. Six times. One, two, three, four, five, and six. So already from nine on down. Sad times are trist and very close. No cigar. Nine through 30. Thanks everyone for giving this a shot. Ultimately sad times, but happy times for the top eight. And that's going to be happy times for Matt, Michael, Adam, Matt G, Matt L, Adam again. Matt L again. Michael L. There you go again. Top eight. Congrats to you after six. We'll see you in that mixer video. Jaspy's casewrakes.com. Bye.


don't sleep more than is necessary.  There are many traditions. There are many Sufi traditions, for example, traditions that identify themselves as spiritual pathways that teach its adherents that to purify the soul, you have to completely deny the body. You have to fast every day, don't approach your spouse, go live in a cave, be like a monk, deprive yourself, deprive yourself of Ahlulbayt, say no. Ahlulbayt teach us you don't need to damage the body to nourish the soul. You have to strike a balance. How many hours of sleep do you need? Six, seven, eight hours? Don't sleep more than that. Give your body just enough and don't give it more because if you give more, the soul will begin to weaken. There has to be a balance. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the Quran in Surah Ad-Dhariat, Surah 51, verses 15 to 18, Allah speaks about the mutteqeen. You know, faith is of levels. You have Muslim, you have Mu'min, you have Muhsin, you know, you have mutteqeen. Different levels. Allah in this verse is talking to us about mutteqeen. If you want to know the description of mutteqeen, read the Khutbah of Amirul Mu'min because he's Imamul Mutteqeen. What does the ayah say? The people of Taqwa are in the gardens, the highest gardens. They take what has been given to them by God. Their rewards are not given to them by creatures. It's given to them by Allah. And then Allah describes them. The reason why I'm rewarding them is because in dunya they were Muhsinin. They were doers of good. Then the first thing that Allah mentions as an example of ihsan is what? The first description of mutteqeen in this ayah is what? They used to sleep very little. And then Allah says what? You know, the time of sahar, it's the last part of the night before fajr. Allah in the Quran, he tells us if you want to be among the mutteqeen, you shouldn't only pray fajr, you should be awake before fajr, doing istighfar. Right now, because we hear lecture after lecture after lecture and we don't change. Does everyone have a phone? Take out your phone right now. Everyone, take it out. It's not a trick. I'm not going to post this on Twitter. Don't worry. Take out your phone. Take out your phone. Go to your alarm and set your alarm for 5.30 a.m. Do it. Habibi, you pull it out during my lecture. Now that I ask you, you're not pulling out, just put it in your phone. 5.30 a.m. 20 minutes before fajr. I'm not saying you need to do salatullahi, just be awake. Do istighfar. Do a turak'a prayer. Be awake. Start adopting the habits of awliya'ullah and make sure it's 5.30 a.m., not 5.30 p.m. You'll miss fajr ghohran asr. When alamat taba taba'i arrived in the holy city of Najaf, he tells the story. He says, I arrived there and I didn't know what my future was. My classes weren't organized and I didn't have my teachers, but I was interested in scholarship. I was interested in tazkiyah to nefs. And I asked Amir al-Mu'mineen to give me the tawfiq. It's very powerful brothers and sisters. Anything that I have achieved in my life is through the barakah of Ali ibn Abi Talib, salawatullahi. As I was addressing Amir al-Mu'mineen, asking him to ask his Lord to give me tawfiq, Sayyid Ali al-Qadhi put his hand on my shoulder. And he said to me, Sayyid Hussain, which is his name, if you want dunya, pray salatullahi and if you want akhira, pray salatullahi. The wealth and children, they're the beautification of this life, but salatullahi is the beautification of the akhira. The most beautiful people on the day of judgment are those who sacrifice their sleep to speak to Allah Azza wa Jalla. We ask Allah Azza wa Jalla to give us the tawfiq, to be of those who wake up during the time of sahab.


I invite you all to take a moment to think about the individual journeys that each person makes when leaving their country to get to ours. Try to imagine the suffering and hardship caused by war or famine or natural disaster. To imagine the perpetual fear of living with political and religious persecution. To imagine leaving behind everything and everyone you know and seeking refuge thousands of miles away. Imagine a young child being taken away from his teachers and his classmates having to learn a new language and to adjust to a different culture, let alone in Texas. The truth is I don't know if I could do it. I don't know if any of us could do it. I don't know if we could find the strength and courage that you see here today in the fathers and mothers and children that find refuge in our city. Their stories like you inspire me and they make us appreciate the things that we often take for granted. I want to mention to you a young African man I met a few months ago named Rahani. When he arrived in San Antonio he began working his way through high school and received his GED. He went on to San Antonio College where he is now ready to transfer to University and pursue an international business degree and he has a goal of returning home to help those who are left behind. In the time I have been on council I have gotten to experience a sense of optimism and hope that is strong in San Antonio's refugee population. Now we are working to make sure that strength is matched by native San Antonians eager to lend a helping hand. We face many challenges as a community improving support and providing support for refugees. Some believe that government should provide all of the answers and solutions. Others see the private sector as providing the best ones. I think about it a little differently. The essence of our partners here today and they are all around here serving food and providing services is no matter what they are from the public sector, the private sector or the faith community is to provide hope, to be better neighbors during times of need. The strength of their work is in the compassion of those who support it through volunteerism or donations. Such compassion is at the heart of our city and it was shown in 2005 when the city of New Orleans was crippled by Hurricane Katrina. The images of that natural disaster are burned into the memory of the Gulf Coast but it was the response of this city that was the enduring story. San Antonio under the leadership of Mayor Phil Hartberger opened our homes to over 12,000 evacuees, roughly the same number of international refugees that are here today. In the time of great need our city provided housing, health care, food and hope.  Our Plaza de Armas is dedicated to President Roosevelt and it's in his words that embody the servant heart of San Antonio. In 2005 in a time of national crisis San Antonio stood with open arms and welcomed our neighbors with compassion and without conditions. Refugees in San Antonio who we refer to as newcomers or who I like to call new neighbors face many challenges from access to health care, housing, education, to transportation. But with organizations like Catholic Charities, the CRS, Northside Independent School District, the University Health System and faith communities like St. Francis, St. Matthews and the House of Prayer, our city is stepping up to be better neighbors. The partners in these efforts celebrate the true meaning of World Refugee Day. Devoting time, material resources and compassion to provide hope and a foundation for a new life in America. I am happy to let you know as a city councilman on behalf of the city council, Mayor Julian Castro, that the city of San Antonio is not standing idly by. Since last year I've been convening refugee summit meetings at City Hall where service providers and new neighbors have been sharing their experiences and finding ways we can better collaborate to ease the transition into San Antonio. As a result of these summits we've been able to identify some of the gaps in service that exist in our current system of support. The outcomes have included the collaboration among partners for refugee after school programs as well as a commitment from VIA to translate bus routes in multiple languages along the worst spot corridor where it is badly needed. VIA employees have also donated bus passes to the Refugee Children Soccer Program which is spearheaded by Bobby Blunk, the president of the Northside Independent School District. Wouldn't it be great very soon from now that we have a level soccer field here that refugees in San Antonio's from all over the city can come and celebrate the universal language. This is truly the World Cup, is it not? And we identified several areas in dire need of pedestrian friendly upgrades along Worsbok as well ensuring that our streets are safe for those who are getting used to the Texan rules of the road. More work is yet to be done and there's a lack of mental health providers for newcomers as well as a need to make sure that those refugees who come to our city with specific skills are provided the opportunity to use those skills. It's fair to those families and it's a good thing for our community. Everyone in this field understands the importance of housing opportunities, quality education, transportation options and health care access for all of our neighbors. This is especially true for those who are calling this city home for the first time. So I will repeat a promise to you that I've made at every opportunity. I will continue to elevate the public dialogue about our new neighbors and make sure that our community recognizes the stories of refugee families and we will continue coordinating with anyone who seeks solutions to the challenges faced by our neighbors. So on this World Refugee Day let us celebrate what makes San Antonio a great American city that for those seeking opportunity and hope we are a city of welcoming neighbors. Thank you for all that you do and may God bless these families that have sought a better life in our city. Thank you. We're one of the most diverse communities in Texas. San Antonio is an in-district date even more so the ethnic and cultural, political, religious, socioeconomic diversity in this community is profound. So being able to work with refugees in different communities and getting things right as a community in this area of town is so vitally important and says that if we can do it in our backyard we can do it in the rest of the city and the rest of the state. Actually, it's funny because this is where the medical assets are in the city, the dense medical assets, medical centers here. We have the highest proportion of refugees that are brought in through the State Department here in District 8, but the Wurzbach I-10 corridor, this area of town is actually the population center. If you look at a density map of the population this is the center of town so it is a extremely metropolitan area. It is the place where logically if you were to point to where the confluence of culture and religion community are, it makes sense that we're celebrating World Refugee Heritage, a World Refugee Day here at St. Francis. We don't provide direct service. What we do is we provide support to organizations that are providing service, that provide support in these areas. So for instance we work quite a bit with Catholic Charities with their different programs so it's not direct service. But that's something that we're, I mean it's not all about capital, it's not all about revenue so what I've been trying to do with the Refugee Summits is bring all the people together in one room, provide some I guess a collaborative umbrella, a meeting space and an effort to bring all the services into coordination because doing so we can find out where the gaps are, we can also find out where we can find efficiencies in the process too. So there's a lot to be learned. There are many cities in Texas that are working on this. Houston has a fantastic Refugee service community so I've taken a trip out there to learn from their community as well. This is a, this is not a problem, this is an opportunity for us to show how we can work together as a community and so we're glad to be part of the effort.


Hi friends. Welcome back to my channel and welcome if you're new here. It is Friday at 6 30 in the morning. It is dark. I have some interesting lights happening here in my car, but I'm headed into my WW workshop to stay for the meeting, weigh in, and then I'm actually going to head to Jazzercise. It's kind of become my new Friday routine where I come way in and then I go work out and I'm actually really loving it. I'm already out and about anyways, so I might as well get my workout in. So I'm going to be doing that after my workshop, but I want to let you guys know before I go to weigh in how my week was. So my week was pretty good. I was extremely hungry this week, which I figured was partially because of working out and partially because guess what? Once again, yesterday, Thursday, the day before weigh in, time of the month happened. So that explains the extra, extra hunger and the feeling just really kind of run down and tired. I mentioned on my Instagram story that I was just a little bit tired this week and that explains it right there. But of course, of course, once again, the day before I weigh in. So I'm a little frustrated because I was hoping to have a good loss on this scale, but I never lose when it's that time of the month ever. I'm lucky to maintain. So that's my goal now has shifted to maintaining for the week since I'm sure losing is out of the question. I would be literally shocked if I lost weight when I stepped on the scale, but on a positive note, I went to Jazzercise four times this last week, four. So I got four workouts in, which is amazing. That's my goal again this week, four or five. I was actually going to go on Thursday, Tuesday, but I was so sore from Monday. There was no way that I was going. So if I'm not as sore, I'll be getting five in this next week. So yay. So that was kind of my week in a nutshell. We'll talk about it a little bit more after the workshop, but I'm going to go ahead and head in and weigh in and stay and see what the topic is for the week. Hi friends, welcome back. I'm out of my WW workshop. What a great topic. We talked a lot about our mind and a mind set when it comes to our weight loss. You can fix your body, but you have to have your mind in place as well. And a weight loss journey isn't all about food and diet and exercise. It is also about shifting your mindset and coming to peace with yourself in your current body and the body that is yet to come for you. So I love the idea of talking about mindset. I don't think that we talk about it enough or that we think about it enough in our weight loss journey. So it's nice just to get this refresher from WW. So I want to share with you the four things that WW suggests that you do to encourage a positive mindset during your weight loss journey. So the number one thing about mindset is develop awareness of your thoughts. You'll then be able to consciously know when your thoughts are affecting your weight loss. So for example, if you are having negative thoughts about your body, about your weight loss, about your progress, or maybe just even about what you ate that day, if you are aware of those negative thoughts, you can shift those into positive thoughts and that way it doesn't impact your journey in a negative way. And I think that I do this a lot. I'll think, oh my gosh, I just blew it. What a waste of a day. I guess I am ruining this whole day and I'm going to gain weight this week.  So I think that when we become aware of our mindset, we're able to shift those negative thoughts into positive thoughts and that's going to make a huge difference in our weight loss journey. You can also check out the headspace app on the WW app, the headspace app on the app. So there is a headspace version or section on the WW app. And that is a meditation type of a app where you can get yourself in a better headspace. And sometimes we just need that. Sometimes we are negative Nellie's and we just need to get ourselves in a better headspace about our weight loss, progress, our journey, our food, whatever it may be. So check out the headspace portion of the WW app and be aware when your mind starts going to a negative place. Number two is it's easy to get stuck on what's gone wrong. It's so much easier for us as human beings to focus on the negative instead of the positive in every aspect of our life, just daily life, not even necessarily our weight loss journey, but just our daily life. So it's time to take the focusing on the negative and really focus on the positive. Think about the good things that you've done. What have you done well on your journey?  That's okay. Think back on what you've done well on your journey so far and focus on that and commit to yourself that you're going to do the positive things that you've done in your journey moving forward. And don't focus on the negative so much. I do this a lot. And I know this about myself is I tend to think about the negative things just in daily life versus the positive things. I have so many things in my life to be grateful for. So many. I mean, I couldn't even list them all. It would be its own separate video, but I always lean towards the negative things. And I think that that's part of being a human being, but we really need to be self aware enough to be able to shift when we start thinking of negative into start thinking of positive. I think that's huge. I think that's huge in happiness in your daily life, your job, your family, your marriage, and in your weight loss journey. So I think one great tip that WW suggests is write down everyday three things that you're grateful for. It literally takes two seconds. You can write them on a sticky note, a piece of paper in a journal, your planner on your day of the month. Write three things that you're grateful for. And that automatically puts us in a headspace of positivity versus negativity. Number three is remember what's important to you. Remember your why. And we've talked about this several times. What is your why in your weight loss journey? That's what you need to focus on. For me, I like to write my why on my Aaron Condren planner at the top of each month, because I'm constantly in my planner looking at what I have going on in my life.  And that helps me remember why I'm doing this journey. Why did I start this in the first place? It could be something as vain as I want to look good in my clothes, or it could be health related or kids related. Maybe you want to be able to play outside with your kids. Remember your why and why you started this journey. That's going to help you not only stay on track, but it's going to help your mind stay in a positive place if you're constantly remembering the why behind your journey. And you can even search hashtag hundred days of why on connect and you can see other people's why's and maybe that will inspire you and motivate you to remember your why. And number four is actually my very favorite one of the four that WW suggests. And that's basically giving yourself some grace. Treat yourself the way that you would treat a friend. If your friend came to you tomorrow and said, I have completely screwed up, I had 7,000 points yesterday.  You've ruined your whole journey. You're going to gain weight on the scale. No, you would encourage them. You would say it's okay. It's a new day. It's a fresh set of points. Just start over today. But what do you tell yourself?  You're going to gain on the scale. Why did you do that? So I think this is huge. And this is something again that I need to work on. This topic is actually really great for me because I do all of these things to myself. I never give myself grace. I'm the hardest on myself more than I would ever be on anybody else. And more than anyone else is on me. I am hard on myself. So remember that you guys treat yourself like you would treat a friend or a family member. If they came to you with a struggle on their weight loss, or if they came to you and said, I gained three pounds on the scale, you wouldn't put them down. You would say it's okay. It's a new way in next week. Just get back on track. Do what you have to do to see a loss on the scale next week. And we need to take that same mentality and do that to ourselves. So number four, hands down my very favorite. I'm going to be definitely working on this because I am the queen of negative talk and treating myself like I'm bad when I make a mistake versus how I would treat a friend or family member if they came to me with a struggle. So really remember number four. I'm sure I'm not the only one that this is a huge thing to remember. So give yourself a little grace and treat yourself like you would a friend. All right. So let's get into my weigh in. So as I mentioned before, I went into my workshop actually had a great week exercise related four days at Jazzercise. And I'm going today to start off another great week of exercise. So really proud of myself as far as activity goes for the week. My food was pretty good. I was a little bit extra hungry, like I mentioned this last week. So there were a couple of days that I had some extra points, but they were also the days that I worked out. So I didn't feel as guilty, I guess, of having those extra points. And as far as my weight loss goes, I felt really good all week until yesterday when the lovely time of the month started. Then all of a sudden I started to question whether I'd see any type of movement on the scale this week. So I've been doing Weight Watchers a while and I know that when it is that time for me, I either gain or I stay exactly the same. I'm never going to lose ever, especially when I'm starting right before a weigh in day. So I knew that I wasn't expecting some grand gesture on the scale this morning when I weighed in. So when I stepped on the scale at my workshop, actually you guys, I lost 0.4. Shockingly enough, I actually lost weight and I started yesterday. So that was a huge surprise. I did not anticipate or expect that at all, but I'm going to take it. I'm happy that I actually lost 0.4. This was my last weigh in for the month of January. So I lost a total of 3.2 pounds for the month of January. So that's a little less than I was hoping. My goal is five pounds a month, but it's okay. I know that there were some struggles this week or this month, some setbacks this month and I'm ready to kick February and then you know what? So 3.2 total pounds lost in the month of January and 0.4 lost this week. So I'm happy with that considering everything, but I'm also hoping that next week I see a much larger loss when this whole mess is over and I've continued great eating habits and exercise habits. I'm hoping to see a much better loss on the scale next week. So that was my week. I'm again happy with the overall results considering. So I want to hear how was your guys' week? Was it what you expected when you stepped on the scale? What were some of your challenges and where do you feel out of those four tips that I shared from WW on mindset? Where do you think you fall? What is the one or two that you really feel that you need to work on? So definitely leave those down in the comments below for me. And also let me know your overall weight loss for the month of January if you're comfortable sharing, only if you're comfortable sharing. If you're new to my channel, welcome. I do away in every single Friday. 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So in this video, I'm going to talk about a zero point zero six two penny stock that could explode This is an incredibly cheap penny stock at zero point six Zero point zero six two incredibly cheap But also it has seen a bit of a sell-off after its recent earnings call What you've got is a few basically a lot of swing traders that have bought into the stock They've basically waited till the earnings call and they run up till the earnings call As that's now happened the now selling off and taking some quick profit Which is actually making the stock go down a little bit Which then ultimately presents a buying opportunity for anybody holding medium to long and we'll go through the recent news on this stock Which actually provides some good long-term prospects and we'll go through all that in this video again This is a zero point zero six two penny stock incredibly volatile, but a lot of upside potential as well Let's go through it So the one way talking about today is galaxy next generation You can see here. It has had a dip of about 15 percent zero point six zero point zero six two down from zero point zero seven four around that about 14 percent 15 percent dip It could dip a little bit further and with that in mind. It's because of people Buying in because of the earnings call, you know just before it for the run-up and now they've had their earnings call People are just taking profits and it's understandable But also the earnings call was quite promising There was a lot of good details coming out of it in terms of the potential of the company will go through that in this video But again as you see these dips and if you're looking at holding this stop medium to long You know as you see the dips It's time to buy the dips as they happen right again I'm not a financial advisor. You do what you want, but let's go into the recent news Okay, before we do that obviously just to anybody who's not aware of galaxy next generation They are essentially a teaching company. They can they provide teaching solutions They've got teacher view. They've got G2 panel G2 control. They've got all sorts of stuff In relation to teaching and schools in education and enhancing learning. It's a very interesting company They're also primarily involved in schools, but also other industries You've also had this recent tweet by this individual who said hi Megan I'm sure the company is doing well by itself However, do you foresee any sort of collaboration or acquisition with some sort of company to bring in more revenues and Megan has said in a response to that well We're currently in negotiations with a potential acquisition and as soon as we receive in the yellow I page We will share this detail with this team So they're looking at potentially acquiring more businesses Now why are they doing that it's because they're growing their revenue and they're getting more revenue So they've got that money. So then make those acquisitions and build up the company, right? So they're actively looking for acquisitions to actually make their company stronger and this is a potential catalyst Okay, and Megan is one of the individuals that is really high up in the company a very prominent individual of the company Going into the recent earnings report and again, these are fantastic numbers But you got to understand that there's swing traders out there that don't particularly care about the long-term potential of a particularly a penny stock So they take profit on the run-up Whilst, you know, other people are holding a long term for potential more gains, right? So every time it dips It's a it's a chance to buy a few more shares in my opinion again, not a financial advisor But I do think this company's got a long-term potential Okay or medium to long-term potential where in terms of you know, the next 12 to 12 months for 18 months 24 months I think it's going to do a really good to this company So we've got galaxy next generation reports second quarter and six months in in December 2020 fiscal results What's some of the key highlights? So 32% revenue increase to 2 million. Okay, 32% revenue increase You got to bear in mind the situation we're in at the moment You got to bear in mind that all these factors, right? And they're still growing their revenue by 32 percent Which is fantastic revenue growth for a for a company. They've also got deferred revenue So revenue that's in the works of 1 million. They've got gross margin of 50 percent Fright and transit gross margin of 34 percent again after that because you know There is the freight and a transit costs which do actually have an impact then they got reduction in quarterly operating costs to 0.9 million so they've reduced their operating costs with the burning through less cash in that sense and they've increased the total assets 25.2 million Okay, and also some key business highlights. You can see here. They've been awarded Curve Shield contracts They've closed acquisition of classroom technology the fulfilled 1.5 million purchase orders under its supply agreement It's got loads of contracts going on here with hundreds of thousands of pounds, you know And these contracts are going to develop and they're going to get even fairer contracts Which is just going to grow the revenue even more and you know a lot of these contracts that they get with these schools What's to say that they weren't then come back and buy and purchase of fairer products? Actually making sure that they get reoccurring revenue and that is explosive because then they're getting new customers But then also getting reoccurring revenue. Okay, so I do believe I've got strong conviction in this stock And I have since it was 0.002 Right, so I've had strong conviction in the stock all the way through and I've seen it go and have its dips and move Up and have its dips and move up people like you know You got to be careful as long as you do your research into the company and you understand what the company does and you believe in the company You're not then going to panic sell because you understand the full potential You're actually going to buy the dips as it continues to move up over time and you have to remember it is moving up over time if you look at the You know longer term kind of graph in the past sort of three months the longer term chart You'll see that it's been moving up with its little dips here and there Okay, it is volatile, but it's moving up. It's got it's on an upward trend Okay, so there's a lot of potential here as it does dip to buy them at the cheap price to then Ride them up if you do believe in the company Right. Okay. Let's go further into this So you've got expanded into Australia with new distribution partners receive commitment of up to 600,000 in curve shield products awarded 172,000 contract added products and sales capabilities Added warehouses hired for new sales in full-time employees and many employees in sales as well Which is going to directly impact the revenue the more sales people they have the more they can contact schools and sell more products So this is going to grow in its revenue massively and you can see here first half of 2020 1.5 million first half of 2021 1.97 million so they've had a growth from 1% just a measly 1% growth to now 32% growth So that is a huge increase in the growth when you think about that's 32 times It's growth that it recently had. Okay, so it's growing its revenue Massively now what's to say a 32% maybe next time they grow by 50% especially with all these contracts coming about So I just see this revenue continuing to grow. I see them to continue to grow their brand and their sales They obviously the only concern is that they need to put money into marketing so that they can become well known in The areas that they're looking to sell products in right so more money in marketing is going to help them in my opinion But you can see here that the growth. There's the growth there. This shows solid growth Now you may ask and people who are long-term holders like why the hell is the stock dropping? Why is the stock? Dropping well, let us say you're getting people who have bought for the run-up to the earnings report They're then selling off to swing trade it But if you actually take a step back and just really think about this 1% to 32% revenue growth 1% revenue growth then the next year 32% revenue growth you take a step back take a step back and you think about it You take it in taking the growth and the success the company's having and you can really understand that look This has got medium to long-term potential. Yes, you can swing trade it There's money to be made on swing trade and many people have Especially if they bought at the level when I first actually suggested it But I do think that this this is only getting started I think it's going to go much further But I do think it's going to have its significant dips because it's a penny talk and it's a penny stock and it's volatile So you got to remember that but the volatility presents opportunities to buy up the depths in my opinion And you can see a lot of good news coming out of the company. They've got the catalysts for acquisitions They've got the catalysts in terms of revenue growth New products potentially being released. So there's a lot of good stuff now What is the individuals in the company said about this actual revenue? So we continually to successfully build upon our solid start to the year with 32% revenue growth Despite the three months ending to set December 31st 2020 being traditionally our slowest time of the year We schools being closed for the holidays. We've greatly reduced our quarterly operating costs to zero What 0.9 million and again, so they've actually grown their revenue at a time where it's much harder for them to grow revenue So imagine in the months where it's easier to grow the revenue how much potential they've got in those months, right? So again here we continue to execute our products and solutions strategy enclosed an asset purchase of classroom technology solutions Okay, so they've got that and it says here We believe that this is just the beginning of a major technology turnover cycle in the K-12 education market as Increased schools budgeting is now being spared by additional federal monies So again, you've actually got there a larger budget for schools now Okay, and with that larger package and that larger budget for schools is Directly good for galaxy next generation because they're selling into schools and sell more products Now again the current price 0.062. It's dipped 14% But remember it's up many hundreds of percents, you know in the past month past two months It's milk many many hundreds of pen on hundreds over a hundred percent, right? So over to nearly over 200 percent Right, so it's up a lot. It's up a lot already So of naturally it's gonna have a bit of a pullback every now and again And you know, I'm prepared for this and if it does have a significant dip if it dips further I'm buying in and buying some more shares, but again, this dip presents opportunities It's not something to be worried about presents opportunities and it's people just taking short-term profit on the air Inns report. Okay, but again a lot of potential for this stock if you enjoyed this informative video Then do leave the video alike join the stock club as well We go through in-depth thoughts on stocks and we also give latest perks and news and all sorts of stuff And if we get latest stock picks as well early on the stock club, you just click the join button There's a stock club button that comes up and you can join the stock club YouTube membership here on the channel And you get all those different perks like the video subscribe if you knew and I'll see everybody in the next one