I'd love to take this opportunity and we will welcome everybody into the studio here on the Independent Investor Channel for our weekly Hylian update. Very, very important that we continue to supplement the information pool that is out there as we are probably in about the darkest phase in the company's evolution here, being stuck in this quandary of very tough markets, supply chain issues, and then a looming 2023 that stands to be very promising for the company. So it is incumbent upon all investors to, certainly if that fancies your approach to continually monitoring this company and keeping up on the day-to-day action, I bid you all the best in doing that. But I think there is one way and one way only to approach an opportunity like this. Ask yourself what's going on in the industry. What is the big shift that is happening if there is one? What are we looking to address? What are the current solutions out there and what is the current demand over those products in the industry? So for you guys that don't know and I continually offer this weekend week out and I know that there's probably at least a few patrons who will seek out this information to understand a little bit more about Hylian holdings and what they bring to the table. This company is going on eight years old. Thomas Healy is the head CEO and he is the creator of Hylian, this idea of a more efficient class eight space which is your large semi trucks over the road trucking. And he did so with an idea that you could extend the range using alternative fuels with the idea that we could potentially add more horsepower to the experience. We could address the over reliance currently by the diesel fuel that dominates the industry. This is the very fuel that the powers the space. So when you're looking at the initiative here there are a lot of fronts that are going on that affect this Hylian opportunity right now. Now for the company and the industry as a whole it is probably gonna move into the ice age here over the winter. I don't see outside of the prospects of winter validation that there's going to be a whole lot of catalyst over the coming months. So what does that mean for individual investors? Well, it means that the age old onus of patients is going to be the very pedigree that's going to see us through. And it perhaps may seem cliche for me to offer that as advice, but for you guys that tune in to me weekend and week out know that I am a bullish share owner of the company. I think this company has the right vision for the future to at least be able to in some small degree or large degree penetrate the class eight market both here domestically and abroad. Now I think there is enough interest in the receipt of that product but I also think we are in the early innings my friends. I think that there is so much that needs to be done on this front. And the question is where are these few companies that are offering the solutions along in their technology? And I think where some will boast and suggest that one company is ahead of the other in the evolution perhaps maybe there's some bias in that I don't know I would contend that Hylian is far and away ahead of the game even with their self induced delays based on the reasons that they've explained has really set them back in their evolution as a company with regard to supply chain issues and some of the CEOs that I'm speaking with as well discuss the labor shortages as being a real hit to the bottom line. All I can tell us that Hylian is doing a great job in building their team and have done so since coming to public markets nobody talks about it. Me and my small team with the compliments of David we track that intimately and I think it speaks to the internal growth that the company is going after. Now these are not hourly laborers these are highly skilled, highly technical positions that Hylian is looking to bring in house here. And I think it's important that they continue to do that and they are it's one of the grades that I put over on Hylian that they get an A plus on with regard to their growth and with regard to their hiring and the team that they've brought on board here from the upper management to the board of directors all the way down to their highly technical team that they're looking to bring on here and leverage that opportunity. But in a nutshell Hylian is looking to electrify the class 8 space. And if you wanna find out more information I would invite you to visit Hylian.com. I always try to leave that in the comments below for you guys to kick over and get a non biased opinion. I try to deliver as neutral of an opinion from week to week as I possibly can but also to make sure that we're providing that direct conduit to information that is out there and it's lean my friends. I am one of them and I'm a lowly shareholder. I don't have a lot of glitz and glamour on my show. If you wanna come on and you want to experience a clip edit type of an exercise I'm the wrong channel for you. I don't even put background music on, okay? Because the words that I deliver from week to week are unique to me. And these are the words that absolutely are heartfelt. They are absolutely aimed at having my thumb on the pulse of where this company currently is, where it has been and where it is potentially going into the future. And I think you can benefit from it. Where 10, 15 years ago we would have never had the opportunity to share information and or even fall on our face when we hear a tweet heard around the world and are able to react in a few seconds to that set information. I just think speaks to the times and requires individual investors to really manufacture the level of patience necessary because if we're inundated by all this constant information on a specific company or the information that is available abroad even with the geopolitical conflict and we react upon that information and I don't think we're giving ourselves that ample time to interpret the information as declared. We'll speak about the announcements of course in this video. Take a moment to acknowledge September 11th as well. I am here in New York City and yes indeed it's got a special place in my heart absolutely. So I kind of look at this as a little bit about it's a solemn day, I won't be doing a whole lot today. I've been down to the memorial many, many times. I would invite you if you ever have the opportunity to kick down there, it is quite the experience. And that is all I will say about that in remembrance of 9-11. I thought it was fair to acknowledge that today for the highly on video. The second source of information that I want to offer to you guys is the Discord group. There's still a ton of patrons who hit me up and ask me for the link to the Discord group. I'm gonna try to put that in the pinned comments of this video. So at least you're provided, all this is free of charge guys. This is not paid private groups here, okay? This isn't an opportunity to solicit for your business, okay?  You got to ignore most of that stuff. Make no mistake, our intention here on the independent investor channel and the few of the sources that I recommend, highlyon.com and the highly on Discord group. There's a few other places of information, highly on bullish shareholders. I am also part of that group and endorse it. The same figureheads that are in those Facebook groups also frequent the Discord group. And I would invite you to kick over there. I'll try to share that link to the Discord group if you like much more frequent content than what I can deliver on once or sometimes twice a week on my weekly, highly on videos, but it is absolutely imperative that people educate themselves up on many, many different fronts that I speak about and it is multifaceted. It is absolutely a dynamic space to look at and it is not as easy. My friends is buying a stock at $3.30 and expecting it to shoot to the moon overnight. If you misconstrue my expectations of this company, you would be wrong. If you misconstrue my Twitter rant to highlyon.com then you need to ask me about it and I will provide you clarity. And this is kind of what this opportunity means every week for myself and the many shareholders that I think are part of this opportunity here that will in fact, if they deliver the, really the silver bullet in this opportunity and that is time and patience. It says it on the highly on website. If you need to find it, you can go on there. It's an opportunity that highlyon speaks about as if they have a solution to offer right now to the marketplace and they do. They offer their hybrid EX products right now to the marketplace and the Hypertruck ERX is still in more of the development and proof of concept phase in so far as they've earmarked winter testing and fleet validations within each of the fleets. We had a test fleet kind of operation this week that was released through Twitter in it. It set me on tilt, absolutely. This company has come to the market and it like all the other EVs has not been perfect. It has been far from perfect. And there's a lot of things going on right now in the early stages of development in each of these respective companies that would require them not to be forthcoming with so much information as the technology develops, as new discoveries are made. Remember, these guys are dumping some massive, massive amount into the R&D spending from quarter over quarter, okay? Investments in R&D pay off, okay? For you guys that have studied companies and you've understood why they take those risks to just put into research and development, it's because they've been proven to pay off. They have to do it. It's a cost of doing business and highly honest, highly engaged right now in that. And through that payment to the research and development budget or early aspect of their budget in getting their flagship products out to the market, they don't wanna lose any of that proprietary progress that they're making on each of those respective companies. So if you're wondering why, from week to week, I badger the company on being more transparent. I believe that the information that they do release, they can be much more careful on, okay? I believe, and I have an instinct, this company is going to do great things into the future, okay? And this is part of why people tune in to me. This is where the goods are, okay? Everybody can kinda do away with the fluff and car floofal. They wanna know my opinion about where this company is going. I have an instinct about where this company could potentially go and it's not gonna take a whole lot to get there with the framework of what they're trying to do and being able to check the boxes in a lot of different categories for fleets. I think the sky is the limit for this company. I really do. But when projections are made by the company to suggest that the HyperTruck ERX can get a range of a thousand, it's been said many, many, many times. So we'll get into the announcements here, okay? There was a tweet that came through this week that suggested that there was a driver and it was complimented with a video. It's the same driver that has been driving for Hylian since the very, very beginning. So I would expect that that's a pretty good test subject and that he's been a driver for many, many years. He's an experienced driver from what I can glean from his assistance in helping Hylian with a lot of the driving duties. Seems like a great guy. He's been in a lot of videos. Seems like kind of a private guy, but nonetheless, he provides a very vital service to Hylian in that he chews up a lot of the road miles that Hylian is really kind of in that opportunity now to engage in. And so he's an important part of that, but the tweet came out and it was a test route, I believe from Detroit to somewhere down in the Midwest somewhere and he was able to make it 780 miles. And that when that tweet came through, everybody quickly jumped on that and started to compare the 1,000 miles of total overall range to the 700 that was declared. Now, I think although the scrutiny was warranted because the information that was released by Hylian could have been done with a lot more care. I think it should have been supplemented with a business wire with some of the statistics as to the starting amount of fuel verifying and doubling down that yes, indeed, it was full on the onset and how much potentially there was in fuel that was left over because what that ends up doing is that it allows investors to speculate on whether or not Hylian really knows what their numbers are and to add on to the tweet. What came through is the fact that it was just the Hylian hyper truck ERX with no payload, okay? And that sent investors in somewhat of a tailspin in trying to understand the disconnect between the over 1,000 miles of range and the 780 that was declared during the tweet and also doubled down by the driver during the experience. Then we take a step back and since then I've actually had a few people complements of the Discord group, Andreas being one of them. So shout out to Andreas as well and Silent Alert as well who's one of those other Twitter people personalities that I follow. Those two guys, Andreas is one of the main individuals and points in the Discord group but I actually follow him on Twitter, does a fantastic job as well as Silent Alert. I hold these guys in very, very elite company because what they say is fabulous. They do not have to reciprocate that to me because I'm a little bit more edgy. As a matter of fact, I'm a hell of a lot more edgy. I don't like the disparity between a continual doubling down over the last couple of years of 1,000 mile range and then all of a sudden we drop a tweet during the ice age when information has to be anticipated by Hylian to fall on very, very hungry ears. And if that information is contrary to what the expectation for the unit is going forward then there just needs to be some explanation for it. And I actually believe that there is and why that wasn't provided on the onset is just a miscalculation on behalf of Hylian. And I will chalk it up as just that. Do I believe that Hylian meant ill will to investors by putting out that tweet? Not in the least, not in the least. Hylian's intention is to push out information when they have it and when they are comfortable in doing so, that is it, bottom line. The idea of pushing out this range is that they did do this test run and there is a lot of things to be gleaned from it. Unfortunately, there's a lot to be questioned by it. Okay, and since then, we've had a lot of amplifying information to suggest that even a tractor trailer, and this is by compliments of our class eight truck driving community, which is something that I also advocate for. Their contributions to this initiative are second to none, my friends. I am not a truck driver, but I do absolutely yield to the many truck drivers who are part of this community. And it is one that I acknowledge in providing some incredible insight to the day-to-day goings-on of what it's like to be a truck driver, what it means, what the experience means, what this could potentially mean in the direction that Hylian is going, and what was able to be garnered by the trucking community in providing a little bit more color around the 780 number is to suggest that a tractor as it goes down the road is not get to enjoy all of the compliments of the regenerative braking, okay? When I read this, and this was not my idea, this was one that I picked up on Twitter, I believe, and I do not remember to provide credit to that individual, but I'm certain that they watched my Hylian videos because I've seen them before and they're a staunch proponent of offering information to help further the dialogue, and it really helped me understand that perhaps maybe the tractor going that 780 was a little bit more impressive than we give credit for, and that's because as it's working along that constant speed, it does not have the opportunity to engage that regenerative braking the way that it would hauling a payload. And I thought that that was a nice piece of insight in really understanding the 780 that was declared by Hylian. Second point that I want to kind of make here is that on Hylian's website, they speak about being able to produce results that are on par with diesel, and I would agree with that. I would also suggest to my friends and make a statement that this is my own opinion, this is not fact-based at all, but I will make the statement now in allowing you guys to consider the prospects of range being one of those things that aren't quite as important as some of the other aspects that we talk about on the channel, okay? Refueling time, downtime, okay? We've seen one opportunity through the channel of how long it takes to actually refuel the CNG hybrid unit. We have not seen the refueling of the hyper truck ERX as of yet, but I would presume that that refueling is on par with what it would take eight to 10 minutes or so on a normal refueling on par with diesel. That, my friends, is enormous, okay? Because when you're looking at downtime upwards of a half hour to 45 minutes to charge our traditional BEV vehicles, okay? Which was doubled down on by our NFI rep, I believe it was the CEO that was captured by Healy on the YouTube channel this week by talking about the expected market that they were going to focus in on for the BEV portion of the NFI business and that being upwards of 200 miles and below. That's it guys, that's it. And this is actually on par with what Thomas Healy talks about.  That might be true, it might not. I have not seen enough to validate with my eyes or enough in way of articles to read that that has absolutely been proof of concept down and put into the rigor of over the road and proven to be true, okay? I'm just gonna sit there and say, I think there's a lot of claims being made right now to garner some attention on each of these respective businesses and until it becomes true in the over the road rigor, I would question the integrity of those comments until I see it in reality. Because here's the thing, even at 500, there was a kind of a funny tweet that came out this week that suggested, if you're a truck driver, are you gonna drive all the way to 480 and then start looking for your charge when you run the risk of maybe having that charge run to zero and end up on the side of the road? Of course not, all right? So when we're talking about recharging times and we're talking about such an anemic range when compared to let's say an ERX that as of now, we know can burn rubber up to 780. Now that's without payload. I'm gonna talk about that in just a second. But my friends, dare I suggest that perhaps maybe that's kind of a loot point in all of this. And as I started to go through and kind of crunch the numbers a little bit on the 780 and what it could potentially mean, it meant a lot for me because that was the longest range that had been recorded on the hyper truck ERX, my friends. Nobody said anything about it because Hylian allowed for the snowball to kind of take effect on Twitter.  How is it that you release this information without providing any type of color around this test? You thought it good enough to record the video and put it online. How is it that you can't even provide some? I would have liked to know what the climate was doing. I would have liked to have known, I assumed that the driver tendency was such of an experienced driver, but they never said that, right? They never said that. Why they ended up to opt for stopping the test at 780? If they would have doubled down and said, look, we have another 480 miles. I think it was to Dallas, Texas, or Texarkana, Arkansas. I can't remember where exactly it was, but the next availability for C&G to refuel was some many miles down the road. And it would have taken 1,300 miles to actually make that to the next station. So they opted for that. Why not just offer that as color? And that's where the scrutiny from me comes in, is that this company is going through an evolution of learnings. And they have to understand when information that's released is well-received by the market, carno generator, for example, well-received by investors, horribly received by the stock market. The stock sold off for nine days straight since that announcement come off. Did the stock market like the information? Well, no, it didn't. Because of what we saw in the forthcoming offerings down the line when it was received in the market, the stock didn't double. It was falling on deaf ears. And then when it was identified that the carno technology was in the works for many, many years up to the announcement, it was kind of like, well, that would have been baked into the cake anyway. People would have known that that deal was in the works and the stock wouldn't have sold off so healthy without them knowing about that if it was such a large catalyst, okay? But when we talk about the 700 in range, I think it's one of those that we have to sit back and ask ourselves, what is it that we can realistically achieve in a day of driving? I drive 500 miles, I'm tired. I'm not a truck driver. And this is my comfortable Toyota Tacoma that I drive over the road. My little six cylinder that is easy to drive, it's comfortable to drive, the seats are comfortable. It's good to go. Now, when we used to drive a Mustang, when we used to transfer around this country and we used to take that, we could hardly drive that thing 500. It was the most uncomfortable vehicle you could ever ride. And the last thing you wanna do is wake up the next day after sleeping in a Motel 6 and hit the road again for another 500.  My hat goes off to you. So my rhetorical question for the truck driving community out there to help further along in this discussion is when and how and why would it ever benefit for a range outside of just reducing the number of fuelings that you need to be subject to in the truck, how is it that on a day to day basis, anything less than 500 miles or anything more than 500 is really applicable in nature? So when Hylian came out and said the 780, I was imagining to myself, okay, 780. The question is, how much opportunity along expected routes can that 780 realize without having to proceed to the next route, the next truck stop to refuel? That's the question in my mind. How many less routes by achieving the 780 are we not able to achieve by not gaining the 1,000 miles? Because if they're not gonna provide any clarity, I can just assume that 780 is kind of along that maximum range. Now I would expect that there was fuel in the tank. I would expect that they could have got another 100 miles, maybe even 200 miles with what they had left. They did not declare that. They left it open-ended and that's where some of the speculation on behalf of the investor community came in to say good grief. I mean, what's going on here? What are we looking to do here, guys? I mean, we've been told over and over and over again that the Hypertruck ERX can achieve 1,000 miles range, over 1,000 mile range, over 1,000 over. Well, you just came in significantly less on the very first over-the-road test that was put through social media and you came in way under 1,000 miles. Are they lying? Did they mean ill will? Did they mean it to be received that way? Here's the thing, guys, no matter what I think or presume, highly honest thinking, the fact of the matter in is the bottom line, they have got to be more careful with the information that they release. It is their responsibility to do this, okay? And I have been extremely, extremely hard on their PR department from the very beginning, from the very beginning. And I don't know if it's just based on the talent that they have or the learnings that they have not incorporated or the expectations that the PR department has on the news when it's released and the reaction that is going to be expected. I just think that any logical individual would come to the bottom line that this release could have been done with a lot more care and could have had a lot more color surrounding it. And that way it could have been positively received in the market because here we are, we're stuck on a Sunday release on the independent investor channel trying to twist what was taken as a very, very negative piece of information and trying to spin it as positive, which I think the bottom line intent of that information was aimed at being positive, not negative. They were looking to say, look, 780, it blows out any of the competition on the marketplace. Look what we were able to do. Look what we were able to do with this much fuel remaining in the tank. The idea is that we were able to run that generator for 780 miles, nary a problem, smooth. All the things that the driver said during that experience were actually missed. If you actually listened to the words that that kind driver was making from Hylian, he was actually talking about how awesome it is with the experience. Now, he's comparing old experience that he's had in over the road trucking to this new experience that he's been able to help in pushing the dialogue forward with Hylian. But I think when we're talking about some of those metrics that probably don't matter as much, I think that 780 is one that is variable. And I think we really need to understand it as a baseline. Is that the max? Is there areas of improvement that can be made? How does payload affect this? And this was a big question that came out when the news dropped. Well, why didn't you just put an 80,000 payload behind it? And I got to thinking, you know, on a direct drive ICE engine, wouldn't it stand to affect the fuel consumption more with a direct drive diesel as opposed to a fuel that fuels a generating unit on a constant basis? There's no load put on the generator, okay? For you mechanics out there, all right? Its sole purpose is to charge the batteries, okay? The E-axle through the regenerative braking should actually provide smarter power to be able to accommodate that payload. And my scary question rhetorically to the grander audience here is, is payload gonna be affected that much, right? Are we gonna lose so much fuel efficiency off the top just because we have payload in an electrical drive train application? It doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to me because there's no demand over the generator that's garnered from having $80,000 attached to your truck or just driving the truck itself. There's no additional demand that's asked of the generator, right? Does it kick on more to charge the battery because the draw of the E-axles is more? Perhaps, but these are some of the things that we wanna understand going forward. And quite frankly on a cross comparison between the diesel hauling 80,000 pounds and the hyper truck ERX hauling 80,000 pounds over the road side by side is the comparison that I wanna see to perhaps maybe draw the correlation between the hyper truck ERX actually being more efficient when it does haul cargo, it does haul freight over the road, then does a diesel because of the connection between the demand over the mechanical energy on the diesel side, as opposed to the electrical demand over just the batteries in the hyper truck ERX. So news that we'll have to wait for, I think here being in the ice age of the company, the stock price is recessed to a point where it gets zero attention whatsoever in the marketplace. So as we look to shore up that announcement of the 780 that was released this week, I would encourage each and every one of you guys to draw your own conclusions about that, what that could potentially mean. I think as I've had more time to think about it, I'm of the understanding that 780 is pretty impressive. It's pretty impressive. And if you're looking to just compare over 1,000 miles and you're looking to look at 780 as less than that, I think is an unfair comparison because there's too many unknowns in what Hylian intended to do by the release of that information. And I don't think the intention was to compare and say, look, we initially said 1,000 and now we mean 780. I do not think that that was their intention. I don't guys. I don't even think it was close. I think drawing that distinction between those two numbers is actually significantly unfair. But I think the lack of anticipation of how that information would have been received in the grander investor community. I do chalk up as a Delta for the company. And I think that they can do better going forward in the release of their information. I absolutely do. So hopefully you guys see it that way. We will continue to march along. I mean, look had Hylian come out and said, hey, we were able to get a maximum range of 320 miles. I would have been a lot more crazy. I probably would have sold my shares on Monday because where I think these small missteps are going to happen, where I think these small mistakes in release of PR or maybe potential to do it one way or the other are to be expected with a new company. And there's a long leash and a long bit of latitude that I can lend to the company. We are just getting kind of tired of Hylian being perceived as offering information in one light and then releasing information on another light. And for them not to anticipate that was a little bit careless. I think it was a little bit reckless, especially for a company that's this close to the vest, they should be proud of their product. And if their product got 780 and they look at it like I'm looking at it now, why wouldn't they look to exploit the positivity in that release as opposed to allow the grander investor community to speculate on the information when it was relieved. I think it could have been done in a little bit more, a little bit more care before it was. And I'd like to see that going forward. The second announcement that we got was the 7% on the hybrid unit. Now this was a diesel hybrid for you guys that don't know Hylian has two specific hybrid EX products. The one hybrid EX product is aimed to supplement the lack of horsepower that can be garnered from compressed natural gas. The other is actually meant for a diesel application.   Diesel is not going away. And no matter what side of the political spectrum you are on, that very reality is made ever so present when there's any type of wrinkle or shake up in the diesel market, okay? You wanna tell me that diesel's not important so we can accommodate or we can pull diesel from the marketplace to accommodate a bunch of people who just want to do away with fossil fuel because it's evil, all right? I'm immersed in reality and my friends that is not gonna happen. So the hybrid EX diesel application is meant to consume less fuel. It is meant for fuel savings. It is aimed at fuel savings, okay? So when the 7% was released it was a cartoon of a hybrid truck going up a hill. Again, back to a common theme that if I was just gonna offer my small echo chamber of opinion through social media, I think more care and more due diligence is required in releasing that information. Because again, I think that what could have been taken as positive news, which is what Hylian intended I don't think they meant to improve upon the 30% savings that's been declared throughout the past. I don't think they meant to release this information and say, no, no, we don't get 30, we get seven. I don't think that was the intent at all, my friends. The intent was to provide a cross comparison, a savings estimate for the hybrid EX product that is meant to supplement the diesel application and they save 7% on that diesel application in a nose-to-nose comparison. They never said that, okay? Assuming that that same diesel application with the exact same horsepower, with the exact same capability, with the exact same engine drives that exact same route using the exact same driver tendencies, using the exact same weather conditions, renders A results on the diesel side alone and B results on the diesel side supplemented by the hybrid EX product. And the release of that information had us presuming way, way too much comparative and what were the variables in the test condition? What were the variables? 7% savings against what? 7% savings based on the information. Just reviewed the tweet before I came online for you guys. You can read it however you want. Perhaps maybe even you read it different than me. Therein lies the problem, okay? Hylian has got to be more careful with information when they release it and they have to be able to take these good data points which this is good. 7% savings over diesel, over a hilly route for trucks and companies that run hilly applications. I'm from Oregon, okay? It was the test bed for one of three companies and these trucks as they're going over the range from Portland to Tillamook to the coast everybody knows that Tillamook forest, right? It's crazy how hilly that range is and they're making that run multiple times with their fleets. If you can put on a product that perhaps maybe you get a tax incentive from and the total cost of ownership can be drawn upon by a metrics of 7% savings. Guys, they're gonna opt for that product. I believe that they would, I really would. It's a technological advancement and compared to what the industry is garnering as other solutions, that's a fantastic cost savings over multiple units. Fleets are hungry for this type of information and if they can draw down the high cost of diesel right now by putting the hybrid EX product into work they can do that. Now that's not to speak of the AP unit and the savings that are garnered from there. Why? Because Hylian did not offer that information, okay? They did not offer how much of the terrain was hilly, how much of it was downhill, how much of it was uphill, how much of it was flat, how much of it was straight but was it just climbing a hill and over a certain number of miles? And that was the test parameters that were drawn upon by the test. Investors like myself and many others are hungry for this information. And when I sat back and I looked at the 7% I said, okay well, we have a product here that works. Works. Does it work to a clip of 2% cost savings? No. Does it work to a clip of 15% cost savings? No. Does it work to a clip of 5% savings? No. Does it work to a clip of 7% savings in the diesel application? The answer is yes. Now the question becomes, is this enticing enough for fleets to go through the hassle and dare I say the downtime that's necessary if they don't install this off of the line brand new the downtime that is incurred to save 7% if a truck has one, two, three, four, five years left on its life cycle, when is the expected payback of taking what we know now in that if that truck is going to continue to be introduced and over the road and hilly terrain in its rigor, is it expected that they can get that total cost of ownership, that payback over that unit and investment in the useful life of the truck? That's what it means to me because the higher that number, the less time of the payback and the more older the truck can be to actually have the hybrid e-actions installed with some level of expectation that it gets that payback, realized before the truck turns to dust or they take it and they sell it off to another country or they sell it off to another company. And that piece right there with those two pieces of information coming out back to back I don't know what their motivation was it I can only speculate because Hylian does not provide any type of color on it and I will continue to scrutinize this company up and down on their obligation to be much more careful with information. If I had the opportunity to just have a beer with Thomas Healy and just look him in the eye and say, does this make sense to you? Like I understand that it's gotta be pretty I understand that it's gotta be professional looking, okay? But the nuts and bolts of the information, man it's terrible, it's terrible and you can do so much better in each of those scenarios they have to look at what it is they have in essence and they have to look at the opportunity that they can spin the information with the narrative that they want investors to understand about that and we're stuck in this limbo, is it a makeup? Is it a revision from old declared information? Is it admittance to getting less efficient out of both of their applications? We don't know, we don't know because Hylian hasn't just come on and told us what it is they want us to understand about why they're releasing the information. Otherwise why release the information? And I honestly believe and I give Hylian a pass with regard to them just releasing the information with a little bit more of a careless type of a card on this than I would have liked to have seen and they just need to be more careful with releasing the information going forward. So that's it for the releases this week guys I was happy to see the reprieve in the market it was of interest to me to see the exacerbated downturn in the market drag Hylian down and then the turnaround in the market and Hylian continued to go down. So the feudal and entertaining activity of watching the stock price day to day has turned out no growth for me has turned out very little in way of hope. I was extremely set off by the two tweets that I wanted to explain this week to you guys on the weekly Hylian video and I hope you got some value out of it. I hope you guys understand that when I speak about this next segment here in the weekly video and we talk about the stock price and we talk about what's to expect going forward. If you strip away and I talked about this on my live stream if you stripped away the $3 stock price and you were only allowed to look at the information that is publicly disseminated I think you would be crazy to suggest that this company is right now trading at $3 a share. I could make the arguments on both sides. I really can. I could make the argument to value this company at a dollar a share. They don't make any money. This company doesn't make any money. Two to three million this year, 2022 it's a wash guys, it's a wash, okay. I'm here to summarize it in a way to let you know. Look, the chances of catching a jump in 2022 in the stock market albeit low is still there. Why don't you just sell the company now Ryan?  It's because the stock market is a forward-looking mechanism, all right. When we look at the stock price now, Hylian and the stock price and the analysts that are looking at this are trying to value this company minimum six months out to 18 months out. And there's going to be a sweet spot where we enter into that projected scale up and ramp up of the company where the stock will start to move with no notice.  You had suggested to the independent investor channel that he should just liquidate all of his shares and tell the candy man comes and knocks on the door and says, hey, it's time. It's time to go ahead and purchase your Hylian shares right now for the good of the order because it's starting to move. That doesn't exist in stock market investing, all right. So although I do believe that the potential in 2022 to be fairly low for any type of catalyst because we've already kind of capped where we can expect earnings to fall this year, it's a wash, as far as prior projections, they have missed badly. Whether or not they'll ever meet those large projections, we need a lot more meat on the bone with regard to their progress in how they are going to approach this mass scale plan. They have drug shareholders through the mud. And I'm talking about for a number of the last two years because they've just completely pushed this timeframe forward 24 months and in the stock market, that is an immense amount of time for competition to come on. It's an immense amount of opportunity for Cummins to grab some market share. It's an amazing amount of time for Nikola to continue to limp their product forward all the while while Hylian seems to think that they can just take two years off. And that's two years off. Two years off from progress toward mass scale up in that they need to evaluate and rigor test every single nut and bolt and by nature of Thomas Healy's admission that every wire nut needs to be validated in winter testing to make sure that it doesn't corrode or what type of undercoating is necessary in winter testing. My question is why wasn't that stuff done before? And the real holistic application that I put over Hylian, I look at this twofold. I was duped as a share owner based on the information that was put out initially and where we are now. I never expected them to just push the timeline to the right. I never expected us to be this anemic, this far into the game here. Guys, we are in 2022. Based on the projections that they had on the onset of where they would have been right now, they cannot say that the information that they had then was so valuable to suggest that if they stripped away the supply chain issues and Hylian was provided every part that they would have ever needed that they would have ever had a pie in the sky's chance of meeting those numbers because they wouldn't. And this is where the credibility piece comes in, okay? Do I believe this company is gonna do great things? Yes, but I am investing on a significant amount, more hope now in making some of those numbers material going down the line and whether or not they're gonna be able to do that. And I think it is incumbent upon Hylian to recognize that now and understand that there is a sense of urgency, okay? I understand going on YouTube channels and providing an interview, okay? But me as a shareholder with thousands of dollars tied up in this company, that's not where I wanna see your focus. Like I don't care about that anymore. And I provide that myself included as much as I feel like it would be a riveting interview to come on and support my request that I put in two years ago to have an interview, I don't want that anymore. I think when there's interviews done by certain YouTube content creators and everything is being portrayed that it's just hunky dory and everything's great, it's not, things are not good. I chalk up your stock and your company era right now as the Ice Age, it's horrible, okay?  Oh, the progress, this and that, oh, this and that. And if Hylian would have come out and said we only get 320 by the range, 1,000 was wrong, they would spend that in a positive way. Whereas me personally, I would have exited my position and we would have never seen another Hylian video on the independent investor channel again. Mark my word, I would have been out, done. Because this company is coming dangerously close to making projections that they cannot follow through with. Do I think that they intend on doing that? I don't, I don't. Do I think that the original investor presentation was put out there with the intention to mislead? I don't, I really don't. And I could be dead wrong on that. Did I put undue reliance on that information? Yep, was it disclaimed that I shouldn't do that? Yes, so it's me to blame. And therefore Hylian has no obligation whatsoever to defend my decisions because I should have been reading the fine print rather than the information that was in bold color right in front of us, right? Okay, but because that information was put out, don't you think that Hylian would have a little bit more of a sense of urgency to get down to brass tacks? What is important is going on what the truck, the best thing for Hylian right now? I don't know, I don't know, it's good for them. Is going on other YouTube channels, what Hylian needs to be doing right now? Do you honestly think that the visibility you get from a YouTube channel is that great that you need to spend 30 minutes out of your day to come on and oblige that request? Every other quarter it seems like, every quarter, twice a quarter, we're coming onto YouTube and we're talking about the company and we're regurgitating the same information. Go into silent, okay? Give some impression to say, you know what, I'm going behind the curtain, my friends, I'll emerge with a plan, a detailed plan on how we're gonna scale up this company because I know that we can. I know that we said we were going to and I know that we can and here's what we're gonna do. Going on social media opportunities does nothing for me. It pisses me off actually. It pisses me off because it seems like the company has no sense of urgency whatsoever to get to work, to at least provide some level of roadmap on where we could potentially go. Why not provide a roadmap after this whole like two and a half year validation of a company that we thought when it came public via SPAC was further along the process and actually had a product, they didn't. They didn't, they had a really good idea and they had a truck that was painted green and white that could spin cookies in the parking lot of the Hylian headquarters in Austin, okay? That's all they had. That's what we invested in, my friends and whether or not we can take that original concept to something special into the future in Thomas We Trust. That's what we're on right now and stock investing requires a lot. This investment opportunity requires us to be extremely naive. It requires us to accept every piece of information as good information and not scrutinize any of it to provide an unlimited leash to Hylian to do what it is that they wanna do until they run out of money and then ask for more, which they will, to expect that that looming share float that is locked up right now will be released with an opportunity to provide a longer timeframe and push the mass commercialization to the right again. These are all things that I expect to happen because I don't expect anything in way of Thomas said that everything on the timeline on the last quarter was on track. My friend, I don't believe you. I just don't believe you anymore until you can start to prove that you can hold to a specific timeframe until you can prove that you can actually do which what it is that you said that you were gonna do. I don't believe you and the urgency behind this company actually providing some results right now is never more apparent than it's ever been. And we wonder why the stock is at $3 a share. This is why. And if they're not careful, they're gonna continue to slip in their share price. And those shareholders like myself and many, many others who believe in this company will continue to make excuses to justify why and how, to justify that it's okay, to justify that there is no charge in Hylian to have any type of sense of urgency with regard to the current situation, to not try to provide some clarity to shareholders instead keep them in the dark in understanding that what's going on behind the curtains is all well and good and plenty. And we're gonna be talking about a company five years down the line that is actually gonna survive to drag shareholders through this opportunity on complete faith and trust in the management without being provided any type of color around tangible opportunity toward marching toward a tangible end. How is this company expected to earn profitability? Let me ask you that. Have you thought about it? What type of numbers does it need to garner to cover the cost of operations to turn a profit? My friends with the information that we know right now and I hope I'm wrong with the information that has been declared to shareholders over the last two and a half years, right now, right now my assessment on profitability is a pipe dream. It's a pipe dream. That's given the information everything that I have extrapolated and put into the depths of my mind in churning out the path to profitability it is a pipe dream. Why? Because we have not been provided any type of clarity on how that's gonna happen. The existing reservations are being called into question as to the merits of those. The orders that are even backed by deposits. Why not just surrender? Let's just say it's $10,000 per order. Why would they continue to honor that if there's another product that is allowed to creep on to the marketplace that's better? Why would they opt for renewable natural gas hyper truck ERX if they know that the carno is coming in two years? Why wouldn't they just keep their deposits? Swap it to the carno. Now I don't want the renewable. I like the idea of the carno but I don't like the idea of renewables. How is that gonna affect the bottom line? Has, have they created some internal cannibalism going on with this carno generator technology? We don't know because according to Thomas Healy there's extreme demand over their products, okay? But that is not indicative of the order orders that are anemic at best. I mean, what's the next announcement? Are we gonna announce at Christmas that we have 10 more orders? I don't care at this point and none of it matters. Orders of 10 are feudal. They can log a 10 order, order every single month and it doesn't matter. The stock price is not gonna move, okay? And there's a reason for that. The reason why that is, is because even with those 10 fleets are given the optionality to opt out of those orders in search of a better technology and a better product. If they are not forced into that technology they will not exercise their right to buy, my friends. They will not. And we're talking about a token order of 10. That's $100,000 just in deposit revenue. That's nothing, that's nothing. That pays 20% of Thomas Healy's annual salary. So when you put it into context that way we are in the ice age right now with this company and we are operating on hope, okay? I am over the next 15 months just like I said many, many months ago putting this company on a bridge. It is a bridge and I suggested many, many months ago that walking that bridge with all of the alligators down below, this is like Indiana Jones would not be easy. And my friends, it is not gonna be easy. And I think it may get worse before it gets better because right now my friends we are grasping onto the very hopes that Thomas Healy and the very investors both institutional and retail investors alike end up realizing in some capacity some level of light to understand that we could potentially be looking at a scale up in production numbers with the plan that they've laid out. Okay, Hylian is not an OEM. It is critical for them to maintain the OEM relationships. Will Peter Bilt just sever the relationship with Hylian? I don't know, anything is possible at this point. I put nothing past this company. They do not double down on the relationship with Peter Bilt enough to give me assurance to know that they're gonna be there in the future. They have not. I have learned to be a cynic with this company. Am I proud to be a share owner in the company? Yes. Am I proud to be associated with all of the deltas that are going on with this company? No, not at all, not at all. They could do significantly better. And my problem is I think they are naive to this fact. I believe that everything that they're doing, I believe that they believe that everything that they are doing is on par and they are doing everything that they need to do and that by doing what it is that they need to do, they will eventually end up where it is that they have a vision to end up in. And I challenge that notion. I do. I think complacency has no place in business whatsoever. And the perception of complacency right now in the Ice Age with Hylian Holdings, I wish I could be more positive week over week, but I promised my community and my shareholder base that I would come on and I would share what I feel like is the pulse of the company. What is the pulse of the community? And not everybody out there are naive shareholders. They are just shareholders. And some of those shareholders are downright pissed right now at what's going on. Give us some color. Give us some transparency. Give us some idea that over the next year in 2023, we are not just going to allow fleets to just drive these trucks and test and validate and come out with winter testing and carbon NITSA certification. Give us some color on what that's gonna mean. Otherwise, you are going to have the nicest, most certified, most verified, arts and crafts engineering project in the history of the stock market that nobody in the mass scale and the trucking industry wants to put into rigor. That's currently where we are. When we watch this video some many years from now, we will understand what the very tone and tenor of this company is. Right now, latter part, 2022, moving into what is supposed to be a transitional year 2023. I'm looking at fall of 2023 as really being that catalyst and looking from the time from now until then to be that forward-looking bracket of time six to 12 months out where the stock starts to move and it'll start to move quickly and it'll start to move with aggressiveness. And mind you guys, it will appear as if it's moving for no reason whatsoever. I really appreciate you tuning in to this pulse of where we are here in September of 2022 for this weekly update on Hylian. You could tell I was somewhat passionate about this message. I do apologize if there were people who were offended on my Twitter tweets this week, but to say one thing and then deliver on another in all intensive purposes can be construed to be misleading, my friends. And we need to avoid that at all costs and we avoid that through communication. And I think it's key that you continue to double down on providing transparency on this opportunity. I would invite you to subscribe to the channel. If you're new, you continue to want to catch these updates from week over week, I typically do not miss. Leave your comments at the bottom of the video, hit the thumbs up if you enjoyed the video. If not, hit the thumbs down button, no problem. If you don't like me, no problem.  I have no problem with that. No frits, no frills, no glitz, no glamour, okay? That is my approach. There's no elevator music in the background, but this is absolutely how I feel about what's going on right now as a bullish shareholder in this company. And I'm looking to kind of capture that and provide some level of foresight, some sort of roadmap for investors to hold this company and look to enjoy better days into the future as Hylian looks to bring a lot of these initiatives together on their march toward electrifying the Class 8 space in Class 8 trucking. Guys, thank you so much for tuning in to the message and good luck in your investment future. I'll see you guys next time. Bye.


to him let's go now straight for bond market reaction then to those minutes so Michelle from big securities joins us and Simon what did you take out of the minutes in terms of I guess any bond yield reaction at all to RBA rate cuts going forward good afternoon look it looks like they've really sort of discounted I suppose those global factors it sounded quite positive and I think the markets reacted by pushing yields up yields up around about seven basis points and if you have a look at the two-year has been down around 1.75 up around 2% so market really starting to discount the possibility of another easing by the RBA what about globally I mean obviously we've seen a recovery in oil prices that no doubt helped global yields very much so and good old prices very much driving yields at the moment we saw that last week when we had that positive rally in the oil prices all people moving out of bonds back into more risky assets that was reversed yesterday when we had that volatility on the Doha inability to come during agreement and then obviously we've had this issue come out now around strike action which has pushed that all price back up and and so it is just happy to move back into this guess it's so quite a bit of volatility out there at the moment and just before we go tonight obviously we hear from Glenn Stevens he's speaking in New York I think the speech hasn't been titled yet but what we be watching for in that speech well I think something I'm going to be looking for is how he's looking at those global factors I mean the ability for the RBA to maintain its current interest rate settings is very much going to be driven by how quickly the US moves up its interest rates and that's going to be due to external factors so I'm looking to for Glenn Stevens start bringing a bit of that into the conversation we know that we've seen by the ECB in Bank Japan continue to push rates down he's held firm is he going to be able to continue to do that is he going to have to follow them down and that's going to be driven by those external factors


In this video I'm going to talk about solving linear equations with variables on both sides. Sometimes when you have equations and you're solving you're going to have variables on the left and on the right side, the equal side. The most important thing to know when you are solving these type of equations is that you just need to gather everything together. Gather all the variables together, gather all the numbers together, that's what you need to do. In this case I see a lot of different terms. Here's a k term, 3k, negative 14k, and there's another k term, 25, that's a constant. Two is a constant, negative 6k, that's a k term, and then negative 12, that's another constant term. What I want to do is I want to gather everything together. First thing is on the left side I'm going to gather everything together that is alike. Notice that there's two k terms here, I'm going to add those together. Combined like terms that's going to be negative 11k plus 25. There's no other constant terms on this side so 25 just stays 25. Then on the right side I notice a 2 and a negative 12, those are both constant terms. So it's going to be negative 6k and then add those together to get a negative 10. Positive 2, negative 12 makes a negative 10. Okay, so that's the first thing you do is on both sides, left and right, make sure you kind of gather everything together. Now you need to make a decision. I need to get variables on one side of my equation and I need to get numbers on the other side. Now it doesn't matter what side, left, right, it doesn't matter just as long as they're on different sides. You just need to make a decision. Do I want the variables on the left or the variables on the right? It doesn't really matter, you just need to make that decision at this point. A good rule of thumb for most students is to always get the variables on the left side. So for this one that's what I'm going to do. I'm just going to get the variables on the left. So what I want to do is I want to take this negative 6k and I want to move it over to this other side. To take this and move it over I'm going to, since it's a negative 6k, I want to then add 6k, add 6k. Then in turn we'll kind of move this over to the other side. So that goes to zero. I'm left with negative 10 on that one side. Negative 11 plus 6 is a negative 5k plus 25. And notice the 25 didn't change at all. Now from there what I'm going to do is I'm going to get the numbers on the right side. Since I decided the variable goes on the left, the numbers, the constants are then going to go on the right side. So that means that this 25 needs to go to the other side. So positive 25 I need to subtract it over to the other side. So that means negative 5k is equal to, those are both negative numbers, that's a negative 35. So this is what I mean by get all your variables on one side and your numbers on the other. Now I've got one more step. I have a negative 5k here. I need to divide by negative 5 to get k by itself. So k is equal to, the negatives have canceled so this is going to be a positive 7. So k is equal to 7 in this case. Okay now again with any linear equation you can always take your answer and plug it back into your original equation to see if you did that correctly. This one's a little bit tougher. I can't do this in my head since there's a lot of variables, a lot of plugging in. 7 plug it back in. So 3 times 7 is 21. 3 times 14 is going to be 7098 so that's a negative 98. And then plus 25 equals 7 goes into here so this is going to be 2 minus 6 times 7 is 42 so that's a negative 42 minus 12. Okay so we're going to see if both the left and the right sides are the same. Now this is, again this is just to make sure that I did this correctly. Alright so the left side of this 21 and 25 is going to make 46. Okay and then 46 minus 98 that is 44 and 8 would be 52. Negative 52 excuse me. And then, okay so that's the left side of it, the right side, negative 42, negative 12 is 2 minus 54. This is a lot easier so this is going to be a negative 52. So notice the left and the right sides are both negative 52 so actually this is the correct answer. k in this case is equal to 7. Okay so that's kind of the way of solving linear equations. The biggest thing that you need to know is you just need to make a decision. I need to get my variables on one side and my constants on the other. Variables on one side, numbers on the other. Once you do that then you can start the process of moving things across the equal sign combining like terms, things like that. Okay so that's one example. I'm going to go through a couple more examples of this. One example, 3 times the quantity W plus 7 minus 5W equals W plus 12. Okay so on this one one thing that's a little bit different is that right here on the left side we do have a little bit of distributive property that we need to handle first. Okay so I'm just going to go through solving this. I'm going to take the 3 times everything in here so this is going to be 3 times W which is 3W, 3 times 7 which is a positive 21 minus 5W equals W plus 12. Notice nothing on the right side really needs to be changed. There's this W and 12 they can't combine so nothing happens there on the right side. Okay on the left side I see a 3W and a negative 5W. Those are two like terms so I'm going to add those together to make a negative 2W plus 21 equals W plus 12. And again now we've kind of come to the crossroads. I want my numbers on what side and my variables on what side. Well in this case actually what I'm going to do is now you don't always have to do this. You can choose what side everything's going to go to but I'm going to look at my variables to decide this. So I have a negative 2W on this left side and I got a W on the right side. What I'm going to do is I'm going to move the W's so that I have a positive amount of W's. What does that mean? Well if I take this W and I subtract it over to the left that means I'm going to have a negative 3W in the end. That negative 3 that means I'm going to have to eventually divide by negative 3. I don't really want to do that. If I look ahead a little bit I can try to make this a little bit easier for myself. So instead what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to do the opposite of this. I'm actually going to take this negative 2W and I'm going to move it over to the right side.  So I'll show you here in a second. So plus 2W plus 2W21 is equal to 3W plus 12. So notice that my variable has a positive number in it. That's why I kind of explained what I did. Does it really matter? Do I have to do it like that every time? No, no you don't. But once you get better and better with solving linear equations, solving equations in general, you always want to try to find little things like that, little strategies to help you out so that you make the solving just a little bit easier. Okay, moving on. Now I get the numbers over. So I'm going to subtract 12 from each side. What is that? 9 equals 3W. I'm actually going to move this up over here. I'm running out of room here on the bottom. 9 equals 3W. That means I need to divide by 3 on both sides. So 3 is equal to, there we go. And again I can plug that back into the top to see if I did that correctly. Okay, so 3 plus 7. Yep, W is 3. So 3 plus 7 is 10. 10 times 3, that's 30. So I got 30 right here. Minus 5 times 3, that's 15. So it's 30 minus 15. 30 minus 15 is, what's 30 minus 15? 15. 30 minus 15 is 15. So I got 15 there on the left side. I'm going to take W and plug it in here. 3 plus 12 is 15. So 15 on the left. 15 on the right. 15 on the right. It does work. Okay, I didn't do that correctly. All right. One more example. One more example to help us with this. One half times the quantity 10A plus 12 equals A minus 6. There we go. Okay, a lot of students will have a little bit of anxiety with this one because they have one half out front. Don't worry about that. It's not difficult to distribute a one half. Okay, all you got to do is just say to yourself, take one half of 10, one half of 12. That of word in mathematics means multiply. So half of 10 is 5, in this case 5A. Half of 12 is 6. And so again, not too difficult to multiply times one half. Okay. And after distributing, there isn't anything really to collect. These don't combine. These don't combine. So now I got to decide, okay, which side do I want my variables on? Which side do I want my numbers on? Okay, so in this case, I'm actually going to want my variables to be on the left. I'm going to subtract this A over. That's going to make it 4A. Notice it's going to be a positive 4A. That's what I want. I want a positive 4A. Equals. Nope, nope, sorry. I forgot about the 6. Got to bring the 6 down. And negative 6. Make sure you don't make that mistake. Just because this guy disappears doesn't mean this sign disappears. That sign tells us that 6 is negative. So make sure you keep that there. All right. And then what I need to do is subtract 6 from both sides. So 4A is equal to negative 6 and negative 6, making a negative 12. And then I need to divide by 4. A in this case is equal to negative 3. All right. Now, did I do that correctly? Let's check. Take this negative 3, plug it back in here. 10 times a negative 3 is negative 30. Negative 30 plus 12 is a negative 18. Half of negative 18. Half of negative 18 is going to be a negative 9. Let's write that down. Negative 9. Does that equal the right side? All right. So negative 3 minus 6. That does make negative 9. So it does work. It does work. Okay. All right. And that is solving linear equations with variables on both sides. Again, the big thing you need to remember is that just make the decision. Which side do I want my variable on? That's the biggest decision you need to make. After that, then you get your variables on one side. You get your numbers on the other. And then you just continue solving from there. Make sure that you always, always, always take your answer and plug it back into the equation. And that's 100%. You know that you did that problem right. You found the right answer when you plugged that back in. All right. And that is solving linear equations with variables on both sides and a couple of examples of them.


For this session, we're going to be talking about virtual machine viewers as a way to enable open simulator access on mobile devices as well as on low computing devices. Our speakers today are two colleagues of mine, Jason Larino and Chris the Muir. And I'm Kay McLennan. Jason is a systems administrator and professor at Tulane University. This is also a systems administrator at Tulane University and many of you know me already. I'm a professor of practice and director of online learning at Tulane School of Professional Advancement. So let's get started. I'm going to set up the user end user view of the use of virtual machine software and then I'm going to turn it over to my more able colleagues to give you more of an overview of virtual machine software and a virtualized viewer. As my colleagues know that I'm having an issue here, let me start again. I'm not seeing anything up on the board, but I'll imagine that it's changing even though I can't see it. There are viewer limits on student use or access to open simulator. One of the limitations is that mobile devices whether it's an iPhone, an iPad or any similar touchscreen will not display the open simulator viewer and it can't be used on these devices. Another limitation is how Chromebooks cannot be used to download and install the open sim viewer. And then there's no guarantee that our students are going to have or be using a computer that is capable of actually running the open sim viewer from the standpoint of their available RAM or graphics card. And then finally, students may be reluctant to download just a third party viewer because it's unknown to them and it's not available on the institution's website. So virtual machine software to the rescue, the VMware horizon that our systems administrators used is just something to be downloaded onto your device or laptop. And of course, it's available either from the iTunes store or whatever the Google, I can't think of the name right off the top of my head. But once the VMware is downloaded onto your device or computer, you click on the icon item number one on the screen now. Next, click on add the client, the server. Number three, you enter the name of the server. And then number four is just clicking on the server when you're ready to go online. And this is two screenshots from my iPhone six. I only have one of the small iPhones, but you can see the green VMware logo up on the upper right hand corner of the screen. And then when I launch it, you can see on the right hand side how a singularity viewer and firestorm viewer are available for me to use on my iPhone. This is a screenshot of me using the firestorm viewer on my iPhone six. I can move around. I can, you know, the resolution is quite good, as you can see the depth of field. I will confess, and this is the first time I've tried it on my iPhone, I was not able to use singularity to log in because if you remember where the text boxes are for singularity at the bottom of the screen, for some reason, I just couldn't get the little text to go right in there. And I'm not claiming that it's easy to use on an iPhone with the little text boxes, but it does work. And that's just an absolutely amazing development to me. The next screen I have is of about an eight-year-old iPad with, it might be the second generation iPad that has a smashed up screen in the upper left hand corner, but it worked with this device too. So that was absolutely amazing to me. So in summary, I'm going to, again, turn it over to Jason next. A major advance in accessibility is possible through the use of virtualized viewers. However, I'm going to open this up to the group of capable developers and users that we still need a single sign-on from learning management systems like Canvas. I know I sound like a broken record, but there we have it. I'm detaching my slides now, and I am going to start Jason's slide. Jason, I'm going to turn it over to you, and please tell me when to advance the slides. Thank you, Kay. I appreciate it. Okay. So first of all, of course, let me say thanks for allowing us to come and speak at the event. So I'm going to start a little bit and start with the scenario and how we came to develop these virtual, you know, these viewers in the VDI infrastructure. I'll do a little bit of the intro for that, and I'll turn it over to Chris to do some more of the higher technical details as he was more involved in the setup of the Blade Center itself, and then I'll finish up with some of the things, the concerns we found, et cetera, in case others are trying to set up a similar situation. So let me start a little bit with the backstory. I know Kay went through it, but, you know, my colleague Chris and I, we all work in different capacities, so I am both a work in the technology department with Chris. I'm also a professor in our applied computing, and I had never really been involved in any of this open simulator stuff, but so we have a new CTO come in, and he's wonderful, and he's committed to doing everything possible for us to use technology to improve the student experience. So when we're looking to do that, he put us in touch with Kay, and she told us of the things she was doing with the open simulator software stuff, and we also had a horizon Blade Center, which is what we're using to virtualize the machines that have the viewers on them, and he's allowing us to use those things to better enhance the student experience. So as long as it's a teaching capacity for the students, et cetera. So anyway, so the first scenario is that, you know, students were using the open simulators on campus, but like Kay said, many times it was their own devices. So, you know, sometimes if they were off campus, their devices may not be good enough. Their machines may not meet the correct hardware requirements to run it. Like Kay also mentioned, you know, maybe they're, you know, scared about downloading the right things. You don't want viruses or anything. So, you know, it's potentially, they weren't sure of which one to get. We also from a administrator or a college standpoint, we didn't have the ability really to centrally manage when people were bringing their own devices, especially if they're off campus in other states, other countries, et cetera. So it was harder for us to manage.  So I mean, really, this bring your own device wasn't the way to go. So we talked to Kay. You can go ahead and advance Kay. So we talked with Kay and what we kind of came to propose was, you know, one of the things we would do was to host those Windows virtual machines on servers in our data center. That way we could control the hardware, make sure they had sufficient hardware that would meet the needs of these students. So what we decided to do was use this virtual desktop infrastructure or VDI to host these things. So with VDI, we also found we have an extra benefit of adding a security layer through the native VDI session. So those screenshots Kay was showing you of her using the viewers on the mobile devices. Those things also are similar to a VPN that the connection the horizon client makes is in actually an encrypted session. So we do have an extra layer of protection we're offering to our students using this.  Go ahead and you can advance. All right, Chris, I'll go ahead and turn it over to you. You can go into some of the some of the details about the infrastructure itself, and then I'll jump back in at the end. Okay, yes. Thank you, Jason. Good morning, everyone. So I'm just going to go over the infrastructure architecture and sort of how everything is built. Like it was mentioned earlier, we're using a VMware horizon. It's a VDI solution offered by VMware. It's pretty widely used. It's fairly robust, and it's got some pretty neat capabilities, which I'm going to get into in a bit. But all of the VDI machines are running on vSAN ready nodes, which is essentially a hyperconverged architecture. Each node has four 10 gigabit links all connected to a central switch. So that allows for pretty fast communication between the virtual environment. And the VMs are also running on solid state disk storage, which provides pretty good performance for OS operations and so on and so forth. But really, sort of the secret sauce for this architecture is the NVIDIA Tesla M10 GPUs that are in each horizon server node that provides enhanced graphics processing, which was sort of a necessity for running the OpenSIM viewers. So yes, the advance of that slide. This is sort of an overview of the infrastructure. The two screenshots here, and yes, that is the NVIDIA grid protocol, Frank. But this is screenshots of our vCenter as well as in horizon. It's just a handful of virtual machines right now. They're all using the NVIDIA grid, which is sort of a native capability in horizon and VMware. So do you want to take it to the next slide, please? OK. And here's the Horizon Administrator console. So this sort of facilitates the connection between the end users and the virtual machines running on the infrastructure. So do you want to advance to the next slide? So that's sort of a high-level overview of the environment itself. Here is essentially how we performed our testing. We used the Firestorm and Singularity viewers. Those seemed to be highly recommended and popular. And we installed them on Windows 10 virtual machines. And we used the long-term stability build, that's LTSB, of Windows 10. It seemed to just be a better fit to run in a virtual environment, not just for this, but other VDI use cases. And we actually tried without using the GPUs. And what we saw was that it was pretty much unusable. Even on the local network, the video was choppy. It just wasn't really feasible to use. So we were able to get some of the GPUs. And we tested with various profiles. So each profile allocates a different amount of video memory to the virtual machine. So each GPU essentially has 32 gigs of video memory. And the profiles allow you to carve out the memory according, however you want to. So we tried it out with one, two, and even four gig profiles. And even though it was one gig, it ran very smoothly. And it was a very good experience. And I'm actually in the virtual environment right now. It's how I'm accessing the grid. So if you could advance, please? Yeah. And like I said, it's Windows 10 LTSB. Oh, yeah. So this environment is only available to two-lane students. I'm sorry. I see you downloaded Horizon. Yes, SK. So the hardware specs on the VMs, we essentially settled with four virtual CPUs, eight gigs of RAM, and 80 gigs of hard drive space. So it's fairly standard virtual desktop. Maybe a little higher performing than we're used to. But the Horizon vSAN ready nodes have a ton of resources available. Each node has, I think, 768 gigs of RAM. So multiply that by four. And you have a very large number. It's three terabytes of RAM. No, I don't have a technical how-to. But we could put something together real quick if you're interested. A lot of what I use to build the architecture is, it's really just a standard Horizon build. The complexity came with actually setting up the GPUs themselves. It's very vendor-specific. And we actually had to have some assistance from Dell to install the GPUs in the servers, as well as install the drivers in VMware ESX. But I can somehow get out some of those documents for you if you're interested in building an environment like this. So that said, I'm going to take it back over to Jason. And you can wrap it up. Thank you. Thanks, Chris. So yeah, Chris went through some of the technical stuff on how we set up the blades in the blade center and the VDI machine. So if anyone is going to try this or do some stuff, we did also want to include some of the concerns we found when doing this. So the first concern and the first problem we ran into is that normally in a VMware environment, machines are highly available. They're floating around. They can be V-motioned on and off to different hosts. So that way you can do things like do cluster updates, do move resources around if a host gets overused, et cetera. And typically, all that stuff is set up automatically. But what we found is that using these GPUs, we're doing like a PCI bus pass through. So when you do that, the machines get fixed to where they're not able to be live migrated any longer. So what we've had to do is just turn off all our high availability, our DRS, et cetera. And if we need to move these machines around, we just have to turn them off and manually move them. So another thing we have to do is because of this, typically, we don't want to have all this user machines on one static node. So we do have GPU cards installed on each node. And what we've done is we've sprinkled the virtual machines around on different nodes. We have two or three per host. So that gives us some additional protection. In case of loss of service on a host, we may only lose a fourth of the machines. The next concern is that typically, in a virtual environment, you are able to overallocate RAM and storage and stuff. But with using these GPUs, you have to reserve fully all the RAM you are going to use. So if you are going to purchase one of these things, make sure you do have enough to like an overallocation of RAM because these machines, you have to reserve it all upfront. So I guess the last one is that also typically in a VMware environment, as a server administrator, you can right click on a machine. You can get into the console. If you need to access something, check on a machine or assist a user that may be on there. But these GPUs use the same protocol that BLAST protocol we're using as the console does. So once we turn this on, our only option really is either an RDP, just a remote desktop session, into the machines. So if we have to go in there and say if there's a new version of Firestorm that comes out, then we have to go in there RDP to access these things. Or there is some built-in stuff, some assistance in the horizon that we can use. So you can go ahead and advance K. So then one of our last thing, let me also talk about, because I started off with how we started the project and how it came to be. Then we ran into some concerns. So let me also then talk about a little bit of what we did to testing where we got it over to K. So what we did first, we had our infrastructure functioning. Chris and I got that set up, mostly Chris. He's the technical one out of us. And then we started on our on-campus testing, because of course, your network is going to be better probably on-campus than off-campus. So we started with just basic testing. Our technology staff, Chris and I, and we tested some Windows desktops, some laptops, some older laptops, and everything we tried it on, we had great success. Another nice thing that I wanted to mention in here and throw in, we're starting to move our lab environments, and we're doing some testing around campus with these wise terminals. They're a cheaper way to run desktops, but we were scared because the resources on these things are a lot less. It's almost like a mobile device, or even like a Raspberry Pi type device. It's this small terminal and it's running this thing called FinOS. So we used those to connect to, or they had the horizon client on it. We used those to connect to these machines, and we had great success. So we also then tried to start off-campus testing, because of course, that was one of Kay's requirements that she has students that may be not in state or not on campus or around the world. So we wanted to go ahead and test that. We've tested from home, from different locations, all successes. We then turned it over to Kay and some of our other staff, and she was really the one who tried out the world and the viewers on her iPhone or iPads. We also have tried it on some Android devices, and found out that these were great successes too. So that's kind of what led us here, because she really thought it was amazing that it would run on an old iPad, and that's a really great thing. And a lot of our university, we do have older stuff that we recycle and stuff. So hey, maybe this is a way we can repurpose and use some of these devices. All right, Kay, you can go on one more slide here. One more slide, yep. So in the last one we have here, just to kind of finish it up. So our access control, so I did see something in the chat that somebody had asked Chris, well, how do I access it? What's the address? So our last concern was, of course, how do we control access? Because we don't have the resources to allow every student in our whole university to access this at the same time. Now, if that came to be great, maybe we would be able to get more resources, more horizon nodes, more servers. But so we did need a way to control access. So using the Horizon software, we actually were able to use Active Directory security groups to access these machines. So once we had Active Directory security groups assigned to our desktop pool of machines, we then could also use our in-house identity management software to delegate control of these security groups to our instructors. So if Kay has a class she wants to teach, she can have a web interface to add, remove the students she needs access to and then take them away when the semester's over or when users are not using them. So this allows us to control access. This also allows outside users like we have in here, even if we did post the address, they would not be able to get into the collection and use them unless an instructor, our professor gives the students the access they need to these machines. So that's great because that way, we still have centralized control and management of them from the technical side on our server side, but we can delegate everything to the professors who know how the software is being used and who needs access to them. And I guess that is it. So... There's a few questions, Jason and Chris. Sure, yeah, we'd be happy to answer questions. Selby asks, do you have an estimate of the cost per user? Now connected to Christie's iPhone. I don't, I was not available or in any of the budgeting scenario when they purchased this. Maybe we can work something up and try to figure out because we are using this in other environments. We support the horizon, we support other lab environments and things around our campus. So I'll try to find the original budget of what the GPUs especially cost because that was something we more purchased for this use and then on the blade center itself. But probably, unless you had a very large user base that we're gonna use this, the cost is probably not gonna be probative to just for a handful of students. But for our GPUs, we've found other things like AutoCAD and things we're doing with this so we were able to justify the cost. And like I said, our new CTO is wonderful in doing everything he can to support the student experience. So he was happy to do this, but I'll see if we can get something together and at least get an estimate so you know how bad it is. And just sort of to follow up on that, Jason. The GPUs do add a cost per user. And like you said, we don't have the exact numbers but we can't include a, we can't carve out GPUs for every virtual machine. So it's sort of an extra feature that would increase cost. So just to add that in there. Lisa asks, it seems like this is the same as frame or bright canopy is doing. Is that correct? If not, how is it different? I have to admit, I'm not familiar with the frame or bright canopy. I'm not either, so I'm not sure. Shelby put something in the chat, but the new price 10 hours for $17 a month. You know, I'm just taking a guess here. I'll bet that that's what a bright canopy is doing is virtualizing the viewers. I would bet also when Chris and I started looking at this, we looked around and didn't see too many people doing anything like this. I did see some people trying to use some type of Citrix product for this, as well as one or two with Horizon. So I would guess it's either Citrix or Horizon that they're doing this with. And it's, I'm sure a similar setup. Let's see, I'm looking, but bright canopy, Joyce adds, but bright canopy is a marketed service to others as opposed to this being an in-house scenario. Yes, you are right. And Krista, Jason and Chris, you haven't met, is a computer science professor at the University of California, Irvine. And she's also one of the core developers of OpenSim as well as the creator of the Hyperbred. And Krista adds, the technology is wonderful. It just seems a bit expensive at the moment. Yeah, thank you. Very nice to meet you. Yeah, it is expensive if we didn't have other uses for this as well, it would have probably been tough to justify this, but I think it's well worth it. I mean, from what I've seen, from what Kay is doing with it, I would love actually, so I teach in the applied computing, I would love to figure out some way to incorporate this into my classes, because when I was a student, I would have loved to do something like this for classes. And as you said, Jason and Chris, that it may be a way to repurpose old equipment. I'm constantly over at our surplus deco looking for furniture equipment, and it may save money in the long run. And I wonder about centralizing the different computer labs too, as opposed to having so many desktop units. I wonder if there might be some cost savings there, but I'm just guessing here. Yeah, so there is definitely a cost saving on the end user devices. And like Jason said, we use a horizon in other parts of the university. Like the business school actually has a virtual lab that students access from anywhere. And also, I took a quick peek at the Bright Canopy site, and just looking at the FAQs, it sounds like they're using a very similar architecture that we are. Just reading one of them, how does this work? We run a viewer on a cloud machine with a hefty graphics card. So it does sound like it runs on a virtual machine with some sort of a GPU. But I can't attest to, you know, what the cost difference would be. But we do have the benefit of controlling the entire environment within our infrastructure, as opposed to a paid subscription service. So. You know, the idea of like 10 hours for $17 is daunting to me, because I would, it would be so stressful to have to get what I need to get done in the virtual world, you know, in short order. It's kind of like the old days where long distance calls cost money. So we've got some more comments in the chat about frame virtualized applications like CAD and CAM, and any cloud that needs rendering in the cloud. And Ramesh, and Ramesh is the originator of some build technology to help, you know, devices that will build up both regions and, you know, the content in the region. And Ramesh adds bright canopy is a bit expensive, but it's great to be able to catch, to test our touch UI to an open sim environment on a mobile platform. And let's see, and Joyce adds, and they're utilizing, they're already in place infrastructure. Yes, we are. Any more last questions? And I've got my last script remarks here. Thank you, Jason and Chris for a terrific presentation.


Going to Malaysia, for me, was one of the biggest personal growth experiences I've ever had. I want everyone to get the same opportunities I did, because I think there's a lot to learn from studying internationally. My name's Mitch Francis. I'm a construction lawyer based in Melbourne. Through the New Combo Plan scholarship, I was able to travel to Malaysia and live, work and study there for a year. I studied at the University of Malaya and worked with Len Lise on a $2.5 billion construction project. Just the scale and the size of the project was just phenomenal and the experience that I got working on that and with the people that I was working with was just something I would never have got in Australia. My name's Alana Bird. I'm a graduate at the Department of Education, Skills and Employment. My passion for international education began when I was on the New Combo Plan scholarship in Malaysia. I chose to study in Malaysian Borneo at University of Malaysia, Sarawak, or Unimas for six months. I then interned at the Australian High Commission in Kuala Lumpur where I worked in the international education section. It was through this internship that I realised how important it was to improve access and remove barriers to education. For me, Malaysia really stood out because of the multiculturalism and I saw it as a real opportunity to get some exposure to a number of different cultures and to really experience Asia. People were really proud of their culture and that really shone in the workplace. Living in Borneo was a really unique experience. If you even ask Malaysians on the East Coast, they say it's like another country. The culture, even the language is a little bit different. The food is way different as well. Sarawak Luxa is way better. I have a lot of fond memories of KL going out with locals and letting them order for you. Not asking what something is and just eating it. KL is such a diverse place to live, not just with the cultures but with the landscape, the food, the languages. One weekend I could go to these beautiful islands and the next weekend I could be in the jungle. It's really unlike any other place in the world. If you're thinking of going to Malaysia or another country in Asia to study or work, I would just say throw yourself into it 100% and just say yes to absolutely everything and every opportunity that comes your way. From my perspective, going to Malaysia as a student or as a professional really, really expands your horizons and really helps you develop. Having that international component of my degree really encouraged me to go to places I would have never imagined and it really pushed me outside of my comfort zone. I am really interested in Australian Malaysia's bilateral education relationship because I think we have so much to learn from each other. I really don't think that I would have been able to reach where I am today unless I had been to Malaysia and got the experience and the exposure that I did there. So it's really set me up in my career and really propelled me on a trajectory that I wouldn't have imagined when I was studying. This whole experience has inspired me to pursue a career in international education and I'd love to work more with the region in the future. Studying and living in Malaysia was the best experience of my life.


Hey everybody, Dr. O. In this video I want to talk about ID 50 and LD 50. So ID 50 is the infectious dose 50, which is the dose, the number of organisms that it would take to cause an infection in 50% of people. So it's a good measure of how virulent a microbe is, how easily it can cause infection. The LD 50, now I just so you know, I generally only think of toxins when I think of the LD 50, so it's the lethal dose 50, but technically it'd be, you know, how many viruses, how many bacteria or how many toxins would it take to kill 50% of infected people? So but for me, I think infectious dose, I think of how easily something can cause an infection. Lethal dose, I'm generally thinking of toxins. So to me, it's the best way to measure how potent a toxin is. So here we see this a picture that kind of shows the general idea that this isn't any specific organism, but you see how many organisms it takes to cause mortality in 50% of people. So that's how you figure these out. So I think it's super important as we move on here to a list to understand that these are median values, which means that if you have a very, you know, that if you have a very strong immune system, you're very healthy, a lot of stomach acid, whatever factor might come into play, it would take a much higher number for you, but someone that's malnourished and has other problems, the number would be a lot lower. So this is not, this is not an exact number by any means, it is, it's a great way to compare one organism to another. The other thing it's worth noting here, let me show you an example would be, oh, I have two mouse or other. So you have like, let's see, salmonella, enterica, the serovar, typhi there it takes, it takes about 1000 organisms to cause an infection. But the mortality rate of this typhoid fever that can be caused by this is about 10%. This right below it, the salmonella enterica serovar, typhimurium, this is going to lead to just your more quote unquote basic salmonellosis, which has a mortality rate of around 1%, you know, especially people that are getting treatment. So you notice that the infectious dose really has nothing to do with how dangerous an organism would be. All right. So just a couple of examples there, and I apologize for that aero there must have been there when I took the screenshot of this. You'll see the viruses are generally going to be pretty low, but look at like the difference between the different types of E. coli. So your E. coli 0157H7, you know, one of the most potentially dangerous forms of E. coli. The infectious dose is pretty low. This says 10 to 100. I've seen some studies that put that infectious dose between like four and five organisms, so very, very small numbers, whereas look at some of these other strains like enterotoxygenic strains of E. coli takes between, was that 10 million and 10 billion organisms to actually cause an infection. So the infectious dose basically tells you how many organisms do you have to be exposed to before you have a problem. You see like cholera down there at the bottom, that's going to be about a million, so a much higher number than some of these other ones. Okay. One more thing to think about here with infectious dose is the way in, the portal of entry. So here's an example of an organism, bacillus anthracis, which causes anthrax that has a different infectious dose depending on the portal of entry. So it takes 10 to 50 endospores to cause cutaneous anthrax with skin, with it coming in contact with your skin, inhalation anthrax, which is generally what we think of, you know, especially with it being used as a biological weapon, 10 to 20,000 endospores. And then ingestion anthrax would be 250,000 to a million endospores. So the portal of entry matters, just a couple more numbers here with the lethal dose just as a comparison. So again, it tells you how toxic a toxin is, right? How potent a toxin is or needs to be to actually lead to death or serious illness. So you see here that like botulinum toxin only takes 0.03 nanograms per kilogram, whereas the shigatoxin, which is what E. coli 0157H7, the entero hemorrhagic E. coli's would release 250 nanograms per kilogram, and then Staphylococcal enterotoxin takes 1350 nanograms per kilogram. So you're looking at a massive difference in how much of a toxin it takes to be lethal. All right. So here's the 5050, the infectious dose 50, and the LD50, the lethal dose 50. I hope this helps. Have a wonderful day. Be blessed.