Okay, I'm literally using my Stanley as a tripod, but hi guys, welcome to this weekend vlog. I am starting out the vlog in my room. I took Piper out, I cleaned up the dishes, took the trash out, just like did everything. I'm gonna start a little laundry pretty soon, but I wanted to take off the screen protector of this because you guys best believe it's probably pretty dirty. So let's do it. I always feel so bad taking off screen protectors because I worked so hard just like I did on my new phone, putting this thing on and stuff, but there was actually like two hairs in it, so I kind of failed, but I just gave up at that point. So here we go. Oh, it's not as dirty as I thought. Like typically like sometimes it was like yellow, but this is like definitely not yellow. And look at how beautiful the screen is. Wow. Honestly, I might put it back on because I don't want like the screen to get damaged. I'm gonna take a picture of this on my other phone too, so I can have it for keepsake. I hate getting rid of the phones, but obviously this helps me get the new one, so gotta give a little. Also too, what would I even do with this? I mean, I'd probably give it to my mom, but again, this phone is not very user-friendly. It's kind of heavy and stuff, so. Okay, so I'm on my way to the mall. I called my friend Kyra because I know she loves like iPhones and stuff. So I'm like, hey, I'm going to the mall to like turn in my old iPhone. Like what are you doing? I know she's up because like she gets up earlier than me. So I'm like, you want to meet at the mall? Because like we live about the same distance away because it takes about half an hour for both of us. So I'm on my way there and we're gonna get like some Starbucks and turn in my iPhone. It might kind of take a while. Like I don't know if I'm gonna have to wait in the line or not, but whatever. It's all good. I went to go plug in my phone. Okay, there's no one behind me. So anyway, I went to go plug in my phone and I was like, and I'm like, oh yeah, this one's not gonna work. So how do I turn this off? Okay, there we go. Turn it off. Okay, you know what? I'm gonna get out of the road. So I totally forgot about this. I think I got the new one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Got my new cord, the like the gray one. I did my unboxing with it. So I'm gonna plug it in now. And honestly, like, this is a perfect length. Like, I don't know if you can see, but the other one I had to tie this like not because it was just way too long. This must have been like six feet or something. I don't know. Something crazy. But I'm gonna set you guys. And then here we are, the USB-C USB-C. Yeah, there we go. So like, let's see, let's test it out. Now I can put the ox thing on. Like, let's just play a song. Other device. I'm just gonna say other device. Oh, good. I have my music now. Okay, so before I get copyrighted, I'm gonna stop that. But yay, it all works nicely and feels good. Lisa works. I'm gonna get back on the road now. Okay, so I just parked and actually my friend Kyra parked super close to me. She's gonna get the new iPhone too. But like later in November, probably or something. So which color? She's already seen the new phones. Like all of the lineup and like all the colors and stuff. So I mean, I like them. Kind of, not really. The blue one literally looks so, it looks almost white. And then the, for the pro, the white one is like, it's not like actually white. It's like just off white, but like dark. I don't know. And then the natural is like a lot darker than I thought it would be. Yeah. The blue one's all right. I don't mind the blue one, but I'd rather have the natural communion. And I finally found a friend that shares their love of Apple products with me. I mean, she's even more of an Apple girlie because like she got the watch and she wants an iPad. I don't have all that, but you know. Okay, I'm gonna think I'm gonna start blogging on my phone because I want to like, you know, use the camera. I'll get an outside shot of them all for walking purposes. I forgot that my action button is now set to like, open up the video. So I need to like start using it more instead of just like opening up the camera app. You want to go to this Starbucks or not? You go to this one, I guess, depending on like the line. Okay. So basically I also want to see my old phone, the 14 pro white, compared to the iPhone 15 pro white. I'm like, Oh wait, I can just do that at the store when I like go to get my phone. Taste test. It looks good. Man, this camera is really clear. I'm impressed. Look, look, look. Yeah. And then there's this level thing. You see that? So we see the paramedics. Kyra always says that she sees the paramedics or an ambulance here. Well, every time she comes here, here they are in the flesh. Oh, the pink is really pink. Oh, wow. This is natural titanium. Okay. So that's the blue. Yeah, it looks basically white. Yeah, that looks basically white. And then what's that one? No, the one after that. This is the better one. Oh yeah. It's prettier in pictures. You are right. I don't know. It just doesn't look that good in my hands. No. This must be the white one. Yeah. Okay, okay. I'm going to do a comparison with the other one. So this is the 14 pro and this is the 15 pro. I can honestly say this one looks like a little bit more warm tone than this one. So like all of these phones that are like, we got all the trade and stuff good, ready, and I'm getting like over $600 back. Thank goodness she was having trouble.  And I was like, okay, like I didn't question it because I think it was because of the battery. I don't know. They did. It was like some weird confusion, but they got it fixed. So we're all good and I'm happy with that. Now we're just heading into Lululemon just for a little like walk around. But yeah, I'm happy and everything's good. Okay, so I'm shopping with Valerie at Publix and we're getting our flu shots. Say hey Valerie. Hey, how are you? Good hair day. Thank you. Anyway, so I don't know. I probably won't vlog, but I'll show you guys my little band-aid after. Okay, so it is the next day and I am heading to like a downtown brunch with my school friends. So that's going to be super fun. But guys, like I started my period and I am so lethargic. Like I am so tired.  It took everything in me not to like go back to bed. But anyway, we're here. I decided to carry the little favorite and then this dress is actually from Jamie. So I don't know. I'm definitely going to wear it to the pumpkin patch. If I do like a pumpkin patch photo shoot, the screen is like perfect for it. I don't know. It just gives like the pumpkin patch vibes. In my opinion, the only thing is it's a little bit big around here, but overall like the belt just cinches it in and it like, I don't know, I think it fits well. So I like it. I'm so tired. I'm doing my makeup. I'm going and what I'm doing. Anyway, all right, with the girls now, a fit check. They got on the cute dresses. Now we're headed to brunch. Jamie got a little sandwich. Those potatoes look really good. I got avocado toast and Kyra got, what was that? Um, something. I forgot. A short rib hash. Oh yeah, short rib hash. Short rib hash. I forgot to vlog it, but I also got a side of potatoes because they look so good. So I was like, all right.  It's huge. Anyway, but we split a bottle of champagne and now we're going to check out the farmers market once we get our sex. Aided to the farmers market and honestly, this looks like a Lakey Ola like event with like the tents and stuff, but does this happen every Sunday? Every Sunday. Oh, every Sunday. Okay, cool. Look at how cute and huge this doggy is. He's so big. It's like giant viper. Yeah, I got it. One company and we're going to just do some move-offs. We're waiting for an outside table, but we wanted to like just have some drinks. We walked outside a while and actually I ran into a sister of these two girls I went to high school with and it was like really nice to see her. Always liked her. She was really nice. Got a glass of rosé. Look at how huge this glass is. Kyra got this really nice flight. Look at that. It's been a bunch later and Piper and I, oh say hi. We're going to family dinner night. It's a beautiful evening here in downtown celebration. Piper is so excited. I got salad with some shrimp and I also got some fries. Back home from school. I wanted to show you guys what I got from Fabletics before I end the video. I'm hoping that this is cute. I have an idea. Oh my gosh, it's like screams fall. So we have this beautiful like maroon color. It's so freaking pretty and like the detail is really cool. It's almost like this shiny material and then there's this ribbed texture on the side. This is actually really cute. I love it and then here are the matching leggings. They also have like this shiny material like I don't know if you can kind of tell but this is like a little bit shiny and then on the sides and like down the leg is the ribbed material. So yeah, I can't wait to take a picture of this and try it on. Follow me on Instagram so you can see that. But anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed this video. Don't forget to subscribe, give it a thumbs up and I'll see you guys in my next video. Bye.


All right, so thank you for all the submissions There are lots of really really cool options. It's great to see A to B It's interesting. I look at this run and I really like it. There's some really good stuff in it Got a nice offset on the feet. I Think I would say one thing would be arcs on your arms. Yeah, the arm goes Out here That's not too bad it comes back and once it hits that point it goes back the other way So it's not doing that it was like it's doing that type of thing. It doesn't really finish that are you? Little picky thing there Just through that does that bow hits that wall goes over the rest is great You got the same thing on this arm. Boom. It's that visible wall Feet are cool. They got your nice soft thing in there I wonder if on the head It's a bit stiff. I feel like on a bow on that impact, especially on that push-off Going up here, you know from here to here. You have a slight dip down But I think you can just bring it a bit lower. So if that's the orientation could be down like that Just a bit lower, but then funny enough looking from from A to B You almost feels bouncy on the up and down. It's kind of a playful Playful bounce again doesn't look wrong depends what you want to go for if it's more for the faster concentrated run That would reduce the up and down But yeah, the main thing just the arm if you play it in real time. You can see kind of the hit On the arms there. That's kind of the main thing that I saw and I felt like the head was a bit too stiff going up and down Picky-picky-picky, but it's good stuff there. She is definitely still a bit strobe You mentioned something where like to me it's her arms and it could be something where you could offset where this guy And then the next arm goes so it's maybe you know one could be just a bit more outstretched like that There's something about this being like I see just arms flashing in and out in the front and back position I see more of an arc and a continuation in the legs But that's all only in this view like from the A to B It seems actually just great. No, no, you might argue it's also really small, but like you offset on the feet and her arms are not as popular, you know hitting Hitting a wall, so she's great Yeah It might just be a visual thing seeing it from the side. I think there's nothing wrong with the walk I mean at this point, you know, I just I just See this arm going from here to here That's the range that I see in the arm and you play back It's kind of like she's holding. She's not moving forward and back with her arms But you know what at this speed The thing is also there's no motion blur, so you know as run this motion blow it'll be just fine I mean like there's some things where we have that at work as well What kind of looks weirdly strobey, but then you add motion blur to it And it's just fine and you will have motion blur at the end So again, I would say it's just fine This guy was cool. No, like what you did with both of them together. I think Impression-wise I feel like maybe There's two things with his head the hair the head is a bit soft.  You see how the root goes up, but the head doesn't So this would be a good point for you to have If the rotation would be it doesn't matter where it goes, right? But it's not like that and you don't want it to be like this You're gonna break the tangents and make them 45 degrees so that there's a slight Here, you know, it's just it's a slight break. It's not super smooth. It's not super linear Um, and I'll give that to the head because it becomes a point here right there where you have this Up and up in the root and kind of rotation in the head where it feels like it's slightly pivoting off the chin or the nose So I think the timing is just slightly off on the head I think you want to feel a bit more of a Boom here the heck goes down a for the impact of the step But also because the root goes up and that would be my main thing arms are good I don't see any pops in the knees Nope looks good Feet are offset and tilted with an arc Yeah, that's an offset there It's really good. It's really cool. It's just the softness of the head It feels like there's a kind of rotation that's not quite working with the steps and it's a bit soft And kind of the same on her not as much Like if you had to offset If you take the whole animation of the head of the guy and you offset it by four frames For her it would be or four five. Her would be two or three This is a little bit of She goes up and it's going down just a bit too late so that you get into A section where it's kind of countering The down with a rotation Want to feel a bit more of a Here down just a bit again two frames sounds ridiculous, but it's just enough To give it to correct rhythm Arms are nice It's all very smooth crossing over of feet offsets any poppy Knees they might argue they're slightly wiggly left and right Right there it goes with the left and then sticks this gives her kind of a wobbly feel to it But again, there's nothing that majorly stands out. I think my main impression was That's not you it's a rig thing at her arms are really long I think uh Whereas with the with the kid you had kind of the soft head Her main for me main impression is soft shoulders. They feel like her shoulders are going up and down a bit too much It might be a combination with her chest too But there's something about in this view. I'm talking to this view. It's a bit softness throughout here That's it You got an offset on arms that swing after the foot plans. I think you might get away with lowering that Shoulder just a bit here. So it's not to that super straight arm Through here, you know, this gets very military like coming here to here And imagine you're lowering the shoulder and you leave arms that might be just slightly bent That might help you get away from the up and down softness in the shoulders Again, this those are piggy notes. It's they're really great walks Then you got this guy where they look over. I think for this one Um, I think it's just for both of them a bit too poppy. I know they want to have kind of a quicker reaction But the thing that's a bit tricky is how a is how quickly she looks But it's the combination of how her head and chest are so in sync Like you really want to drive the whole thing with the head first and then the chest goes with it And the same on him that couple things are with his knees So when he goes over that's not too bad, but again, it could delay just a bit more But then you got a massive pop out on the knee Boom and hits the wall and doesn't continue out. It's like this frame. You could reduce the knee halfway And you got the same thing with this and then it gets really really tricky here. I know this is just the view Like it seems fine in the side view But there's something really funky As this guy goes back. So you want to take that knee and bring it forward To something like that I'm looking at it in this view You can see the pops in the knees as well It's cool presentation. Do I like that? It's just very very fast Same thing on her return And the rotation is also very very flat. I think you can add You know if you're getting into this you would have a little bit more of a problem under arc So it's not just doing this but kind of going like that kind of goes up and the nose goes up and she settles a bit And because of that, you know, it might be a moment where it's a bit more bent back head up a bit and kind of also offset the Legs if you're tricking on something like this if you do a turn like that It just feels very much like you just rotated this Rotated this a bit and kind of left the rest and at this point You almost want to have the foot be all sideways like he's starting to take a couple sideways steps Maybe one or two and then goes back Into that because for him it's a bit more like what's going on back there And to me he would be more casual Whereas her she's looking and then she got caught so she's a bit stiffer And then maybe her swings wouldn't be as big So she looks back, you know me like it's it's then you're getting into character territory and Well, how does her animation? How is the animation influenced by her state of mind and the action though, which is feeling or what they're trying to do here And probably presentationally you might at this point have her You know if she walks this way she might walk this way Just because she's looking away and she's not quite concentrated um Just also presentation it was restarting to cover her Like it's almost like you want her to be here While he's here if i'm watching this You know, I guess kind of weird how we're trying to uh wipe over her So a picky presentation thing I think that's it Yeah, all right. I hope that all makes sense. Um, if not, let me know. Thank you All right, there's an email you can sign up you can start whenever you want you can submit whatever you want You get 16 submissions either way a like and subscribe would be awesome. All right. Thank you


There are more than 8,000 species of ants worldwide, and here in the southeast, where you might find the Tawny Crazy Ant, you might confuse it with another ant. There are five species that would most likely confuse with the Tawny Crazy Ant, those would be the Acrobat Ant, the Pyramid Ant, the Argentine Ant, the Dark Grove Rant, and the Otarous House Ant. So the Argentine Ant is probably the ant that is most misidentified as a Crazy Ant. They occur in the same habitats as Crazy Ants. The Argentine Ant is more of a gray color. The Tawny Crazy Ant is more of a brownish color. The Acrobat Ant has an abdomen that is kind of heart shaped and cares its abdomen up in the air. That's where it gets its name, Acrobat. The Crazy Ant has a more of a straight cylindrical abdomen. The Tawny Crazy Ants are tawny colored, more of an off brown or caramel colored, and your Acrobat Ants will be almost black in color. If you see an inverted volcano nest in sandy areas, that is a Pyramid Ant. The physical differences between Pyramid Ants and Tawny Crazy Ants would be the Pyramid Ants might be, they come in different colors, but the ones we have here in the southeast that you might confuse with the Tawny Crazy Ant would be either orangish color. We have some that are black in color, but they're not typically the same color as that tawny color, that brownish kind of off caramel color of a Crazy Ant. One of the other ants that might be more commonly confused with a Tawny Crazy Ant would be something called a rover ant, a dark rover ant. It is a pest species, a very, very small ant, maybe half the size of a Tawny Crazy Ant. The populations are not that large, they do trail in really tight trails, but where you might have a lot of Crazy Ants in a trail, maybe half an inch wide where there would be solid ants along that trail. With a dark rover ant, you might have an ant every inch. There's an ant in the southeastern U.S., more common along the East Atlantic states called the Otaris house ant. It is about the same size as a Tawny Crazy Ant, but it's black. They have glands that they use in protection, have this peculiar odor that I think they smell like suntan lotion. Again, the numbers won't be as high as you might see in a Tawny Crazy Ant infestation. One of the best ways to define, to differentiate between a Tawny Crazy Ant and any other ant species is just the sheer number of ants. There's huge populations of dead ants that might congregate around the structure.


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Okay, very good morning. It's Thursday 13th of February, so I hope you're doing well Going to go over an update on the the virus because it did see a move overnight in the Asia Pacific market So I get up to speed of why that occurred what the latest status is in China Also, I'm gonna have a quick look at the euro and euro Swiss All right interesting chart that I saw someone putting around on Twitter On my way into work this morning. I thought I'd tied that into some euro discussion For the briefing and then also an update on the UK cabinet announcements that are going to be coming out a bit later on today Is that going to be meaningful or not for price? starting off though, let's have a look at the the charts and probably the most Clearly evident thing that you can see here is these two center charts the Nasdaq 100 and the S&P is I've got it here And you can see with the DAX this morning. It's just drifted lower in the European open When it comes to the S&P, you can see quite a sharp downtick that was seen Just before midnight if you were looking at London times, you can see this drop here and Why did that occur? Well, actually if you look at the other asset classes to see the general risk you can almost Connect the dots so equities blip down the US 10 year blipped up and grinded higher And then gold was bid and then started to move higher during the Asia Pacific session So very much almost a reversal of what we had yesterday. You remember in the briefing this time yesterday We were talking about the fewest number of reported cases of the corona virus in Hubei the province of China Which is kind of the epicenter of the virus outbreak It was the fewest reported cases in a month. However, this is the complete opposite movement And why has that happened? Well, what's come out overnight is the Hubei National Health Commission I've said it would now start including cases confirmed by clinical diagnosis Which refers to using CT imaging scans to diagnose patients alongside what was originally those confirmed by the existing method of Nucleic acid testing kits. So this has then seen a 15,000 Uplift in the number of people in reported cases. And so if we quickly flip over to this graphic now We've added another 200 or so to the death count and the total confirmed now is north of 60,000 so overnight You've had a bit of a risk-off move However, this morning. It's been a fairly tame European open this far My initial interpretation here is that don't forget we were trading up at record high levels when it comes to the likes of some of the US indices and If you actually put it into context the move that we've had when you start looking on a broader time frame of the likes of the S&P, I don't think it's quite time to Panic just yet. In fact, I think far from it and even if we did get a bit of a pullback We start moving further down. You know, there are plenty of Strong good levels. I think on any pullback in this S&P 500 and even if we did drop I think 10 20 points Again, I don't think that that's crisis mode on this virus And I think largely a lot of the market somewhat prepared which might explain why this move has been Relatively moderate at this point because a lot of people obviously were already Questioning the validity of the numbers that China were putting out and I think a move up a 15,000 doesn't really Break the mold of surprise too much. It's not like it's been lifted by 200,000 for example or 150,000 so at the moment I think that yes a little bit of a knock to prices You can see oil also just a touch lower But still up quite firmly from the the gains that we're seeing yesterday And so yeah, I'm not Not so sure that you're gonna get a continuation of this Throughout the session, but time will tell I think the better way is and without Not forcing your opinion Let's wait till the US come in because they wouldn't have seen this news yet And they won't till about 11 11 30 hour time when they start to come into much into the market and how do they perceive this situation? Will be quite key, but I I still kind of I'm looking at this that if we did see a concerted pullback I think for the equity players just more reason to get long again at this point The other chart that I just wanted to have a look at was Euro-dollar these are the headlines you're seeing this morning Euro slumping to its lower since 2017 with economic woes in focus And this is a graphic of the euro-dollar pair and usually you can see Having broken through that period of the kind of late summer Loads that we had in euro-dollar taking us all the way back down to here on the left-hand side from 2017 Now a lot of different things going on here a lot of the focus of course though has been on Germany as well as overall General weakness in European economic data risks around a no-deal disorderly Brexit still exist, of course Political stress is kind of like spin the wheel and pick your country in Europe from Italy to Spain now to What's happening in Ireland as well? There's lots of changes happening and uncertainties and political stalemates And then one of the key things as I just said is the German economy and that's been the one that's of particular interest just given its economic contribution to the euro area and This is going to come into even sharper focus tomorrow because tomorrow you get the German GDP figure Now this is a look at the report. I issued The macro menu piece that I deliver on a Monday and this is looking at German GDP quarter and quarter so Bloomberg Economics forecast is for a contraction in that figure and as you can see here It'd be the second contraction in three quarters for Germany And so you know that kind of engine room in Europe so to speak somewhat stalling and that you know manufacturing Contraction that we've been seeing for a period of time companies still relatively Unsure about the prospects of the economic future ongoing with some Internal domestic political stresses of their own and then throw in the threat of US tariffs as well Particularly on the automotive sector. It's almost like the perfect cocktail to weigh on Europe and yeah, expectations Gradually shifting is the guard going to have to do more in some fashion in in time And I think tomorrow's date is going to be quite key as well for that near-term direction of the of the euro euro Swiss this is one I did want to bring up and This is looking at euro Swiss over the last Well, you're looking at the last several years here, so eight or nine years and This is a this level at 120 is one that I know will Will remember very fondly. I remember that day because Actually at the time it was me and my brother who was sat on the analyst desk I remember we were just sat back. It was I remember it's kind of possibly late morning something like that There was no nothing major coming out So we'd be sitting back just chatting but we kind of half an eye watching all the the news wires and then a headline dropped and The SMB the Swiss National Bank dropped their currency floor and at that point I remember because you there was a period You can see here So if we look back to late 2014 you can see there was a period of months where we just sat at 120 and a very Common play at the time was anytime euro Swiss came down to 120 all these prop traders would just buy it Because it would be defended by the Swiss National Bank They would actively look to weaken their own currency and be an export nation You know if you think of Nestle swatch, these are the biggest companies in the Swiss SMI index and so what was happening was you'd hit 120 they would weaken their currency and you'd basically get a free 50 pips 25 pips every time so every time it hit the floor you just you just go long and it was Happening every time so you can imagine after this was happening for months and months and months and people were getting these free trades almost Everyone would load up soon as we hit 120 however, as you can tell then that the magnitude of longs at 120 was pretty massive and Rightly so because if the central bank it can defend it you got not there's no downside However, then this headline drops and remember us seeing it We kind of jumped out of our skins and it just said yes and be dropped their currency floor of 120 and that was the move that happened and it happened like bang like that and Good for us actually, you know, we saw it. We said it. We got it out there So fast that you know fortunately for people like will and this was pre-amplifier This was pre me working amplify That was his biggest ever trading day By a country mile because he was able to just be alerted to the news And that's the beauty of the squawk. I guess these unexpected black swan events Now now one of the things that was bad for me though is that some of you might remember the broker Al Pari Al Pari used to pay The company I used to work for a lot of money For our services and they went bust on that one single move And they were at the time one of the biggest brokers in Europe and because they weren't appropriately hedged for that move Completely wiped them out in in the matter of seconds, so it was pretty Pretty amazing and actually if mr. Al Pari is watching you still owe me a lot of money So because you didn't pay your fees because you went bankrupt But uh, but yeah Anyway, you know this move was was quite interesting and if you actually look at euro swiss From a technical perspective look where we got to in 2018 You know, this is kind of technical analysis 101 here when you're looking at this chart. We come right up to 120 Absolutely perfectly on that previous protection level that we had back in 2012 Protected again in 2014 the break came up to that level But interestingly look where we are right now now the swiss national bank don't have a an actual Verbalized flaw in play in this day and age However, just look where we are right now in euro swiss and by product then of euro weakness The swissie is strengthening and that's not good for the swiss Companies because as I said they're exporters and we're now down heavily from where we were when they were protecting before So what's quite interesting? I think from a longer term perspective here on this euro swiss chart is we're right on the tipping point And any further break down here Then yeah, it's going to be super interesting to see if we break through those 2016 Um and the 2017 levels, you know, where do we go to then? You know, does that open up a door to 104 102 this kind of price activity we had back down in 2015 And if if that euro dollar pair has now broken through that meaningful part in 2019 And that imparts more euro weakness and we start to get a bit of a technical break and a run here You know the euro swiss chart also looks quite quite appetizing As well at this point Okay, final thing on my side This requires no more than probably 30 seconds to explain because it's not going to be a market moving thing But just so you're aware when the headlines start dropping Boris Johnson the UK prime ministers to reshuffle the post-Brexit UK cabinet today So ministers expected to leave include culture secretary Nikki Morgan Stayed on as a temporary measure to oversee the review of the Huawei 5g network issue that the government's been going through in the last few weeks Probably one of the most recognized ones. Uh, you remember that kind of bellowing chap the attorney general Jeffrey Cox Um, he may be replaced and moved to another role Um People the whole reason why this isn't going to be market moving is the chancellor sigi javid the foreign secretary Dominic rab the cabinet office minister Michael gove the transport secretary grant chaps. They're all staying So nothing changes in terms of the the more Senior positions a lot of this is being tabled in the press as a move about equality more women in in more senior positions and so on so Looking at the pound though this morning It has seen a little bit of a blip up now I haven't seen anything specific Why that has happened a few people have been banding about the uk ricks house price balance data It did come out that come that data comes out very early in the morning And it showed a plus 17 reading in fact the highest since may of 2017 So again, like some of the other uk economic data points We've had a bit of a post election bounce on a bit of clarity at least short term Over the ability to pass then this brexit initial part into the implementation phase has just led to then the highest since Jan 2016 of vendor instructions that we've had So I don't think you know, I can't say that I've ever seen uk housing data You know apart from perhaps the depths of the financial crisis really move market So I think that's a little bit of trying to curve fit a bit of a reason I don't think there is one other than you know Sometimes you just got to go with the flow and it's moving higher It's come to a natural point of perhaps a bit of resistance on that r1 and that previous highest seen yesterday afternoon I don't I wouldn't read too much and over interpret that To be honest with you euro dollar that has been clawing a little higher as the dollar has just seen a bit of weakness as Europe has come into the market All right terms of the the session What have we got on the agenda? Very much more us focused Do keep a half an eye out for their iea monthly oil report But but I guess in a way the cat's out the bag somewhat because the opec report came out And obviously they've slashed their demand on just given the circumstance that is happening Globally at the moment and particularly China on the back of the virus And that seemingly didn't really move markets and the reason there because Pretty much as expected really It's not it's not that surprising So I'd expect pretty similar worth keeping an ear out for but maybe not that market moving More so I'd say from a bigger top level macro theme How did the us perceive this corona virus update to their methodology of numbers? And yes, it sounds pretty punchy on the numbers, but I actually think the market will will brush this off Is my my kind of baseline view Into the afternoon u.s cpi of course always important weekly jobless claims as well from a speaker's perspective Got a couple the chief economist of the ecb is speaking Lane at midday ecbs penetta at five remember now part of the The executive committee on ecb and then a few as others in the evening if you were to stick around late anyone in the u.s Feds williams speaking at new york bankers association. That'll be at 4 30 chicago time Any fixed income traders? You got about four to five billion euros worth of range of italian supply coming to market with 19 billion in a 30 year bond auction from the u.s treasury all right That is it. So wish you all good date And for the guys in stage two i'll be giving you a lecture on economic data a bit later on this morning Otherwise, I'll see you in the chat room. Thanks very much Yeah, hi guys. Hope uh overall well start off with the the pound as it's just Coming up to a relatively interesting level. They're not far from that 130 which we were talking about yesterday There's been a key line in the sand because you can see if we go back to and try and get this year in the picture The amount of times we we have previously found support Around this zone. We break through it come back. We test it. Yes, they sell us take over and look we're back there again So it's key Key point to to take into account if we get above there fine Let's get little person and start targeting some of the other breakdown areas around 130 20 As well in the futures, but for the moment first real test that this morning just coming off a touch But certainly the the balls will be liking the look of that If we can push through there to the downside when we do start thinking, you know, what This pound's going to start pushing lower again Or maybe if we can break through this trend line, which would be How I'd feel pretty confident, especially if it marks up along with the 129 56, which was the low you might be able to see it on my camera Low the 4th higher the 10th Then the high Of the morning of the 11th and the afternoon lows and yesterday's low as well. So key key zone there for the for cable and it's all but it reminds me of Of euro usd last year when everyone would get excited every single little push We'd have in euro and break a trend line and come all the way back low and making new low for What would be the year so for the pound if we get above, you know that 130 area, let's push on fine Can deal with that Continuing to push on a bit if we do come down and test this trend line A break without I feel we could get a bit of an unwind and obviously you've got some Half decent profit target targets near the the lows of the year there the euro That's what I might as well start on the weekly chart just to To say what every single person on twitter has said we are the lowest we've been For quite some time now. Let's just draw a horizontal line on that low. You can see here almost Looking to start filling the gap from You know macron the first round french elections. So we're talking april 2017 On the futures there. We we had last or we had traded there We actually did of course trade that in may as well a break of these lows You've got to start thinking about You know maybe a bit more momentum coming into the gap feel and of course Just get that on your charts because if it does push lower, you know You've got to have the the longer time frame on to see where that level support In theory could come in and you don't want to be caught out Selling just before it or not taking profit on it So have a quick look just how we're trading today Just having a little Push to the up so you've got a bit of dollar weakness Come in if we have a look at the the way this is traded, you know There'll certainly be people iron up the pivot as a level of resistance I think you're going to want to see a bit of price action Confirming that before wanting to get in short just considering how Clearly this trend has come and we've obviously hit a very important technical point And you can see 1802 is is roughly where that gap would be by the way So if we do get a push on with lower these lows the continuation strategy You know, isn't the worst idea in the world looking for something like this breakthrough Take it and then go in as well But the pivot key to the upside other than that you've also got I believe 10924 pretty well respected level on both yesterday and What they would that be Tuesday As well So the pivot first sort of real resistance point that the balls will want to take it over And then up towards 10924 can we really start pushing on and on and on Perhaps but I think you know the there's been a couple of times where people may have thought that's the case early to be dealt with A bit of reality as this market comes lower Again, but keep an eye as well if we do push on at any potential trend lines That's just been guiding price over the last few sessions But yeah, I think pivot just before the r1 Or the continuation strategy for shorts at the moment don't look too bad. Ozzy dollar Has had a decent, you know, little few days coming down overnight due to the the china Headlines, I agree with ant It's I mean it would be quite funny I think if stocks were to to find a medium term top last night On these these numbers which have kind of improved to be You know, not all they seem as if almost be the fake news Has as one against this market, but that said bringing it on to the Ozzy is this now an opportunity to get long Again, so there's a couple ways to have looked at, you know, you either you identified the That low from 67 11, which was a previous high really good level to be honest Just on a multiple days and you can see why we found support there So you're lying in the sand happy to stay long if it stays above that For example, if you're more medium term probably worth getting on a bit of a trend as well just below that Or if we have a look more Intra day the pivot today looks to be pretty key Most notably because you've got a couple of highs and there you got the low from yesterday We broke down there in early hours It's almost like we get above there Let's have a go at trying to get that double top from yesterday So pivot is key if that holds up if the pivot hold up in equity is fine We can drift back lower But I think for now if especially if we can have a bit of a bounce in the dollar To the upside of these pairs then above that pivot isn't a bad trade to to look for At all Let's have a quick look over to equities, which did come down in in that early trade really from Well, it's just after 11 wasn't it? 1145 1130 we pushed lower I was playing football last night and as usual can't sleep After I play so finish at 10 get home eat and then just Sit in bed wired trying to get back to sleep or get to sleep And and twitter was you know, it was it was talking about it But my no means was it you know really trying to get this to to go lower and lower and lower So I'm with ant and I don't necessarily think it's Going to be you know big selling opportunity That said you've got to prepare for both and if we have a quick look at some of these these levels I'm just going to make this a bit bigger you can see why we found support on the s1 area It was also a good level from Yesterday kind of similar time to where we're trading now if you get a breakthrough with that then you can start thinking about You know the market wants to come down to 33 53 51 the lows that we had back on Tuesday Also, we you know we found some resistance on this level previously And you got to go with the flow if you think you know what I like the idea of looking to to get long You can see we're starting to Kind of respect a bit of a trend here on the 15 minute hasn't quite made that one yet You've also got a couple lows in the mix hence why we're just finding a bit of resistance But a little break of of this As long as the volume seems to be there could be a little option Another key zone for it to get to is basically the pivot you can see we had some resistance there last night We broke obviously through it and came back down to back up to test it If you're bullish, you know, that's a that's an area I would say you want to want to consider it's a similar picture across the board the us equities You know it's a case of trade what you see not what you think I you know, I do think we we go higher But if we if we push below these lows or in the s&p then fine We can continue lower if we push below that low in the Dow Jones It's you know, you can see just how significant it is It's the high that we had back on Tuesday, Wednesday morning We broke through there just before the cash open We found support late last night and then now as well It's a key level below there You'd have a couple of stops from longs and people looking to to get a bit more excited about push down and you can see Just to reiterate the s&p trends. You can see that developing here On the Dow As well just obviously make sure you get that as as good as possible quick look at gold which you would have expected overnight would have pushed higher and it did Just starting to find a bit of resistance around the dr1 I'm just going to put this on a 60 minute because you can see just the significance of this area in general um Let's just go back here. What we look in the 10th overnight on the 9th 1580 Quite an important zone that you would want to consider to the downside if we were to push lower When would you get excited about, you know, this maybe correcting itself? I would say this this point here 15 75s the higher the overnight Initial push and then support As that came through that would be something you'd look at and as well, you know with these kind of moves if you do Like with the s&p start developing some kind of trend the way gold can move on breaks of these trends Can lead to faster moves Higher or lower so to keep a watch on that and of course mark up any levels To the downside As well for potential supports above if we do get that push and equities, you know Do want to come under pressure or there's following Following up with these numbers that maybe make it do make it do make it seem worse than it perhaps is Obviously just be aware of all of this resistance around here from those What we're talking here the third the beginning of the month the second As well, but for now, I think this resistance level should hold for the morning It'll be interesting to see what happens at 15 75 oil to wrap it before quick look over at the the dax Had a nice day yesterday It had a nice day nice little push those lows just starting to seem a bit distant. However, obviously overnight Back to reality for for oil. So those that are long it's not going to be straightforward move up, of course And we've just started to to find a bit of a floor perhaps here. You got You know, what was the previous high we almost came back to test it late yesterday It's a zone, you know, whether you want to call it down to 82 to kind of where we're trading now I think if that goes then, you know, the situation elsewhere is it's going to be worse and we can find drift lower But if you're bullish oil, you know, these dips like you've seen in Aussie like you've seen in equities There's opportunities perhaps to get long along obviously if it suits your Your trade that you're looking at I was You know just possibly thinking about You know getting in more medium term adding to a position on oil if we get above this 52 area And we didn't quite do it. Yes. I know it's a headline the reason for it, but you can see Here if I just draw and again, I like a zone here You've got the low that we had back on the 27th got choppy But we found support on the 30 before breaking through a day later Resistance on the third the fifth overnight 6th and then yesterday as well It's to start into a former range. Are we drifting back lower to test the lower the year? Or do we get a nice little break forward and actually We're now looking towards the next key point around 55s. Maybe Time will tell of course on that one. So we look at the Dax couple of You know big pushes lower in early trade before the open buck after eight o'clock last 30 minutes Is you know relatively choppy you have to say Your line in the sand to the upside just like the s&p may well be is the pivot good support Yes, they good support overnight. We broke through have we found resistance yet not quite So that will be the key level for me However, you know just be aware of the euro was to you know, you know strengthen massively that might just Hold this back a bit To the downside Really the the low so a lot of equities finding support technically on really what was the next level and for me That's a you know a sign that if it was to be a bigger move We would clean them out quite quite quickly. So yes, it's a way to see you've got your lines in the sand If you're not in a trade now for example for me The Dax is if we can get above the pivot to go long below these levels and you'd want a nice close Then fine. We could we could drift lower but other than that I think it's a wait and see The euro just trying to push up to keep an eye on that pivot But like I said, I wouldn't necessarily have orders waiting to go short just yet Want a bit more confirmation on that hope you all have a good trading day We'll catch you in the chat and any questions, of course, please do let us know


It is noon on Thursday folks, Ted Rawson here in the Think Tech studios downtown Honolulu. We have George Purdy, one of our frequent flyers far across, far, far across the Kahiki Channel on the island of Lanai, in Lanai City, enjoying a day, taking care of the kids. Anyway, George, welcome on board again, our show, Where the Drone Leads. Hello, House Data Hawaii. Hey, right on. Glad to have you back, George. No, this is one of the first, the few times we've not had actually a drone on the table here at the show, and the reason is we've got a picture of one, which is even farther away. It's a picture of the University of Hawaii VIP team in their EUVSI drone competition dealing with search and rescue, presently in Patuxent River, Maryland. And there they are. There the guys are on the runway this morning at the Pax River Airport, getting ready to go off and do a competition. We've got a twin engine search and rescue aircraft that also drops a water bottle on the fallen victim, and they're all ready to go out and take no prisoners on that one. Anyway, I hope we'll hear later today how they did in the competition. It's a competition among about 20 or 30 universities around the world, frankly, who show up for this competition. Second year UH has been there. Wish them the best. We'll have them on the show when they get back. Anyway, George, so that's our UAS picture of the day and standing in for an actual model. But tell us how things are going on the other end of that chain in Lanai. How are things going with drone services in Hawaii and your efforts in education and promoting UAS interests with airport fire and with public safety and such on the island? Recently, we've been getting ready for hurricane season, so we've been preparing drone operators on the island and things that they can do to help in case we reach that disaster level. So this summer, we're putting together a couple weekends that all us drone operators get together, invite the kids, other families come to the park and put some hours under our belt and just go flying around the city and open pasture land. So you're kind of getting ready for the hurricane season. In fact, it's interesting, George, you and I first met at Makani Pahili probably this same week about four years ago on this same subject, UAS or drones in the service of public safety in this regard to the disaster management disaster operation. So it's kind of cool you're on the show at that same time this year. But tell us about what you've done. So you're organizing work teams or task forces or something in readiness for operations, actual operations with law enforcement, with public safety? Yes. So we're actually going over all the current rules and regulations. We're making face-to-face contact with our first responders and community members. Because we live on a small island and our population is who we got once the storm hits. Our ports are shut down. Our harbors are shut down. So we really want to make first contact with our citizens here in our community with drones so that way we know we have resources available during that time of need. So instead of us just finally meeting during the disaster, we want to make that visit earlier where we know each other, we actually go out and train. We see how each other works. We know everybody's weaknesses and positive points, what type of aircraft they got. So when the weather comes up, we know who's got what and what can fly in what area and what time of day. That is a really incredible model. And like you say, you've got a contained environment, a contained population of about 2,500 people. And within there are 10, 20 drones, something like that within the total community and a compelling need to go forward in a way that doesn't allow agendas to occur. So this is a really good model for a lot of them. I'm thinking that folks who had on from Texas and Virginia last two weeks on the show would benefit from hearing more about this. Let me ask you a couple of more detailed questions about what you're doing, George. If you think of the incident command system and which of course the fire organizations have originated. How do you see the public unit use of UAS? How do you see that fitting in with the ICS? It comes down to communication. We need to give them a staging point, a place to check in. That way they understand the situation and they get updated on what's going on. And it's basically coming down just being able to communicate with who's got what equipment. So you're plugging them in on the situation side of the ICS chain or the planning side, more so than the air ops side? Yes. So we looking at to entry level for folks that are not first responder mind but able to collect that video data that our incident commander and planning folks could use to create that 12-hour incident action plan of what we're going to do next. George. So I really want to keep it very simple and they go out, collect pictures and you let the professionals take that data, chew at it, create a plan and then send it out to get resources that we need here. That's exactly what Helen Nakano has asked for on this island. She runs a lot of things up in Manoa and she's asked for a citizens action team that can be ready at times of need that can go in and get the information and assist in some way. So we need to have you hook up with Helen, actually you probably know Greg Nakano I think from the show more than one time and Helen is half responsible for Greg. That's how it works. But you've outlined a really typical George Purdy idea. It's a grand idea, George. And in its executability it's uncomplicated but it's effective and I got to tell you, you're getting imagery and I'm just going to repeat it so I make sure I got it right and our viewers get it right but you're basically using people in the drone community in conjunction with but not part of the first responder formal incident command system to produce information as they can and as they see fit and as they're capable and feed it in to the system and let the system digest it and use it as it wants to. Exactly and that's as simple as the introductory and as we use drones more and our operators get more experience and as these hurricane seasons pass it'll grow and it can be used at any type of event needed. Then as time moves on as experience builds you could begin introducing the issues we have to deal with such as privacy and rights protection and proprietary information. All the things that are associated with observations made through UAS and cameras and such, you can begin to see how to manage that and the people who are actually doing the collecting can be part of that developing management scheme. That's it. And what will help with that is perpetuating every generation that comes on board. We've got now a place within the incident command system to introduce new folks to help as more folks get experience under the belt that move up in the chain during various different more extreme duties as necessary. That's great because you have a feed path into the incident command system into the first responder technology and professional training and such. We also have something I think that would be a great way to bring the kids in schools, their parents and teachers together because there's a real clear objective here to their work. It isn't just going out and having fun. Exactly and it'll give them an inspiration of what career path they actually want to do. It'll take current educational, what is it, learning habits that are new since when I went to school and what's changing now it'll slowly introduce it into our community emergency plan a lot quicker than waiting for them to graduate and showing up in the future. We can actually start now. And if I can offer an opinion on that as well, I think that that experience taken together would also be extremely valuable for the NFPA for example as they're going through their methods to come up with end state user requirements in the fire domain and I think they're going to watch over the rest of public safety. They could use you as a model example and as a place to get valid field tested issues that current drones don't satisfy. If we need more flight time, we need more wind tolerance and turbulence tolerance. If we need the ability to handle low light conditions and things like this, this would be coming out of your experience. Yes and then the other part too is that these younger folks are learning from the experience of older folks and now we can also pass down that knowledge to increase our future response much better. That's George, you're allowed three bright ideas on this one half hour show. I think you already hit all three of them. So we have to ask you to no more bright ideas. We've got to develop these that are going. But I can't thank you enough for those cool ideas because my mind is still thinking about how to take that over here to Oahu. We have connections with HPD, HFD and such and having them kind of follow what you're doing would be a great opportunity to put that into our environment on this island as well.  Having students who may be looking into these careers or even taking their movie experience with drone just image collecting and being able to send it to an emergency scenario what happened in that area let the first responders analyze that video and come up with their response plan. It can be that simple in a round table environment. And we could even add to that the other functions that drones can provide. For example, acting as a radio relay or acting as a collector of chemical information for example if there's a fire of some kind and rather than putting a fireman at risk to go in and figure out what the components burning are send a drone and with sensors on it. And the kids could figure this out probably faster than certain people at this table who might be really old. So you've once again set a really interesting path for the rest of us to follow George. And I think I want to take this very the video coming from the show right to our friends at HPD and HFD and see if we can come up with something similar here. I'll be happy to fly up, come down, sit down, have coffee and donuts and create something. I think we're at that point that the community and the public is educated enough that they'll support us. And I like that point you made about the community and the public. Especially after this hurricane. Oh, go ahead. I'm sorry. I got you off. Go. Oh. George can you repeat that last paragraph? Yeah. So the point is for me is that I think the community and the public they're educated enough that we as first responders come in with these ideas now that we can show them especially this hurricane season. You know, I got a feeling something the next is going to happen. But if we come up with what I'm trying to do here and show the examples of what good can come out of it, in the future, we can grow this event training exercise program as a community based with fire department, police department, schools and community members that flow by drone to get together and support anything that we need to do. That's great. That could apply to way beyond the hurricane season, rescue at sea for example, even coastal erosion issues that are slow speed disasters rather than fast disasters, still the same things needed. Let's pick that up and develop how we might take the next step over on this island after our one minute break here. You're watching Think Tech Hawaii, 25 talk shows by 25 dedicated hosts every week, helping us to explore and understand the issues and events in and affecting our state. Great content for Hawaii from Think Tech. You're watching Think Tech Hawaii, Hawaii's leading digital media platform for civic engagement, raising public awareness on tech, energy, diversification and globalism. Great content for Hawaii from Think Tech. It is Thursday folks, lunchtime on Thursday and we are here with your show where the drone leads on Think Tech Hawaii. Ted Rawlsson here hosting in Honolulu and we have across the Kealaka Hiki channel, we have George Purdy standing by in Linai City and once again blowing us away with the bright ideas that come off of that island or at least out of George's house on that island. And George, once again thanks for joining us on your lunch hour. The discussion we had before a break was this wildly creative idea of having citizens groups that are performing drone based collection of information in conjunction with formal and professional public safety people but still separate from them so they're not entangled in the professionalism aspects but are on the developing edge and feeding information in by drone into the public safety circle of operation. And George has, just kind of filling in what you said George or interpreting it, you've created a way that the citizens, the kids, the schools, the public can be part of that larger picture with their drones assisting in the collective information but yet protecting the people from any kind of risk situation that first responders get paid to go take. So that's a really interesting structure and you've already talked about how it fits in the planning side of the incident command system and that's an important piece to think about as well. And I'm just thinking how, on this island, how or other places that might be developed. I wonder if kind of an organization or structure would turn to put this together like maybe the CERT, the Community Emergency Reaction Teams, maybe in conjunction with the National Guard as some kind of a citizen adjunct unit to them. Thoughts about that for our environment here on Oahu with George that we might plant that seed in. Okay, you broke up on that last part, I couldn't hear anything. What I was suggesting was that we have the formal structures, we have the police, the fire, we have the National Guard, we have disaster and emergency management departments and such. There tend to be, collect, they tend to put a barrier on themselves. They are the professionals that are within their bond. How would you think we can take your idea and push it forward on this island in terms of providing this citizens adjunct to the to the professional responder teams? How would the responder teams take that? How would we find a place that they would find it comfortable to have us do that? For an example would be, say like the National Guard, what resources do they have to do this event? So like for me on the nine, our resources in our department, once 911 or we're activated initially for a big event, our resources are used up right at that phone call. So I need my resources to be my community member is something that I have on island before I get professional help and professional resources from another island. So for Oahu in each department, it'll go down to what is their resource capability and once they exhaust it, now that's where the component of bringing in your community members to fill that gap that they need help. Where is their limit? Where is their cut off? Once you can understand and identify where their resources are maxed out, that's when these public and private citizens come into play and you need the game plan on how you want them to come in to fill your needs. So you need a game plan, you need a roster, you need some form of certification perhaps or some acknowledgement that the person's been through some training and is safe and isn't going to get into harm's way in the process and you need some notification scheme to alert them that the need is on and see if they can respond. Kind of an informal, formal structure. Yes and it comes down to like you know for HFD what is their capability? Where do they exhaust all resources as possible and then from that point create that link in exactly what you just said with that roster that and that's where all these little programs and school activities and public events can come into play. We can slowly educate the community in that sense and having it being fun and having first responders and these resource groups understand what they have in their community and that comes down to people that work in these departments, knowing their neighborhoods, knowing who's there. That's interesting. Are you taking this all the way to everybody getting a 1-0-4-1-0-7 certificate or in your training program you get some kind of a some kind of a hunter's equivalent of a hunter's license that kind of a thing? That's where I'm thinking is more that hunter safety because we look at that something that if these major professional organizations run out of resources can we educate the community enough to actually come out and help us and I believe we can with a simple UAS air safety card. If we are able to carry firearms in Hawaii at 10 years old to go and get your license to go hunting we can do the same with drones because you will reach that level of need unless you exhaust all your resources. At that point it's too late if you didn't plan for it now. So should we collectively think of like a one-day training course that's held on the weekend or maybe three of them that are constitute a reasonable period of exposure to the to the to the to the formality of interacting with the first responders and and some kind of a base training program people would go through to get that equivalent of the hunter safety card for UAS. Yeah I believe so I believe a nice little one or two-day program is pretty much all you would need and you know how these are very responsible people on their own understanding the current FAA section 336 rules so they've got a good understanding. Now our program would be identifying and help them to understand how we need their help and what steps and procedures you need to do to come out and help us and have that two-way communication. That would be a brilliant stroke in terms of getting the public to come forward to assist the the professional responder organizations. So I think the outline you've created and the hunter safety card concept what we should do is maybe get together off line somehow and sketch out what that three-day program might look like or three successive weekends or something like that to generate the training and what the training content is. Obviously we just have to make sure that people that we are asking people to put themselves at risk. Yes and it'll come down to basically the incident command itself to verify and accept that acceptable risk or just say no thank you for your time or you know you put them in an area where they're there to help if needed and a lot of the community members just want to be there in case they need their assistance. That's what I found with my community if you get them in an area where they're prepared and ready to help you may not need them but you had them show up and the other part of that too is you actually control the airspace because they're there ready they're not out there doing John Wayne and doing their own thing. You can actually use them efficiently. I think that's an interesting part of the training program is teaching them the efficiencies of not wasting anybody's time not wasting resources. You're there ready to go. Here's your assignment. Can you do it? Go do it. Bring me back the information. Thank you very much. And what you just also implied here is that by this process we would generate a greater public awareness of the incident command system how it works and what the expectations can be when there's one a disaster might apply to them. I think I can speak for our community of Waimanalo would be very interested in this. We have Bobby Kahana in the police department down there and we have Rufino, you know Rufino already and some other guys who would probably maybe want to think of Waimanalo as a prototype. I can't speak for them but I would say Waimanalo could stand up and take this on with the half a dozen drone operators that are in the town today and learn through experience what this might actually turn into. I totally agree and that's how it should start in communities like yours and then now you can use that as a model for other communities because if you cut off that roads entering into Waimanalo you're just like Lanaya on Oahu. You're isolated. Yeah that's exactly right. Yeah and then comes in the really interesting undercurrents here and there are always issues of of cybersecurity and people who want to penetrate your system for their own gain or for malicious effects of some kind. So we can actually use this as part of the training and awareness for cybersecurity and drones are basically a piece of the cyber community and the information they collect enters into the cyber domain in some way and information can be used and can be misused. People can be valid people or they can be malicious. So there's always that side we need to think about and getting all of our people exposed to those issues and thinking about them in advance works for more than just disaster operations of the type we're thinking of. It works in the whole world of cybersecurity. Oh yes and that's what a lot of these training events do for even us professionals is that we start finding the flaws and then we start addressing the flaws to figure out what went wrong and how can we fix it. So adding cybersecurity to this and exactly what you said it's a win-win and then during a disaster of necessity that's the greatest payoff is how do we help our community to the best ability and resources available at that time. And all of this that all of what we're talking about here could be considered a dynamic and ongoing real time development of response back to the FAA on the one side for UAS cert to the ANSI organizations for the technical standards and means of certification and to NFPA and organizations like that on how UAS functionality and the people associated with it should be thought of in regard to fire safety and the technology that's needed to enhance that. It would be really cool for an organization like I or Waimanalo to say hey here's what we got today here's these various UAS here's what they do and here's what they don't do. So Mr. manufacturer if you want to be really successful in this domain you need to do the following. You need to improve the resilience of the system. You need to make it work in the rain. You need to make it work when someone's hands are saltwater wet and change the batteries. There's a lot of things that we would discover along the way that would be quite useful I think fed back into the manufacturing community. Oh yes and it could also open up some sort of new R&D manufacturing for a while. Yeah absolutely. Exactly that's where one of my focus in expanding my company is to get to that level. Okay and how is the company working these days? How are you guys doing? You have a couple of thousand square feet of shop area I recall and is that starting to work? Oh it's it's work we can't keep up. Tell us about it. It's nice it's nice to be at that point where we're not worrying about being pushed out. We've set the tone and followed regulations correctly that you know a lot of financial folks and a lot of politicians said that we would fail but we stuck to our guns we stuck to regulations we helped adjust and create regulations to fit the need trying to support our community in first responders education and private citizens and okay well George Purdy we're just a company in our third year and okay we I think we've managed to run ourselves right out of time here just about the time the Skype is breaking down but George is so cool to have you back on again thanks so much for coming on and once again thanks to the the brilliance of the ideas and a leadership you provide in the fought leadership area as well as operational leadership I think we're going to take your ideas and try to copy them in Wamanalo and other places on Oahu here and we'll keep you in the loop and support each other so once again George thanks so much for coming on and we'll see you all next Thursday folks


Hello, welcome everyone. My name is Rosa Maria Costich-Disneros and I'm collaborating with the Independent Theatre Hungary. I am really happy to sit down today with Josh Lavaiz, Simonida Selimovic and Sandra Selimovic. We are here today to talk about forever holiday for Ima Urlaub or Suka de la Mensa. And as you can see I've said that in three different languages. So before we get into the work maybe each of you could let me know who you are, where you are and tell me a little bit about yourself. Maybe Sandra, shall we start with you? Yeah, I'm Sandra, I'm an actress. I started to act I think when I was 10, the first time in serial TV in Austria and then with 15 I met one director and he was like my mentor so he was my teacher and since then I think since I remember since I was 12 I was always acting and then I finished 2004 my school like for acting and then I started also to direct and also to do workshops with people especially with teenagers or with marginalized people who maybe have special needs maybe I was working one year in the prison for example the name is Gangsta Girls you can see it in the cinema and yeah so we're doing everything and with my sister we founded 2010 Romano Svato it's a Roma feminist theater organization in Austria in Vienna and we are very proud that we are still doing it and we are still very successful with it yeah fantastic so your sister I'm assuming you mean Simonida yes just so for our viewers you two are sisters correct yes yes okay so it's I think only natural that we move to Simonida Simonida can you tell me a little bit about you and your background please yes I'm Simonida Selimovic Rossecker now since two months I I get married I congratulations it's my Rossecker I started to act when I was like 12 together with my sister Sandra in a series in a TV series in Austria Disposed for Children and then I was I started to model here in Austria in the international and in like 2002 I started with my acting education here in Austria and yes to 2010 we found the Romano Svato together Sandra and me and we did a lot of plays together and also we were playing in other I played a lot also in films in movies movies and and so on thank you so again a real mix between you and Sandra a nice combination there and so last but definitely not least Joshua you can tell me a little bit about you your backgrounds your work please that be wonderful yes thank you so much for the at first of all thank you for the invitation and I also want to appreciate my sisters my companions who are also in this space Santa and Simonida we know each other since 2016 so and I'm really proud that we're creating pieces together also in Berlin yeah and I'm an actress Joshua I'm an also an educator in theater I did my exam 2009 and also a master in theater in 2013 in Berlin so and then I am also I'm continuously improving my knowledge and skills and acting yeah I was also playing in different documentary films and the last documentary we had created in the Amalika GDR about the Cynthia and Roma people in the GDR and was really really touching and moving and yeah this is now playing for one year in the television and also our play City of Liberated People is involved in this documentary so I'm a little bit proud of this of this values you know and my main artistic focus is on I did oh you have notes that's I didn't read you know and I'm a little bit excited always sure I feel like yes yes and my artistic focus is mainly on movement and dance I'm dancing since since 2010 okay so and now with yeah I never finish that sure sure and that's that's mainly my my focus and artistic and yeah I have film and theater experiences as well so a lovely powerhouse here of women and maybe Sandra you can tell us a little bit about your role in the work for a holiday I think you were the director correct so if you could yes yes exactly so it was actually I mean I was directing it but it was a collective work because we I think we took six months for something like that or even more like really time also to to do like acting like acting classes for the for the there are children like for teenagers because we wanted them really to be good and to and not just to have this kind of level like school theater you know you we wanted really to have a good like at least semi professional level so we really worked hard on on acting classes and then we we did together like with Hannah with the with the drama tour we had always like meetings and we we did improvisations yeah that's your improvisations like with with the teenagers and then we took the best out in one impro improvisation and wrote it down and this is how we we actually wrote the play like with the improvisation with the teenagers together and then yeah we were working on the scenes but it was really like the process of minimum six months and not like a typical four or six weeks rehearsing and then you know playing it was really like a process which I also like because it was really an opportunity to you really know the the teenagers and their life and their problems and their day by day struggles and also like that they could contribute to the play it was not just us that we we were like overwhelming overwhelming them with something like yes we want this and this to you to say in the play so they contributed a lot yeah so it was very kind of organic from them they could yeah yeah and and and it was also based on a true story this this I also have to say already Oslo can say that with these two teenagers what happened to them so it was a very like it was very personal for everybody because everybody contributed with something personal what they experienced in their life and also based on this true story which happened so yeah I really liked it and the teenagers they really were so authentic that people in the end really didn't believe that they were not actors they were like really still you know like there's they still go to school it's like no they're not they're not actors they're really surprised yeah yeah and Joshua can you tell me a little bit about your role in the in the work um were you um yeah can you can you speak a bit about your your play your as an actress in the work yeah yeah at first of all I was not an actress I was a staff in Amarudron so and we had the youngster who get deported overnight two brothers this is the story what Santa was talking about a little bit and this is the background of Oslo they became overnight refugees yeah you know we we were talking about the fact that more than 200 people get deported at this night and the two brothers and mostly of them were Roma and this was our drive to to talk about that story and I can add I can add that me and the drama talk we were we were going to I know we we went now we fly it to to the Kosovo directly to the village where the brothers are and did interviews with them and that was really not a surprising fact but there was a whole village we're talking in German so yeah and yeah we were talking with the brothers with the family and filming that and also get the feeling of how they're living there what are their questions problems situation they're living in yeah and to bring that to Germany to show no no no that was not a good decision deportation is not a solution for humanity and yeah that was the first part and then I was writing the idea down we get the found of it and then we did the improvisation process of really six months that was really interesting and yeah I was an actress okay yeah okay okay so you really also had a very long relationship with the work and it sounds like you know as Sandra said there was six months of not more that allowed all of you to be really sit with the work sit with the stories work with the young people Simonita do you do you want to tell us a little bit about your role in the work and your contribution yes actually I was the last one who came in in this project yes because one other it was an actor a man who was playing first my role and then he couldn't and we talked about the solution Sandra and me and I gave her the solution but maybe it's good to that our two sisters are playing this if you find another actress and they asked me Yoshla and Sandra do you want to join us I was like okay why not and then I'm but I was I mean I had a little baby and I fight with the the baby with Samuel to Berlin with him and I played this role and actually it was very emotional on one on one side because I mean we had this also in our families that were people deported and also then to play this role to be the I mean to that your children are deported and you could stay in Germany because in my story was I have to stay there because of sickness Germany I mean they allowed the mother sometimes they allowed parents to stay and if the children are over 15 they deport them okay yeah and to know about this I didn't know about this this was very new for me I felt very sorry and also I then I remembered about situations in our families and I talked also to my aunt she was deported from Germany to Serbia and I mean yeah in this situation how to play you know I mean on one hand to know some people but thanks god it doesn't happen to me sure this was also the thing and then also in my my son the middle one he played also in he was one of the players yeah and yeah so it sounds like there's a lot of with layers to the work and each of you had a very a different attachment to it in contribution and also a looking at your own personal relationships and you know and how that if it enters if it doesn't and I think one of the powers about the work that I found was you know you don't as you just said at an age someone gets deported and on paper or in the media it might look like a very like a fact or we just send these people there or we deport them after 15 years old but what I think the work does is it makes it human and it says well actually these are children being deported or these are people and these are stories that you can't just once you send them away forget about them they live on and there's a a cultural legacy there and I think that that's one of the powers of the work and now Simone that to know that you were initially it was a role for a man and you walked into this and so you had to reshape it can you tell me a little bit about that process I don't know Sandra as maybe director or someone who was supporting the collective process what that was yeah it was a little bit we were thinking maybe to do something like a lesbian couple like Jocelyn Simonida but I mean me I am personally I am a lesbian but it was I didn't like I didn't like it in this case in this story to to edit also as a lay as another layer in this in this play because the story itself with the deportation with the teenagers and and so on was already so strong that I didn't want to put another topic like something with LGBT it was for me like too much like it was not necessary in this in this situation because there were other other things which were for me in this moment more more important than also to add something with LGBT rights or whatever it might be just trying too hard and it doesn't breathe because you fix them too much too much like all these all these topics of discrimination and intersectionality but in this case it was a little bit too much also for the teenagers itself like then to think okay from who is the mother then they adopted them they're not the real mothers you know then you really had to rethink and also change a lot of the play if if there were like really like a lesbian couple and they just not just like maybe one was the mother and the other not or they they adopted them yeah it was it would be too complicated and we really wanted to put this deportation topic in the focus so that's why I decided no you both please be sisters and not like a couple you know even though that I would like to see it everywhere but also like if you think particularly of what you want to talk about then you really have to decide what is really the the the subject like the main subject sure and if is if is there a memorable moments for for any of you and thinking about either the process of creating the work or in performing the work is there something that comes to mind that you remember that feels like a memorable moment you'd like to share maybe just like would you like to share okay um the funny absurd moments you know the special on that play at the end for me that we have a really hard topic and it was really funny so it's deep it's funny and it's it is um it's a hard topic you know it's really and that was for me really memorable the funny absurd moment in the immigration office for example the scene where we have with this food and all this stuff and it was so funny with the with the clock and oh yeah I like it I was really enjoy yeah as an actress to play that and with my with with my colleagues was the play is just interesting because it is funny and serious at the same time and I mean in the immigration office suddenly I'm pegging a bag of food and offering sausages and chicken and dancing yeah when when when does something like that happen in immigration office never never yeah I really liked it yes yes yeah but it was a humor and every one of us understood it because we know this Balkan lifestyle and also this Roma lifestyle how the people are thinking you know even when you suffer you uh your humor is always there and you have to use it I mean and to because this is life also I mean to to stay alive you know and then suddenly dancing somewhere you know in this migration office this was everyone agrees everybody even the director does dancing on this office you know because oh okay we're waiting for passport what to do just dance and share food and yeah this to also to share these stupid things yeah yeah yeah yeah and I think that you know it's one of the kind of lightness that that's as we you know been talking about that this kind of human side like you know this is happening but let's just also be in the moment you know yes yes just like did you want to say something I just want to add every Roma people who weren't on the audience they understood and I think this is really really special we're creating a Roman code yes you know that's really beautiful I really appreciate that yeah yeah and I think that's important also for I really go ahead Sandra go ahead no I want to say I really like the scene where they arrived in in Kosovo like they were deported and then they arrived on the airport and they were waiting for the family and then we were like doing something like you have a very small car where maybe you think two people fit but then ten people come out and say hello you know like very loud kissing everybody taking these two kids who were deported putting them somehow you know in the car and then they had this this drive which was very very funny and with music and they also had party and and eating meat and smoking and very loud music it was so funny and I really loved this moment when they had to go out of the car and you saw you saw a very small car and then ten people going coming out like where did you put them yeah okay this was really my favorite yeah the really it was very funny also the different is because we had also once one dramaturg told us you know this is good that you could show these kind of stories because if a gajah or the gajah will show these kind of stories this would be very cliche and stereotypical and racist you know but if we show it from our perspective and with our humor and with I mean with people with real people so with real stories it's another completely other story then you could take it and you can you could understand yes and I think that's a really important point that you raise that when it comes from the community from us and it's shared it has the nuances and the kind of lived experience and so we know how to kind of share it and what is or isn't offensive and maybe some could argue it's cliche but it's not because it's also there's a reality to that to that and we know how to share that when to share it and it's ours and it's ours to share and we decide when or not to share that and I think that's a really important point that if when it's done maybe by someone who's not from the community it has then the potential to be a bit tone deaf and not you know you don't get to wear aroma identity you know we're just from the community and then that becomes a sharing of that we've chosen to share and let you into on the code as you said Joshua so no absolutely I think that's a really good point and is there anything else that you wanted the audience to know about the production I know you've said Sandra that you wanted definitely deportation to be the you know and we've discussed and heard human stories and you know this kind of resilience that the community has but is there anything else was there ever like a message that you guys felt okay this is something I want to definitely communicate to the audience or to viewers silence no you said it okay I think I think you've got the points across absolutely well is there anything else you'd like to share about the work maybe that I haven't asked you but that feels important to discuss yes maybe freedom and responsibility is my message you know nothing I mean this is from area I don't want to copy some boards or not for me but I would say it at the same level at the same time um nothing without us about us that's about that's not my um my torch and I absolutely agree with that and you know and I would love to that Germany for example I'm living in Germany take more responsibility to take we get another found so to create more on it because we are deliver really deep and really big issues we deliver that we deliver we deliver ways and we do it for our community so I mean who's going to the German theater no Roma and Cindy I mean especially a few are really interested in but it's not that the topics who are on the stage are for us the only thing the only place Roma Roma um on Gorky theater my sisters are playing the main role yes so that's the only play in Germany I know already who involve also Roma people that they can understand so yeah that's my message at the end more pieces for us and with us yeah absolutely absolutely and I think that is you know a lovely place to to end this conversation with that powerful message you know and reflecting on the work you know it was important for me to try to say you know forever holiday for him a love so Karen I'm inside in the three languages because I think that the work is is going into various crossing many boundaries and even though you're looking at deportation you know you're not trying to create more boundaries you're trying to open them and say you know let's look at people let's honor those stories um and you've done it in such a beautiful way and a very respectful way and funny way as well so thank you so much thank you you watch it yes you watch it yes I have yes before I sit down with you I watch all of the works and yes yes so yes all right thank you so much thank you for for sharing your memories and your experiences of creating the work and I'm sure our viewers really enjoyed hearing about the three of you and and and the work so thank you so much thank you thank you thank you thank you