This is Steak Tech, Hawaii. Community matters here. Good afternoon, and welcome to Asia Review. I'm your host, Lily Hong. Secondly to drug trafficking, human trafficking is the most profitable transnational crime. Out of the 21 million that are trafficked globally, 26 percent of those are children. We have with us today in the studio Mr. Valger Soledra, a human trafficking survivor to share his story with us. Welcome to the show, Mr. Valger. Would you like me to call you Mr. Valger, Mr. Soledra? Yeah, it's Valger. Okay, Valger. All right. Welcome to the show, Valger. Thank you, Lily. All right. Now, when did you first arrive in the United States? In 2013. In August 2013. Okay.  Yeah. I'm from Brazil. I'm from Brazil in Sao Paulo. Okay. And what made you come to Hawaii? Well, I'm a biologist. I studied agriculture biology, and in Brazil we have taught if here in the United States is everything first word. So it's very good for us to come here and study and see how the technology and things work here, even in the farm. So an opportunity came about for you to come to the United States? Yeah. My internship for I was working, I was thinking I would come to work in an organic farm because that's my field work. So yeah, I came in 2013 for working a farm. For my biology degree will be my internship for my finished my degree. Okay. And is this internship organized by your university or was it an outside contractor? It was outside contractor, but they was very involved. They was very, actually my university recommended me to go with this program, with this company. Okay. And from the time that you signed up to the time you actually got on a plane, how long was the process? It was months of process. I was feeling confident because my university helped me with all this organization for I come. And I was excited to come. It was my first time in the United States and it was like I would say four or five months. Yeah. Preparation. What were the things that you had to do to qualify? Were there any qualifications or prerequisites? Yeah, I needed to do an interview by Skype and in this interview they asked me a lot about my background. Who is interviewing you? The company who brought me to here. They're based in the United States. Yeah, they're based here. So it's not the actual employer that you were going to? No, the guy is Brazilian, but he works here. He works for this company and he's vice president of this company. And I need to be approved for him, from him, to be able to come here. So yeah, it was an interview for around 30 minutes interview and they asked me a lot about my background and my family and my financial situation. And yeah, I got approved after this interview. So it sounded very legitimate? No, it wasn't. Now I know, but before I didn't know.  Yeah, it was legitimate. Were there anything you have to do? Did you have to pay your fees? I have to pay a lot fees. My money is different than here. Dollars are very expensive in my country and I need to pay some fees in dollar. And my dad helped me to pay that. And I need somebody to guarantee I would pay when I come here. How much did you have to pay? Around $10,000. U.S. dollars? Yeah, U.S. dollars. And that money is to them, do you get it back? Or is it a deposit? No, it wasn't a deposit. I paid them. It was weird because I paid many fees, I didn't pay altogether. So that's part of the, now I know it's part of the crime, but I paid like 500 dollars and 500 more dollars and for this person, for the other person. So yeah, it wasn't just for one situation, I paid like in parts. So there were a series of payments that you have to make, but you felt pretty assured because your university helped to all of this. Yeah, I was feeling confident because my university was recommending and my teachers liked the program and I was feeling confident. And they have sent students prior to you? Yeah, other students come with me from the same university. And you mentioned your dad helped you to pay the fees. So I imagine your family, they were very excited to in your family. And the frustrations part of the thing, if it was just the money, the money in some point you can pay, but the frustration is I think it's bigger than the money. So okay, so you got on a plane, you arrived in the United States. Was Honolulu your first stop? Where did you? No, I went to Maui in Haiku. I was working on tomato farms in Haiku. Me and other three Asians, workers. Where were they from? From Cambodia, Vietnam, and China. Okay, yeah. And so you arrived and tell us how was your first day on the farm like? Well, I was with jet lag. So I was very sleepy. I was very tired from the flight. Did it give you a couple of days to rest up or you had to go all the way? I went straight to the work. How did the farm look to you when you first arrived? Was there anything peculiar about it besides the three other interns? What other people were there? Actually it was just the owner of the farm and the other interns. That was this guy, the owner of this farm. He used this program with the labor job in his farm. So it was an internship at all. It was just a labor job and I didn't come for work here. I came for internship and it wasn't nothing didactic and it wasn't an internship at all. So you were supposed to come here to learn how you ended up doing hard labor on the day? How many hours did you work a day on the farm? Actually I was 24 hours employed because everything he needs, he knocked on my door and asked me to do it. So I was supposed to start work 7 and finish 6, but I worked nights. If he buys something new for the farm, he needs somebody to take it from the truck. It was me. If he needs to do something for the dogs, it was me. If he needs to do fancy, well, I do everything, construction, the job on the farm. Everything was the interns.  All right, were you guys getting paid on the farm? Yeah, we got paid $1.20 per hour. What's the amount that was promised you before you came? No, it wasn't the amount. We couldn't understand because I'm supposed to receive $400 per month. And for me, in Brazil, $400 is a lot. But here in Hawaii, it's not enough to pay our food. Your supplies and your transportation, well, wasn't enough at all. And what kind of conditions did you work under? I mean, since you were farming, did you have to use any pesticides? So what kind of protection gear did they provide? Any protection gear, we need to spray pesticides. And hormones was inside, was a greenhouse. So we need to spray everything inside. With protection, or no protection? Any protection, no protection. I ask you, I'm allergic to some things. And plus, the things we spray doesn't have a label because it takes off the label. Oh, so you don't even know what it's supposed to. I don't know if it's corrosive. I don't know if I'm allergic to it. It was very bad. And one plus in this whole situation was the character of the farmer. He was very, he wasn't never polite. He was very aggressive always. So we were always afraid to ask something because we were always afraid to tell some issues. So he had zero communication. So that was the part. So what did he do when you guys tried to break up an issue to him? What was, did he just not respond or what?  He was very aggressive, very not polite person. Okay, was he the only person there? Yeah, it was the only communication. We're not supposed to go to the farm. Why did you guys sleep on the farm? We have a house separate, um, was one with very small rooms and, uh, all the interns stay in this house. And what did he feed you guys with? I'm, I'm, I was responsible for my food. So I need to buy and cook my own food. But he did provide a kitchen facility.  Uh, happens, uh, I have, uh, uh, when I was on the farm, I have a tooth pamp. I was with my wisdom tooth and he, I asked to him to take, I, I supposed to have insurance, uh, health insurance before I come here, but I never use and I know we didn't have it all. So, uh, I asked him to take me to the dentist because I was with painful because my wisdom tooth and he, he said, just take something for the pain and go back to work. He imposed any restrictions on use of the bathroom or when you could go to sleep? Um, did he allow you guys to leave the property? No, he was not supposed to go out anytime just Sundays, uh, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. But the farm, I don't know if you know Maui, the farm, it's, it's far away from the city. So we don't have a car, we don't have transportation. So it's really nowhere to go to. Yeah, nowhere to go to. And he decided this time we should go to the grocery store to buy food. So we don't, we don't have any time for ourselves and, uh, yeah, we cannot go. He was counting the minutes for go to the bathroom and he was counting the minutes. Yeah. He was using a bathroom. Yeah. And I'm not, I'm not supposed to eat. I just have a lunch time, 30 minutes and that's it. So he took you guys to the grocery store to get your food. Is that right? Yes. And he go together with us and he stay all the time with us. Yeah. Now that sounds like a horrible, you know, living condition. Have you contemplated escaping, you know, when you're at a grocery store, have you contemplated going to an outside source or pick up your phone and call somebody? Did you tell your family? Did you call to school? Actually, I have, uh, I have, uh, access to cell phone and computer, um, but I, I, this case of human trafficking, they use a lot of coercion.  And, uh, well, uh, we, you don't, we don't feel comfortable to tell about the situation. So you didn't tell your family at all? Uh, I did after, uh, actually I, when you asked me if I was thinking to about to leave the farm or I did actually, yeah, I did after four months in this situation, I, uh, I just take my, I, he was very upset one day and he kicked us out the farm and I, I don't think twice and I just left. And prior to departure, did you inform your family or any authorities? Yes, I did. I called the cops one day, they went to the farm and they say we, we cannot do nothing. Just go back to your country, but I don't have my tickets to go back to my country. The company hold my tickets and I actually lost that ticket. What about your passport? Did they take your passport too? No, they didn't, they didn't take my passport. I, I keep my, all my ideas, but, uh, without ticket, without knowing the language, without knowing, I didn't have any friends. I didn't have opportunity to make friends. I didn't have, uh, well, I don't, I didn't speak in English at all that time. I see. So I wasn't able to, to, to ask for help. Well, thank you so much for your, we're going to take a little break here. And then when we come back, we're going to talk about how you transition from a human trafficking victim into a refugee. All right. This is Think Tech Hawaii, raising public awareness. I'm a firefighter. A teacher. I'm a farmer. I'm a barber. A waitress. A mom. We're all part of your community. Every day we move in and out of each other's busy lives. It's easy to take for granted all the little moments that make up our every day. Some are good, others not so much, but that's life. It's when you experience a moment of uncertainty, something or someone's behavior that doesn't seem quite right. These are the moments to take a pause. Because if something doesn't feel right, it's probably not. It's not about paranoia or being afraid. It's about standing up and protecting our communities. One detail at a time. Because a lot of little details can become a pattern. We. We. We. We trust our instincts. Just like you should. Because only you know what's not supposed to be in your every day. So protect your every day. If you see something suspicious, say something to local authorities. Welcome back to Asian Review. I'm your host, Lily Long. We have with us today Mr. Valjo Solera to share with us a story on his struggles as a human trafficking victim, and then his journey as a human trafficking survivor. So to continue our story Valjo, so you were kicked out of the farm. What happened next? Yeah, next I try looking for help. And I, I called many lawyers and well, I didn't actually, I asked for, I just met one friend, one Brazilian person, I didn't, wasn't my friend was just somebody I just have met. And I asked if they can translate my translate my with the cops or help me at some point. And finally I got to one association, one local association. And they, they helped me, they helped me a lot. And I was able to get a lawyer. And the Homeland Security decided my, my case was a human trafficking. So, and after that they give me a TV is a, and I'm still under the TV is a. And then you will reclassify as a refugee after. Yes, yes. In fact, in 2015 and 2016, as you had told me earlier, you were the Hawaii representative to the refugee Congress. When was the first Congress in 2015, no, 2016. Yes. Where did that take place? I was in Washington DC. We was able to, to go to the Congress and talk with our representatives was a very wonderful experience. And who were present besides yourself? Who else were there? Are the refugees? Yeah. The, these organizations choice one refugee in each state, each one of the 50 states has one representative. So they're 50 representatives. Yeah. We're 50 from the 50 states. So, I was representing Hawaii in 2016 and they chose me again for this year in 2017. And what did you guys do when you, when you got there? What did you do? We advocated for refugees rights and for immigrant rights. So was a wonderful experience because I was able to tell my history and with my history help other people in the same situation. So everybody was sharing stories. Yes. We have a lot of histories there. Did you hear similar stories or were they very unique in their own different ways? Yeah. We have people there from, from, yeah, from Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, some parts of Africa. We have from Asia, from the countries Cambodia, China, we have many people from, many refugees from this country. Would you mind sharing one or two stories? I just wanted to hear perhaps another. Yeah. I, I met people from different, plenty different countries and was this guy from Afghanistan. He was the guy from the translator for the military and he get the Taliban was retaliation him.  So the military guy, guys take him to the base and send him straight to him and his family straight to the United States to ask for asylum because if they stay there they will get murdered for sure. So now they are here for like a refugees have some people who live years and years in refugee camps like in Cambodia and they come here they are, it's, he's the delegate from North Carolina now and many his strong histories, many stronger histories. So refugee is typically defined somebody that has to flee the country due to war, poverty, persecution based on race, religion and so on and so forth. How did you as a human trafficking victim become classified as a refugee? Was it because you couldn't go back to your country? What would happen if you had gone back to your country? Well, when we talk about refugees, we talk about people who ask asylum, people who cannot go back to the country anymore for some reason war or political issues. So yeah, we was, if I go back to my country, I have my career damage because this situation. My academic life and my professional life, it's totally destroyed because what happened and this organization, they have a lot of power in Brazil because unfortunately in Brazil, it's the justice is very slow. So we're not just talking about one university that's the culprit. We're talking about a whole network of organization working in collusion. Yeah, they was working together. It's a lot of money involved if they sent you can imagine they send a lot of people to here every year. So and they probably don't want to loss this opportunity to make money. So it's many people involved in partly my university still is involved with this. And I can have serious retaliations if I go back to my country. So if you had gone back, you would not be able to resume your studies. You probably couldn't find a world because they are connected and there's a chance that they might be harmed. Did you receive any threats at all? Yeah, my family in Brazil now, when I just report, they received some guys from this company went to my parents' house and they was telling bad things about me and say everything what happens here was my fault was because I'm a bad guy. That's why I report. So the point of finger baggage. Yes. Yes. And that wasn't true, but now if I go back to Brazil, I'm sure I will have a lot hard time there. Now, when we think of refugee, we really think about people that are fleeing war, poverty or harsh political climate. So your story is very unique. And I think it helps us to get over the misconception that there's only one category of refugee because refugees can cut across nations, races, gender, age and even culture. Right? Now, currently in America, there is a pretty strong anti-immigration movement going on due to the new administration. What do you feel about that? Well, it's a lot of feelings actually. I can't resume this and say we are hoping for the best and prepared for the worst. Yeah. A lot is going on, we actually don't know yet what we are facing. So yeah, we are ready for a fight for our rights and talk about what we really are. And the United States is one country building with immigrants. So that's it and we need to fight for this right.  So if the world leader is having its refugees by half from 110,000 to 45,000 and cutting the budgets and all these refugees, they are overburdening countries like Bangladesh and Turkey. What kind of message are we as the world leaders sending to other countries when we're doing that? Yeah, especially in families who already have members here and they separate the families because the other members of the families cannot come here tonight in the state if they need this new and all the bands and the, well, it will be a mess because some people wait for years and years in a refugee camp and it's already very hard and now it will be way worse because they make a lot more difficult to get here. You need to prove many other things and well, I hope we have some mercy in this next year. Well, I want to share a high profile case that took place in Hawaii a couple of years ago. There was a farm right here in Kaplai in Honolulu and they had brought in 44 Thai workers and the Thai workers were accusing the owners of underpaying them, allowing them to live in substandard housing and threatening to take away their work visa if they don't comply whatever they wanted and the case went on for two years. The lead prosecutor was removed halfway through the case. Initially, the defendants played guilty and then they took back their plea. In the end, the case was dismissed in the absence of the jury and was dismissed with prejudice, meaning that the government can no longer refile the case. So as a human trafficking victim, when you hear about cases like this, how does that make you feel? How do you think it will make those that are still struggling to get out? Would they be more hesitant about coming forward? Well, when you talk about human trafficking, it is very hard to prove because it's everything covered. It's a system. It's a crime. So it doesn't have proofs available. So I feel very sad about this situation, about this case in particular, because I feel the same. In my country, I still cannot prove I was beaten off this. So and we hope in this country, the United States, where we have more justice, we hope it's different. And I hope, I really hope in this case, on the final day, because in my eyes, in my view, it's a case of human trafficking for sure. So the burden of proof is very heavy. Now, I'm sure you had to overcome some struggles to come out. I'm sure there's some stigma attached for you to have to come out to speak up. How did you overcome those struggles to come forward and share your story? Yeah, it's very hard. We're dealing with a lot of frustration because I was expecting to come back to my country and do what I come to do here. I come to learn something, to take to my country and this new technology. And well, I was feeling very disappointed with this whole situation. And we find energy and this frustration, we find energy to fight about it. I don't have nothing to do because if I can go back on the time, I will show it's never come to the United States and never pass for everything I pass. But I cannot do this. So I will, I show it's fight for the rights. Well, thank you so much, Balger. We're coming to the end of the show. I just want to quickly, very quickly share with the audience a hotline for human trafficking. So if you were to suspect any human trafficking activities, please call this number. Thank you so much, Lily. Yeah. Oh, there it is. Okay. All right. And Balger, if you could say one sentence to the refugee or human trafficking out there, what would be the one message you want to pass over to them? Those who have not come forward, what would be that one message to say to them? Well, be strong, be together and be hopeful for the next years. We're still fighting in nobody's alone in this fight. Okay. Thank you so much, Balger. And I just want to let you know that those dreams that you hope you came with initially, they're still alive. You can still go for them. And it's really people like you who come forward to share your story, to testify as witnesses that will bring about successful human trafficking prosecutions. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. And thanks for watching.


Who's number one? At number two, the country with the largest average bowel movements, Denmark, India, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa, Tonga, an island in the South Pacific, the UK, or the US of A. Remember the target minimum fecal output is 200 grams a day, about half a pound. And the winner of the Bowls of the Earth Contest was Tonga at 531. The only other country to make the 200 target was India, who gets the silver at 311, with individual measurements ranging up to 1,505 grams. That's more than three pounds a day. That's impressive. And the bronze goes to Japan. At 195, almost made the cut-off. Everyone else fell short, though with the smallest stools in the world colored red, white, and blue. US vegetarians fared better, though, as did vegetarian and especially vegan brits. There actually was one population that did even worse than the standard American diet. The smallest average population bowel movement size ever recorded New Yorkers. That's less than three ounces a day, instead of just living there if only they would actually eat a big apple once in a while. On the other end of the spectrum, though, what are they eating in Tonga? Well, this was recorded decades ago when they were still eating their traditional plant-based diet of taro, greens, sweet potatoes, fruit, more greens, bananas, cabbage, etc. Now, tragically, the most frequently consumed food item in the country is imported chicken parts. And this is what happened. From one of the healthiest nations in the world to one of the most obese, thanks in part to the westernization of their diets.


So today, here at Davis Media Access in Davis, California, you know, Davis is a place that really likes its local control and its sustainability. There are a lot of different examples. The city right now, I serve on a task force that is currently exploring the feasibility of municipal broadband. That's one example. This very organization, Davis Media Access, actually grew out of an innovative experiment in consumer-owned cable co-op. So there's a lot of things that happen in Davis, but right now, the one that's on the table is Valley Clean Energy, and we're going to learn more about that today. And here to discuss it with me are Mitch Sears, who is the general manager of Valley Clean Energy, and Lucas Fraerichs, who, in addition to being on the Davis City Council, that role he is serving as the chair of the board. So welcome to you both. Thanks for coming in today. So I've actually been Valley Clean Energy launches in June, and it is going to be an alternative to what we currently have in our energy delivery systems for our homes, for our businesses. And I've been talking to a couple of people about it this week, and I keep hearing a couple of key questions come up, so I'm hoping we can get through those today. Let's start with what it is and a little bit of the backstory of how we got here. How long ago did this process start? For you hosting today and also for Davis Media Access producing this show, we really, really appreciate that. So Valley Clean Energy started actually as an official joint powers authority a few years ago with the city of Davis, the city of Woodland, and Yolo County joining together in a partnership and a collaboration. But it actually predates that even a little bit. A few years ago, the city of Davis was working on its sort of updating its climate action plan goals. And one of the major ways that we feel the ability for Davis to be sustainable over the long run is to have greater control over sort of how we generate energy and the types of energy we generate, including, you know, maybe protect like more renewable sources of energy, solar, wind, things like that. So we sort of an offshoot of that. So it started several years ago probably in the sort of 2010, 2012, 2014, made some iterative progress over those years, but we, excuse me, actually really formed as an organization about two years ago at this point, and we launched in June. It's going to be really great. So let's talk about what Valley Clean Energy is right now. Up until this point, we've had basically one option to get energy services in Davis, and that's been PG&E. Valley Clean Energy, what kind of options does this give us? And how is it different from what we have? Yeah, it's a really good question. I mean, at the fundamental kind of base of this is that the board of directors of Valley Clean Energy, which are made up of two members of the Davis City Council, two of the City of Woodland City Council, and also two board of supervisor members, formed this program to introduce competition into the electricity marketplace. Right, and I think we have a slide up right now too, so. Yeah, and so that explains, this is, we're going out into the public to try to get the word out about the program, which does launch in June. But the way that the state law set this up is to allow for local jurisdictions to aggregate all the electricity accounts within their jurisdictions, and then go out on the wholesale energy market to buy power on behalf of those customers. And so the way that the program was set up and the intent is, again, to introduce competition into the marketplace. And the results of that are that we are able to offer competitively priced electricity in comparison to PG&E. Also, we're able to offer a higher renewable energy content than PG&E, as well as provide customer choice, both in terms of participating in our program, or opting out for free to go back into PG&E. But even within our program, there are options to be able to opt up to what we call ultra green, which is 100% renewable energy. And then also, one of the other really important parts about this is the local control aspect. Decisions are made here at the local level by the board of directors, by Lucas and other board members at local meetings where the public can come and participate. Right. So I want to come back in a second to the choice about the various kinds of energy and renewable energy, because I was reading some comments online this week that said, well, it's only going to save us 2.5%. Why is that even worthwhile to change? And then someone else jumped in and talked about, well, it's about choice. So let's talk for a second about what consumer, okay, so a homeowner in Davis doesn't opt out of the program. They decide to go with Valley Clean Energy. What can they expect to see change in their bill over the course of the year and in the kinds of information coming at them? You want to start with the billing in such a way? Yeah, so the billing itself, actually PG&E is still providing billing services. They also provide transmission distribution services as well. So we all continue to be customers of PG&E. So the bill itself, though, will look virtually identical. The only difference will be on the front page rather than having PG&E's generation costs, it'll say Valley Clean Energy generation. So that'll really be the only difference. And one of the questions that we do encounter is, is that a double charge? Well, the answer to that is no, it's not a double charge. So anything that a customer, a Valley Clean Energy customer would be paying to PG&E otherwise is now replaced by that generation charge for Valley Clean Energy. And it's interesting, the Board of Directors that is made up of local elected officials in our county and our cities, we specifically set the discount rate beneath PG&E's rates at 2.5% for this first year of launch when we first are launching. And there was a reason for doing that, and it was to be a little bit more conservative financially. We wanted to make sure that the organization is launching and is successful as it launches and to make sure that we build up some of our reserves, cash reserves, so we have the ability to actually sort of start to implement different types of programs in our communities over time. Things like energy efficiency, upgrades for houses, potentially electric vehicle charging, that's another area we are interested in certainly. In the customers in Yolo County, there's a lot of agricultural customers, of course, and they may be interested in having a potentially different rate for agricultural use. So I mean, there's a lot of different types of incentives that I think over time, we will have the ability to work on offering our customers. We certainly would like to offer a deeper discount than just 2.5%, right? But for the first year, we set it at 2.5%. And we had a really robust discussion at our board of directors about whether or not that was the right percentage. Should we be 3%, should we be 4%, but we erred a little bit on the side of caution and a little bit less of a discount in the first year. But over the long term, we will be looking at that on an annual basis and making those adjustments. Right, and apart from the pricing, I really want to ask you this question, Lucas, because so much of what you have, your work, has really centered on localism and local control of various systems. So let's come back to that again. Why is that so important in the energy field? Oh yeah, I think it's important for a variety of reasons. One, I know it's important to me and I think a lot of my other colleagues in local government is that right now, when you have to, there's a couple of ways that you can participate with your energy provider, right, so PG&E provides electricity to us. They're headquartered in San Francisco. So if you have issues with them and you need to go to attend meetings, you literally have to go to San Francisco to attend a meeting. The California Public Utilities Commission, which oversees utilities in California, is also headquartered in San Francisco. So, and there are often many meetings, many public meetings that happen that where you would have to actually go to San Francisco in order to participate and have your voice heard as they are sort of making regulations and such around the state. You know, with Valley Clean Energy, we're doing that all here. The public meetings that are on a monthly, minimally at a monthly basis for our monthly board meetings and then we have a community advisory committee made up of members from all of our communities as well. Those meetings are held right here in Yolo County. They have been rotating between Davis City Hall, Woodland City Hall and then the Yolo County Board of Supervisors, Board Chambers. So, you know, people have access, citizens and the rate payers have access to the decision makers at a very, you know, local level. I'm guessing the board is not comprised of shareholders, either. That, yeah, that is also true. Yeah, so, I mean, this is a, you know, one of the reasons that we have the ability to do discounts and things like that in terms of rates, discount rate is that, you know, we are, this is for the benefit of our rate payers, you know, as opposed to, PG&E has a model, certainly where they're doing, you know, they have a, they have their shareholders to be responsive to, yeah, exactly. Yeah, I was just going to point out a couple of other things, too, to add on to the rate question. I mean, two and a half percent on an individual basis. That's maybe doesn't add up to a whole lot, but we did do a calculation and it saves Yolo County customers almost $2 million a year in aggregate. That is not small potatoes. It's not small potatoes. And that money, as we've, you know, as you probably understand, does circulate locally rather than leaving the community. So that's one aspect that I think is important. Another aspect that we think is important, too, on the local control side of things is that it, you know, the decisions are made at the local level and it goes to the point of even making rate decisions, which right now are out of our collective hands, and that happens at the local level where you have board members who are accountable to the local communities. So we think that that's a really important component of this. Right. So we all got a letter a few weeks ago that went out that let us know that this is launching and, you know, if we want it to opt out, there is that option. I'm curious to know what kind of opt-out rate you're experiencing or seeing. Yeah, so we're tracking that closely as you can imagine. I bet you are. Yes, exactly. And we're really, we actually have a real sort of benefit here, too. We're working under contract with SMUD, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, and they're providing a lot of our sort of back office work. So they're helping us with energy procurement on the wholesale energy market. They are helping us with doing analysis and budgeting, but also what they're doing is they're actually running our call center. So it's a local call center, and those folks are available at any time to, there's hours and it's on our website to be able to call in, but that's one of the other sort of local aspects of this that we think is really quite important. In terms of the opt-out numbers, we're seeing it running at just over 1%. So we're going to be serving somewhere over 60,000 accounts if you add up the three jurisdictions that we're covering. And so right now, we're less than 1,000. Yeah, about a little over 700 accounts out of 60,000 have chosen to opt out as far as so. And as a comparison, too, so we talked to our other, so there's 17 of these programs that are being established around the state right now. The estimate is that 50% of the electricity in California is going to be served through one of these programs within the next five years. And so it's a big deal. And what we do is it allows us to, since we're all public agencies, all not-for-profit public agencies, returning values to the communities that we're serving, there's a real interest in sharing information amongst those 17 programs. So right now at this stage, the only way we can kind of gauge how we're doing is in comparison to how other programs who've already launched. And the 1% is actually performing quite well in comparison to how other programs have launched. Great. So we're down to our last couple of minutes. So, Lucas, yeah. Oh, just, yeah. I think it's also, I really want to emphasize that partnership with SMUD. It's something that, the Sacramento Municipality District's SMUD is known as one of the best utilities in the entire nation. And they know something about starting up a utility company. Precisely. And operating one really well, yes, absolutely. So it was not surprising that our values aligned, that we came to sort of an agreement with them. And while they are a contractor for Valley Clean Energy, we certainly are working very closely with them and regular reports and updates and with their key staff on this as we move forward. Which is somewhat of a difference compared to some of the other community choice energy programs around the state. This is the first one to partner with a utility such as SMUD. Right, I know they brought up a graphic right now too that kind of talks about the difference of, where the energy comes from and who runs it and all of that. I think we've touched on all of that. Any last things that you want people to know as they're making their decision this month, whether to go with Valley Clean Energy or remain with PG&E? So from my perspective, first of all, you don't have to do anything to enjoy the savings that we offer. The higher renewable energy content, we're at 42% renewable. The option to opt up to 100% renewable for a little bit of a premium and this local control aspect. So I think that those are the basic things that we're going out and talking to people. Just one real quick thing too. We've done close to 100 outreach meetings over the course of the past couple of years to try to get word out. We're on social media. We have a presence, we had a newspaper mail order that went out in the Davis Enterprise and the Daily Democrat, Sacramento Bee. So we know people are really busy, but we're trying to get word out through as many channels as possible. It has not gone unpublicized. I have good respect. That's great. We also, I would just one other quick point. We've also, you will be receiving, so you received your first notice a few weeks ago, but we have several other notices that are legally required by the state that will be coming in this subsequent week. So people will be continuing to hear more about the launch of Valley Clean Energy and the ability to be a customer of ours. And I just want to steer people to the website too, which is valleycleanenergy.org. You can go there. You can find out more about how this project came about, who's involved with it, and answers to frequently asked questions. So I want to thank both Lucas and Mitch for joining us here today. And I hope you'll come back down the road and let us know how it's going and maybe we can celebrate at the end of the first year of operation and touch base. But thanks for coming in today and thanks for the work you're doing. Thanks so much for having us. You have been watching in the studio here at Davis Media Access. And my thanks to Dianna Doshka for directing and to our wonderful volunteer crew today, Chris and William and Madeline. Thank you very much.


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Welcome and good morning to another episode of the non-profit show. We're really excited to have you here We are going to do a little different of a show today because we were expecting Meredith Teranian to join us and she stuck on an airplane Somewhere in the eastern seaboard and wasn't able to jump in so we will do the solo And if she gets off the tarmac and she can get to someplace where she can join us She will and if not, we will have her back on again So Meredith we wish you well and travels as we were talking in the green room chatter Not an easy thing to be traveling these days Hey before we get going I want to make sure that we give our gratitude and our shout out of thanks To all of our partners that work with us day in and day out They include Blumerang American non-profit Academy your part-time controller non-profit thought leader fundraising Academy at National University Stepping boutique non-profit nerd and non-profit tech talk These are the folks that join us day in and day out as I said and really Are here to support the nonprofit sector and make things, you know more achievable more clear and more effective and so Without our sponsors, we wouldn't have the none the nearly 900 episodes of the nonprofit show Again, if you want to go back to any of our archives, they're quite robust more than three years of Daily shows again almost 900 episodes You can download our app. You can find us on streaming or you can engage with us on our podcast Pretty much wherever you like to consume your information We'll be with you. So go ahead and check out the non-profit show Okay, this is an interesting question because it comes from an entire committee I love it and that committee is in Detroit, Michigan And they write in we are interviewing candidates for CEO and I've noticed on resumes That a lot of CEOs don't have long tenure in their previous positions of leadership Is this a new thing or should be we be worried about this? Really interesting interesting interesting conversation to be had about this Because when we think about how CEOs and really anybody in the employment track of a C-suite or executive Really, it was kind of frowned upon if they didn't demonstrate long periods of time with their organizations And we are seeing now that the tide is kind of shifted and a lot of prevailing thoughts Kind of follow along the train of thought that if somebody stayed with an organization too long Maybe they're not going to be as flexible Maybe they're not going to be as well-rounded Maybe they're not going to be as integrated into the community or no other sectors of the community and so it's one of those things that for You know an age group that you might have within your board if your board is older or I should say that that search committee They might have that thought and then if you have a younger group They might be like, yeah, no, we want to see a CEO who's done some different things now. I got to say You know, yeah, if you've got a CEO or a candidate, I should say CEO candidate Who hasn't really done much You might want to ask about that. Why did they maintain that tenure? What do you think they missed by by leading other organizations? And at the same time just the opposite if so if a candidate's only been with you know On a on a repeated cycle of two to three years What has happened? Why have they only done that? It might be interesting to ask your candidates What tenure means to them and what are they looking for and why did they change positions? I think that's a good question I think it's a fair question and it might reveal a lot of things, you know that would help you make your decision a P I think a really interesting stat before we move on You know the average development director and this comes from AFP not from Julia Patrick AFP says 18 months is the average tenure of a development officer in the nonprofit sector Excuse me development director, but truly probably officer as well Shockingly short most people in the HR world will tell you that it takes a new employee whether they're the janitor or the CEO About 16 to 18 months to really learn their job. That's the culture. That's everybody's name That's how to dress. That's where to park the seasons of a business, right? So when we look at this, it's really Cataclysmic for for a lot of organizations and for the sector if we're churning and burning through our people too fast So board committee and pardon me from Detroit. I hope this helps. You know, we had Staffing boutique on earlier in the week and they and they spoke about the questions that you should ask Candidates and it was all levels not just the CEO level and so this might be something to take a look at We had Dana Skirlock on she was fascinating Not only did she say these are the questions that you might want to ask But this is what you should listen for and these are what the answers might indicate So you might want to go back into the archive and check that out Okay Pardon me for those of you view that might have just joined us Our co-hosts from fundraising Academy is stuck on an airplane and wasn't able to join us. So we're flying solo today So I'm so glad you're with us and let's see what Jenelle from Dallas, Texas writes in Jenelle writes as a fundraiser should I invest in more fun? professional development dollars and Fundraising or programming. I have a limited amount of time and money that my nonprofit is willing to invest in this Frankly, I see that I need both Really an interesting question Jenelle, you know, if you don't know about the programming and what that means and how it works That makes it a lot harder for you and in any cause selling capacity, right? You can have passion for your nonprofit You can have great intention and integrity for your nonprofit But if you don't really know what the work is how it gets done and why it needs to get done That's gonna make things tough So you might want to do a combination Programming is there and it should be available to you and to go to your programming team and say hey look Can I shadow you? Can I ask you these questions? Can you help train me up on what it is you do? That's generally going to be free and it's going to be available and it might even be something that Is team-building that allows your programming staff to feel appreciated and to communicate What it is they do and what it is they really need and want From there from the support of the community. I think sometimes we don't ask programming that We just go about saying Okay, we need more money. We need more money But we don't really understand what developments doing what they need and why they need it So I think that's a holistic approach and I advocate having at least Once a year opportunities for your board and for your city suite to gather and really learn about the ecosystem of The topic so for example October is national domestic violence Awareness month if you have somebody come in and talk about what domestic violence looks like how it behaves What is the current theory on managing it and in rescuing people or navigating them away from the those situations? It's riveting because it's changed a lot and how we look at domestic violence is different today than it was 10 Certainly 20 30 40 50 years ago So that's a programming issue in terms of development Janelle if you Need more help and cause selling and how you navigate that That's something you're going to have to probably seek outside your organization Our friends at fundraising Academy American nonprofit Academy certainly the nonprofit show we're always talking about these things We always have folks on so there are a lot of ways to go about this whether you do it Digitally you go in person somewhere you take more courses and maybe you're engaged in the CFRE process You know that is a always going to help you It's always going to help you so I don't know if I helped answer this question I think you can do both so You're gonna have to probably spend money on the professional development, but don't let the programming part Go by the wayside look Internally look in within your organization and get that leadership and get that advice so that you can't move forward on that So now I hope that helps Okay, now you know how I feel about this name withheld state withheld These are good things. I always love these questions because they tend to be a little bit more dicey and So kind of fun. Okay. Let's dig into it. I want to start building relationships with potential donors Outside of our community. I'm getting some resistance to this Can you help me get some talking points for my CEO so that they trust me in my approach? I think we are missing some tremendous support from rural parts of our western state really interesting question I Like this question a lot because I actually hear it and I think in the western United States We have such wide swaths a geography That sometimes these these are hard asks because you have to travel several hours And we were just talking with Kevin in the green room chatter our executive producer talking about California and How long it takes to travel from one part to another and so this is very much the case across the western United States and even in the Midwest so Yeah, looking outside your your typical geographic area of your community you may in terms of like the municipality I Think is a wise thing. I think at the VAT We are now with a digital age We have donors all over the place, right? And maybe somebody's left physically the community, but their heart is still with the community You don't want to lose That connectivity or maybe somebody lives in a different place. They're retired. They're working in a different location There's a many many reasons why Americans are moving in different parts of the country But that doesn't mean they have forsaken their community or maybe their philanthropic passions. So Definitely definitely look into this and I would tell your CEO look at the demographics You know, what's the population count of your community versus your region versus your state? Where might you find? Donors that are interested in your programming and interested in participating financially Maybe they can't show up I'm thinking of arts organizations or organizations and cultural in the cultural landscape that sell tickets Yeah, you might not sell tickets to these folks, but let's take a play out of the the Ecosystem of College sports, you know, there are a lot of college Organizations universities that sell ticket subscriptions for their football programs or the basketball programs To donors that will never travel to those games because they have they live in a different part of the country But they still support those programs and then they turn those tickets back over to be resold or donated so Don't hogtie yourself another Western phrase. I can't believe I just said that Don't hogtie yourself to your geography Look at this in a much bigger way and look at this as an opportunity to maybe create some new opportunities And then last but not least, you know Don't think in an insular manner because you might find an Organization in this regional sense that you can partner with That you can you know share programming with or you can deliver programming Might not be full-time, but maybe you go to this rural community a couple days a month. There's something like that I mean, I think there's a lot of opportunities To look at this and it's it's a bigger world When we think about the digital connectivity that we can have so name withheld state withheld I feel your pain This is a discussion that happens in the Western United States Go forth and let us know how it turns out because it's kind of an interesting thing. Hey, you know Meredith Will be back with us in another time. She's in one of the great minds of Fundraising Academy and it's really been fun to get to know her and to learn from her Meredith hails in Florida from Florida. And so she brings to us You know that that sensitivity and that knowledge of what is happening In that region of our country and so as we look forward to the future a We hope she gets off the airplane that she stuck on and be we look forward to having her back on with us shortly again, we have Amazing presenting sponsors and they include Bloomerang American nonprofit Academy your part-time controller non-profit thought leader Fundraising Academy at National University Staffing boutique nonprofit nerd and nonprofit tech talk. These are the folks again Join us they join us each day and really make a difference Another thing that's making a difference is next week. We will celebrate our nine 100th episode of the nonprofit show. Yes, that blows my mind It has even given me white hair, but I'm here to tell you join us because it's gonna be really fun we're gonna talk about the trajectory of change that we've seen since we started the nonprofit show four years ago What are some of the lessons we've learned where we think the future is going to be and it will be an opportunity to kind of pull Jurt and I together in a way that lets us look at these amazing 900 episodes So I hope you join us for that because that will be on Tuesday and it'll be a lot of fun It really really will Well, we have been delighted that you've been joining us today Again, our co-host Meredith at the last minute got stuck on a plane and couldn't join us But she will be back with us again I'm Julia Patrick CEO of the American nonprofit Academy and as I like to end every episode I want to leave you with this message and that is To stay well So you can do well. We'll see you back here again next week everyone. Thanks so much


He covers a lot of ground in the manager's report brought to you by Geico Aaron. It seems like wins have not been easy for this team to come by in any capacity. How much do you exhale after this one is sealed. Yeah. Yeah. Big time. You know, it was a grind all game. I thought walking for them was was really good, you know, and and Nestor for us. So both both starters, you know, when I thought we're really sharp in that five innings. And then, you know, bullpens were able to keep keep both teams at bay. I thought just some really good winning advance there in the end. I thought Chappy was really sharp and and and a great hang on play there by DJ. So a really good win for us tonight and another big one now tomorrow. I spoke to judge on the field and he said the scratch had to do with the testing, medical testing issue that he didn't necessarily want to get too, too into. Can you just kind of describe, though, how that all unfolded pregame and when you realize you didn't have them available? Yeah, I'm not going to go too far into it either. It basically in some of his return from the covid stuff, he just had to complete some doctor appointments. He's fine. He's good to go, but it went long and he ended up not getting to the field until into the six o'clock hour.  You mentioned Cortez. He doesn't throw particularly hard, but it seems as though he's deceptive. What makes him so deceptive on the mound? Well, he's got good characteristics on his ball. So his fastball plays, you know, he's got the ability to pitch up with it. He does create deception, obviously, with with with his delivery.  So he's just he's good at his craft. And I know I say that and we always crafty and because he does some interesting things, but not only can he pitch, but his his stuff plays. And there have been several reports throughout the game that the Yankees are zeroing in on Joey Gallo. What could a bat like that mean to this offense? I mean, I'm not going to get into that. There's nothing official in that regard. I heard the same things, frankly, you know, even coming from the stands and things and guys coming on the bench. But I haven't even talked to cash yet. So as far as I'm concerned, I don't there's nothing to comment on. We'll take the next one from Chending. And you're starting pitching overall has been really solid last three weeks or so. Just just how easy are you with that? And fair to say, if there was one unit you want to be thriving right now, it would be that unit. Yeah, no question. I mean, obviously, Garrett at the top, throwing the ball really well. We've seen J-mo really pitch well now for four to six weeks and continues to trend up. Monty's been terrific. Herman's coming off a great outing. And and Nestor just slotting in in that role. You know, we couldn't ask for more than what he's provided for us, kind of filling in and, you know, kind of all that he does for this team and all the different roles he's been asked to be in. He's been terrific there. So, you know, that's a great place to start. You know, if if our starters are giving us a chance night in and night out, that's that's ultimately what's going to give us a chance to fuel.


Yeah, that's a real But you know what it makes me feel good. So by feeling good That's my payment You know, I wouldn't give it to a stranger on the streets.  I don't get that feeling of a gratitude appreciation. So You know, everybody does something For a reason and this is how I teach all my friends How you can tell if someone's a scammer or not you have to figure out what they want Okay, what do they want? Like I am coming to Instagram live today. I am going to educate you for free How to trade stocks as best as I can in the hour limited I do right? What do I gain from it?   You know, that's why I gave from it But if I don't gain that kind of thing that you should be weary You should be you should be like, why is he doing this?  Obviously, if you I'm gonna train you and you see value you join M. I see so there is something so, you know If you do not know what the other person wants, that's when you get scammed so There's a lot of scammers lately using my fake name Alex's fake name Toss now everybody's fake name. And so when they're messaging you Hey, how are you doing? How's your treating going? You want to invest in my thing you should go, but baby, baby. Does this sound like bow? No be smart guys What does that guy want that guy wants money?  They're not there to help you if they're asking for money But they but you know what man, there are true people out there that really want to help other people But they gain they gain what they gain is appreciation. They help their friends and their friends are appreciative Okay, so everybody has something again guys And to be honest, this is I'm gonna leave it one last thing before we start How when you get into business someone or whatever it may be a really a rule of thumb is They have to have the same or more to lose than you then you should not worry if you have nothing To lose that's when the YOLO That's when you get killed when you partner with someone or when you become friends with someone who has nothing to lose Those are the friends. I usually get you in trouble But if you have a job you have a family you have a lot to lose you have kids You have a lot to lose those are the friends that you know They can get crazy, but they still have a responsibility They got to get to their family their friends or kids whether it may be but if you're just living for yourself And you're broke nothing to lose. That's when it's very dangerous So, you know, you can still be friends with those people, but just keep that in mind Keep that in mind and that's how you can tell someone's After you or not because they're more likely I'm more scared I am more scared that you're gonna join my seed and cause me trouble.  I have a lot more to lose than you so With that said You should know who's a scammer or not.  DM you asking for money, right?   So what we're gonna do is this Alex The reason I talked this because I'm waiting for people to join people everyone's everyone's late So I like to talk a little thing before we start so Alex is gonna come at the end He's gonna have a lot of cool things to talk about. I'm gonna bring Alex on the end So you guys should wait you guys should wait and for Alex to come on. Okay, and what I want to talk about today Guys, summer is coming up. It is summer actually, right? Is it spring almost summer? Trading has been very difficult For some for some styles.   I forgot what we're talking about but Same thing with trading guys We we make money and am I not I'm not I don't want to juice myself, but dude I'm I like walk in expecting to make money and we do make money guys. That's because we are not greedy We have a process that's based around Decades of my trading and it works. We have members and the thing is it's not flashy We're not posting hundred thousand dollar P&L's every day, but we're also not posting $500,000 losses every day every day.  It's not very sexy But when you look at the end of the year, dude, that's a million dollars a year Low risk that anybody anybody if they're disciplined Even making two hundred dollars a day is 50,000 a year that's life-changing money for most Okay, so what I want you guys to do is this It's fun looking at a train wreck. It's fun looking at guys swinging up and down hundred thousand dollars each day But how is that gonna help your life?  So stop following them thousand dollars You be looking at guys making a hundred thousand dollars.  The same way I make money to make money every day. You stick to the process and MIC has gotten so I Guess so Alex gave me a big compliment today. I love it He goes bow you you've reached a new level of trading and it's not about the P&L. It's about the process So I've been trying to figure out a lot of a lot of the training I do guys of course I make money, but more importantly I want to create a process around it so that I can teach my members right T new process and this is why Members are not blowing up.  I'm the same attitude. I win every I would say I'm gonna say I wouldn't a lot knock on wood. Let me brag about it. You'll see me say I'm the best I post my charts and I educate and but the thing is this I've been working on How to identify may potentially make members go broke and a lot of the time is a trap. I Told the guys I s e e today is the short down and sure enough it's zombied up Okay, I told the members why OS a T is not not a long even though it says it's a low flow Okay, or saving money by not blowing up from the short side as well as the long side You probably have rooms Pumping OS a T.    That's because we Identify certain place certain certain trigger mechanisms that you should either avoid Or take advantage of the other side Am I right right now is it a boy? It's just no man's land It's a risk for both long and a risk for short. There is no reason to be trained.  I want to give you an opportunity because sometimes there's a misunderstanding You know, they they join the this feed for a reason they are looking for help But they don't know how to ask for help And so maybe a new alternative is you know man I'm gonna help these guys because they're crying for help And they don't know how to cry sometimes someone's so desperate that they just act out like a little kid, right? So it's okay Anyway, so what I want to talk about is the summer trade summer trading is very difficult in the sense of not because the plays or anything It's just a volume the volume dies down and you see people top traders complaining Blah blah blah volume volume liquid not liquid.   You have you never traded one year before you don't you know cycles on the market? So people are crying. I'm like, dude, you're not a real leader. I don't mean I'm not saying this is in general because when you cry, how do you think your members feel?    I When I discovered the fact that so I'll tell you a quick story. I Was a very consistent trader when I started very consistent.     That's when I realized well, bro the economy a consistent trader is Not enough. I want to be a profitable trader. I'd rather be an inconsistent trader, but a profitable trader, right? The end of the day, I want to make money.  I'm just like, bro Bro listen to me. I keep trying to help these guys. I've been there.    We need a parachute to save us You have the seat belt. Not only you have a seat belt. You have an airbag.  It's not just a seat belt It's not just an airbag.   Maxity loss is not enough if you trigger them all the time. That's why you have hard stops. I see these guys Either they make their target or they have a max loss.         You don't see me crying. Whatever What's the worst I could do? So there's another type of risk management I have millions of dollars, but I only put in 35,000 into my covert trading account With that thirty five thousand you see me making four thousand six thousand seven thousand dollars a day When I reach a certain amount and wired out this weekend wire again. I just wired another count today So when it reaches a certain amount I pull back You know yourself.  I was trying to grow my empire So the days I was making hundred thousand dollars a day. I would have four million dollars More million cash in my account with margin That's like ten sixteen million dollars of buying power.                 I've been there done that, you know So those are the type of mentality that you know, you have to be careful about guys Let me bring Alex on now guys. Let me bring Alex on now Yep, summer trading guys Treat the range size now. Yeah Hey, what's up? Hey, what's up, bro? Man, you're looking good now. Yeah, finally, bro. I got a haircut A week ago. I was starting to look homeless, bro. People were throwing change on the street for me So tell everybody what you did this week. I love it because your mentality's totally different, dude Before before a weekend. You're all sad now.  He's this part of the process, too Yeah, so, I mean the big thing for me is like what people don't understand is how much work goes into running this Huge huge community. I mean, everyone always sees the Members everyone always sees the numbers But they don't understand kind of the back end work that we do to make sure that these members are not only educated But they're staying profitable and they're watching all the video.  Everyone gets overwhelmed.  He's been around for the early nasdaq days And now he's been around for the quote-unquote I started training when uh, the market was still in fractions, bro. Yeah, that's my life. That's how crazy it is So imagine when the market was still in fractions, this guy was trading, right? And you know, I don't know about you guys, but I want to learn from someone that's been there That's done that and the thing is oftentimes in trading, you know, what works six months ago is not going to work now And I'll give you a quick example I'll give you an example So the guy going to trade fractions all I did was helping to spread because a quarter is 25 cents One fourth and so That's just why they don't want to decimallize things because the market makers they're making so much money off the spread So think about this decimals you can get down to one penny, right? One penny that is one 100th in fractions. There's no one 100th in any stock in fractions The lowest I saw was like like 64 But it'd be like but that's rare, right? So you imagine each time the market maker is making 25 cents a clip Holy shit And now that strategy is obsolete You can either cry about it and blame the market makers or you could try to adapt And I think the most important thing that you've been doing very well in this market is you have adapted I see you go in long on day one I see you stopping your shorts after a zombie time I see you coming back at reversal time And that's the number one thing that I think is very important You are not Testing your luck and pushing your luck in this market Because I'm telling you man We all have a lot of success and we want to ride that success But shit We have to adapt allies other one you lose back all your money. And that's what we see right now, right? Trinner guys are not adapted. They're losing all their money Yep, I think the number one thing that's been helping me in this market, bro We we touch on it, but people don't really understand it is to fucking manage your risk bro to use these hard stops to Protect yourself and I lost like 80 grand last week on mr I am because I had too much of an ego being on a winning streak that I got loose So the first thing I did is I created a process after that loss I dropped my max size and my max loss number to be able to regain my confidence So rather than having a max loss number of let's say 80,000, you know Now my max loss is 10,000 because 10,000 is a number that I could make with my eyes closed And in trading we need to make sure that our losses Are capped so that we could live to trade another day So if you guys are struggling in this market, I recommend going to your broker Setting up a max size setting up a max loss and giving yourself the seatbelts and the airbag and the parachute That you need to stay a trader long term because I figured bow and I have seen traders for the past Three years and before that for the past seven to ten years trading and it always goes back to the same thing There's one that catches most people off guard and then they go broke But with a seatbelt you will never go broke So let me ask you this what's your biggest win ever? What's your biggest loss?  Yep, right? Yeah, that's what it's all about man.  So Correct So after you lose after you lose you guys need to create a process find out what you did wrong Were you trading too big? Were you trading too loose?  And that's how we have the community. That's why we have a support system You know, you can get on a call the moderator you can talk to us and you know, we're going to help you through Lessons that me and bow had so that you don't have to lose like us Oh man, we talk about this guy the thing is the process works once again I could give you the strategy to make Million dollars but unless you have the discipline to follow the strategy Because I mean so I'll give you an example man If you go to a law school and you go to medical school You'll be sure to be a doctor and make a lot of money, right? But how many of us have the discipline to do that?    You know people see me making 700,000. They don't realize it's seven coming up on eight years They see you making 1.4 million.  Who knows what we're gonna do in the future, right?  It's like I don't want people to lose.  Yeah So these guys are the fact that you know, there's monthly membership That the reasons are monthly because not a lot of people have the money all I want But it's not because that you can learn in one month. Maybe that's what people are thinking, you know Uh, let's talk about the boot camp. What do I tease them about the boot camp? Oh, yeah, so let me okay. So guys what we're doing is in august August 17th is the that week is what we're planning. We're finalizing all the details But we're throwing our third annual boot camp. So we'll wait north floor the third third third Do we do the first year? First year we did in san jose second.  We did the virtual one and now this is coming up again for Yeah, I think uh, I think the pandemic year every forgot It kind of like Shit, so let me explain what we're going to do guys So what we're going to do is like we're going to kind of bring back the curtains We're going to open up the doors and we're basically going to do I'm going to show you guys live how to build a watch just in the morning and then between 9 a.m And 11 a.m. To zombie times bow and I are going to be screen-sharing and we are going to be trading live We're going to be explaining our thought process live That was going to show you how to set a spend to see orders live And then what we're going to do is after that From noon to market close. We're going to have all of our moderators make presentations for you guys We're going to do a q&a after the presentations and we're going to bring on our broker partner cobra Your presentation as well. So this is going to be a one-day Intensive boot camp educational session Showing you live training and showing you education All this stuff and the best part is for annuals and lifetimes. It is free free free free This is going to be online right because of the pandemic. This is going to be online next year on our fifth annual boot camp It's going to be in person. But right now there's still a lot of covid fears I know some people are vaccinated. I know some people are a little bit uncomfortable So we're going to do virtual this year, but I promise next year is going to be in person Hopefully we can get a thousand of you guys there to be together and hopefully by the end of this week or next week I'm going to release the schedule to see the presentations and we'll take it from there, man Hey, there's an in-person Meetup already an Orlando right tell him of that one. Yeah, so a Claudio is hosting a meetup. I think it's on Let me let me double. Yeah, it's either. I think it's on Saturday. It's on Saturday Okay, so it's probably this weekend. Um, I'll tweet out those details right after this, um, Instagram live so you guys have all of it, but basically that's Yeah, that's a free meet. All right I might see meet up in Orlando Florida this Saturday 5 p.m. At the sky bar open to everyone So you don't have to remember. Let me bring on Claudio All right Hey claudio you coming on to talk about the meetup Going live with claudio. I haven't talked in a while Mr. Claudio I have no makeup on Do you have clothes on? I can't hear you. Do you have clothes on? Okay, good Hey, what's up my friend? How are you? I know I can barely hear you wow Uh-oh Is it your or me your uh, is your internet? No makeup The clothes on is good. Okay. I wanted you to talk about the meetup. Uh, what's going on? Yeah, I can barely hear you. I don't know why we can hear you We can hear you so just so just talk Let me Okay, wait, we're gonna call you left. I'm gonna bring him back on For some reason he I think he's on his line. It looked very fuzzy from where he's uh, Okay, here we go again So I can barely hear you but I will I will say the information. Anyway, um, so saturday july 10 the the place opened up at Five p.m. Is in the sky bar I think that's it and maria in orlando. He's open to everyone You're welcome to come too. They're gonna be a couple of months a couple of junior months there. So don't miss it. They're people coming from everywhere See, I think this is the the first major meetup. We're gonna have after covet So we're gonna enjoy ourselves. It's just to have a chat conversation just to talk about trades We will be expecting there Awesome. Thank you. Claudia. If you have any questions, please leave them in the comments below Awesome. Thank you. Claudia. This week is so awesome, man, which guy joined but I am all the way in california Thanks, man. I can't hear you. See you man. Thank you Everybody can hear claudio find though, right? So so you heard that he's uh, I was one of the amazing moderators.  So this is a great person. He's got swing trades as well Uh, this is a great chance for anybody wants to be swing trading or just to meet up. He's uh, native spanish speaking language Um, this guy's amazing man. He lived an incredible life. He has a book coming out I don't know how to say that but uh, but come on. So so uh, so this weekend saturday Uh, the meetup and then tomorrow is tosh's free webinar guys. So i'll see you Take care guys.


What's going on everyone Sam here with late in sports cards have been 22 But anyone football hobby 10 box break number 26 pick a game style read off the list for names and our teams got Becky J With the Titans Bryce and Packers Saints carry M with the Niners Chris F Broncos Dale C Falcons Dan M lions and Seahawks Dylan S bangles Edward P Jags Edward E Cardinals Panthers and Browns Henrik J. Dolphins James D Ravens Jason G Bears Jeremy S chiefs Joe L Joey L. I should say with the bills Joel M. Chargers Joel G with the Bucks Joseph S. Colts Ken S. Commanders Matt P Rams Matthew So Matt PR Rams Matthew PI Giants Paul B. Oh with the Jets Paul BR with the Raiders Reed M Cowboys Rory C with the Vikings Scott M Patriots Sergio a Eagles Thomas J Steelers and Taun L with the Texans Good luck here guys. Let's do it No, I know that's it's there's a certain point in time where coaches overstate Overstay their welcome in my opinion and like within it's gonna be even harder for the Patriots to move on from Belichick because of the history there I mean, I still don't get why Boone is there after this many times dude It's like it's the same thing me and my I've been graduated from college for over two years now And me and my buddies my junior of college were complaining about Aaron Boone and he's still there You know what I mean? It's just it's ridiculous That's gonna be once upon a time and read Five of ten for the Ravens nice one there. Oh, that's sick. I mean, that's James D with the Ravens again James that is awesome James D. Yep. I said earlier when James bought the Ravens. Oh my god. Let's pull you and I'd read so there you go Hell yeah, man sweet ed read that's on card as well. That's a Jets and Texans legend ed read That is really sick. Yeah big time came legend All right, we've got nice 15 of 15 one-man show Jalen Hertz from this year's Penny one congrats on that one. They're Eagles that is going to Philly was Sergio a let's go Sergio. I Do that that Keynes Dean was nasty. I love people that are try to say like oh 2019 LSU is the best college sheen of all time like no, it's 2004 Miami Or like the Florida Like LSU was good, but the recency bias on that is awful That is four forty nine Chris Olavae three colored RPA congrats Saints I Swung their Nola Saints go into Bryce N. There you go Bryce. Grats, buddy Chris Olavae four forty nine It's nasty formula one Johan Dodson nice J. Dot two color two color RPA 19 to 25 and going to Washington. That is Ken S. There you go Ken. I swung there buddy. Yeah, 2008, Florida was man absolutely insane Only the one J. Dot nice one here 92 199 is Kenneth Walker nice canine two color RPA for the Seahawks Yeah, I'm really excited that about that Vaughan. I was just gonna mention I couldn't think of what the name was but I was just gonna mention that Netflix coming out with documentary on the Like that Florida from around that time Johnny football one coming out later. Nice another nice one here 86 a 199 Aidan Hutchinson Let's go into the Lions. Grats Lions Leonis Nice little hutch three color two different shades of gray. So technically would count as a three color That's Lions. Oh Nice for the Raiders bow Jackson one of five on the quad patch auto congrats, uh, Vegas And it's gonna be player worn nice one there congrats to the Raiders Laos Vegas is gonna be Paul BR.  Yeah, that one's cool. That one's really freaking cool. Oh, there he is Kenny pick it formula one two and three colored RPA 10 of 15 that's Now two straight nights with a nasty Kenny pick it to 20 or less pull the out of 10 With Downey on Saturday now. We have the out of 15 formula one. Congrats on that. There you go Pittsburgh was Thomas Jay bought the Steelers in both cases. There you go Thomas nice KP It's a good overall case like theoretically with the Willis and with this They act they might have marshal they very well may may have done that that sounds eerily familiar All right three of them in a case Doug Baldwin 2018 batch auto you fold three of these now We we have fold three twenty-fifths of this in ten minutes, dude You want James Blair worn There you go Joey, I Swear to God. There's another Doug Baldwin in here, dude last one. Good luck here The list Jones jr. RPA for the Bears to 199 Grats on that one. Do a quick recap here.  Oh and pick it a fire All right, we've got the list Jones jr. The third of this Doug Baldwin of the day Unreal there's a Kenny pick it formula one RPA Bo Jackson one of five's nice one there We had Aidan Hutchinson RPA. We had a Kenneth Walker RPA Chris Olaveta 49 RPA Jalen Hertz 15 of 15 one-man show It's an ed read once upon a time for the Ravens to 10 and John Dotson formula one to 25 Let's do it for the break guys. Thanks again for the film coming up next is 10 bucks


Well, first we're trying to make data widely available, and we're going to do that by recommending policies that would increase the sharing of data. So right now, the data sharing policies at NIH are pretty low profile. What we like to see is the data widely shared, but once it's available, it needs to be usable. So the other thrust we're doing is supporting the development of standards so that this person can work with this data. And then once the data are available and usable, people have to find it, and once they find it and use it, they should cite it. And so Group 1 is doing all of these things. The examples where you see data being reused are the most powerful. There's a reason why everybody's heard of the Framing Hand Heart Study. It's been going for since the 1940s, and that's because their data is actually available to qualified researchers, and the findings they've got out of there are great. But the data themselves have resulted in many, many additional publications, and you saw the same thing with the Human Genome Project, that how well they made their data available and how rapidly and easily, just completely revolutionized research. NIH and the U.S. citizens already paid once for the best possible data, and the whole point of data sharing is that this valuable data can be reused and more benefit can come from it for researchers and for the public. For the most part, scientists are not incentivized to share their data, with very good reason. Promotion and tenure depends on the number of scientific papers and the quality of those papers and how many times they're cited and so forth. And so, of course, when a scientist spends years collecting data, especially if it's a very rich data set, he or she does not want to make that available to everybody right away. That's understandable. But there are no incentives for that, even after the fact. So the idea here is, through the ability to cite specific data sets, for example, you can give credit to the people that are generating those data sets separate from the papers. And in fact, you can imagine that if a data set is collected and is the basis of a scientific paper, you can imagine authors A and B on the scientific paper. And authors A, C, D, and E as authors of the data set. And so the people getting credit for the data-related activity could be different or in different order than those for the scientific paper. And suddenly you have a real way to incentivize those kinds of activities. It's not just for the researchers. It's also for the general public, right? There are a lot of people that are more and more interested in finding out about health and disease and how can they find out what's going on. And the goal of this is not just for the researcher in the Ivory Tower or the MD, but also for the rest of the public as well.