We've come to condensation, for NCC 2019 we have some brand new provisions and these are in both volume 1 and in volume 2 concerning condensation. This is the first time a part of the NCC has directly addressed condensation in buildings and condensation can lead to mould growth and mould growth leads to unhealthy conditions for occupants and so it is appropriate and in line with the current goals of the NCC to include something which controls condensation and at the outset I have to say three things. Firstly, firstly I need to say that these measures aren't a magic bullet. They're not going to necessarily cure condensation in your buildings. You can follow the NCC yet they're not going to prevent condensation in all cases. You can still get condensation if you follow these provisions. That's number one. The second thing I need to say is that these provisions like the rest of the NCC are minimum standards. Nothing stops you from going beyond the minimum standard set by the NCC. So if you are dealing with an area which is prone to condensation then there's nothing stopping you and it's probably a good idea to go beyond the minimum standards that I'll step through shortly. The third thing I need to say is that what you see in NCC 2019 is step one. So there is ongoing work going on in condensation is still on our work program and so it's very likely you're going to find some new provisions again in NCC 2022 covering condensation. Yet we do have stage one provisions and here's what they cover and they also come with some new performance requirements. Here they are for volume one and two and immediately as you look at these performance requirements two things are apparent. The first is we're only talking about class one, class two and class four parts of buildings and even in the class two buildings we're only talking about the sole lock units. So they're a very limited scope of these provisions. The dwellings where people live class one, class two sole lock units and class four parts of buildings. The second thing to notice is like I said earlier these performance requirements themselves aren't looking for the eradication of condensation. Even the performance requirements indicate that we can't eradicate it. It's not that easy. The performance requirements are looking to minimise the health impacts associated with condensation. There's two ways that the deemed satisfied provisions do this and that's through sarking and ventilation. Firstly sarking, this is the same provision in both volumes F6.2 and volume one and 3.8.72 in volume two. The first thing to note is you don't have to use sarking. These provisions aren't requiring that you use sarking. It might be that another part of the NCC requires you to use sarking but these provisions aren't requiring it. If you do use sarking that's great then A here applies and in those colder climate zones not here in Brisbane but in climate zone 6, 7 and 8 that sarking needs to be vapor permeable and also has to be on the outside of the insulation layer. If you don't use sarking that's fine except B kicks in and you need to have a drained cavity unless you've got a single skin masonry wall or a single skin of concrete, tilt up concrete wall. So that's sarking. The second control is ventilation. The ventilation provision managed condensation by controlling where you discharge the air and also by giving a minimum rate of discharge, minimum flow rate. And like the sarking these provisions aren't requiring that you have ventilation. It might be another provision requires that you have ventilation but if you have ventilation that's great. You have to hit the required flow rate which is 25 litres per second for bathrooms and sanitary compartments and it's 40 litres per second where you've got more humid environments in the kitchen and the laundry where the clothes dryer is parked. And you've also got a discharge to the new requirements and in most cases this will mean discharging to outdoor air or discharging to a ventilated roof space and the new provisions also spell out what a ventilated roof space looks like. And you have to do this even if you have a window. And about discharge note carefully that for volume one so that's the class two solar units and the class four part of a building. Exhaust from the kitchen has to go outside. You can use reticulating range wood inside a class one but if you've got a volume one, class two or class four, your range wood has to go to outside. Here's another new part for volume one only. Occupiable outdoor areas. And so the question on everyone's mind what is an occupiable outdoor area? I'm glad you asked because we've got a new defined term. We've got a new defined term. It's a space on the roof or balcony or a similar part of a building which meets these requirements. As you can see it's outside. It's generally accessible so it's not your plant equipment up on the roof. And it's where you can't readily escape from it so it's not in that open space or directly associated with open space. So when you're thinking about occupiable outdoor areas, think about your rooftop bars, your rooftop car parks, parts of a building like that. So why have we got these new provisions? Well, it's for reasons like this, it's clarifying how parts of the NCC apply. Think of these two buildings one on the left. These are in in section. On the left, we've got a three story building. And on the right is a two story building. Rising stories is two, except we've got an occupiable rooftop. So for the class five to nine building under the current NCC, the one on the left will need to have a fire isolated exit stair because that stair would be serving three stories. However, the building on the right, that same exit stair would be connecting only two stories as defined by the NCC. So on the left, we've got a fire isolated exit. On the right, we don't. However, our occupant up there, made on the left and made on the right, they're in very similar predicaments, aren't they? So part G six occupiable outdoor areas comes along and changes that G 6.4 counts the occupiable outdoor area on the right as a story for determining when a fire isolated exit is required. That's not just about stories and exits. The new part G six covers all these items that you see here. And it's a clarification about how an occupiable outdoor area is to be treated. And sometimes a concession is appropriate because it's outside. For instance, the fire hazard properties on that first dot point there. Because we're outside, smoke's going to get away. So we don't worry about applying the C one point 10 requirements to do with smoke hazard management. However, we do want to control the spread of fire on an occupiable outdoor area. So we do have C one 10 requirements related to spread of fire, applying to those to these occupiable outdoor areas, the rooftop bars and the like. Now it's important to note that these provisions don't apply to every single occupiable outdoor area as captured by that definition. Because when you think about it, if you go to a hotel and go into the balcony, that's a place which is outside the building and you can't, it's not connected to open space. It meets all those parameters for the defined term. So what G six point one does, the application provision in G six, it sets out parameters about when these provisions do apply. So your hotel balcony in other areas like that do get the fire hazard properties. You can't have excessive spread of fire up there. But it doesn't. You don't have to worry about counting that for the purposes of a story. If it's just and the other things that you don't have to get your hose reel out onto the hotel. Well, hose reels aren't required in the two's. But yeah, the other parts don't apply.  But your rooftop bars, the larger more significant ones are captured by the provisions. Now we come to Section J. And when you pick up Section J for NCCC 2019, you'll note that a lot has changed. There's new verification methods. J two glazing has been removed entirely. Doesn't exist in NCCC 2019. And that's because now there's a new whole of facade approach to measuring glazing and insulation. You have to take into account the entire wall and not count the wall and the glazing separately. So J two's basically been squashed into J one. You'll also find that the level of stringency has generally increased. There's a lot of change. You'll also notice the transition period. And I did touch on this earlier, but I'll describe that in a bit more detail now. I need to explain how this transition period works. So until first of May next year, you can use the current Section J 2016 or you are you are welcome to use the Section J of NCCC 2019. But the thing about this transition period until the first of May next year is you can't mix and match. The changes in NCCC 2019 are so extensive that you can't mix and match between 2016 and 2019. You have to use 2016 or 2019, not a bit of one or a bit of the other. We've got this transition period like this for the same reason we have any transition period is to give industry a chance to become familiar with the new requirements. And because there are very significant changes, there are a one year period has been placed to allow industry to become familiar with these requirements. Here are some of the changes. We've got a quantified performance requirement. JP1 now has kilojoules per square metre targets for condition spaces. I mentioned the stringency has gone up. You're looking at about a 30 to 40 percent. It depends where the building is, but you'd be achieving a 30 to 40 percent energy use decrease for a section J 2019 building. Reference building verification method Jv3. The parameters have been firmed up in that one. There's extra detail about the model building and the team to satisfy building, the two model buildings. I mentioned J2 has gone because it's been squashed into J1. And there's also HVAC systems, heating ventilation, air conditioning has been given the holistic approach as well. And so the J5 has been amended accordingly. And for the first time the NCC controls the amount of energy that's used by lifts and escalators. Now we're not going to cover all these changes today. If we did, we'd be here for another hour on top of the usual seminar. So instead this seminar is concentrating on things you need to use, no, this year if for May. On the basis that we've got opportunity to provide further education for things you need to know next May. But what we do have is we're working with the Property Council of Australia. They're going to be rolling out some seminars on section J energy efficiency for NCC 2019. So look out for those seminars. Towards the middle of the year you can see that we'll have details on our website. And we're also working on an updated edition of the handbook. The section J handbook is being updated very extensively to reflect the new provisions. So keep an eye out for those on our website. There's also new calculators that are going up for and not just all glazing calculators gone obviously because J2 is gone. But we've got facade calculators, air conditioning calculators going up on our website as well. So keep a look out for those. That brings us through volume one and we're now up to volume two. Now we have covered a lot of volume two changes already through our first run through volume one because a lot of the changes in volume one are also in volume two like condensation. So we're going to go through and pick up the things we haven't covered yet. And one of the first thing you'll notice when you pick up volume two is that some parts have been moved around. For starters we've expanded 3.10 and we've brought in heating appliances and there's also a new another new part in there 3.10.6 decks and balcony to alkanese attachments. And we've also grouped all the structural requirements and put them into a new part 3.0. So you know there was 3.11 structure and a few other requirements. We've grouped those into part 3.0. And what we're doing is we're restructuring to make volume two what it always was meant to be. And that is the structure of volume two follows the construction sequence of a house. You know you start with the structure, the footings, the slab. Move through into your framing and then into your cladding etc etc. So some of these amendments are to make the structure follow the sequence of a house more closely. Part 3.5 and part 3.7. 3.5 being roof and wall cladding and part 3.7 being fire safety. These have been restructured as well because that ACP review project acceptable construction practice review project I mentioned earlier has been very busy in these areas and has created a lot of new content and a lot of changes in there. And so part 3.5 and 3.7 have been restructured as well. Volume two receives nine new verification methods and some of these we've already talked about for volume one such as natural light and building ceiling. V2, 6, 2, 3 that's also in volume one. That's as JV4 and this is where you use blow door testing to verify that a building's ceiling is appropriate. So if you're looking to do a performance solution in any of these areas check out these verification methods they may suit your project. So we moved to part 3.1 and we get a new acceptable construction manual here in part 3.1. There's no acceptable construction practice as you're aware you've got your acceptable construction manual which is where you can directly go to a standard or your acceptable construction practice which is where you find deem-satisfied provisions setting that out. We've got a new acceptable construction manual without practice for earth retaining walls and that brings up this reference standard AS4678 which hasn't been a directly reference standard until NCC 2019. There's some limitations about when you can use this earth retaining wall standard, site conditions so you can't use it in areas prone to landslips, cyclic loading so you can't use it below plant and equipment. What you will find is that this standard can be used for many retaining walls. Maximum height under this standard, 15 meters. So if you're going to use a retaining wall bigger than 15 meters you're going to have to use a different standard. I haven't done one myself. Has anyone here done a 15.1 retaining wall? Probably not. So that's a brand new acceptable construction manual for NCC 2019. Quite a few changes in masonry part 3.3. We still have the same acceptable construction manuals AS3700 and AS4773. Previously we didn't have acceptable construction practice in NCC 2016 whereas this year we do. So part 3.5 has been greatly expanded to bring in two new parts for masonry veneer. One part for masonry veneer and another part for isolated masonry piers. So the masonry veneer provisions you'll find requirements there. So you don't have to go to the standard directly. You can go to the provisions in the NCC and you find what you need to know there about the masonry units, about the articulation joints, the materials in the articulation joints, the joints between the units, the accessories like the brick ties, also accessories for lintels. So we've got requirements in the NCC deemed to satisfy about lintels in masonry veneer walls. So new part where you can go straight to the DTS to build a masonry veneer wall. And we've also got a new part 3.3.6 for isolated masonry piers. And so these are of course the piers below the suspended floor like indicated here on the right. And those requirements will set out in masonry configurations for piers up to a certain heights and you get plenty of lovely diagrams like that one there. But it's also covering your piers, your masonry piers used for car ports and patios and things like that. So deans to satisfy provisions, acceptable construction practice in NCC 2019 volume 2 for masonry. The acceptable construction manuals remain, however we have referenced amendments to both those 4773 and also the 3700. And the NCC doesn't do this often, but sometimes it does. When it references a standard, the NCC will sometimes modify that standard as it's referenced. In certain circumstances, AS 3700 is modified as you can see here. So you got the first one, which removes a part of a provision. And you got the second one there, which also makes, which makes you do some extra work, extra calculation for particular unreinforced masonry provisions. So if you're picking up AS 3700, just make sure that you're using it in the proper way as stipulated by this part and others in part 3.3 masonry. We moved to part 3.4 framing. And one thing to note here in part 3.4 is that we've separated out what happens in the subfloor timbers. Previously, NCC 2016, we didn't actually make specific requirements about in-ground timbers. We only talked about subfloor timbers. We've separated that out. So you've got your subfloor timbers, which are above ground. And those are the same provisions taken across from last year, but also we've included now where you have subfloor timbers, which are in the ground. And of course, you've got the higher preservely treated timbers. They're the H5 requirements for the in-ground timbers. Still framing. Sorry, here we are. Still framing.  The acceptable construction practice for still framing, which has been there for a little while, we found wasn't being used. And that's because the reference documents, the Nash Standards National Association of Steel Housing and also the 4100 and 4600 Australian Standards or Australian New Zealand Standard 4600, were more contemporary provisions. They were more useful provisions. And so those were being used rather than the acceptable construction practice found in the NCC. For that reason, for 2019, we've taken out the acceptable construction practice and you need to go straight to the acceptable construction manual. So we've come to timber framing now. And in timber framing, we've got some additional acceptable construction manual. So currently in 2016, you only see your 1684.2 in there. And also the simplified version, 0.4 is listed there as well at the moment. We've expanded that list of acceptable construction manual. So you've got your designer timber structures, you're 1725 for now-plated roof trusses. We've introduced direct reference to cyclonic areas and also particle board flooring. Now, a lot of these were secondary references, picked up in other ways. What we've the acceptable construction practice review project found that was not appropriate to put the direct reference in here. I mentioned that roof and wall clouding has been overhauled by the acceptable construction practice review project. So there's been a lot of restructuring. There's some additional content, including content to do with what to do when you have a parapet, which hasn't been in the NCC yet. And we improved existing content, especially content around flashing. We've also included an explanation of terms. When you go to framing, you've got your explanation of terms there for timber framing. We've put that in also here for part 3.5. We've also updated the sheet roofing requirements. You've got to find, as you open it up and have a look, that we're putting in separate parts for different subject areas rather than just what we had previously, which was separate clauses for areas. And this made it a more logical way of setting this part out. Part 3.5.2 for roof tiles. There's more detail about flashings when the roof tile wall comes up against a timber or masonry wall. And this has been important because flashings and flashings generally have been improved through this section because it's a big problem across Australia. And I understand to be quite a problem here in Queensland. The flashing hasn't been always operating and so we've, as it should, so we've been really expanding how the flashing provisions and clarifying the flashing provisions in the NCC. And we've been including lots of new figures such as this one. This is a brand new figure in NCC 2019 which sets out where you don't have to have a flashing above a window or other opening on accounts of the eve. So roof and wall cladding. This is a new provision which references wall cladding. Minimum clearance from the ground for your wall cladding and your minimum clearance or minimum height of it above the subfloor timbers. This is brand new deemed to satisfy for NCC 2019. As you can see there, where you're above the ground in low rainfall or well-drained areas, your cladding has to be at least 100mm above that. If you pay for concrete, it only has to be 50mm. And you have to make sure your cladding is at least 50mm below the suspended floor. The ACP reviews also gone through part 3.7, fire safety. And as you can see here, like part 3.5, the fire safety provisions have been regrouped or recast into more logical structure. And you get different, set of different clauses. Again, we're getting different parts that reflect the different subject areas. There's been a lot of language rewrite to make things simpler. 3.717, allowable encroachments. We get questions about that at the office almost weekly on allowable encroachments. So that was one of the first parts to get a clarification of rewrite. It's now 3.727. And we've separated out garage top dwellings into its own parts. Smoke alarms and evacuation like it's a much more logical set out of structure. We've also made changes to the method of measurement. So the very first part up in 3.7, which talks about how you measure your distances for the purposes of determining if you need a to provide fire protection to an external wall. The clarification we've made is that we've said that that includes that. Sorry, let me start again. The clarification is that when you're measuring from an external wall, it excludes an eaves overhang. We found that people were measuring from the eaves that might overhang a separating wall. I'm sorry, an external wall, which required protection. And we've included this diagram here to illustrate the point that actually take the measurement from the wall. And you see in this diagram that there is no eave coming out over the wall of the taller class one dwelling, coming out over the adjacent dwelling. That's because it's not allowed under the NCC, deemed to satisfy provisions because it's taken from the external wall in terms of the measurement and you go to allowable encroachments, 3717, now 3727, you can't have an eave inside that encroached area within that 900 of the adjacent building. So we've included diagrams like this and clarified method of measurement to make that clear. Another change to note for separating walls is that now you can use a 90 mil brick wall for your separating wall. It's always been there that you can have an FRL 60, 60, 60 or a 90 mil masonry wall for an external wall. All we've done is pick that up and put that into separating walls because it didn't sit there previously. There's some new explanatory information there, new diagrams like this one to cover circumstances when the 10A is not between the boundary and the class one. So we're very familiar with parts like this one, with diagrams like this one which comes out of figure 3714. That's now figure 3724 in the restructured part 37. We're all familiar with this where we've got our 10A between the class one and the boundary.  However, it is possible for fire to spread around corners. How many people talk about the fire just travelling in one direction for volume two and in volume one it can go in all directions? Yeah, I'm seeing some nods there. So because fire can travel around corners, there's a series of new diagrams in figure 3724 which take into account situations where the class 10 is not between the boundary and the class one. And of course, there's similar diagrams for where there's two class ones on the same boundary. Where we have less than 900 millimetres protection has to be provided. If you've got two options, you can protect the wall of the 10A as shown there. That could be a carport or your garage. Or you can provide the protection between the house and the 10A because it's always been the case that the National Construction Code, the BCA, doesn't mind about the 10A going up in flames. It's about sopping the spread of fire from one class one building to another class one building. It's always been the case. And here are a stack of new figures, new scenarios inside figures 3724. Separating walls. So there's another change in separating walls and that's about can to leave and separating walls. And this one's a bit of a clarification because a lot of walls have been showing up on building sites like this as developers get more and more bedrooms into attached class one dwellings and also have to maintain their driveway turning circles and things like that. So we're getting a lot of can to leave can to leave it. Separating walls and the question that came up was does a can to leave it separating wall is shown in that diagram there. Does that commence at the footings or grounds lab as required by the NCC? And this is another one where some people say yes it does and other people say no it doesn't. Wasn't clear. So we've actually gone and written some new deemed to satisfy provisions which cover what to do when you have a separating wall which can to leave as shown in this diagram. And as indicated there there's a horizontal projection either side of that separating wall which requires protection to the to the underside of the floor. And that goes for 1.8 meters either side. So here's a photo taken from a building site and there's a building site here in Queensland and you can see how you'd have so going to just use our laser pointer here. So we've got the the separating wall which can to leave as I'm sure there's plenty of reinforcement in that wall. I got scared when I saw this photo I thought far out what was the bricklayer thinking but I'm told there's a lot of backspan and a lot of reinforcement in that masonry wall right there. But you could have a fire break out of this one and of course this doesn't have to be masonry here. A fire can break out of that wall that dwelling and move across the fluxes certainly sufficient would certainly be sufficient to cause a fire to start in the neighbouring dwelling and then up through the wall. So what to do with this what to do in the scenario the new provisions require fire protection to that area for 1.8 metres. Now that couldn't be a 60 minute incipient spread ceiling it could be an FRL of 30, 30, 30 or it can be the fire protective covering as defined. Now of course these are the existing requirements for a separating floor all we've done is pick those out and applied them to the scenario where we're providing protection to the underside of a cantilevered on both sides of a cantilevered separating wall. So another new part this year is attachment of decks and balconies I love this photo the dog saying where my stairs go. The attachment of decks and balconies because we don't want this to happen and many would be aware and I don't want to make light of this because there has been a lot of situations where the deck has become detached and there has been serious consequences of that. And previously the NCC has had nothing to do with how you put a whaling plate on a wall so as to provide support to a deck which is attached to a house. So either you do the 1684.2 approach and put a bunch of posts right next to the wall to take the load or you would have a whaling plate but have that specifically engineered for that scenario under AS 1170. So those are existing ways of getting a deck next to a building but for NCC 2019 we've included another way which is found in part 310.6 attachment of decks and balconies. And what we're doing is setting out when you can use a whaling plate in order to attach a deck or balcony to a wall. Now there's some limitations about when you can use this part as is with the case with many reference standards or many parts of the NCC. You can only apply this new part if your deck is less than or equal to three metres above the footing. And there's also some limitations for the wall. Now important to note is that your wall has to be a framed wall. Timber or steel doesn't matter. It has to be a framed wall or it has to be a core field wall as shown in this diagram here. There are no team of satisfied provisions in part 310.6 for a masonry unreinforced masonry leaf. So your regular brick veneer wall can't use 310.6 in order to attach a whaling plate to support a deck. Of course you can still use the existing means that are available to you an engineered solution or a row of posts but you won't find anything in 310.6 for the masonry wall but for the unreinforced masonry wall. But what you will find fixing requirements, how to fix that whaling plate you're going to find some flashing requirements to ensure that the wall stays weatherproof. You're going to find bracing requirements for the deck. You're also going to find lots of fantastic diagrams like this one which is showing how the whaling plate is attached to a corfield masonry wall. This brings us to energy efficiency part 312 of volume 2. There's been some amendments for energy efficiency not as substantial as volume 1 but there are some. And the first thing to note when we come to energy efficiency for volume 2 is that it also gets a transition period. It was identified that that energy efficiency generally might have been a bit too complex to separate it out so at blanket rule for energy efficiency you all get all the provisions get a transition period. And it's like the volume 1 and 1. You can use NCC 2019 part 2.6 where the performance requirements are kept or part 312 or you can use the current provisions in NCC 2016. Like with volume 1 you can't mix and match. That transition runs out on the adoption date of the next sorry from 1st May 2020 so that's one year from the adoption date. And what's different? Well, a few things. One to look at is 312 01. We've introduced separate heating and cooling loads for houses assessed using house energy rating software. What's this mean? Well, in short when you get your star rating for a house that star rating is calculated from a benchmark which takes your heating loads for a year it takes your cooling loads for a year combines those and then measures that against the benchmark in order to determine your star rating. You still have to do that but what this sense this alteration here does is it means that you need to take that heating load and compare that heating load with a parameter set out and also take your cooling load and separately separately compare that also against a parameter. These parameters are set out in a brand new reference document found on our website for free download but you have to do your star rating and your certificate will tell you your heating loads and cooling loads you just got to make sure that those separate loads are less than the parameters set out in the new reference document. It's worth noting that J0.2 in volume one which applies to class two solar units in class of all parts of a building which when you use the star rating method it also requires separate heating and cooling loads just as I've described. There's also been changes in building sealing including this change here. What this change has done is means that when you've got a class one dwelling and the class 10A carport or so class 10A garage attached to that and that garage is not inside the condition space it usually isn't then you need to put your weather seal on the door that leads from the house into the garage in climate zones four, five, six seven and eight. Like I mentioned earlier there's new verification method that you could use the Blower Door Testing method to check that you're building sealing. There's been a number of other changes through 312.3 to do with building sealing. A lot of it is explanatory information because we noted that there's just information being placed in the code to help you achieve building sealing. We're up to the common schedules now so we've worked through volume one we've worked through volume two. The common schedules are found at the back of each volume at the NCC and the common schedules contain the defined terms for reference documents and other things that are found in all volumes of the NCC. Now a lot of these defined terms we've mentioned already such as battery system occupiable outdoor area these are new defined terms which are associated with changes that have gone in for NCC 2019. However there is one definition that's changed of its own accord and that's the defined term for atrium. Under 2016 a space became an atrium for the purposes of the NCC if it was wholly or substantially enclosed. It's a space which is wholly or substantially enclosed connecting two or more stories etc. That's an atrium for the purposes of the NCC. This is a photo of an atrium at one Bly Street in Sydney a very interesting building and this atrium goes through the middle of the building and it's roofed so it's wholly enclosed and therefore it's an atrium for the purposes of the NCC. But hypothetically let's say that roof covered 75% of the atrium is it substantially enclosed? Probably. What if it covered 50% is it substantially enclosed? 25% is it substantially enclosed? So it's hard to measure. So what we did is we made a change there to indicate that you need to be greater than 50%. We've put a number on substantially. So when your floor or roof covers 50% or more of the area of the space measured in plan then the area that space is an atrium for the purposes of the NCC. We've also clarified how that's measured because it was a little bit unclear in the previous defined term. Next to talk about is the fire safety verification method. It's a brand new comprehensive verification method which covers a lot of fire safety performance requirements found in volume one. And because it covers so many performance requirements we couldn't plug it in each and every it's part of each and every section of the NCC which had those performance requirements. Instead we moved it to the back in schedule seven where it sits in its own schedule. And because it's not your everyday verification method it's been given a delayed adoption date first of May 2020. So this is found in the pages of NCC 2019 but it's actually not a part of the NCC for the purposes of the NCC until the first of May next year. This is to give industry a chance to become familiar with this new verification method. There's a few things to note up front about this new verification method. The verification method stipulates that it needs to be the performance solution that you make from this verification method needs to be prepared by fire safety engineer sometimes known as the fire engineer. The VM makes this stipulation. The verification method also stipulates that you need to produce a performance based design brief. This is the brief that comes out from that four step process where all stakeholders are included in the development of the performance solution. How the verification method operates is that it sets out various design fire scenarios and we've each designed fire scenario it stipulates what the outcome for that must be. And in all cases with every design fire scenario that applies you need to demonstrate equivalence with the deemed to satisfy provisions. These are a few salient points about the fire safety verification method and as it is a verification method it's worth remembering as always a verification method is an option. You don't have to use this from first of May 2020 it's there as an option because it may suit your project to use the FSVM. You can always use the deemed to satisfy provisions or you could use a different performance solution. Now the fire safety verification method is quite a large and complex verification method we're not going to go through it in detail today but there is a specific education program which is being developed for this verification method. So look out the details are still being finalized but look out on our website for a specific education program for this verification method. It should be available towards the middle of the year. There's also a handbook which goes with this verification method it's a very large and complex handbook which goes with this complex verification method. And also because it's going to be enacted on you know in May next year we'll be doing this very seminar series next year it's very likely that we're going to be going into more detail in that seminar series on the fire safety verification method. So we're moving into reference documents that's scheduled for in the common schedules which will all volumes of the NCC and what this table does here it shows you I suppose the extent of change. Almost half the reference documents for each volume have been amended. So when I say amended that could be a new amendment or a new addition that's been referenced or it could be a brand new a brand new reference document such as the FPAA standards that we mentioned that we went over earlier. Now that's a huge rate of change and to assist with this amongst the documents that are on your chairs is a list of amendments specifically for standards where we've outlined what the changes to which standard are so that you can use that to make sure that you're using the correct standard when you pick up NCC 2019. And of course that document is available at that website I mentioned earlier abcb.gov.au forward slash abcb forward slash seminar. Now soon I'll invite Alison Scotland from Standards Australia to talk about some changes to some reference standards but before you do that I want to update you on a change to a note to the AS1530 series and AS4072.1 So these are test standards which relate to combustibility flammability and fire resistance and for quite a while now excuse me for quite a while now each of these test standards has been given a note and that note has permitted the use of test reports for products under previous editions of the standards so this is often called the grandfather clause so a new reference standard of AS1530.1 so it comes along the grandfather clause allows you to use the existing test reports for products existing products if that product had been tested under a previous standard amendments carry on and carry on and carry on but the grandfather clause permits the old provision the existing products tested some time ago to keep that test certificate but every time a new edition of a standard is referenced it's referenced for a reason could be for safety it could be to correct errors it's referenced for a reason and so it's been identified that a lot of these grandfathered certificates are actually on quite old standards where safety and other things have been improved and it's become less appropriate to allow that grandfather clause to remain so for that reason an expiry date has been placed on the grandfather clause and that expiry date is the 1st of May 2022 that's the scheduled the adoption date for the next scheduled edition of the NCC so until that date until NCC 2022 you can still use the grandfather clause the existing products can still be done used under the previous test certificate however come 1st May 2022 the existing product has to be retested under the current standard that note will disappear which allows the grandfathers in 2022 and after that date you must use a current test certificate


Hi everyone, my name is Matthew Gaddy and I am your Engineering Productivity Coach. One downfall, the dark side to productivity is that it can be used as a method for procrastination. All the planning and the time blocking and the structuring of our days, we can get too engrossed in the preparing to be productive and never get into the actual doing of being productive. So this is what we want to talk about today. Are you using productivity as an excuse for procrastination? And if so, how can you fix that? So I have a couple questions that I want you guys to be honest with yourself about and just some other talking points for you to think about as you go through your productivity journey to make sure that you're not using productivity as a method of procrastination. So the first thing I want you to think about is are you planning to take action or are you planning to avoid action? Is the planning that you're doing going to support you? Are you in your journey or are you doing it so you don't actually have to start? A good example of this would be preparing to climb a mountain.  Are you continually to put your gear together so you never really go up the mountain? Think about that. One other thing to think about that can kind of support you in this question is how adverse is the task that you're planning about? How adverse is that particular task? Is it something where you're planning because you're like, I don't really want to do this. Are you planning to get it out? Are you avoiding that task with the planning? Once again, is that procrastination? And another things you can think about is are you planning to get through this adverse task or are you planning to keep yourself from it? And be honest with yourself about it. Being honest with yourself when you ask yourself these questions is very, very important because the person that will help the most is you. And just remember that not only in productivity but in life in general, these questions will help you out the most. Another thing to think is how critical is it for you to have the entire plan mapped out before you start? One key element to productivity that is often looked down upon is done is better than perfect, but I completely stand by that. It's better for you to have something on the page than for you to have the perfect plan. Something planned is better than nothing planned. And the best part about that is once you get something written down and once you begin to start checking through it, you'll begin to see where areas need to be refined. It's much easier to edit a plan, a bad plan into a good plan than it is for you to create a perfect plan on the first try. So just start, jump in, sketch out an outline of what you need to do, but above all make sure you're starting first and then you can refine later. One other thing, the last thing I want you guys to remember is that you learn more from mistakes. You learn more from mistakes because they hurt and they typically give you immediate feedback and a reminder of what not to do. So if you're in a case where you're trying something new and they don't have anyone to ask or gives advice over whatever is going on, go in. Don't be afraid to make mistakes. Own the mistakes that you make and make sure that you don't have them happen again. Mistakes are affected because they hurt and we have this plain pain pleasure complex in our brains. We try to avoid pain and we run towards pleasure. So use that to your advantage. If you make a mistake, feel the pain, understand where the pain came from, understand how to transition this pain into pleasure, which is how do I learn from this problem so that I can move from it being a pain to this situation bringing me pleasure. And remember that and continue to do that the next time you start. Never run away from the problem, never run away from the mistake because if you run away from the mistake, you will miss the lesson and you will be keen to make that mistake again. The most difficult thing for you to do sometimes and one thing that I am being more intentional about as well is when you're making a mistake, admit you make the mistake and just live with the consequences because it's better for you to make the mistake, acknowledge it and get it right and fixed than it is for you to avoid acknowledging the mistake, never learn the right way to do it and continue to make that mistake over and over and over and over again because the more that mistake is made, the bigger the ramification, negative ramifications of the mistake that you made is. So if you really want to learn something quickly, outline a plan to make as many mistakes as possible. You will learn more from experience and failure than you ever will from a success because success, you have gone through the program once you've only seen one option but as you know in life, options are like a tree, a tree branch kind of where the option split off into multiple different directions and when you're making mistakes, you get to see as many of those branches as possible. So just make sure that you're making as many mistakes as possible, learn from them and make sure you're not using productivity principles to aid you in your procrastination. Get out there, get started, plan to do, don't plan to avoid and ask yourself what am I trying to run away from and tackle it head on. Go ahead and start and we'll figure out a plan as we go. So this is our video for today. If you have any questions, leave them down below and I will see you guys in the next video.


Have me one day morning. I'm Jay Fidel. This is Think Tech. We're talking about community matters this morning with Rick Blanchiardi. He's running for mayor and he's here with us. Thank you for joining us, Rick. Jay, always good to be with you. Always a challenge to be with you.  That makes you very interesting, certainly in the business community or anybody who cares about business. And I want to ask you, why in the world are you running?  Will this make you happier? Will this make you sad?  Why? Well, it really wasn't the pursuit of happiness. It was really more the pursuit of love for this place that I've lived here since 1965. And candidly speaking, you know, through the lens I had as a general manager for Whiteness now, but really, even my other work that I've done in the community, I looked at the issues. And again, I made my decision right before Christmas, obviously pre-COVID. But I was looking at the issues that were facing us as a community with respect to homelessness, rail, neighborhood crime, infrastructure, elder care, all those classic talking points, you know, of what a mayor and really being the CEO of the city would be about and really felt that we had those crises, but we also had a leadership crisis. You've been running news for a long time with Whiteness now. I was there in the first hour. It came to me on December 18, 2008, after a broken economy and said, you know, the ownerships were brought to their knees and wanted to know if I would agree to be the guy to lead that and build it. And I did because it wasn't out of economic greed. It was out of survival, survival for our community and what we could create. So we took the notion that we would build a 21st century multimedia company for Hawaii. That was the week before Christmas. By April, we were pretty much all clear with the FCC and DOJ. And then we had to go through some other things because of more notices and a few other things. August, we announced officially and then October, we moved in. So 26, 2009. Community service. And so your local connections thing where you get up there and tell them your views about this and that and various issues and those are personal views and you're always passionate. I must say, I told you this before, I really appreciate that. Thank you. Well, you know, wasn't totally me as an individual per se. We work, I work with my editorial team in the newsroom as well because there are so many things that go on in Honolulu. And we only did two different topics a week. And so we would have discussed what would be the most relevant, what we felt we need to say. I used to love the parts where I would give shout outs, but most of the time we were taught to talk about something that really didn't want our anchors to be doing from the anchor desk. But as a news organization, knowing what we knew, we really felt we need to put that spotlight. It was special to see the, you know, the manager yourself come around with opinions and fomented people thinking. You know, that's the idea to get them to think. And I think you've done that. But let me ask you this, you know, your qualifications do not include politics. You've been a business guy, you've been a sports guy, you've been a manager par excellence and all that for decades and decades and generations, but not politics. Now, we have a president in office who ran on the platform that he had no experience in politics. And I don't know if you agree with me, but that I don't think that worked out. So, you know, maybe he should have had some experience in politics. How do you answer that concern? Well, I don't, you know, I don't want to talk about the president of the United States and certainly don't want to draw any comparisons to me and Donald Trump in that regard. But I look, I'm not new to politics in a sense of somebody who's been running broadcast operations, you know, every cycle we would get involved with politicians, hosting debates, certainly throughout the course of the year and veryably dealing with them on issues and other related matters. So it's not like I was oblivious to that whole realm, but I looked at the mayor's job as I think most people should look at the mayor's job, nonpartisan, the fact that the incumbent was terming out and so I wouldn't have to sit there and try to run against somebody and spend my time bashing them as we've all seen far too many times. I mean, the whole rhetoric out of Washington is, for me, is very distasteful. So the job was going to be open. And really, and everybody, I talked to a number of mayors, this is running a city. This is a day-to-day operational thing. The phone rings on everything. You know, I know that there's a legislature to deal with. There's certainly gonna be a really kind of a remake of a city council with five new people. I didn't look at this as a political job. I looked at this as a leadership job and that I have been my whole career. Well, you know, the thing about cities, and I think people sometimes forget, is that the city constitutionally, you know, it's fire, police, infrastructure, water, that kind of thing, that's what it's about. It's not necessarily, for example, about economy, although the city of Honolulu has had economic consultants and advisers and offices from time to time. I'm not sure that they ever really did all that much and now it becomes an issue. I wanna discuss some of those basic functions. One of the basic functions is, of course, the, you know, prosecution of crimes, because the prosecutor is under the city. I know people fully understand it's under the city. And I'm thinking of, you know, things that you may have seen or been involved in that have helped you understand, you know, what it is and how the prosecutor's office works and how public safety works. So, you know, for example, you had an experience and you can comment on it. This is some 35 years ago, it was a subject of an article in the Civil Beat, July 2nd, and it was about this straw buyer kind of thing that was going on in Honolulu at the time. You wanna comment at all on that? Because, you know, it was a piece that was not particularly complimentary. On the other hand, you know, I was practicing law at that time and I understand it. But why don't you tell me your view of it? Well, it was 37 years ago, it was in 1983. I was in my mid-30s now. You know, Jay, well, I've kept pretty tight on this because I was so surprised by it. So before I say anything else, let me just say throughout my entire career, I've been vetted deeply in the roles and jobs that I've had, not the least of which was two bank boards and one of them was Central Pacific Bank, you know, locally, and actually both banks and both institutions were locally. But even in the work that I've done, when you hold the responsibility for a broadcast license and I've done that at the general manager level in Hawaii, but also in San Francisco, Seattle, when president of national companies and all the major markets with major owners, you're vetted very deeply. This has never, ever come up in my background checks that was put out of the way. So very simply put, at the time, was a guy named Sam Daly, who was a very prominent real estate developer. He was a retired Air Force Colonel, very, very credible, paternalistic, if you will. He brought a bank president to town from Kansas City named Bill the Master. And this could be chronicled, but you can't even Google it, but it was part of the awful research that they did. And the long and the short of it is these guys convinced me and a couple of my other colleagues, science and professory notes for a development on the windward side. And we naively did that. As it turned out, this thing was a scam. I ended up being a plaintiff. Against this bank which was then closed by the FDIC. I had a financial liability with the FDIC because we signed a promissory note for which they were unforgiving, which is what forced me at that time into a very painful chapter seven bad part of my life, my wife and young kids at the time. But then I also became the key witness in the trial in Kansas City, put those guys in jail. So I was more than exonerated. I was never involved. It's just that article came out and made it look like my lack of integrity or for that matter that I was trying to defraud somebody when in fact, we were the ones defrauded. And I just shared more with you on this program that had to anybody else. I've been very private about it because clearly this was designed to try to hurt me and embarrass me and might be new to politics, not relevant in my life. My body of work here in this town in Hawaii speaks to that. Okay, so I was naive at the time, 37 years ago, and I went on to rebuild my life. All those guys went to jail. Appreciate that. Thank you for sharing on that point, Rick. It's important. So taking that, taking that together with the whole affair in Kealoha and Keith Conashiro, you know, the trouble in HPD, the trouble in the prosecutor's office and taking that together with the the miski affair that came out about murder for hire and the mob here in Honolulu doing murder for hire, very scary business. All of a sudden, you know, the whole prosecutor race takes on a new element. And you do have, you know, at least the observation of what's going on, you do have some contact with the way the courts work. And I'd like to know your thoughts about those things in the new administration, with a new prosecutor, whoever that may be, you know, which is part of the city. I think you do bring a certain amount of experience on those things. And I'd like to hear your thoughts about it. Well, you know, there's a lot that's been said of late about safety. The word safety has come up so much in our day-to-day vernacular as it relates to the impact of COVID-19. But you know, don't forget that our police department has a lot to do at our individual safety and who we are as a community. They just want to protect and serve. So, you know, historically, if you want to do the quick look back, K.L.O.S. scandal was incredible. And, you know, Hawaii News now led the charge on that. I'm not here to, you know, but we were on that story months before anybody else would touch that. So, I had a chance to obviously think about that a lot because we had conversations in that process about we had better be correct, if you will. And it turned out that we were and so on. And I actually, since you alluded to my doing editorials, had asked Keith Connoisseur on more than one occasion as a matter of integrity and as a matter of what was good for our community to step down. Obviously, that fell on deaf ears. Not that anything I had to say, but I took that position. I think community safety, especially in too much of those times like we're going through right now, or even a murderful hire scandal, like you just said, it happens. That is very unsettling. I think we're really at a crossroads. We've never been. I've lived here since 1965, where fear and uncertainty, and honestly, maybe in some cases where trust needs to be restored are a place we've never seen it before. Now, that said, I'm very proud to have gotten the showbo endorsement. I am also very confident in Susan Ballet. I mean, I've spent time with her and other top ranking officials, as well as with the guys in the field, the lieutenants and sergeants and whatever, went along a couple of police ride-alongs. I was very grateful to get the showbo endorsement. I look forward to a new prosecutor. I think we've been compromised to take nothing away from anybody else right now, but having that combined on the heels of the investigation about police chief. We do restore that kind of confidence and trust. It's an important part of the psyche of people who live in a community. I can tell you, Jay, year after year, doing market research on why people looked at news or what they were interested in, whatever. First and foremost, then we saved. Am I safe? Was a real big driver for why people read news, watch news, try to learn about it. Yeah, and especially now, you know, because there is a relationship or correlation between COVID and being locked up and having to spend all your time at home with an increase in domestic violence and violence on the street. And we're gonna see that. We're gonna see that more and more the longer the COVID goes on. There's been a lot lately just been written about. In fact, I just read an article last week about people locally filing for bankruptcies in the state of mind that brings people to in the frustration. It was already, pre this, you know, we already had a lot of stressors. I mean, you stop and think about 50% of our people worked paycheck to paycheck. That number is gonna even go up more so. But, you know, people having to work multiple jobs and the fact that life is no fun. You asked me, opened up about the pursuit of happiness. I used to sit there and wonder about people working 16 hour days trying to sleep and keep a family in between the remaining hours. And that was not just a few people. That's 50% of our people. So, you know, a lot of stress there. Now those very same people are gonna be brought to stresses that you've never imagined before. It's only human nature that the tensions will build and how that manifests itself. We don't know, but it's gonna be really tough. Let me give you one quick example. One of the highlights, one of the statistics and all the statistics that are coming out that has really gotten my attention. I spent the last 18 years as a proud member of the Hawaii Food Bank Board. In the month of May, the food bank, well, let me put it this way. Every year, historically, pretty much because of our capacity, we gave up between 800,000 and one million pounds of food a month. A month. That's a lot of food tied to capacity and it fed 285,000 people a year. That's 12 million pounds of food. Very needed for people that were working to keep a roof over the head. Couldn't quite make ends meet. And that's not Jay counted 50 times. That's non-redundant, okay? So that says we must show up in our homeless camps. That's just how fragile. This isn't just the Hawaii Food Bank. There's a lot of other services as well, but just that. So they gave up that and that was pretty all out effort, if you will. In the month of May, they gave out four million pounds of food. And the month of July, they gave out two million pounds of food because they didn't have any more to give out. Right. Well, that's really an important point that this may not be sustainable. We may not have the food. We don't have the supply lines. Even our inter-island transportation is jeopardized lately. Honolulu may find itself, hungry right across the board. We may. The mayor is gonna be right in the middle of that. You know, maybe not necessarily agreeing with the state or the governor, not necessarily agreeing with the president on reopening and pausing, reopening and pausing, or what to do about the number of cases or deaths. And I mean, I would say you'll have to agree with me that COVID is the most important news story of our lives right now. Absolutely. And the question is how do you see going into that? What is the special sauce you're gonna bring to the mayor? The mayor's office to deal with it. All of the various ramifications. You know, this is unprecedented. And so I don't want to, I don't have a crystal ball. Let me give this perspective right now, because right now, if you break it down, yes, I'm a candidate for mayor, but I'm really a retired business guy, trying to become mayor and don't even have anymore the intel I used to have when I was in the inside running Hawaii News Now. You know?  And that's where we are right now, approximately get to January. But just by coincidence, if you will, we announced five months ago, in February at the old stadium park. And I stop and think about what's happened in that last five months. I mean, a month later, we're shut down in watching this unfold and painstaking away and almost in disbelief. But knowing at least for the interim, we've had some subsidies through the CARES Act and our local banks did a great job of getting PPP money. They overreached it to their credit, got two and a half billion dollars. But a lot of those monies and resources are gonna be coming to an end. And so it is hard to predict what five and a half months from now is going to look like. That said, I have been on some interesting calls, even with the military, we've gone through a lot of pandemic training and different things. We're gonna have to enlist, incorporate and do things we've never done before. We are vulnerable. We are all vulnerable. In the beginning, when I was talking about elder care before COVID and talking about societies, a judge by the way, they treat their most vulnerable and talking about Akapuna and wanting to expand some of the programs. It's all shifted now. It's all shifted to us being a vulnerable people. So I'm gonna watch closely what gets done. Clearly, we're gonna need more federal money. Clearly, I don't wanna be presumptuous about a field of some tough competitors here, but we get elected. Irrespective of how difficult Washington may or may not be, but working with our people in Washington and anybody else, we're gonna have to go and get it. I think we have a special case, given our isolation, our vulnerability out here and all the other things. I candidly, I was encouraged yesterday to hear Josh Green on the news in Dr. Moskovich talk about the fact that looks like getting our testing numbers up some. That we've gotta get to a certain threshold of being able to do that. We're still away from that. So there's a lot of things here that we've never been before that have really dire consequences. We will be in a fight to survive. There's no question. And I'm concerned about basic needs of food. I am concerned about whether or not we can get federal monies in the short term to provide subsidies to keep people from being a victim. Because if you really understand that cycle of the people who they pay rent to, and they've gotta pay to somebody else, it's only so far that goes, right? So the subsidies, I would tell you, we'll probably have to get into some housing. I said this the other day, Jay. At a time like this, and what I'm learning about politics, there's a tendency for politicians to wanna talk about long-term plans. I think all that goes out the window right now on what's gonna happen three or four years from now. I mean, I'm really practical, common sense grounded in, and I'm trying to learn as much as I can about crises management. I've always been a turnaround guy and what you need to do. But at the same time, I'm bystander, watching what's gonna happen. And I certainly will get some indications as we get past the primary, hopefully, and whatever, and we'll have ample time. But this is, we've not been here before. Look, they announced the September closing. I can tell you, I was talking to hoteliers the week before in Waikiki, and they were praying to God that wasn't gonna happen. And as soon as they announced it, and they actually were gonna say indefinitely, but they chose to say September, the Holocaust says we're closed for a year.  Are you gonna hear a number of properties come out right now and say they're not gonna open up till January?  And that's gonna impact their healthcare and the ramifications of that because if they go to Medicaid, how that plays out, or for some that they, look, the University of Hawaii, before we had this last 60-day extension was predicting a couple of months ago, Kaobuanam, that Hawaii would lose 25 to 35,000 people and 21 because of no work. I remember that. You know, we've never seen an excess like that. We've never even talked that way. Literally, we've not been growing either. We're the only city in the top 100 that's had a negative population growth over the last four years, and we've been losing really good people. Well, you know, the big problem right now, and I really like your view on this, is this whole balancing act between public health and stopping those cases. I remember the exact number, but even in the morning paper, I think it was somewhere close to 25 or 28 cases, and it's creeping up on us. So the question is what, public health versus reopening. And when we speak of reopening, we're really speaking of large part of the hotels. And you mean local five and all that. And how do you balance that as the mayor? Well, I think fundamental from a balancing standpoint, good public health and a stable economy need to go hand in hand. They're not mutually exclusive concepts, right? But what's happened here is we are out of balance for good public health. And I understand, look, I've spoken before, I've spoken before the local five, I've met with Eric Gill, you know, I went down to the state capitol when they were protesting and had a private conversation with them afterwards for quite some time. I understand the concern of the hotel workers who want to feel safe because we're talking about right now, our cases are going up. I think we need to better discipline ourselves with masks and social distancing and washing our hands. If I've watched one expert after another, and I've watched all kinds of things and read everything, that seems to be what everybody is urging people to do at the very least, we can have better control. We don't have any tourists right now in our cases are going up. We're pretty lax. I don't know how to estimate the population, but I bet it's probably close to the national number, which is about 30% of the people are refusing to do that. I mean, so we're seeing cases go up, which is going to spook everybody, but make those mistakes about it. We can't keep our borders closed forever. That's not sustainable. We can't. And even then, when they do start to come back, they're not going to come back in big numbers, okay? And let me give you a perspective on that for what it's for. Well, it was a report of a couple of hundred people being arrested over the weekend. And I'm saying to myself, that's got to hit the national news. So you come as a tourist, you get arrested, you think you're going to come again. That's got to be a discouragement of potential tourists now. Well, I think Hawaii still enjoys global cashier unlike any other place on the earth that I could think of. I mean, from the standpoint of, you say Hawaii and it's magical. And I've always thought that way.  Look at the shirts we're wearing and look at where we live. You know, I mean, this is a special place, right? So I don't think that necessarily goes away. And in the short term, you know, that might make some people feel like, well, it's even safer because they're paying attention to people who violate because look in the world, in the global theater right now our incidents of cases and debts is considered minuscule. You know, so I think anybody hearing about that. Look, it's not attractive to come here and get arrested. Don't get me wrong. I don't know if it's necessarily going to be debt figure to turn. It could actually be a turn on for some people that, you know, please come here and do what you're asked to do. And that's the point I wanted to make about local five and the hotel workers is because they saw the same thing happen in Las Vegas once they opened up. Tourists show up and all of a sudden they get in the casinos and they're taking their mask off and whatever, you know, they're not, and that's a big concern. Can we get the tourists to at least on the properties and a few other places that they were in restaurants at least at the time that they sit down and get their food? Will they adhere to that? You know, because we don't want to expose our local workers to anything that's dangerous. And that's what we're trying to balance out right now. Now, what about industries other than tourism? You know, there's a lot of people out there, a lot of people saying this is a time to reimagine our economy. We've been talking about diversification since John Burns, I'm not kidding. And now maybe it's, you know, necessity is the mother of invention. We really haven't done anything about diversifying really nothing. So is that something that is on your list of priorities? Well, look, that's a great political buzzword.  I went back and researched. I read actually the, going back to Governor Burns over the last 50 years, I mean, that's always been we're going to diversify our economy. I read a whole thing when 2000, what they projected. Here we are 20 years later and very little of that has happened. So, you know, the reality is we took the drug. You know, we took the money from tourism. 2019 was really the manifestation of that. 17.8 billion dollars, two billions in tax revenue and not really a whole lot of investment, other things, if you will. Doesn't seem feasible, Jay, right now to talk about diversifying our economy in the midst of what you and I just got done within five minutes ago of talking about survival and being real. One of the things I do like about Hawaii, it's a very entrepreneurial place. And I think we do have to stay open to entrepreneurial ideas. I definitely think that there are things that we can do to help with construction, create jobs and construction and certainly the energy sector and the ag sector. But I don't want to kid anybody about it. I've moved my thinking since the September pushback to much more of a short-term crises kind of a thing and to see what we can do versus something that would be three or four years from now. Three or four years from now may not exist in the life of many, many people. So I want to be real about that. I think it's going to be a crunch for the city though.  You're not getting it. Yeah. Clearly, you know, whether it's time for an increase in real property taxes, that would be very hard on people. They won't like that at all. And of course, you have that inevitable, inexorable cost of rail. And I wonder what your thought is on fiscal policy in order to have the city, you know, strong enough to pay its bills and hold on to its people and continue its initiatives. Well, look, let's be candid with each other. There's going to be less money. Okay. There was a budget put forth that Caldwell didn't even sign that we will inherit, I say we, going in in January to then begin to work with. Okay. Halfway through a fiscal year. And I think probably before we leave with Blake and I, we'll be looking at, you know, what we're going to do in the next year, but the first task at hand will be that budget and where we are, what's reality. So I've been very clear, especially in the context of paying for the rail or the completion of the rail that would not raise property taxes. You just made a very good point about the timing of that, you know? Now I've heard every argument there was, well, the property taxes are really not all that high per se, but the multiplier effect against the highest prices for homes and condos in the country is another thing. But this is a very expensive place to live, if you will. So I think the first order of business is going to be, you know, on fiscal accountability, is to really take a deep dive and ask the question why, which is what we've always done in every turnaround on every dollar spent, what we can do without, where there's waste and whatever else we can possibly do. And it's going to have to come in the context of the fact that you're absolutely right. It's not just in the short term for remainder of 2020 it'll be the beginning of 2021, but it's going to be multiple years before we even get back any kind of reasonable amount of money in GT and TAT. It's just the numbers are not going to be there. I've seen the projections.  Let me tell you what, this is about, Jay, that nobody talks about. This is about leadership and making tough decisions. Nobody yet to date has even asked me a question about leadership. What does that mean? What does that look like?  I'm not suggesting you're not doing that this morning. No, no, no. What about leadership? Which has a lot to do with the personal thing. Help me out on this, Rick. What about leadership? Yeah, well, I think, okay, Jay, I mean, look, I mean, it starts first and foremost that I've noticed in running for politics is, you know, running for an office that I listened carefully. And I'm not saying this is a dagger in my competitors, but it's pretty much who they are. It's about them. It's a lot of I, I, I, and I understand that. Anything I've ever been involved with and from a leadership standpoint is understanding I don't get to jump down by myself. And it's about being able to surround yourself and build a good team. Been pretty good in the people picking business. I think there's some extraordinary people in Hawaii. I know there are who would want to come under these circumstances and fight for the future of the city, young and old. Plus, I think there's some pretty good people that are already working there. I don't want to say everybody's got to go. You know, some of that comes from the personal dynamics. I'll tell you from a coaching standpoint, okay? A great story I love, all right? Just let me digress for one second. I haven't done this for anybody, but I'm going to tell you. Okay, so Don Shuler who recently passed away at the age of 90 goes into Hall of Fame, NFL Football Hall of Fame in Canton. And he asked Bump Phillips, Wade Phillips' father, great football coach, Hall of Fame himself to introduce him. And I'm not going to do it in Texas draw. Anymore that would try to tell you a story and pigeon with his Boston accent. But he said about Shuler, the best thing I've ever heard about coaching. He simply said the thing about Don was he could take his team and come and beat you on.  I've always loved that. You know, that's what coaching and leadership is about and knowing what you do, the kind of decision making that goes on, how you facilitate that, how you flatten the organization, how you empower people, how you process things. There's a lot to that. And I bring a lot of years of experience in doing that. And that's really understanding, it's around yourself with the smartest thinkers, smartest doers, and more importantly, people who will embrace the spirit of accountability because that's what people are going to be looking for as we look to turn the direction of our city around under really tough circumstances. That's okay, we only have a minute left. I'm going to ask you my last question. Oh, I thought they told me this was a two hour interview. Well, I think we put a lot into it, maybe two hours' worth. I'm just kidding, Jay, really? Okay, go ahead. You know, there's a lot of people running, people who've been around for a while, people who have a certain amount of name recognition in political circles, one way or the other, may I say. And you know, here you are in a field of, I don't know, what is it, there's a lot of people. Why should we vote for you, Rick Blangieri? Well, I'm doing this out of love of place for all the right reasons. I bring a background of, I've been the guy in my whole career, Jay, that was hired to replace the person they fired and then fix it. That's been, and I've had a lot of success. I've had success here in Hawaii. I love this place, Hawaii has given me much of a return. It's loved me back and away. You know, I could never imagine this is where my life's work has been, my family, my kids were born here. I feel blessed each and every day I'm here. So I want to go with this job, but all the experience I have, understanding of what it takes from the standpoint of the leadership dynamic. I am not building, I've made it really clear. I'm not a politician. I'm not building a political career. My decision-making will not be compromised in that way. So I'm here to do the right thing, to serve. I'll just leave you with one little anecdote. Years ago, I'm a big believer in servant leadership. When you say the term, certainly a lot of people get lost in that. This is about working in service of others, which is why we even picked our campaign thing. It wasn't a political thing to say, it's about you. I've always put others first, studying with my family and my stakeholders and employees. But years ago, I was reading an article, an excerpt about servant leadership, and it was written by George Bernard Shaw, the great Irish playwright in 1903. It was an excerpt from a play called Man and Superman. And in that paragraph, he talks about the hotter I work, the more I live, the more I love.  I find myself now in this moment in time, facing the biggest leadership challenge. It won't be that for anybody, the biggest leadership challenge of a lifetime. And I want to go at it with everything I have, because I love this place, I owe it to this place. And that's why you should vote for me. All right, Rick Blanchiarty, a confluence of events, a confluence of leadership. Thank you so much, Rick, for joining us here on Think Tank. Jay, thank you, sir. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.


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Because naturally, no one wants to be the low man on a totem pole. Nobody wants to be the small agent, the small solopreneur that makes 50 grand, 100 grand. Nobody even wants to make 150 grand for the rest of their life. Normally, and maybe I'm wired weird, I don't want to settle. I don't want to make half a million dollars. I don't want to make a million dollars. I don't even want to make ten million dollars. I want more. But for me, what I've learned, and it took me a while to learn this is why I'm bringing it up. It took me a long while to learn this. I was a solopreneur with almost no team until last year. Now in the last eight months, we've added like 12, 15 people. The team just, I had three interviews today. The team keeps growing like crazy.  Once I started delegating, I have an assistant now. We've got a video guy. We've got a video editing guy. We've got a social media guy. We've got an email guy. We've got a Greg doing leads, ransom lead manager, GSD appointment center, Danny the web guy and API encoding and all the crazy, crazy mess that he knows. Then you've got sales people.  You want to grow? You want to be big? Spend money. Spend more money than you're comfortable spending. Make yourself uncomfortable. These last eight, nine months, I've done some stuff that last year, two years ago, three years ago, I thought was freaking nuts and that I could, I never dreamed I would be doing the things I'm doing. Thinking as big as I'm thinking, spending the money, spending it 27, but I don't want to stay small. Like, my mission is to help every insurance agent in the world. If that's truly my mission, I can't do that by myself and I would be a fool to believe that I could help you and every other agent in the country that wants help or in the world all by myself. Yeah, I can do a lot of videos, but I can't put up every video. I can't take every call. I can help everybody with leads. I can't do, I can't do every coaching session. I can't do every training. I can't do every video program. I can't do, I can't fill leads. I can't sell leads. I tried that. I couldn't grow doing that. I capped out. Don't cap out. Don't think small. Don't not spend money. You want to grow. Think outside the box and start building a team and delegating. You need awesome people like DJ behind the camera. The dude, the dude will stay till 7, 8 o'clock at night just to help us move the office. He'll be one of the first ones in to set up a studio or green screen.  But also, once you do start to build a team, you start to think differently. Treat them good, try to keep them around. It's so important. You can't grow by yourself. You can't be a solo pernuer forever if you ever want to get big.


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Hello and welcome to this presentation of the STM32 Ciclic Redundancy Check Calculation Unit. It covers all the features of this unit, which generates a code to detect errors. CRC stands for Ciclic Redundancy Check. The CRC Calculation Unit is used to generate a CRC code on 8, 16, or 32 bits of data using a configurable polynomial value and size. The CRC-based techniques can be used to verify data transmission or storage integrity. The CRC Calculation can also be used to compute the signature of the application software during run time, to be compared with a reference signature generated at link time and stored at a given memory location. Thanks to the full configurability of the STM32 CRC Calculation Unit, software overhead is reduced to a minimum. Additionally, the DMA controller can be used for back-to-back CRC calculations over a large block of data while the CPU is performing other tasks or in sleep mode. The CRC Calculation Unit integrated in the STM32 features a fully programmable odd value polynomial with a programmable size of 7, 8, 16, or 32 bits. The initial value is also fully programmable, allowing for very flexible run time CRC code generation. The peripheral can be configured to support the big or little end-in formats of the input and output data supporting various communication protocols. The CRC Calculation Unit is connected to the AHB bus interface for an optimal performance. It contains a single 32-bit register which is used for both writing and reading by either the CPU or DMA controller. The initial value, input-output bit reversal, and polynomial coefficients are configured by the software during the initialization phase before starting a new CRC calculation. The CRC computation engine will hold the result of any previous CRC calculation which then becomes the initial value for the next calculation, thus allowing a new CRC computation of a data block. The input and output format is fully configurable to reduce the software overhead. It allows the application to manage different end-in schemes. The input data can be reversed and performed on 8, 16, or 32 bits depending on the rev in 1 to 0 bits in the CRC CR register. For example, input data 0x1a2b3c4d is used for CRC calculation as 0x58d43cb2 with bit reversal done by byte, 0xd458b23c with bit reversal done by half word, and 0xb23cd458 with bit reversal done on the full word. The output data can also be reversed by setting the rev output in the CRC CR register. The operation is done at bit level. For example, output data 0x11223344 is converted into 0x22cc4488. The CRC data register includes an output buffer, which allows for immediate writes by the CPU or DMA peripheral of a second data word without waiting for any weight states due to an active CRC computation. The CRC data register can be accessed by word, right-aligned half word, and right-aligned byte. The duration of the computation depends on the data width. Four AHB clock cycles for 32-bit blocks, two AHB clock cycles for 16-bit blocks, and one AHB clock cycle for 8-bit blocks. The DMA controller can be used for writing to the CRC engine. This offloads the CPU for other tasks and can be used for back-to-back calculations for verifying code or data integrity. This slide summarizes the power modes in which the CRC calculation unit is available. The CRC calculation unit needs the main AHB clock to operate.


What is going on guys welcome back to channel critical over here So this will be my spoiler free review for the new a 24 movie X directed by ti West Also, he wrote the script for it as well And this is starring Genoa or tega me a goth Britney snow Britney snow kid Cuddy Martin Henderson Owen Campbell Steven Steven Urie And it's basically following a group of actors who sat out to make an adult film in rural Texas under the noses of their Reclusive host, but when the elderly couple catches their young guests in the act the cast finds themselves in a desperate fight for their lives So I just need to start off by saying that this movie is Very strong on a technical level That's what I believe is gonna be the thing that a lot of you will come out on the other end of green with me About in terms of just how The the certain camera shots that you get there's this one shot in particularly I'm still thinking of involving Hey, I think it was a lake or a river or pond one or the other can't really I'm not good at deciphering those But it's the way it's an overhead shot with One of the characters as you see in the trailer sitting in it or just floating in it But then it turns into this kind of like homage or old if you will to jaws That's what I was getting when I saw it anyway And then this whole movie is just like a gigantic old to the 70s the 80s and the movies that came out in that time period It has this Ever-present feeling of dread like the original Texas chainsaw and what is so incredible to me is how this captures a Texas chainsaw Vi better than the recent Texas chainsaw movie that we got if I'm being quite honest it was so strong on a technical level and Ti West she'd be very proud of what he has put together here. It's a very good movie still very well made It is suspensefuls got a lot of tension building. It does a great job at doing a lot of this setup payoff Work with lots of great setups with even rewarding even better payoffs for instance the The lake scene that I'm talking about That's a setup you get the payoff later on in the movie and it feels so good when it happens There's a lot that it has to say about sex work And I just love how that so that commentary within them within the movie and how the characters get to talk about it It's just thought-provoking at the same time. It's very timely, of course with a lot of the stuff that we know we have Involving that type of stuff these days different platforms and various different accesses people have to them the performances in this movie are incredible Jenner or Tega knocks it out of the park once again she's incredible and playing the helpless victim as always and me a goth I would have to say is Also someone that I am not gonna have my eye on because of what she does here in this film she is amazing in the role of The character that she portrays she portrays the character named Maxine Jenner or Tega plays the character of Lorraine and Britney Snow is another person I need to just kind of Go into really quick here. She is just this ever-so-happy-go-lucky individual in the movie and She's just like she's like she puts a smile on my face every time she was on screen She her line delivery and the way she's just in trying to capture this character She may feel like she's overacting at times to some people, but she does a great job It never once becomes cringy or anything But I will say that there are some aspects of this movie like the reasoning behind why the elderly couple ultimately start killing that I can see people saying oh, that's ridiculous.  Some of them are very one-note, but they all serve their purpose They all have their personalities displayed at times in the film Me a golf's character. Yes, we'll be the person that you will probably feel is the most developed by the end of the film her Jen or take his character I would even go as far to say the elderly couple as well since they are our killers as we see in the trailer they are they they have their reasoning for why they're doing what they're doing and In my mind, I'm laughing at it. It's it's very comical But still you have a lot of gruesome kills that happened in this film You have again a lot of great setups and payoffs very rewarding. There's a lot of tension building a lot of suspense the performances again are very Very terrific for the most part overall. I wouldn't say there was a single bad performance There were some times I was like, oh, well, you could have done better Kid Cuddy. I have to just say kid Cuddy another person who I think did a great job in them and just to talk about the aesthetic really quick so the aesthetic of this movie it does such a tremendous job at kind of capturing those late 70s 80s type of porno s stuff that was out there But also combining that with the slasher movies that you got in those time periods to like the Friday the 13th Again the Jason's all that stuff. It's so This movie is just it the visual aesthetic of it all just had me kind of just glued In in what I was watching and I have to talk about how the characters and the writing with what T I was brings to table the way certain things are being paralleled between certain characters and the foreshadowing and again There's a lot of setup and payoffs between certain interactions between certain characters that ultimately come back to mean something in the end I just like how it all tied up together and was all very relevant There was not anything in the movie that felt disjointed or disconnected from the overall narrative Everything seemed to serve a purpose. There was a lot of as you see on your screen Or you're about to see on your screen in a second I love the nods to the shining to a lot of movies seem to be doing that recently the nods to the shining I will never say that's a bad thing But I do notice that that's something that has just been a staple for for cinema for quite some time Honestly, because I just recalled that in C to Chucky you have a nod to the shining at the end of it So I appreciated a little nod to the shining that we got with Gen Ortega's character And just to speak about Gen Ortega again for those of you who are fans of my screen videos and you watch all of my screen content You are going to be amazed by what she brings to the table here.  I don't know if you'll necessarily like her because she I do want to say that she is She's sharing the final girl role this time around But let me know what you guys think about this down the comment section below I have to give X an 8 out of 10 if you haven't already, of course Make sure you subscribe turn on postification numbers video in the script I'm links my social media accounts with Facebook Twitter and Instagram you can message me there of course There's any movies news or reviews you'll have me to cover in the future with a lot of my guys I will see you in the next video


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com coming at you with our last filler break to unlock that mystery crate That's gonna be in a separate video. Look out for that 2020 Donors Optic football blaster break number 85 Nice big. Thanks to this group here for getting in on the action appreciate it All the teams are so glad we're gonna make you sweat it out a little bit We're gonna do the break itself first and then in a separate video will be Will be the the randomizer for the mystery crate spot Are you gonna do the crate tonight, too? Of course. What what if we filled it? I was like, ah We'll do that. We'll do that next week That'd be crazy people would riot Robert three and two five times one two three four five And people people would I would get that I would now would come back the next day with a lot of angry emails a Lot of angry messages gave away the last spot And he wouldn't do a five-minute break one two three four there would be people at the People would pitch forks and torches in the front of Jaspy sports cards and collectibles cameras that There's the first half of the list right here No trade windows in these things second after lists right there. Let's just print and rip It looks like someone bought that last mosaic spot. Nice All right, so now let's rip this and there's there's the mystery crate right there What mysteries is that crate holding? We'll find out in just a few moments in a different video All right, let's do this really quick Good luck everyone not only there could be some surprises in this blaster box, but Definitely that that mystery crate spot There's a hit in here and that's coming in a different video, but there's a hit in there that that was Probably the lowest Valued card in there and That was before Sunday. It's a football card is before Sunday Now it's probably a lot more There's Antonio Gandhi Golden rated rookie hollow Jeremy Chin pink parallel Nate Stanley That's John high tower. There's been to new chi There's an elite series to a Kenneth Murray and a Cole McDonald So the hollow goes to Gary and the Washington football team Miami with the Tua insert That's gonna be Nancy about all right Now let's go back to the list here. Let's gather everyone's names again And now let's do it the biggest hit of this break is gonna be the mystery crate spot Let's roll it randomize it four and two six times only one happy person lots of tears Lots of sad people here, but I appreciate you giving this a go after six one two three four five and six in final time after six a Lot of sad people here sad sad sad sad But thank you, though. I appreciate you giving it a shot Very close Sean So after six name on top congrats to Travis Melbourne Travis thank you for giving this a shot after see I did it right right after six times You're not dreaming your names on top. You got yourself a mystery crate spot. I'm Joe I'll see you in the next video for the mystery crate. Bye. Bye